CNN continues to adopt Bushist newspeak:
He wanted to be heard... and he was. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- now America's nemesis. With his open defiance of the west, is he waging a new war?Just consider that question for a minute.
For some reason, the AP can't get right how Tanya Rider's cell phone contributed to finding her. AP stories repeat variations of this:
Authorities found the Maple Valley woman after detecting the general location of her cell phone Thursday morning...The authorities did not detect anything. They asked the cell phone company what cell her phone had been in last, and the company searched its records. I mean, really, otherwise you'd have to explain why her battery could last eight days. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer gets it right:
Tom Rider, who lives with his wife in Maple Valley, said Friday that a court order for records from his wife's cell phone provider to determine where she last used her phone could have pointed rescuers to her last Saturday...Well, mostly right - used is a little misleading. Had turned on would be more accurate.
Ahmadinejad and Duhbya have a lot to agree on - if they could just get past the Allah vs. God question:
Mr. Ahmadinejad has devoted his talk so far to arguing that God is the source of knowledge. The Almighty is the ultimate “teacher of human beings, who taught human beings what they are ignorant of,” he said, adding that the Prophet Muhammad was “appointed as their prophet to ‘read for them the divine verses, and purify them from ideological and ethical contamination.’”No evil-ution here! Just scripture and purity and prophecy.
02138 even favors its Maybach-demographic readers with a blurb on David Vitter. It doesn't say yea or nay whether he got his start as a john in the infamous Radcliffe call girl scandal of the late 1970s. Or maybe he didn't get to Cambridge in time, and he's been expressing his regret for that ever since.
Here's an interesting nugget: Not only did Vitter succeed Bob Livingston in Congress, he also had held David Duke's seat in the Louisiana legislature. That sort of puts his yen for sloppy seconds into perspective.
(Oh, if you have to ask, you can't afford a Maybach.)
The Harvard fanzine, 02138, wants me to subscribe: "Finally, a magazine for you and the Harvard sensibility."
I enjoy being flattered, sure, but what I'm really looking for is sincere compliments. The "Harvard sensibility" really nails it, though. From the very beginning, Harvard tells its students how great they are - because they're at Harvard, and Harvard is great.
The complimentary (heh) September/October issue puts Al Gore on the cover as number 1 of the hundred most influential alums. Duhbya they rate number 2, though Al is realistic enough to scoff at 02138 for such foolishness. Heck, they probably couldn't get Duhbya to sit for an interview.
The Harvard 100 shows what motivates the Big H. 'Influence' is just a polite word for power. Fully six Supreme Court Justices attended Harvard Law School. Too bad about Stevens, Thomas, and Alito. They must have attended some inferior diploma mill. (Note to Yalies: joke - but you do have a lot to answer for, including Thomas, among others.)
Someone has dared buck the teen drinking consensus. In response, the usual experts are saying things like:
"That's ridiculous," says Calvina Fay, executive director of the Drug Free America Foundation. "By allowing teens to drink," Fay says, "you are giving permission to your children to do harmful things."Calvina? How appropriate.
It's a sad day for lunatics everywhere. Newt Gingrich won't run.
The New York Times accepts his spin about legal requirements preventing him from exploring a run. The truth is that he could no longer retain a tax exemption if he were pursuing partisan politics. The fact that the odious Newt could be regarded in any activity as non-partisan and therefore deserving of a tax exemption is just further evidence, as if it were needed, of the Republicans' ability to subvert the spirit of any law that restricts their behavior.
The top three Democratic candidates won't guarantee withdrawal from Iraq. Maybe they're looking back at Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern and thinking they could eke out a win.
Clarence Thomas remains narcissistically convinced that a hearing before the Senate is equivalent to dragging a man out of his bed, hooding him, beating him savagely, and hanging his body in a tree. He should try keening for someone else once in a while.
The wingnut loyalty apparatus is working to reward him, as they always do. Most of the copies of this slender screed will be distributed by right-wing organizations. They'll need to prove to the publisher that the $1.5 million advance was worth it. But most copies won't ever be read.
That's irrelevant. The purpose of this is to reward a loyal soldier foisted upon us by George H.W. Bush, who may look good in contrast to his useless son, but who really was a divisive shitheel, too.
One more thing: You'll never get Thomas to admit it, but I'd bet his grandfather never said, "You'll probably end up like your no-good daddy or those other no-good Pinpoint Negroes."
These Bushists really believe that marketing can change reality. In this age of collective Alzheimer's, they may be right.
Meet Duhbya, environmentalist, edumacator, civil rights activist, responsible spender, uniter. Is there no bullshit so pungent that they shy from trying to make us swallow it?
Why does CNN continue to quote Donald Trump about politics? If ever there were a self-deluded, exploitive, ego-maniacal hack whom we should meet with deafness, it's Donald Trump.
... gives the president his way. Duhbya's probably considering his options. Let's see. Cheney was in charge, so technically...
The Washington Post is only interested in the story line, not in helping the country rise above its junior high school cliques.
This useless piece of picnic reporting belongs in a weekly for a town of a thousand, not on CNN.
John McCain - he not only puts his pants on one leg at a time, he also drinks ordinary bottled water.
The story does a nice job of reinforcing the conventional narrative about McCain, so post the damn thing.
Who knew when this started years ago that the press could be bought off for a mess of pottage.
Can we please have a little perspective about smoking? (And I ask this as a non-smoker.)
Jim Ogonowski (R-Whoami) has no position papers on his web site, but one thing is certain from his public statements: He'll keep the troops in Iraq indefinitely.
He's also with Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter on immigration reform. He wants to send 'em all home. He hasn't said how he'll close the borders, but I'd guess a big-ass fence is in there somewhere.
This combination puts him in the odd position of being more extreme than Duhbya. Ogo also apparently thinks moving 12,000,000 people will be a cake walk, when moving 190,000 is impossible.
I was having dinner in the Countdown Pub the other night with Toby Keith, and I couldn't get over the fact that, even though MSNBC is a white-owned network and most of its on-air talent is white, they weren't all bloated, jowly, arrogantly stupid gasbags.
This is what black America doesn't know. They think white culture is dominated by Bob Novak, George Will, and the Roger Ailes posse.
The next time David Horowitz blows smoke about speech codes on campus, I'm sure he won't mention this. But some wingnut somewhere will probably decry the rudeness of the sign-makers. I mean, it's taboo to say anything mean about clergy, officers, or Duhbya, isn't it?
John Gibson, one of Fox's ugliest bloviators, demands to know where racial incidents occur. Of course, he demands this rhetorically, using "unguested confrontation", a wingnut propaganda technique pioneered by Rush Limbaugh. He sure as hell doesn't notice anyone discriminating against all those nappy-headed hos and gangstas.
So, Gibson you moron, here's another.
The world would be better off if jerks like Gibson had to earn an honest living.
