holiday candy

This isnt so much funny as it is pointed. It's also my response to this cartoon.

artwork

This was my Halloween banner. For the sake of the record, I post it here.

keeping it real?

One of the few nice things to come out of my father's death was the discovery that while my parents were typical old-person type conservatives, my Uncles were Bush-hating liberals. That was sweet, and I wish I'd known that years ago.
Today, Kel showed me (well, not me personally, but you get the idea) this blog, supposedly written by an 80+ year old woman in Texas. It's a marvelous blog, with superb prose, but I'm not sure I believe that it's real. The posts are pretty thin, except for October '08, and there's a year-wide gap between the current batch and the rest of the blog. Does that really mean anything? No, not necessarily, but if the blog suddenly dries up after November 4th, dont say I didnt warn you.
Which leads me to wonder: if this blog isnt real, how many others like it are there out there? And how many conservatives are reading blogs out there which are generated by the McCain side? And do any of them ever even suspect something might not be kosher? Questioning their leadership is not what one might describe as a Republican strong point (although they're terrific about questioning anyone elses).

One other thought: how many blogs out there are supposedly generated by supporters of one side, but are in fact generated by the other, and then used by that side to show how nutty the opposition "really" is? If it isnt happening this year, rest assured, it will happen in the future.

I'm with Wyatt

I am so ready for this to be over.

BIG quote for the day

stealing straight from the Rude Pundit:

Since the McCain/Palin campaign has decided that because Barack Obama wants to tax people making over $250,000 in taxable income (which means a hell of a lot more than $250,000 in take-home pay) at a slightly higher rate than now, they can call it "socialism." Or, well, they can say that others say it's socialism and that, as McCain called the idea of "spread the wealth," Obama follows "one of the basic tenets of socialism." In doing this, McCain's campaign is focusing in on idiots as their base, the people who don't actually understand what socialism is (and being ably enabled by idiots in the conservative media).

So if all one needs to be a socialist is to believe that those with money should pay a bit more in taxes, if the bar is set so low, what other outre' political philosophies must Barack Obama be following?

1. Barack Obama must be an anarcho-syndicalist because he believes in the power of unions.

2. Barack Obama must be a Whig because he believes in the government's role in building infrastructure and education.

3. Barack Obama must be a Gaullist because he believes in regulating banks.

4. Barack Obama must be a neo-Aristotelianist because he was a community organizer.

5. Barack Obama must be a Dadaist because cow.

quote for the day: jumping the stark edition

"With one week left in this campaign, the choice facing Americans is stark..."

John McCain

Damn straight it's stark. Which makes it all the more mind-boggling that Obama isnt sweeping the polls.

Choice 1: New guy from the party that brought you the Clinton Years, eight years of falling national deficits, rising prosperity for the middle class, one blow job and zero convictions for Clinton officials after the Bush Administration took office.
Choice 2: A new guy from the same party that's brought you massive government deficits, sinking middle class fortunes (and ballooning top-one-percenters' fortunes), deregulation, "privatization" (company profits at taxpayer expense), secrecy, power-grabbing, politicization of the bureaucracy, warrantless spying on citizens, torture, the loss of habeus corpus, and historic levels of government intrusion. But no sex scandals, or at least not from the President. Care to take a guess how many people will investigated and convicted should the Democrats take the White? Care to imagine how many will even be glanced at should the Republicans retain power instead?

These two choices dont even take into account the Supreme Court, who's two oldest members are also its most liberal, and who's Authoritarian Chief Justice is only 63 years old (and sorry folks, but we're stuck with Clarence Thomas for years.) I think the Supreme Court ought to be more conservative than the other two branches, but it's also supposed to be the bastion of last resort for the People, and I simply dont see any sign of that coming from the Roberts Court - a court which will have to be endured for another generation.

yummy

Those Weebl boys have done it again: Credit Crunch cereal!

just sad

These people will be voting in November. Remember this, and despair.

(Posted in honor of the Brother, who is 41 today!)

monday night at the movies

If you dont understand this video, google "wazzup".

quote for the day

Moral certainty is not just a two edged sword, it is a sword with no cross guard. Wield it with gusto and you will almost certainly lacerate yourself.

Tacitus (?), from David Brin's comments