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Saturday Dog Blogging
Posted by Clif on 06/14/08 at 9:51 am
Category: Politics
From commenter Jade:
Clif, I know that this post has one comment, and your latest post on SadlyNo has 446 comments, but that doesn’t mean you can’t post photos of puppies here to keep us entertained, surely?
Point taken. Here’s a picture from last week. Except Maisie is eight (!!) months old now and not so much a puppy anymore — until she starts running like hell down the hall with the first piece of toilet paper on the roll in her mouth and the rest of the roll spooling off behind her.
A Very Maisie Christmas
Posted by Clif on 12/26/07 at 12:45 pm Category: PoliticsMaisie donned a red scarf before the guests came for dinner, but that still didn’t stop her from growling at the camera lens.
“That was some other dog that chewed up the bath mat, not me.”
“Are puppies allowed to get a bite of beef tenderloin? I sure hope so.”
“I can look scarier than a DSLR camera lense!”
Let the Lying Begin
Posted by Clif on 12/15/07 at 10:28 am Category: Fundies, Lying Republicans, Politics
Since Ed Rollins has been named the national campaign chairman for the veracity-challenged Mike Huckabee, it’s only appropriate that Rollins would immediately run off to the Lou Dobbs show and tell a whopper:
DOBBS: How comfortable are you with that and is it appropriate for god to be in religion and faith to be this prominent in a secular campaign for president?
ROLLINS: You go back to the signing of the constitution I think 26 of the people that signed it were ministers.
Season’s Greetings from Outside the Tent
Posted by Clif on 12/11/07 at 2:46 am Category: Politics
(Sorry for the delay in posting but an anti-spam plug-in called Bad Behavior behaved badly and blocked me out of my own site and I just was able to get back in.)
The Buttars Principle
Posted by Clif on 11/16/07 at 3:05 am Category: Politics
Chris Buttars, our favorite homophobic wingnut from Utah, recently expressed his legislative philosophy in connection with a bill to forbid the Utah Pension Fund from investing in companies that do business in Iran:
“We get bound up here all the time on ‘we don’t understand this,’ ” Buttars said in response to a call by Sen. Carlene Walker, R-Cottonwood Heights, for a more complete analysis of the bill before the committee’s endorsement. “Well, there’s a lot of things we vote on that we don’t understand, but I would rather stand on the principle of ‘let’s go for it.’ “
A novel philosophy, perhaps, but a necessity I suppose for someone who probably understands hardly anything.
IOKIYAARAYAAAFEBIU!
Posted by Clif on 11/5/07 at 9:53 am Category: Politics
Jules Crittenden takes IOKIYAAR to hacktacular new heights with this:
[A d]irty Little Hsecret … [d]ogs another compaign [sic]. Drug trafficking, bookmaking and conspiracy charges, that’s pretty bad. WaPo offers the fascinating tale of Thompson fundraiser’s criminal past, legit biz and legal beefs as a Republican Hsu-story. Only one problem with that thesis: … Martin has a criminal past. Hsu’s is a criminal present.
Yeah, huge difference. Past crimes never count, particularly if you are a Republican.
But, let’s take a look at the two cases. Here we have Philip Martin, convicted of drug dealing (marijuana and cocaine) in 1979 and 1983. He’s been a friend of Thompson’s since the 1990s and has donated his private plane for Thompson to jet around in. The Thompson campaign has not offered to refund the difference between what he paid and the cost of using the airplane.
Then we have Norman Hsu who pled guilty to fraud in 1992, but fled sentencing. He wasn’t a friend of the Clintons. The Clintons have refunded his bundled contributions.
This simply isn’t a case of “It’s Okay If You Are A Republican;” it’s more a case of “It’s Okay If You Are A Republican And You’re An Asshole For Even Bringing It Up.”
If Trick or Treat Were For Mexicans, It Would Be Called Truco o Tratar
Posted by Clif on 11/1/07 at 11:25 pm Category: Politics
At America’s Shittiest Website™ what’s the point of a holiday if it can’t be an opportunity for a little racism? It all started with Lisa Schiffren who got all worked up that Halloween appeared to be an opportunity for people to come to her door to beg for candy that she could otherwise eat herself. In particular, Lisa seemed miffed that adults may have bringing small children along solely for the purpose of collecting mini-Snickers for themselves.
Shortly thereafter, resident Mexican-hater Mark Krikorian seized the opportunity to find an immigration angle to all this age-inappropriate trick or treating:
Lots of feedback about adults trick-or-treating, mostly about parents accompanying their kids but carrying their own bags or buckets. … I wasn’t even looking for an immigration angle [liar, liar, pants on fire - ed.], though the acquaintance in Minneapolis who prompted this said he had dozens of adult Hmong refugees asking for candy.
How dare these slant-eyed yellow-tinted adults dare to come to a white person’s house and ask for a dime’s worth of candy!
Of course, it gets worse, because Krikorian reprints another email from a reader victimized by foreign trick-or-treaters:
I don’t know about adult trick or treaters, but my brother and his wife live in Del Rio, TX (on the border). They get hundreds! of trick or treaters from South of the Border every Halloween. My brother says he thinks the only English they know is trick or treat, (that is until they get older, then they’ll learn “Viva Mexico” or something)! BTW- they’ve lived in El Paso also, and it was the same there.
Imagine all those brown people sneaking into the United States just to cadge a handful of candy from white people. Has anyone alerted Lou Dobbs?
More Nonsense from Rush
Posted by Clif on 10/24/07 at 1:13 am Category: Climate Change, Politics, Wankers, Wingnut Science, Wingnuts
One of the more ridiculous ha-ha-gotcha arguments of the global warming deniers is the one where those expressing concerns about global warming are labeled hypocrites because they don’t live in a cave wearing animal skins and eating raw meat.
“Look! Al Gore uses electricity!”
“Hey, you just farted. Don’t you know methane is a green house gas? If you really believed global warming is a problem you’d have a cork up your butt! Hahahahaha. You’re pwned!”
You might think that those would be hard to top, but that would only because you hadn’t been listening to the fat-assed Oxycontin addict Rush Limbaugh, who said this about the Southern California fires:
Guys are trying to keep flames from coming underneath the door in their garages and so forth. And the people that were noticeably absent were the environmentalist wackos. Where were Greenpeace, Sierra Club and where were their bucket brigades, where do these people show up in time of disaster like this? They just love the wilderness, don’t they? It’s what they always say, “Save the species. Save the earth.” Well, Mother Nature turned a whole bunch of Southern California via a torch, and I didn’t see one Algore acolyte out there trying to help out. I’m sitting there watching this and I wonder how much CO2 and particulate matter got belched into the atmosphere from one fire, let alone five different fires out there. Talk about carbon footprint, try charcoal footprint.
Russ tries to make it sound like he was out in Southern California surveying the identity and environmental opinions of everyone fighting the fires rather than firmly planted on his fat ass in a radio studio in Florida. But let’s assume that Rush is right, what the fuck does that mean? Does it mean that all environmentalists are hypocrites unless they show up at every single forest fire on earth with a water bucket?
But, of course, all this is bluff and bluster from the fat man, who is obviously still jonesing for another Oxycontin fix. Let’s cut through the wingnut science to a bit of real science. Although forest fires release carbon in the short term, regrowth will reabsorb the released carbon dioxide. But forest fires may also make forests carbon negative by converting part of the burned trees, which would otherwise release carbon dioxide when they die and decay, into charcoal which does not decay and release carbon. Read this article for an explanation of how his all works. A carbon-trapping charcoal footprint is, in fact, a good thing and completely different from a carbon footprint. Have another Vicodin, Rush.