Obama camp's response to the McCain ad.
Perfect
Watch how Obama deals with an interruption during a speech on energy policy today. He handles the situation perfectly. Let us not forget the small things that mark the character of a man and his abilities. I know they've been missing for the last seven-odd years.
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Victory For Sanity
Zack and Miri Make A Porno is no longer rated NC-17. Previously the MPAA said that the movie contained too much sex and nudity for an R rating. But director Kevin Smith won his appeal and the film is now rated R.
Whenever the MPAA does something sensible I like to remind folks of how terrible an institution it is. Take for example Hostel 2, released last year and rated R. Here is a description of a scene:
She undresses and lies beneath Lorna in a candlelit recess and proceeds to execute her by sexually sadistic torture murder. After ripping into Lorna's body with a scythe and bathing in her blood, she slits Lorna's throat with a sickle.
But boobies and wee wees touching one another in a comedy is too graphic for 10 year olds.
Give me a break.
Stripping Baristas? Awesome
Watch the CNN report here. Money quote from the video, spoken by a local resident: "It's like a drive thru strip club."
Yes, but with coffee.
Honestly, I love this idea. Finally no more pretense when it comes to that hot barista who's serving up your morning latte.
The Straight Talk Express: Off Course Again
This time, quite literally.
And check out the O bumper sticker, which made me chuckle.
Obama Is a McCain Wannabe?
Conservative writer Gary L. Bauer ponders whether Obama is more like McCain than JFK.
"Barack Obama claims that as president, he would place principle ahead of politics, but he has rarely, if ever, taken a position that hurt him politically. Even Obama's friend Coburn has said, “It’s easy to work across the aisle on consensus items. It’s when you demonstrate that you’ll stand in between, in no man’s land, between the two trenches of the Democratic and Republican base, and you’ll take the heat. We haven’t seen that from Barack. As much as I like him, he’s not ever rejected anything of his party to be able to stand in the middle.”
KFC Forever!
Dude pleads guilty to murder in exchange for KFC in prison.
Maybe we can get Cheney to plead guilty to war crimes in exchange for the heads of dead rats in prison.
So who's normal?
Conservative blowhard Michael Graham says that Obama is tied in the polls because he's "weird." He mentions that no parent should not give birthday and christmas presents and uses obama's daughter's words about how barack doesn't like ice cream. MSNBC's David Gregory had him on his show "Race for the White House." The clip is below and here Graham's column: http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1111130&srvc=home&position=rated
and for the record, these are obama and michelle's own words about the present thing from people magazine:
People Magazine: Someone told me today that you don't do birthday presents.
Michelle: No, because we spend hundreds of dollars on a birthday party and movie tickets and pizza and popcorn ...
Barack: That sleepover is enough. We want to teach some limits to them. And their friends bring over presents.
Michelle: They get so much stuff that it just becomes numbing. Malia believes there is still a Santa Claus even though she's a little wary because some of her friends are non-believers. But Malia says, "Ma, I know there is a Santa because there's no way you'd buy me all that stuff." [Laughing]Wednesday, August 6, 2008
DEA Hiring Mercenaries?
This photograph, from the LA Times, suggests it's possibly true.
UPDATE: The dude in the photograph is wearing a Blackwater shirt.
Evan Bayh's Liberalism
The takeaway from Nate Silver's analysis on Evan Bayh's liberalism/conservatism:There is no senator more liberal than Bayh in any state more conservative than Indiana.
"Creamy White House Stationary"
I guess some people may be shocked by this. But after seven and a half years, nothing really fazes me anymore...
A Mother's Love
A scene from the aftermath of the earthquake in China:
He told the story of a woman found on all fours under stones, dead after several days, with her three-month-old baby beneath her, still breathing. The rescue workers found the woman's cell phone nearby and, on it, a text message to her child: "Dearest Loved One, If you can live, you must remember that I love you."
(Source: New Yorker article on Lang Lang)
If Only He Were Funny Four Years Ago
"I don't know if you know this. John McCain is looking for someone for vice president who has more economic expertise than he does. So congratulations to all of you, you’re on the short list."
- John Kerry
