Who's Gonna Build Your Wall (or watch your kids?) (Video)

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Wednesday January 14, 2009 · 9:21 AM PST

2009/01/14 · 09:21

With all the news about Mr. Geithner getting caught in the "Oh migod! He hired an illegal nanny! And did not withhold!" trap... this little classic by California-born-but-livin-in-Tejas Tom Russell comes to mind....

The hypocricy of the ruling classes never ceases to amaze....

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Sunday September 28, 2008 · 3:24 PM PDT

2008/09/28 · 15:24

Just picked this up from David Lazarus, Consumer Confidential column in the LA Times online...

Seems that the House approved HR 5244, which, according to Lazarus,

would, among other things, end card issuers' self-proclaimed right to change interest rates at any time. Instead, a 45-day notice would be required for any increase.

It also would give cardholders more time to pay by requiring issuers to mail bills at least 25 days before the due date, as opposed to the current 14 days.

The banks love the bailout bill at taxpayer expense, but it seems like they don't want to spread any of the love back to us...It also helps explain why JP Morgan Chase did not blink at buying WaMu's retail banking and credit card assets...

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Sunday September 21, 2008 · 9:42 AM PDT

2008/09/21 · 09:42

I love good editorial cartoons....they can succinctly wrap up complex situations in a compelling and visual way that uses a good dose of dark humor to drive the barb home... great ones have the power to topple empires... witness Thomas Nast's cartoons against the Boss Tweed machine in mid-19th Century New York City... Nast by the way, was the guy who gave us the elephant for the Republicans and the donkey for the Democrats...

Here is a link to Bob Geiger's Saturday Cartoons blog, a roundup of editorial cartoons from around the country and the Net.... One of these is an animated cartoon by Mark Fiore, and should be used as an anti-McLame commercial.

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Tuesday September 16, 2008 · 5:22 PM PDT

2008/09/16 · 17:22

According to the AP (and others)

The U.S. plans to sell Israel 1,000 buster-bunker bombs which Israeli military experts said Monday could provide a powerful new weapon against underground arsenals in Lebanon or Gaza.

The experts said they doubted, however, that the bombs could be used to deliver a crippling blow against Iran's nuclear program.

I left the statement about Iran to provide the story as AP is reporting it....

However... a little more digging brought me to an article in the Defense Industry Dailywith the following nugget buried in the thicket of techweapon verbiage...
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Friday September 12, 2008 · 7:52 PM PDT

2008/09/12 · 19:52

Will tomorrow's headline be: 1000 prisoners and seputies dead in Galveston Jail?

I just read where the Galveston Sherrif's Department has refused to evacuate over 1,000 people from the one-story jail... that figure includes inmates and staff... The Sheriif's position is that the jail was built to withstand a hurricane, therefore, why evacuate?

This was diaried earlier... Butcher Girls'Diary

However, that was at 2:30 in the afternoon..it is now 7:30 PDT and the news is now saying IT IS TOO LATE TO LEAVE and the online reports say the prsioners are still there.. But there is even more

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 8:43 PM PDT

2008/09/10 · 20:43

I just came across this short video on funnyordie.com

Gina Gershon Channels Sarah Palin

<div style="text-align:center;width: 464px;">See more Gina Gershon videos at Funny or Die</div>

There are other satire videos on Palin there as well, but this one really captures the essence of Palin... and shows Gershon for the great actress with a sense of humor that she is is.

I have provided links to some of them below... but I warn you, some of the humor is not so p.c..... so don't say you have not been warned.

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 7:22 PM PDT

2008/08/29 · 19:22

I just read a news column by Debra Saunders of the San Francisco Chronicle. Either Saunders published a McCain/Rove press release verbatim or she should be on the Republican payroll... Saunders goes down Palin's list of weak and negatives and turns all them lemons into lemonade, or is it lemon flavor kool-aid?

Saunders Pro-Palin Talking Points in SF Chronicle

For Republicans angry at Washington's big-spending bonanza when Republicans controlled the White House and Congress, Palin, like McCain, is an antidote. She is the Alaskan who pulled state support for the infamous Bridge to Nowhere and bucked Alaska's congressional and state Republican leaders

.
She calls Palin

"a maverick, like McCain's a maverick. She complements his ardent opposition, not only to congressional earmarks, but also to the pork-rich farm bill and ethanol subsidies supported by Obama."

But that is not the cherry on top of the big love note that Saunders hearts to Palin more below the fold

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Wednesday August 27, 2008 · 5:04 PM PDT

2008/08/27 · 17:04

Looks like the fix is really in with the corporate lobbyists and the big wig Dems... From ABC News Web Page

ABC Reporter Arrested

DENVER--Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic Senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel.

Asa Eslocker and his crew were on the sidewalk in front of the Brown Palace when a HUGE Boulder County Sheriff Deputy came up and started pushing Eslocker out into the street... ABC caught the whole thing on tape.... the videolink is in the story

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Thursday August 21, 2008 · 1:02 PM PDT

2008/08/21 · 13:02

Josh Marshall has a piece on McCain's house memeory and posted this video that McCain's daughter put up YouTube about the fun, really cool day when all the national press showed up at their "ranch".. (my father was an Arizona rancher..20 acres in Sedona creekside don't qualify unless you count ranching bullshit)...
McCain Cous Cous BBQ in Sedona House Compound

As for being elitest, she mentions the couscous at the BBQ... I suppose that was next to the arugula....

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Monday August 18, 2008 · 8:10 PM PDT

2008/08/18 · 20:10

So I was taking a break from editing a short video I am under the deadline gun to get done and I stole a moment to do a little surfin' for humor... which took me to funnyordie.com... which gave me another look at the Paris Hilton response to McCain... and then I saw this
Republican Slogan Satire Video

I know the Republican infringement on Effexor's trademarked slogan is nothing new... the original story broke in May. And I did a Kos search before posting this.

more below

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Thursday August 14, 2008 · 7:48 PM PDT

2008/08/14 · 19:48

What in the blazes is he doing flying MD-80's of any vintage? I refuse to fly on them. I am Gold Medallion on Delta, and will not fly an MD-80 under under any circumstances.

Ask almost any airline pilot.... One thing a senior Delta pilot told me is that Boeing craft (the MD-80 was built by McDonnell Douglas) are tested by bending their wings upward until they meet... nice to know when you are in heavy turbulence..

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Wednesday April 02, 2008 · 3:27 PM PDT

2008/04/02 · 15:27

I recently heard an NPR Morning Edition report on Jack Bauer and 24. The thrust of the piece was that Jack Bauer's on-screen torture antics were viewed as nothing more than harmless entertainment by the show's producers...EVEN AFTER

The dean of the military academy at West Point was concerned that some cadets took him too seriously — concerned enough that he visited the producers of 24 in late 2006. He asked if they could tone it down a little, if they could make Jack Bauer's violent tactics not quite so effective.

Bob Cochran says the show's producers took the comments under advisement, but that little has really changed. It is, after all, just a TV show, he says.

"I think the army is responsible for training its own people," Cochran says. "We're not. And they should be able to explain the difference to their own people between fantasy and reality."

Guess what? Turns out that smug producer of All American torture fantasy is as full of _hit as Bush,Cheney and the Chickenhawks.... cuz it just so happens that the Boys in Guantanamo looked at good ol' Jack for inspiration....

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