McCain Just Harriet Miered Himself

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 2:15 PM PDT

2008/08/29 · 14:15

Alternatively, he fell right into the Uck & Mier. (terrible puns: 1; McCain: 0)

Sarah Palin is the nominee for Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket. And that got me thinking.

I was taking a look around the old internet this afternoon, and ran across a piece by Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi on Boston.com.

http://www.boston.com/...

An interesting read, but the lightbulb moment for me was the linking title (The actual title seems to be "A Question of Judgment") on the main Boston.com webpage: "A Gimmicky Insult to Women."
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Tuesday August 26, 2008 · 5:08 PM PDT

2008/08/26 · 17:08

Quick Update: The news of this awe-inspiring story was posted in a diary by Calvin Jones not long ago. Please give him a little love at the original news-breaking diary.

I understand the title of this diary is very vague, and sounds like what we've been hearing for days. But no, this is a different story.

According to Boston.com/The Boston Globe, quoting an anonymous aide, Senator Edward Kennedy was almost too ill last night to speak. He spent a sleepless night, and the day of his speech "in a Denver hospital for a kidney condition."

http://www.boston.com/...

Unrelated to his brain tumor, Senator Kennedy experienced a very painful bout of kidney stones THE DAY OF THE SPEECH. But he climbed the podium anyway.

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Tuesday August 19, 2008 · 10:10 PM PDT

2008/08/19 · 22:10

You know, Count Orlok.

Enough with this Hillary nonsense.

We all know what Obama's real problems are versus McCain:

Age.

Experience.

Sheer calculating evil, without the capacity for feeling mercy for man or beast.

Obama's choice is going to be Nosferatu. Trust me. You know it. I know it. Vegetable lasagna knows it (has that reference become "obscure" yet?).

So let's stop fucking around and plan for keeping the blood banks open 24/7 in Denver.

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Friday August 15, 2008 · 9:25 AM PDT

2008/08/15 · 09:25

Well, I didn't say what American I was referring to...pedantic asshole that I am. Perhaps not unlike the spoil sports constantly reminding everyone that December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000 was not, in fact, a millenial moment.

Anyway, I digress. I thought I'd update the ol' Daily Kos with some heartening international news of our neighbors in the western hemisphere. After 60 years of rule by the often brutal Colorado Party, Paraguay has new center-left president, an ex-bishop named Fernando Lugo.

This is wonderful news, and hopefully continues to move the western hemisphere (or those parts of it south of Brownsville, Texas, anyway) away from the darkness and brutality of the 20th century, a brutality that, sadly, our own country sometimes played a vigorous--if often covert--role.

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Wednesday August 13, 2008 · 6:01 PM PDT

2008/08/13 · 18:01

There was a very important diary posted here last night through much of today on the death of Hiu Lui Ng. It was by Gorette, and if you missed it: http://www.dailykos.com/...

You should also check out the original New York Times article on this incident, which is one of the most horrific stories of human cruelty I've heard in a long time: http://www.nytimes.com/...

Keith Olbermann addressed this awhile ago on his show, and his words--dripping with anger--summed up how I felt about this last night. Here is my original comment in that diary: http://www.dailykos.com/...

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Sunday August 10, 2008 · 8:33 PM PDT

2008/08/10 · 20:33

I don't usually do diaries like this (I don't do too many to begin with), but I can't help it today because of what I'm currently watching.

You're allowed to list a Fox News anchor or correspondent if you'd like, but it's sort of unfair. The results will be pretty obvious before we even begin.

Anyway, full disclosure: I'm easily annoyed. I get irked by as little as harmless mannerisms if I'm in the wrong mood. I usually keep it to myself.

But there is one thing that gets to me a little deeper under the skin: fucking idiots. (more)

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Tuesday July 29, 2008 · 10:03 AM PDT

2008/07/29 · 10:03

Recently, I've been back on a punk rock kick. My dedication to the genre waxes and wanes over time. I'm 28 now, which may not be exactly old, but in many ways, punk rock is the province of 15 year olds. It was for me. But occassionally, more complicated and respectable music loses its luster, and much like Joey Ramone & the gang, I have to take it back to basics.

Why do I introduce this diary with that tangent? The Ramones 4th album--in the estimation of some, their last "real" one--was entitled Road to Ruin.

After coming across Texas 1st District Republican Congressman Louis Gohmert's contribution to our national discourse, I can't help but feel that 1978 album title saw it all coming.
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Wednesday July 23, 2008 · 10:33 AM PDT

2008/07/23 · 10:33

Some stories just shock you enough to have to mention something about them, to think they're more indicative of something than the singular tragedy for one family. What I just read on Boston.com is one of those stories.

A 53 year old woman, a wife and mother, from Taunton, Massachusetts, faxed her mortgage company at 2:30 PM yesterday saying before the 5 PM auction of her home began she would be dead. When the company received the fax they called police within an hour. When the police got to the home, she was already dead, 1 1/2 hours before the auction would have started.

http://www.boston.com/...
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Tuesday July 15, 2008 · 12:14 PM PDT

2008/07/15 · 12:14

Breaking news as of 3PM, and perhaps a bigger news item in the dear ol' Commonwealth than the nation at large, but nonetheless.

http://www.boston.com/...

As this has the support of Governor Deval Patrick, this vote may clear the way for gay couples from other states to have marriages performed in Massachusetts that are legally recognized by the Commonwealth, which I imagine will have interesting repercussions when couples head back to Maine, or Arkansas, or Tennessee, or wherever else, and perhaps add another element to the debate.
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Tuesday July 08, 2008 · 10:18 AM PDT

2008/07/08 · 10:18

An alternate title of this diary could have been: Why I've given up on the media, polling companies, and America, possibly New Mexico, most of Planet Earth and Some of Those Damned Star Trek Alien Species--Y'Know, the Ones That Look More Human Or Whatever.

While its moment has passed, for most of this morning on the Boston.com website affiliated with the supposedly decent Boston Globe newspaper (or as I prefer to call it, the New York Times, but with a couple articles about Dorchester thrown into the classifieds), had the following AP story:

http://www.boston.com/...

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Sad News: George Carlin Has Died

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Sunday June 22, 2008 · 10:13 PM PDT

2008/06/22 · 22:13

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

He was 71. Apparently, it was an existing heart condition and he was in the hospital most of the day where he passed away.

Say what you will of his comedy (I, personally, had other favorites...I think I'm a bit too young to have identified with him the way many do), but he was one of those rare personalities that really wasn't going to listen to any bullshit from anyone.

On that count, he was truly rare and will be missed. You don't often run across people who simply won't let you lie to them.

QUICK UPDATE: A little sampling of Carlin's voice in one recent ridiculous episode of right wing "social conservatism."

Enjoy: http://youtube.com/...

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Wednesday May 28, 2008 · 10:56 PM PDT

2008/05/28 · 22:56

I have not yet read his book. I can't say that I will. I have not spent many hours since he left the job in 2006 thinking about Scott McClellan. Other than for the current news cycle, I can't say that I will spend much more.

But Scott McClellan is the current human representation of an issue that comes up from time to time, especially in the waning days of the Bush Administrations, when more than a few rats jump the ship. They either jump to another, "less tainted" faction of the Republican Party, and some jump off the bandwagon altogether. Maybe hoping for a job in the media, maybe hoping, as cynical careerists, that as the wind starts to blow in the Democratic direction they can get aboard as long as it's helpful to their ambition, or maybe they're just hoping to save their souls.

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