I searched yesterday's diaries and didn't find this so I thought some of you might be interested in enjoying a little comic relief. I was skipping around the channels on Friday and happened to land on this. It's funny, yet hauntingly appropriate (in my opinion only of course)

Sean Tevis is running for state representative in Kansas, and he's used an incredibly funny homage to webcomic xkcd to get his name out online.  And boy, has it worked!

More after the fold.

For much of my life, I've been a strong advocate of gun control in America.  I note that very few people in America hunt for food on a regular basis, and I don't believe that hunting for humans is a proper expression of the second amendment (and to wit, I know of almost no example of the gun murder of another human being where such murder expanded the hunter's food supply).

However, today, in purple Wisconsin, I read an article that made me question my previous gun control stance.  

1917 - J. Edgar Hoover gets job on ministry of Justice

1964 - Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

"The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' . . . . I chose to do Dr. Clarke's story as a film because it highlights a critical factor necessary for human evolution; that is, beyond our present condition. This film is a rejection of the notion that there is a god; isn't that obvious?"
-- Stanley Kubrick

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

Maybe so, maybe so. This article describes the oil spill and hurricane down South as being 'just another example of John McCain's bad luck.'
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Picture here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

This isn't really a diary and I know I'll get bitched at for the length but this picture was too funny to keep to myself.

You should read this diary (please!!!!), and this excerpt will tell you why:

You know what, I think you – yeah, you, reader! – are a bit of a maverick yourself. I see that twinkle in your eye. That little impish "let’s bomb the shit out of Iran" smirk tugging at your lips! On a visceral level, you connect with Maverick McCain. He’s like the guy in the leather jacket at the party – with the slick pompadour, rolling his own cigarette. You know you shouldn’t go out with him, but you do anyway, just for the thrill of bucking society with such a devilish rake.

You want to read this diary, you MAVERICK!

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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Somebody sent me the plans for the upcoming George W. Bush Presidential Library... boy, they sure sound official!

Compliments of the Southwest Missouri Libertarian Party.

The George W Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages.

The Library will include:

The Hurricane Katrina Room,
which is still under construction.

The Alberto Gonzales Room,
where you won't be able to remember anything.

The Texas Air National Guard Room,
where you don't even have to show up.

(More below the fold.)

1775 - US Postal system created

1929 - President Herbert Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt."

"Children are our most valuable natural resource."
-- Herbert Hoover

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

Josh Marshall had a great find tonight at the JohnMcCain.com store: the McCain Door Mat! ($70)

I'm so happy he sent me there, because within a few moments I alighted on this special nugget of McCainy goodness.

Norm.  I'm seriously concerned about your well-being and your family.  I realize you're barely making it financially as a Senator and the stress of your reelection campaign has got to be giving you an ulcer.  It's just not fair that a Senator such as you should be living in the dive basement of a Replubican political operative and yet have to work so hard in such a anti-Replubican reelection environment.

But I have an idea.  You should become a lobbyist.

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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You know about the stimulus-response rule?  Apply a stimulus, get a response.  So, how has the GOP attempt to frame the debate been going?

Stimulus: Tell America that Obama hasn't been to Iraq, and doesn't know what's going on in the Middle East.
Response: Obama visits Iraq, and their prime minister endorses his idea for troop withdrawl timetable.

Stimulus: Tell America that the "liberal" media is treating McCain unfairly.
Response: Media looks at McCain, and watches him make gaffes.

Stimulus: Tell America that Bush's call for drilling has brought down the price of oil, and schedule a photo-op on an oil rigger.
Response: What else?  An oil spill.

This begs the question: "Is the McCain Campaign cursed?"

We Democrats are getting confident.  How can Obama possibly lose?  Just wait until the debates!

The M$M, however, having lots of rating advertising to lose with a blowout, is in a panic.  They need a horse race.  Fortunately, they have a plan, and the money to pull it off.  Want to know how?

Fictional News Network(FNN): Exclusive spy photos reveal new Chinese mobile division.
In response to intelligence information on a new Chinese mobile brigade, the US army is requesting $344 Billion for development to  meet this capability gap:

Pentagon officials are accellerating their Combat Yield Objective Team Endeavor (COYOTE) program (see below):

But seriously, what are those guys shooting...not the pistol, the thing that looks like a Kalashnikov whose growth was stunted by smoking ?(it's the same sort of gas port)

I stole the pictures from a blog post titled Crouching Tiger, Hidden Segway (hee hee) and the Warner Brothers picture from this site on how to get to the moon cheap.

1306 - King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France

1938 - 3d Reich issues special identity cards for Jewish Germans.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
"We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories ... And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them."

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
George W. Bush

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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I got a few requests to repost this since I published it at 11:30 p.m. Friday night. I'm updating with some new details about my experience at Netroots Nation.

I arrived at Austin Thursday just in time to hear Howard Dean speak outside the convention center.

It was one of those moments in life where timing is perfect.

In many ways Howard Dean's work as a presidential candidate and then as DNC chairman got me there.