The Gulag Archipelago contains absolutely no reference to the cross in the dirt story. I have to agree with the thinking that the story on McCain's cross story would have been better off left untouched. The Saddleback church event may have shown us how easy it is to question McCain's honesty, but the cross story is a bust. Who cares anyway?
Yeah, I wrote more below.
I think a much larger issue remains concerning John McCain's time in Vietnam. It still does not qualify him to be President of the United States, no matter how much the Beltway media club love the idea. Bob Schaeffer did America a great disservice by dismissing (Ret.) General Wesley Clark's concerns on that matter. Dr. Phillip Butler, who was a POW for years longer than McCain in the same "facility," discusses this issue with great clarity. John McCain's time spent as a POW detracts from his qualifications rather than buttresses them, for a myriad of reasons (his quick temper being near the top).
Drop the cross story, please. There are bigger fish to fry, like what McCain has said he will do to our nation. We all know his support for the oil robber barons is true. We all know his economic policy, truly, will create a neofeudalist variety of serfdom in this nation, and go far to destroying any hope for the poor and the middle class. We all know he shouldn't have his finger on the button, because a post-apocalyptic world will just not be fun to live in. We all know how corrupt his campaign staff, contributors and rich supporters are. We don't need to catch him lying in every single statement he makes. The truth about McCain damages his image far more than his lies, of which there are, admittedly, hundreds to choose from.
I'm just saying...
And Now: McCrazy-Pills Has A Half Sister
Cindy "Flying High" McCain is not an only child, as she has said in the past. As recently as last Tuesday a news broadcast, on NPR, reaffirmed her false claim to be Jim Hensley's only daughter. Cindy's nephew, Nicholas Portalski, said of why he has come forward to dispute the lies:
The fact that we don't exist. The fact that we've never been recognized, and then Cindy has to put such a fine point on it by saying something that's not true. Recently, again and again. It's just very, very hurtful.
Cindy tells tall tales as well as McFail, apparently. Cindy overdosed on Botox upon hearing that somebody found out she has a connection to a regular human being. Medics used the jaws of life to pry her mouth open and force some oxy down her throat.
and now A Huge Cockfight
"Dinesh Sharma is a marketing science consultant with a doctorate in psychology from Harvard." That's the byline from an opinion written at Fredericksburg.com in The Freelance Star. Dinesh has a fascination with cocks and cockfighting. He massacred his opinion piece with wildly irrelevant and bizarre references, some of which are fraudulent. Take it from somebody who lives in the Jindal state, just because somebody has a good education doesn't mean they have common sense.
Further dissecting...
- Number of times the word cockfight is used in two paragraphs: 4 (five if you count the title overhead).
- Number of times the piece made sense: 0 (apparently a huge portion of it went missing in Sharma's head)
Gems:
Cockfight [sic] is a window to the Balinese life. The cock that loses the fight is slaughtered at the ring.
And
While cockfighting is banned in many states in the U.S., it is still legally practiced in [sic] few. People in many parts of the world settle a dispute or a duel by engaging in a cockfight.
Sources, Dinesh
Thanks for the info on the ass clown, Jim Newell. It's always refreshing to see somebody write something worse than one of my 3 a.m. drunken rants, because it doesn't happen very often.
The REAL JR Revisited wrote a much better piece in response. He tried to make it bad, but failed:
For a moment, [John McCain] felt oddly... lonely. Oddly enough, he remarked to himself. For almost a year and a half since he began this trip to November, he’s been constantly surrounded by aides and advice givers and favor seekers. He had been shaking so many different hands that even during quiet moments, his limbs would still feel jostled. Forced to speechify and answer questions over and over again, there was a constant sensory overload. But now, watching the fields of wheat rushing past him peppered with a silo here, a barn there... there was a sense of piece. An unnerving quiet that seemed louder than the din of prompted applause.
Having fun in the late afternoon, even though bloggers are all geeks and losers and play D&D and live with mom and have no girlfriends and hate freedom and hate our nation and support terrorists and run-on sentences.
Unsurprisingly moving on
Because David Brooks Wuvs John McCain
The sick feeling I got after reading today's David Brooks column still has not subsided. I am normally very understanding about latent homosexuality, but this just grossed me out too much. Mr. Brooks loves John McCain. Here's a little sample:
This sort of behavior has been part of McCain’s long-running rebellion against the stupidity of modern partisanship. In a thousand ways, he has tried to preserve some sense of self-respect in a sea of pandering pomposity. He’s done it through self-mockery, by talking endlessly about his own embarrassing lapses and by keeping up a running patter on the absurdity all around. He’s done it by breaking frequently from his own party to cut serious deals with people like Ted Kennedy and Russ Feingold. He’s done it with his own frantic and freewheeling style...
The column is labeled as opinion. It should come with an adult content warning as well, so no children stumble into Brooks perverted world on accident. Eww.
Which brings me to
Roseanne Got Addicted Too
In case anybody out there missed it, Roseanne Barr became addicted to expressing her political opinions. Somebody should tell her a few factual references help. Also, conspiracy theories aren't as popular as they were when she was dropping doses and snorting blow back in the 70's.
I have to admire just how wild her rants get. I'm just too polite to write the things she writes. Lots of people believe the high road is killing the Democratic Party. I would urge them to read Roseanne's craziness and pretend it was written by Barack Obama. That doesn't look too attractive, now does it?
Booga Booga, trucknutz!
Scary liberal out.
Update on Kos' entry: Kennedy's ads are super weak, and Mary's team is punching him where the sun don't shine. Get him, Mary! Crush his jewels!