Welcome to America, where celebrity means politician; right? That's what Big Mac tells us! On that note, I'd like to take this time to congratulate Sarah Palin on her three wins for 30 Rock last night. She looked amazing, didn't she? You know who doesn't have Emmys? Obama. And Biden.
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Monday, September 22, 2008
State Polling for 9/21
From FiveThirtyEight, the excellent poll clearinghouse to which I lose nearly an hour of my time every day:
Ohio is a bit disturbing, until you notice that this poll was conducted before the concept of free markets committed sepuku and McCain's numbers plummeted along with the Dow.
What's more unsettling is Minnesota at only +1 to Obama. This poll isn't a statistical outlier, but part of a trend that's shown anywhere from a tie to a mere 2 point lead for Obama. What are the people of Lake Woebegone thinking? Are they just enchanted by Sarah Palin's upper midwestern accented siren's song? Garrison Keillor seems to be unavailable for comment at this time.
North Carolina showing a tie is very encouraging though. Survey USA had this state as +20 McCain back on 9/7! Could this massive momentum shift carry over into neighboring Virginia as well? I'd trade North Carolina's 15 electoral votes for Minnesota's 10 if need be, but I won't like it.
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Ohio is a bit disturbing, until you notice that this poll was conducted before the concept of free markets committed sepuku and McCain's numbers plummeted along with the Dow.
What's more unsettling is Minnesota at only +1 to Obama. This poll isn't a statistical outlier, but part of a trend that's shown anywhere from a tie to a mere 2 point lead for Obama. What are the people of Lake Woebegone thinking? Are they just enchanted by Sarah Palin's upper midwestern accented siren's song? Garrison Keillor seems to be unavailable for comment at this time.
North Carolina showing a tie is very encouraging though. Survey USA had this state as +20 McCain back on 9/7! Could this massive momentum shift carry over into neighboring Virginia as well? I'd trade North Carolina's 15 electoral votes for Minnesota's 10 if need be, but I won't like it.
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
That's right GM factory workers! The economy is great! So shut up!
Afterwards, McCain visited a cancer ward and told the patients their doctors were full of shit. Then laid out his plan to take away their chemotherapy treatments.
It's really Obama's fault. McCain was just referencing his speech to the same workers the previous week. Obama told them they were dirty grease monkeys, who were ruining the economy and should have been aborted 10 minutes after they were born.
I guess a few of those dirty grease monkeys just happened to agree with him.
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Great CEO = Great President?
Carly Fiorina, a McCain spokesperson came under fire last week for her assertion that none of the candidates for president or vice president would make a good CEO. (She also called the Tina Fey as Palin SNL skit sexist, so she’s an idiot).
Much of the response to her comments that I’ve read point to her failed experience as a CEO herself but I have a different question to pose: Do we want a president with all the qualities that make a great CEO?
My first impulse was hell, no! CEOs work in a capitalist system with profit being the only measurment of success. Or current president is too soft on business and what would work for a CEO (no or severely limited regulation) certainly doesn’t work for the country (ex. our current state of affairs).
Then I really started to digest the question… As I tried to define what makes a great CEO, I came across this blog post, incidentally called “What Make a Great CEO.”
It outlines 7 attributes including Vision, Passion, Long Term thinking and Ethics. It became clear to me that the same things that make a leader great whether it be in business, academia, or politics.
Using the attributes proposed by the above article, it becomes even more clear who to choose on November 4.
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Much of the response to her comments that I’ve read point to her failed experience as a CEO herself but I have a different question to pose: Do we want a president with all the qualities that make a great CEO?
My first impulse was hell, no! CEOs work in a capitalist system with profit being the only measurment of success. Or current president is too soft on business and what would work for a CEO (no or severely limited regulation) certainly doesn’t work for the country (ex. our current state of affairs).
Then I really started to digest the question… As I tried to define what makes a great CEO, I came across this blog post, incidentally called “What Make a Great CEO.”
It outlines 7 attributes including Vision, Passion, Long Term thinking and Ethics. It became clear to me that the same things that make a leader great whether it be in business, academia, or politics.
Using the attributes proposed by the above article, it becomes even more clear who to choose on November 4.
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The Latest Sarah Palin Rumors!
Have you heard the latest Sarah Palin rumors? Probably not, because I am making them up right now, as I type. Here you go:
Sarah Palin has two rows of bottom teeth.
Sarah Palin has recently popularized the high neckline suit jacket for women, which she wears to hide the "Property of the Anchorage Mara Salvatrucha-13" tattoo on her collar bone.
Alaskans do not have an accent. The most common way of acquiring the nasally tinge Palin speaks with is consuming a lot of cheap blow.
The Alaskan Independence Party, of which Palin was a member, promotes the secession of Alaska from the United States. It cites such issues as economic regulation, land management, and the most common reason states secede from the union, slavery.
When illustrating Palin's executive experience, reference is often made to her 6 years as mayor of Wasilla Alaska. A town with a population smaller than the high school I went to. (actually, this one is a well substantiated fact.)
Citing precedent, set forth by spouses of former Alaskan governors, Sarah makes Todd Palin pee sitting down.
Sarah Palin, in the 80's, made money on bar bets by inserting a cherry stem up her "lady parts" and tying it into a knot. This is the source of 2 controversies. 1) Sources have come forward alleging she stuck an already knotted cherry stem up her "lady parts" before she would go out for the evening. 2) She has never reported this income on her tax forms.
During the Exxon Valdez oil spill crisis, Sarah Palin, using connections made through the Wasilla school district PTA, borrowed a penguin from the Anchorage zoo, covered it in oil, and arranged photo opps showing her cleaning and nursing it back to health. Against the advice of Greenpeace volunteers at the scene, Palin then returned the penguin to the ocean, where it was quickly covered in oil from the slick which had not yet dissipated. The penguin soon died. It was soon after realized, penguins are not native to Alaska. Palin, humiliated by the experience, declared war on nature.
Sarah Palin, a journalism major in college, does not know what a gerund is, nor how to find out what a gerund is.
Sarah Palin is touted as a standout basketball star, a point guard and team captain at Wasilla High School. However, official national high school basketball statistical records place an asterisk next to her name, as well as many other Alaskan high school basketball players, which notates: never played against any black people.
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Sarah Palin has two rows of bottom teeth.
Sarah Palin has recently popularized the high neckline suit jacket for women, which she wears to hide the "Property of the Anchorage Mara Salvatrucha-13" tattoo on her collar bone.
Alaskans do not have an accent. The most common way of acquiring the nasally tinge Palin speaks with is consuming a lot of cheap blow.
The Alaskan Independence Party, of which Palin was a member, promotes the secession of Alaska from the United States. It cites such issues as economic regulation, land management, and the most common reason states secede from the union, slavery.
When illustrating Palin's executive experience, reference is often made to her 6 years as mayor of Wasilla Alaska. A town with a population smaller than the high school I went to. (actually, this one is a well substantiated fact.)
Citing precedent, set forth by spouses of former Alaskan governors, Sarah makes Todd Palin pee sitting down.
Sarah Palin, in the 80's, made money on bar bets by inserting a cherry stem up her "lady parts" and tying it into a knot. This is the source of 2 controversies. 1) Sources have come forward alleging she stuck an already knotted cherry stem up her "lady parts" before she would go out for the evening. 2) She has never reported this income on her tax forms.
During the Exxon Valdez oil spill crisis, Sarah Palin, using connections made through the Wasilla school district PTA, borrowed a penguin from the Anchorage zoo, covered it in oil, and arranged photo opps showing her cleaning and nursing it back to health. Against the advice of Greenpeace volunteers at the scene, Palin then returned the penguin to the ocean, where it was quickly covered in oil from the slick which had not yet dissipated. The penguin soon died. It was soon after realized, penguins are not native to Alaska. Palin, humiliated by the experience, declared war on nature.
Sarah Palin, a journalism major in college, does not know what a gerund is, nor how to find out what a gerund is.
Sarah Palin is touted as a standout basketball star, a point guard and team captain at Wasilla High School. However, official national high school basketball statistical records place an asterisk next to her name, as well as many other Alaskan high school basketball players, which notates: never played against any black people.
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Obama's Momma Said Knock You Out
This video may be a bit long at 8 minutes, but it is just too good not to stick with all the way through. Highlights are just before the 4 minute mark, when our anonymous angry preacher breaks the all time "mommas" per second record, and also near the end where some incomprehensible shit is spewed about Wolf Blitzer's Satanist kids sodomizing Chris Matthews' gay babies on Facebook. Mind=Blown.
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Open the Door, Get on the Floor. Everybody Walk That Dinosaur
Mat-Su Valley activist and music teacher Phillip Munger tells America why they should be terrified of Palin getting near those nuk-u-lar codes in a recent Salon article.
"I pushed her on the earth's creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. And she said yes, she'd seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them."Basically Palin believes that mushroom clouds will summon Jesus on his dino-mount. Then, while all of the Muslims, gays, and secular humanists are left to reenact Cormac McCarthy's The Road for all time, Palin and her buds will ascend into heaven. Once there, God will build a frickin' sweet ramp so big even he can't jump it. But everyone will high five after Todd Palin can, on his snow-mobile. Vroooom!
Munger also asked Palin if she truly believed in the End of Days, the doomsday scenario when the Messiah will return. "She looked in my eyes and said, 'Yes, I think I will see Jesus come back to earth in my lifetime.'"
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