Bush pardoned Scooter Libby. I mean, why not? It fits the theme of the rest of his presidency. Protect your rich friends and fuck everyone else. Never mind that the guy outed a CIA operative. It wasn't like he outed her to protect the world from some larger injustice. These were petty, vindictive people with no true concern for national security that saw an opportunity to hit low, and they took it. Sure, Bush didn't give him a full pardon, but the guy essentially escapes any real consequences of his actions. It's no wonder Bush's approval rating is in the crapper. Complete and utter arrogance. We'll see if the blanket pardon comes out for Cheney and his roll in this, and all of the other, shit.
I saw Jimmy Johnson pimping something on an infomercial this weekend which lead me to many thoughts.
- How many washed up celebrities turned that shit down that lead the company to get Jimmy fucking Johnson.
- The guy coached for how long in the NFL? Do you really need the money that badly, you fucking whore?
- The guy is on an NFL pregame show. (Not that he adds anything of value to the show.) Is he not making enough from being a talking head that he has to do fucking infomercials?
- Will the presence of a former Cowboys coach help or hurt the companies sales? I'm guess it hurts, I know I hate the fucking prick. I hate him even more now that he's shilling for a living.
- Is his need for money related to the massive volume of hair care products that he uses on that helmet?
I'm happy to know that Sarah Palin lost and her wardrobe will be reposessed. The thing about her not knowing whether Africa was a country or a continent was a particularly nice piece of gossip, but I doubt there's any truth to it. So the democrats have the White House and both houses of Congress. Let's see what they do with it. My guess is probably not very much.
Colin Powell endorsed Obama today. I think this doesn't matter fortwo reasons. The first is that white people will see this as a black mansupporting another black man. The second is that anyone that is still undecidedat this point really hasn't been paying attention at all and won't even knowthat this happened.
My current line of thinking is that any white voters that are sayingthey are undecided right now, actually aren't. They're going to vote for McCainif Obama isn't assassinated before the election. If he does get killed,throwing the election into complete chaos and probably leading to some sort ofa run-off election, they would either not vote at all or they would vote forObama as a pity vote and so they could tell their friends that they voted forhim to hide their true inner racist tendencies.
I haven't posted lately, because all it would be about it how passionately I hate Sarah Palin. She embodies everything that I hate about Bush while having the most annoying voice since that stupid Pat character from the early 90's SNL. I've heard people say that they're going to vote for her because she's hot. Anyone that thinks Sarah Palin is hot does not deserve to have a dick, much less a vote. If you feel this way, there's a place for you. It's called Utah. You should go there and take your shitty VP candidate with you. No one will miss you, you are a drain on them, society, evolution, and thought in general. Go to the utopia of inbred, retarded fucks and marry as many three toothed, nine toed wives as you can club over the head like the caveman you until they agree marry and fuck you until you have a state full of guns, trailers, pickup trucks, and inbred, cycloptic, divet-headed children that will satisfy your urge to make everyone as miserable as you are. Or better yet, sign up for the army and go get fucking dead in Iraq. The world will be a better place without you.
So in summary, I still hate Sarah Palin.
The hypocrisy over the selection of Sarah Palin as the VP candidate by Grandpa Hanoi Hilton after all of the shots at Obama is lost on no one. The Daily Show put together a nice "Greatest Hits" of hypocrisy collection regarding Palin.
Daily Show clip
So the McCain-Palin campaign diffuses rumors that the retard kid Palin shat out a couple months ago was actually her daughter's by saying that the daughter is actually pregnant now. I'm not sure what sort of spin that's supposed to be, but I think they had a pretty good idea that it would all come out shortly after she was named. That explains the timing of the annoucement of Palin as McCain's VP choice; they wanted all of this to get lost in the holiday weekend, leaving them free for a pretty balloon drop on national TV this week. I sure the whole, "She's going to have it and marry the stupid redneck teenage father" thing works well on the far, far right, but everyone I talk to thinks it just makes Palin look like a shitty mother. Which it should.
So what does all of this mean? I was right, the retard was Palin's. She's still completely unqualified to be anything other than grand marshall of the Rose Parade. The fact that they're celebrating her abstinence only stance after all of this only goes to show what a mess the McCain campaign is in.
So I've been quiet for a little while politically. Some of it is the normal busy summer shit, some of it is that I figured the couple of months leading up to November 4 would be almost exclusively about politics, so why blow my load early? Now that we have two VP candidates, I figure there's actually something new to talk about.
Obama picked another old white guy to dispel the "not enough experience" complaint. Fine. The problem I have with it is that he's the biggest bullseye we'll have had for a president since Lincoln, and look how that ended up. So if he gets capped, we're left with the pride of a state nobody cares about. That's not to say I'm upset about the choice; in fact, I'm thrilled he didn't pick Hillary. That would have been a nightmare of egos. Biden's positions on policies that I care about are just as bad as Hillary's, he just doesn't annoy me as much as she does.
So Capt. Experience McCain went out and picked someone with what I would describe as zero experience. He would have to be insane to hit Obama on the ready to lead argument after picking Palin. The only positive thing I have to say about her is that she's better looking than Cheney. Other than that, she embodies everything that I dislike about the Republican party on almost every issue. She makes the far right stand up and cheer, and keeps the soccer moms firmly in the McCain pocket. She may be a Washington outsider, but she does nothing to distance him from Bush. I remember saying way back before the Democratic primaries were over that I would vote for him if Hillary got the nod, but with all of his recent history, I've changed my mind on that. I would have just stayed home and said to hell with the election.
I'm usually hugely entertained by conspiracy theories. That's not to say I subscribe to any of their notions; I just enjoy wildly different ideas. I just read the best one this morning, which I would put big money on being complete bullshit but I find entertaining, none the less. They're saying that Palin's recently born retard kid isn't actually hers; that it's her 16 year-old daughter's.
The Bristol Palin Pregnancy Rumor
Personally, I think she looks pregnant in the video. As far as her not walking pregnant, I think on the fifth time being 8 months pregnant, if anyone is going to know how to walk in high heels that pregnant without waddling, it's going to be her.
This nearly had me in tears. A slab of bacon was detected by airport security as a bomb. Why was a man carrying a slab of bacon, you ask? Read the article, it's just too damn funny.
Bacon sets off airport bomb detector
My disappointment in his death isn't related to him being a comedy icon; it's related to his religion bashing that seemed to come out toward the end of his career. Other than the religion bits in his routine, I think he had gone a bit soft. Granted, after the stuff he did in the 70's and 80's, there was probably only one way he could go. I particularly disagreed with his opinions against voting, but that may have just been a line. He was always at his best on Bill Maher's HBO show. Hopefully someone in the comedy world steps up to fill the void.
So now McCain is repudiating, rejecting, disavowing, running from the endorsement of a religious figure. I will never understand how some guy that says some crazy shit that also says he's going to vote for you suddenly becomes your problem. There's going to be some crazy fucking people casting votes and saying all kinds of bizarre things before the November and unless one of them is a candidate or a high ranking adviser in their respective campaigns, I don't see how it becomes associated in any way with what the candidates have to say.
I honestly don't understand how anyone can possibly care about Obama's preacher saying stupid shit. I'm confused about how it's applicable to the job that Obama would do as president. Are we voting for Obama or are we voting for the guy whose church he used to go to?
I'm hoping this is just a media controversy and that people don't actually care. I know I don't. The remarkable thing about the story is the long lifespan that its had, which scares me into thinking that people do actually care. That makes me want to find out who the hell does care and club them over the head. It's the same sort of Swift Boat bullshit from the last election. That was another non-existent controversy that somehow was able to make people forget that the guy they were talking about actually went to Vietnam, when the guy he was running against didn't.
The truly scary part of the whole deal is that this story gets a whole bonus life if Hillary would somehow wrangle the super delegates she needs and steals the nomination from Obama. Then the Republicans get to run that fucking Wright footage all over again when they're asking her about the counceling the guy gave Billy boy and her after the news about him mouth fucking Monica Lewinski broke. To me, that's far more significant as she wouldn't even be in the race if she had divorced him.
Growing up, Roger Clemens was my favorite baseball player. The way he has hung around and embarrassed himself with the obvious steroid use was bad, embarrassing himself further by pitching for the Yankees was even worse, but the latest scandal around him is just sickening. He had an affair with some no talent, ugly ass country singer starting when she was 15. So top it all off, he's a pedophile. He's going to the Hall no matter what, and until this I had hoped he would go as a Red Sox. Now, I say fuck him. Let him go in as a Yankee. They deserve to be associated with him.
I watched the Obama - Clinton debate last night and found myself very early on asking why a man that served in the Clinton administration was allowed to be a moderator when wife of his old boss was one of the candidates? He more that obviously went after Obama, and I found myself bored by the lines of questioning that he and the morning show guy continually went on. They seemed to be pushing to back the candidates into a corner on positions that they've previously covered in other debates. I realize that after the 30 or 40 debates that they've had now, it's difficult to find new material to fill 2 hours, but things have happened since the last debate. Only the candidates seemed interested in moving on to issues involving recent events, not the moderators. I eventually grew bored of the one sided lines of questioning and turned it off.
On one of the news sites I go to, it linked to the following article:
Wright likely to hurt Obama
This angers me for a couple of reasons. The first being that a headline was granted glorifying what is already a non-story based upon a web poll. We can definitely believe it if a web poll says it's true. Because web poll are such an accurate, random, and generally scientific results. If you believe that, you probably also believe that the bearded lady that offers you a BJ for $25 in a really deep voice every day when you're stopped at a stoplight on your way home from work is really a lady. There's a zillion web polls out there, and none of them should be regarded as the results of anything except the opinion of some fat, unemployed shithead that knows how to skew a web poll by clearing the cookies from his browser.
The second reason is angers me is that some people actually believe that religion means anything. When was the last time a national politician was anything except a raging egomaniac? They couldn't stand up to the level of scrutiny that they're held to if they didn't already believe that they were halfway to being declared the second coming of Christ. Look at president asshole-right-below-the-Bush. He thinks God talks to him. I find that a world more disturbing than a black guy bitching about being mistreated. To think that any man other than a feeble minded twat would be even the slightest bit influenced by some fucking preacher makes me want to burn every fucking Bible in this country. That in some households and minds, the words of a preacher or priest should be held in high regard makes me fucking ill. These people can only be regarded in the same group as the mentally retarded. I've already gone on ad nauseam many times about my desire to feed retards to polar bears and other endangered apex predators, so why not the most religiously brainwashed? Between each of the past few presidential elections, my tone and disgust with religion has mellowed. And each time, the election and the silliness of way religion is used as a tool to be manipulated in order to get elected has come to push me firmly back to the anti-religion camp. Obama tap danced to try and keep as many zealots in his corner today, and that pisses me off. McCain has been sucking the dick of the far right for two years to try and get his, and Hillary Clinton will always be Hillary, willing to say and do whatever she needs to get elected. I just want one of the candidates to stand up and finally speak to the Constitution and tell everyone that their religious beliefs are personal and have nothing to do with their candidacy. That would get my vote.