Bill vs. Barney

I normally avoid anything to do with the unstable attack dog that Olbermann refers to as 'Bill Orally'.

I made an exception because I wanted to see how Barney Frank weathered the assault.

Frank may as well have been muted. O'Reilly's voice was nearly twice as loud, he yelled and shouted over everything, complete with spittle and hand chopping mannerisms that were very much like Hitler.

... No, no, I'm NOT "comparing" O'Reilly to Hitler... I'm just saying they have similar speaking styles.

Ultimately though... the above clip is a blatent piece of gay bashing thinly veiled under an economic/legislative issue.

And, as much as I'm disgusted with the waste of space that is Bill O'Reilly...

I don't see him as the problem.

The problem is that this country has a large market for his particular brand of infantile illogical egotistical hate-mongering and bullying. He wouldn't be where he is now if that weren't the case.

And that same demographic apparently gravitates towards McCain.

There can be no Liberty, Justice or Freedom in places where tyrants and bullies are glorified.

It's time for the 'average angry emasculated white males' to take their prozac and calm down.

Too long they've been clutched by the feverish fear that they've lost their exhalted position of priviledge to 'those greedy overweening minorities'.

And in their fear, they've elevated 'angry white men' like Bush, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, & Co. in the misguided belief that they're all on the same team, that while they may be intolerant bullies, at least they'll look out for their own.

Which is as foolish as blue collar working families supporting the 'Capitalist' party that consistently exploits them, instead of voting for a more 'Labor' oriented party that would be more supportive of their plight.

Anyway. What is it... 87.5% of people that are incapable of anything but 'Group Think'?

We need better "Group Leaders" and it's up to the remaining 12.5% of us to find and help them.

Gaff-tacular!!

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I've no confidence in this senile flip-flopping gaffer. None.


Regarding Germany: "[I was at a conference with] President Putin of Germany"


Regarding Spain: (Would you meet with the President Zapatero?) "... all I can tell you is that I have a clear record of working with leaders in the hemisphere that are friends with us, and standing up to those who are not, and that's judged on the basis of the importance of our relationship with Latin America, and the entire region."


Regarding Venezuela: "... ensuring that America is secure, and not dependent on oil from people like Hugo Chavez or other parts of the Middle East."


Regarding Iran: "... it's common knowledge and has been reported in the media that Al Qaeda is [being trained by Iran]. That's well known."

Referred to the "situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border."


Regarding his involvement with the Keating 5: "I was judged eventually, after three years, of using, quote, poor judgment, and I agree with that assessment."


Took credit for passing substantial deregulation legislation in 1999. Which, along with Bush taking office in 2000, ended the Dot-Com era and started the Dot-Bomb era.


Regarding the wall street meltdown: "I promise you, we will never put America in this position again. We will clean up Wall Street." (Sorry, this was your third strike as far as I'm concerned.)


Regarding (not) getting the bail-out bill passed: "I will do whatever is necessary. I just did it. In case you missed it. Heh, heh. I'm sure you didn't. I will do whatever is necessary to get this going again."


And my favorite recent gaff: "I wish interest rates were zero!" (boy, would that be great for economic growth. Not.)


To be honest, however, I wouldn't put it past the democrats to sour the bail-out deal so that McCain couldn't take credit for getting it passed, and can't fault them for not wanting to commit political suicide by passing it without bi-partisan support. I strongly suspect that the Republican's didn't intend to pass the deal regardless of Pelosi's speech.

There's an underlying gambit in play here, and I haven't sussed it out yet.

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MCLXXVII

Curious to see what I should be expecting from Netflix this week, I took a peek and added a few new discs to the queue.

And noticed I've rated 1177 movies/shows so far. I'm averaging almost one disc a day at this rate. Geez =)

Palin Relief

More fun with photoshop, whee!

Trails

More fun with photoshop.

Off the campaign trail to destroy the paper trail.

As Letterman pointed out... shouldn't his VP candidate carry on the campaign while McCain "Takes care of business"?

If she can't... how can we expect her to fill in for McCain if he gets elected President?!

More Spore

Kind of stuck in a 'Dark Crystal' style with spore... and having fun with it. =)

Scroll through the above to see various critters I've made if you're interested. =)

Let Lying Dogs Sleep

The Republican party has gone insane.

They condemn Liberals... but grant unchecked liberties to wall streeters.

They claim to be conservative... but squander trillions on war, earmarks and bailouts.

Our government is neither 'smaller' now, nor less costly than before.

But... American's love to watch a good train wreck, which is why I'm convinced that Obama hasn't got a chance in hell of getting elected. This Palin/McCain fiasco will win the day.

Comedians will be the only ones with guaranteed jobs... until the First Amendment follows the rest of the Bill of Rights into obscurity.