Biden Explains Comments

The Obama campaign today downplayed reports that VP nominee Joe Biden had issued a veiled threat in support of gun rights, instead insisting that the audio was responsible for turning a discussion of hair care into a more serious threat against his running mate and presidential nominee Barack Obama.
 
"He said that he loved his barrette," said a spokeswoman for the campaign.  "It ties into his sleepover imagery of having a big slumber party to solve all of America's problems.  Joe Biden said that if anybody tried to take his shotgun dryer or his barrette, he'd be upset.  And the right-wing noise machine has turned it into this big thing, which it is so totally not."
 
For his part, Biden apologized if anyone misunderstood.  "That's just the way we talk where I'm from: loudly, with lots of non-sequiters, and very little forethought.  If anybody doesn't like that, they can vote McCain-Palin, since they think things through a hell of a lot more than we do.  Now, I'm gonna go kick my dog."
 
The campaign later clarified that Biden would not be available for further comments until July 2009.

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How Obama is Different

As a concerned conservative Christian, I've been doing some research.  Like most rock-ribbed values voters, I've voted Republican in every presidential election since I was born, often committing election fraud to do it.  But this time it will be different.  Barack Obama is not the same candidate that the Democrats have proposed in the past.  He's better.  Purer.  Let me explain:

John Kerry fought in Vietnam, and only had the courage to fight against the war after he'd come back from it.  He lacked perspective.
Barack Obama has always had proper perspective on the Iraq debacle, and fought against it in the Illinois Senate, just like how Lincoln ginned up the Civil War from the same forum in order to emancapate slaves.

Al Gore was hesitant to embrace environmentalism, only truly going Green after he'd left his presidential aspirations beihnd.
Barack Obama's abiding commitment to the environment has kept him from holding an honest job or creating any value for his entire working career.

Bill Clinton brought disgrace upon the office of President by hobnobbing with foreign terrorists from Ireland to Palestine, as well as turning the Lincoln bedroom into a bed and breakfast.
Barack Obama promises only to meet with those terrorists who are also heads of state or educational-reform projects.

Michael Dukakis looked ridiculous riding around in a tank, because he was the only one in it.
Barack Obama couldn't even fit in his tank, because it's jam-packed with media members and celebrities.

Walter Mondale was so desperate for votes that he picked a female running mate just to get some attention.
Barack Obama believes that a woman's place is in the Republican party.

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This fills my tiny, black heart with joy

"We've asked the judge to throw the book at them," Goldstein said flatly.

Mmmmmmm...that's some, rich, creamy schadenfreude goodness.

(h/t)

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Amusing

Anne Proulx, meet Rule 34.  Apparently the author of Brokeback Mountain is receiving an endless flood of horrifying fanfics, and she's growing quite tired of it.  I'd feel more sympathetic, but we had to tolerate the months of endless talk and fawning over that damn book and movie.  It isn't that I'm hostile to movies about gay cowboys eating pudding, it's just that I didn't care, no matter how hard the media tried to make me care.

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Covering up

Oh, this is gonna get good.  The astroturf Winners quickly deleted their videos obviously, but even better, they quickly abandoned their youtube accounts.  Here be some screencaps, and I'm guessing the Jawas will have their own up soon.

Mwahahahahaaaa, the scrubbing continues.  How much of are we catching, I wonder?

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That big astroturfing report is up

I'm still reading, but I thought I'd post it.

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Watch Obama yell at an old lady

Yes, I'm being serious.

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Palinmania!

I would say she drew an Obama-like crowd in Florida, but I'm sure the crowd wasn't filled with drooling morons. 

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You just can't make this stuff up

Normally, this is where I'd write some kind of lame joke to set up the news clip I'm about to quote, but...

The rogue MILF groups (about ten percent of the total MILF) are improvising, but are unable to pull off this portraying themselves as victims bit. In the last ten days, the army has seized several MILF camps, putting over a thousand of their inhabitants on the run.

You see? What can I possibly do with that? I'm afraid my hands are tied, people.

(h/t)

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Newt Gingrich visits The Corner

Yeah, I'm gonna make you head over there to read it.  It's just that good. 

(Also, it's nearly dinner time, and I'm lazy.)

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A small pushback against the California Nanny brigades

...yeah, I know there's no way Tom McClintock would have won in the Soviet of California, but a moron can dream, right?  Consider this here, he managed to get an opt-out law for the remote thermostat law onto Schwarzenegger's SuperRINO desk.  Basically this thermostat law allows energy companies to remotely turn up or down the thermostat in a person's home.

So instead of building new power plants or rebuilding the energy grid, they're resorting to this crap.  Can't say California holds monopoly on this sort of nonsense, but they are about the worst in the US when it comes to idiotic Nannyism.

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Warrant served

Looks like the FBI came a-knockin' on David Kernell's door.  Wonder what charges he will be facing, and how much his politically connected father can get that reduced.  There was a party going on at the kid's place when the Feds came...going away party perhaps?

Since a Warrant was served, and since I'm bored and a moron, cheesy 80's music FTW!

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Oh Noes! ZombieDogs!

Run 4 ur livz!

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First They Came For The Naked Women Bartenders, And I Said Nothing...

It appears as though a woman in Dehli, IL wanted to bartend naked. Only problem with that plan? The authorities stepped in and harshed everybody's mellow.

The Jersey County State's Attorney's office says sheriff's deputies were doing a routine check at the Cabin Tavern one afternoon this week when they found something not-so-routine. Authorities allege Janet Brannon of East Alton was naked as she served patrons.

She was arrested, and because no other bar employees were available, the tavern was closed down.

Brannon has been charged with misdemeanor public indecency, and her bond has been set at $8,000.

Actually, judging by the beefy women who reside in East Alton, IL, the police probably did everyone a favor by keeping her nakedness out of view.

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No wonder T. Boone Pickens loves wind energy

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Cubs win! Cubs win! Holy cow!

Congrats to the Cubbies (full disclosure: my family is originally from Illinois) who are going to the post-season for the first time in back-to-back seasons in 100 years.

If you're not a fan of the team or a fan of baseball in general, this may not be a big deal for you, but consider rooting for them (and against the White Sox, should they make it into October) based on the following:

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Veggie Burger Hill

From the guys at TNOYF,

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Obamalot!

Just when you thought our election season couldn't get any more ridiculous, the Brits step in to disabuse you of that notion:

Having set alight the race for the White House, Senator Barack Obama is about to work his magic on the London stage.

Written and produced by the Ohio-born Teddy Hayes, The Obama Musical focuses on the personalities behind the Democratic candidate's campaign.

Songs in the show, due to receive its premiere at Barons Court Theatre next month, include Obama and Me, which is sung by an obsessive member of his team and includes the lyric: "We are a pair/like chocolate and éclair".

Please.  Please.  Please let the McCain team hammer home the fact that Obama is the subject of a musical theater production (which includes a song sung by "an obsessive member of his team") in a foreign country. Because I'm pretty sure that doesn't help Michelle's kids. Especially in states like Ohio and Michigan.

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"We are the Droogs we've been waiting for"

Remember yesterday's post about Obama exhorting his followers to argue with their friends and neighbors and "get in their face" with his message of Hopenchange?  Well, today Iowahawk picks that incident up and runs with it, Anthony Burgess-style.

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This was inevitable

Is the following video offensive?  Yes, definitely  Probably, for some non-Moron-type people.  But I think it's also pretty funny.  If we weren't able to laugh at our own side once in a while, well, we'd probably be Democrats.  If you don't like it, please feel free to hate on me in the comments.

Big Time Content Warning on this one.

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