The heroic statues can't be far behind

Words fail me...

Plans are being made to promote a national holiday for Barack Obama, who will become the nation's 44th president when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20.

I, for one, can't wait to unwrap my Barackmas presents. Obligatory video follows:


(Via the comments here.)

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Maya channels Michelle

Overrated poet Maya Angelou: "I don't have to apologize for my country when I'm abroad.  I can say, 'I belong to a great country.'"

Underpaid blogger Sean M.: "Who gives a shit about Maya Angelou anymore?"

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Magnanimous in victory

I don't know if you're familiar with Sorry Everybody, which was a website sore-loser Lefties came up with to promote the fact that they had voted for John Kerry, which would have doubtlessly pleased our Euro betters after the 2004 election.

Some lefty has decided that the same concept (which, in 2004 meant that we should be apologizing to foreigners for our democratic process) should be applied to this election, but with a twist...



That's right. Now that The One is President-Elect, let's put everything aside for the sake of Unity. I suppose we're supposed to forget that everything our  current President has done over the last eight or so years has been characterized as a march toward a police state.  Or are we to emphasize that?  Either way, we get The One soon.

As for the rest of the world...Fuck You. You've earned it. You may be glad that he won it, but you'll be disappointed soon enough.

(h/t)

Update: What he said.

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Is this for real? Really?

I realize that teh Internets are relatively new, but has anything like this ever, ever existed before?  "Office of the President-Elect"?  And it's a .gov domain?  WTF?  Are we actually paying for this shit with taxpayer money when he could be running it on his campaign website?  I mean, "Doodad Pro" and "Nodda Realperson" have deep pockets.

I find the urge to be a bigger man than the Kos Kiddies and DUmmies etc.  have been since January, 2001 slipping away faster and faster...

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Just when I was starting to calm down...

Okay, so we lost.  It's sunk in.  It sucks, but hey, life sucks in general, right?  But things are going back to normal, now.  And I was looking forward to watching Jeopardy this evening.

There.  Was.  No.  Jeopardy.

Apparently, ABC, which is the network that runs the show here in SoCal, decided that since this was the most historicalest election EVAR!!!1!elebben!, they needed to run an extra half hour of Charlie Gibson slobbering over Obama's victory.  I wasn't happy when they did that on Monday, but it was still the run-up to the election.  I knew they wouldn't run it last night, seeing as how it was going to be wall-to-wall election coverage on everything but the Food Network.  But tonight?  When it's over and done with?  They're going to rub it in my face and deny me my Trebek fix?

Charlie, don't take this the wrong way, but I hope you, the rest of the team at ABC News, and all of the network's programming executives die in a fire.

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And so it begins

Hey, looky, the foreigners loves us again!

I'm a marathon runner, and I have a red, white and blue singlet that I've seldom dared to wear on the Continent. Marathons are difficult enough without enduring catcalls and jeers from spectators.

But my best friend and training partner — who is French — just gave me his stamp of approval.

"Will you wear your Stars and Stripes shirt now? You're allowed!" he told me.

I'd tell you to read the whole thing, but you'd probably throw up a little in your mouth like I did.

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"Just Consider It Your Penalty For Voting For Bush."

I recently had a thrilling O-bot in-law, and he used that line one me when I mentioned that The One keeps lowering his line for tax increases to an amount that my family makes.

Just warning, since he is a committed Kossack (I have never told him I write for a blog, or that I read anything beyond Druge, lest I have a sudden influx of target practice opportunities in my front yard). This may be a talking point coming down the pike should The Messiah start raising taxes on anybody and everybody.

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Nooooooooooooo!

You would think that a song about drinking all night and then eating bacon in the morning (with donuts, too) would be pretty awesome, wouldn't you?  (Just say yes.  It makes this setup easier.)  I mean, how could you possibly lose with a song about booze and the world's best meat?

Why, by adding a bunch of crap about You-Know-Who and his doddering, gaffe-prone Uncle Pluggy.

Ugh.  That's a crime against bacon.  I'm gonna have to murder a whole truckload of hobos before my rage subsides.

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Clarification issued

Remember last night's post about the lynched effigy of Sarah Palin in West Hollywood? No? Well, you may have been drunk. Happens to the best of us.

Anyway, our jackbooted friend and co-blogger alexthechick left the following in the comment section:

How is that not a hate crime? Seriously, using the definitions so favored by the Left, that is a hate crime.

Well, thanks to the Los Angeles Times, I have an answer for alex (sort of):

"I'm not defending this; I'm not criticizing it. It doesn't rise to the level of hate crime," said Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, who said he went out to the house himself to look at the display this morning.

"Now, if there was a crime against bad taste . . . "

[...]

Whitmore said that potential hate crimes are evaluated on a case-by-case basis. If the same display had been made of a Barack Obama-like doll, for example, authorities would have to evaluate it independently, Whitmore said.

"That adds a whole other social, historical hate aspect to the display, and that is embedded in the consciousness of the country," he said, adding he's not sure whether it would be a hate crime. "It would be ill-advised of anybody to speculate on that."

I hope that, uh, clears things up.  Let's not have anymore ill-advised speculation about this non-issue, m'kay?

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Were Vikings Ghey Metrosexuals?

Maybe so, according to this article.

Academics claim that the old stereotype is damaging, and want teenagers to be more appreciative of the Vikings' social and cultural impact on Britain.

They say that the Norse explorers, far from being obsessed with fighting and drinking, were a largely-peaceful race who were even criticised for being too hygienic.

The university's department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic has published a guide revealing how much of the Vikings' history has been misrepresented.

They did not, in fact, wear horned or winged helmets. And they appear to have been a vain race who were concerned about their appearance.

"It seems that the Vikings may not have been as hairy and dirty as is commonly imagined," the guide says.

"A medieval chronicler, John of Wallingford, talking about the eleventh century, complained that the Danes were too clean - they combed their hair every day, washed every Saturday, and changed their clothes regularly."

The guide reveals that Norsemen were also stylish trend-setters: "Contemporaries who met individual Vikings were struck by the extreme bagginess of their trousers.

"A tenth-century Persian explorer described trousers (of Vikings in Russia) that were made of one hundred cubits of material, and a number of runestones depict warriors with flared breeches."

The traditional view of the Vikings as "illiterate warring thugs" exaggerates considerably the reality of their life, the academics argue.

"Although Norse men and women may have sometimes liked fighting and drinking, and were sometimes buried with weapons, they also spent much of their time in peaceful activities such as farming, building, writing and illustrating."

So, does this change the meaning of "Like A Viking"?

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Your Daily Dose Of WTF, College Football Edition

Huh?

Apparently, without much going on, the Westboro Baptist Cult is going to picket the Oklahoma vs. Kansas State football game this weekend. If it wasn't on their hate-site, I would have thought it was a joke.

From their hate-site:
10/25/2008, 09:30 am-11:30 am: Bill Snyder Family Stadium - K-State Football LOSERS! Kimball & College

We will picket your stinking, rotten awful football game. You guys are not good football players, I'm just saying. And that is because you try to throw that ball with limp wrists. More importantly you got those limp wrists from your Living God as a curse because you refuse to obey. Here was the promise from God, and they are good as gold. We are seeing with our eyes, each day more and more that when Our God determines to curse a land, He does it with great panache. Check this out, this is the promise made to our forefathers: Deuteronomy 11:26 ¶ Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; 27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known. 29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh? 31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein. 32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day. Worshipping your goofy false gods got you in this mess - so we will gleefully stand and observe you play the part that you so desperately determined to play, i.e. the fool. And God will laugh you to scorn (Psalm 2) as you bellow and bawl about getting your backsides spanked both on and off the football field. God Hates Kansas State; God Hates Kansas; God Hates america and america is Doomed. AMEN!

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"I want a true leader"

In this video, a bunch of "life-long Republicans" (and one life-long independent) explain why they're abandoning their life-long principles and are voting for the most socialist, least experienced candidate probably ever to run for the highest office in this country.  Not to mention of the Free World.  Note that none of these foax has anything much to say about how they've been "life-long" advocates of conservative policies, but they're suddenly fans of a socialist who wants to "spread" their wealth.  Funny, that.

(Via...well, a site I used to frequent. I'm not gonna link it.  Let's call it "Light Drinking.")

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God, I can't stand these people

Can we make every last fucking detail of our lives reflect our creepy, hero-worshiping Cult of Personality?  Yes We Can!

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Let's Just Hope This Fool Doesn't Vote

Source

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I don't know how to do a screenshot, so you have to see it yourself

So I was watching Nick at Nite (because I'm cool like that...) and I saw an ad for Nickelodeon's Kids Pick the President thing.  So I went to their website to vote for John McCain, because I'm pretty sure a 26 year old is still a kid.  I couldn't help but notice something.  See if you can figure it out.  The answer is below the fold. 

more...

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Supreme Court rules in favor of Hope, Change, mass voter fraud

Weak...

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Some Canadian assumes you're racist

But the good news is that you're worried enough about the economy to vote for the most socialist major party presidential candidate in our history:

Barack Obama is beating John McCain because fear trumps fear. That is, the fear of many white voters for their jobs and their homes surpasses the fear some of them feel over electing a black man.

Yep, because there's no other reason people (white people, anyway) could possibly have for voting against Barack Obama. Nope. None at all. Hell, even if you're white and you're voting for Obama, you're probably a racially scared racist who's afraid of black people anyway.  So if you're white and you vote against Obama, you're probably a racist.  And if you're white and you vote for Obama?  Probably a racist, too, but maybe a more pragmatic racist.

Thanks for clearing that up for us, Hoser.

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Why Is It We Only Get The Lame Celebrity Endorsements?

Well, it seems as though Cleveland Browns QB Brady Quinn and some lineman have endorsed Team Maverick.

Quinn introduced McCain and spoke briefly about how his service to the nation and time as a POW inspired him because he kept “fighting for freedom.”

“Too often times we label people heroes and get caught up in the moment but tonight we have a real hero amongst us,” Quinn said. “This is a man who endured great adversity yet remained loyal to his nation, a man who would not forsake his country…we need heroes like this to inspire us and to remind us that we are the greatest nation.”

All well and good, pretty boy, but I believe some other pundits have you pegged pretty good (NTTAWWT).

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I believe we're about to find out another code word for "black"

Here is an excerpt from McCain's speech today, where he will be hammering Obama and the Democrats on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (emphasis mine):

Rather than answer his critics, Senator Obama will try to distract you from noticing that he never answers the serious and legitimate questions he has been asked. But let me reply in the plainest terms I know. I don’t need lessons about telling the truth to American people. And were I ever to need any improvement in that regard, I probably wouldn’t seek advice from a Chicago politician.

Don't let those words fool you.  He really meant "I probably wouldn't seek advice from a brown person." 

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I Didn't Know NASCAR Needed To Be Bailed Out

It appears as though the bailout bill had some extra provisions in it for NASCAR, even though I didn't know it needed it.

The Senate-passed bill includes an array of so-called “tax extenders.” One extends for two years a tax policy that had been allowed to expire in December that lets motor-sports facilities be treated the same as amusement parks and other entertainment complexes for tax purposes.

Sigh. Oh well, I guess I could console myself in the fact the New Lingerie Football League is starting up.

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