FRIDAY!

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Genghis is out and about and asked me to fill in for him. He mentioned something about "going to Tukwila" but I didn't want to ask what that meant.

Anyway here are a few items for your enjoyment:

Item #1: 10 Odd Things You Can Buy From Amazon
Most of these are kinda pricy - about all I can afford is the wolf urine or maybe the uranium.

Item #2: Wendy's "Grill Skills"
This is a Wendy's training video from 1989. It's kind of boring and cheesy like most training films are but at around the 3:40 mark it takes a distinct turn to the weird. On the plus side after watching it even I can now make a Wendy's hamburger. So I guess it works.

Tonight's post brought to you by the early pre-blog years of AoSHQ:

Posted by: Open Blog at 07:01 PM | Add Comment
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( Clockwise fm bottom left) A loud-mouthed clueless moron, a left-wing butthead racist academic, a cop, and an egomaniac who thinks he should rule the world. Yeah, I've been to that bar.

Posted by: Uncle Jimbo at 04:40 PM | Comments (6)
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$80 million dollars, including $50,000 to create or save important jobs in the totally hot gorilla porn industry.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 04:12 PM | Comments (1)
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Our friend Ace gives and gives and gives but he almost never asks for anything. Hell, it took an open bloger and some of the co-bloggers to hit you up for money.

But late last night/early this morning Mr. OÂ’Spades made a request. A simple request reallyÂ…

58 Can I ask everyone a favor?
Please?

Can everyone call Palin Steele only either "Dummy" or "Dum-Dum" from now on?

Say it respectfully, as if it's a genuine name. But always Dummy or Dum-Dum.

Please. I want this. For *me.*
Posted by: ace at July 30, 2009 01:07 AM (JQ+0C)

Are you bastards so cold-hearted that you would deny Ace this?

Below the fold are some of Dum-DumÂ’s greatest hits. The kind of things that struck one or more of the co-bloggers as so stupid we actually emailed them around.

Dum-Dum, Real Man of Genius. we salute you!

Take a look at them and I think you'll agree that they are just, well, dumb. And embarrassing. But mostly dumb.
more...

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The post-racial president continues his practice of giving lip service to "racial healing" while supporting some of the country's most notorious racialists. Today he named Rev. Joseph Lowery to be one of sixteen people to receive the Presidential Medal of Honor. You all remember Rev. Joe's disgraceful benediction from the inauguration (YouTube link, sorry, embedding disabled):

'Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when

Black will not be asked to get in back;
When Brown can stick around;
When Yellow will be mellow;
When the Red Man can get ahead, man;
And when White will embrace what is right.

That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen...

The theme (WTF?) of this years list according to the White House is "Agents of change. . . . They have blazed trails and broken down barriers." So, of course, they had to include Ted Kennedy, famous for breaking glass and climbing to safety.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 03:31 PM | Comments (3)
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James Joyner writes about summertime drinking.

Sure, you could always emulate President Obama and have a Bud Light. But if you want a beer thatÂ’s both light going down and yet actually tastes good, nothing beats wheat. IÂ’m particularly partial to Ayinger, Magic HatÂ’s Circus Boy, and LeinenkugelÂ’s Sunset Wheat. But there are plenty of good ones out there. Shock Top, distributed by the makers of Michelob, is widely available. WidmerÂ’s and Sam Adams hefeweizen. Or, in a pinch, you can go with Blue Moon, a favorite of ObamaÂ’s drinking buddy, Sergeant James Crowley.

I prefer the Paulaner Hefe myself, but tastes differ.

Now, we're talking summertime social drinking here, people, so forget about the Val-U-Rite you keep to help you sleep at night. Go read the whole thing, then come back here and tell me what you think.

Mojitos? Are they too trendy right now? (Although Lauraw brought mint from her own garden to the last Moron Meetup!)
Rieslings? Too sweet?
Martinis? Too BondJamesBond? (Although noted martini snob Judge Bork calls them "a distinctly American invention.")

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 02:28 PM | Comments (3)
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Rather than do another post on the birthers I thought I'd rather take a moment to remember Jim Varney who's best known as Ernest P. Worrell. If you lived in the South anytime during the 80's, you're familiar with the various commercials he did for local products. He also appeared in commercials in the Midwest as well as California which made him a national celebrity. Later he appeared in a series of movies which remain guilty pleasures for many including myself. For an obnoxious redneck Ernest was a lovable and familiar character. I think almost everyone has a family member or neighbor who unknowingly manages to channels their inner Ernest. Sadly Jim Varney died in 2000 from lung cancer at the age of 50.

While Varney is best known as Ernest one thing that most people do not know about him is that he was a trained Shakespearean actor and classic theater remained a love of his throughout life. He did a lot of standup, appearing on The Tonight Show and was a close friend of Robin Williams from their touring days. People that knew him say that unlike the characters he played he was extremely smart with a near photographic memory. He also gave a lot of money to youth drama programs, financed a Shakespeare theater in Tennessee, and was very active with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, visiting several hundred terminally ill children as 'Ernest'. By all accounts he was a decent, humble man who was happy with the success that he eventually found.

And here is a clip from a 1984 NBC Nightly News report when Varney was just getting popular. Be sure and watch it until the end.

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At the RNC gathering in San Diego, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty--one of McCain's potential VP candidates before Palin stole the scene and a likely presidential contender for 2012--talks about broadening the base:

The governor told members of the Republican National Committee that the party must not turn off voters who might disagree with the GOP on some issues.

Pawlenty says the party "needs room" for conservative Democrats and independents, as in the days of Ronald Reagan.

There's much more on Pawlenty's message at the RNC and his "blue state appeal" here.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 01:51 PM | Comments (1)
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And he's still feigning amazement that people care what he says or what he's up to:

Obama says this is not a "beer summit" - "It's a clever term, but this is not a summit, guys."

He said he is "fascinated with the fascination about this evening."

Instead, it's three folks "having a drink at the end of the day," and giving themselves a chance to "listen to each other." The goal is to lower the temperature on an event that has become "so hyped and so symbolic." Try to reduce the "anger and hyperbole," and promote "self-reflection."

If he wanted to lower the temperature on this, he probably shouldn't have said the police acted stupidly about five seconds after saying he didn't know the facts. And if he didn't want it to be called a Beer Summit he probably shouldn't have had Gibbsy get all cutesy with the "Red, Light, and Blue" shtick.

This isn't the first time he's responded to unwanted attention with the excuse: "I didn't think people would be paying such close attention to what I said." It seems to come up a lot when the Great Orator sticks his foot in his mouth, though.

Right now, we're twenty minutes away from the Not-A-Beer-Summit Beer Summit. Somebody better tip the DC police to avoid suspected DUI stops this evening.

And imported from the Top Headlines Sidebar: MSNBC has a countdown clock, of course! Thanks to LaceyUnderalls?

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