No, ThereÂ’s no Double-Standard here. None at All. Move Along. (genghis)
— Open Blog

Fuck. I was just about to go to sleep when I read about this. But not before this goes up. WeÂ’ve finally gone through the looking glass. Upside? I've been assured we'll all look prettier/more handsome there. Also, we get pills that can make us bigger or smaller...so it seems to balance out.

From CNN we get the following: Two Arrested After Obama Effigy Found on Campus.”

”(CNN) -- Two men have been arrested in connection with an effigy of Sen. Barack Obama that was hung outside a building at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, police said Thursday.”

“Authorities found a life-size effigy of the Democratic presidential candidate hanging from a tree outside the school's Mines and Minerals building on Wednesday morning, police said.”

“Police said they arrested Joe Fischer, 22, a senior at the university, and Hunter Bush 21, a former student at Bluegrass Community and Technical College. “

“"This was a serious incident. It caused a lot of wounds to be opened from racial tension," Monroe said.”

OK. So far, so good. And they look like little sweethearts from their mugshots. (Admittedly, as most of us know first-hand, it’s a bit trying to look your best in a mugshot.) Note emphasis on the latter alleged perp’s last name…I assure you the Kos Kidz have, or will have after they roll outta’ bed at the crack of noon on Friday. Also, what’s up with that first name, “Hunter?” This guy was born and bred to kill. As for the other one, Fischer, I don’t need to spell it out for you, but I will phonetically: Joooo.

So, yeah, these two grabasstic pieces o’ shit are gonna’ stand tall in front of The Man. And hey: Thanks, guys, for helping out on the cause! While you’re out on parole can we count on you to do some door-knocking for us? ‘Cause that’d help us out big time, you see. Stupid suckers of cock.

Meanwhile: (and this has been posted earlier), but we’re playing “compare and contrast,” so try and keep up with this, would’ja?” Think apples and oranges, or in your case; magazine porn vs. dvd porn. Both have their own plusses and minuses.

From a few days ago we have this: “Sarah Palin Effigy Hanged From House”

”An effigy of US Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin hanging by a noose as part of a Halloween display has drawn severe criticism, but local officials said the homeowner was covered by free speech rights.”

“A mannequin dressed to resemble the Alaska governor, with her trademark beehive hairdo and glasses, was hung by the neck from the eaves of the home in West Hollywood.”

(editor’s note: it’s of small importance, but it’s not a “beehive” hairdo, fer chrissakes…Google it!)

“On the roof, a mannequin of Republican presidential candidate John McCain protruded from the chimney surrounded in flames, holding his head as he was apparently burned alive”

But all is well:

"We have been getting some phone calls complaining about it but if (the homeowner) isn't in violation of municipal code we have no reason to cite them," West Hollywood spokeswoman Helen Goss said.”

"People have First Amendment rights (to free speech)," Goss said. "I would speculate that if it's part of a Halloween display then its political satire."

See? We got that all cleared up now. ItÂ’s all good. The homeowner/satirist leaves us with a telling quote though:

”I know if we had done Barack Obama, people would have probably thrown things through our windows," Morisette said. "The image of a hanged black man is a lot more intense than the image of a hanged white woman for our country, the history of our country."

IÂ’m glad we got this little matter wrapped upÂ…meanwhile, IÂ’ll just be hanging around here
Note:CNN did run the story of the Palin effigy in Hollywood a week or so ago, but it only rated a little link on their “latest news” list. This story, about the Obama effigy (starring our “friends” from Kentucky) merited their top-notch primary story location at the upper-left of their site, including the mugshots of the two dipshits. As I’ve been typing this, they’ve moved the article over to the “latest news” column and have replaced it with a story about the latest breakthrough in flying-car technology. At least I think they did.

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Video: We'll Meet Again - [Cuffy Meigs]
— Open Blog

Ahhhh, 1992.

The LA riots, a VP candidate misspells potato, Nirvana is top of the charts, Sinead O'Connor rips up the Pope's pic on SNL, Spike Lee gives Obama some of his favorite lines in Malcolm X, the economy slides into the clammy embrace of recession.

And a young presidential candidate puts a big bear hug around the electorate's largest demographic by repeatedly promising a middle class tax cut.

Now there are campaign promises and there are Campaign Promises. This one is historic because not only was it quickly broken, but within months it was replaced by the Largest Tax Increase In American History. Quite a switch --- did I mention that The Crying Game came out in 1992 as well?

Broken promises of middle class tax cuts? We'll meet again.

(video below the fold) more...

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Who Needs an Infomercial? [someone]
— Open Blog

McCain will appear on SNL this weekend.

Honestly, this couldn't frame the country's choice any more clearly. Do we want an America where we get soporific sub-PBS pap delaying baseball, or do we want an America where funny shit happens?

Obama, like most would-be saviors, has no sense of humor -- particularly about himself. McCain, on the other hand, is wickedly funny.

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Are You Going to Help?
— Gabriel Malor

There's still time to help elect John McCain and Sarah Palin. This past weekend, I made phone calls through the volunteer online phone bank. I admit, I was uncomfortable cold-calling complete strangers on a Sunday afternoon. But it was ultimately a rewarding experience. There were people who still claimed to be undecided. There were also several Republicans who sounded like they needed a little encouragement to go to the polls. I like to think I made a difference.

In the middle of the afternoon, I blegged for advice because I was having a hard time talking to answering machines. As I expected, the wisdom of crowds made things much easier.

Please consider making phone calls on behalf of McCain/Palin 2008 in the next few days. The process is very easy. Sign up at the top link above (I'm fairly certain you don't even have to use a real email addy if you don't want to get GOP emails) and within minutes the website will provide you with names, locations, phone numbers and scripts. (I think the hours are from 9am to 9pm Eastern.)

You generally get to choose the state you'd like to make calls to, so if you have free long distance like me, you can help out with some of the battleground states. My suggestions are Colorado, Ohio, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

I'm tucking some advice from last weekend under the fold. Read it first and then get calling. I challenge each of you to make at least twenty phone calls. It won't take that long and it may make a difference on Tuesday. I'm going to be calling again this weekend too.

Later: I want to emphasize that you can make calls from the comfort of your own home. This is so easy to do, there's just no excuse for not helping.

Get the names and numbers from the McCain/Palin website. Call in between loads of laundry. Call while you're waiting for dinner to be done. Call after you put the tot down for her afternoon nap. Do what I did and call while you're blogging. I know you guys spend countless hours just sitting in front of your computer. You could use a little of that time to call voters. more...

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Halloween Eve Overnight Thread (genghis)
— Open Blog

I got nuthin.’ Well, except this cookbook I saw advertised in the margin of the blog (sondrak.com) Ace linked to in the “Brunner…” post below: Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man: The World's Unhealthiest Cookbook.

Yes. I believe IÂ’ve found my personal mantra in life. From one of the reviews on Amazon:

”The decadent recipes are only part of the story of this book, though. The patter is what get's to me. Steve Graham often "channels" the voices of celebrities, movie stars, other authors, and even Bill O'Reilly. And he's good at it. He makes it sound like they're actually in the kitchen with you --- helping you cook ---and it makes the cooking fun.

Here's a snippet of "Christopher Walken" dropping in on Steve and helping him make Bosco(tm), or something.

"... Soon we're in Steve's living room, and I'm sipping my Campari--which is a little strong, but I say nothing, because Christopher Walken is a gracious guest--while a couple of my boys hold Steve's head under the water of his fifty-gallon fish tank.

Steve has tetras. Tetras and those other little--what do you call them?--dwarf cichlids. Little pansy fish that don't even fight. I realize it is a matter of taste, but me, I always went for the heavy artillery. Oscars. Piranha. Small sharks. Some people feed their carnivorous fish goldfish. I fed mine Yorkies.

I cannot abide a small defiant dog that looks like a Slinky..."

"...When the time is right, I have my boys pull his head out and sit him on the sofa and get him a towel and some Bosco. He has Bosco in his cupboard. I respect that. That bought him some points. I'm a Bosco man myself. Some guys like Ovaltine. That's okay, I guess. I shot a guy in the face for drinking Ovaltine. Once. But I was young. Full of hormones. Exuberant. I would never do that now. Today I would be satisfied with slamming his head on the counter a couple times..."”

Tasty.

”We can eatz ur soulz?”

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[Vinnie]Tonight's Flaming Douche Award Goes To...
— Open Blog

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner

The L.A. Times and diderot's dog were just put out there to throw you off.

In related news: more...

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LAT Cooks Up Third New Story in a Week: Now Releasing the Tape May "Put the Source in Jeopardy"
— Ace

Story 1: We've adequately covered the tape. We don't need to cover it any further.

Story 2: The source gave it to us only upon the condition we not release it, which we kinda-sorta forgot to say last time.

Story 3: If we released the tape the source could be in actual jeopardy, which we forgot to mention the last two times.

Tomorrow's story: Releasing the tape would Cross the Streams.

Flaming Douche... credit to bo. Of course I have to hat tip Vinnie for suggesting the notion in the first place.

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Iowahawk: Snobama's Snobservatives [someone]
— Open Blog

Yeah, this is sort of a sidebar item, but I figured it could use its own comment thread.

Iowahawk's latest classic:

One look at this Obama chap is all the answer you need. Suave, tanned, unflappable, Harvard connections; it's obvious that here is a man to the conservative manor born. One imagines him at the helm of the Ship of State, basked in the sunlight diffusing through the seaspray over the bow, like some beautiful rugged Othello from a rapturous Ralph Lauren catalog, calmly issuing instructions to the deck crew in that magnificent mellifluous baritone of his. It's that easy-going, almost effortless grace that has all the A-list conservatives like David Frum and Kathleen Parker whispering Reaganesque in hushed tones. Even Peggy Noonan -- the Grand Dame of Gipperism -- has succumbed to Obama's undeniable conservative charms. Just last month I listened to her wax poetic about the Adonis of Chicago between chukkers at the Newport Club polo tournament final. "Why Peggy, you old dowager," I quipped, "I believe you just had an orgasm."

Read the whole thing, of course. It actually gets better.

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Tito The Builder Deconstructs Skeletor
— Open Blog

Thanks to watchdog.

BTW, current front runners for the next Flaming Douche award are the L.A. Times and diderot's dog.

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Fred Baron, World's Kindest Guy, Dies
— Ace

Fred Baron, you'll remember, paid a lot of money to Reille Hunter and the supposed father of Reille Hunter's baby, Edwards aide Andrew Young, just because he cared for the fates of these young people.

And now, alas, he's gone.

Think of all the other unwed mothers he could have helped, if only he'd had more time on this earth.

He will be missed. They don't make them like that anymore.*

* Well, maybe Mayor Daley's Building Commissioner.

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