The Issues: August 2008 Archives
Fey Friends would like to an extend an old-fashioned birthday message to America's most elderly presidential candidate since the beginning of time. Born in 1936, our antediluvian friend John McCain turns 72 today! John, how does it feel to be older than 91% of America?
Let's take a look at what else was going 72 years ago:
For a more complete list of all things *younger* than McCain (including the shopping cart, zip codes, Cheerios and duct tape) go to the genius website Things Younger Than McCain.
Let's take a look at what else was going 72 years ago:
- The Triborough Bridge opened
- Gay sexx was really secret-y
- FDR was reelected
- Porky Pig premiered
- The Hoover Dam was completed
- Gone With the Wind was released
- The cost of a gallon of gas cost 10 cents
- A loaf of bread cost 8 cents
- A ladies swimming costume was $6.95
- No Project Runway
For a more complete list of all things *younger* than McCain (including the shopping cart, zip codes, Cheerios and duct tape) go to the genius website Things Younger Than McCain.
Today is the 88th anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. In honor of this historic achievement...
Glamour magazine salutes Hillary Clinton this month with a photo spread featuring her wearing a rainbow of pantsuits from fire-engine red to light lilac. The headline reads: "Hillary, we loved your pantsuits!"'
Glamour pokes good-natured fun at Clinton, but the spread is a tribute to the woman who won 18 million votes in the Democratic presidential primary. The real message is, "You go, girl. You made all of us proud."
I'm dying to see what she'll be wearing tonight! Maybe something like that little HEATHER number, second from right?!
Last night, Matthew Mitcham, the only openly gay male athlete at this year's Olympics, won the gold medal for diving. But you wouldn't know it from watching NBC, aka the No Buttboys Channel.
NBC did not mention Mitcham's orientation, nor did they show his family and partner who were in the stands. NBC has made athletes' significant others a part of the coverage in the past, choosing to spotlight track athlete Sanya Richards' fiancee, a love triangle between French and Italian swimmers and Kerri Walsh's wedding ring debacle.This is an absolute outrage. To calm you down, check out sexxxy speedo photos of Matt after the button pressy.
Continue reading NBC Wins Gold Medal...FOR HOMOPHOBIA.
According to this post on gayagenda, the content of Bollywood films has seen a marked liberalization in the past few years, culminating in the soon-to-be-released gay-themed movie Dostana.
But based on the teaser trailer above, it seems more like a gay mistaken-identity/gay panic movie than a good, authentic gay film.* Which means India is at about the point Hollywood was around the early 1980s, when Victor/Victoria and the La Cage Aux Folles movies were hits.
What's that? I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry came out only just last year?
Nevermind!
*(By 'good authentic gay movie' I of course mean such films as Jeffrey, Trick, It's My Party, and Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss. Oh wait. Those movies sucked. Nevermind!)
The big campaign GAFFE in the news today is that McCain admitted that he's lost track of how many houses he owns. "I think — I'll have my staff get to you," McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. "It's condominiums where — I'll have them get to you."Oh la la. His "staff" will get back to us! Then Obama hit back. And after a tirade about how Obama worries about the price of arugula and loves resorts in that foreign getaway HAWAII, McCain's campaign settled on a winning response: POW!!! POW!!!
"This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years -- in prison," spokesman Brian Rogers told the Washington Post.He's a f*&%ing POW, you pussies!!!
A Prisoner. Of. War. Apparently John McCain has recently graduated from the Rudy 9iu11iani school of tastefulness.
What is wrong with the McCains? Owning dozens of homes is nothing to be ashamed of. This one is particularly klassy.
Thank God for Josh Marshall, who uncovered a fabulous video of one of the McCain Mansions. It's an exclusive to Inside Edition, hosted by Bobo's favorite journalist - DEBORAH NORVILLE. Check it out after the button pressy!!!
Continue reading Welcome To My Homes!.
The Coquille Indian Tribe from Oregon has legalized gay marriage within the tribe despite Oregon's ban, voted into the state's constitution in 2004.
"How?"
Well, the Coquille Indian Tribe is federally recognized as a sovereign nation so it isn't bound to state laws like Oregon's shameful gay-marriage ban.
"How?"
The idea of Indian sovereignty is the product of many separate treaties and agreements that were made between disparate Native American tribes and the U.S. government throughout the 19th Century. A series of Supreme Court rulings in the 1820s, which have come to be known as the "Marshall Trilogy," hardened this concept into doctrine. In recent years, Judge Rehnquist and others have worked to chip away at this foundation. For more information about Rehnquist's attacks on the idea of tribal sovereignty, go here.
"How?"
Just click on the highlighted text--oh haha I get it!
(h/t Queerty)
"How?"
Well, the Coquille Indian Tribe is federally recognized as a sovereign nation so it isn't bound to state laws like Oregon's shameful gay-marriage ban.
"How?"
The idea of Indian sovereignty is the product of many separate treaties and agreements that were made between disparate Native American tribes and the U.S. government throughout the 19th Century. A series of Supreme Court rulings in the 1820s, which have come to be known as the "Marshall Trilogy," hardened this concept into doctrine. In recent years, Judge Rehnquist and others have worked to chip away at this foundation. For more information about Rehnquist's attacks on the idea of tribal sovereignty, go here.
"How?"
Just click on the highlighted text--oh haha I get it!
(h/t Queerty)
Remember how it pays off to work hard and play by the rules? Apparently this American axiom has never been translated into CHINESE. Once again, the cheatey Chinese women's gymnastics team aided by an idiot Australian judge stole another GOLD MEDAL away from Nastia Liukin and the USA. It happened just one day after Alicia Sacramone was robbed of a medal in favor of another Chinese cheater in a cloud of anti-American bias. So last night, Nastia "Al Gore" Liukin and He "Princess of the Crazy Uneven Bars" Kexin ended their routines with tied scores. But because of an idiotic tie-breaking formula, the terrifying baby HE got the gold. Apparently the bars weren't the only uneven things in this competition! This is an absolute outrage.
It all came down to the scoring from Aussie judge Helen Colagiuri, who gave Nastia Liukin a lower score than He by .3 points, a greater margin than any other judge. Australia's answer to Katherine Harris ought to be stripped of her credentials immediately.
ALSO, He is obviously 8 years old like everyone else on this cheatey team. Despite the fact that gymnasts have to be turning 16 in the year of the Olympics and that every other country has konstantly komplained, the International Gymnastics Federation refuses to do anything about the Chinese cheaters. Its Secretary-General said:
"We heard these rumours and we immediately wrote to the Chinese gymnastics federation. They immediately sent a copy of the passport, showing the age, and everything is OK. That's all we can check."
Oh please. This verification system is about as effective as the UN. Mark my words, the fight for justice is NOT over!!!
It's been ages since I checked in with the Domestic Goddess's amazing blog. The joke's on me, because she's been on a tear lately.
On McCain, Cindy, and U.S.-Egypt Relations:
For the moment, we'll just ignore the fact that she is one of Bmad's dreaded Hillary Clinton dead-enders.
On McCain, Cindy, and U.S.-Egypt Relations:
On Maureen Dowd and the Politics of Masturbation:Mccain is pro-life and that of course means pro-war! Pro-life means the worship of the holy sanctified fetus and the death of the unholy unsanctified fetus. He looks like a fetus and his wife looks like king tut. they can both worship the holy hidden orifice from beyond the great behind where fetuses (white ones) live in heavenly peace!!!
Maureen "c-word" dowd, she giggles to herself as she clutches and strokes her vibrator about how adept she is at slandering and destroying pro-feminist females who's clitorises still work right.And best of all, on Angelina 'Voigty Toity' Jolie's birdbrained pronouncement that she is an 'undecided' voter:
jon voight your evil spawn angelina jolie and her vacuous hubby brad pitt make about forty million dollars a year in violent psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity as they spit out more dunces that will consume more than their fair share and wreck the earth even more. (just sayin'). Also miss jolie says she likes mccain too and hasn't decided who to endorse....huh? Aren't you supposed to be somewhat enlightened, or do you not know that the african daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the republican party's worldwide economic assault on africa over the last few decades since reagan? whaaaa...??????!!!! (snip) Now go back to making your movies about women who love to handle big guns that shoot hundreds of people to death. Ps....it might be good for your asian and african children's self esteem to know you support a brown man for the leader of the free world.She makes so much sense! Isn't this just like one of those movies where there is a totally batshit crazy person but then by the end of the movie we realize that maybe this person isn't really the crazy one, that maybe all of us who aren't clinically insane might be the ones who are ACTUALLY nuts?
For the moment, we'll just ignore the fact that she is one of Bmad's dreaded Hillary Clinton dead-enders.
First he cheated on his crippled wife and now he's cheated on America's favorite pastor! At last weekend's Saddleback Forum, John McCain was NOT in a "cone of silence" after assuring everyone, including pastor Rick Warren, that he was in a soundproof room Ricki Lake-style during Barack Obama's interview. According to the NYT:
Now can the Democrats please step out of their own self-imposed "cone of silence" and start attacking this cheating, lying, angry, old POW ASAP??!The matter is of interest because Mr. McCain, who followed Mr. Obama’s hourlong appearance in the forum, was asked virtually the same questions as Mr. Obama. Mr. McCain’s performance was well received, raising speculation among some viewers, especially supporters of Mr. Obama, that he was not as isolated during the Obama interview as Mr. Warren implied.
Nicolle Wallace, a spokeswoman for Mr. McCain, said on Sunday night that Mr. McCain had not heard the broadcast of the event while in his motorcade and heard none of the questions.
“The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous,” Ms. Wallace said.
Vice commissioned some guy to make this interpretation of Nike's Air Max 90.
My mouth is literally flooding with saliva. I'm not sure how much longer my whole 'ethical vegetarianism' thing is going to last.
(h/t FunFriends)
My mouth is literally flooding with saliva. I'm not sure how much longer my whole 'ethical vegetarianism' thing is going to last.
(h/t FunFriends)
Here's the Republicans' position on global warming straight from the mouth of GOP Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, the self-described "Fool for Christ":"[Nancy Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said that she’s just trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet — we didn’t need Nancy Pelosi to do that.”Problem solved!
OMG there's a new Thomas Frank book out and nobody told me!
"The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule" argues that American conservatives are so hostile to the very idea of government that, once they get into power, they are purposefully corrupt and willfully incompetent. Then they benefit from the cynicism about government which they themselves have sown. Which come to think is a pretty familiar argument, but then so was the premise of "Kansas, WTF?" and people--including myself--couldn't shut up about that one for like an entire year.
Every couple years we need a reminder that conservatives (each and every one, not just George W!) are deranged, murderous machete-wielding clowns who have ruined what was once a pretty sweet deal (the "Great Society" era U.S. of A.) and replaced it with THIS. This book is that reminder.
Also, Tom Frank is so cute! He looks like a fleshier (i.e. cuter) Stephen Colbert. Speaking of which he was on Colbert recently; you can watch his appearance after the button pressy thingy.
Continue reading "The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule".
Some incredibly sharp insights from Washington's favorite middle class moralist Cokie Roberts on Sunday’s This Week:
1) Everyone
knows
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3) Visiting old grandmothers is lame
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