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Friday, August 29, 2008
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6:22 PM
by Gene
"Speaking as a private individual, I would NOT vote for John McCain under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!!!!" [Righteous overemphasis added] FLOP: Dr. James Dobson: McCain’s Choice of Palin 'OUTSTANDING!!!!!' [Righteous overemphasis added two] FLIP-FLOP FLOP: "If flip-flopping is a sin, then I am a sinner." OIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII....
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4:47 PM
by Gene
(Via Forbeslist.com)
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4:41 PM
by Gene
It also appears Democrats are saying the same things about Boobs's choice that Republicans have said about The Lord, which means in short order this campaign should qualify every American for disability.
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4:32 PM
by Gene
On Nov. 4th, we must stand up and say: "Eight is enough." ...and you get: Dog whistle shot-out to fortysomethings who liked the 1977 dramedy of the same name, starring Dick Van Patten as paterfamilias of large family. INSIGHT!
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1:53 PM
by Gene
And when NRO goes HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we can take it no more seriously than when a certifiably liberal site goes HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Indeed one could say Boobs's choice was inspired in no small way by right-wing pundits. Let's see how that works.
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11:16 AM
by Gene
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11:05 AM
by Gene
This sounds like another version of SIXSIGMA!!!!!, and most likely humans will learn how to screw up the works anyway.
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10:53 AM
by Gene
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10:28 AM
by Gene
Oh SHUT UP, both of you. Isn't it possible to be an honest broker? Why must politics always divide people into eeny-weeny petulant little fragments of non-thought? Thursday, August 28, 2008
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6:32 PM
by Gene
Meantime they'll raise prices (a sudden favorite activity of CEOs after years of its lying dormant -- or rather after years of CEOs lying, dormant), and they'll test our limited patience by plugging things we're NOT INTERESTED IN ANYMORE.
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6:19 PM
by Gene
Mr. Wainwright wants the opera, “Prima Donna,” to be in French; its would-be commissioners — the Met and Lincoln Center Theater — insisted on English. In a telephone interview Wednesday, Mr. Wainwright said another stumbling block was the date of a potential production at the opera house. The earliest the Met could offer, he said, was in 2014. “They work on that sort of scale; I wanted to get it out as soon as possible,” he said, adding wryly, “because I’m an impatient pop star.” Whew! The world is patiently spared a masterpiece -- for now. (Via the usual AhtsJournal)
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6:10 PM
by Gene
But still -- THE GREATEST SPEECH IN HISTORY!!!!!
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5:59 PM
by Gene
You would think the ghost of Henry Luce would have told you, Strobe, that NOBODY PAYS ATTENTION TO CHICKEN LITTLES -- even IF they're RIGHT. Carlos Pascual and Strobe Talbott are, respectively, vice president for foreign policy studies and president of the Brookings Institution. They are involved in a joint project with Stanford University and New York University on global governance, including on the issue of climate change. [Noncatastrophic emphasis added] TRANSLATION: Strobe thinks he can improve on the League of Nations. Pffh-hh-hh hh hh hh hh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
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5:44 PM
by Gene
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5:41 PM
by Gene
I wish I had a good punchline.
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5:39 PM
by Gene
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3:31 PM
by Gene
Not only is He the EDWARD R. MURROW OF COMEDY, He's the TED KOPPEL too! Among a certain crowd of news media, politicians and educated young viewers courted by them, it's a sacred institution. WHO ELSE WATCHES IT? A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO GARY! (Via the NEW! IMPROVED!! ROMY!!!)
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3:26 PM
by Gene
There goes Jo-NAH for press secretary.
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2:45 PM
by Gene
(Via ShowBizData)
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2:19 PM
by Gene
And on the Wall Street Journals' list, Who Moved My Cheese? has evidently been there so long it's covered with mold. It always was.
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2:10 PM
by Gene
Planners scrapped their idea to turn the audience of 75,000 into a giant phone bank, in response to fears that the cellphone system would crash (people will instead be asked to text-message friends and neighbors to support the campaign, program aides said would be effective nonetheless.) Shucks, it would have been the biggest cell-phone crash in history. When a close circle of his top advisers presented Mr. Obama with $6 million plans to move his acceptance speech to the football stadium in early July, the candidate asked one question, said Anita Dunn, a senior strategist: “Will it rain?” The campaign produced a raft of meteorological data showing it had rained on Aug. 28 only once in 20 years. (Aides were alarmed, however, to arrive in Denver on Sunday to news of a nearby tornado. The weather reporters were predicting clear skies for Thursday night’s address.) N-n-n-n-no tornado tonight!
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2:02 PM
by Gene
Natch, they're talking drug testing. DOPES.
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1:50 PM
by Gene
![]() We would be sorry for this sight at Col.'s booth at the infomercial except 1. The hacks are too busy looking for non-news, 2. The hacks are too busy making computers an appendage of their bodies, and 3. Aren't there enough paper piles at an infomercial?
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1:36 PM
by Gene
It might not be Bill Ayers but maybe The Lord's assistant preachers should delve into Boobs's guest-starring role for Drunken Slob.
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1:24 PM
by Gene
Four-Score is allegedly the state's third senator. A casual perusal of G000,000,000,000,000GLE discloses "they" as the source of that assertion. One reporter says the source is Four-Score. Another pol calls Four-Score "New Jersey's third senator." Heck let's make him all fifty states' third senator.
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9:17 AM
by Gene
And these folks won't shut up because, unlike partisans of an earlier time, they make too much money.
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9:00 AM
by Gene
P. S. If I read this right half the audience for Hillary! Night was over 55. Good luck!
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8:47 AM
by Gene
"Normally, when all your dreams are realized in an election, that's when it becomes a nightmare," Moran said. "2008 could be a dream election. 2010 could be a disaster." You may get it. To be sure, history may not repeat itself exactly. The Lord will not be Slickster. But we have learned Congresspoops are comedians to the nth degree, and especially so with Democrats, who just can't seem to govern without leaving their shoelaces untied. (The GOP doesn't have to worry; its shoelaces are tied at Gucci Gulch.)
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8:26 AM
by Gene
Yeah, St. Warren Jr. Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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7:34 PM
by Gene
![]() This is ABC World News with...no. This is NBC Nightly News with...no, that's not it. This is the CBS Evening News with...definitely no. But the inspiration is there. Not only can this Guy talk pretentious, He now LOOKS pretentious.
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7:11 PM
by Gene
A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD TO PAUL DRECK AND HIS LATEST GHOST MIKE!
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7:02 PM
by Gene
Well! How many pop stars can make that apology, voice or no?
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6:51 PM
by Gene
Hallelujah! And just before prime time in the East, too. And no, we do not include William Jennings Bryan.
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6:45 PM
by Gene
1. No we won't say it. 2. You daydreaming?
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6:10 PM
by Gene
![]() I can recall when it was exciting to watch the roll call at a political convention; however preordained, there was still an element of spontaneity, of not knowing even if others did. Now it's another heavily rehearsed scene of an infomercial, the stage managers screaming if it's a second behind. When the Lord is crowned King of America tomorrow in the Temple of Invesco it will be just as dull because it too is just another scene of another infomercial.
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11:23 AM
by Gene
Isn't one bunch of electronic showboaters enough?
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10:57 AM
by Gene
The 84-year-old Republican handily won his primary race for Senate and immediately proclaimed the November election a "piece of cake." ...that's been sitting in a cupboard for 25 years.
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9:29 AM
by Gene
![]() Here's another reason to get rid of the infomercials -- the concerted attempts by our superiors to keep the people away, however ludicrous their politics. Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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7:12 PM
by Gene
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7:09 PM
by Gene
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7:06 PM
by Gene
PIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLHEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!
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6:43 PM
by Gene
What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people--their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties--someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."Of course that's not what a liberal is any more. A liberal, in today's sense, is someone who is better than his peers, his peers being such a retarded rabble as to justify being soft on foreign and defense policy. A liberal, though speaking soothing tones of liberty, wants to so straitjacket the Republic with his bass-ackwards notions of fairness as to guarantee PC is our secular religion. He can be hypocritical when it suits his purposes, screaming at the top of his never fully filled lungs about the evils of smoking, and global warming, while dismissing the moral disaster of abortion under the fatuous rubric of personal choice, the kind of choice frequently verboten in the world of liberalism. He is humorless, and believes his enemies should be incarcerated, but is not stupid enough to say it, though in thinking it he is little different from bigots who hate people of another skin color. He is a total prig. But then conservatives have not done well by their word. Today's conservative so revolves around money as to make the miserly the most charitable behavior. Because his world revolves around money he sanctions every conceivable way of getting even with money, even breaking the law. He sees in big business what the aspiring socialist saw in the Kremlin; never mind that, as the late CURE FOR CANCER proved, capitalism can walk hand in hand with totalitarianism because it's evolved into a top-down system, and works best under the supervision of the kind big-bicepped moral pygmies like LEGENDARY WELCH who can and will do anything for money. Yes he will make noises about morality; but as too many pundits like Jo-NAH and JPOD show their hearts aren't in it; to save a child from abortion is not nearly so holy as to save dollar for a zillionaire CEO. Though not quite the total prig the liberal is, having not worked so hard to perfect his anger, the conservative is not far from it. And so we shrug our shoulders and hang our heads at two political parties who force us to decide the lesser of two evils, and why we must always vote for president holding our noses.
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5:18 PM
by Gene
Former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton closed out her history-making 2008 quest for the White House Tuesday with a prime-time appearance at the Democratic National Convention.... ...has ESP! We know, WE KNOW, she WILL do it, but why must the ASSPress hacks use the past tense for a future story? This HAS happened before.
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9:30 AM
by Gene
ESPN to Pay $2B for College Sports Rights Cablevision Plummets as Shares Cut to 'Sell'
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9:23 AM
by Gene
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9:20 AM
by Gene
Volumes.
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9:18 AM
by Gene
We would never accuse investors of courage but in their own way these folks have it.
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9:14 AM
by Gene
Attendance down four percent this year!
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9:12 AM
by Gene
Dubya! We say it again -- just open the door to the Treasury and throw away the key.
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9:08 AM
by Gene
How soon we forget: Slickster tortured us for eight years because Jeff "MENSA" Greenfield decided he made a TERRIFIC speech in '88.
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8:59 AM
by Gene
The jackass Michiko made it official: ED'S A NEWSMAN. And a special tribute to the NEW! IMPROVED!! ROMY!!! for THIS one: An unnamed Fox News spokesman tells Howard Kurtz that "being out of touch with mainstream America is nothing new to Jon, as evidenced by the crash-and-burn ratings of this year's Oscars telecast." (By the way, Kurtz violates the Washington Post sources/attribution policy, which states: "Sources who want to take a shot at someone in our columns should do so in their own names.") Which he would not have violated if the source had been at the equal and opposite buffoonery of the MESS. Monday, August 25, 2008
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8:54 AM
by Gene
Would the GAMES in Beijing have been such a CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED hit if China were a DEMOCRACY?
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8:45 AM
by Gene
FURTHER TRANSLATION: Eh? I can't hear you! You from the right or the left? (Via MediaBistro)
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8:32 AM
by Gene
![]() Given the state of the "art" in AHKITEKTYURE it is astonishing that one of their own would be considered an OUTCAST who can design things that look like a pile of rubble at Ground Zero. By that definition he's a GENIUS. And The Paper of Re-CORD, always wanting to be as in with the in-crowd as it is out with its mere mortal readers, makes sure we peons know.
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8:30 AM
by Gene
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8:28 AM
by Gene
![]() The right's obsession with the Obama "cult" is just -- it's just silly. TRANSLATION: Cheap partisans of any stripe will write anything. Sunday, August 24, 2008
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4:59 PM
by Gene
BLITHERING OBSESSIVE PONTIFICATING MORONS.
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1:43 PM
by Gene
1. Whatever happened to all that money the Bugmeisters had in their wallet? Here's one answer: they frittered it away on an on-line AD AGENCY. 2. Industry Unleashes Flood of Studies to Prove Worth You need studies to prove you're worth zero?
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12:25 PM
by Gene
Now can we forget about this until next time?
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11:51 AM
by Gene
![]() I think ol' Confucius would have to say a picture's worth a million PLA soldiers.
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9:56 AM
by Gene
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9:31 AM
by Gene
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9:09 AM
by Gene
The creative team had 232 members. Nine of them were not Chinese. Rehearsals began in September 2007. Maybe that's why. Heck even Al Reut can't quite get into the mood: The Beijing Olympics ended with a flash of fireworks on Sunday, bringing down the curtain on a Games that dazzled the world with SPORTING BRILLIANCE!!!!! and showcased the MIGHT!!!!! of modern day China. The 16-day sporting extravaganza failed to quell criticism of China's human rights record.... [Overemphasis added] Shucks, a fly in the wonton. P. S. at 9:17 a.m. HE DID NOT.
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8:53 AM
by Gene
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8:42 AM
by Gene
A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO JOEL!
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8:36 AM
by Gene
But then whose isn't in the Beltway?
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