Posted by ryan on 15 Sep 2008 at 01:03 pm

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Probably one of the least-used lines of attack by the Dems (in this, uh, expert’s opinion) this campaign season has been to attack the rampant cronyism of the Bush Administration, most obviously exemplified by the Mike Brown/FEMA fiasco.  Well, it looks like Sarah Palin practiced some of the same Good Ol’ Boy (er) up there in Alaska.  I know what you’re saying: NO! From the state of Ted Stevens?!.

This paragraph from that ol’ liberal rag, The New York Times, is perhaps the most illuminating:

So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency.

Hat tip to (I can’t believe I’m saying this but these are the days we live in) Andrew Sullivan on this one.

Posted by Lucas Jensen on 13 Sep 2008 at 05:46 pm

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After working a less than stellar show last night at the Caledonia I settled in to watch the 3am repeat of Hardball and was completely pumped to see Matthew’s off-leash and relentlessly attacking the McPalin distraction machine.

Please to enjoy:

Part 1:

and of course…

Part 2:

Posted by ryan on 11 Sep 2008 at 01:02 pm

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THE CULTURE WAR

Wake up people, we need to get to work or we are gonna get fucked again by the ignorant, fearful and bigoted masses.

Vote OBAMA/BIDEN!

Posted by ryan on 08 Sep 2008 at 10:24 pm

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I have been out of town on tour with the Buddy System and haven’t been able to find time to blog but I just got an email about the arrests of journalists at the Republican Convention and I had to post it here:

“This is America. We don’t jail journalists here.

This video is upsetting, but you deserve to know what’s really going on.

Goodman and her producers were released last night. (An AP photographer was also arrested and released). But the charges are still pending.

Americans deserve to know that journalists are being jailed for trying to do their jobs. E-mail CNN President Jonathan Klein and NBC News President Steve Capus today (NBC News controls MSNBC) to demand coverage of this brutally important story.”

So yeah, not that I’m surprised considering it was at a fascist convention but what the FUCK?!

Click here to take whatever action you feel is appropriate!

Posted by ryan on 02 Sep 2008 at 03:48 pm

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Interactive Bush Admin Crime Chart

Some writers at Slate have posted an interactive Venn diagram detailing the overlap of complicity in a few of the Bush Administrations (many) illegal actions.

Good stuff, but hardly complete.

I know, I know.

The internet isn’t big enough to withstand a chart of that magnitude.

Posted by Bob on 26 Jul 2008 at 10:09 am

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SERIOUSLY, WTF?!

We are fucked.

Posted by ryan on 23 Apr 2008 at 02:10 pm

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Yeah, yeah, yeah… “Real American Hero” bladiddy, bladiddy, blah…

You probably know that John McCain got captured in Vietnam and was tortured for 5 1/2 years and now he is one pissed off old coot, but did you also know that he is crazy, panders to racists and is prone to freakishly aggro mood swings? No, well the folks at MoveOn.org have compiled a “Hit Parade” of Ol’ Crotchety’s darker points…

Please to enjoy: 10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don’t):

1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has “evolved,” yet he’s continued to oppose key civil rights laws.

2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain “will make Cheney look like Gandhi.”

3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.

4. McCain opposes a woman’s right to choose. He said, “I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned.”

5. The Children’s Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children’s health care bill last year, then defended Bush’s veto of the bill.

6. He’s one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a “second job” and skip their vacations.

7. Many of McCain’s fellow Republican senators say he’s too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: “The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He’s erratic. He’s hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.”

8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.

9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his “spiritual guide,” Rod Parsley, believes America’s founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a “false religion.” McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church “the Antichrist” and a “false cult.”

10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.

Also, I am not sure if you know this but John McCain is old. Like really fucking old. Crypt Keeper old. Just saying…

Now you know! And knowing is half the battle!

*NOTE: for anyone concerned with sources, check out MoveOn.org for footnotes to this list.

Posted by ryan on 07 Apr 2008 at 03:49 pm

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The Washington Post ran George McGovern’s great op-ed on why Bush-Cheney should be impeached. Read it HERE.

Posted by ryan on 08 Jan 2008 at 12:44 am

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If you aren’t the pop culture obsessed TV/Web nerd that I am you might have missed this rant from a “fan” in response to people dogging on Britney Spears for her outfit and performance at the MTV Awards. Peep it now as it’s the necesarry set-up for the payoff in the next video. If you have already seen it then feel free to skip right to the next jam:

Magic, right? Anway now lay your eyes on this slice of gold from comedian Phillip Wilburn:

Ah, the confluence of retarded pop culture and deadly serious government warmongering. Only in the good old U.S. of fucking A!!!

Posted by ryan on 13 Sep 2007 at 03:08 pm

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