re: gas prices

Listen, guys. I don't know if you know about this. I'm perhaps a tad behind on reporting it, but I just think it's really important that everybody educate themselves about the issues and this one is a pretty big deal. I mean gas prices have been coming gradually (read: agonizingly slowly) back down, but there's limited relief in sight. Take this as a warning...

Gas prices have gotten so high that P. Diddy


(just in case you forgot what he looked like)

has vowed to stop flying his private plane, and is in fact flying commercial. Don't believe me? Check out his youtube video diary. Diddy is so poor due to the rising gas prices, he cannot afford to fly his jet from New York to LA, now that it's over the affordable price of $200,000 per flight.

I'm...sorry. I can't type anymore. It's hard even for me to take this seriously.

it's funny because it's true

random thought

Does this election remind anybody else of a particular episode of Will & Grace?...




:::edit::: just for posterity's sake...

SCENE V: Will's Apartment
(WILL and GRACE are home.)

GRACE: Uh... So, listen, I need a check.

WILL: What for?

GRACE: Judy Green. She's running for city council, and I think we should support her.

WILL: But we're backing Ted Bowers.

GRACE: Well, I found out a few things about him that makes me think I should support the other candidate.

WILL: Like what?

GRACE: Like he's running against a woman.

WILL: So? Who is she? What do we know about her?

GRACE: She's a woman.

WILL: And?

GRACE: And she's Jewish.

WILL: And?

GRACE: And she's a woman.

WILL: So what? What are her positions?

GRACE: I don't know. She's Jewish. She probably just lays there. Come on. Write the check!

WILL: I am not gonna write you a check. That would just cancel out the check you wrote me.

GRACE: I know. That's why I've already stopped payment on mine. Now, come on. Make it payable to "Judy Green for City Council."

WILL: All right. Is a zillion dollars enough?

GRACE: Come on! Women need a voice on the city council. I mean, 50% of the population is women.

WILL: So, one could argue that 80% of the population is gay. [BEAT] They just don't know it yet. Anyway, this is not about statistics. This is about who has the better candidate.

GRACE: Well, what makes you think that you have the better candidate?

WILL: Grace, he's gay.

GRACE: Well, mine's a woman and Jewish. That makes two victims to your one.

WILL: Since when are you so Jewish anyway? You're about as Jewish as Melanie Griffith in A Stranger Among Us.

GRACE: Well, you're about as gay as Tom Sellick in In and Out.

WILL: I am plenty gay.

GRACE: When was the last time you had same-sex sex?

WILL: I'm choosy!

GRACE: Ha! You're straight! Go watch a basketball game!

WILL: Yeah? Well, you're barely a woman. You pee standing up!

GRACE: Hey! There are a lot of diseases you can get from a toilet seat!

WILL: Our own?! [POINTING TOWARDS THE BATHROOM.]

GRACE: Well, I never thought that I would hear this from you! You hate women!

WILL: Well, you hate gays!

[WILL AND GRACE EXIT TO THE WRONG BEDROOMS, SLAMMING THE DOORS.]

[THE DOORS OPEN SUDDENLY AND THEY SWITCH ROOMS.]

WILL: My room.

GRACE: Whatever.

[THE DOORS SLAM.]

STOP MAKING IT SO EASY

...sweet lord, Sarah.

hilarious

following up on the "emo for obama" button, are these buttons:


...to answer your questions, here.
also, yes, that is Doogie Howser.



:::edit::: also found: "Banjos for Obama," "Unemployed for Obama" (featuring The Dude), "Bald and Beautiful for Obama," "Impersonators for Obama," (featuring a picture of those fake-sideburn Elvis sunglasses), and "Whale Watchers for Obama." Several more to be found if you've got the time to poke around...

way to go, BO

Obama's reaction to this is pretty fantastic:

Q: Governor Palin and her husband issued a statement today saying that their 17 year old daughter Bristol who is unmarried is 5 months pregnant. Do you have a comment?

A: I have heard some of the news on this and so let me be as clear as possible. I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people's families are off limits, and people's children are especially off limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics, it has no relevance to governor Palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18. And how family deals with issues and teenage children that shouldn't be the topic of our politics and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that is off limits.

(also, how did it take me until just now that Barak Obama's initials are the same as the acronym for Body Oder? Eww.)

quote of the day

"This election is not about issues."
-Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager
(allegedly)

does want

how to win the female vote

McCain: ask some chick from Alaska to be your VP. A phone interview and 15-minute one-time meeting should be all it takes to determine that she's the one.

Obama: Rail McCain for his ideas about overturning Roe v. Wade. That'll...win...some...ok, buddy, come on. Talk about negativity. I thought we were making changes and being hopeful and positive?

Jeeze.

awesome

This article, posted on the Huffington Post by Seth Grahame-Smith, is effing hilarious.

Family Values - This is someone who's not afraid to preach abstinence for your daughter, even though her own unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. This is someone who's not afraid to hop on a plane from Texas to Alaska while she's in premature labor. This is someone who's not afraid to hit the campaign trail with a 5-month-old special needs baby. That's what I call dedication to family. Obama, on the other hand? A Muslim.

Give it a read over here.

eye-roll

Ok, guys. Enough is enough.

Sarah Palin was a college kid during college?!?!!?!!?!?!?!??!?!!!?!?!111one!11!1eleven


(shirt reads "I may be broke but I'm not flat busted.")

*freak out*

It's official: Nobody cares. Leave her alone.

borderline equal-opportunity snarkiness

Already I'm feeling a little like I'm attacking somebody who, first of all, I don't even know, second of all, I haven't done a ton of research on, and third, who has a fabulous first name...this letter I found while researching my last post is, admittedly, mostly jab after jab at McCain and Palin, but it's a little snarky towards Joe Biden, who I (also admittedly) haven't done a ton of research on, either:

Because you're old, and you're a white dude, I bet that sexist snark
s not absent from your famous attack-dog repertoire. Because you're
one of the best attackers there is, and sexism has been part of the
radition for a very long time. Don't do it. Be very, very careful.

Anyway, here's the link to the letter (no, not HERE, back there at the FIRST "here." Oh, fine, here it is again. Happy?). Read on, dear readers!

Perez v. Palin

It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of Perez "The Jesus" Hilton. I don't always totally agree with his views, but generally we're pretty spot-on in terms of who we like and who we don't (although I don't totally understand his burning hatred for all things Cyrus--I mean she's annoying, but come on, she's 15!). That said, he's had his hands full the last few days with posts on Sarah Palin...








(all "photo credit," as it were, goes to Mr. Hilton)

Sarah Palin has officially taken over where Phelps left off (and let's not forget Spears), and frankly, here's my issue: she was named as Johnny's running mate on August 29th. Today is September 3rd. Already, having done limited research, I know that she doesn't "believe" in global warming (I mean, c'mon. Even McCain knows it's important to talk about how he's going to make the end of global warming a priority if he gets elected), she's got a 17 year old daughter who, by the way, is preggers (I'm having a hard time with the nasty rumors that Palin's 4-month-old is allegedly her daughter's child as well--but lord, wouldn't that be juicy?!), scandal, scandal, "scandal," let's not forget her foreign policy experience, and honestly, Sar, I'm willing to forgive you for not knowing what the title of VP stands for (because honestly, how many people can rightfully claim they do?), but I'd advise, in the future, not openly admitting that you don't.

Now. It took me slightly over 45 minutes to find all of those links to back up what I learned in about 5 minutes. 50 minutes total, to learn 7 things that pretty much support the theory that McCain (and/or his camp) didn't look AT ALL into his potential VP. I mean, I know, what with having to look over such a hefty resume (ZING!), they might have missed all of those things, but really?

...Really?

birthday birthdayyyyy

first thing's first:

happy belated to Republican hopeful John McCain!



rock the hell on, old man.

test, test, test...

I've spent plenty of time trying to find a good political blog that is updated often, that I actually WANT to read, that I find interesting, humorous, and informative…and it's been pretty difficult; the only exception being “Joe Q.'s” Things Younger than McCain (which is pretty fab, I must say). I'll admit, I have a hard time staying in tune with what's going on in politics--which is why I'd like for a blog like this to exist, and why I gave up looking and started one of my own. I consider myself to be fairly liberal, and right off the bat I'll just put it out there: Obama rocks my socks right off. But I try my best to understand both sides.

If a slightly liberal, slightly political blog isn't right up your alley, this may not be the place for you. Feel free to read, but please don't bore anybody with slinging crazy insults that, honestly, I'll probably just delete. Discussion, however, is ALWAYS welcome, and if you'd like to contribute, send me a post and I'll check it over and put it right up with the rest of 'em!

Anyway, this is an experiment, hopefully to turn into a long-term project. Stay tuned...