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Post by K-Box on Oct 2, 2008 15:04:37 GMT -8
Countdown to VP debate: BREAKING NEWS UPDATE HER HAIR IS DOWN SHE'S WEARING A WIRE I'M CALLING IT RIGHT NOW
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Post by K-Box on Oct 2, 2008 13:50:06 GMT -8
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Post by K-Box on Oct 1, 2008 17:42:10 GMT -8
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AND ONCE AGAIN, MY PATHOLOGICAL OBSESSION WITH PORNOGRAPHY PROVES EERILY PRESCIENT IN PREDICTING CULTURAL TRENDS I AM PORN-OMNISCIENT
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Post by K-Box on Oct 1, 2008 1:20:58 GMT -8
Sarah Palin gets painted in full, and nothing's conservative about itThere's been no shortage of takeoffs on Sarah Palin lately, from television skits to action figures, but Bruce Elliott has gone one step further than most. He's taken off her clothes. Elliott, whose wife, Tobin Mitchen, owns the Old Town Ale House on Chicago's North Side, painted a nude portrait of the Republican vice presidential nominee and hung it above the bar, where it's now a prime attraction among his display of more than 200 celebrity portraits and other racy art. Palin became Elliott's muse after he saw her on TV. "I've been following her religiously," he said Monday at the bar. "I had never heard of her before, like everyone else. I find her bizarrely fascinating, even though I pretty much despise everything she stands for." Despite their political differences, Elliott admits to a bit of a crush on the Alaska governor. He began painting her smile and trademark glasses, he said, before filling in the details: a gun, red high heels, polar bear rug, rugged Alaska landscape and a scared moose. His daughter, who looks a little like Palin and does a great impression of her, served as model for the governor's body.Since Elliott, 68, hung the portrait Thursday, it's been a steady draw at the dive bar, which is a popular spot for Second City comedians to grab beers and play pinball after shows. But after the image hit the Internet on Monday, interest exploded."We got a bunch of people in tonight," Elliott said. " They're coming to take pictures with their camera phones. The photo is all over the place."
... Okay, I'll get back to the primary point of this post in just a second, but first, there was one line that wound up being a bit of a ... mental speed-bump for me, as I was reading this, and let's see if you all can guess which one that was: His daughter [...] served as model for the governor's body.His daughter [...] served as model for the governor's body.His daughter [...] served as model for the governor's body.... ... ... ... Yeah, anyway ... if you want to see an uncensored photo of the painting, at least one has already been posted on Flikr: It's not safe for work, but ... it's also not that good.My take? It looks like what happens the first time a horny boy tries to erase the clothes on a female character in a comic book, and then draws in nipples and bush based on what he's seen in porn magazines. Add to that the fact that the facial likeness looks less like Sarah Palin and more like Peggy Hill from King of the Hill, and this shit wouldn't even fly on deviantART (well, not unless the artist also turned Palin into a furry futa, in which case, everyone else on the site would be fapping like mad over it instead, but I digress, yet the fuck again). ALL I ASK FOR IS SOME FRICKIN' SHARKS WITH FRICKIN' LASER-BEAMS ATTACHED TO THEIR HEADS WELL-DONE PALIN PORN. RULE 34 IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN ITSELF. THAT'S THE ENTIRE FUCKING POINT OF IT, GODDAMMIT. IF I CAN'T TRUST THE INTERNET TO SUPPLY ME WITH A STEADY STREAM OF AT LEAST SEMI-SATISFYING PORNOGRAPHY, THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS IT GOOD FOR, ANYWAY?
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Post by K-Box on Sept 30, 2008 16:38:41 GMT -8
I wonder what he'll make of the coke and AWOL issues? Judging by the trailers, he's tackling all of Bush's dysfunctionalities head on: And it's coming out in OCTOBER.
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Post by K-Box on Sept 29, 2008 22:54:50 GMT -8
Looking at the opinion pieces out there, there are a lot of calls for the McCain campaign to "let Palin be Palin". We can only hope they do let the book-burning, creationist, going-on-a-plane-in-labor, abstention-teaching-with-pregnant-daughter, bridge-loving, petty ignorama be herself. On the one hand, this could deep-six the McCain campaign once and for all. On the other, the "average American" could decide that they love Palin more than ever before.
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Post by K-Box on Sept 29, 2008 22:53:17 GMT -8
Pogue is telling the truth. In 2010: The Year We Make Contact, Dave Bowman's last words, as he stares into The Monolith, are retroactively attributed as, "My God, it's full of stars ..." Right now, I honestly believe that I know exactly how he felt, because if you substitute me for Dave Bowman, and Sarah Palin's near-incalculable level of jaw-dropping fucktardedness for the brain-breaking incomprehensibility of The Monolith, THIS is how I feel right now, staring into the harrowing face of Sarah Palin's abyssal stupidity: Latest Palin Gaffe: Can't Name Supreme Court Case Other Than Roe V. WadeToday, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reported on potentially embarrassing clips of Sarah Palin being interviewed by Katie Couric that haven't yet been aired. The Politico has more information on one in particular: __________ Of concern to McCain's campaign, however, is a remaining and still-undisclosed clip from Palin's interview with Couric last week that has the political world buzzing. The Palin aide, after first noting how "infuriating" it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions. After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin was apparently unable to discuss any major court cases.There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence.
Leaving aside Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education, which I can name as a result of HAVING PASSED FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL, I'm stunned that ANY Republican could be ignorant of Bush v. Gore, since they LITERALLY owe the past eight years of neo-con control of the White House to it, and while I'm at it, I'm even MORE blown away that Palin could have forgotten Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, since a) it was decided three months ago, b) it involved Alaska and c) SHE FUCKING COMMENTED ON IT WHEN IT HAPPENED. At this point, I can seriously say that I would genuinely prefer a third term of George W. Bush, with Dan Quayle as his vice president, to having Sarah Palin a 72-year-old heartbeat away from the Oval Office, because I'm starting to suspect that Sarah Palin might well be the stupidest carbon-based life form ever to have drawn breath on planet Earth. The mere fact that she EXISTS makes ME feel measurably dumber.
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Post by K-Box on Sept 29, 2008 15:11:14 GMT -8
Hi.
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Post by K-Box on Sept 28, 2008 14:10:08 GMT -8
One day later: How did they do? USA TODAY/Gallup Poll: Obama did better job in first debateA new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows 46% of people who watched Friday night's presidential debate say Democrat Barack Obama did a better job than Republican John McCain; 34% said McCain did better. Obama scored even better -- 52%-35% -- when debate-watchers were asked which candidate offered the best proposals for change to solve the country’s problems.More than six in 10 people or 63% in the one-day poll, taken Saturday, said they watched the first faceoff in Oxford, Miss. For those 701 people, the margin of error was +/- 4 percentage points. The poll suggested the debate was to some extent a wash for McCain: 21% of those who watched say it gave them a more favorable view of him, 21% say less favorable and 56% say it didn't change their opinion much. Three in 10 said their opinion of Obama became more favorable after seeing the debate, compared to 14% who said less favorable and 54% who said it didn't make much difference. More than one-third of viewers, or 37%, said they had less confidence in McCain to fix economic problems after seeing the debate; 23% said more. For Obama, the survey results were 34% more confidence, 26% less. Neither candidate broke away on national security and foreign policy. About a third of viewers said they had more confidence in each man on that front after the debate, and slightly less in each case said they had less confidence. Obama held a 5-percentage-point lead over McCain, 49%-45%, in the Gallup tracking poll taken Wednesday through Friday. Tomorrow's poll will be the first to include impact from the debate. **(Posted at 10:39 p.m. Eastern time, Sept. 27)
As Excelscior1 posted on Daily Kos, "This means that every major poll and focus group has declared Obama the winner, and this is the first big name scientific poll performed the day after the debate. [...] This latest poll should calm those Obama supporters who listen more to what pundits say than what they see with their own eyes." Which leads us into the next debate. Take it away, Sarah Palin! Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. Again.The really funny part? Tina Fey is directly quoting Sarah Palin: "But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy — helping the — oh, it's got to be about job creation too. Shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans." Sarah Palin's actual words, ladies and gentlemen. Wall Of Facepalm? Your response? Joe Biden? YOUR response?
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Post by K-Box on Sept 28, 2008 14:01:42 GMT -8
Thank you for this. As biased as I am, it's good to have some balance.
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Post by K-Box on Sept 27, 2008 22:49:53 GMT -8
See, Joe, this is precisely why I scratch my head when you keep holding out hope that this thing might get better, because by your own admission, this thing is being masterminded by the mindless. Pretty much every single concept that these guys have about the characters and what they stand for is 100-percent wrong, and what's even worse is that, as you yourself have repeatedly conceded, their "logic" doesn't even make sense on its own terms. I mean, for fuck's sake, as much as I hated Chuck Austen's books, I never kept reading THOSE in the hope that they'd miraculously get better. You're SMARTER than that.
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Post by K-Box on Sept 27, 2008 14:24:33 GMT -8
Not only was this a guy who never stopped being a great actor, he never stopped being a great human being. While other celebrities like to talk mad shit about doing things for the world, this bad-ass motherfucker gave $240 MILLION to charity in his lifetime, and was so politically active that he made Richard Nixon's enemies list, both of which are about as ringing endorsements for his essential decency as anyone could hope for. Other dudes try to be cool, but Paul Newman showed, time and again, that the definition of cool is that you don't have to try, because you just are. And now, he's gone.
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Post by K-Box on Sept 27, 2008 3:34:04 GMT -8
How they did: Views from the other side of the aisle Now, sure, a couple of preliminary polls have shown that majorities of those polled thus far thought that Obama beat McCain in their first debate, but let's not forget, I am a filthy liberal, who's inclined to seek out filthy liberal media that fits my confirmation bias, so let's refer instead to that vast bastion of "fair and balanced" reporting, FOX News, to see what their pool of undecided voters thought about the two candidates' respective debate performances, which would surely refute my own biased take on the same - Oh. Well, damn. But, hey, those are just undecided voters! It's not like they matter, even though Republicans can't possibly win this year without winning over a majority of them! Surely, the conservative pundits who watched the debate have a much more favorable impression of McCain's performance! Why, let's ask American Spectator writer Quin Hillyer, who will no doubt tell us how badly Obama lost - Wait, what's that? ... Oh, shit. Obama WonPosted By: Quin HillyerTwo caveats: First, because of some incredibly bad transportation luck, I missed the first 17 minutes of the debate, so if there were knock-out blows during those 17 minutes, I missed them. Second, I cheated: I watched very closely the CNN response dial. The dial clearly showed that Obama won. And the dial matched my impressions. Obama stood toe to toe with McCain on foreign policy -- McCain was right, and Obama was wrong, but I always put myself in the role of Rip Van Winkle who knows nothing of the past 20 years and thus is totally open to being convinced, and I thought Obama was at LEAST as convincing to the unknowledgeable -- and not only stood toe to toe, but seemed far more likeable, far more gracious, and far more forward-looking. McCain showed deep knowledge, but it was all backwards looking. Obama sounded almost as knowledgeable, and far more reasonable in outlook and temperament. McCain missed numerous chances to explain that IF he had been listened to in 2003, we would ALREADY have won in Iraq, and would be thus able to have moved on. Instead, he briefly mentioned that he was right in 2003, but then dropped it, and then kept repeating the same things again and again about the surge.This last was important. Both men did well on the CNN viewer dials almost throughout. McCain consistently scored probably about a 5.8 or a 6 on a 10-point scale. Obama consistently scored about 6.5 or so (these precise numbers are my visual judgments from watching TV; obviously, they are falsely precise: I don't have the actual stats.). But toward the end, when McCain changed the subject to RETURN, unbidden, to Iraq and the surge, it was the only time all night where either candidate received EXTENDED response below the midline (5 out of 10). He sounded cranky, off topic, and so repetitive that it had become tiresome.Obama actually won style points by repeatedly noting topics on which he agreed with McCain or credited him. This is a year when the public is absolutely sick of nastiness and wants evidence that somebody can lower the volume of discord. McCain might have the record of reaching across the aisle, but Obama has the style -- and got that point across tonight brilliantly, just by his attitude. Conversely, McCain did well once or twice to say that Obama "just doesn't understand." But when he did it a sixth or seventh time, it sounded mean and condescending.Frankly, I was surprised. Just in the last 12 hours I had begun grudgingly crediting McCain because I thought that his gambit of sticking his nose into the bailout negotiations had actually turned out to be surprisingly helpful, in that it got the House conservatives a hearing at the table in a way they would not have had. I predicted at about 6:30 to a colleague that McCain would find a way to rattle Obama tonight; I had one of my "gut feelings," like the one I had before the Ryder Cup (correctly in the case of the Cup), that McCain would have a trap for Obama or would goad him into a sound-bite mistake. I was wrong. Overall, despite my criticisms, McCain did okay tonight; I think most Americans would be at least semi-comfortable with him as president. But McCain did NOT knock Obama off stride and Obama was more likeable and quite sufficiently competent-seeming. Obama started the night ahead in the polls, and I think he extended his advantage in the debate.
Ladies and gentlemen: Welcome to Kennedy Versus Nixon, The 48-Years-Later Remake.
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Post by K-Box on Sept 27, 2008 1:40:04 GMT -8
So ... how did they do? Take two: From TPM Election Central at Talking Points Memo: Initial Polls Show Obama Winning The DebateBy Greg Sargent and Eric Kleefeld - September 27, 2008, 12:21PM Okay, we thought that McCain had a slight upper hand tonight (though we also said it wasn't a game changer, which is basically another way of saying that McCain didn't do what he had to). But the initial polls suggest that viewers give the nod to Obama in a big way. Here's the CNN poll, conducted among debate-watchers: Regardless of which candidate you happen to support, who do you think did the best job in the debate -- Barack Obama or John McCain?Obama 51% McCain 38% Did _______ do a better or worse job than you expected?Obama: Better 57%, Worse 20%, Same 23% McCain: Better 60%, Worse 20%, Same 18% Next, regardless of which presidential candidate you support, please tell me if you think Barack Obama or John McCain would better handle each of the following issues:- The war in Iraq: Obama 52%, McCain 47%
- Terrorism: McCain 49%, Obama 45%
- The economy: Obama 58%, McCain 37%
- The current financial crisis: Obama 54%, McCain 36%
Thinking about the following characteristics and qualities, please say whether you think each one better described Barack Obama or John McCain during tonight's debate:- Was more intelligent: Obama 55%, McCain 30%
- Expressed his views more clearly: Obama 53%, McCain 36%
- Spent more time attacking his opponent: McCain 60%, Obama 23%
- Was more sincere and authentic: Obama 46%, McCain 38%
- Seemed to be the stronger leader: Obama 49%, McCain 43%
- Was more likeable: Obama 61%, McCain 26%
- Was more in touch with the needs and problems of people like you: Obama 62%, McCain 32%
Based on what _______ said and did in tonight's debate, do you think he would be able to handle the job of president if he is elected?Obama 69%-29% McCain 68%-30% And the numbers released so far from the CBS poll of undecided debate-watchers: 39% said Obama won, 25% said McCain won, and 36% said it was a draw. Forty-six percent said their opinions of Obama went up, compared to only 31% who said the same about McCain. On the economy, 66% said Obama would make the right decisions, compared to 44% who said the same for McCain.
By any objective standard, this is a deeply ugly spread for McCain. Aside from "Terrorism," in which he now boasts ONLY a 4-point advantage, his ONLY "win" over Obama in this debate was in the category of "Spent more time attacking his opponent," which pretty much constitutes the definition of a Pyrrhic victory.
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Post by K-Box on Sept 26, 2008 19:51:14 GMT -8
So ... how did they do? __________ Early Poll Results Suggest More Uncommitted Voters Saw Obama As Debate WinnerCBS News and Knowledge Networks conducted a nationally representative poll of approximately 500 uncommitted voters reacting to the debate in the minutes after it happened. These figures are still preliminary and could change as more respondents complete the survey. But here's what we have so far: Forty percent of uncommitted voters who watched the debate tonight thought Barack Obama was the winner. Twenty-two percent thought John McCain won. Thirty-eight percent saw it as a draw. Forty-six percent of uncommitted voters said their opinion of Obama got better tonight.Sixty-eight percent of uncommitted voters think Obama would make the right decisions about the economy. Forty-one percent think McCain would. Forty-nine percent of these voters think Obama would make the right decisions about Iraq. Fifty-five percent think McCain would. We will have a full report on the poll later on. Uncommitted voters are those who don't yet know who they will vote for, or who have chosen a candidate but may still change their minds. __________ More to come later on, no doubt ...
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