Owner: how far from the pack have you strayed? URL:http://thingsthatarenotwrong.blogspot.com/ Join Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:33:03 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: the observations of a somewhat well-educated and curious student of american history who reads and views more media than he really should. all of that, and hopefully he is able to bring the funny every now and then. Site statistics:Click here
robert novak: douchebag of liberty 2007-03-24 15:40:00 wow. he is still saying that valerine plame was not a covert agent when he outed her in 2003. one last time bob: she was a frickin covert agent. she said so. under oath. there's piles of proof. it must be that the facts have a left-wing bias, so we should believe you instead. right bob?next he'll be claiming that there were weapons of mass destruction...this man is just a huge right-wing tool, no ifs, ands, or buts. Read more:douchebag
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fact-checking the edwards announcement 2007-03-25 23:06:00 politico.com at 12:28 on march 22nd:two minutes later:someone needs to go back and retake journalism 101 or at least learn how to use the word "unconfirmed." Read more:checking
army recruiting: peter pace style 2007-03-27 14:47:00 here's a little story of a kid looking for a job online who ended up getting bigoted, hateful e-mails from an army recruiter..."Corey Andrew had his profile and resume posted at Careerbuilder.com, and it caught the eye of Army recruiter Marcia Ramode, who contacted him. He wasn’t interested in a position in the military, particularly because of the ban on gays and lesbians in the military. When Andrew informed Ramode that he is gay, and believed that the DADT policy was wrong, the two engaged in a three-day email exchange that included statements by Ramode, in her official capacity as a recruiter, that boggle the mind."here are some excerpts fromt the e-mails the recruiter sent to mr. andrew:"GO BACK TO AFRICA AND DO YOUR GAY VOODOO LIMBO TANGO AND WANGO DANCE AND JUMP AROUND AND PRANCE AND RUN ALL OVER THE PLACE HALF NAKED THERE.”oh, where to begin with this one....again, the bumper sticker logic that freedom is not free. nice to know that team america-rationale has made it to th Read more:recruiting
devolved usler government date set 2007-03-27 02:56:00 this may not big big news on this side of the pond (what with the earth shattering anna nicole autopsy news), but a huge thing has happened in the seemingly never-to-get-off-the-ground peace process towards a devolved government in northern ireland. from the guardian:Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams sat side by side yesterday to announce they had reached agreement to share power from May 8 in a devolved Northern Ireland government.The appearance together of arch-enemies - delegations from the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin - in a televised statement at the end of a meeting in Stormont constitutes a watershed in the province's politics.The private negotiating session, lasting little more than an hour, was the first time the two parties had held direct talks. It enabled both sides to issue statements pledging political cooperation and the start of a new and peaceful era.now all that's left is to see if paisley (who was so wonderfully referred to as an irish cross between jerry f
shame on time magazine 2007-03-26 21:44:00 the u.s. and international covers of time this week:cause a non-debate about the bible (so sexy) is much more important that, ya know, the revival of the political entity that was responsible for 9/11. shame
on time. shame.
tom delay: "liberals have finally joined the ranks of scoundrels like hitler" 2007-03-28 22:31:00 former rep. tom delay (r-tx-indicted) has a new book called no retreat, no surrender. and again, another idiot (delay) has brought the nazis into their argument. as i have said before, the second you start using comparisons with the nazis in your arguments, you automatically lose your argument.keith did a outstanding special comment on delay:
our long national nightmare is over 2007-03-28 22:17:00 the anna nicole smith saga (aka, all that fox noise channel has covered the last few weeks) has finally concluded (i hope) with the release of the official autopsy of her death. accidental drug overdose. you don't say. anyway, the reason i am even blogging about this is because the autopsy says her "anus is unremarkable." funny as this is, i gotta ask, what would constitute "a remarkable anus?" or do i really not want to know....
"was there a spread on this in 'republican vogue'?" 2007-03-30 14:22:00 the top ten % of u.s. income earners have reached a level of income not seen since 1928? oh, so we have nothing to worry about. it's not like there were any huge financial disasters anytime soon after 1928...The income gap between rich and poor in the United States has increased significantly, The New York Times online edition reported Thursday. According to the report, new analyses of 2005 tax data shows that the top 300,000 Americans collectively enjoyed almost as much income as the bottom 150 million Americans.Per person, the top group received 440 times as much as the average person in the bottom half earned, nearly doubling the gap from 1980....While total reported income in the US increased almost 9 per cent in 2005, the most recent year for which such data is available, average incomes for those in the bottom 90 per cent dipped slightly compared with the year before, dropping 172 dollars, or 0.6 percent. According to the report, the gains went largely to the top 1 percent, whos Read more:vogue
limbaugh: criticism of alberto gonzales is racism? 2007-03-31 01:26:00 keith hit the nail on the head in pointing out the delicious hypocrisy of limbaugh accusing almost anyone of racism during his 'worst person in the world' segment last night:And the winner: Comedian Rush Limbaugh. Claiming criticism of Attorney General Gonzales... is racism."So you have the first Hispanic-American attorney general -- a minority -- under fire by white liberal racists in the Senate."Like Senator Salazar? Senator Salazar is racist against Hispanics? This froma guy who insisted Liberals were exaggerating DonovanMcNabb's skills because they wanted to see a black quarterback succeed... This from a guy who has happily called Barack Obama a quote "Halfrican-American."Comedian Rush Limbaugh: Today's Worst Person In The World.
nfl coach hated as much as hitler? 2007-03-31 01:16:00 wow...another idiot nazi reference this week, and this time it comes from the world of pro football. ny giants coach tom coughlin is apparently not too popular, but i would imagine his saying that he is hated almost as much as hitler may make him even more unpopular. coughlin said that as far as popular went, it was "Hitler and then me, in that order. Unfortunate, but it is." we agree on one thing. your choice of words mr. coughlin is most unfortunate. stupid and unfortunate.
the weiner savage on 9/11 2007-04-02 16:37:00 michael savage (real name michael alan weiner, so you see why he changed it) has always been a loon of the uber-far right, but this latest rant may just take the crazy cake. a little while ago, he blamed columbine on sex-change operations. riiiiiiiiiight. now, he takes it a step further down crazy road and pulls the falwell-esque "god caused 9/11" argument together with his apparent obsession with gays and sex-change operations. from mediamatters.com:So-called post-Christian times. The churches are emptying out, the bathhouses are filling up, the sex-change operations are speeding up, the lesbian fertility clinics are increasing around the country. And the country is on the verge of an insane breakdown....Now, you come to a point where the spiritual vacuum has emerged in the United States of America. Enter the vacuum are very religious Muslims. They don't like the stuff that I don't like, frankly. The very same things that offend me, offend them. That's the strangest part of
darth cheney lies in wait... 2007-04-05 01:22:00 "ok mr. president...i'll be right over here watching very closely..." if that isn't the creepiest photo...and quite an accurate metaphor for the administration.
it's better than "the hills have eyes 3" 2007-04-04 16:09:00 coming soon to a multiplex near you, a film on the national nightmare that was the hanging chad and the stolen 2000 election in flordia:The botched Florida election that put George Bush in the White House and introduced the world to the butterfly ballot and the hanging chad is to be immortalised by Hollywood.Oscar winner Sydney Pollack has been hired to direct the film Recount, which will look at events in the Sunshine State during the weeks after the controversial 2000 presidential election, in which 175,000 Floridians saw their votes rejected and Bush was declared the winner over Al Gore by a 537-vote margin.still, i'm not holding out much hope considering that last two films of mr. pollack i have seen were "the interpreter" and "random hearts" (gag). Read more:better
lawrence dennis: black facist? 2007-04-04 15:59:00 dennis was one of the most well-known members of the american pro-facist movement in the 30s and 40s, and often argued that the germans should treat the jews like americans treated blacks. why i am mentioning dennis? well, a new book has come out with a bit of a bombshell about dennis: he was black. dennis "passed" as white while advocating pro-hitler/mussolini policies and associating with arch-segregationists of the day in the states. a great article on the new book and dennis's life can be found here.
steven weber on henry the, like, eighth 2007-04-05 17:20:00 steven weber, of studio 60 and wings, had some very spot-on comments about the current state of historical epics and the whole "who needs accuracy when we can look sexy" trend in historical tv and film, and he nicely ties it in to how we ended up with the bush administration. here's his great essay:Sexy, lanky, pouty Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays the sexy, lanky, pouty Henry the Eighth in the Showtime miniseries The Tudors. Not since Jennifer Love Hewitt's stunningly miscast but awesomely stacked portrayal of Audrey Hepburn has the grand gilt of history been roto-stripped and papered over with a new and improved veneer purchased in aisle 6 in a West Hollywood TargetIf The Tudors does what Showtime wants it to do, then we are certain to see an increase in production of quasi-historical epics featuring dumbed-down, beefed-up and tricked-out versions of their non-fictional inspirations. Already, the history-cum-video game 300 has whipped the box office into a steroid rage with its beefcak
rove: 35 years ago 2007-04-07 01:04:00 he even looked scheming and evil in 1972. and i'm not talking about dan rather.
happy easter to me! 2007-04-08 22:06:00 what better easter present than a brand new snow patrol song?! "signal fire" was written by the boys for the new spiderman movie and will be on the upcoming movie soundtrack.
let me see, that's about 3 kids a year 2007-04-10 19:54:00 the national journal made a boo-boo in their recent on-line piece about mothers in congress. a damn funny mistake. the graph gives bat-shit crazy congresswoman michele bachmann (r-mn) about 15 kids aged 13-18. that's republican family values for you.
it's official: ny's primary will matter this time 2007-04-10 15:02:00 yep, after all those years of being an electoral afterthought, our presidential primary here in the empire state will be happening far earlier next year (feb. 5th), and thus will not be happening after the nominee is all but officially chosen.Gov. Eliot Spitzer signed legislation Monday moving New York's presidential primary to Feb. 5, further setting the stage for a mid-winter political showdown that could leave Americans with the longest general election campaign ever. Parochially, the change could also benefit the Democratic and Republican front-runners, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, both New Yorkers. Nearly a dozen other states, including California and New Jersey, have already moved their primaries or caucuses to Feb. 5. A dozen more are considering such moves, setting the stage for what is quickly becoming known as "Super-Duper Tuesday" just 22 days after the leadoff Iowa caucuses. "Moving the primary date to February, we will help secure New York's large and dive Read more:matter
"happy boys voice"?...yeah, there's a clay aiken joke there somewhere 2007-04-10 14:41:00 from msnbc.com, the story of a sanitized american idol a la the people's republic of china. i'm sure mao would be soooooo proud. still, you couldn't pay me (unless you had a lot of cash to waste) to watch any version of the crapified talent show-format, especially the ones with dancing...but 'happy boys voice' is a pretty hilariously silly title for a show. i'm guessing something was lost in the translation...Tears, wild hair and unhealthy songs are banned when China’s latest version of“American Idol” goes on the air next month.“No weirdness, no vulgarity, no low taste,” the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television said Friday in a notice to the producers of “Happy Boys Voice,” according to the official Xinhua News Agency.The talent show, to be broadcast beginning May 1, is a sequel to the hugely popular TV contest “Super Girls Voice” in 2005, which drew more than 400 million viewers. The woman who won that contest became a popular singer in China.But
happy surrender day! 2007-04-10 06:01:00 hope everyone had a great surrender day! what? you say you don't know what surrender day is? well, it was on 9 april 1865 that robert e. lee surrendered the remnants of the army of northern virginia to general ulysses s. grant, thus formally ending the civil war. as a celebration, many reenactments, speeches, and dork-like notations by history dorks like myself are made all over the nation. additionally, throughout much of the south, the confederate flag is flown today at half mast. yes, really. some are still mourning their loss. still.
memo to guantanamo 2007-04-12 17:25:00 here are some ideas that don't completely ignore the geneva conventions and, ya know, human dignity...We Have Ways to Make You Talk.BY RALPH GAMELLI- - - -"How much do you think it would hurt if I were to take volume S of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and slam it shut on your nose?""This is my friend Ernst. He's German. He doesn't talk, but if he did, he'd speak with a thick German accent. Look at him. Look how German he is. 'Nuff said.""No one enjoys wet socks. You should know we have plenty of water. And socks.""See the items on this tray? You'll recognize them from your dentist's office. They tell me this one is the worst. They call it ... dental floss.""Mr. Shin, meet Mr. Steel-Toed Boot.""While it's true that sticks and stones will break your bones, everyone knows it's a fallacy that names will never hurt you. We've talked to some people from your past and know which names will cause the most pain, and we're prepared to use them.""We like to pinch.""Are you aware that Do Read more:guantanamo
final word on the imus thing 2007-04-14 00:34:00 i have heard many, many explantions/opinions/ arguments about the whole don imus thing, but none was as, dare i say, head on as keith's explantion last night after cbs radio canned imus:"Head On, a headache remedy designed to be applied directly to the forehead. Its manufacturers try to sell it with possibly the most obnoxious commercial of all time, in which the product's name is screamed repeatedly at the viewer. Wednesday night, Head On pulled its commercials from “Imus in the Morning.” When Head On thinks you are damaging its reputation, you can pretty much guess you are pretty much finished."
"signal fire" music video 2007-04-15 23:44:00 apparently, the patrol's "signal
fire" is going to a released single from the spiderman 3 soundtrack. that means it may even be on the radio...or so the kids tell me. thankfully, the music video
is not one of those glorified movie ad videos that just has clips of the movie. instead, we are treated to what looks like what a spiderman play at my grade school could have looked like if we actually had plays at my grade school (and a decent production budget).
how not to teach your dog to "sic him!" 2007-04-15 17:07:00 The Portuguese newspaper Diário de Notícias reported yesterday that a man bit a police officer following an argument over a "dangerous dog".The 35-year-old man was walking his Pit Bull Terrier in Cova da Moura on Sunday, 10:15 am, when two police officers stopped him for not having a harness and muzzle on his dog.The man refused to identify himself and proceeded to threaten the officers with his dog, turning the animal loose upon them. The dog ran away.The police officers then attempted to subdue the man who fought back, breaking one officer's finger and biting the other on the wrist. Both officers were treated at Amadora-Sintra Hospital, reports the Metropolitan Command Police.The man, who was arraigned in the Criminal Court of Lisbon yesterday, has been placed under house arrest while police continue to search for the missing pooch.
short thought on the virginia tech shootings 2007-04-17 03:54:00 the horrible events of today in virginia only elicited a short response from the president saying he was "shocked and saddened." personally, i wanted a lot more than this from the president, but i suppose i shouldn't be surprised. the real heroes are the kids and police on site in virginia who tried to help, and as i was thinking about it, i could not help but think of what another president said after 44 people were killed by a bomb at an american college:"The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight. They're our students and our teachers and our parents and our friends. The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels, but every time we think we have measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we're reminded that that capacity may well be limitless. This is a time for American heroes. We will do what is hard. We will achieve what is great. This is a time for American heroes and we reach for the stars. God bless their memory, God bless you and God bles Read more:thought
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