George W. Bush just flipped the coin for the first game at the new Cowboys Stadium. How can this be? Barack Obama is the first president to like sports! I know this because ESPN has told me so! Surely, there can only be one explanation. Jerry Jones is racist.
Sarcasm meters on high, please.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Can I Get Something Off My Chest?
Obama's first pitch Tuesday night sucked. No two ways about it.
Do you know how you can tell it sucked? Because ESPN has spent the last three days replaying it over and over again, and talking about how great it was. I have seen some first pitches in my life, and that one took the taco for bad first pitches. William Howard Taft, the first president to throw out a pitch, must be rolling over in his grave at the thought of how awful the pitch was.
Let's break it down:
1) The delivery: Awful. Clunky and ungraceful. Obama can speech with the best of 'em. His windup, on the other hand, is awful. And don't give me the excuse of a bulletproof vest. GWB and Reagan threw strikes wearing them, and both of them from the rubber, not the foot of the mound.
2) The result: Albert Pujols sat right on top of the plate. He had to move to keep the ball from bouncing in front of him.
3) Cominsky Field. I can forgive the misproununciation of the name (Comiskey, but southsiders say it like that). It hearkens back to Jeff Gordon's awful "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"...in which he referred to Wrigley Stadium. Say it with me, Dear Leader: Comiskey Park.
4) The "Obama as Regular Joe" story. I hate these. Somehow, being a sports fan is unique? Did no other president like sports? I mean, other than Reagan, Ford, Nixon, Kennedy, Eisenhower (all college football players), GHW Bush (Gold Glove baseball player at Yale), Carter (High school basketball star), and GWB (former baseball owner) there's not a president in recent memory who loved sports like Obama! Spare me. The man's spent some time talking about the BCS! He's just like you and me! Gag.
One more reason to hate the worldwide brainwasher.
Do you know how you can tell it sucked? Because ESPN has spent the last three days replaying it over and over again, and talking about how great it was. I have seen some first pitches in my life, and that one took the taco for bad first pitches. William Howard Taft, the first president to throw out a pitch, must be rolling over in his grave at the thought of how awful the pitch was.
Let's break it down:
1) The delivery: Awful. Clunky and ungraceful. Obama can speech with the best of 'em. His windup, on the other hand, is awful. And don't give me the excuse of a bulletproof vest. GWB and Reagan threw strikes wearing them, and both of them from the rubber, not the foot of the mound.
2) The result: Albert Pujols sat right on top of the plate. He had to move to keep the ball from bouncing in front of him.
3) Cominsky Field. I can forgive the misproununciation of the name (Comiskey, but southsiders say it like that). It hearkens back to Jeff Gordon's awful "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"...in which he referred to Wrigley Stadium. Say it with me, Dear Leader: Comiskey Park.
4) The "Obama as Regular Joe" story. I hate these. Somehow, being a sports fan is unique? Did no other president like sports? I mean, other than Reagan, Ford, Nixon, Kennedy, Eisenhower (all college football players), GHW Bush (Gold Glove baseball player at Yale), Carter (High school basketball star), and GWB (former baseball owner) there's not a president in recent memory who loved sports like Obama! Spare me. The man's spent some time talking about the BCS! He's just like you and me! Gag.
One more reason to hate the worldwide brainwasher.
Monday, March 2, 2009
If I May Rebut Davy and Nash
Have you guys ever given consideration to the fact that people are leaving the Democrat party these days because the guys in charge are such a bunch of obnoxious jerks?
You've got the Speekah, Samson, the Godfather...not to mention the leadership of the Black Caucus, who are about as polite as a rabid wolverine and as helpful as the IRS. And we haven't even gotten to the Golden Boy, who might not be able to get elected the most popular guy in a phone booth. Maybe Nash and Davy should look at that factor before they bash anyone for leaving the party.
You've got the Speekah, Samson, the Godfather...not to mention the leadership of the Black Caucus, who are about as polite as a rabid wolverine and as helpful as the IRS. And we haven't even gotten to the Golden Boy, who might not be able to get elected the most popular guy in a phone booth. Maybe Nash and Davy should look at that factor before they bash anyone for leaving the party.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Ah, Yes, Conversations on Race
Somehow, I don't think that this will be making its way into General Holder's conversations with us cowardly types.
http://www.newsmax.com/us/congressman_recall/2009/02/20/183880.html
Joseph Cao is a great American story. He's come from nothing to represent New Orleans in Washington, which is something that he probably never envisioned as a child. Its a shame that because he doesn't share the same characteristics as Dolla Bill Jefferson-he of the famous "Cold Cash" incident-that some of the bitter-enders would have him removed.
I earnestly await Bill Minor's column denouncing this. Somehow, my hopes will be dashed.
http://www.newsmax.com/us/congressman_recall/2009/02/20/183880.html
Joseph Cao is a great American story. He's come from nothing to represent New Orleans in Washington, which is something that he probably never envisioned as a child. Its a shame that because he doesn't share the same characteristics as Dolla Bill Jefferson-he of the famous "Cold Cash" incident-that some of the bitter-enders would have him removed.
I earnestly await Bill Minor's column denouncing this. Somehow, my hopes will be dashed.
Of Bill Minor, Eric Holder, and All Us Cowards
We're all cowards when it comes to a conversation about race, says the Attorney General.
Nobody wants to talk about it, he says. When he says nobody, I assume he means, much like his boss, something else. See, "Nobody" is code for "none of you people." Eric Holder and many with beliefs like him desperately want to have a conversation about race. But the Attorney General and I define conversation differently.
Which brings me to the dinosaur of Mississippi political writers, the somewhat-lucid Bill Minor.
His columns recently have been the typical Minor Race Columns, which blame white, conservative Mississippians for just about every racial problem (and that's being kind-usually, he blames us for problems outside the state too) in the state while giving a pass to anyone of his political inclinations. He ignores fellow fossil David Jordan, a Senator from the Delta, who recently remarked that voter ID was only supported by those whose ancestors owned slaves, and others (white and black) of a similar ideological bent.
Because of this, I figured out what General Holder's idea of a conversation about race is.
See, the Eric Holders of the world, along with the Bill Minors, when he's not chasing down Karl Rove in seedy Biloxi parking garages, get to tell all of us why we're evil racists, and we get to sit there and listen to them. That's what a conversation with Eric Holder and Bill Minor would be like.
And frankly, its a conversation we've been having for a long time. See, the only reason Eric Holder thinks we're 'cowards' for not incessantly talking about race is because most of us, when its brought up, know the lecture is coming. So pardon us regular, non-enlightened folk, General Holder and Mr. Minor, for wanting to bow out. I finished taking lectures when the degree hit my hand. Lectures are for little children who screw up and people who don't know better. I'm neither.
Nobody wants to talk about it, he says. When he says nobody, I assume he means, much like his boss, something else. See, "Nobody" is code for "none of you people." Eric Holder and many with beliefs like him desperately want to have a conversation about race. But the Attorney General and I define conversation differently.
Which brings me to the dinosaur of Mississippi political writers, the somewhat-lucid Bill Minor.
His columns recently have been the typical Minor Race Columns, which blame white, conservative Mississippians for just about every racial problem (and that's being kind-usually, he blames us for problems outside the state too) in the state while giving a pass to anyone of his political inclinations. He ignores fellow fossil David Jordan, a Senator from the Delta, who recently remarked that voter ID was only supported by those whose ancestors owned slaves, and others (white and black) of a similar ideological bent.
Because of this, I figured out what General Holder's idea of a conversation about race is.
See, the Eric Holders of the world, along with the Bill Minors, when he's not chasing down Karl Rove in seedy Biloxi parking garages, get to tell all of us why we're evil racists, and we get to sit there and listen to them. That's what a conversation with Eric Holder and Bill Minor would be like.
And frankly, its a conversation we've been having for a long time. See, the only reason Eric Holder thinks we're 'cowards' for not incessantly talking about race is because most of us, when its brought up, know the lecture is coming. So pardon us regular, non-enlightened folk, General Holder and Mr. Minor, for wanting to bow out. I finished taking lectures when the degree hit my hand. Lectures are for little children who screw up and people who don't know better. I'm neither.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Congratulations Pittsburgh Steelers....
You get to do what every team dreamed about in the heat of July and August, the pinnacle of your profession. Nay, the pinnacle of the human experience. It might be the greatest feeling in the world. All the hours of film study, the grueling sprints, the aching arms after lifting weights, the blood spilled in the trenches, and the long hours recovering....
You get to meet Barack Obama!
Yeah, he wasn't president yet when you got to camp, or when you signed your contract. But despite the fact that you are paid well for playing a game (in fact, even the lowest paid member of the team makes more than Barry), and that you are living out your lifelong dream of playing in the NFL and being part of its best team, the real highlight of the long, grueling, 20-week NFL season is that sometime in the summer, you will get an audience with the One. Perhaps he will even shake your hand! Its enough to send a tingle up your leg a la Chris Matthews.
Thank you, SI.com, for giving us this great insight into the mental workings of a 10-year-old girl with her first crush.
You get to meet Barack Obama!
Yeah, he wasn't president yet when you got to camp, or when you signed your contract. But despite the fact that you are paid well for playing a game (in fact, even the lowest paid member of the team makes more than Barry), and that you are living out your lifelong dream of playing in the NFL and being part of its best team, the real highlight of the long, grueling, 20-week NFL season is that sometime in the summer, you will get an audience with the One. Perhaps he will even shake your hand! Its enough to send a tingle up your leg a la Chris Matthews.
Thank you, SI.com, for giving us this great insight into the mental workings of a 10-year-old girl with her first crush.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
All The News That's Fit to Sip Lattes To
I opened up the Daily Journal website and it seems that Starbucks, which charges unreasonable prices for coffee and then gives it strange names, has decided to cut costs (since, after all, in this economy, $4 for a coffee is a luxury).
Yes, it sucks for anyone who works at Starbucks. But somebody should have seen this coming.
The big question is, why is this worthy of an update along with the Stimulus, a cigarette tax hike, and the oddity that is a deer going through a Pizza Hut window?
Because it will cause a disruption in the lifestyles of the Daily Journal staff! They might have to go into a convenience store to get coffee with the unwashed masses. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a real economic tragedy.
Yes, it sucks for anyone who works at Starbucks. But somebody should have seen this coming.
The big question is, why is this worthy of an update along with the Stimulus, a cigarette tax hike, and the oddity that is a deer going through a Pizza Hut window?
Because it will cause a disruption in the lifestyles of the Daily Journal staff! They might have to go into a convenience store to get coffee with the unwashed masses. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a real economic tragedy.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
I Have Learned So Much Today
Today, I learned that it's ok to be proud of your country.
How do I know this? ESPN is covering the inauguration. As you know, Constant Readers, I just loooove when the Worldwide Brainwasher gets into the political arena. I love it as much as I love mixing wine with beer. Interviews abound!
But hey, everything is now ok. America is good again! You can wave a flag that's not upside down! Hollywood can once again make movies about how good Americans are! George Clooney can play a government operative who isn't a slimeball! The world loves us again! The president likes sports! HE'S JUST LIKE YOU AND ME!
(On the last one: Rome, you're a dummy. "How nice is it to have a president who is a sports fan in office?" Um, did you forget the years that GWB OWNED the Texas Rangers? How about Bill Clinton's numerous bits on your own network about his love for sports, especially pickup basketball? What about college baseball player George H. W. Bush? Or former college football players Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and John Kennedy? What about former All-American football player Gerald Ford? High school basketball star Jimmy Carter? How many presidents aren't sports fans? The fellatio has reached a new level of stupidity.)
Worship and adore him.
How do I know this? ESPN is covering the inauguration. As you know, Constant Readers, I just loooove when the Worldwide Brainwasher gets into the political arena. I love it as much as I love mixing wine with beer. Interviews abound!
But hey, everything is now ok. America is good again! You can wave a flag that's not upside down! Hollywood can once again make movies about how good Americans are! George Clooney can play a government operative who isn't a slimeball! The world loves us again! The president likes sports! HE'S JUST LIKE YOU AND ME!
(On the last one: Rome, you're a dummy. "How nice is it to have a president who is a sports fan in office?" Um, did you forget the years that GWB OWNED the Texas Rangers? How about Bill Clinton's numerous bits on your own network about his love for sports, especially pickup basketball? What about college baseball player George H. W. Bush? Or former college football players Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and John Kennedy? What about former All-American football player Gerald Ford? High school basketball star Jimmy Carter? How many presidents aren't sports fans? The fellatio has reached a new level of stupidity.)
Worship and adore him.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Parental Tunnel Vision...A Case Study
Recently Bill Minor banged out a column in between his electroshock therapy sessions about the corruption in Mississippi's politics. Now anyone who has read Bill Minor since...well, back when Fred Flintstone was driving around knows the contempt he has for pretty much the entire state. To say that he wishes everyone who disagrees with him would get washed into the Gulf wouldn't be too much of a stretch. If he ever wrote a column that wasn't dripping with hate for the state and its people, I think his head and mine would explode.
Anyway, he wrote the column. And of course it brought up most of the public corruption in his lifetime. Of course, one bit of corruption wasn't mentioned.
The piles and piles of lawyers who have gone down in the last 18 months. Specifically...one Paul Minor.
But then again, we all know they were innocent victims of Karl Rove, right Bill?
Anyway, he wrote the column. And of course it brought up most of the public corruption in his lifetime. Of course, one bit of corruption wasn't mentioned.
The piles and piles of lawyers who have gone down in the last 18 months. Specifically...one Paul Minor.
But then again, we all know they were innocent victims of Karl Rove, right Bill?
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Blago Going Down
UPDATE: It seems (thanks to the fine folks at NRO for pointing this out) that unlike Mississippi, there is no law in Illinios preventing the governor from running the state from outside of it. So Blago could skip off to Rio and still legally appoint Barry's successor.
I'm not going to attempt to spell the Governor of Illinois' name.
But here we are a month and change (change hope change!) from the election, and one thing has stayed constant: Illinois politicians going to prison.
Oh sure, Blago isn't convicted yet, but its about as open-and-shut as Charles Manson's case. Add to it the fact that the President-Elect's senate seat was for sale, with a cast of thousands participating (including Jesse Jackson, Jr and Emil Jones, the political benefactor of a certain former Illinois state senator), the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago Tribune, the team's parent company, the promise of being named a Cabinet secretary, and the shaking down of a Children's Hospital (but its for the children!), and this is wonderful political theatre.
Barry Messiah, President-Elect, calls it saddening. Yeah, pretty sad that a good friend of yours goes down after calling you everything but a child of God while trying to auction off your old job for six- and seven-figures. I mean, can he not muster righteous indignation when he realizes he's been duped by Blago? And being called a...well, come on. You can get pissed. Nobody will blame you.
Patrick Fitzgerald, when can you get to Jackson? It seems we need someone who'll actually investigate corruption from public officials, and how they shake down folks for money. I can think of someone who'd hate to say "Hello, Darlin'" to you.
People wondered why he kept appointing Clintonites for Cabinet posts. They're choirboys compared to the cesspool of Chicago politics...the one that Barry Obama, President-Elect, emerged from.
I'm not going to attempt to spell the Governor of Illinois' name.
But here we are a month and change (change hope change!) from the election, and one thing has stayed constant: Illinois politicians going to prison.
Oh sure, Blago isn't convicted yet, but its about as open-and-shut as Charles Manson's case. Add to it the fact that the President-Elect's senate seat was for sale, with a cast of thousands participating (including Jesse Jackson, Jr and Emil Jones, the political benefactor of a certain former Illinois state senator), the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago Tribune, the team's parent company, the promise of being named a Cabinet secretary, and the shaking down of a Children's Hospital (but its for the children!), and this is wonderful political theatre.
Barry Messiah, President-Elect, calls it saddening. Yeah, pretty sad that a good friend of yours goes down after calling you everything but a child of God while trying to auction off your old job for six- and seven-figures. I mean, can he not muster righteous indignation when he realizes he's been duped by Blago? And being called a...well, come on. You can get pissed. Nobody will blame you.
Patrick Fitzgerald, when can you get to Jackson? It seems we need someone who'll actually investigate corruption from public officials, and how they shake down folks for money. I can think of someone who'd hate to say "Hello, Darlin'" to you.
People wondered why he kept appointing Clintonites for Cabinet posts. They're choirboys compared to the cesspool of Chicago politics...the one that Barry Obama, President-Elect, emerged from.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Vera Baker.
Who is Vera Baker? Listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUZwnBhRds
Things that make you go...hmmm. I'd say this was out of character for Obama, but after you've been made out to be a strange combination of Jesus Christ, Dr. Phil and Superman, it's hard not to think that you might engage in something of that nature.
But then again, I bet Michelle can get old quick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUZwnBhRds
Things that make you go...hmmm. I'd say this was out of character for Obama, but after you've been made out to be a strange combination of Jesus Christ, Dr. Phil and Superman, it's hard not to think that you might engage in something of that nature.
But then again, I bet Michelle can get old quick.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Since You Won't See It On CNN or MSNBC
Apparently John Galt has donated to the Obama campaign. Why is this newsworthy, you ask?
John Galt is a character in an Ayn Rand novel.
The Obama campaign has been taking donations from people who don't exist, with fake addresses, but from the same credit card, in its online fundraising. Apparently they have disabled any and all security for this kind of thing on their website (this was the case earlier in the day).
How much of last months $150 million that he raked in will have to be sent back? How many people donated multiple times? Why is there no media investigation?
I can't answer the first two but the third is pretty obvious.
National Review has been all over this today. Check this out on NRO.
John Galt is a character in an Ayn Rand novel.
The Obama campaign has been taking donations from people who don't exist, with fake addresses, but from the same credit card, in its online fundraising. Apparently they have disabled any and all security for this kind of thing on their website (this was the case earlier in the day).
How much of last months $150 million that he raked in will have to be sent back? How many people donated multiple times? Why is there no media investigation?
I can't answer the first two but the third is pretty obvious.
National Review has been all over this today. Check this out on NRO.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
From Jim Treacher...
Some possible questions from Gwen Ifill, so totally not invested in Barack Obama's victory and impartial moderator of Thursdays Veep Debate:
http://jimtreacher.com/archives/001643.html
http://jimtreacher.com/archives/001643.html
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Biden Speaks Again...
"The fact of the matter is, the only thing succeeding in Iraq right now is the plan that Barack and I talked about that Petraeus is implementing -- giving local control in the very areas with a limited central government."
So when was the complete pullout started? Did I miss this? When did Iraq get divided into three ethnic states?
Lies, damned lies, but no statistics. Woe be unto the press member who reports this Plugs whopper.
So when was the complete pullout started? Did I miss this? When did Iraq get divided into three ethnic states?
Lies, damned lies, but no statistics. Woe be unto the press member who reports this Plugs whopper.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Since the JFP wants to complain...
The lack of a partisan marker on the ballots for Senate, perhaps they'd like to read this little nugget about a special election on the coast.
Yes, that's right: Special elections in Mississippi come with no partisan label. At least until our Intrepid Attorney General decides that they need one. They didn't have a problem with no ID on them for Snidely. Why now?
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080924/NEWS04/80924012/1002/newsfrnt
Yes, that's right: Special elections in Mississippi come with no partisan label. At least until our Intrepid Attorney General decides that they need one. They didn't have a problem with no ID on them for Snidely. Why now?
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080924/NEWS04/80924012/1002/newsfrnt
If They Do Cancel the Debates...
Maybe Joe Biden, after the week he's had, can simply fill in for both candidates.
Seriously, Plugs needs to figure it out. First he's for coal in Virginia, then against it in Pennsylvania (shouldn't he maybe remember, since he was born in Scranton-what, haven't you heard?-that coal is big in Western PA?). Then the Obama ads on McCain's age and injuries were terrible. Then there was his helicopter adventure in Afghanistan that wasn't. Then there was his meanderings about President Roosevelt (1933-45) going on TV in 1929 (when TV wasn't commercially available).
Thanks for putting Plugs in there, Barry.
Seriously, Plugs needs to figure it out. First he's for coal in Virginia, then against it in Pennsylvania (shouldn't he maybe remember, since he was born in Scranton-what, haven't you heard?-that coal is big in Western PA?). Then the Obama ads on McCain's age and injuries were terrible. Then there was his helicopter adventure in Afghanistan that wasn't. Then there was his meanderings about President Roosevelt (1933-45) going on TV in 1929 (when TV wasn't commercially available).
Thanks for putting Plugs in there, Barry.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
I Almost Forgot...
I have to correct Charlie Mitchell about something he wrote in his column a few days ago.
In it, he says that George Bush used the term strategery. It's not true (I read it on Wiki!). George Bush wasn't the first to use the word. It wasn't used by a real president, but a fake one.
You know, the kind that does outrageously stupid things.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
A Preview of Things To Come?
Item #1: Obama supporters, thanks to the "Obama Action Wire," a part of Team Barry, floods WGN Radio in Chicago, complaining about an author, David Freddoso of National Review, hoping to silence him on a venerable radio show:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama-mediasep17,0,6325137.story
Item #2: North Korea is developing an engine for an ICBM capable of hitting targets on the Pacific Coast of the US. Remember, Barry opposes "unproven missile defense systems." He lumps them in with "misguided defense policies." He also wants to slow the growth of new weapons systems. He wants to get rid of all nuclear weapons. He also loves unicorns, too, I'm sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama-mediasep17,0,6325137.story
Item #2: North Korea is developing an engine for an ICBM capable of hitting targets on the Pacific Coast of the US. Remember, Barry opposes "unproven missile defense systems." He lumps them in with "misguided defense policies." He also wants to slow the growth of new weapons systems. He wants to get rid of all nuclear weapons. He also loves unicorns, too, I'm sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
I Noticed on MSN This Morning
That the headline read: Obama attacked over 'lipstick' remark, or some such triviality.
Because, of course, the whole issue here is that Obama is attacked, not that he might have called a woman a pig (How did Michelle ever resist this smooth-talking man and his many charming phrases?) and compared a senior citizen to an old fish.
Thanks, Matthews/Olbermann/Et al.
UPDATERY: Never throw your opponent a life preserver when he's drowning:
Because, of course, the whole issue here is that Obama is attacked, not that he might have called a woman a pig (How did Michelle ever resist this smooth-talking man and his many charming phrases?) and compared a senior citizen to an old fish.
Thanks, Matthews/Olbermann/Et al.
UPDATERY: Never throw your opponent a life preserver when he's drowning:
Someone should tell him that a good, "Huh. Whatever," would go over tons better. On second thought, don't. I love watching them flail.Barack Obama responded Wednesday to the John McCain campaign's call for an apology concerning his "lipstick on a pig" remarks, by calling the controversy "phony and foolish" and defending it as an "innocent remark" that was taken out of context.
Obama said his comment was meant to compare the policies of McCain to those of President Bush, and was in no way a reference to Republican vice presidential Sarah Palin.
Obama accused the McCain campaign of "lies and phony outrage” and "Swift-boat politics." He said the "made-up controversy" was "cat nip for the news media."
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