The Legacy Project

Bush had a Classic Press Conference today. His Delusion is truly remarkable. Rachel Maddow (godblessher) is devoting most of her show today to it, check it out on MSNBC.com or whatever, if you can. It's much easier to take with her playing a bit of the conference and then refuting it. Anyway, one of his more egregious comments is about his response to Hurricane Katrina. Here's the take at Crooks n Liars and it has a cartoon!

Anyway, of all the ridiculous things he said, he said this:

I've thought long and hard about Katrina -- you know, I could've done something differently, like land Air Force One in New Orleans or Baton Rouge.

He goes on to say that then the Media would castrate him if he Had landed his plane and had to divert police to his security rather than helping with the clean-up.

All of this begs the question, is Bush possibly MORE FUCKING DELUSIONAL THAN I THOUGHT??? How could he be, yet here it is. Hey, numb-nuts, the problem wasn't that you didn't land down there and blow-kisses or whatever it is you thought you could do. The Problem is that You Don't Take Government Seriously. Your job is to be the government and implement policies that, you know, help run things. When you give heading FEMA to Brownie the wonder idiot when SHIT goes down SHIT will Really go down. 

Government is a lumbering behemoth that runs very badly when it is run well. Giving control of it to people who think it serves NO purpose other than to provide their friends with cushy jobs does no one any good. And occasionally handing the government to an idiot will turn a major american city into the new Atlantis.

The Warming that is Global

So, this is sort of interesting.  So, apparently a few scientists think the world is heading into another ice age.  We are apparently in a Holocene period which is going to come to an End any time now, as it is only a brief 12,000 years long and then the Ice Age will continue for about 100,000 years. Now, predictably, a few Conservo Blogs are sort of excited with their told-you-soes and what now. Who doesn't like Told-You-Soes?

Now, admittedly I have not seen An Inconvenient Truth or any of that, so I will not claim to be an expert or even well-versed in all of this. Scientists seem to be in agreement for the most part so that seems good enough to me. However, I do think that a lot of the 'greening' type activities are annoying and there is a pretty healthy dose of hypocrisy (especially among the more vapid celebrities) involved in a lot of western efforts to 'combat' global warming. Our lifestyles are just not that green and are not likely to become so. Plus with countries like India and China on the rise and not giving two shits about the environment on their climb to the top I don't really see how we're going to stop this thing. 

However, the common conservative response to all of this is just ridiculous. Maybe people are hysterical for no reason, so what? Caring too much is better than not caring at all. A few people have to care a TON just to get the rest of us lazy asses to put a plastic bottle in the recycle bin. Yes, The Super-Greenies can be occasionally annoying, but they have a decent goal. A human goal. Essentially the Conservative position is My Trust Fund is more important than Your Clean Water. I mean, that's essentially it.  I guess that whole Cleanliness is next to Godliness thing  stops at the conservative armpit.

Not trashing the Earth is a good goal, it should be our goal. It should be a human goal to live more in Harmony with the planet (says the boy in NYC) than by destroying it and if you contribute to that effort you should be given credit. 

The Right is always complaining that the left are empty, cynical assholes with no spiritual values. Once again the environment issue proves that the only thing the Right truly excels at is demonstrating the psychological phenomenon of Projection.

Olbermann

You know, I watched Keith religiously during the election fairly religiously. There's a pretty simple explanation, he really was the only game in town. Who else are you going to watch for a moderate (yes, moderate) liberal point of view on Cable? Alan Colmes? 

But Keith has always been a blowhard and a bit too smug for my tastes and now that Rachel Maddow is in the game doing an incredible job it's become harder to take Keith as seriously.

However, as long as Sarah Palin is calling him the devil (see previous post) and he's naming Bill O'. Worst Person in the World, I'll tune in, at least for those special segments.

Anyway...

Again...

I STILL don't understand how the Republicans can get spanked, BADLY, TWICE! and still show NO signs of introspection.

Ok, obviously, I'm speaking of high-level, talking-head type Republicans. Obviously a great deal of normal Americans rethought their positions otherwise Obama could not have won by the margins he did, nor would he have the high approval ratings he now enjoys.

Anyway, what brought about this little out burst is She's back and showing NO signs of remorse for her parting in the McCain travesty of 2008. Let's go to Steve Benen's take, but this is all over the Interweb.

So, Sarah is back and she's blaming her lackluster performance on Tina Fay, Katie Couric, Keith Olbermman and basically anyone but herself. Remind me again, is it The Repubs or the Demos who takes pride in being the party of Personal Mother-Fucking Responsibility?

Sarah, you will never read this, but I have a confession to make. When I first saw your well-made-up mug at the Republican Convention you scared the living shit out of me. First, because right from the start you were clearly willing to lie on cue. And you were a brilliant attack dog. However, it soon became apparent that, as far as the big league goes, you were way over your head. You are just not a world-class bull-shitter. You're a backwoods bull-shitter. That's why you came up in the backwoods. You couldn't have come up Anywhere else. Wouldn't have happened.  There's no shame. I grew up in the backwoods. I could've stayed there and maybe been a big frog in the small puddle, but I moved to the big city. What's happened? I am a tadpole amongst a million other tadpoles watching the big frogs really live. Well, that's life. Accept it. You tried to play in the big leagues, got lit up and sent back to the minors. It happens. But, Don't blame the pitchers, you petty bitch.

Anyway...

Doggone it!

Ok, I don't know how I feel about entertainers crossing over into politics, but if you're good enough and smart enough.. Ok, this type of humor is a bit beneath me. 

Anyway, looks like Franken has got the win and I'm glad. He seems like a smart guy and I think he is legitimately passionate about politics and seems to take all the right (and by that I mean left) positions. And I like his books, which is more than I can say for Michael Moore, not that I'm real big on preaching to the choir materials. Except for blogs, of course.

Predictably, the Conservosphere is throwing a bit of a hissy fit. There was a misleading editorial by the Wall St. Journal today claiming that Franken stole the election. So, naturally, because they have difficult with both recognizing and drawing honest comparisons, Conservobots are crying foul and wondering where the liberal outrage over the Bush election is now.

Again, I must give the Right the same advice they gave us after the Bush '01 debacle, Fuck off and get over it. Oh, and by the way, just Saying Bush won that election And wasn't just Fucking Appointed  does NOT make it true. You have to provide Facts. Which I appreciate is difficult as there Are None.

If you're interested the best blow-by-blow refutation of the Wall St. editorial is provided by Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com. So, i'll stop blabbing about this now. 

Rock on, Stuart.

Anyway...

Reading is important..

...unless the book is by Ann Coulter. Please God let this be true..

The Drudge is reporting that NBC is banning Coulter. Yeah, right, sure... But why shouldn't Coulter be banned? I mean, I know Bill Mahar used to have her on a lot, and I love Bill and she was never not entertaining on the show, but she doesn't need to be on 'news' shows. Granted, the apparently she is not appearing on the "Today" show, which doesn't exactly bill itself as a hard hitting news program. But the point is Coulter is a fairly loud voice from the right and she lies every time she exhales. Why should she be given a national platform? Or, if you're going to give her a national platform then make sure the interviewer is well versed in her bull shit and able to refute her. It's not that hard. Seriously.

Anyway...

Bad Vibrations

So, for those of you who are not aware, VH-1 Classic is doing one of the most awesome things ever and I hope they keep it up every year. They are doing 2009 for 2009. That's 2009 videos starting at Midnight New Years. I have seen all sorts of crazy shit. I would like to comment on every video, but I have to work, eat, etc.. so, I'm commenting on Marky Mark.

Holy shit. Does anyone remember this video being this bad? I mean, I was impressionable at the time, and it was hardly my favorite song, but seriously, not good. Lucky for this guy he is a pretty good actor. I guess maybe the world was just impressed that he was FAR more talented than his brother. (In fairness I hated his brother almost immediately.)  (And speaking of remembering things, Fucking Captain Lou Albano is in the Girls Just Want to Have Fun Video! Captain Lou! Alright, you don't remember. Fuck you. He was in a cartoon with Hulk Hogan and Iron Sheik. Did I say Fuck You, yet? I was excited. Stop judging me. Stop.

But the most annoying part of the Good Vibrations Video, who remembers that Markie goes on this whole anti-drug verse in the middle of the song. Something about his body being a temple, blah, blah.  I didn't notice at the time. In fact, I probably thought not being on drugs was a reasonable way to go through life at the time. I was in error. I can only hope that Markie has become a serious coke fiend in the meantime. No, coke sucks. But an alcoholic at least. Something.  Life. Who deals with that shit straight? Jesus. Bad noise, man.

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