Lindsey Graham Calleth the Storm

Via Wonkette, check out the Lindsey Graham trashtalkathon on Jezebel.

It is, as the kids say, to laugh.

Now that the bloggers have turned their shared eye of scornfulness on him, I wonder if Lindesy Graham will quit like a whiney nincompoop?

Not that *that* ever happens.

Quote of the Day

"Bailin' Palin - She Won't Quit Until She's Halfway Done!"
-- Sig line for user kitebro on DailyKos in article VA GOP House of Delegates nominee Catherine Crabill promoting losers of elections take up arms against the government

This is starting to go too far, now. The GOP better start riding herd on their nutcases. If you throw away peaceful transfer of power, you throw away America.

Onward, evil's soldiers

In other news, Palin's church has a history of promoting physical violence. Yep -- Jesus sure does love him some killin'.

In general, one would think that, in order to pick up the sword, you need to let go of Christ's hand. To imagine otherwise is to pray to a much different god than the one outlined in the New Testament. (I believe President Obama mentioned something to this affect when he referenced the Church built over the Ghanan slave dungeon in his recent NAACP speech. The steeple pointed at heaven whilst suffering and evil were wrapped around its foundations.)

To quote yon quitter, I know what I know what I know.

And then there's this guy

Hey, Palin -- still gonna campaign for Perry now that he's eating Recovery Act crow?

I'm sure you will, as y'all can have your own readymade "they's all pilin' on us" pity party, built for two. Tell ya what -- you guys stop with the doofusin', and I'll stop with the pointin' out of the doofusin'. Dealio?

So, when you said it was raining, what you *really* meant was....

Kindle just got f*cked. Unless the Jerkfactory changes its policy so that when you own a book, you *actually* own that book, sales are gonna tank, precipitously. H/T Daily Dish TalkingPointsMemo.

Big cup of STFU

Ivy Frye, SarahPAC employee and longtime Palin foot-in-mouth brigade booster, apparently called Celtic Diva "bad." Bad, Celtic Diva, bad. Along with 4 or 5 other, I assume, blogger-types.

Unfortunately, Ivy Frye has not kept her nose clean.

"In one e-mail string among the volumes turned over, Frye wanted to know if she would be audited or "dinged in any way" if her personal and state e-mails all routed to the same device.

"I would gladly buy my own blackberry if it and its contents were truely mine. Any thoughts here?" Frye wrote on March 17 at 10:56 a.m.

Administrators were waiting for guidance on confidentiality issues from the state Department of Law, Kim Garnero, state Division of Finance director, wrote back at 11:06 a.m. But using a personal device made an audit much less likely, she wrote.

Frye later forwarded strings about the personal e-mail issue to Palin and her husband, Todd.

In April, Frye asked the state's information technology office for help in getting her BlackBerry to default to her Yahoo account.

Frye did not respond to requests for comment."

As with Palin's reaction to the AIP issue brought up in the Salon article -- he meant to check Republican, but a hanging chad got in his eye, or something or other -- her staff needs to learn the wisdom of not openning their mouths when doing so is disadvantageous.

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That's D-I-S-A-D....

Also too, I note that calling folks bad is more of Palin's eternal Nixonian list-of-enemies oppositional paranoia. Dude, how about trying to coopt your rivals into working with you on specific efforts? How can you do that after you establish an SOP of sticking your fingers in their eyes?

Riddle me that, riddler.

The RNC and their freakishly prolonged adolescence

Americabog: RNC Web site promoting anti-Semitic, anti-Latino, and pornographic literature.

What can you say to that sort of man-child nonsense, except that it just proves how non-serious the GOP takes governing and public service. Hat of one man, hat of an idea -- yeah, right. This is the only hat they seem to be wearing these days.

(Thank you for the website, Steele -- may the RNC have another?)

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In other news, her picture my no longer adorn the upper left corner of my blog, but Rachel Maddow still fills all the chambers of my heart.

Seriously. There's no room in there for blood or nothing. I'm like having a heart attack right now.

Help?

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UPDATE: Had to change one of the hat links, which was disappointing.

MORE WITH THE NEW: Apparently the RNC took down their "game" after the adults told them it was wrong. Hopefully, one day the GOP will be able to tell the difference between right and wrong without having to have an adult explain it to them....

...but I'm not going to hold my breath.

The rising sun of a new day begun

Compare this moving, insightful, and conspicously *unselfish* speech, to "I know what I know what I know." I, myself, know one thing -- I am proud, and profoundly grateful, that our country has this man as our president, at this time. His speech demands we give of ourselves; show me anything recently from the GOP that is not "give me."

No taxes? My money is for me. No Latinas on the bench? That's reserved for me, and my pink friends. Let all companies fail without a soft landing, so their impact splatters everyone? My money's secure; that's on all y'all.

The GOP needs to find their soul again, somewhere under that stack of bibles where they buried it.

Deflation?

My browser and Google thinks Balloon Juice is an attack site. What gives?

UPDATE: Word has it the warnings are being caused by 3rd party ads being hosted on 'juice. So there's that.

Jesse Ventura on life, and Palin also too

Is that dinosaur wearing a fishnet bra?

James Wolcott: I came for the Palin methadone; I stayed for the human-animal hybrids.

Flickr pix here. Is it wrong that I....

Yes. Yes, it's probably pretty wrong.

Reposting Bon Mots

Jason Linkins on HuffPo with some funny stuff:

"... Mere seconds later, when the woman said something to the effect that Beck didn't care about people without health care, and yet he was cool with big bank bailouts, Beck somehow found a much higher level of TOTAL CRAZYSAUCE than ever before! Suddenly, Beck was emitting horrifying high-pitched shrieks, wailing, "GET OFF MY PHONE! GET OFF MY PHONE!" and a bunch of other terrifying stuff that only dogs can hear. Jeezy creezy the guy is just all messed up inside!"

"...his opinion on health care reform is basically limited to whining about that one time he went in for ass-surgery and barely survived to make a terrifying YouTube video in the style of the Blair Witch Project about how he had scary drugged-up visions that left him angry that the people who treated him at the hospital did not give him the rich-person compassion that he felt he deserved."

"...Glenn Beck screaming like a cartoon mouse being stabbed in the scrotum with knitting needles is your new, terrifying ringtone. Warning: Once you listen to this clip, you can never un-listen to it."

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Palin v Palin

If I was the GOP, I'd be paying Palin never to open her fool mouth ever again -- at least in re: politics. She'd be better off marshalling support and money for, say, special needs medical research (don't mention fruit flies), or UNICEF (don't mention New World Order), or something like that.

If she can bear, that is, to promote a cause that ain't herself. Might even rack up some points, godwise, to offset all the seven deadlies she's thrown around.