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Thursday, August 28, 2008 And Why I’ll Hold My Nose And Vote For Obama/Biden by Doc Logan Because no matter how shamelessly they toady to corporate interests, neither are garbage wrapped in skin like Karl Rove. “‘The Republicans can’t seem to get a break when it comes to August and when it comes to the weather,’ said Rove.” Yeah, how my aching heart bled for the Republicans when New Orleans drowned.
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Monday, August 25, 2008 by Doc Logan Barack Obama has chosen Joe Biden as his running mate. Apparently, the “change we can believe in” involves more old white guys in government. So, what’s wrong with Joe Biden anyway? Well, for starters, in his role as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden suppressed the testimony of Angela Wright, Rose Jourdain, and Sukari Hardnett, three women who corroborated Anita Hill’s accusations of sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas.. Without their testimony, it was he said/she said. With it, it was she said/he’s a lying sack of crap. Second, Biden supported an abomination dubbed the “R. A. V. E. Act”, another attack on youth culture in the threadbare cloak of the War on Drugs that Don’t Sponsor Football Telecasts. And finally, Biden shepherded an abomination of a bill that drastically weakened the average Americans ability to protect themselves from crippling debt. People who used to be able to declare bankruptcy after crippling medical debt put them in a horrible bind are now vulnerable, thanks to Joe Biden. Funny how change seems to look a lot like the status quo when you take a closer look.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 by Doc Logan Irony died today, following a long illness. Via Sadly, No!, we find Michelle Malkin so outraged that someone would blame her eliminationist blather for the horrible shooting at the Arkansas Democratic party headquarters today that she printed the full name and email address of the accuser, so her Junior Jackboot fan club can threaten the guy. Is there a proper psychological term for a person with no trace of self awareness?
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 by Doc Logan Stanley Kubrick once observed that the truly horrifying fact about the universe is not that it is malevolent, but that it is indifferent. The callous indifference of the universe was displayed by three recent deaths. Bernie Mac first came to my attention as a standup comedian, but he also was a fine comedic actor as well (There’s a scene in “Bad Santa” where Mac did little aside form eating an orange, but for some reason I cannot possibly explain, it makes me laugh every time). Bernie Mac passed away at the age of 50, far too soon. Thanks for the laughter. Isaac Hayes was a music industry legend. Beginning his career behind the scenes as a songwriter for the Stax label, Hayes became one of the most daring and influential recording artists of the 1970s. Hayes also was a very accomplished actor, best known for his role as the voice of Chef on “South Park”. Hayes left “South Park” on unfriendly terms, but we shouldn’t hate him, we should hate the fruity little club that scrambled his brains. Every Thursday, I looked forward to reading TBogg, as it meant another installment of Thursday Basset Blogging. TBogg would share pictures and stories of his basset hounds, Fenway, the newest addition, Beckham, the adorable troublemaker, and Satchmo, the eldest and best behaved. I always enjoyed the pictures of Satchmo, who just seemed like a sweet, gentle soul. Satchmo is gone now, and while he may not have had the influence and reknown of Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes, my heart grew a little heavier upon learning of his passing. Remember the indifference of the universe, and counter it by letting the people (and pets) you love know that you love them.
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Friday, August 08, 2008 Asshats Throughout The Ages, Chapter One: Avery Brundage by Doc Logan Growing up, certain things were understood in our household. You were not to play with the tint control on the TV, no matter how funny people looked with green faces. The dog slept outside, no matter how sad he looked when you stared out the window at him. And you were not, under any circumstances, to interrupt my father when he was watching “Jim Thorpe, All-American”. Non stereotypical media depictions of American Indians were rare (the Bugs Bunny cartoon depicting an American Indian slithering on the ground like a serpent was still in circulation, last time I looked), and a film with a real life American Indian hero was as rare a thing as you could imagine. Jim Thorpe came to an unhappy end, because of a man named Avery Brundage. Brundage was a certified elitist, one who insisted that Olympic athletes were to be purely amateur. Ensuring that only those with the copious free time it takes to train be allowed to represent their nation in international competition. So when a poor man like Thorpe was discovered to have played semi-professional baseball, why of course he had to be stripped of his medals, his records, his dignity. This was far from the only example of Brundage’s prejudice in his role as president of the International Olympic Committee. In 1936, Germany hosted the Olympic games. Brundage is believed to have played a part in expelling two Jewish athletes, Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, from the USA team. Brundage praised the Nazis, and was rewarded with a contract to build the German embassy in the USA. At the 1968 Olympics, Tommie Smith and John Carlos of the USA took first and third respectively in the 200 meter race. At the medal ceremony, Smith and Carlos raised their fists in the Black Power salute (The second place winner, Austrailan Peter Norman, wore an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge to show his support for Smith and Carlos. Good onya, Peter). Brundage responded by ordering Smith and Carlos to be suspended by the USA team and expelled from the Olympic village. The US Olympic committee refused, so Brundage threatened to expel the entire USA track team, and the USOC relented. Not content with mere racism, Brundage also campaigned for the removal of women from the Olympic games. in 1936 he was quoted as saying “I am fed up to the ears with women as track and field competitors… her charms sink to something less than zero. As swimmers and divers, girls are [as] beautiful and adroit as they are ineffective and unpleasing on the track.” Despite reaching old age, experience did nothing to lessen Brundage’s bigotry. Every single attempt to redress the injustice done to Jim Thorpe was blocked by Brundage, and after Brundage died in Germany in 1975, it was revealed that he was the one who informed the IOC of Thorpe’s brief semi-pro career. A likely contributing factor to Brundage’s campaign of petty spite against Thorpe was the fact that Brundage finished sixth in the 1912 Olympics pentathlon and fifteenth in the decathlon behind Thorpe. Avery Brundage, art collector, aristocrat, and a massive asshat.
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Monday, August 04, 2008 by Melonhead99 Any of you knowing my views for past few years, will know my belief that Bin Laden is with Chinese Islamic Groups in China, it borders Afghanistan and US Troops won’t go into China like they go into Pakistan, so anyway, thats my view, Bin Laden is hiding out in China, so I thought I might post this news story from today. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7540138.stm
Chinese border assault kills 16
Two attackers reportedly drove up to the post in a rubbish truck and threw two grenades, before moving in to attack the policemen with knives. The attack came four days before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Both attackers were captured during the raid near the city of Kashgar, Xinhua state news agency reported. Kashgar, known as Kashi in Chinese, is some 2,500 miles (4,000km) from Beijing, near the border with Tajikistan. Xinhua said the attack happened at about 0800 (0000 GMT), as the policemen were jogging outside the compound.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 Voting for “Nitwit of the Century” Has Closed by Doc Logan ... And our winner is… From the Glenn Beck radio show: KEITH: I think that the black people would say he don’t talk, act, or carry himself as a black person. BECK: What does that even mean? KEITH: I don’t know what that means, but I’m saying that’s what I think that they would say. Even though the black society would pull for him, I still think that they think in the back of their mind that the only reason that he is in is because he talks, acts and carries himself as a Caucasian. BECK: Oh. When you’ve stunned Glenn Beck into speechlessness with your stupidity, you know you’ve won the Grand Prize of Idiocy. The Palm D’Oaf, as it were.
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Monday, July 28, 2008 by Doc Logan You all know Joe Lieberman. Prudish, narrow minded scold, superior in every way to you and me. Or so he’d like to think. Holy Joe’s never been shy about blaming musicians, video games, and film producers for real life violence. So, now we discover that the man who shot up a Unitarian Universalist church in Knoxville, Tennessee, James Adkisson, read books written by Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly. Lieberman is a frequent guest on “The O’Reilly Factor” and “Hannity and Colmes”, and I’m sure that in the interest of intellectual consistency, his next appearance on Fox will be to condemn the hateful ideas that inspired the cold blooded killings in Tennessee. Come on Joe! We’re counting on you!
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by Doc Logan Some people who make their living with words ought to choose their words a little more carefully. Bill O’Reilly’s justification for demonizing those he disagrees with is the “culture war”. What happens in war? People take up arms. People die. O’Reilly throws a tantrum five nights a week over what he perceives as the unpatriotic nature of liberals. He accuses film studios of making propaganda that exists solely to “humanize homosexuals”. He writes books that expose the massive liberal plot to destroy religion and the traditional family. There are enemies, he tells them, and you must resist. Are we really going to act surprised when some idiot takes him seriously?
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 by Melonhead99 She’s disapeared again it seems, left us all alone, I don’t know where she is, but suspect she’s out on the streets offering a helping hand to her fellow man. Obama seems all over the news here, as mention in previous posts, he’s in Europe, I’d cut and paste a picture of Obama and Sarkozy, but can’t work out how it works?
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I just like the miserable look on Sarkozy’s face in contrast to Obama ‘4 more years of this grinning bloody idiot to look forward to’ What else? Oh yeah, welfare reform in Britain, get those on disability benefits back to work, yes, isn’t it an amazing coincidence that everytime a government is in trouble they suddenly discover a group of people that need seeing to, ones that are dishonest and bleeding the country dry of benefits etc, under Thatcher it was Trade Unions and reds under the bed, under John Mayor it was Single Parents and thier horrible disruptive spawn, with Blair it was terrorists hiding in our neighbourhoods, everywhere and obviously all on benefits, now with Gordon Brown it’s the disability benefits, as apparently 1/3 of all people on the benifits, aren’t really disabled, no, they are fakers. When asked, the minister in charge was unable to actually explain how they came to get this 1/3 figure, but you know that doesn’t really matter when you’re on a crusade against the poor, does it, as what are they going to do, write on a toilet wall that you’re gay? They have no media access, no ability to put thier case, no method of challenging the figures, no, they are poor, they are scum and are only deserving of being pissed on from the middle and upper classes ivory towers.
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Friday, July 25, 2008 Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World by Doc Logan Via Matthew Iglesias, we find this supremely silly example of what the Doughy Pantload hath wrought:
I just don’t see a connection. However, the Obama flyer does rather strongly suggest this:
Similarly, the short-lived Obama seal:
Made me think of:
So, I guess the point is, I’m still not enthusiastic about voting for Obama, but I’d probably enjoy hanging out with his art director and listening to music.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 by MMoak Microsoft’s Bill Gates is become well known for his philanthropic efforts. Microsoft has begun dontating to charity for doing something millions of people do each day. Sending a Chat Message. Read on. “i’m is an initiative from Microsoft. Every time you use Windows Live™ Messenger or Windows Live Hotmail®, our free webmail service, Microsoft shares a portion of the program’s advertising revenue with an organization of your choice from a selection of some of the world’s most effective organizations dedicated to social causes. We’ve set no cap on the amount we’ll donate to each organization. The sky’s the limit. And it’s free. i’m is about making a difference. Not in a huge expensive way, not in a time-consuming way. But in a simple, effective way. You won’t have to change your conversation to change the conversation. With every e-mail and instant message, you help address an issue you feel passionate about, including poverty, child protection, disease, environmental degradation and animal protection. Just join and start talking, and we’ll start giving.” No credit card, no downloading additional software--no kidding.
More information here: The i’m Initiative
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 by Doc Logan “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” - John F. Kennedy It’s a small matter, I know. Righting it won’t feed a single hungry person, ease the suffering of the infirm, or rescue a single abused child. But this weekend, on thousands of cinema screens, a lie is repeated, one repeated so often it’s become a myth. “Batman created by Bob Kane.” In a just world it would read “Batman created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger.” In 1939, Bob Kane showed some sketches of a new character to Bill Finger. The sketches showed a man in a red suit with stiff bat wings attached at the shoulders, wearing a domino mask. Finger suggested darker colors, suggested a cowl to cover the top of the new hero’s head, and a cape that would spread out to suggest bat wings. Finger gave Batman’s alter ego his name, Bruce Wayne, named his home town Gotham City, and created adversaries with names like Catwoman, The Penguin, Two-Face, and the Riddler. I hope I don’t surprise you by telling you that Bill Finger died poor. In fact, Finger was fired by DC Comics for merely asking if someday, the artists and writers might possibly get health insurance. The award for excellence in comics writing is known as the Bill Finger Award, and whenever a comics writer feels like they’re getiing cheated out of rightful credit, they invoke Bill Finger’s name. The industry knows what he did, and what he deserved. We all should.
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Friday, July 11, 2008 Finally, A Reason To Vote For Obama by Doc Logan Hack actor Stephen Baldwin has vowed to leave the USA if Barack Obama is elected. Imagine the cost to the film industry. Nobody to star in horrid made-for-the-Sci Fi Channel movies (but I repeat myself). Where else will they find an actor who has such a profound lack of screen presence that they can serve as Pauly Shore’s second banana? Who else will they cast when Rick Moranis is out of your budget? No word yet on which nation will be burdened with the Fredo Corleone of the Baldwin family.
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Monday, July 07, 2008 Christopher Hitchens Should Be Waterboarded More Often by Doc Logan As you may have read, Iraq war cheerleader, race baiter, and ethanol consumer Christopher Hitchens underwent waterboarding recently, and determined that, holy crap, it is torture after all! Who would have guessed that being held upside down while strapped to a board, blindfolded, with water poured over the hood on your head preventing you from breathing was torture! Coulda knocked me over with a freakin’ feather, you could have. Well, seems Hitchens’ brush with inhuman treatment reminded him of a true connoisseur of the practice, trash heap wrapped in sickly, pasty flesh, Jesse Helms. If it means a continued turn towards sanity for Mr. Hitchens, I’ll volunteer to affix the electrodes to his unmentionables and crank the field generator myself. |
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