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Okay, Progressives, Stop Fighting Amongst Yerselves and Gape at Sarah Palin's New Hairdo
Ripped from Fox, that link goes to FoxNews. Okay, I'm going a little Wonkette with the title, but how could you not, given that this is NOT A PHOTOSHOP, and even the plastic necklaces are real.
h/t Rumproast, who compliments Doctor Quit, Medicine Woman's 'Frontiere Flowbee' hairstyle. Perfect.
Background: Lizz Winstead and Joan Walsh (goddesses) were tweeting back and forth about Rielle Hunter, John Edwards' baby-mama, who reportedly "did not know" that the GQ photographer would include her bare legs in the shot where she's only wearing a shirt and pearls.***
Memo to my gal pals at the Mensa Ladies' Auxiliary Lunch: Next month I'm nominating Rielle for the Palin Award.
Okay, so Rielle has never watched Revenge of the Nerds where Booger tells the boys to "pan down"?
Anyway, far be it from me to interrupt two people tweeting I barged in and told Lizz and Joan that if my agent ever LET me appear on The Ed Show I would be wearing these, please don't tell anyone.
Tell it to the kid with the pre-existing condition.
Markos promises to primary Kucinich if he votes against HCR. Jane Hamsher threatens her wrath if he votes yes. I left a comment at Guys from Area 51, who did a photoshop of Markos as Scarface.
Can you do one with Jane Hamsher threatening Kucinich for SUPPORTING HCR?
Combined with the current lovely image, it would make a great two-panel depicting the A-list's totally undeserved self-importance.
Who the hell threatens people like Sanders and Kucinich? Are we burning our copies of Howard Zinn next? Defaming Noam Chomsky?
Will doing any of the above get me on The Ed Show? Ooooh really?
The sad fact is lots of people in this country are making money off of sick people, which has slowed reform until it hardly deserves the name and barely deserves the votes. I suspect some bloggers have found a gravy train of their own on this HCR issue; they certainly have in terms of air time. Good for them. Don't expect that it doesn't change you to have that particular kind of skin in the game.
And don't be complete doucheitudes and expect a return of your campaign donations when the vote doesn't go your way. You're admitting that you paid for a vote, and even Blago isn't that stoopid.
Speaking of Blago, I wouldn't be surprised to see all the contributions get returned and a certain blogosphere firebrand be forced to go apprentice with The Donald just to get any airtime on the teevee in three or four seasons. It's an arc, and it's a hunger, don'cha know. There but for the grace of Rachel Maddow go you, Ms. Hamsher.
Threatening the few actual liberals in Congress does not impress me. Neither does burning crops. Really? This is how you get reform? Sigh.
PS Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone. I'm off the computer today. xo
One of my favorite quotes is from the famous knitter Elizabeth Zimmerman, written during Watergate: Knit on, with confidence and hope, through all crises.
No particular personal crisis prompted this post, just what we seem to be facing politically, if I obeyed Elizabeth's dictum I'd actually use up all my yarn this year, ha ha ha ha ha.
A very important announcement from my six year old.
She is a quesadilla.
And yes, that is a "Keep your panties on, I'm blogging" nightshirt* she's wearing. I've also found one more reason to be grateful that Tom Tancredo is retiring this year.
In addition, this year we'll be using the Twitter hashtag #BlogAgainstTheocracy, which is admittedly long. My sense is if people use that with only a tiny URL to their post it should work fine. If we go shorter passers by won't know what's going on.
Great timing: AU Executive Director Barry Lynn has an excellent op-ed at AOL Opinion on Obama's faith-based mumbo jumbo. I consider this a main focus for our efforts this year.
I look forward to the blogswarm and reading everyone's posts!
Because saying the old eff word three thousand times at a deafening decibel level doesn't even come close to my reaction to the latest cover of Time Magazine, wondering why Washington is frozen while offering up Newt Gingrich's "Blueprint for Bipartisanship," in which he concludes:
Republicans have much less to lose [in the healthcare debate] than the President does. If they offer good solutions and work with Democrats to find areas of agreement, they will have met the country's test for bipartisanship. If they refuse to support Big Government, big-spending legislation, they will have a vast majority of the country on their side.
No, Newt. Here is the new meme on healthcare:
The Republican Party and certain Conservadems refuse to regulate the extremely greedy and bad-for-Americans insurance industry.
And fuck you. Sorry, that doesn't even begin to cut it.
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