Been a while

So I recently had a comment on a very old post which showed up in my e-mail to remind me that I still have a blog lurking around the interwebs. I see it's been just about a year since the last time I posted anything. Quite the year it's been. I used to write about politics because I hated bush and the neocons, then I was filled with hope of restoring dignity to our country with the election of Obama. And now we are nearing another election which has sucked that hope right out of me. I'll admit that politics has gotten entertaining and if we were all just sitting around laughing at the fringe candidates and their sheer insanity then it would be a good time. The problem is people are voting for the crazies. We have a nut case with a legit shot at becoming governor of my state. Official e-mails would probably get more interesting...
I'm ok with politicians who are a little less polished, a bit more raw, but beastiality? seriously? If he was caught with it on his computer I'd be a little concerned, but when he finds that acceptable enough that he e-mails it to people then something is seriously wrong. If he was a boyscout leader I'd be concerned for those children, when he's running for governor it's a little bigger concern. The scariest part of all is that people are voting for him...

Bwahahahahaha!!!!!

The Aliance of the radical liberal socialist demi-muslim's has finally taken control!!!!! Bwahahahahah!!!
Feel the wrath of a decent living for all!
Redistribution of wealth, fuck the rich!
Peace!
Other evil un-american shit.....
Uh....

BTW. Wow,.... shitty timing. just at the moment when I was going to say I've neer been happier Rob's QOMU says, "Ted Stevens is winning..." Ugh... Well I'm still fuckin' happy right now, and maybe ever so slightly tipsy. Oh yeah and I'm at Rob's house. Hello Rob 4 feet away!

I'm still only half convinced that I'm going to wake up in a moment to my alarm saying November 4th, this all being simply a dream.

And to all a good night.

P.S. Obama's good. He reminds me what a president is supposed to sound like. And I'm not sure what more I can say about that.
And if that McCain had been in this election it would have been a much tougher race. That's the McCain I once respected. Oh well.

McCain's Crowds

Ok so McCain has been saying that abusive comments have been hurled at him during Obama rallies, just like how people keep yelling "Terrorist" at his and Palin's events. Now I've only been to one Obama rally and it's true that people yell things, this was during the primary so it was also directed at Hillary but the important thing was Obama's reaction. When people simply Boo'ed he would stop them and say, "McCain has done great service for our country blah blah respect and shit." (not an exact quote) And thats the important part, Obama would not allow us to show our disdain for his opponents, anger should not be a part of decision making. McCain and Palin simply ignore these insults and continue on, plus their constant reminders that Obama has worked with a guy who was a domestic terrorist when Obama was what like 4? This seems to create an air where such outbursts are at least acceptable if not encouraged. I actually thought it was a little weird at the time that Barack was so insistent that we not boo his opponents, but now I understand why. So yeah maybe McCain has heard some nasty shouts from the crowds, but how did Obama address them?

I read EVERY newspaper and magazine

Booya! Those nasty left wing lettuce eaters, they think I don't know about stuff, but when asked what magazines and newspapers I read to stay current. I said "all of 'em" shiiiit try ta beat that sucka! Ok so some haters might say thats impossible and that my answer makes it sound like I don't read any, but their just east coast elitist with their hoidy toidy printin' presses an shit. I mean come on if they just wanted some name droppin' I coulda, I do have a degree in journalism. But when big momma S-Rahh is in the hizzie y'all know the only shit gettin' spit be tha trufh. Holla!

I have no idea why I wrote this like this, guess I still miss Tha H-Dog, if anyone wants to buy me this shirt then you'll be my besttist friend forever...ish .

Florida

Theres a recent poll that has Obama with a three point lead in Florida (with a 3.2 point margin of error) but I have to wonder if thats among registered voters, likely voters, or voters likely to not be disenfranchised? There are significant differences between those groups.

Churchs: Tax Free or Political

It's quite simple, if you want to be a tax exempt organization, religious or secular, then you cannot endorse candidates. If you do then you're political and you have to pay taxes. So like I've said before, pastors should feel free to proselytize for their candidates, but they lose their tax-exempt status. We could really use the tax revenue from those mega-churches and their sheep were all going to vote the same anyway so go ahead and become political, we need the money.

Underground Government Boxing Clubs

In death a member of project mayhem has a name, and his name is Henry Paulson.
- Fight Club (almost)

I've thought this over a bit and I do think the bailout is a bad idea, but for very different reasons than most. I don't know if the bailout will fix our economic problems, if it works how everyone hopes it will then it'll save our asses, and by doing so will perpetuate a system that simply cannot survive in the long term. They have these great ads right now that talk about how we have 60 years worth of oil offshore that congress isn't allowing us to tap. It's supposed to encourage us to tap that oil, to me it is just a perfect example of how short minded a people we are. It's only 60 years worth of oil, shit, we've only really been using oil on a large scale for 100 and look how much we've fucked shit up. Back to my point. I think not bailing out these companies might well lead to a crisis serious enough that we are then given the opportunity to rebuild a system that can last. I'm not sure what that system will look like, will it be a minor change like a third way between socialism and capitalism where hard work allows for limited inequality. Or are we looking at a true collapse of the system as we know it, maybe we will revert back to a more agricultural world that can actually live within our means, but I highly doubt that outcome.

But at the same time I say fuck it, the rich wanted laissez-faire capitalism and with partial deregulation they managed to royally fuck themselves. Greed is not the motivator we should use to run our entire lives, and greed is what drives capitalism, call it drive or motivation or whatever, its still greed. Greed is a good motivator don't get me wrong, but we cannot allow it to be the only motivator.

So Wall Street crumbles, many many businesses fail, how do we rebuild? What lessons have we learned? What will our new vision of the world look like? I don't know, but I'm curious to find out. Fuck the Bailout! I want to see the next great revolution, then again the bailout might only delay the revolution for a few years anyway.

Friday's Debate

Hey guess what? I'm late getting to this!
Yeah I watched some of the debate on friday, well the TV was on and turned to that station the whole time but we didn't necessarily watch it all. Ok so maybe just maybe we tried to turn it into a drinking game, but we screwed up at the start. We weren't thinking about the fact that it was a debate not a stump speech, so we picked the wrong drinkin' words. We chose "Hope, POW (or anything related), and Change." Had this been the conventions we'd have been rocked. But it was a debate so it didn't work that well, we later chose "taxes" which was much better. In the end I was a bit drunk, and I had watched the debate, so all in all a pretty good day.

Oh as for the substance of the debate, well from my not so sober perspective, which might be a good way to look at things from the vantage of the "average american" I thought McCain did better than I expected, but Obama still whipped his ass pretty good. I did find it interesting that Obama regularly looked at McCain to address him, but McCain gave fleeting glances at most towards Obama. I'm not going to psychoanalyze that but I'm sure it means something, and I'm sure it's not good.

Anybody else get drunk and watch the debates? Anyone else know how to party? woo!

The President Who Cried Wolf

You can only tell me to be afraid so many times before I tend to assume you're just a pussy that's afraid of everything. You can only lie straight to my face (or the camera) so many times before I just don't give a shit what you have to say. I know I'm not the first with this observation about the president but it's just really sad when the economy truly is in peril and when the president comes on the air and the first reaction from most of the country is to not care what he says. How can you be a leader when no one wants to follow you? He's played the fear card so many times, told us to just trust him, and if the Congress tried to do its job at all and not just hand him what he wants then were all going to die! So hurry hurry hurry, no time to think, just write the damn check! This tactic work far more times than it should have, it never should have worked but were human and it did. But his ability to control anything is past, he's a lame duck, he has been for quite some time and I think that fact is finally going to catch up with him. Mr. President, you kindly go out back, and go fuck yourself.

And thats all I have to say about that.

The (so called) Constitution Party

Ok this is amusing, and potentially handy. The Constitution Party, and their presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin, have just been endorsed by Ron Paul. These folks are definitely far out on the right wing, but they might just act as a handy little spoiler for McCain and at the moment it doesn't look like he can afford it, they have him down 9 points to Obama.

But I just want to pick on The Constitution Party for a few minutes, seriously this shit is funny. First off they are for a strict interpretation of the constitution, if it doesn't say the government can do it then they can't. Which would mean throwing out most of our laws. Now the libertarians are some what similar but at least the Libertarians are consistent, these guys then try to throw in a bunch of right wing religious bullshit thats obviously not authorized, in fact is specifically made illegal by the constitution, so their logic is amusing. Check out their stance on Drugs, or Porn. First their rational (a term I'm using loosely) on porn,

"We call on our local, state and federal governments to uphold our cherished First Amendment right to free speech by vigorously enforcing our laws against obscenity to maintain a degree of separation between that which is truly speech and that which only seeks to distort and destroy."

Uphold freedom of speech by way of censorship! wow.

How about drugs. First they give you the tenth and fourth amendments which are about states rights and freedom from search and seizure respectively and that somehow justifies the war on drugs? Um the constitution doesn't give the government the right to tell people what they can and cannot consume, hardcore non-sequitur. Again this is why for all my disagreement with the Libertarians, I give them credit for being the most consistent platform.

Not surprisingly they are against the environment. They have some wacky ass views on the judiciary. I find this amusing.

We particularly support all the legislation which would remove from Federal appellate review jurisdiction matters involving acknowledgement of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government.

(spelling preserved) How the fuck does that jive with the establishment clause? I will admit that their stance on education, is mostly correct, other than the god shit again, the constitution leaves education up to the states, I really don't know how NCLB and other national programs are legit. As for any schooling the parents want, well for the sake of the children I disagree. And I hope they don't try to bitch when their home schooled kid who knows nothing about science isn't allowed into a real college because they can't pass the entrance exam. I'm also curious if they are consistent with their foreign policy stuff, they say our military should only be used for our defense and we should not get involved with other countries conflicts. Nowhere is Israel mentioned. Thats going to lose them some fundie votes. Ok I gotta give them a little credit for opposing the War on Terror because its fucking illegal.

I could probably keep going with this, but I'm bored, making fun of stupid is only fun for so long.

Grrrrr......

So much shit is going on right now.

Some interesting shit at this site, might have to save that blog for later....
Phil lays into McCain for his stance on science, and "science".
To no surprise there's all sorts of shit being talked over at D.Kos, I mean who else would get pissed about a little rocket fuel in their water? Although this one was interesting and fairly unexpected. They also had a classic in their pundit round up , meaning the folks at Kos got it from Bob Herbert.

Does anyone think it’s just a little weird to be stampeded into a $700 billion solution to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression by the very people who brought us the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression?

How about a second opinion?

Good Call Bob. Basically for me, I don't know about this whole thing, the longer I think about it the worse it sounds. My Gov teacher last night couldn't help but repeatedly point out that were talking about a bill for 700 billion dollars, and the bill is three pages long. THREE!?!?

I need to run because... well actually cause I want to write another quick post that should be a wee bit more upbeat, which seems like the better way to end the day.

Holy Shit Batman

I get more than a little worried when Bush says he needs a bill passed in a hurry. He's already in fear monger mode, if the democrats don't pass this law immediately then we're all screwed. Well were all in trouble anyway so maybe we should take a second a breath, lets make sure the bill is actually going to help the situation. Lets make sure that those who have fucked our economy up aren't going to be getting millions for their failures, the reality is that it won't make any significant difference, but its very important for the moral of the country not to allow these people to reap huge rewards off our taxes. Most importantly though lets make sure that those who are in control of this are accountable. They seriously have a provision in this bill saying that the unelected treasury department cannot be reviewed by congress or the courts. Thomas Jefferson would be whippin' Bush's ass right now. Even Alexander Hamilton would be like, woah, thats a little crazy, and I knew Arron Burr so I know crazy - fucker shot me. (sorry history class kicking in)

Luckily it sounds like congress is going to try to do it job, it should be noted (time for Gov class) that the Legislative branch is NOT designed to be efficient. It's an intentionally slow process, they had this wacky notion that some thought should go into new laws. There needs to be back and forth, compromises must be hammered out and that takes time. Congress is not supposed to ebb and flow with the whims of the masses, it must keep its head clear of short term worries and focus on the long term good of the country. The Wars and the Patriot act should be good enough examples of why Congress needs to be more concerned with writing good bills than getting them out quickly.

“It would not be understandable if members of Congress sought to use this emergency legislation to pass unrelated provisions, or to insist on provisions that would undermine the effectiveness of the plan

To use a phrase I never thought I would, I agree with Bush (Ahhhhh!!!) that congress shouldn't use this emergency bill to try to pass unrelated shit. I honestly don't think anyone will. But his part about undermining the effectiveness is the important part, does accountability decrease effectiveness? Only if your goal is to rob the American people. I really don't think that statement is crazy either, I'm honestly afraid that this is going to turn into an even bigger swindle of taxpayers money for the profit of the super rich than the Wars. Honestly how else can you explain this provision, which I mentioned before.

"Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency."

That shit needs to go, fuck everything else that needs to go.
Ugh, well I need some grub. If you want better info heres some links.
USNews.com lots and lots of info and links
Crooks and Liars, lots of info and a heavy bias
The Rude Pundit, some info, a heavy bias, lots of swearing but by the end you be in agreement.

Congress, bailouts, and other economic shit

The other day I was at a friends house watching some TV. We're watching some news channel talk about the stock market free-fall and all the financial problems. How were facing the biggest economic crisis since the great depression, and then he switches back to ESPN and the headline is about how "Congress rips the Yankees." I couldn't help but laugh.

Although actually we then switched to another channel so I didn't know what they were talking about and now that I do it wasn't such a waste of time as it sounded. Turns out the Yankees were trying to get taxpayers to foot a big part of the bill for their new stadium. Uh, fuck that. Why should my tax money be used to build a stadium for a private business? Particularly outrageous when that private company is as rich as George Steinbrener and the Yankees.

Why is it that when the government tries to help people in need its "creeping socialism" but when the same government gives handouts to huge corporations trying to increase their profits, its economic stimulus, and for the greater good of the community? Hypocrites, they wanted de-regulation, they got it, now that its failed as miserably as we expected it too they should pay the price. Fuck 'em, they were happy to rake in the benefits they can't complain when they lose it all. Except of course there is the legitimate point that allowing them all to fail will cause even bigger problems.

The way I see it is that we shouldn't bail out these companies, we should invest. The stock isn't worth shit cause they are on the verge of collapse. So the government buys a shit load of stock, maybe even for a little more than its current market value. The important part to me is that rather than take our tax money and simply give it to a failing company and hope for the best the government now has some say in the company. (I think this is basically what happened with Fannie and Freddie) More importantly as the company gets back on its feet and starts turning a profit I don't want to see the tax payers simply paid back, I want to see some fucking return on our investment. We gave them 85 billion, I want to see 100 back. I don't see this as greedy, at least not any greedier than any other investor is, and why should we be treated any different?

Oh and this sounds interesting, I don't know business or economics but apparently the Gov allowed five corporations to avoid some of the usual regulations.

Who were the five that received this special exemption? You won't be surprised to learn that they were Goldman, Merrill, Lehman, Bear Stearns, and Morgan Stanley.

As Mr. Pickard points out that "The proof is in the pudding — three of the five broker-dealers have blown up."

Without even really knowing about the SEC, it sounds like someone needs to explain why these companies were excluded, and ensure it doesn't happen again.

Interesting Lawsuit

It'll probably turn out to be nothing, but Libertarian candidate Bob Barr is suing the state of Texas for ignoring it's own election laws which state that candidates must be certified 70 days before the election AKA August 25th. But because neither candidate had been officially nominated by their party until August 28th and September 4th for Obama and McCain respectively they cannot be on the ballot in Texas. Now I'd be willing to throw a couple bucks on a bet saying that Obama and McCain will be on the ballot, but it sounds like the case has some merit, and being an Obama supporter I can't help but think of how fucked McCain would be without Texas. Thanks D. Kos!

Update: Biden and Palin

Ok I was a bit confused yesterday, someone told me there was a debate, I only saw the last couple minutes but that sure as fuck wasn't a debate. Admittedly it didn't claim to be, it was a forum, which apparently means that the questions aren't even lobed in slowly, there set-up t-ball style. Seriously one question was about if volunteerism is part of what makes this country great? Thats not really a question, and as a politicians it's nothing. Its just an opportunity to cheer lead. I want tough questions, just cause its a forum doesn't mean they shouldn't have to answer real questions. Or maybe it does. Shit Palin got tougher questions during that interview. BTW: She obviously didn't know what "The Bush Doctrine" was, and while she should, it's not a big deal. Although her support of preemptive war should be a real concern. The proper follow up would have been to ask, given what she knew, if she supported preemptive war in Iraq. But they didn't. One other thing, obviously I'm severely biased against her, but I found it weird how hostile she seemed during the interview. McCain is angry enough, we don't need an equally aggressive person behind him.

Biden vs. Palin

I know the big dogs are gettin' ready to scrap tonight, and I'm really really hoping that Obama has just been doin' a little rope a dope, letting McCain throw a few punches, even land a few, while waiting for the opening to level that fucker. Hopefully thats what happens tonight, unfortunately I'll be sitting in psych class at that time. So I'll know about that long after most folks.

But now I'm really looking forward to the VP debates. Why well because Sarah Palin's town of Wasilla had this lovely little law that said that a rape victim had to pay for the medical procedure to verify the rape, aka a rape kit. Wow, well I'm sure they had a good reason right? I mean you had better have a really good reason for coming up with such a cold heartless law as that right? It would save the tax payers between $5,000 - 14,000 a year. Ok fiscal responsibility is a good thing but seriously? Sending a bill to rape victims? Another thing to note, Alaska has three times as many rapes as the national average. George Carlin can explain why. Ok so far, its a pretty fucked up story right? But why should this make for a great debate between Biden and Palin? Well theres more to the story, it turns out that this little law on the books called The Violence Against Women Act that made it illegal for a municipality to bill women for being raped, assuming they wanted any federal money. What makes this an interesting point for a debate is the fact that Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act. Now you see why I think that could get interesting.

And no I don't think this is politicizing rape, this should be a legitimate issue. If we were talking about using a specific rape case that would be different, but to ask a person who was the mayor of a town that may have broken the law in order to save money by charging sex crime victims a fee, any fee let alone an expensive fee is absolutely fair game. The fact that the other nominee wrote the law that was broken simply means that the other person is in real trouble, but if you're looking for sympathy, well I could show you some, but then I'll send you a bill.

Hat tip to the D. Kos

Values Voters Summit

And something about freedom pulpit day or something. Basically the usual crowd of right wingers wants pastors to endorse specific candidates, in blatant violation of IRS laws. You know what, I'm all for it. Go on and have fun, they already endorse the republicans so there's not much to lose by letting them admit it. And this country could really use the extra tax revenue, if they think for one second they can have it both ways than they can go fuck themselves. So long as they are willing to give up there tax exempt status, then fine. Let them preach to the choir.

Palin and the Bridge

Ok we've all heard of the bridge to nowhere, that perfect symbol of pork. Many of you probably know that the Alaskan Governor was for the project, at least until it became politically impossible to support it at which point she was against it. Whatever, typical politician shit. An interesting side note to all of that, which a co-worker loves to point out. The state of Alaska still got the 200 million dollars to build the bridge to nowhere, although it would have ultimately cost about twice that, so when they decided against it what happened to all that money? That symbol of pork? They kept it.

Good Times and Bad

Theres one hell of a story over at The Minnesota Independent about a protester. First he was in a funny picture where he's laying down in front of a wall of cops, but lying down in a George Kastanza (sp? Seinfeld) trying to look sexy sorta way. It's fairly amusing. Or at least it was till the cops kicked the shit out of him later that day. He has a rather clear boot print on his back and he's scraped up from being dragged down the street. I'd like to show the pics and have a link to it. Unfortunately every time I've gone to The Minnesota Independent website today my computer has frozen. I think part of it is they're getting way more traffic than they can handle, or maybe my computer is just a POS.

I talked to my uber-right-wing-evangelical-coworker today. I try to avoid politics with her for obvious reasons. Mostly because she's not well informed, usually wrong, but shes a very nice old lady, and she keeps track of our vacation time so its best to keep on her good side. Shes the one I've mentioned wanting to tell that I'm an atheist on my last day because she does like me and that will blow her mind. She's friendly with a devil worshiper? Um, no I don't believe in that guy either. Anyway she brought up having watched Palin's speech, perfect, now I'm not the one who started it. She loved the speech, no big shock. But when she got into Palin's experience I couldn't help but laugh directly at her. She was mayor of a town a third the size of the shit hole I live in, then was govenor of a state with a population of under 700,000. Shut the fuck up. Ok I didn't say that part.

Shit shit shit, I gotta head to class and I was just getting to the part that I'm really happy about.
Go here read this! srsly.

Oh and speaking of populations I'm heading to a city with a population of about 3.5 million this weekend, its called Brooklyn, and its just one part of The City. So I won't be back till next monday most likely.
Have a great weekend and fuck the police!

Sarah Palin

Yeah I'm late but I still need to throw in my two cents. First I'll say, awesome job by Obama to take the high road and avoid bringing up Palin daughter, even including what I would call encouragement by reminding everyone that his own mother was only 18 when she had Barack. (I ramble for a bit, but theres some good links at towards the bottom)

But I don't work for Obama, they found someone better, so I don't have to take the high road, although I do work with teen mothers so this seems like an opportunity to talk about a serious issue that this country simply doesn't want to talk about. There's a fair number of problems in this country that stem directly from the fact that we have a very immature attitude towards Sex and Drugs (probably other shit too). There is currently debate about lowering the drinking age (alcohol is a drug, a rather dangerous one at that) but the resistance comes from people who think 18 year olds are too immature on the subject. I think the whole fucking country is too immature on the subject. If a 14 year old would occasionally have a glass of wine with their parents at dinner, then by the time they could drink in public it wouldn't be a big deal. Just to make that perfectly clear, I support PARENTS giving alcohol to minors in order for them to learn, and so they too can enjoy a nice beverage. Same goes for sex, but a much less hands on approach, that would be weird. If sex was not kept as such a taboo then maybe we wouldn't be so damn uncomfortable talking about it. The penis goes into the vagina, try it, it's nice, and if you don't wrap it with a condom first you'll end up with a kid. Whats the big deal? As a species we've been fucking since the start, why is that a fact we try to keep hidden? Shit heres a stupid example, there was a whole big deal about GTA San Andreas because there was a way to see nudity, mind you this is one of the most violent games you can buy, and highly entertaining. Killing anyone and everyone, thats fine, show a computer generated nipple and suddenly its vile? Seriously we have our priorities fucked up.

Ok so back to Palin. I'm not going to take the low road in the sense that I'll question her parenting simply because her kid got knocked up, that shit happens. People fuck and sometimes that leads to more people, no big deal. What I will question is her support for abstinence only education, even if she didn't have kids I would question that stance. The fact that her own daughter is proof of the failure of abstinence only education is something I'm not sure I could ignore. I'm honestly not sure if that would be considered an attack against her family or not. If I was part of the Obama crew I wouldn't use it, but I'd strongly go after her stance and let the public make the connection in their minds.

I am curious about her stance on Abortion, I know that her public stance is no-way no-how no-exceptions you get raped by your father, guess what you're gunna be a mommy now! That way the kid will have a father and a grandfather in the picture. Yeah, not cool, but there was one little comment that had me curious. I don't have the exact text or the source right now but essentially Sarah Palin was saying she was happy that her daughter made the right choice... Hmm... what choice might that be? Is she saying that it was a possibility that her daughter might be allowed to make a choice about her own body? Better fix that law.

Like everyone else I feel the nomination of Palin is a crass insult to women who support/ supported Hillary. Does the GOP really think women are that stupid? Yeah Sarah Palin has two X chromosomes, that does NOT mean she supports womens rights at all. I hope Hillary's supporters listened to her during the DNC, anyone who cares about womens issues cannot vote for McCain, especially with Palin as running mate.

I don't think I've really explained just how bad she is. I'm not going to get into her lack of experience because honestly that doesn't bother me. Although I do love the back flips republicans are doing in order to justify how a year and a half as Governor of the 47th most populous state is adequate experience. I don't mind, but shut the fuck up about Obama, not that they will, cause you know Governor is executive experience. Not only that but Alaska is near Russia, RUSSIA! Not that the governor has any control over all the military shit that goes on protecting us from the commies.... the fact that some people could even begin to use that argument makes me think of that famous quote by (or at least attributed to) Churchill, "The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."

Shit that wasn't going to be about experience, this one really won't be. How about the fact that she's a right wing nut job? Go here for video goodness, er well not exactly good.... Thanks PZ. Seriously our education system is fucked, the last thing we can afford as a nation is falling even further behind due to some psychos that think knowledge is evil. For example, shes a creationist and thinks it should be taught in school.

Want some more Palin Haterade from people who actually study shit instead of relying on old fairly tales? You know its bad when Phil ventures in from the stars and takes a jab at politicians. His views aren't exactly hidden, but unlike PZ he does generally tries to avoid getting caught up in politics. I generally find that when people who prefer to keep silent feel the need to be heard, its because someone has given them good reason to be angry. Although in this case he simply points you towards others who have already ripped into Palin, so thats more like a link to other links.

More video love, I haven't watched it yet but I'm assuming its amusing. Again from PZ, this time we've got a song about Palin from Roy Zimmerman.

But who knows, maybe he didn't pick her because he wanted the support of former Hillary supporters. Maybe its something much simpler. Maybe John McCain simply likes younger attractive women....