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July 4, 2008

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING…..

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 9:40 pm

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Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Records
http://www.truthout.org/article/judge-orders-google-turn-over-youtube-records
Miguel Helft, of The New York Times: “A federal judge in New York has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database linking users of YouTube, the Web’s largest video site by far, with every clip they have watched there. The order raised concerns among users and privacy advocates that the online video viewing habits of tens of millions of people could be exposed. But Google and Viacom said they were hoping to come up with a way to protect the anonymity of YouTube viewers.”

A Tax That Can Balance the Budget

IF IT WALKS LIKE AN ELEPHANT…..

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 1:45 pm

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USED CAR SALESMAN?

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 1:38 pm

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THE MUMMY

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 1:34 pm

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Signs in Iraq Indicate…

Filed under: Toon — Volt @ 12:16 pm

Gender ambiguous

Filed under: Toon — Peregrin @ 6:49 am

Not all of youI couldn’t resist a little whimsy today.

July 3, 2008

The Tattlesnake – Newsweek’s Cindy McCain Puff Pastry Falls Flat Edition

Surprise! The Recipe is Not Original

This isn’t really intended to criticize Cindy McCain – God knows the woman has suffered enough from 30 years of marriage to John McCain – but rather to dissect the puff profile Holly Bailey concocted for Newsweek June 21, “In Search of Cindy McCain.”

In her often risible attempts to slab on sugar frosting over the rocky-road history of John McCain and his second wife Cindy, Ms. Bailey, a young Corporate Media go-getter plainly anxious to avoid ruffling any powerful feathers, instead leaves gaping cracks through which the careful reader can detect glimmers of harsh reality, rendered as it is by the leaden hand of an ardent, if inexpert, propagandist.

For those of us who relish chuckling at such obvious kiss-up buncombe, here are just a few of the more entertaining highlights, but read the article for the full head-slapping impact:

Without an ounce of shame or regret, Ms. Bailey persists in inserting flag-waving quotes from Mrs. McCain which sound as if they were invented by McCain’s campaign staff. To explain her “long-distance marriage” and “together but apart” relationship to political animal Johnny, Holly has Cindy comparing Mr. McCain going to Washington with a Navy officer’s deployment overseas: “It was almost like a deployment …What I told the kids from the time they were little is that their dad was deployed and serving our country in Washington.” She followed that selfless patriotic tearjerker with Mrs. Sen. McCain admitting that when she married her husband, she knew that he would “put country first” before his bride and kids. Rather than the portrait of a dedicated pol with his nose to the grindstone in Congress that Ms. Bailey tried to etch, one could also take from this that John McCain didn’t much care for his wife or children, and preferred staying alone in Washington to hanging out at home with the whole damn family.

Ms. Bailey also notes that exemplary Good Citizen John somehow didn’t notice his wife was addicted to both booze and painkillers for years “brought on in part by the stress of politics,” as Holly writes, but doesn’t think this angle is worthy of further pursuit. Cindy herself is quoted, somewhat pathetically, as saying she’s her husband’s “best friend, best adviser and closest confidant” yet she neglected to tell him she was strung out on drugs and liquor, so apparently that relationship didn’t cut both ways. Just to review: Here is a man who seeks to be the president of one of the most powerful nations on earth, yet he is completely ignorant of what is happening to his wife right under his nose? Voters might care to know how that’s even possible unless it was willful, and if it was willful, how McCain could be that unfeeling and blind toward someone he supposedly loves? After all, his calling card is his love for his country – as president, would he refuse to face reality as it declines as well? Ah, but don’t rely on Ms. Bailey bring up any of those uncomfortable questions – she’s on a mission to fluff up the hair and apply cosmetics to her subject’s past, not commit any actual acts of journalism.

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PROOF OF GLOBAL WARMING

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 11:37 am

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YEEEE HAAW!!

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 11:24 am

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CHANGE THE COURSE

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 11:20 am

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DOTS

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 11:15 am

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July 2, 2008

Deja Vu All Over Again

Filed under: Toon — Tags: , , , — Volt @ 5:12 pm

DON’T ASK!

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 1:34 pm

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Ye Olde Scribe’s Second Creature Feature: The Tree of Liberty

Filed under: Commentary,Uncategorized — Ye Olde Scribe @ 1:15 pm

     Uncle Sam, Mother Liberty and Ye Olde sat at the dinner table sipping coffee. They were talking about the Tree of Liberty that they had been keeping in their house for closing in on three hundred years.

    “Yeah,” Sam said, “the little bastard broke into our house, keeps roaming around defiling it and he poisoned our damn tree. The cops won’t do anything. The Congress refuses to do anything. I’ve tried to toss him out on his ass, but he’s a slimy, slipper motherfu…”

    “Sam,” Mother said, “LANGUAGE!”

    “Sorry, Mother.”

    “Well, Scribe, he’s suppose to be leaving in a few months… though I’ll believe it when it happens.”

     Two children: two boys, played on the floor…

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WAR MACHINE

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 12:36 pm

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