Say No to Sycophantism

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"For some time at the outset, we were willing to give Republicans the
benefit of the doubt. They convinced us they were really working, and that
we had just had unfortunate timing. It wasn't until the pattern of "just
missed it" started to sound like a drumbeat in our ears that we began to
grow skeptical. We never "just missed" any of the Obama volunteer work,
because it goes on nonstop, every day, in every office, in every corner of
America."

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/big-empty.html

But, I've always thought that Maddow has been the more balanced, the more
sane, and the less-blowhardish of the two, and part of that has obviously
been due to necessity: Olbermann paved the way for Maddow to be more civil,
because Olbermann had to fight for his spot and Maddow followed his
coattails. But I have high hopes for Maddow's interview tonight. I hope she
asks questions like the following:

1. "Senator, you've visited churches and synagogues during the course of
your campaign, why have you not visited a mosque?"
2. "Sir, is there something wrong with being a Muslim in America?"

Obama's a politician, probably a once-in-a-generation type politician, and I
love him. I understand he's playing to win, and by distancing himself from
muslims he thinks he has a better chance of winning. I get that. But that
doesn't mean that he shouldn't be asked about it and be forced to make clear
what is right and what is not. The right (except Colin Powell) thinks that
it's perfectly dandy for Obama to distance himself from Muslims and cast
them as the "other". The left stays silent on the issue. Democracy and
religious freedom are the losers.

Ted Stevens GUILTY: http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=6088781&page=1

John Galt is dead. We can only hope he stays buried."

src: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/26/18615/754/931/640790

I couldn't have put it better myself. I fell in love with Roark, Galt,
Dominique, Dagny, Hank, Frisco, and the rest of the capitalists--as-atlas
gang in 8th grade [yes, you are allowed to call me a nerd]. Rand's books are
inspiring. Her characters are inspiring. I could still re-read The
Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged or We The Living and thoroughly enjoy it.
These books, however, just don't have any basis in reality, and people who
think so are subjects of a mass delusion.

Amen.

src:http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/10/25/184213/44

Six choice adjectives to describe Palin. Excellent.

src:
http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/23/jewish_vote/permalink/c6fb239adff165730d6322dc3086225f.html

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/23/campaign_myths/

Personally, I have absolutely no idea why Muslims would still support the
Republican party as it exists today. I understand that a lot of us did in
2000 (I didn't, because W. seemed a little too incurious and dumb), because
let's face it, we're at heart extremely conservative about these so-called
"moral" values (anti-abortion, anti-gays, anti-sex, etc. etc.), so on face
value, we're perfectly aligned with movement conservatism. Until we realize
that movement conservatism is very similar to Bin Laden's Islam. The
ultimate end-goal of movement conservatism is theocracy, and in this case, a
Christianist theocracy in which there is no room for other religions.

For those who are not aware, movement conservatism's original boogeyman was
not Islam, but Judaism! You only have to read about Nixon's and Kissinger's
rants against Israel and Jews to get a very clear idea of the modern
Republican party's heritage. Some Muslims, in a misguided attempt of
thinking "any enemy of the jews is my friend", have been unflinching
Republicans since. Little do they realize that the enemy of any religion is
our enemy, because the demonization of any single religion is only a
stepping stone to the demonization of all religions save for the one
endorsed by the party in power.

From Sidd:
I went to an ATM today, and it asked to borrow a twenty till next week.

From monta's ankle:
I went to fill up my gas tank and I couldn't decide between leveraged and
unleveraged.

From Rob Dawg:
Went to Best Buy to get a toaster and they gave me a free bank with purchase

via: CR [calculatedrisk.blogspot.com]

by John Cleese

Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You're a profanity
Hannity

Damn straight.