Obama is nothing without a teleprompter, other than when he’s waxing the floor with top GOP lawmakers in a little unscripted Q & A slaughterfest. But he is part African, which means he’s dumb. Get it.
Sarah Palin, on the other hand, well, obviously, white people don’t need no teleprompters. Even for scripited Q & A fluff fests.
Fear the Dumbpocalypse.
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February 7, 2010 at 11:38 am
It will be interesting to watch Sarah’s “triangulation” strategy unfold.
February 7, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Nothing could be more awesome than for her to get the GOP nomination in ’12.
It would be a train wreck of unimaginable proportions.
February 7, 2010 at 1:18 pm
I am divided between thinking we should encourage her potential candidacy to foster such wreckage, and fear that we misunderestimate (sic!I actually wrote that! sick!) the prevailing political climate’s degree of insanity.
February 7, 2010 at 1:44 pm
I say let her run, she’s putting the magnifying glass on the “teh stupid”. In my own unscientific poll of my republican friends, they think she’s off the rails.
February 7, 2010 at 1:44 pm
don’t worry about her running as President. As soon as we start requiring civics tests for voters, everyone who would vote for her won’t be allowed to.
February 7, 2010 at 2:07 pm
I have to agree with kenmeer. I am torn between desperately wanting to see the spectacular stupid (yes, I am a condescending elite liberal) that would ensue with a Palin/(insert favorite drug induced choice for VP here) candidacy and frightened of the distinct possibility that the political/corporate media project to dumb down the population has actually succeeded and they would win.
February 7, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Maybe she could wink at McCain and get him to be her VP pick. That would be awesome.
February 7, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Envisioning for a brief bong hit that she could get the nod, that VP choice is a thorny one, alright.
February 7, 2010 at 2:20 pm
For the footballers:
Puppy Bowl
February 7, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Courtesy radicalnota
February 7, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Kenmeer,
Thanks for casting whatever spell it takes to make that video thingy magically appear on the page. Me get scared playing with the devil code.
February 8, 2010 at 9:33 am
Is easy: at r-hand side of screen of whatever youtube you play is a box that says, among other things, URL and Embed. Just cut’n'paste the alphanumerals in the embed box and plop ‘em in the post comment box.
February 8, 2010 at 2:17 pm
But do I need any special talisman to keep those alphanumerals from jumping into my head and making the video play in an endless loop or is a tin foil hat up to the job?
February 7, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Shatner wants to play uh, ball.
February 7, 2010 at 4:07 pm
proto-prog
1970 was a very strange year.
February 7, 2010 at 4:12 pm
And then, w/lyrics like “you;re a child of the sun, gotta getchyer mother nature, getchyer mother nature, getchyer mother nature on the run…”, this brief extravaganza of, um, roots rock-prog? is the closest thing to adult comix that my ears will take:
(some bong assembly required)
February 7, 2010 at 4:15 pm
That tune by The Flock, Uranian Sircus, sounds as if The Partridge Family jammed with Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew band.
February 7, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Can’t be any worse than whatever dreck they made you suckers listen to at halftime.
February 7, 2010 at 4:22 pm
YOur tax $$s at work (emphasis mine):
“The Flock was a Chicago-based jazz-rock band that released two records on Columbia records in 1969 (The Flock) and 1970 (Dinosaur Swamps). The Flock did not achieve the commercial success of other Columbia jazz-rock groups of the era such as Chicago and Blood Sweat & Tears, but were most notable for their inclusion of a prominent violin in their recordings. The violinist, Jerry Goodman, went on to become a member of Mahavishnu Orchestra and a solo artist.
The members at the time of their 1969 studio recording were Fred Glickstein (guitar, lead vocals), Jerry Goodman (violin), Jerry Smith (bass), Ron Karpman (drums), Rick Canoff (saxophone), Tom Webb (saxophone) and Frank Posa (trumpet).
“After a highly promising first album that was further “outside,” jazz/fusion-wise than either Chicago or BS&T (owing, to a great extent, to the influence of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew album, which Webb participated in, but whose performance was not recorded), Columbia Records’ Clive Davis raided The Flock, stealing Goodman for the Mahavishnu Orchestra project: apparently jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty was guitarist-bandleader Mahavishnu John McLaughlin’s first choice, but the U.S. government would not grant Ponty a work-permit visa. The effect of taking Goodman out of The Flock was predictably disastrous, the rough equivalent of pulling George Harrison out of The Beatles.“
February 7, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Interesting. I never delved into the pre-Mahavishnu exploits of any of them except McLaughlin. And speaking of Goodman, he and Jan Hammer made a post-’vishnu record called Like Children. I haven’t heard it in decades, but I remember having the opinion that it was really good.
And re Ponty: Saw him at the Great Southeast Music Hall in Atlanta (best known for a Sex Pistols show) ca. 1976, and the opening act was an unknown comedian named Billy Crystal.
February 7, 2010 at 5:33 pm
I wish curv’ or the Eds would live blog the super bowl, so Kenmeer and I would know what’s going on.
February 7, 2010 at 6:04 pm
I’ve researched. I think it’s something like this:
February 7, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Obama is the new king of that snotty I-talk-because-I-can’t-write black upper class. The literary unintelligible crown had once belonged to Stanley Crouch but Stan was a tad too black, if you know what I mean and I think you do. If not:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-06/ralph-ellisons-endless-blues/?cid=hp:mainpromo7
February 7, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Not sure I get your drift, but I just ordered a copy of Invisible Man.
February 8, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Agreed.
What I was trying to say was that the Crouch article was unintelligible. I got the drift that Invisible Man was a mighty important book, but I have no idea why. Further more, since Ellison only wrote one novel, why does Crouch think Ellison was/still-is the literary second coming? Crouch may have given a reason but his writing was so unreadable I’ll never know.
February 7, 2010 at 8:16 pm
And so it begins. I do hope Rahm is a goner.
February 7, 2010 at 8:48 pm
That’s the problem with those mean junkyard dogs.
February 7, 2010 at 8:32 pm
We all know obama cant write on his hand cause he couldn’t read it.
The honorable Ms. Palin shall keep the nukular codes written near her ying yang. It shall be known as a “pants down” response.
I woulda suggested she bring trig up there and strategically hide notes throughout his little person but the whole political correctness of scribbling on a retarded baby might come into play.
February 7, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Scratch “retarded”. That was wrong.
February 7, 2010 at 11:15 pm
I don’t think Palin can win New Hampshire, maybe Iowa, maybe South Carolina. After that, I’d be surprised if she could manage 45% of the electoral vote. But, who knows? It depends on Unemployment figures and security issues. Romney is just as fucking retarded and more dangerous…. . Jobs, jobs, jobs and we have to maintain some base turnout, all winning Conservative elections are predicated on low voter turnout, higher turnout, the more progressive…
February 8, 2010 at 7:53 am
And people forget that the GOP will get no more than 5% of the black vote and no more than 10% of the hispanic vote for at least the next 50 years.
February 8, 2010 at 9:40 am
It’s irrational to rationally anticipate irrational results, but these Americans have gone crazy.
They bought the Morning in America drug in ’80 and haven’t been able to quite since.
But I don’t think the’s the intended nominee of ther movement/handlers. I think she’s more like the carved figurine on the prow of a sea clipper.
Some darkhorse will come along and co-opt the hopey-change solidarity that is the teabaggers (and for all their fractiousness, they nonetheless represent an easily commodified voting bloc; and compared to the Democratic Congressional majority, they’re practically the Borg).
Sarah will probably end up a prominent FOX news shill who serves uniquely well to pound Dems and pad Reps.
February 8, 2010 at 9:45 am
The greatest crime of Reagan and Bush II was causing crazy people to think the country belongs to them and that they know how to run it.
February 8, 2010 at 10:12 am
Worse, the basic premise of this is that gubbmint is ebil. A more juvenile political philosophy exists only in Soviet era dogma, and the Sovs at least had the historical justification of overthrowing a genuinely evil monarchy.
These people see FDR as Ivan the Terrible.
February 8, 2010 at 9:52 am
Also, ‘mer’cans MISS the War on Terror, it’s sense of purposeful certainty, reassuring Manichean morality, televised bloodlust broadcast in a spectrum from 24 to Coulter Does Hannity… and Sarah’s giving then the excuse and hope to believe the W0T will continue forever.
February 8, 2010 at 10:36 am
I’m finding it increasingly difficult to care to distinguish between the opposing camps.
Hillary as Sec of State is banging the same sad gong that Iran=nuke cloud over Israel/Jew York (I stole that epithet from an old Vonnegut novel).
I’m just grumpy this AM, especially upon discovering that no one actually *bowls* at the Super Bowl.
Much like my disillusionment when I learned that the World Cup wasn’t a golden crotch protector but some ludicrous stein.
February 8, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Kenmeer,
We must be on some synchronistic mind meld today. It’s one of those days where my idealism runs headlong into the brick wall of reality and it doesn’t help that I’m trying to kick the nicotine addiction for the 873rd time. Grumpy doesn’t do justice to the dark cloud hanging over my head.
Damn, I picked a bad day to stop snorting Ajax.
February 8, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Profound sympathy for the tobacco curse. It taps deep into some plexus of boredom, thanatos, and passing dissatisfaction to hook us deep: in other words, it’s smokable internet.
As for the Ajax, you’ve only yourself to blame.
February 8, 2010 at 5:06 pm
“As for the Ajax, you’ve only yourself to blame.”
Are you implying that I should take responsibility for my behavior? And here I thought I was an idealist. You need help.
February 8, 2010 at 7:14 pm
“You need help.”
I wouldn’t if you’d take responsibility for my behavior like you’re supposed to.
February 9, 2010 at 8:21 am
Oi! I quit 9 months ago. It was my 5th time and it took a full 6 months before the 24 hour cravings went away. Then they diminished gradually. I still would love to have a Marlboro light. I can’t even be in the same friggin room with smoking people yet.
Anyway, whoever said that after 3 days the addiction is gone should be rolled, chopped, stuffed and smoked. Twenty times.
February 9, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Consider me “should be rolled, chopped, stuffed and smoked. Twenty times.”
But I;ve never said it works that way for everyone. But for me, for some reason, quitting smokes is a breeze. Drinking, however…
February 9, 2010 at 7:34 pm
I quit smoking about 8/9 months ago, and I used the patch, and I’m pretty happy that my cravings are kinda gone.
I notice that the cravings came like a wave with a peak and a decline, riding out that peak was the hard part.
I think the cigarette taxes really helped to incentivize quitting. It did for me.
February 8, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Palin/Taitz in ’12 would be teh awesome.
’2012~The Dumbpocalyse’ is the movie.
The TV spinoff is ‘The Dolt and The Imbecile”.
February 15, 2010 at 11:29 am
I think the cigarette taxes really helped to incentivize quitting. It did for me.