News Shots 11/07/09
Appendix fails to assassinate Glenn Beck
The nation asks doctors to put it back for another try.
The Golden State isn’t worth it
After analysis, the studies find that the standard of living in the high tax, high social program, big government state of California, life isn’t as good as in the no taxes, small government state of Texas, and the residents are leaving to lower taxed states in droves.
Having seen this coming, this is why I’m an advocate of small government. Too bad there isn’t a small government-lowtax social liberal party out there for me to get behind.The Democrats every once in a while show some interest in it, especially after Clinton proclaimed the era of big government is over. The rest of the party just hasn’t come around to that concept yet.
Todd Akin gambles on the Pledge of Allegiance, Loses
If you want to use it as a political weapon, you should take care to say all the words. I’m just saying.
Cheney’s FBI interview featured 72 times where he couldn’t recall
I know Reagan got away with it, but really, he had Alzheimer’s. Cheney is just avoiding the question.
And Lo, the two party system did create a void, and out of this void came…third parties
America is seeing the problem with the two parties, and we all know that being an independent is a bad route to go (Joe Lieberman). Most of Europe has several parties (BUT THEY’RE ALL SOCIALISTS), so it’s about time we got in on the action, and allowed some more voices into the debate. It can’t get any worse (right?)
Doug Hoffman, the Conservative of NY-23 claims Glenn Beck is his hero
No wonder that race got so fucked up that the Republican candidate dropped out and endorsed the Democrat. With an election as strange as that, I’m shocked there wasn’t a former porn star or reality TV b-lister also on the ballot.
As a result of Barack Obama’s policies, lobbyists are quitting in droves
If only there were a pied piper to run the rest of them out.
Funny that Bush was never able to do this….
Texas and Ohio voters reject red light cameras
I think that if we can’t get this on the ballot everywhere, we should reject them like the mysterious guy in Chicago: with a cherry picker and the cover of darkness.
Carly Fiorina to run for California Senate seat
Let’s see, she nearly ruined HP and Compaq, got chased out but kept her $29 million golden parachute, and then was economic advisor to John McCain. This is one chick that has failed upwards. The difficulty on this is she has money, connections and media savvy. The easy way to beat her is to point out how few of California’s citizens have a golden parachute in their contracts. Should be easy to paint her as one of those Wall Street types that caused this whole economic disaster, and who can’t relate to the masses like her Democratic opponent.
Michele Bachmann losing aides like Washington is losing Lobbyists
Michelle Marston has left her for being too crazy.
Michael Steele on the mid-term elections: We’re Transcendant
Presumably, the chairman meant that his party is ascendant, meaning on the rise, and not transcendent, meaning beyond the limits of comprehension.
The quote says it best.
So AT&T sued Verizon, and Verizon said, “Um well, ok.”
Seems AT&T was getting killed by the Verizon ads comparing networks, and sued, claiming false advertising. The expectation was Verizom would drop the ads and they’d settle out of court. Verizon, on the other hand, replied very simply by saying, “Prove it.” See, the burden of proof is on AT&T and if Verizon has its facts together, well, AT&T has little legal recourse.
This lamp is consumer retribution
An LED lamp that connects to the phone jack in your wall, stealing power from the phone company.
Dick Grayson
The Caustic personality of Dick Grayson
I have to admit, I like him because of one of his faults. He’s overbearing, and overbearing as a real personality fault, but this also makes him a no bullshit kind of guy, and that’s really what we need in politics.
He’s so brash, nobody wants to run opposing him
That’s one way to win an election.
The Fox News Beat
Jane Hall left Fox because of how skewed they are
She says she left because they stopped debating the issues, and because “Beck is scary”.
White House to Democrats: Stop providing balance to Fox News
I think the idea is to let Fox News continue to become more extreme and more marginalized.
Of course, by the laws of Social Newtonianism, that sort of means they must also become more extreme and marginalized. I wonder if they’ve found some sort of Social Gravitation constant I haven’t worked out quite yet.