Good

It couldn't happen to a more worthless son-of-a-bitch.

Bruce Daigrepont's Parents Killed In Auto Accident

Story here.

Packers 24, Vikings 19

I texted three young friends to gloat & talk some smack. I was somewhat restrained this year & y'all know why. Still, the Packers' win tonight was a good thing.

Palin

Sorry, people, no American flag bikini & wonderful gun this time. It's about her, hmm, knowledge of the housing crisis.

McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, speaking in Colorado Springs, Colo., said Fannie and Freddie had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." The companies, however, aren't taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization.

My emphasis.

Just So Y'all Know

Favre Wins in Debut for Jets

I hope Ted Thompson sleeps well tonight. Maybe he should hire that shithead Ari Fleischer to help him out again.

When he wasn't helping Dick Cheney out CIA agents, Comical Ari's specialty was spinning lies to the media. The Packers really think he's equipped to help them clean up the mess they've made? Does Fleischer plan to accuse Favre of hiding WMD's in his locker? Unlike White House reporters, local sports reporters tend to know the difference between truth and lies. For the Packers, the nightmare has only begun.

My emphasis.

Socialism

If it's good enough for F-Twins, it's good enough for me & the rest of my country.

The Treasury Department seized control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the giant quasi-public mortgage finance companies, on Sunday and announced a four-part rescue plan that included an open-ended guarantee to provide as much capital as they need to stave off insolvency.

I suppose a cynic would claim that Bu$hCo is protecting the investors at the expense of the people paying the mortgages.

Onward To J.B. Van Hollen's Wet Dream

A ReThuglican police state, even if the "officers" are not the police or even saw the felony occur. I sure hope this "informal" opinion gets shredded soon.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) Private security guards can hold people for felonies they didn't see happen.

That's according to a new informal legal opinion from Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen.

Oh, & here's another recent gem, from Wisco's great embarrassment.

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said jail workers don't have to honor prisoners' do-not-resuscitate orders.

Still A Spoiled Brat

The asshole Bu$hCo still refuses to accept any responsibility. for the war in Iraq. Yeah, that's the ticket, I'll just say someone else did it. From Bob Woodward's new book, The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008, which is to be released next week:

According to Woodward, the president maintained an odd detachment from the reviews of war policy during this period, turning much of the process over to Hadley. "Let's cut to the chase," Bush told Woodward, "Hadley drove a lot of this."

& for another laugh, here's something else the moron said:

The president also conceded: "This war has created a lot of really harsh emotion, out of which comes a lot of harsh rhetoric. One of my failures has been to change the tone in Washington."

As if.

Who Knew?

It's still boggling my head. Better that being crowned rutabaga queen of Wisco or something like that. Unbelieveably, there is an actual crowning of a Rutabaga Queen every year. Watch out Cumberland, Wisco.

Hot Guys, Hey, You Know What I Mean

Emma, The Em-Chantress, Rutabaga Queen of 2007

For more of Emma, go here.

I See The Strategy Now

Let's make a whole lot of people unemployed, that way they won't have moneyh to be able to watch television or listen to the radio or surf that newfangled, dadgumbed Internets tube thing. See, that way they won't know how many people are out of work & we can drive by their houses in brand new, shiny cars & they'll think everything is great, except if they lose thier homes, I wonder, oh, yes, of course, under the bridge that crosses the river over there, somewhere.

Finally, Some Truth From Peggy Noonan

& it ain't one of a thousand points of light. In fact, it's bullshit. Go read the whole transcript of a conversation of ReThugs who thought the mike was turned off. For the good of the country, it wasn't.

CT: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?

PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives --

CT: Yeah they went to a narrative.

My emphasis. & here's some more narrative:

No Sex For You

If you're brown, black, red, yellow, or Democratic. If you are a candidate for the Vice President, it's OK for your 17-year old daughter. I guess it's the Vice part. Oh, & quite the vetting job McLame. So, as usual, it's IOKIYAR. It's not that I am against sex, I'm against hypocrisy. & listen to this, out of the mouth of a candidate for the Vice Presidency:

“Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows that she has our unconditional love and support.”

I mean, Jesus Christ on a potato roll. So much for that pillar of right-wing wingnuttery - personal responsibility. Yeah, yeah, she's going to marry the father, so at least it wasn't a one night stand, although we all know the unfortunate statistics when it comes to a marriage brought on by pregnancy.

According to "Teenage Couples: Caring, Change, and Commitment", by Jeanne Warren Lindsay:

More than 60% of teenage marriages fail within 5 years.

Eleanor H. Ayer's writes in her book, Teen Marriage, that:

"A girl married at 17 is twice as likely to be divorced as a girl 18 or 19. If a girl waits until she is 25 the chances that her marriage will last are 4 times better. Saying No to your partner as a teenager does not mean saying No forever. Why start out with the odds against you?"

Here's a real educated member of Palin's church, Wasilla Bible Church, speaking his entire mind.

Nate Bair, a member of the church, said he is proud to live where Palin grew up. ``Obama is a socialist'' he said.

Speaking of candidate Palin's church, here's the first paragraph of a sermon given on August 17, 2008:

Pastor Larry: The Lord put David Brickner on our calendar almost three years ago, put it in ink, said “David Brickner, August 17th, 2008, Wasilla Bible Church. He’s an international speaker—his schedule ends up being two to three years out. He’s a leader of Jews for Jesus, a ministry that is out on the leading edge in a pressing, demanding area of witnessing and evangelism. Our connection with them probably goes back to the 1970s when I first heard a music group from Jews for Jesus called “The Liberated Wailing Wall” in Seattle, Washington. And they had an impact on my life. They’re one of the reasons I’m a pastor now.

Oh boy, how mavericky is that? Liberating the Wailing Wall? Unfuckingbelieveable. Who the hell vetted this person? On the other hand, she's probably exactly what the ReThugs want in a #2, look at the asshole Dick "Dick" Cheney as an example. My emphasis.

Now, I Would Have Never Thought Of The Connection

-- Sarah Palin is Spiro Agnew --

But the comparisons between Palin and Agnew do not end there. Just as a corruption scandal from Agnew's time as Maryland Governor plagued him throughout his Vice Presidential tenure -- in the end forcing him to resign -- so too does Palin have a corruption problem brewing in the background. What's more, her corruption and abuse of power problem is one easily understood by voters: She allegedly attempted to have fired a state trooper in a custody battle with her sister.

More on Spiro here.

Mr. Roger's, Underground For Five Years, Is Finally Dead

Yes, I watched the show with The Kid. Sometimes I watched it all by myself. Mr. Rogers ranks right up there with golf (when Tiger is not in contention) & baseball in putting me to sleep. There are those heroic, principled parents who are continuing the calm & extremely nice battle to keep him on the air. I'd join them, but I am engaged in the battle to make sure a mean & lying man from becoming the next president, yes, my friends, John McCain must be sent back to the Senate. While Mr. Rogers is infinitely a better human than McCain, Mr. Rogers will need to stay in his cardigan & tennis shoes for awhile yet. Maybe in December 2008?

No Manure, Dick Tracy

Rutgers University explains how lousy it is.

- About 530,000 were subject to mass layoffs in the last year, growth of nearly 5 percent, but a lower rate than five and 10 years ago.

- The median weekly earnings for American workers have not grown in real terms over the last eight years.

- At $6.55, the federal minimum wage is worth 40 cents less per hour, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than it was a decade ago.

- While employer-assisted childcare and employee wellness programs have grown quickly over the last decade, they still cover less than one quarter of American workers.

- Roughly 4 percent of the workforce wants to work full-time, but is working part time because they can't find full-time work.

My emphasis.