Because I Am 12

Overnight Sorta Music Thread

Remember That DHS Report?

After the shooting of Dr. Tiller and now the shooting at the Holocaust Museum, do you think the conservatives that were calling for heads will now admit to being wrong?

I don't think so either.

The People On My TV Are Idiots

Mika Brzezinski from Morning Joe talking about Unions :

"They cripple the system that makes a company work."

UPS, currently being crippled by unions, made more than 3 Billion last year. Even worse, GE which owns NBC and thus MSNBC has 13 different unions that represent their workers.

It says a lot about our political commentary that you don't have to be all that informed about public policy or even simple facts to make a comfortable living doing it.

TPM has a list of more companies being crippled by unions.

Thanks GOP!

Without you the country would be ignorant to how oppressed the white male is.

This Sotomayor crap is going to drive me crazy.

MIA

Been out working on a project that I will be letting the rest of you (all three of you) in on in the future, but for now I am back to my irregular blogging.

Awesome

Awkward family photo blog.

One of my favorites.

Deep Thought

You sound like a giant pussy when you complain about Wanda Sykes being a big meanie.

I Love America

US Pole Dancing Championship.

NFL Draft

A quick vid to get you game ready for today's draft.

Just sayin

Why are people surprised that some of the banks have been showing a profit? Haven't we been funneling a fair amount of money to them over the last several months. I know shit about business, but you give me a couple of billion dollars and I will show you a profit as well. Just sayin

Overnight Non-Music

I'm struggling to find some new music. For those of you that have any feel free to drop a link in the comment section. For those of you that know my email addy, feel free to drop it there as well.

Instead of overnight music I offer a friendly reminder that one of my favorite shows kicks off tonight.

Speaking of Things That Make Me Laugh

Via TBogg, this cracks me up.

I just wanna say that personally, I don't wanna see any tea bagging on the 15th. What right wingers want to do in their free time is their business, but keep it off my teevee.

"You're Going To Need A Dick Armey"

David Schuster makes me laugh.

And to keep in the theme of this post, Ed Schultz's new show on MSNBC blows.

Wasn't Joe The Plumber Available?

You know you faux populist event sucks when Alan Keyes is your headliner.

Speaking of Joe The Plumber, I caught him on Bill Maher this past weekend. Maher's show has really brought the suck this season. You get Joe The (non) Plumber on your show and you don't ridicule the man? Then you let David Frum ramble on about how Obama is such a failure? Maher kinda sucks these days. Just saying.

Bringing The Funny

From Kung Fu Monkey -

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

Stop The Stupid

The media's fixation on Obama using a teleprompter for prepared remarks drives me up the fucking wall. It is almost as if they don't read their own articles.

Every president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has used teleprompters, but none as extensively as Mr. Obama.

Ahhhh so everybody since Esenhower has used them, but Obama uses them more. Good to know.

Instead, when they used prepared remarks, other presidents tended to use printouts or note cards.

Damn you Obama and your use of technology!

Stop It

While I am bitching about things I just wanted to add that everybody has to stop using 'That is/isn't change we can believe in' type comments when talking about the Obama administration. It was a fucking campaign slogan and using it in the lead in or summary of anything is uncreative and lazy. Also, 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss' is nearly as stupid.

Twitter is for high schoolers

I have long resisted most of the social networking tools. Myspace always seemed to high schoolish to me. I joined recently, because I read it was a great way to drum up readers for blogs. It hasn't worked, but everyday I get invites from 16-year old kids to check out their page. After I recover from the seizure that their page usually gives me due to all the flashy gadgets and what not on it I'm usually left wondering why I ever joined. Same with facebook, which I haven't checked in months.

I'm drawing the line at Twitter. I'm still trying to figure out what the point of it is. I read somewhere that over 300k where following Shaq's Twitter account. Why? I read a lot of blog and a number of them are Twittering. National journalists are even doing it and so are several Senators and Congressmen. One Twitter episode reaffirmed my believe that Twitter really is for high school kids. The quick run-down.

Jake Tapper tweeted (is that the correct term) about Obama's Special Olympics comment from Leno. Actually, Tapper tweeted about it three different times. This is/was, afterall, big important news. Tapper got some mocking from a couple of bloggers. Remember, the meme from the media of late is that Obama shouldn't be doing anything but sitting in a room and thinking really really hard about how to fix the economy and nothing else. Well Tapper didn't like the mocking so he blocked the blogs from reading his Twitter account. Several years ago I coached a team of middle school girls. It reminding me of some of the stupid immature shit I had to deal with them.

Stop Twittering people.

Rethinking My Obama Support

My first thoughts while reading this article with my morning coffee was that it was pretty cool. I mean they are going to have beehives! The problem is that they are also going to be growing cilantro and cilantro is just disgusting. It grew it for the first and last time in my herb garden this past summer. I am, however, a big fan of Thai Basil which is also going to be included.