Your Side Sucks When...

You compare the attempt give more Americans access to health care to the damned Holocaust.

Also, anybody comparing what these mobs are doing at town halls to the Boston Tea Party should do the world a favor and remove themselves from the gene pool.

Telling Both Sides

The biggest thing that drives me nuts about today's traditional media is how their attempts to appear impartial allow really stupid shit to become part of the mainstream discussion on policy issues.

Take for example the 'Obama wants to kill old people' craziness going around. A Republican claims Obama wants to kill old people a Democrat says no he doesn't then we cut to commerical. A responsible press would point out that no Obama doesn't want to kill old people and the Republicans spouting this were making shit up. That wouldn't be taking sides, that would be reporting the facts.

I do a lot of fantasy football writing. If I just made up a bunch of facts and figures nobody would publish me work. Senators/Congressmen/pundits that make shit up should have the same problem.

Health Care Stupidity

I really wish that whenever a Republican/conservative/idiot proclaims that we can't have government run health care that somebody would ask them why are they so against Medicare.

The problem is that Democrats are stupid.

Greg Lalas Gets Paid To Write Articles...

That kinda suck.

Lalas is worried that 1860 (a team in the 2.Bundesliga) isn't the right team for Kenny Cooper (an American soccer player) to transfer to in order to make the US WC roster. Why?

And the reality is the 2.Bundesliga is not glamorous. Sure, Cooper will make more money than he did in MLS, but he's going to have to fight and claw for every little inch, for every chance, for every goal. There are no guarantees 1860 is going to be anything more than mediocre. Yes, 1860 plays its home matches in the magnificent 69,000-seat Allianz Arena, which it half-fills on good days. But that just serves to remind all of us on the outside 1860 is not Bayern Munich, which sells out every home game in the same stadium.

I guess Lalas thinks that the best way for Cooper to get on the WC roster is just to cash it in with Dallas in the oh so glamorous MLS.

I wish I knew Alexi Lalas so I could get paid to write really stupid articles. Instead, I end up doing it for free.

Sportsnation

Anybody seen this travesty of a show? The hosts discuss some irrelevant sports topic and then their six viewers vote on some aspect of the story. Not all of it is sports stuff. One of the things they asked their viewers was 'Will you eat a serving of vegetables this week?'. Really?

I think it is also fair to point out that the people who actually like Colin Cowherd are idiots, assholes or both. No exceptions.

Talking About Important Things

Great to see that the press decided that the big important thing to talk about from Obama's press conference the other night is his comments on the Gates arrest. Last time the stories were about how the press were getting aggressive with Obama and his smoking.

First Read asking the most important question....

“Honest question: Is there a point when the president knows too much about an issue?

Yeah it really is a drag to have a President that knows what he is talking about. If only we had a President that talked in nothing but folksy terms, didn't really care about policy details and liked to clear brush. It worked awesome last time.

We are so fucked.

Stop The Stupid (fantasy football edition)

I'm currently a kinda-sorta co-owner in a fantasy football league. There are some good owners in the league, but the bad ones are the kinda bad that you hope and pray sign up for you money league. A quick example....

Twice, I have seen owners draft a wide receiver as a handcuff.

I get the whole handcuff idea. I have used it in the past and will use it in the future. I, however, use it very rarely. I'm not going to select a player two or three rounds early simply so I can stash him away on my roster and hope that the starter gets injured and then pray that the offense doesn't totally change. I only handcuff running backs though and only if I have a late round pick to blow or if I pick a guy like LT where there is a clear quality back-up in place.

Drafting a wide receiver as a handcuff is stupid. I won't go into all the reasons, but simply point out that as a running back you don't have to get open to receive a hand-off.

Stupid Is In The Air Today

Olive Garden thinks Letterman is a big jerk.
Following a week of back and forth between CBS late-night comic David Letterman and Sarah Palin over a crude joke he told about the Alaska Republican governor’s daughter, the Olive Garden restaurant says it is canceling all of its scheduled ads on Letterman’s “Late Show” for the rest of the year.
Does anybody even eat at The Olive Garden anymore? If so, why?

Just Like The Iranians

Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) is stupid. His tweet (god how I hate that word).

Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House.

I was talking to Chopenstein last night about Congress getting involved in baseball when they could be doing more meaningful things. I ask you Chopenstein (or whatever your sign-in here is) do you want such stupid people meddling in important things? Baseball is already screwed up, they can't really do much harm there.

On the positive side, there is some top notch mocking of Hekstra going on.

I got a splinter in my hand today. Felt just like Jesus getting nailed to the cross.

And.

Had to move all my stuff to a new office w/o a corner view. Now i know what the Trail of Tears was like.

Big Balls

Karl Rove has em.

VAN SUSTEREN: Do you take some responsibility, meaning you, the Bush eight years, for this...

ROVE: No.

VAN SUSTEREN: You take absolutely no responsibility? Because...

ROVE: No.

The deficit is 1.8 trillion for this year. When Obama took office he was handed a 1.2 trillion deficit. And it is all Obama's fault.

Dear Conservatives,

Wanna know why we think you are stupid? Cause you are.

Sotomayor also claimed: “For me, a very special part of my being Latina is the mucho platos de arroz, gandoles y pernir — rice, beans and pork — that I have eaten at countless family holidays and special events.”

This has prompted some Republicans to muse privately about whether Sotomayor is suggesting that distinctive Puerto Rican cuisine such as patitas de cerdo con garbanzo — pigs’ feet with chickpeas — would somehow, in some small way influence her verdicts from the bench.

Signed,
me

Making Cheney Look Classy

I didn't think it could be done, but Specter seems to be making a run at it.

He's touting--and raising money from--a website called specterforthecure.com, which he describes as "a bold new initiative to reform our government's medical research efforts, cut red tape and unstrangle the hope for accelerated cures."

But the money he's raising isn't funding research grants, or advocacy, or treatment for patients who can't afford it. It's funding the Senate re-election campaign of one Arlen Specter.

I said getting him to join the party was stupid.

Very Special Condiment

Sean Hannity is a very special journalist.
Now, the Gateway Pundit blog pointed out that plain old ketchup, well, it didn't quite cut it for the president. Now take a look at him ordering his burger with a very special condiment. ... Dijon mustard?

Why I Love The GOP

Stuff like this.

Republicans looking to recover from Bush-era defeats are turning to an unlikely source for advice: top aides to former President George W. Bush.

The Sky Is Falling - Oh wait, it's just the flu

Paging Y2K fanatics. Please put down your jugs of water and read this courtesy of Time Magazine.

One of the more telling sentences that likely many people glossed over: A pandemic doesn't mean that a new virus is unusually deadly, only that it spreads easily.

Hope you saved that bomb shelter receipt.

Mark Halperin Is Stupid

I stopped reading Mark Halperin's The Page a long time ago. Part of it had to do with The Page looking more like a well done myspace page rather than a new site. The big reason is that Mark Halperin is stupid. I give you this example as proof.

There have been 110 Supreme Court Justices. Of those 110 Justices, 106 of them have been white men. Mark Halperin is stupid.

Stop The Stupid

Could somebody fill me in on what danger the US is in since Obama smiled while shaking hands with Chavez? I watched a bit of Morning Joe today (yeah I know I have nobody to blame buy myself) and Joe nearly went Glenn Beck in a Doom Bunker over how horrible this was.

Teabagging Fun

I don't think anybody ever really cleared up what the Teabaggers are protesting. It seems to be a combination of taxes, government spending and the fact that Obama is a dirty fascist.

Steve Benen tagged an exchange that CNN had with some protesters.

Realizing that she probably wasn't going to get anything coherent from this guy, Roesgen then spoke to another man, who proceeded to ramble on about why Obama should be more like Abraham Lincoln, who didn't try to take taxpayers' money.

Benen points out a problem with using Lincoln as a hero for the anti-tax brigade.

Not only did Lincoln vastly expand the power of the federal government -- up to and including suspending habeas -- he also was the first president to impose an income tax. Worse, it was a progressive income tax, that charged wealthier taxpayers more.

A Collection of Stupid

1. Who cares if ASU isn't going to give Obama an honorary degree? I have seen at least three different segments treating this as if it were big news...why?

2. Who cares if Obama bowed or didn't. The last guy was holding hands and swapping spit with the guy.

3.

Words Have Meaning

Defense Budget in 2009: 513 billion
Defense Budget in 2010: 534 billion

Considering the above it would seem pretty stupid for a major media outlet to publish an article about how Obama and Gates were 'gutting' the military. The Wall Street Journal says hi.