The hate


Andrew Sullvan on the Presidential race: "...the pathologies now affecting the far left are as real and as deep as those afflicting the far right. They deserve each other; but they do not deserve to usurp the discourse in the next two months."




And if Zell Miller was President, we wouldn't have all these problems

Anyone deluded enough to think the Republican Party is fair-minded and inclusive didn't see the rousing applause delegates gave to Zell Miller last night. Miller is the last of the Dixiecrats, a man who lambasted Lyndon Johnson for selling out to the negroes by signing the 1964 Civil Right Acts. But the world is changing, and women and negroes want the same rights as rich, white, southern landowners, and the only people who will listen to poor Zell's tale of woe are the Republicans.

Shame on them.


The occupiers

Slate's Will Saletan says the 2000 election is becoming a referendom on our right to hold the President accountable.

But the important thing isn't the falsity of the charges, which Republicans continue to repeat despite press reports debunking them. The important thing is that the GOP is trying to quash criticism of the president simply because it's criticism of the president. The election is becoming a referendum on democracy.

In a democracy, the commander in chief works for you. You hire him when you elect him. You watch him do the job. If he makes good decisions and serves your interests, you rehire him. If he doesn't, you fire him by voting for his opponent in the next election.

Not every country works this way. In some countries, the commander in chief builds a propaganda apparatus that equates him with the military and the nation. If you object that he's making bad decisions and disserving the national interest, you're accused of weakening the nation, undermining its security, sabotaging the commander in chief, and serving a foreign power—the very charges Miller leveled tonight against Bush's critics.

Are you prepared to become one of those countries?

Hat tip to Roger Ailes.


A non-political post

A third of my readers think I've been too serious lately, so I will tell a joke:

A young Catholic man goes to confession and says, "Father, it has been one month since my last confession. I have had sex with Nookie Green every week for the last month."

The priest tells the sinner, "You are forgiven. Go out and say three Hail Mary's."

Soon after, another man enters the confessional. "Father, it has been two months since my last confession. I have had sex with Nookie Green twice week for the last two months."

This time the priest questions, "Who is Nookie Green?"

"A new woman in the neighborhood," the sinner replies.

"Very well," sighs the priest. "Go and say ten Hail Mary's."

At Mass the next morning, as the priest prepares to deliver his sermon, a tall, voluptuous, drop dead gorgeous woman enters the sanctuary. The eyes of every man in the church fall upon her as she slowly sashays up the aisle and sits down right in front of the priest! Her dress is green and very short, with matching shiny emerald green shoes.

The priest and altar boy gasp, as the woman in the matching green shoes and dress sits with her legs slightly spread apart. The priest turns to the altar boy and whispers, "Is that Nookie Green?"

The bug-eyed altar boy can't believe his ears but replies, "No, I think it's just the reflection off her shoes!"

(Hat tip to Roger O.)
2.9.04 01:43
 


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blogenlust / Website (2.9.04 01:52)
 Amen!


Tara / Website (2.9.04 23:45)
 Need... non.... political.... post.... going.... through.... with.... drawal......

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