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Aug. 30th, 2012
Sarah Palin
Aug. 30th, 2012 06:00 am"I’m sorry Fox cancelled all my scheduled interviews tonight because I sure wanted to take the opportunity on the air to highlight Senator John McCain’s positive contributions to America, to honor him, and to reflect on what a biased media unfairly put him through four years ago tonight. Granted, our honored and esteemed war hero has gone through much more than the liberal media can ever do to him in their efforts to harm this patriot. I look forward to hearing his words to his fellow Americans tonight more than any of the other convention speeches. God bless John McCain. Thank you for everything. And happy birthday, my friend."
-- Sarah Palin, the 2008 vice-presidential nominee for the Republican Party, via Facebook
Ouch, it looks like Sarah Palin is being drastically brought down to size and humbled. Maybe the movie "Game Change" on the 2008 election, dramatizing vividly to the popular audience how dingy and flakey she is, that forced this move. The Republicans are apparently doing what they can to fix their image as the dingy reality-TV Party. Maybe it won't be long before we stop hearing anything from her, as she sort of disappears from history. Unfortunately for the Party and for the country, their dingy problem runs much deeper than Sarah, who was just an attractive front-person for that element of the country.
-- Sarah Palin, the 2008 vice-presidential nominee for the Republican Party, via Facebook
Ouch, it looks like Sarah Palin is being drastically brought down to size and humbled. Maybe the movie "Game Change" on the 2008 election, dramatizing vividly to the popular audience how dingy and flakey she is, that forced this move. The Republicans are apparently doing what they can to fix their image as the dingy reality-TV Party. Maybe it won't be long before we stop hearing anything from her, as she sort of disappears from history. Unfortunately for the Party and for the country, their dingy problem runs much deeper than Sarah, who was just an attractive front-person for that element of the country.
Sarah Palin
Aug. 30th, 2012 06:00 am"I’m sorry Fox cancelled all my scheduled interviews tonight because I sure wanted to take the opportunity on the air to highlight Senator John McCain’s positive contributions to America, to honor him, and to reflect on what a biased media unfairly put him through four years ago tonight. Granted, our honored and esteemed war hero has gone through much more than the liberal media can ever do to him in their efforts to harm this patriot. I look forward to hearing his words to his fellow Americans tonight more than any of the other convention speeches. God bless John McCain. Thank you for everything. And happy birthday, my friend."
-- Sarah Palin, the 2008 vice-presidential nominee for the Republican Party, via Facebook
Ouch, it looks like Sarah Palin is being drastically brought down to size and humbled. Maybe the movie "Game Change" on the 2008 election, dramatizing vividly to the popular audience how dingy and flakey she is, that forced this move. The Republicans are apparently doing what they can to fix their image as the dingy reality-TV Party. Maybe it won't be long before we stop hearing anything from her, as she sort of disappears from history. Unfortunately for the Party and for the country, their dingy problem runs much deeper than Sarah, who was just an attractive front-person for that element of the country.
-- Sarah Palin, the 2008 vice-presidential nominee for the Republican Party, via Facebook
Ouch, it looks like Sarah Palin is being drastically brought down to size and humbled. Maybe the movie "Game Change" on the 2008 election, dramatizing vividly to the popular audience how dingy and flakey she is, that forced this move. The Republicans are apparently doing what they can to fix their image as the dingy reality-TV Party. Maybe it won't be long before we stop hearing anything from her, as she sort of disappears from history. Unfortunately for the Party and for the country, their dingy problem runs much deeper than Sarah, who was just an attractive front-person for that element of the country.
Courtney Stodden
Aug. 30th, 2012 09:00 am
Courtney Stodden is finally legal. So, more than her husband can now see some of her action without risking serious prison time. Apparently she is even getting some porn offers.
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Courtney Stodden turned 18 years old today ... which means she can vote ... or play the lotto ... or accept any one of the FOUR offers she's already received to be a HARDCORE PORN STAR.
Stodden -- who married a 50-year-old actor when she was 16 -- has been shamelessly teasing her lady parts for years ... exploiting the hell out of her underage sexuality in the hopes of staying famous.
Now that she's "legal" -- at least 4 porno companies are hoping she puts her money (and a whole lot more) where her mouth is ... offering her up lucrative XXX contracts.
One of the companies is Brazzers.com ... which says it wants to "showcase [her] talents" by featuring her in a scene with male porn star Keiran Lee ... who Brazzers describes as the man with the "million dollar penis."
Stodden also got an offer from Babes.com ... which says it already penned a porno movie specifically for Courtney based on her real life experience. The flick is called, "Happily Humping My Hubby."
TMZ obtained a copy of the script, which contains the following line for Courtney:
"I may be young but I can s*** a d*** like a much, MUCH more experienced s***. I’ll d*** t**** it, l*** his b****, do whatever I gotta do to get that m**** l*** all on my f***."
So far, it's unclear if Courtney is considering any of the offers.
-- ONTD
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I was unable to fill in the asterisked words in the last half of that scripted line, but fortunately an ONTDer has helped us out: "i may be young but i can suck a dick like a much, MUCH more experienced slut. i'll deep throat it, lick his balls, do whatever i gotta do to get that manly load all on my face."
Happy birthday, baby!
Courtney Stodden
Aug. 30th, 2012 09:00 am
Courtney Stodden is finally legal. So, more than her husband can now see some of her action without risking serious prison time. Apparently she is even getting some porn offers.
_ _ _
Courtney Stodden turned 18 years old today ... which means she can vote ... or play the lotto ... or accept any one of the FOUR offers she's already received to be a HARDCORE PORN STAR.
Stodden -- who married a 50-year-old actor when she was 16 -- has been shamelessly teasing her lady parts for years ... exploiting the hell out of her underage sexuality in the hopes of staying famous.
Now that she's "legal" -- at least 4 porno companies are hoping she puts her money (and a whole lot more) where her mouth is ... offering her up lucrative XXX contracts.
One of the companies is Brazzers.com ... which says it wants to "showcase [her] talents" by featuring her in a scene with male porn star Keiran Lee ... who Brazzers describes as the man with the "million dollar penis."
Stodden also got an offer from Babes.com ... which says it already penned a porno movie specifically for Courtney based on her real life experience. The flick is called, "Happily Humping My Hubby."
TMZ obtained a copy of the script, which contains the following line for Courtney:
"I may be young but I can s*** a d*** like a much, MUCH more experienced s***. I’ll d*** t**** it, l*** his b****, do whatever I gotta do to get that m**** l*** all on my f***."
So far, it's unclear if Courtney is considering any of the offers.
-- ONTD
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I was unable to fill in the asterisked words in the last half of that scripted line, but fortunately an ONTDer has helped us out: "i may be young but i can suck a dick like a much, MUCH more experienced slut. i'll deep throat it, lick his balls, do whatever i gotta do to get that manly load all on my face."
Happy birthday, baby!
The Wealthy Secede from America?
Aug. 30th, 2012 06:00 pmHere is an intense little piece on the consolidation of plutocratic power. And it seems to be from a Republican for a conservative publication.
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Our plutocracy now lives like the British in colonial India: in the place and ruling it, but not of it. If one can afford private security, public safety is of no concern; if one owns a Gulfstream jet, crumbling bridges cause less apprehension—and viable public transportation doesn’t even show up on the radar screen. With private doctors on call and a chartered plane to get to the Mayo Clinic, why worry about Medicare?
Being in the country but not of it is what gives the contemporary American super-rich their quality of being abstracted and clueless. Perhaps that explains why Mitt Romney’s regular-guy anecdotes always seem a bit strained.
[...]
The objective of the predatory super-rich and their political handmaidens is to discredit and destroy the traditional nation state and auction its resources to themselves. Those super-rich, in turn, aim to create a “tollbooth” economy, whereby more and more of our highways, bridges, libraries, parks, and beaches are possessed by private oligarchs who will extract a toll from the rest of us. Was this the vision of the Founders? Was this why they believed governments were instituted among men—that the very sinews of the state should be possessed by the wealthy in the same manner that kingdoms of the Old World were the personal property of the monarch?
-- Mike Lofgren at The American Conservative
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Our plutocracy now lives like the British in colonial India: in the place and ruling it, but not of it. If one can afford private security, public safety is of no concern; if one owns a Gulfstream jet, crumbling bridges cause less apprehension—and viable public transportation doesn’t even show up on the radar screen. With private doctors on call and a chartered plane to get to the Mayo Clinic, why worry about Medicare?
Being in the country but not of it is what gives the contemporary American super-rich their quality of being abstracted and clueless. Perhaps that explains why Mitt Romney’s regular-guy anecdotes always seem a bit strained.
[...]
The objective of the predatory super-rich and their political handmaidens is to discredit and destroy the traditional nation state and auction its resources to themselves. Those super-rich, in turn, aim to create a “tollbooth” economy, whereby more and more of our highways, bridges, libraries, parks, and beaches are possessed by private oligarchs who will extract a toll from the rest of us. Was this the vision of the Founders? Was this why they believed governments were instituted among men—that the very sinews of the state should be possessed by the wealthy in the same manner that kingdoms of the Old World were the personal property of the monarch?
-- Mike Lofgren at The American Conservative
The Wealthy Secede from America?
Aug. 30th, 2012 06:00 pmHere is an intense little piece on the consolidation of plutocratic power. And it seems to be from a Republican for a conservative publication.
_ _ _
Our plutocracy now lives like the British in colonial India: in the place and ruling it, but not of it. If one can afford private security, public safety is of no concern; if one owns a Gulfstream jet, crumbling bridges cause less apprehension—and viable public transportation doesn’t even show up on the radar screen. With private doctors on call and a chartered plane to get to the Mayo Clinic, why worry about Medicare?
Being in the country but not of it is what gives the contemporary American super-rich their quality of being abstracted and clueless. Perhaps that explains why Mitt Romney’s regular-guy anecdotes always seem a bit strained.
[...]
The objective of the predatory super-rich and their political handmaidens is to discredit and destroy the traditional nation state and auction its resources to themselves. Those super-rich, in turn, aim to create a “tollbooth” economy, whereby more and more of our highways, bridges, libraries, parks, and beaches are possessed by private oligarchs who will extract a toll from the rest of us. Was this the vision of the Founders? Was this why they believed governments were instituted among men—that the very sinews of the state should be possessed by the wealthy in the same manner that kingdoms of the Old World were the personal property of the monarch?
-- Mike Lofgren at The American Conservative
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Our plutocracy now lives like the British in colonial India: in the place and ruling it, but not of it. If one can afford private security, public safety is of no concern; if one owns a Gulfstream jet, crumbling bridges cause less apprehension—and viable public transportation doesn’t even show up on the radar screen. With private doctors on call and a chartered plane to get to the Mayo Clinic, why worry about Medicare?
Being in the country but not of it is what gives the contemporary American super-rich their quality of being abstracted and clueless. Perhaps that explains why Mitt Romney’s regular-guy anecdotes always seem a bit strained.
[...]
The objective of the predatory super-rich and their political handmaidens is to discredit and destroy the traditional nation state and auction its resources to themselves. Those super-rich, in turn, aim to create a “tollbooth” economy, whereby more and more of our highways, bridges, libraries, parks, and beaches are possessed by private oligarchs who will extract a toll from the rest of us. Was this the vision of the Founders? Was this why they believed governments were instituted among men—that the very sinews of the state should be possessed by the wealthy in the same manner that kingdoms of the Old World were the personal property of the monarch?
-- Mike Lofgren at The American Conservative
Paul Ryan at the Convention
Aug. 30th, 2012 09:00 pmThe Republicans have insisted that they are not going to be bothered by fact-checkers, and they are obviously living up to that, or maybe I should say down to that. I'll get down this little stinger over VP-candidate Paul Ryan's speech at the convention last night.
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It just boggles the mind to imagine how Paul Ryan can stand up there and lash Barack Obama for abandoning Bowles-Simpson when he did exactly that himself. Or for taking $716 billion out of Medicare that Ryan’s own budget also removes from Medicare. Or try to blame him for the closing of a GM plant that actually closed while George W. Bush was president. Those three lies are just the beginning of a cavalcade that followed. I can’t in clear conscience call such a speech “good” or “effective.” But I will acknowledge that Ryan can spin the goods like nobody’s business, and that his presence on the stage Wednesday night and on the ticket going forward does put new pressure on the Democrats, because Republicans have never really fought on quite this terrain in quite this way.
[...]
Analysis of the fact that Ryan can lie the way he does requires the skills of a psychologist. All I can say is that we’re in new territory—a Republican trying to own a Democratic issue, and doing so on the basis of a couple of lies so blatant that he’s practically saying to the Democrats and the media: “Fuck you, come and get me. You can’t touch me.”
-- Michael Tomasky at The Daily Beast
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A more exhaustive fact-check is given by Salon.com.
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It just boggles the mind to imagine how Paul Ryan can stand up there and lash Barack Obama for abandoning Bowles-Simpson when he did exactly that himself. Or for taking $716 billion out of Medicare that Ryan’s own budget also removes from Medicare. Or try to blame him for the closing of a GM plant that actually closed while George W. Bush was president. Those three lies are just the beginning of a cavalcade that followed. I can’t in clear conscience call such a speech “good” or “effective.” But I will acknowledge that Ryan can spin the goods like nobody’s business, and that his presence on the stage Wednesday night and on the ticket going forward does put new pressure on the Democrats, because Republicans have never really fought on quite this terrain in quite this way.
[...]
Analysis of the fact that Ryan can lie the way he does requires the skills of a psychologist. All I can say is that we’re in new territory—a Republican trying to own a Democratic issue, and doing so on the basis of a couple of lies so blatant that he’s practically saying to the Democrats and the media: “Fuck you, come and get me. You can’t touch me.”
-- Michael Tomasky at The Daily Beast
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A more exhaustive fact-check is given by Salon.com.
Paul Ryan at the Convention
Aug. 30th, 2012 09:00 pmThe Republicans have insisted that they are not going to be bothered by fact-checkers, and they are obviously living up to that, or maybe I should say down to that. I'll get down this little stinger over VP-candidate Paul Ryan's speech at the convention last night.
_ _ _
It just boggles the mind to imagine how Paul Ryan can stand up there and lash Barack Obama for abandoning Bowles-Simpson when he did exactly that himself. Or for taking $716 billion out of Medicare that Ryan’s own budget also removes from Medicare. Or try to blame him for the closing of a GM plant that actually closed while George W. Bush was president. Those three lies are just the beginning of a cavalcade that followed. I can’t in clear conscience call such a speech “good” or “effective.” But I will acknowledge that Ryan can spin the goods like nobody’s business, and that his presence on the stage Wednesday night and on the ticket going forward does put new pressure on the Democrats, because Republicans have never really fought on quite this terrain in quite this way.
[...]
Analysis of the fact that Ryan can lie the way he does requires the skills of a psychologist. All I can say is that we’re in new territory—a Republican trying to own a Democratic issue, and doing so on the basis of a couple of lies so blatant that he’s practically saying to the Democrats and the media: “Fuck you, come and get me. You can’t touch me.”
-- Michael Tomasky at The Daily Beast
_ _ _
A more exhaustive fact-check is given by Salon.com.
_ _ _
It just boggles the mind to imagine how Paul Ryan can stand up there and lash Barack Obama for abandoning Bowles-Simpson when he did exactly that himself. Or for taking $716 billion out of Medicare that Ryan’s own budget also removes from Medicare. Or try to blame him for the closing of a GM plant that actually closed while George W. Bush was president. Those three lies are just the beginning of a cavalcade that followed. I can’t in clear conscience call such a speech “good” or “effective.” But I will acknowledge that Ryan can spin the goods like nobody’s business, and that his presence on the stage Wednesday night and on the ticket going forward does put new pressure on the Democrats, because Republicans have never really fought on quite this terrain in quite this way.
[...]
Analysis of the fact that Ryan can lie the way he does requires the skills of a psychologist. All I can say is that we’re in new territory—a Republican trying to own a Democratic issue, and doing so on the basis of a couple of lies so blatant that he’s practically saying to the Democrats and the media: “Fuck you, come and get me. You can’t touch me.”
-- Michael Tomasky at The Daily Beast
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A more exhaustive fact-check is given by Salon.com.
Clint Eastwood Fucks Himself
Aug. 30th, 2012 09:34 pmWow, I cannot believe that Clint Eastwood could embarrass himself like that. In his speech, he imagines that Obama is seated in a chair behind him, and he actually makes 'fuck yourself' jokes a central theme of his ramble, when he was able to get past all those 'senior moments'. And the man is indeed 82 years old. He has done enough in his life that he can be forgiven for this and all will be happily forgotten, but it was hard to watch. At least it could not have been that big of a help to the Republicans.
Clint Eastwood Fucks Himself
Aug. 30th, 2012 09:34 pmWow, I cannot believe that Clint Eastwood could embarrass himself like that. In his speech, he imagines that Obama is seated in a chair behind him, and he actually makes 'fuck yourself' jokes a central theme of his ramble, when he was able to get past all those 'senior moments'. And the man is indeed 82 years old. He has done enough in his life that he can be forgiven for this and all will be happily forgotten, but it was hard to watch. At least it could not have been that big of a help to the Republicans.