In addition to being flaming racists if we don’t vote for the black man, we can apparently also expect riots in the streets if he doesn’t win…

Police departments in cities across the country are beefing up their ranks for Election Day, preparing for possible civil unrest and riots after the historic presidential contest.

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Sen. Obama (Ill.), the Democratic nominee for president, has seen his lead over rival Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) grow in recent weeks, prompting speculation that there could be a violent backlash if he loses unexpectedly.

And with all this ill-advised yammering you’ve just gone and suggested the populace do just that very fucking thing, now haven’t you.

Husband and I talk about this all the time…the 24 hour news cycle is the cause of some of the most egregious missteps in the history of mass media and the general absence of quality and impartiality that exemplifies Big Media.  Journalism in the 21st century is nothing more than partisan rumor-mongering.  There’s no fact-checking, there’s no impartiality.  There’s choose your side and put on your bib, because we’ve got some nice bullshit-flavored gruel to feed you!  

When I used to blog, er, elsewhere, our motto was “We’ll fact check your ass!”  But even with bloggers taking up the slack, there’s still bias.  To our detriment, the days of unbiased reporting are just over.

Well, this latest evil perpetrated by The Demon Sarah Palin is truly epic in its maleficience…

Financial records show that the Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than 150,000 dollars on clothes for vice presidential pick Sarah Palin, Politico reported.

The Republicans’ main campaign and fundraising organ spent tens of thousands at high-end stores, such as Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York (49,425 dollars) and Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis (75,062 dollars), the Politico website said.

The RNC also spent 4,716 dollars on hair and makeup through September, Politico said.

You must be kidding me.  The RNC spent actual money on a candidate and her family in order to make them look good for television appearances?  Of all the nerve.

I bet they don’t ask Joey B. how much his suits cost.  Or The Messiah, nossir, we don’t think for a moment that he’s using campaign money to buy some new threads.

This is easily the dumbest whinge about Palin I’ve heard in the last, oh, five minutes or so.  And, as much as I hate to drag this out, it’s fucking sexist.  As above, no one is asking McCain and the others how much they’re spending on suits and, yes, makeup and hair.  Just the chick gets that inquiry.  

It’s not a double-standard, it’s a Möbius strip standard.  These people no longer know which way is up, and surely don’t care as long as it allows them to take yet another cheap shot at Palin.

*One of the few things from the Leftards that’s actually funny.

Via Treacher, I want this guy in charge:

Updated:  This is my new favorite site:  Anger Central  

Angrier than me.  If that’s even possible.

This election should be declared null and void right now.  Mulligan.  Do-over.

With participants are fucking moronic (and intellectually dishonest to boot) as this, how can the result, whatever it is, be valid?

The “socialist” label that Sen. John McCain and his GOP presidential running mate Sarah Palin are trying to attach to Sen. Barack Obama actually has long and very ugly historical roots.

J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, used the term liberally to describe African Americans who spent their lives fighting for equality.

No, you idiot, they’re calling him a fucking socialist because he has outright stated his fucking socialist agenda.  Were you not listening?  Do you not speak English?  Or maybe in your version of the language “spread the wealth around” doesn’t mean what it does in my version of the language.

I grew up in the South, with skin so pale as to be nearly transparent, and yet I’ve never in my life seen the racism that I’ve seen displayed during this election…by supporters of the candidate who happens to be black.  Apparently if I don’t vote for him, I’m racist.  If I support the white candidates against him, I’m racist.  And by calling a socialist a socialist, I’m racist.

It’s nothing more than passive-aggressive bullshit, and Mr. Lewis Diuguid seriously needs to consider seeing a therapist.  Or the ass-stick remover.

Also on it:

• RS McCain
• VP
• Joan of Argghh
• Zombyboy

Oh goody, my first comment troll!

Grow the fuck up? Well, for one, that was very mature. Pitch that to McCains campaign. The reason why some people want to vote for Obama is because we do not agree with the policies of George Bush or John McCain. Before the debates, McCain was a war monger. He will do anything it takes and stay as long as he wants in Iraq because we can’t lose! OH NO! losing….. how can a country LOSE a war on TERRORISM?? It is a global issue and even if Iraq was magically turned into a working democratic state, we still would not have won against terrorism all-together. McCain just does not want to admit that the war is getting us NOWHERE. Also, on abortion, McCain wants to be able to tell me what to do with my baby and my body if I were to get pregnant. That is none of his business. What if someone is raped? McCain wants that person to carry their baby to term. This is not the kind of thinking that is going to help our country at all. These are just 2 of the many reasons that I cannot vote for John McCain. However, I bet no one will ever read this.. it will most likely get deleted. And if it does, you are just closing your minds to different possibilities.

Stephanie   21 October 2008 at 11am

And my response…

No, sweetie, we are not in the habit of deleting dissenting comments, leave that to your lefty buddies.

Now, look up at the top of the page, read the title again. Yes, it says LIBERTY GIRL. LIBERTIES are what rule here, not Party A’s platform, and not Party B’s platform.

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A little light reading this morning, in this much-linked Townhall.com article by Michael Medved.  I agree with much of what he says, ie. if The Messiah gets elected, along with a filibuster-proof Congress, then we’re going to see some seriously ugly governmental waste, in the form of everything from idiotic subsidies to outright handouts.   And yes, he will fling wide the doors of our country to any wetback who comes knocking…gotta keep up the voting base, don’tcha know.  But the bit that vexes me to no end…and why I am fundamentally NOT a conservative…is this:

Aside from the ongoing growth of government and the waste of public money, other changes brought about by President Obama will prove to be unalterable and devastating: in his first year, he will authorize gays serving openly in the military, and hasten the national imposition of homosexual marriage (he’s pledged to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act).

Allow me to quote Chris Tucker as Ruby Rhod in The Fifth Element:

BUT WHO CARES??

Conservatives…PLEASE…let go of your left-over-Puritanical concerns for what goes on in people’s bedrooms.  Last I checked, sexual preference had little or nothing to do with actual fighting ability.  Nor are Teh Gheys actively recruiting for their Rainbow Army.  Nor is Limp Wrist actually contagious.  If a homosexual man/woman wants to serve in the military, logic dictates it is not because they’re looking for an easy lay.  That can less expensively be had at any bar in any city in any state.   No, they are there for the same reason as any other person…learn a job, get a big fat college bonus check, and/or blow the shit out of third-worlders. 

And “national imposition” of gay marriage?  What the flaming fuck is he actually implying there?  That I will be required to divorce my husband and go find some chick to marry?  This sort of rhetoric is completely moronic, and every bit as dishonest as any gyrations the Left goes through.  The intent seems to be to stir up fear and loathing in the gawd-fearing populace (the better to get them to vote [R], you see), and it just pisses me off.   

The cynical side of me can see how appealing to emotion is less complicated than appealing to intellect…particularly when so much of the populace appears deficient in the latter…but to those of us capable of reason it’s just insulting.  Learn to mind your own damned business, ya prurient bastards, and stop spooking the cattle.

Via (again) Hot Air

It is inexplicable yet true that people will cast a vote for the highest office in the land based on one single issue.

Can you imagine that?  A candidate’s stance on abortion makes them perfect for the job of President.  A candidate’s views on alternative energies make them an excellent choice for commander-in-chief.  A candidate’s free* healthcare for everyone means they’ll be the Bestest Leader Evar. 

It’s just too much darned trouble to look at everything a candidate stands for and actually use your powers of discernment to decide if they’re the best choice.  Abortion-friendly, solar-powered, or socialized medicine-y…not one of those bloody issues is of national importance.  

Abortion will always be a polarizing issue, but it is at heart the business of the woman who is pregnant and the man who got her that way.  Period.  But just because *I* say that won’t make millions of others fall into line (goddammit), so next issue.

Solar power is all well and good, but if you’ve got enviro-nutbags preventing the construction of a means to get the power from the solar farm to the place with all the people, it’s utterly useless.

And socialized medicine…  Well, let’s see how the Britishers and Canuckians like all that, shall we?

Anahit Cilinger won’t soon forget her despair in the fall and winter of 1999. Fresh from surgery to have a cancerous tumour removed from her breast, the Montreal grandmother anxiously awaited an appointment to begin radiation treatment.Ms. Cilinger called her Montreal hospital every day for a slot. Sometimes, she called twice a day. Every time, the answer was the same: There was no room for her.

“I waited one month, two months, three months,” she recalled in an interview yesterday. “I just felt rage and anxiety.”

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Someone should point out to Joe Biden that longevity does not equal wisdom.  

“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” 

Call me simple, but the phrase “international crisis” does not inspire me to vote for your candidate.

Honestly this is one of the biggest reasons I will go nowhere near Hopey McChangerson, regardless of how much I am bothered by Big Head Clownshoes.  Ho-bama is 143 days in the Senate and a lotta talk, and if you think the rest of the world doesn’t know that then you’re stupid.  Cell-deep, procreation rights-revoked stupid.

And for Joey-Boy to sit there and state it like it’s a feature instead of a huge blue-screen-of-death bug shows you just exactly how teeny a damn they give for the damage they will do to my beloved country with their Comedy Central administration.  

That OFFENDS me, people.  Last I heard that camp was whinging pretty much non-stop about bringing our nation’s armed forces home from Iraq, Afghanistan, hell even Guantanamo.  But it’s ok to waste their lives, and potentially civilian lives, as long as you get to be in power when it happens?  

This entire Democrat ticket disgusts me.  You who support these sideshow rejects also disgust me.  Grow the fuck up, would you?

Via Hot Air

A McCain/Palin t-shirt-wearing 7th grader at a Florida elementary school has been deemed “racist” by her classmates.

“Some of the students were calling me racist because I was Caucasian,” she said. “I wanted the Caucasian man to win. And I told them that’s not true. It’s my freedom of speech, it’s my opinion.”

It is this sort of bullshit that makes me want to run around smacking people in the face.  Preferrably with scrap pieces of lumber.

If the Democratic candidate for president loses this election it will be for any number of things…yes, because he’s black will be a good enough reason for some people.  Questions about his religion will work for others.  His socialist ties and agenda will be quite sufficient for plenty more.

Regardless of the actual reasons, the insistence that it must have something to do with the quantity of melanin in his epidermis will endure, and every person who asks the question will do their part to ensure racism lives on in this country.

Me, I’ll be toting my 2×4…just HOPING someone will ask it of me.

Ok, we’ve established my contempt for Obama, time to move on to that elitist prig McCain…and this is a prime example of the Entitlement Syndrome all politicians suffer (try and ignore the sneering pseudo-prole tone of the article). 

John McCain’s presidential campaign has discovered the remix-unfriendly aspects of American copyright law, after several of the candidate’s campaign videos were pulled from YouTube.

McCain has now discovered the rights holder friendly nature of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which forces remixers to fight an uphill battle to prove that their work is a “fair use.”

However, instead of calling for an overhaul of the much hated law, McCain is calling for VIP treatment for the remixes made by political campaigns.

McCain’s proposal: complaints about videos uploaded by a political campaign would be manually reviewed by a human YouTube employee before any possible removal of the remix. The process for complaints against videos uploaded by millions of other Americans would stay the same: instant removal by a computer program, and then possible reinstatement a week or two later after the video sharing site has received and manually processed a formal counter-notice.

It may seem a small thing, but it’s simply indicative of the way these buffoons think.  They consider themselves the Elite, if not actual fucking Royalty, and rules exist only to bend to their will.  Oh, and to keep us rabble in check.

McCain is a Democrat in Republican clothing…which is just another way of saying he’s a snake in snake’s clothing.  How I wish the Libertarian party could field someone other than the batshit insane!  But as long as money rules, the old established houses will continue to be the only ones with a legitimate shot at the “Throne.”  And that, fellow citizens, benefits absolutely no one but them.