Why is This Man So Happy?

It's the 50th Anniversary of Pampers!

Newt Gets Glittered

This guy is lucky he didn't get arrested.  Watch to the very end when Newt's henchman gets seriously creepy:



Via Joe.My.God

The Huckster is Out

Today, Pastor Governor Mike "I'm not an extremist because I play bass and I'm folksy" Huckabee announced that he has opted to keep his Fox "News" paychecks coming instead of running for president.  That leaves the GOP field looking more and more like anybody who can possibly win is waiting until 2016.  Let's see, who's left?  There's Mitt "Romneycare funds abortion" Romney, Tim "please don't fall asleep while I'm talking" Pawlenty, Michelle "Lexington and Concord are in Iowa" Bachmann, Herman "I should be president because I talked back to President Clinton one time in 1990something, remember?" Cain, Rick "don't Google my name...please" Santorum, Newt "I committed adultry and divorced my wives over and over again because I love America so much; no really, I actually said that" Gingrich, and...and...and...

Sarah Palin Wants to Deport X-Tina

From Kenneth in the 212 comes the latest bit of insightful analysis from former 1/2 Governor Sarah Palin.  She told Sean Hannity that if she were president, she would deport Christina.  Now, I'm not a fan of Miss Aguilera's Super Bowl performance either, but deportation seems a bit harsh, particularly since she was born in New York.  It would have taken a Palin minion 10 seconds tops to find her birthplace, but facts don't matter in Palin-Hannity world. 

Palin Goes All In

Since the shooting in Tucson, half Gov. Palin has been on the receiving end of a great deal of criticism for her gunsight graphic and heated, violent rhetoric.  Today, she spoke.  Behold, a video has been issued from Mount Olympus Wasilla.  You may watch it here. 

She had an opportunity to show leadership, instead she used incendiary language ("blood libel") and wallowed in her victimhood.  In other words, it's business as usual in Palin World.  Her only hope of ever winning the presidency is through exploitation of an extremely divided electorate, so why would she become a uniter at this point?

She seems to have two central points.  First, the blame for horrific crimes rests solely with the criminals.  To suggest that words incite them is wrong:

"Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies, not with those who proudly voted in the last election."

Second, the words of journalists and pundits incite violence:

"But, especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible."

Got that?  When Palin talks of gunsights and Death Panels, of a socialist take-over of America and palling around with domestic terrorists, it's simply a benign exercise of her First Amendment rights.  When "journalists and pundits" suggest otherwise, it's a "blood libel" that incites violence. 










 

The Palin Flop Continues

Sales of Sarah Palin's new book, that she totally wrote, America by Heart, Stories of Patriotism, Prayer, and Pimping Your Kids, or whatever the fuck the marketing department named it, are not exactly brisk.  HarperCollins has not ordered a second printing.  Also, ratings for her Presidential campaign infomercial reality show, Sarah Palin's Alaska, are tanking.  Cher said it best of the 1/2 term quitter:  "A stupid woman is a stupid woman."

Guilty!

The bug man has been brought down.  A Texas jury today found Former House Speaker Tom Delay guilty of one count of money laundering and one count of conspiracy.  He could face 2 to 20 for the conspiracy and 5 to 99 or life for the money laundering. 

The exterminator turned politician first ran for office because he was pissed off at having to abide by EPA regulations in the pest control business.  In the Texas Lege, he was known as Hot Tub Tommy for his partyin' ways with women and booze.  When he decided to seek national office he, naturally, found Jesus and cleaned up his act.  Apparently graft and corruption aren't sins in his church.  

This is a man who apparently believes his own bullshit.  He said that when he posed for his mug shot, he wanted people to see Jesus through his eyes.  When I look at those beady little raisins, Jesus is the last thing I see.       

Widely known as a gigantic, bleeding asshole, Tom Delay is now finding that karma is a bitch.

Just in Time for the War on Christmas!

Harper Collins has announced that Sarah Palin's next book is coming out November 23.  It's to be called "America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag."  Gag me.

Why not?  The first book made her millions and she didn't even have to write it.