Always The Blogsmaid, Never The Blog

Keeping up on the intrigue and detail of everyday Joe 6 Pick Sarah Palin, it turns out not only is her family worth over a million dollars, but the bitch done cheated on her taxes too:

“Palin, it appears, did not pay taxes on the more than $60,000 of travel reimbursements that she and her family members reportedly billed the state during her 18 months as governor.”

It further appears that the Republican machine is doing everything in their power to stop the release of the Troopergate investigation:

Texas-based Liberty Legal Institute and Anchorage attorney Kevin Clarkson, representing the group of anti-investigation legislators, filed the emergency appeal.

“The plaintiffs and Alaskans will suffer irreparable harm if the investigation at issue continues and if the resulting investigative report issues as planned on Oct. 10, 2008,” they wrote in their appeal.

Yup, you heard right. Alaska will suffer if the investigation goes through. Doesn’t get much more desperate than that.

In an expose on the GOP machines reliance on the image of economic and energy efficiency by increased drilling entitled Drill, Baby, Drill: How the Media Has Influenced America’s Perception of Drilling to Solve the Energy Crisis:

However, McCain’s campaign seems to have convinced the American public that offshore drilling is a great idea. For example, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll released in late July, 69% of respondents supported increased offshore drilling, while 30% opposed it. Even more striking, 51% of respondents believed that if the ban on offshore drilling were lifted, gas prices would go down within the next year. The talk of drilling has also reopened the perennial debate over increased drilling in Alaska. Although McCain himself has not advocated for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), his running mate, Sarah Palin, is all for it. Based on the chants of “Drill, baby, drill!” that greeted her on stage at the Republican convention, so are many Republicans.

Otherwise, worth a read: “Terrorist” has been redefined by the Maryland State Police. If you oppose the death penalty or against the war in Iraq-now are a “terrorists.”, Are We Sure About Pending Collapse of Ad-Supported Internet?, Republicans, Ron Paul Was Your Only Hope, Teacher Calls 6th Grader Muslim Student a Terrorist, What capitalism does to workers when it thinks it can get away with it, and Can you afford to get sick?

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We Built This City On Blogs [I’m sorry]

Let’s jump right into this thing. As we know, we have a God-loving, ‘Tard-making Alaskan governor about to possibly become the next Vice President (plus she looks hot in a USA A-OK bikini). And like all good Christians, she hates books:

[Former Wasilla mayor] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving “full support” to the mayor.

And you know why Bush would never be impeached by that wonderful Democratic congress we elected? It turns out they knew about torture techniques being used the whole time:

Essentially, the foot-dragging on impeachment is because Pelosi’s paw-prints are all over legislation that virtually allowed Bush to ignore Congress and do whatever the hell he wanted, while Congress abdicated its oversight responsibility and broke the system of Checks and Balances by failing to check the Executive Branch in its grab for power.

And, in the king of “What the Fuck”, America’s drug czar declares ”No drug matches the threat posed by marijuana.” You heard it right! Getting high on a non-lethal, non-addictive plant is the greatest drug threat facing America. Just don’t let the god damn terrorists win.

Also See: When winter comes, the power of mother nature can cool your refrigerator (or some such), Talking To Hamas (Instead of Killing People) Makes You a Bigot, Are our suburbs going to turn into slums?, and Hillary’s 3am Girl Does A Commercial For Obama.

Blogs Are Jesus’ Version of Anal Sex for the Mind

This is the super deluxe anal version of the blog round-up!

1. Why We Should Boycott the Olympics Over Tibet (by the way, I said we should boycott the Olympics over Darfur about a year ago, but no one listened)

2. This is Greg. Greg blogs at PBH. Greg found himself on Drunken Step Father recently. Greg is now a minor internet celebrity:

3. If you’ve been brave enough to keep your eyes open while the financial world squirts its various toxic semens directly into your toxins, well, you’re god damn braver than me. Point is, you shouldn’t be listening to anybody: keep your money in a big potato sack at home, and if anyone ever questions you about your love for delicious potatoes, just tell them you got a sweet stock tip that their future market is rising in relation to the oncoming apocalypse. But anyway, check out these helpful tips on our crumbling financial world: Common misconceptions about the Federal Reserve, Congress Passes New Budget, Hold Onto Your Wallets, and Memo to Voters: None of the Candidates Will Lower Your Gas Prices; A Glance At Clinton’s “Plan”.

4. Double Dousies from the Seminal! First off, props for mental images of elderly abuse in ‘When Obama faces off against John McCain, one on one, he will smack the old man down.’ I was personally thinking of Barack Obama as Pedro Martinez and John Walnut-Face McCain as Don Equally Fucked Up Face Zimmer a la 2004 AL Championship Series:

And secondly, Veteran FBI interrogator Jack Cloonan: “If you want to recruit young jihadis….torture them.:

“If you want to recruit young jihadis….torture them; admit that you tortured them because when they’re ultimately convicted and whatever their ultimate fate is, there will be poems, songs and their images are going to be emblazoned all over that world.”

By the way, if any of you Seminal guys are reading this (which I’m assuming you do, since trackbacks tend to make us BLOGGERS wet like school girls at a David Hasselhoff convention), we should get together… you know, maybe post some pictures… do some blog roll exchanges… maybe do a collaborative expose on the nefarious effects of Chinese imports and the recent prevalence of restless anus syndrome?

5. White People:

Though many would have you believe that white people come of age at Summer Camp, it’s simply not the truth. Immediately following graduation but prior to renovating a house, white people take their first step from childhood to maturity by hosting a successful dinner party.

It is imperative that white people know how to host a good dinner party as they will be expected to do it well into retirement.

At the most basic level, these simple gatherings involve 3-6 couples getting together at a single house or apartment and having dinner and talking for 5-6 hours. Though it might seem basic, these events are some of the most stressful situations in all of white culture.

Hosts are expected to deliver a magical evening. The food must be home made with fresh, organic ingredients, the music must be just right (ambient, new, but not too loud), and the decorations inside the house should be subtle but elegant. The ultimate goal is to do a better job than the couple at the last dinner party, and attempt to make everyone jealous and sort of dislike you.

6. Racist sentiments should be condemned, even when Jesse Jackson makes them.

7. 3,987 dead and no one knows from Ablogistan:

The drop in awareness comes as press attention to the war has waned. According to the News Content Index conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, the percentage of news stories devoted to the war has sharply declined since last year, dropping from an average of 15% of the newshole in July to just 3% in February.

As news coverage of the war has diminished, so too has public interest in news about Iraq. According to Pew’s News Interest Index survey, Iraq was the public’s most closely followed news story in all but five weeks during the first half of 2007; however, it was a much less dominant story between July 2007 and February 2008. Notably, the Iraq war has not been the public’s top weekly story since mid-October.

8. A Lesbian Cheating Girlfriend With A Clown Fetish. Possibly the greatest video in history:

9. Other Shizzee: Government uses the logic of the rapist: Struggling only makes it harder for you, What if I told you that 10 months before 9/11, Saddam Hussein did something very big, and pissed off the US Administration?, There’s No Such Thing as a Free Trade?, President Bush Is A Liar And A Coward, Getting High on a Can of Coke, and Are our suburbs going to turn into slums?

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Feeling Sexy in the Blogosphere

Awwwwwwwww yah. Well PBH is getting mad sexy on the internets now a days, so I figure it’s time to spread the love! So this is the sexiest blog round up on the face of the planet (and by the way, if you want to exchange links, send me a disparaging or threatening comment, OR have sexy fun time on the interwebs, shoot me an email at alec(insert at sign)prosebeforehos.com

Now, onto the internuts!

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By the way, I put up some of the sexiest and most disgraceful comments on this jerk-offs site but his wordpress done fucking ate them! I’ve already launched a preemptive Jihad on his site though, so it’s ok.

2. Freedom of Speech: The Right to Equate Gaza with Auschwitz from Dissident Voice:

It is clear beyond any doubt that the Israeli Deputy Defence Minister was far from being reluctant to equate Israel with Nazi Germany when revealing the genocidal future awaiting the Palestinian people, yet, for some reason, this is precisely what Western media outlets refrain from doing. In spite of the facts that are right in front of our eyes, in spite of the starvation in Gaza, in spite of an Israeli official admitting genocidal inclinations against the Palestinians, in spite of the mounting carnage and death, we are still afraid to admit that Gaza is a concentration camp and it is on the verge of becoming a deadly one. For some peculiar reason, many of us have yet to accept that as far as evil is concerned, Israel is the world champion in mercilessness and vengeance.

3. At Largely with We have a F— Constitutional Crisis!:

If I sound angry, then you have read this dead on. I left the Soviet Union only to find myself back where I came from. The label might say America, but it is clear that America is a long forgotten dream and the government now only plays the role of official embezzler as it moves public funds – our money – into the hands of private corporations. There is no system of checks and balances. There is no Constitutional democracy. There is just a void, a big, fat ground zero filled with dead bodies, greed, and treachery.

4. An Open Letter to Will Ferrell from Cracked (ouch):

Hi. It’s me. Daniel. Before I go any further, I’d like to offer my condolences over Semi-Pro. Everyone was predicting about $30 million for opening weekend, and you did about half that. These are record-low numbers, (for your standards), and that must be pretty tough for you. It probably even comes as a surprise. Being the arrogant, delusional man-child has always resulted in big numbers for you in the past, and I’m sure you thought Semi-Pro would just be another huge victory. And after all that promotion you did, with the Superbowl Ad, and the Sports Illustrated Spread, and the Old Spice stuff- you must be crushed…

I watched Semi-Pro yesterday. It wasn’t very good. I chuckled a few times, sure, there were some really great moments. I’ve always been a sucker for bears. A well-placed scream can often yield hilarious results, and you also have an amazing knack for picking out words that, somehow, are just inherently funny, (this time it was “pancakes.” You said “pancake” and I almost pissed myself.). In general, however, it was as weak as I’d expected it to be. Each movie of yours since Anchorman has been a derivative of Anchorman, and a poor one at that.

5. More to see: The Republican War on Science, Bush Almost Admits Recession; Can Global Warming Be Far Behind?, Early Wyoming Numbers Point To Big Win For Obama, Gallup 6 Year Poll: 93% of Muslims are Moderates, What psychologists ‘actually’ do, Oppose Implementation of The REAL ID Act, Last Surviving WWI U.S. Soldier Honored at White House, Bush to Veto “No Waterboarding” Bill, Experience Matters… In a Bad Way, Reading Book on Break=Racial Harassment?, and Boriska, boy genius says he’s from Mars, knows of a switch behind the Sphinx’s ear.

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Blog Round Up: Marginally Intelligent Edition

1. From FireDogLake, Come Saturday Morning: Iraq — Still Broken After All These Years:

The supporters of the war, from the Bush White House to Sen. John McCain, tout the surge as the magic solution. But the surge, which primarily deployed 30,000 troops in and around Baghdad, did little to thwart the sectarian violence. The decline in attacks began only when we bought off the Sunni Arabs. U.S. commanders in the bleak fall of 2006 had little choice. It was that or defeat. The steady rise in U.S. casualties, the massive car bombs that tore apart city squares in Baghdad and left hundreds dead, the brutal ethnic cleansing that was creating independent ethnic enclaves beyond our control throughout Iraq, the death squads that carried out mass executions and a central government that was as corrupt as it was impotent signaled catastrophic failure.

2. 15 Year-Old Palestinian Boy Beaten Unconscious by Israeli Prison Guards Becomes Latest Suicide Bomber:

Fifteen year-old Mohammed Salem Al-Harbawi from Hebron is a case in point. According to the Defense for Children International, he was arrested in the beginning of July of 2003 and taken to Atzion detention centre. Like many other prisoners, the report continues, Al-Harbawi was visited by a lawyer, but was unable to see or communicate with his family:

The unhygienic conditions in this centre mean that most inmates, including Mohammad, have contracted skin diseases, including boils. By July 28, 2003, Mohammed was affected so badly that he was taken for hospital treatment. After the doctor had examined him, Israeli border guards took him back to the prison. On the way, the guards stopped the jeep and started to attack him inside the vehicle. The five guards beat him to such an extent that he lost consciousness.

I stumbled over this report of his stay in prison when I Googled Al-Harbawi’s name. Last Monday, now a child of 20, he blew himself up, along with Lyubov Razdolskaya, 73, in the streets of Dimona…

3. Russia’s Presidential Election – the Candidates

Four men are vying for the top job – Putin’s Poodle, the Neo-Communist, Mad Vlad, and the liberal Masonic Grandmaster who likes to blog.

4. Hillary’s “Old Politics” Campaign Ad Quickly Shot Down By Obama:

Following their 17% defeat in Wisconsin, there was wide speculation about what campaign tactics Hillary would use to try to win Texas and Ohio on March 4th. Some insider reports suggested that Clintons’ recognized that while they needed to fight on, there was a line they should not cross because they didn’t want to do irreparable damage to Obama as a Democratic nominee nor damage their own legacy. That line was national security/fitness to be commander in chief.

Apparently, they’ve tossed such caution aside with this new campaign ad that caters to viewers’ fears. The implication of the ad is that if Obama were elected, he wouldn’t keep your children safe. Only Hillary would.

5. Also See: Who Put the ‘Gau’ in Gaucho? A (Forged) Map of Nazi South America, Meditation can boost your gray matter, 25 years murder-free in ‘Gun Town USA:Crime rate plummeted after law required firearms for residents, Parties and Prostitutes, and Bush names terrorist sympathizer as new ambassador to Nicaragua.