Mark Penn is a Fucking Prick and Other Relevant News

1. Talk about absurdity. How is Mark Penn spending his gigantic haul? is answered by Arlen at the Daily Background:

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s pit-bull pollster and chief strategist Mark Penn has his Washington, DC, neighborhood in an uproar. He recently started multimillion-dollar renovations on his house on O Street in Georgetown, but didn’t alert anyone beforehand, said one local. “It includes an underground garage and home office. His yard is an ugly, huge gaping hole that looks like the descent into hell.”

…It’s the talk of Georgetown: Why is Mark Penn, pollster and strategist to Sen. Hillary Clinton, building a tunnel underneath the lot between his two houses on O Street NW? Perhaps he wants to avoid prying eyes, or a 30-foot walk in wintry weather.

2. Fail:

3. White people like shitty musical comedy (what a surprise):

One of the more interesting things about White people is that they love singing comedians…..

It’s a pretty good idea because when you have jokes that aren’t that great and music that isn’t that great, you can mix them together and create something that will entertain white people.

4. Gun Buyback Misfires:

Oakland’s recent gun buyback was especially ridiculous. The police offered up to $250 for a gun “no questions asked, no ID required.” The first people in line? Two gun dealers from Reno with 60 cheap handguns. Fortunately the buyback did manage to get some guns off the street, too bad they were turned in by a bunch of senior citizens from an assisted living facility.

5. See More of this wonderful internet worlds: And The Next President Of The United States Of America Is…, Florida Hates Gays, Right-wing blogger kills himself to protest the existence of Muslims, Ralph Nader Annoys Everyone and Announces Presidential Run Again, Zionism, the Working Class and Struggle between Hamas and Fatah, and ol’ Georgey says “I’ll be dead before the true history of the Bush administration is written.”

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I’m Mad Popular (On The Internets).

Blog blog, bloggity blog:

1. From the Seminal (who I recently added all up on my own slog of the blog-o-blech), George Bush’s Top Ten Choices for the Next President of Cuba:

#10) Jacques Chirac — “he’s got experience running a commie regime.”

#9) “That nice Cuban maid who taught me to read when I was 14.”

#8) Elmer Fudd — “one bad ass outlaw replaces another.”

#7) Will Smith — “what can’t he do?”

#6) Hillary Clinton — “look Hil, you are president. Syke!!”

#5) Chico Escuela

#4) Sasquatch — “just to prove he exists”

#3) Hyman Roth

#2) Jeb Bush, Marvin Bush or Neil Bush — “nobody will notice, trust me brothers.”

#1) “Shit, if I knew where it was maybe I’d know who to appoint.”

2. 9/11, an Oil Mans Wet Dream:

In the late spring of 2001, Vice President Cheney held a series of top secret meetings with the representatives of Exxon-Mobil, Conoco, Shell and BP America for what was later called the Energy Task-force. Their job, ostensibly, was to map out America’s Energy future. Since late 2001 several public interest groups, including the very conservative Judicial Watch, sued to have the proceedings of those meetings opened to public scrutiny. In March 2002, the Commerce Department turned over a few documents from the Task-force meetings to Judicial Watch, among which was the map of Iraq’s Oil Fields, dated March 2001 (above) and a list of the existing “Foreign Suitors” for Iraq Oil.

3. The Big List of things that piss off Muslims. Some how they managed to forget premarital intercourse, The Big Noses, and grizzly bears.

4. Mike Huckabee isn’t going to quit until Lord Jeebus makes him:

The secular media just can’t understand: “But what are the chances? What are the chances either of these will happen? What rational person keeps going with such small odds?”
Who? A fundamentalist Christian, that’s who.

5. Other things to waste your time with: Teen pirates an entire human immune system, Peggy Noonan Uses Ebonics to Describe Michelle Obama, Bush Approval at 19% – Officially ‘Worst President Ever’, Mike Huckabee entertains us on SNL, McCain has some serious spending issues, Welcome to the jungle: How “gotcha capitalism” has destroyed the American social contract, and Welcome To Mike Huckabee’s America: Bigoted, Ill-Informed, and Ignorant.

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Some Blogs I Am Reading Because A State-Funded Board Certified Me As Semi-Literate

1. This:

2. The [tag]Atlantic Review[/tag] has an excellent post on future quagmire building in [tag]Iran[/tag], and how many we need in our daily diet:

Tired of the same old boring quagmire? Looking for a new kind of quagmire to talk about with your friends? Good news if you are, because Iraq is not the only quagmire around. No need to look far—keep it in the “[tag]axis of evil[/tag].” Iraq’s neighbor, Iran is also a quagmire of a sorts… a diplomatic quagmire for the transatlantic allies.

3. If this is at all possible, [tag]Bill Clinton[/tag] claims they’ve been running their campaign “on a shoestring”:

The former president spoke as if he were back in the grass-roots insurgency that he and his wife brought to the presidential campaign trail in 1992. “We’ve gotten plenty of delegates on a shoestring,” he said recently. He didn’t mention that his wife’s campaign has raised and burned through more than $140 million so far. That’s a lot of shoestring, even in Washington.

4. Life imitates The Big Lebowski over at [tag]Byron Crawford[/tag]. Now, the post itself isn’t actually first rate but the discussion (over 200 comments as of right now) has got itself a race war on its hand. And who knew, on a black mans website and everything!

5. Some short asides: Russia is seeing minimal increases in its oil production, Was Edwards really the working class candidate?, 25 Questions to Think About Before Your Next Job Interview, Bush’s Enemy #1: [tag]Dennis Kucinich[/tag], and a firm of which [tag]Prescott Bush[/tag] was a director was involved with the financial architects of [tag]Nazism[/tag].

In Soviet Russia, Funny Clothes Wear You

1. I fucking hate the religious right. Want to know why? For shit like this:

Responding to complaints from the Religious Right, Congress has passed legislation mandating that the phrase “In God We Trust” be moved from the edge to the back or front of the new presidential dollar coins.

2. In Soviet Russia… Zebra wear you! And yes, that was the best I could do.

3. … not a surprise.

4. Kansas City’s welcome for George Bush:

5. And for the funny cookee crazy crap no one really cares about: Do you miss Beavis?, why are we so uptight about sex, Woman arrested for trying to rip Sikh’s turban at US restaurant, and also these:

Blog me up, Buttercups

Blog Roundup, this week in an easy 1 to 10 fashion. This better keep you god damn occupied!

1. Why the media hates Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich.

Did you notice a pattern? Both Paul and Kucinich are against the influence of lobbyists, war profiteers, deficit spending, and big government, to name just a few.

2. Conveniently, it seems everyone in Washington has forgotten that the National Intelligence Estimate says that Iran is a virtual non-threat in regards to a WMD program. Ablogistan covers the 2008 Defense Authorization Act:

Congress finds that Iran maintains a nuclear program in continued defiance of the international community while developing ballistic missiles of increasing sophistication and range that:
(1) pose a threat to–
(A) the forward-deployed forces of the United States;
(B) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies in Europe; and
(C) other allies and friendly foreign countries in the region; and
(2) eventually could pose a threat to the United States homeland.

And don’t forget that “An overwhelming majority of Iranians, 70 percent, favor normal relations and trade with the United States, a nationwide poll conducted by Terror Free Tomorrow has found.” Ooooops.

3. Deputy Dog covers the most controversial boardgames.

4. Joey DeVilla tracks 70 scenes from Simpsons scenes and their reference movies.

5. The Science of Stimulus by Russ Roberts.

…One answer is that a healthy patient doesn’t need medicine. But the other possibility is that it’s all hot air. Maybe we don’t know how to make a $14 trillion economy move very quickly. And if we did, it would take a lot more than an injection of even 125 billion dollars.

6. No wonder we make fun of Christians.

7. 130 billion gallons of fresh water to produce 41 billion gallons of bottled water. Oh yeah, another 18 million barrels of oil to make the bottles. Kind of a waste?

8. Obama to End Federal Raids on Medical Marijuana Patients.

9. No Rich People were harmed in making this recession

10. And for those of us discouraged enough with the economy and politics at large to spend the remainder of one’s days in a drug-induced coma… it’s how to get high on a can of coke!