Back at Fancy Farm on Saturday, where 95 degree weather, 5 am wake-ups, and bourbon almost put me in my grave, I couldn’t help but notice a comment by “Exxon” Eddie Whitfield. In his speech–before an boisterous audience of predominately Democratic jeering participants–he said that the Democrats wanted [...]
Apologies, Swindle. It had to be done.
Addison Mitchell McConnell sips at his drink and looks around the bar.
Bartender: Another, ma�??am?
AMM: Yeah, make it another Bourbon and Coke.
Bartender: If it�??s on his tab, it�??s gotta be well brand. Sorry, but that�??s what he said.
Kentucky�??s [...]
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[...]…that the top brand name in KY Political Blogging–hell, one of the top brand names in local political coverage anywhere–can be so thoroughly torn down in less than two weeks. Good Lord, Walter.
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I’ve been relatively silent for a while now, letting Zeke do most of the writing while I was off doing other freelancing gigs and actually earning money. But he’s off for a while, and something kind of important happened yesterday that I want to talk about: Barack Obama got 200,000 [...]
John McCain thinks Soc. Sec. is “a disgrace.” He doesn’t mind the checks, though. (photo: donkeydish.com)
John McCain has told the American people how badly he wants to lower their taxes. He lusts to lower their taxes. He burns to lower their taxes. Some programs are a waste [...]
No pictures yet, but Germans waving American flags at Obama’s speech in Berlin makes me want to cry a little bit. We won’t realize fully how bad these 8 years have been until they’re over.
Update:
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A new report suggests that homosexual and bisexual soldiers should be allowed to openly serve. (photo:defenseindustrydaily.com)
Gays in the armed services were a hot-button issue for the Clinton administration, and after reaching the �??Don�??t Ask, Don�??t Tell�?? (DADT) �??compromise�?? in 1993 (as always, Billy ran [...]
Gov. Steve Beshear last month changed the old policy of lowering state and U.S. flags to half-staff from the announcement of any Kentucky-based soldier’s death until his or her funeral. Now the flag will be lowered only for Kentucky natives, and only on the day they are buried.
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Joke press passes handed out by McCain campaign
(photos: CBS News)
McCain, you are so confusing… err… amusing. No, both!
Your campaign is whining loudly for all to hear that the press is ignoring you to cover Obama’s trip abroad (a trip which you, in part, challenged him [...]
See, they look like buddies. Take a cue from Hill, will ya? (photo:http://trouble.philadelphiaweekly.com/)
Dear PUMAs,
You’re some truly disgruntled Democrats, and your name is a damned funny acronym –”Party Unity My Ass!” That’s funny. Really. I want to talk to you today though. Let’s sit down. It’s serious.
I [...]
“The next President of the United States…”
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More satire from the press? Sadly, no.
Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons could be deployed to Cuba in response to U.S. plans to install a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, a Russian newspaper reported Monday, citing an unnamed senior Russian air force official.
The report in Izvestia, which could [...]
So, did everybody notice that a jet carrying Ron Paul (and several other Texas Congressmen) lost cabin pressure en route to Washington and had to divert to New Orleans yesterday?
Well, it happened. And they got to DC anyway, but in case you’ve never experienced Paultardia up close and [...]
One more post before I slip into silent slumber.
Sorry McCrusty, this has been a rough day for you. A whole lotta McCain-Bashing going down today at What’s Required… mostly because Ben Ray has pretty much left me to my own devices today, which is never really a good [...]
The power of Christ compels you!
John McCain’s campaign has told the press that he may announce his choice for Vice President sometime this week. We here at What’s Required are really hoping for Bobby Jindal. There’s no end to that fun.
I wonder [...]
Does anybody else think it looks like McCrusty is threatening Obama? “I’m gonna cut you, boy!”
Obama’s whirlwind tour of the world is still boppin’ a long this week, and John McCain is still trying to take advantage of America’s love of can-do spirit and love of symbolic [...]
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[...]My daddy always used to tell me, “Son, there’s lies, there’s damn lies, and then there’s statistics.” [sic]
How right he was. That’s not to say that the numbers themselves aren’t accurate quantifications of a given phenomenon –just that anyone with an agenda can read them, and like so many [...]
I just wanted to share this. It is like all too many stories we hear from Iraq.
Celebrated soldier fell victim to “demons” (CNN)
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Since we here at WR know more than a little bit about how bad the job market is for recent grads right now (combined monetary value of education: $480,000. Present jobs held: An expat website editor, two freelance writers, and a pizza delivery boy), we’re a little [...]
You raised it last night, you look like it this morning, and if you don’t change your ways, that’s where you’re headed.
Religious news! Let’s do it!
McCain garners less support than Bush among Evangelicals.
The evangelical vote, as any of us who’ve watched the election very closely have seen, is a hotly-contested [...]
Is Michelle Obama fair game? (photo: blackpast.org)
Ok, so the headline is offensive. Faux News did it first though. Yes that makes them racists. We on the other hand hoped to appeal to your righteous sense of anger toward injustice [...]
Karl Rove to Conrgess –“Ne-Ner, Ne-Ner, Ne-Ner!”
Rove was subpoenaed in May to appear at a congressional hearing to answer questions about the firing of US Attorneys. House Democrats have even done Karl the favor of writing him, letting him know that if doesn’t show up [...]
Good God. I leave for one day and enough information that the world is ending comes through my RSS feed to kill a horse.
Mind, you, I’ve never actually killed a horse with data. But it seems like a fair assumption. I mean, take a look:
…with the Sprint card are making me angry at the world this morning. Suffice to say, if I was able to post everything that I wanted to right now, I’d be saying really, really nasty things about the Governor’s call for a coal-heavy energy plan.
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I’ll withhold too much comment until we actually see what the Governor has to offer in the way of an energy plan; that said, we’re probably already in too deep–he specified to the head of energy and environmental safety (Len Peters) to increase our dependence on coal in the plan, [...]
Mike Meehan’s Orange County billboard. THIS is the politics of fear, and perverse personal gain.
In Orange County FL, drivers are now getting a good look at the disgusting piece of propaganda you see above. Both local Republicans and Democrats have decried the roadside display. What a lovely [...]
My (relatively) active absence continues with another roundup/co-out on the day that we detonated the first atomic bomb in 1945. Hopefully that’s all done with now…
Anyway, today’s cop-out will be a video:
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Keeping this short because I’m tired and the Mad Men DVD is calling me:
“I’m not an economist…” The president went on at a press conference today, “I’m an optimist.”
If we think happy thoughts about the economy, we’ll get out of this slump.
Come on everybody! Think happy thoughts!! We can do it!
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McCain visits Iraq, protected by troops, warships and air support; now he really grasps the “situation on the ground.”
Earlier today, Obama called US foreign policy with regards to Iraq, “single-minded” and “open-ended,” and claimed that our focus on the unnecessary war in Iraq has “distracted” Americans from [...]
A four year old Iraqi girl
Nice to hear someone talking a little bit of sense about the wars in the Middle East.
By any measure, our single-minded and open-ended focus on Iraq is not a sound strategy for keeping America safe. In fact — as should have been [...]
More snowstorm-y goodness:
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You know, it’s been ages since we even did a link dump. And I’m busy today (most of the week, really), meaning you’re stuck with Zeke and Mize. Before I become fairly incative, though, these are worth passing along:
After rumors started this afternoon that Jennifer Miller was going to take the 75th District House of Reps seat, WR received a tip that if Miller is in fact going after the congressional post, she won’t be getting it without a fight. Expect Lexingtonian and Unitarian Universalist Minister Kelly [...]
Looks like Sanford is probably not only out of the veepstakes, but is now making plugs for the Obama campaign.
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Language is a strange, and historically dynamic phenomenon. Human beings have been often been bewitched by their language, as well as liberated by it. It is that essential human tool which carved out the space of thought and brings meaning to expression from precognitive darkness.
Language has the power to tear [...]
Stick with it, it made me laugh out loud about 3/4 of the way through.
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For those of you have not yet seen the cover of the latest edition The New Yorker, it is truly a sight to behold.
The incendiary, satirical illustration entitled “The Politics of Fear.”
It’s been denounced by the both the Obama and McCain [...]
