that’s sweet of you, really. But I haven’t actively blogged in a long time, so I suppose Gavin will become entitled to my domain in about 40 years or so, under the doctrine of adverse possession, or something.

Mind you, I still maintain the domain, and if I ever have some really ass-kicking pictures of spiders or what have you, I’ll be sure to post them for your delectation.

And if Gavin ever again presumes to use my feckin site name, I’ll sue his ass so hard that even Amy Alkon will be beg me not to hurt him.

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I’m about to win re-election because my people sense American weakness due to their new “leader”. I will win easily.

Try “I’m about to win re-election because the anti-US sentiment & convenient removal of my #1 rival for the title generated by BushCo’s plan-free Magical Mesopotamia Fuckup Tour made my country into the political Alpha Dog of the region – & because despite a lot of nauseating sabre-rattling a few years back, the US hasn’t attacked me yet.”

Who gets to be the next float in this parade of fail? “Hugo Chavezz”? “Rachelle Ray”? “Malcolm Ex”?

The Conservative movement has been emboldened this morning. Its going to be a long, hard confirmation fight. Get ready, Socialists!

1: Go to the website known as ‘Google’. (I really would’ve assumed that people who spend as much time on the internet as you would have heard of it, but the facts in evidence repeatedly suggest otherwise.)

2: Type whatever your child-like, ignorant brains imagine is the correct spelling of whichever Islamocommiehomofascist boogieman you wish to parody in the search box.

3: Look at the ‘Did you mean’ suggestion at the top. It will have the correct spelling.

4: Copy and paste that spelling into the name box on S,N.

5: Post usual idiotic bullshit, but this time at least with the correct spelling of the person whom you claim to know enough about to satirize.

6: ???

7: Slightly mitigated FAIL.

Cheney/Palin 2012

a lot of people would have rallied behind an eggplant.

ftfy

Which is why the current GOP/Cheney/Newt plan to set Obama up to be taken down if/when a terrorist attack happens on his watch is doomed to fail. It will be the last nail in the Republican coffin.

Yet they (Rove?) managed a 180-degree rep rehab in less than a week. A PR masterstroke for the ages.
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Yep. It was the standing-on-the-rubble-with-the-bullhorn thing.

Actually, no it wasn’t. 9/11 happened on a Tuesday. The Bushies were so gobsmacked that they made virtually no attempt at all to rally public opinion for about three days. Bush didn’t get off his ass until Friday, when he addressed a high-profile memorial service in Washington and appeared at Ground Zero. But Bush’s approval ratings were already shooting up into the high 80s by Thursday, before he’d really done anything.

The rally-behind-the-leader shit didn’t kick in for a couple days, but it began independently of anything Bush did. At that point, a lot of people would have rallied behind an eggplant.

Except what’s kicking this off is dairy subsidies. This means paying US taxpayer money to farmers (usually big farmers) so they can sell their stuff cheaper to the rest of the world. They need this because they lack any competitive advantages over other producers (such as those of my country).

A better way to do it would be to give “dairy vouchers” to consumers and let them buy their own milk products from whomever. An even better way would be not to try propping up any industry in which you lack a competitive advantage and have no chance of developing one with a fledgling industry.

It hurts the rest of us, it’s an inefficient waste of your taxpayer money, and the only people it benefits are (big) farmers who cannot compete against the advantages other countries have (including lower wages and standards of living).

There’s a case for some forms of protectionism, but subsidies to exporters, by and large, are a boondoggle resulting from funnelling money to a legislator.

Fun fact: Sen. Jesse Helms used to call the man “Kim Jong Two”

All this proves is that sans-serif fonts are a menace to civilization.

This sort of thing makes for harmless parlor conversation when the subject is, say, sports. “Hey, take away the month of June, and the Mariners would’ve finished first!”. It’s the sort of rationalizing that one expects from sports fans. “If only Brady had been healthy!”.

When such pretzel logic is applied to matters of life and death, on the other hand, I tend to find it really annoying.

Yep. It was the standing-on-the-rubble-with-the-bullhorn thing. That and throwing out the pitch at Yankee Stadium.

Fun fact: Sen. Jesse Helms used to call the man “Kim Jong Two”, ’cause that’s what happens when all that fine Carolina barbeque finally wreaks its vengance on your cerebral arteries.

(N.B. Am saying nothing bad about Carolina BBQ – I have the odd feeling though Jesse was known to walk up and chomp off chunks of roast pig even before it had been taken out of the pit, and that kind of thing’s going to have repercussions on down the road.)

The very day it happened, though, people were shaking their heads. I was in Calgary overhearing rightwing oilpatch execs going on and on about Bush hiding out, acting flummoxed, screwing up his statement. Nobody believed in the guy that day.

Yet they (Rove?) managed a 180-degree rep rehab in less than a week. A PR masterstroke for the ages.