HE'S GOING FOR IT: McCAIN'S GONNA JUMP THE SHARK

Score one for Johnny. He was the first one to dive head-first into the wading pool when his lackeys this week pounced on Barack Obama for his talking about putting lipstick on a pig. The phrase, McCain's lackey hatchet men, is a Obama's direct shot at Sarah Palin... being as she used the term "lipstick" in her acceptance speech last week.
Jesus Freaking Christ. I mean, who the hell thought that one up? Does McCain have a couple of 11th grade boys, named Bevis and Butthead, on his staff who make up these half-witticisms? Did no one on that campaign staff ever study semantics, linguistics, or even logic when they went to school? There is no connection between Palin's and Obama's comments. Obama mentioned lipstick on a pig. Palin claimed to be "hockey mom" and said the only difference between a hockey mom a pit bull, which is a breed of dog, is lipstick. Therefore, Palin is claiming to be a dog, or perhaps more precisely, a bitch. I mean they do grasp the differences between a pig and dog, don't they?....Hmmmm. Now that we look that this more closely, we see that Palin claimed that ALL hockey moms are dogs/bitches. Well, that could hurt her in nthe polls with the hockey-mom demographic.
And even beyond that lame-brained association, we could help but notice that the Repigs mounted their umbrage-taking campaign when Obama was talking about McCain's lack of an intelligible economic policy. And that's a sore point for McCain because, by his own public estimation, his gasp of the subject is tenuous, at best.... So maybe he brought in Bevis and Butthead to buy him some time, hoping the focus on a non-issue would keep attention away from his ignorance of a very important facet of the presidency.
And this is no small thing. The past eight years have been an ugly object lesson on the dangers of economic ignorance; Enron went down and took billions of dollars of investments with it; Oil refineries in the Gulf of mexico went off-line when Katrina slammed into the coast, and the price of gasoline doubled. And because our fearless leader, Bush The Dim, neglected to seek short-term nationalization of energy distribution, that set the administration's second recession snowball rolling downhill. Now, three years after Katrina, the price of fuels has tripled and because of that, the cost of food has seen a precipitous rise and the entire nation is paying the price for the President's ignorance. People are losing their jobs because employers are cutting labor costs to offset increased energy costs, and higher unemployment leads to increased home foreclosures, tighter and more expensive bank and mortgage loans. And eventually, the problems gets so severe, that the federal government needs to wrest control of the two mortgage guarantors in the nation to make sure they don't auger into the dirt under the weight of $5 Trillion in mortgages, of which 1 in 7 are reportedly either in default or foreclosure.
Tell me, why in the name of Gawd would we elect someone president who has no more grasp of even macroeconomics than the current dumbass mofo does.
Don't let either candidate deflect legitimate questions by manufacturing a lame controversy about something of no importance. Get informed. Ask questions. Demand answers. This nation cannot afford another four years of buffoonery.

JOHN McCAIN: AGENT OF CHANGE? .... THAT'S GONNA BE A HARD CONCEPT TO SELL.

We see where the Repiglican candidate, John McCain has co-opted the Democratic party's promise of change if he elected to the Whitehouse. Apparently his old message of war-mongering and following the trail that George The Dim has cut wasn't playing as well in the heartland as he had hoped.
But I doubt the new and improved message is going to be any easier to sell to anyone who is even moderately bright. The fact is, McCain is asking voters to elect him to clean up a monsterous cluster-fuck that he bears some responsibility for making. I mean, whether you choose to blame the Congress, the President or the Republican party for a useless war in Iraq, two economic recessions, a disasterous response to Hurricane Katrina, and a 300 percent increase in fuel prices, that fact is that McCain's pecker tracks are all over the policies of the past eight years. ... So why would any sane person want to give him a third bite at the apple, after he's already demonstrated his poor leadership skills.
Here's the thing: Intellectually, McCain's best days are behind him. I covered his west coast primaries in the 2000 cycle and I have to say he impressed me enough to consider voting for him. But that was before he caved in to pressure from Haley Barbour and others in the party leadership to step aside so George Bush could run.
And while the reasons for his decision to step down are now immaterial, the fact is that his ideas and promise of non-partisan politics are now bankrupt. Remenber when he took the so-called "christian" fundamentalists to task for their heavy-handed efforts to control the whitehouse and congress? Yeah, well he changed his mind and bent over for them last year when he begged their forgiveness and their support.
Add that to his vow to stay in Iraq until the U.S. gains "victory" - whatever that hell that means- and we begin to see a man whose appears to be re-fighting a war long lost. But, of course, he can't win the war in Vietnam by committing more troops, money and resources to Iraq and he probably knows that. And he can't reinstitute the Barry Goldwater era of conservatism, and he probably know that too.... Probably. But even if he could, is that the of "progress" we want?

....RATHER LIKE DICK NIXON RECRUITING SAMMY DAVIS, JR. TO HIS CAMPAIGN, TO SHOW HOW HIP, COOL AND GROOVY HE WAS.

Meet the newest face of the John McCain Campaign. He calls himself Daddy Yankee and he's apparently agreed to be the McCain's token young latino. Daddy Yankee, for those of us who have never heard of him, is a self-styled, performer out of Puerto Rico, whose image and musical stylings are aimed at giving legitimacy to the lifestyles of other pretend and real gangsters from south of the border. Great.
The thing is; real gangsters don't vote, because real gangsters.... they're criminals. They're outside the law and outside of society. I can virtually guarantee Mr. McCain that the Bloods, or Crips or MS-13 is not going to take time off from their busy schedule of extortion, drug dealing and whacking one another to go down to the polls and do their civic duty. And pretend gangsters don't vote either, because well, they're pretending to be gangsters. But hey, I could be wrong - what if the McCain camp knows more than I do and they are recruiting the hitherto unknown Mexican/South American Gangster voting block.... Yeah, probably not. It's more likely the campaign just needed a minority face so the party would look quite so much like a loaf of Wonder Bread.
For his part, Mr. Yankee says he signed on the to McCain juggernaut because he likes the candidate's policy on immigration.... whatever that is. But before Yankee delivers the huddled masses from below the border to the feet of McCain, both Yankee and the masses need to realize that whatever McCain's personal policy on immigration was in Arizona nothing more and an academic footnote if he is elected El Presidente. He will no longer be just representing the interests of the Latino vote in Arizona. Instead he'll have to take into account the interests of all demographic groups in all the states. So despite whatever he says now, when he has no power to enact a national policy on immigration, it may be, and likely will be quite different if he does get the power - and obligation - to make policy.

I MEAN, WHAT IS IT ABOUT THESE REPUBLICANS AND THEIR TWISTED SEXUAL DESIRES?

And now, Robert McKee, a Republican Delegate out of Washington County has suddenly resigned and entered "treatment" in the wake of a search warrant served at his house earlier today. And bless the cops' pointy little heads for withholding(WTF!!)the Probable Cause statement in support of their application for the warrant. Nevertheless, both the wire stories and the story in the local paper were not too subtle in pointing up the fact that the Cyber-Crimes cops seized McKee's computer and several images while making clear he has a long history of asociation with the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization.
It's beginning to look like a fair percentage of the "family values" party are either closeted homosexuals (not that there's anything wrong with that.....hehehehehe) or just a bunch of tight-asses too repressed to deal with their own sexual orientation......... geez, that would go a long way toward explaining why so many of them want to subjugate everyone else.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK

Allow us to introduce you all to Marvin E. Holmes, Jr. He's a state delegate from Prince Georges County and the latest graphic illustration that you don't have to actually know anything about federal and state law to be elected to craft those laws. To wit: Marv is pimping a bill, which presumably, he crafted with his own hands and brain, that, if adopted, would require anyone under the age of 21 seeking a driver's license in Maryland to first submit to drug and alcohol testing. ... Let's pause here for a moment to ponder Marv's grasp of constitutional law...
Okay, that's long enough.
Marv, Marv, Marv. Where do we begin with you. Oh, I know, how about the Fourth Amendment. You know, that's the one that prohibits search a search of a persons home, papers, effects and person Without A Freaking Warrant. Then let's proceed to the Fifth Amendment, preventing self incrimination..And let's not forget the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
I mean, holy Gawd, can the man really be this ignorant of basic law? We can only hope this piece of crap was written for him by a legislative aide. Then Marv can fire his ignorant ass. But if Marv actually wrote it.... woe is us.

USING HIS TONGUE FOR THE KISS OF DEATH

Yikes... have you guys seen that pitiful new commercial Wayne Gilchrest is running... the one where he proudly admits to following the party line laid down the First Idiot, George Bush, and at the end of which he actually trumpets the fact that he is endorsed by the president? Okay. I mean, I realize ol' Wayne's been on the correct side on a couple of issues, but Daaaamn, is he now so senile that the can't remember the nightmarish shit-for-brains Bush has been for this country? The only thing preventing me from calling for him to fall on his sword are the two boneheads vying for his seat.

WATCHING WBOC SLIDE DOWN THE TUBES

Rick Jordan, a VP over at WBOC, issued fair warning today that some shows that his station broadcasts will be blacked out on other stations in this market. ... The reason he says is so his station won't continue to lose market-share.
Now, I've never met Mr. Jordon, but already he's coming off like a blind buffoon. Hell, he not losing market-share because of competition. He's losing it because he can't put together a product that anyone wants. For the most part, WBOC is just a funnel into the market for the CBS network. Other than that, what do they do... broadcast their sloppily sanitized version of the local news and cobble together a lame PSA once in a while... That's it... oh, and they make commercials for their advertisers... and even the production values there are amateurish and almost painful to watch.
So here's the thing, Rick: you blacking out Oprah, Jerry Springer, or whoever isn't going to help you, appreciably. If you want to improve your bottom line, then you need to make significant changes in the staff. Start with your news editor and anchor, ol' Steve Whatshisname, his bias for business and government are obvious and offensive. And if what I hear from your videographers and talent is correct, most of them can't get away from his crafting of news stories fast enough.
Then, if you're going to continue to film commercials for your advertisers, find writers, directors and videographers with ideas, talent and ability and then let them do the work without the heavy-handed oversight of the person who's doing it now.
Until you do that, nothing will change and you'll continue to go down the tubes.

JUSTICE FOR THE JENA SIX

I was trying to let this whole "Jena Six" thing slide by without a comment but these dumb bastards just don't know when to shut the hell up. A couple days ago, there was Al Sharpton on Capitol Hill whining about how badly those boys had been treated by the Law, and demanding "justice."
By all means, let's give them the justice and fairness they deserve, but let that justice begin with a loud and public condemnation of the animalistic behavior that brought them to the attention of the Law in the first place.
Yeah. I haven't heard a single word of condemnation out of any of the self-appointed leaders of the black community, only claims that the boys suffered at the hands of the racist white prosecutor who charged them with attempted second degree murder - far in excess of their actual crime. But by their silence on the subject, they are telling every wild young back boy and girl that it's okay to inflict violence on others, because they are victims of racism, or whatever.
I really don't mind if Jackson, Sharpton and Winfrey ride down to Texas to protect the boys' rights. That's a good thing. But they need to tell those boys that their rights do not include the right to beat up someone you don't like. And they need to remind the boys that with rights come responsibilities and consequences. So, if they are found guilty of the beating, then need to "man-up" and accept the consequences for their actions. That would be justice.