New site, and some cartoons!

I read about a new political website on Hanlon's Razor today, and it seems fairly interesting. It is called First Door on the Left. I really liked the cartoons up, and here are a couple of my favorites:

Oopsie Poops

First, watch this video: McTrainwreck Goodness

The real beauty of this isn't the horrific gaffe he made, it's the stunned silence from the audience right afterwards. Hilarious!

Fun with Charts

These two charts were made by people more talented than me, but I have to share them -

Unrelated

* Did you know that gangrene can set in even if the wound/infected area isn't exposed to the air? It can happen completely internally! You learn something new everyday, eh?

* I am really looking forward to the VP debates tonight. It promises to be painful, and funny.

* I think it is incredibly insulting when someone completely ignores you because they think you are beneath them somehow. The president of the place I work has been pretty sick lately, and every once in a while his wife will come in with him when he stops by to sign a few things. I don't think she has ever acknowledged my presence. I'm pretty sure she thinks that because I am a secretary (Executive, for the Vice President, mind) that I am not good enough to warrant a Hello or Good Morning. There have even been times where she has walked up and shut the door at the hallway entrance to keep me totally separated from all the other corporate folks. Even my attempts at talking to her are met with glares. Nice.


* Next weekend I am going to Las Vegas for the Ride. There is a brand new Lamborghini showroom that opened up there so of course it is on very small list of things I want to see. Aside from the Lambos, here are a few of the other cars they have on display (I wonder if they let people sit in them?):
Bugatti Veyron, Koenigsegg, Saleen, Spyker. The value of just one of these cars is more than I will ever see in my lifetime. I'm very excited!

Comedy Explosion!

I cannot stop laughing at this transcript. For real. I find it more and more difficult to read all of these stories and interviews, but the McCainwreck has gotten so goddamn bizarre I can't stop paying attention. There will most likely be more where this came from in a little while.

Couric: You've cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?

Sarah Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundary that we have with Canada. It's funny that a comment like that was kinda made to … I don't know, you know … reporters.

Couric: Mocked?

Palin: Yeah, mocked, I guess that's the word, yeah.

Couric: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign-policy credentials.

Palin: Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. And there…

Couric: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?

Palin: We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state.

Bikes and Batshit

This is what I did this weekend -



Also: people have gone batshit crazy. By people I mean anyone involved with the John McCain Train Wreck. Holy balls, what a fantastic mess! I have so many things to say about the events of the past couple days, I could write for 10 hours and still not have it covered. My suggestion? Find some video or audio of Letterman responding to being bitchslapped by McCain, find some transcripts from the Palin/Couric interview, and then read absolutely everything on Hanlon's Razor today.


Wow.

Words Fail Me

Charlie Gibson managed to get the first unscripted interview with Sarah Palin, and they showed the first part of it last night. And yes, you read that correctly: unscripted. Wow.

Anyway, it was a train wreck. For Palin.

In brief - doing 180's on certain topics (Iraq war is a task from God, specifically) and painfully clearly changing the topic back to the one or two things she knows about after presented with her exact quote; making flippant remarks about two extremely serious foreign involvment situations (Israel & nukes, going to war with Russia?!?) when she admittedly has absolutely zero foreign policy knowledge or experience; and NOT KNOWING WHAT THE BUSH DOCTRINE WAS. AT ALL. That is fucking fantastic.

Ready...Set....Rant!

I have some thoughts on the RNCC speeches that took place last night. Specifically, Palin's speech. But first, here is a nifty little fact/lie comparison from Yahoo! News, one on McCain & Palin, and then one on Obama & Biden (in the spirit of fairness):
McCain & Palin Fact Check
Okay, looks like in the 30 seconds it took me to post the previous link, the Fact Check article on Obama & Biden has disappeared. I'll keep an eye out for it today to update this if it shows. But moving on...

Here are my initial (and second) thoughts regarding Palin's speech last night; yes, they are very wide generalizations and simplifications of her comments, but this is some basic bottom-line stuff:
1. If you are not a hard worker and/or do not support/like hard workers, you hate America and are unpatriotic.
2. Drilling into U.S. oil reserves is a great solution for ending our dependency on foreign oil. 10.4 billion barrels in Alaska (approximately), and we use 19.6 million barrels a day, or a little over 7 billion per year - you do the math. Hooray for short term solutions! Hooray for sticking it right up the environment's ass!
3. Obama never mentioned 'victory' in all his talks regarding the Iraq quagmire. Did I miss something here? He hasn't mentioned it because there hasn't been a victory. Unless she defines 'victory' as 'digging a deeper & deeper hole that is killing more people (Americans and innocent Iraqis) every day and creating more disgust and outrage at our government's military actions therein'.
4. Obama hasn't written any bills. I will refer to the Fact Check link above, and you can take a little peek at Obama's site. Hm.
5. Obama hates religion! And he also hates any people who are religious!
6. If you choose to do any type of community work or have a job in which you serve the community to better the lives of people there, you are a douchebag and a loser.

On a second-to-last note - there is an awful lot of noise about her daughter's pregnancy, and a lot of it is coming from the GOP clamoring for privacy in this family matter. The kicker? It was the GOP who released that bit of news to the media. But now they are crying foul and saying the media is focusing on a story that should not matter in the realm of politics. And then they paraded the whole family across the stage - pregnant daughter, baby daddy and all. But then told people to leave them alone. What?

And on a FINAL note - she is being praised for her super number one awesome best speech ever, but in her speech said that 'pretty speeches don't mean anything'. So....yours is okay? Or it doesn't mean anything?

A Correction, and an Important List

In a previous message, I said Sarah Palin was a creationist. My bad. She's an evangelical. I'm not sure this makes things better.

Also, an important (and probably oft-updated) list. By important I mean either hilarious or depressing. It's still up in the air.
What We've Learned, as put forth on the always enlightening Hanlon's Razor.

Let's talk Palin

Just a few brief thoughts on McCain's VP choice -
1. She's totally cool with opening up the Alaskan Natural Wildlife Preserve for oil drilling.
2. She's a creationist.
3. She doesn't actually know what the Vice President's job is.

I would add more, but it's difficult to type on a keyboard covered in puke.