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More on spreadin' the wealth, Comrade Palin style

Via that elitist New Yorker magazine that only fake Americans read:

For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama “Barack the Wealth Spreader,” seems to be something of a suspect character herself. She is, at the very least, a fellow-traveller of what might be called socialism with an Alaskan face. The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. Instead, it imposes huge levies on the oil companies that lease its oil fields. The proceeds finance the government’s activities and enable it to issue a four-figure annual check to every man, woman, and child in the state. One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that she added an extra twelve hundred dollars to this year’s check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269. A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist—Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine—that “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.” Perhaps there is some meaningful distinction between spreading the wealth and sharing it (“collectively,” no less), but finding it would require the analytic skills of Karl the Marxist.

Collectively owning the resources? Sharing the wealth? WTF? The state of California has a lot of resources, like oil and gold and lumber and bottled water and Arnold Schwarzenegger films, but I don't feel entitled to an annual check because of that. Perhaps that is because I believe in freedom, and am not a Communist like Sarah Palin, who probably pals around with Hugo Chavez and Norwegians.

(I have no idea who made this, as I received it in an e-mail, but props to whoever did)

Scraping the bottom of the barrel

Damn, these McCain campaign spokesmen just keep getting dumber and dumber, don't they? In this clip, Mike Goldfarb is totally owned by Rick Sanchez:

The Economist = Pravda

Obviously. I mean, there's no way a well-respected, "classic liberal" publication would endorse Communist Barack Obama, right?

"...this cannot be another election where the choice is based merely on fear. In terms of painting a brighter future for America and the world, Mr Obama has produced the more compelling and detailed portrait. He has campaigned with more style, intelligence and discipline than his opponent. Whether he can fulfil his immense potential remains to be seen. But Mr Obama deserves the presidency."

God have mercy on California, especially those heathens in San Francisco

Dude, this is THE MOST HILARIOUS VIDEO I HAVE SEEN THIS WEEK! I really hope Prop. 8 is defeated so I can watch as all of the carpetbaggers' heads explode from sheer frustration!

Business executives for Obama?

OMG! Why are all these business executives supporting Obama?! Has no one told them that Obama is the Manchurian Candidate who is going to take seize the means of production and exile all capitalists to gulags in Siberia (or the American equivalent of Siberia, which would be, I guess, Alaska)?!?!

Bob Clark of Missouri and Victor Hammel of Pennsylvania are CEOs of large businesses who tend to back Democrats but also donate to Republicans. Clark runs Clayco, a St. Louis real estate development firm. Hammel leads J.C. Ehrlich, a pest-control company based in Reading, Pa..
They are the types McCain had hoped to attract. Instead, Clark, who raised thousands for Bush in 2000, has raised more than $500,000 for Obama. And Hammel, who regularly gives money to Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, has donated $2,300 to Obama.

"Barack is definitely more liberal than I am," Clark said. "But I'm willing to compromise on some of those issues for what I think is the greater good."

Hammel said, "I would rather pay a little higher tax on a higher profit than a lower tax rate on lower profits."

Obviously, this man is a Communist.

10 Million Strong Against Lindsay Fincher

Diana sent this to me a few days ago. Don't worry, I am actually going to vote. Probably at 6am or something, in my pajamas.

Are you a REAL American?

Hitchens: Palin hates science, and education, and France

Sometimes, I really love Christopher Hitchens (yeah, I said it):

This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity.

GWU: We're #2!

Congratulations, George Washington University! We're no longer the most expensive university in the United States! At a cost of $53,166, Sarah Lawrence College (uh, wherever that is?) has knocked GWU ($50,312) down to the #2 spot.

And Jesus, over $50k a year to go to GWU? That makes the $36k rate from a few years ago seem like a bargain!

Californians, vote no on Proposition 8!

I'm no longer registered to vote in my home state of California (voting in Virginia FTW!) but I implore my fellow Californians to vote "no" on Proposition 8 because I love watching the religious right freak out!

Kinda like this!

“This vote on whether we stop the gay-marriage juggernaut in California is Armageddon,” said Charles W. Colson, the founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries and an eminent evangelical voice, speaking to pastors in a video promoting Proposition 8. “We lose this, we are going to lose in a lot of other ways, including freedom of religion.”
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian lobby based in Washington, said in an interview, “It’s more important than the presidential election.”

“We’ve picked bad presidents before, and we’ve survived as a nation,” said Mr. Perkins, who has made two trips to California in the last six weeks. “But we will not survive if we lose the institution of marriage.”

[...]

Preachers from other parts of the country have dropped everything and moved to California in recent months. Lou Engle, who leads TheCall, a charismatic prayer ministry in Washington and Kansas City, Mo., with a large following among youth, moved with his seven children to California in September. He is holding large prayer rallies up and down the state, urging people to pray and fast for the 40 days leading up to the election. Some people are giving up solid foods; others are giving up clothes shopping or their favorite television shows.

Dude! Giving up your favorite TV show? I'm sure Jesus is totally impressed with your sacrifice!

GO HOME CARPETBAGGERS! If our gay friends want to get married, then we're gonna let 'em!

Best McCain quote ever?

Well, at least he can properly pronounce "nuclear":

"We talked about nuclear power, well it has to be safe, environment, blah, blah, blah."

YEAH! Forget safety, dude! And for the record, I support an expansion of nuclear power, but to dismiss concerns about safety and the environment as "blah, blah, blah"? Come on, use a few facts to support your argument.

Houston Chronicle endorses Obama

They haven't endorsed a Democrat since 1964! A well-written endorsement, and I certainly agree with them on this statement:

One weakness Obama has shown is a tendency to demonize the energy industry, which will be an indispensable ally in developing alternative fuel sources in the future. He would do well to rethink some of his positions and apply his consensus-building skills to an essential bulwark of the Texas economy.

Meanwhile, my hometown newspaper, The Desert Sun, once again proves that its endorsements are written by a group of monkeys pounding on keyboards:

We know how McCain has voted in the past and it is not simply in lock-step with the Republican Party. He votes for what he believes is best for the nation, even if that puts him at odds with President Bush and other GOP leaders.

So voting with Bush 95% of the time and voting with the GOP 90% of the time isn't enough to qualify as "in lock-step"? Yep, sounds like Desert Sun "logic" to me! (Really, The Desert Sun has always been a complete joke. I'm quite sure the local high school papers exhibit higher standards of journalism than The Desert Sun.)

On Fake America

Timothy Egan, on cities such as DC, Raleigh, Seattle, SF, Austin, and the list goes on:

It would be easy to say these places are not the real America, in the peculiar us-and-them parlance of Sarah Palin. It’s easy to say because Republicans have been insinuating for years now that some of the brightest, most productive communities in the United States are fake American — a tactic that dates to Newt Gingrich’s reign in the capitol.
Brainy cities have low divorce rates, low crime, high job creation, ethnic diversity and creative capitalism. They’re places like Pittsburgh, with its top-notch universities; Albuquerque, with its surging Latino middle class; and Denver, with its outdoor-loving young people. They grow good people in the smart cities.

But in the politically suicidal greenhouse that Republicans have constructed for themselves, these cities are not welcome. They are disparaged as nests of latte-sipping weenies, alt-lifestyle types and “other” Americans, somehow inauthentic.

If that’s what Republicans want, they are doomed to be the party of yesterday.

John McCain is an OLD Bolshevik commie who wants to overthrow the Tsar, kill the bourgeoisie, outlaw private enterprise, send corporate CEOs to gulags, induct our children into the Young Pioneers, and force us to drive Ladas!

This occurred in October 2000:

Responding to a question from a girl who wants to know why her her father, a doctor, pays a higher tax rate than people who earn less:
McCain: "I think it's to some degree because we feel, obviously, that wealthy people can afford more."

Doctor's daughter: Aren't we getting closer and closer to, like, socialism and stuff?

McCain: "Here's what I really believe. When you are, reach a certain level of comfort, there is nothing wrong with paying somewhat more."

"Nothing wrong with paying somewhat more"?!?! SOUNDS LIKE WAR COMMUNISM TO ME! We'll all be standing in bread lines, clutching our ration books if Comrade Commie McCain has his way! Why isn't Comrade McCain wearing his Lenin pin?

And has someone told Joe the tax-dodging Plumber about this? (Or is Joe too busy mulling a run for Congress? God help us). Get Joe on CNN ASAP! We need to hear his economic analysis of Comrade McCain's socialist leanings!

I spent $150,000 on my wardrobe and all I got was this terrorist keffiyeh with communist Democrat donkeys all over it

LOL WTF? This is the political equivalent of a Yankees fan wearing a Red Sox hat.

If Wes Anderson made an attack ad for McCain...

The John Woo and and Kevin Smith parodies are kinda "meh", but I do like the Wes Anderson ad.

Dude, I kinda love Joe Biden now

This interview is awesome. It's like he just wants to say to say "Uh, pardon me, Barbara, but are you a goddamn idiot?"

Sarah Palin is a commie who wants to destroy private enterprise, exile the kulaks, and force us all onto kolkhozes

QUICK! Someone call Joe the Plumber, America's preeminent economist, and ask him for his opinion on Palin's increased taxes on oil companies operating in Alaska!

Palin also raised taxes on oil companies after Murkowski's previous tax regime produced falling revenues in 2007, despite skyrocketing oil prices. Alaska now has some of the highest resource taxes in the world. Alaska's oil tax revenues are expected to be about $10 billion in 2008, twice those of previous year. BP says about half its oil revenues now go to taxes, when royalty payments to the state are included. Earlier this week, Palin approved gas tax relief for Alaskans, and paid every resident $1,200 to help ease their fuel-price burden.

Basically, Comrade Palin was sitting at her desk, admiring Russia from afar, and suddenly said to herself, "Doggonit, those oil companies are making a lot of money! I'm a maverick, so I'm gonna raise taxes on 'em and send an additional $1,200 check to Alaskans. Spreadin' the wealth, you betcha."

New ad campaign for London buses

The Atheist Bus Campaign was launched to counter the plethora of religious adverts on display. I really can't see this going over very well in the United States. There would be protests and blah, blah, blah, because the megachurch pastors would get their flock all riled up.

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October 30, 2008