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The Great Sarah Palin Turkey Massacre

Keep an eye on the background. This was an interview she gave for a local news station during her annual turkey "pardoning."

posted by ayatollah assahola @ 5:56 PM 1 Comments

Not Really Helping the Cause

to follow-up on cowboy's post:

posted by ayatollah assahola @ 12:38 PM 3 Comments

the great battle between the mormons and the gays has begun

to quote the seminal Toes song "here come the monkeys", "which...will win? will it be the rhombus or the roughhousing gang?" or in this case, the triangle or the weird underwear gang?

as a newly minted california voter my presidential vote would matter little-- i had resigned myself to casting meaningless lemming votes rather than meaningless protest votes. then came prop 8, which gave me a reason to wait in line for 18 hours last week (other than to parade around in my "i voted" sticker giving the finger to seventeen year olds and ex-convicts). except it passed anyway.

african americans, who turned out in massive numbers for King Barry, also voted ~70% for prop 8, which amends-or-revises the constitution to prevent gay marriage. the yes-on-8 gang were certainly on target -- just ask the african american lady-robot who left a robocall on meatcoat's telephone saying that she'd marched with MLK, and that MLK hates fags. or something like that. they had all the dough they needed to get the message out too -- thanks to the mormons' church-sponsored campaign to prevent sodomy for the glorification of god, who speaks to them from rocks inside a magic hat.

so now, all shit has broken loose, with the gays mounting a full-scale assault on the LDS church, massive protests in salt lake city and all across california.

my question to you is this: who will win in the apocalyptic battle to end all battles? will it be the mormons? will senators harry reid and orrin hatch declare a bipartisan war on fabulous? will wilford brimley send forth his armies of bloodthirsty mormon seniors? will jon heder, aaron eckhart and katherine heigl unite to form a holy hollywood Mormon Voltron, decimating the entire castro? or will elton john wave his mighty gloved hand and dispense with the entire beehive state forthwith?

these are latter days indeed.

Labels: gays, religion

posted by the cold cowboy @ 4:15 PM 8 Comments

oh please, please, please run in 2012.

posted by the cold cowboy @ 2:45 PM 3 Comments

obama rally

the obama rally in grant park tonight was absolutely fucking insane. i can't even do the whole thing justice -- tens of thousands of folk (more than i've ever seen in my life) in the mix, with crazy cheers every time big wolf blitzer would come back on the jumbotron screen and announce another state for obama. ohio was huge for outright political as well as personal reasons, florida was sweet too, but once they announced virginia, we knew it was over and the crowd went nuts.

everyone was actually really gracious during mccain's speech, which, despite weird repetitions, was a lot better than i thought it would be.

but let's be honest -- barack obama is a fucking amazing speaker and as much as i had seen him speak on the tv, hearing him live was amazing. there was a great mix of folks around me: black, white, old, young, all those cliches you hear that are actually true in this case. and during his speech, there were lots of tears.

i can't tell you how grateful i am to have witnessed history.

posted by candycanesammy @ 3:20 AM 3 Comments

I love Taxachusetts.

I was filled with delight and a most pleasant surprise this morning when I bellied up to my voter booth, took a thorough look at my ballot and discovered that, as a result of living in Denise Provost's Somerville district, I was being offered the chance to fire my entire state legislature.

The nothing-if-not-maverick Question 5 wonders:

"Shall the state representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of amending the state Constitution to replace the state Legislature with 100 randomly selected adult residents of the Commonwealth, each serving a one-year term, to be called the Commonwealth Jury and to have all the legislative and other powers of the current Legislature?"

That's right! Get 'em out of there. A Commonwealth Jury is good for what ails me.

Imagine my soaring hopes and dreams when I discovered that, as a potential "randomly selected adult [resident] of the Commonwealth" I might one day legislate great laws for this most un-American corner of Newe Englande.

So attention, residents of Somerville: get out there and vote yes on non-binding Question 5. Urge YOUR representative to suggest firing herself and her closest 99 buddies!

Labels: awesomeness, election 2008, government ineffectiveness

posted by dan @ 9:59 AM 3 Comments