Obama visits South Side school kids

Imagine how many kids were inspired. And how sad there are still jerks who seem to think that inspiring Americans is a bad thing.

Joe the ass-kisser

Wow, what a difference an election makes. Just weeks ago, Joe Lieberman was telling us that Obama was not ready to lead, and worse, that he would actually knowingly sacrifice the lives of American soldiers just to win an election. Oh, and that Obama was friendly with terrorists, you know, 'cuz Obama wants to kill Americans. But now, Obama is "just about perfect." Joe, you're a little too late to the party.

Weekly address 11-22-08

The $70 an hour lie

Heard the one about the blue collar auto workers making 70 bucks an hour, and that's the REAL reason the automakers are going bankrupt? It's the workers making too much money, and not the CEO's making an average of 11,000 bucks an hour? Trouble with that $70 an hour thing... it's not true.

But then what's the source of that $70 hourly figure? It didn't come out of thin air. Analysts came up with it by including the cost of all employer-provided benefits--namely, health insurance and pensions--and then dividing by the number of workers. The result, they found, was that benefits for Big Three cost about $42 per hour, per employee. Add that to the wages--again, $28 per hour--and you get the $70 figure. Voila. Except ... notice something weird about this calculation? It's not as if each active worker is getting health benefits and pensions worth $42 per hour. That would come to nearly twice his or her wages. (Talk about gold-plated coverage!) Instead, each active worker is getting benefits equal only to a fraction of that--probably around $10 per hour, according to estimates from the International Motor Vehicle Program. The number only gets to $70 an hour if you include the cost of benefits for retirees--in other words, the cost of benefits for other people. One of the few people to grasp this was Portfolio.com's Felix Salmon. As he noted yesterday, the claim that workers are getting $70 an hour in compensation is just "not true."

Prop 8 fight forces Focus On The Family into layoffs

Focus On The Family spent so much money fighting Prop 8 that they've been forced into massive layoffs. That's how much they oppose the basic human rights of gays. They're willing to put their own people out on the street.

No mas

Seems like I'm surrounded by people who are determined that I play the role of the bad guy. I am so tired that I am giving in, and my intent from this day forward is to show these acquaintances that they had absolutely no idea just how bad a guy I am. In the wider sense of the words, no more politeness from me to these kinds of people either. And I use "people" only in the loosest sense. (Yes, I intend to dehumanize them from now on.)

CNN's Rick Sanchez reported on a church marquee that reads "America we have a Muslim president. This is a sin against the Lord." Mark Holick is pastor of The Spirit One Christian Center in Wichita, Kansas where the sign is being displayed.

Wrong on so many fronts, not the least of which is that even if Obama was a Muslim, there's no reason he couldn't be president. This is not a motherfucking theocracy. If these animals, these pigs, these dogs, these insects want a theocracy, then they should move the fuck to Iran and leave this country to the human beings, please. To them I say, Take your book of silly fairy tales and get the fuck out. Go away. Go foul up someplace else with your filth.

Obama on 60 Minutes

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A truly vile right winger

Michael Savage, probable THE most vile right wing talk show host ever, is now insinuating that Obama had something to do with his grandmother's death.

"Why in the world did he take time off from the campaign to visit the grandmother who then suddenly and suspiciously died virtually the night before the election? Tell me about that."

Absolutely sickening. Right wingers know no shame.

Another F.U. from the administration

Secretary Paulson has basically just said, "Hey, thanks for those billions and billions of dollars to rescue the economy, people. I'm going to take that money and say 'fuck you' with it, okay? Troubled mortgage? Regular joe? You're on you're own, suckers! But thanks again for all the money."

Changing their tune

Realizing that they're on the wrong side of history, some of the harshest critics and most craven questioners of Barack Obama's patriotism are now changing their tune.

Joe the Lieberman, who openly questioned Obama's love of this country, now calls him a "genuine patriot." So, Mr. Lieberman, were you a liar, disastrously wrong, or completely devoid of integrity when you said otherwise during the campaign?

Michelle Bachmann, who said that Obama harbored "unamerican views," now says that his election sends a wonderful and "tremendous signal." Uh huh.

And Sarah Palin, who accused him of "palling around with terrorists," and allowed people to call him "terrorist" and to scream "kill him" at her rallies without a word of rebuke, now says "God bless Obama and his wonderful family." Really, Sarah? You want God to bless someone who days ago you basically called a terrorist?

Thanks for your gracious concessions, ladies and gentlemen, but there are some words that won't be forgotten. We now know what kind of people you are.

Surprisingly, one of the big players on the other team who doesn't have nearly as much to apologize for (not from the campaign, at least), and who can be gracious without a hypocritical tongue bursting into flames, is... (you're going to hate me for saying this) ... George W. Bush. Bush's graciousness toward Obama has seemed almost sincere in comparison. So much so that I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on this particular score. I'm willing to openly recall stories told about him during his hazy, drunken college days when he reportedly spoke out against the racism of his friends, that it seemed one bit of integrity in an otherwise wastrel time of his life.

Astounding. The election of Obama has led me to say something complimentary of George W. Bush. Change has truly come.

President-elect Obama and a speech for the ages

Election 08

McCain gets BIG endorsement

This should be trumpeted from the mountaintops, and should be played every hour on the hour on every network -- McCain gets a BIG endorsement. EVERY American should have to see this over and over again. Let everyone know.