Jon Stewart on GWB’s bailout speech
video: Clusterf#@k to the Poor House – Dive of Death (4:04)
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The DNC and RNC in 90 seconds apiece
Missed the Democratic National Convention? How about the Republican National Convention?
Have no fear! Kevin Allocca at 23/6 Comedy News (“Some of the news, most of the time”) pares down each convention to its core essence.
First, the DNC video [1:37]:
And now, the RNC video [1:38]:
via Mark Evanier
Senator sues God. No, really.
Umm….
Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers filed suit against God Friday, asking a court to order the Almighty and his followers to stop making terrorist threats.
Nebraska: Big with the Wacky.
The suit accuses God of having his chroniclers “disseminate in written form, said admissions, throughout the Earth in order to inspire fear, dread, anxiety, terror and uncertainty, in order to coerce obedience to Defendant’s will.”
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The lawsuit indicates that Chambers attempted to make God appear in order to serve him by saying “Come out, come out, wherever you are,” but the Almighty declined, like many defendants, to make it easy for a plaintiff to serve him with court papers.
WTF?
Chambers filed the suit to make a point that the state constitution allows lawsuits to be filed for any reason, according to WOWT.
O RLY?
The full story’s over at Wired.
Schadenfreude
Teh Awesome is strong in this one.
Chad Jones at Theater Dogs points us to what is my favorite YouTube mashup of the year:
“If You Were Gay” from Avenue Q
plus
“I Am Not Gay!” from Sen. Larry Craig:
YouTube vid: If Larry Craig were Gay
[via Valli « via Theater Dogs]
USA vs GWB
What would the case against Bush look like?
Elizabeth de la Vega, a former federal prosecutor (she was Chief of the San Jose Branch U.S. Attorney’s Office), has constructed a theoretical convening of a grand jury in which she lays out the case that Bush and company deliberately and willfully deceived the nation about the Iraq war.
Her work is being released as a book, United States v. George W. Bush et al., but there’s a sizeable excerpt available on AlterNet.
Liberty sometimes wears a mask
Last Monday, a guy from the libertarian We the People Foundation donned the mask of V, from V for Vendetta, and
visited security check points at the White House, the main Treasury, IRS and Justice Department Buildings and the Capitol. “V’s” purpose was to deliver the People’s Petitions for Redress of Grievances relating to the Government’s violations of the war powers, tax, privacy and money clauses of the Constitution, and to inform key Government officials that at least 100 more “Vs” would be at their doorstep on November 14th expecting a response to the Petitions.
What’s most interesting, I think, is that the Secret Service, et al, were generally very friendly with “V,” and listened to his explanations rationally.
When an agent asked if “V” would remove his mask for identification purposes, “V” explained that would defeat the very purpose of the mask, which was to give expression to the fact that the nation was becoming a police state, that too many people were becoming afraid to be identified as dissenters or protestors, and that this was not in the long term interest of a free people. The agents accepted the veracity of “V’s” message and refrained from veering “V” from his vanguard visit as the vox populi.
Really, though, how sad a state of affairs is it when it’s noteworthy that the agents weren’t jackbooted thugs?
The full essay and some [over-long] videos are here.
[via John Wick]
Remember to vote!
First Tuesday in November.
Election Day.
Get out and vote!
For those who aren’t sure where they need to go to vote, and who haven’t already voted absentee, Amelia G points us to a nationwide polling place locator site.
And in that spirit, here’s the Lascivious Biddies with “Cast That Ballot”:
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