I Love Cynics!

I wasn’t going to post twice today, but then I ran across this on the Something Awful forums…
SA has a forum titled Laissez Fair, which is mostly about political satire and silly political debates. One of the discussions, Bruce Tinsley drunk Mallard Fillmore Megaguglugluglug, is about republican oriented political cartoons. A recently uploaded image is […]

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That’s it. Nothin’ more to say. Just go do it. It’ll make you feel good. Honest.

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This is my new favorite phrase.
It was uttered by Rashid Khalidi, a professor Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia University, and the focus of another smear campaign by McCain and Palin.
When asked about his ties to the PLO (there are likely none) and Obama, he responded:

Khalidi said Wednesday, “I am not speaking to the media at […]

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I’m just gonna be lazy here and quote the News-Miner.

Below are the charges. The verdict form is broken down by year and jurors did not have to indicate which gifts, if any, they believe Stevens concealed.
COUNT ONE: False Statements, Scheme
ACCUSATION: Stevens engaged in a scheme to conceal from his Senate financial disclosure documents home renovations […]

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All good blog entries have Beastie Boys lyrics as titles…
See that spiffy set of graphs over there on the left? Those are today’s numbers from FiveThirtyEight.com. FiveThirtyEight is one of several poll aggregators out there. However, it seems to be one of the most open with their methodology.
I’ve been keeping a fairly close eye […]

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Everyone is falling all over themselves, including the media. Below is the best “oops” I’ve seen in a while. A couple of MSNBC commentators not realizing their microphones are still on, while talking about the VP choice of Sarah Palin.

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From my mother:
Ted Stevens, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, heh, heh, oh, er, heh. Not that I’m laughing, of course.
Love,
your mom
I can’t help but agree.

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A very interesting article is in today’s Fairbanks Daily News-Miner regarding several jewelery companies and how they won’t accept gold from the proposed Pebble Creek Mine. A pledge between five companies, including the huge Tiffany & Co., states:
We are committed to sourcing our gold and other materials in ways that ensure the protection of natural […]

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Dear News-Miner editorial writers,
Please explain to me how you can reconcile the following two sentences:
And in that debate, there are people who play loose with the facts and who make statements based on an emotional attachment to the wolf and all that its supporters say it embodies.
Many people just can’t bring themselves to see the […]

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No matter what else you may think of him, Barak Obama is one damn good speaker. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or are deep in denial rooting for Ron Paul, or something, than you know Obama took the Iowa Democrat caucus. Chris Dodd faired dismally. Edwards and Clinton took second and third, behind […]

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