Archive for February, 2008

stick a fork in it

Apparently, now, calling someone a racist is a racist act. This is going to end well.

Instead, it left a sour note as vandals spray-painted racial slurs outside the campaign headquarters.

“I don’t even know why anyone would do this except ignorance you know, total ignorance, ” said installation technician Lonzell Johnson.

It was a sight that “Towles Phone Center” technicians never wanted to see. The phrase “a racist” was spray painted on the hood and the sides
of two of their company vans.


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Also, it’s just sad when your PC graffiti jagoff’s have such atrocious spelling.

tongue firmly planted in cheek

This made me laugh.Obama Motivator

Cuba Libre

While transiting thru MIA yesterday I had the pleasure of ordering a Cuba Libre from an expat.
Let’s hope it happens…

on the issues Obama

Principles that Obama supports on gun issues:

  • Ban the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic weapons.
  • Increase state restrictions on the purchase and possession of firearms.
  • Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks with firearms.

Source: 1998 IL State Legislative National Political Awareness Test Jul 2, 1998

Continue reading ‘on the issues Obama’

the wind must be blowing the stupid in


Twenty voters at a Far North Side precinct who found their ink pens not working were told by election judges not to worry.

It’s invisible ink, officials said. The scanner will count it.

But their votes weren’t recorded after all.


ed: ya THINK?!


“Part of me was thinking it does sound stupid enough to be true,” said Amy Carlton, who had serious doubts but went ahead and voted anyway.

Update: In the comments the Amy Carlton in question (who may or may not be a dead person) links to her version of the story…

my predictions

Anheiser Bush has a patriotic commercial.
GoDaddy as a stupid commercial
Patriots by 17

Update: did I say patriots by 17… i meant giants with 17… yeah that’s it.