I wonder how many lives were saved by the TV show COPS?
How many of these people would be dead today if the cops hadn't known they were on camera?
Monday, April 13, 2015
A Quick Thought About COPS
I wonder how many lives were saved by the TV show COPS?
How many of these people would be dead today if the cops hadn't known they were on camera?
People Who Will Never be President - Chapter 9
Chapter 9: Dr. Ben Carson
I have never understood the Ben Carson phenomenon. He is, by all accounts, a brilliant surgeon. But surgeon is a completely different skill set than President.
And Carson has absolutely zero applicable experience. He has never held any elected office, never been involved in politics at all as far as I know. The only qualification he seems to have is his utter batshit insanity.
I mean, no one knew who Ben Carson was a few years ago. Well, not no one, he had written an autobiography and some people knew about his surgical prowess, but he wasn't on anyone'ss political radar. Then he showed up at some prayer breakfast or something, said some shitty things about the President, and suddenly there was a "Draft Ben Carson" movement.
Why? There are tons of people who say shitty things about the President every day, A lot of them make a living at it. Why Carson?
My guess is that they looked at the results of the last two elections and thought "ohhhh. . . they want a black guy!" Combine this with their insistence that their last two candidates failed because they weren't far enough to the right, and Carson fits the bill perfectly.
And since the prayer breakfast thing, Carson has become famous for going on tv and saying the looniest things imaginable to try and shock people and attract attention. He's basically the political equivalent of Madonna at Coachella.
And of course, he's a total hypocrite:
Although, it is possible that he's not actually insane, and this is all just a big grift.
And if this headline is any indication, it just might be:
So maybe he's just this year's Herman Cain, another person who will never be President.
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Dr. Ben Carson to Launch Presidential Campaign on May 4
I have never understood the Ben Carson phenomenon. He is, by all accounts, a brilliant surgeon. But surgeon is a completely different skill set than President.
And Carson has absolutely zero applicable experience. He has never held any elected office, never been involved in politics at all as far as I know. The only qualification he seems to have is his utter batshit insanity.
I mean, no one knew who Ben Carson was a few years ago. Well, not no one, he had written an autobiography and some people knew about his surgical prowess, but he wasn't on anyone'ss political radar. Then he showed up at some prayer breakfast or something, said some shitty things about the President, and suddenly there was a "Draft Ben Carson" movement.
Why? There are tons of people who say shitty things about the President every day, A lot of them make a living at it. Why Carson?
My guess is that they looked at the results of the last two elections and thought "ohhhh. . . they want a black guy!" Combine this with their insistence that their last two candidates failed because they weren't far enough to the right, and Carson fits the bill perfectly.
And since the prayer breakfast thing, Carson has become famous for going on tv and saying the looniest things imaginable to try and shock people and attract attention. He's basically the political equivalent of Madonna at Coachella.
Dr. Ben Carson: America ‘very much like Nazi Germany’
And of course, he's a total hypocrite:
Although, it is possible that he's not actually insane, and this is all just a big grift.
And if this headline is any indication, it just might be:
Ben Carson Wants To Get Paid For Making Campaign Speeches
So maybe he's just this year's Herman Cain, another person who will never be President.
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Sunday, April 12, 2015
Best reactions to Hillary Clinton's Announcement.
Bill Kristol: If They Get To Nominate Hillary Clinton, Why Don't We Get To Nominate Dick Cheney?
Um, go ahead. Feel free. You want to nominate Cheney? Don't let me stop ya.
And if the Dodgers want to replace Clayton Kershaw with a blind quadriplegic, hey be my guest!
Brit Hume: Clinton Can't Win Because People Don't Like Her 'Weird Marriage'
Oh, really? People won't vote for someone with an unconventional marriage? Then how did Alicia Florick just get elected States' Arttorney for Cook County, hmm?
Also, who has a weirder marriage than these two had?
People didn't seem to mind that he called his second wife "Mommy." I think they can get past Hillary Clinton's having been cheated on.
Jindal muses on possible Hillary campaign slogan
“I understand that Hillary is going to announce her candidacy this week,” Mr. Jindal said in his opening remarks at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum. “I wonder what her slogan is going to be? I suspect it won’t be ‘Four more years.’
Ooh, good one! Because, um. . . wait. How could it possibly be four more years, anyway? That would be like if George Lucas had marketed Star Wars with the slogan "If you liked the original. . ."
GOP's Ana Navarro Advises Hillary To Stop The 'Woman Thing': Don't 'Drown Me In Estrogen'
"Here's the problem," the CNN contributor continued. "Hillary Clinton on this woman thing, I think, is lacking subtlety. I don't need her to drown me in estrogen every time she opens her mouth.
"Every time she opens her mouth it's about the granddaughter and Chelsea's wedding and the yoga routines," Navarro opined.
Yes, the voters want a candidate who doesn't care at all about their children or grandchildren. That's why every successful candidate has been a gender-neutral sociopath with no family ties at all.
And you've never seen any other Presidential candidate's family trotted out on the campaign trail!
Judith Miller: Fatigue Is The Big Problem With Hillary Clinton
"Fatigue is the big problem, people think they know her, she's been aroundforever, they're tired of her and the campaign has just begun."
Yes. Everyone is sick of Hillary Clinton. Not like the various breaths of fresh air the Republicans have running this year.
Jeb Bush? There's a new face!
Rand Paul? No one could possibly be tired of watching him run away from interviewers!
Ted Cruz? Now that's a new star on the horizon!
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Saturd80's - Biff Bang Pow!
I think all these songs are from their second album "The Girl Who Runs the Beat Hotel," which is the only album I really remember, although I think they put out a few more. Anyway, enjoy London's own Biff Bang Pow!
Friday, April 10, 2015
Oh, come on!
Do they seriously need to have their own version of everything?
They thought Wikipedia had a "liberal bias" so they came up with "Conservapedia" so they could have their own definitions of words and whatnot.
Then they had some sort of problem with Facebook allowing people to post things that didn't match their wordlview, so they trotted out "ReaganBook."
There's a "Conservative alternative" to the AARP (AMAC).
There were at least plans to come out with a conservative version of the Bible. I don't know if that ever came out, you can look it up on Conservapedia if you're curious.
Hell, there's even a "Conservative alternative" to the NRA! I forget what it's called, something like Gun Owners of America, or Gun Lovers against Sanity, or the North American Man-Gun Love Association, I don't know, but it's for people who think the N.R. fucking A is too liberal.
So, I guess this should come as no surprise:
Yes, now apparently even numbers have a liberal bias.
The New York Times tallied up the total number of sales of each book, but we just know that some right-wing screed is actually selling more than whatever it is they say is the top seller.
This is the same sort of logic that led to the "unskewed polls" debacle of 2012. The polls weren't giving them the answer they wanted, so they must somehow be wrong. Or biased in some way. Of course, it turned out the polls weren't wrong or biased, and the only thing the "unskewing" led to was the fun of watching right-wingers jaws drop when Romney lost, because they had convinced themselves that the polls were bs and in the real world, Romney had a commanding lead.
So now they want to apply that logic to the best-seller list. It's especially ironic given the way the right-wing tends to game the best-seller list anyway, buying up huge quantities of books by hacks like Coulter and Hannity to give away as gifts to anyone who subscribes to Buy Gold Weekly or Modern Survival Bunker or whatever. But sure, I guess I see their point. I mean, just look at the obvious bias in this recent political non-fiction top ten list:
I mean, seriously only ONE book by Bill O'Reilly? And 7 of the ten books on the list were not written by special forces veterans. Plus there are three books written by women, leaving only 7 for the men! And Malala isn't even American!
Plus, there's no way that a memoir from a member of the Obama Administration could possibly ever really be in the top five, obviously that's a biased count, like they probably count everyone who saw Axelrod's interview on the Daily Show as having bought his book, it's the only logical explanation.
So, I guess I've pretty much answered my own question. Yes, they really do need their own version of everything.
They thought Wikipedia had a "liberal bias" so they came up with "Conservapedia" so they could have their own definitions of words and whatnot.
Then they had some sort of problem with Facebook allowing people to post things that didn't match their wordlview, so they trotted out "ReaganBook."
There's a "Conservative alternative" to the AARP (AMAC).
There were at least plans to come out with a conservative version of the Bible. I don't know if that ever came out, you can look it up on Conservapedia if you're curious.
Hell, there's even a "Conservative alternative" to the NRA! I forget what it's called, something like Gun Owners of America, or Gun Lovers against Sanity, or the North American Man-Gun Love Association, I don't know, but it's for people who think the N.R. fucking A is too liberal.
So, I guess this should come as no surprise:
Media
Alternative 'bestseller list' launched for conservative books
The Conservative Book Club recently editor Christopher Malgisi say the weekly top ten list provides readers an option to the liberal bias of most mainstream media coverage.
Maglisi says CCB is using "hard data" to rank the books compared to the "fuzzy math "formula" used by The New York Times.
"We don't know exactly how they come up with it," he says of the Times, "but we do know that there have been repeated times where there are certain books that we know are outselling books that on their on their list - political non-fiction list in particular - that are doing better that are not being ranked appropriately."
Yes, now apparently even numbers have a liberal bias.
The New York Times tallied up the total number of sales of each book, but we just know that some right-wing screed is actually selling more than whatever it is they say is the top seller.
This is the same sort of logic that led to the "unskewed polls" debacle of 2012. The polls weren't giving them the answer they wanted, so they must somehow be wrong. Or biased in some way. Of course, it turned out the polls weren't wrong or biased, and the only thing the "unskewing" led to was the fun of watching right-wingers jaws drop when Romney lost, because they had convinced themselves that the polls were bs and in the real world, Romney had a commanding lead.
So now they want to apply that logic to the best-seller list. It's especially ironic given the way the right-wing tends to game the best-seller list anyway, buying up huge quantities of books by hacks like Coulter and Hannity to give away as gifts to anyone who subscribes to Buy Gold Weekly or Modern Survival Bunker or whatever. But sure, I guess I see their point. I mean, just look at the obvious bias in this recent political non-fiction top ten list:
1 AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. (Morrow/HarperCollins.) A member of the Navy Seals who has the most career sniper kills in United States military history discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war. 2 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House.) An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. 3 KILLING PATTON, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. (Holt.) The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the strange death of Gen. George S. Patton in December 1945. 4 BELIEVER, by David Axelrod. (Penguin Press.) A memoir by the political consultant who became Barack Obama’s campaign strategist and White House adviser. 5 LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. (Back Bay/Little, Brown.) A harrowing Navy SEALs operation. 6 RED NOTICE, by Bill Browder. (Simon & Schuster.) An American hedge fund manager in Russia who became the largest foreign investor in the Russian stock market and was eventually expelled by kleptocrats who then seized his property. 7 GHETTOSIDE, by Jill Leovy. (Spiegel & Grau.) The investigation of a young black man’s murder in 2007 raises questions about race and the criminal justice system. 8 THE REAPER, by Nicholas Irving with Gary Brozek. (St. Martin's.) A memoir by a deadly special operations sniper deployed to Afghanistan. 9 ISIS, by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan. (Regan Arts.) An American journalist and a Syrian analyst examine the origins and methods of the terrorist group. 10 I AM MALALA, by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. (Little, Brown.) The experience of the Pakistani girl who advocated for women’s education and was shot by the Taliban.
BuyI mean, seriously only ONE book by Bill O'Reilly? And 7 of the ten books on the list were not written by special forces veterans. Plus there are three books written by women, leaving only 7 for the men! And Malala isn't even American!
Plus, there's no way that a memoir from a member of the Obama Administration could possibly ever really be in the top five, obviously that's a biased count, like they probably count everyone who saw Axelrod's interview on the Daily Show as having bought his book, it's the only logical explanation.
So, I guess I've pretty much answered my own question. Yes, they really do need their own version of everything.
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