This is just too good to not post about. I normally just post a funny video or something if I post at all these days, but I love seeing guys like this exposed for the whack jobs that they are.
It seems that (according to this Yahoo! article) Rush reported on some “news” that actually came from a satirical post at a conservative blog back on August 25th. What makes this soooooo good is that once this Limbaugh fella found out that he was reporting a made up story he defended himself by saying that it’s OK because he knows that “Obama thinks it” even though it was made up. Really? Wow. Here’s the audio:
I really like how he tries to act like this is a story that’s still in progress or may still be true. You see, he’s not lyeing, he’s just not sure. Riiiiiight. “We have to hold out the possibility that this is not accurate”. Way to be intellectually honest Liar Rush. Idiots like Rush, Sean, Coulter et. al. are the reason that our country is so divided right now if you ask me.
Anyway, here are some links about the story from people who are more reliable and better informed than I:
Joe Klein, who was credited as writing the article in the first place says: “…but I wonder about what the willingness to take this cheesy crap as gospel says about Ledeen’s–and Boss Rush’s–sensibility.”
I started a group over at ESPN for the Eliminator Challenge. You get to pick one team a week in the NFL and if they win you keep going, if they lose you’re out. Only thing is that you can use a team one time only and then they’re not available for the rest of the season.
Get in the action now:
http://games.espn.go.com/eliminator/en/group?groupID=10041
Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. I asked one of my dad’s retired friends about this the other day and here was his answer.
“Well, for example, the other day my wife and I went to town and went into a store. We were only in there for about five minutes. When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. We went up to him and said, ‘come on man, how about giving a senior citizen a break?’
He ignored us and continued writing the ticket. I called him a Nazi turd. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires. So my wife called him a shit-head. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote.”
I asked him why in the hell would he do something that crazy? He said “personally, we didn’t care. We came into town by bus and the car had an Obama sticker. We try to have a little fun each day now that we’re retired. It’s important at our age”.
I swear the neo-cons are a caricature of what they complain about. Really, are there any sane people out there who still consider themselves republicans?
For those of us that love Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare 11.10.09 can’t get here soon enough! Here’s a little video from the game to either hold us over or make waiting that much harder. This is not a cinematic, this is actual game play.
OK, the only thing that’s going to shock me now is if the Republican party actually disappears. These guys are either really good at scheming, or the most narcissistic fools that I’ve ever seen. They’re becoming some kind of caricature of what they oppose. I’ve seen less crazy in a good episode of Monty Python.
This is a great Fark headline “Dangerous cougar that attacked four people has been caught. Will be fitted with a tracking device and released into the wild” for this story.
No reason for me to give my opinion on what’s going on right now in our country, Brian does a great job for me on his blog. I’m just going to link to his post here. If you’re too lazy to read Brian’s post you need to at least take the time to watch the videos he links to in it.
One thing I will say is that I wish we would have listened to Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) back in ‘99.
I got a spam (probably with virus) email in my work inbox this morning that is just too damned good not to share…
Hi my new friend.
I ask from you some patience to read this letter.
I think that you was surprise when has received my letter!
My name is Oksana. I write this letter to you from acquaintance
agency. In agency have told me that you will see my letter. Before to
go in agency I long time thought is it necessary for me. About this
agency I has heard from my girlfriend who has left Russia one year
ago. Before we worked together. My girlfriend has got acquainted with
the man from other country and this marriage agency to help her and
presently they are going to live together. At first I didn’t attach
importance to this of value. But up to now I’m lonely and to this day,
I cannot find itself the man. After all I have firmly decided to go
and to registered in this agency. I’m very tired to be alone and I
want to find the partner in life. I have signed some documents then me
have invited to sit down at computer and to write the letter. Now I
write it letter also I don’t know how to start, I have decided to tell
you about myself. I work as dentist a long time. I want to tell you
that this trade of all my life. A long time I would study that to get
this trade and here my dream has come true. Once in the childhood my
daddy asked me a question “Daughter, whom you want to become in this
life?” I answered so: “I want to become the dentist”. To go some time
and now I work in state stomatology center! At free time from work I
like to combine useful with pleasant. Useful it is to go in for sports
especially aerobics in the mornings and also to go in pool and
swimming. Do you like swimming? I go in for sports 3 times in week
depend on free time. Also I tasty prepare a meal. For that matter me
hand is well filled. I like to do the experiments and create new
dishes. At present I live with my mum in one room apartment and also
lives with us not big dog. Its name’s Maries. I like animals also I
think their very lovely creations. Do you love animals? I could write
you more in this letter but my lunch finish and it is necessary to go
for work. I think that my letter was pleasant for you, and I want that
you have written and have told me a little about yourself and about
your life.
I shall wait from you the opposite
answer and also I wait your photo.
Your new friend Oksana waits from you the letter!
Sorry Oksana, but you’ll be waiting a while on “the letter”
Today is the 33 Anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I’ve always thought that this song was kind of haunting. I worked for five years on a fishing boat out of a San Diego harbor. I can’t tell you how many times, when on a deck watch all alone at night, I’ve thought of what it would be like to go down at sea. When I was working on the boat another boat in our fleet was hit by a rogue wave and all but the cook drowned, we were all kind of shook up that year.
