Neal Boortz's bogus White House petition

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Wednesday January 09, 2013 · 1:32 PM PST

2013/01/09 · 13:32

Right-wing, nuthouse radio talk-show host Neal Boortz started a petition on the White House website titled: "Invite Neal Boortz, the author of The FairTax Book, to spend one hour talking with the President about tax reform." It's garnered nearly 6,700 signatures since yesterday.

The reason it's bogus is because Boortz has to know that President Obama would never invite him to the Oval Office for a chat about tax policy. It's a publicity stunt and nothing more. Just something Boortz can talk about on his radio show for the next week until he retires.

And, since the petition won't expire until February, some of his buddies on talk radio will help him carry the fraud forward. A link to the petition is on redstate (not linked here) and Erick Erickson, who has a two-hour spot on WSB Radio, wants to give this to Boortz as a nice send-off. Hardy-har.

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Friday December 07, 2012 · 8:09 AM PST

2012/12/07 · 08:09

Okay, so on April 27, 2011, I get this email from somebody named scoop who is informing me that I am now a Trusted User. I also noticed that I had this "Hidden" choice where, having been with this community since 2006, I knew that to mean that I could vote to hide an errant comment.

Well, I only used this "power" once as I recall and that was to vote disapproval to someone who advocated blowing someone's head off (think he/she was talking about Breitbart). I don't think talking violence is a very cool thing.

Anyway, I went fairly dormant on Dkos for a while, came back, and BAM - no more Hidden button. Okay, so I'm not a trusted user anymore. That's okay because, if I'm on the iPad or something, and hit recommend, sometimes I get too close to the hidden button and it makes me nervous. So, yeah, I liked not having that choice in that situation.

But...I was also stripped of the privilege of seeing all the other hidden comments, troll diaries and the like - which can be very entertaining.

So, what I don't understand is how come I'm in this seesaw with scoop? As noted below, I have had TU given and taken away 7 times. WTF? Either I'm trusted or not:

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Apr 27, 2011 11:41 PM

Well, it's not a big deal but it's not too logical either. I think this TU thing is based on a secret formula - UID, number of followers, number of postings/comments, HR's against you, etc. Well, I don't have many followers, only 4 I think - and why anyone follows me is a mystery. I don't want anyone following me. I once wrote a guest column in a Northern Virginia newspaper back in the early '90s and some weirdo sent me an illiterate letter stating that he'd follow me anywhere. I preferred the guy who telephoned me at home on another column - an anti-Ollie North thing - and he called me an "asshole." That's much more preferrable. At least I knew he was just mad and not crazy.

So, I don't understand the TU seesaw. I've only been HR'd twice - once during the '08 campaign (I was for Hillary) and I commented wryly, I thought, that it seemed the Obama supporters at this one particular rally were "frenzied." And another HR hid my comment in a diary by Keith Olbermann where I told him to quit writing so many damn diaries and, yes, I called him a TV head. But, I was drunk! Okay? Besotted, wasted, waxed!

So...let's not have too much of a discussion on this. I've heard from scoop enough. Besides, I'm going to lunch.

Mitt Romney stalks Ohio voters

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Monday November 05, 2012 · 1:04 PM PST

2012/11/05 · 13:04

So now the news is Mitt Romney isn't going to await election results tomorrow after ending his campaign tonight. The Cleveland Plain Dealer says Romney will be at the Cleveland airport tomorrow STILL CAMPAIGNING!!! What a dork.

Can they get an anti-stalking injunction against him? What's he gonna do? Take back the Jeeps-to-China ad? Say it was all a mistake? Write a big ass check to the auto companies himself?

As I said, what a dork (also known as "loser").

What are these crazy questions they're asking?

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Friday October 19, 2012 · 1:42 PM PDT

2012/10/19 · 13:42

With apologies to Three Dog Night (Mama told me not to come).

I read the paper every day and especially like the Atlanta paper's Q&A On the News. A lot of times, the Q&A's (or actually the Q's) can be answered by a quick look at the Internet, so I often ask myself: why didn't the writer/questioner just query the Internet? But, just like I enjoy reading and holding the actual newspaper every morning, I therefore in some way suspend the fact that the Internet is fully available for updates, breaking stories, sports scores, analysis, and entertainment.

Who knows? Not everyone has Internet and some of these questioners really and truly want their paper to answer questions for them (all two or three of them).

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Thursday October 18, 2012 · 8:18 AM PDT

2012/10/18 · 08:18

Katherine Fenton, the 24 year old pre-kindergarten teacher who asked a question in the last debate about pay disparity between men and women, is getting smeared by the wingnutters. Media Matters describes it:

Conservative media figures attacked debate questioner Katherine Fenton as a "feminazi" and "tool" for asking the candidates about their views on pay inequity. Conservative author Matthew Vadum attacked the premise of the question as a "feminazi leftist lie."

My wife says we can't watch the debate tonight

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Tuesday October 16, 2012 · 1:41 PM PDT

2012/10/16 · 13:41

And we only have one television. My wife, a reliable Democrat, is scared to jinx the debate by watching it. We were in BJ's Wholesale the other day watching football on a big screen for sale and the Atlanta Falcons had gotten behind the Raiders with only 40 seconds left.

"C'mon," she said. "Let's go." Because she thought that if we watched the last 40 seconds of that game, the Falcons would lose, and she'd be to blame.

We left and walked into a yogurt place about 30 minutes later. The kid behind the counter was wearing a Falcons jersey. I said, "The Falcons lost, right?" He said, "No they won! Kicked a 55 yard field goal!" With that kick, the Falcons are the only undefeated team in the NFL.

I'm trying to find a way to convince, or trick her, into watching the debate. We commute together and are leaving work in about an hour. I can't talk about it on the way home. Hmmm. Maybe a collegue at work mentioned the debate and she'll feel obligated to watch it now. I can't get her to do anything, but if someone mentions it at work, then that person's word is golden. It might even be some suggestion I had said before that she rejected. If someone at work suggests the same thing two weeks later, she thinks it's gospel and why didn't I think of it?

Here's the thing. I don't especially like the town hall concept unless the Rethug on stage messes up. But...how am I gonna know if Romney messes up? He didn't really have any 'zingers' in the first debate. He just talked and looked sincere and lied his ass off.

My wife and I, matter of fact, watched that first debate and thought President Obama won because Romney lied. You can't lie and win a debate! But...I've been thinking about these zingers Romney still has in his hip pocket. Maybe he'll send a few of those zingers out to the audience, perhaps even one-on-one.

Such as, Romney to a gentle lady in the audience: "May I call you Miriam? Miriam, now I was wondering just now looking at you, before I answer your question: You voted for Obama last time, didn't you? You're really not undecided, admit it!"

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Wednesday September 12, 2012 · 7:18 PM PDT

2012/09/12 · 19:18

Okay, so Mitt Romney throws his Jacksonville campaign workers out of the room while he stands there today in a hasty news conference looking like a Very. Small. Man.

The campaign workers were not that miffed about it, but the Florida Times-Union reported the ham-handed Romney move, stating:

Politicians don’t usually kick their supporters out when they show up to support them.
But that’s what Mitt Romney did Wednesday when he showed up for a morning rally at his Mandarin office in Jacksonville.

Of course Romney after the news conference, ever the dick, made a perfunctory effort to thank his hapless supporters in Florida:

After the news conference concluded the crowd was allowed back in, and Romney briefly spoke to the people and shook hands, but didn’t mention Libya or apologize for kicking them out.

This local story already has over 91 comments from readers, about evenly divided along political lines. However, comments opposing Romney, as you might expect, are much more lucid than the wing-bat crowd. Case in point, Tabman:

tabman 09/12/12 - 02:57 pm 73
This is going to turn into a disaster for Mitterand la Romney. And it will get even worse. This is now a certain question that will be thrown out in the first debate - and Obama is gong to slam this down Romney's throat. And he'll deserve the aweful whipping on it he's going to get.
Two American diplomats are dead, and at a time the country should speak with one voice, Mitt comes off looking like a protector of Terry Jones. Great choice dippy do - this is just another nail in the campaign coffin.
Watch more rats scurry off the campaign. They'll openly fight it out now - as they get ready to write their post-campaign books and cash in.
"Don't Roof Rack Me, Bro!"

How do you spell Romney? D-I-C-K.

Is Romney a "dick" with the troops?

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Friday September 07, 2012 · 1:36 PM PDT

2012/09/07 · 13:36

He is. And he's also a dick when it's his oppotunistic ass on the line (i.e., presidential ambitions).

Now, I don't think there's anything wrong with having presidential ambitions. But Romney's ambition translates to a single-minded, almost robotic, calculation about how things will look for his political chances. Of course, politicians need to calculate how things will look and then act accordingly. But, it shouldn't be at the expense of others. Case in point: Romney's record, or lack of, in granting pardons or commutations as governor of Masschusetts. He granted exactly 0 (zero).

Many of us recall the Willie Horton ad that created doubt about Michael Dukakis. It was racially based, slanted the truth, and showed how badly Republicans wanted George Bush I in office. Horton had been granted weekend privileges. They blamed Dukakis for letting dangerous prisoners out on weekend furloughs. Horton committed rape and battery on one of his furloughs and Dukakis took the blame.

Governor Romney would have none of that. He fashioned a zero defect policy with regard to pardons and paroles (excerpted story by ProPublica reporter Lois Beckett, from a pro-Rick Perry blog):

Romney, who served as Massachusetts governor from 2003 to 2007, has proudly advertised his record of granting no pardons at all, saying he did not want to overturn the decision of a jury. Romney received requests for 172 pardons and 100 commutations. The state2019s Advisory Board of Pardons recommended that he approve more than a dozen, according to the Associated Press.
Approving a pardon can be a risky move for a governor with national ambitions. A Massachusetts furlough program that released a convicted murderer, Willie Horton, who went on to rape a woman and beat her fiancé, became a major point of attack against former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis in his 1988 presidential contest with Bush2019s father.

The dick part comes in when he also refused to pardon an Iraqi war veteran who had a conviction as a 13 year old misusing a BB gun. Read More

Joe South is gone

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Thursday September 06, 2012 · 8:04 AM PDT

2012/09/06 · 08:04

Joe South, the singer-songwriter who penned and performed several hit songs, has died of a heart attack. He was 72. The Edmonton Journal describes South's career:

"He's one of the greatest songwriters of all time," said Butch Lowery, president of the Lowery Group, which published South's music. "His songs have touched so many lives. He's such a wonderful guy and loved by many."
South was an inductee in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

South's song "Down in the Boondocks" was a 1965 hit for singer Billy Joe Royal. South worked as a session guitar player on recordings such as Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools," and on albums such as Bob Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde" and LPs by Eddy Arnold and Marty Robbins.

What I remember about him, growing up and listening to his music, is that Joe South was one of many performers at that time who was able to straddle several musical genres: pop, country, a little soul, and a lot of inventiveness.

His inventiveness was captured by Jeff Wall in the April 2007 issue of American Songwriter Magazine, retold on Joe South dot com:

South had a unique guitar sound having rewired and staggered the pickups in his Gretsch "Country Gentleman" guitar, which was indicative of his adventurous spirit and willingness to experiment in order to achieve the sound he was looking for.

This experimentation, in both lyric and music, served Joe South well on many of his songs, one of them being "Games People Play."

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Monday August 27, 2012 · 1:40 PM PDT

2012/08/27 · 13:40

Paul Ryan is an avid trophy hunter. In fact, he told Deer and Deer Hunter Magazine recently that he admires the Super Slam, but would settle for the Grand Slam:

“I read about Chuck Adams, the first guy to get the Super Slam, which is pretty impressive. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to try but one of my goals is to get a grand slam of sheep with a bow. It would be very tough and very expensive. But I’d love to do some of those great western hunts for sheep and deer.”

The best time for Ryan to start his dream is after the November 4 elections. If he gets elected, this trophy hunter's dream can't even get off the ground, and that would be sad.

Actually, trophy hunting is pretty sick, and elevating trophy hunting to killing a series of sheep and calling this a "slam" is ridiculously selfish and self-indulgent. But...we can accommodate him in his ass-hole hobby. A hobby in which he likes to strategize:

“Deer strategy and habitat is just fascinating to me,” he said in our interview. “I have a whole row of books about tactics, strategies and habitat, and I read several magazines. It’s just a big hobby."

Big hobby, big, big, big frickin' hobby, in which he admires someone who has trophy killed:

Bears
Alaska Brown Bear, Black Bear, Grizzly Bear, Polar Bear
Cats
Cougar

Deer
Columbia Blacktail Deer, Coues Deer, Mule Deer, Sitka Blacktail Deer, Whitetail Deer

Elk
Rocky Mountain Elk, Roosevelt Elk, Tule Elk

Caribou
Barren Ground Caribou, Central Canadian Barren Ground Caribou, Mountain Caribou, Quebec Labrador Caribou, Woodland Caribou

Moose
Alaska Yukon Moose, Canada Moose, Shiras Moose

Bison/Muskox
BisonMuskox

Goat
American Mountain Goat

Antelope
Pronghorn Antelope

Sheep
California Bighorn Sheep, Desert Bighorn Sheep, Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Stone Sheep

Auxiliary
Atlantic Walrus, Jaguar Pacific Walrus

Senseless.

It's a new day Todd Akin! (I forgive you.)

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Tuesday August 21, 2012 · 7:19 AM PDT

2012/08/21 · 07:19

Todd, you've asked for forgiveness and you've got it...for many reasons too numerous to count.

I forgive you because you forgave yourself.
I forgive you simply because you asked for our forgiveness. Your youtube campaign ad you put up today is so compelling, Todd!

I forgive you, because as you said, those words you chose are not in the heart you hold (what does that mean, Todd?).

I forgive you because your two daughters forgive you.
I forgive you because your three young grandsons, Winthrop, Merrit, and Yorick forgive you.
I forgive you because almost everyone who voted for the Missouri Amendment 2 (which drove enough voters to the polls to vote you IN!) forgive you because now they and their children can pray about it in Missouri's schools while studying creationism.

In fact, I not only forgive you - I pardon you. You can stay, Todd, you can stay and nothing you've said, I can assure you, will be considered an albatross around any Republicans' necks...because they don't hold these views that you were so deft at taking back. They hold different views. They still believe, and I know you now don't, that a womans body is not her own.

Lastly, I forgive you because it is in the heart I hold to forgive you.

The Republicans of old, and new

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Thursday August 16, 2012 · 1:04 PM PDT

2012/08/16 · 13:04

It used to be that Republicans were a rather docile lot, given to compromise to get a few things through the House of Representatives. Democrats during a previous era between the '50s and 1994 held onto the House without any threat the Republicans would take over. The Senate changed hands many times, but Republican senators were still middle of the road (Charles Percy, Everett Dirksen). By and large, Republicans were only known for one thing: a friend to big business and millionaires.

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Mitt Romney stalks Ohio voters

What are these crazy questions they're asking?

Do we have to go through this again?

My wife says we can't watch the debate tonight

He can't carry Fla. while he disses them

Is Romney a "dick" with the troops?

Joe South is gone

Let's give Ryan his hunting wish

It's a new day Todd Akin! (I forgive you.)

The Republicans of old, and new