Can't not mention this bit:
Tyrone: [. . .] Speaking of Obama, I need to get t-shirts printed up to sell.
John: I can do that on the web. What do they say?
Tyrone: Don't You Dare Kill Obama
John: How about Don't You Dare Kill Obama (... and we know you're thinking about it)
Tyrone: Niiiiice.
John: Or You Kill Obama and WE WILL BURN SHIT DOWN
I know that today's Love Your Overlords Day and all, but can we get some tags that work across breaks up in this mutha?
3 - No, because then we'll have out of control italics when one of you forgets to close a tag. But I'll be reaaaal nice and fix your #1.
Regarding crazy Democratic voters, didn't William Jefferson just get reelected?
Plus I think you might have to put in p tags yourself for line breaks, and no one wants that.
John: Or You Kill Obama and WE WILL BURN SHIT DOWN
Emerson, Bob, and I want that one.
Also awesome:
I am not spotting him eight hundred million Hindus. I call shenanigans.
Wait, can I reprint the entire post in this comment box?
4: Not crazy Democrats. He won with 30%, and their crazies did the lifting:
None of the candidates obtained more than 50% of the vote on the first ballot (November 7, 2006) and, therefore, a second ballot was necessary. The two candidates who survived the first ballot were both Black Democrats: Jefferson, who got 30% of the vote, and Louisiana State Representative Karen Carter, who enjoyed support from the Louisiana Democratic Party's establishment, picked up nearly all endorsements from local politicians and the local press and gathered 22% of the vote. [31]
Political commentators predicted an easy victory for Karen Carter on the second ballot (to be held on December 9, 2006). [32] In the last week of campaign however, Sheriff Harry Lee, a law and order Democrat who wields tremendous influence in suburban Jefferson Parish, urged voters not to vote for Karen Carter. [33] In response to Carter's criticism of Gretna police officers and Jefferson Parish deputies, who blocked the Crescent City Connection and prevented evacuees from fleeing the city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Lee mailed out 25,000 flyers and made public statements attacking Carter.
Lee's efforts to defeat Carter were successful. White voters from Jefferson Parish, a group that had not shown much enthusiasm for Bill Jefferson's reelection on the first ballot, stayed home rather than vote against him. Voter turnout dwindled from 24.15% to 16.25%. While residents of the city of New Orleans gave Bill Jefferson a slight majority over Karen Carter (51% to 49%), the portion of the district that is located in Jefferson Parish (71% to 29%) clearly swung the election in his favor. Following Bill Jefferson's reelection, Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi announced that he will be excluded from the House Committee on Ways and Means as long as he is not "cleared of wrongdoing in an ongoing federal corruption probe". [34]My paragraphing.
How I love Kung Fu Monkey's Tyrone posts. Also, screenwriter blogs are a favorite blog genre of mine. I wish Hucksblog would post more, again.
If I were the guy who writes Hucksblog I would have committed suicide after seeing what had been done to my script for "The Black Dahlia". But as a recent cancer survivor he is unlikely to commit suicide and appears to have merely become a recluse.
Yeah, I don't blame him for sinking into a dark hole of incommunicando after that. Still, I wish he would come back.
27% nuts seems about right, but isn't necessarily a floor for the approval rating--they might decide Bush is too afraid to "take the gloves off" in the war on terror or what have you.
9 - Because of Louisiana's open primary laws, he beat another Democrat.
The 27% figure is compounded by some percentage of Illinoisans who vote against furriner names.
Or You Kill Obama and WE WILL BURN SHIT DOWN
But people in the Illinois' river towns, where James Earl Ray was from, would do it just for spite. Better to leave them wondering whether Obama is even black. Confusion can be useful.
Now we know what the real Democratic problem is: not enough crazies. We must address the crazy gap.
B and Ogged will now organize the Mexican Panther Party.
What a great piece. I wonder if Bush will count among the thwarted terrorist plots the blowing up or dismantling of the ten Turner Broadcasting blinking-magnetic-light advertising thingies that paralyzed Boston today. So great--I imagine some ad guy trying to explain, "No, no, it was guerilla marketing!"
14 is right . It can go lower. and I would not be surprised.
After surrendering to the Commies, installing Wage-Price Controls, going off the Gold Std, etc etc
Nixon had dropped to around 22% by the resignation.
And that 22% was sum scarey people.
22: it feels weird with 30% approval. It must feel downright fucked up at 22%.
The Boston police paralyzed Boston today. I don't see how it can be a bombing 'hoax' if you plant devices which are not bombs and do not appear to be bombs.
I figure the 30% is the Bush = Jesus guys. Bush is a religious figure to them rather than a political figure.
Had a fundy cousin name her second son George W. herlastname. This was in 2003 or so.
Did she actually go with just the W.? Because that would be pretty sweet.
25: I doubt all of the 30% is crazed in that particular way. It's probably a delightful Whitman's Sampler of nuts!
Actually, it was some name that started with "W" but she was going for the George W. thing. I dunno what W's W actually stands for.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force paralyzed Boston. Which I find completely fucking awesome.
The Mooninites are coming! The Mooninites are coming!
Mooninite soundboard. It'll keep you occupied for hours.
At one point, I made a cell phone ringtone out of the little one saying "our god is an indian who turns into a wolf" (freely available here), but it turned out that my phone wasn't supported, so I never got to test it. If anyone tries it, let me know if it works.
I dunno what W's W actually stands for.
Walker.
Oh, let's spread a rumor that it's Wanker. Please?
Hey, I was working as a poll monitor for both the Jefferson elections. Post-K New Orleans elections: crazier than Alan Keyes.
Uptick in apostrophering... Project complete?
The Editors refer to the lower limit of Bush's approval as the BTKWB limit, Bush's approval rating the morning after he interrupts Monday night football in prime time and binds, tortures, and kills Wilford Brimley on live TV for Bush's sexual gratification.
The draft for review is complete (except for the executive summary). The team has to review it and return comments to me by Friday, with the final draft due the following Friday.
So, no work till Friday! Woo! Hook 'em draft reviews!
Even more so, since they're predicting snow and ice in the morning, so the schools are closed. Day off work!
You bastard. Work informed us that inclement weather was not an excuse and that we should arrange safe transport ahead of time.
"Okay, work. No problem. I've just fed the Mastodon. And armed it. WITH MISSLES. I'll be there no sweat, lickety-split."
The real reason Apo likes winter comes out.
I dunno what W's W actually stands for.
Clearly, "waste."
Unlike the "S" in "Harry S Truman", which just stood for "S". Punctuation question: should it be written "S.", on the grounds that "Firstname X. Lastname" is the normal format, or "S" because "S" is his full and unabbreviated middle name?
On a related note, the Economist referred to 50 Cent as "Mr Cent" on the second and subsequent mention. I was disappointed that he was not referred to as "50 Cent (28p)".
I've always wanted to see Ezra £.
I saw the KFM post a while back, & I can assure you that the 27% figure will start jumping out at you ...
43: In the absence of a name to be abbreviated, the letter is written without a period. I know this in part because of President Truman and in part because of my dad who likewise has a middle initial but no middle name and thus is Dad W McManlyPants.
39: Bastard. I'm at work right now. To be honest, though, the roads are fine and by far the most dangerous thing on them is the mentality of pulling out in front of people and doing 10 mph, a philosophy that has spread to pretty much everyone whose car was between home and my work this morning.
The Labour Party is currently polling around 29 per cent, but I don't think you can draw too many conclusions from that. For a start, it's not a two-horse race. And perhaps more importantly, there is still a reason to hang on if you think that Gordon Brown will be any better - kindalike a bombed-out company whose stock is kept from plummeting all the way to zero by the possibility of a takeover bid.
There are probably quite a few people like that, plus far-lefties who think they are going to take over when he's gone, so I'm estimating perhaps 20-22 per cent crazy.
So the floor of Republican support, in the 1970s, was 22 percent. And there are a number of benchmarks we could use for the floor of Democratic support (or ceiling of Republican support). The most direct comparison would be Clinton's lowest approval rating, which I don't have a clue about, but there are other possibilities: what was GWB's maximum, some time around late September 2001? What was the percentage opposition to invading Afghanistan? What was the percentage opposition to Gulf War I?
Is anyone more motivated than me to look those up?
I don't think Clinton's bottom is that great a measure. I think Bush's peak was mid-80s, which is probably about right. (His father hit something like 90 following Gulf War I.)
Bush's peak in 9/01 was about 90%. I don't think that means the Dem floor is 10%, though, because it is possible to approve of Bush but still prefer Dems.
I think opposition to GW1 may have been higher than GW2- that was the first major combat since Vietnam, leaving aside Reagan's little adventures. At the start of GW2, you had a successful GW1 and successful (at that point) Afghanistan working in favor of support.
And it also didn't feel particularly important at the time. Good idea, not a good idea, there was no sense that the safety of America was in any important way hanging on Gulf War 1, even among its supporters.
Further, it seems to me that about one-fifth of the people I know have at least one crazy belief. This may just mean that 20% craziness, or perhaps 100% craziness 20% of the time, is as much as I (or we) can tolerate. Maybe this is a fundamental bound of human society.
I don't think Clinton's bottom is that great
Really, is this any way to evaluate the first female presidential candidate with a realistic chance?
I was referring to Bill Clinton's bottom, Apo.
She wasn't really a bottom, more of a front.