What American disaster has the right not connected to Barack Obama?

I have discovered a new drinking game. Try to think of every disaster that has ever occurred in U.S. history. If the right has connected it to Obama, take a drink.

Pearl Harbor.

The Alamo.

The Great Depression.

The Bay of Pigs.

The Dred Scott Decision.

Vietnam.

The War of 1812, for God's sake.

Urp. I think I'm going to puke.

The Obama-Katz Connection: When Will America Open Its Eyes?

Hang on to your hats, patriots – We’re finally going to expose the Obama web of lies and deceit. I’ve uncovered some facts that will destroy Obama and his cadre of commie terrorists once and for all.

The entire conspiracy revolves around a shadowy New York figure named Stuart Katz. Katz lies at the center of a network of financial and terrorist operatives whose goal is nothing less than the takeover of the United States by any means possible.

Much of this story has already been exposed by the conservative blogosphere – the connection between Obama and William Ayers, Obama’s sympathy to radical Islamism, and Obama’s responsibility for the collapse of the U.S. financial system. However, I’ve uncovered a further connection between Ayers, Obama and the financial collapse, and for the first time established incontrovertible evidence of Obama’s complicity in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center that killed nearly three thousand Americans. The scope of the conspiracy is truly frightening.

Katz first surfaced as a college student at Dartmouth College in the early ‘80s. Not much is known about Katz’s subversive activities in college. Katz’s first year roommate was a founder of the college’s conservative newspaper, the Dartmouth Review. Apparently Katz’s views were so far to the left that he moved out after only a few months. Through diligent research I was able to find in the Dartmouth Review archives a letter from Katz defending a perverted “sex researcher” who had sent to every student in the college a “questionnaire” inquiring into intimate details of their sexual activities. Not surprisingly, Katz was a frequent user of illegal drugs.

Katz’s first immersion in the world of international terrorism was a job at a “law firm” in New York. Continuing his perverted activities, one of Katz’s clients at this law firm was a well-known pornographic magazine. Located in the same building were the Anti-Defamation League and the Trilateral Commission, groups well-known to those who follow closely the international communo-terrorist conspiracy. The building was also located just a few feet away from the United Nations, obviously a well-known haven for anti-American activities. During the period when Katz worked in that building, bomb scares were a common occurrence. One can only speculate as to whether he was responsible for those bomb scares.

After two years, he attended New York University Law School, one of the most liberal in the country. The school is in Greenwich Village, only a few blocks away from the townhouse where members of the Weathermen terrorist organization blew themselves up building a deadly bomb. The Weathermen Townhouse was once the home of Charles Merrill, one of the founders of Merrill Lynch. More on that later. The new owner of the house built on that location displays a teddy bear in the front window. As those alert to the Obama cult know, the teddy bear is frequently used as a secret signal to Obama supporters.

Following law school Katz went to work for a New York law firm called Brown & Wood. Brown & Wood was located in – surprise! - the World Trade Center. One of Brown & Wood’s most important clients at this time was none other than the same Merrill Lynch. Working with Merrill Lynch, Katz helped create the mortgage-backed securities which eventually resulted in the destruction of the U.S. financial system.

It gets worse. It has been shown that contacts between Barack and Michelle Obama, William Ayers and terrorist Bernardine Dohrn centered around a law firm named Sidley Austin. Just a few months before 9/11, Brown & Wood merged into Sidley Austin. Furthermore, on 9/11 almost 3,000 people were killed in the World Trade Center attacks, and yet only one person from Brown & Wood was killed. Logic requires the conclusion that Brown & Wood knew about the attacks in advance.

After leaving Brown & Wood, Katz went to work for the law firm Baker & McKenzie, with offices in, among other places, Moscow and Riyadh. A member of the Executive Committee of that firm sat on the board of directors of the suspicious-sounding Chicago Council on Global Affairs with none other than Michelle Obama. One of Katz’s most important clients at Baker & McKenzie was Werner Erhard, founder of the 1960’s cult called est. The link between the est cult and Barack Obama is well-established. Katz met with Erhard on numerous occasions, probably to talk about how est could be used to help in Obama’s mind control.

You want further connections between Katz and 9/11? Following the World Trade Center attacks, the owners tried to recover financial compensation from their insurance companies. One of the most important of those insurance companies refused to pay based on a legal technicality. That insurance company now employs Stuart Katz. Katz has also had numerous contacts with Sidley Austin since going to work for the insurance company.

The Obama campaign has had numerous contacts with Katz since Obama’s rise to power began. Obama and Katz first met at a fundraiser last year. Campaign contribution records show that Katz has been a frequent financial contributor to the Obama campaign. Most recently, in late August, Katz and his family vacationed at a liberal resort only a few miles from the U.S.-Canada border (a known location for terrorists entering the U.S.). A senior economic adviser to the Obama campaign stayed at that resort the very same week. Undoubtedly the two sipped Chardonnay while discussing how to subvert the U.S. economic system.

The traitors on the left will probably say that this is just a remarkable series of coincidences. Now, I’m no mathematician, but if you use a locally weighted regression scatterplot methodology, apply a Poisson regression model, and adjust for the restricted natural cubic spline function, you conclude that the odds of these facts being merely coincidental are approximately 100,000,000,000 to 1.

The liberal media will, as always, ignore this crucially important story. It’s our duty to get this out there. Unless something is done now, I am fearful that come election day we may find ourselves living in a communo-fascist Muslim-liberal dictatorship.

Obama's use of hypnosis.

My wingnut brother will definitely want to check this out.

Republican voter suppression

A guide.

Helen and Margaret

Two women in their 80s who don't take shit from anyone.

"That Man" and "That One"

Someone else noticed it as well, but - interesting how close "That One" is to "That Man"?

Reality Beats McCain

Enough with the Dewey Defeats Truman stuff.

Truman defeated Dewey in 1948.

The polling industry was in its infancy in 1948. Pollsters stopped issuing new polls days or even weeks before the election. Therefore, pollsters didn't detect Truman creeping up in the pools. Furthermore, after being embarrassed in the 1948 election, pollsters improved their methods.

And BarackObama ain't Thomas Dewey.

Anybody who thinks this is going to be a replay of the 1948 election is living in a fantasy world.

Palin as President

has been updated.

What's playing in my car (red car edition)

Paul Revere and the Raiders - The Legend of Paul Revere

Bobby Bare - Lullabys, Legends and Lies

Jay Reatard - Blood Visions

What's playing in my car?

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life

Giant Sand - Provisions

Sloan - Parallel Play

Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls

Walkmen - You & Me

Sarah Palin and science

Sarah Palin demonstrates her ignorance of science. Why am I not surprised?

Watch and learn.


A Fruit Fly In New York from Imagine Science Films on Vimeo.

Opie and Richie for Obama

Gamblers Anonymous

Gamblers anonymous

More video

Know hope.

The Vet Who Did Not Vet

A cautionary tale for us all.

Hilarious post on the right-wing blogosphere

You're not likely to see a funnier and more thorough cataloging of why the right-wing has lost its collective mind.

Will Sarah Palin be the Republican nominee in 2012?

No.

There's a debate circulating on the internets about whether Palin is positioning herself as the 2012 presidential candidate.

There is zero chance that Palin will be the candidate in 2012. First of all , no one likes a loser. Second, the Republican leadership must know that they have no hope of winning if Palin is the candidate. They will never allow it. Some say that Palin is hugely popular with the base, but so what? The Republican base has shown itself to be composed of sheep who will do whatever they are told.

The notion that Palin is a star is total nonsense. She was completely unknown before the Republican convention, and nothing that has happened since gives any reason to believe that she will retain a significant constituency after she gets slaughtered in the election.

After the election she will crawl back under her rock, and good riddance.

Who wrote this:

The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. . . . The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. . . . It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Was it Karl Marx? No, it was Adam Smith.

Now here's an interesting factoid...

The last time a Republican was elected president without a Nixon or a Bush on the ticket was . . . 1928. It's true!

Prayer Alert!

Pagans are praying to their obscene gods for an Obama victory! I'm doing my part. I've already sacrificed my first born to the Lord. Praise Jesus!

Oh my God - Michelle Obama member of anti-American political party!

I'm so depressed, this is going to absolutely kill Obama. It's been discovered that Michelle Obama was for seven years a member of a political party that advocated seceding from the United States. Take a look at these quotes from the founder of the party: "I am not an American . . .I've got no use for America or her damned institutions." "The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government. . . . I won't be buried under their damned flag."

Even worse, Barack Obama himself attended the party's convention in 1994 and 2000, gave the keynote address at the 2006 convention and recorded a video greeting for the 2008 election!

The founder of the party was murdered in 1993 during an illegal sale of plastic explosives, so they're terrorists too.

McCain is just going to go crazy with this, bombarding the swing states with advertisements, and Fox News is going run this 24 hours a day. We are so screwed.

Oh, wait. Never mind.

Red Sox-Rays game

Just watched a snippet of the baseball game. J.D. Drew strikes out looking with the bases loaded, two men out, in the top of the eighth in the deciding game of the ALCS, trailing 3-1? They should chop off one of his fingers for that.

This evening's entertainment

Just saw Graham Parker and Nick Lowe at the Tarrytown Music Hall, with lots of other desperately old farts. I thought Parker was good, and Lowe was terrific. More on the show when it's not quite so late.

The latest from Hanoi John

Here's McCain's reaction to Obama's September fund-raising numbers.

What's the matter John, your scamming of the fundraising system not working out for you?

I wade knee deep in shit . . . so you don't have to

Here is what the right wing is saying about Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama (NB: these are not necessarily mainstream Republican voices; there are lunatics on the left as well). These are all from freerepublic.com. Racist much?

"Powell is loyal to his race, and disloyal to his party and country."

"Powell a traitor? Old news. "

"How much dirt did they have on Powell to make him endorse Obama?"

"Remember, Powell got to where he is through affirmative action.
He’s just returning to his roots."

"Before this election, I treated blacks as individuals. I was wrong. They are a clan."

Here's a few from townhall.com:

"Colin Powell…joins the ranks of terrorist groups and dictators throughout this world in wanting the “Messiah of Islam” as our President."

"It is pretty clear....that either Colin Powell is a closet socialist, he is a black racist (in that he will vote for his race over policies), or he has turned into an idiot. Or a combination of any."

In fairness though I want to say that I have not visited townhall.com before, thinking it was a right-wing site, but I was impressed by the even-handedness of the comments, and not all of them appear to be trolls.

The three categories of Republicans

I have long felt that there are three categories of Republicans: the evil, the selfish and the stupid.

The evil are the Republicans who know exactly what the party is doing to the country and support it anyway. I suspect that the only Republicans in this category belong to the leadership: Karl Rove, Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, etc. I have never met one of these and hope I never do.

The second category consists of the selfish. This is the largest category and the one I am most likely to meet. A member of this faction would say, "Yes, I know the Republican party is racist, war-mongering and deceitful, but I'm voting for them because they would keep my taxes low." Members of this category are residents of a moral cesspool, but they are also short-sighted - paraphrasing one commentator to Andrew Sullivan's website: "The stock market's in the tank, the military's busted, we're hated around the world - please, tax me."

The third category are the stupid. These are the ones who think that liberals will ban the bible, sell out the country to terrorists, and adopt communism. I don't recall ever meeting any of these.

More on ACORN

The fundamental disagreement over voter registration is that Republicans claim that collecting false or redundant registrations results in voter fraud. It does not. If Mickey Mouse registers to vote, that does not mean that he is going to show up to vote. There has never in the history of the United States been a proven case of voter fraud. What there has been are situations where the persons responsible for running the election have tried to influence the outcome, and isolated cases where people have tried to vote who were not allowed to do so (i.e., ex-felons) and occasionally people who have tried to vote multiple times. If you don't believe me, look it up. Between 2002 and 2005, the DoJ at the behest of the Bush Administration tried to prosecute voter fraud aggressively and found 25 cases nationwide.

Watch this discussion between Republican Party, propaganda division, Laura Ingraham, and constitutional lawyer John Flannery, in which Flannery tries to talk sense and Ingraham tries to shout him down.

More right wing insanity

For all you Republicans who have stumbled onto this site, here's a look at your base. Hope you're proud.

A nice sampling of rightwing lunacy

If you have the stomach for it, here are some samples of what's going on right now in the right wing head.

Chicago Tribune endorses Obama

The Chicago Tribune has endorsed Obama for President, marking the first time the paper has endorsed a Democratic candidate.

The Chicago Tribune was founded in 1847.

I've decided to have six children

I am 46 (soon to be 47 years old) and I have two children. However, I have decided to have six more children because one of my children may cure cancer (that would be Saul, born 2009), one may lead the U.S. to victory in World War IV (Esther, born 2011), and one may become one of the 21st century's greatest composers (that would be Gustave Aschenbach Katz, born 2013). Yes, there will be one black sheep in the family (Hezekiah, ax murderer, born 2014) but hey, they can't all be stars.

I have decided this after viewing this fucking brilliant essay in the pages of the National Review.

Please fucking kill me.

The ACORN Thing

It has been said by many others, that the whole ACORN-is-stealing-the-election thing is a total fraud. But let's not lose sight of just why this is so pernicious. McCain's going to lose the election. Therefore, the only reason to spread lies that the Democrats are going to steal the election is so that Republicans can deny the legitimacy of the Obama administration. I don't think you need to be a genius to understand why that's so dangerous.

By the way, when the Republican's start claiming that Obama's admionistration is illegitimate, let's not forget this. Or this. Or this too.

Palin as President

The web's ultimate killer app.

Boy Bands for Obama

This is fun.