Trainwreck Media lead dumbkopf Roger Simon:

Whatever one thinks about the neocons, they had virtually the only program, the only idea of how to right the world after 9/11.

Me:

If they have such a program of how to right the world, as Simon claims, it’s about time they tell us what it is, and try to implement it in place of the humongous clusterfuck of death, incompetence, and costly ruin they’ve inflicted on the US and the world the last 7 years.

My suspicion, however it that the program of how to right the world about which Simon speaks is every bit as imaginary as the non-existent Iraqi WMDs Roger claimed was transported through the mythical tunnels into Syria with the help of the Russians.

Via Instaputz.

Or was it seven words. . . . George Carlin dies.

I shouldn’t have to tell you this, but there is language in this video. . .

You won’t even need the ipecac with this fabulous product. Slightly sour milk, or even fresh water will be enough to induce the mother of all purges:

Many thanks for these wonderful memories:

The courageous way you froze and read a childrens’ story after being told “the nation is under attack.”

The way you gently held hands and canoodled with the despot oil monarch while gas soared to $4-$5 a gallon.

The leadership you showed by keeping your spirits up pretending to play guitar, while New Orleans, and hundreds of its citizens, drowned.

And of course, no “thank you, President Bush” would be complete without this image:

All the beautiful flags you are responsible for giving away to the families of our servicemen and women.

Yes, Mr. President, thank you for all you gave us, the last 7 and 1/2 years.

(h/t to Blue Texan, at Instaputz)

From the Rightwing “Newsbusters”:

McClellan’s Publisher a Liberal: Advances Soros & Slams Limbaugh

Peter Osnos, who wrote Wednesday that he “worked very closely” with Scott McClellan on McClellan’s new book published by PublicAffairs which Osnos founded, is a liberal whose publishing house is affiliated with the far-left The Nation magazine and the publisher of The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. PublicAffairs has a roster of authors who are nearly all liberals and/or liberal-leaning mainstream media figures, including six books by far-left bank-roller George Soros.

George Soros being the nuclear bogeyman of the Right, of course, a commie-jihadist-nazi-leftwing pinko with teeth the size of a T Rex’s.

The author, Brent Baker, also points out that Osnos “hailed the late left-wing columnist Molly Ivins.”

Yes, that’s right: he said nice things about a deceased columnist. Inconceivable!

From Nizkor’s “Logical Fallacies“:

Translated from Latin to English, “Ad Hominem” means “against the man” or “against the person.”

An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument. Typically, this fallacy involves two steps. First, an attack against the character of person making the claim, her circumstances, or her actions is made (or the character, circumstances, or actions of the person reporting the claim). Second, this attack is taken to be evidence against the claim or argument the person in question is making (or presenting). This type of “argument” has the following form:

1. Person A makes claim X.
2. Person B makes an attack on person A.
3. Therefore A’s claim is false.

The reason why an Ad Hominem (of any kind) is a fallacy is that the character, circumstances, or actions of a person do not (in most cases) have a bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim being made (or the quality of the argument being made).

Example of Ad Hominem:

1. Scot McClellan’s book states that the White House mislead the American people about the threat posed by Iraq, and the involvement of high level staffers in the Plame leak case. The book is published by a liberal, whose publishing house is affiliated with other liberals, including Soros; therefore the book is false.

From Stephen’s guide to logical fallacies, Proof for Ad Hominem:

Identify the attack and show that the character or circumstances of the person has nothing to do with the truth or falsity of the proposition being defended.

What George Soros or Molly Ivins has to do with the facts laid out in McClellan’s self-serving expose is clear only to hyperbolically small-minded ideologues like Brent Baker.

Unbe-fucking-lievable.

God only knows what Ms. 3AM was thinking about. Even super-Hillaryite Marsh Taylor is at a loss:

Is this thing over yet? That’s what many are feeling today, as everyone is as close to the breaking point with fatigue as it comes. We need a long weekend. Clinton’s statement today reveals our collective fatigue and was unbelievably unfortunate. Looking at her make her statement of regret you can see her pain and that she is devastated by what she said, which is clear in the statement below from the Clinton camp.

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Take the lady at her word. She made a horrible mistake that she regrets. We could all use a day off, which I hope this long weekend will supply.

At least Taylor has the sense to recognize a Clinton foot-in-a-Clinton mouth when she sees it. And on Talk Left, another Clintonista hotbed, Armando recognizes an “unfortunate, inappropriate statement by Senator Clinton” was “simply is an indefensible remark, and in very poor taste.”

Reason usually prevails where reasonable people are involved.

In contrast, the batshit crazy continues over at No Quarter, where a batshit crazy post about Clintion’s appalling statement by the inaptly named “truthteller” is titled like one of Kim il Jong’s batshit crazy slogans: “Typical Obama Supporters Willfully Misinterpret Clinton Open Thread” begins “Obama supporters are sexist and violent,” blaming anyone-other-than-Hillary for what is, seen in the best possible light, an “indefensible remark,” a “horrible mistake” which was “unbelievably unfortunate,” before it spirals into a lame pissing match with an anonymous commentator on one of NQ’s increasingly banal and insane threads.

At this point, it seems obvious to me that Hillary is only hurting Hillary. I don’t think she intended her comment maliciously, it was just an incredibly stupid thing to say, the kind of thing which is a natural by product of grasping at straws and twisting logic at every turn to justify staying in the race and seeking to overturn the results of the caucuses and primaries as measured by the once agreed-upon metric of delegate counts. Trying to justify staying in the race because Bobby got whacked probably seemed logical for the nanosecond it took to shoot out of her brain and come out of her mouth.

The perception her statement creates doesn’t require any “willful misinterpretation,” even if her remark was not as ill-intended as it was perceived. But it underscores why it is time for Hillary to end her campaign and surrender the limelight, before she kills (her own image and goodwill) again.

Is giving up golf. Or maybe not.

For the first time, Bush revealed a personal way in which he has tried to acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers and their families: He has given up golf.

All of those whining about lost limbs or lost loved ones, take heed of W’s sacrifice. Or supposed sacrifice.

via atrios.

I DIDN’T SAY IT:

Nearly every president of the past century, including Bush and his father, has been a regular golfer. Presidential historian Robert Dallek noted that Dwight D. Eisenhower’s golf habit was so advanced that Democrats accused him of neglecting his duties.

But Dallek, who is critical of the current president’s legacy, said Bush’s remarks about Iraq “speak to his shallowness.” Dallek added: “That’s his idea of sacrifice, to give up golf?”

Shorter Hillary Clinton: “I am more appealing to White People, especially uneducated ones.”

And it’s not just the Hillary. Her supporters are actually lurching down this path, too. Talk Left, via Oliver Willis:

In Pennsylvania, Clinton won whites 18-29 (52-48), 30-44 (58-42), 45-59 (63-37), 60+ (68-32). In North Carolina, whites 18-29, just 8% of the vote, went for Obama 57-41. But whites 30-44 went for Clinton (52-45), 45-59 (64-33), 60+ (69-29).

More Oliver:

I’ve crunched the numbers, looked them over again and again, then again with a sprinkling of eye of newt and found the weakness in Barack Obama’s candidacy:

He’s getting too many votes.

In 32 out of the 47 contests more people have voted and caucused for Sen. Obama than for Sen. Clinton. Why is the media not reporting on this? They spend so much time on the slicing and dicing of the electorate highlighting ad nauseam which blocs are voting for and against a candidate when the writing is on the wall.

More people are voting for Sen. Obama and that’s a huge problem in the fall. If we extrapolate this trend, it’s possible that he could, in the general election, have more votes than any other presidential candidate in history! The nomination process will be a mockery of the highest order if Howard Dean and the DNC sit back and allow the person with the most votes and most supporters to walk away with the nomination. This isn’t what we all signed up for.

I wasn’t paying attention too closely, but how, all of a sudden, is Hillary the progressive trying to buck the establishment while, in the eyes of the Clintonistas, Obama is somehow the insider, a corporate machine candidate reincarnation reminiscent of some of the worst excesses of Tameny Hall?

I don’t get it.

Assuming, of course, Wright was actually running for office, other than in the fetid minds of corporate media and Wingnut bloggers.

At the old blog, years ago, we were stunned by the story of an apparent gay Nazi doll collector — both the collector and the Nazi dolls (or at least some of them, anyway) were gay. Here’s a pic and some text from his craigslisting:

here’s Marius the SS officer and Fritz the panzer cadet.
they are gay.
a lot of people in the ‘action figure community’ are mean to me because some of my dolls are gay.
i have around 65 action figures, but only 5 or 6 are gay.
but meanwhile, the people in this hobby act like all my guys are gay.
they are mean to me.

Now, courtesy of “growing extreme right political sentiment in Ukraine” comes the perfect complement to Fritz and Marius — the Hitler doll:

From the Daily Mail:

An action-man style doll of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has gone on sale in the Ukraine, with saleswomen comparing the doll to Barbie.

Supermarkets in the capital Kiev are stocking the 40 centimetre high figure of the fuhrer, complete with jackboots, leather trench-coat and swastika armband.

The £100 figure has a spare head “with a kind expression on it,” glasses and several changes of clothes.

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One saleswoman said: “It is like Barbie. Kids can undress fuhrer, pin on medals and there’s a spare head in the kit to give him a kinder expression on his face.

“He has glasses that are round, in the manner of pacifist Jon [sic] Lennon“.

Upon hearing of this clear link between Lennon and Hitler, liberal and fascist, Jonah Goldberg reportedly exclaimed “I knew it!” and burst the waistband on his stretch Dockers.

From the NYT obit:

Sherry Britton, whose hour-glass figure, jet-black hair and rambunctious presence made her one of the queens of the burlesque stage in the 1930s and ’40s, died Tuesday in Manhattan. She was 89 and lived in Manhattan. She died of natural causes, her cousin Melaine Britton said.

Along with Lois de Fee, “Queen of the Glamazons,” Betty Rowland, known as the “Ball of Fire,” and Zorita, known for her sensuous snake dances, Ms. Britton was one of the last stars of a once-thriving sprinkling of theaters in Times Square (and other spots in Manhattan) where ostrich-feathered fans fell away to reveal sequined pasties, G-strings and sometimes more. Sometimes Ms. Britton — at 5 feet 3 inches tall with an 18-inch waist — peeled off chiffon evening gowns to the strains of Tchaikovsky; sometimes she balanced glasses of water on her breasts.

Read the rest here.

Photo from Sherry Britton’s myspace page.