Give it up, Dude: Alaskan candidate for U.S. Senate Joe Miller is refusing to give up his futile effort to be named the winner in November's election. Current U.S. Senator and independent candidate Lisa Murkowski lost the Republican nomination to Tea-Partier, Sarah Palin-backed Miller, so Murkowski ran as a write-in candidate. He has tried to exclude as invalid any ballot that didn't have the little circle for "write-in" properly filled in and/or any ballot that didn't spell Murkowski's name correctly. Now, I guess if your name is Joe Miller you don't worry so much about somebody misspelling your name... but here's the kicker - Murkowski won by over 10,000 votes, and even if you count the votes that could possibly be invalidated by Miller's reckoning, she still wins by over 2,000 votes! He has petitioned the courts and they have turned him down, because the man is a fruitcake. Long past time to pack it in, Joe, you're really just embarrassing yourself at this point.
A hero he ain't: Speaking of fruitcakes... how in the world could anyone consider Julian Assange of Wikileaks infamy a hero? This guy thinks that if the governments of the world were to just post all their secrets out on the Internet that it would all be hearts and flowers, we would all get along and sing kumbaya. Now, it's one thing to put out there some cables that say unflattering things about world leaders, but to put out there information that identifies sites vulnerable to terrorist attacks, or classified information about secret operations -- this is the stuff that gets people killed. As for the intelligence analyst who downloaded all this stuff and sold it to Assange, I hope he ends up sitting his butt in jail for the rest of his natural life. I'm sure that money will buy a lot of Cheese Curls in the prison commissary.
Gone too soon: R.I.P. Elizabeth Edwards.
If this ain't bigotry I don't know what is: I used to have some modicum of respect for John McCain, but now we see that he really has gone over to the dark side. What is up with this guy? He tries to block the repeal of DADT for this reason, then that... when the military studies and surveys all point to the vast majority of those serving, and the vast majority of the American public, being in favor of repeal. Then his wife makes one of those pro-repeal print ads. So what does he do? He makes her virtually change her position, evidently because it doesn't fit with his own political stance. Hey, McCain -- if you've got a problem with gays why don't you just man up and say so??? And Cindy, honey... you've got all the money in the family, and you've still got the looks to boot. You can do better than this guy!
Palin all the time: We just can't get away from this chick. She's constantly on the news, constantly on TV, constantly in the magazines... I'm with Barbara Bush, why doesn't she just go back to Alaska and stay there? I've never seen somebody who knows so little about so much go so far. It's really nuts. And it's about to get worse as the political silly season will soon start. If she runs in 2012 I sincerely hope she wins the nomination. If Obama can't beat her, then he doesn't deserve to be President! Palin recently took on a reindeer (a.k.a. caribou) on her reality show, and guess what -- the rifle with the scope won, whaddya know! Anyone who thinks hunting is a sport, who thinks killing animals is fun, is just sick. Period. I don't agree with eating meat, because I'm a pretty smart human being and I can get my protein elsewhere. Heck, broccoli has protein in it! Why should an animal have to die so I can have lunch? But I suppose those pictures of her standing in front of a guy shoving a chicken down a grinder, or clubbing a halibut, or killing a reindeer, for crying out loud, will make some pretty interesting campaign ads -- for our side!
