Arby’s employee: “Hello, and welcome to Arby’s. May I take your –” Feingold: “LIAR! You, your so-called ‘roast beef,’ all lies—AND LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT I AM NOT FOOLED BY A WORD OF YOUR MAGICAL TALKING OVEN MITT’S WILD CLAIMS OF ‘SUCCULENT’ MEAT ‘PILED HIGH’! “Question: Why must you be such a lying liar who insists, while speaking into your little microphone, on LYING? And before you answer that—let
February 6, 2006
February 6, 2006
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) “raises the level of discourse” at the Arby’s drive-thru window
February 6, 2006
“Let the Shaming begin!”
From NZ Bear: I just completed adding a new feature here at Porkbusters: the Pork Hall of Shame. This will be a place for us to recognize those Congresscritters who have their noses deepest in the Federal trough. We plan many different Awards of Shame, but for our first challenge, we are seeking examples of Congressional web sites which boast of pork that the Representative or Senator has “brought home”.
February 6, 2006
Odds, Ends (including a brief review of the NSA “domestic spy” proceedings)
1. Thanks so much to John Nowak for the Ed Wood SE DVD. A great flick, and I look forward to poring through the extras. 2. After my weeks of doing battle over the NSA “domestic spying” controversy, I am now alerted that Pajamas Media will be covering the (inevitably grandstanding) “hearings” into the legality of the NSA’s foreign surveillance program—a classic media, soundbite-friendly kangaroo court-moment in which Congress, the
February 6, 2006
Loony ‘Toons, redux
Two very interesting essays worth pointing out this morning that deal with the ongoing Danish cartoon controversy in interesting ways. First, here’s Steve Green, from “The Offensive Offensive”: I never wanted this Terror War to escalate into Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilizations.” The way I figured it, going into Iraq was our one best chance to give someplace in the Arab World their one best chance to produce a civil
February 6, 2006
in which I come dangerously close to depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a cartoon, thus bringing the wrath of radical Muslims upon me—perhaps in the form of a firebombing of my tool shed—in a way that is much deserved, given my egregious intolerance of a non-westernized culture. Or, BECAUSE OF THE OTHERNESS!
“Some folks hate the whites who hate the blacks who hate the clan / Most of us hate anything that we don’t understand” – The Prophet Mohammed Kris Kristofferson **** related? Dunno. But certainly inflamatory. ANTI-PEACENIK! (via Tom Pechinski)