Republicans are crazy - unless their rich

Gawker does an entertaining roundup of research on why people vote Republican "against their self interest." Now I'm assuming this means everyone who is not old and rich (young and rich - you're going to have to pay back that debt sometime!), so apparently they're stupid, scared, or irrational. Awesome.

Move over Gore - McCain invented Crackberries!

Holtz-Eakin: McCain helped create BlackBerry

Asked what work John McCain did as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate's top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry.

"He did this," Douglas Holtz-Eakin told reporters this morning, holding up his BlackBerry. "Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce Committee. So you're looking at the miracle John McCain helped create and that's what he did."

Al Gore, call your office.

(Via Politico)

Home Foreclosures and the Republicans in Michigan

http://www.michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote

I may not know as much as Remote Controller about the array of political issues that should impact voters on election day but I do know that this is absolutely egregious and horrifying.

It makes me want to cry when I think that we are wasting days on end arguing about things as ridiculous as this whole "lipstick" silliness, and ignoring blatant lies and complete disregard for our rights.

I signed up to start volunteering for Obama in the coming weeks....RC - want to go hang out somewhere outside of Manhattan and berate some people about Sarah Palin? We can still have cocktails right after. Promise.

Most delicious looking pig's head ever

So the video of how you get there is a little disgusting, but tell me you don't want to try that dish of Pig's head at the end. Mmm.... makes me want a Mommy sandwich.

Convention? Sure I watched if you mean Sunday Night Football.

So McCain gave his big speech last night. I'm not going to lie, I didn't see it. I was too busy watching this. (Both real time and then again in slow-mo twice. LOVE IT!)

"Fiscal conservative" = for inequality

I can't tell you how many times I've heard people say, "Well I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative." Not only is this crap but the NYTimes will tell you it's just not true.

According to this NYTimes article the GDP for USA (how many 3 letter acronyms can I use?) is almost twice as big for Dems as Reps.

Not only that, the inequality gap closes when Democrats are in power. Now I realize all you "fiscal conservatives" are like "Yes! This is exactly what we mean!" but in reality the top 95% of people do equally well under both Dems and Reps. It's the poor that do better under Dems - which means that you socially conservatives might get by with even fewer social programs.

"Ferris Bueller’s parade has officially been rained on."

Z: Why didn't you tell me this was going to happen:

Principal Rooney should've be so lucky: Ferris Bueller’s parade has officially been rained on. Tomorrow's fourth annual Deitch Project’s Art Parade — which, this year, would've attempted to re-create Ferris Bueller’s Von Steuben Day Parade (in the movie, Matthew Broderick, in a leopard-print waistcoat, sang "Danke Schoen" to an adoring crowd of thousands) — has been canceled owing to tomorrow's expected tropical storm. City rules prevent Deitch Projects from obtaining another permit until spring 2009, and this will leave 900-plus artists and their audacious floats with nowhere to go, though we hear there will be a party (indoors, we hope) for the participants. Project Bueller is currently seeking advice on how it might infiltrate Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

B: I mean, I knew that deitch art parade was this weekend, didn’t realize the theme!

Z: You invite me to some lame art walking tour but yet have no Idea about a totally awesome Ferris Bueller themed parade, what's up with that

me: Thanks for putting things in perspective. My life is meaningless.

Z: Don't be so dramatic

#1 thing I'm horrified by today.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/09/04/vp_hopeful_palin_attended_5_colleges_in_6_years/

Entirely unacceptable. Remote Controller agrees.

2:41 PM
Remote Controller: HOLY CRAP that's abusrd you cant lie about that kind of stuff in today's age
me: apparently if john mccain does your background check you can
2:42 PM
Remote Controller: because he's too old to use the internet
me: right and the manilla folder in his office called "sarah palin background check" didn't include this information
2:46 PM
Remote Controller: ha

16 minutes

3:02 PM
Remote Controller: okay i'm going to make a pro con list
3:04 PM
me: of what oh haha i was like SARAH PALIN? CON CON CON CON but then i realized other things are happening in life right now. things other than my growing hatred for sarah palin, alaska, hockey, etc..
Remote Controller: haha job stuff
me: good idea
Remote Controller: brb3