Air America advertiser blacklist

An internal ABC Radio Networks memo obtained by Media Matters for America, originally from a listener to The Peter B. Collins Show, indicates that nearly 100 ABC advertisers insist that their commercials be blacked out on Air America Radio affiliates. According to the memo, the adverstisers insist that “NONE of their commercials air during AIR AMERICA programming.” Among the advertisers listed are Bank of America, Exxon Mobil, Federal Express, General Electric, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and the U.S. Navy.

Violent thuggery

Former Marine and first year law student, Mike Stark was asking Republican senator George Allen some questions about the arrest records he refuses to make public and whether he had ever spit on his first wife. (Rumors that the Republican had done so have been circulating). Men wearing “Allen” buttons then assaulted Stark, wrestling him to the ground and forcibly removing him from the premises.

Here’s the video:

Also, see Marilyn Musgrave and some random GOoPers on the street:

I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with either Mahrer’s costume or South Park. Too early? If this was 1986, I would be dressed up as Christa Mcauliffe right now.

Actual subject line of email sent around at work:

Missing: whip, cream bottle

Update: actual email subject line did not have the comma… but imagine if it did!

No sex for you!

The federal government’s “no sex without marriage” message isn’t just for kids anymore.

Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of dollars in federal money that will be available to the states under revised federal grant guidelines for 2007.

Tell me again, righties, about the perils of the nanny state. Go on, tell me. You self-hating, closeted, repressed fingertards.

Actual conversation, circa Grumpy age 17, with my religious-but-otherwise-brilliant neighbor Twofer.

Apparently, Twofer wasn’t much for taking care of her own business much less taking care of it with another. Needless to say, we did not hit it. Which was, I must say, a rather unfortunate outcome. At least for yours truly… and my never-to-be-born 300 kids.

F those uptight cornsilks. Hell, I’ve been making Uncle Tom references about my coworkers for years, and they’re still trying to be the house slaves.

The right’s attacks are de rigueur for their hypocrisy/victimhood psychology, and the left who criticizes you needs to check what’s going on in the real world before creating artificial constructs of faux acceptance and equality. Of course, being part of the Patriarchy makes it easy for me to say that bringing racial stereotypes or language such as, oh, “nigger”, into the disinfecting light of reason. So I’m saying it: let’s talk about this shit openly, instead of dealing with media campaigns about darkies fucking the white wimmin or Whitey McWhite GOP dipshits using their idea of “ebonics” in encouraging black voters (and their ho’s) to vote GOP.

Wolf Blitzer in blackface? That’s A-OK with me. At least he’s not out trying to have sex with the white wimmin or getting high on blow and crashing weddings.

Now, far be it from me to criticize the limerick form - quite possibly the single best form of prose ever invented - but I thought I’d share this little wingnugget… which barely qualifies as suburban whitebread wannabe gangsta-rick, much less any actual recognizable poetry[fn1]. Enjoy.

Junior’s mantra is “bore em
Put em to sleep and Al Gore em
Cause I’m not too bright
Can’t hope to excite
Voters like Ricky Santorum”

Responses in senryu:

and an actual limerick:

Note to the nugget: rhyming “em” with “em” is fantastically stupid. I aplaud your Cletus-like lack of imagination and vocabulary. Well played, sir/madam.

Remember how I found dad’s xmas gift last week? Well, it looks like now I’ve found Ms. Grumpy’s

The Tesco Direct site advertises the kit with the words, “Unleash the sex kitten inside…simply extend the Peekaboo pole inside the tube, slip on the sexy tunes and away you go!

“Soon you’ll be flaunting it to the world and earning a fortune in Peekaboo Dance Dollars”.

The £49.97 kit comprises a chrome pole extendible to 8ft 6ins, a ’sexy dance garter’ and a DVD demonstrating suggestive dance moves.

God that’s hot. I think I’ll get it for BoonDoggle’s 2 year old.

Call in the shredders!

World Series Champs, and most dangerous city in America[fn1]

of cities that reported their crime rate, that is.

Reuters hearts Lieberman edition

Energized by a big poll lead over his anti-war rival [note: pigeonhole and not naming Lamont], Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman punched the air with his fist as he arrived at a campaign rally at a Cajun diner to cheers of “Let’s go Joe.”

Just over a week before the Nov. 7 election, the 2000 vice presidential nominee, who lost the Democratic primary because of his support for the Iraq war, appears headed for a fourth term on the strength of 18 years in the Senate and stances on issues such as health care [such as that rape victims can easily go to another hospital if they are denied emergency contraception. Also, his wife lobbies for pharmaceutical companies - Grumpy].

“We feel optimistic,” Lieberman, running as an independent, told supporters as he campaigned last week with Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana at the Rajun Cajun diner.

Although he counts on support from Republicans to win, Lieberman insists he remains a loyal Democrat [except for that part about rejecting the will of the party after losing the Democratic primary and running on his Lieberman for Lieberman ticket, with support of Rove and the NRCC - Grumpy] and will side with the party during Senate leadership votes.

But if he prevails over wealthy Democratic challenger Ned Lamont next week [Lieberman is also wealthy and has received far more donations from the top 1-percenters - Grumpy], his pro-war stance could clash with Democratic efforts to capitalize on public dissatisfaction with Iraq before the 2008 presidential election.

Biased, much?

Fox/Universal Studios edition

It appears that Universal Studios recognize that the followers of the cult favorite TV show Firefly would be a great source of viral marketing for the movie based on the show, Serenity. They put together a huge viral marketing campaign, in part with Special Ops Media (a company…. However, as with so many of these things, it appears that the marketers at Universal forgot to tell the lawyers at Universal, who recently decided to send out cease and desist letters to a bunch of the guerilla marketers they had pushed to promote the film. Adding insult to injury, the lawyers also demanded $8,750 in “retroactive licensing fees” from at least one individual.

Of course, the Brownshirts are taking the appropriate tactic - retroactive billing for their viral marketing efforts on behalf of Fox/Universal.

and then there’s crazy

The Houston-based preacher said he believes that the Bush administration has delayed the second coming because U.S. foreign policy has blocked Christian missionaries from working in Iraq, Iran and Syria.

“Somebody needs to say enough is enough,” he said to worshippers who stood, waved and called out in support.

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Paul, who claimed to support conservative political leaders in the past, is launching “a crusade to save America from the wrath of God and Republicans abusing their power,” according to his press materials.

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“God is mad at this country,” Paul told the congregation. He described the war in Iraq as “unnecessary genocide.”

That’s the danger with courting the rabid dog radicals. Some day, they’re going to turn on you… for not being radical enough.

Christopher Soghoian, a computer security grad student researcher posts about how you can print a fake NWA boarding pass for the purposes of showing how our airline security is really security theatre (Chuck Shumer, D-NY did essentially the same thing in April). Edward Markey calls for the arrest of the Soghoian.

Result: two FBI raids of Soghoian’s home, including a 2AM smash and grab.

We need to support Soghoian. For his freedom and ours. He has a legal defense fund, if you can I urge you to donate. If you can’t donate, call your congressperson and make sure they know about this case.

Our security should not be a thing of press releases and propaganda. Efforts to point out bvious flaws in the theatre of the absurd should not lead to jail time, but instead thanks and efforts to fix those flaws.

After all, it only takes the President classifying him as someone who supports terrorist activities for Soghoian to find himself being tortured and denied his rights of habeas corpus down in Gitmo.

Looks like an interesting documentary re: the Dixie Chicks and the insanity fueled by the nutters when Natalie Maines said they were ashamed Bush was from Texas…