"McCain?" written by James on estrip.org

12/18/07 11:17 - 25ºF - ID#42567

McCain?

(e:Jim) and I were chatting over On Point this morning (both Tom Ashbrook and Jane Claison are on vacation! Who is this Jame Hitori?). The topic was a 're energized' and 'resurrected' John McCain. Wha? Did I miss something?

You see, in the last week McCain got three endorsements. The Des Moins Register newspaer in Iowa, New Hampshire's only newspaper the Union Leader, and Independent Senator Joe Lieberman. With the exception of Joe who has been wet with desire for being McCain's vice president, those are some nice endorsements.

So, has this got for McCain? Jack Squat.

In Iowa he has been in the same single digit wasteland since July.

In New Hampshire he is still a distant second. He was in third, but his numbers have not improved at all. he is floating in the mid to high teens. His jockying to second has more to do with Fred Thompson's fizzling campaign than McCain's appeal.

So, why are they calling him 're energized' and 'resurrected'?

as (e:Jim) said, they love to bring back candidates from the dead. They are spoiling for a fight. The people of Iowa and New Hampshire are polled every day. They are going to be polled every day until their primary or caucus. On Christmas day they will poll all the Jews and Muslims and witches. So, there really is empirical data to look at to see that these endorsements don't add up to anything greater than a statistical margin of error.

(e:Jim) didn't say all that. But you know how I love to go on.

james writes at 09:26:08 12/19/07 - Comment #29479: There was also some blubber about Ron Paul's "surge" just because he raised 2 Million.

Who donates to that man? Seriously, I know there is a huge cult following on the internets (what is charmingly referred to as the netroots) but he is polling like 2% in most states.

Hey, want to throw money away in the direction of Chris Dodd?

joshua writes at 09:22:28 12/19/07 - Comment #29478: Don't forget about Ron Paul! He's a wack job. Honestly he is his own kind of conservative.

james writes at 10:24:47 12/18/07 - Comment #29431: ya, it has been pretty dull. I mean, the field of GOP candidates have been dull all along. At least the Dems have bizzaro candidates like Gravel and Kucinich.

well, with the exception of novelty candidate Keyes. I mean, that guy seems like a poor Stephen Colbert (the character, not the man) impression. He is hilarious and I hope he gets a sitcom out of this.

Though, fun, fun things like
1) Rudy dropping out of NH
2) A photo of Romney attending a Planned Parenthood fundraiser surfacing
3) The frontrunner candidates plumeting out of their lead this month.

Of course, the media couldn't have been any more ludicrous about the whole thing. I am looking at you Krugman!

eh, two weeks until showtime ^_^

joshua writes at 09:53:18 12/18/07 - Comment #29429: His campaign has been dead and remains dead - I can't explain this utter tripe the media is trying to pass off other than to say what you've already said.

I think the more interesting bits of political lusciousness lately has been the slapfight between Hillary and Obama, and Huckabee and Romney - in particular that sly little druggie comment one of Hillary's campaign leads dropped in the media and the religious bigotry that Huckabee perpetrated, which evangelicals lap up like crack-laced cream. Of course, the poor hapless guy fell on the sword for Hillary, but then again when a conspiracy involving the Clintons happen this is generally the standard operating procedure. To Obama's credit at least he was honest, instead of *tee hee* blowing smoke up our asses and saying "I didn't inhale." As for Romney, I think its fairly telling when you force an evangelical to choose between a Baptist Democrat and a Mormon Republican. Just don't call these people hypocrites and bigots!

Otherwise, a lot of the political stuff has been boring, boring, boring.

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12/16/07 02:41 - 23ºF - ID#42534

Paul's Stomach Problems Solved!

I was reading the times, wasting a Sunday with it in a way I never can when in school. Reading the health section I came across a little article that, without doubt, will help solve (e:Paul)'s stomach problems!

The article is called The Claim: Don't Eat the Mistletoe. It Can Be Deadly

But the line that got me was as follows

The plant does in fact contain harmful chemicals like VISCO-TOXINS, which can cause gastrointestinal distress, a slowed heartbeat and other reactions.

case closed.

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12/14/07 09:37 - 23ºF - ID#42519

Let's make a mistake!

Hi!

I had my last final yesterday! I did well. So that means I could drink myself into oblivion, right?

Well, I had to be at school at 7:45 for a seven hour long seminar on cover letters... mandatory of corse.

Three 16 oz plastic drunk cups of wine into last night I realized that perhaps I should hold off my celebration for a couple of days.

Today though I started going into postpartum depression. Oh, I hate school. But having nothing to do for a month drives me crazy. So, two hours of Nick Cave later I decide to have a martini.

A side note: Brokers gin is so delicious. So amazingly delicious for mid-range gin. It is cheap enough to come in an economy size jub, but good enough you might think it was a poor batch of Bombay (not sapphire).

Well. Tomorrow I have to be at a south Buffalo elementary school to take a teacher's exam at 7:45. Why do all waste of time teachery things happen at 7:45? It is going to be such a waste of time. 90 multiple choice questions assessing my basic knowledge of social studies. They are easier than the actual regent's exams.

But right now I am gin soaked and delusional from lack of sleep to care.

(e:IMK) it was a pleasure meeting you again for the first time ^_^ Next time I promise to be sober enough to remember details.

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Category: politics

12/12/07 12:33 - 33ºF - ID#42489

Waterboarding is just like swimming!

Here is the ranking Republican on the Intelligence comitee saying something so profoundly silly he would be purged if this was Soviet Russia.

My brain hurts...

But America has bigger problems!

A spider was bit by a radioactive human and is now attacking the Space Shuttle Atlantis!

Will Gamera save us in time?

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Category: politics

12/11/07 11:57 - 36ºF - ID#42472

Anti-gay GOP sex scandal blah blah blah

God!

I am so bored of these sex scandals. So a Washington state house rep. with a huge conservative, anti-gay record named Richard Curtis got mixed up with the wrong 26 year old boy.

Cody Castanga, a porn ac-tor, met Curtis at a porn shop. They then went to a hotel where Castanga banged Curtis' man-punnanny. After he demanded $1k from Curtis to keep their tryst a secret. Hey, a boy has to eat!

So what does Curtis do? He files an extortion charge against Castanga. Which is good. Nobody should be extorted. However, denying you had sex is kind of silly when you are on survalence tape walking in and out of the hotel where you just had sex with the man!

He resigned from his office on Halloween of this year.

Look, gentlemen, we are having way too much of this! I am getting tired of journaling about you kooky men every other week when the world discovers you have an appetite for another man's ass. So I am going to do you a favor. Here are

James' tips for not being caught in a gay sex scandal

1) If you have a wife and kids, leave them. Pay child support and alimony. No child should discover that daddy is gay after a public restroom sting.

2) Are you crazily anti-gay? Well knock it off. Barney Frank is still around for a reason.

3) Come on, admit it. I am not saying you have to pop on out of the closet. But when the police catch you with a dick in your mouth, don't say you were just unsure how to perform mouth to mouth resuscitation.

4) By nice to the people you fellate. You don't want them writing about your poor sexual performance 30 years after the fact (I am looking at you Mr. Craig!)

5) Pay for it yourself. Don't make the city, or state pay your bath house bill. I am all for you getting off, but a $100 hand job better come out of your well lined pockets.

pay heed to my words gentlemen and your careers may last just flicker on a few second longer than your spooge coated super-nova.

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Category: music

12/09/07 04:40 - 28ºF - ID#42449

The only christmas song you need.

Howdy,

How do you like to spend Christmas? With tinsel and trees and good cheer?

Or do you wake up at half passed whiskey and shave just a little too close around your throat?

If you are among the former. Then there ain't nothin' under the stars of heaven that can help you.

If you are among the latter. Then let Tom Waits and Peter Murphy croon their way into your vermiculited hearts.

I'll talk to you once I drown myself in bathtub gin.

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

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Category: politics

12/08/07 05:36 - 31ºF - ID#42435

Mike Gravel ON ACID!

With the first caucus less than a month away, a huge upset with Mike Huckabee beating the shit out of Romney in the polls, and Obama in a statistical dead heat with Clinton in Iowa and South Carolina (Thanks Oprah!) I am really tweeking, man!

But there is one thing about this primary season that has me groovin' and that is Mike Gravel. Oh! To be sure he is an irrelevant crank who would make a superb commune secretary, or the best boss you ever had, but presidential material he is not.

Please, check out this campaign video. You will be glad you did. The thing about it is that I am not sure if it is official or not. He ads have been all bizzare.

Here it is kidos

tell me that doesn't make you want to smoke and watch Schoolhouse Rock?

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12/08/07 12:00 - 33ºF - ID#42433

Ain't that cool!

We have a few illustrious estrippers in San Francisco, but I thought I would beat them to their local news stories.

Yup, it generates more than enough energy it needs to keep itself illuminated, about a day's worth of electricity for a family of four.

Soon, we can smile in the knowledge that the chubby mug of Paul Walier divorce attorney is green, green, green.

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Category: music

12/07/07 04:02 - 31ºF - ID#42426

Two of my favorite things

John Cale + Magritte = Love

If I accomplish one thing with this journal it will have been to expose more people to John Cale. This is about the 4th Cale video I have posted here. Just a great song to a slide show of Rene Magritte's art. You know Magritte, the guy with bowler hats and umbrellas.