I had three people…

…try to “save” me at work today.  The first savior I just nodded my head and let him talk.  He was nice enough even if he was misguided and deluded.  Savior numero dos(they were Mexican) was a bit more militant….and by militant he was wearing a military style beret and BDU pants.  If he wasn’t a soldier for Christ then I don’t know who is.  He wouldn’t take head nods for an answer.  So I sort of lied(more like led him on) to get the crazy bastard out of my face.  Yes, I do read the Bible every day, and yes, I understand the concept of a personal relationship with your imaginary friend.  He finally walked off.  Satisfied that he had served his master by annoying the everliving hell out of me at work at 7:45AM.  Amore de Dios numero tres just didn’t know she had walked into.  She seemed nice enough.  Much more of a student for Christ than a soldier for Christ.  At this point, however, my copy of the God Delusion was out and about and I think this might have scared the poor girl.  She slid their little pamphlet over to me without getting too close; the same way a stray cat will take food out of your hand…very, very careful.  You never know, my Diablo habla might infect her.  The moral of the story is, children, no matter what you are selling, never do it unsolicited at someones place of employment.  This goes for Girl Scout Cookies, 5 dollars for booze a bus ticket, or Mexican Jesus.

Ms. Malkin, nice photo op

[hattip: Civil Commotion]

Get me this shirt

Mario Bros. shirt

KEANO IS BACK!!!!!

Spurs fans don’t have many good days, but transfer deadline day certainly was great.  It’s great to have Robbie Keane back in Lilywhite and just in time the Gooners and the North London Derby.  Let’s Arsenal what happened the last time they came to The Lane.

Cool schtuff from this week.

—Photoshopping the old and the new together.  Quite neat and even creepier.  I don’t read Foreign so can’t give much in the way of details.

—Hungarians make great maps.

Dammit….

My brother has thrown down the gauntlet.  I have to start writing again.  UGH!!!!!!!!

Looks like I’m going to be in a hurricane

You would think Austin, 180 miles from the coast, would be safe from any hurricane.  Not true as I’m finding out this week.  Hurricane Ike is barrelling down on the Texas Gulf Coast and moving at such a speed as to possibly be a Category 2 when it arrives into Central Texas.  Luckily for me, the path has slided over to the east a few hundred miles–not so lucky for Houston.  Austin should only get Tropical Storm force winds, but there could be Hurricane winds if it comes ashore southwest of the projection.

Our politics is broken….

Because people, deep down in their heart, have absolutely no care for the truth.  None. Zip. Zero.  They don’t care about the truth or reality, but being “right”. Being right is not tied to the truth but rather winning an argument…a debate.  And as someone who has spent way too much time at a podium in proper, sanctioned debates, I could be right in an argument for the concept of a Flat-Earth.  Obviously, the reality and the truth point in a different direction, however, the evidence as isn’t important as how you use it and the other side’s ability to disprove your horse shit.  The Republicans agree:

John Feehery, a Republican strategist, said the campaign is entering a stage in which skirmishes over the facts are less important than the dominant themes that are forming voters’ opinions of the candidates.

“The more the New York Times and The Washington Post go after Sarah Palin, the better off she is, because there’s a bigger truth out there and the bigger truths are she’s new, she’s popular in Alaska and she is an insurgent,” Feehery said. “As long as those are out there, these little facts don’t really matter.”

These little facts?  The fact she has lied about the “Bridge to Nowhere”, the fact she has lied about being a fiscal conservative, the fact she has lied about selling her state’s private jet on eBay for a profit?  These are just “little facts”?  Lying no longer matters to anyone.  Matter of fact, lies are more believable than the truth for most.

For example, from the same article:

A Washington Post-ABC News poll taken Sept. 5 to Sept. 7 found that 51 percent of voters think Obama would raise their taxes, even though his plan would actually cut taxes for the overwhelming majority of Americans. Obama has proposed eliminating income taxes on seniors making less than $50,000 a year, but 41 percent of those seniors say their income taxes would go up in an Obama administration.

The "Daisy" Ad had a grandchild

For those of you not familiar with the “Daisy” ad, here you go:

Right Wing Bloggers get to decide who is Conservative…

So this guy has decided that because Andrew Sullivan supports civil liberties, low taxes, smaller government, a reality-based foreign policy, and transparency in government, that he can no longer be a conservative?  Does that mean Barry Goldwater could no longer be conservative?

So good ole Bryan pulls out the old “If you disagree AIPAC or Israel or Joe Lieberman, you are an anti-Semite” card by going after this quote of Andrew Sullivan’s:

All he writes about in this piece of propaganda is electoral strategy and the people he hates in the media. In a week, he hasn’t said a word about Sarah Palin’s foreign policy views. I know she’s being safely indoctrinated by Joe Lieberman and AIPAC as we speak, but the fact that Kristol, like the rest of us, has not yet been able to point to a single view of hers on foreign policy in her entire life, is eloquent enough. Aren’t we at war? Isn’t he supposed to care about national security? Is everything about pursuing power by any means to him?

Bryan’s response:

You liberals and your Jewish conspiracy theories crack me up. As I’ve pointed out before, any time liberals blame some nefarious plot (or preemptive war on Iraq) on evil neo-cons that is codeword for Jewish conspiracy. I swear they take this stuff right out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The idea that Palin (who I thought was a neo-Nazi because she wore a Buchanan button one time) is some how conspiring with Bill Kristol, Joe Liebermann and AIPAC is beyond hilarity.

I hate to break it to you, Bryan, but Andrew Sullivan is right.  Sarah Palin is being indoctrinated coached on foriegn policy by Joe Lieberman and AIPAC.

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is among several national security experts helping brief Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on foreign policy issues as she prepares to hit the campaign trail while cramming for a debate with her Democratic opponent, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.), in less than a month, according to officials from Sen. John McCain’s campaign.

Lieberman, who was the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee but is now an independent, has helped introduce Palin to officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading pro-Israel lobby. In a meeting Tuesday, the day before she delivered her prime-time address at the Republican National Convention here, Palin assured the group of her strong support for Israel, of her desire to see the United States move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and of her opposition to Iran’s aspirations to become a nuclear power, according to sources familiar with the meeting.

It seems that Andrew was correct and the Right is still reality challenged.  Why should we expect anything else?