Membership Has Its Privleges

Since the WEtards put me ahead of the curve on this news item, I thought I’d toss out a spoiler:

Something important is happening tomorrow.
In a speech in Washington, DC, Nobel Laureate and Former Vice President Al Gore will issue a major challenge, essentially pressing the “reset” button on how we think about energy and climate, and how we can create prosperity in America.
His speech will generate a great deal of attention. Since you are a We campaign member, we wanted to make sure you heard about it in advance. We’ll email you when we’ve posted the video highlights, action steps and other resources — so stay tuned for breaking news!

In the interests of accuracy, shouldn’t Gore’s description also include the phrases “Oscar winner”, “limousine liberal” and “presidential also-ran”?
Tangentially, I had no idea that WEtards came with a “reset” button. If I press it, can I make them stop proselytizing for their bizarre religious cult?
As for creating prosperity, does this mean Al Gore FINALLY cracked the cover on that copy of The Capitalist Manifesto I sent him?
Great news, if true. I can’t wait for the speech.
In other WEtard news, 6 weeks after their membership contest ended, I finally got my WEshirt. Size XL, organic cotton, WE logo placed like a central third breast sans nipple, and their website URL on the back.
Plus two WE stickers and 4 WE buttons.
But what to do with it?
I’m torn between holding some sort of reader “What I would do with WE logo merchandise” short essay contest, and auctioning the stuff off and donating the proceeds to some sort of charity that produces a large carbon footprint (like the US Military).
I’m very open to suggestions at this point.

A Little Help for the Late Night Writers

The New York Times has a piece that feebly examines why late night talk shows are avoiding skewering Obama in their monologues. Here are some of their excuses:
“The thing is, he’s not buffoonish in any way,[…] He’s not a comical figure”
“A lot of people are excited about his candidacy […] It’s almost like: ‘Hey, don’t go after this guy. He’s a fresh face; cut him some slack.'”
“We’re not trying to lay off the new guy”
“I think some of us were maybe too quick to caricature Al Gore and John Kerry and there’s maybe some reluctance to do the same thing to him”
“Anything that has even a whiff of being racist, no one is going to laugh […] The audience is not going to allow anyone to do that.”
“I think white audiences get a little self-conscious if race comes up”
“I think it’s more a problem because he’s so polished, he doesn’t seem to have any flaws.”
“We can’t manufacture a perception. If the perception isn’t true, no one will laugh at it.”

I can’t believe these limp-wristed auto-fellators call themselves comedians. If you can’t make a joke about something, it’s not because the subject is unmockable, it’s because you aren’t trying hard enough. Hell, I made 30 jokes about Nebraska, and that’s universally regarded as the boringest state in the world.
Quitters.
Still, Jimmy Kimmel suggests there might be ONE possible approach for these slack-mastering layabouts:
“His ears should be the focus of the jokes.”
Fine, let’s run with that. Here’s a double handful of punchlines to the setup, “Obama’s ears are SO big…”


“Yeah, I could stick my whole fist in there if I wanted to.”
  • Alfred E. Neuman took one look at them and said “if mine were that big, then I would worry”.
  • … he can’t go to the zoo without getting hit on by lady elephants. Or the boys, when he’s in Frisco.
  • … Michelle nearly refused to marry him after she found out that it’s NOT true what they say about the size of a man’s ears.
  • … he doesn’t have to attend church to listen to Rev. Wright’s sermons.
  • … the thought of trying to squeeze through a revolving door makes him break out in a cold sweat.
  • … moderators at presidential candidate debates will never know he’s cheating. Seriously, who’s got 6 hours to inspect those things for a smuggled wireless earpiece?
  • … Curious George sued him for copyright infringement.
  • … teenagers frequently mistake them for a totally rad skate park.
  • … mobile news crews use them to get a satellite uplink.
  • … they have their own zip codes
  • … and time zones.

Personally, I recommend the Late Night Lame & Lazies either get their noses back on the grindstone or just come right out and admit that the REAL reason Obama gets a pass is that they’re a bunch of humor-impaired socialist wanna-be’s who wouldn’t know a good joke if it jumped up and bit them on the Liberal Arts degree.

Conservatives, It’s Just a Recession

I’m seeing a lot of panicking from conservatives lately. There’s a good chance Obama will win the presidency, and even if he doesn’t, it’s not like McCain is going to usher in a new era of conservative dominance. And then there’s congress which looks pretty certain to go even more to the Democrats in November.
But, well, that happens.
Politics is cyclical. It’s not like you have a couple victories for conservatives and then before you know it the government resembles something from a Heinlein novel. There are going to be ups and downs, and conservatives are in a down period. And when the other side wins we like to pretend its the end of the world, but that just us playing the politics game. What we have to look at is the overall progress. Previous conservatives wins have embedded certain attitudes on guns, taxes, and foreign affairs in the American people that just won’t be erased because someone different gets elected president. Even if the Democrats have full control, there is only so much they can do without pissing off the public, and an election comes around every two years.
All I’m saying is don’t discount the progress we’ve made and be a bunch of chicken littles thinking the next election is going to turn America into a socialist dystopia. We’re in a political recession, but it won’t last forever and we need clear heads for when the next opportunity comes.

Operation Helpful Idiot Results – Part 8

Some Operation Helpful Idiot suggestions for your reading pleasure. Actual authors may claim credit in the comments if they choose.
You may safely assume that all typos were intentional.


I think that this WE campaign is the best thing to come along since Bill Clinton was president!@!! First of all, we need to undo all of the damage that the republicans keep doing to our wonderful planet. They just do’nt understand how important it is to take care of Mother earth! So heres my suggestion– I think Cheryl Crow was on the totally right track when she started talking about the one square of toilet paper rule. I mean, think of how many trees we could save if even half of the country committed to doing this all the time!!!!1 We’d save at least 100 trees! and wow clean up our air.But i think we should take it one step further to include other kinds of paper products (computer paper, paper plates, napkins, etc). I think thats where your organization could be helpful. Like using your researchers to come up with a fair number for all Americans for how much paper we should get a year. And then the government could pass it out, and everyone gets their share. If you use it up, make buying extra toilet paper really expensive (hey, those wasting rich republicans can pay the price if they won’t support WE and us, and it will just give them less money to buy guns anyway.). Just my two sents.
Vote for hope, hope for change! Obama 08′


Dear WE,
The center of the earth is very hot, but we live on the surface of the
earth, and now I no that the surface is getting much hotter because we do.
It seems right to me that the center hot is somehow getting to the surface.
Oil in my car gets hot, so I no that oil is hot. Maybe it is the same in
the earth!!! If we get the oil out of the earth then the earth will be less
hotter. This is so right that nobody can not no it!!! Plus all the holes
to get the oil will make the center less hot, like my car gets air to it.
Thanks for making me think of this before its to late. Call me if you don’t
get it and I can help you get it, and I can think of some other stuff to.
Justin Berkley III
Dumb people are mean 🙂


I think its graet that WE are getting involvd in solving the pressing needs of the world. May I suggest?
1) Reduced energy consumption through global economic collapse. Its gonna happen, just WHEN is the question. WE can encourage this through government support of any and all programs — to starve the economy of resources.
2) A Global Tax on electrons used. With profits to fund green alternatives to electron/protons.
3) Sustainable cooperative initiatives through leveled playing fields. What I mean is reduction of inequality with an eye toward measurable fairness.
4) Clean-based ecofuel programs which are outcome-based and will not increase global warming and/or cooling.
5) Support initatives which wil increase community projects in greenscaping, cityscaping and ecoscaping. Investigative projects funded by BIG OIL which will discover the possible uses of kinetic energy in the sea (without interrupting native sealife) and potential energy stored in rocks poised to fall off high peaks.*
*Without actually removing the rocks from the peaks. The potential energy stored in boulders which are high on cliffs in say, Colorado or Montana could fuel a small city.


Nuke Iran! If we nuke Iran we can save the planet.
Here’s how:
When nukes go off they release an enormous amount of energy. This “energy” is in the form of a huge fire ball that will melt the sands of Iran.
Once the “dust settles” there will be huge sheets of glass made from melted sand everywhere the nukes exploded in essence making huge mirrors that will reflect the energy from the sun just enough to combat the dreaded “Global Warming”.
Poof, World saved.
Swinehound


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