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NY - 23 Exclusive: Dede Does 2nd Robo Call

You have to give Scozzafava credit, unlike the first one, at least this one is honest.

Blogger Chuckles Johnson Inks Movie Deal

Okay, it was a done deal in 2004. But how could I resist after reading the blurb? Evidently a real dud. How prophetic.

Broken Lizard's Club Dread (2004)

... Broken Lizard is back, surrounded by limber, wanton women on a booze-soaked island resort owned by Coconut Pete (Bill Paxton), a rock star has-been....

Obama Facebook Feed Funnies

LMAO Well done. More at link.

Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a note on Tom Ammiano's Wall:

Sorry if I offended you, Tom. It was immature and
Unprofessional of me to write you a note with a hidden
Code buried in it. I hope you'll
Kindly forgive me. It was a

Mean stunt, and
You deserve

Better. I hope we can
Agree to
Let this one
Lie.

Sincerely,
Arnold. P.S.—You should really
Come over for dinner some time. Maria makes heavenly
Kielbasa.

Warning: Don't Do The Acid At The Other McCain

I don't care if you survived the Brown stuff at Woodstock, the stuff over there must be cut with something I can't even guess at. lol Smitty Tweeted me to take a look. Well, I did. It's sort of like the Wizard of Oz meets Firing Line on a day when William F was drunk and opened with, just call me Bill.

[2121. Pike Place Market, in Seattle. A round table across the street from the original Starbucks, which forms the background. Summer. A player on ukelele is off to stage left.]

"America's my girl..."

Karl Marx Endorses Dede?

Jayus, the lyrics fit. But if this guy has a radio show, he needs to spring for singing lessons. lol

Carter Elaborates On Racism Charge

Below is the Carter video. Fox News' Brit Hume comments upon the misguided charges of racism here - charges that always seem to surface whenever Obama's poll numbers go down. If one didn't know better, they might think Democrats are intent on blackmailing America into supporting Obama regardless of how badly he screws up. But couldn't it also be due to arrogance, incompetence and a lack of experience coming into the job which the media never bothered to explore at all prior to the election last Fall? Just a thought.

Mickey Kaus briefly sums up Carter's presidency as "smug moralizing". h/t Instapundit. After dealing with Carter's racism charge, I've included an excerpt of his infamous Malaise, or Crisis in Confidence speech at bottom if you think you can handle the worst presidential address in History without throwing up.

MSNBC has placed an inadvertently deleted portion of the racism transcript back in.

Brian Williams: But President Carter, Sir. If you'll forgive me. Some have suggested that, at least early on, the Obama presidency seems to be almost mirroring yours in some important ways. Would you agree? And, if so, obviously, you're not black, Mr. President. Yet, unfortunately, and if you'll forgive me, Sir. The American people did also reject you after four years. How would you explain that, if you don't mind my asking, Sir? And doesn't that at least suggest that the American people are capable of rejecting a president for reasons other than race?

Former President Carter: Well, well, yes, Brian, you do raise a valid point, I suppose. But, but things are very different today. Very different in my view, Brian, if you'll permit me to explain. Back then, you see, well, I was simply an incompetent, ineffective, self-righteous dick who crashed a helicopter in the desert killing several men, while clinging to my Mother, Miss Lillian, God rest her cranky soul. And I, ... I also had a drunken little brother who kept pissing all over the White House lawn when he ran the dogs while Americans remained hostage overseas in Iran and I didn't have a clue what to do about it. Who wouldn't reject that? It did work out pretty well for Ted Koppel, though. So I know at least one guy in America was thrilled to have me there.

Brian Williams: Thank you, Mr. President. You do raise some interesting points.

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Read or listen to the absolute worst presidential speech in history here provided you're not ill after reading the excerpt below. Yes, it was that bad. America was left dumbfounded looking at this idiot and his family we had in the White House while American citizens remained captive abroad. What an ineffective man. National leader doesn't even enter into the game.

Ten days ago, I had planned to speak to you again about a very important subject -- energy. For the fifth time I would have described the urgency of the problem and laid out a series of legislative recommendations to the Congress. But as I was preparing to speak, I began to ask myself the same question that I now know has been troubling many of you: Why have we not been able to get together as a nation to resolve our serious energy problem?

It’s clear that the true problems of our nation are much deeper -- deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as President I need your help. So, I decided to reach out and to listen to the voices of America.

I invited to Camp David people from almost every segment of our society -- business and labor, teachers and preachers, governors, mayors, and private citizens. And then I left Camp David to listen to other Americans, men and women like you. It has been an extraordinary ten days, and I want to share with you what I’ve heard.

First of all, I got a lot of personal advice. Let me quote a few of the typical comments that I wrote down.

This from a southern governor: “Mr. President, you are not leading this nation -- you’re just managing the government.”

“You don’t see the people enough anymore.”

“Some of your Cabinet members don’t seem loyal. There is not enough discipline among your disciples.”

“Don’t talk to us about politics or the mechanics of government, but about an understanding of our common good.”

“Mr. President, we’re in trouble. Talk to us about blood and sweat and tears.”

“If you lead, Mr. President, we will follow.”

Many people talked about themselves and about the condition of our nation. This from a young woman in Pennsylvania: “I feel so far from government. I feel like ordinary people are excluded from political power.”

And this from a young Chicano: “Some of us have suffered from recession all our lives.”

“Some people have wasted energy, but others haven’t had anything to waste.”

And this from a religious leader: “No material shortage can touch the important things like God’s love for us or our love for one another.”

And I like this one particularly from a black woman who happens to be the mayor of a small Mississippi town: “The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can’t sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.”

This kind of summarized a lot of other statements: “Mr. President, we are confronted with a moral and a spiritual crisis.”

Several of our discussions were on energy, and I have a notebook full of comments and advice. I’ll read just a few.

“We can’t go on consuming forty percent more energy then we produce. When we import oil we are also importing inflation plus unemployment.”

“We’ve got to use what we have. The Middle East has only five percent of the world’s energy, but the United States has twenty-four percent.”

And this is one of the most vivid statements: “Our neck is stretched over the fence and OPEC has a knife.”

“There will be other cartels and other shortages. American wisdom and courage right now can set a path to follow in the future.”

This was a good one: “Be bold, Mr. President. We may make mistakes, but we are ready to experiment.”

And this one from a labor leader got to the heart of it: “The real issue is freedom. We must deal with the energy problem on a war footing.”

And the last that I’ll read: “When we enter the moral equivalent of war, Mr. President, don’t issue us BB guns.”

These ten days confirmed my belief in the decency and the strength and the wisdom of the American people, but it also bore out some of my longstanding concerns about our nation’s underlying problems.

I know, of course, being President, that government actions and legislation can be very important. That’s why I’ve worked hard to put my campaign promises into law, and I have to admit, with just mixed success. But after listening to the American people, I have been reminded again that all the legislation in the world can’t fix what’s wrong with America. So, I want to speak to you first tonight about a subject even more serious than energy or inflation. I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy.

I do not mean our political and civil liberties. They will endure. And I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world, with unmatched economic power and military might.

The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways.

It is a crisis of confidence.

It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.

The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.

They Got No Respect

Geesh! Forget about the singing lessons, this is the first song I ever learned to play on the guitar! No respect for anything these guys. Okay, the first song besides Oh Susanna and a bunch of other boring stuff I can't recall.

Boob Czar

This particular czar carries a bit more heft than some of the other ones, who Obama uses to skirt the democratic process. Let's hope it doesn't go to her breasts, I mean, head, of course.

Update: Via Jim - more, more, more! heh!

As if there isn't enough already? Or is that aren't for plural? Hmm. This gives rise to such staggering questions, which, with any luck, will reveal penetrating insights, so to speak!

Two Bloggers Sittin' In A Tree

Why do I keep thinking about AMC and Andy Sullivan while I'm watching this? ; )

Handling Tele-marketers

Other commenters seem to like Peg C's device for handling tele-marketers these days from the discussion thread for my Census taking post. Having worked various types of jobs before and during college to pay my way, I was in a family's home doing some minor electrical repair work one evening and had the hilarious good fortune to witness an all-time classic in the handling of tele-marketers.

Oh, a bit OT: my new tactic for dealing with telemarkers and tele-beggars is to demand first to know whether they support ObamaCare. Great way to get rid of people.

The family was eating their usual late dinner, as they were Long Island Jewish expats now living in New Jersey and the Father still slogged back every day to what I could only imagine to be a Long Island carpet store, or the equivalent. He was classic, too. Cranky, boisterous, loud, maybe a great guy to friends and family, still a typical mildly successful NYC shopkeeper with no time for BS. The wife answered the phone and was having trouble getting out of the phone call. You knew the tele-marketer kept going on.

So, this guy is eating his dinner, mouth full and mostly open while he chewed, and he sticks out his arm and starts motioning for the phone with his meaty fingers, not even looking up from his plate. The wife obliged. He gulped down a wad of food and started to speak, loudly as was his way.

"What's your name?" he asked, to which the guy must have responded. Obviously I couldn't hear that end of the call. 

"Okay, Darrel. Where do you live?" (response)

"Alright, now give me your home phone number". (r)

"Because I want your home phone number?" (r)

"Huh?" (r)

"Because I want your home phone number, just give it to me." (r)

Yelling: "Because I'm going to wait until you're trying to eat your fawking dinner and I'm going to call you at home and bother the shit out of you. Now, how do you like that, you fawking asskole?"

His wife took back the phone and hung it up and he went face down back to his plate as I finished up my work and left.