Choices

On the right side of the blogosphere dissent has always been dealt with harshly and crudely and stupidly.

In the reality based community it has been, up until recently, and with some exceptions, mostly a much more civilized, if ill mannered, place. This primary season has changed that.

There are sites that ban Obama supporters on sight. There are sites where any defense of Clinton is met with howls of derision and troll ratings and other assorted stupidity.

Come the end of the primaries, all of us are going to have a choice to make. Are we going to work together to do some good for this country or are we going to continue to throw shit at each other and do our best to make sure that the next President is named McCain. If your answer is "the latter", then you are a danger to yourself and others and you should check yourself into the nearest psych ward.

This is too important to fuck up people.

Ted Stevens - Bravo Foxtrot

At VetVoice there is a lovely piece about how the current GOP administration stands up for veterans.

What Stevens is really saying is that today's troops are unpatriotic--that they're only in it for the money and the college. And while Stevens' "mass exodus" theory has been thoroughly discredited by the Congressional Budget Office, the true irony of the situation lies in the fact that Stevens earned his own college degree after World War Two by using the same GI Bill he's aiming to prevent today's veterans from receiving.

In today's military lingo, this makes Senator Stevens a "Blue Falcon" or a "Bravo Foxtrot."

I want to be clear, I am not a veteran, I am not even American, but this kind of shit makes me sick to my stomach.

The Bushites want to have their war and their all volunteer (read that as rural, poor and undereducated) army as opposed to some sort of draft so that they can keep most people in the country from actually being impacted by the fact that over 4000 men and women have come home in body bags but for fuck's sake what is wrong with giving these people a proper GI Bill and some decent medical care once they get home.

Oh, yes, the Bravo Foxtrot designator indicates a Buddy Fucker .. one of the lowest forms of douchebaggery that there is

I can't even muster a "sigh..." for this one .. I am just so pissed off.

h/t to Nicole Belle at Crooks & Liars

Property Speculation Even In CongressCritters

Over at Calculated Risk, Tanta has a nice little rundown on the trials and tribulations of Rep. Laura Richardson.

I guess that I am just cranky that no one will lend me money to buy a condo because I only hold TN status here in the US but something about this whole story has pissed me off since I first read about it and Tanta did a far better job of saying things than I ever would have done.

Updated: Tech Glitches at FireDogLake

Surely I didn't get banned from FDL for calling out TBogg on his "i wont ever vote for Hillary" silliness (it isnt like I was alone).

Presumably it is a tech glitch that is not finding my login info and isnt emailing me to tell me that i have forgotten my password... after all they did just have a big server migration and it is a long weekend

right ... right ... hopefully...right?

Updated [as per below comment by TBogg] with the assurance that they are indeed just having tech issues.

Is always nice to see a "name" blogger that actually pays attention to us itty bitty fish every now and then. (no, that isnt snark .. it really is nice to see). On the right side of the the blogosphere I would have been bombarded by 50 trolls that said that I deserved to be banned and that I had the intellectual agility of a marmot etc etc ...

Obama at Wesleyan

Offered without comment

Semidi has lost his mind as well

From the comments to this post at his eponymous blog

Randron, nothing is going to convince me that Barack Obama is better for OR more electable to the White House when compared to Hillary Clinton. Period.

After seeing what Obama and his mujahideen have done to the party, it’s time for the Democratic Party to be destroyed and rebuilt from the ground-up. The best way of seeing that happen is contributing to Obama’s defeat against McCain, if Obama becomes the Dem nominee.

Honestly, do you have so little faith in America that we can’t survive 4 years of McCain after surviving 8 of Bush? The Democratic Party spent 8 years rolling over for Dumbya, failing to act as an opposition party, and America is still here.

I commented there but have a feeling that I will be moderated out of existence since part of the site rules there contains the following

Right-wing extremism is a virus, and this site won’t be used as vector for it. All comments and trackbacks are moderated, and in the event that a large number of those American-hating fifth columnists on the right decided to swarm, both features can be modified on a per-post basis or entirely eliminated. This also applies to Obots, Obamazoids, fauxgressives, and other pro-Obama asshats.

Since I think that Obama is the best of the current choices, despite being in favour of Edwards at the beginning, I guess I am an asshat ...

sigh ... I wish primary season was over and we could get down to kicking McCain's ass

Misleading People With Graphs

I was very saddened, but not shocked, to see this piece of BS posted by Jerome Armstrong over at MYDD.

I was pleased to see him nearly universally called out as being dishonest in the comments on the site though.

You just don't clip the axis on a graph like that, it is fundamentally dishonest and the only reason that one would do it would be to attempt to make a point that really isn't supported by the facts.

Oh, right .. he is trying to say that Hillary wuz robbed .. never mind ...

h/t to commenter jdw at atrios' place