JABbering Stooge

CC has thrown out a challenge, and I shall rise to it.

Julie Morand. Suspected Terrorist. Al Qaeda.

And while we’re at it:

Richard Evans. Calgary. NAMBLA.

That is all.

Happy (American) Thanksgiving Day, everyone!

That is all.

Gee, Michael, you really haven’t been the same since Allen Ginsberg dumped you, have you?

In about three hours, I’ll be heading to Roswell, NM (yes, THAT Roswell) for Thanksgiving. Posting will be light to nonexistent through Friday, at the latest.

Sounds like conservative tax policy to me…

What sort of people make up the 28% that still think Bush is doing a swell job? Take a gander at Jeffrey Scott Shapiro at the Murdoch Street Journal:

The Treatment of Bush Has Been a Disgrace
What must our enemies be thinking?

Earlier this year, 12,000 people in San Francisco signed a petition in support of a proposition on a local ballot to rename an Oceanside sewage plant after George W. Bush. The proposition is only one example of the classless disrespect many Americans have shown the president.

According to recent Gallup polls, the president’s average approval rating is below 30% — down from his 90% approval in the wake of 9/11. Mr. Bush has endured relentless attacks from the left while facing abandonment from the right.

This is the price Mr. Bush is paying for trying to work with both Democrats and Republicans. During his 2004 victory speech, the president reached out to voters who supported his opponent, John Kerry, and said, “Today, I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent. To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust.”

[…]

It seems that no matter what Mr. Bush does, he is blamed for everything. He remains despised by the left while continuously disappointing the right.

Yet it should seem obvious that many of our country’s current problems either existed long before Mr. Bush ever came to office, or are beyond his control. Perhaps if Americans stopped being so divisive, and congressional leaders came together to work with the president on some of these problems, he would actually have had a fighting chance of solving them.

Shorter Jeffrey Scott Shapiro: “Leave President Bush alooooooooooooonnnnnneeeee!”

Alternate Shorter: “What a piece of work is George W. Bush! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!”

Alternate Shorter²: “How dare the American people be so nakedly hateful toward The Most Holy George W. Christ The Infallible?! The ingrates! Don’t they know how hard he works for him? And to see such genius met with boredom and hostili-” *Record Needle Scratch*

Wait, we’ve heard this before, haven’t we? A-yup. From no less than John “Spathi*” Hinderaker:

It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.

* Cf.

“Shorter” concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard and given a beneficial mutation by the fine folks at Sadly, No!
I am aware of all Internet tradtions.™

Doop-dee-doop*, checkin’ t3h Internetz:

A controversy has erupted at a Mississippi junior high school over allegations that a bus driver and a coach threatened students with punishment for saying Barack Obama’s name.

The incidents became public when outraged parents called the studios of WAPT news in Pearl, Miss. Some said their children were threatened by a bus driver with being written up and taken to the principal’s office, others that their children were told by a girls’ basketball coach they would be suspended.

Reginald Simpson, a student at Pearl Junior High, explained that when students on the bus started saying, "Obama is our president," the bus driver told them she didn’t want to hear his name. One kid said, "This is history woman," and according to Simpson, "She pulled over and kicked me and the kid off the bus." They were left waiting at the high school and later taken to their own school.

"They feel like they afraid to say who our president is, cause they afraid they going to be in trouble," Reginald’s mother Canishia told WAPT. "We teach our kids not to be racist, and here it is going on. I just feel hurt by it."

Yep. Conservatives sure have a hard time getting jobs in academia thanks to that vast left-wing academonazi conspiracy.

Bérubé, you’re On Notice™!

* With apologies to the fine folks at Sadly, No!

With all of the union-bashing he’s been doing lately, you just know that Neal Boortz is itching for the passage of a U.S. version of the (fictional*) Rush Act. I suspect that the prospect of union worker blood running in the streets gives him a stiffy.

* Cf.

I’ll give you a hint: it sure as hell wasn’t the unions.

Now, all you union-bashers (I’m looking at you, Boortz!), I’m going to ask you an honest question, and I want you to give me an honest response, if you can.

Here’s the question: Do you honestly believe that if the concept of unions had never existed that the auto industry wouldn’t have done self-destructive things like build hype for a car they never had any intention of releasing on the market, fighting any and all efforts to improve fleet fuel efficiency even at the expense of competitiveness, outsourcing all the manufacturing to countries with no minimum wage laws, raiding employee pension plans for executive bonuses, etc., etc., etc.? If not, then why do you keep laying the entirety of the blame at the feet of unions?

Sidebar: For more on this subject, check out this post by Jay Marvin, the morning drive host for Denver’s Air America affiliate. Think Progress also has more on why blaming unions for the auto industry’s woes is utterly ridiculous.

Wow.

Zawahiri said in an audio message posted on militant websites that Mr Obama was “the direct opposite of honourable black Americans” such as Malcolm X.

“It is true about you and people like you … what Malcolm X said about the house negros,” he said, naming Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state, and, Condoleezza Rice, the incumbent.

Ayman al-Zawahiri was at one of the McCain/Palin events. Who knew? (Take THAT, Stalkin’ Malkin!)

AFTERSNARK (21:24 CST, 11/19/2008): This appeared in Stalkin’ Malkin’s comments: “Now that precedent has been set, I’m anxiously awaiting Ayman Zawahiris’ appearance on Good Morning America. What? They only book white, American unrepentent terrorists? How racist.” When did they have Eric Robert Rudolph on?