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post from The Liberal Doomsayer on 13 May 2008 10:59:00 PM. © The Liberal Doomsayer

K.O. exposes more smoke and mirrors from the Bushco gang of crooks, particularly having to do with Iran...

...and I don't blame anyone for not laughing at this, but I thought I'd put it up anyway because I didn't know what else to do (the only gesture he could perform to honor the sacrifice of our troops was to stop playing golf??!!).

Here's something you may want to know about, Dubya (it has some big words, so someone had better read it to you); it's a "Daily Kos" post from diarist brownsox telling us that Dem Travis Childers defeated Repug Greg Davis for an open U.S. House seat in Mississippi (it was Roger Wicker's seat that he left to take over for Trent Lott in the U.S. Senate).

Why does this matter? Well, the NRCC spent $1.3 million (to say nothing of the Freedom's Watch cretins, probably including Ed Snider - awww, bad luck on the Flyers tonight, Ed). And the Repugs still lost.

Out of Mississippi's U.S. House reps, three of the four are now Dems, Dubya.

We're talking about Mississippi, not Massachusetts. And the turnout was about 33 percent higher than usual for the election. And it was a runoff.

The tidal wave is building, and it will hit with full force in November. And you guys are...going...to...get...wiped...out.

And do you ever deserve it!

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What About Missouri

post from Open Left - Front Page on 13 May 2008 10:56:06 PM. © Open Left - Front Page

You may have noticed that everyone on television is repeating Hillary Clinton's line that "no[...]

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WV Primary thread

post from MyDD on 13 May 2008 10:51:26 PM. © MyDD

The CNN exit polling for West Virginia, and the results are now coming in. Obama's ahead in Randolph county, with 3% reporting, so I might be wrong about his not winning a single county. Update [2008-5-13 21:51:26 by Jerome Armstrong]: It's 64-29 with[...]

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Quaking

post from Talking Points Memo on 13 May 2008 10:50:00 PM. © Talking Points Memo

Not only is Childers, the Democrat, winning that Mississippi House seat. It's really not even that close. With 94% of the votes in, he's winning by a 6 point margin. [...]

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Teh Stupidist of teh Stupid

post from American Street on 13 May 2008 10:46:00 PM. © American Street

In a direct repudiation of Barack Obama’s daily bowling obsession, George W. Bush really really said this today, so sit down and put your moonshine away….“I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” he said in an interview for Yahoo! News and Politico magazine.“I don’t want some mom whose son may [...]

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Clinton Victory Party

post from Taylor Marsh on 13 May 2008 10:42:54 PM. © Taylor Marsh

Guest post by ScanRecord turnout. A 41-point spread. A nearly 150,000 vote margin of victory. Obama defeated in every single county. The popular vote lead retaken. The tide turned.Tomorrow begins another round in the fight, but tonight we celebrate our[...]

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You Don't Have to be an Einstein to Know That
Einstein Was No Einstein

post from Jesus' General on 13 May 2008 10:42:00 PM. © Jesus' General

It seems the suspiciously late Albert Einstein, father of relativity and the "shaggy haircut" apparently wrote a dirty little letter to another dirty stinking thinker wherein he offered, like some gadfly at the Cosmic Country Particle Bar & Grill, that the Jews were not the chosen people and the One True Lord is really just a character in a Dr. Seuss book:

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish."

What the heck was he drinking? Speaking of drinking, is it true that as you walk away from a bar everything slows down (actually, I've always found that to be the case)? Who does he think he's kidding? It's almost like he thought that believers would fall for anything! "Oooh, look at me, I know more than people who know less than me," he must have wailed like a wormhole wormy-thing in my imagined scenario. Well, let me tell you, Mr. Einstein in 1954, this kind of thinking leads directly to, uh, somewhere else (and when I figure out where that "somewhere" is I'm gonna go back in time and give you a good bitch slap, boy howdy, 21st Century Yahoo! Christian style!).

I mean, c'mon, all of this miracle stuff has already been vetted, the verdict is in and the Bible is 100% true, every last word in it, on down to the naughty bits. I'm sure Mr. E=MC Hammer probably thought that Christianity was a fiction too. To that I say: Prove it, dead guy! What is it with these Jews? First they say there is only One True God and that they are the Chosen People, then they produce some freakified genius who says

"As far as my experience goes, they (read "jews"--ed) are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them."

Sweet Jesus Christ in a yarmulke! Don't tease us anymore, Jews! You had your chance to accept a variation of your religion as the One True Variation and most of you blew it! What, next you're gonna tell me that Joe Lieberman isn't really a Democrat? Who has time for this shit? I will keep on fighting Mr. 1954 Harpo Head until I am declared the winner! Maybe light bends, but I don't! Not much, anyway. Oww! My back!

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MS-01 Results Thread #2

post from Daily Kos on 13 May 2008 10:39:39 PM. © Daily Kos

Results for the Mississippi First District special election, filling the seat of Senator Roger Wicker.

66% of Precincts Reporting

Travis W. Childers (D): 52% (35140)
Greg Davis (R): 48% (32185)

We're near 60% in now. DeSoto (aka DavisLand) keeps trickling in, 21 of 38 precincts now, and still no word from Childers' base of Prentiss (where he got 85% last time). Childers continues to overperform his previous performance in most counties, including DeSoto, which bodes well.

Update #1: 27 of 38 DeSoto precincts in. Childers leads by about 1,800 votes. Still nothing from Prentiss, where he won by 3500 votes last time.

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West Virginia Results Thread #5

Nothing left to do but wait for the remaining results to come in. With 23% reporting, Clinton is up 63%-30%. On the Republican side, McCain is down to 75% of the vote.

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George Bush Brings Out The Bogeyman One More Time

It was bound to happen. Despite the president’s numerous statements that he doesn’t want to wade into the 2008 election, his remarks today not only signal that he’s reneged; they reflect his intention to employ the same tactic that he and the GOP used so successfully in the run up to the 2004 election. If you haven’t already guessed, let’s just say that it’s time to scare the bejeebers out of the voters by raising the prospect of a terrorist attack should the Democrats prevail in November.

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday he was disappointed in “flawed intelligence” before the Iraq war and was concerned that if a Democrat wins the presidency in November and withdrew troops prematurely it could “eventually lead to another attack on the United States.”
He acknowledged concerns about leaving the unfinished Iraq war to a Democratic successor. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have said they will bring troops home if elected.
Bush said his “doomsday scenario of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States.”

This ominous message of potential doom comes from the same man who stood on an aircraft carrier nearly five years ago and declared “Mission Accomplished”. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m still trying to figure out which George Bush we’re supposed to believe…the one who thought the war in Iraq was a cake walk or the one who thinks the bogeyman is lurking around every corner.

Since I love metaphors, it’s worth noting that the president’s daughter was married at the family ranch in Texas over the weekend. While I wish her well in her marriage, unfortunately I can’t say that America’s eight year relationship with George W. Bush was all that successful. As is often stated when speaking about a troubled marriage, the honeymoon has been over for quite some time. I for one can’t wait to part ways.

Cross-posted at Thought Theater

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