GOP VP Story a "Sassy Chick Flick"

Modo goes moto on the dodo. Don't often cite the Times, but here it is:

... [Palin] is a zealot, but she’s a fun zealot. She has a beehive and sexy shoes, and the day she’s named she goes shopping with McCain in Ohio for a cheerleader outfit for her daughter.

As she once told Vogue, she’s learned the hard way to deal with press comments about her looks. “I wish they’d stick with the issues instead of discussing my black go-go boots,” she said.

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Sarah Palin is a harbinger of the future

Jonathan Schwarz nails one up over at A Tiny Revolution. It's a short piece and you deserve this treat on Labour Day so go read it, but here's a taste:

McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate certainly demonstrates one thing: living through the decadent phase of the American empire is going to be REALLY EXCITING. It could only have been more surprising if McCain had chosen a polyp from his large intestine...

...the days of a rational American empire are drawing to a close. We'll be forced to discard either the empire part, or the rational part. And based on 10,000 years of human history, I'm guessing it's the rational part that will go.

Hurricane GOP

McCain's Secret Weapon: Tits

Trojan Feminist Boopsie Palin, sacrificial bimbo for the GOP

Still scratching your head about it? Wander over to Empire Burlesque for enlightenment.

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Fuck the Russians! (Oops...)

Well, well, well. Look what all the posturing hath wrought over in the space program. 

Here's the money graph

NASA currently has a deal with Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station aboard Russian-built Soyuz spacecraft through 2011, but would have to seek new approvals from Congress to extend the agreement beyond that deadline

Hah haha hah. It's fucked up NASA!

The shuttles are obsolete and very dangerous and it's really pushing things for them to fly even until 2010 as planned. The Orion thing is waay wrong and behind schedule and probably won't be ready until 2016 or so if then... and it turns out 'Murrica only has an agreement with Russia to haul their Buck Rogers asses up to the Space Station on Soyuz through 2011. 

Oops.

Gonna be kinda hard to slap all those sanctions on the Russkies and plant rockets all around their country in every direction and threaten them with every other breath when you HAVE TO BUM A RIDE from them to get to your trillion dollar space toy.

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Impartial US Media Coverage

Oh, real fucking subtle.  Nowhere in all this slander and saber-rattling rhetoric is any mention of the fact that it was Georgia that launched an unprovoked sneak attack invasion of South Ossetia, not the other way around. It's as if *somebody* told them that the US would bomb Russia back into the stone age when they inevitably responded. Oops.

But sure, Russia is the new even-more-horrifying-than-the-last-one Nazi Germany and Medvedev is Cyber-Hitler and it's time for World War III. 

Why not, eh John McWar?

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Business as Usual

Just another pschizoid day on the stock exchange.

The weather is very unsettled here today. It has a sense of greasiness, and impending doom. Kind of like McCain and his gang of bloodthirsty morons. The guy's not president of anything and already he's comparing himself to Reagan and calling for the sacrifice of more lives. They are SCREAMING any bullshit at all to try and gin up another WAR and spill MORE BLOOD because that's what great presidents do. They bomb the fuck out of people to make the world better. 

You'd think the world would be perfect by now then, eh?

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By the Numbers

He'll make Cheney look like Gandhi

Tip o the hat to Hoffmania.

Sullivan has it at The Atlantic also. Spread it around.
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Victory in the War on Terra

Seven years. A million lives. Three trillion dollars.

And so far they've managed to finally convict one cab driver.

In a military court. With the defense blinded and both arms tied behind it's back.

Provider of Support for Terrorism Salim Hamdan

This is a proud day for America.

We Report Bullshit--You Decide

Ha ha ha haa ha hah haha ha..ah, etc.

Fox news doesn't even pretend to do any basic research or fact checking any more. They should be forced to remove the word "news" from their broadcasts of bullshit and gossip.

From the actual newshounds who do actual reporting at TPM...