President Rimmer

So this afternoon I read Jim Geraghty's posts about Obama promising to sit down and have tea with Achmadinejad despite the regime's wholesale election fraud and slaughter of protesters (that second linked post is particularly disturbing). Then I was looking up some quotes from Red Dwarf, and found the following:

Rimmer: Look, just because it's an armor-plated alien killing machine that salivates unspeakable slobber, doesn't mean it's a bad person. What we've got to do is get it round a table, and put together a solution package, perhaps over tea and biscuits.

So I looked up the scene, and holy crap, O really is Rimmer (the guy with the metal H on his head, for those of you unfamiliar with the awesomeness that is Red Dwarf):



Scary shit.

Heh.

This cracked me up, although it shouldn't, because it's really very sad.

”Economy Crashes, Cupid Hardest Hit.”
Can you imagine the sheer horror of going to a park with your family and then facing the additional horror of having to watch a talkie with them?

As the comments note, if it's a treat that they're spending a day with the toddler, she probably has an awful life, mamma's diamond necklace from Tiffany notwithstanding.

I had time to craft fabric valentines by hand for my niece and nephews instead of buying them, is how I'm spinning it. (The cards didn't turn out like the image in my head. But kids under two won't notice, and the preschoolers like postcards of Milwaukee because it's MAIL! With THEIR NAME! so any card will be a win.)

Shut up and read the lines someone else wrote for you

Gillian Anderson blogs.

And how the hell do you clean the house and make the dinner and do the shopping? I know I am sounding like a complete idiot here but I’m telling you, every last one of you from the beginning of time should be given a medal, and free health insurance, and food coupons, and a government subsidized housekeeper that comes in one day a week per child.

I thought Britain already did that for "long-term unemployed" single mothers. Maybe it's only for the wives of Wahhabist imams...

The Sarah Palin icon brings up another interesting thing I did not comment on today because there's really no point...one of my Facebook "friends" posted a link to the announcement of SarahPAC with the usual "she's so stupid, she should shut up and stay home" commentary.

I really wanted to highlight the absurdity of an unattractive woman, pushing 40, divorced after her husband preferred someone else, childless, working dead-end clerical jobs as long as I've known her--and I'm not being catty, except for "divorced" and "clerical" I could be describing myself--thinking they're smarter and less irrelevant than an attractive sitting governor with a nice family, including a son in the Army protecting us from people who would just as soon kill American women as look at them (and don't treat their own women and children any better).

But there's no point in arguing with that sort of self-absorbtion, is there?

[I would like the SarahPAC website to list some specific policy ideas related to "Sarah Palin's plans to build a better, stronger, and safer America in the 21st century." Sounds nice, but I want substance. But I look forward to seeing what sort of local candidates the PAC supports.]

This needs a caption

I followed this from Kate:


You could accessorize your plastic pocket President with guns, swords, or lightsabers, if that flag is still too icky for you to have in your house.

Bloggers have been predicting plenty of spin-off merchandise will be sold to clothe the action figures, including miniaturised Chicago Bulls strips for the basketball-mad President, dancing shoes for State occasions, and even a jogging trousers and Nike trainers so the action figure can resemble Obama during his morning workouts.

He's only the second black fashion doll to become President:


but he's never been an astronaut or a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. Yet.

Upon further review

I'm pretty sure this dress is the product of an Experimental Design course at any of our fine Midwestern land grant universities' Domestic Arts Home Economics Consumer Sciences Human Ecology program.

It's got that "recycled products from flyover country" vibe. Possibly melted grocery bags without printing.

None of the captions on Yahoo News seem to mention the designer (who can blame them for wanting to remain anonymous?) but about half of them have "George Bush was a poopy-head" tacked on to the end.

Good grief.

...and after six months of hearing "women's media" (when I'm unfortunate enough to be subjected to it--please don't think I consume it on purpose!) swoon over how Michelle Obama has such style and such fashion flair, it was really funny to see her wearing a 40-year-old bathrobe made out of upholstery.

I kinda dug the polyester matelasse--I didn't know anyone still made it. I'm assuming they chose it because it was a popular fabric when Jacqueline Bouvier was still setting fashion trends. And then it died out. For a reason. Just like Harvest Gold died out...

Ooooh.

Saul Alinsky's Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

Make your own here.

Poverty

The quilt blogs are into this:

Blog Action Day asks bloggers everywhere to publish posts today that discuss poverty in some way. The goal: By all posting on the same day we aim to change the conversation that day, to raise awareness, start a global discussion and add momentum to an important cause.

Is there anyone on the planet without a legitimate mental disability who is "unaware" of poverty? *guffaw*

They're mostly writing about Bono and Jimmy Carter and Obama--nevermind that Carter caused more poverty with his policies than he has alleviated with Habitat and Obama intends to cause greater poverty at home while sending more tax dollars to corrupt rulers abroad under the guise of "solving" poverty (Bono is ineligible to run for office here, thank God). I suspect none of them have read Walter Williams:

Avoiding long-term poverty is not rocket science. First, graduate from high school. Second, get married before you have children, and stay married. Third, work at any kind of job, even one that starts out paying the minimum wage. And, finally, avoid engaging in criminal behavior. If you graduate from high school today with a B or C average, in most places in our country there's a low-cost or financially assisted post-high-school education program available to increase your skills.

I have great respect for Williams and Cosby and Sowell and other like-minded successful people because they've lived out their own advice instead of waiting for someone else to fix their lives.

(Now, what can I do to encourage children who aren't related to me to finish school? I can't think of anything. In a culture where a woman's only value comes from her men and her children (unless she's a Republican candidate for VPOTUS *rolls eyes*), who wants to listen to a fat white spinster tell them not to get pregnant until they graduate, and then only with one man? Especially if the government is simultaneously throwing money at non-working single mothers?)

More recent Williams on poverty in America.

Williams on Africa.

Williams on the recent bailout.

Oooh. I now feel self-righteously smarmy about "raising awareness."

Heh.

An acquaintance of mine who works at the U of Texas had a photo of she took of some celebrities on the sideline of a football game published in US Weekly (in the issue with the cover). I offered my congratulations; she's excited and I'm envious because I'd love to have my photos seen by thousands. But in my head, I'm thinking, "US Weekly? I would so not brag about being associated with them."

Ludacris follow-up

What's the over/under on when this guy gets fired for dissing the Obama Or Die crowd?

"As Barack Obama has said many, many times in the past, rap lyrics today too often perpetuate misogyny, materialism, and degrading images that he doesn't want his daughters or any children exposed to," campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in an e-mail statement Wednesday. "This song is not only outrageously offensive to Sen. Clinton, Rev. Jackson, Sen. McCain and President Bush, it is offensive to all of us who are trying to raise our children with the values we hold dear. While Ludacris is a talented individual he should be ashamed of these lyrics."

Ludacris' publicist and manager did not immediately return calls Wednesday for comment.

I'm not sure I believe that O's been criticizing rap lyrics "many, many times in the past." *cough* But at least they didn't shrug.

Tangentially related: Not all celebrity endorsements are helpful.

UPDATE: Gutfield!

Let`s state the obvious – if the singer was a white, pro-McCain rapper, and the paralysis joke was directed at Obama, the outcry would have filled the airwaves, and the streets. But that sort of thing never happens – mainly because there`s no such thing as a white, pro-McCain rapper – and most conservatives don`t wish ill-will on their political adversaries. That`s because, to them - good and evil is more important than left and right. On the progressive end of things though, it`s built into the recipe: if you don`t agree with me, something evil lurks in you – and you should probably die. And when you die, I will dance on your grave.

I can't keep up with the rules.

I've been wondering if there is a group that lobbies on behalf of the actual (mentally or physically) disabled that has the balls to call out "Ludacris" for this bit of filth.

Not because they disagree with anything he says on behalf of The O (heaven forfend!), but because calling an able person "handicapped" as an insult is a re-educationable offense when anyone else does it (and for awhile, just using the word "handicapped" was verboten--is that still on?).

But there might be an exemption for rappers I'm unfamiliar with...

No one driving contemporary pop culture has any imagination

There has been nothing new in music, movies, or fashion since the first Clinton administration, and the stuff that's been getting replayed died for a reason.

Hypercolor is back.

I guess there's a new generation of children with too much disposable income to be milked. I'm a big fan of capitalism, but occasionally it would be nice to see something new, eh?