BalRog's Blog tag:www.talkingpointsmemo.com,2008:/talk/blogs/balrog//1586 2008-10-28T15:39:50Z Movable Type Pro 4.21-en Me-e-e-e-em'ri-i-i-ies... tag:www.talkingpointsmemo.com,2008:/talk/blogs/balrog//1586.240483 2008-10-28T15:31:57Z 2008-10-28T15:39:50Z ...light the corners of my mind.Misty water-colored m-e-e-e-e-em'ries,Of the way we were... BalRog Misty water-colored m-e-e-e-e-em'ries,]]> Casting Call tag:tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com,2008:/talk//17.221270 2008-10-01T23:15:44Z 2008-10-01T23:15:44Z When they make the movie of this historic campaign -- and you know they will...Sarah Palin: Tina Fey has already aced the audition for this one. Twice.Barack Obama: I'm going to go out on a limb here and say Will... BalRog Sarah Palin: Tina Fey has already aced the audition for this one. Twice.
Barack Obama: I'm going to go out on a limb here and say Will Smith.
Karl Rove: I think John Hodgeman could do this one justice with the right makeup.
And, of course, the big one, the villain you love to hate...
Senator John McCain: Based solely on this I would say that it absolutely has to be Jack Nicholson.
What about the others? Hillary? Biden? Michelle? Cindy? Let get cracking people! This flick isn't going to cast itself!!]]> The Possibilites Are Limitless tag:tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com,2008:/talk//17.201564 2008-06-25T16:41:21Z 2008-06-25T16:41:21Z Via Atrios:From the Department of Damned-With-Faint-Praise, a group going by the regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water treatment plant on the shoreline... BalRog Atrios:
From the Department of Damned-With-Faint-Praise, a group going by the regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.
Just think what can be done with this!

• The George W. Bush Landfill
• The George W. Bush Superfund Site
• The George W. Bush Hazardous Waste Disposal Site
• The George W. Bush Morgue
• The George W. Bush Public Toilet
• The George W. Bush Home for the Criminally Insane
• The George W. Bush Fertilizer Plant

We've got to get cracking folks! If ever a man deserved to be memorialized like this, surely it is "The Decider".

My hat is off to you, "Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco." Ghod bless you! Ghod bless you indeed!
]]> A Word to the "PUMAs" tag:tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com,2008:/talk//17.201311 2008-06-23T22:15:35Z 2008-06-23T22:15:35Z "PUMA," for those who have not heard yet, means "Party Unity My Ass." It is a rather catchy rallying cry of those who are determined to derail the Democratic Party this fall because Hillary Clinton is not the nominee. There... BalRog
Personally I would rather believe that at least some of them are sincere.

This past winter and spring Hillary supporters raised their voices in righteous outrage about how she was being mistreated and disrespected. And why not? She was being verbally abused almost constantly. I am not a Hillary supporter or a woman, but I howled at the outrages right alongside them.

Clearly, things were said to and about Hillary that would never have been allowed were she a man. Her team has plenty of reason to cry foul. There is plenty of reason to believe that the PUMAs are exactly who they say they are.

Of course, I also howled at the abuse unfairly heaped upon Barack Obama because of his race (I'm not black). And, for that matter, at that unfairly heaped upon Mitt Romney because of his religion (I am an atheist). Lots of us did. We knew that it was all wrong, that it should never happen in America. I hope Martin Niemoeller would have been proud of all of us, but that is not the point. The point is respect. The point is courtesy. The point is to stop slinging fecal matter at each other long enough to have something resembling a rational discourse.

Well, now it's Hillary's turn again. But this time Hillary is being mistreated by... well... by some of her more ardent "supporters."

So here are a few stiff words for the "PUMAs": Your candidate is no longer running. She has thrown her full-throated support behind her former rival. You sully and dishonor Hillary by putting her name on a web site that actively works against her stated wishes.

You, who claim to be her supporters, are working against everything for which Hillary Clintion stands.

Please, show your real support for Hillary. Help her get what she really wants:
• a more sane foreign policy
• help for America's working families
• respect and equal treatment in the workplace
• health care that makes sense
• a court that will protect choice, free speech, and habeus corpus
• a truly progressive agenda in the Executive Branch

Hillary knows that we can only get these things if DEMOCRATS win, and win big, from the top of the ticket to the bottom. That is why she has put aside her hard-earned pride and is throwing all her hard-earned political clout behind the Democratic Party and its nominee.

And if your pain is so much greater than Hillary's, or your will so much weaker, that unlike her you cannot see the only sane way forward and support it, then at least have the common decency to stop abusing her name and stop abusing her face.

"Party Unity My Ass" is not about Hillary; it is about you and your pain. Hillary has more reason to be hurt than anyone, and she has already moved on. So should you.
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