An internal investigation concluded that otherwise qualified candidates seeking jobs within the Department of Justice were routinely deselected “because of their liberal leanings or objections to Bush administration politics.” Directives were given to look out for specific lefty buzz words like: “environmental justice,” “social justice,” “making policy,” or “anything else that involves legislating rather than enforcing.” Additionally, some of these legal eagles were also denied employment based on their affiliations with alleged do-gooder groups like: New York University Brennan Center for Justice, the World Wildlife Fund, NAACP Legal Defense, and the American Constitution Society, among many others. Jump for the full list of supposed detrimental lefties that automatically disqualified DOJ job seeking lawyers:
Senator John McCain is hoping to woo white suburban ’security moms’—who’ve pledged their undying loyalty to Hillary Clinton—away from Barack Obama with a new page on his website. Citizens for McCain features this psychologically disturbed woman holding up a Clinton campaign sign that’s been vandalized with the Republican presidential nominee’s stickers and repurposed. With these older caucasian ladies considered a key voting block and many of them supposedly fearful of a black man, McCain’s camp is trying desperately to court them. But with Clinton and Obama’s positions on many issues being almost identical, it’s hard to imagine how females with cerebral activity would even consider jumping so far across the aisle and vote for the cunt-calling Senator from Arizona. To help solidify this manic movement from right to left, they brought in the ultimate symbol of convenient aisle crossing trickery: fake Democrat Joe Lieberman offering both his face and endorsement.
Barack Obama predicted that Republicans will undoubtedly pull the race card and try other underhanded tactics to try and slime him in a speech he gave in Florida today:
“They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”
Pundits quickly pounced on the Democratic nominee, claiming it was he who was using race. And then after seeing this “If Obama is President will we still call it the White House?” button, that was being hawked at the Republican state convention, it demonstrated how on point he is on race. Others included sayings like: “Press 1 for English. Press 2 for Deportation” and “I will hold my nose when I vote for McCain.” |DMN via WarrenEllis|
Snarly Assemblything Catherine Nolan is pushing for new legislation that increases the penalty for chronic graffiti offenses to a felony. Fellow public paint hater Peter Vallone Jr.—who unsuccessfully introduced two anti-graffiti bills that were later struck down as unconstitutional—was delighted, adding his own predictable copy and paste comments to he matter:
“Right now, graffiti punks often get caught, get a slap on the wrist, and are out tagging again the next day. This bill will let us catch someone once and deter them from ever doing graffiti again.”
Basically, the offense of “Making Graffiti” would be augmented with “Making Graffiti in the first degree” and “Making Graffiti in the second degree”: “Making Graffiti in the second degree would be an A misdemeanor, the same as the current law. But someone convicted of the second degree crime on two or more occasions can be charged with the first-degree violation, an E felony.” The bill would also upgrade the possession of graffiti instruments from a B to an Amisdemeanor.
Besides delivering a non-impactful, uninspiring, and angry old man sounding speech last night, the Huffington Post points out the horrible green backdrop and the media response. Even Andrew Sullivan hated it: “From the re-branded green background to the silly attempt to capitalize on Democratic divisions to the Clintonian cooptation of an Obama meme – “a leader we can believe in” – McCain’s opening gambit in the general election was, in my judgment, underwhelming.” |HuffPost|
Mayor Bloomberg kicked off Internet Week last night at Gracie Mansion. What the hell is Internet Week say you? Per the website: “The week-long festival of events saluting New York’s thriving Internet industry and the many talented companies, organizations and innovators creating the future of online media! Internet Week New York is produced by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in cooperation with the City of New York and the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting.” Although we didn’t get an invite, ANIMAL fashion photographer Mikael Vojinovic got access and let us raid his images. Did you know Bloomberg uses a Blackberry Pearl? Jump for the a slew of images with neither captions nor context.
Back in April we compared Hillary’s campaign swag to Barack’s and concluded she’s definitely tailoring it to her base, but now it looks like the junior senator from New York—who refuses to bow out gracefully—is trying to hip things up with this “Project T-Shirt” contest. How this is going to drum up last minute support from what her campaign must think are graphic tee-loving superdelegates is a mystery, but even Chelsea is throwing in a hand, emailing supporters, asking for their fashion help in deciding the best of the five final piss poor designs. Chosen among “thousands of great entries,” the winning design will be sold in her online campaign store, although she’ll likely be finished by then. Included is the above Warhol Hillary, which just isn’t as striking an image as our modified Drudge one. See the other four after the jump, each one worse than the next.
We’ve been following the ramblings of hottie exhibitionist blogger Meghan McCain for a while now. The buxom blond and her crew of McCain Blogette’s have been documenting the presumptive Republican nominee’s campaign since it began on their blog (unfortunately, like Tokion, they too don’t have permalinks). In addition to posting photos of herself, family, friends, and Henry Kissinger’s feet, she also answers questions from you, the public at large. Learn what kind of perfume she wears, the blogs she reads, her favorite NYC eateries, and how much she loves her “cool duds.” Snippets of the Q&A below that just plummeted her hotness significantly.
The media is a funny thing. Reporters, pundits, and just about every talking head from radio to TV predicted that Hillary Clinton was going to win big in West Virginia—Obama camp included. So it didn’t seem like it was going to be a big story when the numbers came in and she did in fact win. But that’s not the case. In what is by far one of the most bizarre political races ever, the media machine has now flip-flopped, now pushing a rash of speculative dialogue and bouncing the ‘what does this mean for Barack Obama?’ type rhetoric all over the cable news channels. With West Virginia being one of the whitest, poorest, and dumbest states in the Union, it’s really no surprise they’d prefer Clinton. But seriously who cares? It’s West Virgina!
Representative Paul Broun (R-Ga., Baptist) is a congressman who enjoys making definitions. He sponsored bill H.R. 4157, aka the Sanctity of Human Life Act, in an effort to have the start of human life officially begin at conception. No prize to figure out where he’s going with that one. With H. J. Res. 82, Rep. Broun wants nothing less
than an amendment to the Constitution that allows for castration in rapes cases where the victim is under the age of 16; H. J. Res. 83 would allow the death penalty for the same crime. Oh, and he wants English to be the official language of the U.S., and was instrumental in establishing…umm…National Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia Awareness
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His latest effort, H.R. 5821, is also known as the Military Honor and Decency Act. Apparently, men serving their country are no longer allowed to masturbate. At least not using any materials sold on military bases, including Playboy and Penthouse. This isn’t a new battle. In 1997, Bob Guccione successfully argued against a ban on Penthouse. But the time has come to revisit this dire matter of national security. According to Rep. Broun’s spokesperson, John Kennedy:
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