gawkercom: Who’s ‘Winning’ the Hurricane? By Mobutu Sese Seko We’re all fools if we think that Hurricane Sandy will be the one moment of human struggle to remain unblemished by political opportunism. The peerless horror of September 11 was given all of a few weeks before it became a cudgel with which to beat Democrats as the pussiest bunch of pusses to ever puss under God’s own sun. Hurricanes are commonplace, as disasters go, which means we feel less shame in exploiting their consequences. Even with the catastrophic ones, Katrina’s precedent gives political cover to anyone’s cynical campaign move. So even as the waters recede, expect the tide of political ordure to rise and try to keep surging until next Tuesday. The question, then, is: “Who’s gonna win this hurricane?” Read More

gawkercom:

Who’s ‘Winning’ the Hurricane?

By Mobutu Sese Seko

We’re all fools if we think that Hurricane Sandy will be the one moment of human struggle to remain unblemished by political opportunism. The peerless horror of September 11 was given all of a few weeks before it became a cudgel with which to beat Democrats as the pussiest bunch of pusses to ever puss under God’s own sun.

Hurricanes are commonplace, as disasters go, which means we feel less shame in exploiting their consequences. Even with the catastrophic ones, Katrina’s precedent gives political cover to anyone’s cynical campaign move. So even as the waters recede, expect the tide of political ordure to rise and try to keep surging until next Tuesday.

The question, then, is: “Who’s gonna win this hurricane?”

Read More

I Have Obtained a 100% Authentic Copy of Mitt Romney’s Top Five VP Picks

1. Sisko Kirk

2. Kirk Sisko

3. Archer

4. Picard

5. Janeway

Let’s simplify this Washington Post discussion about ‘Why Women Don’t Find Mitt Romney Attractive’

Here’s the existing discussion.

Here’s an alternate explanation:

Because—whatever faint daddy-issue implications there might be—nobody gets turned on by a Reed Richards who can stretch everything about the truth and nothing about his imagination (and wouldn’t even dream of stretching you know what) and who seems to spend all his free time tunelessly humming the Baha Men while participating in Tucking White Van Heusen Shirts Into Your Jeans contests.

BLOCKROG: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MEDIA FROM WEEDLORD BONERHITLER →

blockrog:

To whom it may concern,

It has come to my attention that I have been made an object of fun on your internet sites. It saddens me to see a citizen’s sincere political activism be used to generate cheap laughs and low-blow leftist sensationalism.

Despite signing an anti-Obamacare petition under a…

Mitt Romney to India: ‘Eh-Neeek-Chock!’

(AP) NEW DELHI - Mitt Romney’s attempts to fill the nation of India with giant Apaches who would be “Super Friends” to America failed today when he didn’t understand that they were the wrong kind of Indians.

The incident recalls Romney’s March gaffe, when he screamed “Eh-neeek-chock!” at a flightline full of AH-64D Apache Longbows, in an attempt to create a fleet of what he dubbed “Super Helicopters.”

In the aftermath of both attempts, Romney wore a feathered headdress and cried a lot.