Considering all of the ridiculous hyperbole from the Right—have any of you been watching Fox News?—David Frum, former speechwriter to President George W. Bush is the one character on either side who really nailed the political significance of what happened on Sunday: The Republican Party is toast!
Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.
It’s hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the disaster. Conservatives may cheer themselves that they’ll compensate for today’s expected vote with a big win in the November 2010 elections. [...]
No illusions please: This bill will not be repealed. Even if Republicans scored a 1994 style landslide in November, how many votes could we muster to re-open the “doughnut hole” and charge seniors more for prescription drugs? How many votes to re-allow insurers to rescind policies when they discover a pre-existing condition? How many votes to banish 25 year olds from their parents’ insurance coverage? And even if the votes were there – would President Obama sign such a repeal?
We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat. [...]
So today’s defeat for free-market economics and Republican values is a huge win for the conservative entertainment industry. Their listeners and viewers will now be even more enraged, even more frustrated, even more disappointed in everybody except the responsibility-free talkers on television and radio. For them, it’s mission accomplished. For the cause they purport to represent, it’s Waterloo all right: ours.
Waterloo (Frum Forum)
Previously on Dangerous Minds: Alex Kovas: Freaky Manimal Model
Not only can he kill you with a magazine, he can do it while sitting in a folding chair.
DO NOT SIT IN THE CHAIR WHEN HE INVITES YOU TO! I repeat, DO NOT SIT IN THE CHAIR WHEN HE INVITES YOU TO!
(via Unique Daily )
This is perhaps the greatest camping accessory ever made. A sleeping bag that looks like a bear—perfect for scaring away bears that show up in the night… unless they fall in love and try to get all up in that shit….?
This is a greatest sleeping bag. You can wear it to sleep when you go camping. It is safe that no bear will attack your camp and eat you? Or you just want to wear it, and then scare your friend when he(she) wake up in the morning.(a good idea!) Well made and Cool! By artist Eiko Ishizawa.
(Thanks, @leashless!)
I don’t know if any of you have heard about the whole sex scandal with Tiger Woods, but if the world famous golfer thought the worst was behind him, when he woke up this morning to the news that one of his alleged mistresses, porn star Joslyn James (real name: Veronica Siwik-Daniels), had put up 100 of his “sexy” text messages to her online at a site called Sexting Joslyn James.com, he was certainly disabused of that notion immediately. If his wife is already as homicidal as she seems to be, he’d better make sure all of his golf clubs (and all sharp objects) are well out of her grasp when she gets a load of this site, because this will push her well over the edge! It would be in poor taste for me to reprint them here, but trust me, this is some good, hilarious shit.
Unless, of course, you’re Tiger Woods…
Okay, here’s some of the better ones. Yuu don’t get her side, but it’s pretty obvious how she answers anyway:
Tiger:Sent: 01:28 PM 09/08/2009:
Have you ever had a golden shower done to youTiger:Sent: 01:29 PM 09/08/2009:
Just morbid curiosityTiger:Sent: 01:30 PM 09/08/2009:
Really. You. You have done just about everything havent youTiger:Sent: 01:32 PM 09/08/2009:
Never done it. I think i would get stage freight
The dude is fuckin’ toast, isn’t he? Talk about revenge served cold… ouch.
