It’s Friday and it’s raining which means that I’ll try to go home early for a “mental health day” (although HR has repeatedly warned me that I’ve already used up all of mine through 2010) and watch Sarah Palin’s book tour—LIVE! From beautiful Cincinnati!—while drinking Jameson’s with just a splash of coffee. OMG! Of course, if you’re stuck at your computer for the rest of the day, have I got a game for you. It’s called “2011 Obama’s Coup Fails,” brought to you by a website called United States of Earth. Far out!

Here’s the scenario from Mother Jones:

It’s January 2011. The GOP is about to assume control of both houses of Congress—having been voted in by a public deeply suspicious of Democrats after President Barack Obama conducted clandestine talks with President Felipe Calderon of Mexico and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada. But two days before the new conservative majority is to be sworn in, Obama announces that this Congress will not be seated, that the United States (a creation of “racists and warmongers”) will be replaced by a North American Union, that the US Constitution will be dissolved, and that private ownership of firearms will be outlawed (as part of a United Nations treaty banning firearms globally). In response, millions rise up, and the Revolution begins.

Whoa. I’ve had nightmares about this. In fact, I think I saw it in my Flash Forward. So the game centers around 20 million armed American “patriots” who start seizing government offices and attempting to expose Obama and his ilk for what they truly are—reptiles who need us for food. Apparently the game was created by a bunch of Ron Paul disciples, taking a much-needed break from solving the 9/11 government conspiracy.

Lou Dobbs has disappeared, and Glenn Beck has been found dead of an “aspirin overdose.” Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity, and Bill O’Reilly have been rounded up, and Fox News forcibly shut down. The US military refuses to come to Obama’s rescue. His loyalist forces of 40,000 end up controlling merely three counties in Virginia, while an allied force is in charge of three counties near Washington, DC. The Federal Reserve also controls two of its own counties, as does the Cong (the remnants of the Democratic Congress). A collection of pro-Obama black nationalists and Islamic fundamentalists have a hold on two counties.

What can you do as a player? You can join the patriots trying to capture Obama and defeat the Cong.

I’m so ready to fight The Cong and The Blacks and The Muslims. Who’s with me?

[via Ben Smith]

Tagged: obama coup, ron paul, united states of earth.

I’m not sure how to tell you this so I’ll just come right out and say it. Your marriage is a sham and you’ve been living a lie. Hey! That wasn’t so hard after all!

You remember that constitutional amendment we all voted for a few years ago on principle to protect the sanctity of heterosexual marriage by banning same-sex marriage and ensuring that The Gays remain second class citizens? Well, according to Barbara Ann Radnofsky, the Democratic candidate for attorney general, it’s coming back to bite us in the ass.

The amendment defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Seems straightforward enough. But here’s where it gets dicey. In Subsection B. Which can be found in between “Subsection A” and “Subsection C.” (If you get to “Subsection D,” you’ve gone too far.)

“This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage.” Radnofsky, an attorney, claims that this clause effectively “eliminates marriage in Texas,” including common-law marriages. Whoa. The bad news: You have to return all of your wedding presents. The good news: YOU’RE FREE. I’d get to the Brown Bar early tonight!

Radnofsky is blaming Attorney General Greg Abbott for the mess we’re in now, what with newly single women of a certain age on the prowl, saying that the language should never have been put in the constitution. Abbott responded that he would only answer to Lieutenant Governor Greg Abbott.

Radnofsky’s claims are just “silly” and would never stand a chance in court, says Kelly Shackelford, president of the conservative Liberty Legal Institute. Shackelford said the language was designed to be broad enough to prevent “the creation of domestic partnerships, civil unions or other arrangements that would give same-sex couples many of the benefits of marriage.”

Well, gays, looks like we’re in this together.

Tagged: barbara radnofsky, greg abbott, marriage.

Let’s say you’re a Republican. (Just go with me here.) The face of your party is Sarah Palin, a darling of conservatives and tea party patriots, but an albatross to the few moderate Republicans left. Do you a) switch parties; b) ride this out and hope for the best; c) buy her book so you can burn it in protest; or d) come to the conclusion that politics has taken over your life and you don’t have anything else to talk about anymore and you look in the mirror only to see a stranger staring back at you.

OK, let’s narrow this down. Pretend you’re a Republican governor and you’re here in Austin for your annual conference. Maybe you secretly despise Palin but you can’t say that out loud or they will start calling you Olympia Snowe—the ultimate Republican insult. So you go along with all the rest of the governors talking about how good she looks in runners shorts. But perhaps there are more like you. Maybe you can tell the PalinDrones from the non-PalinDrones through a subtle nod as if to say, I’ve got your back.

Jonathan Martin over at Politico writes that Republicans at this year’s conference aren’t sure what to do about her. While her Going Rogue book tour shows that she’s still wildly popular among the crazies, the governors don’t seem so sure.

As was on display among the governors, consultants, lobbyists and party officials in attendance, Palin enjoys only tepid support if not outright skepticism among the party establishment. Elected Republicans and most other GOP heavyweights are loathe to criticize her for fear of offending her supporters, a voting bloc that includes many of the grassroots activists candidates rely upon.

So when asked about the party’s buzz machine they took pains to choose their words, focusing on the energy she generates among her followers while at the same time offering clenched-jaw assessments indicating a great desire to discuss any other subject.

Like this one. “She’s a great gal and people like her and I bet she sells a lot of books.” That’s from RGA Chairman Haley Barbour, who apparently thinks it’s still acceptable to call grown women “gals.” My father used to call women “gals” until I finally said, “Dad, I find that humiliating and degrading and on behalf of my gender, I ask you to stop.” Now he only does it behind my back.

After watching this video, I can’t understand why Republicans wouldn’t want Palin and her foreign policy expertise in 2012. (Iran, Iraq, what’s the difference except an “n” and a “q”?)

Tagged: austin, republican governors association, sarah palin.

Do not be alarmed if you encounter a bunch of older white men dressed in ill-fitted suits looking horribly lost in the next couple of days. They are Republican Governors, they are far from home, and they are scared of being accosted by Greenpeace activists on Congress. Yes, it’s the hip-hop RGA annual conference, this time right here in Austin, where they will get together and congratulate themselves for their big wins in Virginia and New Jersey and…no, that’s it. Two new Republican governors. Be still my bleeding heart.

The potential presidential candidates attending the conference include Tim Pawlenty, Bobby Jindal, Haley Barbour, and Mitch Daniels. I’m pretty sure I’ve got a better shot at being elected. (Remember that Sarah Palin is no longer a governor, she’s a published author because life is unfair and the universe hates me.) In between the duck tour and the Key bar, the governors are going to have to decide which direction they want to take their party—to the far right or toward the center. Or to the far far right.

But what a difference a year makes! Last year, the rising stars sounded a bit more reasonable.

Pawlenty: “People mostly want to follow positive leaders; they don’t want to follow cranks.”
Jindal: “We can’t just be the party of ‘No.’”
Palin: “We are the minority party, but let us resolve not to become the negative party.”
Sanford: “I’m having sex with an Argentinian woman.”

Tonight there will be a “Victory Barbeque.” Little tip: Get there before Barbour does.

Tagged: austin, republican governors association.

The most disconcerting thing about last night’s rally for Kay Bailey Hutchison, featuring Dick Cheney, was not that she was two hours late because she clearly loves Washington more than she loves us. It was that the crowd apparently wants Cheney to run in 2012. Now that’s what I call a race. I mean, somebody pinch me already! How old is he going to be in 2012? Like ONE HUNDRED?! and TEN?! Due to Kay’s tardiness, Cheney was responsible for “warming up the crowd.” How does someone like Dick Cheney warm up a crowd? With a few jokes?

“Obama’s so dumb—”
“How dumb is he??”
“He’s so dumb that he wouldn’t know a weapon of mass destruction if it hit him in the ass. And it’s going to! Because he’s going to blow us all into next week! Because he hangs out with terrorists! HA HA HA HA.”

When Kay finally got there, to the relief of her supporters who had grown tired of Cheney’s Colonel Klink impersonations, the former VP touted her conservative credentials. “We Westerners know the difference between a real talker and the real deal,” Cheney said. “And when it comes to being conservative, Kay Bailey Hutchison is the real deal.” But will Cheney’s star power really make a difference? Time to call in the big guns, like Jon Voight and Wilford Brimley.

Tagged: dick cheney, kay bailey hutchison.

With every day of good health, I become increasingly confident that I am immune to the H1N1 virus due to my superior genetic code. Or perhaps because I’ve already had it, as evidenced by my all-out pukefest in a taxicab this summer in Baltimore. Either way, I’m not too concerned about it but then again, I don’t have to deal with snotty germ-infested children on a daily basis (weekly if you have a nanny who loves your child more than you do).

First there was Wall Street, now we have fictional characters making their case for why they should live longer than anyone else. Santas across the nation are actively lobbying for the swine flu vaccine, claiming that aside from being around dirty mall kids, they’re also fat and obesity is considered a risk factor. Oh sure. Everyone has a story. This effort isn’t just composed of random Santas roaming the halls of Congress doling out free lap dances. This is the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas. BAM.

The president of the organization, Nicholas (OH THAT IS SO NOT YOUR REAL NAME) Trolli, said he hopes parents will not bring their sick kids. But since you can’t trust mothers who could care less about infecting the entire food court as long as she gets a chance to hit Pottery Barn, it’s best to protect yourself. Meanwhile Ernest Berger, the head of Santa America, estimates that about two-thirds of all Santas are overweight and about a third are morbidly obese. Hey, I’ve got an idea. Stop eating all the f—king candy canes.

Some in the health care field are suggesting that Santa forgo the white gloves and use hand sanitizer between each child since viruses can live on unwashed hands for hours. “If your hand was warm and moist, it could live longer,” said Dr. Jodie Dionne-Odom. “It depends on whether you have a glob of mucus on your hand where it’s going to live happily versus a tiny speck. It’s kind of disgusting, but it would depend on what was on your hand.”

Great. So this holiday season instead of roasting chestnuts we have globs of mucus. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Others are saying that maybe Santa should just greet children from a few feet away instead of putting them on his lap. How I wish that rule had been instituted when I was a baby…

Tagged: h1n1 virus, santa, swine flu vaccine.

I missed Sarah Palin on Oprah’s WORLD EXCLUSIVE yesterday because I was at work and forgot to record it. I hate it when that happens. Is there no app for that? Because you know that interview would have been much more interesting than me sitting in my office staring vacantly out the window at I-35 traffic, pretending to type only when someone walked by. I’d mix it up occasionally by pretending to be on the phone.

Some of my friends—grown women, mind you—actually record their soap operas (or as my grandmother used to say, “my stories”) so they can watch them that night, which I consider completely ridiculous. Although I did notice that the adorable James Franco is guest starring on General Hospital. What’s up with that? He was so great in Spiderman.

In case you missed the interview as well, you can read all about it on Oprah.com, where you will also see web exclusives and behind-the-scenes footage and a full-frontal spread (that’s what she said) of Palin’s arch-nemesis Levi Johnston. I have yet to view the videos and I have a very important meeting I must get to so I will open this post up for discussion. This is called “making the readers create my content in absentia.”

Sarah Palin in 2012. Brilliant move by the increasingly conservative Republican party or a desperate Hail Mary pass? What if she and Todd get divorced? If she loses her looks, will she be dumped by conservatives for Carrie Prejean? Discuss.

Tagged: oprah winfrey, sarah palin.

Rick Perry has just received the coveted endorsement of the Most Important Christian Since Jesus Christ, Dr. Rick Scarborough, who is the president of Vision America. And by “coveted endorsement,” I mean, “if you want the public backing of a bigoted homophobe.” Now before you get all YOU ANTI-CHRISTIAN HATER on me, I have nothing against Christians, being one myself. I’m just against certain types of Christians. Like Scarborough.

The mission of Vision America, which is headquartered in Nacogdoches, is purportedly to “inform, encourage and mobilize pastors and their congregations to be proactive in restoring Judeo-Christian values to the moral and civic framework in their communities, states, and our nation.” OK, so they’re conservative Christians. Nothing inherently wrong with that. But how about this book by Scarborough, as described by Scarborough?

“Liberalism Kills Kids” is a groundbreaking work which documents the devastating failure of America’s 40-year experiment with liberal statism. From the deaths of 44 million unborn children, to skyrocketing rates of out-of-wedlock births, to the divorce epidemic, to the destructive demands of the movement to normalize homosexuality — the book exposes a cultural coup d’etat that has left our families gasping for air.

A cultural coup d’etat! I’ve never been involved in anything this exciting! Viva La Revolución! So what does the good pastor do in his spare time, when he’s not converting homosexuals to closeted homosexuals? Well, let’s see: rallying against the hate crime bill, accusing homosexuals of being pedophiles, questioning Obama’s citizenship, and railing against “porous borders, abortion-on-demand, homosexual marriage, condoms, and judicial autocracy.” How on earth does he find the time to pray?

Here’s one of my favorite rants:

We are witnessing the ongoing destruction of the American family with skyrocketing divorce rates, sexually promiscuous middle-schoolers and parental rights decimated by judicial tyrants. We see homosexuality increasingly normalized and dissent of the homosexual agenda ruthlessly suppressed. Illegal immigration which is bringing in crime and taking jobs and tax-funded abortion facilities responsible for ending the lives of 200,000 babies each and every year. God judges nations as he judges individuals. How can we expect God to bless America, when everything we do is a slap in the face to the Almighty?

Yes, we all know that God hates us. Especially the gays and illegals. Does Scarborough really expect us to listen to a man who named one of his sermons, “We Do Dead Dogs!” (You think I’m joking but you know me better than that.)

Tagged: rick perry, rick scarborough, vision america.

You remember musical chairs. It was often played at kids birthday parties, in between pin the tail on the donkey and speed quarters. You set up a bunch of chairs but one less than the number of people playing. You walk around the chairs while music plays and when the music stops, everyone grabs a seat. But there’s always someone left standing, which is incredibly unfair since that someone is MUCH SMALLER than the other kids and little does she know that her knees will never grow to full size.

Then there’s that kid who totally cheats by kind of standing around his chair, guarding it, and sitting his ass down a little before the music stops. That kid is Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, who announced on Friday that she will keep her Senate seat through the March primary. As first reported by Jay Root of the AP, Hutchison planned to tell a group of Republican women (where do you find them, conservative cougar bars?) in Galveston over the weekend that there are too many important issues, including the mass grandmother killings, for her to leave this year. Obviously this could mean a couple things—she truly believes that she is needed in the Senate to fight for Texas, or she’s as frightened as a little girl playing Red Rover, because last time she dislocated her shoulder.

Hutchison also claims that she will vacate her seat even if she loses the primary. Whatever. She’s way too competitive to allow John Cornyn to become the senior senator. But if she does retire, this would allow Perry to appoint a replacement, perhaps a current member of the Forensic Science Commission. “We appreciate that Sen. Hutchison has taken the governor’s advice and finally decided to make a decision to stay in Washington,” Perry spokesman Mark Miner said. “Hopefully this will allow her to be a full-time senator for the people of Texas.” That’s just dripping with The Smarm.

Anyway, these are the choices? Rick and Kay? (Don’t tell me we could have a Democratic governor, I’ve fallen for that one before.) I need a hero. In fact, I’m holding out for a hero.

Tagged: kay bailey hutchison, rick perry, Texas Federation of Republican Women.

I never watch Larry King Live because I’m always too busy watching anything else. But I just had to check out the transcript from Wednesday’s show because apparently former Miss California and porn queen Carrie Prejean was whining about how conservative women are constantly attacked by the liberal media. She’s so right. I can’t think of any female Democrat who endured constant media scrutiny except OH WAIT A MINUTE HILLARY CLINTON. Carrie Prejean discussed the pain and suffering of being Carrie Prejean in her new book, “Still Standing, The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks.” Wow. What courage. What bravery. What bullshit.

KING: You characterize yourself as being Palinized. What do you mean?
PREJEAN: Well, you look at Sarah Palin and Congresswoman, you know, Michele Bachmann, they are relentlessly, you know, torn down by the liberal media. I mean, they’re wonderful women. They’re intelligent. They’re great mothers. They’re brilliant. And yet there’s this double standard that conservative women are fair game to be attacked. And it’s not right. And it needs to stop.
KING: Doesn’t the conservative media tear down liberal politicians?
PREJEAN: Not to the extent that liberals do to conservative women. I think that they get away with it. If you look at Keith Olbermann, for instance, I talk about it in my book, some of the things that he says on his show about conservatives, if Sean Hannity or if Bill O’Reilly said anything like that about a liberal woman, like Sonia Sotomayor or Michelle Obama, he would be off the air. And there is this double standard and Americans are now exposed to it.
KING: But the conservative media commentators denounced Sonia Sotomayor as a racist, Hillary Clinton as a bitch and a liar. Laura Ingraham recently accused Nancy Pelosi of having done everything but sell her own body to get the health bill passed. You must condemn things like that.
PREJEAN: Look at the things that they said about Sarah Palin and her children. I mean, it’s unbelievable. The attacks are still coming. And, you know, when they’re not happy with the message, Larry, what do they do? They attack the messenger.
KING: Well, you don’t see that it happens on both sides?
PREJEAN: I think that it’s important for women to stick together. I think that’s the biggest thing. And I think that there definitely is this bias against conservative women. It’s fair game. And if they don’t like what you have to say, they have to attack your personal life. And that’s what we’ve been seeing. It’s very consistent.

Now I’m all for conservative women sticking together. That way they won’t be around me. OMG! So we have a beauty pageant queen making the media rounds to represent The Persecuted like psychotic Michele Bachmann. It’s so surreal. I mean, if anyone’s been oppressed, it’s liberal women. It’s just that we can fight for ourselves. Anyway, I thought Christians were supposed to turn the other cheek. At least that’s what the nuns told us when they slapped us around.

OK, here’s my favorite part.

PREJEAN: Sarah Palin is my hero.
KING: Oh, she is?
PREJEAN: Yes, she is.
KING: Have you come to know her, by the way?
PREJEAN: Well, actually in my book “Still Standing,” I actually had a conversation with her. And I just — I really look up to her and admire her for her strength and her courage. And I just — I really admire her.

Prejean goes on to call Larry “inappropriate” (what did he do? take off his suspenders in a come-hither way?) and almost walks off the show because he was about to take viewer calls which is, you know, part of his show. She even takes off her mike. Afraid of a few phone calls. Fearless, Carrie. Fearless.

Tagged: carrie prejean, larry king live.

Remember that O.J. Simpson trial? No, not that one. Or that one. The original one. Of course you do. I was driving across the country because I had nothing better to do after graduating, like “a job,” when I first heard of the murders. Then I was glued to the television at the Fairfield Inn in Wichita watching the Bronco. Can you imagine if that no-speed chase were to happen today? It’d be, like, one of Twitter’s top trending topics, along with #Carrie Prejean sex tape.

So why the sudden resurrection of The Juice? As reported by DMN’s Robert Garrett, Rick Perry said Wednesday that he was right to accuse Texas of using “junk science” in arson cases, such as Cameron Todd Willingham’s, because Barry Scheck was part of Simpson’s defense team. Which also used junk science. Like the bloody glove. And Kato Kaelin.

Before you say, But Eileen! That doesn’t make any sense!, remember that Scheck is co-founder of The Innocence Project. NOW DO YOU GET IT? The connection between Scheck and executing an innocent man is so stunningly obvious, if you work in the governor’s office. Perry has been forced to go on defense once again over the Willingham case and his firings of certain members of the Texas Forensic Science Commission now that legislative hearings are further exploring what happened.

Perry deputy press secretary Katherine Cesinger issued a statement: It is unfortunate that the anti-death penalty activists and O.J. Simpson’s lawyer, Barry Scheck, would choose to hang their hat on a case that Texas and federal courts upheld on numerous occasions – nine times by federal courts, including four times by the U.S. Supreme Court.

“O.J. Simpson’s lawyer?” Um, in 1995. You know what I was in 1995? Broke and bitter. See what a difference 14 years can make? Outside of being “O.J. Simpson’s lawyer,” Scheck is a DNA expert. Is Ms. Cesinger? I don’t know. That’s why I’m asking. I mean, clearly she’s an authority on something. The statement goes on to say that Texans overwhelmingly support the death penalty and expect justice. Yes, but I’d like to think that Texans who support the death penalty support it mostly for guilty people.

Maybe that’s the difference between the people of Texas and Perry’s office.

Tagged: barry scheck, cameron todd willingham, katherine cesinger, o.j. simpson, rick perry.

So now we’re learning that Sgt. Kimberly Munley, who allegedly shot Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, may not have actually been the one to shoot him. Oops! According to an eyewitness, as reported in the NYT, Hasan shot Munley as she rounded the corner, and she fell to the ground. Hasan turned his back on her and started reloading. That’s when Senior Sgt. Mark Todd found Hasan and shot him. But Munley’s just so darn cute that she was the one who became an instant media celebrity—the next Jessica Lynch!—while Todd, the true hero, was, as far as I know, never mentioned. This is not to suggest that Munley did not deserve praise for the taking down of Hasan. It’s just that, you know, she wasn’t actually the one who took him down.

Like I said, she’s cute. Just the way the media likes ‘em. Obviously the authorities contributed to the misinformation surrounding Hasan, who was supposedly dead but then not really, who was helped by two other shooters but actually acted alone. There’s more than a little wiggle room here. But seriously? The media, mostly cable news, eats this stuff up. Witness all the missing white girls (the unwatchable Nancy Grace being their main spokeswoman).

Sgt. Todd’s wife, Lisa, said her husband had asked the Army to protect his identity, and did not consider himself to be the real hero of the day. “They were in this together,” she said. Both Todd and Munley appeared on Oprah yesterday but did not give a detailed chronology of what happened, although Todd acknowledged that he had played a major role and that he had “fired at the suspect, kicked his weapon away and placed him in handcuffs.”

Seems pretty straightforward to me. But I bet Secretary of Defense Robert Gates didn’t drop in at Todd’s house for a visit after visiting Munley in the hospital for a photo-op. I’m pretty sure a Facebook fan page wasn’t set up for Todd.

The day after the shooting, Chuck Medley, the director of emergency services at Fort Hood, reported that “Sergeant Munley had encountered Major Hasan, pistol in hand, chasing down a bleeding soldier. She fired at him, he turned, they rushed at each other firing and both fell.” MADE FOR TELEVISION.

Medley also noted that, “She fired a couple more rounds and fell back, continuing to fire. She struck him a couple times in the upper torso and he went down…When she rounded that corner she made a split-second decision to put her life at risk.”

I’m not saying that Munley’s at fault. She did put her life at risk. I’m just saying that the media is so hungry for good-looking heroes and heroines that sometimes they miss the truth. And maybe we’re all too eager to believe them.

Tagged: kimberly munley, mark todd, nidal hasan.

Earlier today on KUT, there was a story on the new Modern Warfare games. Since the last video game I played was Lost Luggage, maybe I’m not the best person to speak to this. However, I pride myself on keeping up with what the young kids are doing these days and, given that they’re apparently having sex in fifth grade now, video games like these must be made for middle school dorks. But now they’re middle school dorks who can blow your f—king head off.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (HOW DID I MISS THE FIRST ONE?) hit the shelves this week and is expected to be the biggest-selling game of the year. Here’s how Matt Peckham of PC World describes just one of the scenes:

As the video begins, a load sequence displays blurred words like “madman” and “body count” onscreen. When it completes, several men—one of them controlled by the player—step from an elevator into a baggage reclaim area, leveling high-caliber machine guns at clustered civilians, then unloading into the crowd. The player hesitates, then joins in, firing indiscriminately at the seething huddle.

The gunfire pauses, the smoke partly clears, and bodies are strewn everywhere. Terrified, heartrending screams issue from somewhere beyond. The player advances through the baggage area, spotting fleeing civilians and firing in bursts. He proceeds up stairs, scanning for victims, zooming down his iron sights to better aim, finishing off the crawling wounded, and lobbing ballistic grenades across the concourse.

OMG that’s just what I used to do with my Strawberry Shortcake dolls! Except Blueberry Muffin was always taken hostage by Huckleberry Pie and tortured until she could get her to talk! Does anyone else think this game might be taking those playful water gun battles of yore a bit too far? It’s almost as gruesome as the Left Behind games but those are OK because you’re killing people for God.

Clearly there is not enough war and bloodshed going on in real life so we need to manufacture it and market it to children. Instead of sitting in front of their Xbox and playing video games, they should use their imaginations. Like the makeshift hospital my sisters and I put together, where our bedroom drawers sufficed as beds and when a patient doll died, we’d simply close the drawer. Hey look at that! We were doing death panels before death panels were cool!

Tagged: call of duty, modern warfare 2.

Sen. John Thune from South Dakota could very well be the savior of the Republican party and a viable presidential candidate as long as he keeps a low profile, otherwise known as keeping it on the “down low.”

The main appeal of one-time golden boy Mark Sanford was that no one had heard of him until he started humping the Appalachian Trail. Thune, a freshman senator, is already climbing the GOP ranks as head of the Senate Republican Policy Committee. He also says he wants more people joining the party and increased diversity, which means he is not going to last long. At all.

Not like he’s a moderate but to suggest or even think to himself that he would welcome a few normal people into his party is reason enough for the conservatives to kick him out. But if they do that, where will John Cornyn rest his chin?

Tagged: john cornyn, john thune.

It’s 14 minutes but worth it.

[via Political Wire]