I Don't Like You Either.

Cindy McCain, Biker Chick?

by Teh Nutroots |  Ben Smith:

Meanwhile, at a biker rally in Sturgis, S.D., John McCain appears to have volunteered his wife for a topless beauty pageant:

McCain felt so comfortable at the event that he even volunteered his wife for the rally’s traditional beauty pageant, an infamously debauched event that’s been known to feature topless women.

“I encouraged Cindy to compete,” McCain said to cheers. “I told her with a little luck she could be the only woman ever to serve as first lady and Miss Buffalo Chip.”

I hear defiant redstate-necked Republicans asking: "Why shouldn't John McCain offer her up his wife for the "Bikini Contest" at the Biker event he's attending in Dakota?" 

Why indeed?  Why indeed.  .

Well, there is this (from ESPN via TPM):

Now More than Ever: Everything has Something to Do with the Templars

by Cockney Robin | The best novel--bar none--about the Knights Templar is Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.  [Damozel reviewed it here.  She also made me read it---as in 'nagged me all the hours there were till it was easier to read it than to listen to her nag me to read it'.  The characters in the novel feed the fundamental axiom 'The Templars have something to do with everything' into a computer program they are building that is designed to tie up every loose end and all esoteric knowledge in history, and answer every question...   As Damozel says:

In addition to everything else, it's a book about The Da Vinci Code, or its theoretical underpinnings, even though it was written long before it.

It is a mine of information you probably did not know.  But it is also a novel.[Just Eat the Damn Peach'

'Fox Television Is a Tool'

Teh Nutroots|  Well, this is no surprise.  Here's Think Progress:

'On MSNBC’s Hardball last night, host Chris Matthews asked former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan if he saw “FOX television as a tool” to get the White House’s “message out” while he was in the Bush administration. “Certainly there were commentators and other, pundits at FOX News, that were useful to the White House,” replied McClellan, adding that they were given “talking points.”'

So...Fox = sock puppet for the Administration?

Olbermann: "Authentic McCain" [Bad Jokes Dept]

by Teh Nutroots | How much do women love being raped?  As Damozel commented, he gets a quadruple score on the sick joke scale for this one.

A Woman Stuck to the Toilet for Two Years?

It was her boyfriend's toilet and her skin had grown around it.  How in the hell?  Did she take her meals on the toilet?  Sleep there?  No, I know you don't believe it, but here's the story. 

Deputies said a woman in western Kansas sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years, and they're investigating whether she was mistreated....Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman’s skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.

Homophobic and Racist Army Recruiter Outs Herself In Email

  This is choice.  Evidently, an army recruiter, was baited by her target, Corey Andrews, into sharing (in all caps no less) her appalling views on both homosexuals and African-Americans.   I say "baited" because it's so clear that this is what he was doing, not because I feel it in any way excuses her response.  I am not going to include his part of the dialogue----written in complete sentences, normal text, and in a temperate, reasoning tone that evidently operated on her emotions like a red flag being flapped at a bull. 

Quote begins from The Raw Story, David Edwards, Army Recruiter Sends Staggering Homophobic E-mails]

YOU ARE DEFINITELY UNQUALIFIED, NOW TAKE YOU GAY SELF SOMEPLACE ELSE WE DO NOT TOLERATE GAY PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN ANY PART OF THE MILITARY. AND IF IT BOTHERS YOU PAYING TAXES THEN MIGRATE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY.... AND IF IT BOTHERS YOU ABOUT THE US MILITARY RECRUITING THEN YOU GO TELL THE BOARD OF EDUCATION .... AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE RECRUITERS RECRUITING IN FRONT YOU HIGH SCHOOL THEN COMPLAIN TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OR BETTER YET TRY COMPLAINING TO MAYOR BLOOMBERG AND SEE WHAT HE HAS TO SAY... YOU SHOULD SAY THANK YOU MILITARY PEOPLE FOR WHAT YOU DO SO THAT YOU CAN LIVE A FREE LIFE IN THIS COUNTRY. FREEDOM IS NOT FREE.....OH I FORGOT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT YES YOU MIGHT TO TRY TO KISS A SOLDIER IN THE FOXHOLE SO THAT IS A NO NO.

YOU HEAD OFF TO THE GAY LAND OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO MORALS AND GET RID OF YOURSELF. PERSONALLY I THINK BEING GAY IS DISGUSTING AND IMMORAL.... AS AN AFRICAN HAVE NO PLACE TO SAY YOUR ROOTS ARE DEEPLY ROOTED HERE. MY ROOTS ARE MUCH STRONGER THAN YOURS. YOU WERE BROUGHT HERE BEING YOUR WILL POWER WHEREAS MY ROOTS RUN FROM THE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN. I HAVE MORE RIGHTS HERE THAN YOU AND MY ROOTS HAVE BEEN HERE EVER SINCE BEFORE THE AMERICAS WERE DISCOVERED...YOU TAKE YOUR GAY A-- OFF SOMEPLACE AND GO TO SOME OTHER COUNTRY AND BADMOUTH THE MILITARY...TAKE YOUR A-- BACK WHERE YOU BELONG NOT HERE.

YOU GO BACK TO AFRICA AND DO YOUR GAY VOODOO LIMBO TANGO AND WANGO DANCE AND JUMP AROUND AND PRANCE AND RUN ALL OVER THE PLACE HALF NAKED THERE AND PRACTICE YOUR GAY MORALS OVER THERE THAT'S WHERE YOU BELONG...

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Once more, with feeling:   ::Sigh.:: 

You can see Corey Andrew's CNN interview with Paula Zahn here.