Happy Halloween

Our pumpkin. It’s a Barack O’Lantern.

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We.Are.SO.Not.Listening

I came across one of the best dismissals of the mainstream media over at Democratic Underground this afternoon. We.Are.SO.Not.Listening. Here are a couple of choice paragraphs:

We are uninterested in whatever it is you have to say, whatever product it is you’re trying to hawk, whatever polls, surveys, or demographics you want to trot out and declare as gospel, and whatever opinions you insist on proffering as though any one of us still gives a flying fuck. Because we don’t.

or how about this:

Tens of thousands dead in a war you promoted like a ratings-grabbing miniseries sure to bring in the viewers and the bucks, Constitutional rights torn and tattered while you made a spectacle of shredding the once-noble profession of journalism with your stunning displays of ignorance, a middle-class that all but disappeared while you discussed missing teenagers and the fading careers of the once rich-and-famous, a government that tortured, imprisoned, raped, and plundered with abandon while you busied yourselves with looking the other way.

We.Are.So.Not.Listening.

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Who says Sarah Palin doesn’t read?

Infocloud has obtained this list of Sarah’s top 10 newspapers and magazines:

10. NonReaders Digest

9. The Russian Observer

8. The Juneau Juno

7. Snowmobile and Driver

6. Popular Creationism

5. Better Igloos and Tundra

4. UnCosmopolitan

3. NEWSWEAK

2. The Wasilla Flat World Telegram

1. The New York Review of Book Burning

Hats off to the Satirical Political Report for digging through her subscription records.

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Feeling reamed

So on CNN they celebrated and acted relieved when the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange went off and the dramatic losses of earlier this week had been regained. I couldn’t share their upbeat mood and had to turn off the television.

Something has been taken away from us this week. After eight years of watching our rights and freedoms disappear one by one, and this past year of seeing our wealth diminish as housing values plummeted, I’m used to it. But this week was the capper.

Now they’ve stolen an additional trillion dollars of our money. They’ve changed the laws so they won’t let us go bankrupt anymore. Wall Street bankers scamper away with severance packages in the millions.

I knew the final throes of the Bush years would be intense. But even I didn’t see this coming. To think there are still people who believe John McCain and Sarah Palin are agents of change and plan to vote for them makes me heartsick.

I have a lot of years under my belt and I’ve never quite felt so frightened about the outcome of an election.

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For your viewing pleasure

I just can’t help myself:

‘Nuff said