Anyone find that offensive.

I didn’t.

In the words of Colin Cowherd this morning on his radio show: “The only people that would find that commercial offensive is the guy that works at Starbucks with the black hair and the big hole in his ear because he already hates his dad and his siblings.”

I mean you really had to be paying attention to the end of the commercial to really understand what the ad was for.

To me, It was too much hype for nothing. I am curious what Mr. Feser thinks about this ad….

Liberal groups that wanted to run ads against conservative Democrats are

f—ing retarded

- Rahm Emanuel, voicing disagreement with their idea.

I would ask the president to show decency in this process by eliminating one member of that inner circle, Mr. Rahm Emanuel, and not allow Rahm’s continued indecent tactics to cloud efforts.

- Sarah Palin, calling for Rahm to be fired for his private comments.

Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult’s taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards… There’s going to be a retard summit at the White House.

- Rush Limbaugh, his radio show, on how the word “retard” shouldn’t be frowned on.

They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh was using satire to bring attention to what this politically correct…

- Sarah Palin, defending Rush Limbaugh’s use of the word “retard.”

the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.

- The definition of satire from dictionary.com.

Was Rush being ironic or sarcastic when he said we should all call retards retards? I don’t think so, and I’m pretty sure anyone should be able to figure it out.

So why is it that he can spread this message that is so hurtful to his millions of listeners and it’s okay with Palin, but Rahm says it in a meeting and he must be fired? Isn’t Rush’s offense at the very least as bad as Rahm’s? Isn’t he actually calling out Palin herself for being so politically correct?

Are Republicans ever embarrassed when their party leaders are forced to lick Rush’s boots even after he’s stepped in s—? It’s getting ridiculous.

Enjoy her presidential aspirations. I know I will.

Adam Feser

As you may have heard, Sarah Palin had some notes scribbled on her hand during her keynote speech at the Tea Party Convention. I don’t think this is a huge deal, but I do think a couple of interesting things can be drawn from it.

It is likely that she had the notes written on her hand for the Q & A (see video). She probably found out what the questions were going to be and wanted to remind herself of how she wanted to answer one or more. What I think is interesting about this is how she needed to remind herself about the main principles she supports. Her hand says Energy, Budget cuts, Tax, and Lift American Spirits. I just can’t imagine how she would need to remind herself of these things to answer a question. Perhaps it was more like an outline, but it still cracks me up.

So the questions were likely given to her ahead of time, and she still needed help to remember how to answer correctly.

The other interesting point is that she called Obama out for using a teleprompter, then chose to write down answers to a Q & A with supporters on her hand. How could she not face her supporters’ questions, which she likely already knew? And she had to have known people would spot the writing and wonder what was going on.

That theer Obama theer seems so gosh darn smaart, but ya knooow he just has that theer (looks at hand)… teleprompter to tell him which words he should be usin’.

Enjoy my first attempt to write in Palin’s accent.

Adam Feser

I haven’t posted a song of the day in quite some time. I’ve moved the song of the day over to facebook where it has become a competition with my friend Ryan Thury. I got the impression most people that read the blog didn’t much care whether or not there was a song of the day, so I decided not to post them here (though I think some readers might appreciate certain days, for instance the classic country days).

But this song just sounds too right for today not to post, and I couldn’t rob you of it. The song is “The Shining” by Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough). Damon is from England and has been recording since the mid-90s. He gained quite a bit of notoriety because he wrote and performed all of the music for the movie About a Boy. This song is off the album Hour of Bewilderbeast, possibly his best album.

Enjoy the track, and let me know if you do. If so, perhaps I’ll throw up a song of the day every so often.

Adam Feser

Tancredo was the opening speaker for a Tea Party event, and he let the craziness out.

That’s right, millions of American citizens are apparently too dumb (or not white enough) to meet Tom Tancredo’s standards. I’m not sure if he knows, but he’s talking to some people that believe Obama is as bad Hitler, that the government wants to kill people, and that the government should keep its hands off of Medicare. I’d hardly say he is at a Mensa meeting.

But does he seriously wish there was a literacy test? Does he realize they were a racist tool to deny suffrage to blacks? Did he or a speechwriter write this thing, proofread it, and say, “Yeah, that’s exactly what I want to say.”

Tancredo is no fan of the “committed socialist ideologue” Barack Hussein Obama, but he also rejoiced that John McCain lost. I guess he was rooting for Nader?

Another target of his speech is the “cult of multiculturalism,” because some people just don’t act white enough, I guess. Because we all know that every immigrant group that came here adopted the culture of Native Americans, I mean the English, I mean Europe. Or perhaps Tancredo is just being an idiot.

Enjoy watching Tancredo be embraced by the Tea Party for this.

Adam Feser

Alexa Gonzalez, and 12-year-old junior high student from Queens, was actually arrested for writing on her desk in erasable marker.

She, like so many of us have, wanted to leave her mark on her desk. She wrote “I love my friends Abby and Faith” and “Lex was here. 2/1/10″ accompanied with a smiley face.

You would think the marker would be erased and the whole incident would end in at most a detention. Junior high kids will be junior high kids, right?

Instead, she was actually handcuffed and taken to a police station for several hours. And she didn’t even carve the desk (which used to be the way to leave a mark).

This was, of course, a traumatic experience for a 12-year-old girl in junior high. In addition to loads of tears her mother says she has been throwing up.

In a city like New York City, you would think there would be better ways for law enforcement officials to spend their time. But I guess they need to make sure no desk is ever soiled by an erasable marker. And apparently it wouldn’t even need to be a marker:

They told me with a pencil this could still happen.

I realize this isn’t big national news, but I just thought it was ridiculous enough to write about.

Enjoy a big loss for team Common Sense.

Adam Feser

Guys, what are your thoughts on these bills in the SD legislature? (About libel and slander involving comments, photos, video or other material posted on Internet sites by anonymous or unknown persons or by someone using a pseudonym)
Read more about the bills at Pure Pierre Politics: http://my605.com/pierrereview/

Bill 1277 – provide for a process of obtaining certain information from online content providers in slander and libel actions. (pdf)
Bill 1278 – provide for a process of obtaining certain information from online content providers in slander and libel actions. (pdf)

Carly Fiorina has a ridiculous attack ad against her primary opponent, Tom Campbell, for the California Senate. It begins with some talk of the purity and piety of fiscal conservatism, symbolized by sheep (though they could also symbolize dumb followers). It then goes on to criticize Campbell for his questionable record as a fiscal conservative. The ad claims that he has contributed to deficits and wants to raise taxes. Since he isn’t a fiscal conservative, the ad, at about 2:25, hits you with yet more symbolism, and it’s creepy. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing, though it just looks like an experiment from the Island of Dr. Moreau gone horribly wrong.

I don’t know much about either candidate so I can’t attest to the veracity of the ad, but I thought it was crazy enough to share with you all.

Enjoy that creepy voiceover.

Adam Feser

So Planned Parenthood has gotten themselves all excited again over someone using their right of free speech to speak out against abortion.

Tebow-abortion ad flap adds to Super Bowl hype

As an abortion opponent I am fine with this ad.  I applaud him for being able to speak out on this controversial issue when he is trying to prepare himself for the next level in football.  He is very passionate about this issue as the doctors told his mother to have an abortion when she was carrying him b/c of a possible disease.  Looks like he is fine to me.

It is my opinion that no doctor should advise on an abortion unless they are asked(unless the mother’s life is in danger).

As much dislike I have for the Florida Gators, I still say, great job Mr. Tebow for standing up for your convictions and beliefs.

Enjoy New Orleans decimation of the Colts….

Jon Stewart recently went did an interview with Bill O’Reilly. There was the usual Bill making fun of Jon’s stoned viewers and such, but there were some good points.

Jon is good at giving reasonable answers to questions and also pointing out just how silly a question like “How is Obama doing?” can be. To Bill’s credit, he’s okay taking on a light tone with Jon. But when Jon starts talking about the problem (which Jon calls genius) with Fox, Bill uses two examples of people that won’t go on his show as total vindication.

It looks like they couldn’t fit the entire interview into the show, but it’s still worth watching.

The part where O’Reilly compares Fox to a newspaper, which also has opinion, cracks me up. Is the opinion on the front page of a newspaper and does it take up nearly the entire newspaper? MSNBC is also guilty of this. It makes you wonder whether or not they should just be called 24-hour opinion channels.

Enjoy doppelganger week (mine has been John Belushi).

Adam Feser