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I would like to take a moment to thank the voters of America for proving to the rest of the world that we're not all brain-dead racist warmongers.

Soon-to-be-ex-President Bush might want to look at the election results this time and make a mental note: THIS is what a fucking mandate looks like.

So, these two guys bought a lion cub from Harrod's department store in the 70s. They named him Christian, and raised him in their flat, exercising him on the local church grounds, until he got too big to keep in the city. They decided to send Christian off to a sanctuary in Africa, where lions were reintroduced to the wild. A year later, they went to visit him (even though the man who rehabilitated him said Christian, because he was now the head of his own pride, would never remember them) …

So, there's something a wee bit uplifting for the day, in the midst of news stories about racist fucks plotting to assassinate Obama, a commenter sharing her heartbreaking story about her puppy being mauled because of her political beliefs, and all the other generally miserable bullshit that goes on in the world.

And as if Christian weren't enough, I see your lions laying with lambs and raise you a pit bull hanging out with some baby chicks and a house cat:

Why all this cute? Because I'm just not inspired to be bitchy at the moment. :-|

For what it's worth, I fucked myself big time on this trip … I'm still in the UK, regardless of the fact that my flight was supposed to leave yesterday. Suffice to say, I will NOT be planning any inter-EU travel for the weekend before my departure in the future, and that's enough said about that.

More to the point here is why I will not be doing business with Travelocity in the future. If you're dealing with customer support in the area of international travel, this is NOT the way to answer an inquiry about a missed flight:

And to that, I say, "Go fuck yourself AND your copy/paste form emails, you useless twat."

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a train to catch to the airport, where I will be begging for mercy and trying to look like I'm about to cry when I actually want to throttle someone. Failing that, I'll be shopping for a new ticket home … *sob*

McCain says he's a Maverick. The Maverick family of Texas begs to differ:

“I’m just enraged that McCain calls himself a maverick,” said Terrellita Maverick, 82, a San Antonio native who proudly carries the name of a family that has been known for its progressive politics since the 1600s, when an early ancestor in Boston got into trouble with the law over his agitation for the rights of indentured servants.

Read the rest of the New York Times article here.

For fuck's sake, how embarassing. The people in this video are like the relative whose invitation to holiday gatherings seems to get lost in the mail more often than plausible, because you just can't stand to hear what comes out of their mouth. How is it that ANYONE still believes the whole "Obama is Muslim" thing?! I gotta hand it to Al Jazeera though … not only was it brave as fuck for them to wander into this sort of town, they even have the guts to release the footage!

Or, translated into LOLspeak:

White McCain/Palin Kitteh is a Wee Bit Racist

Yeah. This video shows why, in a nutshell, Obama must win. The US really is still racist as fuck in far too many quarters, and we like to ignore it as much as possible. If Obama gets elected, the elephant in the room (namely these brain-damaged, inbred, backwards-ass witless racists) might actually make enough noise that the rest of the country can't just politely look aside and pretend there's nothing wrong.

Well, given the fact that Christopher Buckley resigned his column at the Nat'l Review the day after announcing his support for Obama, and Wick Allison was an ex-Publisher when he made his announcement, they're not really NR stalwarts anymore, I'd suppose. But William F. Buckley, Christopher's father & founder of the National Review, was one of those Conservatives (and yes, I intended that to be "Conservative with a capital C") I always had immense—at times when I was younger, even worshipful—respect for.

His son, from the pile of Daily Beast columns I've read since getting the link to this one, is not only a Conservative in the same vein as his father, but as far as my respect goes, ranks right up there with him. Do I necessarily agree with their camp on all counts? Definitely not. But the differences we have are differences that have their roots in legitimate disagreements in regards to what we consider the appropriate role of government in society … a philosophical debate as old as the idea of government being comprised of elected officials rather than royalty.

At any rate, my point being that when the old-guard Conservative camp starts announcing publicly that they're out voting for the Democratic candidate, it should give anyone who calls themselves a "conservative republican" a bit of pause before they go punching their vote in for McCain…

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In years past, when I visited the UK (which happens to be where I am now), I'd tell people where I was from, and they'd exclaim, "Alaska?!" as though they didn't realize you could actually get here from there, and then they'd ask one of a handful of questions:

• Is it really like Northern Exposure?
• Was it a very long flight?
• Have you ever seen a polar bear?
• What's the weather like in Alaska now?
• Do you have snow all year?

This year? 90+% of the time I get, "Alaska? Oohhh. So, what do you think of Sarah Palin then?" (Except my friends, who ask things like, "Is it just me, or does that Sarah Palin woman seem a bit retarded?" I love my friends.)

I would like to bitch-slap that fuckwit cunt halfway to the next century.

One of my personal favorite webcomics: Least I Could Do

Oh good, it's not just me who noticed that particular fuck-up.

So, in my last VP debate post, Dave Watson commented wondering how you could call either candidate the winner, when people's perceptions of who won differ by party affiliation. Which is not precisely correct.

Educated, informed Republican pundits and party higher-ups are not pretending McPalin is kicking ass and taking names. Why? Simple: Because they aren't kicking ass. However, Fox News viewers and their ilk are madly in love with the empty-headed hockey mom and her geriatric warmonger sidekick, and have indeed been proclaiming her debate victory loudly across the interwebs in spite of the reality of the situation.

How is it possible that CNN, MSNBC and NPR viewers/listeners and most non-Fox media pundits called the debate squarely in Biden's favor, and yet Fox viewers and commentators are proclaiming Manchurian Barbie's victory? Simple: Fox viewers are fucking ignorant, and Fox commentators are fucking liars.

No, really. It's true.

Think of it this way: Fox viewers support George Bush, and think Bill O'Reilly actually has something worthwhile to say. What do BushCo and the O'Reilly clan have in common? How about willful denial of any verifiable facts that don't agree with what they want to believe, for starters? Or how about an unstoppable dedication to persist in repeating untruths as "facts" even after they've been disproven? Doesn't that sound just a teeny bit like what Palin did in the debate, when she fully ignored almost every single question the moderator asked, and instead cheerfully parroted all the innuendo and untruth she'd been coached to recite?

I could go on, but someone else already beat me to it:

While looking for relevant statistical differences between Fox Newsies and followers of other news outlets, I found an interesting piece summarizing a 2003 Program on International Policy Attitudes survey: Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War. Granted, the poll was taken five years ago, but I've seen recent polls suggesting that a shocking number of Americans still hold the misperceptions addressed in this survey … and I've seen no evidence of Fox News making any great movement toward greater factual accuracy in their broadcasts … so I'm perfectly willing to assert that all of the conclusions outlined below are still correct in essence, if not in their exact numbers.

The survey asked the following questions, noting which news outlet the respondents gave as their primary source of world information:

*Quaint, isn't it? The pollsters actually thought that whole "Mission Accomplished" speech meant the war in Iraq was actually over.

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