Monday late-night LOLitics thread (image-heavy)

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Monday July 14, 2008 · 11:54 PM PDT

2008/07/14 · 23:54

And now for the lighter side of politics! Usual rules: pooties are optional, politics is encouraged, humor is mandatory.

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Saturday July 05, 2008 · 9:40 AM PDT

2008/07/05 · 09:40

As reported in the New York Times today, a certain, small segment of ~~American~~ global society would like to allow firms to offer foreign securities directly in U.S. markets, without actually having to follow U.S. accounting rules. It appears likely that they will succeed in leaving yet another mess for Pres. Obama to clean up, since that change would work to the detriment of the vast majority of Americans.

Federal officials say they are preparing to propose a series of regulatory changes to enhance American competitiveness overseas, attract foreign investment and give American investors a broader selection of foreign stocks.

But critics say the changes appear to be a last-ditch push by appointees of President Bush to dilute securities rules passed after the collapse of Enron and other large companies — measures that were meant to forestall accounting gimmicks and corrupt practices that led to those corporate failures.

Legal experts, some regulators and Democratic lawmakers are concerned that the changes would put American investors at the mercy of overseas regulators who enforce weaker rules and may treat investment losses as a low priority.

My take...

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Monday June 23, 2008 · 11:47 PM PDT

2008/06/23 · 23:47

And now for the lighter side of politics! Usual rules: pooties are optional, politics is encouraged, humor is mandatory. I think politicians are teh funney. One minute they're at each other's throats...

invisible mutual hostility

Umm. Wow. I've seen Hollywood romances with less sexual tension. Hey, thanks Bush for making it so easy for them to reconcile! Thing is, we really don't need the constant reminders of the dangers of electing a president who thinks that government is always the problem, never the solution. We got the message. You can stop now. Please?

Waterfront property: Ur doin it wrong

More over the jump...

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Tuesday June 17, 2008 · 11:07 PM PDT

2008/06/17 · 23:07

And now for the lighter (or at least more visual) side of politics! The morbid side of my sense of humor is at the fore tonight, so someone else is going to have to bring teh funney.

In mocking Bush and McCain, I'm running into the "parody of a soap opera" problem: it's very hard to make fun of something that's already over-the-top. Has anyone else encountered this? For example, this lol that I came across at Pundit Kitchen is a little too "on the nose" to be funny:

McCain Foreign Policy

Usual rules: pooties optional, politics encouraged, fun mandatory. The thread is open!

Sunday late-night lolitics thread (image-heavy)

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Sunday June 15, 2008 · 11:58 PM PDT

2008/06/15 · 23:58

Now for the lighter side of politics! Frankly, after today, I really need it. Usual rules: pooties are optional, politics is encouraged, most important is bringing teh funney. So! Bush visited the Queen of England today and she showed him around the castle.

Look! Floating text!

(more below the fold)

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Saturday June 14, 2008 · 12:13 AM PDT

2008/06/14 · 00:13

Taking the suggestion from last night that I make it a series, here's a forum for the lighter side of politics! It's like the opposite of a pootie thread, in that political content is encouraged. Fair warning, my sense of humor trends toward the meta (above the fold) and the morbid (below). Here we have the intersection of lolcats and the protest movement:

Hell NO! We won't LOL!

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Thursday June 12, 2008 · 11:30 PM PDT

2008/06/12 · 23:30

And now for something a little lighter. It's like a pooties thread, but where political content is not only allowed -- it's encouraged! For example, I've noticed that the younger generation seems pretty savvy.

What a loser!

McCain's 5% maverick content isn't enough to save him from the comparison.

More lols under the fold!

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Tuesday June 10, 2008 · 6:15 AM PDT

2008/06/10 · 06:15

Filed under Things You Missed During Primary Madness: our Congresspeople have begun the early work of reforming our financial regulations. That is, they've defined the problem and the goal, inviting conversation of how exactly to get from here to there. My personal hope is that they'll talk, and listen, and hold hearings, and write, and negotiate, and have a masterpiece ready by next year to vote through and present for Pres. Obama's signature.

Below the fold is my presentation of the issue, focusing especially on what Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA-04) and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) have been saying about it.

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Sunday June 08, 2008 · 3:18 PM PDT

2008/06/08 · 15:18

I will be brief (for once) because this is a call to action. I just noticed that Frank Rich's New York Times op-ed "One Historic Night, Two Americas" is near the top of the Digg front page. Digging it up will increase the number of eyeballs that see gems such as this:

Mr. McCain only reminded voters that he, like Mrs. Clinton, thinks that change is nothing more than a marketing gimmick. He has no idea what it means. "No matter who wins this election, the direction of this country is going to change dramatically," he said on Tuesday. He then grimly regurgitated Goldwater and Reagan government-bashing talking points from the 1960s and ’70s even as he presumed to accuse Mr. Obama of looking "to the 1960s and ’70s for answers."

More samples below the fold...

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Saturday May 03, 2008 · 12:37 PM PDT

2008/05/03 · 12:37

It's been a long journey for me to reach this point. My parents were hippies when they were younger -- even living a block away from Haight & Ashbury at one point -- but by the time I came along in the '70s, they were conservative Republican evangelicals. (I don't get it either. You'd have to ask them.) I grew up on the West Coast, a Euro-American guy inundated with confusing messages of agape and outcasting, spiritual equality and mortal authoritarianism, personal charity and a stingy government, beautiful songs about peace and endless rationalizations for brutal militarism -- you know, the usual.

Story continued below the jump...

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Monday April 28, 2008 · 1:33 PM PDT

2008/04/28 · 13:33

Nothing against the people who are still enjoying that game of saying what "Obama should" or shouldn't do. I just can't take any more.

I'm tired. It's been a long, long primary season. Obama is winning by every reasonable measure. He is doing much better than his campaign's leaked spreadsheet predicted on Feb. 6, basically because he underestimated the positive Caucus Effect (from the Enthusiasm Gap) much more than he underestimated the negative Appalachia Effect. And we think we can improve on that?

It doesn't help any that trolling often takes the form of an "Obama should" diary, precisely because he's done so much so well and they'd like him to stop. I have to do a little extra work each time I read an "Obama should" to discern whether it's a troll or what. It adds up and I'm tired.

That's all. I'm just doing this as a diary for the poll, which is found beneath the jump.

Poll

112 votes Show Results

Do you have "Obama should" exhaustion?

112 votes Vote Now!

Do you have "Obama should" exhaustion?

Getting there

13 votes

Yes

40 votes

Arrgh, it's driving me insane! That or to piracy

26 votes

You kidding? I'm tired of *all* the "should"s!!

13 votes

No, I have "Clinton should" exhaustion

5 votes

No, I have "McCain should" exhaustion

0 votes

No, I have some other "should" exhaustion

1 vote

No way man, I *love* "should"s!!

5 votes

Maybe, I dunno LOL

2 votes

Pie

6 votes

Defining the Candidates and the Media [renamed]

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Saturday April 19, 2008 · 5:45 PM PDT

2008/04/19 · 17:45

Introducing the phrase "hagiographic handjob" (among others) into our public discourse, below the fold are several memes that I've absorbed, mutated, or invented about the Presidential candidates and the so-called "news" media. I haven't been motivated to write them up separately, so I'm throwing them together. I hope that you will find them useful.

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Friday late-night lolitics thread (image-heavy)

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Congress preparing to overhaul financial regulations.

Frank Rich hits one out of the park (updated w/translation)!

I voted for Barack Obama on Friday.

Poll: I Have "Obama Should" Exhaustion

Defining the Candidates and the Media [renamed]