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Oblahma in Paradise

Here's one example of a liberal blogger overlord mocking Cokie Roberts for attacking Hawaii as Oblahma's vacation destination, complete with rational explanations why it's silly to be attacking Oblahma for vacationing in Hawaii. I'm the rube?

Cokie Roberts can be scolded, mocked, abused, denounced. Her stupid can be proven by logical arguments of least difficulty. Obama vacationing in the state of his birth, where family members still live, may be completely, factually, rebuke-free, which doesn't mean Cokie Roberts is narratively incorrect. When did common sense and truth become factors in American presidential elections?

Cokie suggests Myrtle Beach, and if I agree it would play better in Peoria, what would play better still is NOT TAKING A GODDAMN VACATION IN AUGUST WHILE RUNNING FOR OBAMAGOD!

Jeebus in Crackerstan, either Oblahma doesn't understand the rules of the game or Oblahma believes he floats above the rules of the game (or both), and that makes him one dumb and arrogant obamawannabe, but obamapostasy and meh.

But our internet Liberal overlords, fully aware of the rules of the game, wasting outrage on Cokie Roberts for reporting the Republican narrative, are almost as stupid as Oblahma deciding to finally challenge the Republican meme he's an arrogant elitist by defiantly flying to Hawaii for a vacation before his coronation.

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• The minute I think good thoughts about HRC, mcaullifister!
• Oblahma. This is better.
• Foot-stomping impotence will be countered by slobbering belligerence, and of course Russia v Georgia will be viewed as boon to McCain, allowing pigs to use the holy word Kremlin in the same sentence as Obama, who hasn't been reached for comment because HE'S VACATIONING IN THE MIDDLE OF A CAMPAIGN TO BE OBAMAGOD.
• Georgia v Russia, Georgia v Russia, Georgia v Russia.
• Oblahma. Oblahma.
• Obama Art.
• Suggestion of Carl Levin for vpotus.
• Failing the Chesapeake.
• Next great American beer?
• Ten most memorable uniforms in rock.
• Gaithersburg is #1!
• Keep your dog off my lawn, or else!

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BTW, typepad has upgraded my composer, and it's buggy as dusk, so if fonts and/or link colors look screwy or things don't work, oh well, I'll figure it out eventually. And, maybe you've noticed, I've set up links (when I remember) to open a new window, which should be especially helpful on FridayMusicFridays.

Meanwhile, in vitally important news, here's the new bag, a Revolution "Deluxe" Mini:

It did not come with anything that improves my game, but sweet nonetheless. It appears I'm sideways from design specs.

Priming the Kaboom

Played 36 at Calvert Pitch and Putt with Dr.Z yesterday to a 104, discovering that forehand Destroyer merits further research, and Dr.Z and I were talking about these very people profiled today in Wash Post opinion piece, The Superclass.

Does the superclass know just how out of control the continuum is? And if it does, does it being beyond their control justify their accelerating the aggregating chaos like kids in grocery carts racing down steep hills? The crash is coming; might as well enjoy the speed, as if they had a choice?

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• I'd bet Chelsea's a bore, but she's in training for her run in 2016 (though what Clinton will succeed her in 2024?).
• Broder explores the groundwork for dumping Obama.
• Obama's attempt to move beyond shallow patriotism hindered by his lack of displays of shallow patriotism!
• Obama's attempt to move beyond shallow pandering to the masses hindered by his lack of pandering to the masses.
• And though it shouldn't be astonishing, it's still breathtaking to see blatant pandering to people Clorg clearly think are stupid while Clorg simulataneously claiming Obama an elitist and anti-Clorg sentiment undisguised hatred of white working-class voters.
• UPDATE: Clorg as Bush. As for the economists who call the gas tax holiday not just ick-ugly political pandering but dangerously bad policy, I await Clorgsters to instruct me on how the economists are all misogynists who both hate working-class whites and suffer from severe CDS.
• One bitter, working-class vote for Obama.
• Makes you wish he'd shut up about AIDS.
• Urban violence as virus.
• Resources of resistance.
• The next president's power.
• BTW, fvck John Edwards. Hard.
• Operation Anti-Chaos, or the fiction of white voters.
• How many mortgages would Jesus have?
• Small victories against the RIAA.
• Jeebus.
• Loyalty oaths.
• Wilentz' new book on Reagan.
• Love transformer.
• 1988 = 2008.
• Long review, from the Left, of Klein's Shock Doctrine.

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Hey! Look what I got my hands on:

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Four chapters in, I've laughed out loud five times. More later. Or not.

Putting Skillz

One of the regulars who showed me around Delaveaga yesterday was a female doctoral student in Environmental Studies at UC-Santa Cruz named Stacy, an ardent and un-shrill The Hillary supporter, who makes the argument that the sexist attacks on The Hillary by the media and Obama and Obama surrogates and supporters are so prevalent as to be invisible. Stacy didn't go as far as this blogger, who likened The Hillary's treatment to domestic violence, and when I asked Stacy about that comparison she said that's why she didn't read political blogs. (I told her I blog, I gave her the address; she said she might look, but don't count on it, and she certainly wouldn't comment.)

The point of my post yesterday was that I see The Hillary as genderless, that I'm completely anti-CLINTON INC, that it could be the Clinton's parakeet running for president, and as long as Mark Penn and Terry McAuliffe and James Carville and Geraldine Ferraro and every other CLINTON INC executive and major $$$-contributor believed in their bought-and-sold hearts that the parakeet was entitled, nay, ordained to be president, I'm anti-that fricking parakeet. Posting a picture of Elton John in a yellow pantsuit was snark but not sexist: he's as genderless as The Hillary, his "music" as cynical as CLINTON INC's politics.

Stacy said she'll vote for Obama begrudgingly if he's the nominee, though she'll donate no money and volunteer no time, and challenged me to make the same claim about The Hillary, and I.... 

I keep saying to myself Alito Scalia Roberts Thomas, Alito Scalia Roberts Thomas. Stacy said it may not be sexist to hate The Hillary, but it is sexist to vote for - or not vote against - someone who will add two more pigs to the Alito Scalia Roberts Thomas train if The Hillary is the nominee.

Which is blackmail, of course. Regardless which candidate. Whether or not as cynical as Elton John's "music" is the question.

That I'm a rube is beyond dispute.

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• But shit like this doesn't help.
• But shit like this doesn't help, adding, it's not sexist to tell her to go and it's not sexist if she wants to stay.
• But shit like this doesn't help, adding, release your tax returns, you gender-neutral corporate spokesperson.
• But shit like this doesn't help.
• But shit like this doesn't help.
• James Carville on servility and fealty above national interest.
• Shameless self-promotion.
• Soft-totalitarianism of the American elite.
• Morality, justice, and life-destroyed.
• Sadr's revolt and the myth of the surge.
• Sheesh.
• If you just remove the word "success..."
• On torture and McCain.
• Meta meta meta. Adding, I'm reading Human Smoke now, wish I'd been reading it when the conversation was on.
• Two-legged dog walks upright.
• Radioactive cat arrested on I-5!
• I will read this, adding, Midnight's Children is still one of my five favorite novels ever.
• The end of the world starts in Switzerland.
• Friday Hope Blogging (weekly, the most beautiful post in the world).
• Meet your new overlords.

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Stacy, btw, threw a 77, and didn't miss a putt from 50 feet and in. She'd set up, rock once, laser her aviar dead center, no hyzer, no arc, zing and ching.

I'd volunteer for The Hillary - I'd wear a The Hillary button! - in exchange for Stacy's putting skillz. I've got your cynical servility and fealty above national interest.

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And no, I didn't forget.

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I suppose I could watch it on my laptop, but it's my last night of vacation and my last night in San Francisco.

I'll watch the Pachuca game Tuesday night and be at RFK a week from today for Toronto and the Wednesday after that for Pachuca.

Oh My

Played DeLaVeaga.

Here's Bromark's new star Destroyer (169g):

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Here's my new star Beast (168g)

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Pictures, description, below fold.

Congratulations Bromark! You Are The Proud Owner of a Brand New flying pig SFDGC Avenger!

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Cause they didn't have any trackers or predators or wildcats. But it's pretty!

Very nice course. The back nine is terrific with gullies and tight alleys. Front nine less so, but more of same. 57 with three twos, six fours. Very crowded, would be a regular fixture as long as played on a weekday.

Next, I've extracted permission to play DeLaVeaga. wOOt! And I might sneak in this. And this.

Oh, this is my new DGA Tsunami:

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I'm told it's the answer to my forehand driver needs. If it's as overstable as all the other DGAs I've thrown, maybe.