A Welcome Change

Obviously, you have probably heard, but America has not only elected the first African-American to hold the highest post in the land, but we also elected the right canidate for the job.  Here’s a video with a quick rundown of the election season.

McSame

Just how out of touch is McCain?  Well, during the debates he praised the business accumen of Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay, only thing is that eBay just layed off about a thousand people two days ago.  So let’s do a countdown of “financial gurus” that McCain seeks advice from:

1.)  Phil Gramm (aka Foreclosure Phil)

As of early this summer, McCain proudly touted him as his chief financial adviser and he basically wrote McCain’s economic plan…and then the economy crashed, and oops, looks like this guy caused a lot of it.  So Phil Gramm gave way to…

2.) Carly Fiorna

You may not know her, but I am sure you’ve used one of the products of her former company.  Carly used to be the CEO of HP-Compaq until she was fired for basically running the company into the ground.  She was so bad at her job, that when word leaked that she was fired, HP’s stock jumped 7%.  McCain liked to throw her name around alot up until she was giving an interview one day and she said something to the effect of Palin does not have the experience to run a large corporation.  FYI, the U.S. Government is the nation’s largest employer.  So Carly gave way to …

3.) Meg Whitman

Former CEO of eBay.  Buyer of everything online.  Here’s a quick list of companies that were bought by eBay: PayPal, BillMeLater, Skype (which she admitted they overpaid about a billion for), and epinions.com.  She has been widely criticized for buying up companies, whether they jive with Ebay or not, case in pointL Skype.  Why the hell does an online auction site need to acquire a Voice-over IP software company?  Meg will eventually give way to…

4.) The Guy from Monopoly

Maybe the funniest thing Howard Stern ever did

Apparently Howard Stern had two listeners pull a prank, with CNN being the victim, and the reaction by the in-studio reporters are great.

Sarah Palin is not fucking Matt Damon

Here’s a pretty sweet interview by the AP with Matt Damon about VP Canidate Sarah Palin.

 

pwned

 

 

best part..  ”it’s like a really bad disney movie.”

Sarah Palin(drone)

Her speech tonight was pathetic.  All we learned about her is that she is a bad public speaker and does not enunciate her words correctly.  She gloated about being a “hockey-mom” and then stated that the only difference between a hockey-mom and a pitbull is lipstick.  No sustenance, all she did was throw verbal jabs at Obama, and I’m sure most of what she said tonight will comeback and bite her in the ass during the VP debates.

Dems dodge a bullet

Well the democrats today dodged a bullet by McCain not selecting Tom Ridge as his VP running mate, instead choosing Gov. Sarah Palin from Alaska.  Who???? Exactly.  Here’s a pic:

She’s little known in the national spotlight, and from what I’ve read so far she’s the all-american republican woman (5 kids, life long member of the NRA, etc.), and squeaky clean thus far.  All I can say is that I look forward to the VP debates between her and Biden on foreign policy as it should be a complete trouncing.

Not Really shocking, but newsworthy nonetheless

Fresh off the announcement that Obama has chosen Joe Biden as his running mate, which my father had actually predicted a few days ago, this story comes out of the Columbus Dispatch.

Apparently Ohio’s Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner recieved a letter from Premier’s President David Byrd admitting that the voting machines that are used in half of Ohio’s counties are defective and stated that their own programming error is to blame for votes being dropped in some counties. Premier, formerly Diebold Election Systems, also stated that the error wont be fixed in time for the Nov. 4th elections.

Here’s a better pic of the machine in question:

Circled in red is the card slot that holds the memory card, used to tabulate and store all votes.  The only problem is, is that this is accessible by the voter, so theoretically anyone could just go in there, and either swap memory cards, or just remove it and game over.  They just rigged an election.  My town of Greenville, PA in Mercer county uses a similar setup, but I’m not sure if Diebold made the machines.

Here’s a link to the story: Ohio’s voting machine glitch exposed

The Olympics

Well, the Olympics are back and personally, I’m glad.  I’m also especially happy for the fact that they are in a time zone that is 13 hours ahead of me, so when I’m up all night until 4am, I’m watching all the events live.  It’s especially cool, when you go into work the next day and people are watching the re-runs of it during the day and I’m able to ruin it for them by telling them who places where before it ends.

And you know who else likes the Olympics?

George W. Bush

Oh well, at least he has good taste as he seems to have taken a liking to uber milf/pitcher Jenny Finch (she’s so dedicated, she married a MLB pitcher and their son’s name is Ace):

But seriously, he’s the President of the United States.  He knows that his picture will be taken continuously, so why does he set himself up so many times for all those wonderfully awkward shots.  Like these two:

And even better…

He’s got that weird pedophile stare/gaze going on.

Finally

Gore endorses Obama, finally.

they are one and the same.

Picture says it all people, same face, same policies, same person.

This is much better.