Take that, sky-fairy freaks:
The UK’s first atheist advertising campaign has beaten its funding target in less than 24 hours, raising nearly nine times the amount needed to have its posters on bendy buses.
Karl Rove Not Quite Punk’d
A protestor tries, not very hard, to handcuff Karl Rove as he speaks to a convention of mortgage brokers (boo, hiss) in San Francisco:
There was major political theater involving President Bush’s former chief of staff Karl Rove. A protestor tried to arrest Rove for treason Tuesday morning while he was speaking at the Mortgage Bankers Association Convention, continuing in San Francisco.
There were three protests during a very lively back and forth between former senate majority leader George Mitchell and Karl Rove. Rove blamed the Democrats for everything wrong with the economy.
A protestor tried to smack handcuffs on Karl Rove, but Rove slapped back, and the woman was taken off stage.
Hmmm. Not sure I’d call that ‘major political theatre’: it was a bit lame, really. ‘Slapped back’? Rove looked like he was shooing a fly.
This lot could do with some lessons from Fathers for Justice. Some of them may be certifiable nutjobs, but by heck they’re good at this sort of thing.
An Embarassment of Riches
For Merkin readers who’ve already seen this I apologise, but us Euroweenies otherwise have to wait for the weekly Daily Show compendium to turn up on cable or Fox, ack spit.
Apropos of the previous Palin post and for those of us evil eurocommie elitists who wonder how the Palins can be just so bloody ignorant, venal, provincial and meatheaded, here’s Understanding Real America in Wasilla:
“After a few days in Wasilla, Jason Jones understands what real America is all about.” God, I hope not.
That Pig Lipstick’s Expensive, Ya Betcha
Two new Palin greed stories today: first that the Republican National Committee spent over $150,000 on clothing, hair and making-over not only Palin, but her husband and children for the campaign trail, including entire designer rig-outs for baby Trig and for daughter Bristol’s boyfriend. Mind you, that’s still less than half what Cindy McCain paid for one campaign outfit.
I wouldn’t mind so much if you could see what had been spent but it doesn’t show. Perhaps they should’ve bought Palin this dress instead…
Secondly, Palin managed to get the state of Alaska to pay her childrens’ travel costs as the Governor dragged her children out of school and all around the country, even retrospectively amending state expenses claims to look as though the ‘First Family’ (her description) had been invited to national events when they hadn’t.
All this on top of the claiming daily subsistence payments and expenses for living in her own house.
Can you imagine what Palin’d be up to with the entire resources of the USG at her disposal? The woman’s nothing but a freeloading, provincial airhead. This makes American media types who were obsessing over Edwards’ 400 dollar haircut look more than a bit silly – and he paid for that himself, unlike Queen Freebie of Wasilla.
That Mandelson/Deripaska/Osborne/Rothschild Bitchfest in Full
And is it just me, or is Deripaska a dead ringer for Ben Miller’s Russian oligarch on Armstrong and Miller?