You just know Cindy McLame is making having Carmelita make her husband’s famous chicken wings today, using a recipe of Alton Brown’s, stolen off the internets an old McCain Family Recipe.

Blue Gal has an interesting post today on Sarah’s wardrobe peccadilloes, and while some women’s clothes aren’t one of my things, photoshop is. So when BG said this pic was “Not a photoshop,” I was intrigued.

After a close examination of this picture, I went surfing;  ‘cuzz you just never know what the waves will bring in:

“Alley Trash”?  Who’d a thunk it.

“What’s in a name? that which we call [trash]
By any other name would smell as sweet. . . ”

I think you may have noticed that John McCain has been sayin’ some pretty confusing things, lately.  And it’s fair to point them out, if only because Republicans never miss a chance, in the face of every new McCain gaffe, (the sheer number of which are beginning to rival George Bush’s still accreting world record) to say, “Yeah, but Obama said there wuz ‘57 states’”!! during the primaries.

But this one is cute because, right after Sigmund rears his ugly little head, Cindy shifts her weight into the picture to reveal the stony smile that says she sure as shit remembers it was no slip of the leeezard tongue when he used the “c” word on her; no, no, no;  he really meant it.  But maybe, too, it was because he knew, deep down under those remaining mangy little strands of protein growing out of his skull, that without her beer munny, he’d just be some washed up, broken down, stressed out, insane in the membrane old terrorist wanna-be president, without the “luck” to getter done.

In other news. . .  Sarah Palin’s patriotic shopping spree sent the Dow tumbling another 400 points.  But if she gets to keep the clothes,  she’ll look great at her Alaski Betrayal of Trust trial.

Sarah Baracuda explaining why she murdered Bullwinkle

John McSame’s selection of Sarah Palin for veep was too much even for a Village Elder like WAPO’s Richard Cohen who begins his column today:

One of the great sights of American political life — a YouTube moment if ever there was one — was to see the doughboy face of Newt Gingrich as he extolled the virtues of Sarah Palin, a sitcom of a vice presidential choice and a disaster movie if she moves up to the presidency: “She’s the first journalist ever to be nominated, I think, for the president or vice president, and she was a sportscaster on local television,” Gingrich said on the “Today” show. “So she has a lot of interesting background. And she has a lot of experience. Remember that, when people worry about how inexperienced she is, for two years she’s been in charge of the Alaska National Guard.”

Doing what, exactly, goes unmentioned. I watched McSame spokesmen Tucker Bounds duck and weave a question yesterday from CNN’s bantam weight anchor, Campbell Brown, to provide just one example of a Palin decision that even remotely had any kind of command effect on the Guard’s deployment in Iraq. Pressed repeatedly, Bounds muttered something about equipment choices and was almost laughed out of the studio.

As other Rethuglican apologists, including national security expert Cindy McCain (fresh off her triumphant trip to what’s left of the country of Georgia) have tried to explain, Alaska borders Russia. This makes it the front line in the new Cold War that the Cheneyites are so busily trying to reignite with the Ruskies. This is a propaganda twofer, since it also magically conveys the kind foreign policy experience on Palin that she otherwise totally lacks.

Cohen goes on to illustrate a time proven Rethuglican propaganda ploy of using a negative to prove a positive (as in “Bush’s war on terror is a success because there have been no attacks on the US mainland since 9/11″):

Still, you have to admit that in all that time, especially since Palin became governor about two years ago, no Russian invasion force has come across the strait, maybe because she was in charge of the Guard, maybe because she herself is a hunter and an athlete. The record is unclear because no high-ranking Russian appeared on any of the weekend talk shows to say how they had considered an invasion of Alaska and then backed off when Sarah Palin became commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard. Who could blame them?

As the Newt & Company rush to portray Palin as a tough and capable C&C ready to toss judo black belt Vladimir Putin to the mat, Cohen invokes a different image:

It’s a pity Gingrich was not around when the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known by his nickname Caligula, reputedly named Incitatus as a consul and a priest. Incitatus was his horse.

Palin, we are led to believe, is a horse of different color. Call her “Maverick 2.”

UPDATE I: Here’s the Campbell Brown interview of Tucker Bounds.

UPDATE II: From TPM:

McCain Cancels CNN Interview As Punishment For Criticizing Palin
By Eric Kleefeld - September 2, 2008, 4:39PM

It looks like the McCain camp is now actively taking steps to punish media outlets that give them bad coverage.

Wolf Blitzer just reported that the campaign has cancelled a scheduled interview with Larry King due to an unfriendly segment last night on CNN — the segment we flagged last night where the network’s Campbell Brown grilled McCain spokesperson Tucker bounds over Sarah Palin’s lack of foreign policy experience.

[...]

Blitzer said the McCain campaign complained that Campbell Brown’s grilling of Tucker Bounds over Sarah Palin’s lack of foreign policy experience was “over the line.”

Is the corporatist media, who Chris Matthews has famously described as “McCain’s base” ready to wake up yet?

“I’m upset,” Kathleen Portalski says. “I’m angry. It makes me feel like a nonperson, kind of.”

Texas GOP Targets Obama’s Kenyan Half-Brother

Ready for some Republican values? The short bus Texas GOP is responsible for the latest demonstration of the ravages of Conservatism, a disease largely found in Republican Americans. The ad, narrated by what sounds like a Texas high school cheerleader, goes like this:

“Barack Obama has viscously attacked John McCain and his family fur [sic] being successful and living the American dream. . .”

Let’s see; “viscously” is more than hyperbole; it’s a complete distortion, supposedly justified because an Obama ad dared to criticize a POW— who is so wealthy and out of touch he has no idea how many homes he actually lives in. But McStoopid wasn’t “attacked” for “being successful and living the American dream,” he was exposed for conspicuous consumption and wretched excess; do Republicans even know there’s a difference?

Buffy continues:

“But ask yourself this: If Obama cares so much about yur [sic] family, why doesn’t he take care of his own family first?”

Hypocrisy has become corporeal with Republicans; it roils out of them like rancid grease oozes out of a rotting boar. The recent disclosures of “only child” Cindy McCain’s half-sisters, written out of the family will (that’s a Republican value— screw your own children) is a sorry insight into the machinations of wealth as a weapon; not wealth as compassionate caring.

Why would a wealthy father not share his munnies with his own child? Why would Cindy (and John) McCain not “take care of [her] own family first?” Let the record show that Portalski is a Democrat.

The McCain campaign and Cindy McCain have been asked to comment or respond. Neither responded.

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John McCain lives in a very special world. . .

. . . A very special world where hecklers are hustled off in a heartbeat, so the duffer doesn’t have to put up with their opinions long enough that he forgets what he was talking about; a world where the “third estate” is a fun-to-be-with bunch of sycophantic barbecue junkies; a world where a man with a kazillion monies and a dozen houses he calls home can ridicule a political opponent as elitist; a world where “Victory with Honor” can become a reality by simply saying that it’s our goal.

Commander-in-Cheese John “Peter Quincy Taggart” McCain says he will “Never surrender” his fantasy world, where first Dick Joe Lieberman, head Toadie Lindsay Graham, Master Dick Karl Rove, economic Dick Phil Graham, and main squeezebot Cindy Creamcheese flounce around in his power vacuum, looking for ways to bolster his authoritieh to rule the planet. Note the unretouched universal pasty-whiteness of his crew.

“Our American troops will come home with victory and with honor; and that’s my message, my friends.” Yeah. Except those that continue to come home with missing limbs, with devastating life-changing brain injuries, or come home in flag-draped containers. McWar’s “victory with honor” fantasy is a vestigial figment of the last century’s misunderstanding of the value of war, a discredited and backward looking philosophy that believes minds can be changed by blowing them apart.

Our next Commander-in-Chief of our country will have to be a forward looking man of peace. That can never be John McCain, who’s “vision” of global politics is based on taking on smaller nations and beating them into submission; sort of like Vladimir Putin is attempting to do in Georgia.

Since Chimpy is busy flag-waving pool-side in Beijing, it will be instructive to see how Mr. Never Surrender frames the conflagration burning out of control in Georgia. Will it be another affront to his teevee show bravura? or simply another opportunity to crank up the factual gaffe after gaffe machine as he wrestles Karl Rove’s talking points to the ground in front of hand-picked MSM drones.

Meanwhile, Senator Obama has said there “is no possible justification for these attacks,” and called for a high-level international mediator, and an international peace-keeping force, adding the United States, Europe, and all other concerned countries must stand united in condemning this aggression while seeking a peaceful resolution to this crisis.

[McCrew image by Terry Kruger]

DOUG THOMPSON:

John McCain, a member of the House of Representatives in the mid-1980s, often held court at a table near the bar at Bullfeathers, a popular Capitol Hill watering hole, telling jokes and matching hangers-on drink by drink.

As a Capitol Hill chief of staff, I often drank at Bullfeathers and was invited to join the throng at McCain’s table one evening. A few minutes listening to the racism, bigotry and homophobia of the Arizona Congressman told me all I needed to know.

McCain loved to tell jokes about lesbians, blacks, Hispanics and the Vietnamese community that occupied a large section of Arlington County, Virginia, just south of the District of Columbia.

Of course, McCain didn’t use polite language in the jokes: He used names like “fags” or “queers” or “dykes” or “niggers” or “spics” or “wetbacks” or “gooks.”

A typical McCain joke:

Two dykes are talking at a bar and one leaves. As she walks toward the door, the other watches her leave and says out loud: “God, I’ve love to eat her out.”

Two men are standing near by and one turns to the other and says: “I’d like to do the same. Guess that makes me a dyke.”

Or another:

Question: Why does Mexican beer have two “X’s” on the label?

Answer: Because wetbacks always need a co-signer.

When he ran for the Senate, I attended a gathering of GOP operatives at the National Republican Senatorial Committee where McCain outlined his campaign strategy:

“I play to win. I do whatever it takes to win. If I have to fuck my opponent to win I’ll do it. If I have to destroy my opponent I won’t give it a second thought.”

This is the man the Republican Party thinks should be the next President of the United States. What else should we expect from a party that promotes racism, homophobia and discrimination against anyone with a different skin color, sexual orientation or ethnic origin.

So we shouldn’t be surprised that McCain’s campaign strategy seeks to raise racial fear about Barack Obama, the first African-American with a serious shot at the Presidency of the United States.

John McCain is a racist: Always has been, always will be. Those who served with him in the Navy say he treated black sailors with disrespect and scorn. His collection of off-color jokes are riddled with racist words and sentiments. Advisors have toned down the raunchy rhetoric of his early years in Congress but close aides say his attitudes have not changed.

McCain opposed making the birthday of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King a national holiday. During his 2000 campaign for President, he told reporters on his “Straight Talk Express: “I hated the gooks (North Vietnamese). I will hate them as long as I live.”

Do you tolerate hypocrisy in your friends and associates? No? THEN DON’T TOLERATE IT IN OUR POLITICIANS EITHER!

There’s a precedent for dealing with this type of evil in the universe: Never interfere. Allow it to run a free course. But— work tirelessly for full disclosure of the expression of the evil as the quickest technique of achieving the perfect and final cure of the plague of evil. Conduct an unceasing exposure of the hypocrisy and the sophistry of John McCain and his surrogates.

Begin with the bald face lies delivered by John McCain and Cindy McCain in front of MSM cameras, that there would be no “low road” campaigning. This sort of grotesque lying for political gain should be the tar in the mouth that gags Americans awake to the immoral and unethical behavior that is absolutely unacceptable for any public office holder. And the tar that sticks to and suffocates those who would use it to entrench themselves behind political power is the karmic consequence of a just society.

Moral people instinctively know this is right. But after decades of being told by MSM political hacks that campaigns “will get negative,” in no way means it must be tolerated, or that it’s inevitable; it’s not, and we can no longer afford to elect callous liars to the presidency, the Congress, or the local school board. Throw these fuckers OUT.

What YOU must do: John McCain’s racism must go viral on the net. Read Doug Thompson’s article; then spread it everywhere you can— family, friends, social networks. We can stop this ugly little man— and the people who pull his strings— for good. Do your part.

[The] cleansing of the temple discloses the Master’s attitude toward commercializing the practices of religion as well as his detestation of all forms of unfairness and profiteering at the expense of the poor and the unlearned. This episode also demonstrates that Jesus did not look with approval upon the refusal to employ force to protect the majority of any given human group against the unfair and enslaving practices of unjust minorities who may be able to entrench themselves behind political, financial, or ecclesiastical power. Shrewd, wicked, and designing men are not to be permitted to organize themselves for the exploitation and oppression of those who, because of their idealism, are not disposed to resort to force for self-protection or for the furtherance of their laudable life projects. —The Urantia Book

What’s shakin’? Let’s take a trip around the Horn.

What kind of asshole has to be tortured before he learns to love his own c*nt-ry?? The John McCain type of asshole. In a Fox Noise interview with John McCain on March 13, 2008, McCain said, “I didn’t really love America until I was deprived of her company.” Unlike “John McNasty,” I didn’t have to become a POW before I learned to really love America. It happened when I was eight years old while eating my first ballpark hotdog at a St. Louis Cardinals baseball game.

Sound unfair? Does anyone really think McCain meant he never loved America until he was imprisoned by “the enemy”? Of course not. Just like Michelle Obama was proud of her country before her now beaten to death remark about not having been “really proud” of America until . . . And kudos to MSNBC nerdling Dan Abrams for drawing the comparison. He’s struck a blow against blatant hypocrisy.

But there’s so much hypocrisy, and so little time.

Stephen Elliot takes a look at Cindy McCain’s most recent round of hypocrisy impugning Michelle Obama’s patriotism by parroting, “All I know is that I’ve always been proud of my country.” Well, except for the three years or so she was fucked up on prescription drugs she stole from her own charity. Can you imagine the amount of foam around Sean Hannity’s ugly little pie-hole if that had been Michelle Obama?

So much hypocrisy, so little time.

That’s why the damage the original hypocrisy causes must still be combated. Vets who were slandered along with John Kerry by the lying sacks of shit who called themselves “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” and were funded by, surprise— a Texas oil asshole with a big mouth to match his big wallet— who offered a million dollars to anyone who could prove any of their allegations false. Let’s see if T Bone Pickens will pay up or shut up. Read Sam Stein’s rundown here.

And it isn’t on just one side of the isle.

One hundred and five House Democraps and all the Republicants have finally made it easy to see which of them should have their asses handed to them when their current term is up; just see who voted to give the telecoms immunity today. We’ll see which Democratic senators need to be fired next week when the Senate votes on this travesty. No matter; crimes are crimes, and if our own government is too corrupt to hold these sleezeballs responsible for spying on the American people, justice will have to await a personal accounting in the next world. See how far your lies will take you there, you self-serving traitors.

Alright. I’ve had enough for today. I’ll be working on my tan.

You know, if this trend continues to gain momentum, it wont be Obama that defeats McCain— it’ll be YouTube. Another historic first.

You probably thought that when Cindy McCain’s reputation was sautéed by a low-level campaign staffer who plagiarized the Internets for less than authentic McCain Family recipes for the McCain website, that they would have at least smacked her hand— the intern, not Cindy— and told her to go and sin no more.

But the little dollop has had a relapse into her half-baked ethical ways, by burning a little cookie dough capital and stealing a Hershey’s Kitchens “recipes for every occasion,” this occasion being an article for the July Family Circle Jerk.

Cindy attributes the recipe to “a good friend,” which raises questions about just who the beer magnate is fraternizing with at campaign headquarters while hubby Johnnie is off raising questions about why he can’t provide the nation with anything but the same old recipe for disaster.

UPDATED. . .

McCain “Family Recipes” Lifted from the Bush Administration

The MSM mouse circus has cooked up another diversionary dish ‘o shit this week, the main entrée being a few purloined recipes from the Food Chanel being tossed off as “family recipes” of the McCain family, (as if McCain could find her way to any one of her own EIGHT kitchens, let alone prepare a meal in one of them.)

I say “diversionary,” because it’s just ludicrous the MSM mice could miss old Johnny’s blatant rip-off of Bush’s Iraq War BBQ recipe. They’re the same in every way, and for the press to be raking Cindy over the coals for her petty theft and give her old geezer a pass is total hypocrisy. (I know; what’s new.)

Bush’s Iraq War Barbecue Recipe is identical to John McCains:

• Preheat the military industrial complex. Select a raw third-world country; make sure it’s well-marbled and has plenty of oil. Attack the infrastructure by placing over high heat, shaking constantly, for 3 to 5 hundred days. When the volume of rubble reaches a nice crumb consistency, remove from heat and set aside.
• Drain out as much of the oil as possible.
• Heat the remaining oil over high heat; when the oil is hot, return the country to a boil and pour in as many of the undesirable collateral carbon components as you can, until they are dark brown and crispy; you may occasionally hear cries for mercy coming out of the mixture; pay no attention, it just prolongs the process.
• Cook until a crust forms; scrape it up, and repeat the process until all components are consumed, or for 50 or 100 years, whichever comes first.
• If militias should form on the crust, sprinkle liberally with American currency until they are thoroughly saturated and/or mollified.
• Remember, this is an expensive and time consuming recipe for protracted war; be willing to shed lots and lots of blood and be prepared to stay in the kitchen for as long as it takes.

Oh yeah—I almost forgot— enjoy!

UPDATE:

David Weiner at HUFF PO has a clip of Cindy McCain on that bastion of blablablabaloney, THE VIEW. . . We think it was a damned good recipe for Damage Control. Here it is:

• Take every incident of stolen recipes planted earlier in other publications previous to the website debacle, and simply ignore them.

• Then wrap the entire website debacle in ignorance— “I don’t know how it happened.”

• Sprinkle a little silly humor over the fall-guy/gal— send’em to “Betty Crocker (a fictitious woman, BTW) Boot Camp”??
Boot camp is where you get berated and cowed for 18 weeks so you can learn to kill human beings without hesitation and take orders like a robot. Just what every political campaign needs: militant killer robots.

• Then fold this slimy mess into a whole other project— “I’m writing a book!” (Yeah, right — write.)
. . .where it can be deflected, absorbed, and disappear as a two line account of a mistake by an “intern,” who must forever remain nameless, because, well, it’s just another lie.

You can bet your momma’s secret cookie recipe “her book” will not be about how Cindy McCain spends time in the kitchen preparing favorite family recipes.