Twisted Sister supports Arnold

Yep, there it was… in all it’s odd, misshapened freakishness: Dee Snider (of Twisted Sister) singing “We’re Not Gonna Take It” on the steps of the capitol in Sacramento today. WTF? Maybe Dee’s Austrian? T-48 hours and the state is in full frenzy mode — and we’re all in the splash zone.
It’s not like I was going to vote for Arnold, and unfortunately I can’t stick my finger in my vagina and let him smell it (seeing as I don’t have one), although I’ll be happy to stick it somewhere else and let him smell it…

Rush Limbaugh: The Racist Druggie

Wow, two good bits of news about Rush Limbaugh all in one week… my nipples are hard!
Ah, sweet hyprocracy… the man who spent 8 years building his radio empire attacking Bill Clinton and the Democrats as being dishonest and immoral, turns out to be nothing more than a racist pill popper.
Try to look shocked.
Limbaugh Leaves ESPN Over McNabb Remarks
Rush Limbaugh in pill probe
And, it’s not like his bigotry is a new thing…
Limbaugh: A Color Man Who Has A Problem With Color?

It’s official: Huffington is out!

Dear Arianna,
You did the right thing stepping down this evening on Larry King Live, and I thank you for bringing real issues to the forefront and having the where-with-all to speak your mind at the end of the day. God knows, no one else is. You did the right thing, and I thank you for having the intelligence to know that you can make more of a difference in the coming week defeating the recall, rather than turning over the world’s 5th largest economy to an actor with no experience who will be a dog on a choke chain to the Bush administration. You truly have propelled yourself as a real person and activist instead of a self-serving politician — evidence that many of things said about you were patently wrong. Congratulations!
I support your “three NO’s and one YES” platform moving forward through the next week:

1. NO on the Recall.
2. NO on Schwarzenegger.
3. NO on Prop 54.

And YES! “on the Clean Elections Ballot Initiative I filed last
week, which I will be working overtime to pass in 2004.” Read
more about the Initiative: http://www.votearianna.com/cleanelections
At any rate — for Christ’s sake, educate yourself — DO NOT cast your vote in ignorance. It’s the wrong thing to do, and you know it.

Huffington Out?

Since the debate last week, talk has been stirring that independent gubernatorial candidate Arianna Huffington may quit to prevent a GOP coup and throw her support behind Democrat Cruz Bustamante. There has been some early signals of coziness, with Bustamante supporting Huffington’s Clean Elections Initiative.
This comes on the heals of a poll last week which showed that 63% of voters supported the recall, with Schwarzenegger leading at 40% followed by Bustamante at 25%. Huffington had 2%. However, the poll assumes that 47% of voters at the polls will vote GOP, despite Republicans only being 35% of registered voters in the state. In reality, support for the recall is probably about 50/50, with Schwarzenegger and Bustamante in a statistical dead heat.
Of course, if McClintock drops out, then we really might be in trouble — albeit many of his supporters are the types that would just as well vote for Hitler over someone who supported gay unions.
I like Arianna… she’s loud-mouthed, usually dead-on, and unafraid. She’s grounded in reason and common sense, although perhaps overly optimistic on the reality of implementation. (But who isn’t?) I still laugh when I think about her showing up at Arnold’s running-paper filing event, and generally being a pest to get her face out there. It worked, her picture graced the front page of the NYT the next day — along with Arnold’s of course. That was smart. And her Special Interest Brothel is a real hoot.
In reality, I think her biggest liability isn’t her past, her Greek accent, or her attack-like nature in the debates. I think it’s her gender. Yes, there’s been a few female governors in this country, but I think one of our state’s biggest assets maybe detrimental to women seeking positions of power — our diverse population and culture. One word: machismo. I don’t think she ever expected to win, but she’s important for getting issues on the table which otherwise might of been ignored.
In any event, the recall itself is wrong. It’s a perversion of government and a 100-year old law which didn’t allow for or protect against well-funded coup attempts. (Ironically, Issa now opposes the recall because of the Schwarzenegger vs. McClintock dissent in the California GOP.)
And despite this recall circus, voters remain generally apathetic and uneducated on the candidates or issues. So, remember — in the end, no matter what happens, it’s no one fault’s but your own.
meanwhile:
Arnold’s 1977 flick Pumping Iron is playing at the Roxie in the mission.

What will $87 billion buy?

Bush is asking for an additional $87B in spending for the “war on terror” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those are your tax dollars, and the National Priorities Database provides a handy calculator letting you know what your money could of bought instead…
$87 billion could buy:

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Burning Man 2003

Couple of weeks ago now, but SF Gate has some good pictorials on this year’s Burning Man: here, here, and here.
Also: Pumping iron apparently isn’t as good as “coming,” or so says Arnold.
And as I watched the backlash yesterday from the court mandated blocking of the recall here in California, one thing never seemed to dawn on anyone: the point isn’t the fact that punch-card ballots were used for decades, the point is that some counties have a newer system, while others using the older punch-card system, thus creating disparity in error rates. Duh!

MISSING! Tom McClintock’s Lips

You heard it here first: never trust a man with no lips.

Arianna’s alterior motives?

I caught Darrell Issa on Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer yesterday, where he reiterated a point I hear over and over about Arianna Huffington’s campaign for governor: that’s she only in it for her own personal gain. (Cavaet: Darrell Issa is the scumbag RepubliSleaze who footed the $1M bill for getting the recall off the ground in the first place. His fortune funded by selling car alarms. There’s a resum

Gubernatorial Spam!

I actually got spammed today pitching “Arnold for Governor” t-shirts.
Jesus H, not like I was going to vote for him anyway, but now a line has been crossed.
I reported it through SpamCop, some offshore dealy naturally, but I’ve been thinking about ditching SpamCop after Julian Haight’s mob theory. What a nutter!