Hello, Fullerton, California! What are you up to lately? Oh, you are having a “Mr. Fullerton” contest at Fullerton Union High School, and one of your students got DQed for being too rad? Typical. (Actually, sort of not that typical; Fullerton is where Orange County punks move when they get married and have babies, and isn’t as grossly reactionary as its neighbors. Also: great farmers market, with beer!)
So what was the Opposite Day question and answer of that Miss South Carolina question and answer a few years ago? This: The unnamed student was asked where he saw himself in 10 years, and he replied thusly:
The student said he hoped to find the love of his life, marry him and hoped gay marriage would be legal.
After the answer, an assistant principal took the student from the Plummer Auditorium stage and disqualified him from the competition.
Dude, that kid is going to get so. Much. Ass. Students protested — with more than 200 signing letters in support of awesome gay students being awesome — the idiot vice principal apologized both publicly and privately, the superintendent apologized, and everything was right in all the land. (For everything to remain right in all the land, never — NEVER — read the comments on an Orange County Register story, including, for the love of the sweet baby Jesus, this one.) [OrangeCountyRegister]
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Sounds like the principal of vice has a little secret too.
Rebecca, you had me at "beer." You complete me.
Beer, the cause of and the solution to all of life's problems!
It's the second to last hockey game of the regular season tonight and it's almost time to get our drink on.
Where is ThePuckStopsHere?
I don't know, but I started the day with a Bloody Caesar.
Cheers!
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Cheers, Buddy!
Well, she had ME at "Idiot"!
Wait…
"After the answer, an assistant principal took the student from the Plummer Auditorium stage and disqualified him from the competition." I was really afraid this sentence was going to end up like: "After the answer, an assistant principal took the student from the Plummer Auditorium stage and buggered him in the janitor's closet."
That is pretty much what I was expecting. It's the word "took".
And for the Principal of vice his career declension might be given as take, took, tank.
Oh God, Texan! That is wicked good.
I learned the hard way never to believe the school janitor when he tells you that he loves you.
Oh see I thought a "Plummer Auditorium Stage" was a gay sex thing anyway. The more you know!
I was going for the kinder and gentler "had his way with him." Too Republican Ladiez Club, I guess. I beg forgiveness.
You're turning into Anne Romney.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
You guyz have got a case of pedophilia on the brain. Buggery in the closet. Puh-leaze. Whatever happened to caning with a willow switch?
Oh and btw Wonkette which one in the picture is the student and which one is the vice principal? Just asking.
Gee a school administrator acting like an asshole. It's just another Thursday in America.
"NEVER — read the comments on an Orange County Register story, including, for the love of the sweet baby Jesus, this one"
Is that like "do NOT press the shiny red button"?
Yes, with similar catastrophic results.
Uh, actually, those comments seemed pretty rational and positive. Did I not scroll down far enough?
I think the Editrix is on to us already. Get us to do something by telling us not to.
I was too skeerd to go there. It's like someone handing you a carton of rotting milk while asking if it smells bad to you. Srsly, why go there?
Those comments were nothing. Uplifting, if anything.
Mazel Tov, all God's children deserve to get their beak wet in the happiness department.
The Mr. Fullerton Pageant is an annual, semi-humorous event hosted by the ASB for senior boys. It includes dancing and a one-question interview.
He was shocked that one of the contestants was gay? I'd be shocked if one of the contestants was straight.
Should have checked before I commented. I think they had the gheyz at "Pageant."
True fact: When I was a senior in high school,the winner of our Mr. [High School] Pageant was not only (in the closet) gay, but a teacher! But it was 1971, and he wanted to keep his job, so he didn't announce that he hoped he would be gay-married in 10 years.
In 1971, that would have been just a tad optimistic. He might have gone with "I hope that when I am in my 50's, a few states might permit gay marriage." But that would have been depressing.
He quit teaching a few years later and went into photography. (top photo)
Sadly, he never even had a chance to get gay-married before he gay-died. AIDS.
That is a great photo.
I'm shocked that there was Dancing. It's a good thing that John Ashcroft wasn't there.
Damn… Fullerton? You'd expect it in Lake Forest or Irvine…
I know I get a ream and a yanking anytime I take the 405, or as I like to call it, the fuck, oh fuck…
…oh, you were referring to a different kind of ream and yanking. My bad.
I have friend all over Irvine and Laguna Woods (libruls all, if you can believe it) and we share newspaper articles all the time, for the laughs.
All Orange County stories sound the same after awhile. I spent 4 years there for undergrad. It's a place where driving in sandals is illegal, where making $60,000 puts you in the Lower-Middle Class, where everyone owns a hybrid vehicle and a Hummer and goes to a tanning salon before hitting the beach, and where you can arrive somewhere one hour late, but still be the first one there.
Yeah. I don't miss the place.
God, that sounds good. I mean, compared to Seattle, where we are all taking Zoloft and can only wear sandals two days out of the year.
You need to wear wool socks with the sandals to go year round, and shorts, don't forget the shorts.
Driving in sandals is illlegal in Orange County? Really? In sunny SoCal? In the land of the anti Big Government types?
(Heading out the door to jump on the 405 in my sandals…)
It's technically illegal, though everyone under age 40 does it.
Oh! Forgot to mention that all the colleges have racist nicknames, like "University of Chinese Immigrants." And everyone refers to others by their area code. Good times.
Area code? And here I thought the weird way Californians talk about locations was by referring to them by zip code; area code is even weirder. Almost as weird as sticking "the" in front of a highway numbers.
The zip code thing was mainly a stupid TV trick – like people from Beverly Hills or Palos Verdes really needed to use their zip codes to tell people they are rich. I first heard about the area code thing with athletes from San Diego (hey, it works as well as stupid John 3:16 on eyeblack). Never got into it growing up in LA – but I was in LA county, not OC, where until I was a teenager everyone was in the 213 (later 310 for south county) so it wouldn't make much sense. Plus around where I grew up people were more concerned with stuff like Bloods and Crips (either because they were in them or were terrified of them) than area codes.
Ooooh.. I spot a 562 with too much 714 and 949 envy…
Ha! Believe it or not, I am originally an 818. That's right, a Valley Girl. But then I became 714, before the 562 split. Even all these years later, I laugh at the 562 noobs.
Hey, where's the love for the 323?
Which is total bullshit since everyone knows UCI is an Asian safety school and therefore dominated by all sorts of non-Chinese immigrants. The top Chinks and Japs go to Cal and UCLA, and leave Irvine and Riverside to the lesser Gooks, Flips, Charlies/VC, Hmong, etc.
The sandal thing, is the reasoning behind it that they get more easily stuck on gas pedals? That's the only thing I can think of.
Friend from the service moved to Santa Ana after we got back from Viet Nam. One thing a lot of guys would smuggle back from there were the sandals locals would make from discarded tires. My friend was wearing a pair and a neighbor asked where he got them. Being this was 1970 after he said he got them in Viet Nam the neighbor took a few steps backward but worked up the courage to say yes when Jamie asked if he wanted a pair. We then spent about four hours finding cutting and punch down tools and an old tire and inner tube and the guy gave us twenty bucks.
Imaging a pair of Birkenstocks made from tire and inner tube instead of leather. Really are great sandals to wear if you are anywhere near a beach, just wash off your feet, with the sandals on, after coming in from the shore. Also good as walking around the house in the morning and getting into the shower. Great traction, etc.
Bit of advice, mixing tire types is dangerous. If you use an old radial tire, use it for both feet or you could do permanent damage to your hip and knee joints.
How often do you have to rotate them?
Modern knee and hip joints don’t need rotating. Just don’t go to square dances. Too many people who are uncool.
You would think Orange County would be more liberal because of the constant news that surrounds it everyday. Maybe, not more liberal, but more accepting of everyone in general. America is a democracy and Orange County should get on the bandwagon and accept everyone.
But that kid was trampling on Jesus's Constitution, in which it clearly says, NO GAYS.
If it happened on a UC campus, he would have been pepper sprayed.
And now community colleges as well!
And then the Vice-Principal sent him to Father O'Malley for a good talking to.
Did the article say if the Vice Principal enjoyed the reaming?
Never read the comments on any newspaper website, not just the Orange County Register; every single one of them is filled with the rantings of crazed right-wing racist homophobic misogynist troglodytes. They are awful, everywhere.
None worse than Yahoo news.
Oh, God, yes. I had to stop commenting on Yahoo! Shine because of the hateful wingnuts there. Frightening.
Even so, I feel the need to wade in there. Those lunatics won't troll themselves!
You are a brave man, good sir. I salute you!
I'm with redarmyzombie–I salute you! I tried, I really did try to fight the good fight there, but ugh. As it is I am close to giving up on HuffyPo.
Amen. Yahoo News comments put the Yahoo in Yahoo.
SockBunny, even the comments to Dear Abby are vicious.
Some of the Yahoo commenters make the ones at Fox look reasonable. Ugh.
Until the folks at Politico started making you sign in with your FB account to comment, the commenters on Ben Smith's blog were all scary, racist, copy & paste the Constitution wing nuts. I'm made of stout stuff, but even I couldn't stomach some of that crap.
Someone posted a link to Balloonjuice via Daily Caller, but then I hit "page up" and lost it… So! speaking of scary comments, this thread gets gross real quick, talking about how Muslims like to live in ghettos and someone should gas Detroit: http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/05/va-school-teach…
First time I've ever read Daily Caller comments. Does not reflect well on humanity.
Nah, I'm pretty sure Daily Caller commenters aren't part of humanity. They're more of a bad reflection on pond scum.
Nothing, NOTHING, is worse than Yahoo comments.
youtube comments.
imdb
Truth. Nothing.
It is showing up on the NYTimes and is worse because there they think they are well educated, lucid and rational because, after all, they are reading the NYTimes.
Got one today … NYT article on some AT&T stores being open on Easter Sunday (to flog the new Nokia phone), and one of these brain-damaged cretins popped in with "I blame Obama".
So he blames Obama for what? Capitalism?
The one exception I know of is the NYT. The Times has its issues, but they do a reasonable job keeping the freaks and the haters out.
Now, if only other papers would follow that example…Los Angeles Times, I'm talking to you…
I doubt the freaks and the haters read the NYT all that much. I think they haz the fear that it might librulize them and turn them into gay Kenyan Mooselimb soshulists.
I'm convinced the LA Times is running some sort of sociological experiment to see how shitty they can make the paper before they drive all their subscribers away. Every time you think it couldn't possibly be made to suck any more, they find a way.
Kind of like the Wall Street Journal is doing under the House of Murdoch.
I think you may be on to something. When I heard they were putting up a firewall on their website I just had to laugh. Well, more time to read some *real* news sources…
Good to know that's everywhere. I thought it was just the Seattle times.
If they're anything like the Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News commenters, I'm sure they probably are all exurbanites who hate Seattle, too.
They hate Seattle? How can you hate Seattle?
I learned that lesson during the swine flu out breaks. There were comments on the Richmond Times Dispatch site from people saying that illegal immigrants from Mexico were deliberately spreading it to wipe out the white population of the US. I fuckin' kid you not.
Yes, it is called the reverse blanket strategy.
And it's why I eat a bowl of Cowpox pustules every morning. Ain't nobody gonna Manifest Destiny me.
I pushed the shiny button and read some of them. Other than being poorly written, even the homophobes are very tame.
Of course, I'm from backwoods East Tennessee, so I was expecting more along the line of "fucking faggot, I ought to fuck him in the ass and cum all over him to prove what a non-faggot fucking straight he man I am". You know, logic and erudition.
I check knoxnews.com almost everyday. Beside the headline they'll have a number showing how many comments a particular article has gotten. If it's an article about Obama or something dealing with religion, it'll get 100+ comments. I know better than to read the comments. I think I know what the gist is of most of those comments.
actually the first page-ish of comments was all in favor of the boy – i mean i read for a while and i am easily bored.
i have heard for years about the horrors of the orange county register and was sorely disappointed.
try the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinal……..filled with teatard ranters and walker lovers
Or my own fishwrap, the Lancaster Intelligencer — Letters-to-the-Ed STILL complaining because they dropped Anne Coulter and Malkin.
I find Malkin more offensive than Coultergeist because I think Malkin is a True Belieber, Cooter just cashes checks and sells her medicine show.
Agreed. Anchor baby Malkin has it made with her suburbia lifestyle. I think Anne is just trying to get laid.
Scott Walker lovers or walker lovers who got theirs free from Medicare but hate big government for intruding in their life?
Seriously, can't Anonymous step in?
You know what? I thought when the local dailies started going to only allowing Facebookers that the quality of the comments would improve…they didn't. I was shocked how many people are willing to put their name on racist and other "ist" comments.
The only thing he Facebook logins effected was the sheer quantity of comments, which seemed to go down. But, the quality was no better.
I recall some Reichties admitting that they hired people to be on websites posing as supporters. They have no support and need to manufacture it and manipulate our elections in order to control us. They may have money, but we have the numbers and the truth.
Without reading all the other replies I agree. I can only imagine this is the last stand media for that hateful element in our society. I find it disturbing there are so many. What kind of a weasel underclass have we created that these people have to vent their bigotry in such an anonymous manner, yet slither (do weasels slither?) through life as our grocers, bankers, neighbors and relatives.
They named a whole county after Boehner?
I actually used to live near a real live orange grove (which smelled AWESOME if the wind was right), but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
For everything to remain right in all the land, never — NEVER — read the comments on an Orange County Register story, including, for the love of the sweet baby Jesus, this one.
Actually, I got through a bunch and did not see the usual hysteria. Maybe I need to check the comments on this story from the Daily Caller (thanks to John Cole at Balloon Juice, for the title No Slight Is Too Insignificant for the Victimhood Party).
I read the comments on the County Register story, too, and I was surprised by how positive they were right off the bat. Hell, the first commentor was the kid's mom, which may have had something to do with setting the tone for the entire discussion.
The Mr. Fullerton Pageant is an annual, semi-humorous event hosted by the ASB for senior boys. It includes dancing and a one-question interview.
Yeah…no one but straight people would find this interesting, ever.
No wonder he was booted from the contest. He got the answer wrong. The correct answer is Cheetos, fuzzy kittens and world peace. Duh.
Fuzzy kittens eating Cheetos will be bring about world peace. I mean, duh!
Fuzzy Cheetohs, Intertubes, and Mom's basement.
"Honey, why don't you come up for dinner?"
"Not now, Ma! Someone's wrong on the Internet!"
I believe the classic answer also includes maps and South Africa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQdhMSEqhfg
Also "The Iraq and such as". Also.
"NEVER — read the comments on an Orange County Register story, including, for the love of the sweet baby Jesus, this one"
For a moment there I thought you were talking about HuffyPo…is it me, or have the asshole trolls there proliferated like rabbits?
ErickErickson'sSon'sErick has a company called Blog Warriors and they get paid to tap out illiterate mischief.
Why can't I get paid to make the comments on Wonkette? Then I wouldn't be broke.
Ken Layne used to send me a box of used dildos every other month.
Wait, were they extra-large and have hardware attached with a home rivet set?
Are you sure it wasn't that O'keefe fella?
Just hit yourself up side the head with a hammer a couple of times, Soros, and then go to work for Blog Warriors.
HuffPo sold out. All the cool intellectual snobs hang out on Al Jazeera these days.
PS, Wonkette, why aren't you blogging AJ? Those guys are the most insufferable latter-day socialists ever, but they have bitchin' global news coverage.
Arianna made tons of money selling to AOL, so … there goes the neighborhood.
Ironically that is the exact right answer to the same question in the Miss Fullerton contest.
Zing!
There goes Nobama, takin away our freedom to restrict the first amendment rights of teh kweerz.
At times like this, I wish O'Dawg was even half the dictator people say he is. Then we might actually oppress some morons who don't really deserve to speak anyway and maybe get some shit done!
I wish Barry would spend less time rounding up dope and more time rounding up Rethuglican dopes.
A beautiful, honest ray of Little Miss Sunshine from Orange County.
When is Steve King gonna pipe up and suggest that this whole brouhaha is the kid's fault for not having lied?
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
*deep breath*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!
“I don't think Kearian would be very impressed with my cock."
- Mr. Fullerton Pageant Director Joe Abell
Joe Abell
Can go to hell.
With Steve King defending hiring employment discrimination against gay people, Rachael Maddow's book, Marcus Bachmann's secret, women golfers, and now this, is today officially gay day on Wonkette? If so, a happy day and well wishes to all the gay commenters here.
I wondered if I was the only one noticing that.
a happy day and well wishes to all the gay commenters here.
Seconding it — it may sound weird, but if it weren't for a lot of gay & lesbian people whose personalities brightened my life, I'd be a different (read: much sadder) person.
And a happy day to you too, Soros! (and mumbletypeg)
Dammit! Did I miss it again?? I never got to have an official gay day. No women have ever hit on me, no "camp" or "college" experiments, and now I miss out here? I wonder if I just look like I loves me some "tumescent" (thanks fearless leader) cock too much. STILL- a Bunch. Of. Bullshit. Again.
FakaktaSouth, would you like to come to my white cotton panties tickle fight? Rebecca is making Rice Krispy treats.
Absolutely!!! I'll bring the hair-brushes!!!
I hope MissTaken still has her Vajazzler.
I think Easter is ripe for a gay takeover. I mean, with cute bunnies, pastel everything, colorful eggs and candies, and parades of people showing off their finest duds, the whole thing is just there for the taking!
(btw, I'd save the "Jeebus rising" jokes for after it's yours.)
The Orange County Register is what you read when USA Today is beyond your reading ability.
"Plummer Auditorium Stage"
Named after Joe?
Upstart, renegade kids these days, what with their wanting to get married 'n' stuff. What ever happened to traditional values, like going out and having a debauched bacchanal with hundreds of partners for 30 years or so before even considering settling into open monogamy?
That was my approach — and I'm not even gay.
Yeah. I'm not reading that comment and you can't make me.
In 25 years there will be a PBS special on the movement towards legalizing Gay Marriage and it will be full of comments like this, NOM rallies and incendiary floor speeches by the Republican Congressman of your choice. People will be horrified and ashamed that such a treasured institution that's is so interwoven with civil society should ever have been so vehemently opposed. They will think that we all went crazy.
They will be right.
I love your optimism. I was thinking, "They'll have PBS in the Republic of Gilead?"
HA! Yes, but it will be renamed the Public-Religious Broadcasting System and be devoted exclusively to promulgating the State Religion. Benny Hinn will be the Director.
Actually, they'll achieve the Republic of Gilead over my dead body.
Agreed.
My daughters (25 and 21), and their friends do not even see what the fuss is all about.
When Prop. 8 was up for a vote (here in CA), the only person she knew that was for it was foreign born, and was kicked out of her house for expressing his medieval views.
Ha! Good for her.
Our editrix seems to have some kind of grudge against Orange County. Hmmm.
Truthfully, I can't say I blame her.
Well, FUCK, man. I have a problem with Orange County and I live here.
Maybe she should write a book about it.
Who besides those in the county doesn't have something against the OC?
Hitler?
CommieLibunatics?
Johann Gambolputty?
Minute Maid?
Trout Fishing in America Shorty?
Rebecca, godDAMMIT, you were supposed to keep that pic of me and my poolboy PRIVATE.
*stomps off in a huff; tries to smooth things over with my not-poolboy partner.*
It was good for you too, huh? I recongnise the look on the face of the guy in front…
"The student said he hoped to find the love of his life, marry him and hoped gay marriage would be legal."
I am going to moderate my outrage at the school and snark about the OC and simply say, I wish the kid well and hope that his dreams come true. (Hey Orange County is the home of Disneyland.)
well, the first comment is his mom saying she is proud of her son!
This is perhaps the bestest thing I read today.
There is a great (fabulous) In N Out in Fullerton. I've had many a double double there.
Quit bragging about yr sex life.
Now, is the double-double the one with or without the buns?
Hey-O!
Wait, so this is Bachmann's secret?
He should have just said, 'Imma knock up my girlfriend at 17, get married, then divorce her and ruin three lives, when I finally come out of the closet. That would be A OK in the Veeps eyes.
Life is full of moral dilemmas.
Also, regarding the "But what about the children" tag: WHAT ABOUT the goddamned children? WHAT ABOUT the precious little post-fetal brats that we only seem to care about when we trot them out for some talking point?
Off-topic, I know, but that phrase just makes me crazy. Thanks to the anger haze, I won't even remember typing this post.
I understand the anger haze.
Yes indeed — what about the children who happen to be gay? What about THEM, you right-wing dickheads?
Dirty gays, a real Beauty Queen answers questions by winking, spewing forth a stream of unrelated nouns and verbs, quoting Ronald Reagan, and issuing thinly veiled threats of violence against her political enemies. And if that seems too hard, she can always write it all on down her hand.
WIN x 2
Or he could have said, "Prison".
Bummer. Rumors of Santorum quitting before humiliation in PA.
All part of his Jesus Complex. He'll cool out for a few days and then start talking about how On The Third Day he rose again, to send Obummer to HELL!
Help me out here D_R. True, I hardly understand any religious jibber-jabber, but isn't it less than two days that Jeebus was dead? He dies on Friday afternoon and rises on Saturday morning. I guess it's like the 3 is 1, 1 is 3 mumbo-jumbo. Or better yet, who fucking cares?
All I remember, being drug (dragged?) to church growing up, was hearing "And on the third day He rose again…" or something. I could be mis-remembering.
It's Bible math – pi = 3 instead of 3.14159 etc.
But Jeebus rose on Sunday, not Saturday – he was Hebrewish, which meant he couldn't do anything on Saturday until the sun set. And that's why we never can get a day off for Easter, even if you're a lazy gummit employee with 37 paid holidays a year, including International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
You know, it just occurred to me that the gummit today always puts out the bad news late on Friday afternoon after all the newshounds have gone home for the weekend, so I wonder if it was the same way in Jerusalem in 29 CE?
Quitting on Good Friday would be just perfect for his megalomania. He'll tell himself he was done in by modern-day Pharisees.
Just saw this: http://bit.ly/HBwLXe
The Real Jeebus® has rested up after exhausting himself at the NCAA basketball playoffs. So he finally had time to sprinkle some "remembering dust" over Pennsylvania. From Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, from Erie to Harrisburg, people woke up today and said, "Oh! THAT Rick Santorum. What a tool!" and his numbers began to tank.
I'm starting to think Joe Biden is Jeebus.
Stay the course, Santorum!
Chris Hayes and on Rachel Maddow's show.They are talking about the current state of Environmental Issues in this election cycle, the reasons and the dangers inherent in the Republican Party's position points tumbling so catastrophically to the hard ideological right.
It's about time. I don't hear anything like these kinds of discussions anywhere else. It's good to see smart, well informed people on television for a change. I wish it wasn't such a luxury, though.
Oh, is THAT what they were talking about. I was overcome admiring Chris' spring ensemble. That young man is smart in every way.
They're all just so photogenic it kills me.
What they're saying: Commentary on about the current state of Environmental Issues in this election cycle, the reasons and the dangers inherent in the Republican Party's position points tumbling so catastrophically to the hard ideological right.
What you hear: Blah, blah, blah,Blah, blah, blah,Blah, blah, blah,Blah, blah, blah,
If Obama's environmental policies have improved, I've yet to hear about it.
(Note: talking about actions, and not rhetoric.)
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Well, beyond firing those execrable apparatchiks, like the stupid child that prevented Dr. David Hansen from discussing Global Warming, Here's a short list:
Conservation:
Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration (Executive Order) to Federalize restoration efforts in the Chesapeake bay after years of dramatic underperformance by the state and local governments
North American Wetlands Conservation Act.
Reengaged in the treaties/agreements to protect the Antarctic
Executive Order 13547 –Stewardship of the Ocean,Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes
Led effort to phase out whaling.
Increased funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund
Increased funding for national parks and forests.
$175 million allocated for water conservation
Pursued a wildfire management plan
Energy & Environment
Sharply limited mountaintop mining
Dismantled the Minerals Management Service
Limited mercury emissions
Announced historic plans to regulate coal ash
Ended the previous policy of not regulating and labeling carbon dioxide emissions
Set smog limit: new strict proposal to replace Bush-era rule
Regulated greenhouse gases for large industrial sources
Raised fuel economy standards
Purchased fuel efficient American-made fleet for the federal government
Worked toward deploying a global climate change research and monitoring system
First President to create detailed vision for clean energy economy.
Wind power growth up 39% due to government stimulus.
Not a lot, to be sure, but I guess it's all we can expect from a "wimpy prevaricating Democrat" who's got to deal with an opposition party fully in thrall to the extractive industries and an implacably hostile Republican Media-Industrial Complex.
The Orange County Register? Oh, sure, like that's a real newspaper!
I wish to offer my apologies. The O.C. Register IS in fact, and as I knew, a real news paper. I just couldn't believe they were still printing that homophobic, racst, ultra-conservative rag.
Printing. So quaint.
This photo must be Rebecca's attempt to make up for Santorum sunbathing. (Successfully, too, I might add.)
See, this is what happens when you don't enact strict "Don't say gay" legislation for public schools. Before you know it, they'll be having interracial proms and women will be dressing in pants and playing at Augusta!
See what happens when you allow women to vote? It's all downhill from there.
I tell my wife to vote Republican, but I'm starting to wonder if she does.
Women have been given the franchize?! Are they directly electing senators, now, too?!
**faints**
Very funny and always cute.
I am wondering about the people who are campaigning on issues such as, birth control, transvaginal ultrasounds, etc. and I have to wonder if they know that women do actually vote.
If they don't, they're going to find out, in about 7 months.
Well, it's just a short step to man-on-dawg…
Oh, snap: http://textsfromhillaryclinton.tumblr.com/
Uh, Best Thing Evar? and this is awesome: http://bit.ly/HlMXyy this too: http://bit.ly/HlNm4f
Palin: "we almost had the same job" "lolz bitch please"
CLASSIC, thanks for posting this, BMW.
That was my favorite one.
Negropolis, it was funny because I could see that happening. (not that it did)
Also, the one about Anthony's Weiner:
"Is that it?"
ROTFLMAO!
OT: Another reason to go on living.
I miss Rick Perry. I am running out of Gingrich jokes, lol.
Wait, I should amend that to "I am running out of Wonkette comments that I can plagiarize jokes from and call them my own."
I hit the paywall before the story got interesting. The last thing I saw was "The weakest Republican field in history" and then it stopped.
'Effing paywall. My local (Gannett-owned) daily is about to get one of those, and it's not worth it with how far the paper has fallen.
LetUSBray IV the win! High Vs all around!
Hur hur. Hur hur. "Reamed".
Wow…it's been quite a while since I've been on wonkette…a lot has changed. So we've replaced our own angry Ben Affleck after many a hard nights drink look-alike with a lovely new editrix/ownitrix? Nothing against Ken even though his constant negativity was getting to be a bit too much to endure, but a sitet named wonkette that was created by Anna Marie Cox to let all endulge in her fiery locks and butt secks obsession never FELT right being run by a dude…nice to see everything is back in balance…or should I say, boobs! good luck Rebecca…and just a small request but can you bring salty, sultry Sarah back? Her weekly Obama columns hit just the right note of fan abuse/girl fapping and were a vulgar joy for all and…boobs!
OT: But Wow! http://tacocopter.com/
If only they had the "beer submarine" to go with this, James.
By the way, I posted a joke that you had said previously last week. I didn't see your comment in the Newt Gingrich post about the $100.00 photo WITHOUT him in it. Someone who admires you had to call me out on it and make an unnecessary stink over it. Gosh, I don't read all of the posts here.
I apologize, I love your posts and TGIF!
The headline says, "Flying Robots Deliver Tacos to Your Location".
There is not one word in that sentence that I don't like.
Colbert did an awesome bit about this recently. http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-v…
Gay marriage? There's no gay marriage in horse-head bookends!
818 eh? You know, with the new condom law they are going to turn Chatsworth into a ghostown.
Gah, don't get me started on Cha-town, that's where my parents live. Next time Wonkette does a Pr0n story, I will bust out my Chatsworth tales.
Not brave, just stupid.
O'keefe never gives away boat dildos. That would be socialism.
there are whore diamonds for you for use of 'pond scum'
You should fit right in then.
Thanks, everybody – I was really flying through the comments on this post until this little thread (*fans himself*). Gotta go catch my breath.
I was just perusing Palin's tweets, for shits and giggles.
"Dear @arbys you might as well block me now because my family is done w/your restaurants until you do the right thing #palin"
I have NO fucking idea what this troll is yammering about. They seem to be pissed at Arby's and they are involving Palin in this fuss. I don't know what is funnier, that someone thinks that Arby's gives a shit about their threat or that Palin gives a shit about their threat. Palin won't even admit that Track had baby with Britta. What makes them think that Palin will appear on Fox News and say, "It's not good mood food, you betcha'"
I saw someone mentioning that Arby's dropped advertising on Limbaugh's show the other day. Still does not make the tweet you mentioned any less stupid though.
If she wasn't already through, getting pissed off at Arby's and tweeting about it as if her opinion matters any more than anyone elses is that point of throughness.
What a petty, venal idiot, this woman.
That's right about the gestation period for a new bouncing, baby second-term, I hear…
Thank you.
Good research. The second cup of coffee hasn't hit or I would contribute a few EPA regs that are way over ripe from years of sitting in the Bush. The culmination will spur quite a few new efforts to clean up (not just 'remediate') problem areas. One example is the reduction from .10 mg to .05 mg of the tolerable levels of lead. This has been in the works for far too long. Considering how much more will have to be done to 'get the lead out' in many areas one has no reason to speculate why Harold Simmons, owner of National Lead is the real leader in SuperPac contributions to republicans this year. Also, he contributed $1.6 for the ad buy in 2008 that plastered Saul Alinsky's face all over the country in his attack against Obama. He said to the Wall Street Journal that he will give money to just about any political cause which is 'not the Democrats' and has pledged millions in ad buys to defeat Obama.
Any time, friend.
Thanks, Jimmy me boy, much appreciated. That's just a few of the things I found, with a quickie database search early this AM, that I was interested in and stood out. There are a lot more detailed regs, such as the new marine diesel and ports air emission regulations, the offshore ballast water exchanges, etc. but I didn't want to get too much in the weeds.
Anyone who doesn't see the differences in style, substance and action between the Bush And Obama Administrations is either Trolling, hasn't been paying attention or doesn't want to see. IMHO.
Is this like when Lindsay Lohan's mother had a big tantrum at Carvel's when they wouldn't give her free ice cream?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/18/dina-loh…
You know you're lame when you get pwned by Fudgy the Whale.
Your opinion and $1.49 will get you a large coffee at McDonalds.
Here's a roundup.
So we’ll get what may be our final first-term read on his thinking this fall, when he decides (all by himself, with no Congressional involvement) whether or not to sign the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline from Alberta’s tar sands. Since his most prominent federal climate scientist, James Hansen, has stated loudly that further tar sands development will mean it’s “essentially game over” for the climate, the stakes couldn’t be much clearer.
So, C_R_Eature, what do you think is going to happen with that pipeline?
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The offshore ballast discharge regs were especially important to me as I live right on the water in the back bay area behind Sandy Hook. There was no way I would concede that ballast water was ‘inconsequential’. I think they had been adding a surfactant to the ballast water when on loading as the growth of wet land shore grasses had escalated enormously in the last ten years.
Team "Cookie Puss" here!
Dunno, but I expect we'll find out soon. Bill McKibben's been working this too.
One of Obama's big reasons to put off project approval was the unfinished EIS studies for the pipeline and the areas that it passes through. There's a lot of reasons that he could use to cancel the pipeline, other than the CO2 issue. There's the spill accidents issue, aquifer impact and rights-of-way problems among others. Not to mention the fact that the Texas Gulf destination is a "Free Enterprise Zone" so all the refined product will get shipped overseas to the international market (Koch Industries have already upgraded their refineries to accept heavy tar sand oil, BTW).
I think he'll wait it out for the studies to come in. Why not? The Republicans tried to buffalo him into short-circuiting the approval process before and he essentially told them to fuck off. In addition why exactly would he decide to approve Keystone XL in the Fall and demoralize a critical constituency, right before the most crucial national election in recent history, when the Democrats stand a good chance of cleaning the teabagger's clocks?
My point is, I much prefer Obama the Not-Quite-what-we-expecteds' hand on the tiller than Bush the CorporateTool.
EDIT: Your linky is recursive.
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