Memes

By some of the links I have put up today, you can tell I have been catching up on my blogospheric meanderings. I just finished reading a post by Bob Geiger and I laughed out so loud I had just had to write about it.

In Here's How Fringe I Am, Fred Thompson, Bob describes his fringieness. Here's a sample :

• Attended my son's middle-school orientation. He's "graduating" from elementary school this Thursday -- though, oddly enough, exhibiting few signs of being a "fringe element" despite having me for a father -- and on that day, our lunatic activities will center around taking many pictures of him and his friends and going for ice cream afterwards. I personally plan on ordering the Cookies and Communist Crunch.




• Volunteered at a local community clean-up effort to rid our town of the trash spawned by a predominantly-Democratic community that clearly hates America. Went to weenie roast afterwards… Put catsup on my hotdog to show how much I despise American values.

My favorite :

• Took my son to the driving range with me. While we whacked golf balls, we discussed our lack of family values and my little boy stunned me with this question: "Dad, why haven't you been divorced a bunch of times like Fred Thompson and the other Republican presidential candidates?" "Now son," I said. "Senator Thompson's only been divorced once. You're thinking of Rudy Giuliani or Newt Gingrich."

Of course, I can not not quote the punchline : So that's about it. I only regret that we didn’t have time to burn an American flag this week.

Harrumph!

Just go this from Bob Fertik this morning:

EXPOSED! Bush's SOTU Big Lie

On the eve of Bush's State of the Union, five different news organzations (ABC, the New York Sun, Reuters, FOX News, and CBS) all revealed the stunning tale of a plot by Al Zarqawi to send 10-20 terrorists to the United States using student visas.

The only problem? It's pure bullshit that was rejected by the entire intelligence community. And Karl Rove's fingerprints are all over it.

But the story will be the centerpiece of Bush's State of the Union and will dominate the news for days.

Will Congressional Democrats fall for the last-minute SOTU bullshit?

Or will they demand sworn testimony - and the original forged documents upon which the whole fantasy rests?

Keep track of the story over Democrats.com.

I am working right now in like 100 different things and have the TV playing in the background. I know I am witnessing a successful ad campaign when every single time I hear ... Bahamavention... I stop whatever I am doing to see what crazy lunatic ad the ad company Fallon/Minneapolis has cooked up for the Bahamas Tourism Board campaign.

Not everybody is happy with the campaign. Me? I think it's pure advertising genius. It will certainly win them an award next year.

Now, If I could only get a Bahamavention of my own ... le sigh!

From McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Pirate Riddles for Sophisticates:

Q: Of the ghosts that appear to Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol," which do pirates prefer?
A: Jacob MARRRley.

Q: Can we replace that last one with something about Bob Marley, so we can have an additional gag about RastafARRRianism?
A: No.

Q: Whom did the pirate vote for in the Haitian election?
A: ARRRistide.

Q: Wait. Why did they let a pirate vote in the Haitian election?
A: Remember, the nation was taking its first halting steps toward democracy, and balloting procedures were rather chaotic. The pirate just slipped in somehow. Arrr.

Q: I don't buy it. Pirates care nothing for participating in the electoral process.
A: Look, can we finish this up soon? I'm having those phantom pains in my wooden leg.

Q: A phenomenon first described in the 17th century by which important contributor to the field of amputation surgery?
A: Oh, this is getting ridiculous.

Q: Just say it.
A: Ambroise PARRRe.

Q: You can go now.
A: Arrr. Nancy-boy.

And politicians still wonder why when I interview them, "how do you stand on the separation of church and state?" is one of my standard questions, the second one being "what's your view of parental rights?"

To anyone who has been a long-time reader of culturekitchen will know that my politics are fiercely founded on the right to privacy, secularism and the questioning of parental rights.

[via The Raw Story | Harris: Separation of church and state 'a lie']:

In a lengthy interview with Florida Baptist Witness, struggling U.S. Senate candidate Katherine Harris asserts, among other things, that the separation of church and state is a fallacy.

"We have to have the faithful in government and over time," the Witness quotes Harris as saying, "that lie we have been told, the separation of church and state, people have internalized, thinking that they needed to avoid politics and that is so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers."