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Oh yes bitches, I am Pwning my own blog --it's the only thing to do after two weeks of flu hell and another week of battling the writing pixies.

So here you have yourselves the meme of the day, courtesy of the Muppets.

Oh hell yeah baby, oh hellz yeahs.

Macro made by moi

Seriously.

WTF!

I haven't seen the movie. Actually, I am going to come clean : I haven't seen any of the movies.

That's right. I haven't given a shit about movies for a long time, especially if they are meant to make me ponderous or outright depressed. I think everything went downhill for me after I watched Pier Paolo Passolini's Salo. I just couldn't do cinema easily after that.

Back to DDL.

It's seems that Mr. Day-Lewis here has been sweeping every single major acting award for the past 2 months. My bb Viggo won a few awards but Daniel is one greedy motherfucker ... or should we say the judges are just plain lazy.

Anyhow, I'm scooting over to the Oscars Watch Party over at Comix Club here in NYC. It's sad, but I haven't been to an Oscars party in years. Worse of all, it's the first time in months I go out for fun as in not related to blogging and/or business.

If it weren't a work day tomorrow, I'd totally get smashed

Hopefully it won't suck.

So which actors and/or movies are your favorites?

I'm not going to be around until after the Oscars. If you're looking for a fun place to crash online, the best place for Oscars buzz is, of course, Oh No They Didn't.

From the I don't know whether to laugh or cry file comes this item: the iconic Swedish band ABBA has rejected John McCain's request to use their opus 'Take a Chance on Me' as his campaign song.

Yes, you're absolutely right, that would be this song right here.

RedState slaps its crew-cut head, sniffs, scratches its crotch and declares

Is there anything less manly than this?

Candyass, he's a freaking war hero. The man was tortured by the Vietnamese. You write a blog. Notice the difference?

It's hard not to, at some level, feel sorry for McCain. The only reason he's using lyrics like...

Ba ba ba ba baa, ba ba ba ba baa
Honey I'm still free
Take a chance on me
Gonna do my very best, baby cant you see
Gotta put me to the test, take a chance on me
(take a chance, take a chance, take a chance on me)

If you are a woman my age, from América Latina and with izquierdista tendencies there is just no way in hell that you would have said, "Fidel is so sexy".

Nope.

It's just not possible.

With el Ché?

LOOK AT THE MAN!

Who wouldn't have that man lead a full fledge invasion of her beaches and a guerilla movement between her loins!

So Ed Morrissey, just back off my piece of revolutionary man-meat, ¿me oistes!

Ed Morrissey of Captain's Quarters is one of the republicans I have been monitoring for a while since he seems to echo the fear of many republicans : That McCain against Obama would be toast and that nothing would be better for uniting the Republican party against one common enemy than to have Hillary Clinton win the nomination.

So what does the big pussy do? He goes out of his way to create a non-story out of this image :

Image found at Democratic Underground

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Doesn't matter that the fucking office is not a headquarter for the Obama campaign. All it takes is a volunteer to be there for the wingnuts to go crazy.

At least Robert Farley over at Lawyers, Guns and Money puts their idiocy into perspective.

All am waiting is for the sHillarybots to smell the batshit and join in the attacks.

Someone pass the popcorn.

i’m a free woman. and being free means you get to think for yourself, and you get to decide for yourself what to do. so i say i am not a traitor. no, i’m not a traitor. i’m just following my own truth, and that truth has led me to barack obama.

[...]

don't play me small. i am not voting for barack obama because he's black. i am voting for barack obama because he's brilliant.

OH SNAP!

When it comes to smackdowns, Oprah is the queen.

Via Baratunde.

Michelle Obama, Caroline Kennedy, Maria Shriver,Oprah Winfrey by LATimes

In a jaw-dropping last-minute endorsement, Maria Schriver endorses Barack Obama : Breaking News: Maria Shriver endorses Barack Obama.

Will.I.Am's endorsement of Barack Obama goes viral : Will.I.Am's remix of Barack Obama's "Yes We Can" speech.

La Opinion, the largest Spanish language newspaper in California (if not continental US) endorses Barack Obama. The tipping point? Immigration : The Democratic choice is Barack Obama y en español, La opción demócrata es Barack Obama.

In what looks like a direct response to Marcia Pappas' "Ultimate Betrayal" memo, 150+ Feminist women from New York State decide to endorse Barack Obama : New York Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama.

Susan Eisenhower, the granddaughter of Republican President Dwight Eisenhower and coiner of the phrase "military-industrial complex", comes out in support for Barack Obama : Why I'm Backing Obama

I believe the measure of a leader is in their ability to inspire their supporters creatively.

Will.I.Am said of his remix of Obama's New Hampshire speech :

"It made me reflect on the freedoms I have, going to school where I went to school, and the people that came before Obama like Martin Luther King, presidents like Abraham Lincoln that paved the way for me to be sitting here on ABCNews and making a song from Obama's speech," will.i.am said.

"The speech was inspiring about making change in America and I believe what it says and I hope everybody votes," Dylan said.

I believe the measure of a leader is in their choice to engage supporters as collaborators in the building of a social and political future. The difference between a campaign and a movement is in how people take the political moment as a call to action, regardless of whether the powers that be are there to reward them :

I sense there is much campaign journalist fatigue and boredom. First we had Howard Kurtz bemoaning the fact Obama hasn't shown him much love.

Now we have CNN's Peter Hamby writing about Huckabee's trash talking Romney over friend chicken. Not policy, but FRIED CHICKEN.

"I can tell you this," he said, "any Southerner knows if you don’t eat the skin don’t bother calling it fried chicken."

"So that's good. I'm glad that he did that, because that means I'm going to win Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma … all these great Southern states that understand the best part of fried chicken is the skin, if you're going to eat it that way."

This from a guy that supposedly has his stomach stapled due to his past obesity?

Dude.

Wilmer Valderrama, Rosario Dawson, Nick Zano, and Tony Plana (Ugly Betty) star in this dramatic telenovela story about love, betrayal, ...and registering to vote!

This is awesome.