I’ll play devil’s advocate and say maybe she was just trying to get the keys out from his pocket.  Yes, it must have been a crotch pocket.

Burchie, thank you.

During my daily click-throughs of paid sponsorship ads for mccain, I stumbled across the banner ad below.

I initially thought it was a spoof created by The Onion (or equivalent).  But, it turns out this is a real banner ad on the mccain-palin contribution page.  Isn’t there government regulation of false and misleading advertising?

We’re only as competent as the political leaders we elect.

P.S.  I didn’t highlight “Reform” because I was confused.  As mentioned originally on BccList.com here, I am convinced the republicans think the last 8 years were the result of a Democratic administration.

Gas should drop to $3.50 (or less) a gallon within the next few months as seen originally on BccList.com here, here, here, and here.

A bucket of delicious, delicious beer.

Shawn doesn’t believe that we’re live blogging but we are. huh? beer.

Couldn’t ask for a better day!  It’s nice being “old” and thus able to sit in sweet seats.

Detroit, wake the fck up!  It’s refreshing to hear someone talk honest after the last 3 days of republican National Convention propaganda.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080905/COL01/809050399/1051/SPORTS03

Burchie, thank you.

Excerpts…

Q: OK. Who’s the best player (you’ve hired)?

A: I’d say the best player we ever drafted was Isiah Thomas.

Q: Can you say anything — and I recognize it’s been a complex relationship over the years — about the falling out you two had at the end of his playing career?

A: Well, I was very, very close to Isiah, and there were times he was almost like a son. But, because of his background, um … I told him he had to change — you know, coming from where he came from. I said, “You’ve got it made now. Don’t keep doing those things that you’ve been doing.” I won’t tell you what they are. But he couldn’t change.

Q: How did it heal?

A: One day I decided — this was about five years ago — that there’s only one guy that I’m really not friendly with. So I called Isiah up, and I said Isiah (chuckling) — before I go to my grave — you know, whenever I do — I want you and I to be friends.

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Q: Speaking of coaching, let me ask you about a few coaches. Larry Brown. What can you tell me about him?

A: Well, Larry Brown is not what he appears to be. And he’s built a reputation for himself based on his own PR people. He’s not what he appears to be.

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Q: Do you find it interesting having to merge your background — a white, Jewish businessman — with a sport where most of your players are African American and many from the inner city?

A: To be perfectly honest with you, because I’ve been living with this for 30 years or more, I don’t see color. I don’t distinguish color anymore, which is a good thing. Thirty years ago, I might have. But by being with the players, getting to know them, if you asked me do we have a white player on the team, I couldn’t tell you — well, I could tell you, but it wouldn’t make any difference. I get to know the personality much more than the color of the skin. Color means nothing.

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Q: Do you think that given the state of the auto businesses Detroit has any chance of being a major city again?

A: I doubt it. I don’t think it was ever a major city, strictly because so much depended on the automotive business.

Q: So what is the future for Detroit?

A: Well, I think there are certain centers such as Ann Arbor which are growing and have a future. I’m not pessimistic about it. I think the damage has already been done. I’m hoping the city of Detroit will clean up and get on a positive note. I think the number of people who have moved out of the city may have peaked and we’ll find enough other types of businesses that will support generally the area in general. … Hopefully the motion picture deal will have some affect. But I think you’re gonna find a little bit here and a little bit there. It will gradually stabilize.

Q: What about the auto business?

A: It doesn’t look good. That’s one area where you have to be pessimistic.

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Q: Are you a happy man?

A: Yeah.

Q: All day long?

A: Nobody is happy all day long. But I’m a positive person.

Q: What have you found, in general, makes a person happy?

A: Whatever you accomplish. Your accomplishments.

More importantly, it’s time to revisit one of the best YouTube clips that exists…

I guess LOL is the new “Ha, ha.”

I guess Kilpartick is the new piece of shiat!

Erin, thank you!

UPDATE: Here’s some more stuff released regarding his awesome, awesome texts to Christine Beatty…

https://bcclist.com/2009/03/11/kwame-kilpatrick-sold-weed-in-college/

As seen here, a few months back I sarcastically bragged about cracking the top 11,000,000 most visited websites on the internets.  I hoped to one day beat out PlanetJulie.com which at the time was the 3,312,310 most visited website (now ranked 6,605,343) per Alexa.  That feat – for the most part depending on how you want to spin it – has been accomplished…

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/bcclist.com

I guess this is a testament to setting goals – yes, to me it was an actual goal – no matter how ridiculous they seem.

It’s worth noting, I have to give some major props to the traffic received over the last week or so.  I previously was pumped if I broke 75-100 visitors a day.  Without being said, I was ecstatic to see the numbers skyrocket to 600-900 visitors a day recently.

Bla, bla, bla – thank you!

That was easily one of the worst speeches I have ever seen though it was crucialy important than he deliver at the least a decent speech. While I’ll be volunteering my ass off over the next 60 days, this was an official obituary for the bush administration and last 8 years. Good riddance you pieces of shiat.

Update:

A good write-up…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2008/sep/05/johnmccain.republicans2008

Conor, thank you.

Though I’m not a “true” Jon Stewart fan – he does good work but who the fck remembers to watch Comedy Central other than via online clips – the below from last night was overly entertaining.

Vodpod videos no longer available.

As originally seen on BccList.com here, I guess somebody at Goldman needs to be straight up fired for the idiotic prediction of $150 a barrel oil futures AFTER the fed started discussing interest rate hikes.

Regardless, oil futures dipped below $110 a barrel today as seen originally on BccList.com here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Hopefully at least 1 of BccList.com’s nearly 10,000 visitors shorted oil futures. If so, I assume you know how to use paypal – bcclistblog@gmail.com is the email address.

Worth considering: Buy back and take some profits now but expect that oil futures could creep much lower than $100 a barrel especially if there’s an interest rate hike to fight off inflation as is expected.

Note: You may want to consider shorting big oil stocks seeing that their profits should be lower in Q4 considering the decrease in oil futures prices. Downside to shorting big oil stocks now – their declining Q4 profits won’t be announced until early 2009 and anything can happen between now and then. You may be able to short later on this year and still get excellent value though oil stocks are currently nowhere near their recent highs.

From last night’s speeches at the republican National Convention…

carly fiorina – the CEO that nearly drove HP into the ground.  If you didn’t know, she’s mccain’s top economic adviser replacing Mr. “Americans are Whining” phil gramm.  Seeing that mccain tapped her as an economic adviser shows just how much judgment he has lost in his later days.

“Today, Americans are concerned about keeping their jobs, about keeping their homes, about the rising price of food and fuel.

They are concerned about whether they will be able to find or afford the right health care.

They are concerned about whether they or their children will have the skills and education they need to compete in the twenty first century.”

No shiat.  Did you forget that the concern comes because of the failure of the last 8 years?

“I know John McCain. And if we make the right choice, in 2013, American families will keep more of their hard-earned money. Small and large businesses alike will be creating jobs here and spurring robust economic growth, because America will once again be a great place to build a business.”

The last 8 years have blown.  Why should be assume the next 4 years will be any different?

“Workers will be able to seek retraining to ensure they have the latest skills.”

Where has the retraining been over the last 8 years?

meg whitman – former CEO and board member of Ebay.  Keep in mind, Ebay owes a lot to the technology research that the Clinton administration heavily funded in the 90s.

“It would be foolish to deny what we all know to be true. Our economy is struggling and Americans are hurting. We live in a time of economic anxiety and hardships.

The cost of everything from gasoline to groceries to health care has gone up, while the value of our homes and our investments has gone down. Mortgages once thought to be safe are now threatened, and industries that were once strong are now dying.”

Please explain how john mccain will be any different than bush.  In fact, I’ll go out on a limb after mccain’s erratic behavior lately (pick of palin without anyone truly vetting her, “we are all georgians” comment, Time Magazine interview, etc) and say that I would prefer bush to mccain.  This is coming from somebody that utterly hates dubya.

mitt romney – an East Coast guy that started off his speech by ripping on the East Coast.  I’m not sure that he delivered the right speech. Meaning, I think this was supposed to be somebody else’s speech. I’m not kidding.

“Our economy is under attack. China is acting like Adam Smith on steroids, buying oil from the world’s worst and selling nuclear technology. Russia and the oil states are siphoning more than $500 billion a year from us in what could become the greatest transfer of economic wealth in history. This is no time for timid, liberal empty gestures.

Our economy has slowed down this year and a lot of people are hurting. What happened? Mortgage money was handed out like candy, speculators bought homes for free — when this mortgage mania finally broke, it slammed the economy. And stratospheric gas prices made things even worse.”

Our economy has slowed down this year?  Are you serious?  You haven’t really been paying attention to the last 8 years.  Moreover, as is the theme of this blog posting, everything you mentioned is a direct result of the current REPUBLICAN administration.  Take some fcking blame you spin selling snake oil selling piece of shiat.

P.S.  My favorite line form last night was when romney tried to scare everyone (again) by saying…

“Did you hear any Democrats talk last week about the threat from radical, violent jihad? Republicans believe that there is good and evil in the world.”

I don’t think romney realizes yet that Americans have become rightfully numb of republican fed fear.