My friends, 

Oh to be American in a small European village after Obama's victory!

I cannot describe to you the outpouring of love and support for America that everyone here has displayed since Obama has won. People love America again, they are once again impressed by our forward-think… Read full post »

My friends,

I told Congress "thanks, but no thanks," for that Bridge to Nowhere.

Let me start over. I am now drinking wine and eating many gourmets at an undiclosed location in Europe, and will be here until Jewish Christmas.

My mission is to post many pictures of shop signs in… Read full post »

This is the GOP talking point du jour, it seems: blame the Community Reinvestment Act, which "forced" lenders to lend to "minorities and low-income folks." 

No, seriously, they're THAT RACIST.

Basically, once again, who is to blame? President Clinton. It never gets old with them, even though Bu… Read full post »

Jezebel muses today on what it is about Sarah Palin that is so absolutely enraging. In particular, "What's infuriating, and perhaps rage-inducing, about Palin, is that she has always embodied that perfectly pleasing female archetype, playing by the boys' game with her big guns and moose-murdering, an… Read full post »

All you need is two tools:

1. The Obama Tax Cut Calculator, which tells you how much you will save under Obama's tax plan:

http://alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut/

2. This graphic:

[Tax Policy Center via Washington Post]

So you can see that McCain's biggest tax cuts are on the top… Read full post »

We will start with Obama Girl, "I've Got a Crush on Obama":

Hillary Girl:

Then we have Obama Girl vs. Giuliani Girl:

Here's will.i.am's "Yes We Can":

The best parody of "Yes We Can" attacking McCain (this is a masterpiece):

&nb… Read full post »

So here are the results from my calculations, using the latest CIA factbook population statistics.

These stats represent people per medal, meaning the Bahamas have one medal for every 153,726 Bahamanians.

All medals:

Gold medals only:

Conclusions:

• Weighing the medals acco
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In 1987, Joe Biden stood up to Ronald Reagan's attempted increase of executive authority in interpreting what a treaty means, and tried to stop the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as "Star Wars."

The US and Russia had signed the ABM Treaty in 1972, and now Reagan… Read full post »

I blogged earlier about Equestrian being the only gender-integrated sport, and the possibility of integrating Shooting.

Of course, the ladies would cry when they lose, but they cry when they win, too (see photo at left, the gold medalist Makela-Nummela in Women's Trap). Ladies, they're never… Read full post »

"Our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian values and principles."

-John McCain, Saddleback forum with Rick Warren, August 17, 2008

Despite what many say, the US was not founded on Judeo-Christian values. If it was founded on any religious values, it was purely Christian ones.

The term Jude… Read full post »

For modest Christian, Jewish and Muslim women.

Religious extremists, why don't they just go have their own country somewhere and leave the rest of us alone?!

Also available: Christian, Muslim and Jewish headcoverings:

Wait, is that the same model for the Jewish and Muslim ones? Read full post »

European bureaucracy is mythic. I love Europe and the European Union, and I don't like to make fun of them for stupid reasons, but sometimes it's warranted. This is the true story of the European Parliament.

The EU has 4 main branches - the Court, the Commission, the Council and… Read full post »

"I've heard from men - Real Men - who say the same thing. They don't blame women or the culture [for the existence of child-men], but call upon men to put on their big boy pants and deal. I like that in a man."

- Kathleen Parker, Time.com interview… Read full post »

I don't like to be one of those foreigners that complains about Americans' patriotic chauvinism, but the Olympic commentary is really bothering me.

The set-up: the French men's 400 meter free relay team said they are going to "smash" the Americans.

Americans love to hate on the French, so this… Read full post »

Since its introduction in 1900, Equestrian has been the only Olympic event where men and women compete together, against each other.

This seems to me logical, since the physical strength at issue is that of the horse, not the person. In fact, women, might have an advantage, being on avearge… Read full post »

I've been trying to figure out what to say about this Russian invasion of sovereign Georgia, but nothing really original comes to mind. Needless to say, this is deplorable aggression, and the massive civilian casualties smack of war crime to me.

Some observations:

• Russian supports South Osse
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So, let's review the first completed trial at Gitmo:

• Charged: bin Laden's Yemeni driver (Hitler's driver was never charged with war crimes) with
• 2 war crimes: conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists (not really a war crime)
• Jury: 6 senior US military officers
• Convicted:
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Yesterday, we discussed how in McCain's new ad, there's only 1/2 of a black person (Barry, natch), and everyone else was sparkling Aryan.

Apparently, Walnuts is not a fan of black people in his press corps either:

Stephen Price, a reporter [Senior Writer, actually] for the Tallahassee Democrat, was a… Read full post »

Oh, look at those innocent white children, and their white working class parents. No doubt none of these upstanding white people engaged in any miscegination. And the big scary black man is going to raise taxes on these children.

Seriously, folks, this is getting ridiculous and someone needs to say s… Read full post »

Update: Today, Hamdan was found guilty of providing material support to terrorists, but acquitted of the more serious conspiracy charge. However, he still faces a possible life sentence for his role in al Qaida, and a separate sentencing proceeding begins this afternoon.

As you may now, jury… Read full post »

A US-educated female Pakistani national was arrested in Afghanistan last month after shooting at some FBI officers.

Aafia Siddiqui, whom the FBI had sought for several years for terrorism, faces federal charges of attempted murder and assault of a U.S. officer and U.S. employees, federal authoritie

… Read full post »

Seymour Hersh has revealed that during a meeting in Cheney's office, many ideas were discussed, including how to provoke a war with Iran:

There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we… Read full post »

** A note from Madame Bitch: If this post makes no sense, it's because I'm having the worst hangover of my life right now. **

So, uh, perhaps you've seen this advertisement put out by the McCain campaign, accusing Barack Obama of being an airhead celebrity who has no substance:… Read full post »

There's been a lot of talk here about the Democrats' message and why it has such a difficult time penetrating the demographics that would most benefit from it -- regular, working and middle class folks.

It seems to me that this problem has everything to do with The American Dream.… Read full post »

Some hold-over from the 1940s named Christina Binkley is lamenting the disappearance of slips from women's wardrobes:

... the real truth, I believe, is that the end of slips coincides with a diminished sense of modesty. Our social mores no longer conform to a world where nice girls wear skirts that… Read full post »