Although the registration information is hidden, if you swing by the domain VoteForTheMILF.com (Creation Date: 30-aug-2008) you will notice that without passing go and without collecting two hundred dollars, you will be instantly redirected to JohnMcCain.com. If you’ve never been before (or if you cleared your cookies) it will first direct you to Palin’s intro video.

Sure, this could just be some crazy supporter’s idea, so here’s the proof:

• The URL was registered within about two days of McCain’s decision to select Palin.
• The dot net and dot org counterparts also redirect to the McCain site.
• The URL is held by the same registrar as JohnMcCain.com.
• A simple trace route shows that voteforthemilf.com/net/org and johnmccain.com are hosted on the same IP: 64.203.107.149

This campaign never ceases to amaze me with its underhanded political tactics.

Dear Smoker Driving In Front Of Me,

Don’t worry, I’m not about to go off on a tirade about how what you do should be made illegal. I respect the rights that you have in this country to smoke cigarettes and for the most part I in turn tend to avoid places where it overly affects me, namely poorly ventilated bars and restaurants. The exception, however, is when your smoking habits directly endanger me, without my choice. I’m not referring to second hand smoke, because I know you’re going to come back at me with studies funded by the likes of Philip Morris “proving” that second hand smoke is harmless. What really gets to me is when you feel that the absolute best way to dispose of your cigarette butt is to toss it, still lit, out your car window. In case you didn’t pay attention in high school physics, the airflow around your moving car will cause what you throw out it to be sucked behind your car and thus ends up going directly under my car, still lit. When I call your cigarette “lit”, think of it as a nice easy way of saying “your cigarette is on fire” and, despite the inexplicably slow development of alternative fuels, cars do still run on a very flammable liquid called gasoline. Given, the chances of you throwing your butt directly under a car that happens to be leaking gasoline are slim, but the chances of it blowing over to the side of the street in a dry pile of leaves and starting a fire or leaving a burn mark on my car are much higher.

You may now be wondering what I propose you do with your cigarette butt if you longer simply throw it out the window. If you look around your vehicle, you’ll probably find a little drawer that you’ve likely been keeping your extra change in. Turns out, that was actually meant to be an ashtray. Try using it for its intended purpose (Note: If you don’t smoke, keep using it for spare change). If you happen to drive a newer car that does not have an ashtray, swing by your local Target, K-Mart, Walmart, or whatever other store you have in your area and pick up one of those handy cup holder ashtrays that they offer. If, like me, you prefer to shop online, Amazon has a nice variety of ashtrays for your cup holder.

I hope that you consider what I have said above and I look forward to being able to drive around without having lit cigarettes thrown at my car.

Sincerely,
Everyone Driving Behind You

I’ve talked before about how McCain’s attempt to paint Obama as an elitist is a joke, and I just found the following picture elsewhere on the web and just had to post it here.

No idea where this originated, so if you have the original link feel free to reply with it.

Politicians love it, the MSM (mainstream media) loves it, and apparently the general public loves it. So, what is the most overused and clichéd political term in the last few decades? The suffix “-gate”. For some reason every single new political scandal, no matter how big or small, needs to be renamed by the MSM to {insertscandalhere}gate. This all obviously stems from the original “gate”, Watergate, and it was funny, witty, and original for a while there, but now it is just plain overused. How overused, you might ask? Wikipedia has a list of 60 scandals which have been given a “-gate” suffix, and that isn’t including the original Watergate. The most recent excessive abuse of this politicized suffix, Sarah Palin’s home grown “Troopergate“, is repeated countless times a day over the last few weeks on every single MSM outlet to the point where a scandal that should have just stayed localized to Alaska is now a household term across the united states.

When will it end? If the MSM has their way, probably never. They seem to love the -gate suffix. Networks like MSNBC and CNN seem to use it more than common words like “the”. What I’m proposing is that we give some dignity back to the English language and instead of just creating a new word for every single scandal ever, how about just going back to using the word “scandal”. Troopergate has nothing to do with gates, so why don’t we just refer to it as something more descriptive like, say, “Governor Palin’s State Trooper Scandal”. Sure, it’s a bit more bulky, but every time the MSM says it that’s just five fewer seconds of worthless filler.

Nothing I can say can possibly prepare you for what Olbermann had to say during last night’s Countdown, so just watch it for yourself.

If you are privy to the major experiments going on within the scientific community, or if you’ve listened to any of the main stream media over the last few days, you’re probably aware that today was the day that the Large Hadron Collider was turned on. This is the largest, most powerful, and most energy consuming particle accelerator ever. So powerful, in fact, that conspiracy theorists everywhere and even some scientists were convinced that when it would be turned on, tons of microscopic black holes would be created, expand, and consume the universe as we know it. Well, guess what nut jobs: We’re still here. It was powered up this morning and is so far working better than expected without any issues. It will likely take several months before the scientists operating it can really get it up to its full potential, so I suppose the universe could still end when they do that, but I’m feeling confident that we’ll be just fine.

My wife and I were quite literally laughing out loud through this entire segment. There’s nothing I can say that would properly set up this clip from last night’s Daily Show, so just watch it.

That not enough for you? How about an encore with the Daily Show’s version of McCain’s biography:

Halloween is coming up and I’m sure all of you geeks out there are just ITCHING to find the right costume to impress your other geek friends. I have therefore decided to share the secret of the Dr. Horrible costume. For those of you who know me and are wondering, no, this is not my costume. I’ll be geeking it up in a completely different costume. So, without further ado, here’s where to get all of the parts for your Dr. Horrible Costume:

• The Goggles
  After searching all over the freaking place for goggles that will look decent atop your forehead, I found a pair that should work over at Amazon.com (where else?).
• The Lab Coat
  This one is probably the trickiest. The closest thing I could find is the A001 LOS ANGELES coat from the above manufacturer. I wasn’t actually able to find it for sale anywhere, but if you call them I’m sure they can hook you up with a distributor. If you’re lazy and/or not picky, there are tons of generic lab coats for sale at Amazon.
• The Gloves
  Nice looking white welding gloves are key to the costume. The pair linked above are nice and will do the trick, but if you want the actual gloves used in Neil Patrick Harris’s costume, here’s what you’re looking for.
• The Boots
  This pair looks perfect. I have no other suggestions, so just swing by Amazon and get these.
• Pants
  This is probably the least important part of the costume. I’m not saying you shouldn’t wear pants (because you should), but just swing by your local department store and pick up a pair of white pants, then tuck them in to the boots.
• The Freeze Ray
  Last, but certainly not least, any Dr. Horrible needs a Freeze Ray to Stop….. The World. Swing over to Amazon or your favorite toy store, find a suitable water gun, and spray paint it black.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my tutorial and if you’ve read this and use this costume for Halloween, or any other costume-wearing event, please post pictures here!

1. Back in the late 90’s when she was elected Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, she was almost recalled because shortly after entering office, she fired the Police Chief and Library Director for not supporting her in her 1996 race for Mayor. She didn’t even have the Republican courtesy to deny and lie: Her official reason for the firings was that they were “not fully supporting her efforts to govern”. (source)
2. She got away with the above tactic as Mayor, so why not try it again as Governor? Once she got the state’s top job, she promptly fired public safety commissioner Walt Monegan. This time, however, it wasn’t because he hadn’t supported her in her run for Governor. He had the gaul to not follow her administration’s pressure to fire a state trooper - who had divorced her sister. (source)
3. She actually had the chutzpah to go on some joke of a radio show and heartily laugh at accusations by the hosts that her apparent arch nemesis, State Senate President Lyda Green (a cancer survivor) is a “cancer” to the state of Alaska and a “bitch”. This wasn’t when she was just Mayor, either. This was in 2008, while she was Governor. An op-ed in the Anchorage Daily News referred to her appearance on the show as “plain and simple one of the most unprofessional, childish and inexcusable performances I’ve ever seen from a politician.” (source)
4. Everyone already knows that Iraq was a war for oil, but any republican running for any big office, especially that of the vice president, should probably know not to admit that. That memo, however, apparently skipped over Sarah Palin. In her words, “We are a nation at war and in many [ways] the reasons for war are fights over energy sources, which is nonsensical when you consider that domestically we have the supplies ready to go.” Where exactly does she want to get those domestic oil supplies? The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. (source)
5. If you’re think Sarah Palin lacks national security experience, Cindy McCain says you’re wrong. Why? Because Alaska is close to Russia. Yes, you read that correctly, Cindy McCain actually thinks that proximity to Russia makes the governor of Alaska qualified with national security experience. I don’t even know how to react to this, but I guess they’re taking the whole “throw shit against the wall and see what sticks” approach to campaign strategy. (source)

Are there more reasons than these five that make Sarah Palin a crappy choice for McCain’s veep? Of course there are, but these are the 5 that I think will cause the Republicans the most grief. I’ve got no complains whatsoever about John McCain going about his campaigning in a half-assed way without thinking things through or thoroughly vetting important people like, say, his running mate, but he may just want to save the taxpayers money and just call Barack Obama to concede defeat now.