Be glad you’re not Chris Koster, a party-switcher running for attorney general in Missouri. His ex-wife bought nearly $200,000 in airtime ti take down his campaign. How insane is this? WE LOVE IT! [KC Star]
Jim Bunning is suddenly all upset over China’s spying and poor treatment of, you know, everyone. He apparently isn’t familiar with his buddy Mitch McConnell’s super-tight ties to Red China. Maybe he could open his eyes. [UPI]
The U.S. House voted to regulate tobacco. Geoff Davis voted no. We’re talking about a bill that both John McCain and Barack Obama support. Isn’t that nice? We’re finally going to regulate one of the biggest killers on earth and people like Geoff Davis don’t see fit to care. Ed Whitfield, Ron Lewis and Hal Rogers also voted no. [H-L]
Wait wait. Steve Beshear has replaced Jim Sullivan on the lottery board with Larry O’Bryan, the political media consultant in Louisville. Does this mean anyone can get appointed to anything and get paid while doing it? If so, someone needs to tell the governor we need some appointments. [Mark Hebert]
David Williams will chair John McCain’s presidential campaign in Kentucky. What’s most interesting, though, is that Williams said “McCain is a leader Kentuckians can believe in.” After, of course, McCain himself lies every day by saying he didn’t say something controversial the day prior– and then the press digs it up on video. [PolWatchers]
Of course gay-hater Martin Cothran couldn’t go five minutes without dreaming up some sort of ho-mo-sexual conspiracy at the Courier-Journal. Did you know The C-J and UofL are “running interference for the gay community” ?? Because we certainly didn’t. [Martin Cothran]
14 responses so far ↓
1 TJ // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:24 am
New KY poll numbers later today from Rasmussen. Senate, President, Gov.
2 Yellow Dog // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:38 am
Heather Ryan and Michael Kelley:
Heads Up on your opponents’ tobacco votes.
3 Jeff Noble // Jul 31, 2008 at 11:08 am
I really like the “Red” in Red China. Nice touch.
Who calls it Red China anymore? It’s like J. Edgar Hoover and Alger Hiss are back.
Always remember, Nixon went to China.
4 D. J. Self-Conscious // Jul 31, 2008 at 11:33 am
Oink, oink.
Let’s have a gang war at Fancy Farm between the progressive activist bloggers and the moderate sit-on-their-asses-and-calculate-their-way-back-to-power (NOT!) bloggers. Quite frankly, we’d beat the shit out of them. We’re merciless, brutal motherfuckers. We’re the Hunter S. Thompsons of Kentucky’s blogging world.
5 Terri // Jul 31, 2008 at 11:54 am
I prefer to be referred to as the “Reba McEntire of the KY blogosphere,” thank you very much. (Fancy.)
6 Yellow Dog // Jul 31, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Oooh! Can I be the “Dave Barry of the KY blogosphere?” Need to brush up on my booger jokes, though.
7 D. J. Self-Conscious // Jul 31, 2008 at 12:41 pm
God. At the right of the box I’m typing this message into, there’s an ad for Tim Kaine, who’s undoubtedly “Fired Up for Change.” It links to MovingVirginiaForward.com. Is the man REALLY campaigning for VP? That’s ludicrous.
8 Yellow Dog // Jul 31, 2008 at 12:46 pm
I’ll bet the unspecified prize I got for being the first to identify Roger Ailes a couple weeks back that the Tim Kaine hype is a feint to hide the real choice – Wes Clark.
9 jake // Jul 31, 2008 at 12:50 pm
YD: Your name was dropped in a bowl but you weren’t, unfortunately, the name drawn out.
You missed out on a sweet $15 gift certificate to a crappy restaurant! It was so bad that the winner wouldn’t accept it.
10 Oh My // Jul 31, 2008 at 1:58 pm
So, are the Page One guys coming to WKY to eat high on the hog?
11 jake // Jul 31, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Nope.
12 BimBeau // Jul 31, 2008 at 7:10 pm
D.J. – There are some of us out there that have a higher order of credentials than blather on the Internet or it’s junior cousin, the web.
Compared to most of us, the calculators, Hunter S. is nearly illterate. Most of us are veterans and can ask with a straight face, “When’s the last time you killed for your country?” But then we don’t. It wouldn’t be polite – we just kind of let it sit out there, the 999# gorilla to your 300#er. We also have an identity problem; we don’t know who: Jake is, or Martin Cothran, or any of the other myriad contributors in here and out there.
We are disturbed by a photograph of people worshipping Obama and by webloggers who ‘feel’ it necessary to approve all the comments their writing brings in opposition to their screed of hatred in defense of Republican ideas.
So … much as I find ‘Jake’ fulfilling, entertaining and instructional, I don’t know who or what he is, like I know who Mark Hebert, Ferrell Wellman, Tony McVeigh or Al Cross are – and you are constantly pillorying them for being responsible and crowing about your being faster out of the gate, especially when you’re inaccurate.
See you on TV!!!!!!!!!!
Bim now has a BeauTie
13 D.J. Self-Conscious // Jul 31, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Bimbeau, no-one with impressive credentials structures sentences like you. I’m unimpressed.
My credentials, however, are impressive, and that fact is displayed by my superb sentence construction.
And I would kick your ass. I would latch onto your ear with my teeth until either it came off or screamed to your schizophrenic god for mercy.
Also, I hope to your schizophrenic god that you realize you accused a man of being illiterate while misspelling the word illiterate. That’s such an example of postmodern awareness, and po-mo went out with Bush 41.
14 Mike Bailey // Aug 1, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Michael Kelley MD responds to Geoff Davis’ FDA vote
This week the U.S. House of Representatives took a very important step in promoting better health among Americans; it voted to extend FDA authority to cover tobacco. Since our Food and Drug Administration is charged with protecting and promoting our health, it stands to reason the FDA would have some say in regulating the number one cause of preventable health problems in America: smoking. Not only is smoking responsible for an enormous percentage of our nation’s healthcare problems, but it is responsible for roughly 25 cents of each healthcare dollar spent in America today.
Link is below for the rest of it…
EDITED – Use this link.
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