It was boring. She kept talking about ACORN and how black people are terrorists or whatever. And Joe the Plumber or Mr. Joe Six Pack.

This story in the Enquirer said 15,000 tickets were distributed for the event. But the paper didn’t bother reporting how many people were actually there.

So let’s take a look at some fancy pictures and such.

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Sarah the Maverick signed some autographs:

Some people thought they’d be cute by making some awful shirts:

We told you JAMAKAIN is the Jesus of everything:

And some people made fancy signs:

Oh, look, some ladies are trying too hard to look like Sarah. They don’t know that when Joe Biden wins, they’ll be forced to style their hair just like his:

Look how excited Sarah got! And then look at her with John Boehner. She has no idea who he is, of course, but she’s with him. She’s smiling because his name makes her think something funny.

Finally, we’ll leave you with this fancy bumper sticker our Intrepid Reporter spotted at the event:

FEAR.

Everyone pray that the IR can capture some amazing videos and photographs.

Updates will come later.

Governor Steve Beshear’s E-Transparency Task Force will meet tomorrow, October 2 at 10:00 A.M. Members of the public are encouraged to attend for the public unveiling of Kentucky’s Open Door website, which will be officially launched in January 2009. The task force’s preliminary results will be unveiled on the state’s website on October 6. [Press Release]

Fancy pants Don McNay was featured in Editor & Publisher! Check it out. Dave Astor wrote a column about the financial meltdown and Don was the big dog in the story. Nice shout-out for Don. [Editor & Publisher]

In the spirit of all this crap that’s going down with the University of Louisville. Take a look at this story of a public employee protected by the First Amendment for speaking out against what they perceived to be wrongdoing. UofL should take notice. [Law Professors]

Also, have you seen the cover of the latest New Yorker? Haha, we almost peed. It’s a watercolor of Sarah Palin, America’s most esteemed and fancy governor, lookin out her winder with some binoculars at the foreign land of USSR Russia or whatever. Aww, poor Sarah. [The New Yorker]

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Kentucky Democratic Party can’t get anything right under the leadership of Jennifer Moore. In the KDP’s latest email blast– one of the few times Bruce Lunsford is ever mentioned, mind you– the party is touting the Governor’s support of Lunsford. The message comes from “leader” @ the party’s web address. But the subject is the funny part– in the message about Bruce, the subject read, “Governor’s Approval Rating Hits 60%.” The party couldn’t proof read its own email blasts. Imagine that. [Email Blast]

Senate President David Williams is lying a lot these days. Here’s what he had to say about Dan Mongiardo, “Yesterday, Lieutenant Governor Daniel Mongiardo called people in rural parts of the state ignorant racists because they do not happen to agree with his own personal liberal choice for president. I demand an immediate apology. His comments are inappropriate and insulting to rural Kentuckians.” Heads up to David: Dannyboy didn’t call people racists, holmes. Here’s what he said, jackass, “Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo said apparent lack of support in rural Kentucky stems from unfamiliarity with Obama and his policies, as well as ignorance and racial discrimination.” [Press Releases]

WHAS11′s Adam Walser followed up on the John Deasy-Gates Foundation story last night. Here’s what he got, A Gates Foundation spokesperson told WHAS11 that officials there are aware of the investigation, but say they’re confident in Deasy’s ability to lead. HAHA. Riiight. [Adam Walser]

From the Department of the Weird, the Washington Post wrote a glowing editorial about John Deasy. Never mind that fake Ph.D. that Robert Felner gave him. It’s no biggie, we guess. Nothing to see here, move along. [WaPo]

OMG! From our Intrepid Reporter. A woman in Middletown, OH gets drunk, chases kids around, blocks traffic, yells at police, pees on the neighbor’s porch. ALL IN A COW SUIT! FOR REAL! Best mugshot of all time. [Enquirer & The Smoking Gun]

It’s always cracked me up to hear conservatives toss about terms like ‘bipartisanship’ and ‘civil discourse’– not because of what they mean, but because of what people on the right think they mean. Not too long ago I had the joy of being on the receiving end of an email from a family member who is, put nicely, right-leaning, and chose to respond, not in kind, but with an email of my own creation, so as to better avoid the rampant factual errors and lack of citation that was presented to me.

As you might imagine, the sender offered no immediate response, but one other family member came back to me with a variation on a very common theme of those on the opposite end of the ideological spectrum from myself–obviously I had fallen into the trap of wanting to help the little guy, but the Democratic Party was merely a vehicle of corruption, and this was going to be the last conversation we were going to have about politics because we were family and we shouldn’t fight.

I won’t deny, the Democratic Party does corruption as well as anybody. Look at William Jefferson, John Murtha, and Steny Hoyer. We’re still waiting for real press on most of those, by the way. But that logic– and that he did not want to slug it out with me via e-mail– was not really why we were having our last conversation about politics. Really, it was because freezing the debate in the name of unity is the oldest trick in the conservative book.

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See, there’s this thing about liberals– we’re almost inherenly unsure of ourselves and our status. We’re aware of the social construct of norms and mores, and how flexible it is, and recognize that if everbody indeed has a voice, that ours really isn’t that special, and so when we speak, we are bound to have confidence issues. Conservatives don’t think that way. Social norms and mores are law, and they operate with an absolute certainty of purpose (I doubt any self-respecting liberal would claim anything less), but of the rules of world they live in as well. When we get agressive, we’re almost always operating outside of these, so they merely invoke them, create doubt and hesitation, and wreck our proverbial shit. We can’t say what we feel about what’s happened to our country– extreme anger and sadness for many of us– because of the mastery with which the ideological right executes this maneuver. Why else, instead of answeing the charges made against him, would Mitch McConnell get the vapors when told he was one of the most corrupt men in Congress?

Why else, when cornered for having some women that were so forward as to actually hold a political rally, would a conservative talk radio host say not that he was wrong to paint them as socialist babykillers, but that his listeners were wrong to threaten them because it didn’t contribute to the civil discourse?

These things, you see, make those of the liberal mind freeze, hesitate, pause, stutter, explain themseleves, give such an opening that the conservatives, operating as automotons as they so often do, may march right through and display the assertiveness that the public latches on to. The public cares far less about your being right than about your being certian in doing so.

George Bush’s lack of nuance was never an issue. You were, and are, with us or against us. John Kerry, however, was a flip-flopper and his hesitancy left him doomed. So, liberals, Democrats, progressive Republicans even– when it is presented to you that you should lay down your arms and comprimise, in the name of unity, or putting country first, or maintaining the civil discourse, hold your ground. You can fight your cousin. You can accomplish great things– or at least prevent great harm– in a do-nothing Congress.

And what of civil discourse? Call them motherfuckers all you want, because if you don’t, they’ll ruin your country.

Go read the AP story about him. We can’t excerpt from the piece or we’ll die a horrible death.

He’s a white supremacist or whatever.

He served 31 months in prison for beating his wife and children, blaming his time on “fascist women.”

And there’s all kinds of fancy material of his on the YouTube.  Thankfully, no one has uncovered weener footage and we’d be greatly appreciative if no one ever attempts to do so.

One particularly interesting role Landham played was in the 1974 movie The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann. No, we’re not joking. He played the role of “Political candidate” in the movie about a housewife who was tracked by a private investigator. Fancy keywords for the film include: Chauffeur, Private Detective, Housewife, Hardcore, and Sex.

Get ready for the crazy circus, Kentucky!

Our Intrepid Reporter dug this one up in the Herald-Leader:

CBS affiliate WKYT-27 is losing anchors Renee Charles and DeAnn Stephens.

Charles, who anchors the station’s 5:30 p.m. news, is moving to Peoria, Ill., where her husband will take a promotion with Caterpillar Inc.
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Stephens, who anchors the weekend newscasts, has taken a job as part of The Mooo Crew morning team on radio station WBUL-98.1 FM.

She had filled in as part of that team previously, along with other WKYT anchors.

How hilarious is that? She’s leaving WKYT to join The Mooo Crew. The Mooo Crew.

We love how the H-L just threw that in there like it was the Nightly News or World News Tonight.

The Kentucky Kernel, UK’s student paper that usually leaves a lot to be desired, has some background on the ad itself.

Antonia Lindauer, a public information officer with the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security, said the commercial reflects the direction of the media campaign that was chosen by the previous administration. Since Gov. Steve Beshear was elected, the office is under new leadership and has plans to begin a new media campaign.
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Christy Giles, director of the UK Office of Emergency Management, said the commercial is a reminder that disasters can happen in this area, and people need to be prepared and ready to take action accordingly.
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John Stempel, a senior professor in the UK Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, said the commercial is a useful way to make people pay attention to important issues.

“If you’re not ready when terror hits, you’re often dead with no chance to learn,” Stempel said.

Quite possibly the funniest story in weeks:

Sex Offender Running For Texas Mayor, While Naked

Let’s turn our attention ever so briefly to Wilmer, Texas, a town of 3,400 patriotic citizens outside of Dallas. Wilmer has an important mayoral election on May 10. The incumbent, Don Hudson, could lose his seat to James Brian Sliter, 42. Sliter is an accountant by trade (and a real whiz at it, we hear!), and he also really, really likes trying to have sex with 15-year-old girls he meets on the Internet.

Second funniest:

President George Bush’s Sex Tour Of Easter

Because Easter celebrates fertility and ancient pagan sex rituals, the day after Easter George Bush likes to invite children to his house to observe his fecund daughter Jenna and look on in wonderment as he indulges in subtle anal play with the Easter Bunny. Join us on this appalling tour of the filthiest Easter Egg Roll since last year’s!

On the last-ditch effort of Steve Beshear to push his failed and embarrassing casino strategery:

The Rev. Nancy Jo Kemper, executive director of the Kentucky Council of Churches, compared the rally to “whipping a dead horse with a wet noodle.”

Mmm. Noodles. (We’re hungry…)

OMG. Jim Gooch walks it out Michael Jackson Style! Watch this. DO IT. Can’t breathe. Laughter. Dying.

Hehehe. We love slow news days.

Doesn’t Jerry look all dainty and young in the video?

Larry Dale Keeling is insane, possibly. Apparently it’s seriously world-ending terrible to elect a gubernatorial candidate in a primary if they don’t already have a lieutenant on their ticket. Sure it’d be nice to know who they’ll pick but come one. [KY Kurmudgeon]

Horrible, awful, hilarious. You have been warned. [Awful, awful, awful]

State House Republicans attempt to call up pre-abortion ultrasound bill but failed. Before anyone gets their little feelings hurt, though, Rep. Kathy Stein said Senate bills would be heard next week. Thank goodness no names were mentioned in this discharge story’s headline, so we didn’t gag. [H-L]

Jefferson County Republican Party Chairman Jack Richardson writes a tell-all column that you have got to read. He excoriates all kinds of people– rank and file Republicans, Paultards, crazy hack Frank Simon, everyone. It’s great. Go read it. [Blue Grass, Red State]

Lunsford Developing Senior Housing Project in Florida. Bruce Lunsford’s development company, Arcadia Communities, is developing a senior living facility in Saratoga Springs, Florida that will cost between $13 – $15 million and will include 58 high-end housing units. So, looks like he really does do real estate development, kids. Just saying. [Business Review]