My contribution to the 2012 Election Cycle

The Glam Rock Stylings of Senator Elton John

Love those star-shaped glasses, Senator.

YouTube link

Criminal Defense Tactic #37

Pretend you are Neo from The Matrix.

I Am Happy To Be Alive For This Moment

I'm happy to see Bush go.

I am happy Obama will be President.

I am optimistic. I am happy to be here.

Alternative Obama Sidebar Campaign Sought!

SamuraiFrog has just emailed me a superb alternative to my COME ON trainwreck idea.



Does anyone else have a suggestion or suggestions?

COME ON, Obama Campaign Quickly Shuttered

Holy crap.

I am just killing this COME ON, Obama campaign RIGHT NOW.
If only it were a joke to begin with.

Damn double entendres. Damn them to hell!

Thank you to the Imaginary Reviewer for calling my attention to this before it got too out of hand.

Crikey.

COME ON, Obama!

Hi, it's time.

I don't feel the need to tell George Bush to go away any more.




Let's try and be a little more positive.

Introducing the COME ON, Obama hit counter!


Visit early, visit often! And if you have a sidebar currently telling Bush to go away, please consider changing it.

Thank you!

A Clarification On My I Fucking Hate Celebrites Post

Here, another political video done by some celebrities:

Ron Howard's Call To Action


You see, the video above works. Because it's not someone attempting to direct your will one way or the other, solely based on some arbitrary status given to them by the popular culture.

They're actually using their talents (writing/acting/directing) to attempt to create something of worth within their medium, in order to influence people. They are trying.

I guess what enraged me so much in my previous post was the stink of entitlement that wafted off of every actor in the video.

It made me recall the line Ed Begley, Jr. gave (playing himself) on the Simpsons, where he drove a car powered by his "own sense of self-satisfaction".

So, not all celebrities are bad, self-satisfied. Not all of them are royalty. To clarify -- fuck some celebrities, but not others.

Thank you for your time!

Wow, Do I Fucking Hate Celebrities

What's more annoying than some overpaid famous people telling us plebs what to do?

Telling us what to do by telling us what not to do.

I just might not vote because of this piece of shit.

Fucking celebrities. Fuck them.




UPDATE:
Okay, so I watched the rest of the video. There is a twist, where the celebrities then cajole you, the viewer, into voting.

But I stand by my original statement. Fuck celebrities.

Sarah Palin

Some Inspired McCain Stencils

Courtesy of Bubs, some nice variations on the McCain stencil.

That McCain Sticker

Oh, you know that McCain sticker on a NO TURN ON RED sign I referred to in a previous post?

This morning, I peeled it off and threw it away.

An Incitement To Negative Graffiti

Last week, my mom sent me this nice little article from the LA Times about pro-Obama street-art. She had sent it to me because she was wondering if some graffiti in Chicago referred to in passing was the same graffiti I had blogged about last November (I think it was).

This article got me thinking about the cumulative effect of pro-Obama graffiti. Personally, I think it's really positive, but I don't know if it's enough. I think that anti-McCain graffiti might be a necessary step for graffiti artists who hope to see Obama win the 2008 Presidency.

I don't really discuss my political leanings too much (well, apart from that Go Away, Bush thingie on my right sidebar), but I do not want John McCain to win.

I feel kinda weird about writing a post that attempts to inspire others to attack another person. Well, I'm not so much asking people to attack McCain, but discuss his policies, and why he would be a terrible President. Still, maybe I shouldn't? Am I just being a wishy-washy liberal (yeah, probably)? I just wanted to say that in this incitement for negative graffiti, I *have* thought about it, and after thinking about it I still think negative graffiti is required to defeat John McCain, and that its use is appropriate.

Earlier this year, I found a post on Bold Lentil, following a linkback from my Obama post.

The author had created a John McCain stencil as a tool for any interested parties in spreading McCain "fever", and said people were free to reuse, change the text, etc. He was essentially doing what I'm trying to do now, but wasn't being emphatic about it.

Okay. This is the emphatic part.

Graffiti artists. Street artists. People who just like slapping stickers on shit in public spaces. LISTEN TO ME. YOU NEED TO GET GOING. YOU NEED TO TELL PEOPLE ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN. For every pro-Obama sticker you put up, put up an anti-McCain sticker. Get it?

Regarding the stencil above, I personally don't think the "BEAT IRAQ" message would be terribly effective. I'm thinking "PRO-WAR" -- "PRO-RICH" -- feel free to add your own succinct slogan in the comments.

As I was walking to work from the train today, I saw a somber, black oval sticker on a NO TURN ON RED sign. It had small white letters that read "John McCain '08". Any doubt I had about this incitement to negative graffiti immediately evaporated.

So what are you waiting for? GET GOING.

More Critics Of Bush Just Want Him To Go Away

Some snarky people in San Francisco are attempting to name a sewage treatment plant in (dis)honor of George W. Bush.

They have encountered some unexpected resistance, however:

"What we didn’t expect was that most of the opposition was coming from people who didn’t want to name anything. They just wanted to forget about the past eight years and move on"

Via ThinkProgress

Oh, you can still tell Bush to go away yourself.

Happy Last Fourth Of July Of The Bush Presidency

Just think, a year from now Bush won't be president!

Hey, Hey, We Reached A Benchmark

I just noticed that we cracked a 1,000 hits on the GO AWAY Bush Hit Counter!

Maybe before he leaves office we'll pass up the number of US military deaths incurred during the Iraqi War!

Maybe then we'll pass up the number of Iraqis killed during the Iraqi War!

Maybe then we'll pass up the number of dollars spent on the Iraqi War!

Maybe somehow all the pain and misery shat upon this world by the current administration will be magically wiped clean by incrementing the hit counter!

That would be nice.

A Leftover Graphic From An Aborted Political Post

I was going to write a post about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and the oil industry's desire to drill there.

The gist of the post was that they and the politicians who speak on their behalf are a bunch of greedy bastards using lies to get what they want. Then I decided not to write the post.



Um, okay, well I'll talk to ya later <cough>.

Germans Just Want Bush To Go Away

BERLIN — The young anarchists, middle-aged peace activists and established left-wing politicians here have at least one thing in common: none bothered to keep a six-year tradition alive by organizing a protest against President Bush’s arrival here Tuesday.

President Bush arrived in Germany on Tuesday, where he was greeted by Chancellor Angela Merkel but, oddly, no protesters.

"Bush is not even popular in the role of the enemy anymore," wrote Der Tagesspiegel newspaper.


(NY Times via Think Progress)

Please Help Me

For the purpose of telling him to go away, I'm going to try and keep President Bush in my sidebar for as long as I can stomach it (yes, you are correct, it makes absolutely no sense).

I'm getting sick of seeing that same picture, so I welcome anyone who wants to doctor it.

If you wish to provide me with a picture, please adhere to a few simple rules:

1) Use the pic above as the starting point for your picture.
2) Don't change the dimensions or size of the original pic - it has to fit in my sidebar.
3) Don't obscure the yellow lettering (I don't want people thinking I support the man, for crissakes).

There are some bloggers out there who are also sporting "Go Away, Bush " sidebar items, and I'm sure they would appreciate your contributions just as much as I.

I actually have a couple doctored pics ready to go, but it won't be enough to last me through the remainder of the Bush presidency.

America needs YOUR HELP.

Thank you, and God Bless The Blogosphere.

UPDATE:

p0nk has contributed two pictures to the Bush sidebar cause!

I'm especially enamored of this one, referencing one of my favorite mugshots from The Smoking Gun.



Falwless has made some solid contributions as well.


Some Guy has given the world this unholy union:



Blaniage (my brother) has provided several wonderful pics, including this very disturbing one (Bush without pancake makeup!):



Another unholy union! This time Cheney and Condi get some face time, thanks to DGuzman:



Tim has joined the fray:



As has Jess!


Ed has joined the "Go Away, Bush" Army!


Manx has provided some "Go Away, Bush" goodness:


Blaniage has provided several more wonderful pics, including a mashup of my adopted actor's breakout role from The Warriors (this explains Bush's foreign policy quite well, I think):


Germaine Gregarious has given us someone I can tumble for -- Boy George Bush!


Beckeye submitted this well-crafted addition:


Another stellar contribution from Germaine Gregarious:


Gifted Typist has found this exciting new species:



More goodness from Beckeye:


One final pic from my brother::


Thank you Beckeye for Cletus Bush!



You may or may not have noticed, but I'm updating the bottom of the Go Away, Bush page with any contributions I get.