Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Probably Uncalled For Season Finale Tonight!!!

Probably Uncalled For Season Finale!

8:00pm Eastern / 5:00pm Pacific

Live call-in # - (646)478-5145 - phones and chat room open duration of broadcast

Come join Thomas Keister and ppdingles tonight on the Season Finale of Probably Uncalled For, as they'll be digging into the by-now infamous shoe throwing incident in Iraq, Sarah Palin's church being the hottest place in Wasilla, some typical asinine behavior relating to the failed auto bailout, Diddy and Paris Hilton's stupid asses, the GTA IV defense being tried for the first time in court, the last Stupid Britain segment of 2008, education, and murders both unsolved and dubiously solved, along with the TBD topics we scour the world for. Thanks for making 2008 our biggest year yet, and help us close the book on our second season LIVE tonight on Blog Talk Radio!
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Tonight, on an all-new Probably Uncalled For...

Come join Dr. Thomas Keister and "The Internet Legend," ppdingles tonight on an all-new episode of Probably Uncalled For, LIVE as always on Blog Talk Radio! Tonight, they'll be discussing more great moments for government, the continued embarassment of the GOP by the GOP and most assuredly FOR the GOP, more great moments for education, an unbelieveable piece from Illinois - if you are a single parent, you HAVE to hear this!, and all the pop culture, entertainment, and other topics TBA you hinge the rest of your week on!

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

The Daily Breakdown - 11.20.08

Wow. That's really all I can say at the moment. It has been a whirlwind two weeks and change since election day, and the history just keeps on coming. First African-American president elected, women running for both president and vice-president this time around, an expected first African-American attorney general, and now, on top of it all, the good people of Silverton, Oregon saw fit to elect Stu Rasmussen back into the mayor's office. Rasmussen, who served two terms as mayor after winning elections in 1988 and 1990, and had served the last four years on the city council, gained 52% of the vote to defeat incumbent mayor Ken Hector (39%), and in the process, became the first openly transgender mayor in the United States. Just waiting for the headline where Rasmussen becomes the first mayor in U.S. history to resign from office for sexually harassing himself...

Federal agents and local police raided three "tanning salons" and arrested at least five people in the Seattle area Tuesday as part of a two-year investigation into what they say were fronts for prostitution. The King County Sheriff's Department, Seattle Police, the Internal Revenue Service, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement coordinated raids on five homes and businesses, arresting the owners, who had been indicted on charges of conspiring to transport women for prostitution and conspiring to launder the proceeds of the alleged brothels. Uh, yeah...whoopty damn. Why did it take four agencies two fucking years to figure out whether or not these businesses were selling pussy along with unlimited tanning packages? Makes me wonder how many of the law enforcement personnel who labored on this, ahem, bust look like George Hamilton now? Guess there is a happy ending for sunburn after all. Just don't ask where the lotion was applied...

I'm loving this...McDonald's, in addition to actually applying for patents in the U.S. and UK, claiming that their sandwiches, and the production method thereof, is "intellectual property," is also crusading to create the image their food-type products are healthy. Notable hilarity in this effort includes a slaughterhouse visit, to not only show the humane way the chickens are treated before the ax comes down, but to prove the McChicken nuggets actually contain chicken! Even funnier, and slightly more awkward than that, McDonald's is trying to rehab the image of their fries as healthy. Yeah, the fries. The fries that contain 380 calories, 270 mg of sodium, and a color preservative. Oh my McFucking God...

As first mentioned by Wonkette.com, Wall Street Journal deputy editorial page editor and long past brain damaged jackhole Daniel Henninger had his two cents' worth as to the cause of the financial crisis our country is in: "This year we celebrate the desacralized “holidays” amid what is for many unprecedented economic ruin — fortunes halved, jobs lost, homes foreclosed. People wonder, What happened? One man’s theory: A nation whose people can’t say “Merry Christmas” is a nation capable of ruining its own economy." It's official. The Wall Street Journal needs to change their name, because if the best one of the low foreheads in charge of the opinion page can do is blame the so-called "war on Christmas" on the financial crisis, then the WSJ no longer has any business whatsoever covering Wall Street, or much of anything involving real reporter-type shit anymore. Ever. Period. Also, since it costs more to make a penny than it's actually worth, we have a more realistic take on what Dan Henninger's idiotic fucking ramblings are worth. Merry Christmas, you fucking moron. There, are you happy now, Henninger?

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

In just one hour on an all-new Probably Uncalled For...

Come join Dr. Thomas Keister and ppdingles on an all-new episode tonight, as they'll be discussing the automaker bailout, Ted Stevens getting voted out of the U.S Senate, Joe Lieberman and the so-called "punishment," a thin but rewarding "Stupid Britain" segment, Sarah Palin, great moments in lesbianism, technology, and all the other topics TBA. Come find out what the world is listening to!!!

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Saturday, November 1, 2008

So, will all his friends be voting dumbass that night?

Rumor is building that country music legend Hank Williams, Jr. is seriously kicking around the notion of running for a U.S. Senate seat in Tennessee. While I shake my head slightly and roll my eyes, I'll, as always, allow you a moment at home to facepalm.

Williams, who has made appearances at ten McCain-Palin campaign stops, says he's quite motivated. Might as well be motivated by something other than reworking the lyrics to his hits to fit the flailing Republican presidential ticket or the intro to Monday Night Football, but come on, this?

While he hasn't taken any kind of formal action, like setting up an exploratory committee, he has reportedly been in contact with former Senators Bill Frist and Fred Thompson. Damn, I'm starting to think that faceplant he took off a mountain may have done more damage that originally thought. First, he hitches his wagon to the McCain-Palin campaign, the most inept presidential campaign in political history, and then he looks up Bill Frist and Fred Thompson for advice? Bill Frist, a doctor who famously tried to diagnose someone from what he saw on a freakin' videotape, and Fred Thompson, a capable actor whose brief flirtation with running for President proved he wouldn't even play a credible President on TV? Bottom line, Hank: leave the family tradition where it belongs, behind a guitar on a stage somewhere. Seriously.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

In just 15 minutes on an all-new Probably Uncalled For...

Episode 72: Come join us on the international talk radio hit (now with 3 straight Best Podcast nominations), as we'll be discussing the Ted Stevens convictions, more analysis of the last week of the Campaign That Has Taken Forever, personal responsibility taking a further beating, thanks to the state of Nebraska, great and stupid crime, another packed "Stupid Britain" segment, and all that TBA you have come to know, love, and crave on a weekly basis? You betcha *wink* Phone lines and chat room open the duration of the show, see ya there...

Friday, October 24, 2008

Palin 2012? I must have picked the wrong week to stop sniffing airplane glue...

How amusing that Sarah Palin named her favorite clothing store as Out of the Closet, a consignment store in Anchorage, Alaska. Hmmm...hardcore Republican loves Out of the Closet? Both amusing and ironic in the same stroke. Oops, maybe I shouldn't have said stroke.

When mavericks collide? Their awkward interview with NBC's Brian Williams notwithstanding, who's campaign is it anyway? What's I'm trying to get my head wrapped around, is with Palin contradicting McCain on numerous occasions, when she's not managing to contradict herself while she's at it, how can any pundit seriously kick around the concept of a Sarah Palin presidential run in 2012? Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying she won't but who in their right mind would take her seriously? Flip flops, confusion, $150 grand in clothes, ethics probes, and of course, the apparent secessionist support aside, what base would she have, and can we start investigating these people now?

A final note on this post- with Palin's brain-shut-off remarks regarding research being conducted with fruit flies, are there yet still people who honestly expect a McCain-Palin administration to have the backs of special needs children? Palin, who has already slashed the budget in her own state in that area, should not be seen as building a lot of confidence there. And four years from now, when her now-infant son won't be small enough to be handed off to another kid when a photo op springs up, ask yourself how many of the Palin offspring will be on stage acting as part of the backdrop. Yep, I think many of you have already asked yourself that question, in spite of probably already knowing the answer.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Probably Uncalled For Episode 71 Recap

Regarding the schmuck in Thomas Township, Michigan who got arrested for getting Bill and Monica with a car wash's vacuum cleaner...damn, buddy, I know times are tough financially for a lot of people here at the present, and 75 cents for a hummer, mechanical or otherwise, may be a hell of a deal, but if I may be so bold, just save up and buy a fucking Dustbuster. The people at Big Lots are not going to automatically assume you are in the market for a cheap companion that swallows, so you can check your social phobias, if any, at the door. An awkward 911 call kind of pales in comparison to spending a night in lock-up, although I'm sure you enthralled the holding cell with the woeful tale of love gone wrong in a car wash parking lot. You should be counting your lucky stars they didn't identify you in the news piece, dumbass...

I said it last night on the show, and I will say it again here- it sure seems like John McCain is already trying out bits and pieces of his concession speech, doesn't it? Already planning on going back to Arizona and serving out your Senate term? That does not sound like a man confident of his chances, and with 12 days to go, it's starting to look like you may have to leverage whatever political capital you have left to even keep your Senate seat, when it's all said and done...

To Frank Armstrong of Clearwater, Florida, the guy who says his Lexus was singled out for vandalism over the McCain-Palin sticker: uh, yeah...maybe if more than just your car was hit by the tools who scratched stuff in the paint, burned it with cigarettes, put a burned flag on the hood, and possibly drained the snake on it, and all cars involved had McCain-Palin stickers on it, then you might have a legitimate bitch. Yours was the only car? Sounds to me like you might have been a douchebag to begin with, political preferences aside...

Glad to see this election is already going to be handcuffed in some shape or fashion by all the hand-wringing over potential vote fraud, dirty tricks in registration, and purging of voter rolls. Anyone has to try and figure out why voter turnout in our country is so low (we are ranked 114th in the world in that category, by way of comparison, Cambodia is ranked 2nd in the world, and they do not have compulsory voting, either), look to the never-ending bullshit that has engulfed our country's "democratic" system of voting. No third parties are given anything resembling a level playing field, the rules become more confusing and/or petty each and every election cycle, and to say the very least, the removal of the process from non-partisan hands does nothing to ensure the bullshit will just get higher and more pungent on every lap...I mean, we have all seen what happens when a career-building, politically motivated Secretary of State (not naming names, Katherine Harris), gets in the mix...

The one change I am starting to hope for more than anything else in the aftermath of this election is Sarah Palin fading back into the woodwork in Alaska. Never before have I seen someone so ill-equipped to handle the national political stage. She makes Dan Quayle look like he discovered the Theory of Relativity, and she even makes Dubya look like he at least knows what he's doing, even though it's mostly been wrong and damn near criminal (and that's the stuff that wasn't flat criminal). Raving idiots like Palin and Rep. Michelle Bachman of Minnesota are the reason I said the cause of women in political roles is being set back for generations to come, and the more they talk, the more it seems like they are bending over backwards to prove me right. These know-nothing desperate housewife wannabes are perhaps the great new unseen danger in the political arena, and you don't even need a Saturday Night Live sketch to see that...

Which disturbs me more about "Great" Britain...that you need a license to throw away the fucking plastic wrap your brown bag lunch, or that doctors in the country need a new helping hand to figure out whether or not a patient is, in fact, dead? Neither. It's the fact they are still considered a world power of any sort. The nation has well went past even being a parody of themselves, and if it weren't for a handful of comedians and actors, they would have no export of any value, other than dumbass news stories for me to rip apart on my show each and every week...

What civic planning fucking genius puts a prison next door to a kindergarten? What moron allows a kindergarten to open next to a prison? Man, and to think, Brazil is on the verge of becoming a major player on the world stage due to their huge energy resources...then again, rather not think about that for the time being...

Switzerland feels it needs to pass a constitutional amendment to protect the dignity of plants? Allow me to facepalm briefly...what's next, People for the Ethical Treatment of Lettuce? Oh well, can't say too much...it's not like the United States has managed to come through on that "all men (or women) created equal" shit they've been touting for 200+ years now. Curious, though...what's the penalty for picking a wildflower from the side of the road? Are we talking a fine, or is there a jail term involved for violating the civil rights of a plant?...

Jeffrey Goldberg, the guy who has made a bit of a name for himself by going through airports coast-to-coast circumventing their security measures, most recently boarding a flight from Minneapolis-St.Paul International to Washington, DC with an Osama Bin Laden t-shirt on and a fake boarding pass with no photo ID on him, has to be applauded for showing us the business-as-usual operations of the Transportation Security Administration. For a country whose government has went above and beyond in playing the fear card in racheting up "homeland security," this is hardly a shock. Borders are not secure, shipping ports are not secure, and so on and so forth. What I want to know is, while Goldberg's quest may be noble, what did he have to Google up to find an "inflatable Arafat doll," and did he use a fake name to order it? There's exposing lax security, and then there's having your name linked to that kind of purchase...

My condolences to the private investigators in Australia...I mean, it had to be a tough life already, getting laid in the name of the common good, but now, just a promise of sex for money is evidence enough? I sense a sudden drop-off in the numbers of PI's doing their thing, so to speak, down under, so to speak...

Great show again, as always, in my less-than-humble opinion. Quick shout outs to friends of the show Jennifer Dunn, dealing with an illness in the family, and Tinkerbell, who has been hospitalized for illness the last couple of days and may be facing surgery. I told Jennifer I have no use for organized religion, but for both these longtime friends of myself and co-host ppdingles, I'll pray for them, and I would ask that fans and listeners of the show would keep them in their thoughts and prayers as well. See you all next week, for an all-new episode.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

In just 15 minutes on an all-new Probably Uncalled For...

Episode 71: Come join Thomas Keister and ppdingles tonight, as they'll be discussing the latest on the 2008 Presidential election, including John McCain already working on his concession?, Sarah Palin swinging and missing on strike 4, voter fraud, some mind boggling Stupid Britain, prison breaks, prostitution, and equal rights for plants? Yeah, gonna be one of those shows...

For God’s sake, someone buy Palin a helmet before she hurts herself

So let me get this straight...Sarah Palin, who bounced through five colleges to get her degree, still does not have any idea what the role of the Vice-President of the United States is?

How the hell has she managed to make it this far in life, let alone politics? While I can't say much about bouncing from school to school, as I am on my third, when I was in 8th grade, back in 1989-90, I had to take and pass a class on the U.S. Constitution to graduate and move on to high school. One of the things I learned...that the Vice-President does not run the Senate! The Vice-President is merely president pro tempore, which is just a title, and votes only in the case of a tie. The Vice-President does not help craft policy on the Senate floor, or anything of the sort. My mom, who had to take the same test back in the 50's, also knows this.

I'm sure Palin would love to be VP, where she can meander around in sweeping circles on the White House lawn, looking for things to shoot, but in the last few weeks, she has shown she wouldn't even be qualified to be "Queen of Alaska," a job more suited to her acceptance of a successionist movement in the very state she plays Governor of.

The running joke has been that Palin is not smarter than a 3rd grader, in reference to her latest swing and miss on the question of the role of the Vice-President (for those of you scoring at home, that was strike 4!), but I am now starting to question whether or not she is truly smart enough not to walk into shit without the help of her handlers, or perhaps one of those tennis balls on an antenna, like you see with people who can't pull into garages in their SUVs.

Monday, October 20, 2008

What the...?

Well, folks, tomorrow leaves only two weeks until the end of the longest presidential election campaign I believe this country has ever seen. Also, one of the dirtiest on behalf of the Republican Party. John McCain and Sarah Palin (they have both dishonored and disgraced their individual titles, and I am not going to put them in) have redefined the words slime and sleaze as we know them!

Now, of all things for a Republican to complain of, McCain says Obama has raised too much money! And since everyone knows that too much money corrupts and causes scandal, I would say if anyone would know this, it would be a Republican, not the least to say a woman who has been found to have violated state ethics standards and a former member of the Keating 5!

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

The People v. Dumbass- a burgeoning new Alaska tradition?

Is it just me, or are we finding out that above all else, Alaskan politicians really like free houses? Fresh in the middle of Ted Stevens' corruption trial, new allegations are coming to light that the same firm that built the hockey rink that then-mayor Sarah Palin got erected in Wasilla (probably the only time I'll connect a variation of the word 'erect' with Sarah Palin) may have built her house for free.

I'm just going out on a limb here, but don't you fucking morons (and by that, I'm speaking directly to Sen. Ted Stevens and Gov. Sarah Palin) think that bribery, kickbacks, greasing the wheels, whatever you want to call it, should be a little easier to conceal than a fucking house? It's not like cash, or hookers, or even a dildo sharpener in Palin's case would be that hard to sweep under a rug or deposit in the drawer next to the bed, as it were.

Then again, try convincing either of these two rocket surgeons they even did anything wrong in the first place. Sure, the jury's still out on Stevens, so to speak, but what about Palin? She can't even figure out the basics of the national campaign trail, or the construction of a complete sentence, so her lack of grasp of Alaska's ethics laws seems hardly surprising at this point in time.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse. So I've heard, and so I've been told. But in so far as Ted Stevens and Sarah Palin go, it may be one of the very few things in their respective careers- ignorance- that they have come by honestly.

Monday, October 13, 2008

McCain's search for comprehension

I wonder when the epiphany is going to strike...I truly wonder when that day between now and the first Tuesday of November arrives, and the light bulb fires up over John McCain's head, and the realization finally sets in.

"I couldn't have done a better job of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory if I was the 'B' fighter in a Don King pay-per-view main event."

Granted, that may not be what the Senator from Arizona has flash through his head verbatim, but it probably won't be that far from the truth. As the 2008 presidential election winds down, do you think McCain is starting to compile his mental laundry list of what went wrong? I mean, let's not kid ourselves here, we're talking about a guy who went from being a Republican candidate I would have potentially voted for in 2000 to just another poorly sewn-together Dubya knock-off...a flip-flopping, rambling, clueless man stuck firmly in the grasp of denial.

Was it hiring an all-star team of utter douchebags to run your campaign? Was it picking the original Desperate Housewife as your running mate? Was it briefly (or still, I can't keep track of my scorecard) running the dirtiest campaign of the televised political era? What will be the one thing McCain chalks up as the reason he finds himself sitting in whichever the hell house it will be on November 5, drinking Ovaltine and bottom shelf vodka and celebrating a second-place finish?

Was it letting his wife give stump speeches when she was not busy swiping recipes from every other website she could get her hands on? Was it his running mate setting back the cause of women in politics for decades to come? Was it the leading conservatives, from George Will to Bill Kristol to Kathleen Parker to even Newt friggin' Gingrich falling all over themselves to proclaim that, in fact, this shit is bananas? I guess we'll have to wait until November 5, cause if I tried to individually list all the possible causes, that's how long I'd be sitting here typing.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

The ice isn't the only thing melting in Alaska...

Wow- 2008 has turned out to be a landmark year for Alaska politics. Governor Sarah Palin was found to have abused the power of her office and broken the public trust, notably the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Senator Ted Stevens can only get other Republican politicians and former members of the Bush Administration to say "hey, he's a good guy!"

Don't know about the rest of you, but a politician is almost synonymous with several four-letter words, with liar being the nicest I'm willing to print!

Friday, October 10, 2008

Viral Video: The Daily Show's John Oliver on the 'Undecided' voters

from the October 7, 2008 episode of The Daily Show, on Comedy Central



from Dr. Thomas Keister, Managing Editor of BLOG!: Yeah, yeah, yeah...I'm willing to take the hit for being a Cubs fan. For the second straight year, the Cubbies absolutely pooched it in the playoffs, and this time as the alleged best team in the National League. At least I know how I'm voting. Baseball choke artists aside, this was hysterical and goes to show that while Britain has went screaming off the rails in recent years, at least their humorists are still among the finest in the world. Well done, John...

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

In just 15 minutes on an all-new Probably Uncalled For...

Episode #69: Come join us on the international talk radio hit tonight, as we'll be discussing last night's second presidential debate, more dumbassery from Sarah Palin, victories for both voting AND Homeland Security, the usual stupid Britain, Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears, Amy Winehouse, and the possibility of an 85 yr old Indiana Jones cracking whip, among other topics TBA

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Viral Video Double Feature: Keith Olbermann and Saturday Night Live on Sarah Palin

Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on Sarah Palin's "domestic terrorism" mudslinging (or would that be mudslingin'?)




Saturday Night Live's Vice-Presidential Debate parody, featuring Tiny Fey and Queen Latifah


Friday, October 3, 2008

McCain keeps swinging...although he struck out three weeks ago

Some of my friends who are becoming politically interested (which, for some of them, only happens every four years, lamentably) have been asking me if Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, has suffered a stroke of some sort. Even my co-host on Probably Uncalled For was wondering the same thing after seeing clips of a recent speech where McCain's at-times awkward body language suggested that perhaps some sort of neurological damage had occurred.

Nope. As far as I am aware, Sen. McCain is perfectly healthy...at least physically. Mentally, the guy's a racehorse that should have been taken out back and shotgunned a half-dozen races ago.

After voting on the pork-laden Bailout II: The Sequel, and voting for it, McCain then assailed the bill itself, calling for President Bush to veto the bill, no matter what the circumstances were. When pressed by MSNBC host Joe Scarborough as to why the bill contained so many ludicrous earmarks, including those I mentioned on my show, for railroads, auto racing tracks, and Puerto Rican rum production, McCain's answer was to the effect of "that's how the system works, and that's why it needs to be changed."

Damn. That's the equivalent of repeatedly pissing on the floor, and saying that is why a mop is needed. For someone who is attempting to suddenly recast himself as a candidate all about the change, playing the same old game, and then asking for another at-bat the day after the last pitch has been thrown, serves as a perfect example of a guy who really needs to be nudged into hanging up the spikes, as it has become more than apparent that Sen. John McCain isn't even sure which way to run around the bases anymore.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

In just 15 minutes on an all-new Probably Uncalled For...

Episode #68: Tonight, on an all-new Probably Uncalled For, join Thomas Keister and ppdingles as they will be discussing the latest on the Bailout, 3rd party updates on Bob Barr and absolute lunacy from Cynthia McKinney, more stupid Britain, Kelly Osbourne, Ellen, the road sign of the beast, and the new Free Rein Media Store launch, among other topics TBA.

Friday, September 26, 2008

The boning we're taking pales to the screwing we're in store for

Oh, well, business as usual. This eternal campaign rolls on and on, and the longer it lasts, the more certain I am that at this point it really doesn't matter who wins, this country is SCREWED!

You've got John McCain, who wants to grandstand with our economy to get elected. You've got one Vice-Presidential nominee who is as bad as Dick Cheney, only female. And last but not least you have another running mate who is playing bashful, just like he's not sure this is where he wants to be.

You've got a Congress who can't seem to do anything! Republicans acting like Democrats used to, Democrats doing a good imitation of wimps, and the total sum of all this business as usual - nothing getting done.

WE can't even immigrate to another country, no one wants Americans. And if we tried to do it illegally, you can damn sure bet the bank, we'd be tossed out on our asses!

Guess all we can do is sit back and wait for the chips to fall where they may.