Lazy Sunday--Hot Rod Linkin'™

My dad once said, "son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop bloggin' and hot rod linkin'." Okay, that's a lie, he never once said that or even anything similar. But, it makes for a better post introduction. Well, I guess I shot that endeavor all to hell. So, on with the Hot Rod Linkin'™ (and suitably snarky quips):

Heroes or Asshats?

• Three young men drive out into the desert to experience waterboarding, so you don't have to. Guess what? They think it's torture. Why can we not waterboard Mukasey so he can step out of the bitter barn, and come play in the hay?
  

Steel Cage Deathmatch...please, pretty please?!

• Catholic League president and all-'round whiny-ass professional victim William Donohue takes umbrage with something that Bill Maher said (so we know Donohue's ears are working, anyway) and challenges Maher to fisticuffs. Am I mistaken in putting my $$ on this guy, instead of this guy?

George W. Bush is a lying sack of shit...but you already knew that.

• One day, one fucking day after his SOTU address in which he touted the benefits of clean-coal technology [sic], his energy department kills plans to construct “the cleanest fossil fuel fired power plant in the world.”

In anticipation of SuperDuperStarShipTrooperTuesday™, a little poll dancing.

• CA-Pres (D)

Feb 3 - Zogby
Obama 45%
Clinton 41%

• CA-Pres (R)

Feb 3 - Zogby
Romney 37%
McCain 34%

• GA-Pres (D)

Feb 3 - Zogby
Obama 48%
Clinton 28%

• MO-Pres (D)

Feb 3 - Zogby
Clinton 44%
Obama 43%

• MO-Pres (R)

Feb 3 - Zogby
McCain 36%,
Huckabee 27%

• NJ-Pres (D)

Feb 3 - Zogby
Clinton 43%
Obama 42%

• Essentially, McCain just needs to show up on Tuesday to win in a walk, and Clinton shouldn't be looking in her rearview mirror for Obama, because he may just be by her side...or visible only only through her windshield. Of course, there are two big "ifs" involved in the Dem analysis: Edwards' former supporters and still a large number of undecideds. Which way will they swing?

Stop the presses: Joe Lieberman tells the truth!

• "Thanks, John, I've been there, I've done that. You can find much better." That is Lieberman, fantasizing what he'd tell John McCain, should Mad Jack tap him as a running mate. McCain reportedly responded, "I don't recall asking you, motherfucker!"

A lesson in linguistics: Puerto Ricans are not foreigners, and not all hypenated Americans are dipshits.

U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite touched a nerve with Puerto Ricans on Tuesday when she called them "foreign citizens" in a news release.

Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville, was complaining about parts of an economic-stimulus package when she referred to residents of Puerto Rico and Guam as "foreign citizens."

Puerto Ricans were granted American citizenship in 1917. They do not pay federal income taxes but do pay Social Security and other payroll taxes.

Puerto Ricans defend the country in the armed forces just like mainland-born citizens.

"Her comments show a great deal of ignorance," said Eduardo Bhatia, who runs the Washington office of Puerto Rico's governor, Anibal Acevedo-Vila;. "There are 4 million Puerto Ricans who live on the island and 600,000 who live in Central Florida. I would be more than happy to explain to her the citizenship status of Puerto Ricans."

Can we start requiring citizenships tests for our elected officials? Sweet child o' mine, already!