Clearly off in Lala-Land
-Headline of the day-
"Clinton Issues Post-Primary Schedule (Yes, Post-Primary Schedule)."
Hillary Clinton's campaign sent out an email to the press traveling with the candidate today "informing reporters they could sign up for travel through June 6 on the campaign website."
The problem is that all signs point to Hillary's campaign dying June 3rd. News has it that Obama's "preparing to claim victory" after that tuesday's primaries and Nancy Pelosi says she's prepared to "step in" to end the primary before the convention. There's also news that Obama's banking delegates, who'll be announced en masse on a decisive date, perhaps including the "Cardoza 40" -- a group of forty delegates who are prepared to jump ship from Hillary's camp to Obama's.
In short, this thing looks pretty goddam dead. Which explains the reaction of the press following Clinton. "Given the speculation surrounding plausible outcomes from this Saturday's DNC Meeting and the final Democratic primaries on June 3," the report reads, "Many confused looks passed between reporters on the back of the press bus."
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, lady. (Huffington Post)
-Do whatever you want, you're screwed anyway-
Right Wing Watch noticed that traffic going from their site to the American Family Association's OneNewsNow site was being directed to another URL. Seems AFA didn't like RWW pointing commie, Christ-hating, anti-family viewers to their crazy press releases.
Now, any traffic from RWW goes to AFA's Good Person Test, which lets you answer questions and then tells you whether or not you're going to Hell.
The problem? You're going to Hell and, apparently, there isn't a damned thing you can do about it. According to the report, "Answer a question about honesty and you are told you are a liar; answer a question about lust and you are told you are an adulterer; answer a question about anger and you are told you are a murder:" If you try to fool the test and give all the right answers, it calls you a liar and says you're going to Hell. In fact, there are no right answers -- no matter how you answer, you're going to Hell.
Why? Because you came from that commie blog from People For the American Way, that's why. No one but the hellbound reads that. Not to worry, RWW reports, "[U]ntil AFA removes this clever little redirect, we’ll just have to stop linking to them because there is no way we’ll ever be able to figure out some sort of work-around."
I get it, cuz I'm smart. Unfortunately, I'm also going to Hell. (Right Wing Watch)
-Canada on the ball-
A Canadian student was stopped at Kelowna Airport in British Columbia and asked to remove the fake gun she was carrying. Seems reasonable, right?
Except the "gun" was a 2" charm in the shape of a revolver on a chain around her neck. It's a little hard to see what danger it posed; could it be used as some sort of voodoo sympathetic magic thing? The gun, which was clearly not a gun, wouldn't actually pose any threat if it was a gun. If it's 2" long, how big could the bullets possibly be and how much powder could they possibly have behind them? As Cory Doctorow writes, "Hey, Guy? If I could make a miniature gun that was 1.7" long and contained no moving parts and could still fire bullets, I could also make it in shapes other than "gun."
"Better safe than sorry," maybe. But "better stupid than sorry" doesn't cut it. (Boing Boing)
