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Republican is the New Punk
Republican is the New Punk
Johnny Cash was punk rock. The birth of rock came when Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Cash toured small towns and set the youth on fire. Parents were outraged. The long dippity-doo hair atop gyrating men “dancing like the negroes” before frothing young girls set mainstream ...
Conservative Punk
conservativepunk.com — Fairness Doctrine advocate Senator Stabenow's husband, liberal talk mogul By Rizzuto Fri Feb 06, 2009 - Yesterday... we posted audio of Senator Debbie Stabenow on left wing The Bill Press Show expressing her interest in reviving the Fairness Doctrine. As ... (more) Conservative Punk
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Hugh Hewitt: Steyn On Rock-and-Roll
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall BlogMy pal Doug TenaPal posted on rock's big embrace of President Obama , which elicited this from columnist-to-the-world Mark Steyn : [F]or half-a-century now rock has very successfully been "both establishment and anti-establishment". In fact, "a rebellious underdog distributed by the status quo" is the very definition of rock: All those fellows calling for revolution while contracted to Capitol, Columbia, EMI., Warner Bros - the exact same companies running the music biz back in the days when Glenn Miller and Bing Crosby were where the big bucks were. A few ...

Hugh Hewitt: Steyn On Rock-and-Roll
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall BlogMy pal Doug TenaPal posted on rock's big embrace of President Obama , which elicited this from columnist-to-the-world Mark Steyn : [F]or half-a-century now rock has very successfully been "both establishment and anti-establishment". In fact, "a rebellious underdog distributed by the status quo" is the very definition of rock: All those fellows calling for revolution while contracted to Capitol, Columbia, EMI., Warner Bros - the exact same companies running the music biz back in the days when Glenn Miller and Bing Crosby were where the big bucks were. A few ...

So Smear It. Around.
Whiskey Fire — ... If you go onto the Internet in order to make the argument that your affiliation with a mainstream political party makes you "punk rock," it is entirely possible that you are not, in fact, punk rock. ...

REPUBLICAN IS the new punk….
Instapundit — REPUBLICAN IS the new punk.

Obama Doesn't Give You Licence to Be a Honky.
INSTAPUTZ — When, in six months, Breitbart's Big Hollywood Abortion goes the way of Pajamas Media, us blogofascists will point to "Republican is the New Punk" as one of the reasons why. ...

Republican is the new speed polka
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... had linked to Big Hollywood reaching for new levels of douchebaggery---past whining that they’re millionaires that are oppressed at cocktail parties and past perhaps even whining that they let girls invade sci-fi TV show (leaving them only with Grand Theft Auto to prove their manhood to themselves, though no one else), and onto levels of self-delusion such as believing that you turned purple last night but no one else can see it.  Oh yes, Doug TenNapel is pulling the classic right wing insecurity ...

alicublog — ... . This weekend's event, however, got rightwingers to talk about how Not Funny it all is now that treason occupies the White House. And as you may imagine, conservatives insisting something is Not Funny is as hilarious as any other figure of unearned and unjustified authority insisting something is Not Funny. But don't worry: soon they'll go back to telling us that conservatives are all about punk ...

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Bush Twin’s Letter to the Obama Girls
floppingaces.net 1/27/2009 — What’s it like to “Play House in the White House?” There have been so many examples of the welcoming good grace, best wishes and pure classiness that President and First Lady Laura Bush extended at every opportunity to the ...
Book Review: Girls Against Girls - Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How We Can Change by Bonnie Burton
blogcritics.org 1/27/2009 — How to deal with the mean girl in yourself and others. A couple of years ago I wrote a major piece on middle school bullying for Brain, Child magazine; a piece that I understand was used by a number of psychologists in dealing with the rising tide of ...
Girls aren't "going wild" after all
feministing.com 1/28/2009 — I was really glad to see that The New York Times picked up on the misplaced moral panic over teenage sex. Parents have worried for generations about changing moral values and risky behavior among young people... ...The talk show host Tyra Banks ...
Poor Women are Not "Pork"
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/30/2009 — Responding to President Obama's request, House Democrats cut a provision from the stimulus package that would expand contraceptive family planning for Medicaid patients--usually poor women and girls. He, in turn, was responding to Republicans' ...
HEH: Bratz Dolls May Give Young Girls Unrealistic Expectations Of Head Size. …
pajamasmedia.com 2/2/2009 — HEH: Bratz Dolls May Give Young Girls Unrealistic Expectations Of Head Size.
Michael Phelps: You're No WillieThe Latest on Air America
Michael Phelps was caught on “film” taking a bong hit. Everyone: Oooooooohhh! This cretin is looking to earn, er, make that was looking to earn $100M in endorsements. His only duty and responsibility: to look clean cut, wholesome and all-American. First he went nutso over girls. Fine, ...
14,000 Texts a Month?All articles at Blogcritics
Even a teen finds this ridiculous. Like many 17-year-old girls, I love my cell phone. I love texting people. It's easier to keep in touch and, if you get good at it, it's very easy to multi-task. I can text while studying, eating, listening to music, and talking to my twin sister - all at the ...
Tom, Katie And Suri Hit The Beach In BrazilThe Huffington Post | Full News Feed
FROM X17: Talk about a picture-perfect photo op! What's cuter than Hollywood's golden couple - along with baby Suri - in Rio? Tom Cruise is still off promoting Valkyrie 'round the world, but he of course made sure to pencil in some face time with his girls over the weekend... their first ...
The Gateway To Olympic SuperstardomThe Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Yes, Michael Phelps took a few hits from a bong at a party. He also threw back a great deal of alcohol, maybe made a few passes at a few girls and bonded with a few dudes. This is news? And yet this absurd ritual takes place in which Phelps has to pretend he did something dreadful and we all ...
My GirlsThe Glittering Eye
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any pictures of our dogs so I thought I’d take this opportunity. Nola is in season so her brother, Will, is off with his handler to preserve his health and sanity and so as not to drive me nuts. I’ll post some recent pictures of him ...
Time to Grow Up AmericaBuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash
FINDING A VOICE by Ann Davidow Okay Boys and Girls of the Capitol, recess is over. You need to focus on what a well-fashioned stimulus package could mean to the financial future of Wall Street and Main Street. It must be a job-creating engine, but if it fails to support ...
Boys…and girlsClareified
Never underestimate the importance of the pitch…when T-bone invited me out to Vegas to help celebrate Chris’ birthday, he put the word Vegas, right there in the subject line and reiterated it again very early in the email. Now, while he is under the gross misinformation that I play “blackjack” ...
Blackfive: Ask an Infantryman: To Thong, or not to Thong? That is the Question.Victory Caucus -- All Content
Infantrymen, your guidance is needed: DEAR CHUCK Z: I have never understood why girls would wear something that appears to violate all laws of comfort. The only way for me to solve this mystery was to try a thong. I...read (http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/01/ask-an-infant-6.html)
Who Knew?Lawyers, Guns and Money
Apparently, Caitlan Flanagan's anecdotes and urban legends turn out to be not terribly reliable . I, for one, am shocked. I also agree with Jessica that the panic about teen sex really over a panic over girls (or young women, really) having sex.
The Obama Girls' First Snow DayMoJo Blog Posts: mojo
A few months ago, we offered up a meager plea to the Obama family that they consider sending their kids to a DC public school . They ignored us and enrolled Sasha and Malia at the tony Sidwell Friends in upper Northwest DC, which supporters contended offered superior safety and a Quaker ...
Comedy Gold: The Drunken Dancing AborigineJammieWearingFool
Sure, maybe the cops shouldn't have been the ones to film this, but hey, I'm not here for any morality plays, boys and girls. If it's funny, it's getting posted. And this is funny.A LAUGHING police officer told a drunk Aboriginal man to sing and dance while he filmed the act, with the footage ...
Peggy Drexler: Fathers, Daughters and the Obama GirlsPolitics on HuffingtonPost.com
Eight years is going to fly by. Just ask anybody whose children's formative years now feel like they were fast-forwarded on a video recorder. By the time the Obamas move out of the White House, those adorable little girls will be young women -- one 15, the other 18, and ready to go out into ...
Spread of Malaria Feared as Drug Loses PotencyDemocratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]New York Times[/b] TASANH, Cambodia — The afflictions of this impoverished nation are on full display in its western corner: the girls for hire outside restaurants, the badly rutted dirt roads and the ubiquitous signs that warn “Danger Mines!” But what eludes the naked eye is a ...
The Bush Twins’ Sweet Letter To The Obama girlsNice Deb
Once they were safely out of the White House, NBC’s Today Show decided to show the Bush family in a good light. See if you can watch this without getting choked up: Hat tip: Flopping Aces where you can view one last pictorial tribute of the Bush girls. ...
Octuplets, Assemble!Oliver Willis
Somebody had an origin today . A California woman shocked doctors by giving birth on Monday to octuplets, believed to be only the second set of eight babies born in the United States. The six boys and two girls were doing well and were in stable condition in the neonatal intensive care ...