From the Department of Nifty Stuff I Wish I’d Thought Of: 

 

 

Now go thank Needlenose for this great animated gif, and get the code to embed it in your own site. 

Spread the word:   McCain = four more years of Bush. 

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Posted: March 27th, 2008 under 2008 Presidential campaigns, George W Bush, John McCain.
Comments: none

Disbursement Item A on page 808, Year End 2007 Norm Coleman FEC report:

“Nordstrom, 10/1/07, $73.59 for makeup.”

Update: OK folks, I just got a gentle rebuke from Bruce, who was nice enough to do his chiding in an email instead of in the comments. He took me to task for not giving a tip o the hat to this gentleman today when I posted my Norm Coleman Clown picture.

You’re right, Bruce. I should have given the estimable driftglass a h/t, so here it is along with my apology. Not that I haven’t been a drifty fan for years, as evidenced here, here, and here, to point out just a few examples. I worship him like a god: the man has formidable photoshop skills as well as the ability to produce the most exquisite rants on earth, bar none.

Earlier this week he happened to post a brilliant photoshop job based on one of the most perfect of all possible clown photos, and yeah, damn right I based my picture on that photo too. It wasn’t the first time somebody’s used that photo as a jumping off point, either. Still, my timing could have been better. The important thing to understand about this is: just as drifty did all the work on his Bill Kristol version, I did all the work on Pennywise Norm’s face. So there. Oh, and one more thing:

Love ya, drifty. *sigh* Some things never change.

 

Posted: March 12th, 2008 under Buffoons, Norm Coleman, Republicans.
Comments: 2

Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy interview.
Well, maybe not so much bumpy as meandering. Wayward? Erratic? Not your straightforward point A to point B, that’s for certain.

Greetings, Tild fans! I am an imaginary interviewer, a hypothetical composite of the typical readership of Tild’s blog, aka Tild~, or tildology.com to be exact. I’m a mashup of all the folks who tend to show up here:

…The woman in Georgia with a cold who’s looking for information about nose washing;
…The guy in Dubai who wants to read about bad girls who don’t keep their tape sticky;

…The She-Blogger fan in Toronto;

…The folks in the UK who can’t get enough of Laurel & Hardy’s “Way Out West” dance;

…One of the hapless clods who keep trying to hotlink to the wily strawman picture so that they can add it to their comments and thereby look totally super-bitchin’ in those endless flame war threads at FARK or the Something Awful forums; .

…The many admirers of Easter Jesus’ chocolatey goodness;

And the people who come here looking for Meerkat Manor family trees

or for a bit of Minnesota-specific political snark , be it about prominent local prig Katherine Kersten , Minuteman-wannabe Dick “Rambo” Day, or notorious now ex-MnDOT commissioner and fandancer Carol Molnau,

…or maybe just for a little cheesecake.

Whatever you’ve come here for, you’ve no doubt noticed that it’s been pretty quiet around here for quite a while now. We’re lucky to get one new post a week. What’s the deal with that?

Look! There’s Tild now. Let’s ask her.

Imaginary Typical Tildology Reader: Hey! Tild! It’s 4:30 in the morning. What are you doing up?

Tild: Oh, hi. Hey, if you’re one of those idiots looking for the strawman picture, goddammit will you PLEASE learn how to save images to your own server?! Use your own bandwidth for a change, asshole!

ITTR: Umm, excuse me Miz Tild, but I am most certainly not one of those idiots. What I am, in fact, is an Imaginary Typical Reader of your blog, come to interview you and find out what’s next in the exciting ongoing history of tildology.com.

Tild: You are? Hmm. Do you mean to tell me that the typical reader of my blog is the disembodied head of Agnes Moorhead’s even snider younger sister inexplicably floating in the stratosphere next to a “flying wing” airplane?

ITTR: You tell me. You picked this image to be the ITTR avatar.

Tild: Oh. Yeah. Well, alrighty then. Never mind! What was the question again? Why am I awake at 4:30 AM? Well, my youngest kid the high school senior is in the high school’s Concert Choir which is going to Washington DC for four days, and they needed to be at the high school at 4 this morning to board the buses to the airport. I’ll never get back to sleep now, so I guess I’m up for the duration.

ITTR: Aha. So then. Please tell us: What have you been up to lately? Sure hasn’t been blogging.

Tild: Well, you do know that I have a full time day job, right?

ITTR: Yes, I’ve gotten that impression over the years, but you’ve never really described what it is that you do. So, what exactly is it that you do?

Tild: I work for a large corporation; a big player in an industry that’s run for profit but really shouldn’t be. The mitigating factor for me is that the particular division that I work in is more or less a watchdog unit. We investigate the billing habits of the purveyors of our industry’s services. Our work is to keep those purveyors honest — or, you could say that in an ethically challenged industry we try to make sure that its practitioners adhere to the laws, such as they are, and to industry standards, imperfect tho they may be. That fact helps me sleep at night, I gotta admit. You know, because I feel like in my little corner of the industry I’m more a part of the solution and not so much a part of the problem.

ITTR: Wow, that’s quite discreetly phrased, I must say. Can you describe what you do there?

Tild: Sure. I gather data from various sources, convert the data into the formats used by several databases, and upload that data. One might say that I’m a data wrangler.
Yeehaw!

ITTR: Gosh! Sounds fascinating!

Tild: Uh huh. You said it, not me. I’ve also been working part time at a book store since last fall. The end result of all this toil and trouble is that I haven’t had huge amounts of free time to devote to blogging. Or when I do have some time, I often don’t have any energy for it.

[TO BE CONTINUED...]

Posted: March 10th, 2008 under Blogistan, Chez Tild, Meta, Personal History.
Comments: 1

The George W Bush Presidential Library is in the final planning stages. Allen L Roland via Op Ed News gives us the details about some of the library’s proposed features:

1. The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction.

2. The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you can’t remember anything.

3. The Texas Air National Guard Room, where you don’t have to even show up.

4. The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don’t let you in.

5. The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don’t let you out.

6. The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room (which no one has been able to find).

7. The Iraq War Room. After you complete your first tour, they make you go back for a second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth tour.

8. The Dick Cheney Room, in the famous undisclosed location, complete with shooting gallery.

9. Plans also include: The K-Street Project Gift Shop - where you can buy (or just steal) an election.

10. The Airport Men’s Room, where you can meet some of your favorite Republican Senators.

11. Last, but not least, there will be an entire floor devoted to a 7/8 scale model of the President’s ego.

Of course, there will be an autographed copy of “My Pet Goat”, which is in a climate-controlled, laser-beam protected, heat-proof, shatter-proof case.

To highlight the President’s only positive accomplishments, the museum will have an electron microscope available to help you locate them. Good luck ~

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Posted: March 8th, 2008 under Buffoons, George W Bush, Republicans.
Comments: 2