Al Franken - Dork With a Satellite On His Head

Al Franken is running for Senate in Minnesota, which is a REALLY bad idea. He ignorantly believes that everyone thinks as he does, which leads to some hilariously stupid stunts. Case in point: he recently called for a town hall meeting for veterans to complain about how they were being treated by Vet Affairs... only one person showed up. Haha. Anyway, I hope he'll lose, hopefully. I don't have time to go into the gross hypocrisy of this ignorant nubbin, it's bad though - using Jesus Christ to assail NeoCons when you don't believe in Jesus. Ugh. I just thought I'd post a picture of how I remember him... how I'll *always* remember him. As an grinning moron making an ass out of himself as he desperately tries to extract laughter from an audience responding with a huge, collective "er... yeah". Here's Al in all his moronic glory:

Update. Franken barely won his election bid, despite the fact that Obama swept in that state. The fact that he almost lost to a *Republican* opponent in a state that voted in Obama by a 54% margin is actually amazing. This just goes to show how incredibly unqualified he was, and how much voters in Minnesota didn't like him. What it meant was, *several hundred thousand* voters had to vote for Obama, and then specifically vote against Franken, instead of being able to vote straight Democrat. In the regional races, where Republican or Democratic candidates won, the Presidential candidates also won, meaning that in a district that went for McCain, the Republican (local) candidate won, and vice-versa for the Democratic candidate and Obama. Here, though, voters had to specifically vote FOR Obama and AGAINST Franken on the statewide level. What this means is, hundreds of thousands of people who voted for Obama voted AGAINST Franken! They actually took the time to vote all Democrat on the whole election form, voting for all Democrats in the local races, but voted AGAINST Franken for Senator. That takes some serious dislike to do that. Do you think Franken learned his lesson, that Minnesota thinks he's a tool? Probably not, he'll just jaunt his way to Washington with a big chip on his shoulder and cocky as hell. Yikes, I feel sorry for Minnesota. No. Scratch that. I don't feel sorry for them, they were dumb enough to vote for this guy.

Sea Shepherds - Nazis With Different Uniforms?

The Sea Shepherds are a Greenpeace splinter group of self-labeled "eco-pirates" employing "any means necessary" to stop whaling. They branched out though to basically become the "saviors of the seas" targeting seal hunters and any others who activities they deem wrong. The founder of the Sea Shepherds is Paul Watson and he is (or was) the captain of their lead vessel the Farley Mowat (a guy who today looks like he had WAY too much fun in the 60s. Think Captain Kangaroo with a bad hangover). To date, they have rammed and sunk nine ships... yes, you read that right, *nine* ships. Clearly they have lived up to the label of "pirate". Recently the Canadian government boarded and confiscated the Farley Mowat when it failed to yield to coast guard vessels and interfered with the seal hunt. Paul Watson was quoted by Canadian CBCnews as saying:

"It [the Farley Mowat] was always in international waters, and it’s technically an act of war to board a vessel outside the 12-mile [19 kilometres] limit without the permission of the captain."

Captain Watson can't actually believe that anyone is going to sympathize with this bit of legal spin when the Sea Shepherds have been committing acts of piracy for decades and sinking ships on the high seas. To cry "foul" now seems very disingenuous. If you call yourself a "pirate" then I think you better be prepared for the government of some nation to clap you into irons. The chickens have come home to roost for the Sea Shepherds and they don't like it. Kudos to the Canadian government for having the guts to give a good spanking to these hypocrites.

The actions of the Sea Shepherds actually sums up nicely the gross hypocrisy of the far left, be it eco-terrorists, war protesters or any other leftist wackos. The very same people that are protesting the war are cheering and donating money to the Sea Shepherds who are utilizing the exact same violence to enact change they are accusing the Bush administration of committing. What the Sea Shepherds are saying is, it's ok for someone you like to do violence to someone you don't. This is the ideology of the Nazis. They decry the wicked whalers for their violence to the whales while they perpetrate the same violence on their own fellow human beings (which is far, far worse). Violence to solve violence? Isn't this a cardinal no-no for the peacenik crowd? Tsk-tsk. What it does to is expose the hypocrisy of the left. They aren't concerned with the "violence" in Iraq, or the wrongness of war. Instead, they simply don't support *this* violence. When it's violence they support, done by people they like, then they can't get enough, they eat it up, cheer them on and toss money hand over fist into their coffers.

The next time you hear one of these hypocrites protesting the iraq war while supporting the terrorist activities of the Sea Shepherds, have yourself a nice chuckle... because the war in Iraq continues (as it should) and the Farley Mowat is docked indefinitely. The Sea Shepherds, are they Nazis with different uniforms? You decide.