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cross-posted to jackandjillpolitics.com

Every time one of these idiots opens his or her mouth, I can’t help but think they are meant for each other. The ignorance is simply astounding. Joe was interviewed by a Tufts University freshman and had all sorts of stupidness to say.

On his future sugar mama and running mate

Q: As a Republican, do you feel that Gov. Sarah Palin was the right vice-presidential selection?

A: Honestly, I think she shines too much. I think vice president no, president definitely. She has moral values. She has a record of change that … John McCain had supposedly … Sarah was actually too big of a personality, too big of a person to be vice president.

On the “death of Israel” comment. Warning: you will be much dumber after reading this.

Q: You have stated that a vote for Obama is a vote for “the death of Israel.” Could you please elaborate on what you meant by that claim?

A: I will elaborate and tell you how it came about. It was incredible … We were at a pub, and out of nowhere a gentleman of Jewish descent appeared. He asked a very good question, and you could see the emotion on his face.

I was told that I did not have to answer his question because that would create quite the stir in the media’s eyes. If I am going to tout that I am going to be for the [average person], I absolutely had to answer the question. Being a Christian, I had to answer that. Obama has declared openly that he would meet with the president of Iran. The president of Iran has made many statements [about] turning Israel into a parking lot, which is the most disgusting thing that I have ever heard. The hate [from Iran] is there, and that’s factual and not rhetoric. They teach their children over there nursery rhymes about killing Jews. For a president to sit there and say that “I will meet with no terms and actually have terms dictated back to us” scares me.

Obama has been closely linked to many terrorists. Again this is not rhetoric; [these are] facts that the media did not want to bring out. Rasheed Kahalidi being amongst one of them, and there are nine or 10 others … These close ties scare me. As far as Obama getting into office with his ties and with the fact that he is willing to be dictated to by a known terrorist — [that] scares me for Israel. There are many more reasons, but those are the big ones.

My favorite part: “and out of nowhere a gentleman of Jewish descent appeared. He asked a very good question, and you could see the emotion on his face.” Sounds like he’s saying Jesus made him say this foolishness

Continue reading ‘Joe The Plumber and Sarah Palin Would Make The World’s Most Ignorant Baby’

Oh how the mighty have fallen. I just got this email from MySpace

You’re losing it, Baratunde Thurston!

Your MySpace URL is about to be taken away, so you may lose it forever. This is the unique URL you chose for yourself (such aswww.MySpace.com/Tom)

It’s been some time since you’ve logged in and used your MySpace URL. You’re holding a very valuable piece of MySpace real estate, which is the URL you chose.
Since it doesn’t look like you’re an active user on this account, we will be resetting your username/URL so that someone else can use it.

How do you keep it for yourself? Simply login to your account right now by clicking: www.myspace.com/losingyoururl3. That’s it!

While you’re there, check out the new feature that lets you automatically find people you may know. Just click the link:http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=peopleyoumayknow

NOTE: We are only resetting the URLs of inactive accounts. We will *not* delete your account. We are simply trying to free up the username/URLs for people who actually want to use them. Thanks!

No, you’re losing it, MySpace! 

What happened to poor MySpace? Under the guise of helping me preserve my myspace.com/baratunde URL, MySpace is pushing an immediate boost in active accounts by using threats to force people to log in. Oh, and while I’m logged in, did I know that I could find other people I might know??? How pathetic.

Here’s a hint MySpace. If your service has to resort to threats to get people to log in, it’s no longer useful. 

I’ve always had a tolerate-hate relationship with MySpace, but as a comedian, it used to be king of the hill for me. I posted videos and blogs, networked with other artists and got lots of fan correspondence in the form of emails and comments on my photos, blogs, videos and wall. However, the past six months or so have seen MySpace become virtually abandoned.

I still get friend requests, but the interaction died off a long time ago. No more comments, very few emails. I never liked the calendar and group systems, but I don’t even get get spammy requests from bands and hot chicks anymore. God, how I miss ignoring communication from crappy bands and wannabe porn stars!

I use ping.fm to update my MySpace status now, but the entire MySpace newsfeed is a poor imitation of the actual interactive feeds of services like Facebook and Friendfeed. Every few weeks I’ll check my friend requests and the few messages that await me, but overall I really don’t have a reason to log in to MySpace.

Until now. Because now, MySpace is threatening me.

Now is a good time to let you all know where I do hang out online. My most active haunts in order are Facebook, Twitter and Friendfeed.

I’ll see you there. Or else.

Me on NJ Transit, originally uploaded by baratunde.

Testing G1 camera. A bit hard to keep steady. Very slow lens