Sister Has Gone Global

Greeting to all of my little friends and fans.
Sister has moved to new corporate headquarters. She has also acquired a new identity.

http://www.hugonets.com/

Come visit!

Finally...Proof! It's KEWLL to be Republican

Smarten up, 'Progressives'. We got yer Punk Republicans these days, surprisingly Cool, those, and of course, Morning Joe is Ultra Cool, Tucker is Way Cool, and leave us not forget the Coolmeister himselves, Pat Buchanan...'Teh Cool'.

Conclusion: The myth that Conservatives are un-Cool is exactly that - mythology.

Old School - and Analog

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor


Bach's Fugue in G Minor - The Little Fugue

John McCain loosing his temper.

My goodness.

Slow Motion Self-Destruct

A very poor week for candidate John McCain gets worse. Pardon Sister if she guffaws out loud - it's not what you think. John McCain deserves pity, and Sister can be quite generous dispensing pity.

Poor McCain. His message is a disaster. His delivery is a mess. His staff consists of thugs, criminals and Phil Gramm. Even the bottom feeders that say they will vote for him don't really believe a word he says. And for good reason.

Most recently, John McCain wrote an Op-Ed rant for The New York Times, in response to a Brarck Obama Op-Ed. FAIL. It was rejected declined by Times editors. Well Boo Hoo Hoo and Cry Me a Big Fat River, John, you mumbling gasbag.

Times editor David Shipley:

'The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans."

Shipley Continues:

"It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq."

Let me guess...it wasn't that you lied like a sack, and can't respond to intelligent arguments coherently...that's certainly not the problem. It's The Times! They must be Liberals! And worse...Liberals that are trying to silence the Straight Shooter.

"A top McCain source claims the paper simply does not agree with the senator's Iraq policy, and wants him to change it, not "re-work the draft."

Woe is Me. They've been right all along. The Liberal Media censors the truth and now the John McCain camp is mad - hoppingly.

BTW: Sister Hugo now feels Unclean and must bathe, having had to reference the Drudge Report above. BRB.

Meanwhile, John McCain Continues to Amaze:

It's Poetry in Motion...

Sean Hannity getting chased around New Hampshire by a mob of angry 'Ron Paultards'

Michael 'Savage Weiner': "Autistic kids aren't sick, they're brats."

Savage on autism: " ...it's fraud, a racket. ... I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out."

FYI: Lunatic Michael Weiner, a self-proclaimed homophobb, selected his pseudonym, Savage, as a means of sending a coded message to gays. He's Michael (the) Savage Weiner.

MSNBC Chief on Faux News: "You can't trust a word they say"

New MSNBC Chief Insults Fox News.

Reported by the Kansas City Star, MSNBC's new president, Phil Griffin, isn't wasting any time mincing words when it comes to his opinion of competitor Faux News. What cojones this lad has in his possession...

"What they are trying to do is play a game here," Griffin continued. "THEY made the business decision to create an ideological network. We didn't. They were the ones that got in bed with the Bush Administration, so that most of the time, where did the Bush Administration officials come out and make their points? Fox News. We didn't. You brought it up, but it's a great story because you can't trust a word they say."

Still Miss Him

F.Z.
1940-1993

Irony? Oh, Right...I Get Irony!

Funny Germans!

A float depicting U.S. President George W. Bush being spanked by the Statue Of Liberty passes by during the Rose Monday carnival parade in Mainz, western Germany, on Monday, Feb. 19, 2007. Thousands of spectators attended the traditional street carnival parade in the state of Rhineland-Palatinates's capital.

Ah, the Good Old Nixon Days

Good old days of Nixon? Indeed. Have a look at our War President, being interviewed by a British journalist (a real journalist) and indulge yourself in the nostalgia of a naive, gullible and blundering Richard Nixon.

Iran...You Suck at Photoshop

Or perhaps the headline of this post should read, "American media: you suck at fact-checking."
From the NYT blog The Lede:

Unfortunately, it appeared to contain one too many missiles, a point that had not emerged before the photo appeared on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers as well as on BBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, NYTimes.com and many other major news Web sites.

Lies Lies Lies, Everywhere the Lies

In Sister Hugo's line of work, the ability to detect the common, everyday BS story cannot be overrated. A well-tuned BS Meter employed alongside a nice, hardwood paddle are Sister's most cherished tools of the trade.

When Sister lies to you, she's probably only committing a venial sin, considering that nobody will actually die as a result of Sister's indiscretion.
When the preznit of the US lies us into a 'war' and tens upon tens of thousands of people die, that would be a mortal sin...or two.

Now You can become a human lie detector! Discover the secret of Religious Professionals and other Inquisitors, worldwide!

Dopey the Hamster in his Private Lego Elevator

Sunday Evening With Lawrence Welk

1963: Lawrence Welk ROCKED and kids were polite to their elders

Just Ask Sister...

What Does a Virgin Like Me Do on a Date???

Barack Obama: The Way-Left-of-Center Candidate

Get a load of this Faux News talker, Michael Steele. He's a second stringer, spotting the vacationing Sean Hannity of Hannity & Colmes.

And that there is former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, laughing in Steele's face at what a buffoon he is. Steele has likely never heard of Bernie Sanders, Independant Senator from Vermont and self-professed Socialist who would be considered, among others, to be a bit more to the left of center politically than Obama.

Normally, Sister would find it distasteful to quote the likes of Joseph Goebbels. Unless, that is, she can find a good example of Goebbel's philosophy at work in American media. Right-wing gasbag talking head propagandists provide examples every day on Faux, as displayed above.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph Goebbels.

Here we have a few of the smarter ones...

OY

("lol McCain is teh oldz!"),

The MSM is trying to convince us that we're in for a twelve-round brawl - that McCain's going to give Obama a run for his $500M.

But the truth is, it's not going to be close. Not even a little bit.

Imagine yourself in a high school history class a century from now. Imagine the teacher beginning the section on the elections of 2008 by setting the scene: "America's economy was in flames, we were fighting two wars with no end in sight, and global warming was accelerating at an alarming rate. The most despised president in 150 years was nearing the end of his two corruption-ridden terms, and had heartily endorsed his successor, John McCain -- who, despite a few ideological differences, planned on keeping the status quo intact. Running against him was a lightning-in-a-bottle candidate named Barack Obama. A candidate who had nearly six times the money to spend, drew crowds of 70,000, and who received support from a surprising number of disenfranchised Republicans -- even some of the Evangelicals who swept Bush to power.

Tuesday Evening Palate Refresher

Django Recording Session with Grisman


Michael Papillo, Robin Nolan, Frank Vignola, David Grisman



These boys can knock off a mean polka.


David Grisman, Tony Rice, Mark O'Connor, & Rob Wasserman

I'm Voting Republican in '08...Redux

Sister's just teasing, you know. It's taken a good bit of soul searching, truth seeking if you will, to come to the conclusion that perhaps it would be good idea to go Democrat this season.

This little synopsis that chronicles 18 months of Republican Bad Luck, put together by The Swing State Project, may be helpful for those of you needing a good reason or two for reconsidering your staunch Republican position.

It's often been said that the Republican Party, from coast to coast, has run into some pretty bad luck this cycle. But I think it's very easy to forget just how much bad luck they've run into. To remedy that, the Swing State Project has put together the most comprehensive compendium of Republican hubris, fuckups and misfortunes you will find anywhere, ever.

I hope you packed a snack, because this is gonna take a while.

Sister's Weekly Book Club

John McCain: Flip Flop Review

Ok kids, let's review the flip flops of candidate John McCain

• McCain was against the repeal of Roe v. Wade before he was for it.

• McCain was against torture before he was for it. Really for it.

• McCain was against crazy right-wing preachers like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson before he was for them.

• McCain was against Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy before he was for them.

• McCain was against shady Bush “Pioneer” Texas billionaire swift-boat financiers before he was for them.

• McCain was for the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law before he was against it and began breaking it.

• McCain was against Grover Norquist, whom he called “corrupt, a shill for dictators“ before he was for him.

• McCain was against BJU because of its “hateful,” “racist and cruel” policies before he was for it.

• McCain was against ethanol before he was for ethanol and then he was against it again.

• McCain was against a Martin Luther King holiday before he was for it

And the Straight Talk Express rolls along, while McCains handlers repeatedly deny that an flip flopping has been going on with The Maverick.

US Government UFO Warning

And...

Barack Obama Accused of 'Dealing the Race Card'
But first, this.

Last week, candidate Barack Obama made a statement alluding to the fact that in the months to come, the Right Wing Noise Machine would be pulling out every trick available to help their losing cause. Including using racial innuendo, code phrases, and outright bigotry in their campaign swill.

OMG. Every single Neocon pundit with a microphone or compute keyboard was orgasmic, gleefully accusing Obama of 'Dealing the Race Card...'

Indeed.