Be sure to vote today! Here is an organization called clean sweep that encourages you to vote out all incumbents, PA Clean Sweep. Remember, when in doubt, vote against the guy who voted for a pay raise.

Just want to thank televangelists everywhere for never failing to amuse with their crass hypocricy. Seriously, we should get a data base of everyone who donates money to televangelists and take them out behind a barn and shoot them, b/c we really don’t need anyone that stupid to be breeding.

Thought you guys might get a kick out of the wild card round on Thursday. The night’s topic: Rush Limbaugh.

1. Rush is a man who places family values first and is a firm believer in the sanctity of marriage. How many times has he been divorced?
A) 0 b) 1 c) 2 d) 3

2. Rush claims to work for the non existant EIB network. What does EIB stand for?

3. What 12 year old did Rush call the family dog, and then apologized, saying that she couldn’t help the way she looked?

4. Who wrote the book Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot?

5. In 2001, Rush began to go deaf. Deafness can be caused by abusing what drug that Rush has a glorious history with?

6. What popular musician did Rush call a worthless shred of human debris the day after he died?

7. The opening sequence of the Rush Limbaugh show is a song called “My City Was Gone” by this band.

8. Rush dated Daryn Kagan for two years. She’s best known for regularly appearing on what TV station?

***9. When Rush was busted for having 29 Viagra pills, he was returning with several buddies from this Caribbean nation renowned for its sex tourism industry.

10. Like essentially all prominent right wingers, Rush did not serve in Vietnam. He was excused because he had a cyst on what part of his body?

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–Rush Limbaugh thinks that Michael J. Fox was “acting” when he displayed the effects of Parkinson’s in a political ad. Hey Rush, were you “acting” when you had that ear problem? Or was that a common side effect of drug addiction?

-Rick Santorum says that a vote for Casey will let the North Koreans think that we are weak on nuclear defense, and will immediately attack us with a nuclear weapon. Then the North Koreans will make our children gay and try to hurt the baby Jesus!

-Speaking of gay, there is a judge in New Jersey who is deciding whether or not gay marriage should be legal. Most of those opposing gay marriage are, of course, Republicans. It’s amazing to me that these guys who wrap themselves so much in the flag think that all Americans are deserving of equal rights under the stars and stripes…except the GAYS! But there is a good reason to not give gays equal rights. I have it on good word that gays love North Korea and they hate freedom! They also hate the baby Jesus!

-Republicans hate Ken Jennings! Ok, so that’s not true, but I figured I’d close out with something more trivia related. Ken Jennings just released a book about trivia, and talks about it at length here. Thanks, Dan, for sending this in.

I was watching TV yesterday, and an extremely unusual ad came on, saying that Verizon was lobbying Harrisburg to only provide cable to rich people in Pennsylvania. “Now, this is really strange,” I thought to myself, so I decided to go to the website that was shown on the commercial, keepitlocalpa.com. Sounds kind of grassroots, doesn’t it? The website has a very quaint, non-corporate look to it. (It also has, I kid you not, a photo of an Amish buggy at the top of the page. Apparently Verizon is so cruel that they are going to refuse cable to the Amish!) Well, guess who’s one of the “coalition members” of this little grassroots organization? I’ll give you a hint. It’s a company that currently has a total monopoly on an enormous service here in Philadelphia, and that I suspect would hate to have another cable provider offer prices cheaper than $45 a month. Something smells rotten in the state of Denmark.

The first time Lindsay Doering played quizzo, he approached me and demanded that the Big Bopper was not aboard the plane on the day the music died. He and his team, the now infamous WTF, were wrong, but I appreciated his vim and vigor, and quickly tagged him with the nickname Bopper. Well, the Boppper has decided to test the political waters, and is running against Babette Josephs to be elected State Representative for the 182nd District, which covers much of Center City. It is not my disctrict (I miss it by one measly block) but if it were, Lindsay Doering would be the first Republican I ever voted for. Why? For a couple of reasons. First of all, he’s a stand up guy who I would trust to do the right thing. Secondly, because his opponent, Babette Josephs, voted for the pay raise. And third, because he is opposing the dreadful casinos that threaten to harm our city. I recently interviewed Doering and asked him five quick questions.

Doering discusses casinos, pay raises, and Beavis and Butthead after the jump!

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Hey, I have a couple of political things to post today. We’ll start on the Democratic side. There is a Democratic fundraiser at the Khyber on Wednesday that will include readings from Buzz Bissinger, Jennifer Weiner, and Atrios, among others. The fundraiser starts at 7 p.m. on Wednesday and you can purchase tickets here, or get them at the door. All of the proceeds from the event will go to the campaign of Democratic congressional candidate Lois Murphy.

There is a pretty spooky documentary video out that points out a lot of strange inconsistencies about 9/11. It’s a long video, but pretty well done. There are a lot of conspiracy theorists out there, and over 1/3 of Americans believe that the American government had something to do with the attacks. Popular Mechanics does a really good job of refuting a lot of these conspiracies, however. As for me, I’m a born skeptic, and I think that George Bush and Dick Cheney are very bad people, but I don’t think that they are so diabolical as to kill 3,000 Americans so that they could start a war in Iraq. I’m not 100% convinced that they weren’t complicit, but I think that our failure to prevent the attacks had a lot more to do with incompetence than evil. Besides, I think this administration is way too stupid to concoct and pull off a far reaching conspiracy. I mean, we see what a total disaster Iraq is. Do we really think this administration could pull off a masterful snow job like 9/11? Please.

Of course, this isn’t the first time a president has been accused of killing Americans to enter a war. Many people think that FDR provoked the Japanese until they had no choice to attack Pearl Harbor, then sat back and let it happen.

It was interesting that Rumsfeld mentioned the Nazis so prominently in his recent speech, because he is obviously a student of their political philosophy:

Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. …Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country -Herman Goring, 2nd in Command, 3rd Reich
RELATED: Rumsfeld gets bitch slapped by Keith Olbermann.

OK, to me the real shocker isn’t the fact that George Allen uttered a derogatory term (uttering racial slurs doesn’t necessarily hurt your campaign in the mountains of Virginia), the shocker is that he obviously doesn’t know what freaking decade we live in. Had he never heard of YouTube? Does he not know about the Average Homeboy? YouTube can make you a star overnight, Senator Allen. Looks like you had to learn the hard way.
RELATED: Good article about Joe Vento’s new favorite Senator in Salon.