Three CHAIRS…err…cheers for Obama!

From the über-talented Anne C. Savage:

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Please. Stop. You make the rest of us look like the idiot you are.

I’m getting pretty used to Michigan being the laughing stock of the country. Between tea party whacko and Troy mayor Janice Daniels and some of the most absurd tea party Republican legislators you will find in the USA, we really have a big lead in the “Who has the biggest idiots” race.

But Walt Wawra of Kalamazoo has taken it to “11”.

Sorry, pathetic, embarrassing details after the jump.

Look out, fish! He’s comin’ right for ya!

Big tip of the Eclectahat to my good friend Carol S. who sent me this video of ospreys fishing. Ospreys are fishing raptors and what they are capable is astonishing.

I once watched an osprey drop into Lake Superior about 30 feet from me and snag a huge lake trout under water. It then emerged from the water, took flight and then paused about ten feet above the lake to shake off the lake water like a dog. You’ll see it in this clip while the osprey is in flight but the one I saw literally paused in mid-air and shook itself dry before flying off majestic and full of awesome.

Enjoy (after the jump.)

Off to the races

This is by no means a comprehensive round-up of results from yesterday’s primary in Michigan but just a look at some of the races that I’ve been writing about here at Eclectablog and others that I’m interested in, in general.

It’s all after the jump.

Voting is sexy. It’s really astonishing and heartbreaking how few people vote in our country’s primaries. It’s heartbreaking because these are the elections where we can actually impact the political future of our country. If you want your state to be more progressive, it’s at the primary where you can choose between candidates who are more or less progressive. It’s […]

Well-played, Nike. Well-played.

I’m not a big television ad fan and I’m even less a Nike fan. But they have a series of commercials on television during the Olympic games that I positively love.

The first one I saw is called “Find Your Greatness. — Jogger” and the second one is “Find Your Greatness. — Baseball”. See them both after the jump.

So simple, so easy, so effective

Chad Phillips over at Michigan Populist Blog has a good idea.

See what it is after the jump.

Seriously? Don’t you have any women on your marketing team?

I was with a group of people who ordered Domino’s Pizza this past weekend. When the pizzas came, some of them, called “Artisanal Pizzas” came in this box in box with the phrase “NO IS THE NEW YES” in large font across the top. Almost everyone in the room of about a dozen people collectively went “WTF?”

Photo and discussion after the jump.

This is part 2 of my photoblog on Netroots Nation. Click HERE to see part one.

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Lots of photos after the jump.

A fool and his money…

How does this make sense? Aetna Insurance company inadvertently revealed that it has donated $10 million to two groups, the US Chamber of Commerce and the American Action Network in 2011.

Both groups are actively fighting the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”.) But the insurance industry LOVES the ACA? Why? Because the individual mandate part of it ensures them a giant pool of money.

Oops.

What took you so long?

Anybody with two brain cells to bang together knows that Ted Nugent is an idiot. This traitor to America and Mitt Romney surrogate honors his country by calling the president and his administration “vile”, “evil”, and “America-hating”.

The Army, whose boss is the Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama, just told Ted Nugent to go eff himself.