The Blog List 2010

Because someone has to tie up the loose ends!

BitterAmerican + iPod + Jagermeister =
1 - Heavy - How You Like me Now?
2 - Killers - Jenny Was a Friend
3 - Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks
4 - Metric - Black Sheep
5 - Carlos Santana - Can You Hear Me Knockin'?
6 - Silversun Pickups - Growing Old is Getting Old
7 - Kate Nash - Foundations
8 - Thompson Twins - The Gap
9 - Against Me - Swing Life Away
10 - Two-Door Cinema Club - Something Good
11 - Brandi-Carlile - The Story
12 - Kings of Leon - Radioactive

While I'm at it: if you REALLY wnat to torture some ragheads in GITMO, play "Tell Him" by the Sleigh Bells and "Sleepytime" by Passion Pit in a never-ending loop.  If that doesn't drive them bat-s**t crazy, nothing will!

Experts agree:

Really Hot:

Verr-rr-ry Hot:

Pretty Hot,.....

Hot? Not?

Blogs Most Frequently Invaded by the BitterAmerican:

1 - AlexC's Pa WaterCooler
2 - Bill Shaw's Writemarsh!
3 - BobC's Sweet Spirits of Ammonia
4 - Captain America's First In!
5 - Doug Gibb's Political Pistachio
6 - Lisa Mossie's Bluftooni
7 - Mike Mancini's Arbiter of Common Sense
8 - Skye's Midnight Blue
9 - Tony Phyrillas' Eponyomous Blog
10 - Wyatt's Support Your Local Gunfighter


You Have Entered the Land of Broken Dreams and Shattered Hopes:

His Party is in tatters but, yeah, we're stuck with him for another 2 years,...

But, HEY! The AFL is back in town!

Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?

Elizabeth Edwards (I hope she haunts that prick of an ex-husband, too)
Peter Graves
Don Meredith
Leslie Neilsen
Blake Edwards
Steve Landesberg
Dennis Hopper
Dino DeLaurentiis
Fess Parker
JD Salinger
George Steinbrenner
Robert Culp
Tony Curtis
Lynn Redgrave



Things that aren't there anymore:

That World Series Trophy

Objective Journalism

Democrats in Congress

The Philadelphia Phantoms

The Spectrum

My residence in Philly!!

Competitive Sports Teams in NYC!


Skank You Very Much!

Nancy Pelosi
The View's Baba Wawa and Joy Behar
Katie Couric
Campbell Brown
Barbara "That's SENATOR to You" Boxer
Ariana Huffiington
Janet Napolitano

PWE (Penii with Ears, Pronounced "Pee-Wee") Awards:

Harry Reid
Rahm Emanuel
George Soros
Chris Matthews
Keith Olbermann
Fat Eddie Rendell
Michael Vick
Ex-Sen Arlen "Re-E-lected" Specter



Heroes:

The Chilean miners and,...
Everyone associated with the Tea Party movement!

Random Thoughts:


Think of the fun knowing EVERY baseball broadcaster will STILL have to say "National League East Champion Phillies" for another WHOLE year!

The NL East will have a "rebuilding" year, while the Phillies just replace the worn out parts!
In DC, they'll be asking "Was he "Werth" it?
In Da Bronx, they'll pass that $50mil in unspent Cliff Lee salary along to the season ticket holders!  (Sorry, Jim Beam made me say that!)

How soon before Philadelphia gets called "East Detroit" Mayor Squidward?

The Republicans pwned Barry.  How soon before he becomes Bill Clinton (preferably WITH the impeachment)

The NFL will soon start calling long touchdowns "DeSean Jacksons!"

A come-from-behind win will be called a "Vicktory!"

When the BitterAmerican rules the universe:

No Right Turn on Red will become mandatory. Violators will be fined $1,000. Obnoxious BMW, Mercedes, Infiniti, Land Rover, Audi and Lexus operators will also have their vehicles impounded for 60 days, just for the hell of it. Doing it in (S)Lower Merion will double the fine, just because I said so!
If I rear-end you again because you stopped short to avoid missing another $tarbuck$ and your $8, 10-ounce fix, you deserved it! 5 minutes away from your grande latte and a little acquaintance with some white compound, Maguire's Carnauba and elbow grease will save you a phone call to your insurance company.
35 mph will be the minimum speed on four-lane roads. No liberal, small-town excuses.
The responsibilities of local governments will be as follows: Safety (police, fire, EMS), sanitation, providing utilities, maintaining local roads, and zoning development. Everything else, including education and the feeding, housing and clothing of "the poor," shall be the responsibility of private enterprises and faith-based organizations.
Absent my realtor and a few politicos, my IQ is greater than the sum total of the population of my new town!




Well,...365 days and just over 7500 hits later,....and still more to blog about in 2011! Oh, goodie! Obama gets to sit out the last two years of his junta,...I mean, adminstration!

2011: The Year We Undo the Obamessiah's F-ups!

The Bloglist for 2009!

Because someone has to tie up the loose ends!








BitterAmerican + iPod + Jagermeister =
1 - Tegan and Sara - Hell
2 - She Wants Revenge - All Wound Up
3 - Gossip - Heavy Cross
4 - Metric - Satellite Mind
5 - Metric - Gold, Guns, Girls
6 - Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch
7 - Thermals - We Can See
8 - Kaiser Chiefs - Good Days Bad Days
9 - Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss a Beat
10 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
11 - Florence and the Machine - Kiss With a Fist
12 - Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams



Experts agree:
She's STILL Hot






















AND she's STILL a skanky, poor substitute!



















This is how child pr0n starts:




Are either of them old enough to drive???

















Blogs Most Frequently Invaded by the BitterAmerican:
1 - AlexC's Pa WaterCooler
2 - AlexC's ThreeSources
3 - Bill Shaw's Writemarsh!
4 - BobC's Sweet Spirits of Ammonia
5 - Captain America's First In!
6 - Doug Gibb's Political Pistachio
7 - Katey's Kafe
8 - Lisa Mossie's Bluftooni9 - Mike Mancini's Arbiter of Common Sense
10 - Skye's Midnight Blue
11 - Tony Phyrillas' Eponyomous Blog
12 - Wyatt's Support Your Local Gunfighter

You Have Entered the Land of Broken Dreams and Shattered Hopes:
The USA from 01-20-2009 until 01-21-2013





















The AFL is no more.

But,...The MLS is coming to Philly!















Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?

• Eugenia Angiolillo, "The BitterMother"
• Harry Kalas
• Soupy Sales
• Patrick McGoohan
• Walter Cronkite
• Farrah Fawcett
• David Carradine
• Billy Mays
• Patrick Swayze
• Ed McMahon
• Ricardo Montalban
• Dom Deluise

Things that aren't there anymore:

• That World Series Trophy
• Objective Journalism
• A decent pitching rotation
• The Philadelphia Phantoms
• The Spectrum
• A competitive hockey franchise

Skank You Very Much!

• Nancy Pelosi
• Tiger Woods' Harem
• The View's Baba Wawa, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar
• Katie Couric
• Campbell Brown
• Rachel Madcow
• Tina Fey
• Janet Napolitano

PWE (Penii with Ears, Pronounced "Pee-Wee") Awards:

• Harry Reid
• Rahm Emanuel
• Kanye West
• Chris Matthews
• The Obamessiah
• Fat Eddie Rendell
• John "Redneck" Murtha
• Tiger Woods
• Sen Arlen Specter

• Heroes:
  
  
  
  If you have to ask why, you're in the wrong country, son!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Random Thoughts:
  
  • Think of the fun knowing EVERY baseball broadcaster will have to say "National League Champion Phillies" for another WHOLE year!
  • We have ANOTHER New YAWK team to hate for the next season.
    
  • In the future, putting your money where your mouth is will be known as "J-Roll'ing it!"
  • When did Philadelphia become the city that attracts every sports loser in America?
  • The NFL will soon start calling long touchdowns "DeSean Jacksons!"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  When the BitterAmerican rules the universe:
  • No Right Turn on Red will become mandatory. Violators will be fined $1,000. Obnoxious BMW, Mercedes, Infiniti, Land Rover and Infiniti operators will also have their vehicles impounded for 60 days, just for the hell of it.
  • 35 mph will be the minimum speed on four-lane roads. No excuses.
  • The responsibilities of local governments will be as followed: Safety (police, fire, EMS), sanitation, providing utilities, maintaining local roads, and zoning development. Everything else, including education and the feeding, housing and clothing of "the poor," shall be the responsibility of private enterprises and faith-based organizations.
    
    
    
  Well,...365 days and just over 7500 hits later,....and still more to blog about in 2010! Oh, goodie! Obama gets to take the senseless,...I mean, census!
  
  2010: The Year We Undo the Obamessiah's F-ups!
  
  
  
  
  

Has the Blogosphere Turned Upside Down?

Don't ask me how this happened, but,...



Somehow, my widely-ignored other blog, Republican SpyGlass is now the 20th Most Influential Blog in Pennsylvania??

AND the PaWaterCooler is in danger of dropping out of the Top 10???

No wonder it snowed in December!!

Back in the Saddle Again!

That the Bitter American is back amongst the BNN Top 20 (at 14th) is not a surprise.

That Conservatives continue to dominate the upper spots isn't a surprise, either.

1 - Tony Phyrillas

2 - PAWaterCooler

3 - GrassrootsPA

4 - The Centrist

7 - Conservative Reform Network

10 - PolicyBlog


Its what's going on amongst the Conservative blogs that's got the Bitter American floored:

1 - PAWaterCooler

2 - GrassrootsPA

3 -Bitter American!

4 - Tony Phyrillas

5 -Conservative Reform Network


Wow!!!

Ch-ch-changes,...

As life slowly seeps back into the life of a sleep-deprived Bitter American,...

I see that Blogrolling finally got its act together. I'll be updating the blogroll during the week.

That means I can finally add some new conservative friends.

Stay tuned,...

Conservative Blogger Domination!

Top Five spots on the BNN Top 10 go to Conservative blogs!


1 - Tony Phyrillas

2 - PAWaterCooler

3 - GrassrootsPA

3 - The Centist

5 - Policy Blog

Rounding out the Top 20:

11 - Save the GOP

14 - Bluftooni

16 - page13news

19 - Conservative Reform Network

Oddly enough, the Two most influential blogs in all of Pennsylvania, Bitter American and Republican Spyglass keep failing to crack the Top 20!

Bitter Blogging IS Better Blogging!

Since trading in Earl Grey Tea and Romulan Ale for 45 year old bourbon (PA Tax stamp of 1964) and broccoli rabe, The Bitter American has become a regular fixture on the BlogNetNews Top 20 influence chart.

Blogs of Distinction:

1 - Tony Phyrillas (#1 Among Blogs that matter, too!)
3 - Save the GOP (#3)
3 -PAWaterCooler (#4)
5 - The Centrist (#7)
6 - GrassrootsPA (#2)
7 - PolicyBlog (#5)
11 - The Bitter American (#5)
14 - Molovinsky on Allentown (#16)
17 - Gunservatively! (#13)

Now, to just get a few more right-minded blogs in the Top 20 to silence the never-ending drone of praise to the Obamessiah!

Bitter Makes for Better Blogging!

After weeks of languishing in the basement, the new and improved Bitter American finally cracks not only BlogNetNews' Top 20, but climbs up to Number 9 on this week's list! (Albeit under my former nom-de-blog, Lisa!!)

And somehow, Conservative stalwarts Tony Phyrillas and AlexC's PaWaterCooler have been usurped by some lib-tard blog from the Lehigh Valley? That's OK,..they're Number 1 and Number 6, respectively, in the list of blogs that matter. (I'm Number 7)

Onwards to more bilious blogging!!

The BlogList for 2008

Because someone has to tie up the loose ends!

TrekMedic + iPod + Jagermeister =
1 - Death Cab for Cutie - Cath...
2 - Duffy - Mercy
3 - Duffy - Warwick Avenue
4 - Five O'Clock Heroes f/ Agyness Deyn - Who?
5 - Weezer - Troublemaker
6 - Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
7 - Carolina Liar - I'm Not Over
8 - Seether - Rise Above
9 - The Bravery - Believe
10 - Pendulum - Propane Nightmares


Experts agree:

She's STILL Hot

AND she's a skanky, poor substitute!

Blogs Most Frequently Invaded by the TrekMedic:

1 - AlexC's Pa WaterCooler
2 - AlexC's ThreeSources
3 - Anthony's Opinionation Times

4 - Bill Shaw's Writemarsh!
5 - Captain America's First In!
6 - Doug Gibb's Political Pistachio
7 - Katey's Kafe
8 - Lisa Mossie's Bluftooni
9 - Marie's Two Cents
10 - Skye's Midnight Blue
11 - Wyatt's Support Your Local Gunfighter


You Have Entered the Land of Broken Dreams and Shattered Hopes:



Again!!!









The USA from 01-20-2009 until 01-21-2013

No AFL for 2009!! Of course, AFTER the Soul finally start the championship swing for Philly!!






Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?

• Sgt. Patrick McDonald


• Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski
  
• Ptl. Isabel Nazario
  
• Sgt. Timothy Simpson


• George Carlin!


• Paul Newman
  
• Charlton Heston
• Tim Russert
  
• Isaac Hayes
• Cyd Charisse
  


• LeRoi Moore


• Click here for more

Things that aren't there anymore:

• Jenn's Journey as a Conservative Chic
  
• Objective Journalism
  
• The New York Mutts' "How to Perform the Heimlich" book
• Pat Burrell in Left Field
• Humor on Saturday Night Leftists,...I mean, Live!
  
• MadTV!
• Republican Leadership

Skank You Very Much!

• Nancy Pelosi
• Lindsey Lohan - Hey, Dumbass: ANWR IS in Palin's backyard!
  
• Hillary Clinton
• Katie Couric
• Campbell Brown
• Rachel Madcow
• Tina Fey

PWE (Penii with Ears, Pronounced "Pee-Wee") Awards:

• Harry Reid
• Rahm Emanuel
• Rod Blagojevich
• Chris Matthews
• Keith Olbermann
• Fat Eddie Rendell
• John "Redneck" Murtha
• William Ayers
• Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Heroes:

• Vince and Vance Moss

Random Thoughts:

• Think of the fun knowing EVERY baseball broadcaster will have to say "World Series Champion Phillies" for a WHOLE year!



• You can finally say "World Series Champs" and "Philadelphia Phillies" in the same sentence and not get laughed at!



• In the future, putting your money where your mouth is will be known as "J-Roll'ing it!"
  



• One of the great reasons to be a sports fan in Philly:

When the TrekMedic rules the universe:

• People who call their local TV stations on February 18th, 2009 looking for their TV signal will be fined $10,000 and have all of their TVs repossessed.
• No Right Turn on Red will become mandatory. Violators will be fined $1,000. Obnoxious BMW, Mercedes, Infiniti, Land Rover and Infiniti operators will also have their vehicles impounded for 60 days, just for the hell of it.
• 35 mph will be the minimum speed on four-lane roads. No excuses.
• The responsibilities of local governments will be as followed: Safety (police, fire, EMS), sanitation, providing utilities, maintaining local roads, and zoning development. Everything else, including education and the feeding, housing and clothing of "the poor," shall be the responsibility of private enterprises and faith-based organizations.
  
  
  
  

Well,...365 days and just over 7500 hits later,....and still more to blog about in 2009! But this is the end of the journey for "Is This Life?" Starting tomorrow, this blog will be known as "The Bitter American!" See you on the other side!

Parade Knows "Best"

And who's on the cover??



The Best & Worst of 2008
Publication Date: 12/28/2008
We've gathered the year's top news, political events and breakthroughs. Plus, the quirkiest stories of '08.

The First 2008 Blog List

From Political Vindication:

After checking out Fred R. Shapiro’s choice of quotes for 2008 (that’s the article you’ve seen plastered all over the internet this past week), Political Vindication decided we could do far better. So here it is - the best (and by definition, the worst) political quotes of election year 2008.

10) As the election hysteria rose to a feverish pitch in 2008, Obama followers were balancing on their toes in orgasmic anticipation of The One’s ascension. This quote, recorded at a rally, reflects perfectly the dementia running rampant among the glazed-eyed crowds:

“It was the most memorable time of my life. It was a touching moment because I never thought this day would ever happen. I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage. You know, if I help him, he’s gonna help me.”

9) Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, had been saying for years that there was nothing wrong with either the finances or practices of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. When the government sponsored private institutions collapsed and brought on the collapse of the economy, Barney changed his tune. Suddenly it was all the Republican’s fault!

“They get to take things out on poor people,” Frank said at a mortgage foreclosure symposium in Boston. “Let’s be honest: The fact that some of the poor people are black doesn’t hurt them either, from their standpoint. This is an effort, I believe, to appeal to a kind of anger in people.”

8 ) It seems irony is an elephant that never forgets. As the Democrats began the political season boasting a diversity in all but dogmatic liberalism, it didn’t take long before everyone began pulling out the shame cards they’d been using against Republicans for years. This time, though, they were pulling it out on each other. Bill Clinton, America’s “first black president”, was not amused by Obama’s quick draw:

“I think that they played the race card on me. And we now know, from memos from the campaign and everything that they planned to do it all along.”

7) When the issue of abortion is being debated in the Catholic community, it’s expected that we defer to church doctrine. Unless, of course, you’re Nancy Pelosi. Then you defer to…well, Senator Augustine. What did he say about when life begins? The Speaker tells us:

REP. PELOSI: “I would say that as an ardent, practicing Catholic, this is an issue that I have studied for a long time. And what I know is, over the centuries, the doctors of the church have not been able to make that definition. And Senator–St. Augustine said at three months. We don’t know….(skip ahead) I don’t think anybody can tell you when life begins, human life begins. As I say, the Catholic Church for centuries has been discussing this, and there are those who’ve decided…”

MR. BROKAW: “The Catholic Church at the moment feels very strongly that it…”

REP. PELOSI: “I understand that.”

MR. BROKAW: “…begins at the point of conception.”

REP. PELOSI: “I understand. And this is like maybe 50 years or something like that. So again, over the history of the church, this is an issue of controversy. But it is, it is also true that God has given us, each of us, a free will and a responsibility to answer for our actions. And we want abortions to be safe, rare, and reduce the number of abortions…”

6) It’s tough to pick a winner among the hundreds of examples of Sarah Palin derangement that poisoned minds and wet panties across the leftosphere during the 2008 election. Liberals assured us she was a “disabled” “blow up doll” and the only thing that differentiated her from a Muslim fundamentalist was lipstick. But for pure malicious moonbattery, no one matches the camp commander of paranoia, Naomi Wolf:

“Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah “Evita” Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state.”

“Under the coming Palin-Rove police state, you will witness the plans now underway to bring Iraqi troops to patrol the streets of our nation. This is not McCain’s fantasy: it is Rove’s and Cheney’s.”

5) The Middle East is a bloody cauldron of medieval malevolence that is near to boiling over, or it’s not. Many on the left, including President Hopeandchange, are willing to hold on to their shoes and listen respectfully to what nuke-waving leaders like Mahmud Ahmadinejad have to say about the prospects of peace in our time.

“You should know that the criminal and terrorist Zionist regime which has 60 years of plundering, aggression and crimes in its file has reached the end of its work and will soon disappear off the geographical scene,” he said,

“Today, the time for the fall of the satanic power of the United States has come and the countdown to the annihilation of the emperor of power and wealth has started.”

4) Patriotism is a touchy issue around election time. Americans will think you’re bullying them into submission with the insinuation that to reject your call for their sacrifice is to hate your country. So naturally, the noted gaffemaster Joe Biden reached for the flag with one hand and your wallet with the other, singing:

“We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle class people,” said Biden today during an appearance on Good Morning America. “Anyone making over $250,000…” the host began to question, “Is going to pay more,” Biden interjected. “You got it. It’s time to be patriotic, Kate. It’s time to jump in, it’s time to be part of the deal, it’s time to help get America out of the rut.”

3) Being leader of the free world is a full time job, and there’s really nowhere to hide from the philosophical conundrums that demand a direct answer. This realization hit the presumptive President Hopeandchange one day in August as he was levitating under the klieg lights of Saddleback Church, being asked where on the pay scale we would find a world leader capable of deciding when a baby deserved human rights. He quickly discovered another way to vote ‘present’:

“Well, uh, you know, I think that whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or, uh, a scientific perspective, uh, answering that question with specificity, uh, you know, is, is, uh, above my pay grade.”

2) In Hollywood they say the streets are lined with fool’s gold, but it never look so good between a set of silicone street cones. I guess that’s why Americans think the script readers from tinsel town are capable of governing states and lecturing us on impending environmental catastrophes. Aspiring catastrophe Brooke Hogan is eager to offer a little wisdom of her own:

“You know what? I am actually not that much into voting. I think it’s kinda crazy that a woman is running, because I think that women deal with a lot of emotions and menopause and PMS and stuff. Like, I’m so moody all the time, I know I couldn’t be able to run a country, ‘cause I’d be crying one day and yelling at people the next day, ya know?”

1) People will pay good money for a top notch prognosticator, but what if you could get somewhere near the truth for free by deciphering grunts from the psychic’s dog? Maxine Waters, psychic version of a poodle with a personality disorder, sprayed us with a golden version of the future when she let it slip what government would do to the economy if free market principles interfered with a good time:

Waters responded, in part, “And guess what this liberal would be all about. This liberal will be about socializing … uh, um. …”

The congresswoman paused to collect her thoughts.

“Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.”

Well, you know what they say - you hang out with dogs, you got to live with the fleas. There’s little doubt about why this country is in the shape it is - America is run by mangy creatures threatening us with the shampoo we ought to be scrubbing them with. But what if we did kick them all out, and the congress was a kennel full of new faces and a free neuter and spade clinic in the coat room? We’d still get what we voted for. If anything is ever going to change, it’s going to have to start with the people holding the leashes.

BTW: George Bush gets dishonorable mention for his hard work over the last eight years dismantling the conservative movement. Along with many kooky liberals and spaced out ‘moderates’, I’ll be cheering his exit from the People’s House in January. Let’s remember him this way:

“I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,” Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision “to make sure the economy doesn’t collapse.”