Beltway Snark is a blog devoted to reporting political news the way it’s begging to be reported; with an abundant amount of ridicule and derision. If you like your political news with a goodly amount of snark, you’ve come to the right place. I do not confine my snarkiness to one political party, as far as I’m concerned everyone is fair game. That includes Keith Olbermann.
I have spawned two other blogs now, LOLPolis and Political Demotivation. I like to think the names are pretty self-explanatory, LOLPolis is for the making and showing of political lols and Political Demotivation is for the making and showing of political demotivational posters.
Now for the “About Me” section of the About Me page….
My name is Jennifer MQ. I abbreviate my last name because a) I don’t want any of you looking me up online and making surprise visits to my house and b) my last name seems to be difficult for some. Not as difficult as Moulitsas mind you, but difficult enough that it is routinely mangled by waitstaff. I am 27 years old, and spend way too much time online reading about politics. I have a 40 hour a week job (50 hours with the commute), a husband, and a furry four-legged feline son (and now a furry feline daughter…damn you PetsMart!). We live in a nice little house in a nice little ‘burb of Atlanta. Neither one of us is from here originally, I was born and raised in SoFla and the hubby was born on an Army base in Germany and raised in the Bronx.
I don’t have fancy degrees or anything, so we can skip right over the education part. I’m pretty good at being snarky and sarcastic, so I think that qualifies me for this job. Besides, last time I checked they didn’t have Snark 101 in any colleges or universities. Some things cannot be taught.
10 Comments
March 4, 2008 at 3:23 am
March 30, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I was checking out your blog and wanted to invite you to cross link with our political magazine: ToTheCenter.com.
We’re launching a blog roll and would love to list you there too. With thousands of readers a month, I thought cross linking would be mutually beneficial. We saw that you’re listing a lot of other political magazines such as us so we hope you’ll list us too.
Thanks,
John
May 19, 2008 at 4:47 pm
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E-MAIL RESEARCH INVITATION
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July 1, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Snarky,
Forgive me in advance if this email is redundant.
My republican blog has moved. The new site is http://www.tygrrrrexpress.com
To comment on the new site does require registration, aka a username and password. I know this is cumbersome, but it helps weed out the trolls.
Stay well, and happy blogging. Also, please update your blogrolls as well. Thank you.
eric aka the Tygrrrr Express
September 8, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Jennifer,
Carbon emissions have no discernable effect on climate, but our gullibility nets promoters of this “crisis” billions per year. Meanwhile they change nothing of their own lifestyles, though they also live on the planet they claim we are destroying. Claiming to want to save us from our folly, they seek to strip away our freedoms while destroying our economy. While the climate itself mocks their so-called linkages, and our economy is already on the edge of collapse, a Democratic Congress is still pushing for carbon cap legislation. What will it take to bring this farce to an end?
Your website leads me to believe we share the concerns about this attempt to sell out our country for profit and power. Would you help me promote a book I have written examining this hoax? It is intended to make readers angry over being played for patsies. If enough people read it, it would create a public backlash against that legislation, but through my own efforts, I have been unable to sufficiently publicize this work. Would you also pass this e-mail on to all your peers you think might agree and help?
The book is entitled “A Climate Crisis a la Gore” and is organized as follows:
• Introduction – the motivation behind the assembly of this information for public use.
• Part 1 – Excerpted ideas from Mr. Gore’s book, The Assault on Reason. regarding the proper and reasonable way to enter an argument or evidence are used to critique his film, where apparently he used all the assault techniques he claims to deplore
• Part 2 – A claim by claim analysis of Mr. Gore’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. These are evaluated with simple logic, claims elsewhere in the documentary; Mr. Gore’s excerpted written principles of reasoning, and scientific research and findings regarding the subjects of his claims.
• Part 3 – A rather cynical discussion and disclosure of players and special interest groups creating the perception of a global climate crisis. The history of the movement is examined, motives behind involvement, dollar amounts of profit already being reaped by promoters, and what they stand to gain if America enacts carbon legislation.
• Conclusion – The coming economic storm resulting from enacting this legislation and a plea to readers to contact legislators demanding such laws be reconsidered.
Excerpts can be reviewed and the book ordered at Amazon.com by entering the title, ISBN# (978-1-4196-8684-9) or by following the link http://www.amazon.com/Climate-Crisis-Gore-perception-warming/dp/1419686844/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202424474&sr=8-1 If you are willing to inform your readers of its contents and availability, an informed (and angry) population of voters might be a real, and maybe the only, check and balance system capable of stopping Congress.
Sincerely,
Paul Spite
September 13, 2008 at 7:21 am
What’s a “firend”?
A fired end, perhaps?
You must be a muslim alien. Be prepared to be sent to Guantanamo when I’m elected president, my friend.
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September 30, 2008 at 2:32 am
Check out this video. What do you make of it?
November 15, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Just wanted you to know how much I enjoy your blog-site. I am a late-forties professional woman with elementary school-aged children, a stay-at-home husband, and conservative views. Your snarky analysis is very enjoyable and quite well-inf0rmed. I notice that there aren’t many comments posted to your blogs…and I don’t know why. Your c0mments are usually very thought provoking and snotty–but in a nice and professional way. Please keep up the good work. I enjoy checking in on your opinions.
December 3, 2008 at 11:01 am
Love your political demotivation site. However I think you had some issues brewing overthere today.
I understand the intent of that website is for political humor. Having said that I also understand why one poster was only available for a short time today (3 Dec. 2008). It was of a personal nature having little to do with politics other than a general reference to party politics.
Having said that I can only hope this was the reason for the removal of the offending poster and not due to the rants of the delusional threatening legal proceedings. That picture was and is currently on the public domain of the internet so using it there, in a satire environment no less, is not illegal.
I also should make it clear the poster was not offensive to me but I can understand the other perspective. Being the butt of the joke can be painful but sometimes it is not undeserving.
January 23, 2009 at 2:44 am
just curious what program you use for your site.