Park Service Can't Give Official Age Of Grand Canyon For Fear Of Offending Creationists

"Masturbation Is Killing Half The Unborn Babies In America !" screams new GOP slogan in sick ploy to divert Pages to fornication and sodomy, in addition to this recent news: "Due to pressure from Bush Administration officials, the National Park Service is not permitted to give an official age for the Grand Canyon. Additionally, a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah's flood is for sale at the National Park's bookstore.

The sale of Grand Canyon: A Different View was scheduled for review over three years ago, but no such review has been schedule or even requested. The creationist book was the only item approved for sale in 2003 (22 other items were rejected)...

...comment back to HuffingtonPost.com:

can anyone give me the official age of stupid? how about the half-life of holier than thou? - by: superpen on December 29, 2006 at 05:16pm"

A Good Man

Former President Gerald Ford dies at 93: "Ford was a high school senior when he met his biological father. He was working in a Greek restaurant, he recalled, when a man came in and stood watching.
'Finally, he walked over and said, 'I'm your father,'' Ford said. 'Well, that was quite a shock.' But he wrote in his memoir that he broke down and cried that night and he was left with the image of 'a carefree, well-to-do man who didn't really give a damn about the hopes and dreams of his firstborn son.' "

Such loss.

The Only Freedom Left Is In Your Skull

Courts Are Cracking the Wall of Protection and Bloggers and Websites Will Go Down: "Robert Cox, founder and president of the Media Bloggers Association, which has 1,000 members, says the recent wave of lawsuits means that bloggers should bone up on libel law. 'It hasn't happened yet, but soon, there will be a blogger who is successfully sued and who loses his home,' he says. 'That will be the shot heard round the blogosphere.'"...

...the 1996 Communications Decency Act provides that "individuals who post messages are responsible for their content and can be sued for libel. That applies whether they are posting on their own website or on others' message boards."

That's MISTER Phill to you, chum. You drop the MISTER and I'll sue your ass till it calls a cab and books outta here !

Bush Needs To Be Jailed

GOP Senator Smith Smells The Fish: "'I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs day after day. That is absurd. It may even be criminal,' declared Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR), a 10-year veteran of the Senate, in a speech last night."

Capitalism in Suppository Form

Crooked Curriculum: Oil Company Money Scandal at Nat'l Science Teachers Association Deepens: "New evidence flatly contradicts statements NSTA has made in defense of its suspect partnerships, and efforts appear to be underway to wipe out online evidence showing that what the oil industry got in exchange was the group's imprimatur on classroom videos, teaching guides, and other 'educational' materials that play down threats like global warming and play up the glories of continued oil dependence.

We also learned that NSTA is willing to sell direct access to America's schoolteachers to any Tom, Dick or Exxon that shows up with a checkbook.

And here's the icing on the cake: NSTA Executive Director Dr. Gerry Wheeler - a top figure in the world of science education, remember - confessed to at least one reporter this week that he hadn't actually bothered to see the acclaimed film before he turned it down."

When the hellions are singing your song, that means you have no power over them any longer.

Culture Shock on Capitol Hill: House to Work 5 Days a Week - washingtonpost.com

Culture Shock on Capitol Hill: House to Work 5 Days a Week - washingtonpost.com: "'Keeping us up here eats away at families,' said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. 'Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families -- that's what this says.''Keeping us up here eats away at families,' said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. 'Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families -- that's what this says.'"

Senator-Elect Webb Shoulda Slugged The Asshole

"How's your boy?" asked the most dangerous man in the boy's life:

"'How's your boy?' Bush asked, referring to Webb's son, a Marine serving in Iraq.

'I'd like to get them out of Iraq, Mr. President,' Webb responded, echoing a campaign theme.

'That's not what I asked you,' Bush said. 'How's your boy?'

'That's between me and my boy, Mr. President,' Webb said coldly, ending the conversation on the State Floor of the East Wing of the White House."

Webb should have cold-cocked him. For me. For lots of people. For the boy.

GOP Congressman Peter King Is STILL Insane

Peter King Helps Bush Kill More American Soldiers: In October, 2006, trying to help the GOP keep it's malfeasing legislative majority in place, meathead King announced that, "As we go through the city of Baghdad, it was like being in Manhattan. I’m talking about bumper to bumper traffic. Talking about shopping centers, talking about restaurants, talking about video stores, talking about guys–on the street corner, talking about major hotels. And so, at that moment, people must be amazingly resilient and you would never know that there was a war going on…"

Nothing exactly compares to this shit-eater. He will believe a lie, then tell it directly to your face. He will let your kid die in the sand before he will tell the truth.

Their Sky Fairy Will Kill Your Sky Fairy

A Mormon Can Be President Right After Evangelicals Leave the Planet: "Mormonism is not a Christian faith. Because Mormons acknowledge works of Scripture that are not in the Bible, believe that their prophets have received revelations directly from God and teach that God has a physical body, Evangelicals consider them heretics."

My Sky Fairy is the one and only true Sky Fairy. Your Sky Fairy is evil !!

Deny my Sky Fairy and you will surely die !!!

She Doesn't Know What To Fuck Anymore

Welcome to Another Gas Attack From Ann Coulter: "But when Nancy Pelosi — another Democrat who married a multimillionaire — achieves the minor distinction of becoming the first female speaker of the House, The New York Times acts like she's invented cold fusion."

Ann's so clever; her idea is to convince you that Condi Rice and Colin Powell were actually the notable groundbreakers - not SF Gay Area Representative Nancy Pelosi and her coterie of bum-sniffing child-touchers.

Bush Decides To Punish Soldier's Wives and Daughters

Bush Deserves To Be Arrested and Executed On The White House Lawn: "The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who worked at a Christian pregnancy-counseling organization that regards the distribution of contraceptives as 'demeaning to women.'

Eric Keroack, medical director for A Woman's Concern, a nonprofit group based in Dorchester, Mass., will become deputy assistant secretary for population affairs in the next two weeks, department spokeswoman Christina Pearson said yesterday."...

..."The Keroack appointment angered many family-planning advocates, who noted that A Woman's Concern supports sexual abstinence until marriage, opposes contraception and does not distribute information promoting birth control at its six centers in eastern Massachusetts.
"A Woman's Concern is persuaded that the crass commercialization and distribution of birth control is demeaning to women, degrading of human sexuality and adverse to human health and happiness," the group's Web site says.

Keroack was traveling and could not be reached for comment."

Unfucking believable. Here we go to all this trouble to let W know that he is the world's biggest prick - and the dumbest ego filled spore ever, and he continues his lunacy.

Aussie Prime Minister Is A Propaganda Beast From The Nuclear Past

Just wait for a more convenient truth, urges Aussie PM: "'The opposition, however, is mainly due to a significant misalignment between public concern and the objective risk. While risks from uranium are carefully measured and relatively low, the public perception of risk is relatively high,' says the Government-commissioned report by the Uranium Industry Framework group, chaired by the Melbourne engineer and industrialist, Dr John White."

The potential for a gigantic world-wide catastrophe from implimented nuclear systems is a fact. This Aussie political prick should be challenged and punished for trying to mislead the public about something that may affect everything on earth.

"Do Not Consumate Your Love", says the church of Ratz

If The Church Chooses To Live In A Hellhole, Dump It Out Like Slop: "The nation's Roman Catholic bishops adopted new guidelines for gay outreach Tuesday that are meant to be welcoming, while also telling gays to be celibate since the church considers their sexuality ''disordered.''

Gay Catholic activists said the approach was so contorted and flawed that it would alienate the very people it was trying to reach."

"''This document proposes that lesbian and gay people be viewed not in the entirety of their lives, but in one dimension only -- the sexual dimension,'' DeBernardo said. ''No other group in the church is singled out in this way.''

The guidelines condemn discrimination against gays and say it's not a sin to be attracted to someone of the same sex -- only to act on those feelings."

This post-intelligence church is so convoluted and so sick at its core that nobody should feel obliged to put the seat up for these freaks ever again.

The brilliant role model Cheney adds salt to each individual piece of meat he eats when out hunting.

Breast Cancer Risk Linked To Red Meat, Study Finds: "...Growth hormones that farmers feed cows could fuel breast cancer in women who consume meat from the animals."

There is great resistance to funding programs that would robustly investigate this issue. It comes from meat industry entities. Duh.

Goverment Should Collect Student Data So GOP Fuckpigs Can Stop Liberal Education

Spellings Wants A Car Dealership Model For Universities: "Commission member David Ward, president of the American Council on Education, a Washington-based group representing colleges and universities, declined to sign the final report. He says it created a “false sense of crisis.” "

Republican brains no longer work during the daytime.

Lieberman Plans To Dump On Democrats For Not Being Loyal

Slimebag Lieberman Will Give The Republicans Anything They Want: "Asked on NBC's 'Meet the Press' if he might follow the example of Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont, who left the Republicans in 2001 and became an independent, ending Republican control of the U.S. Senate, Lieberman refused to discount the possibility.

'I'm not ruling it out but I hope I don't get to that point,' he said. 'And I must say -- and with all respect to the Republicans who supported me in Connecticut -- nobody ever said, 'We're doing this because we want you to switch over. We want you to do what you think is right and good for our state and country,' and I appreciate that.'"

A few dead soldiers, but hey, it's still a great war!

Murdoch says US death toll in Iraq is 'minute': "'The death toll, certainly of Americans there, by the terms of any previous war are quite minute,' Mr Murdoch told reporters at a conference in Tokyo...

...'I believe it was right to go in there. I believe that certainly the execution that has followed that has included many mistakes,' he said.

'But that's easy to say after the event. It's much easier to criticise the conduct of the war today in the media than it was in previous wars. I'm sure there were great mistakes made in the past, too.

'I think that one forgets that American foreign policy for the whole of the (20th) century saved the world from terrible things three times, for which they certainly got no thanks and for which they never had imperial ambitions at all.'"

If it was his young son dead in Iraq, it would only be a 'minute' setback for Rupert. You can always get another kid, but where are you going to get another trampled heap of Babylonian mud-brick history.

An Evil Fuck: Charlie Norwood, Republican of Georgia

U.S. Tightens Medicaid Rules for Babies of Illegal Immigrants: "'The federal government told us we have no latitude. All states must change their policies and practices. We will not be able to cover any services for the newborn until a Medicaid application is filed. That could be days, weeks or months after the child is born.'"

There are so many sickening stories out there about GOP evil, but this one can just not be allowed to stand.

Here's Someone We All Know

Killed By An Administration We All Hate: "A Flagstaff soldier who died in Iraq committed suicide after she refused to participate in interrogation techniques being practiced by her U.S. Army intelligence unit, according to a report about an Army investigation aired by a Flagstaff radio station."

This is a very sad event.

Diane Feinstein's Work Helping To Destroy Families Is Well Under Way

Bankruptcy is no longer a financial lifeline: "“A big misperception was and continues to be that the new law abolished bankruptcy,” says David Skeel, scholar-in-residence at the American Bankruptcy Institute, an independent research group headquartered in Washington, D.C. “It did not. We did not return to the days of debtor’s prison. What the Act did was make the filing process harder.”"

Bullshit. Debtor's Prison is most assuredly now on the table. A great many people will not be able to remove their debts due to the new Act and - unlike before, they will be handed a court order to pay a certain amount toward reducing their past debt balances. Some of these people will be unable to do so under the terms of the court order and will eventually be jailed for disobeying the court order. That is called Debtor's Prison by anyone with a pulse. The only news here is that David Skee, scholar-in-residence at the American Bankruptcy Institute, has learned to speak out of his ass.

Bush has made America a disgrace among civilized people

British believe Bush more dangerous than Kim Jong-il: "America is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbours and allies, according to an international survey of public opinion published today that reveals just how far the country's reputation has fallen among former supporters since the invasion of Iraq.

Carried out as US voters prepare to go to the polls next week in an election dominated by the war, the research also shows that British voters see George Bush as a greater danger to world peace than either the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, or the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Both countries were once cited by the US president as part of an 'axis of evil', but it is Mr Bush who now alarms voters in countries with traditionally strong links to the US."

The day after 911, the headline of the French newspaper Le Monde said "We Are All Americans". Over the last 5 years, Bush, the Republicans, and the Neo-cons have driven America into the ground leaving the world with nothing but disgust at our behaviour, sadness at the demise of the American Way, and fear for their lives in a world made crazy by the former light of the west.

Kerry Swift-Boats the Democrat's Chances

Harold Ford Has To Take Kerry Down Or We All Go Down: "Rep. Ford, who served as an honorary co-chairman of Sen. Kerry's 2004 failed presidential bid, said that the senator's 'words don't alter the fact that the stay-the-course strategy pursued by President Bush and supported by Bob Corker isn't working. We need a new direction in Iraq. I know how hard our troops work, and the sacrifices they make, for our freedoms. They deserve a plan for victory as good as they are, and as senator I intend to see they get one.'"

I want Kerry off the stage right now. He fucked 2004 and now is set to fuck 2006. He's old burnt toast.

Bush Snow Job

John Kerry tells "Stuffed Suit White House Mouthpiece" to eat shit and die:

"Senator Kerry not only owes an apology to those who are serving, but also to the families of those who've given their lives in this,' White House press secretary Tony Snow said. 'This is an absolute insult.' ...

...'This is the classic GOP playbook,' Kerry said in a harshly worded statement. 'I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did. I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium.'"

Kerry is a lame-ass, but a better American than any Republican.

Live Forever

The Amazing Ways Of Life: "Experts theorize that limited access to energy alarms the body, so to speak, activating a cascade of biochemical signals that tell each cell to direct energy away from reproductive functions, toward repair and maintenance. The calorie-restricted organism is stronger, according to this hypothesis, because individual cells are more efficiently repairing mutations, using energy, defending themselves and mopping up harmful byproducts like free radicals.

“The stressed cell is really pulling out all the stops” to preserve itself, said Dr. Cynthia Kenyon, a molecular biologist at the University of California, San Francisco."

Crime at the Polls

Glitches cited in early voting: "Debra A. Reed voted with her boss on Wednesday at African-American Research Library and Cultural Center near Fort Lauderdale. Her vote went smoothly, but boss Gary Rudolf called her over to look at what was happening on his machine. He touched the screen for gubernatorial candidate Jim Davis, a Democrat, but the review screen repeatedly registered the Republican, Charlie Crist.

That's exactly the kind of problem that sends conspiracy theorists into high gear -- especially in South Florida, where a history of problems at the polls have made voters particularly skittish.
A poll worker then helped Rudolf, but it took three tries to get it right, Reed said."

...unbelievable...

"Broward Supervisor of Elections spokeswoman Mary Cooney said it's not uncommon for screens on heavily used machines to slip out of sync, making votes register incorrectly. Poll workers are trained to recalibrate them on the spot -- essentially, to realign the video screen with the electronics inside. The 15-step process is outlined in the poll-workers manual.
''It is resolved right there at the early-voting site,'' Cooney said.

Broward poll workers keep a log of all maintenance done on machines at each site. But the Supervisor of Elections office doesn't see that log until the early voting period ends. And a machine isn't taken out of service unless the poll clerk decides it's a chronic poor performer that can't be fixed.

Cooney said no machines have been removed during early voting, and she is not aware of any serious problems."

Mary Cooney doesn't think that there are problems?

This is an outrage! A fucking outrage that at this point in time - after 'chads' and recounts, we are still seeing citizens cheated out of their vote. The GOP is a criminal cabal and needs to be stopped at all costs.

Republicans Still Can't Find 380 Tons of Powerful Explosives

Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished Two Years Ago From Site in Iraq: "The Iraqi interim government has warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives - used to demolish buildings, make missile warheads and detonate nuclear weapons - are missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations.
The huge facility, called Al Qaqaa, was supposed to be under American military control but is now a no man's land, still picked over by looters as recently as Sunday. United Nations weapons inspectors had monitored the explosives for many years, but White House and Pentagon officials acknowledge that the explosives vanished sometime after the American-led invasion last year.
The White House said President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, was informed within the past month that the explosives were missing."

You can tell Rice that her shoes are on fire and she'll do nothing about it. She has no ideas and has no plans. She reads the sheet music and plays her part.

Lynne Cheney Is A Trolls Mol

The Cheney Era Smells of Rotting Soldiers and Sweaty Closets:

"'Jim Webb is full of baloney. I have never written anything sexually explicit.'

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee sent out a news release listing sexual passages in books by Cheney and other GOP conservatives, including Dick Cheney's former chief of staff I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

The DSCC said Cheney's books featured brothels and attempted rape.

Though asked by CNN, Cheney did not discuss the imagery included in 'Sisters.'"

"Cheney Has No Opposable Thumbs," say GOP scientists

Ironically, "'Water-Boarding' Is The Only Way To Jump-start His Heart," says Chief Rocket Surgeon: "Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said in a statement, 'What's really a no-brainer is that no U.S. official, much less a vice president, should champion torture. Vice President Cheney's advocacy of water boarding sets a new human rights low at a time when human rights is already scraping the bottom of the Bush administration barrel.'

Human Rights Watch said Cheney's remarks were 'the Bush administration's first clear endorsement' of water boarding."

To see America go down this GOP drain is almost unbearable.

The President's Nuts

Camille Paglia: "I've become concerned about Bush's mental state in the past few months.": "Sometimes in his press conferences or prepared statements (which I listened to on the radio), I heard a sort of Nixonian tension and hysteria. His vocal patterns were over-intense and his inflections impatient, lurching and sarcastic. There was this seething quality to his speech that worried me and that seemed to signal that something major is being planned -- perhaps another military incursion."

She's too clever and bright to dismiss her comments lightly.

Get Thee To A Cybil

No, No, They Can't Take That Away From Me:

"...abortion is still legal. You know why? There would never be another Republican elected to the White House again if they made abortion illegal. People would then have to vote in their own best interest instead of following their asinine religious beliefs. " - Cymbaline, Oct 2006

'Cymbaline' is the online moniker of Lisa Rios, a lady of much character, who will remind you, without doubt, that the last 30 years did actually happen. There are values that were found, nurtured and revered all through the western world during that time and they live - healthfully and without compromise, in the best of us.

You Can't Connect To Liberal Blogs - Because They're Liberal Blogs

STOP ABUSING OUR MARINES! - Wonkette: "“I think that this kind of censoring is a big deal. I can understand blocking porn, music and movies, and blatantly illegal sites, but blocking sites that some higher up just doesn’t agree with is disgusting. They are blocking a huge portion of voters from information that will help them determine which side to vote for. Because of this, the only news we get is from the big corporations or conservative based sites.”"

I don't understand why anyone would want to follow orders from someone they don't respect. General Pace couldn't get me to put the seat down, much less salute him and the lunacy he represents.

Democrats Are Blowing Their Lead

Camille Paglia Has A Very Depressing Message: "So what they've done, in this rabid orchestration of the Foley case, is to risk energizing the Republican base again. Are they mad, or just dumb? They've handed the Republicans a reason to go to the polls -- to register their contempt for Democrats!"

eeek !!

"Every nudnik out there aspires to be a junior bin Laden. What was needed -- but which may now be impossible -- was to gain the trust of people worldwide at the local level. So that on small islands in Indonesia, let's say, neighbors will turn in the stranger who's gathering followers around him. Without that cooperation, we're never going to defeat world terrorism."

Really interesting thinking.

Cheney Takes Another Salt-embedded Bite Out Of America

Cheney and local GOP page/journalist trade penis measurements: "Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that U.S. interrogators subjected captured senior al-Qaida suspects to a controversial interrogation technique called 'water-boarding,' which creates a sensation of drowning.

Cheney indicated that the Bush administration doesn't regard water-boarding as torture and allows the CIA to use it. 'It's a no-brainer for me,' Cheney said at one point in an interview."

...local journalist licks the VP until they both sport wood...

"In the interview on Tuesday, Scott Hennen of WDAY Radio in Fargo, N.D., told Cheney that listeners had asked him to "let the vice president know that if it takes dunking a terrorist in water, we're all for it, if it saves American lives."

"Again, this debate seems a little silly given the threat we face, would you agree?" Hennen said.

"'I do agree,' Cheney replied, according to a transcript of the interview released Wednesday. 'And I think the terrorist threat, for example, with respect to our ability to interrogate high-value detainees like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, that's been a very important tool that we've had to be able to secure the nation.'"

How would Jesus vote?

Harold Ford Has Redesigned The Fight:

"'I serve a big God, he gives me strength every day, and I go to work. I am not that smart. I don't try to outsmart him. I just go to work every day.'"

Ford is being carved by circumstances and may be the first of the 'new people' to visit the main stage.

Rush Is Death With A Microphone

Rush Limbaugh's Offensive Against Michael J. Fox Defines The GOP:

"'He is exaggerating the effects of the disease,' Limbaugh told listeners. 'He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. . . . This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox."

Rush is a rotting hulk, drawing flies like shit on a sidewalk. Rush and his ilksters have no authority over anything and have nothing behind their empty ideas. On death they will neither go to heaven or hell, but will be left to rot on the sidewalk - drawing those flies.

Rush says Michael J. Fox is bullshitting

Can a Republican get anywhere near heaven, or are they fried the second their pulse ceases?

"'I stated when I saw the ad, I was commenting to you about it, that he was either off the medication or he was acting. He is an actor, after all.'"

...gee, what's the doctor say?...

"Dr. Daniel emails:
the chorea that Michael J Fox has in that ad comes from chronic use of dopamine agonists in the context of Parkinson's. They're movements from the medicine, not the disease itself. Although he might have odd movements OFF of his meds, they wouldn't look like the ones in the ad. They'd look like the Parkinson's-like presentation of Muhammed Ali's Dementia Pugilistica.

In addition, those movements are hard to imitate accurately because they stem from circuits between the basal ganglia and cortex that you can't just turn off or on. Those aren't volitional circuits. There is little chance he was acting, and if he was, he could only accentuate slightly movementse already had. In other words, this is as tragic as it looks."

Rush is proof that cowboys fuck horses.

'Killed By Wishful Thinking'

TERROR RULES STREETS AS AMERICAN SOLDIERS DIE FOR A LIE: "It's one thing to ask our soldiers and Marines to die for our national security, but sending them off to die for platitudes is unforgivable.

The government in Baghdad is on the verge of failure. There is no civil war - civil war would be easier to deal with. What we see in the streets is the rule of the gunmen.

We gave them Iraq. Instead of imposing the rule of law, we empowered the lawless.

Responsibility begins, of course, with the Iraqis, who have chosen old hatreds over new possibilities. The next layer of guilt encompasses the Bush administration, which lacked the guts to finish what it started. But the get-Bush-at-any-cost Americans who encouraged our enemies will have the blood of countless innocent Iraqis on their hands.

The left may get its wish: Iraq may fail. Well, congratulations. The men to whom you yearn to give Iraq will make Pol Pot look like Mr. Rogers.

The only blameless participants are our troops. Each new tombstone at Arlington National Cemetery should read: 'Killed By Wishful Thinking.'"

As with Ken Burns' 'Confederate States of America,' the Republican's plan for Iraq "died of a theory."

I Didn't Actually Mean 'Stay The Course'

I Was Just Trying To Say 'Fuck The Liberals' Using My Other Face:

"George Stephanopoulos asked about James Baker’s plan to develop a strategy for Iraq that is “between ’stay the course’ and ‘cut and run.’”

Bush responded, ‘We’ve never been stay the course, George!’"

...Oh really. Gee, what about...

"BUSH: We will stay the course. [8/30/06]

BUSH: We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]

BUSH: We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]

BUSH: And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04]

BUSH: And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. And that’s why when we say something in Iraq, we’re going to do it. [4/16/04]

BUSH: And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]"

That about covers that.

Germany's Schroeder: Bush Is A Phoney

"If He's For Real, I'm A Four-Hole Buick," yells Sunday-School Teacher: "'What bothered me, and in a certain way made me suspicious despite the relaxed atmosphere, was again and again in our discussions how much this president described himself as 'God-fearing,'' Schroeder wrote, adding he is a firm believer in the separation of church and state.

Schroeder accused some elements in U.S. as being hypocritical when it comes to secularism in government.

'We rightly criticize that in most Islamic states, the role of religion for society and the character of the rule of law are not clearly separated,' Schroeder wrote. 'But we fail to recognize that in the USA, the Christian fundamentalists and their interpretation of the Bible have similar tendencies.'"

For Why The Chimp Cackles

Rove Jumps Into W's Lap And Plants A Fatty - "I Did The Math, Boss ! We Win !":

Barrons Magazine: "Our analysis -- based on a race-by-race examination of campaign-finance data -- suggests that the GOP will hang on to both chambers, at least nominally. We expect the Republican majority in the House to fall by eight seats, to 224 of the chamber's 435. At the very worst, our analysis suggests, the party's loss could be as large as 14 seats, leaving a one-seat majority. But that is still a far cry from the 20-seat loss some are predicting. In the Senate, with 100 seats, we see the GOP winding up with 52, down three."

It's Sunday October 22nd and I heard the huge political machine come to a stop - a big, deep cachunk!, then a momentary, painful silence until the hulking, cranking machinery began - incredibly, to move in the opposite direction.

Embarrassed (or should be) GOP Lawmaker Wants To Shutter CNN

Lawmaker Outraged by Sniper Footage on CNN: "CNN has become 'the publicist for an enemy propaganda film' by broadcasting a video showing an insurgent sniper in Iraq apparently killing an American soldier, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said here Friday.

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-El Cajon) called for the Pentagon to oust any CNN reporter embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq.

'I think Americans like to think we're all in this together,' Hunter said. 'The average American Marine or soldier has concluded after seeing that film that CNN is not on their side.'

CNN said it broadcast the brief video to show the threat that insurgent snipers posed to U.S. troops.

'Whether or not you agree with us in this case, our goal, as always, is to present the unvarnished truth as best we can,' CNN producer David Doss wrote in a blog on the network's website."

"But if you see the sniper footage," says the unexamined nutcase, "you'd see Americans losing!!" I don't know about that, but it sure shows Americans hurting without halt while we at home look on as Cheney goes hunting, while Condi reads the music and plays her part, and while we carry on as best we can, unable to not watch the Chimp cacklin' as our culture floats out to sea.

Corporate/Conservative Control of California's Elections Is A Done Deal

The Only Reason Not To Strangle Right-Wing Republicans Is Because It's Illegal:

"A new analysis by FTCR finds that one out of every 4 dollars spent on political ads in California comes from 10 rich corporations."

Next time some Rightie tries to sell you the concept of the vote being skewed by "union money" tell them to eat shit. This link shows exactly from whom the money comes - and how much.

The Top US General Says Rumsfeld is Inspired by God

They're Here (gulp!):

"The top US general defended the leadership of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, saying it is inspired by God.

'He leads in a way that the good Lord tells him is best for our country,' said Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.


The Revelationaries are here. It's the end-of-the-world crew and they're taking their seats at the controls.

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"Why are we always expecting metal ships?"

"I've never expected metal ships."

("Invasion of the Body Snatchers" 1978)

Cheney Logs Much Dirtier Than Lincoln Logs

Cheney May Be The October Surprise : "A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to release information about who visited Vice President Dick Cheney's office and personal residence, an order that could spark a late election season debate over lobbyists' White House access.

The Washington Post asked for two years of White House visitor logs in June but the Secret Service refused to process the request. Government attorneys called it 'a fishing expedition into the most sensitive details of the vice presidency.'

U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina ruled Wednesday that, by the end of next week, the Secret Service must produce the records or at least identity them and justify why they are being withheld."

Well that's easy. The logs are being withheld because they document that Cheney's office was a billionaire's flea market.

Shays Lounges In Bullshit

Rep. Chris Shays - another Blowhard Moment from a GOP Stiff: "Now let me just tell you something about the reality. We're there. And if we made mistakes we're still there. In my judgment we should have gone in sooner but not for weapons of mass destruction."

Why does rightie monster Ann Coulter call this guy a wimp? Looks like for this election he's pulling out all the stops and letting his GOP installed ideas just drool out of his mouth.

"Goblins Only Restroom" and "Giants Only Drinking Fountain"

Humans To Split:

"Social division might split humans into two sub-species 100,000 years from now, an evolution expert has claimed.

The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative.

They would be a far cry from the 'underclass' humans, who will have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures."

...hmmm, fascinating. And yet, that's a big stretch of time to cross with an intact prediction. But not to worry...

"The forecast was made by Dr Oliver Curry, who spent two months investigating the ascent and descent of man over the next 100 millennia. He said that within a thousand years, humans will evolve into coffee-coloured giants between 6 and 7ft tall. But Dr Curry said centuries of sexual selection - being choosy about one's partner - was likely to create more and more genetic inequality.

The logical outcome would be two sub-species, "gracile" and "robust" humans. Dr Curry said: "Things could get ugly, with the possible emergence of genetic 'haves' and 'have-nots'."

Well, since he spent a full 2 months working up this sci-fi screenplay, the resulting airtight fact-set should be enough to get it optioned. Ya' think?

Foley Probe Goes Deeper

The Message Is Clear:

"Teen: ya im still 17 till feb 23
Maf54: see you feb 24th"

"FBI Yet to Find Evidence of Foley-Page Sexual Contact," says Drudge's headline. As if that makes it all OK. Don't think so.

Boy Toys

He Groomed Them As Kids - Fucked 'Em As Adults - All GOP, All Legal: "'He spotted me when I was a page and set the hook while I was still in high school,' one former page told ABC News. 'He didn't reel me in until he showed up at my college campus on a congressional visit. We had sex,' said the page, who has been interviewed by the FBI."

Reelin' 'em in. As Jim Kweskin's band used to sing, "Any fish'l bite if you've got good bait".

James Baker and Peter King Become an Air Tunnel

"Iraq is a helluva mess," says James Baker, One of the Architects of the Florida Election Fraud That Gave Us the Coven Of Shits that Baker Now Derides: "FORMER US secretary of state James Baker was visibly shocked when he last visited Iraq, and said the country was in a 'helluva mess', the BBC reported today.

Mr Baker is leading a review of the situation in Iraq by a bipartisan US committee of experts, and is expected to recommend a change in US strategy for rebuilding Iraq."

Baker evidentally took a different bus through Baghdad than the one taken by GOP Congressman Peter King. King thinks Baghdad is a lot like Manhattan and that the media and the Democrats have been misrepresenting the situation.

As moronic King says, "As we go through the city of Baghdad, it was like being in Manhattan. I’m talking about bumper to bumper traffic. Talking about shopping centers, talking about restaurants, talking about video stores...". This is one brilliant Republican.

Bush Pals Screw The Masses

Joy For Bush Crowd As Crime Pays Big: "The ruling worried employees and investors who lost billions of dollars when the Houston energy-trading company filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2001. It also came more than a week after Congress recessed for the November elections without acting on a last-ditch Justice Department proposal that would have changed the law to allow prosecutors to seize millions of dollars in investments and other assets that Lay controlled."

This is the slime time for the U.S.. Every brand of thug thrives within the GOP as America washes down the drain. There goes the money, there goes the greenery, there goes everybody with less than $3,000,000.00.

Oh look, here come the vandals.

Loudest Penis in Washington

GOP Throwback Pete King Goes Shopping in Baghdad: "King: Conditions on the ground are different than what you see on television.—As we go through the city of Baghdad, it was like being in Manhattan. I’m talking about bumper to bumper traffic. Talking about shopping centers, talking about restaurants, talking about video stores, talking about guys–on the street corner, talking about major hotels. And so, at that moment, people must be amazingly resilient and you would never know that there was a war going on…"

Speaking through the anus is a skill that Republican slugs like Pete King have mastered in private, bringing it to the public as soon as 911 gave him the issue he could only heretofore dream about.

Bush and Pals Cover Various Asses

Judge In The Pocket Worth 2 In The Bush: "The ruling worried employees and investors who lost billions of dollars when the Houston energy-trading company filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2001.

It also came more than a week after Congress recessed for the November elections without acting on a last-ditch Justice Department proposal that would have changed the law to allow prosecutors to seize millions of dollars in investments and other assets that Lay controlled."

Mrs. Lay will say a small, not too long, prayer for the victims of her husband's crime. Then she'll spend some of the now-untouchable 44 million dollars on a Faberge laugh track.

GOP Knows The Truth, But Sells The Lie

GOP's gay identity crisis: "At a State Department ceremony this week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warmly acknowledged the family members of Mark Dybul, whom she was swearing in as the nation's new global AIDS coordinator.
As first lady Laura Bush looked on, Rice singled out his partner, Jason Claire, and Claire's mother. Rice referred to her as Dybul's 'mother-in-law.'"...

..."For Republicans, the most difficult problem posed by the e-mail exchanges that former congressman Mark Foley had with pages is not necessarily the flagrant misbehavior of one member. Rather it's the fact that the investigation is exposing a politically awkward fact of life: some GOP leaders practice a more tolerant brand of politics in their office hiring than some in the party have preached on the campaign trail.

"They play somebody different on TV than they are in person," says John Aravosis, a gay blogger who used to work for Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska. "

Pandering to your followers is an age-old reality that never comes back because it never goes away.

Crooks and Liars ?

Separate But Evil: "David Kuo, who was the number two guy at the Office of Faith Based initiatives in the White House writes a scathing account of how the administration used Christians to grab and maintain power. This story validates Tucker Carlson's admission that: 'The deep truth is that the elites in the Republican Party have pure contempt for the evangelicals who put their party in power.'"

Republicans Are Stuck With This One

Republicans Care About Winning Elections: "It is now absolutely clear that Foley was indeed a menace to kids working on Capitol Hill. In seeking to malign the parties who sought to expose his conduct, top Republicans reveal that they are far more outraged by the possibility that the scandal might harm their party’s prospects in November than they are by Foley's behavior."

Hastert Bilge Fills Up

Hastert Staff Chief Says 'No!' - My Boss Is Wrong! It Was Way Before November 2005 !!!: "House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's chief of staff confronted then-Rep. Mark Foley about his inappropriate social contact with male pages well before the speaker said aides in his office took any action, a current congressional staff member with personal knowledge of Foley and his behavior with pages said yesterday.

The staff member said Hastert's chief of staff, Scott Palmer, met with the Florida Republican at the Capitol to discuss complaints about Foley's behavior toward pages. The alleged meeting occurred long before Hastert says aides in his office dispatched Rep. John M. Shimkus (R-Ill.) and the clerk of the House in November 2005 to confront Foley about troubling e-mails he had sent to a Louisiana boy."

Correction: Republicans Are Not All On The Same Page

Hastert lashes out at anything that wiggles: "'The people who want to see this thing blow up,' he said, 'are ABC News and a lot of Democratic operatives, people funded by George Soros,' a major contributor to liberal causes. 'I saw Bill Clinton's adviser Richard Morris was saying these guys knew about this all along.'... Hastert offered no proof for his assertions, and Democrats called them absurd and laughable..."

...and the facts have their own agenda...

"... a 26-year-old Atlanta man says Foley began sending him sexually suggestive messages and invited him to his Washington home after he served as a congressional page nine years ago. Tyson Vivyan said Foley began sending him online instant messages a month or two after his nine-month stint as a page ended in June 1997. Foley entered Congress in January 1995.

Vivyan's account appears to show the earliest exchange of suggestive messages reported so far between Foley and former pages. Vivyan said he played along at first, thinking it was someone he knew. After weeks of peppering the anonymous message sender with questions, he said he figured out who it was and refused to engage in the sexual banter that Foley tried to instigate.

'I had absolutely no sexual interest in him. He was a man twice my age,' said Vivyan, who added: 'I don't call my self gay, I don't call myself straight.'

Vivyan, who is divorced, said he found the congressman's behavior 'morally reprehensible' but tried to maintain a platonic professional relationship in which they talked about legislation and 'votes on the Hill.'"

Gone Waterboardin' with the Twins

Only Way to the Truth---Torture Hastert: "Is there anything worse, in the minds of most Americans than being a sexual predator to underage kids? Why it's right up there with rape and murder. Finding out who in Congress knew about Foley, when did they know it, and why didn't they do anything about it is as important to the nation as finding out who was behind 9/11.
Are our children worth less?

There's only one way to get this information. Send Foley, Hastert, Boehner, and the rest of them to Guantanamo and torture the information out of them."

Now let's tickle some real info out of these birds, Texas style, yessiree.

So You're Dead, So Fucking What

"This War's 'Just a Comma' So Trust Me And God and Shut Up: "

"As he heads out on the campaign trail, haunted by an unpopular war, President Bush has begun reassuring audiences that this traumatic period in Iraq will be seen as "just a comma" in the history books. By that, aides say, he means to reinforce his message of resolve in the long struggle for Iraqi democracy.

But opponents of the war have seized on the formulation, seeing it as evidence that Bush is indifferent to suffering. To them, it sounds as if the president is dismissing more than 2,700 U.S. troop deaths as 'just a comma.' And a lively Internet debate has broken out about the origins of the phrase, with some speculating that Bush means it as a coded message to religious supporters, evoking the aphorism 'Never put a period where God has put a comma.'"

Republicans Say Brits Are Weenie Scientists That Don't Understand Freedom

Righties Draw Up Plans To Kill Science Without Harming Money-Making Inventions: "Drought threatening the lives of millions will spread across half the land surface of the Earth in the coming century because of global warming, according to new predictions from Britain's leading climate scientists."

Of course maybe they're wrong. Maybe modern times never really happened and maybe those really aren't exhaust fumes coming out of our tailpipes.

Before Matt's Arrest

Mark Foley Is Just A Victim - Matt Drudge And The Monster Inside The Republican Machine: "Matt Drudge actually refers to the children who were preyed upon by Mark Foley as '16 and 17 year old beasts'. He also says, 'they (the pages) were talking about how many times they'd masturbated, how many times they'd done it with their girlfriends this weekend...all these things and these innocent children. And this poor congressman sitting there typing, oh am I going to get any, you know?'"

Matt Drudge has a closet; a walk-in closet; perhaps a drive-by closet. And that part of this story could blow so high... so high !... that you'll need a lobster bib the size of Detriot to soak up the spatter.

Hastert Says, "'There wasn't much there other than a friendly inquiry"

The Boy Said It Was "Sick" - But Hastert Has Different Standards: "Meeting with reporters Monday, Hastert said his aides and Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., heeded the wishes of the parents of the former House page, who wanted such questionable e-mails to stop but didn't want the matter pursued. Shimkus and the House clerk told Foley last fall to cut off all communication with the former page, who lived in Louisiana.

Hastert says neither Shimkus nor his own aides saw the 2005 e-mail, noting that it was far less sexually explicit than the electronic messages that ABC News revealed last week.

'There wasn't much there other than a friendly inquiry,' Hastert said of the 2005 message from Foley, R-Fla., described as 'sick' by the boy. The message asked for a photograph and mentioned a different teen who was in 'great shape.'"

This means that the wishes of these parents was all it took to let a dangerous, bad situation - with great potential harm to somebody else's children, go unchecked and unstopped. Good going, Republican Hastert !

The Baltimore Sun notices something different:

"The usually disciplined House Republican leadership showed signs of disarray, with Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri telling reporters that he would have urged a different course of action had colleagues informed him of the page's complaint.

I think I could have given some good advice here, which is: 'You have to be curious, you have to ask all the questions you can think of,' said Blunt, who ranks third in the Republican leadership. 'You absolutely can't decide not to look into activities because one individual's parents don't want you to.'"

That's my emphasis, to point out the key fact that puts Hastert out of business.

At Least Republicans Are All On The Same Page

Foley Saga No Shock to Some: "'Almost the first day I got there I was warned,' said Mark Beck-Heyman, a San Diego native who served as a page in the House of Representatives in the summer of 1995. 'It was no secret that Foley had a special interest in male pages,' said Beck-Heyman, adding that Foley, who is now 52, on several occasions asked him out for ice cream.

Another former congressional staff member said he too had been the object of Foley's advances. 'It was so well known around the House. Pages passed it along from class to class,' said the former aide, adding that when he was 18 a few years ago and working as an intern, Foley approached him at a bar near the Capitol and asked for his e-mail address."

"...Beck-Heyman, the former page, said several other male pages in his class also had been approached by Foley. "Mark Foley knew he could get away with this type of behavior with male pages because he was a congressman," he said.

Another former staffer said it was an oft-repeated story around Capitol Hill that Foley's former chief of staff, Kirk Fordham, would sometimes accompany the congressman to keep him out of trouble.

Fordham represents a link between Foley and House GOP leaders. Shortly after leaving Foley's office last year, he became chief of staff to Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds (R-N.Y.), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Reynolds has said he was told this spring about the e-mails that sparked the initial complaint about Foley.

Fordham has not responded to repeated requests for comment from The Times."

"...Matthew Loraditch, a page in the 2001-2002 class, told ABC News he and other pages were warned about Foley by a supervisor in the House Clerk's office. Loraditch, the president of the Page Alumni Association, said the pages were told "don't get too wrapped up in him being too nice to you and all that kind of stuff..."

...and yet some Young Righties feel it's their duty to lie for their leaders...

"...But another page, who asked not to be named told The Palm Beach Post, 'The program in no official capacity warned us about it,' and he said that Loraditch had posted an explanation for his comments to ABC on the college social network, Facebook.com."

The Republican Messiah's 'Washington Times' is done with Speaker Hastert...

"Mr. Hastert insisted that he learned of the most flagrant instant-message exchange from 2003 only last Friday, when it was reported by ABC News. This is irrelevant. The original e-mail messages were warning enough that a predator -- and, incredibly, the co-chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children -- could be prowling the halls of Congress. The matter wasn't pursued aggressively. It was barely pursued at all. Moreover, all available evidence suggests that the Republican leadership did not share anything related to this matter with any Democrat.

Boyz In The House

This is about pedophilia and a failure of ethical leadership by a spectacularly hypocritical GOP: "'...there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply naughty emails,' says Tony Snow"

GOP Congressman Foley: did you spank it this weekend yourself ?

Underage Congressional Page: no... been too tired and too busy

GOP Congressman Foley: wow... I am never too busy, haha

"Matthew Loraditch, a page in the 2001-2002 class, told ABC News he and other pages were warned about Foley by a supervisor in the House Clerk's office.

Loraditch, the president of the Page Alumni Association, said the pages were told 'don't get too wrapped up in him being too nice to you and all that kind of stuff.'"

You shouldn't be screaming about moral values while you're violating an underage boy.

GOP "No Boy's Left Behind" Slogan Pulled

Apostrophy In GOP Campaign Slogan Causes Outrage - GOP uproar over Foley's e-mails / House speaker told months ago - both parties want investigation - Gingrich reportedly locates next wife: "The exchanges began with what Republicans now describe as an 'over friendly' e-mail message from Foley to the unidentified teenager. But news reports about the exchanges have led to the disclosure of e-mail correspondence with other former pages in which the discussions became more and more sexually explicit. Shortly after he was confronted by ABC News on Friday about the subject, Foley, who represented a south Florida district, resigned from the House."

The church protects its priests and the GOP protects its congressmen.

They Are Inside Your Home

"Fight without quarter is neccessary if the good is to prevail."

It's everywhere. The evidence is overwhelming. We are being tooled by the conservatives to such an extent that we can't even see the air swirling about our bodies as we are guided by the teeth down to the level of pork - where our new destiny is to have some bacon thrown at us in the micro-moments just before we start to have a mental thought that all isn't what it's supposed to be; our world is being sold out from under us to mega-trusts owned by thin godzillionaires. And the key to the whole thing is the criminal enterprise known as the fundamentalist christian right.

Today is your recruitment day.

There Is No Justice In Ohio

Campaign Cash Mirrors a High Court’s Rulings: "In the weeks before the election, Justice O’Donnell’s campaign accepted thousands of dollars from the political action committees of three companies that were defendants in the suits. Two of the cases dealt with defective cars, and one involved a toxic substance. Weeks after winning his race, Justice O’Donnell joined majorities that handed the three companies significant victories.

Justice O’Donnell’s conduct was unexceptional. In one of the cases, every justice in the 4-to-3 majority had taken money from affiliates of the companies. None of the dissenters had done so, but they had accepted contributions from lawyers for the plaintiffs."

This is so awful that almost everything pales by comparison. Our culture is dead in the water if this is allowed to stand.

The Secret's Out !! Condi Rice Behind Most Major Screw-ups

Bush Officials Have Covered Up Rice-Tenet Meeting From 9/11 Commission: " They went over top-secret intelligence pointing to an impending attack and “sounded the loudest warning” to the White House of a likely attack on the U.S. by Bin Laden.

Woodward writes that Rice was polite, but, “They felt the brushoff.”

If true, it is shocking that the administration failed to heed such an overwhelming alert from the two officials in the best position to know. Many, many questions need to be asked and answered about this revelation — questions that the 9/11 Commission would have asked, had the Commission been told about this significant meeting. Suspiciously, the Commissioners and the staff investigating the administration’s actions prior to 9/11 were never informed of the meeting. "...

"...The notion that both the 9/11 Commission and the Congressional Joint Inquiry that investigated the intelligence prior to 9/11 did not want to know about such essential information is simply absurd. At a minimum, the withholding of information about this meeting is an outrage. Very possibly, someone committed a crime. And worst of all, they failed to stop the plot."

Republican Hypocrite Foley Resigns From Congress To Spend More Time With Kids

"Hypocrisy Is Better Than No Principles At All" - William Bennett at the Blackjack table:

Trans-fat model and Vegas Loser William Bennett mans the tables while Congressman XXX Foley mans the boys as the Republican's strangle-hold on America continues unabated.

"Carl Forti, a spokesman for the GOP campaign organization, said Reynolds learned from Alexander that the parents did not want to pursue the matter. Forti said, however, that the matter did go before the House Page Board - the three lawmakers and two House officials who oversee the pages.

It was unclear what the officials did.

The board currently is headed by Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., who did not respond to requests for an interview."

The House Page Board is run like a box of chocolates. Perhaps Republican Congressman Shimkus will explain their oversight techniques.

The Monica Crowley Schmear

Like a small Porsche wrapped in black leather, Monica Crowley appeals to rightie guys who never got a chance to be in the SS. But she's really just a total mess. I'm watching her as I write this and she is going on and on and on about the real swell medical care in Gitmo; the great life they all have down there under the sunny, blue sky. She is so deluded it is almost unbelievable she is allowed on the air. Yet there she is on the Imus show on September 29, 2006 displaying the unsane mind she carries within her fake blonde head.

Read her book about Nixon and grok an early example of bottle-blonde rage.

They All Look The Same To Me

This Says A Lott: "'It's hard for Americans, all of us, including me, to understand what's wrong with these people,' he said. 'Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israeli's and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.'
Speaking shortly after a meeting with President Bush and Vice President Cheney, Lott added that Iraq wasn't among the White House's priorities.
'No, none of that,' Lott told reporters after the session when asked if the Iraq war was discussed. 'You're [the media] the only ones who obsess on that. We don't and the real people out in the real world don't for the most part.'"

Pretty fucking outrageous.

Soldiers Attacked Every 15 Minutes In Iraq

New Woodward Book Details Multiple Bush Cover-Ups Over Iraq: "According to Woodward, insurgent attacks against coalition troops occur, on average, every 15 minutes, a shocking fact the administration has kept secret. 'It's getting to the point now where there are eight-, nine-hundred attacks a week. That's more than 100 a day. That is four an hour attacking our forces,' says Woodward.

Intelligence shows Iraq violence will worsen in 2007"

Political Victory Trumps Science

Brain of Republican Recalled For Lack Of Knowledge: "According to a July Pew Research Center Poll, the American public is split about evenly between those who say global warming is due to human activity versus those who believe it's from natural factors or not happening at all. "

Senator James Inhofe can be safely drowned without damage to any environment.

The opinion of the public is what Republican's call science. If the public thinks 2 plus 2 equals 3, then Inhofe is ready to sell it to them. If it kills their kids, or harms the future of mankind, so be it.

Did We Do Anything ?

No. But the Sixties did happen, says Robert Wander, writing as BW on the Jefferson Starship website:

"'The five Jefferson Airplane albums released from 1967 to 1969 - Surrealistic Pillow. After Bathing at Baxter's, Crown of Creation, Bless It's Pointed Little Head, and Volunteers - rank among the worthiest bodies of work or that OR Any Decade...'"

"...You should have the new mastered CD copies of these albums. And play them once in a while, and you'll understand why you turned out as you did. Unable to set any goals, no formal education, bad at even the simplest relationships, and on and on. It's 40 years since Jefferson Airplane Takes Off and you're still sitting there, trying to map your future, aren't you?"

Yeah, OK, so what's your point ?

Iraq War Killing Continues

Retired Officers Criticize Rumsfeld: "'I believe that Secretary Rumsfeld and others in the administration did not tell the American people the truth for fear of losing support for the war in Iraq,' retired Maj. Gen. John R. S. Batiste said in remarks prepared for a hearing by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.

A second witness, retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, assessed Rumsfeld as 'incompetent strategically, operationally and tactically ....'
'Mr. Rumsfeld and his immediate team must be replaced or we will see two more years of extraordinarily bad decision-making,'"

Easy boys. Bush says this war's just a comma. We're paying godzillions of dollars for a comma. Soldiers are dying and there are no words for it; just a comma. Got that?

George Allen Needs An Exit Pass

Teammates: Allen a total racist asshole in college: "After they had killed a deer, Shelton said he remembers Allen asking Lanahan where the local black residents lived. Shelton said Allen then drove the three of them to that neighborhood with the severed head of the deer. 'He proceeded to take the doe's head and stuff it into a mailbox,' Shelton said. "

Some bad monster soul vibes coming from that dude...

Mel Gibson's Voice Against the War in Iraq

A Surprise From Right Field:

"What's human sacrifice, if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?"

Hurd Mentality Now Running HP

HP Chief May Have Had Role in Leak: "Three separate newspaper reviews of e-mail messages suggest Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd played a more direct role in an internal investigation of media leaks than previously disclosed.
The Washington Post reported that an e-mail message sent by HP Chairwoman Patricia C. Dunn suggested Hurd approved an elaborate sting operation on a reporter in February in an attempt to plug media leaks."

War mentality in corporate offices leads to a new understanding of success in business in America today. Through the world of marketing, torture and Gitmo are leaking into our daily life - right there on TV you will see someone throwing a cellphone at another person's head and you will see monkeys bashing the brains out of people with mallets.

Judge Tells Reporters To Talk or Go To Jail

Silence means prison: "Williams, 56, said that in seeking his testimony, federal prosecutors 'demand I give up my career and my livelihood.'' If such orders become commonplace, he said, 'Whistle-blowers won't come forward. Injustices will never see the light of day. Our people will be less informed and worse off.'
White described both men as 'highly successful, highly respected journalists'' but said they have no legal right to disobey the subpoenas.
'When do we get to choose what laws we're going to obey?'' the judge asked.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Raphael said the reporters are fortunate that they are facing only sanctions for civil contempt of court rather than criminal prosecution. They were 'very likely participating in a crime,'' such as aiding in illegal disclosures, but prosecutors decided against criminal proceedings, he said. "

Texas

Gun Store Owner / Talk-Show Host Combo Explains Texas Ethics : "'Be polite and courteous, but have a plan to KILL everybody you meet.'"

Tough guys. They forget they are bags of water, ripe to pop.

"Bush is winning now with a hand with nothing in it", cries enabler Matthews

Chris Matthews: "I Have Been Against This Bullshit War From The Beginning: "It is like we are at war - we have killed 15,000 people that died over there in that war, we still get guys knocked off every couple of days, a couple more guys are killed - and yet it is not on the tube. It's like, are we bored with the war now? Is that the new thing? We don't cover a war guys are fighting? And I watch the news, I don't see the war any more. It has been taken off television, and Bush must love it. Certainly Karl Rove loves the fact that the Iraq War has gotten boring for the American people. "

But Matthews is also the guy who trashes any democrat that doesn't present a plan to exit Iraq; forgetting that the democrats strength will be in beginning the dialog needed to create a process for finding that exit plan.

And here's the faker getting all jiggy with "this bullshit war from the beginning" during the Mission Accomplished gleefest:

"We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president."

The only bullshit seems to be coming out of Matthews mouth.

Adult Court For Juvenals Is A Crime

Prosecutors Who Charge Juvenals As Adults Are Despicable, Resume Building Thugs: "There's firm evidence that teens prosecuted as adults are much more likely to commit crimes when they get out than comparable young people tried as juveniles, says Shay Bilchik, president and CEO of the Child Welfare League of America."

Professionalism is barely alive in the hearts and minds of conservative prosecutors and judges. Knowledge of human behaviour and science in general is being rejected in favor of know-nothing arguments and facts from hell.

Torture With Cables, Acid and Power Drills

Iraq deaths surge over last two months: "Hundreds more Iraqis died in violence in July and August than in the previous two months, many of them tortured to death because of their religion with cables, acid and power drills, a U.N. report said on Wednesday. "

It is beyond sick that Americans are considering the efficacy of torture.

American Business Ethics On Parade At Hewlett-Packard

Infiltrating Newsrooms With Spies: "'Feasibility studies are in progress for undercover operations (clerical) in CNET and WSJ offices in SF bureaus,' the memo said, referring to two publications in which reports of the company's board discussions had appeared.
Under a section labeled 'Investigation Activity Update,' with the subtitle 'Covert Operations,' it also called for examining the use of cleaning employees at those locations. "

Corporate Up-skirt Creeps

Big-time Criminals Running HP: "investigators sent an e-mail to a reporter for the online technology publication Cnet.com that contained spyware software in an attached file. If opened, the attachment was designed to install itself on her computer and track every keystroke."

This is a gigantic story. Imagine the implications for American business.

Welcome to the New Dark Ages

Canadian police errors led to man's torture: "Canadian police wrongly identified an Ottawa software engineer as an Islamic extremist, prompting U.S. agents to deport him to Syria, where he was tortured, an official inquiry concluded on Monday...

...Arar, 36, says he was repeatedly tortured in the year he spent in Damascus jails, and the inquiry agreed that he had been tortured. He was freed in 2003."

If you're surprised, shame on you.

American Business Owns Your Ass

Diving for Details: "Representing themselves as an anonymous tipster, the detectives e-mailed a document to a CNET reporter, according to those briefed on the review. The e-mail was embedded with software that was supposed to trace who the document was forwarded to. "

But Ms. Dunn, the HP executive in charge, will stay on until January 2007. That's evidentally the morality that HP thinks it can get away with.

To see the bottom of this well, look only to Larry W. Sonsini of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. This guy is a criminal mind with a diploma.

America No Longer Chick Magnet

Nobody Wants To Play With Us Anymore: "Surveys show that America is becoming unpopular with the rest of the world...

...Since 2000 the percentage of people holding favourable opinions of the country has fallen from 83% to 56% in Britain, from 78% to 37% in Germany and from 77% to 63% in Japan. "

To the rest of the world, we appear as scrappy little puritan know-nothings led by a Thugmeister speaking lies and jibberish.

Bush's Tony Snow Explains

'Torture' For All of Them: "Q Does that not invite other countries to do the same, to have other interpretations of Article III?

MR. SNOW: What it allows every country to do is to have an interpretation."

Hey kids, grab your Arab pals and let's go waterboarding.

But Colin Powell, who as an official in Bush's administration let this country down too many times, says:

"The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism."

Powell could have helped his country back onto the tracks, but didn't. And won't.

REPORTER TO BUSH: Sen. Graham is telling reporters on Capitol Hill that the White House had them in a meeting for five hours last night and tried to force them to sign a prepared statement and he said reading this JAG letter they ended up writing leaves total ambiguity on interpretation - this is Sen. Lindsey Graham speaking.

McCain Does The Right Thing

Many experts in military affairs say that torture produces extremely questionable information. Isn't that exactly why we are in the fucking mess we're in in Iraq ??:

"Michael Hayden, the CIA director, had concluded that under the McCain legislation, 'the CIA programme would have to be shut down'.
Mr McCain criticised Mr Hayden, saying: 'He's trying to protect his reputation at the risk of America's reputation.' "

Yes, the CIA program would have to be shut down. Maybe then we could start looking for actually valuable intelligence.

America Has Been Trashed By A Mendacious Republican Mentality

Bush Is A Bankruptcy In The Flesh: "The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism," said Powell, who served under Bush and is a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "To redefine Common Article 3 would add to those doubts. Furthermore, it would put our own troops at risk."

John McCain said that while he lay in torture-induced pain in a room in Hanoi, he consoled himself with the knowledge that he was from a superior American morality where torture would never ever be used. The distinction, he believed, was incredibly important and he counted on it and was proud of it. Bush has ruined this treasured fact about America. He should be arrested and shot.

Republicans Don't Flush

Is It OK To Not Like These Gangsters? : "In a 145-page report in 2004, the inspector general described Mr. Griles as a 'train wreck waiting to happen.' But on Wednesday, Mr. Devaney said he was appalled that the Interior Department's office of ethics dismissed 23 out of 25 potential ethical breaches against Mr. Griles and that Gale A. Norton, then secretary of the interior, decided not to act on the two remaining allegations."

If your a rightie, you're supposed to not respect the government. You are supposed to wreck it when you can; rip it off when nobody's looking, and lie to good people so that the world we all have to live in is actually as awful as you think it should be.

Snakes On A Plame

And Now We're Gonna Find Out If It's A King Snake Or A Rattler: "'When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state's interviews obscured what he really did,' Bob Novak claims in a column set for Thursday release...

...'First, Armitage did not, as he now indicates, merely pass on something he had heard and that he 'thought' might be so. Rather, he identified to me the CIA division where Mrs. Wilson worked, and said flatly that she recommended the mission to Niger by her husband, former Amb. Joseph Wilson. Second, Armitage did not slip me this information as idle chitchat, as he now suggests. He made clear he considered it especially suited for my column.'...

...Armitage's tardy self-disclosure is tainted because it is deceptive.' "


Did I just hear a scream from somewhere ?

The Disgrace of Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne

Fire This Asshole or Execute Him: "'If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation,' said Wynne."

We went through this frightened-macho, they're-only-wage-slaves, probably-commies-anyway scenario in the 1950s when the military tested dangerous materials on the populace of the entire SF Bay Area.

"Ali G" Hits America

Bush Feels The Punch: "The opening scene, which shows Borat lustily kissing his sister goodbye and setting off for America in a car pulled by a horse, had audiences in stitches when it was first shown last week. "

Can't wait !

"We Don't Care Dick About Dixie"

The Trans-genre Chicks Cut Off Their Dixies and Head Out Left: "the poster girls of the HuffPost crowd and the scourge of the Drudge set."

ABC - Right-Wing Collab Film Provokes Ire

American Airlines Latest to Hit ABC's 9/11 Film -- Legal Action to Follow?: "Late Monday, American Airlines released the folllowing statement: 'The Disney/ABC television program, 'The Path to 9/11,' which began airing last night, is inaccurate and irresponsible in its portrayal of the airport check-in events that occurred on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

'A factual description of those events can be found in the official government edition of the 9/11 Commission Report and supporting documents.

'This misrepresentation of facts dishonors the memory of innocent American Airlines employees and all those who lost their lives as a result of the tragic events of 9/11.'"...

..."Meanwhile, President Clinton and his advisers remain unhappy with the film. Bruce Lindsey, CEO of the Clinton foundation, and Douglas J. Band, counselor, wrote yet another letter to Robert Iger, chief at Disney (which owns ABC) today. It concludes: "Having now seen the first night of this fiction, it is clear that the edits made to the film did not address the factual errors that we brought to your attention. 'The Path to 9/11' flagrantly ignored the facts as reported by the 9/11 Commission and invented its own version of history. The result, in our judgment, is irreparable damage to the Commission's work. More importantly, it is a disservice to the American people."That the film directly contradicts the findings of the 9/11 Commission is troubling. That it defames dedicated public officials is tragic. But the fact that it misleads millions of people about the most tragic and consequential event in recent history is disgraceful."

Gun Crime Rises - No New Surprises

A Firm Grasp Of The Obvious: "Professor Alfred Blumstein of Carnegie Mellon University said the rise in gun violence was particularly troubling.

'A major police effort to confiscate guns helped bring down the surge in violent crime that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s,' Blumstein said. 'But gun distribution is easier now because we have begun to back off gun control.'
Backed by the National Rifle Association, the Bush administration has been cool toward gun control measures."

Though I want to have guns. Just as many as the cops.

ABC Lies Back And Enjoys It

Republican-ABC Drama Shown Free On National TV - Righties Say Payback For Michael Moore: "'And if you don't like the hits to the Clinton administration, well, welcome to the club,' Lehman said. 'The Republicans have lived with Michael Moore and Oliver Stone and most of Hollywood as a fact of life.'"

Michael Moore and Oliver Stone make commercial movies that you choose to pay to see. ABC just spills it out into everyone's living room.

But Thomas Kean, who chaired the national commission that investigated Sept. 11 - and who was involved with the production of the ABC drama, said on ABC-TV that he thought there was no doubt that the Iraq war had raised dangers for the region.
“There’s no question the war in Iraq is radicalizing, increasing people in that area,” he said. “If it becomes, as it seems to be coming, a civil war, that civil war could spread outside the boundaries of Iraq to other areas. It’s a very dangerous situation. And in that kind of a situation, in that area, that’s where terror likes to breed.”

Not Only Does She Not Know Dick, She Hates It

He did it !!!: "Rice tried to pin the blame on then CIA Director George Tenet, saying he said, 'there were ties going on between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's regime going back for a decade.' But in July, Tenet told the Senate Intelligence Committee that 'the White House pressured him and that he agreed to back up the administration's case for war despite his own agents' doubts about the intelligence it was based on.' "

She's Rightie Command's idea of a Hilary slayer.

American Citizens Are Chump Change To The Republicans In Charge

Rumsfeld forbade talk of postwar: "Scheid said the planners continued to try 'to write what was called Phase 4,' or the piece of the plan that included post-invasion operations like security, stability and reconstruction.
Even if the troops didn't stay, 'at least we have to plan for it,' Scheid said.
'I remember the secretary of defense saying that he would fire the next person that said that,' Scheid said. 'We would not do planning for Phase 4 operations, which would require all those additional troops that people talk about today.
'He said we will not do that because the American public will not back us if they think we are going over there for a long war.'"

Brad Pitt Gets A+ For Eloquence

This is such an appealing reaction to the situation: "'Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able.'"

Truth Is So Much Better

Incredible Lies Told About Clinton, Refuted Completely In Article From April, 2000: "Richard Clarke witnessed the dawn of the millennium in a top-secret government communications vault, monitoring intelligence traffic for any sign of activity by Islamic terrorist groups loyal to Osama bin Laden. It was not until midnight in California--3 a.m. Washington time--that the Clinton administration's counterterrorism chief finally permitted himself a celebratory sip of champagne.
Four weeks before, Clarke had sketched out a plan on the whiteboard in his office at the National Security Council for neutralizing the latest threat from the Afghanistan-based Saudi exile. Approved by President Clinton and his top foreign policy advisers, Clarke's plan became the basis of administration efforts to prevent bin Laden supporters from ringing in the New Year with what officials believed could be dozens, perhaps hundreds, of American deaths in a series of simultaneous attacks from the Middle East to the West Coast."

This is an amazing article.

Online Gambling Expert Explains

At the end of time there will be a cockroach and its website: "Whether the government can shut down all Americans' access to such gambling is questionable, said I. Nelson Rose, a gaming law expert at Whittier Law School in California. 'It's pretty clear you can't prevent it completely -- the Internet was designed to survive a nuclear war.'"

I'll keep that in mind.

Republican Senate Report Proves Bush Lied

Senate Panel Says No Saddam-al-Qaida Tie: "There's no evidence Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his Al-Qaida associates, according to a Senate report on prewar intelligence on Iraq. Democrats said the report undercuts President Bush's justification for going to war. "

Facebook Faces Death From Idiotic Management

This dude gets the Pentium-One Loser Chump Chip Award: "'Calm down. Breathe. We hear you,' wrote Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chairman and chief executive.

"Fuck you. Die. You don't hear anything!", wrote me.

'We're not oblivious of the Facebook groups popping up about this,' Zuckerberg wrote of the protests. '. . . And we agree, stalking isn't cool; but being able to know what's going on in your friends' lives is. This is information people used to dig for on a daily basis, nicely reorganized and summarized so people can learn about the people they care about.'

Facebook's site already provides privacy settings that allow users to control who sees what information, he said. At the strictest setting, information would not be circulated on the news feed; the news feed collects only information that people have already allowed to be visible on their pages.

Still, for George Washington senior Justin Persuitti, the mere prospect of unexpected disclosure made him conjure up unsettling scenarios: 'You could have a girlfriend and be at a bar kissing another girl, and somebody could post [a cellphone photo] on your wall.'"

The Pursuit Of Happiness

The Way Life Works: "'I never thought about this at all. What I thought you did was wake up in the morning, work your tail off, then you took care of your family and what did you do tomorrow? Wake up in the morning and worked your tail off. You know, the classic Type A personality, working hard,' he said.
'I have learned through talking with so many families or loved ones ... that the most important thing is to seek happiness.'"

According to Kurt Vonnegut the real purpose of life is to fart around "...and don't you forget it!"

"'They stole too much from too many people,' he said.
'But this is my life. I deal with it. But every once in a while I think how did I get here ...We've accomplished so much in the last five years, but being here is completely off kilter. Completely wrong and baffling.'"

ABC's "The Path To 911" Is A Bullfest

Trashing Clinton Is Whacking Material For The Righties: "'We need to keep this country together right now. We need to focus on this terrorism issue,' Clinton said during a White House news conference.

But while the president pushed for quick legislation, Republican lawmakers hardened their stance against some of the proposed anti-terrorism measures."

Things you won't know from watching the Republican/ABC/Limbaugh bullfest.

666 Pennsylvania Avenue

Rove Had Priests Cast Hillary's "Evil Spirit" From West Wing: "Her head didn't spin around, but Sen. Hillary Clinton was momentarily tongue-tied when a reporter asked what she made of Bush adviser Karl Rove bringing in three Catholic priests to cast her evil spirit from her old West Wing office - as reported in the new Rove bio, 'The Architect.' After a long pause, Clinton could say only: 'I'm speechless.'"

Mad, mad, mad and quite mad.

Rape Her, She's Yours

911 Widow: A Letter to Ann Coulter:

..."In my opinion, your method of using intimidation and insults to 'win' a debate is truly unpatriotic.

Actually, I expect that you will continue to scream and shout and smear as nastily as you want, so long as you think that that kind of behavior sells books. But we have tackled bigger bullies than you and lived through far worse circumstances than your book tour. We're not intimidated by you. We're not running away.

And under no circumstances will we be silenced by your 'godless' rantings and ravings.

Kristen Breitweiser
New York City
June 2006"

Coulter has lost everything valuable about a soul. She no longer matters; she's now one of those things provided by nature, like the earth, cows, lizards, bugs: "Rape her, she's yours", as Coulter would say.

Eat ABC

ABC To Spread Misinformation About 9/11 To Students Nationwide: "The cat calls surrounding ABC's 'The Path to 9/11' continue to grow louder. Not only is the network under fire for legitimate questions about the veracity of the primetime mini-series, which apparently goes to significant lengths to pin the blame of 9/11 on the Clinton administration, but ABC itself has failed to answer questions about the dubious way it has arranged for conservative partisans to view the program prior to air date "

Fuck ABC.

"Whoopee We're All Gonna Die !"

Scientists Realize That A Machine Is Starting That Can't Be Stopped: "Scientists are fretting about a global warming vicious cycle that had not been part of their already gloomy climate forecasts: Warming already under way thaws permafrost, soil that had been continuously frozen for thousands of years.
Thawed permafrost releases methane and carbon dioxide. Those gases reach the atmosphere and help trap heat on Earth in the greenhouse effect. The trapped heat thaws more permafrost, and so on."

The profit crackers that pass for businessmen in this country are about to pull the finger, inviting nature to gas us all.

"'The higher the temperature gets, the more permafrost we melt, the more tendency it is to become a more vicious cycle,' said Chris Field, director of global ecology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 'That's the thing that is scary about this whole thing. There are lots of mechanisms that tend to be self-perpetuating and relatively few that tends to shut it off.'"

"The American Eleven" Gingrich Coughs Up His Values

Total Victory Over Competence As Republicans Create Dynastic Dummies For Your Children's Future: "The American people have consistently supported the total repeal of the death tax and the House should simply pass it once a week and attach it to various Senate bills to force the Senate to deal with it again and again. Let liberals explain why they oppose something that more than 70% of the country favors."

Gingrich is a mirror staring at a mirror. His concepts are word-games, his pace is a steady delivery of cliches, and his persona is a caustic stew.

That Old "Reality-Based" Gang 'O Mine

There Are Very Strange People Running Your Country: "You people in the reality-based community believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality'".

"I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

...with his ass filled with his dick, Mark McKinnon, senior media advisor to Bush, snarled on...

"And you know what they like? They like the way he walks and the way he points, the way he exudes confidence. They have faith in him. And when you attack him for his malaprops, his jumbled syntax, it's good for us. Because you know what those folks don't like? They don't like you!'' In this instance, the final ''you,'' of course, meant the entire reality-based community."

This is truly everything you look for in a world view. Bravo Republicans - for bringing it all into focus.