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."