Monday, July 30, 2007

Richard Branson: "I smoked drugs with my son."

Real Life Confounds Very Boring People:

"I went with my son on his gap year. We had some nights where we laughed our heads off for eight hours."

"I don't think smoking the occasional spliff is all that wrong. I'd rather my son did it in front of me than behind closed doors."

In the interview with Piers Morgan for GQ magazine, the entrepreneur also admitted trying cocaine and ecstasy.

He said: "I took ecstasy once. But it didn't have a massive effect on me". Of cocaine, he said: "I suspect I've tried it, yes."...

..."Peter Stoker, director of the National Drug Prevention Alliance, said: 'Richard Branson as a parent should know better than to take health-endangering drugs with his child.'"

Peter Stoker is a lamebrain who is saying what he is saying because he doesn't know what else to say; this passes as a substitute for intelligence.

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Republican Support Collapses Among Youth

Youth Abandons the GOP Coulter-fest:
"A new Democracy Corps/Greenberg Quinlan Rosner survey finds young people 'profoundly alienated from the Republican party and its perceived values.'

Key finding: 'Young people react with hostility to the Republicans on almost every measure and Republicans and younger voters disagree on almost every major issue of the day.'

...the disconnect we see between the Republicans and our nation’s youth runs so deep, that it likely will not only outlive the Bush administration, but potentially haunt the Republicans for many years to come."

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Banging the Headboard for Bush

Judith Miller and the Battle for the Bulge: "And who could ever forget the coup de grace?

'The first sign of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom cloud.'

Judith Miller went on to write several more propaganda pieces for the Bush Administration doing everything in her 'journalistic' power to sell her fellow citizens on the imminent threat posed by Saddam Hussein's WMDs, and the need for the United States to strike preemptively against the regime. She teamed up again with Gordon, who has become a darling on the television news circuit, to write the September 13, 2002 piece, 'White House Lists Iraq Steps to Build Banned Weapons,' which only expanded on their earlier falsehoods. Several members of Congress mentioned the story of the nuclear threat as a reason for voting to authorize the war."

Famous news squish Chris Mathews regularly tans himself in the glow of the likes of Judith Miller, empathizing as she too aches for the Bush crotch-bulge so notoriously and raptureously celebrated by Mathews in his infamous, embarrassing 2003 on-air stroking of Bush's member-in-chief, as it landed - with it's owner, on a well-placed aircraft carrier.

For me, it's the very special pork-operated righties, like Katherine Harris, Mark Foley and Judith Miller, that paint the clearest picture of the moral core of contemporary GOP nonsense.

"On April 21, 2003, Judith Miller, now working as an embedded reporter with the U.S. military's MET Alpha, wrote the story, 'Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, an Iraqi Scientist Is Said to Assert.' In this piece of propaganda, Miller claims without evidence or proof that the Iraqis destroyed or shipped to Syria their vast stockpiles of WMDs. Miller's anonymous source was a guy claiming to be an 'Iraqi scientist,' and she tells her readers that she 'was permitted to see him from a distance at the sites where he said that material from the arms program was buried. Clad in nondescript clothes and a baseball cap, he pointed to several spots in the sand where he said chemical precursors and other weapons material were buried.' "

Monday, July 16, 2007

Where'd The Wheels Go?, asks Bush

The Apollo 13 President: '"He should know history will not be kind unless he can come up with a plan that protects the troops and stabilizes the region,' Voinovich said he told Karl Rove, whom Bush dubbed 'the architect' of his 2004 re-election.

Voinovich added that other Republicans are close to speaking out against the President’s current strategy.

"'I won’t mention anyone’s name. But I have every reason to believe that the fur is going to start to fly, perhaps sooner than what they may have wanted.'

In private, Voinovich is more blunt, using a profanity to describe the White House’s handling of Iraq by charging the administration 'fucked up' the war.'"

He's not smart enough - or sober enough, to fuck up anything. He's just standing in the doorway, unknowing, unhelpful, and unsane.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

The Joy of Payed Sex...

...is not having to care: "Vitter, a married father of four, last month urged colleagues to devote more federal spending to programs urging sexual abstinence among teens. The best way to avert teen pregnancy, he wrote, is 'by teaching teenagers that saving sex until marriage and remaining faithful afterwards is the best choice for health and happiness.'

In a June 2006 Senate speech supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage, Vitter said it was 'well overdue that we in the Senate focus on nurturing, upholding, preserving and protecting such a fundamental social institution as traditional marriage.'"

Again we're forced to vizualize yet another right-wing Republican hypocrite panting furiously in illegal sexual encounters.

Friday, July 13, 2007

"This president has lost contact with reality"

The Empty Character of George W. Bush: "He must be made to change course as water changes course. You build up the banks, and secure the altered direction, so that there is only one way for him to flow. Every other path must be obstructed."...

"A war on terror conceived, as Cheney's experiment has been conceived, as a global war of extermination that ends with the killing of the last terrorist, in fact creates more terrorists than it destroys. A global war on terror means a war to the end of time. It is, in essence, a totalitarian idea.

The global war on terror is a pure product of the mind of Cheney working on the mind of Bush."...

"This president has lost contact with reality, in any ordinary sense of the words 'lost,' 'contact,' and 'reality'."

David Bromwich's thoughts are right on the mark.

Huckabee Blames Chubby People

Mike Huckabee Thinks Your Fat Wife And Your Fat Brother Are To Blame For Ruining Healthcare in America:

Huckabee thinks science is wrong. He thinks you are wrong. He thinks Michael Moore is wrong. He does not believe in the Theory of Evolution. Most likely Mike Huckabee doesn't believe in anything an intelligent person might believe. Those that follow this jerk can be dismissed out of hand.

"'Frankly, Michael Moore is an example of why the health care system costs so much in this country. He clearly is one of the reasons that we have a very expensive system. "...

...""No wonder the Republicans are in such trouble - their entire plan to fix the health care system in this country is to tell people to lose weight," she said. "Maybe if Mike Huckabee and his Republican friends stopped sucking up to health-insurance campaign contributors they wouldn't feel the need to blame Americans for this crisis. Just because he stopped eating Twinkies by the bushel doesn't make that an outline for a national health care plan.

"There's nothing worse than a reformed smoker _ or Twinkie eater for that matter _ preaching conversion."

You Don't Get What You Need, Only What You Can Pay For

"Patients may simply deserve only the amount of care they can afford":

Read about one of the great Republican doctors:

"Sunday's Los Angeles Times featured a particularly lurid case of medical profiteering in the form of one Dr. Prem Reddy, who owns eight hospitals in Southern California. I do not begrudge any physician a comfortable lifestyle -- good doctoring is hard work -- but Dr. Reddy dwells in a 15,000 square foot mansion featuring gold-plated toilets and keeps a second home, valued at more than $9 million, in Beverly Hills, as well as a $1.4 million helicopter for commuting.

The secret behind his $300 million fortune? For one thing, he rejects the standard hospital practice of making contracts with insurance companies because he feels that these contracts unduly limit his reimbursements. (In a battle between Aetna and Reddy, it would be hard to know which side to cheer for.) In addition, he's suspended much-needed services such as chemotherapy, a birthing center and mental health care as insufficiently profitable. And his hospitals are infamous for refusing to treat uninsured patients, like a patient with kidney failure and a 16-month-old baby with a burn.

But Dr. Reddy -- who is, incidentally a high-powered Republican donor -- has a principled reason for his piratical practices. 'Patients,' the Los Angeles Times reports him saying, 'may simply deserve only the amount of care they can afford.' He dismisses as 'an entitlement mentality' the idea that everyone should be getting the same high quality health care. This is Bush's vaunted principle of 'private medicine' at its nastiest: You don't get what you need, only what you can pay for."

Does anybody know this asshole's GPS coordinates - and how to arm a surface-to-surface missle ?

Dr. Gupta Self-destructs

Dr. Sanjay Gupta Trades His Reputation For A Chance To Bash Universal Healthcare:

To see this professional, with a heretofore gold-standard reputation among the TV watching public, unveil a tortured and irresponsible view of our country's healthcare system, is breathtaking and sad. There is too much at stake, and no time to spare, on politicized healthcare.

It's a fact: to deny healthcare is to kill. Gupta accepts the denying of healthcare.

"...what was most striking to me during the Moore-Gupta face-off on Larry King Live was when Gupta showed the heart of his bias, a bias against having our government guarantee universal health care.

Gupta says to Moore, 'You criticize the government so soundly. But you're willing to hand over one of our most precious commodities, our health care in this country, to the government.'

Moore rebutted, 'I actually love our government ... It does a great job of administrating Social Security ... the problem is who we've put in power who holds office.' "...

..."Michael, one of the best examples of health care, at least some sort of universal health care, would be Medicare. I think you would agree with that. It's going to go bankrupt by 2019. It's going to be $28 trillion in debt by 2075...would you say that this is going to be still a working system 20 years from now?

Is this some evidence that our government can't be directed to fix our broken health care system? Economist-blogger Dean Baker doesn't think so:

CNN's health care analyst is now telling people that Medicare is going bankrupt. What does this mean?Medicare's costs are projected to exceed its revenue and drain the surplus from its trust fund in a bit over a decade, but this has been true at several points in the past. Did Congress tell tens of millions of beneficiaries to get lost? No, Congress appropriated the money needed to keep the program going......If Dr. Gupta meant to imply that Medicare, as a government program is uniquely inefficient, then he is way off the mark. According to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Table 13) per beneficiary costs have risen in nominal dollars by 519.5 percent since 1980. By contrast, the cost per enrollee of private insurance has risen by 676.6 percent over this same period.

That gets at the heart of Gupta's bias.

The pressures on Medicare's finances are not the fault of our government, but of skyrocketing health care costs across the board.

Yet Gupta's cherry-picks his facts to attack a government guarantee of universal care, and raise the prospect of dismantling Medicare, just like how conservatives sought to do the same with Social Security."

Tucker Crawls Further Up The GOP Ass

Seeing with Tucker Carlson's Eyes - Politics on The Huffington Post: "Carlson attacked Senator Barack Obama for speaking about the importance of empathy in our shared public life. 'He sounds like a pothead to me,' Carlson said of Obama. 'Tell me what you're for. I don't want to hear about the empathy...'"

Christian Love Lost In Senate

Christian Right Activists Disrupt Hindu Chaplain In The Senate:

"The three protesters, who all belong to the Christian Right anti-abortion group Operation Save America, and who apparently traveled to Washington all the way from North Carolina, interrupted by loudly asking for God's forgiveness for allowing the false prayer of a Hindu in the Senate chamber."Lord Jesus, forgive us father for allowing a prayer of the wicked, which is an abomination in your sight," the first protester began."This is an abomination," he continued. "We shall have no other gods before You."...

Here's the press release from the honorable Christian hate squad:

"'Not one Senator had the backbone to stand as our Founding Fathers stood. They stood on the Gospel of Jesus Christ! There were three in the audience with the courage to stand and proclaim, 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me.' They were immediately removed from the chambers, arrested, and are in jail now. God bless those who stand for Jesus as we know that He stands for them.' Rev. Flip Benham, Director, Operation Save America/Operation Rescue"

Thursday, July 12, 2007

GOP Sexcapades Plows Forward Unimpeded

McCain Official Busted on Sex Charge: "An official with the John McCain presidential campaign was arrested for allegedly soliciting oral sex from a policeman in Florida yesterday.

Bob Allen, a member of the Florida House of Representatives, is one of six Florida co-chairs for the Arizona Republican senator's 2008 White House bid.

According to news accounts, local police in Titusville, Fla., arrested Allen Wednesday afternoon after he allegedly offered to exchange $20 for oral sex with the plainclothes officer.

Allen was charged with solicitation to commit prostitution, a misdemeanor. "

It's as if the GOP is being gutted by their own sky faerie.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

GOP Killers Doom More Soldiers

Republicans Against Troop-Protection Amendment: "Republicans Against Troop-Protection Amendment
Here's the list of Republicans who voted today against the legislation by Jim Webb (D-VA) that would have mandated better treatment of our military men and women, by placing strict conditions on how soon troops can be returned to combat after coming home from lengthy Iraq deployments.

Who would be against that? Here's who:"

Follow the link (above) and get your own personal list of killers and traitors.

The Worst Assholes Deliver The Best Bullshit

Orrin Hatch Never Heard Of Bill Clinton:

"David Vitter is missing in action.

Or, to be precise, he is missing because it looks as if he got some action"...

"'I've never judged a human being on those type of issues,' attested Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) as he ducked in for lunch with Cheney and GOP colleagues, sans Vitter."

Orrin Hatch is a distinguished liar.

Dr. Gupta Is So Much Smaller Off TV

Listen Up, Reality Has Its Own Voice: "From Steve in Los Angeles:

Michael,

Can you please explain to Dr. Gupta that in the world that most Americans live in, we're not looking for 'Health Care Utopia', and having to wait in a doctors office to be seen is something of a luxury many of us can no longer afford. His comment that in countries with free health care there is a long wait-time to see a doctor and it takes months to schedule elective surgery is laughable. That's like telling a starving person 'don't bother with the free food, there's a line to get in and service is just awful.' Are you joking?

I'm a self employed carpenter with no health insurance. None. I can't afford it. I go to work everyday knowing that one slip of the saw, and I could be choosing my fingers or sewing up my own leg. That's my reality. Everyday I go to work and listen to the cartilage in my knee CRUNCH when I climb a ladder, and the only thing I can do is pray it holds out for just a couple more years. Everyday, I am one misstep away from bankruptcy.

I've been living with a degenerating knee injury for YEARS because I can't afford to do a god damn thing about it, and you think having to wait in a Doctor's office for free treatment is something I care about? If I could schedule a simple arthroscopy, free of charge but it's going to have to be in September, do you honestly think I'm going to say 'no, I'd rather wait until arthritis completely debilitates me and I can no longer work?'

Come live in our world for a while, Doctor, then talk to me about 'wait-time'.

Thanks Michael."


It can't be said any better than that.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

The Bible Tells Me So

Bush Surgeon General Explains How Shit Was Shined For All Americans: "'Anything that doesn't fit into the political appointees' ideological, theological or political agenda is ignored, marginalized or simply buried,' Dr. Richard Carmona, who served as the nation's top doctor from 2002 until 2006, told a House of Representatives committee."

"The problem with this approach is that in public health, as in a democracy, there is nothing worse than ignoring science, or marginalizing the voice of science for reasons driven by changing political winds. The job of surgeon general is to be the doctor of the nation, not the doctor of a political party."

Since the Theory of Relativity is bunk, A-bombs don't explode - and never did. You can get a Half-Decaf-Latte in Hiroshima.

Same with the bogus Theory of Evolution. Check out the Creationist Science Museum and you'll discover that nothing is over 10,000 years old.

And, of course, the reason I can fly is because the Theory of Gravity is just a stupid idea from a bunch of liberals.

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Bush Smarter Than Federal Prosecutor

King Salmon Are Morally Superior To Anyone In The Bush Family : "'It is fundamental to the rule of law that all citizens stand before the bar of justice as equals.'", says Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald

Sunday, July 01, 2007

Coin-Operated Think Tank Shill Spews Creationist Values

Same Old GOP / Right-Wing Newspaper Nexus Boosts Rightie Sci-Lie Agenda: "Many of the assertions Gore makes in his movie, ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' have been refuted by science, both before and after he made them. Gore can show sincerity in his plea for scientific honesty by publicly acknowledging where science has rebutted his claims."

Another rightie foray into junk facts by James Taylor and his Heartland Institute. They believe in the privatization of everything