The CNN Loon

Tom Friedman Drops the Dime on Lou Dobbs: In the student's question, "he references Dobbs and asks about 'the nativist spirit' and protectionism, asks about the way issues are presented, and whether this is all more about mindset than about policy.

Friedman, three time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of bestsellers "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" and more recently "The World is Flat" (which sold a million and a half copies, far more than Dobbs' viewership -- or ours, by the way), begins his answer. "One of the problems", he begins, explaining that we need leaders who can explain the complexity, not who will just stir the pot, "is we have politicians that are making us stupid, who are throwing sand in our eyes." But then he goes on: "And then you have a blithering idiot like Lou Dobbs, in my view, who's using the platform of CNN in...the frame of a news show. This is not news. And so we have a political class not making sense of the world for people and that's why the public...is so agitated."

Peter Paul Mounts Anything

Getting Money is Paul's Plan: "Mr. Paul has a criminal past that includes a guilty plea for cocaine possession and trying to defraud the Cuban government of millions of dollars in 1979. He has been seeking attention for his claims against the Clintons, and he sued Mrs. Clinton in California."...

But it does not interfere with his general malfeasing...

"A 13.4-minute video accusing Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of campaign finance fraud is being shown on college campuses and has generated significant Web attention."...

According to a Clinton spokesperson, “Peter Paul is a professional liar who has four separate criminal convictions, two for fraud. His video repackages a series of seven-year-old false claims about Senator Clinton that have already been rejected by the California state courts, the Justice Department, the Federal Election Commission and the Senate Ethics Committee.”

Increasing the scratch is the favored pastime of most GOP drudgebunnies.

"I Will Fuck Up The World Mightily"

Rudy Licks 1967 Stamp - Acts Weird All Day: "This is the world we live in. It's not this happy, romantic-like world where we'll negotiate with this one, or we'll negotiate with that one and there will be no preconditions, and we'll invite Ahmadinejad to the White House, we'll invite Osama bin Laden to the White House," Giuliani said.

'Hillary and Obama are kind of debating whether to invite them to the inauguration or the inaugural ball,' he added."

Great leadership manner.

Butterballs in Print

Lucianne Goldberg Poured Ink on her Blue Dress and Jonah Began to Form: "There is, supposedly, a Chinese proverb that goes, 'How is it that a toad this large comes to stand in front of me?'

One of the clammy fantasies of people like Jonah Goldberg - and a great aching desire of all deep-dish American Conservatives, has been to convince ordinary people that Liberals were the Actual, Genuine Fascists of the 20th Century.

Mission Unaccomplished.

Jonah's strained writing, reeking of gibberish, allows him to jog alongside the GOP bus with the other rightie losers - like the pools of small fish that converge at the anus of a whale.

And that's why Lucianne named him Jonah."

The Judith Miller Movie

It's like 'Behind The Green Door' - only it smells like fish

Trying to glam up Judith Miller is almost insulting.

The only way this works is if the movie delivers Miller as an Uber Toppen Hanna Reich landing her airborne beemer in a Berlin maze of rubble and road - rushing into the bunker for that one last chance at a date with the big guy.

Glenn Beck Pisses Off God - Righties Burn To The Ground

Beck Dumps It - Then Forced To Eat It: " 'I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.' "

Ooops. He shoulda shut his mouth - his favorite God evidentally didn't cotton to that kind of remark, so within hours a whole bunch of GOP schmucks would lose their homes in the San Diego infernos.

Beck is a criminal and he will burn to ashes in his own time. Check his record. It's the story of a foul and failed junior gladiator with a head full of so much hatred and sin that he is barely a soul.

As Rush Limbaugh suggested, "We're going to find out where your kids go to school."

Since Beck pimps himself as a religious sort, pehaps he'll enjoy things better when it's all visited on his kids. That's why I wouldn't worry too much about the fate of this creep. It's all on automatic.

Pray for his family.

"I doubt very much that we would've taken that animal away," says SPCA Spokeswoman

Local animal official disagrees with decision to take dog from Ellen DeGeneres' hairdresser: " 'Ellen has a fabulous reputation - her interest in animal welfare is well-known and well-documented,' said Pasadena Humane Society & SPCA spokeswoman Ricky Whitman.

DeGeneres and her partner, actress Portia de Rossi, adopted Iggy, a Brussels Griffon mix, from Mutts and Moms, a volunteer, non-profit dog rescue organization in Pasadena on Sept. 20. But, after Iggy and the kitties didn't mix, DeGeneres gave the dog to her hairdresser, whose 11- and 12-year-old daughters bonded with it..."

"..Sunday, the agency sent a representative to the hairdresser's home and took the dog..."

"...Though the local humane society has the same policy, saying adopted dogs who aren't working out should be returned to the shelter rather than given away, Whitman says her group 'would've handled this very differently.'

'I doubt very much that we would've taken that animal away,' she said. 'From what I've read, the family is just devastated. Ellen is certainly devastated. That's not what you want. You want people who have animals to be happy, and you want animals to be in wonderful environment.' "

Hicks, Applebees, Ah Shucks, and Much Much More

Mickey Finn vs. Huck Finn:

At a quick glance, Giuliani - the slightly scary soprano wannabee, appears to be the most attractive candidate the GOP could choose. Granted, he will be soft with the uber-rightie mouthbreathers, but with his undeniable attractiveness to some traditional Democrats he will be able to carve some moderates away from Hillary, giving him an actual chance in the general election.

It all seems so clear that Giuliani is the most dangerous Republican to run against - except perhaps for this unknown force out there with the name Huckabee. This guy's chances are difficult to assess, but his appeal to many progressives is revealing something about the electorate in general that may be a bedeviling force for Democrat’s chances in the election. On so many core issues Huckabee is the antithesis of the progressive’s dream world. He publicly states a disbelief in evolution, a hard-right absolutist stance on reproductive choice; would probably acquiesce to the incarceration of active, practicing gays if he could, and I suspect that he would bring progressive government to a halt using means far harsher than his genial smile would suggest.

So what is Huckabee doing on the sunny side of the polls? Well, I think it is 3 things - with a chaser. He has a great face, he has a very pleasant manner of speaking, and he can talk about healthcare better than most of the competition - so far anyway. And to finish it all off, he has the best name in the game.

Baptists Tell Romney - "You're a Cultist!"

The garden of Eden was located in southern Illinois : "They probably have no idea that the faith calls for belief in Jesus's having come to America hundreds of years ago, or that the garden of Eden was located in southern Illinois, or that the American Indians are actually 'lost tribes' of Israelites. Likewise, they are probably unaware that until the late 1970's, black people were considered as a matter of church doctrine to be morally incapable of reaching the highest realms of the hereafter. "

We definitely need to get back to some old-fashioned Scientology !

"There is a way around everything if you are smart enough"

Actress Deborah Kerr Dies at Age 86: "'I have never had a fight with any director, good or bad,' she said toward the end of her career. 'There is a way around everything if you are smart enough.'"

The 3 movies with Deborah Kerr that I remember most - and liked best, are:

"Heaven Knows Mr. Allison"
"The King and I"
"An Affair to Remember"

Wingnut Champ - the Culture of Stupidity

Bush Family Planning Appointee Called Contraceptives Part Of The ‘Culture Of Death’: "Orr railed against requiring health insurance plans to cover contraceptives. “It’s not about choice,” said Orr. “It’s not about health care. It’s about making everyone collaborators with the culture of death.”"

She is wrong, radical, and unintelligent. A natural choice for this president.

"Statement on Orr from Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA):
This appointment is absurd. Dr. Orr’s support of unproven abstinence-only programs would in itself raise flags about her commitment to comprehensive family planning for low-income girls and women. But in 2000, Dr. Orr said that requiring insurers to cover family planning supplies and services — a policy that promotes access to contraception in many states and the federal employee health program — is “about making everyone collaborators with the culture of death.” This leaves little doubt about where she has stood on contraception access. […]
I’m no longer surprised by this kind of decision — ideology firmly holds the reins over reproductive health in this White House. But this lack of commitment to comprehensive reproductive health, combined with cramped budgets, is an insult and a disservice to the millions of low-income people who rely on Title X for family planning and preventive health services."

GOP Senator Mitch McConnell Lies To Reporter

McConnell knew of e-mails about boy: "Hebert asked the senator whether his office was attempting to get reporters to look into Frost's background. 'No,' McConnell answered.

The senator was then asked, 'What was the deal with the e-mail from your staffer?' McConnell replied: 'There was no involvement whatsoever.' "...

Teaching point: That was the 'lying' part.

..."The initial e-mails sent by Stewart were aimed at alerting reporters that bloggers were raising questions about the boy, Graeme Frost of Baltimore, and his family's financial circumstances..."

"...Stewart said he informed McConnell of his personal role in the matter around Thursday."

How The Republicans Win The Election

The Fact: "Honestly, in most respects, I don't know Hillary's experience. She's never run a city, she's never run a state. She's never run a business. She has never met a payroll. She has never been responsible for the safety and security of millions of people, much less even hundreds of people. So I'm trying to figure out where the experience is here.

It would seem to me that in a time of difficult problems and war we don't want on the job training for an executive. The reality is that... having the responsibility of the safety and security of millions of people on your shoulders is not something Hillary has ever had any experience with."

Gulp...

Let's Hit Hillary With 15 Year Old Charge

GOP targeting Clinton on anything it can think of: " 'Gerth told The Hill that he learned of the incident in 2006 when he interviewed a former campaign aide present at the tape playing. He has not revealed the aide’s identity.' "...

..."Hillary’s defense activities ranged from the inspirational to the microscopic to the down and dirty. She received memos about the status of various press inquiries; she vetted senior campaign aides; and she listened to a secretly recorded audiotape of a phone conversation of Clinton critics plotting their next attack."...

...“The tape contained discussions of another woman who might surface with allegations about an affair with Bill,” Gerth and Van Natta wrote in reference to Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton. “Bill’s supporters monitored frequencies used by cell phones, and the tape was made during one of those monitoring sessions.”A GOP official said, “Hillary Clinton’s campaign hypocrisy continues to know no bounds. It is rather unbelievable that Clinton would listen in to conversations being conducted by political opponents, but refuse to allow our intelligence agencies to listen in to conversations being conducted by terrorists as they plot and plan to kill us. Team Clinton can expect to see and hear this over and over again over the course of the next year.' "

Let's hear from the 'witness' and then let's see what they've got. Then make them eat it.

Limbaugh: "We're going to find out where your kids go to school"

Limbaugh Threatens Reporter: "Limbaugh said his target was a reporter, whose name he said he would not 'mention,' who was writing 'a cover story on me coming out of one of the big news magazines, and it was going to totally mischaracterize me and what I do and how I do it.'"

"Limbaugh continued: 'We found out who was writing it and made a couple phone calls to the person writing it. And we said, 'You know what?' We're going to find out where your kids go to school. We're going to find out who you knocked up in high school. We're going to find out what drugs you used. We're going to find out where you go to drink and do -- we're gonna find out how you paid for your house..."

There's no need to knock. It's a new freedom; just go on in and punch Limbaugh's head until it says something congenial.

Guerillas Killing Gorillas

Again and again and again we read of the soon to be complete eradication and extinction of the marvelous creatures known as the Mountain Gorillas, yet we all know that we will do nothing about it; we will devote outrage and sneers only; not solutions, because we won't really do what could be done and what needs to be done.

We are the shameful species.

We all know what will happen. The Gorillas will go silently, and it will be duly noted with a 3 or 4 paragraph story at the bottom of page 2 of the New York Times, with small pictures of Jane Goodall, Charles Darwin, and the front of the Intelligent Design Museum - where the flag will be tightly at full mast.

"For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the Earth."- Henry Beston

'Mission Accomplished'

General Wants "Victory Declaration": "Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, head of the Joint Special Operations Command’s operations in Iraq, is the chief promoter of a victory declaration and believes that AQI has been all but eliminated, the military intelligence official said."...

..."McChrystal happens to also be one of the military generals who also fiercely advocated the declaration of 'Mission Accomplished.' In April 2003, McChrystal assessed that 'major combat' was over in Iraq: 'I would anticipate that the major combat engagements are over,' Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal told reporters at a Pentagon briefing. He said U.S. forces are moving into a phase of 'smaller, albeit sharper fights.'"...

..."Gen. James Jones, the author of a detailed report on Iraqi security forces, said that 98 percent or more of the fighting is an internal civil conflict among Iraqis. All of which suggests that the basis for this declaration of 'mission accomplished' is just as misplaced as the last one."...

"...the Pentagon recommended McChrystal be 'held accountable' for 'misleading behavior' as a central player in the Pat Tillman affair."

The Republican landscape is rife with incompetence as far as the eye can see; the biggest throng of incompetent individuals the modern world has ever seen. Clarence on the Court, W in the Oval Office, Ollie North; now Stanley McChrystal - where do we get these guys? How'd we end up with Stan and Ollie when we so obviously need the likes of Ike and Omar?

Who the fuck let these dogs out?????

We’ve treated the Arab world as a collection of big gas stations

“Of course it’s about oil, we can’t really deny that,” Abizaid said: “We’ve treated the Arab world as a collection of big gas stations,” the retired general said. “Our message to them is: Guys, keep your pumps open, prices low, be nice to the Israelis and you can do whatever you want out back. Osama and 9/11 is the distilled essence that represents everything going on out back.”

Stand By For Further Blasphemes

Jeff Gerth, meet Judith Miller: "Isn't former New York Times reporter Jeff Gerth writing the definitive book about Hillary Clinton sort of like Judith Miller deciding to write the definitive book about Iraq's WMDs? It just doesn't add up....

If you don't think Gerth's corner-cutting contributed to the paper's troubles -- if you think ambitious insiders at the Times didn't take notice of Gerth's star run when he was lauded and rewarded for writing accusatory stories that couldn't withstand close scrutiny and often didn't even make sense -- then I don't think you understand how the Beltway media's star system works."

"Gore Is The Evidence Of The Crime" say GOP Mouthbreathers

He Exists !!! And That Is The Crime Of The Century: "The worst thing about Mr. Gore, from the conservative point of view, is that he keeps being right."

Gore has no right to be right!

Democrats Reject Laura Ingraham Syphillis Story

But GOP spreads a lie designed to drive the "elite limousine liberal" and "Democrats hate regular people" narratives: "Republicans are circulating a new smear"

We needn't bother trying to have a response to the GOP blitherfest about the NASCAR vaccination flap. They're trying to plant a flower on this swell new turd they've found. It's wonderfully distracting watching the conservatives grasping for another chance to massage the tender parts of their fast-disappearing followers. Having already blown everything men can blow - including the war, the deficit, the road to health care and retirement, they're reaching down and around playing the Larry Craig card in one of the greatest outdoor men's rooms ever built - the NASCAR stadium. Well, gents, it won't work. It looks like it will. But it won't. As the 10 year mist lifts, the American that works hard and plays loud is absofuckinlutely tired of being the Republican's "Screwed Pooch".

A Vast Gray Area Covered With Politics

Dr. William M. Gray - Your basic Cato wannabee, a rightie buttboy that loves to bitch-slap his better-thinking colleagues whenever a news factoid seems to agree with his wingnut bloviations.

"Warm water and cool water essentially rise and fall in a rhythm lasting decades. Although then, when pressed on his theory of how thermohaline circulation has caused recent warming of the planet and would soon cause cooling, he conceded that he hasn't yet published the idea in any peer-reviewed journal. He is working on it, he says. In the same interview, Gray is reported as saying that "global warming hysteria" is motivated, in part, by the desire among scientists, government leaders and environmentalists to find a political cause that would enable them to "organize, propagandize, force conformity and exercise political influence. Big world government could best lead (and control) us to a better world!"

You get the picture. A GOP schlubb.

Salt Lake Silly

Romney As The Decider: "Asked whether he would call off the Drug Enforcement Agency from raids in states that have approved medical marijuana use, Romney responded loudly, 'No.'"

Asking the freedom-loving audience, people whose bottom line is personal privacy, if they would vote for him, the crowd responded loudly, "NO !"

What Happens in Vegas Stays on Tape

Video Fears Grip Vegas as "Terrorist's Win" Over a Weak President: E'Fucking Gad!, everywhere in the world the entire terrorist culture has laughed in astonishment as the Great Satan "voluntarily and with great abandon" begins shutting down its freedoms - like city lights going out one by one through a long dark night, and injects fear into every corner of everyday life.

Not even in the grand tent of Osama Vader was it expected that America's Right-Wing would really embrace darkness and use the cover of fear for the creation of a modern police state.

"The RTC says the closed-circuit television surveillance network would help ensure the safety of bus passengers and employees by supplying live, continuous real-time video feeds. The RTC plans to share the video feeds with Metro Police."...

"The RTC says the money for the system comes from a Homeland Security Department grant. It's expected to be up and running by February 2008."

The General Is Specific

Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who commanded coalition troops for a year beginning June 2003, says that "there is no question that America is living a nightmare with no end in sight."

But what would he know.

Judge Gives Kids A Sock To The Gut

Anyone Want To Pound This Nail?: Try whacking at Stewart Dimmock, the truck driving brainer who stopped British children from learning about and believing that global warming is a fact - with special thanks to Neo-fucktard High Court Judge Michael Burton.

Dimmock criticized the British government's use of the film in schools, saying, "It was about time someone got off their backside and say, 'Oh, you're wrong.'" Yet he admitted, "I'm not an expert on global warming, then or now. I'm just a lorry driver."

Oh, he's so much more than that - he's the conservative brain trust of England.

The ruling resurrected the heated debate over the film's arguments between Gore's supporters and climate change skeptics.

His spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said that Gore was "deeply gratified that the court upheld the fundamental thesis of the film" and "affirmed it as a valid educational tool."

As for the errors, Kreider said, "Of the thousands of facts, the judge seemingly only took issue with a handful. We've got peer review studies that back up those facts. There were a couple of cases where we feel the film wasn't quoted accurately."

Let's all give a round of applause to High Court Judge Michael Burton, the biggest piece of shit currently bloviating from the British bench. Hear! Hear!

"He's the Real Deal"

Grudging Respect For A Prime Mover: Robert Hood, warden from 2002 to 2005, says that Yousef Ramzi, who was the mastermind of the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, "was a special case. He never left his cell because he did not want to face the indignity of a strip search required for recreation. 'He has that Charlie Manson look,' says Hood of Yousef. 'He has some charisma about him. He's in [prison] uniform, but you know that there's a powerful person you're looking at,' Hood says. Told that Yousef has begun leaving his cell and now claims to be a Christian, Hood says, 'He's playing a game with someone. If he's doing that, he's doing it for the reaction....He is the real deal.' "

A Malkin Is What You Use To Wipe Your Coulter

Michelle Malkin Is Rolling Around In This Slander Like A Pig In Muck: "As it turns out, the Frosts say, Graeme attends the private school on scholarship. The business that the critics said Mr. Frost owned was dissolved in 1999. The family’s home, in the modest Butchers Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, was bought for $55,000 in 1990 and is now worth about $260,000, according to public records. And, for the record, the Frosts say, their kitchen counters are concrete."

Go read this viper's website and you will see the bottom of the barrel. She is the face on the barroom floor.

Features : Radar Online : Click Rick

Features : Radar Online : Click Rick: "it's much harder to damage your career by consistently supporting war and cruelty than by consistently supporting peace and love. The default position is 'bombs away.' "

American Intelligence Community Takes I.Q. Dip

Qaeda Goes Dark After a Major U.S. Fuckup: "The founder of a Web site known as clandestineradio.com, Nick Grace, tracked the shutdown of Qaeda's Obelisk system in real time. 'It was both unprecedented and chilling from the perspective of a Web techie. The discipline and coordination to take the entire system down involving multiple Web servers, hundreds of user names and passwords, is an astounding feat, especially that it was done within minutes,' Mr. Grace said yesterday."

They are brilliant as we are brilliant; they are dedicated as we are dedicated, and we underestimate their abilities at our own great peril.

No Soup For You

Dems' Poster Child Faces a Firestorm: "'Last year, the Frost's made $45,000 combined,' Manley said. 'Over the past few years they have made no more than $50,000 combined depending on Halsey's ability to find work.'"

FoxPackers Lining Up For A Thrustfest

Fox's Judge Andrew Napolitano Is A Flaming Idiot: "Fox legal correspondent Judge Andrew Napolitano declared that Obama was 'disrespecting the American flag' to appeal 'to a hard-left audience.' (Strangely, Napolitano voiced the very opposite opinion during the same segment. 'I don't think it makes you less patriotic at all,' he said. 'I don't wear the pin, and I'm a patriot.' Huh?)"

"It's What Comes From the Heart, Not the Clothing"

The Lapel Pin crises:

"What matters, said Gen. Tony McPeak, who is endorsing White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama , is what 'comes from the heart, not the clothing…the difference between petty symbolism and real substance, real courage, real judgement.' "

Works for me.

Private Armies, Various Anthems

I am creating artificial life, declares some guy: Mr. Venter has created "chassis on which you could build almost anything. It could be a contribution to humanity such as new drugs or a huge threat to humanity such as bio-weapons".

Here come the private armies, singing the various anthems.

McCain Is Confused By Reality

McCain Bounces A Quarter Off His Brain - Complains Of Sore Thoughts: "The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation."