GOP pissed that Dem calls Bush a son of a bitch

"I don't see why he couldn't have just siad Bush could go fuck himself" if that same open spirit that Cheney has," said an unnamed source in the GOP.
Meantime, Paul Hacket, a Marine who saw duty under that dump son of a bitch Bush has plenty to be pissed about.
Three cheers for Hackett

You, human....

You respect people for having solid positions, even when they are totally wrong and the people are total assholes.
That's because, well, you are human. But why the fuck are you proud of it?
Ah, yes, there is something noble about Bush sticking to his position on stem cells. And I have the sense that dogs sniffing butts get a more accurate introduction, a truer picture of the "other".

U.S. Signals Spring Start for Pullout

Remember no deadlines? It was all bullshit.
This is about elections. With no troops in Iraq, there are no American deaths in Iraq. (If no Americans die in the forest, did anyone die? nope)
And since the news feeds at the white house trough, or the runaway bride, michael jackson, supreme court nominee... (note that roberts pushed plame off the news, and Delay? gone... never layed a glove on him)
Oh, meantime, China is moving into wind power big time :-)

Something is wrong here

Everybody is getting to be allergic to something... by itself, it would be cool... but to pass all this shit onto the kids? We are going to select ourselves right off the earth, alergic to peanuts, pollent, meats, milk, wheat, air, water...
Not a very dignified creature, man.
My dog drank from toilet bowl... yeah, it was flushed, and no, it didn't have poison bowl cleaner in it. Of course, now and then he'd chomp on a big turd. No kisses for a while when he did that.

A really really bad start for the supreme court: "I forgot and still don't remember"

"Yesterday, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Roberts 'has no recollection of being a member of the Federalist Society, or its steering committee.' Roberts has acknowledged taking part in some Federalist Society activities, Perino said."
There's a lot more he seems to have forgotten.... amazing!

The incompetence of Bush and the absurdity of Christians

Mr. Bush's incompetence is most clearly visible in Iraq, but really, consider too the tax policies, and what he is bringing to social security, the national debt, failing education, lapses in environmental quality. His incompetence is legion.
Against all this, he has the support of Christians: they have an agenda for God and nothing else matters.
Go to church, pray, follow the religious leaders, stop gay marriage, end abortion and all will be well.

The "real" crime?

"The real crime here remains the sending of American men and women to Iraq on fictitious grounds. Without it, there wouldn't have been a third-rate smear campaign against an obscure diplomat, a bungled cover-up and a scandal that - like the war itself - has no exit strategy that will not inflict pain."
There was not one "real"crime...
One cannot exclude the killing of Iraqi citizens, one cannot exclude the globalization of the war into cities...

How funny is this!

"Kurdish leaders have requested that the new Iraqi constitution guarantee the Kurdish minority the right to vote on independence in eight years, a Kurdish member of the constitutional committee said Friday."
Actually, it's pretty optimistic of the Kurds that there will be an Iraq in 8 years to get idependent from.
Let's hear it for the policies of Geroge Bush!

The nature of insurance

"Under Medicare's rules, each time a patient comes back for another treatment, a hospital qualifies for an additional payment. In effect, Palm Beach Gardens was paid a bonus for its mistakes."
Insurance does that very very often: it pays for mistakes. It pays for bad behavior. When irresponsible behavior might be too expensive, hey, get insurance!
Smoke, eat shit, ride without your helmet, don't exercise, drive badly, put your employees at risk, give them dangerous assignments....
The ultimate case of life without consequences: the presidency of George Bush.

Doing the right thing

"The officers pushed him to the floor of the car and shot him five times in the head at close range. "
That's what you do with suicide bombers.
Score another victory for the policies of George Bush, and while we're at it: Tony Blair.

Good strategy....

"After concentrating their efforts for two and a half years on driving out the 138,000-plus American troops, the insurgents appear to be shifting their focus to the political and sectarian polarization of the country - apparently hoping to ignite a civil war - and to the isolation of the Iraqi government abroad."
Like Rumsfeld says, you go to war with the army you've got. (Well, duh! that's if you're attacked, dummy, not if it's of your time and place...)
Thus, the insurgents:
1) we want you out
2) the friend of my enemy is my enemy
As to religions... Christians bomb birth control clinics. And black churches.
And Jewish "settlers" totally hate the Palestinians. And and all religions are dangerous and antiquarian superstitious practices.

George Bush's "mission accomplished", con't

"CAIRO (Reuters) - Thirty people died and many more were critically wounded on Saturday when suspected car bombs ripped through bazaars and tourist hotels in two Egyptian Red Sea resorts, officials said."
....
but nope....
1) they're inhuman
2) they'd have done it anyway
3) it would have been worse if we didn't tie them up in Iraq!
4) blah blah blah
Note that the exposure to terrorist attacks by members of the administration is pretty much the same as their exposure to battle in Iraq: zero. "No administration officials were injured in the making of this war." And since there is no draft, they don't even have to hide out in the national guard where you can't even hide out anymore! What a concept.

Because Muslims aren't Brits, they're Muslims...

"The war on terror has reached London . Undoubtedly, its first victim is the Muslim population. Why it then that, unlike the run up to the war in Iraq, no one single soul, not even a British Muslim, has taken to streets in protest against the spread of terrorism in the capital?"
Of course they're going to get all bet out of shape when they get treated as the slacker citizens they are... and then set more bombs with yet another non-reason
No one is asking Muslims to forsake their faith... but it is time for them to make a public declaration as citizens of the country they live in. Or, fuck it: send them back. Really.
Certainly put a hold on citizenship, visas, etc.
They are just providing crowd cover for the miscreants, and are therefor complicit in the acts.

Pretty darned clear...

"A classified State Department memorandum central to a federal leak investigation contained information about CIA officer Valerie Plame in a paragraph marked '(S)' for secret, a clear indication that any Bush administration official who read it should have been aware the information was classified, according to current and former government officials."
(more)...

What do you mean "we?"

maybe you're that stupid.
1) you are republican
2) you voted for Bush because he would keep us safe...

Suicide Bomber Ignites Tanker, Killing Scores of Iraqis -

Mission accompllished, eh George, you dumb fuck!
And I know what the answer is going to be: it will go away when the administration stops focusing on Iraq, because the press will stop writing about it.
And that's not even considering a new runaway bride, more Michael Jackson, whatever...

Did nobody know? bullshit

When you send out the propoganda weapon, it is target. This is war and this is negligence.
You don't have to hand the kids chocolate: you can just give it to the people, and keep the kids safe. Put the shit in stores, for free.
Fuck: why not just send an armoured Good Humor truck around to attract the little kids.
All those kids, and they could have been used for, say, clearing mine fields. Darn.

Warning labels

Life isn't labelled.
If you say that "this product contains quantities of unmodified shit and other byproducts from the bowels of various animals", one should not be required to inform the readers that "shit is bad".
That's the basic thing a person has to bring to the table: shit is bad. Now, as you were.

Newsweek: desperately trying to stay our of trouble!

"The Newsweek article quotes Cooper's e-mail as saying, 'it was, KR said, Wilson's wife, who apparently ? works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip.'"
Newsweek says that while the e-mail shows that Rove talked to Cooper about the couple, the e-mail doesn't suggest that Rove revealed Plame's name or CIA status.
Duh.
"apparently works at the agency..." hmmm, where did that come from. And how could anyone assert and then of course prove that Rove was a leaker?

Awwww shit!

"As it raced across the Florida Panhandle, Hurricane Dennis fell short of the destructive powers officials had feared."

42%

"More than four in 10 Americans, according to a recent Zogby poll, say that if President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment"
It's not just this poll that is mealy mouthed: they all are:
"If, should, consider..." maybe.
On the other hand, 58% say that's quite OK, mate!
Polls: reality shows for newpapers. Cheap, made to order.

Freedom costs just $3.99

That's what it costs for an "Impeach Bush Now" bumper sticker.
Nah, that's too much money. Fuck it.

ahhh! truth about the press....

"Pay particular attention to pages 72 through 78. Why? Because they're blank, that's why. Even experienced constitutional lawyers are flabbergasted by this. But at the request of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor assigned to this inquiry, his most powerful arguments for why Miller and Cooper should break their promises to sources are too sensitive for any of us to see."
scum-sucking... yep, that is the press.

Is it worth debating this statement? Is it NOT worth debating this statement?

"The government was doing everything it could to protect the country, [Blair] told the BBC, but 'if people are actually prepared to go onto a tube or a bus ***[and set off bombs] you can have all the surveillance in the world and you couldn't stop that happening.'"

elided words follow:
***(and blow up wholly innocent people, people just at random, to do the maximum death and destruction without any thought for their human rights or human life)

Question: what parts of the above are true, vaguely true, false, meaningful, meaningless.

Muslims...

If It's a Muslim Problem, It Needs a Muslim Solution - New York Times: "When Salman Rushdie wrote a controversial novel involving the prophet Muhammad, he was sentenced to death by the leader of Iran. To this day - to this day - no major Muslim cleric or religious body has ever issued a fatwa condemning Osama bin Laden."
Ummm, major Muslim cleric?
I don't know any "major" Muslim clerics. How about naming a few who aren't "major". This kind of logic excapes Freeman, who is the Jew who waits for Christ.

Easy to make, easy to use, meth challenges control

Well, I have to face it: for you easy, for me difficult.
I'm going to pop open a bag of cookies. That's about my attention span.

Intelligent design, m.a.

Man is not the product of intelligent design. The supposition that we can explain anything like that has to wait until we get past the firefly: make a firefly.
Intelligence ain't gonna hack it, no way.
It's time.
Our view of time is roughly proportional to our personal experience of the universe.
The net is, in real time, in real space, we don't even exist. Sorry, folks, it's just totally off the scale: forever.

Personally, I support terrorism

Not all of it, but a lot of it.
Any living organism depends on homeostatis: some self regulation that without explanation keeps the organism from self destruction.
Terrorism is society out of homeostasis. We are called on the cure the system, not paper over the disease, or even worse, act like some immune system of of whack that only adds to the destruction.
I really hope it doesn't happen to you, or to me. But it will be hard to object to on the merits.
Terrorism: what you get when you mistakenly repress people who aren't totally helpless. (You're supposed to repress only the really dark skinned people! Duh! I mean, why do you think we made helpless people in the first place and made them so easy to recognize!)
This is what comes when you are allowed to color outside the lines.

London: today's not the day to panic

That was yesterday.
Bush is death. Everything he touches. Democratically elected.
"don't thank us" says the US, "we do it all for you"

Oil: it ain't just for breakfast anymore

It's getting funny on its own.
Weather, bombs, and a futures market that plays like a yoyo... some really really huge $ to be made. And, guess what: the price is going up!
This WILL spark energy efficiencies. Transportation, heating and cooling. The market is less machine and much more alive: it is people, moving toward something and moving away. As long as it is not so fast.
(Oh yeah, it fell: from 61 something! Like 105 is a cooling spell after a few days of 108).
While we watch oil and bombs, we sort of forget to look at the real fuel supply: air and water :-)

At least until the revolution...

The US will live in a state of perpetual war.
Courtesy of "George Bush and the Christians". They do rather deserve each other.
But alas, do we truly deserve either? Mayhaps, as we are a democracy and government is self inflicted.
At least until the revolution.

Hurray for Howard Dean

Democrat? more mostly an American :-)
You know, boorish, without manners, speaks straight and bows to no one!
Yeah, damned American trouble makers, and oh, by the way: screw the churches and anyone else to wants to screw with our liberties: Don't Tread on Me!

Despite Fears of Mad Cow, Grillers Get Set for Holiday -

Hey man, that was British beef! Maybe even French. But American beef? bad for you? nonsense!

Another made up word

"Values" evangelicals. Just proving that fundamentalists and bigots can (temporarily) put small differences aside in persuit of crushing the infidels. I mean, they even let the Jews in! (Hey, it just might be good for the Jews? for Israel? :Make the U.S. uninhabitable.)
Clear skies, personal accounts, and "values" evanglicals.
Brilliant. Fucking brilliant.

We'll have none of this unpredictable stuff in our courts!

..."Mr. Gonzales, whose views on abortion are considered suspect by religious conservatives."
Suspect. Suspicious. Need one say more?
"And on Friday, the Rev. Miguel Rivera, president of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders, a group that represents more than 6,000 Latino evangelical churches, sent the president a letter urging consideration of "a true conservative Latino nominee," Emilio M. Garza, a federal appeals judge from Texas."
Your basic freedom of religion solid American citizens...
(And dig that number! Six Thousand! that is a LOT of churches! Here's to the great liberal immigration policy :-)

Rove cleared by his own lawyer

From the "why didn't you just tell us!" dept.
Rove said he did not reveal Plame to Cooper, and Rove's own lawyer confirmed that.
"He was just so reluctant to give us a signed confession" said Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor, "that we felt we would be wasting hundreds, if not thousands of dollars persuing this totally good and kind man."

Ah, Democracy really sucks

Africa needs expertise, not money and music
By M.A.R. Galadari
3 July 2005
...Africa’s problem is essentially a problem of lethargy and lack of expertise, not of resources. Quality education needs to spread to more areas. These nations must call in experts from outside to create the necessary systems for better governance and economic development. By doing so, just as we in the AGCC nations did, the Africans will also be learning for themselves how to effectively handle their own affairs in due course of time....
They need to be, ummm, invaded and ruled dictatorially? Ya see, normally, one would, ummm, use money to buy things, hire expertise, that sort of thing... but, as confuscious say, you cannot feed a body if you have no say over the orifice.
Actually, what would work: leave Africa the fuck alone... stop sucking the life out of it. Stop the colonialization. (like that's gonna happen)...
Also here: (Houston, I think we may have found the problem dept)
Among Ordinary Africans, G-8 Seems Out of Touch: "Unfair trade practices are enriching African officials and international coffee chains while village farmers grow steadily poorer."

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

The man says "dream with me"....

Complete bullshit from the NY Times

"Buoyed by the sunny weather, the demonstrators spoke of their newfound hope that the British prime minister, Tony Blair, President Bush and the other leaders of the eight major industrialized countries were beginning to take note of the widening gap between rich and poor"
George Bush has absolutely nothing to do with this. Only the NY Times includes him. The Washington Post does not, nor of course do any of the papers more local to the event. More pandering to the US readers... "why do they hate us, why do they love us...." Actually, they really don't care all that much.
"What people think of you really doesn't matter when you realize how little they do"

Could we please fix this, oh 21st century man?

"A warrant is issued in Fargo, N.D., for convicted sex offender Joseph Edward Duncan III, 42, who has failed to stay in touch with his probation agent. Duncan, considered a high-risk offender, was released by Minnesota authoritues in April on a $15,000 bond."
Can't figure out how to handle this, eh?

Brooks Shields...

Wipes the floor with Tom Cruise. No, actually, self inflicted.
Ms. Shields interview on Terry Gross's show was marvelous. Tom's a twit. (No kids, of course. Several wives.)
Damn, that is really disappointing...

bye bye tom

"'Before I was a Scientologist, I never agreed with psychiatry,' Cruise said. 'And when I started studying the history of psychiatry, I understood more and more why I didn't believe in psychology ... And I know that psychiatry is a pseudo science.'"
uhhh, Tom, it's not psychiatry or psychology or physiology (you might have missed that): it's brain chemistry. You don't have to believe in it.
I wonder if Cat Stevens would like to join you.