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Saturday, March 31, 2007
We, the Good People Will Prevail
By VictorM: It was a beautiful day in Washington, DC, so I decided to go downtown to watch Manchester United vs Blackburn in an Irish pub, and then made my way to the Washington Monument area to catch a glimpse of the cherry blossoms in full bloom.As I walked among the many thousands of good people it was clear to see I was not the only one enjoying myself. People were flying kites, picnicking, strolling, reading poetry, taking photos, listening to music, eating ice cream, waiting patiently in line for the restrooms, playing with their children, and in general, just enjoying a glorious spring day.
Just like me, I assume that most good people there shoved aside the knowledge that there are a number of folks in foreign lands who would do us harm if they could, and some at home so bent on having things their way that they lie, cheat, and invent "facts" to scare the bejesus out of us.
I am sure that many of those good people would disagree with me on many of the issues facing our society, but throughout my walk from the Metro station, around the Washington Monument, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, and back to the Metro station, not once was I called a traitor, unpatriotic, a coward, a faggot, a communist, or an appeaser.
We, the good people may never fly a "Mission Accomplished" banner, but I know that we will prevail against those who would do us harm or try to scare us.
[PS. To see my pictures from today, including pictures of the cherry blossoms, click here.]
Labels: cherry blossoms, good people, washington monument
Idiot of the Day: Cold Fury (Mike)
By VictorM: In this series of posts, if nothing else we've shown that right-wingers live in a land of make-believe. Well, more precisely, in the land of make-shit-up. We have another example today. This idiot goes about making statements that are totally made up simply because it fits a preconceived notion in his distorted little mind.Talking about Democrats and the Afghanistan war, he says:
Does he include any references to justify that view? No. Does this view have any resemblance to the truth? No. It's just more made-up shit from a delusional right-winger who doesn't care if American kids are dying in the streets of Baghdad for no good reason.They never supported that war either, despite their lying insistence on treating it as “the good war” now.
Their support for the Afghanistan campaign began the moment the Iraq war did and not one instant before...
Labels: idiot of the day, Iraq war, stupid democrats
Friday, March 30, 2007
You listen to the American people for a change
By Harry Reid: President Bush has to understand there’s a new Congress. For six years, he’s ignored Congress. The Republican-dominated House and Senate gave President Bush everything he wanted, and look at the fix we’re in as a country. We have 3,300 dead Americans in Iraq, we have 25,000 wounded, we have a President who didn’t take care of the necessities so that these men and women coming back to America after fighting in Iraq would have proper training to get them well. It simply has been a mismatch from the very beginning.So I say to President Bush: Understand that this Congress has done what the American people asked us to do. You listen to the American people for a change.”
Labels: congress, George Bush, harry reid
Thin Resumes and Lack of Experience
By VictorM: The more we learn about Purgegate the more disturbing things become. Forget for a moment whether there are illegal or unethical activity. Just the knowledge that people like Kyle Sampson and Monica Goodling, who have extremely thin resumes and amazing lack of experience, were placed in the position of recommending the removal of far more experienced attorneys boggles the mind.This is not a partisan issue, at least it shouldn't be. Shouldn't we, no matter what political party is in power, expect that qualified people get hired for important positions?
Something is really rotten with the way this administration conducts business and even worse, with those who defend their behavior.
Labels: kyle sampson, monica goodling, purgegate
An enemy that at its core is pure evil
By Andrew Sullivan: How do we keep up with the nightmare of Iraq? You get numb, until some new atrocity leaps out from the void: In Kirkuk, residents walked in shocked silence behind a funeral procession for two nuns, who were sisters and longtime residents of the city.... There is one thing that this president has gotten right in this war. We face an enemy that at its core is pure evil. It's a tragedy that he has gotten almost everything else wrong. And evil is therefore winning the early battles of this war.Labels: andrew sullivan, Iraq war
Idiot of the Day: Joe Lieberman
By VictorM: One thing you can say about Joe Lieberman is that he has been consistent about his position on the Iraq War. But this means he has been forced to repeat his prognostications and assessments. If that wasn't bad enough, he has been dead wrong each time!March 29, 2007:
Since taking command, Gen. Petraeus has been true to his word. The result? Sectarian violence is down in Baghdad. The radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has fled. The Mahdi Army, which terrorized Baghdad last year, appears to be splintering. And the Iraqi government — its spine stiffened thanks to our renewed support — is taking the critical steps for political reconciliation.December 29, 2006:
Because of the bravery of many Iraqi and coalition military personnel and the recent coming together of moderate political forces in Baghdad, the war is winnable. We and our Iraqi allies must do what is necessary to win it.November 29, 2005:
Progress is visible and practical. In the Kurdish North, there is continuing security and growing prosperity. The primarily Shiite South remains largely free of terrorism, receives much more electric power and other public services than it did under Saddam, and is experiencing greater economic activity. The Sunni triangle, geographically defined by Baghdad to the east, Tikrit to the north and Ramadi to the west, is where most of the terrorist enemy attacks occur. And yet here, too, there is progress.April 26, 2004:
Thanks to the brilliance and bravery of American and allied forces, we won that war.
Labels: idiot of the day, joe lieberman
Thursday, March 29, 2007
So many scandals, so many names
By VictorM: Lurita Doan, Monica Goodling, Mike Battle, Harriet Miers, Carl Rove, Tim Griffin, Steve Bell, Senator Domenici, Kyle Sampson, Alberto Gonzales, Paul McNulty... the list goes on.I bet there's one guy sitting in Florida, whacking off to high-school graduation pictures, very happy that his name has vanished from the headlines. Yep, Mark Foley is so yesterday's news.
Labels: alberto gonzales, kyle sampson, lurita doan, mark foley, monica goodling
Heading Towards 19th Century Internets
By VictorM: We focus so much on the major disasters of the Bush Agministration -- Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, Environment, Veterans' Benefits, Purgegate, etc. etc. -- that it's understandable we seldom talk about the total reach of neglect by this administration. It's not surprising they have shown no vision. After all, as Hillary Clinton put it, this administration has built a bridge to the 19th century. If Hillary had been wrong, this would not have happened:The US has lost its position as the world's primary engine of technology innovation, according to a report by the World Economic Forum. The US is now ranked seventh in the body's league table measuring the impact of technology on the development of nations. A deterioration of the political and regulatory environment in the US prompted the fall, the report said... Countries were judged on technological advancements in general business, the infrastructure available and the extent to which government policy creates a framework necessary for economic development and increased competitiveness.What did we expect from a president who knows nothing about the "internets", doesn't use e-mail, and was surprised they had bloggers in Baghdad?
Labels: bush administration, hillary clinton, internets
Idiot of the Day: George W. Bush
By VictorM: This selection is a no-brainer. George W. Bush, the president of the United States of America, the world's only superpower, currently engaged in a disastrous four year old war, resorted to defending his latest plan as "encouraging" based on the words of two... count them... two bloggers in Baghdad. George W. Bush... an idiot!Labels: baghdad blogger, George Bush, idiot of the day
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Reasons for a National Healthcare Plan
By Kevin Drum: I don't usually tout cost savings as a big argument in favor of universal healthcare. It's true that a national healthcare plan would almost certainly save money compared to our current Rube Goldberg system, but I suspect the savings would be modest. Rather, the real advantages of national healthcare are related to things like access (getting everyone covered), efficiency (cutting down on useless -- or even deliberately counterproductive -- administrative bureaucracies), choice (allowing people to choose and keep a family doctor instead of being jerked around everytime their employer decides to switch health providers), and social justice (providing decent, hassle-free healthcare for the poor).Labels: health care, kevin drum, universal health insurance
Idiot of the Day: Rush Limbaugh
By VictorM: What can we say about Rush Limbaugh? The man is vile and vulgar. He has been picking on Elizabeth and John Edwards since she was diagnosed with cancer with comments like "most people when told a family member's been diagnosed with the kind of cancer Elizabeth Edwards has, they turn to God. The Edwards turned to the campaign. "I'll let VetGrl take it from here:
Hey, Rush. Shut your fucking mouth about Elizabeth Edwards for just five minutes. There's something I want to tell you.You don't get to sit your fat ass down in your radio studio and talk about how a woman -- any woman -- ought to react or behave when she has breast cancer. I know, I know, you think the weight of the world has been on your shoulders these last few years, what with your drug addiction and your non-functioning penis.
But you don't know shit about breast cancer, but I do. I got to watch my sister die from it...
Rush, I'll never get people like you. You don't understand suffering. You don't understand kindness. You don't understand love and support, whether between two people or among a community. You seem to understand nothing but your ego and your own ignorant sense of self importance.
But for as much as I don't get about you or your kind, there's one thing I'm pretty sure of: When you try to check in at the pearly gates, it'll be my sister who's going to kick your fat ass straight to hell.
Labels: elizabeth edwards, idiot of the day, john edwards, rush limbaugh
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Pizza is good for you
By VictorM: I figure that with food, if you wait long enough, some new study will find whatever was no good for you yesterday, fine today. So the news that pizza can be healthy is long time coming:Yeah, yeah, there are some warnings about fatty toppings... blah, blah, blah... I didn't read the rest of the article. I pick and choose what I like from the news. I don't bother with the details, particularly if they contradict what I want to believe.University of Maryland food chemists said on Monday they had found ways to enhance the antioxidant content of whole-grain wheat pizza dough by baking it longer at higher temperatures and giving the dough lots of time to rise.
Antioxidants are substances that protect cells from damage caused by unstable molecules known as free radicals. Some experts believe antioxidants can lower the risk of cancer, heart disease and other ailments.
*This was a brief right-wing-approach-to-reading-the-news moments*
Labels: health food, pizza, right-wing
She Sounds Like She Knows What She's Talking About
By Catherine Durkin Robinson, commenting on PMS and PMDD:Cramps? Put down the remote, get off your slowly spreading ass, and walk around the block a few times. Exercise those bad boys right out of your body. Feel bloated and nasty? Put down the processed food and try some yogurt with flax seed. Ignore chocolate ice cream for a few days and eat granola bars instead. Ever hear of a vitamin? Food is medicine you put in your body every day. Make a good f*cking choice for a change.
Labels: bad food, cramps, pmdd, pms
Idiot of the Day: Tom Delay
By VictorM: This comment by Tom Delay pretty much stands on its own as an example of what the heart of the right-wing is like. This is not the comment of a fringe group. This is not an isolated post by someone out of step with the whole group. Tom Delay IS the voice of the right-wing:"I believe it was Adolf Hitler who first acknowledged that the big lie is more effective than the little lie, because the big lie is so audacious, such an astonishing immorality, that people have a hard time believing anyone would say it if it wasn't true. You know, the big lie — like the Holocaust never happened or dark-skinned people are less intelligent than light-skinned people. Well, by charging this big lie" — that DeLay violated campaign-finance laws in Texas — "liberals have finally joined the ranks of scoundrels like Hitler."
Labels: hitler, idiot of the day, liberal, tom delay
Monday, March 26, 2007
If only they read their Bible AND our constitution
By the (liberal)Girl Next Door, commenting on the Pew survey that showed a decline in the Republican brand:It’s more than a little ironic that the most immoral administration in the history of this country continues to enjoy the unflinching loyalty of the Holy Rollers. I just wish that these “patriots” would take the time to read their Bible AND our constitution. If they did, Bush surely wouldn’t have any support left.
Labels: pew survey, republicans
Katie Couric and John and Elizabeth Edwards on 60 Minutes
By Kevin Drum: Taegan Goddard asks: Why did Katie Couric keep pressing John and Elizabeth Edwards on 60 Minutes last night about their decision to continue his presidential campaign when she didn't give up her job as host of the Today Show when her husband was diagnosed with cancer?Good question. My guess is that she was a little too desperate to establish her serious journalist cred, and figured that the best way to do that was to pretend she was Mike Wallace interviewing a suspected child molester.
Labels: media
Climate and Human Cranial Capacity
By VictorM: You know what we need in this whole Climate Change/Global Warming debate? Controversy. Come on, you have got to admit, everyone who matters is so on board already. Yes, *yawn* Global Warming is real.Ah! Not so fast! Via Wired, a study that might pump some excitment back into the whole global warming debate:
Jessica Ash and Gordon Gallup studied 109 fossilized skulls from different latitudes to determine that "climate may have been an important selective force behind the evolution of human cranial capacity," according to Gallup, who theorized that changes in global temperature could account for as much as 50 percent of the variation in headmeat. "Specifically, we found that as the distance from the equator increased, north or south, so did brain size," he said. The researchers will publish their study in the spring edition of Human Nature.That explains Senator Inhofe and other rednecks from a certain part of the country -- they're just dumber than most of us! Spread the word.
Labels: climate change, global warming, senator inhofe
The Case of the Shrinking Party
By VictorM: For the guys reading this, imagine being a teenager, in bed with your date, getting really excited, and then, unexpectedly her parents come home and storm into her bedroom, catching you with your hands in the cookie jar. Well, Republicans can relate to the kind of shrinkage that would result:The survey, by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center for People and the Press, found a "dramatic shift" in political party identification since 2002, when Republicans and Democrats were at rough parity. Now, half of those surveyed identified with or leaned toward Democrats, while only 35% aligned with Republicans.Yes, it was fun for a little while, she was willing, but the grown-ups had other ideas.
The flirtation with a failed ideology is over. Deal with it!
Labels: pew survey, republicans
Bush Bring A War Back Home
By S.W. Anderson, commenting on a poll about how Iraqi's view the presence of Americans in their country and how they have carried out their responsibilities:Meanwhile, most Americans have come to realize the Bush administration has made Washington, D.C., the central front in the war on honest, intelligent and well-executed policy.
Labels: George Bush
The Greedy, Cheap, Selfish Bastards
By VictorM: Attacking liberals about the Iraq war in a dumb post (see today's Idiot of the Day), Kevin McCullough makes two disconnected points which I'd like to put together. At the top of the post he says:why don't [liberals] have at least some modicum of pride about the greatest nation the world has ever produced?Then, in the conclusion he says:
Personally I believe I work far too many hours, for not nearly enough money, to be paying the exorbitant amount of taxesFor now I'm not going to disagree with either statement but let me ask, would you expect to become a member of the Augusta Country Club for the same fees you pay your local public golf course? If you are a member of the greatest golf course, wouldn't you expect to pay accordingly? So why are conservatives so unwilling to pay their share of living in the greatest nation on Earth? That is, for reasons other than being greedy, cheap, selfish bastards?
Labels: conservative, greatest nation, paying taxes
Idiot of the Day: Kevin McMullough
By VictorM: Kevin McMullough is our Idiot of the Day. In true right-winger fashion, he makes up stuff, comes up with silly predictions which he dresses up as fact, and ignores the irony that he predicts impending disaster for an idea different than the one he supports, oblivious to the fact that his supported approach has produced nothing but disaster. With credibility like this, he becomes our version of Baghdad Bob.Let's take a look at some of his utterly silly remarks:
What is this obsession that liberals have with seeing America destroyed?... In other words, why are they so insistent on seeing America pummeled?... In their own echo-chamber vanity Murtha, Pelosi and company believe themselves to be smarter than the commanders of the operations in the war on terror... But they didn't just author defeat - they campaigned for it.Dude, we tried it your way. It has given terrorists reason to celebrate. It has brought shame to America. It has rendered us more vulnerable. It has increased the number of terrorists and terrorist attacks. It has been a miserable failure. The American people are fed up with your way.
If you love America, get out of the way and let the adults try to minimize the consequences of your dastardly deeds.
Labels: idiot of the day, Iraq war
Sunday, March 25, 2007
The Republican Manipulation of Evangelicals
By VictorM: There has never been any doubt in my mind that the marriage between the anti-abortion evangelical crowd and the Republican party has been fabricated to produce results at the polls. The truth is that Republicans never gave a crap about abortion and they still don't. Slowly but surely evangelicals are getting that "I should have had a V8" moment:No polling data show conclusively that opinion has shifted among conservative evangelicals. But some national evangelical leaders say debate about -- and, in some cases, opposition to -- the war is breaking out among Christian conservatives whose support was key to President Bush's election victories. Frustration with Republicans' failure to overturn abortion rights is said to have fueled skepticism among some evangelicals.See that? They are anti-war now because like a spoiled two-years-old they didn't get their way on abortion. Serves them right! They were manipulated to be anti-abortion in the first place and in return they supported a criminal war.
The same thing happened with homosexuals. A non-issue became a major political issue when it became necessary for the Republicans. Evangelicals were all too eager to dump civil rights and "we're all children of God" as a result.
Republican evangelicals... family values worthy of a family of porn stars (with my apologies to porn stars).
Idiot of the Day: Pamela Geller Oshry
By VictorM: This right-wing blogger demonstrates the amazing ability by right-wingers to make up statements without any references or even resemblance to reality. In this example, while commenting on an article about a German judge who made a lousy ruling based on the Koran because the couple in the dispute were Muslims, Pamela Geller Oshry makes this remark:Not that strange considering how Europe has surrendered to Islam.How many such cases does the blogger list? Just this one. Where did the above comment come from? You got it -- she pulled it out of her conservative ass.
But in addition, this blogger does something very typical of right-wingers: she omits that which is inconvenient. I decided to read the original article and sure enough, it says something that contradicts the nature of the made-up statement:
On Wednesday, after the Tuesday evening publication of the story on SPIEGEL ONLINE, the attorney received a fax from the Frankfurt court granting the conflict of interest claim and excusing the judge from the case... the judge who heard the case may have to face further consequences for her decision... numerous politicians in Berlin voiced their horror at the verdict -- and demanded disciplinary action against the judge.
So, not only is Pamela making shit up, she's utterly dishonest about how "Europe" reacted to the decision of one judge. Arggg Pamela Geller Oshry is idiot scum!
Labels: german judge, idiot of the day, islam
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Supreme Court: Bong Hits 4 Jesus
By VictorM: In 2002, Joseph Frederick was a teenager in high school. As a joke , he displayed a 14-foot banner that said: “Bong Hits 4 Jesus”. His teacher, Ms. Morse, took down the banner and suspended him for one week. The punishment was doubled when he refuse to name who else was involved. Joseph sued her claiming violation of his First Amendment rights. His case has made it all the way up to the US Supreme Court.The case was heard last week. While a decision is not expected until June, the comments of some of the Justices are interesting:
Chief Justice John Roberts said: "I thought we wanted our schools to teach something, including something besides just basic elements, including the formation of character and not to use drugs."Kenneth Starr (yes, the vomit inducing one) is defending Ms. Morse and the Bush administration has gotten involved in the case supporting the teacher. However, they may not get the support from conservatives one would expect:
But Justice David Souter suggested otherwise. "It sounds like just a kid's provocative statement to me," he said. "It's political speech, it seems to me. I don't see what it disrupts."
Meanwhile, Justice Stephen Breyer sought to find some middle ground. A ruling for Mr Frederick, he said, could result in students "testing limits all over the place in the high schools". At the same time, a decision against him "may really limit people's rights on free speech".
[Antonin Scalia] told the administration's lawyer that he found Ms Morse's argument "very, very disturbing" on the grounds that schools could choose to define their educational mission so broadly as to suppress political speech and speech expressing fundamental student values.Of course conservatives aren't taking this position because they give a crap about Frederick's First Amendment rights; they just care about how a decision in this case might impact their agenda.
A number of conservative groups that might normally ally themselves with the administration have found themselves backing Mr Frederick, out of concern that a ruling for Ms Morse would also allow schools clamp down on religious expression.
The problem here is that we have too many stuck-up assholes involved in this decision making a huge deal out of nothing. This was a teenage prank that hurt no one. The teacher overreacted. I hope for all our sakes that the Supreme Court rules in his favor.
Labels: antonin scalia, bong hits 4 jesus, first amendment, supreme court
Idiot of the Day: John Hawkins
By VictorM: This right-wing blogger has an article trying to explain how George Bush could get his approval ratings back to 50%. Then, sticking to typical right-winger's make-believe world, he goes on to daydream:The war has obviously been a big drag on Bush's approval. However, the surge has proven to be extremely effective so far and we now have good reason to be optimistic about how things will turn out in Iraq.Really, as hard as it is to believe, I think he was serious. I didn't see a smiley after that statement. Then he pulls numbers out of his hairy ass:
Get the conservatives back on board, get a quarter of the 34 percent of the public that considers themselves to be moderate to go along, and Bush would practically be back to even. If Bush is willing to show a little bit of flexibility, toughness, and willingness to defend himself, getting back to a 50 percent approval rating should be very possible.And how are those people going to get back on board? Ah.. magic, I suppose. Just like the magic that would be needed for Bush "to show a little bit flexibility".
Hell, this isn't wishful thinking; this is just plain idiotic.
Labels: bush approval, idiot of the day, john hawkins
Friday, March 23, 2007
Constitutional crisis
By rreppy: This is the letter I have sent to every Congressman today. Anyone who wants to use it has my permission to do so. I urge you Yanks to write your representatives, because believe me buckos, this is a big deal. The prez is essentially saying he is exempt from the subpoena power of the Congress. No, no, no; he isn't.Dear Senator:
Who the hell does this president think he is to think he is above the law? What divine right of kings does he invoke to ignore and defy Congressional subpoenas? He thinks he is offering a "compromise" by "allowing" access to Karl Rove and his staff. It's not his to offer! If Congress subpoenas Rove then he is to show up and that's that. If he ignores the subpoena then Congress should call out the National Guard or the Marines or whoever to grab Rove out of his house and march him to Chambers, in handcuffs if need be, and apply the law like it would be applied to any of us.
Bush is setting the ridiculously dangerous precedent here of unilaterally declaring the president to be Above the Law. Since when? Since when are we no longer a Republic, a nation of Law, with equal branches of government and an Executive that is NOT above the Constitution. This is not to be borne! He has gone too far. He has crossed the line.
When Bush took the oath of office - only after the unprecedented and questionably legal ploy of a decision by a Supreme Court full of cronies appointed by his father to forbid an accurate counting of votes, it is worth remembering - he swore to uphold the Constitution. Yet no-one in the history of this great nation had done more to weaken and abuse it. If breaking his oath is not grounds for Impeachment, then what is? Has the Oath become meaningless, or shall we, as a People, hold our leaders to it?
This is a battle Bush must lose and Congress must win, or the fabric of America is torn forever, and we will have become a dictatorship in fact, with no way for the Legislative and Judicial branches to exercise any real control over an Executive gone beserk with power.
Join us at the ARGville forum for further discussion on this topic: Constitutional crisis
Labels: congress, constitutional crisis, George Bush
Idiot of the Day: Free Republic
By VictorM: The regular members of Free Republic are a good sample of people that reflect right-winger mentality. Take a gander at some of their reactions to the news that Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, has been diagnosed with non-curable cancer:C'mon, Dan, let us have a little shadenfreude. Just because a man's wife has breast cancer is no reason to suddenly get all compassionate and understanding is it?I think if we looked hard I'm sure we'd find a heart in the bunch. Very hard.
I will hold a good thought for his family but if that scumbag uses this down the line to bash conservatives it wouldn't surprise me.
He could be using this as a cynical ploy to get a sympathy vote later. He is a sleazy trial lawyer after all. I don't put anything past them.
I took the above quotes from Pairodimes. Please visit that site for more quotes and commentary.
Labels: cancer, elizabeth edwards, free republic, john edwards, right-wing
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Romario and George Bush: Masters of Manipulation
By VictorM: A Brazilian legendary player whose skills inside the penalty area were second to none, Romario is one of the all-time great strikers in the game of football (soccer). When the 1994 FIFA World Cup was played in the United States, Romario was the tournament’s MVP (Golden Ball winner).OK, what does this have to do with politics, and more specifically with George Bush? I’m getting there, itchy pants.
Romario is now 41 years old, still playing soccer and in search of being one of the few players in history to score 1,000 goals in his career. As I write this he stands at 998. So he says. The problem is, research of his illustrious but troubled career reveals that he’s at least 100 goals shy of that mark. He is counting youth games and unofficial exhibition games, which is not kosher.
Just like the president’s many false assertions that have made it into the media and are now repeated as if they are fact, Romario offers another example of that feat. Although some articles about Romario’s chase for 1,000 goals will mention how dubious the number is, the world sporting press continues to cover his quest and the preparations for the celebration of his 1,000th goal. And so, while many of us know that the 1,000th goal will be a lie, it will be a matter of fact to most.
Romario, just like Bush, is showning us how easy it is to pull the wool over the masses' eyes just by simply repeating a lie over and over.
Although Romario has had a string of trouble outside the soccer pitch (a playboy lifestyle, fights, paternity suits, ex-wives galore, badmouthing former greats, etc.) and is to many a petulant little jerk, there are two big differences between him and Bush: one, no one has ever died because of Romario's lies; two, Romario was good at what he did.
Labels: George Bush
Nailing Purgegate Smack on the Head
By Kevin Drum, talking about the Bush administration:They've now had nearly two months to come up with a simple, clear, understandable explanation for why they chose those eight to fire but not the others. So what is it? And why has it taken such an interminable amount of internal chaos to come up with something?
People aren't stupid. If there were a simple, innocent explanation we would have heard it in January. The fact that the president of the United States held a press conference eight weeks after this issue first hit the media and still didn't have a plausible story to tell suggests pretty strongly that there is no plausible story to tell.
Labels: bush administration, kevin drum, purgegate, us attorneys
Idiot of the Day: Emperor Misha I
By VictorM: This feature is called Idiot of the Day, but for today it should be called Fucking Filthy Idiot of the Day. This worthless pile of junk of a right-winger, after quoting some disturbing way that terrorists killed a couple children, has this to say:Those are the animals that Michael Moore calls “Minutemen”, those are the beasts that liberals want to have free reign in the streets of Baghdad, those are the subhuman slime that the likes of Jack Murthafucker, John Silky Pony Edwards, Barack Hussein (oh the sweet irony of that middle name) Obama and the Hildebeest want to leave in control of Iraq as soon as they can get our troops pulled out... Think about all of that, and think of the two innocent kids deliberately blown up by the liberals’ friends the next time you run into one of the yellow-bellied, disgraceful, backstabbing, terrorist-loving bastards.This guy hates his fellow Americans more than he hates the terrorists. What a sad, pathetic person.
Labels: Barack Obama, idiot of the day, Michael Moore
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
George W. Bush: President Petulant Pissypants
By TBogg, commenting on president Bush and his performance during the most recent press conference:One thing that is fascinating about George Bush is how little he has grown in office. No, that's not right. It's not that he hasn't grown, he has gotten smaller; less Presidential, more sad little man watching his paper boat circle the drain. After six years of playing The Decider he should at least have a thin candy shell of gravitas as opposed to coming across like one of those guys on Peoples Court who not only has an unshakable belief that people won't see through his bullshit, but that no one will notice his artful comb-over either.
As bad a president as George W. Bush has been... he is a worse person and it shows whenever he is under pressure; he melts down into a greasy little puddle of glares and smirks and incipient panic. But tonight was special. Tonights performance lays to rest any notion other than the fact that he's not a very bright man who has nothing but contempt for a world that refuses to dumb down for him.
Labels: George Bush, worst president ever
Purgegate: distrust of e-mail communications
By BobcatJH, concluding a post that contains research justifying the statement that the Bush administration top brass do not use e-mail:If you couple the president's obvious distrust of e-mail communications with the fact that both he and other top officials don't use e-mail, a picture begins to emerge. When you add to these facts the notion that other administration officials are conducting official business using unofficial e-mail addresses, the picture becomes clearer. Given this administration's history of avoidance of openness and distrust of democracy, this matter is definitely worthy of further discussion and research. One doesn't doubt that, the more stones we overturn, the more we'll find. And something else lost in this is that these are our employees. They work for us. They may not think so, but the inconvenient truth is that they do. And when they're conducting our business, their communications should be subject to our oversight. Anything short of that, anything that attempts to either cloud or circumvent the transparency that lies at the heart of our democracy is, quite simply, un-American. Do you have something to hide, Mr. President? Does your administration? America deserves an answer.
Labels: bush administration, e-mail, purgegate, white house
Potterville: Teenage Wasteland
By VictorM: jurassicpork at Potterville has come up with another doozy. As he points out: Including Coalition forces, as of March 19, 2007, the fourth anniversary of the Iraq War, 225 teenagers have been killed in Iraq since 3/19/03 in the time it takes to get a full college education. 214 were American.Whether you know the words to the song Teenage Wasteland by The Who or not, you really need to do yourself a favor and go visit this teenage wasteland.
Labels: Iraq war, teenage wasteland
Ah, the rumor I heard
By VictorM: I heard a rumor that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has confessed to being the author of the "1984" anti-Hillary Clinton video that's been spreading like Bush lies across the YouTube community.
Idiot of the Day: Jonn Lilyea
By VictorM: Remember when someone said this about the terrorists: "They hate our freedoms -- our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other."?This right-wing idiot not only seems to not buy into that sentiment, he's a willful parrot for Dick Cheney who wants us to keep silent about all the evil they've done:
What makes this “surge” an open ended escalation is the refusal of the media and the Left to shut up and stop encouraging the jihadists. I’m not saying you should shut up for all eternity... Just shut up long enough to make the jihadists at least think there’s no way out, no way he can win the war. Unless, of course you want to “waste” more American lives.The jihadists don't think they're winning because of the left's words; they are winning, and they know it, because you can't win an occupation -- specially one so poorly planned -- and because of stupid idiots like this guy who won't join us in exercising our freedoms to point out what a bad idea this war is and how badly it has been prosecuted.
It is because we don't want to waste lives that we will not shut-up; the right-wing silence is what's helping to waste them!
Labels: dick cheney, George Bush, idiot of the day, Iraq war, wasted lives
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Purgegate: Now In Full-Blown Cover-up Mode
By pointsoflight, commenting on president Bush's press conference and White House unwillingness to testify under oath:Exerting executive privilege and not allowing testimony under oath only shows that they're hiding things. If it's just a personnel issue that's getting blown out of proportion, wouldn't you just come clean. Even the average Joe understands that this smells rotten...that they're now engaged in a full-blown cover up.
Labels: cover-up, George Bush, press conference, purgegate
George Bush: Monumental Track Record of Being Wrong
By VictorM: When people ask me what our course of action in Iraq should be, I'm reluctant to give an answer because as I see it, there are no good solutions. No matter what we do there, disaster looms. I know for sure that staying is wrong but pulling out, the most sensible solution, seems fraught with problems too. But, George Bush said something that made me realize that pulling out may in fact turn out not so bad:It can be tempting to look at the challenges in Iraq and conclude our best option is to pack up and go home... That may be satisfying in the short run, but I believe the consequences for American security would be devastating.Well, if Mr. Bush thinks