IT'S
A RETARDED PLANET...
November
30, 2006

Man
accused of spray-painting three goats
"Obviously it's
not an occurrence you see every day, I think it was
a situation where this harassment got out of hand."
Pigs
attack, eat up child
"As owner of the herd of pigs, he has been
booked under Section 289 of the IPC for negligence, and
under Section 304(A) for causing
death due to negligence."
Police:
Dayton baby might have been microwaved
"There is not a lot of scientific research and data on
the effect of microwaves on human beings."
Deputies:
Man on crack when alligator attacked
"We
don't know whether he'll make it or not."
No
need to read any of these stories - the headlines really
say it all. (Link to this)
FRIED
WIRE FEEDBACK
November
28, 2006
Crappy
Day at Work, Now the Marine Corps Wants to Kick My
Ass...
Thanks
to all you loyal readers out there - especially Mr McConnell
with whom I've just been shooting the breeze by email:
From:
Jerry McConnell <lethrneck@comcast.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 6:52 PM
To: <friedwire.org@hotmail.com>
Subject: Fried Wire
Big
brave man afraid to give his name??? Well, maybe not
brave, but BIG MOUTH for sure.
From:
Jerry Brown <friedwire.org@hotmail.com>
To: Jerry McConnell <lethrneck@comcast.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 12:12 PM
Subject: RE: Fried Wire
I'm
guessing you're a marine and, as such, could almost
certainly whoop my scrawny ass with an idle swish of
your left arm. That being said, I'd be in no big hurry
to give you my name, rank and serial number. If that
makes me not brave, then so be it.
The
truth is I know people who are serving and/or have
served including family members. I would never belittle
these people, their bravery or their sense of duty.
I also respect anyone who wants to kick ass for a living
if that's their prime motivation. But I ain't cut out
for the army and I don't pretend otherwise. (If the
army ever get short of 170lb asthmatics with authority
issues, then let's talk.)
It
is possible, sir, to disagree strongly with how our
government chooses to deploy troops without denigrating
the troops themselves (I'm assuming you're wrongly
assuming I'm a 'troop hater'). I believe this government
is wasting people's lives on an ill-conceived and fatally
flawed military operation in Iraq. Right now, it seems,
that coalition troops are getting killed every day
while politicians stall for time and try to figure
out what to do. To me, you can't just slap a "Support
Our Troops" ribbon on your car and pretend that's
OK.
Isn't
it possible to disagree without reaching for a can
of whoop-ass?
From:
Jerry McConnell <lethrneck@comcast.net>
To: Jerry Brown <friedwire.org@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Fried Wire
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:32:07 -0500
You "dissenters" all
ask the same thing - Isn't if possible to disagree
without...etc, etc.
My
answer to that is NO! it is not possible while there
is a war being waged. Every loud mouth dissenter just
gives more aid and comfort to our enemies and encourages
them to just keep hanging in there as like in Vietnam,
we will finally just go away - in disgrace and defeat.
Just
ask any of the returning troops what they think of
dissenters. If you CAN'T do it, then just shut up and
don't interfere with those who not only can but ARE
doing it.
Don't
bother answering as I don't take kindly to cowards
and morale breakers. I will delete any further messages
before reading your pitiful alibis.
Thanks
again for stopping by, Jerry! (Link
to this)
THE
IRAQ DUCK TEST
November
28, 2006
"Suppose
you see a bird walking around in a farm yard. This
bird has no label that says 'duck'. But the bird certainly
looks like a duck. Also, he goes to the pond and you
notice that he swims like a duck. Then he opens his
beak and quacks like a duck. Well, by this time you
have probably reached the conclusion that the bird
is a duck, whether he's wearing a label or not."
Richard Patterson, United States Ambassador to Guatemala, 1950
When Presidential sock puppet Tony Snow was asked by journos whether
the Iraq situation had descended into civil war yesterday, his response
was an obfuscatory
tour de force and a classic example of failing the duck test:
"Civil
war? No, but you have not yet had a situation also where
you have two clearly defined and opposing groups vying
not only for power, but for territory. What you do have
is sectarian violence that seems to be less aimed at
gaining full control over an area than expressing differences,
and also trying to destabilize a democracy -- which is
different than a civil war, where two sides are clashing
for territory and supremacy."
At
the same time, as Airforce One sped to Latvia for a two-day
NATO summit, National Security Adviser Stephen
Hadley told reporters that the Iraq war was "clearly
in a new phase characterized by an increase in sectarian
violence." Come on Bushbots, just say 'civil war.'
You may find the truth a relief. Or is it somehow more
important to spare Bush's blushes than admit the reality
of a situation that walks like a duck, quacks like a
duck and costs 3,000 Iraqi lives a month? (Link
to this)
EQUAL
OPPORTUNITY HATER
November
24, 2006
KKKramer
Also Accused of Anti-Jewish Tirade
Michael
Richards allegedly lashed
out at Jews during a performance earlier this year,
yelling at one audience member: "You're a fucking
Jew. Your people are the cause of Jesus dying."
If KKKramer thought he had trouble after offending what he called the
'Afro-American community' (what is this, 1968?), baiting Jews will put
him in the deepest, darkest circle of career hell. In America, where
unreconstructed bigotry and fake multiculturalism wrestle slipperily
like spastic strippers in a pool of Jell-o, one anti-semitic diatribe
is still the equivalent of several racist diatribes. In hate terms, it's
like US dollars versus Canadian. (Link
to this)
HAPPY
THANKSGIVING!
November
23, 2006

NAVIGATING
THE BESTIALITY MINEFIELD
November
22, 2006
Legal
Double Standards?
While sex
with dead dogs is illegal, sex with a dead deer?
Knock yourself out. The Duluth News Tribune reports
today that a Wisconsin man was arrested for "a
misdemeanor charge of sexual gratification with an
animal" after being
caught humping a dead deer last month.
His lawyer (what a proud career highlight for that guy) countered that "because
the deer was dead, it was not considered an animal and the charge should
be dismissed... Webster's dictionary defines an animal as 'any of a kingdom
of living beings'. If you include carcasses in that definition, you really
go down a slippery slope with absurd results." Way to go, Perry
Mason. (Link to this)
THE
ANGRY INCH
November
22, 2006
Penile
Enlargement Man Wreaks Mayhem
A
25-year old Pennsylvania man was arrested after mailing
a bomb to the doctor who performed his penile enlargement
surgery. What more can you say? (Link
to this)
THOSE
WACKY SAUDS
November
22, 2006
Overlooking
the Quaint Peccadilloes of Our Esteemed Allies...
Don't
you just love Saudi Arabia? What's not to love about
a sadistic shithole where teenage gang
rape victims get 90 lashes for the crime of socializing
with members of the opposite sex?
Many people assume American cuntservatives only love the Saudis for their
oil. But shame on them for their cynicism! Christian fundamentalists
all over Jeezuzland must admire them most for their rugged, Godly justice
system that soars to heights of cruelty vengeful Jeezuzlanders can only
dream about.
Don't believe me? Check out this cozy
online chat about the death penalty at the Wichita Eagle for example.
Oh if only we could whip teenage girls, stone homosexuals and cut the
hands off shoplifters too... (Link to this)
KRAMER'S
DARK SIDE
November
21, 2006
Rage-racist
and Premier-League Freemason?
Suddenly
Kramer went from 'hipster dufus' to Archie Bunker with
'roid rage as he disintegrated on-stage the other day.
Kramer a racist? Dear God, the world is weird.
But there are even more surprising things to learn. According to his maximum
security Wikipedia entry, Richards is...
"a
3° mason, and also holds 33° in the Scottish
Rite; he is very active in preservation of masonic
research, and in his personal life is an avid reader.
He is a member of the following lodges: Riviera Lodge
No. 780, Culver City–Foshay No. 467 lodge, Southern
California Research Lodge. He is also a Life Member
of the Los Angeles Scottish Rite Valley and a Life
Member of the Scottish Rite Research Society."
I
haven't been this confused since I found out Sammy
Davis Jr. was a Satanist. (Link
to this)
SOUNDS
MESSY...
November
21, 2006
Mark
Your Calendars: December 22 is 'Global Orgasm For Peace'
Day
(CBS/AP)
SAN FRANCISCO Two peace activists have planned a massive
anti-war demonstration for the first day of winter. But
they don’t want you marching in the streets. They’d
much rather you just stay home. The
Global Orgasm for Peace was conceived by Donna Sheehan,
76, and Paul Reffell, 55, whose immodest goal is for
everyone in the world to have an orgasm Dec. 22 while
focusing on world peace.
I hear that Rush Limbaugh is already planning "Whack Off For War
Day" on the 23rd to coincide with Bush's ongoing "Circle Jerk
For Slaughter" project in Iraq. (Link
to this)
UN
REJECTS JEDI KNIGHTS
November
21, 2006

British
Jedis recently petitioned the UN to recognize their religion
after 390,000 people listed 'Jedi' as their faith on
2001 UK Census forms. This made for a weird press conference
with a spokesperson for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
Question:
In England two Jedi Knights have appealed for recognition
of what they call Britain’s fourth largest religion
from the United Nations. I was wondering what the procedure
was whereby the UN or the General Assembly would decide
whether to recognize Jedi Knights as a religion.
Spokesman: As much of a geek that I may have been as a teenager where
I saw Star Wars way too many times, unfortunately we are not in a position
to recognize officially, the UN is not in the business of officially
recognizing religions.
Question: I’m interested, does the UN recognize any religions?
Spokesman: The UN is not in the business of certifying religions, with
or without light sabres. (Link to this)
GINGERBREAD
NAZIS A GOOSESTEP TOO FAR
November
21, 2006
Christmas
Window Display Nixed
Last
year, artist Keith McGuckin displayed an art piece featuring
a featuring a little boy using his new chemistry set
to manufacture crystal meth and a snowman beating up
carol singers.
But this year, artist Keith McGuckin was shut down by the folks in Oberlin,
Ohio, for creating a Nazi
Gingerbread man tableau. "He's gone way overboard this time.
A few of his other displays were on the edge, but never that crazy." Said
the owner of the hardware store that previously showcased McGuckin's
work. (Link to this)
GOP
FUNDRAISER GETS 18 YEARS
November
20, 2006
Tom
'Noe Money' Headed for Prison

Shake
your money maker... King Skim now keeping less high-profile
criminal company.
Tom
Noe was convicted of theft, corrupt activity, money
laundering, forgery and tampering with records last
week and sentenced to an 18-year stretch in the big
house. In a separate case, Noe has already been sentenced
to two years for illegally funneling $45,000 to Our
Dear Leader's re-election campaign. What a shocker...
(Link to this)
FIRST
DEMOCRAT LOON BREAKS COVER
November
20, 2006
Charles
Rangel Pushes Draft
Incoming
House Ways and Means Committee chairman Charles Rangel
(D-NY), is proposing
the reinstitution of the draft as a way of deterring
future presidents from starting ill-advised wars. How
the hell does that work? Because, according to Rangel's
theory, they'd be less cavalier in their war-mongering
if every 18-42-year old in every constituency (including
their own) were liable for service.
Here's a better idea, Chuck: Blow it out your ass. (Link
to this)
ANN
COULTER'S THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO "HUH?"
November
19, 2006
Bile-spewing
Columnist Mangles Genders and Semantics
In
his op-ed
on Yahoo, Coulter expressed a predictably prick-like
'so what?' about Nancy Pelosi becoming the first woman
speaker of the House. "I thought we had moved beyond
such multicultural milestones." He wrote.
Multicultural? According to the US
Department of State, multiculturalism is defined as "the creative
interchange of numerous ethnic and racial subcultures."
Never really thought of women as belonging to a different 'racial subculture'
before. Though I'd guess if they were like Mr Coulter, an ethnic Ding-a-Ling
from the break-away Republic of Dementia, they most certainly would.
(Link to this)
WITCH
DOCTORS AGAINST BUSH
November
17, 2006
Voodoo
Practitioner Jinxes Bush
During
his jaunt through Indonesia, Our Dear Leader found himself at
the business end of a voodoo curse. After slitting
a goat's throat and stabbing a black crow, Ki Gendeng
Pamungkas drank their blood and pronounced "the
devil is with me today." He then added, reasonably, "I
don't hate Americans, but I don't like Bush."
It's unclear as yet whether Bush has been reduced to an inhuman, zombie-like
state of torpor yet or, more to the point, whether anyone would be able
to tell the difference. (Link to this)

NEW
GOVERNMENT, SAME OLD MEDIA WHORES
November
17, 2006
Murtha
Rejection Spurs Glee, Boehner Confirmation? So What...?
Thanks
to the GOP midterm drubbing, Washington is looking less
like an ethics-free slip n' slide to fascism and more
like a semi-functional democracy again. Unfortunately,
this reality is not reflected by our pathetic MSM who
persist in covering events within the Beltway with the
depth and gravitas of a WWF ringside commentary.
The news media relishes the spectacle of John Murtha, Pelosi's protegé, getting
rejected in favor of the less ethically-tainted Steny Hoyer. "Pelosi
Loses First Big Fight" they trumpet (Could I get a Nelson-from-the-Simpsons
'ha-haa?').
But what about the Republicans
confirming professional ethics
violator John Boehner as minority leader? Nope. They'd rather sneer
at Pelosi and dribble on about Murtha's 26-year old sting video than
point fingers at the major-league criminals sitting across the aisle.
One tainted candidate rejected, one shit-filthy candidate elected. Who
really lost that match? (Link to this)

HANG
ONTO YOUR HATS - IT'S PLAYSTATIONGATE!
November
17, 2006
Did
Dem prez-to-be John Edwards, outspoken critic of Wal-Mart's
Dickensian management practices, really try to cut
in line to get a PS3? Is this the best dirt the cuntservatives
can dig up on him?
According
to a Wal-Mart
press release:
"Yesterday,
a staff person for former Sen. Edwards contacted a
Wal-Mart electronics manager in Raleigh, North Carolina
to obtain a Sony PlayStation3 on behalf of the Senator's
family... while the rest of America's working families
are
waiting patiently in line, Senator Edwards wants to cut to the front."
Damn
that two-faced lowlife! Do we really want that kind of
guy running for President in 2008? But wait... here's
a riposte from Wake
Up WalMart:
"Wal-Mart
sent out a press release wrongly accusing former Senator
John Edwards of instructing a staffer to try and buy
a Sony Playstation 3 at Wal-Mart on his behalf... Wal-Mart
is now even willing to make stuff up in order to try
and salvage its declining public image."
So
even this mini non-scandal is a cheap fake that falls
apart quickly like everything else sold by the beast
of Bentonville. But that hasn't stopped more
than 1,000 news sites from running with it today.
Jeez, we can forgive a presidential candidate nepotism, cocaine abuse,
drunk driving, draft dodging and corporate malfeasance... but fictionally
cutting in line for a PlayStation? No way. (Link
to this)
DEMOCRATS
WIN, WORLD GOES GAY!
November
17, 2006
Pushing
the Gay Penguin Agenda Again
In
Shiloh, Illinois, parents are protesting an elementary
school stocking a story book about gay penguins in its
library called "And
Tango Makes Three." Yikes! They're trying to
turn us all gay with their insidious sodomite propaganda.
To
be fair, if you are cuntservative-dumb enough to think
of homosexuality as a conscious choice, there is a danger
you could be pushed over the edge by drawings of male
chinstrap penguins. All that hot bird-on-bird action
must make it very hard not to decide to be gay... "Crawww...
how 'bout it big boy? Once you go white-and-black, you
never go back!" (Link
to this)

BACK
(NOT) IN BLACK
November
16, 2006
Trent
Lott Welcomed Back to the Big Tent

One
hundred years of hatin': Dick Cheney, George Bush,
Trent Lott and... err... Anna Nicole Smith (?) celebrate
Strom Thurmond's centenary in 2002.
Four
years ago, he praised
Strom Thurmond, "one of the most strident
and sustained racists and proponents of institutionalized
segregation," and was obliged to step down. Now
he's back as Senate Minority Whip.
As a cheerleader for an alleged KKK alumni and interracial rapist,
it feels a little uncomfortable to have the words 'whip' and 'minority'
associated with Trent Lott, but that didn't stop him winning the ballot
in a close race with Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. Alexander may be
remembered as one
of 11 republican senators who blocked a bi-partisan resolution
to apologize for the federal government's historic failure to ban lynching.
Any conservatives out there still mystified why black people don't
vote for you? (Link to
this)

STILL
NOT THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX
November
16, 2006
Bush
Calls for "Last Big Push" in Iraq

US
troops and Iraqi civilians continue to die while Washington
sits around deciding what to do. Bush has now told
senior advisers that the US and its allies must make "a
last big push" to win the war in Iraq.
It's predictable that Bush would call for ramping up the carnage instead
of decelerating the death count. Like any revolutionary, Bush only
knows how to fight and has no ability or interest in managing peace.
He rails against 'cut and run,' and any suggestion of pulling out,
because it would "give comfort to our enemies." So exactly
what message does "one last push" send,
genius? (Link to this)

OOPS...
November
16, 2006
While
cruising the internets for Richard Simmons news (hey,
don't judge), I was amused by the Google result below:

I
guess someone corrected the Russell not Richard faux
pas later, but the Google cache remains as a monument
to those hip hop-illiterate copy checkers at the New
Zealand Herald. (Link
to this)

FAIRY
GODFATHER GETS FREE PASS
November
16, 2006
Bush
Keeps Rove Around to Avoid Embarrassment
Unlike
Rumsfeld, Mehlman and whoever's next on Bush's hit
list, Karl
Rove will not be getting his pink slip in the wake
of the GOP election failure. According to one of those
'inside sources,' Rove will see out the end of the
current misadministration despite his master's frustration
that he couldn't pull a miracle in the midterms. The
source said that Bush "wanted Rove around so he
does not write another tell-all memoir about what he
saw at the White House."
That's what you call a co-dependent relationship. Perhaps they should
seek help from the Solomon-like Doctor Phil. Or better yet Jerry Springer
where Karl would get the chance to hurl shoes at his former lover...
you go girl! (Related: Bush Punks Rove)
(Link to this)

FAIR
AND BALANCED
November
15, 2006
F(oxymoron)
News Trawls For Anti-Dem Stories
In
an internal memo to apparatchiks on November
11, the Fox Kremlin instructed staff to be "on
the lookout for any statements from Iraqi insurgents,
who must be thrilled at the prospect of a Dem-controlled
congress."
And, of course, the
American Daily were quick to toe the party line:
"According
to polls in the Mideast during this year’s
congressional election, terrorists supported a win
for the liberal Democrat party because Democrats
bitterly attacked President Bush for the global war
on terror, especially in Iraq."
It
would be easy to mistake our cuntservative media for
the propaganda arm of some alien power beamed into
our homes to sabotage rational debate with lies, misinformation
and paranoia. Has anyone come up with a bona fide quote
from any terrorist source celebrating the Democrat
victory? Haven't heard one yet. Sure, most of the planet
probably enjoyed the spectacle of Bush's beat down,
terrorists included, but anti-Bush doesn't mean pro-Democrat.
Want to know who the real enemies of America are? Want to know why
US troops are still in Iraq laying down their lives for no reason (not
even a bad one) any more? Want to know who the most dangerous terrorists
are? Start with Sean Hannity and follow the grease trail uphill. (Link
to this)

CLASS
ACTS
November
14, 2006
Why
Did Don Sherwood Lose Pennsylvania? Ask Grover Norquist...
Don
Sherwood's semi-strangled fuck bucket, 29-year-old Cynthia
Ore, pictured left.
Don
Sherwood lost his Pennsylvania seat in the midterms to
Chris Carney despite the best efforts of Our Dear Leader
trying to keep the violent, philandering lame duck afloat. "He
is the right man to represent the people of the 10th
congressional district from the state of Pennsylvania." Said
Bush at a Sherwood-Pennsylvania Victory Committee
Reception in October. And how like a veiled insult that
must have sounded to most Pennsylvanians...
How come he lost then? Over
to you, Grover Norquist: "Sherwood's seat would have been overwhelmingly
ours, if his mistress hadn't whined about being throttled," said
Norquist.
We should be gladder every day these lowlifes have been put in their
place. (Link to this)

SLAPHEAD
RISING
November
14, 2006
Rudy
Giuliani Set For 2008 Presidential Run
"We
have taken the necessary legal steps so an organization
can be put in place and money can be raised to explore
a possible presidential run in 2008."
- John Gross, Giuliani Campaign Treasurer
Although
America has not elected a slaphead to the White House
since 1953 (the bald heyday of Eisenhower), Rudy
Giuliani seems to think he's in with a shot in 2008.
Our Dear Leader has invoked the terror card at every conceivable opportunity
since 2001 and got more mileage out of 9-11 than a Toyota Camry. Maybe
now Giuliani will outdo Bush as the most cynical opportunist ever to
turn this particular tragedy into political gold. Rudy Giuliani should
be president because:
a)
9-11
b) err...
c) ...
d) ...err...
(Link
to this)

MUSTACHIOED
GANGBANGER OUT OF A JOB
November
13, 2006
John
Bolton Unlikely to be Confirmed
Bush's
UN ambassador and angry nutjob, John Bolton, always puts
me in mind of one of those little Bavarian holiday ornaments.
Although it's difficult to imagine the guy on the left
pressuring his frau to take part in a gang
bang at Plato's retreat, it is easy to imagine a
small wooden ornament making a more effective diplomat
than John Bolton.
Last year, during the Bush junta, it looked inevitable that he'd be sworn
in as UN rep. But now it looks almost certain that he'll be dumped.
Neil
Cavuto might whine "What they're doing to John Bolton isn't
right, isn't fair and isn't even decent," but screw that. What
Bush did to tarnish America's image still further by appointing a UN
ambassador who hates the UN was not fair and far from decent. Bolton
had it coming. Here are 10 reasons Bolton should not be confirmed courtesy
of Democracy
Arsenal:
- He
hates the UN
- He
doesn’t believe in paying U.S. dues to the UN
- He
won’t enjoy the support of U.S. diplomats around
the world
- He
and the Secretary of State are not on the same page
- His
statements on China are reckless
- The
damage will not be confined to the UN
- Denying
confirmation would signal the world that the foreign
policy opposition is alive and kicking
- He
will not change
- He
is a proven opponent of arms control
- He
will be ineffective in representing U.S. interests
Apart
from all that, he'd be great. (Link
to this)

FIRST
VALMART, TOMMORROW ZEE WORLD!
November
13, 2006
Questionable
(as in what the fuck?) merchandise on Sale at WalMart
How
inclusive of WalMart
to sell Nazi regalia. Some might query the world's
largest retailer's decision to stock t-shirts emblazoned
with the SS Totenkopf insignia, but they're probably
the kind of tightasses who'd begrudge a poor Nazi skinhead
who's spent all his money on meth getting a sweet deal
on some hate garb. Really, people, have a heart. (Link
to this) (Related: Accidental
Nazi Pep Rally)

PASS
THE GEORGE W BUSH© HEMORRHOID OINTMENT...
November
13, 2006
Derogatory
Name Trade Marks Anger the Round-Eyes

Clinton
and Lewinsky brand condoms: This picture probably looks
hilarious if you read Mandarin.
A
Chinese businessman has triggered outrage over his plan
to register the name of China's most famous basketball
player, Yao Ming, as a trademark
for a women's sanitary napkin. "This kind of
registration is obviously malicious... it's unbelievable
that someone could do such a thing." Said a Yao
Ming spokesman.
Puts one in mind of last year's story about the Guangzhou Haokian Bio-science
company registering the names 'Clinton' and 'Lewinsky' for it's new
line in condoms or the enterprising Chinese guy who applied to register
the name 'Bush'
for his adult diapers. (Link to this)

JOE
LIEBERMAN: AN ARMY OF ONE
November
13, 2006

Asked
on NBC's 'Meet the Press' if he would finally make an
honest woman of himself and get hitched to the RNC, Lieberman
stalled. "I'm
not ruling it out but I hope I don't get to that point," he
said.
As things shaped out in the midterms, Lieberman's risky decision to run
as an independent was an extremely smart power move for a self-serving
egomaniac. No-one expected a landslide either way in the Senate, but
whoever scraped by was going to have to be nice to Joe Lieberman. For
him, it ain't about representing the good people of Connecticut, it's
all about Joe as usual. (Link to this)

RUMSFELD
TO BE TRIED?
November
10, 2006
German
Court Seeking War Crimes Prosecution
In
2004, Germany sought prosecution of Rumsfeld as a war
criminal (you know you're big league when Germany goes
after you for war crimes), but the case was dropped after
the Germans announced "there was no indication that
U.S. authorities and courts would not deal with allegations." Say
whaat?
This time round, now Rumsfeld is no longer shielded by executive immunity
and the justification for dropping the earlier case has been proven very
wrong, there's
nothing stopping him being put on trial.
The plaintiffs in the case are 11 Iraqis and one Saudi national who endured "forced
nudity, sexual humiliation, religious humiliation, prolonged stress positions,
sleep deprivation and other controversial interrogation techniques" while
enjoying the hospitality of the US military at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.
As a sidebar, Mohammad al-Qahtani, the Saudi plaintiff known (somewhat
presumptously) as the '20th Hijacker,' may or may not have been guilty.
But he is now 'unprosecutable' anyway according to the Defense Department's
Criminal Investigation Task Force because he was tortured. Smooth work,
neocon assholes. (Link to this)

BUSH
PUNKS ROVE
November
10, 2006
File
Under: Thanks a Bunch, Fuckhead

"Hey
Karl... homos say what?"
Bush
punked Karl Rove in front of reporters at a press conference recently
saying "I was obviously working harder on this
campaign than he was."
God forbid I should side with the Fairy Godfather, but only a deeply
deluded narcissistic dumbass like Bush could blame him for losing the
midterms. Who invaded Iraq? Who acted like a prick over Katrina? Who
refused to fire Rumsfeld before the election and give his party a fighting
chance? Hopefully, Bush will spend the next two years being slapped around
by the Dems like the pathetic man brat he's shaped up to be. (Link
to this)

BETTER
DEAD THAN RED
November
10, 2006
Electors
Choose Dead Democrat Over Live Republican
A
Democrat who died in September won
the race for County commissioner in Pierre, South
Dakota. Marie Steichen, deceased, got 100 votes to beat
incumbent Republican Merlin Feistner by 36 votes. The
Jerauld County Auditor said that the voters were aware
that Steichen was dead.
Could this be the ultimate example of the Democrat 'do nothing and win'
strategy? Nope. That'd be incumbent John Ashcroft losing
the Missouri governor's race to a dead guy in 2000. Damn, the dead
Dems are good!
The DNC should consider digging up a stiff for the 2008 presidential
race (was John Kerry a dry run?) and win hands down. Dead candidates:
no embarrassing verbal gaffes, no sleaze and they could still beat any
front-running Republican in a televised debate. (Link
to this)

THE
WINGNUT PATENT TRUTH BENDER
November
10, 2006
They're
Talking Shit Again. Imagine That.
According
to the wingnuterati, the Dems didn't win, the Republicans
lost.
If that were true, I'd be the first to congratulate them on their magnificent
loss. Trouble is, it ain't. The Democrats won with an unorthodox, though
effective, sit-there-and-do-nothing strategy. Dems played played rock
to the Republican scissors and beat them in fine style. Admit it, wingnuts:
they played you and won.
On the subject of delusion, I just couldn't resist checking out Ann Coulter's
reaction to the election results. Predictably, he's come out with gloves-up,
lies flailing and in deep denial. His assertion, now parroted by every
deluded wingnut on the Web, is that the midterms were "a paltry" victory
for the Dems and that they merely reflected the 6-year itch. "Simply
put, the party controlling the White House nearly always loses House
seats in midterm elections — especially in the sixth year." Sputters
Coulter disingenuously.
So, for the sake of historical context, let's go back to WWII (is a two-generation
sample historical enough?) and trace the midterm pattern from there:
Truman
1st Term 1946:
Republicans +55
Democrats -54
Independents -1
Truman
2nd Term 1950:
Republicans +28
Democrats -28
Independents +1
Eisenhower
1st Term 1954:
Republicans -18
Democrats +19
Independents -1
Eisenhower
2nd Term 1958:
Republicans -48
Democrats +49
Independents +2
Kennedy
1st Term 1962:
Republicans +2
Democrats -4
Independents -2
Johnson
2nd Term 1966:
Republicans +47
Democrats -48
Independents +1
|
Nixon
1st Term 1970:
Republicans -12
Democrats +12
Independents 0
Ford
1st Term 1974:
Republicans -49
Democrats +48
Independents -1
Carter
1st Term 1978:
Republicans +15
Democrats -15
Independents 0
Reagan
1st Term 1982:
Republicans -26
Democrats +27
Independents -1
Reagan
2nd Term 1986:
Republicans +5
Democrats -5
Independents 0
Bush
I 1st Term 1990:
Republicans -8
Democrats +7
Independents +1
|
Clinton
1st Term 1994:
Republicans +54
Democrats -54
Independents 0
Clinton
2nd Term 1998:
Republicans -5
Democrats +5
Independents 0
Bush
1st Term 2002:
Republicans +8
Democrats -7
Independents -1
Bush
2nd Term 2006:
Republicans -32
Democrats +33
Independents -1
|
Sure
the 'historical trend' bears out for Truman, Eisenhower
and LBJ, but what about Coulter's 'greatest president
ever?' The mighty Gipper saw a five-point pick up in
his second term. This makes Bush and the current GOP
look kinda loser-ish - perhaps that's why he doesn't
mention it. And let's also not mention Clinton's five-point
pick up in 1998. Coulter is bending the truth (imagine
that) because his 'nearly always lose in the second term'
rule hasn't held true for twenty or forty years - depending
whether you count the first time the rule was busted
or the last time it applied as your reference point.
Even as an anti-cuntservative, I'll admit the GOP did a 'heckuva job'
in 1994 with a near-record 54-seat pick up. So why do cuntservatives
feel the need to indulge in intellectual dishonesty and deliberate obfuscation
in defense of their party of preference? The GOP suffered their greatest
beat down since the Eisenhower administration this week. This was not
a "paltry Democrat win" by any stretch of the imagination or
truth. (Link to this)

DUMB
ASS I
November
9, 2006
A
22-year old suffered a 'scorched colon' (Jeez) after failing
to launch a bottle rocket from his ass. A paramedic
was quoted as saying "Potentially it could have
been a fatal incident... the body naturally produces
methane gas, so combine that with the firework and the
exploding effect with methane's flammability - it certainly
could have been a lot worse than it really was." But
not much funnier.
DUMB
ASS II
A
high school principle in North Carolina was obliged to
apologize after a
speech by Joseph Goebbels was broadcast over the school
PA system during the warm-up for a soccer match.
CNN helpfully adds that "Forestview won the playoff
game, 1-0." Just in case you were wondering. (Link
to this)

QUOTE
OF THE WEEK
November
9, 2006
"I
thought we were going to do fine yesterday. Shows what
I know."

"OK,
Howard, let's try that again with a little more enthusiasm..."
It's
still freaking me out... the Democrats won something!
As I watched Howard Dean on TV last night, he was beaming
from ear to ear and looked to all the world like he'd
just done bong hits with Willie Nelson. The grimacing,
angry Dean has gone the same way as the bullet-proof
Dick Tator himself. And who'd begrudge Howie a toke after
the Democrats have captured the House, Senate, Governor's
race, Donald Rumsfeld's head and Bush's mojo all in one
day?
This week has seen huge strides toward sanity:
- Limbaugh
gives up on Bush
- Rumsfeld
'falls on his sword'
- John
Bolton looks set for ejectionThe
neocons disintegrate
- The
Christian Taliban implodes...
Is this a dream? (Link to this)

JESUS
CAMP CLOSES
November
9, 2006
Evangelical
Brainwashing Put on Hold
The
Evangelicals running the Bush Youth boot camp featured
in the 'Jesus Camp' movie, have closed down. "I
don't think we'll be doing it for a while" said
Becky Fischer, the Pentecostal pastor in charge. The
announcement follows accusations of brainwashing, vandalism
attacks and the embarrassment of having Ted Haggard (the
guy who really put the 'camp' in 'Jesus Camp?') feature
prominently in the movie. At one point, Haggard boasts
that evangelicals "essentially sway every election." Oh
glorious irony. (See: AMERICAN
TALIBAN) (Link to this)

LIMBAUGH
DUMPS NO-BUDDIES BUSH
November
8, 2006
Even
Limp Dick's Done With Durr Fuehrer

Rush
Limbaugh's proctologist pronounces his colon finally
clear of head-up-ass syndrome.
"I
no longer am going to have to carry the water for people
who I don't think deserve having their water carried.
Now I'm liberated from having to constantly come in here
every day and try to buck up a bunch of people who don't
deserve it, to try to carry the water and make excuses
for people who don't deserve it." So
said Limp Dick on his show today. Wonder if he'd
be saying the same if they'd won?
Sure, Limbaugh would rather drum major at an Iranian gay pride parade
than cheerlead for Pelosi, but it's gratifying to hear the satisfying
squelch of yet another kick to the presidential scrotum nonetheless.
(Link to this)

WHAT'S
NEXT FOR SENATOR WOODENTOP?
November
8, 2006
Santorum
Needs a Job. Cue New Nightmare...

A
great time to get cheap Santorum merchandise at ricksantorum.com
"Senator
Santorum is now available for a seat on the SCOTUS should
one become available." Says some dickweed
at Townhall.com. Jesus Christ on a bicycle! No!!!
"I begin my Santorum for SecDef campaign." Says another
at NRO. Santorum for Secretary of Defense? Just the thought is enough to
make you shoot yourself and your kids. (Link to
this)

BYE
BYE, NUTJOB, PART 2
November
8, 2006
Rumsfeld
Resigning
Things
are moving fast these days... According
to the Washington Post, Bush has already announced
he is "replacing Donald H. Rumsfeld as secretary
of defense, saying a 'fresh perspective' is needed at
the Pentagon to deal with the war in Iraq." Ain't
that the truth.
Now for Rice, Cheney, Rove, Chertoff, Gonzales... (Link
to this)

MOST
PATHETIC WINGNUT SMEARJOB OF THE 2006 MIDTERMS...
November
8, 2006
2006
will probably be remembered as the biggest political
smearfest ever. There were so many pathetic attempts
to stymie the Democrats in the run-up to the midterms
that it's difficult to pick a worst example. But Fried
Wire's money is on World Net Daily's pitiable attempt
to link
the DNC with the Communist party.
So what if the CPUSA is currently comprised only of one loon in Vermont,
a battalion of HSA agents and a photocopier? Let's dig up Hoover's panty-clad
corpse anyway and see if we can get traction with some commie slurs...
Sad, sad, sad. (Link to this)

FIRST
ORDER OF BUSINESS: BYE BYE NUTJOB
November
8, 2006
Democrats
(and Lieberman) Call For Rumsfeld's Resignation

Kung
fu your way outta this one, bitch...
With
Democrats, many surviving Republicans and the US military
all calling
for him to be evicted from the corridors of power like
a raccoon from a dumpster, how long can Bush's Uncle
Rummy ride out the inevitable? Impeachment and jail would
be on the cards in a sane world, but Rumsfeld's removal
in any way possible would at least show willingness to
sort out Bush's #1 disaster.
We've tried the old 'fuck what the foreigners think' policy for six years
with predictably sad results. Perhaps with a House (and likely Senate)
freed from its own self-defeating arrogance, America will now stop being
the world's pariah/laughing stock and become a grown-up country again.
Sure, Republicans don't care if the rest of the world hates us, but that's
because they're pricks. Most Americans with mental ages within double
digits care deeply. The best gift we could give ourselves and the world
right now is to dump Rumsfeld like an ebola-infected monkey turd and
move on quickly. (Link to this)

END
OF THE CUNTSERVATIVE REVOLUTION!!!
November
8, 2006
Dems
Take House, Senate Dead Heat
It's
a testament to the Machiavellian skills of the once unstoppable
Karl Rove that even now, you'd half expect him to pull
something out of the bag for his boy Bush.
But the House is safely Democrat by a stinging margin (the first time
since the start of the 'Conservative Revolution' in 1994) and the Senate
is a dead heat dependent on the outcome of recounts. It's the best news
a Bush hater could hope for: the autocrat is out of power and, at last,
we have some checks and balances reinstalled. Here are some other great
highlights:
Sometimes
you could be forgiven for thinking democracy actually
works. (Link to this)

HUSKY
CORPSE SPARKS CREMATORIUM GREASE FIRE
November
7, 2006
Fire
officials said a
600-hundred pound man was being cremated when his
body fluids proved too much for the oven. Fluids seeped
out onto the floor and ignited causing a fire at the
Garner Funeral Home in Salt Lake City.
According to ABC4.com, "The crematorium is back in business and
the funeral director said they'll notify the family to assure them their
loved one [wait for it...] wasn't harmed. (Link
to this)

BUSH'S
BUZZKILL
November
7, 2006
Iran
Calls for Saddam to Be Hung Too... That'll Take
the Edge Off

Did
someone say 'hung?' (Link to
this)

WELCOME
TO DIEBOLDOCRACY
November
7, 2006

The
FBI is looking into possible voter intimidation in
Virginia's hard-fought U.S. Senate contest between
Republican incumbent George Allen and Democrat Jim
Webb.In
San Ramon, California, a
voter calls police to file a battery report against
a poll worker. She had been asked to leave the polling
station for wearing an "Impeach Bush" t-shirt.
Campaign workers for Democratic congressional candidate Nick Lampson
- the guy who's fighting for Tom DeLay's old seat - complain
that voters are being turned away in a strongly Democrat-leaning
precinct of Fort Bend county because the 'machines aren't working.'
A
Kentucky poll worker was arrested Tuesday and charged with assault
and interfering with an election for allegedly choking a voter and
pushing them out the door, an official said.
An Ohio woman calls
The Washington Post in tears saying she could not keep her phone
line open to hospice workers caring for her terminally ill mother because
of nonstop political robo-calls.
Hour after hour and day after day for two weeks, Lorenz's
home has received the same NRCC recorded message attacking Charlie Brown,
the Democrat who is challenging Rep. John T. Doolittle (R) in a hard-fought
battle in northeastern California. "It is a recorder calling," Lorenz
said. "I can't call it back to get them to stop."
Cuntservative radio host Laura Ingraham asks
her listeners to call the Democrat's Voter protection hotline — they
are subsequently flooded with calls from crank callers.
According
to media reports from Nashville, senior citizens have received
mysterious calls telling them if they voted for Harold Ford Jr. in
the August primary, they don't need to vote for him again now. (Link
to this)

GRAND
OLD PEDERASTS REACH OUT FROM BEYOND THE CLOSET
November
7, 2006
Gay
Republicans Max Out the Self-hating Hypocrisy

Idaho
Senator Larry Craig carresses the shaft of his long,
antique weapon... easy, cowboy.
It's
scary voting day at last. Will Diebold finally let the
Democrats win? Or will we end up with the phoniest electoral
scam ever committed on American soil and see the GOP
saved by dead voters, Democrat disenfranchisement and
computer 'glitches?' It's sickening to contemplate. So
I won't.
For a different kind of sickening, how 'bout that brouhaha in Idaho?
(It's true: they're having their first ever brouhaha!) Seems that Senator
Larry Craig thinks the best way to cling on to power in the heartland
is to court the 'value voters' by endorsing Idaho's
proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages and civil
unions. But how impressed would the faithfull 'value voters' be to know
that Craig
has already been outed by the same gay blogger of justice who brought
us Mark Foley's Pervgate?
"In
October, Rogers reported that three separate and corroborating
male sources described having sex with Craig -- two
in the Pacific Northwest and one who said he and Craig
met in two different bathrooms of Washington, D.C.'s
Union Station train depot."
Foley-outer
Mike Rogers goes on to conclude "It shouldn't fall
to an out-of-state gay activist blogger [himself] to
call on Larry Craig to tell the truth to his state's
social conservative voters... it's time for leaders like
Larry Craig, Ted Haggard, RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman and
Rep. Mark Foley to be honest with the citizens about
who they are."
Ken
Mehlman too? Apparently, the RNC honcho has
had the gaydars a twitchin' for a few years already.
(Link to this)

UTAH'S
PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1
November
6, 2006
Hats
Off to the Mohicans at Salt Lake PD for
Tracking This Guy Down...

Tip
for would-be Public Enemy No. 1s: Avoid tattooing the
word 'fun' just below your mouth before heading for prison.
(Link to this)

DR.
DINO ARRESTED
November
6, 2006
'Cavemen
and Dinosaurs lived Together' Lunatic Headed for Prison

Kent
'Dr. Dino' Hovind: "Man and dinosaur lived together
peacefully around 2000 BC" (see photo evidence above)
according to Objective
Ministries.
Another
evangelical nutjob is headed for prison. How many more
are there left to round up? Kent Hovind, the 'theobiologist'
pinhead behind the anti-evolution theme park Dinosaur
Adventure Land "Where Dinosaurs and the Bible
Meet," was arrested Thursday on 58
federal charges, including evading $473,818 in taxes
and making threats against investigators.
Hovind, who calls himself 'Dr. Dino,' has been fighting the IRS for at
least 17 years. He claims he is employed by God, receives no income,
has no expenses and owns no property and so, therefore, taxes are against
his religious beliefs. In April, a court ordered the buildings at the
now defunct Dinosaur Adventure Land closed because Hovind failed to obtain
building permits during construction. Members of Hovind's Creation Science
Evangelism said that building permits also violated their 'deeply held'
religious beliefs.
If I were a kinder soul, I'd resist the temptation to laugh my ass off
at the expense of Hovind and all the other evangelical hypocrites whose
chickens are now coming home to roost. But, unfortunately, it would go
against my deeply held religious beliefs. (Link
to this)

THE
NATION FORMERLY KNOWN AS AMERICA...
November
5, 2006
...Now
The Republic of What The Fuck???
How
much weirder can this place get? Now Bushco™ are
promoting abstinence-only
programs for 29-year olds, banning
medical care for babies of illegal immigrants and
introducing an exit
visa requirement for all US citizens and residents wanting
to leave the country (can anyone say draft?). This is
literally insane.
And how about this for a cherry on top of the insanity pie? His Satanic
Majesty Falwell was asked
on CNN Friday if the news about Mark Foley would encourage his fuckwitted
flock to stay home on election day. Falwell's response:
"That's
not going to discourage any evangelicals I know from
voting. We lived through Bill Clinton, and this situation
with Foley is minuscule in comparison. So, I really
think it's making a mountain out of a molehill."
This
is not exaggeration, this is not stated for dramatic
effect: This country is now officially one 700-mile border
fence away from clinical insanity. So who do I have to
bribe to get one of those exit visas anyway? (Link
to this)

BAD
NEWS FOR THE SADDAM-ALIKE INDUSTRY
November
5, 2006
Former
Iraqi Tyrant Sentenced to Death

Already
somewhat limited in their career options after the capture
of Saddam, his unfortunate look-alikes must now be among
the few people on the planet to be upset that the former
tyrant has been sentenced to a good
old-fashioned rope party. For folks like Stephen
Moss, English
Saddam-alike, and Malibu's least wanted, Mel Gibson,
it looks like career diversification time. (Link
to this)
NEOCON
PROLAPSE: THE END OF AN ERROR
November
4, 2006
PNAC
Warmongers Regret Iraqi Invasion, Despair of Bush Administration

When
Perle, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and that smug asshole off
Fox began their foray into world domination in 2001,
it was hard to tell if their reckless disregard for conventional
political wisdom indicated evil genius or evil stupidity
at work. Perhaps it was comforting to hope the ideologues
pulling Bushco's strings were relying on something more
substantial than guesswork and egomania. But now, thanks
to hindsight and their
own mea culpas, the truth is out: they weren't.
"I
believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating
Iraq would be a cakewalk."
Kenneth Adelman, neocon activist and Defense Policy Board member, 2002
"I
just presumed that what I considered to be the most
competent national-security team since Truman was indeed
going to be competent. They turned out to be among
the most incompetent teams in the post-war era. Not
only did each of them, individually, have enormous
flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional."
Kenneth Adelman, former neocon activist and ex-Defense Policy Board member,
2006
"Huge
mistakes were made.""The
decisions did not get made that should have been...At
the end of the day, you have to hold the president
responsible.""I
think if I had been delphic, and had seen where we
are today, and people had said, 'Should we go into
Iraq?,' I think now I probably would have said, 'No,
let's consider other strategies."
Richard Perle, former Prince of Darkness
So,
at last, the neocon experiment is dead. Shame it only
takes a couple of hundred thousand deaths, two wars and
a third of a trillion dollars wasted to make a neocon
admit they were wrong. (Link
to this)

MORE
ON TED HAGGARD'S HOMOMETHGATE
November
4, 2006

...ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
If the midterms really are destined to be a referendum on Bush, let's
hope everyone remembers the
picture below when they head into the voting booth. Diebold are going
to have to call in George Lucas if they want to fake this election with
any degree of believability. (Link to this)


DUCT
TAPE: THE WHITE TRASH BABYSITTER
November
4, 2006
Guess
the State...
A
25-year old woman was arrested after leaving her 2 and
3 year old sons taped together with duct tape while she
went out to work. No prizes for guessing where - it starts
with an "F" and ends with an upper-case "Durr..." (Link
to this)
FOX
RAMPING UP PRE-ELECTION TERRORPHOBIA
November
3, 2006
Fox
News to Air Terror 'Documentary' 4 Times Over Pre-Midterms
Weekend
Could
someone remind the fatuous
fat shit who runs Fox News that the midterms are
being held in this country not in Iraq?
Just a thought. (story)
(Link to this)

HA
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...
November
3, 2006...
Ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

More methamphetamine
and anal sex, Pastor Ted?
Ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha...
(Remember: every time one of these dickheads is busted, an angel gets
some wings and the world gets a little saner.) (Link
to this)
CAUTION:
REPUBLICAN GENIUSES AT WORK
November
3, 2006
Bushco™ Post
'Idiot's Guide to Building a Nuclear Bomb' on the Internet

At
least they've disabled the "Operation Iraqi Freedom
Documents" link now...
The
federal government set up a public Web site back in March
to archive Iraqi documents captured during the war. Congressional
Republicans, hoping to "leverage the Internet" to
find evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein,
were the geniuses behind the idea.
But, according to the NYT, the site has "posted some documents that
weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s
secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents,
the experts say, constitute
a basic guide to building an atom bomb."
God bless those dumb fucks! What next? An anthrax yard sale at Fort Detrick?
Cruise missiles on Ebay? (Link to this)

GORILLAS
1, ORANGUTANS 0
November
3, 2006
Beneath
The Planet of The Neocons...

"The
balance of power between our 3 branches of government
continues to tilt toward the unitary executive. It’s
sad that most people don’t realize our democracy
is rapidly slipping away."
Matthew Hine.
"We
do not need to make it easier for Presidents to declare
martial law. The implications are enormous. Using the
military for law enforcement goes against one of the
founding tenets of our democracy."
Patrick Leahy
The
Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331-335) and the Posse Comitatus
Act (18 U.S.C.1385), have helped enforce strict prohibitions
on military involvement in domestic law in the United
States. Put simply, they helped to protect against the
establishment of a military dictatorship.
But now, thanks
to another stroke of Durr Fuehrer's almighty pen, these century-old
constitutional guarantees to freedom are no more. The President is now
legally enabled to station troops anywhere within the United States with
or without local or state consent, with or without justification. Feeling
that Democracy yet? (Link to this)

DIEBOLD
FAILS TO SUPRESS 'HACKING DEMOCRACY'
November
3, 2006
A
HBO documentary exposing Diebold voting machines and
electronic scanners as seriously flawed and begging to
be hacked went
ahead last night despite the best efforts of the
company to have the show pulled.
'Hacking Democracy' showed how one geek with an old school data card
reader bought on eBay was able to easily modify the 'proprietary software'
(that the company denied existed) on Diebold memory cards to favor one
candidate over another. The depressing conclusion to be drawn is that
the fix is in before the cards and readers even get to the polling stations.
Even though the printed returns required for verification may read zero
as a base number before vote totals are tabulated, the software was shown
to allow, for example, one candidate to start at +5 while the other starts
at -5 before real votes were added. One question: Why would Diebold secretly
program the ability to enter negative figures and phony base numbers
(i.e., anything but zero) into memory cards if they weren't helping somebody
cheat?
Here are some related Diebold highlights courtesy of The
Register:
Florida
ballot terminals favor Republicans (31
October 2006)
Diebold
voting machine hack exposed (1
August 2006)
Diebold
voting systems critically flawed (14
May 2006)
It's
official: Diebold election bugware can't
be trusted (30 November 2005)
California
sues Diebold over e-voting snafu (8
September 2004)
California
green lights e-voting (25
August 2004)
E-voting
security: getting it right (8
July 2004)
E-voting
promises US election tragicomedy (10
May 2004)
California
preps e-voting ban bill (6 May
2004)
California
decertifies Diebold bugware (3
May 2004)
(Link
to this)

FRIED
WIRE HERO OF THE WEEK
November
2, 2006
Seattle
School Bus Driver Fired for Flipping Off Bush
As
the president waved to the school children from his limousine, the
bus driver made an obscene gesture, said a spokeswoman
for the district. The 43-year-old driver, with the district
since 1999, was fired in September.
The bus driver filed a union grievance last month for wrongful termination
and has since declined to be identified or interviewed. "There's
only one individual who saw this and it happens to be the president of
the United States," said a union spokesman. "We're interested
in saving her employment." (Link
to this)

SCUM-A-PALOOZA
2006
November
2, 2006
Here's
a quick rundown of some of the campaign dirt so far:
Kirsten
Gillibrand (D) v. John Sweeney (R) (New
York)
|
| Dirt: |
Sweeney's
wife called 9-11 in December saying he was "knocking
her around the house." |
| Truth: |
The
call was made and a state trooper dispatched to the
house who witnessed John Sweeney with scratches on
his face. (story) |
Julia
Carson (D) v. Eric Dickerson (R) (Indiana)
|
| Dirt: |
According
to a campaign flyer approved by Carson, Dickerson
is a wife beater who bites his kids and has done
jail time. |
| Truth: |
Dickerson
was arrested on charges of battery and disorderly
conduct in 1991. The case was dropped when his daughter
declined to testify. (story) |
Rick
Renzi (R) v. Ellen Simon (D) (Arizona)
|
| Dirt: |
Renzi
accuses Simon of once serving as President of the
dreaded ACLU, the "radical organization that
defends hard-core criminals and the Man-Boy Love
Association, a group that preys on our children." |
| Truth: |
Simon
says: "I was involved with some board work,
mostly in organizational work...I've never heard
of man/boy association or whatever it is that they're
talking about until I saw the ad, I still don't know
what they're talking about." (story) |
Bill
Winter (D) v. Tom Tancredo (R) (Colorado)
|
| Dirt: |
A
radio spot by Winter was pulled by NRC Broadcasting
because it accused Tancredo of having "personal
and financial ties to a number of leaders and organizations
in the 'White Power' movement." |
| Truth: |
Although
the facts are not disputed, the ad was pulled by
NRC's CEO, Tim Brown, a major Republican donor who
has given more than $12,000 to various Republican
candidates including Rick Santorum and Tom Tancredo.
(story) |
Rick
O'Donnell (R) v. Ed Perlmutter (D) (Colorado)
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Colorado
state Republicans circulate a fake sex offender notifications
to District 7 homes to slur Perlmutter as being 'soft
on crime.' |
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"This
is an abominable situation. This is outrageous," said
former Adams County Sheriff Bill Shearer. "Our
police agencies and our sheriff's offices have enough
to do without getting calls from terrified neighbors
after receiving trash like this in the mail." (story) |
Ray
Meier (R) v. Michael Arcuri (D) (New
York)
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New
York state Republican goons re-hash the erroneous
story that Arcuri called a sex line from a hotel
room on the taxpayers' dime. |
| Truth: |
The
call was a misdial (the sex line is just a few numbers
removed from the Department of Criminal Justice Services,
which was dialed a minute later), and the phone was
used by Sean Byrne, executive director of the New
York Prosecutors Training Institute. The cost to
taxpayers? Just over one dollar. (story) |
More
to follow... (Link to this)

SCRATCH
A CUNTSERVATIVE, FIND A LOON
November
2, 2006

Q: "Guess
what book I'm waving around like a meaningless
stage prop?"
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Cuntservatives
Back Pro-Slavery, Pro-Gay Bashing Group
James
Dobson's 'Focus on the Family' group (the folks that outed
Sponge Bob and urged evangelicals not to fall for
all that global
warming baloney) are currently in bed with the National
Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality
(NARTH), a collection of nutjobs who think slavery
was OK and that gay kids should be bullied straight.
Africans "sold their own people to other countries and those brought
to Europe, South America, America and other countries, were in many ways
better off than they had been in Africa. But if one even begins to say
these things one is quickly shouted down as though one were a complete
madman." Says Gerald Schoenewolf, Ph.D., at NARTH.com (Got
to agree with the last sentence at least.)
Perhaps conservatives should consider switching to idiot-free when next
they fill their think tanks. That way, at least, the term 'conservative'
might regain some of its former credibility instead of just being the
popular synonym for 'lunatic' it is today. Give me a Goldwater any day
- hell, even a Reagan - over the current crop of demented sadsacks occupying
the right end of the dial. At least you could respect those magnificent,
horrible bastards. (Link to this)

HOPE
FOR THE BUSH-HATERS
November
2, 2006
Worst
President = GOP Vote Loser
If
proof of Bush's current albatross-like status were needed,
how about the fact that only one Republican campaign
ad has actually featured him while more than 90 Democrat
ads have invoked the great GOP vote loser? According
to Republican strategists, Bush is "at
least 50% of the problem" for their candidates
fighting to stay in power and stave off a Democrat landslide
at the polls.
With Durr Fuehrer's approval rating still flat-lining below 40%, the
Dems are locked in for victory. The GOP has effectively conceded the
Ohio, Colorado and Pennsylvania races and, according to DNC pollster
Mark Mellman, there are no historical precedents for a president being
this unpopular and not losing at least the 15 seats required for a Democrat
takeover. It's enough to make a Bush hater's day! (Link
to this)

DEMOCRATS
SET TO WIN DELAY LAND?
November
1, 2006
After
two decades of playing Hazzard County to Tom DeLay's
Boss Hog, the good folks of Texas' 22nd Congressional
District are
a hair away from going Dem. "The district is
in play, and with a week to go until Election Day, Democrats
are smelling victory." Say KWTX.com.
And, on the subject of The Hammer, how refreshing it is to see what's
on his new-look Web site: (Link to this)


VOTING
ANOMALIES
November
1, 2006
What
Have Lieberman and Coulter Got in Common? They're Both
Fake Bitches.
In
Connecticut, Lieberman is doing what he can to help the
GOP. So much so that recent polls show he
has the support of 73% of Republicans. If all goes
well for the two-faced prick, Connecticut's embattled
GOP pols will be safe after the midterms. "Lieberman's
coattails could carry the GOP incumbents to re-election
and undercut Democratic hopes of majority control of
the House." Says the Washington Post.
And in the Golden Shower state of Florida, home to more freaks per-capita
than anywhere else in the continental United States, Ann Coulter is busy
fighting off charges that she lied
about her address and voted illegally. Palm Beach County's elections
supervisor recently announced that he'd be referring the case to the
State Attorney but, unlike many other Floridians who have seen their
voting rights stripped for lesser (and often erroneous) pretexts, there
is no danger of Coulter being prevented from voting in the future. (Link
to this)

INSANE
GOP CANDIDATE DRAWS MORE IRE
November
1, 2006
'Blacks
Against Blackwell' Mobilize

Kenneth
Blackwell hangs with Roy Rogers at kenblackwell.com.
If that doesn't get the black voters flocking back, what
will?
Bush
puppet Kenneth Blackwell (R-Diebold), is so roundly unpopular
in his home state that a group called 'Blacks
Against Blackwell' has been formed to give the lie
to his bizarre claims of having 40% of the Ohio black
vote in his pocket.
After falling behind in the gubernatorial race by double digits, a desperate
Blackwell tried to link
his opponent with NAMBLA during a TV debate and spread gossip that
non-gay Ted Strickland was, in the words of Pat
Buchanan, a 'flamer.'
While no libel suits or commitments to the funny farm have so far come
Blackwell's way, it will, at least, be hilarious to see him lose the
election. (Link to this)

CHECK
OUT JOHN KERRY'S SHINY NEW BALLS
November
1, 2006
Beaker
Refuses to Back Down over Iraq Comment

There's
only so far the 'nice guy' crap will take you and it
seems he got there... (John Kerry dorks out with John
Fogerty in 2004)
"This
is the classic GOP playbook... I'm sick and tired of
these despicable Republican attacks that always seem
to come from those who never can be found to serve
in war, but love to attack those who did. I'm not going
to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece
standing behind a podium."
John
Kerry
Looks
like Beaker has finally dumped that old gentlemanly shtick.
Did he realize at last, after two years of impotent failure,
Marquis of Queensbury rules do not apply in an all-out,
kick 'em-where-it-hurts cage fight with the forces of
evil? Now, for the first time since the 1970s, he's standing
up and standing by what he says.
"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do
your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t,
you get stuck in Iraq." Said
Beaker during a campaign rally for gubernatorial loser-to-be Phil Angelides
in California. Logically, his reasoning is sound: How many Republican pols, for
instance, whiled away 'Nam in Ivy League dorms while the ghetto kids tussled
with Charlie? How many notable alumni do you think are currently stuck in Baghdad
dodging snipers and suicide bombers? And then, of course, there's the point that
he was mostly alluding to the dumbass neocons who orchestrated the war and who
are now 'stuck' in Iraq. Wow... a double entendre? No wonder the wingnuts are
confused.
Now Beaker's comments are being used against him by the wingnuts, DINOs
and their slathering MSM puppies. "The members of the United States
military are plenty smart and they are plenty brave and the senator from
Massachusetts owes them an apology," yelled Our Dear Leader, unibrow
furrowed by anger into a veritable semi-brow, as he talked down to a
tame crowd of Georgia rednecks yesterday. (As a sidebar, what business
does a Yale grad from Connecticut have using 'plenty' as an adverb?)
But Beaker was in no mood to have his skinny ass handed to him by the
White House. After referring to Tony Snow as a 'stuffed
suit White House mouthpiece,' he refused to apologize for his criticism
of "the president and of his broken policy."
It's just too depressing to contemplate the reality: Beaker says something
fucking obvious and it's enough to upset the whole delicate balance of
lies and obscuration and pisses off Dem, wingnut and MSM alike. Next
he'll be telling us people are getting killed out there or that the war
was not a great idea to begin with. How dare he insult our brave fighting
men and women like that...
Fried Wire applauds Beaker's shiny new balls and wishes him the best
of luck with them. And a big 'fuck you' goes out to the weasels and dumbfucks
who pretend not to see the plain sense in anything he said. (Link
to this)
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