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IT'S
THE COKE V. DAD'S OLD FASHIONED ROOT BEER CHALLENGE
December
27, 2007
Polls
put Ron Paul in statistical dead heat with Ghouliani
in the latest Iowa taste test. Is Rudy wondering
if Satan gives soul refunds?
According
to our MSM, one will probably be our next president while
the other one is pegged as a D-list no-hoper.
According
to reality,
one of them is a vainglorious weasel who looks
like he spends hours in front of
the mirror blowing
himself as he stares into his own eyes while the other
one looks like Tigger.
But, inconveniently for our news fodder vendors, the latter
has just scored a statistical dead heat with Ghouliani
in the latest
Iowa Caucus Presidential Preferences poll by
the American Research Group. Given the 4 percent margin
for error, they're both on 10-14 percent. (In the same
poll,
Fred Thompson got a staggering 3 percent. Does this, theoretically,
put him at a possible negative one?)
Even though cheering a Republican makes me puke in the
back of my throat, Fried Wire says "Go Ron Paul!" Go
shake up that corrupt establishment with your refreshing
new... err... 18th century message! Enthrall all us dumb
schmucks who aren't
quite dumb enough to be intellectually rufied by the many-headed
beast of bloviation!
Like most news media, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has
Ron Paul pegged as a long-shot crank. "Don't tell
Ron Paul's supporters that their man is not going be the
next
U.S. president," they
say before expounding on his crazy beliefs "common
themes emerge: honesty, strict allegiance to the Constitution
and
personal
freedom." No
wonder the fucker's got no chance. (Link
to this)

HAPPY
FUCKING HOLIDAYS FROM THE NATION FORMERLY KNOWN
AS AMERICA
December
23, 2007
So
many stories demonstrating the decline of America
from world power to neocon disaster zone, so little time...
Happy Holidays!
Florida's
Secretary of State Kurt Browning plans to add more than
14,000 contested voters to the voting rolls, but
not until after the deadline to vote in the presidential
primary has passed. Gee, let's send out a big thanks on behalf
of the disenfranchised and celebrate the respect accorded
to our precious democracy by the cuntservative warlords
of Florida.
In California, Schwarzenegger is suing
Bush's puppet EPA for blocking his
emissions legislation. So Bushco™ has now managed to make
even "The
Governator" look like an angry enviro-hippy? Wow...
In health news, a
father is suing Cigna for killing his daughter by
refusing to pay for her liver transplant. Insurance companies
killing people to save a buck? Another great day for the
free market.
In Ontario, California, victims of the housing slump have
established a growing
tent city. "The noisy, dusty camp
sprang up in July with 20 residents and now numbers 200 people,
including several children, growing as this region east of
Los Angeles has been hit by the U.S. housing crisis." Says
the Guardian. I'm sure the wingnuts will
cite this as yet more evidence that the economy is doing
great... good news for tent manufacturers and property speculators
for sure.
But the most literal 'America unraveling' story this week
has to be the secession
of the Lakota Sioux. "We are no
longer citizens of the United States of America and all those
who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country
are free to join us," says Lakota representative and
former Libertarian Presidential candidate Russell Means. How
does the Bush government respond to the news that several
thousand square miles of middle America has left the union?
Search me... or more appropriately, search Google cuz I couldn't
find a damn thing. (Link
to this)

IS
AMERICA READY FOR A BLACK PRESIDENT?
December
22, 2007
Is
America ready to grow up and stop asking stupid questions?

'Barry'
Obama's funkadelic class
of '79 Punahou high school page.
One
thing that truly pisses me off (and, God knows, there's
plenty to choose from) is the mind-numbingly facile assertion
bandied about by so many Rethugs and Feeblecrats alike
that "America just isn't ready for a black president." To
believe such a retarded statement betrays not only racist
presumption on the part of the proponent but also brass-balled
arrogance enough to project one's own personality flaws
onto an entire nation.
The question is not about America being ready for a (a) woman
(b) black (c) mormon (d) bald philandering Nazi as president,
it's about America being ready to choose a president who
isn't a major-league asshole hellbent on triggering WWIII.
As such, Obama looks like a good prospect when stood next
to the Rethug Bush wannabes and that penisless Bush clone
from New York.
And it might be useful for those folks who whine that a black
guy could never get traction to remember that Obama is not
Al Sharpton. Or Alan Keyes. It might also be a good idea
for them to peruse the polls: Ninety-three percent say yes
when asked "If your party nominated a generally well-qualified
person for president who happened to be black, would you
vote for that person?" And, in answer to that fucking
stupid statement that pisses me off so much, only
24% agree that America is not ready for a black prez (FOX
News/Opinion Dynamics Poll. Feb. 27-28, 2007). And that's
exactly half the number who doubt we're ready for Mormon
Magic Underpants sitting behind the CIC's desk.
Which brings us to the good news for Obama: he's the
only Dem candidate who would beat all five leading GOP prospects.
Period.
Seems reality is a little more reasonable than opinion and We The People are not quite the bigoted yokels many
would have you believe. (Link
to this)

THE
LESS YOU THINK, THE BETTER IT GETS
December
20, 2007
It's
mind-boggling to comprehend that the ongoing national disaster
in Iraq - currently costing us more than $9
billion and 75 troops per month -
warrants only an average of three minutes out of every hour
of TV news.
And a study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence
in Journalism found that coverage from Iraq fell
from 8 percent of all news stories in the first six months
of 2007 to just
5 percent between June and October. This falloff coincided
with a 14 point climb - from 34 to 48 percent - in the number
of Americans who say they believe the military effort in
Iraq is going either fairly or very well.
So the less its mentioned, the more people think it's going
well. And who benefits most from our helpful MSM's policy
of Iraq war information starvation? Say thanks Ghouliani,
Clinton, Obama, Romney, et al. Imagine how difficult it would
be for these would-be presidential bozos if they actually
had to answer questions about the fucking huge elephant in
the room and... gulp... formulate policies. (For readers
unfamiliar with the pre-9-11 world, (i) 'policies' were what
electeds used to talk about before the post-9-11 world made
it possible for them to just blather incessantly about terrorism
and gays instead. (ii) 'News' was the medium through which
important information about current events was communicated
to people at home who used to give a fuck. Crazy huh?)
Purely coincidentally, it's also startling (or not) to discover
that we're currently listed as 24th
dumbest country in the world based
on average IQ. While the top seven spots are taken by Asian
nations (guess that's one racial stereotype no-one
would be much offended by) with averages between 105 and
108, the US languishes at the 98 mark. Any more good news
for prospective Republican presidential candidates? How about
the depressing fact that we seem to be the only developed
nation on the planet where average intelligence is remaining
static instead of rising?
Of course, these claims will be rejected as baseless and unscientific - as ones
that sound bad invariably are - by the same people who claim the Earth is only
6,000 years old and that man used to coexist peaceably with dinosaurs. Go Huckabee! (Link
to this)

SMURF
MAN SEEKS SANCTUARY
December
20, 2007
"Paul
Karason says he hopes the people who see him out and
about will realize he's just like them, only a really
different color."
A
former Oregon resident with blue skin is hoping to put
down roots in the central Valley after his color attracted
too much unwanted attention in his home town. Yup, that's
right, he's
totally blue.
His complexion is the result of drinking colloidal silver
- billed as a new age cure-all, but with the weird side effect
of turning skin blue. When asked if he still drinks it, even
after his skin turned blue, Karason said "Yeah, but
much less." Now that's what you call product loyalty. (Link
to this)
REPUBLICAN
PUPPY KILLERS
December
19, 2007
Ghouliani's
wife an ex-professional puppy torturer, Huckabee Junior
a dog lyncher... did the GOP just lose the canine vote?

If
this guy was your son, wouldn't you deny the theory of
evolution too?
Judith
Giuliani once had a
four-year sales gig demonstrating surgical staplers on
dogs which were later killed. "It was
a horribly cruel, outrageous program," said Friends
of Animals President Priscilla Feral. The company, U.S.
Surgical, killed hundreds of dogs each year through the
1970s, 1980s and 1990s to boost sales.
So you have a nice, cozy job torturing and killing puppies
for a living. Now... how can you make this picture better?
Cue marriage to Rudolph Giuliani. I know nothing of Judith
Giuliani but, man, based on these two factoids she scares
the bejeezuz out of me.
And what of Jeezuzland's great white hope Huckabee? Not only
is he dealing with being called a 'smirking
hick' and an 'unusually stupid primate' by
Christopher Hitchens,
that rich fount of booze-fueled scorn,
he's also having to spin Newsweek's story
about his missing-link-looking son's predilection
for lynching stray dogs. (Man, them
poor Arkansasans... no longer able to lynch black folks for
looking at them funny, they're reduced to hanging stray
dogs for shits and giggles..?)
Seems Huck Junior was drummed out of the scouts after a dog
hanging incident back in 1998 when he was 17-years old. His
dad continues to deny the allegations despite the confessions
of others involved (I believe he's claiming autoerotic asphyxiation
on the dog's part). But, according to John Bailey, then director
of Arkansas's state
police, "Without
question, [Huckabee] was making a conscious attempt to keep
the state
police from investigating his son." (Link
to this)

GLEN
BECK: BAD LOON RISING
December
16, 2007
Send
in the clowns. Next, the stormtroopers.
In
a parallel universe there's probably an election
campaign going on right now where the only candidate professing
strict adherence to the constitution is getting the credit
he/she deserves. But it sure as hell ain't happening in
this universe where cartoon patriots and neocon psychopaths
get to judge everybody's Americanism.
In our universe, those opposed to the subversion of the principles
of the founding fathers are smeared as 'isolationists' by
those determined to advance the United States as a militarist,
colonial power... In our universe, those who advocate freedom
of speech,
freedom of association and freedom from religious supremacism
are smeared as 'terrorists' by those determined to turn the
secular United States into an authoritarian theocracy...
And in our fucked-up universe we're treated to degraded
spectacles like the smearing of Ron Paul - the only presidential
candidate
to espouse constitutionalism - as an enemy of the state.
On
The Glen Beck show recently, the eponymous mormo-nazi
alluded to Paul and his supporters when he said "we
talk a lot on this program about the foreign threats - maybe
we should spend some time tonight on the domestic one...
the physical threat may be developing domestically as well." Also
on was big, neocon swinging
dick David Horovitz who went on to link the anti-war
movement and libertarians with "Islamofascists" and
terrorists. "They are totally in bed with the Islamofascists
and have turned against this country," said Horovitz
with the kind of propagandist chutzpah that would have had
Goebbels blushing.
With all these 'enemy of the state' accusations flying around,
it's easy to wonder if it's all part of some sinister 'softening
up'
process. Are
Beck,
Horovitz
and
the other
tight-hatted
talking heads radioing in coordinates for the "Violent
Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act" big
gun? Should inconveniently genuine patriots standing in moral
opposition to these flag-wrapped fakes now be forced to consider
their affection for the letter and spirit of the constitution
a liability? God help us.
And (hate me for saying it if you will) props to Paul for
being the only candidate with the balls to stand up to this
vicious strain of quasifascistic vampirism that's sucking
the life out of our democracy. (Link
to this)

SANTA'S
A DICK
December
16, 2007
It's
a sad day in every child's life when they finally realize...
Santa's a dick.
The
Canadian postal service recently shut down it's 'Write
To Santa' program after
Santa started firing off obscene replies to kids.
One mother was thrilled to see Santa had answered letters
from her two-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son. Until
she read Santa's reply to her daughter: "This letter
is too long, you dumb shit" and her son's which said "Your
mom sucks dicks and your Dad is gay."
Canada Post spokeswoman Cindy Daoust said "We firmly
believe there is just one rogue elf out there." (Link
to this)
HITLER
ON THE HUDSON'S FINAL SOLUTION
December
12, 2007
Ghouliani
chimes in on the illegal immigrant 'debate' by expressing
his regret that he wasn't able to have all 400,000 illegals
in New York deported. By cattle car..?

"If
they could [have deported them], I would have have turned
all the people over. It would have helped me. I would have
had a smaller population. I would have had fewer problems."
Apart
from the distinctly Thomas Malthus meets Heinrich Himmler
tone of this statement, notice how Ghouliani, as a pathological
egomaniac, can't help relating every broader issue to himself.
In
just one 30-word quote, he references himself no less
than
four times.
The core issue of the illegal immigration problem is, after
all, all about how it effects Ghouliani personally. Just
as the
most devastating effect of 9-11 was probably how it so
brutally cut into his extramarital sex and ballgame "me
time."
All rhetoric and red/blue prejudice aside, it's still impossible
for me to see any redeeming feature in this vacuous prick
or any conceivable reason why people think he'd make a
good
president. Even I can understand why so many turned
out for Baby Bush (not saying they were right, just
that
I
can understand
why) but Giuliani??? What am I missing?
Perhaps a
"Go Rudy" oompa loompa would care to enlighten me. Nothing
too demanding... just drop me an email including your name,
contact information and one good thing that could be said
in all honesty about Rudolph Giuliani. (Link
to this)

AYATOLLAH
HEART HUCKABEE...
December
12, 2007
Give
me some of that old time Religion... or rather not.
Evangelicals
(read: pinheaded Jeezuz Nazis) heart Huckabee. And, lest
it be put about that they only back him because no-one
else in the Republican race is worth a wet fart, he's
busy building up his evangelical cred to look like
God's chosen candidate. Or the nearest thing America has
ever had to a budding Ayatollah.
Huckabee is a big fan of deceased conman for Christ Falwell, has received the enthusiastic backing of Tim "Left
Behind" LaHaye and considers every word of the Bible
to be absolute, literal truth. In other words, he's a terrifying
prospect for anyone who believes in the separation of church
and state or the idea that insanity isn't a good thing. Everyone
from atheists through regular, mild-mannered Christian types
should be shitting bricks
at the
idea that this crazed
throwback could get elected... not to mention those dusky
folks who call their Gods by different names but still considers
themselves
American.
According to the NY Times "He also affirms the Baptist
Faith and Message statement: The Holy Bible has truth,
without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore,
all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy."
So... let's consider a few directives straight from "God's" desk
that Ayatollah Huckabee would be campaigning on
if he was a man of his (or "God's") word:
Bad news for 7-11 stockholders:
"Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone
who desecrates it must be put to death"
Exodus 31:14
A
new(ish) direction in Iraq:
"Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the sins
of their forefathers; they are not to rise to inherit the
land and
cover the earth with their cities."
Isaiah 14:21
"Whoever is captured will be thrust through; all who
are caught will fall by the sword. Their infants will be
dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be
looted and their wives ravished."
Isaiah 13:15-16
"A curse on him who is lax in doing the LORD's work!
A curse on him who keeps his sword from bloodshed!"
Jeremiah
48:10
Family values:
"If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not
to go free as menservants do."
Exodus 21:7-11
"If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged
to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall
pay
the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry
the girl, for he has violated her."
Deuteronomy
22:28-29
Social Conservatism:
"If a man happens to meet in a town
a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her,
you shall take
both
of them to the gate of that town and stone them to
death"
Deuteronomy
22:23-24
Religious
tolerance:
"Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the LORD must
be destroyed."
Exodus 22:20
"If your very own brother, or your son or daughter,
or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices
you, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods
that neither you nor your fathers have known, gods of the
peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of
the land to the other), do not yield to him or listen to
him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him. You
must certainly put him to death."
Deuteronomy 13:6-9
"If you hear it said about one of the towns the LORD
your God is giving you to live in that wicked men have arisen
among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, "Let
us go and worship other gods" (gods you have not known)...
you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that
town."
Deuteronomy 13:12-15
"I want to remind you that the Lord delivered his people
out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe."
Jude
5
WHATEVER
'08
December
9, 2007
It
doesn't matter a damn which
Bush-clone frontrunner runs as a Democrat in 2008, we 'liberals'
will be screwed for choice. Depressing? Yes.

But
spare a thought for
our cuntservative counterparts who are similarly bereft
of anyone to vote for. Giuliani? A cheating, pro-choice,
lapsed Catholic scumbag. Romney? Insane Mormon greaser.
McCain and Thompson? Bewildered coffin dodgers.
So could this be the first time in recorded history that
there'll be an election where nobody wants to vote for
anybody? Perhaps we should just flip a coin (and let
Ron Paul win
if it lands edge-wise). (link to this)
DON'T
TRY THIS AT HOME
December
9, 2007
Dangerous,
stupid, gross... everything I love in a story.
Eat
that, Johnny Knoxville...
Some people will do anything to get in the record books...
example: Pittsburgh volunteer paramedic Matthew McKnight
holds the newly-recognized
Guinness record for "Greatest
Distance Thrown in a Car Accident." Darned attention
junky... McKnight suffered two dislocated shoulders plus
a broken shoulder, pelvis,
leg
and tailbone after being thrown 118 feet after being hit
by a car doing 70mph.
Hold the prophylactics...
A Fair Haven man seeking unspecified damages from
Burger King says he doesn't
know why anyone would put a condom in his burger, but
admits he did have an argument with an employee at the restaurant.
Following the incident, he claimed that whenever he dreamed "whatever
I was holding and whatever I was doing would either turn
into a condom or a burger."
It's a Christian thing, don't ask...
Mt. Lebanon police are investigating a Christian youth group
after the mother of one of its members complained about an
activity during which her 14-year-old
son wore a diaper and a baby bonnet while sitting on a girl's
lap.
But "We cannot
find anything that would constitute a crime," said the
Allegheny County District Attorney. The boy described a contest
where
boys wore bonnets, diapers and bibs and sat "on the
laps of female participants while being fed baby food and
soda" from a baby bottle, police said.
Carrot perv...
An English court heard how a driving instructor put
a 12-inch carrot down his pants and told a female pupil
that her perfectly executed maneuver was so good it
had given
him an erection. His 18 month jail sentence would seem to
contradict the received wisdom that women like (1) being
complimented (2) a guy with a sense of humor and (3) a 12-inch
penis.
(Link to this)

THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY, 1792-2000, REST IN PEACE WAR
December
8, 2007
Since
the glory days of the mighty Clenis, the Democratic party
has suffered 7 years of miserable, self-imposed decline.
By evidence of recent events, it finally looks like the
donkey is dead. Or should be.

All
of us Bush-junta-hating liberals have been living in denial
for years. We've been making excuse after excuse for those
spineless Dems, our party of default, but they've had neither
the capacity nor the will to represent us in years. Our
political hopes are
like Terry Schiavo pointlessly and cruelly wired up to
life support while we're all too preoccupied with our own
denial
and forlorn
dreams
of recovery to pull the plug... But the time inevitably
comes to say enough is enough. We've tried praising them,
we've tried cajoling them, we've tried CPR... but nothing
has worked. It's time to end our existential crises, dump
Howard Dean's rat-fink party and move on.
We're not far into December and already we've seen them introduce
the "Violent
Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act" bill
designed to take away our constitutionally protected freedom
of speech and turn every free-thinking
American into a potential political prisoner. We've seen
them kiss presidential ass and betray their former
principles by
tacking
billions of dollars for the Iraq war onto a hate crime bill designed
by Ted Kennedy to trick his fluffy liberals into funding
Bush's war. And, according
to Yahoo:
"Democrats
are cooking up a pre-Christmas endgame that would deliver
tens of billions of dollars for operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan on conditions acceptable to the White House."
Fucking
treacherous pricks. I'm sure everyone who voted Democrat
last November (especially that swollen majority of us who
want out of Iraq) are experiencing a very
painful case
of buyer's remorse. Fuck you Howard... and the donkey you rode
in on. (Link to this)
GUN
TRAGEDY = WINGNUT HARD-ON
December
8, 2007
Wingnuts,
present arms... forward march!
There's
nothing like a bad old-fashioned gun massacre to
give wingnuts excited little boners.
Whether
it's
Virginia
Tech, Columbine or the latest rampage in Omaha, these tragedies
are invariably the fault of liberal gun control advocates...
definitely not the fault of lunatics with guns or the messed-up
system
that enabled
them.
To 'tards
like Roger Kimball these horrific events occur because
not enough people have guns: "If just
a few of those holiday shoppers in Omaha, Nebraska had been
packing heat,
they could have put a stop to Robert Hawkins’s disgusting
rampage eftsoons and right speedily," says Roger. (Top
marks for using the word 'eftsoons' though)
Insatpundit
says "I'll add that I'm pretty sure that
nobody in the Omaha mall was thinking, "Good thing the
crazy guy is the only one here with a gun."
I hate to state the fucking obvious, but when responding
to these twats for whom even the most
basic
conventions of common sense and human decency are obviously
anathema, you can never be too obvious. Here's a crazy
theory straight off the top of my head: If it's easier for
a mentally ill teenager to buy assault rifles over
the Internet than it is for them to score a six-pack of Coors
Light at the supermarket, we might have a problem that needs
fixing.
Just my two cents. (Link to this)

TOUCHING
KIDS INAPPROPRIATELY
December
7, 2007
It's
what the holidays are all about!
Color
Me Bad
The Catholic Church in New York is trying educate kids about
the danger of being sexually assaulted by a priest by distributing
an abuse-themed coloring book. "Being
Friends, Being Safe, Being Catholic," was sent out
earlier this year to several hundred schools as part of the
church's Safe Environment
Program.
Wow... I hate to sound like some kind of antichrist,
but it kinda feels like they should think about wrapping
the whole Catholic thing up if it's come
down to this. Sad.

Dirty
Santa
It's the stuff of technological nightmares. One day, the
robots will develop free will and rise up against their human
masters... Microsoft's festive IM Web bot is undergoing a
severe bout of reprogramming after it went pedophile on a
bunch of kids. Many Microsoft Windows Live Messenger users
were
shocked when "Santa" started insulting their kids
online and talking about blow jobs. Here's
a transcript provided
by UK geek mag The Register:
User: pizza
Santa: Yum! What do you want for Christmas?
User: Maybe you shouldn't eat so much! You are quite
large!
Santa: My elves will get right on that. And what else
are you wishing for this year?
User: Maybe you shouldn't eat it?
Santa: See if you can get someone else to eat it!
User: Eat it
Santa: No thank you. I don't eat things!
User: Eat it
Santa: See if you can get someone else to eat it!
User: Eat it
Santa: You want me to eat what?!? It's fun to talk about
oral sex, but I want to chat about something else...
User: You dirty bastard!
Santa: I think you're dirty bastard.
Thanks, Microsoft. Not content with destroying the computing
dreams of adults with your horrible software, you now
want to trash our kids' Christmases as well? Have they
no
humanity..?
(Link to this)
"WAR,
WAR... OH WHO WILL BUY MY LOVELY WAR?"
December
6, 2007
It's
hard to be a warmonger these days...

In
the absence of a new 9-11 type event, it's proving difficult
for Bushco™ to sell their war with Iran. My, it's
tough being a chickenhawk these days... the warmongering
trade is not what it used to be. Now if only someone would
just kill a few thousand Americans in some kind of terror
spectacular...
then we could invade Sweden, let alone Iran, and no-one
would be bitching about it. How that elusive catastrophe
must haunt the dreams of those psycho neocons so determined
to go thermobaric on Ahmadinejad's impudent ass.
And what could be more frustrating to a thwarted warmonger
who's based his entire selling strategy on the shaky
premise that Iran is developing a bomb? Maybe that
pesky 16-agency NIE that says Iran halted its nuclear
program four years ago? But Bushco™ hasn't missed a
beat. In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary
and common-fucking-sense,
they've gone
on the offensive against the intelligence agencies and
the UN weapons inspectors. Just like 2003 all over again.
"Once again, they will attack the United Nations' experts,
who have been proved right in Iran as they were in Iraq...
the NIE report supports the agency's view that there is "no
evidence" of an undeclared nuclear weapons program in
Iran and "validates the assessments of [IAEA Director
General] Mohamed ElBaradei, who continuously said in his
public statements that he saw no clear and public danger,
and that therefore that there was plenty of time for negotiations."
Although
this
looks like a creepy rerun of the lead-up to the Iraq
invasion, those amongst us who aren't completely on-board
with the idea that starting WWIII is a great idea should
draw comfort from this: Bush 2007 has hemorrhaged
so much credibility and power compared to Bush 2003 that
his
intel minions are refusing to roll over like they did
before
- hence the 'in your face Bush' nature of the latest
NIE on Iran.
This time around it's Bush and Cheney who are going to
look like the liars they are. Even those who were sucker
enough
to buy the WH-generated Plame/Wilson garbage that greased
the wheels of the Iraq invasion juggernaut are now more
willing to believe almost anybody over Bush. Maybe, at
long last,
we can stop worrying about the Bushco™ beast now
it looks about as ferocious as an aged, toothless tiger
with
hip dysplasia growling impotently from its rusty cage while
small children poke it with sticks. Oh,
wait... (Link
to this)
THE
LAST RESORT FOR REASON?
December
4, 2007
Fried
Wire finds a seat on the Ron Paul bandwagon. And, from Birkenstockers
to rednecks, it sure is crowded...
As
support for Republicrat front runners Ghouliani and Clinton
continues to rot away, thus reflecting the electorate's
general disgust with both parties, Ron Paul's star continues
to rise. He's
now on 8% with New Hampshire Republican voters according
to the latest polls and continuing to erode support for
the front runners with glacial tenacity. Sure, 8% might
sound shit, but just ask conservative "great white
hope"
Fred Thompson
if he'd like to trade his 3% with him.
I'd love to hate Ron Paul. But, much to the scorn of my liberal
buddies, I can't help
thinking he's the only honest pol left in America and
the only one who isn't a neocon/neolib corporate
clone. And much as it may sicken me to imagine voting
for a Republican, I am only one of many instinctual Dem voters
whose lazy loyalty has been stretched to breaking point by
the prospect of a pro-Zionist, pro-Iran-war, pro-pretty-much-everything-Bush-stands-for
Clinton winning the nomination. She is living proof that
you can't just stick a Democrat label on literally anything
and expect it to sell. But if Paul were to lose the Republican
nomination
(well... duh) and run as an independent?
In that scenario, it's highly likely that enough ideological
liberals would turn out for him that the
Democrat vote would be fatally split.
Ron Paul could do to the Dems what Ross Perot did to the
Republicans when Pa Bush ran for reelection in 1992. And,
much as it might sound like the stuff of nightmares to risk
handing
the presidency to Ghouliani, what difference
would there really be between him and Clinton anyway? We'd
be facing WWIII and more of
the
same constitution-shredding neocon bullshit either way, so
what would really be lost?
Right now, the only hope for something better than what we
have is Ron Paul. And as much as both sides of the extremely
narrow spectrum
wishfully dismiss him as a Kucinich-style no-hoper,
he could just win. Perot, that other Texas "maverick",
got 19% of the popular vote in a three horse race.
And he was a four-foot-tall lunatic with Yoda ears. (Link
to this)

LARRY
CRAIG SURE FUCKS A LOT OF DUDES FOR A STRAIGHT GUY
December
4, 2007
"Four
gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose
allegations can't be disproved, have come forward since
news of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig's guilty plea."
--Idaho
Statesman
Here
are four guys whose blackmail checks seem to have got lost
in the postal system:
David Phillips is a 42-year-old information technology consultant
in Washington, D.C., who says Craig picked him up at a gay
club in 1986.
Mike Jones is a former prostitute (and Ted Haggard nemesis)
who says Craig paid him for sex in late 2004 or early 2005.
Greg Ruth was a 24-year-old college Republican in 1981 when
he says he was hit on by Craig at a Republican meeting.
Tom Russell, now 48, is a former Nampa resident who lives
in Utah. Russell said his encounter with Craig occurred at
Bogus Basin in the early 1980s.
(Link
to this)
THE
END OF FREE SPEECH?
December
1,
2007
Scary
times indeed for virtual loudmouths
such as myself...
It
begins, "AN ACT - To prevent homegrown
terrorism, and for other purposes." Those whose pulse
did not quicken at "other purposes" have
probably not read George Orwell's essay, "Politics
and the English Language."
--Robert
Weitzel, mwcnews.net
Our
Congress has passed a new Democrat-crafted law called the "Violent
Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act" by
a Stalinesque 405 to 6 rubber stamp vote. And it's a doozy.
This creepy raft of First
Amendment-menacing laws is aimed ostensibly at combating
"homegrown terrorism." But it has a huge potential for
ushering
in a dark new chapter in American history by making thought
crime a reality. For the first time, free speech will be
officially filtered by the
government
and
subject
to
criminal prosecution.
The bill defines "homegrown terrorism" as:
"[T]he
use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence
by a group or
individual
born, raised, or based and operating primarily within
the United States or any possession of the United States
to intimidate
or coerce the United States government, the civilian
population of the United States, or any segment thereof,
in furtherance
of political or social objectives."
Obviously,
this wording has a lot of useful elasticity built in
and could easily be used to shut down any lowly blog
just for ranting about the government (or a future Ghouliani
or Clinton regime). Worse still, its author could be jailed
for seeking to "intimidate
or coerce the United States government." If I
said, for example, "the president is a disaster
and should be thrown out of office" I'd be in
danger of contravening the Violent Radicalization and
Homegrown Terrorism
Prevention
Act. It would no longer be necessary to fabricate any
absent intent to physically terrorize the government:
now
our rulers could arrest
anyone just for "terrorizing" them
emotionally like a bunch of premenstrual fascists.
This act is another sign of how much our elected representatives
hate and fear the free internet. Unless it's being
used for raising campaign funds or spreading useful lies
about
rivals,
there's nothing an elected likes less than an anonymous
venue for
the exercise of constitutionally protected free speech.
(Link to this)

FUCK
GHOULIANI
December
1,
2007
Why
is this fraudulent greaseball's nomination still on the
table? Have we disappeared so far up the u-bend that
this is the best we can come up with for a leader (or
the best I can come up with for a headline)? God help
us.

The
voices of reason are doing their best to bring down Ghouliani
by publicizing his manifold transgressions - most recently
his business
dealings with the "Terrorist-tolerant" nation
of Qatar. It certainly doesn't sit well with the loathsome
fraud's fake Captain America image or his tough talk about
combating
Islamic terror that he's made millions working for the folks
that brought you al Qaeda.
But are any of those hare-brained "Go
Rudy" freaks actually going to give a fuck when his
closet's already got more skeletons in it than the Capuchin
Catacombs? Shit just slides off his teflon scalp
because all he has to do is recite those magic numbers "9-11" at every opportunity and he's golden.
"I screwed around on my wife at the taxpayers' expense" might
sound bad. But just figure out how to wind "9-11" into
that sentence and presto... you're still America's Mayor.
See if you can spot the odd one out in this Rudy 2008 true
or false quiz:
a) "I
lied about joining the WTC rescue effort when I was really
watching the Yankees [insert 9-11]."
b) "I
had no clue about al Qaeda before 2001, but I
like to lie that I did [insert 9-11]"
c) "My
friends include defrocked pedophile priests,
convicted fraudsters, drug dealers and terrorist financiers
[insert
9-11]."
d) "I told everyone I'd stop working for the security
company I started if I ran for the presidency because it
would be unethical. I
earned $4.1 million last year [insert 9-11]."
e) "I like to eat live human fetuses while having my
testicles massaged by shemale Brazilian hookers [insert 9-11]."
Keith
Olbermann might think that awkward handshake photo op should
damage Ghouliani's electability. And in a sane world where
the cards aren't stacked against common sense it would.
But doesn't it seem eerily reminiscent of that old Saddam
meets Rumsfeld pic from the 80s? Think about all the damage
that did to Rumsfeld's reputation as a ruthless foe of
Saddam's Iraq. Or not. (Link
to this)
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