WTF Is It Now?!?

Watched one of my favorites last night: "Singing in the Rain", which has one of the best feel-good scenes ever! And before that was Crossfire:

"We have a president who doesn't know what in the world he's doing in the world. When you Republicans try to defend the Bush foreign policy it's like the guys who said well, the food on the Titanic was really good." - Paul Begala

"I was struck by how the president of the United States was passing the buck. He's only the most powerful man in the whole wide world and he says, gee I'm just one guy, we are just one country, they've been killing each other for thousands of years -- he looks like he just discovered that, by the way -- you know, gee, Condi, it turns out the Arabs don't like the Jews!" - Congressman Robert Wexler

"We had more troops in Salt Lake City than we had in Afghanistan."

"Who has a more legitimate claim to the office they hold, Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, who won an election, or George W. Bush in America? George W. Bush didn't win anything more than a five to four vote on a Supreme Court that his daddy helped pick. I don't like Chavez, either. I think he's a thug and he's a clown. But he was freely and democratically elected."

"What about the comment that the Bush administration official had to the "New York Times." This was a stunning comment, when they said we don't think legitimacy is only conveyed by the majority vote of the voters. Isn't that an astonishing thing to say, particularly when your guy got fewer votes? Doesn't that just speak of contempt for democracy?"

"If we ever find a way to run cars on air, they're going to want to drill in Bush's head next." - Paul Begala



Today in History

1775 the American Revolutionary War began with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
1910 Halley's comet appears, last seen in 1759. Earth passed through the tail of the comet, but the world does not end as many had predicted.
1943 during World War II, tens of thousands of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto began a valiant but futile battle against Nazi forces.
1991 Luziente Silva gave birth in a Brazilian hospital to a baby with one large eye in the place where the nose should have been. 'Living cyclopia' as they are called, are quite rare in the medical literature. Back in 1973, the Bulgarian News Agency BTA reported the discovery of a 'cyclops' skeleton near the town of Razlog in southern Bulgaria. It was 5ft 8ins tall and had one eye socket in the coronal bone above the nasal cavity. The discovery was made in a burial ground near the
ruins of a building of unknown age.
1995 a truck bomb destroyed the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds. Timothy McVeigh, repuglican neonazi, was later convicted of federal murder charges and executed.


As the Squatter-in-Thief's Poll Numbers Continue to Drop, A Weary Populace Wonders When the Next WH 'Terrist' Attack Will Occur

Matthew Dowd, pollster for the Repuke National Catastophe, predicted the Boob of Kennebunkport's "approval rating should return to a new normal" - possibly in the 60s - by the end of July. If the trend does continue, Democrats are likely to grow more bold, trading their pink tutus in for maroon and maybe even challenging the Smirking Moron on policy.

In anticipation of a further drop in poll numbers, Der Ministry of Der Fatherla Homeland Security announced an alert warning color change to orange, but only to repuke officials.


Word of the Day: Spartan - Little Chimpy the Choker's oval room was spartan, containing nothing but a bunkbed and a pair of nursemaids named Karl and Karen.


KY Jelly, Depends Stocks Soar -

"It (is) very important for President Chavez to do what he said he was going to do, to address the reasons why there was so much turmoil on the streets," the Clueless Cowpat said after meeting Colombian President Andres Pastrana at the White House. "It's very important for him to embrace those institutions which are fundamental to democracy, including freedom of the press and freedom for the ability of the opposition to speak out," the Ignorant Impotentate told reporters. "And if there's lessons to be learned, it's important that he learn them."

Et tu, Colin? Powell told Latin American officials that democracy in Venezuela had been "crippled" long before the crisis last week by "polarizing rhetoric" under Chavez's populist government. "Democracies do not remain democracies for long if elected leaders use undemocratic methods," he said, calling on Chavez to fulfill his pledge of national reconciliation. - from Yahoo Nooze

- Well, f*ck! Words absolutely fail me on this one. Shouldn't they have been struck by lightning from God?? And the lazy, brownnosed whores in the US media are even worse (compare their shameful karlspew to the real stuff coming from the international media). I'm sorry, but Chimpy McDumbass's poll numbers are only as high as they are because the fuckwads in the media are propping the Toxic Tinhorn up. If the truth ever got out to the millions of poor shlubs who don't have internet access, the Unelected Idiot's numbers would be in the 20s and there would be calls for his impeachment. Crap.


I'd rather have a bottle in front of me....

"Such fawning is a staggering puzzlement, yet indicative of the kid-glove, almost surreal treatment that the mainstream press so routinely doles out to--plainly--a superficially schooled and transparently cognitive commander in chief. Mr. Bush thoughtlessly dabbles in the advisability of using kinder, gentler nuclear weapons; permits precisely 153 corporate friends to write the nation's energy policy; radically alters fiscal policy to benefit less than one percent of the population; and sticks his head in the sand over a foreign powder keg whose potential destructiveness may, in time, dwarf the tragedy of 9-11. And what do Milbank & Co. have to say on the heels of these disgraceful clinkers? They dutifully quote a White House spokesman: "You have underestimated [Bush's] ability to be a first-rate policy wonk." Yes, we also underestimated the marketability of pet rocks." - P.M. Carpenter, History News Network, two thumbs up!

"It comes as little surprise that the Bush Administration, itself the beneficiary of a coup, would endorse similar subversion elsewhere. But the American media also proved astonishingly sanguine at the replacement of a legally-elected leader by a `70s-style junta composed of right-wing army officers and corrupt businessmen." - Ted Rall, at TedRall.com. Yes!!



Soldiers' ghosts haunt French airport plans

Citing a need to relieve congestion at Paris's two existing airports, the government last year proposed a new facility on a flat, lonely patch of land called the Santerre. Home to some of the most fertile farmland in Europe, the Santerre's quiet fields show few signs of the warfare that ravaged them more than 80 years ago.

By the end of the war in 1918, the Santerre was a nightmarish landscape of razed villages, poisoned water wells and fields littered with corpses, unexploded artillery shells and canisters of deadly gas. The devastation was so overwhelming, according to retired farmer Francois Courboin, that the government considered making the region off-limits for humans. The locals, however, successfully campaigned to reclaim their land. "We rebuilt everything after the war," says Courboin, 71. "And now they want to destroy it again."
- Read more here.