WTF Is It Now?!?

I think the reason many animals seem so content is because they don't have the mental faculties to regret the past or worry about the future. Then again, let's not rule out that ability to lick themselves. - Dave Brennan, Top5.com.

***Gah. Finally got this up and running. Had a bit o' trouble with Blogger this evening....sorry for any typos, but I'm too tired to check!***


Waffling Weenie Means what he Says - Especially when Talking out of Both Sides of his Ass

The bush-league administration is sending mixed signals to both sides of the ME quagmire. It is both supporting Israel's right to self-defense while also saying Israel should carefully consider the consequences of its actions. As a result, it's not clear whether the administration wants restraint from Israel and whether it intends to maintain its pressure campaign against Arafat or is content with Arafat's declaration to use Palestinian security forces to discourage attacks on Israel. Amid the swirl of confusing statements only one thing was clear: it's all Bill Clinton's fault. [/sarcasm!]





Gasbag Wars, part 2 - Oh'Really Has Major-League Hissy-fit, Yaps "Drudge Should be Killed", Poops on Rug

Bill O'Reilly was 'pushed over the edge' this week after the Drudge Report posted that $300,000 was promised to O'Reilly's NYC flagship station WOR-AM to carry the program.

Although radio head Joel Hollander publicly denied to reporters that compensation was being paid to affiliates for carrying O'Reilly, behind the scenes on Tuesday Hollander threatened to pull the payout guarantee to WOR, blaming the station for the leak. Meanwhile, also according to Drudge, Los Angeles' KABC-AM is receiving $250,000 in outdoor advertising from Viacom in exchange for clearing the Bill O'Reilly Radio Program, with a similar comp deal also being promised to O'Reilly's San Francisco affiliate.

Difficulty clearing O'Reilly in the Washington, DC market raised the payout price to $200,000, according to insiders -- a payout that was rejected by all major stations in the region, including ABC's WMAL-AM.

"There is no other cure than to kill Matt Drudge," O'Reilly charged on Imus's radio show on Wednesday. "I just want to tell everybody that Matt Drudge is smoking crack - right now, in South Miami Beach on Washington Avenue...and the authorities should know it."





Intrigue and Backstabbing In the House of Bush the Crusader System, United Defense
Industries, and the Carlyle Group

snips: These connections have caused good-government advocates and conspiracy theorists to wonder if Bush II has been motivated to render policy decisions which would benefit Carlyle. Which would also benefit his father and W's own family, assuming Daddy Bush doesn't leave his multimillion-dollar estate only to son Neil.

On the web and elsewhere, you can find suggestions (or outright assertions) that, in the aftermath of 9/11, Bush is waging the war on terrorism and expanding the Pentagon budget to fatten the Carlyle Group--which was already doing very nicely, averaging more than 34 percent on its $12.5 billion in investments. In fact, last year it did look as if Carlyle had cashed in on September 11 and its Bush contacts.

Two weeks after the attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon, United Defense--which had revised the Crusader design and had waged a lobbying campaign on the Hill, oiled with hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions--signed a deal with the Army for a $665 million contract to complete development of the Crusader, now weighing in at a more slender 40 tons. On December 13, Congress fully funded the program. The next day Carlyle took United Defense Industries public. Its stock offering had listed the Crusader contract and the 9/11 attacks as selling points. The IPO was a whopping success, and the Carlyle Group earned $237 million in this deal.

This saga is not over. In coming installments of the Crusader mini-series, look for the roles (cameo or otherwise) played by George W. Bush and his Office of Management and Budget, as members of Congress rally behind the Crusader. Will the President and OMB back up Rumsfeld? Or will they overrule him? Perhaps Bush should recuse himself. This is a financially significant matter for the company that enriches both his father and the man who engineered his crucial triumph in the Florida post-election battle.






Justice is at risk in America with Daddy's Little Doofus in office

The White House on Thursday decried as "a bad trend" the Senate's slow process of moving Preznit Poopypants' ultra-right-wing nominees to the federal bench - but stopped short of saying political payback is the motive. A year after the Unelected Idiot asked senators to rise above the "bitterness of the past" in considering his first 11 judicial nominees, only three of them sit on federal appeals courts.

"There's a bad trend happening in the Senate," WH spokes-tool Ari "the Liar" Fleischer lied. He would not attribute the delays to raw politics, though. "I have not heard the 'president' describe motives. ...the 'president' is not one to point fingers and allege politics," he sniveled. "Not in public, anyway."

Fleischer did spread blame to both Democrats and repuglicans. "It is a problem that both parties have contributed to. The 'president' hopes the Senate can reverse the trend." In a bipartisan gesture of conciliation and fairness, the Shameless Squatter scheduled a meeting Thursday afternoon with only the repugs on the Judiciary Committee to talk about the pace of the nominations. [/sarcasm]

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. rolled his eyes in exasperation. "The choice is this: nominate reasonable, moderate men and women who belong on the bench and we'll confirm them right away," he said. "Nominate ideologues willing to sacrifice the interests of many to serve the interests of a narrow few, and you'll have a fight on your hands. It's that simple."

"We are working hard to restore fairness in the confirmation process, which was sorely lacking in the previous six years under Republican control of the Senate. Controversial nominations take longer, and the 'president' can help by choosing nominees primarily for their ability instead of for their ideology," said Sen. Patrick Leahy , D-Vt., who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I mean, it's not like that moron has a f*cking mandate, for crying out loud."





If you really want to torture yourself and read Serial Liar Ted "Liar" Olsen lie about the Florida election fiasco, click here. I'd rather poke my eyes out with red-hot spoons, myself.






Another Actual, Churchillian Moment from the Smirking Simpleton:

"I'm pleased that Chairman Arafat spoke in Arabic against terrorism. That's good. That's a positive development," Chimpy McCokehead told reporters at the White House today. "Now it's up to Chairman Arafat to perform, to keep them in jail - arrest them and keep them in jail. In order for there to be peace we must rout out terror." He then ran off to his secret fort to play with his Power Rangers.





The Fraudulent F*ck-up's Feds Fail

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation ignored an appeal from one of its field offices to investigate suspicious
pilot training by Middle Eastern men weeks before the September 11 attacks, FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged. The damaging admission came as the beleaguered agency scrambled to fight back allegations that it might have missed telltale signs of the coming tragedy. "That was received at headquarters," Mueller said of the appeal as he testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. "It was not acted on by September 11."

Patrick Leahy poured scorn on the bureau and other law enforcement agencies, which, in his view, might be abusing the contention that "the conspirators were too clever to have been caught." "When senior FBI officials concede in testimony before this committee that the FBI does not know all that it knows, we are left to wonder whether the
FBI effectively used relevant information that it knew before the watershed events on 9/11," Leahy pointed out testily.




Letter of the Day:
MSNBC,

I am pleased to inform you that I have programmed my television to skip your news channel. In the past, I have only done this with those annoying religious channels and shopping networks, but I cannot help be completely disgusted that you have placed that woman-beating hypocrite, John Fund, on your payroll.

You have stooped to a new low by hiring this Clinton-hating, criminalistic, self-appointed moralist. While I am not bothered by the presence of some conservatives on your network, it's utterly unacceptable to financially support a man who views women as punching bags.

I also have blocked msnbc.com from my web browser, both at home and at work. I will do all that is possible to make sure others follow me in sending MSNBC viewship/readership down the toilet.

Sincerely,
XXXX XXXXXX

PS - If you are intent on loading your programming with blatant hypocrisy, perhaps you should re-hire Ann Coulter as MSNBC's mental health specialist.

-- -- (xxxxx: let me know if you want your penname posted here as the author!)



LOLOL: the worst part is, he actually believes it -

"Among my many achievements, I'm the author of what now has officially been dubbed "the Limbaugh Doctrine." This doctrine - that you get peace through victory, not negotiations, clean water and pieces of paper - was too hot to handle when I first wrote it as an essay. Yet in the months since I published my thoughts on Pearl Harbor Day 2001, pundits and politicians have admitted what I so wisely articulated. We have linked to many of these articles and sound bites at the bottom of this page. On Tuesday night, the Limbaugh Doctrine was invoked by no less than Ariel Sharon - this prior to his leaving the United States for Israel after the latest in a very predictable series of homicide bombings." - the vile pigboy, snipped from http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/680712/posts