WTF Is It Now?!?

Looks like it's going to be another nice day. I've got to get to the garden center - I'm hoping they'll have pea seedlings because mine did crap this year. I also need a replacement for at least one of the 3 bird feeders the damn bear destroyed, and a flat or two of annuals, something the deer/woodchucks won't eat. I have to pick up a couple of goldfish for the fish pond, you know, something to feed the raccoons. Welcome to Maru's Wildlife World.


Compoopulant Conservatism

The White House on Friday rebuffed proposals by Democrats to add billions of extra dollars for child care to Captain Cowpat's welfare reform plan.

"The 'president' believes that we have full resources necessary to help address getting people from welfare into work, including plenty of money for, sufficient money for child care," White House spokes-tool Ari Fleischer said. "Besides, we really don't give a sh!t about poor people - they don't vote for us anyway."

The Clueless Crayolahead has called for welfare recipients to increase their work week from 30 to 40 hours, but he has not included any more day care funds in his welfare budget. "Who cares what they think?" he whined to a nursemaid. "I've got mine, so phththththththth!"




For the repukes, it's bizniz as usual: War Profiteering

According to the whore media, Americans support Crusader Bunnypants' decision to prosecute the "war on terror". But it is not immediately clear how a new gym in Texas, a harbor cleanup in California, or raising a Civil War-era ironclad in Virginia do much to advance that war. A veteran congressional aide who specializes in defense issues has written a white paper under the pen name "Spartacus" attacking projects like the Boeing deal that have been inserted in the defense- spending bills since September 11. Sen. McCain has demanded investigations of the Boeing deal. "This is clearly war profiteering," he says. "It is obscene."

The 'Boeing Deal' is the $20 billion Air Force plan to lease 100 refueling tankers from the Boeing Aircraft Co. The planes would cost $150 million apiece. The lease would run for 10 years. Then the Air Force would pay $30 million to reconfigure each of the 767s for commercial use and give the planes back to Boeing. In his 15 years in the Senate, John McCain had never seen such audacity. "This is the wrong thing to do," he intoned, leaning into the podium. "We are going to spend $20 billion plus over a 10-year period and 10 years from now are going to have nothing to show for it." Unless you're a rethug...




Honor 'n' Dignitude

The Oaf of Office treated bootlicking, brownnosed "journalists" to never-before-seen pictures of the White House on Saturday, including one in which VP Dick Cheney appears to be urinating on the door of his Oval Office. Yeah - just like they've pissed all over the entire country. Real f*cking funny.