WTF Is It Now?!?

A Rush to the exits
Though still in its infancy, a letter-writing campaign aimed at advertisers on "The Rush Limbaugh Show," has already claimed a few choice scalps - and hopes to soon have other marketers saying "ditto."

Kicked off last week on the website of a group called Take Back The Media, the effort is generating a growing buzz among online progressives (or, if you prefer, "liberals") - along with hundreds of angry e-mails to companies that sponsor what it calls Limbaugh's "hateful chortling and guffawing." - Woohoo! Congrats, guys! Read more at CBS Marketwatch.


Allies to Bush: 'You're full of sh!t'
Key members on the U.N. Security Council said yesterday that the misadministration had failed to convince them that time had run out for a peaceful resolution to the crisis with Iraq.

At a council meeting a day after the State of the Union speech, 11 of the 15 members – France, Russia and China who all have veto power as well as Germany, Mexico, Chile, Guinea, Cameroon, Syria, Angola and Pakistan - supported giving more time to the weapons inspectors. Only Bulgaria and Spain backed the Bushies and Britain.

Also, the top nuclear inspector in Iraq, Mohamed ElBaradei, stood by the findings that the aluminum tubes the Iraqis had tried to import were for rockets and not for a nuclear program, as the Nookuler Nincompoop lied in his speech Tuesday night.

"We believe the tubes were destined for the conventional rocket program," ElBaradei said. He said the tubes could be modified for uranium enrichment but that the process would be expensive, time-consuming and detectable.

In the SOTU speech, Bush lied again when he said: "Iraqi intelligence officers are posing as the scientists inspectors are supposed to interview."

ElBaradei said it was unlikely his inspectors "could be fooled in the nuclear area on who is a scientist and who is not."

"We know all the scientists from the past and I think our people could easily detect if that person is a scientist or not." - from the Washington Post.



Meanwhile, in Jeb!World...
An employee in Broward County's elections office has told prosecutors that there are more uncounted absentee ballots from September's primary than those found this week in a file cabinet.

The lawyer for the employee said she discovered more than 500 unopened ballots in the office mailroom two days after the election. According to the story she laid out to prosecutors, she notified her supervisor and was told there had been a mix-up and that the votes needed to disappear. - from the Sun-Sentinal.



I want what she's taking
...but then I'd turn into a spoogy dumbass.
"George W. Bush's State of the Union the other night flipped expectations and broke rules. It began as a barge and turned into a ship of state. Suddenly you realized its early slowness was in fact a stateliness, not a flaw but part of a design. It built. It didn't blast its horn and yet as it moved forward you couldn't stop listening.

"For a moment I though of earnest Clark Kent moving, at the moment of maximum danger, to shed his suit, tear open his shirt and reveal the big "S" on his chest." - more ick from the female Howard Fineman, Peggy 'Oozing Hot Hormonal Action' Noonan.