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Busy busy
Not only was he whoring with Asian hookers and for a Chinese computer chip company, the littlest Bush mobster, Neil, is being paid for "miscellaneous consulting services" by a Washington consulting firm set up this year to help companies secure contracts in Iraq.

America, when are you going to wake the f*ck up?

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'Recently, before these terrorist acts, I made a usual request that you investigate the Necronomicon'
The truth is out there, and it's basically stupid and wearing a tin-foil hat. The FBI's Zero Files.

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Blog showcase
This week: Damage: Global Warming Catastrophe - New Evidence.

And for something completely different, don't forget to check out Subversive Cross-Stitch, just in time for the holidays!

News from the Fraud's photo-op war

Seven members of a Spanish intelligence team die in an ambush south of Baghdad.

Two Japanese diplomats killed when their car was ambushed near Tikrit.

Guerrillas killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded a third in an ambush in western Iraq.

Toll on U.S. troops in Iraq grows as wounded rolls approach 10,000. "I don't think even that is the whole story," said Nancy Lessin of Boston, the mother of an Iraq war veteran and co-founder of Military Families Speak Out, a group opposed to the war in Iraq.

"We really think there's an effort to hide the true cost in life, limb and the mental health of our soldiers," Lessin said. "There's a larger picture here of really trying to hide and obfuscate what's going on, and the wounded and injured are part of it."

The number of sick and injured is almost certainly substantially higher, because the figures provided by the military last week include totals only through Oct. 30.

Neither the Pentagon nor the news media are giving the American public an accurate picture of the situation in Iraq, which is "a nightmare," says a soldier who is about to go back.

"Finally, sir, have you no shame?"

George Walker Bush, President of the United States of America, flew into Baghdad International Airport under cover of darkness, accompanied only by his usual retinue of mainstream press syncophants, to spend two hours mouthing platitudes and getting his picture taken in the company of 600 hand-picked military personnel.

As the only well-fed people in newly "liberated" Iraq tucked into their turkey and dressing, Bush treated the assemblage to a soundbite-friendly speech rich in flag-waving rhetoric and practical vagaries. Speaking in short, broad generalities, Bush told the soldiers, "You are defeating the terrorists here in Iraq so we don't have to face them in our own country," and "You are defending the American people from danger and we are grateful."

It is doubtful that Bush is perceptive enough to note the ironies implicit in both his presence and his pronouncements, though surely Karl Rove and his fellow cogs in the White House spin machine got a chuckle out of every nuance. While speaking for purposes of ostensibly expressing gratitude – isn't that what the holiday is all about in the first place? – Bush's words served instead both to perpetuate illusions and to inculcate fear. The President's repetitive mantra of "terror," "danger," freedom" and the like – the familiar buzzwords guaranteed to fulment unreasoning emotions in the hearts of all good Fox-viewing Americans – seemingly found its origins on Madison Avenue rather than Pennsylvania Avenue.

It was a propaganda coup of the first order, replete with adoring camera angles and wildly cheering multitudes, all conducted under a shroud of Stalinist press secrecy. Indeed, the administration and its media admirers seem to regard its very deceit of the public and the press a point of pride. Lost in the torrent of excited blither from small-screen news anchors and pundits was a fairly basic question: Why was the chief executive of the United States, an ostensibly democratic nation, skulking into Baghdad when we'd been told he was in Crawford, Texas? Why were we lied to?

Read more of David B. Livingstone's piece here.

In broad daylight
The President did not have to sneak in and out of a war zone 4 years ago. Rush Limbaughtomy explains.

Aides prodded reluctant Bush on Iraq trip
'You're going, dammit! Do NOT make me call your mother!'

"Do you have any idea how many IEDs are on this road?" one soldier shouted, referring to improvised explosive devices or roadside bombs. "I have to get back to my base. I don't want to lose a soldier because the president wants us to sit here."

For a president fond of a tough-guy image, George W. Bush was uneasy when an aide casually asked him, "You want to go to Baghdad?" With Bush safely back at his Crawford ranch on Friday, White House supporters seized on the U.S. Thanksgiving Day visit to Iraq as a public-relations coup that could boost troop morale and Republican fund raising. - - from Yahoo news.

Bush delivers a turkey
To President Bush, America's soldiers are nothing more than props for his never-ending campaign. They were props on May 1 and they were props on Thanksgiving Day.

It is worth remembering that while the president enjoys being photographed with soldiers he passed on an opportunity to become a soldier himself, ducking out to the National Guard -- and then going AWOL from the guard.

The May 1 campaign appearance produced the Flight-jacket George doll, and perhaps the Thanksgiving photo op will give us Army-jacketed George delivering a plate of turkey. The turkey can symbolize his Iraq policy. - - from an editorial in the Berkshire Eagle.

Electoral raid on Baghdad
"George Bush becomes the first U.S. president to visit Iraq in order to provide the television pictures required by his re-election campaign," the article (in The Independent) said, charging that Mr. Bush went to Baghdad to upstage "his undeclared Democratic opponent (Mrs. Clinton)." - - taken from the Bushmoonie Times.

Political stunt
Many Iraqis on Friday angrily dismissed President Bush's brief cloak-and-dagger Thanksgiving Day visit as a political stunt to boost his ratings at home, and others said he squandered an opportunity to meet with Iraqis and see first hand the problems they face.

"He came for only two hours. He didn't see how the Iraqis are living and suffering," said Fatima Star, 38, a housewife. "He doesn't care about the Iraqi people. He only cares about his troops."

"He wants to gain political favor from people in the United States before the elections," said Mathil Aziz, 26, a teacher. "He cares more about his own personal interest than the Iraqi people."

Fan mail from some flounder
"I just don't understand how you can only have two arguments, that PRESIDENT (he deserves a title other than mister because he is the president and not just some kid off the street like you must be) Bush is either a chicken fucker or that he doesn't call all of the families that have had there sons or daughters die in combat. Do you, with a job (oh wait you probably don't have one), have the kind of time to call all the dead soldiers families? Do you have the kind of time to go to all of there funerals? I mean come on, even if you do have a job you don't havea job as time consuming as out PRESIDENT. Also have you ever stopped to think that you are supporting a Hitler like dictator. Hitler executed a race just asSadam was and would be if still given the chance. Also he uses this hate, for the kurds, to control his own people just as Hitler did So if you can say you are pro-sadam then I guess I can call you a nazi and a communist you lazy liberal bastard. That is all I have to say.

"Your Friend
"Adam Nelson" (writing under a bogus email address)


Dear Adam,
I'll keep it short, as you seem to have limited intelligence and reading/writing skills, and you probably won't bother to read this anyway.

Even though I've called pReznit Playtime a chickenshit AWOL coward, I'm pretty sure I've never called him a chickenfucker.

It's a bit of a mystery that the indolent fratboy can find so much time for fund-raising, photo-ops, campaign stops, playing golf, and taking vacations at his Texas hellhole, but no time for attending funerals for the troops he sent to die in Iraq for a lie. Can you even remember what the rational was for going to war, anyway? Why so many of our men and women had to die? Does "imminent danger" and "mushroom clouds" sound familiar? Hmmmmmm?

My job? Well, thanks to the way your preznit FUCKED THE ECONOMY over the past couple years, I will be out of mine very soon. Thanks for asking. What do you do, btw? Work with rocks?

How does supporting our troops equate with supporting Saddam? Or does disagreeing with you dittohead propaganda-swallowing mouthbreathers do that? Is it because your widdle pansy-ass pretender hasn't been able to hunt him down an' bring him to justice, he has all this free time to log on and read this site? Cool! I wonder if he liked the Michael Jackson jokes, or the pic of Tom Daschle in a tutu.

Are you really concerned about Kurds and Iraqis? How about Africans living under their own dictators?

And talking about Nazis and communists, I have two words for you: Patriot Act.

Thanks for writing!
Maru

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Turkey poop
Patriotic Farkers comment on the Fraud's latest photo-op:

Isn't anyone alarmed by the fact that our president has to "swear people to secrecy" in order to visit one of our colonies?

Such a "hero" - he stayed 2 1/2 hours and no one was told until he left! Well at least we know they had a turkey in Iraq today.

"You are defeating the terrorists here in Iraq," he said, "so we don't have to face them in our own country." Hands up anyone who remembers being attacked by Iraqis on Sept 11th. Anyone? Anyone?

Spent just enough time there to have his picture taken before running back to Air Force One.

What a bad time for helicopters to stop ramming into each other.

Most desperate attention whoring attempt yet.

Maybe he wanted to go to Iowa but mispronounced it.

Remember, this is the same Bush who dodged the draft to spend the vietnam war protecting texas from communism, then deserted to spend a year partying.

Great. Another Bush campaign ad at my expense. Re-elect Gore.

If Bush really wanted to show the troops he cared then he would stop treating them like disposible Risk game pieces to be discarded once they've served their purpose and treat them like actual human beings with families. Bush has abandoned Afghanistan and left our troops there to be picked off by the reforming Taliban. As far as he's concerned, those men are dead.

Sound to me like Bush heard about Hillary's plans and realised he couldn't let a female Junior Senator named Clinton look like she had more balls (and more heart) than he did.

The turkey has landed*
Bush makes a stealth landing in Iraq after Hilllary beat him there.

Saving face: pReznit Poopypants was forced into leaving his Thanksgiving vacation at his pseudo-ranch when word got out that Hillary Clinton was meeting the troops in Afghanistan and was on her way to Baghdad.

*headline from the UK Mirror.



Happy holiday, everyone! I don't know how much I'll post today. I'm pretty much out of it.



Turkey and dressing
'What has the "pro-war" side done to support the troops?

'For starters, the president politicized their deaths by dressing up like a soldier and landing on an aircraft festooned with "Mission Accomplished" banner that was created by his own staff. Then, when the deaths continued and he was criticized for this publicity stunt, the little man in the flight suit blamed the soldiers for the banner.

'And while he waves a flag, Bush hasn't attended a single military funeral or visited the wounded in any military hospital since his war began. He has also blocked a pay raise for those troops in the combat zone, and cut benefits to the Veterans Administration.

'And he has, in his most unforgivable politicizing gesture, taunted the Iraqis to "bring it on" at a point in the conflict when such language would knowingly lead to more deaths of our troops.

'Were Bush really a soldier, he would be court-martialed.'

- - Alan Bisbort.

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Quickies

• Court orders man not to be stupid. No mention of whether he's a regular at FreiRepublik.
  
  
• Speaking of which, Rush Limbaughtomy gives a dittomonkey and a "SOCIALIST DEMOCRAT COMMY IDIOT" equal time.
  
  
• The False Hero, by The MahaBlog. Word.
  
  
• Petulant prima donnas pissed at the Post: misadministration calls WaPo editor "Osama."
  
  
• 'Armed checkpoints, embedded reporters in flak jackets, brutal suppression of peaceful demonstrators. Baghdad? No, Miami.' Thanks to tsn, who sent in America's enemy within, from the Guardian.
  
  
• Bush pisses off Nevada when he mispronounces state's name during visit.
  
  
• Man with fake credentials sneaked into White House, made state visit to England.

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The patriotism refuge
'If patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, as Samuel Johnson said, then it is the first refuge of politicians. That at least is the case with the Republican National Committee - and by implication the White House - which has started running a television commercial defending George Bush's handling of the Iraq war, saying the president's various Democratic opponents are attacking him "for attacking the terrorists." Not really. It's for doing such a bad job of it.' - - Richard Cohen, in the WaComPo.

And a bad job of lying about it.

"The president has a lot to answer for"
The republican party's patriotism: Equating criticism with cowardice is dirty politics at its absolute lowest. - - from Robert Scheer's piece in Salon.

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Dixie Chicks honored for controversial quote
Dixie Chick Natalie Maines' infamous quote - "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas" - was named the year's best quote at the VH1's Big In 2003 Awards.

Via email from MikeQ.

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Loose change
Indiana republican/oleaginous assclown Rep. Mark Souder, with nothing better to do, is leghumping his way through Congress, trying to get support for a bill to replace Franklin D. Roosevelt's profile on the dime with Saint Ronnie of Reagan's.

Souder said it's particularly fitting to honor Reagan on the dime because "Reagan was wounded by a bullet that had ricocheted and flattened to the size of a dime," he drooled to his colleagues.

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DeLay fighting subpoena
Redistricting suit seeks deposition

House majority leader Tom 'Bugsy' DeLay and Rep. Joe Barton asked a federal court Tuesday to block Democrats' efforts to question them in a lawsuit challenging Texas's new congressional map.

Democrats and minority groups are fighting the redistricting plan, engineered by DeLay and rammed through by his jackbooted bitches in the Legislature after three special sessions this year. The Justice Department must decide whether to clear the map under the Voting Rights Act, which is designed to protect the voting rights of minorities, or to accept bribes and payoffs from - oh, never mind.

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As if
The Pentagon was asked on Tuesday to investigate alleged overpricing of gasoline sent to Iraq by Halliburton, the firm "formerly" run by Dick 'Chicanery' Cheney.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, Rep. Henry Waxman and Rep. John Dingell also urged the Pentagon to look into the use of money from a humanitarian account, the Human Fund Development Fund for Iraq, to buy gasoline and possibly weapons.

"We hope you will help restore transparency and accountability to this process by undertaking the important investigations described in this letter," they wrote.

You have to wonder if they managed to keep a straight face while doing so.

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Spin city
Overture, curtains, lights...

Winning hearts and minds by orchestrating WH propaganda into a Hollyrove production.

In a taxpayer-funded effort to candy-coat the horrible news coming out of the Iraq fiasco, the Bushies are attempting to shoot the messenger - Fox Nooze style!

That followed a redesigning of the podium from which news conferences are held, with two large flat-screen monitors now installed to carry slick Powerpoint presentations the military is using to show off operations and tout successes.

A large, deep-blue seal representing the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority now hangs prominently behind the podium, right in front of TV cameras, with the words "Justice, Freedom, Liberty, Security" written around its border.

"There's definitely a feel of the White House about all this," said a correspondent for a Washington newspaper.

And in related stories...

Darth Rummy's annoyed that the Iraqi opposition are using imbedded journalists.

"The stench from Fox's garbage tends to be worse than that of its competitors, if only because the network is so invested in the idea that it actually gives a hoot about American troops." - - Paul Beston, in rightwing rag the American Spectator.

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Fund-raiser or funeral? Hmmmmm....
The crowd goes deadly silent...Cinderella story...out of nowhere

'In his speech, Bush didn't mention Elaine Johnson, whose son Darius Jennings was one of four Fort Carson soldiers on the Chinook helicopter that was shot down Nov. 2.

'When Johnson was at the Fort Carson chapel a week ago for her son's memorial service, she wondered aloud why the president had visited South Carolina in the week of her son's funeral but had not bothered to attend or to send any message to her or her family.

'"Evidently my son wasn't important enough to him dead for him to visit the family or call the family," she said then. "As long as my son was alive he was important, because he sent him over there to fight a war."' - - from Gag order leaves troops, reporters speechless, in the Rocky Mtn News.


'Now watch this drive.'

Keeping it in the family
The Bush cartel crime family

Neil Bush, younger brother of pReznit Drinkydrool, not only admitted to engaging in sex romps with Asian hookers in his divorce deposition, but to George Costanza-like mysterious yet lucrative business deals.

According to legal documents disclosed on Tuesday, Sharon Bush's lawyers questioned Neil Bush closely about the deals, especially a contract with Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., a firm backed by Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, that would pay him $2 million in stock over five years.

Marshall Davis Brown, lawyer for Sharon Bush, expressed bewilderment at why Grace would want Bush and at such a high price since he knew little about the semiconductor business.

I guess honesty in business practices isn't at the top of the Bushies' list either.

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Pic
"Dammit! Was Rush here today?!"

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You left out "illegal"
Touchhole.

Two rethug committee members BUSTED.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said Tuesday he had put one of his staffers on administrative leave for improperly obtaining data from the secure computer networks of two Democratic senators.

Hatch, R-Utah, said preliminary interviews suggested that a former Republican member of the committee staff may have also been involved in penetrating the Democratic computers.

"I was shocked to learn that this may have occurred," Hatch said in a statement. "I am mortified that this improper, unethical and simply unacceptable breach of confidential files may have occurred on my watch."

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Quickies

The 25 most gloriously stupefying moments in B-cinema history.

All set for The Return of the King? Take the test.

10 things you need to know about The Return Of The King.

Dress Jesus up for the holidays!

Another pic of the Dictator-tot impersonating Hitler.

Are you a RoveHo?

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Naughty, naughty
"The Democrats asked whether the Republican National Committee had gone to the White House with sound equipment to have Mr. Bush recite the [State of the Union] line anew for what was the first Republican commercial of the campaign season here. That might have meant that the party was not being truthful when it said it had not coordinated with Mr. Bush when it made the advertisement, a possible violation of law." - - via Eschaton.

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Pic
"Guess ah shouldna had all them beers on the plane!"

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"In my eyes, I don't feel it was justified at all"
The widow of a soldier killed in Iraq says she skipped a meeting with the Photo-opping Fraud because she is angry with the resident and "didn't want to go and be disrespectful."

Johnna Loia of Pueblo was among family members and relatives of those killed in the war who were invited to get their picture taken with the chimp-in-chief.

"I have a lot of harsh feelings for the president right now. I contemplated going, but right now I think I'd find it hard to be respectful." Loia also chose not to watch a live telecast of Bunnypants' speech: "I decided to go out and run some errands instead."

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I may vomit
WTF?????

"Right now, however, it is clear that the most visionary and, yes, the wisest and most capable foreign policy-maker in the Bush administration is the president himself. Let's hope the team around him proves willing and capable of fulfilling his clear and historic grand strategy." - - unspeakable asskissers and loathsome fucktards Robert Kagan and William Kristol orgasming in the Weakly Standard (seen at RimJob's fretard site).

I'm scared.

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Welcome to Fasciststan
Rule #9: Only write stories favorable to Bush...

Ground Rule 3 of the presidential visit had forbidden reporters to talk to any soldiers or their families before, during or after the president's appearance.

Bush handlers presented press whore corps with formal written list of 10 "ground rules" for covering Snippy the Emperor-Chimp's visit to Ft. Carson, Colorado, on Monday.

Let freedom ring.

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The end of civilization
The continuing story

Faux Nooze, MSNBC and CNN all experienced ratings spikes when the latest Michael Jackson scandal erupted last Tuesday.

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Merry f*cking Christmas
Another soulless Christmas card from Jebus's faverit preznit. The official White House card, bearing a Crawford, Texas postmark, will be mailed out to oil buds and campaign contributors starting Friday, Nov. 28, 2003.

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Vile pigboy parses 'hypocrite'
A caller yesterday to hate-mongering blowhard Rush Limbaugh's radio show flustered the liar when he charged that El Pigbo was a hypocrite for demanding tough sentences for drug users while he himself was popping black-market pain killers.

"It's not hypocritical because my behavior doesn't determine the value of right and wrong - nobody's does," Limbaugh told listeners, evading the question.

The caller "Mike from Miami" had made an innocent comment about a congressional vote and then suddenly blurted, "How do you equate hypocrisy and addiction, pillhead?"

Limbaugh, who seemed slightly rattled, responded to "Mike's" original comment, delivered a warning to crank callers that "we are prepared here," and quickly changed the subject. Chickenshit punk. - - from the NY comPost, mostly.

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Nuclear dump
Drinky McDumbass on Tuesday will interrupt his Thanksgiving vacation at his bogus Texas ranch, the Lazy W, to do some partying at fund-raisers in Las Vegas and Phoenix, and to shoot some photo-ops with senior citizens in each city to cheerlead his Medicare ripoff, all at the taxpayers' expense.

Well, the way things are going this morning, it looks like WTF Is It Now?! will be around for five more years.




Soldiers quit Bush's occupation army in droves
Draft to begin any second.

"The US Army Reserve fell short of its reenlistment goals this year, underscoring Pentagon fears that the protracted conflict in Iraq could cause a crippling exodus from the armed services. With extended deployments and increasingly deadly attacks by Iraqi guerrillas, Defense Department officials are scrambling to combat a broader downturn in retention and recruitment that they fear is on the horizon. Bribes aren't working - if Bush steals another term, get ready for a draft." - - from Boston.com and democrats.com.

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Judiciary computer servers seized in memos probe
Drudge is reporting that "the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms took possession of the Judiciary Committee's four computer servers Friday and formally opened an investigation into how more than a dozen memos written by two Democratic Senators ended up in the hands of a pair of newspapers."

Democrats suspect the memos, which detailed political strategy on how to block or delay confirmation of several of President Bush's judicial nominees, were stolen from the servers and subsequently given to The Wall Street Journal propaganda editorial page and the Bushmoonie Times, which both published excerpts.

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US-backed Iraqi Council threatens to imprison journalists
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) One of the Middle East's biggest television news networks agreed Monday to halt reports from Iraq after the U.S.-appointed government raided its offices, banned its broadcasts and threatened to imprison journalists.

The Paris-based media watchdog group, Reporters Without Borders, immediately denounced the action of the Governing Council. It called the closure a violation of freedom of the press and said it represented ''methods ... that are contrary to the promises of setting up a democracy in Iraq.''

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Quote of the day
"Anyone who thinks Donovan McNabb is overated belongs in rehab." - - Terry Bradshaw at halftime, during Saints vs Eagles (thanx to astrofan).

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Natural Selection in action
If there were more people like him there'd be less people like him.

A Ku Klux Klansman accidentally shot another at the initiation of a new member. As part of the ceremony, the initiate was blindfolded and standing on tiptoes with his neck in a noose as they shot paintballs at him. Then one of them started firing his nine millimeter pistol into the air to "add realism" to the event and one of the slugs hit Jeffrey Murr as it came down again.

The bullet struck the top of Murr's head and came out near the base of his skull. He is in stable condition.

Stable?? He's a frickin' Klansman!!

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Bush pardons Thanksgiving turkey
"He's still an asshole," remarks bird.

Apart from some gobbling while the turkey vacuous fraud spoke, Stars was well behaved during the ceremony, disappointing many and leading some to speculate that it had been drugged by Karl Rove to avoid any embarrassing scenes such as last year's. Many of us can still recall the moment when the crazed fowl, channelling Howard Fineman, made a bee-line for the pReznit's manly privates.



Stars will retire to the ironically-named Frying Pan Park in Virginia.

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Liberal media bias!
Evidently Whoreward 'clueless' Kurtz got the memo from Karl:

"[L]ately there have been a series of leaks that haven't gotten all that much attention outside of the conservative corner of the profession.

Which raises the following possibilities:

1) Mainstream reporters are sulking about having been beat.

2) The stories aren't all that great.

3) The establishment press reacts differently when conservatives break stories, assume it's part of the vast right-wing conspiracy and try to knock down the allegations."

Ummmm...much like your vanity column, Howie, it's "number two."

Whore.

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E-mail
What's black and comes in a little white can?
Yep, Michael Jackson.

What's the difference between Michael Jackson and a grocery bag?
One is plastic, white, and dangerous around kids. The other holds your groceries.

- - thanks to MikeQ.

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Speaking of smegma
Tabloid: 'so how about it, Pigboy?'

"Now that Rush is out of rehab, it's time for him to come clean. How he continues to spin the issue in the face of overwhelming facts amazes me. He would not have put himself into rehab if the Enquirer hadn't revealed he had a drug addiction. For him to take a shot at us certainly has a ring of dishonesty to it." - - National Enquirer editor David Perel.

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Follow-up
Reboobs and the sanctity of marriage - honor, morality, and family values

Neil Bush provides sample for paternity case: Hopalong Hop-head's brother Neil provided a tissue sample Friday that will be used to determine whether he fathered a child by his girlfriend while she was still married to another man, and while he was still married to Sharon Bush.

Oh, then there's this story.

Iraqi mob beats bodies of slain U.S. soldiers
Three American troopers killed in attacks

"Despite the ongoing violence, U.S. officials insisted the occupation was going well."
For God's sake...

MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqis dragged two American soldiers from a wrecked vehicle, pummelled them with concrete blocks and slit their throats today, witnesses said, describing a burst of savagery in a city once safe for Americans.

Another soldier was killed by a bomb and a US-allied police chief was assassinated.

The US-led coalition also said it grounded commercial flights after the military confirmed that a missile struck a DHL cargo plane that landed Saturday at Baghdad International Airport with its wing aflame. Nevertheless, American officers insisted they were making progress in bringing stability to Iraq.


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"It's an incredible error"
After gloating that thanks to the much-loved coalition so many schools have reopened in Iraq, Paul Bremer last week fired 28,000 Iraqi teachers as political punishment for their former membership in the Baath Party, helping to fuel anti-U.S. resistance.

"It's a piece of real stupidity on the part of the neocons to try and equate the Baath Party with the Nazis," said former CIA official Larry Johnson. "You have to make a choice: Either you are going to deal with Iraqis who are capable of rebuilding and running the country or you're going to turn Iraq over to those who can't."

Facing a spreading insurgency, this was "not the time to turn out into the street more recruits for the anti-U.S. insurgency," Johnson said.

"All we have done is to have alienated one of the most politically important portions of the Iraqi population," an administration official said. "What a bunch of incompetent fucktards. Christ."

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"So, how fast does your broom go?"
Reboob whore-meister bemoans the lack of civility at recent mAnn Coulter pathetathon at the University of Colorado.

Get a clue, smegboy.

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In the mags

A uniter, not a divider: Love him or loathe him - lying moron or Jesus' chosen preznit? Time magazine asks the eternal question.

Answer: we didn't read the whole thing, but we're going with "lying moron."

Newsweek goes behind the scenes of "LOTR - The Return of the King."

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Bills will benefit top Bush fundraisers
Gee, there's a surprise.

More than three dozen of the Indolent Asswipe's major fundraisers are affiliated with companies that stand to benefit from the passage of two central pieces of the administration's legislative agenda: the energy and Medicare bills. - - from the WaComPo.

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League o' Liberals info!
New league member Anarchy Xero is a contestant this week at TTLB: please vote by Sunday evening -

Anarchy Xero: Winding the Iraq Deathwatch.

Bunnypants' British Boondoggle
Republicans should be looking hard at what the Brits had to spend to keep the President safe during his recent visit to Britain. And they should be worried. The Mahablog explains.

Queen's fury as Bush goons wreck garden
"The Queen has every right to feel insulted at the way she has been treated by Bush."

THE Queen is furious with pReznit Privilege after his state visit caused thousands of pounds of damage to her gardens at Buckingham Palace.

Royal officials are now in touch with the Queen's insurers and Prime Minister Tony Blair to find out who will pick up the massive repair bill. Palace staff said they had never seen the Queen so angry as when she saw how her perfectly-mantained lawns had been churned up after being turned into helipads with three giant H landing markings for the Bush visit.

The rotors of the resident's Marine Force One helicopter and two support Black Hawks damaged trees and shrubs that had survived since Queen Victoria's reign, and his "army of clod-hopping security service men" trampled precious and exotic plants.

The most expensive pub lunch in history
Two jumbo jets, two liveried presidential helicopters, four more US Navy helicopters, a motorcade of limousines, 200 US secret service agents and 1300 English police were required to unite Mr Bush safely with his fish and mushy peas. Total cost? 2.3 million. Dollars.

The village football pitch was transformed into a helipad as hundreds of police, some with dogs, created a buffer zone of several hundred yards to keep out the locals. They were almost too effective as Mr Bush, after exchanging greetings with the Blairs, looked around desperately for an English hand to shake only to find himself posing for a photograph with Mr Blair's press secretary.

In a scene typical of when Bubble Boy is forced to come into contact with 'the people,' 100 locals were "carefully selected" to join the photo-op of the Bushes and the Blairs having a country lunch, while protesters were kept far away, cordoned off in a 'First Amendment Zone.'

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Osama who??
General Peter Pace, vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said today that Osama bin Laden had "taken himself out of the picture" and that his capture was not essential to winning the "war on terror."

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Supporting our troops
Two U.S. Army pilots charged with ferrying American military brass around Iraq decided to speak out about the vulnerability of their aircraft. Their reward: criminal charges.

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WOW!!
"Remind us, why did the United States government invade & destabilize Iraq?" - - you gotta see this.

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LOL
What we've always suspected...

"The voices! They never stop! 'Kill! Kill! Kill!'" complained U.S. President George W. Bush today at a press conference in the White House Rose Garden.

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So Queenie, where kin ah plug in ma George Foreman grill?
Thoughtless impotentate George W. Bush has allegedly offended Queen Elizabeth II by bringing no fewer than five of his personal chefs to Buckingham Palace.

"Her Majesty greeted the news that Bush was coming with his own chefs in absolute silence. That's her general way of expressing disapproval. She's not thought to be [thrilled] about the whole visit anyway, but when you consider that she has excellent cooks herself, you can see why this would be taken as a bit of an insult."

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Oh please
We've heard a lot today of the latest propaganda talking point coming from the reboobs: "Some are now attacking the 'president' for attacking the terrorists." Blah blah blah.

Argument 1: pReznit Stupid didn't attack the terrorists, he invaded Iraq. Under false pretenses. While basically ignoring al Qaida's stomping ground, Afghanistan.
Argument 2: Which brings me to Saudi Arabia.
Argument 3: Saddam was going to attack us? With what?
Argument 4: Show me where the Dems have attacked the grinning boob for "attacking the terrorists." I'll wait. Meanwhile, I'll have a scotch and a cigar. Which brings me to...

Anchors away
So is it safe to watch the news now, or are they still soiling the airwaves by handjobbing their way through the Michael Jackson fiasco?

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Snicker
Finish off every one of Elrond's lines with "...Mr. Anderson": What NOT to do during 'Return of the King.'

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Assclown of the day
Michael Jackson is black???

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Bubble-boy does Britain
"Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, captured the spirit of the moment when he told NPR that the Republican National Committee should foot the bill for Mr. Bush's extraordinary security, the largest police operation ever in Great Britain. All this, he harrumphed, 'just so George Bush can use a few clips of him and the queen in his campaign advertisements for re-election next year.' There was a dispiriting contrast between GWB shutting out the world and avoiding the British public, and the black-and-white clips this week of J.F.K. reaching out to the world and being adored by Berliners. There was also a dispiriting contrast between the Bush administration, hiding the returning coffins of U.S. soldiers and avoiding their funerals, and the moving pictures of the Italian politicians and people, honoring their dead with public ceremonies and a week of mourning. The bubble in London is just an extension of the bubble the Bush team lives in at home." - - Maureen Dowd.



Slightly surreal comment this morning from one of the callused-palmed mouthbreathers at RimJob's fretard site: he "was struck with the vision of Jackie Kennedy-ish style of Mrs. Bush." Funny, I don't remember Jackie ever looking like a just-pithed trailer-park Disney-figure on acid.

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Repuke morality and values
And like all reboobs, he had a tiny little pecker. A staff attorney for the Ohio House Republican Caucus was arrested late Wednesday and police suspect he is the flasher known around Columbus as the "naked photographer".

Maybe if he's released on time he can photograph the festivities at the Claremont Institute when it presents it's Sanctimonious hypocrite Addict Statesman of the Year award to Bill 'roll 'em!' Bennett.

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"So, these old white men know best?"
'Republicans fiercely criticized the White House communications office last week' for allowing insufferable fraud pResident Evil to be photographed 'signing a late-term abortion ban into law flanked by six dark-suited, grinning men.'

"It's an enduring image, and we're going to make sure it's an enduring image. Were going to use it everywhere," said NARAL president Kate Michaelman. Word. That had to be one of the most vile pictures I've ever seen.

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End of civilization...
Just in time for the holidays: Boner, The Humping Hound.

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Cozying up to the queen
'HOW ironic. In 1776, the United States broke away from England to form a new kind of democracy, free from the whims of royalty. In 2003, the U.S. president spurns an appearance before Britain’s democratically chosen representatives to hide behind the skirts of the queen.' - - from an editorial in the Charleston Gazette (thanks to moonwatcher for the link).

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End of civilization, cont.
CNN whore Wolf Blitzer spent 50 minutes of his 60 minute newscharade breathlessly talking about Michael Jackson. During that time, a news flash would pop up announcing that Latoya Jackson's ex-hiusband would be on Anderson Cooper's show tonight!!

Gawd.

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More tasteless jokes via E-mail
How are Michael Jackson and a Big Mac alike?
Both have 40 year old meat between 10 year old buns.

How are Michael Jackson and K-mart alike?
Both have little boys' pants half off.

- - thanks to ScottB.

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Blog-a-palooza

Via Terry at The Storm: look what's #2 for "miserable failure" on google!

"Although it was held in the ornate Banqueting House in Whitehall, under ceilings painted by Rubens, the White House produced its own backdrops, including one behind Mr. Bush with the words 'United Kingdom' repeated over and over" (via Eschaton).

I usually don't pay any attention to Andrew Sullivan, but jeebus. Sadly, No has the poop.

Get your GW Bush Liar Liar Pants on Fire action figure, at Rush Limbaughtomy!

The Hackenblog has some funny stuff from Eric Idle's diary posted.

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'Why do they hate freedom?'
Protesters in London pull down statue of doltish dictator-tot pReznit Stupid.

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If the jackboot fits
The cover of the British edition of the new book by NY Times columnist Paul Krugman features a photo of Dick 'Chicanery' Cheney with an Adolf Hitler mustache.

The cover of the British edition of The Great Unraveling is emblazoned with a photo of Dick sporting an Adolf-like oil mustache. The words "Got Oil?" are dripped across his forehead. - - from NoozeHacks.
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Who's turn was it to watch him?!
Blithering ninny Buckeroo Bonehead blindsided the Pentagon today, saying if more troops were needed in Iraq, they would be sent. That contradicted earlier Pentagon statements claiming the goal was to reduce troop strength, and reportedly startled both Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell.

"We could have less troops in Iraq. We could have the same number of troops in Iraq. We could have more troops in Iraq. Whatever is necessary to secure Iraq," Bunnypants chirped. "La la la!"

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E-mail
What does Michael Jackson consider a perfect ten?
Two five year olds.

How does the sheriff's department already know he's guilty?
Because several children have already fingered him.

What does Michael Jackson have in common with a Silver Medal winner?
They both come in a little behind.

- - thanks to MikeD.

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Must be the drugs talking
Rush Limbaugh yesterday claimed that the more than $300,000 he withdrew in cash was just "walking-around money," adding that he "knew who was responsible" for stories that he's being investigated for violating money-laundering laws.

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Jeebus
This one kept me up all night. How many grams of carbs are in the body of Christ?

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Meddling Jeb wants new trial over Terri Schiavo
'Jeb Bush is taking legal pot shots at the husband of a brain damaged woman who is at the center of a right to die case. Bush is saying there needs to be a jury trial on whether Terri Schiavo wanted to be kept alive artificially. The governor also wants Circuit Judge Douglas Baird removed from hearing the constitutionality of a new law, which was enacted to reinsert a feeding tube.'


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And speaking of terrorists...
Hi, remember us?

Nearly two years after the Taliban's supposed ouster from Kabul, a resurgence in its activities and cross-border operations have posed a new threat to Afghanistan and a new diplomatic challenge, Bush misadministration officials said this week.

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Iraq war dominates Time's Person of the Year award
Time staff on serious crack binge.

Squinty the Farting Chimp, Dick 'dick' Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Colin Powell and worthless national security adviser Condoleezza Rice are all under consideration as poster child for the annual puke-of-the-year issue. Groping meatpuppet Arnold Schwarzenegger and alleged criminal/junkie/hatemongering blowhard Rush Limbaugh also made the cut somehow.

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Lawmakers defy Bush on media rules
In a stunning setback for the vacuous Dictator-tot - who doesn't read the papers and who gets his nooze from his neocon handlers - House and Senate negotiators last night defied a White House veto threat and agreed to a provision that would prevent the FCC from loosening rules on ownership of multiple media outlets.

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GW Bush, statesman
"In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force."

Bush calls on Europe to help rebuild Iraq, then proceeds to piss off France.

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US hawk admits invasion was illegal
Whoopsies! "I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing." - - neocon warmonger Richard Perle .

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Making the world safer, one suicide bomber at a time
Car bombs in Iraq leave at least five dead, and 15 people were killed in Istanbul when explosions hit the Turkish headquarters of a London-based bank and the British consulate. More than 300 were wounded in the attack which was blamed on al-Qaida.

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Stroke me, stroke me
Self-love platitudes just keep on coming

Vile pigboy Rush Limbaugh's "manly" self-stroke-fest leaves mouthbreathing dittomonkeys bewildered, anxious.

There oughta be limits to freedom, he mumbled
"Keep clear of the president!" barked one agent in a ball gown. "Don’t ask him any confusing questions! Intelligence is optional!" Reports and pics from the protests in London.




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Attack of the zombie alien hick stepford wife
Pic of the Queen of England being held captive by deranged chimp and disfigured robotronic mannequin. WTF is with Pickles' paws, anyway? At the very least, it looks like she's covering up some bizarre skin condition...

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Winning hearts and minds
A US lieutenant colonel went before a military hearing in Iraq yesterday charged with beating an Iraqi detainee and staging a mock execution to scare information out of him.

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Gee, you mean batter-dipped deep-fried chicken isn't good for you?
KFC has pulled a ad campaign in which it claimed fried chicken could form part of a healthy diet, following "an unprecedented public protest."


Image from Fark.

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Sanctimonious hypocrite to replace junkie/possibly criminal hypocrite at "prestigious" dinner
The Claremont Institute announced today that vile hate-monger Rush Limbaugh will not attend the Institute's annual Churchill Dinner on Friday, November 21 to pick up the Claremont Institute's Statesmanship Award. Bill "roll 'em!" Bennett will deliver the keynote address instead.

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So f**k you
Election officials have dismissed a complaint accusing Democratic fund-raiser Denise Rich of donating campaign money and furniture to Hillary Rodham Clinton in exchange for President Clinton's pardon of Rich's ex-husband (seen at the fretard site).

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Just in time for the holidays
The A Christmas Story Leg Lamp, yours for only $179.99.

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The fretards weigh in on the latest Rush scandal
"Because of 'THE BANK SECURITY ACT' this stupid crap is coming about! This is all about the PAPER WORK banks have to do because someone withdraws or deposits cash! If the banks are advising costumers or not reporting that is their fault not Rush's... Stupidassed, biased, croney, liberal press! Gov't burockracy at it's finest!"

"And who could [be trying to take Rush down}? Hmmmmmm, could HER initials be HRC???"

"I think it bill and hillary and their minions."

"Rush sounded pretty confident in his denial to me."

And my favorite:

"Whoever leaked this to ABC news should be sought out and prosecuted, if there is any law that covers such prosecutorial subterfuge."

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So nice and cool
Review of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Special Extended Edition, with pics!


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Headline of the day
Wang Stirs the Pot.

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Mobile operators refuse to bar calls in Bush 'bubble'
Phone operators have refused to block anti-Bush protesters from using mobile telephones in Central London.

An emergency plan to create a mobile-free “bubble” for El Supremo Stupido was branded “hysteria” by Orange, the second-largest mobile phone provider.

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Assclown of the day
The award goes to CBS, who is giving Michael Jackson a TV special. Evidently CBS feels that a surgically-altered freak/child molester with a warrant issued for his arrest is less controversial than the Reagans. Kudos.

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Speaking of reboob values and morality...
The ex-wife of Dumbya's brother Neil, Sharon Bush, has asked a state district court judge to order her ex-husband to submit to a blood test to settle a paternity question at the heart of a defamation lawsuit against her.

Just the thought of Babs grinding her teeth in rage makes me all warm inside.



Update:
Bush criticizes gay marriage ruling
"Marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman. I will work with congressional leaders and others to do what is legally necessary to defend the sanctity of marriage," Bush said.

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Authorities eye whether Rush Limbaugh laundered money used to buy drugs
Vile blowhard and unindicted junkie Rush Limbaugh may have violated state money-laundering laws in the way he handled the money he used to buy drugs, law enforcement officials in Florida and New York said. El Pigbo made between 30 and 40 cash withdrawals from his account in amounts just under $10,000. At one point, a bank employee delivered about $9,900 in cash to Limbaugh at his New York studio (banks must report withdrawals of $10,000 or more to the federal government).

A conviction on such charges in Florida would be a first-degree felony, punishable by up to 30 years in prison "He absolutely denies it," lawyer Roy Black said. "I can assure you - and Rush assures the listeners to his radio station - when we can, we will tell the story, and he will tell it himself. Everybody will see what has really gone on here."

I'm sure.

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Speak English, why don't you
"I think the American people - I hope the American - I don't think, let me... I hope the American people trust me." - - the Mirror's favorite Bushisms.

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Unfortunately, locking him up in the Tower is not on the agenda
TODAY: Palace greeting by the Royals, Tony Blair, two ministers, and dignitaries; Royal Salute {Ed: LOL. Gawd. See pic below for my version} from Guard of Honour at 9.55am; resident gives lunchtime speech at the Banqueting House, Whitehall; meets families of victims of the twin towers attack.

Alternative "state procession" through London, including lookalikes of George Bush and the Queen, starting at 11am from Jubilee Gardens and finishing at noon in Trafalgar Square; "Resist Bush" tea party outside Buckingham Palace, from 3pm; plays, poetry and anti-war films around London from 1pm until late; in Edinburgh, a rally at 2pm and from 6pm a march to the US consulate.

In evening the resident and first lady Pickles attend a state banquet at Buckingham Palace.

TOMORROW: resident lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior and tours Westminster Abbey, meets British veterans of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; holds talks with Mr Blair, then joint press conference at the Foreign Office. Lunch organised by the TV chef Nigella Lawson.

Leaders discuss HIV/Aids with representatives.

March in London organised by Stop the War Coalition, the Muslim Association of Britain and CND. Starts at 2pm, Malet Street and ends in Trafalgar Square, where a statue of Mr Bush will be pulled down. Due to finish at 7pm; demonstrations in Cardiff, Sheffield, Bristol and other cities planned.

Senor Stupido and Stepford wife host a dinner for the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

FRIDAY: Bushes fly to Sedgefield; leaders lunch with Mr Blair's constituents. Bushes fly to Washington in evening.

Protest in Tony Blair's Sedgefield constituency from 10am; Guantanamo Bay protest at US embassy, 11am; petition handed to Scotland Yard at noon asking for Mr Blair to be investigated for war crimes.

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Hey - take that back! He's not president!
"A dangerous, arrogant, foolish, bible-belted fundamentalist, right-wing warmongering fanatic president."

And that's just for starters.

"Had I been a terrorist intent on assassinating the Queen or American president George Bush, I could have done so with absolute ease." - - British reporter who posed as royal servant to reveal lax security at Buckingham Palace.

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The invisible visitor
In a break with tradition, the official welcome for a visiting head of state by the Queen and Prince Philip will take place at Buckingham Palace this morning, rather than Horse Guards Parade, Windsor or Edinburgh.

The arrangement means Snippy the Emperor-Chimp will not be required to step outside the gates of the Palace or to take part in a motorcade along the Mall.

Fears that he may actually come in contact with regular people over ridicule and humiliation his security are believed to have played a part in the decision that he should meet families of the British victims inside the US embassy and not go outside to pay his respects at the memorial as originally planned.

Chickenshit.

Bush to only meet with British families that support his war
"He thinks he's Wyatt Earp, but he's nothing but trouble."

White House aides were still locked in dispute over which relatives of dead British troops will meet the Chicken-in-Chief amid fears he may be met with hostility.

A spokesman for Tony 'Piddles' Blair implied the Photo-opping Fraud will not meet those bereaved families who believe the public was lied to about going to war.

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Blog-a-palooza

Hell for Halliburton tells us what the average educated Iraqi thinks, and why it = trouble for the US.

The bush recovery, at Treason Online.

Bush-toons from Gotham City 13!

"And David Kay found evidence of weapons programs. He found some biological weapons -- evidence of biological weapons." My doctor told me not to read the whole thing, so see The 18 1/2 Minute Gap for the link to David Frost's interview with pReznit Stupid.

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Neonaxi media: "la la la, we can't hear you..."
Newspapers and other reboob propaganda mouthpieces had Karl Rove love-juice egg on their face Monday after reporting or endorsing a Weakly Standard story "revealing new evidence" of an "operational relationship" between Saddam and Osama Bin Laden.

The New York Post, The Bushmoonie Times and Faux Nooze ran with the story. There was just one problem: on Saturday, the Pentagon issued a press release stating that "news reports that the Defense Department recently confirmed new information with respect to contacts between al-Qaida and Iraq are inaccurate."

The comPost and Moonie TP have made no mention of the Pentagon refuting the Weakly Standard fantasy-charge.

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Why should that make any difference?
Tony Blair has been banned from praying with miserable failure George Bush.

The Photo-opping Fraud wanted Mr Blair "to join him in prayer" at Durham Cathedral on Thursday, but the official request from the White House was turned down amid fears that such an event would leave the poodle open to ridicule.

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PSM
The Idiot's Guide to Great Britain, written for - well, you know.

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O'Really gets his pimply ass handed to him
Bill O'Reilly asked George Clooney in September to appear on his television show, offering "transportation and makeup."

Clooney responded with a sarcastic letter thanking him for the invite. "I have another idea. I'd like you to be a guest on my 'entertainment show,' " Clooney wrote. "I'm sure we, too, can supply transportation. As for 'make up' . . . on our show, Bill, we don't wear it."

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Quickies

Hero/patriot General Wesley Clark kicks the brownshirted goons of Faux Nooze right in their tiny, smeggy kahoolies (video).

Former Air Force chief of staff who endorsed war deserter Smirky McGolfcart in 2000 has left the reboob party and is backing Howard Dean.

The greatest album covers that never were (my favorite's the one for the Talking Heads).

Soldier in Baghdad sends message to GW Bush.

Cat caught in the act of summoning Cthulhu.

If anyone's interested, Neal Pollack dissects Rush Limpbag. Unfortunately, we don't mean it literally.

Happy f*cking whatever - offensive wrapping paper for Christmas.

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Bush's approval rating drops to lowest in residency
The happy, golfing Bunnypants' approval rating has dropped four points in less than two weeks, the lowest level of his residency, according to a USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll.

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Is he called Colin 'cause his head is so far up his ass?
Good Lord, what nerve.

With vacuous ninny Snippy the Emperor-Chimp facing protests in Britain over his Iraq policy, Secretary of State Colin Powell appealed to European nations to forget past disputes and help rebuild Iraq.

Powell, who was to meet European Union foreign ministers in Brussels before joining the fascist twit in London, told CNN without any embarrassment whatsoever that the international community needed to put aside its differences. "The United States wants the people of Europe to know that even though we may have had disagreements in the past over Iraq, this is the time to move forward," Powell said. "They were right, we were wrong, and now we're getting our pathetically wrong asses kicked," he should have added shamefacedly.

Unbelievable.

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In other news

U.S. vetoes anti-bullying resolution at UN

Flynt says he won't publish nude photos of Rumsfeld

'Ten Commandments Judge' struck by lightning

Paris Hilton checks out of Paris Hilton

Kerry campaign team fires Kerry

Clean and sober Rush Limbaugh still an asshole, friends and relatives say

- - IronicTimes and FreePressed.

Hand in the cookie jar
Pro-Bush media baron Conrad Black resigned under pressure Monday as chief executive of the company that owns the Chicago Sun-Times, after it was revealed that he and other top executives had pocketed millions of dollars in unauthorized payments.

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Dear Asshole...
Look out! Behind you!!
Hahahahahahahaha, only kidding.

Excellent and hysterically funny "Letters to the pResident" at the UK Guardian.

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Blog-a-palooza

Issue 2 of the Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society is up, via The Hackenblog.

Cheney ignored war chaos alert, at Rush Limbaughtomy.

Caption contests at Dohiyi Mir and Bitch Has Word.

A letter to David Brooks, by Cup o' Joe.

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News you can use
The UK Mirror's WMD-ometer.

Interesting comments section, including lots of apologies by US citizens.

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Knock knock!
Who's there?
Saruman.
Saruman who?
Is saruman in your pocket orc you just happy to see me?

I'll stop now.

Songs from the "Lord of the Rings" musical

11. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Moria?
10. Sauron Chanted Evening
9. Clang-Clang-Clang Went the Troll
8. Hello, Gollum!
7. Orclahoma!
6. Climb Every Mount Doom
5. I Enjoy Being Nazgul
4. Dancing With My Elf
3. Torn Between Two Towers
2. Seventy-six Dead Orcs
1. Preciousssss and Few

- - Top5.com.

My DVD of The Two Towers shipped last night!


'Maru's been at the old Toby again...'

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In other news

Jury convicts DC sniper Muhammad of capital murder.

Italian official resigns from US-led Iraq authority, 'completely disillusioned'.

Questions for pReznit Poopypants' next press conference.

In what is certainly a sign of the Apocalypse, Arnold the Gropin'fuhrer is sworn in. As governor.

The annual Leonid meteor shower returns Tuesday night.

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L is for the way you're loathed by me
O is for the only term you'll see
A is AWOL, asshole;
T for toxic taxcuts
H is for the hypocritical holier-than-thou hopheadism

Bugger.

"Because liberals are now finally starting to fight back, [NYT columnist Nicholas] Kristoff is buying into the Right's new meme that it's all 'Bush hating.' Well it's not. It's also Cheney hating, Rumsfeld hating, Wolfowitz hating, Rice hating, DeLay hating etc., etc. This is not tit for tat, a retaliation for Clinton. F**k Bill Clinton. This is about a senseless, vicious war, a braindead tax policy, and an astonishingly manipulative and churlish administration that plays by its own rules... In any event, 'hate' is entirely the wrong word. Revulsion, contempt, disgust, loathing, disapproval, enmity and repugnance are all much closer in nuance to the actual rejection Bush's clowns are experiencing." - - Mark Gisleson.

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So tell me, what exactly did Jesus say when he annointed you?
Yep, it's the Rupert Murdoch propaganda piece Sun's interview of miserable failure Snippy the Emperor-Chimp. Probing, insightful, informative.

"I can understand why citizens in Great Britain are anxious about war, wonder why a president would commit to war. Nobody likes war. See, I understand the consequences of war. I understand particularly when I go and hug the moms and dads and brothers and sisters and sons and daughters of those who died. I can see also the consequences of not acting, of hoping for the best in the face of tyrannical killers.”

And don't forget the Page 3 boobies!

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Welcome back, junkie!
Circle-jerking mouthbreathers get told what to think today as El Pigbo returns to pollute the airwaves.

"My hope is that he'll demand to be given the maximum sentence at the most dangerous Florida prison. Hopefully with an African-American cellmate who heard his Donovan McNabb comments on ESPN." - - Al Franken.

And in a related story...

35% of reboobs agree: Limbaugh an assclown.
A new Gallup Poll conducted Nov. 10-12 shows that just 34% of Americans at this time hold a favorable view of Limbaugh, while 51% hold an unfavorable view. 51% of political conservatives hold a favorable opinion of Limbaugh - compared to just 12% of liberals. At the same time, 35% of conservatives now hold an unfavorable view of Limbaugh (along with 75% of liberals).

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'This trip is nothing more than a masquerade and a PR opportunity'
Though he hasn't attended the funerals of any of the American troops killed or visited any of the thousands of injured, the Photo-opping Fraud will meet British relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq - where he will be accused of lying about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and why he went to war.

10 to 1 he cancels due to an 'unspecific threat' or something.

Chicken George, yellowbellied coward
Restoring honor and dignity

The Yellow Puddle of Texas was last night branded chicken for scrapping his speech to Parliament because he feared being heckled by anti-war MPs.

The only speech the gutless dunce is now due to give will be to an "invited audience" at the Banqueting House in Whitehall.

Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn said: "This is yet another slight on this country by the president of the USA."

Previous world leaders, including Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela and Francois Mitterand, have all given speeches to the Lords and the Commons while visiting Britain.


'Duh!'

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'Shoot-to-kill' demand by the Bushies
Christ, what a chickenshit, self-important dickhead

Diplomatic immunity to armed American special agents and snipers in the case of the accidental shooting of a protester, closure of the Tube network, the use of US air force planes and Black Hawk helicopters to patrol above London and the shipping in of battlefield weaponry to use against rioters, a 'mini-gun', which is fired from a tank and can kill dozens of people are all demands that were thankfully turned down by the Brits in preparation for the Chimp-in-Chief's visit.

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'A transatlantic nightmare'
The Queen turns out to be tougher than faux-cowpoke Hopalong Hop-head.

"They wanted blast- and bullet-proofed windows," one senior courtier said. "They wanted strengthened curtains and strengthening to the walls of the pResident's suite and the other rooms that he would be spending time in during his two-day stay."

The proposal, which would have meant substantial building alterations, was firmly turned down by the Queen. But anxiety levels among the Bush security team continue to grow.

The deteriorating relationship between the Palace and the pResident's security men has infuriated the Queen. When it is all over, a mighty row with the Prime Minister is on the cards. - - lots more here.

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Democrat wins Louisiana Governor's race
Democrat Kathleen Blanco defeated Republican Bobby Jindal on Saturday to become Louisiana's first woman governor in a hard-fought race that gave Democrats a boost ahead of the 2004 presidential vote. - - Yahoo News.

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You know, this never happened when Clinton was President......

'A public relations disaster'
But the simpering chimp may never even be aware of it.

Napoleon Bonehead, who leaves Tuesday for a state visit to Britain where he is deeply unpopular, may hear few of the shouts of anti-war protesters who will pour into London's streets to vent anger at his policies.

When the resident and his stepford-wife, Pickles, touch down at Heathrow Airport on Tuesday evening, they will be whisked to Buckingham Palace and largely kept in what he himself describes as a security-enclosed bubble -- cut off from activity in the rest of the city.

CIA: Faux Nooze full of shit
And drudge takes it up the ass from Karl Rove.

The CIA's search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein tried to transfer chemical or biological technology or weapons to terrorists, according to a military and intelligence expert.

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Governing with all the keen skill Of Delta House
'You get a sense that things are deteriorating into Hail Freedonia-like proportions in Iraq when President Bush's administration starts talking about using Afghanistan as a role model for democratic reform.' - - Daniel Ruth, in the Tampa Trib.

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British food isn't THAT bad, you incredible ignoramus
Squinty the Emperor-Chimp will be accompanied to the UK by a retinue consisting of 250 members of the Secret Service, 150 advisers from the National Security Department, 200 representatives of other government departments and 50 political aides.

There will also be approximately 100 journalists travelling with him. There are also his personal chef, personal assistants, four cooks, medics and the presidential 15-strong sniffer dog team, which does NOT include the presidential buttsniffers listed above.

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Twelve U.S. soldiers were killed and nine were wounded Saturday evening when two U.S. military helicopters crashed in a residential area of the northern city of Mosul.

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Wesley Clark: hero, homeboy
'As Clark went to greet the next veteran, I held my arm out in front of him and said, "It's great to see an OutKast fan running for President." I had no idea how he would respond. This Veterans Day event couldn't have been more removed from anything remotely linked to MTV or the rap world. But, the General immediately lightened up and grabbed my hand while laughing. Suddenly Clark and I were completely surrounded by reporters and he whispered into my ear, "You gotta shake it like a Polaroid picture," quoting lyrics from OutKast's recent hit song, "Hey Ya!" My question had been answered.' - - from the Bowdoin Orient.

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At least the mAnn Coulter doll wasn't involved
George, you dirty little bitch! See George W. Bush get treated the way he's been treating the rest of the world.

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Just in time for Christmas
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Spinning in their graves
'Increasingly, the rising disquiet is not just about Bush's refusal to acknowledge the dead or to attend their funerals, but about the things he does find time to do instead.

'While families and whole communities grieve about their losses in Iraq, he storms the country with his hand out for tens of millions of dollars in donations for his forthcoming re-election campaign. While he talks about the war dead in only the most general terms, he goes on and on about signs of economic recovery.

'He avoids the photo-op with the mothers of the dead from Iraq, but he had the time in his busy schedule on Thursday to wheel three judicial nominees into the Oval Office as a backdrop for his gripes about the Democrats blocking their appointments to the bench.'

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Bush the buffoon
Scathing column in the UK Independent:

'...But even if Bush, whose contact with the news is so assiduously filtered by his courtiers, gains little idea of the turmoil around him, his countrymen back home assuredly will. The treacherous French and spineless Germans are one thing. But in Iraq - as in most other things, the average American assumes - the British are our friends. Imagine the shock, then, when they see surging crowds, burning flags and (unless police step into ban it) a giant effigy of the Great Leader being toppled, à la Saddam, in Trafalgar Square...

'It is not only Bush the Chicken-hawk warmonger and promoter-in-chief of the great illusion about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction who they will be denouncing. It is also Bush the ignorant, self-righteous Christian warrior, Bush the smirking executioner and Bush the believer in one law for America and another for everyone else.'

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Fristing
League of Liberals member And Then...'s entry in the New Blog Showcase is Late Night With Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.

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I don't want to know what they did to the elves
MGM studios says it has bought the script of Henry Bates and the Sorcerer's Balls - a parody of both the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings series.

Out go the Hobbits and Gandalf and in come the Bobbits, who are under an evil sexual spell, and the good wizard Gandolfini who battles the bad wizard Enron.

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Are you man enough
- or woman enough - to pick up mAnn Coulter?

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LOL
"George W. Bush is NOT a Texan . . . Bush was born in Connecticut, so I suppose that makes him a Conn man. Second, Bush does not wear 'cowboy boots.' Cowboy boots have the manure on the OUTSIDE." - - from a letter to the editor of The Nation, 11/24/03, via DemoUnderground.

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The American death toll in Iraq has surpassed the number of American soldiers killed during the first three years of the Vietnam War, the brutal Cold War conflict that cast a shadow over United States affairs for more than a generation.

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Telepath or psychopath, you make the call
pResident Bush promised on Friday the United States would stay in Iraq " until the job is done, and then we'll leave," which evidently will be sometime in June.

Restoring dignity to the WH
pReznit Dumbass to give exclusive interview to British tabloid famous for its pics of naked, busty women.

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Blog-a-palooza, cont.

Lots of good reading at Alas, A Blog.

Hammerdown has the poop on US troops who are arresting Iraqis for criticizing them.

Jesus' General has been resurrected!

The 9/11 commission is allowing the liars in the WH to edit documents, at the Cosmic Iguana.

Savage Cruel Bigots' face-off contest!

Wrap your willie in a W thong - see more at Screaming Points.

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168 - 4
Senate stops Bush nominees, ends debate of nearly 40 hours

It's over.
After much whining from hypocritical reboobs, the Dems reminded them and the country that the repukes had themselves blocked 63 of President Bill Clinton's nominees, preventing most of them from even getting a hearing.

"I find it incredibly remarkable ... that the very people who lament not getting a vote for (the blocked Bush's nominees) were participants in the effort" to stop Clinton's candidates, the lovely yet supine Tom 'Isadora' Daschle said from behind the drapery.

Democrats brandished posters saying "168-4," to emphasize their confirmation record. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., had a T-shirt saying "we confirmed 98 percent of President Bush's judges" on the front, while the back said, "and all we got was this lousy T-shirt."
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Fox News filibuster
Marathon of hypocrisy continues

'With Senate conservatives complaining that only 98% of the Bush Administration's judicial nominees have been confirmed, the vigil over the four most conservative nominees continues on the Senate floor.'

'The stunt, which is billed by Sen. Rick Santorum (its principal architect) as an effort to "do what is best for this country and what is best for the Constitution," turns out to be little more than a spectacle for Fox News, at a cost to taxpayers of over $100,000.

'Conservatives rebuffed efforts to delay the dog-and-pony show until 8pm to complete work on appropriations for the Veterans Affairs and HUD. A memo written by a staffer for Majority Leader Bill Frist reveals why: "It is important to double efforts to get your boss to S-230 on time ... Fox News Channel is really excited about this marathon and Brit Hume at 6 would love to open with all our 51 senators walking onto the floor -- the producer wants to know will we walk in exactly at 6:02 when the show starts so they get it live to open Brit Hume's show? Or if not, can we give them an exact time for the walk-in start?"

'Once the self-inflicted "filibuster" began, Frist criticized opponents of a handful of pResident Bush's most radically ideological nominees for breaking "dangerous new ground" by blocking full-senate votes in a handful of cases. But, in 2000, Frist himself voted against cloture (and a full Senate vote) for Clinton nominee Richard Paez.'

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Eco-nazis strip states rights
Senate Republicans, bowing to corporate pressure, voted yesterday to block states from toughening their own pollution laws.

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Anti-Iraq war Veterans pulled from Florida parade
Welcome to Fasciststan, cont.

'A group of 30 military veterans critical of the war in Iraq hoped to use Tuesday's Veterans Day parade to call attention to the increasingly deadly conflict but instead found themselves fighting for something much more fundamental. Members of Veterans For Peace and Vietnam Veterans Against the War were yanked off a downtown Tallahassee street, directly in front of the Old Capitol, while marching in the holiday parade they had legitimately registered in. As organizers allowed the parade to roll on - including veterans from various wars, several high school marching bands and even a group of young women from the local Hooters restaurant - the anti-war veterans were ordered onto sidewalks.'

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Japan and South Korea bail out on miserable failure Bush
'In a blow to U.S. hopes for more support in rebuilding Iraq, Japan on Thursday delayed sending troops and other American allies altered plans after a surge in anti-coalition violence. South Korea decided to cap its possible troop deployment at 3,000, rebuffing Washington's request for a bigger force. Denmark said Thursday it would not, for now, send more soldiers. And nations such as France that opposed the war that ousted Saddam Hussein again declared that the U.S.-led coalition's postwar plan must be changed.'
(Thanks to democrats.com)

Top ten signs Rush Limbaugh might not be ready to come back to work
10. "Accidentally" falls down stairs 2, 3 times a day to get the pain pills
9. Named his two new puppies "Oxy" and "Contin"
8. Keeps going up to the roof to see if he can fly like that guy from "The Matrix"
7. Thoroughly enjoyed last night's "Becker"
6. He's currently following Phish around the Pacific northwest
5. Responds to all callers, "Here, kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty"
4. Could swear he saw sheep being herded down Broadway
3. Yesterday he did a three hour show into the drive-thru speaker at Jack in the Box
2. These days, only 80% blowhard
1. Released amateur sex video making love to himself

- - Letterman.

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Because Neo-Nazi News Faux Nooze just isn't pro-administration enough
Welcome to Fasciststan: the birth of the government-owned and operated Propaganda Channel.

The New York Observer reports "the Bush administration, dissatisfied with the American television news decisions on covering the conflict, is about to create its own broadcast operation, with the capacity to bypass the networks, live from Iraq, 24 hours a day." Dorrance Smith, a former ABC News producer and now media advisor to the Bush administration said, "We've had to rely on events covered by the networks and their interpretation, and their feed back to the United States - that's about to change because we're about to have total 24-hour connectivity." - - from the Center for American Progress.

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I break for humor

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Blog-a-palooza, cont.

The unified taxonomy of terrible rock music, at Happy Furry Puppy.

Futurballa has the top 10 rock-related films list.

Bush vs Common Decency, by Sick of Bush.

Spade has posted the Laxative Series at Hammerdown.

The Poison Kitchen explains why John Bolton is such a world-class asshat.

Rush Limbaughtomy makes Bill Frist the rebooblican role model of the day.

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Re li sci fi
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr Margot Kruskall, of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston, Massachusetts, showed that "Jane," 52-year-old woman, is a chimera, a mixture of two individuals - non-identical twin sisters - whose cells intermingled in the womb and grew into a single body.

It was discovered after tests to see if she could donate a kidney showed that two of her three grown-up sons were biologically unrelated to her.

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Just in time for the holidays!
The Donald H. Rumsfeld Talking Action Figure: pull his string and he asks himself a question, answers it, then blames the press for asking such a stupid question.
(via Fark)

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The bush recovery

The number of Americans filing first-time applications for state unemployment benefits rose 13,000 to 366,000 last week.

Johnson & Johnson to close NJ plant, move manufacturing work to Brazil (from the Newark Star-Ledger).

Millions of U.S. jobs will be exported in the coming decade, forecasters say (from MSN Money).

Motorola, the world's second-largest maker of mobile telephones, will eliminate 2,400 jobs by the first quarter, on top of the 6,600 it has cut through the first nine months of this year (Bloomberg).

The Hunt Corp of Philadelphia to close certain plants by July, will move to Asia, most likely China (Charlotte Observer).

Applications for US home loans dropped last week to their lowest level in almost a year and a half (Yahoo.com).

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'High plains drifter'??!
Bill O'Reilly for president? Gawd.

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Headline of the day
Unindicted junkie returns to
'Sordid love affair between Rush Limbaugh and own voice to resume Monday'

Oh goody.

- - seen at Fark.

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Quote
"The Republicans' pointless pouting session may backfire when Americans learn the real facts. When Bill Clinton was president, the GOP didn't stop at holding up a measly four judicial nominees. They held up 60, refusing to allow committee votes on most of them." - - from an editorial in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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How much is $87 billion?

$87 billion is enough to pay every American that lost their job since Bush took office $26,000

$87 billion is 87 times more than the money spent on after school programs

$87 billion can buy enough food for the 6 million children that will die of starvation in the seven years

$87 billion is more than the deficits of all 50 states combined

$66.2 billion is what the US spent on health and human services last year.
- - from IndustrialTradesman.

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'We could lose this situation'
'This could f*ck up the election!!'

The White House yesterday drew up emergency plans to accelerate the transfer of power in Iraq after being shown a devastating CIA report warning that the guerrilla war was in danger of escalating out of US control.

One military intelligence assessment now estimates the insurgents' strength at 50,000. "They are in the thousands, and growing every day," said a source.

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From the what were they thinking? dept
California legislators will meet this month in a luxurious Hawaiian oceanfront hotel to discuss the state's multibillion-dollar budget crisis.

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Repug moral values update
Follow-up: Radio talk show host Jon Matthews of Sugar Land, Texas, was indicted on one count of indecency with a child Wednesday (via BuzzFlash).

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US wants ban on protests during Bush visit
"The police are under pressure from the Americans"

Anti-war protesters in the UK claim that US authorities have demanded a rolling "exclusion zone" around Snippy the Emperor-Chimp during his visit, as well as a ban on marches in parts of central London.

The Stop The War Coalition says that it has also been told by British officials that the Bushies want distance kept between Jesus' Little Jerkoff and protesters, for security reasons and to prevent their appearance in the same television shots.

"So spare a thought for Tony Blair - his guest is the most unpopular US president in living memory.'

According to some in the UK, it is Washington, not London, which is driving next week's visit - the time best suits the reboob "re"-election effort, so that is the week he is coming. A source for the Guardian smells the stench of Karl Rove: "Rove is driving the timing and image-making of all this."

'If this is the White House's thinking, some UK officials wonder if they might have blundered. The best pictures from next week may be of a giant Bush statue being toppled, Saddam style, in Trafalgar Square.'

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They also serve, who only shit and snort coke
Via Slate, the AWOL Wonderboob's request - "four months after his superiors reported they'd seen hide nor hair of him during the previous year" - that he be discharged early so he could attend Harvard Business School.

'A television stunt orchestrated for Fox News'
Who's ready to toss their lunch?!

You know all that bullshit about doing the people's business and 'Senators are playing politics and it's wrong and it's shameful and it's hurting the system'? Well, check out this memo - regarding the 30-hour debate on judicial nominees - from Manuel Miranda, a staffer for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Pussy):

"It is important to double efforts to get your boss to S-230 on time ... Fox News Channel is really excited about this marathon and Brit Hume at 6 would love to open with all our 51 senators walking onto the floor -- the producer wants to know will we walk in exactly at 6:02 when the show starts so they get it live to open Brit Hume's show? Or if not, can we give them an exact time for the walk-in start?"

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Land of the free
Jethro Tull is off the playlist of one classic rock station after the band's front man criticized displays of the Amurkin flag.

"I hate to see the American flag hanging out of every bloody station wagon, out of every SUV, every little Midwestern house in some residential area," Ian Anderson was quoted as saying. "It's easy to confuse patriotism with nationalism. Flag waving ain't gonna do it."

"The reaction of the toothless, inbred morons our audience has been 99 percent in favor of the ban and 99 percent incredulous that he would say such stupid things," said Phil LoCascio, WCHR program director, on-air personality, and alleged neonazi. "He is a smart guy. As far as we're concerned, this ban is forever."

Let freedom ring.

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Blog-a-palooza, part 1

No one's investigating Rush, says The Hamster.

Bitch Has Word brings us John Kerry's dukakis-in-a-tank moment.

Happy blogiversary to r@d@r!

Our sympathy and prayers to Maha. : (

How BushCo is screwing the rainforests, at Cosmic Iguana.

Find out which Cheers character you're most like, at Dohiyi Mir. Plus some cute cat pics!

Treason Online has a link to the plaintiff petition in Margie Schoedinger vs the Raping Chimp.

Bush Honors Veterinarians at Arlington. Rick's Cafe Americain is there.

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In other news

Bush: dog ate my 9/11 documents

Anglican Church split by first openly honest Bishop

CBS replaces Reagan mini-series with highlights of Iran-Contra hearings

Conservatives acquire rights to 'knee-jerk'

Rosy Picture: Unemployment Down, Jobs Up
Many finding work at the unemployment office

Heavy Criticism Forces CBS to Cancel Bedtime for Bonzo
Friends of former President Reagan say he's unable to defend himself

- - Ironic Times.

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It's good to be the Dictator-tot
The Emperor Chimp's travelling entourage.
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Unbelievable: the repukes' new Clenis doctrine
'Faced with growing public uneasiness over Iraq, Republican Party officials intend to change the terms of the political debate heading into next year's election by focusing on the "doctrine of preemption," portraying pResident Bush as a visionary acting to prevent future terrorist attacks on US soil despite the costs and casualties involved overseas.

'The strategy will involve the dismissal of Democrats as the party of "protests, pessimism and political hate speech," Ed Gillespie, RNC chairman, wrote in a recent memo to party officials -- a move designed to shift attention toward Bush's broader foreign policy objectives rather than the accounts of bloodshed. Republicans hope to convince voters that Democrats are too indecisive and faint-hearted -- and perhaps unpatriotic -- to protect US interests, arguing that inaction during the Clinton years led to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.' - - from here.

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Winning hearts and minds
November 12, 2003, Iraq - U.S. troops opened fire on a farm truck carrying live chickens near Fallujah, killing five civilians aboard the vehicle, including a father and his two sons (email, via AP).


'Whoops!'

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Supporting our troops
Reboob lawmakers have put the kibosh on a proposed GOP luxury booze cruise for the party's national convention in NYC next year.

Several rethugs said the image of partying on a luxury liner docked in the city harbor - promoted by Tom 'Bugsy' DeLay (R-Insane) - was inappropriate during wartime. They've opted for partying in ultraswanky nightclubs and hotels instead.

"Being on one of those ships is not the right image at this time. We'll still have troops abroad fighting," said Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Flagwavingbutthole). "Besides, there's always the danger of the Chimp-in-Chief wanting to show up in that damn flight-suit!"

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Woman who accused Bush of rape found dead
Whoa.

We report, you decide: Margie Schoedinger, the woman who allegedly filed a lawsuit against George W. Bush in December 2002, claiming that she had been raped, has died of a gunshot wound to the head, registered officially as "suicide".

The lawsuit filed against George W. Bush in the County Civil Court in Fort Bend County, Texas, on 2nd December 2002, claimed that George Bush, the former Governor or Texas and current pResident of the United States, had committed "individual sex crimes" against her and her husband.

Margie Schoedinger further stated that after the claim, she had been harassed, that her bank account had been interfered with, that she had been threatened and beaten.

Road pizza
NASSIRIYA, Iraq - A bomb blast in southern Iraq has killed at least 22 people - 14 Italians and eight Iraqis. The suspected suicide attack, which also wounded at least 12 people, targeted the headquarters of the Italian military police.


'Big deal - they're just wops an' rag-heads.'
{/sarcasm}
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TIKRIT, Iraq - A US soldier was killed Tuesday evening when his vehicle drove over a bomb planted on a road north of Baghdad.


'Terra...freedom...now watch this drive!'

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Shiite: forecast for Iraq does not look too Sunni
A new, top-secret CIA report from Iraq warns that growing numbers of Iraqis are concluding that the US-led coalition can be defeated and are supporting the resistance. At the same time, the CIA assessment warns that none of the postwar Iraqi political institutions and leaders have shown an ability to govern the country or even preside over drafting a constitution or holding an election.



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Bremer in dog house Washington as White House mulls Iraq
Top U.S. officials, frustrated by growing instability in Iraq and the Iraqi Governing Council's performance, held a hastily convened White House meeting to discuss ways to accelerate the shift from American to Iraqi control.

"The White House wants to go faster because of the increasing violence," said administration officials. "And because we've got an election coming up here, dammit!"

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'But it's parody, isn't it?'
"There is no way that any person not completely dense would be confused by this cover into thinking that Fox News was accusing Bill O'Reilly of being a liar."

"Because this is a court transcript, the 'official' record does not note laughter in the courtroom, though there was indeed much of it" - Fox vs Al Franken.

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Mayor protests at Bush 'exclusion zone'
Ken Livingstone stepped into the row over the resident's state visit to London, insisting that miserable failure George Bush should witness those protesting against him, and that the capital's taxpayers should not foot the bill for his security.

Organisers of the various protests planned for Napoleon Bonehead's three-day visit are in negotiations with police, after reports that a march down Whitehall to Parliament Square would be banned at the insistence of the White House.

The London mayor, who has already declined an invitation to meet the lying fraud and will be hosting a peace reception at City Hall instead, said any attempt to try and help the fascist punk avoid protesters would be "inconceivable".

I drink in your honor, sir.

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I love the Brits!
You know, this never happened when Clinton was President......

"It is an outrage that the most unwelcome guest this country has ever received will be given the freedom of the streets, while a movement that represents majority opinion is denied the right to protest in...the heart of government."

Indolent squatter, serial liar and vacuous warmonger Snippy the Emperor Chimp faces the humiliating prospect of an effigy of himself being dragged to the ground by anti-war protesters in London's Trafalgar Square next week.

A poll in Tuesday's Times newspaper showed 60 percent of British voters strongly disapprove of the Cretin of Crawford's handling of Iraq - and that anti-Bush feeling is particularly high among women.

The spectacle of Der Dictator-tot arriving with an entourage of up to 250 secret service agents, 15 sniffer dogs and handlers, 50 White House political aides, two motorcades of up to 20 armored vehicles each, as well as at least three aircraft and even his own personal cook, is unlikely to increase warmth toward him.

Not to mention his didey-changer, comic-book reader, and handler of the special Spiderman jammies.
Oh, and his secret friend 'Mr Cokey.'

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Kerrying on amid chaos
John Kerry's press secretary and deputy finance director quit Tuesday amid chaos on a presidential campaign staff that lost its manager a day earlier.

Robert Gibbs, chief spokesman for the Massachusetts lawmaker, quit to protest the firing of campaign manager Jim Jordan, let go by Kerry Sunday night.

Deputy finance director Carl Schidlow also quit, although the reason was not immediately available.

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Cool
Please don't forget to visit the outstanding members of the League of Liberals:

Democratic Veteran

Rush Limbaughtomy

The Spy Game

Cosmic Iguana

People's Republic of Seabrook

Philosophical Scrivener

The Mahablog

T. Rex's Guide to Life

Dohiyi Mir

blunted on reality

Savage Cruel Bigots

Treason Online

Hell on Halliburton

Happy Furry Puppy

Shock and Awe

All Facts and Opinions

Pen-Elayne on the Web

MadKane

Dubya's Daily Diary

different strings

Futurballa

ARMACT Action Alerts

Cup O' Joe

Grateful Dread on the Web

The Poison Kitchen

Indigo Ocean

Speedkill

The Felonious Elephant

Sick of Bush

Arms and the Man

Clareified

Rick's Cafe Americain

A-Changin' Times(ACT)

Estimated Prophet

18½ Minute Gap

Gotham City 13

And Then...

Officially Unofficial

The Gunther Concept

The Mudshark

Hammerdown

Screaming Points

The Politburo Diktat

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Weird

Asshat: Butts County man charged with sodomy.

Evidently, "a broker for the [Bush] family" told Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian he could meet with the resident's brother Neil if he was willing to pay 1 million dollars.

What was on the cover of Time magazine when you were born? Find out here.

Etruscan art of demons and monsters, found in a Tuscan village near Siena, could be 'one of the most important discoveries of recent times.' - - Discovery.

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Smegma gets speaking engagement
Zell Miller to speak at 2004 CPAC

Senator Zell Miller, D-ino, will deliver a major address at the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to be held from January 22nd to the 24th.