Ouch

George Bush desperately wants history to remember him as the Sept. 11 President. In speeches, he sounds like a wartime Bill Murray, who wakes up every morning only to find that it is still 9/11.

That's more or less what the country wanted: a commander in chief who'd worry about the war on terror so we didn't have to. These days, however, Bush doesn't look like a Sept. 11 President at all. With each passing day, he acts more like the last thing the country wanted: an August president, who leaves all the worrying to us.

- saw this at Dohiyi Mir.


"Oh boy! Ice cream!"
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Brewing anger over Bush's indifference to the disaster

As nice as it was to have the president visit the state we live in, I believe it would have been OK with us if Mr. Bush had canceled or at least postponed his plans in order to monitor the progress of Hurricane Katrina and to review federal relief plans.

As it is, however, the president decided to visit El Mirage. Life goes on. He spoke briefly about the hurricane, promising disaster relief. Then, after urging Americans to pray for those most affected by the storm, Bush said, "I also want to talk about immigration." I've got a feeling that historians looking back on this day will not describe that transition as a particularly shining presidential moment.

– the Arizona Republic

But this seems like the wrong moment to dwell on fault-finding, or even to point out that it took what may become the worst natural disaster in American history to pry President Bush out of his vacation.

– the NY Times.

Jack Cafferty: Where's President Bush? Is he still on vacation?

Wolf Blitzer: He's cut short his vacation. He's coming back to Washington tomorrow.

Cafferty: Oh, that would be a good idea. He was out in San Diego I think at a Naval air station giving a speech on Japan and the war in Iraq today. Based on his approval rating, based on the latest polls, my guess is getting back to work might not be a terrible idea.

- on CNN’s The Situation Room yesterday (thanks to AmericaBlog).

VP and compassionate conservative Dick “dick” Cheney is still holed up in his Wyoming bunker. And where the hey are the Democrats???


"Resolvitude! Heh heh."

Pic from our buddy Spade Hammer.
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President to do job, film at 11
On his way back to Washington today, Bush had Air Force One fly low over New Orleans and Mississippi, surveying the damage from a couch on the plane.

A spokesman said that the aides with Bush were pointing out various sights and that Smirky McGameBoy was hearing commentary on what he was seeing.

Among other things, the president saw an amusement park with the tops of wrecked rides protruding over bridges covered by water (actual sentence in the article).


"No!!! Not the 'musement park!!!"
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Preznit Accountability blames Carter, Reagan, Clinton for 9/11

As his poll numbers sink, Bush is getting desperate. From his address [yesterday] in San Diego:

”They looked at our response after the hostage crisis in Iran, the bombings of the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the first World Trade Center attack, the killing of American soldiers in Somalia, the destruction of two U.S. embassies in Africa, and the attack on the USS Cole. They concluded that free societies lack the courage and character to defend themselves against a determined enemy.”

Conveniently, Bush doesn’t mention any terrorist attack that occurred during his father’s administration.

- from ThinkProgress.

I bet they also looked at how Bunnypants continued farting off on his summer vacation even after he received the PDB entitled Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the US.


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Pic from the Pensito Review.


Bush: vacation ruined by 'stupid dead soldier'
"An' don't get me started on them hurricane victims," he warns.

Bush addressed Mrs. Sheehan, who was not present, by saying "a mother should not have to bury her son this way, by which I mean allowing her son's death to destroy his commander-in-chief's one chance to relax and unwind."

Bush added: "I'm more exhausted today than I was when I started this vacation."

- from The Onion, but it could still be true.


As people struggle to survive and start picking up the pieces in the terrible aftermath of one of the worst natural disasters ever, President Partygame goes to a birfday party for formerly-respected Arizona Senator John "piglet" McCain in Glendale, Arizona.
REUTERS/Jeff Mitchell.

All hat and four or five cattle
Bunnypants, World's Widdlest coWpoke, has more Secret Service agents than cows on his Texas estate, the Lazy W.

Fun fact: those cows? They're not even his.


W: "Mommy! Whaz that big fuzzy thing over there?!"
Laura: "Jebus Christmas... it's a fucking COW, Georgie. Now pass me the thermos of gin and tonic. Asshat."
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Harpy skank loses another outlet for her rabid, putrescent hatefulness
From the Arizona Daily Star: "Finally, we've decided that syndicated columnist [and virulent ho-bag m]Ann Coulter has worn out her welcome. Many readers find her shrill, bombastic and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives...."

- Mwwwaaaa! Via Crooks and Liars.


"Ms" Coulter
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Workin' with our allies
"The hundreds of deletions and insertions represent a helpfully annotated map to Washington's disagreements with most of the rest of the world on just about every global issue imaginable."

Leaked US draft on UN changes: "respect for nature" removed, protection for soverign nations gone, corporate responsibility deleted, addressing climate change crossed off, AIDS help lowered, use of force as a last resort flushed down the UN crapper.


Glorious leader.
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The Bush ecomnitude
Making the pie higher...

The nation's poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, the fourth consecutive annual increase, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.


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Saw some very cool-looking waterspouts off to the west of us this morning. Either that, or they were really scrinched-up funnel clouds. Difficulty: we're nowhere near very much water.


Not the one I saw.
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Oh boy!
What a guy...

This just in: Preznit PlayStation is cutting short his vacation to return to Washington on Wednesday, instead of on Friday as originally planned.

Bein' prezdint is hard work!
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Noble cause
The evolving rationale for the Iraq war:

9/11

WMD

Liberate oppressed Iraqis

Democracy in the Middle East

So the deaths will not have been in vain

At the rate things are going, here are a few more we might see from the misadministration:

"Saddam took a shot at mah daddy!"

Because tan guys with handlebar mustaches always look like they're up to something.

Saddam owed me $14 and about a dozen cups of sugar.

Their student loans were due.

Jesus just ain't gonna walk in there

My hard drive with all my porn was confiscated due to the Patriot Act. That dust-bin owes me!

We told them to turn that damned stereo down, but they didn't listen.

Saddam ran over my cat and knocked up my sister.

Because the President can't pronounce "Uzbekistan".

Hussein was a truly bad neighbor. Loud music at all times of the night, he let his kids run around the place doing whatever they wanted, and he hadn't mowed his yard in like 6 years. Something had to be done!

Because they stole my f**king clamcakes!

Uday borrowed Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road from me in 1988 and I never f*cking saw it again.

Yam violations.

Because someone from the Clinton administration took the "N" off the typewriter, so they HAD to attack Iraq instead of Iran.

Because he gassed his own people.

Because Junior needed to prove he had a bigger penis than his daddy.

Because all those brown people just weren't going to kill themselves.

'Cause of 9/11. I mean, if Saddam didn't ACTUALLY do anything to make it happen, he at least wanted to, or was happy when it happened. And we really just can't let that stand, can we?

Because the Middle East wasn't unstable enough...

Because George W. Bush thinks that's where spinach comes from, and he hates spinach.

Because geopolitical stability is overrated.

Because it was time to demoralize the military by giving them abstract, unattainable, and ever-changing goals.
(Via Fark).


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Like the people there aren't in enough pain right now
Useless POS Fox News' plasticine-like 'reporter' Shepard Smith gets cursed out by New Orleans resident during Hurricane Katrina.


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BUSH: NO PLANS FOR EARLY PULLOUT
From Crawford.
- Ironic Times.

Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, on east side of city, under 5 to 6 feet of water after pumps fail, mayor says. 'Total structural failure' of city reported...

New Orleans drowns, oil leaps over 70 - yes, seventy - #ucking dollars a barrel, Bush continues to play windshield cowboy on his summer vacation after using time to ostensibly speak about the hurricane as a commercial for Iraq.

Fun fact: Louisiana's National Guard troops are watching Hurricane Katrina - from Iraq.
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Mwwaaaahh!
Dumbasses: fretards attack each other in Crawford.


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Awwwww!
Cats in sinks.


What?! I could be in a sink right now?! Cool... Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Uniting the world - against us


Bush to face fury over UN changes demanded by no-talent assclown John Bolton, whom nobody outside of the preznit's inner circle wanted at the position anyway.

Mail
What a terrific letter - there may be some hope after all -

I stumbled across WTF IS IT NOW?!? and I have to tell you, I was riveted. The excess found here is exactly what’s called for in neutralizing the other-worldly level of aberration emanating from those in the un-know in DeeCee. I am a 55-year old Republican voting WASP male who has had his head refurbished these last four years watching The National Shame go through his paces. At first I thought it was just me, but now I see a lot of folks have taken notice that W is a stark raving lunatic. I welcome consensus, but I’m a bit unnerved by the general agreement.

Thanks for a great place to visit, I’m sharing it with everyone who has a shred of conscience left.

WD, Houston

A toast to you, sir. Thank you.
Restoring dignity to the WH indeed. "No one died when Clinton lied."


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Call the Wahhhhhhhambulance!
Mitt backs war, but his boys are safe at home

Massachusetts gov and Bushkisser Mitt Romney had a hissyfit when he was asked why his sons haven't enlisted.

"I don't think you should be so 'rah-rah' for a war that you aren't willing to send your own family members to," said one patriotic citizen, who already has a family member stationed in Iraq. "God, what a pud."


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Mail
Shari asks how Milo's litter mates are doing - they're doing well, thanks! In fact, it's almost time to bring them to the vet for the big snip.


Milo and Effie. The two orangies are living outside in the cat igloo on the back deck with mom and the aunts because they were a little too curious about my zebra finches.
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Sheehan's question deserves answer
"I want to ask George Bush: Why did my son die?" - Cindy Sheehan.

Sheehan will get her wish to meet with The Cowardly Liar the day winged donkeys fly out of my ass.

In part this is because the president is famously intolerant of criticism and notoriously fumble-tongued when working without a script, so his handlers would rather chew glass than send him out to confront an angry protester who knows exactly what she believes and why. It is also because no president can afford to be seen as having been bullied into doing something. So Sheehan's vigil near the president's Crawford, Texas, ranch is likely to continue until the end of Bush's extended vacation without reaching resolution.

Unless you count embarrassing a president who badly needed embarrassing. In which case, Sheehan's demand for a meeting has already been a smashing success.

- from the Buffalo News/Miami Herald opinion page.


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Duh!
Somebody at the WaComPo is awake. Sorta.

[I]t is dispiriting, and damaging to the chances for success, that [President Lying WarMonkey] still refuses to speak honestly to the country about the challenges the United States now faces, or how he intends to address them. In two major speeches on national security this week, Mr. Bush simply repeated the misleading description of Iraq he offered during his national television address in June, conflating the war with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and describing the enemy as terrorists akin to al Qaeda.

You're still gonna need this.
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The Vietnamization of Bush's vacation
Boy, is Frank Rich pissed.


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Bush's obscene tirades rattle White House aides
Jebus, is this for real??!

While President George W. Bush travels around the country in a last-ditch effort to sell his Iraq war, White House aides scramble frantically behind the scenes to hide the dark mood of an increasingly angry leader who unleashes obscenity-filled outbursts at anyone who dares disagree with him.

“I’m not meeting with that goddamned bitch,” Bush screamed at aides who suggested he meet with Cindy Sheehan, the war-protesting mother whose son died in Iraq. “She can go to hell as far as I’m concerned!”

Bush, administration aides confide, frequently explodes into tirades over those who protest the war, calling them “motherfucking traitors.” He reportedly was so upset over Veterans of Foreign Wars members who wore “bullshit protectors” over their ears during his speech to their annual convention that he told aides to “tell those VFW assholes that I’ll never speak to them again is they can’t keep their members under control.”

- more here (via BartCop).



Childish, brainless idiot and leader of the free world.
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“My son died for nothing”

Come out, come out, George Bush.

Come out from behind the concertina wire and your phalanx of security thugs.

You ran away from the Texas National Guard and now you’re running away from a wretched 48-year-old woman.

Come out of your bubble world and see the misery you’ve caused, you chicken-hearted phony.

- Mike Whitney, via Easy Bake Coven.


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Bunnypants' daily intelligence briefing revamped
Four years after 9/11.

Will be performed by puppets, and will include cookies ‘n’ milk, nap time, petting zoo of small barnyard animals.


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Moral values
Won’t somebody think of the children?




The public relations firm pushing sanctimonious noodlehead Rick Santorum’s book on the family also promoted bogus, lurid sex tales, and represented Paula Jones when she posed for Penthouse, Raw Story reports.

Petty and ridiculous
Obnoxious dickhead can dish it out but can’t take it, the little coward.

[No-talent assclown] John Bolton had a reception at the U.N. ambassador's private residence in the penthouse at the Waldorf Astoria last night. The Washington Times, Fox News, and various other conservatives were invited, but some of the people who weren't included Colum Lynch from the Washington Post and Warren Hoge from the New York Times, both of whom cover the U.N. for their respective papers.

If you thought the Bush administration’s cowardice about facing anyone not completely on board was confined to Crawford and the campaign trail, think again.

- Arianna.

Gawd, what a pud. And to make matters worse, that bullying imbecile has a freaking penthouse in the Waldorf Astoria???? And guess who’s paying for it!


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Noble cause
Bush's Iraqi "fig leaf" PR constitution-sham headed for civil war^*

Shiites and Kurds have halted charter talks, a heavy blow for the Bush misadministration, which had expended enormous energy and political capital to forge a constitution that included the Sunnis.

Under the constitution now completed, Islam will reign as the official state religion and as a main source of Iraqi law. Clerics will in all likelihood have seats on the Supreme Court, where they will be empowered to examine legislation to make sure it does not conflict with Islam. They will be given an opportunity to apply Islamic law in family disputes over matters like divorce and inheritance.

Those provisions have raised concerns here, especially among Iraqi women and secular leaders, who fear that they are laying the groundwork for a full-blown Islamic state.

OK. So they lied about wmd, ties to September 11th, they've killed more people than Saddam did, are responsible for greatly increasing the number of terrorists, and for creating another Islamic fundamentalist state. WTF???


“Poopies. Kin ah go ride muh bike now?”

^*BuzzFlash.

F*ck you
The NYPD, NYFD, and the rest of NYC if not the entire country should berate and publicly condemn this utterly despicable, hate-filled deranged flaming, odious POS.


Die, bitch.
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Makin' progress in our noble cause
Democracy's on the march!

Sham Iraq constitution will not “honor troops’ sacrifice”

Political violence surges in Iraq

Christians, women and minorities in Iraq now live under fear of death

Gunmen kill 8 of the Iraq president's bodyguards

Constitution talks in Iraq reportedly at end of line and about to be deep-sixed


Seen at BartCop.
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Friday prat blogging



"The truth is that the ACLU [which is demanding the release of all Abu Ghraib photographs] and its "friends" don't care if they help the jihadists and don't know how to defeat the enemy. Those who are demanding more abuse pictures are not supporting the troops and are not looking out for everyday Americans. They are putting our fighting people and U.S. civilians in even more danger."

- falafel abuser and stalker Bill O'Reilly.





Pic by Seufzer.
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Around blogtopia
y!sctp!

Another reason to love Jon Stewart:

"And his scorching critique of television on CNN's Crossfire last fall was so dead-on that the network's president cited Stewart's indictment when he canceled the show in January."

- thanks to Chapel Perilous.

Keith Olbermann interviews Specialist Jeans Cruz, one of the two soldiers who hauled Saddam Hussein out of hiding:

CRUZ: To be honest, it is time to pull out now. As you said, no one needs to die for others who have died. Everybody has their sacrifices. And we do not need to sacrifice more people. We know what everybody else has sacrificed, and we have to praise that right now.

OLBERMANN: So pulling out at this point, to you, would not be diminishing their memories in any way?

CRUZ: No. Actually, it would be showing that, you know, it‘s time to pull out, giving them concerns to families and showing respect, actually, for my concern.

- via Blah3.

Enemies of freedom: Why does the American Legion hate America?

Bohemian Mama creates a new definition for sending somebody to kingdom come.

Planning a trip? Pen-Elayne helpfully posts a link to the Universal Packing List Generator,

Having the in-laws over? The Biomes Blog recommends a nice Insect cheese dip.

Jon Stewart reviews Bush's Iraq talking points

STEWART: (Bush) has developed a sophisticated exit strategy ... for getting out of questions about the war. It's a strategy known as repetition, or "repetition." It's one he'd used with great success many times before.

"But Jon," you ask, "how does it work?"

The first step is to let people know you're aware of their questions. Then the president can reduce these nuanced concerns into a simplistic misguided concern that he can easily refute.

BUSH MONTAGE: I also know there's a lot of folks here in the United States that are, you know, wondering about troop withdrawals ... I also have heard the voices of those saying: "pull out now" ... Immediate withdrawal from Iraq would be a mistake.

STEWART: See? He knows the concerns that make you look like a pussy. So staying the course in Iraq is the plan. But what about all the violence and chaos we see? Pah! It's not match for a simple eight-letter word. See if you can pick out the one he uses:

BUSH MONTAGE: I am pleased with the progress being made ... we're making progress ... a lot of progress ... I'm please with the progress ... progress ... progress ... Oh I know it's hard for some Americans to see that ...

STEWART: But? BUSH: ... we are making progress.

STEWART: Yes!

So we're doing the right thing and we're making good progress. So, I guess that means, uh, if I hear you correctly -- we're doing the right thing and we're making good progress -- that soon we'll be able to talk about concrete troop withdrawal?

BUSH MONTAGE: Why would you say to the enemy, you know, here's the timetable ... it makes no sense ... it doesn't make any sense to have a timetable ... an artificial timetable ... there aren't any timetables ... I'm not giving timetables ...

STEWART: One little timetable? No timetables!

Now here's why staying on message with your talking points is difficult: Back when the war began, the talking points for the president centered on weapons of mass destruction. Really drilled that into our heads actually -- it was quite a lot of talk. That doesn't seem to come up so much anymore. But you just know some nasty reporter's always going to ask. So the key for your new war rationale talking point is: delivering them as though the person who asked is retarded:

BUSH MONTAGE: We're defeating them there so we do not have to face them here ... our immediate strategy is to eliminate terrorist threats abroad ... we're fighting the enemy in Iraq ... fighting them in Iraq ... to defeat the terrorists abroad ... so we don't have to face them here at home ... where we live ...

STEWART: (Sarcastically) Duh!

Of course, sometimes, no matter how good your talking points, no matter how many times you repeat them, there are still some dissenters and non-believers. If there only was some way you could shut these remaining people up with some kind of emotional bludgeon:

BUSH MONTAGE: The war arrived on our shores on September the 11th, 2001 ... September the 11th ... September the 11th I made a commitment to the American people ... from September the 11th ... the lesson of September the 11th, 2001 ...

STEWART: You know, if I had a nickel for every time Bush has mentioned 9/11, I could raise enough reward money to go after Bin Laden!

And there you go, talking points. Simple! Catchy!

- via David, at JABBS.


Our hero.
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Friday cat blogging


Milo. Boy, he's getting big.
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TIME magazine tried to influence the 2004 election in Bush's favor
Well, this certainly is disgusting. Why do I subscribe again?

If Time magazine had gone public about Karl Rove’s conversations with Matt Cooper. it might have had some impact on the Bush-Kerry race for the White House last year - but Time editors were concerned about "becoming part of such an explosive story" during an election. The result was that Cooper's testimony was delayed nearly a year, well after Bush's reelection.

Thanks for nothing, whores. Goodbye.

- reported by Salon and AmericaBlog.


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Ouch

A mother who lost a son in Iraq wants to know why her son died.

The president, who has been playing with his bicycle and the rest of his toys, has no answer.

.- Heh. From The Plain Dealer opinion page.


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Intelligent design
Alabama man mistakes military flares for second coming of Jesus.


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Hedgehog babies! Somebody else's, unfortunately.

Whom would Jesus whack?
“Moral values” misadministration silent on Pat Robertson's call for assassinating a foreign head of state. But blowjobs are an abomination and the height of iniquity.

Nor was it surprising that the forces of the right-wing morality police were silent or unavailable. The Christian Coalition, the Family Research Council and the Traditional Values Coalition saved their anger for those opposing Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Even Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, while disagreeing, said, "Private citizens say all kinds of things all the time."

But this private citizen meets with the president…

- from an editorial in the Palm Beach Post.


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Bush denies he's on vacation
Does not comment on his vacation from reality.

His excuses so far:
"Ah need a month off!" - No. Sounds French.

"Ah'm still workin', Ah'm just doing it from the ranch instead of from Washington! It's a workin' vacashun!" - Ummm, no good. American public erupts in laughter.

“Ah’ve got a life tuh live!” - Whoa. Mistake. Way too callous. American public shocked, dismayed and disgusted.

Today's:
"They made me come here! They're renovatin' the White House!” - :: crickets ::

For his grade school essay on What I Did This Summer, maybe [Bunnypants] should write one on how he turned a middle eastern secular state into an Islamic Theocracy.
- Jesus Christ God of War

I’d be wary of any announcement of renovation. The last time Bush took the month of August off, the Pentagon and WTC were renovated.
- cynical ex-hippie

"It's hard work!"
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aWol's new Iraq push: editorials say don't bother
"So long as I am president, we will stay, and we will fight, and we will win the war on terror.” - Bush at a recent photo-op at a VFW hall.

Note: "we" = your sons and daughters, since he’ll be on his summer vacation in Crawford.

In an address that repeatedly invoked Sept. 11 -- the day that terrorists who had no discernable connection whatsoever to Iraq attacked targets on American soil -- Mr. Bush offered a new reason for staying the course: to keep faith with the men and women who have already died in the war. It was, as the mother of one fallen National Guardsman said, an argument that 'makes no sense.'

No one wants young men and women to die just because others have already made the ultimate sacrifice. The families of the dead do not want that, any more than they want to see more soldiers die because politicians cannot bear to admit that they sent American forces to war by mistake."

- more here.


Seen at BartCop.
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Panda baby pic from Yahoo News this morning.

Mail

Bob explains why Bush truly is that stupid.

Ran replies to yesterday's story of Wolf Blitzer's interview with RNC droid Greg Mueller: "if I remember correctly, Reagan's answer to the Marine attack in Beirut in 1983 was to pull out of Beirut (retreat and and surrender) and attack Grenada. Just think if there was someone.. I don't know, maybe a journalist on that show.. this could have been brought up."


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Pat Robertson sins again!
Lying, calling for murder kidnapping make the baby Jebus cry.

"I didn't say 'assassination.' I said our special forces should 'take him out.' And 'take him out' can be a number of things, including kidnapping," Robertson said today.

"If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it," he said on Monday's program.

Ummmm, so what part of 'assassination' doesn't mean... well, 'assassination'?

Dumbass.


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Makin' progress
Iraq war less popular than Vietnam. "What's vietnam?" asks W. "Is it a vegetable?"

Democracy's on the march!
Dr. Raja Khuzai, the Iraqi doctor who once called Bush her "liberator," decides to flee her country after checking out the new 'n' improved Iraqi Constitution.


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Which war did Rush bravely fight in again?
Rush "bleeding rectum" Limbaugh: You're damn right, American Left; we're questioning your patriotism.^*

Maru: I couldn't give a rat's ass what you think, you pasty, drug-addled asshat.



^*from the junkie's 8/23 program transcript.
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Han'-pick me some mourners, there, Karl!
Bush to meet with families of Iraq War dead who aren't mad at him.


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Maybe they just need a Situation Room
CNN president Jonathan Klein implies Fox News coverage is "meaningless nonsense" - "Fourteen Americans dead, and they have Natalee Holloway on. And they're supposedly America's news channel." (seen at drudge, so no link)


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Pastafarianism
Hey, Bill Frist! When you put together Bush's plan to teach 'intelligent design' in the classroom, don't forget to include the Flying Spaghetti Monster in the curriculum!


All hail his noodly appendages.
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Excuse me?
Bob brings us the sickening story of how Colleen Rowley, former FBI agent and Democratic candidate for Congress, faced rethug bullying and sliming on Hardball Monday night, "courtesy" of guest "host" Norah O'Donnell and radio talk show scumbag Mark Williams. If you need to puke up your lunch, this should help.

BTW, 54% of the country are extremists, then, b!tch.


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Brrrraaak!
CNN's Wolf Blitzer interviews a repuke parrot... in... The Situation Room...

BLITZER: When you woke up -- and I don't know if you knew about it last night, but when you woke up this morning, presumably and heard what Pat Robertson said, what was your reaction?

GREG MUELLER, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST, TOEING THE WH TALKING POINTS TO THE LETTER: Well, my reaction was that was a little off the cuff, a little flippant and a little silly. I don't think anybody's going to...

BLITZER: Just a little bit?

MUELLER: Yes. I mean, it was. I mean, nobody's going to subscribe to that, Wolf, but the real issue here is how...

BLITZER: But he said it in seriousness. He wasn't trying to be cute.

MUELLER: Well, I thought he kind of said it a little flippantly, but we can have that discussion. I think -- Look, nobody is going to subscribe to assassinating any leader of any country, but we are going to have a discussion, I think, where the battle lines are being drawn over the global War on Terror.

God, what a patsy. Even Wolf, to his credit, looked gobsmacked.
But then it got worse:

MUELLER: This is another indication of how serious this War on Terror is and where are the parties going to stand strategically? The Republican Party is taking a status of engagement. The Democrat Party, especially in the last weeks with Cindy Sheehan, seems to be the party of retreat and surrender. And I don't think that's going to play out well…

Again, I think it was done in -- it wasn't helpful, it wasn't good, but it does draw attention to this battle in the global war on terror which, I think, is getting more and more serious. And we're going to have two party lines drawn on that role. Where are we going to stand, are we going to be the party to retreat and surrender, the Jimmy Carter approach to terrorism. Or are we going to take the Ronald Reagan approach of engagement to terrorism?

What a smarmy fucking toe-rag.


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Intolerance for tots
An anonymous emailer sent in this, seen at amazon.com -

"Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed" by Katherine DeBrecht.

This full-color illustrated book is a fun way for parents to teach young children the valuable lessons of conservatism. Written in simple text {That even a conservative can understand - Ed.}, readers can follow along with Tommy and Lou as they open a lemonade stand to earn money for a swing set.^* But when liberals start demanding that Tommy and Lou pay half their money in taxes, take down their picture of Jesus, and serve broccoli with every glass of lemonade, the young brothers experience the downside to living in Liberaland.

Holy shit! What's next, demanding to see little Tommy's permit for his 12-gauge and his AK-47?! Those commies!

“[T]he idea that children are going to be subjected to this kind of propaganda at an early age in order to be molded into creepy little Ann Coulter clones just makes me weep for this country of ours,” says one reviewer.

Indeed.

^*Geez, how fucking gay is that?


Pat Robertson told me to burn things!
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Moral values and integrity
On Thursday, Pennsylvania police charged Republican committeeman John Curtin with deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault, furnishing liquor to minors, corruption of minors and unlawful contact with a minor after molesting a teenage boy at an underage beer party in a Stroudsburg motel.

There's a Bill Xlintoon joke in here somewhere, but for the life of me I can't figure out what it is.


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President aWol went on a five-week summer vacation and all I got was killed
Getting on with his life:

CNN bimbette Dana Bash: "Hi, Wolf. Well this was supposed to be a down day, one of recreation -- things like biking and hiking for the president in between two big speeches on Iraq. That's what the public schedule said, anyway, but his aides know crucial it is for him to keep his voice out there right now to counter the protesters."

While Bunnypants spent most of the day hanging loose, as he put it, in Idaho, an American soldier, an American contractor and five Iraqis died in a suicide bombing.


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Noble cause

"What twisted logic: with no WMD, no link to 9/11 and no democracy, now we have to keep killing people and have our kids killed because so many of our kids have been killed already? Talk about a vicious circle: the killing keeps justifying itself."

- Maureen Dowd.


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Whoa...
Is the Pentagon holding up reports of casualties in Iraq??


"We can't give the anti-war extremists any more ammunition..."
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Poor Preznit Privilege dogged on vacation by critics
Awwwwwwwwwww.

Not only are those mean, terrist-enabling, troop-hating extremists attacking President GameBoy's Iraq policy, they are protesting that his holiday is 'inappropriate at a time of war.'

Monty Mericles {Now THERE's a cool name! - Ed.}, 55, a Boise electrical engineer who attended an anti-war rally Tuesday, said Bush's insistence on vacationing is "typical of his attitude about everything - blasé and unempathetic toward those who disagree with him."

But Preznit Clueless naturally didn't see it that way.

"I think the people want the president to be in a position to make good, crisp decisions^* and to stay healthy," Bush said during an Aug. 13 bike ride with journalists at the Lazy W. "And part of my being is to be outside exercising. So I'm mindful of what goes on around me.^** On the other hand, I'm also mindful that I've got a life to live, and will do so."

Well said.
Jebus.

^*So when's he gonna start?
^**Oooooohhh, look, shiny...


"Now watch this drive..."
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Speaking of propaganda...
WH slogans engraved on troops' gravestones against families' wishes - "It seems like it might be connected to politics."

Unlike earlier wars, nearly all Arlington National Cemetery gravestones for troops killed in Iraq or Afghanistan are inscribed with the slogan-like operation names the Pentagon selected to promote public support for the conflicts.

Do those dead men and women speak for the Bush misadministration?


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The 'big lie' on Bunnypants' nightstand
Right next to his Batman lamp and his Lance Armstrong bobblenut doll.

The significance remains that [Bush's] summer reading list is about the most transparent example of the administration using the big lie technique -- that is, playing the public and the media for fools. The idea that the President reads anything at all -- much less scholarly tomes -- shows how much contempt his handlers have for the public.

Bush's interest in the printed word has been spotty at best:

asked the title of his first favorite book, Bush responded, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a book published after he graduated from college

asked for the name of a political philosopher with whom he identified, his response, Jesus Christ, showed he wasn't conversant either with political philosophy or the difference between philosophy and religion

when quizzed in the 2000 debates, he was unable to say anything meaningful about a subject (Dean Acheson) on which he said he was reading

Bush himself said in 2003 that he doesn't read newspapers. Even his former speechwriter David Frum called him "uncurious and as a result ill-informed."

But only the LA Times swallowed this blatant, laughable piece of propaganda like Jeff Gannon with a warm mouthful of WH jizz.

Makes you wonder if the mainstream outlets are catching on, finally, and that they saw the administration's attempt to portray Bush as an intellectual as what it was: a big lie, the deliberate seeding of misinformation.

- Kir Slevin, AlterNet.


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Bad moon risin'
"Twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!" - Kodos, 'Citizen Kang.'

"[O]ne result of invading Iraq, which had no weapons of mass destruction, was to drive its Shiite majority closer to Iran, which is doing its best to build a nuclear bomb. Gee, that really worked out...

"[T]he president's policy amounts to the belief that if he concentrates really hard -- and stays in shape by regularly doing the Tour de Crawford on his mountain bike -- he'll be able to summon a miracle."

- from a column in the WaPo.


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Yellow alert
"[Democrats] have nothing to offer but fear itself." - RNC headcheese Ken Mehlman, 8/05.

The misadministration is now warning that the smelly, filthy homeless guy pissing against the deli wall may be a terrist.


Kenny assumes the position.
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F*cked
Noble cause...

"The draft constitution given to Iraq's national assembly last night does little to advance the prospects for a unified and peaceful Iraq. Nor does it reflect well on the Bush administration, which let its politically motivated obsession with an arbitrary deadline trump its responsibility to promote inclusiveness, women's rights and the rule of law."

- from a NY Times editorial.


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God, what an idiot
Is he retarded, or what??

President Dumbass believes that war protesters and those who want the misadministration to change course in Iraq do "not want America to win the war on terra'." An' they have cooties!


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"Bush compares the 'War on Terra' to the World Wars. You know, the ones with the clearly-defined objectives and exit strategies."
- headline at Fark.

Dissent is unAmerican, you terrist-enabling commies!
"Let freedom reign." - Napoleon Bonehead, June 28, 2004.

Clueless, drooling, and insipid as usual, the lying Draft-Dodger-in-Chief says anti-war protests threaten to weaken the United States, threaten the troops, enable the terrists, and make Jesus roll over in his grave.

Check out the priceless pic of the guy wearing "Bullshit Protectors" over his ears while listening to Bush.


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Don't use this handy phone number to tell Fu Tucker Carlson he's still an America-hating dick
Carlson's new bomb on PMSNBC, The Situation, "encourages you to share your thoughts about a story in the news, the show, or Tucker Carlson himself. Call 1-877-TCARLSON to give your two cents. He checks the voicemail every night on-air."


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Man of God prays for assassination
Not his own, unfortunately.

'People are beginning to think that the "700" in "700 Club" is the amount in milligrams of valium needed to sedate Pat Robertson.'
- headline at Fark.

AmeriTaliban leader Pat Robertson, preaching tolerance, love and Christian understanding, calls for the murder of Venezula's president, in order to stop his country from becoming "a launching pad for extremism."


"WTF???!"
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Toon by Ted Rall.

War deserter: US must finish job in Iraq to "honor the fallen"

In a speech to the VFW, the AWOL Lying Chickenhawk again linked the Iraq war with September 11 -- a link critics say is an attempt to shift the justification for war.

The White House says the presence in Iraq of al Qaeda-linked insurgents shows the link with terrorism, although the misadministration concedes many of those militants have come into Iraq from other countries since the US invasion.

"We all know that 'noble cause for war' that Bush talks about has changed several times," said Celeste Zappala, part of Cindy Sheehan's group, Gold Star Families for Peace, and whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004 - while assisting with the hunt for weapons of mass destruction.

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Cheney has no credibility on Iraq
Dick "five student deferments" Cheney only adds insult to injury with war cheerleading.

Victory in Iraq is "critical to the future security of the US" and the country "must not lose its resolve" to finish the job?

Easy to say when the war doesn't touch you or your family or wealthy friends, who enjoy tax cuts while our soldiers bleed in Iraq and their families struggle with hardships at home.

- from a St Petersburg Times editorial.


Why does Dick hate America?
And why does he even bother crawling out from his undisclosed location?
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Pic from DU.

Nothing is over until we decide it is!
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?! Hell no!
Otter: Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
D-Day: Let's do it.
Bluto: LET'S... DO IT!!

This is unbelievable: as Iraq moves closer to becoming an Islamic state, President aWol will launch a new round of speeches to rally support for the war sending our troops there to die.

Senior aides say the Lying WarMonkey will attempt to portray the Iraq conflict like World War II. Vietnam may offer a better analogy.

There were few misgivings about the need to fight World War II because America had been attacked at Pearl Harbor. Most Americans also were eager to stop Hitler from taking over all of Europe.

The same cannot be said of the Iraq war because Saddam Hussein's regime had nothing whatsoever to do with the Sept. 11 attacks. Finding absolutely no signs of weapons of mass destruction - the "smoking mushroom clouds" of the misadministration - also made skeptics of many on the home front.

Aides also said President Blithering Liar will exploit invoke the September 11th attacks, though the 9/11 commission report found no evidence that Iraq had any relationship with al Qaeda. Zip. None.

In fact, the CIA concluded in February that Iraq had become a training ground for terrorists - a state that did not exist before Saddam Hussein's ouster.

So let's review: no ties to 9/11, no wmds, thousands dead, no democracy, more terrorists. A "noble cause" my ass.

Meanwhile, with close to 2000 troops dead to create an Islamic republic in Iraq, 'reality is starting to smack the elitist conservative pundits' - and some congressional republicans iin the face.


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Last throes
A noble cause - democracy's on the march!

Iraqi civil war is already underway as militias wrest control across the country:

Shiite and Kurdish militias, often operating as part of Iraqi government security forces, have carried out a wave of abductions, assassinations and other acts of intimidation, consolidating their control over territory across northern and southern Iraq and deepening the country's divide along ethnic and sectarian lines.

"I don't see any difference between Saddam and the way the Kurds are running things here," said Nahrain Toma, who heads a human rights organization in northern Iraq.

And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
- Country Joe and the Fish.


"9/11! 9/11!"
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World starting to ridicule the 'Boy in the Bubble"

The question of whether Bush was insensitive or out of touch, which had been a flash point in the campaign, was back, and commentators were once again talking about presidential naps.

In Australia, a headline taunted, "Awkward facts intruding on the Bush 'bubble.'"

In India, a newspaper called Sheehan "the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement."

"I gotta get on with my life. Now watch this drive."
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There once was a word called “accountability”

It meant that when a tragedy or mishap occurs, truthful answers would naturally follow...

You made time for a fund-raiser, time to throw the first pitch at a baseball game, time to meet with foreign heads of government — but no time to meet with and answer the questions of a mother whose son was killed in Iraq?

This is what “war presidents” do. There is no vacation from reality.

- The Lone Star Iconoclast has some questions, bitchslaps for the lazy, callous Liar-in-Chief.


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Twin Cities tuning out hate radio
"In general, the talk shows that are succeeding are ones that haven't been reliving the election, or constantly harping on the polarization between liberals and conservatives, or referring to Mrs Clinton as 'Hitlery.'"

OK, I made that last part up.

Fat-ass drug-addict Rush Limbaugh's show has lost 43 percent of its audience among 25- to 54-year-olds in the past year. Repulsive pudface Sean Hannity's show is down a whopping 63 percent.

The shift is serious enough that "we're weighing where these shows fit for us in the future," according to Todd Fisher, general manager at KSTP, which carries both programs.

Al Franken is an exception, however. Locally, he has increased his audience share to 2.4 percent of listeners ages 25 to 54, compared with 1.3 last year.

"Why yes, I AM a pathetic, drug-addled asshat."
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Insert smartass comment here!
President GameBoy says exercise - like his "fanatic" bike-riding - helps sharpen his thinking.


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Mail
Catherine asks why the Comments sections come and go - I wish I knew. I lose pictures, my weather map and the Blogroll links every now and then, too.

Kari Chisholm introduces Lefty Blogs, with feeds from progressive blogs across the country.

Thank you to Liz in Nashville, Bob Geiger, and Chris Kelly for their kind words!

Banalest R. Promulgation promised me the "cheapest big penis available." I don't think so.

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God, what an idiot
Uhhhh, ferget about that whole spreadin' democracy thing. We're fightin' them there so we don't haftuh fight 'em over here. Right, Prime Minister Blair?

Bunnypants begins a 5-day push to defend the Iraq war.


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A noble cause
Well it's one, two, three
What're we fighting for?
- Country Joe and the Fish

Intense flop-sweat over the Iraq war fiasco has led to a MAJOR flipflop by the WH:

US concessions to Islamists on the role of religion in Iraqi law marked a turn in talks on a constitution, negotiators said on Saturday as they raced to meet a 48-hour deadline under intense pressure by the Bushies to clinch a deal.

The Bush misadministration, who have insisted the constitution must enshrine ideals of equal rights and democracy, declined comment.

Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish negotiators all said there was accord on a bigger role for Islamic law than Iraq had had before.

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It's half-scrotum vs. half-brain today during much anticipated bike race in Texas^*
Lance Armstrong to let manly, fit preznit win on bike-riding man-date at Compound W.

The first rule: Don't pass the president.

"Do not force the president too hard," Bush instructed a handful of journalists who rode with him last weekend. "Be kind."

^*- headline at Fark.
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Please welcome...
Yellow Dog Blog, "one of the most evil of the liberal bloggers"!


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Best wishes...
To Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, who suffered a 'small' stroke this week, and fortunately seems to be OK.


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Bush's folly, like a #ucking albatross, is coming home to roost

With the US death toll climbing, support at home plunging and a stalemate over a constitution stalling the political process, the Iraq war is casting a darkening cloud over George W. Bush's presidency and the misadministration.

Signs of alarm are now starting to surface within Bush's Republican Party, which is fearful that discontent over the war could loosen, if not threaten, its solid hold over Congress in the November 2006 elections.

And I'll cry a river over you...


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Yeah!
What he said...

Bob makes a great point. President Bush was more than willing to interrupt another one of his vacations to jump on a plane, travel thousands of miles to Washington, sign Republican legislation on the Terry Schiavo case and fly thousands of miles back to Crawford all for the circus clowns, but interrupting a bike ride to take a walk down the road to meet with Cindy was just too much " hard work" for him. When it comes to God's Own Circus, the President will move heaven and earth.

- Crooks and Liars.

Goober.
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Heh
Indeed.

"Rush Limbaugh referred to [Cindy Sheehan's] peace vigil as 'a bunch of miserable, angry people exploiting death.' Uh, Sheehan's son gave his life to protect your freedom to buy prescriptions, Rushhole."

- Doug Elfman.


Cranked-up douchenozzle Rush Limbaugh.
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Feh
My Blogroll links have vanished. Anyone else having this problem?


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Around blogtopia
y!sctp!

Democrats "used to tell people you have nothing to fear but fear itself," RNC head Ken Mehlman said. "Now they have nothing to offer but fear itself."

Umm, Ken? Which party was it that has spent the past four years fucking with terror alert levels for political advantage?

- Stranger, at Blah3.

Easy Bake Coven has a short mp3 clip of "Sweet Neocon."

Dana Milbank is such an asskissing toady. Avedon Carol explains, in ‘Cindy vs. the media whores’ at The Sideshow.

Jebus. The Pope has asked Bush for immunity in a child molestation case in Texas. Yes, that Pope! Pesky Apostrophe has more.

Friday prat blogging
Because I don’t have any new cat pictures.


Faux Nooze gasbag and falafel-abuser Bill O’Reilly finally loses it on national television.
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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough considering return to politics, on the condition that he's allowed to kill another intern
Television talk show host Joe Scarborough, a former congressman from Pensacola, is being urged by the National Republican Senatorial Committee to take on gruesome harridan Katherine Harris for the US Senate.

Rethugs have been looking for someone to run against Harris for months, fearing she is way too polarizing a figure.

Speaking of figures, her appearance on Hannity and Corpse last week - when her jiggling, thrusting breasts nearly took Colmes's eyes out - was very professional. If your profession is "hooker."


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Easy for him to say
Vice President and chickenhawk Dick Cheney - whose "other priorities" during the Vietnam war led to five draft deferments - suggested that the best way to honor fallen soldiers is not through protests and candlelight vigils but by supporting the misadministration completion of the war in Iraq.


Why did Dick "dick" Cheney hate America?
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Strange disappearance may finally be solved 75 years later
And they don't have to dig up the end zones in Giants Stadiumto do it!

Police may be on the brink of finally finding the remains of Judge Joseph Crater - and possibly solving the most enduring mystery in New York City history, investigators said yesterday.

A letter probably penned more than half a century ago has pinpointed a spot under the Coney Island boardwalk where Crater - allegedly offed by mobster Frank Costello - is buried, they said. Investigators who have examined erosion records think they've zeroed in on where Crater's remains may be, but they haven't said when digging will start.

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US heartland feeling anxiety over Iraq, oil, lying POS in office on vacation
Pththth. Cry me a river, asshats. Happy now? No? Awwwwwwww.

The Liar-in-Chief is facing a growing credibility gap, Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said in an interview after getting a damn good earful from his constituents.

Nebraska, once solidly "Bush country," is now feeling "deep unease" about rising gasoline prices and the war in Iraq.

Senator Hagel acknowledged the US military presence was becoming harder and harder to justify. He believes Iraq faces a serious danger of civil war that would threaten Middle East stability, and said there is little Washington can do to avert this.

"We are seen as occupiers, we are targets. We have got to get out. I don't think we can sustain our current policy, nor do I think we should," he said at one stop.

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Bush nominates official cited in Air Force leasing scandal
Can't this idiot do anything right?

Cleanin' up Washington - Preznit Integritude's choice to head the Air Force was involved in a lease deal that resulted in a prison term for a former top Defense Department official.


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Ozzy and Egon take five. From sleeping all morning. Bein' a cat is hard. Hard work.


US envoy and high-society pal of Bush just another arrogant assclown
"He lacks charisma. He is very like Bush in his style."

Ambassador and former Smirky campaign advisor Tony Garza pulls a John Bolton on Mexico. Just wtf is it with this misadministration, anyway? It's as if they think "ambassador" is another word for "insufferable, maladjusted fuckwit."


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Callous, bonged-out chancroid on the smack again
"When Rush had his anal cyst removed, they threw away the wrong part."
- BunkoSquad, at Fark.

America's Favorite Junkie ©, living symbol of the family-and-values party, slams grieving mom.

"I mean, Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett. Her story is nothing more than forged documents. There's nothing about it that's real, including the mainstream media's glomming onto it. It's not real. It's nothing more than an attempt. It's the latest effort made by the coordinated left."

"Frankly, I'm also fed up -- not fed up. I retract that. I'm weary, ladies and gentlemen, of even having to express sympathy. 'Oh, she lost her son!' Yes, yes, yes, but (sigh) we all lose things."

- 'hateful, psychotic pill-popper' Rush Limbaugh.
Tx, BuzzFlash!

Ummmmmm, she lost her son, you miserable crapped-out POS, not a fucking suitcase. Good grief.


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Ohio's rethug governor to face criminal charges
Gov. Bob Taft of the moral values and integritude party is scheduled to appear in court Thursday to face four criminal charges in the golfgate and coingate scandals, being an election-fixing dickhat.


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Bush misadministration was warned of 'serious' failures in post-war planning
Went ahead anyway. Hell, they weren't the ones going over there and getting killed.

Senior US officials warned just a month before the invasion of Iraq of "serious planning gaps" in how to manage the conquered country, according to declassified, newly-released documents.

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Accountability
Trent "I used to be somebody!" Lott blames Bill Frist for his fall from power. Noticably absolved of blame are the liberal media, special interest groups, and Trent Lott (thx to Fark).


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"[T]hink of someone who says, 'We will not cut and run,' but who cut and ran years ago when he was called."

'He did not die for your freedom'

For those of you who still trust this administration, let me tell you that Chase Johnson Comley did not die to preserve your freedoms. He was not presented flowers by grateful Iraqis welcoming him as their liberator. My nephew died, fighting a senseless war for oil and for contracts, insuring the increased wealth of Bush and his administration's friends.

He died long after George Bush, in his testosterone-charged, theatrical, soldier-for-a-day role, announced on an aircraft carrier beneath the banner, Mission Accomplished, that "major combat was over."

He died in a country erupting into civil war and turned into a hellhole by George Bush, a place where democracy has no chance of prevailing, a country which will, instead, most likely be a theocracy, much like Saudi Arabia.

- Missy Comley Beattie, aunt of Marine Lance Cpl. Chase Comley who was recently killed in Iraq.


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Four more US troops have been killed by roadside bombs in Baghdad as Squinty McSquirtgun "gets on with his life" on his five-week vacation.




Candlelight vigils calling for an end to the war have begun
"This war has been disgraceful, with trumped-up reasons. There were no weapons of mass destruction and the Iraqis didn't have anything to do with 9-11."

More than 1,600 vigils lit up the night Wednesday as groups came together across the nation - near Philadelphia's Independence Hall, outside the New Hampshire statehouse, on a bridge linking Minneapolis and St. Paul, on the courthouse steps in Hackensack, NJ, in Charleston, W.Va., in Ithaca, NY's DeWitt Park, in NYC, in Hermosa Beach, CA, and in Boston. A large vigil was even planned in Paris.


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Pic by Ben Goossens.

It's liberty for all
Democracy's our style
Unless you are against us
Then it's prison without trial.
- the Rolling Stones, "Sweet NeoCon"


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Let freedom reign
Welcome to Bushistan. Your papers please.

Not quite grasping the concept, the Defense Department will screen participants in the Pentagon's so-called "Freedom Walk."

You know, the one celebrating Saddam's attack on us on 9/11.


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Worst... poll numbers... ever
Wednesday August 17, 2005 -- Preznit GameBoy's approval rating has sunk five points over the past week to the lowest level ever recorded by the erstwhile beloved-by-freepers Rasmussen Reports.

Just 43% of American sheeple now approve of the way Chimpy McGolfcart is performing his role as President.

And in the latest SurveyUSA report, his job approval has dropped to 41%. Compared to last month, the Lying WarMonkey's approval numbers dropped 5 or more points in 10 states.

Yeah, he can't be re-elected, but the reboobs have to be plenty worried about this. Mwwwwwwwwwwah!


Excellent!
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Heh - his name is "Pooh"...
Jack Cafferty asked his viewers last night on CNN: What would you suggest for Preznit Lawn Ornament's summer reading list?
Besides Richie Rich comics?

'We got close to 1,000 e-mails in the last 35, 40 minutes, and some of them we can even read. Some of you folks are just downright mean...

'Dan in the Bronx, New York, writes this: "I just finished reading a very good book named 'The War on Our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in the Age of Terrorism.' I'm very interested to know if the president has read the Patriot Act."

'Richard in Mississagua, Canada writes: "Mr. Bush should seriously consider reading 'How to Win Friends and Influence People.' He could not have read it before."

'Dave in Japan: "Reading for President Bush? How about Lou Dobbs' book, 'Exporting America'?"

'Karl writes: "How about 'My Pet Goat'? On September 11th, he was holding it upside down. Perhaps he'd get more out of it this time."

'Deidre writes: "How about the newspaper?"

And one other nut job writes simply: "...my lips."'

- transcript.


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43 more killed in Baghdad as Bush "gets on with his life."


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Why do the Bush twins hate freedom?
Are aWol's daughters AWOL?

Thanks in large part to Cindy Sheehan, people are starting to raise the issue of why Jenna and Barbara Bush aren't serving in the military. It's a tough question, but I think it's a fair one. The President of the United States is calling on American young people to volunteer to go to war, but his own daughters, who are certainly of the appropriate age, are better known for their drunken nightclub escapades than for any acts of patriotism.

So here's a question I think a White House reporter should ask the president: "if your own two daughters won't enlist, how can you expect anyone else's children to join the military?"

- Richard Bradley, HuffPost.com.


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Hep, Unca Dick. Ah can't find Waldo
"Gas prices are climbing, motorists are fuming and President Bush is at his ranch with a book about the history of salt."

According to the White House, one of three books we're supposed to believe Bunnypants is reading during his five-week vacation is "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky. Another is "Lollipops Through the Ages: A Pictorial."

Mr Kurlansky said he was surprised to hear that Bush had taken his book to the Lazy W: "My first reaction was, 'Oh, he reads books?'"

Probably the same way he reads National Security alerts like "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the US."


"Heh heh! Look, Unca Dick, the pet goat is gettin' away again!"
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Keepin' us safer
"[If} we have to give up our passports to prove that our 11-month-old is not a terrorist, it's a waste of their time."

Though if it were up to me, ALL babies would be on a no-fly list.


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Camp Casey news
They hate us for our freedoms

In a stunning show of support for the troops, a redneck in a pickup truck mows down crosses bearing the names of soldiers killed in Iraq.


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Pic by szincza szincza.

Wash. Post drops sponsorship of propaganda event
The WaComPo dropped its sponsorship of the Defense Department's "Freedom Walk," organized by the Pentagon to remind people how brave and manly Bunnypants was when he finally showed up at Ground Zero days after Saddam attacked us on 9/11. The newspaper's news employees' union had urged the paper to reconsider, saying it was possible the event would become "politicized."


Bush, rigid with fear during a reading of 'My Pet Goat' on the morning of the attacks, returned to the story prior to bunker-hopping his way across the country to avoid any danger of the public seeing him carrying a pantload of his own poopie.
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Getting on with his life
... and with his five-week summer vacation.

"So, Lance - that yore name, 'Lance'? What's it like havin' only one nut?"

Lance Armstrong will be Bunnypants' special guest Saturday, for a bike-ridin' man-date around Bush's Crawford, Texas bunker, the Compound W.


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Science news
Meat to be grown in test tubes. Which I think is how George Duhbya was conceived.


"Gah!"
- G.H.W.B.
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Meeting of the mindsplats
Guests and topics on Tony Snow's radio show today include "A Bold Man With a Bold Vision: Ted Nugent is a man who's never without a pithy comment. He'll drop by to opine on all matters political and social -- from Cindy Sheehan to President Bush to the Rolling Stones."

I wonder if they'll mention my favorite Bold Nugent Vision: how he avoided the Vietnam War draft by virtually living inside pants caked with his own excrement!


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What now, Karl?
Traitorous, vindictive asshat Karl Rove and loony boobopath John Ashcroft face new allegations in the Valerie Plame affair.

"The new information, that Ashcroft had not only refused to recuse himself over a period of months, but also was insisting on being personally briefed about a matter implicating his friend, Karl Rove, represents a stunning ethical breach."

- Representative John Conyers.


"Like I care! I'm in charge!"
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Jerking off to visions of W's thick monkey penis
"It's too bad that Mrs. Sheehan can't connect the loss of her son to the positive effects of the war." -- some kool-aid-swigging rethug mindsplat, writing from the safety of his stinky cubicle at the NY comPost.

Yeah, really, that selfish, unAmerican spoilsport. OK, besides us finding no WMDs, Iraq turning into the new terrorist breeding ground; most of the cities going without water, power, or sanitation; and the thousands of civilians maimed or killed, let's review some of the current positive effects:

Six soldiers die in Iraq bombings

Bombs kill 10 in Iraq

Sunnis may be ready to bolt from Iraq talks, scuttling the constitution

Military deaths reach 1853

Women could be big losers under Iraq constitution

"He died in a country erupting into civil war and turned into a hellhole by Bush, a place where democracy has no chance of prevailing, a country that will become a theocracy like Saudi Arabia."


NY comPost columnist's daily essential.
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"This is Texas"
Ummmm, sorry, but you spelled incredibly stupid feebville wrong.

Some moral values-voters are taking potshots - for real - at the traitorous terrist-enablers of Camp Casey, with the blessing of the Secret Service.

Speaking of values, shrewish nutbar Michelle Malkin is all over the Sheehan divorce story like flies on shit, and one of RimJob's mouthbreathing defectives wonders if it would be wrong if "freepers were to stand with foil covered cardboard reflecting the august texas sun at the anti-war protestors" to help end the "notorius stalking" of courageous, manly Preznit Accountabilitude.

Sure, go for it, fuckwit.


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How ah spent muh five-week summer vacashun
"[T]here is one sure-fire way that Cindy Sheehan could get all the face-time she wants with the president - by simply donating $25,000 to the Republican party. See, while Bush is too chickenshit to meet with the mother of a soldier who died in Iraq, he did meet with a group of his rich buddies last week." -- from this week's Top 10 Conservative Idiots at DU, which also included this beaut from our compassionate, moral, hard-workin' president:

"Whether it be here or in Washington or anywhere else, there's somebody who has got something to say to the president, that's part of the job. And I think it's important for me to be thoughtful and sensitive to those who have got something to say. But I think it's also important for me to go on with my life, to keep a balanced life."

Yep, as the death toll of US troops in Iraq climbed past 1850, the War Preznit got on with his life: a BBQ party that doubled as republican fundraiser on Friday, and, in addition to a two-hour bike ride on Saturday, a nap, some fishing, and an evening baseball game.

- from Determined Iraq war protestor spoils Bush vacation (actual headline) at Yahoo news, and DKos.


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Photoshopped by Fox Nooze?


A gobsmacked Alan Colmes can't take his eyes off Katherine Harris's perky, humungous new breasts.
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Cool stuff on a hot day
Mobile foodstuffs!

The bf just yelled for me to look out the window - on the front lawn were a deer with her fawns, and calmly walking down the middle of the street was a family of turkeys, walking single-file, and acting like they were the Queen out for a stroll in the park or something.

Maybe once they get off the road they'll eat some of those damn cicadas.


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"Woopsies!"
While not admitting to fucking up on a titanic scale, the Bush misadministration is "significantly lowering expectations" on the future of Iraq.

The Bushistas no longer expect to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, US officials say.

"We set out to establish a democracy, but we're slowly realizing we will have some form of Islamic republic," said another US official. "So you can kiss women's rights, human rights and religious rights goodbye."

Great. Meanwhile soldiers are still dying for a war that seems to have been about nothing.


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"Like the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J Day, President Bush may be the last person in the country to learn that for Americans, if not Iraqis, the war in Iraq is over. 'We will stay the course,' he insistently tells us from his Texas ranch. What do you mean we, white man?"

- from Someone tell the president the war is over, by Frank Rich.


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It's hot. God, it's hot. The heat index is supposed to go up to 110 today. It is so steamy already that everything feels wet. The only things that seem to be moving outside are the cicadas, sounding like thousands of miniature spaceships ready to take off to somewhere cooler.

I need a cold drink.


"I'm outta here!"
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Key figure in DeLay investigation indicted
Jack Meoff, high-powered rethug lobbyist and close friend of ethically-challenged scumbag Tom DeLay, has been charged with fraud. Rep. Bob Ney (R-Nokidding), who was also involved, has not been charged yet.


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Open letter to Cindy Sheehan

Dear Ms. Sheehan,

From your grief over the loss of your son, Casey, in Iraq has come the courage to spotlight nationally the cowardly character trait of a President who refuses to meet with anyone or any group critical of his illegal, fabricated, deceptive war and occupation of that ravaged country.

As a messianic militarist, Mr. Bush turned aside his own father's major advisers who warned him of the terroristic, political, and diplomatic perils to the United States from an invasion of Iraq. He refused to listen.

This rogue regime, led by two draft-dodgers and officially counseled by similar pro-war evaders during the Vietnam War, is not "our country." Our flag must never be misused or defiled as a bandana for war crimes.

- - from Ralph Nader.


A toast, sir.
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"President Bush says it's too early to pull out of Iraq because he's still busy screwing them."
- headline at Fark.

Dead people make folks sad
Vacationing Bush to mother who lost her son in Iraq: 'I feel your pain.'

"I grieve for every death. It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one," Bunnypants said while playing in his sandbox. "I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place."

Blah blah blah... now lea' me alone, ah want muh ice cream.


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SCLM helped cover up Turdgate
Media conspired to cover up Karl Rove's role in the Plame scandal.

In an article in the September issue of Vanity Fair, Michael Wolff, in probing the Plame/CIA leak scandal, rips those in the news media - principally Time magazine and The New York Times - who knew that Karl Rove was one of the leakers but refused to expose what would have been “one of the biggest stories of the Bush years.” Not only that, they helped cover it up. You might say, he adds, they “became part of a conspiracy.”

If they had burned this unworthy source and exposed his “crime,” he adds, it would have been “of such consequences that it might, reasonably, have presaged the defeat of the president, might have even altered the course of the war in Iraq.” In doing so they showed they owed their greatest allegiance to the source, not their readers.

And their source was no Deep Throat, not someone with dirt on the government -- the source “was the government.”

So in the end, he concludes, “the greatest news organizations in the land had a story about a potential crime that reached as close as you can get to the president himself and they swallowed it."

Why does the SCLM hate America?


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Cropped from original pic by HBFarker.


What did the president know and when did he know it?
Probe investigates issue of what Karl Rove told Preznit Responsibility.

Whether Rove shaded the truth with Bush two years ago is a potential political problem. The president so far has stood by Rove's side, even raising the bar for dismissing subordinates. Two years ago, Bush pledged to fire any leakers, but now he says he would fire anyone who committed a crime.

If Rove didn't tell Bush the truth, that theoretically could be a legal problem for the presidential aide under the federal false statement statute.

Law professor Peter Henning said the false statement law covers statements made to all members of the executive branch, including the president acting in his official capacity.

Presidential scholars say a White House's refusal to comment can suggest an administration in political trouble.

Heh. Oh please oh please oh please.
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Karma's a bitch
Surly, bilious, vindictive prune-faced old geezer gets his.

For nearly 50 years, [vituperative, dismissive and mean-spirited bully] Robert Novak badgered and bullied his way to the top of Washington. His disgrace in the Valerie Plame affair has brought him crashing down -- and he has only himself to blame...

At CNN, Novak's Aug. 1 column created something of a crisis. For some time, the news director and producers had tried to ask Novak about his knowledge of the Plame affair. How could the network claim to be a serious news organization if it gave Novak a free pass?

- read the whole thing at Salon


Hopefully, where Mr Novak and his career are heading.
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Hmmmmm....
"Only President Nixon, who had by then begun to tumble into the abyss of Watergate, had a lower presidential approval rating [than the Chimp-in-Chief does now]."


"9/11! 9/11! 9/11! 9/11! 9/11! 9/11! 9/"
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Misadministration goes off the deep end
Par-tay! In what may be the epitome of bad taste ideas, the Bushies are planning a huge celebration on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks.

The Pentagon will hold a massive march and country music concert to mark the fourth anniversary of 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld said in an unusual announcement tucked into an Iraq war briefing yesterday.

The news also reignited debate and anger over linking Sept. 11 with the war in Iraq.

"That piece of it is disturbing since we all know now there was no connection," said Iraq veteran Paul Rieckhoff.

Rieckhoff suggested the event was an ill-conceived publicity stunt . "I think it's clear that their public opinion polls are in the toilet," he said.

Though Rumsfeld's walk had some relatives of 9/11 victims fuming, misadministration supporters insisted Rumsfeld was right to link Iraq and 9/11, and hold the rally.

Good grief.


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Pic by Stephen Forsyth.

"Democracy's our style
Unless you are against us
Then it's prison without trial
But one thing that is certain
Life is good at Halliburton."

- "Sweet NeoCon," The Rolling Stones.



Why does Cindy Sheehan hate America?
Traitor and terrorist-enabler Sheehan's partisan politics hurting troops, war preznit, says FreeRepublic.com.


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Military families to join Cindy Sheehan in Crawford
More members of Gold Star Families for Peace and Military Families Speak Out are traveling to Texas to join the protest outside of Preznit aWol coWard's Texas bunker, Compound W, where he is vacationing for five weeks while troops continue to die in Iraq.


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Fun time-waster
Newspaper invites you to colorize loony harridan Katherine Harris!


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WWJD?
Conservative pro-family group to withdraw support for godless homo-lover.

Public - and if by "public" you mean "white, straight 'Christian' males" - Advocate president Eugene Delgaudio will announce in a photo-op on Wednesday that his group of bigoted crackpots is withdrawing its support for Judge John Roberts' SC nomination, due to Roberts' past support for the "radical homosexual lobby."


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Mwwwwaaaaa!
In response to being called a 'staff puke', hero/patriot/Marine Paul Hackett calls Rush Limbaugh a 'fatass drug addict.'

There's more:

"Ask Rush how come he wasn't taking phone calls for the two days when he was on the attack with me. Ask him why his phone lines were clogged up. That's because he was getting thousands of calls from veterans from this war and other wars who were clogging up his phone lines, giving him an earful."

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Transparancy and accountability
August 8, 2005
Scooter Libby
Under the Vice President's Desk
Undisclosed Location in the White House

Hey assclown:

Stop stonewalling the Valerie Plame investigation, you #ucking chickenshit traitor.

Sincerely,

John Conyers, Jr.
Ranking Member, Committee on the Judiciary

Louise Slaughter
Ranking Member, Committee on Rules

Rush Holt
Maurice Hinchey


Pic from Fark.
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Today on muh summer vacashun...
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." - Bunnypants.

As gas prices soar even higher, an 'upbeat' Preznit Privilege meets with his economic team to eat BBQ, play horseshoes, dismantle Social Security, and discuss further ways of screwing the American people.


"I don' wanna talk 'bout th' ecomnitude! I wanna play wid the' bunnies!"
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- Ted Rall.


"You call yourself a Christian
I call you a hypocrite
You call yourself a patriot
Well, I think you are full of shit."
- The Rolling Stones, "Sweet Neo Con"

This morning's LJHP* moment: RimJob's mouthbreathing, basement-dwelling pudpullers calling Mick Jagger a "loser."

*LOL - Jebus, how pathetic.



Stolen honor
"How can you ask a soldier to be the last to die for a lie?"

The Bush smear machine tries to pull their Joe Wilson/McCain/Max Cleland swift-boat bullshit on the grieving mother of a soldier killed in the Boy King's bloody Iraq folly. But it may backfire.

If the President's cause is so noble America's families should sacrifice more and more of their children, Cindy [Sheehan] asked, why hasn't he asked his children to serve in Iraq?

Indeed. Why do the Bush twins hate freedom?


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The army you have
Ironically, it's becoming pretty close to actually being an army of one.

The Marine regiment that took heavy casualties last week in Iraq - including 19 killed from a Reserve unit headquartered in Ohio - had repeatedly asked for about 1,000 more troops earlier in the year.

Those requests were not granted.

Supportin' the troops.
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Fretards, Fristers flipped the finger
Michael Schiavo was given the Guardian of the Year Award by the Florida State Guardianship Association yesterday, for his commitment in honoring his late wife Terri's wishes not to be left as a pawn for brain-dead politicians.

LOL. RimJob's smeggy troglodytes are in full barf mode - "This is sick! When are they presenting Hitler or Stalin with an award??" - but must be slipping: in fifty posts, they have yet to blame this on Hitlery or Bill Xlintoon.


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Quote
"Why is it that Congress cares if Rafael Palmiero lied to them about steroids in baseball, but doesn't seem to care that George Bush lied to them about Iraq?"
- headline at Fark.

Indeed.

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Is the fix in?
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald may have to report to one of Bush's frat-hole buddies in his investigation of the Plame leak.


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Coffee-nose
"Man, if I were back in school now, I'd have a field day with this..." - the Top 10 Conservative Idiots from DU.


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Brat camp
"Power is being president."
An' it's hard work!

"I have a busy couple of weeks down here, and I have a lot - going to have meetings with people who come - from my administration who come down, the economic people," Bunnypants sputtered from The Lazy W, where he is spending his five-week summer vacation.

Never a big fan of Washington, the president much prefers spending aimless, brain-dead days on his broiling, arid fake ranch, where he can clear brush, toodle around in his truck, ride his bike an' play The Outlaw Josie Wales Asspounds Some Damn America-hatin' Injins.

Fun fact: Bush takes about as many days off each year as a typical worker in France, a nation whose men and women are not dying in Iraq by the metric shitloads.


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The end of an era
Respected newsman Peter Jennings, prime-time anchor for ABC News, has died of lung cancer at 67. Though born a Canadian he will be missed, and probably replaced by some vapidly cheerful blond bimbette or mimbo.


A good guy.
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Senile, cantankerous old fuckwit apologizes for outburst
Querulous, ill-tempered traitor Bob Novak apologized for snarling "bullshit!" on the air and walking off a CNN set, but said it had nothing to do with the Valerie Plame case.

"I apologize for my conduct and I'm sorry I did it, goddammit," he barked in an interview. "Now leave me the fuck alone!"

Meanwhile, NoozeMax, still enamored with the ex-Presidental penis, helpfully reports that "CNN commentator Robert Novak's decision to storm off the set of 'Inside Politics' has already received four times as much news coverage as a similar meltdown by President Clinton. Clinton walked out in the midst of a 1994 interview with NBC in Prague."

Jebus...


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Things that had coffee coming out of my nose today
The Washington Chestnut, at Corrente.


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Scooter Libby and Judy Miller met on July 8, 2003, two days after Joe Wilson published his column. And Patrick Fitzgerald is very interested

The Libby-Miller meeting and the publication of traitorous, senile old fuck Boob Novak's column unmasking Valerie Plame as a CIA "operative" came during an intensive period of time while senior White House officials were scrambling to discredit her husband, former Ambassador Wilson, who was then asserting that the Bush administration had relied on faulty intelligence to bolster its case to go to war with Iraq.

Both pasty, vengeful asshat Karl Rove and Libby discussed with Novak, Cooper, and other journalists the fact that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, and that she was responsible for sending him to Niger, in an effort to discredit him.

Lewis Libby may possibly have the ability to ascertain Miller’s release by simply signing a specific, personal waiver that she disclose what she knows.

But Libby does not appear to be willing to do that.

And here's the kicker:

The president of the United States -- at whose pleasure Libby serves and who has vowed to do everything possible to get to the truth of the matter -- does not appear to be likely to direct Libby to grant such a waiver any time soon.

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What brought you to WTF?

tory holt monday night football wearing a tutu
- ummmm, that’s sick, dude. How about a pic of Joe Lieberman in one?

wood carving penis
- penii: is there nothing they can’t do?

why did bob novak of cnn get suspended
- Hmmmmm. I wonder if being a traitorous, cursing senile old fart had anything to do with it.

"clifford may" "chickenhawk"
- people who searched for “clifford may” and “chickenhawk” also searched for “clifford may” “hypocritical asstool hack”

president bush is a punkass twit
- sorry, I’m at a loss here.
{giggle}



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Things that had coffee coming out of my nose today
The I’m going to Hell edition.

The Rude Pundit started it off with “John Roberts Hearts Cocksuckers,” but “Ken Mehlman demanded that Jeff Gannon fuck him harder as he watched the results coming in from the Ohio Second Congressional District race” almost made me lose my lunch.

”You can’t spit without hitting a square inch where Ben Franklin stood, farted, or tweaked some innocent barmaid’s nipple.” - pesky apostrophe, on Philadelphia.

”Sure, court documents suggest that you enjoy stimulating your prostate with a penis shaped vibrator, but that doesn't make you any less masculine. As far as I know there are no allegations that you engage in this activity while dressed like a Catholic schoolgirl - that would make it a problem.” - from the General’s letter to falafel-abusing gasbag Bill O’Reilly.

Overheard in NY (via Norbizniz).

Billmon’s “Death Takes a Holiday.” Don’t forget to scroll down to the pic.

This picture, from Fark:

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Friday cat blogging


"Lower and to the right..."
Jaffa and Effie
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Pressure is on Bush to find an exit strategy
"Where's your god now, eh?" - Dathan, The Ten Commandments.

The president's fellow republicans are growing nervous as they head into an election year.

"The president's legacy, if he fails in Iraq, historically is an absolute disaster."

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Mail

Maru,
I think I have figured out why Preznit Cowpie is taking such a long vacation.

I read that he's "...clearing brush..." again. How much "brush" does Compound W have, anyway? Does he live too close to the railroad tracks? Is he really a homeless guy?

No, I think that he gets out his chainsaw and cuts down everything that surrounds his home. The circle just keeps getting bigger and bigger, so it takes longer and longer....and anyway, it cuts down on Cheney's babysitting time.

LucyD

"Compound W" - snicker! If I gave a patootie I'd almost have to feel sorry for Stepford-wifeypoo Pickles, forced to spend a month at that tick-infested hellhole while Chimpy swaggers around pretending to be a manly Clint Eastwood-type cowpoke. But she's probably happy just sitting in her darkened bedroom swilling gin and reading romance novels with Fabio on the cover.

And Leslie writes:

Our Preznit said (referring to a reporter's question about the latest Al-Quida videotape) that "As I have told the American people, people like Zawahri have an ideology that is dark, dim, backwards... They don't trust, they don't appreciate women. If you don't agree to their narrow view of religion, you're whipped in the public square."

Honest to god, Maru, WTF?!!! We have soldiers piling up like cordwood over there, and he's concerned that they don't appreciate WOMEN?

They hate freedom! An'... an' wimmin! As opposed to fine reboobs like Rick Santorum, who'd rather have all women slaving in the kitchen until their hubbies come from work, whereby they greet him at the door, aproned or in a Freedom-maid's outfit, bearing a chilled martini and the offer of a Christian Coalition-sanctioned rogering.


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Santorum plays catch-up with flip-flops
"While they’re at it, they should also start teaching the “Stork Theory” of child delivery in Biology class as an alternative to that much-disputed sexual reproduction theory." - poster at ThinkProgress.

With the next set of elections only about a year away, Senator/douchebag Rick Santorum does some Fristing of his own and changes his postion on Intelligent Design.


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Friday cat blogging

"Are you threatening me?!"
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The George W. Bush Paid Vacation Act
Sign the petition to entitle every full-time American worker to five weeks paid holiday, no quesions asked.


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The madness of King George
Residents of Texas town ordered to stay inside with the blinds drawn as the "strong and likable" President Asshat drives through .

Roads were shut down and residents living in nearby apartments were warned not to look out of their windows Wednesday. School busses formed a perimeter around the site where the Boy King was scheduled to land. No one was going to get a glance of the president on his way to the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center.

Ironically, Bush was there to be presented with the Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award, which is given annually to an individual who has advanced the principles of limited government and individual liberty.


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Friday cat blogging

"Are you going to feed me or what?" - Sir Milo Bat-Ears
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Lowest... poll numbers... ever
As horrendous death toll rises in Bush's Folly.

Approval of Preznit aWol's handling of Iraq is at its lowest level yet, according to a new poll that also found more than half now think he's dishonest.

Though the Chimp-in-Chief is still seen as "strong and likable" like that nice retarded boy down the street, the lazy, rich idiot's confidence is seen as arrogance by a growing number of people.

"This country is a monarchy," said Charles Nuutinen, a 62-year-old independent from Wis. "He's turning this country into Saudi Arabia. He does what he wants. He doesn't care what the people want."

"Heh - ah'm still preznit, though, ain't I? Heh heh."
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Pic by Alexander Castro.

No-balls Novak goes nookuler on air, now a non-person at news network
My jaw just about hit the floor last night when sneering, dyspeptic traitor Boob Novak snarled "that's bullshit" and stormed off the set on CNN.

For a second I was like, what, did his colostomy bag spring a leak? Carville putting a trash can over his head a while back was more professional than this. It wasn't until the end of the segment that we got an explanation, as it were: the cranky, traitorous windbag had turned chickenshit and ran.

Ed Henry, host of CNN's Inside Politics: "And I'm sorry as well that Bob Novak obviously left the set a little early. I had told him in advance that we were going to ask him about the CIA leak case. He was not here for me to be able to ask him about that. Hopefully we'll be able to ask him about that in the future."

I'd pay to see that.

Frothing, choleric old crank Robert Novak, whose revelation of a CIA officer's name in a 2003 column has sparked a federal probe, was suspended by CNN after he swore and walked off the set during a live taping of "Inside Politics."

CNN correspondent Ed Henry said afterward that he had been about to ask Novak about his role in the investigation of the leak of Valerie Plame's identity, which the columnist has repeatedly refused to comment on.

A CNN spokeswoman, Edie Emery, called Novak's behavior "inexcusable and unacceptable." Novak apologized to CNN, and CNN was apologizing to viewers, she said.

"We've asked Mr. Novak to take some time off," she said.

You can come back when you've stopped acting like a traitorous little baby having a temper-tantrum and not before!

Crooks and Liars has the video and more links.


The Douchebag of Liberty lives up to his name.
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GOP chief Hastert took Turkish bribes, mustache rides

Turkish wiretap targets boast that they had a covert relationship with a very senior Republican indeed - Dennis Hastert, Republican congressman from Illinois, Tom DeLay towelboy and Speaker of the House since 1999. The targets reportedly discussed giving Hastert tens of thousands of dollars in surreptitious payments in exchange for political favors and information.

- Raw Story.


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War preznit
August, 2001: Bush receives report Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the US while on his month-long summer vacation, continues vacatatudining.
Sept 2001: Bin Laden attacks inside US; Pentagon hit, Twin Towers destroyed, ~ 3000 dead.

August 2005: Bush receives report that Bin Laden has threatened more US attacks while on his month-long summer vacation, continues vacatatudining.
Sept 2005: ?


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Should be a very short segment
Via Circlejerk Central: Guests and topics on Tony Snow's radio show today include White House counselor Dan Bartlett, who will talk about the "major triumphs" of the Bush misadministration.

Or maybe not...

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Meanwhile, nobody's been charged in leaking the name of a CIA agent...
Having solved all of America's other problems, Congress decides to look into perjury charges against Rafael Palmeiro.

"If we did nothing, I think we'd look like idiots," congressman says with a straight face.


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Get over it, you nightmare-inducing harridan
Florida Senate candidate and whining harpy Katherine Harris is accusing newspapers of doctoring her photos to make her look like she's an ugly ho-bag wearing too much make-up.

Kenneth Irby of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies said the development of digital photography in recent years has made it easier to manipulate photos. As a result, he said, newspapers have tightened their ethics policies prohibiting such practices and have fired people for making even minor changes in news images.

That makes it unlikely that newspapers did what Harris is charging, he said.

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"An increasingly deadly trend"
Over Memorial Day, Vice President Dick "dick" Cheney said the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes." Let's see...

Attacks shows insurgent strength as US considers reducing troop levels

American military officers say that in recent months the roadside bombs used by insurgents in Iraq have grown significantly in size and sophistication, adding to their deadliness.

Fun fact: Mr Cheney also avoided the Vietnam war, but in his case it was due to "other priorities."

Pic by Allen Conrad.

Last throes
Marine killings in Iraq send new warning sign to Bush, lying misadministration hacks.

Eighty-two percent of people polled by Foreign Affairs and Public Agenda for a survey released Wednesday - but conducted before the latest spike in violence - worried that the Iraq war was reaping too many casualties.

"The violence in recent days in Iraq is a grim reminder of the enemies we face," Preznit aWol Coward said on the first full day of his month-long summer vacation.

In [another] worrying sign for the White House, a US congressional race on Tuesday turned on the question of Iraq as Marine reservist and Iraq veteran Paul Hackett was only narrowly defeated by his Republican opponent in a highly conservative Ohio district.

It's amazing that when Don Rumsfeld and other members of the misadministration sneak into the Baghdad Green Zone under heavy security and stay for a few minutes they're lauded as heroes, but Mr Hackett, who actually served in Iraq, is called a 'puke' - by the very same people who not only accuse the Dems of not supporting the troops, but who themselves cowardly avoided the Vietnam war. Due to cysts on their ass (true story!).


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Speaking of assh*les
Pork butt: Alaska senator and transportation committee chairman Don Young ensures $231 million set aside for a bridge near Anchorage to be named "Don Young's Way" in honor of himself.


Sen. Young.
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Dark ages
Dinosaurs are Jesus Horses, comets are the Holy Ghost lighting his farts, and God will just send us down more oil when we run out. Or when Dick Cheney tells him to. Heretic.

Falafel-abuser and gasbag Bill O'Reilly, knee-jerking jerkoff, opines:

"The National Academy of Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science both reject Intelligent Design and don't want to mention it in science classes. That, in my opinion, is fascism."

Fine. By all means, mention ID in science classes, but please be sure to mention every other creation theory put forth by every other religion in the entire world as well.


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Paging BTO...
Highway llamas.

"Though llamas aren't allowed on highways, no charges will be filed."


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Rethugs almost bought the farm in Ohio
"A Schmidt win of less than five points should be a very serious warning sign for Ohio Republicans that something is very, very wrong."

Republicans narrowly held on to a House seat in a GOP-infested district on Tuesday, as heavily favored republican Jean Schmidt won by only a 3 percent margin to Marine and Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett.

RimJob's troglodytic droolers weigh in, supportin' the troops:

I wonder if this 'marine' knows the definition of FRAG.His "unit" is a bunch of lawyers.

He has never fired a gun or carried a field pack.

He should really think about going back... his fellow Marines have seen and heard the "real" hack-job. He would NOT be safe!

God bless America.


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Frist not invited to 'Justice Sunday II'
"Bless all God's childr You've pissed us off for the last time!" fundies rant.

Not only facing certain smiting in the wake of his recent stand on stem-cell research, Bill Frist is off the mailing list for this summer's evangelical rally of the crackpot right even though it's being held in his home state of Tennessee.

Raving scumbag and possible felon Tom DeLay, who ironically is on the 'antichrist' short-list, will be speaking at the event in his place.


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"President Bush had his physical a couple days ago and doctors say that Bush is likely our most fit president in the history of the United States. That means if anything happens to Cheney he can jump in and take over. " - David Letterman.

"Bush passed his physical -- no word yet on his mental." -David Letterman.



Last throes

Fourteen Marines and a civilian interpreter killed today in attack south of Haditha, Iraq, US military says.

An American journalist and his Iraqi translator were abducted and killed in Basra.

BTW, Preznit aWol is on vacashun!


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Worst… appointment… ever
“There's something sadly fitting about President Bush naming John Bolton as the US ambassador to the United Nations through a tactic known as a 'recess' appointment. Bolton, after all, is the diplomatic world's equivalent of a playground bully.”

-- Editorials assess Bush's recess appointment of no-talent assclown John Bolton.
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And the MSM wonders why its reputation is in the toilet
The WaComPo continues its fellatothon of the misadministration.

"Last week, Democrats pounced on an error in Mr. Bolton's Senate questionnaire, on which he said he had not been interviewed by administrative or criminal investigators in the past five years; he had, in fact, been interviewed at one point by the State Department's inspector general -- a fact the administration says slipped his mind. Like many aspects of Mr. Bolton, it's not flattering, but it doesn't justify denying the president a vote on his choice."

Oh, good.

I'm sorry, but "not flattering" is making a brooch out of a weather bulletin, not lying to Congress about lying about going to war.

Asshat. Good gravy.


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Last throes
Mission accomplished!


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"Bush bypasses Senate to install neo-con at UN"
Crooks and Liars has the video of no-talent assclown John Bolton being booed as he enters the UN.


"You fucking assholes! I'll kill all of you!"
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Frothy!
Senator/idiot Rick "man-on-dog" Santorum - who brought a dead, miscarried fetus home from the hospital for a photo-shoot - will be on Tony Snow's radio show today to talk about the dignity of human life.

If by "human" you mean "rich white male," I guess...


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Bush has "complete confidence" in his traitorous advisor
An' ummmm, there's wmds in Iraq....

"Karl's got my complete confidence. He's a valuable member of my team," Bush said Monday. "Why don't you wait and see what the true facts are?" You poopyheads.

God, what a stupid phiz...

Why does the Smirking Moron hate America?
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No excuses, quisling loser
Why does CNN hate America?

Some links to current stories about the utterly traitorous Douchebag of Liberty:

Boob Novak’s pathetic defense just doesn’t cut it.

Bob “traitor” Novakula uses the WH's gay man-ho propagandist Jeff Gannon as a reference, here.

Bob Novak: pathetic, traitorous POS.


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Bush: intelligent design should be taught
"Bush says schools should teach intelligent design, pointing out no rationally explainable universe could produce him as President." - headline at Fark.

"Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?" - Preznit Stupid, Jan 11, 2000.

The Chimp-in-Chief said Monday he believes schools should discuss "intelligent design" - you know, that God created the universe some 6000 years ago, and the Grand Canyon is where Jebus's dad took a leak a few years back - alongside evolution when teaching students.

"I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought," Bush said. "You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes."

So, in name of fairness, the following should also be taught, then?Babylonian Creation Myth
African Creation Myth - Olori
African - Mande, Yoruba Creation Myths
4 More African Creation Myths
5 More African Creation Myths
Navajo Creation Myth
Norse Creation Myth
Creation Myth from India
Comanche Creation Myth
Chinese Creation Myth
Pima Creation Myth
Mayan Creation Myth
Australian Aboriginal Creation Myth
Hopi Creation Myth
Tahitian Creation Myth
Egyptian Creation Myths
Micmac Creation Myth
Lakota Creation Myth
Romania, Mongol, etc..
Flood MythAssyrian / Babylonian Creation Myth
Maori Creation Myth
Aztec Creation Myth
Apache Creation Myth
Dakota Creation Myth
Hungarian Creation Myth
Iroquois Creation Myth
Inuit Creation Myth
Hawaiian Creation Myth
Several different short Creation Stories
Jewish Creation Myth (Genesis)

All these links taken from here (thanks to SPG).


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Office Space
"Two months ago, while his confirmation was in trouble, [no-talent assclown John] Bolton began efforts to double the office space reserved within the State Department for the ambassador to the United Nations, according to three senior department officials who were involved in handling the request.

"Previous ambassadors have kept a small staff in Washington in a modest suite. Bolton told several colleagues he needed more space and a larger staff in Washington.

"Bolton isn't going to sit in New York while policy gets made in Washington," an administration source said."


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The "abuse of my integrity"
That's a laugh.

Boo-#ucking-hoo: poor, pooooooooor persecuted Boob Novak is whining about his traitorous role in the outing of a CIA agent. Eat it, Bob.


The traitorous douchebag.
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US military terror trials rigged
Misadministration "perpetrating a fraud on the American people."

Integritude: Guantanamo prosecutors privately describe Bush's military tribunals as rigged, fraudulent and thin on evidence, and descibe the process as "morally, ethically and professionally intolerable."