Land of the free and the home of the brave
Whatever happened to that place?

Hmmmmmm. This is just begging for the sniff test, coming right after Bunnypants' smackdown by an intrepid Irish journalist. You remember, the one who actually asked the fascist punk some questions, rather than rolling on her back and licking his privates as the US media is wont to do.

"A crackdown by Ashcroft's jackbooted thugs US authorities on issuing visas to foreign journalists threatens to cause chaos for overseas broadcasters and newspapers just five months before the presidential election.

The new rules, which come into force next week, will ban overseas reporters and news crews stationed in the US from renewing their visas without leaving the country first.

Just five months before American voters decide who will be appointed to the most powerful office in the world, the US state department said it would no longer allow overseas journalists to renew visas from within the country.

From next week the estimated 20,000 foreign journalists stationed in the US, who used to be able to renew their visas with ease in any major city, will be forced to leave the country and re-apply at a US embassy or consulate abroad, delaying their application for between four weeks and six months.

Moore's ax falls on a derelict, whore media
Fahrenheit 9/11 exposes media 'balance' as a cop-out.

Moore has shamed an American press corps that, for fear of offending conservatives, refused to report what Moore was now reporting - everything from the cursory interviews the FBI conducted with members of Osama bin Laden's family in America before letting them leave to the eagerness of big business in exploiting Iraq to the astonishing fact that only one of the 535 members of Congress has a child serving in the military in Iraq. And that shame, added to the film's success, may be the reason why Moore has not been summarily dismissed by the mainstream media as a left-wing shill.

The media know that whatever Fahrenheit 9/11 exposes about Bush, it also has exposed something arguably even more important about them: that balance is itself bias and that under its cover they have protected a president whose administration, if examined fairly, may very well be indefensible.

- Neal Gabler.

Bunnypants tells the NAACP to cheney off
pReznit Golfcart "declined" an invitation to speak at the NAACP's annual convention next week, the group said.

The smirking Dictator-tot has refused invitations to speak in each year of his 'presidency,' the first since Herbert Hoover not to attend an NAACP convention, the AP reports.

John Kerry will be speaking next Thursday.

Sneaky f*cking bastards
July surprise?

"The Pakistani government wants to flush out bin Laden and his associates after the latest pressures from the US administration to deliver before the upcoming US elections."

According to an ISI (Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence) official, a White House aide told ISI's director, Lieutenant General Ehsan ul-Haq, last spring that "it would be best if the arrest or killing of [any] 'high-value targets' were announced on the 26th, 27th, or 28th of July" - the first three days of the Democratic Convention in Boston.

The Bushies have "matched the pressure with enticements and implicit threats."

Na na na na
Na na na na
Hey hey
Goodbye*
Bush pal Kenny-boy Lay has surrendered to authorities in Houston after being indicted for fraud and conspiracy.



*Until Bunnypants pardons him, anyway.

Huge lead
CBS, USA Today, NBC and CNN polls all show Kerry built bigger lead over Bush with Edwards pick.

In Raleigh, NC, Bush dismissed Edwards' credentials to be vice president, curtly telling reporters "Dick Cheney can be president." Phthththththththhh.

Can be??! Idiot.


"Wehhhhhhhhhhh!"

Bush team calls Edwards 'unaccomplished' and 'a stupid head'
Let's look at W's political record prior to stealing the presidency:

Governor of Texas, 1994-2000
Candidate, United States House of Representatives, 1978 (lost)

Right.

US admits to propaganda
It's been confirmed: the entire toppling of the Saddam statue stunt was staged by the US military and enacted with the help of an Army psych-ops unit.

"Shame on you"
"[O]nly God may judge who is ultimately responsible. If I were to point them out I would say to pResident George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair I have only three words of admonishment..."

Church of Scotland minister denounces Bush and Blair during service for soldier killed in Operation FUBAR.

"We don't see their sons and daughters in Iraq."

Saddam could call CIA in his defense

Evidence offered by a top CIA man could confirm the testimony given by Saddam Hussein at the opening of his trial in Baghdad Thursday that he knew of the Halabja massacre only from the newspapers.

A report prepared by the top CIA official handling the matter says Saddam Hussein was not responsible for the massacre, and indicates that it was the work of Iranians. Further, the Scott inquiry on the role of the British government has gathered evidence that following the massacre the United States in fact armed Saddam Hussein to counter the Iranians chemicals for chemicals.

[A] report in 1996 by Lord Justice Scott in what came to be known as the arms-to-Iraq affair gave dramatic pointers to what followed after Halabja - both the United States [under Reagan and Bush Sr.] and Britain began to supply Saddam Hussein with even more chemical weapons.

Bush is hated more than Saddam, Bin Laden, Stalin
A survey of 34,000 Hungarian students, aged 16-18, showed Adolf Hitler was the most disliked foreign 'personality' with 25 percent of the vote, followed by Bush with 23 percent.


"I'm number two!"

House Dems requested UN monitors for 2004 election

[A] group of congressional Democrats led by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas has asked the United Nations to monitor this year's presidential election.

'We are deeply concerned that the right of US citizens to vote in free and fair elections is again in jeopardy,' the lawmakers wrote to Secretary General Kofi Annan.

While the request might evoke images of blue-helmeted peacekeepers outside the local library, the request won't be granted. 'Generally, the United Nations does not intervene in electoral affairs unless the request comes from a national government or an electoral authority - not the legislative branch,' said U.N. spokeswoman Marie Okabe.

Well, crap - that's the whole problem!

9/11 panel: Dick can go cheney himself
The bipartisan commission said on Tuesday that pessimistic fearmonger Dick Cheney had no more information than commission investigators to support his bullshit story that Saddam had 'collaborative links' with al Qaeda. The liar's office had no comment.

US response to insurgency called a failure
In what would be a knee-slapper if it wasn't so jawdroppingly stupid, the misadministration is accusing the military - that's right, the military - of "failing to develop a coherent, winning strategy" in Iraq.

John Kerry's voting record
Does the GOP really want to go there? Do they really want to get into who best supports our troops?
Okie dokie.

Follow the links and watch as sneering hypocrite Dick 'dick' Cheney tells troops, veterans 'go #uck yourself' in his votes to cut vital Defense programs and benefits.

Heh
Neanderthalish troglodytes at Noozemax and RimJob's froth with rage as world, gays cheer John Edwards.

2nd choice for vice president
In 2000 John McCain turned down the Smirking Chimp's offer to be his running mate. W settled on Dick Cheney, who actually picked himself for the job.

Quote
"With unfavourable comparisons already being drawn between the silver-tongued, vigorous Senator Edwards and Mr Cheney, the aloof, heart attack-prone Washington insider, the Republican political machine has gone into overdrive."

- the Sydney Morning Herald.

The best choice
E. J. Dionne explains why the Bushies are getting agita over John Edwards.



A startling lack of experience
"When it comes time to make the decision to send our young men and women into harm's way, that decision should be made by a leader who knows that such decisions have profound consequences. There comes a time when our nation's leader can no longer rely on briefing books and talking points."

- John McCain. In 1999. Talking about Bunnypants.

"My only problem with you, governor, is that you've only had four and going into your fifth year of governorship. Frankly, I really believe that you need more experience before you become president of the United States. That's why I'm thinking of you as a vice presidential candidate."

- Orrin Hatch, to Dumbya, 1999.

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I was born a poor black child...
Man of the people:

"Some people call you the top percentile. Some people call you the elite. I call you my base."

- GW Bush, working man's president.

With us or against us
The Bush WH released Saudi terror suspects with ties to al-Qaida in order to obtain Saudi support for the Iraq war.

Bush still manages to find suckers that will buy his Iraqi war bullshit
Tring to defend the war in Iraq, pResident Stupid lied to possibly moonshine-addled citizens on Independence Day, saying that America is safer because Saddam Hussein is in a prison cell.

"Our immediate task in battle fronts like Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere is to capture or kill the terrorists ... so we do not have to face them here at home," Bush told a cheering crowd of knuckledraggers.

In other keeping the world safe for democracy news, two Bush opponents, taken out of the crowd in restraints by police, said they were told they couldn't be there because they were wearing shirts that said they opposed the lying, fascist pretender.

What the media never told you

Audiences are shocked by the now-famous seven minutes, when George Bush knew the nation was under attack but continued reading 'My Pet Goat' with a group of children. Nobody had told them that the tales of Mr. Bush's decisiveness and bravery on that day were pure fiction. Or consider the Bush family's ties to the Saudis...

But what shocks people, I think, is the fact that nobody told them about this side of Mr. Bush's life. Mr. Bush's carefully constructed persona is that of an all-American regular guy - not like his suspiciously cosmopolitan opponent, with his patrician air. The news media have cheerfully gone along with the pretense. How many stories have you seen contrasting John Kerry's upper-crusty vacation on Nantucket with Mr. Bush's down-home time at the ranch? But the reality, revealed by Mr. Moore, is that Mr. Bush has always lived in a bubble of privilege.

- Paul Krugman.

Fahrenheit 9/11 news
The Army and Air Force Exhange Service wants to show F9/11 on military base theaters around the world.

F9/11 is the second most-requested film on Moviefone's nationwide website, behind Spiderman 2.

Former Marine who fought in Iraq says "this film portrays the truth. It asks the hard questions that need to be asked."

Mouthbreathing midwestern theater owner bans showing of F9/11, says it "incites terrorism."

Moore film turns tables on talk radio's hypocrital, lying asshats.

Pathetic
John 'black baby' McCain: just another partisan, pussy-assed repuke putz.

Worst bungle by British intelligence ever
Well, except for that whole Falklands thing...

'Tony Blair's unshakeable conviction that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction will be blown apart in Lord Butler's 100-page hard-hitting report.'

In a related story....

Speaking at the Duh Institute, Bush's Poodle announced "WMD may never be found."

Heh
I can't wait to watch John Edwards facing off against Snarly 'fuck you' McCrashcart.in debates. Woot!


Image by ntodd.

Heh heh! Idiots.

Well, we're back after a computerless holiday weekend at the shore with a shitload of screaming kids and no liquor. Compared to that, work is almost relaxing except for the fact that I forgot my glasses and can't see a goddamn thing. Spelling will be touch-and-go today, btw.

Dewey defeats Truman!
In a move that shocked maybe eighteen people and walking asswipe Matt Drudge, John Kerry picked John Edwards as his running mate.

Actually, I was hoping for Wes Clark, but I'm ecstatic he didn't go with the scrotumly-challenged Dick 'Fluffy' Gephardt - who the NY comPost trumpetted as vp in an “exclusive” report! - or the unfortunately-named Tom "ha ha!" Vilsack.

Blogging will be light the next couple of days, but I will try to post when I can. Even though the computer will be a POS on dial-up. Brrrrrrrr.

Hope everyone has a good holiday weekend!

xxoo

A huuuuuuuge thank you
... to BartCop for linking to us!

Liar liar
Bush's believability going down faster than John Ashcroft's date during 'The Passion of the Christ.'
/coffee

"Distrust of Bush has reached a critical and not altogether partisan mass. The public now sees even good news through a jaded eye."

Rethug dirty tricks
From the party of honor and promoting democracy

Former head of GOP consulting group pleads guilty to jamming Democratic phone lines during '02 election.

WWJD?
Separation of church, state, free will, common decency...

Don't go to Hell - vote Bush! The sleazoid fuckwits of the Bush-Cheney "re"election campaign have sent a 'detailed plan of action' to religious volunteers across the country asking them to turn over church directories, distribute GOP propaganda in their houses of worship, and persuade their churches to hold voter registration drives.

The instruction sheet circulated by the Bush-Cheney campaign to religious volunteers lists 22 "duties" to be performed by specific dates.
By July 31, for example, volunteers are to "send your Church Directory to your state Bush-Cheney '04 headquarters or give it to a Bush-Cheney Field Rep" and "talk to your Pastor about holding a Citizenship Sunday and voter registration drive."

By Aug. 15, they are to "talk to your Church's seniors or 20-30-something group about Bush/Cheney '04" and "recruit 5 more people in your church to volunteer for the Bush Cheney campaign."

By Sept. 17, they are to host at least two campaign-related potluck dinners with church members, and in October they are to "finish calling all Pro-Bush members of your church," "finish distributing Voter Guides in your church" and place notices on church bulletin boards or in Sunday programs "about all Christian citizens needing to vote."

Jebus. It sounds like preparations for a fucking Hitler Youth Rally. I can picture the goosestepping brownshirts now. What's next, turning in your parents if they don't comply? Squeal to the priest so he withholds communion? Good Lord.

Saddam: 'Bush the real criminal'
'Nuff said.




Taxpayers paying $50,000 a month for Halliburton's sodas
"It’s just a gravy train," says former employee Marie deYoung.

[T]here was no effort to hold down costs because all costs were passed on directly to taxpayers. She repeatedly complained to superiors of waste and fraud. The company's response, according to deYoung was: "We can be as dumb and stupid as we want in the first year of a war, nobody’s going to care."

DeYoung produced documents detailing alleged waste even on routine services: $50,000 a month for soda, at $45 a case; $1 million a month to clean clothes — or $100 for each 15-pound bag of laundry.

"That money could have been used to take care of soldiers," she said.

Fair, balanced, and hard-core
Fox News, the reboob/family-values propaganda station, in a promo for "porn in the USA," covered up breasts but showed actual penetration. By a huge penis. This site has the videoclips to prove it.

Reboob morality and the sanctity of marriage
London's Al-Hayat claims administrator left Iraqi lover behind.

The paper says Paul Bremer's speedy departure from Iraq was actually due to leaving his 35-year-old Iraqi girlfriend in the dust. Bremer, 63, is married with two children that he knows of (seen on the fretard site, from WND, so no link).

Newsweek: corporate whore
So-called "journalist" for newsweakly evidently in a three-way pissing match for title of supreme douchebag with fellow toadies Howard 'the whore-moan' Fineman and Whoreward Kurtz.

Mikey Isikoff is at it again: this time using a Carlyle Group mouthpiece to "refute" Michael Moore. Real professional, asswipe.

Billboard altered to show Bush quote
A Sacramento billboard - originally for Baskin Robbins - 'drew a lot of attention' Tuesday after a patriotic citizen changed it to feature a quote from Il Ducebag.

The quote - "A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it" - was included in the film Fahrenheit 9/11.

A company spokeswoman said the company had been made aware that one of their billboards in Sacramento had been defaced and that they were "taking steps to remove the billboard immediately."

Fun fact: if you look closely, you can see the billboard is one of Clear Channel's. Mwaaaahahahaha.

Florian, the orange kitten, went to his new home last night.
:(



Quote of the morning
"A state of perpetual optimism is either a dangerous delusion or a calculated pose. In the case of the Bush campaign, it's evidently the latter. Comparing one's opponent to Hitler is not, in fact, the sign of a confident or optimistic candidate. To the contrary, it's the act of a fearful and cynical candidate who is willing to use any tactic to avoid defeat."

- Jacob Weisberg, in Slate.