Peony, fish pond 4 June 05.

Gah. I’ve been having computer issues at both home and work. Please bear with me. Oh, and Blogger sucks.




If Watergate had happened today
With the GOP controlling Congress, the whore media and the courts, there'd be no Watergate hearings, Jonathan Alter writes in a depressingly true piece.

“Take the major warning: if you dare to tell the truth in unflinching, unapologetic terms, the rightwing propaganda machine, aided by our craven, servile media, will destroy you." – ColdFury.

Having cringing eunuchs as the opposing party doesn’t help matters.


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Winning hearts and minds
Bush urged: 'Never apologize' to Muslims

Yuck.

Administration officials reportedly inspired by John Wayne movie.

Some members of the Bush misadministration have taken a cue from a classic John Wayne western – the 1948 "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" - and are advising their boss to take the film's advice - "Never apologize" - when dealing with Muslims, reports geopolitical analyst Jack Wheeler.

Good gravy.


Yee-haw.
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New poll: Bush increasingly out-of-touch
A clear majority of Americans say President Stupid is ignoring the public's concerns, and instead has become distracted by issues that most people say they care little about, according to a new Duh Insti Washington Post-ABC News poll.


“Who cares what they think?”
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Watch what you say
A lab worker blows the whistle on financial irregularities at your facility. Do you

A) release the actual financial records to discredit him,
B) hire the best attorneys to defend you, or
C) have him beaten to a pulp?

Auditor uncovers irregularities involving millions of dollars of taxpayer money at government-backed facility, gets beaten to within an inch of his life.

A Los Alamos lab whistleblower scheduled to testify before Congress was lured to a bar and then badly beaten in an attack his wife and lawyer believe was designed to keep him quiet. Tommy Hook was treated for a fractured jaw and other injuries, according to his wife, Susan Hook. She said the assailants told him during the attack early Sunday that "if you know what's good for you, you'll keep your mouth shut."

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Keepin' us safer
You'd like to think that a man carrying a sword, hatchet, knife, brass knuckles and a bloody chainsaw wouldn't be allowed to enter the United States, but you'd be wrong.


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Medieval times
Catholic church becomes even more repressive, out-of-touch.

Pope Palpatine, in his first official pronouncement on gay marriage since his election, on Monday condemned same-sex unions as "fake" and expressions of "anarchic freedom" that threatened the future of the family.


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Court: patients may not use pot legally
Patients: Court can bloody well rot in Hell.

US Supreme Court rules that smoking marijuana is worse than suffering from an inoperable brain tumor.
-headline at Fark.

Trampling over the wishes of the states and pathetically citing some outdated bullshit law regarding federal regulation of interstate commerce, the compassio morally superior sanctimonious asshole Supremos ruled that federal agents may arrest not only those who grow pot for medicinal purposes, but even the sick and dying people who use it.


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Goldfinches at feeder, 4 June 05.

SS Falafel, seamen drydocked
Looking to spend a week with Bill O'Reilly on a cruise ship to discuss American values? Apparently neither is anyone else.

“The Battle For American Values” cruise, billed as a Caribbean fantasy week with phone-sex aficionado/loofah-abusing gasbag Bill O’Reilly, has been canceled because ‘only a fraction of the tickets’ were sold.

“The response was surprisingly poor,” said a spokesman.


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Uh-huh
"First of all, I’m a crier, and I weep a lot."
- our manly War Preznit, 6/1/05.


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And #uck you
Washington State judge gives repukes something else to cry about as hotly contested election is upheld.

Fun fretard quote: "it looks like the county jdge isn't gonna allow a new election. This looks bad for democracy."

Idiot.


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Integritude and moral values
Texas Governor Rick Perry, sanctimonious asshole

NJ Governor wanna-be Bret Schundler, bungling plagiarizing liar.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, unprincipled asstool.

Banana Repub Florida Governor Jeb Bush, compassionless sleazeball.


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Culture of life does not cover pain, suffering
Activist ju Supreme Court says says #uck you to states: medical marijuana users can now be prosecuted.


^^^

More signs of the coming Apocalypse

Sketch of Michael Jackson's peener broadcast over the internets.

Christian website to attend EroticaLA convention, commissions 25-foot inflatable penis named "Wally the Weiner" to encourage people to quit viewing porn.

Even republicans are telling Bush and Cheney to snap out of it, confront realities in Iraq.

You can't even trust a f---ing archbishop any more.


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Hey, shitheads, try growing a pair
That's why they're losers, part MCXXII

God, the Democrats make me sick.


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G-pukes worry ethics issue may hurt party in '06

House rethugs have begun to fear that public attention to members' travel and relations with lobbyists will make ethics a potent issue that could cost the party seats in next year's midterm races.

In what Republican strategists call "the DeLay effect," questions plaguing House Majority Leader/corrupt scumbag Tom DeLay (R-Insane) are starting to hurt his fellow party members, who are facing news coverage of their own trips and use of relatives on their campaign payrolls.

House repukes, dropping the ball on the whole ethics thing.
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Changing the tone
Thanks to the 'culture of life' party, the number of threats against judges has been increasing. So have verbal and physical attacks against judges and other court officials, in courthouses and elsewhere, the WaPo reports.

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White House sought to downplay the issue of Koran desecration
Guantanamo prisoners exaggerate, hate us for our freedom.

"It is unfortunate that some have chosen to take out of context a few isolated incidents by a few individuals," WH spokestool Scott McClellan said in a statement.

Joe Lockhart, former press secretary for President Bill Clinton, said when a news organisation - such as Newsweek - makes a factual mistake, Bush White House officials try to discredit the entire story.

"I think, on this issue, they fell into a trap," Lockhart said. "They saw a way to push back on a damaging story by making it look like it was just out-of-control journalists, and now they've had to admit that it has happened."

Par for the course, McClellan declined to answer questions about whether the White House issued misleading statements, or whether the credibility of the Bush misadministration had been tarnished.

Fun fact: WH mouthpiece the Whore Street Journal (link requires registration) thinks that "only five cases" of Koran "mishandling" is nothing to excited about. So one guard pissed all over the holy book when he demonstrated poor or questionable toilet procedures - geez. We're usually so respectful of other cultures...


US troops enjoy some fun and games while waiting for their breakfast of Freedom Toast.
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Spent all weekend in the yard, planting, weeding, watching the kittens, and dehydrating.


Bush junta assumes full secret foreign policy powers
- headline at BuzzFlash.

Payback's a bitch, misadministration tells "traitorous" CIA.

A new White House memo excludes CIA director Porter Goss from National Security Council meetings.

[A] dry, one-page internal memo quietly issued by the White House is being viewed as the Bush misadministration taking a massive dump on the once-mighty Central Intelligence Agency.

After nearly 60 years at the pinnacle of American intelligence, the CIA director is no longer automatically welcome at the War Preznit's National Security Council meetings. John Negroponte, the new director of National Intelligence and WH pet, has taken his chair.

Bunnypants, during his state visit to Elbonia.
The sign in the background translates as 'Massive Fuckwit.'
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Terrists "can't survive in a democracy"
Why does Oklahoma City hate America?

Dumbya: The violence in Iraq and Afghanistan will end as US-led troops succeed in "transforming hateful societies to hopeful societies."

Nice platitude, guy. Tell that to the families of all those dead Iraqis.


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The word is actually "asshole," Henry
Link.


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Friday cat blogging


Still life with kitten.
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The Bush ecomnitude
'The disappointing job growth was less than half what analysts had forecast.'

Employers added only 78,000 workers to their payrolls last month, the
weakest job growth in 21 months, the government said on Friday in a report that fanned worries on Wall Street over a slowing economy.

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Dean: GOP has 'dark, difficult and dishonest' vision, cooties

Most of Dean's speech at the "Take Back America" conference was met with whoops, cheers and standing ovations as he attacked Republicans for "the culture of corruption and the abuse of power" in Washington, and accused the Bush misadministration of ignoring corporate stealing of pensions canceled during bankruptcy proceedings.

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Tainted love
Howard Dean: Preznit Honor'n Integritude should return the money raised by Ohio coin dealer Tom Noe, who is under investigation for allegedly misappropriating millions of dollars, then funnelling it into the Bush/Cheney campaign warchest.

"President Bush should immediately return all of the cash Noe raised to eliminate even the possibility that the hard-earned money of Ohio's workers was improperly diverted to his re-election campaign," Mr. Dean said.

A spokesman for the Rethug National Committee, instead of commenting on whether or not President GameBoy was even aware of Dean's statement, instead bleated that tired old repuke talking-point, 'the Demonrats have no ideas!'

Well, they have a pretty good idea your boss is a lying corrupt moron, anyhoo.


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Peony, 31 May 05.


Makin' progress™

Car bomb north of Baghdad kills 10. Freedom is on the march© !

Winning hearts and minds: Iraq puts civilian toll at 12,000.

Afghan commander killed by Taliban roadside bomb. Good thing we defeated the Taliba - oh, wait...


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Oh for the love of criminey...
What #ucking nerve.

The misadministration has invoked the Geneva Convention to avoid releasing Abu Ghraib torture photos to the ACLU.

Fun fact: Up 'til now, anyway, the DoD has claimed the prisoners/detainees are "enemy combatants" and not "prisoners of war," hence the Geneva Conventions do not apply.


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Why does Democrats.com hate America?
Democrats.com is offering a $1,000 reward to anyone who can get Preznit Stupid to answer whether he lied about pre-war intelligence.

The contest comes after Bush has declined for a full month to answer any questions about a leaked secret British memo, which states, in reference to the Bush administration, that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

Neither the US or UK government are disputing the document's accuracy. The $1,000 question is:

In July 2002, did you and your administration "fix" the intelligence and facts about non-existent Iraqi WMD's and ties to terrorism - which were disputed by U.S. intelligence officials - to sell your decision to invade Iraq to Congress, the American people, and the world - as quoted in the Downing Street Minutes?

Mwwwaaaaa.

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Rummy meets with press whores


"Do you spit or swallow?"
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Where's your Bush-with-a-bullhorn pic now?
The White House is trying to stiff Ground Zero workers, wants its money back.

"We don't know yet what the need is," said Rep. James Walsh, R-NY. "What we do know is that there was a witches' brew of toxic substances emanating from that debris and those firefighters, police officers and construction workers were breathing that for days."

Keepin' us safer
The “Bush administration has no clear strategy in its war on terrorism - the US fails to understand that terrorism isn't an enemy but a tactic, and the costs of waging an ambiguous war are mounting”

- the America-hating US Army War College.


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She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie... Spokane
Sorry.

The Spokane City Council Tuesday unanimously called for Mayor/anti-gay hypocrite Jim West to resign, and took an initial step to give the council impeachment power over the mayor through the City Charter.

Meanwhile, “RightBi-Guy” appeared on NBC’s Today Show to plead his case:

“And what’s wrong with somebody who has what’s called an alternative lifestyle or an alternative sexual orientation being a conservative? Can a gay or bisexual person be conservative? Can he offer gifts, sports tickets, travel, city positions and City Hall internships to young men he was seeking to date through a Gay.com chat line? Can he masturbate while having online sex in his City Hall office? Can he sexually molest Boy Scouts? I think he can.”

Remember: IOKIYAR.


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Reid: I'm sorry Bunnypants is such a f---ing loser Bush is still a liar
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Huge Ones) talks to Rolling Stone:

Rolling Stone: You've called Bush a loser.

Senator Reid: And a liar.

Rolling Stone: You apologized for the loser comment.

Senator Reid: But never for the liar, have I?

- via Raw Story.

Heh. God bless that man.


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The bathtub pond garden, 31 May 05.

Makin' progress™
Suicide bomb attacks kill 20 in Iraq. Democracy's on the march!

Iraq's security services have suffered their deadliest month since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Bring 'em on!

'Peaceful' Basra now out of control: Iraqi police chief says at least 50 percent of his force has been infiltrated by sectarian militias. Why do they hate freedom?

Casualties from Iraq America haters insurgency up in May. It's gonna take time...

Suicide attacks rising rapidly. Why do they hate living?

A new online posting by the al Qaida group in Iraq has declared the creation of a new cell of suicide bombers. Mission accomplished!

Kidnapped Iraqi governor found dead. Uhhh, democracy's on the march!

Hmmmmm: The Pentagon is delaying the release of May recruiting data. Why does the Pentagon hate America?


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We break for kittens


The mighty hunters relax near the veldt.
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Fairly unbalanced
Fox News admits sucking up to the rightwing dick, being propaganda mouthpiece for the Bush WH.

"We are, after all, a private channel."

"Even we at Fox News manage to get some lefties on the air occasionally, and often let them finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to Karl Rove and Bill O'Reilly."

- London bureau chief Scott Norvell, smug, soulless jerkoff who'll hopefully rot in Hell for all eternity with O'Really's fat hot falafel up his ass.


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Birdhouse gourds, 30 May 05.
It's so cool: I put these up on Monday, and yesterday afternoon a finch was already starting to build a nest in one.


Democracy's on the march
We're makin' progress™

Despite the US 'losing its grip' in Baghdad and the escalating violence by "frustrated and desperate" terrorists who "hate democracy," Preznit GameBoy remains optimistic about Iraq.

"Ah'm pleased with the progress," Bunnypants chirped yesterday, catapulting the propaganda.

Meanwhile...
A huge car bomb blasts area near the Baghdad airport checkpoint, wounding 15.

The US death toll in Iraq is surging as insurgent attacks increase.

US Army officers near the Syrian border say they don't have enough troops.


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