Stupid is as stupid does
"(C)an we change the use of the word conservative too? The last time a saw a so-called conservative conserve anything, it was his tax break as he sped by me in his late-model SUV on his way to drill for 4000-year-old oil in a nature preserve."
- comment on a WSJ legal blog by poster Fraser
I was going to lay off the idiots in charge this week. Unfortunately, they just won't quit being themselves. So here goes.
First off, a quick rant. Someone tell me why we call these fools the right wing? They aren't for anybody's rights. No civil rights, no equal rights, no reproductive rights, no technology or fair use rights, not even the Bill of Rights. The only rights they actually conceivably support are the rights to pillage the Earth to it's demise and to be racist, bigoted, hateful pricks that wrap themselves falsely in the flag and cross while doing it.
Anyways, just so you know where I'm coming from as this year begins. As if you had any doubts.
So, we close 2005. A year of disasters man-made and not. A couple of numbers to share with you. The Dow closed below the amount it started the year at. This is the third year since BushBoy got into office. Say, even if you give him a free pass for 2001, isn't 50% failure rate in the stock market a bad thing for a party known for its economic policies? Just checking. Worse news? The government is apparently about to hit the debt ceiling...again. In plain speech? The most powerful nation in the world is about out of money...again.
The Independent reviews Bush's 2005. Meanwhile Bush is moving ahead, still defending his illegal use of wiretapping Americans, still smugly insisting we should just drink the damn kool-aid and trust him. HA! And he swears he never, ever lied to us when he said - repeatedly - that all wiretapping incidents were brought before a judge first. Look, this is a guy who hates the Constitution, calls it a piece of paper. This is also a guy who considers anyone who disagrees with him a traitor. An unrecovered alcoholic and drug abuser who calls himself a Christian but resorts to bombing anyone he can't frighten, coerce, or deceive. And we're supposed to trust this man? No thanks.
Beyond all that, the "limited" collection of this information has been shared to every other government agency; probably even handed over to Mary Kay for all I know.
At HuffPo, other villians of the Republican Party are listed. Both parents didn't come over on the Mayflower? The GOP isn't done trying to strip your citizenship. Partisan bloggers and payoffs to Iraqi TV stations. The CIA and it's many failures of late. Homeland Security failures beyond being incapable of aiding American citizens in times of crisis. And 9/11 funds given to people and businesses in NO WAY affected by the attacks.
Bushoviks are circling the wagon for the new year as they try a new message. I don't imagine telling the truth and apologizing for screwing everything up is on the drawing board? Meanwhile, their boss (and cult leader?) is still trying to coerce newspaper editors to quit printing things like, say, the truth.
A couple of military stories. We don't hear much from the troops directly these days, especially as the military cracks down on soldier's blogs. That said, two recent stories caught my attention. One reports, thankfully, that morale is still high overseas. Also, support for Bush is falling, though not in overwhelming numbers...it is still the military we're talking about. I don't know why I'm linking you to a Ralph Nader article, maybe to balance out the links I give to FAUXNews, but here's his take on the military vs. Rumsfeld.
The latest enemy of the "Christian" zealots? Barbie.