July 2006 Archives

Here's someone you don't want representing you. Senator Jim Inhofe, who believes fervently that global warming doesn't exist - amongst other things - now thinks anyone who says it does are Nazis.

Wait a minute. The science is accurate, the observable indicators are there to the naked eye, the rationale is even sound.

Then again, check out his list of campaign contributors. I see a few oil, energy, and automotive companies in there.

Want to read more on his Psychoness? Check out his wiki entry.

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BUSH: I talked about my desire to promote institutional change in parts of the world, like Iraq, where there’s a free press and free religion. And I told him that a lot of people in our country would hope that Russia will do the same thing. I fully understand, however, that there will be a Russian-style democracy.

BUSH: Just wait.

- Even Putin beats George like a pinata. So much for that strong leader the GOP keeps trying to tell us we have.

Great news! The economy is stagnating so this will help any fears about inflation. So sayeth the new Federal Reserve chief.

The American Bar Association has concluded that Bush is violating the Constitution. Not a revelation per se, just nice to know those who should *know* this are actually calling it that way.

I don't often jump on the Lou Dobbs bandwagon - and I haven't really this time either - but he's brought some actual food for thought to the table.

Conservatives are apparently pissed off about Bush's foreign policy blunders, up to and including groping foreign leaders. Which is fine, they should be pissed off. They should also look closer to home.

What is worse is what he is doing with our ports, with the Senate going ahead and backing his move to give control of our ports to foreign agencies with nefarious ties to those who actually do want to hurt us. All to please some oil barons.

Bush schill Tony Snow wants to collect minorities so people stop asking him why Bush's staff is pretty much completely lilly white. "Let me leave no one behind. Just, every group, raise your hand, we want you," he says. That's not pandering, is it?

Meanwhile Bush is trying to con African-Americans into coming back to the Republican party. For any stupid enough to do so, I refer you to the case of Hurricane Katrina & George Bush vs. Everyone Not Lily White. But hey, he gets a point for stating the obvious, "I understand that many African-Americans distrust my political party."

Then again, this is the same ass-clown who has refused to even speak to the NAACP until his poll numbers plunged to ranking next to testicular cancer in popularity.

More on Bush finding out that the world is tired of his cowboy crap.

Bonus corruption. We find out that Bush actively blocked a Justice Department investigation into whether or not his spying on Americans without a warrant program was even legal. Look, the guy doesn't even care about rule of law. Respect that? Never.

In science news, the Senate passed a pro-stem cell research bill, knowing full well that Bush would veto it. Let that sink in. It is his first veto. He did it purposely off-camera, in the shadows like he does all his evil deeds. He bases his decision on false premises and outright lies, pandering to hateful, anti-science, anti-progress, bigoted alliance of fake Christians and rednecks. This is nothing new, but to deny scientific advancement to a country that really could gain from the research, not to mention the jobs, is just despicable.

Feel angry yourself? Maybe ashamed for those of you who actually voted for this creep? Let your elected representatives know what you think.

Speaking of being anti-science, NASA has a new mission statement that all but stops it from working on matters concerning the Earth's environment. Specifically, Bushites have take out the part where NASA is supposed "To understand and protect our home planet." Nice.

More Republican't and Nazi news:

- John Boehner, who was supposed to clean up the House after DeLay DeFiled the institution, is actually taking in lobbyist money faster than his predecessor. He didn't clean up the House, he streamlined the corruption process.

- Ralph Reed, who recently lost an election for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, is profiled by GQ this month. If you didn't already know it, the poster boy for fundamentalist hatemonger "Christians" is an utterly corrupt piece of dog crap. I'm glad he lost, but I'm sure he's not done trying to destroy America.

- Pete Coors - Nazi, Republican, beer brewer - lost his driver's license on a - wait for it - drunk driving charge. Gives him more time to read Mein Kampf I guess.

From Democratic Underground's blogs during yesterday's grilling of Alberto Gonzales in the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Diane Feinstein: "About FISA, you say that the President has the authority to wiretap Americans without warrants due to his war powers under Article 2, correct?"

Alberto Gonzales: "Yes."

DF: "And I got a letter from your associate saying that the President could act because Congress had not set up a statute. Well, that's not true. The FISA law clearly says that the President can eavesdrop without warrants for 15 days after a declaration of war."

AG: "Yes, but we didn't have a declaration of war, only an authorization to use military force, so we couldn't work with that provision."

DF: "So you're saying that the AUMF does not amount to a declaration of war?"

AG: "Obviously they are different."

DF: "So if the AUMF is not a declaration of war, the president shouldn't have WAR powers!"

AG: "................."

I haven't been home much (been out to see) but I have managed to do some image work and upload our Australia pics. I also have one day of our trip to Juneau up as well. I have used Google's PicasaWeb service. Check out the pics here. And yes, I have done some filtering of the pics, but nowhere near what I probably should have.

Oh well. Enjoy.

Well, the first of many Bushite allies who should be doing hard time escaped justice today. "Kenny Boy" Lay died of a massive coronary. Guess we'll never know if Bush was going to auto-pardon him as he'll likely do for the rest of his criminal gang.

You think I sound harsh and callous? Maybe I should have little respect? Screw that. This clown robbed families, lied to investors and the government, and used their ties to Bush to not only get him into office, but to screw our energy policies so our economy would tank and our environment get that much more worse. Basically, the guy was a schmuck and the planet and the air is cleaner for his not being here anymore.

As Independence Day ends, some food for thought.

"Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship....(T)he people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

-- George W. Bush, charlatan

Happy Fourth of July. My browser crashed and I lost my links, so I'm pretty sure you don't mind the abbreviated post.

I was thinking about how far we've come to a more repressive union since Bush took office. Late last week the Supreme Court said the executive branch had gone too far in sending supposed terrorists to Guantanamo Bay and incarcerating them there on no charges and only the likelihood of a military tribunal. In essense, you may even approve of why they were doing it, but not the way they were going about it. Alberto Gonzales jumps on the air talking about how this "hampers" the "War on Terror."

My only question is this: Do Bush and his cabal even care about preserving democracy, or are they too busy trying to rack up the terrorist body count to give a damn? I only ask because I think they may have lost sight of the big picture here.

The GOP is siding with big business to carve up the internet, kinda like how you now have basic and premium cable. Google has a nice page devoted to the concept of Net Neutrality. Read it and get informed before the corporate GOP goons take away your internet access.

Speaking of GOP types, they are usually the ones (along with Lieberman) talking about how violent video games are. Well, there's now a game based on the Left Behind fundamentalist Rapture mastubatory joy ride book series. In it, you can either: a) hunt UN peacekeepers and shoot them, or b) kill people who became Christians only because God scared the dickens out of them with the Rapture. Either way, GOD COMMANDS YOU TO KILL! So far, not a peep from those who scream themselves into a lather each time a Grand Theft Auto or Tekken game comes out.

Being Independence Day, let's check on the British. What do they think of us? Well, apparently they are tired of our crap. Too rude, too vulgar, too prone to dragging them into wars. And other stuff. Read the article.

I've got a lot of tabs open on my browser and, frankly, some of it is out of date and dull. Those we'll close. The rest we'll miss-mash together for this post.

Jack Cafferty is fun to watch. I don't always agree with him, though I do more and more lately, but watching him call out our idiots in charge is entertaining. Here's a link of Jack taking an oil exec to task for saying "energy independence is going too far." He's had other good rips too. Crooks and Liars carries most of them.

The war in Iraq is causing costs of military equipment to triple. That must be that economic jump Bush keeps talking about.

The LAPD is working on unmanned spy drones to police their streets. Something ominous about this trend....

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has an article on how the GOP stole the 2004 election. I've been tracking this so a lot of it is familiar, but don't let that stop you from reading as I don't post most of those stories.

Roger Ebert covers Gore covering global warming. I haven't seen the movie yet, but am reading the book.

Bush's policy advisor would like to jail doctors who perform abortions. Compassionate conservatism at work again.

Listen to AOL refuse to let a customer cancel his account. Typical bastard behavior from AO-Hell.

The state of Georgia is trying to circumvent the separation of Church and State. In retrospect, letting the South leave the Union might have been the better idea, dontcha think?

McCain keeps kissing Bush's ass. It's not news, really, but I still want to discourage those of you who think the man still has a soul. He doesn't; go find an actual moderate Republican to lather yourself over if you can't bring yourself to vote for a Democrat.

At HuffPo, a discussion on the steps to fascism the Bushites have taken us on thus far.

I learned a new word this week: kakistocracy. Basically, it means rule by the most incompetent and least principled. Sound familiar?

Well, Hillbilly Heroin abuser and bigoted class-, race-, gender-, and all around hate-monger Rush Limbaugh apparently can't get it up either. He got busted earlier this week with a bottle of Viagra that was prescribed in his doctor's name. Now, some of you are going to say that I shouldn't make fun of a guy in his 50's having erectile dysfunction. And you would be right, kind of. It's not that a hypocritical, smug, asinine drug abuser being caught hiding a possible genuine ED issue isn't funny in its own right. It is really that he is so insecure about the whole thing that he's been having his doctor cover up said medical problem.

Seriously, who gave this doctor a license to practice medicine?

I hate even giving that wench Ann Coulter a mention here, but once again I do so in the interests of asking everyone to kindly ignore the moron from here on out. Granted, I've been out of the loop for awhile so let's hit a couple of her more notable screw ups are calling the widows of 9/11 victims "witches" amongst other things (their justifiably indignant response here), not to mention calling for the "ffragging" Rep. John Murtha for being against the war in Iraq. Considering she's already called for the poisoning of a Supreme Court Justice, can't we just lock this lunatic up so we don't ever have to hear from her EVER again?

Ted Stevens, Luddite leftover from the past, explains the Internet, in only ways he and his ilk can. This is exactly why you can't trust Republicans with technology.

And then there's Bush himself. Congress is - finally - justifiably miffed that Bush signs laws they pass, and then promptly ignores them. Of course, every once in a blue moon our democracy actually does it's job, like this week when the Supreme Court said Bush actually can't just hold people in prison solely because he says so. No, he needs to obey the rule of law; unfortunately that law will be set by the racist, homophobic, xenophobic, psuedo-Christian, pseudo-American GOP majority in Congress.

Remember all that to-do about a company in Dubai being in charge of most of our major ports? Well, they still ARE because nobody has bought them out. And apparently, Congress has bent over and decided not to make them sell. The only deal being made here is the one that involves the American people getting screwed by our own government.

Tony Snow, the FOXNews ambassador to the United States and Bush's new talking head, isn't worried that over 2,500 troops have died in his boss' failed war. "It's a number," he says. Seriously people, how much of this crap are you willing to take from these idiots?

Well, for those who haven't yet given up on me, I'll try to not let a month go by between posts again.

Between work and pleasure I've been through a few stops in Australia, Oralando and east coastal Florida, Juneau, and spent a few days north of Phoenix. Basically, I've been gone a lot. Which doesn't leave me an excuse as to why I haven't posted, just a reason. I should have Aussie trip pics up soon and I'll link to those when I do.

For now those, some notes concerning the Fourth of July and such. No, I'm not going to go into conservative efforts to ban flag burning (though I will mention that Bush is a world class flag desecrator himself and should be first in line for any potential prosecution the GOP thinks it can pass).

Actually, just figured I'd pass some notes concerning how to properly respect and fly a US flag.

I'd also point you to a list of links called the Geek Guide to Fireworks. One fun link is to a Java fireworks display.

More posts on the way. I hope. Have a good weekend.