Musings: September 2006 Archives

The Good

The New Orleans Saints won at home last night, giving us happier images of the Superdome than those we had last year.

Bill Clinton finally realized that Bushites don't play fair and hit back at the FAUXNews/GOP/Big Oil-n-Pharma conglomerate. Let's hope he remembers he's supposed to keep fighting for Americans.

Troglodyte John Bolton will NOT be confirmed as our UN ambassador. Another slap in Bush's face and proof that our system can - at the very least - not endorse sociopaths in charge of our face at the United Nations (if not the White House).

Another GOP Congressional failure in our best interests is their inability to codify Bush's wiretapping hard-on into law.

The Bad

Despire all evidence to the contrary, Bush keeps trying to disprove that invading Iraq is good for terrorist recruitment. Imbecile.

The Army has extended the tour of up to 4,000 soldiers in Iraq. No thanks to Rumsfeld for continually underfunding our armed forces.

Anti-Muslim teachers in Maryland, and Black Republicans accusing Democrats of founding the KKK. Quick history lesson. Former Confederates like Nathan Bedford Forrest couldn't vote, and all racist Democrats joined the GOP back in the '60s when the Democratic Party stood with civil rights leaders like the ones who allow the Maryland Republican Party to even have moronic African-American members.

Bush has succeeded in blocking a report that links stronger hurricanes like Katrina to global warming. The GOP is still in denial folks.

The president of Zimbabwe is okay with the notion of torturing and beating union leaders. I imagine his invitation to the White House is in the mail.

The Weird

Keith Richards has apparently quit doing drugs.

FAUXNews is giving bad sex advice to college students. Seeing as their core audience is a pack of repressed sexual freaks who preach abstinence but get in kiddie porn, child abuse and animal sex, the hypocritical network tells Young Republicans to follow this advice: "If you're comfortable with your sexuality and it means having different partners, I honestly don't think it's a bad thing as long as everyone's practicing safe sex and it's consensual." Sounds like conservative doublespeak to me! Underage drinking, sex with strangers, and immoral behavior. Or maybe it's a Bush thing. I dunno.

"The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism."
- Colin Powell, stating the obvious and suddenly getting in touch with reality after years of Bush delusion. Welcome back to the real world, you shill.

I'm up late and on call for work. Which means I'm crankier than usual. Let's begin.

Keith Olbermann contributed to the political dialogue awhile back, blasting Rumsfeld and Co. on their assumptions that everyone but them are fascists (video link).

From BizarroWorld, John Ashcroft defends the PATRIOT Act and even touts Bush's credentials as a defender of civil liberties. Now THAT kids, is a lot of drinking the bad kool-aid. Bush, himself, meanwhile is still under the delusion that his policies have been good for the economy.

That tears it. These imbeciles now seem to actually believe their own lies. We're screwed!

Apparently you can report on enviromental law violations, UNLESS you work for the EPA. Thanks, Bush.

Speaking of failed policies, apparently we've resorted to building a series of trenches around Baghdad. Eventually we'll fill the moat with alligators and install drawbridges I imagine. The old tricks are always the best I guess.

As most of you know, Steve Irwin aka The Crocodile Hunter passed away last week in a freak accident. People will debate the merit of his influence and the possible insanity in doing a job outside the norm when one has a family to take care of.

Personally, I think he did a great job bringing something to our awareness we'd rather ignore. I also like that he - in this American Idol-Paris Hilton-George Bush artificial, mindless world - got kids to think about their world in a fun way. And instead of Bush screaming that terrorists are out to kill them RIGHT NOW!, Irwin got past fear mongering and made kids appreciate nature for what it is.

I think we'll all miss him more than anything. I know the tendency is to call him a freak and move on but, seriously, we ALL watched him. Maybe not religiously, but you paused when channel surfing just as much as I did.

That said, it *is* funny in a low-brow humor way, and for that angle, I'll let Joe Cartoon say it best.

"I mean, they are all very hot. They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it."
- Schwarzenegger on Cubans, specifically one of California's assemblywomen

Arnold is a bit of a racist, but you already knew that.

Even the Senate now concludes that Saddam had nothing to do with al-Qaeda, other than trying to kill them more proactively than we were at the time.

Karl Rove apparently hauled some priests in to exorcise Hillary Clinton's spirit from the West Wing. No clue on whether his taint will take a priest, a rug doctor, and a Superfund team.

A recent poll shows that many Americans think the political system is "badly broken." Was that before or after you idiots elected a racist pawn for the rich - and richer Arabs?

Bush on his ek-a-lec-tic reading habits.

Mitt Romney is worried about stem cell research resulting in some race of superhumans. More importantly, he's worried his ilk will be left out. I think he needs to stop watching Gattaca and rejoin the real world.

The GOP has given up on reforming immigration. Personally? I think they want to dump it onto their racist constituents, the Minutemen.

The GOP is funding Liebermann. No surprise there.

Santorum is pimping his children in order to get re-elected. Isn't he aware that we all know that using your kids is the last desperate act of a failed politician?

Five years after 9/11 our first responders STILL have crappy communications equipment. And Exxon has the world's highest profits and Halliburton has a lock on government contracts. Still impressed with Bush?

Speaking of the Dolt-in-Chief, he finally confessed this week that the CIA has had secret foreign prisons. But we're moving the tortured prisoners out and into Gitmo where they can be tried by the same military tribunals the Supreme Court found unconstitional earlier this year. And if the gang containing Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts can't pull that one out for Bush, it HAS to be pretty nefarious.

Sanitized for your protection:

"Everyone in Iraq knows Bush is a d**khead. He's the boss' kid. Everybody I know who has a successful business who has a kid - the kid is always a f**khead. Have you ever noticed that?"
- Jesse James, car mod enthusiast, after a trip to Iraq.