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Question: why do we keep fighting wars to protect backstabbing bastards like these?

Ya know, I've known some bad people in my life. Not necessarily evil, but not your traditional amount of good and moral either. I'm glad to see this article at the NPR site.

In a nutshell:

At the end of the day, would we be OK with our 13-year-old daughter being drugged and raped by a 44-year-old? And are we OK with him then skipping town?

The answer to these questions would be no-brainers if the 44-year-old involved were not a world-renowned, brilliant director. So applaud his work and award him an Oscar. But don't say he's a victim who deserves to be excused.

And that's the long and short of it. I've know gang members, folks who have done time for drug dealing, gang activity, even attempted murder in a couple cases. But, despite their crimes, they weren't evil.

Evil? Evil in at least one form is some jackass who thinks it's okay to sleep with a thirteen year old girl. No, not just think it: do it.

For those sick bastards who somehow justify this kind of behavior, answer me this: are you also cool with FLDS members having secret marriages to teenage girls? Because I'd say most folks, especially mainstream LDS members that I know, think those folks are sick.

It's pedophilia. It's child abuse. It's a crime, and the bastard needed to do time for it decades ago. The fact that people still find some reason to think he doesn't makes me sick.

This article calls out NPR on being too timid to call out torture for what it is. Instead, they fall back on the Cheney-style euphemisms for what is, to be completely honest, torture.

This is the continuing problem I have with NPR and the author gives some reasons for why this is how it is. There are some great shows, with fantastic hosts, but the whole "let's suck up to the Republicans" meme really brings down the quality.

A lot.

Enough to stop me from donating anything to them. Ah well. You really do hope for more. Why is is wrong to call racists racist? Or corporate-paid politicians enemies of the common man? Or the folks stocking up on guns because we have a black President traitors?

Wrong is still wrong, right?

Something occurred to me just now.

Since Letterman inadvertently started up his feud with Sarah Palin, not one right wing terrorist has shot up a church or tried to perform a mass killing at a Holocaust museum or gay theatre or abortion clinic or NAACP or LULAC affair.

This means that the Palinites have stayed in their mom's basements writing hate mail to CBS rather than assassinating Americans they don't agree with. As long as they still have tissues to clean themselves off with while staring at their Miss Wasilla bathing suit posters, America is safe.

Somebody give this guy a medal.

They say the Republican Party has to embrace the web to maintain traction in this current political environment.

Personally, I think they'd be better off trying to cull the racists, bigots, terrorists and loudmouth drug addict sex fiend radio shitheels in their midst. But that's just me.

As for the whole "we know Web 2.0" thing? They have a lot to learn.

Last year, for some reason, I started getting email from Jim Inhofe. You know, the anti-climate change racist asswipe. I don't know how I got on his list. Presumably they trolled a list of any email account that ever sent a message from Oklahoma and spammed it. I mean, I haven't lived there since 2003, never voted for the asshole or his ilk, and I have never been a member of the GOP, KKK, or NRA.

It was mildly entertaining to read his detached from reality BS during the election, until the rise of the Palinites and Inhofe's willingness to join their racist sedition bandwagon. I unsubscribed and was the better for doing so.

Until this week. Mary Fallin, another OK Rethug cretin, is running for governor. And suddenly I'm getting email from her.

Yeah, these spam artists have a lot to learn about properly using technology for something other than to blow up brown people and assassinate people in churches and Holocaust museums.

Never mind their advertising mouthpiece, Smithfield has got more than just public relations issues due to being the likely source of Paula Deen Flu. It also has a laundry list of bad practices and abuses to it's name.

Look Kids! It's the Paula Deen flu. The second story in this article covers something I heard yesterday on how a Smithfield Farms pig lot in Mexico may be the source of the swine flu ravaging Mexico City.

The more racist of Americans have been blaming this on Mexico. Instead, they should be blaming an American agribusiness giant if any of this is true.

As for me, I'd rather blame their "let's cook everything in lard" spokeswoman, Paula Deen. Why? I don't know why, but I do know that I just don't like that lady.

I mean, I was raised on my grandpa's knee being preached populist rage, so this article is right up my alley.

These financial guys caused this problem so I don't have any sympathy, pity, or patience with any of their excuses. Soak 'em and imprison anyone who deserves it, I say.

I find this hilarious.

The GOP and their mouth-breathing internet pals are just SO up in arms about a stimulus package. Particularly that teabag-loving Boehner. Maybe he'll tear up some more and talk to us about how sad he is about, well, everything not going his way lately.

Look, these fuckholes had NO problem sending our soldiers off to war without enough comrades in arms beside them. Without enough armored vehicles. Being given water to drink that had washed corpses by Chene's bitches at Halliburton.

What did that cost? I mean other than over 4,000 American lives and 12,000 plus wounded? Not to mention the 100,000 or so Iraqis? Oh, eventually THREE TRILLION DOLLARS!

These same scumbags - for the most part - had no issues with given $700 billion to banks, even turning speculative investment banks into the regular kind so they could feed generously at the government trough. Then again, the GOP LOVES giving free money to businesses with no strings attached. Indeed, other than to give the Klan something to do politically, I'm not sure what ELSE the Republican Party is around for.

What has that done for us? Not a whole hell of a lot. Heck, Bank of America has gone back to the trough for a THIRD trip and still won't lend any money. The SEIU has some ideas on what they should do.

Hell, the only ones even trying are the auto companies. Sure, they are scumbags too, but frigging GMAC opened up it's credit rules the day after the feds gave them $5 billion. And even then they're still being tight asses.

So, $350 billion in and only $5 billion has shown any good results.

And now Obama wants to provide jobs and give the taxPAYERS a break. And the GOP is solidly against it.

I sure hope America is watching and taking notes. And, yeah, partisan division aside and all that, but Obama needs to point out the argument these guys are making, which is this: TRILLIONS for war, TRILLIONS for corporations, and not ONE FUCKING DIME for those who actually pay the taxes.

A HUGE Whiskey Tango Foxtrot to Barack Obama today.

As detailed in this article, Mother Jones says it better than I can:

Rick Warren is the pastor of the California-based megachurch known as Saddleback and the author of super-bestseller The Purpose Driven Life. He wins plaudits from mainstream media types and Very Serious People because he is trying to expand the evangelical community's priorities beyond the standard social issues. He wants to see more attention paid to poverty, climate change, AIDS, and human rights. That's all well and good, but Warren still has many views that match the hardline right. He strongly supported Proposition 8. He considers stem cells "non-negotiable." He compares abortion to the Holocaust. He has admitted the difference between between him and James Dobson is primarily "a matter of tone." In a move that would make George Orwell proud, he just gave George W. Bush an "International Medal of P.E.A.C.E."

Let's get this straight: why the FUCK would someone pick a Talibangelical bigoted asshole at a moment when you are trying to bring the country together?

More background on the guy who advocates assassination, hates women, as well as compares being pro-choice akin to being a Holocaust denier, hates gays and is basically a scumbag.

The asshole in his own words:

Thankfully, I'm not the only one who thinks that coddling the more extreme bigots of our time is a way to unify the nation. Face it, there WILL be racists who won't give up, there WILL be hardcore Republicans loading guns looking to kill Obama, and there WILL be Talibangelical flat earth asshats just waiting to teach our kids creationism, take away their choices, turn the girls back into property, make the boys march off to eternal war, remove logic, reason, and education because knowledge only distracts from having a narrow, angry view of the world.

Kowtowing to hate is not a winning plan and it really, really sickens me that the guy I've put time, effort, and money into electing does not see it that way.

I feel dirty.

Obama is way up in the polls and McCain is running a sordid campaign built on lies and incompetence.

This *should* be a cakewalk.

But yet....

Maybe we're all hyperventilating for no reason. Maybe everyone WILL go out and vote. Maybe Diebold and Sycamore, et al won't rig the election. Maybe the GOP will stop trying to disenfranchise millions.

Maybe pigs will fly.

There is hoping and there is doing. Get your ass out there and vote people!

Yeah, I've gotten a couple emails/IMs on this.

Yes, I've become a bit of a potty mouth lately. I should calm it down. And hopefully I can after the election.

That said, every time I see the attendees to a Palinite rally, I am reminded of how hateful, divisive, and racist our citizens can be. Particularly the Republicans. Particularly those who somehow think their narrow-mindedness is actually Christian.

It makes me spit bile. I did not bring my son into this world to have these cretins in charge. It pisses me off that they even have a voice in the form of that witch Palin.

So yeah, I cuss. But I took my boy to vote for Obama the other day. His mom voted the same way. My mom is voting the same way. Hopefully enough of us do to shut down the purveyors of hate and bigotry and get them off the controls of our nation.

Anyway, I hope that good can overcome evil, that optimism crushes bigotry, that unity conquers division.

If you haven't voted already, please do so. Thanks.

A Palinite bully boy in Florida...

...and attacks on Obama and his family.

And does Freedom of Speech extend to Republican Election Clerks sending emails warning of Obama as a "young, black Adolf Hitler"? Just asking.

And yes, this is wrong, but then again, so is the man:

And, since it keeps coming up, will some representative of New York State get a resolution entered into the House or Senate that DEMANDS the GOP stop using 9/11 as a bludgeon if they are going to say that New York City and Washington D.C. aren't part of "Real America"?

I decided to post some BS arguments to counter the GOP talking points at the RJ.

There are a lot of slanderous and salacious things said about Obama.

I know I really should not do this, but how about two whack job observations about the GOP ticket to balance out the insanity and stupidity?

1. Palin, is, as we know, in bed with Alaskan separatists. If Obama can go to a cocktail party and become a terrorist, then if Palin had slept with and conceived children with a member of a separatist, TRAITOROUS party, what of her? How's THAT for "pro-America"?

2. John McCain was held for years by the VietCong/Soviets. They KNEW he was the son and grandson of admirals, so his importance was obvious. What is to say he is not the ultimate Manchurian candidate? How much does Putin know and can he flip McCain's code words at will?

Also, as an aside, to be truly unfair, when John McCain was given the option to go home, John McCain stayed with his captors. Was he really staying with his fellow prisoners or something else? Did he develop Stockholm Syndrome or, worse, did he CHOSE to stay with the Communists for other reasons?

Yes, these are BS arguments and laughable, but no more so than the crap said about Obama.

Anyway, I posted the comment on this story about high Democratic turnout here in Clark County.

There's an article over at HuffPo about all kinds of stories the media "forgot" to report while it was too busy covering up McCain's mistakes and spreading his lies. Let's hit some of the high points.

Chief Idiot John Ashcroft spent time swearing that waterboarding isn't torture. That said, Ashcroft, Cheney, Bolton, Rumsfeld and the rest of the chickenhawk gang know as much about torture as they do about wearing a military uniform. Which is that they love the concept, but are too squeamish or privileged to actually have anything to do with either. They just write orders with no knowledge and let others do the hard work.

Christopher Hitchens, who usually comes off as a smug intellectual, at least did the hard work on the torture front. He may hate God, but he definitely now hates waterboarding more as he actually had the balls to undergo the experience. Read his account and share it with the neocons in your life.

In the main article, more on how the Bush Administration blocked CO2 cuts, even though green jobs are outpacing coal industry jobs, and proof that closing coal plants improve the brain development of children living near them. These goons are on the wrong side of science, history, children, and probably every other good thing on earth.

They are definitely against women. Bushites are trying to label ANY contraceptive as a type of abortion so they can better make the pill illegal. I imagine condoms are on the list too.

Look, believe whatever Hate Jesus bullshit you want to believe. But quit trying to become the Taliban.

People, run these bastards out of our school boards, city councils, local, state, and federal government before we start blowing up Mount Rushmore as idolatry and force our children into polygamist marriages at the age of 10. Get these lying, evil, torturing hillbillies away from the leadership of America.