Friday, January 6, 2006
Shitting their pants
Ha-ha!
And where she stops, nobody knows...
Update:
And since we're talking about congressweasels:
They don't know where to run first.
Washington's power players have always bragged about being well-wired, but for disgraced former congressman Duke Cunningham, "wired" wasn't just a figure of speech. In a week when legislators are focused on the question of who else might be brought down by ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff's cooperation with prosecutors as he seeks lenient sentencing over his two federal guilty pleas this week, sources tell TIME that in a separate investigation, ex-Rep. Cunningham wore a wire to help investigators gather evidence against others just before copping his own plea.
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The identity of those with whom the San Diego congressman met while wearing the wire remains unclear, and is the source of furious - and nervous - speculation by congressional Republicans... [my em]
And where she stops, nobody knows...
Thanks to Susie for the link.
Update:
And since we're talking about congressweasels:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About two dozen Republicans have promised to sign a petition calling for elections to permanently replace Rep. Tom DeLay as majority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, aides said on Friday.
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They don't know where to run first.
Wal-Mart again...
This one takes the fucking cake for cultural insensitivity, or blatant racism, or both. From the EssEffChron:
I got nothing against a little ethnic humor. I know jokes that could get me killed if I lost my mind and told 'em where they could hurt people's feelings. This one's no joke, and it ain't funny.
It's a little too pat to be an 'accident', seems to me. Some computer clerk is probably laughin' his scrawny white ass off at his 'porch monkey' gag.
I got a good gag for ya: find this prick and drop him off in Oakland. Or Harlem. Better yet, CAFKIA's house. We'll see just how funny it is to those guys.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is shutting down the system that creates movie recommendations on its shopping Web site after it linked a "Planet of the Apes" DVD to films about famous black Americans, including Martin Luther King Jr.
Wal-Mart said Thursday it had removed what it called the "offensive combinations" from a walmart.com page advertising a boxed DVD set, "Planet of the Apes: The Complete TV Series."
Under a "similar items" section, the DVD set's page linked shoppers to four films about the lives of King, actress Dorothy Dandridge, boxer Jack Johnson and singer Tina Turner. Wal-Mart later altered the page to link with television show DVDs.
I got nothing against a little ethnic humor. I know jokes that could get me killed if I lost my mind and told 'em where they could hurt people's feelings. This one's no joke, and it ain't funny.
It's a little too pat to be an 'accident', seems to me. Some computer clerk is probably laughin' his scrawny white ass off at his 'porch monkey' gag.
I got a good gag for ya: find this prick and drop him off in Oakland. Or Harlem. Better yet, CAFKIA's house. We'll see just how funny it is to those guys.
It's not just the NSA, folks...
The Tacoma News Tribune has some disturbing news:
Yeah, right. We know how much respect this government has for the law. I feel a lot better now.
I think Bush musta found Nixon's playbook under the stairs. Damn good place to hide booze.
As it hunted down tax scofflaws, the Internal Revenue Service (my em) collected information on the political party affiliations of taxpayers in 20 states
"The bottom line is that we have never used this information," said John Lipold, an IRS spokesman. "There are strict laws in place that forbid it."
Yeah, right. We know how much respect this government has for the law. I feel a lot better now.
Murray said she learned about the problem from the president of the National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen Kelly. The IRS is part of the Treasury Department.
"This agency should not have that type of information," Murray said in a telephone interview from Seattle. "No one should question whether they are being audited because of party affiliation."
Kelly said Thursday that several IRS employees had complained to the union about the practice. She said IRS officials weren't even aware of it until she wrote them in late December.
"We think Congress should suspend IRS plans to use private collections agencies until these questions have been resolved," she said.
According to Murray's office, the 20 states in which the IRS collected party affiliation information were Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin.
I think Bush musta found Nixon's playbook under the stairs. Damn good place to hide booze.
More on Amanpour spying
Americablog has a report on CNN picking up the report of spying on Christiane Amanpour.
Hey, NSA, I'll save ya money and grief: Lemme spy on her for ya. There's something about politically savvy, intelligent, international beauties with more balls than a pachinko parlor that floats my boat. A pair of binoculars and a ladder is all the high-tech I'd need!
Hey, NSA, I'll save ya money and grief: Lemme spy on her for ya. There's something about politically savvy, intelligent, international beauties with more balls than a pachinko parlor that floats my boat. A pair of binoculars and a ladder is all the high-tech I'd need!
Robertson off his game...
Swiped this from Bottomfeeder, an aptly named blog if there ever was one:
Click the links. This one will make your day. My face turned blue from laughing, so I'm going to suck oxygen now.
Is Pat Robertson Losing It?
It may have sounded like vintage Pat Robertson, when the ABC Family cable network star and founder of the Christian Coalition suggested that God smote Ariel Sharon in divine retribution for "dividing God's land."
In fact, this latest outburst shows us that the Rev. Pat is seriously off his game. How else to explain his failure to link Sharon's catastrophic stroke with the rampant scourge of interspecies marriage in the Holy Land?
However, it's good to know that someone had his back on this vital issue.
Click the links. This one will make your day. My face turned blue from laughing, so I'm going to suck oxygen now.
So what's "Crazy Howie" up to these days?
Via Kos, an update on Howard Dean's efforts to rebuild the Democrats.
Ha! Fat chance! Go read. Here's a taste:
It sounds to me like he's doing a methodical job of building up the grass roots network of grunts necessary to get Dems elected. This is good.
Now all we need is a message. Dean is leaving that to others. That's OK, but they better get on the stick.
The National Journal's subscription-only Hotline has a good piece on what Dean has accomplished. The sort of piece you won't see in the WaPo or other publications too busy pushing the "Dean is insane and ineffective" storyline.
With permission from the publication, here it is in whole:
Ha! Fat chance! Go read. Here's a taste:
Dean's defenders say he's making good on his pledge. The DNC has trained 136 new organizers and sent them to 30 states, and by the end of 3/06, party officials say every state's precinct training program will be up and running. In WV, the party now employs four full-time organizers. Recalcitrant county chairs are warming to their presence; one small county that had zero precinct captains in 2004 has twelve today.
"That may not seem like a huge step," says Parag Mehta, the DNC's director of training, "but in that party of West Virginia, where Democrats were afraid to put up yard signs for fear of being taunted, suddenly, there's a Democratic presence."
It sounds to me like he's doing a methodical job of building up the grass roots network of grunts necessary to get Dems elected. This is good.
Now all we need is a message. Dean is leaving that to others. That's OK, but they better get on the stick.
Show and tell
We all know this was pure theatre and nothing more, don't we?
They could have at least made it look good and blown an hour or so.
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But if it was a bipartisan consultation, as advertised by the White House, it was a brief one. Mr. Bush allowed 5 to 10 minutes this morning for interchange with the group - which included three veterans of another difficult war, the one in Vietnam: Robert S. McNamara, Melvin R. Laird and James R. Schlesinger. Then the entire group was herded the Oval Office for what he called a "family picture." [my em]
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They could have at least made it look good and blown an hour or so.
Is it me?
Or is the Blogger word verification for comments getting a bit out of hand. Soon I'll be typing the whole alphabet before I can post a comment on somebody's blog.
Friday Cattle Dog Blogging
Princess Shayna waits for the toy she tossed upward to return to Earth.
Thursday, January 5, 2006
It gets better
Didn't that lying little prick Snot McClellan say Bush only met Abramoff in passing, at a couple parties on the Jewish holidays? Um, no:
So, a crook lobbyist attends WH staff meetings? Hmmm...makes ya think, don't it?
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Q Any update on the Abramoff visits to the White House beyond the three parties that he attended?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I indicated yesterday that I think there were some -- a few staff-level meetings. But, no, I'm making sure that I have a thorough report back to you on that. And I'll get that to you, hopefully very soon. [my em]
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So, a crook lobbyist attends WH staff meetings? Hmmm...makes ya think, don't it?
Thanks to Maru for the link.
Fightin' words
This is what I like to see. Dems with balls.
My colleague at Democrats.com, Bob Fertik, never one to shy away from a fight, has called Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman out and challenged him to a public debate on the merits of impeaching George W. Bush.
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Cold showers?
California is proudly leading the way again. Like a family man who screws himself out of a place at the dinner table, so is California screwing its way to disastrous overpopulation. What to do, what to do? From the EssEffChron:
I think when kids get taught that 'abstinence only' shit, they know they're being fed a line, and ignore it. Tell 'em the truth and they'll listen, if just for a refreshing change from business as usual.
As Californians proliferate with rabbit-like efficiency, the state's residents are surprisingly of one mind about how to deal with overpopulation. Whether they're liberal Democrats or evangelical Christians, they favor sex education and access by the young to birth control.
In an endeavor that gives new meaning to the term phone sex, researchers spent two weeks last month calling about 2,500 people around California, asking them about things such as contraceptives, abortion, teen pregnancy, morning-after pills -- and even politics.
"I was most surprised by the fact that most Californians don't fully appreciate the role of births in population growth," Baldassare said. "One other thing that struck me is the broad consensus for programs that promote birth control and sex education -- support across racial and ethnic and regional and political categories to make birth control accessible and available."
The single greatest contributor to the state's population increase is births to residents -- almost half in recent years have been to immigrant women. There have been about 500,000 births annually in California in the 2000s, and the rate is projected to stay at that level, or rise above it, for the next decade.
Those who know something about sex or young people, or both, have their own thoughts on how to remedy overpopulation.
"Break the egg!" said Jane Tollini, who produced the most prolific captive penguin colony in the world during her years at the San Francisco Zoo. "Make an omelet."
When she realized the subject was people rather than seabirds, Tollini said, "I don't know -- cold showers?"
"We've already seen a huge change in society locally with condom use," he said. "When they teach that if you don't use condoms you're going to die, or you'll get pregnant and your life will be ruined, it is effective.
"If you don't teach that, kids can't make an informed decision. Kids are smart -- they're smart, but they're ignorant."
I think when kids get taught that 'abstinence only' shit, they know they're being fed a line, and ignore it. Tell 'em the truth and they'll listen, if just for a refreshing change from business as usual.
The false god of ideology
It's a little unsettling to have to be reminded of this by a German. From an editorial in the LATimes:
Danke, Helmuth.
He reminded me that fear and rigid ideology are the enemies of freedom. "Democratic capitalism can sometimes leave people feeling extremely insecure," he said. "But freedom and democracy are always more important than the temptation to have more security." Particularly in these days, he thought, Americans need to remember that.
Danke, Helmuth.
Just another phony christian...
Local news from KOCO, Okie City:
I don't care if the guy wants to stick his dick in a woodchipper, and I'm not a huge fan of the cops setting up John stings. I'm a supporter of legalized prostitution, but that's for another time.
What this article shows, on the surface, is just one more example of a supposed christian saying one thing and doing another. I think we're kinda used to that. No big deal, other than it's fun when they get caught at it.
What gets me is the last sentence of the quote. Therein lies the real hypocrisy. It shows the true nature of the phony christians.
What's a "man of God" doing riding around in a '05 Mercedes? If he were truly a "shepherd to his flock" he'd be driving a ten-year-old pickup* filled with food and clothing for the less fortunate among God's children, purchased with the money he gave the M-B salesman. Apparently, he doesn't have any "less fortunate" parishioners of his own if they donated enough to get that ride, but I'm sure he could find some.
I don't think much of the Southern Baptist Convention either. Money, power, subjugation of women, homobigotry, and political influence ain't really in line with the Beatitudes. Buncha fuckin' phony poseur con men.
When these guys finally appear at the Pearly Gates, and St. Peter hands 'em an asbestos thong, grins, and points to the elevator, maybe they'll get the message.
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An executive committee member of the Southern Baptist Convention was arrested on a lewdness charge for propositioning a plainclothes policeman outside a hotel, police said.
Lonnie Latham, senior pastor at South Tulsa Baptist Church, was booked into Oklahoma County Jail Tuesday night on a misdemeanor charge of offering to engage in an act of lewdness, police Capt. Jeffrey Becker said. Latham was released on $500 bail Wednesday afternoon.
Latham, who has spoken out against homosexuality, asked the officer to join him in his hotel room for oral sex. Latham was arrested and his 2005 Mercedes automobile was impounded, Becker said.
I don't care if the guy wants to stick his dick in a woodchipper, and I'm not a huge fan of the cops setting up John stings. I'm a supporter of legalized prostitution, but that's for another time.
What this article shows, on the surface, is just one more example of a supposed christian saying one thing and doing another. I think we're kinda used to that. No big deal, other than it's fun when they get caught at it.
What gets me is the last sentence of the quote. Therein lies the real hypocrisy. It shows the true nature of the phony christians.
What's a "man of God" doing riding around in a '05 Mercedes? If he were truly a "shepherd to his flock" he'd be driving a ten-year-old pickup* filled with food and clothing for the less fortunate among God's children, purchased with the money he gave the M-B salesman. Apparently, he doesn't have any "less fortunate" parishioners of his own if they donated enough to get that ride, but I'm sure he could find some.
I don't think much of the Southern Baptist Convention either. Money, power, subjugation of women, homobigotry, and political influence ain't really in line with the Beatitudes. Buncha fuckin' phony poseur con men.
When these guys finally appear at the Pearly Gates, and St. Peter hands 'em an asbestos thong, grins, and points to the elevator, maybe they'll get the message.
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Just as an aside, my local pastor, Father Francisco, drives a Subaru that truly demonstrates the power of prayer. That old rattletrap has every mechanic in town praying for it. Ha!
This is Seriously F-upped
Bus line debuts tour of stricken city
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - An international bus line launched tours of devastated sections of New Orleans on Wednesday, amid controversy over whether so-called disaster tourism would help, hurt or humiliate the hurricane-ravaged city.
Two sold-out Gray Line tour busses slowly prowled along the city's broken levees, through its rubble-strewn streets and past the heavily damaged Superdome where desperate residents took shelter when Hurricane Katrina hit on August 29 and most of the city flooded in the aftermath.
Plans for the "Hurricane Katrina - America's Worst Catastrophe" tour, at $35 per person, prompted debate over whether it is appropriate or exploitative to turn devastation into a tourist attraction.
Gray Line, which runs more than 150 tours around the world, plans to donate $3 of each New Orleans ticket to charity. The three-hour tour will run once a day, Wednesday through Sunday.
"Gray Line thought long and hard before making the decision to send this tour out,"
Yo jackasses:
Stay home and donate the $35 to a charity - you'll sleep better at night. And as for the ghouls masquerading as Gray Line employees? Obviously you didn't think at all except about lining your pockets.
Duh
The WH is spying on journalists and the corporate press is in their pocket.
How much you wanna bet we find they've been spying on the Democrats, namely the Kerry campaign last year? It's just conjecture on my part, so far, but I feel comfortable making the prediction.
Update:
More via Jane.
...Mitchell: You don't have any information, for instance, that a very prominent journalist, Christiane Amanpour, might have been eavesdropped upon?
Risen: No, no I hadn't heard that.
Now the second question and its answer have been deleted. Which of course just strengthens the rumors that Amanpour might have been spied on.
How much you wanna bet we find they've been spying on the Democrats, namely the Kerry campaign last year? It's just conjecture on my part, so far, but I feel comfortable making the prediction.
Update:
More via Jane.
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