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Bush Hangs Frist And The Christian Right Out To Dry.
As opposed to dissecting Bush's entire press conference I would like to address one section in particular. The Q & A area that caught my attention was when David Gregory of NBC news asked Dubya what he thought about the filibuster against faith farce or in other words if Bush thought Democrats were blocking judges based on their "deeply held religious beliefs". As for Bush's reply I must admit he didn't waffle in the slightest. Without hesitation he said the Democrats were definitely not discriminating against his judicial nominees on the basis of their faith. Oh the hearts of the evangelical Christians I heard breaking all across the Bible belt was audible. It brought me much joy.
If it is not clear to the masses of the Christian conservative right by now that you were used and oh so easily manipulated into giving up your vote in November I don't know what else you would need in the way of proof. Let's see now, you have: no gay marriage amendment, you have no ban on stem cell research, you have no ban on cloning, you have no ban on abortion and now when it comes to judges who might outlaw these "atrocities against the lord" Bush in essence said to the Democrats "hey filibuster them judges if ya' must". Ya'll are a bunch of suckers! I love it.
I must admit that I have a conspiracy theory tickling my brain. How apropos would it be if Bush at the behest of Carl Rove cut Bill Frist off at the knees so the Christian right would sit up and say "Hey this Bush guy stiffed us but this Frist fellow is a true believer and I will remember that at the '08 election". Really... I wouldn't put it past Rove to come up with something that Machiavellian. Maybe I'm just nuts... But ya' never know.
Friday 6 :08 pm 4/29/05
Just Wondering...
Bush praying that the earpiece which connects
him to Carl Rove doesn't give out.
Like many other people last night when I heard that President Bush had announced a surprise press conference I wondered why. Then for fun thought I would write down as many reasons that I could think of that might make him do the prime time dance. I gave myself five minutes to come up with as many reasons as I could. These are the few reasons that popped into my head in the allotted time (not necessarily in order of importance):
• The insanely high price of oil.
• The insanely high price of gasoline.
• The rapidly rising gas consumption in China & India, which in turn jacks up our prices exponentially.
• The inability of our president to foist his plans for privatized accounts for Social Security on the American people.
• The fact that North Korea now claims they have nuclear weapons.
• The fact that Iran now claims they have nuclear weapons.
• The fact that India now claims they have nuclear weapons.
• The fact that Pakistan now claims they have nuclear weapons.
• The growing concern in the Bush administration that Syria has been pursuing nuclear weapons.
• Tom DeLay's Ethics... or lack thereof.
• The fact that after Republicans changed the Ethics Committee rules to favor Tom DeLay they had to tuck tail and change them back.
• The John Bolton nomination debacle.
• The fact that Bush is experiencing his lowest job approval rating ever (45% approval rating).
• The religious rights failed jesuspaloosa : Justice Sunday's - filibusters against people of faith.
• The backlash Republicans experienced after interfering in the Terri Schiavo case.
• The final report that definitively states that before we went to war with Iraq there were absolutely no weapons of mass destruction... Period!
• The rise of the size and scope of the insurgence attacks in Iraq.
• The ridiculously ineffectual interim puppet government the Neocons set up in Iraq.
• The 3,000,000,000 billion dollar price tag of the war in Iraq
• The fact that there is no end in sight to our occupation of Iraq.
• America's record trade deficit.
• America's ailing economy.
• America's turbulence of the stock market.
• Fed. Chairman Alan Greenspan's speeches which hint at inflation.
• Taking our counties record surplus and turning into a record deficit.
• Russia selling enriched uranium to Iran.
• Russia selling short ranged missiles to Syria
I am sure there are many other reasons but alas my time is up... Thank you for playing!
P.S. - Did anyone notice that Bush was wearing too much rouge during the news conference or was that just me?
Thursday 11:48 pm 4/28/05
Did You Know Democrats Are Godless Heathens
Here is a flier for the Christian telecast, organized by the Family Research Council,
shows a confused teenage boy with a Bible in one hand and a judge's gavel in the other.
If judges are supposed to follow the rule of law and if indeed we are a country of laws, why is it if a judge in the course of doing his civic duty of following said laws happens to upsets a person of faith they are branded activists judges against people of faith? The judge in question is only doing what he or she was chosen by our government to do. Yet the people of faith cry out that he should be held accountable to those same people for his or her actions. No, this is exactly wrong. He is purposely not held accountable to the people for his actions to ensure that his decision is fair and unbiased.
On Sunday April 25th Bill Frist appeared on a televised/web cast production of a program aimed at evangelical Christians named "Judicial Sunday". This program was produced by the evangelical Christian right wing organization Family Research Council to deliver the message that democrats are deliberately filibustering judges based solely on their religious beliefs. The tag line for the program as you can see in the advertisement at the top of this article is "The filibuster against people of faith." By appearing on the broadcast Frist is in essence giving his stamp of approval on the portrayal of Democrats who block the president's judicial nominations as being "against people of faith." What about the judges that sit on their benches now that are Catholic, Christian and Jewish whom democrats approved? Does the Family Research Council mean to imply that those judges' beliefs are not deeply held and that is why the Democrats approved them? Frist, along with Rev. James Dobson, Rev. Tony Perkins and Rev. Albert Mohler (Speakers at the program "Judicial Sunday") would have you believe that just because democrats are seeking to block the nominations of a few (very few) Bush nominated judges that they are anti people of faith. This is not only untrue but sets a dangerous precedent as well. The minute numbers of judges they chose not to confirm are people whom have in the past been shown to put their faith before the law they were elected to uphold. It is not that these people are Christians, Jews, Catholics, or Muslims whom carry deep held religious beliefs it is the fact that they couldn't check those beliefs at the door when making decisions and rulings that affect us all. One person's faith does not fit our diverse society. To impose their deeply held religious beliefs on all of us through their rulings would be at the very least un-American.
Now let's examine the republicans like born again evangelical Christian Tom DeLay who claims he is against activist judges. DeLay wants to implement judges who will decide cases the way "he" sees fit, which is of course based on Christian religious doctrine (anti- abortion, anti-same sex marriage, anti-birth control, anti-your right to chose how you live or die, ect.). This would be ludicrous and illegal because of the constitutional separation of church and state. If these judges were to go ahead and base their decisions in this way they would then become, in every sense of the term, "activist judges." It of course makes no sense. DeLay in all truth wants, despite what he says, activist judges on the bench but only ones that hand down rulings that he and his conservative Christian constituency agree with. They are hypocrites to the nth degree. The hypocritical epitath only holds true for DeLay if you think he actually believes in his crusade or is just doing it to gin up his base and expand his political power. Hmmmm, which do you think it is.
Another Republican whack job by the name of Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) went so far as to say that the recent up tick of violence against judges was due to honest hard working people who were fed up with recent rulings by the so called activist judges and the fact that they are "unaccountable" to the public. He is either dumb as a stump or insane. Let's examine the people responsible for the violence Cornyn is alluding to. Perhaps John is referring to the rapist Brian Nichols who in downtown Atlanta attacked Deputy Cynthia Hall took her gun and then murdered Judge Rowland Barnes and court reporter Julie Brandau. Then In the process of hijacking several vehicles Nichols struggled with and killed Deputy Hoyt Teasley and stole his vehicle. I hardly think Nichols was upset about any of the judges recent rulings accept for the one where he said it was against the law to go around raping woman. Perhaps Cornyn is talking about Bart Ross? Ross who had become disfigured from facial cancer, was reportedly obsessed, angry, and severely paranoid, which led him to murder US District Judge Joan H. Lefkow's husband and 90 year old mother in their own home. In a suicide letter found after Ross' death he claimed he commited the crime because Lefkow didn't rule in his favor over his medical malpractice suit that stemmed from his cancer. I thought that's what Bush wanted... Fewer judges ruling against good doctors just trying to spread their love. Sen. John Cornyn is an imbecile. 'Nuff Said.
Now just so no one thinks these are trumped up charges levied by left wing elitists please take this information into concideration. An audio recording obtained by the Los Angeles Times features two of the nation's most influential evangelical leaders, Rev. Jim Dobson and Rev. Tony Perkins at a private conference with supporters, which expose the real agenda they are working towards. Not surpringly the agenda was to rein in these so called "activist judges". On these tapes both leaders chastised what Perkins termed " squishy" and "weak" Republican senators who have not wholeheartedly endorsed ending Democrats' power to filibuster judicial nominees. They said these included moderates such as Sens. Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania Chuck Hagel of Nebraska Sens. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and George Allen of Virginia. "We need to shake these guys up," Perkins said. Dobson then cimed in "Sometimes it's just amazing to me that they seem to forget how they got here." The recorded parties were also overheard on the tape saying that they want Congress to "de-fund" courts they don't like. "Congress can simply disenfranchise a court," by "just take(ing) away the bench, all of his staff, and he's just sitting out there with nothing to do," declares Dobson. So much for the framers' notion of three independent branches of government! On the tape Rev. Tony Perkins is heard saying, "There's more than one way to skin a cat, and there's more than one way to take a black robe off the bench,"
In the end I believe this is just a ploy to separate and conquer the American people for political gain. Religion should be a force that brings all the people of this nation together. Faith should be a uniting force not one that drives a wedge between us. I don't care what party a politician comes from if he or she uses religion as a point to separate the people of this country he should be immediately removed from office and disgraced for trying to apply a divisive evil tactic to further his own political agenda.
On a final note just to show what a load of horseshit this "Filibuster against people of faith" is here are the numbers of Clinton approved judges as opposed to Bush approved judges...
Bill Clinton has a 85% approval rating for his judicial nominees
(63 out of 437)
George W. Bush has a 95% approval rating for his judicial nominees
(10 out of 224)
Remember, that just like now, Republicans controled the Senate back when Clinton was in office... So who really blocked more judges of faith in the end? Decide for yourself.
Monday 4:24 pm 4/25/05
The Agony Of De-Feet!
Sorry, bad pun... I couldn't resist. Above is right wing shill, conservative harpy hack and most notably Big Bird and Ronald McDonald's love child, Ann Coulter. This Time Magazine cover's photo has to be one of the the funniest pictures of one of the ugliest human beings (I refer not to her looks but her persona) ever. The word on the street is that the Times article is a puff piece and not worth reading unless you enjoy Coulters garbage. I usually try to refrain from speaking about or including Ann on this page but the picture was just too funny and she has been running all over the place complaining that she was ambushed by the Time photographer. What... You didn't notice the guy laying on the floor in front of you with a camera asking you to "Say Cheese."? Well, in all honesty, I guess I wouldn't be able to see him over those huge dogs either... But seriously... Big-foot called... he wants his feet back! When the called them feet they didn't mean they literally had to be a foot long. With feet as big as yours, why don't you just wear the box? Which shipyard launched that pair for you? Well, at least you won't need to buy skis. When you take a flight do you have to buy them tickets? I heard Coulter tried out for clown school but they didn't have any shoes that fit her. Seriously, when you stand up you look like a coat-rack. Hey Ann, at least it'll let the chicks know what a big penis you have!
Sunday 9:29 am 4/24/05
Fox News Sickening Spin For A Sickening Day!
At a news conference today to discuss the search for hostages from the Madain region, Iraq President Jalal Talabani said, more than 50 bodies of murdered Iraqi men women and children were pulled from the Tigris River earlier that morning. Talabani claimed, "We have the full names of those who were killed and those criminals who committed these crimes. Personally I wouldn't suggest holding your breath waiting for the "evil doers" to be brought to justice.
In addition to this grizzly news, reports were released that 19 Iraqi soldiers we're found slaughtered in the Haditha soccer stadium. Eyewitnesses state that they were lined up and gunned down execution style.
As if this weren't enough carnage for one day there were a series of suicide car bombs and pre-set I.E.D.'s set off all over Iraq. By the end of the day these deadly attacks would wind up killing an Iraqi child, five Iraqi adults, two U.S. soldiers and wounding at least sixteen Iraqis and four U.S. soldiers.
Meanwhile Prime Minister Ayad Allawi escaped an assassination attempt at a checkpoint on the main road leading to his party's headquarters in central Baghdad. It is reported that several guards and policemen were killed. Despite this Allawi is described as being in "good spirits," as he returned to his residence. I would hate to see him take these events too roughly... He's fragile y'know.
As the violence raged on an American founder of a humanitarian group for Iraqi civilian war casualties was killed in a car bomb blast. 28-year-old Marla Ruzicka, founder of Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC), was apparently killed by suicide bomber while she was traveling to visit an Iraqi child who had been injured by a bomb. The attack also killed Faiz Ali Salim, the Iraq country director for CIVIC. The U.S. Embassy is investigating and hasn't been able to determine if the attack was a suicide mission or a bomb that was remotely detonated. Due to the U.S. practice of not accounting for civilian death Marla's work would prove to play a key roll in garnering attention to the thousands of uncounted victims of the war. She will be missed.
This sudden spate of violence saddened and alarmed me but I was soon soothed by the silky spin of the Fox News Network. On The Greta Van Susteren Show Major General Bob Scales Jr., USA (Ret) clamored that the outburst of deadly attacks is a good sign. No really... Scales claims the escalation and grand scale of these murders and assassinations shows that the insurgents want to prove they are still a potent force to be reckoned with, and this in turn exposes just how desperate they really are. Whooo... I feel better now! Don't you?
Now please let me state that I am sure Major General Scales served his country with honor and was probably a fine soldier. My main problem with his assessment of today's developments is this: it appears Scales is desperately trying to put a smiley face on this vile unnecessary war and in doing so he dishonors those that have given their lives for the causes they believed in that in the end put them in harms way. I cannot abide by that kind of pandering and ridiculous spin no matter whom it comes from.
Click here to View a slideshow of CIVIC's work in Iraq.
Thursday 5:42 am 4/21/05
No Pope Radio!
To watch reaction of the faithful gathered outside the Vatican you would think they in the throws of the rapture. The announcement of Josef "Joey Ratz" Ratzinger brought shrieks of religious drenched joy and cries of faith laded ecstasy the likes I haven't seen since the evangelicals heard that George Bush was elected President. Seriously though, how long had these people been Pope-less... two weeks tops? I mean come on... it only took 2 days to elect this guy, get a grip. I must admit I was rather pleased with the Cardinals choice but that was only because I Ratzinger in the office pool... but I digress.
O.K., what do we know about this Ratzinger.
· He was born on April 16, 1927, on the Saturday before Easter - to parents named Josef and Mary - and was baptized the same day in the small Bavarian town of Marktl Am Inn.
· We know he born in Germany and resided in that country during World War II.
· When he was 14 he was a drafted and became a member of the Hitler youth (It's ok because his biographer, John Allen, says he wasn't "enthusiastic" about it).
· He was allowed to leave early to study to be a priest.
· When he was 16 Ratzinger was enrolled in an anti-aircraft unit that protected a BMW factory making aircraft engines whose workforce included slaves from Dachau concentration camp.
· Ratzinger has insisted he never took part in combat or fired a shot -- adding that his gun was not even loaded -- because of a badly infected finger (I'm not kidding).
· He was sent to Hungary, where he set up tank traps and saw Jews being herded to death camps.
· He deserted in April 1944 and spent a few weeks in a prisoner of war camp. He has since said that although he was opposed to the Nazi regime, any open resistance would have been futile (nice convictions).
· He claimed that the priest sex abuse scandal was a conspiracy propped up by the American media and that the number of abusers weren't greater than that in ant other area of society (Really now?)
· We know he was a close confidant and right hand man of the last Pope John Paul II.
· We know he is even more conservative than his predecessor on abortion, Contraception, A.I.D.S., homosexuals (whom he has declared to be suffering from an "objective disorder"), stem cell research, biotechnology, women in the priesthood and priest celibacy/marrying.
· It has been reported that he once ordered Sister Jeannie Cremic, an American nun, to stop tending to homosexuals and lesbians whom had contracted AIDS.
· He called all non-Catholic faiths "gravely deficient."
• Ratzinger said Muslim but secular Turkey shouldn't seek entry into the EU which has Christian roots and that linking Muslims states to Europe is a mistake (way to make nice with the middle east).
· His strong defense of Catholic orthodoxy has earned him a variety of sobriquets -- including "the enforcer", "the panzer cardinal" and "God's Rottweiler".
· Ratzinger helped deny Communion rights to John Kerry and warned that any Catholic who deliberately voted for a candidate because of a pro-choice position were guilty of cooperating in evil, and unworthy to receive communion.
Sounds like a real inclusive guy in the spirit of Bush's "I'm a uniter not a divider"
It is said you can tell a lot about a man from the company he keeps. Let's take a look at some testimony from one of today's leading Catholic theologians, Swiss national Hans Kung, a former friend and colleague of Ratzinger, who in fact nominated Ratzinger to his post at Tubingen in the 1960's.
"Ratzinger sold his soul for power." Ratzinger has responded to modernity as Bellarmine responded to Galileo.Myopic judgmentalism is too kind a phrase - for myopia implies sight, however skewed. Ratzinger is blindly and belligerently dogmatic. He is a medieval bully, so engrossed in defending the infallibility of neo-scholasticism that he has long since executed a thirty-three year old Jewish man for subversive speech on a Galilean hillside.
Ratzinger later had Kung excommunicated. What a peach of a guy!
Wednesday 3:58 pm 4/20/05
Well... These Are Some Scary Facts
If you hear one more Republican shill bloviating about the "booming Bush economy" bitch slap them with this article...
Congress Should Block CAFTA - From The Capital Times - 04/11/05
Sunday 5:27 pm 4/17/05
Washington, We Have A Problem.
Powerful Republican Inside Confidant #1: Crap!
Powerful Republican Inside Confidant #2: What!?!?
P.R.I.C. #1: This whole Social Security thing isn't panning out?
P.R.I.C. #2: Even I knew it wouldn't fly! So what's next... Do we have anything in the pipeline?
P.R.I.C. #1: Ummm let me see... Why don't we leech onto this Terri Schiavo case?
P.R.I.C. #2: Brilliant... The pro-lifers and evangelicals will eat it up.
P.R.I.C. #1: You Bet... Nothing will come of our posturing but they will love us for it.
P.R.I.C. #2: I like it... and what's even better is that we can finally get them off our backs for voting for us as well!
A Few Days Later...
P.R.I.C. #1: SHIT!
P.R.I.C. #2: What!?
P.R.I.C. #1: Polls on the Schiavo thing came back and they are bad.
P.R.I.C. #2: OH SHIT! How bad?
P.R.I.C. #1: Real bad. 80% of the country is against us.
P.R.I.C. #2: Can we blame it on the way the poll question was worded????
P.R.I.C. #1: No even the majority of the evangelical right came back against it.
P.R.I.C. #2: Holy crap! You're Shitting me?
P.R.I.C. #1: No... And Delay was so hoping this would get the heat off him.
P.R.I.C. #2: Oh he's definitely going down now.
P.R.I.C. #1: Hey, can we suck the marrow out of the bones of the dead Pope thing any longer?
P.R.I.C. #2: Come on... We rode the dead Pope thing over the presidential intelligence panel report that said we got everything "dead wrong" in Iraq. It's used up.
P.R.I.C. #1: We could try?
P.R.I.C. #2: Man, he's already in the ground, they've boarded up the cardinals and they aren't coming out until they have a new one! Any other bright ideas?
P.R.I.C. #1: Man, man, man, man... What can we do to get the stench off us? Do we have any special anniversary dates coming up?
P.R.I.C. #2: Let me look... Um... ahhh... OH HELL YEAH!
P.R.I.C. #1: What is it?!
P.R.I.C. #2: The anniversary of when the Iraqis pulled that statue of Saddam down in the public square. It's been two years.
P.R.I.C. #1: Two years? That long... Damn... Well it'll have to do. Mobilize Rumsfeld.
P.R.I.C. #2: Consider him on a plane to Baghdad... He'll do anything we tell him to do at this point, he's just happy to still have his job... He-he-he, let's send him to Afghanistan also!
P.R.I.C. #1: Sounds good... Is there anywhere Bush can go to do a song and dance and maybe get in a photo op?
P.R.I.C. #2: We can send him back to Fort Hood... He can do that whole photo op thing he does in the "chow line' with the "regular folk".
P.R.I.C. #1: Great! He loves that common man shit... we won't even have to tell him why he's going. Don't worry, were gonna' ride this thing out.
P.R.I.C. #2: I'm not worried... I even have a little some thing saved up for an occasion just like this.
P.R.I.C. #1: Ohhh, no? Oh no you didn't?
P.R.I.C. #2: You bet your ass I did.
P.R.I.C. #1: You saved me some terrorists didn't you.
P.R.I.C. #2: Damn strait I did!
P.R.I.C. #1: How many?
P.R.I.C. #2: I got us three sealed terrorism indictments just waiting to see the light of day!
P.R.I.C. #1: Awesome Bro!
P.R.I.C. #2: Only problem is ... It's a little stale...
P.R.I.C. #1: How stale?
P.R.I.C. #2: It started in 1998 but they say it was still active until August 2004.
P.R.I.C. #1: JESUS! ...Get it out to the press quick! We don't want to look live we've been sitting on this thing god damn-it!!!!
P.R.I.C. #2: Damn man... Take it easy will ya'?....
P.R.I.C. #1: (Silence)... Ahhh I'm Just fucking with you... You're such a sucker.
P.R.I.C. #2: Damn... you scared the shit out of me... don't do that!
P.R.I.C. #1: Ah relax... We are gonna' make through this thing... And remember no matter how bad Bush fucks up remember... we always have Osama chained up in the basement.
Wednesday 11:56 pm 4/13/05
"Dirty Trick"
Before the emergency meeting of the congress on Monday March 21 st to draw up new legislation to re-insert Terri Schiavo's feeding tube a memo was circulated stating what a "great a political issue" this was for Republicans and how it would ignite "the pro-life base" and be a "tough issue for Democrats". As they wept and wailed on the floor of the congress the memo striped away their false agenda and laid bear their true purpose. Therein lies the problem. No one was ever supposed to see the memo outside of the Republicans that day.
On March 18th the shit hit the fan. Either a Republican who had a conscience or a Democrat who got a hold of the memo turned it over to the press and the fun began. No Republican's owned up to the memo and some even went so far as to imply that Sen. Harry Reid's (D-NV) office was responsible for producing the memo and perpetrated this "dirty trick" and " Biggest Hoax Since the Sixty Minutes Story" to make them look bad.
Here is a smattering of some of the Republicans and right wing pundits said in their attempts to deflect the blame onto the Democrats...
Conservative blogs and media sources pointed to the fact that the memo was "unsigned" and not on official Senate letterhead it "mixed political strategy points...with talking points for Senatorial arguments evidence that the Memo was "suspicious".
On March 23, right wing whack-job Michelle Malkin regurgitated the "evidence" touted by specific blogs and media sources that Republican Senate staff members of Mel Martinez and Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) stated that the Schiavo memo was authored and circulated by a young "renegade" aide working for Sen. Harry Reid.
The March 24 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes radio host and guest William J. Bennet said, "Well, I think it is catching fire on the Hill," and that he thought, "it was planted either by a fraud or an idiot."
Rush Limbaugh pointed to a Democratic "opposition research office" and stated: "Apparently the explanation is it was forged! The memo was made up by Democrat staffers."
On NBC's The Chris Matthews Show, Tucker Carlson stated: "I think within a week or two it will become clear that it -- that memo -- was a forgery.
From the March 28 edition of Special Report with Brit Hume the host stated according to FOX News contributor, Fred Barnes, top Senate Republicans including majority leader Bill Frist and majority whip Mitch McConnell never saw the memo. What's more, the "talking points" were printed on blank paper, no letterhead, date or signature, contain numerous factual and typographical errors.
On March 30, The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reported on the controversy surrounding the memo relying on the so-called "evidence" put forth by right wing blogs to reach the conclusion that "there are several strange things about" the memo
On April 4 Executive editor of the Weekly Standard and Fox News contributor Fred Barnes in an op ed even wrote that "The memo story turns out to be yet another instance of crude liberal bias."
On April 6, The Washington Times published a front-page article titled "Was the Schiavo memo a fake?" that used a formal survey of Senate offices as "evidence" for questioning the authenticity of the Schiavo memo.
Sen. Robert F. Bennett, Utah Republican, said the issue "stinks" of a news fabrication similar to the one that engulfed CBS anchorman Dan Rather during the 2004 presidential campaign, after he reported that President Bush did not fulfill his duties while in the National Guard, citing documents that CBS later admitted could not be authenticated "As far as I'm concerned, it is an invention of the press."
Deny deny deny accuse accuse accuse... and then on April 6 th silence. Why did the droning voices abate? Because on April 6th a sacrificial lamb was offered up. Brian Darling a senior aide to Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) said he wrote it, distributed it to other senators and was now resigning. Uh Oh! Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS), chairman of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee , immediately took to the airwaves to extinguish the burning flames caused by truth. Lott told CNN congressional correspondent Joe Johns on the April 7 edition of CNN's Inside Politics: "Now that we know where the memo came from, and the staff member has resigned, that's pretty much the end of it." Fat chance you fat fuck. As long as the Democrats were to blame you were fine letting that dog hunt but now that the truth comes out that the Republicans were behind this heinous memo "it's pretty much the end of it"... Are they fucking kidding us!?!?
Here is the problem facing lying Lott and the sleazy Republicans. The Post reported on April 7th that Mel Martinez denied having ever seen the memo even though Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) said that Martinez handed him a copy of the talking points on the Senate floor. Whoops! How to handle that little discrepancy? If only they had stuck to the lies and talking points the Republicans would have gotten away with another one. Did they forget the drill?
As a perfect example to sum up the evil that is Republican punditry I offer up one final example. On CNN's Crossfire, soulless gargoyle Bob Novak, angrily pointed out that John Edwards had given a speech at the University of North Carolina where he said, "We saw the memo that went out to Republican leaders about how they could take political advantage of Terri Schiavo. That's disgusting. They will pay a price for this in the 2006 and 2008 elections". Bob then looked at the camera with all the sincerity he could fake and said "shame on John Edwards for trying to make capital out of judges slowly starving to death Ms. Schiavo. Has John Edwards gone wild?" I shit you not... I can't make insane crap like this up... Even though sometimes I wish I was.
Tuesday 7:56 am 4/12/05
Talibani... Hehehehe... Get it!
The Iraqi Parliament after many tantrums and shouting sessions, including one meeting in which everyone literally walked out, have finally elected an interim president for their occupied country. His name is Jalal Talibani or as his countrymen like to refer to him "Uncle" Jalal. Does anyone but me think that those in the Iraqi Parliament had a hearty laugh by electing a guy with the word Taliban in his last name? It would be as though France, after being liberated from the Germans by the Americans, elected a president named Jean-Claud Hitlere. Funny... Non?
Saturday 3:18 am 4/9/05
KAROL WOJTYLA - POPE JOHN PAUL II
1920 - 2005
Click here for a timeline of the Pope.
Pre-Pontificate or Pontificate
Sunday 7:18 am 4/3/05