Our Failed Secretary of State

Where to begin with this woman.....
First off, she was in over her head from the gitgo.
Like most of Bush's picks for REALLY important spots.
As far as I can see, she hasn't done shit diplomatically.
I had to laugh last week when she was in Russia, (her specialty) wagging her finger in their faces.
As far as the middle east is concerned, she is basically a no show.
When Israel was bombing the shit out of Palestine and killing civilians with impunity, the bitch was nowhere to be found,out shopping for shoes, no doubt.Now that we find that Blackwater was given immunity from prosecution in the investigation of killing 17 Iraqi civilians by the State Department, we also hear where Ms. Rice is now asking Bill Clinton for advice.
The irony here explodes off the scale.
Cheney has been chomping at the bit to bomb the fuck out of Iran and Condoleesa has been under his boot heel, unable and/ or unwilling to do a fucking bit of diplomacy with them.
I think it won't be too long and we will see Ms. Rice being used as a wheel chock for the bus they have been running over people with.
She is a s useless as tits on a boar., and I don't see any burst of activity in the near future.
I would have to think the bastards have a replacement in mind and I shudder to think who this bunch of cretins has in mind.

Feeling Like Shit

Lately I been feeling like something my cat hacked up.
It's hard to explain, not a headcold, chest cold, no nausea,no hershey squirts.My appetite is still good.
I get cold sweats whenever I try to do anything and dizzy as a motherfucker, I've had to grab onto shit to keep from fallin' over. Yesterday I was flat on my back, slept 18 hours and still woke up weak as a newborn kitten.
My mouth is constantly dry no matter how much liquid I get in me and I keep gettin' this weird taste in my mouth, almost metallic.Fuckin' joints all ache like a bastard too.
I also feel like my body is craving something, I even went and got a candy bar and I rarely eat sweets.
Could be a delayed detox I guess, I haven't had a drink in three weeks now.
I haven't been sober that long in fifteen years.
We'll see what happens over the weekend, what doesn't kill ya makes ya stronger I hear.
In the meantime, why don't ya head over to Chucks place, he has a ton of shit goin' on all the time.
Tell him Busted sent ya.
I will hopefully be back next week, ornery as hell.

What I Am Going To Be When I Grow Up

I'd like you to please welcome the newest addition to my Blogroll, The Grumpy Old Man.

I think he is the perfect choice as we have the same attitude and the same vocabulary.
When you get to his place, scroll down on the left side to get to his latest thoughts on what usually has to do with the criminals in the Whitehouse and what he thinks of them.
I get a kick out of it.
The fact that he grew up around Seattle way back when gives him just that much more flavor.

Want To Help Valerie Get Even?

I do, and I did.Valerie Plame Wilson and her Husband Joe have been put through the wringer by the Troglodytes in Charge.
Their lives have been ruined, their reputations trashed and have had threats to their family by Al Queda because one fucking guy couldn't handle truth being spoken to power. One fucking guy.
That fucking guy would be Vice President Dick Cheney.
Because Joe Wilson had the balls to write an Op-ED debunking the Whitehouses false claims that Iraq had tried to buy Yellowcake Uranium from the African country of Niger.
The rest is history.
The Neocons went fucking apeshit and no less than four current and former Whitehouse employees leaked Valerie Plames undercover job status at the CIA to the media at Cheney's direction.Four and a half years they were in the meatgrinder, with the full weight of the United States Government and all of its resources aimed directly at them in order to ruin their lives.
Valerie has a book out, brand new, telling about the emotional horrors and all of the other nightmare things that has happened to them.
The CIA would not let her publish the book without heavy redactions, up to 10% of the book has been blacked out, including her work date history, which is in the public domain already. They fucked with her every which way from Sunday. She said fuck it and published it anyway.
Good for her.
When I found out last Friday that she was going to be at Firedoglake to talk about her book and answer questions, I got off my ass and called Powells Books in Portland and put a hold on the last copy they had in captivity, in Beaverton.
The release date wasn't till today, but they had one.
They finally called me Saturday evening to confirm they had it and Sunday I drove sixty miles round trip to get it. I went home and sat down and read it in one sitting.
It tells an amazing story about an amazing lady and the troubles she has had with the fucking pukes running this government.
I highly recommend it and you will be doing a small part to help them financially, which the government made damn sure they got fucked on too.
So go buy the lady's book. It's a good read.
You can order it from Amazon, which is probably your best bet until it gets a wider distribution.

24%

That is Stupie McFuckwits new Job Approval Rating.

He is now tied with tricky Dick Nixon.
C'mon Stupie, you have to try just a little harder there, Decider Guy.
I want to be able to say to my Grandkids I watched him hit the bottom of the barrel,
and went through.

The Cannibals Are Restless

Malkin, going after that two year old might not have been one of you better moves but this just kills me;

When asked about the attacks from the right for quitting a job that provided health insurance, Mrs. Wilkerson explained that she didn’t become pregnant for several years after losing her benefits and that once Bethany was born and her heart condition was discovered, it made it impossible for her to get insurance for her because of a pre-existing condition, which is a major issue for millions of Americans who CAN afford private insurance. The most ironic note of the segment? Mrs. Wilkerson is a Republican. One presumes she’s less than thrilled with her party now.

Thanks for pissing off more of you party, we are going to wipe the floor with you fuckers in 08.

Why don't you go ahead and do a smear job on Cheney's lesbian daughter and her child?
I could use a huge belly laugh, you ignorant bitch.

Things That Make Me Want To Kick Some People In The Nuts, Repeatedly

I'm sure you have heard about how low the Right wing fucktards were willing to go when they attacked the family of a twelve year old boy who had been in a coma and was covered by SCHIP.
It was one of the most disgusting and sickening things I had seen in recent memory.
That no good skank Malkin went so far as to cruise by their house and go to the guys workplace trying to rub the smear down past her meat flaps.
Sickening as it is, that is not the lowest they can go apparently;

Right Wing Gleefully Smears Two Yr-Old SCHIP Recipient Bethany Wilkerson

Yesterday, TrueMajorityAction released an ad of 2-year old Bethany Wilkerson, who was born with a serious heart problem and received health insurance through the SCHIP program.
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Heralding the arrival of a “new toddler-aged human shield,” Malkin writes that “the Wilkersons made a choice” — a seeming reference to the fact that Malkin now believes she has the license to attack the Wilkersons for their public support of SCHIP. “We need more ‘partisan bickering,’ not less,” added Malkin.

Malkin’s not alone in her rage. In a piece entitled “Meet the New Frosts, Same As the Old Frosts,” the National Review’s Mark Hemingway attacks the Wilkersons as irresponsible parents:

While the debate around the Frost family at least initially centered around their relative wealth, the issue really at hand is one of bad behavior. […]

For Dara and Brian Wilkerson, the fact that they don’t have health insurance is less about falling through the cracks than the decisions they’ve made.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/16/bethany-attacks/

I am almost at a loss for words, the ones that come to mind are very, very offensive to some people.
A two year old.
Lest we all forget about the wingers being the party of life, after you are born baby, you are on your own.
Just to highlite the stark hypocrisy here, let's focus on what the stupid bitch said, one more time;
“the Wilkersons made a choice”
Thats right, they made a choice.
What she is referring to is not some Pro Life Mumbo Jumbo, it's that they made a choice to quit a fucking job that was untenable and get one without insurance that the lady enjoys doing.
Before she was even pregnant!
Now there's a stretch even for Our Lady of the Concentration Camps.
So to recap, Malkin and her fellow bottom dwellers are smearing the family of a two year old little girl who had life saving surgery, whose mother decided to quit a job with benefits before she even knew she was pregnant.
Yeah, thats the ticket.
Listen up Malkin, you had better thank God you have never been in such a position as to worry whether or not your kid was even going to LIVE, let alone how it was going to be paid for.
I have had to delete what I am thinking three times already to keep from getting sued.
Take that to heart you useless cunt.

We Don't Got No Accountability

Let us today, lead off with a snippet from Think Progress, shall we?

Bush pushes for telco immunity.

In brief remarks this morning on the House’s proposed FISA legislation, President Bush indicated his opposition to the RESTORE Act. The New York Times reported: “The Bush administration, urged by the telecommunication industry, is pushing hard for Congress to include immunity for past actions in any package to protect them from a series of civil suits.” This morning, Bush delivered. He said any legislative fix “must grant liability protection to companies who are facing multi-billion-dollar lawsuits only because they are believed to have assisted in the efforts to defend our nation following the 9/11 attacks.”
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Now then, being the inquisitive type that I am,
the first thing that came to my addled brain was, why?

Not why would they need immunity, I already know that, they broke the fucking law.
Instead, why would they do this to begin with?
Out of the charity and goodwill of a patriotic American company?

Umm, no.

How about money?
I think that probably had a little something to do with it, don't you?

I mean, putting in an office and tying into every , single, tiny, bit,of information that went through the West coast that was intercepted and copied and analyzed by our government costs money to do,
Right?
Through one office that they repeatedly denied existed.
Now why would the Telco's want anything to do with that?
Money.
It's the one fucking thing that, as far as I know, has never been mentioned.
Someone got paid off for that shit and you can bet the farm that is one of the reasons Bush doesn't want anyone to know anything about this illegal little caper.

My guess is the government PAID THEM to do it!
It's the only logical explanation.

The prohibitive reasons being,
A It's illegal to wire tap without a warrant.

B It's illegal to use any of the information gathered in a court of law.

c It's conspiracy.

And so forth and so on.

This shit is weak, make them come up with all of the pertinent info and then SUE THE FUCK OUT OF THEM!

The Rico statutes ought to be enough to snag the Signing Statement Guy.

Bush Needs A Can Of StopLeak.

Remember wayyy back when Bush and all the rest of the protozoa were screaming about security leaks?
You know, the same shrill, screaming, mouth foamers that leaked Valerie Plame- Wilson's secret CIA status?
Yeah, those syphillitic jackals.
Now they have fucked us again.
The recent Bin Laden video that surfaced was, in fact, snatched before it's scheduled release by a private anti terror group who had a previously unknown source that Al and the Queada's didn't even know about.

A private intelligence company, SITE Intelligence Group, is claiming that intel officials inside the administration prematurely leaked a tape of bin Laden that the company obtained off a secret al Qaeda communications system. The leak has caused al Qaeda’s system to suddenly “go dark.”

http://thinkprogress.org/

But wait, it gets even better;

"Techniques that took years to develop are now ineffective and worthless," said Rita Katz, the firm's 44-year-old founder, who has garnered wide attention by publicizing statements and videos from extremist chat rooms and Web sites, while attracting controversy over the secrecy of SITE's methodology. Her firm provides intelligence about terrorist groups to a wide range of paying clients, including private firms and military and intelligence agencies from the United States and several other countries.

The precise source of the leak remains unknown. Government officials declined to be interviewed about the circumstances on the record, but they did not challenge Katz's version of events.
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around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition. It gave two senior officials access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the al-Qaeda release.

Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company's Web site. By midafternoon that day, the video and a transcript of its audio track had been leaked from within the Bush administration to cable television news and broadcast worldwide.

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Washington Post

20 fucking minutes for the sonsabitches to start finding a way to take credit for something that had taken the private firm YEARS to finesse.
Not only did BushCo fuck the SITE intelligence outfit, they fucked themselves in their rush to start bragging.
How fucking stupid are these people anyway?
Is there a depth that goes beyond the pale or are they trying to set a world fucking record here?

When you were a kid and heard someone getting it on through the walls, did you run, screaming, into the hallway for God and everyone to hear,'Someone is having sex in that room!"?

Fuck no ya didn't!
Ya sat there quietly, listening with glee to the things that other people weren't privy to.

You did not compromise your source!
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Did it not ever occur to any of these so called Goddamn experts that just maybe they should ask, "Where did you get this"?
If the all powerful Government of the United Fucking States didn't have it yet, Where did you get this?, Just might be a really good question?
Before you tell the whole fucking world?


I swear, these people could fuck up a wet dream.

I have hit the wall.

Outrage burnout.
It happens to the best of us.
The fact that I am usually busy as hell has not stopped me but right now I am having writers block, which should be impossible because I am not a writer!
There is no question there is still more bullshit going on than you can shake a stick at, I just don't know which one to follow.That and I really do have a great deal going on in my personal life right now.
I know what you are thinking so stop it right now.
Yes, I do have a personal life, It's what I call the giant clusterfuck that I deal with while drinking heavily after I leave the place called work.
I was going to rag on Blackwater but everyone and their retarded cousin is all over that.
Then I thought, Brittany! Of Course!
But I couldn't bring myself to jump on that low life bandwagon either, especially when I lived through my Dad getting custody of me and my brother back in 1970 when it was unheard of.
Then there was the whistle blower guy who is still sticking it to Bush over the illegal wiretap horse shit. Good on you dude, I just couldn't follow it like I wanted to.
So , what the fuck, I thought I would just ramble incoherently for a bit, call it a day, go get hammered and wait for my next inspiration.God knows there is plenty of it out there.
So if I am boring you to tears , head over to my blogroll, there are some great sites on it.
I promise to get a check up and refill the ornery tank. Who knows, I just might get vicious after someone.

Update
I just busted the FUCK out of another knuckle! Dammit that shit hurts!
Peeled the motherfuckin' hide off from my index fingernail to my first knuckle, bleedin' like a sonafabitch. SHIT! SHIT SHIT!!

Convention For The Criminally Insane To Be Held In Utah This Year

The Dark Lord and his minions for eternal war are hooking up in Salt Lake City this week to perform their dread rituals and plan for war with Iran.
A super secret bunch of neocons and captains of industry who pay thousands of dollars a year to be part of a conservative think tank called the National Center for Public Policy are having a super secret meeting. So secretive is this bunch ,they have been instructed not to even mention the name of the group in public.
Nice, huh?
These are the motherefuckers that mapped out the war in Iraq and are now jizzing all over themselves dreaming of war with Iran.
I am assuming this is what this convention is for, they won't comment of course. Blood oaths and all that shit, don't ya know.
Here is a snippet from the Salt Lake Tribune;

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Cheney to address secret group

The conservative Council for National Policy will meet in downtown Salt Lake

By Thomas Burr
The Salt Lake Tribune

Article Last Updated: 09/26/2007 02:11:44 AM MDT

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney will speak to a super-secret, conservative policy group in Utah on Friday during his second trip to the state this year.
Cheney will address the fall meeting of the Council for National Policy, a group whose self-described mission is to promote "a free-enterprise system, a strong national defense and support for traditional Western values."
The organization - made up of few hundred powerful conservative activists - holds confidential meetings and members are advised not to use the name of the group in communications, according to a New York Times profile of the group.
"The media should not know when or where we meet or who takes part in our programs, before [or] after a meeting,'' a list of rules obtained by The Times showed. The group did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
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Pretty cool club! I bet they even have secret handshakes and decoder rings!
This is what directs policy in this country, only we are not privy as to even who these fucking people are!
I will be SO glad when these kinds of things are driven back into the depths of hell where they belong. Our Democracy is long dead, killed by a shiv in the back from power mad cretins like Cheney. Bush is just the straight man in this macabre comedy, he isn't smart enough to pour piss out of a boot with the directions printed on the heel.
Impeachment is too good for this lot, they need a trip to the Hague for crimes against humanity.

And You Thought I Was Kidding

Ever since the little bastard first came to my attention and I heard him speak, I have always been of the opinion that he is stupid and illiterate.
Well, the proof is out.
The President of the United States of America is so fucking stupid that his handlers had to make a phonetic list of names so the slack jawed word mangler could appear intelligent while speaking.
Is that fucking incredible or what?
I can say there are many names out there that are damn near impossible for even me to say but this takes the motherfuckin' cake.

To wit;

As President Bush spoke to the United Nation’s General Assembly this morning, “a marked-up draft of the president’s speech popped up on the U.N.’s website” that included “phonetic spellings of some names and countries, and the cellphone numbers for Bush speechwriters.” White House Press Secretary Dana Perino got annoyed when a reporter asked “if the president has trouble pronouncing some country’s names,” calling it an “offensive question” before saying, “it was taken down and there’s nothing more to say about it.” Blake Hounshell has some of the phonetic guides over at Foreign Policy:

• Kyrgyzstan [KEYR-geez-stan]
• Mauritania [moor-EH-tain-ee-a]
• Harare [hah-RAR-ray]
• Mugabe [moo-GAH-bee]
• Sarkozy [sar-KO-zee]
• Caracas [kah-RAH-kus]

http://thinkprogress.org/

I would like to think youre average sixth grader could handle these.

I rest my case.

Bush Holds Fundraiser For Move-On

In a swift move that backfired in his face like a gag cigar, Stupie McFuckwit went after the MoveOn ad attacking General Betrayus. Predictably soon after, the Righttards in the Senate called a vote to suppress free speech for all Americans by censuring the Progressive institution over its ad.As we have seen so many times before, many spineless so called Democrats actually voted for this piece of shit. My message to these ass drippings is to get fucked with a barbed wire dildo and start looking for a new job.
After Bush and the Senate took turns with their cheap shots a truly amazing and beautiful thing started happening, Move-On started getting emails, lots and lots of emails.
They all had the same basic message too, Keep It Up, and here is some dough.
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH!

IN ONE DAY!

Oh Hell Yes, do you think maybe the average Joe has had all of the fucking bullshit they can stand? I sure as fuck do.

The folks at Move-On were so stunned they started sending out emails asking for more!
They hope to raise one meeeelion dollars to ramp up their newest attack ads and have promised not only to not back down but to stay on the offense.
Finally! Something the average American can do to send a direct message to the motherfuckers who think they have all the marbles.
If you haven't joined yet, do it right the fuck now!
Send the message that we all have had the fuck enough and get our collective asses out of that miserable fucking sand box over there and start taking care of our own shit!
There is hope, Jimmy, and we can all do our little part to put a stop to the incessant madness that seems to center in our nations capitol.

Get your asses to Move-on and give a few shekels, your future depends on it.

No Habeus For You Comrade

In yet another slap in the face to the American public the Rubber Stamp Brigade knocked down a proposal to restore Habeus Corpus rights to foreign detainees that can be directly applied to you and me.
Nice.
It seems we get to continue our journey back to the eleven hundreds until we can get rid of these ignorant fucks.
2008 can't get here fast enough.

Update.
The Webb amendment went down in flames too.
I sure hope these fuckers enjoy the dickin' they keep handing out. Karma is a bitch with very sharp teeth and a loooooooooong memory.

The Lame Duck Quacks

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Stupie McFuckwit To Speachify, Again

I don't know how some people do it, I can't listen to the slack jawed motherfucker anymore.
I don't know what the hell he is going to talk about this time and I could really care less anyway.
Whatever it is, it is NOT going to be good for any of us regular Americans.
Ol' Fucknozzle is probably finally come out and say we are going to bomb Iran.
The guy is a fucking terrorist in the classic sense, whatever he 'decides' to do in regards to foreign policy has to have some shit blowin up somewhere.
Makes me wonder what our so called diplomats do anyway.There certainly isn't much diplomacy involved where Bush is concerned Everything looks like a nail when you have the biggest hammer in the world.So, I guess I'll read about it tomorrow because I most certainly am not going to waste my time listening to him and watch that snotty fuckin grin he likes so much.
Nope, I am going to do what I do and just maybe not bash my head into the wall repeatedly trying to rationalize whatever dipshit does as being logical.
There ain't no logic that can be applied to Bush and his policies, none.

In Rememberance

For those who perished on this date in 2001, a moment of silence from me.


Now then, are we any safer?
No.
The lesson has not been learned,we are worse off now than we were then and there is one person to blame.
Why is he still in office?

And We Are Better Looking Too

Study finds left-wing brain, right-wing brain

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Even in humdrum nonpolitical decisions, liberals and conservatives literally think differently, researchers show.

By Denise Gellene, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 10, 2007

Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how their brains work.

In a simple experiment reported todayin the journal Nature Neuroscience, scientists at New York University and UCLA show that political orientation is related to differences in how the brain processes information.

Previous psychological studies have found that conservatives tend to be more structured and persistent in their judgments whereas liberals are more open to new experiences. The latest study found those traits are not confined to political situations but also influence everyday decisions.

The results show "there are two cognitive styles -- a liberal style and a conservative style," said UCLA neurologist Dr. Marco Iacoboni, who was not connected to the latest research.

Participants were college students whose politics ranged from "very liberal" to "very conservative." They were instructed to tap a keyboard when an M appeared on a computer monitor and to refrain from tapping when they saw a W.

M appeared four times more frequently than W, conditioning participants to press a key in knee-jerk fashion whenever they saw a letter.

Each participant was wired to an electroencephalograph that recorded activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, the part of the brain that detects conflicts between a habitual tendency (pressing a key) and a more appropriate response (not pressing the key). Liberals had more brain activity and made fewer mistakes than conservatives when they saw a W, researchers said. Liberals and conservatives were equally accurate in recognizing M.

Researchers got the same results when they repeated the experiment in reverse, asking another set of participants to tap when a W appeared.

Frank J. Sulloway, a researcher at UC Berkeley's Institute of Personality and Social Research who was not connected to the study, said the results "provided an elegant demonstration that individual differences on a conservative-liberal dimension are strongly related to brain activity."

Analyzing the data, Sulloway said liberals were 4.9 times as likely as conservatives to show activity in the brain circuits that deal with conflicts, and 2.2 times as likely to score in the top half of the distribution for accuracy.

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The rest of the article here.

Nice to have it documented, I always knew there was something different about wingers.
Looking at the data suggests Darwin's Theory ought to take care of the rest of it eventually.

BWAAAAAHAAAHAAAHAAA.
Suck it, wingers.

H/T to Gordon at the Alternate Brain for the link.

The Betrayus report that the Whitehouse was going to write is now not going to be written at all.

Lord love a duck, these fuckers never quit.
The Petraeus Report that has been hyped and talked about endlessly is apparently not going to be a written report at all.
I guess they couldn't get Halliburtons discount on bulk lipstick for pigs.
First it was going to be a written report submitted to Congress, then it was revealed that the expert liars at the Whitehouse were going to spin it faster than an electron around a nucleus, now they are saying there will be no written report at all.
Catch all that?
Now they are saying that his statements will be to the Asshole in Chief, and that we, the people, don't get to be privy to that.

I don't suppose it really matters, they have had the Mighty Wurlitzer cranked up for weeks, screaming about all the progress being made.
Hell, even Chimpy hisself made another surprise visit to the Great Sandbox to show how really neat everything is over there. Notice how Fuckhead didn't fly into Baghdad? I did.
So expect more of the same, more dead people, more billions poured into the sand, more bullshit from the "experts".
What the fuck, right? It ain't like we should expect anything else from DeathCo.

Score One For The Little Guys

Even though BushCo will more than likely ignore this ruling it still brightened my day a little.

Judge strikes down part of Patriot Act.

Today, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero struck down part of the revised Patriot Act, ruling that investigators must obtain a court’s approval before the order Internet providers to turn over records without telling customers. Marrero said the “recently rewritten Patriot Act ‘offends the fundamental constitutional principles of checks and balances and separation of powers.’”

http://thinkprogress.org/

McCain Gets Punk'd

I stole this from Think Progress, it's just too fuckin' hilarious.

High school student criticizes McCain on gay marriage.

This morning, a high school student challenged Sen. John McCain about his age, causing McCain to jokingly refer to the student as “a little jerk.” The troubles for McCain didn’t end there. Another student pressed him with regards to his stance on gay marriage. Here’s the exchange:

Student: “Do you support civil unions or gay marriage?”

McCain: “I do not. I think that they impinge on the status and the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman.”

Student: “So you believe in taking away someone’s rights because you believe it’s wrong?”

McCain: “I wouldn’t put that interpretation on my position, but I understand yours.” […]

Student: “I came here looking to see a leader. I don’t.”

BWAAAAHAAAAAAAHAAAAA!

Crazy old bastard ain't foolin' the younguns.

Good on 'em.

http://thinkprogress.org/

Turdblossom Has Left The Building.

Where yet another lying, scheming ,treasonous piece of shit slinks off into the sunset,
today is Karl Rove's last day at the Whitehouse.
I can say I truly mean it when I say Good Riddance and Stay Gone.
'Leaving to spend more time with his family"
ROTFLMAO, sure, whatever.
More like trying to stay one step ahead of being thrown in jail if ya ask me.
Leave the keys asshole.

Update;

Bonus Round, Tony Snow, another lying sonofabitch, has announced his resignation effective September 14th. Now the question begging to be asked, who is going to be the next spinmeister for Stupie McFuckwit ?

Required Reading For Every American

I just got this as an email and am reprinting it as is.
This should be put on the front page of every paper in the world.
Please steal it and pass this around to every one you know.


>> Burning the Law in a Riot of Treason
>> By William Rivers Pitt
>> Monday 27 August 2007
>>
>> As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
>> instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly
>> unchanged,
>> and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air,
>> however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
>> - Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
>>
>> The departure of Alberto Gonzales from the Attorney General's Office
>> brings America to a place of definitions, and hanging in the balance is
>> the
>> very idea of the nation itself. The basic concepts and fundamental
>> principles of our republic now stand as the only legitimate
>> considerations
>> going forward, for they have been tested almost to annihilation already,
>> and
>> will not endure much longer if we continue on this path.
>>
>> It is the mythology within the Declaration of Independence we speak
>> of,
>> the fiction that tells us we are endowed with rights, and that those
>> rights
>> are unalienable. This falsehood has been vividly exposed in the last
>> several
>> years, and it has been a harsh lesson indeed. All the rights we hold dear
>> and believe to be our greatest strength are, in fact, only words on old
>> paper with neither force nor power. The next line - "That to secure these
>> rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers
>> from the consent of the governed" - is the muscle behind the myth, the
>> core
>> that has endured a withering assault.
>>
>> Matters are so much worse than our national political dialogue lets
>> on.
>> The resignation of Gonzales has unleashed a torrent of hard words and
>> harsh
>> criticisms aimed at the deplorable nature of his tenure, but the truth of
>> it
>> continues to elude mention. They call Gonzales an incompetent, a crony, a
>> loyalist, a disgrace, leaving off the one word necessary to fully explain
>> who he is, and what he was engaged in before he stepped down.
>>
>> Alberto Gonzales is a traitor. That is the only word to explain it.
>>
>> He is not the only one; there are many more traitors like him in the
>> Bush administration, criminals joined in an act of treason so vast and
>> comprehensive that it beggars comparison. Nothing quite like this has
>> ever
>> before been attempted in America, and if they are allowed to succeed,
>> there
>> will be nothing of what defines America left to be seen.
>>
>> Gonzales and his Bush administration collaborators have committed
>> their
>> treason against the rule of law itself, a crime so absolute that it is
>> technically not illegal. There is no code, ordinance or law specifically
>> forbidding the total ruination of all our rights and protections; the act
>> is
>> neither felony nor misdemeanor, because nobody ever considered the
>> black-letter necessity of making it illegal to destroy the rule of law.
>>
>> But there is no America without that rule of law - no rights, no
>> protections, no Constitution; there is nothing, and if you destroy the
>> rule
>> of law, you destroy the idea that is America itself. The only word for a
>> crime like that is treason, and those who would dare commit it are
>> traitors.
>> Gonzales and his Bush administration collaborators have done more than
>> dare.
>> They have been pursuing it, with deliberation and intent, throughout each
>> moment of their tenure.
>>
>> Their treason is not in the actual crimes they have committed, but in
>> the way they have chosen to avoid accountability for them. Their treason
>> is
>> not their refusal to obey the Freedom of Information Act, but in their
>> insistence that they are above the application of that law. Their treason
>> is
>> not in their refusal to obey subpoenas from Congress, but in their claim
>> that they are above the laws behind those subpoenas. Their treason is not
>> that they fired United States attorneys and then refused to come clean
>> about
>> it, but that they decimated the impartiality of the Department of Justice
>> and turned the rule of law into another partisan weapon. Their treason is
>> not the NSA surveillance of Americans, but their steadfast refusal to
>> submit
>> to the governing laws and the requirement of oversight.
>>
>> When George W. Bush asserted a claim of Executive Privilege that made
>> him and his administration immune to all laws and oversight, that was an
>> act
>> of treason because it shattered the rule of law. When Dick Cheney
>> asserted
>> that the Office of the Vice President was not part of the Executive
>> Branch,
>> because he did not want to obey the laws requiring him to hand over
>> official
>> documents to the Archives, that was an act of treason because it
>> shattered
>> the rule of law. When Alberto Gonzales chose to surrender the
>> independence
>> of the Department of Justice so he could protect those assertions, that
>> was
>> an act of treason because it shattered the rule of law.
>>
>> Americans have only the rights they are able to protect and defend.
>> Our
>> rights are nothing more than ideas; only theory and argument on parchment
>> all too easily burned to ashes. The power of those rights is only found
>> in
>> our collective submission to the rule of law, and submission to that rule
>> of
>> law is all that stands between our freedoms and the conflagration of
>> tyranny. Without the rule of law, there is no America.
>>
>> That is the treason of Alberto Gonzales, and the treason of the Bush
>> administration entire. They have attacked and undercut the rule of law by
>> refusing to submit to it, and in doing so have brought us to the edge of
>> appalling infamy. Theirs is a crime without peer, and we will be
>> fortunate
>> beyond measure if we are able to recover from it.
>>
>> The fact that Alberto Gonzales has left is meaningless in the main,
>> because the treason he participated in continues in his absence. If the
>> damage is to be repaired, he must be replaced by someone who will submit
>> to
>> the main imperative, someone who will submit to the rule of law, someone
>> with real independence and unbending respect for the idea that is
>> America.
>> Gonzales must not be replaced by another crony or yes-man, because
>> Americans
>> have only those rights we can protect and defend, and another traitor in
>> that lofty post is no protection at all.
>>
>> Gonzales was more than a poor steward of this trust. He was a traitor
>> among traitors. If the rule of law is to stand, the treason he helped
>> commit
>> must be ended, and a patriot must take his place.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------
>>
>> William Rivers Pitt is a New York Times and internationally
>> bestselling
>> author of two books: "War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to
>> Know"
>> and "The Greatest Sedition Is Silence." His newest book, "House of Ill
>> Repute: Reflections on War, Lies, and America's Ravaged Reputation," is
>> now
>> available from PoliPointPress.

Rewriting History

I watched a PBS special last night on the tee vee. It was about Hurricane Katrina.
I was just laying there, semi comatose as usual.Several beers and shots tend to do that.
Anyway, I am watching this and they are talking to the main guy who was in charge of warning the government officials who were in charge of the response. Notice I do not identify those government agencies. Neither did they in the show.
Not one fucking mention of FEMA, Heckofajob Brownie or the motherfucker in charge of FEMA, Chertoff.
I asked myself, how do you do an hour long special on the complete devastation of a major American city, and not even mention the names of the people responsible for the governments non response?They showed the people in the Astro dome, but no mention of that heartless bitch Babs saying how it was working out so well for the poor black people stuck inside with no food or water with bodies laying around.
Then it dawned on me, I seemed to remember a right wing bastard coming on board with PBS a while back and things began to change.
.
They have focused their propaganda machine on us from our own public broadcast stations.
In other words, we are paying them to brainwash us.
I have seen his influence before, most notably a rambling self promotion piece by that oh so famous neocon, Richard Perle.
I am going to have to do some digging, but I am going to find out who this right wing fucktard is.
I used to enjoy PBS broadcasts, now I have to watch with a jaded eye for the propaganda.
The problem is, there are so many Americans that don't recognize it when they see it.

Buh Bye Abu

Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya, lying motherfucker.
I missed it on tv but heard it on the radio on my way in to work.
No reason given.Rumor has it that Skeletor is going to get the nod but I am going to wait and see.

Interesting turn of events, could it be that the wheels are finally coming off of this runaway cabal?
More as it comes out.

It's The Economy, Stupid

Just read a cheerful little piece in the paper, it seems that foreclosures are up 93% in one year.
Thats no typo, NINETY THREE PERCENT. In one year.From July 2006 to July 2007.
Some housing bubble ya got there Stupie, it looks like the giant zit kids get right before prom night that no amount of makeup is going to hide.
179,599 in July alone. These filings include default notices,auction sale notices and bank repo's.

Speaking just for myself, I used to have two houses,used to have.
I was renting one out and trying to make the payments on the other one.
Unfortunately for me, the broad I had been living with and raising her kids didn't put a high priority on things like paying bills and I ain't worth a shit when it comes to money.
Sooo, after many instances of getting behind and scrambling to make payments, I found out my renters had completely trashed my fucking house and couldn't pay the rent.I lived quite a piece away and couldn't keep tabs on them like I should, my fault.
Anyway, after throwing their meth addled asses out and getting a GIANT 20 yard dumpster to clean up their mess( from an 800 square foot house!), I found myself behind on TWO houses.
The foreclosure notices started flying and I was scrambling, again, to make something happen.
So I had a friend who is a real estate agent and I sold my original little house for basically a loss. Then I had to pay a $300 water bill so the new owners could get the water turned on.
A short while later I sold the other house and had enough to move. Two months later me and the she devil split the sheets and I moved in with my brother and his old lady for about a year. That shit got old. I got another she devil of a girl friend and moved in with her for about 3 months. That shit didn't work out and I was basically homeless, not wanting to go back to my brothers.I lived in the back of a van for two weeks until some busybody at work found out, so my boss cashed in my two weeks of vacation early and I bought a small motor home and found a white trash motor home park to put it in, which is where I am now. Single and happy. The nice thing about that is no motherfucker can throw me out, they can tell me to move it, but that sonofabitch is MINE.
So I know first hand about this foreclosure business and a lot of people are getting the fucking of their lives right now, with more to come.
Heck of a job Bushie, I can't wait for the recession thats coming.

You Can Quit Holding Your Breath Now

Remember how BushCo has been telling everyone how wonderful the surge is working?
You know, like after a couple of bombs just killed 300 people?
And remember how we were told to STFU and wait until General Petraeus gives us his unvarnished, by GodI mean it, the honest truth about what we need to do in Iraq in September?
Well welcome to Bizzarro World.
The LA Times has a two page article on this very subject and buried on page two is this little gem;

"Despite Bush's repeated statements that the report will reflect evaluations by Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, administration officials said it would actually be written by the White House, with inputs from officials throughout the government."

Yessir, the Spinmeisters are gonna try and polish that turd to a fare thee well.

Doesn't matter that the good general is already saying it's time to redeploy some of our boy's and girl's out of some of the less violent areas, BushCo is By God going to tell us how fucking wonderful the surge is working and that we should just go back to shopping and STFU some more.
The place is FUBAR and everything is going according to plans.
With Deadeye jerkin' off to Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran, I would put it at even odds, if they redeploy some troops, it's gonna be right to the border of Iran so Cheney can rattle his fucking sword a little louder.
These sociopaths are startin' to get predictable. Not like it does us any good, the warmongers are still going at it, pedal to the metal.

Here is the LA times article.

Crawling Back Under A Rock

Karl Rove is resigning effective August 31st.
I am kind of at a loss here, Turdblossom has been #1 on my list for years now.
To have him abruptly resign tells me there is a truckload of shit getting ready to hit a monster sized fan.
The low life sonofabitch has got a trail of political destruction behind him miles long.
He is also very close to at least three investigations, starting with another lowlife sonofabitch, Abramoff.
His former aide, Susan Ralston may be tuning up her pipes in the firing of the USA's case. That would be sweet to see the ultimate rat fucker get rat fucked by his very own protege.
Who really knows what the reasons are, I don't give a flying fuck, as long as the motherfucker hands in his security clearance and cleans out his desk.
He thought he had cut a fat pig in the ass and had locked in a Republican majority for decades to come.Fortunately for us, the rest of the greedy bastards got a little out of hand in their thievery and thugishness and the Dems got put back in charge. So endeth the reign of Karl as the master political hatchet man.
Good fucking riddance and I still want to see him in an orange jumpsuit yet.
The ball is in your court, Mr. Leahy.

I'm Back.

Finally, finally got shit straightened out.
After pestering the shit out of my buddy the tech guru, he got ahold of our provider and found out my IP address had expired.
'Scuse me?Never heard of such a thing.
Anyway, the quick fix was to unplug some goddamn thing and plug it back in, Presto!
Now for the rest of this nightmare.
Because we thought it was a computer problem and I was bitching and whining up a storm, I scored a faster computer. Neat huh?
Right.
Except this fucker had belonged to someone else, and had their name on everything you can imagine (and some I couldn't), My buddy had to get into the register and change the name on some two hundred files.
Then I had to get anti virus protection, this is where I should have let him do his thing, which he did, but I was the one who had to sit for two fucking hours, updating Internet Explorer, updating this, updating that.FUCK!
Now my email is fucked up because I couldn't remember the damn password they gave me.
Two solid weeks of spam is just waiting for me.
It may take me another week to get where I was before. Oh yeah, address book?
Gone,Bookmarks? Gone.
It is amazing how much of my life is now controlled by the mysterious box on the floor with all the wires coming out of it.
So, I think I am going to bite the bullet and get the toobz connected at home so I can keep up with the blogging and all the political shit that is coming in the next year.
Anyways, enough bitching.
Thanks for waiting, I will be back soon, Ornerier than ever.

Fuck Me Runnin'

Well, it's not my computer, nor is it two other computers.
Apparently, my ISP is now to blame.
We had a security system installed here at work and I think it overloaded our bandwitdth because I am not the only one having the problem of not being able to access the toobz.
My tech guy is pulling his hair out trying to get to the bottom of it.
He spent an hour on hold yesterday trying to contact the tech dept. of our provider before banging the phone down.
I snuck in early and am using a computer in another office.
Damn I am having issues with not being able to keep up with what is going on in the world.
This shit needs to get resolved. One bright spot, when it does get fixed, I scored a much faster computer than my old one. Heh.
I shall return.

DOA

Shit.
I took a week off that I badly needed.
Overload at work and a shoulder that has been killing me for a month.
Found out I had a rib popped out right between my shoulder blades, after it popped back in.
Meanwhile, my computer decided to take a vacation too, permanently.
Best twenty bucks I had spent in a long time.
Sooooo, I have to get back to work, and I have to try and find out if the donated computer my friend gave to me works.Right now I am at my Dads using his P.O.S. , I can only hope for the best.
Strange how being off line is distressing.
Yearly Kos is going on as I type, a whole bunch of hearings have gone by, and I have been laying around reading Clive Cussler novels and getting hammered. Oh by the way, I have a cat with five kittens that I have been trying to avoid stepping on. Good times.
I would like to personally thank whoever you are that bump my site meter occasionally, I didn't think that I had any thing really relevant to say, This is mainly a way to vent my frustration at the no good sonsabitches who are ruining our country.
Thank you for stopping by, I will get back to it shortly.

Busy

Work is crazy right now. My buddy quit last Friday and another has been sick.
My workload has tripled.
In the meantime,
Alberto Gonzoles is a lying son of a bitch and needs to be impeached immediately and the obstructionist Republicans are busy hammering nails in their own coffins.
The vote on contempt charges for Miers and Bolton got pushed back until after the August break because of these weasels.
Karma waits, bitches.

Be Prepared

Stupie McFuckwit is going in tomorrow to have a three foot long tube stuck up his ass, otherwise known as a Colonoscopy. Its recommended yearly for folks over 40.
The problem is, he is going to be under sedation (Finally!) for a couple of hours. That leaves Dick in charge.
Deadeye Dick Cheney, arguably one of the most vicious bastards to ever hold office.
Makes me wonder, does he have some diabolical shit planned for us unsuspecting citizens?
You bet he does.
I am wondering just how much damage that shithead can do in a couple of hours.
Bomb Iran for the hell of it?
Make some kind of special powers permanent for himself?
No telling.
Too bad his batteries don't crap out on him in the middle of this episode, it wouldn't break my heart to see Pelosi at the helm for a few minutes.
Heh, the stuff Republican nightmares are made of.

A Pajama Party On Capitol Hill

Harry Reid finally uncrossed his legs and discovered he actually had a set of nuts. Slightly atrophied from lack of use, they still had enough spunk in 'em to finally stand his fucking ground and call out those obstructionous jizzbucket Republicans,
The Repukes have been in total deny mode and finally admitted out loud that they were trying to block every single piece of legislation the Dems brought to vote.
Well, Harry finally had it. He basically said, You want to fillibuster? Bring it bitches.
He pulled a classic move out of his bag of tricks that allows unlimited fillibuster up to 30 hours at a time.If the Pukes don't show? Quorum roll call. Corksuckers want to play hardball, bring your sleeping bags .

Edited 7 /18 by author.
I shouldn't post when I'm pissed off, my potty mouth really shines.
My apologies to any readers who were offended.

Harriet Is A No Show

Harriet Miers did not show up , as expected, to the Congressional oversight hearing that had issued a subpeona to her for her testimony.
Of course the committe now has to decide on contempt of Congress charges. Bush's BFF has 5 days to come up with a VALID excuse for not showing.
I would love to see her hauled off for contempt.
In other good news,those emails that the RNC won't turn over just got a shiny new subpeona of their very own. The nice thing here is, there is no way in hell they can claim Executive priveledge on those,so fetch 'em up here boys and lets have a look at all the backdoor bullshit you've been up to.
This could blow the lid off of BushCo.
Rove is going to be very scarce in the coming weeks I think.
If, and it's a big IF, we get to actually see whats in those email records, there could be massive amounts of charges and tons more hearings and investigations into the illegal shit these peckerwoods have been doing.
Can you say oversight?
I can.

Happy Anniversary Skippy!

Today is Skippy the Bush Kangaroo's fifth anniversary.
I would like to thank Skippy for all of his wonderful content and perseverance.
I would also like to thank him because he is the first big name blogger to add me to his Blogroll.
That is a huge debt that I will never be able to repay, except to keep visiting his site on a regular basis and send as many folks as possible over to do the same.
Go give him some love.

Happy Blogiversary Skippy!

Bush's Vocabulary

It seems it mainly consists of two words when it comes to oversight;
Fuck You.
This asshole has been givin' the bird to everybody. The American people when he commuted Scooters sentence, and the Oversight committees who want testimony and documents.
His latest FU is over Executive priveledge. I'd like to see someone break his fucking finger for him, while it is still up his nose.

Bushes Base Is Happy Now.

So all the wingers are happy that Bush commuted Scooters sentence.
AWWW idn't dat speshul.
Got news for ya fuckheads, it ain't over yet.
Fitzgerald can still run with the appeals and Judge Walton is not a happy camper, expect more to come.
Bush is covering his own ass with this, which makes it illegal. Expect to hear more on this also.
Not to mention the Wilsons civil suit, ditto this.
So, have a good time while you can because I think that Bush just cemented the Republican loss in 08.
A majority of Americans do not support this commutation. That be us, so fuck off.

Bush Shits The Bed

Breaking news from MSNBC,
Bush just commuted Libby's sentence.
The shit is going to hit the fan now.
Excuse me, Mrs. Pelosi,
I think you just got a silver invitation to put impeachment back on the fucking table.

DENIED!

Scooter got his latest attempt to stay out of the slammer denied.
In a unanimous decision, all 3 judges hearing the appeal denied his stay.
Of course, his lawyers are still going to try and bump it up the ladder, possibly all the way to the SC.
I wouldn't hold out much hope for that.

Meanwhile, this guy,

Name

Register Number

Age

Race

Sex

Release Date Actual / Projected

Location

1.	I LEWIS LIBBY	28301-016	56	White	M		UNKNOWN	NOT IN BOP CUSTODY

is still at large.

Bookmark this link to keep an eye on the official status of our most popular treasonous bastard.

Cheney

Just his name pisses me off anymore.
Now that the cowardly traitor got called on his bullshit about being a fourth branch of government,Rahm Emmanuel tried to defund his ass from the executive branch.
Very surprisingly, it was only narrowly defeated.
That has to smart, even the Republicans have turned on the Dark Lord.
BWAAAHAAAHAAA.
Suck it Cheney.

Glenn Greenwald is the man.

Buy the book, It's good for everyone and another good reason it pisses off the wingers. Good enough for me. Payday is coming.
Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake wants this book to sell,her wish is my command.

Cheney Opens A Can Of Worms

Deadeye is fuckin' losin it. He thinks he's pretty damn clever and I think he's desperate.
By royal decree and sent by carrier pigeon,Cheney now claims that the office of the Vice President is not subject to the laws of the Executive branch and he can declassify things at his own discretion

OOOOOh Kay, Lets start with the testimony of the oil execs that you don't want to see the light of day from the energy meetings, then on to returning all the salary you have been paid and ,oh yeah, how about moving your dessicated ass out of that house that the public is paying for.
What a fucktard. He is trying, once again, to avoid any kind of oversight and has effectively said that the office of the VP is a fourth branch of government. Yeah, good luck with that ya treasonous fucking bastard.
Meanwhile, subpeonas have been issued,finally, over that warrantless wiretap program that they have been stonewalling on for two years.
Things are starting to look up in the bring these fuckers to justice department.



Picture at left from Google Images courtesy of Taylor Marsh, who is going to be on my Blogroll soon.

Scooter Files His Appeal

Boot scootin' traitor Scooter Libby's lawyers filed his appeal in DC circuit court today.
Up front are a three judge panel. Judges Sentelle, Henderson and Tatelle.
They are already up to speed on this case so it will be interesting to see how long it takes for them to come to a decision. Best two out of three is enough.
I hope like hell they deny his ass but if they do the appeal process is far from over. As it stands, time ain't on ol Scooters side. Judge Walton told him to report for his orange jumpsuit within 45-60 days from his sentencing date.Time marches on.

Scooter Shuffles Closer To The Slammer

Judge Walton endured more hackery from Scooter Libby's seemingly inept legal team today before ruling that Scooter is to actually, like, GO TO JAIL.
The Wingers are already rending their clothes and gnashing their teeth as Libby's team rushes to file an appeal.
A new hire for Libby, Lawrence Robbins,had Reggies hackles up early on.
When Judge Walton observed that Supreme Wingnut, Judge Scalia had written a stance on a previous case that Robbins was arguing about, Robbins told the Judge it didn't matter what Scalia had written, as he had been present when he did it.
Smackdown coming your way pal.
I am now watching for the spin to come out of the MSM and am particularly waiting to hear what that Harpy bitch Vickie Toensig has to say.
Needless to say, the WAPO has to come out with some kind of wingnut reaction., which can only be characterized as, Insanity on Parade.
We'll see if Scooter actually does any time, The Pardon is still being screamed for by the Right.
But today, Justice came out swinging.

I'm Still In Shock

I have to admit it, stunned.
I have been making comments on Blogs for a couple of years now,I surf around quite a bit but have a few favorites. One of those is on my very own Blogroll. Heh, the Owner of the site didn't know I even had a Blog, let alone his site was on it. That would be Fixer at Alternate Brain.
I highly recommend you pop in and check it out.

Back to the topic here, I have been invited to post at one of his other sites, Fixer and Gordon.

I can only hope to strive and come close to the excellent stuff that he and Gordon put up there.
I get a real kick out of Gordon and Fixer is The Man.He is another Ford fanatic and I can't wait to get to know both of these guys better.
It will be mostly car and bike stuff there and my usual grouching here. Please drop by .

And Now, Something Completely Different

If you have been here more than once , You know I tend to go off on the criminals that are our current administration.
While I feel it is a very worthy topic, this one will be a fluff piece.
Yesterday I got to go to Portland International Raceway and watch the big boys play.
I scored 6 tickets with Hospitality and Pit passes from my brother, who at the last minute, decided not to go.After burning up the phone lines for just a few minutes I had the tickets alloted to some friends and off we went.
It was supposed to rain (surprise) but we got lucky and it Hop Scotched right over us and a racing they went.It had been about 5 years since I had went so I had forgotten just how loud those little cars got.Sitting on the back stretch, I couldn't hear my buddy sitting next to me, even though the cars were over 100 feet away.
Some old cops pulled up on their ATV' and thats when I knew we had a good spot.
I wandered over and said as much to one and caught him using a radar gun as they went by.
165 MPH before getting out of it and on the brakes.
It got a little hairy when one guy pulled to the outside to pass coming onto the back straight and got a wheel off into the dirt but other than that the race was pretty uneventful.
We all had a blast and ate way too much awesome food. $6 dollar beers and $4 dollar cokes are starting to get steep for this cheapskate, so I pulled my usual and snuck in a flask.
The winner was Sebastien Bourdais with a time of 1:45.42, a full 13 seconds over second place, J Wilson.

Hopefully they will be back next year.

Libby Dodges a Bullet (Literally)

Scooter Libby found out he is not above the law yesterday.
Judge Reggie Walton sentenced him to 30 months in prison, a 250,000 dollar fine, 2 years of probation and 400 hours of community service.
All fine and dandy.
Crack dealers get more time in prison than treasonous bastards these days.
So far, Cheney's role in betraying Valerie Wilsons covert identity has gone unpunished.
But it has not gone unnoticed, Patrick Fitzgerald said that "there is a cloud over the Vice President.".
I am not gloating over Scooters predicament, I really wish that he had come clean about the whole thing so that there could be some accountability for this terrible deed.
There was some last minute details about the sentencing guidelines that have to be straightened out, it will not affect the total amount of prison time Scooter will have to serve.
Apparently the judge is going to rule out bail and Scooter will start serving his sentence in 45-60 days.
In the mean time, the Wilsons have a civil suit pending that has been bubbling in the background and Valerie has been wrangling with the CIA so she can get her book published.
I wish all the best to the Wilsons, they are the epitome of patriotic Americans. They certainly did not deserve to be set upon by the jackals in the Whitehouse and put through the wringer with the full force of our government. Especially for speaking truth to power.

That Sound You Hear

Is the collective Right wing shitting all over itself.
In a sentencing briefing for Scooter Libby, our man Fitzgerald slaps Victoria Toensig right in the kisser and says for all eternity, Valerie Wilson was a covert CIA operative covered under the IIPA guidelines.
Fuck you Vickie. Facts get in the way much?
Her husband Gernstein needs to grow a set of balls and publicly apologize also.
The list from there goes on exponentially.
Sounds to me, IANAL, that Treason has been committed. As I have no doubt said a thousand times.
This is what the Libby trial was all about in the first place.
Fitz was investigating treason for the betrayal of Valerie Wilsons undercover status by no less than four administration members to the press.
Scooter lied his ass off and obstructed Fitzpatricks investigation to cover his bosses involvement in the leak.
Thats right, Cheney.
Whoo Boy, do I ever want to see this investigated until the cows come home.
Ol Scooters ass must be clinched tight, his sentencing is coming up on June 5th, I believe, and Fitz wants the book thrown at him.
Stay tuned, the wingers are all conference calling as I type, trying to come up with some new talking points and smears.
Facts need not apply.

Memorial Day

Another Memorial Day is here. So many folks here are thinking of love ones lost or forever changed because of war.
As we struggle to contain a runaway Presidency and try to end the madness started six years ago,it would be a time to also think about the families here at home.
Many military families are hurting financially,the main breadwinner not being at home.
Perhaps there is someone you know who could use a helping hand,maybe just babysitting the kids for a couple hours to give someone a break.
Christy over at FireDogLake has some more thoughts on this and she says it so much better than I.Drop by and see what she has .http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/28/memorial-day-2007-lend-a-hand/#comments

I Wouldn't Trust Him to Run A Lemonade Stand in Hell

In a never ending end run around the Constitutional duties of the President, Stupie McFuckwit now declares he can run the whole show,everyone else can drink margaritas.
A tip of the hat to Crooks and Liars for the link.

Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in Emergency

By Matthew Rothschild

May 18, 2007

With scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up a plan for responding to a catastrophic attack.

In a new National Security Presidential Directive, Bush lays out his plans for dealing with a “catastrophic emergency.”

Under that plan, he entrusts himself with leading the entire federal government, not just the Executive Branch. And he gives himself the responsibility “for ensuring constitutional government.”

He laid this all out in a document entitled “National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51” and “Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20.”

The White House released it on May 9.

Snip

Here is the article;

http://progressive.org/mag_wx051807

This is the guy who can't figure out how to get out of a room let alone run anything like, say, a FUCKING GOVERNMENT!
Jesus Christ! Where does the moron think he can just decide to hell with the Constitution?
Wait, wait, I remember, he's the Decider guy.
Jeez, I feel safer already. NOT!
Meanwhile, he is currently down at the never ending jungle of PigFuckTopia, further looking to destroy any remaining relations we do have with foreign governments. Posing with the current head of the U.N., calling for more help from NATO in his cranked out dreams of fighting the terrists in Afghanistan.
I feel like I am in a never ending nightmare, feverishly waking for a mere second, only to recede back into the darkest, most twisted, visions of murderous clowns telling me that never mind what came before, it's only gonna get better, baby.
Who can keep up with this bunch?
While we are fighting scandal fatigue, (179 and counting) finding out what little pranks they have already pulled, they are out in front with completely new, outrageous shit.
2008 can't get here soon enough.

OH! HERE we GO!

A certain Mr. Thomas Sowell has an article up at The National Review that starts out with this line;


"That people on the political Left have a certain set of opinions, just as people do in other parts of the ideological spectrum, is not surprising. What is surprising, however, is how often the opinions of those on the left are accompanied by hostility and even hatred."

Really?
I couldn't possibly know why? Or could I ?
But wait! There is more, MUCH more;

"Particular issues can arouse passions here and there for anyone with any political views. But, for many on the left, indignation is not a sometime thing. It is a way of life."

Oh, this is going to be good.

"How often have you seen conservatives or libertarians take to the streets, shouting angry slogans? How often have conservative students on campus shouted down a visiting speaker or rioted to prevent the visitor from speaking at all?

The source of the anger of liberals, “progressives,” or radicals is by no means readily apparent. The targets of their anger have included people who are non-confrontational or even genial, such as Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

It is hard to think of a time when Karl Rove or Dick Cheney has even raised his voice, but they are hated like the devil incarnate.

There doesn’t even have to be any identifiable individual to arouse the ire of the Left. “Tax cuts for the rich” is more than a political slogan. It is incitement to anger."

Thats enough. Before I blow a gasket and throw a rod, I am going to think about why I AM so fucking angry, and why I DO hate these people like the devil incarnate.

This should take about three fucking seconds,BRB.

OK, this is going to take longer than I expected but believe me, it will be worth it.

Well now, without getting into reasons like, say, the Swiftboat vets, or The Mighty Wurlitzer that screams its lies 24/7,Just go take a look at this handy dandy little list that a nice fellow named Hugh made for us.Hugh is a very smart guy and this list should be spread far and wide across this land in bold type.

Go ahead and read it all the way through and you might begin to understand why we are so rightfully pissed off.

One Hundred Seventy four reasons to be a pissed off Left Winger,

After that Mr. Sowell, pull your head out of your ass.


Jesus.

Onwards Christian Soldier

The Reverend Jerry Falwell passed on to his final reward today.
I will leave it to a Higher Power to decide what that might entail.
Out of respect for his grieving family, I will with hold most of my thoughts about the man, for now.
I will say that I will not miss the hate filled rhetoric that regularly spewed out of his mouth.

Round Two

Abu strikes again.
I an swamped at work for a while and missed most of the lying fuckers testimony.
The old 'I don't recall' meme got another work out though.
That shit makes me wonder just how long Conyers is going to put up with it.
Of course, the ever helpful Republican Senators went wayyy out of their way to help the lying sack of weasel shit. They went off topic at every chance, intellectual property concerns, immigration concerns, Rove set 'em up and they ran with it. What I did catch was nauseating.
And to top it off, Cspan had the hiccups all damn day.
There is some good news though, Murray Wass ( God Bless him) came out with a report that says the DOJ is holding back emails that show Rover was involved and would also show clearly that Abu is lying out his ass.
I am waiting for that bomb to drop.

Abu the magnificent

That wacky Attorney General we have, Alberto Gonzolas is a never ending source of embarassment to this blogger.
The man gave an amazing display of ignorance in front of the investigative committee last week, claiming faulty memory at least sixty times.
At least two Senators called for his resignation on the spot. More calls for his departure followed soon after.
He is expected to return on May 10th and I am not holding my breath for any sudden improvement in his mental acuity.
I have read a few places that are saying that Bush will not let him go for a couple of reasons.One being that any replacement would have to go through confirmation hearings that would open the administration to legal liability.
Another reason being floated is that Bush owes Abu for saving his ass a couple of times in the past.
Neither of these really bother me. The fact that he hasn't been upfront with all of the hijinks that have gone on under his watch does. This guy, in my opinion, should be on trial for subverting the Constitution of the United States and for the politically motivated firings of 8 U.S. Attorney's, just for a start.His interpretation saying that Habeus Corpus is not inherently granted under the Constitution is one of the most dangerous things to have been done to erase our civil rights in the history of this country. That alone should be enough to impeach the fascist bastard all by itself.
Here is to the hope that Senators Waxman and Conyers can get the sonofabitch to trip up and incriminate himself so we can start the Bush regime on the long road to being bad history.

The Mini Monarch wants a Champion

This is too rich.

It seems The Decider has decided that 'Warrin' Is Hard Work!'.

The WAPO is reporting that the Whitehouse is looking for a " War Czar".

Apparantly, Stupie McFuckwit has figured out that fighting two wars is a little more deciderin' than he can handle.

3 Generals Spurn the Position of War 'Czar'

Bush Seeks Overseer For Iraq, Afghanistan

By Peter Baker and Thomas E. Ricks

Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, April 11, 2007; Page A01

The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies, but it has had trouble finding anyone able and willing to take the job, according to people close to the situation.

snip.

link;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/10/AR2007041001776.html

How fucking pathetic.
Stay in Crawford and cut brush, you incompetent, ignorant bastard.
Coming up on 3500 deaths in Iraq because of this guy.
And it seems no one wants the job, surprised?
Isn't he like, supposed to be Commander in Chief?
Isn't that what this job would be?

YMMV, but for me, it's time to impeach this idiot when he basically admits he doesn't want to do it anymore.

Another BushCo Crony Down

Via AP News.

Monica Goodling, top aide to endangerd AG Gonzales submitted her resignation unexpectedly today, to be effective tomorrow.
In a three letter sentence she offered her resignation with no reason attached.
This comes almost two weeks after she told Congress that she would not appear for questioning and would invoke her fifth amendment rights if subpoenaed.

This is going to put the hurt on Abu something fierce.
Reportedly he has been practicing his testimony day and night in anticipation of his appearance before The Oversight committee.

Dude, How much practice does it take to say 'I can't recall' or ' I don't remember'?

Be cause as sure as I am sitting here , that is what we are looking at.
My guess is Abu is toast. He is between a rock and a very hard place.
The Repubs have been backing away from him like he has herpes.
Even Shrub has been getting quieter on the subject. All we need now is a 'heckofajob' moment, and he's done.
First I want to see the little bastard sweat. Hard. Then I want to see him get slapped with a contempt of congress charge.
Abu is responsible for many of the legal horrors visited on us by this administration and has much to atone for.

KKKarl making new aquaintences?

Looks like Turdblossom has finally gotten some of the attention he deserves.....


After giving a speech last night at American University about a dozen people started throwing things at Rove's car and then lay down in the street to block his exit.
Campus security dragged the protesters out of the way so KKKarl could make his escape.
No one was arrested.
Dammit, just when they had him too.

Hat tip to Raw Story for the link.

Killing time waiting for more testimony in front of Waxmans committee.

Ralston should be good, she was Roves secretary and her office was a short jog from Stupie McFuckwits. I bet she knows plenty, if she remembers anything.
Then Abu Gonzales. April 17th.
I hope he needs help leaving after they ream his ass, not sprinting away like he did in Chicago.
There is only so far that little bastard can run anyway.

Bustednuckles

We'll see.

I just switched to the new Blogger.
I hadn't even figured out the old one yet.
Seeings how I don't post very often it shouldn't make much difference I guess.

Scooter has been found guilty on four out of five charges.

The right wingers went absolutely, predictably, insane today.
Flooding their quickly diminishing access to the media, the talking points were trotted out and marched across America with the utmost strident zeal.
We knew this would come, they are trying to cover their asses for no end of political and actual legal crimes.
The Wurlitzer was cranked to eleven while they tried to deny what eleven actual citizens figured out all by themselves, Scooter lied, repeatedly.
In a perfect world, I would be able to say, The End.
But, no, while the motion for retrial is being trotted out, the one bright spot is that now Scooter is a convicted felon.
That can not be changed unless Bush tries to pardon him. Boy, do I want to see that happen.

Ornery Bastard

Libby trial set to end next week

I have been following this story for quite a while.

The trial for Scooter Libby has been keeping me glued to the FireDogLake website.
Absolutely fabuulous live blogging by Emptywheel and Swopa with Jane Hamsher and Christy Hardin Smith doing analysis. Fascinating.
It's nice to know that President Clusterfuck said that any one caught leaking in his administration would be fired.
Now we find that not one, not two, but FOUR senior administration officials leaked Valerie Plames identity to the press.

Treason, it's not what it used to be.

Back in the day, they would have lined these traitors up and put a bullet in 'em.
Makes me long for the good old days.

It aint over yet though. VP Cheney is more than likely behind the whole fuckin mess.
Hopefully they will boil it down and we can see SEVERAL convictions.

Merry Christmas to all.

Yes, even the wingnuts.