Saturday, November 14, 2009

Your Weekend Dose of Reality

Ooh...The Big, Bad Terrorists
'Fortunately for the prosecution, [Khalid-Sheikh] Mohammed actually admitted to al-Jazeera television that he was the prime architect of the suicide attacks on the US before he was captured in Pakistan in March 2003...'

The frightened and whiny wingnuts are scared shitless that they'll attack us again if we try KSM in New York. Wimps. And I never hear anyone - including the families of the almost 3,000 victims - ask why have we had KSM in custody for almost seven years and we haven't tried and executed his ass yet? At least the process will get started now. We cannot let the scared and the weak dictate our plan for justice for these mass murdering thugs. It's too bad we've wasted all those years.

Hey get that towel head!
'Alexios Marakis, a Greek Orthodox priest visiting the U.S., got lost in Tampa and tried to stop and ask directions from Marine reservist Jasen D. Bruce. But instead of offering help, “Bruce struck the priest on the head with a tire iron.” The reservist believed Marakis, who spoke limited English, was an Arab terrorist...'

It's good to know the Marine reservists have us covered... Damn, hit him in the head with a tire iron?

Going over to see our banker


She doesn't need facts
'Palin's Book Goes Rogue on Some Facts'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer's dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician roguishly indifferent to high ambition. ...Palin goes adrift, at times, on more contemporary issues, too. She criticizes President Barack Obama for pushing through a bailout package that actually was achieved by his Republican predecessor George W. Bush -- a package she seemed to support at the time.

Just like 'that Bridge to Nowhere' that she fully supported -- until the Democratic controlled 110th Congress took it away from her -- Sarah Palin will say anything regardless of the facts because she knows the 20% that follow her are too fucking dumb to know differently. Don't miss the video.

Cracked that conspiracy too...
The Dingbat Roots Out the God-Haters
'Sarah Palin saw an anti-Christian conspiracy in the redesign of U.S. $1 coins. Saying that there had been a lot of “change” of late, Palin talked about how the phrase “In God We Trust” had been moved from the center of coins to their edges. “Who calls a shot like that? Who makes a decision like that?” Palin asked before saying, “It's a disturbing trend.” With her reference to change and hints of sinister motives, Palin seemed to suggest that the Obama administration was responsible. But, the $1 coin redesign was commissioned in 2005, when Republicans controlled Congress, and was approved by President George W. Bush.

That stupid ass embarrasses herself every time she speaks. If you can listen to that shrill and continual ignorance and still pretend you think she's qualified to lead anything, then you have some serious deficiencies. (h/t to Politics Daily for the 'clandestine' video )

We are paying them to kill us
How the US Funds the Taliban
'... In this grotesque carnival, the US military's contractors are forced to pay suspected insurgents to protect American supply routes. It is an accepted fact of the military logistics operation in Afghanistan that the US government funds the very forces American troops are fighting. And it is a deadly irony, because these funds add up to a huge amount of money for the Taliban.'

What a scam, and a shame for our troops. Petraeus did the exact same thing during 'the Surge' in Iraq when we paid a 100,000 Iraqi insurgents $10 a day not to attack us. They use the money to buy weapons to kill our troops. It's a fucking crime that we are going to escalate our presence in that politically and religiously corrupt hell hole. It ain't worth fucking dying for. The investigative report was done by Aram Roston of the Nation and there's a really good video with Dylan Ratigan and Jeremy Scahill. Get a goddamn clue. ----->

Mistresses can get pregnant
Hypocrites need abortion coverage too!
'Since 1991, the RNC -- the group that co-ordinates Republican activities at the national level -- has been on a health insurance plan from insurer Cigna that offers elective abortion coverage, and the RNC signed up for the coverage even though it was an optional part of the package, says a report at Politico.'

The abortion coverage was an elective - an additional option that would have to be chosen separately by the RNC. Of course it goes back to 1991 so Newt, Bob Livingston, Henry Hyde and the boys probably thought it could come in handy.

WTF is he talking about?
The ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee accused the White House of withholding information on the Fort Hood attack. Rep. Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) said administration officials delayed briefing members of Congress about the alleged gunman, raising "red flags" about what the White House was hiding.
Obama demands review
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama has ordered a review to determine if warning signs were mishandled of contact between Hasan and a radical Islamic cleric who encouraged Muslims to kill U.S. troops in Iraq. Obama said he wanted all intelligence related to Hasan preserved and reviewed to determine whether it was properly shared and acted upon within the government.

Hoekstra, embarrassingly a Michigander who's a serial leaker and who is running for our governor, has a long history of making a fool of himself. Just what we need.

They'll starve those sinners!
US Catholic Church now playing political hardball
In its efforts to influence health care reform and oppose same-sex marriage, the Catholic Church is wading more deeply into politics than it has in recent memory, observers say. The church's role in politics came into sharp relief this week when the Washington Post reported on Wednesday that the Washington, D.C., diocese threatened to cease its charitable activities if the D.C. city council went ahead with a plan to allow same-sex marriages. The church's social services arm ...has received $8.2 million in funding from the D.C. government in the past three years.

Who should be cutting off who? Or is that 'whom', Filius?

Advice from the Decider

Friday, November 13, 2009

Obama is going to let them do that?
NEW YORK - Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.
It must be a stunt by Obama to throw us off.

How'd that Iraqi invasion work out?
BAGHDAD— Iraq’s Baghdad Trade Fair ended Tuesday, six years and a trillion dollars after the American invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, and one country was conspicuously absent.

That would be the country that spent that trillion dollars
If the sheep who went along with that historical blunder could be embarrassed, they certainly would be.

Who is this ambassador in Afghanistan?
Karl Eikenberry retired from the Army this year to become one of the few generals in American history to switch directly from soldier to diplomat, and he himself is a recent, former commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
With a little luck, Obama will listen to men like the former General and current U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan as well as his vice-president.

Hell no, ain't going there
HIROSHIMA, Japan - An inconvenient invitation awaits President Obama when he lands Friday in Japan. It's one that no sitting U.S. president has accepted and that Obama's tight schedule in Japan cannot accommodate.

Yet many Japanese have been talking about the invitation for much of this year, and it remains open: Come see what a U.S. atomic bomb did 64 years ago in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Smart move. That's a no-win situation.

What's that fool know?
In an interview with Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell revealed that he recently advised President Obama to take his time in devising his strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Wingnuts used to think Powell was all that until they realized he was an intelligent, free-thinker and not just a token.

Friday the 13th
The sixth day of the week and the number 13 both have foreboding reputations said to date from ancient times, and their inevitable conjunction from one to three times a year (there happen to be three such occurrences in 2009, two of them right in a row) portends more misfortune than some credulous minds can bear. According to some sources it's the most widespread superstition in the United States today.
I'm not superstitious but I don't like Friday the 13th.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

"Productive and Useful"

Wingnuts used to worship what General Petraeus said...

David Petraeus told CNN on Wednesday that the deliberative process has been "productive and useful," saying "we are nearing a decision."


Wingnuts used to listen to General Petraeus. I guess they prefer John 'Muddle Through' McCain now.

Petraeus appreciates the 'deliberative process' he's involved in with President Obama and the contrast he's seen between him and Bush must blow him away.

Unfortunately, Obama will bow to political pressure and give in to Petraeus and McChrystal and stupidly send tens of thousands of more American troops to Afghanistan. They come out looking fierce and stately, for awhile, and our young just die to prop up a people who hate us.

It's like deja vu all over again.

Obama's Liberal FBI Director
Robert Mueller was nominated by President George W. Bush and became the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on September 4, 2001.
I saw Michele Malkin on Hannity last night blaming Barack Obama for Ft. Hood. As you can imagine, Hannity agreed it was Obama's fault. Apparently Obama doesn't use the word 'terrorism' enough and of course, he's been in charge of the FBI for several years now. I guess Malkin forgot she wrote just three days ago that Hasan should have been on someone's radar screen way back in June 2007. But that's about right --- Obama took office the January before that, right?

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Veterans Day

In the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month...
I thought they changed that
Army Wasn't Told of Hasan's Emails

The Pentagon said it was never notified by U.S. intelligence agencies that they had intercepted emails between the alleged Fort Hood shooter and an extremist imam until after last week's bloody assaults, raising new questions about whether the government could have helped prevent the attack.

A top defense official said federal investigators didn't tell the Pentagon they were looking into months of contacts between Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki.
Was Jamie Gorelick running Bush's Homeland Security Department?

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Justice

D.C. sniper executed in Virginia

John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the 2002 deadly sniper rampage that terrorized the nation's capital, was executed Tuesday evening for sniper attacks that killed 10 people.

Monday, November 09, 2009

Public option? ...That's funny!
Wow. And 93.8% of her viewers actually believe it

Carlson to Cao: Republicans "would be against putting the country into forever debt," so why aren't you a Democrat?


Ronald Reagan tripled our national debt. Bush 41 added another $1.5 trillion and George W. more than doubled what those two Republican, phony-conservatives did, and left us with a $1.2 trillion deficit. And while you're at it, add 28 years of interest to all of those trillions.

Please Ditz, you can spout your ignorant opinions but don't get all the Faux News sheep riled up by making up your own facts. Here you go fools, pass it along.

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Why 'God' became irrelevant
"And they [the 'Founding Fathers'] would tell us that if we continue to drive God out of public life and we continue to increase power in Washington, we are literally putting our freedom at risk."

Serial adulterers like Newt Gingrich who constantly praise 'God' make Christianity a laughing stock to anyone paying attention.

And Gingrich should thank 'God' that those Founding Fathers aren't around anymore because they would have drawn and quartered he and his wife's deviant asses in the town square if they were.

Saturday, November 07, 2009

Your Half Dose of Reality

Stunned and pissed!
"...But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. ...Anyone at home aware of the major news story of the previous hours had to have been stunned."

I couldn't fucking believe it! I was actually yelling at the tv when Obama kept going on about that fucking big pow-wow they had! Goddamn, get with it, dude!

Over there Kemosabe
President Barack Obama is telling Native American tribal leaders he is determined to reverse the federal government's history of marginalizing and ignoring the plight of Indian nations.

I'm all for correcting a lot of those wrongs, but hey Kemosabe, you needed to wrap that gig up with Dr. Joe Medicine Crow about an hour before you finally did.

My Belle, Michele
"You came. And you came to your house. And you came for an emergency house call," said Bachmann. "And are they going to listen? Oh yeah, oh yeah, they're going to listen. It was Thomas Jefferson who said a revolution every now and then is a good thing. What do you think?"

All three of my long time readers here at 'done that' know that I have a special place in my heart for that goofy bitch, Michele ‘captain crazy’ Bachmann. She was after all, my very first Limbaugh Award winner in her second month in office.

Mil Blogs slam Major Hasan
"Everyone is pontificating on Thursday's horrific shooting at Fort Hood by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old military psychiatrist who was facing his deployment to Afghanistan. Much discussion focuses on the troubles of the military. But what do present and former members of the military think about the shooting? The Wire surveys a sampling of military bloggers--some writing on official military sites, some at personal blogs--and their coverage of the shooting."

As one would expect, not a whole lot of love and understanding for that murdering asshole.

They loathe our military
"We always knew "support the troops" didn't really mean anything to Republicans. It was a slogan, nothing more. And, that's being confirmed by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) who is using the anonymous "hold" procedure in the Senate to prevent action on a bill designed to support veterans. Usually, these "holds" are secret, but the veterans have outed Coburn..."

Fucking phony-patriot punkass America-hating Okie.

She got too close to a pig
Joe Wilson's wife diagnosed with swine flu
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Rep. Joe Wilson's wife Roxanne has been diagnosed with swine flu, the congressman's office confirmed to CNN on Thursday.


I guess the asshole shouldn't have voted against the vaccine.

Do we need another exporter?
Fiorina Will Challenge Boxer in Senate Race

“California needs a Senator who will fight to create jobs — not a failed C.E.O. who laid off 28,000 Americans and shipped jobs overseas.”

She doesn't have a prayer of beating Barbara Boxer.

Elliot and Oliver's Boys
El Salvador to Honor Priests Killed by Army in '89
SAN SALVADOR (AP) -- El Salvador's president says the country will award its highest honor to six Jesuit priests murdered by the army in 1989. ...The killings sparked international outrage and tarnished the image of U.S. anti-communism efforts after it was found that some of the soldiers involved received training at Fort Benning, Georgia. Funes made the announcement on Tuesday.

Don't forget those facts in our children's history books.

What would they debate? 'A Debate That Never Was, or Never Will Be?'
Clinton: I balanced my last four budgets and left you with a $128 billion budget surplus.
Bush: Eh, eh.. I blew it all and left Ol' Barak Obamber with a $1.2 trillion deficit and good ol' ass-kickin' recession. ...Eh..eh..