What 'great American' proclaimed this week;
“I think it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”
I don't even know a Bernie
The perfect divorce - a twofer
Darrell Roberson came home from a card game late one night to find his wife rolling around with another man in a pickup truck in the driveway. Caught in the act with her lover, Tracy Denise Roberson - thinking quickly, if not clearly - cried rape, authorities say. Her husband pulled a gun and killed the other man with a shot to the head. On Thursday, a grand jury handed up a manslaughter indictment - against the wife, not the husband.
Ditch Mitch
A tip for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: The liberal blogosphere wants you out in '08.They despise your loyalty to President Bush. They loathe your support of his Iraq war plan and your ability to block Senate Democrats from passing a legislative rebuke of it. They appear ready to revolt.
That used car won't sell anymore
House Minority Leader John Boehner was booed on Wednesday at a construction workers’ union legislative forum for saying the United States needs to fight the war in Iraq or face terror attacks at home. “Who doesn’t believe that if we just pull out of Iraq and come home that the terrorists won’t follow us here and we’ll be fighting them on the streets of America?” Boehner, R-Ohio, said to members attending the AFL-CIO’s Building & Construction Trades Department’s legislative forum.
Apparently, most in the crowd don’t believe it. Boos from the audience grew louder as Boehner continued, “This is a, ladies and gentlemen, this is a serious fight.”
(Boehner is so your prototypical, snake-oiled, conniving, sleazebag Republican used car salesman)
No, no Dick, I'll wipe his ass this time
I didn't ask, but you told!
"GO BACK TO AFRICA AND DO YOUR GAY VOODOO LIMBO TANGO AND WANGO DANCE AND JUMP AROUND AND PRANCE AND RUN ALL OVER THE PLACE HALF NAKED THERE."-- U.S. Army recruiter Sgt. Marcia Ramode, using her military email address to respond to Jersey City resident Corey Andrew, after Ramode learned Andrew was gay.
If the economy is so good...
Why are things so bad?
2007 could be a record year for home foreclosures in the US, reports BusinessWeek. Perhaps as many as 2.2 million homeowners nationally could lose their homes in the next few years, said Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), chairman of the senate banking committee according to BusinessWeek.
And gas is so cheap
International oil prices are fluctuating wildly over uncertainty in Iran and worries the British may attack the oil-producing Islamic Republic. U.S. consumers are paying for the instability at the gasoline pumps with the prospect of even higher prices ahead. The highest-priced gasoline in the nation is found in Needles, California, where drivers are paying an average of $3.79 for a gallon of regular unleaded. The lowest-priced gasoline is found in Laredo, Texas, where drivers can buy regular unleaded for $2.19 a gallon. The national average price for regular unleaded gasoline is now $2.60 a gallon. The price is 10 cents a gallon higher than one year ago and 25 cents higher than one month ago...(it's $2.69 here)big Hill to climb
Half of voting-age Americans say they would not vote for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) if she became the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, according to a Harris Interactive poll released Tuesday.
Today a long time ago
The Battle of Five Forks was fought on April 1, 1865, southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, in Dinwiddie County, during the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War. The battle, sometimes referred to as the "Waterloo of the Confederacy," pitted Union Major General Philip H. Sheridan against Confederate Major General George E. Pickett of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Pickett's loss at Five Forks triggered Lee's decision to abandon his entrenchments around Petersburg and begin the retreat that led to his surrender at Appomattox Court House on April 9.
Welcome aboard, Mr. Ambassador
Hours after a new American envoy to Iraq took the oath of office and cited the "critical" challenge faced by the United States here, bombs ripped through a predominantly Shiite Muslim town north of Baghdad and a Shiite neighborhood in the capital Thursday, killing at least 122 people. The fresh round of bloodletting heightened sectarian tensions and underscored the difficult mission faced by Ambassador Ryan Crocker, who takes over at a time when the Bush administration is under concerted attack by congressional Democrats over its Iraq policies.
Not tonight, deer
SUPERIOR, Wis. - A 20-year-old man received probation after he was convicted of having sexual contact with a dead deer. The sentence also requires Bryan James Hathaway to be evaluated as a sex offender and treated at the Institute for Psychological and Sexual Health in Duluth, Minn.He was found guilty in April 2005 of felony mistreatment of an animal after he killed a horse with the intention of having sex with it. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail and two years of extended supervision.
Manufacturing republicans
Scientists created a sheep that's 15% human and is the world's first human-sheep chimera.The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells.
What is this, animal week?
CALVERT, Md. (AP) - Toby, a 2-year-old golden retriever, saw his owner choking on a piece of fruit and began jumping up and down on the woman's chest. The dog's owner, Debbie Parkhurst, 45, believes the dog was trying to perform the Heimlich maneuver and saved her life.
"The next thing I know, Toby's up on his hind feet and he's got his front paws on my shoulders," she recalled.
Which Jesus are you talking about?
James Dobson say's he can't support former Senator Fred Thompson for President because he's not Christian enough. Dobson is praying that the good conservative Republican, Christian family-oriented man, Newt Gingrich, runs so they can do god's work together.
Just keep pulling your bootstraps
According to the report, new analyses of 2005 tax data shows that the top 300,000 Americans collectively enjoyed almost as much income as the bottom 150 million Americans.
Per person, the top group received 440 times as much as the average person in the bottom half earned, nearly doubling the gap from 1980.
While total reported income in the US increased almost 9 per cent in 2005, the most recent year for which such data is available, average incomes for those in the bottom 90 per cent dipped slightly compared with the year before, dropping 172 dollars, or 0.6 per cent.
According to the report, the gains went largely to the top 1 per cent, whose incomes rose to an average of more than 1.1 million dollars each, an increase of more than 139,000 dollars, or about 14 per cent.
The Limbaugh/HD Award
This week's winner of the Limbaugh/HD Award is Senator John 'Straight-talking' McCain
John McCain told radio host Bill Bennett this week, “There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today.”
McCain also griped at CNN’s Wolf Blitzer this week that Blitzer was "giving three-month-old talking points", when he asked about the declining security within the Green Zone. McCain went on and told Blitzer that "General Petraeus goes out there almost every day in an unarmed humvee. I think you oughta catch up. You are giving the old line of three months ago. I understand it. We certainly don’t get it through the filter of some of the media".
'Old talking points', and media 'filter'? Maybe that's it - maybe Mr. 'Straight-Talk' has been watching too much filtered Fox News and his talking points are from last week because he sure couldn't be talking about what went on in Iraq this week.
What happened to John McCain? Has he always been a liar of the same magnitude of a Limbaugh or a HD? Or, is he just so far into the war in Iraq that he's beyond being honest about the the obvious?
Do you know CNN reporter Michael Ware? You know, he's the guy on CNN with the nose like Rocky Marciano - Ware has been in Iraq for the entire four years. He and a group of soldiers got a good laugh at McCain this week.Here's what Ware had to say to Wolf Blitzer about John McCain's view on Iraq; "McCain is “way off base.” - To suggest that there’s any neighborhood in this city where an American can walk freely is beyond ludicrous. I’d love Sen. McCain to tell me where that neighborhood is and he and I can go for a stroll.”
And as for McCain's ridiculous claim of how Petraeus travels around Baghdad unprotected, here's what Ware stated, “[I]n the hour since Sen. McCain’s said this, I’ve spoken to military sources and there was laughter down the line. I mean, certainly the general travels in a humvee. There’s multiple humvees around it, heavily armed.”
It's a little pathetic Senator when you have CNN reporters and soldiers laughing at your lying ass.
Congratulations on winning the sixth Limbaugh/HD Award, Mr. Straight Talk.
(h/t TP)
Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
Limbaugh/HD Award
Attorney General - Alberto Gonzales - 3/25/07
Fox mouthpieces Sean Hannity and
Victoria Toensing - 3/18/07
Fox News guy - Brit Hume - 3/11/07
VA Secretary - Jim Nicholson - 3/4/07
Rep. Michele Bachmann - (R-MN) - 2/25/07
Ah shit, I screwed up the pop quiz question - that quote wasn't from this week. That quote is from 6/5/99 and it's George W. Bush talking about Bill Clinton during the Kosovo War.
Who was your guess - John Murtha?
Have a beautiful Palm Sunday.
