Sunday, August 05, 2007

Sunday Scroll #23 - Gone Fishin' Edition

Well, we're here anyway ...












Goddam'it Tony, did you forget my fishin' pole?

That is so yesterday's news!
The Bush administration has shown little progress — and in some cases backtracked — on its pledge to do a better job in awarding contracts to small, Gulf Coast businesses for Hurricane Katrina work, a congressional analysis shows.

Yeah, well what's your point?
North Dakota’s U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy calls President Bush a “clown” and says he “can’t stand” him in a new video posted on the Internet.

I thought it looked fake
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Some art experts in Australia are red-faced after a Vincent Van Gogh they said was worth $21 million was proven to be a fake. Art experts from Amsterdam said the painting, called "Head of a Man," is not authentic.

Today a long time ago
William Wallace evaded capture by the English until August 5, 1305 ... Following the trial, Wallace was taken from the hall, stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to Smooth Field. He was hanged, drawn and quartered — strangled by hanging but released while still alive, emasculated, eviscerated and his bowels burnt before him, beheaded, then cut into four parts — at the Elms in Smithfield. His preserved head was placed on a pike atop London Bridge. It was later joined by the heads of his brother, John, and Simon Fraser. His limbs were displayed, separately, in Newcastle, Berwick, Stirling, and Aberdeen.

No shit
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), the Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said “the administration proposal to grant [Alberto] Gonzales greater authority ‘is simply unacceptable’ ...

Bonds ties Aaron


Youngest to 500
Alex Rodriguez became the youngest player in major league history to hit 500 home runs ...




Run! They're everywhere!
It was a strange and potentially alarming sight: an egg-shaped, odd-looking vessel being towed by an inflatable boat and foundering in a security zone near the docked Queen Mary 2. In the end, the curious craft that caused a scare Friday proved to be part art project, part historical experiment, but no threat, authorities said. It was a replica Revolutionary War submarine, manned by a Brooklyn artist.

Limbaugh/HD Award

This week's winner of the 'prestigious, but infamous', award for lying [and being an asshole] is CNN's very own Affirmative-Action Poster Boy, Glenn Beck.

The 'Committee', the distinguished 'Blue Ribbon' panel, are all on summer recess [they're worse than that damn Iraqi Parliament] so this week's winner, Glenn Beck, was picked exclusively by me and I'll tell you folks, it was a down week for liars. There were some ... don't get me wrong ... but, they weren't quite up to the 'Limbaugh/HD' standard.

And that's when I remembered reading a piece on Think Progress about Beck going to the meet with Bush at the White House and thinking Beck was such an asshole and Bush suck-up that he would be a perfect fit for this week's award.

So he is. Congratulations, suck-up - You're #23!

Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
Limbaugh/HD Award
General Gonzo - Alberto Gonzales - 7/29/07
Pro Liar - Tony 'Snowjob' Snow - 7/22/07
Bush bin Lyin - George W. Bush - 7/15/07
Freed Felon - Scooter Libby - 7/8/07
Mr. Overrated - Rudy Giuliani - 7/1/07
Crazy Lying Okie - James Inhofe - 6/24/07
Pro Liar - Tony 'Snowjob' Snow - 6/17/07
Mormon Moron - Mitt Romney - 6/10/07
Bye Week - 6/3/07
Commander Guy - George W. Bush - 5/27/07
Pat's Brother - Bay Buchanan - 5/20/07
Used Car Salesman - John Boehner - 5/13/07
Uncultured Wussy - Bill O'Reilly - 5/6/07
Mr. Overrated - Rudy Giuliani - 4/29/07
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 4/22/07
The Decider - George W. Bush - 4/15/07
Lying Chickenhawk VP - Dick Cheney - 4/8/07
Mr. Straight Talk - John McCain - 4/1/07
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