WASHINGTON - House Democrats pushed their government eavesdropping bill through two committees Wednesday with only minor changes, setting the stage for a confrontation with the Bush administration. Bush said that he will not sign the bill if it does not give retroactive immunity to U.S. telecommunications companies that helped conduct electronic surveillance without court orders.
[We all know the routine by now. Face the criminals with our constitutional guarantees and Bush leaks another bin Laden tape to Fox News so they can;
...... Scare the sheople shitless
More than justified, Ricky
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who led coalition forces from June 2003 to June 2004, used an Oct. 12 speech to a conference of Military Reporters and Editors in Arlington, Virginia, to castigate nearly everyone connected to the Iraq War, including the U.S. news media, Congress, the State Department, the White House and the Pentagon. “There has been a glaring, unfortunate display of incompetence in strategic leadership among our national leaders,” Sanchez said. “They have unquestionably been derelict in the performance of their duty. In my profession, these types of leaders would be immediately relieved or court-martialed.”[One little problem, Ricky Ricardo. I'd court martial your spineless ass right along with them.]
What a state
His GOP colleagues in the U.S. Senate may wish him gone. But Larry Craig will always have a home in the Idaho Hall of Fame. This Saturday [yesterday] in Boise, Craig will join 11 other distinguished citizens of the Gem State in what promises to be a squirm-worthy induction ceremony.
A very expensive piece of ass!
Sir Paul McCartney is heading for a bitter courtroom showdown with Heather Mills after they failed to agree an amicable divorce settlement, sources said on Friday. It has been claimed that Sir Paul, 65, had offered his estranged wife £50 million of his £825m fortune if she agreed to remain silent on their marriage. But she was willing to accept as much as £15m less in return for retaining her right to speak.
Today a long time ago
On October 14, 1789, George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day.
[Check out all of the events that have happened throughout history on, October 14.]
NASCAR cooties and war booty
Homeland Security Committee planned a fact-finding trip about public health preparedness at mass gatherings and decided to conduct the research at two of the nation's most heavily attended sporting events, NASCAR's Bank of America 500 event this weekend and the UAW-Ford 500 last weekend. Staff who organized the trips advised the NASCAR-bound aides to get a range of vaccines before attending -- hepatitis A, hepatitis B, tetanus, diphtheria and influenza.
[I heard a great proposal on how to pay for the Iraq Occupation the other day. Charge a $200 surcharge on NASCAR tickets! After all, those badass rednecks all support the occupation, so let them pay for it. Of course, did you ever wonder why all those flagwaving Chickenhawks are sitting on their fatasses watching cars go around in a circle and not in Iraq? Of course you didn't - chances are good, [3 out of 10] you're just like them! Put up, or shut up, Chickenshits!]
Tell Putin to fuck off!
It may not be the Cold War again, but U.S.-Russian relations are getting chilly. Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates to his residence outside Moscow today by making them wait 40 minutes and then delivering a stern lecture before a room full of reporters.
[The little asshole Putin ought to shut the fuck up and try to get his country into the 21st century.]
Sound familiar, Madam Secretary?
The Russian government under Vladimir Putin has amassed so much central authority that the power-grab may undermine Moscow's commitment to democracy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday. "In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development," Rice told reporters after meeting with human-rights activists.
Call your lawyer?
Asked at Tuesday's debate whether the president would need authorization from Congress to attack Iran, Mitt Romney replied, "You sit down with your attorneys and tell you want you have to do ..." Asked whether Bush needed that authorization, Romney replied, "You know, we're going to let the lawyers sort out what he needed to do and what he didn't need to do..."
[Wrong answer, Mormon Moron. You call Congress - Read the Constitution, numbnuts! [Article I, Section 8]
Aren't we going to say something?
"According to Iraqi law, as president, Talabani must sign Hashim's death sentence. He must approve the execution of a man with whom he conspired against Saddam, a man he introduced to the CIA. Last month, Talabani told a press conference that he will not do it." "I used to urge him to rebel against the government, and he used to cooperate," Talabani said last month."So how can I now authorize his execution? I just can’t."'From Ally to Adversary' by Richard Engel
'Do nothing' House?
They may be bogged down in debate over children's health, appropriations and Iraq, but nobody can say the House isn't prolific in its most fundamental duty -- voting on legislation. The House last week held its 943rd roll call vote of the year, breaking the previous record of 942 votes, a mark set in 1978. The vote was on a procedural motion related to a mortgage foreclosure bill. When the House adjourned on Oct. 4 for the long weekend, the chamber had reached 948 roll call votes, putting Democrats on pace to easily eclipse 1,000 votes on the House floor in 2007.
Why they are wingNuts
"If you had your way ... and your dreams, which are genuine, came true ... what would this country look like?" Coulter responded, "It would look like New York City during the [2004] Republican National Convention. In fact, that's what I think heaven is going to look like. "
[That ain't heaven, bitch .. You must have vertigo]
WTF!?!!??
Performance artists are known for pushing the bounderies, but one Australian has astonished his contemporaries by having a third ear implanted onto his arm. The Cypriot-born eccentric Stelios Arcadious spent 10 years searching for a surgeon willing to perform the controversial operation. He got his wish after working as a Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University's Digital Research Unit. The ear was grown in a lab from cells and implanted into the 61-year-olds left forearm in 2006.
Oh that's right - never mind ...
The House overwhelmingly passed a measure Tuesday that would prohibit “war profiteering” by contractors. The bill (HR 400), sponsored by Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, would ban fraud against the United States or “a provisional authority” — such as the Coalition Provisional Authority that governed Iraq in 2003 and 2004 — in connection with a war, military action, or relief or reconstruction activities. It passed by a vote of 375-3.
[I was wondering why it took five years to come up with this type of law and then I remembered who ran all three branches of government up until last January. Never mind.]
No thanks, I'll walk
The Osprey has landed--in Iraq, and in the history books. One of the most controversial aircraft in recent aviation history, the tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey has come in for criticism over the many years of its development for reasons ranging from financial costs to fatal crashes to its novel and rather ungainly design: it flies like both a helicopter and a fixed-wing plane. The U.S. Marines Corps Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263--known more colorfully as the "Thunder Chickens,"
[The V-22 Osprey - You know it's a bad military project when Dick Cheney opposes it.]
Al-Qaeda Lite
BAGHDAD • Leading Iraqi Sunni cleric Harith Al Dhari has urged Iraqis not to join US forces in fighting Al Qaeda, arguing that by doing so they are siding with the occupier. “A decision to stand beside the occupying enemy in order to achieve a wish to stay in Iraq under the pretext of destroying Al Qaeda is neither accepted legally nor on patriotic or rational grounds,” said Dhari, head of the influential Muslim Scholars’ Association. “We do not accept the acts of Al Qaeda,” Dhari said in an interview with Qatari-based television channel Al-Jazeera posted yesterday on the website of the Muslim Scholars’ Association, Iraq’s main Sunni clerics’ organisation. “We reject their ideas but Al Qaeda remains part of us and we are part of it. Ninety per cent of Al Qaeda members are now Iraqis,” he added. “We can talk to them. We can reform them and God may bless them to resort to wisdom.”
[There you go - Proof of what many have said all along. When Petraeus or Bush say we're 'fighting al-Qaeda' in Iraq, you now know they're jerking your chain - lying to justify us staying there. 'Ninety percent' of 'al-Qaeda in Iraq' are Iraqis, who merely took up the 'brand'. And do you know who agrees with me? The Marines! We leave, and the Iraqis will take care of the 10%. It's their goddamn problem anyway, sheople-Wake up!]
2,000 miles
This time of year--through means still mysterious to scientists--Monarch Butterflies seem to take note that the sun is no longer as high in the sky as it was through the summer. That's their cue to pick up and start their migration southward to central Mexico, a journey that can take 2,000 miles.
Democrats will take care of that
"The colonel was furious. "Can you believe it? They actually drew their weapons on U.S. soldiers." He was describing a 2006 car accident, in which an SUV full of Blackwater operatives had crashed into a U.S. Army Humvee on a street in Baghdad's Green Zone. The colonel, who was involved in a follow-up investigation and spoke on the condition he not be named, said the Blackwater guards disarmed the U.S. Army soldiers and made them lie on the ground at gunpoint until they could disentangle the SUV. His account was confirmed by the head of another private security company. ... "Their attitude was, 'We're f---ing security; we don't have to answer to anybody'." Congress [NOW] disagrees.
[That's right, the Democratic majority in Congress will NOW put a stop to these out of control cowboys. ... Disarm and make our soldiers lie in the dirt? Give them their orders, Colonel.]
Why they are wingNuts II
By Michelle Malkin • August 27, 2004 07:29 AM
"After my husband quit his job earlier this year (to become a full-time stay-at-home dad), we had a choice. We could either buy health insurance from his former employer through a program called COBRA at a cost of more than $1,000 per month(!) or we could go it alone in Maryland’s individual market. Given our financial circumstances, that “choice” wasn’t much of a choice at all. We had to go on our own. We discovered that the most generous plans in Maryland’s individual market cost $700 per month yet provide no more than $1,500 per year of prescription drug coverage–a drop in the bucket if someone in our family were to be diagnosed with a serious illness. With health insurance choices like that, no wonder so many people opt to go uninsured."
[And I'm sure Malkin was earning more than $45,000 a year and she doesn't have four children.]
[H/T to Crooks and Liars]
Wingnut 'support the troops' rally 
The Limbaugh Award
The esteemed selection committee wanted to select a 'fresh' face for this week's award and instead they came up with a face that only an inbred mother could love; Ladies and gentlemen, this week's winner, of the 'prestigious, but infamous' award for liars, is Kentucky's Fried Chicken Senator, and Senate Minority Leader, Mr. Mitch 'Switch Hittin' McConnell.
McConnell, always known as a sleazy, despicable and closeted 'Old Kentucky Homo', [how fitting for a Republican leader, huh?] who's sham and 'bearded' marriage to Bush's Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao, [Boy, doesn't that Party just ooze with 'family-values'?] is DC's worst kept secret, tried this week to hide behind one of his staffers, and smear 12 year old, badly injured, Graeme Frost and his family.
That's even despicable by Republican standards!
Congratulations, Old Kentucky Homo - You are #33!
Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
Limbaugh Award
Liar-In-Chief - George W. Bush - 10/7/07
Phony Patriot Pig - Rush Limbaugh - 9/30/07
Big Stretch 'the truth' - Bill Sammon - 9/23/07
Mr. Straight Talk - John McCain - 9/16/07
Sycophant - General Petraeus - 9/9/07
His own Idaho - Sen. Craig R-Idaho - 9/2/07
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 8/26/07
The Exterminator - Tom Delay - 8/19/07
Big 'Rooster' - Mitt Romney - 8/12/07
Total Suck Up - Glenn Beck - 8/5/07
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
