Sit back, brace yourself ... don't bother with the seat belt ... 3, 2, 1 GO!
On the contrary
"It is simply inappropriate to have political attack art, in the form of egregious doctored photographs of the President and other high-ranking officials who have dedicated their lives to public service, in a taxpayer-funded building frequented by schoolchildren and the general public," said Matthew Walter, dir. of comm. for the state GOP.[Pardon me, Mr. Walter, but your view on this is assbackwards. It's appropriate because it is 'in a taxpayer-funded building' and therefore, protected free speech. This isn't a Bush campaign rally. As for the schoolchildren; Just explain to them that's what could possibly happen to you if you commit a crime.]
Today a long time ago
'On the morning of December 2, 1859, John Brown read his Bible and wrote a final letter to his wife, which included his will. At 11:00 he was escorted through a crowd of 2,000 soldiers. Among them were future Confederate general Stonewall Jackson and John Wilkes Booth, who borrowed a militia uniform to gain admission to the execution. Brown was hanged at 11:15 a.m. and pronounced dead at 11:50 a.m., and his body was dumped into a cheap wooden coffin with the noose still around his neck—a last gesture of Southern contempt'.['The Last Moments of John Brown', oil on canvas painting by Thomas Hovenden]
Wouldn't want to waste any money
(AP) The Bush administration intends to slash counterterrorism funding for police, firefighters and rescue departments across the country by more than half next year, according to budget documents obtained by The Associated Press. The Homeland Security Department has given $23 billion to states and local communities to fight terrorism since the Sept. 11 attacks, but one document says the administration is not convinced that the money has been well spent and thinks the nation's highest-risk cities have largely satisfied their security needs.
[It's so typical of Bush to cut funding for our real security, while wasting so much in Iraq. We've spent, '$23 billion' over the last six years on our own homeland security needs - or, less than $4 billion a year - about the same amount we're spending in Iraq, every 8 - 10 days. -- I'm convinced ...]
Sounds more like Iraq than Iowa
DUBUQUE, IA -- It's no secret that Iowa Christian Alliance president Steve Scheffler isn't a Rudy fan. But tonight, within spitting distance of Giuliani’s rival GOP candidate Romney, Scheffler explicitly urged Iowa Christians to oppose Giuliani in the race for the nomination. "If our party nominates this guy," he told a crowd at a Dubuque gathering of the ICA, "we will see a bloodbath at the polls like we've never seen before."
Saves me a trip
Michigan Democrats were stripped of all 156 delegates to their party’s national convention in August this morning. Despite arguments from top state Democrats who sought to justify their decision to sanction the Jan. 15 presidential primary as their official method of choosing delegates to the convention, the Democratic National Committee found the state in violation of party rules that allow only four states — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada — to hold primaries or caucuses earlier than Feb. 5. As it had earlier done with Florida, the committee stripped Michigan of all its delegates, though it is expected that the eventual party presidential nominee ultimately will allow the seating of the state’s delegates. All the major Democratic candidates have sworn off campaigning in Michigan because of its violation of party rules and many also pulled their names off the ballot, leaving New York Sen. Hillary Clinton as the only leading contender among Democrats still on the ballot.
Could I get some change, please?
This photo, supplied by the Aiken County, S.C. County Sheriff's Office, shows a fake $1 million bill, which a man tried to use to open an account in a Aiken, S.C, bank Monday, Nov. 26, 2007. Alexander D. Smith, 31, was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery after he walked into the bank and tried to open an account by depositing the fake $1 million bill, said an Aiken County Sheriff's spokesman. Photo /Aiken County, S.C. Sheriff's Office.
[All Hat No Cattle]
Hey, it saved me some money
'When Tom Tancredo hired a construction crew to transform his drab basement into a high-tech pleasure den in October 2001, he did not express concern that only two of its members spoke English. Nor did he bother to check the workers’ documentation to see if they were legal residents of the United States. Had Tancredo done so, he would have learned that most of the crew consisted of undocumented immigrants, or “criminal aliens” as he likes to call them.'
[Geez, a Republican hypocrite. Now, that's a surprise.]
Not a river in Africa
Widow's filing answers complaint that seeks assets
The widow of former Enron Chairman Ken Lay denies he committed any crimes, according to a filing Friday in the government's civil forfeiture case that is seeking nearly $13 million from his estate, including the upscale condominium they shared.
Fuck you and your Teddy Bear!
Teacher Hidden As Sudan Mob Urges Death
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and swords and beating drums, burned pictures of a British teacher Friday and demanded her execution for insulting Islam by letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad.
He's back ...
NEW YORK - Will Don Imus be defiant or contrite? Will he mock his skeptics while making his triumphant return to radio Monday. Or will he muzzle his mouth? “That question is part of the drama of his reemergence,” said Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers magazine, an industry trade journal. “Imus faces some choices.” Imus isn’t talking, yet, but it’s safe to say radio’s best-known curmudgeon will have lots to say when his show kicks off at 6 a.m. EST Monday on WABC-AM and other Citadel Broadcasting Corp. stations around the country, ending his nearly eight-month banishment from the air.
'Big Brother' hovers in Texas
Houston police use drone planes
When neighbors noticed black trucks, satellite dishes, swirling radars, and "a portable launch pad, with something covered up" on a Waller County Ranch, they had no idea what to think. CNN's Houston affiliate KPRC has partially solved the mystery: Houston police plan to start using unmanned drone aircraft. But, a question still remains: what, exactly, will the drones be used for?
See ya
Les Miles, the former Michigan player and assistant coach says: "I am the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else.
The Limbaugh Award
As you well remember, last week the 'Committee' was deadlocked and I used my tie-breaker vote and picked the 'Cowardly Welsher', T. Boone Pickens over Karl 'Turd Blossom' Rove, as the 39th recipient of the Limbaugh Award.
I picked Pickens because he whimpered, lied, and cut and ran like a cowgirl when John Kerry took him up on his wager. I also sort of reasoned that Rove had already won this, 'prestigious, but infamous' award -- given here weekly at 'done that', to the liar of the week -- twice before ...
Rove's lie that got him nominated last week came during an appearance on the Charlie Rose Show when he stated;
“For Democrats to suggest they didn’t want to vote on it [Iraq War Authorization] before the election is disingenuous. The vote schedule, was set by lawmakers. We don’t control that.”
As I said last week, what a liar that Turd Blossom is. Quite the revisionist, too.
When asked this week if what Rove said was true, former White House Chief of Staff, Andrew Card, a staunch Bush-loyalist, replied, "No, that’s not the way it worked".
And just yesterday, Ari Fleischer, Bush's press secretary during the run up to the invasion of Iraq, had this to say to the Washington Post on Karl Rove's 'new' version of what took place; “It was definitely the Bush administration that set it in motion and determined the timing, not the Congress. I think Karl in this instance just has his facts wrong.”
Obviously I didn't need Andrew Card or Ari Fleischer to come forward this week and confirm the fact that Rove was lying, but their confirmation did give the Committee another opportunity to vote for ol' 'Turd Blossom' again -- And they did.
Congratulations, you lying scumbag. You're #40!
Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
Limbaugh Award
Cowardly Welsher - T. Boone Pickens - 11/25/07
Republican Tool - Matt Drudge - 11/18/07
Their Favored Liar - Rudy Giuliani - 11/11/07
Fox News Liar - Chris Wallace - 11/4/07
Uncultured Wussy - Bill O'Reilly - 10/28/07
Phony Patriot Liar - Rush Limbaugh - 10/21/07
Old Kentucky Homo - Mitch McConnell - 10/14/07
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 - Gen. David 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
