Sunday Scroll #56

They're not my kids ...
Did Only Two Papers Feature the 4,000 Iraq Deaths?

It's a sad day for America's media when the tragic milestone of 4,000 soldiers' deaths is reported and it appears that just two papers -- yes two -- place it across their front pages.
[It's a national disgrace. ... What ever happened to all of those 'support the troops' decals?]

Big Brother will be watching
Spy drones in demand by U.S. police departments, but approval pending
The Miami police could soon use cutting-edge flying drones to help fight crime.
If use of the drone wins U.S. Federal Aviation Administration approval after tests, the Miami-Dade Police Department will start flying the 14 pound, or 6.35 kilogram, drone over urban areas with an eye toward full-fledged employment in crime fighting.
[Huh - I wonder if it would be like shootin' skeet?]

Bush's weird 'Moonie' brother, NeilFrom left to right, the first person is Dr. Thomas G. Walsh, the Secretary General of UPF (Universal Peace Federation); Second from the left is Antonio Betancourt, a "long time Moon follower" who currently is the Director of Government Relations of UPF International and "Character Education. Third from the left is Chang Shik Yang, the Continental Director of the Unification Church now called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU). Fourth is Neil Bush; On the far right is Larry Moffitt who is the Vice President of editorial operations for United Press International (UPI), a news service owned and operated by Rev.Sun Myung Moon.
[A Bush would fuck anybody for a buck]

The proverbial black hole
A hardhat worker is dwarfed by the inner workings of the Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS detector, deep beneath the French-Swiss border.
The builders of the world's biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet.

And you called me a lying asshole


'Streak'
They are calling him Streak. The juvenile white shark caught up in fishing nets off the Californian coast last summer became a major attraction at a Monterey Bay aquarium, but that was nothing compared to the level of interest in his journey away from captivity. That is because, since his release, Streak has travelled more than 1,000 miles to the warmer seas off the Mexican Pacific coast in barely six weeks, making him the fastest young white shark to have been tracked, ...

Uh oh, mark it down
"It's not enough that Bush is going to go in 2009," Franken said. "His enablers have to go too."
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The first time Norm Coleman went up against a celebrity for statewide office, he was slammed by former pro wrestler Jesse Ventura. Coleman did better against his second famous opponent, edging former Vice President Walter Mondale to win his seat in the U.S. Senate. He's hoping to repeat that success in his third run against a well-known name in as many tries -- Democrat Al Franken, the former "Saturday Night Live" comedian and radio host.
[Mark this Senate seat down for the Democrats in November. Franken's coming to Washington. And you know my record on predicting wins in the Senate. Al Franken is my second 'sure' pick for 08 - Mark Warner of Virginia is my first - for sure Democratic Senate victories in November]

Ungrateful America-hater
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that the United States still has trouble dealing with race because of a national "birth defect" that denied black Americans the opportunities given to whites at the country's very founding. "Black Americans were a founding population," she said. "Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together — Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That's not a very pretty reality of our founding."

Wilkins Ice Shelf
WASHINGTON (AP) — A chunk of Antarctic ice nine times the size of Manhattan has suddenly collapsed, putting an even larger glacial area at risk. Satellite images show the runaway disintegration of a 220-square-mile chunk in western Antarctica.
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It won't work
"Normally when you begin paying off your enemy on the scale that we are, it is seen by your enemy as well as others as a tacit admission of failure, not of success," - Retired Army Col. Doug Macgregor

With 'allies' like these
Sheik Salman al-Feraiji, left, Muqtada al-Sadr's chief representative in Sadr City, Iraq, talks to a group of Iraqi government forces who came to surrender their weapons on Saturday. Some 40 police officers in Sadr City handed over their weapons to al-Sadr's local office Saturday.


The Limbaugh Award

The 56th recipient of the Limbaugh Award is the one and only - a man who epitomizes what wingnuts truly are - the Master of Hypocrisy, Mr. Sean Hannity.

Hannity, who has spent months criticizing Barack Obama's pastor, Jerimiah Wright for being an America-hating racist, has now been exposed by News Hounds for his close relationship with neo Nazi/white supremacist Hal Turner

Hannity, who has repeatedly denied knowing Turner, a well known neo-Nazi and part-time radio host from New Jersey, was outed recently when Turner confessed;

I was quite disappointed when Sean Hannity at first tried to say he didn't know me and then went on to say that I ran some senate campaign in New Jersey. In fact, Sean Hannity does know me and we were quite friendly a number of years ago.

…When Hannity took over Bob Grant's spot on 77 WABC in New York City, I was a well-known, regular and welcome caller to his show. Through those calls, Sean and I got to know each other a bit and at some point, I can't remember exactly when, Sean gave me the secret "Guest call-in number" at WABC so that my calls could always get on the air.

If you're kind of stupid and didn't already realize Sean Hannity was a lying racist punk, you sure have your proof now.

Congratulations redneck, you're #56.

Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
The Limbaugh Award
Shiite for a Brain - John McCain - 3/23/08
Client #9 - Governor Eliot Spitzer - 3/15/08*
Turdblossom - Karl Rove - 3/9/08
Lying Redneck Rep - Jack Kingston R-GA - 3/2/08
Lying Little Twirp - Tucker Carlson - 2/24/08
Mr Straight Talk - John McCain - 2/17/08
Bye Week - 2/10/08
Mr Straight Talk - John McCain - 2/3/08
935 of them - Bush & the Gang of 7 - 1/27/08
Fox News Co-Liars - Hannity & O'Reilly - 1/20/08
Sheep's Favorite Liar - Rush Limbaugh - 1/13/08
Longtime Lobbyist - Trent Lott - 1/6/08
2007 Co-Champions - Dick Bush - 12/30/07
Lying Piece of - Mitt Romney - 12/23/07
Psycho Pervert - Michael Savage - 12/16/07
Sheepherder-in-Chief - George W. Bush - 12/9/07
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 12/2/07
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