Remember that great philosopher?BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Hezbollah takeover came after three days of sectarian fighting in Beirut between Sunni militias and Hezbollah and its Shiite allies. Hezbollah also shut down a rival television station and newspaper; 11 people have died so far in the fighting. And the country's security forces, which Washington has supported to the tune of $400 million? They've "largely stood aside,"
[I don't get it; that great philosopher, John McCain, told the nation not that long ago that, “There’s not a history of clashes that are violent between Sunnis and Shiahs. So I think they can probably get along.” -- And his strength is 'foreign policy'? -- Going to vote for another dumbass, people? Are we really that dumb of a nation?]
The country's No. 1 Traitor
Dick Cheney, who declared $2.5 million in taxable income last year and $8.8 million in 2006, says America's economy is strong as ever.
[As VP, Dick Cheney earns $208,100 a year. The other $2.3 million in 2007 and the other $8.6 million in 2006 came from Halliburton - and/or its residual - who earned their money from ripping off the taxpayers and screwing over our troops. Where is the outrage? Did you notice at that third link that Halliburton sold KBR in March 2007? Dick's war profits went down dramatically, didn't they? -- Those who profit from war would have been prosecuted as traitors at a time not that long ago. But instead, they now unashamedly lead the Republican Party and the unpatriotic sheep that follow, all remain silent]
Isn't he running the wrong way?
[Video here]Treating our fallen like dogs
Since 2001, the U.S. military has cremated the remains of approximately 200 service members at Friends Forever Pet Cremation Service, a Delaware facility that primarily cremates pets. The practice was stopped yesterday ...
Ihulim le-yom ha-nesuim
Of course it was only PBS!
"Rosenstiel’s organization tracked the mainstream media for a week after the Times story and found that out of approximately 1,300 news stories, only two touched on the Pentagon analysts scoop — both airing on PBS’s “NewsHour.”
That's cold -- but obvious
National polling firm Rasmussen Reports announced on Friday that it will stop polling people about the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton because her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, will win the Democratic nomination.
[Any takers?]
Like Jim Webb
Ted Kennedy gets his jab in
"I don't think it's possible, Obama should choose a running mate who "is in tune with his appeal for the nobler aspirations of the American people," Kennedy said. "If we had real leadership — as we do with Barack Obama — in the No. 2 spot as well, it'd be enormously helpful."
[Virginia will be 'blue' in November with Jim Webb]
Damn, buy some condoms!
The world has just learned that the Duggar family is expecting their 18th child on New Year's Day, as stated by the mother, Michelle Dugar, on the Today Show. The family consists of seven girls and 10 boys, the youngest being nine months old and the oldest 20.Hey, take your time dumbasses
The Marine Corps may begin shifting its major combat forces out of Iraq to focus on Afghanistan in 2009 ...
Did you ever eat English food?
Britons throw away third of all food
British consumers throw out a third of all food bought, worth some 10 billion pounds (12.7 million euros, 19.5 million dollars), a study showed Thursday. The average household throws food worth 420 pounds each year into the waste bin, rising to 610 pounds for those with children ...
More Republican family-values
A congressman from New York, Vito Fossella, has admitted to fathering a child in an extramarital affair three years ago. "I have had a relationship with Laura Fay, with whom I have a 3-year-old daughter," Fossella, 43, said in the statement. Fossella, a conservative Republican, acknowledged that "imperfections" in his personal life have "caused pain to the people I love."
[Another hypocrite who hammered Bill Clinton for less]
Pelosi smacks down spoiled brat
“Don’t ever threaten me again,”
[Barack Obama has 1.3 million donors who have given on average $100 a piece so I think the party will be able to carry on without Harvey Weinstein's irrelevant fatass]
Certainly worth repeating
“Certainly,” the CIA’s Miscik said, “he [Osama bin Laden] would want Bush to keep doing what he’s doing for a few more years,” -- And, as Deputy CIA director John McLaughlin said, ‘Bin-Laden certainly did a nice favor today [10/29/04] for the President.’”
[Our enemies are always thrilled to have Republican incompetents in the White House]
That was close
Indiana results
Hillary Clinton: 637,814 / 50.4%
Barack Obama: 626,642 / 49.6%
Diff. = 11,152 votes (less than 1 %)
Californians are so far advanced
LOS ANGELES — California has awarded $271 million in grants to build 12 stem cell research centers in the state, even as one of the political rationales for the building program might soon disappear.
[With a little luck in November we will be able to do this on a federal level. This country will begin to prosper scientifically once again if we can end Republican control (Bush's veto) and get back to doing the things that made this country great, in spite of Republicans.]
Mrs. Loving
Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died, her daughter said Monday. Loving, 68, died Friday at her home in rural Milford. Loving and her white husband, Richard, changed history in 1967 when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld their right to marry. The ruling struck down laws banning racially mixed marriages in at least 17 states.
Nice crib
Did you know?
A recent poll of professional historians also found that “98.2 percent assessed the presidency of Mr. Bush to be a failure while 1.8 percent classified it as a success.” More than 61 percent of the historians “concluded that the current presidency is the worst in the nation’s history.”
[If you didn't already know, please remove your head from your ass]
Oh Charlie ... that's not good
A bizarre Capitol Hill ceremony a few years ago in which the eccentric conservative publisher the Rev. Sun Myung Moon declared himself the Second Coming was organized with help from a senior adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign. Charlie Black, a Washington lobbyist and McCain confidant, lent his name to the coronation ceremony and invited a few friends, according to newly disclosed e-mails.
He sure hangs with alot of bad people
A Convention Quandary
John McCain's choice to manage the GOP convention this summer is lobbyist Doug Goodyear, whose firm once represented Burma's repressive regime.
[Goodyear quits]
Happy Mother's Day
['The first Mother's Day was celebrated 100 years ago yesterday in Grafton, West Virginia, on 10 May 1908']
The Limbaugh Award
Ladies and gentlemen, the winner of this week's Limbaugh Award is First Lady wannabe, the Arizona 'Beer Queen', Mrs. 'Stay the hell away from my tax returns', Cindy McCain.
Appearing on NBC with Ann Curry earlier this week Mrs. McCain claimed, "You won't see [negative stuff] come out of our side at all," and asserted, "My husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all."
Now Mrs. McCain is not some ditzy blonde bimbo. Sure, her millions were passed down from daddy, but she's well aware of what's going on and she knows her old (literally) man is a hateful little prick who is well known to be a negative campaigner. In fact, his campaign has already started the negativity so she's already lied.
I threatened the Committee with the mighty veto pen this week since my choice was Brent 'Bozo' Bozell, whose right-wing front group, Business & Media Institute (BMI) 'spliced and doctored' an interview of Al Gore on NPR that falsely accused him of stating the Myanmar cyclone was a “consequence” of global warming.
Splicing and doctoring audio tape to support your lying Luddite theory doesn't warrant a Limbaugh Award I argued! But the Committee argued that it was already well-known that Bozo Bozell was such a sleazebag and since the award has now become 'world-renowned', it made better sense to go with the more visible, Beer Queen.
So that, and the fact that the committee had more than the two-thirds needed (in both houses) to override my veto, we went with Mrs. Cindy 'The Beer Queen' McCain for the 62nd winner of the 'prestigious, but infamous' award for liars. She's a well deserving pick.
Congratulations Mrs. McCain, you're #62.
Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
The Limbaugh Award
Uncultured Wussy - Bill O'Reilly - 5/4/08
Nazi Running for Congress - Tony Zirkle, R-IN - 4/27/08
Fox's Toe-Sucking Ethics Expert - Dick Morris - 4/20/08
Lying Dickhead VP - Dick Cheney - 4/13/08
McCain's Chief Lobbyist - Charlie Black - 4/6/08
Neo-Nazi Supporter - Sean Hannity - 3/30/08
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
