bartcop The Iraq 'war' pays very well
The inspector general for the Defense Department said yesterday that the Pentagon cannot account for almost $15 billion worth of goods and services ranging from trucks, bottled water and mattresses to rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns that were bought from contractors in the Iraq reconstruction effort.
[Are you beginning to see why men like Bush, McCain and Cheney like war so much? When you can make $15 billion just off the 'skim', can you imagine how much they're really making?]
Uh, there's an "A" in Hillary ...
['Typical'? I don't know about that - She's definitely one of those "if it ain't HillAry, I'm votin' fer McCain" idiots, though ... Sort of reminds me of ...]A 'blowout' victory for McCain?
... Among the 10 strategists interviewed by Politico for this story, there was near-uniform belief that had any other Republican been nominated, the party’s prospects in November would be nil. ..."
[The poor ignorant wingnuts, those who are 0 for the season and whine about McCain and don't realize he was their only hope to win, but are too dumb to even appreciate that fact. I've said that all along and it's why I've had Bush & Lil' Bush's picture at the top of this blog for over a year as to remind all the dumbasses of the same old, miserable four years to come. What was that definition, again?]
He used to tell the truthOn Aug. 1, 2000, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared on PBS’s Newshour with Jim Lehrer. When asked about the possibility that he might run for president in 2008, McCain said that he would probably be too old:
LEHRER: Finally for the record, you have not lost your desire to be President of the United States have you?
McCAIN: Certainly it’s been put in deep cold storage. haha..
LEHRER: You haven’t lost it?
McCAIN: Well, in 2004, I expect to be campaigning for the reelection of President George W. Bush, and by 2008, I think I might be ready to go down to the old soldiers home and await the cavalry charge there.
Barack in the cross-hairs
A Roswell newspaper is defending a controversial cover illustration that placed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in a rifle's cross hairs.[Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Vernon Jordan ... I wouldn't put anything past them.]
At least Saddam's not killing them
Her three sons, her daughter and her sister were all killed by the hard-line [Shiite] militia. Her sister was slaughtered because she was a single woman living alone, Sabriya says. "They came in at night and put a pillow on her face and shot her in the head," she says. ... On the day CNN visited, dozens of young men sat where there used to be piles of bodies. Sheik Maktouf al-Maraiyani shudders at the memory. "Every day, we would find 10 or 15 of our men killed," he says, adding sorrowfully "one of them was my son." His son was 25 years old.
McCain loses another crazy pastor!
Rev. Rod Parsley withdraws McCain endorsement
After saying Friday that he would not withdraw his endorsement of Sen. John McCain, pastor Rod Parsley has changed his mind. The pastor of World Harvest Church, in the Canal Winchester area, issued a statement almost identical to one he had sent late Friday night, but with one key change: the addition of the sentence “Therefore I withdraw my endorsement.” McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, rejected the Columbus pastor’s endorsement after holding on to it for nearly three months.
[What's with McCain backpedaling on all these endorsements he worked so hard to get? Like he did with John Hagee, McCain begged that phony evangelical creep Parsley for his endorsement.]
Whatever you want to hear
Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) spoke to a “friendly audience” of business leaders about immigration policy, a topic he has been quiet on ever since the right wing erupted in rage over his support for the Senate’s immigration reform bill. After the business leaders complained about the difficulty in obtaining temporary visas for certain immigrants, McCain said reform needs to be a “top agenda item“ .
[The man has no rudder.]
But, this guy sure does!
That mega-band, 'The Decemberists'"Obama didn't draw that huge crowd, indie darling gothic twee rockers The Decemberists did. Of course! Why, that band has filled concert venues with as many as 3000 seats on a regular basis and has sold literally thousands of albums! And that's why, of course, Obama is vetting [Lead singer] Colin Meloy for veep. This Obama kid? Ha. What's a quarter of billion dollars in donations next to 3 and a half stars in Pitchfork?"
[The whiners just can't stand the thought .. Omigod, he's Black!! And of course, a band that normally plays before crowds of around '3,000' would be the main draw of the 80,000 that showed up. (Hide your daughters, girly men) - I do have to admit, 'The Decemberists' are pretty damn good! I wouldn't mind seeing them as a warm-up to an Obama rally. And catch that reference to 'cross-hairs' in 'The Perfect Crime']
Today a long time ago
On May 25, 1935 Jesse Owens of Ohio State University broke five world records and tied a sixth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.[Damn Buckeyes!]
If you do that, then;
"Ask your county clerk if they were a Nazi officer during WWII and had been ordered to gas the Jews, would they?"
[Oh, I see the correlation in that?]
What does tomorrow mean to you?
The 'popular vote'After Kentucky and Oregon, Obama has an official popular vote lead of 441,545. This does not include Iowa (where Obama first broke from the pack), Nevada (where Hillary won the popular vote narrowly), Maine (where Obama won easily) or Washington state (another strong Obama state). ... Adding in the unofficial tally from caucus states, as estimated by ++realclearpolitics.com++ based on official caucus turnout and the number of local delegates selected at the precinct level, that gives Obama a lead of 551,767.
Small packagesCamp Obama proves (again) that big money comes in small packages. It's been a pattern since last year but the numbers are still impressive: 1.475 million total donors overall making 2.93 million contributions. The average contribution is $91.
Me too, Mr. Buffett
FRANKFURT (AFP) - Warren Buffett, the world's richest man, is backing Barak Obama for US president and thinks current US economic policy will push the dollar lower against other global currencies. Buffett told a press conference here Monday he had offered support to both Obama and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton but that since it appeared Obama would win the party's nomination, "I will be very happy if he is elected president. "He is my choice," Buffett said.
[That's a pretty solid endorsment. I'll trust Warren Buffett's judgement on who's the best candidate]
The Limbaugh Award
One of the very first by-laws that I wrote for 'The Committee' was that Rush Limbaugh could not be the winner every week. Yes, that would obviously be very easy since Limbaugh is on record at the FCC for 'generating 3.4 "lies or gross misrepresentation of fact" per every two hours of air-time". -- But, that was my point; I didn't want Limbaugh to win every single week! And by the way, that '3.4 rating'? If it reaches 3.5, just one more measly tenth of a percent, "over any three month period" , America's number one rated liar loses his broadcasting license for six months!
Limbaugh has only won this 'prestigious, but infamous' award for liars three times, and not since week 46, -- Heck, he didn't win his first Limbaugh Award until week 31 and that was only after he called our troops in Iraq 'phony-soldiers' and then lied about it!
But the biggest reason why I went along with 'Druggie Limbaugh' this week is because one of my favorite
websites on the planet, 'BuzzFlash', chose him for one of their famous 'Media Putz' awards and what they nail his disgusting lying fatass on is absolutely hilarious!From BuzzFlash;
Few would proclaim that Rush Limbaugh is anything approaching a genius, even though he continues to state that he has "talent on loan from God." He proved just how inept he is this week when he told his listeners that he had Googled and come up with yet more proof that college professors were evil left-leaning ne'er-do-wells who are doing their best to lead America's youth astray.I would have to say halleluiah to that one and gladly present America's number one Chickenhawk, and currently the FCC's number one rated liar, with #64.
Limbaugh was railing on about Barack Obama's comments that there are some similarities between the lead-in to the Great Depression and today's economic picture. Rush came across what he thought was a paper published by a college professor and proceeded to rip it apart, after stating that he was very fortunate not to have to sit through such propaganda since he never graduated from college. The only problem is that a listener recognized the name of the author of the paper as having been a classmate in high school who now works as a programmer for Microsoft. The paper was written by Paul Alexander Gusmorino III while he was a tenth grade student. We have all had good reason to suspect that Rush was playing with less than a full deck for a number of years now, but he has given us even further proof that he is deserving of the Buzzflash Media Putz of the Week Award.
And it sure does help explain why so many of his 'ditto-heads' are so pathetically stupid, doesn't it?
[Note: It's recommended that all of the FCC stuff be fact-checked]
Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
The Limbaugh Award
Scared Little Man - George W. Bush - 5/18/08
Sugar Momma Beer Queen - Cindy McCain - 5/11/08
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*
Turd Blossom - 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
