I'll be pulling for the Cardinals today. I know, Pennsylvania is the 'blue' state, and I heard all the nice things President Obama said about Dan Rooney (a longtime Republican) and Franco Harris, but I don't, and never have liked the Steelers. Besides, the only reason Arizona wasn't blue this year was McNut is from there. Go Cardinals in an upset!You gotta be shittin' me!
Like these criminals know something about 'respect'
On Thursday, the New York Times’ Sheryl Gay Stolberg wrote about how President Obama had brought “a more informal culture” to the White House, noting that he had already abandoned “an ironclad rule of the George W. Bush administration” that required a “coat and tie in the Oval Office at all times.” Later that day, former Bush White House chief of staff Andrew Card told conservative talker Michael Medved that he felt the new dress code showed a lack of “respect” for the Office of the Presidency: CARD: I found that Ronald Reagan and both President Bushes treated the Oval Office with tremendous respect. They treated the Office of the Presidency with tremendous respect. And some of that respect was reflected in how they expected people to behave...[Let's see; they used the White House to conspire, sell and lie us (``From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.'') into a needless war that's wasted trillions and 4,236 lives, they used it to connive and expose a covert CIA agent, to spy and wiretap on Americans, fire U.S. Attorneys for political reasons and hundreds of other criminal acts, and he's worried about Obama not wearing a jacket in the office? Card, his former boss and all the other conspirators who destroyed our country and shit on our Constitution think they showed 'respect' because they always wore a jacket while they did it? Yeah sure, Andrew.]
We can see clearly now ...
... the paranoid traitors are gone
In 2005, Maureen Dowd noted that “if you use Google Earth’s database to see [former Vice President Cheney’s] official residence, the view is scrambled and obscured. You can view satellite photos of the White House, the Pentagon and the Capitol — but not of the Lord of the Underworld’s lair.” But Gawker reports today that as of last week (when Cheney left office), the overhead view is now clear: Biden is also moving toward greater transparency in other areas, including disclosing his daily schedule. By contrast, Cheney “drew the line at the obligatory notices for public events.” -TPOh but, he 'liberated' millions of them!
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- For the war-beaten orphans of the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, this big old shoe fits. A monument to a shoe thrown at former President Bush is unveiled at the Tikrit Orphanage complex.[Those ungrateful bastards! Forget for a moment that we killed a few hundred thousand civilians, that they have less water, working sewers and electricity than before we invaded - don't they feel 'liberated'? And isn't it ironic that wingnuts defend Bush wasting a couple trillion to 'liberate' Iraqis but are against spending a trillion to liberate Americans? Well, on second thought .. it's actually very typical of those sleazy stupid bastards.]
Deja vu all over again
Bob EnglehartWhat Republicans do best
WASHINGTON – The number of people receiving unemployment benefits has reached the highest level on records that go back more than 40 years, the government said Thursday, and more layoffs are spreading throughout the economy. The Labor Department reported that the number of Americans continuing to claim unemployment insurance for the week ending Jan. 17 was a seasonally adjusted 4.78 million, the highest since records started in 1967. That's an increase of 159,000 from the previous week and worse than economists' expectations of 4.65 million.[Republicans, the party that's good at putting you out of work! And of course, that graph does not show Reagan's unemployment which was worse than even the Bush's.]
The return of the lying Pork Princess
Palin said she simply could not make it to the retreat because pressing state business made it impossible for her to leave Alaska this weekend. So where is Palin this weekend? She's in Washington, D.C., attending the super-elite Alfalfa Dinner. "She lied to us," said a Republican at the retreat.[So Republicans are now admitting what Democrats knew all along. Suckers!!! ROTFLMAO!]
That's great news!
Obama seems unlikely to widen war in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama, who pledged during his campaign to shift U.S. troops and resources from Iraq to Afghanistan, has done little since taking office to suggest he will significantly widen the grinding war against a resurgent Taliban. On the contrary, Obama appears likely to streamline the U.S. focus with an eye to the worsening economy and the cautionary example of the Iraq war that sapped political support for President George W. Bush. "There's not simply a military solution to that problem," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said last week, adding that Obama believes "that only through long-term and sustainable development can we ever hope to turn around what's going on there."[This country should be very grateful that we now have leadership with brains and one that doesn't use our military as pawns in unwinnable situations. The focus now will be on what it should have always been; getting Osama bin Laden and those responsible for 9/11.]
Beautiful backdoor move!
Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) acknowledged Friday morning that he is in the running for Commerce secretary, but he did not allay fears in his party that his exit from the Senate could give Democrats a filibuster-proof majority," Roll Call reports. ..."The selection of Gregg could put Democrats within reach of a fillibuster-proof majority in the Senate if New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch were to name a fellow Democrat to replace Gregg," the Associated Press observes.[Sly fox. It's a great move if we can get Gov. Lynch to appoint a Democrat for that ever so needed 60th seat.]
Land of the free, home of the shameless
(AP) A 93-year-old man froze to death inside his home just days after the municipal power company restricted his use of electricity because of unpaid bills, officials said. Marvin E. Schur died "a slow, painful death," said Kanu Virani, Oakland County's deputy chief medical examiner, who performed the autopsy. Neighbors discovered Schur's body on Jan. 17. They said the indoor temperature was below 32 degrees at the time, The Bay City Times reported Monday.
[Mr. Schur, a WWII veteran, thrown out like last week's garbage]
Oh, that will be received real well
Drugged Muslim Women, Made Secret Sex Videos
The CIA's station chief at its sensitive post in Algeria is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly raping at least two Muslim women who claim he laced their drinks with a knock-out drug, U.S. law enforcement sources tell ABC News. The suspect in the case is identified as Andrew Warren in an affidavit for a search warrant filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. by an investigator for the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service.Should've torched the fucking place!
TROY, Mich. -- Two Michigan teens have admitted to pulling a prank at the home of Bernard Madoff, recently charged with what may be the largest investor fraud ever committed by a single person. The teens toilet papered Madoff's Palm Beach, Fla., home. Sources close to the situation said the teens are Gregory Short and Daniel Ackerman. Ackerman is a student at Crankbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills. The two strung toilet paper across a tree at Madoff's south Florida home and then called a Florida newspaper to brag about it. Their reason? The teens said they were upset that they had lost their trust fund to Madoff's alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme.Following the 'miserable failure' GWB
We all know that President Barack Obama has assumed the presidency at a time when that pressure cooker of a job is even more so right now because of the worst recession since the Great Depression and two foreign wars. So Mad Magazine's new Obama cover spoofs the notion of the president's first 100 days but accelerates it to his first "100 minutes."'Buy American' with our money!
U.S. businesses and trading partners are resisting a new "Buy American" provision in the $819 billion economic stimulus package making its way through Congress. The provision, included in the House bill that passed on Wednesday, generally prohibits the purchase of foreign iron and steel for any stimulus-funded infrastructure project. The goal is to boost the U.S. iron and steel industries, which have been pummeled by the current recession. Shipments in the steel industry, for example, fell 40 percent last year. Yet John Murphy, vice president of international affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said 50 million Americans whose jobs depend on exports would pay the price. "If the U.S. raises these barriers to international business, we're likely to see massive retaliation around the world," he said.
[Two words for the Chamber of Commerce: Tough shit!]
The 'phony conservatives' party
[The joke has always been on Uncle Sam and the American people but the problem is, the irreparable damage they've done is not funny.]Torturing innocent teenagers
Suffice to say, Jawad's chief prosecutor at Guantanamo -- the Bronze-Star-recipient Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, who since 9/11 has served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Africa -- became so repelled by the treatment to which Jawad was subjected, by the fact that virutally all of the evidence against him was severely coerced, and by the fact that there is "no credible evidence" to justify his detention, that he first demanded that Jawad be released, then, when Bush officials refused, unsuccessfully demanded to be relieved of his duty to prosecute, and then finally resigned. He has now become one of the key witnesses in Jawad's habeas proceeding, and you can (and should) read Lt. Col. Vandeveld's Sworn Declaration in Support of Jawad's Habeas Petition here - Salon[Aren't you proud? Of course you punk wingnuts reading this don't care. You never served - no one in your family will ever serve, so you don't have to be concerned about it happening to them. You just talk shit-you've never done anything but cheerlead the war criminals.]
Speaking of punk Chickenhawks!
The Cardinal that won't be there
“The most famous [Arizona] Cardinal” won’t be playing in the Super Bowl tomorrow, when his team takes on the Pittsburgh Steelers: Corporal Pat Tillman, who left the NFL after 9/11 to serve in the Army Rangers. Tillman was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. For months after his death, he was used as a propaganda tool to glorify Bush’s failed wars. The exposure of the truth behind Tillman’s death has since turned him into a symbol of the duplicity of the Bush Administration, the fight for the truth, and the futility of the war itself.[Pat Tillman, war hero and liberal Democrat served his country with valor and spoke truth to the Bush liars and their bogus invasion and occupation of Iraq.]
The Top 10 Super Bowls of All Time
This guy has his 'top ten', we all have our favorite but mine is;
Super Bowl XIII, Jan. 21, 1979; Pittsburgh 35 - Dallas 31: The highest scoring Super Bowl to that date. The Steelers built a 35-17 lead with 7 minutes left but Roger Staubach led the Cowboys on a furious rally to cut the Steelers lead to 4 points with under a minute remaining. A last ditch onside kick failed and the Steelers hung on to win. Terry Bradshaw threw for 4 TDs and the Steelers WR tandem of Lynn Swann and John Stallworth combined for 10 catches, 239 yards and 3 TDs.
[My new bride and I had been married for less than a month (we celebrated our 30th anniversary last month) and we were living in a seedy hotel in downtown Los Angeles waiting for our apartment in Santa Monica to open up on Feb. 1. - Super Bowl XIII was a classic battle but one of the weird things that comes to mind when I think of that evening was that early in the game there was a knock on our hotel door and when I answered it there stood a large transvestite who obviously was looking for the Super Bowl party down the way. A great game - the best out of the 42 played - but one that brings weird, and hilarious images back to me when I think of it. Those were the days.]
The Limbaugh Award
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 99th presentation of the 'prestigious, but infamous' and world-renown Limbaugh Award.
It was a bit of slow week for liars with the usual suspects, O'Reilly, Hannity, Drudge and Limbaugh getting a few of their daily lies in, but the Committee this week went with House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) for his continual lying about the Congressional Budget Office report on the economic recovery bill.When you falsely report what the CBO has written that's one thing, but when you continue to lie after you've been proven wrong and the CBO concurs that and you repeat it again, that's called being a liar and that will get you a Limbaugh Award.
Congratulations asshole, you're #99.
Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
The Limbaugh Award
Sheepherding Pedophile - Rush Limbaugh - 1/25/09
Worst in History - George W. Bush - 1/18/09
Shamed & Failed Iraq Architect - Richard Perle - 1/11/09
General Gonzo - Alberto Gonzales - 1/04/09
Disgraced Ringleader - Dick Cheney - 12/28/08
Disgraced Accomplice - Condoleezza Rice - 12/20/08*
Crazy Illinois Governor - Hot Rod Blagojevich - 12/14/08
Worst in History - George W. Bush - 12/07/08
Worst in History - George W. Bush - 11/30/08
Rep. Michele Bachmann - (R-MN) - 11/23/08
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 11/16/08
Double-talking Wingnut - Brent 'Bozo' Bozell - 11/9/08
Rightwing Radio Nutjob - Bill Cunningham - 11/2/08
Josephine the Plumber - Ashley Todd - 10/26/08
Joe The Plumber - Sammie Joe Wurzelbacher - 10/19/08
Drug-Addicted Beer Queen - Cindy McCain - 10/12/08
Anti-Semitic Lying Traitor - Sean Hannity - 10/5/08
Bye Week - 9/28/08
Pretty Pork Princess - Gov. Sarah Palin - 9/21/08
Lying Lil' Bush - John McCain - 9/14/08
Pretty Pork Princess - Gov. Sarah Palin - 9/07/08
Pretty Pork Princess - Gov. Sarah Palin - 8/31/08
Alleged Pedophile Pigboy - Rush Limbaugh - 8/24/08
A Terrible American Liar - Sean Hannity - 8/17/08
Self-described Narcissist - John Edwards - 8/10/08
Al-Qaeda in Iraq Liar - Traitor Joe Lieberman - 8/3/08
McCain Campaign Operative - Katie Couric - 7/27/08
Stupid Hillbilly Bitch - Libby Dole R-N.C. - 7/20/08
Lyin' Lil' Bush - John McCain - 7/13/08
Fox Assholes & Friends - Doocey and Kilmeade -7/5/08*
Fear-Mongering Buckeye Fan - Hugh Hewitt - 6/29/08
A Terrible American - Sean Hannity - 6/22/08
Tim Russert Memorial Truce Week - 6/15/08
Fox's Toe-Sucking Ethics Expert - Dick Morris - 6/7/08*
Troop Level Idiot - John 'Lil' Bush' McCain - 6/1/08
Sub 10th Grade Debate Loser - Rush Limbaugh - 5/25/08
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
