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Nothing is more disgraceful than a broken press during the Worst President Ever's reign. Bill Moyers did a public service with his Buying The War special last week. Now Frank Rich, of the New York Times, gives us his always pitch perfect take on the beltway press. Special scorn is earned by the "dean of Washington" [HAhahahahaha] David Broder. What an ass. Read Frank Rich as he gives the media the spanking they deserve

The press has enabled stunts from the manufactured threat of imminent “mushroom clouds” to “Saving Private Lynch” to “Mission Accomplished,” whose fourth anniversary arrives on Tuesday. For all the recrimination, self-flagellation and reforms that followed these journalistic failures, it’s far from clear that the entire profession yet understands why it has lost the public’s faith. That state of denial was center stage at the correspondents’ dinner last year, when the invited entertainer, Stephen Colbert, “fell flat,” as The Washington Post summed up the local consensus. To the astonishment of those in attendance, a funny thing happened outside the Beltway the morning after: the video of Mr. Colbert’s performance became a national sensation. (Last week it was still No. 2 among audiobook downloads on iTunes.)

It's really telling of our Stockholm Syndrome press corp that Moyers and Rich are dismissed as "Liberals" (aka, not having any say on important matters) fior presenting mere facts. They tell the truth and it feels like hell to the wingnuttery. And the press at large.

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Hahahahahaha. Well, isn't this special? Impeach a President for a few blow-jobs? No problem. The moralists of the 109th (GOP) Congress have a little problem on their hands. Hypocrisy, thy name is GOP.

Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his resignation Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a customer of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner has been charged by federal prosecutors with running a prostitution operation.

Hope he wore a condom. Read the big dirt here. Hahahahahaha.

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Yes, it's true. The blowhard god to the GOP stars (Dick, Bu$h, etc.) makes Imus look like a piker. I've long complained to Limpballs' sponsors that no self-respecting advertiser should place ads on his fact free, racist, misogynist program to no effect. Just try to wrap your head around this crap. Why are our public airwaves being given over, for hours a day to this kind of disgraceful broadcast? My head hurts. Greg Sargent, of the blog "The Horses'Mouth gives us this:

Oh, man. You just have to listen to these caricatures of black pols that Rush Limbaugh is pushing right now. They're quite -- how should we put this -- "racially charged." You may already have heard the "Barack the Magic Negro" shtick that Rush sang on his show the other day (more on that in a bit). But we've found a bunch of new ones that are way more eye-popping. They're done by Paul Shanklin, a self-described "political satirist" who's been doing stuff on Rush's show for many years. You can only access them in the members-only section of Rush's Web site, but we've put together a montage of them for you below. Let's start with a particularly lovely Rush/Shanklin special. It has a voice parodying an Al Sharpton who is so illiterate that he spells the word "respect" like this: "r-e-s-p-e-c-k." Here's a transcript of the relevant bit, where the Sharpton stand-in is standing outside Barack Obama headquarters asking Obama for attention by singing the following lyrics to the tune of Aretha Franklin's "Respect":

Follow the link to see the repulsive video if you dare.

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We are in real trouble as a country when our very own Justice Dept. is desperate to deny Gitmo prisoners the very basic rights to attorneys and to challenge their imprisonment. Now that the courts, from the lowest to the highest are packed with *loyal Bu$hies,* our system of justice has become a world wide embarrassment. From the NYTimes

The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to impose tighter restrictions on the hundreds of lawyers who represent detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and the request has become a central issue in a new legal battle over the administration’s detention policies. Saying that visits by civilian lawyers and attorney-client mail have caused “intractable problems and threats to security at Guantánamo,” a Justice Department filing proposes new limits on the lawyers’ contact with their clients and access to evidence in their cases that would replace more expansive rules that have governed them since they began visiting Guantánamo detainees in large numbers in 2004.

The filing says the lawyers have caused unrest among the detainees and have improperly served as a conduit to the news media, assertions that have drawn angry responses from some of the lawyers.

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This is just one of many agencies the WH has turned over to the foxes guarding the public henhouse. Be sure to read this excellent article in today's New York Times and weep

Across Washington, political appointees — often former officials of the industries they now oversee — have eased regulations or weakened enforcement of rules on issues like driving hours for truckers, logging in forests and corporate mergers.

Since George W. Bush became president, OSHA has issued the fewest significant standards in its history, public health experts say. It has imposed only one major safety rule. The only significant health standard it issued was ordered by a federal court.

The agency has killed dozens of existing and proposed regulations and delayed adopting others. For example, OSHA has repeatedly identified silica dust, which can cause lung cancer, and construction site noise as health hazards that warrant new safeguards for nearly three million workers, but it has yet to require them.

This administration and its industry cronies really don't care much about the lives, health and safety of US workers. It's all about the bottom line of Big Business.

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Journalist Gary Kamiya gives voice to the horrors of the Invasion of Iraq that Bu$h and Cheney engineered. Here's a snip:

For the overwhelming majority of Iraqis, all that matters is that before we invaded, even if their lives were oppressed, impoverished and controlled by a brutal dictator, they could still live. Now they can't. Their friends, their families, their entire country, are dying before their eyes. To be sure, the butchery is being done by Iraqis themselves and a few foreigners, not -- with some horrible exceptions -- by Americans. But America is responsible because America started the war that opened the gates of hell. When you start a war, you have no idea where it will end. You have to be sure it's worth the risk.

America is responsible for the Iraq nightmare. But this truth must be repressed. It does not fit our official narrative. No state wants to be told that it is the national equivalent of Seung-Hui Cho. And so the Bush administration, which now has the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis on its hands as well as that of more than 3,300 Americans, clings to its Big Lie, insisting that the dreadful ongoing slaughter in Iraq proves that we were right to invade in the first place.

This is a profound perversion of logic and morality. Fortunately, fewer and fewer Americans believe it. But the mere fact that it is our official governmental narrative about a great human-rights catastrophe, one we set in motion, brings shame upon our country.

Bush does not represent the American spirit, thank God. But his leadership has shrunk our national soul. Bush is a devout Christian, but there is no charity, no spiritual generosity, in his vision. Our flag, under which he struts, once stood for an America bigger than itself. Bush's flag stands for an America that arrogates all the humanity and virtue in the world. It is a profoundly unreligious flag.

Word!

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More from the HuffPo, which is very good, lately!

Defying a fresh veto threat, the Democratic-controlled Congress will pass legislation within days requiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq beginning Oct. 1, with a goal of completing the pullout in six months, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record) said Monday.

Reid said the legislation "immediately transitions the U.S. military away from policing a civil war." He said that troops that remain in Iraq after next April 1 could only train Iraqi security units, protect U.S forces and conduct "targeted counter-terror operations."

It's amazing to me how our craptacular press corp continues to lable Reid as a wild eyed LIBERAL MENACE when public opinion is firmly behind his goals for getting the US out of the disasterous civil war Bu$h ignited in the Middle East. Just shoot me!

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Jeepers H. Christmas, but Rove is a horse's ass! Get a load of this: Crow and Laurie David made a polite attempt to engage Rove in a discussion on global warming at the WH Correspondent's dinner last night and Rove totally lost it. This dude has some really, really bad Karma.

In his attempt to dismiss us, Mr. Rove turned to head toward his table, but as soon as he did so, Sheryl reached out to touch his arm. Karl swung around and spat, "Don't touch me." How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow? Unfazed, Sheryl abruptly responded, "You can't speak to us like that, you work for us." Karl then quipped, "I don't work for you, I work for the American people." To which Sheryl promptly reminded him, "We are the American people." [my bold] At that point Mr. Rove apparently decided he had had enough. Like a groundhog fearful of his own shadow, he scurried to his table in an attempt to hibernate for another year from his responsibility to address global warming. Drama aside, you would expect as an American citizen to be able to engage in a civil discussion with a public official. Instead, Mr. Rove was dismissive, condescending, and quite frankly a bully.

Whew! This is the lowest, rankest form of a dismissive and impervious government.
Read it on HuffPo Here.

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To call Paul Wolfowitz a partisan hack would be a kindness. He is a hacktacular menace to world affairs. WTF does it take to get fired in the Bu$h administration, anyway?

April 19, 2007 | Paul Wolfowitz's tenure as president of the World Bank has turned into yet another case study of neoconservative government in action. It bears resemblance to the military planning for the invasion of Iraq, during which Wolfowitz, as deputy secretary of defense, arrogantly humiliated Army chief of staff Eric Shinseki for suggesting that the U.S. force level was inadequate. It has similarities to the twisting of intelligence used to justify the war, in which Wolfowitz oversaw the construction of a parallel operation within the Pentagon, the Office of Special Plans, to shunt disinformation directly to the White House, without its being vetted by CIA analysts, about Saddam Hussein's alleged ties to al-Qaida and his weapons of mass destruction, and sought to fire Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency, for factually reporting before the invasion that Saddam had not revived his nuclear weapons program. Wolfowitz's regime also uncannily looks like the occupation of Iraq run by the Coalition Provisional Authority, from which Wolfowitz blackballed State Department professionals -- instead staffing it with inexperienced ideologues -- and to whom Wolfowitz sent daily orders.

Read it and weep. This is just sick!

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If this isn't the very definition of insane, I don't know what is. Here's how the WH spokeswoman describes Abu Gonzales' testimony before Congress yesterday:

President Bush was pleased with the Attorney General’s testimony today. After hours of testimony in which he answered all of the Senators’ questions and provided thousands of pages of documents, he again showed that nothing improper occurred. He admitted the matter could have been handled much better, and he apologized for the disruption to the lives of the U.S. Attorneys involved, as well as for the lack of clarity in his initial responses. The Attorney General has the full confidence of the President, and he appreciates the work he is doing at the Department of Justice to help keep our citizens safe from terrorists, our children safe from predators, our government safe from corruption, and our streets free from gang violence.

Hahahahahahahahaha. Whew! You just cannot make this s**t UP!

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Here we go again with the K Street money. Lobbyists want something for their contributions. Period.

White House hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) brought in $168,000 from K Street in first-quarter fundraising, according to a campaign-finance watchdog. Yet none of her contributors identified themselves as lobbyists, instead listing their profession as attorney, company president or other titles that, while accurate, distance donors from the lobbying world.

Of all 2008 hopefuls, Clinton leads in contributions by employees of lobby firms, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group. By contrast, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) leads in contributions from self-identified lobbyists, as per PoliticalMoneyLine.com.

Until we have publicly financed elections, we will have corruption built into the system. It would be a bargain when you consider all the big bidnez give-aways and pork we taxpayers end up giving away to large campaign donors.

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I want Bu$h and Congress to look at the faces of the dead at Va. Tech and explain why we have no effective gun controll laws.

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I'm hoping all the gun nuts and "Patriots" who support the bizarre militarization of public events like Thunder Over Louisville find a military recruiter there. I hear they need fresh bodies in Iraq. I found this on one of the *Internets* tubes.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard said "America's gun culture was costing lives." ·Editorials around the world lashed out at the availability of weapons to average residents in U.S.. ·In U.S. Congress, a few Democrats have renewed the call for gun control legislation.

Word!

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Whew! The Courier-Journal got a lashing letter from me today over their huge cover story in the Feature's section titled, "Patriotism Flies" They plastered a huge photo of several attack helicopters on the front page to prove their point. This disgusting confusion between militarism and patriotism cannot be allowed to go unchallenged. DLer Carol also took exception. Last I checked, they took ithe story off their web site. Here's her LTTE:

To the editor, I read with amazement the front page Features editorial on "Patriotism Flies." Once again you have it wrong! Patriotism is NOT expressed by a bunch of attack helicopters (meant for human destruction) flying overhead to entertain the masses at Thunder. While I have every respect for the military (I am a veteran myself), to say that this display "...honors our American soldiers defending our country," is wrong. For example, we are not defending our country in Iraq. It has been proven that Iraq was started based on mistruths, coverups and lies to the American people and Iraq had no connection to 9-11 but Bush et al still like to throw in the words 9-11 to make a connection and to rope coward Americans into believing we are protecting ourselves there. What we did and are doing there is wrong and immoral. The effect these kinds of military displays have on people's thinking is subtle. Why are we so focused on fighting and destruction? If we encouraged our society to be peaceful rather than warlike, peace would follow. The media is doing our country and world a great disservice when it trains people to think war is always right and exciting, not to say entertaining to some. It really disgusts me to read the article. War is not glamorous. Go to your nearby VA hospital if you need proof of my words. Please do not encourage people to accept war over peaceful means to solutions. For those who agree , there is an event on Thunder Day, April 21, called "Peaceful Skies over Louisville" which will be held at Irquois Park near the ampitheater from 2-6 pm. For more information go to http://www.louisvillepeace.org/. How about doing your part to encourage a peaceful nation, especially in light of the violence we all have just witnessed at Va. Tech. Isn't it time to give peace a chance? Thanks, Carol Rawert Trainer USAF Vietnam era vet

Well said! I'm going with PEACE, personally.

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Yep, that's right. Bu$h and the 109th Republican Congress allowed the NRA to drop the assault weapon ban and refused to take action on reasonable gun control. This latest record gun killing will be topped in short order. Get used to it.

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Adam Cohen, of the New York Times, neatly lays out the case of a Republican US attorney who kept his job after being slated for firing by the Justice Dept. after he prosecuted a non-partisan staff member of the Democratic Governor of Wisconsin during a heated election battle in the '06. This under-reported story is the most shocking yet in the US Attorney scandal. Here's the rub:

Members of Congress should ask whether it was by coincidence or design that Steven Biskupic, the United States attorney in Milwaukee, turned a flimsy case into a campaign issue that nearly helped Republicans win a pivotal governor’s race.

There was good reason for the appeals court to be shocked. Ms. Thompson, a 56-year-old single woman, seems to have lost her home and spent four months in prison simply for doing her job. Ms. Thompson, who spent years in the travel industry before becoming a state employee, was responsible for putting the state’s travel account up for competitive bid. Mr. Biskupic claimed that she awarded the contract to an agency called Adelman Travel because its C.E.O. contributed to Mr. Doyle’s campaign.

To charge her, Mr. Biskupic had to look past a mountain of evidence of innocence. Ms. Thompson was not a Doyle partisan. She was a civil servant, hired by a Republican governor, with no identifiable interest in politics. She was only one member of a seven-person committee that evaluated the bidders. She was not even aware of the Adelman campaign contributions. She also had a good explanation for her choice: of the 10 travel agencies that competed, Adelman submitted the lowest-cost bid.

While Ms. Thompson did her job conscientiously, that is less clear of Mr. Biskupic. The decision to award the contract — the supposed crime — occurred in Madison, in the jurisdiction of Wisconsin’s other United States attorney. But for reasons that are hard to understand, the Milwaukee-based Mr. Biskupic swept in and took the case.

You can read the rest of this scandal here

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Our grand local rag, the C-J dldn't find it important enough to put it on the front page of its website. It was buried in the "more" click on. Sigh. Anyway, despite the dreadful weather, we had a decent turnout. Bless Rep. Yarmuth for being our only local or DC pol to attend. Shame on the others. Can you imagine Northup giving a rip?

Louisville was one of more than 1,420 sites across the country that held a Step It Up 2007 event. The national campaign's message: "Step it up, Congress! Cut Carbon 80 percent by 2050." U.S. Rep John Yarmuth, D-Louisville, spoke at the event. [. . .]

The Step It Up events seek to get Congress to pass a law forcing an 80 percent reduction in the emission of heat-trapping gases by 2050.

The local rally also provided attendees with ideas of what they can do to reduce the production of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, and save money, too.

"Most people don't understand that we have the answers to fix these problems," said Sue Archibald, an organizer of the rally and member of the Louisville Climate Action Network, which co-sponsored the event.

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Here you go!

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This goes a long way toward illuminating the Federal Prossecutor purge the WH so zealously persued. People were deported and thrown in jail for making mere mistakes in signing voter registration forms and mistakenly thinking they were allowed to vote. My contempt for this mal-administration is boundless. The Times is on the case.

Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews.

Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so widespread that it has corrupted the political process and, possibly, cost the party election victories, about 120 people have been charged and 86 convicted as of last year.

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Kurt Vonnegut’s dark comic talent and urgent moral vision caught the temper of his times. Read more here

Dang. All the good ones are passing! Give Molly Ivins our best, Kurt.

A passage from Slaughterhouse-Five:

The flaw in the Christ stories, said the visitor from outer space, was that Christ, who didn't look like much, was actually the Son of the Most Powerful Being in the Universe. Readers understood that, so, when they came to the crucifixion, they naturally thought, and Rosewater read out loud again:

Oh boy - they sure picked the wrong guy to lynch that time!

And that thought had a brother: "There are right people to lynch." Who? People not well connected. So it goes.

The visitor from outer space made a gift to Earth of a new Gospel. In it, Jesus really was a nobody, and a pain in the neck to a lot of people with better connections than he had. He still got to say all the lovely and puzzling things he said in the other Gospels.

""Martin Luther King was shot a month ago. He died, too. So it goes. And every day my Government gives me a count of corpses created by military science in Vietnam. So it goes."

Continue reading "RIP, Dear Mr. Vonnegut"

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This is courtesy of my Hillbilly friend, Jim. I've been sorely dissapointed in the apathy of the college crowd toward this iillegal invasion of Iraq. Could this be the stirring of some honest-to-God activism on the part of the college aged crowd? It would certainly be a welcomed relief.

A growing group of students, faculty members, and community members who are dissatisfied about the Iraq war are gearing up to make their voices heard. The war in Iraq is seen as an illegal occupation by many citizens and the international community. Students and community members are invited to gather on the North lawn of the
Downing University Center (DUC) to demonstrate against the war on Monday, April 23, 2007. The demonstration will begin at 12:00 pm with no specific ending time. It will be a non-violent, peaceful assembly. Our main intention is to raise local awareness of the opposition to the war, as well as give a platform for community members to let their voices be heard. The demonstration is being sponsored not by an official organization but rather by a group of concerned citizens uniting together. The organizers feel it is time to let our government know that
we are unhappy with the current war situation. Rather than driving to Washington D.C., we wish to make our voices heard from our own community. "Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the
revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

For more information, or for suggestions and help in contacting speakers for the event, contact Cody Aldridge via email at cody.aldridge@wku.edu, or call 678-3108

More like Cody, please!

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I'm kind of out of the loop on local goings on this week, but Hankers passed this info along. You can read more about these events in the C-J here

The Step It Up 2007 campaign, led by author Bill McKibben, is Saturday. The Step It Up events, which seek to get Congress to pass a law forcing an 80 percent reduction in emissions of heat-trapping gases by 2050, are planned locally for Louisville, Lexington, Frankfort, Owensboro and Evansville, Ind.
"It makes people take things more seriously if they see this is happening in more than 1,000 cities," said Sarah Lynn Cunningham, an organizer of a 2 to 4 p.m. event at Mazzoli Federal Building downtown. [. . . ]

U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Louisville, is scheduled to speak, and organizers plan political skits based on President George W. Bush's assertion that America is addicted to oil.

McConnell and Bunning will not take part in the event and have refused to state whether human activity is responsible for global warming. Hahahahahaha. Bunning has said that reducing greenhouse gasses hurts the economy. That mutt is so stupid it's a wonder he still knows how to breathe.

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My friend, Al Gore sent me the following Live Earth Concert information. You can sign up here to be first on the list for ticket sales.

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I heart Digby. I knew I'd get to the heart of the despicable Imus dust-up by by clicking here

First of all, I suppose it's possible that the media insiders all share the politics and beliefs of Rush and Imus and O'Reilly and Hannity and Savage. They could be crude racists and misogynists and haters of all forms of liberalism who love to make vulgar jokes at others' expense. I have no way of knowing except for the company they keep. So that's one theory. The other is that they are, like a lot of people in this culture, drawn to anyone who makes a lot of money, and lord knows, these spewers of rightwing filth have made billions from selling their hate over the years. Many of the media insiders are extremely wealthy themselves, so perhaps they see Rush and Imus as being part of their social class and therefore are willing to give them a pass. That's another theory. Or maybe it's because they all work for big media companies and there's a certain synergistic pressure on all of them to kiss each others asses. Or maybe it's a combination of all these things and more. Whatever the reason, it's quite clear that mainstream media have either ignored, pandered to or actively embraced hate radio for almost two decades now. Nary a peep has been said about the relentless, daily drumbeat of demogoguery and loathing of their fellow citizens that these talk show hosts vomit onto the public airwaves for anyone with a radio to hear.

Think about it: We taxpayers are paying to have right wing hate spewers use the public airways to advance their bigotry and negative agenda. It is an outrage.

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Very interesting. Check out Derek"s blog and follow the links to First Freedom First here. The Fundies will advance their notion of an American theocracy unless we push back.

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A new global warming report issued today by the United Nations paints a near-apocalyptic vision of the Earth's future if temperatures continue to rise unabated: more than a billion people in desperate need of water, extreme food shortages in Africa and elsewhere, a blighted landscape ravaged by fires and floods, and millions of species sentenced to extinction.

The devastating effects will strike all regions of the world and all levels of society, but it will be those without the resources to adapt to the coming changes who will suffer the greatest impact, the report said.

From the LA Times via HuffPo Read more here

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I couldn't resist. This bit of hilarity was shared by Hankers. Who else? I laughed my a** off.

Getting your point across a sea of drinks can be a monstrous feat.

It’s a vexing set of circumstances—at the time you have the most to say (wise and terribly important things too), you are least able to communicate effectively. Being very drunk is like having a case of anti-tank rockets in a target-rich environment and a crappy slingshot to launch them with.

Which means you’re going to have to improvise. By employing the Drunkard Communication Skills explained below, you’ll not only get those rockets downrange, you might just hit something other than your reputation.

Read the rest here

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Hahahahahahahaha. Get a load of this: Some pin head thinks Cheney would make a great presidential candidate. Hahahahahaha How about that 18% (latest CBS News poll) approval ratings? From Salon's "War Room."

Memo to the New York Sun: April Fools' Day was Sunday.

In an editorial dated Wednesday, the Sun said that the not-yet-declared candidate who would "bring the most" to the 2008 presidential race is ... Dick Cheney.

No, really.

The Sun explained: "Mr. Cheney has virtues as a candidate in his own right. He has foreign policy experience by virtue of having served as defense secretary, and he has economic policy experience, having served as a leading tax-cutter while a member of the House of Representatives. His wife, Lynne, would be an asset to the ticket in her own right ... Mr. Cheney, in any event, is more than four years younger than Mr. McCain, and, if elected, would be 67 years old at his inauguration, younger than Reagan was when he took office. His health, while a topic of frequent speculation, hasn't interfered with his service as vice president."

I'd love to see Dead-eye Dick run. Hell, I'll even pray he runs.

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Dear God! That asswipe McCain may or may not have set into motion the terrible bombing in the very market he "strolled around" in Baghdad on Sunday. But see the link to the NY Times article I posted below to get a sence of how alarmed the merchants of the market were. They warned that they were "being harmed." They were afraid of his visit. Regardless, the violence in Baghdad is unrelenting and ongoing. McCain is a fool of the highest order. To claim there is any safe neighborhood in all of Iraq, let alone Baghdad, is reckless and wrong. McCain is a horse's ass. The Times of London gives us this:

The latest massacre of Iraqi children came as 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital. The victims came from the Baghdad market visited the previous day by John McCain, the US presidential candidate, who said that an American security plan in the capital was starting to show signs of progress.

I'm going to be sick.

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Yes, Liberals, They Write Letters

Naïve about Bush

Louisville 40222

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It is heartbreaking what man-made Global Warming is doing to the Polar Bears! Next to the travesty of mankind's devastation of Elephant habitat, this just cannot stand. Watch the video here Today, Polar Bears have lost 20% of their former weight and are increasingly getting stranded at sea by breaking ice and unable to make it back to land. They drown and sometimes leave behind cubs. Thanks to Lucy for passing this along.

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What does it take to "stroll" around a Baghdad market and sip tea in a cafe? A 100 man security team backed up by numerous sharp shooters, tanks and attack helicopters. McCain, Pence and Mr. House Impeachment Manager, Lindsey Grahm dare to insult our intelligence and lie to our faces about the situation in Iraq. Moron Steve Pence went so far as to say the market they toured was "like a normal market in Indiana." Hahahahaha.

During their visit on Sunday, the Americans were buttonholed by merchants and customers who wanted to talk about how unsafe they felt and the urgent need for more security in the markets and throughout the city, witnesses said. “They asked about our conditions, and we told them the situation was bad,” said Aboud Sharif Kadhoury, 63, who peddles prayer rugs at a sidewalk stand. He said he sold a small prayer rug worth less than $1 to a member of the Congressional delegation. (The official paid $20 and told Mr. Kadhoury to keep the change, the vendor said.) Mr. Kadhoury said he lost more than $2,000 worth of merchandise in the triple bombing in February. “I was hit in the head and back with shrapnel,” he recalled. Ali Youssef, 39, who sells glassware from a sidewalk stand down the block from Mr. Kadhoury, recalled: “Everybody complained to them. We told them we were harmed.”

Read the entire Times article here and laugh your head off at these fools.

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My favorite blog, Talking Points memo is ahead of the major newspapers in this country on a variety of subjects.

The Democrats need a more frontal response to the lies the president is now telling about Iraq funding. The president, of course, wants to force this into a discussing about funding for soldiers -- readiness, health care, armaments, etc. That's funny given the president's atrocious record on these issues. But whatever. He's a liar. What's new? But here's the key. The public overwhelmingly supports a timeline for leaving Iraq. Overwhelmingly. Every poll shows this. For the first time the Congress has passed a law to do just that -- to put a time limit on our presence in Iraq. So the Democrats are on the side of a timeline for withdrawal (very popular) and the president is for staying in Iraq forever (not popular). And the president says he's going to veto that bill. The president is vetoing the Iraq timeline bill. Why? Because he supports staying there forever.

The Republicans have a problem with the truth and with reality. You can essentially call BS on everything they say

Posted by vicki at 10:48 AM | TrackBack (0)

McCain is either certifiably insane or he's spouting off some serious BS about neighborhoods that are safe to stroll around in Baghdad. Either way, Mr. Straight Talk should just shut up . He's making an ass of himself.

By KIM GAMEL Associated Press Writer

April 01,2007 | BAGHDAD -- After a heavily guarded trip to a Baghdad market, Sen. John McCain insisted Sunday that a U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown in the capital was working and said Americans lacked a "full picture" of the progress. The U.S. military later reported six soldiers were killed in roadside bombings southwest of Baghdad. Four soldiers were killed responding to the blast that killed the first two, the military said. Britain announced that one of its soldiers had been shot to death in southern Iraq.

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