Typical republican trick. Look like a fool for your actions so shift the focus onto something else. Like many on the right, Jeb Bush has much egg on his face about the whole Schiavo matter. She was in a persistent vegetative state, she was blind, and had half a brain. Despite what the right-to-useless-lifers stated, Terri Schiavo was never going … Read More
The Shittiest Job On The Planet
No doubt, it belongs to White House Press Secretary Scotty McClellan. The poor guy has to get up in front of the press corp and explain (or explain away) the unexplainable deceptions of the Bush Administration. It can’t be easy. From E&P, here’s an awkward exchange between Scotty and reporter Terry Moran. Moran is referring to Cheney’s recent comment on … Read More
Media Bias
A pregnant mother in California goes missing in 2002, and foul play is suspected. Months later, her body turns up in a San Francisco harbor. Laci Peterson? Wrong. Her name is Evelyn Hernandez. A young attractive woman from the South goes missing. Natalee Holloway? Nope. Her name is Tamika Huston. Never heard of Evelyn Hernandez and Tamika Huston? Of course … Read More
More Krazy Kristian Kookdom
From the Jackson Hole Star Tribune, via Lizard Queen, we learn of a reprehensible protest. A Kansas preacher and gay rights foe whose congregation is protesting military funerals around the country said he’s coming to Idaho on today to picket the memorial for an Idaho National Guard soldier killed in Iraq. The soldier was 19 year old Carrie French (pictured … Read More
Your Life’s Theme Song
Go here, enter your your birth date, and find out what was the #1 song on the charts for that day. Alternatively, you can determine your “life’s theme song” by entering the date of your 18th birthday. My birth song? “Sherry” (The Four Seasons) My life’s theme song? “Upside Down” (Diana Ross). Ummmm . . . okay . . . … Read More
Lame Duck Bush
There’s no other way to view it—even conservative Republicans are backing away from Bush: The [Republican-controlled] House handed President Bush the first defeat in his effort to preserve the broad powers of the USA Patriot Act, voting yesterday to curtail the FBI’s ability to seize library and bookstore records for terrorism investigations. Bush has threatened to veto any measure that … Read More
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Death
Rumsfeld gave an interview to the BBC: Asked if the security situation had improved [in Iraq], he admitted: “Statistically, no.” “But clearly it has been getting better as we’ve gone along,” he added. “A lot of bad things that could have happened have not happened." Source. He’s right. All lot of bad things could have happened as a result of … Read More
ExxonMobil-Cooney Timeline
I could rant and rave about the White House’s ass-licking of the oil industry, but sometimes all it takes is to let the facts speak for themselves: Seven days ago: "President’s George Bush’s decision not to sign the United States up to the Kyoto global warming treaty was partly a result of pressure from ExxonMobil, the world’s most powerful oil … Read More
Seeing Is Believing
Epilogue to Terri Schiavo: "The brain weighed 615 grams, roughly half of the expected weight of a human brain,” he said. “This damage was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons.” [Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon] Thogmartin said the autopsy report was based on 274 external and internal body images, and an … Read More
Roy Moore – Potential Pain in the GOP Ass?
The Boston Globe suggests an interesting future scenario. Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who refused to follow a federal court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state’s judicial building, is pretty popular in Alabama. And he’s set to run for Governor in 2006 against a rather lackluster tax-raising incumbant governor. If … Read More
Michelle’s Odd Sense Of Humor
Perpetually-outraged internment-loving blogger Michelle Malkin recently posted this blog entry, entitled "Terrorists Heart The French", which I reprint in its entirety: Terrorist farewell gifts for a recently released French kidnapping victim: Two rings and a bottle of perfume. I guess Michelle’s point is that terrorists and the French are cut from the same cloth, peas-in-a-pod, kindred spirits, gift-giving bosom buddies, … Read More
Okay, But Can We Convict Him Of Egomania?
This deserves the raspberry-of-the-year award: The Jackson Web site mjjsource.com featured graphics declaring “Innocent” and showing a hand giving a victory sign as a fanfare plays. A scrolling calendar highlights historic events such as “Martin Luther King is born,” “The Berlin Wall falls,” “Nelson Mandela is freed,” and finally, “June 13, 2005, Remember this date for it is a part … Read More
Of Passing Note
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has published an online “Legal Guide for Bloggers".
Krazy Kristian Kookdom – Labelling Gays Edition
I found this to be interesting, even though the proponent is denying the charge: The leader of a conservative Christian lobby group appears to suggest that gays should be required to wear warning labels, although he denies that was his intention. “We put warning labels on cigarette packs because we know that smoking takes one to two years off the … Read More
Atta-in-Prague Revisited
Anyone who thinks the Bush Administration was victim to flawed intelligence, take note: BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO PUBLIC: “Well, what we now have that’s developed since you and I last talked, Tim, of course, was that report that–it’s been pretty well confirmed that he [9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta] did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of … Read More