Just say no

Kerry is now blaming Bin Laden for his loss. I actually don't care if what he says has some element of truth in it. In fact, I'm sure it does. But he should just shut the hell up about it. He ran against the worst president in history and lost and he is looking for someone to blame? Sorry, he botched the campaign, lost his momentum over the summer and failed to articulate why Bush was such a bad president and why he would be a good president. A good candidate probably could have won every state. Kerry didn't have the courage to attack Bush straight up. He should have pointed right in his face every chance he got and said that thousands of Americans had died Spetember 11 because you were on vaction. Bah, he isn't going to learn.

What bothers me more than Kerry's whining is that 1) it detracts from the valid critical things he and other Democrats are saying and 2) if the Democrats can't beat the worst president in history how in the hell are they going to beat someone who isn't a complete failure?

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Halliburton is getting out of Iran. Not clear if the decisions is permanent if you know what I mean.

The lovely and talented Ms. Coulter.

Thanks for pointing out this lovely little interview. Seems Ms. Coulter got a bit, well, confused in this interview. She thought that Canada sent troops to Vietnam. The transcript of this section of the interview is located at the link above.

But by all means if you have Quicktime forget the transcript and watch the video. As I watch it I cant help but think; "My, she has big tits. Were they always this big?" I know this sort of objectivizes her. But frankly, I dont care. Im curious about this. Maybe they just get big when she is being stupid. Some sort of weird Pinocchio thing.

Read all about it. The more things change the more they remain the same.

The Leader don't want no stinkin Euroweenies gettin in between us and them Iranians.

Really exciting news from the medical research front!

Scientists have succeeded in converting human embryonic stem cells to neurons. Oops, was with the "approved" cell lines. They are all contaminated with foreign proteins and possibly viruses. Never mind. Can't use them.

How Many More Iraqis Must Die For Our Revenge?

How Many More Iraqis Must Die For Our Revenge?

This is old, but it speaks for itself. To paraphrase the founder of our country, I can neither add nor subtract.

I will comment that if more Democrats and more leaders of the Catholic Church had said this we might be in a better world today, as might be a lot of Iraqis.

No way, we aren't taking all of the blame.

There is no way that we are taking the complete blame for Herr Terminator. The Austrians are shocked and dismayed that Arnold allowed an execution to take place. Not being a big fan or Arnold's but aren't the Austrians the very same assholes who elected an honest to god Nazi with real war crime, er issues, as president. Not sure what the word is in German, but in English it is "perspective". Look it up assnozzles.

What really annoys me about this is well, the fact that it involves Austrians, but even more the fact that they are trying to foist their creation on us. We have enough problems with idiots born here thank you. Please clean up you own litter you dipshits.

Rare candid comment from Ms. Rice during her testimony.

A seldom seen photo from the Rice confirmation hearings. In a rare moment of candor in her confirmation hearings, Ms. Rice summarizes Senator Biden's questions by commenting on his manhood.

Belated Friday cat blogging

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One of our other felids. Enjoying the sun after the blizzard.


I've been behind on blogging and pretty much everything else. Between the wretched cold I had, travel and work I haven't had the energy for it. I've tagged a number of articles over the last week or so, however, and will be putting them up with some comments over the next few days.

Please excuse my skepticism.

According to this we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Well, okay, it really didn't say that but since it is my blog I feel enabled to editorialize a bit. There a are serious doubts, however, as to the validity of the claim that the Iraqi government is "winning" the war on terror there. First concern is the inherent lack of credibility the Iraqi government has (to say nothing of the US government). Even more so is the way in which the election will be viewed by the majority of the Iraqi people. Is an election in which 25% of the people participate and which has extreme biases in the participation of different groups within the country going to be seen as anything but a facade? Despite The Leaders comments of a week or two ago, the participation of the country matters more than the results.

It's snowing!

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Friday cat blogging

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I'm new to this blogging thing so this is my first Friday cat blog. One of our 3 beasts. I tagged a bunch of articles to write about last night but have been so sick for the past several days, and worse today, that this was all I could manage. But enjoy.

Wow, that's progress.

Those Democratic senators are a tough lot. They got the nominee for Secretary of State to promise not to lie to them in the future. Hey folks, you did such a good job that my campaign contribution check is in the mail. Really, it is. Im sure it will get there any day. I mailed it Monday. Er, maybe Wednesday.

Wow, you couldn't make this up if you were sane!

Sheriff Holcombe! Yeeowww.

My missive to the good sheriff. Also posted on the Atrios blog since people read that.



Dear Sheriff Holcomb:

I am sympathetic to your concerns. I too long for simpler times. But not the 1960s, rather the 1860s. I long for when if was not safe for a pelagra ridden, ignorant cretin from your shithole state to put on his stupid uniform. For when your uppity behaviour resulted in General Sherman, one of our greatest Americans, coming to your lice infested part of the country and burning it down. When the railroads that you tried to build to carry weapons in support of your army, which were ripped from the ground, the rails heated until they were soft then wrapped around trees. When that army of yours which was willing to murder to protect the abomination of slavery, was ground into raw meat by the righteous forces of the Union army and the will of God. And, when you people like you, while maybe no longer in chains, could not vote. It was indeed better then. So count to 12 (hint, use all your fingers) and wish it to go away and return to the good old days.

And by the way, sheriff. If you are concerned that if social mores and laws change you might be tempted to follow your natural inclinations and have sex with a man. Dont be. You are, as they say in the vernacular, very NAFF. I myself would not fuck you with Britt Humes dick. So relax. Your secret is safe with me.

It is officially Black Thursday here on the East Coast.

Well, this is it. The end of the "American Dream". The end of the dream of equality, of religious freedom. The end. I have been trying to decide how to pass the day. Most of my thoughts were of jokes. Wearing a tin foil hat to work and the like. But it deserves more. The United States was a great country. But we have finally given in to fear, hatred and prejudice. And now we no longer have the claim to greatness. The observance of that deserves more than a tin foil hat.

Spam?

As of 12:10 AM on January 20, 2005, my Yahoo Mail service thinks that email from John Kerry is spam. Hard to argue with that. Listen sir, you failed to defeat someone who is arguably the worst president in US history by any reasonable criteria. We counted on you and you didn't deliver. We need someone else. Someone who can do what needs to be done in the next two years before the midterm elections and then in the two years after that. It isn't you. I like you. I voted for you. I sent you money. But you have proven you can't do it. Get out of the way and let someone else try. It will be harder next time. Your next opponent will not be a complete failure as president. If you couldn't communicate the failings of The Leader you aren't going to do better next time. I'm looking for a job in France. I hear it is nice there. I would love to run into you there. I would buy you a beer and we could talk about how the country has gone to the freaks and morons. But you are too nice a guy, and too refined a guy to deal with the bastards.

Psst, you wanna buy some shit man?

I would have felt a lot better about a call for unity if he hadn't renominated every judge that was not confirmed in his first term. Don't any of the fools and gutless, elite wimps in the press have the guts to ask The Leader about that?

I do not believe that she was questioned aggressively enough.

"I really hope that you will refrain from impugning my integrity." Condi Rice.

Integrity, what integrity? And there was also some ridiculous talk of "competence"

I wanted to see this line of questioning:

Senator with Balls (hence, SB): So I see you are coming before us to gain our consent to be the Secretary of State? And that you were the National Security Advisor for the previous roughly 4 years?

Condi Rice (hence CR): Yes senator SB, that is correct.

SB: Well, if this was a simple old job interview I would want to know about how you did on your previous job, about the competence you demonstrated in that capacity.

CR: All of the media say I am very competent.

SB: Indeed, but you wouldn't mind if I asked a few little questions would you?

CR: Of course not SB, I relish the opportunity to dazzle the media with my intellect.

SB: Well, then let's talk about your previous job. I see you were National Security Advisor, what were the duties of your job?

CR: I was the most senior official in the government charged with advising the president on how to protect all aspects of the nations security.

SB: Wow, impressive. So that might answer something I have been wondering about for a few years.

CR: What is that SB?

SB: Well, may I use the corporate idiom in the discussion, we are both familiar with that world, you having been at Chevron and such?

CR: As you wish SB, and what is your question, in the cocrporate idiom of course (CR - raised eybrow, cut to major media fawn).

SB: I have been wondering who in the hell was executive vice-president in charge of making sure crazy Saudis and Egyptians don't steal commercial airliners and crash them into big buildings filled with thousands of innocent people. How's that aspect of the job working out for you?

CR: Sir, I am hardly responsable for that!

SB: Really, so you weren't the most senior advisor to the president on national security matters? You just said you were. Do you actually report to someone else?

CR: Well, no sir, but..

SB: Then are you saying it is the presidents fault, not yours? Because it god damn well is someones fault.

CR: Senator...

SB: Bah, competence indeed. Do you want to use your discovery and neutralization of Iraq WMDs to compensate for your failure to protect the country? If so we can have some fun with that one too.

CR: Sir, my competence is not in question.

SB: That might be the only thing we agree on. Well, let me move on to your integrity.

CR: Yes SB, also highly esteemed by the media.

SB: No doubt. You spoke very eloquently of your youth and your empathy for the poor.

CR: Thank you SB.

SB: And so, I naturally wondered, what in the hell you were doing supporting an administration that has been elected based on the systematic disenfranchisement of those poor and minority voters you describe?

CR: Sir, that is terribly unfair.

SB: What, that you support the administration or that you spoke eloquently of your empathy for the poor?

CR: Senator, you know what I mean. I would have hoped that we could have had this discussion without your resorting to facts!

SB: Now, that you mention it perhaps you might prefer dealing with rumor and innuendo. Stuff like the WMD reports.

CR: Sir, they are the palette of my reality molding. Let's have at them (some media members pass out from delight and admiration).

SB: Well then, don't you feel just a weeee bit funny supporting an administration that got elected by demonizing gays and well, for lack of a better word, lesbians.

CR: Senator, I never.....

SB: That isn't what I have heard.

Allawi for head of Homeland Security

He already has the reporter pay off bit down. And he maybe won't be as apt to lock up random people as the current nominee. We may have a winner here.

I guess when you take pictures of yourself doing something you wished you hadn't you have to be creative in your defense.

I really misjudged this. I thought they were torturing the poor Iraqis. Now I find out they were just training them for a new reality show, "Iraqs Greatest Male Cheeleaders". Or alternately, showing paternal tough love by having them on a leash. I feel a lot better about this. Waiting for an explanation of the simulated sodomy, however. But really, how bad can it be to turn them into male cheerleaders. After all The Leader and Trent Lott were both male cheerleaders, weren't they? Although I'm relatively certain that didn't involve simulated sodomy. Hmmm......

Hmm, is this an indication that the media whores are joining the "cultural wars"

What is this all about? Meet the Fockers is a Ben Stiller and Robert DeNiro film? But what about Babs and Dustin Hoffman? Are they really to inconsequential too mention? Or has the right wing media upped the ante to distort the reality that Babs and Dustin are enormously popular. I would have to guess the latter. They don't want people talking about how popular the evil left wing Babs is so they ignore her role in this blockbuster movie. This is getting a more than a little disturbing. It indicates a really pervasive reality distortion field. It isn't just politics anymore.

Apparently the US troops in Iraq have announced a change in tactics

According to this story this is one of the first tests of the new tactics. Hmm, that isn't working out too well. Seems they used to keep moving after a roadside bomb goes off. Now they will stop and engage (ie kill the hell out of) the people who set off the bomb. That sort of assumes that the people who set off the bomb are still there and that other, rather more innocent people aren't there. Not working too well yet. Let's have a little quiz. Assuming you are an "insurgent" and you are aware of the new policy to stay at the side of a roadside bomb detonation and shot people you will do which of the following:

a) stay near the detonation so that you can get shot
b) be far away from the detonation so that you won't get shot
c) set off the detonation near someplace that it would be embarrassing for the Americans to shoot-up (say, let's just pick a couple; a police check-point or maybe a school)
d) b and c, above

Exit Polls - Kerry defeats Bush to win Presidency!

Ooops, although maybe the Palestinian elections aren't rigged.

Oh my heavens.....The Wit and Wisdom of Karl Rove.

Scroll down to the part about Rove and Carville. In fact forget the part about Carville. Who cares. The interesting part is Rove explaining that the key to winning the White House was to "Have respect -- for the voters . . . and for your opponent". And even better....."Don't let yourself dislike him; people will pick up on your hostility, and it will hurt you." The reality distortion engine is fully engaged. We are off to see the fucking wizard.......

Listen up Democrats

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This is a watershed for the Democrats. Social Security is THE Democratic legacy of the 20th century. Remember the old man on the stoop. He is why the Democrats made Social Security and why the Republicans have been trying to destroy it for 50 years. If they run from defending it, or even if they dont run but fail to defend it they should disappear. There is no need for a Democratic party that cannot defend social security. They will not get another dime from me until they show that they will fight and win on this. I'm tired of excuses from these losers. Suck it up and do what it takes to win, or go away.

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FDR is watching you. He could barely walk but he got the job done. It's time for you to stop feeling sorry for yourselves and win this.

Another reason for the Leader to only hear good news.

This is really upbeat. Maybe Bush is right in not hearing bad news. The whole thing is coming unraveled and there isn't a damn thing they can do about but ignore it.

Thank you Senator Boxer

Last post of the day but I couldn't let the day pass without saying that. Bless you and the colleagues from the House that you joined.
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Thank goodness that The Leader no longer allows himself to hear bad news about Iraq

Because if he did he would be as depressed about this as I am. And I wouldn't want that to be the case.

More Red State chicken poop.

What is wrong with this story? First of all, in Texas it is now evidence of competence by a psychiatrist that they consulted on a TV show? So I would be an expert able to testify on issues regarding an aberrant relationship between a father and a son if I was a consultant for "Star Wars"? I dont think so. Although I would be rich enough to move to France or someplace with fewer lunatics, but that as they say, is another story. Geez, it's no wonder these cretins don't believe in evolution. Although what prompted the shrink to say something like this is worthy of another thread. I mean really, who would do something like that?

Good news is no news

Take a look at this. It seems like the commander in chief no longer wants to hear any bad news from Iraq. Well, come to think of it. I dont want to hear any more bad news from Iraq either.

So why did I have to read that the war in Iraq is destroying the US Army Reserve? According to the article they will soon no longer be able to carry out their mission. Nice job......

I would have been a lot cheaper if the church had just hired male prostitutes (well, maybe some girls too, who knows what they were into).

Yeeeeooowww

Now that is a bit embarrassing. I hadn't heard about nuns being involved in the abuse. Good grief, and people still give these folks money and listen to them when they talk about morals.......