Newt Gingrich pulls out of the race after he has sucked up everything he can by pretending to be in it. His so called solutions, discussions, workshops and new ideas are the same old extreme Right-wing ideas he has always held but with a new big lie that its all an honest non-partisan endeavor. Trent Lott explains why the GOP base is against insuring children and William Kristol explains that the Democrats are going to lose the White House because not only do they not back the war in Iraq enough but they also don't seem to want another war with Iran. That little NeoClown need headlock and on Hell of a Knuckle Rubbie. I cannot think of anyone who when I see them, makes more sick to my stomach than Little Billy Kristol.
Not long ago, the satirical newspaper The Onion ran a fake news story that began like this:
“At a well-attended rally in front of his new ground zero headquarters Monday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani officially announced his plan to run for president of 9/11. ‘My fellow citizens of 9/11, today I will make you a promise,’ said Giuliani during his 18-minute announcement speech in front of a charred and torn American flag. ‘As president of 9/11, I will usher in a bold new 9/11 for all.’ If elected, Giuliani would inherit the duties of current 9/11 President George W. Bush, including making grim facial expressions, seeing the
world’s conflicts in terms of good and evil, and carrying a bullhorn at all state functions.”
Like all good satire, the story made me both laugh and cry, because it reflected something so true — how much, since 9/11, we’ve
become “The United States of Fighting Terrorism.” Times columnists are not allowed to endorse candidates, but there’s no rule against saying who will not get my vote: I will not vote for any candidate running on 9/11. We don’t need another president of 9/11. We need a president for 9/12. I will only vote for the 9/12 candidate.
"Without nepotism, Hillary would be running for the president of Vassar.
But then, without nepotism, W. would be pumping gas in Midland — and
not out of the ground." Maureen Dowd
A boat docked in a tiny Mexican village. An American tourist complimented the Mexican fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took him to catch them. "Not very long," answered the Mexican. "But then, why didn't you stay out longer and catch more?" asked the American. The Mexican explained that his small catch was sufficient to meet his needs and those of his family. The American asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?" "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, and take a siesta with my wife. In the evenings, I go into the village to see my friends, have a few drinks, play the guitar, and sing a few songs. I have a full life." The American interrupted, "I have an MBA from Harvard and I can help you! You should start by fishing longer every day. You can then sell the extra fish you catch. With the extra revenue, you can buy a bigger boat." "And after that?" asked the Mexican. "With the extra money the larger boat will bring, you can buy a second one and a third one and so on until you have an entire fleet of trawlers. Instead of selling your fish to a middle man, you can then negotiate directly with the processing plants and maybe even open your own plant. You can then leave this little village and move to Mexico City, Los Angeles, or even New York City! From there you can direct your huge new enterprise." "How long would that take?" asked the Mexican. "Twenty, perhaps twenty-five years," replied the American. "And after that?" "Afterwards? Well my friend, that's when it gets really interesting," answered the American, laughing. "When your business gets really big, you can start buying and selling stocks and make millions!" "Millions? Really? And after that?" asked the Mexican. "After that you'll be able to retire, live in a tiny village near the coast, sleep late, play with your children, catch a few fish, take a siesta with your wife and spend your evenings drinking and enjoying your friends." And the moral of this story is: ......... Know where you're going in life... you may already be there. From the toilet
Sometimes it seems that the only way to make sense of the Bush administration is to imagine that it’s a vast experiment concocted by mad political scientists who want to see what happens if a nation systematically ignores everything we’ve learned over the past few centuries about how to make a modern government work.
Thus, the administration has abandoned the principle of a professional, nonpolitical civil service, stuffing agencies from FEMA to the Justice Department with unqualified cronies. Tax farming — giving individuals the right to collect taxes, in return for a share of the take — went out with the French Revolution; now the tax farmers are back.
And so are mercenaries, whom Machiavelli described as “useless and dangerous” more than four centuries ago.
Front runners Rudi Guilani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney and John McCain refused to attend. With a predominately Black audience and a sprinkling of White faces - most all Holy Conservative or Nutcase Libertarian - the applause often seemed out of place in such a setting. The most applause was for Ron Paul decrying the War and Alan Keyes for his over the top religious sermons.
Capital Punishment - Ron Paul against the rest for. Duncan Hunter, Tom Trancedo and Alan Keyes especially thristy for it with Tom Trancedo wanting to expand it to non capital offenses. Mike Huckabee, though for it, gave a moving speech to the pain of it.
Integration and affirmative action - All against any government intervention with Tom Trancedo especially hardcore against it.
Rounding up 12 million Hispanics and deporting them - All of them. [This is going to be the GOP replacement issue for Gay Marriage which won them the last Presidential election]
Cause of Black Unemployment - All agreed racism was a factor except Ron Paul and Tom Trancedo who adamantly refused to admit racism has anything to do with it.
Equal Justice, Jena Six related - Nothing to say and nothing to fix. Except Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee who said the War on Drugs should be moved from criminality to medical rehabilitation. Duncan Hunter took the opportunity to wail on violent criminal Mychal Bell of the Jena Six.
Iraq War - Nothing other than Ron Paul saying get out.
DC representation and voting registration ID - All for picture IDs. Trancedo HOT about NO representation for DC period! Sam Brownback only if they can have guns (believe it or not). Alan Keyes said if they don't like it in DC they can move the hell out. Mike Huckabee YES on DC and had the balls to address the real issue in this, the GOP is against it because DC is Black and votes Democratic.
Health care - All with a little tweaking of what we have now and getting the evil government out of the way. Trancedo saying falling ill is your own damn fault so you should pay your own damn bills.
All in all what one walked away with after the 90 minutes was that Tom Trancedo blames all problems on either welfare or Mexicans and is an intolerant bigoted racist pig of a man. That Alan Keys with every answer full of family values, morals, God and forcing Jesus Christ into every thing imaginable is a theocratic fascist. And Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee are likable people who like the rest of the crowd, haven't a chance in Hell of winning the nomination, which of course differentiates them from the front runner no-shows who havent't a chance in Hell of winning the general election.
I often hear conservatives screaming about how liberals control this
country and how awful it all is to have to pay taxes and put up with
Negroes going wherever they want. They often get so livid I can’t help
but toss them the old canard of Love it or Leave it. But
there is a problem with that; where can these tens of millions of
conservatives go that it is more to the Right than here? South Africa
changed, Slobovia is under UN control and anywhere in Africa is out of
the question. That pretty much leaves only the Arab theocracies and
Singapore. And even those places have national health care! So there
really isn’t anyplace they can emigrate to; well other than Giedi
Prime and Mordor.
Need I say that in Snellville, GA, in the heart of the Bible Belt a man
fought and killed another over what else - a woman! While a jealous
love triangle is not an unusual occurrence, in this case it certainly
is. The killer, "Rusty" Redfern age 44 has no arms! Apparently what he
lacks in fisticuffs he more than makes up for with his ass kicking and
dynamic head-butt which is what dispatched his adversary Charles
Keith Teer, 49, from this earth. (patent pending)
Like two bucks in rut, the two scuffled in the driveway of a suburban
Atlanta home, though the armless one (Redfern) would seem to be at a
disadvantage, not so. Redfern used his abilities to kick ass,
literally. Teer hit Redfern during the fight. According to authorities,
after a head butt by Redfern, Teer complained of feeling dizzy after the
fight, collapsed, and died.
The miracle and tragedy of this bru-ha-ha, dust-up, tragedy, and
outright idiocy is two fold, one - that years ago Redfern would have
been thrown in the pokey and no doubt headed for death row. It was only
when an autopsy revealed that Peer had serious heart disease and
blockages which had been there for quite some time according to Police
chief Roy Whitehead, that murder charges were dropped, and may be turned
into a misdemeanor I or possibly a simple battery charge. For a guy
without arms, and who actually killed someone, he's come out smelling
like the proverbial rose.
Rusty is not Black.
The second aspect of what should never have happened was - the woman.
The woman in question had long given up dating Teer and now dates
Redfern, thus making more tragic and mysterious the reasons for the
fight.
I assume the lack of arms is no obstacle with the ladies, by all
appearances "They" say one does compensate for disabilities. Perhaps I
should actually visit him and get this story first hand so to speak (oh
grow up). I'm sorry, there is only so much I
can do to bring this vital news to you, the adoring public and readers
of such truths. Full Story
In a press conference today, Jena, Louisiana District Attorney and racist Reed Walters said he would not appeal the decision to move the Mychal Bell case to juvenile court where he is expected to be released on bail. Reed could not leave it at that and found a new way to equate the Jena March to a wrongheaded invading Negro Horde. More from AP
"The only way — let me stress that — the only way that I believe that
me or this community has been able to endure the trauma that has been
thrust upon us is through the prayers of the Christian people who have
sent them up in this community," Walters said.
"I firmly believe
and am confident of the fact that had it not been for the direct
intervention of the Lord Jesus Christ last Thursday, a disaster would
have happened. You can quote me on that."
Lewis Black on the Daily Show is angrier than usual about men pretending to be Veterans to scam VA hospitals for free health care. Very righteous and patriotic of Mr. Black but he could have mentioned the way to eliminate the problem, give the health care we give to our veterans to everyone.
The picture on the left shows that we are not the only Barbarian nation feeding a culture of guns to our children. It permeates other Third World countries throughout Africa and the Middle East too.
When 16-year-old Ryan Sijansky heard his high school was about to introduce a new sport that would take a football out of his hands and replace it with a shotgun, he didn't hesitate.
These first words to a recent Houston Chronicle article jumped off the page at me. I am sure that to my fellow Dumbassians and reporter Terri Langford it was only a cheerful everyday story. It is not so much a school plan for students to compete in trap shooting - though schools promoting guns is rather a reach - but the inference that any 16 year old boy from Texas with a choice of playing with balls or guns would not hesitate to pick guns. Which is so deeply embedded in millions of Dumbasses throughout America, it has become the fifth rail of politics. Fight it and yer out.
I have competed in trap shooting and bird hunting over my life, a tiny part of my life, as tiny as my shotgun ownership is to me today. With the NRA claiming to "represent" 100 million "gun owners" in their propaganda when they actually represent about 4 million gun owners like Master Sijansky who have their lives revolve around guns, perhaps it is time to play their lie back to them. Let me rewrite a typical Houston Chronicle article that appears most everyday in our paper.
Gun Owner Found with Multiple Gunshot Wounds in Bellaire Ditch
Police found the bullet riddled body of G.D. Gunn, an armed local Gun Owner in front of his apartment complex in nearby Bellaire. Police suspect one D.F. Bullete as the Gun Owner who shot the other Gun Owner. Police also said this was an area where Gun Owners often shoot other gun owners, unarmed gun owners and non gun owners from moving vehicles.
That paragraph was noticed by my friend Bruce this morning who asked me to rewrite that story.
Heterosexual Christian Gun Owner Found with Multiple Gunshot Wounds in Bellaire Ditch
Police found the bullet riddled body of G.D. Gunn, an armed local
Heterosexual Christian Gun Owner in front of his apartment complex in nearby Bellaire. Police
suspect one D.F. Bullete as the Heterosexual Christian Gun Owner who shot the other Heterosexual Christian Gun Owner.
Police also said this was an area where Heterosexual Christian Gun Owners often shoot other
gun owners, unarmed gun owners and non gun owners from moving vehicles.
Madison, WI - The Capital Times, Madison's afternoon newspaper, reported Wednesday that an Iraq war veteran said Tuesday he is returning his military medals in what anti-war groups are calling a rare and powerful protest.
Josh Gaines, 27, plans to mail the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal and National Defense Service Medal to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He said he would do so during a protest scheduled for today in Madison. "I'm going to give those back because I truly feel that I did not defend my nation and I did not help with the Global War on Terrorism," said Gaines, who lives in Madison. "If anything, this conflict has bred more terrorism in the Middle East."
Gaines served a yearlong tour in Iraq between 2004 and 2005 with the U.S. Army Reserve. He spent his time guarding two military bases and issuing ammunition to soldiers but never fired a weapon, he said. The experience convinced him that the war was a mistake and that a steady withdrawal of troops was the right course of action, Gaines said. "To be quite honest, I felt like we wasted taxpayers' money," he said. "The mission just didn't seem correct and right for that time."
Bolivian President Evo Morales has that IT that neither Castro nor Chavez enjoy. This man is someone to watch. Perhaps he is indeed the face of the future. But as one of those rarities who projects an honest and plain spoken charismatic good leader, his survival is questionable. I noticed Jon Stewart missed a good line when Morales said that in Bolivia even someone like himself - who is not an intellectual - can become President. The reply to that seemed obvious. "Same here!"
Colorado State University, In Fort Collins September 21, David McSwane, the editor-in-chief of The Rocky Mountain Collegian, might lose his job for printing “F**K Bush” on the Collegian’s opinion page last week.
So this week’s nominee for the Joseph Goebbels in journalism goes to the student body at Col. State, which expressed a majority feeling that while they felt McSwane's right to free speech should be protected, many of them felt as though he misused it.
Imagine that happening 30 years ago. In a university. So the final nail in the coffin of freedom is being hammered in by some sort of righteous indignation about something that, well … let’s just say McSwane wasn’t the first person to think or say that particular little expletive regarding our president.
I guess we should expect that from a generation that has been told to shut up, get good grades, Dad will fix everything, and if you need money, use your Visa.
Last weeks reference to Country Joe and the Fish in this very blog seems to have more relevance than anybody could have predicted. Country Joe went to the same school as Mario Savio. And the “Fish Cheer” was a direct result of Mario Savio’s Free Speech Movement. Mario’s dead now. He’d weep if he were alive. Or maybe he'd just climb back up on the Sproul Hall steps and yell "F**k Bush!"
In 2000 Claude Jones was executed down here one of the world's top execution chambers in Huntsville, Texas. He was a bad man convicted primarily on microscopic evidence of a hair found at the scene. To add to Texas legal problems, the accomplice whose gun was used in the murder later recanted his trial testimony against Jones. The then Dumbass Governor George Bush denied a stay of execution which requested DNA tests on that hair. The Texas Observer and the Innocence Project have recently filed suit for mitochondrial DNA testing. The case will go to court on October 3rd.
Though a toss up as to what the DNA test will produce, this case could be the long awaited showdown for many groups who lobby against executions in America. Has Texas executed an innocent man? Sadly this case is being brought down here in Dumbass where prosecutors and judges are elected primarily on their political ads screeching about which one will execute more people for less reason most often. And where - other than shooting - executions are one of the favorite pastime of Texans. Do not forget, this is a big state where most voters still believe that George Bush is a lot smarter than they are. One of the few things Texans get right. Full Story At Houston Chronnicle
"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day; the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." H. L. Mencken
The picture on the left shows that we are not the only Barbarian nation feeding a culture of guns to our children. It permeates other Third World countries throughout Africa and the Middle East too.
In 2000 Claude Jones was executed down here one of the world's top execution chambers in Huntsville, Texas. He was a bad man convicted primarily on microscopic evidence of a hair found at the scene. To add to Texas legal problems, the accomplice whose gun was used in the murder later recanted his trial testimony against Jones. The then Dumbass Governor George Bush denied a stay of execution which requested DNA tests on that hair. The 
"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day; the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." H. L. Mencken 
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