THE EMERALD ISLE

I'm goin to Ireland tommorrow for the first time. Woohoo.
Be back in a couple of weeks.

SAMUEL ALITO- SCALIA II-- THE SEQUEL

Brief HERE

Sounds lke he's a super dick. So Dummy is once again demonstrating his inability to make decisions for himself. The Right Wing Nutjobs say they don't like Miers so he pulls her back and then pushes forward this Alito guy who is a right wing nut job which is exactly what the right wing nut jobs wanted.
Gee- ya think putting forward a highly contraversial nominee has somehting to do with burying the Scooter Libby/Rove/Cheney are criminals story? Real subtle there Junior. Real Subtle.

MERRY FITZMAS!!

Okay, so the whole administration isn't going down- yet. But be patient. This thing isn't over- not by a long shot. This is how it works- you chip away and little by little the dam of scum will break. Clearly the Fitzter is a pretty cautious guy- but we knew that. I think the important thing is that there is still going to be an ongoing investigation. If that ends up getting dropped, then we can start howling. Until then. See ya Scooter. Have a nice day. You Dick.

Best Week Ever??

Indictments are coming.
Miers is bumming.
White Sox win the World Series- Fuck Texas!!

The only stain on this terrific week is the terrible casualty count but once those indictments roll in at least there will be some sense that the monsters who perpetrated the all around Iraq atrocity will pay for their sins.
Oh yeah one more time
FUCK TEXAS!!!!!!!!

2000 American Soldiers Lost Over Oil and Lies- I can't wait for these Fuckers to get indicted.



Thanks to Billmon for this graphic illustration.

Pwezident Bush is Qwanky.

Apparantly having his entire White House fall down around his ears is making wittle pwesident Bush a trifle qwanky at his staff and senior leaders. Awww.
Here's the world's smallest violin to play a tune for ya.
I got an idea!!
Why don't you just resign!!!!
Then you can have all the nappies you want.
Won't that be nice?

FEMA EMAILS and Assorted Bric-a-Brac

The folks over at Michael Moore have been nice enough to put all of the already infamous FEMA emails in one place. See them HERE. (if you don't know these are emails between FEMA officials in DC and the one or two FEMA officials that were actually in N.O.- damning would be a very nice way of putting it.

Tommy, Tommy, Tommy
MUGSHOT ANYONE
Let me get this straight. The prosecutor is just out to get you. The judge is just out to get you. Paranoid much?

Syria,
UN Report used as drumbeat for war? Well thankfully we all know the President is above such nonsense. Er. Gulp.
(Note that Con Daleeza wants to be sure "Syrian officials are held accountable." And they should be. Then we can hold our own officials "Accountable" for torture in Iraq.

Nice Climate Change Video- Just in time for Halloween

There's few things scarier than nature these days. There's a great video HERE about the Shrub Administration and his zombies. Check it out.

The Huffington Blows Down the NYT

Arianna gives a nice break down of all of the Plame stuff as well as unloading on the NYT's remarkable ability to shove its head up its own ass.

This Can't Be Real!!

Harriet Miers, the probable next Supreme Court Justice, has a BLOG?
Some of the people in the Blogrole make me think it might be fake- but I can't be sure. That's the best and worst thing about the world we live in these days- it's impossible to know the difference between reality and a good joke- because reality has literally become a joke.
UPDATE Okay- after giving it a closer read- I'm gonna say 99.999% it's a joke. But a damn good one. Check it out!
In other news- Cheney is sending his spokesman out of the country at the same time Fitzgerald is supposed to be finishing up. Hmmm. Article is titled "Cheney spokesman departs country..."

More fun with Miers and PlameGate

My guess that Miers is an attempt by Rove to sniggle a conservative loo-loo onto the SC was wrong (I seem to be batting zero on this Miers thing) this weekend a source in the White House said the nomination idea came from Andy Card. However, as THIS NYT's article discusses, this entire rupture apparantly stems from a strong desire by the religious nuts in this country to "come out of the political closet" and take what they see as their rightful place at the right of God, er the President. Talking in "code" is no longer going to cut it. It's a move Shrub might be willing to make, but that his handlers will never allow. This explains why so many are angry at him even though he made a special point to nod and wink every time he said that he knew "her heart." The quackers want Shrubly to come out and say, this woman will turn over Roe, appoint God head of the EPA and deport those who want to teach evolution in school. Which has led to a fantastic screw up by the profound asshole James Dobson of the ill-named, "Focus on the Family" (yea right) who has basically came out and told the world that Bush assured him that Miers is a conservative nutcase. This is the heart of the entire Bush enigma- what the hell is wrong with people that they cannot see that he DOES NOT represent any "traditional conservative values" like smaller government lower taxes for EVERYONE etc. He's a goddamn Taliban guy and always has been. He wants God to be the President and Jesus to be his Chief of Staff. Hopefully this whole debacle will wake a few of the seemingly catatonic middle road republicans- but I'm not holding my breath.

I'm not going to say too much about the Plame thing yet- but it sounds like there is going to be some major happenings afoot over the next 2 weeks. Tick tock Rove- ya scumbag.

Oh, and although I'm not a sports guy- GO WHITE SOX!!

It's Just Plane Censorship
or
Screw Southwest Airlines

Okay, you put on your clothes, you get on the plane, you fly where you want to go.
Simple right?
Not if your t-shirt is one that criticizes his humpty-dumptedness and his handlers.
Lorrie Heasley found this out when she was thrown off a Southwest airlines plane for the horrible crime of wearing a t-shirt with Bushy/Rovey/ and Ricey with the phrase 'Meet the Fockers' or maybe 'Meet the Fuckers' (The newspaper article about the incident doesn't make it clear) but either way. "People" and by people I mean "overly sensitive morons" were offended by the shirt- and after first being told to cover it up- she was later told to take it off or get off the plane. Lorrie, being a clearly cool lady- told Southwest to focker themselves and got off the plane. Lawsuits are being filed.

Oh, and in other news, does anyone else find it remarkably convenient that there's a new "credibly sourced" threat against New York at the same time that half the Republicans in office are under investigation or indictment? I'm sure it's just ANOTHER one of those coicidences.
And speaking of under indictment- if this Fitzgerald guy doesn't indict Rove AND Libby he sucks. You don't have to be a genius to figure out that BOTH men popping up as sources for the story pretty well rules out the possibility that they didn't know they were outing a CIA agent- you have to be pretty fucking dim to believe that version of events. Man I hope they both go down. That would be an event worth having a couple of drinks about.

Bush loves Torture

Apparantly El Yutzo wants to veto a measure from John McCain to make it abundantly clear to everyone that the United States DOES NOT advocate torture.
Think about that for a minute.
El Presidente has vetoed exactly ZERO bills during his entire Presidency- he's threatened a few times (the highway bill comes to mind) but now, over this, he's willing to bust out his pen and have Karl help him write his name.
What a jerkass.
Did I mention McCain's amendment passed 90-9?

You Just Don't Get It.

Of all the misdirections and outright lies Screwbag told during his press conference (10/4) one pisses me off more than any other.

"We haven't built a new refinery since the 1970s."
and the related,
"It ought to be clear to everybody that this country needs to build more refining capacity to be able to deal with the issues of tight supply," he said.

OKAY WAIT JUST A GODDAMN MINUTE. WE??? THIS COUNTRY NEEDS TO BUILD???
The OIL COMPANIES haven't built any new refineries since the 70's!!! I need a new house- does that mean the US should build me a new house? Of course not- unless I'm a big ass company in which case Pigblossom thinks I should not only get a new house- but it should be a big giant new house paid for by the middle and lower classes- Jeebus knows he's not going to take the money from his rich buddies. Bastard.
The greedy bastards have sucked up every cent of profit for 30 years putting no money back into their companies except for exploration so they could claim more of the gold under the earth for themselves. The mere suggestion that my tax dollars should figure into the support of one of the most profitable endevours in American business makes me want to writher on the ground.
It's like putting Bill Gates on welfare.

Trojan Horse?

Okay, I take back my earlier ridicule. In retrospect it is quickly becoming apparant that Harriet Miers was yet another master move by the remarkably evil Karl Rove. Really, you gotta love the guy.
Whenever Bush talks about Miers he has that little kid with a secret look on his face as he insists that he "knows her heart." He had a similar look in in his eye when he talked about not having plans to attack Iraq. You can almost hear him thinking "wink wink nudge nudge"
Something makes me think that Stealth Conservative might be quite a bit of an understatement. I bet she's told him point blank that she'll do all kinds of nutty shit- not that either of them will admit it. Lawyer-client privilege.
If this is a Rove plot- and in this world turned upside down- nothing can ever be known for sure- then having the "base" express outrage at her nomination was a brilliant piece of political propaganda. If the winguts are angry- why on earth should we worry about her?
But think about it- this woman is (as of now) looking about 95% to be confirmed (I take back what I said about her joining the Bork Squad) and we know NOTHING about her- not really. And we won't either. We don't have a clue about John Roberts either- and he's already Chief Justice- that's 2 wildcards who's ideology we won't know until it's too late.
She went to a crappy law school, ran a lottery board- sat on a city council for one term- got into Shrub's pocket and now she's going into the Supreme Court. Instead of being a laughing stock she's got a good shot.
Rove- you truly are an evil genius- even if you end up in jail for the Plame thing you'll have succeeding in sucking up our country for the next 20 years at least- You fuckin' suck.

Flushing the Court- Even the Conservative are Rolling Their Eyes.

Okay, deep breath, no screaming.
Harriet Miers.
Never been a judge.
Bush's close personal friend.

David Frum- the President's old speechwriter and a guy who co-wrote a book with Richard Perle has already come out against Dimwit's sycophant- er I mean Supreme Court Nominee. He even admits he was the first to float her name- and it was a joke!!!!!

You can sum up this woman in one sentence (from Frum's Diary):
"She once told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry about that.
But come on.
Congratulations Harriet Miers- you're about to join the Judge Borks of the world as a rejected Supreme Court nominee. If Bush was half as smart as you think he was- he would've spared you this embarassment.

(Thanks to Tom Tommorow for pointing out the Frum Link)

BREAKIN' THE LAW BREAKIN' THE LAW

Okay you Republican nitwits- explain to me why your party should be in charge. You've had the run of things for a measly 5 years and look what's happened already.
HEAD OF THE SENATE
Bill Frist- being investigated for what is obviously a case of insider trading. Or else Frist is also Karnack the Magnificient. Gonna be indicted.
HEAD OF THE HOUSE
Tom Delay- Already indicted for using the Republican National Commitee to money launder campaign cash for Texas Repubs. He's also had 4 other instances where he could've been indicted but the House decided to let him walk.
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITEE
Already convicted for laundering money for Texas Repubs
CHIEF OF STAFF FOR DUBYA DUMBO
Karl Rove- Named as a Valerie Plame leaker. Gonna be indicted.
CHIEF OF STAFF FOR CHENEY THE VOLDEMORT
Scooter Libby- Names as a Valerie Plame leaker by NYT Reporter Judith Miller. Gonna be indicted.

That's 2 out of the 3 branches of government. And then there's the Supreme Court- you better believe he's gonna fuck that up too. First the enigmatic John Roberts- and my prediction for the next nominee- why his best friend Alberto Gonzales of course.

How many people have to be convicted before you stubborn Republican jackasses admit that these people you claim to like so much are nothing but petty criminal thugs who'd be in jail for stealing candy from children if they weren't millionaires.

Exactly.

The following is a transcript of the NBA's Etan Thomas's speech during the protests that were ignored by TV. It's funny that the best speech of the rally was given by a "jock"-- just goes to show- don't judge a book by it's ability to play basketball...

“Giving all honor, thanks and praises to God for courage and wisdom, this is a very important rally. I'd like to thank you for allowing me to share my thoughts, feelings and concerns regarding a tremendous problem that we are currently facing. This problem is universal, transcending race, economic background, religion, and culture, and this problem is none other than the current administration which has set up shop in the White House.
In fact, I'd like to take some of these cats on a field trip. I want to get big yellow buses with no air conditioner and no seatbelts and round up Bill O'Reilly, Pat Buchanan, Trent Lott, Sean Hannity, Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush, Bush Jr. and Bush Sr., John Ashcroft, Giuliani, Ed Gillespie, Katherine Harris, that little bow-tied Tucker Carlson and any other right-wing conservative Republicans I can think of, and take them all on a trip to the ‘hood. Not to do no 30-minute documentary. I mean, I want to drop them off and leave them there, let them become one with the other side of the tracks, get them four mouths to feed and no welfare, have scare tactics run through them like a laxative, criticizing them for needing assistance.
I’d show them working families that make too much to receive welfare but not enough to make ends meet. I’d employ them with jobs with little security, let them know how it feels to be an employee at will, able to be fired at the drop of a hat. I’d take away their opportunities, then try their children as adults, sending their 13-year-old babies to life in prison. I’d sell them dreams of hopelessness while spoon-feeding their young with a daily dose of inferior education. I’d tell them no child shall be left behind, then take more money out of their schools, tell them to show and prove themselves on standardized exams testing their knowledge on things that they haven’t been taught, and then I’d call them inferior.
I’d soak into their interior notions of endless possibilities. I’d paint pictures of assisted productivity if they only agreed to be all they can be, dress them up with fatigues and boots with promises of pots of gold at the end of rainbows, free education to waste terrain on those who finish their bid. Then I’d close the lid on that barrel of fool’s gold by starting a war, sending their children into the midst of a hostile situation, and while they're worried about their babies being murdered and slain in foreign lands, I’d grace them with the pain of being sick and unable to get medicine.
Give them health benefits that barely cover the common cold. John Q. would become their reality as HMOs introduce them to the world of inferior care, filling their lungs with inadequate air, penny pinching at the expense of patients, doctors practicing medicine in an intricate web of rationing and regulations. Patients wander the maze of managed bureaucracy, costs rise and quality quickly deteriorates, but they say that managed care is cheaper. They’ll say that free choice in medicine will defeat the overall productivity, and as co-payments are steadily rising, I'll make their grandparents have to choose between buying their medicine and paying their rent.
Then I'd feed them hypocritical lines of being pro-life as the only Christian way to be. Then very contradictingly, I’d fight for the spread of the death penalty, as if thou shall not kill applies to babies but not to criminals.
Then I’d introduce them to those sworn to protect and serve, creating a curb in their trust in the law. I’d show them the nightsticks and plungers, the pepper spray and stun guns, the mace and magnums that they’d soon become acquainted with, the shakedowns and illegal search and seizures, the planted evidence, being stopped for no reason. Harassment ain’t even the half of it. Forty-one shots to two raised hands, cell phones and wallets that are confused with illegal contrabands. I’d introduce them to pigs who love making their guns click like wine glasses. Everlasting targets surrounded by bullets, making them a walking bull's eye, a living piñata, held at the mercy of police brutality, and then we’ll see if they finally weren’t aware of the truth, if their eyes weren’t finally open like a box of Pandora.
I’d show them how the other side of the tracks carries the weight of the world on our shoulders and how society seems to be holding us down with the force of a boulder. The bird of democracy flew the coop back in Florida. See, for some, and justice comes in packs like wolves in sheep's clothing. T.K.O.'d by the right hooks of life, many are left staggering under the weight of the day, leaning against the ropes of hope. When your dreams have fallen on barren ground, it becomes difficult to keep pushing yourself forward like a train, administering pain like a doctor with a needle, their sequels continue more lethal than injections.
They keep telling us all is equal. I’d tell them that instead of giving tax breaks to the rich, financing corporate mergers and leading us into unnecessary wars and under-table dealings with Enron and Halliburton, maybe they can work on making society more peaceful. Instead, they take more and more money out of inner city schools, give up on the idea of rehabilitation and build more prisons for poor people. With unemployment continuing to rise like a deficit, it's no wonder why so many think that crime pays.
Maybe this trip will make them see the error of their ways. Or maybe next time, we'll just all get out and vote. And as far as their stay in the White House, tell them that numbered are their days.”

Pimpin' the 1st Lady

Trying to counteract the real reality that he's disconnected and clueless President Wagonfaller is pimping out his wife to the sappy ABC fake reality show, Extreme Home Makeover. I wonder if she'll try to sell us some Sears power tools too?
In the article is the following:
"I think we say, 'Mrs. Bush, the stuff is over here, the people are over there, could you grab the other end of that mattress?' " Forman said. Press secretary Susan Whitson envisioned something closer to her handing out clothing and thanking volunteers.
I mean sheesh- they don't actually expect her to actually DO anything do they????

And now, a few words from Cindy Sheehan

The following are links to Cindy's speech and remarks during and following the anti-war protest in DC that didn't take place this weekend if you were watching the news.

Speech
Remarks

Seriously, Come on already- PBS this morning didn't even mention the damn march.
What if 300,000 people march on Washington and no one gets to hear about it.
Did it make a sound?

Oh yeah, and Bill Frist is the latest in the endless march of corrupt republican politicians that will probably manage to weasel out of persecution. I'm starting to think we need a new media even more than we need a new administration.