Bookish Little Snot Merchant Harry Reid (D) Nevada is a hypocrite and a liar, he received Abramoff money ($66,000) and seniors are not begging in the streets for prescription drugs. Not that I've ever seen. What an asshole. I never thought I'd yearn for the days of Tom Daschle. More on the republican "culture of corruption": Pa t Leahy (D) Vermont, labeled "Abramoff Democrat". Useful Idiot goes Global: Cindy Sheehan has taken her sagging, crocodile tear stained countenance on the road to the country that is being hailed by many on the left as the new utopian model... Venezuela:

To the beat of drums and trilling whistles, thousands of activists from around the world showed their opposition to globalization and the Iraq war at the opening Tuesday of the World Social Forum backed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The six-day conference got under way in Caracas amid a light drizzle as activists filled a plaza waving banners reading "Stop Bush" and "End the occupation of Iraq" ahead of a giant march. American activist Cindy Sheehan called for a stronger global movement against the Iraq war. "We have to work together as a global community to fight for peace and justice. We're all in it together. It's not just me who has lost a son," said Sheehan, whose son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in 2004. Sheehan, 48, of Berkeley, Calif., gained international attention when she set up a protest camp near President Bush's Texas ranch last year. "We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain," Sheehan told The Associated Press. 

Look for the Chavez countenance to begin cropping up on the t-shirts of hipsters ala Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Even more in the ongoing, burgeoning "Rep ublican Culture of Corruption"...Bloated teen mugs his own grandmother for beer money:

Bradenton, Florida -- Deputies say a 16 year old has been arrested for beating his grandmother with a two-by-four for refusing to give him $100 for beer.

 $100.00?? All you need is about 10 to get a good buzz. It was probably Abramoff money.The only thing worse than a Senate Republican is a Senate Democrat.

According to Insight Magazine, the Bush administration is preparing for impeachment hearings. Citing unnamed sources in the administration, Insight reports that hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee in February could serve as a preview for later impeachment proceedings.

The White House consulted with eight members of Congress on the program, including four Democrats.

Sources told Insight that the Judiciary probe will likely include Republicans unaware that they could be advancing a Democratic move toward eventual impeachment.

Goddamned idiots, like I said. Members of the "Spineless Party" probably rolled over in the cloak room because they were afraid a democrat might get angry at them. I can understand something like this happening when the Democrats get their power back early next year. Come on, I mean, what else are they going to do as a majority? Enact a legislative agenda based on ideas? Give me a fucking break! 

Quote of the Day, Halliburton "W" McBushHitler:

"If I wanted to break the law,” Bush asked, "why was I briefing Congress?”

All eyes on the "Carter Party" in the West Bank:

Opinion polls showed President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party with just a slight edge, raising the possibility of Hamas, an Islamist militant group, joining the cabinet for the first time.Hamas, whose charter calls for the destruction of Israel, has nevertheless largely followed a truce for nearly a year.

Google agrees to censor search results in China:

Google Inc. launched a search engine in China on Wednesday that censors material about human rights, Tibet and other topics sensitive to Beijing _ defending the move as a trade-off granting Chinese greater access to other information.

I thought America or (Amerikka, as I've seen it spelled on many leftist message boards) was the sole remaining police state in the world.



Saddam Lickspittle George Galloway about to be voted off the island. Astronomy Picture of the Day.  This is far more frightening than the FCC trying to get Howard Stern to stop saying asshole:

The rise of alternative media--political talk radio in the 1980s, cable news in the '90s, and the blogosphere in the new millennium--has broken the liberal monopoly over news and opinion outlets. The left understands acutely the implications of this revolution, blaming much of the Democratic Party's current electoral trouble on the influence of the new media's vigorous conservative voices. Instead of fighting back with ideas, however, today's liberals quietly, relentlessly and illiberally are working to smother this flourishing universe of political discourse under a tangle of campaign-finance and media regulations. Their campaign represents the most sustained attack on free political speech in the United States since the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts. Though Republicans have the most to lose in the short run, all Americans who care about our most fundamental rights and the civic health of our democracy need to understand what's going on--and resist it.

It's long been my contention (and observation) that republicans  wa nt to ban (or limit) obscene speech and democrats want to ban (or limit) political speech. Which is the more dangerous to limit? I suppose that's subjective. That is why I laugh when Stern (as much as I occasionally enjoy listening to him) sets himself up as some lofty guarantor of the 1st amendment, (when Flynt does it for some reason, I get insulted) all S tern wants to do is sit around all day sporting wood, there's nothing wrong with that, just be honest about it. 

Denver beats Pittsburgh-Wrong
Seattle beats Carolina-Right





Record thus far - 131-69

 Bookish Little Snot MerchantHarry Reid (D) Nevada, who never took a dime of Abramoff money (just $68,000) signs a contract forever banning lobbyist influence.



Haven't they done this already? Buckley weighs in on Gore's verbal flatulence. Several top terrorists killed in Pakistan strike. Hard hitting News of the Day...Chappaquiddick's love child.

Tough guy: Jacques Chirac makes "Unilateralist Cowboy" noise.

Limousine Liberal Fucktard, Albert Gore Junior, a man who worked for an administration that expanded wiretapping and warrantless physical searches during peacetime, excoriates Bush for doing marginally less during wartime. Also on hand was Useful Idiot Bob Barr (R). GOP develops rare spine and hits back. More evidence of Limousine Liberal Fucktards crawling out of the woodwork to assist terrorists in thier goal of killing Americans can be gleaned upon here.

 

Grand Madame Hillrod the Exalted makes a statement that would get a republican hanged:

“When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation and you know what I'm talking about..."

Sherman Helmsley, arrested, executed, charges to be announced at his arraignment next month. Still waiting for another "Al Gore Moment", the speech about the Bush Police State.Toothless UN considers the Iran question. All Mahmoud needs to do is throw a little money around in a new "Oil for Food" program and he'll bring them to heel.
 Saddam lickspittle George Galloway is just a pussycat when you get right down to it.

 Fresh Steaming Pantload: Cronkite calls for troop withdrawal, citing Vietnam as precedent. This is why I do not want to see the defense of this nation turned over to the left. Endless chanting, protests, defeatism all because they hate the man in the White House. If Gore were president we'd still be debating whether or not to go into Afghanistan and would be in Year 5 of a Collective Crying Circle at the UN punctuated with Noam Chomsky lectures and Michael Moore films emphasizing America's evils. Democratic Underground poster provides another example as to why I don't want liberals in charge of National Security: (HT Brass Knuckles)

Democrats are now America's Sunnis................

They were in power, now they are out. The new repug masters are making sure they stay on top, even if it means dismantling our Constitution and remaking our country into a fascist state. The Sunnis in Iraq are at least putting up a fight as they go down. Dems seem to be content to "hold hearings" to determine why we're going down. Our leaders should be screaming bloody murder. Filibuster, boycott, close down congress, stop this train no matter what it takes! Fuck, I'm frustrated. My apologies to Conyers, Murtha, and the too few others who've consistently fought hard. They ALL have to fight, fight hard, and fight NOW!!

Seattle beats Washington-Right
Denver beats New England-Right
Indianapolis beats Pittsburgh-Wrong
Carolina beats Chicago-Right

Record thus far - 130- 68

Scientists unleash man/rabbit on an unsuspecting populace...
Chappaquiddick still belongs to an exclusive club:

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy belongs to a social club for Harvard students and alumni that was evicted from campus nearly 20 years ago after refusing to allow female members.

Religious Right:  Pat Robertson blows his mouth off with absurd statements about Israeli Prime Minister Ariel  Sharon's stroke being divine retribution for giving away the holyland an d then begs forgiveness. Ok. I'll forgive you if you promise to never open your fucking mouth for the rest of what's left of your pathetic existence.

Religious Left: Al Sharpton (Mr. Tawana Brawley) trots out the usual boogeymen in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. day...

"George Bush, will stand somewhere on Monday and piously act as though he remembers Dr. King, when in fact, he has stood against everything Dr. King represented." 

Lying sack. Yeah right, the man who appointed the first black Secretary of State and the first black female Secretary of State and has more people on his cabinet not of "caucasoidal extraction" than the "First Black President"is a racist. I'm amazed that this shit still flys. Although on some level I can't help but like Sharpton. One of those weird contradictions. He's an amiable chap I guess. Al and Pat are today's Fresh Steaming Pantload.
 I can attest to this:

 United States (AFP) - Los Angeles is the United States' capital of homelessness and poverty, the mayor of the country's second largest city said, after a study revealed that 48,000 people lived on its streets.

More on the "Republican Culture of Corruption":

Tears: When Mrs. "Ali-o-to/Hitler" Alito is given a guided tour of her husbands evil atrocities over the last 100 years, (death camps for women, slavery, invading Poland, Pearl Harbor,banning yogurt, the Killing Fields, Shoemaker/Levy's impact with Jupiter, the destruction of the Kuiper Belt, Watergate,Travelgate, Halliburton, the Buddy Holly plane crash and the Middle East) it is more than she can stand. Alito is also accused of belonging to an exclusive group that of course our friends on the sensitive left try to make out to be the Klan, Hitler Youth or something similar and in the midst of all these baseless accusations flying about, we learn that Chappaquiddick belonged to an all male club. Hypocritical dick. Daily Kossers pour out their sympathy for Mrs. Alito thusly:

Actually, wasn't Mrs. Alito crying because

REPUBLICANS tried to get VALERIE PLAME KILLED in an effort to attack HER husband, Joe Wilson?

My God, which of these is worse?

another understanding Kosser weighs in here:

 Grand Madame Hillrod slated to appear with Harry "Guevara" Belafonte at some Communist all you can eat buffet. I hope they have a sneeze shield over the entrees, it could get ugly.

If you assassinate someone, make sure you don't kill them:

The Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 was released from prison Thursday after serving more than 25 years in Italy and Turkey for the plot against the pontiff and the slaying of a Turkish journalist.

...or at least the Pope.US Military role approved: Afghans reject Bin Laden and want more Peacekeepers which is  bad new for the Daily-Kos/Howard Dean Collective.



Top 10 Blogger Lies. Kerry's sabre rattling comes 1 year and 2 months too late. If we took military action in that region and it didn't turn out to be a videogame cakewalk he would of course disavow any knowledge of his previous statements.

U.S. Senator and former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said on Thursday that Iran was making a dangerous choice in pushing ahead with its nuclear ambitions.

"Iran has made a dangerous and silly decision of confronting not just the U.S. government but the entire international community," Kerry told reporters in the southern Indian technology hub of Hyderabad during a visit to India.

Wasn't Bush hammered as a war monger for saying roughly the same thing? Further evidence of the "Republican Culture of  Corruption":

Bush Supreme Court Nominee Samuel "Ali-o-to/Hitler"Alito once proposed banning yogurt and all solid foods ending with the letter "n", citing "Planned Parenthood vs. Rodney Dangerfield" as precedent.

 Kim makes secret China stop: To Russia with Love. 
Boy when they don't meet their recruiting goals we here all about it don't we?

The Army exceeded its monthly recruiting goal in December but must still pick up the pace to meet its target of 80,000 for the budget year ending Sept. 30.

December was the seventh consecutive month that the Army met its goal.

"Republican" Scandal snagging our friends on the sensitive left as well.
From Boortz:

Ever since the plea bargain with corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff was announced, the media and the Democrats have done their best to portray this as a Republican controversy.  Abramoff bribed Republican lawmakers like Tom DeLay we're told. This is being used to paint the current House and Senate leadership as corrupt.  That may be true, but what's getting swept under the rug is the two big fish in the Democratic party that Abramoff had on his payroll.

Who are they?  None other than Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and North Dakota Democrat Byron Dorgan.  What are they accused of doing?  Law enforcement is said to be scrutinizing the two for perhaps performing official acts in exchange for some sort of bribe from Abramoff.  Both have returned large contributions from Indian reservations that Abramoff represented and apparently defrauded.

 The Bush administration has a firm grasp of the obvious.

President George W. Bush denounced some Democratic critics of the Iraq war as irresponsible on Tuesday and he wanted an election-year debate that "brings credit to our democracy, not comfort to our adversaries."

 We may not have to worry about Iran. Mahmoud had better be sweating: I don't think Israel is going to grovel and scrape in the UN Security Council for permission when the chips are down.

A preemptive airstrike by Israel against suspected nuclear weapons facilities in Iran could come as early as March, a report in the Glasgow Herald claimed Tuesday.

"The Israeli raids would be carried out by long-range F-15E bombers and cruise missiles against a dozen key sites and are designed to set Tehran's weapons program back by up to two years," the paper said.

 NSA Whistleblower: This is what the headline would say if a democrat were in the White House:

The NSA revoked Tice's security clearance in May of last year based on what it called psychological concerns and later dismissed him.

Instead, since there is a mean-spirited republican in the White House the headline reads thus:

NSA Whistleblower Alleges Illegal Spying

It's not until the last sentence that we read that Tice's clearance was revoked for "psychological concerns". Why? Because Brian Ross knows that most people will only read the first paragraph.

More on Abramoff Democrats:

It's absurdly hypocritical for Democrats to try to use the Abramoff scandal against Republicans. Any recent instance of Republicans playing fast and loose with campaign laws can be topped by a similar case on the part of prominent Democrats.

Odd request:

Please eat me: 8 1/2 years for slicing, dicing and dining upon a fellow human being???

A German man who killed and ate a willing victim faces the prospect of a stiffer sentence at a retrial starting on Thursday for a crime that continues to horrify and enthrall.

Armin Meiwes, 44, was convicted of manslaughter and given an 8-1/2-year jail term in January 2004 for cutting up a man he met via the Internet three years before.

Meiwes, a computer repairman, admitted killing Berlin-based computer specialist Bernd-Juergen Brandes, 42, but had initially been spared a murder conviction and a possible life sentence because the victim had asked to be eaten.

 Bush Supreme Court nominee J udge Samuel Alito (or Ali-o-to as Chappaquiddick calls him,) sanctions rape, torture, forced pregnancy camps, back alley abortionists, cannib alism,wiretapping your sock drawer, ripping school lunches from the hands of  young students and banning those beautiful, gorgeous sunsets where light streams down through parted clouds in bright, unbroken beams. Oh, and he's a racist too. The Wall: Why don't they build a wall around the entire fucking Sunni Triangle? Maybe they will.

Mahmoud had better hope Netanyahu doesn't become the next Israeli Prime Minister. Boortz in his usual sensitive, caring manner approaches the issue from another angle phrasing it thus:

I know that the left will urge us to ignore this Islamic goon, but Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the H.T.H.W.I.C. of Iran, has told a crowd of "theological students" in Iran that Islam must prepare to rule the world.  His exact words?  Well, according to a former Iran analyst for coalition forces in Baghdad, Ahmandinejad said "We must believe in the fact that Islam is not confined to geographical borders, ethnic groups and nations. It's a universal ideology that leads the world to justice,"

Here's an idea.  Let's ignore him.  Let's pull our troops out of the Middle East and allow Iraq to immediately fall under the control of Al Qaeda and other Islamo-fascist groups.  Let's show Muslims around the world that we do not have the moral strength to stand up to Islamic despots.   While we're at it, let's engage in a year of self-flagellation over the treatment of Islamic prisoners and detainees.  Let's work hard to strip the president of any executive powers he may have to fight Islamic terrorism.  And while we're accomplishing all of these worthy goals, let's sit back and see just how much oomph Ahmadinejad can put into his dream of world domination.

...and is Today's Quote of the Day.

Saddam trained terrorists prior to the US invasion of Iraq:

THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, according to documents and photographs recovered by the U.S. military in postwar Iraq. The existence and character of these documents has been confirmed to THE WEEKLY STANDARD by eleven U.S. government officials.

The secret training took place primarily at three camps--in Samarra, Ramadi, and Salman Pak--and was directed by elite Iraqi military units. Interviews by U.S. government interrogators with Iraqi regime officials and military leaders corroborate the documentary evidence. Many of the fighters were drawn from terrorist groups in northern Africa with close ties to al Qaeda, chief among them Algeria's GSPC and the Sudanese Islamic Army. Some 2,000 terrorists were trained at these Iraqi camps each year from 1999 to 2002, putting the total number at or above 8,000. Intelligence officials believe that some of these terrorists returned to Iraq and are responsible for attacks against Americans and Iraqis. According to three officials with knowledge of the intelligence on Iraqi training camps, White House and National Security Council officials were briefed on these findings in May 2005; senior Defense Department officials subsequently received the same briefing.

The general public will never learn this for two reasons: 1) Most of the Media will bury this information as it may benefit our beloved dictator- in -chief, Halliburton "W" Mc BushHitler and 2) The Bush administration refuses to use the bully pulpit of the Presidency to advance their cause.

Astronomy Image of the Day... From the Fever Swamps: Cheney, Negroponte kill NY Times reporter.

Ooh! Cutting edge! This should  play very well amongst the Bush hate-Daily Kos-Dean- DemocraticUnderground.com gang. So why do the exotic pronouncements of an ancient washed up old crooner accompianied by a has been actor carry such weight? Is he an ambassador?Why is the left so fascinated with guys like Castro,Guevara and Chavez? I guess if you like quarantining gay people and firing squads, Guevara and Castro are just swell. Harry says millions in America support the socialist revoluton of Chavez. I'll leave that alone.

Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including the actor Danny Glover and the Princeton University scholar Cornel West that met the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday. Some in the group attended Chavez's television and radio broadcast Sunday.

If Venezuela is such a paradise, perhaps he should reside under this great and noble man. Harry Belafonte is today's Fresh Steaming Pantload. Iraq chopper crash kills 12. So it begins. If they try to impeach Bush for lying about Iraq it will be the ultimate hypocrisy because in the mid'90s and early '00s, the upper echelon of the democratic party was foaming at the mouth and falling over backwards to get Clinton to remove Saddam from power because of the threat posed by his chemical, biological and nuclear weapons stockpiles.

Gen. Wesley Clark, before he became an anti-war Democratic presidential candidate, testified on Sept. 26, 2002, before the House Armed Services Committee: "There's no requirement to have any doctrine here. I mean this is simply a longstanding right of the United States and other nations to take the actions they deem necessary in their self-defense. . . . Every president has deployed forces as necessary to take action. He's done so without multilateral support if necessary. He's done so in advance of conflict if necessary. . . . When we took action in Kosovo, we did not have United Nations approval. . . . There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat. . . . Yes, he has chemical and biological weapons. . . . He is, as far as we know, actively pursuing nuclear capabilities, though he doesn't have nuclear warheads yet. If he were to acquire nuclear weapons, I think our friends in the region would face greatly increased risks as would we.

 Cheney briefly hospitalized: DU posters hopes rise briefy, then collapse. The battle for control of the space-time continuum begins! Alito's wife tries to paint him as a hipster. Chappaquidick takes the "Tookie Route" to salvation and writes a childrens book. He should try his hand at car safety tips.

Astronomy Image of the Day.

Global Warming hammers Japan. The very home of the Kyoto Protocol!!

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan was bracing for more snow on Friday after some of the heaviest snowfall on record that has left 57 people dead and paralysed transport.

Almost 4 metres (13 ft) of snow has piled up in the worst-hit areas of Niigata near the Japan Sea coast, though the snowiest season of the year is yet to come.

Television pictures showed drifts burying the ground floors of houses and almost covering street lamps.

Leftists have collective orgasm. Utah theatre cancels "Brokeback Mountain, Senate hearings to follow. "Et tu Teddy?" Alito to be lured into the Senate and killed by  democrats in ritual knifing ala Julius Caeser.

The Wisdom of wiretaps. How Bush critics seek to create loopholes to benefit terrorists:

The Bush Administration's use of warrantless wiretaps in the war on terrorism continues to generate controversy, and Congress is planning hearings. Some of the loopier elements of the Democratic Party have even suggested the wiretaps are grounds for impeachment. But the more we learn about the practice, the clearer it is that the White House has been right to employ and defend it.

The issue is not about circumventing normal civilian Constitutional protections, after all. The debate concerns surveillance for military purposes during wartime. No one would suggest the President must get a warrant to listen to terrorist communications on the battlefield in Iraq or Afghanistan. But what the critics are really insisting on here is that the President get a warrant the minute a terrorist communicates with an associate who may be inside in the U.S. That's a loophole only a terrorist could love.

Other critics accept the President's inherent power but say he still should have asked Congress to approve the wiretaps. But some in Congress were informed of the wiretaps and did nothing to stop them. Instead, the ranking Democrat on Senate Intelligence, Jay Rockefeller, wrote a private letter to Vice President Dick Cheney expressing his "lingering concerns" and saying he'd keep it on file for posterity--or more precisely, for posterior-covering. The Senator then released the letter after the story became public as a way to play "gotcha."

If Mr. Rockefeller had been serious about his objections in 2003, he should have told Mr. Cheney to cease and desist or that he'd try to pass legislation to stop it. After reading Mr. Rockefeller's letter of self-absolution, we can understand if Mr. Cheney concluded that the wiretapping was too important to the war on terror to risk seeking an explicit legislative endorsement from so feckless a Congress. The way the Members have played politics with the Patriot Act is another reason not to give Congress a chance to micromanage war-fighting decisions.

The upside of the coming Congressional hearings, we guess, is that Americans will get a lesson in the Constitution's separation of powers. We're confident they'll come away believing the Founders were right to the give the President broad war-fighting--including surveillance--powers.

The last paragraph is a trifle optimistic, especially with hearings taking place in an election year, the truth will be lost in a cloud of hysterical hyperbolic bloviating.

Quote of the Day, John Murtha speaking to MoveOn.org:

"I worry about a slow withdrawal which makes it look like there's a victory when I think it should be a redeployment as quickly as possible and let the Iraqis handle the whole thing."