Dick Armey - A pretentious fool driven by greed and blessed by God

Dick Armey is a Repugnican from Texas. He was at one time the House Majority Leader in the U.S. Congress.

He's always been a slime bucket, but these days he's outdoing his previous reputation. No longer a U.S. Congressman (thank the gods!), he is part and parcel of the corporatists who would destroy the world to make a buck.

According to Lee Fang at Think Progress (via AlterNet), Armey, after leaving Congress, "became a lobbyist for the firm DLA Piper, which represents many interests with a stake against curbing greenhouse gas emissions. ... "

He also "became the head of Citizens for a Sound Economy, a right-wing front group funded largely by oil companies like ExxonMobil. CSE later morphed into the astroturf organization known as FreedomWorks, which Army has used to orchestrate the viscious anti-Obama tea party rallies. ... "


On July 30, the Republicans in Congress held a bicameral hearing on climate change legislation. Armey, "Along with a cadre of polluter CEOs and Chamber of Commerce officials ... played his part leveling an array of attacks on any effort to transition to a clean energy economy."

This is not unexpected, but par for the course. Smarmy Armey, though, being a good christianist and lover of Jesus, said (and this so ludicrous it leaves one breathless) that "because God created the heavens and the Earth, it would be 'quite pretentious' for people to believe God would permit global warming to even occur ..."

After accusing those attempting to deal with the problem of climate change of becoming involved in "an eco-evangelical hysteria" and suggesting that "we are becoming a national of environmental hypochondriacs," this double dipped moron concluded with this "profound" statement:

"Let me say I take it as an article of faith if the lord God almighty made the heavens and the Earth, and he made them to his satisfaction and it is quite pretentious of we little weaklings her on earth to think that, that we are going to destroy God's creation. [...]"

Smarmy Armey would make an atheist out of most people.


Lee Fang's article is here.

Fake conservative protests by Rachel Maddow

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Erik Prince of Blackwater a murderer?

This is from Newshoggers.com

Erik Prince, for those who have never heard of him, runs the highly secretive militarist guns-for-hire Blackwater organization. Blackwater has made tons of money in Iraq, among other places, and under the Bush administration got pretty much whatever it wanted and avoided punishment for its dirty deeds.

Newsblogger quotes from an article by Jeremy Scahill at The Nation:

"A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operator operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company's owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince 'views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,' and that Prince's companies 'encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life.'"

Other charges include "smuggling weapons into Iraq" - that is to say, "transporting 'illegal' or 'unlawful' weapons into the country on Prince's private planes."


The first thing that hits me is how money not only corrupts but money combined with the power money gives, corrupts absolutely.

In addition, Prince claims to be a born-again Christian. I don't know if he's affiliated with C Street, but it would fit. He appears to be an elitist commissioned by his god to rule the world and thus is not bound by the law or by what is considered normal human behavior.


Scahill's entire article can be read here. And there is much, much more, including the fact that Bush imposed "gagging orders preventing investigation of the wrongdoings of 70 major companies involved in Iraq ... "

There's another story here (which is where I obtained the above photo).

Rachel Maddow on GOP Thugs

One of the things that has become crystal clear in recent years is that the GOP, by and large, is a party comprised of amoral, often immoral, and even more often, ignorant thugs, many of which dress up in suits and ties and some, like Coulter and Malkin, in short skirts.

We know they don't care about family values by watching their behavior. We know they don't care about the American people by listening to their speeches. We know they are a bunch of thugs that will resort to just about any deviancy in order to win by experiencing what Ms. Maddow is talking about. Many of them are religious thugs but their religion is a sham.

Keith Olbermann Special Comment on Health Care

This is one you must not miss! It's a bit long at almost 11 minutes, but it's worth every second. Keith Olbermann pulls no punches. He tells it like it is. He names names. It's magnificent!!!

FAUX News - what a bunch of morons

Evidently, Iraq is just so not hot anymore.

From BSAlert.

Cool your jets

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The Collectible Jesus

The Florida Family Policy Council - the rightwing at work

It has always amazed me how so-called "conservatives" strive mightily to enforce their religious and political views on the body politic.

Conservatives had traditionally held that "big government" is bad and that the government should stay out of people's personal lives. But they don't mean that. That's a smoke screen. The think big government is just fine so long as it is controlled by conservatives and the churches and corporations they represent. And they don't see anything wrong with the government telling people what to do relative to marriage, abortion, sexual activity, education, and religion.

There is an outfit in Florida that we've mentioned before called the Florida Family Policy Council. Aligned with both James Dobson's wingnut group, Focus on the Family as well as the Roman Catholic Church and the goofy Christian Coalition, it is headed up by a rightwingnut lawyer named John Stemberger.

Last year Stemberger and the Florida Family Policy Council were major players in the effort to get an anti-gay marriage amendment added to Florida's constitution. This year Stemberger and company want the government to hike the marriage license fee in order to force couples to get pre-marital counseling.

It now costs $93.50 for a Florida marriage license. Stemberger wants the Florida legislature to bump that to $193.50. The kicker is that if a couple agrees to go through eight hours of pre-marital counseling, the fee would drop back to a mere $61.00.

So, religious rightwingnut Stemberger, a conservative very "concerned" with the state of traditional marriage wants "big government" to enact a policy which would essentially force couples intending to marry into an eight-hour pre-marital counseling class. Or if they chose not to go to counseling, they would pay an extra $132.00!

Fascinating.

This moron doesn't understand several things. One is that the government should have no say in the marriage business whatsoever. Period. And that means the government should never charge a fee for a couple to get married. Nothing! Nil! Nada! It two people want to get married, let them seek a clergy or a friend and recite their vows. They can then register their marriage with the state if they so desire.

Secondly, as someone who was involved in pre-marital counseling for years, I can say unequivocally, by the time a couple decides to get married, "counseling" is irrelevant. Counseling rarely makes a difference at that point. When "love" is in the air, all other considerations are ignored or pushed into the subconscious.

Third, who the hell does Stemberger think he is to push his particular religious and political viewpoints on the people of Florida?

Stemberger also is fighting the teaching of evolution in Florida schools. He wants Florida's high school students to be taught that the mythological stories in Genesis are historically true accounts as to how the world was created.

Watch the video below and see how slimy, smarmy religious crap slithers through Stemberg's rightwingnut political "concerns." It's scary. And even more frightening is the fact that there are thousands of Stembergs all over the country working to force the rest of us to adhere to their religious/political views. All in the name of God and goodness, of course.

Bill Maher & Malkin's new book

I've always thought Michelle Malkin a low-class, nogoodnik, rightwing nutcase who wraps herself in God and the flag even as she stomps all over truth and goodness wherever she goes.

Now, it has been proven she's a no-class, nogoodnik, rightwing nutcase who wraps herself in God and the flag even as she stomps all over truth and goodness wherever she goes.

She has concluded, after six months in office, that President Obama is presiding over a "culture of corruption," and wrote a book about it. Well, it is more likely that she along with other rightwing nutcases collaborated and that the book was probably written even before Obama took the presidential oath, which, if you recall, a Bush-appointed Supreme Court Chief Justice screwed up.

How low will the Malkins of the world sink? There is, my friends, no bottom to the pit of darkness into which they have descended.

In this video, Bill Maher mocks Ms. Malkin, along with a few others on the side of evil.

Hagee plus Hitler, the half-Jew. Heh. Heh.

Oh, Reverend Hagee, you're so cute, you with the porky chops and slick-backed hair! And you say they funniest things! Hitler was a half-Jew. That's really funny! You're such a great Bible scholar, I'll bet you found that in your Old Testament, didn't you? What a guy! God's guy! Yup! No wonder so many thousands of the ignorant and naive come to hear you preach!

And you write books, too. I even have one of them. Not one of your best, I have to say. I know you don't drink (much) but I think you were probably smashed when you wrote it...ah, let's see, oh yes, Jerusalem Countdown. Out to lunch on that one, Johnny!

You remember Bruce Wilson? He's one of those guys over at talk2action who like to point out what an asshole you really are! Yeah, and now he's got a new article telling not only how in Jerusalem Countdown did you claim that "Hitler and the Nazis were divine agents sent by God to chase Europe's Jews toward Palestine," but you also said something else, something worse, that our lackadaisical media missed.

Sheesh, Johnny, I'm sure you knew this was a crock when you said it, but I also know you're good at making things up and convincing people that you not only believe it but that they should, too.

You said, Johnny, that "Adolf Hitler was born from a lineage of accursed, genocidally murderous 'half-breed' Jews."

Oh, Johnny. You really are full of crap.


Mr. Wilson has a lot more info, including the fact the people can read your insane ramblings on page 149 of your idiotic, moronic, hateful and ridiculously stupid book. You really have a fantastic imagination. Pretty soon you'll be claiming Hitler was related to Esau, even though biblical scholars know there was no Esau, that the story of Esau and Jacob was an old tribal tale lacking historical authenticity.

Omigod! That's what you did! You said "Adolf Hitler was a distant descendant of Esau." You wrote that right there on page 149.

Heh. Heh. Oh, Johnny, how could you be so wrong. Everyone knows that its those red-headed people who are distant descendants of Esau, and it's almost always red-headed people who do the bad stuff in the world, like starting wars, making castor oil, allowing George Bush (either one) to be elected, breeding Glenn Beck, not short circuiting Rush Limbaargh...

In fact, according to "many biblical scholars working in San Antonio, Texas, in a little room at the back of the Alamo, Hitler was really a red head, but dyed his hair with shoe black!"

I'm surprised you didn't know that.

Holy crap! That means, maybe, possibly, perhaps, Hitler really was a distant descendant of the non-existent Esau?


Well, I've got better things to do than point out to people what a stupe you are, Johnny, so I'm gonna quit now.

But folks can read Mr. Wilson's entire article here.

Rachel Maddow - Calling Republican bluffs on health care

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Rachel is correct. Health care is a battle between the righteous and the corporate interests.

We are ruled by corporate interests. Some might say we live under a dictatorship of corporate interests. Many, if not most, of the people we elect to represent us, do not, in fact represent us, but rather serve those corporate interests which provided the wherewithal to get them elected and hold the purse strings to the dollars needed to stay in power.

Why do so many folks in this country fear "socialism," which they often define simply as a "government" program, but do not fear the absolute rule corporate interests hold over their lives?

We don't have health care for all because of corporate interests. We don't have cheap medicine in this country because of corporate interests. We don't have cheap oil because of corporate interests. We go to war to serve corporate interests (and with a couple of exceptions that has always been the case in recent years!). We don't have a decent minimum wage because of corporate interests. Our air is filthy and our forests are devastated because of corporate interests. We're are unable to fight global warming effectively because of corporate interests. Our food is untested and the animals we eat are raised amidst filth and disease because of corporate interests. Jobs by the millions have fled this country to those places where labor is cheap because of corporate interests. We waste billions and billions of dollars every year to incompetence, fraud and outright theft because of corporate interests.

And, ladies and gentlemen, it was corporate interests and the greed of those corporate interests that built a financial house of cards which crumbled in front of our eyes and is causing untold hardship for millions of our American citizens and people around the world!

Corporate moguls make myths

Found this at BuzzFlash.

It seems that General Electric, which is one of the worlds largest arms dealers, among other things, got its corporate shorts in a knot because Bill O'Reilly began attacking GE to get back at Keith Olbermann.

Huh? Well, Olbermann and O'Reilly have been feuding and Olbermann has exposed O'Reilly for being the pompous rightwing asshole he is who tells lies as a matter of course on a regular basis. Olbermann is employed by MSNBC which is owned by General Electric.

FAUX News is owned by Rupert Murdoch. O'Reilly, representing FAUX News, attacked GE for it's legal business dealings in Iran in a chickenshit attempt to punish GE for allowing Olbermann to say such nasty things about phone-sex Bill.

This led to some protests of MSNBC by GE stockholders.

Well! Can't have that! Thus, the corporate moguls got together and made a deal. Olbermann will back off and O'Reilly with STFU.

Sort of.

The myth we're supposed to believe is that FAUX News and GE via MSNBC care about reporting "news" or truth or anything of importance.

As my friends in Texas would say: Sheeeet! All they care about is makin' money. They got that right!


Read the entire BuzzFlash article here.

Rachel Maddow on the GOP's Overt Racism

God Almighty!

This is a bit long, but worth every minute!

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Coulter and Malkin - Liars, liars, panties on fire!

It would be hard to find two more despicable, hateful, dishonest, morally-challenged women than Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin.

According to Politics Daily these two women invented a story about Lynn Sweet and Barack Obama. Lynn Sweet was the one who, at Obama's July 22 press conference, asked the president what he thought about the arrest of Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

President Obama then made the "famous" comment which has caused something of a stir, particularly among the more rabid racist element in our country - which includes most of the Repugnican Party.

Coulter, on FAUX News, said that Obama "planted" that question and that she could prove it! Michelle Malkin, on NBC's "Today Show," said "Absolutely do," when Matt Lauer asked if she thought the question had been "planned."


Lynn Sweet, who asked the question, said both Coulter and Malkin are wrong. She was being nice. She should have and could have rightly said, they are full of the usual bullshit they spread over the country's airwaves.

Sweet said the White House did not plant the question, nor did they know the question ahead of time.

Sweet also said, coherently, unlike either Coulter or Malkin, that the story of Gates' arrest had been plastered all over the media and it would only make sense that Obama would expect someone to raise the issue at his press conference.

Sweet noted "The idea that the Obama media machine would try to plant that question -- or any question -- with me is nutty. ... By the time Coulter and Malkin spoke with such certainty, I had already said that Obama did not have a clue about what I would be asking."


Hmmm. Well, that wouldn't matter to either Coulter or Malkin, for both are amoral, without integrity and disinterested in truth.

What I find interesting is that their suspicions reflect exactly what we had come to expect from the Bush White House. Rare and controlled press conferences where no "real" questions were allowed because Bush would not know how to answer a "real" question and would look as stupid as he really is if he tried, were the rule with Bush and Company.

So, when Coulter and Malkin make such assertions, they are telling us that's what they would have done; they are giving us another glimpse into the darkness of their souls!

A Virgin Birth

Boy, is this one on target. Thanks to Atheist Cartoons!

The Good Samaritan

Are there any "good" Samaritans? This is very funny. Thanks again to Dan Florien at Unreasonable Faith.

Rachel Maddow - A journalist. Lou Dobbs - A hack.

Lou Dobbs, the hack, calls Ms. Maddow a "tea-bagging queen." Ms. Maddow has a couple of things to say about that.

Health care, the GOP's death knell

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The Southern Baptist Convention doesn't believe in education

That's right. The Southern Baptist Convention does not believe in education.

Onenewsnow reports that Morris Chapman, a former president of the SBC and one of the more hide-bound SBC leaders, wants Southern Baptist Churches to establish "Christian" schools. Chapman claims to be most concerned about "the protection and nurturing of the spiritual health and growth of children and adolescents."

And the reason he's concerned is because of the ungodly, secular, humanist public school system!

"In far too many public schools throughout the country," said Chapman, "our children are being bombarded with secular reasoning, situational ethics and moral erosion."

Hmm. He doesn't define those terms, but obviously considers such things to be anti the Southern Baptist god.

The solution, according to Chappie, is for SBC churches to set up "kingdom schools." This is what SBC kids need in order to learn the "truth" and be able to survive in the real world. Heh. Heh.


All of this may be leading somewhere else; may have more significant implications. Christian, in an article at Talk2Action, quotes Bruce Shortt of the Exodus Mandate, an organization involved in pulling christianist kids from public schools:

"Historically," says Shortt, "the Southern Baptist Convention has been rather joined at the hip with the public school system. But this proposal by Chapman, I think, represents the realization that the public school system is, in reality, the youth ministry for the state church of secular humanism."

What a fascinating statement. Especially the last part which uses a bunch of code words for the purpose of raising the hackles of fundy christianists: "youth ministry," "state church," "of secular humanism"?

Sheesh! Shortt is simply unconscionable! None of those terms have any validity in fact. They simply derive from his deluded mind.


The movement to move christianist kids from public to christianist schools is not new. James Dobson has been calling christianist parents to pull their kids out of public school for years. But, Chapman's statement may signal the beginning of a concerted SBC push to do just that.

Which is OK. Christianists can run their own schools. They can teach their children all the fantastical biblical stuff and create a whole generation of young people who are basically ignorant of reality and the way the world works. That's their right.


But it isn't education. It's indoctrination. Chapman, Shortt, Dobson and all those cut from this anti-public school mold, do not care about education; they do not believe in education. Education, by definition, is to help people learn to think, to consider alternatives, to come to their own conclusions.

And those goals are exactly the opposite of christianist indoctrination. It would be too bad for the country if the SBC decides to set up these so-called "kingdom schools." We already have too many people ignorant of history and science and just about every other subject you could name.

They're generally the ones who vote Repugnican!

Palin's "new" role

When Sarah Palin resigned as the governor of Alaska, she gave a speech which was full of the kind of nonsense we expect from Ms. Palin (such as how the media tells lies and picks on her kids), but also contained some unusually strange and contradictory remarks.

She seemed to be saying that she stepped down in order to better help Alaska with its problems. She said she wants "to chart a new course to advance the state." She also said that because she is no longer the governor she "will be able to fight even harder ... for what is right and for the truth."

Then she patted herself on the back by claiming, "What I promised, we accomplished."


It is truly fascinating how this woman's mind works. She resigned as governor in order to do precisely the things that a governor can do? As governor she had certain powers necessary to promote programs that benefited Alaska, and to achieve her goals for the state. As a private citizen, she has lost those powers.

And she didn't accomplish what she promised! The most egregious example being that she failed to serve out her term which she promised to do when she took the oath of office.


No one knows what she intends at this point other than to make speeches and make money and try to solidify her credentials as a political contender. But the polls suggest she is not as well-regarded as she might hope and political pundits are divided on her future role in the Republican Party.

Fortunately, the latest polls indicate a majority of Americans hold a negative view of her politics and her abilities.

Whatever happens, the MSM needs to pay much closer attention to her off-the-wall religious beliefs for they have grave implications in that they tend to drive her life, and more importantly, tie her to some very strange and dangerous theocrats who are in turn driven by a theology that is not close to traditional Christianity and in many ways is decidedly un-American.

We'll be discussing that further in a future post.

Amsterdam and Bill O'Reilly and FAUX News

By now, everyone should be well aware of the fact that Bill O'Reilly and FAUX News make up stories. They make them up and what's worse they broadcast their lies to the unsuspecting and naive folks in America who want so hard to believe that the United States is the best country in the world in every way.

Evidence never is a problem for Bill or FAUX News as they simply ignore it. Thus, when Bill and FAUX News made up stuff about Amsterdam they offered no evidence to back their claims. But they solemnly pronounced their made-up stuff as true. They shook their heads, went "Tsk, tsk, tsk."

But it was all a lie.

Here's the truth.

With thanks to PZ Myers at Pharyngula.

Mr. Jon Stewart eviscerates Ms. Sarah Palin

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I'm not sure anyone should be subjected to Palin's incredibly irritating nasal whine for more than, oh, 1 or 2 seconds, but if you can handle it, watch this video where Mr. Stewart has a great time helping Ms. Palin show the entire world what a complete fool she is. "Ignorance R Us" describes Palin perfectly.

Oops! I better go upstairs and see what Mommy has cooked for din-din. You see, just like Sarah said, I'm in my basement den, lounging about in my PJ's, pecking away on my computer writing nasty articles about her for my blog.

What conservative Repugnicans really think about their country

Conservative Repugnicans in Congress do not give a rat's ass about this country or the people whom they serve!

As we have said many times, it's all about power: how to get it and how to maintain it!

McClatchy describes the shenanigans currently underway in Washington surrounding the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court.

There is no question she will be confirmed. All 12 Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee and one Repugnican (Lindsey Graham) are planning to vote for her. When the nomination goes to the full Senate, it is expected the Democrats will vote for her and the Repugnicans will vote Nay!


So, what's new, you say? Well, the Repugs see the vote of Judge Sotomayor as an opportunity to gain political points! In other words, their vote in the Senate is not based, in any way, shape, or form, on whether she might be a good judge on the Supreme Court, but on whether they can use it to their political advantage!

Ralph Reed, the nogoodnik "activist," wrote a memo stating that "Republicans can reap significant political benefits by voting against her confirmation and making her an issue in key races next year."

Grover Norquist, another nogoodnik, wants Repugs to point out that Sotomayor is anti-gun and is for racial quotas. True or not. It doesn't matter.

The NRA is going to use her as ammo to elect more of it's supporters in the next go-around.


But none of this may work and, indeed, may backfire. Some analysts, such as Merle Black, says "The main issue right now is jobs. I don't know how many Americans are paying attention to the Sotomayor debate."

And so it goes. There's a lot more which you can read at the McClatchy Washington Bureau here.

The point remains: The bulk of Congressional Repugnicans just don't give a damn about the country or the people! They are a collection of right-wing freaks who collectively distort the truth or tell out-right lies and have absolutely nothing to offer on any issue with which this country is confronted!

Finally, they are, for the most part, out-and-out racists!

Big Brother is here!

The United States House of Representatives "overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including 'obscene' cartoons and drawings--or face fines of up to $300,000," according to BS Alert.

Here's more:

"That broad definition would cover individuals, coffee shops, libraries, hotels, and even some government agencies that provide Wi-Fi. It also sweeps in social-networking sites, domain name registrars, Internet service providers, and e-mail service providers such as Hotmail and Gmail, and it may require that the complete contents of the user's account be retained for subsequent police inspection."


Frankly, I find this mind-boggling! The vote was 409 to 2. It's called the SAFE Act.

And the SOB's behind it were very sneaky. They "rushed" it "to the floor under a procedure that's supposed to be reserved for noncontroversial legislation. ... [It] has never received even one hearing or committee vote."


The bill will probably be found unconstitutional as there is no way to define what "illegal images" means or how to determine what is "obscene."

The world is going to hell in a handbasket. Our country is sinking in the mire of corporate corruption devised and supported by the previous administration. Well, you know how the rest goes - we've got some real problems on our hands.

Not to worry. Our Congressional representatives are hard at work proving that Obama's real birth certificate is a fake and passing bills that threaten your rights under the First Amendment!

And these are the clowns that crow about their "strict" construction of the Constitution and who parade their fears of "socialism" and "big" government telling people what to do!

I'm thinking we're involved in a repeat of 1930s Germany. Hitler, you'll recall, was not a commie or a socialist, but a "conservative" who thought he knew best what Germans should believe and do.

Glenn Beck IS insane!

One important aspect of the definition of insanity is the inability to differentiate between what is real and what is fantasy.

Enter Glenn Beck who thinks that Obama hates white people. That's quite interesting for, as Crooks and Liars points out, his mother was white and he was raised by white grandparents.

One of these days they're going to come in white coats and straight-jackets and haul Beck's fat ass off to a water-boarding school where he can get some hands-on experience.

Well, hell, we can dream, can't we?

Thaddeus McCotter is a dimwitted wingnut Repugnican from Michigan. How do asshats like this get elected? It's very frightening to realize Congress is full of them!

DNC Strikes Back on Health Care

Glenn Beck is probably insane

I wonder if the FOX News corporation has therapists that could help this poor fool.

Rick Perry - Worst person in the world!

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Heil, you Dick!

Old news in a new wrapper, and ultimately unsurprising, though frightful as hell:

Dick Cheney had no use for the Constitution of the United States when he was running the White House during the Bush Administration.

We've known that for years. The MSM has known that for years. But the MSM, fearful of losing "access" to the White House Lie Machine, and compromised by their corporate masters, let Dick Cheney get away with perfecting his anti-Constitutional agenda!

Heil, Dick!


The latest example comes from a NY Times article which reported Cheney, using a self-justifying DOJ memo from the nogoodniks, John Yoo and Robert Delahunty, pushed hard to use United States military forces "to arrest and detain American citizens, inside the U.S., who were suspected of involvement with al Qaeda."

Glenn Greenwald gives all the rotten details in a detail article at Salon.com.

Greenwald notes that "this October 23 Memo was one of the most significant events in American politics in the last several decades, because it explicitly declared the U.S. Constitution -- the Bill of Rights -- inoperative inside the U.S., as applied to U.S. citizens."


Although Cheney pushed hard for using of the military against American citizens, he was ultimately overruled by Bush. It is doubtful that George Jr. knew what the Constitution says about this or cared, but being first and foremost a political animal, he determined it would cause too much of an uproar and might lead to further investigations into the criminality of his administration.

Over the past eight years, while the MSM has been kissing the asses of the Bushites, many people in the blogosphere have been crying that a dictatorship is just a stroke of the pen away and that under Bush/Cheney we came closer to a full-fledged dictatorship than at any time in our history. The Bush/Cheney administration not only had no respect for the Constitution and laws of our country, but contrived over and over again to circumvent both!

Please read Greenwald's article here for a detailed and reasoned argument as to why we cannot allow this to happen again; under Obama or anyone else!

Week in Review

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The Birther

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Pensions for Alaska Territorial Guardsmen?

Where is Sarah Palin when we need her? I mean, my god, the Feds are actually thinking about sending money from Washington to Alaska to restore pension payments to 26 old men who served during WWII in the Alaska Territorial Guard!

How can this terrible travesty be allowed to happen? Where, I ask again, is Sarah Palin? Why isn't she on a soapbox in Juneau denouncing this horrific invasion of Alaska's prerogatives and terrible attack on Alaska's "sovereignty"?

This is a clear example of Palin's hypocrisy! Can't Alaska take care of its own? Why does the federal government need to be involved? Were these men not part of ALASKA's Territorial Guard?

It is obvious and very dissapointing that Palin doesn't care anymore. She's a lame duck, I guess. She's probably got more important things on her mind, like what to wear to the next Pro-Life rally in Alabama or Mississippi or Texas. And we know she's obsessing about her chances to become the prez in 2012.

But still. More "socialism" from Washington, and Palin has nothing to say? So sad. She could at least tell those old men to fund their own damn pensions just like the rich folks.

The most despicable liars in America

You'll find them on this video - the most despicable liars - which includes Limbaargher and Beck and other assorted fruitcakes who are perhaps more dangerous to the health of our nation than swine flu or rampaging boa constrictors or Rick Warren, or Rick Perry, or even Sarah Palin.

These charlatans have no conscience. The exude pure evil. They provide the most powerful evidence available that there is no god, for if there were a god she would strike them down with unmatched righteous fury.

They trade on the First Amendment but trample its spirit.

The video is from Media Matters. A caution, though. If you are a good person, a decent person, a person who values the truth, it may make you violently ill.

Joshua Holland and lying right-wing pundits

Joshua Holland, an editor and senior writer at AlterNet has a brief article detailing how the right-wingnut media consists of people who lie their asses off.

Now, to lie your ass off, means you know the truth but prefer to tell a lie, which further means you are ethical and morally challenged and an asshole, to boot.

Here's Holland's take on the House health care bill:

It "would create publicly-run insurance exchanges through which private insurers could sell their policies. But eligibility in those exchanges -- or 'gateways' -- would be limited. The CBO projects that by 2019, 30 million Americans -- about one in ten -- would participate in the exchanges.

"Within those gateways, people would have the option of buying into a publicly-administered insurance plan. ...

"Private insurance would remain unchanged for the overwhelming majority of Americans. ... "

Holland's article is here.

Watch the video to see the liars in action.

Rachel Maddow on Rick Perry

Found this over at Conrad Strong's blog, also! Thanks!! It adds a visual sense to what I wrote yesterday about Perry tilting toward treason (scroll down a couple of posts)...

Why Repugs and Blue Dog Dems fight health care

There is but one reason why Repugnicans all across the country, along with the nogoodnik Blue Dog Democrats, are fighting health care reform with every ounce of strength they have.

It has to do with who owns them. Anything they say relative to health care reform has to be considered in this light:

They are bought and paid for by the health care industry and by the drug companies. They are owned by those corporate entities.

The health care industry along with the drug companies are running scared. If Obama's health care plan is passed, they fear their unconscionable profits derived from the weak, the poor and the sick of our land will be curtailed, perhaps severely.

Thus, they are calling in their chits. They want payback. And the Repugnicans and Blue Dogs are only too willing to crucify health care reform on the cross raised by the health care industry and the drug companies. With nails molded from their 30 pieces of silver, and to fan the flames of their fiery need for power, they betray the American people once again.

Rick Perry, the 10th Amendment, and tilting toward treason

Rick Perry, the big hair guv'ner of Tejas, don't want no Obama health plan for the people in his state! No sir!

And Mr. Perry is so upset he might even "invoke" the 10th Amendment if necessary to keep Texicans out of Obama's health plan! Yes Sir!

Obama's health plan would be "disastrous" for Tejas, said Big Hair (acccording to the McClatchy Washington Bureau).

Perry wants Obama's health care plan to fail. But if it doesn't, Texas and some other states might rise up in rebellion! Resist! Resist! "...I'm certainly willing and ready to fight if this administration continues to try to force their very expansive government philosophy down our collective throats," saith Lord Perry.


One cannot help but wonder why this asshat did not stand up and fight when the Bush administration forced its very expansive government philosophy as exemplified by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan down the throat of the people of Texas? How much of the taxes paid by Texans have been used to finance these wars, and how many Texans have died fighting these wars?

Why didn't Perry stand up and fight when the Bush administration violated the Constitution by secretly spying on American citizens, which includes, of course, the citizens of Tejas? And why didn't Big Hair stand up and fight when the Bush administration, utilizing its expansive government philosophy, gave free rein to the Wall Street criminals who have proceeded to bankrupt our country?


Perry seems to be dumber than I originally thought. Evidently, he has not read our Constitution, and thus does not understand it, and he doesn't seem to know very much about American history, or about how our system of government has evolved down through the years. He doesn't seem to remember anything about the Civil War and the result of that horrendous conflict. In fact, he sounds just like the southern politicians did before that Armageddon exploded.

Someone like Perry can get elected only because the Texas (and American) educational system has failed totally. I speak from experience. As a history teacher I was told straight out by the principal of my school that history didn't matter. There was even talk for a time about doing away with the teaching of history. The reason for that extreme position had to do with the fact that most of the students could not read or write and they had to learn how to do that to pass state-mandated tests (mandated, I should say by that lover of big, expansive government, Jeb Bush)!

The only thing that mattered in her school, saith the principal, was reading and writing!

So, people like Rick Perry get to become governors and people like De Mint get elected to Congress because the people are sometimes stupid, usually ignorant and know nothing of American history, our basic documents such as the Constitution, nor do they know the difference between capitalism, socialism and communism.


When a governor of a state stands up in public and asserts he will fight comprehensive health care for all Americans, and not only so, but will "resist" a bill signed, sealed and delivered by the United States Congress and the President of the United States because of some miguided notion about state sovereignty, he is treading awfully close to treason.

And treason is a very serious crime. Perhaps someone ought remind Big Hair that governors are not exempt from abiding by the Constitution of the United States.

The moron from California, Dan Lungren, rises

This is the Repugnican wacko who thinks it imperative, not that we have health care for all of our citizens, but that we have "In God We Trust" etched on the walls of the new Capitol Visitor Center.

And Jesus wept!

The Repugnican health plan

Found this one at Conrad Strong's blog...it's a good one and worth checking out!

Who cares if Tim Tebow is a virgin

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For thousands of people in this country, what Tim Tebow thinks or does is considered to be of some importance. They think it is wonderful that Tim Tebow and Jesus walk hand in hand. and that Tim Tebow writes Bible verses on his face, and that Tim Tebow, in their opinion, shows mighty spiritual fortitude.

But why? Who cares?

Tim Tebow is known to be a born-again christianist who, in the off-season goes around the world trying to convert pagans so that they, too, will become born-again christianists and will not burn forever in hell. To burn forever in hell would be terrible. The keeper of hell probably prohibits the playing of football. Which would explain why some football players become born-again christianists.

Who cares?

Tim Tebow can throw a football. Tim Tebow might even be a great football player.

Who cares?

Now Tim Tebow has announced he is a virgin and "saving himself for marriage." Wow! Isn't that something? But, I can't recall anything in the Gospel mythologies where Jesus talks about saving yourself for marriage. I wonder why? Perhaps he didn't consider it important. He did talk about not parading your religion around in public like the hypocrites do.

As I've said many times, I have nothing against Mr. Tebow. And he can believe any fanciful nonsense he desires.

But saving yourself for marriage says nothing about you except that you have have been taught sex before marriage is bad and will make your god mad and you may not go to heaven where football must surely be allowed (well, maybe not on Sundays!)

But, please! Who cares what Tim Tebow thinks about such things?

He throws a football.

Who cares?


P.S. So far as I can tell, no one is certain as to who is Tebow's girlfriend. Be that as it may, the girls with whom he has been "friends" have had a special something or maybe two special somethings. Maybe he does have great "spiritual fortitude," or maybe he got tackled too hard a few times!

Obama to De Mint - "I don't break!"

Full story at Politico here.

Craig Ferguson figured it out...

This is absolutely wonderful. And I found it at Dianne's Forks Off the Moment, where you will also find much substantial common sense commentary on the world's weirdness.

The real deal from the DNC

Marsha Blackburn - "Let them eat cake"

Marsha Blackburn is a Repugnican Representative from Tennessee. Watch her cry about how the government should not spend money on the poor fools who happen to get caught in a Katrina or a tsunami ...

Just when you think the Repugnican Party can't sink any lower in the slime, Blackburn leads the way down!

I wonder what her reaction would be to "emergency" funding if all the homes in her Tennessee district were blown away in a tornado?

Again, I ask, from which rocks do these creepos crawl and why the hell would anyone vote for them for any position?

Jim DeMint wants to bring Obama down!

From Salon.com

A Personal Relationship with Jesus

Michael Steele - out of touch!

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Palin playing to her base

From Alex Koppelman at Salon.

The 10th Amendment to our Constitution "reserves any powers not expressly given to the federal government to the people or the states."

Sarah Palin, playing to her base - the rednecks who cling to religion and guns - has signed a resolution (approved by the Alaska legislature) which refers to the 10th Amendment and tells the federal guv'mint to leave Alaska alone!

The latter part of the resolution reads thusly: "This resolution serves as Notice and Demand to the federal government to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers."

Heh. Heh.

It means nothing. But the asshats and beanheads all over the lower 48 (most of whom don't know Alaska from Hawaii) are saluting their moose-hunter leader for signing the resolution and showing them damn feds a thang or two!


Someone should tell them that this battle was joined many years ago and has been resolved.

Or, better yet, the federal government should go into Alaska and dismantle every federal program that is in place; the feds should also shut down any federal benefit Alaska receives from the federal government. No more nuttin!

That would last about 24 hours and as Alaska disintegrated, Palin would be pleading on her knees for federal assistance!

What a moron!

Read all of Koppelman's article here.

Eric Cantor and his Judeo-Christian foreign policy

This comes from Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly via AlterNet.

When Eric Cantor, the minority whip in the House (Repugnican from Virginia), spoke to those gathered for the annual conference of the Christians United for Israel (which actually should be named "So-called Christians United for the Conversion of all Jews in Israel before God Slaughters Them at Armageddon"), he said this:

"Reaching out to the Muslim world may help in creating an environment for peace in the Middle East, but we must insist as Americans that our policies be firmly grounded in the beliefs of the Judeo-Christian tradition upon which this country was founded."

Heh. Heh.

Cantor is mentally-challenged, as we all know, but this is a new low, even for him. What the hell are the "beliefs of the Judeo-Christian tradition" ?

I'd like Cantor to define what he means when he uses the term, "Judeo-Christian." That's a stupid term devised by Christians to smooth over their killing of Jews down through history for not accepting Jesus as the Messiah. Furthermore, it has never been possible to define "Jew," or "Christian" with any precision because the variations are endless, much less "Judeo-Christian."

Name one belief upon which our country was founded that is exclusive to a mythical "Judeo-Christian" tradition!

How do people like Cantor ever get elected to anything?

Bagdhad embassy boondoggle

The Bush administration saw no problem with beginning an unnecessary war in Iraq in order to help Bush 43 get over his inferiority complex relative to Bush 41 and, of course, to secure the Iraqi oil for all their compatriots in the energy business.

Cost in dollars and human lives be damned.

One of the biggest boondoggles was the construction of a monstrous embassy on the banks of the Tigris River. Hell, it only cost $700 million. It is essentially a city within a city and tightly secured against those Iraqis who might disapprove of such a massive US presence in their midst.

Altogether, the embassy currently has some 1,873 folks working there, alongside more than 13,000 contractors.

Hey, is Iraq a place to make some bucks? You betcha!


But there's a problem. Too many people are living the good life at the embassy, so now the guv'mint's talking about "downsizing" to, well, about 600.

Why do we need 600 people in a piddly-ass little country like Iraq which we are in the process of leaving to its own devices?

We don't. We didn't need the embassy in the first place! It's a monument to the utter stupidity and wastefulness of the Bush 43 administration! It's an insult to the Iraqi people!

It was built without consideration as to cost. Or as a State Department report put it: the embassy was built "without regard to the usual budget constraints on U.S. missions overseas."


And isn't it interesting that our leaders in Washington had no problem spending billions of dollars on an illegal and unnecessary war, along with $700 million on a unneeded and idiotic embassy, but have a terribly tough time finding the money to provide health care for all of our citizens?

Christianist sex

Found his gem at Friendly Atheist.

Republicans and Blue Dog Dems block health care reform

[Christianist wingnut lover of Jesus and hater of Obama, Jim DeMint]

Turns out, as we've known all along, that certain Democratic members of Congress have sold their souls to their corporate mentors just like Repugnicans do as a matter of course. The Blue Dogs, crabbing about how 60 years isn't long enough to talk about health care reform, want to continue the discussion into the fall!

But then, at least one of the Blue Dogs, has been bought and paid for by the health care industry and the drug companies.

It must be tough, to stand up front and pretend to care when all you really want to do and must do, to satisfy your masters, is delay and defeat true health care reform.


Now, the Republicans have no health care plan. But, typically, they don't give a rat's ass about the American people. All they care about is power so they can continue to feast off the bones of the middle and lower-classes. They were just about there, at the peak, where nobody could bring them down, and then this damn uppity you-know-what by name of Obama upended all their dreams.

Being racist to the core, Repugnicans like the profound christianist who has accepted Jesus as his lord and savior, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), are fighting tooth and nail to derail health care for the masses!

One of the major reasons they are doing this is because they believe that defeating Obama on healthcare will bring him down. DeMint, speaking to a bunch of like-minded wingnuts, said:

"If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."


Try to get your mind around that! DeMint does not care about the country, or the people of the country. It's not even a matter of principle. It's personal for this unprincipled christianist from the South! Bring Obama down. That's what these freaks want to do!

And that is the ugly face of the Repugnican Party in this country! No concern, no care, no plan. Just pure unbridled hatred!

Republicans blocking health care

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Sarah Palin in another ethical bind

Poor Sarah! One of the reasons she just had to quit pretending to govern Alaska is that all these bad people were filing phony claims that she violated ethical standards as enshrined in Alaskan law which made her really mad and took all of her money and much of her time 'cause she had to fight back, dontcha know?

Poor Sarah! All these false allegations! She could no longer pretend to govern properly. And she also had to get her campaign train on the track for 2012 as there might be other Repugs out there somewhere who are just a tad smarter than she is who also want to be prezident of this proud wonderful land that is so close to Alaska. She really needs a bit of a head start.

The trouble is, one major investigation found her guilty. She pretended the opposite, but it really did! In another, which found she abused her office by charging the state for time she spent at home, she was required to repay the money. While some of the charges have been dismissed, several others are still pending.

And now, according to the Anchorage Daily News:

"An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by accepting private donations to pay her legal debts..."

Uh oh! There's that pesky word, "evidence." Damn. That sure screws things up for Ms. Palin, doesn't it?

"The report [of the independent investigator -- note, not a Dem or a Repug or a member of the MSM] ... says Palin is securing unwarranted benefits and receiving improper gifts through the Alaska Fund Trust, set up by supporters.

"An investigator for the state Personnel Board says in his July 14 report that there is probable cause to believe Palin used or attempted to use her official position for personal gain because she authorized the creation of the trust as the 'official' legal defense fund."

Another pesky phrase there: "probable cause." The legalise for "She did it!"


Now, all Palin has to do is refuse to take money from the defense fund, which the report recommends.

But, will she do that?


Seems like Sarah has trouble following the law. Just like George W. Bush and Dickie Cheney. No wonder the Repugs love her!

Send a note to God

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Medl Mobile is a new company based in Los Angeles that is "developing apps for Apple to sell on its Web site."

Medl Mobile solicited ideas. Some 20,000 folks sent in their best thoughts. Out of those they chose what they consider to be the most brilliant one. It was dreamed up by a 17-year old by name of Allen Wright and it's called "A Note to God."

As reported by McClatchy's Washington Bureau, this app "lets iPhone users send prayers into cyberspace and allows them to read the prayers of others. The messages are stored in a database, and users remain anonymous."

A side benefit is that when you die and God/Jesus/Allah or whomever, meets you at the Pearly Gates, he/she/it will know who you are - that person who sent all those notes from Kookamunga!


Isn't this fascinating? A medieval application for a 21st Century innovation!

But there are a couple of problems. Which god do you pray to: Yahweh, Allah, Vishnu, Buddha, Jesus, Mary, Zeus, Dionysis? And, is there any guarantee offered that you will actually connect to the god of your imagination? What if your god is sitting on a planet too far to be reached by this shot into cyberspace?


My first reaction to all this was that it will never work. Who's gonna spend money to participate in such nonsense?

Then, I remembered. Millions of people voted for George W. Bush, and millions more think Sarah Palin is the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary.

Medl Mobile's gonna make millions!

Walter Cronkite - a real reporter!

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The Media Bloodhound, Brad Johnson, has written an excellent essay on the mainstream media's tributes to Walter Cronkite. Johnson notes, poignantly, that in all their effluent "memorializing" of Mr. Cronkite, the MSM failed to point out that Cronkite was strongly opposed to the Iraq war and said so, publicly.

"Following his death last week," writes Johnson, "various network news tributes replayed footage of Cronkite's influential '68 on-air editorial" during which he declared that President Johnson and his Defense Department were wrong and that, no matter what they said, the Vietnam Was was "unwinnable."

Cronkite felt the same way about Iraq, and he felt it was his responsibility, as a reporter, to say so!

But that's only part of the story. I've come to the conclusion that one of the major problems in this country is that the MSM is owned, lock, stock and barrel by corporate entities that care not for truth but only for the bottom line. Thus, the MSM consists largely of hired quacks who waddle to the tune their owners sing.

We do not get the truth. The people in this country are given sound bites and propaganda, all of which are duly reported as "news." It's no wonder that so many continue to vote against their own best interests.

All of this comes starkly to the fore in a statement by MSM hack, David Gregory, on MSNBC (a General Electric company!) on Mary 28, 2008:

"I think there are a lot of critics who think that [in the run-up to the Iraq War] .... if we did not stand up and say this is bogus, and you're a liar, and why are you doing this, that we didn't do our job. I respectfully disagree. It's not our role."

"It's not our role"? How incredible is that? Whose role is it, then. And what is your role, Mr. Gregory?

The MediaBloodhound answers that with the only answer possible: The role spelled out for the media by Mr. Gregory is "public relations officer."


Please read all of this superb article here.