9/29/2007:   The Monkey Faced Frat Boy whined about Congress preparing a budget that spends $205 billion more than he originally asked for on social programs like children's healthcare, education, law enforcement, security, etc., forgetting obviously that he has asked for another $200 billion to continue waging the war in Iraq. If we starting a phased withdrawal right now, the Iraq war, which Bush lied to get us into in the first place, will end up costing a cool $1 trillion.

I think he's afraid that the money we all need to keep America running won't be available for attacking Iran. Just a guess.

9/29/2007:   I've said before that Newt Gingrich is a smart man. Okay, what I actually said was that he was evil and power-hungry, but I was trying to imply that he was smart as well... Nevermind...

Anyway, the Newt That Screwed America back in the 90s has decided not to run for President in 2008. Which is smart on his part. Yeah, he'd probably take the GOP by storm, but he still couldn't win, and Newt is all about power, so what's the point of wasting your resources on a bid for power that's doomed to fail?

His decision plays out logically as an indictment of the real world chances that the GOP has of placing a candidate in the White House. You have to pay to play, in this game is a roll of the dice for the biggest chunk of power ever invested in a single individual, but what they're praying for is that their gamble will be rewarded with some Microsoft-sized bungle on the part of the Democrats.

In the meantime, Newt will write some more books, hit the speech circuit, and play armchair critic to process.

9/29/2007:   Several years ago I started a side business. It's been a place to market ideas and small products, that sort of thing. At the time, I attempted to get my business listed on the DMOZ, the open directory project. That directory listing feeds search engines the world over, and getting a listing there is a good way to improve your visibility.

If you can get listed.

I put in my first application for listing in three and half years ago. I just got the listing last month. That's right, three and half years is the wait time to get listed on DMOZ.

My questions is, what use is a "service" that takes years to service your needs? What good is a directory listing when web sites come and go within months and businesses start and end within a couple of years. The odds were heavily against my getting the listing while my fledgling company still existed.

I complained several times, reapplied several times (there's no way to tell if your application is still working), applied to be an editor in the hopes of helping with the obvious backlog, and even managed to get some cocky jerk on their discussion forums to discuss the problems they have.

Whatever. DMOZ was a spin-off project from Netscape, if I recall correctly. Apparently a spin-off that got no love... Well, in the interest of spreading a little love, here's the link table they suggest:

9/27/2007:   Stephanie Miller is easily the hottest and most intelligent AM talk show host in the world. She's my AM radio girlfriend, for sure. She's got a birthday this week and, while the mooks keep hinting that she's older than I am... which isn't old at all... cough... Her web shots look like she's in her early 30s.

Hmmmm.... (smiling contentedly)

No, that's all. Just wanted to point that out. You can move on to the next entry now...

9/27/2007:   A federal judge has decided that the provisions of the so-called "Patriot" Act that would have legalized warrantless wire tapping and searches without probable cause do in fact violate the Fourth Amendement to the constitution.

Duh.

What kind of moron thought it would pass, anyway? OH! Right, I almost forgot. George Bush. Of course, being a truly utter idiot, he didn't come to this conclusion himself. He had Alberto Gonzales to advise him. And Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Condoleeza Rice to agree with that assessment. What a pack of idiots.

But here's the scary part, if you're up for scary stuff this morning: if it gets to the Supreme Court that Bush has packed with PNAC and unitary executive supporters, will this decision be overturned? Will Alito and Thomas and Roberts violate their oaths of office to ignore the constitutionality of the Patriot Act and give Bush the good-ole-boy nod?

Time will tell.

9/27/2007:   My letter to Jerry McNerney:

The sad part is, shortly after sending that email, I had to send another one chastising him for lending his vote to a measure condemning the New York Times for running the "General Betray Us" ad. Mr. McNerney shouldn't be allowing himself to be sidetracked like that. If Gen. Petraeus wants to put his name behind a fraudulent report, and in the process betray the military men and women putting their lives on line in a war that they shouldn't have been in in the first place, then he deserves the predictable outcome. Mr. McNerney, please focus on removing Bush and ignoring the NeoCon distractions thrown at you.

9/24/2007:   This is a little shout out to my wife, who apparently monitors this blog now and then. How ya doin', babe?

9/21/2007:   During a press conference, Bush said that people were asking him, "Where is Mandela?" And that he tells them, "Mandela is DEAD!"

In other news, Nelson Mandela is STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE. And probably thinking, "Geez, that monkey faced frat boy is dumber than a gazelle standing on a lion's tail..."

9/21/2007:   Lesley Sanchez, foaming-at-the-mouth right wing hack and Bush fan-girl, said, "In the '08 election it's a lot to ask that the president's popularity is just going to blossom, but overall think about the fact that Ronald Reagan wasn't very popular in the late 80s because of Iran-Contra. Historically I think Bush is going to be a great asset for the party."

What the -?

Ms. Sanchez is clearly on drugs. Reagan had, at that point, gone obviously foggy with Alzheimer's, and he probably couldn't be held culpable in Iran-Contra, but we're still talking about a crime that was committed on his watch and with, at least in theory, his confused blessing if not his directive. Bush is unpopular for attacking the Constitution over and over, lying to the American people over and over, and yet she thinks a man like that is going to be a "great asset for the party." In what way exactly would a man like that be an asset to anyone? Is there something I'm missing here? He's not a hero, he's not a great man, he's an embarrassment to the country and certainly to the GOP, and yet idiots like Ms. Sanchez can't seem to see the evil for the cowboy hat.

(depressed sigh...)

I've sent Ms. Sanchez an email asking her if she really said what she meant, and how she could pose Bush as a "great asset." I'll let you know what kind of lame-ass excuses she comes up with.

9/21/2007:   Could someone else please view the video on CNN out today entitled, "Secret Airstrike," and tell me if it seems to you that the lady leading the story is snockered? It's like she can barely get the words out. Once you get past the shock of Nicole's garish makeup, you realize her cadence and enunciation are completely out of whack. What's the deal there? Is she throwing down a fifth of gin before climbing in the hotseat? If she was sitting in a club, I'd say she was about 2 stiff drinks away from tossing her dinner. Or maybe she just got a new tongue piercing that's throwing her off a bit? Dunno...

9/21/2007:   Well, it had to happen. Jesse Jackson decided to do it first, or at least do it big first. He actually said -- and no, I'm not making this up -- that Barack Obama was "acting like he's white."

Hey Jesse! Jealous much?

Jesse let this unfortunate sound bite fly in reaction to the lack of reaction on the part of the presidential candidates to the Jena protests. Which, IMHO, are completely stupid to begin with, more driven by the ambitions of a few than a true desire for justice. But I digress...

This just sounds like Jesse is pissed off that he was never really taken seriously as a presidential candidate. Remember back in 1984 and 1988 when he ran? I thought he was pretty interesting at the time, but then I wasn't nearly as politically aware as I am now, and looking back, I'm SO glad he didn't get the nomination. What a fiasco he would have proven to be. Given that his animosity is bubbling over, I wonder what price tag he would put on publicly retracting his support for Obama?

Jesse, just shut up, sit down, and let history play itself out. You compromised yourself a long time ago, and there are very few that take you seriously, at all, anyway.

9/21/2007:   Mike Gravel, the grouchy old man of the Democratic presidential hopefuls, is whining again that he didn't get invited to the AARP televised forum this week. He and Kucinich were snubbed. I like Dennis, but he's just too unapologetically liberal to succeed. Gravel is just too old and cantankerous. They both have image problems, and as a result, neither has a big enough piece of the pie to be a viable candidate. Sorry Mike.

9/21/2007:   Rep. Bob Filner got into a physical altercation of debatable proportions last month, and apparently he had another tussle back in 2003 with a government official. The GOP is jumping up and down screaming for an ethics investigation into Filner as a result.

Meanwhile, back at the department of Justice, another official in Bush's administration has been arrested for soliciting sex with a minor. Pedophile and assistant U.S. attorney John David R. Atchison was arrested for attempting to pay for the opportunity to have sex with a 5 year old.

Let me say that again, in case any Republicans missed it: A FIVE YEAR OLD.

I don't know, maybe it's a matter of degree. (Making a weighing motion with my hands)

Pushing someone's arm out of your way as you try to get to your luggage...
	Having sex with a five year old...
Push an adult...
	Rape a child...
Luggage...
	Pedophilia...

No, sorry, I'm just not seeing it.

9/21/2007:   In his new book, which I just have to get a copy of, former Mexican president and political failure Vicente Fox called Bush a "windshield cowboy," explaining that George Bush, for all his swagger and country boy bravado, is actually afraid of horses.

Yeehaw.

9/21/2007:   When asked if he thought a recession was pending given the current market indicators, Bush responded, “I think I got a B in Econ 101."

Bush makes baby Jesus cry, but right now, he's making his old economics teacher cry...

And since I'm kicking him while he's down, I think a 'B' in economics may have been the best grade he got. He certainly got 'D's in math and accounting and an 'F' in U. S. government and history. Hell, he probably got a 'C' in PE because he skipped class regularly to go get high.

I wonder if economics teachers across the country are looking at the screw-ups in the back of the room this morning and wondering which one might one day be the President of the United States. If if the screw-up does get elected to lead our nation, if he or she will one day turn to the cameras and say, "Sorry about the state of the economy. My economics teacher sucked."

9/20/2007:   Oh my god... I just heard some stupidity of the first order, and HAD to write about it. This is priceless...

In L.A., while the cops can't ask a suspect about their immigration status, they can now impound the cars of unlicensed drivers. Activist groups say -- and this is what had me rolling on the ground cracking up -- that this puts an undue economic burden on illegal aliens.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahah...hehe...heh...

You have GOT to be kidding me... Okay, let me get this straight. You're in the country illegally. You've broken our laws just by being here. You're not supposed to be driving here. You're not supposed to be here at all. Whether you're a citizen or not, you're not supposed to be driving without a license. And now you're upset and whining because you got pulled over, probably for breaking our traffic laws as well, and you're upset because your car got impounded?

ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FRIKKIN' MIND?!

But wait, it gets better: The activist from the "Mexican American Political Association" said that Mayor Villaraigosa was immoral because he got elected "on the backs of immigrants." Of course, the idiot from the MAPA forgot that illegal immigrants can't legally vote. Y'know, this is the problem with nearly every immigration controversy. We're not talking about immigration. We're talking about breaking into our country illegally. They're breaking the law. That's why they don't have driver's licenses.

Which brings me around to the concept of "sanctuary cities." These are cities that have broken with the law of the land to give refuge to people coming across the border illegally. I think people like Villaraigosa of L.A. and Tom Ammiano from the board of supervisors of San Francisco should themselves be thrown in jail for aiding and abetting criminals.

Someone please slap every single one of these morons and truck them back across the border where they belong. Geez, louise...

9/20/2007:   John Edwards said the following regarding healthcare: "The first day that I'm sworn in as president of the United States, I will submit a law that says that every member of Congress, the president of the United States, the vice president of the United States, and every cabinet member will lose their healthcare come July of 2009 unless they have passed universal healthcare for the United States of America!"

Hm. Okay.

First question: Is he doing to be sworn in on more than one day? Okay, sorry, that was flip...

Y'know, this is what I call political theater of the first order. There's a HUGE difference between submitting a bill and passing a law. The first day he's sworn in, he's going to immediately waste everyone's time by submitting a bill that no one will even bother to consider. I think it would be funny as hell if Congress, just to spite him, passed the bill and put it before him to sign it. I think the look of surprise on his face would be priceless. He knows it would never become law, and for him to make it sound like it would means he assumes we're pretty easy to lead around by the nose.

It sure made the crowd cheer, but it's grandstanding, pure and simple.

9/20/2007:   Bush, who has enough money to afford whatever healthcare he would need for his kids if they weren't already grown, has vetoed legislation that would have expanded healthcare coverage to include millions of children at a mere cost of, at most, $50 million. Keep in mind that Bush blows through about that much every day that we're in Iraq.

9/20/2007:   The Taliban, which originated in the border towns between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and which is now holed up back in those same towns after being chased out of Afghanistan following 9/11, has decided it's time to take over Pakistan. The president-by-military-coup, Pervez Musharraf, has managed to keep a pretty tight grip on the reins of power, but he knows too well that the Taliban and Al Qaeda are popular in his country, and right now, with his promise to turn over power to a democratically elected government past due, his control is tenuous at best.

Here's why we should be freaked out: Pakistan has fully tested nukes and demonstrated delivery systems capable of dropping missiles into all of the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. If Al Qaeda gets control of those weapons, our worst nightmares will come true.

And here's where it gets sickening: Bush was advised, before we went into Iraq, that this would happen. That the Taliban and Al Qaeda had fallen back into Pakistan, they already had a huge presence there, that they had the possibility of claiming power in that country, and that we needed to focus solely on cleaning up Al Qaeda before doing anything else. He was told that going into Iraq would stretch us too far, it would destabilize the region, would provide a training ground for terrorists, and would be winnable only in the sense that Vietnam was winnable.

Which brings me back to Bush's complaint that he has to keep everything he does a secret, otherwise he couldn't trust his advisors to give him good advice. He gets plenty of good advice, but he never listens to it, so why allow him to keep secrets?

Which brings me back to Pelosi. Secret member of PNAC? Yeah, given the excuse that an Al Qaeda-controlled Pakistan will give Bush to drop nukes all across the Middle East, I'm pretty sure of it now....

Geez, I'm starting to sound like a conspiracy theorist, huh? Damn you, Jim Ward!

9/20/2007:   Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Congress that, in attempting to fix the nation's mortgage crisis, they needed to build in controls against giving the impression that problems caused by risky loans would always be fixed by the government, that an overlarge safety net encourages fiscal irresponsibility. He stressed that any action by Congress to fix the current subprime mess should be "explicitly temporary and able to be implemented sufficiently promptly to serve its intended purpose."

Let me get this straight: The new federal reserve chairmain, Mr. Bernanke, is asking that, if Congress wages war on the housing loan crisis, that they explicitly include milestones and an exit strategy?

Really?

Um, excuse me... Mr. Bernanke? Look, we were wondering if you could help us out with something... See, we've got this little... um, what would you call it? A war. Yeah, I know, it sounds bad, but look, we were wondering if you'd like to run it for us, y'know, just to kind of wrap it up, finalize it, that sort of thing. See, we kind of got in this bind, and the monkey faced frat boy that started it -- no really, he's a complete moron -- doesn't seem to get it that it's past due to finish, we're running out of resources, that sort of thing. Knowhatahmean? Yeah, well, we'd fire him, but the top level manager that's supposed to do that isn't doing her job. It's a political thing, y'know? Anyway, call me, let's do lunch, and maybe we can save the world...

9/20/2007:   Al Sharpton, who I think did a marvelous job of handling the Don Imus incident in which Imus made deeply insulting racial remarks about a women's basketball team, is now caught up in trying to deny justice for a boy that was nearly killed by a mob of other boys. Sharpton, whose record for standing up for black causes seems to teeter between a sum total of well placed effort and stupid sensationalism, has come out on the side of the boys that nearly killed Justin Barker simply because they are black. Sharpton compared the town, Jena, to Selma when Martin Luther King marched there as he proclaimed that the charges and bail amounts attached to the beating, most of which occurred after Barker was knocked unconscious, leaving him with tremendous damage to his head including clots in his eyes and torn ears, were excessive.

It's times like these when people like Sharpton reveal themselves to be the true racists. Being right some of the time doesn't excuse this sort of travesty the rest of the time. Mychal (pronounced "Michael") Bell, 17, originally charged as an adult with attempted murder and held on $90,000 bail, has since been convicted of second degree assault and conspiracy to commit same. Given that they nearly beat Justin to death, resulting in injuries he will deal with for the rest of his life, I think the charges are just fine. Act like an animal, get treated like an animal. Color really doesn't figure into this.

Three months before the attack, there were several nooses hung from a tree where the black kids on campus usually hang out. Several kids were suspended for that, but were not arrested or charged with crimes. The complaint of the thousands of people that Sharpton rooked into crowding into Jena to protest is that the boys that put nooses in a tree should have been charged with a hate crime.

I'm not sure I completely agree with that, but I don't have a problem with it either. The boys that hung the nooses were idiots and should have been taught a stern lesson that they clearly weren't learning at home. But that doesn't excuse what Bell and the other five boys did to Barker. And this is an important distinction, that each individual is responsible for his or her own actions. Period, end of story. The judge in Jena needs to hand down the exact same sentence he'd hand down if there weren't a thousand demonstrators screaming for inequality and special treatment. The law is the law. If the law is not being administered fairly, guidelines need to be put in place, but protesting that someone should get off scot free for nearly killing someone is not okay, color notwithstanding, and Al Sharpton should be ashamed of his attempt to cash in and capitalize on this situation.

9/17/2007:   The least qualified and most egregiously anti-Constitutional attorney general this country has ever suffered has left office. Alberto Gonzales got all choked up at his exit speech, probably because he's so grateful he was leaving without having to wear handcuffs.

See you later, [expletive deleted]!

9/14/2007:   Guiliani: "It seems our goal in Iraq is no different than it was in the very beginning. The mission in Iraq is to provide safety and security so we can have an ally in Iraq against the Islamic terrorism."

Ah. Okay, see, I was operating under the assumption that the original reason we went into Iraq was because they were developing nuclear weapons and already had chemical and biological weapons ready to go. I was told back then that we needed to hurry because we didn't "want our smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." I completely missed the memo where Bush said we were invading Iraq to provide safety and security from Islamic extremists. If I had only known about that memo, I would have suggested we achieve that end through diplomatic means. See, folks, I think that's the information we've been working without. And Rudy was kind enough to let us know that we were on the wrong page. Thanks, Rudy!

Rudy goes on to clarify, "That's the mission that the Democrats agreed to back in 2003. They've kind of changed their minds about that."

The Democrats don't want safety and security?! (gasp!) Y'know, I'll bet they thought it was about nukes as well. Whoever it is at the White House that distributes these update memos should be fired, honestly.

Rudy: "And if we can be successful in that, I don't see the idea of running out and withdrawing and retreating!"

"Retreating?" Gosh, retreating from fighting for safety and security (as opposed to leaving after not finding WMDs and giving up on occupying a country in the throes of a civil war)?! Gosh golly gee willikers, I hope not!

But here's the best Rudy Cross Dressing Liar-Pants Guiliani: "When people are living in fear, democracy is just a theory." God almighty, I can't believe this schmoe is trying to get hired as our leader and the protector of the country and the Constitution. Democracy is just a theory when people are living in fear. What a jackass. It is when the country is threatened and it's people struck with fear that our leader should fight hardest to protect our freedoms while striking back against the imminent threat. But Giuliani's ticket to the White House and the power that Bush holds and Rudy covets is fear of terrorism. The more he can nurture and grow the public fear of the boogeyman, the better he perceives his chances.

Parting shot: "The sacrifices that have to be made for freedom and democracy fall equally on... on... some people." But not you, huh Rudy? And not George, or Dick, or their "base," the uber-rich elites, right Rudy? You schmuck...

9/14/2007:   The state of Virginia is about to vote Mike Warner into Congress. That one move would make Virginia a "blue" state. And more power to them -- at least Virginians have the integrity to tell the president and the current GOP leadership that they don't represent the U.S. or, at a minimum, Virginia, anymore.

9/14/2007:   Am I the only one that thinks we need to just get out of Korea? Or at least sign off on an end to the Korean War. Yeah, that's right, end it. Just like Vietnam was a "police action" but not a war, the Korean War never ended. We should end that war, lift the embargo on Cuba, get the hell out of Iraq, renew our commitments to all our nuclear test ban treaties and the Geneva Conventions, regroup, and then go after the Taliban and Al Qaeda using intelligence and pinpoint police work rather than armies launched against nation states.

Or am I the only one thinking out here?

9/14/2007:   Rudy Guiliani, while speaking on a political hacks talk show, said that being in the country illegally shouldn't be called a crime.

And this guy wants to be in charge of the executive branch of the nation, charged with enforcing the law of the land. Yeah, right...

9/14/2007:   We, the intelligent Americans, the readers and critical thinkers, are just floored when we hear about how stupid the rest of America can be. Like in 2004, for instance, when 59 million people demonstrated how uninformed and easily misled they were. There's a new study out from the First Amendment Center that shows that:

So what makes people believe this kind of crap? Ignorance? Propoganda? Deranged leadership? A broken educational system? Fear of Islamic extremists?

Brain damage?

Well, whatever it is, it's killing this nation. The capability that America has for plunging into Christian extremism to the exclusion of basic Christian and American principles would seem to point to the need to re-educate Americans and shore up the Constitution against further threats from within, specifically from a deluded puppet president and his controlling, power-mad cabal, that use religious fear to control the masses.

9/14/2007:   Make no mistake, I'm completely disenchanted with Hillary Clinton's corporatist and special interest leanings, but when it comes to taking Hillary to task for the Iraq war, I think Obama is just being unfair. Bush lied to Congress, and they voted to give him the authority to invade Iraq based on those lies. And Hillary's position on ending the war is sensible and takes into account the logistics of moving that many troops and the vacuum created when we leave. Obama, put the blame where it belongs. Critical thinkers aren't buying that Clinton represents "business as usual" where the war is concerned. Anything else is just disingenuous and unbecoming a gentleman. Bush is to blame for the war. Period.

9/14/2007:   Y'know, with all the noise I make about Bush, I don't ever want to give the impression that I think the troops are the bad guys. I have no doubt that they want peace in Iraq, a functional government, a capable, full featured infrastructure for the Iraqis, and to leave the country better than when they showed up. They execute their orders to the very best of their ability, better than any army on the face of the planet. Those orders address rebuilding as much as fighting. I am effortlessly and infinitely thankful for our troops and the sacrifices they make and are, without reserve, willing to make.

I just wish Bush hadn't decided to expend our strength in a useless war.

9/14/2007:   A complete city in a building is being built in Baghdad. The U.S. embassy there is the biggest embassy in the world, mixing military might and self-sufficiency with ostensible diplomatic presence.

Can you say, "PNAC Phase I accomplished?"

9/14/2007:   The White House report on Iraq, even when cheating, had to admit that the overall handling of the war has resulted in "satisfactory" grades on less than half of the milestones that were defined earlier. And you can bet they made those milestones as easy to attain as possible.

(tired sigh)

Okay, picture this: you catch a guy that lied to you, embezzled your bank account, wrecked your car, and killed your dog. You're mad, really mad, and when you catch him, you start beating the snot out of him. He slaps back, but it turns out that for all his tough talk he's really a complete coward. You bloody him easily, knock out his teeth, break his nose, knock him to the ground, pick him up and work him over some more, knock him down again, stomp on him, kick him, pick up his own things and beat him with them. And the whole time he's blaming his crimes on you... After a while you're actually getting worn out from kicking this guy's butt. You stop, take a breather, then get to thinking about how he's ruined your life and you starting beating on him again. This goes on for a long time. He continues loudly screaming that you're a horrible person that made him do what he's done to you, and you continue beating the snot out of him with the very things he's stolen from you. He refuses to change, and you can't stop your own anger. But you're getting physically and emotionally exhausted from the effort. You're starting to question whether or not you're wasting your time beating this guy.

That's kind of what it's like sometimes when I turn to write this page. Bush is a moron. He's a liar, a fraud, a cheat, a murderer by proxy, and he's a traitor to this country. I've said all that a hundred times. And now he's reporting that no matter how he games the war, he can't win it. He can't even cheat and look like he's winning. But he just keeps on wailing about how an occupation can be "won" and how the key to fighting terrorism is imperialism. He's a completely deranged freak, and somehow the anaesthetizing velvety glamour of the TV, between Fox "News" propoganda and mainstream journalistic obtuseness, has the dulled the emotional reflex of the general public such that the outcry a normal person would expect does not ring ring from the mountains and the valleys and the plains. Where is the outrage? Where is the stunned anger at the assault on our nation's foundation and fabric?

I don't know, but as long as the only sound is his voice telling us that we, the American people, are responsible for his crimes and failures, I and others like me who have been paying attention and are not fooled must continue pummeling him, shouting the truth over him, and jogging the American psyche until the sleeping giant awakens to the threat from within.

9/12/2007:   I'm tired, I don't feel good, I think my body is fighting the creepin' crud the kids brought home, and I have even less patience for stupidity than usual.

(heavy sigh...)

The poll numbers came out and Fred Thompson has handily tied Guiliani already. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. A frog-faced actor whose mind is trapped in the '50s is tied with a cross-dressing, lying, fraudulent vulture, both of whom are perfectly okay with violation the Constitution exactly the way Bush has been doing for 6 years. And they're the front runners.

Y'know, a study came out recently that basically said that people who hold liberal views tend to be more open-minded and intelligent and make more factually accurate, logical arguments for their views than conservatives. Liberals' minds work differently, and measurably better, than conservatives.

I think they could have saved all the money they spent on the research and just held up the GOP poll numbers as proof that liberals are smarter.

And to be clear, I don't necessarily mean the fringe Liberal Party whack jobs. I'm talking the progressives, like myself, that are critical thinkers and are willing to define patriotism as love of country, not love of any particular president over the Constitution.

HEY REPLUBITARDS! What the hell is wrong with you people? At least get behind someone with character and intelligence. Ron Paul is pretty good, and if not him, McCain at least has demonstrated moral and ethical steel and patriotic cajones the size of boulders.

Stupid frikkin' idiots...

9/12/2007:   I'm not as versed on Russian politics, but I know a bad guy when I see him, and Putin is right up there. All his saber rattling, whether or not it's in response to George Bush, isn't helping things any. With normal people, you can flex a little muscle and that's good enough to let them know that you aren't a pushover. With insane, power hungry, domination-minded monkey boys, flexing your muscles may just get you into the fight you were hoping to avoid.

Putin, having gauged our out-of-control, torture approving, Constitution-violating, rabid attack dog "presidential" administration has decided to go beyond flexing and actually show the world the color of his steel. He dissolved the Russian government yesterday and, coincidentally, Russia tested a bomb 4 times more powerful than our MOAB, calling theirs appropriately enough, the Father Of All Bombs.

Just one big ole happy bomb family, sounds like...

And all this fear, uncertainty, and doubt wouldn't have been there at all if Bush had used the immense sympathy and goodwill generated by 9/11 to unite the world against terrorism rather than running around like rabid dog biting everyone that got too close. Putin's ambitions of power would be largely ineffectual without a boogie man like George Bush to give him the power he craved.

We are reaping what George has sown.

9/11/2007:   "I also resent the comments of those that sat comfortably in their air conditioned offices thousands of miles away from the firefights and the roadside bombs and tried their Washington best in recent days to impugn the General's good name."

Mr. McConnell, General Petraeus has delivered, as a tool of the White House, a report constructed on the same kinds of fabrications and half-truths that got us into this war in the first place. The numbers were cooked in order to exclude deaths from the very same roadside bombs the General is supposed to have first hand knowledge of, and the nature of deaths are sorted out based solely on whether a bullet entered the deceased's head from the front or the back so as to avoid chalking up the fatality to sectarian violence as opposed to common crime. General Petraeus put his "good name" on that report. He delivered it to Congress as factual. He is either an idiot lackey or a traitor to his troops, and I'd be glad to say that to his face. His name is worthless and his manhood cheap when he's willing to convey such a pack of lies in support of a war that is uselessly killing thousands of our U.S. military personnel. Our only goals should be the defeat of terrorism, and our military action, against the advice of every expert on the Middle East, Islam factions, and Iraq itself, has achieved exactly the opposite. If Petraeus were a man and valued his troops over his paycheck, he'd have stood up in front of Congress, ripped that report down the middle, thrown it to the ground, proclaimed Bush a traitor, and called for his impeachment, removal, and imprisonment.

And so, Mr. McConnell, you can kiss my butt.

9/10/2007:   Who cares?

9/10/2007:   Country star Sara Evans' husband is asking the singer in a court filing to respond in court, under oath and under penalty of perjury, whether she was romantically involved with Kenny Chesney, Richard Marx, her former "Dancing With The Stars" partner Tony Dovolani, Brad Arnold, Matt Roberts, Todd Harrell or Chris Henderson (all members of the group 3 Doors Down), any members of her band, Rudy Guiliani, Kermit the Frog, the DeAnza College baseball team, Borat, Britney Spears, or the Star Wars kid from YouTube. Okay, so I made up everything after "members of her band," but the rest is for real. So basically, he's saying, "Hey, honey, are a HUGE slut or what?" Except with more detail.

This is amazing. I don't know anything about any of these people, but I gotta give him a big high-five anyway. I love it.

We're definitely going to have to follow this case closely...

9/8/2007:   When did Hillary Clinton get so dumb? She has the temerity to call penalizing employers that hire illegal immigrants "[criminalizing] the Good Samaritan...[criminalizing] Jesus Christ."

Oh... my... God...

Okay, so we have a tacit welfare system in which we largely bend the laws to allow a flood of immigrants to pass illegally into our country to find work because they can't find decent employment in Mexico, simply because their economy is broken. I get that part. I think a lot of people either don't get it or don't care. I get it and I do care.

But within that flood of people will be, and probably have been, terrorists. People slipping into the country undetected and, if detected, simply deported. They speak Spanish, their skin is brown, the worst thing that will happen is they'll be shipped back to Mexico so they can try again. What we need to do is secure the borders, streamline and computerize immigration services as much as humanly possible, and then penalize anyone that aids and abets a criminal.

That's not criminalizing Jesus for crying out loud, that's just common sense. People talk about how we live in a new world since 9/11, and I agree. But I think our money and time is better spent battening down the hatches than lying to Congress, the American people, and the world, in order to invade random countries for personal gain.

And Hillary is standing there saying, in essence, that if we exercise due diligence in protecting ourselves from another attack, that we're bad people. Not that Barack was any better. He basically made it sound like George Monkey-Faced-Frat-Boy Bush has missed an opportunity to reassure the American people that illegal immigration wouldn't cost anyone jobs, healthcare, or a decent education. Wrong questions, wrong answers. We need to be reassured that our borders are safe and the people coming into the country have been screened first. Period, end of story.

9/7/2007:   Could it be that Nancy Pelosi is a silent member of PNAC? I read an opinion today that the only way to avoid another illegal and unnecessary war, this time with Iran, is to impeach Bush, and suddenly I made the connection. Is it possible that Nancy Pelosi is actually in favor of waging all out, no holds barred war on every country in the Middle East until we have attempted to redraw the entire map of that region? That would explain the insanity of allowing our Constitution to be chipped away, allowing the damage done to the foundation of our country to fester. It would explain why she has allowed Bush's high crimes and misdemeanors, his treasons, to go unanswered. It would make perfect sense. Nancy Pelosi must surely be PNAC's secret weapon, their inside girl. From the voter's point of the view, she was the alternative, the answer, the enforcer that would set things straight, but that was a bluff, a fraud, and gambit to retain power and buy more time for Bush to wreak havoc on the stability of the world, to increase terrorism while claiming to be fighting it.

I wonder what she's getting out of it?

9/7/2007:   Jon Voight thinks we're fighting terrorism in Iraq, that we need to win the war there and that it is winnable. He thinks the "extreme left wing" wants the U.S. to be passive to Islamic terrorist and that we invaded Iraq because they had it coming.

Meanwhile, Angolina Jolie was in Iraq as a good will ambassador.

Well, we know now that she didn't get her brains from her father. Jon has outed himself as yet another celebutard (thanks go to Stephanie Miller for that excellent label). His complete lack of military and world leadership experience shows when he predicts that the occupation of another country is "winnable," as if expending the lives of over 4000 U.S. military personnel on a war engaged under fraudulent pretenses can be "won," or that "winning" that war will change the global state of terrorist organizations to our advantage.

Puh-leez....

9/7/2007:   Mitt Romney, who according to Oxycontin-sucking, Viagra chomping, Rush Limbaugh is qualified to be president based on his rugged good looks alone, has portrayed John Edwards as someone that will tax the population into oblivion. He based that statement on absolutely nothing at all, trusting the the American people will simply take his word for it. Sound familiar? Romney would be Bush on PCP.

9/6/2007:   The first ever Buffoon Award, for which I will have to do a little work sometime Real Soon Now to create a graphic, is hereby awarded to the incredibly ultraconservative, neo-religious, whack job, Fred Thompson, for proclaiming, after finally admitting his candidacy, "I can stop Hillary."

bwuhahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahaha.... he he.... heh.... (snort)... hehehe....

What a moron....

9/6/2007:   Three terrorists were caught in Germany before they could finish gathering all the materials to build some potentially powerful bombs. Untold numbers of lives were saved, and the world is just a little bit safer. And do you know how the Germans did it?

Good old fashioned police work.

That's right. They didn't make up a bunch of poorly fabricated lies in order to wage a protracted, expensive, and near-genocidal war on a completely unrelated country. They just used a little police work, and saved the day.

Do you think the Monkey Faced Frat Boy cares? Naaaahhh....

9/6/2007:   "We're kicking ass," Bush said on Tuesday, describing his understanding of how things are going in Iraq when queried by the deputy prime minister in Australia. And his four star poodle, General Betrayus, has said he wants to continue "kicking ass" through next spring. Nevermind that the ass we're kicking is our own, it's always numbing to hear our president sounding, once again, like he found the presidency at the bottom of a box of Cracker Jacks rather than actually being elected to that hallowed position. What a dork...

9/6/2007:   Once again, the media is warming up to transmit, on the anniversay of the September 11th attack, the latest commentary on the United States by its number one critic and architect of that terrorist attack, Osama bin Laden. They will give him a level of coverage that our own candidates for president crave and have to spend millions to obtain.

And that's just wrong.

You want to fight terrorism? Stop spreading the word of terror. Just ignore him. In fact, the entire news story should go something like this: "Today, Osama bin Laden, goat lover and flea factory, released a video with his latest wingnut ramblings. And now, here's Judy with the 6 day forecast..." In other words, don't just ignore it. Make a point of ignoring it. No message, no terror. Have a nice day.

9/6/2007:   Eddie Griffin, an only semi-funny, sort-of actor at best, was performing at Black Enterprise magazine's Golf and Tennis Challenge in Doral on Friday when he was cut off after using profanities and the N-word.

In other words, he's a racist. The N-word isn't a cultural thang, so there's nothing to understand. The Black Culture in our country officially gave last rites to the N-word this year, so clearly they don't want it either. Nobody does. And anyone using it, anyone at all, is a racist.

Don't believe me? The crowd gave Earl Graves, the magazine's publisher, a standing ovation when he came on stage after Griffin was pulled.

Nuff said.

Forever:    Someone once said, "If you can get them asking the wrong questions, the answers don't matter." And I think people are caught up in asking the wrong questions during the "debates" we've seen. I put "debates" in quotes because, let's face it, the YouTube/CNN and Logo shows were really more like interviews than debates. The YouTube show had people sending their questions in the form of videos, and while certainly entertaining, the format left much to be desired. Mike Gravel, while incredibly annoying, was actually spot on when he complained that he wasn't getting any air time. The questions were typically posed to Edwards, Clinton, and Obama, with a little time given to Biden, Kucinich, and Dodd, and the rest tossed like scraps to the remaining individuals. They only had enough time to state their positions, not banter about the pros and cons of their positions. And the Logo show wasn't a debate at all. It was a series of interviews. But I don't want to detract from it -- what you saw on that stage were the candidates who would represent all Americans, not just the ones they profit from or are afraid of.

But the point is, people aren't asking the really important questions, and those nearly all deal with the horrible damage done to our consitutional framework by the Bush administration. For those candidates that pick up this theme on the 'net, here are the issues people should be asking for:

There. That's a pretty good start. Because the other issues will come and go, but you can't build a safe house on a bad foundation, and Bush represents the age and rot of the current foundation. It allows for way too much leeway in interpretation and execution. Future presidents must not be allowed to corrupt the system the way Bush has.

9/6/2007:   In 2003, a memorandum from inside the Bush administration was leaked and circulated to the press. The memo described strategies for justifying the torture at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers around the world, torture that was acknowledged as illegal. In response, Congress passed the "McCain Amendment" outlawing the use of torture and cruel, inhumane, and degrading methods against prisoners.

My question is, "Why?" The McCain bill was essentially political grandstanding, no disrespect intended to John McCain. Mr. McCain, in spite of his political affiliation, was horrified by what George Bush was promoting. But my question to Congress is this: since when does the president need to be reminded that he's supposed to be executing the law, not ignoring it? What good does another law do when the president completely ignores the laws as it is? Do we really need to use the legislative system to essentially send the president messages to remind him of what the law is? Or did his personal attorney and U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales fail in his duty to advise the president that, hey, guess what, torture is bad?