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10/26/2009:   Joe the Plumber loves, as most conservative whackjobs do, to claim that he has a right as an American to voice his opinion without being "chastised for it." Life support system for a pair of silicon flotation devices and failed beauty queen Carried Prejean said the same thing after the rank prejudice in her answer to the question about same-sex marriage cost her the Miss USA 2009 pageant.

I love it when extremists voice an opinion right out of the Dark Ages, get bitch slapped for it, and then hysterically whine about how they have a right to voice their opinions without getting publicly eviscerated for it. Hey, bimbo! Hey moron! You have a right to expres your opinion, but I have an equal right to express how stupid your opinion is. Because I'm an American too -- I just happen to be a helluva lot smarter than you. Get over it!

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10/22/2009:   Ann Coulter, science's best proof that malnourishment affects cerebral function, took the position that all of the political assassin's in the United States' history were all left-wing loon/communist/anarchist/"communiterian" liberals or completely apolitical. And slave owners. Really.

Her only real example was Lee Harvey Oswald, based solely on the fact that Oswald tried to move to Russia to become a communist.

She ended off her diatribe on the Joy Behar Show with the insight that "liberals are a little racist."

Oh boy...

I mean, I get why Joy gives her a spot on her show. Joy is taking one for the team. It's smarter to debate stupidity publicly than to let it run around infecting the general population. Joy is wicked smart and down to earth, and placing herself next to Coulter makes Coulter's extra-special brand of evil stupidity blatantly obvious. She has absolutely no problem handling Coulter. I just hope Coulter doesn't wise up and stop coming on the show.

But even so, giving Coulter a microphone means intelligent people will come across the show and be pelted by the moronic spew coming from Ann's dried up brain.

Okay, so let's review:

So, by my count, of the people whose political affiliations and motives could be identified, I've got 5 conservative/Republican assassins, 4 Democratic assassins, one communist, one anarchist, and the rest were mental whackjobs. I left out people that were killed by mobs or whose assassins could not be identified.

So, Ann, the profile for an assassin is pretty generic, with the exception of one trait: they were killers. That's it. That's the common thread and nothing else. You've got some political motiviations, some revenge motivations, and some whackjob motivations. It's spread pretty evenly across the board.

So Ann, kiss my butt. And Joy, keep up the good fight.

There were never any WMDs in Iraq.
No links to Al Qaeda.
No ties to 9/11.
Bush, Cheney, and Condie lied to you.
You ignored the facts.
You re-elected a liar and a murderer by proxy.
But now it's time to show your support for the troops.

I'm going to leave this up for a while yet. These traitors have not been held accountable for their crimes, and I want to make sure they never quite leave the public eye. Bush and Cheney deserve to be in jail, but even if that justice is never meted out, our nation deserves to have the crimes publicly recognized and measures taken to ensure that such a presidency can never happen again.

10/22/2009:   Dick Cheney, who just can't get enough of trying to rule the world, the quintessential "warped, frustrated old man", is in the news again criticizing Obama. He had the audacity to say that Obama, "intentionally sabotaged the Bush administration's national security legacy."

WELL, GOD, I HOPE SO!!

Bush's "security" legacy needed to be more than sabotaged; it needed to be taken to the public square and shot between the eyes with a huge celebration to follow. His "legacy" is one of deceit, of gross capitalistic greed, of a complete lack of regard for our country's safety, the lives of the people in our military, or for the stability of global peace. His legacy can be summed up as evil opportunism driving an administration to utterly destroy the future of our children.

And Cheney is one to talk; if Bush and his thugs hadn't sabotaged the security legacy that Clinton left, 9/11 might never have happened. This is the same guy that told California Sen. Dianne Feinstein that he couldn't possibly meet with her on 9/10/2001 about escalating counter terrorism measures because he would need about 6 months to prepare and educate himself on the topic first, a topic that Paul Bremer, Sen. Carl Levin, and Richard Clarke had been trying desperately to have meetings and discussions on with the White House cabinet since Bush got into office nearly 8 months earlier but were unable to do so because Bush and Cheney cut the priority on terrorism to zero in their administration from the start and refused all attempts to correct their course.

Why are people continuing to cover him as though he's some kind of expert? I know guys that have been in the computer programming industry for decades, and there are a couple of them that I wouldn't trust to defrag my hard drive, much less write any kind of serious software. Simply having controlled the reins of power does not make one a good leader, and Cheney is the poster child for ambition gone horribly awry.

10/21/2009:   Obama is still highly popular, but he's slipping on the issues. That's what the polls say, and I believe it. I don't agree with how he's handling a lot of things, particularly the things he said he'd do but on which he has seemingly reneged.

Healthcare is a particularly aggravating issue. We have the best healthcare procedures, techniques, and medicines in the world, but one of the worst healthcare provider systems. Insurance has gone from being a financial hedge against medical emergency-induced ruin to being our healthcare financiers, and untrustworthy ones at that. What the insurers need is competition from a payor that the people can trust, and the people can only truly trust the people, which is to say the government of, for, and by the people.

By and large, don't trust our police, fire, or other emergency services to private corporations. Why would we trust our medical services to private corporations? Yet we do, and they have taken gross advantage of us in the process. The stories of abuse are myriad and gut-wrenching.

Yet Mr. Obama is not willing to take a firm stand for what is right. He's bending. On such a critical issue, he has lost his spinal fortitude.

This is only one issue, but I'm out of time...

10/21/2009:   Al Franken is supporting a bill that would not allow our government to do business with contractors that require arbitration to resolve certain claims, including discrimination, sexual assault, and sexual harrassment.

Seems pretty logical, right? If you're sexually assaulted at work, and you feel your employer created an environment that allowed, encouraged, or condoned that assault, your employer can't require you to keep your case out of a civil court. In other words, when a crime is committed against you, you can exercise your right to a hearing before a judge. That just sounds like the right course, right? In fact, such arbitration should be banned completely. Who exactly are we trying to protect when victims of these types of crimes have no legal recourse against the entities that made those crimes possible?

In the case of one KBR employee who was drugged and gang-raped by her coworkers while they were in Iraq, it seems positively silly to assume that she should be forced to enter into binding arbitration with Halliburton's subsidiary. The men that committed the crime should be in prison for a very long time, and the company's actions leading up and following the crime should be reviewed formally adjucated. Who could possibly argue against this?

I guess you know where I'm going with this, right?

The bill that Franken has presented to Congress has found staunch opposition in 30 Republican senators. I'm not kidding. There are not one, not two, but THIRTY Republicans that prize corporate rights over victim rights. They've called the bill a political maneuver to punish Halliburton -- company that certainly deserves to be punished -- while ignoring the legitimacy of the intent of the bill, which is to force corporations to be fully and legally accountable for the work environments they create and the ethical handling of crimes committed by their employees against coworkers.

Sen. Jeff Sessions is one of these morons. He says the amendment would be hard to enforce -- even though such corporations require their employees to sign agreements to arbitrate cases, agreements that are easily discovered. They say the corporations might not be in a position to know about specific crimes committed by their employees. I think that once the crime is reported and the case filed, the corporation will know about the specific case. Their lack of knowledge doesn't validate the avoidance of a civil court.

No, the only reason for the opposition is because Halliburton has bought and paid for these senators. Some people have no moral compass, or a moral compass that's easily ignored or has a comfortable price tag. I would argue that these 30 Republican senators have chosen their careers not because they wanted to do the right thing, not because they are patriots, not because they are leaders, but because there was plenty of money to be made for their votes.

10/16/2009:   This month looked like it was going to go by without any comment from me, but then Jack Cafferty covered a case where a biracial couple was denied a marriage certificate in Louisiana, and the justice of the peace actually said, “I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way. I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else.”

Cafferty asked readers, "What does it mean?" And this was my response, which unfortunately didn't make the deadline before they cut off comments:

There are people out there who actually want to voice nasty, offensive, insensitive, horrible things out loud and think everyone around them should act like it's okay. Some even want to act out on these backwards, racist impulses. And I lay the blame for this squarely at the feet of the right wing, anti-"political-correctness" crowd, led by Boss Hogg himself, Rush Limbaugh.

10/16/2009:   It's simple: if it doesn't have a public option, it's not worth passing. That horrible load of corrupt crap Max Baucus is trying to sell is an insult to the intelligence of the American public. And the "Blue Dog Democrats" need to be spanked at election time if they don't get in line ASAP.

Nuff said.

10/16/2009:   Miss McCain is hot, but having said that, her recent Twitter post of a picture of herself was very nice, not inappropriate, and certainly not worthy of the crap she got for it. She seems to be the only registered Republican out there in the public eye that actually has a brain. It's ironic she's being nailed by the foaming-at-the-mouth conservative whackjobs her Daddy tried to leverage to get into the White House.

10/16/2009:   Speaking of hotness, what is it about women with scratchy voices? Stephanie Miller, who is a babe, and she knows what I mean (that's a Rush Limbaugh paraphrase, by the way), has a horrible case of the creepin' crud or something, but being the trooper that she is, she's online with voice that sounds like Peppermint Patty. She also sounds like one of my kids' teachers who is, frankly, distinctly not hot, but I digress. Stephanie Miller sounds wonderful. The fact that she's the smartest progressive radio talk show host in the world only adds to it...

10/16/2009:   There's a far-right, whackjob, fringe element out there that is trying to whip up a fact-bereft and purely emotion driven movement to have the president impeached. Unlike Bush, Obama hasn't broken any laws, and yet they want to compare Obama to Bush. That's absolutely ridiculous. Morons.

The following people voted against the Constitution, against the Fourth Amendment, against your rights, freedoms, liberties, and protections. A version of the FISA reform bill that grants retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that broke the law at the president's behest and gives the president the ability to grant immunity without oversight or further authorization, has passed the United States House of Representatives on Friday, June 20th, 2008. These are the people that voted for that measure. Included among them are Democrats that have betrayed their constituencies, including my own Jerry McNerney. Let us not forget these traitors at election time.