Stupid Republican tricks

I thought fer sure I could git me fer er five hunderd dollars each fer these dogs. They's fine. Pure German Shepherd mix. Guess I'll just have to take this here pistol and do what I gotta do. HEY WANDA SUE, WHAT CH'YOU DO WITH MY IDDY BIDDY SHOVEL?

Shocking.




Is this true and does it matter?

I have no idea if this is real or a hoax, but I'll post it anyway in the spirit of the Swift Boat Vets, who taught me that facts don't matter:

"Kerry will kill our nation while it sleeps because he and the Democrats have the cunning to embellish blasphemy and present it to the Arab and Muslim nation as civilization. Because of this we desire you (Bush) to be elected."

— Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, endorsing George Bush for President, 2004


Al-Qa'ida Women's Magazine: Women Must Participate in Jihad

An Al-Qa'ida Women's Magazine? Must. Write. Top.Ten.List.

Top Ten Articles in Al-Qa'ida Women's Magazine

10. Decorating tips for your bomb damaged hovel
9. My daughter is dating a suicide bomber!
8. Handy Burka doubles as beekeeper suit
7. Does your explosives belt make you look fat?
6. The skin trade: tips for a more beautiful ankle
5. Scandal in Paradise: they're not all virgins, you know
4. If he can memorize the Koran, why does he keep forgetting your birthday?
3. The other women: polygamy and you
2. Turn your leftover detonators into a lovely centerpiece
1. Naming your baby - there's more than one way to spell Mohammed!




A monkey's uncle

Serbia's education minister has ordered schools to stop teaching the theory of evolution for now, until a curriculum could be established whereby evolution could be taught alongside the Biblical story of creation.

I'm glad this type of thing doesn't happen here.


No collusion here

At last! Proof that the Presidential apologists and truth twisters aren't collaborating with the White House. Today, Press Secretary Scott McClellan said "The memos that were released, in fact, show the President was working with his commanders to comply with the order." He's talking here about the 60 Minutes memos which strongly suggest that Bush gamed the system and skipped out on his duties to complete his National Guard service 32 years ago. But Bush apologists are now insisting that the memos are forgeries!

So why would the White House validate the authenticity of memos and written orders that the Bush apologists swear are forgeries?
9.9.04 14:25


Dick Cheney – one mangled sentence away from the oval office


Yikes.
Slowly developing cognitive deficits, as demonstrated so clearly by the President, can represent only one diagnosis, and that is "presenile dementia"! Presenile dementia is best described to nonmedical persons as a fairly typical Alzheimer's situation that develops significantly earlier in life, well before what is usually considered old age. It runs about the same course as typical senile dementias, such as classical Alzheimer's — to incapacitation and, eventually, death, as with President Ronald Reagan, but at a relatively earlier age. President Bush's "mangled" words are a demonstration of what physicians call "confabulation," and are almost specific to the diagnosis of a true dementia. Bush should immediately be given the advantage of a considered professional diagnosis, and started on drugs that offer the possibility of retarding the slow but inexorable course of the disease.
- Joseph M. Price, M.D.
- Carsonville, Mich.
It's not funny any more.


Limbaugh strikes out again

Here's some free advice for professional gasbag Rush Limbaugh: The next time you feel like saying something, stop, take a deep breath, and then don't say anything. On his syndicated show, Limbaugh asked his audience "Where was John Edwards during Vietnam?"

Edwards was born in 1953, and the draft ended before he was of draft age. No draft, no cushy national guard posting.

Limbaugh, on the other hand, was classified unfit for duty because he had an unsanitary cyst on his butt. You can look it up.

What a loser.


Technological wonders



This is an ad for an electric typewriter with proportional spacing. Such machines hit the market the year after George Bush was born. The nutcase right is now claiming that the Texas Air National Guard memos are forgeries, because they contain proportional spacing, which as we all know was invented by Bill Gates. (Thanks to Atrios)
10.9.04 01:28


Nine-eleven


Never forget.

Never forget that the Bush Administration ignored warning after warning of an ongoing terrorist threat from al-Qaida in the months leading up to 9/11.

Never forget that Bush delayed, then opposed, then embraced, too late, establishing a Department of Homeland Security, as recommended by the Hart-Rudman report in Feb., 2001.

Never forget that on Sept. 10, 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft rejected an FBI request for $58 million to hire extra field agents and translators to fight an anticipated (by some) terrorist attack.

Never forget that on Sept. 9, Donald Rumsfield threatened a Presidential veto when Congress proposed shifting $600 million from missile defense to fight terrorists.

Never forget that terrorism chief Richard Clarke, a holdover from the Clinton Administration, tried for months to interest Bush in using ground troops to destroy Osama bin Laden and his terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.

Never forget that in the months leading up to 9/11, it was more important to hate Clinton than to kill bin Laden.

Never forget that it was the Republicans, not the Democrats, who were weak on defense, on Sept. 10, 2001.

Cowards.




Going it alone

Kevin at Two Pings has a great post about the Beslan massacre, and its relevance to Bush's War on Terror. Check it out. I particularly like his closer: "While striking a path of leadership may require one to walk alone and be unpopular, walking alone and being unpopular is not prima facie evidence of a path of leadership."
11.9.04 16:42


Dylan's Run




I just returned from Dylan's Run, the autism fundraiser held each September at the Summerfest grounds in Milwaukee. This year I coordinated a team we called Christopher's Posse. Beautiful weather, large crowd. The number of participants just grows every year.
12.9.04 20:25


9/11: Fuggitaboutit




Could it be that a 9/11 fatigue is settling over the electorate?
"Just as the arrival of the wedding photos represents the formal emotional terminus of the celebration itself, the publication of the 9/11 commission report marked the end of 9/11. On the surface, the aim of the report was to find out exactly what happened that bloody morning and offer sober suggestions for preventing similar attacks, but at a deeper, more fundamental level the goal seemed to be to box and wrap the whole big mess so that it could be psychologically mothballed. The report became a best seller, I suspect, not because people truly wanted to read it but because they craved the satisfaction of physically placing the volume on a bookshelf and then going into the kitchen to fix dinner."
I keep hearing from pundits how the election is all about 9/11, which, on the surface, makes sense. The terrorist attack of three years ago was Pearl Harbor times the Alamo, raised to the power of ten. What other election year topic would even dare to pass through its long shadow?

But in a way, Americans have moved on. You see, there is no shared understanding of 9/11. What did it mean? Why did it happen? And just who the hell are we fighting? You can't fit the answers on a bumper sticker, although President Bush has tried with his inane "they hate freedom" analysis. In reality, Middle East culture is poor, and sick and weak precisely because Arabs are frustrated by a lack of freedom, and Western support over the decades for the despots who keep order. It's not Osama bin Laden who props up the House of Saud, and Mubarek's secret police in Egypt, and a dozen oher police states hated throughout the Arab world. It's the industrialized West. I can't count how many times my Arab friends have told me that the US talks about freedom and democracy, but continues to support the most illiberable regimes in the world. If you think about it, it's amazing that 9/11 didn't happen earlier. I mean, how much "do as I say and not as I do" can anyone take?

But now we're at war with an unseen enemy that professes to love death, an enemy that only wants to kill as many of us as possible. There is no negotiating with the enemy, because there are no enemy leaders with which to sit down, no armies to disband, no flag to capture.

One of the most frustrating aspects of the current administration is its total lack of a candor with the American people. I would really like to hear George W. Bush sit down in front of a camera and level with the American people about how the US got into this awful situation, and what it will take to get out of it. And I don't mean "stay the course" and trust in God and re-elect the best friend the Saudis ever had. I don't want to hear him say "It will take as long as it takes" or "we can't win".

Come to think of it, I'd rather hear it from Kerry. If I can stay awake.


Priceless
13.9.04 02:17


Sijan Field


I had a chance to hang with some fellow bloggers this evening at Sijan Field, in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood. Sijan field is named after Lance Sijan, a Bay View native and Congressional Medal of Honor winner who died in the Vietnam War. Anyway, here's some photos of Neill and Toenail. Here's Neill's site, and here's Toenail's.




It has a nice beat and it's fun to dance to

When art imitates life.
(Thanks to NeoSoc.)
14.9.04 03:35


Talkin' turkey




A friend e-mails me to say that mindless Bush/Cheney billboards are popping up in Michigan. Messages include: "Remember, it's YOUR money", "Boots or flip-flops?" and "It's about our security."

Meaningless pap? You betcha. And that's what will return Bush to the White House.

Bush has spent the past four years building brand equity. He doesn't have to explain himself anymore, since half of Americans think they know what he stands for already. He's the man who says what he means and means what he says. People like that.

But he really isn't. His own flip flops are legend, from nation building to homeland security to Osama-dead-or-alive.

Do you know what US Company has the greatest brand equity, in term of percentage of the market captured? Butterball Turkey. The Butterball slogan is "The best of all is Butterball". It's short, it has it's own cute internal rhyme, and it's meaningless. But consumers find comfort in those words. People who have never cooked a turkey before, or those who seldom do, find comfort in the promise. "I can't screw this turkey up. It's a Butterball! I'm rounding third base, and I haven't even turned the oven on."

Bush is a Butterball Turkey.

If Kerry was a Butterball Turkey, his slogan would be a fifteen page position paper on poultry farming and intergrated marketing and animals rights and oh screw it, let's just buy a ham this year.

I think it sucks that American Democracy has come to this. I blame affluence. We're too comfortable in the US. We have too much time for Monday night football, and lazy afternoons by the pool, but no time to read a fifteen page position paper on poultry farming, or a Sy Hersh piece on how the Pentagon is morally responsible for Abu Ghraib, or a congressional budget office report on the impending economic disaster brought on by Bush's mad spending spree.

But we'll always enjoy our turkey.
15.9.04 22:46


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