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Saturday, April 30, 2005
Yesterday I got a message in the mail about jury duty, specifically the strange idea that I should be on a jury. One of the questions was: Are you physically or mentally able to carry out the functions of a juror?While it is nice to know that I only have to be one or the other, since neither was explained in the small group of papers sent to me, I have no idea how I should answer and frankly I think anybody who chooses either the "Yes" box or the "No" box -the only two options- shouldn't be on a jury if they didn't the problem involved here. Friday, April 29, 2005
I read the transcript of Mr. President Bush's press conference from last night, and I have never loved Mr. President Bush more. Where do I begin on how great He is? Any and all answers would have to be incomplete, but I most liked the fact that, in an obvious tribute to Jeff Gannon, or maybe just press conference traditions, the questions asked were weak and Mr. President Bush still didn't answer them. This is wonderful and shows how great Mr. President Bush is because reporters who participated in this charade don't deserve answers and it is just plain stupid and dumb to think a public that tolerates this sort of politics and reporting somehow even might deserve better answers. On a less satirical note, I would like to say that most hillarious bit about this event has been the controversy about the networks bumping the end of the press conference. They never should have aired it. Given the time constraints, and the way most news organizations cover and behave during these events, it was destined a pep rally for the Bush. Thursday, April 28, 2005
There are too many jokes about killing Bush in the world Randi Rhodes, one of the most annoying radio hosts I've ever heard, ran a skit on her program on Monday that depicted a shooting of George W. Bush. This gets brought up on Drudge and Air America and Rhodes apologize. Bush lying to and manipulating the public in order to enact policies that result in killing people is not that big of a deal but make a joke about killing Bush and you've crossed some sort of line that exists I don't know exactly how. Yep that makes a lot of sense. There are just too many jokes about killing Bush in the world. They pose a real problem and threat to us all. As for the actual killing of people by the United States, there just isn't enough. What we just don't seem to understand in these liberal times is that that the reason the president can treat us like we are we idiots and we still go along with his plans is because he is better than us. He is our King. He is our God. Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs wants the media to know that Captain American and Spiderman will be visiting the Pentagon tomorrow "from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. EDT, to meet Pentagon personnel and their families as part of the national program, 'Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day.' The advisory also mentions that Marvel Comics will be distributing a "'America Supports You' special edition 'Salute Our Troops' comic book at the event. Although not mentioned in the press release, there can be no doubt that this is part of an effort by Steve Rogers to repair his image, which was hit hard, and rightfully so, after he made some anti-American comments in the wake of September 11th reason for war. It is worth noting that no mention of Frank Castle or his alter ego the Punisher is made, even though he has made similar comments. Tuesday, April 26, 2005
The truth and a lie U.S. investigators have found that American troops who shot dead an Italian agent at a Baghdad checkpoint on March 4 committed no wrongdoing and will not be disciplined, an Army official said on Monday.Yep, America did nothing wrong but those pasta lovers can't get over the fact that they are inferior to us. For shame. However, this is no great change in the practices of the enemy estate as The Washington Compost's Dana Priest has a story in today's paper that is full of anti-American lies: U.S. investigators hunting for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have found no evidence that such material was moved to Syria for safekeeping before the war, according to a final report of the investigation released yesterday.What this means is that everybody knows Saddam gave his weapons of mass destruction to Syria in order to avoid getting caught, but they just can't come out and say it because everybody -the media, the press, the government- is against America. Monday, April 25, 2005
I am so sick of anti-American, pro-terrorist, pro-evil journalists like Nick Meo who writes in today's Independent as if it is a bad thing that some loser anti-American UN fuck is now in the unemployment line because of his anti-American stances: The UN's top human rights investigator in Afghanistan has been forced out under American pressure just days after he presented a report criticising the US military for detaining suspects without trial and holding them in secret prisons.So let me get this straight, this pinko asshole thinks we Americans are wrong for treating non-Americans they way God wants them to be treated as a way of bestowing the gift of freedom. Where does the UN get these crazy people? Sunday, April 24, 2005
The Iraqi government is good, but ours is better The Iraqi government is doing just fine, but the American government could kick its ass, micah holmquist's irregular thoughts and links found. Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari -he's the Iraqi Prime Minister- is having lots and lots of trouble forming a cabinet, Hala Jaber reports in today's Times. According to the story, if this guy with a name that would never fly in the land of the free doesn't form a government by May 7, one month after he became PM, then he has to resign to be accordance with a rule of that country's current constitution. What makes this really amusing, however, is that our old buddy Ayad Allawi says in today's Observer that Iraqis elected officials need to get their act together to change this situation or risk going back to the bad things of the past. Iraqis should expect to hear a lot more of this type thing as I predicted a couple of months ago. But that's nothing compared to the government I am not at all proud to live under. Why aren't I proud? Because when you are born an American you realize from birth that you are better than everyone else and always will be in whatever areas you deem to be important at the time. Now, where should I start in this list, which will not be anywhere near as long it would be if I were doing America the justice it so rightfully deserves because frankly I have other things to do today... The greatest black woman ever, although that likely isn't saying much since she is probably the only great one ever, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice removed some numbers from a report so that it would show the truth about declines in the great terrorist evil during 2004 instead of an increase as the liberal facts would mislead one into believing (Julian Borger, The Guardian, April 23). God should and no doubt will bless Miss Rice for this since numbers and other things only mean what we want them to mean and do not exist unless we want them to. Some may want you to believe that this "scandal" has weakened America but don't worry, Patrick Cockburn reports in today's Independent that our fighting men and women are still killing plenty of Iraqis. On a related topic, Josh White reports in Tuesday's Washington Post that the brave men and women who keep me safe from evil did not get all the presents of torture they wanted. Shame on us. Shame on us. Shame on us... but more than three times because our brave warriors of liberty still did a great job: Interrogators used the perception of newfound latitude to interview an unidentified detainee on Sept. 23, 2003. According to the detainee's statement, he was made to lie across folding chairs while an interrogator beat the soles of his feet with a police baton. He said he was later hit in the back and the buttocks with the baton while in a painful stress position. A military intelligence staff sergeant who supervised the interrogators said a "fear up" approach had been approved for the interrogation. The unnamed sergeant wrote in a rebuttal to a reprimand that senior leaders were blurring the lines between official enemy prisoners of war and terrorists not afforded international protection.A few months ago a guy showed me a patch or something that had something or another to do with American POWs, but before doing so he asked me if I was a veteran. I said no, although I have done things in my life. He then showed it to me and said that if I had said yes, he wouldn't have shown it to me because it would have made me cry. Reading White's story has caused me, for the first time in my life, to understand what he meant. The Iraqi government is good, but we are America and we are better. We always will be. That is just they way it is, world. Friday, April 22, 2005
While the historic news involving the Pope has forever changed things to the point that this blog may enjoy and/or experience a change in posting patterns that you might be able to recognize if you really cared enough, the world remains an interesting place. Yesterday I saw a t-shirt with an image of a pot leaf on top of a Confederate flag. I'm real glad that there are still some people in this crazy world who realize everything would be great if the darkies were enslaved and harvesting our pot. There's a Cialis ad on a television with the "right time" theme. At one point the gentlemen and his lady are at a bookstore. He points to particular part of a book and they laugh. Then they embrace before walking off, which was nice because fucking right there in the book store wouldn't have been the best, not that I am happy ever having contemplated the phrase "that's funny, let's make up love, make love like we used to before you had to use that shit, by using that shit." Finally yesterday Bush said: I welcome to you the nation's capital, where sometimes politics gets in the way of doing the people's business. Take John Bolton -- he's a good man I nominated to represent our country at the United Nations. John's distinguished career and service to our nation demonstrates that he is the right man at the right time for this important assignment. I urge the Senate to put aside politics and confirm John Bolton to the United Nations.Does the fact that Bush says this automatically mean that Bolton needs to drawn and quartered? No, if it did, Bush and/or Bush's handlers would start to take that into consideration. I oftentimes tell audiences this -- and it's important for our fellow citizens and people around the world to hear this -- that freedom is not America's gift to the world, freedom is the Almighty God's gift to each man and woman in this world.This is why God makes us all free... Monday, April 18, 2005
The cable news networks, and all other media outlets but this on, are covering this up in order to suck up to I don't know who, but there is a major credentials battle going on in the conclave right now. Some misguided souls think each member of The Electric Mayhem should not get their own vote. Sunday, April 17, 2005
Diane Warth has a very interesting idea with regard to all the talk about "democracy" and Senate practices (April 14): In times like these, when one party controls the House, Senate, and Executive Suite, and said Congress is good for little more than rubber-stamping whatever dictum the head office passes down no matter how terminal to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, dismiss that useless body of pelicans entirely untill such time the "opposition" controls at least one branch. It might even spur the generation of a real opposition.I'm too cynical to think it would work, but it could, in a way, be fun... Saturday, April 16, 2005
My good personal friend RNC chair Ken Mehlman sent me an email on Thursday that, in part, said: Tomorrow, as Americans pay their taxes, millions are benefiting from the much needed tax relief that was championed by President Bush and Republicans in Congress. Because of the tax relief, Tax Freedom Day, the day when Americans finally have earned enough money to pay off their total tax bill for the year, is today ? 18 days earlier than it was in 2000 when Bill Clinton was President. Thanks to President Bush and Republicans in Congress, while many Americans prepare to file taxes tomorrow, we can celebrate Tax Freedom Day today because we are keeping more of our own money.That's fine so far as it goes, but if hardworking people, such as myself, work harder over the next eight and half months and make more money to do more to bolster the economy and pay for dominating the world, my overall taxes will increase at a different rate, due to commie progressive tax rates, which means that I will not become free of taxes on April 14. I am still a slave, just as Iraqis were under Saddam, and I blame one person for this: President George W. Bush! Mehlman goes on: But that could change if liberal Democrats regain control of Congress in the 2006 mid-term elections and roll back President Bush's tax relief measures. With some of these tax cuts set to expire in a few years, we cannot allow the Democrats to run out the clock and raise taxes on every taxpayer!Not really. The current tax structure is in place and, if is considered as a multi-year system, as it should be, it is not a change in the tax rates to not change the tax rates. This stuff isn't difficult to figure out. Friday, April 15, 2005
In a world where there are great comedians like Jerry Seinfeld and whoever is on VH1 at the moment, I think it is sad that Larry the Cable Guy's latest cd, The Right to Bare Arms, sold 92,000 copies in its first week. Thursday, April 14, 2005
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Friday, April 08, 2005
Thursday, April 07, 2005
In an April 3 Independent story, Andrew Buncombe writes: America's leading civil liberties group has demanded an investigation into the former US military commander Iraq after a formerly classified memo revealed that he personally sanctioned a series of coercive interrogation techniques outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. The group claims that his directives were directly linked to the sort of abuses that took place at Abu Ghraib.I pray to God Himself that these liberals do not cause us to lose the war. Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Hey, we have our dead to bury "Afghanistan's defence minister on Tuesday gave one of the clearest signs yet that Kabul is open to permanent basing of US forces in the country, saying his government was in discussions with the US that could include air bases in Afghanistan after the current nation-building process ends," Peter Spiegel writes in yesterday's Financial Times. "General Abdul Rahim Wardak said the details of what would constitute a long-term US presence were still under discussion. But he signalled Kabul was eager for 'enduring arrangements' that could include permanent air bases or 'pre-positioned' military equipment that would be used by rapidly deployed US forces in a crisis." Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Monday, April 04, 2005
Sunday, April 03, 2005
While I mourn the fall of my beloved Spartans, I think it is important that we remember the Pope, who died or something. Here are two important questions that get at what it means to be alive in 2005... -Can the Pope skip Church if he doesn't fell like going? -How come Sun Ra never got to be the Pope? Also, as George Carlin once said, "I don't care what country the fucking Pope is in?" Saturday, April 02, 2005
Yesterday on Sean Hannity's radio show, Pat Buchanan said that Reagan and the Pope defeated communism without firing a shot. Now I'll ignore a lot and say, what about Grenada? If invading Grenada doesn't count, I would like a list of other wars and interventions done in the name of defeating communism that were not actually for that goal. Friday, April 01, 2005
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