Apparently, $9.11. That's right. Some Giuliani-supporting assface decided it'd be a good idea to suggest a $9.11 donation to attend his Giuliani House Party fundraiser event.
[Abraham] Sofaer was a State Department adviser under President Reagan and is a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Federal election data indicates Sofaer has given nearly $50,000 to Republican causes and candidates, including Giuliani, since 1995.
According to the invitation, "$9.11 for Rudy" is an "independent, non-denominational grass-roots campaign to raise $10,000 in small increments to show how many individual, everyday Americans support 'America's Mayor.'"
The news
While Senator Ted Klaudt was preaching the moral superiority of the far right, he was sexually assaulting children; his own foster daughters and 2 pages! He was just arrested.
Do you really have to ask which party he's from?*
The bigger news
We had a senator with this fashion-sense and I failed to mock him? ...I'm slipping.
We had a senator this ridiculous and people thought he WASN"T a perv?
I swear to Yahweh, I wish this type of crap never happened in politics. Wouldn't it be cool if our reps could spend their time doing something positive for the country, rather than cover their ass (or in the case of Hastert, add to their ass). But when things like this come along, it proves the Dems are just patsies. Networks like Fox KNOW they can pull this bogus "error" bs and get away with it.
If you haven't been keeping up, sometimes amusing celeb-poll Ben Stein has been letting his Inner GOP nitwit out pretty regularly:
"On the one hand, we have a poor misguided Republican man who had a romantic thing for young boys. He sent them suggestive e-mail. I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys."
Article about banned items still getting on planes, by mistake or by intention:
"A 33-year-old teacher, (let's call her Taffy Gotrocks of say... Santa Barbara, CA) who was traveling with her 7-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter, brought her cosmetics in her backpack on her flight Friday morning. At first, she admitted to a reporter that she was carrying a $75 hydrating gel in her backpack. Then, she revealed lip gloss, toothpaste, a bottle of expensive Chanel perfume and a $300 container of facial cleanser.
Screeners never noticed the items, which she had no intention of checking, she said.
"There is no way I'm putting my Chanel in a checked bag," said Ms. Gotrocks. Then she looked down at her two children, "Who knows what's in their bags? the fucking maid packed them...." as she put out a lit cigarette on little Billy's head."
oy vey. All italicized remarks provided to you by jpeg.
WOW!
In a surprise development, Gibson has...
- confirmed the nasty rumor the police and the major media caved on
- accepted fault
- apologized for certain despicable statements.
My respect to anyone with money and power who instead uses humility to address their own screw-ups.
First picture of Pvt. Steven Green, "Charlottes Finest!" who's raping, killing, witness & family murdering, body-defiling and arsoning in your name for God and flag.
His parents must be very proud.
I wish I could feel something more than deep pity for the Iraqis. If I could hate them needlessly like a good citizen, I'd be fine with this.
Ken Lay has reportedly died of a "massive coronary," which may be another way of saying he was killed by the collective thoughts and hopes of millions of people.
Former Enron Corp. President Jeffrey Skilling says he thought aboutsuicide after his company crumbled & legal pressure began to build. Sadly, the urge seems to have passed.
$niffle... $imper... $ob..!
During those years of depression, Skilling said he became a recluse, retreating to his mansion in an upscale part of Houston, where he lingered in bed...
(that's rough! the story of this poor misunderstood millionaire makes jpeg cry)
Gitmo hangings "good PR" according to US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
Wow, she must really be important with a title like that. DEPUTY Assistant? Is that like a Junior Ranger Rick badge or something? Where does the Bush administration FIND these morons? Oh, right, they're all friends. Dur.
"And the lord god did nearly smite the douchebag..."
Back on May 19, evangelist, shyster and poltical gadfly Pat Robertson said God warned him of trouble ahead this year for godless Amerikuh.
"If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms, there well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest."
Instead God started things off with a bang today, crashing Robertsons Learjet in Long Island Sound, killing two of his employees. I will be observing a short mourning period at happy hour tonight.
Sadly, Robertson was not aboard. But, God has told me that he's pretty tired of Pat.
Within the last week mossy scumbag Karl Rove told Bush and Joshua Bolten, as well as a few other admin officials, that he WILL be indicted in the CIA leak case and will immediately resign his White House job when the special counsel publicly announces the charges against him.
...unless of course this is yet another Macharovian scheme.
"Yet another powerful, predatory republican raising a sadistic, homophobic, broom-handle-sodomizing son who shouldn't go to jail because he's a "good christian." (??!)
Tougher laws are coming
to punish brooms like this
Our fearless Christian leader and dog-fucker, (shown here giving the Nazi salute) Tom Delay's political career is over with his resignation in June. The big payoff now is the day he's fitted in an orange jumpsuit and waddles his slimeball ass to prison for life!
I guess that means he's retreated to the only practical utopia a reactionary righty can hope for. “He has his good days and his bad days,” Dot Helms says. “He still sees friends, but he is not able to make any speeches.”
(Oh what a shame!)
The 84-year-old statutory-raping, racist Republican has been slowed by illnesses. “His manners are always intact,” Mrs. Helms said, “unless you happen to be a colored person.”
In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.
Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared."
The footage — along with seven days of transcripts of briefings obtained by The Associated Press — show in excruciating detail that while federal officials anticipated the tragedy that unfolded in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, they were fatally slow to realize they had not mustered enough resources to deal with the unprecedented disaster.
I think NBC's David Gregory should just show up to the White House briefings shitfaced drunk from now on, and berate ol' Scotty mercilessly. Hopefully this relationship will end in a back alley knife fight. I know I'd pay to see it.
Following yesterdays humble pie, the GOP today couldn't muster enough votes to block a filibuster on the Patriot act. This follows the disclosure that Bush authorized thousands of domestic phone taps without getting the proper warrants. The Patriot Act will not survive init's current abusive form.
God I love watching these GOP swine publicly losing their power, and getting their noses rubbed in it.
Spokane has held a recall election and tossed out Mayor Jim West, a despicable hypocrite (and Republican... I barely need to say anymore.) who was known for his harsh legislation against gays, but was revealed to be a major closet-case himself.
Remember when all you had to worry about under the democrats was the misuse of congress's postage meter or a blowjob between consenting adults? Those were the days.
Who the hell would have sex with this freak without wearing blinders and a hazmat suit?
I wouldn't hire this guy to oversee the making of a cheese sandwich. I suppose his first client will be himself, so he can plan how to fix his disaster of a career.
Ohio congresswoman Jean Schmidt displays her brass-balled, conservative brand of femininity, along with her ridiculous fashion sense; seen here getting ready to shove her whole foot in her mouth last Friday.
Makes you want to ask for a refresher on why the Republicans think feminists are so creepy.
Nothing says "patriotism" or "respect" quite like a draft dodging vice-president placing a wreath on the grave of the unknown soldier, and a draft-dodging president misuing the day to try and save his pathetic ass.
Where's Osama, you profiteering chicken-hawks?
VP Cheney attempts a smile but since he has no experience at smiling, it came out as fart.
With indictments on the horizon, and many rethuglicans pooh-poohing perjury as a "technicality" it is a good idea to go back and see what those assholes said about perjury when it was in relation to a democrat.
Despite efforts by Tom Delay's legal team to avoid a mug shot and an orange jumpsuit, Mr. Delay will be fingerprinted and booked later this week. Watch for his mug shot to be publicized shortly after.
Needless to say, this will be a day of joyous celebration in the Jpeg household.
No, competent and capable would have sufficed. We expected to see intelligence in the execution of your obligations, assisting people who instead died in attics for two weeks, and died of neglect at (and in) the Superdome. We expected to be reassured that if a similar diaster befell us that we could depend on the assistance that would save our lives. We hoped we hadn't pissed away millions of dollars to purchase FEMA's completely incompetent disater-response protocol. We expected to see sense in your rescue & recovery plans and recognize that "hard work" had been done for the four years you held your job; y'know, the highly-paid job you lied to get (with or without W's encouragement).
And no it's not the fault of local politicians. If terrorists detonate a bomb in the next city are you going to sit on your fucking hands waiting for authorization from a dead mayor to take action.
How does a unconscionable pig like this live with himself?
Today, in yet another swift kick to the nards of the poorest of the population affected by the Katrina-FEMA disaster, Dubya has suspended the Davis-Bacon Act, which regulates wages paid to workers while working under Federal contracts. Like what, you ask? Say, for example, natural disaster clean-up and re-construction projects. I hear those are going to be fairly popular soon.
Reuters: Bush has issued an executive order allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage. In a notice to Congress, Bush said the hurricane had caused "a national emergency" that permits him to act under the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act.
The prevailing wage in the New Orleans area is currently $9.00 an hour. Based on 40 hour work weeks, 50 weeks a year, that's $18,000 before taxes.
So you're finally able to get out of Texas or wherever else you were displaced, and want to move back to what used to be your hometown. Maybe you can swing a hammer or labor manually or just want to help in the rebuilding process. Well, thanks to President Asshole, you're probably gonna get totally screwed on what someone is willing to pay you to do that job. At the very least, this action provides the environment in which that is far more likely to happen.
This unfortunately reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from the movie Real Genius:
Dr. Hathaway: "What are you looking at? You're laborers; you should be laboring. That's what you get for not having an education."
(I know this will come as a surprise to no one, but The Heritage Foundation called this a "Bold Action" by the President. The man hasn't had "Bold Action" since wrestling naked at Skull & Bones.)
No time for accountability, because it's all booked up with spin.
After a heated exchange with the White House press over accountability in the Bush administration where McClellan argued that "now is not the time to point fingers," he somehow found the time to clarify Barbara Bush's inexcusable and insensitive comments from the other day.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said: "I think she was making a personal observation on some of the comments that people were making that she was running into. ... But what we're focused on is helping these people who are in need."
Asked if Bush agreed with his mother, McClellan said: "I think that the observation is based on someone or some people that were talking to her that were in need of a lot of assistance, people that have gone through a lot of trauma and been through a very difficult and trying time. And all of a sudden, they are now getting great help in the state of Texas from some of the shelters."
BULL. SHIT. What she quite clearly said was, "Hey, this is a step up for the everyday no-hope poverty and squallor these people live in. Hurricane Katrina did them a FAVOR."
Scotty, OF COURSE she was making a "personal observation." She just happened to make it in front of the press while touring a shelter for thousands of displaced people who just got collectively kicked in the nads by Mother Nature and their government. Keep your personal observations to the fucking country club dining room, if you must voice them at all, Babs.
We've got a lot of rebuilding to do. First, we're going to save lives and stabilize the situation. And then we're going to help these communities rebuild. The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch. (Laughter.)
I am utterly disgusted and embarrassed that this waste of flesh is the President of our country. I feel sorry for Trent Lott getting dragged into such an insane statement.
It is being reported that Karl Rove was the source that revealed the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame. This story is just beginning to break, we'll see how much momentum it actually has. Given the shit this administration has gotten away with, however, I wouldn't be surprised if Rove managed to spin this into some sort of Congressional medal for himself.
The Huffington Post has more on Rovegate. (Do I get points for being the first to call it that?)
So, it turns out it was Brian H. Darling, a lawyer for first year Senator Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), who suggested in a memo that Republicans could use the Terri Schiavo case for political gain.
Hmmm, that's funny. I thought all those self-righteous windbags were standing up to protect their good friend Terri?
Jerry Falwell has, at long last, been called home to Satan. 
Nancy Grace, nostrils flared and full of self-righteousness, has finally 
Are 
First picture of 
Our fearless Christian leader and dog-fucker, (shown here giving the Nazi salute) 
