recalibrate your morality here
If you're keeping up with DC, MoveOn.org called General Petraeus, "General Betray Us" last month after he rolled over for W. and passed him the lube. This hurt the feelings of neocon flunkies so much that Sen John Corwyn foisted anti-MoveOn.org debate on the floor of Congress. Demcorats, as they are naturally prone to do, caved in and cowered.
Just 3 weeks later... American Conservative mag is running this cover article, and the neocons are silent and unoffended.
The article basically calls him a kiss-ass. "...the essence of his message was this: after four years of futile blundering, the United States has identified the makings of a successful strategy in Iraq. This defines Petraeus’s failure. Instead of obliging the president and the Congress to confront a fundamental contradiction—are we or are we not at war?—he chose instead to let everyone off the hook. "
How to Spin a GOP Sex Scandal?
Call the perp a Democrat...
See how they handled it on the Factor!
The Associated Press joined in too.
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.
Stupid Sneaky Brilliant Punks.
Must be an election year
Seven "terrorists*" using the name "The Bad, Awful, Non-christian, Darker-skinned Bad Guys With Turbans" (The BANDBGwT) who were "targeting the Sear Towerª" have been arrested in Miami. "They've been described to us by sources as wannabes± or sympathisers. There is no imminent threat to Miami or any other area," said some FBI guy.
A petrified Chicago gal on NPR this morning said, "I'm afraid (sob!). Save me President Bush! Code orange, code orange! Think of the children...°"
notes
* apparently this was on their business cards
ª our government says so, and they wouldn't lie.
±notice the skillful use of both fear and condescension. they're a threat to the country, but they're incompetent so we can all laugh about it.
° paraphrasing
Wait, what are we supposed to stop?
I heard the wrap party for this video was at Whitney's house because she had the best rock.
I'd just like to point out the crazed garbageman at 4:10 is now THE FUCKING GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA.
Stop The Madness, indeed.
via tha boing
Heaven Knows I'm Miserabler (sic) Now
I am officially throwing in the towel... or maybe I should just throw a rotten tomato instead. unggggggh. Someone please tell me that this is mothersbaugh's subversive way of getting back at all the spuds who hated devo back in the day.
Looks like Booji Boy sold out to the mouse. De-Evolution? Try reductio ad absurdum...
Be the first on your block to rock the brand-spankin' new designs from House of Carl. Jeff has sketched up some pretty cool stuff, and we're doing what anyone with a minimal amount of creativity would do: we're puttin 'em on T-shirts, baby!
All proceeds from the shop go toward the purchase of beer and surfing lessons. And if you ne'erdowells have any designs or ideas for the future, send 'em in and we'll get them made. (Or more accurately, Spreadshirt* will.) There's lot's more to come. At least that's the fantasy in my head.
Current designs include:
YAAAR!
* We're not talkin' some weak-ass Café Press digital printing on crappy tees. Spreadshirt quality is excellent.
uh, can you repeat that for me please?
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.
check it out.
via that sneaky bastard scott b.
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.
Barbara Bush's remark clarified
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.
But pulling out ruins the fun, baby
Struggling to Find the Reasons for War
"never fear, there are signs that the administration is getting ready to pull the plug on the Iraq operation.
The United States has put the arm on Iraqi leaders to stick to their original deadline for writing a constitution for their nation, despite the fact that there is no hope that the delegates can reach agreement on the most contentious issues facing them---the role of Islam, Kurdish autonomy and the rights of women---in that time.
The administration wants an elected Iraqi government in place by the end of the year so that it can begin pulling our troops out in time for the American elections when we can reelect the clowns who got us into this mess in the first place."
Did you know?
Random fact generator about hollywood's finest, Mr. Vin Diesel. Pretty funny stuff.
...and now a random fact about Vin Diesel:
Vin Diesel's skull is actually made of the powder of ground up bones from the Jabberwock.
Vin Diesel once impregnated me with a stare, then caused me to give birth to a fully grown baby afterwards just by winking at me, then turned the baby into a fully grown man and gave him superpowers just by shaking my hand. This man is better known as Brian Blessed.
The Ebola virus never actually existed. That's just what happens to your body naturally after Vin Diesel socks you good in the breadbasket.
Man sells device that blocks Fox News
You decide
so you hate bumper stickers?
try one of these...
via Fred G, part of the Bristol, RI mafia. I was privvy to their nefarious scheme to paste these to cars in red states while zipping along on Segways. Be on the lookout for nerdbot hippy liberals
9/11-American Air Flight 77 hit the Pentigon... or did it?
This is a pretty compelling video about American Fight 77. Simply stated... if it was a plane hit the building, where's the wreckage?
This film makes a good case that there was some kind of cover up. You decide...
http://www.freedomunderground.org/memoryhole/pentagon.php#Preloader
or
http://www.nixtro.com/pentagon121.swf
Bush Approval Rating / Terror Alert Chart
Found here.
Thank goodness! Now we can all sleep at night...
Oh fer fucks sake, where do we begin? This is perhaps one of the greatest sites EVER. Do not visit until you've got about an hour to kill and are wearing some sort of protection against urinating yourself.
Not to be missed: The Brainwash 'em Early Section, featuring Habu the Hindu elephant, saddened by his inability to keep track of his many gods, and (I'm not kidding) Hopsiah the Kanga-Jew.
Is it ironic that this site's Objective to reclaim Halloween sounds like a Landover Baptist article, a site they are also trying to shut down? (Rallying cry: "He didn't give his life to be mocked.")
Enjoy...
The unsaved youths today with their Power Rangers and Peekachoos and other secular heros they see on TV are very enamored with "make believe" and "role playing". This is one of the reasons that Halloween keeps getting more popular every year since it allows them to dress up as their heros. Satan uses these seemingly innocent secular costumes (often cheaply purchased in local retail stores) as gate-way costumes for the more blatantly occult garb: witches, monsters, demons, Darth Mauls, and the like.
LATEBREAKING UPDATE: DO NOT miss the extra-creepy Baby Jesus (Speakers on, kiddies!)
Please, someone confirm this is all a joke...
via Jimmy Chan
"The President's 'leave-no-billionaire-behind' tax cut to the wealthy will do nothing to help the average Ohioan. The recently passed tax cut will continue a trend advocated by this Administration of accelerating wealth upwards".
-DENNIS KUCINICH
The early seasons of the Flinstones were sponsored by Winston. Its not clear whether they intentionally targeted children by inserting ads into the prime time animated series.
You, as a Volunteer Minister, are entrusted to help bring to earth this new day, through the religions philosophy and applied technology that is Scientology. The technology of today and tomorrow is Scientology.
Today's society, there are many signs of frenzy and delirium that do not provide a safe, sane environment.
Things you can do as a Volunteer Minister:
in the form of a deck of cards. Saddam is the Ace of Spades. I think we all know who the joker is.
UPDATE: PDF of playing card deck available here.
via Lister
No matter where you stand on this war, no matter what you think of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al., can we all agree on this?
Not only is Saddam's regime a wild pack of twisted bastards, they're also in possession of some of the best drugs on the planet. Pass the bong, dude! I wanna see the color blue yer seein'!
"They're not even [within] 100 miles. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion. ... They are trying to sell to the others an illusion."
- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
After thirty five minutes, one of the radio operators had become incapable of using his set and the efficiency of the rocket launcher team was also very impaired.
Italian porn star and former Italian parliamentarian "La Cicciolina" has offered to give herself to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in exchange for world peace, speaking in an interview published in Catalan daily El Periodicoon.
Beautiful parodies of vintage WWII propaganda posters:
Ephemeral films are educational, industrial, advertising, and amateur films and home movies Ñ genres that film historians and archives have largely ignored, despite their profound influence on the minds of spectators. They provide unparalleled evidence of the visual appearance and ambiance of their time, and function as rich, evocative, and often entertaining documentation of the American past.
The full list is fairly intimidating. For a good laugh, go straight for any instructional (behavioral, gender roles, etc.) film produced by Coronet Instructional Films. They are priceless. Mac users may be SOL unless you're on a really fast connection. The AVIs won't play without a divx codec, and even then the audio is choppy.
via boing boing
As our civil liberties become fewer and fewer, Adam Ant has become a political prisoner in the New World Orders war on dandy pop stars. Show your support for this jailed goody two shoes, currently being held in a UK mental hospital against his will on the trumped up charge of waving a gun around in some wankers face. No justice, no peace, no foppish dance pop.
Don't forget to pick up your "Free Winona" shirt, too!
Print some out and put 'em up in your neck of the woods.
via Neoflux
