Sumo Merriment

Well...I think you know what this means without more rhetoric from me. I will say that today John Kerry said it well when he told them all to go f*uck themselves ten ways to Sunday and every holiday. Too bad the other side will run with this instead of concentrating on the welfare of our troops. They are there we cannot stop that for now. But they are not properly equipped and so on and so on. So...to the 'other side'...what are you F*ckers going to do about your dynsentary in the Middle East and what are you going to do to safeguard the troops against battlefield wounds that they might not incur if they had better body protection? Answer that Adolf Bush!



Republican coffee shop think tank...where they eat the swill they serve.
Served over 10 billion!

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So sayeth the Madhatter...


Using the war in Iraq as a backdrop to launch some of his toughest campaign attacks yet, President Bush said today that Democrats were more concerned with pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq than with winning the war.

Citing Democratic votes opposing him on key anti-terrorism measures, Bush said that when it came to eavesdropping on suspected terrorists, detaining or trying them, the Democrats "just say no." "So, when the Democrats ask for your vote, what's your answer?" Bush said at a rally at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro. "Just say no!" the crowd roared. I see this as Sheeple People...it's creepy to be around people like this...no wonder, it's so close to Halloween.

The president did not differentiate among the various proposals that Democrats have advanced; nor did he acknowledge the growing support for withdrawal.


Backsliding In Afghanistan...

Bit by bit, the U.S. is losing control in the country because of a resurgent Taliban, drought and inadequate aid.

Among the many signs that the almost $12 billion the U.S. has poured into Afghanistan since 2003 for reconstruction has been neither sufficient nor well spent: Afghans will go hungry again this winter unless they receive massive food aid. Fierce fighting between NATO and Taliban forces in a wide swath of the south has conspired with drought to destroy farmers' crops. Both the drought and the renewed warfare were predicted. The Bush administration's failure to prevent either disaster stems from its stubborn view that Afghanistan can be fixed on the cheap.

As the security situation has deteriorated, instead of redoubling its efforts to boost the Afghan standard of living as a bulwark against drug lords and Taliban radicals, the U.S. slashed aid to Afghanistan by 29% in fiscal 2006.

Without enough Western troops to suppress them, and without a central government strong enough to project power to its territories, the Taliban was bound to fill the vacuum. The United States has done little diplomatically in the last five years to establish a meaningful border between Afghanistan, which does not recognize the international border known as the Durand Line, and Pakistan, which has abandoned any effort to control the tribal areas on its side of the border.

So if we listen to the Fearless Leader...the Democrats can only lead the nation down a very dark path. In fact the Democrats can't even do that because they have no plan for the war or for winning it. So the dark path option isn't even on the table...because they are incompetent fools. Yeah right!

So now we come to the dark path the Fearless Leader and his fiends...oopsie...(friends) have taken the nation down...and that would be Afghanistan...which is only 1/2 of the war chest they opened up. Things being what they are there...you have to wonder where they get their nerve to lie to the people they are supposed to protect and paint a lovely story. Those rose colored glasses are going to bite them on the ass one day...and the rest of us innocents.

They blame the Democrats for a war they started...and complain that they don't have an answer to the problems of the war...again that they created. While 'they' are still in 'power'...I say...it is their problem...and they'd better fix it...and quick. They broke it...they can fix it. And as far as 'victory' is concerned...there can be no victory in my opinion as long as they have used lies to do what they have done...and all the lives lost and changed forever that just keeps mounting on their shoulder's as I type. Assclowns!






Vote against the War Mongers...for they have let loose the Dogs of War...they have let loose an Evil that will remain for generations to come...and there won't be enough paper for the history books to deal with it all. Oh...and don't vote for Awnuld!

Update...just found this...Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
hat/tip to Fallenmonk...

Happy Halloween to the witches and demons that read here.

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Michael Bains...you're lucky I remembered where I found this.
Check Strange Cosmos on my sidebar links...besides the girls,
you'll find what you're looking for...or even better. Glad you
liked it.

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Get out there and vote the Republicans out of office
or we will see alot more of this. We want to be part
of the movement that stops more blood in the
desert. The guys we vote out of office will need
a job...so they can go to Iraq and Afghanistan to do
their part. If they are too fat and old...they can serve
in the chow line...or clean the latrines...or KP duty.
Better still...the soldiers bodies that come back to
their field hospitals...these guys and gals can wash
and prepare their bodies for that ride home in the
big plane. They can cover that spot too...going back
and forth...back and forth. Then maybe...just maybe
they'd have an understanding of what is really going
on and realize this war thingie wasn't such a kickin'
ass kinda thing to do. Let them stop the blood
from flowing...put on the bandages. They deserve
it!
October 25, 2006 | Marines carry the casket of Sgt. Brock Babb into St. Boniface Catholic Church in Evansville, Indiana. Babb and a fellow Marine were killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq on October 15. The US military said 96 US troops have died so far in October. The rise in deaths has been a major factor behind rising anti-war sentiment in the United States.
Maybe these people that voted for the war should
be the ones that go to the homes to tell the soldiers
relatives that they have died. Let them deal with
their crys of pain...and be the ones responsible for
voting to send those kids to Iraq to fight a war based
on the cruelest of lies. Let them stand there when a
mother or a young wife crumples to the ground in grief
and abject horror at those few little words that they
must utter. Yeah...I got a job for these guys allright!

Vote The Bums Out Now! And don't vote for Awnuld!

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I'm trying to figure out which Rethug this looks like...

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Give Peace a Chance

I know...another video. But this one will touch your heart again about the reasons we must get the Republicans out of office. Too many people of this world are being sacrificed to a lost cause...there was never a cause in the first place. The only cause playing in this video is one of evil and terrible sadness and pain. It's not long...please watch it and be vigilant and vote against those that shed the blood of humanity.

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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Attacks on Michael J Fox

Wait until you see this!


Here's a small transcript of Matt Lauer and Laura Ingraham on the Today show...I think it's October 26th...I don't watch the show...I found it somewhere around Salon. But, you'll get the gist of it.

LAUER: And you brought up Michael J. Fox. Let me just ask you: You know, Rush Limbaugh started a lot of controversy when he said perhaps Michael J. Fox was exaggerating or faking these effects of Parkinson's disease in that ad promoting stem cell research. Didn't Rush Limbaugh just say what a lot of people were privately thinking?

INGRAHAM: Well, Michael J. Fox himself, I think, had written that when he testified before Congress, he decided to go off his medication. But this is not about Limbaugh, it's not about Fox. It's about an amendment that claims to ban cloning, Matt, and instead it constitutionalizes the right to clone for the destruction of those embryos that are in the lab.

LAUER: And Sue --

INGRAHAM: That's the fact. It's not about Limbaugh, and the media loves to make it about Limbaugh and Fox. That's not what it's about.

LAUER: But also, Susan, last word. If Michael Fox goes out there politically and puts himself in the fray, he has to expect to be, you know, taken to account, correct?

ESTRICH: Correct. And he is being taken to account.

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Tennessee Democrat Harold Ford Jr. goes after the GOP's faithful base in the state with the most white evangelicals in the nation. Polls show his campaign is resonating in the pews.

I have to tell you...this article scared the bejeezus out of me. I think this guy is either lying to get into position...or here's a religious nutter Dem on the wrong side of the isle. I don't trust this guy from what I could gather from the article...or...I'm simply loosing my mind...which is it folks? Can you decide and tell me if I'm wrong? Now...when I say trust...I really mean where he brings religion into his decisions as far as his politics are concerned...at least that is how I took it.

Pastor Chris Stephens runs his church services like a rock show. Colored strobes dance across the stage, electric guitar solos punctuate the hymns, and his sermons are filled with exhortations like, "We need a God explosion."

Polls nationwide have shown that evangelical support for Republicans is slipping. But in Tennessee a second big reason is the public message of Rep. Harold Ford Jr., the Democratic candidate for Senate, who hopes to become the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction by appealing to religious voters. "The church advertising has been brilliant," Stephens said. "He presents himself very well."

Stephens was referring to a 30-second television spot that shows Ford strolling through the pews of his childhood church. "Here, I learned the difference between right and wrong," Ford tells the camera, explaining that he is glad his family forced him to worship as a child. "If advertising didn't work, Madison Avenue wouldn't be spending billions of dollars," Stephens said of the ad. "And those folks sitting there listening to Harold Ford sit in the pew and talk about his grandmother taking him to church and all that, I think it can be effective for him."

The church spot is just one part of a campaign by Ford to make his faith a central issue in the campaign, breaking with recent Democratic tradition in the hopes of helping to tip the balance of power in the Senate. On the campaign trail, Ford portrays himself as a moderate, saying he opposes the politics of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, endorses the House Republican immigration plan, and supports a state ban on gay marriage. To prove his point, Ford's get-out-the-vote rallies often double as prayer meetings. During a recent debate with his Republican opponent, former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker, Ford repeatedly asked state residents to give him their prayers along with their votes. On his Web site, under the banner "My Faith Is My Guide," Ford writes that he is running for Senate "to put my faith and beliefs into action."

See what I mean? The last sentence is a killer. And...oh so much more...There are signs that Ford's decision to wear his religion on his sleeve is having an effect. At the end of September, a statewide poll showed that just 47 percent of white evangelicals supported Bob Corker, Ford's Republican opponent, while 28 percent supported Ford and 25 percent were undecided. The poll results broke a long-standing maxim of state politics: Churchgoing whites reflexively side with the Republicans by overwhelming margins.

There's nothing wrong with having faith as you walk those halls of the nation...but you can be God's property before you arrive...and when you leave those halls. You cannot be God's minion when you are considering laws and making momentus decisions for the "people" during the democratic process...I'm sorry...but you just cannot! Outside the University of Tennessee football game on Saturday, Ford had no problem explaining the inroads he appears to be making among evangelical voters compared to 2004, when he worked on the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, who lost the state by double digits. "Kerry and I are very different people," Ford said, as he hurried toward the gates of Neyland Stadium, having arrived at the game against the University of Alabama deep into the second quarter. "I serve a big God, he gives me strength every day, and I go to work. I am not that smart. I don't try to outsmart him. I just go to work every day." I have to say I was disappointed when I read this.

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Is there anyone on this planet that can explain this lump of a guy to me?

Rush Limbaugh has accused actor Michael J. Fox of exaggerating the physical effects of his Parkinson's disease in political ads urging viewers to vote for Democrats in next month's election.

The conservative radio host told listeners Monday that Fox's lurching, palsied movements in a TV ad for Missouri Senate challenger Claire McCaskill were "an act." Limbaugh noted that Fox, a longtime advocate for research on embryonic stem cells, has said he sometimes does not take his medication in order to illustrate Parkinson's severe physical effects. Uncontrolled shaking and stiffness are among the symptoms of the nerve disease.

"If this was not an act," Limbaugh said later on the show, "then I apologize."

John Rogers, Fox's spokesman, called Limbaugh's remarks "shameful."

"It's an appalling, sad statement," Rogers said. "Anybody who understands Parkinson's disease knows it's because of the medicine that one experiences" body movements like those seen in the ad.

So he gives a half-assed apology and uses the word "if"...there has got to be a special day of reckoning for these people...really...the cob is so far up their asses that I'm not so sure they'll ever see the light of day.

And if you couldn't feel any sicker about all this mumbo jumbo hype out there...

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A major research institution has just announced the discovery of the densest element yet known to science. The new element has been named "Bushcronium." Bushcronium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 311. These particles are held together by dark forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. The symbol for Bushcronium is "W". Bushcronium's mass actually increases over time, as morons randomly interact with various elements in the atmosphere and become assistant deputy neutrons in a Bushcronium molecule, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to believe that Bushcronium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as "Critical Morass". When catalyzed with money, Bushcronium activates Foxnewsium, an element that radiates orders of magnitude more energy, albeit as incoherent noise, since it has 1/2 as many peons but twice as many morons.

Thanks to the Fixer at Alternate Brain via Lurch at Main and Central and he got it from Media Matters...these things have a way of making the rounds.



Looks like that Bushcronium mass has exploded...oh well!

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Michael J. Fox

Shame On You Rush...
So the Fat Fuck of the Day Award goes to Rush Limbaugh who will say anything to attack anyone who challenges George Bush and his policies. This time, his target is Michael J. Fox. Meds are something Rush does have a little experience with...alot of experience with.

That's right Rush (Limpball) for making fun of...and lying about...a genuinely terminally ill man. You just have to open your fat mouth and suck in someone's good air and spew vile made up things about real people. People care nothing about you...and they'll care even less after this stupid malicious moronic filth you are so used to blowing out your ass. You are a fat clown...so that makes you an assclown now you piece of detritus.

Rush Limbaugh today accused Michael J. Fox, actor and Parkinson's Disease victim, of deliberately going off of his meds to appear on camera with exaggerated symptoms of his disease for dramatic effect. Fox appeared in a recent Clair McHaskill (D-MO) Senate campaign ad, touting the need for stem cell research. Limbaugh even goes so far as to accuse Fox of faking his symptoms all together.

Thanks to Crooks and Liars


And...

Inspiration: Bush, Facing Iraq Dissent, Jettisons ‘Stay the Course’
And More polls spell big trouble for moose and squirrel

Stay tuned for the next exciting episode of "As The Fear Turns"...you're gonna love it!

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i've put the Marie Claire link in the post below...and the Salon link that has the MC link also on it. Salon being a subscribed situation, I'm not sure it will work for you...but hey, you can try. Sorry, I must have goofed up the link somehow...silly me.

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A Soldiers Tale.............. magazine Marie Claire

Here's the Salon link here...but you may have to be a subscriber...if it works the Marie Claire link will be on that page also. I retried the link above.

Lynndie England smells like soap. She rubs her hands constantly, and her cuticles are raw and bleeding. Her hair is pulled back in four tortoiseshell clips, and it's streaked with premature gray. She is no longer the waiflike girl with a devilish grin who appeared in the infamous Abu Ghraib photos. On this warm fall afternoon, England, 23, now 30 pounds heavier, wears short-sleeve Army fatigues and black, waffle-soled boots. Her name is stitched across her chest. Dangling from her waist is a yellow-and-white badge that reads, "PRISONER."

By now, people all over the world have heard of Lynndie England. She's the "Small-Town Girl Who Became an All-American Monster," as one Australian newspaper headline described her, or "the girl with a leash," as Mick Jagger calls her in the song "Dangerous Beauty." Yet England remains a mystery. Is she a torturer? A pawn? Another victim of the Iraq war? While the world weighed in, England said very little. She was only 20 when many of the Abu Ghraib photos were taken — so young that her then-boyfriend, Charles Graner, 35, had to buy her drinks for her at an officers' club where they used to hang out in Fort Lee, VA, before their deployment to Iraq. She's lived in near-seclusion since the photos first appeared on 60 Minutes II in April of 2004, speaking to no one but her family, and then only by phone, since going to prison.

She spoke of Abu Ghraib, and how they would "smoke" the detainees — the code word for forcing prisoners to exercise until the point of collapse — as well as making them walking around wearing women's underwear on their heads and other unusual disciplinary measures.

"She told me their job was to keep them awake: Let them sleep a little bit and then wake them back up. I said, 'Are you allowed to do that?' And she said, 'Oh yeah, that's what we're told to do,'" says Hardy. "She told me the officers were involved; they knew what was going on. There were a lot of what she called 'OGAs.'"

Officially, OGA stands for "other government agency." But everyone in the army knows it means the CIA. It also means, don't ask questions.
I found this article first on Salon but abreviated...so the rest of the story was on the Marie Claire link provided. It is rather long...but insightful and compelling. When these pictures of the tortures from Abu Ghraib were first given to the public...the outrage was palpable. I thought of all kinds of things that should be done to these soldiers...but of course that was retaliation for their bad behavior. There were other people involved in this tangle...yet they haven't been court for their day to answer questions. Pity...they so deserve it. We cannot get complacent over these tragedies of justice...we must not forget them. Just like we should never fortget Hitler and what he and his Nazi underlings perpetrated upon those weaker and unable to defend themselves.

I encourage you to read about Lynndie England and how these things (in part) came about. There certainly is no justice in this story...just one story...about Abu Ghraib. It talks about her family a little bit and her upbringing...no excuses offered there...just information about ordinary people. The end of the article hit me hard...it was a quote from her mother. I'll leave it for you to read and get the impact of it. It's so very sad that a life came down to this...prison. Abu Ghraib photos...here

Top US General says Rumsfeld is inspired by God...

The top US general defended the leadership of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, saying it is inspired by God.

"He leads in a way that the good Lord tells him is best for our country," said Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Rumsfeld is "a man whose patriotism focus, energy, drive, is exceeded by no one else I know ... quite simply, he works harder than anybody else in our building," Pace said at a ceremony at the Southern Command (Southcom) in Miami.

Somehow...I have to question why God would want to have 6-7 hundred thousand innocent Iraqi people killed. I have to question why an ancient culture with beautiful artifacts would be a good thing to destroy. A land that Alexander the Great once marched through and thought a beautiful place...a land that is now laid to waste...and for what? Because God is on the shoulder of Rumsfeld and guides a mere man to totally ruin a nation that had done nothing to us. A simple people that just want to live and let live. That has all changed now with Rumsfeld's conversations with his God. Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush...God's "Trinity of Terror", how apt. I imagine it was essential for God to have a hold in the Middle East...sort of a base to work off of when things get kind of tough...you know...when the surrounding nations act up a little bit and need to be put into their places. It's not a shabby strategic area to have at one's beck and call when the time comes...as they hope it will.

cross-posted@Blanton's & Ashton's

Add On...Iraq Is Coming Apart At The Seams

As Iraq falls apart, rumors are flying that there will be a Bush-backed coup, an open three-sided civil war and a host of other nightmarish outcomes.

Iraq's armed factions, sadly, aren't close to that point. The stakes are too high -- Shiites are fighting for the majority rule that has long eluded them, Sunnis are fighting to hang on to some political influence and retain a piece of the country's oil wealth and the Kurds are fighting for some degree of independence. Iraqis are fighting against occupation by foreign troops, and they're fighting to keep their country together. Neither government troops nor coalition forces have been able to protect civilians; they're being cut down by death squads and plagued by rampant criminality. Iraqis are battling for their homes and for their lives.

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bush incompetent

You gotta love South Park!

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This is from an article on alternet.org, originally from the Rolling Stone by Matt Taibbi...and it is not only accurate...but a sad state of affairs our Congressional people have gotten themselves into in a pathetic and lethargic kind of way.
Thanks to Michael Bains of Silly Humans for this appropriate cartoon...



Will Democrats spend their first moments in the majority issuing a nasty payback for a decade of Republican punishment?

Charles Rangel was one of a number of people I talked to in congress who spoke wistfully of an age long gone, when congressmen could cross party lines to socialize. But starting in the mid-to-late nineties, things began to change. Among other things, the famed freshman class of 1994 was comprised to a large degree of young congressmen who ran against the institution of congress in their campaigns, promising to shun "Washington politics" and spend more time in their home districts. A new strategy of ironclad party discipline ushered in by Newt Gingrich furthermore decreased opportunities for crossing the aisle on votes; the old days of horse-trading and committee compromises brokered over the weekend on the links of northern Virginia were replaced by party line votes and the three-day work week. A decade later, congress was setting the record for fewest working days ever, and House freshmen don't even shake hands with the guys on the other side of the floor.

There is no question that congress has plunged to historic lows in the last six years, rolling up an impressively ugly record of corruption, failing to get much of anything accomplished in the way of major legislation, racking up an $8 trillion debt and provided the ultimate in matador-defense oversight for the most dangerously incompetent president in recent memory. But there's a big question about exactly how much of that is the fault of the Republican party alone.

While the fall from grace happened on the Republicans' watch, the institution in general has seen a massive influx of campaign money and a radical change in the way its members do business since the beginning of the Gingrich years, with lobbyists actually writing the legislation in some cases and members of both parties routinely cramming bills chock full of earmarks and other favors. On the '04 election cycle, the Republican party and its politicians collected an obscene $782 million in hard money contributions, but the Democrats weren't far behind, at $679 million. Those numbers dwarf the amounts seen the last time the Democrats controlled congress - the '93-'94 totals were $244 million and $133 million, respectively.

What no one in congress knows -- and a lot of staffers I spoke to worried aloud about this -- is if Democrats will be any different in that respect than the Republicans if they win this November. The corruption issue is only part of it. More than anything, a lot of Democratic staffers are worried that ten years or so of having the light shut out on them by the majority, being frozen out of conference committees, having cops called to rouse them out of the library, and being denied the chance to offer even the most harmless amendments -- that all of this will lead to a long, ugly period of payback time.

Where they couldn't cooperate was in the area of upholding their constitutional responsibilities, and practicing bureaucratic self-defense. The social divide between Republicans and Democrats had to be a big part of the reason congress lacked the institutional stones to really stand up to the president on the torture issue, to fight back when the Vice President ignores a subpoena of the GAO, to demand someone's head when the defense department openly refuses to audit itself. The Republicans in congress have been so busy in the last ten years figuring out ways to shut Democrats out of the process that they forgot how to stop the Executive Branch from giving it to them up the ass. The result is a congress that is not only grossly corrupt and completely beholden to financial interests, but totally castrated in the national political arena, a tawdry little sideshow that drones on idiotically on CSPAN while the White House rules the country more or less absolutely (an additional insult; not only is the congress a disgrace to two millennia of democratic tradition, it's the worst show on television).

Think about it; if there's ever been anything sadder than John McCain "taking a stand" against Bush on the torture bill a few weeks back, have you seen it? I sure haven't. McCain bent over faster than a college student on his first night in Attica. But I wouldn't expect anything better out of the Democrats -- at least not until they show they can act like adults, and not like the hired clowns of their party's financial backers. Until that happens, we can expect more of the same: vicious partisan bitching while the cameras are on, obscene handouts behind closed doors.

"You can either govern or you can get even," says Rangel. "But you can't do both. I hope we make the right choice." I read this earlier in the day and also found it featured on the Alternate Brain by Gordon...some interesting comments were made there. I'm thinking that more than not...the people of the left do indeed want their day in court...blood on the walls and pork in the trees...and I'll take mine with a side of some very good Russian Vodka...yeah, that's the ticket!

Yes...come November 7th we shall see Hell open its elevator to the 'fat cats' on the right and lo they shall be smote (f*cked) and thrown into chaos and never see the light of day again...so it has been said...so shall it be done. And lo...their Party was over. And the Dems came riding into town on the back-end of the jackass...and the towns people did lay the palm branches before them...and there was much dancing and rejoicing all throughout the land...and it was a good thing for it began to flow with milk and honey. First order of the day was to pick up Lady Liberty, dust her off and set her in her position once again. And then they set about finding the Constitution and quilting it back into its original state...that had always been good enough for Americans from the day it got its birth. There came a calm among the people that had not been felt for some years...a calm that reached far and wide...a calm they would not allow into oblivion ever again.

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I'm not feeling too perky right now since the Dub signed in on the Habeus Corpus debacle...what an absolute fool and a mutton-headed dope! And that's just for starters. So let us see what is bubbling away in the cauldron...you know...Sumo's witches brew...the brew that likes to stew and spew...so here goes...

Get over to the Brad Blog and see a portion of an important video that will be on HBO (I think) in early November...it concerns the rigged Diebold machines and the elections that it it took from the Dems. The guy that was asked by Tom Feeney to do it (Clint Curtis) spills his guts about it...and it is sooo interesting. It's called...Eternal Vigilance - The Fight to Save Our Election System...be prepared to be VERY pissed off at what is revealed. Don't sit next to anyone while watching it...you might just grab them by the throat unkowingly wanting to hurt something.

And then there's that little question of a guy named Ken Mehlman...you know...the only guy involved in the administration that isn't a crook and liar!
Salon.com (Abramoff's rock star)

Ken Mehlman, head of the Republican Party, insists he doesn't have a Jack Abramoff problem. "Everything I did was above board and consistent with the rules," Mehlman told reporters this month about his work in the White House during President Bush's first term, when the now-disgraced super-lobbyist was hustling Washington. In fact, the Republican National Committee chairman likes to insinuate that Jack Abramoff never made much of an impression on him at all. He might have met with Abramoff or his lieutenants, Mehlman conceded to Fox News recently, but "I don't recall the specifics or the meetings."

But maybe Ken Mehlman does have an Abramoff problem. On Sept. 29, the very day the Foleygate scandal broke and sucked up most of the media oxygen, the House Committee on Government Reform released a bipartisan report on the contacts between the White House and Abramoff. The 91-page report lists 17 different Abramoff lobbying efforts directed at the White House Office of Political Affairs when Mehlman was that office's director from 2001 to 2003. But the most revealing story about Mehlman is told by the hundreds of pages of e-mails in the appendices of the report.

Throw the bastards out with the dishwater...and do it soon!

Bet these guys are turning in their respective graves at the bad ju ju...

You found it here...the October surprise...Rove uncovered it...

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"A lie, a lie, a lie, a lie. What we have in Washington is a house of lies, and in November, we need to clean house," JohnKerry, D-Mass., said Friday night during the New Hampshire Democratic Party's annual fall fundraising dinner.

"They tell us we're making progress in Iraq and that there is no civil war. That is a lie," he said. "It's immoral to lie about progress in that war in order to get through a news cycle or an election cycle." (Do we expect anything less from them just the same?...it is their pattern afterall!)

Kerry criticized the Bush administration for blaming the North Korean nuclear test on former President Clinton. "That is a lie. North Korea's nuclear program was frozen under Bill Clinton." When Bush turned his back on diplomacy...and we all know he doesn't have patience for that much of the thinking process...Kim Jong Il went back to making his toys (bombs)...and as Kerry said..."the world is less safe because a madman has the Bush bomb. Thanks Dub!

And the lies just keep coming...they have been known to say the page scandal that surrounds Mark Foley can be layed at the door of the Dems because it is a plot to win the midterm elections. We all are reasonably sure there has been a Republican cover-up...and those that covered this up are the ones that preach the moral values...therefore do not have the right to spout their professed moral values anymore.

Foley a Republican resigned his job Sept. 29th when confronted with the damning evidence of his explicit email messages sent to male pages...underage. Dennis Haster (Jabba the Hutt) tried to blame the Dems for the scandal...because he is such a whore for starters. Then when it wasn't looking so good for him...he later took responsibility. That was BIG of him.

On Thursday, the House ethics committee questioned a former Foley aide who has said he took complaints about Foley's conduct to Hastert's chief of staff three years ago. Hastert's chief of staff has denied that exchange took place. Now I know that John Kerry is undoubtedly going to run for President in 08'...so we will be hearing alot more from him. He has a full schedule of appearences for the Dem candidates for Congress and state offices.

Now that Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have kicked some Republican ass recently...it's a good thing for others to join the party. Whether we want Kerry in 08' is up for grabs...but at least he is calling them on their bullshit...the Repubes that is.

And something I haven't addressed...but have meant to...the Republicans are always putting the left side down for not having a solution or a way of dealing with Iraq. I feel since this was their invasion and subsequent death march in the desert...they've got some nerve saying the Dems should have a solution to the problem that they started. That sounds rather desperate to me. We could come up with solutions aplenty...but they wouldn't allow them to be utilized...because it doesn't include Halliburton. Assclowns!

And now kids...for your enjoyment...an announcement from your fearless leader about staying the course. President Bush personally assured Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Monday that he has no plans to pull troops out and told him to ignore rumors the United States intended to enforce a deadline for Baghdad to rein in sectarian violence.

The president's pledge came in a 15-minute morning phone call with al-Maliki, who told Bush he was concerned because he had been hearing that the United States was giving him a two-month timeline to operate on his own. Now...why would the President want to do what most of the American public doesn't want him to do? Because apparently he thinks he can. He can go against the will of the American people and keep running his little lying war in Iraq and kill more innocents and soldiers...kind of like 2 birds with one stone sort of scenario. He's probably already got that special decorated to the nines uniform ready to go any day now...when he steps up to the podium and announces his dictatorship. I wonder if he likes cuban cigars...naw...he'd look stupid with one. It'd look better shoved up his ass and then light the damn thing.

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According to Bill...
Republican extremists divided our country...

Former President Bill Clinton told Iowa's Democratic Party faithful on Saturday that the actions of "an extreme sliver" of the Republican Party have backfired and "profoundly divided" the country.

"We've got a big responsibility. Forget about 2008. Forget about the politics. Just go out and find somebody and look them dead in the eye and say 'You know, this is not right'...This is America," Clinton said. "We can do better and this year, it's a job that Democrats have to do alone."

Republicans, who control the White House and Congress, Clinton charged "paint themselves as pure and the rest of us who don't agree with them as stained" in order to divide the country and stay in power.

"People know things are out of whack, that fundamentally the order of, the rhythm of public life and our common life as Americans has been severely disturbed," he said.

"You cannot blame the entire Republican party for this reason. The entire government of the United States, the Congress, the White House and increasingly the courts for the last six years has been in the total control not of the Republican party but of the most ideological, the most right wing, the most extreme sliver of the Republican Party."

I hope Americans have done their homework by the time they go to their polls to vote. They owe it to themselves to read everything they can get their hands on in order to make the appropriate decisions that will impact people's lives for some time to come. I know I've done my part to be informed and will vote what I believe to be very important issues in ways that will effect the future. I can only hope that other people care as much as I do not to be lead by empty promises and telling me what they think I want to hear. I just want the truth for a change...and I don't think that is too much to ask for.

And...the Iraq and Afghanistan business must come to an end...and soon. I know most of America wants this too...and this is not an unreasonable desire on our parts. It should be taken care of sooner than later...while the persons who started all this madness can finish it before it becomes a pain in the butt for the unfortunate one who will be the next president. And...yes I am concerned that Dub will try to pull a fast one on the Constitution again and declare another term for himself...or simply do a Napoleon Bonaparte and just crown himself. I wouldn't mind crowning him myself...if you know what I mean! (Secret Service guys...just kidding)...

cross-posted@Blanton's & Ashton's

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George W. Bush Saves A Baby

I know you will enjoy this little story that begs to be told. We should all really get to know our dear leader on a personal basis...really personal. He doesn't fool around in the Oval Office...he gets things done...and moves on to the next important stage in his battle for the American way.

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But I didn't say to vote Republican. Nothing much to blog tonight because I have a guest staying over a few days...bummer...(cough)...so I only got halfway through your blogs. And since I don't have the time to search out something pithy to blog...I'll just resort to my titilating cartoons...

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Disabled Vietnam War veteran and antiwar activist Ron Kovic, subject of the film “Born on the Fourth Of July,” reaches out to touch fingers with an admirer during a massive protest against U.S. involvement in Iraq. The demonstration occurred in downtown Los Angeles in September 2005.

I found this on TruthDig...and thought it very interesting in light of the times we are now finding ourselves in...

It all begins somewhere, the questioning, the doubting, the feeling that something’s not right; like that day the captain set fire to the Vietnamese woman’s hooch, or the night we shot those women and children by mistake. It’s all got to start somewhere. For them it might have been the innocent civilians killed that day at the checkpoint just north of Baghdad or the dead children lying in the road in Kirkuk, or that night in Nasiriyah when they kicked in the front door of that house, screaming and cursing at the children as they threw their father to the floor, tying his hands behind his back and putting a hood over his head, but you remain silent, you say nothing. You’ve been taught to follow orders, to obey and not question, to go along with the program and do exactly what you’re told. You learned that in boot camp.

Like many Americans who served in Vietnam and those now serving in Iraq, and countless other human beings throughout history, I had been willing to give my life for my country with little knowledge or awareness of what that really meant. I trusted and believed and had no reason to doubt the sincerity or motives of my government. It would not be until many months later at the Bronx Veterans Hospital in New York that I would begin to question whether I and the others who had gone to that war had gone for nothing.

I had been so certain of victory, but each day now I began to realize more and more that we were not going to win in Vietnam, and that realization was painful and devastating. I felt betrayed and could not understand why my government had not done all that it could to win the war. Did they have any idea how much we had sacrificed, how many had already died and been maimed like myself? I felt sad and depressed and would often go down to the hospital library on the first floor, where I would read for hours at a time trying to forget the war.

This is just a portion of what he wrote in the article...there's more of course. His words are very telling to those of us that care not only about the welfare of our soldiers...but that of the innocents shedding their blood in that desert for naught. November must come with the sunshine of a new horizon for us liberals...or there may be a mass jogging of the cliffs into the sweet oblivion of a land without conservatives lurking over our shoulders...now THAT would be the unkindest cut of all.

No rants tonight...I'm on narcs for some dental pain...I just had a baby tooth removed and I think it probably would have stayed until I died at a ripe old age...but it had a filling that gave up the ghost...so we said...as we frequently do in Sumoland..."Off with its head!"...and so it became a struggle of life or death for the poor dentist to remove it...and let me just say it is the most painful mouth goblin I've had to date...thank goodness for drugs...or I might have had to resort to assassinating people. Yep...the pain is gone...long live pain pills...nature's little wonders!

cross-posted@Blanton's & Ashton's

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Awnuld...is in the race for another term to be the big fat governor again...and if you have any intelligence...or just on general principles...you won't vote for this nincompoop head. Okay...so he did a little something for the environment here in Caiforny...but that doesn't mean he's the good guy...or...or whatever!

Just nine months ago, he got himself a boost by working with Democratic lawmakers...okay...for Californy's benefit I grant you...at least on this occasion...and other Republicans could learn from this...but not bloody likely.

Schwarzenegger signed a bill committing California to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mounting a historic challenge to the problem of global warming.

The law capped months of liberal legislation signed by the governor, a remarkable lurch to the left from a man who just nine months earlier had been the dark villain of every Democrat's dreams, the least popular politician in California. But thanks to a surprisingly clever strategy of triangulation and politicking, Schwarzenegger has skyrocketed in the past year from a 6-point deficit to a 17-point lead over his Democratic opponent for governor, Phil Angelides, in the 2006 race for governor. Even Assembly Speaker Fabian Nú?ez, one of Schwarzenegger's bitterest foes last year, applauded on Treasure Island as the governor boasted of his latest accomplishment.

"We will create a whole new industry that will pump up our economy," Schwarzenegger said, "a clean-tech industry that creates jobs, sparks new cutting-edge technology, and is a model for the rest of the nation and the rest of the world. And because of my great partners in the Legislature, that is exactly what we are doing with this bill."

Last year I was so angry with this man I wasn't sure I could ever watch one of his muscle movies again. I have done my best to avoid any and all things to do with him. I at least had the satisfaction that the costly special little election he gave for us...told him exactly what we thought of his fat ass. But at what cost to the taxpayers that didn't want his little special 'thing' anyway? He face a divided state government (and how!)... and had to learn to compromise...I thought it (sweet)...he and his Legislature held one another accountable. So he wised up with a little power sharing, our economy had a bit of an upturn...so he and his opponents took better care of the state government and in the process (so it goes) he put some life into his career...and some (not me) think he will win the governor's spot again. If he does...you'll hear my screams from San Diego to the Oregon border. Not another four years please!!! Can you tell he really ticks me off?

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Okay...I know I'm stupid...but I've got to make fun of this guy or I'll go nutty. When I think that our Georgie has left this man (?) to his own devices and ignored him into the background of oblivion...only to have him jump up and bite us all on the ass. The jokes on you know who. And then of course we'll have to share in the collective ramifications of Dub's particular brand of stupidity thinking this guy would just fade into the background...where he relegated him into in the first place. So SHAME on baby Dub! If Dub's fans in the red states didn't know he was a boob...you'd think they'd wake up now that the mushroom cloud hair stares them in the face.



And you would thing that after the Hastertfoleyathon that it would be the impetus to the red states to spur them toward the truth. I have to admit a bit a cynical speculation on that possiblity. And I have to be honest on this count...I would have to commit suicide if I put pen to paper and voted for a Republican. It just isn't in my blood...I know the best man should win and the man/woman that is deemed capable (or perceived so anyway)...but a vote for a Republican would twist the last vestages of the little good I have in me...just a little more. It's definitely a quandary...but I do believe the conservatives had made it easy for me this year...since they are all either perverts or on the take.



The time for Bush to have acted responsibly is way past the witching hour. How could one man be so dumb? The funny thing is...he has intelligent people around him...and they lost out on the count too. Did they not want to see? Were they soooo arrogant as to think that they didn't have to worry about others and their possible technology? Too busy playing the piano and buying righteous label shoes. Too busy shooting a friend in the friggin' face. To busy going to Nicaragua to check on his holdings. And certainly too busy riding his little bikey and eating cheeseburgers to care. At least we have the knowledge that he will have to breathe the same air as we will.



And if your are sick of my stuff...let me recommend a decent artisitic site to go to that has some very interesting and wonderful art on it. Ben's Place...he has a Venus de milo ala Marilyn Monroe up the dress thing...so mush better than political scary stuff.




WASHINGTON (IWR News Satire) - Tony Snow confirmed this morning that President Bush is being treated for acute violent temper tantrums as a result of the recent string of bad news. Well-informed sources reported that Mr. Bush was so upset with Bob Woodward's State of Denial book, the horrible situation in Iraq, his sinking poll numbers and embarrassing Foley scandal that the president began breaking Mary Todd Lincoln's prized dinner dishes and kicking poor Barney. First Lady Laura "Pickles" Bush called the psychiatric unit at Bethesda Naval Hospital, and Mr. Bush was put in a straitjacket, medicated with Thorazine and made to sit in the naughty chair for several hours until he calmed down.

Inspiration: "He's (Bush) ticked off big-time," said a well-informed source,
"even if what they said was the truth."

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Veteran CBS newsman Bob Schieffer, who received the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media at the University of South Dakota, says the nation has never needed a vigorous free press more than now.
"I cannot remember a time when it's been more challenging for journalists," said Schieffer, 69, who has covered Washington for more than 30 years and hosts the CBS interview show "Face the Nation." He said Thursday the government will always cover up its mistakes if it operates in secret and that it was up to journalists to expose the truth.

"Why does the government need a list of my phone calls?" he asked. "And what business does a democracy have running secret prisons? ... Do you believe that anyone would have known about these secret prisons or what was going on in Abu Ghraib if it had been left to the government to announce it?

"Some would argue these revelations hurt our cause. I argue just the opposite. Bringing mistakes to the fore is a strength, not a weakness." Schieffer said America's great strength comes from emphasizing the values and principles that separate it from its enemies — "not by adopting their methods and their techniques." Yahoo


What a Mess...
Why a tawdry Washington sex scandal may spell the end
of the Republican revolution...


November 7 will rock the ages like no other time in recent political history. The doors of the Bastille shall open on a resonance not heard for ages. The stampede of little blue feet will fill the air as they file in to cast their votes for a new nation that wants an end to death in the deserts of the Middle East. An end to the lies to the citizens of America and other countries. An end to prostituting the Constitution and the illegal claw-like grip the Bush administration has on the rubber stamped Congress. Democracy shall see the light of day and breathe the fresh air of truth from the will of the people...by the people...for the people...and it won't matter in what order it manifests itself...it shall be a welcome dance of democracy...and the sounds will resonate well with the blue citizens and there will be much celebration in the land. So it has been said, so shall it be. And...may there be peace among nations all...

Today I read that 2744 troops are dead since the War started...there shall be more before Dub, Rummy, Rice and Cheney meet their fate at the hands of the judicial place. They have a date with Gitmo...they need to feel the sting of the treatment they approved for others. And eye for an eye is a good motto. In this case...some electrodes and the body pyramid would really make me feel good. Or pictures of them all over the internets in the dog collar and leash...yeah...that's a good one. They must be dishonored and shamed as they have done to others. No...there is no forgiveness in this shriveled heart I own...it barely pumps blood. But I have my thoughts...and they'll never be able to plug into those. So...I guess I'd better stop writing them down!

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President Bush, again defying Congress, insisted he has the power to alter the Homeland Security Department's reports about whether it obeys privacy rules while handling background checks, ID cards and watch lists.

In the law Bush signed Wednesday, Congress stated no one but the privacy officer could alter, delay or prohibit the mandatory annual report on agency activities that affect privacy, including complaints.

But Bush, in a signing statement attached to the agency's 2007 spending bill, said he will interpret that section "in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional authority."

A White House spokeswoman said it's appropriate for the administration to know what reports go to Congress and to review them beforehand.

But privacy advocates have charged that Bush is trying to subvert lawmakers' ability to accurately monitor activities of the executive branch of government.

The American Bar Association and members of Congress also have said Bush uses signing statements excessively as a way to expand his power.

The Senate held hearings on the issue in June.

At the time, 110 statements challenged about 750 statutes passed by Congress, according to numbers combined from the White House and the Senate committee. They include documents revising or disregarding parts of legislation to ban torture of detainees and to renew the Patriot Act.

Well this looks like our Dub is looking at his world through the view finder. It's probably Spider Man or the X-Men with their special powers that they earned through whatever situation came their way. Supernatural things happen to those Supernatural types that they just can't seem to avoid. But not our Dub!..He takes his super-un-natural powers right off the pages of the whatever signing statement he sees at the moment and just goes with his own will. Not the will of the people mind you...the people that he is supposed to represent and hold their interests and the laws of the Constitution sacred. Now...sacred may be a tad over the top for him...so he has slimmed that down with another of his signing statements so "we" won't get the wrong idea about how the Presidency really does work its magic...or in this case...un-natural superpowers.

I've been reading this book...and I recommend you read it too. Not you Dub...I know you don't read...that's for losers. I'm recommending it to those who visit here in Sumoland...they like to read...and they take in what they read. They don't have time for stories about goats...they like to read real grist about the man...and that man is you Dub...you and your twisted lies. It get us through our day...finding out about more and more of the dirt you and your mud-slingers sling at us. Try as you might...we just don't buy into it...because it is as repulsive as you are.

Go ahead and deny all you want Dub because that is all you have left. It's piling up all around you and your loser friends...dropping off the integrity grid one by one...like dominos all lined up in a row just waiting for the one right Democrat-in-shining-armor to knock all your cheating blocks off and carry the day. And...when it's all over...I want to see you all in a line moving forward one by one...take it in the end...and say..."thank you sir...may I have another"? And THAT will send you all into history with your forked tails between your legs back into the dark side from whence you came! It will be good to do the good dance of democracy once again...

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Okay...we have a really bad deal going on in Washington right now that needs some tending to...and not be put on the back burner. Let's see...North Korea wants to light another candle on the nuclear bomb cake that they want to set off. I guess these little dudes don't give a squat about the fallout on the environment...therefore Dub doesn't either. Because we all know that our dear leader could give a crap about the environment. I don't know...does he give a crap about anything but reminding us he is the 'decider' and knows what is best for us? I'm so depressed...so I'm throwing darts at his picture between typing...sort of as an impetus for writing. Oh...and South Korea is really puffing out their chest on this one...look out!



Then we must consider the revelations in Woodward's book about the warnings time and again...and requests for meetings with Condi and her guys...you know...Rummy...Georgie and Dickey. I mean all the guy wanted to do in his position was give the the bin Laden threats that were deemed fervently near at hand. But....noooooo! She denied that occured...but it has since been proven she lied and dissimilated (of course)...and down played it all. No wonder she has always looked like she had a stick up her ass.

We've got a guy that has set aside 20 million dollars...that's right folks...20 mil...so that a very fabulous extravaganza can take place for the event that (IF AND WHEN) Iraq is a victory. Now that's some really good planning ahead I think. Something to look forward to there. Of course thousands of people that would deserve to be in that celebration won't be able to attend because they are and will be DEAD! Hard as carps. I'm sure they would have loved to revel in the sweet embrace of victory...so looked forward to...for what...nearly 4 years now?

I'm still waiting for that Octoberfest surprise of Karl Rove's...could he have ben bloviating about that? Was he just dangling something in front of us like little children that love to look at sparkly things? I think Karl has the Grim Reaper on his shoulder directing him hither and yon.



Now how about that all festering Hastert and his Foleygateathon. The man really needs to look in the mirror...because if there is another Star Wars episode...he's going to be cast as Jabba the Hut...because he fits it to a T...except for the suit...he needs to lose that. Yeah...here goes...I'm going to mention Mark Foley. He probably is the tip of the iceberg known as the Titanic of all the scandal that is to come. I do believe I read this evening that it could encompass many people...even our old friend Jeff Gannon (Guckert) porn star of the White House...that if you remember was for about 2 years a star question asking journalist in the presidential briefings. It just doesn't get any better than this...while a pain in the ass...it's never boring...just when the Dub makes one of his repetitive inane speeches.



Well...if we wake up tommorrow without the world having blown up and we still at least have the right to have a cup of coffee...I say...good for us. Jeez...what will we do if we can't have a decent cup of coffee or tea? Riot I say...take to the streets and demand our rights to our coffee back. They'll start on the most important everyday things that we need first...and then we'll just fall in line like school kids in order to get it. Just kidding...but it could happen you know!



The answers are blowing in the wind...not being followed by a moon shadow...I've got a brand new pair of roller scates...and you've got a brand new key...and we all live in a yellow submarine.

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AlterNet.org
Arrested for Cheney criticism...

Two more from the Constitution-burning files:

From Xeni Jardin:

A 32-year old man was booted from his flight out of Seattle because he was overheard speaking a non-English language -- Tamil -- on his mobile phone while he waited in line, and again on the aircraft before takeoff. The language is widely spoken around the world, primarily in India, Singapore, and Sri Lanka. Snip from news report: "[The passenger] told officials that he would not speak in a foreign language on his cell phone at an airport in the future.

And, from Blondesense Liz:

According to the lawsuit filed at U.S. District Court in Denver, Howards and his son walked to about two-to-three feet from where Cheney was standing, and said to the vice president, "I think your policies in Iraq are reprehensible," or words to that effect, then walked on.

Ten minutes later, according to Howards' lawsuit, he and his son were walking back through the same area, when they were approached by Secret Service agent Virgil D. "Gus" Reichle Jr., who asked Howards if he had "assaulted" the vice president. Howards denied doing so, but was nonetheless placed in handcuffs and taken to the Eagle County Jail.

Fortunately, we won't have to screw around with human bigotry and much longer, as the NY Times reports, we'll have software to determine threats:

A consortium of major universities, using Homeland Security Department money, is developing software that would let the government monitor negative opinions of the United States or its leaders in newspapers and other publications overseas.


I've been thinking about this for a time now...so I guess this is definitely in our future. You know that the blogs carry alot of weight getting the stories and information out there. In my case...I enjoy snark and satire peppered with mean cartoons. Let's face it...I'm mean spirited toward these jerks...and proud of it. I mean...growing up in the sixties (memories) you weren't anybody if you weren't against the man.

And talk about the rallies for free speech, civil rights...and being a flower child of course. Rex Kramer...is in a dead faint now...he gets light-headed around the sounds of hippies. So I guess what I'm trying to say is...I knew it was too good to last...the internet freedom we have...we thought to be commonplace...it will be gone. They'll take that last bastion of words from us as surely as the Bush administration is full of crooks and liars. The FBI is monitoring me now...I just feel it. I only hope I can stand up to the rubber hoses and the fingernails that they surely will pull out. Our homes will probably all be bugged too...probably in the cereal boxes or toothpaste tubes. So...this is Sumo signing off now in advance of them signing me off. If I turn up missing...you'll know why.

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Scream
I found this via The Poetry Man and the artist is Benjamin Heine and you can go to his blog and read some really great things...and see more of his art...which I think is FANTASTIC. He has some very interesting observations on our fearless leader...

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Torture, torture, we love you...
Everytime you follow through...
Shake that tushy - really show...
We'll get you in the end...go Gitmo go!

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Former Army Capt. Tammy Duckworth, a Democratic congressional candidate, campaigns. She lost both legs in Iraq.

An Illinois congressional candidate who lost both her legs during combat in Iraq said Saturday that President Bush has no real strategy for securing the war-ravaged nation, just political talk designed to appeal to voters.

"Instead of a plan or a strategy, we get shallow slogans like 'Mission Accomplished' and 'Stay the Course,"' former Army Capt. Tammy Duckworth said in the Democrats' weekly radio address. "Those slogans are calculated to win an election. But they won't help us accomplish our mission in Iraq."

Duckworth, who co-piloted a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed while under a rocket grenade attack almost two years ago, also criticized Bush and others in his administration for accusing anyone who challenges the president's policies of "cutting and running."

"Well, I didn't cut and run, Mr. President. Like so many others, I proudly fought and sacrificed," Duckworth said. "My helicopter was shot down long after you proclaimed 'mission accomplished."'

Duckworth is seeking the suburban Chicago seat being vacated by conservative Republican Rep. Henry Hyde. She is running against Illinois state Sen. Peter Roskam, the man Hyde has endorsed.

In her address, Duckworth, now a major in the Illinois National Guard, also lashed out at the GOP-led Congress for refusing to do its job of holding the Bush administration accountable for its flawed Iraq policy.

"We need a Congress that will ask the tough questions and work together for solutions rather than attacking the patriotism of those who disagree," she said. "It is time to encourage Iraqi leaders to take control of their own county and make the tough choices that will stop the civil war and stabilize the country."

If I were her...the 'cut and run' mantra would really piss me off...badly piss me off. I hope she wins and in her acceptance speech remembers to mention the cut and run talking point. That might shame a few of them. But I think their minds are elsewhere right now...heh heh!

cross-posted@Blanton's & Ashton's

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That's right you heard me! In this funny little world we live in, the bad guys (conservative shark) on the left...and on your right you will find the (liberal left)...um...good guys in the Sumo World of Politics. See the blood around the teeth of the conservative shark...and notice the blue (hat?) on the liberal guy. Yes...it's all on the cover of the book...and that's how it's judged.

It's come down to the Sharks and the Jets! That's right...we want to go to our various polling places around the great nation that is America...and vote in November...and get a killing on the other guy. Dick Cheney has that down to a nice science. I'd venture to say that Jeb's Florida may have their own brand of special science going on in the voting (cough) booths.

Now you may be asking yourself what do the various folks have that would interest you so you would feel comfortable about pledging your vote to them on election day...? A simple process of exquisite elimination should take care of that...just follow me on this one. First, you might try to remember if you've ever seen any photos of said politician (male) wearing a dress...although quite fashionable and set off to perfection with a tiara. Or, mayhap remember in the past an indiscretion that involved taking funds that should have gone to an orphanage...or Indian gaming casino.

Perhaps the candidate has...oh I don't know...could have...shot someone in the face when they were rip-snorting-drunker-than-a-skunk-in-a-hen-house. Maybe the guy running for office took his assistant home one evening after work...and just happened to plink her in the middle of a river and she just happened to drown...and he just doesn't know how it happened kind of incident.

Then there are the people running for office that head up some fairly important committee's that just so happen to deal with helping children that go missing...or are bothered by pervert predators that email them wanting to know the size of their (wee-willy-winkie)...or what they do with the towel when they are done...toweling themselves off...very considerate by the way.

Yes...friends...we have some deciding to do...not to be mixing that up with the "Decider" now...but deciding who will do their best in a job that is supposed to be for the people. We are those people...and we have to decide whether to decide for the Sharks or the Jets. And they sometimes get mixed up in all hearings and meetings that they attend...oh...and let's not forget the fundraisers where there's good eats...and drinks all around. Yeah...they are deciding alot of things for us plain folks...so you'd better get your ducks in a row...and take good aim...because you only get one chance at this...and you'd better make it worth the shot...because there won't be any prizes to take home. You may just get dunked!







And when you get to the polling place and pull back that curtain...pull a lever, punch the button on the good ol' Diebold machine...or just plain put your X on the spot...I beg you to keep this image in your heart and head...and never give up...never give in...or it may be to your everlasting peril if you let them take you into the dark side of the FORCE!...Oh yes...the dark side.

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The 'gop'...because they really are small minded idiots...run from what our nation ONCE stood for when it starts to get tough. They throw the 'cut and run' phrase around so much it's no wonder that it has become their mantra. And still they found more gall to cut loose with..."the party of FDR and the party of Harry Truman has become the party of cut and run."

I gasped the moment it came forth from those puny thin lying lips of der dinglebat. This guy was a cheerleader for crap's sake! He didn't do well in school...and I know his Mommy got him out of alot of scrapes when he was in school. Wicked, wicked dragon-lady Ma Babs and her brood of nincompoops. To think that the fruit of #41's loins joined up with that womb and spewed forth this thing from some 'creature feature' is beyond me.

So I'm thinking Monkey Boy has a some nerve carrying on like that...because he used Pa's many connections to...um...avoid going to Viet Nam...and of course a coward like himself went AWOL from that easy post he had. Thanks Pa. This sort of thing still rankles me that he got away with it...to live another day...and when it came out into the open...got it fixed by his cronies in arms.

So naturally the next thing to question would be the patriotism of Democrats and other concerned citizens that do not agree with this war we find ourselves mirred in...because we are not willing to shed more blood and waste gobs of more money on something as pointless as this stupid illegal war that we were lied into. We have so many countries that revile us and have much condemnation for us...we may never make it back into the good graces of other nations. But we are the 'cut and runners' that are ultimately appeasers of the terrorists. I'm sorry...but it is the Republicans who have many times over shown themselves to be the cowards that are unfortunately among us.

One has to wonder just what they are really afraid of. The cabal of the 'beast'...you know...Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice...and any others that are under their yoke...are really quite scared. How scared you may ask? Apparently their fear is such that they are more than willing...yes eager...to go against what this nation stands for...and has stood for, for over 200 years. The founding patriots back to George Washington never saw this coming I'm sure. We have to wonder what has sparked this (whatever it is) insane profound panic that they think will protect all of us from terrorists...probably they are thinking mostly of their asses in the sling.

Well...we've come from a country known for its individual liberty...which there was a time when world-wide it was a very famous thing. Now...we live in a police state...which by the Republican standards is totally out of fear. They only mention it in every speech and opportunity to reinforce that same old fear mantra as they move about.

So...what do we think of our way of life now? Well...lots of people are not so happy about it...no sir...they are not. And here is where the Usama bin Ladens of the world come into play. I feel ultimately what he wanted to achieve, besides killing many people on that fateful day...was to see us devided as a nation...and for the administration to make predictable moves that brought it all into play. He must be quite satisfied somewhere in the mountains...probably pinching himself that it worked out so well...right into his hands.

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), arguing against the Bush torture bill that passed both the House and the Senate this week, said it quite well:

“What has changed in the last five years that our Government is so inept and our people so terrified that we must do what no bomb or attack could ever do by taking away the very freedoms that define America? Why would we allow the terrorists to win by doing to ourselves what they could never do, and abandon the principles for which so many Americans today and through our history have fought and sacrificed?”

We as inhabitants of this country for the last 5 years...have seen our pride and patriotism stomped on by those that are certainly unworthy to hold their lofty positions. I am speaking of a president and vice president whose lies are so commonplace...that well...we've come to expect it really. We've had to agonize over our military men and women that have been killed and or maimed for an illegal war that has nothing to do with terror. But it does have much to do with Bush and those that blindly, mindlessly support the fear mongering to advance their financial and (cough) ideological agenda. They have cloaked themselves in the flag for protection. If we don't buy it...it is because there is something terribly un-american about us. We are now the terrorists...we do not side with their many lies and excuses...so we must side with the terrorists if that is the case.

To go from a once relatively popular country to a global disgrace...is beyond the pale. There is hardly any nations out there that have respect for us as a nation now. I think the death knell started with the first inklings of Abu Ghraib and then it really blew up in our faces. We'll never get away from the 'torture treatment' now. That is our new legacy thanks to Bush and his cronies. But we are the fools that aren't real americans because we believe we should leave the Constitution the way it was intended. Power unleashed...a Pandora's box if you will.

This has all cost us too much...in many ways. The most important being the lives lost, maimed bodies, families ruined by this war. And then there is the price paid by all of us for continuing something that we for the most part want stopped. The financial ramifications will last for generations. We have been ruined in a few short years for the infantile want of others. Mother must have given in alot when baby had his tantrums...

So...I guess in closing I want to tell the guilty Republican congress that they can kiss my lily white ass. Get out that chapstick fellas...and pucker up...it's so much better than to cut and run like you 'lily-livered toadies' do when it gets a little edgey at times. Here's hoping you are in the wrong place at the wrong time when your rapture comes...because that rapture may have the sword of the lion and it may speak arabic...yeah...I sure hope it does. May peace be upon us all, except the Republicans of course.

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