Coke head calling the bed pan white

When I heard George Bush call terrorists Islamic Fascists, I just had to look up the dictionary definition at Webster's:

fascism

1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

Sounds like the neocons to me.

More fun with Caniac

Having a little fun with a wingnut over at Questions for Christians:

Dick "last throes" Cheney doesn't lie. OK. You've had enough. Put the Kool Aide down and back away.

A few reporters admitting to fabrication means the whole paper is lies? Very nice. Again, you must have gone to the Karl Rove school in Orwellville. Taking that position means that only FAUX NEWS tells the truth. Careful, you're going to make me spew. So, here's a FACT about Dick Cheney's truthfulness:

CLAIM:
BORGER: "Well, let's get to Mohamed Atta for a minute because you mentioned him, as well. You have said in the past that it was, quote, 'pretty well confirmed.'" CHENEY: “No, I never said that.”
- CNBC, 6/20/04

FACT:
“It's been pretty well confirmed that [Atta] did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack.”
- Vice President Dick Cheney, 12/9/01

FACT REFUTING CHENEY'S ORIGINAL LIE ABOUT ATTA-IRAQ CONNECTION:
“There is no evidence that the alleged leader of the Sept. 11 hijackers, Mohamed Atta, met in April 2001 with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague, a finding that eliminates a once-suggested link between the terrorist attacks and the government of President Saddam Hussein, according to a senior administration official.”
- Washington Post, 5/1/02

So, Brainiac, I guess we can't believe anything Dick Cheney says, huh? You said it. Lie once and no one can ever believe you again.

But let's get on to the meat of the thing. Scientists 30 years ago hadn't invented the internet, were wrong about dinosaurs (you know, Jesus horses), and many, many other things. That's the thing about science. It has ways built in to correct itself. Theory and observation. Something religion doesn't have.

Ironically, however, they were only partly wrong. One scenario theorizes that as the north pole and Greenland melt, lots of fresh water pours into the north Atlantic. That halts the gulf stream, and the northeast and Europe get very cold. But it's just a scenario. Could be wrong. We should wait and see and not do anything about it.

But, hey, there's no sense talking to you about this. You will never let anyone convince you that you're wrong about anything.

Oh, I'm angry. You have no idea. It's about time we had some angry liberals. Of course, it was you guys who were the real rabid dog angry when Bill Clinton was getting a blow job in the same room where Ronald Reagan took his medicine. Liberals like me are angry about something that really matters.

I have watched George Bush allow this country to be attacked. I have watched an American city drown. I have seen 300 BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS WASTED ON A WAR BASED ON LIES WHILE THE REAL TERRORISTS WHOSE BALLS SHOULD BE HANGING ON THE OVAL OFFICE WALL ARE STILL WANDERING AROUND FREE. I have watched Haliburton get rich, science get ignored, unions get busted, jobs get outsourced, corporations moving to the Caymans, pollution get worse, public lands sold off, Enron, enforcement of immigrarion laws (especially against employers) stopped, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, health care and fuel get unaffordable, the deficit exploded, and people like you keep spewing BULLSHIT paid for by the oil companies who are making record profit.

But it only has a little to do with you personally. It has a lot to do with you in the plural. You and Dick and George. So fucking sure that your God is the right God. That everyone is going to hell. That armageddon is coming and anyone who's not a Christian will burn in hell.

When GW says God told him to strike Iraq, that's shoving religion down my throat. We he calls what he's started a Crusade, that's inciting future terror attacks. That makes my kids less safe.

Hey, why are we in Iraq anyway? Iraq's ties to 9-11? WMD? Democratic dominos falling though the middle east? But you said Cheney doesn't lie. Fighting terrorists there so we don't have to fight them here? Oh, I see, they have those shock collars on so they can't come here when they're ready? The people who started all this with box cutters are too geographically challenged to come over here again? What a sad, pathetic, horrific joke you and your idols are.

Maybe they like it when we come over there and rape and kill innocent children. Saves them the trouble and does their recruiting for them. Then we fire Arabic translators for being gay. Almost 50 of them so far. Nice. That'll help.

But I digress.

I noticed that you again avoided all the points made on the many links I provided. If your only argument that Global Warming isn't happening is that they were wrong in the 70's, well, you need to take another Earth Sciences class. But that would be torture, wouldn't it? Having to listen to all those unclean facts? All those references to evolution?

I don't hate all Christians. I hate hypocrites. Republicans are not Christians in your policies or politics. You are befouling an earth you claim God told you to behold. If you don't believe that GW Bush is an environmental nightmare (even without Global Warming and Climate Change in the arguement), then there is no sense in wasting my time on you anymore.

Caniac the Magnificent

This came in over at Questions for Christians:

You liberals are always looking for the knee-jerk response. In the mid 70's, you all thought the next ice age was coming due to aerosol emissions. Global warming just 30 years later? 19,000 international and relevantly experienced scientists have signed a petition calling the whole global warming issue "poppycock".

A couple of degrees up or down over 5,000 years really doesn't concern those of us who can think. Liberals "feel", they don't think. You all immediately have to respond to things. You blame humans for their impending doom. Did the brontosaurs cause their own extinction by driving SUVs? Was it the Raptors rampant gun use? Triceratops urban sprawl? If only they were all vegans...

Oh, I just love these guys. He did everything but call the dinosaurs "Jesus Horses" (thank you Jimmy Fallon). But I ignored the obvious problem this guy has with the fossil record and went after him on the more obvious stuff.

Hey, Caniac, can you back this up:

"19,000 international and relevantly experienced scientists have signed a petition calling the whole global warming issue ‘poppycock’."

Please tell me who that was. Provide a link to the petition. Show me the signatures. Otherwise, get lost. I was a grade schooler in the 70’s. And 100% of the non-oil-company-funded scientists (that means peer-reviewed science, not the kind George Bush preaches) agree that we are heating the planet, melting the ice, changing the climate, and raising sea level.

Oh, and remember, a few degrees up or down, a few feet up or down (ocean level) doesn’t really matter much to the molton-core ball of rock with a thin shell of delicately balanced air and water that 6 billion of us live on.

Stolen Votes and Union Republicans

Another Tirade on Health Care in My Union Newsgroup


While we watch out health care get whittled away, while more soldiers
die in a war based on lies, and while corporate cronies get rich while
robbing the middle class, the vote stealing continues, and lying scumbag
republicans like TJ keep promoting the thieves and liars because of
bullshit issues like gay marriage.

All you guys want your health care and dental? Stop voting for these
fucks. Vote for universal health care and we won't have to worry about
who we put on the trust or whether stagehands make good negotiators.

In the mean time, the votes keep getting stolen by the Karl Rove crowd
while people like Brother Mike C**** keep swift boating anyone who gets
in the way of Republican domination of the electoral process and the US
Government.

Wake up.

Reply to a Lament on My Union's Health Care

Unions all over this country are in the same shape. Health care is the issue. Bill Clinton knew it, and his wife had a plan that would have cost 7% of GDP, as TJ recently pointed out. Now we are paying almost 20% of GDP in health care. Trillions every year. For profit health companies like those owned by Bill Frist give 90% of their political contributions to Republicans, as do pharmaceutical companies. Their reward? A 600 Billion Dollar Medicare bill that prohibits us from negotiating for lower prices for drugs.

Howard Dean, who everyone here likes to ridicule because they can't talk issues, had a good plan that would have helped all the working people in this country get health care. You pay into Medicare, you get covered by it. The administrative costs of medicare are very low, about three percent, compared to the costs of for-profit private plans, where administrative costs run about 30% with a big chunk of that going into the CEO's pocket.

Contrary to popular Republican belief, malpractice insurance premiums are a VERY small chunk compared to that healthy bite taken so someone's daughter can drive a Mercedes at Harvard. The profits are obscene, like those earned by Senator Dr. Frist's company. (BTW, Dr. Frist believes AIDS can be spread through tears and sweat)

In a time of cuts from greedy corporations like the forum management, I doubt very much we're going to get the kind of contracts we need to cover it all.

It is time that Americans voted for health care for all.

Now, that ain't a debate about Nero's bar tab. That's a bucket brigade, and it needs to pour votes on the fire these corporate plutocrats are holding to our feet. It's the only way to beat the Diebold factor.

My Favorite Un-evolved Life Form is Staying Out in the Light!

More fun with the un-educated....

You are so full of shit I have no idea where to begin.

The Republican congress in 1994 passed Bill Clinton's tax package. It included tax cuts for middle class people and a slight raise on taxes on rich people. You really should shop for facts somewhere besides Fox News....

I heard on the radio this morning that we are now spending 17% of GDP on health. I'll take the Devil's deal. Devil in a dress. HA. And people say we Bush haters let our hate get in the way of reason. Un fucking believeable. If you were any more fucked up, TJ, we could call the guys in white coats.

As for socialized medicine, well, that which you do to the least among us....

Wait, Bush said the recession was 9-11's fault. Which is it? And why would Gore raise taxes when we had record surpluses? Gore never mentioned raising taxes once. And he never could have with Rethugs in control of the house. You can try to re-write history all you want, but facts are facts. Bush is a disaster. Working people's wages have fallen steadily, Clinton created more jobs in his best month than Bush created in his whole 5 years, oh, and Bush's jobs are those really high paying ones, like Butlers and diamond-tipped cane polishers. The rich are getting richer, there are millions more poor people (where's your Jesus there, huh?), millions more without health care, and CEOs salaries are now 1000 times that of the average worker (it was only 300 times under Clinton). Not only have wages fallen, but now, thanks to making his oil company buddies richer, our purchasing power and disposable income are dropping too. Plus, the only thing driving the Bush economy has been people borrowing on their equity. Just wait till that chicken comes home to roost....

Kennedy cut taxes on upper incomes because when he took office they were really high because we had been paying off WWII, the cold war, and Korea. You know, novel idea, pay for the wars you fight, instead of borrowing the money from the Saudis and Chinese and making your grandkids pay it back, plus interest.

You're a liar on stem cells, too. The reason you can spew the crap you do about umbilical cords and adult cells is because you and your beloved great leader have suppressed research on Embryonic cells, which are taken from a glob of cells, not a child. Nobody gets killed because an embryo is not a person. In fact, under your glorious leader's rules, the embryos can go in the trash, but not into research. What a joke. THERE IS NO blood of life there, bible boy. You need to stop getting your science from your church. They have an obvious bias. As for the debate between Adult vs. Embryonic, well, you're wrong again (I'm sensing a pattern here).

"But the biggest difference in potential between adult and embryonic stem cells comes down to their developmental capacity -- their ability to give rise to other, more mature types of cells.The most flexible type of stem cells are those that are totipotent, which are considered the "master" cells of the body because they contain the genetic information necessary to create all the cells in the body. The fertilized egg is an example of a totipotent cell.Pluripotent stem cells, which come from embryos and fetal tissue, have the potential to develop into all of the more than 200 different known cell types in the adult body -- except the placenta."

The real hope in adult stem cells is in bone marrow, not umbilical cords. And since there has been so little research on embryonic cells (thanks to you Jesus freaks forcing your backwater views on the rest of us), you really can't say adult cells are better. What we know so far is that the developmental capacity of embryonic cells is better than adult cells.

But hey, what do you care, Jesus is coming back soon, right? Why don't you wait for him under your rock. All those un-evolved life forms under there are lonely without you.

Gee, this is so much fun! Fucking moron.

Another whacko steps into the light, gets burned, and crawls back in his hole

Here's one to the guy who can't stop hating Jane Fonda.

Here's the bottom line, shit head. You were all for Bush. You perpetrated lies about Kerry. You still do, even after I've sent you plenty of proof that the Swift Boaters were pitiful liars whose storied didn't even wash with a Navy run by your Hero Bush. That means that you, and every other person who voted for Bush should be ashamed of yourselves and apologize. You are all accomplices to the murders of 2400 American soldiers, 100,000 innocent Iraqis, thousands of people who could be saved by stem-cells, hundreds who died in Katrina, thousands who will die from increased pollution, and the millions who will die from Climate change you right wing nuts continue to deny.

I'm going to stay right here in America, you fuck. And all us commie
liberal pinko fag lovers are going to take over the house and senate,
and eventually the white house. We're going to put this country back on
a course where we do things based on Science, not superstition. We're
going to stop invasions based on lies, stop polluting so fucking much,
start a program for alternative energy, try to get health care as a
basic right for every American, even you, you fascist fuck.

Republican Says Dems Do Nothing on Immigration

My reply to this brainwashed fool:

Dems don't control any federal branch of government. When they do, then you can blame them. Now, when the Senate votes a way you don't like, you can only blame your glorious Republican party. You know, the party of God, as opposed to us terrorist loving Democrats.

Just to point out what a liar you are, here's EXACTLY what a Democrat is doing about immigration:

Governor Bill Richardson Declares State of Emergency Along New Mexico Border With Mexico

August 12, 2005
Pahl Shipley (505) 476-2202

Governor Makes $1.75 million available to assist state and local law enforcement in border communities

COLUMBUS, NM- Governor Bill Richardson today issued an Executive Order declaring a state of emergency along the New Mexico-Mexico border, specifically in Doña Ana, Luna, Grant, and Hidalgo counties. The Governor made the announcement following a helicopter and ground tour of the border near Columbus, New Mexico.

"As Governor I have a responsibility to protect our citizens, property, and communities," said Governor Richardson. "Recent developments have convinced me this action is necessary- including violence directed at law enforcement, damage to property and livestock, increased evidence of drug smuggling, and an increase in the number of undocumented immigrants."

Governor Richardson’s declaration makes $750,000 in state emergency funding immediately available to the affected counties. The Governor pledged an additional $1 million in assistance for the area. The funds will be used to support state and local law enforcement efforts, create and fund a field office for the New Mexico Office of Homeland Security to coordinate assistance to the area, and help build a fence to protect a livestock yard near Columbus, along a favorite path for illegal immigration where a number of livestock have been stolen and killed.

The Governor also called on Mexico to bulldoze the abandoned town of Las Chepas, which is directly over the border from Columbus. Las Chepas is a notorious staging and resting area for those who smuggle drugs and immigrants into the United States.

"I’m taking these serious steps because of the urgency of the situation and, unfortunately, because of the total inaction and lack of resources from the federal government and Congress," added the Governor. "We will continue to work with the federal government in an attempt to get their assistance, but something had to be done immediately. I want the people of Doña Ana, Luna, Hidalgo, and Grant counties to know my administration is doing everything it can to protect them."

The Governor also directed the New Mexico Department of Agriculture to work with the New Mexico Livestock Board to assess the security and safety of livestock in this border region.

Governor Richardson also received support today from the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The Chihuahua Secretary of Industrial Development, Alejandro Cano, says Chihuahua will fully support the Governor in dealing with the situation along the border.

For the record, Bill Richardson will probably run for President. He was Clinton's energy secretary.

Now the Jesus Freak is Anti-immigrant (Big Surprise)

Don't get me wrong. I'm all for controlling immigration better. I see it as a jobs issue, where billionare Bush buddies are getting rich busting unions and keeping the minimum sinfully low. But here's my response to this Bush Buttkisser.

This is so ironic, coming from a Bush loving, Rapture raving, hard core Republican like you.

Think maybe the education problems have something to do with the fact that Bush has underfunded his own "no child left behind" initiative? Think maybe the high drop-out rates have something to do with schools encouraging kids to drop out before taking the test that ranks the schools, so the numbers don't get skewed by a bunch of kids who aren't learning? Think maybe the immigrant population explosion has something to do with Religion telling these people it's a sin to use birth control, or to use the morning after pill (which aborts a glob of cells with no "blood of life")? Or maybe it has something to do with Bush and his religion Nazis insisting that we teach abstinence only in school, instead of telling kids about ALL their options to control the birth rate?

You think maybe the high number of illegals in Colorado have anything to do with the fact that the big meat packing companies hire them to slaughter and butcher animals - jobs that used to be high-paying union jobs held by Americans? Did you know that the meat industry gives 95% of its political donations to Republicans who help bust the unions and make it easier to get the illegal labor.

So, we need a highly educated populace? Why, then, do you support a Republican party that cuts student loans, student grants, raises the rates on the existing student loans, and refuses tax cuts to middle class families trying to pay for their children's tuition? Why do you support a GOP that cuts funds to Vocational Technical programs, head start, child health programs, and all kinds of other Educational funding? Why do you support a GOP when many Republicans advocate eliminating the department of Education?

Lou Dobbs links to the Center for Immigration Studies, a pretty good source...

"At the peak of the Great Wave of immigration in 1910, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. was less than half of what it is today, though the percentage of the population was slightly higher. The annual arrival of 1.5 million legal and illegal immigrants, coupled with 750,000 annual births to immigrant women, is the determinate factor— or three-fourths— of all U.S. population growth."

So, as a percentage of population, less than what we had in 1910.

But, hey, don't let that stop you from trying to distract everyone from Bush's illegal wiretapping, his on-going quagmire of lies in Iraq, his 3 TRILLION in debt added since he became president, his ignoring of science, his union busting, his cronyism, or all the crooks in his administration, or the fact that YOU VOTED FOR HIM.

Until they admit they voted for the wrong guy, I have no patience for any Bush voter.

Jesus Freak in my Union Group crawls out from under his rock again

Seems when thing are going really bad for Republicans is when the GW loving Jesus freak in my union group decides he's going to spew out some good ol' Republican hate. I just love shooting him down.

Funny how you just ignore all the valid points I've made to you over the years. Seems when you can't argue you just run and hide like all the little Bush lovers now. But you just have to poke that vapid little head of yours up everynow and then.

Do you or your draconian sheriff have any proof that a democratic lecture series is why they're in jail, or is this just a stupid joke? Real funny. Suggesting that Democrats actually encourage criminals. Real nice. That's all you got? Some bullshit lie by some bullshit sadist? Has the spokesman for the Republican crime machine actually come to this? How about we send Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Tom DeLay, and all the other Republican crooks to Joe's jail? I'd love to see Duke Cunningham survive that. He could give a LIVE lecture series on how to take bribes.

Let's ask the sheriff what he thinks about unions, eh? Or maybe we should just do away with social security, Medicaid, workers comp, and all the other programs brought to you by Democrats, eh God Boy? Let's just let your hero GW Bush and his rich oil company buddies turn this country into a plutocracy (oh, wait, too late) where we all fend for ourselves. Then they'll be plenty of people for Joe's Jail, huh?

Maybe the prisoners would like to hear what Barack Obama said about Iraq yesterday.

Wonder what Jesus would have to say about Joe's little tent city?

I know, Jesus freak, why don't you read some of these stories about good Christian Joe Arpaio:

I especially enjoy the ones where guys who did not kill anyone DIED because of this man's serious abuses of power. Who would Jesus Kill? Or, how about the ones where Joe cost his constituents millions because he lost law suits for cruel and unusual punishment? Yeah, really saving them money there, huh?

But you don't give a shit, do you, oh kind, loving, cheek turning Christian? You don't give a shit about anyone but you and yours. "I got mine. Fuck you." Right? The Local 33 Republican motto?

We all know, TRASHYNOVA (at that once-great-country-on-line ISP), that you don't give a shit about the US Constitution. Like Bush said, it's just a piece of paper. Why not just wipe your ass with it?

Hell, let's just go back to monarchy. Then GW could send me and anyone else with the balls to speak truth to Joe's jail. I'm sure that would make you and your Christian friends real happy. Why not just kill everyone who doesn't agree with you? Eh?

Don't worry. I don't expect you to answer a single one of my points. You never do.

Can't wait to see his answer.

Steven Colbert's Corresponent's Dinner Video

You can get the Colbert video here. If you haven't seen it, I have to tell you that the hype is true. This is the best piece of political satire in a long time. At least since Mark Twain. It's a real Modest Proposal moment. Other's have called it an Emperor's New Suit moment. Either way, it's a great moment in American history. George Bush may never be tried, imprisoned, or impeached for his crimes, but at least he had to sit there and take it while Stephen Colbert ripped him a new one in front of all his friends. Too bad Cheney wasn't there.

Bush challenges hundreds of laws - The Boston Globe

"He agrees to a compromise with members of Congress, and all of them are there for a public bill-signing ceremony, but then he takes back those compromises -- and more often than not, without the Congress or the press or the public knowing what has happened."--Christopher Kelley

Like a little boy promising his mother something while his fingers are crossed behind his back, GW Bush is committing treason by ignoring the laws of the land, which he has actually signed into law, by attaching "signing statements" that essentially mean he's taking it back. This isn't a veto. Congress can't over-ride a signing statement. The bill becomes law when he signs it, and if he breaks it, he should be prosecuted. As this story in the Boston Globe points out, he has broken several of them. When will he have to pay?

New Bushisms

Decider In Chief

Here's a new Bushism from yesterday that will make it to my Bush quotes page:

I say, I listen to all voices, but mine is the final decision. And Don Rumsfeld is doing a fine job. He's not only transforming the military, he's fighting a war on terror. He's helping us fight a war on terror. I have strong confidence in Donald Rumsfeld. I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation. But I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense.

Shove It Up Ben Stein's Fat Ass (then take his money)

What a fucking joke this idiot is.... My biggest regret in life is that I couldn't go on that show and take his dirty blood money. Read on for my comments, or take this fucking "war to save freedom from Islamic Terrorists" and shove it up your ass. It's an over-blown lie in the 1984 mold, the constant war, or the "long war" as the Pentagon has taken to calling it, for the sake of further encroaching the military industrial complex into the government of, for, and by war.

Missed Tributes
By Ben Stein
Published 3/6/2006 2:08:21 AM
Now for a few humble thoughts about the Oscars.

I did not see every second of it, but my wife did, and she joins me in noting that there was not one word of tribute, not one breath, to our fighting men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan or to their families or their widows or orphans. There were pitifully dishonest calls for peace -- as if the people we are fighting were interested in any peace for us but the peace of the grave. But not one word for the hundreds of thousands who have served and are serving, not one prayer or moment of silence for the dead and maimed

Pitifully dishonest? Really? So anyone who suggested that we work for peace, instead of gearing up for war, was pitifully dishonest. How the fuck would Ben Fucking Stein know what was in anyone's heart when it comes to honesty? Shit, the man worked for Dicky Nixon, one of the most dishonest people on earth ever.

Basically, the sad truth is that Hollywood does not think of itself as part of America, and so, to Hollywood, the war to save freedom from Islamic terrorists is happening to someone else. It does not concern them except insofar as it offers occasion to mock or criticize George Bush. They live in dreamland and cannot be gracious enough to thank the men and women who pay with their lives for the stars' ability to live in dreamland. This is shameful.

Shameful? Where are the WMD? Over 1000 days past "Mission Accomplished," they still don't have enough body armor or armored Humvees. Vet health care is being cut by Republicans, a bunch of draft dodging chicken hawks, and Ben FUCKING Stein has the balls to call an Award show shameful? It's a GODDAMN AWARDS SHOW for Christ's sake. The people who should be gracious enough to thank the men and women who pay with their lives for George Bush's lies are in the White House. How many soldiers funerals has GW Bush been to? NONE. I wonder how many Ben Fucking Stein has been to. I know he's just another Republican Chicken Hawk who didn't serve.

The idea that it is brave to stand up for gays in Hollywood, to stand up against Joe McCarthy in Hollywood (fifty years after his death), to say that rich white people are bad, that oil companies are evil -- this is nonsense. All of these are mainstream ideas in Hollywood, always have been, always will be. For the people who made movies denouncing Big Oil, worshiping gays, mocking the rich to think of themselves as brave -- this is pathetic, childish narcissism.

I wonder if Ben saw "Good night and good luck." Sure, it's 50 years since the rabid right wing McCarthy (no doubt a hero of Stein's) died, but the movie draws parallels to today's culture of "anti-terrorism," which, in the run-amok state it's in under George W. McCarthy, is damn near as hysterical as 50 years ago. If Stein had his way, we'd be infiltrating anti-war groups and eves-dropping on Democrats like John Murtha who dare to speak the truth about Bush's war. And who said all rich white people are bad? Huh? Is Ben making up something to be upset about here? Is Ben saying that oil companies aren't evil? Huh? And who said they were? George Clooney again? Syrianna isn't about Oil companies being evil. It's about the fact that we deal with some very evil people in order to get oil out of that very fucked up place it's in. To do so, our government, and world-wide oil companies have to do some evil things.

The brave guy in Hollywood will be the one who says that this is a fabulously great country where we treat gays, blacks, and everyone else as equal. The courageous writer in Hollywood will be the one who says the oil companies do their best in a very hostile world to bring us energy cheaply and efficiently and with a minimum of corruption. The producer who really has guts will be the one who says that Wall Street, despite its flaws, has done the best job of democratizing wealth ever in the history of mankind.

Wow. Wouldn't it be great if we did, in fact, treat gays, blacks, and everyone else as equals? Is Ben Fucking Stein suggesting that by not allowing gay people to marry, we are treating them as equally as we treat blacks (who weren't allowed to marry whites until the 60's)? Is Ben Fucking Stein telling me there aren't people like CLASSY FUCKING NOVA who like to point out that the Bible says we should stone gay people to death? Are you, Tommy, suggesting that every thing is hunky fucking dory because Ben Stein says it is? Democratizing wealth? PULEEEASE! We have the most inequitable distribution of wealth right now that we have ever had in modern times. CEOs make 1000 times what the average worker makes. And we're cutting taxes for the uber rich as fast as we can. A minimum of corruption in the oil companies? Good god, man, what color is the sky on Ben Stein's planet? Blood red?

No doubt the men and women who came to the Oscars in gowns that cost more than an Army Sergeant makes in a year, in limousines with champagne in the back seat, think they are working class heroes to attack America -- which has made it all possible for them. They are not. They would be heroes if they said that Moslem extremists are the worst threat to human decency since Hitler and Stalin. But someone might yell at them or even attack them with a knife if they sad that, so they never will.

Attack them with a knife? What kind of threat is that? Damn, I wish Ben Stein would say that to my face, the little chicken shit. How about we pay Army sergeants more? How about the gowns at Republican fund raisers? Doesn't seem to bother Ben when Laura Bush shows up in a 10 G dress. And how about the Americans who showed up to the Oscars in hybrids? Gee, I wonder what Ben Fucking Stein drives? Furthermore, there is no way in hell that some Muslims with box cutters and IEDs are as big a threat to decency since Stalin or Hitler. Let's see, who's the superpower that's been torturing people, spying on it's own citizens, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, and lying it's way into war?

Hollywood is above all about self: self-congratulation, self-promotion, and above all, self-protection. This is human and basic, but let's not kid ourselves. There is no greatness there in the Kodak theater. The greatness is on patrol in Kirkuk. The greatness lies unable to sleep worrying about her man in Mosul. The greatness sleeps at Arlington National Cemetery and lies waiting for death in VA Hospitals. God help us that we have sunk so low as to confuse foolish and petty boasting with the real courage that keeps this nation and the many fools in it alive and flourishing on national TV.

Holy fucking shit, Tommy. I can't believe you would forward this drivel. This Bush loving slobbery kiss of a waste of words. As if Hollywood had decided to send these kids to die. As if Hollywood had lied about WMD and non-existent ties to Al Qaeda. As if Hollywood, and not Ben Fucking Stein and his right wing freaks at FAUX NEWS, had convinced 90% of the Bush voters that Saddam was responsible for 9-11. The idea that these men and women are dying for some great cause is a LIE. They are dying for LIES. They are fighting petty thugs in Iraq. Meanwhile, the real terrorists are still free. I didn't hear one mention out of Ben Stein's fat mouth about Osama Bin forgotten. Not one word about the Musharaf Junta in Pakistan that we call our friends (an unelected, non-democratic Islamic regime that is barely hanging in on in a country that not only has, but has distributed, nuclear weapons). Not one word about the fact that REPUBLICANS have voted against every increase in port security, or chemical plant security, or railroad security the Democrats have put forth. Not one word about how Bush has cut Veterans health care. Not one word about how the Republican party has been selling out the American people for a fucking golf trip or a cruise.

The greatness in this country is in the people who know, repeat, publish, and pursue the truth. Hollywood has been making movies about truth and greatness for a century now. There have been many different takes on greatness in the movies. There is no ONE SINGLE Hollywood that is any one way or another. There are, however, many brave people who made movies about civil rights BEFORE the civil rights movement. There are many brave Hollywood people who have made great films about the threats, problems, prejudices, and shitheads in America. Hopefully, one of them will make a movie about what an ass Ben Stein is. As for greatness in the Kodak Theater, well, there were some damn good stagehands, ushers, janitors, camera people, dancers, singers, and actors who are a hell of a lot better people than Ben Stein will ever be.

An Evangelical Bush Voter Laments: "Who really knew what W had in mind when he was elected!"

"You act like I'm the one making up accepting Christ to get to heaven is my idea."

You act like every other religion is making up that accepting their God to get into heaven is their idea. They believe it is their God's Truth, just as you believe it is yours. And you say they are wrong and will burn in hell. Well, actually, you say your God says so. But all I can hear is you. Just as all you hear are Hindus, Muslims, Wiccans. You don't hear their God any more than they can hear yours. And yet you are convinced you're right.

You know, with that kind of faith, people can be convinced to fly into buildings.

Finally, well, it's all a matter of record. Plenty of people knew exactly what that asshole had in mind before he was elected. I knew. Al Gore knew. Pretty much everyone who voted against him. We all knew. But then there were the people who bought into the Bush Bullshit. Wonder who those people are?

Evangelicals Say They Led Charge For the GOP

Wonder why they don't just come out and say, gee, I was wrong about this guy and I'm sorry for all the nasty things I said about people who were against him and against his TRILLION DOLLAR BOONDOGGLE. You know, all of us who are "with" the terrorists because we're not "with" him? You know, all the people who died because he said "Bring it on." You know, all the people YOU SAY are going to burn in hell for supporting Gay marriage, for realizing that being against gay marriage is THE SAME as being against mixed race marriage.

And we all knew BUSH was neo-con. Hell, Cheney was the Neo-CON in chief. READ THIS:

The 90-page PNAC [the neo-con's Project for a New American Century] document from September 2000 says: “The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.”

The strategic “transformation” of the U.S. military into an imperialistic force of global domination would require a huge increase in defense spending to “a minimum level of 3.5 to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, adding $15 billion to $20 billion to total defense spending annually,” the PNAC plan said.

“The process of transformation,” the plan said, “is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.”

I was pointing out this neo-con philosophy BEFORE the 2000 election. So, my question is, after what he did in the first term, why would anyone vote for him again? Oh, right, because they lied about Kerry, stole votes in Florida and Ohio, and were probably eavesdropping on the competition with their new 1984 Big Brother toys.

Spare me your preacher's stump. I don't buy it. People like you need to seriously re-think your politics before you screw everything up beyond repair.

Reaction disappoints U.S. backers in UAE

Don't bother following the link, unless you like to read the Moonie drivel on the Washington Times boo-hooing about the Dubai ports takeover. All of us who are upset about this deal are hysterical, anti-arab, racist protectionists. Sure. Here's my reaction to the person who sent this to my union news group (yes, that again):

Maybe I'd feel bad for these people if they recognized Israel, and not the Taliban. Maybe I'd feel bad if there weren't so many Bush family ties to the money to be made on this deal. Maybe I'd feel bad for these poor, misunderstood Arabs who come from a tyrannical fascist monarchy, not unlike the one we just deposed in Iraq. Or, maybe I just realize that the Washington Times, and it's flock of Moonies' "reporters" are just a front for a bunch of power-hungry robber barons who are finding yet another way to screw the American worker.

Remember all the Republican congressmen who were there to crown the Reverend Moon as Lord King Jesus on Earth. Isn't there a commandment about that. What a bunch of hypocrites. But, whatever. They have to go where the money, and the people willing to lie and steal for them, are.

So, boo-hoo. I don't know why you waste your time reading this bull slobber from one of the most right-wing bunch of whackos carrying the president's now very foul water.

Dubai is more like the Casablanca of the middle east. "Shocked! Absolutely shocked to find terrorism going on here!"

I"m with Lou Dobbs on this one. I'm an equal opportunity discriminator. I think American ports should be run by American companies. Preferably American companies with addresses here, not in the Caymans, who pay taxes. Now that's patriotism. And all you right wingers who said those of us who were against this TRILLION DOLLAR BOONDOGGLE in Iraq weren't patriotic, I say shove it.

Rapture Ready Freak Crawls Out of His Hole

I finally got one of the American Taliban in my union newsgroup to spout off some of my favorite shit: THE RAPTURE IS COMING! These people disgust me to no end. No need to post the ranting bull slober he sent out, you can figure it out from my reply:

OK, I suppose you American Taliban have never heard the term self-fulfilling prophecy. You so want all the visions John had (while he was mentally ill, BTW, near the end of his life) to be true that you vote for a man who's helping it along. You believe God gave John the visions: is that the same as the way God told George Bush to kill thousands of innocent people? Just wondering. Or is this whole idea or Rapture (a word not in the Bible) just made up by Darby to get more bloodthirsty "Christians" like you into his church? Then the Scoffed Reference notes piled on more crap. And now people like you vote for Bush because you think God wants him to be President. Are you sure he's not the Anti-Christ?

Furthermore, I didn't understand your street prophet ranting about the Lord coming like a thief, because I asked you straight up if all the Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, etc were going to burn in Hell. But, I'll assume that's what you're saying. In fact, from what I understand from your ilk, a guy like Hitler could kill millions, but as long as he accepts Jesus right before he dies, he goes to heaven. RIGHT? And Gandhi goes to hell. Nice. And what's even more ironic is that you've been so brainwashed by this crap that you don't even see the irony in that.

"...exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man." sounds like society in any day. Not much on history, are you? I think it's ironic you would choose this quote as Republicans are being frog marched into court by the dozens for their various corrupt dealings. Such hypocrites.

Tell you what, let's cut through the crap. I'm not going to argue angels on pinheads with you. I know plenty of Christians who think you end-timers are full of it, warping the true word of God, yada yada yada. You guys can argue that crap until you're blue in the face.

I want to know how voting for a man who has killed thousands, tortured, maimed, lied, stolen, and generally gone against the teachings of Christ, how is that a good Christian thing to do? HUH? You're going to save unborn babies, while Iraqi children are burned and maimed and killed? You're going to destroy the environment (nature is the temple of God, right) because we won't need it soon anyway? You're going to cut taxes on rich people like Paris Hilton while you cut programs for the poor? While you make it harder for kids to get an education? All the while Bush is helping his rich Arab friends get richer, selling out our ports, cutting deals with his Saudi friends, helping Halliburton steal more of our money that our grandkids will have to pay back?

But none of that matters if you think there is no future, huh? Real easy to brush off any concerns about the future when you think there's not going to be one, HUH? Bush has certainly helped generate sales for all the Rapture bullshit scam you're buying: books, movies, CDs.... Wonder what Jesus would say about all these con men getting rich selling this shit to bird brains like you?

People like you are the most dangerous threat to humanity. You have elected a man who believes like you, and he has his finger on the Armageddon button. Because of your hatred for people who don't believe like you, and because you believe in this violent interpretation of a book of the Bible that many believe should have never been included, you are more dangerous than any Islamofascist. And make no mistake, you are fascists. The way you're trying to force your religious beliefs on the rest of us (abortion, school prayer, government regulators who deny science, ignoring or denying birth control) is FASCIST. The whole 1984 thing - spying on people without a warrant, arresting citizens without charges, rendition, etc. - that's FASCISM. It's what my Grandfather fought against in WWII. And now we have the American Taliban, thanks to people like you.

You should all be ashamed of yourselves for electing these fascist fucks, and I hope you all suffer as much as the people they've massacred. Because you can say you're a nice guy all you want, but that doesn't make it true. Nice guys don't aid and abet murderous thugs and robber barons.

Anti-muslim e-mail going around

I just got this very anti-Muslim, pro-Israel e-mail going around. It starts by listing all the Nobel prizes won by Muslims (not too many) and compares that to the many won by Jews. OK. But then it goes on. My friend actually prefaced the forwarded mail with an admonition to turn everything in the middle east besides Israel into volcanic glass.

Well, that was too much for me:

More than ever we need to back Israel and make volcanic glass of the rest of that miserable area.....

Did you just advocate dropping nuclear bombs on everyone in the middle east besides Israel (which is in violation of all kinds of UN resolutions - Bush's reasoning behind invading Iraq)? Aside from the fact that Muslims have been kept in the dark ages by the very regimes Bush is cozy with (like Saudi Arabia), which would explain their lack of Nobel prizes, I'd like to comment on a few of the other inflammatory comments in this mail.

The Jews are not demonstrating with their dead on the streets, yelling and chanting and asking for revenge.

Yes they are. The Israelis elected the most right-wing, vengeful party they have, the Likud. They chant for revenge every time a suicide bomber kills some of their citizens.

The Jews are not promoting brain washing the children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims.

Yes they are. Military service in Israel is compulsory. Many reports have shown that the Israeli military teaches their teenage soldiers that Palestinians are animals to be shot without remorse.

The Jews don't highjack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics.

They don't have to. They have one of the world's best air forces (thanks to the US), equipped with some of the best weapons (thanks to the US). If they want to kill a lot of people, they just use F-16s and missiles. They do it all the time. Sometimes they hit their target. Sometimes they kill civilians.

The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.

Uh, well, yes they do. While it's wrong to say ALL jews do one thing or another, just as it is wrong to say ALL muslims do, it's very well documented that the Palestinian people are used for cheap labor by greedy Israeli corporations who are complicit with the Israeli government to wall off the Palestinians, keep them fenced in substandard housing, and fed rations, since the Israeli government has taken most of their viable farm land. Not unlike what greedy American corporations have done to Mexicans.

The Jews don't have the economical strength of the Petroleum, nor the possibilities to force the world's media to see "their side" of the question.

Huh? They have the economic strength of using cheap loans and billions in grants from the US every year. The media sees their side of practically everything. Hell, there are many people, and I'm not one of them, who are very upset that the media is "owned" by Jews.

Perhaps if the world's Muslims could invest more in normal education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems, we could all live in a better world.

Same goes for the Jews, eh? Blaming all their problems on the Muslims is the same kind of scapegoating.

THINK ABOUT IT!

OK. Now you think about it. I'm sure I'll feel the wrath of any Jews [in this newsgroup] - especially the ones who voted for Bush because 100,000 dead Muslim civilians at the feet of this administration is just a good start to them, but I really don't care. I think all these extremist religions, from Arial Sharon's to Osama Bin Laden's, are nuts. But when I hear them arguing among themselves, and I see otherwise reasonable people like you spreading this kind of crap (really, advocating the nuking of an entire region...), I've got to step in and say, hey, why not be fair here? There is a very large peace movement in both Israel and Palestine. We used to elect US presidents who tried to help those sides. Now we elect one who, the first time he set foot in Israel, was asked what he wanted to say to all the Jews. He said, "You're all going to hell." See, GW thinks if you don't believe like him, you go to hell. He believes in the literal translation of Revelations (written by a madman) that only a few Jews will accept Jesus at the end, and the rest will burn in a lake of fire.

So, please, don't go down that road with [a freakish right wing Christian zealot in the newsgroup]. Jews and Muslims can have peace with each other. Armageddon is a lie so Bush's Robber Barons can destroy the environment, foreign relations, and anything else they can get away with for profit.

Think Progress » EXCLUSIVE EMAILS: Jack Abramoff Describes Relationship With President Bush

NEWS FLASH! GW Bush doesn't know jack. But, he does know JACK abramhOFF, as these e-mails prove. So, Bush is lying when he says he doesn't know Jack. Like Bush lying is a big newsflash... The newsflash will be when Republican hypocrites (is that redundant?) start doing something about it.

Death, Taxes, and George W. Bush

Howard Gleckman has an article in Business Week that's worth reading: Death, Taxes, and George W. Bush. Basically, Bush's new budget would eliminate the estate tax ("... this year, of the 2.4 million people who are expected to die, only about 6,500 estates will be subject to the tax"). But it would also eliminate the Social Security death benefit of $255 that poor people use to help pay for funerals. Real compassionate, you fucking fucks.