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Man, oh man. So Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove, you know, that bald gentleman who -on a good day- looks like nothing so much as a giant circumcised phallus in a suit and glasses, made some typically Republican comments recently which have several of our good Democrats in a well-justified snit. What I find interesting about these comments, however, is the fact that the GOP constantly reads from this weird AM radio playbook, and the reality they describe -while sounding consistent to the legions of Rush Limbaugh listeners- bears absolutely no resemblance to the facts.
"God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve," said Falwell, appearing yesterday on the Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club," hosted by Robertson.
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I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen."
No, see, I remember those fucked up September days, and I especially remember that those of us on the Democratic side of the aisle went overboard to display our support for a President we really never accepted (Still don't, fuck you very much) as legitimately elected... to "join together" as one American people and look to our leader to ask him, "Mr. President- here we are. We're ready. We want to help. We are 250 Million Strong. What can we do?"
And what did our brave, resourceful, courageous leader answer? That is, what did our President tell us, as Americans, to contribute --- once he had finished spending the day of the attacks in hiding, letting Rudy Guliani be the face of the nation, and his approval rating had skyrocketed up to 91% for doing less than squat?
Yeah, you remember. He told us to go shopping.
So now, some four years after the fact, Karl Rove is merely echoing the same bullshit blather heard every day on countless Clear Channel outlets across this great land- namely, that Democrats are wimpy, spineless surrender monkeys who care more about the "feelings" of terrorists than we do about the some 3,000 innocent people who died on September 11, 2001. It couldn't be more of a bald-faced lie, but it sure sounds good, right? Fuckin' democrat quiche-eaters, all they want to do is hold hands and invite Osama Bin Laden over to sing Kumbayah, right?
Oh.... Um. Wait. Osama who?
See, conservative readers of this blog (I mean, the ones whose heads haven't already exploded because I did something unacceptable, like refer to the pope as "the old guy in the big fuckin' hat") probably figure that I'm about as liberal as they come... But even loony, crazy, moonbat, pansy-eatin', gay rights endorsin', women-should-be-allowed-to-choose believin', church-and-state-should-be-separate supportin', me.. I was in favor of going into Afghanistan. Fuck, I wondered what took us so long, to be honest. (Turns out, it's because they were -even then- talking almost exclusively about Iraq)
Certainly, silly me, I actually believed that the point was to get the people who perpetrated the attack, specifically Osama Bin Laden... I scoffed at my Nader 2000 friends who told me it was all about the UNOCAL pipeline, and besides, what did they think we should do? Of course, when dapper fez-wearin' CIA asset and ex-UNOCAL employee Hamid Karzai was installed as Afghanistan's president, I began to wonder... and when we had been in Afghanistan for quite some time and suddenly finding Osama had gone from priority #1 to priority #20 and finally not a fucking priority at all, I started to think the whole endeavour really stank.
Then, of course, 9-11 was used as an excuse to invade a country which didn't have jack diddly shit to do with the attacks. Democrats are "soft on terrorists"? And the GOP is what? Please explain to me why, then, our new Bush-appointed CIA director, Porter Goss, can say to Time Magazine, that he has a quote, "excellent idea" of where Osama Bin Laden is.. but we can't do anything about it, because, well, heavens to Besty, we can't just invade countries willy-nilly to get terrorists..
Oh, really? What the fuck was Afghanistan? What the fuck was Iraq? Where the hell is the logic? If OBL is hiding in Pakistan, why can't we give Pervez Musharraf an ultimatum like we did the Taliban? Goss says we have to cede to geopolitical reality. Coming from a gang that has never once ceded to anything remotely resembling geopolitical reality in their lives, that's Neocon code-speak for I am yanking your fucking chain... and feeding you a big fat line of Bullshit.
Wow. When people said that U.S. Contractors were hauling money out of Iraq in duffel bags,
Were I to use more appropriate words for these Senatorial butt-nodules, I might offend someone...
...and Lordy knows I don't want to do that, now, do I?
Lamar Alexander (R-TN) Robert Bennett (R-UT) Christopher Bond (R-MO) Jim Bunning (R-KY) Conrad Burns (R-MT) Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) Thad Cochran (R-MS) Kent Conrad (D-ND) John Cornyn (R-TX) Michael Crapo (R-ID) Michael Enzi (R-WY) Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Judd Gregg (R-NH) Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Trent Lott (R-MS) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Richard Shelby (R-AL) John Sununu (R-NH) Craig Thomas (R-WY) George Voinovich (R-OH)
(And, yes, we got the list from Kos. Whaddaya want? It's finally nice out. Hey- I never claimed to not be lazy.)
Anyone who desperately needs to know what a flaming evil bastard the human animal is capable of being, need only look at the history of lynching in this country- as well as the attendant celebratory, carnival atmosphere that would often accompany the merciless torture and murder of lynching victims, who were almost invariably young black men. The U.S. Senate -at the behest of southern racists- shamefully blocked and/or failed to act on some 200 pieces of anti-lynching legislation while close to 5,000 -and that's just the known figure- human beings were strung from trees, burned or skinned alive, disembowled or otherwise killed in unspeakably cruel, brutal fashion.
Is anyone gonna force Trent Lott and co. to apologize for ducking out for chimichangas and buffalo wings at the DC Bennigans (or whatever) instead of making a totally painless point about one of the Senate's most shameful chapters? Not bloody fucking likely. And, while those 19 Republicans (And one Democrat) don't win any humanity prizes for this obnoxious move, I am forced to say that when it comes to balls, in some fashion or another, they've got your average Dem. Party lawmaker beat by a mile. Someone like Conryn from Texas can say, well, I know that X percentage of my constituency is racist assholes, and even if they won't admit it to anyone 'xcept they momma, they really don't want me apologizing for all that lynching bid'niss...
But take a Democrat lawmaker, even from a very liberal, secular part of the country, and throw them at some bullshit piece of non-legislation stating that "Under God" is not only a wonderful thing to force children to say in its tacked-on spot in the pledge of allegiance, it has 21 important vitamins and minerals and is a part of any complete breakfast. Then watch the "brave" democrats- to the fucking LAST ONE- scurry to attach their names to this kind of crap. Because they are terrified of 30 second spots showing some upset little moppet in front of a waving flag, with tears in her eyes because she can't say "Under God", with the voiceover: "Representative Louise Framzplitzplotz voted against the pledge of allegiance. She voted against our children and against God.Why does Rep. Framzplitzplotz hate America's children?"
Why, indeed. But is anyone on our side gonna run an ad with pictures from the 4,800-odd lynchings, along with a voiceover to the effect of: "Why is Trent Lott such an unapologetic motherfucking racist bastard"?
Saw a bird with a tear in his eye Walking to New Orleans my oh my Hey, now, Bird, wouldn't you rather die Than walk this world when you're born to fly?
If I was the sun, I'd look for shade If I was a bed, I would stay unmade If I was a river I'd run uphill If you call me you know I will If you call me you know I will
Ooo, freedom Ooo, liberty Ooo, leave me alone To find my own way home To find my own way home
Say what I mean and I don't give a damn I do believe and I am who I am Hey now Mama come and take my hand Whole lotta shakin' all over this land
If I was an eagle I'd dress like a duck Crawl like a lizard and honk like a truck If I get a notion I'll climb this tree or chop it down and you can't stop me Chop it down and you can't stop me
Ooo, freedom Ooo, liberty Ooo, leave me alone To find my own way home To find my own way home
Went to the well but the water was dry Dipped my bucket in the clear blue sky Looked in the bottom and what did I see? The whole damned world looking back at me
If I was a bottle I'd spill for love Sake of mercy I'd kill for love If I was a liar I'd lie for love Sake of my baby I'd die for love Sake of my baby I'd die for love
Ooo, freedom Ooo, liberty Ooo, leave me alone To find my own way home To find my own way home I'm gonna find my own way home -Robert Hunter
The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair's inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was "necessary to create the conditions" which would make it legal.
Wow, folks. If only we had a media in this country with a single nut amongst the collective lot of them, combined with a populace that could be bothered for three seconds to give a damn, this here would be just about game. set. match. on this disaster of a Presidency.
So, what I want to know is- WHY DOES THE POPE HATE FREEDOM?
To put it another way, I guess the Honeymoon is over with ol' Benedict XVI. Our erstwhile New Pope, or, as I like to refer to him, "The Esteemed Elderly Gentleman in a Really Big Fuckin' Hat" has put aside all that unity and 'reaching out' bullshit, and come out clearly on the side of the 14th Century. Yes, any hopes that he was 'just joshing' when he bloviated about the intrinsic evil of homosexuality and the pernicious horror of modern relativism were laid to rest Monday, when he waxed pissy about Gay Marriage, Birth Control, Divorce, and Non-Euclidian Geometry.
The Pope, who was elected in April, also condemned divorce, artificial birth control, trial marriages and free-style unions, saying all of these practices were dangerous for the family.
"Today's various forms of dissolution of marriage, free unions, trial marriages as well as the pseudo-matrimonies between people of the same sex are instead expressions of anarchic freedom which falsely tries to pass itself off as the true liberation of man," he said.
Hmmmm. Okay, Ben.. Let me see if I've got this straight. "Freedom", as you define it, only encompasses the right to marry the first person of the opposite sex you want to screw, and spend the rest of your life with him or her, only engaging in procreative acts of copulation and absolutely never enjoying an orgasm that does not take place for the express purpose of bringing another human into the world?
How fucking silly of any of us to have an overly expansive, "anarchic" definition of freedom, namely one that might encompass more life choices than that. Really.
Of course, some might argue that 'anarchic freedom' taken to an evil degree might be a term more accurately applied to men who use the cloak of religious authority to procure postions from which they molest little kids, and furthermore it certainly could apply to an organization which has defied every law of man (and "God", too, if you go in for that sort of thing) in its efforts to protect pedophiles, move them around, cover up their activities and generally get in the way of efforts by victims to recieve justice, even to the extent of shooting-the-messenger style blaming the news media for reporting the abuses in the first place. (Did you guys intern with the Bush Administration, or what?)
Here in California, apparently Team Arnold has been allowing high-paying donors to dial-in for super-secret strategy meetings. But they fucked up and forgot to use their decoder rings, and the Los Angeles Times broke a story about how, during one recent conference call, Schwarzenegger Media Strategist Don Sipple bragged about their plan to create a "phenomenon of anger" at public employee Unions (read: those horribly overpaid cops, firefighters, and teachers) by creating a perception that they are "greedy" and "motivated by economic self-interest". Well, fuck me with a plunger handle, Mr. Louima, but I thought that "motivated by economic self-interest" was right up there with Cleanliness and Godliness in the pantheon of haughty right-wing virtues... Or maybe it's only okay for people vital to the smooth functioning of society, people like Ken Lay, or George Will, or the occasional shitty Austrian action movie star. But if the guy who risks his life to put out your burning house asks for a raise, clearly he's greedy and selfish and only out for your wallet.
Yeah, like anyone becomes a cop, firefighter, or teacher because they think they're going to get rich.
The process of generating anger (a "15 minute hate", if you will) against people the public normally feels generally sympathetic to is, according to Mr. Sipple, "like peeling an onion".
Since he's clearly a community-minded chap with a stunning gift for metaphor, we here at the impeach dubya blog thought we might inquire into this "Don Sipple" character...
Whoa! Lookit that. Allegations have been reported in the major media that he engaged in spousal abuse with two ex-wives. This, from CNN, Sept. 2, 1997:
She had been a model. Her husband, Don Sipple, was a rising political aide. But she says he had a jealous, raging temper.
"He timed me whenever we went to the grocery store just to make sure I didn't have time to meet anyone else," she said.
"He would also get violent if he saw me speaking to another man for a longer period of time that he thought I should, or if I danced with another man at a party, including the governor.
"I was injured a number of times. When I was pregnant and he beat me severely and broke my cheek and my nose, and I had a friend take a picture of my face," she said. "Just in case anything happened to me, I wanted somebody to know."
So... Wait, now, I forgot. Were we supposed to peel the onion, or beat the living snot out of it? Anyway, I do know that police and other "greedy public servants" are trained to take domestic abuse VERY seriously these days.
Could it be that Mr. Sipple has a more personal grudge against Officer Friendly?
Q There are news reports this morning that parents and children who were guests of the President, when they visited Congress, wore stickers with the wording, "I was an embryo." And my question is, since all of us were once embryos, and all of us were once part sperm and egg, is the President also opposed to contraception, which stops this union and kills both sperm and egg?
MR. McCLELLAN: I think the President has made his views known on these issues, and his views known --
Q You know, but what I asked, is he opposed -- he's not opposed to contraception, is he?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, and you've made your views known, as well. The President --
Q No, no, but is he opposed to contraception, Scott? Could you just tell us yes or no?
MR. McCLELLAN: Les, I think that this question is --
Q Well, is he? Does he oppose contraception?
MR. McCLELLAN: Les, I think the President's views are very clear when it comes to building a culture of life --
Q If they were clear, I wouldn't have asked.
MR. McCLELLAN: -- and if you want to ask those questions, that's fine. I'm just not going to dignify them with a response.
Yes, that would be some of the "worse, far worse" evidence that we were told about during the initial outrage around the outrage around the outrage of Abu Ghraib-- until Nick Berg was decapitated on video and all of a sudden we were ordered by the Reality Makers (tm) to forget that there was additional material in the pipeline. Well, we weren't ordered per se- but except for the incessant yapping of a few inconsequential pipsqueaks like Sy Hersh, the integrity-laden Corporate Media was all too happy to play along with the right wing's election year meme that telling the truth about the war in Iraq and, heavens to betsy, releasing photos of the same, was "hurting the war effort" and our image abroad.
As it is, what we can only strongly speculate was quite possibly another classic Bushco/Rove Fry-The-Press Operation comes off with nary a hitch, and the public gets back to their important business of worrying about Hillary Duff and paparazzi.
So, anyway, only a year or so after we were first photographically introduced to Mistress Lynndie England, it seems we may- may, mind you- actually see some of this Abu Ghraib evidence, although we are well safely past the point when shockingly atrocious evidence might have made Ken Blackwell's job as -cough- minister of fair elections in Ohio a little more difficult. Perhaps we will even find out what was behind Hersh's allegations of tapes pertaining to the sodomization of a 14 year old boy while under U.S. Guard. (You are not supposed to remember that, either, citizen!) Of course, the Bush admin. is appealing the ruling... but their stated reason, their logical argument- man, what a piece of work. See, they argue that releasing the evidence would Violate the Geneva Convention rights of the prisoners in the pictures and videos.
Say what you will about the Bush Administration, they sure have brass balls. And the truly sad thing is, some percentage of the population probably buys that as some form of rational argument, on some level or another. Another percentage apparently isn't even aware that we're at war, much less that it's going really badly.
Anyway, supposedly under the Freedom (what we're allegedly fighting "for", remember?) of Information Act and thanks to those godless commy dirtbags at the ACLU, we may actually find out a little bit more of what was done in our name (but I'm not holding my breath). At least what was done in our name until Donald Rumsfeld banned digital cameras from our secret gulags.... er, what I meant to say was, until the few "bad apples" responsible for the requisite "isolated incidents" were caught; and clearly this kind of shit never took place again.
To put it another way, I guess the Honeymoon is over with ol' Benedict XVI. Our erstwhile New Pope, or, as I like to refer to him, "The Esteemed Elderly Gentleman in a Really Big Fuckin' Hat" has 
