Self aggrandizement first, country second

So old man McCain wants the campaign to stop so he can go help bail the country out of the problems his deregulation hath wrought. How noble of him. How very noble.

Except it's not. It's a ploy and we all know it.

He wants us to say, "Oh gosh, what a selfless old man. How kind that he's putting politics behind and working to save our country." Well, if I was dropping like a rock in the polls in every swing state then I'd want a break too. If the bump I got when I made my cynical politically calculating choice for Vice President was was wearing off and people were noticing how inexperienced, unintelligent, and downright creepy she was, then I'd want some time off too. If my campaign bungled everything it touched then I'd want take a couple of days off as well. His selflessness looks now like timidity. If the shit hits the fan, and I apologize for using the word "fan" in front of you all, is he going to take a day or two off if by some miracle he gets elected? I can hear him now, "Oh no! The Russians are being mean to me and Congress won't pass my bloated budget and my the lobbyists who ran my campaign are mad as well, it's time to suspend my Presidency so I can have a nap. And for god's sake, don't let that idiot Palin touch anything while I'm sleeping. Hey, you know when I was a POW I didn't get much sleep. That's how the Viet Cong rolled."

Holy crap. Was this old fart the best thing the Republicans had to offer? The man who was admonished by his US Senate peers in the Keating 5 scandal? The man who has always been for deregulation except for when his chances of becoming President slip? The who won't let his running mate speak to the press or campaign with out being by her side? Holy fuck, this man is not ready to be our President, he's ready for a nursing home or a shuffle board court. And that's some straight talk you can take to the bank my friends, unless your bank has gone out of business in the latest financial meltdown that is.

Vote Obama/Biden and let's get our country back on track. Enough of the libertarian conservative Republican religious right wing bullshit. They've almost ruined us once more, it's time to put some intelligent grown ups in office again. We've had enough of petulant rich white guys who shoot from the hip and make decisions on the fly.

Poor Boner

Poor Rep. Boner, he gets all misty and cries when he thinks of the troops coming home before Halliburton and Blackwater can rake in a few more million of our tax dollars. But when it comes time for the people who got us into the war of terror on Iraq and Afghanistan to be held accountable he walks off the playground like an emasculated bully.

You keep doing what you got to do Boner and come November when your minority party loses more seats then I'll laugh like crazy when you try this shit again. You and your Reich wing pals, my asshat Congressman included, hate accountability when it's your party's leaders being held accountable, but you all had better get used to it. Thanks to people like Congressman Wexler and Congressman Waxman the time has come for you and your pals to answer for how you've raped this country and trashed our Constitution.

Hey...

...now that Mitt's boys aren't serving their country by helping get their dad elected anymore, I wonder how many of them will join up to fight the war of terror? Heck, if their dad quit running so that we'd win in Iraq, the least they could do is go to over there and kick some terrorist ass. It's only fair right?

Who's worse?

The draft dodging rocker who advocates the murder of Obama, Hillary, and Fienstein simply because they are not of the same Reich wing political stripe as him
or


the Dixie Chicks who simply stated that they were ashamed that the bloodthirsty tyrant who stole the White House in 2000 and 2004 was from the same state they were?

We voted with our wallets on this issue. We never bought a Dixie Chicks CD before Natalie spoke out against the President but we damn sure did afterwards. We never ever bought a Nugent CD and we never ever will.

Thank goodness that all three of the Dixie Chicks had kids as well, that's more people they can positively influence. Nugent fans on the other hand will most likely get so drunk and hopped up after seeing their idol that they'll drive home and crash into a tree or shoot themselves in a "hunting" accident.

I'm waiting for the Reich wing TV news station and for all the Reich wing radio hosts to decry what Nugent said and to call for a boycott of his music, but I'm not holding my breath.

William Faulkner wants a word with you

Hey, how ya'll doing? I'm lovely myself, except for these socks, they're hot as hell. I just wanted to let you know that in my day having sex with people where you poop and pee wasn't a bad thing. Why Strom Thrumond and I had many an assignation with many a dusky Negress in the toilets, both public and private.

What's that? The Senator in question who likes sex in privies denies he is of the homosexual bent? Well, we had a saying in my day, we'd say, "You're not really a homosexual if you just put it in your mouth until the swelling goes down." So maybe he falls under that doctrine.

Or maybe he's a hypocritical liar trying to save his lilly white ass.

I really couldn't say, I am, after all, drunk and dead. So you run along now and leave me alone.

Meet the Kuhns

This is Asheville, NC couple Mark and Deborah Kuhn sitting on their front porch exercising their Constitutional right to free speech and they were recently arrested for doing so. Perhaps some of you may not be familiar with this case and to be honest I was not familiar with is until a few days ago, but you need to be familiar with it because one of these days it may happen to you or me or to anyone who dares to have an opinion counter to those of the people in power today in our country.

Mark and Deborah put the flag upside down on their front porch because an upside down American flag is a universal signal of distress. They felt in distress over the way our country is being run and because of the quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan. They blame, and rightly so, our stubborn Idiot in Chief for causing them the sense of distress. Now many people do not understand that while it may be a distress signal to fly the flag upside down, it is not against the law to do so. But, technically speaking, when they attached the picture of our Chickenhawk in Chief and those other papers to the flag, then they did break the law.


As you can imagine some people in Mark and Deborah's neighborhood and city in general did not like them displaying the flag in that manner. One person got so mad about it he called the police and complained. On July 18, 2007 an Asheville City police officer went to their home and asked the couple what the heck was going on and if were they okay. The couple informed the officer that yes they were fine and they were only exercising their right to free speech. They informed him that they were displaying the flag upside down as a way to protest the wars of terror on Iraq and Afghanistan. The officer then told the couple that of course they had every right to protest the war in whatever legal manner they chose and he left.

Case closed thought the Kuhns. But they were wrong, so very wrong.

The male who called the police on the Kuhns is a man by the name of Mark Radford. He is a former police deputy and he is also currently a Staff Sargent in the National Guard. He was not satisfied with the results of his complaint to the Asheville City police so he took his now personal vendetta against the Kuhns a step further. A week after the city police did nothing and rightly so about the Kuhns, Radford got one of his National Guard underlings, who is also a Buncombe County Sheriff's Deputy, by the name of Brian Scarborough, to go out to talk to the Kuhns and to presumably to make them take down the flag that he found so offensive.

Scarborough and his partner raced over to the Kuhns house on July 25, 2007. He walked up on the porch and demanded to know why they were displaying the flag upside down. He told them that since they had attached the picture and the other papers to the flag they were desecrating it. The couple then proceeded to take the picture of our Moron in Chief off the flag, as well as the other stuff. Deputy Scarborough then demanded that they give him some form of ID, which the Kuhns did not have to do, nor do you if you are arrested for any reason. The couple refused and they went inside their home and they locked the door. Scarborough then proceeded to kick in the glass in, open the door, and he forced his way into the Kuhns home. He chased Mark Kuhn around his house, while Deborah screamed for help and called 911, and out finally he chased him outside of the house.

After the deputies threatened to taser his hysterical wife Mark Kuhn finally gave up and surrendered, as you can see in the picture below. Both husband and wife were arrested for desecrating the flag and resisting arrest.
Deputy Scarborough claimed later that he did not kick the door in and force his way in their house, he said that Mr. Kuhn slammed the door on his hand and that's when the glass broke and that's when he ran after Mr. Kuhn. Unfortunately for Deputy Scarborough there were many witnesses who backed up the Kuhn's story 100%.


When all this shit hit the fan the Buncombe County, and if that name sounds kind of familiar to you it's because the phrase 'Bunco Artist,' which means con man, is derived from the name Buncombe in Buncombe County, the Sheriff's Dept. said that it was their duty to investigate all crimes in the county, whether they occur in the city or in the county. They stuck by Deputy Scarborough, who by the way was just back from Iraq and probably suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and they said they planned to prosecute the Kuhns to the fullest extent of the law.
But thankfully cooler heads prevailed and as of yesterday, 8-3-2007, all charges against the Kuhns have been dropped. You can read more in depth coverage of the plight of the Kuhns here and here.

What gets me about this case is that this Radford guy got so pissed off that the City police did not do what he wanted so he went and got his National Guard bud to do his dirty work for him. Radford did not have the balls or decency to speak to the Kuhns face to face, he had to do it through the various police agencies. And to top it all off he followed his National Guard BFF Dep. Scarborough out to watch him arrest the Kuhns and it's been reported that when he saw Deborah Kuhn hauled off to jail that he shouted at her, "Yeah, go to jail baby!" It turns out that Radford is also Scarborough's direct superior in their National Guard unit. He reminds me of the little kid who gets pissed that his mommy won't make his siblings do what he wants so he goes and snitches to his daddy as well.

I'm willing to bet anything that sooner rather than later this Radford guy puts on his white sheet and his white hood and he and his KKK, oops I mean National Guard, buddies show up one more time at the Kuhns.

It makes me sick to my stomach that people like Radford are helping their President try to scare people in to keeping silent about the war. If we don't shut the hell up and get in line and believe and act and be more like them then we're gonna get ours. And by "ours" I mean a cell in Gitmo. If we don't all fall in line and fall for this,

then we're all gonna get rounded up.

You think I'm jumping to conclusions don't you? You think it can't happen here? Well, go talk to the Kuhns and to the people in the anti war movement that the FBI admits to spying on. Then maybe if you have time go look up all the laws that our Traitor to the Constitution in Chief has changed so he can "fight" the terrorists here at home. It not only can happen here, it is happening here.

And if what happened to the Kuhn's doesn't scare you, then you're not a patriotic American and you stand with this ass hat:

(Girl with the gun picture lifted from Samurai Frog's blog.)

Nice Try Punk

So King George the Punk Ass thinks he's gonna take all the assets from people who disagree with him on his disaster that we know as the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan. You got to hand it to him, he's got balls if he thinks he'll ever get away with actually trying that on someone. My blog buddies D Cup and Dr. Zaius have written about this latest bit of insanity and I decided to let it lay until I saw this story on the Washington Post's website.

Please allow me to explain what President Chickenhawk is actually trying to do with this unconstitutional power grab. What the asshole is trying to do is to silence debate and criticism of his insane handling of this stupid useless war. He's trying to scare us into shutting up, just like the King and Queens of old Europe did, just like Popes who used their power of excommunication did, just like all bullies and little tin despots try to do when people stand up to them.

Let there be no doubt that this is another attempt to grab more power and to consolidate his power over the other branches of government. With this order he cuts the judiciary out of the picture, although since he's packed the courts with his cronies there is no doubt they'd rule in his favor if we could sue him for this, and he cuts the legislative branch out of the picture. In the quaint olden days, you remember those days, those are the ones just before President Chickenshit rode in to power on the back of a bad ballot in Florida, Congress made laws that allowed the President to do this sort of thing, not anymore though. It's all Executive branch all the time now.

*****Quick Civics Lesson On How Our Government is Supposed to work****

1) Congress makes the laws

2) The President enforces them

3) The Supreme Court interprets them

With this order here's how it works under Bush:

1) He now makes the laws

2) He does what the fuck he likes to anyone who disagrees with him

3) Congress rolls over and the Supreme Court looks the other way

If you have any doubt that he'd use to order against loyal Americans who have the gall to disagree with him then you need to remember that he is the man who said he was a uniter and not a divider but when elected he then proceeded to divide the country to get re-elected, he is the man who said he was the environmental President but when elected he turned over care of the planet to ExxonMobil, Enron, General Motors, and Halliburton, this is the man who took us to war based on lies, this is the man who's every decision during his disastrous war has been wrong, this is the man who said that if anyone in his administration leaked Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA agent would be fired and prosecuted but then he commuted Scooter's prison sentence and who will in all probability pardon the lying justice obstructing scoundrel, this is the man who invokes "executive privilege" when confronted by a Congress who dares to investigate him and his illegal activities, and this is the man who told us that God wants him to be President.

Oh yeah, he also alleged to have said the Constitution was just a "god damned piece of paper."
And if you think that he won't hesitate to deny you your hard earned assets and your right to haebus corpus if you are a citizen who was born in the USA, then you are sadly mistaken. If he declares you to be an enemy combatant then he can put all the might of the US Government into wiping your records clean and to then claiming that you are an illegal alien and that you should be in Gitmo.

So now we see what he's made of and what then are we made of? Where is the public outcry against his usurpation of power? Where is the indignation? The outrage at his shenanigans? It's almost silent out here in purple America. He's scared most of us into keeping quiet, or he's got his buddies in big business making damn sure you work harder and harder for less and less. He also got us so divided that some people in this country would gladly snitch on other people, including members of their own family, for being disloyal to King George the Punk Ass. I have a cousin who told me once that I was a traitor for speaking out against the war and that I should shut up and let President Blood Thirsty Greedy Bastard do what he pleases. When I tried to remind this cousin that the Constitution guaranteed my right to free speech and that my free speech includes speaking out against a President who runs rough shod over civil liberties and human rights, she blocked all my emails. And for all I know she probably turned me in to the Homeland Security Department, the FBI, and the CIA for being a traitor.
Well King George the Needle Dick, nice try but as long as I draw breath I will speak out against you and your war on us and the Iraqi and Afghan people. You do not scare me into shutting up about your trampling of the Constitution and your digusting power grabs. You fucked up by taking us to war and you fuck up more every day that we stay over there occupying Iraq and Afghanistan. Your place in history is assured, you've been wrong about everything, most people want you gone, and more and more of us want to see you and your henchman impeached. I'd like to show you where your reputation and your place in history are:

And now a message from our Idiot in Chief

"Hey Amurica, sit on this and spin. I'm tha decider and I decide that Scooter don't have to go to jail. If ya'll don't like it, then ya'll kin suck my balls. I'm the rich white guy who done be yer boss so ya'll got ta do what I want.

I could care less if I sentence thousands of brown skinned people to a life of hell, theys not Jesus lovers like me anyway so fuck them. I don't care if your sons and daughters go fight them brown skinned pagans either. If they die too, then that ain't no skin off my ball sack. My kids is safe and so is mah familys. See Amurica, I only care about you if you is rich white and on mah side.

I could care less if Scooty-pooty was convicted in a court of law that was presided over by a Republican appointed judge and prosecuted by a Republican Federal DA dude. It don't make a damn to me if the appeals court that said Scooty-bab-ooty should go to jail right now is made up of mostly Republicans. Theys all gots it wrong. I may not know my ass from a hole in the ground but I knows I'm right and theys be wrong.

This communism-utation should send a signal to all ya'll whiners that I look out fer people, people who hepped me. The rest of ya'll can suck my ass."

And now my response to the Idiot in Chief:

You god damned criminal pig fucker you. How dare you stop the wheels of justice so you can spare your lilly white assed friend? How dare you corrupt our system of justice and our government more than you already have? What kind of twisted ethics and morals do you have that condemns so many people to die but spares a convicted felon who was caught doing your evil bidding?



People of America, citizens who still value justice and sanity in this world, is this Libby sentence commutation the outrage that will finally send you over the edge?


IMPEACH THE MOTHERFUCKER ALREADY!!!!!!!



I want you to stand up and demand that Bush/Cheney be impeached and imprisoned. To the barricades my brothers and sisters! Get rid of the traitors by all legal means!!!

How dare you!

Hey Dumb Ass, yes Dumb Ass, I'm talking to you. Not that you fucking care or that you might read anything you might disagree with but Pam at Musings of a Working Mom put your stem cell veto into perspective for everyone. Not that she needs any back up, because if you ask me I think she can take care of herself in a street fight and in a battle of wits with your stupid fucking ass, but I just wanted to take her point a step further.

You tell us you vetoed the stem cell bill so that Americans would not be financing the destruction of human life. But what you fucking meant was that you wanted to make sure that people who look like this:

And this:

can have babies when they want.

But it's okay to kill and maim people who look like this:

because their skin is brown, they have no money, and they have a different religion than you.

You know what Dumb Ass, someone should have taught you that all human life is sacred not just white Christian life. Someone should have taught your stupid ass that real power is knowing when not to strike out in anger and that sane people use diplomacy and not bombs. And finally, someone should have taken you out behind the wood shed and gave you an ass whippin' for being stupid enough to get us into this mess. I'm praying that you don't start anymore wars before you leave office and I'm praying that when you do go, you'll be led off in handcuffs and put on trial for your crimes.

Other than our Idiot in Chief, this is what is scaring us now

"Hurry, someone change my diaper! I need some lebensraum down there!"