I'm getting tired of Windows Xp and Bill Gates and Windows Vista and Microsoft and "the page cannot be displayed" and...

Fuck it. I'm too tired. I'll explain later.

The Media: Democracy's Guardian Angel

"A free and independent press is essential to the health of a functioning democracy. It serves to inform the voting public on matters relevant to it's well being. Why we've stopped doing this is a mystery. I mean, 300 camera crews outside a courthouse to see what Kobe Bryant is wearing when the judge sets his hearing date, while false information used to send our country to war goes unchecked? What the fuck happened? Those spineless cowards in the press have finally gone too far. They have violated a trust. "Was the president successful in convincing the country?" Who gives a shit? Why not tell us if what he said was true? And the excuses. My God, the excuses! "Hey, we just give the people what they want". "What can we do, this administration is secretive. But the last season of Friends really is news." The unmitigated gall of these weak-willed...You're supposed to be helping us, you indecent piles of shit! I...fuck it. Just fuck it..."

--AMERICA (the book), by John Stewart and the writers of the Daily Show

This book is a masterpiece. It's also hilarious. It makes fun of everyone and everything I highly recommend it.

But, it's interesting that on just this one page, written by someone who apparently forgot to take a "happy" pill. there is a statement that is deadly, and angrily, serious. Or, maybe, this person, for just a brief moment, could not forget the fact that we have a press that is nothing more than a White House transcription service--and a president who is stupid, insane and a dangerous threat to everything AMERICA stands for.

Do you feel safer?

Bushie and Osama: Best Friends Forever!

People wonder why Osama Bin Laden has been laying low for the past six years. Why no more major Attacks? The answer is simple: He doesn't have to do anything, because our president and his "attack dog" are doing it for him. We are bogged down in a losing war in a country full of people who now hate us and are primarily interested in killing each other and our soldiers. More Americans have died in Iraq than in the 9/11 attack. We torture, secretly imprison and deny even the most basic human rights to our supposed enemies (many of whom are rotting in our hell holes simply because members of rival tribes we're able to collect a bounty by falsely accusing them of terrorst ties).

And we do all this while at the same time proclaiming ourselves to the the "good guys".

When Osama bin Laden has a wet dream, Bushie is the guy snuggling up to him.

Do you feel safer?

Torture and Bushie

It's been said over and over again by people far more eloquent than me, but it bears repeating: The President of the United States, the leader of the free world, the man at the helm of the shining city upon a hill (sorry, mixed metaphor),and of the greatest country ever, approved the torture of our enemies. We have joined the ranks of the Nazis and Stalinists. Do you feel safer?

Every Deviants Dream Job

I went on "the google" (HT our president) this morning to search the "internet tubes" (HT Sen. Ted -Bridge to-Nowhere Stevens) to see how many hits I could get for the phrase "pleasure of the president". Almost five a half million, as it turns out.

Wow. That's alot. Does that mean the president's pleasure has been served five and a half million times? Or that there are five and a half million people available for his pleasuring? Or that there are five and a half million people waiting in line to serve the president's pleasure five and a half million times in five and a half million ways?

I don't know, mainly because I am way to lazy to actually look up any of the five and a half million hits that the google provided me off the internet tubes. It's just a hellova lot easier to point out that the number five and a half million is alot. And that the reason the eight U.S. attorneys we're fired was because they we're just to far back in the pleasure our president line.

YOU GO GRANNY?

News outlets this past weekend took great delight in reporting the story of an old woman who fended off a vicious attack from a would-be mugger. As always , they decreed this to be hilarious. As always, the phrase, "You Go Granny", was gleefully uttered by the various, vacuous, bobblehead anchors, while also appearing at the bottom of the screen.

There is nothing funny about a mugging, no matter the age of the victim. It's not a cute human interest story. It's not the kind of news that allows the anchors free reign to grin like idiots while reporting it. Why don't they already know this?

I, Liberal? I think not.

UPDATE: After getting a lot of flack from friends on this post, I realized that I should have made it more clear that I was commenting on the negative effects of organized religion. The most spiritual people I know, regardless of the specifics of their faith, are those who profess to have a personal relationship with God or their Higher Power. They do not rely on a system or leader or dogma to frame their beliefs. Please read this post with that in mind:


Many of my friends are fond of calling me a "liberal", primarily because of my deep loathing and disgust of all things "Bush". As further evidence they point to the fact that I am firmly in the "worst president ever" camp.

However, they are seriously wrong when they assume that I also go along with all that other "liberal" stuff, like "multi-culturalism", "respect for other religious faiths", "political correctivism" and blah, blah blah.

Again, WRONG! I won't go into "multi-culturalism", since I don't even know what the hell that means, and political correctivism just bores me, but I would like to make my position clear on religious faith, in it's organized form.

It"s stupid. It's ridiculous. It's dangerous. It's insane. It's why Shiites and Sunnis are blowing each other up, or beheading each other. It's why six million Jews were murdered (yeah, the Nazis thought they had a religion). It's why there was an inquisition. It's why meth-addicted, closeted gay, hypocritical, lying, religious leaders think they can get away with paying a male hooker for sex. It's why Bushie (yeah, I know I obsess on this guy) thinks he can evoke the name of a "just and loving God" when speaking (using words written by one of his political hacks) about the murder of 32 human beings by a lunatic. Just and loving ?? Are you kidding me?

In fact, religious faith is why we're in this whole godawful mess in Iraq. God spoke to Bushie! He gave him the go ahead!. He's on our side! Go team, go!!

Actually, that isn't quite accurate. Bushie had a lot of other dark, inexplicable reasons for invading a country that had nothing to do with 9-11 (I'll go into that some other day). He just used God, and religious faith, as one of his public excuses.

So, if you mean by "liberal" that I have respect for other religions, you are wrong. I have no respect for any religion. In my "politically correct" world, they are rightfully called superstitions.

Just Wondering: Questions for "Loyal Bushies" about our wacky, madcap adventure in Iraq

When your president says that "if we don't fight them there, we'll have to fight them here", what does he mean? How does he think "they" will get "here"? Will they arrive as passengers on airplanes or boats? Or do they have their own navy and air force? (I'm assuming he doesn't think they will drive here)

And, where does the Department of Homeland Security fit into this scenario? What have they been doing for the last five years? Have they put in place any procedures that will protect us from "them" getting "here"?

When your president says that setting an "artificial timetable" for getting out of Iraq only means that the terrorists will just "wait us out", what does he mean? Doesn't he realize that no matter how long we stay there, a year or ten years or a thousand years, they will always "wait us out", because that is where they live?

When your president approves torture, secret prisons, secret renditions, warrantless wiretaps and the elimination of the 800 year old legal concept of habeas corpus, does he understand that he is accomplishing exactly what the terrorists can only dream of--the destruction of democracy and freedom? Does he even care? Was that his plan all along?

Finally, when you consider that more Americans (Children, mostly) have died refereeing a civil war between religious sects in a country that had NOTHING to do with 9-11, than died in the actual 9-11 attack, do you think it is worth it? Do you feel safer? Are we better for it?

ABC - When Smokey Sings

HEY! You look depressed. Maybe this will cheer you up!

"SCARRED FOR LIFE? " ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

On tuesday I watched the seemingly eternal news conference held at Rutgers concerning Don Imus's stupid and racist comment about the women's basketball team. I saw all the girls, dressed in their cool team jerseys, sitting demurely and meekly in a row, listening politely as some old, white guy wrung his hands, gnashed his teeth, rended his garments and otherwise blathered endlessly in anguished tones about how this incident was the most tragic and horrible thing to ever happen to the human race. Next up was an old, black woman, who spoke much the same, but in far more severe and outraged tones, because, after all, she is a coach, a role model, a shining beacon of light on a hill somewhere. Then, the girls took their turns at the podium. One said that she has been "scarred for life" and--yada, yada, yada.

Let's have some perspective here: These girls play basketball, which, next to boxing, is the most in your face, get-the-fuck-out-of-my-way, you're-going-down-bitch sport in the known universe. They didn't get good at their game by collapsing into some post traumatic stress syndrome quivering wreck crying quietly in a corner everytime they got their feelings hurt. I'm willing to bet that the first reaction they had when they heard of the I-Man's lame comment was to think: Oh, so we're a bunch of nappy headed hos, uh? Well, let's get you alone in a room, asshole, and we'll show you just how much these nappy headed hos can fuck you up.

Actually, while watching these ladies, I got the impression that they would rather be anywhere else, maybe even sitting in a mud hole in Darfur, trying to figure out how long you need to boil sand in order to call it a meal, than listening to a bunch of old people prattle on about the insanely stupid remarks of an ancient crone who likes to pretend he's a cowboy. (As James Michener pointed out, you aint a cowboy unless you tend fucking cows. [Expletive added]}

I watched Imus for a brief period in the late nineties, until I realized how boring, pretentious and irrelevant he truly was. He still is. I'm happy he's been yanked from my cable schedule. He's still on the radio, somewhere, at least for the time being {CBS is "evaluating" his status). What he needs to do is retire to his ranch and care for the kids with cancer who stay there. At least in that area he does some good.