Gee - - what a shocker! . . .

Another story about those oh-so wonderful, all-American GOP "family values."

Notice how the Rethugs are more concerned with how the scandal might affect Dumbya's campaign as opposed to whether or not the guy is a scumbag sexual predator?? Nice.

Hypocrisy --- thy name is Republican!

Click here for the sordid details.

Words of a wise man . . .

Absolutely brilliant article by Garrison Keillor. Ought to be mandatory reading for all.

Here's an exerpt:

"There is a stink drifting through this election year. It isn’t the Florida recount or the Supreme Court decision. No, it’s 9/11 that we keep coming back to. It wasn’t the “end of innocence,” or a turning point in our history, or a cosmic occurrence, it was an event, a lapse of security. And patriotism shouldn’t prevent people from asking hard questions of the man who was purportedly in charge of national security at the time."

Click here and prepare to be awed.

Is this nation drunk? . . .

Damn good question, and a valid one. The political events in this country over the past few years has got to make one wonder what the fuck is wrong with the mindset of the American populace - - -

Allowing a blatantly partisan impeachment of a twice-elected (legally) sitting president over a private consensual affair; allowing a corporate-subsidized, compliant media to paint Al Gore as a serial liar, while (the real serial liar) George W. Bush is depicted as just a good 'ol boy who's a straight shooter; looking the other way as numerous and documented voting irregularities and legal manipulations in Florida by the Bush mafia resulted in a partisan Supreme court ruling which halted the legal vote counting, thus handing the election to Bush; allowing Bush to act like he had a mandate to govern despite the fact he lost the popular vote by more than a half-million votes; giving Bush a free pass on responsibility for the September 11th terrorist attacks, even though it happened 9 months into his watch and he'd been repeatedly warned terrorists were intent on striking America on it's own soil; rushing America headlong into a an ill-advised, unnecessary preemptive war (the first in our nation's history) against Iraq without support from traditional allies, without proof to support their initial rationale for war (WMD's), without a plan to win the peace once the bombing was done, without foreseeing that the invasion would only serve to inflame the Muslim world thus creating even more terrorists, and, without completing their first war in Afghanistan and capturing the true perpetrators of the 9/11 attack, Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

Has America collectively lost their ability to reason? Has some form of mass psychosis overtaken our brains inhibiting us from being able to think clearly and intelligently? Have we gone insane en masse?? Are we in truth nothing more than just a bunch of uneducated, t.v. hypnotized, apathetic, war-glorifying, christian-fundamentalist-whacko, all-mighty dollar grubbing, isolationist, Armageddon-seeking fucking morons??

Or, as the author of this article asks, are we as a nation just drunk? Here's an exerpt:

"So, let's see: Bona-fide war hero turned incredibly articulate, educated, gifted Vietnam War protester and respected senator on one side, alcoholic AWOL failed-businessman born-again pampered daddy's boy evangelical Christian on the other. Is this really the contest? Bush slugs gin and tonics like Evian while Kerry is accused of ... what again? Not being incredibly heroic enough? Wow."

The fact that our idiot nation is even taking the Bush smear assault on John Kerry's Vietnam war record with any sense of seriousness and believibility tells me alot about my fellow Americans --- and it scares the shit out of me. The German bourgeoisie (that's middle class for you uneducated rubes) in 1930's Germany exhibited the same apathy, same selfishness, same indifference toward the scourge of fascism in politics, same gullibility to media propaganda, same misguided belief in the vile concept of pre-emptive war, and the same inability to not think that unbridled hubris, arrogance and disrespect for international law, treaties and peoples wouldn't somehow result in the slow, cancerous deterioration of their own democratic foundations. Of course History, a subject most Americans have a woeful cognizance of, shows us exactly what happens when a nation enshrines itself in nationalistic pride, electoral apathy, state-sponsored media and religion, and smug militaristic self-glorification - - - - well, Adolf Hitler isn't here (thankfully) to tell us all about it, but perhaps now you get the picture.

----krazeeinjun

U.S. Navy says Bush and pals are the true liars!!

The United States Navy Task Force is officially on the record as supporting John Kerry's version of the 1969 event in Vietnam that led to his receiving a Bronze Star and his 3rd Purple Heart.

Read it and weep moron America --- click here.

Kerry, of course, has been under attack for the past few weeks by a shadowy, Republican funded, Karl Rove concocted Bush/Cheney front group of former Vietnam Vets called "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," or SBVT. The group has made numerous unsubstantiated charges that Kerry was either (depending on which liar is speaking which day) undeserving of his medals, or, somehow, in a cowardly manner, schemed to receive them. Some of the SBVT spokespeople and supporters have even accused Kerry of intentionally inflicting his own wounds in order to receive his Purple Hearts and to facilitate an early exit from the Vietnam combat theater.

Now that the Navy has released historical records backing up Kerry's recollection of the events in question, I suppose Kerry's attackers and some of my own dear friends will now breathlessly exclaim that the Navy has gone back and altered official historical archives all in support of some sinister, conspiratorial effort designed to further the Presidential aspirations of the Honorable Senator from Massachusetts.

Well - - here's some well-meaning advice to the conservatives and others who insist on promulgating the lies of the Bush/Cheney/Rove slime machine and their gutless, sellout surrogates in SBVT. Why don't you all take your bumbling litany of lies and your clown posse of hired stooges and stick them up as far up your right-wing, fascist asses as you possibly can!! Then - - take a trip down to Crawford, TX and Bush's ranch and shit it all out right there on the front doorstep of Dumbya's house. Now that's a patriotic act I would heartily consider worthy of effusive praise!! Ha!!

----krazeeinjun

Enough is Enough - - put the fuck up or shut up!!

Some very dear friends of mine seem to think that anything that spews forth from the mealy mouths of radio and cable TV talking heads like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Neal Boortz, Michael Savage, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, G. Gordon Liddy, Don Imus, Joe Scarborough, Dennis Miller, Michael Reagan, and Bill O'Reilly (or any FOX loudmouth for that matter), is the honest-to-goodness Gospel truth!

For the past few weeks this gaggle of millionaire puppetoon pundits has been giving airplay to and promoting the vile smears and outrageous claims of a group calling itself "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," or SBVT. SBVT is publicly claiming that Democratic Presidential contender John Kerry has lied about his service in Vietnam, schemed to get the Naval medals awarded him and lied about how he got them, and that he may even have injured himself deliberately in order to get sent home early from the conflict.

For whatever reason, whether out of rank political partisanship, lingering animosity for Kerry's post-combat involvement with anti-war groups, or just good old fashioned American moron uninformed ignorance and gullibility, some of my dear friends seem to want to lend a certain amount of credence toward the libelous and easily disproved stories being tossed around by the SBVT hit-squad.

At the close of this post I'm going to provide all of you with a plethora of well-researched, well-documented and sourced URL articles and websites which thoroughly undermine the credibility of SBVT and prove beyond a shadow of doubt that they are nothing more than bought and paid for liars, political whores and character assassins for the Bush/Cheney/Rove crime family. However - - before we get to the truth telling and red-ass treatment let me weigh in here with a few observations and comments of my very own.

Here are a few basic, irrefutable facts (yeah - I'm daring you to disprove them):

A. After graduating from college, John Kerry volunteered for combat duty in the Vietnam theater, first on a frigate pulling coastal duty, then volunteering for dangerous swift boat duty.
B. George W. Bush used his father's political connections to jump ahead of hundreds of other candidates for a cushy slot with the Texas Air National Guard (ANG). Bush joined the ANG despite the fact he scored in the lowest percentile on his pilot aptitude test. Subsequently, and amazingly, GWBush was given a field officer's commission to 1st Lt. JG without even attending OTS (Officer's Training School).

A. John Kerry was in a combat theater, at the front lines of enemy engagement and according to official Naval records took part in several incidents confronting America's enemy in battle. John Kerry is credited with saving a Special Operations soldier's (Jim Rassman - a Republican) life and earning the Silver Star for bravery in the process.
B. GWBush never set foot on enemy turf. GWBush cannot account for a missing year's worth of his required ANG service. Commanders and fellow pilots at two separate Air Force bases cannot remember ever seeing 1st Lt. GWBush even showing up for routine drills. Unexplainably, GWBush had his flying status suspended (around the time he wasn't showing up for required drills) for not showing up for his mandatory yearly medical exam. Eventually GWBush was able to finagle his way out of his 6 year ANG commitment about a year early, supposedly so he could attend classes at Harvard Business School.

A. The Bush political outfit has a shameful history of smearing true patriotic vets and heroes. They smeared John McCain in the 2000 GOP South Carolina primary by having their slimy surrogates cold-call prospective voters and plant vile rumors questioning McCain's mental stability as a result of his 5 years as a POW in Vietnam. They also planted rumors about McCain ratting on his fellow POWs. They topped off their sickening campaign against this good man and hero by insinuating that a Bangladesh child he and his wife adopted was a "black" love-child. Another decent man, patriot and war hero these creeps maligned was Georgia Senator Max Cleland during his 2002 Senate race. Republican challenger Saxby Chambliss borrowed a page directly from Rove's dirty tricks playbook by running television ads morphing Cleland's face into Osama Bin Laden's face and questioning Cleland's ability to defend America against terrorism. Never mind the fact that Max Cleland left both legs and an arm on the battlefields of Vietnam. And never mind the fact that his attacker (Chambliss) was just another GOP chickenhawk who had gotten a medical deferment for supposedly "bad knees."

To be blunt about this whole situation, I've fucking had it with these hypocritical right-wing goons and their truckloads of lies. It especially gets my blood boiling when I see gutless cowards who've never wore the uniform, or others who wore it contemptuously or out of selfish convenience, openly question the patriotism and integrity of true soldiers that have put their lives on the line for this country. Yeah - you heard me alright -- gutless cowards!! And GWBush is the worst - he can't even fight his own fucking political battles - - has to have his daddy's hit-men do his dirty work for him. My dear friends - - if what Bush and his minions are doing to John Kerry, and, have done to John McCain and Max Cleland, is your idea of leadership, character and morality, not only do I pity your judgement, I question your sanity and I question whether you have the slightest fucking clue as to what patriotism really means. I'm sorry if that offends some of you, as I'm sure it will. I do value my friendships and I'm more than willing to fairly and civilly debate anyone on the issues of the day, but when it comes to this kind of vile personal attacks on a man's proven military service (for if you question official Naval records on Kerry's service you question official Naval records on ALL vet's service) - - - well, that's where you and I sharply part company - end of discussion.

Thankfully the past couple days has seen a somnambulate press corp finally stir to life and start digging into the backgrounds of the SBVT people and tracing their political and money connections. Already, several of the SBVT spokespeople have been caught making misleading and contradictory statements and/or telling outright lies to promote their hate-filled campaign against Kerry. Additionally, several previously silent witnesses have since come out in public and gone on the record backing Kerry's version of the events in question. The biggest difference between these witnesses and the SBVT people is that they were actually there at the time these events took place. The vast majority of the SBVT folks signed afidavits not as eye-witnesses but based on hearsay evidence -- in other words "a friend of a friend of a friend who was there told me . . . " That is no evidence whatsoever regardless of whether our incompetent and whore media puts it in print or on the airwaves.

Lastly - - some of you may be snidely asking yourselves - - "what's the difference between the things you krazee have stated about Bush in your rant here and what the SBVT people are saying about Kerry?" Glad you asked! Quite simple formula actually. You see -- common sense and truth are qualitys which are beyond rhetorical reproach. They are inherently immune to the puny attempts by sniveling, sordid men and their cowardly words and will prevail to the very end. See how simple and uncomplicated that was?

And with that we unceremoniously get to the truth telling red-ass treatment portion of today's discourse. Please take the time (if knowing the truth is of any value to you whatsoever) to read the below listed articles and visit the listed websites. Feel free to try and refute the information being imparted to you. I'd advise that when you respond to me, please provide documented, mainstream sources to back up your case (no links to Free Republic, Hannity or Limbaugh please - they've already been thoroughly discredited as sources of accurate information). I welcome the debate!

WEBSITES:

Click here for the most documented, sourced site on the web proving what fakes SBVT are.
Click here for the most comprehensive site documenting the AWOL antics of one GWBush.
Click here for the most detailed documentation of the GOP chickenhawks hall of fame.
Click here for a site dedicated to exposing the lies of the right-wing media and their posse of fake journalists.
Click here to keep abreast of the news as it should be reported and not the GOP spun headlines from television, cable and print.

ARTICLES:

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If any of you wish to disassociate yourselves with me because of my views, while regretful, I would not harbor any ill will towards you. You wanna believe in liars and crud like SBVT, that's your prerogative. Just don't come around whining to me that I'm some brain-washed, commie-pinko who doesn't know what he's talking about. There's an old rule that says the burden of proof is upon the accusers. By most fair accounts the accusers in this case (SBVT) have not only failed miserably to prove their accusations, they have also tarnished their own reputations and credibility all in a sad, hate-filled attempt to exact vengeance for some damaged egos and ruffled feathers that took place 35 years ago. The pettiness of such men - - if they can be called men even, is a sad sight to view indeed.

----krazeeinjun