Credit Given Where Credit Due . . .

Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats in the House, portrays herself as a polite, grandmotherly lady...Don't believe it for a second. Would your grandmother ever say, "If people are ripping your face off, you have to rip their face off" (Pelosi's approach to handling attacks from Republicans)? How about "If you take the knife off the table, it's not very frightening anymore" (her explanation for why she won't let voters forget George W. Bush's unpopular Social Security proposal from last year)?

I've had my differences of opinion with Dem House Leader Nancy Pelosi (mostly related to her coddling of the war-mongering Bushies on Iraq), but you really got to give her a bit of credit for saving the ass of a cherished American government institution, and I refer of course, to Social Security.

Remember a few years ago, the Wall Street hucksters and their political allies (mostly GOP thugs, but a few Dem toadies as well) were scaring Americans with their "woe is you!" routine, giving dire warnings that social security would be broke in just a few years? Of course, those of us who bothered to actually take the time to study the issue and actually read the reports of the SS Trustees knew that SS was entirely solvent until the year 2042, AND, with minor adjustments could easily be made solvent many decades beyond that. Four of the six Trustees who signed off on the report stating that SS was just fine were appointees of George W. Bush.

And of course the folks who were pushing hardest and loudest for the privatization (they can spin it any way they want, but that's exactly what it is) of SS were the same pond-scum that brought this country the accounting scandals of Enron, Worldcom, Tyco and others -- the same slimy dirtballs who manipulated and jury-rigged the mortgage industry and brought it to it's knees -- the same greedy cocksuckers who paid off politicians of both stripes to de-regulate Wall Street to the point that the robber-baron era of the early 20th century was playskool stuff compared to what these conniving thieves are up to these days.

So, in the spirit of recognizing good public work which has benefited the most people, and in this case most of the people I'm referring to are this country's most vulnerable (the elderly and disabled), I've got to give a big high-five and a profoundly grateful thanks to Nancy Pelosi for doing the right thing and telling the greedy Wall Street whores to keep their filthy, grubby, greasy, fucking hands off of the people's money.

Now -- if only we can get her to be just as much of a hard-ass on the issue of the never-ending funding of the clusterfuck in Iraq -- ... oh well, all one can do is hope.


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Your MBA President

COLORADO SPRINGS, May 28 -- President Bush acknowledged that his administration is "learning as we go" in building democracy in Iraq, as he used his final military academy commencement address on Wednesday to ruminate on some lessons from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

G.W. Bush's sychophantic followers used to love to crow about how the failed Texas oilman and all-around shady businessman was going to be America's first MBA President. Of course they conveniently overlooked Bush's mediocre grades as well as the prescient words of one of his Harvard Business School professors who stated that the future MBA President was someone with weak social values, compassionless and of limited intellect (gee, wonder how anyone could ever have gotten that impression of Mr. "Childrens do learn")?

Anyhow, here we are, 5+ bloody years into the Iraq quagmire, 4300+ U.S. soldiers dead, another 30,000 wounded, tens of thousands more suffering from PTSD, anywhere from 100,000 (conservative estimate) to 650,000 (British Lancet estimate) dead Iraqis and all this proper-english challenged buffoon can do is shrug his shoulders and say is that it's a learning experience?

I don't know about any of you, but I get the distinct vibe that something is terribly, shockingly wrong with this picture.

Let me see if I can put this into straightforward, lucid terms. Imagine yourself wanting to undertake an exciting but dangerous venture, oh say -- climbing Mt. Everest for example. Wouldn't you want to spend all the time up front learning everything there is to know about that mountain, the proper gear needed for a successful mission, interfacing with the local sherpas to learn the terrain and climate, studying the outcomes of previous missions, etc. before trekking on up? Does that sound crazy?

But nooooooooo not President Dumbfuck. He just barrels full speed ahead, with the idea that he'll learn it all as he goes.

I have this absolutely frightening, recurring vision of Bush sitting around one weekend in early 2001, shortly after being installed as President by the black-robed thugs on the Supreme Court, munching on pretzels and watching re-runs of Gunsmoke! and Combat! Condi is in the kitchen whipping up her favorite health drink, Cheney is slumped in a lazy-boy recliner, shit-faced from the 12-pack of Coors he just finished downing, Don Rumsfeld is sitting in the corner pulling the wings off of flies that he's caught...and suddenly Bush blurts out -- "hey fellers! I gots me a great 'ol idea. Let's go blow the shit out of that thar' smelly 'ol A-rab Saddam -- that sumbitch tried to hurt my Daddy!! Now if only y'all can come up with a dadgum good excuse to do it!" . . . And thus --- the genesis of the Iraq war.

Does that scene straight out of a Kafkaesque Beverly Hillibillies episode sound entirely implausible to you? If it doesn't, welcome to the reality based community -- a community of smarter people who rejected drinking the kool-aid offered up by Bushco and their fawning boot-lickers in the media.

"Learning as we go . . ." Holy fucking sheepshit! God (if there is one) help us all.



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Fox Asswipes - The Neverending Story

I went on a spectacular fire-breathing e-mail ranting binge this past weekend. While I would be the first to admit that an evening of consuming healthy quantities of God's nectar was the fuel behind the fire-breathing rage, what really got me started was this video of one of the Faux News conservative knuckle-draggers (Liz Trotta) stating her inner most desire to see Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama killed (along with Osama Bin-Ladin).

Now -- it's no secret I'm no fan of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld or the rest of that criminal bunch, and as much as it would not bother me one whit to see them all wearing prison stripes and sharing an 8x10 cell with some 6'7", 350 lb. convicted rapist named Hoss, publicly professing a desire to see them killed is something that's even beyond the level of my political vitriol.

And the fact this horrid woman made this even more horrid remark on Rupert Murdoch's abortion called Fox News comes as no surprise to me whatsoever. There are numerous recorded instances of Fox chyrons (you know -- those scrolling mini news stories at the bottom of your t.v. screen that distract the shit out of you as you're trying to listen to some semblance of real news?) substituting Obama's name with Osama's -- Obama Bin-Ladin for example -- oops! -- sorry about that little mixup Senator Obama! I honestly and truly am incapable of comprehending who the ratfuckers at Fox think they're fooling anymore with their blatantly overt conservative bias. That bias should be obvious to all but the most mentally challenged amongst us at this point. And you know what's interesting -- I really don't have a problem with the fact they want to be a mouthpiece network for the GOP -- just don't lie to my fucking face about it ad nauseum. Lying like they do about how "Fair and Balanced" they are just makes them look deceitful and calls into question any shred of journalistic integrity and honesty they might have.

Lastly -- imagine if you can somebody like Keith Olbermann on MSNBC or some Dem party mouthpiece on CNN making a similar death-wish statement about GOP nominee John McCain. HOLY FUCKING EYE-BULGING, VEIN POPPING, SPASTIC BRAIN SEIZURE SHIT FITS BATMAN! -- the right-wingers would be marching in the streets, pitchforks and torches in hand, nooses at the ready with the fiery sparkle of vengeance and righteous justice gleaming in their eyes. And our ever vigilant mainstream media and their high-flying troupe of circus clowns would be all over the story like flies on shit, playing it over and over and over again, feigning outrage and demanding every Democrat and liberal within 1000 fucking miles of the person who said it get down on bended knee, confess their sinful unworthiness and beg forgiveness. Which prompts me to state the obvious once again --- liberal media? what fucking liberal media?

Anyhow, to those who were recipients of my caustic e-mail arrows this past weekend, I beg forgiveness for filling up your e-mail box with my cactus juice fueled ravings, but even after contemplating all of it, I can't and won't beg forgiveness for stating exactly what I thought of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch and this soulless bitch Liz Trotta for allowing vile statements (smug, insincere apologies notwithstanding) like that to be spoken on OUR airwaves.

I've no doubt that this following clip is Liz Trotta's all-time favorite movie scene -- and is likely the only thing that's ever brought the sick-minded shrew to orgasm:



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