Psycho Hunters!! GOP Style . . .

I'm all for sensible legislation controlling the proliferation of handguns and assault weapons in our communities.

However when I read stories like this one where a Republican moron politician is introducing legislation allowing hunters to carry assault rifles and silencers while hunting, I just shake my head in glassy-eyed amazement. It's because of asinine shit like this that the gun-control crowd tends to go overboard in their efforts to legislate gun possession.

Can any of you "hunters" out there explain to me why the hell someone would have a need to hunt furry critters with a military-grade assault weapon or a silencer?? What kind of hunter is this?? I grew up in the midwest --- I don't ever recall any of the men-folk I was around as a kid shredding their deer or quail with automatic M-16's, or stealthily stalking their squirrels with silencer equipped .50 cals. What kind of fuck-tard, brain dead loser would consider themselves a "hunter" if they needed these types of advanced weaponry?

And of course it comes as absolutely no surprise that it's a Republican pushing this law. It's just another example which proves my long-stated contention that the Republican party has been wholesale hijacked by religious whackos, flag-waving fascists, corrupt corporate puppets and the criminally insane.

----krazee

Criminalizing T-shirt wearing followup . . .

This is an addendum to the previous post about the Sheehan arrest and attempted squelching of her free speech rights and my response to comments on a USA Today weblog:

I saw several subsequent comments on that same weblog from supposed military personnel criticizing Cindy Sheehan, making malicious accusations against her and basically telling her to shut the fuck up.

One of the comments was supposedly from a group of military personnel who call themselves "GI's against Sheehan." After reading their post, I was first reminded of some of the ass-backward, brain-dead fuckups that I had the displeasure of serving with during my own military service in the Air Force. I could see that nearly 25 years later the military was still inducting some real losers into it's ranks. The second thing I noticed was the writer's lack of mentioning anything about their/his own combat experiences - which made me a tad suspicious. And lastly, the same writer(s) leveled some really nasty personal accusations about Sheehan that the right-wing media scumbags have been floating around amongst their stepford-like worshippers since she burst upon the national scene.

Therefore, being a military vet myself and an amateur government civics buff, I decided to respond to these small-minded military "patriots."

Following is my response in it's entirety and here's the link to the USA Today weblog: [CLICK HERE]


In response to "GI's against Sheehan":

First off -- I don't know if you truly are GI's or not. Anonymous blogging tends to bring many a charlatan out from under their rock.

However, let's assume for the sake of this discourse that you are indeed GI's.

When you joined the military you swore an oath as follows: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice."

I myself being a proud military veteran remember this oath quite well.

Can any of you "GI's" please explain to me where in that oath does it say a soldier must swear blind ideological or political allegiance to the President of the United States? Obey orders? -- certainly. Abide by military regulations and the UCMJ? Absolutely.

Have any of you ever read the Constitution? Read about the history of it's birth and evolvement into the document it is today? I honestly doubt it.

Shouldn't you be defending Cindy Sheehan's as well as anyone else's right (pro or anti-war) to speak their mind and to "peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for redress of grievances?" You do recognize that phrase don't you? It only happens to be one of the first citizen freedoms the founders of our country saw fit to Amend the Constitution for (Bill of Rights). And lest it be forgotten, you did swear an oath to "defend the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic.

Have you ever stopped to think about what exactly it is that might constitute a "domestic enemy" of the Constitution? Hmmm. A very important question is it not? What or who is it that might be considered a "domestic enemy" of our cherished Constitution. Let's ponder that for a moment.

Do you think it could refer to government officials or politicians who misuse their political power to actively stifle dissenting voices of the citizenry? To propagandize the press?

Do you think it could refer to those political leaders (who are supposed to be accountable to WE THE PEOPLE) who misuse the intelligence and legal apparatus of the federal government to secretly spy on it's citizenry unlawfully bypassing Congressional or Judicial oversight?

Do you think it might refer to those same political figures who would misuse that unbridled power to facilitate the establishment of a state-sponsored religion?

Do you think it might refer to those in political power who would misuse the legislative process to allow mega-corporations and campaign contributing cronies to dictate and write laws favorable to their bottom line and not accountable to anyone, much less the American people?

Do you think it might refer to those who misuse the levers of executive power to abrogate and trash international treaties and laws and in the process alienating long-standing allies and effectively making America a weaker nation abroad?

And last, but certainly not least:

Do you think it could refer to those who misuse the levers of executive power to pre-emptively wage war against a sovereign nation which has not attacked or threatened us and which has resulted in the horrific deaths of 2245+ brave American soldiers and tens of thousands of innocent civilians??

If you have any sense of decency and honesty about you, you must know the answers to each of those questions is and should be a resounding YES!!

Lastly, you made some very vicious ad-hominem attacks against Cindy Sheehan. You claimed that:

1. She's a known communist.

2. She criticized and downplayed the victims of Hurricane Katrina

3. She is an anti-Semite

It's telling that you didn't provide a single source for any of these gutter-level accusations. As a matter of fact, they are amazingly similar to attacks leveled by other serial liars, right-wing losers and America haters like Rush Limbaugh, G. Gordon Liddy, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Dennis Prager, Bill O'Reilly (anyone at FOX News for that matter), etc.... --- unfortunately that slimeball list is much too long to cover in this exchange.

Based on that brief analysis therefore -- at this point the natural skeptic in me takes over and begins to think that perhaps you are not "GI's" at all. That you are nothing but a phony, right-wing, Bush boot-licking toady who's only agenda is smearing an honest decent American simply because you don't like the fact that she has the moral courage to speak out truthfully and openly about the corrupt and lying government that is responsible for (albeit refuses to acknowledge it) her son's and many other American's sons and daugthers deaths.

Finally -- my initial inclination was to pity you. But I quickly disposed of that worthless feeling, so therefore I don't. I actually despise you. It's freedom haters like you who are destroying America within along with our glorious Democracy. And if you truly are "GI's", God help us. Because your heart is not faithful to the oath you swore allegiance to. No. Your allegiance, and dare I say worship, is with lying politicians and their anti-democracy ideologies. The United States Constitution means absolutely nothing to you.

America's military deserves better human beings and better citizens than you in it's ranks.

----krazee

Bush Monarchy criminalizes T-shirt wearing . . .

War protestor and mother of dead soldier, Cindy Sheehan, was arrested yesterday in the U.S. Capitol gallery prior to Preznit Chimpy McSphincter's SOTU address. The heinous crime? Daring to wear a T-shirt with the printed slogan "2245 Dead. How many more?" on it.

Now, it's a known fact that Cindy Sheehan has an effect on the right-wing, war-mongering Rethuglicans like a saguaro cactus being forcefully shoved up their faux-patriot asses. Nothing gets them more foaming at the mouth vicious than a distraught and angry mother publicly demanding her government (in this case the Bush cabal) to explain why her child died in a war based on lies and deceit.

USA Today ran a short article (fairly innocuous) about the arrest of Sheehan, and in the comments section for that article, the bat-shit insane Bush boot-lickers came out in full force calling Sheehan everthing from an "Al Qaeda mom," "Baghdad Cindy," and a "stupid woman". Thankfully, it appears, these yellow-bellied, fascist Republican turds are a minority as the Sheehan and just plain free speech supporter's comments quickly overwhelmed their putrid vitriol.

Anyhow, I took a moment and added my own comment. It's printed here in it's entirety:

To all the Cindy Sheehan haters who smugly and aristocratically sniff about the "appropriate" time and place for a citizen to exercise their constitutionally protected right to free speech -- you're ignorance of the birth and growth of American Democracy is simply astounding.

In 1773, when 3 separate companies of 50 men each, masquerading as Mohawk Indians, boarded 3 of Britain's King George's ships anchored in Boston Harbor, broke open the tea chests therein, and summarily heaved them overboard into the water -- was that the "appropriate" time for them to dissent against the British repression?? Perhaps they should've taken into consideration the sensitivities of poor King George and waited until a time more convenient for the Redcoats and the royalty they slavishly served??

America's own, modern-day royalty, King George the 43rd, is a similar hollow figure of a man and leader (if he can even be called either). All of his public appearances are highly scripted and staged events, complete with carefully screened and advisor approved worshippers who ask scripted fluffball questions and robotically applaud on cue every time their dear leader mouths empty phrases and even emptier promises. All in all it's a bizarre Orwellian exercise methodically designed to not upset the boy King and his royal court of kingly minions.

Contrarily, outside of these phony "public" events, anyone who wishes to exercise the "right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances" is usually herded into a small chain link cage far enough away from the "public" venue so that once again, the Boy King is not subjected to any viewpoints other than those that sing his glorious and kingly praise.

Cindy Sheehan is a citizen of this country. She had every right to be in that gallery last night. She had, and still has, every right to "peaceably assemble and petition the Bush adminstration for a redress of grievances." And she has the right to do so at any public venue, anywhere!

And by God if that isn't agreeable to you Sheehan haters/Bush supporters, I seriously suggest that just maybe it is all of you who are the modern-day Redcoats and oppressors of Democracy and freedom!!

I strongly urge you all to re-familiarize yourselves with the history of Democracy in this country. You just might learn a thing or two.

Long live The Constitution and Bill of Rights!!!


----krazee

George Boosh's State of da Yoonion ....

This is just too goddamn funny! [CLICK HERE]

Tragically, for the half of America that is sane anyway, it's also the sad, sad truth.

----krazee

The Vote Counters . . . Stealing Democracy One Vote at a Time . . .

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing.Those who count the votes decide everything."

—Communist Tyrant and mass murderer Josef Stalin (attributed)




So who's been counting votes in America's national elections over the past 6 years? The American people had better open their eyes and start asking that question and asking it loudly.

The "hanging chad" nightmare in Florida in 2000 demonstrated to the world that the United States is not the bastion of fair and honest elections it's claimed to be for so long.

There have been many (Click Here) documented voting anomolies in national elections since that 2000 Florida theft.

What's amazing, I say amazing because it's so goddamn obvious and the absolutely worthless mainstream media seems oblivious to it, is that in nearly every documented case of voting irregularities that I've read about over the past 6 years, the outcome invariably ends up benefitting the Republican candidate!!

Coincidence the fascist Rethuglicans crow!! Democrat Sour grapes they bleat!! Sore Loserman they screech!!!

BULL FUCKING SHIT!!!!! I say.

In 2003 you had the CEO of Diebold systems -- a company whose electronic voting machines were counting approximately 30% of votes in national elections by 2004 -- sending a fund-raising letter to Repugs stating that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." Of course we all know now that George W. Bush won Ohio by a very slim margin amidst numerous allegations of voter disenfranchisement and voting irregularities -- all once again benefitting the Republican candidate (Bushit). And also, once again, the Ohio Secretary of State and Elections Supervisor, Kenneth Blackwell, like his Stepford counterpart Katherine Harris in Florida in 2000, pulled double duty as the chair of the Ohio Bush/Cheney re-election campaign. Will wonders never cease??

So -- at this point this latest story about the state of Alaska trying to keep the results of the 2004 election hidden is no surprise. Reported discrepancies have triggered a request from the Alaskan Democrats to have an independent review of those results. The state of Alaska is refusing on the grounds that Diebold is making the BULLSHIT claim that their proprietary software code will be compromised if they allow anyone to see those results. So in other words, because the election machine manufacturer is making some horseshit claim about it's software code being possibly stolen, the American people have no right to verify the accuracy of their own elections!!! Can we say BANANA REPUBLIC??? How fucking bat-shit insane is that proposition??

Anyhow -- read the article and tell me these pricks don't have something to hide.

----krazee

Bushies play dumb about Abramoff . . . Media pretends not to notice . . .

You've got to wonder at what point the mainstream media will finally come to the realization that their 5 year mission to provide political cover for our Simian frat-boy president and his con-artist handlers in the GOP is no longer fooling a majority of Americans.

Contrary to desperate GOP dissembling and spin and right-wing, blowhard pundits falling all over themselves trying to paint the Abramoff scandal as a bi-partisan affair, all evidence at this point simply proves what brazen liars they all are.

Uber-crook Abramoff was a former national leader of the College Republicans; he's worked for Republicans all of his post college career; he's made numerous public statements re: his commitment to see Republicans and only Republicans elected to political office; Tom Delay, Mel Blount and other high ranking Republicans spent alot of time around Abramoff and his criminal enterprise, milking it for every penny they could get there grubby GOP hands on; Abramoff kicked in a cool $120k to the Bush/Cheney re-election campaign and was awarded the lofty/elite title of "Bush Pioneer" -- a title only for those fat-cat donors who stuffed Bush's pockets with $100k or more in campaign cash; Jack Abramoff and his associates paid more than 200 visits to the White House since the crooked Shrub/Dick regime stole their way into power; and now the White House refuses to reveal the details surrounding those visits -- what are they hiding??

If the mainstream media in this country wasn't a bought and paid for bunch of whores, they'd be demanding answers as to the reason for each and every Abramoff visit to the White House.

All I know is this -- when the revolution comes -- these worthless, democracy-hating media sons of bitches ought to be the first bunch flogged in the public square. I only hope I get my turn to do some of that flogging.

----krazee

Local yokel squawks, krazee responds . . .

The local newspaper here in Victorville, CA (your typical small town, conservative rag), spittled forth a really lame, juvenile editorial defending George W. Bush's right to unilaterally spy on American citizens without Congressional or Judicial oversight.

This crayon-scribbled editorial contains your typical neo-con amateurish blatherings about Bush's right to make up laws or to defy existing laws and do whatever he damn well pleases in order to save the Brooklyn Bridge from being dismantled by some low IQ nutjob with a blow-torch. However it piqued my annoyance as it also belches out an ad-hominem attack on the patriotism and motives of the Democratic political leadership simply because they are, and rightly so, requesting a Congressional probe of King George's self-imposed divine right to unlimited executive power (by any reputable dictionary definition -- tyranny).

Here's a link to the Victorville Daily Press editorial I speaketh not fondly of: CLICK HERE.

And here is my response to the moron editorialist who had the nerve to shat this crapola opinion into the pages of a public media outlet:

Re: Steve Williams' op-ed on Dec. 20, 2005 - Our Opinion: We're the target

Once again the editor(s) of the Victorville Daily Press demonstrate what a bush-league (pardon the pun) rag they are in their deeply uncritical and quite inept attempt to shrug off the Bush Administration's newly discovered (and quite likely illegal) domestic spying activities.

Aside from the glaring level of naivete shown in the matter, I believe your blithe dismissal of the core Constitutional transgressions involved here reveals to your local readership constituency that you people are either rank cowards, unabashed Bush apologists or if my hunch is correct - both.

As you duly noted in pointing out George Will's column, a number of conservative scholars and journos are weighing in on this matter, and many of them are siding with reputable Constitutional experts in deciding that George W. Bush has some serious explaining to do to the American people.

Bruce Fein who is a constitutional scholar and a former Deputy AG in the Reagan Administration was asked on The Diane Rehm radio program yesterday "Is spying on the American people as impeachable an offense as lying about having sex with an intern?" Mr. Fein answered thus:

"I think the answer requires at least in part considering what the occupant of the presidency says in the aftermath of wrongdoing or rectification. On its face, if President Bush is totally unapologetic and says I continue to maintain that as a war-time President I can do anything I want – I don’t need to consult any other branches – that is an impeachable offense. It’s more dangerous than Clinton’s lying under oath because it jeopardizes our democratic dispensation and civil liberties for the ages. It would set a precedent that … would lie around like a loaded gun, able to be used indefinitely for any future occupant."

Norman Ornstein is a scholar at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He was on the same radio program as Mr. Fein and was asked the same question. His answer:

"I think if we’re going to be intellectually honest here, this really is the kind of thing that Alexander Hamilton was referring to when impeachment was discussed."

So who would you think is more credible, a small-minded, small-town editorial hack like Steve Williams or a couple of conservative icons and scholars who've spent their lives studying the document which is the heart and soul of American Democracy - our noble Constitution??

Before we answer that question (and boy it sure is a tough one to contemplate), let's touch on a couple of things Mr. Williams stated in his driveling rant.

Mr. Williams -- you haughtily make the claim that "Americans and residents of America . . ." don't share in the concerns being expressed about Bush's unprecedented and secretive executive power-grab and "that a majority of Americans support safety first, and because of that will tolerate the use of tactics that help insure that safety . . ." On what evidence do you base these statements sir? Have you conducted your own scientific poll that conclusively supports these assertions? If so, could you please publish it? Somehow I doubt we'll see the results of such a poll anytime soon.

There's a quite famous political saying - "...how's it playing in Peoria?" - meaning as it always has, how does conservative, middle-America feel about the matter? Well, Mr. Williams, here's a brief excerpt from the editorial in today's (Tuesday 12/20/2005) Peoria (Ill.) Journal Star:

"Look, Sept. 11, 2001, upset all of us. No one wants a repeat. But a disturbing pattern has emerged, ranging from the administration's defense of certain torture practices to secret CIA prisons in eastern Europe, from the suggestion that the Geneva Conventions don't apply to POWs the U.S. holds to the president's ability to unilaterally declare someone an "enemy combatant." It took the White House 18 months to abide by the Supreme Court's ruling that "a state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens. Is this a balance of powers issue? You bet it is. Perhaps the president's heart is in the right place. He says he just wants to protect Americans. Who doesn't? It's really quite simple: The Founders were clear that threats to the republic could come from inside as well as out. No president, of any party, under any circumstance, should be permitted to act like a king. This is troubling."

Doesn't sound like the folks in Peoria are entirely thrilled with King George and his "my way or the hiway" approach to Constitutional law Mr. Williams.

Mr. Williams - you also appear to question the patriotism (gee - why does that not surprise me) of the Democratic party leaders Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Howard Dean, because, quite justifiably, they happen to also oppose the equally insidious and Stalinesque Patriot Act. You baselessly state, " . . .they seem to have concluded that the safety of America and Americans must take a back seat to the defeat of the President." Boy if that isn't a charge old Joe McCarthy could be proud of, I don't know what is. Pretty pathetic and quite likely copied and pasted directly from the day's GOP talking points fax.

Lastly Mr. Williams - I'll leave you with a famous quote, often attributed to a great American patriot Benjamin Franklin, which says, "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

And with that prescient quote drifting lazily off to the dark recesses of your timorous consciousness, I'm quite certain that if a Hillary Clinton or a Howard Dean Presidency were to ever come to pass, you'll remember that quote right quickly enough and without a doubt be one of the first screaming it from the hilltops until you were blue in the face.

Concerned Citizen (krazeeinjun)
Victorville, CA

Lying media whores continue their war on the truth. . .

I'm back in the saddle again!! . . . the blogger saddle that is . . . been busy lately, but I came across a Yahoo news article today that prompted me to hit the keyboard with a renewed ambition of exposing the lying media bastards in our midst.

Take a look at this AP (Associated Press) article. It's an otherwise straighforward story about the effort of Michael Schiavo, the husband of Terri Schiavo, who waged a decade-long battle to allow his brain-dead wife to die with dignity, to start a Political Action Committee that will challenge candidates based on where they stand on government's reach into American's private lives.

However, in the very first paragraph of this article you will find a subtle, but blatantly dishonest example of why this country's media can no longer be trusted to tell the basic truth to the American people.

The article begins - "Michael Schiavo, whose effort to end life support for his brain-damaged wife divided a nation, is launching a political action committee..."

I've purposely highlighted the phrase "divided a nation" because that is simply a bald-faced lie by the Associated Press. The truth of the issue is that during the media's obscene hyping of this tragic private family matter, which by the way was simply one of many that playout every single day in this country, every reputable public opinion poll showed that Americans overwhelmingly supported Michael Schiavo's right to make life-or-death decisions on his wife's behalf.

Additionally, and despite all their high-flung rhetoric, the morally bankrupt Republicans in Congress and their hypocritical religious whacko followers willfully ignored the fact that 87% of Americans ( according to an ABC News and Washington Post poll at the time) said they would want their feeding tubes removed if they were in Terri Schiavo's condition.

The absolute truth (which appears to be a foreign concept to the Associated Press and most of the U.S. media today) is that the country was not divided on this issue. Quite simply put, a commanding MAJORITY of Americans favored removing Terry Schiavo's feeding tube and allowing her to expire with whatever scrap of dignity she still posessed. But the black-hearted religious, political and media vultures would have no part of such common sense and decency and instead picked at the poor woman's lifeless carcass with unhinged fervor.


Click here and here and here and here for supporting articles showing that the Associated Press is lying to your face when they make the claim that America was divided on the Terry Schiavo issue.

Then contact the AP and ask them why they feel the need to lie to you and the rest of America, especially when the simple truth is obvious to those of us without a political, ideological or religious axe to grind.

----krazee

Fear not ... Bush's prayer police are on the job . . .

Hmmmmmm . . . a socially progressive (evil libruls) church is being threatened by Bush's IRS of losing it's tax-exempt status. It's crime? A former pastor gave a sermon to the church's faithful congregants criticizing George W. Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq prior to the 2004 election.

Here we have right-wing religious asswipes like Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and a host of other faux-Christian leaders constantly promoting George W. Bush and right-wing GOP candidates and right-wing policies from their faux-religious pulpits, and are they being harassed by the IRS for their overtly partisan political activities???? No!! Yet a single sermon, by a pastor at a liberal Episcopal church critical of Der BushFueherer results in the dogs of government power being unleashed.

A little here, a little there . . . and thus begins the slow extermination of freedom of speech in this country. The Bush/Nazi crowd is a true danger to us all --- wake up folks.

Click here for story.

Dick Cheney -- Vice Dirtbag extraordinairre . . .

Providing the monkey-fuck insane neo-cons don't start WWWIII and blow the whole planet to kingdom come, Dick Cheney will go down in history as a self-serving traitorous thug.

The damage this one individual has caused to America, not to mention mankind in general, puts him right up there in the pantheon of human scum.

Click here. And here.

----krazee

. . . And I bet they're God-fearin' Republicans too . . .

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G.O.P.S. -- new reality tv show.... Lol !

HA! HA!!

I have a feeling, even with the predicted record increases (aka -- consumer price gouging) of home heating costs this winter, it's going to be a good Christmas.

I'd gladly pay a few hundred dollars more to heat my house this year, if in return I was able to watch the GOP and the Bush administration slowly implode with the end result being some serious legal issues followed by jail time for the top GOP'ers and Bushies.

Here's a little cyber-toon that mischievously and hilariously puts it all into a perspective that even the moron-American crowd should be able to understand.

Just click here and have a good hearty laugh.

----krazee