If I could prove with very shoddy evidence that Ann Coulter has the plague...

Could we execute her for treason? 

No...just kidding...but if she has any unpaid parking tickets, let's execute the bitch, just so she'll shut the hell up.  I'm currently reading the book I've listed below, Brainless, and I have to say...as much as I hated her before, now, I just think she needs to be locked in a rubber room. 

The book is an examination of Coulter and her many many contradictions.  A rabid anti-feminist, Coulter says she believes that women should be stripped of the right to vote...unless of course you would try to take away Ann's own right, which she has schemed and falsified records in order to do.  There are serious questions as to her age because there is a chance she falsified her birthdate on her first voter registration in order to vote at the age of 16, a felony, by the way.  Also, in the 2005 election, she registered her real-estate agent's address as her own and knowingly voted in the wrong precinct(another felony). 

More later on the lunatic, but I have to read more of the book first

Currently reading: Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter By Joe Maguire Release date: 10 October, 2006

Political Drivel

You know, sometimes I don't pay attention as well as I should.  Yesterday I saw a headline about Bolton submitting his resignation to president Bush, and my mind first went to Michael Bolton.  Now, as great as it would be for us never having to hear that pussy sing ever again, it's even greater that the report was referring to John Bolton, the beleaguered UN rep, who decided to resign rather than get completely spanked in confirmation hearings that would have certainly turned out with him being denied a reappointment to the post.

And then today, I saw a headline about Gates going before the Senate, and my first thought was of Bill Gates. Robert Gates makes more sense, since he's Bush's nominee to replace the outslithering Rumsfeld.  Why did my brain go to Bill Gates?  Who knows.

Well, Gates is starting off his confirmation hearings by pandering to the Democrats in what seems like a desperate attempt to get himself confirmed as defense secretary.  He started out his day as the first Republican in Bush's administration to actually admit that we're not winning the war in Iraq.  Now, although this is a step in the right direction in terms of message, if you sort through the bullshit, it can be only seen as pandering to the congressional majority for approval.

So, Iowa governor Tom Vilsack has thrown his hat in the ring for the 2008 Democratic nomination, and is coming on strong, attacking McCain, and saying a bunch of stuff that's obvious to a kid in freshman Poli-Sci class.  His latest is that he wants to shrink the number of troops stationed in Iraq to a tiny little security detail.  Wow...a democrat opposing the staunch authority of the evil republicans by cutting and running just like they said the democrats would.  Now, I don't oppose scaling back troops, as you all well know, but if we pull out all at once, Iraq will collapse even more completely into the civil war the republicans are denying the very existence of.  We need to do this in stages, so the Iraqis can be positioned to keep the infrastructure of the government intact.

Currently listening: Destination: Beautiful By Mae Release date: 25 February, 2003

A return from the point of no return...weird

I'm sorry. I've been absent for way too long, but that whole life and work thing obstructed my path back to the blogging kingdom. I have been noticing that people stop by to check out and see if there is anything new, and that has both heartened and shamed me at the same time.

There has been a copious amount to blog about, but my job got about 10 times harder with the retirement of one of my bosses. The result has been no time for leisure activities such as this blog. I'm going to try to work the time in, though.

First of all, I spent the first few days following Election Day in a joy coma. First, the dems took over both houses, and then Rumsfeld resigned. My mother always told me it would make me go blind, so I always wore goggles, but this joy far exceeds anything that some stolen porn could ever provide.

Now, they can blame the diebold machines if they wish, but the spanking the Repugs received was simply too resounding to even think about writing it off as a fluke. America went to the polls and sent a message that the status quo was no longer acceptable. Pieces of garbage like Rick Santorum were told to get the hell out of dodge. My only upset was the reelection of Joe Lieberman in my home state of CT. Running as an independent, he still managed to defeat the democratic nominee, Ned Lamont. Oh well, as long as he doesn't spend the next two years with his head up the ass of the Republican caucus, I'll be able to deal.

Defying any explanation, Iraq has slipped further down the slope of violence, with this month yielding the most civilian casualties since we invaded in 2002, and the month isn't even over yet.

The tasering of the UCLA student who peaceably refused to leave the library is another current thorn in my side. First of all, since everyone now has a video camera of some kind, the altercation ended up on the internet on Youtube in a matter of hours. The officer responsible for the flagrant misuse of authority is no stranger to excessive force. He is also responsible for the shooting of a student on campus a year or two ago. If you haven't heard about this story, please check out an in-depth analysis of the situation at http://www.rudepundit.blogspot.com . Just page down to his entries from last week

Michael Richards used the N-bomb in a comedy club filled with black people. I saw the video and was shocked. Now, he has apologized almost immediately and sought the council of Jesse Jackson. This move shows me that he really wants to make it right. The few statements he's made have sounded sincere, but then again, I'm not an African American, so I don't think it's for me to judge whether he should be forgiven.

Tom and Katie got married, no one but Mary Hart and Billy Bush actually give a damn. Seriously, should we really care about this? That's rhetorical…if you answer, I'll bludgeon you with Suri Cruise!

Currently listening: Shine On By Jet Release date: 03 October, 2006

The Monkeyhouse Editorial Minute

I read this and it pretty much expressed exactly what I wanted to say, so I'm just reposting it.  If you like it, check RudePundit out daily here.  I'll be back later(hopefully) to add some of my own thoughts to this.

Why Vote Against Republicans? Because Fuck Them:
America, the good ol' USA, is a country that was brought into existence by groups of terrorists and insurgents aided by foreign powers. Its first rallying document was the Declaration of Independence, a list of reasons why King George III and the British sucked balls. However, no matter what that hand-scrawled Declaration told the colonists, a good many people living in Massachusetts or Maryland could've bottom-lined it for you: "Why revolt against the British? Because fuck them, that's why."

The history of great movements in this nation, of any nation, is a tale of people who are finally, at the end of the day, so fed up with the status quo that all of the rational reasoning mounts and piles up until it all, in essence, comes down to "Fuck them." ("Them" being, of course, whoever the powerful are in a historical moment.) The French Revolution, the American civil rights movement, the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, all uprisings of the average person, through the ballot box, the legislative process, or the gun, against those who are dicking them over. Sure, sometimes it doesn't turn out for the best and sometimes things get even worse (see the media-manipulated Republican "revolution" of 1994 with its dunderheaded motto of "Throw the bums out"), but such is the end result of constant, endless disempowerment of the masses, the unending thrum of voices calling wrong what the people know in their guts is right.

Now, even through the deadening fog of Fox "News" rhetoric, multiple jobs, dying pensions, depleting health care, the waterboard effect of credit card debt, force-feedings of fatty foods, soul-killing reality TV, the entire cultural apparatus telling us we must want more and more stuff and shit, the dead-ends of public debate, government-instilled paranoia, dementia masking itself as religious faith, the unsubtle shove towards xenophobic isolation, an antagonistic corporate media, the vicious street-beating death of American intellectual thought, and Bush-worship masked as patriotism, through it all, man, all of it, we have come to this magnificent moment, frightening and exhilarating in its implications, where we, as a majority, are looking at the ruin and waste that surrounds us, piles of shit that we are told are mountains of gold, and we can finally, in this savage season of 2006, at long last come to say, "You know what? Fuck them."

Fuck them for trying to make us believe that America's acts of mass destruction, its bumblings into conflagration and apocalypse, in Iraq are actually just speed bumps, commas, if you will, on the road to a peaceful world of democratic nations bowing down to blow the cock of American hegemony.

Fuck them for holding themselves up as arbiters of morality and when they were confronted with a simple moral equation, they cast their lot with savages and genocidal maniacs. No, not the embryonic stem cell research vote, you backwards ass anti-science fundamentalist fucks. On torture and judicial rights, where even those who proclaimed themselves defenders of the detained and imprisoned ended up dancing like slut marionettes on a puppet pole in the Oval Office when it came down to actually, say, defending the detained and imprisoned.

Fuck them for making Americans fucking hated around the world, as if we're all ex-Nazis or, maybe more accurately, members of Pinochet's Chilean army back in the day, squandering the real triumph of America as a beacon of rights and fairness. However unreal that image was, it's better than being "that big ass country that tortures innocent people."

Fuck them for leaving New Orleans and the Gulf Coast to die, as if somehow those parts of the country were gangrenous toes that could just be cut off.

Fuck them for telling us we're too stupid or traitorous to understand what it is they're doing in trying to re-make the earth in their image, for keeping secrets in the name of their own security while literally and figuratively selling out ours.

Fuck them for lying to us about so goddamn much, about science, about their own policies, about what they actually, really were recorded saying, about what's genuinely important, like the out of control debt and the melting planet, instead trying to get us to think that, if a couple of guys wanna get married or if some pop singer's tit jumps out of her blouse, Godjeebus will smash the earth with his mighty Bible-club of divine justice.

Fuck them for...well, you know what? Just fuck them.

Fuck them all, all the Republicans in Congress, all members the conservative spooge-bucket brigade, all their corporate masters yanking on their nipple clips and shoving cold cash up their asses for their obeisance, all the liars and sinners and avaricious rats of the evangelical right, and especially all the wads of fuck in the White House. They all had their chance and they fucked it up. So fuck them.

When you walk into the voting booth on Tuesday, no matter where, with that rage burning in you, stab that motherfuckin' punch card, beat the shit out of that Diebold touch screen, and yell, "Fuck them" as you vote them into oblivion.

And if on Wednesday morning it turns out they've dicked us over one more time by hacking the vote, by screwing with the polls, then maybe we've reached a point in this America where it's time to fight or flee.

Currently listening: Pearl Jam By Pearl Jam Release date: 02 May, 2006

Rush Limbaugh looks like the dead bloated hooker floating face-down in my pool

Let's start with the hooker...the bitch was gonna open her mouth and she got what was coming to her. Plus, hookers aren't really people unless they get romanced by Richard Gere. Wait...does that make the gerbil a person...?

Anyway...

The 5 of you who actually read my claptrap may have been noticed that I've been a tad lax in my blogging duties as of late, but I have an excuse…two of them really. First, my only colleague in my office that wasn't my boss retired at the end of September. Of course, my company, just fresh out of chapter 11, decided it would be best not to try and replace her, and rather added to my daily requirements an additional 40% of work. Can I handle it? Probably, but I have lost any breathing room and free time that I used to have. In addition, I've started taking Networking and computer classes every evening, so the last 3 days, I've left home at 7:30am and not gotten home until after 10pm. I'm pretty tired.

Now onto the meat of the blog…heh heh…meat. Rush Limbaugh isn't one of my heroes. Quite the opposite, really. I grew up listening to the so-called EIB(Excellence In Broadcasting) network, and thought the guy was a huge windbag with the most distorted opinions I'd ever heard. He's had his moments of glory smearing the liberal/democrat faction, and sometimes, as much as loathe as I am to admit it, he made some valid points.

Now he's officially gone too far. He messed with Alex P Keaton, Marty McFly, and Mike Flannery. For those of you who live in a pop culture-impervious bubble, these are all characters by Michael J Fox. Fox, as you may know retired from acting a couple years ago after almost a decade of trying to hide his fight with Parkinson's disease. He now spends all his time trying to find a cure for his debilitating disease. Whether raising money for his foundation, or lobbying congress to increase the scope of stem cell research, he works tirelessly to forward the cause of Parkinson's research.

Recently, Fox has been campaigning for Democratic candidates who support the stem cell amendments that Fox and Parkinson's sufferers all over have wished for. Limbaugh used this news as an opportunity to pretty much call Fox a faker. He cited Fox's acting ability and claimed in no uncertain terms that Fox was playing up the disease and purposely not taking his medication to get more sympathy. Now, this is infuriating on a couple levels. First, Fox has said on a number of occasions that he needs to regulate his medication differently if he is going to be speaking in public because, on the medication, he is completely unable to communicate properly. Now, while it is true that being off the medications brings the symptoms to more prominent light, there is the trade off that he is able to SPEAK coherently.

Also, so what if it does elicit some sympathy and compassion? Fox is using his celebrity to change minds and make people think about who they want to put in the positions that make decisions for all of us. Limbaugh thinks this is a ploy to curry favor with the democrats and undecided voters. Again, I say so what? Conservatives like Limbaugh are the same people that propped up Terri Schiavo and tried to use her for political gain. Don't get me wrong…I don't like the idea of comparing Schiavo and Fox, because I'm optimistic about Parkinson's being cured before it's too late. Compassion is, I believe, one of the main things missing from the Conservative platform.

Note: There were reports on Fox News that Limbaugh had issued an apology to Michael J. Fox, and as of right now, that is just not true. Limbaugh, as usual, is pretending that he is above following the same rules as everyone else in the civilized world.

Also, this is going to start my series of getting everyone I know to vote, preferably Democratic, but as long as you vote, you're taking part in this very important process!!!  If this country is going to survive and thrive as the wonderful place it is, you have to make your voice heard.  If you think that it doesn't matter, you couldn't be more wrong!  Please get out and vote and maybe these asshats will get replaced with people who will make sure this administration gets held accountable for their actions.

Currently listening: Start Static By Sugarcult Release date: 06 December, 2005

A blog two weeks in the making

Not that I've been working on this blog for that long, but it seems that everytime I sit down to blog, I get distracted by something that is deemed more important at the time...stuff like work, and sleep.  In retrospect, they seem trivial.

Dennis "Large Mouth Bass" Hastert is still a congressman.  When it came out that he was made aware of Foley's indiscretions more than a year ago, I thought he would fold like a card table and resign.  The fact that he hasn't shows just how drunk with power the republicans are.  They have not been held accountable for their failures in such a long time that they have a sense of entitlement. 

Another example

 Recently indicted Rep. Bob Ney waited until after he had entered a guilty plea to corruption charges to resign his seat in congress.  Ney had been indicted for participating in Jack Abramoff's dirty deeds. 
Among all the horrible things going on in Iraq and our own Congress, the Karl Rove Propaganda Machine kicked into high production mode, sending UN ambassador and hothead John Bolton and Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice out to the Sunday morning shows to gloss over those topics and highlight the necessity for China to join the world in its sanctions on North Korea.  Now, this is an important news story, and is important on the world stage, but in less than a month, this country will hold elections which could swing congress back toward the democrats, and stories dealing with the travesties in Iraq and the whole Mark Foley debacle, could further destabilize the thin ice on which the Republicans are currently teetering.

Currently listening: Dream to Make Believe By Armor for Sleep Release date: 10 February, 2005

The Mark Foley Debacle...and ensuing fallout

It's safe to say that speaking inappropriately online with minors is an actionable offense.  I mean, by now, we've all seen at least one episode of perverted justice in 48 hours, with Chris Hanson.  If not, check it out..it will blow your mind.
What Foley did was unconscionable and I'm glad to see that he resigned.  What is more disturbing at this point, other than the fact that ABC news actually read some of these IM exchanges on the air, is that there are reports that the Republican leadership knew about these lascivious exchanges were going on, but did nothing about it.  In particular, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert is coming under fire, as he was supposedly made aware of these cyberspace liaisons almost a year ago.  Some are even going so far as to ask for his resignation for the coverup.
Over the weekend, Newt "Where have you been hiding that pasty white ass" Gingrich was interviewed and he said that Republican leadership probably kept it quiet so they wouldn't be accused of Gay bashing.  Um...hold on a sec....I have to go...WHAT!!!??
Gay bashing?  and Pedophilia....?  I don't know guys.  As Jon Stewart said last night on the Daily show...(paraphrased)  Comparing homosexuals with pedophiles...that wouldn't be gay bashing right there, would it? 
Of course, those on the right who have the GOP's back on any and everything, are blaming the Democrats...I've yet to see how it can possibly be the fault of the Democrats that a Republican Congressman flirted with underaged boys, and it as covered up by HIS OWN PARTY!!!

Oh, and I'm not going to even do more than mention that Foley was the chair of the committee on exploited children
Can someone just give me the dimensions of that handbasket we're in, and whether it's insulated...I need to know what I need to pack for our trip down into the pit of hell