~ when it comes to banning gay marriage:

“I don’t believe there’s any issue that’s more important than this one,” said Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican.

does this dipshit have an email address? he is from a state that was royally fucked in last year’s hurricane, and he can’t think of something ‘more important’ than his attempts to legislate against equal rights for all americans. i suspect that if they could get him on the phone, there are more than several people in southern louisiana who could give him some ideas of what is ‘important’ this year.

apparently there is a paucity of ideas in those there congress halls, for the right-wing fringe represented by Senator Brownback froths that men getting married “is harmful to the future of the republic”. the future of the republic! So that is what the Republicans want to protect the nation from; it isn’t as though we are enmeshed in an never-ending war against terrorists and freedom-haters – according to Republicans we needn’t worry about the record national debt, the cost in lives or money, the u.s. marines’ defiling of our national integrity in haditha, busted medicare, fuel costs, our rent going up $50 next month, or those hordes of immigrants we were being told to worry about just last week. in fact, the mere mention of outlawing gays has persuaded people to forget that the republican senate plans this week to repeal taxes on the wealthiest americans.

The only thing that is possibly crazier than Sam Brownback is the notion of Canadian terrorists storming parliament and cutting off heads.

~ there must be something in the water, or they are still electing cowards to the united states senate:

“…you have no civil liberties if you are dead.” – Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KN)

is that supposed to scare us into allowing the NSA unfettered access into our homes and lives? try moving to west philadelphia, chickenshit. you can’t ride a trek across baltimore and 48th at 10pm if you’re dead.

~ bush is pissed that a christian in afghanistan is scheduled to be executed for being a christian in afghanistan:

“It is deeply troubling that a country we helped liberate would hold a person to account because he chose a different religion over another.” -gwbush

didn’t we march freedom into that place years ago? we sponsored the afghan’s writing of their own constitution which establishes islamic law. the afghan people have spoken (‘kill all christians’), which is what we asked for, so why the bitching from bush? if our marching of freedom and spreading of democracy is to always result in islamic fundamentalist regimes, then we can skip iran – it’s already spoken for – because we know that ‘spreading democracy’ will be the next excuse for invading iran once the administration realizes that every sensible listener will hear the claim that iran is moments away from transforming dallas into a mushroom cloud and know that is bullshit they have heard before.

~ to those vegans who cared that l’oreal is buying the body shop: tom’s of maine sells out to colgate [enn.com].

~ the dumbest things we have heard since previous post:

“There are circumstances when the country’s interests take priority over its laws.” –tucker carlson

so the constitution has a caveat, ‘some times nothing in here applies to certain people?’ the guys who stole my router, measuring spoons and first 2 issues of ‘friendly neighborhood spider-man’ must have read that, because apparently ‘There are circumstances when a burglar’s interests take priority over its laws’.

“Keep the christ in christmas” -billboard on ga 20

christ. mas. ’nuff said.

pending: “you can’t make cupcakes without eggs”

~ at the suggestion of saul cups, we are posting a plea. the following items were last seen in the rear of a honda civic in west philadelphia. please let us know if you see them on the sidewalk, under a bridge, or in the possession of a fucking asshole:

• 1 box of about 100 marvel and vertigo comic books, dated jan 2005-november 2005, all bagged, boarded, and alphabetized.
• 1 belkin wireless router, still boxed
• 1 ‘peets’ box containing 950+ ‘postbaroque’ postcards
• 1 ‘path’ shoebox containing various first aid goods, photographs, collection of posters, postcards, envelopes most of which also mentioned ‘postbaroque’.
• 1 box various kitchen tools, such as spatula, whisk, spoons.
• set of various ‘stanley’ hand tools, such as hammer, screwdrivers, level, measuring tape, etc
• spindle of compaq discs containing software
• various musical compact discs, such as billy bragg, spiritualized, lyle lovett

~ howard dean on the differences between democrats:

“The differences are pretty small, perhaps Senator Lieberman excepted.”

haha!

~ ahmed chalabi: an ‘urban myth’ is perpetuated when someone tells you that a spider bit his camp counselor in her sleep, and that six weeks later the sore left by the bite burst open and hundreds of baby spiders crawled out. un-urban myth is not when ‘ahmed chalabi provides false information regarding wmd to the united states‘ or ‘ahmed chalabi commits currency exchange fraud‘ or ‘ahmed chalabi is a counterfeiter‘ or ‘ahmed chalabi gives united states’ secrets to iran‘.

also, ahmed chalabi is still a preppie asshole.

~ we already know that president bush believes that the way to deal with forest fires is to cut down the trees which fuel them; now we learn from him that ‘A [flu] pandemic is a lot like a forest fire…it can grow to an inferno that spreads quickly beyond our ability to control it.’ if trees, not fire, are the problem, then people, not flu, are the problem. president bush claims that the only way to prevent avian flu from spreading from human to human would be to eliminate the humans.

‘seriously’, though this latest attempted diversion from the headlines that the vice president’s chief of staff lewis libby has been indicted for committing perjury in an attempt to cover up the administration’s outing of a c.i.a. agent (or just c.i.agent?) in retribution for her spouse’s honest and ultimately correct assessment that the administration’s justification for the war on iraq were fraudulent would bullshit even it it wasn’t being mentioned for said diversion. we weren’t destroyed by sars, by west nile virus, by anthrax, by mad cow disease (unfortunately), by needles in our pepsi or by cyanide in our tylenol; we won’t be destroyed by this year’s doomsday device.

~ we used to think that harriet miers was nominated because, once she was rejected due to her incompetence and ignorance, the bush administration would be able to put forth a more radical nominee from the right-wing fringe whilst saying, ‘you can’t reject this asshole because i was already fair with the previous one’.

now that she has ‘dropped’ out, we reckon that she was nominated despite her incompetence and ignorance because the administration knew it would eventually need a diversion in the news from the fact that members of the administration are about to be indicted by a grand jury. they expected the indictments this week, so they had her withdraw her own nomination in order to ‘pre-empt’ the discussion about the charges. no indictments came out today, so there is a risk for the administration that the miers talk will wear off by tomorrow (just ask trent lott!), and there will be nothing else going on in the news tomorrow. also, afterwards, the bush administration will be able to put forth a more radical nominee from the right-wing fringe whilst saying, ‘you can’t reject this asshole because i was already fair with the previous one’.

~ y’all probably missed the announcement because you were swimming through dozens of articles on the fact that the electricity is out in miami, but the position of the bush administration has been stated to be that the torture of anyone in the custody of the united states is wrong, except when it is alright:

The White House wants the CIA to be exempted from a proposed ban on the abusive treatment of terrorism suspects being held in United States custody. –the guardian

a lot of fucks can make indian summer hay that the indictments on tom delay’s money laundering, the investigations on bill frist’s insider trading, the questions about harriet miers’s competence/intelligence, and who knows what the fuck about the grand jury investigation of security leaks all being politically motivated (as though that makes them unsubstantiated or fraudulent) but how on earth can someone defend the administration at the point where it insists that the united states exists at the same moral ground as saudi arabia, syria, al qaeda and russia?

~ speaking of torture, the temperature in philadelphia has dropped from the 70’s to the 40’s in less than a week. we left our gloves in clichy or new jersey; feel free to peep the gloves on our wish list!

~
terra cimmeria: i said earlier that there would be 2000 dead troops in iraq by xmas?
xxxxxxx xx xxx: y
terra cimmeria: it looks like it will be halloween, instead

~ to mark this milestone, some u.s. senators who voted for invasion of iraq -when it was perceived by them to be the politically popular thing to do – mention that, now that the u.s. has failed to secure a victory, and the president’s 37% approval rating means it is safe for them to criticize him, they were ‘misled’ into believing that the war was a great idea, because the administration told them so:

dodd of ct:
‘had i known then what i know now, the answer would have been ‘no’, categorically’

feinstein of ca:
‘had i known that the intelligence that i reviewed in a classified form and in a nonclassified form was both bad and wrong, i would not have voted’

do they really take everything the administration says at face value? do we need senators who are this trusting and ingenuous? are u.s. senators really this fucking blockheaded? maybe feinstein should have been reading the papers that these people were reading, because two and a half years later, they are still right, and she is wrong.

~ at least, however, kurds can wear pleated pants in public:

“It wasn’t all that long ago if he had of worn this outfit and was captured by Saddam Hussein’s thugs he would have been killed for wearing it,” Bush said. “He feels comfortable wearing it here because we’re a free land.”