~ a discussion o’er at jawk [w] resonates with some earlier off hand comments made on the angry red planet upon hearing that the south dakota legislature has passed a bill which would require that doctors who perform abortions be fined and imprisoned for ending a ‘life’. no one who’s not as dumb as a stump fails to understand that the law is a gimmick to push the argument over which gov’ts, state or federal, has the authority, if anyone does, to interfere in women’s personal health. what if ‘we’ let them have south dakota? ignore the unconstitutional law and throw rights to the dogs in that welfare state; let safety and health of women in that state collapse, so that it can be preserved in the other forty-nine (49). they asked for it. lest some hapless woman who didn’t ask for it be abandoned to the dangers of child bearing in south dakota, take the millions of dollars that would have been blown in court cases and spend them on relocation of all those ladies to new york, california, and (maybe) oregon. what if evangelicals threw a party and we only let the dipshits turn up?

~ 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”

~ yes, we talk about green line cafe a lot:

regarding the avant garde:
mp: ‘avant is french for before’
sd: ‘can’t it also mean ‘against’, though?’

regarding the bush administration meme that democrats are ‘rewriting history’: we don’t think the democrats are claiming that they never voted for the war on iraq; we think they are complaining about the fact they voted for the war on iraq based on the incomplete, inaccurate, and fraudulent information that the bush administration provided? we think that is what bothers most people. we doubt that history would have been written the way it has, if senators had been able to understand – before the war – that the bush administration was lying…?

regarding the upcoming supreme court case involving folks in guantanamo bay: we don’t think the distasteful idea is that the base is located in cuba or is named ‘gitmo’; we think that the idea which makes most people uncomfortable is that up to 500 folks have been incarcerated without being charged with a crime for up to 3 years? we think that is what bothers most people. moving them to be tortured by the c.i.a. in a different country likely won’t settle the issue…?

~ 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.

~ indictment for only one administration official is pretty lame, especially if the guy is only known for being indicted. again, bush tries to divert attention from the indictments (and ongoing investigation of karl rove’s crimes) by moving mars closer to earth.

~ happy 40th birthday to Jefferson National Expansion Memorial!

~ 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’.

~ cold:

“In a month, who will remember the name Harriet Miers.” –Senator Trent Lott

~ irony:

“This [statement from Iran’s president] is a clear contravention and breach of the UN charter and it should be dealt with by the international community.”

–Zvi Rav-Ner, israel deputy ambassador to the UK

~ 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.”

~ choice wordsmithery:

“The Patriot Act is expected to expire, but the terrorist threats will not expire.” -gwbush