August 12, 2008
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August 10, 2008
Why Russia and Georgia are at War
This war is about a few different things, but primarily, it is Russia telling the west to back off.
First of all, this is the Russian response to the West’s recognition of Kosovo. By recognizing an ethnic enclave and overturning established borders, a dangerous precedent was set. Do you know how many Kosovos there are out there? S. Ossetia is just the first one we’ll hear about.
Of course there is an oil factor. (more…)
LOOK WHO’S ‘WINNING IN IRAQ’
Did New York middle-class couple really give $61,600 of their own money to McCain, GOP? Or is it Big-Oil funneling donations?
Wake. Up. People. Who the hell gives $61,600 of their own money to any presidential candidate / political party — the first time EVER donating to a federal campaign — when it’s a crap economy, they’re driving a 15-year-old Chevy Cavalier and live in an apartment in Queens??? Gimme a break. Who’s your daddy McCain?
CHINER WELCOMES W
Bush: China must end detentions, ensure freedoms
By MARK S. SMITH, Associated Press Writer
BANGKOK, Thailand – Bound for the Beijing Olympics, President Bush is carrying a message of “deep concerns” about the state of human rights in China and urging the communist nation to allow political freedoms for its citizens.
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August 9, 2008
BUFFALO CHIPS?
Just what we need, an old fart and a buffalo chip!
BRINGING DIGNITY BACK
TO THE WHITEHOUSE!
McCRUDDY STYLE
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AUDACITY OF XTIAN FUNDI NEOCONS
I could tell you my feelings on this ridiculous nonsense but it would probably melt your computer!!! Every time I think xtians can’t get any more stupid, THEY DO!
Focus on the Family asks Christians everywhere to pray for rain to ruin Obama’s speech at Invesco Field in Denver.
SEE THE VIDEO CLIP @ http://www.citizenlink.org/Stoplight/A000007910.cfm
August 8, 2008
The Tattlesnake – Sen. Buffalo Chip’s ‘Female Trouble’ Edition
Yet Another Aging Republican Frat Boy Vying for the ‘Ladies Choice’ Award
In the latest installment of John McCain’s bizarre relationship with women, he gleefully offered up his long-suffering wife as a contestant for the X-rated ‘Miss Buffalo Chip’ Beauty Pageant at the Sturgis, SD, Biker Rally, an event which included simulating fellatio on a banana and something called a ‘pickle-licking’ contest, although it’s not clear, according to Josh Marshall at TPM, if that last item is actually part of the beauty pageant or a separate Olympic sport.
McCain, hunched over and reading his speech from a music stand, was caught on videotape grinning and crowing,
“I encouraged Cindy to compete,” McCain said to cheers. “I told her with a little luck she could be the only woman ever to serve as first lady and Miss Buffalo Chip.”
– From CNN, August 5, 2008.
Yes, that line was part of McCain’s script. Gee, the president’s wife AND an Easy Rider ‘sissy seat’ occupant in a string bikini — will wonders never cease in the alternate universe of the McCain campaign? If elected, will Misogyny Mac be president of the US and the Hell’s Angels as well? (The Carpetbagger Report has further details.)
I’ve had friends who were bikers; some of them were good people, and I think Americans should live, dress and act however they choose, as long as they aren’t hurting anyone else – but I wouldn’t want any of them in the White House. (And they wouldn’t want to be there either.) The bikers I’ve met roughly demarcate into two groups: the mellow ‘hippies on hogs’ who are generally decent folks who like the freedom of the ‘ride fast’ motorcycle lifestyle, and the angry, violent, usually racist “I’ll kill your ass and piss in your skull” types who live to cause other people grief. The latter were the crazies who murdered that black guy at the Rolling Stones’ Altamont concert in 1969 and I’d bet a sidecar stuffed with sawbucks that those were the same types who were revving their engines while McCain spoke.
At any rate, you might think this would be one of those “Aha, here’s the politician’s true character laid bare” moments the Big Media likes to spring on Dems, from Hillary’s laugh to Obama ordering orange juice instead of coffee at a diner, but, except for Keith Olbermann and Dan Abrams on MSNBC, it was hardly mentioned save for a few male pundits who, chuckling indulgently, dismissed it as more of McCain’s ‘maverick’ sensibility joined with his ‘fighter jock mentality.’ Yep, that’s just what we need in the next president – a guy mired in the frat boy sexism of the mid-20th century to lead us in the 21st.
Earlier this year there was some baseless bantering by the Punditocracy that Obama might have some ‘problem’ with women, but these same Below-the-Beltway talkers are silent on McCain’s manifest disrespect for those who don’t happen to be male. McCain’s degrading relationships with women have a long history, as Kate Sheppard delineates in “McSexist: McCain’s War on Women,” (In These Times, July 24, 2008):
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ALONG CAME BUSH!
People beginning to ask why a paranoid, delusional and obsessive scientist was allowed to work with, you know, ANTHRAX
Privacy concerns, bureaucracy, demands of case allowed Ivins to keep job
What a bunch of BS! They can arrest and send elderly ladies to federal prison for being a couple feet onto government property while demonstrating for peace, or standing in front of a recruiting office with anti-war signs. They can arrest Iraqi children and “detain” them in Gitmo prison for years without legal representation and anyone else they choose for any or no reason. Yet they claim they couldn’t arrest someone they claim is a nutcase who has made numerous death threats while working at a high security lab facility??? My kids could have told a better, more believable story than that when they were pre-teenagers.
The man was a scapegoat, murdered to cover some bushco criminal crony or cronies. GK
WASHINGTON – What took so long?
Army scientist Bruce Ivins had a history of paranoia, obsession and delusional thinking. And newly unsealed court documents show he didn’t keep them to himself.
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The Tattlesnake – Double-Take On the News Edition
You Could Get Whiplash
McCain the Antichrist?Huhhhh? I’m not a big fan of Johnny MacFlipFlop, but the Antichrist in the flesh? Whoa! I smell Rove: This is perhaps the only way the GOP will get far-right Christians to vote for McNasty – by convincing fringe Christopublicans his election will hasten the End Times and bring on the Rapture. Oh, brother. Or maybe Obama is the Antichrist, as Time Magazine postulates the McCain camp is trying to depict him, and the Fundies will vote for BHO to bring about Armageddon. Or maybe they’ll vote against the Antichrist, depending on which one it really is – if you’re a wingnut who believes in a Republican Country Club Jay-zus backed by his Invisible Omnipotent Dad, you certainly have a lot of figurin’ to do this election – and these are Godly folk who taint fond o’ that thinkin’ stuff much. What to do, what to do…who’s got the snakes this week?
– The Big Media Fatuous Fathead of the Week Award: It’s a squeaker, but the prize goes to Amy Chozick of Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal for devoting over a thousand words to speculating whether Obama is ‘too thin and fit’ to be president. (more…)