November 29, 2006

Time to go home

Letter to the Editor

The Pentagon has said that we have three options, "Go big, go long, or go home." The first two option assume there is some sort of change for some sort of victory. But there is no victory in this war. If we go big or go long we just kill more people and in the end we still don't win. The problem is that the enemy and the people who we are trying to liberate are the same people thus making victory impossible.

This war is lose only. If we go big we lose. If we go long we lose. If we go home we lose, but we lose less. And quite frankly we should lose because we are on the wrong side of history. This is Bush's war. Bush lied our way into is for less than honorable reasons. He went in in spite of the United Nations refusing to join in. Everything about Bush's war is was wrong. America doesn't win till Bush is in jail. Iraq is in a civil war and our presence is just making it worse. We are going to have to get out eventually so why not embrace reality and get out now?

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November 21, 2006

I call on Bush and Cheney to Resign

Letter to the Editor

I call today for the resignation of Bush and Cheney. This presidency is a failure and a sham. From the stolen elections to the Iraq quagmire no one wants you in office anymore. The Democrats hate you. The Republicans hate you. The troops who you have enslaved hate you. We can't stand to wait two more years while you run America into the ground. You are a criminal. You are a disgrace, and you bring shame on our nation. It is time for you to go!

Posted by marc at 07:22 PM | Comments (0)

Haggard Foley Joke

So one day Mike Foley and Ted Haggard are on horseback inspecting the fence between the US and Mexico when Foley sees a sheep with his head stuck in the fence.

Foley gets off his horse and has sex with the sheep. After he gets done he says to Haggard, "You want some of this?" Haggard says, "Sure", and he snorts some Meth and sticks his head in the fence.

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November 15, 2006

Letter to the Editor - I'm asking Republicans to REPENT!

Letter to the Editor

Most people don't fully appreciate the significance of last week's election. What happen is that America's march to self destruction has been broken. The voters told Republicans that failure is just not good enough and I believe that Republicans got the message. So what Republicans were is now gone and what Republicans will become has yet to be decided. The Republicans know that the voters voted for reality.

As the founder of the Church of Reality I say to Republicans, "Repent! Embrace Reality! It's never too late to come back to the real world. Decisions that are based on reality are usually better decision than decisions that aren't. Let your heart embrace reality, think about the real world as it really is. Reality changed my life. It can change your's too. I'm asking you today to make a personal commitment to the real world and make the pursuit of wisdom part of your daily life."

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Crazy Web Claims Pretty Much Confirmed By Newsweek

Oh shit, it's Mini Me! - WonketteWe found this insane story last week about James Baker III shouting down Cheney and Bush 43 (in a fetal position) in some Godfather-style Oval Office takeover meeting right before the election. It was allegedly told by Newsweek’s Richard Wolffe to Chris Matthews during Election Night coverage, live on MSNBC at 4:30 a.m. — of course there are no transcripts, no YouTube evidence, etc.

But now that Newsweek has pretty much confirmed the whole story, we might as well repeat it here, after the jump.
Here’s the original claim, which appeared on the world’s greatest lunatic website (Godlike Productions) on Thursday:

Wolffe relates that he and a few select Senior media were there when Junior bush received this 1’ thick report/recommendations.

1) Baker informed Junior bush First of all - “EVERYBODY HATES YOU.” This amazed & humbled Junior bush. Baker was NOT alone with Junior bush was confronted with the above issues. Baker - “The people HATE YOU.” Junior bush turned white, the blood leaving his face, turning White - visible drawing up as in FETAL with his hands clasped in his lap.

2)Baker - ” you KNOW your not a leader - Your a Cheerleader.” Those in the room gave a silent - YA you got that right - it’s about time he was told the TRUTH!!!

3) Baker asked for and received a list of his advisors- and MARKED THROUGH those advisors to IGNORE - ALL ADVISORS WERE ELIMINATED AS ADVISORS TO JUNIOR bush.

4)One concession was Rumsfeld - Baker wanted him fired immediately - that waited till after election.

5) Ignore Cheney - Cheney got up at a meeting and flailing arms while espousing what should be done (about Iraq) Junior bush told Cheney VERY FIRLMY to “sit down and be quiet.” After 30 minutes of sitting quietly Cheney left. Nobody has EVER talked to Cheney in this way - ((and lived???)) - HAH!!!

6) 6) Baker informed Junior bush that you WILL negotiate with North Korea!

7) Baker informed Junior bush that you WILL negotiate with Iran. Baker went to Iran - And leader of Iran did NOT want to see Junior bush last monthy when in the USA - but WENT TO HOUSTON TO SEE JAMES BAKER III. Baker sees Iran overseeing Iraq after USA pullout of Iraq!

Very entertaining — especially the spelling and ALL CAPS CRAZY. So, how much of this actually turned up in Newsweek?

* Baker and Bush 41 fired Rumsfeld and hired Bob Gates.

* Bush 43 snapped “I don’t care” when aides asked how they should deal with the press jabbering about Bush 41 taking over for junior.

* Gates, also a member of Baker’s Iraq Study Group, is going to quickly accept the recommendations since they are basically his recommendations.

* Those long-rumored recommendations — as Tony Blair confirmed Monday — include substantial deals with Iran and Syria.

* Everybody does hate Bush 43, as his approval ratings sank to 31% in the days after the election.

* Evan Thomas reminds us that Baker “once described Bush 43’s core principles as ‘God and exercise,’” which is pretty funny.

* Baker is the “obvious choice to pursue the diplomatic initiative that the Iraq Study Group will surely call for.” Which means he’s already meeting with Iranian and Syrian diplomats.

* Seriously, where the hell’s Cheney?

The Rescue Squad, Can Bush Sr. and His Team Save Son’s Presidency?

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November 11, 2006

How about a quick bipartisan impeachment?

Letter to the Editor

Democrats aren't happy with Bush and want him impeached. The voters turn over control to the Democrats because they don't like Bush either. And the Republicans don't like Bush because the lost the election because of him and he's going to ruin their chances in the 2008 elections. But Republicans don't want to impeach Bush and Cheney because Nancy Pelosi would become president.

So here's the compromise. In the lame duck session of Congress they could do a quick bipartisan impeachment before the end of the year. Republican Dennis Hassert would become president for the remaining two years. Not everything the Dems would want but everyone would be a winner. Dennis Hassert isn't the ideal president but he couldn't be worse than Bush/Cheney. When you have interesting problems sometimes it takes innovative solutions.

Posted by marc at 09:24 AM | Comments (0)

Hold off on Saddam Hanging

Letter to the Editor

Here's an innovative way to deal with the Iraq occupation quagmire. Maybe we should tell the Iraqis to get along and form a unified government or we are going to to put Saddam back in power and let him unify Iraq. If given the choice between democracy and having Saddam back maybe they might want to quit fighting among themselves and start thinking about peace. Either way it would bring it to an end. We might want to hold off on executing Saddam and think about this.

Posted by marc at 09:23 AM | Comments (0)

November 10, 2006

Who won the election? The People!

Letter to the Editor

Did the Democrats win the election or did the Republicans lose? Is the country moving to the left or right? I think the true winners of the election were the People. The People voted for reality and against failure. The People are sending the Government a message that we want real results in the real world. We aren't going to take failure and corruption anymore.

If the Democrats are going to hold power they are going to have to take Congress in a new direction. They need to resist taking bribes from the special interests and start producing results for the People. Same message to the Republicans. Republicans have to work with the Democrats and run on a record of accomplishment and make a clean break with their corrupt past. Any elected official who does not get the People's message will have to face the voters in 2008. In 2008 they better be arguing about how to spend the surplus and not who is to blame for the deficit. If Congress comes up empty handed they will face the meat grinder as the voters give them the boot.

Posted by marc at 10:08 AM | Comments (0)

November 08, 2006

Rush Limbaugh has been LIBERATED!

Letter to the Editor

How bad have the Republicans screwed up lately? Well - when Rush Limbaugh can no longer take it and declares himself as being "full of crap", you know things are in bad shape. Of Republicans Rush declares, "The way I feel is this: I feel liberated, and I'm going to tell you as plainly as I can why. I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried." The very concept that Rush has been liberated fascinates me. I think I'm ready to start tuning in. And hey Rush, thanks for the Senate and carrying OUR water. You ROCK!

Posted by marc at 10:14 PM | Comments (0)

Rush Limbaugh Deserves Credit

Letter to the Editor

Liberals put down Rush Limbaugh but they should give credit where credit is due. If not for Rush Limbaugh mocking Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease Claire McCaskill would never have won her senate race in Missouri. And if not for that win the Democrats wouldn't control the Senate. So in behalf of all us liberals Rush, I want to say to you, "Thank you Rush for giving us San Francisco liberals control of the Senate!" Congratulations on being liberated!

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Rush says he's now "Liberated". Does that make him a Liberal? Enjoy your Liberty Rush. I sure am!

Posted by marc at 08:14 PM | Comments (0)

Rush Limbaugh says, "I'm full of Crap!"

Tell us something we don't already know! Rush admitted today that he was full of crap, seriously!

The way I feel is this: I feel liberated, and I'm going to tell you as plainly as I can why. I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried. Now, you might say, "Well, why have you been doing it?" Because the stakes are high! Even though the Republican Party let us down, to me they represent a far better future for my beliefs and therefore the country's than the Democrat [sic] Party does and liberalism.

What Rush doesn't get is that he is a liar and only morons listen to him that think that if they just believe hard enough that reality is going to magically change to suit them. But it's all so much bullshit. Just like Mark Foley was supposed be in charge of exploited children. Just like Rev. Ted Haggard who preached hatred of gays was caught having sex with a gay hooker while high on Meth.

BTW Rush - thanks for helping Claire McCaskil win in Missouri. The Deomcrats wouldn't have the Senate without you!

Posted by marc at 07:54 PM | Comments (0)

America moves back to Reality!

Letter to the Editor

After having turned its back on reality for the last six years America has decided to come home and rejoin the real world again. After years of failure and illusion the voters got tired of the corruption, the lies, the daily body count, a war going no where, deficit spending, torture, domestic spying, and incompetence. Now that the Democrats have won reality has made a comeback. We will see if Democrats embrace reality and Republicans embrace their new reality and maybe they will both realize that when Congress gets too far off course that the American voter will rise up, smack them down, and put them in their place.

Bill Mahur, "Republicans wanted to vote a straight ticket. There just wasn't enough straight Republicans to vote for."

Posted by marc at 07:51 PM | Comments (0)

November 07, 2006

Well, I voted - I think

At least I have the illusion of voting. Lat election we had optical scan pater ballots where you connected lines on a paper ballot and fed them into a machine that scanned the ballot and stored it securely. I'm in San Mateo county in California. Poll location is:

Bethany Presbyterian Church
Church Hall
2400 Rosewood Dr
San Bruno, CA

But this time it was different. There were paper ballots but no optical scan machine and a single electronic voting machine that was out in the open and had a person - an old lady - helping to work it for you. In front of the machine was an old lady voting who was totally confused and complaining that she didn't understand how to work it.

The paper ballot seemed simple enough but after voting I was supposed to drop it in a plastic unsecured box that anyone can open and replace the ballots with whatever they want.

I used to live in Missouri and they had punch paper ballots. After voting you dropped the ballot into a big steel box with a lock on it. That at least gives you the illusion that it was sealed until it made it to the county clerk's office where it would be opened. But today I have no idea who might remove my ballot and replace it with something else. Although the old ladies at the polls don't look like crooks I have no idea who will pick up the ballots and if they can be trusted.

I live in a Democrat area so I'm not that worried about republicans but there are several ballot measures that include massive spending and borrowing that would benefit local officials. I don't know that they might rig the election to pass those measures.

Is it too much to ask that a paper ballot be put into a locked box? I don't think so. An insecure election is an unfair election and voting on an insecure machine is not voting at all.

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Red Cross Wants Cluster Bomb Ban

One of the reason we need to oust the Republicans is to get a ban on cluster bombs like the ones used in Lebanon. If you are tired of your tax dollars going to fund murdering children then vote Democrat.

Here's The Article

Red Cross urges cluster-bomb ban


Civilian deaths outweigh possible military advantages, body says

GENEVA - The international Red Cross demanded Monday that the world immediately stop using cluster bombs because the indiscriminate civilian deaths caused by the weapons far outweigh any possible military advantages.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said it was stepping up its campaign against the weapons because of Israel's unprecedented use of the scattershot bombs during its monthlong war with Lebanon, the first major organization to do so since the fighting this summer. Russia and the United States also have resisted moves to eliminate the weapons.

"The problems associated with cluster munitions are not new," said Philip Spoerri, director of international law for the ICRC, guardian of the Geneva Convention on the conduct of war. "In nearly every conflict in which they have been used, significant numbers of cluster munitions have failed to detonate as intended and have instead left a long-term and deadly legacy of contamination."

The U.N. Children's Fund has so far only called for "a freeze on the use, transfer and sale of the weapons," spokesman Michael Bociurkiw said.

Annan statement
However, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is expected to issue a statement Tuesday to countries meeting in Geneva to discuss reducing conventional weapons stockpiles. Officials declined to say whether Annan would map out a new policy for the global body.

Cluster bomb projectiles — or submunitions about the size of an orange or a soft-drink can — are packed into artillery shells or bombs dropped from aircraft. A single cluster-bomb container fired to destroy airfields or tanks and soldiers typically scatters some 200 to 600 of the explosives over an area the size of a football field.

Human rights groups have estimated that Israel dropped cluster bombs containing as many as 4 million tiny bombs in Lebanon. Around 30 to 40 percent of the submunitions failed to explode on impact, U.N. officials have said.

Usually 10 to 15 percent — but in some cases up to 80 percent — of the devices fail to explode immediately. Those that do not explode right away may detonate later at the slightest disturbance, experts say. The impact on children is especially bad because the tiny bombs are usually an eye-catching yellow with little parachutes attached.

Lebanese casualties said to continue
Spoerri said the small bombs were continuing to kill innocent Lebanese civilians every week. Much of the suffering, he added, could have been avoided had more accurate weapons been chosen.

"It is simply unacceptable that (civilians) should return to homes and fields littered with explosive debris," he said. "The ICRC believes that the time has come for strong international action to end the predicable pattern of human tragedy associated with cluster munitions."

The neutral agency previously called for a ban on the weapons’ being used in cities and villages after gauging the effects of the 1999 NATO air war against Serbia over the separatist province of Kosovo. Its call in 2000 for a moratorium on their general use has since been ignored by the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Complicating the problem is the growing risk that militant groups pose. Human Rights Watch also has cited cluster bomb use by Hezbollah against targets in northern Israel, spurring fears that the weapons are becoming more easily accessible for rogue militias and terrorists.

The bombs, a descendant of the "butterfly bomb" dropped by Nazi Germany on Britain in World War II, were first used by the U.S. in Vietnam. Similar weapons were used by Soviet and Russian troops in Angola, Afghanistan and Chechnya, where leftover duds also continue to inflict casualties.

The use of such weapons is not explicitly banned under international law, but an increasing number of human rights groups think it should be.

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November 06, 2006

Fill your gas tank on Tuesday

Letter to the Editor

After you vote you might want to visit the gas station on your way back from the polls. I don't want to accuse the Republicans and the oil companies of conspiring to drop gas prices to help Republicans, but I just have this feeling that gas is going to be a better deal now than it will be after the elections.

Posted by marc at 08:55 AM | Comments (0)

MsNBC Twisting poll numbers

Watching MsNBC runnin stories about how the Republicans are closing in. The first story showed only the Pew poll putting Republicans only 4 points behind. The second story showed 3 polls but all were the polls showing Republicans making a comeback. And the stories were about Republicans surging.

CNN on the other hand showed all the major polls including their own that has Republicans 20 points behind. They also showed some movement towards Republicans but they didn't go out of their way to distort the story the way MsNBC did.

Polls are going to show a shift towards Republicans because in spite of the coverage the voting achines are rigged to favor Republicans and these late poll shifts are to provie cover for voter fraud. The only thing Republicans have left is the cheating. But it will be interesting to see how that plays out.

Still waiting for Bush to find an excuse to suspend elections.

Posted by marc at 08:47 AM | Comments (0)

November 05, 2006

Saddam Convicted - ho hum

Letter to the Editor

Saddam Hussein was convicted today and sentenced to hang but you won't see Republicans cheering about it. That's because Saddam's conviction draws attention to the fact that Iraq is worse off now than it was under a brutal dictator. No one is bring out the "Mission Accomplished" banner this time.

Posted by marc at 09:12 AM | Comments (0)

This election is about who wants it more

Letter to the Editor

When it comes down to it this election comes down to turnout. It's about who wants it more. If people who want a higher minimum wage shows up to vote they will get it. If Black people turn out then life will get better for black people. If students turn out then Congress with pass laws helping the afford college. If old people turn out then they won't lose their social security. If military families turn out then maybe less of your family members will be needlessly killed in Iraq. If the people who want peace turn out then we will have peace. But if you stay home and you don't vote then the other side wins. Victory is at hand and all you have to do is get out and vote to make it happen.

Posted by marc at 08:49 AM | Comments (0)

Are you better off than you were 6 years ago?

Letter to the Editor

When it comes to a choice between Democrats and Republicans the question is, are you better off than you were 6 years ago? The Republicans have given Bush the power of a king so this election is really about Bush and Iraq. Are going to stay the course in Iraq or are we going to figure out a solution. Bush says the "our plan is to win" but what he doesn't understand is that winning is a goal, not a plan. Everyone wants to win, but Bush has no plan as to HOW to win. This election is about the future and the Democrats are the light at the end of the tunnel.

Posted by marc at 08:34 AM | Comments (0)

November 04, 2006

I did not have sex with that man!

Letter to the Editor

Clinton said, "I did not have sex with that woman." Reverend Ted Haggard said, "I did not have sex with that man." Clinton said that he smoked pot but he "didn't inhale". Reverend Haggard said he bought Meth but he didn't snort it. The more things change the more they stay the same.

If you haven't seen the HBO special "Hacking Democracy" here's some
links to exerpts of the video. Feel free to pass them around.

http://video.lisarein.com/hbo/hackingdemocracy/hbo-hackingdemocracy-1.mov
http://video.lisarein.com/hbo/hackingdemocracy/hbo-hackingdemocracy-2.mov
http://video.lisarein.com/hbo/hackingdemocracy/hbo-hackingdemocracy-3.mov

Posted by marc at 10:11 AM | Comments (0)

Bush Flip Flops on Flip Flopping

Letter to the Editor

Bush was for "stay the course" before he was against it. Last week he said, "We've never been stay the course." Did Bush "cut and run" from "stay the course"? Now it seems he's back. He's sticking with Rumsfield and Cheney says, Bush is going "full speed ahead" with stay the course. The only problem is that Bush doesn't have a course to stay. Bush says Democrats have no plan, but it clear than Bush has no plan and is flip flopping on sticking with it.

Posted by marc at 10:07 AM | Comments (0)

The Military is Calling out - vote against Bush

Letter to the Editor

On Monday all four independent military papers, the Army Time, the Navy Times, The Marine Corp Times, and The Air Force Times, are coming out against Bush. A day before the election they are calling for Rumsfield to Resign. That are saying with a single voice that, "Regardless of which party wins Nov. 7, the time has come, Mr. President, to face the hard bruising truth: Donald Rumsfield must go." These independent papers can speak freely where those serving in the military can not. The military is crying out for the voters help and they want you to vote Republicans out. If you support the troops then listen to them now. Rumsfield must go.

Posted by marc at 10:06 AM | Comments (0)

November 03, 2006

Bush posts Nuclear Weapons Plans on the Internet

Letter to the Editor

It's getting to the point where Bush is starting scandals faster than I can write about them. Today's scandal is that Bush posted detailed plans on how build a nuclear weapon on the Internet. Under political pressure from Republicans Bush posted many documents captured in the Iraq war on the web to help make the case that there was justification for Bush's war. In those documents were detailed plans to build nuclear weapons from before 1991 when Saddam was our best buddy.

Last night the White House finally shut down the web site after the New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts that Bush was giving nuclear weapons plans to the terrorists. The weapons experts were shocked by the public disclosures. Bush talks about fighting a war on terrorism yet he gives terrorists the most detailed plans to build an atomic bomb that has ever been published. How could they put nuclear plans on the Internet without knowing that they were there? It looks to me like Republicans are putting the safety of the world at risk for pure political purposes.

Posted by marc at 11:52 AM | Comments (0)

Evangelical Opposition to Gay Marriage

Letter to the Editor

I used to think that the reason that evangelicals were against gay marriage was because they believed that it was morally wrong. But now I'm beginning to realize that perhaps I was wrong about that. Since evangelicals require that people who have sex get married, I'm wondering if the opposition is based on gay evangelical men not wanting to have to marry their gay lovers. I have to say that I'm rather surprised about evangelist Ted Haggard being caught in a relationship with a gay hooker that involved using hard drugs like Methamphetamine. After all, he's the leader of the National Association of Evangelicals.

I can't see becoming an evangelical myself because it's just not my kind of life style. I think I'll stick with being a heterosexual Atheist for moral reasons.

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I'm having nightmares about being butt fucked by tweaked up evangelical preachers.

Posted by marc at 10:20 AM | Comments (0)

November 01, 2006

Laura Bush takes a cheap shot

Letter to the Editor

Laura Bush accused Michael J. Fox of "manipulating feelings" by using his Parkinson's Disease to promote stem cell research. She is implying that people like Fox are faking it for political purposes. Just like Christopher Reed was faking being a quadraphonics when he was promoting stem cell research. My sister has been a diabetic for 40 years and I'm beginning to wonder if she might have been faking it for political purposes too.

The stem cell issue is a fake issue put out there to sucker gullible evangelicals into feeling good about themselves and give them another fake cause to keep them occupied. But the price of their moral masturbation is that it denies valuable medical research for the rest of us. My sister might not get a cure for Diabetes in her lifetime because Laura Bush is using step cells in a cheap political ploy. I want to encourage people to vote for stem cells, for Michale J. Fox, Christopher Reed, and for my sister who really is not faking Diabetes.

Posted by marc at 06:14 PM | Comments (0)

Reublican Contract with America 12 years later

Letter to the Editor

It was just 12 years ago that the Republicans took control of Congress with their Contract with America. In this contract the Republicans pledged to do the following:

"Require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress; select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse; cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third; limit the terms of all committee chairs; ban the casting of proxy votes in committee; require committee meetings to be open to the public; require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase; guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting."

It goes on to say, "This year's election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public's money. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family."

"Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act "with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right." To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves."

So - if you think that the Republicans upheld the contract then reelect them. if not then it's time to throw the bums out and drain the swamp.

Posted by marc at 07:08 AM | Comments (0)

Kerry - shut the fuck up!

Jesus! This election isn't about you you dumb fuck! Stay the hell out of this.

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