Friday, October 31, 2003 :::
 
Happy burfday to yoo, happy birfdae too you, Happy Birthday deah Mia', Happy birt'day yo ya!

That's true, it's not "entirely" a hostile land. Similarly, if I walk around a neighborhood controlled by the "crips", there are stores and schools around, and people in their homes, and not all of them are being shot to death or trying to shoot me. In fact, I might, through sheer luck, make it through the neighborhood alive. So I therefore would not be in an "entirely" hostile land. In fact, unless there were actually no concievable palce where I could take shelter and not die, the land would not qualify as "entirely" hostile. But given that soldiers are killed on a daily basis, and especially now that they've started massive coordinated carbomb campaigns, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's hostile enough.

And the point of my posting that was not to say we should pull out. My point was to demonstrate that even Bush senior was smart enough to realize that once in, we could not pull out, and may never be able to for a very long time.

However, if the soldiers want to make things easier for themselves, they might think of cutting this shit out right now:

BAGHDAD, Iraq — World War II had its "krauts," Vietnam had its "gooks," and now, the war on terrorism has its own dehumanizing name: "hajji."
That's what many U.S. troops across Iraq and in coalition bases in Kuwait now call anyone from the Middle East or South Asia. Soldiers who served in Afghanistan say it also is used there.
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Among Muslims, the word is used mainly as a title of respect. It means "one who has made the hajj," the pilgrimage to Mecca.
But that's not how soldiers use it.
Some talk about "killing some hajjis" or "mowing down some hajjis." One soldier in Iraq inked "Hodgie Killer" onto his footlocker.


In the comments section below where I found this article, some asshole had said :"Oh no, don't dehumanize the terrorists! That would be awful!"

Well, first of all, dehumanizing ANYONE is awful, be it a child raper, grandma killer, or George Bush. Furthermore, this kind of shit will inspire more hostility to the troops, putting them in danger. Furthermore, the term is religious, and when you're a bunch of unwelcome occupying christians in a moslem holy land, I might suggest you keep the religious epithets to a minimum. Finally, the term applies to ALL moslems, just as did Gook and Kraut to their respective nations.

To put this in perspective, allow me to rephrase a newspaper headline as if Iraqis were saying horrible bullshit like this: "Car bomb hits american base, kills ten honkies."

::: posted by Comic Tools at 11:49 AM



Wednesday, October 29, 2003 :::
 
Hi Ben!

Oh, and guess what, George Bush said something smart. George Bush senior, that is.

"Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."
-- George H. W. Bush, in his 1998 memoir A World Transformed

He said it some time ago, but he still disagrees with his son on Iraq. And look, he was right!

Bush junior, on the other hand, spent the week claiming that he had nothing to do with the

::: posted by Comic Tools at 11:05 PM


 
Hi Ben.

::: posted by Jeff at 9:45 PM



Tuesday, October 28, 2003 :::
 
This isn't one of those funny things I post. It's one of those occassional, really important things that you really should take a close look at.

First, a bit of context. Everyone pretty much accepts that Kennedy would have continued with Vietnam, just like Jhonson did. The only reason his reputation wasn't tainted is that he got shot and couldn't continue. Even BNoam Chompsky believes this. Right?, so there's that.

And then, as many of you know, the government has been declassifying papers from the sixties and seventies. Tapes and stuff too. It's because of that thet we know, form instance, that the government was thinking of actually bombing american millitary bases and ships, and blaming it on cuba so we could go to war with them. The bases weren't to be miraculously evacutaed- they intended to kill americans.

Well, they just released tapes and documents that prove Kennedy had already secretly ordered plans to be made for withdrawl from Vietnam within the year.

(article 1: http://thelookingglass.blogspot.com/2003_10_26_thelookingglass_archive.html#106734811859682156 )

(article 2: http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.5/galbraith.html )

And the decision was reccomended by MCNAMERA, of all people. (He personally blames himself for the eventual escalation of the war, and rightly so. But at this point, it seems, he was reccomending withdrawl.

So, I have a few thoughts after reading these articles.

One: Kennedy orders generals to plan withdrawl. Fifty days later his brains get blown out. Just sayin...

Two: This really fascinates me:"What gets particularly odd about this is that the documents in question were edited out of even the Pentagon's own secret history of the conflict, the Pentagon Papers, whose revelation in 1971 was itself a major scandal due to all the other stuff that was left in. Someone meant to bury this very deep. "

Three: I think it's interesting to loo, at what the government HAS done and use it to compare with the present. So here's a bit of an article about Operation Northwoods:

America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."

Details of the plans are described in Body of Secrets (Doubleday), a new book by investigative reporter James Bamford about the history of America's largest spy agency, the National Security Agency. However, the plans were not connected to the agency, he notes.

The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years.

"These were Joint Chiefs of Staff documents. The reason these were held secret for so long is the Joint Chiefs never wanted to give these up because they were so embarrassing," Bamford told ABCNEWS.com.

"The whole point of a democracy is to have leaders responding to the public will, and here this is the complete reverse, the military trying to trick the American people into a war that they want but that nobody else wants."

Did anyone else find something in there kind of familliar? And by the way, we still haven't found the anthrax guy. And bit by bit, all of our prewar intelligence it turning out to be lies.

I bring all this up because it reminded me that the death toll so far in Iraq has exceeded the death toll in vietnam in the first year. And it's getting shitloads worse recently. And because I've got a president on television telling me that the bombings are because of our "success" in making iraq peaceful.

And because this all looks so much like old history that if New York gets bombed tomorrow, I honestly won't know if it's terrorists or my own goddamned government.

::: posted by Comic Tools at 5:29 PM


 
Rufus Wainwright is coming to town! Anybody feel like going to see him play?

::: posted by Jeff at 10:18 AM



Sunday, October 26, 2003 :::
 
EXPOSED!!!

Google asmits to using cheap PIDGEON LABOR in it's workplace! (link: http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html) The pidgeons are said to be itghtly packed in labor coops, where they are forced to sit at computers and work in a high-stress environment.

Google defends it's atrocious labor environment by claiming that "Google exceeds all international standards for the ethical treatment of its pigeon personnel. Not only are they given free range of the coop and its window ledges, special break rooms have been set up for their convenience. These rooms are stocked with an assortment of delectable seeds and grains and feature the finest in European statuary for roosting."

But no indication is given of how often the pidgeons are allowed to take breaks, and frankly, I don't think a little grain and being able to rest on some greek guy's dick are enough to compensate for being trapped and unable to roam about free and wild, as nature intended. Stop Google's pidgeon abuse now!

(This is, of course, a joke from the Google people. What wasn't a joke is the recent raids on walmart wherein 300 employees were found to be illegal immigrants being paid by the company a wage of two dollars A DAY. And according to ABC news, the executives knew about it. No executives or managers have been arrested yet, but the poor bastards working like slaves at the walmarts have been. Yet another reason Walmart can go get it's cock sucked by a cobra with a twitchy jaw.)

-Matt





::: posted by Comic Tools at 1:42 PM



Saturday, October 25, 2003 :::
 
The Onion is predicting the future again.

Remember a long time ago, back at the beginning of the presidential race, the Onion did a piece about Bush saying he was going to bring back huge deficits, cut social programs, cause the loss of thousands of jobs, and maybe even start a war?

Well, mark my words, the Onion just predicted the future again with it's article about the whitehouse looking for a scapegoat to pin the leak on. In the article, they have the whitehouse scrambling around searching records, phone call lists, personal histories, and video survalence tapes to find anyone they could concievably pin the blame on. Anyone who isn't too high up in the administration or too low down to be of interest, of course. (Course', the big problem here is they have to find TWO guys.) According to the Onion, once a scapegoats are found, the pictures of the men will be paraded on every news channel and paper in the country, to assure us that the administration had nothing to do about it.

Sound like Ollie North to anyone? Just like we all KNEW Bush and Reagan were responible for selling guns to Iraq and Nicaragua, anyone whose brain is composed of neural tissue instead of cold tater tots knows that at the very least Rove, and very probably Bush, ordered an american spy to be betrayed. But you see if they get caught for it. There's about as much chance of that happening as there is of us electing a black woman president.

And it boggles my mind how un-outraged people are about this. I was just reading a CNN interview with an ex-CIA man, a staunch republican, by the way, and HE at least gets it. He's outraged about this. And as he pointed out, if people die as a result of this, if American spies are murdered because of Monkey boy and his bunch of gangster cronies, we might never hear about it, because chances are good that those deaths would have to be kept secret. Some CIA agent could be being slowly tortured for information in some basement in Niger because Bush got mad that someone called him a liar. Some family, unaware their daughter is CIA, could be wondering why they haven't gotten a call from her. Wilson's wife could take a bullet in a head at any moment, now that, because of Bush, everybody and their brother knows what she looks like and who she is.

And you watch: I'll bet good money that, just like the onion says, they'll find some middle-ranking white house officials, work them out a nice cushy sentence, and pay them a little something extra to take the hit for this crime.

::: posted by Comic Tools at 1:09 PM


 
Everyone near Boston (or not) should come to my cookie party on Sunday. There will be cookies, and it's a party.

::: posted by Jeff at 12:37 PM



Friday, October 24, 2003 :::
 
this will make milk shoot out your nose, weather you're drinking milk or not.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1594670870/qid=1066940398/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-3409044-1843962?v=glance&n=507846

::: posted by Comic Tools at 12:06 PM



Wednesday, October 22, 2003 :::
 
Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Heh! Hee hee hee...he he HA HA HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!

http://www.nypress.com/16/43/news&columns/signorile.cfm

*wipes away tear*, ohhh, that was funny. As was the Boondocks today. Made me laugh out loud in the library.

::: posted by Comic Tools at 12:49 PM



Tuesday, October 21, 2003 :::
 
"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's going to happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Oh, I mean, it's, not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

-Barbara Bush, immense twit.

Might I also suggest that the deaths of american men and women are hardly irrelevant. Of course, no one in her family has died in war, unlike, say, the Kennedys, so I guess I can't expect her to understand that when someone's child dies in sacrifice for her country, it's important and deserves recognition. And that recognition should not be withheld because it makes ninnies like Barbara feel sad to hear about it, thus wasting their "beautiful minds." (Beautiful as a pig vomiting out of it's asshole, if you ask me.)


::: posted by Comic Tools at 4:26 PM



Sunday, October 19, 2003 :::
 
Well done Jeff. You not only posted a cogent gripe about mealy-mouthedness, but you also managed to do so while rambling yourself into complete memory loss over what you actually meant to say. How very much in the true spirit of this blog and it's members.

Oh. by the way, they found a terrorist who had stockpiled thousands of rounds of ammo, high explosives, booby traps, gurrilla warfare guides, and even an anti-aircraft gun that can fire over 500 rounds per minute at targets four miles away. He also had pictured of Bush and Rumsfeld with targets drawn in them.

But he's white, so no one gives a shit.

url: http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1066402152183970.xml

::: posted by Comic Tools at 1:19 PM


 
I would like to post something.

I was going to say that my post will be more or less non-political. But then I started wondering why we ever say "more or less." More or less? Kind of wishy-washy isn't it. People should just say what they mean. Prevaricating has become a pet peeve of mine. Just spit it out people! So I tell you now: this ...this...whatever it is...this entry is not political. And now that I have that out of the way, I have no clue what I intended to say here. Never mind. Thank you.

::: posted by Jeff at 12:24 PM



Saturday, October 18, 2003 :::
 
Why Hannity is a dick, Colmes is okay, and Coulter is a complete delusional psychopath: http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2003_10_12.html#001151

My favorite from Ann- "Liberals don't want to fight terrorism. They want there to be lots of 9-11s."

You know, one of these days, she's gonna be on television giving one of her screeds, ans she's gonna stop suddenly in mid-sentance, snort amusedly, and then scream "HA!! Gotcha! Oh, man, I can't believe how long I was able to do that with a straight face! You people are so damn gullible! I haven't been giving my opinions all this time- I've been playing an elaborate prank to see just how stupid you conservative motherfuckers are- and I gotta say, I can't believe any of you remember to put your socks on before your shoes! Honestly, do you people have your brains filled with Bill o'Riley's droppings or what? Half the time I wasn't even giving debatable opinions, I was just making shit up! And the more silly it was, the more you bought it! I'd have proposed the killing of all Muslims and having them processed into a highly nutriative delicacy for rich white people to enjoy, except I was afraid you'd take me seriously! Jesus Christ in a chickenbasket, are you people dupes!"

::: posted by Comic Tools at 12:20 PM



Friday, October 17, 2003 :::
 
This little ray of sunshine lifted the fog from my morning, replacing it with a warm, toasty feeling:

WASHINGTON - Concerned about the appearance of disarray and feuding within his administration as well as growing resistance to his policies in Iraq, President Bush - living up to his recent declaration that he is in charge - told his top officials to "stop the leaks" to the media, or else.

News of Bush's order leaked almost immediately.

Bush told his senior aides Tuesday that he "didn't want to see any stories" quoting unnamed administration officials in the media anymore, and that if he did, there would be consequences, said a senior administration official who asked that his name not be used.

An escalating turf war involving Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has generated an unusually bountiful crop of leaks in recent months, and one result is a criminal investigation of anonymous officials in the White House who are alleged to have leaked the name of a CIA covert officer.

The infighting, backstabbing and maneuvering on such major foreign-policy issues as North Korea, Syria, Iran and postwar Iraq have escalated to a level that veterans of government say they have not seen in years. At one point, the senior official said, Bush himself asked how bad it was.

"This isn't as bad as [George] Shultz vs. [Caspar] Weinberger, is it?" he asked, referring to a legendary Reagan administration rivalry between secretaries of state and defense. One top official reportedly nodded and said it was "way worse."

The infighting has strained Bush's patience.

On Monday, reacting to reports of internal conflict among his top advisers, the President told one regional broadcaster: "The person who's in charge is me."


"I'M in CHARGE!!! ME! ME!! MEEEEE!!!!" Buah ha ha ha ha ha!Whatcha gonna do, prezzie? Cry? Ya gonna cry now, Bushie boy? C'mon, chimp face, lemme see you weep like a baby!

Goddamn I'm in a good mood now. "Uniter not a divider" indeed.


::: posted by Comic Tools at 10:38 AM



Sunday, October 12, 2003 :::
 
Oh, Sorry Christy, I forgot to answer your question.

Basically, it was "cut iraq off from the world as much as possible, keep them from spreading or growing in power, and wait until Saddam dies and see what happens."

It's not a great strategy, and frankly I've got some ideas of my own about what could have been done, but my point is that after Bush said we were going to war, conserva-pundits were all going "what a brave leader! He's taking action, unlike Clinton and his stupid containment strategy!"

And now, after the war, I'm saying that in comparison, Clinton's strategy looked fucking great.

::: posted by Comic Tools at 2:23 PM



Saturday, October 11, 2003 :::
 
So, Rush flat-out admits he's an addict.

"I first started taking prescription painkillers some years ago when my doctor prescribed them to treat post surgical pain following spinal surgery. Unfortunately, the surgery was unsuccessful and I continued to have severe pain in my lower back and also in my neck due to herniated discs. I am still experiencing that pain. Rather than opt for additional surgery for these conditions, I chose to treat the pain with prescribed medication. This medication turned out to be highly addictive.

"Over the past several years I have tried to break my dependence on pain pills and, in fact, twice checked myself into medical facilities in an attempt to do so. I have recently agreed with my physician about the next steps."

Tom Tomorrow is a bit less kind and restrained than some on the subject, to my enjoyment:

"I remember noting in a few cartoons, during the debate over Clinton's health care plan, that Rush considered health care more of a privilege than a necessity. He often compared guaranteed health care to guaranteed car ownership--if poor people want new Cadillacs, does we as a society have to provide them? Huh? Do we? One of his recurrent themes was that there's no need for health care reform because no one goes without health care, because you can always go to an emergency room. This seemed mindbogglingly simpleminded to me at the time--what do cancer patients do, or anyone else who requires something more than immediate, one-time treatment?--but it makes more sense, now that we know that Rush was so confused on the topic that he did not understand the distinction between a physician prescibing medication and a maid scoring drugs in a parking lot.

In fact, a lot of what Rush has said makes more sense now that we know he was stoned out of his mind for years.

(And spare me the complaints about the harsh tone here. I'd have a lot more compassion for him if he'd ever shown an iota of compassion for anyone else affected by human weakness and frailty--including drug addicts.)"

Atrios is a bit more reserved on the subject, chosing to quote from Bob, deity of ther church of the subgenius:

I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to.
--J.R. "Bob" Dobbs

And, of course, here's Rush's take on the issue, before it applied to himself:

"And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up. (the river) "

Incidentally, Rush isn't changing his heart or mind here. He hasn't either to change. His official stance is that if it's him, it's human weakness, undeserving of punnishment. If it's some black dude smoking crack, though, send the negro to jail, and if it's some poor kid caught with a few grams of pot, put the child away. You see, folks, it DOESN'T MATTER what reality is, his self perception is based on some fantasy world where logic doesn't exist and standards apply only to his lowers, which, of course, is everyone not republican.

So let the reality of Rush prove his words wrong- lack of access to free health care and inexpensive perscription drugs does cause crime, does cause drug trafficking. Let this prove to you, despite his claims, that people DON'T have acess to health care all the time, and that american health care sucks. And the next time you hear some asshole saying how we should show no compassion to drug addicts, you nail this onto the bastard's forehead: people are weak, people make mistakes, it can happen to anyone, and sometimes we should feel sorry even for people who caused their own problems. Even horrible pricks like Rush.



::: posted by Comic Tools at 1:07 PM



Tuesday, October 07, 2003 :::
 
Morale among some war-weary GIs in Iraq is so low that a growing number of soldiers - including some now home on R&R - are researching the consequences of going AWOL, according to a leading support group.
The GI Rights Hotline, a national soldiers' support service, has logged a 75 percent increase in calls in the last 12 weeks, with more than 100 of those calls from soldiers, or people on their behalf, asking about the penalties associated with going AWOL - "absent without leave" - according to volunteers and staffers who man the service.
Many of the calls have come from soldiers who are among those now on the first wave of 15-day authorized leaves that began almost two weeks ago. Some hotline callers have indicated they may not return, staffers said.
"What would happen if I just don't go back" to Iraq, one soldier asked a worker at a GI support-line center.
"I'm going to shoot myself in the foot," said another, referring to his solution for getting home.

You know what the penalty for going AWOL should be? The same penalty it was for Bush- Hornorable discharge. Seriously, let these poor worn out bastards go home, already. And if I hear that mule cum drinking fatherfucker Rumsfeld criticize the soldiers one more time from his air conditioned office in the white house, I'm gonna scream. Anyone stationed in Iraq who is sticking it out and enduring the weather and the daily attacks and the other shit cares more about America than he cares about anything.

Oh, by the way, message to Bush: Looks like Clinton's containment strategy was actually working pretty well, eh?

::: posted by Comic Tools at 4:42 PM


 
As you can see here, (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20031003-12.html), October 12th- October 18th is Marriage protection week. October 12th is the anniverssary of Matt Shepard's slaying. If you think that's a coincidence, then I also live next to a bridge which I can offer you for a low price.

And then there's this, which makes me want to fire-hose vomit:

" (Casper, Wyoming) Anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps has announced intentions to erect a monument to Matthew Shepard the gay college student brutally murdered five years ago near Laramie.

But, the monument will be no memorial. Phelps says the monument would be 5 to 6 feet tall and made of marble or granite. It would bear a bronze plaque bearing the image of Shepard and have an inscription reading "MATTHEW SHEPARD, Entered Hell October 12, 1998, in Defiance of God's Warning: 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is abomination.' Leviticus 18:22."

The monument would be erected in downtown Casper, Shepard's home town.

Phelps has sent details of the monument to the city of Casper city council and there may be nothing the city can do to prevent it. "

Fred Phelps is a fucko.


::: posted by Comic Tools at 4:21 PM



Monday, October 06, 2003 :::
 
A correction:

Okay, at the beginning of the campaign, I really knew very little about the allegations about arnold being a groping misoginist. I'd heard some vague stuff, but it seemed more than refuted by other women who'd had no problems with him. With the campaign, it's become easy to research the subject, as his opponents ahve dug up every piece of trash on him they could find. And amongst that trash is three different tapes of him grabbing women's breasts and buttocks completely against their will, along with several claims from other women about similar treatment. This, combined with certain quotes from Arnold himself, leads me to the inevitable conclusion that to Arnold, women's privates are, with the exception of those privates belonging to his wife and members of his family, public property, free for men to rub and squeeze like animals in a petting zoo. And more disturbingly, most people seem to be pretty okay with this, even after hearing the allegations or even seeing the videos.

So, I offer my correction and apologies to you all. Arnold is, it appears, as has widely been reported, a walking penis with hands.

Here's some excerpted comments on the matter from Atrios:

Dear Media
Please stop pretending you can't tell the difference between consensual and nonconsensual sex acts.... Please stop pretending all of the allegations about Arnold are about events from thirty years ago.
And for the males in the media, please, please, for the sake of your wives and daughters if nothing else, please stop conveying the idea that their breasts are public property.

Love,
Atrios.

Or, as Katha Pollitt says:


Instead, reaction as been strangely subdued. Thursday night's "Hardball" was typical. Chris Matthews, who chose the curiously sweet, rather affectionate word "fondling" to describe Mr. Schwarzenegger's behavior, seemed mostly interested in getting Senator Dianne Feinstein to compare the actor's grotesqueries to Mr. Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. The senator was so intent on being statesmanlike that she didn't even point out that Ms. Lewinsky — unlike the the women in The Los Angeles Times article — volunteered herself.
...
Why is it so hard for commentators to come right out and say: here is a man who seems to have a long history of contempt for women, who uses his celebrity to get away with sexual humiliation — why does he belong in public life? Would that sound too square, too P.C., too, um, feminist? From the newsstand crammed with leering lad magazines like Maxim to all-male, all-the-time talk radio to the self-congratulatory misogyny of "The Man Show," aggressive male chauvinism is back in style, and Mr. Schwarzenegger is its standard-bearer.

Hey, Chris Matthews, are your wife's breasts real? They sure feel real!

-Matt

::: posted by Comic Tools at 11:56 AM



Friday, October 03, 2003 :::
 
Atrios actually made a post saying he wouldn't attack Limbaugh for being an addict- he said that, despite Limbaugh's insensitive anf hypoctitical claims, addiction is a disease, it does control you, and we need to feel empathy even for people who make bad choices.

Atrios also made sure to include five or six radio transcripts of Rush saying, at length, that addiction is bullshit, and that drug users make completely conscious choices to take drugs every time they do.

I admire Atrios and his restraint. Rush is a man who has spent a long time convincing millions of people that addicts are moral perverts in no need of help and suffering from nothing other than inherently evil personalities. And now we find out that Rush is hooked on illegal Oxycontin.

And you know what? Initially, I laughed at this, and thought "wow, more funny hypocrisy fro Rush the nimrod." But I think about this, and this just crosses a humor line. This isn't even funny any more, just how much of a loathsome, hate-filled, anger-consumed wasted piece of shit he is. He's like a gay man who marries and denounces the homosexual lifestyle- he must be an incredibly self-hating person. He must live in pain every day. It's pathetic and sad. So I'm gonna agree with Atrios here- I'm not gonna cut Rush any slack for his vile and hurtful hypocrisy, which he'll lie about and try to cover up, no doubt- but his addiction isn't funny. Like anyone else's addiction, it's pityable.

All that said, he's still a great big asshole.

::: posted by Comic Tools at 12:43 PM



Thursday, October 02, 2003 :::
 
I'm really only posting this for the end bit by Ann Coulter at the end, but I thought I should provide the context that she said this in her speech to CHILDREN at a BOY SCOUTS RALLY. I thought I'd also include the bit that mentions that Oliver North, liar, arms dealer to terrorists, treasonous monkey-come-drinking dogfucker, and pretty boy of conservative radio, also spoke at the event.

"Proceeds from the tickets for the rally, which sold for $45 per person, went to support the Boy Scouts’ Scoutreach program, which attempts to reach out to minorities, especially Hispanic youth, and the Learning for Life program, which provides character education for local schools, said Tim Cooper, spokesman for the Northeast Georgia Council of Boy Scouts.
“We thought it was a great idea to bring in people who are patriotic,” said Cooper. “We had contacts for Col. North, Ann Coulter and (radio personalities) Rick (Burgess) and (Bill) Bubba (Bussey) and it kind of snowballed. We wanted just a really patriotic night.”
North noted that even though the Boy Scouts are a non-partisan organization, it was clearly not evident by the speakers present Saturday evening.
Conservative author and attorney Ann Coulter blasted liberals during her speech, specifically with regards to their positions regarding the war in Iraq.
“Let’s just say that this was a war just for oil,” Coulter told the crowd of about 300. “Why not go to war for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities think fuels their jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered? Now that we have liberated Iraq and uncovered the torture chambers, the mass graves, the rape rooms ... the world has seen this was never a war for oil.”

Ahem. Okay Ann. First off, you're saying that even if all the war was was a large-scale mugging of another nation to STEAL it's natural resources for ourselves, that would be fine with you. And mind you, while you say this, you maintain that Liberals are immoral perverts.

Furthermore, you're saying that we were justified to go to war because of things we found afterwards. So, say I walk up to a pregnant woman and blow her brains right out the back of her head. I am of course arrested. But later the cops find out that she had just killed her husband. So, do they, like, let me go?

Ann, the planet isn't big enough to dig a deep enough hole to represent your bottomless stupidity.

::: posted by Comic Tools at 3:44 PM



Wednesday, October 01, 2003 :::
 
Limbaugh steps out of the comfort zone of his criticism-free radio show, and promtly makes an ass of himself:

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Donovan McNabb isn't looking for an apology from Rush Limbaugh, who said he was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.

It's too late for that.

"He said what he said. ... I'm sure he's not the only one that feels that way but it's somewhat shocking to actually hear that on national TV," the Philadelphia Eagles' quarterback said of Limbaugh at a news conference Wednesday. "An apology would do no good because he obviously thought about it before he said it."

Before McNabb led the Philadelphia Eagles to a 23-13 victory over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, Limbaugh said on ESPN's pregame show that he didn't think McNabb was as good as perceived from the start.

"I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well," Limbaugh said. "There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team."

Limbaugh didn't back down from his comments during his syndicated radio talk show Wednesday.

"All this has become the tempest that it is because I must have been right about something," Limbaugh said. "If I wasn't right, there wouldn't be this cacophony of outrage that has sprung up in the sports writer community."


"This is such a mountain out of a molehill," he said. "There's no racism here, there's no racist intent whatsoever."

Right Rush. And you weren't being racist on your show when you told a black caller to "take the bone out of his nose" and call you back.

The ESPN message boards have been choked with hatemail to Rush.

::: posted by Comic Tools at 2:27 PM


 
Guardian reporter Julian Borger says, "Several of the journalists are saying privately 'yes it was Karl Rove who I talked to.'"

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"Librarians are more interested in pushing pornography on kids than fighting terrorism."
-- Ed Meese, on American Library Association concerns about the Patriot Act

Ed Meese can suck my cock in a graphically depicted sex act which I will photograph in vein-and-capillary revealing closeup and then give to the Library association to force children to watch at knifepoint while their parents are in another room.

::: posted by Comic Tools at 2:16 PM

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