more stupid republican tricks to come soon! |
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what a dick. i saw McCain on the daily show last week and im only sorry he isnt running for president. |
I swear, you'd think that advising against tax cuts during a war is akin to food rations or something. Not that I think they should be immune from criticism in a similar situation, but if Tom Daschle said that about John Kerry or Ted Kennedy, the right wing talking heads would grab on to it and tear him a new asshole, in order to play and expose the *pathological* instability of the Democratic party. Personally, I'd prefer spirited criticism to dry and monotone exchanges, as long is it's thoughtful, but that was just mean and idiotic. |
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His assessment of the situation in Iraq on the Daily Show was not unlike Howard Dean has said. And thats what I like about him, and what we need more of. Towing party line, amongst many things, is dragging this country down. |
You have no idea how much this infuriates me. As if McCain, who spend five years as a POW in Vietnam, needs to understand sacrifice. Fucker. Fucker. Fucker. |
fucking pansy. i swear to god...if i could just be granted a list of 10 assholes, in which i would have a free opportunity to whip the shit out of, that motherfucker would be on it. |
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McCain was on letterman last week too, via satellite. he's always been a smart, reasonable republican. i've become a centrist. i'm also volunteering to get people registered to vote this summer. first time i've ever done anything politically proactive, besides vote and write letters to my congressional representatives. |
I just read a fucking awesome Vonnegut essay. That man should live to be the oldest man in the world. He'd make an excellent oldest man in the world. http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/cold_turkey/ |
For some reason, I thought of this passage from Pat Barker's Regeneration: They talked for over an hour. Near the end, after they'd been sitting in silence for a while, Burns said quietly, 'Do you know what Christ died of?' |
Which one are you in this country? It�s practically a law of life that you have to be one or the other? If you aren�t one or the other, you might as well be a doughnut. I am a jelly doughnut. |
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what an awesome prank. unfortunately, im going to get republican mail for the foreseable future. |
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i'm a Dunkin Donut for sure. the long one covered in chocolate with cream filling. or a big puffy round one with cinnamon sugar. |
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http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/03OpOPN62051504.htm |
I got one of those pictures too. No, I did not send them any money. If they knew I worked for the federal government they would have saved the postage. I'm a little paranoid with the Hatch Act. |
Play the Bush Game |
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but the apple fritters....! |
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sounds like the fear machine iscranking up again. you don't think they'd actually use the excuse of terrorist threat to prevent protesters from going anywhere near the republican convention do you? Or use the threat of a terrorist threat to shut down the democratic national convention do you? nawwwwwwww oh wait. you dont think the powers that be arent actually manufacturing a threat to scare people into voting republican do you? nawwwwwwwww can they get any more fucking predictable. |
I want to go live somewhere where there are no people. I wish I could go to another planet. I can't stop THINKING. |
http://home.comcast.net/~wizardofwhimsy/index.html |
Alphred E. Newman for President!!! No, I still prefer Bill and Opus!!! http://members.tripod.com/vsolaas/bloomc/BLOOMC.HTM |
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I agree.
The Rude Pundit
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse
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5/27/2004
Now That's Some Motherfucking Freedom of Speech:
Let us pause for a moment to honor the rudeness of another. Al Gore gave an exhilirating, cathartic orgasm of a speech yesterday in New York City. Read the whole thing. Watch the video on C-SPAN. Be patient and try a few times - the server has been overloaded for a while now. Why? Because Gore articulated, succinctly, precisely, ass-kicking-ly, what many, many Americans have been thinking for months, if not years, now.
Now, the Rude Pundit has not been kind to Gore: he believes the former Vice-President "lost" the "election" in 2000 on his own. Yeah, yeah, Bush was installed, blah, blah, the media, yes, yes, Ralph Nader, yeah, go fuck yourself. All those things are true. But, bottom line, it should have been a blowout for someone running on Clinton's record, and Gore fucked it up. (And the Rude Pundit also realizes that a President Gore would not have been allowed to govern by a GOP so filled with evil and hatred that it can barely breathe because of the scarring bloat of cruelty that fills its gullet.)
What's startling about Gore's speech is not the cleansing breath of actual intellectual thought combined with a sense of history in his references to Freud, Eisenhower and others, although, goddamn, it's about time someone so public mentioned the depravities of the Marquis De Sade in relation to Abu Ghraib and not just the easy analogy to the much-maligned gay porn; it's not the stunning breadth of evidence Gore lays out in order to exonerate the motives of the "few rotten apples" while impeaching the motives of those who ordered them to treat the prisoners like so many carcasses waiting to be carved up when he says, "Private Lynndie England did not make the decision that the United States would not observe the Geneva Convention. Specialist Charles Graner was not the one who approved a policy of establishing an American Gulag of dark rooms with naked prisoners to be "stressed" and even - we must use the word - tortured - to force them to say things that legal procedures might not induce them to say. These policies were designed and insisted upon by the Bush White House;" it's not that Gore takes it all the way to the President, daring to invoke "corruption," "viciousness," "betrayal," "dishonest," and "atrocious" in relation to Bush, which one-ups Nancy Pelosi in Democratic rage towards the administration; it's not his amazing declaration that Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rice, and others should resign for the good of the country, something we used to call "honorable;" it's not his recognition of the devaluing of America in the eyes of the world or even the simple recognition that the U.S. has to deal with the rest of the world, as well as the "payback" for our recklessly ignoring the Geneva Conventions; it's not his intonation of all the anti-Bush people from the military and government, like Clarke, Wilson, Zinni. While all these things are enough to make the speech vital, there's something else, at the end, that makes it something else.
Almost at his conclusion, Gore says, "In December of 2000, even though I strongly disagreed with the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to order a halt to the counting of legally cast ballots, I saw it as my duty to reaffirm my own strong belief that we are a nation of laws and not only accept the decision, but do what I could to prevent efforts to delegitimize George Bush as he took the oath of office as president. I did not at that moment imagine that Bush would, in the presidency that ensued, demonstrate utter contempt for the rule of law and work at every turn to frustrate accountability." Finally, in that moment, too little, too late, of course, but still, Gore says what we've been wanting to hear: he was honorable towards dishonorable men; he was a mensch to the putzes; he was the strong adult to the petulant children; and he was wrong.