Tag: fair and balanced

The Senate will vote on the new Attorney General. The one who’s never heard of waterboarding and doesn’t think it constitutes torture. One Senator went so far to say, “I don’t like him, but he’s the best we’re going to get from this Administration.”

We went from nominating the best and brightest to… well, someone who doesn’t believe drowning someone while they’re tied down is torture.

Great.

Meanwhile, another Senator wants to investigate TV evangalists to see if they are taking advantage of their no profit status.

Hey! Senator! I’ve got a word of advice for you! Why not investigate them on FRAUD!!!

Assholes.

Here are the links.

The Torture AG
TV Evangelists

He’s probably already seen it, but here it is.

Why Star Trek is best when it reflects Neo-Con values.  

Will this revisionist bullshit never end?

(from FactCheck.org)

 
There’s more. 

Dropping troop levels: this was already scheduled to happen and has nothing to do with the “progress made.”

Dropping expectations: Praising Iraqi government “progress” he was condemning a month ago.

Dodging expections: Not being straight with the American people just how little progress has been made and how much is left. Possibly as much as a decade by most of his own departments’ estimations.

You can read it all for yourself here.

Last night, the President said a lot of things. He also forgot to say a lot of things.

He said “Iraq’s national leaders are getting some things done,” such as “sharing oil revenues with the provinces” and allowing “former Baathists to rejoin Iraq’s military or receive government pensions.”

A month earlier, on August 18th, in a public address, he said, “The Iraqi government in Baghdad has many important measures left to address, such as reforming the de-Baathification laws, organizing provincial elections and passing a law to formalize the sharing of oil revenues.”

Sharing oil revenues is not a law and the local governments will not make it a law. They’re doing it until we leave, then they’re going to put the oil in their pockets. The President forgot to report that to the American people.

He said Baqubah, the capital of Diyala province “is cleared” of terrorists.

But in a press conference on Aug. 27, he said the province was unstable, with terrorists cutting off food and supplies. The President forgot to report that to the American people.

He said 36 nations are assisting us.

That’s true. All 36 nations have a grand total of 11,685 troops on the ground. Less than 7 percent of the total fighting force. The President forgot to report that to the American people.

The President quoted a report by Marine Gen. James Jones saying, “the Iraqi army is becoming more capable, although there is still a great deal of work to be done to improve the national police.”

Yes. That work is 2 years away. At least. And that’s a good estimate. According to her report. Her report also said the police force was corrupt beyond redemption and that it be completely dismanted. The President forgot to report that to the American people.

The President said a lot of things last night. He also forgot to say a lot of things.

As President, he has a duty to be honest to the people who elected him. The last President who wasn’t honest with the people who elected him got impeached. For lying about a blowjob.

This President lied at least four times last night. And his lies weren’t about a consensual sexual act. His lies were about the lives of thousands of American citizens and even more thousands of Iraqi citizens.

In short, his lies cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of human beings.

If lying about a blowjob is worthy of impeachment, perhaps lying about war is, too.

(Somehow, I find fault with the argument blowjob > thousands of human beings.)

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Everyone: Dismantling Iraq Army was a mistake.

Paul Bremer: Bush told me to, but I told him it was a mistake.

Bush: No, I did not.

Bremer: Here are the letters you sent, you lying son of a bitch.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will not be on the New York Times’ Top Ten Best-Sellers List.

Really.

Don’t believe me?

Wanna bet?

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“The paper of record.”

Yeah. Remember that the next time you base “quality” on how much something sells.

D&D is the best-selling RPG of all time and Britney Spears is better than your favorite band.

(from the Washington Post, dated May 6, 1998)

A federal judge has ruled that President Clinton cannot use the power of his office to block prosecutors from questioning his senior aides, rejecting Clinton’s assertion of executive privilege in the Monica S. Lewinsky investigation, lawyers familiar with the decision said yesterday.

In a ruling issued under court seal Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson concluded that independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr’s need to collect evidence in his obstruction of justice probe outweighs Clinton’s interest in preserving the confidentiality of White House discussions, the lawyers said.

Just recently, my buddy Sheldon made a post about Islam and women.

Here ya go, Shel.

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A religion of tolerance.
A religion of peace.

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Okay, snarky time over.

When the anti-D&D bullshit came up, Mike Stackpole said something brilliant. (Not unusual for Mike Stackpole.) He said, “If someone bashes in your windshield with a baseball bat, you don’t ban baseball.”

Likewise. If someone uses religion to bash women, you don’t ban religion.

Unless that religion actively promotes the subjugation of a particular kind of person, of course. And then, even still, my Libertarian heart can’t stand the idea of banning an idea. Even stupid ideas. We need stupid ideas to contrast against the good ones.

This jerk uses his religion to justify his bigotry. Of course, if he followed a different religion (ALL HAIL ERIS), he wouldn’t be such a bigot. He’d just know the Goddess’s juicy goodness for himself.

Yeah, I said it.

Like some Americans, I was impressed with Ron Paul at the Republican debate. Unlike some Americans, I’m disgusted there’s talk of excluding him from the next few debates.

Of course, it’s far too early for me to make any kind of say on voting. But if you haven’t heard of Ron Paul or know what he was talking about, check this out.

In case you haven’t heard, in case you haven’t seen, here’s the discussion that turned into a shouting match that nearly turned into a fight over on Fox News. In all honesty, I was hoping Golden Gloves would have knocked O’Really on his fat ass.

Set up. A drunk illegal immigrant ran over and killed two little girls. Guy is a bumb. No doubt. A criminal. No doubt. But the Neo-Cons are turning him into a poster boy. Geraldo makes one very valid point that Bill-O is missing. Or maybe he isn’t missing. Geraldo even suggests that: that Bill-O is being intellectually dishonest to make a political point.

That’s when it starts.

I’ve never really liked or admired Geraldo until this moment.

(PS: If anyone tries to make any argument about “illegal immigrants” to you, just replace “Mexican” with “Irish,” “German,” or “Italian,” or any other race. You’ll see how quickly their arguments fall apart.)