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put away your dicks and your measuring sticks, gentlemen

August 21, 2008 – 3:03 pm

Before things get really out of hand:
POLAND and the US were ready to sign a deal to build a US missile defence base in the former Soviet state - a pact that has infuriated Moscow.
The deal to locate 10 US interceptor missiles at a base just 180km from Russia’s westernmost frontier has further strained Moscow’s [...]

By slim | Also posted in Bush crime family, McCain, Sen John, Military, Money Party, Republicans, War on terror | Comments (0)

Abraham, Martin, John and Bobby

August 21, 2008 – 8:21 am

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Doing a news blackout for the next week or so until the convention is over. My mp3 player with 7000 songs on it is going to get a workout. Still recovering from the endless pablum I consumed by attending the 2004 affair and cannot withstand anymore drivel without seeing some [...]

By bushtool | Also posted in Baird, Brian, Crist, Cheryl, Dept. of just Sayin' | Comments (2)

don’t touch it

August 19, 2008 – 12:07 pm

I fear and loathe John McCain as much as the next progressive, but I get a very bad feeling when I hear Thom Hartmann, dday et al. going on about the things McCain supposedly did while a POW (signing a confession, recording a propaganda film 4 days after his capture, etc.), and the things which [...]

By slim | Also posted in 2008 Election, McCain, Sen John, Obama, Sen Barack | Comments (3)

what do you think the convention’s tribute payment to hrh hrc should be?

August 18, 2008 – 12:51 pm

This roll call is bullshit. Can you imagine what Bill and the PUMAs would say if Hillary was the nominee and Obama asked for a voice vote at the Convention?
“Not no, Fuck No. And fuck YOU.”
I say boilermakers all around, a toast to the first runner-up, and then on with the show.

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By slim | Also posted in 2008 Election, Democrats, Obama, Sen Barack | Comments (0)

debatable

August 18, 2008 – 12:48 pm

Here are the questions I would like to see Obama and McCain have to answer in the debates this fall:
To OBAMA:
George Bush has held up release of the presidential papers of both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. If you are elected President, would you, as one of your first acts in office, order [...]

By slim | Also posted in 2008 Election, McCain, Sen John, Obama, Sen Barack | Comments (0)

i just threw up in my mouth a little bit

August 15, 2008 – 12:17 pm

If I could pray, I would pray that is is just more Obama misdirection:
Word has reached me that at Barack Obama’s Hawaii retreat, Evan Bayh’s chances to find himself the next Democratic VP candidate have moved to better than 50/50.
The conflict between Georgia and Russia has been one of several factors that has helped boost [...]

By slim | Also posted in 2008 Election, Culture, Iran, Iraq, Middle East conflicts, Obama, Sen Barack | Comments (2)

they’re not crimes, they’re only “violations” of “laws”

August 12, 2008 – 12:01 pm

Your Department of Justice at work:
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Justice Department officials will not face prosecution for letting improper political considerations drive hirings of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday.
Mukasey used his sharpest words yet to criticize the senior leaders who took part in or failed [...]

By slim | Also posted in Bush crime family, Constitution, Democrats, Domestic spying, Ethics, Gov Acctability, Republicans, Senate | Comments (0)

prideful dumbshittery

August 8, 2008 – 12:12 pm

Krugman hits the Neanderthal on the head:
…[K]now-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise — has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party’s de facto slogan has become: “Real men don’t think things [...]

By slim | Also posted in 2008 Election, Bush crime family, Culture, McCain, Sen John, Obama, Sen Barack | Comments (2)

don’t forget tomorrow’s moneybomb for strangebedfellows

August 7, 2008 – 11:18 am

August 8, 2008—this is the date for our Strangebedfellows MONEYBOMB on behalf of constitutional rights and civil liberties in America. Let’s remove from power the key enablers of the tyrannical and lawless FISA ‘compromise;’ we can end the Patriot Act—and so much more.
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Strangebedfellows is a unique and diverse left–right coalition which has come together to [...]

By slim | Also posted in Baird, Brian, Bush crime family, Constitution, Democrats, Domestic spying, Obama, Sen Barack | Comments (0)

in which i feel my first love for barack obama

August 7, 2008 – 11:12 am

since cursing him with the fervor of a scorned fishwife over his FISA vote:
On Wednesday, July 23 Jennifer Chrisler, Executive Director of Family Equality Council, issued identical letters to Sens. McCain and Obama, outlining the vast array of family types in this country and asking both candidates to explain how their administrations would work to [...]

By slim | Also posted in Gay rights, Obama, Sen Barack | Comments (0)