Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

Our Country is Being Run Into the Ground by Greedy Lying Bastards

Cheney’s Remarks on Dunking Terrorism Suspects Fuels Debate – washingtonpost.com
Vice President Cheney’s recent comment that dunking terrorism suspects in water during interrogations was a “no-brainer” today prompted complaints from human rights groups, attacks by a leading Democrat and firm denials from the White House that Cheney was endorsing a controversial technique known as waterboarding.

I’ve held off on commenting about this because I wasn’t sure if I could do so without swearing a lot or maybe writing something that could be taken as a threat. I’m not a violent person really. But I sometimes write violently.

I’d like to believe that most people aren’t really idiots. I’d like to believe that most people, when they hear the vice president talking about “a dunk in the water”, understand that he’s talking about waterboarding — a form of torture in which the victim is repeatedly forced under water and brought very close to the point of drowning. Surely, most people realize that there’s nothing else he could be talking about.

Surely, most people can see that when Cheney then goes on to deny that he was advocating waterboarding he is, quite simply, lying.

Surely.

I’ll Never Look At Fishing in Quite the Same Way Again

We are so SO grateful to Valerie for directing us to the Casket X Press web site. There are so many really strange things to see there. This one, though, especially captured my imagination: Gone Fishin’.

Whoa. Check out this one — specially designed for Dick Cheney’s hunting buddies!

This Is Just Creepy

Well… you’ll just have to click the link and see for yourself.

What’s with the one they call “The Mother”?? That’s just fucked up.

Hey, but at least they offer overnight night shipping… You know, for those emergency situations.

Rules of the Road, Part 1

All the extra bullshit that comes with the election season is making me testy lately. People are just really pissing me off. I’ve been especially noticing the crappy way people drive around here.

Because I care — and because I’m such a civic-minded kind of gal — I’ve put together a list of “Rules of the Road”. Don’t thank me. It’s a public service.

Don’t be an asshole. Be a courteous person. Why? If you were a courteous person by nature, you wouldn’t even have to ask. But, if you do need a reason, consider that if I ever go completely psycho, it will be the asshole drivers who will receive the full brunt of my homicidal fury. Now I only fantasize about pulling you from your car and beating you over the head with a large rock.

God, I Hate These People

The Year Of Playing Dirtier – washingtonpost.com
One GOP strategy has been raising the specter of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco liberal, becoming speaker; for example, Rep. John N. Hostettler (R-Ind.) is airing radio ads warning that a Democratic victory would allow Pelosi to “put in motion her radical plan to advance the homosexual agenda.” Then again, Hostettler’s opponent, Democrat Brad Ellsworth, has accused him of promoting the sale of guns to criminals, “including child-rapists.”

I hate every single frigging one of them.

Oh… and by the way. I haven’t received my latest copy of the updated homosexual agenda yet so, if one of you queer people out there could email it to me, I’d appreciate it. (How am I supposed to support the agenda if I don’t even know what it is? It’s not like they ever invite me to their meetings or anything…)

Silvery Sunset

Danas… as usual.

Hand Me the Big Stick

GOP retires ‘Playboy’ ad in Tenn. – Politics – MSNBC.com
The Republican National Committee said Wednesday it was taking off the air an attack ad that critics said was a racial slur against Democratic Tennessee Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr., one day after the party’s chairman said he saw nothing wrong with it.

What complete nonsense. I’ve seen the ad — you can see it too by clicking on the link above — and there’s nothing racist about it. NOTHING. NOTHING. This is as stupid as that Democratic congressman in Maryland apologizing for his supposedly “racist” comment about a Republican senate candidate who has “slavishly” supported the Republican party.

I suppose this evens things out now. The Republicans have apologized (sort of) for non-existent “racist” remarks and so have the Democrats.

God, but people are stupid. It makes me want to line them all up and beat them all over the head with the big clue-stick.

Bush is Crazy

Bush Acknowledges Discontent on Iraq – washingtonpost.com
Saying he was offering Americans a “candid assessment,” Bush warned, “There is tough fighting ahead. The road to victory will not be easy. We should not expect a simple solution.” But that “does not mean our efforts in Iraq are not worth it,” he said. The outcome in Iraq “will have a decisive impact on the security of our country, because defeating the terrorists in Iraq is essential to turning back the cause of extremism in the Middle East,” he said.

What terrorists in Iraq?? Is he talking about the insurgents? I’m not sure calling them “terrorists” is all that accurate. I mean… they’re combatants in a civil war. I suppose when they kidnap and murder their enemies, they are engaged in a form of domestic terrorism — but they’re really no threat to the United States. Not only that, as has been pointed out many times by people a whole lot more qualified to analyze the situation than I, the US presence in Iraq is actually increasing the ranks of the terrorist who really are a threat to us.

Bush is crazy. Really. Crazy. As in, he’s got no firm grip on reality.

He added, “But we cannot allow our dissatisfaction to turn into disillusionment about our purpose in this war. . . .

Riiiiight.

Oil.

Cheap oil.

“If you’re asking about accountability, it rests right here. That’s what the 2004 campaign was about, you know. If people are unhappy about it, look right to the president.”

Cool. Does that me we can finally get around to impeaching you?

The Fox

Look who came to visit the backyard today! He was here to eat dropped bird seed and peanuts I put out for the squirrels.

By the way, if you click on any of these smaller pictures, a larger one (sometimes a much larger one!) will open in a new window.

At first he was very nervous, but eventually he relaxed enough to spend some time in the sun grooming.

“Goodbye,” said the fox. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Babycakes

I quite enjoy this very short story presentation by Neil Gaiman. What’s perhaps most interesting is the reaction of the live audience. At first there’s laughter. Then — as many people begin to realize what he’s really talking about — the laughter stops. At the end, again, a bit of nervous laughter. By fewer people.

Reading the different comments on this video, it’s sad (but, I suppose, not particularly surprising) how few people “get it”.

This is NOT a funny story.