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November 30, 2006

That Explains the Sudden Surge of Horse Sex Interest

It's a headline linked on Drudge...

Sundance picks Seattle film on horse-sex case; Snoop Dogg arrested

...and there must be thousands of Drudgites scratching their heads and not trusting their lying eyes. In a quest for knowledge, they Google and find us, the subject matter experts. Tracking all this down, I've found some unintentionally hilarious quotes like this example:

"A very disturbing story as a Seattle man has died following a bizarre case of bestiality."

(Good Lord, Jimmy Olsen ~ aren't all bestiality cases...bizarre? It's the nature of the...dare I say it?)

But for chock full o' nuts hilarity, this article takes the cake.

Closing the Barn Door
The bizarre death of a man who had sex with a horse made dreadful headlines. State Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, however, plans to continue her push for a law barring such acts, worried the case revealed "an animal sex ring, a magnet for syndication of the sexual abuse of animals. People came from outside this state to engage in this activity because people knew they wouldn't be arrested."

She should be worried ~ 'Roaches' are people, too.

...Urquhart of the sheriff's office says that "typically," men were having sex with a horse on Tait's property, "but on this particular night it is my understanding that horse wasn't particularly receptive."

Everyone has a headache now and then.

...Tait and the man who later died both had sex with the neighbor's horse that night, according to the charging papers. The second man died while Tait was videotaping the encounter. The tape was later shown to the couple that owns the barn so they could confirm it was their horse, known as Big Dick.

Comparatively speaking, that is. Around other horses down on the farm, Big Dick was often mocked for the relative puniness of his equippage.
Here's where a well meaning elected official meddles in things she has no inkling of.

...Though she considered adding an Internet provision, she admits any such ban would be difficult to police—in part because the Internet is already teeming with animal-porn sites, such as Zoo Porn, which offers "zoo dating."

Obviously the woman has never been in a Marine Corps Enlisted Club on payday night.

...But her final bill will have to be carefully written, she adds, to exclude some farm-sex acts.

Common sense rules at last. I mean, what if the horse comes on to you?

I know. Just say 'neigh'.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 04:11 PM | Comments (14)

These Are The People The "Realists" Want As Our Partners In Negotiations

We'd had lots of smoking guns in Iraq that haven't panned out too well, but this, if true, seems to be something even Nancy Pelosi can't wish away:

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2006 — U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have recently seized Iranian-made weapons and munitions that bear manufacturing dates in 2006.

This suggests, say the sources, that the material is going directly from Iranian factories to Shia militias, rather than taking a roundabout path through the black market. "There is no way this could be done without (Iranian) government approval," says a senior official.

Iranian-made munitions found in Iraq include advanced IEDs designed to pierce armor and anti-tank weapons. U.S. intelligence believes the weapons have been supplied to Iraq's growing Shia militias from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is also believed to be training Iraqi militia fighters in Iran

Direct, hard evidence that Iran is killing US Troops, and also gaining priceless experience designing weapons that destroy our frontline troops and their vehicles. And while they are doing this we are supposed to "engage" them in a dialogue, give them an official say in the restructuring of Iraq, and, as a bonus if they call right now, operators are on duty, give them time to develop nuclear weapons. A mind-boggling strategy.

And bone-chillingly frightening.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 01:49 PM | Comments (5)

Holy Guacamole, Kraft Quality Controlly!

Lawsuit stirs up guacamole labeling controversy
Kraft, which is not alone in putting little avocado in its product, is accused of duping consumers.

Peanut butter is made from peanuts, tomato paste is made from tomatoes, and guacamole is made from avocados, right?

Wrong. The guacamole sold by Kraft Foods Inc., one of the bestselling avocado dips in the nation, includes modified food starch, hefty amounts of coconut and soybean oils, and a dose of food coloring. The dip contains precious little avocado, but many customers mistake it for wholly guacamole.

On Wednesday, a Los Angeles woman sued the Northfield, Ill.-based food company, alleging that it committed fraud by calling its dip "guacamole." Her lawyer says suits against other purveyors of "fake guacamole" could be filed soon.

The suit, which seeks class-action status, highlights the liberty some food companies take in labeling their products.

If consumers read the fine print, they would discover that Kraft Dips Guacamole contains less than 2% avocado*. But few of them do. California avocado growers, who account for 95% of the nation's avocado crop, said they didn't know that store-bought guacamole contained little of their produce.

* If I remember the ingredient panel, Miracle Whip also contains "less than 2%" edible ingredients. Coincidentally, both are Kraft products.

Go figure.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 12:30 PM | Comments (1)

I Sense a Disturbance in the Force

...from sea...

Several sheriff's deputies in Polk County, Fla., are being credited with saving the life of a 45-year-old man who was attacked by an alligator early Wednesday and was being pulled deeper into a lake, according to a police report. Authorities said the Polk County Sheriff's Office received multiple calls at about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday concerning screams for help coming from an area of Lake Parker County Park near the Moose Lodge on East Lake Parker Drive.

...to shining sea.

Whale attacks trainer during show at SeaWorld in San Diego
..."He was pulled down at least twice by the whale and then let go," Luque said. "He did not have life-threatening injuries. He was conscious the whole time."

They executed the alligator who chomped the crackhead (apparently Bingley-style, he was naked and high)(the chompee, not the gator), but Shamu's a high dollar blubber butt and got away with it yet again.

What is causing nearly simultaneous, bi-coastal water creature attacks? First it was stingrays thousands of miles apart in synchronous poking and now tandem 'pulling'? It's not bears and it's not lions and it's not angry squirrels.
It's things that swim...

- "No worries, boy! I saw this on Animal Planet!"
Bingley and Claude investigate the large bubbles coming to the surface. ©TPI

I'd watch that shower drain a little more closely first thing in the morning and have something besides a bar of soap handy...

UPDATE : Holy CRAP!! We're doomed!! Eagle eyed Swiller CJ just sent me these horrifying news reports!!

California sea lions attack humans
Tourists flock to Fisherman's Wharf for the seafood and the stunning views of San Francisco Bay, but for many visitors, the real stars are the dozens of playful, whiskered sea lions that lounge by the water's edge, gulping down fish.

Now a series of sea-lion attacks on people in recent months has led experts to warn that the animals are not as cute and cuddly as they appear.

As I asked him, what could cause this...El Niño?

Posted by tree hugging sister at 11:37 AM | Comments (4)

Does This Mean the Honeymoon's Over

...in a "Read My Lips Redux" sort of way?

Democrats Reject Key 9/11 Panel Suggestion
Neither Party Has an Appetite for Overhauling Congressional Oversight of Intelligence

It was a solemn pledge, repeated by Democratic leaders and candidates over and over: If elected to the majority in Congress, Democrats would implement all of the recommendations of the bipartisan commission that examined the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

But with control of Congress now secured, Democratic leaders have decided for now against implementing the one measure that would affect them most directly: a wholesale reorganization of Congress to improve oversight and funding of the nation's intelligence agencies. Instead, Democratic leaders may create a panel to look at the issue and produce recommendations, according to congressional aides and lawmakers.

They're the chosen ones and the WaPo is after them already?

Hang on, children. It's going to be a bumpy ride.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 11:05 AM | Comments (1)

Today's Washington "Snapshot in Time"

Eight Years After Clinton Left D.C.

Isn't it great NOT to be the homeliest kid in class any more? (Although, as I pointed out to Bingley, the little blonde front row, third from the right looks suspiciously like Amy Carter. Bingley said all those Southerners are close, trailer park-wise and I should ask Cracker if I don't believe him.)

(We don't know who did this ~ not Bubba, we mean the Photoshop ~ but whoEVER it was, he's a sick and twisted...genius.)

Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:14 AM | Comments (6)

November 29, 2006

I Thought Justice Scalia Had the Quote of the Day

I was wrong.

IHOP will stop carding customers for pancakes
Mass. outlet wanted to stop dine-and-dashers, headquarters apologizes

John Russo has been a victim of identity theft. So when he was asked to fork over a photo ID just to be seated at an IHOP pancake restaurant, he flipped.

"You want my license? I'm going for pancakes, I'm not buying the Hope diamond,' and they refused to seat us," Russo said, recounting his experience this week at the Quincy IHOP.

The restaurant now has agreed to reverse the policy of requiring customers to turn over their driver's licenses before they can order — a rule that was enacted to discourage "dine and dash" thefts.

He said the security guard who asked for his license had forty others in his mitt already. For pancakes.

We're doomed.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 12:59 PM | Comments (7)

There Might Be Some Dang Good Quotes

...coming out of this court case.

Supreme Court Takes Up Global Warming
...Opening up an hour of arguments, Justice Antonin Scalia asked, "When is the predicted cataclysm?"

Snort. That's nothing. Wait'll he hears about polar bear going, going, gone gonads.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 12:50 PM

Que? Alcee ya Hastings' Dream

...of a chairmanship might be gone, but his law abiding spirit is alive and well in the heart of Dem-o-ville.

Cintas warned against firing immigrant force
A Mississippi Democrat in line to become chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee has warned the nation's largest uniform supplier it faces criminal charges if it follows a White House proposal to recheck workers with mismatched Social Security numbers and fire those who cannot resolve the discrepancy in 60 days.

Rep. Bennie Thompson said in a letter to Cintas Corp. it could be charged with "illegal activities in violation of state and federal law" if any of its 32,000 employees are terminated because they gave incorrect Social Security numbers to be hired.

"I am deeply troubled by Cintas' recent policy change regarding the Social Security Administration's 'no match' letters," Mr. Thompson said in the Nov. 2 letter. "It is my understanding that hundreds of Cintas' immigrant workers have received these letters. I am extremely concerned about any potentially discriminatory actions targeting this community."

Depends what your Dem-finition of 'legal' is, I guess. I feel safer already.
Via Powerline.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 10:25 AM | Comments (1)

Oh, the Sick, TWISTED

...BASTARDS !!!

Man accused of spray-painting three goats
‘Obviously it's not an occurrence you see every day,*’ officer says

A man broke into a barn on Thanksgiving morning, spray-painted three pet goats and scattered pages of pornographic magazines on the floor, apparently to harass the property owner, police said Tuesday.

* Well, I would hope to God that's true!.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:38 AM | Comments (13)

You, Sir, Are An Ass

Just who the hell does this pompous jerk Webb think he is?

At a recent White House reception for freshman members of Congress, Virginia's newest senator tried to avoid President Bush. Democrat James Webb declined to stand in a presidential receiving line or to have his picture taken with the man he had often criticized on the stump this fall. But it wasn't long before Bush found him.

"How's your boy?" Bush asked, referring to Webb's son, a Marine serving in Iraq.

"I'd like to get them out of Iraq, Mr. President," Webb responded, echoing a campaign theme.

"That's not what I asked you," Bush said. "How's your boy?"

"That's between me and my boy, Mr. President," Webb said coldly, ending the conversation on the State Floor of the East Wing of the White House.

What a goddamned ill-mannered primadona. There is no excuse for such outright rudeness at your first meeting with the President, a social gathering for god's sake, not some policy debate you crass turd.

"I'm not particularly interested in having a picture of me and George W. Bush on my wall," Webb said in an interview yesterday in which he confirmed the exchange between him and Bush. "No offense to the institution of the presidency, and I'm certainly looking forward to working with him and his administration. [But] leaders do some symbolic things to try to convey who they are and what the message is."

You have indeed offended the institution of the Presidency, and the Senate, and good manners in general. I hope your mamma bends you over her knees and tans your pasty backside but good.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 09:36 AM | Comments (7)

Noooo! Rerease My Music!

It's all such a ronery guy has....

U.S. Bans Sale of iPods to North Korea
Bush administration wants North Korea's attention, so like a scolding parent it's trying to make it tougher for that country's eccentric leader to buy iPods, plasma televisions and Segway electric scooters.

The U.S. government's first-ever effort to use trade sanctions to personally aggravate a foreign president expressly targets items believed to be favored by Kim Jong Il or presented by him as gifts to the roughly 600 loyalist families who run the communist government

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Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:22 AM | Comments (3)

Londonistan, Continued

Here's more scary news from our closest allies on the other side of the pond:

Islamic sharia law is gaining an increasing foothold in parts of Britain, a report claims.

Sharia, derived from several sources including the Koran, is applied to varying degrees in predominantly Muslim countries but it has no binding status in Britain.

The Koran is one of the sources that Sharia derives from.

However, the BBC Radio 4 programme Law in Action produced evidence yesterday that it was being used by some Muslims as an alternative to English criminal law. Aydarus Yusuf, 29, a youth worker from Somalia, recalled a stabbing case that was decided by an unofficial Somali "court" sitting in Woolwich, south-east London.

Mr Yusuf said a group of Somali youths were arrested on suspicion of stabbing another Somali teenager. The victim's family told the police it would be settled out of court and the suspects were released on bail.

There's a stabbing, and the police let the people "work it out themselves"? It seems to me that's what led to the stabbing in the first place.

Sharia's great strength was the effectiveness of its penalties, he said. Those who appeared before religious courts would avoid re-offending so as not to bring shame on their families.

Hey, that's true! All those women in that soccer stadium in Afghanistan never "brought shame on their families" again, now did they? And neither did those "whores" in Germany; regular pillars of community virtue, they are now.

Faizul Aqtab Siddiqi, a barrister and principal of Hijaz College Islamic University, near Nuneaton, Warwicks, said this type of court had advantages for Muslims.(No shit! Really?) "It operates on a low budget, it operates on very small timescales and the process and the laws of evidence are far more lenient and it's less awesome an environment than the English courts," he said.

Ah yes, those lenient laws of evidence.

England needs to decide very quickly if it wants to remain an independent country. People who move there must adopt English rules and laws, or it's all over folks.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 07:48 AM | Comments (2)

November 28, 2006

I. Have. Had. EE ~ NOUGH, GDI !!

Get Rachel "Jerky Perky" Ray's frickin' gargoyle mug OFF a my Premium Saltine Box!!!

Is nothing sacred to you people in the pursuit of the almighty dollar? Her grinning, Joker-like visage on Triscuits is bad, but you have crossed a line now, my friends.

I'm goin' over to the dwarves tree elves.

And these guys.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 04:26 PM | Comments (2)

"Fuzzy Flying Clerics Need More Love, Too"

Part Deux.

Witnesses said three of the imams were praying loudly in the concourse and repeatedly shouted "Allah" when passengers were called for boarding US Airways Flight 300 to Phoenix.
"I was suspicious by the way they were praying very loud," the gate agent told the Minneapolis Police Department.
Passengers and flight attendants told law-enforcement officials the imams switched from their assigned seats to a pattern associated with the September 11 terrorist attacks and also found in probes of U.S. security since the attacks -- two in the front row first-class, two in the middle of the plane on the exit aisle and two in the rear of the cabin.
"That would alarm me," said a federal air marshal who asked to remain anonymous. "They now control all of the entry and exit routes to the plane."

"Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"

Posted by tree hugging sister at 11:52 AM | Comments (4)

So the Government Says 'No Worries', Eh?

Right. I can do the math.
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The guy on the right orders a
+ a pinch o' and Voilà!
Everyone in the diner winds up looking like...

...they work with Homer Simpson.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 11:16 AM

November 27, 2006

On Thanksgiving We Tried To Visit Florida Cracker...

But she must have been out wrasslin' gators or something.

We found this note on her front door, though:

Mighty neighborly of her to explain things for us.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 06:47 PM | Comments (4)

You Can't Sugar Coat THIS, Baby

Krispy Kreme store closing for 4 months
Landmark doughnut shop gets new digs, will give away free doughnuts on Sunday

That would be our iconic, 40 year old Krispy Kreme donut shop ~ it of the swooping roofline and "HOT" sign. Supposedly it'll open again but, like Tony Bourdain says, 'closed for remodeling/vacation' is often a death notice. At the very least, critical condition/ICU.
And like the friendly neighborhood watering hole types they are, Krispy Kreme is treating it's long time Pensacola employees with all the love and respect the corporate offices can muster.

...All current managers will stay on the payroll, said Smith, but production workers and wait staff -- many with 20 to 30 years' experience -- will be required to go through a rehiring process to retain their old jobs.

Smith said laid-off employees will be given severance pay and are eligible for unemployment, and those rehired will retain their seniority.

But some employees are skeptical about the rehiring process.

"When Krispy Kreme came down here to meet with us, I thought they'd have a (human resources) person with them. But they didn't," said Roderick West, a 13-year production employee at the shop. "They just told us we could go to work at the Krispy Kreme in Destin, but you'd have to commute, and that doesn't make sense."

West, who works part time at a local furniture store, said he wasn't sure he wants to return to Krispy Kreme.

"You've got people that have been there 33 years, and all they're getting is two weeks' severance. I just don't think it's right the way they're doing it," he said.

Me neither. I think Krispy Kremes may be a hard sell here after this.

I hope so.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 11:17 AM | Comments (10)

"Spit Out That Cookie Monster!!"

The 'cookie monster' in question refers to a particular confection a California chain called 'Baxter's' used to have on it's menu ~ a LARGE chocolate chip cookie covered with vanilla ice cream and hot fudge. They were divine and, in our youth, eaten completely by one individual. It also became the rallying cry Kcruella and I shrieked at each other when temptation would waggle it's finger. (We were Marines, after all ~ height/weight standards CAN be useful.) We'd be close to surrender ("YOU deserve it!" "No, YOU do!" "We can split one and drink water!" "Waitress...!"), only to have a human of monsterous proportions waddle by. We were saved.

Now that the Marine Corps no longer has any interest in my waistline, the passage of time ~ and making my meager living sitting on my tookus ~ has required my military cheesecake photo to carry a "many cheesecakes ago" warning label in the spirit of complete disclosure. So it was with some personal interest that I dove into an article major dad pointed out to me yesterday in Pravda. It really was astonishing.

Big People on Campus
ASK Sheana Director for a detailed description of herself, and chances are the word fat will come up. It is not uttered with shame or ire or any sense of embarrassment; it’s simply one of the things she is, fat.

“Why should I be ashamed?” said Ms. Director, 22, a graduate student in women’s studies at San Diego State University, who wields the word with both defiance and pride, the way the gay community uses queer. “I’m fat. So what?”

...Even as science, medicine and government have defined obesity as a threat to the nation’s health and treasury, fat studies is emerging as a new interdisciplinary area of study on campuses across the country and is gaining interest in Australia and Britain. Nestled within the humanities and social sciences fields, fat studies explores the social and political consequences of being fat.

For most scholars of fat, though, it is not an objective pursuit. Proponents of fat studies see it as the sister subject — and it is most often women promoting the study, many of whom are lesbian activists — to women’s studies, queer studies, disability studies and ethnic studies. In many of its permutations, then, it is the study of a people its supporters believe are victims of prejudice, stereotypes and oppression by mainstream society.

"Fat studies"? "Scholars of fat"? Who do they think they're kidding and why does the American college system perpetuate this pretentious bullsh*t? I'm still agog at the concepts in this article. And, quite honestly, absolutely mesmerized by the people who inhabit a bubble world where such things are feted, entertained, discussed and researched as if it were quantum particle theory and had ANY bearing on the real world at all.

To the Times' credit, there are voices of sanity represented, to which I could only say aloud "*yeah, no shit!"

...Others argue, though, that a movement does not make a scholarly pursuit and that this is simply a way to institutionalize victimhood.

“In one field after another, passion and venting have come to define the nature of what academics do,” said Stephen H. Balch, president of the National Association of Scholars, a group of university professors and academics who have a more traditional view of higher education. “Ethnic studies, women’s studies, queer studies — they’re all about vindicating the grievances of some particular group. That’s not what the academy should be about.

“Obviously in the classroom you can look at issues of right and wrong and justice and injustice,” he added, “But if the purpose is to vindicate fatness, to make fatness seem better in the eyes of society, then that purpose begs a fundamental intellectual question.”

Or as Big Arm Woman, a blogger, wrote: “I don’t care if people are fat or thin. I do, however, care that universities are spending money on scholarship about the ‘politics of fatness’ when half of the freshman class can’t read or write at the college level*.”

...Whether activism is an appropriate goal for academia is a controversial notion. Joseph B. Juhasz, a social psychologist who teaches at the University of Colorado, said the possibilities are endless.

“Certainly we have not reached a point where we can do away with queer studies or race studies or women’s studies,” Professor Juhasz said. “But where do you draw the line? Is there going to be a department of man-boy-love studies? Do we need polygamy studies? At which point do you say, enough already*?”

Bad enough they live the dream, but students PAY to take these classes! They're exposed to such a twisted sense of being, that I don't doubt some impressionable, waif-like 18 year old will be marching to free her fat sisters from...ack...whatever they need liberating from. (And you can bet the overweight, beer swilling fella we all know and love would be MOST UNwelcome in these introspective, angry, feminine fat fests.)

...Elena Escalera, an assistant professor of psychology at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif., vehemently disagrees with the idea that fat studies perpetuates a victim’s mentality.

“This is not about victimhood, but about becoming empowered,” she said. “Did Martin Luther King and Malcolm X espouse victimhood? Did Susan B. Anthony? It’s really easy for people to feel that fat people are trying to find an excuse.”

These fat people/scholars compare their 'struggle' to Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Susan B. Anthony?! 'STRUGGLE'? Hello? What struggle? I know it's tough to lose weight, I KNOW it's discouraging ~ I'm so there my sisters! BUT. Just because it's hard for you to walk a mile a day (or not eat the whole bag of chips or remind yourself that just because it's 'fat-free' doesn't mean you can eat the whole box), YOU, by virtue of your GIRTH, do NOT have the right to make someone else's life miserable. DO NOT. And that's what these courses are doing. They are rationalizing the 200 boxes of SnackWells on your hips into a reason NOT to be sorry that you've squashed the poor person stuck in the airline seat next to you into a wallie. Or twisted his body over the armrest on the aisle so badly that he needs to have broken ribs reset. Martin Luther King tried to make things better for OTHERS. Malcolm X tried to make things better for OTHERS. Susan B....you get my drift. Dear fat lesbian scholarly chicks. You are only trying to make things better for yourselves. And people will glom onto these excuses like a glazed Krispy Kreme ~ giving them the tacit approval to be offensively rude and foist their own lack of willpower off on society. Because it's your neighbor's tough luck if he doesn't understand.

THAT is unconscionable self indulgence.

Am I condoning being mean to large folks? No. I don't condone being rude to anyone, ever. There's enough meaness in this world without me adding to it. But obesity is probably the one thing in this world that affects your life that you can take ahold of yourself. You voluntarily got yourself that way. You can voluntarily un-get yourself that way. Which also means that my sympathy meter at your victimhood is pretty well pegged. When my clothes don't fit, I look in the mirror and I look to me. I don't check to see how the world is looking at me.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 10:54 AM | Comments (2)

November 24, 2006

Searching for Answers Friday ~ Reflections on Thanksgiving

In spite of all that's ugly in the world ~ murderous Russians, the Iranians, backstabbing Russians, the Syrians, the flying imams ('cause I can't say "fuzzy cleric" anymore, that being racist and all), pumpkin murderers, David Blaine, et al, ad nauseum ~ we still have much...MUCH to be thankful for in the little joys of our tiny lives.

And I want to thank That 1 Guy for feeding my filthy habit. He sent this a bit ago, but I wanted the timing to be perfect before I shared. Don't thank me ~ just revel in the beauty of it.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 11:24 AM | Comments (3)

November 23, 2006

And a Happy, HAPPY Thanksgiving to You!

With much love and thanks from all of US!

Eat, drink, be safe and appreciate every second of it.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 10:38 AM | Comments (7)

November 22, 2006

Well, Well, Well, My Fuzzy Little Clerics...

There's a bit more information coming out about your prayer flight. And it's looking like you might not be the innocent, aggrieved holy men you claim to be.

Airline checks claim of 'Muslim while flying' discrimination

A passenger who had seen them pray passed a note expressing concern to a flight attendant, US Airways spokeswoman Andrea Rader told The Associated Press.

The passenger thought the imams -- who were speaking in Arabic and English -- had made anti-U.S. statements before boarding and "made similar statements while boarding," said Russ Knocke, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security.

Once on board, Knocke said, the six split up into groups of two and did not sit in their assigned seats.

Anyone can get booted off a plane for that, especially when they refuse to return to their ticketed seat. So that's on you. As one of your ignorant-about-Islam fellow passengers says in an interview, while she didn't see what transpired on the plane, she'd noticed you guys already.

"I saw them in the terminal before we boarded the plane and then they all sat in different seats....I saw them before they got on the plane and then I saw them standing up on the plane...They were all huddled together but when they started boarding, right before they started boarding, they all separated from each other..."

Can you say 'PROVOCATION'? I can.

As well as "this is just a test"...

Posted by tree hugging sister at 10:18 AM | Comments (6)

A Holiday Letter to the Editor

...courtesy of the local fishwrap.

You, too,can pardon a turkey

This Thanksgiving, President Bush will pardon a turkey to promote the turkey industry. Each of us has the same power to pardon a turkey, to promote kindness and compassion.

The 300 million turkeys abused and slaughtered in the U.S. each year have nothing to give thanks for. They breathe toxic fumes in crowded sheds. Their beaks and toes are severed. Slaughterhouse workers cut their throats and dump them into boiling water, sometimes still conscious.

Turkeys do get their revenge. Their flesh is laced with cholesterol and saturated fats that elevate the risk of chronic disease. Government warning labels are provided to avoid food poisoning.

This Thanksgiving, my holiday meal may include a soy "turkey," lentil or nut roast, stuffed squash, corn chowder, candied yams, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and carrot cake. An Internet search on "vegetarian Thanksgiving" will provide more mail-order items and recipes than I'll ever need.

Thank you for that cheerful note laden with helpful hints, Mr. Tofurkey Q. Killjoy.

The worst part is, this is one of the more coherent letters today.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:36 AM | Comments (4)

Someone Needs to Rethink Her Mantra...

"I'll give up Miracle Whip when HELL freezes over!!"-Florida Cracker,fermented cat piss afficionado

...because it would seem it has.

Weather Officials: Snowflakes Spotted In Central Florida

..."This is weird. This is not why we moved to Central Florida. We thought we left this behind," said Orlando resident Sandy Pastor.

I know who you can blame, Mr. Pastor.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:30 AM | Comments (9)

I Think Some Things Were Just Meant to Be Left

...as God intended, n'est pas?

A man who mailed a bomb to a doctor because he was angry about how his penis enlargement surgery turned out was sentenced to four years and 10 months in prison.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:18 AM | Comments (9)

November 21, 2006

Um...Noooo...

...Three of them stood and said their normal evening prayers together on the plane, as 1.7 billion Muslims around the world do every day, Shahin said. He attributed any concerns by passengers or crew to ignorance about Islam.

...Shahin expressed frustration that — despite extensive efforts by him and other Muslim leaders since even before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — so many Americans know so little about Islam.

“If up to now they don’t know about prayers, this is a real problem,” he said.

The REAL problem is that Muslims don't know enough to RESPECT their fellow AMERICANS. If he was flying on a Sunday, the Pope wouldn't stand in the aisle of a USAir Flight and subject the whole plane to Mass, would he? And I'll BET there were concerns, since no one would expect the Pope to stand, pray and blow the frickin' plane up.

Three Islamic individuals suddenly standing and praying in the aisle would have me worried. They wouldn't have gotten half a prayer out before I'd tackled their asses.

You live HERE, pinheads. Not Riyadh. Not Baghdad. Not Teheran.

HERE. Keep that sh*t in your seat.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:43 AM | Comments (6)

This is Another BRILLIANT Decision, Comparable to Letting Tom Cruise

...play Lestat.

Jackson bids farewell to The Hobbit

He is the flamboyant director whose The Lord of the Rings trilogy picked up 17 Oscars. But Peter Jackson has been cast out of Middle Earth after a row over profits from the $4 billion-plus (£2.1 billion) franchise.
Fans of the fantasy films were dismayed by an e-mail, detailing a dispute between Jackson and the New Line film studio, which the New Zealander sent to a website devoted to matters Tolkien.

It contained explosive news that the most lucrative franchise in Hollywood history after Star Wars will return with a Lord of the Rings prequel. A big-budget version of The Hobbit is also set for production.

But Jackson, a devoted Tolkien fan who battled to bring his vision of Rings to the screen, will not be involved. The director said that he had been removed from the project by New Line.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 08:02 AM | Comments (22)

November 20, 2006

Those Who Forget The Past...

And those who haven't.

(via Insta)

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 08:40 PM

And Here I Thought Giving Your Current Squeeze a Framed Picture of Yourself

...was a big deal.

Kimberly Stewart - Rod's 27-year-old daughter with Alana Stewart...

...In addition to being healthier, Kimberly also seems to have rekindled an old flame. The blond rock scion turned up at Light in the Bellago in Las Vegas to help her ex-boyfriend Jack Osbourne celebrate his 21st birthday Friday night, and the two were spotted "getting cozy and kissing," said our spy.

Osbourne could be a good influence on Kimberly - he has been sober for more than a year now. The two dated several years ago, and Kimberly was so enamored of Ozzy Osbourne's son that when she had her breast implants removed several years ago, she gave them to Osbourne - who then proudly hung them on his wall.

I live in a bubble.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:54 AM | Comments (9)

Well, I Guess They're Not...

NOW, thanks for nothing.

MSNBC.com has just this second changed their home page.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 07:51 AM

You Got To Run On Heavy Heavy Fuel

If you wanna be cool:

Iran is set to upgrade its nuclear reactor capability by replacing its 5-megawatt reactor in Tehran with Arak's 40-megawatt heavy water research reactor, the Tehran Times reported. ...Heavy water nuclear centers can be used to convert uranium into plutonium, for use in the production of nuclear weapons. The "Arak research reactor is due for completion in 2009 and will make isotopes for medical, industrial, and other peaceful uses," the Tehran Times claimed.

Let's see, there's something called the "Religion of Peace", isn't there? And any use of their nuclear power that "promotes" it, like, say, "convert or we nuke you" or "let's wipe Israel off of the map" would I'm sure in their mind be a "peaceful" use, now wouldn't it?

Iran has asked the International Atomic Agency for aid in setting up the Arak nuclear site, but Aqazadeh was quoted as saying that "the work on the Arak research reactor will continue whether the agency provides technical assistance or not."

"It will be more harmful to the agency if it refuses assistance," he warned.

I'm sure that will get the Europeasers scurrying to offer aid. It always does.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 07:34 AM | Comments (3)

November 19, 2006

And For the Record

...the final "Prime Suspect" was a cheap git.
Helen Mirren is still as mesmerizing as the first time ever we saw her, but that was the extent of "riveting" viewing. I had a horrible feeling when the first part played last week and involved an appealing waif Jane took a shine to. Once a series starts using troubled yet adorable (and fashionably togged) young'uns/animals/midgets, it usually means they've jumped the shark. Throw in a spiritual awakening evinced by finally speaking at an AA meeting and the finned creatures are circling while Fonzie greases up the waterskis. A couple bottles of whiskey and the second part later, I'm sad to say the finale did no justice to the 15 years of "Prime Suspect" addiction we've suffered.

Rats.

And "I think we need a bigger boat..."

Posted by tree hugging sister at 11:55 PM | Comments (1)

November 17, 2006

Searching for Answers Friday

While completely disregarding Cracker's fevered, feigned umbrage at just the dang cutest little email I sent her (You know ~ one of those rare gems that manages to tell the truth but induce thigh slapping hilarity at the same time?), she did have another post that caused me great pain and emotional anguish. I'll be spelling it out in detail here as the draft for my civil suit, but feel free to weigh in if your life has been similiarly victimized, your psyche irrepairably damaged, your very emotional well being compromised to the point of rendering YOU an unfeeling vegetable. Perhaps we have the making of a class action, who knows? But you might find this cathartic...cleansing even, as I'm sure I will.

Now, in her post she has a bullet point that asks the seemingly innocuous...

* What retired products do you miss?

She mentions "Jello Puddin Pops". Pitiful, but hey! She misses it. I offer up in the same theme ~ "Shake-a-Puddin'". Granted, missed more for it's entertainment than food value, but fondly remembered none the less. No, where the emotional damage comes in is in those fond remembrances of things beloved in childhood which still exist on Winn-Dixie shelves, but in a VASTLY altered form. I am talking corporate canoodling of the most foul and unnatural description! The dreaded...

FORMULA CHANGES.

OOOOOO, that pisses me off, thereby causing extreme anguish. Wincing, I can recall the three horrible examples scarring my youth still frosting my chops three and a half decades later.

1) TWINKIES ~ the bastards changed the spongecake formula in the late 60's. From a wonderous, moist, delectable, delicate taste treat of epic dimensions to something that now has a shelf life of...well...three and a half decades.

2) NESTLE'S HOT COCOA ~ the formula change here involved denying not only taste associations, but sensory as well. Half...no, ALL the damn fun of the stuff was the way it clumped in the bottom of the glass when cold milk was added, with a little foamy, gravelly, pumice-like dark chocolate clump flotilla that escaped to the top. Mountain Man and I were VERY particular about how our glass of milk was constructed, right down to a milk pour worthy of the finest head on a beer. Oh GOD! And the cocoa sugar sludge reward at the bottom of the drinking vessel? Sweet baby Jesus. 'New and Improved!' meant everything mixed the second the milk or (GOD FORBID!) water hit. No foam, no sludge. A contemporary uniform consistency.

3) GERBER'S JR. CEREAL, EGG YOLKS and BACON ~ Once upon a time, when babies and just done being babies ate, they ate Gerber's. The 'Junior' foods had some consistency to them and generally tasted pretty damn good even to the adult palate ~ probably because they were full of all the hateful things adults LOVE and which we now know KILL BABIES. Or at least make them grow up Republican. One of our favorite, easy yummy morning meals as teenagers was two jars of Jr. Cereal, Egg Yolks and Bacon. Redolent with smokey bacon smell, laden with actual CHUNKS of the devine pork-fat product and creamy yet substantial body, it was the dream food of mornings. Pop off the top, jar in the microwave and voilà! Tummies warm and full for the beastly walk down the driveway and sub-zero wait for the bus. Ah, the smell of it! And unrecognizable in it's current form. Which, I guess, doesn't KILL BABIES or make them REPUBLICAN. (At one point they even dropped bacon from the label, but I see it's back now.) It tastes like pooh and I'm not talking the bear. Bland...glopless...chunkless...devoid of smokey goodness...SAFE.

So there you have it. My litany of sins of egregious nature perpetrated against those sucked into the vortex of product loyalty. I've tried to spare Ebola the heartache we've suffered ~ changing up table fare so he doesn't get too attached to any one thing. That's what mothers do ~ protect their children.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 10:39 AM | Comments (12)

November 16, 2006

Trust Me, Doc

The guy reeks of bad JuJu already.

Voodoo Practitioner Tries to Jinx Bush
A renowned black magic practitioner performed a voodoo ritual Thursday to jinx President George W. Bush and his entourage while he was on a brief visit to Indonesia.

Ki Gendeng Pamungkas slit the throat of a goat, a small snake and stabbed a black crow in the chest, stirred their blood with spice and broccoli before drank the "potion" and smeared some on his face.

And that bit with broccoli ~ you might want to double check which Bush you're whammying.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 02:34 PM | Comments (2)

The "It All Depends What 'Is' Is" Defense Redux

Some...creative lawyering going on in Minnesota:

Prosecution of a Douglas County case involving alleged sexual contact with a dead deer may hinge on the legal definition of the word “animal.”

Bryan James Hathaway, 20, of Superior faces a misdemeanor charge of sexual gratification with an animal. He is accused of having sex with a dead deer he saw beside Stinson Avenue on Oct. 11.

A motion filed last week by his attorney, public defender Fredric Anderson, argued that because the deer was dead, it was not considered an animal and the charge should be dismissed.

“The statute does not prohibit one from having sex with a carcass,” Anderson wrote.

That last sounds like the motto of many a frat boy I knew in college.

Now, before you get the idea that this fellow was just a little lonely as winter approaches in the Great White North, there's this little throwaway line at the end of the article:

In April 2005, Hathaway pleaded no contest to one felony charge of mistreatment of an animal for the shooting death of Bambrick, a 26-year-old horse, to have sex with the animal.

Sounds like a man who should relocate to Enumclaw.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 02:16 PM | Comments (5)

"Total Crap"

Sort of sums up Washington these days, doesn't it (Or at the very least how the Giants played against the Bears last week)? But that's actually what John Murtha, Mr. Abscam - to - Okinawa himself thinks of Nancy Grapes Of Wrath Pelosi's Ethics Bill

On Hardball, Murtha had two strategies on "crap." The first was to try to claim it was the corruption that was "crap." When that didn't fly, he said only meant the bill was "crap" in relation to the more urgent need to act on the Iraq war. Nice try! The problem is in his initial discussion of the issue, Murtha gave away why he really thinks the new ethics rules are "crap"--that they are, in Chris Matthews' words, "Mickey Mouse."

Actually, to me the most revealing thing Murtha said was this:

MURTHA: Let me tell you, I agree that we have to return a perception of honesty to the Congress.

There it is, folks, in black and white, the Congressional Prayer:

Dear Lord, let us, in your merciful wisdom and kindness, go back to those halcyon days where people thought we were honest, as these attempts at actually being honest are too trying for our souls...and wallets. Amen, er, person.

The perception of honesty. Someone oughta write a book about that.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 06:57 AM | Comments (5)

November 15, 2006

"Die Well"

A warm Swill welcome to the blogroll for Boston Herald writer and far more importantly frequent Tim Blair commenter Jules Crittendon. Go check it out. He has a fantastic story up on a survivor of Ia Drang.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 05:26 PM

Hurrah For John Howard

My god, I wish we could elect him here when the Aussies are done with him:

The Prime Minister, John Howard, is proposing his own inconvenient truth after finding the movie of that name not to his liking.

An Inconvenient Truth, starring the former US vice-president Al Gore, "showed a degree of the peeved politician [with] the constant jibes at the Bush Administration," Mr Howard said yesterday. He urged Australians who think nuclear power is a "horrific thought" to consider the forthcoming report which is expected to find that nuclear power will become more economical as the cost of reducing greenhouse emissions makes coal-fired electricity more expensive.

But no, we get the likes of Bush and Gore.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 01:02 PM | Comments (1)

Thirteen Marines of Christmas Time!!!

I have NAMES, I have ADDRESSES ~ I have EVERYTHING YOU NEED to adopt a Marine...or two or THREE. (And Lisa's National Guard hubby. {8^P) We're even on top of this a month earlier than last year!!

For those of you who are new to this post: It is our second year taking care of this unit as best we can. Lemme tell you a little about our kids ~ we took care of them last year through the holidays (and by that I mean from before Thanksgiving until the mail cut off end of Feb) and we're adopting again this year. Yep ~ you heard that right ~ mostly the SAME Marines, same station. They run the unmanned drones and, since there's only two units PERIOD, they rotate in and out of country

EVERY 6 MONTHS.

(One of their young captains is on his FOURTH tour.) So they left Iraq in March and got back there mid-September. That's a LOT to ask of anybody, but they just pack up and go, bless their hearts.

There's some old friends on the list, so there's a good chance you can touch base with your Marine from last year if you'd like. From cards and notes to ATOMIC FIREBALLS ~ WHATEVER you can do is hugely appreciated. Please start sending me those "I need a Jarhead" emails ~

thsister-at-gmail.com ~ subj. "13 Marines of Xmas"

Kcruella has already gotten Halloween goodies to Lt. Sara, so we need to get hopping! Please, please help. Some of these Marines have been to Iraq FOUR times already. That's a lot to ask.

For newbies to our Swillers, lots of helpful info in these posts from VMU-1's deployment last year.
Tons
of good
info/ideas
here!!

Nov. 10th note: It's the Marine Corps Birthday. It's easy to send money. It takes an effort to send friendship and support. We'd love to have you along.

AND BUMP.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 11:52 AM | Comments (22)

Pour Mon Frère Le Bingster et Mlle. Suzette

Voilà! L'abomination avec la soupe dans le bidon.

Thanksgiving Dressing

2 boxes Jiffy corn muffin mix

6 to 7 slices stale white bread

2 (15-ounce) cans chicken broth

1 (10 3/4-ounce) can cream of chicken soup

1 medium onion

2 stalks celery, minced

1 stick butter, melted

3 eggs

Salt and pepper

Milk

Bake cornbread following package directions using buttermilk. Cool.

In a large bowl, crumble white bread and cornbread.

Microwave broth and soup until hot, then add to bread. Add onion, celery, butter, eggs, salt and pepper. Mix well. Add milk to make soupy consistency.

Pour dressing into greased 9-inch-by-13-inch baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 45 minutes, or until golden brown and firm in center.

Save some broth to add in pan to keep moist during baking.

Le yums.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 11:01 AM | Comments (1)

"Don't Listen to Me..."

"I'm a Pinhead."

Perhaps for the first time in recent history, cooler talking heads will prevail. I could live with that.

One of the most resonant arguments in the debate over Iraq holds that the United States can move forward by pulling its troops back, as part of a phased withdrawal. If American troops begin to leave and the remaining forces assume a more limited role, the argument holds, it will galvanize the Iraqi government to assume more responsibility for securing and rebuilding Iraq.

...But this argument is being challenged by a number of military officers, experts and former generals, including some who have been among the most vehement critics of the Bush administration’s Iraq policies.

Anthony C. Zinni, the former head of the United States Central Command and one of the retired generals who called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, argued that any substantial reduction of American forces over the next several months would be more likely to accelerate the slide to civil war than stop it.

“The logic of this is you put pressure on Maliki and force him to stand up to this,” General Zinni said in an interview, referring to Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister. “Well, you can’t put pressure on a wounded guy. There is a premise that the Iraqis are not doing enough now, that there is a capability that they have not employed or used. I am not so sure they are capable of stopping sectarian violence.”

...While Mr. Levin’s plan calls for beginning troop reductions over the next six months, it does not stipulate a time-frame for completing the withdrawal, or spell out precisely how many troops should be removed in the initial phase. The plan, however, does call for shifting the American military role to more limited missions like protecting the American Embassy, training the Iraqi forces and engaging in counterterrorist operations against cells of Al Qaeda.

“The point of the proposal is to force the Iraqis to take hold of the situation politically,” Mr. Levin said.

But some current and retired military officers say the situation in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq is too precarious to start thinning out the number of American troops. In addition, they worry that some Shiite leaders would see the reduction of American troops as an opportunity to unleash their militias against the Sunnis and engage in wholesale ethnic cleansing to consolidate their control of the capital.

John Batiste, a retired Army major general who also joined in the call for Mr. Rumsfeld’s resignation, described the Congressional proposals for troop withdrawals as “terribly naïve.”

Especially since the Iraqis in uniform seem to be a BIG part of the problem. Even super-secret-squirrel-serial-numberized-impossible-to-copy-Iraqi-uniformed guys are fakes.

Gunmen dressed in Iraqi police commando uniforms and driving vehicles with Interior Ministry markings rounded up dozens of people inside a government building in the heart of Baghdad on Tuesday and drove off with them in one of the most brazen mass kidnappings since a wave of sectarian abductions and killings became a feature of the war.

I'm still of the opinion that splattering copious amounts of Muqtada al-Sadr fat deposits would help immensely. And in the power vacuum to follow, there is opportunity ~ we'd just have to be the first ones in.

Plus, DAMN! It would just be so satisfying in a 'wrath of God' kind of way.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:32 AM | Comments (4)

Breaking: 8.1 Earthquake In Japan; Tsunami Warning

Ouch.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 07:10 AM

Not Quite How They Hoped To Get Screwed

And probably a little more than they deserve

A couple's ill-concealed sexual play aboard a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles got them charged with violating the Patriot Act, intended for terrorist acts, and could land them in jail for 20 years. According to their indictment, Carl Persing and Dawn Sewell were allegedly snuggling and kissing inappropriately, "making other passengers uncomfortable," when a flight attendant asked them to stop.

"Persing was observed nuzzling or kissing Sewell on the neck, and ... with his face pressed against Sewell's vaginal area. During these actions, Sewell was observed smiling," reads the indictment filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

On a second warning from the flight attendant, Persing snapped back threatening the flight attendant with "serious consequences" if he did not leave them alone.

Bad idea, Romeo.

They have been placed under legal surveillance until their trial on February 5. If found guilty, they both could be sent to jail for up to 20 years.

I am so sick of people doing all this canoodling in public, and then they get all pissy when someone points out it's rather...inappropriate and perhaps they should get a room somewhere.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 06:56 AM | Comments (1)

November 14, 2006

Even Tho I Won't Buy Their Chicken

...this still sounds sorry to me.

Colonel Sanders is shedding his white suit jacket for a cook's red apron.

KFC unveiled a new brand logo Tuesday that includes bolder colors and a more well-defined visage of the late Kentucky Fried Chicken founder, Colonel Harland Sanders, who will keep his classic black bow tie, glasses and goatee.

"This change gives us a chance not only to make sure we stay relevant but also communicates to customers the realness of Colonel Sanders and the fact that he was a chef," said Gregg Dedrick, president of KFC's U.S. division.

He wasn't a chef, you goon. He was a 'cook'.
'Chef' in an apron is the Scientologist on 'South Park'.

I love pretentious gurus talkin' smack. They sounds like retards mah-roons.
As he was:
And now:

Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:43 AM | Comments (6)

Blair Jumping Ship?

This is not encouraging:

The first cracks in the united front over Iraq between Tony Blair and President Bush appeared last night as the Prime Minister offered Iran and Syria the prospect of dialogue over the future of Iraq and the Middle East.

Mr Blair said there could be a new “partnership” with Iran if it stopped supporting terrorism in Iraq and gave up its nuclear ambitions. Syria and Iran could choose partnership or isolation, he said.

...Downing Street denied suggestions that Mr Blair was going “cap in hand” to Damascus and Tehran asking for help and insisted that they were being told that they had to make a “strategic choice” between giving up support for terrorism and nuclear ambitions in return for being brought in from the cold.

Hmm. Sadly, it spite of him tying this to Iran's halting of its support for terrorism and nu-cu-lar designs it looks like Tony's seen the writing on the US wall and feels he needs to go soft to protect his own position. Let's face it, no one in Europe will hold a hard line against anyone* in the Middle East, no matter what those countries do; all they need do is say 'we will consider blahblahblah' and the Europeasers will shower them with gifts. Spineless batsards. Well, the CarBQs will spread throughout France and the radical Muftis will plan their terror campaigns from the British mosques.

And the 'best and brightest' of Europe will keep blaming it all on the Americans and the Jews.

*Well, Israel is of course the exception; the Europeasers always manage to keep attacking them.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 07:06 AM | Comments (1)

November 13, 2006

Since the "60 Minutes" Guys Are Too Old to Travel

...and Peter Arnett's a frustrated has been, thank GOD the U.N. can pick up interviewing murderous dictator/rebel leader/fascist thugs where they left off. It's always good to have your replacement in the bag.

'Most wanted' man meets UN envoy
Talks in the bush with the Lord’s Resistance Army leader have raised hopes of an end to one of Africa’s most brutal wars. But there was little sign of any breakthrough

JOSEPH KONY, one of the International Criminal Court’s most wanted men, accused of massacre, rape and abducting children, strolled out of the jungle yesterday to shake hands with the United Nation’s highest humanitarian official.
The reclusive leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army kept Jan Egeland, UN under secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, waiting for two hours at Ri-Kwangba close to the Congolese border.

...The LRA has waged one of Africa’s most brutal and bizarre civil wars.

Tens of thousands of people have died and almost two million people have been forced to flee their homes since Mr Kony took up arms in Uganda against a Government accused of neglecting northerners.

The former altar boy claimed to have been instructed by the Holy Spirit and once said that he wanted to govern northern Uganda according to the Ten Commandments. The LRA abducted thousands of children to fight in its ranks, and tortured opponents by cutting off their lips, arms or legs. Girls were kept as sex slaves.

Mr Kony, and four senior commanders, have been charged by the International Criminal Court with war crimes, including killing civilians, rape, and abducting children.

Peace talks have stalled repeatedly on this issue as rebel negotiators demand an amnesty to allow Mr Kony to leave hiding.

If they were serious about helping this guy, they'd be on the phone to Jimmy Carter. And once they deep-six Bolton, the U.N. can do this kind of intervention work all the time.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:22 AM

November 12, 2006

James Baker and the Daddy Bushycons

...should scare the SH*T out of every American who's supported the troops in Iraq. (via Insta)

...The commission’s discussions are said to be focused on an option presented by a panel of experts that the United States concede that the situation in Iraq cannot be stabilized and make plans for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops.

An alternative proposal, that the United States commit money and troops toward stabilizing Iraq before a withdrawal, appears less likely of adoption, according to sources familiar with the proposals.

John Negroponte, director of national intelligence, is already working closely with Baker on some of the recommendations of his panel.

Negroponte reportedly has come to agree with what is expected to be the most controversial of recommendations from the Baker group: that the United States approach Iran, and, in tandem with Israel, approach Syria, for help with Iraq, according to a source familiar with Negroponte’s thinking. A spokesman for Negroponte did not respond to a request for comment Friday.

If this is a public opinion fishing expedition, the uproar should be ferocious and biblical in response. How DARE they. Shrub and his know-it-all-cheap-war neocons f*cked this up royally from the beginning. They never gave their wonderful idea the commitment of money, planning and support the troops who would pay the price for their arrogance deserved. And now they're looking for a way to slide out of Dodge. So you ask older, slyer escape artists. Remember how they operate?

They cut a fledgling democracy movement off at the knees once before that hadn't cost one American life. F*ckin' Scowcroft was a weasel of epic proportion and Baker his enabler. So if Baker's back in the picture, who's our weasel of the moment already in contact with Iran and/or Syria?

And I didn't vote for them the first time, either.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 02:59 PM | Comments (3)

November 11, 2006

I Want To Share This With You

My dear friends. Yes, in this troubled world we sometimes get down, battered about by all that crazy karma out there. But don't despair! Turn the Hi-Fi high and the lights down low, and settle back and reeeeelax, baby...

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 09:34 PM | Comments (7)

I'm Not Surprised

...but it's delicious they were. (Via Insta)

They had to run that clip because the much of the rest of his speech was an absolute riot.

He started off by mentioning that "tomorrow is an extremely important day for America," and the crowd went wild, thinking he was talking about taking power. But of course, he launched into his praise of the Marine Corps, and the crowd cheered a little less loudly. Then he thanked all the brave veterans and brave men still fighting, and the crowd cheered a little less loudly again.

Then he mentioned that he received a call from Sen. Allen, and the crowd went nuts again. Then he mentioned how pleasant and dignified Allen was, and the crowd grew quiet. Then he said he was having lunch next week with Allen — and the crowd was dead silent. Finally he told the audience that they should all thank Sen./Gov. Allen for his many years of dedicated service to the people of Virginia — and you could almost hear the people gathered looking at each other asking, "What the $#@! did we just do?"

It was priceless.

In the spirit of full disclosure, major dad and I would have voted for James Webb. We have fond memories and tons of respect for him after serving during his tenure as SecNav. He was one guy who had the cajones to actually resign in protest and we were all sorrier than crap to lose him. One Marine breath of fresh air and back to bureaucratic dweebs (the odd one actually had served in the Navy) running the Department. (There's also the matter of that kick ass Scotch Irish book he wrote ~ major dad's always quoting chapter and verse.)

Confessing our turncoatedness in full, we also voted for Bill Nelson and I was delighted to find Florida Cracker sharing our secret little GOP purgatory. And Mark Steyn in concert with Hugh Hewitt looking as if he writes from his desk a la Jason Blair and sounding foolish. A couple pundits obviously NOT knowing the territory. (Wow! How often does THAT happen?)

Hugh made another sharp point, noting that in Florida the Republicans in effect gave away a Senate seat. Given the way the GOP have held the Governor's mansion, and Katherine Harris' House seat, and Foley's seat, it seems clear that almost any credible Senate candidate could have swiped that seat out from under the Dems.

Mother Theresa would have had a hard time beating Bill Nelson. Why send a good guy who does your state proud (he was an astronaut, for God's sake! WOO!) packing? There's NO good reason and the state GOP knew it. Shrewd. As I noted in the comments over there...

Add me and major dad to the 'voted for Nelson' column. Good, decent guy. I think the only major beef I've had with him has been his insistance on the offshore drilling moratorium hard line ~ and I'M the treehugger! Katharine Harris is quite probably the best thing the Republicans could have hoped for. A candidate with no viable political future against a hugely popular real guy and no one hurt who might one day actually BE a contender, like Alan Bense. No harm, no foul, best guy for the job still has it, no future GOP star tarnished.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:42 AM | Comments (11)

November 10, 2006

Happy Birthday, My Brothers and Sisters

And Semper Fi.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:39 AM | Comments (12)

November 09, 2006

Is This What She Means By "A New Direction For America"?

Via Insta, here's some frankly frightening news about one of Pelosi's potential appointments

With majority status in the "people's house" comes a share in responsibility for the security of the Republic. This is why we are so concerned about a shadow which darkens presumptive Speaker Pelosi's triumphant morning, a shadow which will only grow longer if she allows it to begin appearing prominently in the media coverage of the global war on terrorism, metastasizing into her first "intelligence failure" even before she takes the gavel from outgoing Speaker Hastert. That is the shadow of Alcee Lamar Hastings, the reelected Democratic Representative from Florida's 23rd District.

Mr. Hastings was, in the outgoing 109th Congress, the second-ranked Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. But the Washington Post's Charles Babington first reported more than a year ago, in a story that has never been denied (indeed, it has been confirmed in the congressman's hometown newspaper, the Miami Herald) that Ms. Pelosi plans to replace the committee's current ranking Democrat, California Representative Jane Harman, with Mr. Hastings who would be installed as committee chairman when the 110th Congress begins. The move would be a payback to the Congressional Black Caucus, to whose support Pelosi owes her election as Minority Leader and whose members she angered by picking Ms. Harman to be ranking member over Georgia Rep. Sanford Bishop in 2003.

Read the whole thing. Did I say it was frightening? But see, that's because in my outdated outlook I see national security as the most important issue we face; it's not something that can be 'negotiated' or you can 'build bridges' about. You have to fight, hard, and you have to accept, first and foremost, that the only letters that matter next to your name are not "R" or "D" but "USA".

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 06:59 AM | Comments (6)

November 08, 2006

GOP Loses

Not hugely, mind you, but a few percentage points here and there and the country remains pretty evenly split. The Senate seems to be 50/50 at this point, and in the House it seems to be 52%/48% more or less; not 'historic' or 'epic' as it will be spun, but things were so even beforehand that it was enough. Considering how poorly the GOP has done while in power and how far they have strayed from their professed principles they shouldn't really feel too badly about that. It will be good for them; they were in power too long and it frankly corrupted them. Now we will get to see how the Dems behave for awhile.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 06:48 AM | Comments (9)

November 07, 2006

Please Remember To Vote Today

And we here at The Swilling wish to inform your decision with this Helpful Primer sent via anonymous email:

DEMOCRATIC You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. Barbara Streisand sings for you.

REPUBLICAN
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?

SOCIALIST
You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.

COMMUNIST
You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk
the other, and then pours the milk down the drain.

AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are
surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the
analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.

FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.

JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and
produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.

GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give
excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour..
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.

ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows but you don't know where they are.
While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.

RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.

TALIBAN CORPORATION
You have all the cows in Afghanistan , which are two.
You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private
parts.
You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternatives
to milk production but use the money to buy weapons.

IRAQI CORPORATION
You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.

BELGIAN CORPORATION
You have one cow.
The cow is schizophrenic.
Sometimes the cow thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish.
The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow.
The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk.
The cow asks permission to be cut in half.
The cow dies happy.

FLORIDA CORPORATION
You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally
vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
Some people can't figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you think
is the best-looking cow.

CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
You have millions of cows.
They make real California cheese.
Only five speak English.
Most are illegals.
Arnold likes the ones with the big udders.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 07:13 AM | Comments (5)

November 06, 2006

Dear ABC News

::sigh:: I hate to keep picking on you pinheads, but you, like Kerry, just won't quit.

The Republican running for governor is...

C-H-A-R-L-I-E

Crist.
CHARLIE Crist.

Who the hell is "Bill"?

UPDATE: Miraculously, his name has changed to "Charlie" on the home page! Boneheads. But I hate to break it to ABC, no matter how they try to spin Crist ducking out on our Pensacola love fest, it makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE for him to be here. None. We are as RED as RED can be and if he wants to get elected? He needs to be schmoozling Jewish grandmothers in Palm Beach.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 04:36 PM

Are You Ready for Some Voting?

They are.

So take your garlic with you.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 04:27 PM

And It Seems Weird to Me

...that the President would be ~ of all places ~ here today. (I'd forgotten and almost got caught in the security crush taking over the motorcade route.)

But that's nice he thought of us. And the faithful are always very appreciative when he shows up ~ Pensacolians are nothing if not warm and welcoming. It's one of the things I like most about this place.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 03:18 PM | Comments (1)

Some Interesting Stats "55 and Laid Off"-wise

Many older workers who get laid off face a tough time replacing their salary, and Michael in California is wondering just what is happening to workers who lose their jobs as they near retirement.

...There's no question that some people in their 50s and early 60s who are laid off from high-paying jobs can have an extremely tough time finding a new job at the same salary. This is especially true for those who’ve worked for the same company or industry for their entire careers — and have built up experience, wisdom or a full Rolodex of contacts that may not translate to a new company or industry.

...Still, it’s clear that many older workers are finding good jobs — especially as more and more baby boomers say they plan to stay in the workforce past the traditional retirement age of 65. Though big companies in older, mature industries may be making big layoffs — and getting the big headlines when they do — the overall U.S. job pool keeps expanding at a healthy clip. Since 2003, some 7 million more new jobs have been created than old jobs were lost. But “GM lays off 1,000” is news; “Advanced Bionetics hires three new workers” isn’t.

...“Older workers more and more are in much higher demand,” said John Challenger, whose company helps laid-off workers find new jobs. While “certainly (age) discrimination hasn’t disappeared,” he said, “for those who want to work the market is opening up to them.”

At least there's a home page link on MSNBC. Once you get past Harold Ford's picture, that is.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 03:11 PM

As Someone in the Comments Notes

...this brilliant idea...

Rush-hour road pricing on the way say experts
A major push to impose road tolls at rush hours and on congested routes is on the cards.

Plans for drivers to pay for every mile driven at peak times or on traffic pinch points are set to be backed by a study commissioned by Chancellor Gordon Brown.

Government research has previously suggested a fee of up to £1.34 per mile would be needed to reduce congestion on main routes into London.

Other studies have proposed charges ranging from 2p per mile minimum to £2 per mile on badly clogged main roads.

...would certainly reduce congestion, because those who have no public transportation to their place of employment couldn't afford to work anyway.

I live in south east london but work in south west london. There is no reliable alternative for me other than the car. if this road pricing comes in at £1.30 as is being suggested I will have a number of choices.

1)give up work as I would be working to pay road tolls. at £1.30 it would be £97.00* a day for me.

*Currently $184.41 US

"Immigrate to Australia" seems to come up frequently.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 10:37 AM | Comments (3)

Paging Ollie North

Round Two seems to have started.

Group: Sandinista Leader Ortega Wins Nicaragua Presidency
Leftist Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega appeared Monday to have easily defeated four other presidential candidates in his long quest to return to power 16 years after a U.S.-backed rebellion helped force him from office, according to a respected electoral observer group projecting victory based on a sampling of the votes.

Sweet Jesus. Who woulda thunk it? Not Ollie North.

...The prospect has horrified Mr North, who is now a conservative political commentator and activist. He told Nicaraguan television it would be "the worst thing" and was cause for concern. "My hope is that the people of Nicaragua are not going to return to that. That's not good for your country. That's not good for my country."

The Sandinista leader, 60, still has the moustache but has renounced revolutionary Marxism and promised to rule as a centrist moderate and reconciler. His campaign uses pastel pink and John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance anthem.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:50 AM

I Saw This and Thought "DAMN!"

If THAT isn't the MOTHER of all blogging sell-outs!

Abbott to buy Kos for $3.7 bln

Then I saw the rest of the headline:

...in cholesterol move

Still sort of relative, in a foul/sticky/need-meds-to-control-it kind of way.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:36 AM | Comments (6)

Pelosi: "Elections Not Needed"

That's what this frankly vile person seems to be saying:

Pelosi cautioned that the number of Democratic House victories could be higher or lower and said her greatest concern is over the integrity of the count -- from the reliability of electronic voting machines to her worries that Republicans will try to manipulate the outcome.

"That is the only variable in this," Pelosi said. "Will we have an honest count?''

"If indeed it turns out the way that people expect it to turn out, the American people will have spoken, and they will have rejected the course of action the president is on."

You get that? She's saying that the only way the Democrats will lose is if Republicans cheat and steal the election; the possibility that, oh, I don't know, say people don't actually vote for them never enters her mind. Is this the person we want 2 heartbeats away from the Presidency? Someone who will accept that "the American People have spoken" only if they say what she wants to hear? Someone who publically casts doubt on the integrity of our electoral process before it begins?

"That is the only variable in this," Pelosi said. "Will we have an honest count?''

Madame, you disgust me.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 06:46 AM

November 05, 2006

Yup

Shown to "wild applause" at the Army-Air Force game.
I mean, we're willing to let it go ~ he's a horse's ass and that's all there is ~ but dang if Newsweek doesn't do four pages on him. Are we 'piling on' if we discuss it? I'm torn. He's such a DOPE. Let it DIE, Johnny Boy. But, oh no. Even on his OWN website, the keeps going like the Energizer Bunny of Bad News. Good Lord ~ when you can cause even Dead Eye-Dick Cheney to slip in the Freudian manner...wait...maybe that was a botched joke?
I don't know what to believe anymore.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 10:46 PM

Saddam To Swing

Good.

Angry, shaking and defiant, Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death this morning by hanging for ordering the massacre of Iraqi civilians.

...He had refused to stand for the verdict and had to be lifted to his feet by two court bailiffs.

"Make him stand," the judge ordered as the former president stayed seated.

This is an important step for them to clear the decks and try and rebuild. I honestly don't know at this point if it is possible for Iraq to have anything close to a Western-style democaracy; I certainly despair that it isn't. But it would be completely impossible with him around, and the lesson needs to be given that people like him, and those that support him, will pay.

He had wanted to face a firing squad - that request was refused.

Even better.

Oh, here's a shock:

Amnesty International described the trial as a "shabby affair marred by serious flaws".

The Iraqis conducted it, gave him more than ample chances to defend himself and completely disrupt the proceedings. I'm not sure what Amnesty's problem is. Well, I'm sure I can guess, though.

I have to say that this is good, too:

Chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Moussawi told reporters that the Anfal trial now in progress for Saddam and others alleged role in gassing and killing Kurds would continue while the appeals process is underway. But if the appellate judges uphold the death sentence, the Anfal proceedings and other cases would be halted and Saddam hanged.

...A court official told The Associated Press that the appeals process was likely to take three to four weeks once the formal paperwork was submitted.

The last thing needed is some endless appeal process; thank god they haven't learned that from our lawyers...yet.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 07:35 AM | Comments (4)

November 03, 2006

The Scales of Justice

...hold no water for LAW BREAKERS and FISH THIEVES.

At one otherwise uneventful stop in the closing stages of America's mid-term elections this week, George Allen, who is running for a second term as Virginia's Republican senator, had visibly to rein in his temper.

Having been asked about two alleged criminal records from his student days – fishing without a licence and speeding... "I mean, getting a citation for fishing without a licence when I was a student – now that's an important issue."

Yup. That's what they all say when they're trollin' for votes.

Sorry, son, that don't fly here. Hook 'em, Danno.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 03:32 PM | Comments (6)

MORE BREAKING NEWS: ANOTHER November

...SURPRISE!

Unemployment rate lowest in nearly 5-1/2 years
The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to a 5-1/2 year low in October as 92,000 jobs were added and hiring in the two prior months was revised up, the government said on Friday, leading financial markets to slash bets on interest-rate cuts.

The stronger-than-expected job picture sent shock waves through financial markets. Bond prices fell while stock futures and the dollar moved higher on the signs of unexpectedly robust U.S. hiring.

The Labor Department said 92,000 jobs were added in October, less than the 125,000 that Wall Street analysts had forecast, but it said hiring in September and August was far stronger than it first estimated.

It revised up September's job-creation total to 148,000, or nearly three times the 51,000 it reported a month ago, and said there were 230,000 new jobs in August instead of 188,000.

The unemployment rate fell in October to 4.4 percent from 4.6 percent in September. It was the lowest unemployment rate since 4.3 percent in May 2001.

Well, sh*t. Nobody wants news like that.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 10:21 AM

BREAKING NEWS: Iranian Scientists NOT as Stoo-pid as U.S. Troops

Clinton officials 'shocked' by failure of 'nuanced plan'!!!

Mullah Merlin heads to super secret bunker where he's building a secret nuclear device that he got super secret plans from Clinton administration secret sources who secretly botched the super secret way to build one or so they super secretly thought, having a super opinion of their mental superiority. - Photo © M. Albright/al-Reuters

Documents prove Saddam one year away from NUKE...before he wasn't.

NOTE: Saddam files' FAKE pictures of al-Zarqawi and FAKE al-Qaeda documents ARE STILL FAKEDY FAKE FAKE FAKE and planted by al-KarlRovia agents of Mordor. Ignore those.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:50 AM

November 02, 2006

We're Having A Party!

And look who showed up!

It'll be a blast!

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 06:48 PM | Comments (4)

ABC News Sure Knows How to Motivate the Base

Yup.
UPDATE: Wow. This shot as of 7:50 a.m.CST. They've dropped the "look at all sides" line.

EDITOR'S NOTE: A warm Swill Welcome to Gateway Pundit and Hot Air readers. Thanks for stopping by. A note concerning our post:

I’d like to add that I linked to the Air America Op-Ed piece when I first found this at about 4:45 a.m.CST. From the verbiage, you weren’t quite as surprised when you wound up on an Op-Ed, because it DOES say “all sides blahblahblah look”.

But by the second screenshot (three hours later), THAT LINE IS GONE, as well as the question changed ~ from "MAYBE He Was Right?" to "Could He Have Been Right?". That first sentence had also been rephrased and made an interrogative.

My jaded eyes tell me ABC is shilling for Air America (you'll notice the "Townhall" link is labeled "OPINION") ~ using the Op-Ed subterfuge for a "news" headline they intend to be read EXACTLY as it does.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 05:46 AM | Comments (15)

That's What I'm Talking About!

Huge amounts of a red wine extract seemed to help obese mice eat a high-fat diet and still live a long and healthy life, suggests a new study that some specialists are calling "landmark" research.

..."These fat old mice can perform as well on this skill test as young lean mice," Dr. Sinclair said.

Drink up, Shriners!

Posted by tree hugging sister at 04:37 AM

It Could Be a Long Cold Winter

...in Georgia.

Russia's state-controlled natural gas monopoly said Thursday that it would more than double the price it charges Georgia, further heightening tensions between the ex-Soviet neighbors.

OAO Gazprom said in a statement that it will charge $230 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas, compared with the $110 that it charges now.

Tensions rose between the two countries after Georgia briefly detained four purported Russian spies in late September. Moscow responded with a transport and postal blockade on Georgia and a crackdown on Georgian migrants living in Russia, whose financial remittances help sustain their homeland's economy.

...Relations between Moscow and Tbilisi have steadily deteriorated since the 2004 election of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, who has sought to take the Caucasus nation out of the Russian orbit, bolster ties with the West and join NATO in 2008.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 04:28 AM

Aw...It's 2 in the Morning

...and even the AP is going after him.

Kerry's '72 Army comments mirror latest
During a Vietnam-era run for Congress three decades ago, John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to "the perpetuation of war crimes."

...The Associated Press was alerted to the historical comments by a former law enforcement official who monitored 1970s anti-war activities

...In 1972, as he ran for the House, he was less apologetic in his comments about the merits of a volunteer army. He declared in the questionnaire that he opposed the draft but considered a volunteer army "a greater anathema."

"I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown," Kerry wrote. "We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam. I also fear having a professional army that views the perpetuation of war crimes as simply 'doing its job.'

Don't ya just hate guys that botch the same old joke over and over?

Posted by tree hugging sister at 03:48 AM

And How Sorry

...is this?

...House Democrats have had to deal with investigations of their own, involving Reps. William J. Jefferson (La.), Alan B. Mollohan (W.Va.) and Jane Harman (Calif.), but none of those cases have put Democratic seats in jeopardy.

In one case, I guess it depends on what your definition of "cold hard cash" is.

...FOX-8 anchor John Snell, who zeroed in on the issues that have emerged as each candidates' respective Achilles' heel.

Snell immediately cut to the chase, pressing eight-term incumbent U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, on the central issue of the campaign: the $90,000 in marked bills that FBI agents said they found last year in his freezer on Capitol Hill.

"I don't want to pick on you about it," Snell said. "But let's face it, that's why we're here."

..."I've not told you that I had $90,000 in the freezer," Jefferson said. "I ask the voters to trust me based on my long history with them and based on the fact that these are unproven allegations and based on the fact that it's been a long time that (prosecutors have) been fooling around with it."

Posted by tree hugging sister at 03:33 AM

November 01, 2006

Love Means Always Having to Say You're Sorry

I can feel the muskrat love.

Thrust into the midst of the midterm election campaign, Sen. John Kerry apologized Wednesday to “any service member, family member or American who was offended” by remarks deemed by Republicans and Democrats alike to be insulting to U.S. forces in Iraq.

Dick has a problem with rodents...

Vice President Dick Cheney said in remarks prepared for a campaign appearance in Montana. “I guess we didn’t get the nuance. He was for the joke before he was against it.”

...being a hunter and all. Watch for the left to come out swinging because Dick is insensitive.

I think Dick's droll.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 05:41 PM | Comments (3)

GOOD!

If they send his a$$ back to Ethiopia when he walks out of prison, even better.

Jury convicts father in genital mutilation of girl
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the first case of its kind in U.S.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 05:32 PM | Comments (2)

I'm Sorry ~ I'm Weak

Just one more, honest to God. And then I quit. Unless he says something again.

After all, Kerry is an awful politician, a human toothache with the charisma of a 19th-century Oxford Latin tutor.

I'm DYing here. In his piece Jonah Goldberg also points out something I noted in the comments at LaShawn Barber's (who, by the by, thinks Kerry just pulled a ...Kerry.). (Which is, admittedly, what we live for.) To the cries of 'over reaction', 'piling on', 'misinterpretation', 'Rush is MEAN to Michael J. Fox', 'blahblahblah', I chose a short trip down Memory Lane.

HEY!! You forgot the “Republicans (FOLEY) protect (FOLEY) homoSEXual (HOMOHOMOHOMO) child (FOLEY) molestors (FOLEY)!! They’re the Grand Old Perverts! (Did I mention FOLEY?)”

I don't think having a cow at the horse's ass is doing anybody any harm even close to the DEMO-goguery we've been treated to lately.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 01:34 PM | Comments (1)

In Response to Sharon's Polite Request

Okay, we will!

UPDATE: Clever culprits identified!! As Dave said, members of the Minnesota National Guard.

GIS DROP SMART BOMB ON KERRY
HILARIOUS HEROES FIRE BACK OVER DEM AND DUMBER CRACK ABOUT IRAQ
...Holtan, who works at Guard headquarters, said he believes the troops behind the Kerry sign are in Iraq, since all the members of the unit in the shot - the 1/34 Brigade Troops Battalion - have been deployed.

He said he can see a unit insignia on one of the vehicles in the background and those vehicles have also gone to Iraq.

Fox News Channel quoted Army officials saying that the picture looked authentic and appeared to be taken in Iraq.

"We are always amazed at the creativity of our troops," one Army official told Fox.

Oh, you betcha.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 01:06 PM | Comments (3)

I Blame Bush!

...corporate whore that he is.

Those annoying television commercials that told parents to talk to their teenagers about not smoking were especially annoying to the kids they were meant to help, an upcoming article in the American Journal of Public Health will claim--so annoying that they may have encouraged kids to take up the habit that the tobacco-company-sponsored spots were supposed to deter.

...The study looked at the results of the advertising on the smoking habits and beliefs of American school students. It turns out, perhaps unsurprisingly, that peer pressure overpowered the messages that penetrated living rooms in 75 U.S. television markets.

"As adolescents age toward adulthood, they are more inclined to perceive themselves as independent and self-reliant and less likely to report that they rely on their parents for guidance or assistance," the study said.

The ads aimed at the kids themselves did not have any effect on teen smoking, the study found, while those targeted at the parents apparently made the kids who saw them more likely to smoke.

"No way!" "You're joking!" And the always popular "what a surprise!" If this was REAL news and not a RETHUGLICAN PLOT, it would be on MSNBC/ABC and not FORBES.

In an unlikely coincidence, a proposed constitutional amendent is on the ballot here in Florida. In their infinite wisdom, the do-gooder dolts want to:

No. 4: Protect People Especially Youth, From Addiction, Disease, and Other Health Hazards of Using Tobacco
To protect people, especially youth, from addiction, disease, and other health hazards of using tobacco, the Legislature shall use some Tobacco Settlement money annually for a comprehensive statewide tobacco education and prevention program using Centers for Disease Control best practices. Specifies some program components, emphasizing youth, requiring one-third of total annual funding for advertising. Annual funding is 15% of 2005 Tobacco Settlement payments to Florida, adjusted annually for inflation. Provides definitions. Effective immediately.

Protect PEEPS! Especially YOOTS!! For $57 MILLION a YEAR!!
(Hey! Protection ain't cheap.) Even if the protection doesn't WORK! Is a FAILURE! Like BUSH'S IRAQ POLICY!! Because he's STOOOPID. Like YOO ARE if you don't vote for No.4. You must always vote for the CHIIIIDREN. Or YOO'RE A STOOPID REPUBLICAN HATER GATOR.

Posted by tree hugging sister at 10:28 AM | Comments (1)

Kerry Reconsidered

You know, maybe I'm being too hard on poor JFK for saying this on Monday:

"You know, education -- if you make the most of it, you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

It turns out he was supposed to say this

A Kerry spokeswoman, Amy Brundage, said Kerry’s prepared text had called for him to say: “Do you know where you end up if you don’t study, if you aren’t smart, if you’re intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush.”

I'm so glad that has been made clear for us, and, as Florida Cracker reminds us, he knows what he's speaking about when it comes to "intellectually lazy":

WASHINGTON -- During last year's presidential campaign, John F. Kerry was the candidate often portrayed as intellectual and complex, while George W. Bush was the populist who mangled his sentences. But newly released records show that Bush and Kerry had a virtually identical grade average at Yale University four decades ago.

In 1999, The New Yorker published a transcript indicating that Bush had received a cumulative score of 77 for his first three years at Yale and a roughly similar average under a non-numerical rating system during his senior year.

Kerry, who graduated two years before Bush, got a cumulative 76 for his four years, according to a transcript that Kerry sent to the Navy when he was applying for officer training school. He received four D's in his freshman year out of 10 courses, but improved his average in later years.

And , of course,

Another of his strongest efforts, a 77, came in French class.

So, please, let's cut Kerry the Slacker some slack and for god's sake study, kids: if you're lazy in college you could end up President.

Or worse, married to Teresa.

Seriously, if "lazy" Bush's Yale average of 77 gets us 'stuck in Iraq', Kerry's 76 would have left us...where, exactly?

Posted by Mr. Bingley at 07:41 AM | Comments (2)