If not…what the fuck else can his problem possibly be?

He’s now in agreement with Republican Conservatives that if a hospital refuses to provide emergency contraception to rape victims, that they should not be forced to by law. “In Connecticut, it shouldn’t take more than a short ride to get to another hospital,” he said.

What a fucking scum bag. Hospitals should not be legally required to perform legal procedures in an emergency situation, because they don’t like that idea? We’re talking emergency contraception, not aborting a third trimester fetus. Contraception, by definition, prevents pregnancy. These assholes are the same people that want to force rape victims to carry the baby of their attacker, but now they want to go a step further and not even allow you emergency contraception? When are they getting into the rape business full time? Sounds like they like it enough.

Lieberman is simply not a democrat. He’s an asshole. He’s once again making it possible for Republicans to claim there is bi-partisan support for a shitty, mean spirited decision dictated by superstitious beliefs in a really old, really boring, book.

Look, medicine comes from science. If you don’t believe in science, how can you effectively practice medicine? It’s now looking to me like you can’t, so religious freaks really need to get out of the business. If you have such an ethical problem with your job that you can’t perform it well, get a different goddamn job and let those of us who have evolved past superstitious beliefs enjoy the benefits of science.

We should seriously just give a portion of the country, right around South Dakota, to all these fucking idiots, and let them return their little patch of the world to the dark ages, completely with animal sacrifice, leeches, and blood lettings.

Ok, so last night I was laying in bed trying to drift off to sleep as my annoying cat clawed at my face lightly and purred trying to make me pet him and listening to NPR Now on Sirius.

Right as I started to drift off, they went to a break where they usually play a short commercial or two for another show on NPR Now.

But what did I hear? An ad declaring that Fox News would coming to Sirius!

I know I am generalizing here, but I would suspect that most NPR listeners are not also Fox News listeners. Not only that, but Fox News is going to get two fucking channels, so you can literally flip back and forth between Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity at will! Can you imagine anything more enlightening?

These are both old…but damn funny.

Bush on global warming.

Bush campaign ad.

AHH…hahaha….how funny is it that the VP of the gun nut party shot his hunting buddy in the face?

I’ll tell you how funny. REEEAAAL fucking funny. About as funny as anything I’ve ever heard. Of course, there is a certain amount of bullshit surrounding it, much like anything else Cheney does. After all, we all know that were you or I wandering around with the proper hunting tag, and shot someone in the face…we’d probably be put under a little more scrutiny than the good ole V.P…but it’s so funny, that it doesn’t really bother me much. It’s also somewhat understandable, as I don’t think anyone could be expected to know that you are required to have a tag to hunt lawyers in Texas. It’s not a bad idea though…

Or do you suppose that the prince of evil just got fed up with his minions getting to do all the shooting of innocents over seas, and decided to try it out for himself? Do you think he tortured him first? Hmm…

I wonder how long before the NRA pays off the guy and takes him on a speaking tour? It would be great, “Our second amendment rights are still top priority. I value my right to bear arms, more than I value this whole side of my face, and neck…and chest. God Bless America!”

I just love it. Seriously. All around the world, we are known as an aggressive country, using the force of our weapons to dominate whatever arena we feel like entering…and now our Vice President has shot someone while in office. It just makes you proud to be an American. Incidently, he is the second V.P. in U.S. history to fire a gun at someone while in office.

Anyone catch the daily show last night? “Jon, tonight the Vice President is standing by his decision to shoot Harry Whittington. Now according to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the brush. Everyone believed at the time-there-were-quail in the brush. And while the quail turned out to be a 78 year old man, even knowing that today, Mr. Cheney insists-he still would have shot Mr. Whittington in the face. Mr.Cheney believes that the world is a better place for his spreading buckshot through the entire region of Mr. Whittington’s face.”

Awesome. Absolutely awesome.

Don’t cry Scooter, I don’t like the fall either. God do I ever hate the fall. Of course, I mean the season, not “of our horrendously corrupt administration”. Yeah, I suppose it is pretty. But it’s also colder, the days get short…and you know the New England winter is just around the corner. This week has been surprisingly nice, but even nice fall days just seem like a tease, and thus still piss me off.

There is one thing this fall that keeps me going, and it’s BEER! Just kidding…erm…sorta. Seriously though, it’s all the GREAT fucking news we’ve been getting lately.

What a great season for the news addict/political junkie…at least those of a left wing bent. I can hardly wait for each days work to be over so I can rush to my position in front of both the computer and the TV and bask in the glory that is our political process. When work was over yesterday, I hadn’t heard any new scandals or bad news for the Bush administration, so I was a little bummed out. But I faithfully turned one TV to CSPAN2, and the other to CNN, only to be rewarded with up to date information regarding the bitch slapping of the republicans by the minority senators. I was cheering like your typical hooligan. I mean, check these choice quotes out:

“Unfortunately the unwillingness of the Republican-controlled Congress to exercise its oversight responsibilities is not limited to just Iraq. We see it with respect to the prisoner abuse scandal. We see it with respect to Katrina. And we see it with respect to the cronyism and corruption that permeates this Administration.” - Harry Reid

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“Let’s take a look back at how we got here with respect to Iraq Mr. President. The record will show that within hours of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, senior officials in this Administration recognized these attacks could be used as a pretext to invade Iraq.

The record will also show that in the months and years after 9/11, the Administration engaged in a pattern of manipulation of the facts and retribution against anyone who got in its way as it made the case for attacking Iraq.” - Harry Reid

I had the words, “BOOM! HEADSHOT!” running through my head the entire time. Normally, the Republicans get a bit of heat, and they change the topic. Either they raise the terror alert, or they nominate a supreme court justice, or some other attention grabber. But they tried that today and the democrats finally took a play out of the republicans playbook, and kicked their ass with it. I just hope they don’t back down now that they’ve finally seized the offensive.

It feels like Christmas all ready. First we have Fitzgiving, and now this. It’s enough to make me dance for joy. But that’s not all, we also get Trent Lott hinting that maybe Rove needs to be replaced!

I initially tried to hold back, and not just wallow in how much joy I was feeling watching the Bush administration fail. Because, after all, their failure is bad for America. But it is apparent to all but the most misguided and crazed of the right that Bush is not compassionate, not conservative, and clearly not competent. AT THE VERY LEAST. A clear case is also building that the administration is also incredibly secretive, manipulative, and deceiving. Or in a word, corrupt. Staunch Republican friends of mine are all of a sudden slamming Bush every chance they get. I try not to say “I told you so” but in some cases have been unable to refrain - and even in those cases, rather than the caustic nonsensical backlash that I’ve come to know Bush supporters by, I’ve received meek “I know” responses.

I have witnessed absolutely glorious things I tell you! I’ve seen Ann Coulter on Real Time with Bill Maher, talking shit about Bush. How can it get better than that?

It’s great finally the news makes me feel a little less insane. For a while there, I was getting to the point where I was really questioning whether or not I was just insane and that Bush really was a good president, just doing what’s right for a America, and everyone loved him for it….or if he was a greedy, deceptive little shit weasel, screwing us over at every turn, and I was one of the few people who for some reason didn’t get brainwashed. I think it’s now clear what the answer is, even if no more indictments come down. You don’t have a leak that high up in the government, unless you have a leaky, deceptive government. It’s become clear that at the very least, Cheney and Bush knew who leaked what, if in fact it can’t be proven that either of them in fact ordered it.

They are so fucked. I LOVE IT. The best part is that not only do they look bad, the whole conservative movement, particularly the crazy religious wackjob section of it, looks utterly insane for putting this man in power, and supporting him for so long.

I’m not getting my hopes up too far, but I don’t know if any amount of spinning in the world is going to convince the American people to trust the Republicans again come election time. It’s certainly possible I suppose. But I’ll wait until then to get thoroughly depressed by the ignorance of my fellow Americans, until then you can find me in front of CNN, dancing wildly with beer in hand, screaming “Oh my god, you guys, this is so awesome!” in my best Cartman voice.

I’m stuck in a strange state right now where I want to post something, yet can’t think of anything to write about. The blogging community seems to be of two minds about such situations. One theory goes that even if you can’t think of anything to post, just ramble on and post anyway. On the other side, we have those that say all posts should at least be topical, if not well thought out and proofread.

I’m going to side step the issue and cop out totally by just posting a few links I like to read.

As an aside, I finally caved in to Naya’s badgering and set up a myspace account. It will probably updated even less than this page, so don’t expect much. But here it is. Naya was out here for a week, and just left yesterday. I miss her. This whole “living on the east coast” thing is really wearing kinda thin at this point. But fortunately I have Warcraft and Beer to keep me company, as depressing as that is.

I’m leaving for 2 weeks in Muncie, Indiana on Sunday. Much like just about everything else that goes on in my life, I’m really not so thrilled at the prospect. Especially since it’s for training that will enable me to sucessfully make the conversion that will take away the only joy I get from my job, and relegate me to the level of system operator. So thats, uhmm…totally lame. But RobSurge is going with me, so we’ll be Fear&Loathing it as much as possible. Judging from past trips together, I don’t think we’ll have a hard time blurring, or completely erasing, the memories of whatever they try to teach us.

It’s a sad day to be a Republican.

Imagine…you’re watching Sean Hannity like a good Republican. You begin to parrot the party talking points, about how it’s the local governments fault despite both FEMA and Bush himself stating prior to the hurricane that they would do everything in their power, without getting bogged down by bureaucracy, to help the people of the gulf coast region. You selectively forget that though, and parrot on and on about how the media is blaming the president when really it’s that black mayor and female governor’s fault.

Then yesterday, you have Bush come out and take responsibility for government failures in response to the hurricane. OUCH! It really must feel like the RNC was lying to you, as well as everyone else. You! Their faithful parrot! Imagine that. It’s gotta hurt. And then, when they realized they weren’t going to be able to spin their way out of this one, surprise! They admit for once that they are wrong….really wrong. And they didn’t warn you to shut your mouth.

I mean, I spent a substantial portion of yesterday arguing with people that Bush was in fact responsible for the utterly inept response in many, many ways. Imagine my suprise, when mid-flame-war, Bush came out and won it for me! It’s like the first time ever that I felt like Bush was on my side.

Then today, the Non-Partisan Congressional Research Service Report on Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina is released stating that in fact the governor of LA acted in a timely and legal manner to secure federal relief, and that the federal government for some reason simply didn’t react for several days.

You’ve been caught with your pants down guys. You finally managed to bungle something so fucking badly that people woke up a little, and won’t accept your spin. For once. The report states “Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco requested by letter dated August 27, 2005…that the President declare an emergency for the State of Louisiana due to Hurricane Katrina for the time period from August 26, 2005 and continuing pursuant to (applicable Federal statute)” and “Governor Blanco’s August 27, 2005 request for an emergency declaration also included her determination…that ‘the incident is of such severity and magnitude that effective response is beyond the capabilities of the State and affected local governments and that supplementary Federal assistance is necessary to save lives, protect property, public health, and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of disaster.”

Now, of course Bush is only saying he is accepting responsibility as a form of damage control. It is one thing to *say* one accepts responsibility, and another thing entirely to actually *take* some responsibility. Mike Brown, the inept, utterly unqualified director of FEMA that Bush appointed, took some responsibility. He realized he was in WAY over his head, that he was called out, and he resigned.

As Bill Maher said on air to Bush the other night, “On your watch, we’ve lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two Trade Centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans…Maybe you’re just not lucky!” He forgot to add the swelling number of lives lost in Iraq, but his point is still valid.

Take responsibility Mr. President, you’re bad at your job. You’re in way over your head.

Follow the example of Mike Brown, RESIGN NOW!