America take a good look at yourself.

I haven't blogged in months. I really don't have the strength to. Emotionally, I am just whipped. I thought that I had finally found a job that would pay me enough to survive, and that I wouldn't have to worry about it closing it's doors and moving to Mexico in a year...

...but like so many factories/production companies as soon as it came time to start giving me some healthcare, they fired me, and hired some other poor schmuck, that they'll just fire when it comes time to give them benefits.

That's the America that I know.


...and it leaves me so sad that I just want to sleep, and I hope that when I wake up it won't be there anymore.



The Left Coaster points out, that in election year 2004, george "piece of shit" bush and his republican buddies (like his piece of shit brother jeb) diverted money for hurricane funding from New Orleans to Miami-Dade....

it also notes that, even though they were not affected by Hurricane, in six cases, FEMA reimbursed residents of Miami Dade Florida for damage caused by snow, and ice...

I call that corruption. And in the wake of Hurricane Katrina I call it murder.


A visibly upset Kanye West blurted out that "bush hates black people" on MSNBC's concert/fund raising show that they did, and MSNBC won't even report it. They might not agree with what he said, but they Still Have To Report It!!! What the hell is wrong with them?!?

And Kanye was right, george bush does hate black people. It's a powerful hatred. It's the kind where he doesn't even care if they live or die. He hates poor people too, and if your black and poor, and you live in America, you don't need me to tell you how much he hates you.

For the last five days I've watched poor black people die of starvation waiting for FEMA.

...and when I flipped past fox news, the anchor described it as "fun" and a lot like a sleep over. barbara bush said something along the lines of since they were poor and black living in a shelter isn't so bad for them. A step-up if you will.

My own brother said that the country is better off now that they're dead. Less people to collect welfare to use his words...

I will never speak to my brother again.


They are predicting that Katrina's death toll could be five times higher than that of 9/11...

...and half of the country is snickering about it.


The media has ignored the poor for so long they don't even understand the world they live in anymore. Stories of people hiding from helicopters, afraid of being hit with a bill for the rescue, has left pundits stunned, but I got news for 'em when my local emergency helicopter takes a person to the hospital, it costs that person anywhere from 5 to 10 thousand dollars, a ride in an ambulance costs about two thousand... I'd wave 'em off too.

bush has a new slogan today "A Tidal Wave of Compassion"

he's so big on code phrases "activist judge" means a judge that supports Roe v. Wade....

So you tell me, when he says "A Tidal Wave of Compassion" what is he getting at? It sure sounds like a wink and a nudge to all the racists, happy with the results of Katrina, to me...


I'm so tired.

Abortion: A Natural Part of Being a Good Mother

Something about stuff being 'natural' is really important to republicans. Just ask gay people. They'll tell you that republican are Really Big on stuff being natural. Like when it comes to the law.

But natural law isn't the only thing republicans are big on. They like natural herbs, medicines, flavored soda pop.... If it's natural they like it, so why hasn't anyone pointed out to them, that abortion is perfectly natural?

There's a cat in my back yard. It's starving. Being a liberal, I don't like to see things suffer, so I feed it. It hasn't been fixed, and I don't want any kittens, but it can't get pregnant, so I have no worries about it hanging around. "Why can't it get pregnant?" you may be wondering. Because it's starving.

Natural birth control! Starving animals don't have babies. Well.. I guess sometimes they do, but for the most part no, and for good reason. Making a baby takes a lot of nourishment, so if mom doesn't have any to spare, her reproductive stuff shuts down.

A starving momma, that can't feed herself, won't be able to feed a bunch of babies. Now will she?

And what, you may wonder, happens when a momma gets all preggers, and then there's a food shortage? Why what's only natural... She aborts them.

If it's still early in the pregnancy her body may just absorb them. Failing that, momma will likely eat her young. For everyone who just went 'eww', this is all perfectly natural!

Momma knows that she can't feed them, and that they will most certainly die. And why risk feeding one of her natural predators, when she needs a meal herself? It makes sense from a 'natural' standpoint.

So why do republicans think that the cat in my back yard should have more family planning options than I do?

...maybe they're just big supporters of Jonathan Swift.

You Want Him? You Got Him.

The DNC's silence on Roberts has a lot of people wondering what they're up to. Well let me fill you in, it's called spite. It's the 15 year old screaming "I don't care!", it's the resentment of not being able to change one's circumstances boiling over.

The American people have grown apathetic, and they don't think what Washington does affects their day to day life. They treat politics like football, and as long as their team is winning, they're happy. In the long run they don't care about the details.

They want lower taxes, and then they bitch about everything from potholes, to troops not having bullet proof armor. They don't understand that if they don't pay their taxes, they can't have the other stuff. They don't understand that, when jr. lowered taxes for the top 1%, the government still needed the money, so in order to get it they raised taxes on everything from houses to cigarettes.

They don't understand what 'judicial activision' even is. They hear the republicans whine about it, and just roll their eyes. They don't really believe that Roe V. Wade will be overturned, and even if it is, they don't think they'll ever get pregnant, or whatever they tell themselves...

...but the right to privacy covers everything from choosing what form of medical treatment you want, to using contraception. Republican hate contraception, they even refuse to fund clinics that teach birth control. If you don't have a right to privacy, then they can pass laws that make using a condom illegal, and can you imagine the congress determining the best way to treat a medical disorder? Making it the law of the land that if you get disease x, then you must use treatment y.

...After all a person treating their cancer with prayer could be considered to be attempting suicide...


So let 'em have him. Let them sit back and watch as the zealots appeal every precedent set over the last hundred years.

...and when the American people ask the democrats why they didn't stop Roberts from getting onto the Supreme Court, the dems can say "you wanted him, and besides the RNC controlls the House, the Senate, and the Presidency..." then they can sit back coyly and ask "what did you expect us to do about it?"

Human Rights Abusers Cry Foul

Moonie Times

Soldiers from Massachusetts and Hawaii who work at the U.S. military detention facility at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,[by 'work' they mean abuse prisoners for the hell of it] gave visiting home-state senators a piece of their mind last week.

...

"They got stiff reactions from those home-state soldiers," one official told us. "The troops down there expressed their disdain for that kind of commentary, especially comparisons to the gulag."

Working in a gulag doesn't bother them. They just don't like being criticized for it.

...and I'm getting pretty tired of supporting the troops.

And I'm getting really tired of republicans hiding behind them.

Attn Corporate Sponsored Media: The Word You're Looking For Is 'Treason'

MSNBC via WaPo

The paragraph identifying her as the wife of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV was clearly marked to show that it contained classified material at the "secret" level, two sources said. The CIA classifies as "secret" the names of officers whose identities are covert, according to former senior agency officials.

Anyone reading that paragraph should have been aware that it contained secret information, [...] sources said. It is a federal crime, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, for a federal official to knowingly disclose the identity of a covert CIA official if the person knows the government is trying to keep it secret.

*backpedalling removed for the sake of justice

The RainBow Warrior: 20 Years Later

For those of you that do not know, 20 years ago French president Francois Mitterrand ordered the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, a protest ship that, at the time, had been dispatched to protest France's testing of nuclear weapons.

20 years later, the threat of a nuclear war has never been higher. The U.S., Korea, China, Pakistan, India, Iran... Not a month goes by without one of these countries seriously threatening to use it's nuclear weapons.


...and it saddens me, it really saddens me that not once last week did I hear a news report on the Rainbow Warrior.


In fact the only (english) internet site that I could find that covered the anniversary was Democracy Now!

Thank God for Amy Goodman.

From 'DeapThroat' to 'Deep Doo-Doo'

If you've been watching the 24 hour news channels, you probably don't know that Karl Rove was outed for leaking Valerie Plame's name to any one who would listen.

The corporate sponsored media doesn't like it when they are denied the rights given to real journalists, and have gotten all huffy over the Supreme Court ignoring their pleas for protecting their sources...

Whaaaa..... Cry me a river.

Telling the world Valerie Plame's name was not journalism. It was revenge, and it was treason.

And if a democrat had done it, they would have been executed for high crimes faster than bush used to fry 'em down in Texas.

...but our media works for the same corporations that bush works for. And they don't ask hard questions anymore.

Valerie Plame's job was protecting America from a nuclear attack. She doesn't do that anymore. So did Karl Rove's behavior increase the threat of a nuclear attack on America?

...And if a nuke goes off in Time's Square will our media connect the dots? Will they ponder aloud about whether or nor Valerie Plame could have stopped it?

Of course not!

They'll be too busy talking about shark attacks.

Fun with Polls

from Zogby

In a sign of the continuing partisan division of the nation, more than two-in-five (42%) voters say that, if it is found that President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should hold him accountable through impeachment. While half (50%) of respondents do not hold this view, supporters of impeachment outweigh opponents in some parts of the country.

CNN and MSNBC have both reported that, that same poll also shows that 1 in 4 republicans support impeaching bush, if he lied, and a lot of dems are saying that it shows bush's losing ground with the right... blah.. blah.. blah...

But lets face it. No one is ever going to be able to convince a republican that bush lied. Was wrong? Maybe. But most republicans are too hardlined to ever believe that their guy lied.

So it's a stupid poll.

...and if dems are smart they'll use it as an opportunity to say that republicans are out of touch with themselves, and focus the media into asking how much evidence would it take to convince republicans that bush did lie.

Now there's a 'question of the day' that I would like to see.

I'd also like to see the dems shame the 75% of republicans that support bush even if he did lie.


And while they are shaming people maybe they could take a moment to ask CNN what the hell is up with their polls.

After bush's lame speech, CNN polled 300ish people on what they thought of it. 50% were republicans. 25% Dems, and 25% consisted of people to stupid to pick a party.

...and sure enough 50%ish said they liked it.


And I like to say something cleaver here about CNNs stupidity/bias...

...but I can't. Our media disappoints and saddens me.

America Today: War Criminals and Manipulators

from Democracy Now!

Britain's Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram has admitted that the Bush administration lied to British officials about the use of napalm-type firebombs in Iraq. In a private letter obtained by The Independent newspaper of London, Ingram says the US originally told him they had not used so-called MK77s in Iraq at any time but then writes "I regret to say that I have since discovered that this is not the case and must now correct the position." The MK77 bombs are an evolution of the napalm used in Vietnam and Korea. They carry kerosene-based jet fuel and polystyrene so that the gel sticks to structures and to its victims.

Note that the use of Napalm was banned by the U.N. in 1980, but like with every other great moral leap made by the countries of the U.N., the U.S. lagged behind and refused to sign the agreement. If it had, george bush jr. could have found himself on a plane ride to the Hague to face a war crimes tribunal. As it is, all we can do is hope that he takes trip to a country with a moral compass, and then they can put his ass on a plane to the Hague.



...and also from Democracy Now!

a report to the G8 Summit used to read:

"Inertia in the climate system means that further warming is inevitable. Unless urgent action is taken, there will be a growing risk of adverse effects on economic development, human health and the natural environment, and of irreversible long-term changes to our climate and oceans."

but after bush's cronies got done with it, it read:

"Climate change is a serious long term challenge that has the potential to affect every part of the globe."

Republican Values in the News

More bush tax cut fallout.

First off, after declaring that PBS is liberal republicans cut it's funding. The president of PBS claims that the cuts will begin a "spiral of death for public broadcasting".

...and then, republicans cut funding to the U.N. The repubs claim it has somethig to do with the Sudan being on the U.N.
Commission on Human Rights... Why? Is there something on in the Sudan? I haven't heard bush give any speeches about the Sudan. The repubs claim it has something to do with the oil for food scandal too... You know, that 'scandal' that george w. bush fully supported.

...just add them to the list of 150 other programs that the republicans have already cut funding to.

In other news. "The World Health Organization has said acrylamide may be responsible for up to one-third of all cancers caused by diet." Potato chips are loaded with it, and required by law to put warning labels on their bags, just like cigarettes. But thanks to republican govenor Arnold Schwarzenegger they haven't had to.

And it turns out that doing drug testing on foster children with Aids is a bad thing.

And since we don't want to interfer with the free market, porn will soon be available for the Playstation Portable (PsP)

And it turns out that Terry Schiavo was infact dead already. Half of her brain, mostly the part that controls higher functions, like thought, was gone. The tissue had died, and been absorbed by her body. She was blind... She wasn't smiling at anyone. She was not responsive.

So what does the republican Govenor of Florida do, when it turns out that he was wrong, had interfered with a persons right to choose their medical treatment, and exploited a tragedy for his own political gain... Why he launches an investigation into whether or not her husband caused her injuries.

I think someone should investigate whether jeb bush is an actual disciple of Satan or if he's just pretending to be one.


...and then there's this:

george bush jr's former Chief Economist for the Department of Labor thinks that george bush jr may have been behind 9/11.