[amylee]

http://www.syncro.org/Election_Guide_2004.html

Ok, it atleast brought tears of laughter and not of sadness.!

live on,
Amy

[amylee]

By James Howe from the Book "The Bush Survival Bible"

1. I lived through Nixon; you will make it through the Bush years.

2. Bullies sometimes win, but only in the short run.

3. You too could sound like our president if you don't work hard in school.

4. Religion is about not what you say but what you do and how you treat people.

5. Everyone is entitled to equal rights. Everyone.

6. Treat the Earth and all its inhabitants with gentleness and great respect.

7. Regardless of the president's words and actions, we are global citizens and should act accordingly.

8. We are a country of many religions and beliefs- no single religion rules.

9. Who do you want for bedtime reading tonight- Al Franken, Molly Ivins,, Garrison Keillor.

10. Next time our country will get it right.

[JamesP]

I like #10. I hope we can make it come true.

[haus]

Seen something funny on the 'net lately from a progressive point of view? Share it with the group.

My coffee-spiller of the week is a "Who's on First"-esque argument between a liberal and a conservative called "How Conservatives Argue: A Case Study."

It starts off kind of low key, just like in real life and then quickly spins totally out of control, just like in real life. Here's the beginning:


Liberal: The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: No, it doesn’t.
Liberal: Yes, it does. The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: What about Guam? What about that Guam, huh? Or the Virgin Islands?
Liberal: Those are territories, not states. The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: Oh, so you’re saying those don’t count?
Liberal: Yes.
Conservative: Oh, so the people there don’t count? They’re not good enough, huh? I thought you liberals wanted everybody to be counted.
...


The only thing that doesn't feel right about the whole thing is that the author didn't type with his forehead when playing the conservative.

The whole thing (with amusing comments as well) is available at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/13/141448/171
(I could swear I saw it first at DU, but can't find the thread there)

[Jane of Arc]

Bush and Cheney were sitting in a bar.

A guy walked in and asked the barman, "Isn't that Bush and Cheney?"

The barman said, "Yep, that's them."

So the guy walked over and said, "Hello. What are you guys doing?"

Bush said, "We're planning World War III."

The guy asked, "Really? What's going to happen?"

Cheney said, "Well, we're going to kill 10 million Iraqis and one bicycle repairman."

The guy exclaimed, "Why are you gonna kill a bicycle repairman?!"

Cheney turned to Bush and said, "See, I told you no one would worry about the 10 million Iraqis!"

[FDRfollower]

Here's a few bumper sticker slogans, if you're into that kind of thing.

Stop Torture. Keep Bush off TV. :puke:

Don't let Cheney Schmitt on the Constitution.

Cheney is full of Schmitt.

:laughing:

[FDRfollower]

For a good laugh at Cheney, click here (http://www.wlym.com/~boston/We%20Wish%20Dick%20Would%20Leave%20the%20White%)

[MAGI]

Here's a few bumper sticker slogans, if you're into that kind of thing.

Stop Torture. Keep Bush off TV. :puke:

Don't let Cheney Schmitt on the Constitution.

Cheney is full of Schmitt.

:laughing:

:D

In today's U S of A .........Better keep the vehicle in the garage if we use one of the above truths though! A large slice of that 51% are numbskull BROWNSHIRTS!

[BenDover]

For a good laugh at Cheney, click here (http://www.wlym.com/~boston/We%20Wish%20Dick%20Would%20Leave%20the%20White%)

Can't get link to work...???

Anyway...

When Bush was visiting South America a number of weeks ago he did an impromptu press conference in Sao Paulo. Bush became visibly agitated when a reporter asked him to comment on the fact that it was being reported that a Brazilian had been killed in Iraq. "Look, just a few weeks ago you said it was a little over 2,000", Bush shot back. "Now you say it's a brazillion. You people in the press just have no credibility".

:D

[FDRfollower]

whoops, it's been taken off the site. Sorry. It was a hilarious christmas song about Dick Cheney.:dissapointed:

[FDRfollower]

Cheney’s Wife with Whip Held High
(Angels We Have Heard on High)

Cheney’s wife with whip held high, tells her hubby to kneel down
And her dick in his reply, echoes a dog barking sound.
GOING DOWN
CHENEY IS DEPARTING
GOING DOWN
CHENEY IS DEPARTING

Bush’s mind is not his own, his english is hysterical
Dub-ya would be overthrown, you give him a bicycle.
GOING DOWN
CHENEY IS DEPARTING
GOING DOWN
CHENEY IS DEPARTING

Come to Washington to see – Cheney’s friends begin to sing
Looking up on bended knee to plea agreements dangling.
GOING DOWN
CHENEY IS DEPARTING
GOING DOWN
CHENEY IS DEPARTING

It was sung in perfect 4 part harmony, so it was vunderbar.

[FDRfollower]

A couple more. A little too truthfull for those in the 'RED' states, unless you have an armored car. ;)

Bush is not a Republican, he's an idiot.

Cheney is not a Republican, he's a fascist.

[FDRfollower]

This might sound like an early April Fools joke, but it's serious, no kidding.

The former Sweedish PM has nominated John Bolton and Kenneth Timmerman for the Nobel Peace Prize. :scratch:


Shades of Orwell!!


As far as I knew, starting wars usually gets you a trial. Right? :confused2:

[Jane of Arc]

http://www.jokesandhumor.com/images/bush6.gif

Do a little dance. Make a little war. Get down tonight.

[Jane of Arc]

http://www.georgewbushdance.com/bush27.gif

YMCA

[FDRfollower]

Ok, here's a roundup of Cheney jokes, just in case you 'missed' some of them.

Cheney: Satan made me do it.

Senator Patrick Lehay: "In retrospect, I got off easy..."

Senator Kerry spokesman: The worst part is, he was aiming at the Special Prosecutor.

Democratic strategist Jenny Backus: "Bush-Quail in '06"

White House press secretary Scott McClellan (off-camera comments): Wore a bright orange tie and quipped that it was "so that the VP doesn't accidentally shoot me." Clarified that there was no connection between the color of the Texas Longhorn football jerseys (bright orange and white -- they were visiting the WH yesterday) and the shooting incident.

From the Late Show with David Letterman, CBS: "We can't get Bin Laden, but we nailed a 78-year-old attorney."
"But here is the sad part -- before the trip Donald Rumsfeld had denied the guy's request for body armor."
"Good news, ladies and gentlemen, we have finally located weapons of mass destruction: It's Dick Cheney."

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC: "I think Cheney is starting to lose it. After he shot the guy, he screamed, 'anyone else want to call domestic wire tapping illegal?"
"That's the big story over the weekend... Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter, a 78-year-old lawyer. In fact, when people found out he shot a lawyer, his popularity is now at 92 percent."
"Dick Cheney is capitalizing on this for Valentine's Day. It's the new Dick Cheney cologne. It's called Duck!"

Cheney Valentine's day poem (from radio host Tom Joyner):
Roses are red, violets are blue,
Say something I don't like, and I'll shoot you too.

From the "Late Show with Craig Ferguson", CBS:
"Apparently the reason they didn't release the information right away is they said we had to get the facts right... That's never stopped them in the past."
"The big scandal apparently is that they didn't release the news for 18 hours. I don't think that's a scandal at all. I'm quite pleased about that. Finally there's a secret the vice president's office can keep."

Circulating in Texas: The reason Cheney didn't have the right hunting license is that he assumed you didn't need a license to shoot lawyers in Texas.

John Kelso "Commentary" column in Austin American-Citizen: "Don't bag a Republican; they're too hard to clean..."
"For deer, hunters put out deer corn. When your quary is a Republican, what do you put out? Answer: Piles of cash."
"Of course, we shouldn't be surprised Cheney plunked the wrong pigeon, because part of this administration's track record is bringing down the wrong game. Remember when George W. went dove hunting years ago and brought down a protected killdeer? Maybe he thought it was a cow."

The Daily Show with Ron Corddry and Jon Stewart:
"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 the 78-year-old man, even knowing that today, Mr. Cheney insists he still would have shot Mr. Whittington in the face."
"Now, this story certainly has its humorous aspects... But it also raises a serious issue, on which I feel very strongly about... mom's dads, if you're watching right now, I can't emphasize this enough: Do not let your kids go on hunting trips with the vice president. I don't care what kind of lucrative contracts they're trying to land, or energy regulations they're trying to get lifted; it's just not worth it."

Office joke: Did you hear of the new TV Survivor show? You spend a week running away from Dick Cheney.

[-V-]

the Cheney bits in the first 10 minutes of the Daily Show were as good as political satire gets :rolling:. Actually, as good as any satire gets.

[FDRfollower]

Ok, this one's a good 'un, but gross, you've been warned.:nono:









What's the difference between Bill Clinton and Dick Cheney? :scratch:






Monica didn't have to go to the hospital after Bill blew his w__.

[FDRfollower]

Ok! Here's the latest on "Huntergate"

From the Late Show with David Letterman, CBS: "A Day In The Life of Dick Cheney:"

6:60 am - shoots the alarm clock.
8:00 am - Slab of bacon, stack of pancakes, dozen eggs, and a loaf of buttered toast.
10:00 am - Heart attack
10:30 am - Takes break from shredding CIA leak documents to shred police report documents.
11:00 am - Heart attack.
Noon - appears on special Vice Presidential edition of "Cops"
12:30 pm - Asks Kobe Bryant what kind of diamond he would buy Harry Whittington.
1:00 pm - Receives "Hang In There" call from Saddam Hussein, who says he accidentally shot thousands of people.
1:45 pm - Heart attack.
2:00 pm - Hears voice from Oval Office yelling, "Yee Haw! Quittin time!"
3:00 pm - Kelly Ripa stops by and asks, "How much to take out Regis?"
5:00 pm - Excited over Fox News rating, Brit Hume calls to ask how soon Cheney can shoot another guy.

newest office joke: Did you hear about Dick Cheney's Social Security plan? Take grandpa hunting!

The Capital Times of Madison Wisconsin: "It has become clear that Cheney was doing the country a service when he avoided [military] service... U.S. troops had enough problems in Vietnam without letting a trigger-happy incompetent like Dick Cheney start shooting things up from behind the lines. These deferments were well and wisely issued."

Let's laugh this bozo out of office!! :laughing:

[haus]

This flat out murdered me. :)

http://static.flickr.com/27/102667005_32ff73fb7c_m.jpg... (http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=102667005&size=s)

via mydd (http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/2/21/191536/061) via pootling (http://pootling.blogspot.com/2006/02/guns-dont-kill-people-vice-presidents.html) via Boingboing (http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/21/cheney_whittington_a.html)

[FDRfollower]

I almost died laughing Haus! :laughing:

Joke time:

What does baby Moses and a Bush supporter have in common?


They're floating in de-nile!

[FDRfollower]

Hello all. Here's a cartoon that I threw together in a half hour. Like it?
http://www.geocities.com/laverdiereaf/DickCheney.jpg

[FDRfollower]

I don't know if you heard Dubya on PRI radio, but they played a clip of him encouraging people to learn different languages.

This from a guy who can barely speak English!! :dissapointed:

[FDRfollower]

Test:

bumper sticker of the day.

You can't have my rights.

I'm using them at the moment.

[FDRfollower]

I have good news and bad news.

The good news is, Cheneys poll ratings are at 18%.

The bad news is, it's all from demoralized democrats.

[haus]

*rimshot* for the shipmate :)

[FDRfollower]

Forgot to post this one! Sorry.:(

What's the difference between Dick Cheney and a Panda?

One eats shoots and leaves

The other drinks, shoots, and leaves.

[FDRfollower]

George Bush and a secret service agent are taking a stroll around Camp David. They come upon a young girl, and Bush asks what's in her basket. The girl replies that she has newborn kittens and shows them to Bush. He asks what kind they are and she says that they are Republicans. Bush smiles, pats her on the head, and goes about his way.

A week later, Bush is walking about with Karl Rove and they come upon the girl with the basket. Bush tells Karl to watch this, it's so cute. He asks the girl what she has in the basket. She replies that she has young kittens. Bush askes what kind they are and she says Democrats.

Aghast, Bush says that last week, you said they were Republicans!

Yes, she says, but their eyes are open now.

[FDRfollower]

[Source: Huffington Post; Robert Dreyfuss, June 20, 2006 ]

Karl Rove continues to be the butt of jokes, even in Tuesday's White House briefing, following Rep. John Murtha's now famous comment on Meet the Press Sunday, about Karl Rove's "fat backside". Robert Dreyfuss reports, in the Huffington Post blog, on a Rabelaisian exchange at Tuesday's
White House briefing:

Q. There's a controversy this week over Congressman John Murtha's comments about Karl Rove. What can you tell us? Specifically, does Mr. Rove have a fat backside?
Snow: I don't want to comment on the anatomical aspects of White House staff.
Q. Come on, Tony, It's just a factual question. Is his backside fat, or not?
Snow: Again, I dont think the question is appropriate.
Q. Well, how would you describe his backside?
Snow: Mr. Rove's posterior is rotund.
Q. Well, isn't rotund the same as fat?
Snow: I'll leave it to you in the press to parse the meaning of those words. I'm only authorized to say, his posterior is rotund.
Q. Another member of Congress, speaking of Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation of the Valerie Plame affair and Rove's role in that, said, and I quote, "Fitzgerald should have indicted his ass." Doesn't that make his backside relevant?
Snow: I don't see whether the size of his backside has anything to do with whether his ass ought to have been indicted or not. It's irrelevant.
Q. Well, the size is important. It's relevant to how big the target is.
Snow: If that's true, you've answered your own question. If
the target was so big, if his ass is fat, as you and Mr. Murtha insist, then Fitzgerald ought to have been able to hit it. But Mr. Rove was told he is a not a target of the investigation.
Q. So you're saying, Fitzgerald can't even hit Rove's big fat ass?
Snow: As I said, I'm [not] commenting on whether his backside is fat, or not. I'm just saying, if it were, and you seem to be insisting that it is, then Fitzgerald really missed a big fat target, didn't he?

[MAGI]

True story:
while driving and listening to my favorite station, Air America, yesterday shortly after noon, the female newscaster mentioned bush was due for his annual check-up and added now "maybe we'll finally find out WHAT is WRONG with him!

It came as such a surpise, I laughed out loud!
After listening to ALL the BAD news it was like a ray of sunshine in the midst of a cloudburst!
:loveit:

[FDRfollower]

The problem is in his mind, so it'll be difficult! :)

Possible bumper sticker.

Bush is a uniter!

Of fundamentalist Islam. :eek:

[FDRfollower]

Anomally of the day:

A beat up Toyota Corola tooling down Broadway, plastered with bumper stickers, USA#1, Go Raiders!, american flags, etc. and TWO stickers that had an american flag with the title "Buy American" :confused: :laughing:

[FDRfollower]

http://bailey.aros.net/nature/images/Ground%20Squirrel.jpg

http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/schools/dakota/mnriver/Red%20Squirrel%201.GIF

The George Bush fanclub

[FDRfollower]

why do squirrels love George W. Bush?

Because he's nuts.

[MAGI]

:D :laughing: :loveit:

[A'Jay]

try to google search the word "failure"... it's funny =P

[haus]

Well, a year after my escape from the American South, I find myself very temporarily in, you guessed it: the American South. As I perambulated the sun-baked semi-jungle landscape today, I found myself somewhat culture-shocked. Probably moreso than in the three other sun-baked landscapes I've recently visited: Bahrain, Egypt, and Spain.

There have been two questions floating in my subconscious for years that surfaced rather suddenly today, and they seem, perhaps germane, in a sociological context, to the discussion here.

1. When did random people start wishing you to have a "blessed day?"

This isn't new, but I could swear it started sometime in the last 6 years. I've been zinged by this a few times in the past 2-ish years, and it always leaves me with jaw firmly dislocated. Nobody ever did this in "Leave it to Beaver" or "The Andy Griffith Show" or even "Gunsmoke."

Today, an elderly bank guard did this to me, and I cheerily wished him to have "anal sex." We parted ways similarly discombobulated.

2. When did the phrase "I'm a Curst-yun, but," replace the use of the dash in spoken English?

Given my familiarity with the idiosyncratic dynamics of the Southern tongue, I believe "Curst-yun" translates to "Christian."

This insidious construct has wedged its way into the American lexicon in much the way the overuse of the word "like" did in the '80s heyday of the Valley Girl. An example of the latter:

"I'm -- like -- going to the -- like -- mall."

Barely comprehensible on the screen, but an almost unnoticeable aberration in everyday speech.

One example of the former, I shit you not, heard today by yours truly:

"I'm bored, I'm a Curst-yun but, I'm going for a drive later."

Having been raised in a Bible-thumping household, I immediately checked my watch for the day of the week. It is not Sunday, and the prohibition against working on the Sabbath ("spitting so that it forms a furrow in the sand") didn't apply.

The next thought that came to mind, that she may be Amish, was dashed by both her startling décolletage and use of the word "y'all" instead of "thee."

It's impossible that driving has become a sin in the last 50-ish days. It's vaguely possible that "going for a drive" is some ultra-new slang for something really filthy and depraved and I just didn't get the memo. But barring the possibility that she was informing me on the sly that she was to serve as the candelabra at a Black Mass, why in the world would she have justified driving with "I'm a Curst-yun, but?"

Of course, I'll spend the remainder of the night hiding in bushes trying to overhear a born-again aging Valley Girl utter the sentence:

"I'm I'm a Curst-yun, but like I'm a Curst-yun, but going to the I'm a Curst-yun, but like I'm a Curst-yun, but mall."

[FDRfollower]

I don't know if any of you have tried this, but, I'm getting interesting results. I hear the funniest laughs from people when it comes off perfectly.

I do this mostly to clerks who seem a little bored and who automatically say, "is there anything else I can help you with?"

My reply, with a straight face, is "yes, can you help me find a good wife?", which is true, I would like to find one.

The funniest result was at the Berkeley city office where you pay for tickets and such. When I said it, the lady in the next booth broke down in hysterical laughter. I was almost tempted to say "do I hear divorce?" ;) but I just got red in the face. I'm sure I'll be the subject of conversation in that office for awhile. At least I made their routine day a little more interesting.

[haus]

So, I'm playing with a new system (http://ga1.org/progressivepatriots/advocacy/tj_willis-414506) and wrote a rather spirited email to Bush today about his illegal wiretapping program.

The response I got struck me as funny in a couple of ways. Here it is:


From : <comments@whitehouse.gov>
Sent : Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:02 PM
To : haus...@hotmail.com

We've identified this mail as junk. Please tell us if we were right or wrong by clicking Junk or Not Junk

On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.
We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.
The President is committed to continuing our economic progress,
defending our freedom, and upholding our Nation's deepest values.

Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House
cannot respond to every message. Please visit the White House
website for the most up-to-date information on Presidential
initiatives, current events, and topics of interest to you.
In order to better receive comments from the public, a new system
has been implemented. In the future please send your comments to
comments@whitehouse.gov.

Thank you again for taking the time to write.


I guess what concerns me most, though, is that it doesn't mention 9/11 or gay marriage even once. Maybe some hackers spoofed the whitehouse.gov domain name?

[FDRfollower]

http://www.geocities.com/laverdiereaf/BushCatLaura.JPG

A wicked idea, a little cut and paste, and EEEEwwwwwwwwwwwww! :D

[haus]

A Bush impersonator does a tribute to disgraced/improsoned fmr. congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham at youtube. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsc7u7bgPu4) Giggles ensue.

[FDRfollower]

Hey! Did you hear that Rev. Haggard is starting a new church?

He's going to call it the Crystal Meth-odists. ;)

[FDRfollower]

Dear Daddy Bush, Jim Baker, all the rest of your administration and all the american terrori... whoops voters,

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/w/b/bush_finger_flip.jpg


FU!

[FDRfollower]

Bush Sr. is having a little "man to man" talk with Dubya.

"Son, you're making the same mistake in Iraq that I made with your mother. I didn't pull out early enough."

[haus]

I'd just like to point out that FDR is clearly on the sauce again. Google translates the Kyrgyzstani phrase in his signature:

"Eine Grenze hat die Tyrannenmacht, nein!."

as

"The Grinch's hat killed 9 Tyrannosauruses!"

[MAGI]

vhat?

[FDRfollower]

You mean Wikipedia isn't infallible? :eek: How shocking.

I'm trying to find a German version of Willhem Tell so I can get the correct pronunciation.

[haus]

Fun with Dick Cheney at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho6D7zoI38U

[FDRfollower]

Old stuff Haus. Still good though.

Can you believe the amount of Bush screw ups, David Letterman has featured on his show?

[FDRfollower]

Expected to be heard on FoxTV or O'Reilly or Savage soon.

The holiday phrase "Peace on earth, goodwill towards man" is actually a socialist plot to brainwash right thinking people into becoming leftist, pinko, tree huggin, latte sippin, etc. etc.

[Mr. Anderson]

Better latte then never. ;)

[FDRfollower]

ba dum *crash* :rolling:

Rimshot for Mr. Anderson

[haus]

From Taegan Goddard (http://politicalwire.com/archives/2007/01/08/top_ten_bushisms.html)

Global Language Monitor used a computer algorithm to track President Bush's comments in the print and electronic media over the last year to develop a list of the top ten "Bushisms."

1. I'm the Decider.
2. I use The Google.
3. It was not always certain that the U.S. and America would have a close relationship.
4. I've got an ek-a-lec-tic reading list
5. The only way we can win is to leave before the job is done.
6. Stay the course.
7. When the final history is written on Iraq, it will look just like a comma.
8. The Congress was right to renew the Terrorist Act.
9. I want to be a war president; no president wants to be a war president.
10. The fiscal year that ended on February the 30th.

[Mr. Anderson]

Thanks Haus. I had a good chuckle. But what an idiot puppet Bush is! We need divine intervention!:banghead:

[NeoCon Newbie]

That was so funny I forgot to laugh.

[Lionhearted]

That was so funny I forgot to laugh.

Ah, a response from the Lisa Loopner School of Wiity Comebacks.

[FDRfollower]

True, but realllllly weird! :eek: :confused:

The hearings in the House of Representatives on global warming were cancelled because of an ICE STORM. :scratch:

[NeoCon Newbie]

How do you know when a liberal is lieing when words are coming out of there mouth.

[Jane of Arc]

Define lieing?

You are such a goose.

[Jennifer_SFBA]

NeoCon Newbie, quoting you, 2/16/07 - "That was so funny I forgot to laugh." 1/13/07 - "Try this on for size dumbass."

How do you know when CONSERVATIVES are lieing? When words are coming out of their mouths.

It isn't that CONSERVATIVES are ignorant. It's just they know so much that isn't so.

All CONSERVATIVES burn in hell, and they are causing the AIDS epidemic.

You take pleasure in such garbage, NeoCon Newbie. Personally, I HATE it!

[Lionhearted]

Dick Cheney walks into the Oval Office and sees The President whooping and hollering.
"What's the matter, Mr. President?" The Vice President inquired.

"Nothing at all, boss. I just done finished a jigsaw puzzle in record time!" The President beamed.

"How long did it take you?"

"Well, the box said '3 to 5 Years' but I did it in a month!"


A Neocon stepped in a cow pie and started crying.
He thought he was melting.

[FDRfollower]

Lion gets two good ones. :laughing: :toast:

I'm surprised that George could even read "3-5 years".

[FDRfollower]

Here's the variation on this theme.

Dick Cheney is in the exectutive office. He gets a call, and its the president.

B: Uncle Dick, I'm totally stuck! I can't get this damn thing to fit together.

D: What do you mean George?

B: You said to get a puzzle to keep me busy. I've got this one with a rooster on the cover, and none of the damn pieces fit together. I'm real frustrated uncle Dick.

D: *sigh* Ok George, I'll be over soon.

Dick walks over, and, as soon as he get to the oval office, spots George on the floor.

D: For cripes sake George, put the corn flakes in the box, and i'll get you a real puzzle.

[Jennifer_SFBA]

Jon Stewart asks Bush to clarify his accusations against Iran leading toward the Bush administration's justification for war with that country.

Please click download or play that is below Jon Stewart's picture at the link below:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/16/jon-stewart-asks-bush-to-clarify-iran-accusations/

[MAGI]

I abhor Krauthammer as I do Buchanan.........
and this is their position on the "firing of eight US attorneys"

Unnecessary Scandal

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, March 23, 2007; Page A17

Alberto Gonzales has to go. I say this with no pleasure -- he's a decent and honorable man -- and without the slightest expectation that his departure will blunt the Democratic assault on the Bush administration over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. In fact, it will probably inflame their blood lust, which is why the president might want to hang on to Gonzales at least through this crisis. That might be tactically wise. But in time, and the sooner the better, Gonzales must resign.

It's not a question of probity but of competence. Gonzales has allowed a scandal to be created where there was none. That is quite an achievement. He had a two-foot putt and he muffed it.

How could he allow his aides to go to Capitol Hill unprepared and misinformed and therefore give inaccurate and misleading testimony? How could Gonzales permit his deputy to say that the prosecutors were fired for performance reasons when all he had to say was that U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president and the president wanted them replaced?

And why did Gonzales have to claim that the firings were done with no coordination with the White House? That's absurd. Why shouldn't there be White House involvement? That is nothing to be defensive about. Does anyone imagine that Janet Reno fired all 93 U.S. attorneys in March 1993, giving them all of 10 days to clear out, without White House involvement?

The Bush administration fired eight. Democrats are charging that this was done for reasons of politics and that politics have no place in the legal system. This is laughable. U.S. attorneys are appointed by the president -- and, by tradition, are recommended by home state politicians of the same party, not by a group of judges or a committee of the American Bar Association. Which makes their appointment entirely political.

Okay, say the accusers, but once you've made the appointments, they should be left to pursue justice on their own. It's nice to see that Sen. Charles Schumer, who is using this phony scandal to raise funds for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, has suddenly adopted a Platonic view of justice. But the fact is that there are thousands of laws on the books and only finite resources for any prosecutor to deploy, which means that one must have priorities about which laws to emphasize and which crimes to pursue.

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Until the Democrats come up with real evidence of that -- and they have not -- this affair remains a pseudo-scandal. Which would never have developed had Gonzales made the easy and obvious case from day one.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032201804.html

:rolling:

Oh my, did the Powers That Be make a Huge mistake.....

[MAGI]

Found on FDL:

51 GSD says:

March 25th, 2007 at 8:45 am

But, if they fire Alberto Gonzales who will protect the children?

-GSD



:rolling

[haus]

Not particularly political, but it might amuse the wordsmiths hereabouts. I tripped over it and it blew my mind:

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."

The above is a valid english sentence. What in the world does it mean? Well, here's a hint: the word can refer to a city, a bison (singular and plural), and a verb. The explainer is here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-03-26/WikiWorld)

[NeoCon Newbie]

http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/cartoon-corner/DemsExtremist-feature.jpg

[Jennifer_SFBA]

No, the cartoon writer and you got wrong, NeoCon Newbie, and not for the first time. Neo-conservative Republicans are the extremists. God and Jesus Christ knows, it's true!

[JamesP]

Interesting that NeoCon chose to post this cartoon!

I saw it in the newspaper and puzzled over it at that time, thinking it should appeal only to a very narrow sliver of right-wing Americans.

What "extremists" could the cartoon be referring to on the democratic side?
Possibly those anti-Iraq-war Dems who are aligned in their views with over 60% of the American people?

Some "extremists"! Only in the dreams and fantasies of the few remaining Bush supporters can these Dems be labeled "extreme".

[Jennifer_SFBA]

True, true, true, JamesP! Your thoughts on it are interesting. Thank you ;)

[FDRfollower]

Its official now.

The Senate just passed 91 to 4, a bill that would have raised $$ for the water infrastructure (sewers, canals, etc.) of the country, after the House passed it. The White House, clueless as ever is threatening to VETO it.

The administration officially doesn't give a shit about the country. :)

[FDRfollower]

This is a bit old now (relatively) but, its so over the top that you just won't believe it.

Eric Blumrich made this little YouTube video of Rush Limbaugh. There's some bad words mentioned, and awful pictures used, but, you might be laughing too hard to notice them.

Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Etf8R-MSaE&mode=related&search=)

[FDRfollower]

Funny slogan of the day.

Cheney is trying to stop global warming


with a new cold war.

[ProudGOP]

Funny but also TRUE !!!!!
OLD VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long,
building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays
the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.



MORAL OF THE STORY : Be responsible for yourself!



************************************************** **********
MODERN VERSION:


The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
house and laying up supplies for the winter.


The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays
the summer away.


Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and
demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while
others are cold and starving.


CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering
grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a
table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.


How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper
is allowed to suffer so?


Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper , and everybody
cries when they sing, " It's Not Easy Being Green "


Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where
the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome. "
Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's
sake.


Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King that
the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper , and both call for
an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.


Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act
retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing
to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to
pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.


Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a
defamation suit against the ant , and the case is tried before a panel of
federal
judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare
recipients.


The ant loses the case.


The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of
the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be
the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.


The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a
drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang
of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.



MORAL OF THE STORY : Be careful how you vote.

[FDRfollower]

You're right PG, I should vote for free traders who allow human vultures to send well paying union jobs oversees and financial institutions to make health care and housing unafordable.

[FDRfollower]

Joke of the day. As seen on the front page of yahoo.com

Laugh-a-minute Bill O'Reily says that he is not a bully. I'm not kidding. He might have told some guests to shut up, but, that doesn't make him a bully.

Uh huh. And Nixon said that he wasn't a crook.

[FDRfollower]

A picture that proves that you should always keep a camera at hand.

http://www.geocities.com/laverdiereaf/CatTails2.JPG

Caught at the business of a canvas repairer. This is a cat that was saved from a shelter and is right at home at my friends business. Believe it or not, the cat actually likes sitting and curling up in this flower pot. The poor plants didn't survive though. I hope this picture will bring you a little chuckle.

[ababof]

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[ababof]

progressivesonline.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=41&d=1193879247

[ababof]

FFF..........well, that's laughable too...I Think I am going to reconsider the question. Later. Guess I'm being funny, I will try to to get crazy.