Back-door Bush creates "Back-door draft", abusing American soldiers' freedom and liberty

Back-door Bush creates "Back-door draft", abusing American soldiers' freedom and liberty
"I'm a back-door man!"

The funny little man who first entered our White House through the back door, butled in by a white man called Scotus, has now found a way to expand the back-door to include our fine men and women who are living up to their contracts in our fine Military edifice. But while they are living up to their ends of the bargain...the goalpost keeps getting farther and farther away.

These good people are, in essence, being drafted back into the Military quite beyond their control. John Kerry has aptly named this phenomemon, a "back-door draft"...a term I feel sure will find a thousand tongues.

It is bad enough to have to fight an unnecessary war, and kill or be killed by people with whom there should be no gripe...in the case of most Iraqis. But to have to keep doing long beyond the time you thought you'd be done! Is this not a form of torture?

As I have stated in previous catechisms, the soldier's fate is worse than that of a slave AND a prisoner. And now to rub salt into their gaping wounds...

Here's a better idea. Bring them home. Right now. Give them massive sums of money, if they behaved honorably, and let them return to their families...who, after all, need them.

Their life is more important than someone else's death.

You are pro-life, aren't you?

Kerry says Nuclear. Bush says Nucular. Who is the dummy?

Kerry says Nuclear. Bush says Nucular. Who is the dummy?Kerry also speaks scriptlessly, unlike the Dummy.

John Kerry was talking about Nuclear threats today. Yes, that's right. Nuclear. Not that garble Bush keeps kecking. And when they debate the issue...a more risible time can ahardly be imagined.

Kerry should continue to speak scriptlessly. Bush simply cannot compete. He is, yes, incompetent.

How Bushies Really "Think". Enron laughs as California Burns

How Bushies Really "Think". Enron laughs as California Burns

Learn how filthy rotten these scum really are...
EXCERPT:

(CBS) When a forest fire shut down a major transmission line into California, cutting power supplies and raising prices, Enron energy traders celebrated, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports.

"Burn, baby, burn. That's a beautiful thing," a trader sang about the massive fire.

Four years after California's disastrous experiment with energy deregulation, Enron energy traders can be heard – on audiotapes obtained by CBS News – gloating and praising each other as they helped bring on, and cash-in on, the Western power crisis.

"He just f-cks California," says one Enron employee. "He steals money from California to the tune of about a million."
"Will you rephrase that?" asks a second employee.

"OK, he, um, he arbitrages the California market to the tune of a million bucks or two a day," replies the first.

The tapes, from Enron's West Coast trading desk, also confirm what CBS reported years ago: that in secret deals with power producers, traders deliberately drove up prices by ordering power plants shut down.

...
...

"This is the evidence we've all been waiting for. This proves they manipulated the market," said Eric Christensen, a spokesman for the utility.

That utility, like many others, is trying to get its money back from Enron.

"They're f-cking taking all the money back from you guys?" complains an Enron employee on the tapes. "All the money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in California?"

"Yeah, grandma Millie, man"
"Yeah, now she wants her f-cking money back for all the power you've charged right up, jammed right up her arsehol- for f-cking $250 a megawatt hour."

And the tapes appear to link top Enron officials Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling to schemes that fueled the crisis.

*Slightly edited by yours truly. Bold, italics, and changing "f-----g" to "f-cking" (for those with an inability to fill in blanks.)

Edwards working the hardest for Kerry

Edwards working the hardest for Kerry

"It's unclear who the favorite is within the Kerry campaign, but Edwards, a lame-duck senator, has been lapping all of the others in terms of travel time campaigning for Democrats and popularity with voters. Since March, he's been to Colorado, Illinois, North Dakota, Washington state, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Minnesota and Ohio. Coming up this month: Texas, Louisiana, Iowa and another stop in Florida."

Josh Marshall exposes David Brooks' BS

Josh Marshall exposes David Brooks' BS
EXCERPT
The signs of economic downturn the country faced in the spring of 2001 weren't the reason the Bush White House pushed through such massive tax cuts. They were simply a convenient rationale the White House chose for a policy embraced for entirely different reasons.

The evidence for this claim is, I think, inescapable.

The Bush tax cut was passed in the spring of 2001. But the policy was promulgated more than a year earlier, at the beginning of December 1999 -- long before the warnings signs Brooks mentions appeared, and while the dot.com bubble had yet to burst.

Virtual Bohemia : Liberal TV has arrived!

Virtual Bohemia : Liberal TV has arrived!

This summer, we at anonyMoses Research & Humor Labs will be covering a host of new and indelible topics.

Here is a preview of our Summer offering:

Click here for show descriptions.


DOCUMENTARY SPECIALS
-Telling Times: All the news that's shit to print
-Up From The Bog: The Tom Delay Story
-Conservative in Bed: a study in necrophilia
-Is your husband...conservative? Help is on the way!
-Achieving Nevada: ...Stays in the White House
-At Night We Shine: Bootblacks in Tandem

ALSO:
The Clinton Biographies
The Clinton Biographies, Part One: "Jefferson"
The Clinton Biographies, Part Two: "Johnson"
The Clinton Biographies, Part Three: "el BJ"

SHOWS
-Carpe Noctem
-Time Invaders
-Bleak Condo
-Apes in Costume
-alt.primetime
-Arnold the Robopig
-Tobacco Company Execs
-Advanced Tones of Voice
-Life After Money
-Green Witch Village
-Bobbies
-Seeing Godot Out
-Inane Platitudes from the Deep
-Taboo Quest
-Freud's Banana
-Imperfect Weekend
-Food Chain Gang
-Corporate Busing
-Earth Muffin
-Ricecakes of Men
-Rapid Ear Movement
-Pick-up to Paradise
-Killer Mules of Tokyo
-Idea Management 101
-United States of Earth
-Vehement Behemoth
-Unusual Hair Parts
-Sexual in your Window
-Look Away if You Want Sex
-2 Ways Air Escapes the Body
-Undoing the Hydrant
-Sleep Smiling
-Relatively Cute SwampThang
-The Fastest Way to Bathe
-The New Way to Kiss
-Avant-Garde Lovemaking
-Horse Operas to Adore & Obey
-History of Mentalities
-You are what you upload
-When the Waldoes Emerge
-A Million Years Ago Today
-We Fit Together Like Dogs
-Dreams Are for Sissies
-A Glacier in Hell
-Finnegan's Wake For Cats
-Being-for-Itself Meets Godzilla
-The Horripilation

Pushing War is Bad Journalism : The New York Times Confesses

Pushing War is Bad Journalism : The New York Times Confesses


NEW YORK (AFP) - Institutional failures, not individual ones, allowed the New York Times' pre-Iraq (news - web sites) war coverage to be manipulated by people bent on pushing the United States into war, the paper's ombudsman said.
"Some of The Times's coverage in the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq was credulous; much of it was inappropriately italicized by lavish front-page display and heavy-breathing headlines," Public Editor Daniel Okrent said in the paper's Sunday issue.
"The Times's flawed journalism continued in the weeks after the war began, when writers might have broken free from the cloaked government sources who had insinuated themselves and their agendas into the pre-war coverage," Okrent said.

Doonesbury: In Memoriam

Doonesbury : In Memoriam...

Kafkaesque Creative Non-fiction by Maud Newton

Kafkaesque Creative Non-fiction by Maud Newton

"The Thing in My Pants"

Note the publishing possibilities at Eyeshot...

Washingtonienne Archives

Washingtonienne Archives

This is an exact reproduction (from Internet Explorer cache) of the Washingtonienne blog that was featured in stories at Wonkette, Wizbang, and Swamp City.

Who created it?

The author is Jessica Cutler (Wonkette interview, WaPo interview, pictures, links).

Who restored it?

The archive was saved from the dustheap of history by Kevin at Wizbang and restored to it's original (unedited) glory. To set the record straight, the original Washingtonienne page was NEVER cached by Google.

The President looks like Al Gore in "The Day After Tomorrow"

The President looks like Al Gore in "The Day After Tomorrow"

It gets butt cold, and the President looks like Al Gore.

Weird though how long it takes this stuff to hit the mainstream...

Europeans love a Southern Accent!

Europeans love a Southern Accent!

Straight from the mouth of Eurotrash...

The reason we Europeans don't like your accent (apart from you southerners, we love that one) is that you sound like you are talking out of your noses to us. All we hear is a kind of twangy WAAA WAAA WAAAAAA WAAAA WAAAA WAAAA WAAAAAAA thing, which has the same effect as scraping a fork down a plate to our ears.

Surely she is not talking about our pResident... John Edwards maybe...

Bloggers are getting book deals. Hey! Call ME!!!

Bloggers are getting book deals. Hey! Call ME!!!
EXCERPT:
Two years from now—give or take—Elizabeth Spiers, the founding editor of the gossip Web sites Gawker and The Kicker, will publish her first novel. Around the same time, Glenn Reynolds, who writes the political Web log Instapundit, will also have a book in stores. So, too, may writers from the blogs Hit & Run, The Black Table, Dong Resin, Zulkey, Low Culture, Lindsayism, Megnut, Maud Newton, MemeFirst, Old Hag, PressThink, I Keep a Diary, Buzz Machine, Engadget, and Eurotrash. Suddenly, books by bloggers will be a trend, a cultural phenomenon. You will probably read about it in the Sunday Times. And when that happens the person to thank—or blame—will be Kate Lee, who is currently a twenty-seven-year-old assistant at International Creative Management.

Why neocon? : "more money and less intellectual competition"

Now we know what 'neocon' means: "more money and less intellectual competition"

or in other words..."ambition makes them greedy, and mediocrity makes them cheat and lie"...

Kids wearing Rubber "sex bracelets"

Kids wearing Rubber "sex bracelets" Is this, as some say, an urban myth? Or is it a case where an urban myth became an urban reality? Alice Cooper really is Eddie Haskell, ya know.

EXCERPT:
(NYP)-- A bizarre new kids' sex craze is sweeping the city's elementary schools.

Girls as young as 11 are stacking colorful rubber "sex bracelets" up their arms while their parents are unaware that each piece of the cheap jewelry represents a different sex act, according to a secret-code the kids share.

Some symbolize an invitation to kinky get-togethers, several kids told The Post.

The kids play a game called "Snap" associated with wearing the bracelets. In the game, girls wear the bracelets around their wrists, and if a boy runs up and rips one off, he gets a "coupon" from the girl to perform whatever sex act the color stands for.


And to think...the best my generation could do was "red on Friday"...

Abu Grub, er, Grabe, er Grube...

MISSION:ACCOMPLISHED

Ambition makes them greedy : A googlepoem

Ambition makes them greedy : A googlepoem

I dunno. Great breakdown of the newspeak by the way, too.
"Ambition makes them greedy, and mediocrity makes them cheat and lie."
We can only observe his acts, and they condemn him as incompetent to lead.
"Ambition makes them greedy, and mediocrity makes them cheat and lie."
Would Lee Greenwood stand a chance against the Beatles?
"Ambition makes them greedy, and mediocrity makes them cheat and lie."
My suggestion is for an open thread every 6 hours at minimum.
"Ambition makes them greedy, and mediocrity makes them cheat and lie."
back to the return counter for a full refund.
"Ambition makes them greedy, and mediocrity makes them cheat and lie."
more consistently, but would be unelectable.
"Ambition makes them greedy, and mediocrity makes them cheat and lie."
Maybe I underestimate the American public. I hope I do.
"Ambition makes them greedy, and mediocrity makes them cheat and lie."
people would get electrocuted if they tried.
"Ambition makes them greedy, and mediocrity makes them cheat and lie."
America. Spalding Gray Swimming to Cambodia, 1987
"Ambition makes them greedy, and mediocrity makes them cheat and lie."
matter how good their methodolgy may seem to you.
"Ambition makes them greedy, and mediocrity makes them cheat and lie."
crap that gets passed would have no chance.
"Ambition makes them greedy, and mediocrity makes them cheat and lie."
marginalized people of America something to vote FOR.
"Ambition makes them greedy, and mediocrity makes them cheat and lie."

They still don't rule the day, but they're mostly not so nice.
"Ambition makes them greedy, and mediocrity makes them cheat and lie."
premise. It's related to a circular argument.
"Ambition makes them greedy, and mediocrity makes them cheat and lie."
blog, in the view of this cautious optimist.
"Ambition makes them greedy, and mediocrity makes them cheat and lie."

Arnold Voted Most Famous Governor in Recent California Memory

Arnold Voted Most Famous Governor in Recent California Memory

Arnold Schwarzenegger, famous movie actor, is now being celebrated for being the most famous governor too. At least in recent memory...and we know how burnt out the California memory is.

Jerry Brown still reigns as the coolest and hippest governor, but there are still people who think fame is a virtue, and so let's pander to them, shall we?

Fine!

"The Nihilist's Holiday" by Tom Simoneaux

"The Nihilist's Holiday" by Tom Simoneaux

AMAZON LINK

iUNIVERSE LINK

BROWSE THE BOOK

from the book:

"...I do not belong, anywhere, to anything. Any attempt to dig myself a toehold in the social upslope succeeds only in shoveling my coffinhole a little deeper. Nearly twenty-five, and all the people I know are strangers, ciphers, ghosts. I have held apart from others and kept silent and gone cynical and avoided lowering myself into the messy ordinariness of life. Hours, days, months and years slink past in solitude. My ears buzz with the silence."
- "The Nihilist's Holiday" by Tom Simoneaux