This is a good idea.

The new Democratic leadership faces pressure to end taxpayer-funded pensions to misbehaving members of Congress.

Over 20 civic organizations claiming to have millions of members sent a letter to the new Democratic leadership demanding that they immediately pass a law taking away pensions from members of Congress who've been convicted of a felony.

"The typical American is already angry that members of Congress get such generous pensions, two to three times more generous than what a similarly paid executive would get in the private sector," says Pete Sepp, Vice President of the Taxpayer's Union and one of the letter's authors. "Then they hear that lawmakers that have been convicted of serious crimes keep collecting the payments, well, they just blow through the roof."

It is criminal that this was ever allowed in the first place.

So much happening and I am too damn busy to post about it.

I want to post, but before I can get started something in my "real life" pops up to take my attention away.

Maybe later.

Danny Devito is much funnier drunk then he is sober.

And he really does not seem to like Bush!

He must have a brain.

Jim Webb almost became my favorite Senator.

At a private reception held at the White House with newly elected lawmakers shortly after the election, Bush asked Webb how his son, a Marine lance corporal serving in Iraq, was doing.

Webb responded that he really wanted to see his son brought back home, said a person who heard about the exchange from Webb.

“I didn’t ask you that, I asked how he’s doing,” Bush retorted, according to the source.
Webb confessed that he was so angered by this that he was tempted to slug the commander-in-chief, reported the source, but of course didn’t. It’s safe to say, however, that Bush and Webb won’t be taking any overseas trips together anytime soon.

“Jim did have a conversation with Bush at that dinner,” said Webb’s spokeswoman Kristian Denny Todd. “Basically, he asked about Jim’s son, Jim expressed the fact that he wanted to have him home.” Todd did not want to escalate matters by commenting on Bush’s response, saying, “It was a private conversation.”

I usually do not condone violence directed at our political leaders, but come on how cool would it have been if Webb had decked George? Could you imagine how Bush would have responded? He probably would have cried like the little bitch we all know he is.

I also wonder if the Secret Service would have responded with the same speed they used to react to the Bush twins purse snatching.

"Sorry sir, we thought it might have been a diversion. Bad Jim Webb, bad!"

The honeymoon is over between Bush and Maliki.

President Bush's high-profile meeting with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday was canceled in a stunning turn of events after disclosure of U.S. doubts about the Iraqi leader's capabilities and a political boycott in Baghdad protesting his attendance.

Maliki is screwed three ways to Sunday right now. He pissed off al-Sadr who then pulled back his support and now he is about to piss off Georgie who might just say "well fuck you then" and finally do what the American people want, and pull our troops out of Iraq. Anybody want to give odds on how long it will take before Maliki gets his head cut off if that happens?

Maliki should just cut his losses and try to get across the border to Iran. This is just not going to end well for him.

The Iraqi government is kaput!

Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's political bloc has suspended participation in Iraq's national unity government in protest at the premier's meeting with the US president.

"The Sadr group suspends its membership in parliament and in the cabinet as a protest against the visit which is considered as a provocation to the Iraqi people," a statement from the group said Wednesday.

Perhaps even more devastating to this fragile government then the civil war raging through their streets is this schism that now erupts between the government and al-Sadr.

It makes no difference how many Iraqis ran around wtih purple fingers, if in the end the government loses the support of those same people. And this is a clear indication that that has indeed happened.

And al-Sadr is playing his cards exactly right. By pulling away from the sinking ship of the Malaki led government he shows himself to be politically savvy and capable of bringing a vast amount of support to himself. Which also indicates that he may be able to rise up to lead Iraq, or some section of a splintered Iraq in the near future.

But the Maliki led government is mortally wounded and may only have months left before it finally disintegrates.

Judge strikes down part of Bush's anti-terror order.

U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins found that part of the law, signed by Bush on September 23, 2001 and used to freeze the assets of terrorist organizations, violated the Constitution because it put no apparent limit on the president's powers to place groups on that list.

Ruling in a lawsuit brought against the Treasury Department in 2005 by the Center for Constitutional Rights, Collins also threw out a portion of Bush's order which applied the law to those who associate with the designated organizations.

"This law gave the president unfettered authority to create blacklists, an authority president Bush then used to empower the Secretary of the Treasury to impose guilt by association," said David Cole of the Washington-based Center for Constitutional Rights.

"The court's decision confirms that even in fighting terror, unchecked executive authority and trampling on fundamental freedoms is not a permissible option," he said in a statement.

The walls are closing in on this administration, and the largest power grab by the executive branch in America's history is coming to an end.

Christianity and Islam set to go head to head in Minnesota. That's right, Minnesota!

Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress, has announced that he will not take his oath of office on the Bible, but on the bible of Islam, the Koran.

The above link will take you to an article by Dennis Prager, who really gets his panties in a wad over the possibility that Mr. Ellison would rather make his oath of office on his own book of fairy tales rather then the book of fairy tales that most politicians have to use.

If I ever get elected to public office I am taking my oath on the "1,001 Bathroom Jokes" book. It would definitely reflect my attitude about politics better then the Koran or Bible ever could.

P.S. (Me getting elected to a public office, lol. Look I made a funny!)

Justice Department is going to look into the domestic spying program. Now the Administration is in for it!

The Justice Department's inspector general has informed the Judiciary and Intelligence committees of both the House and Senate that he will begin a review of the controversial NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program.

This should have happened two years ago!

Democrats promise to turn Congress into the do everything congress. I wiil believe it when I see it.

''We're going to put in some hours here that haven't been put in in a long time,'' Reid said. That means ''being here more days in the week and we start off this year with seven weeks without a break. That hasn't been done in many, many years here.''

I hope they are really going to do what they say they are going to do.

I will keep an open mind but my hands hovering over the keyboard in case they are just blowing wind up our collective skirts.

Don't make me start typing against you! Hee hee, I bet they are just terrified.

You have to admire the cojones on this guy.

To IBM, James Pacenza's penchant for surfing sex sites and hanging out in chat rooms during work hours was grounds for termination. To Pacenza it was a cry for help unanswered. Which is why he's suing the company for wrongful termination. In court papers filed in the U.S. District Court for New York, Pacenza claims his chat room addiction is a form of "self medication" for the post-traumatic stress disorder from which he suffers and says IBM should have offered him counseling instead of sacking him. Employees "with much more severe psychological problems, in the form of drug or alcohol problems ... are allowed treatment programs" at IBM, Pacenza argues in his suit. He's demanding more than $5 million in punitive and compensatory damages from IBM for its indiscretion, which presumably would allow him to "self medicate" for some time to come without worrying about employer intrusions.

You know I usually take my medication at home.

Just when I think I have seen the "I am a victim" argument taking to its lowest point, I find one of these stories and I am embarrassed for my gender once again.

One of my childhood heroes gets a theme park.

A theme park with a statue and memorial hall will be built at Bruce Lee's southern Chinese ancestral home of Shunde, the president of his fan club said Monday.

The park will also contain a martial arts academy and conference center, Wong Yiu-keung, chairman of the Hong Kong-based Bruce Lee Club, told The Associated Press.

Wong said he couldn't confirm details of a report Monday in the Apple Daily newspaper that said the park was budgeted at $25.5 million and was expected to be completed in three years.

A theme park dedicated to the "little dragon". What could be cooler then that?

Shocked! That's what I am! Shocked to learn this fact about women!

In fact, women talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day - 13,000 more than the average man.

Women also speak more quickly, devote more brainpower to chit-chat - and actually get a buzz out of hearing their own voices, a new book suggests.

So who might not have already known this?

Maybe somebody who had never had a conversation with a woman?

I heard a rumor that the sky is blue as well. But even that is less obvious then the fact that women talk more then men.

NBC finally finds its backbone and proclaims what is obvious to everyone. Iraq is indeed in the middle of a Civil War.

NBC News on Monday began referring to the Iraq conflict as a civil war, adopting a phrase that President Bush and many other news organizations have avoided.

Matt Lauer said on the "Today" show that "after careful consideration, NBC News has decided that a change in terminology is warranted, that the situation is Iraq with armed militarized factions fighting for their own political agendas can now be characterized as civil war."

The network's cable news outlet, MSNBC, drummed the point home repeatedly by using the phrase "Iraq: The Civil War" on the screen.

There are different criteria for defining a civil war. Webster's New World College Dictionary defines it simply as "war between geographical sections or political factions of the same nation." Some political scientists use a threshold of 1,000 dead, which the current conflict has long since passed.

There are more conservative definitions. The Web site GlobalSecurity.org, which provides information on defense issues, said five criteria must be met: the contestants must control territory, have a functioning government, enjoy some foreign recognition, have identifiable regular armed forces and engage in major military operations.

I am so fucking tired of watching these news outlets carefully choosing their words and trying to make sure they do not say anything that can be used to label them liberal or anti-Bush. With FOX news ready to villify anybody who dares speak the truth about what is happening in Iraq, the other news channels are acting like turtles too afraid to stick their heads out of their shells for fear of getting them bitten off.

Well now finally NBC news has stated the obvious, and though it is much too late, I do applaud them for being the first to finally stick their middle finger in the direction of the White House and their surrogate FOX News.

Iraq is in a Civil War! So now that we have said the words what does that mean?

Tired of the same old Christmas pageants? Now there is something new!

Don't you just love the holidays?

The holiday feast of spaghetti and garlic bread, kissing under the meatballs in the hall, the sound of FSM carols wafting through the house, I can hardly wait!

Another casualty of Bush's illegal war.

Mr. Ritscher burned himself alive to bring attention to the horrible things that his country was doing to innocent people abroad in his name, and financed with his taxes. The burden was too much for Mr. Ritscher.

I do not want his death to have been in vain. Here is the suicide note that he posted online.

The violent turmoil initiated by the United States military invasion of Iraq will beget future centuries of slaughter, if the human race lasts that long. First we spit on the United Nations, then we expect them to clean up our mess. Our elected representatives are supposed to find diplomatic and benevolent solutions to these situations. Anyone can lash out and retaliate, that is not leadership or vision. Where is the wisdom and honor of the people we delegate our trust to?

To the rest of the world we are cowards - demanding Iraq to disarm, and after they comply, we attack with remote-control high-tech video-game weapons. And then lie about our reasons for invading. We the people bear complete responsibility for all that will follow, and it won't be pretty.

I hope that this new congress can help to relieve the sense of helplessness that many Americans feel so that there will be no future Malachi Ritschers.

PETA accuses Alaskan church of being cruel to animals. Jokes on them, only the humans were treated that way.

The Rev. Jason Armstrong was confused by an e-mail this week from PETA, which admonished him for subjecting animals "to cruel treatment and danger," by forcing them into roles in the church's annual manger scene.

"We've never had live animals, so I just figured this was some spam thing," Armstrong said. "It's rough enough on us people standing out there in the cold. So we're definitely not using animals."

"We have some puppet camel things we put out," Armstrong said. "We have a cow hood thing that a person will wear that actually just looks spooky."

The volunteers stand beneath a brightly lit electric star as Christmas music fills the frosty air. They don't even speak.

The temperatures here in town have hovered between -10 degrees fahrenheit and 10 degrees above zero. You know if you are a Darwinian, PETA is still correct that some dumb animals are being subjected to inhumane conditions.

Maybe I will mount a rescue effort and drag those poor parishioners into a warm safe building and tell them they do not have to subject themselves to such harsh conditions. I just feel like helping those who are too dumb to help themselves.

Today's Iraq update: Shitty!

US forces were reduced to near-impotent bystanders as the violence ignited by Thursday’s car bomb attacks on Shi’ite targets in Baghdad spawned a spiral of revenge.

After a series of attacks on Sunni mosques on Friday, insurgents in Diyala province were reported yesterday to have stormed two Shi’ite houses and murdered 21 men in front of their relatives. A suicide car bomber yesterday attacked a joint US-Iraqi checkpoint near Fallujah, killing three civilians and one American soldier.

This has been predicted for a long time by those who were honestly assessing this conflict. It is obvious that the Coalition troops are not going to be able to do a damn thing about this civil war.

There are no good options left. The only one that protects our troops involves getting them out of the middle of the carnage that is erupting around them.

The problem in Iraq must really be out of control. Military recruiters are finally taking homosexuals.

According to reporter Rick Sallinger, "A CBS4 Investigation into recruiting by the United States Army found recruiters telling potential soldiers that it wasn't a problem if they were gay. The recruiters told people showing interest in being a soldier to keep their homosexuality to themselves."

I am sort of split on this story.

On the one hand I want to say "Hurray for the gay people!"

But then on the other hand I want to say "Run for it, they are trying to round you up to get you killed!" It is a story that just leaves me very conflicted.

I don't want anybody to enlist until this war is over. I bet that makes me a traitor huh?

I never believed in Hell before, but it is clear that it does indeed exist, and they call it Iraq.

The latest escalation in bloodshed began with a two-hour siege Thursday by Sunni gunmen on the Ministry of Health; then suspected Sunni insurgents detonated a series of bombs in crowded places in Sadr City and other Shi'ite neighborhoods that killed more than 160 people. Shi'ite militiamen retaliated by firing mortars at mosques and other targets in neighboring Sunni suburbs. And tensions were further inflamed by an incident in which U.S. troops, searching in Sadr City for a kidnapped American soldier, fired on a van that refused to slow down in response to a signal, killing four civilians. The incident, which highlighted the ongoing U.S. campaign against elements of Sadr's army who they see as responsible for much of the sectarian violence, makes life even more difficult for Maliki.

There is not a day that goes by where the violence in Iraq does not seem to have escalated yet again. I usually do not see the point in posting about it because it almost does not seem like news anymore. But the fact is that it is so extreme right now that it may be the most dangerous place on this planet. More dangerous, even, then Darfur.

But this situation is the fault of the United States. And we are honor bound to ease the danger in some way. We have to fix this. However the way forward to making this better is beyond confusing. I have no idea what would diffuse the danger in this region, but I cannot help but believe that our presence is the catalyst right now. I know the violence will increase when the American troops leave but I also believe that it will begin to lessen as time goes by. What Iraq will ultimately look like I cannot predict, but humans are biologically driven to want to bring order to chaos. Therefore I think the Iraqis will ultimately make their world better.

So we must swallow our pride and admit we fucked up and just get our boys out of the way until the Iraqis can somehow clean up the mess that we created.

America will suffer for this mistake in the future, no matter what we do about it right now.

Doing the people's business, the Democrats are aggressively pursuing the truth behind the Iraq invasion and CIA interrogation methods.

Seeking information about detention of terrorism suspects, abuse of detainees and government secrecy, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are reviving dozens of demands for classified documents that until now have been rebuffed or ignored by the Justice Department and other agencies.

“I expect real answers, or we’ll have testimony under oath until we get them,” Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, who will head the committee beginning in January, said in an interview this week. “We’re entitled to know these answers, and in many instances we don’t get them because people are hiding their mistakes. And that’s no excuse.”

Mr. Leahy, who has said little about his plans for the committee, expressed hope for greater cooperation from the Bush administration, which he described as having been “obsessively secretive.” His aides have identified more than 65 requests he has made to the Justice Department or other agencies in recent years that have been rejected or permitted to languish without reply.

This is exactly why I wanted the Democrats back in power. I want to know what we have not been allowed to know up to this point. I fucking hate being lied to, and I want to have the truth revealed regardless of who it damages politically. And I include any complicit Democrats in that desire as well.

George W. Bush may be the worst liar in the history of politics. He has more ticks and gives then almost anybody I have ever seen who is not in the second grade. Yet nobody ever calls him on his bullshit.

Well I want somebody to shovel through the bullshit until they get to the truth. And now is the time.

Our good friends the Russians are taking Iran's side in the America vs Iran nuclear showdown. I am positive I have seen this movie before.

Russia has begun delivery of Tor-M1 air defense missile systems to Iran, a Defense Ministry official said Friday, confirming that Moscow would proceed with arms deals with Tehran in spite of Western criticism.

The United States called on all countries last spring to stop all arms exports to Iran, as well as ending all nuclear cooperation with it to put pressure on Tehran to halt uranium enrichment activities. Israel, too, has severely criticized arms deals with Iran.

When you invade a nation based on lies you kind of lose the diplomatic heft to make your point to your allies concerning the danger other countries may present. Has President Bush ever read "The boy who cried wolf"?

Everything that our administration is saying about Iran, they already said about Iraq in the runup to the invasion. It looks like some of these other countries have noticed the similarities.

Don't you just hate that?

Today's reality check brings you a ranking of the top Democratic nations. US is 17th.

Rank Country Score
1. Sweden 9.88
2. Iceland 9.71
3. Netherlands 9.66
4. Norway 9.55
5. Denmark 9.52
16. Spain 8.34
17. U.S. 8.22
20= Japan 8.15
23. U.K. 8.08
24. France 8.07
29. South Africa 7.91
34. Italy 7.73
35. India 7.68
42. Brazil 7.38
102. Russia 5.02
112. Iraq 4.01
138. China 2.97
167. North Korea 1.03

After we give thanks for all that we have today, perhaps it would not be too untoward to ask for just a little of what we once had to be returned to us. The greatness of America must be retored.

Perhaps the funniest Thanksgiving episode of all time. I give you WKRP in Cincinnati.

If you can resist laughing at this clip then you do not have a humorous bone in your body.

Analysts agree that Bush is going ahead with his plans to bomb Iran. Can nobody stop this madman?

"I think he is going to do it," John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a military issues think tank, told AFP.

"They are going to bomb WMD facilities next summer," he added, referring to nuclear facilities Iran says are for peaceful uses and Washington insists are really intended to make nuclear bombs, or weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

"It would be a limited military action to destroy their WMD capabilities" added the analyst, believing a US military invasion of Iran is not on the table.

US journalist Seymour Hersh also said at the weekend that White House hawks led by Vice President Dick Cheney were intent on attacking Iran with or without the approval of the US Congress, both houses of which switch from Republican to Democratic control in January after the November 7 legislative elections.

Joseph Cirincione, Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress, a Democrat-friendly think tank, also believes the US government could decide to attack Iran.

"It is not realistic but it does not mean we won't do it," he told AFP in an interview. "It is less likely after the elections but it is still very possible."

"If you look at what the administration is doing, it seems that it is going to inevitably lead us to a military conflict," he said, adding that no alternative solution was being sought, including discussions with Iran on Iraq, which could lead to talks on Iran's nuclear program and role in the region.

"Senior members of the (Bush) administration remain seized with the idea that the regime in Iran must be removed," Cirincione said.

Where are our checks and balances? Isn't the whole point of our type of government that it will curtail the actions of any leader who is not acting in the best interests of this country?

We all just stand here while this lunatic drags us toward Armageddon, and nobody lifts a finger to stop him. We may very well be watching the beginning of the end of our nation.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Eat drink and feel Mary! (I am sure she won't mind.)

Another video of our military making us proud in Iraq.

I am embarrassed for my country yet again.

How stupid do these people think we are?

The US government has tweaked its terminology in referring to the nearly 11 million Americans who face a constant struggle with hunger to refer to them as people with "very low food security".

A bureaucracy that believes the solution to a problem lies in changing the terminology is
a very frightening bureaucracy indeed. Words don't fill hungry bellies.

Put me down as a supporter of this ticket.

When introducing former vice presidential candidate John Edwards at a book signing this week, a family friend mentioned a bumper sticker she'd seen around town: "Edwards-Obama." The giddy audience roared with approval.

Could you imagine the excitement this ticket would create?

They are young, they are intelligent, they are the embodiment of the new direction that politics needs to go in this country.

They would serve as the anti-George Bush/Dick Cheney.

I would vote for them in a hot minute.

Bush 41 tries desperately to defend his son, Bush 43, against Arab critics. A thankless job if ever there was one.

"My son is an honest man," Bush told members of the audience who harshly criticized the current U.S. leader's foreign policy.

The oil-rich Persian Gulf used to be safe territory for former President Bush, who brought Arab leaders together in a coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's troops from Kuwait in 1991. But gratitude for the elder Bush, who served as president from 1989-93, was overshadowed at the conference by hostility toward his son, whose invasion of Iraq and support for Israel are deeply unpopular in the region.

"We do not respect your son. We do not respect what he's doing all over the world," a woman in the audience bluntly told Bush after his speech.

Bush, 82, appeared stunned as others in the audience whooped and whistled in approval.

"This son is not going to back away," Bush said, his voice quivering. "He's not going to change his view because some poll says this or some poll says that, or some heartfelt comments from the lady who feels deeply in her heart about something. You can't be president of the United States and conduct yourself if you're going to cut and run. This is going to work out in Iraq. I understand the anxiety. It's not easy."

One has to wonder at how uncomfortable Thanksgiving is with the Bush clan these days.

George Bush Sr. cannot possibly be happy with most of his son's presidency. He just can't be.

She's here!

My daughter arrived last night and we are picking up right where we left off.

She is just as wonderful as she has always been. And demanding. And opinionated. And my angel.

I was forced to watch a "French Kiss" DVD last night. She loves it and does not share my opinion that it is a fluffy, formulaic romantic comedy. Our first disagreement of her visit.

But I would happily watch a bad movie every night of my life if it was in her company. She has a way of making it fun, even when it is bad.

Scientists use conference to attack religion. Now here is a discussion that is needed now more then ever.

Somewhere along the way, a forum this month at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., which might have been one more polite dialogue between science and religion, began to resemble the founding convention for a political party built on a single plank: in a world dangerously charged with ideology, science needs to take on an evangelical role, vying with religion as teller of the greatest story ever told.

Carolyn Porco, a senior research scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo., called, half in jest, for the establishment of an alternative church, with Dr. Tyson, whose powerful celebration of scientific discovery had the force and cadence of a good sermon, as its first minister.

She was not entirely kidding. “We should let the success of the religious formula guide us,” Dr. Porco said. “Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It is already so much more glorious and awesome — and even comforting — than anything offered by any scripture or God concept I know.”

It is about time that this started happening around the world.

I know that there are people who visit this site for the political musings, or quirky news stories, who do not share my disdain for religions, but it is my fervent belief that much of the ills visited upon the world today stem from competing religious beliefs.

The idea that neighbor would kill neighbor simply because they worship the same God in differing ways is, to my mind, the definition of insanity. It just makes no sense to hate somebody for their beliefs. But that is what is happening around the world. And it is getting worse.

Science is all inclusive. If you examine the same evidence you usually reach the same relative conslusions. But when you add cultural or religious differences it can throw a huge monkey wrench in the scientific discourse.

It is time for all of the children of the world to have access to unbiased, un-censored scientific facts. Regardless of what beliefs they may challenge. In my opinion, anything that cannot stand up to the harsh reality of scientific inquiry is just not worth believing.

Bush loses his Mojo and the bad JuJu comes home to roost.

Now I am not usually a superstitious person as I don't believe in supreme beings, or evil spirits, or magic, or really anything at all, but there is some interesting energy surrounding George Bush and those close to him.

First there is the report of his daughter's purse snatching.

Then the motorcade incident in Hawaii.

And then finally a White House staffer gets his ass kicked while accompanying Bush in Hawaii. (You know Hawaii has multiple gods and spirits roaming around the islands. You want to watch your ass on those islands.)

Now one, or two, of these things might just be an interesting coincidence. But three incidents like this in a row? I think it is clear that Bush has pissed off somebody with some power.

Could it have been this guy? (I love it when I am ahead of the curve on a new story.)

Don't look for too many posts today.

My daughter is due to arrive in a little more then an hour. I have not seen her for over a year so I am afraid I have been just too excited and busy to write anything today.

I might have time to post later today but then again, I might not.

I am sure you understand.

FOX News to create their own right leaning version of the "Daily Show". Oh yeah, this is going to work.

Fox News Channel might air two episodes of a "Daily Show"-like program with a decidedly nonliberal bent on Saturday nights in late January, with the possibility that it could become a weekly show for the channel. The half-hour show is executive produced by "24's" Joel Surnow and Manny Cota and creator Ned Rice, who previously wrote for "Politically Incorrect" and "Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson" through This Just In Prods. The show was pitched as "This Just In" when it first got life as a 20-minute pilot presentation for Fox Broadcasting Co.'s late-night division.

If you can't beat them join them. Nice idea in theory, a little harder to do in reality.

Although I can imagine how frustrating it must be for the folks at FOX to get hammered by the Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Bill Maher week after week this is, in the words of Tony Snow, a non-starter.

The beauty of the Daily Show, Colbert, and Maher is that they have no problem pointing out the foibles on both sides of the ideological fence. If a Democrat screws up he can expect to be lampooned on the Daily Show just like his Republican counterpart.

The idea of making a show that focuses on making right wing sympathetic comedy as counterpoint to those other shows, demonstrated that FOX does not understand how those shows work.

And the success of the Daily Show is in large part because of the incredible talent of John Stewart, and the same can be said for Colbert. Who will FOX get to anchor this new show?

There is substantial evidence to suggest that when a comic embraces the right wing ideology he loses his ability to be very funny. Remember Dennis Miller? Yeah neither does anybody else!

Britney Spears might just give away her sex tape to keep K-fed from making any money. Checkmate jerkoff!

Now Britney Spears says she may just “give away’ a copy of the sex tape the couple made on their honeymoon two years ago.

Sources close to Spears report she is “seriously thinking about” giving away a digitally re-mastered copy of the four-hour long sex video.

“Brit figures she’ll beat that sucker to the punch, just like she did by giving away pictures of Jayden James,” said Spears family friend Nyla Price, 55, the owner of Nyla’s Burger Basket.

“Half of nuthin’ is nuthin’, and that’s what her lying skunk of a husband will get if she gives that video away before he can find some sleazeball to buy it.”

You know Britney might not be as dumb as people keep saying. It is brilliant in its simplicity. To keep her sex tape from being made public for money, Britney is going to release her sex tape to the public for free.

And the important information to garner from this story is that the Briteny Spears sex tape is definitely going to be released one way or the other!

I think I need to shower again.

Pentagon introduces three new possible solutions in Iraq. Cut and run, send more troops we don't have, or stay longer and hope for the best.

A Pentagon panel has outlined three basic options for improving the situation in Iraq -- pull out, send more U.S. troops or reduce the size of the force but stay longer, The Washington Post reported on Monday.

The options have been dubbed "Go Home," "Go Big" and "Go Longer" by insiders.
Sources who have been briefed on the review, led by Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the group had concluded there were not enough U.S. forces to "Go Big," sending in thousands more troops, the Post said.

"Go Home," the quick pullout option, was rejected as likely to push Iraq directly into a full-blown civil war, the Post said.

The Pentagon group devised a hybrid plan, "Go Long," which calls for cutting the U.S. combat presence combined with a long-term expansion of the training and advising of Iraqi forces, the newspaper said.

So essentially we are all out of reasonable options. The only one that makes even a little sense to me is the "Go home" solution.

And the argument that John McCain is making that the terrorists will follow our troops home to our shores is completely ridiculous! If we left Iraq and they had to figure out how to deal with their civil war without our support, do you really think that they would have any interest in chasing us back to our shores when they have their own battles brewing at home? They would have to either divide the country, unite the country, or dissolve the country. They will not be able to give the United States a second thought for decades to come. I mean the Vietcong did not follow us home when we left Vietnam, now did they? It is an ignorant argument.

Staying in Iraq will not save that country. And it is time we all came to terms with that.

Finally my dreams have been answered, there is an Immoral theme park in Peru. Anybody up for a roadtrip?

People in Huayre are bemused by the uproar. National rulers, they figure, have been squandering their riches for centuries, so what's the big deal if Mayor Wenceslao Alderete hoped to attract tourists by gracing the village's central plaza with outsized images of genitalia and of the maca root, a tuber traditionally consumed as an aphrodisiac?

It has always been my dream to go to an erotic theme park and go on some of the rides. I envisions rides like, Mammary Mountain, the Penis-Go-Round, the Twirling Titties, and of course the dance club the Voluptuous Vagina.( Where the whole place is dripping with moisture and everybody has to wear raincoats. You know to insure safe dancing. And every fifteen minutes the soundtrack plays the sound of a woman moaning and the sprinkler system comes on for a minute. You know you want to go.)

It really is just too bad it is in Peru. I am just not up for a trip to South America right now.

Republicans decide to attack powerful Democratic women. I suggest they read Lysistrata by the Greek playwright Aristophanes.

Republican strategists plotting their party's comeback after it lost control of Congress have identified the "first lady" of Democrat politics as a key target in the 2008 White House campaign — even though she will not be running.

Senior party operatives told The Sunday Telegraph that they are already co-ordinating plans to attack Nancy Pelosi, the liberal Californian congresswoman and Speaker-in-waiting who suffered a damaging rebuff from her own party caucus last week.

The Republican strategy is not only to undermine Mrs Pelosi's control of the House but also to associate her in voters' minds with Senator Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the 2008 Democrat presidential nomination.

The only tactic that the Republicans seem to have left is this constant personal attack strategy which is clearly the ugliest side of politics.

They have attacked minorites, Democrats, environmentalists, scientists, and the poor in order to energize their base and undermine their opponents. But attacking these women, loosely based on their gender, is going to backfire badly.

It is clear that the Republicans only suffer swooning sycophants like Condaleezza Rice, Karen Hughes, and Harriet Miers. Women who know their place and follow the lead of their men without question or correction.

The reality is that the leadership of men has brought us economic difficulty, an unnecessary war, and the disdain of our neighboring countries. It seems to me that a woman in charge might have a much more gentle and diplomatic approach to many of these difficult issues. I would not be surprised to see many American women wanting to allow their sisters a shot at fixing this fractured country.

Australian McDonalds introduces the McMuslim burger.

The fast-food chain has introduced halal products at two Melbourne restaurants, significantly boosting sales.

However some non-Muslim customers are furious they were not told their hamburger meat was slaughtered and blessed in accordance with Islamic rules laid down in the Koran.
McDonald's consulted Muslim leaders before introducing halal products at its Brunswick East and St Albans stores.

Halal meat is from animals that have been killed facing Mecca and blessed using the name of Allah.

Brunswick East store assistant manager Nicholas Yacoub said the move had attracted a surge of new customers.

"It has pretty much doubled our sales," Mr Yacoub said.

You know I don't care what prayers they want to say over my burger just as long as they don't spit in it.

However if Australia is going to take the Muslims side in our Christian vs Muslim holy war they may find themselves opening a king size can of American Whoop-ass.

You have been warned.

This Brazilian mayor wants my penis to be happy. Gee the Brazilians are nice people!

The mayor of a small Brazilian town has begun handing out free Viagra, spicing up the sex lives of dozens of elderly men and their partners.

"Since we started the free distribution of sexual stimulants, our elderly population changed. They're much happier," said Joao de Souza Luz, the mayor of Novo Santo Antonio, a small town in the central state of Mato Grosso.

Souza Luz said 68 men over the age of 60 had already signed up for the program, which was approved by the town's legislature and has been dubbed "Happy Penis," or "Pinto Alegre" in Portuguese.

The sun shines all day, the people are scantily clad, and there is free Viagra for everybody.

It sounds like heaven on earth doesn't it?

New Zealand cop gets his suspect to give up by tasering his son and pepper spraying his daughter. Well that is unique.

A clumsy New Zealand policeman, who was attending a domestic dispute, accidentally shot himself and a teenager with a stun gun.

The constable was loading his weapon - to stun a man at the centre of the incident - when he accidentally blasted himself with the Taser's 50,000 volts, the New Zealand Herald reports.
Another shot hit the man's 16-year-old son.

After five attempts to hit the man, the officer eventually used pepper spray. But he succeeded only in hitting the man's 21-year-old daughter - an unintended target.

The wanted man eventually gave himself up.

I hope this does not kick start a new trend of cops working over the children of the bad guys in order to get compliance. I mean that just seems terribly unfair.

That would be an interesting parenting tool however. "If you don't eat your vegetables, Daddy is going to break the law and get your ass tasered!"

Pat Robertson pisses on all other religions.

A viewer wrote in to ask Pat Robertson a question

Why [do] evangelical Christians tell non-Christians that Jesus (God) is the only way to Heaven? Those who are Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, etc. already know and have a relationship with God. Why is this? It seems disrespectful.

Robertson replied that it is not all disrespectful because all other religions really just worship “demonic powers.”

No. They don’t have a relationship. There is the god of the Bible, who is Jehovah. When you see L-O-R-D in caps, that is the name. It’s not Allah, it’s not Brahma, it’s not Shiva, it’s not Vishnu, it’s not Buddha. It is Jehovah God. They don’t have a relationship with him. He is the God of all Gods. These others are mostly demonic powers. Sure they’re demons. There are many demons in the world.

If Christians had any balls at all they would they would get together and buy this guys television show and fire his bigoted ass! He is the worst possible spokesman for a religion that used to be about peace and understanding.

Okay is was never about peace and understanding, but they were much more effective at fooling people before this tool got on the air.

Something about this toy seems to threaten my manhood. I am not sure why.

Heidi Fleiss hires Mike Tyson as a male prostitute. Because nothing gets a woman's motor running like a convicted rapist. Now with facial tattoos!

Former boxing champion Mike Tyson is to become a male escort after agreeing to work at legendary Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss' new legalized brothel for women. Fleiss bought 60 acres of land in Nevada, and his work is scheduled to begin on Heidi's Stud Farm.

She has high hopes for Tyson, once heavyweight champion of the world - despite the fact he is a convicted rapist.

She says, "I told him, 'You're going to be my big stallion.' It's every man's fear that their girlfriend will go for Mike Tyson."

Tyson, 40, adds, "I don't care what any man says, it's every man's dream to please every woman - and get paid for it."

Are there really women who will pay for this?

I may have to start charging more.

Tony Blair admits Iraq is a disaster!

Tony Blair admitted that British intervention in Iraq has been a disaster last night - sending shockwaves through Westminster.

In his frankest admission about the war to date, Mr Blair admitted that Western forces have been powerless to stop the descent into violence.

The Prime Minister stopped short of accepting the blame for plunging Iraq to the brink of civil war - blaming instead the insurgent uprising that has killed 125 British troops.

This has been a historic week for both Bush and Blair concerning Iraq. Bush admitted that the war in Iraq has much in common with the war in Vietnam, and Blair has finally admitted that what is happening is disasterous.

No if one them will only admit that going to Iraq was a mistake we might finally be able to start bringing our troops home.

Bush uses the lessons of Vietnam to justify staying in Iraq. WTF?

President Bush said Friday the United States' unsuccessful war in Vietnam three decades ago offered lessons for the American-led struggle in Iraq. "We'll succeed unless we quit," Bush said shortly after arriving in this one-time war capital.

It is becoming clear that George W. Bush suffers from "Historical Dyslexia". He literally sees history's anti-war lessons as a pro-war lesson. That is insane!

I do not see how the Democrats can not see the need to impeach Bush. He is clearly a threat to our nation and the rest of the world as well. He must go!

Rachael Ray's husband is a sex pervert! Still not going to buy her book. I might buy his though.

Kitchen queen Rachael Ray has more to worry about than whether her meat loaf is burning now that another woman is claiming that she carried on a kinky, five-year affair with Ray's husband.

Jeannine Walz claims in The National Enquirer that Ray's hubby, John Cusimano, paid Walz to commit degrading acts you won't be seeing on the Food Network. And, she claims, they used drugs together. Ray and Cusimano deny the allegations.

Walz alleges that the 39-year-old lawyer and musician shelled out cash for her to spit in his face, rub her bare feet on his face and other gamy rituals.

Whatever happened to good old fashioned perversions?

I mean these new perversions are just....sick! Spitting, peeing, pooping on each other? None of that is even remotely stimulating to me.

However a short, big mouthed woman that can cook might just get my motor running.

Call me when you are done with that loser Rachael. I will dress you up like little Bo Peep and show you some normal sexual perversions.

Today's sign of the coming Apocalypse, cat gives birth to puppies!

This is Mimi, the first cat to give birth to puppies, her owner claims.

Brazilian Cassia Aparecida de Souza, 18, says three of the cat’s six offspring, which were born three months after Mimi mated with a neighbour’s dog, have canine traits.

And here I thought getting the Republicans out of power would slow this kind of thing down.

Pelosi confirmed as first female House Speaker.

I am excited to see what kind of sensibilities Ms. Pelosi brings to this sometimes contentious job.

She certainly could not do worse then Hastert did!

Go get them Nancy!

The Japanese get all the good diseases.

Growing numbers of Japanese women are afflicted with an illness that gives them orgasms virtually 24 hours a day. And with suggestions that it could be deadly, the women hardly know whether they're coming or going, according to Shukan Post (11/24).

"If a guy simply taps me on the shoulder, I just swoon. Even when I go to the toilet, my body reacts. I'm a little bit scared of myself," one woman sufferer tells Shukan Post.

Another adds: "When I got on the train one day, I could feel blood gushing toward a certain part of my body and it felt so good I almost let out a moan. It was sheer murder when everybody got pushed into the carriage."

Yet another woman has her say.

"Even the vibration of my mobile phone is enough to set me off," she says. "My friend said there's something called Iku Iku byo (Cum Cum Disease). I guess I've got that."

I think I had this once only we called it "being sixteen years old".

"Cum Cum Disease", you have to love the japanese terminology. I hear when they get a chronic sickness they call it "Die Die Disease".

The Voodoo demographic just hates George 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.

"I don't hate Americans, but I don't like Bush," said Pamungkas, who believed the ritual would succeed as, "the devil is with me today."

Does anybody really think that Bush needs anymore bad mojo? I mean what has gone right for the guy lately?

I am sorry, was I showing sympathy for George Bush?

Get him voodoo dude!

Now that the Democrats do not have to fight against the Republicans anymore who will argue with now? Each other of course.

Carville, during coffee and rolls with political reporters today, said Democrats could have picked up as many as 50 House seats, instead of the nearly 30 they have so far.

Asked by a reporter whether Dean should be dumped, Carville replied, “In a word, do I think? Yes.”

He added, “I think he should be held accountable.” He added, “I would describe his leadership as Rumsfeldian in its competence.”

Okay we have a country to repair, a war that needs a solution, and a national reputation which requires our immediate atention. And what is James Carville arguing about? He is pissed that the Democrats landslide did not have more land in its slide. What a stupid fucking thing to argue about!

Carville shut the fuck up!

Why would you offer the Republicans any help whatsoever! Let's not help them make us look like children who cannot stop arguing long enough to solve any of our problems. I am going to go back to being an Independant if this shit keeps up!

Scientist are going to reconstruct Neanderthal DNA. NFL starts salivating over the prospects.

Scientists said today that by unleashing a new kind of DNA analyzer on a 38,000-year-old fragment of fossilized Neanderthal bone they had reconstructed a portion of that creature's genetic code -- a technological tour de force that has researchers convinced they will soon know the entire DNA sequence of the closest cousin humans ever had.

Just what this planet needs, more thick browed, simple minded, under-evolved morons running around this planet like bulls in a china shop.

And just when we finally got the Republicans back under control.

That woman that Nancy Grace interviewed to death might have been an amateur porn star. Nancy Grace is still a soulless bitch though.

As authorities renew their search for missing Central Florida boy, Trenton Duckett, Local 6 News has learned that a private investigator is looking into his mother's apparent secret side business of creating and performing in amateur pornographic videos.

Nude photographs of Melinda Duckett, including one image where she is straddling a child's crib and another explicit video where the sound of a crying baby can be heard in the background surfaced in the missing boy investigation and caused concerns for detectives, the report said.

Yeah nobody claimed that this woman was a candidate for mother of the year but the fact remains that if Nancy Grace had not berated this woman into taking her own life we might now know what happened to little Trenton. Nancy Grace is a menace and needs to be reined in by her cable company before she kills again.

I mean they muzzle other dogs that are overly aggressive. Why not Nancy Grace?

GOP decides to play to their strength by appointing racist as their Minority leader.

Do you remember Trent Lott? No?

Do you remember when he said this:

Tremendous political controversy ensued following remarks Lott made on December 5, 2002 at the 100th birthday party of Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.

"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."

Since Thurmond had explicitly supported racial segregation in the presidential campaign to which Lott referred, this statement was widely interpreted to mean that Lott also supported racial segregation.

Yep that was him.

I guess with all of the Republican homosexuals falling out of their closets lately the GOP wanted to drive home the point that they still hate those other minorities.

Abramoff might bring down several prominent Democrats while bringing down Karl Rove. Sounds like a fair trade to me!

Sources close to the investigation say Abramoff has provided information on his dealings with and campaign contributions and gifts to "dozens of members of Congress and staff," including what Abramoff has reportedly described as "six to eight seriously corrupt Democratic senators."

The sources say Abramoff was about to provide information about Bush administration officials, including Karl Rove, "accepting things of value" from Abramoff.

Rove has denied any wrongdoing in his dealings with Abramoff. But the lobbyist visited the White House at least seven times, according to Secret Service logs obtained by Judicial Watch.

I don't care if they are Republicans or Democrat, if they are corrupt they must go!

However Rove must go! I would be willing to send a dozen or more Democrats down the river to make sure that Rove is ridden out of Washington on a rail. He and his puppet, George Bush, have done more harm to this country then a hundred terrorists could ever hope to manage.

Man in Florida is trying to sell his soul on line.

Gerald Fraller is selling his soul. The 28-year-old Tampa man isn’t done with it, he is just looking for a change.

“I’m simply at a point in my life where I need a new direction and I am selling the most valuable item I have to offer: my very soul,” says Fraller on his website www.winmysoul.com.

Fraller intends to take donations, and each dollar contributed entitles the giver to one entry in a drawing to win his soul.

Nice try buddy! Everybody knows that people in Florida don't have souls!

Besides I have more souls in my possession then I know what to do with. There was a sale at "Souls R us", I couldn't pass up the deal.

Don't you just love ailments that can be cured with more sex? Yep, me too

Women allergic to their partner's semen can be cured by treatments requiring frequent sex, a New York allergist says.

Okay fine! I will do my best to cure women of this affliction. God, the things I do for my fellow humans. The female fellow humans only, of course.

Why didn't Bush or the Dems think of this? Chuck Norris visits Iraq. The war is over, we won!

When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.

Outer space exists because it's afraid to be on the same planet with Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.

Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.

Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.

There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard. There is only another fist.

When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the Earth down.

Chuck Norris is so fast, he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head.

Chuck Norris’ hand is the only hand that can beat a Royal Flush.

There is no such thing as global warming. Chuck Norris was cold, so he turned the sun up.

Chuck Norris can lead a horse to water AND make it drink.

Chuck Norris doesn’t wear a watch, HE decides what time it is.

Chuck Norris gave Mona Lisa that smile.

Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.

Chuck Norris does not get frostbite. Chuck Norris bites frost

Remember the Soviet Union? They decided to quit after watching a DeltaForce marathon on Satellite TV.

Contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy, it is a Chucktatorship.

At this point I would be willing to try anything, including sending Chuck to negotiate a peace with the terrorists. Of course we all know that the only thing that Chuck would be willing to negotiate is where they want their remains to be mailed.

This is how movies about homosexuality should be cast!

Beyonce Knowles and Eva Longoria will play lesbian lovers in a new movie.

The gorgeous stars have revealed they are set to star in sexy Victorian drama Tipping The Velvet.

Beyonce and Eva are said to be incredibly excited about the steamy love scenes and can't wait for filming on the project to start.

A source revealed: "They weren't at all coy about the sex scenes. In fact they both seemed to think it would be more fun than doing the same work with a man. It's going to be very hot."

Now before anybody gets all judgemental on me you should know that I sat through "Brokeback Mountain" and I did not even fast forward through the man on man sex parts. So I deserve this! I have paid my gay dues!

Democrats begin to call for a phased redeployment as Bush continues to look for victory. This could get ugly!

With a top Democrat calling for a "phased redeployment" of U.S. troops in Iraq, President Bush met Monday with a commission studying the war and said conditions in Iraq, not politics, would dictate troop levels there.

Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, who is expected to chair the Armed Service Committee in January when Democrats take control of Congress, said redeploying troops would prompt the Iraqis to take more expeditious steps to ending the war.

"We cannot save the Iraqis from themselves," Levin said. "We've been told repeatedly by our top uniformed military leaders that there is no purely military solution in Iraq; there is only a political solution in Iraq."

Now the above is what the American people clearly want to have happen.

Now read the statement below and tell me if that does not sound like "stay the course" to you.

Bush said he had "a really good discussion" with the panel, but did not know what the group would conclude. Regardless, he said, the U.S. goal in Iraq remains "success -- a government which can sustain, govern and defend itself and will serve as an ally in this war on terror."

"I believe it is very important, though, for people making suggestions to recognize that the best military options depend upon the conditions on the ground," he said.

Somebody needs to stop listening to God and take a moment to hear what the people are telling him. There are lives at risk and no time to waste.

Nancy Pelosi endorses Murtha to replace her as the House Majority leader.

House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) yesterday as the next House majority leader, thereby stepping into a contentious intraparty fight between Murtha and her current deputy, Maryland's Steny H. Hoyer.

Murtha deserves to be rewarded for speaking out against the war well before it was the popular thing to do. John Murtha's courage in the face of the Republican smear machine makes him the right choice to lead the Democrats as they take on the tough issues.

Bush reminds us all why we should never believe a thing he tells us.

Bush admitted Wednesday that he interviewed former CIA director Robert M. Gates over the weekend for Rumsfeld's job and said he intentionally misled reporters last week about the defense secretary's future to avoid making the Iraq war more of an issue in the election.

Misled=lie.

Once again, Bush proved himself unaware of the obvious and oblivious to the voter anger that sent Republicans packing. He blamed GOP losses on voter ignorance, saying Americans didn't understand the war in Iraq. He chastised political guru Karl Rove, saying "I obviously was working harder in the campaign than he was." He later would claim the line was a joke but it wasn't. Bush was clearly pissed at everyone involved in Tuesday's election debacle.

Everyone but himself.

This time the lie is disguised as a joke. But it fools nobody.

When asked about the outrageous claims he made about incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats during the election, saying they favored victory by terrorists, Bush dismissed his inflammatory rhetoric as "just politics."

"The election is over," Bush said. "It's time to move on."

So all of that talk about Democrats wanting to "cut and run" is a lie as well? Or is this supposed change of heart the real lie?

George will do or say anything to get what he wants. We have seen that all too many times in the past.

Well the jig is up George because the Democrats are going to be holding you accountable for every fib, lie, exaggeration, fabrication, falsehood, fable, or whopper you tell for the remainder of your pathetic presidency.

Have a delightful two years Georgie.

Here comes Daddy!

As the war has gone badly and the years have ticked by—2003, 2004, 2005 and now much of 2006—the senior President Bush, the man who managed to capture just 37 percent of the vote in 1992, has grown in stature. Raising taxes and capping domestic spending in 1990, refusing to exceed the United Nations mandate after expelling Saddam from Kuwait, and deftly managing the end of the cold war and the reunification of Germany loom ever larger. Given the midterm reaction to the son's inattention to alliances and to the details of postwar Iraq, it is clear that many Americans are nostalgic for the skills and sensibility the first President Bush brought to the Oval Office—a reversal of historical fortune that has come, sadly for the father, at the expense of his son.

Man you have to know that this kind of talk must grate across George W's nerve endings like steel wool. If little George is not drinking yet, you know he is gazing at that bottle of Jack Daniels lovingly.

This is an interesting method for revising the way history views your lackluster presidency. Get the biggest screw up in your family elected to the office and wait for the favorable comparisons.

I mean Bush Sr. suffered by constantly being compared to Ronald Reagan. He was not as forceful of a personality, or a great speaker, or a terribly presidential looking individual. But compare him to his son and the man looks like the second coming of Christ!

History will throw George W. Bush's Presidency into the waste bin, but it will also pick Poppy Bush's up off the floor, dust it off, and place it on the mantle right alongside Reagan's and Eisenhower's. Thanks son.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's off to subpoena we go!

It has been 12 years since Democrats were in control of both the House and Senate. But they are looking to make up for lost time, and in some cases, make the Bush administration and its business allies sweat.

With control of every committee in Congress starting in January, the new majority will inherit broad powers to subpoena and investigate. And that is expected to translate into wide-ranging and contentious hearings.

The agenda is likely to be dominated by the Iraq war, but could include probes into the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance, environmental policies and new prescription-drug program for seniors. Industries, such as oil companies, could also come under closer scrutiny.

Am I salivating? Is there spittle on my lips?

Oh 2007 is going to be a VERY good year!

You might need to sit down for this. There is a Britney Spears sex tape! Shocking isn't it?

Britney, 24, fears the raunchy footage will destroy her wholesome image unless she caves in to his demands for a £16million payoff and custody of their children Sean Preston, one, and Jayden James, eight weeks.

She is worried she will become infamous like Paris Hilton —whose home-made sex video, was put on the internet by her ex and became one of the world's most popular sites.

Federline, 28, has bragged to pals that his X-rated tape shows the Oops, I Did It Again singer performing a series of explicit sex acts.

The home-made video is believed to show the naked couple enjoying an uninhibited range of love-making and sexual games.It was made during the first weeks of their relationship two years ago when they were holed up in one of the exclusive bungalows at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles.

I am not in the habit of offering advice to millionaire ex-pop star ho-bags but Britney darling, just let it go.

There is no way you are going to be able to stop the release of this tape, or some portion of it, so you might as well just kick the loser to the curb and start getting your career back on track.

The idea that there is any hope of recapturing your wholesome girl image is a crack-pipe dream. That ship has sailed, hit an iceberg, and sank to the inky depths of no fucking way!

But you can hit Vegas, all tarted up and espousing your new mature sexuality, and I know that there are plenty of forty something male fans who were once ashamed of their "Britney fixation" that will gladly pony up $50 or $60 a pop to see you strut across the stage in a revealing outfit and singing off key like the good old days.

The sex tape will not destroy your career, hell it made Paris Hilton's semi-career, and she was not even a good fuck. If you have half of the moves in bed that you had on stage then you may set the bar extremely high for all future celebrity sex tape performers to come.

My advice is to get a good lawyer and make sure you get your fair share of the sex tape royalties, cause that should be a very healthy chunk of change indeed!

Aint no one gonna be tappin our phones nohow.

Legislation aimed at President Bush's once-secret program for wiretapping U.S.-foreign phone calls and computer traffic of suspected terrorists without warrants shows all the signs of not moving ahead, notwithstanding President Bush's request this week that a lame-duck Congress give it to him.

Senate Democrats, emboldened by Election Day wins that put them in control of Congress as of January, say they would rather wait until next year to look at the issue. "I can't say that we won't do it, but there's no guarantee that we're going spend a lot of time on controversial measures," Democratic Whip Richard Durbin of Illinois said Thursday.

In Senate parlance, that means no.

I am just going to love having a Democratic House and Senate! It looks like Bush is going to get slapped down at every turn. And that is just the "feel good" news of the day ladies and gentlemen.

Maureen Dowd smells the testosterone and finds it unsatisfying. Ouch!

This will be known as the year macho politics failed — mainly because it was macho politics by marshmallow men. Voters were sick of phony swaggering, blustering and bellicosity, absent competency and accountability. They were ready to trade in the deadbeat Daddy party for the sheltering Mommy party.

All the conservative sneering about a fem-lib from San Francisco who was measuring the drapes for the speaker’s office didn’t work. Americans wanted new drapes, and an Armani granny with a whip in charge.

After 9/11, Americans had responded to bellicosity, drawn to the image, as old as the Western frontier myth, of the strong father protecting the home from invaders. But this time, many voters, especially women, rejected the rough Rovian scare and divide tactics.

The macho poses and tough talk of the cowboy president were undercut when he seemed flaccid in the face of the vicious Katrina and the vicious Iraq insurgency.

Even former members of the administration conceded they were tired of the muscle-bound style, longing for a more maternal approach to the globe. “We were exporting our anger and our fear, hatred for what had happened,” Richard Armitage, the former deputy secretary of state, said in a speech in Australia, referring to the 9/11 attacks. He said America needed “to turn another face to the world and get back to more traditional things, such as the export of hope and opportunity and inspiration.”

You know as a member of this particular gender I have to say that I have been underwhelmed by our performance on the world stage as of late. We talk tough but just cannot deliver the goods.

Most women know that the guy who brags about his sexual prowess is usually a dud in the sack. And guys usually find out that the bully who is shooting off his mouth in a bar will probably end up in the fetal position in the parking lot later. Tough talk does not translate into being tough.

In Alaska we have recently elected our very first female Governor, Sarah Palin. She was not my choice for Governor, as she is a Republican, but I am more then willing to give her the opportunity to show us how she might approach some of our more confounding problems. We have a gas pipeline project that has been stuck in the talking stage for decades. We have subsistence issues to work out. We have many problems that may benefit from having somebody more interested in negotiating a deal then puffing out their chests.

Having Nancy Pelosi as the first female speaker of the House presents the same opportunity to see how a woman's sensibilities might change the job to be more facilitating rather then bullying.

I am not a supporter of Hillary being our next president but if this is going to be the century of the woman then perhaps it is written in the stars and we all just need to accept it. I certainly do believe that America would benefit from having a woman in charge of our great country.

I mean I was raised in a single parent home, and my Mom did a fine job with me.

Okay that might be a bad example, but I still support women geting more control over the direction of this country. And in her defense Mom did not have much to work with. I love you Mom, and as usual, sorry.

Another balloon payment needed to support the Iraq war. Get out your checkbooks to pay 160 billion dollars.

The U.S. armed services have requested a $160 billion supplemental appropriation to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the remainder of fiscal year 2007--a staggering amount that, if approved by the Defense Department, may hasten the showdown between resurgent congressional Democrats and the Bush administration over the budget-busting War on Terror.

The request--which will likely include all costs related to the war on terrorism--far surpasses the $94 billion supplemental authorized earlier this year to fund the ongoing wars as well as hurricane recovery in the Gulf and is nearly double the $82 billion Iraq war supplemental outlay of 2005.

You know I do not mind paying a little extra for a quality product, but this Iraq thing appears to be the equivalent of an old Chevy Blazer that somebody towed out of a river and is trying to pass of as "good as new". We know that Iraq is getting worse as time progresses. We know that the majority of the people in Iraq do not want us there any longer.

Our money will not purchase a shiny new democracy that will be our ally in the Middle East alongside Israel, and occasionally Saudi Arabia. Our money will not purchase us a worthwhile product. And I cannot help but wonder what amazing things that much money might accomplish here at home? How many children could be fed? How many veterans could be rehabilitated? How many homeless could be given another chance to regain their lives? Think of the good.

160 billion dollars is an incredible amount of money. But it will not win the war in Iraq. There is no amount of money that will do that for us. Nor are there enough lost American lives that will accomplish it either.

MSNBC poll says 87% of respondents think that there is "plenty to justify" impeaching Bush.

An MSNBC online poll shows that the overwhelming majority of its participating voters believe President Bush should be impeached.

Of nearly 360,000 people who had voted in the "unscientific" poll by 9:30PM Eastern on Friday evening, 87 percent responded "Yes."

Despite public clamor in some sectors for an investigation of controversial actions by President Bush and his administration, which could potentially lead to articles of impeachment, key players in the newly empowered Democratic majority are playing down such calls.

I know that the Democrats promised not to attempt to impeach Bush, and that they want to focus on fixing some of the things that this President fucked up, but we all know that the guy needs to be impeached!

If Clinton can be impeached for lying about a blowjob then this guy simply has to be impeached for all of the horrible things he has done.

He started a damn war for no good reason! He lied to us repeatedly! He used our nation's fear after 9-11 to finish a conflict that he believed his father should have finished the first time.

He almost single handedly destroyed our credibility around the world.

History needs to record that Americans do not stand for this kind of abuse of power from their executives. Americans punish those that break our laws and take advantage of our moments of weakness. There are future Presidents who will need the example that this will set to ensure that they do not overstep their constitutional limitations.

We owe it to our children's children to make an example of George W. Bush today.

It is the patriotic thing to do.

If you were getting your children all packed up for "Jesus Camp" well you are a bad parent and they are closed down.

The summer camp "Kids on Fire" where children would tearfully beg God to end abortion and bless President Bush, will shut down for at least several years after a documentary about the camp.

The film, showing young evangelical children steeling themselves for spiritual and political warfare, includes scenes with pastor Ted Haggard, the evangelical leader accused of gay sex and drug use.

"Right now we're just not a safe ministry," Becky Fischer, the fiery Pentecostal pastor featured in "Jesus Camp," said Tuesday.

The pastor, who has been accused of "brainwashing" the children, said she's shutting down the camp for at least several years.

Awww! What a shame! Now how will these superstitious morons transform their children into religious zealots?

I mean what if little Johnny misses camp and spends his summer reading about religious diversity and other cultures? Oh the horror!

Damn do I love Maureen Dowd!

Poppy Bush and James Baker gave Sonny the presidency to play with and he broke it. So now they’re taking it back.

She is such a good writer and never shies away from calling things as she sees them. Always entertaining and prescient.

Behold the scapegoat of scapegoats. Donald Rumsfeld!

Donald Rumsfeld's abrupt resignation from the Pentagon the day after Republicans lost both chambers of Congress has infuriated some GOP officials on and off Capitol Hill.

Members and staff still reeling from Tuesday's rout are furious about the administration's decision to dump the controversial defense secretary one day after their historic loss, they said in a series of interviews about the election results.

President Bush announced Rumsfeld's resignation on Wednesday and named Bob Gates, a former CIA chief and president of Texas A&M University, as his replacement.

This should serve as a lesson to any Republican who feels that George Bush is still a man of honor. He threw Rumsfeld to the lions the minute that he felt the Democratice spears aimed at him. He is a coward, and all of that talk about George being loyal to the people who display loyalty to him is a bunch of shit. He only embraces them as long as it is politically beneficial to do so.

I do not think that Bush had any idea that the Democrats would take the House, and especially not the Senate. He was caught flat footed. I find it hard to believe that Karl Rove did not see this coming, but he did not feel the need to educate his boss on the coming ouster.

But Rumsfeld has been the loyal soldier throughout. He took the heat for decisions that were clearly coming from the top. He struggled to explain to the media strategic plans that were clearly flawed and unworkable. He was loyal to the end. And he will remain loyal. Do not look for any tell all book coming from Rumsfeld, because you will never see it.

No Donald Rumsfeld will shuffle off into the history books shouldering the blame for the Iraq debacle, and that is a damn shame! The fault for this war belongs solely to the President. And I, for one, will never let him divert blame to others.

Students at California college ban Pledge of Allegiance.

To the left is how children were told to recite the pledge, using the Bellamy salute, before World War Two. Gee I wonder why they stopped?

Student leaders at a California college have touched off a furor by banning the Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings, saying they see no reason to publicly swear loyalty to God and the U.S. government.

It is interesting that this is happening because I was just thinking about this the other day.

I work in an elementary school a few hours each day and I have stood and watched young children recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. I have to say that it makes me vaguely uncomfortable. It just seems so primitive to insist that American schoolchildren pledge an allegiance to their country. How does that make them better future Americans? Are they more likely to join the military and die for their country? Are they more likely to pay their taxes more readily? Are they less likely to find fault with our country when it enters a war of choice and suffers the disdain of the rest of the world?

No to all of the above. The only purpose it seems to serve is for children to embrace a religion that is the predominant religion of this country and to pledge an oath that they really do not understand. And it is a ridiculous requirement in this day and age.

We do not need to make a pledge to love our country, nor do we all need to believe in the same God to be an American. These are examples of old fashioned ideals that make much less sense in the world today.

We are a global community now. We are citizens of the world just as much as we are citizens of our individual countries. The more we accentuate our differences the harder it becomes for us to recognize our similarities.

Perhaps it is time to have a "Pledge of allegiance to Mother Earth".

I pledge my allegiance to our wonderful planet, and to all of the people who dwell there, many Nations with wonderful diversity, united, with liberty and justice for all mankind.

P.S. If you want to learn more about the Pledge you can find tons of info here.

Student seduces hot female teacher and cuckolds principal. His report card will arrive at his house in the form of a letter bomb.

The police department has recommended felony charges be filed against a female high school teacher accused of having an inappropriate sexual encounter with a teenage student.

Charges against 29-year-old Carrie McCandless were forwarded to the Larimer County District Attorney on Thursday.

She is married to the school's principal, Chris McCandless.

Wow this guy has humongous balls! Banging the principal's teacher wife must be one for the record books.

Bill Maher outs Ken Mehlman and now there are rumors he is quitting.

"Smell my thumb! Does it smell like man-ass?"

Political pundit Bill Maher last night accused the head of the Republican National Committee of being a closet "gay."

Appearing on CNN's Larry King Live, Maher said it's an open secret in Washington that RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman is a homosexual and that he has "never denied" it.

Does every gay Republican have to quit their job once they are outed? That sure does not seem fair.

I mean Mehlman is an ass, but I could not care less if he likes ass!

Let him keep his damn job!

P.S. The link above is to a conservative site. I am reaching out to the other side too.

Evangelist Ted Haggard to undergo gay exorcism.

There will be prayer, and perhaps the laying on of hands. There will be counseling and a confession. And there will be advice, confrontation and rebuke from "godly men" appointed to oversee the spiritual "restoration" of the Rev. Ted Haggard.

After tumbling from the pinnacle of the American evangelical movement amid allegations he snorted meth and cavorted with a male prostitute, Haggard has agreed to a rehabilitation process that could last three to five years.

"I see success approximately 50 percent of the time," said H.B. London, vice president for church and clergy at Focus on the Family, the conservative Christian ministry in Colorado Springs. "Guys just wear out and they can no longer subject themselves to the process."

Those who fail "end up selling cars or shoes or something, and being miserable and angry the rest of their lives," London said.

Yeah I would be also be angry if the only job I could get was selling shoes. I am a little confused as to how failing to "get the gay out" would lead to selling shoes, but what do I know about selling shoes? Or, you know, being gay?

I can't help wondering if Haggard's heart does not beat a little faster at the prospect of receiving a "laying on of hands" from the male clergy involved in this "restoration".

So the approach of these backward thinking simpletons is that they can get Haggard to repress his true feelings and inclinations toward men, so that he can rejoin his wife in a strained marriage built on a lie? Hey that sounds like my last marriage.

It is official, Democrats capture the Senate! This better not be a dream!

Democrats wrested control of the Senate from Republicans Wednesday with an upset victory in Virginia, giving the party complete domination of Capitol Hill for the first time since 1994, as NBC News reported that Democrat Jim Webb was the apparent winner.

Webb’s apparent squeaker win over incumbent Sen. George Allen effectively gave Democrats their 51st seat in the Senate, an astonishing turnabout at the hands of voters unhappy with Republican scandal and unabated violence in Iraq. Allen was the sixth Republican incumbent senator defeated in Tuesday’s elections.

Holy shit! I could not have asked for more then this. What a great day for Democracy.

Damn are my nipples hard!

Bill Nelson's son is so excited that his dad beat Katherine Harris that he celebrates by getting peppersprayed and arrested. The Democrats are back!

Officers responding to an alleged brawl near the hotel that hosted the senator's victory party discovered the younger Nelson with a woman slumped on the ground next to him, apparently passed out. According to a police report, an officer noted the man smelled strongly of alcohol, slurred his speech and had poor balance, and he called paramedics to ensure the woman was OK.

The report quoted the younger Nelson as saying the woman was fine. It did not say what their relationship was.

Police say Nelson tried to pick her up and drag her away, dropping her when the officer instructed him to put her down. The report said the senator's son attempted to push the officer away, then was pepper-sprayed for two to three seconds and handcuffed.

Now see Republicans just do not know how to party like this!

Serial flasher claims he is victim of circumstance. The circumstance is that he is gross!

Richards, 38, told police he had been "adjusting his clothing". He maintained his innocence and claimed the woman had been "mistaken".

At the trial he claimed he was not wearing underpants because of a medical condition.

Yeah I have a medical condition that keeps me from wearing underwear too.

My penis is too big.

No really!

Here let me show you.

Did I mention that it is cold up here?

Even Rush Limbaugh is abandoning the White House as it takes on water.

" I no longer am going to have to carry water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried."

Hypocritical son-of-a-bitch! This is just about as low as a human being can go.

I can hardly wait to see what Olbermann does with this little nugget.

Stick a fork in him, Rumsfeld is done!

President Bush announced Wednesday that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down from his post.

"The timing is right for new leadership at the Pentagon," Bush said at the White House Wednesday afternoon.

Rumsfeld has been heavily criticized for his policies in Iraq, and exit polls taken during Tuesday's midterm election, seen by some as a referendum on Bush and his administration, showed strong voter dissatisfaction -- 57 percent -- with the Iraq war.

"I recognize that many Americans voted last night to register their displeasure with the lack of progress being made" in Iraq, Bush said.

Gee you think Dumbass?

I am not going to expect this to affect any real changes in Iraq. Still it is a victory for our troops and for the country at large.

Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out Donald.

There is a fresh, clean breeze blowing through our country. Take a moment and fill your lungs with democracy my friends.

Democrats captured the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in 12 years and moved close to taking control of the Senate after a midterm campaign shaped by the war in Iraq and corruption scandals.

Capitalizing on President George W. Bush's declining popularity, Democrats picked up at least 27 House seats, ensuring control of the 435-seat chamber in January. They wrested four Senate seats from Republicans, two shy of the six needed for a majority, as races in Virginia and Montana remained in doubt.

The results set the stage for two years of divided government as Bush attempts to get his policy initiatives through a Democratic House. Bush will also face the possibility of investigations into his administration and a series of new initiatives from Democratic committee chairmen.

The 2006 midterm election comes to an end.

We got the House! The Senate is still up for grabs.

Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives for the first time since the 1994 Republican Revolution, CNN projects.

Democratic challengers have also picked up three seats in the Senate, CNN projects. They would need a net gain of six seats to wrest control from the Republicans.

I have hesitated to say too much about this for fear of jinxing it. But it seems certain that the House is now firmly in the hands of the Democrats. Thank you America.

This is why I don't go to church, too many damn snakes!

A southeastern Kentucky woman was bitten by a snake during a church service and later died, a law enforcement officer said. Linda Long, 48, of London died Sunday at University of Kentucky Medical Center, said Brad Mitchell, a detective with the Laurel County Sheriff's Office.

Long died about four hours after the bite was reported, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.

Religions just do not get too much more primitive then this.

I am almost surprised they are not sacrificing small farm animals as well.

You no longer have an excuse not to wear a condom.

A video showing a new, simple to put on condom.

I have always hated condoms. If only I did not love sex so damn much!

Democracy is taking a beating.

There are stories from all over the country that demonstrate fraud, interference, voting machine problems, and substantial voter rage.

In Florida 100s of voters were given thee wrong ballots.

In Denver there are reports that balky machines have caused Democrats to ask for extended polling hours.

There are vote stuffing allegations coming from Utah.

Even Chelsea Clinton had problems.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I am embarrassed for my country. And the funny part is that we have been trying to force our brand Democracy on another country.

What do you think they are learning about our Democracy now?

GOP warns against taking exit polls seriously. You know exit polls, the way that we determine election fraud in every democratic country in the world.

So the gist of this article is that exit polls, which have helped to reveal which candidate is winning for decades, is suddenly not reliable.

So exit polls, which help determine if there is fraud in elections held around the world, is unworkable in America. Isn't America the shining light of democracy?

So how long has this problem existed with exit polls? Biased And Inaccurate Predictions Have Led To Poor GOP Exit Poll Showings In Past Three National Elections.

Let me ask what do the last three national elections have in common? Could it be Karl Rove and George W. Bush? So the only possible conclusion to draw is that the involvement of these two men have suddenly rendered exit polls unreliable. How is that possible?

Think about it and it will come to you.

Don't just sit there.

VOTE!!!

Sam Harris, author of the book "The End of Faith", does not seem to like religions. Nope not yours either.

Religion is the one area of our discourse in which people are systematically protected from the demand to give good evidence and valid arguments in defense of their strongly held beliefs. And yet these beliefs regularly determine what they live for, what they will die for and—all too often—what they will kill for. Consequently, we are living in a world in which millions of grown men and women can rationalize the violent sacrifice of their own children by recourse to fairy tales. We are living in a world in which millions of Muslims believe that there is nothing better than to be killed in defense of Islam. We are living in a world in which millions of Christians hope to soon be raptured into the stratosphere by Jesus so that they can safely enjoy a sacred genocide that will inaugurate the end of human history. In a world brimming with increasingly destructive technology, our infatuation with religious myths now poses a tremendous danger. And it is not a danger for which more religious faith is a remedy.

It really is bizarre to live in a world where scientific progress is moving at such an amazing pace, while the majority of our countrymen believe that they are being monitored by an all powerful being who is waiting to punish them for not following the rules he laid out in a book written thousands of years ago. And most of the believers do not really follow all of the rules, only the ones that their minister outlines as being important for their salvation. The main one seems to be to give this minister a bunch of your money.

I do try to understand what compels such intelligent people to accept this fable, but I just cannot. Sorry.

Charlie Cook, non-partisan political pollster, says the so-called last minute Republican surge is a load of crap.

Going into Election Day, we see a 20-35 seat gain for Democrats in the House, a four to six seat gain for Democrats in the Senate and a six to eight seat gain for Democrats in the governor's races.

All Monday there was considerable talk that the national picture had suddenly changed and that there was a significant tightening in the election. This was based in part on two national polls that showed the generic congressional ballot test having tightened to four (Pew) and six (ABC/Wash Post) points.

Seven national polls have been conducted since Wednesday, November 1. They give Democrats an average lead of 11.6 percentage points, larger than any party has had going into an Election Day in memory. Even if you knock five points off of it, it's 6.6 percentage points, bigger than the advantage that Republicans had going into 1994.

Furthermore, there is no evidence of a trend in the generic ballot test. In chronological order of interviewing (using the midpoint of field dates), the margins were: 15 points (Time 11/1-3), 6 points (ABC/Wash Post), 4 points (Pew), 7 points (Gallup), 16 points (Newsweek), 20 points (CNN) and 13 points (Fox).

I am so afraid to get my hopes up that I have literally been acting timid. I am never timid.

Articles like this lift the weight off of my shoulders a little. I am terrified that the Republicans will figure out some way to steal this election out from under us again. If they do, I fear they will drive a nail into the heart of our democracy. We may see riots in the streets and anarchy may reign in the absence of an ordered election with reliable results.

If I were to get a moment of Karl Rove's time I would tell him that he risks destroying the fabric of our democracy for the chance to keep his party in power. No patriot would ever do that. If it happens, and the Republicans allow it, then they should be disolved as a political party and another party of ethics will have to rise to take their place.