Sex toy or baby toy quiz.

I only got 3 out of 15. I am so ashamed!

Bush Administration sees no evidence of profiteering from oil companies. Satisfied?

The Bush administration sees no direct evidence of profiteering by big U.S. oil companies and is doing all it can to tame near-record prices, U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said on Sunday.

With average U.S. gasoline pump prices near $3 a gallon and politicians clamoring to rein in record oil industry profits, President George W. Bush is trying to stave off a potential election-year problem for Republicans eager to hang on to control of the U.S. Congress.

Asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" if oil companies are exploiting consumers, Bodman said "we see no evidence of it, but this is one of those situations where I guess I would call it 'trust but verify."'

Bodman pointed to an ongoing probe by the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission into gasoline prices.

By a show of hands how many of you think that the Justice Department is going to find any evidence of wrongdoing?

Oh you guys are so cynical!

Sixth graders take Gonzales to task.

It was the big day. Twenty-three sixth-graders from Northeast Washington were getting to go inside one of the most top-secret rooms in the world: the FBI command center. A lair deep within FBI headquarters downtown. The inner sanctum where all spy brains converge to make split-second decisions to protect American citizens and fight evil during national crises.

Not only that, but the students were also about to meet The Big Guys: the director of the FBI and the attorney general of the United States. And they were going to see whether they could pass muster on the agent fitness test.

I bet Roberto Gonzales felt confident the kids would just ask him if he had a batphone to call the President in case of trouble or something. He would have been wrong.

A 12-year-old at the other end of the table had a question. "What do you think about the war?" he asked.

Gonzales put down his hamburger. "One thing you have to remember is that sometimes people have to die so we can all live in freedom. That's always been the case."

"I think they should end the war," Maurice said.

"You know what, I think everybody wants the war to end as soon as possible," Gonzales said. "I really do. Nobody wants young American soldiers to die, including the president."

"If the president made us go to war with Iraq, why doesn't he go over there and fight the war?" Christian May asked.

I think we should send these kids to work in the White House Press room as soon as possible. I would usually suggest that we wait until they were older but we desperately need them right now!

I just love kids.

Legal scholars say that Bush has broken 750 laws since taking office.

President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.

Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ''whistle-blower" protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research.

Legal scholars say the scope and aggression of Bush's assertions that he can bypass laws represent a concerted effort to expand his power at the expense of Congress, upsetting the balance between the branches of government. The Constitution is clear in assigning to Congress the power to write the laws and to the president a duty ''to take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Bush, however, has repeatedly declared that he does not need to ''execute" a law he believes is unconstitutional.

Bush feels he answers to a "higher power", the laws of man do not hold much importance to him. This is what makes Bush so incredibly dangerous. If the Democrats do not gain control of the House, at the very least, then there is nothing to stand in this megalomaniacs way.

We need to stop this naked grab for power by this nutjob before it is too late to stop the devastation that he is unleashing on our country and the rest of the world.

That civil war that is not taking place in Iraq has uprooted 100,000 families.

Sectarian violence has forced about 100,000 families across Iraq to flee their homes, a top Iraqi official said. At least 17 people, including an American soldier, were killed Saturday in fighting.

Adil Abdul-Mahdi, one of the country's two vice presidents, estimated on Friday that 100,000 Iraqi families — 90 percent of them his fellow Shiites — had fled their homes to escape attacks by rival religious sects.

I think the question of how history will judge Bush's Iraq war is being answered right before our eyes. I just hope that we finally learn this lesson once and for all.

Fitzgerald catches Rove in a lie!

In several hours of testimony, Rove was again asked how he learned three years ago that Plame worked for the CIA, and the circumstances of how he relayed that information to Cooper, according to people familiar with his testimony.

Rove also testified to the grand jury that when he told Cooper that Plame worked at the agency, he was only passing along unverified gossip.

In contrast, Cooper has testified that Rove told him in a phone conversation on July 11, 2003, that Plame worked for the CIA and played a role in having the agency select her husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, to make a fact-finding trip to Niger in 2002.

Cooper has also testified that Rove, as well as a second source -- I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, then-chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney -- portrayed the information about Plame as accurate and authoritative. Cooper has testified that based on his conversations with Rove and Libby, he felt confident enough about the information to identify Plame as a CIA officer in a July 17 Time story.

It has been widely reported that Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fizgerald has been trying to determine whether Rove tried to mislead the FBI and the grand jury in the early stages of the leak probe when he failed to disclose that he had talked to Cooper about Plame three days before she was outed as a CIA officer. But it has not been previously known that much of the questioning of Rove on Wednesday also focused on the contradictions between Cooper's and Rove's accounts of their crucial July 11 conversation.

Rove did not disclose the conversation with Cooper when he was first interviewed in the early stages of the leak probe by the FBI in October 2003, and again during his first appearance before the grand jury in February 2004. Later, Rove voluntarily returned to the grand jury and testified about the Cooper conversation, saying he had forgotten about it in his earlier statements to the FBI and in his first grand jury appearance.

Just how stupid does Rove think Fitzgerald is? I know that Karl is used to being the smartest person in the room because he has been dealing with Bush and his administration for five years, but Fitzgerald is "scary smart" according to his fellow prosecutors. You do not lie to a guy who is "scary smart", that is legal suicide.

I think it is clear that Patrick Fitzgerald has Rove by the short hairs, and is going to hang him out to dry unless he starts hemorrhaging information.

So does Rove avoid jail by given up Bush and Cheney? Or does he tighten his cheeks and do the time?

Oooh, ooh pick the first one! Pick the first one!

Stephen Colbert should probably not count on hosting the White House Correspondents dinner next year.

Colbert, who spoke in the guise of his talk show character, who ostensibly supports the president strongly, urged the Bush to ignore his low approval ratings, saying they were based on reality, “and reality has a well-known liberal bias.”

He attacked those in the press who claim that the shake-up at the White House was merely re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. “This administration is soaring, not sinking,” he said. “If anything, they are re-arranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.”

Colbert told Bush he could end the problem of protests by retired generals by refusing to let them retire. He compared Bush to Rocky Balboa in the “Rocky” movies, always getting punched in the face—“and Apollo Creed is everything else in the world.”

Turning to the war, he declared, "I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq."

He noted former Ambassador Joseph Wilson in the crowd, just three tables away from Karl Rove, and that he had brought " Valerie Plame." Then, worried that he had named her, he corrected himself, as Bush aides might do, "Uh, I mean... he brought Joseph Wilson's wife." He might have "dodged the bullet," he said, as prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald wasn't there.

Colbert also made biting cracks about missing WMDs, “photo ops” on aircraft carriers and at hurricane disasters, melting glaciers and Vice President Cheney shooting people in the face. He advised the crowd, "if anybody needs anything at their tables, speak slowly and clearly on into your table numbers and somebody from the N.S.A. will be right over with a cocktail. "

I wish I could have been a fly on the wall in this thing. I assume we will see more footage of this as the week goes on. Colbert is really coming up as a strong competitor to Jon Stewart, who I still feel is the "go to guy" when it comes to political comedy.

(By the way you should definitely visit the link above for the rest of Colbert's comedy barbs, I only took a small sampling.)

Update: Crooks and Liars has the video.

I saw RV yesterday.

I very rarely give anybody movie advice and I haven't suggested a film since "V for Vendetta", which you all better have seen by now, but I went to this movie yesterday and was completely surprised by how damn funny it was. I went to this just for the kids and assumed I would hate it. I was wrong!

I laughed all the way through this movie. It was very funny and worked on many levels, giving plenty of slapstick for the kids, and then biting one liners for the more mature members of the audience.

If you have kids in the six to sixteen range this should be a great movie to see together. Especially if you and your teenager have been having some difficulty communicating. Very cute story about that in here.

Teacher bares her breasts for health feature in Cosmopolitan and loses her job. Phone call from Playboy in three..two..one...

Blonde music teacher Kristina Howells, 33, stripped alongside 14 other women who bared all for a health feature in Cosmopolitan, headlined "How Normal Are Your Breasts?"

“I love my breasts because they are different. They have hairs around them and they’re small. They’re big enough for my partner to be satisfied and he loves them because they are unique,” The Sun quoted her, as saying in the magazine.

However, to her misfortune, Kristina was called into the head’s office and fired.

“Miss Howell’s services are no longer required,” said Deputy head Phil Harding. Kristina, who was upset by the whole incident, claimed that she posed for Cosmopolitan before joining the school in February.

“I was really upset. I can’t believe it — all I did was appear topless," said Kristina.

All she did was go topless! What the hell is wrong with that! Bunch of puritanical assholes run that school.

You know I work at an elementary school and I am confident in saying that we would hire her in a minute! We love women who love their boobies! To be honest I have nothing to do with the hiring process but I would certainly be willing to put in a good word.

"She has nice boobs! What more do you need to know?" Yeah I probably can't help.

"Where is the outrage?" asks Senator Arlen Specter about the NSA wiretapping program. That is a damn good question!

New expressions of frustration over how little information the administration has shared about the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping on Americans flared yesterday in the Senate, one day after House Republicans barred amendments that would have expanded oversight of the controversial program.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said yesterday that he will file an amendment to block the NSA program's funding -- but said he will not seek a vote on it at this time -- in hope of stirring greater debate on the warrantless surveillance, part of the agency's monitoring of alleged terrorists.

"Where is the outrage?" asked Specter, who has chaired hearings that questioned the NSA program's constitutionality.

Questions about the legality of the NSA program and the Bush administration's refusal to brief the full intelligence panel on it led Rep. Jane Harman (Calif.), ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, for the first time on Wednesday to vote against the annual intelligence authorization bill, which passed the House.

It is beginning to look like the most vocal Democrat we have on this issue turns out to a Republican. The Democrats should be beating the drums about this everyday.

I think that this is an issue that can really damage the White House's credibility in a significant way and that that can have a very damaging effect on the Republicans running in 2006. We have a plethora of openings here but we need to get organized and take full advantage of every one of them.

300,000 in Anti-War March in Manhattan

Tens of thousands of anti-war protesters marched Saturday through Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq just hours after an American soldier died in a roadside explosion in Baghdad - the 70th U.S. fighter killed in that country this month.

"End this war, bring the troops home," read one of the many signs lifted by marchers on a sunny afternoon three years after the war in Iraq began. The mother of a Marine killed two years ago in Iraq held a picture of her son, born in 1984 and killed 20 years later.

Cindy Sheehan, a vociferous critic of the war whose 24-year-old soldier son also died in Iraq, joined in the march, as did actress Susan Sarandon and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. One group marched under the banner "Veterans for Peace," while other marchers came from as far off as Maryland and Vermont.

I can not tell you how much I wish I could be there. I missed the Vietnam anti-war protests because I was too young and lived in stupid Alaska. Well I am there in spirit if nothing else.

Just look how many of us there are now! And we are growing everyday.

Neil Young's entire anti-war album is available here.

I will be buying this.

I also just bought Pink's new CD just to get my hands on the song "Dear Mr. President" which I am not ashamed to admit I cannot listen to without tearing up.

I just feel it is very important to support these voices that are finally speaking out against this President and his illegal war.

I truly hate country music but I am even flirting with the idea of buying the next Dixie Chicks album. I will probably just have to give that one away though.

Rock on Liberals! We always have the best music.

Do you remember how the Administration said that they never spied on innocent Americans? They were lying.

The FBI secretly sought information last year on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a court's approval, the Justice Department said Friday.

It was the first time the Bush administration has publicly disclosed how often it uses the administrative subpoena known as a national security letter, which allows the executive branch of government to obtain records about people in terrorism and espionage investigations without court approval.

Friday's disclosure was mandated as part of the renewal of the Patriot Act, the administration's sweeping anti-terror law.

The FBI delivered a total of 9,254 NSLs relating to 3,501 people in 2005, according to a report submitted late Friday to Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate. In some cases, the bureau demanded information about one person from several companies.

The department also reported it received a secret court's approval for 155 warrants to examine business records last year, under a Patriot Act provision that includes library records. However, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said the department has never used the provision to ask for library records.

The number was a significant jump over past use of the warrant for business records. A year ago, Gonzales told Congress there had been 35 warrants approved between November 2003 and April 2005.

This administration has betrayed every ounce of trust that they were given by this country after 9-11. Rather then perform in a manner that makes us proud to be an American they have pissed away our civil rights and turned our country into a third world police state.

There are no indicatons that they will stop on their own. To get back our country we have to vote the bastards out!

Democrats in 2006!

Supreme Court says; No penis, no adultery.

Bi-curious housewives all over this nation breathed a sigh of relief last week. They have just been given the freedom to explore their blossoming sexuality in a guilt-free, consequence-free environment. No, this isn’t the plot to some late-night Cinemax flick. On November 7, in a move that Bill Clinton could be proud of, the New Hampshire Supreme Court voted 3-2 that when a woman cheats on her husband with another woman, it is not considered adultery.

According to an article in New Hampshire’s Union Leader, "The decision reversed a Lebanon Family Court’s finding allowing David G. Blanchflower of Hanover to allege fault against his wife, Sian Blanchflower, for carrying on a ‘continuing adulterous affair’ with a woman… The ruling may have monetary consequences for David Blanchflower because he cannot use adultery to prove fault against his wife in the divorce." New Hampshire state law defines "adultery" as "sexual intercourse outside of marriage."

Webster’s Dictionary defines "sexual intercourse" as requiring a male and a female organ.

You know the idea that somebody cannot committ adultery just because their genitalia matches their lovers seems like an incredibly unsophisticated point of view. It is not just the actual intercourse that destroys a marriage. It is also the lack of intimacy. If your spouse if finding that someplace else, even if there is no actual penetration, then they are in effect betraying your trust and your marriage.

Having said that though I am not much of a believer in spousal support unless there is a child involved.

Friday poem

Does the loss of life make the freedom sweet?
Are the only choices to conquer or face defeat?

If I were to compromise would that make me weak?
Would you see me as a man, or am I much too meek?

Must blood always be spilt, must so many die?
Just make me understand, just tell me why?

Members of Congress getting arrested in Washington! What, they're Democrats? Wrong ones stupid!

Five Congress members were willingly arrested and led away from the Sudanese Embassy in plastic handcuffs Friday in protest of the Sudanese government's role in atrocities in the Darfur region.

"The slaughter of the people of Darfur must end," Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., a Holocaust survivor who founded the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, said from the embassy steps before his arrest.

Four other Democratic Congress members — James McGovern and John Olver of Massachusetts, Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas and Jim Moran of Virginia — were among 11 protesters arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly, a misdemeanor subject to a fine.

"We must hold the Sudanese government accountable for the attacks they have supported on their own citizens in Darfur," Olver said.

Dozens of demonstrators carried signs, some reading "Stop the slaughter" and "Women of Darfur suffer multiple gang rapes," in front of the embassy Friday morning.

Oh they were arrested for protesting! Whew, I was a little worried there!

You know I cannot believe how fast George Clooney convinced people to get behind this Darfur thing. Maybe we ought to talk him into running for office. I mean the guy visits a troubled country and the next day he is on every network and has convinced politicions to do jail time in protest. I don't care who you are that is damn impressive!

"I am not George Bush's poodle". Pakistan's president is tired of having Bush rub his ears and make him fetch sticks all day.

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has rejected accusations he is a Western "poodle," saying his fight against Islamic militants is for his country's benefit, not for the United States or Britain.

"I am nobody's poodle," he said in an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper on Friday.

"I have enough strength of my own to lead.

"When you talk about fighting terrorism or extremism, I am not doing that for the U.S. or Britain, I am doing it for Pakistan."

Who's a good boy? You are, yes you are Musharraf, you cute widdle puppy you.

I wonder if Tony Blair is jealous at not being Bush's lap dog anymore?

Man I love Fridays!

Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh on Friday turned himself into the Palm Beach County Jail to face a charge of fraud for concealing information to obtain a prescription.

He was quickly released after posting $3,000 bond, jail officials said. Prosecutors alleged that Limbaugh violated the state's "doctor shopping" law by getting four doctors to write overlapping prescriptions and failing to tell them about each other. Limbaugh, who pleaded not guilty, struck an agreement with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office that calls for the charge to be dropped in 18 months provided that Limbaugh continues to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past 2 1/2 years and must refrain from breaking the law during that period, Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, said in a statement.

Limbaugh also will pay $30 per month for the cost of supervision and will pay the state $30,000 to help offset the cost of the investigation into the doctor-shopping allegations.

I can hardly wait to watch Keith Olbermann on "Countdown" today!

Iraq comes up with its own plan for sending US troops home. Thank God somebody is working on that!

BAGHDAD: Iraq has a plan that could lead to a “sizeable” reduction in US forces this year and the withdrawal of most US troops within a couple of years, Iraq’s national security chief said Thursday.

Muwaffaq Rubaie spoke at a seminar with visiting US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who did not comment on the Iraqi assertion.

“We have a definite plan now for a conditions-based agreement between the Iraqi security forces, between the Iraqi government and the United States government for the Iraqi security forces to assume responsibility gradually,” Rubaie said.

“Certainly at the end of this year there would be a sizeable gross reduction of troops,” he said. “In the next couple of years we would hope that most of the coalition forces will go back home safely.”

Let me see if I can help to sum this up for the Iraqi's in fewer words;

"Go the fuck home!"

Everybody got that?

Judge refuses to dismiss Libby case. Nice try Scooter!

A federal judge refused Thursday to dismiss charges against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former top White House aide who was indicted on perjury and obstruction charges last year in the CIA leak scandal.

Libby's lawyers had argued that Fitzgerald was given too much power _ more than the attorney general _ and that the appointment should have been made by the president with the Senate's approval.

Walton said Thursday he did not need to "look far" in the law to reject the claim by Libby's defense team. The judge said there is no question the attorney general can delegate any of his functions.

Hah! Take that you neo-con stooge!

I feel a poem coming on.

When it says Libby, Libby, Libby on the tail, tail, tail.
They will like it, like it, like it, in the jail, jail , jail.

Okay I admit that was not my best effort. It made me giggle though.

George Clooney reminds us that there are places in the world that desperately need our help if we could just stop jerking off all over Iraq.

Oscar winner George Clooney Thursday joined two senators, Republican Sam Brownback of Kansas and Democrat Barack Obama, to appeal for greater action to address what is being described as genocide in Sudan's Darfur region.

The three urged more attention across the board -- by the United States, other nations and world institutions.

"What we cannot do is turn our heads and look away and hope that this will somehow disappear," Clooney said.

"Because if we do, they will. They will disappear," he said, noting that an "entire generation of people will be gone. Then, only history will be left to judge us." He pointed to the massacres in Rwanda, Cambodia and the Balkans in recent years.

George seems to forget that history is written by the survivors. Once Darfur is gone then who is left to write its history? That's right America, and you know what kind of imagination we have!

The face of hate in Texas.

Two white teenagers severely beat and sodomized a Hispanic 16-year-old boy who they believed had tried to kiss a Hispanic 12-year-old girl at a party, authorities said.

The attackers forced the boy out of the Saturday night house party, beat him and sodomized him with a plastic pipe, shouting anti-Hispanic epithets, said sheriff's Lt. John Martin.

He was in critical condition Thursday, five days after the attack. A police officer said investigators believe the attack was prompted by the age gap between the beating victim and the younger girl.

Harris County prosecutor Mike Trent said the attackers also cut the victim with a knife. They then poured bleach over the boy, apparently to destroy DNA evidence, and left him for dead, authorities said. He was not discovered until Sunday, 12 hours after the attack.

You know if they had just punched the guy or told an adult about their concerns, this might have been a story of two boys who tried to protect a child. But when you add the racial hatred it just becomes a sad commentary on the state of racial harmony in our country.

They just seem so young to hate so much.

Senators in a frenzy over public outrage over gas prices trot out that ANWR magic bullet again.

Most American taxpayers would get $100 rebate checks to offset the pain of higher pump prices for gasoline, under an amendment Senate Republicans hope to bring to a vote Thursday.

However, the GOP energy package may face tough sledding because it also includes a controversial proposal to open part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil exploration, which most Democrats and some moderate Republicans oppose.

The GOP hard-on for drilling in ANWR is blinding them to the fact that it will take a decade before we see the first barrel ready to ship to a refinery. In ten years we will either have an alternative energy source or we will be riding horse drawn buggies to and from the local Wal-mart.

The fact that the Republicans can not come up with any other answer for our out of control gas prices then to poke giant holes in my pristine backyard is really an indictment of their lack of foresight and imagination. If we drilled all over ANWR tomorrow it would not make the slightest difference in our oil or gas prices, even after twenty years.

It would however bring hundreds of millions of dollars back into my state and we could pave our streets with gold. Thank you! If I were a selfish prick I would just say "Screw all of you" and support my Senators aching desire to turn our local tundra into swiss cheese. As a matter of fact the recent high oil prices will be reflected in my annual PFD (Permanent Fund Dividend) that I receive every year for living in a state lucky enough to be sitting on a buttload of decomposing dinosaurs. Thank you for that too!

But that is not who I am. I want what is best for all of us in the long run and not what is best for me in the short run.

Oil had a long and polluted run, but it is time to go elsewhere for our energy needs. How about Hydrogen? We have lots of water too!

GM makes average cars but truly stunning erections!

The little blue pill is leaving General Motors Corp. with a very large bill.

The world's largest automaker, which lost $10.6 billion last year, is shelling out $17 million annually for impotence drugs such as Viagra and Cialis, said GM spokeswoman Sharon Baldwin.

While the so-called "lifestyle drugs" make up a small fraction of GM's overall health care costs -- now hovering at $5.6 billion each year, or about $1,500 of every vehicle it builds -- company executives often use the example to illustrate how out-of-control health care costs have become in America.

GM, which provides health care for 1.1 million employees, retirees and dependents, is the world's largest private purchaser of Viagra, the popular erectile dysfunction drug produced by Pfizer Inc., whose sales reached $1.65 billion last year. The pill is covered under GM's labor agreement with United Auto Workers, as well as benefit plans for salaried workers.

This is the fault of the very powerful drug lobbies in America. There is no way that Viagra should be covered by anybody's health plan. Unless the reason that you can't get wood is related to an on the job injury then Viagra should not be paid for by your company's health plan.

Okay maybe I am prejudice because I still get erections whenever the damn wind blows but it just does not seem like a good use of company health funds. Just do what I do. I keep my penis in the dark about my true age. I have managed to convince my little soldier that it is still seventeen. Your penis is not terribly bright. That is why you should not let it do your thinking for you.

God hates.....crosses?

Five Mexican children were killed when a large metal cross they were praying at was struck by lightning in central Mexico, local media reported Monday.

Five children between 9 and 16 years old died and several others suffered burns when lightning struck a white-painted metal cross set on a hill in the town of Santa Maria del Rio early on Sunday, according to two newspaper reports.

Several families had been participating in a midnight ceremony as part of a local religious festival that centers around the cross.

I just have to wonder how the religious community rationalizes this?

"Uh, God was aiming for a bird?"

Pamela Rogers, the teacher I always prayed for, is in trouble for sending porn to her teenage victim. Bad teacher, bad!

There are new accusations Wednesday against convicted sex offender and former Warren County teacher Pamela Rogers. Rogers was arrested after the district attorney said she recently sent a pornographic video of herself to her teenage victim. Rogers served six months in jail for having a sexual relationship with at 13-year-old student. She was released from jail February 26.

On April 12, police arrested Rogers for violating her probation. Rogers reportedly made contact with the victim and his family through a MySpace website, referring the young victim by his basketball jersey number.

Okay seriously this woman is a criminal and she should be pun....Damn look at her!

You know maybe the videos were not that bad! Maybe they were just misunderstood by law enforcement! So here is what I suggest, send them to me first and I will determine if they are safe to be forwarded to the teenage boy. I mean I am a busy guy but I am willing to sacrifice, for the kids. I will preview them, make a few discreet copies, and then send them back with my recommendations.

Congress pondering whether or not they should continue to pay Oil Companies to ass rape American drivers

As anxiety spread in Congress on Wednesday over soaring oil prices, lawmakers in both parties said they were ready to take a tough look at oil and gas incentives they passed as recently as eight months ago.

Gee ya think? Should we stop providing incentives for companies making the largest profits in American history? This demonstrates without equivocation that the oil companies have our government firmly in their back pocket.

My solution is to get everybody who ever wrote a piece of legislation designed to line the pockets of these monster corporations the hell out of Congress! And yes I am aware that our own Uncle Ted Stevens may be the worst offender of all. Trust me that is a sacrifice I am more then willing to make.

Oh, and kick that oil whoring President and his Dick out of office as well. There, now I feel a little better.

Maureen Dowd tells us why we really have such high gas prices. Do you think it has anything to do with Bush and Cheney?

Gasoline prices may be hurting average folks, but the oilers who helped put the Boy King and the Duke of Halliburton in office with lavish donations are enjoying record profits and breathtaking bonuses.

The Oilmen in the Oval, incompetent in so many ways, have brilliantly achieved one of their main objectives: boosting the fortunes of the oil industry and the people who run it.

All those secret meetings the vice president had back in 2001, letting the energy and oil big shots help write our energy policy -- one that urged more oil and gas drilling -- worked like a charm. In all their years in government, Mr. Cheney and the Bushes have never done anything to hold the oil companies' feet to the fire, or get Americans' feet off the gas pedal.

As Representative James Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina, noted, "The Republicans are the party with the keys to the executive washrooms of Halliburton, Exxon and the big oil corporations."

Consider Lee Raymond, the recently retired chairman and chief executive of Exxon. Recently, we learned about his stunning secret compensation: he got more than $686 million from 1993 to 2005, according to a Times story, which calculated: "That is $144,573 for each day he spent leading Exxon's 'God pod,' as the executive suite at the company's headquarters in Irving, Tex., is known."

You gotta love Maureen!

It is almost one month before the hurricane season, time to dismantle FEMA.

Hurricane Katrina’s latest fatality should be FEMA, the nation’s disaster response agency, a Senate inquiry concluded in calling for a government overhaul to avoid future failures like those the devastating storm exposed.

Eighty-six recommendations by the bipartisan panel indicate the United States is still woefully unprepared for a storm of Katrina’s scope with the start of the hurricane season little more than a month away.

What the hell is wrong with these people? You do not dismantle the emergency agency right before the emergency season! You may have to make some changes but you don't just trash the entire program!

And what exactly is wrong with FEMA? It worked fine in the 90's and in 2000. Hmmm, what happened after that that could have made it so ineffective? Oh yeah, we put the "Decider" in the White House.

What I find laughable is that one of the problems that the panel found with FEMA was that it did not have direct access to the President. I beg to differ. The problem is all about this President! He broke FEMA! If you want the agency to be more effective then keep him the fuck away from it!

Fifteen year old learns the difference between liberals and right wingers, the hard way!

Ava Lowery is a fifteen-year-old who lives in Alabama. She calls herself a peace activist, and for the past year, she’s been producing her own short animations on her website, peacetakescourage.com. All in all, she’s made about seventy of them, she says, and most of them oppose Bush and his Iraq War.

She says she’s received a lot of positive feedback in short messages back to her site. And she understands that the fact that “people are on the web, and they just let loose.” But she was unprepared for the viciousness of the negative feedback—especially the ugly sexual slurs similar to those that Cindy Sheehan has faced. (If you can’t stand foul language, stop reading now.)

“It’s people like you who need to fucking die and get raped while your corpse rots in the sun,” said one e-mail Lowery shared with me. “Fuck you, I would jack off on your parents if I could. If you don’t like the team, get out of the park. That means take ur small dick and get the fuck off of my homeland you faggot chocolate gulper.”

“You are a TRAITOR to your country and should be executed for treason,” another one said.

“All you do is bitch about the US. If you hate it so much, why don’t you GET THE FUCK OUT.”

“Why don’t you go masterbate [sic] to a pic of Sheehan and fuck off,” said a third.

“Are you a muslem [sic] terrorist?” asked another.

This is a fifteen year old child! How can these morons justify this kind of hate directed at a child? Or for that matter anybody?

Many of us have a difference of opinion. But that is no excuse to attack somebody that you do not agree with in such a vicious and pornographic manner.

I have visited a number of conservative sites and have never seen any of my fellow liberals saying anything with one tenth of this kind of vulgarity. If there are any liberals who have used these type of hate filled diatribes to express themselves then I would condemn them with same amount of disgust that I use to condemn the individuals who sent this garbage to this little girl.

In the end all it does is demonstrate your lack of intelligence and humanity.

Here are the lyrics for Neil Young's song "Impeach the President". So that we can all sing along of course.

Let’s impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
He’s the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war
Let’s impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones
What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government’s protection
Or was someone just not home that day?
Let’s impeach the president
For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected
Thank god he’s racking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There’s lot of people looking at big trouble
But of course the president is clean
Thank God

You can't see it but I am holding up my lighter.

Rock on Neil!

Saudis release 500 al-Qaida sympathizers. But don't worry they have recieved religious counseling. Islamic religious counseling. Oh Shit!

Saudi Arabia released 500 al-Qaida sympathizers after they underwent religious counseling to bring them back to the moderate path of Islam.

Member of the counseling committee Mohammed Bin Yehya Nujeimi was quoted Wednesday by al-Jazeera as saying the committee, affiliated with the interior ministry, had conducted dialogue with 800 Saudis who had allegedly sympathized with prisoners convicted in cases of terrorism.

Out of the total, 500 were released following intensive studies and counseling sessions which moderated their views.

Okay I forget, whose side are the Saudis on again?

You know often when I sit down to a plate of steaming pasta I think you know what this needs.....Duck Testicles!

Celebrity chef Mario Batali admits that putting duck testicles in the pasta at his new restaurant is a bit of a provocation, but in the cutthroat New York food world, it's not enough just to be provocative.

The offal that has critics talking is a pasta dish served with black truffles, coxcombs and duck testicles, priced at $30. "They're delicious, they don't taste like anything you've had before. They're whole and they're white," Batali said.

Hold on I am crossing off New York as a place to visit for the food.

Spanish Socialist party introduces bill to give civil rights to apes. Charlton Heston is about to lose his frickin mind!

The socialist PSOE party is apparently intent on introducing a bill aimed at giving apes the same rights as man, "and the immediate inclusion of these animals as people." As a result, the bill adds that apes "should have the same moral and legal protection that humans currently enjoy."

Fernando Sebastian, the bishop of Tudela has termed the measure as "making oneself looking ridiculous in the name of progress, and then what about the rights of the fighting bulls?" Meanwhile, other political commentators have stated that as a result of these measures, it will not be long before apes names will start appearing on the electoral rolls.

"You damn dirty Socialists!"

Sorry I was having a Chuck Heston moment there.

All I can say is that a monkey sure could not do a worse job then or own Chimp in Chief.

Rove is grilled about CIA leak case for the fifth time. Do you feel the noose getting any tighter Karl?

Top White House aide Karl Rove made his fifth grand jury appearance in the Valerie Plame affair Wednesday, undergoing several hours of questioning about a new issue that has come to light since the last time he testified.

Gee do you think Karl got caught in a little lie? Karl Rove lying? It just not seem possible!

The difference is that when you lie to the Special Counsel, under oath, you can get your flabby neo-con ass sent to prison!

Have I told you how much I adore Patrick Fitzgerald? I have a deep and abiding man love for Mr. Fitzgerald and I don't care who knows it. He is going to help us get our country back by holding these criminal assholes accountable for their actions.

Someday I hope he receives a medal from a "real" president for all of his hard work on behalf of America. I can't think of anybody who deserves it more.

We are not trying hard enough here.

The Durex Global Sex Survey for 2003, released this week, compares sexuality for people in 34 nations and shows Norwegians leading the world in casual sex.

Seven out of 10 Norwegians have had a random sex partner and the nation is among the top of the list for one-night stands, Afternposten reported.

I just hate it when I find my country falling behind other nations. What is wrong with you guys? Get out there and make us proud!

Norwegians are also among the least sexually satisfied in the world. Only 62 percent said they were content with their sex life, placing them as low as 29th on the list.

Oh! Well then maybe we are trading quantity for quality. Now see that makes me feel better. And the reason that the Danes keep changing partners is because they cannot please the one that they have. Don't you just love a good rationalization?

Stopping Bush may be only months away. We just need to vote the Republicans out of power.

President Bush is not on the ballot in November, but he might as well be. Republican losses could make an already difficult situation in Congress almost untenable for him.

If his party loses control of one, or both chambers of Congress, the next two years could be a political nightmare for Bush and his GOP allies on Capitol Hill.

With poll numbers at the lowest of his presidency, Bush has had trouble enough winning support for his priorities in his second term even with a Republican-led Congress. That helped lead to a recent reshuffling of the White House staff.

A Democratic House or Senate and presidential stubbornness could spell legislative gridlock.

Democratic control of either chamber could rearrange priorities. Bush's programs and spending requests would come under increased scrutiny. Congress could even take tentative steps toward bringing troops home from Iraq or reducing funds.

Democratic control of committees in either chamber could lead to investigative hearings on Iraq, awarding of government contracts, the role of lobbyists, fraud and abuse, Pentagon divisions, any number of activities.

We can do this, we just have to get the word out to as many of our co-workers and friends as possible. If Bush is not stopped soon I am truly terrified of what he might do next!

Well at least Fundamentalists are considerate. When Jesus takes them home they are going to leave you a little something.

You might want to get comfortable before you read this, it will makethe hairs on your neck stand up.

Dear Friend;

This message has been sent to you by a friend or a relative who has recentlydisappeared along with millions and millions of people around the world.

The reason they chose to send you this letter is because they cared about youand would like you to know the truth about where they went.

This may come as a shock to you, but the one who sent you this has been takenup to heaven.

If you read a Bible, you will see that after chapter three in the book of Revelation,the church is no longer mentioned as being on earth. (The church are the believersin Jesus Christ, not the buildings in which people meet.)

In the Bible, 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4 verses 16 and 17 tell how Jesus cameto take away His church. But, you have to believe the Bible is the Word ofGod in order to believe this.

I am sure that there will be a lot of speculation as to what happened to allthese people. The theories of some scientists and world leaders will haveso much credibility that most of the world will believe them.

It will sound like the truth!

But, there is only one truth. And, that truth is that Jesus Christ, God in the flesh,came back to earth and took with Him to Heaven all who believed in Himand made Him their Lord.

If you would like to give your life to Jesus Christ and be born again, it isnot too late. First you must pray to God saying"Father I admit I am asinner, and I will turn from my sin and do good. I believe that Jesus wasyour son and that He came here to die for me so that my sins would beforgiven. I ask you to forgive me and I will repent of my sins. In Jesusname I pray."

If you just prayed that prayer and meant it with all your heart, then Godwill know you as one of His own. You should now seek out others who havealso given their lives to Christ, read a Bible daily, and do your best tobring others to Christ.

God bless you.

And there you have it folks. Those are the people who are still supporting George W. Bush. I think we can pretty much give up on changing their minds.

FOX commentator Tony Snow becomes White House Press Secretary. Let the shoveling of bullshit begin!

President Bush on Wednesday named conservative commentator Tony Snow as White House press secretary, putting a new face on a troubled administration.

Snow, a Fox news pundit and former speechwriter in the White House under Bush's father, replaced Scott McClellan who resigned in a personnel shuffle intended to re-energize the Bush White House and lift the president's record-low approval ratings.

"My job is to make decisions and his job is to help explain those decisions to the press corps and the American people," Bush said, with Snow and McClellan at his side in the White House briefing room.

This is an unholy alliance if ever I have seen one. I will say that Tony Snow is far more photogenic then Puffy McMoonface. Sott always looked like a little kid who got caught doing something wrong trying to explain that is wasn't him throwing rocks at the Old Man Shaker's windows.

I hear that Tony wanted to have a little more control over making information policy at the White House. Apparently he would like to pick and choose the exact type of bullshit that he shovels into the press room.

Why are gas prices so high? This might help you to answer that question.

Got it now?

(With a hat tip to This Modern World )

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi makes a video which suprisingly says terrible things about America. What did we do to....oh yeah!

In a rare video posted Tuesday on the Internet, al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden and said any government formed in Iraq would be merely a “stooge.”

He also mocked the U.S. military in Iraq for what he called suicides, drug-taking and mutinies, and he warned that “worse” attacks were to come.

Look everybody! Another terrorist that we cannot capture or kill!

Everybody knows we can only capture the number two al-Qaida leader. We have captured the number two al-Qaida leader over twelve times now. And they were all different people!

You know if we just left Iraq these guys would have nobody to bitch about anymore. What do you think? Should we do it? Oh come on!

The Governor of California plays with dolls.

I cannot tell you how happy I am that nobody has any pictures of me playing with my dolls with my shirt off.

You know sex dolls are so much more sophisticated these days.

PERVERTS!

What do you do if you're a self-proclaimed asexual and you fall in love with another asexual?

You cuddle and kiss and talk a lot. You go to dinner parties, bicker over movies, sleep in the same bed.
Maybe you even snuggle up and spoon, the two of you curled up in a cozy double-S.

But it does not occur to you to make the beast with two backs. Your sexual congress is permanently adjourned. You're in love, you're just not making any.

Look I try to have a live and let live attitude but this is just sick! What kind of sick twisted person would lie in bed just to cuddle? I mean if they weren’t married of course.

I say let’s bring back the old fashioned type of love making; BDSM, hot wax drippings, DP’s, sex swings, multiple partners, the use of sex toys, you know, the classics! I just can’t take these new fangled sexual perversions!

Parents say dancing in school is making their kids horny. Other things that make them horny; Watching paint dry, twinkies, and breathing.

Some Montana parents are sick of the dirty dancing at Bozeman High School.

Dean and Melea Mortenson wrote the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, saying the dancing at the spring prom on April 8 was the equivalent of "sex with clothes on."

The Mortensons objected to a dance fad called the "bump and grind," and urged parents to speak out at Monday's meeting of the Bozeman School Board.

Bozeman High Principal Godfrey Saunders said the school discourages inappropriate dancing.

But he added that his main concern is to make sure the students aren't drinking or doing drugs.

Saunders said he wants the students to get home alive.

Alive and knocked up!

Sounds like the parents are just jealous to me.

Rumsfeld demonstrates why he has no concept of world affairs. I slept through most of that class and I still have a firmer grasp then this tool.

Rumsfeld linked the costly and unpopular US efforts to stabilize Iraq and Afghanistan to US concerns about Iran's nuclear program and its regional might, in an interview with the
Pentagon's in-house television channel.

He said those who believe that US efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan are too costly or are taking too long need to understand that "success in Afghanistan and success in Iraq is critical to containing the extreme impulses that we see emanating from Iran."

This just shows how completely out to lunch Rumsfeld and the rest of this administration have become when it concerns dealing with other nations.

The idea that by staying in Afghanistan and Iraq we are exerting some control over what happens in Iran is rediculous. I think what Rumsfeld fears is that Iraq and Afghanistan will join Iran in standing up to America and in that respect he is correct.

So what is the plan? Do we just stay in Iraq until Iran stops hating us? How many centuries will that take? The facts are we are going to have no control over what happens in Iraq when we leave. They may very well join forces with Iran, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and probably several more countries in forming a new alliance that is resistant to our influence. I mean who could blame them?

Our only hope for the future is to get our troops out, provide humanitarian support as Iraq fights it out amongst themselves for their next dictator, throw Bush out of office, and tell the Middle East we apologize for meddling and that it was all the fault of a madman. We make Bush the scapegoat and we move on like we have a brain this time.

We can do this. We just can't do this with Bush in office.

Who are you? Yeah the 32% of you who still support Bush. How stupid are you?

I have struggled with this question for years. I could give some of the more uneducated Americans the benefit of the doubt because stations like FOX news confused the issues and made it hard to identify the facts from all of the propaganda. But today there is just no more excuse. Even FOX News is unable to provide cover from the long list of lies and unethical, possibly criminal, behavior that is being revealed daily.

I find this next sentence particularly hard to fathom.

Asked whether "honest and trustworthy" describes the president, 40 percent said yes, down from 56 percent in a survey carried out April 1-2 last year.

So there are still 40% of my fellow countrymen who are avoiding reading the news and hiding in caves, only coming out to shop and participate in polls? How do you avoid learning just how horrible this president has become?

Since you are reading this maybe there is hope for you. Take a moment and read some of my posting from the past. If you don't like my style then go to the blogroll on the left and pick one of them. I am sorry, but we cannot afford for people to remain uneducated about what is happening in this country and the world. If you are easily overwhelmed then I apologize, but this is not just about you anymore. If you have children then think of them. What kind of a world do you want them to live in? Don't you want to do whatever it takes to make them safe?

If you truly love your children then I am confident you will do the right thing. And may I be the first to welcome you to the reality based community. We have been expecting you.

Mexico's next president might be decided based on the size of his Johnson.

Among the crowing, slurs and insults being flung around in Mexico's presidential campaign, political ads in this country are even competing over which candidate has the greatest manhood.

"We know why we are with Roberto. It's because he has big ones," says a farmer in a TV spot to promote Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, candidate Roberto Madrazo, running in third place in opinion polls.

You know this macho thing might be just a little out of control.

Here are some of the discarded advertisements for this race.

"Our candidate is a man of monstrous potential!"
"Our man will ruin you for all other presidents!"
"We will stretch your perception of what a president can do."
"You aint never had it like our President can give it."

Maybe they can just line them up on stage and have them drop trou.

Truly pathetic.

Airlines may start packing passengers in like sardines.

The airlines have come up with a new answer to an old question: How many passengers can be squeezed into economy class?

A lot more, it turns out, especially if an idea still in the early stage should catch on: standing-room-only "seats."

Airbus has been quietly pitching the standing-room-only option to Asian carriers, though none have agreed to it yet. Passengers in the standing section would be propped against a padded backboard, held in place with a harness, according to experts who have seen a proposal.

You know I am not a huge fan of flying as it is. In Alaska, no flight lasts less then four hours minumum. I have to say that if they start strapping me to the walls, for four or more hours at a time, I am probably going to find a lot of reasons to cancel those vacation plans. I cannot imagine how crabby I will be after being strapped up like Hannibal Lector for an entire flight.

CIA agent denies being the leaker. Come on this is the CIA, you know they got the wrong person!

The fired official, Mary O. McCarthy, “categorically denies being the source of the leak,” one of McCarthy’s friends and former colleagues, Rand Beers, said Monday after speaking to McCarthy.

Well if she is the leaker she is a hero. If she is not the leaker then she is a victim.

Whoever leaked the story that we have been using foreign prisons for rendition purposes should be given a medal for letting the American people know the truth. If this is being done in my name then goddamnit I have the right to know what the hell is going on. When the next terrorist attack comes and takes the life of my fellow Americans you can bet that it will be this type of activity that makes them feel justified in taking those lives. These attacks are not happening in a vacuum. Our actions over the years have turned these people into America hating ideologues. And this is just the type of activity guaranteed to make hundreds and thousands more of them.

I want somebody to let the media know when my government is breaking the law or infringing on my rights or the rights of people in other countries. If my government is not doing anything wrong then they have nothing to fear from these stories. But they do fear these stories don't they?

Since when did sitting naked on a picnic table not turn a woman on? When did that change?

A Dauphin County sheriff's deputy has been suspended after being charged with criminal behavior.

Anthony Fritz has been charged with stalking, harassment and lewdness.

According to an affidavit, Fritz used a cell phone to send sexual messages to a female who lives across the street from him. The affidavit also said that Fritz sent her a picture of himself exposed, and on two occasions sat naked on a picnic table behind her home.

I just refuse to believe that sitting naked on a picnic table is not an instant turn on. Maybe it was watching him pull splinters out of his fat ass that cooled her flames of passion.

Tommy Chong accuses Bush of being a Meth head. He must be high.

”If more people were stoned there would be less violence in the world,” Chong said.

You know I don't usually support drug use, but it is hard to argue with Tommy's logic here.

”I know Dick Cheney's Secret Service guys smoke pot,” Chong said. “The reason I know that is I sold them bongs.”

He insinuated that President Bush was on methamphetamines.

”The dangerous thing about tweakers is they can take things apart but they can't put them back together again,” Chong said. “That's what George Bush has done to this country.”

You know if this were ever proven to be true I want to be standing in the middle of a Fundamentalist Christian political rally when the news breaks. It could prove to be the happiest moment in my life.

"Oh what is wrong little Fundie-head you seem so sad? Did your president turn out to be a huge tweaker? Don't you wish you had the blow-job guy back?"

Bush disusses his childish grasp of theology.

Bush also explained, in unusually stark terms, how his belief in God influences his foreign policy. "I base a lot of my foreign policy decisions on some things that I think are true," he said. "One, I believe there's an Almighty. And, secondly, I believe one of the great gifts of the Almighty is the desire in everybody's soul, regardless of what you look like or where you live, to be free.

"I believe liberty is universal. I believe people want to be free. And I know that democracies do not war with each other."

A new CNN poll released today shows Bush with his lowest approval rating in any poll so far, at 32%.

Too bad God can't get his approval numbers up out of the toilet.

Isn't that stupid statement about democracies never attacking each other disproved by our attack on Iraq? Oh wait I forgot, Iraq was not a democracy.

So the fear is not that countries which are not democracies will attack other countries. The fear is that if these countries do not become democracies then we will be unable to resist attacking them.

"If you do not form a democratic sociey before we count to ten then we will be forced to bomb the living shit out of you! Don't blame us! If you had just been a democracy you could have avoided all of this death and destruction!"

Who outranks an American President? A Rolling Stone that's who!

President George Bush can’t get no satisfaction — after Mick Jagger grabbed his hotel room.

The Rolling Stone splashed out £3,600 a night for the suite days before the US leader tried to book it.

Now Mick, 62, who has been a fierce critic of the Bush-led war in Iraq, is refusing to give it up.

The veteran rocker hired the luxury Royal Suite at the five-star Imperial Hotel in Vienna, Austria, for June when the Stones are due to play a gig in the city.


Bush’s aides then tried to book it to tie in with a summit meeting.

But Mick put his foot down and insisted he was keeping the booking.

A source close to the millionaire singer said last night: “White House officials had wanted to reserve the suite and all the other rooms on the first floor.

“But Mick and the Stones had already booked every one of them.

“Bush’s people seemed to be under the impression that they would just hand over the suites but there was no way Mick was going to do that.”

You gotta love Mick.

Presidents come and go but the Rolling Stones are eternal!

Sex prevents illness. I feel a cold coming on.

IT DOES not take a degree in medicine to work out that sex is good for you. Anything that is free, feels fabulous and leaves you glowing is plainly a good idea.

But scientists are now beginning to understand that the perceived feel-good effects of sexual intercourse are merely the tip of the iceberg. Sex, they are discovering, can offer protection from depression, colds, heart disease and even cancer.

This is really going to lend credibility to the old "I got what you need right here" phrase.

You know I have always seen myself as a healer. I just want to do good in the world. Preferably while naked.

Unknown under Hussein, Iraqi sex slave industry is growing out of control. Is this what freedom looks like?

No one knows how many young women have been kidnapped and sold since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. The Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq, based in Baghdad, estimates from anecdotal evidence that more than 2,000 Iraqi women have gone missing in that period. A Western official in Baghdad who monitors the status of women in Iraq thinks that figure may be inflated but admits that sex trafficking, virtually nonexistent under Saddam, has become a serious issue. The collapse of law and order and the absence of a stable government have allowed criminal gangs, alongside terrorists, to run amuck. Meanwhile, some aid workers say, bureaucrats in the ministries have either paralyzed with red tape or frozen the assets of charities that might have provided refuge for these girls. As a result, sex trafficking has been allowed to fester unchecked.

We have done so much damage to these people. No wonder they hate us so much. Wouldn't you?

Our next President John Edwards is calling for Bush investigation by Patrick Fitzgerald. What a magnificent idea!

Dear Friend,

Over the past few weeks, the investigation into the leak of CIA secrets on Iraq has produced disturbing new information. Court filings in the Scooter Libby case have connected both President Bush and Vice President Cheney with an effort to selectively disclose classified and highly flawed intelligence to the media in order to discredit people who were asking legitimate questions about the Iraq invasion. The White House even admitted that President Bush himself authorized the disclosure.

Now that he is firmly linked to this deepening scandal, it's time for President Bush to level with the American people about his role in this egregious manipulation of sensitive intelligence. But you and I know he's not going to do it. And we know that the Republican-controlled Congress will not hold him accountable either.

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald may very well be the only person who can shed light on what really happened and ensure accountability. What he needs now is our support to expand the scope of his investigation to specifically include whether the President broke the law. Let's put our online community to work and together demand that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales allow Mr. Fitzgerald to get to the bottom of this. No one should be above the law.

It's time we demand real accountability. Please sign the letter now.

Sign the letter now.

Clearly, there is precedent for a special prosecutor's mandate to be expanded when he comes across further wrongdoing in the course of an investigation. I can think of no better time for doing this than right now. This case has all the elements of becoming one of the most serious breaches of the public trust in our nation's history - with consequences that we are all too familiar with.

The facts of President Bush's involvement, and the extent to which he manipulated intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq, are not going to come out unless his actions are subject to an independent investigation. Remember, this is a President who at first said that he didn't know of anyone in his Administration who had leaked anything. Then he had his spokesman say that anyone found to have leaked classified information would be fired. Now it turns out it was President Bush himself who authorized the leaks.

But it is clear this Administration will go to any length to prevent the facts from being known. We can't let them get away with it. And they won't if we speak up and make the Attorney General understand that the American people will accept nothing less than the truth. Please sign the letter and tell Attorney General Gonzales that we want no stone left unturned in this important investigation.

Sign the letter now.

Thank you for taking action and for all that you do. Your Friend, John

You know I signed it. And you can to, just go here.

You must go to "Crooks and Liars" to see the video of Pink's new song.

I dare you not to shed a tear.

Check out the reaction of the crowd. I think that this president is well beyond just low poll numbers, he is facing open revolt. Anything I can I do to help with that revolt you can rest assured I will indeed do.

John Kerry says protesting the Iraq war is patriotic. Toldja I was a patriot!

Those who disagree with the Bush administration's policies in Iraq face the same scornfulcharges that they are unpatriotic as Sen. John Kerry did 35 years ago when he spoke out against the Vietnam War, the Massachusetts Democrat said Saturday.

"I have come here today to reaffirm that it was right to dissent in 1971 from a war that was wrong. And to affirm that it is both a right and an obligation for Americans today to disagree with a president who is wrong, a policy that is wrong, and a war in Iraq that weakens the nation," Kerry said to a standing ovation Saturday at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall.
Kerry's speech came 35 years to the day after he testified before theSenate Foreign Relations Committee to call for an end to the Vietnam war.

Thanks Senator Kerry I appreciate your support for all of our hard work here in the blogosphere. I still do not want you to run for president though.

No more red. No more blue. What's a good Progressive supposed to do? Vote purple?

We are people without a party. We open-minded, openhearted moderates are alienated from the two big parties because backward-looking ideologues and p.c. hypocrites are effectively in charge of both. Both are under the sway of old-school clods who consistently default to government intrusion where it doesn’t belong—who want to demonize video-game makers and criminalize abortion and hate speech and flag-burning, who are committed to maintaining the status quos of the public schools and health-care system, and who decline to make the hard choices necessary (such as enacting a high gasoline tax or encouraging nuclear energy) to move the country onto a sustainable energy track. Both line up to reject sensible, carefully negotiated international treaties when there’s too much sacrifice involved and their special-interest sugar daddies object—the Kyoto Protocol for the Republicans, the Central American Free Trade Agreement for the Democrats.

This article accurately reflects a lot of my conflicted feelings toward both parties.

So the simple question is this: Why can’t we have a serious, innovative, truth-telling, pragmatic party without any of the baggage of the Democrats and Republicans? A real and enduring party built around a coherent set of ideas and sensibility—neither a shell created for a single charismatic candidate like George Wallace or Ross Perot, nor a protest party like the Greens or Libertarians, with no hope of ever getting more than a few million votes in a presidential election. A party that plausibly aspires to be not a third party but the third party—to winning, and governing.

It is like he read my mind.

Sex in a spray? Yes please!

No more buying dinners and sending flowers. You just spritz this on and the ladies will start tearing off their clothes. Hmmm.

You know I kind of like the romantic stuff. I don't mind spending money on somebody as long as they aren't somebody who is just out for what she can get. I hate selfish women but adore the warmth and kindness of most women.

I will not resort to these cheap shortcuts. If I can't get her engine started myself then I am not interested in putting her through her paces. Call me old fashioned but I think I will stick to the old standards, alcohol and bad poetry.

Bin Laden calls out for his terrorist homies to keep up the good work. Would like to thank Bush for all the extra help.

Osama bin Laden issued ominous new threats in an audiotape broadcast Sunday, purportedly saying the West was at war with Islam and calling on his followers to go to Sudan to fight a proposed U.N. force.

In his first new message in three months, bin Laden said the West's decision to cut off funds to the Palestinians because their Hamas leaders refuse to recognize Israel proved that the United States and Europe were conducting "a Zionist crusader war on Islam."

"The blockade which the West is imposing on the government of Hamas proves that there is a Zionist crusader war on Islam," said the speaker on the tape broadcast by the Al-Jazeera network.

"I say that this war is the joint responsibility of the people and the governments. While the war continues, the people renew their allegiance to their rulers and politicians and continue to send their sons to our countries to fight us."

I voted for the other guy. I just thought I needed to say that.

You know all we really needed to do after 9-11 was catch this fruit loop and shut down his operation. One guy and a rag tag group of bad guys. Did we do that? No we did not!

Instead we spend billions attacking the wrong country and providing a never ending stream of potential terrorists that Osama can use to terrorize our country for decades to come. I cannot imagine how we could have screwed this up any more effectively! The idea that people still refer to Bush as "tough on terrorism" is a fucking joke! He is the terrorist's best friend! Every move he made played right into Bin Laden's hands!

If you voted for Bush do yourself, and the rest of us, a favor and tear up your voter registration card and sit these next couple of elections out. You have done enough damage for one lifetime.

Apparently we grow our own terrorists up here.

Six middle school students in a small Alaska town were arrested Saturday on suspicion of plotting to bring guns and knives to school to kill their classmates and faculty.

The students had planned to disable North Pole Middle School's power and telephone systems, allotting time to kill their victims and escape from North Pole, a town of 1,600 people about 14 miles southeast of Fairbanks, Police Chief Paul Lindhag said.

The seventh-graders wanted to seek revenge for being picked on by other students, Lindhag said. They also disliked staff and students, he said.

This stuff always breaks my heart. I just feel so sorry for the parents of these kids.

Those crazy Creationists have discovered Britain. Now you are in for it!

Mr Mackay, who has a geology degree, has conducted digs around the world where he has excavated fossils which he claims prove that the Bible was literal truth.

His website argues that the theory of evolution was introduced by Satan and that the idea has already undermined Western society and must not be allowed to spread to the Third World.

"Satan has only recently begun introducing evolution to Third World countries in order to destroy missionary enterprise," it states. "Let's get in first with our spiritual armour on and provide Third World missionaries and others with the weapons to do battle against the subtleties of Satan as he seeks to undermine confidence in God's Word and missionary enterprise."

Charles Darwin is going to be pissed when he learns that Mephistopheles is getting all of the credit for his hard work.

Satan is responsible for Evolution? Satan? Is that really the Creationists argument? Are they really arguing that science is evil? How desperate have these superstitious fearmongers become?

How do you argue with somebody who is this far out to lunch?

Actually I think this about sums it up:"These people are not just scientists, they are atheists," he said. "Their arguments do not come from pure science but from their interpretation of the evidence in order to back their beliefs."

I am sorry Jethro but there appears to be a flaw in your, for lack of a better word, logic.

If these scientists are "atheists", then what "belief" is interfering with their interpretation of the evidence? Being "atheists" they don't have a belief system to direct how they perceive the evidence. They just see "evidence". Could that be the problem? Is it that they do not see the world through the God fearing prism that keeps your ilk cowering in churches all over the world?

Could that be it Skippy?

Hah! I knew it!

Texans have little dicks
• A recent study by Pfizer Incorporated notes that Texas’ average penis length is seven percent lower than in its neighboring states.

I am having a clairvoyant lollapalooza today. This is what I wrote in March of this year:

But back to my theory that Bush got shortchanged in the male equipment department, if you think about it it makes perfect sense. He feels emasculated because he has a puny penis. In order to feel manly he needs to blow shit up and send troops to impose his will on other people who scare him.

Look he married a soft spoken, naive young lady who he felt would not find him lacking. He then treid to earn his mothers love by doing big things to make up for the small thing which she cruelly pointed out to him when he was young. To prove to his mother that he was a real man he needed to outperform his dad in the place he felt his father had demonstrated his shortcomings, Iraq!

Oil is not the reason we are in Iraq! George Bush's tiny tallywhacker is! Did you ever stop and wonder why his second in command is a thick bald guy named Dick!

My crystal balls and I are going to get rich!

(Oh by the way, if you hit the link above be ready for a ton of NSFW ads!)

Junior officers join Generals in speaking out against Rumsfeld. Heck of a crappy job Rummy!

To protect their careers, the officers were granted anonymity so they could speak frankly about the debates they have had and have heard. The stances that emerged are anything but uniform, although all seem colored by deep concern over the quality of civil-military relations, and the way ahead in Iraq.

The discussions often flare with anger, particularly among many midlevel officers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and face the prospect of additional tours of duty.

"This is about the moral bankruptcy of general officers who lived through the Vietnam era yet refused to advise our civilian leadership properly," said one Army major in the Special Forces who has served two combat tours. "I can only hope that my generation does better someday."

An Army major who is an intelligence specialist said: "The history I will take away from this is that the current crop of generals failed to stand up and say, 'We cannot do this mission.' They confused the cultural can-do attitude with their responsibilities as leaders to delay the start of the war until we had an adequate force. I think the backlash against the general officers will be seen in the resignation of officers" who might otherwise have stayed in uniform.

If I did not despise this administration so much I might actually feel a little bad for them. They are under siege from all sides and it is surely only going to get worse from here.

Oh wait I almost forgot.........I told you so! Sorry I just wanted to remind people that I predicted this well over a year ago.

Ex-President Ford defends Rumsfeld. In other news: Gerald Ford is still alive!

Allowing retired generals to dictate our country’s policies and its leadership would be a dangerous precedent that would severely undermine our country’s long tradition of civilian control of the military. It would discourage civilian leaders at the Department from having frank and candid exchanges with military officers. And, today, at a time of war, such an effort sends exactly the wrong message both to our troops deployed abroad and to our enemies who are watching for any signs of weakness or self-doubt.

You know the reason that we keep control of the military in civilian hands is because of the fear that the military might simply start conflicts to increase military spending and to ensure job security for them and their fellow soldiers.

But these generals are coming out to say that we should not be fighting this war. Or at least not fighting it in the same sloppy way that this administration has fought it up to now. They are certainly not doing this to benefit themselves or their buddies in the military, they are doing it because they wanted to say this while in uniform and couldn't! I find no reason to question their motives.

Besides who the hell cares what Gerald " I pardoned Nixon" Ford has to say about it anyway? He was an exceptionally unproductive President who got the job only because all of his predecessors were corrupt. And then he could not even win the only presidential election he ever participated in. This is who they find to support Rummy? Sad.

Protesters block Bush visit. Better get used to it buddy.

President Bush's visit to Stanford University's Hoover Institution was quickly moved to another location after more than 1,000 protesters converged around the Hoover tower.

The White House said the protesters blocked the only road into the central areaof the campus where Hoover is located, which forced a meeting with several Hoover fellows to be moved to the campus home of former Secretary of State George Shultz, a Hoover fellow who organized the gathering.

The motorcade instead traveled to the house, which is on the outer edge of campus.

The change in plans delayed the president's arrival by about 15 minutes.

Protesters said they were disappointed that the President would not see them and accused the President of sneaking around to avoid them.

I am not sure why the protesters are disappointed. Surely they learned from the Cindy Sheehan incident that this president is a coward who always runs from a fight that he can't send others to fight for him.

King George better get used to hiding from protesters because I have a feeling that he is going to be running into a lot of them in the next couple of months.

Even Bush can't be this stupid! Are we really contemplating a fight with China?

The Pentagon is engaged in an extensive buildup of military forces in Asia as part of a covert strategy to strengthen and position U.S. and allied forces to deter -- or defeat -- China.

The buildup includes changes in deployments of aircraft-carrier battle groups, the conversion of nuclear-missile submarines and the regular dispatch of bombers to areas close to targets in China, according to senior Bush administration officials and a three-month investigation by The Washington Times.

Who are we going to send to fight in China? There is nobody left!

China may be called a "third world country" but they are a juggernaut! If we were really dumb enough to pick a fight with them it would be on par with Japan attacking Pearl Harbor. China's response would be brutal and decisive.

But it almost seems as if Bush could care less about pissing China off. From the heckler during President Hu's speech to introducing the "the National Anthem of the Republic of China" which is the Taiwanese anthem, we have done nothing but act dishonorably toward a people who place a lot of importance on honor.

Now a reasonable person would assume that the military buildup is just a show of force to remind China that we are not to be trifled with. And I hope that is the case. But I do not see any reasonable people in this White House! They are impulsive and short sighted as hell!

So is it really possible that our country would pick a fight with China? I absolutely have no idea.

NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! Damn it!

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said on Thursday he was seriously thinking about another White House bid in 2008 and will decide before the year is out.

"I will make that decision toward the end of the year, but I'm thinking about it hard," Kerry said in response to a question at the Latin Economic Forum at the United Nations.

Do not waste your time! You are unelectable! Stay out of the race so that we can offer a choice that will bring hope to the voters of America.

And while we are at it, I don't want Hillary or Al Gore either! These guys just bring too much baggage with them. There is so much that the Republicans can work with to chip away at these candidates and make them seem irrelevant.

I have already said who I would endorse. (Yeah I know nobody cares!)

John Edwards and Wesley Clark in 2008! This is the winning ticket!

We are waking up to $75 a barrel oil prices! Going back to bed will not help, it will be higher tomorrow.

The only silver lining in these out of control oil prices, and the pain at we are suffering at the pump, is that this will increase the desire of average Americans to drive the current controlling party out of Congress. If anything will get people to the polls it will be high gas prices.

The challenge for the Democrats is to take advantage of this problem and offer a real alternative to bring these prices back down. A tall order if ever there was one.

Apparently I am now an uncredited writer for "Real Time with Bill Maher"

While referring to Tom Cruise, Bill Maher said "Tom said he was going to eat his baby's placenta with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."

I wrote on April 18th, "And then Tom ate the placenta with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."

Now I am not complaining. Actually I am kind of bragging. And there is the chance that they came up with the same line on their own. But it is not the first time that one of my little one liners showed up on a television show or weblog. (I still love you Jon!) And I would complain, except I plagarize like a motherfucker!

But in the end who cares. It got a big laugh when Bill used the line and that is a sound that I never get to hear while I sit here, naked from the waist down, typing my fingers down to the nub. So borrow away Bill, Jon, Jay, Dave, and whoever else suffers a little creative dry spell. But maybe occasionally you could send a little love up my way.

(To be serious for a moment I do really try to give credit when I borrow, but I have been careless occasionally. Oops, my bad.)

"Well, this isn't about intelligence anymore. This is about regime change" CIA told before the Iraq war.

Tyler Drumheller, who headed CIA covert operations in Europe during the run-up to the Iraq war, said intelligence opposing administration claims of a WMD threat came from a top Iraqi official who provided the U.S. spy agency with other credible information.

The source "told us that there were no active weapons of mass destruction programs," Drumheller said in a CBS interview to be aired on Sunday on the network's news magazine, "60 Minutes."

"The (White House) group that was dealing with preparation for the Iraq war came back and said they were no longer interested," he was quoted as saying in interview excerpts released by CBS on Friday.

"We said: 'Well, what about the intel?' And they said: 'Well, this isn't about intel anymore. This is about regime change'," added Drumheller, whose CIA operation was assigned the task of debriefing the Iraqi official.

Is there anybody in this country that does not now realize that we were lied into this horrible war? I cannot imagine how genuinely brain damaged such a person must be.

Eighth grader decides to pimp the Sex Education DVD.

Three eighth-graders have been expelled from Bay Minette Middle School for showing a pornographic movie in their classroom while the teacher's back was turned.

The students slipped the sexually explicit DVD into the player while the teacher was grading papers and working on a computer, according to Terry Knight, assistant superintendent for Baldwin County Public Schools. The class had been watching an educational video.

One of the students had apparently brought the sexually explicit DVD to class in the past two or three weeks, Knight said.

The three students used a remote control to start the X-rated film on the screen where the educational video had been playing, Knight said.

They probably learned more that day then every other day of school combined.

Wanna know who they beat up that day at lunch?

Another student informed the teacher about the incident.

I love this next part.

Knight said neither the students nor their parents admitted to having the DVD.

"We don't know where those kids got that filth! We certainly don't have anything like that hidden in the bottom of our dresser under my socks!"

Scientists discover that men and women are different. "?????"

Men and women are actually from the same planet, but scientists now have the first strong evidence that the emotional wiring of the sexes is fundamentally different.

An almond-shaped cluster of neurons that processes experiences such as fear and aggression hooks up to contrasting brain functions in men and women at rest, the new research shows.

For men, the cluster "talks with" brain regions that help them respond to sensors for what's going on outside the body, such as the visual cortex and an area that coordinates motor actions.

For women, the cluster communicates with brain regions that help them respond to sensors inside the body, such as the insular cortex and hypothalamus. These areas tune in to and regulate women's hormones, heart rate, blood pressure, digestion and respiration.

So women are emotionally different then men huh? Just how far behind is the scientific research backlog? Are the scientists going to discover that water makes things wet next week?

You know maybe if I had had access to these findings I wouldn't have had to get divorced for the second time! (I am just kidding. Science could not have done anything to save that train wreck!)

Well anyhow let's get to the point. How will this new information help me to get laid?

"This is The Department of Homeland Security. Look we can't keep you safe but we are going to send Spanky the clown to entertain you. Okay?"

Fire departments are using Homeland Security grants to buy gym equipment, sponsor puppet and clown shows, and turn first responders into fitness trainers.

The spending choices are allowable under the guidelines of the Assistance to Firefighters grant administered by the Homeland Security Department, which has awarded nearly 250 grants since February totaling more than $25 million out of the current spending pot of $545 million.

"Oh look at the funny clown! I feel safer already!"

How much is our National Debt?

Dick Cheney has died! What? Oh the fat bastard is just asleep. Damn!

He looks so peaceful. I mean he hardly looks like the Spawn of Satan at all.

"Who's the black hearted hellspawn? That's right you are. Cootchie cootchie coo"

Grandmothers offer to sacrifice themselves in Iraq to save the life of a young person. For their trouble they are arrested.

The Granny Peace Brigade, they call themselves. Last October, they descended on the armed forces recruiting station in Times Square. They wanted to enlist, they said. They've been around. Send them to Iraq, they demanded, instead of some 20-year-old who has barely tasted life.

When the military, shockingly, showed no interest in signing them up, this Walker and Cane Brigade held a sit-in. The police ordered them to leave. They refused. So officers young enough to be their great-grandchildren handcuffed them gently and put them under arrest.

What a wonderful group of ladies! I am incredibly impressed with their determination. Fucking good for them!

George Bush cannot bring any real terrorists to jusice but he has no problem allowing these patriotic elderly women to be placed in a jail cell. Some defender of America he turned out to be!

CIA fires agent for leaking classified information.

Citing the Privacy Act, the CIA would not provide any details about the officer's identity or assignments. It was not immediately clear if the person would face prosecution. The firing is a highly unusual move, although there has been an ongoing investigation into leaks in the CIA.

"The officer has acknowledged unauthorized discussions with the media and the unauthorized sharing of classified information," said CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano. "That is a violation of the secrecy agreement that everyone signs as a condition of employment with the CIA."

Okay just so I am clear here, leaking classified information is now a reason to be fired? Correct?

So anybody caught leaking classified information should be fired? Am I correct about that?

So when Karl Rove is identified by Fitzgerald as one of the White House leakers his ass is out, right?

And since we know that Cheney authorized leaks then he should be packing his shit as well, right?

Now the President supposedly can declassify documents by waving his presidential sceptor over them, but he authorized the leaks supposedly before he cast his declassifying hocus pocus. So he needs to remove himself from the premises as well, right? Right?

So when can the next administration move in? Or am I missing something here?

Update: We need to add Condoleezza to the above list as well.

The Immoral one sits and ponders his next brilliant post.

Here are some cartoons about a subject that I am having trouble laughing off.