1 Year Later

I know people are tired of Katrina, I admit suffering from Katrina fatigue too despite my love of New Orleans and the fact that my future wife lived and went to college there. I am still outraged however at the snails pace of redevelopment on the Gulf Coast and the fact that greedy pigfucker insurance companies are not paying folks who have paid their premiums for 50 years. I hear the right wingers in the blogosphere and on talk radio screaming about how you shouldn't build on the coast and you shouldn't get insurance coverage if you live on the coast and all the poor are better off being out of NOLA anyway, fuck you Ralph from Iowa City, that city has more culture and soul and uniqueness in one block than your whole damn flyover cornfield of a state will ever have. Should we give up on Venice or The Netherlands because they are below sea level, how about Rush Limbaugh's compound in Fla? We could fix the levees in NOLA for a fraction of what we are frittering away in Iraq, money that will never benefit US citizens. Kanye West was wrong though, George Bush doesn't just not care about black people, he doesn't care about cities or regions that don't vote Republican, if that storm had hit Houston you can bet your sweet ass that they would have called in the 82nd airborne and every disaster aid truck in the country.

The Pill

So this week the FDA finally approves the morning after pill for over the counter use but only for women 18 and up, and many Pharmacists say they will not sell it. Great so some asshole that couldn't get into med school will impose their religious views on women who want to buy a legal contraceptive drug. Shut the fuck up and get the pills your a pill counter who works at Rite-Aid asshole. In my opinion they should dispense this stuff in high schools, kids are always gonna have sex no matter how much abstinance ed. the Bible thumpers preach, this pill will drastically decrease the amount of unwanted pregnancies and abortions in this country and if thats not a good thing I don't know what is.

Poll

So I have been conducting a poll among random people I know as to who are the five worst Presidents in US history. I personally would list W, Hoover, Grant, Andrew Johnson, and Taft, but my informal poll has W and Nixon running neck and neck as worst ever, I don't even put Nixon in the top ten, sure he was a creepy bastard but in terms of actual harm done to the nation, there are much better choices, give me some feedback.

Harpy

So our old friend who handed the 2000 election to W, Rep Katherine (Krazy Eyes) Harris who is running for the Senate in Fla. tells a group of Babtists this week that the seperation between church and state is quote "a lie that we have been told." Mrs Harris also feels that god chooses our leaders and that by not voting for a Christian cantidate voters are "legislating sin." Has this plastic surgery disaster ever read Jefferson or Adams? Keeping religion out of government is one of the pillars of our democracy. I guess Jesus told Kitty that she should throw out all of the ballots in Fla. that went to Gore cause the Holy Spook wanted W annointed as Prez. Apparently the GOP bigwigs feel she is an embarassment and are not supporting her cantidacy fully, what an absolute kook this dried up ex-beauty queen is.

At Last

So I'm digesting W's news conference today and much to my surprise and astonishment a reporter asks King George what Iraq had to do with 9-11 and he replies "Nothing" I had to rewind that shit on my tivo to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. Just a few weeks ago on Meet the Press Uncle Dick says that Iraq had dealings with Alquaeda! WTF? He finally admits what every thinking person has known since the start of this thing. If Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 why have over 2000 US servicemen and women lost their lives and why have we been spending money like Rush Limbaugh on Viagra in a Dominican cathouse? Now were stuck we have to keep troops there to prevent implosion. How can you not call this the biggest foreign policy disaster of the past 100 years?

The California Kid

What an asshole, this clown singles out an Indian kid and calls him a monkey and then derides him for not being a real Virginian, guess what douche? he was born in the Old Dominion unlike your poseur ass born in SoCal. Something tells me you can kiss your presidential aspirations byebye. This guy makes W look like a Rhodes Scholar.

Hmmmm

Kudos to MI5 and Scotland Yard for breaking up a huge airline terrorist plot, but now NBC and the BBC are reporting that top British counterterror officials did not want to bust up these dirtbags for another few weeks, they were pressured by the White House to go public this week, methinks for possible partisan political reasons. As it stands by jumping the gun the British caught these shitheads with no actual expolsives and they had not yet bought tickets. I really hope they have enough evidence to lock these bastards in the Tower for ever, but if they cannnot convict for lack of evidence W is going to look really stupid, we may have been able to catch more conspiritors if we had waited longer.

The Dude Abides

Speaking of great Cohn brother movies,

"I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowing he's out there, the dude, takin her easy for all us sinners."
The Stranger , Sam Eliott

O Brother

So I'm watching O Brother last night and I realize that Homer Stokes the klansman running for Governor of Miss. in the movie is a dead ringer for the Machiavelli of Mayberry, Karl Rove. What a prick.

Two Assholes

So today is a good day to be a Democrat. My party has self cleansed itself of two horrible human beings, Joe (I love W) Lieberman, and Cynthia (I bitchslap cops) Mckenney. Lieberman deserved to be punished for his shameful support of W's post colonial expedition in Iraq, and Mckenney deserved it for being a moronic race-baiting clown. The good Democrats in Georgia and Conn. have done a service to the party to rid us of these two. Ken (I have massive horseteeth) Mehlman the chairman of the RNC was all over the cable news today claiming that Liebermans loss was great for the GOP because it shows that the far left has control of the Democratic party. Bullshit, check the opinion polls on the war shithead, any smart Dem is going to distance themselves from Iraq as will any smart Republican. Watch the rats deserting the W ship already in competive races all over the country. Your President has worse poll numbers than Jimmy Carter at the height of the Iranian hostage crisis, and Iraq is a big reason why, in the words of your fearless leader Bring It On!

Greedy Pigfuckers

So NBC and The Wall Street Journal report today that the feds are conducting a criminal probe of BP for shoddy maintenance on the Alaskan pipeline that caused the huge spill last year. Apparently after years of record profits BP cannot afford to run the anti-corrosive chemicals through the pipes, in fact this basic procedure has not been done in over a decade! Inspectors reported that in spots the pipes are paper thin, now they are shutting down. Gotta love the petroleum industry. Whoever the next President is we desperately need a Marshall plan for energy in this country. We rebuilt Europe and Japan after WWII, and we landed on the moon, why the fuck can't we end our dependence on fossil fuels? Solar, wind, hydro, ethanol, biodiesel, hell, nuclear, anything other than importing oil from medieval desert kingdoms. It is a matter of national security as well as environmental urgency that we do something quick. If we took the money that Uncle Dick and W gave as tax cuts to energy companies and multi millionaires we would have a great start for the research on this new Manhatten project.

Artsy

Here are my personal highlights from the National Gallery, Picasso and a massive Alexander Calder mobile. Even though I used to live in NOVA and I have been to every museum on the mall 50 times, I still love DC. We stayed in a cool hotel in NW just off embassy row, oh and my dog took a shit on the Nigerian Embassy. Hope I don't get a letter from Lagos.

Bitchslap

Man, I'm no big fan of Mrs. Clinton but she made Rummy look like an idiot during the hearings yesterday. How can he and the generals still not admit that Iraq is in a civil war? If this assclown had any dignity left he would resign.

Pomme Frites

So I read today in the local Richmond right wing gazzette, that the two douchebag GOP Congressman that had the Capital cafeteria rename french fries "freedom fries" and french toast "freedom toast" have quietly let the menus return to normal, nice. The Right loves to bash the French. I see today that Condi is courting the French in the whole Lebanon thing, they will most likely pony up some troops to put on the border, god knows we don't have any to spare. I don't understand the whole GOP French bashing, a country that helped us win our Independence, a country whose philosophers and writers influenced the founding fathers, just because they refused to support a misguided preemptive war. I know why, the Republicans despise intellectualism, the French hold intellectuals in high regard and all of the French papers and magazines publish thoughtful intellectual pieces that would never see the light of day in the US. The GOP loves cheap jingoistic flag waving and false patriotism. Oh well at least we have NASCAR and celebrity tabloids. I think I'll go get myself a bowl of liberty cabbage.

Wino Style

Man I remember this poison from my high school days, we had a janitor nicknamed"cool breeze" due to his love of this nectar of Dionysos. I wonder if they still make it? Truly the wine connouseurs choice. I think I'll serve it at my wedding.