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What We Still Don't Know About Libby

How exactly does one earn a nickname like "Scooter?"

Miers "Borked" by GOP Taliban?

Ah yes, one can almost taste the conservative hypocrisy. Here's a great piece from The Nation's David Corn, who writes:

"Was Harriet Miers Borked?

Ever since Robert Bork, a right-wing darling nominated by Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court, was defeated by a passionate lobbying campaign waged by liberal groups, conservatives have turned his name into a verb with a derogatory meaning, as in, Those Democrats are Borking yet another judicial nominee to appease the special-interest groups on the left.

But Miers, who withdrew from consideration as a Supreme Court justice just days after George W. Bush said her nomination would go forward, must feel a little Borked herself. And her Borkers were fellow Republicans and conservatives, the same folks who once decried Borking as a danger to the Republic."

Of course, the slimy fuckers will say it's not the same thing...of course not, as they seem to believe that bullshit never smells or looks the same  when it sticks to them...

Was Miers Just A Decoy?

There's no real way to be sure, of course, but one really has to wonder if this whole thing wasn't planned this way right from the start.

I mean come on, how realistic is it to think that the Bush team sat down, looked at their track record thus far, along with Bush's abysmal approval ratings, and thought that Harriet Miers would be a Supreme Court slam-dunk?

Based on what we already know about these vile thugs, it seems far more likely to me that the winsome Miss Miers was thrown out there to whip everyone - the media, the country, and We the People - into a frenzy and subsequent state of nominee confirmation exhaustion.

Bush will likely unveil an alternative nominee by the end of the day, maybe even before lunch. And unlike Miers, or even that newly-minted SCOTUS Breck Boy John Roberts - the new nominee will likely be a fucking conservative Frankenstein monster and the end result of a fiendish genetic experiment involving the DNA of every soulless GOP hack to defile America politics over the last 50 years.

Look for the Bush spin machine and their friends in the media to start spinning this as a matter of having wasted far too much time already.

As the great poet Ed Grimley once said, "We're as doomed as doomed can be, you know."

For all our sakes, let's hope the Democrats somehow manage to find a fucking spine, or at least a shred of a fucking conscience.

Messing with mySpace's ePic-Whores

Greetings all...some of you may notice that, in response to an invitation from an old friend, I recently signed up with mySpace...it's actually kind of clunky, but the one cool thing is that it lets you have a little music player on your home page that will play just about any damn thing you can think of...anyway, ever since I signed up with these fuckers, I have received on average about one email a day from a someone purporting to be a staggeringly beautiful woman who loves my profile, and loves it so much she wants to share nekkid pictures of herself as a show of gratitude...after simply deleting the first few I received, I've decided to start fucking with these idiots like I did with the Nigerians, only with a slightly different twist...so, submitted for your reading pleasure:

Here's what I got this morning from a "girl" named "Kayla:"

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Hello,
       my name is kayla hillis .I have to confess that i really like your profile and i will like to meet someone like you by the time i get back to the state from africa where i grew up from child hood.My parent are from lousianna originally but establish their business in africa before my dad was late.

I am really looking for a God fearing man who will give me all the necessary reception i need.ANd also to put me thru the way of life and love.

Looking forward to read from you.

kayla

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And here is my reply.....

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hi kayla!!!!!

boy!

this mySpace sure is cool...i used to be one of the biggest losers i knew until I signed up here, now in only 3 days i have met 3 beautiful woman who want to be my freind!

so you're lookin for a god-fearing man, eh? and you said you read my profile?

you must not have read all of it because if yu had, you would know that i am most definitly an atheist which, in case you didn't know is someone who not only doesn't fear god, but doesn't believe in him/one either.

i actually used to believe in god until about 20 years ago, when a savage glandular mutation caused me to balloon from a lean 185 pounds (that was how much I weighed in that pic that's on my profile) all the way up to 750 in the space of a month and a half...and just when i thought i had seen the worst of it, all my hair, teeth and fingernails fell out and a bizarre growth began to form on my back...well, i thought it was just a mole or something until it sprouted arms and legs...so  i went to a doctor (actually, I had to call a local moving company to put me on a flatbed truck w/ a crane and haul my fat ass into town) and whaddya know? come to find out it's not really a growth but a congenital twin that somehow never fully separated when we were in the womb together?...it's weird...the doc tells me he has his own brain and is fully aware of his surroundings....so the good part is that now i have a brother! so, I decided to him charlie...he's actually watching me type this right now...or maybe he's sleeping? i never can tell for sure, its kinda creepy. it's cool though because now i have someone to keep me company...he can't really talk, but i am trying to teach him sine language....now if I can only teach him how to play a couple of video games...

so anyway...getting back to the whole not believeing in God thing...ther's no spirit in the sky or angel's wings for me. when i die, i'm going back to the ground from which i came as 750-odd pounds of worm food. boy are they gonna love me!

good luck finding a god fearing man...it shouldn't be any problem, there are actually more of them out there than there are of people like me.

mahalo...

elCynico

Bush Wants Another War for X-Mas

The anti-Iran drumbeat is getting louder and louder every fucking day, and if I had the time and a decent calculator, I'm sure I could derive some sort of mathematical formula that shows how the probability of war with Iran is inversely proportional to the combined force of all the tightly clenched, pre-indictment Republican sphincters in our nation's capitol.

Anyone that thinks Bush and his despicable cabal of subhuman brutes are too stupid to attempt anything so craven and doomed to failure needs to pull their head out of their ass and wake the fuck up.

Harriet Fights Back

Attempting to fend off the rising tide of conservative discontent over her nomination, a surprisingly feisty Harriet Miers has countered with her own anti-withdrawal petition at withdrawithdrawmiers.org

Still no word on my logo entry though...

World Series Notes: Ad Nauseam

GOOD FUCKING GOD!!!!!

Is this a baseball game, or We Are the World?

Not to diminish the suffering of the people they devoted "The Heart of America" to but the fucking song sounds like a ready-made car commercial.

And I didn't know George Lucas sang so well!

Fubar NewsFlash: Cheney Goes On the Lam

WASHINGTON (Fubar News) - With the threat of a possible indictment looming over his head, Vice President Dick Cheney has reportedly commandeered a weapons-capable presidential limousine and is leading local authorities on a high-speed chase out of town.

Witnesses say that Cheney appeared to have been drinking and was openly brandishing Saddam Hussein’s much-prized sidearm that was presented to President Bush after Hussein’s capture last year.

Unbeknownst to many, this is not the first time Cheney has exhibited such unpredictably volatile behavior.

Authorities say that the Vice President is extremely dangerous and is to be avoided at all costs. 

More on this story as it develops.

No Records, No Hearings, No Miers

It really is is as simple as that.

If the Chimp - with his approval ratings now roughly equivalent to those associated with a bad case of bloody hemorrhoids - wants to sit there with his arms crossed while he waxes legal about the sanctity of attorney-client privilege, then the Senate can just as easily say, or at least they should, if they had any cojones, "With all due respect, sir...Fuck you and your stupid, overgrown Miss Moneypenny of a sycophant/nominee - No Records, No Hearings, No Miers...end of fucking story."

I've said it before and I'll say it again, any claims Bush and Miers have to attorney-client confidentiality ends at precisely that point where Supreme Court cronyism begins...

SNL Remembers Charlie Rocket

Well, sort of...if you can call a black and white image of him that appeared briefly on screen after "Weekend Update" a remembrance...they should have shown whatever his best skit was from his brief tenure at Studio 8H.

And I still can't get over the fact that Rocket's death was ruled a suicide...I mean, who the fuck cuts their own throat?