Iraq Quagmire Chess Set

Venezuelan artist Hermann Mejía made this "Iraqi Quagmire Chess Set" for MAD Magazine.

“A new hummingbird species was discovered in a cloud forest in Colombia, though still nothing on bin Laden.”

Happy Memorial Day, aWol.

Deaf and Dumb

Bush: "If [the Iraqi government] were to say, leave, we would leave."

Iraqi government: Leave.

Deaf and Dumb

Bird Shits On Chimpy During Rose Garden Press Conference

No, that does not mean good luck. Crappy effort as usual.

Ted Rall is under US Goverment surveillence - for some reason

Ted Rall. The guy who writes comics in the newspaper. Here is the tag line from his column. What a waste.

The domestic surveillance campaign--against comedy troupes like Billionaires for Bush and bicycling evangelists Critical Mass and a certain editorial cartoonist--should prompt revulsion among anyone who cherishes free speech. And it should worry every American. While the government wastes its time and resources spying on demonstrators and journalists, after all, it's ignoring our real enemies--those who are planning the next big attack.

The 'implication'? Girl, get a grip. You got Punked & Owned.

Wolfowitz loses his job…and his girlfriend.

Outgoing World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz and his love interest, Shaha Riza, have split up. Riza was reportedly “upset by all the publicity and the implication that she was getting ahead with the help of a powerful man.”

The French: Who knew?

They have better health care (than the US),
They are thinner (than the US),
They have sex in the day time,
and!
They have less poverty (than the US)

Single (Newly!) White Female looking for SWM to spend inheritance...

How about the Dems simply stand on principle and put forward a bill with meaningful metrics and let the GOPers vote it down?

Yea, how about it? How about letting REPUBLICAN shit for brains bush veto another tremendously popular Democratic bill bringing American children home from a REPUBLICAN MISERABLE FAILURE OF A WAR. Yea, that's a bad strategy. Now's the time to fuck G aWol Bush.

There's a third choice that doesn't seem to occur to our legislators. The Dems big concern in this political gamesmanship that passes for governance is to avoid the appearance that the Republicans were the "bi-partisan" brokers of a meaningless deal. Well here's a thought, how about the Dems simply stand on principle and put forward a bill with meaningful metrics and let the GOPers vote it down?

How would you like your foster kids to be raped by this republican, 8 times?

Ted Klaudt, 49, a Republican rancher from Walker, faces a long list of charges: eight counts of rape, two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, two counts of witness tampering, sexual contact with a person under 16, and stalking.

Court documents mention five possible victims. Three were foster children between the ages of 15 and 19 who lived with Klaudt's family. One is a cousin of one of those girls, and the fifth is a friend of Klaudt's daughter.

In the most disturbing accusation, the girls say Klaudt had them convinced they could earn up to $20,000 by donating their eggs to a fertility clinic. And even though he has no medical training, the girls say Klaudt did all the supposed "exams" and "procedures" himself.

The Bush administration was, for years, illegally spying on Americans in clear and obvious violation of statute and likely still are.

The fucking cocksucker is a criminal. Please pay attention.

Not Legal

I kind of feel like Glenn Greenwald has to write a version of this post every day for the next 5000 years before maybe a few more people will understand: the Bush administration was, for years, illegally spying on unknown numbers of Americans in clear and obvious violation of statute and likely still are.

FBI involved in illegal domestic US spying.

Imagine our shock.

The fucking idiot US president insults the Queen of England.

On the other hand, there was the president suggesting Queen Elizabeth was over 230 years old.

The queen, a sprightly 81, gave an embarrassed Bush a gracious nod after he suggested she had celebrated the United States' founding in 1776. He meant to say she had attended 1976 bicentennial festivities.