And more "Pictures worth 1000 words"...

Lovely sentiment, isn't it? Wouldn't it just be a beautiful thing to see captions like this show up all over the country, on every major freeway, and highway, like this one from Portland, Oregon?

This is just the beginning, faithful readers.

Remember that cheesy 80's miniseries "V", when the people of the world began to fight back, and swamp the cities with spray-painted slogans of radical change and rebellion?

Worked then too, didn't it? ;-)

Psssssst, wanna know a secret? IT ALWAYS WORKS.

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The Tattle Tales

Michelle Wie was disqualified from winning 56K in her first professional LPGA tournament. It doesn't make me too sad, since she is reaping the wind of 10 million in endorsements. Why was she disqualified? Because someone, a reporter, "snitched" on her. He ran to the officials and said she moved her ball three inches closer than it should have been. She was ssooooooooooo wicked.
Yep, evil incarnate.

Why is it that a 16 year old girl, who admitted she made a 3 inch mistake should be punished when people who put others lives in danger are still working with inpunity? Don't know any other golfers who've made errors. Or anyone else, nope no one has ever done anything that would endanger others. Take say, Robert Novak, until his little temper tantrum on national TV, was happily invoking his first amendement rights after ratting out Valerie Plame. Or Time magazine, making their reporter tell the name of his source for an article NEVER written.

We have become a nation of tattle tales. We don't know about you, but when we were little, we were taught that tattling was wrong, that people make mistakes and should own up to them, as did Michelle Wie and do better. We were also taught you never outed a spy and that your country cared for ALL its citizens , even when they were opposed to your party. Guess the rules changed.

Is Bill O'Reilly about to break?

Let's talk about one of the most influential commentary people around, Bill O'Reilly. Do you know what happens if you mention the name "Jeremy Glick" to his face these days? You get shoved away and spat with enough profane insults and tirades, you'll wonder if he's taking a cue these days from Dick "Go Fuck Yourself" Cheney.

But when Bill O'Reilly had talk show host veteran Phil Donahue on his show a week or so back, the outcome perhaps wasn't what the Fox News sheep may have expected.

When the stinging subject of the Iraq conflict came into question, and Phil Donahue angrily gave his debate as to why did all these brave young children have to die for deceit, he mentioned offhand that he didn't see many of the congresspeople's kids taking risks, and that not many there at Fox News in fact had sons or daughters over there at all. This led Bill O'Reilly to say that he had a nephew serving over there, and Phil made the briefest of comments that that really wasn't the same thing.

You may as well have said that Bill O'Reilly was sucking Jeff Gannon's balls on Saturdays for the emotional outburst that ensued. Bill got up from his seat, stood toe to toe with Phil, and in no uncertain terms threatened to beat the living daylights out of him, nearly screaming at Phil to shut up, that he didn't know what he was talking about, etc.

We think perhaps Bill O'Reilly is reaching the edge of the plateau. How soon before he really DOES lash out physically at one of his demeaning news programs?

Here's a hint. Mention Jeremy Glick, just in passing. Nothing has set this man off any worse. When this boy talked about how he lost his father in the WTC collapse, and mentioned how we had in the past trained Al-Qaeda ourselves, it was, according to Bill O'Reilly, tantamount to a traitor-like statement. For nearly a YEAR afterwards, Jeremy Glick became the poster boy for the loony liberal left, a traitor to his own country, a diabolical fiend. And when Glick tried to bring a lawsuit against Fox News for all the defamation, his attorney managed to get him to drop the case. How convenient.

After the cameras were off of this particular news program, which is supposed to be so fair, so balanced, so non-partisaned, Bill O'Reilly wouldn't shake Glick's hand, didn't thank him for coming on the show, and didn't feel any regret or remorse for his father. No, all Bill O'Reilly managed to say was, "You need to get out of here before I tear you apart." And when Jeremy Glick tried to stop off in the green room for a coffee, security guards "escorted" him off the property.

Amazing how a year after this exchange, he was still talking about it.

More amazing even that Phil Donahue knows how to punch Bill O'Reilly's buttons.

Funny how that sexual harrassment lawsuit came and went too...

Here's a little message for Bill O'Reilly, if he indeed traverses Google to see what the world is saying about him, paranoid as he is:

We are so looking forward to the day you go over the edge. You are a man with way too many issues in your past, and it is indeed a delight to us to watch you suffer them over and over. You may THINK you have influence over this nation's viewers, but the sad truth is we watch you because Jerry Springer isn't on much these days. ;-)

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Is Cheney going down for PlameGate??

The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are working on stories that point to Vice President Dick Cheney as the target of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the leaking of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name. Can we get an "OUCH"? :)

Brilliant strategy by Fitzgerald! Get pork-pie Rove all hot and flustered, drawing the heat off Dickie boy then WHAMMO, nail Dickie for prosecution.

How soon before America starts asking, "Now what did Bush know??"

We give it four minutes...

How soon before Dickie resigns for "personal health"?

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What IS God telling Bush?

Divine intervention has been quite prevalent in our society over the last few centuries, from the woman who suddenly finds the superhuman strength to pull her child from under a horse and carriage, to the 2004 Boston Red Sox.

It stands to reason that when we call out and receive true divine intervention, usually two things DO NOT happen: death and destruction.

In a BBC documentary series slated to air this fall, it is said to reveal how Bush was told by God to attack Afghanistan and Iraq. This corroborates the story Washington Post reporter great Bob Woodward writes in his book, "Plan of Attack ", where in interviewing Bush, he DOES say that God told him to attack Iraq. So why is the White House now denying it?

It's funny how God seems to think this weedy, dumpy, cocaine-sniffing dry-drunk (who apparently is back on the booze full-time these days), who has never been successful with anything he's ever done, who has had everything handed to him his whole life on a silver platter, is the savior for the Middle East. This man who despises liberalism, science and intelligence and embraces only religion and his gradually-shrinking base of supporters. This man who doesn't really listen to anyone's point of view, and goes off instead on a destructive disastrous tear to settle a family vendetta. THIS is the best God could do?

"I'm driven by a mission from God."

Yeah well, so was Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi in the 1978 "The Blues Brothers". And yet the similarties are rather scary. In trying to do a godly thing, these two lamebrains succeed only in causing widespread destruction. True, they eventually DO get to their goal, but at what cost? Surely the damage done to downtown Chicago will permenantly shut down that orphanage they tried so hard to save. So what was really the point? Surely the $800 billion we've spent on Iraq so far is already biting our asses here on the homefront. Gas is at an all-time high, the poor planning for Katrina has wiped out at least 1% of our economy for the year, and we STILL don't have bin Laden. If you're keeping score at home, that would be Iraq 0 and Bush 0. The only real scorer right now is Al-Qaeda because instead of them being entirely wiped out like was promised, they have flourished, thrived, and are responsible for even more attacks than ever before.

If God was sooo hot for Bush to attack Iraq, couldn't He have been a little more helpful and said something like, "Okay, the weapons of mass destruction are HERE." and a small light would come down a la "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and show the location on a large map of Iraq. Who would have thought that the heavenly light instead so far has been pointing squarely on Washington, D.C. and more specifically the White House?

Guess Bush must be mistaking the light for that divine intervention he keeps bragging about.

But thankfully for us all, God does have a sense of humor. When interviewed by Bob Woodward and asked if God truly did tell Bush to invade Iraq, God just laughs softly and shakes His head saying, "Why would I talk to that idiot? I've got my hands full with the 2005 Boston Red Sox right now!"

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