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Month: October 2006

  • Your Sac is Large and in Charge

    Yes, I am completely immature. I read the website for the souped-up beanbag, the LoveSac and chortled at a select few quotes and the implications of scrotal imagery: Utility straps reduce the size of your Sac to fit through doors and crevices. For those who can’t handle the sheer girth of a SuperSac, we offer […]

  • Once Sex Begins, 'No” Means Nothing

    Fantastic: The appeals court said that when the jury asked the trial judge if a woman could withdraw her consent after the start of sex, the jury should have been told she could not. The ruling said the law is not ambiguous and is a tenet of common-law. So if Clinton taught us that oral […]

  • How We Trained the Iraq Death Squads

    From the Independent: Yet, ironically, the death squads are the result of US policy. At the beginning of last year, with no end to the Sunni insurgency in sight, the Pentagon was reported to have decided to train Shia and Kurdish fighters to carry out "irregular missions". The policy, exposed in the US media, was […]

  • HR 5122 Allows President to Station Troops Within US to Suppress Public Disorder Without Consent of Governors

    You thought that torture bill was bad – that same day this got signed: President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law. It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President’s […]

  • USA Drops to 53rd in Freedom of Press

    So much for that amendment. Congrats to Iceland, Ireland, Finland and Netherlands at #1. The United States (53rd) has fallen nine places since last year, after being in 17th position in the first year of the Index, in 2002. Relations between the media and the Bush administration sharply deteriorated after the president used the pretext […]

  • World Series Ain't Global

    St. Louis Cardinals. You aren’t world champions. The World Series ain’t global. You’re kidding yourselves. Now maybe if they win the World Cup of Baseball (2005 winners: Cuba) or World Baseball Classic (2005 winners: Japan) they might be truly world champions.

  • Lynne Cheney is a Fucking Monster

    Did anybody else catch Mrs. Dick on The Situation Room with Blitzer? CHENEY:  I watched your program last night and I was troubled. BLITZER:  All right.  Well, that was probably the purpose, to get people to think, to get people to discuss these issues because … (CROSSTALK) CHENEY:  Well, all right, Wolf.  I’m here to […]

  • Nazi Pope Ratburger Moves to Resurrect Latin Mass

    Hell yeah. Bring back the Gothic mass that scares the hell out of non-Catholics! Just please ditch the godawful folk-music movement and influence that has killed liturgical music. Pope Benedict XVI is moving to facilitate a more widespread celebration of the pre-Vatican II Mass in Latin. Only a month after the Pope’s decision to create […]

  • Project Ronway

    And it is Thursday. I presume Ron is working since I haven’t heard from him yet. He is ‘on reserve’ this month which means he only knows when he might work on certain days. Then last night he got ‘converted’ which means he has to be ‘on call’ and they can give him 3 hours […]

  • Kellogg Brown & Root Begins Building American Prison Camps to Hold Tens of Thousands

    From Alternet: …the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (detail). It provides the basis for the President to round-up both aliens and U.S. citizens he determines have given material support to terrorists. Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Cheney’s Halliburton, is constructing a huge facility at an undisclosed location to hold tens of thousands of […]