Wednesday, June 04, 2008
oy...
local front—cloudy with threats of eco-socialism
I clearly shoulda done more. The businessman running for county supervisor in my district—the one who held up our county budget and declared it “unreadable” and “devoid of any actual information”—lost.
The incumbent, a big ol school marm/carreer politician given to reprimanding citizens in public meetings and Hillary-esque self-aggrandizement, is still in the running.
...against a little Casper Milquetoast from the “ecological center” who is “dedicated to getting people out of their cars” and “preserving our water-ways.”
We are soooooo scrod. Now I gotta work for The Bitch.
*urp*
with No Ammo!
Californians are IDIOTS!
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
DNC = *CC*
culinarilly correct
DENVER ! DENVER !! DENVER !one!!
...demands of their caterers.
Fried food has been banned because it’s apparently bad for you and individual containers of liquid have been banned ...
[no bottled water????!! ...no beer?!? ...no *Starbux*???!!?!???]The DNC’s organisers are also demanding that caterers: “Must provide food in at least three of the following five colours: red, green, yellow, blue/purple and white.”
[oraaangists!!]
ooo… fun.
Look! The Fairness Doctrine-ski!
Comrade, shaddap.
On a talk show last autumn, a prominent political analyst named Mikhail Delyagin offered some tart words about Vladimir Putin. When the program was televised, Delyagin was not.
His remarks were cut and he was digitally erased from the show, like a disgraced comrade airbrushed from an old Soviet photo. (The technicians may have worked a bit hastily; they left his disembodied legs in one shot.)
Delyagin, it turned out, has for some time resided on the so-called stop list, a roster of political opponents and other critics of the government who have been barred from television news and political talk shows by the Kremlin.
The stop list is, as Delyagin put it, “an excellent way to stifle dissent."
...Political humor in general has been exiled from television here. One of the nation’s most popular satirists, Viktor Shenderovich, once had a show that featured puppet caricatures of various politicians, including Putin. It was canceled in Putin’s first term and Shenderovich has been all but barred from television.
Jon Stewart—don’t quit yer day job.
Monday, June 02, 2008
See Ya, Mate
thanks for all the Vegemite ripper snaffle
Australian forces have completed combat operations in Iraq, ending a five-year commitment to the war.
The Australian Army lowered its flag at Camp Terendak in the southern Iraqi city of Talil on Monday, turning over security responsibility for Muthanna and Dhi Qar provinces to U.S. forces. The 550 forces stationed at the camp will return home in the coming weeks.
Another 60 combat forces who worked throughout Iraq are also completing their deployments.
“Our soldiers have worked tirelessly to ensure that local people in southern Iraq have the best possible chance to move on from their suffering under (Saddam Hussein’s) regime and, as a government, we are extremely proud of their service,” said Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian Minister of Defence.
“Since commencing the training role, (Australian Defence Force) personnel in southern Iraq have contributed to the individual and collective training of 33,000 Iraqi Army soldiers.”
...[Prime Minister John Howard], Rudd’s predecessor, said in Australian news reports that he was “baffled” by the decision to withdraw the troops.
“If I had been returned at the last election we would not have been bringing (troops) home, we would have been looking at transitioning them from their soon-to-be terminated role to a training role,” ...
About 1,000 Australian troops will remain in and around Iraq in non-combat roles, according to the Ministry of Defence, including providing security for diplomats, conducting maritime surveillance patrols, providing intelligence assistance and conducting logistical operations.
Two Australian troops died during the war in Iraq.
In other nooz:
France will help Iraq build better medical centers as well as give aid to equip and train Iraqi security forces, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told Iraqi officials during a weekend visit.
Sven
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Class-A Flaying
An Email
FROM: Bob Dole
TO: Scott McClellan
There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don’t have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues…
No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits and, spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique. ...
In my nearly 36 years of public service I’ve known of a few like you… No doubt you will ‘clean up’ as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm. When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, ‘Biting The Hand That Fed Me.’ Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years…
[I won’t read the book] because if all these awful things were happening, and perhaps some may have been, you should have spoken up publicly like a man, or quit your cushy, high-profile job....
That would have taken integrity and courage but then you would have had credibility and your complaints could have been aired objectively… You’re a hot ticket now, but don’t you, deep down, feel like a total ingrate?
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