The Biggest Balls Ever

(UPDATE: It would seem that this public speech on CSPAN was taken down by Youtube for copyright issues. But most of it is here. Sweet.

WASHINGTON A blistering comedy “tribute” to President Bush by Comedy Central’s faux talk show host Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondent Dinner Saturday night left George and Laura Bush unsmiling at its close.

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Authoritarian Rule

From here:

President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.

Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ''whistle-blower" protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research.

Legal scholars say the scope and aggression of Bush's assertions that he can bypass laws represent a concerted effort to expand his power at the expense of Congress, upsetting the balance between the branches of government. The Constitution is clear in assigning to Congress the power to write the laws and to the president a duty ''to take care that the laws be faithfully executed"

Quick! Look over there! Mexicans singin' the National Anthem in Mexican!!!

Who Likes Hookers!

Republican Congressmen do!

Maybe even now-CIA head likes the ho-spitality suite treatment.

The ho-transport company, Shirlington Limousine, for some reason "is also a Department of Homeland Security contractor; according to the Washington Post, last fall it won a $21.2 million contract for shuttle services and transportation support."

How Would a Patriot Act?

Interesting. Yesterday this book, not yet in print, was #50,925 on Amazon. Right now, through preorders, it's #2, right between a dog-training book and "Getting the Love You Want."

To The Max

President Bush today said he had tried to avoid war with Iraq "diplomatically to the max."

But God wanted war, so Bush obeyed.

The Worst President in History?

I think they go over-the-top with that headline. It should be "The Worst President In U.S. History." And no question mark.

Where The Fuck Do We Live - North Korea?!?

Katrina Kids praise Dear Leader in song.

One Of The Greatest Film Openings Of All Time

"We think it's gassy!"

The Seeds, "Pushin' Too Hard," from the wacky sit-com, "The Mothers-In-Law." Check out the squares gettin' their ears hurt.

DON'T BE A SUCKER!!!

Feel Like Getting Manipulated, Agan, Sucker?

The Bush administration is trying to ratchet up the public perception of a “crisis” in Iran in order to divert attention from the president’s other problems and to create a wedge issue to divide Democrats before the upcoming congressional elections.

As with Iraq and Social Security, the administration is now outright lying about how urgent a crisis we face in Iran, and the question is whether we respond to this particular allegation and how.

Go here, read. Do research elsewhere.

Liars Get All Huffy

May 27, 2003, classified report on two trailers found in Iraq had nothing to do with WMD.

A couple days later, Bush says of the trailers, "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories."

Today, Scott McClellan demanded that the media apologiqe for revealing this.

BOOOOOO!!!

BOOOOOOOO!!!!

A Feast For The Ears

Music and other sounds. A collection of recordings by the man who wrote "A Blind Man's Penis," Phil Milstein.

Iran?!? Are They Nuts?

It's more than nuts. It's completly insane.

Back in 2002 as we heard the mumbles about invading Iraq, I thought that would be pretty stupid. We had to take care of Afghanistan.

Now they're talking about Iran? It's more than stupid, it's mentally ill. It's psychotic.

Somebody Had To Do It

From here, Cleveland, 1975, Halloween, an unknown DEVO opens for Sun Ra to an audience of radio swine:

Mark Mothersbaugh tells Joe Garden of The Onion (7/10/97), "(Sun Ra) almost never came out on stage, because there were fist fights between the audience and Devo. They were doing tequila sunrise out of a big 50-gallon vat and taking... What drug were they taking? Oh, the one you inhale. Laughing gas or something. It was Halloween in Cleveland, Ohio, and somebody hired Devo as a joke. We were dressed in janitor outfits, and they were all dressed like hunchbacks and vampires, and permutations of lowest-common-denominator Halloween costumes. LCD horror. They ended up getting really pissed off at us and the music we were playing. At the time, we were a lightning rod for hostility. We would play a song like 'Subhuman Woman' for seven minutes. We'd play 'Jocko Homo' for 30 minutes, and we wouldn't stop until people were actually fighting with us, trying to make us stop playing the song. We'd just keep going, 'Are we not men? We are Devo!' for like 25 minutes, directed at people in an aggressive enough manner that even the most peace-lovin' hippie wanted to throw fists. We were in a negative-energy vortex back in the mid-'70s."

EAT it, George

Let me just say something about leaks in Washington. There are too many leaks of classified information in Washington. There's leaks at the executive branch; there's leaks in the legislative branch. There's just too many leaks. And if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.

George W. Bush, Sept. 2003

Oh, But A Democrat Smacked A Cop

How do these mutants get into office? Penn. Repub. congressman Curt Weldon declaired Sun Myung Moon "as humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent." Oh, and there's a photo of him giving his speech next to another photo of him pinning a Unification Church medal on Moammar Al Qadhafi.

Oh, and he just decided to use his opponent's child as a campaign issue. Oh, and this centers around the child's struggle with cancer.

Mike and Frank as Frank and Mike

The Monkees' music appears to be banal and insipid.

2nd Perv

"The head of Operation Predator was a child sex predator? Jesus Christ people."

Mugshot

Take a look at this mugshot. Where the hell do these perverts come from?

Just As The Tape Ended, He Went Down On Him

Chris Matthews and Tom Delay off-camera pillow talk.

Just So You Know

In Michigan, we're getting smothered in ads about go-getting Repub. businessman Dick DeVos. They say he'll really get our economy roaring! What they avoid mentioning is that Dick DeVos is Amway.

At Last, Buck's Best

"Act Naturally," 1966.

But really, I need one of those suits. Maybe black, instead of yellow or blue.

Bush = Larry the Cable Guy

President Bush was taking questions from an audience the other day when he was asked about the immigration debate raging in Washington.

"It's obviously topic du jour ," he said.

The audience laughed at the famously Francophobic Texan's faux accent.

"Pretty fancy, huh?" Bush asked, mocking himself. "Topic du jour ?"

The audience laughed again.

"I don't want to ruin the image," he added conspiratorially.

As he takes to the road to salvage his presidency, Bush is letting down his guard and playing up his anti-intellectual, regular-guy image.

This will help him in the pols, cranking up the "Hyuck, hyuck -- I'm just a dumb-ass, just like you!" image.

Sorta related: Read David Cross' Open Letter to Larry the Cable Guy.

George and Teddy and the Condors

With tasteful go-go dancing.

Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, 1966

Lookat those suits -- just lookatem'!