End of the road

For many reasons I’m calling it quites for awhile. I’ll be around, and may bring this blog back in some form or another in the future. In the mean time I still post occasionally over @ My own private Idaho.

A Pig’s Ass

shill (shl) Slang
n. One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle.
v. shilled, shill·ing, shills
v.intr. To act as a shill.
v.tr.
1. To act as a shill for (a deceitful enterprise).
2. To lure (a person) into a swindle.
From Media Matters:
Limbaugh, Fox’s Angle repeated misleading claim that NSA [...]

We gotta little gap in knee-jerk reaction time…

USlagsinpropaganda war:
Rumsfeld

By Daniel Trotta Fri Feb 17, 2:27 PM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States lags dangerously behind al Qaeda and other enemies in getting out information in the digital media age and must update its old-fashioned methods, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday.
“Our enemies have skillfully adapted to fighting wars in [...]

It’s all about “hearts and minds,” boys and girls…

“College hazing” gone wrong…
-The latest batch…more to come.

Update, Video from One Good Move:

Requires Quicktime

-Update #2, Grounds for Impeachment?

The Yellow Cake Review

For Mountain Man:

As you’ve noticed there is a picture of Yellow Cake right between pictures of Judith Miller and Matt Cooper, as well as Karl Rove and Robert Novak in the scroller above. Yellow Cake is refined Uranium ore, so the placement of a bag of regular old cake mix in between these characters is [...]

Shame on the DNC

Statement from Paul Hackett

We don’t need no stinking taxes…or, “Screw you Jack, I’ve got mine.”

A Response to comments by the “MegaBrad“

…That reminds me, Republican Vet’s week-long ban for his conduct toward NavySwan is up. I don’t like to ban people, true, but I found that lately, working 40 hours a week, going to school full time, and raising two children can get in the way of responding to [...]

National Child Passenger Safety Week

Looks like I’ve missed alot in the last week, more evidence that Cheney authorized Libby to share classified information with reporters comes out, and Bush’s claim that that he “didn’t know Jack” continues to fall into a million pieces. Michael D. Brown (D as in drownie), former head of FEMA, throws Chertoff Jerkoff under the [...]

Curse you, technology.

After many fits and re-starts my computer has been magically purged of whatever virus it had. A very traumatic experience altogether. School has been kind of dull, the only class that is engaging is World Religions. Staining E. Coli gets boring after the first night, and Web Design is one of those class you end [...]

A Boehner in lobbyist’s bed?

Via Daily Kos:

WASHINGTON — Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, who was elected House majority leader last week, is renting his Capitol Hill apartment from a veteran lobbyist whose clients have direct stakes in legislation Boehner has co-written and that he has overseen as chairman of the Education and the Workforce Committee.

The relationship between Boehner, John [...]