I Was Mistaken

I thought I didn't like Kathy Griffin but her special on Bravo, "Kathy Griffin is not Nicole Kidman" is really funny in a trashy, malicious kind of way.
Huh. Just goes to show how important it is to give people a second chance.
...Unless you know for a fact they are assholes, then one chance will suffice.

John Roberts: Officially Okay By Me

I have waited to comment on Bush's nominee for SCOTUS until I could read up on him a bit.
After I read this snippet from The Los Angeles Times, I made my decision.

By Richard A. Serrano
Los Angeles Times

"WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee John Roberts worked behind the scenes for a coalition of gay-rights activists, and his legal expertise helped them persuade the Supreme Court to issue a landmark 1996 ruling protecting people against discrimination because of their sexual orientation.

Then a lawyer specializing in appellate work, the conservative Roberts helped represent the gay activists as part of his law firm's pro bono work. While he did not write the legal briefs or argue the case before the Supreme Court, he was instrumental in reviewing the filings and preparing oral arguments, according to several lawyers involved in the case.

The coalition won its case, 6-3, in what gay activists described at the time as the movement's most important legal victory. The three dissenting justices were those to whom Roberts is frequently likened for their conservative ideology: Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

Roberts' work on behalf of gay activists, whose cause is anathema to many conservatives, appears to illustrate his allegiance to the credo of the legal profession: to zealously represent the interests of the client, whoever it might be..."

Now, I realize Roberts is antiabortion, but there comes a time when I have to take a stand on my own interests and issues first- especially the gay ones.
While I support a breeder's right to choose, I have no uterus, not to mention I don't engage in pregnancy-making activities because I am gay.
Abortion is not my issue.
Besides, have the heterosexual, female pro-choice contingent ever come out in force to support my gay rights? I think not.
Queers are not their issue.

As such, Roberts has shown effectivity in supporting my gay rights, and because of that, I believe he can be a fair and legitimate justice.
When a large group of pro-choice activists throw their money and support behind equal rights for us non-breeding queers, I may change my mind and reactivate my *aggressive* opposition to these conservative busybodies who oppose a woman's right to choose. But for now, I am going to passively support pro-choice like many of their activists passively support gay rights.

One more upside to Roberts is, the story of his gay legal advocacy came out AFTER the conservatives and their pinheaded leader Bush embraced him as the great white conservative hope.
Now Bush has to face the facts that, as usual, he failed to get a clear understanding of who and what he was endorsing before he threw his support behind Roberts. And the conservatives who lauded Roberts as an excellent nominee also have some gay egg on their faces.
That's too fucking bad.
I say we queers get behind Roberts and urge the legislature to thrust him into joining the Supremes.
With an open minded Justice like Roberts has shown he can be, even the abortion-getting gals might catch a break.
And that's fine by me.
It may not be my issue, but I support their cause and invite them to support mine– a lot more vigorously than they have so far.

If I Were a Pious, Right-wing Christian Lady

If I were one of those gentle, Godly types, I believe I'd be aghast at the way my conservative leaders have stooped to the level of us Democrats and used vulgarity in their social discourse.
Yesterday, their dear media ally Mike Novak said "bullshit," during family hour on CNN.
Vice President Dick told venerated Democratic Senator Leahy to "go fuck himself" in the Senate Chamber.
The president has shot the finger so many times in public, one only need Google, "Bush shooting the finger" and find more than 13,500 references to the assorted occasions he did so.
During the first campaign, on the podium they shared, Bush pointed out a NY Times reporter and said, not knowing the mike was on, "There's that major league asshole," to which Cheney replied, "Big time," earning him the nickname, "Big Time" for life.
The list goes on.
As any good Republican politician or pundit might describe it, these fuckers are some phony ass, self-righteous, faux religious motherfuckers who need to wash out their nasty pie-holes with lye soap.

Leave the swearing to us Democrats, who have plenty of shit to swear about, thanks to you phony GOP bastards.

I'd Keep Him Hidden From the Media, too

Folks, this is a verbatim quote from our postmodernist DoD Secretary Ronald Dumsfeld:

"As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know."

Ask yourself: if you were a small business owner interviewing potential delivery boys or girls and an applicant answered ANY question that way, would you hire him or her?

It's Getting Hot in Here, I'm Gonna Take My Mike Off

Hey Bob Novak!
What's wrong, outing a CIA agent got you a little stressed?
CNN suspended commentator Robert Novak indefinitely after he said "bullshit" and walked off the set Thursday during a debate with Democrat James Carville.
Good.
They need to fire that Allan Funt-lookin' rat bastard.

Dumb and Dumbest

"Rafael Palmeiro is a friend. He testified in public and I believe him. He's the kind of person that's going to stand up in front of the klieg lights and say he didn't use steroids, and I believe him. Still do."
-- Resident George W. Bush

Gee, Palmiero was recently suspended for flunking a steroid drug test.
I guess Al Qaida must have snuck into Palmeiro's mansion one night while he was sleeping and flew a tiny airplane loaded with steroids into his ass.

Okay- with Bush thinking this way, is anyone still wondering whether he's completely stupid?

Bush, Bush, Bush.
You stupid bastard.

Here's the thing.
Bush didn't have the votes in the Senate to confirm John Bolton as our United Nations Ambassador, so he waited till their August break and shoved him down our collective throats.
Bolton was greeted on his first day on the job by a booing sidewalk crowd.
Bush said he had to do it because it's such a crucial time- we are in a war, he said.
We are in a war?
I thought Bush said we had prevailed and the war was over, when he stood on that aircraft carrier so long ago under the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner.
Okay, so now he admits the war is still on. Someone must have mentioned it to him.
So, why on Earth would he appoint a guy who openly hates the UN almost as much as his former colleagues and employees hated him?
With Bush's arrogance and unilateral aggression causing so much hatred of America throughout the world, isn't this sort of a good time to get the concept of "united nations"?
Bush said doesn't read newspapers or pay attention to polls.
Maybe he should.
He apparently has no clue that American news leaks out all over the world, and that 190 other U.N. delegates know that Bush selected to represent our interests a total bully of a prick who hates the very idea of the UN's existence.
Gee, do you think Bolton will suddenly charm his fellow delegates and create a more favorable image of Americans within the UN? Do you think he can force his will on other delegates who knew he was a prick before he even took his seat?
And what does Bush do after he sticks us with Bolton?
He goes back to Crawford for a month long vacation. This is his 50th trip to Crawford in the last five years.
What American president has ever goofed off this much?
Or is he just hiding in a place where the media can't get to him and question him about his secretive, inexperienced nominee for the Supreme Court?
His office said he planned to host many foreign leaders at the "ranch" this month.
Bullshit.
He may host some of his buddies from Saudi Arabia, but you can be damn sure he's not going to be barbecuing for anyone he doesn't already consider a friend. Besides, even if he had a shred of diplomacy, who the hell would want to spend even a weekend in Crawford at the hottest time of the year? Crawford in August is a snake-infested sauna, with nothing to do. The nearest town is notoriously homely Waco, which doesn't even offer decent Tex Mex food.
And where is Cheney? Is he in his secure bunker, hiding too?
Who the hell is running things in Washington? Are we no longer on red/orange/yellow alert of some kind?
Bush just doesn't give a damn.
He doesn't care what we think of him or what he does.
He's the worst president in history, because he just doesn't get it.
And he never will.

How Several UN Ambassadors can communicate with Bush's Back-door Appointee John Bolton

English: Be quiet, you unpopular walrus.
Dutch: Stil ben, u impopulaire walrus.
French: Soyez tranquille, vous des morses inpopulaires.
German: Seien Sie, Sie unpopulärer Walrus ruhig.
Italian: Sia calmo, voi walrus impopolare.
Portuguese: Seja quieto, você walrus unpopular.

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"I think it is all right for one ambassador to come and push, but an ambassador always has to remember that there are 190 others who will have to be convinced - or a vast majority of them - for action to take place."

- KOFI ANNAN, secretary general of the United Nations, on the appointment
of John Bolton by President Bush.

G-Save– Sounds Like G-Spot

The "global war on terrorism" has been downgraded to the "global struggle against violent extremism" (in hip-hop, it's pronounced G-Save).
How clever of the Bushies to give it a hot new name with a cool acronym.
Here's another new acronym for Bush to use in his gibberish speeches:

Further
Understanding &
Cooperative
Knowledge
Uniting
People

or its acronym:
FUCK UP