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one middle finger at a time. What a tool.

Of course, this isn’t the first time he’s done it…

DeLay attempts to give his cronies $1.5B, and in such a way that it was never considered by the committee upon whose bill the funds reside.

Amazing, no? Autocratic and evil for sure, but still… nice chutzpah.

He must’ve been using the descramblers to scan hundreds of channels for the real killer.

That doesn’t even sound vaguely familiar. Not. at. all. None of it!

… or bubble people, whichever. In this case, Jessica Simpson (now with photos):

JESSICA SIMPSON wants to know where missing footage of her and husband NICK LACHEY’s harrowing trip to Iraq got to – because she thinks Americans would like to see just how bad conditions are there.

The pop singers-turned-reality TV couple travelled to the war-torn nation to visit US troops as part of a recent ABC TV variety special, and they were both left shellshocked by what they saw.

But all the controversial moments and harrowing footage of the trip didn’t appear in the fun-filled TV show.

Simpson says, “It was unbelievable. They didn’t show a lot of what really went on with the enemy attacks and the shelling. There was so much stuff that went on and somehow the tapes got mysteriously misplaced.

“It put everything in perspective for me. It really did teach me the definition of sacrifice. I can’t even fathom being out there right now. I was ready to come home.”

Why does Jessica Simpson hate America? Last throes, bitches!

side note: I love how Nick is there ready to sign autographs in the pictures. Has a pen in his hand and everything, but you totally know no one went to his table. Loo-hoo-hooozer.

Pretty much what you’d expect – anti-woman, anti-minority, and pro-deceit. All qualifications for getting on Dobson’s good side.

U.S. ice cream sales soar along with temperatures.

Where’s my “no shit, Sherlock” category when I need it?

As a former Boy Scout who attended a couple of Jamborees as a kid over 40 years ago, I was saddened to see that the adult leadership of Achorage Alaska Troop 711 (reverse that number and its my own boyhood troop 117 of Hollsopple, Pennsylvania) were killed while setting up a tent in preparation for this year’s Jamboree. I can’t imagine what the boys in that troop are feeling.

As I observe the BSA from afar these days, I can’t help but feel that they have changed the organization that I knew as a kid. For me it was a fun organization that gave me a chance to go camping, hiking, fishing and hang out with the other kids in the community. We did that God and Country thing but we didn’t over do it. When the adult’s were out of earshot , we told dirty jokes, sang baudy songs and swore like sailors. Nobody asked me or my parents to sign a form that said I believed in God and nobody asked what sort of sexual orientation I had figured out for myself by the age of eleven. If they had cared to asked the right questions back then , they would have discovered that I was a flaming heterosexual, with surging hormones, who masturbated at least twice a day and would have jumped on any little girl scout or brownie that would have given me the chance. I can say with absolute certainty, that in my BSA years from 11 to 14, although I frequently pondered the nature of God, I more frequently pondered the nature and possibilities of heterosexual sex.

If we wanted to get preached at we went to church. We were in the Scouts to have fun. And fun is what we had. Somewhere between the 60′s and today, the Boy Scouts were taken over by right wing nuts. Now you have to affirm that you believe in God to be a Boy Scout or a Scout Leader. Morally staight now means sexually straight. It really is sad to note that these guys caused me to change my charitable giving habits but they have. For all of my working life I was a Fair Share contributor to United Way and a Fair Share Plus giver when it was introduced. After the discrimination by the BSA started, I dropped by Fair Shair Plus contribution and began giving $1.00 to the local United Way which supports the BSA. The total $9,000 of charitable giving that I do each year is now given directly to a few charities, Mobile AIDS Support Services, the American Red Cross, the Boys and Girls Club, The Food Bank, the Homeless Coalition, and the United Methodist Church. The Boy Scouts get about 2 cents from that dollar to United Way. Hope they are getting the message.

I couldn’t help but think when I read about the deaths of the Scout Leaders, that if this had been leaders in a Gay Organization, or a group of Atheists, some asshole like Jerry Falwell, Pat Roberstson or James Kennedy would have already gone on the air to cackle wildly about has this was a judgement from God. There will be no such expressions of recrimination and glee from this quarter. I mourn not only the passing of these Scout leaders but the passing of the Boy Scouts that I once knew. May they rest in peace.

Karl Rove… an adulteror?

As a string of foes from John McCain to Richard Clarke can attest, Karl Rove has never been shy about using personal attacks for political gain. But as the Valerie Plame scandal rages on, the Bush administration’s in-house bulldog may be forced to endure a taste of his own medicine…

For years, political insiders in the Lone Star State have whispered about Rove’s close friendship with lobbyist Karen Johnson, a never-married, forty-something GOP loyalist from Austin, Texas. The two first became close when Johnson sat on the board of then-Governor George W. Bush’s Business Council over a decade ago. Their friendship reportedly deepened after Bush appointed Johnson—a little-known spokesperson for the Texas Good Roads Association—to a seat on his Transportation Department transition team in 2000. The plum appointment enabled Johnson’s lobbying firm, Infrastructure Solutions, to snare such high-paying clients as Aetna and the City of Laredo. Sources say Johnson now frequently travels between Washington D.C. and Austin, where she frequently appears at Rove’s side at parties and unofficial functions.

Although there is no evidence that their relationship is anything but professional, the close association between the married White House aide and the comely lobbyist has long raised eyebrows in conservative Texas circles. Asked about the pair, a prominent political journalist who has written extensively about Rove says, “I’ve heard the stories, but I would never write about Karl and Karen. If you want to keep your job as a reporter in Texas, you make believe you don’t see them together.”

I’m shocked! Stunned! Dismayed! Say it ain’t so! (kos says it’s so) Flabberghasted!

Of course, on the Rove scale, adultery is approximately 17 millionth on the list of things for which he should be kicked in the balls.

Too bad all they did was double the default RAM to 512. The $599 and $699 models now have wireless built in automatically, though.

I’ll try to contain my enthusiasm for this inefficient and deadly boondoggle of a transport vehicle. My hat’s off to the astronauts, but the shuttle itself is bone-stupid.

Two words: space elevator

did we win?

The Bush administration is retooling its slogan for the fight against Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, pushing the idea that the long-term struggle is as much an ideological battle as a military mission, senior administration and military officials said Monday.

In recent speeches and news conferences, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the nation’s senior military officer have spoken of “a global struggle against violent extremism” rather than “the global war on terror,” which had been the catchphrase of choice. Administration officials say that phrase may have outlived its usefulness, because it focused attention solely, and incorrectly, on the military campaign.

Sounds like they want to offer therapy and understanding now, if you ask me.

This may be the funniest thing I’ve seen in years (and for those who really know their obscure trivia shit, no, this is not Hardware Wars).

It’s a bit longish, and it helps if you know Star Wars and think people like the Filthy Critic are funny, but daaaaamn that’s good stuff.

injelitance – the jealousy that the less-than-competent feel for the capable.

The injelitant individual is easily recognizable from the persistence with which he struggles to eject all those abler than himself. He dare not say, ‘Mr. Asterisk is too able,’ so he says, ‘Asterisk? Clever perhaps–but is he sound?’

I get this all the time in my baseball leagues. That’s why they hate me… that and they’re giving me money on a regular basis. Hey, not my fault if they’re thinking is all muddled!

Injelitance. It just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?

In case you’ve forgotten, here’s the story behind the 12 hour heads up message that Gonzalez sent prior to issuing the doc retention order.

As White House counsel, he was the one first notified that the Justice Department, at the request of the C.I.A., had opened an investigation into the outing of Joseph Wilson’s wife. That notification came at 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 29, 2003, but it took Mr. Gonzales 12 more hours to inform the White House staff that it must “preserve all materials” relevant to the investigation. This 12-hour delay, he has said, was sanctioned by the Justice Department, but since the department was then run by John Ashcroft, a Bush loyalist who refused to recuse himself from the Plame case, inquiring Senate Democrats would examine this 12-hour delay as closely as an 18½-minute tape gap.

I should clarify – Gonzales sent the preserve message immediately, but only to Andy Card (White House chief of staff). Then, the all-hands preservation message went out later. Curious, no? Also, a good explanation why Gonzo isn’t up for SCOTUS.