Political Video Burst #10

John McCain Debates Himself on Supporting Bush

Political Video Burst #9

It's all because of the damn gays!

Political Video Burst #8

Here's what we would be listening to for 4 more years if McCain is elected.

Political Video Burst #7

John McCain said a nasty thing - not for those of you with a sensibility for nasty language.

Political Video Burst #6

Dylan Moran on Arnold Scwarzenegger (Like Totally)

Political Video Burst #5

McCain - a tad confused on oil drilling...

Political Video Burst #4 - Video Link

What if Bill Clinton had made it back to the White House? Musical video sung to the tune of "Welcome Back Kotter." Click Read more below to visit site of the video.

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Political Video Burst #3

McCain's 100 year war...

Political Video Burst #2

Things younger than John McCain...

Political Video Burst #1

McCain a leaves Fox News reporters speechless (running time = 7:34)...

Big-Business or the People?

As a certified liberal with my political beliefs formed in my formative years - a liberal church that taught that the Golden Rule was the most important lesson to be taken from the Bible - and a stint as a young-man facing the draft during the Vietnam War era - I simply do not understand those that put selfish interests and big-business above the needs of people. But those people are out there - forming their political beliefs in some other fashion - believing that ensuring the survival and success of big business at the expense of mankind is of paramount importance.



An article in the Washington Post recently highlights the issues that support for wealth and big business raise...

More than 900 cases alleging that government contractors and drugmakers have defrauded taxpayers out of billions of dollars are languishing in a backlog that has built up over the past decade because the Justice Department cannot keep pace with the surge in charges brought by whistle-blowers, according to lawyers involved in the disputes.

The issue is drawing renewed interest among lawmakers and nonprofit groups because many of the cases involve the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, rising health-care payouts, and privatization of government functions -- all of which offer rich new opportunities to swindle taxpayers.

Political Imagery

Video - Truth About Ronald Reagan

Conservatives view him as one of the greatest Presidents ever - but in truth, many of his judgements were misguided...

Link - 10 Funny Moments On Faux News

This site has posted 10 funny videos of bloopers and mistakes on Fox News. Worth a look if you've got the time...

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Bushism - Who's On First?

Reporter #1: "Mr. President —"

Reporter #2: "Mr. President, you gave me the floor."

Bush: "You're next. No, next to next. Let me rephrase it. You're last."

---George W. Bush March 29, 2001
White House press conference

Video - Identical Cousins

Bush and McSame

Link - Citizenship Test

Could you pass the most recent test for citizenship in the US? A sample test is posted for you to try out. I missed just one.

Here's a sample - the link is below the question...

When was the Constitution written?
1774
1776
1787
1865

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Video - 80 Quotes on Religion and Atheism

Bushism - Here And At Home

"I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the financial centers not only here but at home."

---George W. Bush October 3, 2000
first Presidential Debate in Boston, Massachusetts. The candidate was responding to a question about how he would react to a world-wide financial crisis.

Video - McCain's YouTube Problem

Link - Republicans in Disarray

Republicans are having a hard time getting their act together for the upcoming elections. Will they be able to win as a party if they are all running independently? This could be an interesting November...

From Thehill.com

At least 14 Republican members of Congress have refused to endorse or publicly support Sen. John McCain for president, and more than a dozen others declined to answer whether they back the Arizona senator.

Many of the recalcitrant GOP members declined to detail their reasons for withholding support, but Rep. John Peterson (R-Pa.) expressed major concerns about McCain’s energy policies and Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) cited the Iraq war.

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Video - It Could Happen To You!!

Political Images

It takes a special kind of mind-set - maybe in a mind destroyed by drugs...

I find this interesting - probably posted by some right-wing group - about an organization that fights every day for the right of religious groups to exist. Just not inside our government.

War is a crime -
Cartoons can make a point - but those points are often limited in scope. What's the rest of this story? What initiated the attacks?

I'd love to know Ron Paul's story here - how many illegals actually get SS benefits? Not many, I'd guess - but it's good politicking...

Video - Is President Bush Guilty of Murder?

Link - More on Religion

Frequent readers here know of my disdain for organized religion. I have no problem that people want to believe in these fantasies - but I do get upset when they wish to impose their religious values on the rest of us. In particular I find fault with Christianity (I was raised in the religion so I know more about it). Not only is the Bible based on a fairy tale, but it is a bad fairy tale to boot. Note the following as one of hundreds of good questions from The Sketpic's Annotated Bible...

(1:3-5, 14-19) "Let there be light"God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night, on the first day. Yet he didn't make the light producing objects (the sun and the stars) until the fourth day (1:14-19). And how could there be "the evening and the morning" on the first day if there was no sun to mark them?

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Video - Hillary Vs. Obama

This video is dated now that the primaries are over - but I still thought it was a funny mash-up from Monty Python...

Pious Jerks - Number 2,876,344

I have said it over and over again - too often the religious (and the conservative) hide their criminal behavior behind their statements of piousness. They push some preconceived notions of morality on everyone else while they practice the most perverse sorts of behavior out of the eyes of their constituency. Sometimes I think that guys like this one should get DOUBLE the jail sentence because of the hypocrisy.

THE FLESH WAS WEAK: Yet again, a man has been arrested for soliciting sex with an underage girl, only to find that the object of his lust was an undercover police officer. In this case, police say, Joe Barron, 52, drove his wife's car from Plano, Texas, to Bryan with a box of condoms to meet the "13- year-old" girl after "weeks" of "sexually explicit" chats online and via cell phone. Officers arrested Barron, who immediately broke into tears and "said he was feeling guilt and shame and grief," a Bryan police spokesman said. Barron now faces up to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, and has been asked to resign from his job -- as a minister at the Prestonwood Baptist Church, a "megachurch" in Plano that's so large, its 140-acre campus is known to more profane locals as "Six Flags Over Jesus". After his release on bail, police searched Barron's computer and found he was courting other teens, and arrested him again on six more charges. (Dallas Morning News) ...Pastoral tip No. 641: When trying to "save wayward girls," don't try to save them all for yourself.

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Political Funnies

Sounds like a good joke to me, but then I don't hate her...

I'm glad I'm sitting here in my home and am not underneath that missile...

It takes less effort...

Fear inspires some folks, so this warning system works...

This, of course, makes more sense if you remember the story of Mitt driving down the highway with his dog on the roof of his car...

Link - Obama-Baiting: Fox News' 5 Worst Slurs

Fox News follows the Republican party line, and the newscasters on that network love to trash-talk anyone or anything that does not fit the party-think. Here's a site that points out just some of the slurs that they have forwarded on Barack Obama.

Hateful fear-mongering neo-fascist moron Michelle Malkin—who we thought had given up on Fox after her beef with Geraldo?—popped up the other day to abuse Michelle Obama. The on-screen chyron, inexplicably, referred to the candidate's wife as "Obama's Baby Mama." Because he's black, and that is a term black people use, you see. Because they have so many children out of wedlock... unlike the Obamas....
Really, it makes absolutely no fucking sense. Whatever.

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Video - Bush's Golf Lie

Bushism - He Thinks His Stupidity Is Funny

"And I see Bill Buckley is here tonight-fellow Yale man. We go way back, and we have a lot in common. Bill wrote a book at Yale—I read one."

---George W. Bush October 19,2000
Comments made at the Al Smith Memorial Dinner in New York.

Political Funnies

At some point, campaigners for Hillary were still optimistic...

New candidate - elect the Doctor...


As the primaries began...
Different rules for the wealthy...

Out of the race...

Video - Dawkins: Why Campaign Against Religion?

Link - How Insane is John McCain

A site that asks some important questions, such as "How insane is John McCain" and "Why is Barack Obama questioning his own sanity?"

Barack Obama announced on Monday that running for president completely sucks.

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Bushism - Middle East

"I hope to get a sense of, should I be fortunate enough to be the president, how my administration will react to the Middle East."

---George W. Bush October 12,2000
From comments made in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Political Funnies

Not very flattering...

Desecrating the flag...

Double-time...

Under the weather...

Not such a nice guy...

News - Religious Fanaticism

Blind devotion to religion without thinking can lead to some pretty tragic behaivor. It doesn't seem to matter what the religion is - it is just plain ugly when people don't exercise reason.

From News.com.au...

A BLIND seven-year-old student at an Islamic school in eastern Pakistan has died after his teacher punished him for not learning the Koran, police said today. Muhammad Atif was hung upside down from a ceiling fan and severely beaten by his teacher, Qari Ziauddin, at the seminary or madrassa in Vihari, near Lahore on Thursday, they said.

Happy 4th of July - American Independence Day

The much requested studio recording of The Cactus Cuties singing our National Anthem. The Cactus Cuties, http://thecactuscuties.com, range in age from 8 to 13.

Video - Putin on the Ritz

Bushism - Keeping the Peace

"Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment."

---George W. Bush January 14, 2001
Quoted in the New York Times.

What Our Soldiers are Dying to Protect

The Bush administration proclaims that we are fighting in Iraq to establish Democracy, but what, in fact, are we really fighting for? What type of culture are we really protecting? Read this...

Honor Killing
from The J-Walk Blog

Those crazy Muslims: Honor Killings On Rise in Iraq

At first glance Shawbo Ali Rauf appears to be slumbering on the grass, her pale brown curls framing her face, her summer skirt spread about her. But the awkward position of her limbs and the splattered blood reveal the true horror of the scene. The 19-year-old Iraqi was, according to her father, murdered by her own in-laws, who took her to a picnic area in Dokan and shot her seven times.

Her crime was to have an unknown number on her mobile phone. Her "honor killing" is just one in a grotesque series emerging from Iraq, where activists speak of a "genocide" against women in the name of religion. In the latest such case, it was reported yesterday that a 17-year-old girl, Rand Abdel-Qader, was stabbed to death last month by her father for becoming infatuated with a British soldier serving in southern Iraq.

In Basra alone, police acknowledge that 15 women a month are murdered for breaching Islamic dress codes. Campaigners insist it is a conservative figure. Violence against women is rampant, rising every day with the power of the militias. Beheadings, rapes, beatings, suicides through self-immolation, genital mutilation, trafficking and child abuse masquerading as marriage of girls as young as nine are all on the increase.

Video - Hillary Practices Body Language

Hillary look-alike shows what speech practce might look like.

Political Funnies

Are you sure you know what he stands for?
It was fiction, folks...

He knows how to borrow to pay your debts...

Stupid bureaucrats, part 2,434...

Here's one for a good belly-laugh...

Video: Ben Stein's "Expelled"

Links - Twenty Reasons to Abandon Christianity

Given the impact of Christianity on the American political scene, it is only right to consider its value. What follows is the table of contents for a very well-reasoned set of arguments as to why we should abandon Christianity.

1. Christianity is based on fear
2. Christianity preys on the innocent
3. Christianity is based on dishonesty
4. Christianity is extremely egocentric
5. Christianity breeds arrogance, a chosen-people mentality
6. Christianity breeds authoritarianism
7. Christianity is cruel
8. Christianity is anti-intellectual, anti-scientific
9. Christianity has a morbid, unhealthy preoccupation with sex
10. Christianity produces sexual misery
11. Christianity has an exceedingly narrow, legalistic view of morality
12. Christianity encourages acceptance of real evils while focusing on imaginary evils
13. Christianity depreciates the natural world
14. Christianity models hierarchical, authoritarian organization
15. Christianity sanctions slavery
16. Christianity is misogynistic
17. Christianity is homophobic
18. The Bible is not a reliable guide to Christ's teachings
19. The Bible is riddled with contradictions
20. Christianity borrowed its central myths and ceremonies from other ancient religions