The House Reps show true colors - shocker, not!

Per a Nate Silver post on his fantastic website (www.fivethirtyeight.com): "Stimulus Passes House With NO Republican Support -- Zip, Zilch, Nada"

So, all that bullshit Boner...errr...Boehner was smoking about contraceptives...I think the Obama Administration needs to send a message next time that either play ball or don't because we can shove whatever we want down your throat.

The House Republicans got some concessions, and what did Obama get for his trouble...Jack Squat. Well...fuck them!

Oxycontin Rush should be beaming

Apparently, fat-fuck, Oxycontin-addicted, Limberger is whining like a little bitch about this stimulus plan. He's whining that a 40% of the tax cut is going to those who pay no taxes, usually referred to as "the poor."

But, Rush should actually be happy about this. I don't know a lot of poor people myself, but I am willing to venture a hearty bet that most of these people DON'T VOTE!

So, his whining about the Democrats trying to establish long-term power with this supposed "hand-out," is a bit dumb.

Moreover, the Republicans take revel in stopping poor people (those who typically don't have all their documents in order) at poll places across all parts of this country.

Finally, all those middle-class people who are losing their houses probably won't be eligible for this tax-cut this time around, and when poor people start a cashin' their checks...the middle-class will be upset, and they may send a message in 2010.

So, settle down there fat boy. You may come out ahead in this one in the end.

The SC at it again

The whacko-right-wing Supreme Court is at their old tricks again. They have peeled another layer of rights of US citizens.

The whole "unreasonable search and seizure" thing found in the Constitution?...apparently, it no longer applies. Even at a routine traffic stop.

"The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police officers have leeway to frisk a passenger in a car stopped for a traffic violation even if nothing indicates the passenger has committed a crime or is about to do so."

Another step down the wrong path by the Court. Whatever you do ya'll...don't look shifty when stopped by police at a traffic stop. This has racial-profiling written all over it.

Free - at last

Let the Obama Administration begin!

Nearing the 12th hour

As we slowly move towards 12 hour until Obama takes the oath of office and becomes the next President of the United State...all extremities are getting tingly.

Gonna be a tough night to go to sleep...

Dubya's last hurrah

It has taken me a while to lift my jaw from sheer disgust and awe at the man after his Thursday night address.

The only reaction I have, is that whatever drug he had before he delivered the first 7 minutes of that address...I WANT some of that!!! Because, that dude was smoking some SERIOUS hallucinogens to be able to deliver that speech with a straight face.

An Easy Call - The S. Court beat

The Court agreed yesterday to hear two cases against public schools. One I am focusing on here concerns the case of one Ms. Savana Redding.

At the time, Savana (an honor roll student) was a 13 year old attending a public middle school. Another student in the school was "busted" for having ibuprofen pills and said she had gotten them from Savana.

First of all, as a student who routinely kept Tylenol on his person at school...I think students of a certain age should be able to carry such pills. But, let's move onward...

The story in yesterdays NYT doesn't say if the school asked more than one student if Savana had such pills, they seemingly took it at the word of this one student who was "busted."

Ok, not a great policy in my view, but fine. However, this is where the school dun lost their mind and their decency.

Quoted from the article, "School officials searched Savana’s belongings, made her strip to her bra and underwear, and ordered her, in the words of an appeals court, “to pull her bra out to the side and shake it” and “pull out her underwear at the crotch and shake it.” No pills were found."

Game. Set. Match. - Case Closed. The school loses this case.

There's no mention of them searching her locker before, this either, but even if they had...and even if the Assistant Principal was a woman (I'm inclined to believe it was NOT), there is a line to be drawn...and this "search" goes WELL beyond that line.

Finally, an important note. The original courts' "trial judge dismissed the parent’s case against the school officials, ruling that they were immune from suit. After a divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed that decision..."

School officials are immune from suit eh? Really? I don't think so. If this official had not only made her strip, but then raped her, I think he'd/she'd be highly suit-able. As a public school worker and supporter, even I recognize/believe we are not immune from being suited. This is why some of us buy professional insurance, in case we do get suited for some reason.

As Seen...

...at a local store. I had to take a picture because it is just SO appallingly pathetic that companies are making money off this.

Not that I am surprised...hell, Dubya made a Residency out of pimping/whoring 9/11, and so did some companies...but...this is truly one ugly side of American capitalism.

A further attack on Gov. Richardson

One thing I will never understand is why people in such power give their power away so cheaply.

Consider the Gov. Richardson example. The people he allegedly was involved in pay-to-play with contributed at least $110,000 to three political committees formed by the Governor.

Quick math says somewhere around $330,000, but let's be generous to Richardson and assume he actually got $500,000.

So, he got a cool half-mill. Yet, New Mexico state documents show these people were paid a total of $1.48 million in 2004 and 2005 for its work on a transportation program.

Shouldn't Richardson have been wondering where the extra million is at? I can understand why Congresspeople only get a few hundred thousand for their vote, because Company X has to buy several votes. But, in this case, the Governor usually holds supreme power to award these lucrative state contracts (which I'd venture have a history of going over-budget to being with) to whomever he/she chooses.

If your gonna play the game, at least play it well Governor. Pathetic.

Facts are a killah - Rolland Burris, I support thee

Fact 1: Blago is still, as of this moment, the Governor of Illinois.

Fact 2: Obama, left his Illinois Senate seat vacant upon election to The Presidency of the United States of America.

Fact 3: According to current Illinois statute, the current, sitting Governor has full right to fill that vacant Senate seat with whomever he or she chooses (as his/her discretion).

Fact 4: Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) is a colossal douche bag.

Strike that, that's not a fact, that's my opinion...my bad.

Fact 4: Gov. Blago has chosen Roland Burris to fill that vacated Senate seat.

Fact 5: Despite Constitutional Law experts haggling about, there is NO precedent for the Senate not seating an appointee who is living, breathing, and coherent. (Hell, Strom Thurmond was a Senator for goodness sakes!)

PesudoFact 1: Reid made some snarky comment today that, "the Senate chooses who is seated in the Senate." What a cocky, pompous, jackass. That is so wrong it's not even funny. The voters chose who gets seated you dumb-fuck. In place of said voters, was a legally appointed man in one Roland Burris.

I fully support Burris, and I encourage him to take his case ALL the way to the United States Supreme Court if necessary, and wipe Harry Reid's nose in the dog shit he eats for lunch daily.

Leon, Leon, Leon

When my ears, check that, eyes first saw the headline that Obama had tapped Leon Panetta to be the new head of the C-I-A, I shook my proverbial head because I wasn't particularly impressed by this development.

"He has no intelligence experience!", I thought to myself, fairly sure I was correct. I was.

However, after 3 hours of pondering this pick by Obama, I am willing to give this a shot.

At least, I realized, he has run a White House. So, there's some solid experience running something that could be considered a weighty organization (although, did he run it well, or was that doomed to be the way it was because of Pres. Clinton's working style?). I seem to remember the Oval Office being a bit of a mess early on in the Clinton era, although it never got better, which may say more about the occupant in reality.

Furthermore, the intelligencia doesn't like the choice, which may be a great reason to actually like it.

I do not know what other names Obama was considering for the post, but I am cautiously endorsing this choice. I hope Leon proves he is more than equal to the task.

Frank Rich - Sunday Times

In one small graft, Frank Rich nails what I essentially feel about the merciful ending of the Dubya dipticks..."You start to pity him (Bush) until you remember how vast the wreckage is. It stretches from the Middle East to Wall Street to Main Street and even into the heavens, which have been a safe haven for toxins under his passive stewardship. The discrepancy between the grandeur of the failure and the stature of the man is a puzzlement. We are still trying to compute it."

I have no sympathy for Dubya, I feel nothing but contempt for the man. Jimmy Carter was a dearth of a Presidency, but his looks crystal gold in comparison.

The lack of action, other than sheer partisanship, by this outgoing administration is epic. Epically bad.

The Senate Dems

The one time Sen. Harry Reid has a backbone and I wish he didn't...oy.

The Senate Dems need to go ahead and seat the Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich pick, as he has trumped them with his race card. It's dirty, nasty, cynical politics to do what Blago did...however, do the Senate Dems REALLY want to be the group standing in the way of a black man getting to the Senate?...really?

Harry needs to lose his backbone again and get out his thinking stick, because this is no doubt, a slam-dunk. Seat Burris, scrub your hands clean by saying you were bound by the laws of the land, and move on. We have bigger fish to fry.

Bill Richardson is a big, fat fuck

This is EXACTLY why you FULLY vet people when considering them for the VP nod. It appears Obama has dodged a few bullets here by staying away from Edwards and now Richardson.

It's likely Bill will be found guilty of nothing tremendously serious, but his withdrawal as Commerce Sec. is warranted.

ENOUGH with this crap. No more bad press is needed. Obama needs all the good news he can get right now considering he is inheriting a shitty economy, and a totally FUBAR foreign policy thanks to Dubya and his dorks.

Shame on you Bill for taking this post when you had to know you had stink on you.