As far as burning down the last forests, clear-cutting the last grouping of trees, making pristine land uninhabitable even by man… LET THEM HAVE IT!

They’re going to get it anyways. Spoiled, three-year-old, crybabies usually get what the fuck they want. Having fifty-million dollars in the bank just isn’t enough. They have to have more!

Just as the religious crowd won’t stop needling and needling until they have complete control of your personal life, the wealthy and power crazed won’t be happy until every single dollar is in their pocket and all natural resources are drained of their treasures. And until we elect a government for the people, we might as well raise our hands and surrender.

Bush to lift executive ban on offshore drilling

WASHINGTON - In another push to deal with soaring gas prices, President Bush on Monday will lift an executive ban on offshore drilling that h[a]s stood since his father was president. But the move, by itself, will do nothing unless Congress acts as well.

The president plans to officially lift the ban and then explain his actions in a Rose Garden statement, White House press secretary Dana Perino said. [...]

But Perino said Bush no longer wants to wait. She pinned blame on the leaders of the Democratic Congress, noting that no action has been taken on this issue.

“They haven’t even held a single hearing,” Perino said. “So we are going to move forward, and hopefully that will spur action by the Congress.”

Asked if Bush’s action alone will lead to more oil drilling, Perino said, “In terms of allowing more exploration to go forward? No, it does not.”

PS: Would someone please shove an oil derrick up Dana Perino’s ASS already.

If Obama did distort the Bible, he did so for a couple of hours. He didn’t spend a lifetime doing it, such as you have, Mr. Dobson. And Obama certainly hasn’t profited from it, such as you have, Mr. Dobson. And I don’t care what Obama had to say to rile you, Mr. Dobson. The one thing I am sure of; Barack could never distort the Bible to any level or degree as you have. As a member of the clergy, you both embarrass and sicken me, Mr. Dobson. As do your loyal followers.

Is this really what has you upset, Mr. Dobson? Or is it the prospect of losing access to the White House for twelve or so years that has your panties in a wad? I bet that’s it, isn’t it?

James Dobson accuses Obama of `distorting’ Bible

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement’s biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a “fruitcake interpretation” of the Constitution.

The criticism, to be aired Tuesday on Dobson’s Focus on the Family radio program, comes shortly after an Obama aide suggested a meeting at the organization’s headquarters here, said Tom Minnery, senior vice president for government and public policy at Focus on the Family.

I accuse you, Kevin James Dobson, of distorting the Constitution and pushing a “fruitcake interpretation” of the Bible.

I love these smackdowns. Duncan Hunter gets smacked down on C-Span by a caller.

I also love CSpanjunkie at Youtube for all the great videos!!

They disfranchised voters in Florida in 2000, and now they’re doing it in Indiana. I am so fed up with the fucking republican party.

Are you fucks so hard up for control that you will lie, cheat and steal your way to the top? You have no qualms about stepping on other people to get what you want, do you? And you fucks claim some moral high ground. You keep fellow Americans from voting and you call yourselves Americans. You fucks are NOT Americans. You have no clue what being American is.

Not one good reason to call for voter ID’s except to knock people out of voting. You republican fucks don’t deserve the air you breathe..

About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ because they didn’t have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.

Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away her fellow sisters at Saint Mary’s Convent in South Bend, across the street from the University of Notre Dame, because they had been told earlier that they would need such an ID to vote.

The nuns, all in their 80s or 90s, didn’t get one but came to the precinct anyway.

“One came down this morning, and she was 98, and she said, ‘I don’t want to go do that,’” Sister McGuire said. Some showed up with outdated passports. None of them drives.

They weren’t given provisional ballots because it would be impossible to get them to a motor vehicle branch and back in the 10-day time frame allotted by the law, Sister McGuire said. “You have to remember that some of these ladies don’t walk well. They’re in wheelchairs or on walkers or electric carts.”

This rant might possibly hurt a few republican feelings. Or maybe not. After all, you fucks did get what you wanted, didn’t you?

The U.S. military, along with Bush officials, keep stating they have “proof” of Iranian involvement in training and supplying weapons to Iraqi Shiite militants. Now let’s throw in Lebanese Hezbollah, too. Thus far, no proof has been given and al-Maliki says he’ll look for it. So yesterday the U.S. comes up with some proof. Guess how they got it? More torture, no doubt. I’m not saying the Iranians are pure as the driven snow…..I’m just saying torture doesn’t amount to proof.

From UPI:

“We have multiple detainees who state Lebanese Hezbollah are providing training to Iraqis in Iranian IRGC-QF training camps near Tehran,” Bacon said.

What does it say about religion when it is forced upon people? Does one really “believe in their maker” or have “faith”, if they’re under a constant threat of retaliation of some sort?

What does it say about our military, an organization created to protect our “separation of church and state” country, that refuses to practice the same laws of the land?

Is religion so fragile that, without the threat of personal harm on people, it would crumble and whither away? Is faith really faith if a gun is pointed at the back of your head?

Fort Riley atheist soldier speaks out on lawsuit

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — Like hundreds of young men joining the Army in recent years, Jeremy Hall professes a desire to serve his country while it fights terrorism.

But the short and soft’spoken specialist is at the center of a legal controversy. He has filed a lawsuit alleging he’s been harassed and his constitutional rights have been violated because he doesn’t believe in God. The suit names Defense Secretary Robert Gates. [...]

Hall was in Qatar when the lawsuit was filed on Sept. 18 in federal court in Kansas City, Kan. Other soldiers learned of it and he feared for his own safety. Once, Hall said, a group of soldiers followed him, harassing him, but no one did anything to make it stop.

The Army told him it couldn’t protect him and sent him back to Fort Riley. He resumed duties with a military police battalion. He believes his promotion to sergeant has been blocked because of his lawsuit, but he is a team leader responsible for two junior enlisted soldiers. [...]

“I hope this doesn’t define me,” Hall said of his lawsuit. “It’s just about time somebody said something.”

Waxman: RNC… “has no intention of trying to restore the missing White House e-mails.”

GOP Halts Effort to Retrieve White House E-Mails

After promising last year to search its computers for tens of thousands of e-mails sent by White House officials, the Republican National Committee has informed a House committee that it no longer plans to retrieve the communications by restoring computer backup tapes, the panel’s chairman said yesterday.

The move increases the likelihood that an untold number of RNC e-mails dealing with official White House business during the first term of the Bush administration — including many sent or received by former presidential adviser Karl Rove — will never be recovered, said House Democrats and public records advocates.

A bunch of republicans lied. Let’s all put on our “big surprise!” face.

How does the U.S. stack up against other countries in high’speed internet? Not very well, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The inventory wouldn’t cover other countries, but a cursory look shows the U.S. lagging behind at least some of them. In South Korea, for instance, the average apartment can get an Internet connection that’s 15 times faster than a typical U.S. connection. In Paris, a “triple play” of TV, phone and broadband service costs less than half of what it does in the U.S.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development - a 30-member club of nations - compiles the most often cited international comparison. It puts the U.S. at 15th place for broadband lines per person in 2006, down from No. 4 in 2001.

The article points out that the OECD is often vigorously attacked by anti-regulation think tanks. What the hell is an anti-regulation think tank anyway? How does one become a member of one of these? WHY would anyone want to? Do these people not have anything better to do with their time?

War, disease and poverty abounds. Thank God for the anti-regulation think tank!

The long awaited September Iraq Report dog and pony show is over. Well, almost. The horse’s ass will tell us tonight that he will adopt Petraeus recommendations. Why wouldn’t he? They are his own recommendations. Funny how he made this decision in about 2 minutes after Petraeus had finished giving his report to congress. Like he didn’t know months ago what that report would say or what his response would be. Again Petraeus gives a rosey outlook to what will happen in Iraq. Congress (the dog part of this show) put up a good front in the questioning of Petraeus and Crocker. Even some Republicans acted like they have had enough. Now tonight the horse’s ass will, no doubt, ask for billions more to fund this nightmare, and congress will, no doubt, put on another dog and pony show, tell us how they don’t have the votes to end the war (which is total bullshit) and then give him the money. We’ll be informed that they are going to draw down troops. Wooptyfuckindoo. The batallion that is coming home next month was due to come home next month anyway. The withdrawal of the remaining troops in this reduction will just bring troop levels back to “pre’surge” level by next summer. The remaining troops mission wil remain the same. And we’re right back where we started from. And now they’ve pranced Condi out there today to say she’s going to press for peace discussions in the Middle East, and that we’re at the beginning of a LONG process in Iraq. Realllly? Where the fuck have you been for the past 4 years? Just asking….. I’m disgusted.
Really disgusted.

From Think Progress:

In the latest twist to the ongoing saga over the Petraeus White House report, a senior military official tells the Washington Times today that there will actually be no report at all:

A senior military officer said there will be no written presentation to the president on security and stability in Iraq. “There is no report. It is an assessment provided by them by testimony,” the officer said.

The only hard copy will be Gen. Petraeus- opening statement to Congress, scheduled for Monday, along with any charts he will use in explaining the results of the troop surge in Baghdad over the past several months.

To recap, first the public was incorrectly led to believe that Gen. David Petraeus would issue his own report about the situation on the ground in Iraq. Then the Los Angeles Times reported that the so-called “Petraeus report” would “actually be written by the White House.”

Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) then suggested the White House would probably “tweak” the “Petraeus report.” In an effort to put the controversy to rest, Gen. David Petraeus assured lawmakers that the White House was not going to be involved in the “writing” of the report:

Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.), told reporters Thursday that Petraeus said he and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker had briefed the administration on the situation in Iraq, but added that “as far as [Petraeus] is concerned … he is writing his recommendations of that report and testimony.”

Now, apparently there will be no written report from Gen. Petraeus at all. While Petraeus- statement to Congress will be made available, the public will not know what information he is providing to President Bush. The lack of transparency over Petraeus- “report” will only intensify the high level of skepticism surrounding his statistics.