So, after we reclaim our nation from the rethuglicans...

...can we then work on purging the fucking cops?

I sure hope so.

The rate at which people are being Tasered (and die from it) is on a steady climb (freakin' 5 people died in January alone). Here are some videos for your viewing displeasure.

There's no doubt in my mind (though I'm not sure how to go about proving the correlation) that a lawless administration has only exacerbated the problem with a police force that has always been a largely corrupt element of society.

Where is the outrage? Are people still too busy with the TERRA TERRA TERRA calls from Preznit Fucknuts. I don't think so. Maybe 25% of the population is still stupid enough to give a shit about what comes out of that asshole's mouth any more. What's wrong with the rest of us?


UPDATE: more from the Dark Wraith. Now we throw paraplegics out of their wheelchairs and onto the floor. You know, just because.

Oh, Emmitt. Oh, Dreamboat.

OK, that was the best non-Steeler Super Bowl ever.

Overall, the ads were weak. I liked the FedEx carrier pigeons, the e*trade baby, and a couple others.

As enjoyable as it was to see the Cheating Fucking Patriots go down, I realize I have to take the bad with the good. And the bad is, I still have to put up with Shula, Buoniconti, and Mercury Fucking Morris until they're stone cold dead. And I hate that. So I can only hope that they just die and go away soon.

Emmit Smith just told me that the Patriots offense was "debacled." I shit you not. "Their defense did a good job, but their offense was... debacled." No, really, KSK wasn't kidding when they wrote this post and this post. He's speaking again, and I still have no fucking idea what he's talking about. He's a savant of some sort.

And how did I forget: Bill Simmons' next article will be the best ever. I can't wait. I really can't wait.

Gubmint!!!

A beautiful example of Republican incompetence:

A old friend of my just deployed to Iraq. His unit will be carrying out a mission that involves psychological operations. Guess how many Arabic speakers are in the unit? None. Guess how many weeks of training they received on Iraq, Islam, and Arabic cultural sensitivities? NONE!! But we want these soldiers to go into a foreign combat theater and help shape the hearts and minds of a foreign people. This, in a nutshell, highlights why we are making so little progress in Iraq.

Awesome.


(h/t Americablog)

This can't be for real...

A letter to the editor:

Stunned by play's content

To the editor -- My husband wanted to surprise me with tickets to see a Broadway musical, The Producers," at the Capitol Theatre on Nov. 17. We were both very surprised.

We saw producers, assistants and others endeavoring to produce a play. They were hoping to have a flop, close it down and pick up the remaining finances.

Eventually, after enlisting other people and groups, they did succeed in producing a successful musical called "Springtime for Hitler."

We saw the SS troops with swastika armbands, German soldiers in uniforms and even Hitler sang and danced.

Our President Roosevelt appeared on stage in his wheelchair -- Hitler pushed him off the stage.

Sunday morning I awoke and was sure it had all been a dream. No! That really happened at the Capitol Theatre in Yakima in the United States of America.

A tribute to a monster responsible for millions of deaths.

AUDREY JESKEY
Prosser

(h/t The General.)

Redacting freedom

Just astounding (emphasis mine):

Anybody who has read many official documents—including those making headlines in the last year or more—has seen plenty of redactions (those portions that are blacked out or otherwise made unreadable). This, we're told, is for legitimate reasons, such as "national security" or "protecting intelligence sources and methods." But now we have absolute, incontrovertible proof that the government also censors completely innocuous material simply because they don't like it.

The Justice Department tipped its hand in its ongoing legal war with the ACLU over the Patriot Act. Because the matter is so sensitive, the Justice Dept is allowed to black out those passages in the ACLU's court filings that it feels should not be publicly released.

Ostensibly, they would use their powers of censorship only to remove material that truly could jeopardize US operations. But in reality, what did they do? They blacked out a quotation from a Supreme Court decision:

"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect 'domestic security.' Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent."

The mind reels at such a blatant abuse of power (and at the sheer chutzpah of using national security as an excuse to censor a quotation about using national security as an excuse to stifle dissent).

It's hard to imagine a more public, open document than a decision written by the Supreme Court. It is incontestably public property: widely reprinted online and on paper; poured over by generations of judges, attorneys, prosecutors, and law students; quoted for centuries to come in court cases and political essays.

Yet the Justice Department had the incomprehensible arrogance and gall to strip this quotation from a court document, as if it represented a grave threat to the republic. Luckily, the court slapped down this redaction and several others. If it hadn't, we would've been left with the impression that this was a legitimate redaction, that whatever was underneath the thick black ink was something so incredibly sensitive and damaging that it must be kept from our eyes.

I just can't grasp what goes on in the minds of these people (besides the obvious snarky answer "very little"). The only possible explanation is that everyone in the GOP machine just assumes they will always be in power and will always be above the law. That way, every action they take to tear down our constitution and our system of government only applies to everyone else.

The day of reckoning can't come soon enough.

A colossal level of incompetence? Or just pure evil?

Ho. Ly. Crap.

(emphasis mine)

This summer the House Judiciary Committee launched an effort to collect tips from would-be whistleblowers in the Justice Department. The U.S. attorney firings scandal had shown that much was amiss in the Department, and with the danger of retaliation very real, the committee had set up a form on the committee's website for people to blow the whistle privately about abuses there. Although the panel said it would not accept anonymous tips, it assured those who came forward that their identity would be held in the "strictest confidence."

But in an email sent out today, the committee inadvertently sent the email addresses of all the would-be whistleblowers to everyone who had written in to the tipline. The committee email was sent to tipsters who had used the website form, including presumably whistleblowers themselves, and all of the recipients of the email were accidentally included in the "to:" field -- instead of concealing those addresses with a so-called blind carbon copy or "bcc:".

...

It's not immediately clear whether the mistake will lead to the exposure of those who had contacted the committee. There are more than 150 recipient addresses revealed in the email. Some of the email addresses appear to be transparently fake, but there's also, much more troubling, a vice_president@whitehouse.gov carbon copied on the email, which is the public email address for Vice President Dick Cheney. In other words, an email containing the email addresses of all the whistleblowers who had written in to the committee tipline was sent to public email address of Vice President Cheney.

Just staggering. Now, I'm sure most whistleblowers are sufficiently suspicious of these administration fuckwads that they created random new e-mail addresses @yahoo and @gmail to send in "anonymous" complaints.

But out of 150 e-mail addys? I'm sure 10-20 of them are easily traceable to administration workers.

I smell lawsuits. I can only imagine (no, dream about) something like this going to trial? Discovery would be fun! Never happen, I know.

Perfect for your Xmas shopping at WalMart

(via Gizmodo)

Here you go, morons

When I see a headline like this:
Angelina Jolie Nude Photo Hoax Causes 80% Of Computer Viruses

My only option is to do this:


Now, stop clicking on those bullshit e-mails, you fucking idiots. We all suffer, especially when they're bots.

Oops!

Yes, its was just an accident. Always an accident.

Americans, we are fucked.

GOP voters, it's your fault. So go fuck yourselves. You deserve your places in the hell in which you morons believe. You have destroyed this once-great nation. You are not Americans. You no longer deserve that title.

Your Preznit is a fucking moron.

*headdesk*

In case you aren't following "Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader Tryouts" on CMT...

...our vice-president is someone named Candi Rice.

The Wife adds: "Even they have standards. She got cut."

And no, I'm not partaking in this particular TV delight. I'm in the basement watching the Yankees.

In The Wife's defense, it's been a veeeeery long week. And "Big Fat Greek Wedding" was in commercial break. So, she has that going for her...

How convenient

Katrina allowed the government to evict New Orleans blacks from public housing, even the buildings that survived the storms.

Among the miles and miles of devastated houses, rubble still there today in New Orleans, we found dry, beautiful homes. But their residents were told by guys dressed like Ninjas wearing “Blackwater” badges: “Try to go into your home and we’ll arrest you.”

These aren’t just any homes. They are the public housing projects of the city; the Lafitte Houses and others. But unlike the cinder block monsters in the Bronx, these public units are beautiful townhouses, with wrought-iron porches and gardens right next to the tony French Quarter.

Raised up on high ground, with floors and walls of concrete, they were some of the only houses left salvageable after the Katrina flood.Yet, two years later, there’s still bars on the windows, the doors are welded shut and the residents banned from returning.

What are the odds that those apartments become upscale condos?

Or, to quote someone more eloquent:

They wanted them poor niggers out of there and they ain’t had no intention to allow it to be reopened to no poor niggers, you know? And that’s just the bottom line.

(h/t litbrit. Thanks, I think. Now my head hurts even more.)

Tucker Carlson - Homophobic troglodyte douchebag

And totally pleased with his gay-bashing self.

No, really.

He's bragging about going to get a friend to rough up a guy who made a pass at him.

More on domestic spying

H/T oddjob, more on using satellites on Americans.

And the sheeple say nothing...

Because the sheeple are afraid of the giant Muslim uprising!!!

Fucking Bush voters...

Hey ladies!

You know already that your appearance is never good enough. You've been told that since childhood, and see it on TV and in magazines 1000 times a day.

So why don't you get a surgically implanted bra, and fix those saggy things already?!