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Actively campaigning for the murder of children - Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, Lance Amrstrong, Charlie Sheen et al

All adding their "celebrity" status to the campaign to murder children. These people are sick, arrogant, ignorant, just plain stupid fucks who are actively campaigning to murder young children and put many others at risk of death from preventable disease.

Now the willful ignorance and stupidity is  spreading to Australia.

2M4M, Teabagging, "rainbow coalition" - will they next have Rick "Santorum" as their spokesperson?

Most people know the most common accepted meanings for the above, but the term "Santorum" was used first in 2003 with a slightly different meaning in addition to Senator Rick Santorum and is not heard that much anymore. Seeing how the right wing religious nutjobs seem to like using sexual or gay innuendos they may start with this next.

ignorexia verbosa

Perfect

The New Mandate

Seems like even some of the hard core Shrub supporters are having second thoughts now with all the DeLay, Cornyn, Frist, Terry Shiavo circus.  Even the master of evil and subterfuge Cheny thinks that DeLay has gone just a bit over the line. This is great. Finally.  (Editor and Publisher via AmericaBlog)

Gallup: Bush Approval Rating Lowest Ever for 2nd-Term Prez at this Point

By E&P Staff

Published: April 05, 2005 11:45 AM ET updated 7:00 PM 
NEW YORK It's not uncommon to hear or read pundits referring to President George W. Bush as a "popular" leader or even a "very popular" one. Even some of his critics in the press refer to him this way. Perhaps they need to check the latest polls.
 
President Bush's approval rating has plunged to the lowest level of any president since World War II at this point in his second term, the Gallup Organization reported today.
 
All other presidents who served a second term had approval ratings well above 50% in the March following their election, Gallup reported.

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Here are the approval ratings for presidents as recorded by Gallup (all for March):
 
Truman, 1949:   57%.
 Eisenhower, 1957:  65%.
 Johnson, 1965:  69%.
 Nixon, 1973:   57%.
 Reagan, 1985:  56%.
 Clinton, 1997:  59% .
 Bush, 2005:  45% .

And more stickers...

Good article in the February Scientific American (link)

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Sticker in Earth Science: "You are free to exercise your First Amendment rights in this class and to identify all stratigraphic layers as being 6,000 years old. We are free to flunk you."
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Sticker in Modern Optics: "CAUTION! Dark ages in mirror may be closer than they appear."

"I don't have to let those assholes speak for me..."

Another excellent commentary on the recent 'donations' by the US. I see we are now up to almost as much as we are going to spend on the inaugural ball. And he's absolutely right, if you're disgusted with our government's response, you don't have to let those assholes speak for you. You may not have a choice about the $200,000,000/day that is spent in Iraq but you do have a choice about $20 or $50.  Please follow the links and help if you can.
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I don’t want to sound like I’m trying to make a political statement here, this isn’t the appropriate place for that kind of thing. This disaster transcends petty politics, no doubt. But, I have to say honestly, I’m effin ashamed of my country. We first pledged 15 million, and then increased it to 40 million. Forty-Million dollars … Sounds like a lot? To put that in perspective, we’re going to spend 40 to 50 million in Washington, DC, in one afternoon, on the Presidential Inauguration. To give our pledge some context, we’re spending about 100 to 200 million dollars a day in Iraq. We spend damn near 40 million for beer, chips, and soft drinks in this country every day.

Our leaders, the leaders of the richest, most prosperous nation on Earth, could have been flown in on Air Force One and other senior executive aircraft to the region in a few hours, check-book in hand, to respectfully represent our sorrow, our grief, and most important, our life-saving generosity. Surely that would have made a better photo-op than a carrier landing. They could have shown the Muslim World and the international community what the America you and I know is really about, and done so in a positive, charitable way. Instead, our White House is on vacation … Godamn, our response so far makes me feel ashamed to be an American. It’s not just poor leadership and poor PR, it’s immoral.

And you know what? I don’t have to put up with that shit. I don’t have to let those assholes speak for me. I just gave 50 dollars to Red Crescent, earmarked to save my brothers lives, and I feel pretty damn good about doing it! I felt so good about it, I gave another fifty for those of you who may be struggling. It’s a few days after Christmas, it would be truthful for me to say that things are a little tighter than usual around DarkSyde Manor. But that’s a cop-out. I can easily afford it. Hell, by not eating fast food at lunch for a month I can afford it. Save lives and avoid fast food for a month? That’s a bargain I can’t pass up. ...(link Pharyngula)

It's embarassing

I see that the US has very slightly increased the amount of aid for the tsunami relief efforts, but it's still embarrassingly small.  Why do they hate us? ...

...And we spend something like $5.8 billion per month in Iraq.  Read it again, and compare.  $15 million total for disaster aid and something on the order of $200 million per day in Iraq.... (link)

Happy Holidays

Guradian
Economist.com
Wired
Reuters
Yahoo graph
Great headline on Slate The treasury secretary believes in a strong dollar. He also believes in Santa Claus.

Of course we don't let cheery news like this dampen our fun - ....

As others see us...

Excerpts from several excellent articles in The Guardian. Also an interesting approach in freeing the world from the evil thuggery of the Bush regime. They are facilitating an e-mail letter writing campaign. The reader can obtain the e-mail address of of a registered voter in Clark County Ohio - a very teetering swing county in a swing state. They are then to send an e-mail discussing their view of how George Bush affects others in the world. The e-mail address they obtain is from a registered voter; they could be either pro or anti Bush.

Operation Clark County
The result of the American election in less than three weeks could have huge consequences for the whole world. Yet those of us outside the 50 states have had no say in it. Until now, that is....
A few tips about writing to Clark County:
Be courteous. Remember that it's unusual to receive a lobbying letter from someone in another country. Think about how you would respond if you received a letter from Ohio urging you to vote for Tony Blair - or Michael Howard...

Dear Clark County voter, Give us back the America we loved. Yours sincerely, John Le Carré

Three prominent Britons hit the campaign trail
...Probably no American president in all history has been so universally hated abroad as George W Bush: for his bullying unilateralism, his dismissal of international treaties, his reckless indifference to the aspirations of other nations and cultures, his contempt for institutions of world government, and above all for misusing the cause of anti-terrorism in order to unleash an illegal war - and now anarchy - upon a country that like too many others around the world was suffering under a hideous dictatorship, but had no hand in 9/11, no weapons of mass destruction, and no record of terrorism except as an ally of the US in a dirty war against Iran....John Le Carré

...When you vote - and please do vote by the way, even if you disagree with everything I am about to say - that vote will have as much effect on my future and the much longer future of my children and grandchildren, as it will on your own. For this is a crucial election, the most crucial, I believe, of my lifetime (and I first voted in 1955!).

First of all, if you back Kerry, you will be voting against a savage militaristic foreign policy of pre-emptive killing which has stained the great name of the US so hideously in recent times. A policy that Bush and his gang are set to continue - if they get the opportunity....Antonia Fraser

...In the service of his long-planned war (with its catastrophically unplanned aftermath), Bush not only lied about Iraq being the "enemy" who had attacked the twin towers. With the connivance of the toadying Tony Blair and the spineless Colin Powell, he lied to Congress and the world about weapons of mass destruction. He is now brazenly lying to the American electorate about how "well" things are going under the puppet government. By comparison with this cynical mendacity, the worst that can be said about John Kerry is that he sometimes changes his mind. Well, wouldn't you change your mind if you discovered that the major premise on which you had been persuaded to vote for war was a big fat lie?...Richard Dawkins

'The Case Against Bush'

An excellent but long post making the case against Bush. Not difficult to do on many fronts but this post goes a long ways to discuss the points and the decisions which led to many of the present situations. Also, and something I like when I read are lots and lots of hyperlinks to read the original articles and educate onself about many of the points. I don't like to just read someones thoughts or ideas on something. This post presents the case and hyperlinks to the evidence. A here's what I think and here's why.

Well worth the time and something that can be read through and then gone back to for more researched reading. He has a sort of mini - table of contents which is a short list of hyperlinks to major sections. I read through the post and followed some of the links which always leads me to going to other links, and then other links, and then, oh yeah, where was I.

Anyway, well worth spending time on this. Even if you are pro-Bush you might enjoy reading a post that is not pro-Bush, an anti-Bush post backed by facts and reasoning and one that is not just an ABBB rant. Well, probably not really, if you're pro-Bush you probably wouldn't be here:-)

The Case Against Bush...I try to stay as nonpartisan as possible on this blog, and it's generally not too hard, as I strongly dislike our plurality two-party system, partially because I'm a moderate libertarian who's roughly equidistant from both parties ideologically. So I'm not really joking when I say that I plan to vote for Tyler Cowen, even though he's not actually running (although honestly, I haven't yet ruled out Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik either). But that's mostly because California is not a swing state. If I did live in a swing state, I wouldn't vote for a third party candidate. Unlike 2000, it's already clear that John Kerry and George W. Bush are very, very far apart, and I think it's pretty clear which one is better qualified to lead...( fling93 loves fishes)

And if there was ever any doubt as to the difference between those who live in large cities, are informed and deal with many socio-economic groups, thoughts and ideas and not just those in a small rural surrounding, take a look at a county by county red/blue coloring of swing state voting in the 2000 election. link The New York Times.