In honor of Rep. Brown

I link to her words after the censuring of her words. She's not backing down.  She's a hero.  Good for her.
 
She should have added at the end that we need outside observers lest we become a banana republic.  The election was stolen, the Constitution has been trampled, and idiot and his Dick run the country, so I think any such warning would be too late.
 
And I have to ask: where are the other Democrats in the House and Senate?  Are they just leaving her out there, a lone voice fighting injustice?  They need to rally around her and show that, like Rep. Brown, they've got a pair.  But don't hold your breath.

The Wind Beneath My Wings

Congresswoman Corinne Brown, don't you know that you're my hero?  I'm sure there are plenty of instances of Republican congressmen accusing their Democrat colleagues of various crimes, but it's, of course, completely different because we all know Republicans are "true Americans." 
 
Kudos to Rep. Brown for standing up, speaking the truth, and showing some backbone.  More Democrats need to do this and not give a flying fuck about the consequences.  Rep. Brown should've said to asshole Rep. Buyer, in the most politest of ways, to "go fuck yourself," as what Republican VPs apparently tell Democrat senators in the Senate.
 
And what's a sidenote to this is what caused it.  The Congress voted against allowing the UN to observe the election, setting up an opportunity for another theft.  Who are the 33 cowardly Democrats who voted for this?  Notice all 210 Republicans voted for this.  Too bad we can't have such lockstep unity instead of outbreaks of cowardice.

Economic recovery, my ass

Is it just me or does it seem like all the economic news these days isn't good?  Where's the fucking recovery that the President and every asshole Republican and cable tv and talk show pundit says we're in?  It seems like unemployment claims are unexpectedly up, this index or that one dropped or rose unexpectedly (dropping and rising being bad).  I'm no economist and perhaps I'm wrong here.  I've got no facts here, admittedly--this is just my overall impression of what's going on.
 
Let's see.  Since March 2001, when the first tax cuts were passed, we've been promised a recovery that's just around the corner.  March 2001, for fuck's sakes.  It's July 2004.  Corporations got billions upon billions of tax relief there and in successive tax breaks.  Remember, this is what the "grownups" tell us: tax cuts for corporations allows them to expand their businesses and create new jobs; yes, there will initially be deficits because of the decline in tax revenue, however, the taxes from the new jobs created will make up for this lost revenue.
 
Sure, we've gotten little spurts of growth here and there, and it hasn't been a complete disaster.  But does anyone see a boom coming?  Is anything we're getting going to even come close to justifying the massive tax cuts that are going to bite us in the ass someday?

Senate says no to discrimination

Only 48 for. To me, it boils down to the issue of whether or not you put discrimination into the Constitution and to that I say no.

Read the article and you will see two expected things have happened:

1. A Republican asshole such as Rick Santorum had to equate banning gay marriage to protecting the homeland. Hey, fuckhead, why don't you tell your President to go after Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda instead of fighting a war in Iraq and trying to ban gay marriage?

2. Daschle shows his wimpiness. "I agree with the Republicans however I don't agree with them." How can this man still be Senate Minority Leader?

This issue won't die, of course. The roll call will be used by Republicans in the November elections to show who has "American moral values" and who is a terrorist. Kerry and Edwards not being there to cast a vote will be made into their overt sponsorship of terrorism. And the Republicans will continue to bring up the issue of this amendment until they browbeat and intimidate enough Democrats in the Senate, Democrats in the Congress, and members of the "liberal media" into believing that the only way to stop the terrorists is to ban same sex marriage.

1000 dead soldiers

We've reached the 1,000 mark for total dead coalition soldiers in Iraq. Of course, this sad milestone passed with little attention to it. It seems these days that soldiers dying barely makes the news headlines. Have we become that accustomed to the continual increase in the body count?
Or is the media playing it down to help Bush in his re-election bid? It's either a case of "let's help Mr. Bush since he gave our parent companies these big tax breaks" or "Yes, Mr. Rove, we see your point about it being bad form...no, no, we're not unpatriotic...no, we don't want to lose access...yes, we understand you can do that...no, we certainly don't want things to come to that...yes, Mr. Rove, we will certainly do what you wish."

Also, the number 1,000 allows us to do some quick math. 887 dead US soldiers means we're taking on 88% of this. Some "coalition of the willing." What a fucking disaster.

Oh yeah

I missed a few days. Now I'm back. Anybody miss me? I didn't think so.

I'm showing up somewhere

I Googled this site (how idiotic and juvenile is that) and it shows up as No. 59 on this page.

What does it mean? Who the hell knows. But I thought it was cool that I actually showed up somewhere. And it's because of Dick Cheney to boot. Go figure.