This is my running commentary on the latest Important Shit. As always, what I write is Noted w/ "ScootyEd". The rest of the bullshit is thick and bold...like good shit should be. (Hey, I miss Karate Explosions...what can I say?)
This was a quick e-mail to a conservative brother-in-law of mine that I've working on bringing over from the dark side into the light.
Just thought I'd share. See you below the fold.
ThinkFast: October 25, 2007 »
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will announce "new sanctions against Iran" today that "accuse" the Quds division of the Revolutionary Guard Corps of supporting terrorism and "the entire Revolutionary Guard Corps of proliferating weapons of mass destruction."
(ScootyEd: Don't they realize by now that when they use the term "Weapons Of Mass Destruction" all of the intelligent people throughout the world chuckle a little and shake their heads in amazement, trying to figure out what kind of dumbfuck would actually fall for that one again?)
The Washington Post reports that Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) "has become the Bush administration’s worst nightmare: a Democrat in the majority with subpoena power and the inclination to overturn rocks." Today, Condoleezza Rice is scheduled to testify before his committee.
(ScootyEd: You mean that annoying, pig-nosed, evil Democrat who's actually taking his role in the checks & balances system devised by our Founding Fathers seriously?...silly, naive man.)
"President Bush embarks this morning on a tour of the wildfires ravaging California to showcase his administration’s ability to respond better to natural disasters than it did after Hurricane Katrina two years ago."
(ScootyEd: Please see previous e-mail re: Dood Abides' marshmellow roast and the ensuing giggles towards our current Idiot-In-Chief)
In a letter to Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey yesterday, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined with his Democratic colleagues "in questioning the basis for" Mukasey’s assertion that the president "can act outside the law" on national security issues.
(ScootyEd: I'm joining my Human colleagues in wondering why in the fuck any of these people are in charge of anything other than picking their own nose and figuring out that you shouldn't eat the resulting find and would probably be best served by finding a discreet location to deposit said nosepuke.)
After yesterday denying that it "watered down" congressional testimony by the head of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Bush administration officials are now acknowledging that "they heavily edited [her] testimony on global warming." Officials, for example, took out the line: "CDC considers climate change a serious public concern." expand post »
(ScootyEd: Hmmmm, seems to me that if the Centers For Disease Control consider the petri dish called Earth gettin' a little hotter something to concern us a little in between trips to the mall and soccer playdates it might be a good idea to pay attention and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!, dumbshits.)
"The U.S. Embassy on Wednesday began offering tens of thousands of dollars in payments to victims and families of victims of the Sept. 16 shootings in Baghdad involving security guards from the firm Blackwater." Several family members turned down the compensation, saying they still wanted "to sue Blackwater in an American court."
(ScootyEd: "Fuck You, American Fascist mercenaries....we don't want your money, we want your balls in our homemade stew." Can't say I blame 'em. We can be such blue-eyed, blond-haired assholes sometimes, what, with all of our high-powered 'anti-personnel' technology available to our XBox-Trained pilots)
Secretary Rice acknowledged that the administration may have mishandled the case of Maher Arar. "We do not think that this case was handled as it should have been. We do absolutely not wish to transfer anyone to any place in which they might be tortured," she said.
(ScootyEd: We want to make sure and transfer them to a place where they will definitely be tortured.)
Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and William Delahunt (D-MA) will soon introduce legislation — the "American Anti-Torture Act of 2007" — to "ban torture of detainees by any U.S. government agency, including the CIA or other intelligence units."
(ScootyEd: Didn't we do that 230 years ago, or am I missing something?)
And finally: "Sen. Larry Craig is still traveling back to his home state of Idaho these days. ... But one thing about his travel plans is different since his widely publicized arrest. ... [H]e’s now connecting through the Denver airport. He’s apparently had enough embarrassment in Minneapolis to last a lifetime."
(ScootyEd: Aaaaaahh, now he's after a Rock Mountain High. Can't say I blame him.)
Posted by Think Progress at 9:04 am
(ScootyEd: Commented on by me around 2 hours later after getting home from my graveyard shift. I was in a weird mood.)
As Always...Peace ;-)>