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Friday, June 30, 2006
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(AP) Rush Limbaugh jokes about Viagra find
Myself, I could care less if Rush is limp (aaaaaaaaaaawwwwww) but his doctor sure didn't do him any favor by trying to "protect his privacy." And Rush's own lack of judgment? Well, what CAN you expect from the Grand Poobah of the dittoheads?
In any case, we'll be taking Monday off for the 4th of July holiday...and so we wish you all a safe and sane Independence Day :)
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7:20:09 AM 
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006
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(Reuters/WashPost) Saddam on hunger strike to protest lawyer's death
(Reuters/WashPost) Saddam ends hunger strike after missing one meal
What's NOT funny is Saddam's lawyers getting assassinated. According to the bushitters in the administration, we're bringing democracy to Iraq. One of the bases of democracy is the availability of a fair trial to ANYONE from shoplifters to child molesters to serial killers to mass murderers. Unless people who perform ghastly crimes get a fair hearing, there's no guarantee that anyone ELSE will. YOUR right to tell a judge that you didn't deserve the ticket for a red light because the light was obscured depends on scumbags being allowed to exercise THEIR right to declare their innocence. A lot of people say when someone's been accused of a heinous crime: "They should just take him out and hang him." But that's wrong. That is not justice. It may be what they deserve. But it is not justice unless the law, the government, a jury of his peers, says that that is what should be done. And to deny that to Saddam, and to murder the people who are trying to get that fair trial for him, is a denial of any sort of true justice under democratic principles.
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6:59:57 AM
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Monday, June 26, 2006
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(AP) Poll: Santorum Approval Rating Declines
(NBC) Republican Lawmakers Say Iraq May Have Had WMDs
(AFP) Iraq chemical weapons too old to use: US intelligence officials
(HuffintonPost/Cesca) Senator Rick Santorum Finds Old Crap, Makes Ass of Himself
And in other news, my kidneystones have been errr evacuating one at a time, so pardon me if my cartoons haven't been as complex as I usually like to make them...a good time to start transitioning to real pen and ink work instead of the marker pens I usually use. :)
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6:14:02 AM
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Friday, June 23, 2006
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 This cartoon is about the compromises that the Democrats have been making and continue to make with this evil administration. Support for a disastrous war taken up for no GOOD reasons (although plenty of bad reasons) has been linked to patriotism--support an open-ended war with no end strategy and you're patriotic--call for a phased withdrawal and you're an evil traitor who's threatening the lives of "OUR BOYS". There's no middle ground given or taken. The Democrats who are jockeying for the position of being the next losing presidential candidate are falling over themselves to get mired in this trap lest they be called weak. But the real weakness is seen to be being the marionette on the string, trying to be a centrist when there's no longer a center in American politics...(AP) Senate rejects calls on Iraq troop pullout
In the meantime, it has been four weeks since I wrote Google about their inappropriate limiting of all but 50-some HAIL DUBYUS! cartoons to adults-only searches. I have received no answer, other than the acknowledgment emails 4 weeks ago. Those of you who read this know that this is anything BUT a sexually explicit cartoon. I don't think it comes as much of a surprise to note that our downgrading by Google came only a few months before Google launched its new Government Portal Site. I don't believe HD is being specifically targeted, but I believe Google's AI has been tuned to downgrade all administration-critical sites. But limiting this site to adults-only image searches is simply wrong. So, I have written Google again, not by email, but by real mail, explaining the problem. I will be loading the document onto my Google issue page later today (Now uploaded. also see the original discussion on the original Google adults-only page.)
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6:26:06 AM
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
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(WashPost) Court Eases 'No Knock' Search Ban
Illegally Collected Evidence Allowed
(AP?WashPost) Excerpts From Police Search Ruling
I don't believe I need say much more than Stephen Breyer in his dissent: "The question is not what police might have done had they not behaved unlawfully. The question is what they did do...Without such a rule ... police know that they can ignore the Constitution's requirements without risking suppression of evidence discovered after an unreasonable entry...That rule does help protect homeowners from damaged doors; it does help to protect occupants from surprise. But it does more than that. It protects the occupants' privacy...Could it not be argued that the knock-and-announce rule ... is simply not important enough to warrant a suppression remedy? Could the majority not simply claim that the suppression game is not worth the candle? The answer, I believe, is 'no.' That 'no' reflects history, a history that shows the knock-and-announce rule is important...Our Fourth Amendment traditions place high value upon protecting privacy in the home. They emphasize the need to assure that its constitutional protections are effective, lest the Amendment `sound the word of promise to the ear but break it to the hope.'"
Let me just add to the supposed followers of the "original intent" form of interpretation...do you really think that the founders, who had personally endured illegal searches by British troops, really meant that illegal searches were to be permitted simply because we had changed the design of the flag? Is it not possible that when they wrote the fourth amendment to LIMIT searches, they actually meant what they had said. The fourth amendment is one of the bulwarks of liberty and its erosion is yet another slip down the slope to police state. You may say, but only the guilty have anything to fear. But I say, what happens when YOUR behavior is declared illegal? As it well might be if extremists of any stripe become elected to power...
And in other news, man, I have NEVER had multiple kidney stones before. Believe me, they are NO fun. I may be going in for a bout of ultrasound to get them out of the system. Updates will follow :)
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7:02:41 AM
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Sunday, June 18, 2006
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Your trusty cartoonist has been down with a kidneystone all weekend and although he has today's cartoon pencilled, we're forcing him to take a night off...Fred'n'Bert
UPDATE
OK, it's time to get serious, we're dragging Greg's sorry ass to the doctor in the morning to get good drugs AND a date for some ultrasound if he needs it...BUT we WILL be appearing on Wednesday...F'n'B
10:25:25 PM
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Friday, June 16, 2006
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(Editor and Publisher) Bush Offers 'Blind' Quote -- But Reporter Says He's Not Offended"Bush later called him to apologize. The president said he would use a different "needle" next time." Ooops, well, maybe he WILL nickname him Mister Magoo...
(HuffingtonPost/Peter Daou)Bush's Banter Goes Too Far: Taunting a Blind Man
(Digby Hullabaloo) That's Our Fratboy "There's an interesting simple psychology involved in such things. If someone can coerce those in a group to help him attack a single member they become his accomplices. For instance, getting everybody in the press corps to laugh at a reporter's baldness makes those reporters part of the president's gang. And, of course, it intimidates them. If they stray, they too will be subject to that kind of public humiliation. It's the evil fratboy theory of social relations, very primitive stuff."
The practice of Bush giving nicknames (often referring to physical characteristics) of a person is also simply establishment of pecking order. Basically, I can call you what I want, you can call me Mr. President. It sounds so very informal, but you have to remember, the informality IS a one-way street. What would Georgie do if he called on "Stretch" and Stretch called him Parrotbeak in return? That'd be the last time THAT reporter saw the Rose Garden. The fact is, the pecking order is already established. Bush IS the president, leader of the free world (as it used to be called). Why should he have to remind people of it continually?
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6:16:57 AM
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006
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(WashPost) Rove Will Not Be Charged In CIA Leak Case, Lawyer Says
(WashPost/AP) AP Blog: Bush Visit Shocks Iraq Reporters
(WashPost/Reuters) Clashes, car bomb as Iraq launches Baghdad sweep
Well, there you have it...another Karl Rove engineered leak. This article:
(Truthout) Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators was the talk of the blogosphere a month ago. Everyone kept waiting and waiting for Rove to finally get a comuppance, but as more and more time went by, the less likely it looked that it would happen. Now it's official. Whenever there's a leak regarding Karl Rove, the safest assumption is that the source of the leak is Karl himself and the question always is, what strategem is he playing? This time, I think he was trying to force the issue of indictment or non-indictment. If indictment, then he could operate without the THREAT of indictment over his head. If non-indictment, he could spin it so he would appear truthful. In fact, that's exactly how Pete Yost (AP Analysis: Telling FBI the Truth Saved Rove) is reporting it. We here at HAIL DUBYUS! were dubious about the indictment story to start with. In the meantime, El Presidente zipped into Baghdad, told the puppet al-Maliki we were standing behind him, took a few photos and zipped out again. If you blinked, you missed it.
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6:26:40 AM
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Monday, June 12, 2006
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(WashPost-AP)U.S.: 3 Gitmo Inmates Hanged Themselves
(WashPost-AP) Bush Directs Outreach on Gitmo Suicides
"President Bush expressed "serious concern" Saturday over the suicides at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and directed an aggressive effort by his administration to reach out diplomatically while it investigates."
(Reuters) Suicides prompt new calls to shut Guantanamo "The suicides of three Arab detainees at Guantanamo ignited new calls on Sunday for the United States to shut down the prison camp but a U.S. diplomat called their hangings a "good PR move" to gain attention...Colleen Graffy, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for public diplomacy, told the BBC World Service the suicides were a "good PR move to draw attention. It does sound that this is part of a strategy in that they don't value their own life and they certainly don't value ours and they use suicide bombings as a tactic to further their Jihadi cause," she said."
It also sounds like the despair of possibly completely innocent men who've been arrested, thrown into a jail of despicable conditions and illegally held for 4-1/2 years without a trial.
(BBC) Dead detainee 'was to be freed' "One of the three men who committed suicide at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay was due to be released - but did not know it, says a US lawyer...He said the prisoner was not told because US officials had not decided which country he would be sent to." Well, I guess they don't have to decide now.
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4:56:29 AM
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Friday, June 9, 2006
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(AFP) Attack on Sept. 11 widows sparks outrage The media hound most interested in self-promotion accuses the 9/11 widows of it and calls them witches
(WashPost AP)Sen. Clinton: Coulter's Remarks 'Vicious' So far, the only major political figure to call her out on it
(WashPost) A Chilling Portrait, Unsuitably Framed Philip Kennicott on the iconography of Zarqawi's death
(WashPost) White House Sees Diplomatic, Political Opportunities Turning the tide...again?
(AP) Deputy unwittingly led troops to al-Zarqawi "Al-Zarqawi died with five others, including a woman, a child and the man who unwittingly led the Americans to him"
(WashPost) Stand-Up Man On the lighter side, an online write-in discussion with one of my favorite comics, Lewis Black.
The problem with Ann Coulter is that part of her is doing this bullshit to make headlines, be invited on every TV network to be outrageous and get people to buy her books. That part of her knows what a con artist she is. The other part of her believes it and hopes by promulgating her hate-filled speech to become the new Magda Quandt Goebbels of the New World Order...or possibly its female Joseph Goebbels. That part of her is the scary one. It's always frightening when a person of intelligence (I won't deny her that--just as I wouldn't deny it of Dr. Goebbels) holds such wickedness in her heart and soul. It's entirely appropriate her new book "Godless" came out on 6/6/06...only she's wrong--she's the godless one. I'm certain I saw a Republican complaining about her attire while she was "representing the Republican party." I believe the words were dressed like a slut--but this seems to have been scrubbed.
On the other hand, today it was a tossup--do I do Zarqawi, do I do Ann Coulter? Ann DID get knocked off the headlines--I'm sure she hates being upstaged by something she can't shout down with her characteristic rudeness. But I went with her anyway, because she's more fun to caricature than a dead Zarqawi. Moreover, Bush and Rumsfeld and Co. were remarkably lowkey about the incident. It may turn the tide, but there's a lot ahead...I guess after as many tide-turnings as we've been through--and corner-turnings and turning points--it's probably best not to crow until we find out if we have something to crow about. I thought I'd read earlier that the woman killed as collateral damage had been pregnant--but I can't find a reference so that may have been a faulty reading on my part...
Update
(MediaMatters) Media figures, GOP strategists defend Coulter's attacks on 9-11 widows I should have realized that the defense of Ann would be carried out by the likes of Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and their ilk. According to these, Coulter wasn't being mean-spirited--she was satirizing. Ahhhhhhh, that's what we call slander these days. First, satire is not JUST making caustic remarks (a guideline I try, not always successfully, to observe here). And slander is the telling of an untruth about another that the reasonable person MIGHT nevertheless conclude IS the truth because of the position and reputation of the person who made the untrue claim. The claim that the "Jersey Girls" have "commercially exploited" 9-11 (to become millionairesses many times over) is an attempt to tar these 9-11 widows with the brush that paints these so-called pundits. If anyone has "commercially exploited" anything, it's these hatemongers who have used that tragedy to sell books, improve their ratings, boost their stock portfolios, etc., etc.. If the Jersey Girls have done any exploitation, it's the exploitation of their position and grief to shame a shameless administration into a real investigation instead of a whitewash. That's not "commercial exploitation." That's, to quote George W. Bush, "using their political capital."
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7:07:38 AM
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Wednesday, June 7, 2006
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(WashPost)For Foes of Same-Sex Marriage, It's the Thought That Counts
(WashPost) Debate Begins On Gay Marriage
(WashPost) President Bush Speaks About the Marriage Protection Amendment
(The Nation) Bush: Discrimination 'Serves Interests of All'
(WashPost) Batwoman Is Back As a Lesbian
(Defamer) 'Superman': Inside The Bulge?
(Defamer) How Much Gay Superman Is Too Much Gay Superman?
"Every American deserves to be treated with tolerance and respect and dignity." And that's why Our Leader is against gay marriage. As John Nichols pointed out in The Nation, Woodrow Wilson thought that segregation was not a humiliation, but a benefit for black people, at least if the newspapers would spin it that way (before the term spin was invented). So too, Little Georgie believes in the tyranny of the majority (if it's on his side). If the majority of people think that a minority shouldn't have certain rights, they have every right to pass a constitutional amendment to ensure the denial of those rights. This is exactly what James Madison was afraid of back in his writing in The Federalist.
In the meantime, it seems that Warner Brothers is making an effort of some sort to sell Superman Returns to the gay market. We've had releases on how Brandon Routh "fills out his bulge," how sensitive the new Man of Steel is, etc. On top of this DC Comics has announced the re-introduction of Batwoman, as a hot lesbo butt-kicking chick. :-) I couldn't resist the opportunity to conflate all the stories LOL
Breaking News
Gay Marriage Amendment Fails in Senate
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8:14:00 AM
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Monday, June 5, 2006
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(AP WashPost) Quotes on Whistleblower Case
(WashPost)High Court's Free-Speech Ruling Favors Government
Garcetti et al v. Ceballos (Opinion)
"It will enable management to be more honest and candid in its personnel actions," said Employment attorney Dan Westman...yup, now they can say, we're screwing you because you have a big mouth...and won't have to come up with false job reviews about how someone who's gotten outstanding ratings for the last five years suddenly merits unsatisfactory performance ratings...I GUESS that's a plus--if you're a manager involved in shady shenanigans...or a president...vice president...secretary of defense...This is only to be expected of an administration that favors "corporate loyalty" above adherence to the law. If this is true for the government, what effect will it have in the private sector? Will this become a precedent that will allow any employer to fire an employee for revealing illegal or unethical practices by their company?
There is a quote (mistakenly ascribed to Mussolini) floating around the net that says that fascism should really be called corporatism in that fascism is really the identification of government with corporate interests. A misleading statement--there are other characteristics of fascism that go beyond a mere corporatist viewpoint--but it does identify an essential plutarchic slant of repressive rightwing regimes: that the government is dominated by moneyed individuals and companies, whose loyalities are not to the people, but to their own pocketbooks and power. Do we not have here the natural extension of that identification? If the government can eliminate employees who are "disloyal" to an administration, will that not poison the "corporate waters" for any future administration whose interests run counter to the plutarchs by creating a workforce whose loyalties lie with the administration that favored them?
This is a very dangerous judgment and exposes the ideology of the Bush appointees. Might makes right.
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5:26:05 AM
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Friday, June 2, 2006
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(WashPost) Bush Learned of Haditha Deaths From Press...Yeah, right...
(WashPost) Bush vows punishment if laws broken in Haditha... Isn't that what Bush said about the Valerie Plame leak?
(WashPost) U.S. Troops in Iraq to Get Ethics Training...you WILL watch this PowerPoint presentation!
(WashPost) Probe Into Iraq Deaths Finds False Reports: Pentagon to Review Training After Alleged Massacre in Hadi...We need better false reports...
(WashPost) Bush vows to punish Haditha crime, Iraqis angry...they heard about the PowerPoint presentations
(WashPost) Iraq Plans Probes; Ethics Training Set for Troops...And for some reason, the name of the massacre doesn't even make the headline
What can we say? Our soldiers are in a tough situation. They're being expected to be peacekeepers in an environment that is totally alien to them, where they cannot tell the "good guys" from the "bad guys." They can't be trained for it, as the Pentagon is trying to push, because there's no way you can train a soldier in a few short weeks about something that even our experts are having a hard time doing. Eventually, our boys get into a situation where their buddies have been killed in front of their faces and they lose it. It's what happened in Nam and it's what's happening in Iraq. Yes, the soldiers have a responsibility for their own actions. But even greater responsibility lies on the men who put them into an impossible situation to start with, the bastards that started a war of aggression against a country that was slowly starving to death, caught between the rock of economic sanctions and the hard place of the dictator against whom the sanctions were levied. Started a war of aggression with sufficient troops to capture Baghdad, but insufficient troops to hold the country together afterwards. Boiled the blood of the soldiers with hatred by mendaciously implying that the country they were fighting was behind a terrible catastrophe that was a wound in American souls. Looted the country of its oil wealth and treated it as a feeding trough to glut the rapacity of war profiteers. In Viet Nam we had My Lai. Here we have Bush's Lie.
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6:00:36 AM
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