Friday - July 02, 2004

Barking Moonbat Of The Week Award

She said it. We caught it. The award was by unimous vote! The Queen Of Barking Moonbats explained her Socialist agenda to a crowd in San Francisco ..........
"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."



News Flash For Hillary:
WE'RE NOT GOING TO GIVE IT TO YOU, BABE!
FUGGEDABOUTIT!

Awarded To:
Shrillary RodAss Clinton

Civil Rights: Lies And The Damn Lying Democrats Who Tell Them

Al Gore lied when he said his dad lost the election because he stood for the Civil Rights Bill. The blacks were gored by Al Gore Sr. and his son lies to cover up the racist background. It is easy to control the minds of people. All one has to do to change history is to spread lies about the past. This is exactly what has happened with the legacy of former Democratic U.S. Senator Al Gore, Sr. of Tennessee - the father of the former Vice President - and his mythical "support" of civil rights.

Vice President Gore Lied
In a recent speech to the NAACP, Vice President Gore said his father lost his Senate seat because he supported civil rights legislation. That's not entirely true. Al Gore, Sr., together with the rest of the southern Democrats, voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He later switched sides and lost because Southerners were getting tired of Democrats lying to them.

The Vote In Congress - 1964
Congressional Quarterly reported that, in the House of Representatives, 61% of Democrats (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as opposed to 80% of Republicans (138 for, 38 against). In the Senate, 69% of Democrats (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Act while 82% of Republicans did (27 for, 6 against). All southern Democrats voted against the Act. In his remarks upon signing the Civil Rights Act, President Lyndon Johnson praised Republicans for their "overwhelming majority." He did not offer similar praise to his own Democratic Party.

Gore Continues To Fight
Al Gore, Sr. did not stop at simply voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In addition, Congressional Quarterly reported that Gore attempted to send the Act to the Senate Judiciary Committee with an amendment to say "in defiance of a court desegregation order, federal funds could not be withheld from any school districts." Gore sought to take the teeth out of the Act in the event it passed. In the end, the Gore Amendment was defeated by a vote of 74-25. Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, one of President Bill Clinton's political mentors, was among the 23 southern Democratic senators and only one Republican voting with Gore for this racist amendment.

Flip-Flop
Like many Southern Democrats, sensing the tide turning, Senator Gore, Sr. eventually switched sides. He voted for the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act, opposed President Nixon's two Southern nominees for the Supreme Court, Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, and eventually apologized for his 1964 vote, calling it the biggest mistake of his career. As Sen. Gore became more outspoken on issues of race and peace over the next six years, his standing in Tennessee deteriorated, his liberal positions were portrayed as contrary to the state's values, and he was defeated in the 1970 election.

Al Gore's Education
On another oft-repeated lie, Senator Gore, Sr. was "elated" at the idea of young Al, Jr. going to school with black children. In reality, however, the future vice president attended an elite private school. The choice of a Washington school for Al was influenced by Pauline Gore's belief that St. Albans, which had begun the process of admitting blacks, was more "liberal" on issues of race than most other Washington prep schools. "I wanted him to know that blacks have the same right to go to school that whites have," she explained in an interview. That is not to say that St. Albans was in the vanguard of racial diversity. There was a lone black student in Gore's class, James Gray, who was so distraught by his singular situation that he frequently broke out in hives during his first year on campus.

Jimmy Carter's Lies
So you see, Democrats have always tried to have it both ways and lying about it afterward. A perfect example is Jimmy Carter. In the first race for governor of Georgia in 1966, Carter had positioned himself as a moderate progressive alternative to the more liberal Arnall and the staunchly conservative-segregationist Maddox. Maddox won easily. During his second campaign Carter subtly appealed to class antagonisms, running as the representative of the ordinary people. It was a successful campaign strategy wherein Carter projected himself as a traditional southern conservative. He associated his chief opponent, former governor Carl Sanders, with Atlanta's social and economic elite and chastised him for failing, during his governorship, to invite Alabama's outspoken segregationist governor, George C. Wallace, to address the Georgia General Assembly. In other words, he pretended to be a segregationist and even befriended former governor Lester Maddox. Maddox became famous in Georgia during the 1950's and 1960's by chasing black people out of his restaurant with an axe handle. He later ran for governor and won in 1966. Carter cozied up to him before the 1970 election and won over the Georgia segregationists. After easily defeating his Republican opponent, Carter shocked and surprised most of his Georgia supporters and attracted national attention during a short, twelve-minute inaugural address in 1971 when he proclaimed that the time for segregation had ended. Flip-flop. Get elected and then do as you please. Carter immediately started making plans to run for the Presidency of the United States in 1976. The rest is history.

Conclusion: There are are liars, damned liars and then there's Democrats.

Note From Allan: I was living in Georgia in the early 1970's and I despised Carter because he was so two-faced. I voted against him for President in 1976 even though I knew Ford didn't have much of a chance. Like most young Southerners, I thought Lester Maddox was a joke (and a seriously demented man) and I had as many black friends as I had white friends. Again, like most young Southerners of that time, I didn't understand our parents segregationist stance but I knew that with our generation it would end. It eventually did. It could have ended sooner if the Democratic Party hadn't been too busy lying to the people and being more concerned with getting elected or re-elected than with doing the right thing.

Further Reading:

1. "Al Gore and the Legacy of Race", The Washington Post.
2. "Vice President Gore Shamelessly Fabricates Father's Civil Rights Record", Houston Review.
3. "Democrats and Their Lying Record against Minorities".
4. "Lester Maddox: Governor Ignoramus".
5. "Jimmy Carter: Biography", The New Georgia Encyclopedia

Happy Anniversary to Civil Rights

A huge piece of media distortion was foisted on the American public today by NPR. What did it have to do with? The anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act.

Did you know that it was signed 40 years ago today? Well, I mention it because when my alarm went off this morning at 5:30, NPR had a bit on it and said something to the effect that it was signed "despite opposition of some southern senators."

GODAMMIT, now THAT pissed me off because I knew something was not right about that so, once again, NPR provided for me what caffeine provides for many of you--a jolt and incentive to get out of bed.

So I wrote Allan (the resident historian) about it and also did some searching. Yes, this is long but deal with it. I refuse to hide it behind the "read more" button. It is too important. Read it. Become smart. Hell, if you are busy, hit the print button and read it while having a nice cup of coffee in the evening or with your breakfast tomorrow morning. Sunday is Independence Day and if we allow this sort of crap to continue without calling on the carpet those responsible for misleading the American public, soon we will have no independence.

This is what we found at a site called Congresslink.org which said the House passed

"H.R .7152 on February 10, 1964. Of the 420 members who voted, 290 supported the civil rights bill and 130 opposed it. Republicans favored the bill 138 to 34; Democrats supported it 152-96. It is interesting to note that Democrats from northern states voted overwhelmingly for the bill, 141 to 4, while Democrats from southern states voted overwhelmingly against the bill, 92 to 11."

That should sound alarm bells all over the place but not for NPR, I guess.

"Senator Richard Russell, Democrat from Georgia, led the so-called opposition forces. The group was also known as the "southern bloc." It was composed of eighteen southern Democrats and one Republican, John Tower of Texas. Although a hopeless minority, the group exerted much influence because Senate rules virtually guaranteed unlimited debate unless it was ended by cloture. The "southern bloc" relied on the filibuster to postpone the legislation as long as possible, hoping that support for civil rights legislation throughout the country would falter. The Democratic leadership and Humphrey could not control the southern wing of the party."

So, a little party divisiveness back then, too, eh?

"The "southern bloc" held up consideration of the bill from March into June hoping that presidential candidate George Wallace, a segregationist from Alabama, would do well in the early presidential primaries."

Anyone surprised yet?

"The Republican Party was not so badly split as the Democrats by the civil rights issue. Only one Republican senator participated in the filibuster against the bill. In fact, since 1933, Republicans had a more positive record on civil rights than the Democrats. In the twenty-six major civil rights votes since 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 % of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 % of the votes."

Yet Republicans keep getting painted by the media and its slackjawed lackeys as the party that oppresses minorities, disfavors Blacks, etc. We need to hire an image consultant!!

Here's a bit more, this from the senate's website talking about how the filibuster ended on June 10th, 1964

"At 9:51 on the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert C. Byrd completed an address that he had begun fourteen hours and thirteen minutes earlier. The subject was the pending Civil Rights Act of 1964, a measure that occupied the Senate for fifty-seven working days, including six Saturdays. A day earlier, Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey, the bill's manager, concluded he had the sixty-seven votes required at that time to end the debate."

We all know about Senator KKK Byrd, don't we? Yep, he was one of the filibusters. The same guy the Dummycraps hold up for adoration on all manner of issues dealing with enslaving helping minorities--you know---handouts, free housing, welfare, set asides, affirmative action, food stamps, etc. Everything except what they really need--vouchers in schools, true freedom from government interference in their lives, a demand they make something of themselves on their own rather than waiting for Mommy Government to do it for them. I digress.

"Georgia Democrat Richard Russell offered the final arguments in opposition. Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who had enlisted the Republican votes that made cloture a realistic option, spoke for the proponents with his customary eloquence. Noting that the day marked the one-hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's nomination to a second term, the Illinois Republican proclaimed, in the words of Victor Hugo, "Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come." He continued, "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!" Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill. And only once in the thirty-seven years since 1927 had it agreed to cloture for any measure.

The clerk proceeded to call the roll. When he reached "Mr. Engle," there was no response. A brain tumor had robbed California's mortally ill Clair Engle of his ability to speak. Slowly lifting a crippled arm, he pointed to his eye, thereby signaling his affirmative vote. Few of those who witnessed this heroic gesture ever forgot it. When Delaware's John Williams provided the decisive sixty-seventh vote, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield exclaimed, "That's it!"; Richard Russell slumped; and Hubert Humphrey beamed. With six wavering senators providing a four-vote victory margin, the final tally stood at 71 to 29. Nine days later the Senate approved the act itself—producing one of the twentieth century's towering legislative achievements. "

So, what do you think? Was the bit by NPR misleading? Could you figure out where their loyalties lie? I sure hope so because as far as I am concerned the distortion lies in the fact that if NPR REALLY wanted to report this correctly, they'd have stated the measure was stalled despite opposition of 18 Democ-RATS and one Republican. Remember, the filibuster to keep Blacks in this country deprived of their civil rights was done by 19 senators-----18 of them democrats!!!!

As far as NPR is concerned when it is 18-1, they are just lumped together as southern senators. What would they have said if it were 10 republicans and 9 democrats? I'll tell you, "the measure was passed despite opposition led by a republican controlled majority."

And you still think there is no bias in the media?

Finally!!  It’s been released!

I was finally able to get my hands on a relatively recent copy of John F**king Kerry's resume.

We hear so much about him and what he purports to have done so it was good to get something concrete about his accomplishments.

Let's see how many of you are able to read the whole thing.

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JOHN FORBES KERRY, "MAN OF THE PEOPLE"

CAREER OBJECTIVE

President of the United States, Renter of the Lincoln bedroom, Intern Supervisor, Commander and Chief and Defender of the Working Man, I mean Person

EDUCATION

Educated at Swiss Boarding Schools -- because my parents did not like me that much

Attended elite private schools like Fessenden School in West Newton, Massachusetts and St. Paul's in New Hampshire -- just like your kids

Graduated Yale University, 1966 (I am much smarter than that Bush guy -- oh, wait, he also went to Yale.)

Graduated Boston College Law School in 1976 (I am much smarter than that Bush guy -- oh, wait, he got an MBA from Harvard.)

VIETNAM MILITARY SERVICE

Served as an officer on a swiftboat in the Mekong Delta in VIETNAM for three long months -- tried my best to come home a hero like JFK after his service on PT-109. I was in VIETNAM -- VIETNAM was a place where I was for a while. Did I mention that VIETNAM veterans love me?

I collected three Purple Hearts in my three months (had to get three in order to come home and run for Congress as a hero like JFK) and the last one for that scratch on my finger -- it REALLY did hurt! It was important to have the right connections so I could get home and run for Congress on my hero status like JFK -- he was not in VIETNAM, but I was.

Brought my own motion camera to make sure images of me in VIETNAM becoming a hero made it back home to the states. Got a free trip home after three months on my swiftboat where I suffered severe injuries and collected three Purple Hearts (did I mention that), a Bronze and Silver Star for heroism -- ensuring my destiny as a hero and man of the people like JFK.

Got home and found out they were not bestowing hero status on war heroes like me, so I threw my medals, or was it my ribbons, over the White House fence. Maybe it was someone else's medals.

Co-founder of the VIETNAM Veterans of America and spokesperson for the VIETNAM Veterans Against the War and worked closely with Jane Fonda to make sure everyone knew that all the guys in VIETNAM were war criminals -- I was too, and even testified before the Senate about my own war crimes.

"Represented" my cadre of anti-American misfits in a Paris meeting to discuss how we could better provide "aid and comfort" for the North Vietnamese and to discuss the unconditional surrender of the U.S. In doing so, I knowingly, directly violated UCMJ Article 104 part 904, and U.S. Code 18 U.S.C. 953.

Did I mention that this meeting, and my other anti-American activities, also put me in violation of the Constitution's Article three, Section three, which defines treason as "giving aid and comfort" to the enemy in time of warfare.

Consequently, I stand subject to the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3, which states, "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President...having previously taken an oath...to support the Constitution of the United States, [who has] engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

But I don't have to resign -- I am understudy to Teddy Kennedy, now the patriarch of JFK's family.

I topped off my coddling of Commies by authoring a book called The New Soldier -- but since military heroes are back in vogue, I now
sue anyone who reproduces the cover of that book on any website, especially a website like http://kerry-04.com/. (The cover picture is a mockery of the Iwo Jima flag raising -- you can see it at http://kerry-04.com/ until my lawyers get them to take it down.)

Time For A New Poll

Our Last Poll: Invasion Plans

Yes, it's time for a new poll. Our last poll on which country you think the US should invade next had some surprising results. Out of 267 votes cast, here are the results ....

Country	Votes	Percent
Iran	62	23%
California	58	22%
France	41	15%
Syria	29	11%
Canada	24	9%
Saudi Arabia	21	8%
New York	15	6%
North Korea	6	2%
Mexico	6	2%
Cuba	5	2%

So it looks like Iran, California and France are in deep shit. As soon as we dispose of the Mad Mullahs, we're gonna open up the San Andreas Fault and drop all the Californicators into the Pacific, then we're gonna nuke the Frogs! A memo has been sent to Rumsfeld.

YAY!

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The New Poll: Honesty Test For Guys

Now for our next poll. We decided to perform an honesty test on the guys out there. We'll have one for the ladies next, but for now we want to give the guys a chance to "come clean", so to speak. We are going to ask the ladies to monitor the poll results and tell us if you think the guys are being honest or just lying through their teeth.

Our question for the guys is: If 23-year-old hottie teacher Debra Beasley Lafave were your teacher in the 9th grade and she came on to you, how do you think you would have reacted when you were that age?

Guys, here are your choices (you may select more than one in this poll):

1- Boinked Her ---- Yes, I would have done the nasty with her. Over and over and ....
2- Married Her ---- I would have fallen madly in love with her and asked her to marry me.
3- Asked Dad ---- In confusion, I would have asked Dad to explain sex to me again.
4- Told Mommy ---- I would have run crying to mommy and blabbed.
5- Lied & Bragged ---- I would have told all the guys all about it, exaggerated of course.
6- Masturbated ---- I couldn't do it but I would have jerked off several times.
7- Religious ---- I would have tried to convert her into living a clean life.
8- Virgin ---- I would have told her flat out that I was saving myself for marriage.
9- Stoopid ---- I would have just stood there and mumbled "Um-um-um-um".
10- Jerk ---- I would have gone and told her husband on her.

OK, guys. Take a time travel back to when you were in the 9th grade and confess. What would you have done?

Be careful though. The ladies are watching you.

Update: As you can see, this poll is a little different style. The selections are check-boxes that allow you to select several options in case you think you might have done more than one thing on this list. However, with that said, the following answer for our poll will not be allowed:

Sleaze-Ball ---- Yes, I would have boinked her as often as possible AND jerked off twice a day while thinking about her AND bragged about it to all the guys AND threatened to tell her husband unless she gave me an "A" for the class.

Carry on!

Revenge!

Last week, the evil White Sox took two out of three from the Cubs on their home turf. Now the South-Siders are coming to Wrigley this weekend for more inter-league play. It's time to drop a case of Whoop-Ass^TM on them. Pitchers for the Cubbies this weekend will be: Carlos Zambrano, Greg Maddux and Glendon Rusch.

I'm sending this little 250 lb. Cub to babysit Vilmar while the Mets entertain Vilmar's evil, blood-sucking, useless, overpaid Yankees this weekend. Warning to Vilmar: like our baseball team, this little fellow has teeth and claws .... and an 800 lb. mother with an attitude.

Daily Dose

Quote Of The Day

"Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled."
-- Wu Ting-Fang

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On This Day In History

July 2, 1881 - President Garfield Is Shot
President James Garfield is shot in the back at the Baltimore & Potomac train station by a crazed assassin. With the bullet lodged near his pancreas, the president never recovered and later died on September 18, 1881. The assassin, Charles Guiteau, was immediately apprehended at the train station. Guiteau was hanged on June 30, 1882. Two hundred spectators at the jail watched as hundreds more gathered outside. From the gallows, Guiteau recited a poem in a high, childlike voice, "I am going to the Lordy, I am so glad."

July 2, 1937 - Amelia Earhart Disappears
The Lockheed aircraft carrying American aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan is reported missing near Howland Island in the Pacific. The pair were attempting to fly around the world when they lost their bearings during the most challenging leg of the global journey: Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island, a tiny island 2,227 nautical miles away, in the center of the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca was in sporadic radio contact with Earhart as she approached Howland Island and received messages that she was lost and running low on fuel. Soon after, she probably tried to ditch the Lockheed in the ocean. No trace of Earhart or Noonan was ever found.

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Today's Birthdays

Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice (1903)
Jose Canseco, American baseball player (1964)

_{Thanks to The Quotations Page - The History Channel - The Biography Channel.}

   Thursday - July 01, 2004

Poor Teacher

I'm not one to beat a dead horse, much less a gorgeous blonde but after reading Vilmar's post on the teacher in Florida who is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student I couldn't resist trying to learn more.

There are the usual lascivious trash stories all over the news and the web. Most of them either (a) patting the boy on the back, (b) denouncing her for molesting someone's child, or (c) wondering why her husband has gone into hiding (that's easy to answer, isn't it?).

What utlimately caught my attention was the following quote from an article on the incident by a local ABC News affiliate in Tampa. A neighbor of the teacher had this to say:

"I think it's a disgrace. We're having this problem because we can't pay our teachers enough to get the quality teachers that we need. So we're taking the bottom of the barrel, and that's what you get for being cheap," James Morrison said.

All of a sudden, the Barking Moonbat Bullshit Alarm^TM went off and we scrambled the North American Asshole Deterrence (NORAD) network.

After a successful mission, our SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft came back with this intel ....

The National Education Association says the average teacher's salary in Florida is: $39,601.00.

According to the US Census Bureau, the median income for a four-person family in Florida is: $57,473.00.

We then fed those numbers into the Barking Moonbat Big F**king Computer (BFC-1000)^TM. After crunching the numbers for a few minutes, our trusty BFC-1000^TM calmly informed us that Mr. Morrison had obviously been brainwashed by DummyCraps. Even if we assume that this teacher's husband was just as "poorly paid" as she was, that would give them a total annual income of nearly $80,000. Which puts them in the category of "evil rich" (upper middle class). Even assuming that this 23-year-old teacher in her first year on the job was paid less than the average, she was probably still bringing home a decent paycheck, not to mention all the other NEA-mandated benefits she received.

Conclusion: Mr. Morrison's statement above is the equivalent of someone pissing on my leg while telling me it's raining.

My Final Opinion: at only 23 years of age, this lovely young teacher was little more than a child herself .... and a very stupid one at that.

Now, can someone please help me. I can't seem to get Van Halen's "Hot For Teacher" out of my head. Aarrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!

A foursome on Education

Things are not well on the education front. In fact, with the exception of the last story, things are downright disgusting.

Michelle Malkin describes what passes for summer reading in the public school system. Would you believe the tripe, garbage and SHIT from, as she puts it:

slain gangsta rapper Tupac Shakur -- the drug-dealing, baseball bat-wielding, cop-hating, Black Panthers-worshiping, convicted sexual abuser who made a fortune extolling the "thug life" before he was gunned down in Las Vegas eight years ago.

As Michelle so clearly pointedly states, when a manager of curricula states the reason they chose this scumbag was that it was popular with kids,

" If that's the standard, why not just drop the pretense of academic instruction and assign them comic books and romance novels?"

Touche. Then again, that's basically what's going on anyway.

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Recently a report, mandated by the "No Child Left Behind" act, finds sexual abuse and harassment of school kids is phenomenally high---about 10 percent of all students.

Naturally, the NEA is up in arms over this. I, however, am not surprised. Just think, this abuse did not occur at the hands of the janitorial staff. It occurred at the hands of teachers, coaches, bus drivers, counselors and administrators.

And you wonder why kids are so bloody stupid when they leave school? I'll bet you that many of those adults involved are still teaching, too! Thanks, NEA, for spending so much money on matters political instead of taking all the union money and actually doing some good with it.!!!

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Moving right along, I am sure you've heard of the teacher here in Florida who was arrested for having sex with a 14 year old boy. Here's her picture (to refresh your mind.)

I don't know about you but I would not have minded being harassed or abused by a teacher this pretty when I was 14. Dammit!!!



In a related piece, this showed up in the local paper and focuses on how radio and TV are having a field day with this story--in a humorous way. A defense attorney, Norman Cannella, says (and I will admit he has a point):

"Would we be talking as much if she were 200 pounds and unattractive? Probably not."

In the final analysis, this guy will now be considered a stud when he goes back to school and chances are, as Neal Boortz points out, "He's peaked. All the women after this are likely to be a disappointment."

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Saving the best (news) for last, I have this: more kids are graduating high school and more are headed to college than ever before. Yes, John F**king Kerry, that includes even under Clinton!

So much for Kerry's claims that under Bush children are not getting access to education.

Check out the numbers and see for yourself.

Box Office Score

Looks like Spidey just sent the Green Gobbler packing.

Here's the official Boxoffice figures.

"F****nheit 9/11": first week ---- $35,714,000.00

"Spiderman 2": opening night ---- $40,442,604.00

Irish Insanity

Aahhhh, the Irish. After a hard day's work, they all gather at the local pub for a pint or three. Unfortunately, these days they can't light up a cigarette or pipe over a glass of dark draft. In March, Ireland passed a law prohibiting smoking in reataurants and pubs. The Irish are now proud of their clean air ........

Hold the phone. It seems there is a new problem that nobody anticipated.

Key quote: "Mind you, one national radio presenter recently complained that the air was so fresh that these days in pubs you could now smell a lot more of the customers' farts - something that the smoke had previously disguised."

No word yet from the Irish Parliament on the pending law that will prohibit farting in public. If this keeps up, folks over there may have to start bathing regularly and only then will everything smell rosey.

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An Irish Pub Joke...

An Irishman, an Englishman and a Scotsman go into a pub. Each orders a pint of Guinness. Just as the bartender hands them over, three flies buzz down and land-- one, two, three-- in each of the pints.

The Englishman looks disgusted, pushes his pint away and demands another... the Scotsman picks out the fly, shrugs, and takes a long swallow.

The Irishman reaches in to the glass, grabs the fly between his fingers and shakes him as hard as he can, shouting 'Spit it out, ya bloody bastard! Spit it out!'

Anger Management

From NewsMax we have this story: "Hillary: Cheney Needs 'Anger Management' for 'F'-Word Outburst".

Key quote: "So far as I know, no colleague has ever used profanity of that sort on the Senate floor," the outraged Democrat complained to the Seattle Post Intelligencer.

I guess it doesn't count as "profanity" when Hitlary told her husband Bill that one of his associates she disliked was a "f**king jew bastard" or that she couldn't decide which "f**king Bible" to use at the inauguration.

Hitlary should also know that occasionally the Senate floor has been a forum where much worse words have been used and occcasionally it got much worse than just words. For my money, Dick Cheney should have taken the example of Representative Preston Brooks, who in 1856 had a similar disagreement on the Senate floor ....

The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner

On May 22, 1856, the "world's greatest deliberative body" became a combat zone. In one of the most dramatic and deeply ominous moments in the Senate's entire history, a member of the House of Representatives entered the Senate chamber and savagely beat a senator into unconsciousness.

The inspiration for this clash came three days earlier when Senator Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts antislavery Republican, addressed the Senate on the explosive issue of whether Kansas should be admitted to the Union as a slave state or a free state. In his "Crime Against Kansas" speech, Sumner identified two Democratic senators as the principal culprits in this crime -- Stephen Douglas of Illinois and Andrew Butler of South Carolina. He characterized Douglas to his face as a "noise-some, squat, and nameless animal . . . not a proper model for an American senator." Andrew Butler, who was not present, received more elaborate treatment. Mocking the South Carolina senator's stance as a man of chivalry, the Massachusetts senator charged him with taking "a mistress . . . who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight -- I mean," added Sumner, "the harlot, Slavery."

Representative Preston Brooks was Butler's South Carolina kinsman. If he had believed Sumner to be a gentleman, he might have challenged him to a duel. Instead, he chose a light cane of the type used to discipline unruly dogs. Shortly after the Senate had adjourned for the day, Brooks entered the old chamber, where he found Sumner busily attaching his postal frank to copies of his "Crime Against Kansas" speech.

Moving quickly, Brooks slammed his metal-topped cane onto the unsuspecting Sumner's head. As Brooks struck again and again, Sumner rose and lurched blindly about the chamber, futilely attempting to protect himself. After a very long minute, it ended.

Bleeding profusely, Sumner was carried away. Brooks walked calmly out of the chamber without being detained by the stunned onlookers. Overnight, both men became heroes in their respective regions.

Surviving a House censure resolution, Brooks resigned, was immediately reelected, and soon thereafter died at age thirty-seven. Sumner recovered slowly and returned to the Senate, where he remained for another eighteen years. The nation, suffering from the breakdown of reasoned discourse that this event symbolized, tumbled onward toward the catastrophe of civil war.

Good new, bad news, and a joke

Good News: Yankees 4; Boston 2; up by 7 1/2 games

Bad News (for Cubbie fans): Houston 3; The team with the wimpy name 2; back by 3 1/2 games

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The joke: (thanks to Laurie)

Sung to the tune of "My Favorite Things" from The Sound Of Music

"Bill Clinton's Favorite Things"

Blow jobs and land deals in backwater places,
Big Macs and french fries and girls with big faces,
Lots of nice cleavage that makes willie spring,
These are a few of my favorite things

Susan McDougal and Gennifer Flowers,
Horny young interns who while 'way the hours,
Profits from futures that Hillary brings,
These are a few of my favorite things

Beating the draft board and getting elected,
Naming to judgeships some hacks I've selected,
Conspiracy theories that blame the right wing,
These are a few of my favorite things

Golfing with Vernon and suborning perjury,
Falling down drunk that required knee surgery
Stars in the White House who come here to sing,
These are a few of my favorite things

Meeting with Boris and Helmut and Tony,
States of the Union with lots of baloney,
Winning debates and the joy of my flings,
These are a few of my favorite things

When that Jones bites,
When Ken Starr stings,
When I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don't feel so bad

Between Iraq And A Hard Place

Do you think Iraqis are a peaceful people who have been driven to brutal killings by American treatment of prisoners or occupation of their country? Do you think Republicans are to blame for the mess we find ourselves in today in Iraq? Do you really believe that dismembering and publicly displaying corpses is out of character for the Iraqi people?

If you answered "Yes" to any of the three questions above then I highly recommend you go visit your public library and read up on Middle Eastern history because your government-sponsored schools didn't teach you a damn thing about modern history.

I made mention of a date in a recent post here and several alert readers inquired about that date and what happened. Here's the scoop, kids. Try not to be too shocked at what you may learn. Our story begins almost 46 years ago in a little country called Iraq ....

On July 14, 1958, a single division of the Iraqi Army led by General Abdul Qarim Qasim (picture below), ostensibly moving through Baghdad to a new location, suddenly attacked the palace and overthrew the government. Armed mobs financed by Egyptian sources emerged, and excited the crowds and instigated bloody vengeance on anyone connected with the Royal Family or government. Before any loyal elements of the army, the British or the Jordanians could intervene, everything was over.

18-year-old King Faisal II of Iraq (picture below) had angered President Nasser of Egypt by refusing to join the Pan-Arab league so the Egyptians set about to remove Faisal, assisting General Qasim in the bloody coup. The young King, the Crown Prince and their female relatives and aides were gunned down in cold blood outside the palace, under the pretence of a truce. The bodies of several prominent figures were dragged through the streets and mutilated in a fashion so barbaric that Iraqis to this day remember with shame the atrocities committed. With a beginning as inauspicious as this, the military regime that replaced the monarchy did not survive better. On October 7, 1959 Saddam Hussein took part in an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Qasim and was shot in the leg and exiled to Egypt.

The 1958 revolution, which toppled the British-installed monarchy, was gruesome and bloody. The regent Abdullah and several members of his family were gunned down in cold blood. The body of his uncle, Abdul Illah (picture below), was dragged through the streets of Baghdad and later dismembered. Prime Minister Nuri es-Said (picture below), long despised as the “puppet” of the British occupiers, tried to escape dressed as a woman but was found two days later and killed. His body was dismembered by the mob, the parts left in the street and motorists drove over his body.

General Qasim was an anti-Westerner, who would later seal his own fate by helping to create OPEC. He also made the mistake of relying on the local Communist Party for support, leaning, politically, towards Russia, and (surprise!) threatening to annex Kuwait. All of these, naturally, caused concern for President Kennedy (a Democrat), and the CIA assisted in the brutal assassination of Qasim on February 8, 1963, and helped bring the oil-company-friendly Ba'ath Party (to which Saddam Hussein belonged) to power.

For you conspiracy theorists out there, later in that same year President Kennedy was assassinated (November 22, 1963) and succeeded by Lyndon Johnson, a Texas oil man (also a Democrat). President Johnson was later driven out of office in 1968 after making a total mess of the quagmire in Vietnam .... where John Kerry served .... in Vietnam .... did I mention that John Kerry served in Vietnam? Did you know that John Kerry is also a Democrat, just like Kennedy and Johnson? John Kerry really has a lot to live down to, doesn't he?

So you see, (1) the war in Iraq started before many of you were born, (2) it was started by Egypt and an American Democratic President, and (3) the butal methods of the Iraqi mobs haven't changed one bit.

Any questions?

King Faisal II	Abdul Ilah (with son)	General Abdul Qarim Qasim

Here is your History Picture Of The Day

Pictured below at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1918 at the end of World War I are:
Prince Faisal I (front), Nuri es-Said (left) and "Lawrence Of Arabia" (right)
(yes, that is the "real" Colonel T.E. Lawrence)



Further Reading On The Web:

1. "The Truly Fucked Up History Of Iraq".
2. "Iraq: The Hashemite Dynasty".
3. "Jordan: Crisis and Realignment".
4. "Timeline: Iraq".
5. "The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1948-1973".
6. "Modern Iraq".
7. "Leaders Of Iraq".
8. "The Devil in the Details: The CIA and Saddam Hussein"

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