Bandwagon Jumpers for Cute Kitty Pictures

Yes, I am a follower. A lemming, if you will. But my miss Freya Elizabeth Scully is the cutest! kitty! ever! Also? She loves to read Television Without Pity. ;)

Swift Boat Fans for Bugging the Crap Out of Retail Workers

Adventures in Retail: Day 257

Stupid Old Fart: Do you have that book about what a liar Kerry is?

Me: *deep breath* *fake smile* We have a lot of books about Senator Kerry. What book would that be, sir?

Stupid Old Fart: Oh you know. The one by them swift boaters.

Me: Unfit for Command? No, sir. We are currently sold out of that.

Stupid Old Fart: *amused chuckle* Of course, of course. That's great.

Me: Uh huh. Your total is blah blah blah.

Stupid Old Fart: *keeps yammering* It's number one on Amazon, you know! I heard that it sold the most copies ever in a day. People gotta know.

Me: *twitch* Sign here please.

Stupid Old Fart: Can you believe he tried to get away with it?

Me: Here's your reciept sir. Have a good afternoon.

Stupid Old Fart: Can't hide from the truth! Can't hide, I tell ya.

Me: Uh huh. Right. Buh bye!

So many people ask for the stupid book, we had to put a sign out. Of course, they aren't very smart, so they miss the sign and I have to explain the situation to them. Then, I have to smile sweetly and resist copying down their order information so I can sign them up for a subscription to Hustler.

I can really do without the smirking when they find out it is sold out, too. First of all, hello, TEXAS! Texans love books full of giant lies. Secondly, the reason it is sold out is because the idiot authors started publisizing it before the publisher actually printed them. And since the publisher was probably too busy attending his Rich Christian White Men for the Downfall of Civilization meetings, they ran out of copies.

The Amazon thing is a bunch of bullshit, as well. It's been well documented that these conservative nutbag books get to be number one because conservative organizations run by people who want to keep all of their money instead of, I don't know, helping their fellow man, buy the book by the thousands. Then they end up in some remainder bin or as giveaways at crazypeople conventions. So please, stop with the being impressed.

The only thing that is keeping me sane from all this is the fact that even guys like Chris Matthews and Bill O'Reilly think it is a bunch of bullshit. BILL O'REILLY thinks they are lying blowhards, people! It's like being called black by a three-thousand ton kettle, okay?

Kos has an excellent entry, quoting the most damaging article on the Swift Boat Liars yet. It is no liberal wanking or media conspiracy. The truth is crystal clear. These men are liars financed by Republicans and the Bush administration refuses to directly refute them. Kerry was right on when he said that Dubya is getting other people to do the dirty work for him, which has pretty much been his modus operandi his whloe life. I hope this backfires in his face. Smirking monkeyfaced fucktard.

Olympic Atheletes Who Love Their War-Torn Country for Truth

Unwilling participants
Iraqi soccer players angered by Bush campaign ads featuring team

"Iraq as a team does not want Mr. Bush to use us for the presidential campaign," Sadir told SI.com through a translator, speaking calmly and directly. "He can find another way to advertise himself."

But you see, he can't find another way. Because if he ran on the truth and on his record, his ads would be very very short.

"To a man, members of the Iraqi Olympic delegation say they are glad that former Olympic committee head Uday Hussein, who was responsible for the serial torture of Iraqi athletes and was killed four months after the U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq in March 2003, is no longer in power.

But they also find it offensive that Bush is using their team for his own gain when they do not support his administration's actions in Iraq. "My problems are not with the American people," says Iraqi soccer coach Adnan Hamad. "They are with what America has done in Iraq: destroy everything. The American army has killed so many people in Iraq. What is freedom when I go to the [national] stadium and there are shootings on the road?"

The Bush campaign was contacted about the Iraqi soccer player's statements, but has yet to respond.

Ha. I can't wait to hear what kind of bullshit Scotty is going to have to spew to answer to them.

I need to work for the Pentagon

Apparently, deadlines are frowned upon there and you can steal as much money as you want without getting in to trouble. Well, if you are friends with Fuck Yourself Dick Cheney.

Pentagon Backs Off Halliburton

The Pentagon backed off its threat not to pay a Halliburton Co. subsidiary for troop support work, instead giving the company more time to justify its bills to the Army.

I might die from shock and surprise here! Except not.

Earlier Tuesday, Houston-based Halliburton had said the government planned to withhold 15 percent of its monthly payment, or about $60 million a month, from the company's KBR subsidiary on a contract to provide meal services, laundry, mail and housing for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

That reversed an announcement Monday, when the company said the Army Materiel Command had given it more time for its subcontractors to prove their costs before implementing a clause in a contract allowing the withholding of payments. Halliburton has already been granted extra time twice.

I dunno about y'all, but when I miss a deadline, I get in trouble. And if I miss it again, I probably get into bigger trouble. And if I miss it again, I GET FIRED!

Theis told The Washington Post in Wednesday's editions that Halliburton received extensions because there is insufficient staff in the government or at the company to review its many bills.

Do they need volunteers? Maybe they could round up the thousands of unemployed workers around the country and get them to look over the bills. OR! How about all of those FBI agents that are running around harrassing peace protestors. Wouldn't their time be more well served by keeping the armed forces from being RAPED UP THE ASS to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars by Cheneyburton? Just a thought.

The company has been awarded more than $6 billion in contracts related to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, but the company has been under fire for allegedly overcharging the government. Halliburton says it is a political target, denies wrongdoing and disputes whether withholding payment is legally justified.

Halliburton said its subsidiary would offset any loss by simply keeping 15 percent from payments to subcontractors.

Oh. That makes so much sense. Screw you guys, you can't mess with our profit! We just won't pay the companies who actually send people over to Iraq in to danger. Yeah! And maybe we can screw some illegal immigrants out of their $2/hr pay, too. Mwaahahaha!

Please please PLEASE explain to me how getting your dick sucked is worse than this? Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerist.

Thanks to the lovely Americablog for the link.

Swift Boat Veterans for Racial Purity

Unfit for Command is published by Regnery Publishing, responsible for books by Ann Coulter and her ilk. Not only that, the heir to the Regnery fortune is about three seconds away from donning a white hood and trotting in town on his swastika draped horse:

Reclusive publishing heir to start all-white dating service

William Regnery II, an heir to the Regnery publishing fortune who's a prime mover and shaker in white nationalism publishing, is moving into a new line of business: match-making for "heterosexual whites of Christian cultural heritage."

Er. Well. That doesn't sound too bad, I guess.

An an appeal to potential investors titled "Population is Destiny," the famously reclusive Regnery wrote this March that the Caucasian dating service would be no ordinary money-making opportunity, but a chance to ensure "the survival of our race," which "depends upon our people marrying, reproducing and parenting."

Regnery, who says he's long been concerned with a "tendency to bachelorhood" among white men, told the potential investors that his latest effort to save the white race would not stop with match-making.

The dating service, he says, will be only the "first arrow in a business quiver" providing "services and products to whites."

Um. This reminds me of something. Oh, right. Nazi Germany. Phew. Thank goodness. That would have bugged me all day!

Promoting white nationalism is nothing new for Regnery — or his family. His grandfather, William I, signed incorporation papers for the America First Committee, an organization that opposed fighting Nazi Germany in World War II. His father, Henry, created Regnery Publishing, one of the major purveyors of books by right-wing attack dogs like Anne Coulter and G. Gordon Liddy.

Oh! If I would have just kept reading, they would have cleared up my confusion

William II has made his mark as a major fundraiser in radical right circles as the founder of the Charles Martel Society in 2001. The society publishes The Occidental Quarterly, an academic-looking journal filled with articles by white-supremacist luminaries such as Sam Francis, editor for the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens and Wayne Lutton of the hate group The Social Contract Press.

The society is putting together conferences, summer schools and a speaker's bureau — all designed to push Regnery's view that the white race is veering toward extinction.

I certainly hope Regnery's type of white race is veering toward exctintion. Jeesh.

Just when you think the Swift Boat Veterans for Lies and Racism can't get any worse, they sink to a new and frightlingly deep end of the ocean.

Props to Oliver Willis and xoverboard for the info.

Texas: Everything's bigger. Except the wind. And the tolerance level.

Controversial "Windy Man" Sculpture defaced

Yes, in the great state of Texas, art that is not Jesus-centered is considered offensive and must be destroyed. So much for celebrating diversity, religious choice and all the jazz. Give me Jesus on my freeways or give me death! That should totally go on the license plates here. Right next to the big star and the picture of the space shuttle.

Jesus General has kindly reprinted some of the rational and not-at-all hysterically overblown letters written by Lubbock residents regarding this issue.

And she makes a mean creme brule, too!

"I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat. "

Her thoughts on political issues are no less confident than her judgments on food.

Regarding President George W Bush: "I've nothing to say about him except that I am appalled that he was chosen by our people to be president."

- Julia Child, in one of her last interviews

Fear not, Julia. We didn't choose him. The Supreme Court and that lying biatch from Florida did. We'll correct that mistake for you in November.

Thanks to Body & Soul for the link.