Perle of Wisdom

"I will be surprised if we do not see a square in Baghdad named after this president." --Richard Perle, ex-Pentagon advisor

[ ] <-- G.W. Bush Square

I can see it now. A beautiful cobbled open space in the heart of downtown. Surrounded by cafes, souveneir shops, perhaps a McDonalds.

But I've got a better name for the square. 1,644 Soldiers Square.

These are the people that deserve a square named after them. Not GW. All GW did was throw our troops into battle without body armor. Our troops are the heroes. Not Bush, who sleeps every night on silk sheets next to his wife, while our soldiers write letters home while lying on their standard issue cots.

1,644 have died so far. And lets not forget who put them in harms way, with inadequate armor, planning and support.

The same way we don't honor the British commanders that sent Austrailian troops to their deaths at Gallipoli, we shouldn't honor Bush for rushing to war, and in the process, overlooking things that could have saved lives.

Someone threw a shoe at Perle when he made his speech. Yeah, I know, "who throws a shoe, honestly," but I applaud the shoe assailant, even though he missed worse than the guys who tried to face-pie Ann Coocher. After all, it made a great point.

Not even a sweaty shoe stinks worse than the Bush party rhetoric.

A Note To Howard Dean

Hey Howard. Just heard you were chosen to be the chairman of the Democratic party. Talk about your fixer-uppers. I'm writing because I think I can help. Why should you listen to me? Well, for one, I don't think the scream was that bad.

Yeah, ok. Yeee-hahh may not play well in an increasingly cynical media. But its real. And in these times, we need more unbridled personality from our politicians. And it can't be forced. I mean, Kerry throwing a football around at an airport? Yeah, that looks natural.

But you should also listen to me because I am a spy. That's right. I'm a spy into the hearts and minds of those red staters that voted the antichrist into office. In my job I read dozens of letters from these people, some of whom, are, admittedly, off their brain stems entirely.

However, there are common themes running throughout their complaints to my publication. Valid complaints. They're complaints about things Democrats used to also complain about, before we got too tied up in the semantics of abortion and gay rights, trying to have it both ways. What are these complaints? What do the red staters (and most blue staters as well) hate?

1. Drug companies.
2. Rich people.
3. Government breathing down their necks.
4. The Media
5. Ben Affleck

So heres the plan. We need to make clear the Democratic party is against the big drug companies. We need to make clear we despise rich people. And we need to let everyone know we'll stay out of their business.

And more importantly, we need to unmask the Republicans for what they really are: Rich, powerful people in bed with Big Drug, out to rule peoples lives.

I mean, isn't that what Republican policies favor? So lets call them on it.

The following policies, which we can campaign for, would go over big in winning a lot of people.

Outlaw Drug Advertisements

You did it to cigarettes. No liquor ads are allowed on TV. No drug ads equal lower prices on drugs, more money on research. And less annoyed people.

Expand Medicare, Pell Grants, etc. etc. etc.

Anything that helps the poor, go for it. To pay for it, tax the rich. Remember, no matter how much money those donors have, they still have only one vote each. (except the guy from Diebold)

Vote For Smaller Government In Private Matters

Bush has expanded the role of government in people's lives more than any U.S. president. Republicans used to be about deregulation. Now they're gettin all up in people's grilles. Exploit that.

Regulate Corporate Ownership

Yeah, I know, I said smaller government. But not when it comes to corporations. That includes the media. We need to open up the economy, and the airwaves, to more people with more voices. More voices is good for the Democratic party. Republicans don't like dissent.

Don't Hang Out With Celebrities

A focus group I went to hated every celebrity cover we pitched. They enjoyed sunflowers. Bottom line, we may read about them, watch them, steal their underwear, but we don't like to be told what to do by them. Ben Affleck? No one respects him. Michael Moore? No one respects him. The Boss? I respect him, but a lot of people don't. If you go for a celebrity, it better be Jesus or Oprah, because any other is going to cause some sort of disdain.

So that's my advice. Take it or leave it. After you I'm going to Kerry. And then I'm going to Edwards. And Hillary and then we're going to CLARK AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO THE WHITE HOUSE YEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

Peace dog,

Adam

There Is A God

Turns out that conservative nutcase Alan Keyes, who has railed against the immorality of homosexuality, has a lesbian daughter.


Alan Keyes's Daughter

When he found out, Keyes kicked his daughter out of the house, and refuses to speak to her.

Now that's an example of Christian love!!

Geez. Ok, you can be against gay marraige, but a little tolerance here people? This is his daughter, his own flesh and blood, and he disowns her?

WWJD?

Oh hate. Funny thing about it. It always comes back to bite you in the ass in the most ironic ways.

I Swear I Didn't Make This Up

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas woman indicted last month for allegedly giving her husband a lethal sherry enema said he was an enema addict who did it to himself, a newspaper reported Thursday.



Tammy Jean Warner said late husband Michael Warner had an alcohol problem and enjoyed giving himself wine or sherry enemas because his body would absorb the spirits more quickly that way.


"That's the way he went out and I'm sure that's the way he wanted to go out because he loved his enemas," she told the Houston Chronicle.


Michael Warner, 58, died on May 21 and was found to have a blood alcohol level of 0.47 percent, or nearly six times the level considered too drunk to drive in Texas.


Mrs. Warner, 42, is accused of giving her husband a sherry enema even though she knew alcohol was bad for this health and faces a charge of criminally negligent homicide.


"There's no way I could have gave my husband that enema, no way," she said.


Police in Lake Jackson, Texas, 40 miles south of Houston, said there was evidence that Mr. Warner had received two large bottles of sherry.


"It all started back when he was a child," Mrs. Warner explained. "His mother used to give him enemas all the time, and he started to depend on them."


"He did coffee enemas, he did Castile soap, Ivory soap," she said. "He had enema recipes."


Mrs. Warner, a former bartender who got married to Warner in October 2002, is also charged with destroying his will, but she denied the charge, the Chronicle said.


Currently free on $30,000 bail, she is scheduled to go to trial in July. If convicted, she faces up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine on each charge.
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Wow.

Axis of Evil

Has Bush's rhetoric and harsh dealings with other nations led us to the brink of nuclear holocaust?

I don't know. You decide.

North Korea has the bomb.

Yeah, that's right. They just announced it today. Anyone who actually read the news knew this was going to happen. Everyone, it seems, except President Bush.

The funny thing is, Bush directly caused this to happen.

When he included North Korea in his famous "Axis of Evil," he also cut off U.S. aid that had been going to the impoverished nation. He also incited the paranoia (perhaps justafiable) in ol' Kim Jonggy that the U.S. would soon attack.

When you push, sometimes they push back.

And although Bush claims North Korea had restarted its weapons program before the U.S. cut off aid and branded them evil, can we really trust any of the intelligence Bush used during his run up to the "War on Iraq... I mean Terror?"

The truth is, while we were searching for imaginary weapons in Iraq, North Korea was very loudly building an arsenal. This was the worst kept secret since Rachael-Ross getting back together at the end of Friends. C'mon, we just knew it was gonna happen.

North Korea was begging to be stopped. They had a simple condition. Lift the sanctions we imposed on them for having a non-existent nuclear program, and they'd go back to having a non-existent nuclear program.

Instead, we invited them to six-party talks. Which sounds fun, but while Russia can kick back the vodka, the entertainment is usually pretty lame.

North Korea wanted to talk one-on-one, but there was little chance of that happening. Bush wouldn't even speak to our own 9/11 commision alone.

And now they have the bomb.

What I realized from all this is that Bush never actually thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Cause the ones that do, he would never engage. He's not going to go to war in Korea, he's not going to attack Pakistan, despite the fact that Bin Laden has many supporters there.

He may go after Iran, which hasn't been proven to have nuclear weapons.

It seems like all part of his plan. Attack countries with no weapons to scare the one's who have weapons into making more.

Seems reasonable... oh heck, i'm going down to my bomb shelter.