The Heretik

WOOLY BULLY JOHN AND THE PRESIDENT'S BIKE

UPDATED 1 PM  EST MAY 12, 2005

 

 
WOOLY BULLY MAY EAT SOME HUMBLE PIE
So Raw Story reports that Larry Flynt reports that John Bolton’s ex-wife may have reported to the divorce court that she may have requested a divorce because her ex husband may have had a group of sex problems, one of which being that she had a problem being bullied into sex in front of a group.  That’s quite a mouthful.  Bolton may be eating some serious sh*t soon.  Not to be too righteous about the too to the right Right Man for the UN, but The Heretik hopes Bolton has a big appetite the next time he eats at the bully buffet and saves room for some humble pie.

ACTUALLY THEY WERE GOING TO WAIT UNTIL
After  the President Woke  Up from his  Nap.  And Had His Milk and Cookie
This story of the threatening single engine plane over Washington got splashed all over the news yesterday.  The last person to find out about it was the bike riding President Bush. They sent two F 16s and some helicopters up to get this single engine plane.  One F 16 apparently is not enough.

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES:WASHINGTON, May 11 - A single-engine plane bearing down on Washington without clearance prompted a frantic evacuation of the Capitol, the Supreme Court and the White House on Wednesday. President Bush was not told of the threat until he finished a bicycle ride at a Maryland wildlife center, nearly 40 minutes after the plane had been forced to turn away, administration officials said.

Scott McClellan would not confirm whether the President had Oreos or chocolate chips with his milk after saving America on his bike.

BUSH GETS GREASED AND OTHER McKRAP TM

Wit is educated insolence.
aristotle

UPDATED APRIL 27, 2005
 


You Want to Give Me Your Oil?
Okay, Fine.  Whatever Works for You, Bandar.
But no matter what happens tonight, tomorrow I will still be against gay marriage.

What do attorneys use for birth control?
Their personalities.
from Liz at Blondesense


Negroponte Reporting for Duty, Lord Vader
Let the Emperor Know I Will Do What's Necessary
 

That Coldsore Woman and Other Afflictions

Wit is educated insolence.
aristotle

UPDATED APRIL 20, 2005

TIME SLIPS AWAY.
At least the magazine is.

FROM TIDMUS


FROM MS TAKEN

Liberals!   You are such freedom loving fools!  Even with your elitist educations, can you not tell the difference between Ann Coulter and moi-meme, pardon my French but for once it applies.  My name is Anne Coldsore!  My intensity shall not be confused with her insanity!  Must I invade your internets and kill your leaders and convert you?  I would say a word to the unwise is sufficient.  Thank you.

FORWARDED BY BLONDESENSE LIZ

FROM GREAT SCAT AND RISING HEGEMON

These worshippers think this is the  Virgin Mary. The Heretik thinks there is a poetic term for using the part for the whole, but not the other way around.

 

From the Same People Who Brought You a Cartoon President!

 



YOUR GOVERNMENT THINKS OUR COMICS CAN KICK THEIR COMICS' ARAB ASS.
The Heretik is not making this up, although he wishes he did.

In the battle for the minds of young Middle Eastern Minds, the United States Government is  . . . . fighting back with . . . . a comic book!  I got news for you.  Jalila could beat some serious cartoonish real life Bush twins Jenna and Barbara type ass.  She will have no problem with actual cartoons either.

FROM THE BBC: US TO PRODUCE MIDEAST COMIC

The US military is planning to win the hearts of young people in the Middle East by publishing a new comic.  An advertisement on the US government's Federal Business Opportunities website is inviting applications for someone to develop an "original comic book series".

"In order to achieve long-term peace and stability in the Middle East, the youth need to be reached," the ad says.

"A series of comic books provides the opportunity for youth to learn lessons, develop role models and improve their education."

'Psyops'

The comic is to be a collaborative effort with the US Army, which says it has already done initial character and plot development.

It will be based on "the security forces, military and police, in the near future in the Middle East" and is being produced by US Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

Fort Bragg is home to the army's 4th Psychological Operations Group, known as "psy-op warriors", whose weaponry includes radio transmitters, loudspeakers and leaflets.

THIS JUST IN: The Heretik has learned the Fort Bragg Group  is changing its name to better foster victory in the Comic Wars.  Nobody understands Psy-Op Warriors.  From now on they will be known as the Psycho Warlords.  Kewl!
But just wait until they run into Jalila.
 

 

 



Jalila
Savior of City of All Faiths.

Name / Alter Ego.
Jalila / Dr. Ansam Dajani.
Origins / background story.
She was the sole survivor in Dimondona blast when she was16 , at the end of the 55 -Year War, thanks to a radiation suit designed by her father. Her two brothers were spared, having been visiting relatives in another city.
Not only was she orphaned she had to bear the responsibility of raising her two younger brothers. (One is a drug addict and the other is involved with a terrorist group)
Place of birth / residence.
City of All Faiths.
Day job of alter ego.
Nuclear scientist.
Supernatural Powers.
Flying.
Harness and control nuclear radiation.
Penetrating vision and hearing powers.
How were the powers acquired (born with them -given as a gift- result of an accident). The suit that her father designed was only to protect against radiation, and not a full nuclear explosion, so the effects on her were unexpected; she gained extraordinary super human powers.
Weapons - mechanical devices - means of transportation
Stabilizers on her wrists and hips helps her to control and harness nuclear radiation.
Weaknesses
Ultra Violet Radiation drains her powers.
Her brothers Raed and Khaled.
Without the suit she can not control or direct radiations.
Character Flaws.
Over protective.
Arch enemies.
Aton.

Life Long McGuffin.  Her parents were both scientists and had spent their entire lives trying to devise a protective shield for the City of All Faiths. Jalila vows to complete her parent's unfinished device as she uses her great powers to protect her city from destructive forces, such as the United Liberation Force and the Zios Army, who are still clinging to their extreme views, both wanting to solely control the City of All Faiths. FROM AK COMICS

THE TRAIL: BBC >>> PHIL TAYLOR  >>> IDYLLOPUS >>> HERETIK >>>YOU !

And the Hyenas Suddenly Turned On One of Their Own: SHOWTIME FOR SCHADENFREUDE

UPDATED 9:30 PM EST APRIL 10, 2005



FROM JAYE RAMSEY SUTTER @WINDING ROAD: Doesn't Know Chicken Sh*t from Chicken Salad

The Harvard Business Journal is reporting that our clueless leader, George W. Bush, called Franklin D. Roosevelt a "socialist" for creating Social Security.  Bush made the remarks while enrolled in Harvard Business School.

Roosevelt would have laughed at the confused ideologue who knows rather little about politics, saving the nation, supporting the financial security of the United States.  Thank Gawd Roosevelt created FDIC so the government could bail out Silverado Savings after Bush's brother Neil drove the savings and loan into the ditch. 

Hell, those two boys should have watched It's a Wonderful Life so they could understand the S&L business and the economy.

OY.  THE HERETIK CAN NOT PLAY WITH THIS BUSH WHO TRULY IS IN A LEAGUE OF HIS OWN.
The Bush League of Very Ordinary Gentleman C Idiots: forgive The Heretik. He knows not what he does. . . . I was talking about Bush . . . How long will 9/11 changed everything stop changing the way people look at greed.  These clowns are floating so many logs down the sh*t creek, it is simply astounding the people have not picked up and commented on the odor

PREVIOUSLY: THE HERETIK NOTES WE LIVE IN AN THE AGE OF HYENAS.
The pack would rule.  The pack stalks all the other animals on the political savannah.  The pack even stalks the lion.  Now it seems the hyenas are turning on one another.

FROM JUDD @THINK PROGRESS: SANTORUM: DeLay Has Some Explaining to Do
This morning, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) put some serious daylight between himself and Majority Leader Tom DeLay. From ABC’s This Week:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you think that this is just attacks on him [Tom DeLay] or attacks on the conservative movement, or are there serious issues here that he has to address?

SANTORUM: …If those things were not out there, obviously they wouldn’t be raising them. And so there are issues that he has to deal with personally…I think he has to come forward and lay out what he did and why he did it and let the people then judge for themselves.

WHILE THE HYENAS LAUGH HORRIBLY IN THE COMING FRENZY,
The Heretik knowS his own laugh will be lost in the sound and the fury.  Santorum said DeLay had some explaining to do?

THE TRAIL: THINK PROGRESS >>> nTODD  >>> THE HERETIK >>> YOU!

ON THE FRONTIER OF DISGUST and other McKRAP tm

WHEN HOPE ALMOST FADES, THE HERETIK HEARS OF SAINTS ALIVE, NOW GONE
FROM HILZOY @OBSIDIAN WINGS:
""A real-life Cool Hand Luke…"

"The bravest of the brave…"

"...the greatest man I have ever known..."

These are the words of those who knew Capt. Mbaye Diagne, a young Senegalese army officer who served in Rwanda as an unarmed U.N. military observer. I have never heard another human being described in the way that those who knew Mbaye describe him: he was, as one of his colleagues told me, "the kind of guy you meet once in a lifetime."

He was a hero.

From literally the first hours of the genocide, Capt. Mbaye simply ignored the U.N.'s standing orders not to intervene, and single-handedly began saving lives. He rescued the children of the moderate Prime Minster Agathe Uwilingiyimana, after 25 well-armed Belgian and Ghanaian U.N. peacekeepers surrendered their weapons to Rwandan troops. The Rwandan troops killed Madame Agathe (and, later, ten Belgian peacekeepers), while the unarmed Capt. Mbaye -- acting on his own initiative -- hid the Prime Minister's children in a closet.

In the days and weeks that followed, Capt. Mbaye became a legend among U.N. forces in Kigali. He continued his solo rescue missions, and had an uncanny ability to charm his way past checkpoints full of killers. On one occasion he found a group of 25 Tutsis hiding in a house in Nyamirambo, a Kigali neighborhood that was particularly dangerous. Capt. Mbaye ferried the Tutsis to the U.N. headquarters in groups of five -- on each trip passing through 23 militia checkpoints with a Jeep-load of Tutsis. Somehow, he convinced the killers to let these Tutsis live."

AND THE HERETIK NOTES: This piece has made my day.  Thank you, Jeanne at Body and Soul for pointing me toward Hilzoy. And thank you to Hilzoy  for pointing out someone who with the grace of some light in a soul, with the power and will of conviction makes a mark in this life one life along the way after another.
Sadly this saint who saved so many other at checkpoints died in a mortar blast at a checkpoint, the same point of conscience where he saved so many others.  In this most profane world, yet there are sacred spots where even the most jaded soul most bow his most cynical head and cry.



AS THE HERETIK SO SUSPECTED: Everything really is all connected  in the person of one man.
In the case of Tom Delay, Idyllopus reminds The Heretik that  where there is smoke there is also fire. The Heretik previously  got the word on this from Pearly Gates.  The Clown Prince Tommy Boy will enjoy time in control of everything on earth, but he has a one way ticket for his final vacation.


Image by Idyllopus

AND OY.
NOW I HAVE TO AGREE WITH MICHELLE MALKIN?
But, hey, I'm just a c**t. And a whore. And I should just shut the f**k up. Right?

Oy: Michelle Malkin,so savaged as Maklin by Rox Populi, The Heretik and others on April Fool's Day has a right to have herself parodied, satirized, and desparaged with more imagination.  Small words, small minds . . . .

THE HERETIK IS JUST BLOWN AWAY:
Jeb Bush says he intends sign a bill that "essentially extends a right Floridians already have in their home or car, saying that there's no need to retreat before fighting back. But in public spaces, deadly force can only be used after trying to back off."
THE HERETIK DESPAIRS: Is there some family contest going on to see which Bush brother is the biggest wanker with the smallest um conscience?   O, I feel threatened.  Let's invade Iraq.  O, that guy is looking at me like he might hit me . . . Oy.  And Texas and Florida.  Cual es peor?

FROM DAVID @SIROTABLOG: BUSH CALLED FDR A SOCIALIST . . .
 
      President Bush's professor at Harvard Business School reports in today's Harvard Crimson that Bush "called former president Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, a 'socialist' and spoke against Social Security, unemployment insurance, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other New Deal innovations."

THE HERETIK NOTES: Guess the cat is out of the blog, bag, the Sirota blog.  Perpetually amazed people don't see Bush for what he thinks he is.  Someone who can fool all the people all the time.  Durrrh.  Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, won't get fooled again.  Oy.

FROM AMANDA @PANDAGON: Who Knew that Hunting Humans Might Cause Legal Issues?
Wow, the Minutemen already got into trouble with their cute little illegal immigrant "watch" program. Turns out that it's not going to be fun hunting illegal aliens as they thought, especially when your hunting trophies are going to be inspected to see if there's evidence that treating your fellow human beings like prey might be a criminal matter.

AND THE HERETIK NOTES: We are a nation of immigrants all.  Some came ahead of others.  What the immigrant, illegal or otherwise, always brings, but never packed in a small bag is hope.  Hope comes with the immigrant.  Hope remains for the society that welcomes it.  The despair of small minds decays our great society.

The Heretik On John Paul the Second: The Vulture Is Not the Bird of Heaven

ALL POPE ALL THE TIME CONTINUES UPDATED TUESDAY 1 PM APRIL 5, 2005
FOR THOSE COMING OVER FROM BITCH PH.d, The Heretik has bumped himself to the front of line.  A NOTE: this post will continue to expand all week.  So check back for updates.  The Link will appear in upper right side of page in APRIL TOP TEN.

THE HERETIK COMES NOT TO PRAISE THE POPE, BUT TO BURY HIM.
The themes repeat: What are the eternal truths in each passing age? We live in an Age of Darkness.  Who holds a light for the entire world? Much can be said for Pope John Paul  the Second for his flaws and he was not without them. The Heretik will leave it to others to list his more backward views.  Blame is easily assigned and rarely shared.

Credit is stolen and rarely given.  Not Reagan. Not Bush the Elder. John Paul the Second  and his voice once booming, now silent, blew down the Berlin Wall and let loose the flood of freedom in Eastern Europe. Not Reagan, Not Bush the Elder nor the  Younger.  John Paul the Second spoke up for human rights for politically oppressed people's around the world.  If women are fifty one percent of the population, some will say he was not quite half right

John Paul the Second's sins remain on earth as all sins do.  May we bury them with his body. And as what good he did flies to heaven, may some yet remain here on earth.

Some other great writers have had pre and post death comments on the death of Pope John Paul the Second.  The Heretik will add more as this day goes on.
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FACTESQUE HAS A TON OF MORE POPERY FROM OTHER WRITERS plus this comment.
While the corporate media is stuck in its rut of whitewashing the Pope's career, bloggers who actually know something about that topic, are writing up a storm.

FROM LINNET @LOOKING AT STARS : A DILEMMA
I'm not sure how I, as a good theocon and future happy Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, should feel about this.

On the one hand, the Pope is a hellbound Mary-worshipper, and he's on the short list of people likely to be the Anti-christ.
HERETIK NOTE: Linnet now writes regularly at Big Brass Blog

MORE FROM WHO ELSE BUT JEANNE@ BODY AND SOUL: On the Pope, the Death Penalty, and His Access
Yes, but the pope himself wrote a letter that was  read in one of the yearly meetings of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops. He said in this letter that liberation theology was not only opportune  but necessary to the theological evolution of the church.
Jeanne links to Helen Prejean on the death penalty , Cardinal Evastio Arns on Liberation Theology , and offers laments the assassination death Archbishop Oscar Romero, previously noted by The Heretik here.  Thanks, Jeanne.
MORE FROM From ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES :  About the Pope, with a Frown
It was the policies of the church that he pushed for which made condoms unacceptable for Catholics in African AIDS-stricken countries. It is probably not possible to measure how many lives could have been saved by a more liberal Catholic church, but this does not mean those lives were not lost.

The pope's social conservatism may have made him close his eyes to the pederasty scandal in the American church, too. It's as if the church was more important for him than the people it was intended to serve here.

John Paul II was, if anything, consistent in his limited view of women (not equal to men) and their allowed roles (mothers and nuns) in this world and in his policies towards gays and lesbians (you must not exist). He showed very little mercy and love in these areas.

MORE FROM From JO(E)'S PAGE :  Legacy
In 1978, Karol Wojtyla became John Paul II.  And those doors slammed shut.  For women, at least.

In 1994 the pope came out with a definitive statement against the ordination of women to the priesthood. If fact, John Paul II was so sure that he knew the mind of Christ, that he was making this teaching a central tenet of the Catholic faith: women may not ever represent God at the altar. In 1998 this papal edict was placed within canon law as a teaching that cannot be denied or opposed, and one subject to the ultimate penalty of excommunication from the Catholic Church. The edict that women should never be priests has become an article of faith for Catholics, one that will continue even after the death of the pope.

During John Paul II's reign as pope, the conversation about women becoming spiritual leaders in the Catholic Church was shut down. For eternity.

MORE FROM From JEANNE@ BODY AND SOUL:  Death Watch
Under John Paul II, this Church has renewed and elaborated its tendency to be an intellectual bully, silencing explorers and dissenters. As a recent editorial in National Catholic Reporter suggests, it isn't just the censored theologians who are hurt:

Part of the harm results from a kind of trickle-down effect that flows from silencings, book bannings and condemnations. Individuals far from Rome and  the rigors of a doctrine office have taken the cause of preserving  “orthodoxy,” as they perceive it, into their own hands. Priests and  church workers in every diocese have their stories of those who show up at Mass  and during parish missions, at lectures and workshops, sometimes boldly  interrupting proceedings, because they perceive “heresy” or worse is  in the air.

NOTE: THE HERETIK'S EARS ALWAZE BURN WHEN THE WORD IS MENTIONED.  For soon after this word is heard, all heretiks are burned.

NEW FROM From The Amused Guy @MUSING'S MUSINGS
Among the things which redound to his credit, I would have to number the following at a minimum:

• Forgiving and meeting with Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish man who nearly killed him in 1981
• Admitting, albeit grievously after the fact, that the Church's persecution of Galileo was unjust
• Admitting the Church's complicity in the persecution of Jews during the Second World War, and apologizing for it--along with visiting synagogues in Rome and the Western Wall in Jerusalem
• Reaching out to Muslim and Jewish people in an attempt to heal some of the wounds affecting the People of the Book
• Apologizing to women for the centuries of treating them as second-class citizens--though in my estimation he should have gone farther and allowed them to participate fully in the ministry as ordained priests: and not just when the Church needed them to get around Communist dictators or other obstructionists

I disagreed with many of the man's policies: but never cavalierly or without proper and careful thought, reflection, and prayer. John Paul II was not perfect--as a man or as pope--far from it.

UPDATED SUNDAY 7 AM APRIL 3, 2005
 NEW FROM From Pissed Off  Patricia @BLONDESENSE:

Okay, I’m not a religious person and all, but I have a question. If the Pope, who is supposed to be God’s own Catholic right hand man, needs prayer from everyone, what do the rest of the Catholics, or anyone else for that matter, need to get to heaven? I mean if the most holy needs prayers to enter the promised land, seems to me that everyone else doesn’t have a prayer of a chance.

NEW FROM From JEANNE@ BODY AND SOUL:  Death Watch

Keeping one eye on the papal death watch on CNN, I'm having flahsbacks to  the nearly simultaneous deaths of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa, and thinking how seductive the death of celebrities -- even recently created ones, celebrities created in the process of their dying -- can be to the press. And just as the way the tawdry and overwrought circus that surrounded Princess Diana's death gave way to guilt-induced coverage of Mother Teresa, the death-bed fights and nasty comments and camera-hogging are giving way to ancient ritual. Nobody does ritual quite as well as Catholics.

FIRST POSTED SATURDAY APRIL 2, 2005

From BITTERSHACK: on the Pope's Inevitable Death
And another thing. Why are people so sad? I mean, if all that Christian stuff is true, isn't the guy about to go to paradise? And be like a big cheese among big cheeses? And isn't the poor guy's pain and suffering going to end? I mean, this should be a happy time. Seems selfish and unChristian to think of it any other way. I mean, sure the Pope has said that i am a sinner and a pervert and that I will burn in hell because I'm a lesbian and I support abortion rights, but other than that -- and I'm being honest here -- I think he's a pretty cool guy. You know, for a Pope. So I'm thinking, let the poor guy die already.He's suffered enough.

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THE HERETIK COMES NOT TO PRAISE THE POPE, BUT TO BURY HIM.
The themes repeat: What are the eternal truths in each passing age? We live in an Age of Darkness.  Who holds a light for the entire world? Much can be said for Pope John Paul  the Second for his flaws and he was not without them. The Heretik will leave it to others to list his more backward views.  Blame is easily assigned and rarely shared.

Credit is stolen and rarely given.  Not Reagan. Not Bush the Elder. John Paul the Second  and his voice once booming, now silent, blew down the Berlin Wall and let loose the flood of freedom in Eastern Europe. Not Reagan, Not Bush the Elder nor the  Younger.  John Paul the Second  spoke up for human rights for politically oppressed people's around the world.  If women are fifty one percent of the population, some will say he was not quite half right

John Paul the Second's sins remain on earth as all sins do.  May we bury them with his body. And as what good he did flies to heaven, may some yet remain here on earth.

new 7AM April 3 , 2005
THE HERETIK HAD SOME COMMENTS, LIKE ANYONE COULD STOP HIM FROM RUNNING HIS MOUTH

I am always amazed how people are so quick embrace distant celebrities only to slap away needy faces closer to home.

Voyeurism for the well off unknown is a wasted energy of the spirit akin to what happens when our best minds go to work for the worst entities in our society.

The small choices we make when collected have their effect. Everything is of a piece. May we all end up with the peace of mind that comes from having done our very best every chance we get.

 

new 7AM April 3 , 2005
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WHO DO YOU THINK HAS MOST VULTURED THE NEWS OF THE LAST FEW DAYS?  SCHIAVO CHEWING? POPE PUNDIDIOCY?  ANY TOPIC ?  ANY TIME?

Vote for an entire network if you want!  CNN! FOX???  Rather Less CBS?  You report, We decide TM.

Vote for your favorite news um personality!  Judy "Even I Know I Was Better When I Was at PBS" Woodruff!  Bill "I Just Want to Share My Loofah" O'Reilly??????? You report, we decide TM

 

BUSH IS GOD damn it!

Sometimes satire is a stiletto, sometimes it takes a sledgehammer. Oy.

BOOK OF REVELATION COMPLETE!
Earl Bockenfeld pointed The Heretik in the right direction on this!
Bush clearly is The Chosen One to lead The New Chosen People.  The New Chosen People TM are currently on world tour, kicking ass in concert halls from Afghanistan to Iraq to right here at home . .  . at least the haven't come home quite yet.  Or have they.  Tune in later tonight for an update on the latest front in the Bush Admin's War on Everything.  Note: On Fox, they are calling it HOLY WAR TODAY! The Sacred vs The Profane. 

More juicy bits from Earl from Bush Who Gets and Gets It Good from God.

During Bush's first term, he was to appear at Eisenhower Park in Nassau Country.  The White House sent down through the Secret Service orders to the park workers:

"The president's feet are not to touch the dirt."

He doesn't want his feet on the ground and he was attending a groundbreaking ceremony.  There's something VERY strange and disturbing about this that you may not realize:  It's messianic.  The exact same thing is said of Christ's return in Jerusalem until certain prophecies are fulfilled.  Given this guy's obvious God-complex, I find this disturbingly meaningful.

Earl Bockenfeld knows his stuff.  The Heretik is going to try to steal as much of it as he can.  Here's more.

During the first Roadmap to peace in the Middle East, Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas had an amazing quote from a conversation with George Bush:

"God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East.  If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."

That last little bit got almost no play (rhymes with Yoplait) in the press when it was said.  Now we are all eating so sour NoPlait Yogurt.  Mommy, why does my stomach   .. . . Mommy, I think I'm gonna throw up . . . . Son, look what you've done!. . . . You have thrown up all over the carpet . ..  all over my nice new Middle East .. . .Just you wait til your father gets home.  Oy.

From the Brain Deadman Doctor Walking File

Sometimes satire is a stiletto, sometimes it takes a sledgehammer. Oy.

FRIST COULD GET FROSTED
The Heretik notes the following with a certain ha, ha, ho, ho, wo,wo wonder
from PANDAGON

As a proud member of the Culture of Death (t-shirts on the way!), when I hear that Republicans who don't want to believe a Republican could draft a shitheaded memo are declaring it a forgery, I have only one solution. Find the asshole who drew it up and kill him. No matter who, kill 'em. If it was a Republican, which it most likely was, kill him twice.

The Blair Bush Bash (and Other McKRAP tm)

Sometimes satire is a stiletto, sometimes it takes a sledgehammer. Oy.

THE BLAIR BUSH BASH
The Heretik notes the following with a certain bashful glee.
from the BBC:

Mr Blair said faith was very important on a personal level but could quickly become misinterpreted.

"I don't want to end up with an American-style type ofpolitics with us all going out there and beating our chests about our faith," he said.
People were defined by their faith but it was "a bit unhealthy" if it became used in the political process.

WHO SAYS CONDI CANDI DON'T TASTE SO SWEET?
The Heretik notes the following with a bitter sweet taste in his mouth.
 
Condoleezza Rice, the United States Secretary of State, has made a not so veiled threat to Pyongyang about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea facing  other options if it does not cooperate in talks over its nuclear plans. . . .

The Foreign Ministry of this
country (?????) stated recently that "It is utterly illogical for the U.S. to argue about the prospect of the resumption of the six-party talks while declaring that it would seek the overthrow of the system of the DPRK to the very end, adding that "It is not only quite natural but alsoworthy of being proud of that the DPRK makes nukes for self-defense when the U.S. threatens it with a preemptive attack while boasting of nuclear predominance."
The question is not the attitude of the DPR Korea, but rather that of Washington. Basically, start behaving in a manner which goes hand in hand with international law, stop threatening other countries, stop using bullying and blackmail and start gaining more friends.  Condoleezza Rice also raised the issue of human rights within China, yet again providing fuel for the notion that she is the most absurd figure ever to have headed US diplomacy. How can this lady speak about human rights when she represents a country which has committed institutional acts of torture in two continents, when its legions have slaughtered tens of thousands of civilians in an illegal war?
Maybe Condoleezza Rice forgot to look at the photographs where US military personnel were committingacts of sodomy and sexual depravity against Iraqis in Abu Ghraib, before she made her comments about human rights. Maybe Condoleezza Rice forgot to take a look at those horrific scenes of civilians murdered by the armed forces of the country she represents.
And she speaks about human rights?
from  PRAVDA (????? RUSSIA !!!!!)

I love the smell of satire in the morning.  It smells . . . like victory.  Some day this war is gonna end.