From The Compassionate Conservative Wartime President

• LEAVE HIM ALONE! You are lucky he even presidented for you BASTARDS!
  LEAVE BUSHY ALONE!…..Please.

UPDATE: OYG they are so fucking stupid:

The two most widely recognized symbols of Islam are the crescent and the sword. Kind of amusing that Barack Hussein Obama’s campaign logo can be seen to feature both a crescent and a curved Islamic scimitar:

Obama definitely deserves to be made fun of for having a fairly obvious crescent shape in his logo, given his efforts to convince the public that he is not Muslim.

You'd have to hold the Extra-Special Olympics in Chernobyl to get this level of retardation.

But I suspect the whole "Islamanchurian Candidate" thing will work for McCain (even as his disavows it), they can have their grunts on the ground level peddling it like the above to the basest parts of the base and for higher up on the food chain a slightly more refined version:

"If he was born and raised a Muslim and is now hiding that fact, this points to a major deceit, a fundamental misrepresentation about himself that has profound implications about his character and his suitability as president."

$500.00 back on my taxes!

I love my accountant, after I got slaughtered one year to the tune of 3k he set up some shelters and other tricks of his trade to soften the blow. He tried to explain what it was that he did but stopped when he noticed that my eyes had glazed over as I was being entertained by the symbol banging monkey in my head.

Just tell me what to bits of paper to give you and what bits of paper to sign and how many children with MS I’ve adopted this year and let me be on my way to someplace more interesting.

Death and taxes are not only unavoidable but they’re both equally dull as are those who take care of the details. Think about it; if you were invited to an accountant and undertaker party would you go?

The United States has warned Beijing over reported use of Chinese weapons by insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the Asian giant's continued sale of arms to Iran, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said.

When America does it not so much:

Despite several investigations into what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal in 1980s, many documents about Negroponte’s involvement remained classified, outside public knowledge. Some of that information bubbled to the surface in September 2001 when Negroponte was facing confirmation to be Bush’s ambassador to the United Nations.

I really don't get why they're bothering to trump up reasons for war with Iran, justification is so unnecessary now, this is Bush's America they can kill whomever they like whenever they feel the urge. The rational is tertiary if not unimportant.

But Bush better get a move on, only a few more months to get more blood flowing otherwise President McCain will steal his rolling thunder when he gets his war on.

Marijuana popular among educated, middle-class Canadians: study

A variety of educated, middle-class Canadians are "making a conscious but careful choice to use marijuana" to relax or focus on leisure activities, say researchers behind a new study spotlighting pot smoking behind the nation's picket fences.

These people might drive minivans to their full-time jobs or run a household, but come time to unwind, it's not Dr. Phil who's calming their nerves.

"It's an illegal activity, so it's still something people do in secret, usually in the privacy of their own home," says Geraint Osborne, whose study is published in the spring edition of the journal Substance Use and Misuse. "They're a little reluctant to come forward and talk about it, using the phrase that they're still 'in the closet.'"

Well not everyone.

I don’t think I can step outside without catching the warm smell of colitis rising up through the air somewhere in this town. Captial city of the world weed captial so small wonder and amazingly Canada has not collapsed into a commune of dirty fucking hippies spending their days listening to punk rock music and bad-mouthing their country.

The reality is weed doesn’t do anything to anyone’s life good or bad, it’s just a great way to unwind after a long day.

Well that and video games, really those are two industries that need each other like no other.

But despite the fact that everyone does it the Authoritahs! still need to jump out of the dark screaming “Booga! Booga!”:

Chronic marijuana use may affect the heart's health as well as the brain's. A study published yesterday in the journal Molecular Psychiatry found that chronic marijuana users—those who smoke on average nearly every day—may up their risk of both heart attack and stroke. That finding comes on the heels of a government report that linked pot use to psychiatric problems, including depression.

Wow. It took a study to determine that heavy use of something might be bad?

Couldn't one say the same about someone who eats at McDonald's everyday or pretty much any consumable never mind the legal drugs of tabbacco and alchohol? Generally in life anything extreme is in one way or another detrimental to one's mental and or physical health, grass no exception I imagine.

I think they're aware of this reality because:

The study did not analyze occasional or recreational use of the drug.

So. They studied the extreme minority and found that there may be a problem but didn't bother to check out the average use on the average user.

Chee, I wonder why?

McCain predicts Iraq War over by 2013

How can America not vote for this man and his plan?

Sen. John McCain envisions that by 2013, the Iraq War will be won but the threat from the Taliban in Afghanistan won't yet be eliminated, even though Osama bin Laden will have been captured or killed.

I envision that by 2013 I will be wrapping up post-production on "Dawn of the Vampire Slayer" while star and live-in girlfriend Michelle Trachtenberg mud wrestles with Tina Fey for my affections in my palatial Hollywood mansion.

Envisioning is fun, no reality required.

Here's my prediction for 2013; President McCain is getting ready to win a second term with speeches talking about how by 2018 the Iraq War will be won but the threat from the Taliban and in Afghanistan won't yet be eliminated, even though Osama bin Laden died peacefully in his sleep laughing all the way.

And all the Americans who voted for Bush last term will buy it, McCain will be a shot at redemption, another chance to prove that the Iraq invasion was the greatest idea evah!

The funny thing is Obama isn't going to pull anything out of anywhere. He may know Iraq's lost but if he pulls out the troops the day after everything bad that happens in Iraq will forever be his fault. The GOP's new meme will be "We were winning! Until President Obama made us stop!" and America's fevered ego will be forced to agree.

So for the next very long time one or two American soldiers will die each day to protect America's self-image in general and the legacy of politicians in specific.

Well that's one way to serve your country.

I guess.

Says me and Albert Einstein! Thank you very much. Albo and I happen to agree on this one.

Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear

U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of Americans killed in the war in Iraq.
"I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf," Bush said in an interview with Yahoo and Politico.com.

"I feel I owe it to the families to be as -- to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal," he said.

Bush said his last round of golf was in August 2003 when he was informed that a truck bomb had wrecked the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing 22 people, including U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello.
"They pulled me off the golf course and I said, it's just not worth it anymore to do," Bush said.

Wow. I'm sure all the Iraqis and soldiers that have been maimed and killed take comfort and appreciate Chimpy's sacrifice. No golf! The poor brave Dear Leader, why hasn't the Mount Rushmore addition been started?!

But here's the thing, we've heard all this happy crappy before:

People who know Bush well say the strain of war is palpable. He rarely jokes with staffers these days and occasionally startles them with sarcastic putdowns. He's being hard on himself; he gave up sweets just before the war began.

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So Bush gave up his one indulgence: sweets. It worked; he's losing weight and improving his time.

In fact that whole article from 2003 is a treasure trove of Bush bullshit:

It's widely assumed that one reason Bush wants to rid the world of Saddam Hussein is to complete the mission his father, former president George Bush, began in 1991. The senior Bush led a coalition to eject Iraqi troops that had invaded Kuwait, but knowing that the U.N.-backed alliance was formed solely to liberate the country, he decided against going on to Baghdad to remove Saddam from power. People who know both men say this war isn't about vengeance. "It's not personal," one Bush aide says.

Uh huh:

Saddam tried to kill my dad, says Bush

This one is lol:

The president reads newspapers first thing in the morning, flipping through some of them while he's still in the White House residence instead of waiting for clippings assembled by aides. Through the day, he regularly watches war coverage on the nearest TV, which is in the private dining room next to the Oval Office. He knows when heavy bombardments of Baghdad are scheduled and sometimes tunes in to see them.

And by that he means:

President Bush recently gave an hour-long exclusive interview to Fox TV anchor Brit Hume, who tossed him a series of softball questions.

Among them, Bush was asked how he gets his news. Answer: He relies on briefings by chief of staff Andrew Card and national security affairs adviser Condoleezza Rice.

He walks into the Oval Office in the morning, Bush said, and asks Card: "What's in the newspapers worth worrying about? I glance at the headlines just to kind of (get) a flavor of what's moving," Bush said. "I rarely read the stories," he said.

And of course:

Bush believes he was called by God to lead the nation at this time, says Commerce Secretary Don Evans, a close friend who talks with Bush every day.

So that the god that's supposed to be all-knowing? Yeah, I'm not sure if he's as smart as everyone makes him out to be if this is his idea of a good President.

His history degree from Yale makes him mindful of the importance of the moment. He knows he's making "history-changing decisions," Evans says. But Bush doesn't keep a diary or other personal record of the events that will form his legacy. Aides take notes, but there's no stenographer in most meetings, nor are they videotaped or recorded.

Chee, I wonder why Bush wouldn't want a record of his war-crime planning?

As I'm set to post this it occurs to me I bet Bush is lying and sure enough via Atrios we find that he is (turns out that he "sacrificed" golf due to an injury) and there at the same time I find he even lied about the candy thing.

Pathetic.

From military to minutia there is nothing that this douchebag won’t lie about.

So I have this big project for a client and they want to do it "different" this year.

""Different" how?" I axed.

Shrugs, "dunno" they said "different".

So I do it different, they like this, they like that then we get something they like.

Yay.

And then they send me a final draft with some minor edits and then the big job went to a small job and I took my focus off.

A week later client wants to know if the files had been sent to the printers.

You know that feeling when everything in your bowels turns to ice as you realize you have fucked up in just the worst sort of way?

So I'm prepping an email getting ready to jump on the grenade confessing my fuck-right-up and offering to do the job for shudder free to make up for it in a desperate attempt to keep the account when...

An email from her boss's boss who was CCed on the email to me.

They HATE different, they want it like it was, redo the whole thing, do not print!

KA-FUCKING-CHING!

Is there any better feeling than a bowel de-icing?

"Well," I says,"this is going to cut into my other client's stuff, I'm gonna have to charge a bit more to do the whole thing over again..."

Oh and I saw Iron Man last night finally quick review:

+ SFX HOLY CRAP! The fight at the end when Iron Monger slams Iron Man into the bus? Contrast and compare that with the same stunt in Superman 2. The next Superman better have a whole lot of that shit.

+ Casting! Spot on perfect! From The Big Lebowski playing the big bad to Hollywood's favorite substance abuser playing Fandom's favorite alcoholic.

* Script, yes! That's right, it's a comic book movie and if you write it like a comic book movie it works. Hulk, Fantastic Four, looking at you in the bargain bin at the grocery stores.

Now will they wreck this franchise like they did with the X-Men? The next one has Empire Strikes Back potential. The whole Tony Start drunkard plot line is tailor made for a fall and redemption two parter like Kill Bill. I want to see a hammered Iron Man ripping up Manhattan trying to bring down a villain and then Rhodes becoming the next IM and bringing him down.

Seriously:

He's not even trying anymore.

Canada should help Iraq's most vulnerable refugees

That sounds reasonable enough...

Caught in the crossfire between Islamist extremists and Western forces, Iraqi Christians face a grim present and a grimmer future. So far a Catholic archbishop has been kidnapped and killed, 10 churches have been bombed and about 2,000 families have been forced to flee from their Baghdad neighbourhood after a fatwa called for their conversion or death.

Iraq's 1.3 million Christians account for about three per cent of the population, but for nearly half the refugees fleeing the country, often with nothing more than they can carry. Those who make it out tell horrific tales of relatives being decapitated on the street and of their homes being seized as booty by Islamic insurgents.

Can you see where it's going?

Canada's response has been shockingly complacent. To our credit, we have doubled the number of Iraqi refugees we are prepared to accept, to between 1,800 and 2,000. But immigration officials refuse to make any special provisions for Christians.

What?!!? My government isn't helping those who pray to a specific sky god over the others?!?! Why that's exactly what I'd expect them to do!

So how do they determine who gets first consideration?

In fact, Tim Vail, spokesman for Citizenship and Immigration Canada, told the Ottawa Citizen that the department relies on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to recommend which people are most in need.

Those assholes! You mean they let the people who know what's going on tell them what's going on?!!? And those UN jerks recommend that the people who need help the most get the help based on that need rather than their religion?!!?

This is absurd.

Another word for it is "fair" or "sane" or "Canadian".

Since when has the UN determined our immigration and refugee policy?

Since never and they haven't in this case.

Surely Canada doesn't need the approbation of some international bureaucrat to do the right thing in the face of egregious injustice.

Again no but Canada does need to know which refugees need our help and guess what? It's not just Christian Iraqis! I know, I know, they pray to the same god you do so obviously they're better people than the ones who don't.

Iraq is a violent mess. Anyone fleeing the country probably has good reason to do so and deserves our compassion and as much help as we can muster. But Iraq's Christians are particularly vulnerable. Viewed in much of the Middle East as complicit with the American-led invasion, they have no one to turn to for safe haven but the West.

Whereas the Muslims being killed should have picked the right religion, sorry but you're hell-bound anyway so think of Iraq as just a preview of what the angry and insecure Christian god has in store for you.

It's time for Canada to stop hiding behind the UN's skirts and lead the way in saving at least some members of one of the world's oldest Christian communities.

And let the heathen members of the other religions rot.

Yeah, you know we had a similar policy in regards to European refugees in the 1930s... didn't work out so good.

Nope:

Because of al Qaeda's setbacks, U.S. military officials say the group has become desperate, increasingly turning to female suicide bombers to stage attacks. Last week, two suicide bombers, one of whom was female, killed 31 people and wounded 52 others in attacks in Balad Ruz in Diyala province.

"Iraq still faces a very tough fight," U.S. military spokesman Major General Kevin Bergner said.

So it's a tough fight despite the fact that the enemy is all setbacks and desperation.

So what else is happening in that bastion of democratic freedom and stability?

Turkish warplanes bombed several border areas near the towns of Neroye and Rekan in the Dahuk province in northern Iraq on Sunday night, the website of the Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's political party reported. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday Turkey's fight against the PKK has reached a significant stage with the recent successful operations. Jabbar Yawar, spokesman for Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga security forces, on Monday confirmed the air strikes, Reuters reported.

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A column of Iraqi armor Sunday set out to test a new truce in the Sadr City area of Baghdad between the militias and the Iraqi government by venturing north on a major thoroughfare that borders the Shiite enclave.

But the Iraqi forces had barely started to move before they were struck by three roadside bombs - improvised explosive devices, or IEDs

And so on and so on and so on.