Sadly, No!

Atrios, Monday:

So, Bush assures Fox that our little military mobilization at the border will just be temporary. I know what they’re thinking at the White House. We can have a lovely little “fake war” at the border, one with all the cool uniforms, hummers, helicopters, etc… A war which is entirely safe. A war where there isn’t really an enemy. And the president can safely visit that war, prance around in his codpiece, yell things out a bullhorn while sitting astride a massive hummer.

Ridiculous, but that’s probably the plan.

Bush, today:

Meanwhile, in Iraq:

As Iraqis awaited the final formation of their new national unity government, at least 19 Iraqis and four U.S. soldiers were killed and a police chief narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in attacks in the country’s two largest cities Thursday.

The four U.S. soldiers and their Iraqi interpreter were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb northwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. At least 2,454 members of the U.S. military have died since the war began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

It’s hard work.

Let’s hope the answer is Happily, Yes! Sadly, No! friend JB Williams writes:

Are Americans Too Stupid to Run Their Own Country?

This obviously politically incorrect question might be offensive, but it is likely to be the most important question we could answer[.]

Most. Important. Question. Ever:

It is the one flaw in our founders’ American dream, the notion that a society of self-centered malcontents with competing interests, barely able to manage their own lives, educated by headlines and sound-bites carefully crafted by professional propagandists and read via teleprompter by career snake-oil salesmen (politicians), could run their own country. What were the odds? What the hell were the founders’ thinking?

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Apparently, those evil scumbags in Hollywood have produced a sequel to Big Momma’s House .

Well, that settles it. From now on, I refuse to defend the entertainment industry’s right to free expression against attacks from the Christian Right. Sorry, guys, but this time you’ve gone too far.

Lucy writes:

Speaking of homo nups (global), where has the pastor been lately? I might have to visit his site myself and go a-searchin’ for a wisdom fix.

Great idea! Let’s start off with this new Swank column, brilliantly titled “666!: SENATE VOTES ON HOMO MARRIAGE ON 6-6-06”:

666!: SENATE VOTES ON HOMO MARRIAGE ON 6-6-06
By J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Will the US Senate support one-man-one-woman equals marriage?

Or will they support the frat boy resolution of one-woman-one-woman equals boner?
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Pat Robertson, a.k.a. God’s meteorologist:

“And he said, ‘For I am the king of tha-a-a…CHOO!'”

In another in a series of notable pronouncements, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says God told him storms and possibly a tsunami will hit America’s coastline this year.

But here’s the big question: will it hit the West Coast in retaliation for illegal immigrants, or the East Coast in retaliation for homo nups?

Robertson has made the predictions at least four times in the past two weeks on his news-and-talk television show “The 700 Club” on the Christian Broadcasting Network, which he founded.

Robertson said the revelations about this year’s weather came to him during his annual personal prayer retreat in January.

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the prayer retreat when the drugs began to take hold.”

“If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms,” Robertson said May 8. On Wednesday, he added, “There well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest.”

Ah. God must still be angry about the whole Starbuck’s phenomenon. I can’t say I blame Him.

This is surprising:

President Bush’s top advisers have recommended a broad new approach to dealing with North Korea that would include beginning negotiations on a peace treaty, even while efforts to dismantle the country’s nuclear program are still under way, senior administration officials and Asian diplomats say.

Aides say Mr. Bush is very likely to approve the new approach, which has been hotly debated among different factions within the administration. But he will not do so unless North Korea returns to multinational negotiations over its nuclear program. The talks have been stalled since September.

Wow. I wonder if the administration has finally figured out that simply calling someone “evil” and expecting them to do what you want is not a serious foreign policy. I’m not exactly sure why the administration wants to make peace with North Korea (*COUGH!* STUCK IN IRAQ! NO VIABLE MILITARY OPTIONS! *COUGH!*), but it’s certainly a sign that the neocons have finally fallen out of favor. Thank Jeebus.

This is cute as well:

In his first term, Mr. Bush said repeatedly that he would never “tolerate” a nuclear North Korea. Now he rarely discusses the country’s suspected weapons.

Gee, I wonder why? Perhaps for the same reasons he doesn’t mention bin Laden anymore?

2MTH says: All I wanna do izza zoom-zoom in a boom-boom.

120STH adds: Fo’shizzle dizzle my nizzle fizzle bizzle.

Now that’s what I call wanking!

“Hey Jorge, I gave the puta loca the Snotcho Deluxe.”
“Es she dreenking it?”
“Shh! Shh! don’ look, man.”
[snickering, loud PFFF!]
“Epiphanio, man, stay cool, she’ll get suspicious.”
“El Snotcho!”
[cracking up]

About which organization is US-based [name withheld] wingnut writing? Winner gets something of little or no value:

This organization was started [removed — got to make this difficult! -S,N!] and is today perpetuated by, communists/socialists who wish to destroy just about everything that makes our nation great only to have it remade on a communist/socialist model.