FROM
IRAQNAM TO IRANMIRE
August
28, 2007
The
Chickenhawks Come Home to Roost: Iran War Propaganda
Blitz in the Pipeline
Barnett
Rubin relays a
message from a well-connected friend in Washington
on the Cheney Administration's plans to roll out a military
confrontation with Iran in September.
"My friend had spoken to someone in one of the leading neo-conservative
institutions. He summarized what he was told this way: They [the source's institution]
have "instructions" (yes, that was the word used) from the Office of
the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after
Labor Day; it will be coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the
Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects.
It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves, designed to knock public
sentiment into a position from which a war can be maintained. Evidently they
don't think they'll ever get majority support for this--they want something like
35-40 percent support, which in their book is "plenty."
So no white or sanity after Labor Day... Watch this (or any other space) for
Bushco's last hurrah. (Link to this)
THAT'S
GOTTA STING
August
28, 2007
Today's
classic headline: "Church Deacon Tears Scrotum Of
UT Fan In Bar Fight"
Aggravated
assault charges have been filed against a church deacon
and University of Oklahoma Sooners fan after officials
say he grabbed a University of Texas fan between the legs
during a scuffle in an Oklahoma bar... The police report
described injuries that included a torn scrotal sack with
partially exposed testicles. (Link
to this)
THAT
FABULOUS GAY OLD PARTY!
August
27, 2007
Idaho
Senator Revealed as Off-the-clock Bathroom Bandito
Larry
Craig voted for a constitutional ban on same-sex
marriage in 2006, voted against adding sexual orientation
as a hate crime definition in 2002, voted against expanding
hate crimes to include sexual orientation in 2000, voted
to prohibit same-sex marriage and voted no on prohibiting
job discrimination by sexual orientation in 1996. There
is no prize for guessing the next part...
According to an arrest report obtained by Roll
Call on Monday, Craig was arrested at a Minnesota airport by a plainclothes
police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints in a men's restroom. After
pleading guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct, he got one year's probation
and paid more than $500 in costs and fines.
As if trawling for anonymous sex in an airport restroom was not quite sordid
enough, Craig also deployed the old "don't you know who I am?" technique
in an attempt to get sprung. At one point during the interview, Craig handed
the plainclothes sergeant who arrested him a business card that identified
him as a U.S. Senator and said, "What do you think about that?" the
arrest report states. Classy guy...
Back in October 2006, Craig’s office publicly denied allegations of gayness
on blogactive.com. Craig’s office told the Spokane Spokesman-Review that
the charge was "completely ridiculous," saying that the allegations
had "no basis in fact."
They lecture about America's declining family values (from toilet stalls and
pay-by-the-hour motel rooms all over the country) and how everything's going
to hell in a man purse thanks to the gays... but isn't it painful to think
how much real damage sad little pricks like Craig are doing?
Give me a million mustachioed gays strolling down the aisle in assless chaps
handing out pro-abortion flyers over hypocrites of Craig's ilk any day. (Link
to this)
AND
THE ANN COULTER WINGNUT OF THE WEEK AWARD GOES TO...
August
26, 2007
You
thought Hannity was only one tinfoil hat away from lunacy?
Meet Vin Suprynowicz.
Left:
Vin wears verbal diarrhea-resistant, polypropylene sweater
($9.99 from Sears, Hell).
Just
when you think you've kicked over all the rocks and seen
all the cuntservative bugs scuttle out into the light,
along comes a particularly weird and creepy specimen. His
name's too long and his pronouncements too insane... he
is my Wingnut of the Week.
On his blow-harder-than-Katrina
column at The Review Journal, Vin says "Former Massachusetts
Gov. Mitt Romney is currently leading the field among Republican presidential
contenders here in Nevada. So this is what the party of Robert A. Taft and
Barry Goldwater has come to." It may be possible to agree so
far, but sanity fast disappears over the horizon at the start of paragraph
two. According to Vin, Romney is a "a gun-grabbing socialist" who
took a giant, steaming dump on the constitution by depriving audience members
of their right to carry guns at the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics.
Occurring less than a year after 9-11 (© Rudolph Giuliani 2008), the games
were designated a National Special Security Event by the Office of Homeland
Security. As such, it was not exactly a dumb idea to make sure those attending
- from homegrown loons to those hailing from any of the 77 participating nations
- were not packing.
But, for Vin, common sense makes no sense. "And here I thought
the idea of America was to demonstrate the advantages of freedom through example.
If they didn't want to be surrounded by armed and free people, why didn't the
Europeans stage their little ski meet in Sverdlovsk?" he rants.
Presumably, competitors such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, etc.,
etc. are to be regarded as honorary Europeans for the sake of argument, and
the God-given right for anyone to carry a gun in any crowded place just months
after the most devastating terrorist attack on American soil is a demonstration
of the advantages of freedom through example. God damn you, Romney. (Link
to this)
CRANKING
UP THE CHUTZPAH
August
22, 2007
How
I'd dream of attending this town hall meeting...
When
you're a Republican trying to finagle your way into the
Oval Office, you need a signature issue to hammer relentlessly.
McCain owns Iraq; Giuliani has monopolized 9-11 to such
an extent that many are surprised he hasn't had it trademarked...
and Mitt "The Fonz" Romney is now seeking to
make immigration his shtick after an earlier ill-advised
foray into Guns & Ammo territory backfired.
So what if victimizing the poor and powerless on the fringes of society is
probably the lowest trick in the "Getting Elected For Dummies" handbook?
The Fonz is now banking on the xenophobes propelling him into office on good
old-fashioned white power.
Mitt's
new spot opens with "Immigration laws don't work
if they're ignored." Seems fair. Just ask the Boston
Globe who busted him last year for employing illegal immigrant
landscapers. The employees told the newspaper that The
Fonz "never asked them to show documents on their
immigration status, which is required by federal law."
The ad then goes on to slam "sanctuary cities" like Newark, San Francisco
and New York City. "Sanctuary cities become magnets that encourage illegal
immigration and undermine secure borders. As Governor, Mitt Romney didn't wait
on Washington. He acted to make our immigration laws work." Err... not
exactly.
"As governor, Romney never directly addressed the issue of sanctuary cities." Says
The Globe. The Fonz’s initiative to deal with sanctuary cities in Massachusetts "emerged
three weeks before leaving office and was never implemented."
So why do these fraudulent bozos keep setting themselves up for a beating like
lie piñatas? Is it egomania or plain witlessness that makes them think
they can get away with it when everyone else fails? McCain's lies about Iraq
finished him. Giuliani's 9-11 lies are like a stuck handbrake on his campaign...
and now Romney on immigration. Cue petard. (Link to
this) (Related: ROMNEY:
LDS DRAFT TRUMPS VIETNAM DRAFT | FAKE
GUN NUT)
SURGE
SUCKS ASS... IT'S OFFICIAL
August
21, 2007
A
bipartisan panel of foreign policy experts was surveyed
by Foreign Policy magazine and the Center for American
Progress asking whether or not they thought Bushco's Iraq
surge was working. They included two former secretaries
of state, a former national security adviser, and former
military and intelligence officials.
Fifty-three
percent said the US troop buildup was having a somewhat
or very negative impact on protecting Americans from
terrorism or advancing US national security objectives.
In short, a majority said Bushco's much-vaunted surge is
a pointless, bloody failure.
If you aren't surprised, try this one: "More conservatives (25 percent)
than liberals (21 percent) supported an immediate pull out." So much for
those troop-hating liberal peaceniks that inhabit every wingnut's consciousness
like trolls. (Link to this)
(UN)HAPPY
DAYS FOR GIULIANI
August
21, 2007
Flogging
a dumb Happy Days analogy to death because I feel like
it...
Two
thumbs up to Miles Mogulescu for his meticulously
detailed anti-hagiography of Rudolph "Chachie" Giuliani. Here
are some highlights:
"Giuliani
claims that, unlike Democrats, the first World Trade
Center Bombing in 1993 woke him up to the dangers of
Islamic Terrorism... In fact, Giuliani didn't create
the NYC Office of Emergency Management until 27 months
into his term and he didn't open the OEM's emergency
command center until six years later... Against the advice
of Giuliani's handpicked head of OEM, who recommended
that the OEM Command Center be located in Brooklyn in
a neighborhood less likely to be attacked, Giuliani insisted
it had to be walking distance from City Hall and put
it a #7 World Trade Center.
Giuliani had his private office in the $61 million Command Center equipped
with a humidor of cigars, monogrammed towels in the bathroom, and a private
elevator so he could come and go without being noticed. He visited his office
there often, even on weekends, bringing girlfriend Judi Nathan there long
before he announced their relationship in a press conference before telling
his own wife.
The only reason that Giuliani was captured on video tape marching uptown
covered in dust -- the tape that catapulted Giuliani into a national hero,
a multi-millionaire, and a presidential frontrunner -- is that the Command
Center had to be evacuated and Giuliani had nowhere to go."
In
the most recent Republican Happy Days episodes, John McCain
looks like an older, less-cool Tom Bosley while Giuliani
has dropped from Chachie status, straight past Richie Cunningham
level, to look more like Potsie with a herpes flare-up.
His gay-friendly,
pro-choice attitudes make him unelectable to the conservative
base. And his pathological
lying, mob
links, rampant greed, cynical exploitation of tragedy
and history of sluttishness make him unelectable for everyone
else.
So
where's the Fonz? Cue
Mitt Romney. Damn, he even looks like a mini-series
Reagan/Arthur Fonzerelli with all the cuntservative cool
that entails. Add to that his solid chickenhawk credentials,
his religious lunacy and his business-like determination
to avoid talking about anything that actually matters and...
I think we may have found a contender. (Link
to this)
PROPS
TO JOE BIDEN - HE'S ALMOST LIKABLE
August
18, 2007
Giving
it those Republican nancy boys old school...
I
have a lot of time for Joe Biden. Even though the crazy
galoot should never be allowed to run for president in
a million years, there's something eminently likeable about
his mid-1970s, suburban car dealer persona.
Joe's old-school debating skills in action make a GOP candidate forum look
like a bunch of chimps squabbling over who gets next swing in the tire. As
a smooth arguer, he has no equal and I could imagine him holding forth in some
great smoke-swathed barroom debates... In my mind, he'd be wearing a sheepskin
coat, stroking a fat Cuban (this isn't a Chris Matthews fantasy so I do mean
cigar) with his out-sized gold cufflinks glinting in the dim light as he gesticulates
slowly and firmly to remind us that the whole world is slightly retarded and
only he knows what's what.
And you can't fault Biden for his scruples. He's been married 30 years and
is itching for a fight with one of those many-married Republican greaseballs. "I
can hardly wait for one of these guys on the other side to tell me about family
values." Said
Joe to The Washington Post recently. And he's got a son
due to ship out to Iraq next year - unlike the vast majority of the chickenhawk
flock who think their war's only for other people's kith and kin - and he's
campaigned loudly for better
treatment of returning vets in the face of Bushco's stinginess.
But, still, I'd hate to see him run for president. If he did run, he'd have
to get a bastard crash course and shed all the traits that make him likable.
With androids like McCain and Clinton, the transition is not too traumatic,
but for Joe it would be a tragedy. Please, Joe, don't go changing to try to
please me... I almost like you just the way you are. (Link
to this)
AMERICA'S
LIAR THREATENED BY PANTS WILDFIRE
August
18, 2007
Thrice-wed
Giuliani finding it difficult to run on family values;
Busted again as a 9-11 fake...
Who'd
be dumb enough to spit out an easily bustable lie in public,
thus running the risk of looking like a complete über
dick, when they're supposed to be running for president?
Answer: Rudolph Giuliani.
After crowing that he'd been at Ground Zero "as often, if not more" than
many clean-up workers, some gosh-darned spoilsport at USA Today took a glance
at the Mayoral record covering the period in question. Now America's Liar is
left looking like one of those drunks who try to convince barflies they're
war heroes in spite of never having left their mom's basement longer than it
takes to shuffle to the nearest AMPM in their Operation Desert Storm PJs. The
record shows:
"He
was there for a total of 29 hours in those three months,
often for short periods or to visit locations adjacent
to the rubble. In that same period, many rescue and recovery
workers put in daily 12-hour shifts."
And
where the hell does this opportunist prick get off boasting
about simply doing his job anyway? Big deal. Are we supposed
to be impressed that the mayor of the city subjected to
the worst attack ever on American soil showed up to take
a look at the damage instead of crouching under his desk
in a fetal position? If that really is the
bar then, yup, even I'd grant Rudy the 9-11 hero status
he so desperately seeks.
America's Liar is also in trouble after dangerous cracks have started appearing
in the tired old "Republican Family Man" fuselage he's been flying
for the cuntservative base. "A lingering question has been whether his
recent bitter divorce and the fact that he's on his third marriage will drag
him down among social conservatives." Says
the Washington Post.
And at yesterday's town hall rally, a questioner had the temerity to ask him how
he could expect voters to support him when even his own family don't. "The
best thing I can say is kind of, 'Leave my family alone,'" responded Giuliani, "just
like I'll leave your family alone." Fair call, Rudy (even if that dialog
sounds vaguely sinister coming from an Italian American). After all, who's
ever heard of a Republican pol, such as yourself, criticizing someone else's
family values or wagging fat, sanctimonius fingers at their private lives?
(Link to this)
(Related: SOUL FOR SALE, CREDIBILITY ON CLEARANCE:
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AMERICA'S MAYOR | LAME
ONE-TRICK PONY STILL DODGING POLITICAL GLUE FACTORY)
NEW
MILESTONE ON NEOCON INTERSTATE TO INSANITY
August
17, 2007
4,000
Coalition Deaths in Iraq
"Despite
a buildup of U.S. troops that began five months ago...
U.S. casualties [have] reached the highest sustained
levels since the United States invaded Iraq nearly four
and a half years ago."
Leila
Fadel, McClatchy-Tribune (August 14)
"On August 13, the number of American deaths in Iraq averaged 100 per month,
totaling 3661 deaths since the war. Nothing has changed on that front."
Ken
Mufuka, AllAfrica.com (August 16)
"Don't be fooled. Nothing much has changed in Iraq -- especially politically."
William
M. Arkin, Washington Post (August 16)
All those armchair warriors suffering through these dark days of wartime sacrifice
(like driving round with magnetic ribbons on their SUVs and enduring the
ennui of hearing about Iraq all the time) would be swift to denounce me
as a "troop hater." But those "troop lovers" seem to
be the only people around who are actively ignoring the reality of the
war, belittling the dangers faced by our troops and downplaying their sacrifices.
"The surge is working!" they chorus retardedly like Bill Kristol's
backing singers as Bushco™ eats our young and burps out more foul-smelling
lies. "Bad news for those who've wanted to see the U.S. defeated in Iraq:
It's not happening." trumpets that bastion of responsible journalism, the
Assyrian International News Agency.
Is the surge working? Does 100 American deaths a month really equal success?
Strangely, the answer seems to be yes for those flag-wrapped uber-troop-supporters.
Only us antiwar, anti-American, terrorist-sympathizing fags who can't decide
whether we'd rather blow Castro or bin Laden spot the irony.
But perhaps the concept of American lives being wasted at the behest of an
incompetent president enabled by a toxic minority of fat-assed loons in Jeezuzland
might one day be viewed as damaging to the good of the country (i.e., anti
American). At least we can hope. (Link to this)
SIEGFRIED & ROY
ANNOUNCE THEY'RE STRAIGHT
August
17, 2007
What
next? Richard Simmons wins UFC? Liberace was a sheet
metal worker from Brooklyn? Stunning revelations from
the world of show business...
Blame the National Enquirer for the big bombshell of the century, the Vegas
big cat act of Siegfried
and Roy have finally announced they are straight. According to The
National Enquirer, the two are writing a tell-all book about their lives
together, and in it they finally admit they have never been lovers... no...
wait... (Link to this)
SOUL
FOR SALE, CREDIBILITY ON CLEARANCE: THE LIFE AND TIMES
OF AMERICA'S MAYOR
August
16, 2007
Is
there nothing Giuliani will not say to get elected? Seems
not...
"I was at ground zero as often, if not more, than most of the workers. I
was there working with them. I was exposed to exactly the same things they were
exposed to. So in that sense, I'm one of them."
Rudy Giuliani.
How, in the name of a just universe, did this obsequious little prick ever
get traction? Giuliani is a
terror charlatan whose lies are manifold and whose moral compass is
more erratic than a gyroscope in a magnet factory. Sure, the deluded sheeple
of Jeezuzland may be suckered by his flag-flavored tough talk, but anyone
with half a brain could sniff out this fake in a barrel of pig shit. Is
it a surprise that even his
own daughter publicly backs Obama?
Now middle-of-the-road Wingnutia's favorite scrotum-headed tranny, perhaps
becoming aware that he's flogged his 9-11 fantasies to death, is branching
out into the kind of pro-Zionist posturing that should guarantee some fat contributions
from AIPAC. During a recent
bout of verbal diarrhea, America's Mayor declared:
"It
is not in the interest of the United States, at a time
when it is being threatened by Islamist terrorists, to
assist the creation of another state that will support
terrorism."
Gee
willikers, Mrs Giuliani, how tough you sound... but maybe
you should temper your drag king act with a little common
sense (if that's not too much an impediment to getting
elected these days). For example, why is it a good idea
for us to sell $20
billion worth of state-of-the-art weaponry to that
corrupt medieval time capsule that was home to 15 of the
19 9-11 hijackers? Saudi Arabia has more ties to terrorism
than Giuliani has pages of speeches about 9-11, so why
are the Palestinians, not the Saudis, a threat?
Back in 2001, Giuliani was still in possession of a spine and some rudimentary
scruples when he refused
a $10 million pay-off check from Saudi Prince Alwaleed. But he remains
silent about the recent Saudi arms deal. According
to the New York Sun:
"So
far, only two presidential candidates have declared their
opposition to the sale: a former senator from North Carolina,
John Edwards, and Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio. Both
are Democrats. The leading Democratic hopeful, Senator
Clinton, and the leading Republican contender, Mayor
Giuliani, have not expressed a view."
Logically,
how screwed does your 'threat meter' have to be when selling
weapons to the Saudis sets of no alarm bells, but a bunch
of broke, stateless Palestinians pushes the gauge into
the red zone? So how many Palestinians were involved in
9-11 anyway..? Being as Rudy is such a freakin' expert
on the subject, he'll know the answer is precisely zero.
(Link to this)
"NIGGER-RIGGING" THE
PRESIDENCY
August
15, 2007
In
every other walk of life, being an incompetent asshole
makes you subject to the laws of natural selection. But
regular laws do not apply in the bizarro world of bad
government where 2+2=5 and preemptive wars make sense.
Bush might seem like the stupidest, unluckiest president
ever... but maybe that's just what he wants you to think.
There's an unfortunately named phenomena (that I apologize in advance for citing)
popular with unscrupulous contractors, mechanics, repairers, etc., called "nigger
rigging." It's the practice of appearing to fix an existing problem
while simultaneously planting new problems through deliberate sabotage
thus guaranteeing job security. Could "nigger rigging" be a method
of government? Hmm...
If
you are a good leader in charge of an effective administration,
logic demands that the simple act of doing your job makes
you obsolete. Once you've fixed the problems you were elected
to solve, the country would have no further need of you.
Alternatively, if you are a crappy leader presiding over
a "nigger rigging" administration busily seeding
new problems wherever you go, you're pretty much guaranteed
reelection. Ring any bells?
But is it far-fetched liberal insanity to suggest that those in power have
been deliberately creating new disasters in order to cling to power? Maybe,
but how else could you rationalize the sheer quantity of Bushco's miserable
failures in his self-justifying war on terror? And how else could you explain
the motivation behind those apparently retarded decisions that have wrenched
failure from the jaws of success time after time?
For example, what might have happened if the army hadn't been ordered to back
off in Tora Bora to let al Qaeda run and fight another day? What if sufficient
troop levels had been maintained in Afghanistan (remember the world was actually
with us on that one) to prevent the Taliban from regrouping? What if Bushco™ had
not invaded Iraq and dissembled the fourth largest army in the world, thus
setting the stage for a bloody civil war and a massive upsurge in terrorism?
On the surface, these look like stupid/unlucky decisions. But every one of
them breathed new momentum into the Bush regime and consolidated his power.
Remember "We can't dump Bush because there's a war on..." "We
must all pull together and support our troops and our commander in chief in
the war on terror..." "We can't trust the Democrats with our economy." (Sure,
it was Bushco's ideologically driven tax cuts and harebrained neocolonialism
that crippled our economy to begin with, but let's not mention that.)
For Bushco, failure has always been success and success has always been failure.
So who thinks the neocon puppeteers behind our idiot president's 8-year career
weren't smart enough to make it all happen on purpose? (Link
to this)
KARL
ROVE'S WINGNUT WEEPFEST
August
14, 2007
Too
lazy to write anything... instead, let me just scoop up this
piece of sludge from Newsbusters.org for your pity:
"For
those that watched Monday's announcement by President
Bush concerning the departure of White House advisor
Karl Rove, as the two were walking away from the microphones,
someone yelled out a rather disgraceful question ...
the question was:
"If he's so smart, how come you lost Congress?"
With that in mind, I change my vote for finest example of Rove Derangement
Syndrome."
Was
tempted to enter GOP smurf Noel
Sheppard into my abandoned Media
Pinheads page... but, really, this loyal little chihuahua
just makes me feel like curling up in front of The Oxygen
Channel for a gentle weep. What happened to all those balls-out
Alpha-male Republicans we became so used to? Are premenstrual
pansies like Sheppard and his junior high girl gang at
Newsbusters now the face of the GOP?
Let's hope so. It might at least make those limp-dicked Dems sound a little
less like Angela Lansbury hosting a sensitivity seminar at their next candidate's
debate. (Link to this)
AXE
RAGE IRONY
August
4, 2007
Unless
you're a sick bastard, there's very little to laugh at
in this story about this guy in Tasmania who "flew
into a rage and murdered his elderly parents with an axe
after his mother laughed about the death of his cat." So
what's funny? How about the fact that the mad axe man is
a trained
expert in family conflict resolution?
As a by-the-by, has anyone else ever noticed how the island of Tasmania is
shaped very similarly to a pubic wig (or 'merkin')
complete with handy attachment tabs? (Link to this)
THAT
OLD 9-11 MONEYSPINNER
August
2, 2007
Some
call it a tragedy, others a career...
Juval
Aviv, a former Mossad spook and professional terrormonger,
is author of several terror-related potboilers and a Fox
News terrorism 'expert.' Today
he's on the Fox Fan Web site being interviewed about
how we're all due for another 9-11. "I predict...
it could happen in the next few months. Ninety days at
the most." Said Aviv when asked when the next terror/horror/apocalypse
thingy is due. "Since mass transportation is the next
attack [as opposed to your car?], when you travel to work
have with you, a bottle of water, a small towel and a flashlight." He
added helpfully.
If you are an idiot looking for some helpful liar to lull you into a comfortable
state of terror, look no further than here. But if this sounds like eerily
familiar alarmist garbage to you, that's because it is. Although Fox's Web
site is posting the interview without a date (thus implying currency) it
is actually two years old.
Now we're on 90 days + 640, are we allowed to call Aviv a blowhard bullshitter
who enjoys making an easy living out of scaring morons? (Link
to this)
WHO
WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER ANYWAY?
August
2, 2007
Another
bullshit artist in defense of American Health Exceptionalism.
But this one really should know better...
In
the latest National
Review Online, there's a particularly outstanding piece
of intellectual dishonesty by one preposterously-named
Theodore Dalrymple:
"According
to Sicko, Michael Moore’s film about health care
in America, the British and French sunbathe in the cloudless
uplands of universal state-funded health care, while
Americans struggle horribly in a muddy swamp to pay exorbitant
costs for themselves. In particular, Moore’s portrayal
of Britain’s National Health Service irritated
me profoundly. Only someone intent on telling a lie could
have presented the situation as he presented it."
Of
course, any one of our non-traveled wingnut apologists
for America's predatory "Health" "Care" "System" could
be excused for slamming Britain's system because they don't
know anything about it. But, as a Brit, what's this prick's
excuse? (And, more to the point, how much are the insurance
company lobbyists paying him?)
As someone familiar with both the British and American healthcare systems,
Dalrymple should know well that the NHS, for all its shortcomings, is light
years ahead of the crappy healthcare shell game foisted on Americans. For American
working/middle classes, it's a truism that, unless you're rich or destitute,
you'd better not get sick. We pay hundreds of dollars a month only to get shafted
with expensive co-pays and prescriptions and are often dumped by insurers for
actually using their insurance (insurance companies want your
money, but they don't want to pay shit).
And there are nearly
50 million Americans with no insurance at all - a number that has risen
by 7 million under the caring stewardship of the Bush misadministration. By
contrast, Britain's universal healthcare system means that no-one is without
coverage and Brits live longer than Americans. According
to the UK government:
"By
2002, women who were aged 65 could expect to live to
the age of 84, while men could expect to live to the
age of 81."
In
contrast, USA
Today trumpets:
"Declines
in death rates from most major causes — including
heart disease and cancer — have pushed Americans'
life expectancy to a record 77.6 years."
Of
course, the boneheaded apologists for the corporate hucksters
will argue around that disparity. Just as they claim some
kind of weird badge of pride in being the
only industrialized nation in the world without universal
healthcare, they'll find some angle on living longer
being unAmerican.
Although
Dalrymple writes "only someone intent on telling a
lie could have presented the situation as he presented
it" as an ad hominem attack on Moore, he couldn't
have used truer words to describe himself. (Link
to this)
FUN
WITH SYNTAX
August
2, 2007
Could
anything sound more ironic than this syntactically-challenged
headline from NWCN.com?
(Link to this)
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