Extraordinary Rendition
Like The Cub Scouts, Only More Fascist I wonder what color their shirts will be... Spooked by the recent thumbs-up the Ukraine gave to a non-KGB controlled government, Vladamir Putin has set up a youth group called Nashi or "One of Us" to "get 300,000 people on to the streets to defend Russia" from the threats of "external governance", "orange revolution" and "American intrusion" before the next Russian elections in 2008.
She Can't Be Human In a recent defense of Jeff Gannon (yes, it IS possible considering she's the same woman who defended Joe McCarthy) bottle-blonde/demonic bhenchod Ann Coulter referred to journalist Helen Thomas as "that old Arab." Her syndicaters cleaned up the Coultergeist by changing "that old Arab" to "that dyspeptic, old Helen Thomas." I'm sure they were just grateful that she didn't make another reference to "oily Jews."
RE: BTK, WTF KS?! "WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 28 - As members of his congregation took their seats in the sanctuary on Sunday, Pastor Michael Clark stood in the back and leaned against a wall. He put his clasped hands to his face, closed his eyes and took a quiet moment. Within minutes, he was before the congregation of Christ Lutheran Church, beginning to guide them through what he says will be a long journey of healing. The 8:15 a.m. service was the first time he had spoken to his congregation since the church's board president, Dennis Rader, was arrested Friday by Wichita authorities who allege he is the BTK killer, the worst serial murderer in Kansas history."
I Think Of All The Education That I Missed You can see it now, 9 months from now the litany of year-end wrap-up specials will highlight "Female Teachers Sleeping With Underage Students" as one of the hottest trends of 2005. Nope, this California teacher didn't bear the child of her underage lover, but she did have sex with him in her car a few feet away from her own two year-old child. Nice touch. I mean, bad touch. Bad touch.
Look Back Without Regret, Look Forward To Profit The Governator has recently come out to express lack of regret in using steroids during his career as a bodybuilder. "Because it is the wrong message, like you say, to the children," he said. "But people should take food supplements. People should be able to take the vitamins and all of the nutritious stuff that is available. But stay away from drugs." It helps that Arnold has a small fortune tied up in quasi-legal PEDS (performance-enhancing dietary supplements) through a bodbuilding tournament and two magazines that are propped up by PEDS advertising revenue. That might explain why he recently vetoed a bill that would have banned PEDS for high-school athletes; stopping the use of certain anabolic substances would hurt Arnold pocketbook. But big-ups California, how many other states can say that they're being run by a murderous robot fro mthe future?
Pastor Describes School Lunch Program As Tool of the Antichrist A few sarcastic sentences won't really add anything to this...
-The Sikh Geek
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
TODAY'S TOP FIVE: Snow Delay.
The Bush Administration: A Lottery That Rewards Stupidity Let's say that you help convince your boss to embark on a bold new project that is sharply criticized both within the company and within the business community as a whole. But you insist that you have sound reasons for doing so, and that ultimate success will vindicate you. Maybe you even cut some corners and play around with the details to make the project seem better to your boss. Then, when the project is completed, it turns out the only vindication is of the critics, since the project is a disaster from start to finish. How do you think this display of dishonesty and incompetence will be rewarded? Well, if you're Paul Wolfowitz, and the project is the invasion of Iraq, you get rewarded by becoming the top choice to succeed James Wolfensohn as head of the World Bank! So there is a happy ending to this, after all.
And a Child Shall Lead Them...Into Eating Cat Food At last, the kid from The Omen movies has a real-life counterpart: Nine-year-old Texan (of course) Noah McCullough, who is being paid by the anti-Social Security gang Progress for America to shill around the country for the president's plan to scrap guaranteed retirement incomes. The idea that the American people will take advice on a topic as complicated as Social Security from a fucking nine-year-old is...actually, brilliant. This is the smartest thing the bastards have done so far.
Is It Time to Invade Iraq Again? Now that everyone has forgotten about the supposed original reason for invading Iraq (WMD, anyone?) and has instead agreed to pretend that the reason we invaded was to end Saddam's human rights atrocities, the question must be asked: Is it time to invade Iraq again? Because, according to the State Department, the U.S.-installed interim Iraqi government is guilty of "serious human rights abuses," including "torture, illegal detention by police, and forced confessions" as well as summary executions and the use of forced child labor. It is time that America sent a message to America-occupied Iraq: America will no longer tolerate these atrocities, and is willing to invade if it must.
Bloggers in "Not Entirely Worthless" Shocker Here's an interesting commentary on how bloggers have driven the "Jeff Gannon" story (easily the best news story of the year so far). It's nice to see bloggers not being worthless for a change. Yeah, yeah, I realize this is a blog, but the operative words here are still Bart Simpson's, when he replied to Milhouse's suggestion to put shocking information on the Internet: "No, we actually have to reach people whose opinions matter!" But here's a question, even for a blog-basher like yours truly: How come much of the mainstream media has ignored Guckertgate? Is the news judgement of the Daily Kos really that much better than everybody's at CBS and ABC, which still have not aired reports on the scandal?
Words of Wisdom From the Aptly-Named Dick Armey Some people object to irresponsible cads like myself characterizing the president's position (and the position of young Noah McCullough) on Social Security as being in opposition to it; the president doesn't want to scrap Social Security, I am told, he wants to fix it so it's there forever, like fossil fuels and the ozone layer. Fortunately, there are still Republicans dumb enough, or heedless enough of public opinion, to ignore the script: take former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, who told a gathering in Texas over the weekend that the real goal is to "phase out" Social Security in favor of private accounts. Thanks, Dick.
-Consider Arms
The Bush Administration: A Lottery That Rewards Stupidity Let's say that you help convince your boss to embark on a bold new project that is sharply criticized both within the company and within the business community as a whole. But you insist that you have sound reasons for doing so, and that ultimate success will vindicate you. Maybe you even cut some corners and play around with the details to make the project seem better to your boss. Then, when the project is completed, it turns out the only vindication is of the critics, since the project is a disaster from start to finish. How do you think this display of dishonesty and incompetence will be rewarded? Well, if you're Paul Wolfowitz, and the project is the invasion of Iraq, you get rewarded by becoming the top choice to succeed James Wolfensohn as head of the World Bank! So there is a happy ending to this, after all.
And a Child Shall Lead Them...Into Eating Cat Food At last, the kid from The Omen movies has a real-life counterpart: Nine-year-old Texan (of course) Noah McCullough, who is being paid by the anti-Social Security gang Progress for America to shill around the country for the president's plan to scrap guaranteed retirement incomes. The idea that the American people will take advice on a topic as complicated as Social Security from a fucking nine-year-old is...actually, brilliant. This is the smartest thing the bastards have done so far.
Is It Time to Invade Iraq Again? Now that everyone has forgotten about the supposed original reason for invading Iraq (WMD, anyone?) and has instead agreed to pretend that the reason we invaded was to end Saddam's human rights atrocities, the question must be asked: Is it time to invade Iraq again? Because, according to the State Department, the U.S.-installed interim Iraqi government is guilty of "serious human rights abuses," including "torture, illegal detention by police, and forced confessions" as well as summary executions and the use of forced child labor. It is time that America sent a message to America-occupied Iraq: America will no longer tolerate these atrocities, and is willing to invade if it must.
Bloggers in "Not Entirely Worthless" Shocker Here's an interesting commentary on how bloggers have driven the "Jeff Gannon" story (easily the best news story of the year so far). It's nice to see bloggers not being worthless for a change. Yeah, yeah, I realize this is a blog, but the operative words here are still Bart Simpson's, when he replied to Milhouse's suggestion to put shocking information on the Internet: "No, we actually have to reach people whose opinions matter!" But here's a question, even for a blog-basher like yours truly: How come much of the mainstream media has ignored Guckertgate? Is the news judgement of the Daily Kos really that much better than everybody's at CBS and ABC, which still have not aired reports on the scandal?
Words of Wisdom From the Aptly-Named Dick Armey Some people object to irresponsible cads like myself characterizing the president's position (and the position of young Noah McCullough) on Social Security as being in opposition to it; the president doesn't want to scrap Social Security, I am told, he wants to fix it so it's there forever, like fossil fuels and the ozone layer. Fortunately, there are still Republicans dumb enough, or heedless enough of public opinion, to ignore the script: take former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, who told a gathering in Texas over the weekend that the real goal is to "phase out" Social Security in favor of private accounts. Thanks, Dick.
-Consider Arms
Friday, February 25, 2005
The World Had No Need For A Fred Durst Sex Video. None.
Somebody's Working Like A Horse To Be The Top Douchebag of 2005 Jeff-Jimmy-Joshua Gannon now has a blog, to defend himself and provide a forum for his side of the story. A little bit of shame would be alot for this male prostitute/imposter journalist/gay porn internet magnate/White House plant/leaker of classified information.
What's A Decent Article Doing In The LA Times? No way Patrick J. McDonnell and Paul Richter; if you remember correctly, the President said back in 2002 that we would use false claims of WMDs to launch a unilateral invasion of Iraq to fascilitate an Islamic theocracy that was both cold to us and warm to Iran at the cost of thousands of US lives and hundred of billions of dollars. We're WAY in-focus.
Douchebag Deathmatch Showdown! Who do you root for in this situation: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach vs. PETA? Is both groups ritualistically killing themselves in accordance to Kosher law too much to hope for?
That's What You Get For Singing About Your "Goodies" Best urban legend I've heard in awhile... "I have been hearing from many people that the hip-hop artist Ciara used to be a man and had to have a sex change. Even more, I heard that she stated it on nation televison!" "I have heard a rumor that the R&B star, Ciara, was born male. That he/she decided that he wanted to be a female at the age of 5, and his mother let him grow his hair out. I was told that he had surgury, so he no longer has a penis. and apparently he/she was on Oprah having an in depth converstation about it, along with discussing it in a magazine article."
Blurring The Line Between Urban Legend And Corrupt Business Practices "A US woman is suing Hewlett Packard, saying its printer ink cartridges are secretly programmed to expire on a certain date. The unnamed woman from Georgia says that a chip inside the cartridge tells the printer that it needs re-filling even when it does not. The lawsuit seeks to represent anyone in the US who has purchased an HP inkjet printer since February 2001. HP, the world's biggest printer firm, declined to comment on the lawsuit."
To Boldly Waste One's Life At least it's for a worthwhile cause! "Fans of the Star Trek: Enterprise TV show are protesting the show's cancellation with street demonstrations in Los Angeles, New York, Washington, London and Tel Aviv. Trekkies are holding rallies worldwide on Friday to bring attention to their cause. Rallies will be held at the Paramount studios in Los Angeles and at the offices of CBS and the Sci-Fi channel in New York. Additional rallies are set for the local Fox affiliate in Washington, D.C., the offices of the BBC and Channel 4 in London, and at Tel Aviv University in Israel."
-The Sikh Geek
Somebody's Working Like A Horse To Be The Top Douchebag of 2005 Jeff-Jimmy-Joshua Gannon now has a blog, to defend himself and provide a forum for his side of the story. A little bit of shame would be alot for this male prostitute/imposter journalist/gay porn internet magnate/White House plant/leaker of classified information.
What's A Decent Article Doing In The LA Times? No way Patrick J. McDonnell and Paul Richter; if you remember correctly, the President said back in 2002 that we would use false claims of WMDs to launch a unilateral invasion of Iraq to fascilitate an Islamic theocracy that was both cold to us and warm to Iran at the cost of thousands of US lives and hundred of billions of dollars. We're WAY in-focus.
Douchebag Deathmatch Showdown! Who do you root for in this situation: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach vs. PETA? Is both groups ritualistically killing themselves in accordance to Kosher law too much to hope for?
That's What You Get For Singing About Your "Goodies" Best urban legend I've heard in awhile... "I have been hearing from many people that the hip-hop artist Ciara used to be a man and had to have a sex change. Even more, I heard that she stated it on nation televison!" "I have heard a rumor that the R&B star, Ciara, was born male. That he/she decided that he wanted to be a female at the age of 5, and his mother let him grow his hair out. I was told that he had surgury, so he no longer has a penis. and apparently he/she was on Oprah having an in depth converstation about it, along with discussing it in a magazine article."
Blurring The Line Between Urban Legend And Corrupt Business Practices "A US woman is suing Hewlett Packard, saying its printer ink cartridges are secretly programmed to expire on a certain date. The unnamed woman from Georgia says that a chip inside the cartridge tells the printer that it needs re-filling even when it does not. The lawsuit seeks to represent anyone in the US who has purchased an HP inkjet printer since February 2001. HP, the world's biggest printer firm, declined to comment on the lawsuit."
To Boldly Waste One's Life At least it's for a worthwhile cause! "Fans of the Star Trek: Enterprise TV show are protesting the show's cancellation with street demonstrations in Los Angeles, New York, Washington, London and Tel Aviv. Trekkies are holding rallies worldwide on Friday to bring attention to their cause. Rallies will be held at the Paramount studios in Los Angeles and at the offices of CBS and the Sci-Fi channel in New York. Additional rallies are set for the local Fox affiliate in Washington, D.C., the offices of the BBC and Channel 4 in London, and at Tel Aviv University in Israel."
-The Sikh Geek
Thursday, February 24, 2005
HELP! TIMELY RESPONSE IMPORTANT HELP!
God, And You Know, Stuff Like That A new study has found that "religion really does matter" to today's teens. It also discovered that their religious beliefs are rooted in ignorance and bullshit. "Though the phone survey depicted broad affinity with religion, the face-to-face interviews found that many teens' religious knowledge was "meager, nebulous and often fallacious" and engagement with the substance of their traditions remarkably shallow. Most seemed hard put to express coherently their beliefs and what difference they make. Many were so detached from the traditions of their faith, says the report, that they're virtually following a different creed in which an undemanding God exists mostly to solve problems and make people feel good. Truth in any absolute, theological sense, takes a back seat."
The Freedom To Fear For Your Own Safety According to a Amnesty International report, woman and girls live in daily fear of violence and sexual assault, two years after the liberation of Iraq and its blossoming into a beaconing neo-Athens of democracy and freedom. "The lawlessness which followed the overthrow of the dictator's regime has made the situation worse for women as the number of killings, abductions and rapes has increased."
Nothing Succeeds Like Success, And Corrupt Incompetence Play government for a moment. What would you do if a company with questionable ties to the vice president was rewarded huge government contracts and ended up overcharging the military by millions? You reward them with performance-based bonuses!
At Least He Didn't Use The "Omlette and Broken Eggs" Analogy Motherfucking liar, Richard Perle said during his recent debate that "I'm sometimes asked now that we know there were not weapons of mass destruction in Iraq shouldn't we re-evatulate the decisions to go to war and that seems to me a little bit like deciding at the end of the year not that it was foolish to have purchased insurance becuase your house didn't burn down." As DailyKos points out, "$300 billion and counting, 1,500 dead and over 10,000 maimed American soldiers, hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians either dead, maimed, or suffering the loss of their loved ones" is one motherfucker of an insurance policy, especially when the chance of the house of the US "burning down" from a non-existant WMD program is pretty slight.
-The Sikh Geek
God, And You Know, Stuff Like That A new study has found that "religion really does matter" to today's teens. It also discovered that their religious beliefs are rooted in ignorance and bullshit. "Though the phone survey depicted broad affinity with religion, the face-to-face interviews found that many teens' religious knowledge was "meager, nebulous and often fallacious" and engagement with the substance of their traditions remarkably shallow. Most seemed hard put to express coherently their beliefs and what difference they make. Many were so detached from the traditions of their faith, says the report, that they're virtually following a different creed in which an undemanding God exists mostly to solve problems and make people feel good. Truth in any absolute, theological sense, takes a back seat."
The Freedom To Fear For Your Own Safety According to a Amnesty International report, woman and girls live in daily fear of violence and sexual assault, two years after the liberation of Iraq and its blossoming into a beaconing neo-Athens of democracy and freedom. "The lawlessness which followed the overthrow of the dictator's regime has made the situation worse for women as the number of killings, abductions and rapes has increased."
Nothing Succeeds Like Success, And Corrupt Incompetence Play government for a moment. What would you do if a company with questionable ties to the vice president was rewarded huge government contracts and ended up overcharging the military by millions? You reward them with performance-based bonuses!
At Least He Didn't Use The "Omlette and Broken Eggs" Analogy Motherfucking liar, Richard Perle said during his recent debate that "I'm sometimes asked now that we know there were not weapons of mass destruction in Iraq shouldn't we re-evatulate the decisions to go to war and that seems to me a little bit like deciding at the end of the year not that it was foolish to have purchased insurance becuase your house didn't burn down." As DailyKos points out, "$300 billion and counting, 1,500 dead and over 10,000 maimed American soldiers, hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians either dead, maimed, or suffering the loss of their loved ones" is one motherfucker of an insurance policy, especially when the chance of the house of the US "burning down" from a non-existant WMD program is pretty slight.
-The Sikh Geek
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
New Photographs of Old Ghosts
What's "Honorary Cash Cow" When Translated Into Hebrew? Madonna has been promoted to the highest non-ordained position in the Church of Kabbalah. According to one source, "Her teachers think she has reached the pinnacle of spiritual understanding." The pinnacle of spiritual understanding? Just like the Buddha or Jesus? Sure.
More Diplomatic Genius From The White House "George Bush has banned Camilla Parker Bowles from the White House - because she is a divorcee. The unprecedented snub has effectively sabotaged Charles's plan to take his bride on a Royal tour of America later this year. The trip would have been the pair's first official tour as a married couple. But the US President - a notoriously right-wing Christian and reformed alcoholic - told aides it was "inappropriate" for him to be playing host to the newly-weds, who are both divorcees. The decision was made even though the late President Ronald Reagan was divorced."
If You Really Want To Help, Don't A group calling itself "the Minuteman Project" is so intent on "protecting our country from an invasion by people from all over the world across our southern border with Mexico" that they are gathering around 500 wackos to "assist" the US Border Patrol in detaining illegal immigrants for one month in Arizona. The government is understandibly weary of a mass of patriotic nutcases with a vague mission and equally vague stance on carrying guns. The patrols will start on April 1st. Seriously.
Our Heroes Tortured By Evildoers Can't Get Money From Evildoers Who Are Now Heroes, Unlike The Evildoers Who Were Tortured By Our Heroes. I Think. "The latest chapter in the legal history of torture is being written by American pilots who were beaten and abused by Iraqis during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. And it has taken a strange twist. The Bush administration is fighting the former prisoners of war in court, trying to prevent them from collecting nearly $1 billion from Iraq that a federal judge awarded them as compensation for their torture at the hands of Saddam Hussein's regime. The rationale: Today's Iraqis are good guys, and they need the money. The case abounds with ironies. It pits the U.S. government squarely against its own war heroes and the Geneva Convention. Many of the pilots were tortured in the same Iraqi prison, Abu Ghraib, where American soldiers abused Iraqis 15 months ago. Those Iraqi victims, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has said, deserve compensation from the United States. But the American victims of Iraqi torturers are not entitled to similar payments from Iraq, the U.S. government says."
-The Sikh Geek
What's "Honorary Cash Cow" When Translated Into Hebrew? Madonna has been promoted to the highest non-ordained position in the Church of Kabbalah. According to one source, "Her teachers think she has reached the pinnacle of spiritual understanding." The pinnacle of spiritual understanding? Just like the Buddha or Jesus? Sure.
More Diplomatic Genius From The White House "George Bush has banned Camilla Parker Bowles from the White House - because she is a divorcee. The unprecedented snub has effectively sabotaged Charles's plan to take his bride on a Royal tour of America later this year. The trip would have been the pair's first official tour as a married couple. But the US President - a notoriously right-wing Christian and reformed alcoholic - told aides it was "inappropriate" for him to be playing host to the newly-weds, who are both divorcees. The decision was made even though the late President Ronald Reagan was divorced."
If You Really Want To Help, Don't A group calling itself "the Minuteman Project" is so intent on "protecting our country from an invasion by people from all over the world across our southern border with Mexico" that they are gathering around 500 wackos to "assist" the US Border Patrol in detaining illegal immigrants for one month in Arizona. The government is understandibly weary of a mass of patriotic nutcases with a vague mission and equally vague stance on carrying guns. The patrols will start on April 1st. Seriously.
Our Heroes Tortured By Evildoers Can't Get Money From Evildoers Who Are Now Heroes, Unlike The Evildoers Who Were Tortured By Our Heroes. I Think. "The latest chapter in the legal history of torture is being written by American pilots who were beaten and abused by Iraqis during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. And it has taken a strange twist. The Bush administration is fighting the former prisoners of war in court, trying to prevent them from collecting nearly $1 billion from Iraq that a federal judge awarded them as compensation for their torture at the hands of Saddam Hussein's regime. The rationale: Today's Iraqis are good guys, and they need the money. The case abounds with ironies. It pits the U.S. government squarely against its own war heroes and the Geneva Convention. Many of the pilots were tortured in the same Iraqi prison, Abu Ghraib, where American soldiers abused Iraqis 15 months ago. Those Iraqi victims, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has said, deserve compensation from the United States. But the American victims of Iraqi torturers are not entitled to similar payments from Iraq, the U.S. government says."
-The Sikh Geek
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