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 Tuesday
edition - March 31, 2009
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The Republican Idea Men
The Wizard of Whimsy
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Top Bush advisor denounces Spanish torture probe
AFP-3-31-09
WASHINGTON (AFP) —...A Spanish
non-governmental group has called for six Bush-era advisors to be
prosecuted, including Justice Department lawyer John Yoo and a top aide to
vice president Dick Cheney. |
Obama Embarks on First Overseas Trip
ABC News - 3-31-09
When Barack Obama traveled to Europe in
the summer, he was a candidate looking to shore up his foreign policy
credentials and prove to the American public that he was qualified to be
commander in chief |
Spain is looking to prosecute the Bushmen for
torture? Why hasn't the US Congress stepped up to the plate? Is torture
investigation off the table, too?
"The
Republicans released their budget counter-proposal this week. It plans to
address the deficit, global warming, healthcare, energy, massive tax cuts for
the rich. I'm not kidding. Also, there are no numbers in this budget. It's a
budget plan without any math in it. You know, Obama should have saved that
Special Olympics joke for these retards." --Bill Maher
The-World-Will-Be-A-Safer-Place-Without Saddam
MTV, Music
Television, is putting actual music videos back on their network. If it works,
Fox News said they’ll start doing actual news again. -Craig Ferguson
Disturbing News
"Today at
the White House, President Obama met with the CEOs of all the major U.S. banks.
A lot of these big bonus guys. The CEOs looked around the White House and said,
'You live in this dump?'." --Jay Leno
Yet Another Palin
Shenanigan. She Keeps On Giving!
Gov. Sarah
Palin has appointed legislative aide Tim Grussendorf to the state Senate seat
that opened when Juneau Democrat Kim Elton resigned. It's a controversial pick
that Grussendorf's own party says it will try to block.
Palin had to pick a Democrat from Juneau for the seat under state law. But
Grussendorf was a registered Republican until just weeks ago, then switched to
being a Democrat to qualify for the appointment.
Grussendorf now needs a majority vote of the nine Democrats in the state Senate
to approve his appointment.
Republican-Shenanigans News
Blagojevich Update
Newly opened state records
reveal heavy lobbying last year by Tribune Co. representatives looking to get
then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich to agree
to have the state buy Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs.
Fox News
launched a new editorial website today that is based solely on reporters’
opinions, not on the facts of the stories themselves. They’re calling the site
Fox News.- Jimmy Fallon
Rock-The-Voter News
Trading Cards
The Topps Co. Inc. says
jailed Wall Street financier
Bernard Madoff will be featured this summer in a set of trading cards dubbed the
"world's biggest hoaxes, hoodwinks and bamboozles." The New York-based
marketer of entertainment products says the cards show scoundrels and villains
such as Enron, D.B. Cooper and Charles Ponzi.
Email
Subject: Did your place
flood?
Lisa, I saw you had bad weather hit your
neck of the woods. All OK?
Ben
Over eight inches of rain fell in SE
Alabama from last Thursday to Saturday. On Saturday alone over six inches fell.
Later today another 4-6 inches is expected.
The ground is super saturated.
Here's pix of my front yard I took
during the storm on Sat. The ditch overflowed into my yard plus the farm behind
me emptied its topsoil in the form of rivers running down both sides of my
property
I couldn't hold the camera still due to the
high winds. This is a pic of my driveway entrance I took from my front porch.
The ditch is running over the driveway.
All the water is gone from my yard but the
ground is very saturated. No damage!
Ads by Google
Biz-Tech News
Not Pistachios, Too!
In another food scare sure
to rattle consumers who watched the national salmonella outbreak in peanuts
unfold, federal food officials are now
warning people not to eat any food containing pistachios, which could carry
contamination from the same bacteria.
Bush-Prison-Torture News
Now here’s
a story. A guy in Brazil goes spear fishing, and he accidentally gets shot in
his own head with the spear. Well, they operate on the guy. He’s unconscious.
They pull the spear out and he’s going to be fine. And you know the first thing
he said when he came to was, “Well, that’s the last time I go spear fishing with
Dick Cheney.”- David Letterman
Go-F**k-Yourself News
Your Email responses to "Move on you're
getting stale"
Palin, Bush, Cheney, Bobby
Jindal & Michael Steele along with their sad stable of radio-harlequins have
become their own embarrassing cartoons. They did it, they own it. Don't blame
AHNC for holding up the mirror. For those who've been suckling at the Neo-Con
spigot these past few years, the milk is getting a little stale. I'm sure they
don't like what they see, but you can't blame the reflection on the mirror.
Larry
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I think the only stale thing
is the republicans whining. James Carvell said it best the hardest job in
politics is to clean up after an elephant.
Steve
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Hi Lisa …
I would like to respond to the e-mail from “WBarrow” (whose first name has to be
Wheel).
Wheel complains that Bush, et al. are old news, getting stale, not funny
anymore. It’s true that Bush and Cheney, AKA Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob, have
exited stage left. But, like those TV characters, we cannot let the real-life
puppets and fools vanish without a trace. Their effects on the country were too
profound and long-lasting.
Sarah Palin will not let us forget her, try as we might. And behind her comes a
whole new cast of clowns – Michael Steele, Rush Limbaugh, Bobby Jindal, Mark
Sanford, Rick Perry, Michelle Bachman, and others. From them we can expect years
of laughs.
And, yes, there’s plenty of fodder for fun coming out of the Obama
administration. And if we ever run out of material we can always turn to Bill
Clinton, who never gets stale.
Wheel wants more in-depth analysis. But this is a humor site, a place to have
fun. A lot of political humor is grounded in irony, absurdity, and the gray area
that separates comedy and tragedy. That calls for analysis of a different kind.
After all, what could be more ironic or absurd than the notion that in a “free
society” one president is impeached for getting his willy waxed while his
successor – who starts a preemptive war, spies on US citizens, tortures and
kills people, watches a major American city drown, and wrecks the economy – gets
a pass? That is comedy. And tragedy.
For in-depth analysis, there are plenty of other sites for Wheel to turn to,
depending on how he wants the analysis to turn out. Maybe he can turn to Fox
News, where other humorless complainers turn out their version of analysis 24/7.
An analysis of the government’s takeover of ‘everything’ would be good, but
where to start? I think we should start with how the government took over our
rights to privacy, peaceable assembly, free speech, due process, and more, all
in the name of keeping us safe.
Now we don’t have to worry about some bearded crackpot in the mountains of
Afghanistan depriving us of life, liberty, and happiness … no, in seven short
years he got the US government to do those things for him. Hilarious.
An analysis of government health care would indeed be a good thing. Without
government health care, Dick Cheney would have been a dead man a decade ago.
While we’re at it, let's add military medicine. We can find out how all those
medics and corpsmen manage to keep all those half-dead American kids alive … and
why they need to in the first place. Then add the VA, where we try to put broken
bodies together amid the rubble and filth of buildings we don’t maintain. The
problem is not the professionals, it’s the politicians.
Wheel is obviously all for capitalism and I am too. But the point of capitalism
is to leverage private capital to create economic value. So … where did all the
private capital go? It has dried up. And the government did not take it away.
Greedy capitalists and politicians imploded the con game they have been running
for at least the last 10 years. They were insatiable; they became so voracious
they ate the seed corn. Now we are all in for a little bit of economic famine.
Sadly, for many people, that famine will be real, not metaphorical.
The only capital left now is that which “the full faith and credit” of the
government can provide. Here’s hoping we can leverage that capital to once again
create economic value and produce our way out of this mess.
Capitalism is what you’re trying to practice with AHNC. To help, I am sending
you some capital via PayPal. To Wheel, I am sending a hearty Scalia salute.
Hang in there,
Rick
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What I think is the guy
writing about "stale" is an old Bush Staffer!
As to the Obama bailout it's all bad. How many ways can you spell greed,
pay no or little taxes etc.
Shit, the old stale guys is what got us into this mess in the first place.
NEVER FORGET
PUT 'EM ALL IN JAIL
Sending a few more bucks your way!
Dennis
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Lisa,
You're doing just fine!
I'm sure that "WBarrow" and his anti-government cohorts would love for all of us
to concentrate solely
on the difficult tasks that lie ahead for Obama and consequently blame him for
this mess.
However, the Neocon crowd and their corporate criminal masters haven't gone
anywhere. Unfortunately,
they are still very much with us and will be for the foreseeable future. The
public needs to be constantly
reminded that we are just now emerging from an eight-year economic holocaust
caused mainly by Republicans.
This situation is obviously not Obama's fault and it will take months if not
years to undo the damage.
Keep telling it like it is, girlfriend! Bush, Cheney and their ilk were not and
are not patriots. They are traitors.
Don't let them rewrite history. The Neocons are no friends of the poor and
middle-class. They have been and
still are on a deliberate course to destroy the middle-class if we allow them to
get away with it. Lisa, keep up
the good work raising the spirits of the already enlightened. And who knows?
Just maybe you have actually
convinced a dittohead or two along the way to cross over into the light, as
well. Obama's not the only one
with a difficult task!
-Ron
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Lisa,
The person who advocates this is likely a "ringer for a right winger". The
statement that you are getting stale tells me that this bozo doesn't visit your
site to see the humor, but rather would like to see more Clinton and liberal
bashing. (talk about stale!) Your response to him was right on target. If you
are not getting fresh cash, and the donations levels are dropping, it is likely
because of the horrible effects of the Bush and Republicans mistakes of the past
8 yrs. It is taking a heavy toll on all of us. I cannot donate until my taxes
are figured, and I cannot keep my kids in college next year if this decline
continues. I think fresh material should focus on idiots like Boehner and
McConnell, and the sludgemeisters in the Republican party and Hate radio/TV.
Stay the course, Lisa! (pardon the bushistic phrase) You still have one of the
best sites available, and almost all sites are in financial trouble.
David
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Lisa,
IF ONLY Bush, Cheney and Palin WERE old news--we could all breath a sigh of
relief.
I think we have only seen just the very top tip of the iceberg regarding their
greed, corruption, and complete disregard for our Constitution and all that is
just and moral.
Unfortunately, the GOP will continue to "revise" history so we will never get
the complete truth.
Keep up the good work.
Cindy
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Thank
you for all of your responses. Big hug. I think I'll just keep on truckin'.
Please help me put food on my family
Offline Donation - Lisa Casey - PO
Box 88 - Ashford, AL 36312
Odd News
To Help You Deflate Photo
In this photo
released Tuesday, March 31, 2009, by the Newark (Ohio) Police Department, a
motorized bar stool is shown. Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, say
when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4 2009, they
found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower.
Police say Kile Wygle, 28 was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated
after he told an officer at the hospital that he had consumed 15 beers. Wygle
told police his motorized bar stool can go up to 38 mph. AHNC wonders how many
miles per gallon this baby gets!
Photo/Newark (Ohio) Police Department
Peace.
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