Well, it's not going to kill you

Ok so maybe I'm not THAT bad off

Because I read this today and went ballistic. 

The Bush administration is up to its old tricks again, quietly putting ideology before science and women's health. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is poised to put in place new barriers to accessing common forms of contraception like birth control pills, emergency contraception and IUDs by labeling them "abortion."

 I emailed the Shrub House and sent the link to this poll, of course I'm sure it will never get close to His Highness but it made me feel better.  88,000 plus people have voted and the vast majority disagree with him, 11 % agree, but I'm fairly certain that it will not change his very warped mind.

What is it with the religious right?  Why do they feel the need to tell the rest of us how to live our lives?  If you believe abortion is wrong don't have one but no one, even the current resident, has the right to tell other people what to do with their bodies.  It is still the law of the land even if he disagrees. 

OK, this is just creepy

I'm catching up on the news today and went to the white house website to email Shrub.  This came up as the lead on the page.

Today is July 23, in the Year of America's Lord Jesus Christ 2008

Note this link will most likely bring up something else tomorrow.

I've never noticed that before.  I typed in Whitehouse.org rather than whitehouse. gov

DOA liberal's sense of humor?

Oh please God no.  This is the front cover for the New Yorker magazine this week.  I find it hysterically funny.  Hello, people have brains.  MOST of them realize it's a spoof.  Or at least I think most of them realize it's a spoof.

Of course there was that one women on CNN (sorry can't find the link) last week who said she didn't like the candidate because he was a Muslim.  Unfortunately a confirmation that there are many, many, many stupid and/or gullible people in our country.

WAIT, that explains how Shrub got re-elected!

Still haven't soaked my foot.  Keep reading the news.

Will someone explain to me why????

Celebrity baby photos are worth millions?  Why celebrities or sports figures or news casters are worth millions?

Why not teachers, fire fighters, police officers?  The real important people in the world.  Why do CEO's and CFO's makes 100's if not 1000's more than the company employees.  Why do the crooks get golden parachutes while we taxpayers get stuck with the bailout?  Because you know a bailout is on the way for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, it has to be done or the mortgage and banking systems will collapse.

NOW off to soak my staphy foot.

Yes I understand that I've been ranting alot lately ...

but I'm an angry breast cancer survivor, bleeding heart liberal and a news junkie.  I'm allowed.

I won't promise not to rant in the future because we all know that a lie and besides if you didn't like the ranting you wouldn't keep coming back.

So I'll keep blogging, maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't, maybe you'll tell your friends, maybe you won't.

It makes me happy and gets stuff out of my head.  Just gear yourselves up because POLITICS, OBAMA, MCCAIN, SHRUB, CARL ROVE, IRAQ, IRAN, GAS PRICES, etc., etc., etc. are not going away any time soon.  And then there's the rest of the world when I get bored with the US.

ZIMBABWE, DARFUR, THE SUDAN, THE MIDDLE EAST, THE RAIN FOREST.   See there's a lot more out there.

Oh Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Another court that does not roll over and play dead for the Bush administration.

I bet you all wish I'd go back to writing about breast cancer : )

Sorry this is me, news junkie, bleeding heart liberal, cancer survivor.  Interestingly I've noticed it's becoming easier to think of myself as a cancer survivor rather than a cancer patient.  I'm sure part of it is having other issues fill my head but I also believe that distance helps.

I do still look in the mirror every day and think you really can tell a difference but now it pretty much stops there.  I try to stop myself from thinking what if it comes back or that I have to visit THAT BUILDING much more frequently than I'd like.  I'm also trying not to think about all the chemicals I put in my body to destroy the cancer and then all the radiation but that is just pointless.  It's done and over with I can't change the past and can't predict the future.

Well Duh

Army criticizes its Iraq mistakes

The Army's official history of the Iraq war shows military chiefs made mistake after mistake in the early months of the conflict. Criticism long heard from outside the Pentagon is echoed in the tough internal assessment, compiled using frank opinions from officers serving at the start of the war. "This is a recipe for disaster," a leading general said of one move. full story

Sorry I just logged on to CNN, first place I go when I log on, and this story was the lead.  I'm sure you're as surprised as I was to read the Iraq war was a screw-up from the very beginning.

We should really consider ourselves lucky otherwise known as vote or shutup

* I did this as a draft expecting to add more info.  I probably will, it's just so fricking depressing.  Although our political system has many issues it certainly isn't as bad as Zimbabwe where Robert Mugabe was just "elected" for his sixth term. Mostly because the opposition dropped out because of death threats to himself and his supporters. Let's hope the Republicans don't get any ideas.

There was also reported to be widespread intimation of voters - gee that sounds familiar (Ohio or Florida ring a bell)

As it stand the US and UK do not recognized the government of Zimbabwe. What does that mean for the citizens? I thought this quote from a policeman was very interesting.

" ... So why have an election at all when there is only one candidate?

"Because it must be done," says a policeman talking to me by phone.

"We police people voted last week on Friday and now it is the turn of the public."

I ask him how that vote went.

"Well, we were filling in our postal votes in front of our commanding officers, and they would fold them for us and note the serial numbers on our ballot papers."..."

How handy to have your commanding officers folding your votes and recording serial numbers. Imagine if your "Vote" was for the wrong person.

" ...We were taken to a run-down holiday camp which was now home to hundreds of people who had been forced out of their village for voting "wrongly".

One thing has not altered... people's desire for change

That was not their word but the one used by the thugs who attacked them.

Time and again we heard that same charge being levelled against people: "You voted wrongly and we're going to punish you."

I told our contact that we would only be 20 minutes here. "Ten would be better," he said, "it's not safe here."

And actually 10 minutes was enough time to hear not just what had happened to them but also what they would do about it.

The atmosphere in the country may have changed, the violence and intimidation is systematic and brutal and people are living different lives... but one thing has not altered and that is people's desire for change. ..."

So to everyone who says their vote doesn't count, yes it does. Every single vote is important. Would you want our country to wind up this?

From the just when I thought they couldn't say anything more stupid or offense catagory

Sorry folks catching up with politics today and a bit of science later.  If you're good I'll even tell you about the lovely dinner we had last night with our friend Gary.

From the New York Times op-ed page today.

DON’T fault Charles Black, the John McCain adviser, for publicly stating his honest belief that a domestic terrorist attack would be “a big advantage” for their campaign and that Benazir Bhutto’s assassination had “helped” Mr. McCain win the New Hampshire primary. His real sin is that he didn’t come completely clean on his strategic thinking. ...

...Among the only durable legacies of the Bush presidency are the twin fears that Mr. Rove relentlessly pushed on his client’s behalf: fear of terrorism and fear of gays. But these pillars are disintegrating too. "

From Fox News

MCCAIN PREDICTS ‘UNDERDOG’ WIN IN FINAL 48 HOURS

by FOXNews.com

Friday, June 27, 2008

Suddenly intelligent US Citizens everywhere are going to change their minds and decided yes indeed I would like to live in fear and hate for the next 4 years. That's from me.

And here's one for us because I DO NOT want to wake up November 5 and have to say "fucked for another 4 years.

Who says Republicans have no sense of humor

from Huffingtonpost.com

but Novak documents something even more significant: the overpowering sense of revulsion with Bush and today's Republican Party felt by many conservatives. The money quote is delivered by a long-time GOP loyalist: "The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of Weekend With Bernie [sic], handcuffed to a corpse." I didn't think it could be done, but that tops Republican Rep. Tom Davis' classic "If we were dog food, they would take us off the shelf."

Gave me my laugh for the day!