Utopia 2025For conservative Bush backers, Donna Brazile is a “good” Democrat, because she’s unwilling to hold the President accountable for his massive failures surrounding Hurricane Katrina.
Joe Lieberman is a “better” Democrat, because he’s willing to praise the President and get in bed with Republicans at the drop of a hat.
And Zell Miller is the “best” Democrat, because, well, he’s clinically insane.
Lyrics to my new favorite song, “God’s Song” by Randy Newman:
Cain slew Abel
Seth knew not why
If the children of Israel
were supposed to multiply
why must any
of the childen die?So he asked the Lord
and the Lord said,“Man means nothing
he means less to me
than the lowliest cactus flower
or the humblest yucca tree
He chases ’round this desert
’cause he thinks that’s where I’ll be
That’s why I love mankind.I recoil in horror
at the foulness of thee
at the squalor and the filth
and the misery
How we laugh up here in heaven
at the praise you offer me
That’s why I love mankind.”Christians and the Jews
were havin’ a jamboree
Buddhists and the Hindus
joined on satellite TV
They chose their four greatest priests
and they began to speakThey said, “Lord there’s a plague upon the land
Lord, no man is free
The temples that we built to you
have tumbled into the sea
Lord, if you won’t take care of us
Then please please let us be.”And the Lord said
And the Lord said“I burn down your cities
How blind you must be
I take from you your children, and you say
How blessed are we!
Y’all must be crazy
to put your faith in meThat’s why I love mankind.
You really need me!
That’s why I love mankind.”
Sorry, but this photo is freakin’ hilarious. If you don’t find this funny, you’ve lost your soul.
I hate to say “I told you so.”
But I told you so.
As Edward G. Robinson intoned so memorably in one of the greatest movies of all time, The Ten Commandments:
Where’s your messiah now?
President Bush has got to be counting his lucky stars that the event that ripped away his last shred of credibility came in the form of a natural disaster, and not a terrorist attack. Imagine if those images of him eating cake with John McCain and playing the guitar were taken while people burned alive after a nuclear explosion. I wonder if he would be sleeping in the White House tonight.
“From my perspective, it is far, far too late to start bringing up questions about funding priorities now, except maybe in the sense of bringing them up if another war is proposed.“
-Dean Esmay, Crapweasel-in-Chief, who previously described the war in Iraq as an “experiment”
I wasn’t aware that democracies “proposed” wars, like they do, say, highway projects. But this is the world we live in now. George Orwell, call your office.
Grover Norquist, the architect of the Bush tax cuts and general right-wing asshole, is famous for his remark about wanting to drown the federal government in the bathtub.
We’re all in that bathtub, now.
Randy Newman sang this song from his “Good Old Boys” album at the outset of the benefit concert tonight for hurricane relief. It made me cry.
Louisiana 1927
What has happened down here is the wind have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain
Rained real hard and rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
The river rose all day
The river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood
Some people got away alright
The river have busted through cleard down to Plaquemines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
Louisiana, Louisiana
They’re tryin’ to wash us away
They’re tryin’ to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They’re tryin’ to wash us away
They’re tryin’ to wash us away
President Coolidge came down in a railroad train
With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand
The President say, “Little fat man isn’t it a shame
what the river has done
To this poor crackers land.”
Louisiana, Louisiana
They’re tryin’ to wash us away
They’re tryin’ to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They’re tryin’ to wash us away
They’re tryin’ to wash us away
How conservatives see liberals in America:
POLL: Which do you hate the most?
(a) Freedom
(b) America
(c) The troops
(d) Jesus
(e) Hate all equally.
(stolen from comments at Balloon Juice)
“What’s unusual for an event on the Mall is the combination of fences, required preregistration and the threat of arrest.”
–The Washington Post, on the frankly obscene war rally planned for Sept. 11 in Washington. D.C.
Wouldn’t Martin Luther King Jr. be proud!
UPDATE: Since I don’t have the strength to write the kind of rip-roarin’, over-the-top rant that this event deserves, I’ll leave it in the capable hands of The Rude Pundit.
The Blame Game
n.
Accountability.
“A quick observation: when people don’t want to play the blame game – they’re to blame.“
-Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, 9/7/05