Beat The Press

1:12 pm EST December 20th, 2005 | News | 33 Comments

Bush hauled the New York Times into the White House to stop them from reporting the domestic spy story… not because he feared for national security, but because he didn’t want to be embarrased. What the hell?

The problem was not that the disclosures would compromise national security, as Bush claimed at his press conference. His comparison to the damaging pre-9/11 revelation of Osama bin Laden s use of a satellite phone, which caused bin Laden to change tactics, is fallacious; any Americans with ties to Muslim extremists in fact, all American Muslims, period have long since suspected that the U.S. government might be listening in to their conversations. Bush claimed that  the fact that we are discussing this program is helping the enemy. But there is simply no evidence, or even reasonable presumption, that this is so. And rather than the leaking being a  shameful act, it was the work of a patriot inside the government who was trying to stop a presidential power grab.

No, Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story which the paper had already inexplicably held for a year because he knew that it would reveal him as a law-breaker. He insists he had  legal authority derived from the Constitution and congressional resolution authorizing force. But the Constitution explicitly requires the president to obey the law. And the post 9/11 congressional resolution authorizing  all necessary force in fighting terrorism was made in clear reference to military intervention. It did not scrap the Constitution and allow the president to do whatever he pleased in any area in the name of fighting terrorism.

I think at long last we need to really talk about whether the president broke the law and if he should be prosecuted for that.

ALSO: The NYT held the story ahead of the 2004 election. Way to go, liberal media, can’t let the facts get in the way of re-election for the jackasses!

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Science Wins Vs. Mythological Nonsense

11:12 am EST December 20th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 47 Comments

Amen

“Intelligent design” cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a federal judge said Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom clashes on evolution since the 1925 Scopes trial.

Dover Area School Board members violated the Constitution when they ordered that its biology curriculum must include the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III said. Several members repeatedly lied to cover their motives even while professing religious beliefs, he said.

The school board policy, adopted in October 2004, was believed to have been the first of its kind in the nation.

“The citizens of the Dover area were poorly served by the members of the Board who voted for the ID Policy,” Jones wrote.

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Worlds Collide

3:12 am EST December 20th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 17 Comments

Why did nobody tell me that the worlds of country and hip hop had combined to create this bizarre bling bling strip club universe where Honky Tonk Badonkadonk exists?

This could be the concept that truly brings America together.

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Can We Finally Call It A Trend

12:12 am EST December 19th, 2005 | Politics | 36 Comments

Another politician in south America with a leftist message wins office. It’s as if they’re not buying the program we’ve been selling. Gee, wonder why?

 

Just Win, Baby

12:12 am EST December 19th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 15 Comments

With the Bears beating the Falcons, the path to the playoffs for the ‘Skins is simple to explain: win and they’re in. If the Redskins win their next two games (Giants, Eagles)… they’re in. Frankly, if they can’t beat our division foes at home in December they aren’t playoff material anyway. Time to Cowboy up.

Pray.

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Shorter Lame Ass President

9:12 pm EST December 18th, 2005 | Politics | 53 Comments

“Finally I admit I screwed up the aftermath of the Iraqi invasion, but it’s all better now because I said so. Also, I’m willing to take advice from people who aren’t Republicans as long as they don’t actually disagree with me, because people who disagree with me hate freedom. 9/11, 9/11, god bless America”

We are totally screwed that this amazingly useless and ineffectual man is the leader of our country. A lot of people have died on his watch and a lot more will thanks to his ignorance and hubris.

ALSO: Can anyone tell me why he looked like he was directing airline traffic?

ALMOST AS LAME: The Democrats for not having the glimmer of a unified Iraqi position (I hear rumbles of Daschle/Gephardt in ’02 once again). Here’s a starting point, geniuses.

 

We Are Their Daddies

7:12 pm EST December 18th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 18 Comments

Hail to the Redskins. Hail victory. Dallas sucks.

Dallas Cowboys, you are the suck. 35-7. Bite me. Dallas sucks. Dallas really sucks. 2-0. Sweep.


This is Chris Cooley. For fun he likes beating the tar out of the sorry ass Dallas Cowboys.

By Grapthar’s hammer, we are avenged.

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Burn

12:12 am EST December 18th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 49 Comments

Nicholas Kristof absolutely burns Bill O’Reilly in his column this Sunday.

Look, I put up a “Christmas tree,” rather than a “holiday tree,” and I’m sure Mr. O’Reilly is right that political correctness leads to absurd contortions this time of year. But when you’ve seen what real war does, you don’t lightly use the word to describe disagreements about Christmas greetings. And does it really make sense to offer 58 segments on political correctness and zero on genocide?

Perhaps I’m particularly sensitive to religious hypocrites because I’ve spent a chunk of time abroad watching Muslim versions of Mr. O’Reilly – demagogic table-thumpers who exploit public religiosity as a cynical ploy to gain attention and money. And I always tell moderate Muslims that they need to stand up to blustery blowhards – so today, I’m taking my own advice.

Like the fundamentalist Islamic preachers, Mr. O’Reilly is a talented showman, and my sense is that his ranting is a calculated performance. The couple of times I’ve been on his show, he was mild mannered and amiable until the camera light went on – and then he burst into aggrieved indignation, because he knew it made good theater.

Kristof goes on to theorize that it’s possible that O’Reilly is a plant put up by liberals to discredit the right because nobody could be that insane. Who told??!!!

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The Footballageddon Is Nigh

10:12 pm EST December 17th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 14 Comments

Two words that must resound in the ears of our region’s beloved Redskins:

Beat Dallas.


Redskins linebacker LaVar Arrington ends the career of Cowboys legend Troy Aikman with a most vicious hit

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Does He Know That He Isn’t The King?

12:12 pm EST December 17th, 2005 | News | 108 Comments

I don’t agree with a lot of the stuff that says Bush is a bad president simply because he’s stupid. Because it’s clear that while his intellectual scope is significantly limited, Bush is an astute politician tha understands how to use his position to get what he wants.

But does he realize that he isn’t the King of America?

We have three equal branches of government for a reason. The president doesn’t just get to decide on a whim that he can spy on American citizens without a warrant and use as his justification the nonsense that he felt it was legal. That ain’t how it works. Richard Nixon tried this trick before too, making the determination that as president he wasn’t subject to the laws of the land, that because he resided at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. he was given special powers that excused him from our system of laws.

Nixon:”When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”

He was wrong.

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