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It seems the president can't do any better than a four year old (I'm probably insulting four year olds here) with his analogy that the democrats are terrorists. To hear him tell it, you would think that only card carrying Al Quaida are democrats, and all democrats are evil.

"However they put it, the Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this," he [bush] said. "The terrorists win and America loses."

Loses? Is this how the "uniter" talks? America loses if they exercise their right to vote and pick someone other than whom he wants?

Personally I don't really care who wins these days. With him in office my attitude is that the only real "winners" is industry and oil. They've certainly made out like bandits, at the expense of the consumer, at the expense of blue and white collar America.

Facts are facts asshole. American involvement in the Middle East hasn't done anything to make America safer. All it has done is provide an excuse to cover up lousy government, greed, mismanagement and hate. We've bred a whole new generation of haters, and removed our ability to deal with threats in Iran and North Korea.

Seems to me the terrorists have already won.

I like my computer. I use it a lot. A whole hella lot more than I use a TV. In fact getting information from my computer is my preferred method of data intake. I read the news, get recipes, even watch episodes of things I wouldn't watch on TV (like the episode of South Park that spoofed WoW for example). Lately the sanctity of my data has been smirched with animations and flash based advertisements. Personally when I'm reading the last fucking thing I want is some shit flashing in my peripheral vision. I've learned to adapt however, after almost a decade of "punch the monkey" and "hit the ball" flash banners I'm pretty immune.

Now there is a new evil on the horizon. With the advent of sickeningly high bandwidth for most consumers, institutions like the Times have taken to looping actual film and TV advertisements. In some cases you can't even pause or disable the crap. What makes this particularly repugnant is that since it is a news page, it refreshes after a certain period which causes the video to kick off again.

Frankly it's gotten to where I actually select "low bandwidth" versions of sites if I'm given the option. Since instead of receiving glossier or additional information that I'm interested in, my connection is used instead for additional advertisements.

I'm beginning to think my next computer upgrade is going to be a terminal. Anyone have a VT220 I can use?

Any woman that thinks a girl can be better educated in a single-sex class is both retarded and ignorant. There is nothing to be gained by separating boys from girls in education because our society isn't structured like that. Teaching ignorance by imposing boundaries between the genders only ensures a future society of dysfunctional couples. I mean ffs, we're already at the point where family-oriented groups are lamenting the lack of permanence in couples, married or not.

There is no good reason whatsoever to put further barriers in social education, unless your goal is to enforce some morality code. I suppose it's one way to beat teen pregnancy, by keeping them apart. But there's been no hard proof that women or men learn better when they're segregated. Further, wasn't the concept of "separate but equal" something we tossed out of our government years ago?

The fact that the government is willing to provide its seal of approval for single-sex classes and schools (while fighting single-sex marriages tooth and nail) is yet another stunning reversal of advances against discrimination. What's next, women at the back of the bus? Excluding women from education? Preventing them from holding jobs? All covering burkahs?

It's amusing in a black-humor kind of way that Bush is anti-Islam. I mean he holds the same principles of religious autocracy, perhaps that's why he had to start a war. Jealousy can be an ugly thing....

Massachusetts isn't without it's fair share of morons. Today's gem is Principle Gaylene Heppe of Willett Elementary School. Her contribution to the children of tomorrow is a ban on playing "tag". Stupid doesn't quite cover it. I'm not really sure what adjectives I can use to heap the appropriate amount of disgust and disbelief but I can start with the classic "Gaylene you Stupid Twat..."

Tag.

Banned like drugs, or guns because... yes kids can get hurt. Playing Tag.

What a fucking dolt this woman is, and everyone supporting it. Kids are going to get hurt, it's part of growing up. The idea that you'll stop kids from running around by banning Tag is retarded enough to make any sane persons head hurt. So what now, Tag is banned, are they going to ban all forms of running around because the kids might trip or run into something or someone? What's next, leg shackles after lunch? Chain gangs of youngsters shuffling in and out of a playground only to look at the swings and slides and each other, fettered and safe but desperate to play?

I get the strong feeling that Gay failed her educators courses. Everyone knows (since everyone has been a kid, maybe with the exception of Ms. Heppe) kids need time to run around and let off steam so they can focus. After all, kids have energy.

Rules have cropped up against dodgeball, in other states against ANY unsupervised "contact" sports.

It's fucking amazing. Future generations aren't just going to be fat, they're not going to know how to organize a simple pickup-game in the future because, for fuck sake, they were never permitted to as kids.

Get a fucking life Gaylene, let kids be kids.

I play WoW. Recently a snippet of smack talk caught my attention. Some schmuck was complaining in global chat about a lack of attention paid to Rogues from Healers. The immediate slap-down came back as "Rogues bandage in Endgame, L2P". This was over a week ago, and I'm still thinking about how this applies to my life. Stangely enough it seems to have a wider impact than just a game, so just how does this become a global metaphor?

Work has been sucking hard lately. In fact the whole "team in a dungeon" analogy works fine. I'm part of a team, supposedly working together to conquer a significant project and reap rewards (bi-weekly paycheck). For the most part, after a series of near team-wipes (customer repeatedly threatening to cancel contract) the interteam acrimony has reached the level where team members are pulling targets at random and lunging at any positive feedback like ninja's over epic loot. To get my job done I've had to go rogue, jumping into the fray, putting out the damage, killing the issues that arise but getting little if any support from my team. For safety I try and skulk around, present but barely above notice. I sense traps (usually being set by my peers) and disarm them by proactive effort. Yes, life is an endgame, and while I'd like the support of the people I help, there's no rule that says I deserve any. Instead after a job well done, I'm the only one congradulating my effort and bandaging with a hearty glass of red wine at the end of the day.

The moral, I suppose, is that if you're going to break with the team to expedite matters then it's all on your own head. Getting things done fast solves the problem, but garners attention and resentment of peers who prefer to just slack along. It also means that if you want their support or acknowledgement you're better off waiting for a blue moon. Bitching about lack of respect or acknowledgement isn't just pointless, it demonstrates that you don't have an adequate grasp of reality.

Rogues bandage in endgame n00b. This is life, learn to play.

It's funny in the sad way how a limp dick is a call to arms for medicine and politics. The right to a resounding and fabulous erection seems to be one of those un-written but inalienable rights that is all but carved into the constitution. Health plans which don't cover contraceptives for women will cover prescriptions for Viagra. On the other hand, there has been collateral damage discovered recently, and it's going to be interesting to see how it gets handled.

Lately the press has been reporting on the surge in adolescent development in children as young as four and five. Pre-K kids have been developing hair in mature areas, growing boobs and acting more aggressive. In one case this was determined to be due to the fact that their father was using a testosterone saturated skin cream. The kids were absorbing a full-adult male's worth of hormones just through contact with their dad. In other cases, inhaleable hormone sprays were getting into the kids sheets and causing similar effects. In essence, Daddy's drive to get more nookie was turning his kids into teenagers almost a full decade before the fact.

It seems that it's not enough that kids are exposed to hormone balance altering chemicals through plastics, cosmetics and meats but now they have to worry about direct exposure to "performance enhancing" chemicals through over the counter sprays and creams. What I can almost personally guarantee is that access to these additives won't be restricted in any way, because as stated above, getting it up is a priority over the health and welfare of everyone else. What I find even more depressing is that these men who already have done their duty in reproducing seem less concerned with the results of previous efforts and more so with what they can get tonight.

Like menopause hormones, that require a prescription, men who require additional testosterone should be required to see a doctor and get it formally written out. In my mind any chemical that can threaten the health and welfare of both the user and people in the vicinity should be controlled. Going in for a simple blood test to determine the actual testosterone level really isn't very hard and can be done as part of a routine physical. But that's logic speaking. And when it comes to politics and sex, we all know just how far logic and a nickel will take you...

I love how when congressmen are getting nailed for something, lusting after pages, taking bribe money that the tune is consistently and repeatedly going the same way "It wasn't me it was the booze". First Foley, now Ney - these politicians have no simple way of just owning up like real men to their actions it's "Oy, pity me the sad alcohol abuser that I am. I'm not a bad person I need treatment."

Fucking pathetic.

These scumbags can send boys to war to be maimed and injured but when it comes to suffering pangs of guilt, these pussies can't even stand up to the truth.

Listen boys, you know what? America doesn't care if you were fucking drunk as a skunk or stoned out of your head or wacked on crack when you pulled the shit you did. Fucking stand up and be a man for once, get off your tax-fattened ass and take your punishment. Be a fucking man and face reality, for the lives of all the people you've changed, the laws you passed.

In my world I'd have tracking bracelets locked on the ankles of all our politicians, I'd probably put two on the president and vice president. If at any time more than 55% of the Americans they represented disapproved of their actions, I'd have a large and painful electric shock delivered through the bracelet. That would keep the fuckers in line, and it would keep their voters convinced that they really wanted the job, and were tuned to what the voters wanted.

Now, where can I go to patent this?

Maybe if the people who were inclined to commit news-grabbing crimes knew of the reporting aftermath they'd hesitate. If they realized that no one was really going to be interested in their motivations, and only the lascivious details of what they did perhaps they might balk at becoming a tool of the media. The more innocent and vulnerable the victim, the more the criminal is objectified. The active example of this is the Amish school shootings.

In the order of events there's really not much to say. A guy went into an Amish school, ordered everyone but some young girls out, and then killed them and himself. The press is having a field day. If there are twenty ways to describe the same events, then there must be at least two hundred articles all describing the same content with sadistic glee. Every tid bit that comes out generates not a handful but a dump truck load of new articles all with the same text.

I don't think the press really gets it - that in cases like these less is actually better. After reaching a level of saturation, more or less within a day of the event, people already know about it and frankly don't care. In fact the more they report on it, the less people do care because they become immune to the events after the 150th telling. At a certain point it's the press that becomes disgusting, in the same way crows picking at road kill is disgusting. It's not informative, it's not really news. What's more the victims in question were Amish, and they don't like or want the intrusion.

If the press had any nads or self-esteem whatsoever they'd stfu and leave these people alone. What the public needs is a way to communicate to the press that we don't care, we don't want to hear it and that they need to earn their money the old way - by going out and finding new stories to tell. It's not like there's a lack of news, it's just that there's a lack of effort in going out and reporting it. At a certain point it's time to put down the pen and step away from the corpse, it's been picked clean...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian state radio Monday blamed North Korea's reported nuclear test on U.S. pressure, accusing Washington of ''humiliating'' the impoverished communist country.

That's ok with me. I blame Iran for being fascist, hyper-religious, narrow-minded, misogynistic, xenophobic, opportunistic, hate-mongering, lying, bigot scum.

I can't take it. Really.

The single thing most likely to make my head explode, splattering blood and brains all over the inside of my windshield is when I see some complete fucking retard come screeching to a halt in his behemoth SUV just to go over a speed bump, railroad track or, gods forbid, grooved pavement. The urge to rip in front of them, jam on the brakes, and yanking them screaming from the vehicle while I patiently explain to them (with the help of a water logged 2x4) that they fucking bought an SUV because TV add showed it driving through canyons and over dead trees the size of a mini-cooper, is almost unbearable.

IT'S A FUCKING SUV, YOU DON'T NEED TO SLOW DOWN TO GO OVER THAT 2" BUMP.

Christ these people are fucking stupid.

The religious bastards that currently have our government by the nads want everything America has and more. They want far more than just the freedom worship as they please, something that isn't readily available all over the world. They also want to be able to force their neighbors who are not as committed to bend to their interpretation of how the world should be run.

Ignoring for the moment the whole muslim-lunacy thing, and focusing on America, it's impossible to say where the influence starts and where the impact ends. If you slap the tag of religion on anything, from a genuine place of worship to business efforts such as hospitals and day care centers, you get two things: free money and freedom to screw people as you like. You can fire people because they have cancer. You can deny teachers or nurses the right to unionize. You can endorse sexual harassment, condone discrimination. All this -AND- the government will uphold your freedom to do this simply because your religion (and lack of humanity) dictate it.

Personally I think there's no end in sight. The religious are, despite their claims, the greediest of all institutions. Souls apparently aren't enough, when money and influence are available. Supreme dictator of the world in all things? Yes, that's what they're after - and human salvation is only an afterthought.

I find the whole teen-evangelical movement funny. Personally it must be fabulous to tell yourself that the best years of your life, the first kiss, the first drink, the first time you get laid aren't now, but at some mysterious time in the future. "Save yourself for marriage". Yeah, that's great - do that.

The image of two 24 year olds fumbling around trying to figure out how it all fits together is the perfect backdrop for a prayer asking for enlightenment on how to get his-n-hers together. Really it's hardly a surprise when you read articles about how the uber-religous types wind up at fertility specialists bereft of progeny, only to be informed "well you have to have SEX first".

What's more interesting is that many teenagers are wising up. They're dropping out of the whole "religious movement", not because they're being pulled away by the lascivious modern society we live in (as the faithful zealots would have you believe) but rather because they figured out that listening to some fucked up old asshole was going to deprive them of the best years of their lives.

Personally it's Darwin's way of keeping them from interbreeding with the smart kids, by weeding them out early. Anyone with a moderate to high IQ isn't going to huck their teen years out the window in exchange for potential fulfillment when their hair starts falling out and their tits begin to sag. Further, even if you do change your mind by the time you're 21, what normal member of the opposite sex is going to let you fumble around with them? All I can say is, either you better read a lot of books, watch some movies, or catch on mighty quick.

All in all I say "Yea!" if a teenager is retarded enough to choose a vague promise of fulfillment over a fulfilling hands-on experience. Chances are you're saving some poor slob from wasting their time on you. There will be plenty of time for you to figure out what you missed when you're older...

Yes we're all horrified by the spate of school related shootings. Basically men with guns go into a school and shoot people. Variation on the theme, kid with guns goes in and shoots people. The unifying factor in this is that everyone had guns. Of course there are solutions that are being posed to mitigate or prevent these events. One is, lets make it harder for people to get guns. See without a gun these people would have to use a bat, pipe or even their bare hands... and frankly that's a lot less sexy and a lot more physically demanding than just leaning back and pulling a trigger. Yes yes, of course, if "guns are outlawed then only outlaws will have guns". Uh huh. But the are the people shooting up the schools outlaws, or are they just people with casual access to guns? Yes, we know the answer to that one - especially when it's kids with the guns.

Sill why go the common sense route? I mean common sense hardly makes the news. Wisconsin Republican Rep. Frank Lasee has a better idea: Give the teachers guns so they can shoot back.

Well isn't that a novel concept? More guns so there can be more bullets so there can be more dead people. Better yet! With teachers carrying guns now there can be 100% certainty that someone will have access to a gun in the school? Why guess? If you know there's guns in a school, hell you won't have to even bring your own - just sap a teacher and take theirs.

So you think they'll start stocking ammo next to the chalk and desk cleaner?

Think the kids will pay more attention if the teacher puts a few rounds into the ceiling?

It sure will spice up those parent-teacher conferences a mite.

It's nice to know that Wisconsin doesn't discriminate against retarded people, hell they even elect them to public office...

It's getting harder and harder to accept that Texas isn't populated solely by the mentally deficient. In the latest news from the home state of our president comes this jaw-dropping tidbit:

…Ms. McGee, 51, a popular art teacher with 28 years in the classroom, is out of a job after leading her fifth-grade classes last April through the Dallas Museum of Art. One of her students saw nude art in the museum, and after the child's parent complained, the teacher was suspended.

Ok, I need to step back a second just to compose my thoughts.

So a fifth grader saw a classical greek nude as part of a funerary relief. And complained to the mom. And the mom complained to the principal. And the principle fired her. The principal's name is Nancy Lawson.

Well Nancy, you fucking under-qualified retard, want to explain why exactly seeing a nude sculpture in an art museum on a tour you approved is a problem? Do you know what art is? Have you ever seen a naked body? WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH YOU BITCH?!?!?

The very idea that someone would lose their job by actually teaching someone what art is it's simply unfathomable. Yes someone at that school was unqualified to hold their position, Nancy "head up my fucking twat-hole" Lawson is that person.

It's pretty clear that the people in 330 BC were far more fucking civilized than the retards in charge of the texas school system in 2006.

Hey Nancy, if the sculpture of a male dick scares you, maybe you need some in real life eh?

Any way you read this - it's explosive. I can't do any better than the original text so here it is:

JIDDA, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 2 A review of White House records has determined that George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, did indeed brief Condoleezza Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001 about looming threat from Al Qaeda, a State Department spokesman said on Monday evening.

This tid bit - spilled by Bob Woodward's latest book "State of Denial" has pushed darling Condi back on her ass, as she's desperately tried to back pedal.. "Um, I don't recall. No, I never had that meeting. I never would have ignored it if I did."

Well, apparently her faulty memory isn't the only problem. The fact that this was never mentioned to the 9/11 commission is gaffe the size of the grand canyon.

Personally I know, as any halfway intelligent person with the capability to wade through propaganda and recognize it, that there's far more to the story than the public will get to hear for many decades. Look how long it's taken for information about Korea and Vietnam to get the light of day... and the press wasn't half so restricted then as it is now.

Nonetheless, this fact lays responsibility squarely in the lap of the administration. It will be an amusing, if pathetic act of tap-dancing to watch them wiggle out from under and attempt to lay the blame on someone else. It's highly unlikely that this bit of data will go lightly into the sunset. Rather it's a ticket for someone's public execution, the biggest question is who?

Much noise has been made as of late about how the President lied his way into a war. How the truth had been withheld from the public and other branches of government. For those still interested in the story it's been confirmed over and over that there was no link to terrorists in Iraq, in much the same way there were no weapons of mass destruction. With those elements removed there simply is no supporting justification, other than "we wanted revenge". Ok, so how many dead people does it take to satisfy one mans desire for revenge?

I guess we'll be finding that out...