seriously un-fucking-hinged

AMDOM
* yesterday i asked whether blinky's kid or sibling had died. it was the sibling. it turns out that she was 'allowed' to die... ""[Dr. Dorothy Wyvell, Robin's pediatrician] gave us the best advice anyone could have given, which of course we didn't take," Barbara Bush said.
"She said, 'Number one, don't tell anyone. Number two, don't treat her. You should take her home, make life as easy as possible for her, and in three weeks' time, she'll be gone.'"" LINK

* "The so-called pharmacists' rights movement is the best guerilla marketing campaign I've seen in years. " LINK

* "Try this thought experiment. A fire breaks out in a fertility clinic and you have a choice: You can save a three-year-old child or a Petri dish containing 10 seven-day old embryos. Which do you choose to rescue?" LINK

* wapo does an election-fraud article (which is inanely called): "Defects In 2004 Balloting Described"
""In the 2004 presidential election, the United States came much closer to electoral meltdown, violence in the streets and constitutional crisis than most people realize," professor Richard Hasen of Loyola Law School said in his written comments."
and
""The overall concern is that 40 percent of the American people don't vote," Carter said. "Secondly, that there's a great deal of doubt in our country about the integrity of the electoral process. Those are the two basic issues... we want to make sure that the electoral process has integrity -- that it is not shot through with fraud." LINK

* not surprisingly, the AP was a bit more gentle "Carter said it's important to learn why 40 percent of qualified voters do not cast ballots in presidential elections and why people are losing confidence in the integrity of the vote." LINK
newsflash: the main issue isnt whether people have confidence, but whether the system has any integrity. or not.

* the funny thing about coulter not liking the fish-eye photo on the cover of Times is that it shows her to have big feet... you know what they say about men with big feet... she blamed the "liberal media", and said she hasnt read the article... hannity said 'youve gotta believe the bad photo was done on purpose...' my brain is exploding. these people are incredible. the message is very clear: you can never bend over far enough. we have to learn this lesson, and never forget it. cbs sacked the whole rathergate crew, and they only get to the neutral line, now they have to *prove* their credentials to the administration. etc etc. if pharmacists are allowed to with-hold morning-after pills, doctors will be able to not treat gays. 'partial birth abortions' (i feel dirty just writing it) are banned, now they'll go after first trimester abortions. they want a judge impeached, they'll destroy the entire judiciary. iran 'isnt allowed' to have nukes, venezuela wont be allowed ak47s. they wanna ban the filibuster on judicial noms, they'll destroy all filibusters. etc etc etc. these people are fucking crazy - absolute power demands more absolute power - yep, even more than absolute. thats how they think. they will never be sated. we were outraged that coulter made Times' top100, they demanded a cover story, and they got their cover story (and the 'ms right' headline). and we were outraged. now they're outraged at the photo - and on the teeve denouncing it loudly. there simply isnt any 'enough' with these horrible people. thats todays lesson.

* the minutemen are calling themselves 'civil homeland security' - thnx mr luntz. u idiot.

* "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday the nation's policy on preventing illegal immigration is too lax, telling a group of newspaper publishers the United States needs to "close the borders."" LINK

* DeLay told Fox News Radio: " We've got Justice Kennedy writing decisions based upon international law, not the Constitution of the United States? That's just outrageous, And not only that, but he said in session that he does his own research on the Internet? That is just incredibly outrageous." LINK
seriously un-fucking-hinged. first they came for the internet... then they came for the tv... then they came for the books

* "DeLay has called repeatedly for the House to find a way to hold the federal judiciary accountable for its decisions. "The judiciary has become so activist and so isolated from the American people that it's our job to do that," DeLay said." LINK
is congress isolated from the people???

* "WashintonTimes: Are you going to pursue impeaching judges?
DeLay: I'm not going to answer that." via here

* (i heart) larissa *slams* the npc-notgannon panel: "It has become custom for panels on blogging to be presented with less of an eye for making blogging credible and more so to make blogging laughable, thereby discrediting the genre. This event, however, moved the entire pretense to a level only found at circuses or at the current White House briefing rooms. It debased not just blogging, but journalism as well... the event could have passed into the annals of history as the public wrist-slashing of mainstream journalism, if it passed anywhere at all." LINK
-larissa does give wonkette the mandatory 'i like her' - its almost an honorific, or the last/only rule of blogging
- larissa makes this point which ought be the mantra of everyone on the planet: " The citizens of this country may have voted differently if they had the facts needed to make any informed decision."

* " A (non-white) New York man was arrested on Tuesday for threatening to kill a Brooklyn federal judge and bomb his courthouse amid growing concern about the safety of the nation's judiciary and their courtrooms." LINK
i wish this hadnt happened... i hope that they catch a white person making the same threats. and soon. it'd be nice to compare-and-contrast the treatment... id prefer to have a christo-freak all by him/herself, one who claimed a mandate from DeLay or frist or cornyn... how sweet would that be