Fun with Photoshop

Head on over to Fark.com to see "Partisan children's books."

Charmucks = Corporate Communism

Someday, we aren't going to be able to say anything. PC you think I am talking about? No, it's corporate trademarks. I'll never be able to understand why some people refer to being sensitive to others or politically correct or whatever you want to call it as the thought police, but when corporations do the same crap, it's ok.

Charmucks is suing over the use of the term "double shot." An espresso is called a shot. Two espressos is a double shot. It's English, not a trademark.

You want to talk about tort reform? How about addressing these stupid frivolous corporate lawsuits, ye hypocrites?

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Senate Democrats Ahead in Cash Race

The DSCC reported raising $6.9 million in March, bringing its total for the 2005-2006 cycle to $56.4 million, with $32.1 million in the bank. The NRSC reported raising $5 million in March, bringing its total to $50.4 million for the cycle, with $16.5 million in the bank.

In an equally significant development, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee reported having $23 million in the bank, almost equaling -- for the first time in memory -- the cash balance of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which was $24.4 million.

The Democratic National Committee reported quarterly figures showing that it has raised $74.1 million so far in the 2005-2006 cycle. That puts the party on track to break its 2001-2002 record of $93.4 million for a year with no presidential election -- with the best months for pulling in cash still to come as the midterm elections approach.

I'm going to have no problem gloating when we knock the gops out in November.

More paranoia

NEW YORK --The police bomb squad, responding Friday to a call of a suspicious device inside a parked minivan in midtown Manhattan, blew out the vehicle's windows -- only to find out the item inside was simply stereo equipment, police said.

The incident occurred when police received a 911 call from a passer-by who spotted the device inside a red minivan parked outside 4 E. 67th St., said police spokesman Dennis Laffin. It was a canister about the size of two shoe boxes, with a digital display of changing numbers and some loose wires visible.

"It looked suspicious," Laffin said. "I think anyone would have thought something was strange."

The police bomb squad responded after the 8:22 a.m. call, blowing out three side windows and the back window with a water propelled charge, Laffin said at the scene. A police robot was sent inside the van to take pictures of the device; the photos led police to determine the package was nothing more than stereo equipment.

The van's owner, a Bronx resident, has yet to hear the bad news about his windows.

More Christian dictatorship

TV station refuses to air game on Good Friday

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - A television station declined to broadcast a baseball game because it was being played on Good Friday.

WNEP-TV, which traditionally televises the home opener of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons, said it would not air Friday night's game against Norfolk at Lackawanna County Stadium.

"Good Friday is not an appropriate day for us to do that," C. Lou Kirchen, the station's president and general manager, said on a recent broadcast.

Instead, the station was to air local news, followed by the tabloid show "Inside Edition," an episode of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and then "Primetime," featuring an interview with Tom Cruise.

Good Friday is one of the most solemn days on the Christian calendar, when believers mark the crucifixion of Jesus.

Jeremy Ruby — general manager of the team, which is a minor league affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies — said he was not surprised by WNEP's decision. He noted that he had decided against holding a fireworks show after the game because of the holiday.

"We were getting pressure from the Catholic community, and that's understandable," Ruby said.

Bill Genello, a spokesman for the Diocese of Scranton, said Good Friday is "a very solemn day in the life of the church." But he said the diocese cannot prohibit anyone from attending a sporting event on Good Friday.

I am so sick of Christians discriminating against non-Christians or even non-practicing Christians.

Word of the day

Desuetude \DES-wih-tood, -tyood\, noun:
The cessation of use; discontinuance of practice or custom; disuse.

Use: Reason and common sense in policymaking have fallen into desuetude under the Bush administration.

Today's bonehead move: Bush still supports Rumsfeld even though the entire Army brass wants him gone, you know - people who actually know something about how to run a military.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

On Prodi's victory

After a few years of the right, the world is beginning to wake up. Prodi's victory in Italy, a country who has been ruled by a typically-corrupt rightwinger since us Americans have had to deal with Dubya, is a major setback to thoses Euroskeptic corporatists who care more about profits than quality of life. This is as much a victory for the global left as it is an Italian victory.

Onto November!

Journalistic dishonesty

Cheny booed after his errant first pitch

Cheney was booed before he even took the mound. It had nothing to do with his inability to throw a baseball, like this WaPo "journalist" states.

It must be mentioned that old Bushie was too chicken to throw out the first pitch in DC. He chose good old Sieg heil Cincinnati, where he knew he would get the least amount of boos from the sheeple. Cheney got it handed to him today.

Oh, look, drug companies 'inventing diseases to boost their profits'

PHARMACEUTICAL companies are systematically creating diseases in order to sell more of their products, turning healthy people into patients and placing many at risk of harm, a special edition of a leading medical journal claims today.

The practice of “diseasemongering” by the drug industry is promoting non-existent illnesses or exaggerating minor ones for the sake of profits, according to a set of essays published by the open-access journal Public Library of Science Medicine.

Gee, that's shocking. Who would have thought it?

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Hey moms and dads!

Are you ready for your sons and possibly daughters to get drafted to go to war? Because that is what's going to happen when we go into Iran. Iran's military is not a joke like Saddam's was, and our own military is overextended because of the incomptency of this administration.

Don't give me that "it can't happen to me" attitude, because it can and will happen.

So, if you voted for Bush, I hope your kids are the first ones to go in. Oh, and one other thing: thanks a lot for ruining our country. Why do you hate America so?

U.S. Is Studying Military Strike Options on Iran