Journalism is dead and Maxim is dancing on it’s grave.

At a news conference with Cheney at this Red Sea resort, Mubarak also addressed another difficult Mideast issue, saying he believes Iraq’s Saddam Hussein is close to agreeing to allow the return of U.N. weapons inspectors.

Okay… eveybody here who believes this is going to work out, raise their hand.
Now it may just be because I’m alone here, but I don’t see any hands.
Within six months, the inspectors will either be running for their life, or withdrawn for lack of results. Even when Iraq was pretending to go along with the inspections, the UN teams never found anything despite the fact we knew there was something there.
How mny times are we going to do this?

Bush View of Secrecy Is Stirring Frustration

Any crack or perceived crack in the support, in the unity, of the American people and our leaders in Washington is not helpful,%uFFD3 Lott added, %uFFD2and it is important that we not be critical of the commander-in-chief in a time that we are at war.”

— msnbc.com
Kiss.
my.
fuzzy.
pink.
ass.
There is no time when anyone, especially our governmental leaders, should be immune to criticism.
There is no period when a president experiences more power than during wartime. Meaning there should be no time when they are under closer scrutiny.
We may not be able to do anything about violations of humanity and common sense until after the fact, but everyone is accountable for their actions. How happy will the Shrub be when he is Milosovic’s place?

“A Louisiana woman is suing Nintendo, alleging her 30-year-old son suffered seizures after playing video games for eight hours a day, six days a week.”

Lady… if you have a 30 year old man living with you playing Nintendo 8 hours a day 6 days a week… you have some problems of your own you should deal with.

Child refugee sex scandal
Life is not pretty.
In fact it is fucking morbid in western Africa. These are countries that suffered famines through the eighties, revolutions and lawlessness in the ninties. This is the place where the Army of God (?) was raised, forcing children not even into puberty to fight to the death and dismember each other. Where a homicidal church incinerates all of it’s followers.
And now the aid workers. People who go there to address the most basic needs of human life. They’re there to literally keep each individual person from dying of starvation or exposure.
And while they do that, they’re fucking little girls.
Someone needs to tattoo swasticas to these guys foreheads and drop them into the middle of South Central buck nekkid.

Warren Ellis: Prognosticator
N.Y. Times source database hacked

The Shrub Does Beijing
Ignorance and apple pie at it’s best.

Catholic Church Slams ‘Amen’ Poster
And the Catholics sued…
and lost.
Thank you, I’m moving to France.

Powell Urges Condom Use
Can you believe this argument is still going on?
There’s an episode of the Sitcom Designing Women that dealt with this exact issue. A young man came to them to plan his funeral because he was dying of AIDS, while the schoolboard was arguing the merits of placing condoms in the nurses office.
And at the end of the episode, in a moment that they’d obviously been leading up to, Annie Potts says something to the effect: “All moral arguments aside, no matter what decisions our children make, they shouldn’t be forced to die for them.”

Laura’s Lessons From Lindh

"Make sure your children are mature before you allow them to do certain things," Bush said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.

Um, Laura, would that be like, umm, before you allow your kids to get arrested for drunk driving? Or more like, before you allow them to fake a perscription for drugs?

And in today’s round of “Give me a fuckin break”…
Alert issued for potential teddy bear bombs
If these are their criteria, the FBI must have warnings out on half the people in my hometown
If you’ve ever lived in a rural area, this shopping list is not the least bit suspicious. Teddy bears are universal, and no indication of anything in their own right. If the man bought BB’s, then gosh, maybe he owns something he could use them with, like, oh… I dunno… a BB gun? (No self respecting Son of the Soil should be caught without one). And the propane? What do you do when you don’t live in the city, or when you go camping? You run propane stoves, propane heaters, and propane lamps. And canisters this size are not legally allowed to be refilled, so the man would likely have to buy multiple backups.
“Potentially of middle eastern decent”? What did they say? “Well, this dude that looked like Jesus came into the store and bought some bomb supplies. It seemed religious enough… he was talking about a holy war or something.”

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