Excuse Du Jour

So, it wasn't:
WMDs,
Past atrocities,
Buying yellowcake,
Having mobile weapons labs,
Humanitarian relief,
The oppressed Iraqis,
Meetings with al Qaeda,
Planning nukes,
Defying UN resolutions,
Freedom hating,
Flying drones,
or Anything Saddam said
...after all!
It's OIL FOR FOOD ABUSE!

How 'bout that!

If Only We Had Pre-Voting IQ Tests

According to the most recent Gallup poll, 62% of Republicans think Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks.

The say this in spite of the fact that every major player in the Bush Administration - except Dick Cheney, but including the President - has disavowed that claim.

The say this in spite of the fact that the 911 Commission thoroughly debunked this nonsense.

They say this in spite of the fact that every major newspaper, news radio, and TV news outlet has broadcast the truth on this many times (although when Fox News hedges when saying it).

Too stupid to vote? How about too stupid to breathe.

Another Top Ten List

Top 10 Reasons to Re-Appoint George Bush:

10) Because you don't change horsemen mid-Apocalypse.
9) Because the deficit is not growing fast enough.
8) Because corporations are people too.
7) Because the other guy is distracted by healthcare, education, and the environment.
6) Because 1.7 million jobs lost is just a start.
5) Because never has one man done so much, for so few, at the expense of so many.
4) Because there's a lot more of our oil still trapped under their soil.
3) Because second-rate people don't deserve a first-rate education.
2) Because global warming means better tans.
1) Because Fox News told me to.

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"No Reaction Shots"

Primary Election Results

I checked out the finalized results in the recent local primary elections.

While our local Libertarians make a lot of noise, they didn't do too well with the voters.

For instance, the Libertarian candidate, running unopposed for United States Senator, got fewer votes than Mohammad H. Said. In these times of world conflict, I wouldn't expect someone with a Middle-Eastern-sounding (OK, Muslim-sounding) name to do well. But Mohammad beat the Libertoonian. (This is not intended to demean Mohammad; I know nothing about him but his name - and the fact that he out-polled the Libertarians.)

Two Libertarians split the vote for the party nomination for Governor. However, even combined they got solidly whipped by each of the top 3 of 6 Democrats, and by each of the 3 Republicans. Even Mike the Mover (yup, that's his legal name) thrashed the combined totals of the Libertarians.

Beaten by Mike the Mover?

Message to Libertarians:
If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it.
If it is broken, put away the duct tape and bubble gum; it needs and deserves something better.

I'm Assuming She Was Blonde

So my colleague and I were eating our lunch in our cafeteria when we overheard one of the admin assistants talking about the sunburn she got on her weekend drive to the shore. She drove down in a convertible, but "didn't think she'd get sunburned because the car was moving."

And then she voted.
©2004, Scott Adams

Shakespeare Foresaw The Debate

"He grows worse and worse. Question enrages him."
MacBeth, Act 3, Scene 4

Clueless & (mercifully) Anonymous

"You can argue until your eyeteeth turn blue in the face.”

Who Are The REAL Flip-Floppers?

Bush's Most Remarkable Flip-Flops

Weapons of Mass Destruction
a. They're in Iraq
b. We found them (as in "“For those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them"
c. We didn't find them

Nation Building and the War in Iraq
a. nation building and foreign military entanglements are bad.
b. "I'm not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say, 'This is the way it's got to be.'"
c. U.S. troops should be withdrawn from the NATO peacekeeping mission in the Balkans.
d. um, there's a disagreement in Iraq now
e. America must "stay the course."

Iraq and the Sept. 11 Attacks

a. “you can't distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror... they're both equally as bad, and equally as evil, and equally as destructive.”
b.“We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September 11th."

The Sept. 11 Commission

a. “Since it deals with such sensitive information, in my judgment, it's best for the ongoing war against terror that the investigation be done in the intelligence committee.”
b. later he backed an independent investigation
c. later he agreed to drop in for an hour and chat
d. later he agreed to appear only in tandem with Dick Cheney, and not under oath

Free Trade

a. free trade is good.
b. 30 percent tariffs on foreign steel products are necessary to protect our industires
c. not ticking off old alliances is more important than protecting American jobs

Homeland Security Department

a. we don't need a Department of Homeland Security; Tom Ridge should remain an adviser.
b. government is too big already
c. we do need a Department of Homeland Security; Tom Ridge should be in the Cabinet
d. so what if it's the largest expansion of the federal government since the creation of the Defense Department in 1949.

Same-Sex Marriage

a. we're against federal intervention regarding the issue of same-sex marriage.
b. we support an amendment to the Constitution that defines marriage as being exclusively between men and women. The amendment would forbid states from doing "what they want to do" on same-sex marriage.

Winning the War on Terror

a. "I don't think you can win it"
b. "We meet today in a time of war for our country, a war we did not start yet one that we will win." He later added, “we are winning, and we will win."

Campaign Finance Reform

a. McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill: bad, bad, bad
b. we oppose any soft-money limits on individuals to national parties.
c. Bush later signed McCain-Feingold into law
d. the so-called 527 groups’ have a right to air advertising.
e. we must join McCain in legal action to stop these "shadowy" organizations.

Gas Prices

a. President Clinton “must jawbone OPEC members to lower prices.”
b. silence.... dead silence
c. gas topped a record level of $50 a barrel this week - to the sound of silence.... dead silence

Kerry Ad Falsely Accuses Cheney on Halliburton

Contrary to this ad's message, Cheney doesn't gain financially from the contracts given to the company he once headed. FactCheck.org is an independent research group that debunks untruths being spread by ALL candidates and support groups. FactCheck researched this issue, and exonerated Cheney on this issue.

Geez, I hate it when Bush-Cheney is right about something.

Big John Goes To Wendy's