Souder Hates the Troops

From Fort Wayne Left: Congressman Mark Souder Votes Against Our Troops

Indiana Republican Congressman Mark Souder likes to think he supports our troops in this war. He also seems to hedge towards wanting the war to end without causing complete chaos. He had a golden opportunity to address BOTH of these issues in today's House vote on the Iraqi Supplemental bill and HE FAILED MISERABLY. He failed the veterans in this country. He failed our current military personnel and their families. His vote today was flat out inexcusable and something the people of this district will not forget.

So what did he vote against?

You really must see this post. It's a scathing indictment of Souder for doing exactly what any good person would never do.

Best of all, Jeff's absolutely right about this. Souder's biggest concern isn't about our troops, or about our children, or anything that really matters. No, his concern is about districts that aren't his own and the Mary Jane.

All I can say is, don't blame me, I voted for Hayhurst.

Random Ten, 03/23/2007

It's the Friday Random Ten, again.

Hit the Party Shuffle in iTunes and what do I get?

• Masato Nakamura - Metropolis Zone
• Hoobastank - The Reason
• Hidenori Shoji - Stereo Signal (Pilot Point Result)
• 180 - PARANOiA
• Edvard Grieg - The Hall of the Mountain King
• DJ YOSHITAKA feat. N.S.C. License - NIJIIRO
• Magnapop - Satellite
• Koji Kondo - Ultimate Koopa
• Graeme Norgate - Janus Control Center
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside

That's a pretty varied list.

New links, March 22, 2007

Added Blue Indiana, Left in Aboite, and Taking Down Words to the Local Weblogs section.

Mike Pence: "Sports analogies don't cheapen the deaths of soldiers... Really they don't"

Thomas at Blue Indiana points out something ususual: Mike Pence is totally crazy.

"One of the pieces of advice I give my kids when they are facing challenges, I say to them, you know, people don't like losers, but they like quitters even less. And I think we ought to reflect on that old maxim as we come upon this decision today. If this new strategy in Iraq succeeds in the coming months, what will those who vote for this resolution say? The truth is, we must fight and win a victory for freedom in Iraq. The truth is we have no option but victory. In their hearts the American people know this, and the American people are willing to make the hard choices to choose victory. Courage. Courage is the key in this moment."

You know what people like less than a "quitter", Mike? Death. People hate death. So why is it you don't seem to? There are more important things than your idiotic analogy, Mike, like the lives that are being lost to a war that should never have happened.

Frustrated GOP lawmakers are desperate for President Bush to do more to show how troops are winning the war in Iraq, and Indiana Rep. Mike Pence has an idea: Tell how many insurgents the U.S. troops are killing, not just the American death toll. "This is football season," says the Republican, who takes time to mourn with constituents who lose family members in combat. "People want to know if we're winning or losing . . . what's the score." Fresh from a trip to Iraq, Pence says he knows the score: just over 2,000 Americans dead, compared with 50,000 to 60,000 enemy combatants.

That's how much your children matter to Rep. Pence. They're a score. The deaths of your children in a country that has collapsed due to our warmongering and our continued presence there is nothing more than points to him.

You lose.

In Discrimination Against Non-Christians We Trust

This diary at DailyKos pointed out something I was not aware of. Apparently, those obnoxious "In Gawd We Trust" license plates I'm seeing all over the damn place and on the back of every vehicle that tries its damnedest to hit the scrapyard early, aren't just another idiotic, empty statement of a failed motto used to differentiate us from the "evil, godless Commies" during the Red Scare. It's a state-sponsored endorsement of religion. You see, unlike the other special license plates available here, such as the "Support Our Troops" plate, the "Go Colts" plate, or even the idiotic "Choose Unliving Fetuses" plate, this one doesn't cost anything to get. It's given without any extra fee.

And that's my main problem with it. I know I'm living in a backwards, hateful, bigot-filled, conservative, Bible-thumping shithole, but I don't need reminders on the back of every car, given for free just because Indiana apparently wants to support the mindless repitition of a discriminatory motto. Nor do I need my government catering to the people who need constant reminder that they've given their freedom of thought over to the voice in their head that calls itself GAWD.

All I want is a little equality. Or maybe a "Bring Them Home" plate.

On the matter of what flag we fly over our state buildings

I'd like to thank Craig for pointing something out:

In Indiana, if you publish an article by a student in your school newspaper that advocates tolerance for gay people, you deserve whatever horrible consequences follow, and your supporters don't deserve a chance to speak.

Thank you, my adoptive home, for showing that this is probably the northernmost southern state in the Union.

Schellinger to run for Gov

From Blue Indiana: Jim Schellinger will file this afternoon to run for Governor of Indiana

The race for the Democratic nomination is on, or so says Tully:

Indianapolis architect Jim Schellinger has formally announced plans to run for governor as a Democrat. Many in the party have filed behind Schellinger and believe he is the party's best hope of defeating Gov. Mitch Daniels in 2008. Schellinger will file candidacy papers this afternoon.
"I think today is a fitting day," Schellinger said in a phone interview this morning. "Today is the Feast of St. Joseph -- patron saint of labor and the family."

Former House Speaker John Gregg has been another rumored candidate. But Gregg has said he will not run if Schellinger does. In a recent conversation, I mentioned to Gregg that many people believe a Shellinger-Gregg ticket would be a formidable one. He downplayed that, then said: "That has a nice ring to it. That has a very nice ring to it."

I'd be willing to throw my support behind this guy, but for one thing: I can't find anything that tells me what his stances are. Wikipedia doesn't have anything, Google gives mostly news articles and posts from Blue Indiana (especially the one I just linked to), and he doesn't even have his own website, just one of those filthy placeholder spamsites.

Well, crap - how am I supposed to know whether or not to support someone when I don't even know what they're for and against?

Random Ten, 03/16/2007

It's the Friday Random Ten Freakout!

Hit the Party Shuffle in iTunes and what do I get?

• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Right on Time
• Motoi Sakuraba - Lakitu Valley 2
• Namco - Wings of Faith
• Masato Nakamura 2 - Hidden Palace Zone
• Scotty D. revisits U1 - Flow (Jammin' Ragga Mix)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
• Hidenori Shoji - Feel Our Pain (Fire Field)
• P.O.D. - Youth of the Nation
• Tatsh and Naoki - Red Zone
• Natalie Imbruglia - Torn

A nice list this week.

GA Senate panel OKs "Confederate History Month"

From the Associated Press via Yahoo!News: Ga. Senate panel OKs Confederate month

ATLANTA - A panel of Georgia lawmakers signed off Thursday on a plan to create a Confederate heritage month, even as legislative leaders reacted coolly to a push to apologize for the state's role in slavery.

Sen. Jeff Mullis' bill would dub April as Confederate History and Heritage Month to honor the memory of the Confederacy and "all those millions of its citizens of various races and ethnic groups and religions who contributed in sundry and myriad ways to the cause of Southern Independence."

It's kind of hard to come up with a good comment for this. I mean, really, how stupid is this? Seriously, you guys lost, get over it.

Why in hell do they need this? The Confederacy was a failure on every level. It was established under a pretense of "rights" that had little to do with rights; it was a venture that was, in essence, an act of treason; and its legacy is a shame to our whole nation - Jim Crow laws, the KKK, staunch opposition to civil rights, and a pattern of mistrust and ignorance in the South that lasts to this very day.

You want to teach that kind of history? Teach what was wrong with it. Oh, wait, we do that already, when we teach about the Civil War.

Random Ten, 03/09/2007

It's the Friday Random Ten. Whee.

Hit the Party Shuffle in iTunes and what do I get?

• Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get
• ASAKI - Gekkou Chou
• The Birthday Massacre - Queen of Hearts
• "Weird Al" Yankovic - Pancreas
• Mexican Folk Music - La Bamba
• Beborn Beton - Game of Fools
• Leaves' Eyes - Solemn Sea
• Hidenori Shoji - Osc-Sync Carnival (Lightning)
• Namco - Immortal Flame
• Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia

Not bad.

Rush Limbaugh's Crossdressing Fantasies

From Media Matters for America: Citing NY Sun, Limbaugh wondered who would design Edwards' "inaugural gown"

On the March 8 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh referred to a March 8 New York Sun article, "Could [former Sen.] John Edwards [D-NC] Become the First Woman President?" to repeatedly mock Edwards as "the Breck Girl," who is "on tap now, according to one of the nation's largest abortion rights supporters, to become the first woman president in the United States." As Media Matters for America has previously noted, the phrase "first woman president" was that of Sun reporter Josh Gerstein and not from any of the story's sources. Gerstein himself, in a post on the Sun's politics weblog, characterized the "first woman president" phrase as "just a colorful way of summarizing" the "over-the-top rhetoric" of Kate Michelman, former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America and a senior adviser to the Edwards campaign.

What a surprise - boy-touching pill-popper Rush Limpdick is cracking gay jokes, just like his man-wife C*nter.

My guess? He's jealous of John Edwards for being... well, something besides a fat, loud, stupid, drug-addled slob.

I am not so much a fool.

Look to the right sidebar. I have some of my posts tagged now. That's neat.

I guess this new version of Blogger isn't so bad.

Glenn Beck: Unhinged Lying Scumbag

From Crooks & Liars: Glenn Beck Unhinged

This clip is sure to raise your pulse and is wrong on so many levels I don't have a clue where to begin. Beck and the few remaining supporters of George and his war are scared to death. His feigned outrage is the dead giveaway. He tries to frame his message as non-political then ends with this:

"If your bill goes through I hope you can't go to bed any single night without the images of bodybags of our American soldiers coming off those planes - I hope they dance in your head every single night. Because you will be just as responsible for their deaths as anyone who has ever strapped a bomb to their chest and screamed Allah Akbar."

No politics going on there, eh Glenn?

Can you count the lies and distortions? I ran out of fingers and toes and just gave up.

Hey Glenn, you lying sack of dogshit, what about all those bodybags coming home now, the ones Bush and his brownshirts won't let be shown on TV? Are those the fault of your enemies, the sane people, too? Or are they the fault of your master, the man who started a war with a country he had no actual beef with? No, those are YOUR FAULT, Glenn, you and every bloodthristy murderous warmongering traitor to this country and this world who has the utter gall to say that war is good.

Disgusting, lying, scum-sucking, racist, bigoted lapdog of the neoconservative movement. May you die a thousand deaths without dying of a one.

I am a fool.

I finally switched to Blogger's "new version".

I hate it already.

C*nter makes an ass of himself/herself; film at 11.

mAnn C*nter: John Edwards a "faggot".

Wow. I really have no words. That's the maturity of these far-right hatemongers - referring to politicians as "faggots" and calling sites that document their hateful shit for all to see "gay".