The other day I wrote that John McCain had (inadvertently?) called President Bush “a fool or a fraud” in a recent campaign ad, when he said, “Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.”

I concluded that article by writing:

…can you deny George “I can hardly be bothered to show up for National Guard duty” Bush talks tough about war? If you do deny that you’re beyond hope. If you can’t deny it, which is he: fool, fraud, or both?

Wednesday, President Bush gave an interview to the Times of London expressing regret over his “tough” talk. “I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric,” he reportedly said. He further said that such remarks as “bring them on” and “dead or alive” could have wrongly “indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace.”

You can, “you know,” imagine my blank, dumbfounded stare at that last one.

So, I only have two questions: Did Bush take McCain’s backhanded rebuke to heart? And how many wars do you get to start and still be considered “a man of peace?”

Posted: June 13th, 2008 under Current Events, Politics.
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This from unNEWSual.com (which I happen to own):

One Israeli tourist in New Zealand, however, was fed up with the constant attention from male Kiwis, so when a rowdy band of road workers started wolf whistling she decided to put them in their place — by taking off her clothes!

Reuters quotes one Police Sergeant Peter Masters as saying, “She said she had thought, ‘Bugger them, I’ll show them what I’ve got.’”

Read the rest of the story at this link.

Posted: May 25th, 2008 under Current Events, The Funny Side of Life.
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“The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” — Jesus (John 10:11)

What kind of “shepherd” is the wrong Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.? Does going all over television this past weekend, “defending” himself and further spouting his bigoted lunacy at the expense of his good friend and congregant (i.e “sheep”) senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama (whom Wright dismissed as acting like a politician), qualify as “laying down his life for the sheep?” Resoundingly, no! Wright showed absolutely no concern for anyone but himself.

He didn’t come off like a man defending himself, but a shameless huckster with a personal agenda to push. In fact, he single handedly negated all the prior defenses of him, most especially that we’d only seen a handful of cherry-picked, out of context snippets which didn’t truly represent the man and his beliefs. Wright himself proved that those “out of context snippets” are exactly who the man is and what he believes. Wright’s major accomplishment this weekend was getting Obama to finally denounce him and run the other way as fast as he could.

Wright not only didn’t “lay down his life for the sheep,” he saw a wolf coming (that evil ol’ “MSM”), picked up the sheep (Obama), and threw it to the wolf to save his own hide. Then he drove into town and signed a deal for his new book, How I Fought Down The Evil, Bigoted Wolf!

What did Jesus have to say about that?

“The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.” (John 10:12-13 NIV)

Cares nothing for the sheep. Wright is the definition of an hireling. He’s an embarrassment to every community to which he belongs. He’s an embarrassment to Christians, he’s an embarrassment to his former congregation (especially the Obamas), and he’s an embarrassment to African-Americans (unless y’all think that talk about whitey giving you AIDS is helping you out). I hear Local 825 of the Union of Pompous Windbags is even considering revoking his membership.

For now, Hireling Wright is riding his 15 minutes of fame for all they’re worth. You can’t get rid of the guy, he keeps popping up like a bloated corpse in the Hudson River. And I’ll bet right about now that’s exactly what Obama wishes Wright was.

Posted: April 30th, 2008 under Current Events, Democrats.
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The call girl behind disgraced, now-former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s downfall has been revealed as 22 year-old Ashley Alexandra Dupre.

Ashley told The New York Times, “I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster.” Sorry, Ashley, the pics are out.

Said pictures reveal her as a thin, fairly-plain girl whose greatest talent seems to be having learned to pout.

One webcam pic seemingly shows her negotiating her fee.

(For the humor-dense, that was a joke.)

Dupre operated under the codename “Kristen.” (Just for giggles, her birth name was Ashley Youmans. I don’t know how many names she plans to have, but she’s obviously morphing her way to “Kirstie Alley.”)

Here’s the $4,000 (or $5,500, or $8,000 — depending on whom you’re reading on what day) Question: How is this girl…

…worth that much money? (Not to mention a political career?) Surely, the Gov could have scared up something better by slinking down a back alley and banging a couple trash can lids together. Oh well, I guess we’ll have to wait for the inevitable “stolen sex tape” for answers, but I suspect that will only deepen the mystery.

Posted: March 13th, 2008 under Current Events.
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