Needlenose

A new site lets you submit your written or pictorial farewell to our President.

I think this one is my favorite so far.

The following recommendations are strictly those of Greenboy, not necessarily of Swopa & fubar (who prefer haiku poems in any event)

Prop 1: No
In the mythical land of Califairia
The people evinced an unusual hysteria
They voted for prodigious debt
In a lunatic bet
That they could somehow live beyond their salaria.

Prop 2: Yes
There once was a chicken named Sharm
Who was caged in a ‘factory farm’
They cut off his beak,
Threw him in shit, foul & reek
Where he suffered unspeakable harm.

Prop 3: No
See Prop 1

Prop 4: No
There once was a young teen named Jo,
Who was incestuously raped and left with embryo
Her abusive parents screamed “Abomination!”
“But there’ll be no termination”
You’ll have to bear it whether you will it or no!

Prop 5: No
We enjoy the most expensive representation
that can be found in the whole of this nation
but their duty they duck
and the people they fuck
by offering propositions to avoid legislation

Prop 6: No
The war on drugs is already insane
but now cops are demanding free rein
to trammel on rights
(mostly those of non-whites)
while snorting our dough like cocaine

Prop 7: No
See Prop 1

Prop 8: No
A San Francisco Mayor created some bedlam
When he stood before gay couples to wed ‘em
Although fundees scream “unclean!”
“Gay marriage is obscene!”
It’s the state’s job to register couples, not judge ‘em

Prop 9: No
A rich man named Sir Henry Nicholas
paid for a proposition exceeding ridiculous
because without a doubt
a Federal judge will sure throw it out
if on constitutional points he is meticulous

Prop 10: No
See Prop 1

Prop 11: No
I tell you with straightforward candor
that I’m against districts that gerrymander
but to understand this redistricting scheme
is a challenge supreme
One that even could beat old Lysander

Prop 12: No
See Prop 1

Case in point CongrAssClown Robin Hayes of NC tells a crowd of John McCain supporters that “liberals hate real Americans.”  These fucking reactionaries aren’t even bothering to use code words anymore.

*Update* And what about this evil CongrAssClown Michele Bachmann R Minnesota, calling liberals anti-American, and calling for an witch hunt in Congress for Reps with ’Un-American’ views:

Two accurately named sites for your recommended perusal:

http://govote.org/

http://www.fuckjohnmccain.com/

…otherwise why would he give them so much oil?  I guess the long-running Repug embargo of Cuba will soon come to a screeching halt.  Ironic, no?

Given that it used to be the near-daily posting fare at this site, I suppose I should feel some guilt over not paying more attention to the latest twists and turns of internal Iraqi politics — specifically, the ongoing machinations regarding a possible status-of-forces agreement (SOFA) between Iraq and the United States.

But how worked up should I get when so little actually changes?  For instance, when I last checked in on the surprising (to most observers) intransigence of the Iraqi government in the negotiations nearly two months ago, I wrote:

Isn’t that a classic haggling technique in any society?  Let the other side know you’re oh-so-close to a deal, encourage them to make a few concessions to close the gap… and just as they do and reach for the pen, pull back and say, “Wait, there’s one more thing you need to agree to.”

You’d almost think they’re having fun toying with the Bushites at this point.

Judging from news stories yesterday and today, that’s still where we are.

Arctic temperatures are at record highs.  And just for the record, the McCain/Palin ’solution’ to global warming?  Drill, baby, drill!

First we hear about the National Debt Clock running out of digits

Then comes this picture of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke appearing at a Capitol Hill hearing today:

Isn’t running out of LED numbers one of the biblical signs of the apocalypse?

From Howard Kurtz’s Monday column for the Washington Post:

Fox News is expected to announce today the hiring of a new contributor, a veteran national security correspondent who has shared a Pulitzer Prize.

Her name is Judith Miller, and she is nothing if not controversial. Miller left the New York Times in 2005 after testifying in the trial of former White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby that he had leaked her information about a CIA operative. Miller’s conduct in the case, which led to her serving 85 days in jail for initially refusing to testify, drew rebukes from the Times executive editor and some of her colleagues.

In the run-up to the Iraq war, Miller reported stories on the search for Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction that turned out to be untrue, some of which were cited in a Times editor’s note acknowledging the flawed coverage. Miller, now with the conservative Manhattan Institute, wrote when she left the paper that she had “become a lightning rod for public fury over the intelligence failures that helped lead our country to war.”

Miller will be an on-air analyst and will write for Fox’s Web site. “She has a very impressive résumé,” says Senior Vice President John Moody. “We’ve all had stories that didn’t come out exactly as we had hoped. It’s certainly something she’s going to be associated with for all time, and there’s not much anyone can do about that, but we want to make use of the tremendous expertise she brings on a lot of other issues. . . . She has explained herself and she has nothing to apologize for.”

Given her background in ideologically motivated snipe hunts, Miller seems like a perfect fit to join Fox News’ round-the-clock coverage of ACORN’s alleged vote-fraud activities.

(Cindy McCain and Sen. Lindsey Graham at the 2nd presidential debate a couple weeks ago, via Reuters.)