You're a naughty one, Mr. Burns

It seems the previously anti-choice Senator Conrad Burns has switched his position when it comes to old pal Jack Abramhoff:

"This Abramoff guy is a bad guy," Burns told a Montana television station. "I hope he goes to jail and we never see him again. I wish he'd never been born, to be right honest with you."

First of all, I disagree with your assertion of "unchecked power"

A new study reported by Forbes suggests that happy people beget their own happiness, so I'm only going to look back on this morning's uncharacteristically antagonistic White House press conference with feelings of warm fuzzies. Nevermind that the NSA is spying on domestic 'medical-fraud-doers, drug dealers and American students who request copies of Mao's "Little Red Book" (ha - nice hoax kid!). Nevermind that the talking chimp can't remember a two part question, nor compose an answer beyond "talking about it helps the enemy, so I'm not going to talk about it." He can't even compose a sentence (...there was two killers in San Diego...), keep track of which evil-doer he's talking about (he Freudian-slipped "Saddam-Osama" again) or even say the letters N-S-A (he called it NASA)

Just make sure you laugh when he gives you a cute nickname. Seriously, you better laugh - they're listening...

Being the president is hard work

From his majesty's "inside the bubble" conversation with Brian Williams regarding his mess o'potamia:

Whether or not it needed to happen, I'm still convinced it needed to happen.

I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome.

And of course,
"It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong. As president, I'm responsible for the decision to go into Iraq, and I'm also responsible for fixing what went wrong by reforming our intelligence capabilities"

Is that reform or a reactionary attempt to return to those heady COINTELPRO days?

I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

If for some reason it is surprising to find that the NSA is spying on US citizens or that the Pentagon fills it's databases with peaceful protest groups, just remember, it's nothing new. Let google do the walking with COINTELPRO, Fred Hampton, Viola Liuzzo, Church Committee, Lenny Bruce, Corona Project, ECHELON, Watergate, MINARET...

That suicide vest makes you look fat

Like we learned from the Black Widows, no longer is martyrdom reserved for the males. A Newsweek story reports that Al Qaeda and others have begun recruiting women for suicide bombing missions. Since 72 virgins wouldn't exactly serve as an apt reward, they are instead promised that women martyrs would "become the purest and most beautiful form of angel at the highest level possible in heaven." Even purer and more beautiful than those schoolchidren she just blew to bits?

Putting the X in Christmas

Bush's holiday card not religious enough for you? Try the Barney video. Seems the dog isn't afraid to be associated with Christmas....