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June 23


expand/collapse Are the Democrats Worse Than the Republicans?
by Cenk Uygur
President Bush is the most unpopular president of all time -- literally. No one has had approval ratings this low for this long in American history. Yet he keeps on kicking the crap out of the Democrats.

If you keep losing to the worst, what does that make you?

Today, President Bush will win another huge victory on telecom immunity. He will get away with breaking the law and ordering private companies to break the law for him, which he freely admits. He is making the argument that the president is above the law in the United States of America. And the Democrats can't find a way to beat that argument.

I have no respect for the Democrats. You'd be crazy to have any. Crazy. Blinded by hope or partisan fever to have any respect for these bunch of losers. They keep telling us that they can't possibly beat the most unpopular president of all time. Is there a word worse than loser? Because if there is, it should be applied to the Democrats; if there isn't, they should create one for the Democrats.

expand/collapse Imperial 'Justice'
The Haditha massacre and what it means to be an empire
by Justin Raimondo
When the Marines came into the house they just started shooting, going from room to room, killing all where they found them. When they were done, they went on to the next house in the Iraqi village of Haditha, which they attacked with hand grenades, methodically executing everyone inside. When they were done, they had killed 24 people, including two babies, a 5-year-old, a mother who had recently had an appendectomy, and an elderly couple. An Iraqi child testified:

"I couldn't see their faces very well – only their guns sticking in to the doorway. I watched them shoot my grandfather, first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny."

Today's Quote:

"The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, there is massive Islamic condemnation of the United States."
- Jimmy Carter
Editor's Notes & Rants:

Seven Dirty Words: Political comedian George Carlin, dead at 71.

Terrorism in its purest form: Demonic Arch NeoCon Bill Kristol tells Fox News Sunday that if the American people don't vote for McCain, they will bring on the war to end the world. [ThinkProgress]

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton confirms: Israel will attack Iran after US Election, but before inauguration.

A bill in Congress would put an end to those annoying tv commercials that blast at 5 times the volume of the rest of the programming. Now if we could only get a law to turn down the volume of the campaign rhetoric.

Democrats: more useless than a pile of raccoon dung on your deck. Obama's supporting the new FISA bill, which legalizes Bush's unconstitutional spying on Americans, and immunizes telecoms for their conspiracy.

Either lead or get out of the way. Obama is now claiming he will "try" to get immunity removed from the bill. He is now the leader of the Democratic Party, if he can't convince them to drop it, then he isn't a leader, and should not be their nominee. Period.

Senile old man running for president offers $300 million for car battery. Why do I suspect that he has a winner in mind, and it's a campaign contributor?

The Real McCain: The media portray him as a GOP maverick. He's really a die-hard conservative.