Day: August 29, 2006

The Bushwhackers: He Swapped the Bottle for the Bible

Trish

Tired of being tired of Bush? Go to the Bushwhackers’ site and watch the video for their song, “He Swapped the Bottle for the Bible.”

Their sound is traditional country, but don’t look for songs from their CD, “Beatin’ Round the Bush” to be played on your local Hot Country format station

The Bushwhackers’ sound is traditional country, but don’t look for songs from their CD, “Beatin’ Round the Bush,” to be played on your local Hot Country format station. Not with lyrics like these:

He swapped the bottle for the bible
Now he might be liable
To blow us all to bits…won’t that be nice?
He swapped the bottle for the bible
He’s as stubborn as a child,
How did we make this crazy mistake twice?

…A few more years, we won’t have to see his silly grin.
We’d be so much better off if he was three sheets to the wind.

Other songs on the CD include “Buckshot Dick,” “The Daughters Love To Drink,” and “Never Saw No Weapons.”

The group’s leader, Richard Levy, a former Herman’s Hermit, lives in my own hometown of St. Augustine, Fla.

Must-Read Debate on Katrina between Dr. (‘Go F**k Yourself, Mr. Cheney’) Marble & Rockey (Wish Bush Had Another Term) Vacarella

Jon Ponder
“I think Bush is the worst president in the history of this nation without question. And he should resign as soon as possible.”
— Dr. Ben Marble

On Hardball last week, Chris Matthews refereed a balls-to-the-wall debate between “Doc” Marble, the young Mississippi physician who famously told Vice Pres. Cheney to go “cheney” himself while the vice president was on a tour of the region after Katrina struck, and Rockey Vacarella, the GOP pol who drove a FEMA trailer up to Washington from Louisiana to serve as a prop in a White House photo op with Pres. Bush last week:

MATTHEWS: Late today, I spoke with both of these men, Dr. Marble from Long Beach, Mississippi. He is the guy with the commentary about the vice president. And Rocky Vacarelli on the phone. He is going to be on the phone from New Orleans.

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Vatican Exorcist: Hitler, Stalin Possessed

Buck Banks

Devil made ’em do it: In another shining example of what’s wrong with the Catholic church (besides the whole transubstantiation business), the pope’s head exorcist has come and declared that Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin were both possessed by Satan. I am not making this up — it was published in the Daily Mail.

Father Gabriele Amorth who is Pope Benedict XVI’s ‘caster out of demons’ made his comments during an interview with Vatican Radio.

‘I am convinced that the Nazis were all possessed.’
— Father Amorth

Father Amorth said: “Of course the Devil exists and he can not only possess a single person but also groups and entire populations.

“I am convinced that the Nazis were all possessed. All you have to do is think about what Hitler – and Stalin did. Almost certainly they were possessed by the Devil.

“You can tell by their behaviour and their actions, from the horrors they committed and the atrocities that were committed on their orders. That’s why we need to defend society from demons.”

Then-pontiff Pius XII tried to perform a long-distance excorcism on Hitler during World War II, according to secret Vatican documents. But Amorth said that rarely works. He hinted that you have to be within pea soup spitting distance.

Amorth has spoken out against the Harry Potter books as promoting satanism:

Father Amorth, who is president of the International Association of Exorcists, said of the JK Rowling books:”Behind Harry Potter hides the signature of the king of the darkness, the devil.”

He said that Rowling’s books contain innumerable positive references to magic, “the satanic art” and added the books attempt to make a false distinction between black and white magic, when in fact, the distinction “does not exist, because magic is always a turn to the devil.”

For the record, Father Amorth has performed more than 30,000 exorcisms, and he told the interviewer — no joke — his favorite film is “The Exorcist.”

White House Subpoenaed over NSA Wiretap Case

Jon Ponder

I doubt the MSM will find much time to cover this story, what with John Mark Karr being not guilty in the JonBenet Ramsey case, and all:

Two attorneys representing claimants in a lawsuit over wiretapping by the National Security Agency claim that they have sent subpoenas to the White House today, RAW STORY has learned.

Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer, who say they represent hundreds of plaintiffs in lawsuits against Verizon, AT&T, and the US Government, will announnce today that they are serving both the Bush administration and Verizon with subpoenas.

The announcement is due to arrive at 4:30 PM, outside of Verizon headquarters in New York, RAW STORY has confirmed.

Mayer tells RAW STORY that the subpoenaes, directed to President George Bush, the Office of Legal Counsel, the Department of Justice, and the Chief Legal Counsel for Verizon, have already been sent, and should reach their targets tomorrow…

Mayer explained that the subpoena seeks to learn “whether the Bush administration has unlawfully targeted journalists, peace activists, libertarians, members of congress or generated an ‘enemies list.'”

Top 10 Stupid Post-Katrina Quotes

Buck Banks

Sherman, set the Way-Back Machine to 2005! Here are some doozies uttered by the people that brought us the Katrina disaster (Mother Nature exempted). They range from the blithely idiotic to the utterly clueless to the maliciously racist.

1) “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.” — President Bush, on “Good Morning America,” Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina

2) “What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them.” — Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 5, 2005

3) “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.” — President Bush, to FEMA director Michael Brown, while touring hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, Sept. 2, 2005

4) “Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going relatively well.” — FEMA Director Michael Brown, Sept. 1, 2005

5) “Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?” – House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-Texas), to three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 9, 2005

6) “We’ve got a lot of rebuilding to do … The good news is — and it’s hard for some to see it now — that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott’s house — he’s lost his entire house — there’s going to be a fantastic house. And I’m looking forward to sitting on the porch.” (Laughter) — President Bush, touring hurricane damage, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005

7) “Well, I think if you look at what actually happened, I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers and I saw headlines, ‘New Orleans Dodged the Bullet.’ Because if you recall, the storm moved to the east and then continued on and appeared to pass with considerable damage but nothing worse.” – Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, blaming media coverage for the government’s failings, “Meet the Press,” Sept. 4, 2005

8) “What didn’t go right?'” –President Bush, as quoted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), after she urged him to fire FEMA Director Michael Brown “because of all that went wrong, of all that didn’t go right” in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort

9) “I mean, you have people who don’t heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving.” –Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), Sept. 6, 2005

10) “You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals…many of these people, almost all of them that we see are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold.” – CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, on New Orleans’ hurricane evacuees, Sept. 1, 2005

These quotes are also available here.

Repost: Bush in California – President and Schwarzenegger Too Busy (and Unpopular) to Meet

Jon Ponder

Repost from Pensito Review one year ago, August 29, 2005. While New Orleans was under seige from the storm, Pres. Bush was campaigning in California

San Diego is a longtime Republican bastion that is reeling from a series of scandals for which a GOP mayor was booted out in mid-term, two GOP city councilmembers are in jail and a GOP US Congressman is facing federal indictments.

Last night, protesters turned out for a candlelight vigil in San Diego near the Hotel del Coronado, where President and Mrs. Bush were staying. The demonstrators held signs that read, “Send your daughters,” “Mission accomplished?” and “Impeach Bush.”

But one significant no-show in the schedule for the Republican president’s two-day visit to California is the state’s Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

According to Chuck Todd of The Hotline, reporting on C-SPAN’s Wasthington Journal, a spokesperson for the president said that Mr. Bush’s schedule in California was very tight and that the White House team was sure the governor was also very busy.

Right. It has nothing to do with the fact that both these pols are polling in the 30’s here in California.

San Diego is a longtime Republican bastion that is reeling from a series of scandals for which a GOP mayor was booted out in mid-term, two GOP city councilmembers are in jail and a GOP US Congressman is facing federal indictments. The president is in the city for a commemoration today of the 60th anniversary of the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II.