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Since he has a 9/10 mentality, we should honor him today

This is the great thing about rabid fundamentalism. You really just don't have to give a damn. Take the environment. I mean, isn't it just a little pointless to care so damn deeply about the air and the soil and the water and the stupid little disposable animals on this silly spinning ball of expendable rock when the Second Coming is imminent and a blood-soaked fire-breathin' Jesus who looks remarkably like Mel Gibson will return very soon to smite the heathens and the gays and the vegetarians and the Francophiles, and who will rescue all those who worship patriarchy and...

"Department of Wellness"! Spirit-crushing foolishness from my candidate, John Kerry. The nation is trying to figure out how to fight global terrorism and he's talking about having "not just a Department of Health and Human Services, but a Department of Wellness." How about a Department of F***ing Perspective? If Bush is smart he'll be ridiculing Kerry about this for the rest of the month. ...Thanks, Iowa! P.S.: Was this harmless "Kerrymeandering" or the more ominous "Kerrypandering"?

But Monday's impromptu comments were more damaging. In addition to making a joke in West Virginia about taking a shotgun with him to the presidential debates, Kerry decided it would be a good idea in Pennsylvania to talk about how he has difficulty deciding what to eat at restaurants. "You know when they give you the menu, I'm always struggling, what do you want?" he said. A cook at a local restaurant, though, solves Kerry's dilemma by serving "whatever he's cooked up that day.

Former vice president Al Gore will be in Pittsburgh later this morning to stump at a rally in support of presidential candidate John Kerry and the Democrats' candidate for state Attorney General, Jim Eisenhower. Gore will speak at a 10:30am rally at the United Steelworkers of America headquarters downtown. Gore's appearance comes as the families and friends of the two presidential candidates are beginning to criss-cross the state with more frequency as the November election draws nearer. Eisenhower will be with Gore in Pittsburgh and will travel across the state with Gore to Narberth for a town hall meeting at...

I feel as though they should ban smoking in all night clubs, so that people can go and enjoy themselves without having to smell like smoke after walking out of the night club or having the fear of second hand smoke later in life. Even if they do sell alcohol, set aside a place outside for the smokers to smoke. Over half of the club do not smoke, if you were to do apoll on the people that were in the club and put all non-smokers to one side and the smokers to another side, you would have a great...

Kerry Spot DO I HEAR KERRY PRESS AIDES BANGING THEIR HEADS AGAINST THE WALL? [09/07 03:52 PM] It's moments like this that I really pity the nice men and women working in Kerry's campaign. They put enormous effort into convincing the press and the public that their man isn't indecisive, isn't a waffler, isn't incapable of making the quick, tough decision, and then... Mr. Kerry stepped boldly into the verbal minefield early, arriving at a front-porch session with supporters in Canonsburg, Pa., near Pittsburgh. As he likes to do, he brandished a bit of local color to show he wasn't...

Some home truths for those who like to spin liesCare was taken not to mix political comments with news about the horrific and traumatic events of the last few days in Beslan, so as to give the victims the dignity they deserve and so as not to be accused of using the plight of some to attack others. However, now that the cameras and journalists have left the good people of Beslan to their privacy and dignity, it is time to dissect some statements made by various foreign sources during this diabolical event. First, the statement by some that all...

CANONSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry has called the invasion of Iraq "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time" and said his goal was to withdraw U.S. troops in his first White House term. Under pressure from some Democrats to change the subject from national security -- regarded by many as President George W. Bush's strongest issue -- Kerry tried to focus exclusively on the economy and other domestic topics at a neighbourhood meeting but supporters raised Iraq. The Massachusetts senator, who has said he would have voted to give Bush the authority...

Well, if we can't question John Kerry's patriotism . . . and we can't question his Senate Record . . . and we can't question his knowledge of baseball . . . what can we question? I choose to question his choice of bunny suits. BTW ~ first post here. I'll learn as I go and get better.

Remember how when John Kerry didn't get any bounce from his convention and everyone went into high pundit mode and invented lots of structural reasons why such a thing could happen – like for example that with emotions so high in this election, there aren't any undecided voters left to bounce. Remember that? If you're a really avid fan of this column (and, let's face it, who isn't?) you might even have read something like that here. Now comes George W. Bush with his Republican convention, and he gets a bounce higher than a Yao Ming dribble. The latest Time...

Did our Commander-in-Chief act like one during the (in)famous 7 minutes?

John Kerry should have slept on it. His midnight outburst following President Bush's rousing success in defining himself, his domestic agenda and the stakes in the war on terrorism reveals a candidate who can be goaded. Not good in a president. "For the past week, they have attacked my patriotism and even my fitness to serve as commander in chief," said Kerry early Friday in Springfield, Ohio. "Well, here's my answer to them. I will not have my commitment to defend this country questioned by those who refused to serve when they could've and who misled America into Iraq." Clearly...

The Massachusetts senator said he would not allow anyone to question his fitness for the White House. "Not gonna do it, not gonna happen," Kerry said. "I will not have my commitment to defending this country questioned by those who refused to serve when they had a chance, and I will not have it questioned by those who misled this nation into war in Iraq." Kerry said Republicans had distorted his 20-year record in the U.S. Senate, including his vote authorizing the use of force against Saddam Hussein and his subsequent vote against $87 billion to fund operations in Iraq...

NEWARK, Ohio -- Democrat John Kerry used new Labor Department job figures Friday as another example of what he calls President George W. Bush's "record of failure" to create new jobs. The government reported Friday that unemployment had dipped one-tenth of a point to 5.4 percent in August, with 144,000 new jobs added. That was slightly less than what had been projected by economists. (Click here for the full jobs report story.) Kerry told supporters in Newark, Ohio, that Bush doesn't seem to understand what's happening across the country when it comes to jobs. Both candidates have spent a lot...

I am searching for a few good things. Things to counteract, to dissolve the simmering dread, to deflect the waves of nausea and karmic pain induced by the incessantly depressing media maelstrom and the appallingly hateful gloat of the GOP convention and by the most tyrannical administration and least articulate American president in 100 years. You know how it is. And you say to yourself, these things, these radiant gems that live outside the mass-media miasma, I need them because they provide some balm, soften the fact that the nation feels massively off track and blinded and war torn and...

On Thursday morning's Good Morning America, ABC's Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos seemed the most offended by the Wednesday night convention speeches delivered by Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic Senator Zell Miller. Gibson complained that "the Vice President and Senator Miller pounded and pounded and pounded. It may have been very effective politics; it was not subtle." Stephanopoulos characterized Miller as out of control: "The Vice President was very, very tough, but Zell Miller was on a tirade. I mean, he was red faced, red meat for the red states." CBS and NBC also stressed the negative tone of...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — John Kerry was politely received by the American Legion yesterday, delivering a speech focused on veteran pocketbook issues and President Bush's handling of the war in Iraq without addressing the attacks leveled against him last month by fellow veterans.     "I'm proud to be here, and I'm proud to be a Legionnaire," he said after saluting the several thousand veterans seated in the giant hall. [snip]The audience politely responded to most of Mr. Kerry's pauses for his applause lines and gave him a standing ovation.     It was the candidate's first appearance before a major national veterans group since...

The spitball comment is one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time, and in its context, it was even more powerful. It made me giggle maniacally, but not before my jaw dropped open with disbelief that SOMEONE was actually taking a Democrat to the woodshed for once!It is in the spirit of that pride that I assign homework to our more artisically talented FReepers: We absolutely MUST rub this in the libs' faces. One idea is maybe a "Sergeant Spitball", complete with this pic of course:Or maybe a Clinton tribute... something like "Decision 2004: It's the Spitballs,...