Fuck You Dick Cheney
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Cheney’s Office: (Do Not) Save The Whales. (TPMMuckraker)
The latest contribution to good government from Vice President Dick Cheney: preventing the implementation of rules to protect the endangered right whale.
This comes from a letter House sleuth Henry Waxman (D-CA) sent to the White House today, requesting that the administration quit delaying the rules, which would restrict the speed of ships near American ports. Faster moving ships hit the whales, causing injury or death, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say.
Commentary: Shame on them and shame on us. (McClatchy)
I suppose this benign neglect of so important and damaging an event is combat fatigue on the part of the public. No doubt the White House is happy to see Iraq shoved to a back burner, just as all three presidential candidates are relieved to talk about something else, anything else, but their half-baked ideas about the war.
Shame on them, and shame on us, for such callous indifference to the service, sacrifice and suffering of the families of the dead, wounded and injured troops who’ve given so much for so little in return.
Vice President Cheney again stuck both feet in his mouth by saying and then repeating that we should remember that our military is composed entirely of volunteers; that our troops all volunteered for this duty, this burden, this sacrifice.
What’s your point, Mr. Vice President? That because they volunteered to serve our country in uniform it’s okay to squander their lives in a war of choice, your choice and your president’s, and that it somehow matters less than if they’d been dragooned into service by press gangs or a draft like the one you dodged with five deferments during the Vietnam War because, you said, you had “better things to do”?
I can’t believe I’m watching the Daily Show and I’m not entirely disgusted by Lynne Cheney. I somewhat liked her. She’s being magnanimous and her husband has been gifted, if ever so slightly, an actual sense of humanity.
Jon Stewart has proved himself to be again the most artful and gracious televised interrogator of recent time.
Leahy Explains Cheney’s F-Bomb Incident, Says Hayes’ ‘Puff Piece’ Got It Wrong. (ThinkProgress)
The man would lie about what he had for breakfast today. (Miniature daschund hearts, if you need to know).
I have to apologize for the lack of anything on this blog. All 1.5 regular readers of this site I’m sure have supplanted the cerebral illuminance formerly gleamed from this blog with the mental acuity honed from the Highlights magazine swiped from a local pediatrician waiting room (that Goofus is one big retard, huh? And Gallant? Oh, what a prig!)
Life has caught up with me, and hospitals, family, and work take up most of my time these days. But I promise there will be blog posts, soon.
In the meantime, what’s happening out there in meat land? I heard some restaurant opened up and they’re serving food and some people like it while others thought everything was too salty. And there’s a movie or two out right now and a TV show (or three) and somebody wrote a column in the NY Times and somebody has some nice pictures they took with a digital camera and I understand that eating locally is sustainalicious, and lotsa, lotsa, lotsa other stuff. Also, I heard nobody likes George Bush. And I heard Dick Cheney was president for a day, which is taxonomically sufficient in order to file this post under my favorite category.
Court Rebuffs F.C.C. on Fines for Indecency. (NY Times)
If President Bush and Vice President Cheney can blurt out vulgar language, then the government cannot punish broadcast television stations for broadcasting the same words in similarly fleeting contexts.
That, in essence, was the decision on Monday, when a federal appeals panel struck down the government policy that allows stations and networks to be fined if they broadcast shows containing obscene language.
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Adopting an argument made by lawyers for NBC, the judges then cited examples in which Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney had used the same language that would be penalized under the policy. Mr. Bush was caught on videotape last July using a common vulgarity that the commission finds objectionable in a conversation with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain. Three years ago, Mr. Cheney was widely reported to have muttered an angry obscene version of “get lost” to Senator Patrick Leahy on the floor of the United States Senate.
“We find that the F.C.C.’s new policy regarding ‘fleeting expletives’ fails to provide a reasoned analysis justifying its departure from the agency’s established practice,” said the panel.
Dick Cheney sees your doublespeak, and raises you one jaw-droppingly mendacious lie.
KING: When do we leave?…You expect it in your administration?
D. CHENEY: I do.
KING: To be removed. It’s not going to be — it’s not going to be a 10-year event?
D. CHENEY: No. I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time. But I think the level of activity that we see today, from a military standpoint, I think will clearly decline. I think they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.
Dick Cheney will be visiting Provo this week and giving the commencement address at BYU.
A bunch of students have, in protest, organized an alternative graduation ceremony and have raised over $20k to fund it.
Nobody likes Dick Cheney. He’s a fucking prick.
That is all.