The Age of (un)Reason

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Pwned, motherfucker! :D

Link to follow.

Edit: Here ya go.  Guess the fucker should’ve learned how to fire a gun.  Bitch.

As its been much talked about on the news today that Brian Bilbray managed - barely - to win the 50th congressional district of California.  Emphasis on barely.  He beat Francine Busby by a scant four percent.  By comparison, when Randy Cunningham won the seat the last time around, he won it by twenty percent.  So the question to be asked is will the Republicans maintain control in seven months when the seat is up for reelection again (Bilbray was elected to finish out Cunningham’s term)?  If the Democrats try harder than they did this time around, then yes.

Over at Daily Kos, the Kos-ter pointed out a great irony:

Democrats are not motivated to turn out. Sure, Busby exceeded Kerry’s 43 percent he got in the district in 2004, but not by much. She got 45.46%. If the "culture of corruption" message was enough to bring people out to vote Democratic, this would be the place to do it. This is Duke Cunningham territory, he of the million dollar mansions, yachts, and hookers. Regardless, district voters sent a lobbyist back to Washington to represent them.

So apparently more people in CA-50 really don’t give a shit about corruption of their representative in Congress or corruption in Congress itself.  That is truly fucked up.

How ya like them apples, Bush?

Atleast Congress and some Republicans aren’t completely in Bush’s pocket.

According to this report, they seem to be, finally.  A few excerpts on how they’re fighting back:

The Senate Intelligence Committee voted 9-6 two weeks ago to demand that the administration notify all members of the committees about intelligence operations. The administration has bypassed the intelligence committees to inform only eight congressional leaders about such sensitive programs as the National Security Agency’s warrantless-surveillance operation.

Congressional Republicans and Democrats in March upended plans for a Dubai-owned company to take over some U.S. port operations, forcing the firm to promise to transfer the operations to a "U.S. entity." Outraged lawmakers weren’t convinced when the president dismissed their national-security concerns as unfounded, and they weren’t deterred when he threatened the first veto of his presidency to protect the deal.

The White House and Congress continue to jockey over who has the last word on the treatment of terror suspects. Congress approved an amendment banning torture over the objections of Vice President Cheney. Bush signed the legislation in December but issued a "signing statement" in which he reserved the right to waive the ban, which he suggested violated his constitutional authority as commander in chief. Senate Armed Services Chairman John Warner of Virginia and Arizona Sen. John McCain of Arizona, both Republicans, then issued a joint statement vowing "strict oversight to monitor" implementation of the law.

But one of them really caught my attention/ire.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, usually at war, issued a joint statement denouncing the FBI search last month of Rep. William Jefferson’s congressional office as a violation of the separation of powers between co-equal branches of government. Their ultimatum that seized documents be returned is now the subject of negotiations with the Justice Department, which is investigating bribery allegations against Jefferson, D-La.

What the hell?  Jefferson was CAUGHT ON TAPE ACCEPTING A BRIBE.  The FBI raid has nothing to do with excessive war powers and everything to do with smacking down the culture of corruption that is rotting away the nobility and honor of the United States Congress.

These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzies. I have never seen people enjoying their husbands’ death so much.

From her new tripe, I mean book.  Yes, she thinks widows of those killed in 9/11 should shut up and not speak their mind, especially if its against the Bush administration.  She was on the Today Show this morning and what she said raised the ire of the intarwebs.

LAUER: By the way, they also criticized the Clinton administration.

COULTER: Not the ones I am talking about. No, no, no.

"Not the ones I am talking about"?  Thats called hen pecking, I believe.  She’s picking the information she wants and ignores the rest that works against her.

COULTER: No, but don’t use the fact that you lost a husband as the basis for being able to talk about, while preventing people from responding. Let Matt Lauer make the point. Let Bill Clinton make the point. Don’t put up someone I am not allowed to respond to without questioning the authenticity of their grief.

LAUER: Well apparently you are allowed to respond to them.

COULTER: Yeah, I did.

She’s "not allowed" to respond to them, yet she did just that.  She contradicted herself on air.  Amazing.

She also thinks liberals should form their own church.  Funny she should mention it.  While we don’t have church, we do have a philosophical movement.  In short, Ann Coulter is still a bitch, but just crazier now.

Yahoo/AP.

Truth proved to be stranger than fiction for a high school criminology class investigating a fake crime scene after students discovered a real body on a field trip.

Teacher Sue Messenger has been planting fake skeletons with bullet holes and other evidence at mock crime scenes for more than 20 years to give her students a firsthand look at what crime scene investigators do.

There’s only reponse to this.

Well, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
I really wanna know (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Tell me, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
‘Cause I really wanna know (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)

Disregard the bottom post about me moving TAUR, I decided not to.  Wordpress, for the lack of a better word, sucked.  Badly.  Its servers were ridiculously slow, sometimes taking 15 seconds or longer just to load a page.  You have to practically move the moon just to get Technorati on it.  This is due solely on the fact that they won’t allow users to edit the templates and the needed Technorati coding to it.  For a hosting service that claims to be easy to use, they were full of it.

Maybe when they fix these above problems, I’ll give them a second shot.  Until then, phooey.

Yup, I’m moving The Age of (un)Reason again.  Why?  Well, while I like Blogsome, it’s just missing some things that I’d like to have, like the ability to add Technorati tags.  Blogsome is a fine service, and I think them for…well, existing, but I feel I must move on, for the good of the blog.  Anyways, I’m moving to wordpress.com.  Please be patient while I set it up and whatnot.

Thanks. 

From today’s speech about the anti-gay marriage amendment.

Courtesy of Crooks and Liars.