"Enough self-aggrandizing trumpet-blowing. OK, Scott, What Happened?"

McClatchy has a blog.

Until now, we've resisted the temptation to post on former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's new book, which accuses the Bush White House of launching a propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq.

Why? It's not news. At least not to some of us who've covered the story from the start.

Via First Draft.

Feed Your Head

Because it is Thursday & I love this song & Grace Slick, for that matter. Thanks to Adrastos.

Harvey Korman, R.I.P.

Obit here.

Thursday Tab, Babies, Bird, & Burning Blogging

Telling Me Something I Already Knew

Scotty 'fesses up. Now, we have CNN's (the most trusted name in news, don't you know) Jessica Yellin telling the world what the world already knew. In fairness, Ms. Yellin was working for ABC when this all happened. The newsboys & girls are all in a twitter about being called out by some of their own. They are resisting any responsibility or accountability. Big surprise.

Good Quote

From Uppity Wisconsin.

"Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely. It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition. It is just as arrogant, just as despotic, in London, or in Washington, as in Berlin. The American Jingo is twin to the German Junker…. If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another."

- Robert M. La Follette

Another Great Reason For A 60

This clueless bastard was the Democratic Party's Vice-Presidential nominee 8 years ago. I do blame Al Gore for this. It's only one thing Al, don't get all zuzu on me. How Joementum could even think about appearing at the fat fascist's gathering is beyond me. Didn't Hagee say Hitler hunted Jews in order to drive them back to Israel so the Apocalypse would begin & his stupid family would be jettisoned off to somewhere? Yes, I believe he did say that & yet observant Joe Lieberman is going to give Hagee a big old kiss on the mouth for that. Jeez Louise, the Dems need to do a much better job of vetting their candidates.

Utah Philips, R.I.P.

Obit here.


UPDATE: More here.

Reminder

There is no longer the shadow of a doubt that the torture of prisoners was planned at the highest levels of the US government with the explicit knowledge and approval of the president. How do we know this? Bush himself admitted it.

Via Tristero.

Original post over at BooMan's

Jimmy McGriff, R.I.P.

Obit here.

The Stooopid, It Burns

Just shoot me now, please.

Cool

I've always been a fan of space exploration. & while it is costly, it isn't as costly as Bu$hCo's vanity war. For those of us old enough, remember how wonderfully fun it was to listen to Kennedy vow to get to the moon? I realize that there was plenty wrong in the 60s (Vietnam, Selma, MLK murdered, Bobby Kennedy murdered, Malcolm X, etc.), but the notion of space exploration & travel really caught my imagination. It's too bad that it was put on the back burner, a burner in need of replacement, no less. It was inspiring, something that has become a bad thing among certain progressive bloggers. It's quite the joke that these folks see themselves as flinty, hard-bitten realists, & those who find a man who can attract 75,000 people to a speech in Oregon are pie-in-the-sky dreamers. Well, Bu$hCo has won, up is now down.

This is Mars. Where are the Martians?

More Bad News For Trout

Looks like global warming is beginning to impact the western U.S. in a negative way for trout anglers. What's really too bad is that Dick "Sick Dick" Cheney, a supposedly avid fly angler, just doesn't give a flying fuck about the fish. Let the free market make these fish extinct, so? It's more important to kill people in Bu$hCo's vanity war.

Sunset on the Bighorn River

Nice Fish

Big brookie for Wisco. Good for this young person. Here's more info on this member of the char family. This image of a brookie is not of the one the boy caught. Sure is a beautiful creature.

I'm Sorry

I missed this the other day. Sorry. I'm with xoff at Uppity Wisco, you need to call or write or email Sen. Feingold & believe it or not, Sen. Kohl, & thank them for voting against Bu$hCo's vanity war.

Pretty Funny

I wonder, however, if the young folks get the reference just from the picture?

Several Of Us Told You So

Not that it makes much difference to the environment anymore. This is another example of why we must act to get Wisco to provide real tax benefits for alternative energy. I'm so sick of the platitudes coming from these companies & the state.

The state Department of Natural Resources is alleging that a Canadian company is responsible for more than 100 environmental violations related to the construction of a 321-mile pipeline spanning much of Wisconsin.

Dick Martin, R.I.P.

His show & his on air persona helped make the Vietnam years easier. Obit here.

What Is J. B. Van Hollen Covering Up This Time?

It seems Van Hollen just can't make himself do the right thing. No surprise, he's a, well, you know what he is.

About Right

But there is one sense in which her campaign, at least, bears some responsibility for her current straits. Clinton operatives behind the scenes have been smearing Obama as a Muslim, and it was they who dug up that photo of him in Kenyan clothes. Clinton even said Obama was not a Muslim "as far as I know." The malice demonstrated in those actions laid the groundwork for people to believe that Clinton was capable of such hostility toward Obama.

The incident, it seems to me, does tell us two other things.

The first is that the strategy of the Clinton camp, of continuing to campaign even after victory at the polls became numerically impossible--in hopes that Obama might stumble and alienate sufficient numbers of superdelegates--was not crazy. I don't approve of it, but that it could work or could have worked seems clear. It could easily have been Obama who stumbled yesterday. Ironically, it was Clinton.

The second thing the incident tells us is how traumatized the nation still is by those horrible killings 40 years ago, and how much unfinished business of healing those wounds there is. Hillary didn't mean to pick at the scab. But she did. And we bled a little, all over again.

Via Juan Cole.

Not A Proud Moment In Wisco's History

Interesting piece in today's NYT. It leads with Gableman's stooopid election in the Supreme Court election. We have elected two criminals in the last two elections, & there is apparently nothing we can do about it. It's a shame.

Somebody Really Famous & Whom I Have Loved Dearly For A Long Time Was Born Today

The Kid. So here's a song you you, by some guy from Minnesota.

Happy 30th Birthday. You are now old enough to not be trusted.



Another song.


Another song.

& another.



& another.



Oh fuck, why not, here's another.

I better quit now. The Kid's birthday & Bob Dylan's, this ought to be a fucking national holiday.

WTF?

Via TPM. What has the assassination of Bobby Kennedy got to do with anything the interviewer is asking? It's time to leave, as quickly as possible.

Yah Think?

Little League? More like Bu$hCo League.

"Obviously not the example you want to set. I guess at every cost you have to try to walk away from confrontation."

For Fuck's Sake

What is it with the ReThugs & their obsession with sex & food? This is just pathetic. If Bu$hCo's FBI thinks you "have the look", you're probably doomed. What, no one noticed Men In Black looked like Men In Black?

“She told me that I had the perfect ‘look,’” recalls Carroll. “And that I had the perfect personality—they kept saying I was friendly and personable—for what they were looking for.”

What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple federal agencies and state and local law enforcement. The effort’s primary mission, according to the Minneapolis division’s website, is to “investigate terrorist acts carried out by groups or organizations which fall within the definition of terrorist groups as set forth in the current United States Attorney General Guidelines.”

I have to say that vegans are probably tough terrorists, after all, I can't get any kind of meat at my local coffee shop, well, I can get some wild, Lake Superior whitefish pieces in a bisque on Thursdays, but no sausage on pizza, & no cheeseburgers. Not that I would eat them or anything. My emphasis. Via The Raw Story.

Send Sen. Kennedy A Get Well Card

Click here. You can write your own message. Just do it.

UPDATE: Link repaired. Thanks dd.

This Ought To Work

Keyriste, there are times when I wonder why we pay these guys? Instead of wasting our time & theirs, they ought to be providing money & tax incentives for alternatives to the goddamn oil & the oily bastards that preach the SUV gospel.

The House overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure.

It's Over

Yet Sen. Clinton, for reasons known to all of us, just won't stop the process. Scott Lemieux has the post.

News I Just Don't Care About

But I'm posting this out of respect for one of my loyal four readers. & you know who you are.

Today is the birthday of the following people:

May 20, 1972 Busta Rhymes, American Musician

May 20, 1971 Jonas Berqvist, Angelhorn SWE, hockey forward, Team Sweden, 1998 Olympics

May 20, 1948 Dave Thomas, St. Catherines Ontario, comedian, SCTV, Grace Under Fire

May 20, 1946 Cher Bono, Cal, rocker/actress, I Got You Babe, Jack Lalane, Mask

May 20, 1944 Joe Cocker, Sheffield Eng, rock vocalist, Little Help From My Friends

May 20, 1940 Stan Mikita, NHL center, led NHL in scoring 4 times

May 20, 1937 Lord "Benjie" Iveagh, British brewer, Guinness, /large landowner

May 20, 1825 Antoinette Brown Blackwell, clergy, 1st ordained U.S. female minister

Today is also my birthday.

I'll leave the exquisite corpse* of irony to whomever wants it. I also have copies of the Zapruder film for sale, cheap.

*Andrei Codrescu's online Journal of Letters and Life

For those who are interested, I did not get a boat. I did, however, get some cute finger puppets from the very cute Twins.

Sen. Kennedy

Oh, boy.

Pretty Damn Cool

This must have been fun. I remember the days of huge protests in Madison & how good it felt being part of such a large & agreeable group.

All We Need To Know About John McSame/McLiar

I hope you are as sick of McSame's reputation as some kind of different ReThug, some sort of maverick, some sort of regular guy, some sort of real person. Take a look at the video below, then tell me why he is able to show his face in public?

Morning Visitors - Breeding Plummage Edition

Saturday Cat Blogging - Tab Benoit Edition

It's hard being a kitty so I must sleep & sleep.

100 Mile Food Map

It's Madison's, but it's a start. Some tech savvy foodies ought to do one for Ashland, maybe Superior. It would be helpful. Via Uppity Wisco. If somebody up here does this, let me know & I'll do my little part of get it out in the public eye.

Such Utter B.S.

Bu$hCo's last answer in an interview with Mona Shazli, Dream TV, in Egypt.

Q You will be in the region very soon -- Israel, Saudi Arabia, then Egypt. The question is, maybe there are 250 million Arabs who think that President Bush has added to their suffering and problems during his administration. How would you adjudicate this?

THE PRESIDENT: I would just ask them to wait for history to answer the question. There's an advent of a young democracy in Iraq. Ask those people what it's like to live under a freer society, rather than the thumb of a tyrant or a dictator; or the people that we're trying to help in Lebanon by getting the Syrians out through a U.N. Security Council resolution; or the Palestinians who -- for whom I've articulated a state.

In other words, I understand people's opinions. All I ask is that when history is finally recorded, judge whether or not I've been a contributor to peace or not.
Q Do you think history will be in your side?

THE PRESIDENT: I think history will say George Bush clearly saw the threats that keep the Middle East in turmoil, and was willing to do something about it, was willing to lead, and had this great faith in the capacity of democracies and great faith in the capacity of people to decide the fate of their countries; and that the democracy movement gained impetus and gained movement in the Middle East. Yeah, I think people will say, he had a difficult set of circumstances to deal with, and he dealt with them, with a sense of idealism.

Idealism? I don't think he knows the meaning or the philosphy behind the word. What a fool.

'bout Time

I'm glad this jerk is gone. He's done a lot of damage to our democracy, or what's left of it. It's not the same as impeachment, but it's a victory over evil.

Who Gives A Shit

Boo-freaking-hoo.

Support Food In New Orleans

Awhile back, I posted about a food coop opening in NOLA. What I didn't do was urge you to join that coop. I know that many of my loyal four readers will not be visiting anytime soon, particularly with the ReThug's high gas prices, but it is always good to show solidarity with folks who are doing the right thing.

Click

HERE

to learn how to join the coop as a founding member. I know a hundred bucks is a piece of change for most folks, but those who can afford it ought to join. NOLA is still in ruins, just ask anyone who has visited there & has moved beyond The Quarter or Uptown. I am thanking all you generous & progressive people out there. To show how dated I am, Just Do It. BTW, the coop's URL is corrected from the original post. Those damn forward slashes actually mean something.

Polar Bears

Credit where credit is due:

On the eve of a court deadline, the U.S. Interior Department is adding the polar bear to the list threatened species. This comes after evidence that rising temperatures are causing Arctic Sea ice -- the bears' habitat -- to vanish.

Via First Draft. Why the eff did it take so long? Nothing like a drowning Polar Bear to show Bu$hCo's compassion. My emphasis.

Global Warming

We twiddle our thumbs, while the earth burns.

On a completely related subject, I see dickhead Bu$hCo gave up golf to show solidarity with the people that he chose to make dead. What a loser. Giving up golf? I used to give up caviar for Lent. Yeah, I know, it was a big sacrifice.

I'm Behind, So Sue Me

My boy, John Edwards, does the good thing.

One More

Another win for us. The more Democrats we have in the House & Senate, the less we have to worry about in terms of BushDog Dems & Lieberman.

It's Over

John Edwards knows it.

John Edwards, a former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, cautioned Sunday that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton “has to be really careful that she’s not damaging our prospects” by staying in the contest against Senator Barack Obama.

Sunday Morning Videos

I wish I had more time. This looks like fun. Via the comments at Sadly, No!

The post the comment came on featured this:



Well?

Unfortunate?

I think not. One time it might be, two times, it's a plan. Remember WVWV is staffed & advised by a whole bunch of Sen. Clinton supporters. Via TPM.

Well, It Only Took A Little Over A Month

Somebody besides those of us in the reality based world finally noticed how out-of-touch Mr. Crooked Talk McLiar is. Kick Russia out of the G-8, now that's the way to improve America's image in the world. If we elect this man, it will be four more years of Bu$hCo, four more years of killing.

John McCain dropped a little-noticed bombshell into his March foreign-policy address: Boot Russia from the G-8, the elite club of leading industrial democracies whose leaders try to coordinate economic policies.

One major problem: He can't do it because the other G-8 nations won't let him.

But the fact that he's proposing to try, risking a return to Cold War tensions with the world's second-largest nuclear power after 20 years of prickly partnership, raises questions about McCain's judgment.

What judgment? My emphasis.

Relatively Stooopid Local News, Well, If You Consider Duluth, MN, Local, Which I Do So Sue Me

Jeffrey Ely's 1997 Honda Civic, weight 1045 kg vs. Miniature Pinscher Fester, weight 13 lbs.

1997 Honda Civic

Miniature Pincher

For those of you who are wondering, since the pictures show a certain parity in size between car & dog, 1045 kg equals 2299 lbs. 13 lbs. equals 13 lbs. I guess you can figure out who won. Go read the story, however, to find out just how sensitive a 1997 Honda Civic can be.

Pearl River

This is why we need a completely new President in November. It's the kind of earmark that destroys rather than builds. This boondoggle deserves death.

Hazelden

As usual, people who only believe in the bottom line have screwed up another important health care institution.

Happy Day

To all you mothers.

Yes

Go read. We must beat McLiar in November. This is not how to do it.

If we're crying in November, remember the Clintons in May.

Another Democratic Candidate Doing Extremely Well

& she's a woman. I was pleasantly surprised to see this. I've been too involved in this awful, protracted Democratic slice fest to pay much attention to many other races. Wouldn't this be a sweet pickup. Can I say pickup in a post about a female candidate without being accused of being a misogynist & sexist?

Dole - 47%
Hagan - 48%

GAAAAH

Lieberman, the Lame & the Halt is beneath contempt.

Nothing new here, move along.

Go ahead Georgie, use some tongue, we've been together long enough. Eww. I'm sorry for that, particularly since it's Saturday & the sun is shining.

Reminder

There is no longer the shadow of a doubt that the torture of prisoners was planned at the highest levels of the US government with the explicit knowledge and approval of the president. How do we know this? Bush himself admitted it.

Via Tristero.

Original post over at BooMan's

Friday Cat Blogging

I don't have any pics of the fabulous coldH2Oville cats, so you'll have to settle for this:

Via Dependable Renegade.

& sorry for the dearth of posts today, I worked a 10 hr. day & spent too much time commenting on other blogs this evening. Plus there's a local story involved a pawn shop, a really rich guy, & stolen stuff, & a really despicable ReThug. Makes me feel like I'm living in a big city or something. More later. Promise.

What's Really In Our Nation's Interest?

Someday I'd like to write a long post about what's in America's interest throughout the world. Someday. Today, however, I'd suggest that this is way more important than Iraq. But what do I know? Bu$hCo would rather kill people than help people. What a great country.

Five days after the powerful cyclone struck, this city, Myanmar’s commercial capital and until Saturday a verdant oasis of wide avenues, is far from back to normal.

Thousands of trees lie where they fell, jetties on the Yangon River have collapsed into the water and only a few traffic lights are working across the city of five million people.

Most of Yangon remains without electricity and even the local branch of the Ministry of Energy has no power.

The death toll in Yangon has been small compared with the devastation in the delta of the Irrawaddy River. The government counts fewer than 400 people killed here compared with the more than 22,000, and by some unofficial estimates possibly tens of thousands more, dead over all in Myanmar since the huge cyclone hit on Saturday.

But the inability of the government to clear debris and restore basic utilities like water and power in what is the country’s wealthiest city are a measure of how difficult Myanmar’s overall disaster recovery could be.

The answer is, apparently, blowing in the wind.

In another town, Labutta, which has virtually no food or fresh water, the flood waters have begun to recede, revealing rotting, bloated bodies, both human and animal, which have left a stench hanging over the town.

A distraught elderly woman in Kungyangon, lost 18 relatives who lived in a nearby coastal village.

Only three children at boarding school survived. “The whole village was destroyed,” she wailed as she pawed at their photographs and wept inconsolably.

Look familiar? It should. Here's New Orleans.

& Bu$hCo's pathetic initial response ought not surprise anyone. Plus the arrogance of unilateral on-site inspections.

He said the United States was looking at ways to augment an initial emergency contribution of $250,000 to the United Nations and other international relief agencies, but noted the process would be easier if U.S. experts were allowed to make onsite inspections.

Easier for whom?

Let's Get Drunk & Screw

Those ReThugs, they're such party animals, not that there's anything wrong with that. &, believe it or not, his first name is Vito. So much for it just being business. Will there be anyone left to proudly claim to be a ReThuglican?

Finally

Something from Shakespeare's Sister that not about good boobs & my bad penis.

Another Reason To Not Support Sen. Clinton

This is from a pro-Clinton blog that I will not link to since I think they are fucking out of their minds. Read this & weep. I'm going to make a large assumption & say this is a young person, more the sadness for this once great country. Don't ya just love the "zzzs"?

Whether the RULZ were violated or not makes not a whit of difference. The voters of Florida and Michigan are the innocent victims of this. PLUS, there was nothing in the RULZ that said there needed to be a penalty at all. Yep. The Rules and Bylaws committee could have granted them a waiver or penalized them for the next primary season or cut their delegations by half or even, and this sounds really radical, penalized NH, IA, and SC for moving up their primaries by applying the same harsh zero tolerance policy. They did nothing of the kind. Instead, they have decided to lose the election this fall. I’m not sure you are grasping the enormity of this situation. I think you may still be in the grips of an emotional reposnse to everything Clinton. And you and thousands of Democrats like you who are unable to see how greviously you are deluded will have to be brought to a conscious state by drastic action. We are going nuclear on the party in order to try and save it from itself. We are not going to behave like indulgent parents and give into its demands no matter how bad they are for it. Now, you may not like it and it might cause you stress and sleepless nights but there you are. Come to your senses now or suffer the consequences in November. your(sic) choice.

My emphasis.

Edgar Jeffery Smith, R.I.P.

Obit, here.

Some Good News Out Of NOLA

From the Times-Picayune.

FOOD CO-OP EXCEEDS GOALS: After launching its first membership drive, the New Orleans Food Cooperative exceeded its first goal of 300 members by May 1, which the group's board says demonstrates that New Orleans is ready to support a community-owned grocery store. The next goal is 600 members by October, with an overall goal of at least 1,000 members by the time it opens. The site is at the proposed Healing Center at St. Claude and St. Roch avenues. The store will be owned and operated by its members. For more information, see www.nolafoodcoop.com/, e-mail info@nolafoodcoop.org or call (504) 324-6849.

Yes, There Is No Racism In Sen. Clinton's Campaign

Bullshit.

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

Via Atrios.

Protect & Serve?

not so much. If being poor is no excuse for crime, neither is being blue.

Damn, Almost

.8%

Interesting Stuff From Indiana

Sen. Obama crushed Sen. Clinton in North Carolina & as I move toward the sweet land of Nod, Indiana looks more & more like it will surprise me in the a.m. I sure hope so.

The latest that I can find:

11:54 PM
Clinton 588,106 (ahead 20,957)
Obama 567,149

(I believe that's EDT.) Followed by this titillating tidbit:

NBC just reported that Hillary cancelled her appearances on the morning shows tomorrow. That means she isn't sure what she's doing, staying or going.

Good Grief

Now this is exactly whom I don't want as a candidate, or a President, for that matter. What are these people thinking - yeah, let's portray her as slamming shots, hell, slamming flaming shots, that will win us votes. Jeez Louise, they really do think we are morons. Terry McAuliffe, Clinton campaign chair:

"She loves to sit, throw 'em back. So to me this is nothin' new. We all hear about the story that she and John McCain actually had a shot contest, I think in the Ukraine or somewhere around the world. And she actually beat John McCain in a shot contest. She's a girl from Illinois who likes to throw 'em down with the rest of us."

I must be an elitist or something, because, frankly, I don't like throwing them down. I actually like to sip them down. But I don't like lattes, honest.

Awful

It just gets worse.

Free Music Download

I've always enjoyed Nine Inch Nails & now they're giving away their new CD. Click here to get the download. It's a good deal & it's a way of sticking the RIAA in the eye.

Sled Dogs

Here's an interesting piece on sled dogs.

Another Dream Deferred

Scarlett Johansson to wed: spokesman

I'd sure like to meet this, this, "spokesman," but I hear he's Canadian, eh?

Happy, Happy

Cinco de Mayo.

Los Lonely Boys - I wish they wouldn't disable the embed, but they do. Here's the URL, however. Enjoy.

Vargas Blues Band -

Santana -

Oh, Man

It looks like the death toll is a least 4,000, with some saying 10,000. With the military thugs still in charge, I wonder if they will even accept the fact that it happened, much less ask for or use any international aid.

Monday Morning Video

It's supposed to rain today, but I'm looking out at a clear May morning. Here's something to make your day. As the kids used to say, Not. Via The Great Blue Boy.

Four Dead In Ohio

Here they are:

They look like terrorists, no?

& another photo.

38th Anniversary

Of course, I can not forget just how bad a day can be. This was 10 years before Reagan, we sure have been in a long, lousy slide. Kent State.

No one was ever held accountable for these deaths. Sound familiar?

Good & Funny

This is funny. Those unpatriotic Methodists! If I belonged to that denomination (fat chance), I'd be looking to John Hagee right now.

844-20

Heeheeeheeeeheeeee. Via First Draft.

This happy baby speaks for all of us here at coldH2Oville.

Good, Bad

We'll see if he's a good guy, or another Bushdog.

It's what I hate about horse racing, not what I love about it. How is it we ask that a horse break both front ankles, & then do nothing about it?

We had to pay about 10% for a major surgery on my shoulder last winter. It came to over a thousand dollars. What if it had been a hundred thousand dollar surgery? We'd still be paying it after we were dead, i.e., The Kid would probably have a debt.

Over there, the war is over. For some.

Heckuva job, Bu$hCo.

Allies everywhere. Coalition? Yeah, right.

I know, not much good.

Reminder

There is no longer the shadow of a doubt that the torture of prisoners was planned at the highest levels of the US government with the explicit knowledge and approval of the president. How do we know this? Bush himself admitted it.

Via Tristero.

Original post over at BooMan's

Amur Tiger Time

& other stuff like Amur leopards -

Titanium from the Amur region -

The Amur Maple -

Amur falcon -

Amur Tiger -

Why Unions Are Great

STRIKE! for peace. There is something about the west coast longshoreman that I really love.

We've Won The War

I guess.

...killing at least 35 people and wounding at least 62 others, many of them seriously.

How do you get injured by a bomb & not have it be serious? Just asking.

The Worst President Ever

From CNN.

"No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president's disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

This Is Another Reason Why John McCain (McSame, McLiar) Should Not Be President

Yet McCain, while campaigning in Pennsylvania, told reporters: "The bridge in Minneapolis didn't collapse because there wasn't enough money. The bridge in Minneapolis collapsed because so much money was spent on wasteful, unnecessary pork-barrel projects."

What a son-of-a-bitch. What an idiot. What a cold asshole.

Good For REI

Yes, I'm a member. Nonetheless, this is a positive health move. Let's hope the bottles that are removed don't end up in dollar stores across the U.S. or in poor countries around the world.

According to Scott Livingston, REI's assistant store manager in Brookfield, the store removed the products from shelves nearly two weeks ago.