Shaping up to be the Worst Week Ever...Ever

Some of the worst news to surface recently:

Vladimir Putin announced that he will run for Russia's Prime Minister, neglecting to add that his replacement as president is a complete puppet.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/01/russia.putin.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch

While denouncing torture in public, the Bush Administration had found loopholes to approve extreme torture in private.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/washington/04interrogate.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Myanmar, if at all possible, has taken a turn for the worse. Journalists are being harrassed more than ever and telephone lines and internet connections are being severed in order to halt the flow of information to the outside world.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/10/04/myanmar.capital.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch

Worst Week Ever

This week could be subtitled "World's Most Disasterous Subjects". (Myanmar, Iraq, Bush, Airlines, and Iran) But it's not. It's the Worst Week Ever.

1. Myanmar.
2. A bait strategy used by United States snipers to kill those who are alledgedly insurgents. The irony: it was invented by the insurgents.
3. Bush's stance on healthcare, specifically because he is expected to deny millions of children access to healthcare because it comes to close to his definition of universal healthcare. And he says the Dems are playing politics.
4. Carol Ann Gotbaum died after trying to escape handcuffs after being arrested for disruptive behavior. Will Gotbaum be the name that the masses yell when The Passanger Uprising of 2007 begins? I hope so.
5. The handling of Ahmadinejad's visit to Columbia University. Yes, the man is a complete crackpot. But he was also a guest. Save the belittling him until he spews his filth.

Political Cartoon of the Week

So far, this is one of the only cartoons dealing with the blatant human rights violations and senseless violence in Myanmar, including the killing of a Japanese photojournalist.

Grammar fails Bush again

Out of all the problems with the president and his administration, (see warrantless wiretapping, Iraq War, denying millions of children health insurance, playing politics, Alberto Gonzales, etc.) investigative journalism wasted on keeping up on whether or not Bush says "is" instead of "are." Woodward and Berstein would be proud.

PUBLISHED IN THE OMAHA WORLD-HERALD THRUS. SEPT. 27, 2007

Worst Week Ever

(Almost) noting guarantees the Worst Week Ever quicker than school schootings if you still go to school.

1. From the Real Racism Files: black students in Tuscaloosa, Alabama moved to lower performing schools after complaints that schools were overcrowded.
2. Blackwater and their "shoot anything that moves, shoot everything else later" philosophy. That, and the fact that Order No. 17 gives protection to Blackwater's "troops," making them immune to Iraqi law, thus free to shoot all the civilians they want.
3. Andy Gates, a disabled man who has flown on his own dozens of times, is not allowed to travel alone on a U.S. Airways plane. The seas of airplane customer revolution is stirring...
4. The Senate rejects a bill that would give soldiers as much time at home as they get overseas. Because allowing them time with their family after years and years thousands of miles away from home in an area where friend is foe and the streets themselves are littered with bombs would just be Anti-American.
5. Tazers and the police that have way too much fun with them.

Political Cartoon of the Week

This week's cartoon wins for the relavence of an increasingly frustrating topic in the news today: no real news reported. Though CNN is often most immune to the celebrity factor, they are by no means not guilty.

This cartoon does not, however, win based on physical attractiveness. Notice the awkward angle of O.J.'s head, who is not really looking at the cake, but rather freedom (how close his bond money is to being cashed). Translation: the cartoonist couldn't draw a quality caricature of the front of O.J.'s head, but the back, my God, is one of the most accurate representations I've ever seen.

Happy Constitution Day

For those of you that didn't know it was Constitution Day (or, like many of my peers, what the Constitution is), go outside and yell a big "Fuck You" to whatever politician gets your goat at that moment. And then go back inside quick before you wind up with a hood over your head and a car battery wired to your nipples on some secret island prison.