Rush Limbaugh and the Virginia Tech shooter

The Virginia Tech massacre was an event that should have brought the two political parties together. What should have happened, in an ideal world, is leaders from both parties would get together and say "Let's never let this happen again. How can we make sure of that?"

As far as I know, Mr. Limbaugh was the first to strike against this idea of working together. Now we're back to politics as usual instead of preventing another shooting.

(P.S. - this isn't condoning the site that put this up...I haven't checked up on it yet, but I know for a fact Mr. Limbaugh said this.)

Political Cartoon of the Week

For all that Alberto Gonzales doesn't know, we all have one question: What exactly does he do?

This obviously isn't the only political cartoon on the subject, but I love the shading and detail of this one (even if Uncle Sam looks like everybody's alcoholic, double chinned Uncle Ernie).

PUBLISHED IN THE LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR TUES. APRIL 24, 2007

Worst Week Ever

1. Turns out that the United States also had access for Japan's "comfort women." It's good to know that we were so above our enemies in WWII, as we are today, avoiding torture controversy, abuses of the habeas corpus, etc.
2. Bush's inevitable veto of the Iraq spending bill/timetable, also known as a compromise.
3. Wonder why nobody is attacking Mr. Tobias for the call-girl controversy? It's because they're also on the list.
4. A recent study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that minorities are treated with more force than whites when pulled over by the police. It's in writing now...let's see what happens.
5. Until further notice, the fact that no action has been taken in Darfur shall be listed as one of (if not the single) the worst things that has happened this week.

Aid official linked to call-girl ring

Don't for one minute believe that there weren't a fair share of Democrats in this black book. Just saying.

Here's a suggestion:
Republicans - avoid controversy or corruption from now until November. After that, feel free to visit D.C. brothels, kick back and watch oil prices rise, or do whatever washed-up GOP-ers do when they're out of a job.
Democrats - you also avoid controversy, try not to blow it until after this inevitable presidential takeover. After that, end the war, stick cigars up noonies, or do whatever political parties do when following one of the worst administrations in recent memory (i.e. ever).

PUBLISHED IN THE OMAHA WORLD-HERALD SAT. APRIL 28, 2007

Polish PM: No need for more homosexuals

You know, in America, when politicians persecute one group or another like this, they don't often deny it and blatantly lie. The usual path to rationalization is: "This homosexual is ruining my marriage" or "What if our kids catch gayness?"

PUBLISHED IN THE LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR FRI. APRIL 27, 2007

Narcissism is up, scientists say

Spend an hour in the halls of any high school in America, most college campuses, and, of course, most blogs (!!!) and YouTube, and you will see this narcissism first-hand. If this trend continues, it wouldn't be surprising to see humans evolve into asexual beings.

PUBLISHED IN THE OMAHA WORLD-HERALD FRI. APRIL 27, 2007

Sex slaves served U.S. troops

Nothing is surprising anymore, but a lot in life is discusting and vile. This is one of those stories.

Government-sponsored rape houses goes on my list of reasons to look into denoucing my citizenship.

PUBLISHED IN THE OMAHA WORLD-HERALD THURS. APRIL 26, 2007

Alabama legislators OK slavery apologies

Regular visitors to this site (i.e. me) know how I feel about apologies for slavery, but this one is interesting. The following are a few friendly suggestions for those legislative folks over in Alabama:
1. Look at Brown University as an example - raise money for something positive, like education
2. Make sure the vote is unanimous
3. Get rid of, I don't know, say...Confederate Memorial Day

As a side note, who exactly were the seven that voted against this? Were they just caught up in the Confederate Memorial Day mood? Did they want to wait a few hundred more years before they felt really sorry?

PUBLISHED IN THE LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR WED. APRIL 25, 2007

Officers complain of Imus copycats

File this under "racist cops". This is the first evidence we have that they are racist toward other officers.

Gonzales says he's staying put

For a man who had a recorded 74 "I don't recall's" (plus countless "I don't know's") he seems pretty confident.

The Snip Heard Round the World

Some of you may have been wondering; "How can you, as a poor excuse for a semi-decent political/social blogger, ignore the number one story of our generation last week? I mean, his haircut was $400 dollars!"

Yes, John Edwards pampered himself last week, going to a spa and getting his hair cut for an enormous amount of money. I'm sure presidential haircuts cost a big chunk of change, but it was still funny imagining Mr. Edwards at a spa that is aimed at women.

The only other thing I have to say on this matter is that I waited a week to get my haircut, so I can pay $10 on Tuesdays instead of $12.50 any other day.

Political Cartoon of the Week

Kevin Siers has done a few gun-related cartoons since the VTM, and he's right. Something needs to be done. We need to learn.

PUBLISHED IN THE OMAHA WORLD HERALD, FRI. APRIL 20, 2007

Worst Week Ever

1. The Virginia Tech Massacre. Our prayers are with the victims and thier families.
2. Arguements by Don Imus supporters that because rap artists say "ho," Mr. Imus can too.
3. The backlash felt by the Asian community because of the VT Massacre by stereotyping against South Koreans. We shouldn't trust those white people either - Timothy McVeigh was one of "them."
4. Students at Turner County High School in Ashburn, GA, had their first integrated prom this Saturday night. If you don't see anything wrong with this, look at your calendar. It's the year 2007, not 1970 (at the latest). Still, some whites had thier own private party beforehand. All in the name false progress.
5. Since April in 2003, the Sudanese Government has been killing Darfur civilians, namely members of the African ethnic groups Fur, Masalit and Zaghawat. Again, because you just looked at your calendar, you can now tell me it is APRIL 2007.

Political Cartoon of the Week

David Hitch is awarded this weeks political cartoon of the week. It's not necessarily aimed at a certain incident, but Mr. Hitch is right. A lot of the problems with "those youngsters" today are a direct result of their parents being too lax with them. I won't make any excuses for my generation, I disown them.

Worst Week Ever

1. Don Imus was finally let go. Yes, his supporters say, he has said stuff like this before about many other people, so why should he get fired now? The better question is: why wasn't he fired before?
2. Pope Benedict XVI, always on top of what the world's most pressing issues are, officially denouces evolution. A few days later, scientists announce they have found similar genes in humans and some monkeys that they can use to help study some of humanity's worst diseases.
3. A week after John McCain praises how safe Baghdad streets are, the Parliment building is the subject of a suicide bombing attack. Just one example in a career of backing the wrong horse.
4. Kurt Vonnegut, one of the last relevant living author's left in the world, dies at 84. Rest In Peace.
5. An African Union peacekeeper was killed by unidentified gunmen in Darfur. The thousands of deaths in Darfur make every week the worst week ever, and six other peacekeepers were killed this month. There needs to be something done about this, and we shouldn't wait another day.

Pope says evolution can't be finally proven

The sooner we realize that religion and science don't always contradict, the better off we will all be. There are a group of people who beleive that God created the universe, earth, first life on earth, etc., and then influenced those one celled organisms to evolved into everybody's favorite two-legged anthropoids. There's nothing wrong with that. It covers all the bases and everybody is happy.

Evolution doesnt't narrow anybody's view of human creation. With evolution, there can be any number of possibilites of what evolved into what, and why one species died out while other survived. With strict creationism, the answer is "God created everything, period."

One gets the sense that this is going to be another "flat earth" issue with the Church. They denied it then but later were forced to come to terms with it. Hopefully, in a few years, they will come to terms with evolution, realize that God could have had a hand in evolution, and we can call get on with our lives.

PUBLISHED IN THE LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR THURS. APRIL 12, 2007

Rosie O'Donnell's conspiracy theory

Open letter to ABC:

Dear ABC,
Please do not fire Rosie O'Donnell. Her comments, despite how outrageous and misinformed, were a fair use of the First Amendment. I don't agree with what she said, her comments will only prove to strict conservatives that all liberals have this uber-liberal ideology, which is in fact not true.
Please kindly inform Ms. O'Donnell that through a little research, she would have found that steel does bend in intense heat. Also, I am fairly certain that if this administration had pulled off 9/11, then they would have had no problem convincing the American public that the war in Iraq in the right idea, and that Mr. Bush's approval rating would not be so low.
Thank You,
WIWT

Political Cartoon of the Week

Paul Fell's cartoons aren't really something anybody ever suspected would be up on this site, mainly because while he is talented, he's a tad bit repetitive. Every other cartoon is either about Legislative spending or the smoking ban.

This cartoon wins this week because of two main reasons: 1. Voter apathy is pathetic, and though it's been done before, it hasn't been done like this. Original and clever. 2. That is a very dead cat.

Worst Week Ever

Top five reasons why this week was the worst week ever (not in order of severity):
1. "The Italian Letter", a book by Peter Eisner and Knut Royce, shows evidence that the reason the United States is at war was, in fact, a lie.
2. James (yes, we know you directed the "Titanic") Cameron and his tombs that allegedly contained the remains of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Dan Brown wrote an entertaining FICTION novel, and to my knowledge he never tried to claim it was true, so let it go Mr. Cameron. Go make a Titanic sequel.
3. Voting in the Lincoln primaries had an 18% turnout.
4. Cops in Omaha are proven to be racist. My prediction: next year, the same stats will turn up, nobody will have done anything about it. I thought this was 2007.
5. Construction for the Creationist Museum in Cincinnati is well underway. Sure, you can say that God created the Universe billions of years ago, there's nothing wrong with that. You can even argue evolution, despite all the evidence (including the discovery of a missing link last year) to the contrary. But do not ever, ever, ever try and tell me the earth is only a couple thousand years old. Ever.

Black drivers face more arrests

We all knew Los Angeles had racist cops, but Omaha? This is inexcusable. There needs to be accountability in all of these incidents, there needs to be some results, some action taken because of this. Omaha, speak up for your rights. Speak out now, and if the statistics haven't changed by next year, do something. Please, for the love of Civil Rights, do something.

PUBLISHED IN THE OMAHA WORLD-HERALD SAT. APRIL 7, 2007

Epic '300' sends strong message about crucial defense of liberty

I have not seen the movie "300", but there are a lot of things wrong with this column (the first yet on this site). First and foremost, the whole concept this column is based off on, that the film has a hidden message, is a total crock. Zach Snyder, the director, has been quoted numerous times saying there is no real message about this film. There's no representation of Bush, the Middle East, etc. The purpose of the film was to sell tickets. Period.

Now, there may be a disagreement about whether or not the film is racist, sexist, homophobic, etc., but this column definately is. Calling the Middle East, not just the terrorists who happen to be from there, or American born Timothy McVeigh, barbarians is blatant racism.

Also, "leftist feminism despises the unique virtues of manhood"? Who is that offending? Is it the original femenists, who fought for the right to vote and without whom the National Federation of Republican Women wouldn't be around. Or is it the current feminists or any woman who despises the war in the Middle East, fueled by the United States or otherwise?

The comment about the leftist women makes it doubtful that Klavan actually means humans instead of males in the next sentence: "This film reminds us that without the martial virility of good men, we would all be slaves." Does Mr. Klavan not remember elementary school history classes, and the stories about Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, as an example of more recent slavery that, contrary to what Klavan says, was not abolished thanks to only the martial virility of good men.

Maybe this isn't racist, you may say. I say, to the contrary, my good reader: "And leftist multiculturalism," Klavan writes, "that nonsensical creed - insists that successful societies like ours pay overblown homage to the failed societies that drive so many refugees to our shores" Where does one even begin with that comment? I'll just say this: German Nazis were also a failed society, Mr. Klavan. You can stop paying homage to them.

PUBLISHED IN THE OMAHA WORLD-HERALD WED. MARCH 4, 2007

Pelosi says White House singling out here Syria trip

1. Nancy Pelosi isn't our president or the Secretary of State.
2. There have been three Republicans that recently went to Syria for talks.

PUBLISHED IN THE LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR TUES. MARCH 3, 2007

Politcal Cartoon of the Week

Now, the Bush-as-a-puppet-for-Cheney concept is a tad bit cliche, and not everybody who disagrees with the war is calling for a timetable (they say leave right away), but this clever Mike Keefe wins largely because of the Cursing Cheney throwback. Keefe has come close to winning before, he has a very clever way of making things that we've seen a hundred times before newer and funnier. In this case, the classic devil and angel on the shoulder.

Keefe makes a good point here. Bush hasn't listened to the voters (hence a 34% approval rating as of March 24), the House or the Senate (which has more GOP members going against him every day).

In other news, there are two new installments to this site below. The first is April's Sardonic Soothsaying, predictions of what will be wrong with the world by May. The second is a collection of events that made this week the worst week yet. (You know it is.)

PUBLISHED IN THE OMAHA WORLD-HERALD TUES. MARCH 27, 2007

Monthly Sardonic Soothsaying

From the people who brought you The Worst Week ever and What's Wrong with the World, comes the latest feature, Monthly Sardonic Soothsaying, or predictions of why this month will be worse than the last.

-Chris Edwards, recently convincted of killing his pregnant girlfriend (and whose attorney argued the validity of DNA testing) won't give Jessica O'Grady's family any closure.
-Alberto Gonzales won't resign or be fired.
-The Lincoln mayoral race will become fueled with backstabbing, mudslinging, grave-digging, past-denying...that's not a prediction either, that's a guarantee.
-Canned human food, not pet food, will start to turn up tainted.

This Week Was the Worst Week Ever

Five reasons why this week was the worst week ever:

1. Testimony under oath (!!!) by a Gonzales aide that shows Alberto knew about the U.S. attorney firings.
2. Less businesses than thought are opting for a "no concealed weapons on premises" policy.
3. Tony Snow and Elisabeth Edwards announced their cancer has returned. Our prayers are with them.
4. No stories about Barack Obama's high school cocaine use.
5. Chris Edwards' attorneys argued how reliable DNA testing was. Some of the blood found on the scene had at least a 1 in a trillion chance of NOT being his 19 year old pregnant girlfriend's blood.

Gingrich:Bilingualism like 'living in a ghetto'

Winner of the racist comment of the week, Newt Gingrich probably only got away with this comment only because he was at the National Federation of Republican Women (single? go to www.nfrw.org).

For all those Gingrich supporters reading this (I know you do) here is where he went wrong:
a. Just speaking another language doesn't mean poverty or ghettos
b. Bilingualism, not a surprise to most, means speaking two languages, oftentimes in the United States the immigrant's original native language and then English. Billingual education would encourage English speaking students to learn a new one, and non-English speaking students to learn English. Thus there would be no need to change ballots at all.
c. Learning a new language is required in a lot of schools, and it will actually get you farther in life, because communication is never a bad thing.

PUBLISHED IN THE LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR SUN. APRIL 1, 2007