Blunt is Scum

Like a guy in quicksand grasping at any weed he can to keep his head up, Young Master Blunt decided to pin Attorney Genreal Jay Nixon with the unsolved case of a missing Belton teen. KCBlue has the details and the appropriate disgust for our little boy governor's latest political defecation.

Have I told you lately how much I despise the GOP? Stuff like this is one reason why.

Libby Pardon Pool

So I was wrong on my pardon date, June 13. Sentencing hearing going on today. Libby's high-powered lawyers trying to discredit Fitzgerald to get their boy off.

The Jackhammer Analogy

Back in the day, I made my living working for small contractors. (Sadly, I was non-union labor, politically unaware of how important organized labor is to the middle class.) Anyway, I had the opportunity, on occasion, to run a jackhammer.

Besides being fun, the jackhammer is the perfect analogy for winning in politics. Here's how it goes:

When you start on a big piece of concrete, the hammer-tip bounces around and maybe makes a little dust. You think, "Damn, this hammer sucks." But you keep the tip in the same place, shaking and straining to guide the heavy machine. There's noise and dust and uncertainty. But soon you have a divot in the concrete. You keep at it. A hairline crack radiates from the divot. The crack widens, and another forms. You keep the hammer going. The crack gets HUGE and all of a sudden the hammer sinks a few inches and the crack goes all the way through and a big chunk of concrete falls away and you have won.

We are the jackhammer that is pounding away at the concrete of the GOP establishment. There are some cracks emerging on immigration, Iraq, the economy, climate change, religion...

Running a political jackhammer can be a lot of fun. You just have to keep at it until you win.

Taking on the Creationists

We need a Museum of Evolution. Most secular natural history museums present their exhibits with an evolutinary background, but there is not, so far as we know, a specialized museum with the sole purpose of presenting the evidences for modern theory to the public in a straightforward, popular manner.

There must be rich folks out there who could bankroll a state-of-the-art tourist destination that will be fun, but also defend the enlightenment, which is under threat from the knowledge-dousers of fundamentalism, Christian and Islamic. (It is interesting that the only place in the world with as strong a creationist movement as we have is Turkey.)

If nothing else, a fund-raising virtual museum might be a good place to start. We had better not cede these folks the ground, or knowledge and science is in peril.

Another reason FOX Noise Sucks

Only 6% of their time reporting on Iraq, if you call rah-rah Ollie North pontificating reporting. Way to go, Brit Hume!

As usual, the Creationists fail to do their research.

The new Creationist museum in Kentucky is a $27 million monument to right-wing agitprop. If you have followed ex-patriot Australian Ken Hamm over the years, you can only be impressed by his single-minded focus on a completely refuted idea: that the Universe is less than 10,000 years old.

So it must have been a bummer for Ken to learn that the actor hired to play Adam in one of his museum's videos is full of highly original sin. Yep, the guy owns the web establishment "Bedroom Acrobat." Wonder what that's about....

The museum is a compendium of utter creationist bull. Aside from the downright lies about the known age of the earth, there is the pure insanity that carnivores did not exist before the "Fall." We should call it the Flintstones Museum, as dinos and man cavort happily with one another. (Didn't these people see 'Jurassic Park?')

Several life-size dioramas show totally buff models of Adam and Eve, but evidently they WERE ashamed of their nakedness, because Eve's hair is always covering her upper works and both of their lower bodies are concealed by ferns or water.

And oh, yeah, Adam and Eve are Caucasian. Imagine our surprise.

With this museum, the creationists have pitched out human reason, which, for all its flaws, errors, and hubris, is responsible for modern medicine, communications, space science, and on and on. The religious crazies (as opposed to millions of sensible, rational believers) contribute nothing to society but conflict, dogma, and often, violence. They pitch reason on the trash heap in favor of complete certainty in a bronze-age cosmology that has been shown false by a mountain chain of hard evidence compiled for over two hundred years.

And they foist this stuff on kids. American kids who will grow up competing against people educated in reality, who will understand the geology required to find mineral resources, or use new discoveries in physics and engineering, or understand the universe around them as it really is.

But then, it's so much easier to let Ken Hamm think for you.

Turkey ratchets up the war machine

The Turkish Army made an incursion into Iraqi territory today. The combination of Turkish political season and Kurdish provocation may mean that today is only the beginning of a flare- up in the north.

What are the odds that Bush and Condi are anywhere near up to dousing this ember?

Not good. Chickens, home, roost. And we have Foghorn Leghorn as Commander in Chief.

Libby Pardon Pool

We should have a virtual guessing pool on the date that Bush pardons Scooter. Our guess: June 13. We should know if the judge (eminently sensible man) allows Scooter to dwell among the non-convicted during appeal by then. If justice prevails and Scooter is ordered to the slammer, then Bush does what Bill Kristol of FOX Noise and the American Spectator tells him (as he did with Iraq,) and pop goes the pardon.

FOX News: All African-Americans look alike to them

FOX reported on the indicment of Democratic Congressman Jefferson (who should be run out of DC as quick as legally possible, in our opinion) but used footage of Congressman John Conyers, who has nothing to do with Jefferson's problems.

So, either FOX, like the administration it distributes propaganda for, is utterly incompetent, or they wanted to smear a Democratic Congressman they don't like. We think it's both. Check out some commentary the video here from Josh Marshall's Talking Points.

FOX "News." Another reason the GOP has no support in the African American community.

Local Architecture Firm in Hot Water

Looks like Dan at GoneMild really had a hand in exposing a big ooops by a local architect outfit. Berger Devine Yaeger took on the job of designing our 100 acre Bagdhad Versailles--of course we mean Embassy. Now BDY is in trouble with the State Department for putting the project plans on their website. Hey, giving the islamofascists an overhead operations map of the compound sounded like a good PR move...

Bush Boots his Base

Peggy Noonan says so. We honestly don't know what to think of the immigration bill. It's a monster, size-wise. But we know what the loony-right thinks, and now Bush is calling them un-American. He's been calling us that for six years. Nice to see the attack-spittle aimed at the other side for once....