Seems both George and Laura got a little taste of the people recently and that voice said “Stay home”:

Bush gets mixed reception at Christian college

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Reuters) - President Bush on Saturday championed faith in American society, but ran into some criticism as courted his Christian base in a commencement speech at a Michigan college.

Mideast Protesters Heckle Laura Bush

NEDRA PICKLER

ABU GHOSH, Israel (AP) – Laura Bush said Monday she was not surprised to be met by protesters during her tour of Mideast holy sites and pledged the United States will do all it can to help resolve age-old conflicts.

…During a visit to the Dome of the Rock, she faced heckling from angry Palestinians. One man yelled, “How dare you come in here! Why your husband kill Muslim?”

Why indeed.

Pharisee: A hypocritically self-righteous person.

Ralph Reed, that smug blowdried dipstick who has been a major force on the Christian right wing extremist movement for a while now is running for Lt. Governor in our fair state of Georgia. He has become the white version of Jesse Jackson, getting himself on the payroll of companies such as Microsoft by most likely threatening to rally “Gods Army” against some poor company who won’t pay his blackmail. What Georgia did to deserve this prig I don’t know, but it seems that little Ralphie is involved in a gambling scandal.

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Lets hope this marks Reed’s last death twitch of public attention. Nutball.

Six Flags theme parks have added language to their season ticket passes refusing admission to anyone who poses a threat to other guests. Good so far. But they’ve included a line barring convicted sex offenders.
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Rick “Sex with dogs” Santorum can’t even keep track of his own gibberish. When Sen. Byrd made remarks about Hitler in a speech about the filibuster, Santorum, the Republican senator from PA said:

Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., asked Byrd to retract his comments, stating they “lessen the credibility of the senator and the decorum of the Senate.”

So yesterday, this yapping dog stated during the debate on the filibuster:

It’s the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942 “I’m in Paris. how dare you invade me. How dare you bomb my city? It’s mine.” This is no more the rule of the Senate than it was the rule of the Senate before not to filibuster.

First, he’s wrong, it is a rule of the Senate. And secondly, is this guy a moron? Or does he think his supporters are morons who won’t remember what he said before? Probably both.

Stupid or corrupt. That seems to be the options for leaders today. Great.

An Open Letter to Democrats
Listen to Galloway and Learn Something

By STAN GOFF

That’s exactly why some of us are saying go Bolivian on their asses. Tell the Democratic Leadership Council to eat shit and die. Stop working, stop obeying, block the streets and highways, shut down the capital, and watch them choke on their own sewage. If Americans weren’t so bewildered by television, so addled and soft from junk food and cars and electronic appliances, and so addicted to their own cultural superficiality, they might begin organizing general strikes: women’s strikes, workers strikes (without union bureaucrats to calm them down), Black people strikes, Brown people strikes, info-tech strikes, eco-strikes, all working our way up to One Big Strike.

It’s a ways off, but it’s coming. Of course, there won’t be any Democrats there. They’ll be wringing their hands about their defunct careers, and conducting focus groups to see how they can shift further to the right in the next election.

Whew. Get ‘em Stan. Every word is true.

Just received a phone call from my son who announced that he passed his French final.

YES! He’ll graduate Sunday after all. Praise be!

The legendary masterpiece from Saint John Coltrane. Really. Look it up.

In 1973, the ratio of CEO pay to worker pay was 43 to 1. By 1992, it was 145 to 1. By 1997, it was 326 to 1. By 2000, it hit a sky-high 531 to 1. The post 9/11 shakeouts and corporate scandals of recent years on the surface narrowed the gap back to 301 to 1 in 2003. But a much worse parallel global gap is emerging in the era of outsourcing. United for a Fair Economy published a report last summer that found CEOs of the top US outsourcing companies made 1,300 times more than their computer programmers in India and 3,300 more than Indian call-center employees.

Interesting stuff. Read A steeper ladder for the have-nots.

On June 8, 2004, an FBI agent stopped at the Deming branch of the Whatcom County Library System in northwest Washington and requested a list of the people who had borrowed a biography of Osama bin Laden. We said no.

Read more about a librarian who said no to the Feds. And won.

Almost forgot about the Patriot Act, didn’t ya? Parts of it are set to expire (don’t bet on that…) and now some Republican dipstick has determined that the most freedom-snuffing set of laws in our history didn’t go FAR ENOUGH:

But the measure being written by Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., would give the FBI new power to issue administrative subpoenas, which are not reviewed by a judge or grand jury, for quickly obtaining records, electronic data or other evidence in terrorism investigations, according to aides for the GOP majority on the committee who briefed reporters yesterday.

Read more here.

And if the notion of the FBI reading your mail and watching what you do on the Internet strikes you as a bit, um, FASCIST and UNAMERICAN, then check out TOR. Remember, what you do in the privacy of your own home, as long as it harms no one else, is no one else’s business.

Or as a bumper sticker I saw the other day said: Don’t waive your rights when you wave the flag.