Limbusted

There's a movement afoot to boycott companies that advertise on Rush Limbaugh's hateful show. Info
here.

That's Captain Caseous,Team Leader If You Please:

Well, I finally took the leap and volunteered to be a GOP team leader in order to help organize all these astroturf campaigns to support our "president." This way I get to hear all the Republican talking points before they are said, spontaneous commentary before it's made, and read all those down-home, " was just moved to sit down and write this," before each identical letter is published in papers across the country! Is this great or what? Don't get left out -you can join here, too.

More On The Mess Of Astroturf Coming Out Of The GOP.

A Happy Coincidence

A lot of letters to the editor have been showing up in newspapers across the country praising Bush's leadership on the economy (huh?). It's part of an astroturf campaign (fake grassroots) on behalf of the GOP and it's amazing that the editors of said newspapers haven't noticed that the letters are practically word for word the same. Check it out over at Atrios.

Does it make sense that, at this particular time, so many people would write identical letters to the editor praising thee economy? Yeah, you're right. I'm just a crazy left-winged conspiracy theorist.

30 Years Of Wading

Today marks the 30th anniversary of Roe V. Wade and I hope that you'll be attending one of the celebrations in your local town square (as advertised on the front page of your local newspaper). What, you say that there's no such activity or no such mention in your local media. What a shock!

And so the great minefield of American politics continues to blow up under our feet. As a supporter of the endangered ruling, I've always felt this to be a problem of two sides arguing about two completely different things. The anti abortionists (the rhetoric of pro-life and pro-choice are misleading) are concerned with one individual and the pro abortionists are concerned with the other. Now, each can argue that they are concerned with both individuals, but their primary concern is either the mother or the child. This obvious fact will always stand in the way to a solution or a compromise. Perhaps, for the benefit of the mother and the child, the debate needs to be redefined. How that will be done remains a mystery and , until this mystery is solved, the rights of people who are already on Earth must trump those who are not here, as hard as that sounds.

With that in mind, it seems that the antiabortionists keep missing the point. If thier goal is to stop abortion and protect children (and women), I don't see how banning abortion doest that. Abortions would still happen if they were illegal, only they would endanger the women who underwent them more. Children would continue to be neglected, only more so. Abstinince only sex-ed policies have been shown to actually increase the rate of teen pregnancy. How do these apporaches protect anyone and make the world a better place?

Re: Those Calling the Protestors Present At Last Saturday's Rally "Traitors.

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." ---Theodore Roosevelt

I'm Not Bothering To Check The Source On This One

I like it but don't really care if it's rea or not:

The following ad was in The Atlanta Journal: 


SINGLE BLACK FEMALE seeks male companionship, ethnicity unimportant. I'm a very good looking girl who LOVES to play. I love long walks in the woods, riding in your pickup truck, hunting, camping, and fishing trips, cozy winter nights lying by the fire. Candlelight dinners will have me eating out of your hand. Rub me the right way and watch me respond. I'll be at the front door when you get home from work, wearing only what nature gave me. Kiss me and I'm yours.

Call xxx-xxxx and ask for Daisy.

Over 15,000 men found themselves talking to the local Humane Society about an 8-week-old Labrador Retriever.

Atrios Brings Us a Direct Answer To A Direct Question:

Terry Moran had some fun today too:

Q: You said the President is against racial preferences because they're divisive. Is he against other preferences that colleges and universities routinely grant that people see as unfair? Like the one he got?

MR. FLEISCHER: I understand -- I understand all the interest and the specific questions dealing with the review of the University of Michigan case --

Q: That is not what I'm asking.

MR. FLEISCHER: -- and the implications that come from whatever decision is made. I'm not going to go beyond --

Q: I'm asking a question about fairness.

MR. FLEISCHER: -- I'm not going to go beyond where I've gone, because
--

Q: All right. Let me --

MR. FLEISCHER: -- be able to base it on reason and judge for yourself once you see what the President has concluded and why he's concluded . And he'll share his thoughts.

Q: But the general question about his feeling about fairness in America. When he was 18, he got into Yale University, which had and still has a policy of granting very special preferences to children of graduates, like him. Is that preference okay, to give him a leg up, but other preferences are not?

MR. FLEISCHER: I think you're going to have a good understanding of how the President approaches the issue of opportunity and diversity when the President shares his thoughts publicly -- which is going to be, as I indicated, in some short period of time.

Thanks Ari! And that, folks is where the preisdent officially stands on the question of fairness. Now, about that tax cut...

8 second gap in the tape?

Did ABC censor a crowd's disapproval of George H. Bush? The former president and father of the current president delivered a taped message at the American Music Awards on Monday night, and sources who were there tell The Scoop that the crowd booed him.

More here.

The Subtext Of The State Of The Union:

Wondering what was on George's mind during last year's speech?