The Stashman

The Left- Destroyer of Civilization

2007-02-06T12:41:00.000-05:00

Happy Furry Time- Trolling the bottom of the Rights' Gene Pool.
Thanks for the inspiration.

Boy those Germans have a word for everything.

2006-11-08T08:04:00.000-05:00

After backpedal on every major issue in the world for 6 yrs., the American People finally woke the fuck up. It's not perfect but at least there won't be anymore of those backroom deals where the House and Senate leadership get together and add stuff to bills that haven't been voted on. They will no longer to be able to ramrod all of the Presidents most extreme policies through with out compromising with the Democrats. They won't be able to willfully break the law with out exposing themselves to real investigations and oversight by House Committee's.

Oh, and we have a very real shot of taking the Senate as well. I would love to see Bush try to ram another Scalito down our throats with Reid in charge. It gives me a great deal of pleasure to see the paperless trail of voter records lying before the Republicans in Montana and Virginia. Nope. No chads there.

The Detainee Bill or How I Learned to Live in a Dictatorship

2006-10-06T20:39:00.000-04:00

I can’t figure out why people weren’t up in arms over this assault on the founding principles of this country. Are the people of this country really that dumb? That Cowardly? So much so that they are willing to sell out the fundamental freedoms and principles on which this country was founded?

It has been shown that this bill allows the president to take anyone anywhere at anytime for any reason off of the street and hold them forever, torture them, and never have to explain any of it to anyone. How un-American is that? How can any Congress person have supported such a travesty? Why aren’t there calls from every corner of this country for all of the people who voted for this assault on the Constitution being called to resign? Each and every one of them swore to uphold that Constitution and they abandoned that oath so that they could pretend to protect us.

Why do the people who supported this bill think we fought the War of Independence, the Fascists or the Communists? What were we defending? Capitalism?

Yet, it seems that economic freedom is the only binding principle for the Republican Party. They talk of freedom and morals, but they neither want nor have either. If we as a people sit idly by and let this happen, we needn’t worry about the terrorists destroying our country. We’ll have already lost everything to the jack boots at the door.

R.I.P. United States of America

2006-09-29T09:20:00.000-04:00

Jesus' General has it right.

AKA The Bush War on Terror

2006-09-11T11:41:00.000-04:00

You go to the Dr. because you have a suspicious mole on your right arm. The Dr. says it looks bad and decides that you should immediately have chemotherapy. You protest that you’d like a second opinion. The Dr. questions your desire to become well and has you incarcerated in a mental hospital citing mental illness. Five years later you find yourself strapped to a gurney without legal recourse due to your ‘mental incapacity’, your body has been ravaged by endless doses of chemo and you still have a mole on your right arm. The Dr., meanwhile, claims you are doing better but are not yet well and that you must stay the course if you plan to get better.

Good Luck.

Busy, busy

2006-09-01T08:07:00.000-04:00

Moving, painting etc.
Found an interesting article today about the top 10 government marijuana studies they wish they had never paid for.

Anybody who hasn't seen Keith Olbermann's rant on Rummy needs to watch this now.

Here's another interesting article on who the real fascists are.

If you happen to have a little of what makes my first link interesting (which I don't). Go here.

Back from vacation

2006-08-22T14:10:00.001-04:00

I totally stopped reading, watching or listening to the news for a little over a week. Took the family to Maine and it was good. The Decider continues to ruin this country, and I've got a Weldon supporter at the end of my street. Woohoo.

Speaking of Weldon, I decided to take a little look at his re-election site. Seems the not so Honorable Mr. Weldon would like us all to think that he's not a Decider enabler and is only looking out for Pennsylvanians. Well, I'll let his record speak for itself.

Anyway, while visiting (and noticing no traces of The Decider), I happened upon a curious little blog button. It has only one post in which Mr. Weldon wants to hear our thoughts on today's issues. So I posted this little gem in response to the second (of 11) comments-

That's right, Sestak should've stayed in PA and given his daughter a lucrative lobbying job instead of adequate health care.

Let's just say I'm still waiting for Congressman Weldon's honest and straight forward opinion.

Back from vacation

2006-08-22T14:10:00.000-04:00

Flag Desecration

2006-07-11T20:57:00.000-04:00

Went out to lunch the other day with my family when I stumbled upon this attrocity. Imagine the shame I felt as I had to explain to my daughter how a supporter of the Flag Burning Amendment would desecrate the American Flag in such a manner. It was difficult, but she's a smart little girl so she was able to get her mind around the concept of a hypocrite. Yes, I am proud.

Here's a little more on the 'independent voice' for 'US' Pennsylvanians. (so say signs in window)

Sympathy for the Devil?

2006-07-06T07:16:00.000-04:00

Not really.

Well it seems as if blogger screwed me and the gif won't load properly. Go here, he'll dance.

Fascism in the US

2006-06-23T09:20:00.000-04:00

With freedom in the US now a thing of the past and an unchecked executive along with the propaganda depts running full steam, I have been wondering a lot lately when our democracy will take the last step over the edge into fascism. We've teetered on the brink many times in the past 100 yrs, but I don't know if things have been this well aligned before. Anyway, here are a few sights to scare the shit outta any real freedom loving American.

The fourteen points of fascism. Links galore and chilling to say the least.

A rational revolution looks the rise of nationalism and racial violence post WWI through WWII.

Finally from common dreams:

Vice President Wallace's answer to those questions was published in The New York Times on April 9, 1944, at the height of the war against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan.

"The really dangerous American fascists," Wallace wrote, "are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those. The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."

Time for another link dump

2006-06-22T07:47:00.000-04:00

Things have been hopping at work so I haven't had much time for surfing and such, but here are a few things I've dug up in the last couple of days.

Here's an interesting comparison of quotes. I got 12 right.

I also found a bunch of public domain books available for download here. I found an interesting book by Lewis Sinclair on the Australian version called 'It Can't Happen Here'. Haven't finished it yet but it is a fictional account of the rise of fascism in the US from the point of view of a New England newspaper owner. It could've been written yesterday if not for the laborious names and turn of the last century prose.

Oh, if you have AT&T, you're records don't belong to you. [You can also get '1984' on the sites above.]

I've never thought about burning a flag before, but if this dumb ass amendment passes I do believe I'm going to go out and buy a flag for just such a purpose and piss on the ashes.

Anti Gay Amendment

2006-06-07T11:13:00.000-04:00

I was reading this story this morning, and got to the end where Orrin [marry as many as you want] snHatch was lamenting Kennedy's comment about bigotry in the senate.

snHatch responded: "Does he really want to suggest that over half of the United States Senate is a crew of bigots?"

It is at least half Mr. Senator, including you. I suppose it's kind of a hippie dippy sentiment, but I really believe that with all of the hate that we see everyday in this world that we should be celebrating love wherever we find it. Instead, this administration and congress have decided to fan the fires of bigotry and hatred because they can't wrap their tiny little minds around the idea of a family in which two people of the same sex love and support each other like any other couple would.

*Update
Looks like Kennedy and I were wrong. It was just under half of the Senate. Phew. I feel better. BTW snHatch is still an asshole.

Apparently it’s to hell with the widows too.

2006-06-06T15:31:00.000-04:00

It's difficult to get too upset with anything Ann Coulter says. She is after all just a worthless media whore without a shred of decency whose arguments are just lies heaped on hypocrisy. I just go here every once and a while and laugh.

To Hell with New York

2006-06-02T15:35:00.000-04:00

And while we're at it, fuck D.C. too. Them and any other city with a large Democratic base. Better to play politics than protect the country right?

With all the discusions going on about this latest example of gross negligence from Bushco., no one is mentioning that this has been going on for years. That and it seems that monuments are more important than people.

Pat Robertson= Superman?

2006-05-24T12:34:00.000-04:00

I read an article courtesy of AmericaBlog, that points to a claim by Pat Robertson that his health shakes give him the ability to lift 2000 lbs. with his legs.

I know, I was thinking, "Big surprise, Pat Robertson is a lying sack of shit." Researching the story for myself, I found this image. Maybe he's not lying?

Thanks for the link Other Crap.

Neville Bush

2006-05-19T09:11:00.000-04:00

I read a few days back an article (I can't remember where at this point) about how if Bush had proposed this option back before labeling them part of the Axis of Evil, North Korea may not have taken the drastic steps toward becoming a nuclear power.

Now we see the same thing happening in Iran. North Korea has so far been able to avoid any reprisals and is pretty much doing whatever it wishes because it can threaten allies with nuclear attack. Iran's government, clearly interested in self-preservation, can do no different. Add to it that it supplies Russia and China with a great deal of oil they desperately need for economic growth and I think it is virtually assured that Iran will have a bomb as soon as they figure out how. The US will be as powerless to stop it as it was with North Korea.

So, thanks to this President and his would be laughable, if not so catastrophic, foreign policy. Worst President EVER.

Bush's Immigration Speech

2006-05-17T09:11:00.000-04:00

What makes me think that anything Bush attempts to do to close the border will look more like this?

Get Out of Jail, Free

2006-05-16T12:14:00.000-04:00

As I eluded to below, I just can't see Karl Rove suffering from any kind of indictment that may or may not be headed his way. This guy has the ultimate Get Out of Jail Free Card. Removing him might actually help Mr. 29% at this point.

If you like the card, get the pdf here.

Rubber Stamp Congress

2006-05-15T09:56:00.000-04:00

Thought I'd have some fun with 40's propaganda. Seemed fitting. The hires version is over here.

While I'm at it. I read about this story this morning with no surprise what-so-ever.

In other news:
Karl Rove is said to be 'unfazed' by the threat of indictment. Well duh. If there's a guy out there with a Get Out of Jail Free Card, it's him. Talk about knowing where the bones are buried.

Thank the Flyning Spaghetti Monster it's Friday.

2006-05-12T11:36:00.000-04:00

Gonna try to keep it light today. I got in a huge arguement today with two former Navy guys about the President spying on everyone and their mothers. They thought it was just fine. I'm wondering what ideals we're supposedly fighting for. Life, liberty the pursuit of happiness? Democracy? Bullshit. Life, maybe. Liberty, no way. We'll embrase any third world dictator piece of shit if he's willing to sell us oil. Wouldn't want to be a woman in South Dakota. Or gay. Or a minority. Or in the path of the next hurricane.

What happened to keeping it light? That's what the links are for.

Otto Man turned me on to Pandora.com. It is pretty cool. You can plug in artists are songs that you like and it will play back those and others that fit that style. You can then rate them, delete the ones you don't like as well as keep a record of all your favorites. On top of all that it's free.

I've had a lot of fun with this.

Daily Surf

2006-05-11T14:25:00.000-04:00

Since I'm not much of a writer and I enjoy reading and discussing politics, news and points of interest, I’m thinking I’m just going to do round ups of interesting sites, stories and images I find while engaged in these pursuits from now on. Occasionally, I’ll be interspersing these finds with ideas and images of my own.

Prez [left] says he’s not trolling. Has millions of phone records of millions of innocent people for the purposes of examination by ultra-secret police, but he’s not trolling. Yeah, dance monkey.

As usual, norbizness has The Rights’ scatalogical critiques of The Left.

Look now. Pay later.

It strikes me that this could be made into somekind of allegory for the Bush Administration.

*Update- AmericaBlog has a transcript of the video Jack Cafferty skewering the president and the new phone record controversy. Crooks and Liars has the video.

Yet Another Fish Story

2006-05-09T08:06:00.000-04:00

Why should he start telling the truth now?
AmericaBlog has the skinny.

Poll Dance

2006-04-28T08:26:00.000-04:00

Yeah baby, I'm going to get tough on oil companies.
Ooooh yeah, I'm gonna give you $100 tax credit for gas.
Oh...ooo, I'm gonna spread democracy around the world.
Uh huh, I'm going to protect you from those nasty Iranians and their Mickey Mouse watches.
Yeah baby, we can go in the back room for yet another $300 billion and a regional war.
Oh yeah ooo, let me nuke 'em and then it cab be just you and me against the world.

Another one bites the dust

2006-04-19T10:17:00.000-04:00

Sorry. This is the best picture of Scott McClellan I could find.