BRAZENLY LIBERAL — a fact-based initiative

We are finally and truly a nation that has its priorities straight.  I am so proud of us!

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As if we needed one more reason to love San Francisco, they may soon offer the chance to shit on the man who’s been shitting on us the past seven years:
From the International Herald Tribune
Reagan has his highways. Lincoln has his memorial. Washington has the capital, and a state, too. But President George W. Bush [...]

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Can this be true?  Are the Keystone Kops running the FBI???!!??
Having been vegan for many years and having attended quite a few of these things, let me tell you the conversation is about food, food, and food.  The most subversive thing I ever heard was the suggestion to try lentil soup made without garlic.  Heresy, [...]

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If you’re wandering about DC this week, watch out for Very Serious People, dressed in government drag, walking into traffic while all their attention is fixed on a scrap of paper.
These are Republicans who ride the tiger of the Religious Wrong Right and who are studying the 10 Commandments, skeered silly they’ll fall into the [...]

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Where the huskies go?
No huskies in the desert, but Tony Snow looks like a quick change might be in order.
All Spin Zone has the priceless screen cap

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Back in 2000, conservative talking heads and assorted tiny-brained folk of the right were positively gleeful in reporting Gore had lost Tennessee.
As of 5/15/06, SurveyUSA shows three states – three mostly empty states – still approve of the job Bush is doing. And none of them are Texas.
Sweeeeet!

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We don’t pretend to understand Arkansas. Most of what we know about the state comes from an X-Files episode in which Mulder and Scully are investigating a sudden spike in CJD cases. Normally associated with Mad Cow, in this little corner of Hillbilly Heaven, the CJD is more like Mad Chicken, with poultry [...]

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I can’t wait for the transcripts!!!!!!
Career appointees at the Department of Agriculture were stunned last week to receive e-mailed instructions that include Bush administration “talking points” — saying things such as “President Bush has a clear strategy for victory in Iraq” — in every speech they give for the department. (Full Story)

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The only thing funnier than Josh Bolten saying saying it’s time to “get our mojo back,” is the idea that he apparently thinks they once had it.
It’s time for the White House to go on offense and “get our mojo back,” Josh Bolten said Sunday in his first interview since taking over as the president’s [...]

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It’s not surprising that the hubris infusing the Bush Administration would lead them to the assumption that what they want = what they get. And with a Republican-controlled Congress and skeered-poopless citizenry, that’s often true at home.
Enter Mick Jagger, who is distinctly unimpressed with what the Bushies want and teaches them, “You can’t always [...]

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I don’t know what most of this letter said – and, frankly, I don’t care – but a photocopy of the letter posted at Wonkette shows it ended with a bang:
“I am honored to serve as your Representative in the U.S. Congress. I think you’re an asshole. PS – please forgive the delay in [...]

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“We finally had to face up to the fact that the best thing we’ve accomplished was to make Nixon look good in comparison,” said the former White House Resident.

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Yes, because this is such a serious news organization. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Mark Suppelsa, Robin Robinson and the rest of the folks who covered Tuesday’s primary on WFLD-Channel 32 looked a bit more colorful than usual last night, that was no accident.Believe it or not, the news anchors and reporters at the Fox-owned station were ordered by [...]

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