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- FRIDAY JUNE 5 2009 6:00 AM
Asshole Fuckface Roundup #100
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
Tags: Abortion, Dane Cook, Dick Cheney
One hundred. This is a milestone or something. A centenary of Asshole Fuckfacing. What better way to celebrate than with another horrible, horrible Asshole Fuckface Roundup. Put something on and get ready for some stuff.
First, some disgusting pro-some life Asshole Fuckfacery.
Our religious zealots have a lot of explaining to do this week. Not just for the murder they committed, but also for their reaction to the murder. On Sunday, anti-abortion lunatic and American terrorist Scott P. Roeder shot and killed Dr. George Tiller. Tiller was one of the few doctors in America willing to provide 2nd and 3rd term abortions.
With one bullet, a gunman ended the life and the controversial career of abortion doctor George Tiller, killing him as he stood in the foyer of his church Sunday.
Oh, good, the gunman did it in church, in front of God and probably a bunch of children. I was worried this might be really creepy. Roeder is a terrorist, plain and simple. In the past, he was caught with explosives.
When police searched Roeder's car, they found the makings of a bomb: a blasting cap; two six-volt lantern batteries, one wired with a clothespin and a cigarette wrapper; and a 1-pound can of black gunpowder. In Roeder's home, police found instructions titled "Underground Cookbook: Clothes Pin Time-Delayed Switch."
He is a member of the American Taliban.
When Roeder was arrested yesterday, he was driving a blue 1993 Ford Taurus. In the rear window of the car was a red rose -- a symbol often used by anti-abortion activists -- and on the back his car was a silver fish symbol with the word "Jesus" inside.
Jesus Fail.
Roeder should be waterboarded in order to get information out of him about other American terrorists. Since that is what we do to terrorists, we should get on it pronto (and take photographs -- so we can destroy them later after leaking some to the press). Also, we might want to start putting these type of citizens on a list of possible terrorists. They certainly should be placed on the no fly list.
These ones have all put their names next to their Twitter updates, so they should be easy to identify.
* Crap, I always forgot hashtags. I'm happy Tiller's dead. -- Jennifer Waite, Selah, Washington
* UPDATE... Doctor George Tiller was aborted today in his 204th trimester - aren't paybacks a bitch -- Punch
* oh HAPPY DAY! Tiller the baby killer is DEAD! -- Samantha Pelch
* George Tiller the baby killer was shot dead this morning. God bless the gunmen who hopefully won't be caught. -- readnwatchchris, Creedmor. NC
* was George Tiller the baby killers brain scrambled the way he scrambled full term fetuses.. one can only hope -- Brad S
* Infamous baby killer George Tiller gunned down at (irony) church. Why do I not feel sorry for him? Have fun at Judgment Day. -- James Fiddler
* tiller the baby killer shot dead...wow. is it insensitive of me to say what goes around comes around? -- Brad M. Negulescu Cleveland.
* George Tiller the Baby Killer shot dead. May he rot in Hell. -- Amy Strong
* Tiller Baby Killer was shot and killed this morning Justice has been served. -- Shirl Ledeux
* Thinking about "Tiller the baby killer" He now knows the wages of sin is death. -- Dianne McDowell
* May Tiller rot in Hell , infanticide is the murder of babies, he WAS a provider of death like Hitler, Bundy the list goes on.... -- Dennis, A People Voip Company
* Burn in hell George Tiller -- mikedanben Sparta, NJ (41.005501,-74.672)
* No need to pray for George Tiller. We know he went straight to hell!!!!! -- Laurie D. Bailey Olive Branch, MS
* Good ridence to Tiller - babies will not be murdered because he is now gone. Wonder how he likes hell! -- Jay Emess, Southern, NJ
* Karma is a beautiful thing. Cheers to the hero who sent George Tiller where he belongs... straight to hell. -- Matthew Kamar
* omg!george tiller abortion dr. was killed n his church parkn lot! hell yea! -- Sarah Gulick, Wtichita, Ks
* George Tiller: Burning in Hell for the last three hours. -- darthdilbert Kettering, Oh
* Hmm, I know it's wrong, but I feel like the Late-Term Abortion Doctor George Tiller, got what was he deserved..... -- Mary Keogh London England
* Boom Boom Boom. George Tiller was served a very very late term abortion this morning. -- Chad Coleman, coeur d'alene, Id
* Guy shoots a Dr. to death in Church. Me I'm willing to bet that Jesus was his co-pilot. -- jeremyawhitman
* Tiller the Killer goes to Church and ends up in Hell -- mshellisright, Tulsa
* Tiller the Baby Killer is finally dead....God took care of what needed to be done.... -- Cynthia Wrench
* The left-wing nutjobs don't understand that Tiller the baby killer was not human. No human kills babies, only monsters. Good riddance -- Sami Shamieh, Walnut Creek, CA
* I guess Obama the Messiah can't resurrect Tiller the baby killer. -- Sami Shamieh, Walnut Creek, CA
* The person who shot Tiller the baby killer simply excercised a man's right to choose. -- Sami Shamieh, Walnut Creek, CA
* the killing of tiller the baby killer was JUSTICE, not murder. -- eqbt
* Glad someone offed Tiller. Baby Killer. -- Kat, Kansas
Terrorist sympathizers, every single one. They support the Dr. Killer killer, so lets put them on the no fly list and waterboard them for info. Lets get to it. Now. Please. Thanks.
Next up, some office hi-jinks Asshole Fuckfacery.
Sometimes its hard not to take a little something from the workplace. Stapler at home broken? Why that one on your desk seems nice. How about those files? Really could use a couple for the cabinet at home? Pens? Want and need. Or maybe you need a foot.
A former St. Lucie County firefighter who admitted taking a man's severed foot from an Interstate 95 crash scene last year has been sentenced to six months probation.
Hey, when you need a foot, you need a foot. There's no getting around that.
County Judge Philip Yaccuci withheld adjudication against Cynthia Cindy Economou, 38, who admitted she took the foot belonging to Karl Lambert, who was seriously injured in the accident, but said she did so to help train her body-recovery dog.
No. But he didnt need it, right? Hes got another one.
Braun asked Lambert if the severed foot could have been surgically reattached to his leg.
Well never know, Lambert replied.
Is that because it took too long to get it to a doctor? Braun asked.
Well never know, Lambert repeated.
First question: Why cant that be Adam Lambert? Second question: What the fuck?
I never meant any malice, Economou said at Fridays hearing. I never meant to cause (Lambert) any pain.
Yeah, Id believe that if you hadnt taken HIS FOOT.
Noting that Economou was named the districts firefighter of the year in 2007 and is the founder of Fully Involved Farms, which trains physically, emotionally and mentally challenged residents how to ride horses and compete in equestrian events at the Special Olympic, Yacucci told her, The commendable life youve led to this point greatly outweighs one bad judgment.
No, it doesnt. She took a dudes FOOT.
Next up, a lunatic lying Asshole Fuckface.
Dick Cheney is obviously the worst human being America has produced this century. Not only is he a crazy torture fanboy, but he also enjoys lying out of his ass constantly. This week, former Bush I and Clinton counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke criticized Cheney for using 9/11 to justify his torture nonsense. Cheney no likey.
CHENEY: You know, Dick Clarke. Dick Clarke, who was the head of the counterterrorism program in the run-up to 9/11. He obviously missed it.
Um. Dude.
New York Times reporter Philip Shenons book, The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, reprinted some of Clarkes emphatic e-mails warning the Bush administration of the al Qaeda threat throughout 2001:
Bin Ladin Public Profile May Presage Attack (May 3)
Terrorist Groups Said Co-operating on US Hostage Plot (May 23)
Bin Ladins Networks Plans Advancing (May 26)
Bin Ladin Attacks May Be Imminent (June 23)
Bin Ladin and Associates Making Near-Term Threats (June 25)
Bin Ladin Planning High-Profile Attacks (June 30)
Planning for Bin Ladin Attacks Continues, Despite Delays (July 2)
Other than that, and telling Condi Rice Al Qaeda would be the Bush Administrations biggest problem, yeah, you totally nailed it. Many politicians seem to forget that videotape exists that undermines their current positions, but Dick Cheney seems to forget that print exists. He still hasnt wrapped his little brain around the existence of the written word.
Finally, some visual WTF Asshole Fuckfacery.

Totally not gay. You know who would have loved this? George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Andy Kaufman, Lenny Bruce, Johnny Carson. They were all about their sweet, sweet bodies. Anyone who knows anything knows a comedian isnt good until he can pose in Entertainment Weekly straining his oiled up abs so hard his capillaries might burst.
I remember when comedians were the guys who were tormented by the hypocrisy, unfairness and insanity they saw in society and were driven to point it out. Now, its all about abs.
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- TUESDAY JUNE 2 2009 6:00 AM
Sweet GOP Self-Destruction
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
Tags: Republicans, Sotomayor, Limbaugh, Gingrich
I was very sad to see Obama pass on my gay pick for the Supreme Court. I really wanted the Republicans to be forced to show their colors as they made homosexuality the main issue to keep someone off the bench. It didnt happen. Fortunately, Obama went with a pick that is so politically shrewd it is astounding: Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Turns out shes not white. After the dust settles, the Democrats will have created a majority for many, many, many years. Why? Because Republicans cant stop their racist nonsense from spewing forth out of their loud holes. By the time this nomination process is over, Americas Hispanic population will be done with the Republicans for a long, long time.
Immediately after the pick, the idiots went on the offensive. Rush Limbaugh, who is a shocking racist, declared Judge Sonia Sotomayor a racist. Rush is one of the leaders of the Republican Party and he is losing his shit over the Sotomayor pick.
"She brings a form of bigotry or racism to the court," Limbaugh said, later adding: "How can a president nominate such a candidate? And how can a party get behind such a candidate? That's what would be asked if somebody were foolish enough to nominate David Duke or pick somebody even less offensive."
Right. Racism should remain where it belongs on AM radio. Next Newt Gingrich also joined the asshole party. Hes made statements to the press and has Twittered about Sotomayor.
"Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman' new racism is no better than old racism."
Oooooo. This southern white racist seems to be upset with the Latina. And he follows it through to its natural conclusion.
White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.
Wow, what a weird thing to Tweet during a trip to Auschwitz. But, hey, stay focused and all that. Dont feel weird Twittering about a Latina woman being racist while you are at the hellmouth of hatred, super white guy.
Naturally, Newt followed up with with an email to his minions that explained how Sotomayor nomination is un-American. Totally. Thats why George H. Bush nominated her to the bench. Of course, the racism charge stems from a quote taken out of context. Heres the deeply offensive statement.
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
Oh no! Shes worse than the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan! What will white men do?!?! If you really want to know how the right wing is spinning this, take a look at the entire speech. Not at all what they are spinning it into.
But lets take that quote out of context and accept it. Howd this guy make it on the bench?
Alito: When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.
What the fuck?!?! Racist son of a bitch! How dare he use his life to contaminate his views. Hows he on the bench?!?!
While most, but not all, of the Republican lawmakers in Congress are saying this nomination should not have anything to do with race, they are letting the attack dogs run wild. Tom Tancredo is running around freaking about Sotomayor being a member of La Raza, which he says is a Latino KKK. He mostly says that because he is retarded.
Um, yeah. Remember all those lynchings of white people La Raza pulled off in the west? Man, those were some dark days. And in the '50s, you couldnt go a week without hearing a story about a group of Latinos dragging a white man behind a truck by a chain.
Tancredo and my father believe La Raza means The Race. It does not.
Many people incorrectly translate our name, La Raza, as the race. While it is true that one meaning of raza in Spanish is indeed race, in Spanish, as in English and any other language, words can and do have multiple meanings. As noted in several online dictionaries, La Raza means the people or the community. Translating our name as the race is not only inaccurate, it is factually incorrect. Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race. As anyone who has ever met a Dominican American, Mexican American, or Spanish American can attest, Hispanics can be and are members of any and all races.
The term La Raza has its origins in early 20th century Latin American literature and translates into English most closely as the people or, according to some scholars, as the Hispanic people of the New World.
While I know they are completely incorrect and their attacks are insane, Id like them to continue. And Id like them to go on every news channel, radio station and talk show in America. Scream that message loud and often, idiots, because you are doing even more damage to your already unpopular party. If it continues at this pace, the damage will be permanent. By the time this is over, Latinos will flock to the Democratic Party in dramatic numbers.
Mitchell: Do you disagree with anything Rush Limbaugh said?
Buchanan: Yeah, I do agree, I don't agree with some of the terms, but I do agree Sonia Sotomayor [he pronounces her name wrong, probably on purpose] does believe in race-based justice basically at the expense of white males and to advance people of color. The truth is that's what Barack Obama believes as well.
They need to keep this up. It looks like nothing other than angry privileged white men attacking a woman because of her race. And the news networks will eat it up and continue putting these morons on the television because its conflict and conflict means ratings.
Oh, and theres an added bonus. Republican on Republican violence. Not all conservatives are pleased about the attacks on Sotomayor. They can see them for what they are: The death of the Republican Party, which may not be able to resurrect itself from this for years.
Some, and they are idiots, look at Judge Sotomayor and say: attack, attack, kill. A conservative activist told the New York Times, "We need to brand her." Another told me a fight is needed to excite the base.
Excite the base? How about excite a moderate, or interest an independent? How about gain the attention of people who aren't already on your side?
Thats not how your side came into power. You guys rode the back of fear and hideous attacks. Your peeps are doing what they have always done. They literally know no other way. Youre just pack animals who have tasted blood and wont stop until youre put down.
I mean, look at this shit.
LIDDY: I understand that they found out today that Miss Sotomayor is a member of La Raza, which means in illegal alien, the race.
This dude has his own radio show.
LIDDY: Lets hope that the key conferences arent when shes menstruating or something, or just before shes going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then.
Please. Keep. Going.
LIDDY: And everybody is cheering because Hispanics and females have been, quote, underrepresented, unquote. And as you pointed out, which I thought was quite insightful, the Supreme Court is not designed to be and should not be a representative body.
So, it should be all white men.
Sit back, pray for more racist nonsense and enjoy the show. Its the end of any hope the Republican Party ever had at regaining control of Congress.
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- MONDAY JUNE 1 2009 2:30 PM
Belt-Tightening for Flaherty, or Business as Usual in Ottawa?
Submitted by djensen
Edited by nicole_powers
Three months after the federal Conservatives passed their budget, with the support of the Liberal party (outside of Newfoundland & Labrador), members of all three opposition parties are calling for Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to resign, or be fired, from his position. These calls come at the heel of Flahertys recent announcement that the Federal deficit will be much higher than predicted -- $16 billion dollars higher, to be precise.
In January, the Conservatives, who promised during the Federal election in October 2008 that there would be zero deficit spending, forecasted a deficit of some $34 billion in 2009-2010. Prior to that, in the Conservative's economic update in the fall of 2008, Flaherty had predicted a surplus for 2009. Now Flaherty is saying the deficit will run over $50 billion dollars. If things continue at pace, well soon find ourselves in hole much deeper than that.
However, Jim refutes the oppositions demands that he step down or be fired, saying Im busy doing my job. That may be true, but clearly, hes not doing it very well. Indeed, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has gone so far as to call Flahertys handling of the economic crisis incompetence on a historic scale. Perhaps a little harsh, there Michael, but then again, maybe not. Ignatieff went on to (correctly) tell the House of Commons that Canadians are tired of these sorry guesstimates they want to know the truth about how far deeper in debt were going to get as these recession days continue to pile up.
For his part, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was quick to call Ignatieff a hypocrite, slamming the Conservative government one moment for running a deficit, then demanding the government spend more money the next.
Of course, Steve has a point: it cant be easy trying to fix a system thats inherently fucked while pandering to opposition politicians who are vying for a chance to run the show. Then again, Harper offers no realistic answer to Ignatieffs question, passing the buck back to the economy, saying the deficit spending will end when the economy rights itself. However, there is globally no sign of any economy righting itself as of yet, so I for one, am not holding my breath on that one.
Meanwhile, other economic shenanigans abound across the Dominion. While upwards of 300,000 jobs have been lost since the Conservatives promised not to run a deficit if reelected in October 2008, board members of the Canadian Pension Plan, which recorded losses of $24 billion in 2008, awarded clearly inept executes some $17 million in bonuses in the past 2 years.
NDP leader Jack Layton called out the Prime Minister, who approved the bonuses, on this issue. In their inimitable style, Harper and Flaherty shrugged off these criticisms, with Steve saying, That is a board decision, not a government decision. Enough said, right? I mean, those board members only lost $24 billion of tax payers money, while Harper and Flaherty are in the process of potentially pissing away upwards of four times that amount.
So: should Finance Minister Flaherty step down, or should the PM fire the bastard? Conversely, should a man who less than a year ago, while much of the world was already beginning to feel the credit crunch, predicted Canada would enjoy a surplus of government funds this year be allowed to keep his job in the face of what is approaching an $80 billion-plus deficit?
In the real world, far removed from the chauffeured, air-conditioned bubble of Ottawa, this sorry bastard would have lost his job months ago. Such is life. Tighten your belts, friends -- this shit storm is just beginning!
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- FRIDAY MAY 29 2009 6:00 AM
Asshole Fuckface Roundup #99
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
How long has it been since the last Asshole Fuckface Roundup? Seven days? Feels like a week. Youd think after all the thrashings theyve received on this sweet, sweet website, that they would run and hide for the rest of their lives. But they cant. They have to do their evil deeds and shame all of mankind. Thank God I am here to drag them out of the darkness for you to mock. And this week there will be plenty of mocking because these creeps exhibit extra Asshole Fuckfacery. So, put on your favorite leather rug because this is going to be ugly.
First up, some Canadian Asshole Fuckfacery.
Whats worse than beating a seal to death with a club? How about advocating for the guys who beat seals to death with clubs? Canadas Governor General, Michaelle Jean, knows how to show her solidarity with seal clubbers. The poor seal clubbers are upset because the European Union voted to ban seal products on the grounds that the seal hunt is cruel. I guess. I mean, if you think beating something to death with a blunt instrument is cruel, then it is. Hippy.
Hundreds of Inuit at a community festival gathered Monday as Jean knelt above a pair of seal carcasses and used a traditional ulu blade to slice the meat off the skin. After cutting through the flesh, Jean turned to the woman beside her and asked: "Could I try the heart?"
Sure. Did you want to bathe in the blood, too? Maybe put the seal eyes in your eye sockets and run around screaming?
After swallowing a piece whole and deeming it tasty, Jean, whose post is largely ceremonial, defended the hunt as an eons-old traditional hunting practice that is not inhumane.
Well, who can argue with someone that makes such a convincing point? I bet if you eat the seal anus, everyone in the world would reverse all seal product bans.
A spokeswoman for EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas offered no official reaction.
"No comment; it's too bizarre to acknowledge," Barbara Helfferich said.
How about an official, What the fuck? I think its in order.
But, Newfoundland sealer Jack Troake chuckled after hearing of Jean's actions.
"That's great stuff," he said. "You've got some of these environmentalists that are going to jump on her, but I think she's strong enough. She can take that, I think."
Yeah. Great stuff. Shes really helping your cause. Too bad Jeffrey Dahlmer is dead or you could sign him up, too.
Next up, some phone company Asshole Fuckfacery.
A 62-year-old man from Carrollton, Ohio flipped out this week. The local Sheriff received a call because he was destroying the house and breaking windows and other items. Dude then grabbed a bunch of pills and ran off. Law enforcement officials were very worried about the mans life, so they began a search.
Two K-9 units, several fire departments and 100 individuals on foot also were involved in the search for the man, who Sheriff Dale Williams said fled his residence on Kensington Rd. after a domestic disturbance call to deputies.
Police officers also decided to call his cell phone provider in an attempt to use his cell phone signal to locate him. Unfortunately, the Verizon operator was an Asshole Fuckface.
Williams said he attempted to use the mans cell phone signal to locate him, but the man was behind on his phone bill and the Verizon operator refused to connect the signal unless the sheriffs department agreed to pay the overdue bill.
Yeah, yeah, I hear you. Guy might be dead. Right. Thats kind of a bummer, but Ive got shit going on on my end, too. Like a bill. A huge bill.
After some disagreement, Williams agreed to pay $20 on the phone bill in order to find the man. But deputies discovered the man just as Williams was preparing to make arrangements for the payment.
Twenty dollars, yo. You think Verizon can take that kind of a hit? The economy is no bueno, amigo. Fortunately, when paramedics got there, the man was unconscious and unresponsive. Yay, Verizon! You guys should put that in an ad.
- We will leave you dying in a field over $20. Its a huge network!
Thats some kick ass PR right there.
Next up, some culinary Asshole Fuckfacery.
If you were planning on having dinner at Ming's BBQ on Buford Highway in Doraville, Georgia, feel free to cancel your reservations. Earlier this year, police discovered some awesome stuff in back of the restaurant. They took pics!
They showed grease traps overflowing, pigs stacked in buckets, boxes of raw meat sitting outside and pieces of raw meat hanging from a fence.
Mmmm. I love pigs stacked in buckets outside. It's yummy and that's exactly how they describe it on the menu.
There's also a picture of what police and the city solicitor describe as a dead skinned cat.
That obviously was the most disturbing thing we saw," said Lee Perkins, Doraville City Solicitor. "The cat appeared to be, it was the head and tail and skin of the cat. As the pictures show, it was right in back of the restaurant."
Um. Shouldnt you hide the cat skin after you killed it and cooked it for customers? Just tossing it out back seems kinda stupid. I always put my cat skins in the sewer.
Of course, health inspectors acted swiftly.
"Did you consider closing it for good?" Leslie asked.
"That is a last resort," Cira said. "We do not begin any inspection with that in mind."
Instead, inspectors returned six times over the next two weeks.
Thank you for not closing the cat killing, pigs in buckets out back, raw meat kickin it in the backyard restaurant.
On January 28, Ming's scored a failing 59.
But by February 10, the score jumped to 96.
Oh, and one time they served cat.
Finally, some governator Asshole Fuckfacery.
Asshole Fuckface Arnold will be leaving his post as California Governor soon. In his wake, he will leave a state destroyed by anti-tax Republican retardation. Now, I cant believe a washed up action star couldnt turn the state around. I mean, who would have thought a man who acts like a tough guy in movies, who came to fame by making big muscles, couldnt handle the complexity of governing a massive state like California?
Arnolds first step was to follow the Republican mantra. His first day in office he cut the Vehicle License Fee, which eliminated $6.5 billion per year from the state coffers. Over his time in office, that one move has led to a $35 billion dollar increase in state debt. He also convinced voters to pay off the budget deficit in his first year with a $15 billion dollar bond thereby pushing the debt and allowing us to pay interest on it.
Now he wants to lay off 5,000 state employees during a recession. Genius. He also wants to cut $5.4 billion from schools, because our schools rank amongst the worst in the country. Why? Oh, tax cuts gutted our schools in the late '70s and our kids have suffered ever since. Arnold also wants borrow $7.5 billion for local governments. You know, the local governments suffering through a recession and years of cuts because of the GOPs anti-tax no matter what policy. Oh, and the governator also wants to lease more sites for off shore oil drilling to bring in $100 million. Problem is, the state doesnt have an oil severance tax. Can you see Republicans agreeing to tax the oil companies? If you can, youre an idiot. They enjoy the slash and burn policies of stupidity.
Now the same Governor is proposing reckless cuts that would deny over two million Californians health coverage the most profound rollback of coverage in state history. In attempting to close Californias over $21 billion budget deficit, the Governor has ruled out considering taxes or other revenues to protect the very same programs he was seeking to expand a mere year and a half ago.
Oh, but its not just programs he was trying to expand, he also wants to cut funding that keeps people alive. His cuts will also affect 35,000 Californians who count on state funding to get their HIV/AIDS medications.
And they heard from a woman named Lynnea Garbutt who has lived with AIDS all of her 24 years.
She has survived with the help of a state program that provides the expensive antiviral drugs she takes. Now, with that program facing elimination, she pleaded with lawmakers to save it -- and her life.
"If these cuts take place, you're not just cutting money from the program -- you're cutting my life," she told the panel, her voice shaking and tears falling. "I choose to live. Please don't make me die. My choice is life."
Shit, Im sorry, but Republicans refuse to raise any taxes. Bummer you have to die because of it, but its a moral thing. It would be immoral to take money that is not yours, sicko.
Arnold will be gone in 18 months, leaving complete destruction. Thats the Republican way. Insane, deluded, idiotic, childish policies that lead to a disaster.
And as goes California, so goes the nation.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. Check back each Tuesday and Friday for more from FearTheReaper

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- TUESDAY MAY 26 2009 6:00 AM
Payday Lending/Rape
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
Tags: payday lending, Usury laws
Last week I covered the horror of Americas usury law problem and how it has caused a massive imbalance of where our money should be. It has shifted dramatically to the financial sector, where it is used to produce nothing. The worst of the worst of the financial sector are the payday lenders. They are scum of the earth and should be shut down immediately. They prey upon the weak and cause endless suffering. Other than that, they are great guys.
Payday lending works like this: Some poor sap has a job and a bank account and she cant cover his bills for the month. Shes just a bit behind on the rent or her gas bill and she needs an advance on her paycheck. Shes got a new baby, after all, and she cant afford to have the gas shut off or to be tossed out of her apartment. So, she goes to the payday lender.
Once there, she opens a line of credit. The lender agrees to give her an advance on her next paycheck and she in turn writes a check from her bank account for that amount, to the payday lender. Its post dated and the lender agrees not to cash the check until ladys payday. Oh, and theres a massive fee, typically around $17 for every $100. For one payday loan, thats not much. But it never ends there. Oh, and they dont have to pay that fee until their next paycheck. That, of course, causes a problem on the day they get their next paycheck. Its literally built as a trap.
The woman who needed an advance on her paycheck and paid a fee to get it, will now need another advance. Why? Well she was already behind and now shes more behind because of the fee. She cant afford to pay that fee, so now she needs another payday loan and she rolls it over. Welcome to the toilet, madam, youre slowly being flushed.
These people become sharecroppers on their own life, giving the lender a never-ending share of their future earnings. Seventy-five percent of borrowers roll their loans over to the next week. The average borrower will pay $500 in fees for a $300 loan. Annual interest rates for payday loans average over 400 %. Consider the fees charged by one payday lender in DC as reported by The Washington Post:
If you qualify, the fee for borrowing $300 is $46.50. That was not for a year -- it's for seven days, although the terms can vary. How much interest will this payday loan cost you? In simple terms, the company is charging a $15.50 fee for every $100 that you borrow. On your $300 payday loan -- borrowed for a term of seven days -- the effective annual percentage rate is 806 percent.
Today America is chock full of payday lenders. Its one of the fastest growing businesses in the USA. Its a $40 billion industry. There are now over 22,000 payday lenders serving over 10 million Americans. Of course, those 10 million Americans are the working poor, the ones who can least afford a 806% interest loan. Many of them feel they have no choice but to take out a loan. Thats why all the payday lenders are in the worst part of town. They are predators, seeking out the weak. Last week the Huffington Post revealed that armies of "paid bloggers" had been deployed to promote payday loans:
"Nobody will ask you for what purposes you need your payday loan, and your credit history will not be taken into account while granting you a credit," one blogger writes. "It can be a life saver that also provides easiest advanced cash online," says another. "Pay Day loans in the month of May, it sounds almost poetic," waxes a third.
Yeah....getting financially raped is very poetic.
Once in the cycle of doom, borrowers are screwed. Payday lenders worsen their impoverished lives and create more desperation. Its a quick fix that leads to future horror, but the poor just want to get through that week, they arent thinking about two months from now, they just dont want to lose their car today. After all, the Wal-mart where they work is way outside of town.
Thankfully, Congress is doing what they can to help the poor payday lenders.
A House subcommittee wants to legalize payday loans with interest rates of up to 391%. Lobbyists from the payday industry bought Congress' support by showering influential members, including Chairman Luiz Gutierrez, with campaign cash. The Congressman is now playing good cop, bad cop with the payday industry, which is pretending to oppose his generous gift of a bill.
Go Congress! Maybe we can bring back sharecropping again!
At this time, with our distribution of wealth completely out of whack, when our usury laws need to be changed to give the poor a chance and bring stability back to our country and resurrect our manufacturing base, the response of our lawmakers is to make it easier for payday lenders, by capping their interest rates at a meager 391%.
As I said last week, we are doomed.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. Check back each Tuesday and Friday for more from FearTheReaper

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- FRIDAY MAY 22 2009 9:30 AM
Asshole Fuckface Roundup #98
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
Tags: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney
Welcome to the Asshole Fuckface Roundup. We do this shit here weekly. We have to. If we didnt, the worlds Asshole Fuckfaces would be sauntering about without a care in the world. So, here we are, pointing out all the Rafa Benitezs and Michele Bachmanns of the world for you to mock and hate. This week has been so chalk full o Fuckfaces it was hard to pick four. But I did. And I now present them to you.
First up, some good old GOP Southern Asshole Fuckfacery.
Going into politics is sometimes hard because you are quickly forced to realize that most people dont enjoy your racist or anti-Semitic language. Take Arkansas state senator Kim Hendren who, besides having the same first name as one of the girls on The Facts of Life, also was bitten by the stereotypical Southern idiot bug.
At the meeting I was attempting to explain that unlike Sen. Schumer, I believe in traditional values, like we used to see on The Andy Griffith Show. I made the mistake of referring to Sen. Schumer as that Jew and I should not have put it that way as this took away from what I was trying to say.
Totally. What he was trying to say is that even the evil Jew has moral standards. Or, no, wait; maybe he was just trying to remember his name.
A Republican state senator from Gravette, Hendren said he told the Pulaski County Republican Central Committee that he disagreed with remarks that Schumer recently made about traditional values and foreign policy. He said he couldn't remember Schumer's name and referred to him as being a Jew or Jewish.
RIght. Could either have been Jew or Jewish. Not really sure, but it was totally relevant to the discussion of traditional values and foreign policy.
Hendren said he isn't anti-Semitic, "never has been," and sometimes agrees with U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who is Jewish.
I understand. Sometimes I call them negroes, but its not derogatory because I often agree with Charles Barkley.
Next up, some hall of fame Asshole Fuckfaces are worse than imagined.
Donny Rumsfeld is one of the all time great Asshole Fuckfaces. His epic Iraq War failure is one of the great military blunders of all time. Thankfully, his acts of horror continue to be revealed, so that we may continue to throw up in buckets. This week GQ published an article that is, simply astounding.
Lets start with the cover sheets Rummy used for the intelligence updates he gave to Bush. Each cover sheet included a nice photo of American soldiers or Saddam Hussein and a wonderful biblical quote. That way, Bush would continue to think he was fighting a holy war.
Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. [The quote appears over an image of a tank at sunrise]
Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. [The quote appears over an image of a soldier in Baghdad]
It is Gods will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men. [The quote appears over an image of Saddam Hussein]
Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, The nation that keeps faith. [The quote appears over an image of tanks entering an Iraqi city]
Im surprise they didnt do some Crusade re-enactments on the back lawn. Sadly, that little tidbit of horror was not the worst information revealed in the article. Rummy also helped to kill Americans with his response to Katrina.
The next day, three days after landfall, word of disorder in New Orleans had reached a fever pitch. According to sources familiar with the conversation, DHS secretary Michael Chertoff called Rumsfeld that morning and said, "You're going to need several thousand troops."
"Well, I disagree," said the SecDef. "And I'm going to tell the president we don't need any more than the National Guard."
Good call. Also, Shepard Smith is crying like a baby on Fox because of all the horror he's looking at.
Having only recently come to grips with the roiling disaster, Bush convened a meeting in the Situation Room on Friday morning. According to several who were present, the president was agitated. Turning to the man seated at his immediate left, Bush barked, "Rumsfeld, what the hell is going on there? Are you watching what's on television? Is that the United States of America or some Third World nation I'm watching? What the hell are you doing?"
Rumsfeld replied by trotting out the ongoing National Guard deployments and suggesting that sending active-duty troops would create "unity of command" issues.
Um. Maybe you havent noticed Mr. President, but a lot of those people are black. You know what Im saying, right?
Rumsfeld held off on sending troops for 7 days. Anything happen over those seven days? Can anyone recall anything?
Next up, some awesome Asshole Fuckface parenting.
Sometimes, as a parent, you face a super hard choice between your beliefs and letting your young son live. Just ask Colleen Hauser of Minnesota. She believes in the natural healing methods of an American Indian religious group called the Nemenhah Band. Unfortunately, her 13-year-old son came down with Hodgkins lymphoma - a curable form of cancer. By curable I mean with chemo and radiation, not this:
Colleen Hauser said she had been treating the boy's cancer instead with herbal supplements, vitamins, ionized water and other natural alternatives a regimen based mostly on information she found on the Internet.
I dont know how you could go wrong by treating cancer with info from the Internet. Hell, you idiots here at SuicideGirls have probably cured many different types of cancer on the message boards. Unfortunately, the law stepped in and last week, a judge ruled that Hauser was neglecting her son. She took him to one chemo treatment, and then bailed.
A courtroom clash between medicine and faith took a criminal turn, with police around the country on the lookout Wednesday for a Minnesota mother who fled with her cancer-stricken 13-year-old son rather than consent to chemotherapy.
On the run with a boy who has cancer! Shes like Dillinger, except instead of a gun, she has a young boy with cancer. Police have several leads and she appears to be an idiot, so by the time this is posted, I expect her to be caught.
And finally, check out this criminal Asshole Fuckface.
Bragging and justifying war crimes is sort of sickening. But even worse, the fact that Obama appears to have no problem allowing this walking piece of shit to cross the country, bragging about his war crimes for all to hear, is beyond the pale. According to Obama and his spokesman Gibbs, we need to look towards the future, not the past, regardless of how blatant and disturbing the war crime. Thats an impressive stance to take, Mr. Constitutional lawyer and Asshole Fuckface. Why not just allow police to waterboard? How about we set up a waterboarding room in every FBI office? Lets go.
At this point, Cheney is taunting and daring Obama and/or Congress to do something. Don't hold your breath.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. Check back each Tuesday and Friday for more from FearTheReaper

- news
- TUESDAY MAY 19 2009 6:00 PM
New UK Act Outlaws (Not So) Extreme Pornography
Submitted by Secretary
Edited by nicole_powers
Tags: Extreme Pornography, Porn, UK, Backlash
UK citizens, are you aware that from the 26th January this year, you may have become a de facto criminal?
Im not referring to that bag of weed hidden in your sock drawer, nor the drunken theft of those road signs a few years back. No, what I am referring to is hidden on your computer, in a folder within a folder; its probably got some nondescript name such as Tax Stuff or Word Documents. Ladies and gentlemen, I am referring to your pornography collection.
The last time your solo-surfing material got you into trouble it was probably with your mum or your girlfriend, and you may well have been 15-years-old. But now the government is poking its long nose in where, quite frankly, Id rather they didnt.
Sections 63-67 and 71 of the United Kingdom Criminal Justice and Immigration Act on the possession of extreme pornographic images now dictate that it is an offence to possess certain images.
The elements of the offence (Section 63 subsections (2) to (8))
6.There are three elements to the offence. An image must come within the terms of all three elements before it will fall foul of the offence. Those elements are:
1. That the image is pornographic;
2. That the image is grossly offensive, disgusting, or otherwise of an obscene character; and
3. That the image portrays in an explicit and realistic way, one of the following:
a. An act which threatens a persons life; this could include depictions of hanging, suffocation, or sexual assault involving a threat with a weapon.
b. An act which results in or is likely to result in serious injury to a persons anus, breast or genitals; this could include the insertion of sharp objects or the mutilation of breasts or genitals.
c. An act involving sexual interference with a human corpse; or
d. A person performing an act of intercourse or oral sex with an animal, and a reasonable person looking at the image would think that the animals and people portrayed were real.
There are several key areas where this legislation poses cause for concern.
For example, life threatening and serious injury are not defined anywhere in the act; it is left to the judge and jury to decide whether an image counts as such. So would a shallow bleeding cut inflicted with a knife count as serious injury? Consider that anything that breaks the skin would be enough for an Actual Bodily Harm charge, as opposed to the less serious Battery. What about somebody with their hands around someones neck in an asphyxiation scenario? Truth is, you dont really know until youre on trial, which is not going to help your defence.
Moreover, the images do not have to be real to be eligible under the legislation. Fake wounds count, as well as fake weapons and staged scenarios, as long as they are realistic and explicit. If you own any BDSM pornography in which all the participants have given their consent and in which careful control has been exercised during production to make sure no-one is hurt, well, thats illegal too.
So, what are the penalties?
Section 67: Penalties
30.The new offence of possession of extreme pornographic material is triable either way.
31. If a case is heard in a Magistrates Court in England and Wales the maximum penalty available will be six months imprisonment, or a fine of up to £5,000 or both.
The maximum available prison sentence in the magistrates courts in England and
Wales will rise to 12 months when section 154 (1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 is brought into force. Where a case is heard in the Crown Court, the maximum sentence is imprisonment for three years for possession of images covered by
Section 63(7)(a) or (b) (life threatening acts, or serious injury) and imprisonment for two years for possession of images of bestiality and necrophilia. In both cases an unlimited fine may also be imposed.
Thats pretty serious when you consider that it is likely everybody involved consented of his or her own free will. But wait, theres more.
The Sex Offenders Register
32. Offenders aged 18 or above who receive a sentence of two years imprisonment or more can be made subject to notification requirements under part 2 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
Your image that did no lasting damage to anyone has just landed you on a list of pedophiles and rapists, which can seriously damage your future prospects.
The UK legal establishment has long been overly harsh on consenting practitioners of BDSM, as the infamous R v Brown case continues to show. It remains to be seen how much money and time individual police forces are willing to spend perusing prosecutions in these cases, especially when you consider that the majority of offenders are unlikely to pose a risk to society.
So why bother? The law was a reaction to the case of Jane Longhurst, a teacher who was murdered by a porn-obsessed psychopath. Janes mother, Liz, has publicly lobbied Parliament to ban the images that she believes contributed to her daughters death. However, this thinking seems flawed, as put by Clair Lewis of the Consenting Adult Action Network:
People who abuse may look at extreme images but looking at the pictures doesnt make you like that. Graham Coutts murdered Jane Longhurst and what happened was absolutely abysmal. But him saying the pictures made him do it is just an excuse. Are we going to take a murderer and rapists word for it? If this law had been in place a few years ago it wouldnt have saved Jane.Were fighting a really emotive battle here, but there is no evidence that this law will work.Its easy for the Government to hide behind Liz Longhurst. They think theyre giving her what she wants. But what Liz really wants is Jane not to be dead and this will not bring her back.
Source.
CAAN predicts the laws will lead to harmless criminals and victimless crimes. The UK is sleepwalking into a 1984 culture, with our sleazy politicians introducing reactive legislations through the back door for popularist appeasement, and it is people like you and me who will suffer for it.
For information and advice about this issue please visit Backlash-uk.org.uk
Click HERE for a Government circular on the legislation.
- commentary
- TUESDAY MAY 19 2009 6:00 AM
Why You Hatin On Babylon?
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
Tags: usary laws, Financial industry, Credit Cards
The manner in which we have destroyed our economy is astounding. We are so far from understanding and correcting our massive fuck ups that even this current obliteration of our ways has not brought up the discussion that needs to be had: Our usury laws are insane. Our usury laws drove us into debt, sped up the loss of our manufacturing base and have directly led to the murder of the middle class. And its only going to get worse. The looming credit card crisis will be the next shoe to drop and with deflation a serious threat, shockingly heinous and fluctuating interest rates will make it impossible for many to get by. Even ancient Babylon had laws against the shit we allow lenders to get away with.
Usury:
1: interest
2: the lending of money with an interest charge for its use, especially: the lending of money at exorbitant interest rates.
3: an unconscionable or exorbitant rate or amount of interest; specifically: interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.
Quite a few successful ancient empires considered usury to be worse than murder and it was punished accordingly. We, because we are an incredibly wise country, decided to toss out centuries of law and tradition. First in the early 1900s, we began to gut our usury laws and then under Jimmy Carter they were fully disemboweled. Its not like we didnt have a time period to look back on and see what would happen.
800-600 B.C.
The Greeks at first regulate interest, and then deregulate it. After deregulation, there was so much unregulated debt that Athenians were sold into slavery and threatened revolt.
Slavery. Totally different from working endless hours at a job just to pay back a bank. Well, I say pay back a bank, but the amount borrowed has already been paid off tenfold. In reality, the average Joe in debt is paying off interest and more interest and more interest. Its debt slavery and America is kicking ass.
Old Testament
The Prophet Ezekiel includes usury in a list of abominable things, along with rape, murder, robbery and idolatry. Ezekiel 18:19-13.
1750 B.C.
The Code of Hammurabi regulates the interest that can be charged on a loan. Historical records indicate that many loans were made below the legal limit.
What Hammurabi and Ezekiel knew, Americans certainly do not. Its pretty simple. If you create a debt society by allowing insane interest rates, capital is removed from manufacturing and small business. It all gets pumped into the banks and everything is then out of balance. And its not just the money, the top minds head into the financial world, spurning the areas where society needs them, like manufacturing. Eventually it all collapses on itself. Welcome to America.
443 B.C.
The Romans adopt the Twelve Tables and cap interest at 8 1/3%
America has become a bunch of clowns scraping by to pay off the financial sector. We are waiters, Wal-mart workers, gas station attendants and Starbucks coffee makers, but overall, the Financial services sector employs most Americans directly or indirectly. We have a society built on loans. We are eating ourselves. First we started with our hands, then our arms, our legs and now we are getting into the organs. I just ate my kidneys. Not bad, I suggest grilling.
11th century
In England, the taking of any interest at all is punishable by taking the usurers land and chattels.
Now that we have gotten rid of laborers and turned unions into our societys villains, we are obviously much better off. In 2002 and 2003, the financial sector took in more than "40% of the profits that accrued to US corporations." Thats good right? In 1988 it was half that because interest rates were relatively normal. Then came the 90's, when every business got into the business of loans. GM wasnt a car company, it was a financial business that sold cars as a side project. As the financial sector swelled like a fat, sucking tic, our trade deficit exploded. Thats what happens when you stop making shit because profits are better loaning money to the people who used to have jobs making shit. Sadly, Americans did it to themselves by going into debt, little by little, until it was overwhelming. I just devoured my intestines. Not bad with a little balsamic.
Medieval Roman Law
Usurers are fined 4X the amount taken, while robbery is penalized at twice the amount taken.
The '70s are when we decided to toss our usury laws aside and rape each other at will. The big case that turned everything upside down was Marquette National Bank v. First of Omaha Service Corp. in 1978. Before that horrible Supreme Court decision, states could set their own interest rate caps. The court ruled that banks could set their rates based on the state where the bank is located. No mas. Good bye interest rates under 10%. It was the wild west as far as credit card companies were concerned and we were all victims about to be fed to the pigs in Deadwood.
1570
During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, interest rates in England are limited to under 10%. This law lasts until 1854.
The awesome thing about high interest rates is it allowed banks to take more risks on lenders. Since they were now charging huge interest rates, they could afford to loan to every hobo in the land. The insane amount of profits would make up for the defaults by the sad sacks would couldnt make their payments. Weve actually reached a point now where customers who pay off their cards every month are having their cards cancelled. Good is bad, bad is good and America is a giant pile of shit. I just ate my liver. Boiled it. Dont recommend that.
Early 18th Century
American colonies adopt usury laws, setting the interest cap at 8%.
The bestest thing of all is how the banks werent satisfied with insane interest rates that would have led to their execution back in the day. No, they also had to go with huge overdraft fees, ATM fees, transfer fees, and on and on. And we let them. We did so because we were using credit to get by and in our new mindset of stupidity, getting reamed is how it was done. Fortunately, the banks didnt keep any of this money in reserve, they kept it flowing and working, so when the crisis hit, they had to ask the people they had been bending over a log and raping for a bailout. Thankfully, its all legal. I just gobbled up my lungs. Used a straw.
After 1776
All of the States in the Union adopt a general usury. Most states set the interest limit at 6%.
The only way out of this mess is to look at our usury laws again. Interest rates need to be capped at 9%. There is no other way out of this mess. Meanwhile, your president and his Wall Street douchebags/economic gurus, Tim Geithner and Larry Summers, ARE THE PROBLEM. They were and are part of the machine. They will never take such obvious and drastic action because they came up during the heinous period of whatever goes. They know no other way.
So, its time to take out the heart and fry it up in a pan with some butter. Were fucked.
Next week, Ill cover payday loans, which is actually 100 times worse than credit cards.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. Check back each Tuesday and Friday for more from FearTheReaper

- commentary
- FRIDAY MAY 15 2009 6:00 AM
Asshole Fuckface Roundup #97
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
Tags: Michelle Bachmann
Occasionally, as Asshole Fuckface will be ignored during a Roundup. This can occur for several reasons. Often, there are worse Asshole Fuckfaces committing far worse acts. Sometimes it is just words instead of action. A heinous act will always get the nod over a statement, particularly if the statement is out of character. And sometimes, the Asshole Fuckface is such a complete tool that I could put her in the Roundup every single week. Seriously, welcome to a Michele Bachmann special edition of the Asshole Fuckface Roundup. Rip out your brain and put on your idiot hat, its the only way youll understand this nonsense.
THE MICHELE BACHMANN ASSHOLE FUCKFACE SPECIAL
Michele has been on a tear the past couple of weeks. She is a miraculous moron in an ordinary year and to say she has stepped up her game is an understatement. She began her trip into the Asshole Fuckface Hall of Fame on March 27th, when she called for a revolution forgetting that our president was elected by an overwhelming majority of the population.
BACHMANN: And really now in Washington, Im a foreign correspondent in enemy lines. And I try to keep everyone back here in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington. [...]
I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us, having a revolution every now and then is a good thing, and the people we the people are going to have to fight back hard if were not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States.
This is exactly what Thomas Jefferson was talking about. Exactly. He was all about energy taxes and hatin on lectric trains and shit.
Next came April 15th, when she conveniently re-wrote recorded history. And Im not talking about old history, Im talking a couple of years ago.
In 2006 six Imams were taken off a flight in Minneapolis and detained because some idiot passengers thought they were suspicious. Suspicious means praying and speaking Arabic. Of course, it was bullshit. They were returning from the Minneapolis conference of the North American Imams Federation and were simply engaging in their evening prayers. Last month, Bachmann explained what happened, but she used non-facts.
BACHMANN: Minnesota was also were the site of the six flying imams.
The imams, the imams were actually attending, ah, Congressman Keith Ellisons victory celebration, when he won as a member of Congress....
They were shouting phrases anti-Bush, anti-America
and were making these statements and when they got aboard the airplane, they switched seats, they didnt go to their proper seats, and they went in the pattern of the nine-one-one terrorists.
No, actually, not at all. They were not doing anything remotely close to what you describe and they had nothing to do with Congressman Keith Ellison, a Muslim. Turns out, not all Muslims know each other, unlike Republican Asshole Fuckfaces. Michele just blatantly lied to a large audience, even though the actual facts are well known. But we should not be surprised.
Next up, on April 22nd, Michele took a dip into Lake Stupid and came out really wet.
Holy fucking shit. Where to begin?
Carbon dioxide is natural, it occurs in Earth. There isnt even one study produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.
Um. It kills you if theres too much of it. Literally. Kills you. Some people consider dying to be harmful.
Carbon dioxide is a harmless gas.
Except when it kills you.
Carbon dioxide is perhaps three percent of the atmosphere thats in the Earth.
Its not three percent. Its .04%. If it was 3%, wed be sleeping a long, long sleep. Oh, and just because something occurs naturally in nature doesnt mean its harmless. Try drinking some Mercury and youll totally get what I mean. Seriously. Try drinking Mercury.
Next up, our favorite Asshole Fuckface pointed out the shocking coincidences of swine flu pandemics.
First up, the swing flu in the '70s happened under the presidency of a guy named Gerald Ford. Ford was sort of a Republican. The vaccinations began under Ford and continued under Carter. So, you are an idiot for getting your facts wrong. Totally not surprised, but lets pretend you werent.
If you find it interesting that the outbreak of flus occur under Democratic presidents, then you must believe that is happening for a reason. Why else would you bring it up? So, you are basically saying the Democrats are up to something. Apparently, Democrats have quite a bit to gain by setting the flu loose on the American public. So, Democrats want people to die and they have decided to use an uncontrollable weapon that could kill them and their families. I dont know how anyone could find a flaw in that argument.
Next up on the Asshole Fuckface idiot express, Michele said some shit about the past that wasnt true. Can you believe it? Sit back and enjoy the Great Depression according to Michele Bachmann.
Yeah, not so much. Id like to start out by saying its not the Hoot-Smalley bill, it was the Smoot-Hawley bill. We know this because it was written by Senator Reed Smoot of Utah and Representative Willis Hawley of Oregon, both Republicans. Besides that little mistake, Im loving the idea that we should have kept going with the Coolidge awesomeness. Clearly it was really working well until fucking FDR stepped in.
Its true that Bachmann is making an unfortunate error about the names of Messrs. Smoot and Hawley. But her contention is simply that Roosevelt, though he took office in March 1933, was actually able to cause events in the past precipitating the very years-long Depression that led to his election. Its a bit confusing, yes. And somewhat metaphysically controversial.
Her stupidity can BEND TIME. Thats fucking awesome.
Finally, Michele took to the floor of Congress on May 2nd to talk about National Prayer Day, during which she babbled about a prayer Washington wrote
In fact, our Nation's first President let his views be known quite clearly on his inauguration by a prayer which George Washington himself gave at his inauguration.
Of course, it wasnt actually a prayer written by Washington. It was from a letter he wrote when he resigned from the Army which is totally different than an inauguration and totally different from a prayer.
Where did this prayer come from? Well, it's a rewriting of the last paragraph of the circular letter sent by Washington to the governors of the states in 1783, when he resigned from the Army at the end of the Revolutionary War. This paragraph was altered by a church, inserting a few "Thys," "Thous," and "Thees," and adding the "Almighty God" opening at the beginning, and the "through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen" closing to the end, thus creating Washington's "prayer for the nation." This fabricated prayer was put on plaques in several churches associated for one reason or another with Washington, then spread to the Christian nationalist American history books, and eventually to the internet, which is apparently where Michele Bachmann gets her historical "facts."
Then Michele went on to show us why she is a leading scholar of American history.
"And the day that the Founders signed the Constitution, they also signed the first ten amendments to that Constitution; and those ten amendments were given as a gift, a protection to the individual American.
Totally. Except there were these two years between the Constitutional Convention and the drafting of the Bill of Rights by the first Congress. But, almost the same day. Really, you were just off by seven hundred and twenty nine days.
Keep on keeping on, Michele. You are a national treasure.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. Check back each Tuesday and Friday for more from FearTheReaper

- commentary
- TUESDAY MAY 12 2009 6:00 AM
SCOTUS: Lets Go Gay
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
Tags: Supreme Court, Kathleen Sullivan
Obamas going to pick a Supreme Court nominee this year. This will be the first time we are going to have a justice picked by a non-asshole since the 90s. Besides just a non-asshole, its the first time a president will pick a justice based on their credentials, instead of their insane right wing leanings and destructive business loving opinions. In all seriousness, if Justices Roberts and Alito could actually go down on corporations, they would. So this is a big deal. Thats why I think Obama should pick a gay woman. That doesnt make sense after everything I just said, does it? Like I give a shit.
Lets go gay. Lets show the right wing what it feels like to watch an Alito take a seat on the bench. At least we can watch the right wing freak the fuck out and Senators filibuster for no other reason than because there might be a gay person on the bench. Its a win-win. Do we have a gay woman who is qualified? Of course. Her name is Kathleen Sullivan.
Sullivan graduated from Cornell in 1976, did a little Oxford Scholar action for a couple of years, then graduated from Harvard Law School in 1981 (cough, cough, Obama, Harvard, cough). Harvard law professor Larry Tribe brought Sullivan on to work with him on a Supreme Court case and was quite impressed.
"Her sense of the most persuasive way to cast the issues and her rhetorical command were remarkable for any lawyer, much less a student. It was clear to me that I was dealing with the most extraordinary student I had ever had."
Sullivan went on to clerk for Judge James Oakes on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She worked for a couple of years in Boston for a law firm and was then recruited by Harvard as a professor where she taught, ahem, Constitutional Law. At the same time, she was working it as a lawyer.
She was co-counsel with Tribe for the Georgia ACLU in Bowers v. Hardwick, an unsuccessful 1986 challenge to Georgias sodomy law as a violation of privacy rights, and in Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, a successful 1984 defense of Hawaiis land reform act against a taking clause challenge. Sullivan was the last attorney, following in a long line that began with James St. Clair 44 (47) and Professor Alan Dershowitz, to represent Frederick Wiseman in the "Titicut Follies" case, which has long been the basis of HLSs federal litigation course. The case involved a gag order on a 1967 film about Bridgewater State Hospital; the gag order was finally lifted in 1991, when the judge decided that the subjects of the film would no longer be recognizable. Sullivans roster of cases also includes Anderson v. Green in which she made her second solo appearance before the Supreme Court in 1995, arguing on behalf of the right of newly entered poor mothers in California to receive AFDC benefits at the same level as longtime California residents. Sullivan says she won by virtue of mootness, and that the case is back on the Supreme Court docket this year.
Sullivan moved to Stanford Law School in 1993, where she became dean in 1999. In 2004, she stepped down as dean to become the director of the new Stanford constitutional law center. Oh, and she is the Stanley Morrison Professor at Stanford Law School. She is super qualified for the position. Oh, and she represented Mitch McConnell at one point. You know, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, also known as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Id love to watch Republicans mount a campaign against a supremely qualified lawyer who once represented their Minority Leader. Its like a gift from God.
For Republicans it would come down to one thing: Her sexuality. And the time for this battle has come. Lets watch our insane religious lunatic lawmakers try to take on an openly gay litigator who is far better than any of them.
A 1983 case Tribe and Sullivan worked on together involved defending the city of Bostons policy of giving hiring preference to Boston residents on city construction projects. "Im not sure I would have won without her," says Tribe, noting that he and Sullivan had a formidable opponent in Susan Estrich, who helped to represent the other side. "This was Susans first exposure to Kathleen, and Susan was immediately impressed by what a powerhouse we had in our midst." Estrich recalls having felt confident that her side would likely win the case, until she received a daunting reply brief coauthored by someone named Kathleen Sullivan: "I turned to my research assistant and said, Who the hell is Kathleen Sullivan? I vowed never to be on the other side of this woman again. And I havent been. And I wont be."
Kathleen Sullivan for SOTUS. Fucking bring it on.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. Check back each Tuesday and Friday for more from FearTheReaper
- commentary
- FRIDAY MAY 8 2009 6:00 AM
Asshole Fuckface Roundup #96
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
Many people think Asshole Fuckfaces are a dime a dozen. You could not be more wrong. Since ancient times, my family has been searching out Asshole Fuckfaces and dragging them into the light for all to see. There is a specific criteria for selecting Asshole Fuckfaces and while I cant reveal exactly what it is, I can tell you it involves tears, cucumbers, fishnet stockings, tuna fish, sand paper and knit caps. Trust me, it works. Now, put on your best tear proof poncho because this is going to be ugly.
First up, a little Pakistani Asshole Fuckfaci.
Ayman Udas has been growing in popularity as a singer. It wasnt easy because she came from the North West area of Pakistan, which is sometimes known as Holy Shit, What The Fuck Is Wrong With Those People-istan? Being divorced mother of two, Udas personal life also seemed to be going well as she remarried two weeks ago.
Last week she performed on PTV, a state run channel on which she was frequent guest. She sang her song, I died but still live among the living, because I live on in the dreams of my lover. Trim that title down a bit and she might have a hit. Or, you could get a hit because your brother killed you for being on television.
Ashamed of her growing popularity her two brothers are reported to have entered her flat last week while her husband was out and fired three bullets into her chest. Neither has been caught.
Isnt that what brothers are for? To kill you when you sing on TV? Im sure they feel super good about themselves right now.
Usman Khan, her husband, told police in a statement that she had been killed by her brothers because they could not come to terms with her musical career.
He said: She was killed for breaking her family traditions.
You know, there is also this thing called, Cutting off.
Next up, lets move to Europe for some Asshole Fuckfacope.
Some medical professionals in Poland dont really get it. Sure, they wanted to do the right thing, they wanted to make sure people dont get sick, but they are Asshole Fuckfaces, so their morals are a bit off. Three doctors and six nurses were looking for a vaccine for the bird flu -- and they found one. Sort of.
The medical staff, from the northern town of Grudziadz, are being investigated over medical trials on as many as 350 homeless and poor people last year, which prosecutors say involved an untried vaccine to the highly-contagious virus.
Hey, thats not at all like a shitty B movie plot.
Authorities claim that the alleged victims received £1-2 to be tested with what they thought was a conventional flu vaccine but, according to investigators, was actually an anti bird-flu drug.
The director of a Grudziadz homeless centre, Mieczyslaw Waclawski, told a Polish newspaper that last year, 21 people from his centre died, a figure well above the average of about eight.
That didnt work very well, but, whatever, it's not like they are real people.
Although authorities have yet to prove a direct link between the deaths and the activities of the medical staff, Polands health minister, Ewa Kopacz, has said that the doctors and nurses involved should not return to their profession.
It is in the interests of all doctors that those who are responsible for this are punished, the minister added.
You, sir, are a fucking genius. I dont know if there could be a greater example of a total lack of ethics in medicine.
The news of the investigation will come as another blow to the reputation of Polands beleaguered and poverty-stricken national health service. In 2002, a number of ambulance medics were found guilty of killing their patients for commissions from funeral companies.
Never mind. I found one.
Next up, more Congressional Asshole Fuckfacery.
Our Representation is fucking ridiculous. Even in times of extreme financial hardship, our lawmakers cannot find it within themselves to do the right thing for the everyday man. This week, the Asshole Fuckfaces voted against a proposal to change bankruptcy laws to allow judges to cram down mortgage payments for homeowners who are screwed.
Basically, "cram downs" allow the judge to lower mortgage payments for homeowners who owe more on their home than it is worth. The homeowner has to have also exhausted all other available options. These loan modifications are extremely effective at reducing foreclosures.
Senator Dick Durbin authored the "cram down" proposal and, of course, the Senate voted against it. Whats awesome is taxpayers gave trillions to banks, who then used that money to lobby against cram downs. And it worked. Welcome to double anal.
Durbin explained the situation in plain terms.
At some point the senators in this chamber will decide the bankers shouldnt write the agenda for the United States Senate. At some point the people in this chamber will decide the people we represent are not the folks working in the big banks, but the folks struggling to make a living and struggling to keep a decent home.
Not going to happen, Dick. Meanwhile, the mortgage bankers celebrated. Maybe thats because they are super rich. See, judges are allowed to do cram downs on their vacation homes, investment properties and even luxury yachts, while the middle class and poor cant have the same deal for their only home.
We are completely and totally fucked as a nation with these people running the show. You really shouldnt see this any other way.
Finally, some FEMA Asshole Fuckfacery.
Who doesnt love a 9-11 coloring book? I think they are great for kids. Im going to put one on the shelf right next to my sons Holocaust pop-out book, his Rape of Nanking connect-the-dots book and his New York Slave Auction audio-read-along book.
Sadly, FEMA has decided to pull its 9-11 coloring book, mostly because its a 9-11 coloring book.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has removed a children's coloring book from its web site following criticism over its inclusion of drawings of the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. The coloring book, titled "A Scary Thing Happened," is geared towards helping kids "cope with disasters," and was prepared by a Minnesota crisis response team.
Be sure to use the orange crayon for the fire, the gray for the smoke and blue for the people jumping out of the towers to their deaths.
The coloring book's cover montage includes a drawing of one of the Twin Towers on fire as a plane approaches the second building.
Fuck yeah. Its called coping you little babies. Now, color in the horrible thing that makes daddy queasy.
Apparently, parents didnt care for it.
"They like to color happy pictures not pictures like that. I don't think I would like to give my child these kinds of pictures to color," Brandy Greer told the Fox affiliate.
Good call. Maybe rabbits and dogs are good for coloring, not fiery death. FEMA also included some helpful words for the kids.
After telling them that "everyone is different" FEMA recommended, "If you still have nightmares or stomach aches for more than 2 months after the disaster, ask your parents to find someone you can talk to about your troubles."
Word. Also, dont look at our coloring book because it will give you nightmares and stomach aches.
FEMA has removed the book.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. Check back each Tuesday and Friday for more from FearTheReaper

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- TUESDAY MAY 5 2009 6:00 AM
Democrats Idiots Again
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
Tags: Arlen Specter, Democrats, Senate
I do enjoy watching the Democratic leadership stumble and bumble their way to ineffectiveness. It's just so absurd and stupid, all one can do is chuckle. The latest ridiculousness came last week, when they opened their arms wide for former Republican Senator Arlen Specter. Hes now a Democrat! Who will vote like a Republican! How awesome is that?
Since my election in 1980, Senator Specter said today, the Republican Party has moved far to the right. I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.
Bullshit. He wanted to stay a Senator and thats it. This is anything but a good sign. All it proves is how far the Republicans have gone to the right to the point where they are nearly insane. They are now driving out actual conservatives and the Democrats are accepting them into their ranks further pushing their party to the right. Awesome. He constantly voted with Bush on issues like Iraq, the Patriot Act, Bushs insane judicial nominees, Bushs insane department appointees, telecom immunity, warrantless wiretapping, tax cuts and has strongly been opposed to any investigation of the many Bush crimes. See, what the leadership knows that you don't is that the Democrats need another Dianne Feinstein, Joe Lieberman or Ben Nelson. Add another problematic jackass to the pile, because these are the "moderates" who force the Democratic Party to act like Republicans in order to get things passed.
Apparently, Democrats think the best way to build their majority, is to bring in people who agree with them on around 10% of stuff. And they want that guy to be from the blue state of Pennsylvania, the guy who was driven from his crazy party for being too liberal, even though he is very, very conservative. Hes just not crazy conservative. But the Democrats love it! Thanks for the trash! They'll take it!
Democrats have apparently given Specter undeserved seniority, upsetting some long time Democratic Senators.
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, four years Specters junior in the Senate, protests, It doesnt work that way. And though Reid promises that no changes will be made to committee chairs until after 2010, Harkin, chairman of the Labor, Health and Human Services and Environment Subcommittee, wasnt mollified. Im not going to give it up then, either.
Nice. And the leadership also thought it would be a great idea to promise him party support in the Democratic Primary. You know, the thing in which Democrats get to choose the best Democrat. During his Im bailing press conference, Specter explained how the Democratic leadership promised to support him and raise money for him during the 2010 election. So, they have decided to choose a Republican instead of a Democrat because the Republicans were going to choose a crazier Republican. So, the Republicans will get the politician that most represents them (crazy) and the Democrats will get the politician that least represents them. Welcome to completely failed leadership and the usurping of Democracy.
In an exciting example of the future Democratic Senator Arlen Specter, he explained that he would not support Obamas choice to head the Office of Legal Counsel. He also reiterated that he would not support the Employee Free Choice Act, which is sort of cause #1 for unions you know, labor, also known as the backbone of the Democratic Party. So, thats good. They picked up a new guy who is against the backbone of the party. His first vote as a Democrat was awesome. He voted against Obamas budget. Good work, Democrats, all around.
This weekend he made it very clear where he stands.
GREGORY: It was reported this week that when you met with the president, you said, I will be a loyal democrat. I support your agenda. Let me test that on probably one of the most important areas of his agenda, and thats health care. Would you support health care reform that puts up a government run public plan to compete with a private plan issued by a private insurance company?
SPECTER: No. And you misquote me, David. I did not say I would be a loyal Democrat. I did not say that. And last week, after I said I was changing parties, I voted against the budget because the budget has a way to pass health care with 51 votes, which undermines a basic Senate institution to require 60 votes to impose closure on key issues.
I did not say I am a loyal Democrat.
Point made. Youre not a loyal Democrat. Youre a Kinda Democrat. A kinda, sorta, whatever it takes to stay in the Senate for another term Democrat. Which is great, because that is exactly what the Democrats need.
They should have let Specter swing in the wind. He was clearly going to lose the Republican Primary. It doesnt matter if he is a Democrat or a Republican until Franken is seated, anyway. Hes not going to vote with Democrats on a shitload of issues, so supporting him in the Pennsylvania primary is completely idiotic. No promises of that nature should have ever been made especially since it undemocratic. But, what do the Democrats care about what their base wants and democracy? They dont. Its about the party and at this point the party seems to be run by idiots.
Enjoy the failure. Its Joe Lieberman II, Electric Boogaloo.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. Check back each Tuesday and Friday for more from FearTheReaper

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- SUNDAY MAY 3 2009 11:00 AM
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Et Al: Guilty of War Crimes AND Murder One
Submitted by Mark_Karlin
Edited by nicole_powers
As Faux News personality Sean Hannity makes light of torture with his headline-grabbing offer to undergo waterboarding for charity, and MSNBC's Keith Olberman gets in on the one-lowmanship with offers of sponsorship, the blogosphere is all atwitter with tales of the "newsmen's" bravado. The attention is unsurprising; who wouldn't pay to see Hannity tortured? I know cheap thrills are scarce these days, and I don't want to rain on the parade. I just hope you know that you're being had.
The Sean Hannity "waterboard me" media circus is no more than a clever ploy. This Fox chickenhawk (along with others in the media) is focusing attention on waterboarding, when there are much more sinister happenings afoot. While we're busy obsessing over Hannity's blustering and bugs in boxes, there's one thing that gets glossed over in the torture debate over and over again -- we didn't just torture people, we killed them!
As we debate the merits of trying Bush, Cheney, and their band of fellow sadists for war crimes, let's not forget the charge of murder one. Apparently, many in the mainstream press and blogosphere already have.
The focus right now is on the recently released legal memos justifying the horrifying and numbing repetition of torture against "high profile" targets. We have a short memory in America and most of what was in these memos -- except for the diabolical excess of the waterboarding and the medieval torture by insects -- was, as President Obama has said, pretty much already known.
Also known, but not discussed at this time, is that less important Al-Qaeda figures were murdered as a result of the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld torture jihad (their techniques euphemistically called "enhanced interrogation" by the mainstream corporate press).
Uh, remember those photos of bludgeoned prisoners in body bags that came out of Abu Ghraib? (And we still have only seen a small portion of the visual evidence.) Those people were murdered as a result of the greenlight on torture. Even the Pentagon has declared some of the Guantanamo dead were victims of homicide.
A 2006 Human Rights First report estimated that nearly 100 people had died in U.S. custody as part of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since August 2002:
According to the U.S. military's own classifications, 34 of these cases are suspected or confirmed homicides; Human Rights First has identified another 11 in which the facts suggest death as a result of physical abuse or harsh conditions of detention. In close to half the deaths Human Rights First surveyed, the cause of death remains officially undetermined or unannounced. Overall, eight people in U.S. custody were tortured to death.
Furthermore, in 2008, Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell and a man who came over from the dark side to tell the truth, testified before Congress that a minimum of 25 people died in U.S. detention as a result of homicides -- and that the figure was probably higher.
Then there are many "renditioned" individuals who disappeared into torture prisons around the world and have never reappeared. ProPublica investigated human rights groups' and CIA documents and determined that at least 32 terrorism suspects that were in CIA custody have gone missing. The CIA declined to comment on the list, aside from saying it was probably "flawed." There's no way to confirm whether these people are even still living, much less what techniques they've been subjected to. However, the whole situation has the stench of Latin American dictators "disappearing" people attached to it.
With Americans' heads swimming in these many sets of numbers, the individual stories within this sad chapter of our country's history are easily forgotten. This is why the indispensable documentary Taxi to the Dark Side should be required viewing material for every American. The central victim in this story was not waterboarded. Nor was he thought to be guilty of anything beyond driving by Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base at the wrong time. Still, his legs were beaten to the point that they would've had to have been amputated, had he not died from the beating.
But whether or not the government ultimately concludes that these and other deaths were murders, the fact remains that people died in American custody. The responsibility is ours. Even suicides cannot be ruled out. The military has a history of using suicide as a cover for homicide, and there's no way to say whether or not torture has driven a person to suicide.
There are undoubtedly more terrible torture stories that will be unearthed in the coming months and years, and they will cause Americans to both cringe and deny. Meanwhile, the Bush defenders are countering with an allegation that the torture of two or three suspects produced important information (which thus far has not been proven by any facts). But the focus on two or three Al Qaeda leaders has taken attention away from an organized system of torture that resulted in untold deaths, also known as murder.
For these murders, George W. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld -- who have always had a mean streak of sadism running through their blood, as they micro-managed torture and personally reviewed torture tapes -- should be charged and tried for war crimes -- and murder one.
If we do not bring justice to their deaths, who will?
The evidence of criminal abuse, including rape and murder, that was authorized as a general torture and abuse policy directly from the White House on down is abundant. It only need be assembled as legally admissible proof of guilt in an American court of law or International War Crime Tribunal.
As just one of literally hundreds -- perhaps thousands of examples -- a Salon article in 2004 noted a report by the indefatigable "last of his kind" investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh:
Debating about it, ummm...Some of the worst things that happened you don't know about, okay? Videos, um, there are women there. Some of you may have read that they were passing letters out, communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib...The women were passing messages out saying 'Please come and kill me, because of what's happened' and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out."
"It's impossible to say to yourself how did we get there? Who are we? Who are these people that sent us there? When I did My Lai I was very troubled like anybody in his right mind would be about what happened. I ended up in something I wrote saying in the end I said that the people who did the killing were as much victims as the people they killed because of the scars they had, I can tell you some of the personal stories by some of the people who were in these units witnessed this. I can also tell you written complaints were made to the highest officers and so we're dealing with a enormous massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there and higher, and we have to get to it and we will.
We dont know how much evidence has been destroyed -- the CIA "disappeared" the torture tapes -- but clearly the shredders and "burn bags" were kept busy in the last days of the Bush Administration. Still, the Obama WH is ordering more devastating detainee abuse photos released in the near future.
But all of these are just small pieces in the very large puzzle of a massive White House orchestrated sanctioning of War Crimes, including rape and murder.
It is not unexpected that the corporate mainstream media would attempt to minimize the criminal behavior of the Bush Administration, because D.C. insiders -- the villagers -- and the corporate oligarchy protects its own. But I am a bit mystified why the progressive blogs and most liberal and civil liberties websites are more caught up with fingering the authors of the memos rather than the masterminds of the war crimes policies: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice (not to mention Wolfowitz, Feith, etc.).
As has been pointed out by others, after WW II some Japanese tried for war crimes were hanged for waterboarding allied prisoners. The torture unto death, rape, sexual violations, and abuse that violated the Geneva Conventions was rampant in the Bush gulag.
The most pressing issue of justice is not who wrote the memos that enabled torture (murder and rape) -- although the attorneys should be held accountable -- but who should be tried for initiating and promoting war crimes.
Murder is not something to split hairs about on Sunday morning talk shows. It belongs in a courtroom so that justice can be rendered, the perpetrators jailed, and the Constitution preserved.
Mark Karlin is editor and publisher of BuzzFlash.com, which this May will be celebrating its ninth year of progressive news and commentary on the Internet through an expanded network of websites.
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- FRIDAY MAY 1 2009 6:00 AM
Asshole Fuckface Roundup #95
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
Dear Baby Jesus,
Please help me warn the good people about the horrible people. I feel the masses must know what the awful people are doing and why they are doing it. Jesus, I will call these people Asshole Fuckfaces because they are Asshole Fuckfaces. I could not do it without your help, J-bro. So, lets get this fucker rolling.
Amen.
First up, some delightful politician racism.
Pat Buchanan is my favorite blatant racist who gets to have a job as a legitimate political commentator. Hes one of the few fun guys on the other side of the political spectrum, so he makes a great guest on cable news shows. And we apparently have all decided to turn our backs on his ugly streak of racist nonsense.
This week, Mount Racist Fuckface erupted again, on the pages of the website Human Events. In the middle of one of his usual rants against Obama, he tossed in this little gem.
It is this part of America that does not comprehend how the President could sit in Trinidad and listen to the scrub stock of the hemisphere trash our country and say nothing.
Scrub stock. Thats some old school racism there.
There's no record of it appearing in the New York Times since 1943. (Hey, no one ever called Buchanan hip!) Until then, it was almost exclusively used to refer to an inferior breed of farm animal, usually cattle or horses, as when the paper reported in 1907: "Financial Disturbance Forces Cattlemen to Sell "Scrub" Stock to Hold Prime Grades."
In 1934, a federal official writing in the Times about measures being taken in response to the drought of the period, used the phrase in a similar way: "In some cases the drought cattle are being exchanged for scrub stock. The scrub stock is canned and the good stock is used to replace it..."
Thats impressive. Pat Buchanan thought he would use a racist term so obscure that no one would get it. Too bad there is this thing called the Internet. Delightfully, it gets worse. Scrub stock isnt just some random phrase Pat picked up. He speaks in code language to angry whites the way Bush spoke in code language to religious extremists and scrub stock is a label they know. It was commonly used in the early 20th century to argue that whites are better than blacks. And Pat knows his history, especially racial history.
So, Pat Buchanan just called the president of Trinidad inferior because he is of mixed race. You know, like our president. Point made, Pat.
Next up, some Asshole Fuckface apples fall far from the tree.
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was one of our greatest Americans. He was an amazing man and his message and words inspire to this day. Sadly, some of his words are coming true, like these:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Trust me, Martin, your kids are being judged on their character. Only problem is, they are being judged as Asshole Fuckfaces. Most people dont know the King children like to rake in the dough anytime anyone uses their fathers words.
During the 1990s, King's children sued USA Today for publishing and CBS for broadcasting their father's "I Have a Dream" speech without payment -- and they won. In 1999, a federal appeals court ruled that the speech could be claimed as property because the family refused to release it into the public domain. CNN had to buy the rights to broadcast the speech to the nation.
Now that is sexy. How proud would their father be? We dont really know, but we can only imagine hed be very proud. Not many people know that he wanted to charge an admission fee to his I Have a Dream speech.
This week, it was revealed just how Asshole Fuckfacish his kids are when they made a nonprofit foundation pay them so King Jrs words could be used on the King memorial on Washington's Mall. Seriously. These assholes made the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation pay them $800,000 for the use of his image and words ON HIS OWN FUCKING MEMORIAL.
King himself was so opposed to appearing to profit from his work that when he won the 1968 Nobel Peace Prize, he gave the proceeds to charity.
But that was before he gave his famous, "I'm Getting Mine" speech.
Next up, religious Asshole Fuckface morons.
Bill Nye the Science Guy made a trip to Texas last week. He spoke at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas. Now, most people would probably understand, when going to see a man named The Science Guy, that science would be discussed. Sadly, this was Texas, so my theory did not hold up.
Opening with a discussion of Mars and his hopes for further discovery on the neighboring planet, Nye encouraged the audience to take interest in discovery and change the world, a mantra he repeated throughout.
Sounds good. Off to a nice start.
Nye indicated that the presence of water in Mars atmosphere - evidenced by the planets ability to form frost -- leads him to believe that there is a strong possibility that the planet once supported life.
Okay, well, maybe. Whatever. Now you are talking about Martians or some shit. Or as I like to call it, Fake stuff" -- stuff that is not in The Bible.
The Emmy-winning scientist angered a few audience members when he criticized literal interpretation of the biblical verse Genesis 1:16, which reads: God made two great lights -- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
He pointed out that the sun, the greater light, is but one of countless stars and that the lesser light is the moon, which really is not a light at all, rather a reflector of light.
You son of a bitch! You crossed a line, Science Guy.
A number of audience members left the room at that point, visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence.
We believe in a God! exclaimed one woman as she left the room with three young children.
Yes, you believe in God,but you are apparently so stupid that you get upset when hearing about science during a lecture you attended starring a guy named The Science Guy. Also, your belief in God is so strong, you can't listen to someone say something you don't think is right about God. That's some strong faith you've got there. Stick to your God Guy and the one book. Do not venture from its thick hard cover.
Finally, some white guy math Asshole Fuckfacery.
Byron York is a conservative writer who currently works for the Washington Examiner, a paper so important I just discovered its existence. Previously, he wrote for National Review magazine, which means he learned how to write complete bullshit and stick to it. This week, Byron explained Obamas popularity numbers in a holy shit am I white kind of way.
On his 100th day in office, Barack Obama enjoys high job approval ratings, no matter what poll you consult. But if a new survey by the New York Times is accurate, the president and some of his policies are significantly less popular with white Americans than with black Americans, and his sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are.
Fucking black people. They are totally throwing off the real numbers. Heres the deal, if we went back to the thingy where they only counted for 3/5s of a vote, he WOULDNT be that popular.
Asked whether their opinion of the president is favorable or unfavorable, 49 percent of whites in the Times poll say they have a favorable opinion of Obama. Among blacks the number is 80 percent. Twenty-one percent of whites say their view of the president is unfavorable, while the number of blacks with unfavorable opinions of Obama is too small to measure.
Nice breakdown. I mean, come on! Why cant people see this? America doesnt like him, black people do.
Life will be much easier for Byron when he accepts the fact that black people are Americans and they are here to stay. Same with Hispanics and Asians. I know its weird to wrap your head around but they actually count as much as white people.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. Check back each Tuesday and Friday for more from FearTheReaper

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- TUESDAY APRIL 28 2009 6:00 AM
El Flu Is Going To Murder You
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
Mexico is sending a present. Its kind of a shitty present because it can kill you. Totally not cool, Mexico. Its almost like you dont care about all the money we spend on your drugs or the way we let your people pick our vegetables for almost nothing, then scorn them for trying to live. Whatever. Mexico has decided to send the swine flu our way and I am totally not interested.
Mexico has been hit hard by the swine flu and its a bit disturbing. The virus is apparently a new one that we havent seen before, but it is also a descendant of the 1918 flu virus that killed 50 million peeps. All H1N1 viruses are descendants of the 1918 virus, but they pick up a little something special along the way to make themselves stand out a bit. This flu has the pig part, with a little bird and human virus genes thrown in, which makes it very unusual. Me no likey very unusual flu. And its a mover.
"This is moving fast," said Richard Besser, head of the CDC, "but I want you to understand that we view this more as a marathon."
Super. Basically, the CDC and WHO are freaking out because they dont know exactly what is going on. They know a flu is spreading, but they dont know how deadly it is. At the time I wrote this article, 149 people were confirmed dead in Mexico and there were 40 confirmed cases in the US, a few in Canada, Scotland, New Zealand and some suspected cases elsewhere. Its already all over the place and its just getting going.
The cases in the US and Canada are very mild, which has confused scientists even more. On one hand, it could have co-infected with other microbes in Mexico to create a super death flu or it could be the same virus that has mutated into a less lethal form. Or it could be the treatment methods in Mexico. And nobody knows how many Mexicans have come down with a mild case of the flu. Sounds awesome, right?
The Mexican president is saying the problem is under control, while the death toll increases. On Sunday, when the president made his claim, 86 people were dead. Now we're up to 149 and people on the ground are saying it is much worse.
I'm a specialist doctor in respiratory diseases and intensive care at the Mexican National Institute of Health. There is a severe emergency over the swine flu here. More and more patients are being admitted to the intensive care unit. Despite the heroic efforts of all staff (doctors, nurses, specialists, etc) patients continue to inevitably die. The truth is that anti-viral treatments and vaccines are not expected to have any effect, even at high doses. It is a great fear among the staff. The infection risk is very high among the doctors and health staff.
There is a sense of chaos in the other hospitals and we do not know what to do. Staff are starting to leave and many are opting to retire or apply for holidays. The truth is that mortality is even higher than what is being reported by the authorities, at least in the hospital where I work it. It is killing three to four patients daily, and it has been going on for more than three weeks. It is a shame and there is great fear here. Increasingly younger patients aged 20 to 30 years are dying before our helpless eyes and there is great sadness among health professionals here.
Antonio Chavez, Mexico City
Ruh roh.
I work as a resident doctor in one of the biggest hospitals in Mexico City and sadly, the situation is far from "under control". As a doctor, I realize that the media does not report the truth. Authorities distributed vaccines among all the medical personnel with no results, because two of my partners who worked in this hospital (interns) were killed by this new virus in less than six days even though they were vaccinated as all of us were. The official number of deaths is 20, nevertheless, the true number of victims are more than 200. I understand that we must avoid to panic, but telling the truth it might be better now to prevent and avoid more deaths.
Yeny Gregorio Dávila, Mexico City
Nada bueno, amigos. And it gets worse. The 1918 flu killed so many because young adults were the most likely to die. This flu appears to be the same deal. It causes the bodys own defenses to work against the body -- those that succumb drown from an extreme build-up of fluid in the lungs which is brought on by the body's immune response. So, the people least likely to die from this flu are those under 3 and over 60. Those most likely to kick it are between 20 and 40. This is one of the key signs of a pandemic flu. The 1918 flu killed 2.5% of those infected, while this Mexico version is killing 7% of reported cases. Hence the freak out.
The government is now saying its not if we have outbreaks, it's when.
Federal officials today declared a public health emergency involving human swine flu, warning Americans to prepare for widespread outbreaks now or in the future, yet urging them not to panic.
The question is how bad will it get? Economically, given our current situation, a full-blown pandemic would be fucking devastating. Pandemic waves commonly last 12 weeks. Did you know some government agencies recommend you stockpile enough goodies to get by for 12 weeks? Are you ready? I can hold on for 6 days, then Im going to need milk and some kind of cheese cracker situation. Grocery stores dont keep more than a weeks worth of food, if that. Now imagine a run on grocery stores if a pandemic breaks out? Hows that look? What if the flu sweeps through your local power or water plant? Hows that going for you? What about your garbage men? Now that theyre all infected, trash is piling up and the rats are out. Also, enjoying all those imported cheap foods? They arent happening because the border is closed. How do you feel now that half of the doctors and nurses have quit? Not so good?
Our society is actually quite fragile. Aside from the deaths, fear is the next big bad during a pandemic. It leads to people doing all sorts of crazy things. The economy would nose dive because of all those employees staying home because they are sick, staying home because they are afraid of becoming sick and staying home because they are quarantined with a family member who is ill.
So, this one could be the big bad or it could be nothing. I suggest you keep an eye on it and maybe do a little prep.
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- FRIDAY APRIL 24 2009 6:00 AM
Asshole Fuckface Roundup #94
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
Tags: Jane Harman, Ron Paul, Hugo Chavez,
It is time for you to put on your best pair of golashes to spelunk through the Asshole Fuckfaces. For you, its just a good time and a way to make yourself feel better about your loathsome life by making fun of others. For me, its deadly serious. I practice the ancient religion of No Fuckish. We No Fuckacarians believe if the Asshole Fuckfaces of the world are not exposed, Vlad the Impaler will rise from the dead and slaughter everyone. So, my fellow Fuckacarians and I must scour the Earth each week looking for Asshole Fuckfaces to drag into the light.
First up, some Democratic Asshole Fuckfacery.
What kind of person are you if you use your power to make a criminal act legal while criminals help you to attain an even more powerful position, which is a criminal act that is being illegally taped via the criminal act you are trying to help make legal? Youre an Asshole Fuckface, of course. After all, that is what this article is about.
Jane Harmon, a Democrat from Torrance, California, is not only an Asshole Fuckface, but could also be jackass of the decade.
Rep. Jane Harman, the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel organization in Washington.
Harman was recorded saying she would waddle into the AIPAC case if you think itll make a difference, according to two former senior national security officials familiar with the NSA transcript.
Thats some nice work. Just another American lawmaker doing what she can to help another country with their American espionage problem.
In exchange for Harmans help, the sources said, the suspected Israeli agent pledged to help lobby Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., then-House minority leader, to appoint Harman chair of the Intelligence Committee after the 2006 elections, which the Democrats were heavily favored to win.
Seemingly wary of what she had just agreed to, according to an official who read the NSA transcript, Harman hung up after saying, This conversation doesnt exist.
Actually, Jane, IT DOES! Thats the exciting part. The phone call was recorded by the NSA using a warrantless wiretap. Of course, the Department of Justice did not pursue a criminal investigation because Jane is one of the biggest proponents of warrantless wiretapping in Congress. Welcome to the story of the worst Congressperson alive.
Because, according to three top former national security officials, Gonzales wanted Harman to be able to help defend the administrations warrantless wiretapping program, which was about break in The New York Times and engulf the White House.
But thats when, according to knowledgeable officials, Attorney General Gonzales intervened.
According to two officials privy to the events, Gonzales said he needed Jane to help support the administrations warrantless wiretapping program, which was about to be exposed by the New York Times.
It would actually be better if Harman was innocent and was completely screwed over because she was one of the biggest defenders of the warrantless wiretapping program. She went as far as to call for prosecution of The New York Times for revealing the program. You know, the program that taped her committing a crime. Or not. The one that just taped her without a warrant.
"By the way, I deplore that leak," Harman declared moments before her comments on prosecuting the Times. "This is a very valuable foreign [intelligence] collection program. I think it is tragic that a lot of our capabilities are now [spread] across the pages of the newspapers."
Holy shit, is there a worse person in Congress? Please investigate and prosecute this Asshole Fuckface immediately.
Next up, some GOP Asshole Fuckfacery.
Republicans are so fucking stupid it is amazing. They seem to have no understanding that people write stuff down, record with video and take pictures. For years now, they have been calling Democrats out with absolute bullshit to inflame the masses, even though it is often untrue, while ignoring the fact that Republicans are often guilty of the same non-incident they are trying to create. Its pretty enjoyable to watch.
This week they went after Barack Obama because when he met with Hugo Chavez he acted like an adult instead of an angry three-year-old. Republicans were apparently very upset that Obama smiled and shook Hugos hand.
Everywhere in Latin America, enemies of America are going to use the picture of Chavez smiling and being with the president as proof that Chavez is now legitimate that he is acceptable," Gingrich said.
"What I find distressing is that this administration is opposed to looking for oil offshore, but the president bows to the Saudi king, and the president is friends with Venezuela whose biggest impact on us is that they send us a lot of oil," Gingrich added.
Um. So. First up, George Bush walked around holding the Saudi kings hand, like a schoolgirl. Second, Obama is not friends with Venezuela. He spoke to the man. Thats it. I speak to many people I cant stand. Its called being an adult. Third, Chavez is a legitimate leader and most of Latin America hates us because of all the murdering of South Americans we have supported. You should pick up a history book about Argentina sometime, Newt. Finally, heres a photo of Republicans smiling and hanging out with Americas enemies.

I believe the kids call that pwned, you Asshole Fuckface. Oh, and Id like to add a video of Obama actually laying down the law to Chavez. Wow, check out the adult doing business. Thats how it works, Newt. Also, your name is Newt. We are at a point now where the Republican's sad floundering is floundering.
Next up, some Libertarian Asshole Fuckfacery.
Remember how crazy it was last week when the Governor of Texas hinted that his state could secede from the United States of America? Wow, that was fun. Also, its kind of illegal to secede, but whos keeping track of all that legal mumbo jumbo?
Then it seemed as if the Governor Rick Perry had learned his lesson. He backed down from his crazy talk and tried to play nice. Thats when crazy, batshit, Ron I know nothing about history Paul stepped into the controversy.
Holy shit, what a complete and total moron. I thought he would never top his deluded and ignorant ideas about America and poverty during the early 1900s, but he has.
It is very American to talk about secession. That's how we came in being. Thirteen colonies seceded from the British and established a new country.
Um. Hey, do you remember that thing between the American Revolution and now? Heres a hint: 1861-1865. 600,000+ Americans killed. No? Ron, youre basically saying its very American for Americans to kill 600,000 other Americans. Id like to congratulate you on your most warped distortion to date in order to make the world fit into your rigid and hilarious views. I wish you luck with your idea that a secession from the union held together by the Constitution is constitutional and American.
Finally, some extraordinary Iraqi Asshole Fuckfacery.
Last week, I also discussed how Iraq is getting their gay killing hat on. This week we learn the horrifying measures Iraqis are taking to kill gays. Prepare to vomit.
'Iraqi militias have deployed an unprecedented form of torture against homosexuals by using a very strong glue that will close their anus.'
Oh, God, I dont like where this is going.
After they glue the anuses of homosexuals, they give them a drink that causes diarrhea. Since the anus is closed, the diarrhea causes death.
Hi, worst thing ever, my name is FearTheReaper. One would think such a heinous act would not be something that would be taped and go viral. One would be wrong.
Videos of this form of torture are being distributed on mobile cell phones in Iraq.'
Because thats something you want in your pocket. Iraq, you are totally handling freedom well.
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- TUESDAY APRIL 21 2009 6:00 AM
Medieval Tea Party
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
Tags: Tea Party
Diary entry - 4/18/1312
Had a very good day today. Woke up early, as the rain had broken through the straw roof. Again. Me bed of leaves is in need of replacement. Being winter, however, theres no leaves about, so I just may need to take some straw from the roof. Also will have to sweep out the reed floor, because of all the mud, crumbs and animal drippings. Michael is suffering from dysentery, as well, and has done a number on the floor more than once.
Ate porridge with some ripe cheese. Not too many maggots in the cheese this morning, which I took as a sign things is turning round a bit. After breakfast, left my seven-year-old son Jean, to plow the field with Lord Marats ox I borrowed. I prayed nothing would happen to the beast, as I need the boy to live. He's strong for a seven-year-old! I took some wheat up to Lord Marats mill. He was generous in only taking one sixth of me wheat in exchange for using his mill. Milling didnt take too long. After went out to work in the Lords field.
Saw a wild boar while working the carrots. Oh, I would have liked to have killed it and had a nice feast for the others, but not really worth being killed for, now is it? Especially right on the heels of watching Charles burned alive for killing those wild ducks. Lord Marat doesnt take kindly to killing wild game on his land. Anyway, Ive got bread and ale waiting for me tonight.
Heard Johns arm fell off yesterday. Shame that. He had a problem with the fungus in his rye flour over the winter, so its not a big surprise. I knew he had turned blotchy red. Apparently, hes just babbling and staring at the sky now. Hopefully Lord Marat can find something for him to do that just requires one arm. Its a shame it happened now, right after he paid Lord Marat a death duty and a fine for inheriting his fathers land. Losing his best pig and then having to give his second best pig to the church as an inheritance tax, and now an arm? Seems a bit too much for one man to bear.
The boy came by the field to tell me the priest had stopped by to collect the tithe. Five eggs, bag of flour, basket of firewood, 1/10th of me wheat and a chicken. Dont get me started on them priests, livin the life up there, with all the food they want and going at it with all those young boys.
Just then, a crowd comes down the road, making noise and carrying signs. I saw Gaston and asked him what was going on. He says the King wanted to take an extra 3% in taxes from Lord Marat. Can you imagine? Three percent?!?! Course, I was enraged. We all were - even though he's going to use the money to give we peasants a bit more wheat. I grabbed me pitchfork and joined the mob, as we marched through the village. How dare the King Philip make Lord Marat pay more taxes! Its an outrage! Whens it going to stop! Someone called it a Porridge Party. Not sure why, something about that time when they tossed all that porridge in the Reine because of the church taken too high a tithe. Whatever, porridge party is a good name as any, but its still just another indignation meeting. It was odd to have some of the knights involved in this one, especially after they raped me brothers wife and daughters before killing him. Jacque actually said a couple of the knights started this march. We ended up burning down the local garrison. The kings knights ran like women. It was a damned good time.
When I got home, learned me wife had gone into labor and died during birth, while I was at the porridge party. The baby died, as well. And to top it off, me youngest son, Lawrence, succumbed to the Black Death. What a fucking day! After the tithe and giving the wheat to use the mill, I havent anything left to hire gravediggers, so I spent the night with a hoe digging graves for me family. The whole time I was digging, I still couldnt get that 3% out of me mind. Lord Marat has to pay a whole 3% to the King?!?!? Enough is enough! I expect more Porridge Parties!
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- FRIDAY APRIL 17 2009 6:00 AM
Asshole Fuckface Roundup #93
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
Asshole Fuckface Roundup log.
Friday, April 17th, 2009. Have been searching for days. Losing sleep, energy and sexual stamina. Located several candidates. List narrowed. Asshole Fuckfaces selected. Feel dirty. Begged for death to take me. Bore down. Got through it. Will now present AFR. Feels like giving birth.
First up, some amazing Texas style Asshole Fuckfacery.
Texas, I have a quick question: What in the fuck is wrong with you? Do you ever elect governors who are not complete and total idiots? This week, Texas governor Rick Perry decided his state should back out of this whole US of A experiment.
"No longer are we going to accept their oppressive hand in the state of Texas."
Weird you didnt do that when Bush was using The Constitution as toilet paper. These people are so transparent and moronic it is amazing. He literally said Texas is under the threat of tyrants. Actually, I think it's under the threat of asshats. I believe we should show Rick what it is like to live under a tyrant. Lets throw Rick in prison, kill his family and burn down his house. Hell, lets use mustard gas and kill his entire hometown. Also, we should build a 100 foot gold statue of Lord Barack Obama in his anus. Or, we could lower taxes for people making under $250,000 a year, because that's what "tyrant Obama" is doing.
Yesterday, he took it even further and hinted at secession.
But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we're a pretty independent lot to boot."
While he made that statement, the crowd chanted, "Secede, secede, secede." Yeah, so, thats illegal. But, I would have no problem with Texas going its own way.
Grow up, morons. You look really, really fucking stupid using this kind of language and making these kind of bills. On the other hand, congrats on being so wrapped up in your own party and ideology that you dont see the vast majority of Americans will think you are bat shit crazy. Consider your national career hopes over.
Next up, can Asshole Fuckfaces become worse? Yes, they can.
You may recall two weeks ago, in Asshole Fuckface Roundup #91, when I wrote of the Afghanistan governments new law that legalized the rape of women and girls. This week, those horrible humans took it up a notch. One hundred brave women gathered in Kabul to protest the new rape law this week. Naturally, that didnt go over well with the pro-rape group. (Pro-rape groups tend to be sort of rigid.)
Women's rights activists scheduled a protest today attended by mostly young women. But the group was swamped by counter-protesters -- both men and women -- who shouted down the women's chants.
Some picked up gravel and stones and threw them at the women, while others shouted "Death to the slaves of the Christians!" Female police held hands around the group to create a protective barrier.
So, thats working out well. Obviously, Afghanistan has a super bright future. Thats all I can take away from this incident in which women against being raped were stoned and threatened with death by the pro-rape folks.
Next up, some Congressional Asshole Fuckfacery.
Its really great when a Democrat and a Republican come together to propose something horrible. This week it was revealed perennial Asshole Fuckface Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller and Republican Olympia Snowe have authored the Cybersecurity Act of 2009. Its a really great bill that will allow the federal government to shut down the Internet during times of declared emergency. Taking away peoples best source of information and a main communication tool is always the best way to not cause a panic during an emergency.
The bill's draft states that "the president may order a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic" and would give the government ongoing access to "all relevant data concerning (critical infrastructure) networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access."
Sounds great. I feel safer already. Also, could you turn off my phones, shut down my television and stop my radio from babbling?
"People say this is a military or intelligence concern," says Rockefeller, "but it is a lot more than that. It suddenly gets into the realm of traffic lights and rail networks and water and electricity."
Hmmm. I guess I was overreacting. Up until you said, traffic lights I thought you were out of your mind. I was actually hoping you guys had some sort of security system set up for the water and electricity stuff, but I guess the idea is to just flip a switch and freak America out, causing riots and madness in the streets. Good call.
Finally, some trees are Asshole Fuckfaces. You read that right.
Not many men have the balls to take on trees for their Asshole Fuckface behavior. Im probably going to get into trouble with the Tree Guild, but I dont give a shit. This is a story people need to know about.
Artyom Sidorkin, a 28-year-old Russian, went to the hospital this week because he was having horrible chest pain and spitting up blood. (Why do I think thats how long most Russians wait to go to the hospital?) Doctors gave Artyom an x-ray and found a tumor in his lungs. Bummer. They quickly scheduled a biopsy. Thats when it turned into an episode of the X-Files.
When they cut the tissue, they were amazed to see green needles in the cut.
I blinked three times, and thought I was seeing things. Then I called the assistant to have a look, says Vladimir Kamashev, doctor at the Udmurtian Cancer Center.
The five-centimeter branch was removed from the patients body.
This is the last fucking thing we need. With all the shit going on in the world, we dont need trees to start growing inside of us -- especially in our lungs.
It is obvious that a five-centimeter branch is too large to be inhaled or swallowed, doctors say. They suggest that the patient might have inhaled a small bud, which then started to grow inside his body.
We are all going to die. Or end up as Ents.
Fuck.
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- TUESDAY APRIL 14 2009 9:30 AM
Glenn Beck Goes Insane
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
Tags: Glenn Beck, Obama
I have to admit, the greatest thing since Obama took over the presidency is watching Glenn Becks quick descent into insanity. It really is epic theater and could easily have been a movie, or a television show. He is completely out of touch with reality and its fucking awesome. Its as if the crazy conspiracy guy at the coffee shop got his own show. It may actually end with him pulling a Smith & Wesson out and blowing his brains out on live television. And I am not in any way kidding. Thats how crazy and awesome Glenn Beck has become.
Becks ratings have been skyrocketing, much like Mister Rodgers would have if he had begun smearing his trains with feces and ranting about how Mr. Greenjeans was going to put us in camps. A couple of weeks ago, the kids at Morning Joe on MSNBC decided to take a closer look at Glenn and they found a man on the edge of sanity, weeping openly on television.
Jesus, why dont you lube up America, enter it anally and make sweet ass love to it? Just to be clear, that is not a man doing a show, or a character, that is a guy on the edge of a mental breakdown. Unfortunately, I have no sympathy for this impaired lunatic because he is a right wing fucknut. The crazy thing about the right wing is they already have no grip on reality, whether it be science, economics or foreign affairs, they have nothing to base their horseshit on. But The Beck has brought it to a whole new level.
What could possibly be seen as odd about that picture? It's just a guy sitting next to a close up of his eyes. How incredibly not odd.
The man has taken fear and consumed it. Fear is Glenn Becks bitch. And the man we are to fear, this Obama character, is so shockingly less destructive to our civil rights than his predecessor it is astounding. George Bush woke up every morning and tried to figure out a way to make us less safe, while he shit on the flag. Obama has pulled back on so many (certainly not all) of the crazy, rights destroying policies of Bush it is insane. But we are supposed to believe Obama, the guy who did not invade a country for no reason, is the next coming of Hitler. Holy fucking shit.
Glenn is quite concerned about our guns. He believes Obama is going to take our guns away. Now, Id like to point out that if you believe Obama is going to take your guns away, you should have your guns taken away, because you have the intellectual capacity of a rodent. You are shockingly stupid and beyond pathetic. There is zero evidence this will occur in the future and Obama has emphatically stated he has no intention of doing so. So, stop it, you morons.
Glenn is also horrified by the prospect of socialized medicine. It would obviously ruin our country. It would be like opening up a bunch of USSR sponsored Chuck E. Cheeses. Please pay no attention to the fact that Obama has never proposed socialized medicine, never campaigned for socialized medicine and has even said a single-payer health system will not work. Yes, there are no plans for socialized medicine, only universal healthcare, which is pretty much the opposite of socialized medicine. It means the private sector is, you know, providing health insurance and care and stuff. Nonetheless, because Obama wants to provide fake socialized medicine, he is a Nazi. Because if there is one thing the Nazis were about, it was a national single-payer healthcare system. Thats actually what Nazi stands for: National All Single (cough, cough, what?)
That is fucking insane. He is the lunatic who should be wandering the streets and screaming at trees. Hes pretty much got the same take on every subject. Last week Glenn commented on a New York Times article that stated Obama was going to take on immigration reform. Obviously, everyone, right and left, agrees we need some sort of change when it comes to immigration. Glenn had an awesome take on the news that Obama was planning on dealing with immigration.
Maybe Im alone, but I think it would be just faster if they just shot me in the head. You know what I mean? How much more can he disenfranchise all of us?
True dat. Was he done there? No, next he pretended to pour gas on someone.
Look, there is not much difference between a new immigration policy and shooting Glenn Beck in the head. I actually think it should be the first step taken by the administration. It is amazing that this man is allowed to spew such nonsense on national television. You can do anything you want, as long as it gets ratings, even if it is a mans mental breakdown.
Ratings are ratings. You actually dont need a huge number of people to watch your show in cable to be a star and there certainly are a large number of insane right wing lunatics who believe what the Glenn is telling them. They are being stoked and enflamed by his complete and total nonsense. For liberals and Democrats, this couldnt be a better thing. Its another big face for the Republicans to wear for the American public. Hes worse than Rush Limbaugh and that is quite an achievement. At least when Clinton was in office, they went after him for stuff that could actually be real. The Whitewater mess, Travel gate, getting blowjobs from interns is all spectacular criticism compared to what lunatics like Glenn Beck are doing now.
And feel free to enjoy some Glenn Beck poetry,, which he recites everyday on his show.
WRONG WITH US
Put these people in jail, put these people in jail,
Put them in jail, what is wrong with us;
We knew this guy was in the country,
He was -- he has been in the country
And extradited before; we have thrown him
Out of the country, then we brought him back, and
Then we threw him out and he came back again;
What the hell is wrong with us, what is wrong with us.
("Glenn Beck," Fox News, March 11, 2009)
Just sit back and enjoy the madness of Glenn Beck, it couldnt be better advertising for the left.
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- FRIDAY APRIL 10 2009 6:00 AM
Asshole Fuckface Roundup #92
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by nicole_powers
Tags: Adam Lambert, Harry Reid, Iraq, gay marriage
Hello, minions. After a week absence, I have returned. I apologize for not being there for you on Tuesday. An Asshole Fuckface entered my right eustachian tube and felled me for a couple of days. It was touch and go, almost perished and all that stuff. But now I am alive again and my eustachian tube is popping and pain free, which means the Asshole Fuckfaces of the world are quivering in their boots because they are about to be exposed. So, grab your favorite antibiotic because this is going to be messy.
First up, some religious Asshole Fuckfacery.
Finally, some Asshole Fuckfaces made a public service announcement against gay marriage. Its a delightful piece of art.
Holy shit. Their freedom will be taken away. They are going to be locked in dungeons and fed dung beetles. Thats just one result of gays marrying. Also, that poor doctor has to choose between doing her job the way she wants or letting gay people live. How fucked up is that?
How terrible is it that a mother has to send her kids to a school in which teachers actually teach students that gay people are not an abomination? What kind of world are we living in? And why aren't there any religious schools for her to send her child to? And why wouldn't a woman so devoted to her crazy religious beliefs that she would appear in an ad send her kid to a private school? Indeed, why wouldn't she home school her spawn so she can properly pass on her crazy unfiltered beliefs?
That other girl says she will have no choice. Thats right. You didnt know this but she is going to be forced to marry a woman and engage in oral sex for the rest of her life. The gays are coming people, and they are coming like a storm. Its going to be raining cocks (on men) and vaginas (on women).
Whats next? People marrying dogs? Yes, actually, that is next. Weve already started fucking them in preparation for the groundbreaking dog marriage bill of 2012. After that, we are going to want to marry badgers, panthers, and sofas. You think we are destroying marriage now, wait until I marry my carpet. A storm is coming indeed.
Next, some of our anti-gay friends spiritual Asshole Fuckfaces are busy in Iraq.
Remember when we liberated Iraq? How awesome was that? Not awesome for gay people, apparently.
At least three men suspected of being gay were gunned down March 20 in the Iraqi city of Ramadi. U.S. forces say they are concerned about the rising number of anti-gay killings in Iraq.
Who would have thought liberating religious extremists living in the birthplace of the Shiite religion would lead to something horrible?
The bodies of two gay men have been found in Baghdad's Shiite slum of Sadr City after a leading cleric repeatedly condemned homosexuality, an Iraqi police official said Saturday.
The killings come after Shiite cleric Sattar al-Battat repeatedly condemned homosexuality during recent Friday prayers, saying Islam prohibits homosexuality. Homosexual acts are punishable by up to seven years in prison in Iraq.
And its not just street killings. It seems the wonderful Iraqi government has decided to execute gays for being, well, gay.
More than 100 prisoners in Iraq are facing execution. Many of them, says an underground gay rights organization in the country, are believed to have been convicted of the 'crime' of being gay, the UK-based Iraqi-LGBT group revealed this afternoon.
According to Ali Hili of Iraqi-LGBT, the Iraqi authorities plan to start executing them in batches of 20 from this week. There is, said Hili, at least one member of Iraqi-LGBT who are among those to be put to death.
Good times. Hope you are enjoying your freedom.
Next up, some Asshole Fuckface advice from Texas.
Ah, Texas, you do not let me down. Look, I understand its hard being super white and stupid, especially in todays world, with all of these foreign types coming in and walking around like they own the place. Obviously, there are solutions to help the super white. Texas State Representative Betty Brown unveiled one this week.
A North Texas legislator during House testimony on voter identification legislation said Asian-descent voters should adopt names that are easier for Americans to deal with.
Yes. Please. Look, its hard being an old, white lady who was raised around names like Jones, Stephens and Blake to suddenly be looking at a name like Dat Si Cho. How about you change that name to Dan Milford? America just became a little bit easier, did it not?
Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese I understand its a rather difficult language do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here? Brown said.
Cant you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes thats easier for Americans to deal with?
Makes a lot of sense.
Next up, some Democratic Party Asshole Fuckfacery.
Remember how Harry Reid is the biggest, most spineless, waste of space ever to walk the halls of Congress? Remember how Harry allowed Joe Lieberman to remain Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, even after he spoke at the Republican National Convention and called Obama all sorts of names? Remember when Joe allowed George Bush to do whatever the fuck he wanted while he was Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee and Democrats said he should be removed this year because hes an Asshole Fuckface who will screw with Obamas agenda? And then Harry let him stay?
Lieberman, the self-described independent Democrat who questioned Obamas credentials to serve as commander in chief during the 2008 campaign, has panned the Obama administrations proposal to cut the nations missile defense shield.
Liebermans opposition is problematic for the Obama administration because he is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, the panel charged with assessing threats to the nation.
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Harry Reid should be waterboarded.
Finally, I save the worst Asshole Fuckface conduct for last. There is something horrible happening in America and many are not even aware of it. It is growing in strength every week and may soon become a serious threat to our daily life.
It is called Adam Lambert. It is a contestant on American Idol. It is being hailed as the greatest find in American Idol history. Here you can watch it rape a Rolling Stones song.
How happy would Andrew Lloyd Webber be with that? I believe doing a gay musical version of any Rolling Stones song is a crime against humanity. Sadly, it cannot be stopped. The judges on American Idol apparently jerk off every time it takes the stage. Its like watching an asteroid heading towards Earth. We will all suffer particularly those of us with young daughters.
Daughtry was bad enough, this is unforgivable.
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