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- FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5 2008 2:00 PM
Free Slacker Uprising To Free America
Submitted by nicole_powers
Edited by nicole_powers
In an attempt to defeat the evil empire in the 2004 election, Michael Moore went out on the road to rally the unrousable, recruiting an army of rookie activists from the nations under-tapped slacker population. Offering incentives such as free Ramen Noodles and college scholarships, Moore hoped that legions of dedicated college layabouts would rise up and vote the right (well left) way.
Well, we all know how well that turned out. Lets hope Moore has more luck come November 2008.
To this end, the Sicko filmmaker is making his latest film, which documents his 2004 Slacker Uprising campaign, available as a free download for three weeks starting September 23. The flick features overachieving (or are they failed?) slackers R.E.M., Tom Morello, Eddie Vedder and Roseanne.
Click HERE to sign up for the download.
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- THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 4 2008 6:00 AM
Crybaby Town
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by FearTheReaper
Tags: Sarah Palin, John McCain, Barack Obama, Sexism
For a man who spent five years in a POW prison, McCain sure is a relentless pussy. Hes having a big boo hoo party over Americas questioning of his moronic VP pick, Sarah Palin. Apparently, if you pick on poor, little Sarah, you are being a sexist. Never mind that she is supremely unqualified to be president of the United States, any criticism is all about her having a vagina.
The mighty Republican Party, longtime defenders of womens rights, are now hitting the airwaves claiming the only reason people are attacking Sarah Palin is because she is a woman. Please ignore the Troopergate scandal, the fact that she is married to a traitor and was at one time a traitor herself, lied about visiting Ireland, didnt travel out of the country until two years ago, belongs to an insanely backwards church, thinks 11-year-olds who were raped by their father should be forced to give birth, used government money to fund a cure gays organization, tried to ban books, abused her power by firing people who opposed her views or divorced her sister, believes Iraq is a war being fought for God, and has a preacher who claimed voting for John Kerry would send you to hell. None of those things are relevant for baby time McCain. If you criticize Sarah Palin, its because shes a woman with a pregnant daughter.
See, the pregnant daughter situation is off limits. You can tell that from this video of John McCain greeting the father and mother of the fetus in Minnesota.
Thats what one does when they want such a private situation to stay private; they bring reporters to take photos of the guy who shot his goo into the 17-year-old girl. Also, when one doesnt want anyone to talk about the pregnancy situation, they come out to the media and break the story of their own daughters unwed pregnancy. Parading said couple around at the Republican National Convention? Totally cool. After all, it is a private situation. Thats why the soon-to-be husband of the 17-year-old daughter has been hastily flown in to be paraded around because they need their privacy. Remember, if you bring this up, you are being sexist.
See, playing the gender card is totally cool, as opposed to when Obama supporters claimed McCain was playing the race card after he created ads that had obvious racial overtones. That was different. I guess because Obama has a penis and black skin, while Palin has a vagina and white skin. If anybody dared say that McCains ads were racist, he and his people screamed that Obama was playing the race card. It was soooo offensive. But now, when anyone dares to question Palins obvious lack of qualifications and bizarre beliefs, they are sexist. McCain is a weak, clownish pussy who cant stand up and take any sort of heat.
But the most amusing part of this story is that Obama has gone out of his way to say families are off limits. Most Democrats are avoiding the topic of her pregnancy and trying to talk about the multitude of other problems with Palin. Shes a walking disaster, so its not difficult. But whenever someone brings up just one of the multitude of problems with Palin, the McCain camp screams like children that Democrats and the liberal media are attacking Palins private life because she is a woman. Its laughable and quite sickening. The Republicans are using a 17-year-old girls horrible situation for their own political advantage. They are now driving the story of the girls pregnancy, using her as bait and creating a victim story of their own making.
Let's be clear about what's happening here. Overwhelmingly, reporters are pressing eminently reasonable questions -- her role in Troopergate, her lack of experience, her connections to the AIP, her history of earmarking and lobbyists, etc. Meanwhile, the McCain campaign is going absolutely non-stop about Palin's daughter. It is unmistakable.
The victim here is a young unwed couple who were outed by Republicans and are now being used in the biggest game on Earth. McCain and his people are complete and total scum.
And insane hypocrites. Right-wingers jumped out of their panties when Jamie Lynn Spears announced she was pregnant. That was a glaring example of our societies decay, but Bristol Palins pregnancy is a celebration of the pro-life cause and should not be discussed for any reason. Certainly not because her mother is using her as a pawn as she attempts to win the vice presidency.
John McCain is a coward. Real men stand up and defend the choices they have made; they dont make excuses and use children in horrible situations as pawns to fulfill their ambitious desires. Real men also dont play the gender card and make claims that certain topics should be off limits, when they are guilty of far worse behavior.
"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno." - John McCain, 1998.
See, thats sexism, McCain. Attacking a teenage girl for her looks. What a fucking coward. Oh, and real men dont make jokes about women loving rape.
Hes a scumbag, pure and simple. And hes weak. Weak for allowing the religious lunatics of his party to make his vice presidential choice for him.
Only last month, friends say, Mr. McCain wanted to reach beyond his base and ask Mr. Lieberman to be his running mate; in that instance, though, party influence proved too strong, with many Republican officials and delegates insisting they would reject Mr. Lieberman because of his support for abortion rights and some gay rights laws.
Bending over for those he used to fight against.
The members of the Council for National Policy are the hidden hand behind McCain's Palin pick. With her selection, the Republican nominee is suddenly -- and unexpectedly -- assured of the support of a movement that once opposed his candidacy with all its might.
But I guess thats why he spent five years in a POW camp, suffering inhumanly for five years, so someday he could run for president and not stand by his convictions. Any real man who goes through a horrifying experience comes to understand that life is about not doing what you feel is right and allowing others to make your most important decisions. It's true. Torture apparently just makes one a groveling bitch for the religious right. At this point, I am more disgusted by McCain because he was a POW. What man doesnt walk away from something like that with some personal conviction? What man doesnt walk away from 5 years of torture and say, Im going to live my life the way I want. A man like John McCain, I guess. Full of ambition and weak to the core.
Theres your teenage-girl attacking, rape joke making, using teenage girls as a pawn war hero. Feel the pride, Republicans.
I should also ad that I was not going to vote for McCain or Obama, but McCain's choice of Palin as VP has forced me to rethink that decision. I will now reluctantly cast my vote for Obama. She is that frightening of a human being. Palin is a religious lunatic of the highest caliber. I see no difference between the Taliban and Neanderthals like Palin.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. Check back each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for more from FearTheReaper, and read his blog, Stop All Monsters.
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- TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2 2008 6:00 AM
McCain Picks A Vagina
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by erin_broadley
Tags: Sarah Palin, John McCain, Election '08
Yes, I wrote that headline. Mostly because its true. In the most cynical Vice Presidential choice I have ever seen, McCain picked a woman, simply because she is a woman. In doing so, he overlooked many other conservative women who are far more qualified to be Vice President. McCain chose Sarah Palin because shes attractive and she hates abortion. I honestly cant think of another reason to select this walking disaster of a choice.
McCain is obviously going for the disgruntled Hillary voters. Picking Palin will possibly earn him precious few Hillary voters, while turning off millions of independents. Palin's inexperience is astounding, unless you count her awesome time in as city council member and mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. The town had a massive population of 7,738 people. She ran for governor in 2006 and won, mostly because Alaska is a backwards land full of idiots. Palin has been governor for less than two years and now John McCain has selected her to be vice president of the United States. Considering McCain is so old he could die at any moment, this is a stunningly pathetic choice for vice president. Lets just look at the past 36 hours.
It was discovered that Palin lied on Friday when she claimed to have opposed Alaskas famous bridge to nowhere.
I told Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that bridge to nowhere," Palin said Friday in Ohio, using the critics' dismissive name of the project. "'If our state wanted a bridge,' I said, 'we'd build it ourselves.'"
While running for governor in 2006, though, Palin backed federal funding for the infamous bridge, which McCain helped make a symbol of pork barrel excess.
We also learned Palin was a member of an Alaskan secessionist group in the early '90s and apparently still thinks its a great idea to stay connected. Here she is addressing the Alaskan Independence Party's 2008 convention.
What does the Alaskan Independence Party want? The same things any crazy lunatic wants.
The Alaskan Independence Party's goal is the vote we were entitled to in 1958, one choice from among the following four alternatives:
1) Remain a Territory.
2) Become a separate and Independent Nation.
3) Accept Commonwealth status.
4) Become a State.
Oh, good. Worthwhile effort.
Also, Palin admitted yesterday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.
The Palins, in a statement released by the McCain campaign, said Bristol "came to us with news that we as parents knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned"
Yes, she will grow up faster than ever planned, especially because you just agreed to be John McCains running mate, putting your daughter and her pregnancy in the nations spotlight. You are a genuine and caring woman for putting your child in front of a bloodthirsty American media. Wonderful values you have there.
Palin had told McCain's team about the pregnancy during lengthy discussions about her background, aides said. At several points, McCain's team warned Palin that the scrutiny into her private life would be intense.
By all means, throw the kid to the sharks. Thats what a good Christian does. Ambition first, kids second. Oh, and this news probably wont help the abstinence only cause.
And bestest of all, Sarah Palin just hired a lawyer because she is about to be deposed by a special investigator.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate, has hired a private practice attorney to defend her in the investigation into the firing of her public safety commissioner.
The Legislature is investigating whether Palin fired public safety commissioner Walt Monegan after he refused to fire a state trooper who had divorced Palin's sister.
The special investigators report is due on October 31st. That makes some fantastic timing for the election. Genius move on McCains part. Even if it clears her, you can be sure someone will pull something out of the report that reflects poorly on Palin. Thats how it always goes.
More than anything, this is insulting to the women who supported Hillary Clinton. McCain actually believes women will vote for him, just because he picked someone with a vagina as his running mate, even though she has the opposite political views of Hillary on every issue.
He's got someone who believes abortion should be illegal even in cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the mother.
He's got someone who, in defiance of science, doesn't believe global warming is man-made.
He's got someone who, in defiance of science, wants creationism taught in schools.
He's got someone who wants to further increase the health-care burden on the patient.
He's got someone who wants to ban all stem-cell research.
How could a Hillary supporter not climb aboad that train?
Palin is also a religious fanatic who was selected by a "cabal" of other religious fanatics.
Last week, while the media focused almost obsessively on the DNC's spectacle in Denver, the country's most influential conservatives met quietly at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis to get to know Sarah Palin. The assembled were members of the Council for National Policy, an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy.
CNP members have included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich
.This year, thanks to Sarah Palin's selection, the movement may have finally aligned itself behind the campaign of John McCain.
Yes, and she is just what Hillary supporters want in a female candidate.
As one McCain aide put it: "We either get Hillary's voters and we win, or we don't. It's not a mystery." Said another: "This campaign is all about the middle."
FAIL.
The first national polls on John McCain's pick of Sarah Palin yesterday came out today from Rasmussen and Gallup -- and contrary to what the GOP probably hoped, she scored less well with women than men.
Women soundly rejected her, 48% to 25%.
McCain is treating women like they don't have brains and he will be punished because of it. He could have picked from a number of conservative women, who would have at least appeared to have earned the selection with their accomplishments. Women like, Kathryn Ann Bailey Hutchison, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Olympia Snowe, Christine Todd Whitman, M. Jodi Rell and Condoleezza Rice all would have made it appear as if McCain was not just looking for someone with a vagina. And nearly every one of those women are far less scandal-plagued. Up until this point I thought McCain would win the election, but I now think he will be crushed, which means I will owe Subrosa a six pack. That is very disappointing.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. You can read more of his nonsense and see a picture of Sarah Palin with her young child standing over a dead animal on his blog, Stop All Monsters.
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- MONDAY SEPTEMBER 1 2008 6:00 PM
Sarah Palin: A Disgrace To Beauty Queens
Submitted by nicole_powers
Edited by nicole_powers

Im not exactly a fan of traditional beauty pageants, but the upside is theyre supposed to provide a steady legion of Stepford women who are supposed to enjoy travel and looking after animals and children. John McTainteds newly announced vice-presidential running mate Sarah Palin is the exception to this rule. Palin won the Miss Wasilla title in 1984 and placed second in the Miss Alaska competition, but shes no ordinary beauty queen.
Theres no doubt Palin loves kids (in a soap opera-worthy plot twist a recent DailyKos blog post even alleges she claimed her 16-year old daughters child as her own), but she perhaps takes it a little far; The pro-lifer even opposes abortion in the case of rape and incest.
Her personal experience beyond U.S. borders is also seriously lacking; The flat-earther (she supports teaching Creationism alongside evolution in schools) got her first passport in 2007, and has traveled to a grand total of three countries outside the United States (Germany, Ireland and Kuwait).
As for her attitude towards animals just ask a polar bear shes their public enemy number one. In May of this year, Palin vowed to fight the Bush administrations decision to place the great white beasts on the endangered species list since it interfered with her cronies lust for fresh Alaskan oil from beneath their soon-to-be-protected habitat. That makes Palin, who doesnt believe that man is responsible for climate change, even less eco-friendly than George W. Bush quite an achievement.
If you need more reasons not to like Palin consider this: Shes a member of the NRA and enjoys hunting. Shes opposed to same sex marriage, and even fought to prevent domestic partners from receiving health benefits. She supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, strip mining, and a multitude of other activities that are guaranteed to fuck up our planet. (Doesnt this chick know that good planets are hard to find?)
McDesperates heavy-handed pandering to Hillarys disappointed legions of supporters is an insult to their intelligence and a fine example of his poor judgment under pressure. Talk about an own goal. But though McDoofuss V.P. choice may ultimately retard his chances of election, Palins rather special brand of feminism may also set back the cause of women thanks to her newly elevated profile.
Polar bear image courtesy of WWF/Geoff York.
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- SUNDAY AUGUST 31 2008 10:30 PM
Worst Mom Ever? McCain's VP Pick
Tags: McCain, Election, Palin, Abortion, Anti-Choice, Vice-President
What do you do if your sixteen-year old daughter is pregnant with a baby that's going to have Down's Syndrome? Tell her to have the baby, then pretend it's yours forever. This, at least, would appear to be the only option if you're a governor who got elected on an anti-choice/abstinence-only-education platform and are currently hoping to be elected to the second-most powerful office in the world. There are reasons to suspect that Sarah Palin, Republican presidential nominee John McCain's choice for Vice-President, did just that.
Let me stress here that this is, as of right now, a rumor on the Internet. SuicideGirls news is not a credible news source, and neither are any of the other places on the internet which allege Sarah Palin's youngest son actually belongs to her daughter Bristol. So why report it? Because unless a large number of non-credible sources makes some noise on this point, no credible news source will use its expense account to send a reporter to Alaska and go through hospital records and find out whether or not it's true. So what's the evidence so far?
The strangest piece of evidence, according to (credible and pro-Palin news source) The Wall Street Journal is that she allegedly started having contractions, then, against the advice of her doctor, made a speech in Dallas, and then flew to Anchorage -- a flight that could not have taken less than six hours -- to have the baby.
"Maybe they shouldn't have let me fly, but I wasn't showing much so they didn't know," she says.
Not only did they not notice she was pregnant, but neither did anyone else during her pregnancy--at least not until she mentioned it, seven months in, according to The Anchorage Daily News.
That the pregnancy is so advanced astonished all who heard the news. The Governor, a runner who has always been trim, simply doesn't look pregnant. Even close members of her staff said they only learned this week that their boss was expecting.
There are dozens of photos of the Governor during the late stages of her pregnancy, she doesn't look especially pregnant--but it's pretty hard to say either way. I will not sully SuicideGirls with fully-clothed MIDNLF photos.
Last and possibly least, the controversial and quite possibly unreliable DailyKos -- who started the story/rumor -- reports that Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol Palin, was reportedly out of school for four months with "mono". Mononucleosis usually lasts a month at most, though symptoms can linger for up to three months. To be fair: in the "against" category, there is the fact that the child in question has Down's Syndrome. Down's is much more likely in older women, but is nonetheless a possibility for all mothers. Most babies born with Down's are born to younger mothers, following the pattern for fertility in general.
None of this evidence is conclusive at all, but considering that the possible future Vice-President may have forced her daughter to have a child in order to further her own political carrier and anti-choice policies, this non-reporter feels this is certainly an important enough issue to encourage real reporters to check this story out some time very soon. Maybe it's all a baseless lefty rumor, but if the real press doesn't do its job, we'll never know.
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- SATURDAY AUGUST 30 2008 6:00 AM
Asshole Fuckface Roundup #61
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by erin_broadley
Ah, Asshole Fuckfacing. Its a glorious thing to behold, not because its beautiful, but because it makes you think you are a better person than you actually are. Its like looking at dirty, angry hobos. You know youre better than that, so enjoy. Buddha was all about hating on Asshole Fuckaces and hes the one who actually started the list. Since that time, the list has been passed on and on. Now it is in my powerful hands and I treat it with the respect and fear it deserves. Each week I scour the news looking for the worst of the worst and then I present them to you, for mocking. This week is no different, so put on your raincoats because this is going to be ugly.
First up, another addition to a long list of presidential Asshole Fuckfacery.
One of the biggest failures of the Bush administration was to drop the ball on North Korea, encouraging the crazy country to create nuclear weapons. Clinton had an agreement in place that would have prevented such an occurrence. Bush blew it off and called North Korea evil and the rest was history. North Korea now has at least two nuclear bombs.
Talks have been ongoing between North Korea, China, Japan, Russia, the US and South Korea. There was a big breakthrough in June, when North Korea submitted an account of its nuclear facilities to the other five countries. The expectation was that the US would, in return, remove North Korea from their terrorism sponsor list.
The submission by North Korea of a nuclear dossier was seen by the Bush administration as one of its success stories in foreign policy
Lets see
keep a country on a terrorism list and they keep building nuclear bombs, or take them off the list and they stop. Well, what to do? If youre an Asshole Fuckface, you do the thing that will keep North Korea in the nuke bomb business.
North Korea says it has stopped disabling its nuclear facilities, accusing the US of reneging on a six-party disarmament deal.
Work was suspended on 14 August, a foreign ministry spokesman told the state news agency KCNA.
"As the US side failed to keep its own side of the agreement, we cannot but take the following measures under the principle of action for action," the foreign ministry spokesman told the KCNA, according to AFP news agency.
Nicely done, Asshole Fuckfaces. Keep up the horrible work; its amazing to watch.
Next up, some Swiftboating Asshole Fuckfaces.
Now, we all expect the right-wing Swiftboaters to launch some horrible, horrible ads against Obama. Its pretty much as expected as rising of the sun or fat, four time divorced, drug addict Rush Limbaugh saying something racist. And the Swiftboaters did so last week, hitting Obama with an ad linking him to William Ayers. Yawn. Unlike Kerry, Obama hit back fast and the result was pretty hilarious. The Swiftboaters arent in this Asshole Fuckface Roundup for the ad; they are in the Roundup because they turned into a bunch of crying little bitches.
Besides going after the ad with one of his own, Obama went to court. The Obama campaign claimed the ad was a violation of federal campaign finance laws and asked networks to abstain from airing it. A letter was sent to the Department of Justice asking for a criminal investigation of the Swiftboaters. The Swiftboat group in question is a listed as a 501.c, which is a tax-exempt non-profit. That means it can lobby on issues, but is only allowed to engage in an "insubstantial" amount of activity supporting or opposing political candidates.
The Ayers ad clearly seems to violate the law, so Obama went to court. Obamas lawyer, Bob Bauer wrote the DOJ asking for an investigation...
of the American Issues Project; its officers and directors; and its anonymous donors, whoever they may be.
The Obama campaign also went after stations airing the ad.
The Obama campaign plans to punish the stations that air the ad financially, an Obama aide said, organizing his supporters to target the stations that air it and their advertisers.
Thats called fighting fire with fire. The big bad Swiftboaters response? Crying.
The American Issues Project has now struck back with a press release complaining of "a campaign of intimidation and legal threats to convince television stations and the federal government to force off the air an ad by the American Issues Project detailing the link between Sen. Obama and remorseless domestic terrorist William Ayers."
Aw, did da liberul not let you shove a broom handle up his ass? Poor little babies.
"They're going all of these routes - through threats, intimidation - to try to thwart the First Amendment here because they don't have an argument on merit," Pinkston said.
What up, irony? How you been?
Aw. Is Obama totally fucking with you? You should totally be able to lie and be horrible cunts without anyone stopping you, right? Sorry, and good luck with your Asshole Fuckfacery this election season. Cant wait to see how much of your money you spend in court.
Next up, another right wing Asshole Fuckface cant handle what Obamas bringing.
But this time, Im not referring to Barack Obama. Michelle Obama drove a man insane on Monday night. An unidentified man in Pasco, Florida, was watching Michelle Obamas convention speech, when he couldnt take it anymore.
The man stood outside his RV, yelling and shooting a gun into the air. When Pasco sheriff's deputies confronted him, he ran inside and wouldn't come out.
That started a six-hour standoff late Monday night between the man, whose name was not released, and authorities.
The police shot round after round of tear gas into the RV, but dude wasnt coming out. Six ours later, at five am, the Asshole Fuckface finally came out of his RV and gave up.
The cause of his displeasure, according to Doll, was Michelle Obama's speech last night at the Democratic National Convention.
Of course. I mean, he lives in Florida in a trailer and a black woman is speaking about her husband, nominee of the Democratic Party. Its the white trash apocalypse.
Finally, a little league in Connecticut is overflowing with Asshole Fuckfaces.
New Haven Little League officials want all their kids to grow up in an unrealistic world, in which no one else is better than them, they never get their asses handed to them and all competition is equal.
Jericho Scott is a 10-year-old kid with a 40 mph fastball. He plays in the Youth Baseball League of New Haven and has thrown 5 no-hitters. His team is 8-0. Thats fucking awesome.
Jericho's team was killing the competition when league officials told his coach on Aug. 13 to put somebody else on the mound.
Uh, what? Welcome to not sports. Way to develop a rare talent. You could be the town where the great Jericho Scott came from, instead of the town that drove away the young Jericho Scott.
The pint-sized fireballer played second base the next game on Aug. 16, but when Jericho took the mound last Wednesday, the other team forfeited rather than face his fastball.
Okay, now you just created an entire team of 10-year-old pussies. You know what you do when confronted by an awesome force kids? Give up. Thats a fantastic life lesson. Dont ever try your best against someone better, just walk away.
Now the league wants to disband Jericho's team - a move that his manager and the other parents oppose. His dad, Leroy Scott, said he's worried about what the controversy is doing to his son. "Everybody is saying it's because of his pitching," he said. "He's thinking it's all his fault."
Oh, good. Maybe hell develop a horrible complex at a young age and stop pitching.
Jericho, a Yankees fan who idolizes Alex Rodriguez and dreams of one day playing in the major leagues, said he just feels "sad."
"Me and my teammates can't play baseball anymore," he said.
Thats what happens when Asshole Fuckfaces are in control, Jericho. Maybe you can grow up to be a criminal, instead.
Congrats to all of this week's Asshole Fuckfaces. You will each recieve a FearTheReaper bicycle seat. You may also read more of FearTheReaper's spew on his blog, Stop All Monsters.
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- THURSDAY AUGUST 28 2008 6:00 AM
Get Health Care Up In This Bitch
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by FearTheReaper
Tags: Health Care, Barack Obama, John McCain
While the amazing, four-day Democratic commercial goes on, I thought this would be a good time to revisit a topic that has dropped off the grid since the spring. Remember health care? Seemed to be a big topic a few months ago, but not so much now. Now were clearly more concerned with whos a bigger celebrity and how many houses Old School owns.
But 45 million Americans do not have health care and 25 million more are underinsured. McCain and Obama have very different ideas on reforming health care. Im going to break their shit down and youre going to read it. Thats how we do.
McCains plan is a piece of shit created in jackass land. It does NOTHING to address the problem of uninsured Americans. NOTHING. Did I make that point strong enough? I used capital letters. That is some serious shit.
Johnnys plan is more of the same crap that already got us into this mess. Its all about market forces and individually purchased insurance. Sweet. Up until now we haven't tried "market forces and individually purchased insurance." It's so fresh!
Old Schools plan mainly focuses on
.taxes. What a big surprise.
Currently, workers do not pay taxes on health insurance premiums paid by their employers. The McCain plan would eliminate this tax exclusion and use the revenue generated projected to be $3.6 trillion over 10 years to pay for refundable tax credits for Americans obtaining private insurance ($2,500 for individuals, $5,000 for families). Uninsured Americans could use their credits to help buy insurance coverage on the individual market, and workers with employer-sponsored insurance could use theirs to offset the cost of paying taxes on their employers premium contributions or to purchase coverage on their own.
Oooooo. That sounds fucking awesome. Unless, of course, you are like the millions of Americans who cant get insurance due to your medical history, or one of the millions of Americans who have claims denied and are dropped because they had the gall to have surgery. But dont worry about that, because McCain will solve the problems of spiraling costs with deregulation.
Oh, fuck yes. Please, more deregulation. It has worked out so very well in every other market over the past ten years, especially energy and housing. Old Schools plan would allow insurers to sell across state lines and people would be able to buy policies from companies in any state. Wow, that should not make even the slightest difference.
McCain also believes by making insurance more visible, people will seek out lower cost insurance plans. Johnny thinks if workers can see how much their employers are paying, they would go for the cheaper insurance.
Since Americans would receive a fixed credit, the expectation is that they would seek out lower-cost, less comprehensive insurance plans, fostering competition among insurers.
Yeah, good luck with that. In the end, McCains plan doesnt do shit for people who cant afford insurance. Most uninsured people would remain uninsured and the fixed tax credit would lead to a gap in affordability as health care spending increases. And the number of Americans paying higher taxes for employer insurance would go up, too. McCains plan would force many people to purchase higher deductible, less comprehensive insurance. Oh, and if we got rid of the tax benefits of employer sponsored insurance, some businesses would stop insuring workers. How great does that sound?
But dont fret, because McCain has proposed a guaranteed access plan.
The federal government would work with states to create insurance alternatives for those unable to afford coverage on the individual market. The plan builds on the experiences of the 34 states that operate high-risk pools for residents who are deemed to be medically uninsurable.
Oh, good. The castaways. Only, McCains plan has no way to pay for this part. Its quite simply, bullshit. His interstate insurance market plan would actually weaken some states regulated protections. Oh, and those 34 states plans already have high costs and limited benefits.
McCain basically is offering very little. Its more of the same, which is unacceptable considering the situation we currently find ourselves in. If McCain is elected, expect our health care situation to get a lot worse.
Now, Obama at least seems to be trying, though he is also a bit deluded. Barack wants to spend money. Lots and lots of money. His plan includes an employer mandate, insurance regulation and a combination of public and private insurance.
Under Obama, employers will have to offer employees insurance or pay a tax. Smaller business would not have to pay a tax.
The Obama plan would also create two new options for obtaining health insurance: a new government health plan and a national health insurance exchange that would offer a choice of private insurance options. Both would be open to persons without access to group health insurance or other public insurance, as well as to small businesses that wanted to purchase coverage for their workers. Income-related subsidies would be provided to help lower-income persons afford coverage.
Best of all, insurers would not be able to deny coverage or charge more for preexisting conditions. His new "insurance exchange" would provide a pooling system, which would increase the purchasing power of individuals. Obama believes by pooling people together, it will cut administrative expenses and increase competition. Good luck with that.
And the attempts to cut costs dont end there. While McCain has proposed little to nothing to drop health care costs, Obamas plan is much more thoughtful and nuanced.
Other cost-control measures include accelerated adoption of electronic medical records, promoting disease management and better coordination of long-term care, paying providers on the basis of performance and outcomes, strengthening prevention, permitting the federal government to negotiate prescription-drug prices for Medicare patients, cutting excessive payments to private health plans contracting with Medicare, and establishing an institute for comparative-effectiveness research to generate information about effective treatments.
A big criticism of Obamas plan is that it does not mandate insurance for adults, just children. That means it would not cover all uninsured people, but Obama has stated he may move forward with mandates if his plan does not result in universal health care.
The big problem is the money. The cost control plans are not certain to work and he needs to come up with $50 to $65 billion. He says he will pay for it by ending tax cuts to families making over $250,000 a year, but that will not cover the whole enchilada. He expects to save a lot of money with his cost cutting measures explained above. If they dont work, its going to cost more. And you can pretty much guarantee there will be problems. But were spending $15 billion a month in Iraq, so if you are okay with paying for the war but dont want to pay for universal health insurance, then you are a major douchebag.
Obamas plan is way better than McCains, but its got a lot of problems. The only guy who had a decent health care plan was Kucinich. Until you take the profit out of health care, nothings going to work. Ever. So, don't get too excited either way, because we are a long way off from something decent.
UPDATE: One of the architects of McCain's healthcare plan uttered this gem today...
Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCains health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.)
So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime, Mr. Goodman said. The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American even illegal aliens as uninsured. Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to the likely source of payment should they need care. So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved.
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- TUESDAY AUGUST 26 2008 6:00 AM
Here Comes Fire Tongue!
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by erin_broadley
Tags: Joe Biden, John McCain, Barack Obama, Election 08
You filthy mongrels may be surprised, but I believe Joe Biden was the best possible choice Barack Obama could have made. This is pretty simple reasoning, which is why it seems to be confusing so many Republicans. Besides Dick Cheney, who was given a spectacular amount of power by the testicle-less Bush, Vice Presidents really dont do shit. Their most important function is to make the tie-breaking vote if the Senate is deadlocked. Other than that, not much. Sure, they go around the world, talking to people and have their own little agendas, but overall, pretty meaningless. They are just waiting for the big guy to die or for eight years to pass so they can run for president.
With that said, you may be wondering why I think Biden is an awesome choice. Well, here you go.
That's better than porn. The mans tongue is a weapon to fear. Unleashing Biden on the campaign is like creating a non-stop, sound bite machine. He is concise, brutal and usually dead-on. You know how you always wish some politician would cut the shit and call somebody out on being a douchebag? Bidens the guy who actually does that.
McCain is about to come face to face with an actual straight talker, which will contrast greatly with his time-worn mind, constant bullshit yammering and horrific speaking ability. Usually, candidates pick a knob who wont upstage them in the talky department. Just take a look at Joe Lieberman, Al Gore and John Edwards. Yawn town. And totally ineffective on the campaign trail.
The amusing aspect of this choice is watching the Republicans get huge hard ons for all the material they have against Biden.
REPORTER: Rush Limbaugh today (sic) said this on the radio, he said, "I really hope it's Biden. We don't want to say that too loud, but I really do hope that it's Joe Biden because we've got a mountain of archival audio on Joe Biden, plus the arrogance factor times two, with Biden and The Messiah would just be delicious."
Wow, great call. Seriously, please do. Go at Fire Tongue with everything youve got and take the attention off Obama. Please divide the focus of your attacks and do it against the man who can wipe the shit-eating grin off your face with one comment. By the way Rush, you are a four-time divorced, millionaire drug addict who takes trips to Puerto Rico with bottles full of Viagra. Keep speaking for the common man, though. Maybe Paris Hilton can tell us what's up as well. Just thought Id throw that in for no reason.
McCain is already running an ad in which Biden says hed be honored to run against Grandpa McCain and compliments him. Genius. The tape is from 2004, setting up a Biden, Well, hes fallen off quite a bit in the past four years. McCain is the candidate who has far to fall, as most people still dont realize he is an old man, slowly losing his ability to think and constantly making embarrassing gaffs. Now, here comes an old friend who is going to make the case that McCain isnt up to the job. And hes going to make it well.
I want someone above average. I want someone who knows what theyre dealing with. And it surprises me that John didnt understand the complexities of the power struggle going on in Iran right now.
John McCain remains wedded to the Bush Administrations myopic view of a world defined by terrorism.
He would continue to allow a tiny minority to set the agenda for the overwhelming majority. It is time for a total change in Washingtons worldview.
Only a fucking idiot would run an ad in which Fire Tongue praises McCain, because a severe verbal beat-down will follow. Severe. To have an ad with Biden praising McCain will create a false impression. People are now sitting around thinking, Oh, Biden likes McCain. They will then be surprised by the two months of verbal attacks McCain takes from his old buddy. Its a dumb tactic. Now, using clips of Biden attacking Obama is smart, but you can be sure Biden can talk his way out of that.
So, whats Bidens voting record like? Who gives a shit. People vote for the top of the ticket. Sure, you can quote my Fuck Joe Biden" article all you want. But that would make you one of the least understanding and dumbest motherfuckers on the planet, because those facts are all relevant for a man running for president. Guess what? Joe Biden is running for VICE PRESIDENT. See the difference? Guess who doesnt set the agenda? Hell have his own little projects, probably Amtrak, that he focuses on. Overall, he will have one function in the campaign -- to undermine John McCain. Who better than an old friend to do the job?
Im sure Fire Tongue have an input on foreign policy too, because he is one of the most knowledgeable people in our country when it comes to foreign affairs. His deft ability to make complex foreign policy issues understandable will be devastating to watch during the vice presidential debate and whenever McCain opens his hate hole on the campaign trail. Oh, and he has a son going to Iraq. Someone on the ticket actually has a personal stake in the war. Imagine how that will go.
This is the best choice Obama could have made. By far.
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- SATURDAY AUGUST 23 2008 6:00 AM
Asshole Fuckface Roundup #60
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by erin_broadley
Tags: Germans, David Davis, TSA
I have been told Asshole Fuckfaces now check this site every Saturday, weary of exposure. They then head to the Asshole Fuckface chat room and discuss whether those selected are worthy. This is, of course, not for them to decide. They should just be thankful they are not being shat upon. Literally. Shat upon. They deserve no less. Once again, I have spent the week scouring the Earth seeking out the worst of the worst. I will now present them to you, so that you may feel better about whatever petty shit you did this week. If you think about it, Im sort of an angel. Now, put on your most wet repellant overalls, because this is going to be ugly.
First up, some Asshole Fuckface principals should be allowed near children.
Meet Principal David Davis, a man who is probably still mad because his parents went with the lamest name possible. Davis is the principal of Ponce De Leon High School, which is on the border of Alabama and Florida. Last fall, a high school senior came to Davis to complain that other students were making fun of her for being a lesbian. Hmmm. What to do?
He told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children.
Oh, sure. Do everything opposite of right. When her fellow students found out what Davis had done, they showed support as best they could.
The friends donned gay pride T-shirts and rainbow-colored clothing when they found out how Davis had treated her, and he questioned many of them about their sexuality and association with gay students. Some were suspended.
Well, thats one approach.
He went so far as to lift the shirts of female students to insure the letters 'GP' or the words 'Gay Pride' were not written on their bodies.
Hello, sexual assault! Why not stick your finger in their ass, to find out if they smelled gay in there?
The ACLU sued the school district and a judge reprimanded Davis and ruled he had violated the girls rights. The town is, of course, horrified.
"We are a small, rural district in the Bible Belt with strong Christian beliefs and feel like homosexuality is wrong," said Steve Griffin, Holmes County's school superintendent, who keeps a Bible on his desk and framed Scriptures on his office walls.
Let me try that again. The town is, of course, horrified.
"David Davis is a fine man and good principal, and we are a gentle, peaceful, Christian, family-oriented community," said Bill Griffin, 73 and a lifelong Ponce de Leon resident who is no relation to the district superintendent. "We aren't out to tar and feather anyone."
Ah, shit. Well, at least the Asshole Fuckface lost his job.
Griffin, who kicked Davis out of the principal's office but allowed him to continue teaching at the school, said high schoolers here aren't exposed to the same things as kids in Atlanta or Chicago.
Youre right. Most kids in Atlanta and Chicago arent exposed to backwards, religious Asshole Fuckfaces.
Next up, Asshole Fuckface German diplomacy.
Six German MPs were on an 11-day official visit to the US and Canada as part of a health committee. But they were not on their best behavior. They started out by canceling official appointments so they could go sightseeing and shopping. And thats the best thing they did.
In another incident at the end of the trip, the Christian Democrat MP Hubert Hüppe demanded to be chauffeured to the airport because, he claimed, he could "barely speak English". However, on arriving at the check-in desk before departure, he reportedly used fluent English to demand an upgrade to first class.
Ah, a little German scamming. How so very Christian Democratic of him. And yet, it got so worse.
In one incident a Social Democrat MP, Randolph Krüger, demanded that his hosts provide "a negro" to push the wheelchair of Annette Widmann-Mauz.
Im sorry, what? Do Germans think each wheelchair comes with a negro? How are the 1800s going? Amazingly, the Asshole Fuckface did not back down when questioned upon returning to Germany.
Mr. Krüger was unrepentant yesterday. "I would not rule out that I said that. If they provide such a contraption they should have at least helped out," he said.
Okay, he actually confused me there. I just went to a medical supply website and did not find one wheelchair with a negro accessory. I did find plenty of old Asshole Fuckface articles that seem appropriate.
Next up, some Asshole Fuckface cops should be forced to eat what they kill.
Krystal Hernandez and her boyfriend were speeding to a veterinarian clinic as their dog choked on food. The dog had already vomited and gone limp at home. Clearly they didnt have a lot of time. They were apparently traveling 95 mph, when Officer Paul Stephens pulled them over.
The two college students explained the situation and pleaded for the officer to let them go. He responded appropriately.
He asked Michael what he was on.
I meant appropriately for an Asshole Fuckface. And he was only getting started. The students sat with their dying dog in the car for over 20 minutes, unable to leave. They even offered to have themselves arrested after the dog was taken to the clinic.
Stephens responded, Chill out, it's just a dog, you can buy another one.
Right, in Asshole Fuckface world, dogs are like oranges. If one goes bad, just get another one. By now, you know where this is going.
Instead of hurrying to issue the ticket, Gonzalez said, Stephens chatted with two other officers on the scene. When he finally allowed them to leave 20 minutes later, the dog was dead.
Officer Asshole Fuckface is receiving some kind of sensitivity training, or some shit. He should be placed in a dungeon.
Next up, some TSA Asshole Fuckfacery.
By now it is obvious to anyone who reads or has been to the airport that the TSA is loaded with Asshole Fuckfaces. This week they pulled what is known as a doosey.
Nine American Eagle airplanes were grounded Tuesday after a TSA inspector, conducting an overnight security check, used sensitive instrument probes to climb onto the parked aircraft at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
Dipshits move caused 40 flights to be delayed. The TSA agent climbed onto aircraft using control sensors mounted on the fuselage as handholds. He was checking to see if anyone could break into the planes, and decided damaging them was the best way to go. Now a few pilots are pissed, because of the old plane could have crashed thing.
"The brilliant employees used an instrument located just below the cockpit window that is critical to the operation of the onboard computers," one pilot wrote on an American Eagle internet forum. "They decided this instrument, the TAT probe, would be adequate to use as a ladder," a pilot wrote.
Another pilot wrote the TSA agents, "are now doing things to our aircraft that may put our lives, and the lives of our passengers at risk."
The TSA is, naturally, very apologetic.
TSA strongly defended its inspector's actions, noting in a statement that he was able to gain interior access to seven of the nine aircraft he inspected, which was an "apparent violation of the airline's security program."
Totally. The only way to save lives is by killing people.
TSA said it encourages its inspectors to look for such vulnerabilities and after reviewing the inspection results, the agency "could take action against the airline, up to and including levying civil penalties."
Yes. Penalties for the airlines, but not for the Asshole Fuckface who shouldnt be allowed anywhere near a plane. Hopefully at some point, they can show how easily a terrorist can get into a plane by crashing one.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. You may also read more of his nonsense on his blog, Stop All Monsters.
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- THURSDAY AUGUST 21 2008 6:00 AM
Bush Piles Stupid on Stupid
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by erin_broadley
George Bush provided the world with another example of his shocking stupidity yesterday, when the U.S. signed a deal to build a defensive missile base in Poland. The timing is nothing short of spectacular. How better to help solve the crisis in Georgia, than to sign a deal to put missiles on the border of Russia? I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
The Polish Prime Minister went as far as to say the situation in Georgia is why we are placing missiles in Poland.
However, the Polish defense minister made a clear connection.
"Above all, it seems that the Americans changed their opinion as a result of the situation in the Caucasus," Bogdan Klich told the Polish newspaper, Dziennik.
"In Washington's eyes, this conflict proved that Russia was not a stable partner for the States."
Please dont pay attention to the country that has invaded TWO countries, only be upset by the country that has invaded ONE country. And never mind that weve been trying to place missiles in Poland for a couple of years. Its the current Russian incursion into Georgia that is the reason. Please ignore all recorded history over the last couple of years.
A Bush administration plan to deploy a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe is drawing protests from Russia and from residents who oppose hosting foreign military bases and fear the facilities might make their countries targets for attack.
The proposed placement of about 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar tracking station in the Czech Republic would pose a "clear threat" to Russia, Col. Gen. Vladimir Popovkin, chief of Russia's Space Forces, told reporters last week.
Last week being in January 2007. But, yeah, well go with the fantasy that the U.S. wanted to get those missiles in there because of Russia invading Georgia. The Bush administration claims we need the missile base in Poland because of rogue states, like Iran and North Korea.
As we all know, when North Korea picks a fight with the U.S., they will attempt to launch rockets the long way around the globe. No fucking way does North Korea shoot missiles across the Pacific. They will go the long way, across Asia, Europe and the Atlantic. And no way does North Korea shoot missiles at South Korea, or Japan. Fuck no. They will probably shoot missiles across Russia and China to take out Belgium at some point. Everyone knows that.
Iran, of course, is going to bomb everyone and everything. Theyre obviously going to launch missiles they dont have at Europe. Oh, you didnt know were provoking Russia to protect ourselves from missiles that dont exist? Yeah. Kind of an awesome foreign policy plan, huh? The Pentagon claims the missile base will
"Protect our homeland ... and our friends and allies from ballistic missile attack.
Totally. I mean, neither North Korea nor Iran have intercontinental ballistic missiles, so we should build a very provocative missile base on the border of Russian to stop those not real missiles. While were at it, we should also create a dragon defense system. I mean, if were going to protect ourselves from non-existent threats, lets go all the way. Build the fucking Dragon Shield, already.
Oh, and did I mention that we dont actually have a defensive missile system? Right. Weve been trying to build one since 1946, but its been a total waste of money. Actually, its been the biggest giveaway to the defense industry in our countrys history. Since Reagan kicked the program off big time, its only cost around 120 billion dollars. And the Pentagon is asking for 62 billion more. For nothing. Its a complete joke. So, obviously we should really, really upset the Russians in order to protect ourselves and our allies from missiles that dont exist by using a defense missile system that does not exist.
That works just fine for the defense industry. At this point, Poland should just change its name to Bait. The Russian response has been obvious and predictable to anyone who is not a moron.
Russian authorities informed the Norwegian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday that officials in Moscow were immediately halting, canceling or postponing all planned military cooperation with NATO's members.
Around 10 joint military exercises were planned involving Russian and NATO members through the end of this year.
Wow, I cant believe it. And thank God thats not the end of it.
Moscow is convinced the base is aimed at Russia's missile force.
"Poland, by deploying (the system) is exposing itself to a strike; 100 per cent," said General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the deputy chief of staff of Russia's armed forces.
He added that Russia's military doctrine sanctions the use of nuclear weapons "against the allies of countries having nuclear weapons, if they in some way help them". General Nogovitsyn also said that would include elements of strategic deterrence systems.
President Dmitry Medvedev said the deal "absolutely, clearly demonstrates what we had said earlier: the deployment has the Russian Federation as its target.
Shocking if you are a tool.
Such comments "border on the bizarre, frankly," Rice told reporters in Warsaw. "The Russians are losing their credibility.
Hey, look! A tool! Let me know when you accomplish just one thing that is good for the world, Condi. Thanks. And good luck with that credibility argument. Iraq (cough, cough). Seriously, though, youre a war criminal, so you shouldnt be tossing around the word credibility. Its embarrassing.
Looks like the only winner in this mess is the defense industry. Who would have thought? And for anyone who wants to see how this turns out, read this book. I read it in the 8th grade. Obviously, no one in the Bush Administration has. Or even scarier, they have.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor, stand up comic. You may read more of his drivel on his blog, Stop All Monsters.
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- TUESDAY AUGUST 19 2008 6:00 AM
The Beast Rises
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by erin_broadley
Remember when you thought Hillary Clinton and her supporters were done? You obviously didnt notice her supporter's Michael Myers like qualities. While everyone else moved on to the general election campaign, Hillarys peeps have not. They have been strongly campaigning for Hillary to get the VP nod and they are becoming increasingly angry, all over again.
At this point it looks like there is no way she will get the nod. Currently, the worlds biggest self-hating gay, Drudge, is predicting Obama will pick Senator Joe Biden today. And the rumor mill is heating up in DC after Obama sent Biden to Georgia this week. Clintons supporters warn choosing Obama could mean a loss in November. I mean, hows he going to win without out the most divisive politician in America on his side? I dont know.
Theyve been making this point since July and it is as ridiculous as their big state argument and their working class voters argument, both of which turned out to be false, according to polls.
You know how after the fact now everyone wonders how in the hell we plunged into the Iraq Debacle? How in hindsight it was so obviously boneheaded that we wonder where all the "experts" were yelling "are you crazy?" That is how I feel about the fact that Barack Obama is not going to pick Hillary Clinton as his running mate. Honestly, I have never seen a bigger no-brainer in my life for this.
Yes, choosing Hillary for VP and not invading Iraq are extraordinarily similar. They just can't help themselves.
The answer to that question is what will hurt Obama. It also could make his job harder among Hillary supporters, not easier, and we're not just talking women either, something that is discounted way too often. There are a lot of men out there, like former Gov. Cuomo, who understands how these things work. Nobody is going to be happy if Obama blows it. His vice presidential pick is one way that could happen.
Yes. And picking Hillary could turn more people off than it could pull them in. Oh, and it would energize the Republican base more than Obama fucking a boy on top of Reagans grave would. But please, continue to ignore those possibilities.
Either way, expect another anger explosion from the Hillary supporters. They will be confused by Obamas stupidity, claim they will not vote for him and rage against the system. And it will carry over to the Democratic Convention, August 25th-28th. The hardcore Hillary supporters are already planning exciting events for the convention.
The Denver Group, which was started by two Clinton supporters, hopes to convince everyone to pick Hillary at the convention. Their slogan is Keeping the Democratic Party Democratic. And they plan on doing that by getting superdelegates to overturn the choice of voters and pick Clinton. Brilliant.
And they made an ad!
Keep hanging on. Theres no way this wont go your way if you just keep pushing.
The Denver Group is also opposed to having a coronation during the convention. They have been pushing for Clinton to be nominated during the convention and said that anything else would be a coronation for Obama. Having her name placed in nomination means delegates can vote for her as well as Obama. In the end, she is expected to then give her votes to Obama. And Obama agreed to do so last week. Basically, its just some petty, weird need for Hillary voters to make a statement, as if their 18 million votes werent already counted. Either way, I dont think her being placed in nomination is that big of deal unless these fuckers start making noise...
The news that Senator Clinton's name is going to be placed in nomination is welcome news -- even if it took two months and a lot of effort to persuade the Democratic Party powers to do what they should have done in the first place. If, that is, they actually end up doing what they should have done in the first place.
Oh, so they agreed to your demands and now your upset because they might not do what they agreed to? Really? Why are you so cranky? Does your diaper fit? Did you make a mess in it?
Heidi Li Feldman, co-founder of the Denver Group, said, There is going to be a steady stream of activities for the first three days of the convention and predicted thousands of Clinton backers will appear at the events.
Feldman said her group has raised between $30,000 and $40,000, enabling it to buy six print ads and produce one television ad. The TV ad is scheduled to run on CNN and during a local news broadcast in Denver the week before the convention begins. The ad strategy for convention week has not been finalized.
Wow. Thats an awesome idea. I wonder what the media will focus on? I dont think you can do more for your party than to totally undermine your party's convention. I wonder if the press will want to broadcast what these idiots have to say?
The Denver Post recently reported that Clinton backers will hold signs that read, Denounce Nobama's Coronation.
Thats just smart. Obama is having a difficult time getting his message out because of the relentless and shockingly stupid McCain attacks, so you might as well make it hard for him focus on issues at the party's convention.
Other groups, like 18 Million Voices, are planning on celebrating Hillarys achievement of losing. Sorry, I mean, coming in second. They plan on holding a large rally on the 26th of August.
We are happy to announce that 18 Million Voices will be Marching to advocate for women's rights and to celebrate Senator Hillary Clinton's achievements on August 26th in Denver and nationwide to support Senator Clinton and advocate for Women's Rights worldwide.
Again, that should go awesome. Dont expect much media coverage. Dont expect them to pull out the angry women who say they wont vote for Obama and make this seem far worse than it is. Dont expect this to be the story of the convention. Dont expect this to cause less unity in the party.
The amusing detail in this mess is Hillarys supporters reasoning. They believe their actions will be cathartic and bring the party closer together.
Clinton and many of her backers believe that, if there were a strategy of recognizing the New York senators delegates at the convention, it would be a cathartic experience and lead to a more unified Democratic Party.
Yes, nothing will bring the party together more than giving more attention to the woman who refused to give up, even after she was long dead. This is about group therapy for the Hillheads, nothing more. Some are just looking for something to be upset about. No matter what the DNC does, they will be angry.
Marc Rubin, the other co-founder of the Denver Group, said Clinton supporters will absolutely not be appeased by the speaking slots.
Rubin said there is palpable anger at the Democratic National Committee.
This above statement was made before it was agreed that Clinton would be placed in nomination. They were angry about something that had not been decided either way yet. And they will be a vocal minority at the convention and take away from the message. Count on it. And count on Obama supporters angry response.
Oh, and Hillary could have put a stop to this with a few phone calls.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and comedian. You can read more of his blathering on his blog, Stop All Monsters.
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- SATURDAY AUGUST 16 2008 6:00 AM
Asshole Fuckface Roundup #59
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by erin_broadley
Tags: John McCain , Rush Limbaugh
Well, here we are again. Its been a long time since the last Asshole Fuckface Roundup. My minions tell me an entire week has passed, but it feels like years. Asshole Fuckfacery never slows, like time it marches forward in a constant assault on all that is good. I wish there was somene to oppose Asshole Fuckfacery, like a good guy, or a fairy. But there is no such thing. Those of us on the sidelines can only point out the Asshole Fuckfaces and mock them. Thats what my people have been doing since a couple hours before the dawn of time. (We got in early its who you know) This week I have scoured the news, once again, to find the worst of the worst. The list is rather revolting, as usual, so put on your favorite box because this is going to be ugly.
We start with some Presidential candidate Asshole Fuckfacery.
John McCain appears to be a complete and total moron. Once upon a time I believed he was just old, but now, as I look further into his past, I have come to understand he is a moron. Sure, sometimes he lies out of his vagina, like most conservatives, but he also appears to just be stupid.
He gave us another glaring example of his shocking stupidity this week, when he chose these glorious words.
First probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War?
Huh. I guess he missed the Gulf War and 9/11 and the Iraq War and the war in Afghanistan. Im sure that is something the 4,144 Americans soldiers killed in Iraq will be surprised to hear. And, yeah, 9/11 was totally not an serious international crisis. Oh, and you are unfit to be president because of your mental state.
This is an act of aggression.
Thanks for the tip. I thought it was a terrible party. McCain is either a liar or he is that stupid. Either way, he should not be president. Vote Ron Paul!
Next up, AM radios biggest Asshole Fuckfaces spewed more idiocy out of his Oxycontin hole.
Listen to genius Rush Limbaugh wax poetically about Olympic phenom Michael Phelps and Americas energy crisis.
But now we read that Michael Phelps is burning and using 12,000 calories a day, while the Democrats are trying to alert everybody to the dangers posed by energy.
Hi, no connection, my names FearTheReaper.
Holy shit, is Rush a dumb Asshole Fuckface. I can only assume he wakes up and shoves an ice pick into his frontal lobe each morning. To attempt to connect one human being, a super human, to Americas energy crisis and the left may be the dumbest thing I have heard in a long time.
American consumption for the greatest production and the greatest rewards, why, that is fine if we do this in sports. However, if we consume and produce exceptionalism in goods and services for others, including ourselves, then somehow we are committing a sin.
Um. No. One is a person, the other is a country. One runs on gasoline and the other runs on chicken and ice cream. See the difference? I would love it if our country could run on ice cream, but it cant. Im sorry that you are the physical embodiment of Homer Simpson.
Oh, and, Chinese gymnasts eat rice cakes? Really? You couldnt help but throw in a little racism as well, huh? Please Christian Right, keep listening to this drug addict, 4-time divorced multimillionaire, because he understands your values.
Next up, some grieving family Asshole Fuckfacery.
Earlier this year, 14-year-old Oxnard high school student Lawrence King was shot and killed by a fellow classmate. King was said to have worn feminine attire and makeup, which made him the target of other boys in the school. The shooter, Brandon David McInerney, has been charged with a hate crime.
Naturally, the school must pay. For letting a kid with a gun on campus? For failing to protect a student? Nope. Because the school let King dress the way he wanted.
The family of a gay Oxnard teenager who was fatally shot in class is suing the school district, claiming its failure to enforce the dress code led to the boy's death.
Welcome to the Asshole Fuckface Roundup, grieving family. I think youre the first to get that honor.
The parents and brother of 15-year-old Larry King filed a personal injury claim against the Hueneme school district seeking unspecified damages.
The claim, filed last week in Ventura County Superior Court, says administrators and teachers failed to enforce the school's dress code when King wore feminine clothing and makeup to school.
Right. If it wasnt for the clothes and makeup, King would still be alive. Other than that, he totally fit in.
Finally, some Asshole Fuckfaces do not make good fathers.
Meet Raymond Daniel Thurmond, of Lavonia, Georgia. Ray has been living in a trailer with his wife and four children for three years. He worked at a poultry plant and was said the be police and quiet. But that was just outside the trailer. Inside it was a different story. Ray didnt allow his family to leave the trailer for three years and the trailer was not in the best condition.
When police finally searched the squat white mobile home where they say a man held his family captive for three years, the place was so filthy and bug-infested that one officer had to wear a gas mask and another refused to continue.
Refused to continue. That cant be good.
Thousands of roaches and other bugs crawled in and out of drawers, cupboards and furniture. Spoiled food littered the place, and a long-ignored plumbing problem left the floors rotten and mattresses moldy
And why not throw in some abuse? Ray would beat his kids, ages 14, 13, 12 and 9, sometimes with a steel-toed boot. He would rape his wife all the time, while the children listened. His wife was suffering from battered wife syndrome and did not come forward until Ray told her he was leaving for another woman.
Um, Im going to go ahead and say the other woman caught a break. Ray is looking at charges of rape, child abuse and false imprisonment. I hope he gets a little understanding of prison rape.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comic. You can read more of his nonsense at his blog, Stop All Monsters.
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- THURSDAY AUGUST 14 2008 6:00 AM
Righty Hollywood Baby Festival
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by erin_broadley
Tags: John Voight, Hollywood, Blacklisting, right wing
Wow, that John Voight op-ed in the Washington Times really set off a right wing Hollywood wont let conservatives talk festival of tears. They seized upon the words of some entertainment blogger and went back on the warpath. Its not surprising. Artists are the one thing the right wing will never able to control in this country. Ever. And they cant handle it.
On the 28th of July, Voight penned one of the dumbest op-eds I have ever read. It was mind bogglingly stupid. John Wells, of Hollywood-elsewhere.com, didnt think it was the most brilliant piece either and he finished off a blog entry with this sentence.
If I were a producer and I had to make a casting decision about hiring Voight or some older actor who hadn't pissed me off with an idiotic Washington Times op-ed piece, I might very well say to myself, "Voight? Let him eat cake."
The right wing, of course, went bat shit fucking crazy. How dare Hollywood threaten a man for speaking his mind! Its blacklisting! Its Nazism!
Uh, not so much. Its actually just a blogger writing in the moment, being pissed off and hoping something like that would happen. Guess what? It wasnt Steven Spielberg saying it. It wasnt Sumner Redstone saying it. It wasnt Tom Cruise saying it. Nope, it was someone with absolutely zero power saying it. It was about as important as the janitor at MGM saying it. But that certainly didnt stop the right wing from losing their minds or John Voight condemning the blacklisting.
Its out of line to insinuate that we should blacklist people for speaking their minds, Voight told Politico. Its a strange thing when people in this country cant express their opinions without being attacked. He added that Hollywood liberals frequently discuss topical issues, and its an important time for people on the conservative side to speak out.
First of all, fuck off, you idiot. Wells did not call for a blacklist, he just stated that a producer might think twice about wanting to spend time around someone who appears to be a blow hard idiot. Thats what it comes down to. Look, Voight is no longer a good actor. He is capable of delivering what is needed in movies like The Transformers. Nobody thinks of Voight when a juicy role comes along. Hes a limited character actor and they try to keep their personal life out of the spotlight as much as possible, because baggage harms their ability to be chameleons on screen.
Now, if you really want to piss off a writer in Hollywood, bring up the word blacklist. No one has suffered more from blacklisting than writers - at the hands of the right wing. For a bunch of right wing cunts to turn this term around and misuse it in their advantage is disgusting. The right wing destroyed peoples lives with blacklisting.
It started in the late 40s. Writers and other artists were denied work in Hollywood because of their alleged membership in the Communist Party. Their lives were turned upside down because of their involvement in liberal or humanitarian causes. Thats what a blacklist is, and the right wing should know because they were the ones who created it. A blacklist is not, and never will be, some guy not hiring you because he doesnt like what you have to say. Thats called life, you horrible, ignorant assholes.
A couple of days ago, a conservative writer
penned an op-ed for the Washington Post. Its rife with the usual conservative grandiose victimization. He kicks off with a delightful story of how hard it is to be a conservative in Hollywood.
At a recent writers conference in Southern California, one of my colleagues on a screenwriters panel told the crowd of about 50 people that she hoped Barack Obama would win the presidency. A number of people applauded. When it was my turn to speak, I politely said that I disagreed with her politics and moved on to other topics. There was no applause for me, but several writers approached me afterward. Each dropped his voice to a whisper and, looking around to make sure no one would overhear, said, "Thank you for saying that."
Oooooo. Wow. You mean, when you are in an area of the country that has political leanings toward one side, you dont get applause for stating the opposite view? Holy shit. I never would have known that doing stand up in places like Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. I wouldnt have known that when a guy in Mississippi yelled from the audience, Why dont you shut your fucking mouth? I wouldnt have known that when a girl in Georgia yelled, Go home Yankee as I walked the stage. And I certainly never would have picked that up when a woman told me I was going to hell as I told jokes in Oklahoma. How fucking stupid do you have to be to not understand that this is life.
Guess what? My liberal ass wasnt invited back to those clubs. Wanna know why? Because I didnt fit in. Thats called life. People naturally gather with like-minded people. I havent written many letters to the editor about my poor treatment in southern comedy clubs because I dont have an obsession over things I cant control. Ive toured every state in the country and there were more than a few places where I had to hold my tongue, like the entire southern half of the United States. And I had to listen to many conversations about how horrible liberals are.
The most vile aspect of this right wing cry party is that the people hiring for the Department of Justice for the past 7 years had a blacklist. Im not hearing much from the right wing about that problem. The complete politicizing of the Department of Justice and not a peep. But when a blogger comments that John Voight might not get a job, its shit storm time.
The right wing are cowardly, vile creatures. For them, all is well if they destroy the rule of law, but if movies are partisan in nature, a grievous wrong has been committed. They have the priorities of child molesters.
And lastly, artists will always be liberals. Thats how it works. And Im sorry 24 has been renewed for another season. Another year of dirty, liberal propaganda.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. If you want to read more of his yammering, check out his blog Stop All Monsters.
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- TUESDAY AUGUST 12 2008 5:30 AM
More Bush Failure
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by erin_broadley
The situation in Georgia is deteriorating rapidly. For those of you who have had your heads shoved up your asses, heres a recap and some history from Redbstrd. Georgia has been a tinderbox for years and the last thing one needs during a tinderbox situation is the simplistic, one note diplomacy of George Bush and company. He fucked the pooch on this one, plain and simple.
Historically, this is a very fucked up situation.Think Israel and Palestine. Georgia has been opposed to their aggressive Russian neighbors for centuries. And two regions inside Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, are opposed to aggressive Georgia rule. In the end, the regions dont want to be a part of Georgia, so they looked to Russia for help. Georgia invaded the capital of South Ossetia this week and Russia responded by invading, too. The conflict has now spread to Abkhazia and beyond. Thats the incredibly simplistic summary of a conflict that has been going on since the late 1700s. You want more, read this. Oh, and dont forget about the oil. Seems every conflict in the world includes oil as part of the equation.
We should be concerned about what our part in this mess is and how to make sure we dont do more damage.
The Bush administration encouraged Georgia president Mikheil Saakashvili to apply for NATO membership. This really couldnt have been a more ignorant stance to take. During a time of increasing nationalism in Russia, that reminds some of past fascist rulers, encouraging a Russian border country, with a history of conflicts, to join NATO is completely moronic. Oh, and Russia said they would not allow it.
Both Putin and his successor as president, Dmitri Medvedev, have reserved their starkest rhetoric for this subject. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has threatened that Georgia's ambition to join NATO "will lead to renewed bloodshed," adding, as if that weren't enough, "we will do anything not to allow Georgia and Ukraine to join NATO."
No, shit. Anyone who had bothered to read any history of the region would have known that, but we are talking about a president who didnt know the difference between Shiites and Sunnis when he invaded Iraq. Nuance and intelligence are the enemies of George Bush.
Bush has been giving weapons and training to Georgia for several years, while he pushed for the countrys entry into NATO. Europe said, No thanks, because they are not fucking morons. They knew if Georgia was allowed into NATO, it would mean war with Russia, which is exactly where we would be now if our retarded president had his way. We would be at war with Russia, obligated by NATO treaties to send troops to defend Georgia. Sound good? Thats how stupid Bush and his people are.
Now, throw in the fact that the U.S. has invaded two countries in the past seven years, and we actually dont have the ability to take a stance against an aggressive Russia. Bush invaded Iraq by using false intelligence, lying to the UN and the American people. Its kind of hard for a guy who killed someone, standing with blood all over his hands, to call someone else a murderer, without everyone looking at him funny. Also, any military or other support we could have given Georgia is being used in two wars. And Russia knows that.
But, its not like some in the Bush administration arent calling for the U.S. to jump into this fight. Colossal dipshit and the greatest threat to America since the Japanese, Vice President Dick Cheney, would like us to get in this fucker.
Cheney spoke Sunday afternoon with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. "The vice president expressed the United States' solidarity with the Georgian people and their democratically elected government in the face of this threat to Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity," Cheney's press secretary, Lee Ann McBride, said.
Cheney told Saakashvili "Russian aggression must not go unanswered, and that its continuation would have serious consequences for its relations with the United States, as well as the broader international community.
Oh, good. Call up the president of Georgia and act like you are president of the United States, dick. What a completely insane promise to make. What the fuck does "not go unanswered" mean? Judging by past Bush administration responses, that ain't good. But then, these are the same neo-con idiots who have wreaked havoc on the world, so it cant be a big surprise.
At an emergency session of the United Nations' Security Council, the U.S. alleged Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili "must go."
"This is completely unacceptable and crosses a line," said the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Zalmay Khalilzad, who made the allegation.
Okay. Line crossed. What do you propose, genius? The people of Georgia are expecting our support because of this EXACT TYPE OF LANGUAGE over the years.
One soldier, his face a mask of exhaustion, cradled a Kalashnikov.
We killed as many of them as we could, he said. But where are our friends?
Not coming. Not actually your friends.
When they met Western journalists, they all said the same thing: Where is the United States? When is NATO coming?
It's not and we're in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tell your government, said a man named Truber, fresh from the side of the Tbilisi hospital bed where his son was being treated for combat injuries. If you had said something stronger, we would not be in this.
He had not slept for three days, and he was angry at himself, at Georgia, but mainly at the United States. If you want to help, you have to help the end, he said.
Sorry about that. How about a mint?
Write exactly what I say, he said. Over the past few years, I lived in a democratic society. I was happy. And now America and the European Union are spitting on us.
It's called being on the other end of Bush foreign policy. Kind of a bummer, huh?
The biggest problem here is you, your country, he said. You said that the Soviets were an evil empire, but its you that are the empire.
Not you personally, of course, he added. But your government.
Smell that? Its smells familiar, kind of like the Shiites rising up against Saddam Hussein under the first President George Bush, after he encouraged them to fight, after he insinuated they would be aided in their battle, after he stupidly made public statements he should not have made. They were slaughtered, just as the Georgians are being slaughtered today.
It was he who in February 1991, as American forces were driving Saddam's troops out of Kuwait, called for the people of Iraq to rise up and overthrow the dictator. That message was repeatedly broadcast across Iraq. Eager to end decades of repression, the Shiites arose.
But then George H. W. Bush blew the whistle. Things had got out of hand. What Bush had wanted was not a messy popular uprising but a neat military coup -- another strongman more amenable to Western interests.
But the Bush administration didn't just turn its back; it actually aided Saddam to suppress the Intifada.
Bush I basically told the Shiites we had their back and they were slaughtered, while our soldiers were forced to watch, unable to engage. Now Bush II has done the same with Georgia and the result is not surprising.
John McCain, of course, wants to make the situation worse. Old School believes the situation escalated because NATO didnt vote Georgia into the organization. Uh, yeah. That would be true, I guess, in a world where Russia didnt say the exact opposite.
"I urge Nato allies to revisit the decision," McCain said. Echoing his past support for removing Russia from the G8, he urged the US to convene an emergency meeting of G7 foreign ministers.
Hey, World War III! How you been? John McCain actually wants us to do the exact opposite of what should be done. Just to summarize, he wants NATO to vote for a war with Russia. Because, you know, thats what happens when you bring a country into NATO who is at war with Russia. Johnny wants to play bluff with Russia and hope they would back down. You know, the Russia that is going through a bout of insane nationalism and knows the U.S. is incredibly weak militarily. Hey, draft age guys, you up for it, or what?
Oh, and please dont pay attention to the fact that McCain's top foreign policy advisor was a lobbyist for...Georgia.
John McCain's top foreign-policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, is a leading expert on U.S.-allied Georgia -- and was a paid lobbyist for the former Soviet republic until March.
Its interesting. A McCain win could mean World War III, but any destabilization in the world only helps McCain because of his military background. Its weird, but somebody predicted a more unstable world as part of his future election breakdown. And hey, he also predicted the surge would be a success! Who would have thought with all that paying off of the enemy and whatnot
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FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comic. You can read more of his blathering on his blog, Stop All Monsters.
- commentary
- SATURDAY AUGUST 9 2008 6:00 AM
Asshole Fuckface Roundup #58
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by erin_broadley
Most people do not know that Asshole Fuckfaces are not born, they are hatched in filth. Like maggots, they feed on death or shit for nourishment. At some point, they burrow into the Earth and begin their transformation process. After several years, they burst forth from the soil as fully formed humans. Then they live on Earth for a while, doing the Asshole Fuckface work, until they shed their human skin and metamorphose into pure energy balls of hate. True story. But for now, the ones that walk the planet must be revealed to all, so that we may laugh at how horrible they are. This week gave us a bountiful harvest of Asshole Fuckfaces. So, put on your leather poncho, because this is going to be ugly.
First up, apples dont fall far from the Asshole Fuckface tree.
Bob Schaffer is a former Republican Congressman who is currently running for the Senate in Colorado. Hes a quality individual who loves human rights abuses, the company of lobbyists engaged in illegal activity, forced abortions, and helping oil companies secure contracts in opposition of the State Departments wishes.
Now his son, Justin Schaffer, is in the spotlight because he apparently learned quite a bit from the old man. Justin attends the University of Dayton and he has a Facebook page. Holy shit does he have a Facebook page.
Among the Facebook page additions are a plethora of images that mock Barack Obama -- painting him as Muslim, elitist, homosexual and a terrorist. One even goes so far as to compare the presumptive Democratic candidate for president to the cereal-box character "Count Chocula."
Well, he said everything but anti-Christ. All in good fun, right?
One "bumper sticker" shows an image of Jesus holding an M-16 in front of a Confederate flag, with the words "What Would Republican Jesus Do?"
Well, thats an interesting question. Im guessing Jesus would not hold an M-16. The kid is drowning in retarded slogans.


I saved the best for last.

Ha ha ha. Slavery! Fun shit, especially if you are a privileged, white Asshole Fuckface. Please, Dayton, throw this piece of shit out of school.
Next, we head to Missouri for some legal Asshole Fuckfacery.
Last month, Ozark police receive a call that a young man was walking along a highway and he seemed agitated. When police arrived, 17-year-old Mace Hutchinson was lying on the shoulder of US 65, after having fallen 30 feet from an overpass. Hutchinson had a broken back and a punctured lung. So, what to do if you are an Asshole Fuckface?
Two officers fired as many as 19 shots from their Tasers while trying to subdue the teen, the report said, although it was not initially clear how many times Hutchinson was shocked.
Why not shit on him, as well? Police said Hutchinson was
Shouting statements such as "cops, kill, shoot" and "smoke crack" and trying to walk or roll toward the road.
Uh huh. For those of you who are not familiar with law enforcement, this is pretty much you classic cop lie. They lie all the time, to protect their abusive behavior. Dude lying on sidewalk with broken back and punctured lung is the definition of non-threatening. But the police department conducted an internal investigation and determined it was totally cool. Enjoy the lawsuit, Asshole Fuckfaces.
Next up, an Asshole Fuckface tried to make his own butter with his cock.
Getulino Ferreira Paraizo is a 53-year-old Brazilian who enjoys cows. A lot. By a lot, I mean he fucks the shit out of them.
A twisted oddball with an insatiable animal fetish was arrested after allegedly having sex with 400 cows.
The 53-year-old cleaner told police he did not fancy women and only cows and horses got him randy.
Well, maybe the cows had a good time. Its possible he took them out for some nice alfalfa first.
But police say it is even more bizarre.
They accuse him of torturing the animals, sometimes ripping out their eyes before having sex with them and then killing them.
Well, thats a boner kill or it should be. Getulino says he cant have sex with women because he was sexually abused as a child.
I tried once but couldnt do it. I only feel like it if its a cow or a horse.
He added: I need to stop doing this rubbish. I want treatment.
Understatement. Now, all we have to do is find a therapist who specializes in cow rape murderers. Police believe the Asshole Fuckface raped and killed over 400 cows in 4 years.
Next up, Asshole Fuckfaces do not go well with sandwiches and emergency services.
Meet Reginald Peterson, 42, of Jacksonville, Florida. Reggie wants shit done right, and if it aint done right, Reggie brings out the big guns.
Peterson walked into the Arlington sandwich shop about 7:45 p.m. Thursday and ordered two subs - a spicy Italian with everything and a chicken breast. When he discovered the spicy Italian didn't have sauce, he demanded that it be corrected, according to a police report.
Employees told police the burly construction worker became belligerent while a sandwichmaker was working on his order, then went outside to call 911 "so that the police could have his sandwich made to his specifications," the report said.
Dude enjoys certain sandwich specifications and he doesnt take kindly to those sandwich specifications being ignored. Also, Reggie has a problem with poor service. And he is a fucking moron.
"We put everything that he asked for on it, and he comes back hollering at everyone," said one employee, who wouldn't give her name because of company policy. "He was mad because we didn't put any sauces on it."
I guess so. The store manager locked Reggie outside and called the cops. When the police arrived, they tried to calm Reggie down, without success, so they arrested him for making false 911 calls.
He has prior convictions for burglary, battery and disorderly intoxication.
Never would have guessed Reggie is a boozer.
Finally, dont drink an Asshole Fuckface's beer. Ever.
Regina Williams and Willie Anderson were sitting in his car in Chicago on Wednesday night, when Regina realized Willie was drinking her beer.
They began to quarrel, and Williams allegedly pulled a knife she carried for protection and began stabbing Anderson.
So, dont drink her beer, I guess.
Anderson yelled for help, but Williams continued to stab him.
Actually, definitely dont drink her beer.
Afterward, Williams got out of the car and called down the street to Anderson's nephew, saying, "You better come get your uncleI just killed him," according to her arrest report.
Well, that was nice.
Williams got back in the vehicle and finished drinking her beer.
And thats a happy ending, right? I mean, from an Asshole Fuckface perspective. She has been arrested and charged with first degree murder. And I really want to know what kind of beer it was.
Congrats to all of this week's Asshole Fuckfaces! You will each recieve a FearTheReaper beret. (Sorry.)
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. You may read more of his nonsense on his blog, Stop All Monsters.
- news
- FRIDAY AUGUST 8 2008 12:30 PM
Russian and Georgian Forces Clash in Ossetia
"Russia is fighting a war with us in our own territory," Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili announced today.
Reuters reported today that the Russian military has entered into territory claimed by the Republic of Georgia - what is currently a breakaway region known as South Ossetia. Russian tanks are currently clashing with Georgian forces in South Ossetia and the Russian airforce is striking targets in Georgia proper.
Russia's decision to use force stemmed most immediately from Georgia's attack on the Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali yesterday. Conflict over spy drones, mutual sniper attacks, and artillery shelling has marred Russian-Georgian relations in the preceding weeks and months.
Russia claims that Georgia is to blame for the fighting:
Saakashvili rejected Russian assertions that the fighting was sparked by events in South Ossetia, where Moscow accuses Georgian forces of aggressive action against Russian peacekeepers and others.
Meanwhile, the Georgian president accuses Russian forces of intentionally targeting civilians and dismisses the Russian claims.
For those not familiar with politics of the south Caucasus, Georgia is an independent nation that borders Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. The nation is known for its excellent wines (like kindzmarauli and kvanchkara), spicy cuisine, and being the birthplace of Iosif Dzhugashvili - better known as Stalin. The landscape of Georgia is beautiful and it is home to four UNESCO cultural heritage sites. The population of Georgia is overwhelmingly Eastern Orthodox and has been Christian since Roman times. It is also the home to 12 different living languages (plus Russian and Armenian) and at least 18 distinct ethnic groups.
Russian-Georgian relations date back to the early 1860s, when King Herekle asked for Russian aid (as a fellow Orthodox nation) to secure their independence against both the Ottoman Turks and the Qajar Persians who competed for dominance of the Caucasus. Russia, under Catherine the Great, repeatedly failed to honor military obligations to Herekle but due to court intrigue, the aging monarch feared for the survival of his dynasty. Consequently, he signed the Treaty of Georgievsk in 1873, making Russia the protector of the eastern half of modern Georgia. Under Paul I, Russia formally annexed eastern Georgia in 1801 and conquered the rest within 10 years. The nation remained part of the Russian empire and the Soviet Union (with the exception of a brief independence following the collapse of the Romanov dynasty) until 1991, when Georgia declared its independence.
Things were not rosy* for post-independence Georgia, however, as even the former Soviet dissident and human rights activist Zviad Gamsakhurdia ruled in an authoritarian manner (even accusing his enemies of "sabotage" and treason). After his ouster by a violent coup, the opposition forces appointed Eduard Shevardnadze as president of the nation. His rule was likewise characterized by corruption and nepotism, leading to his peaceful ouster in the Rose Revolution of 2003. Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov negotiated the resignation of Gamsakhurdia in a summit meeting with the Georgian president and the opposition (including pro-Western and American-educated current president Mikheil Saakashvili).
While political representation has taken a turn for the better in the past five years in Georgia, the country is plagued with problems. Almost half of the population lives beneath the poverty line. Corruption and crime are rampant. More importantly - two regions of Georgia broke away after the 1991 independence: South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Following Saakashvili's campaign promises to clamp down on separatism, the leader of the autonomous region of Adjara also threatened to secede, leading to another crisis. While Georgia resolved the Adjara crisis peacefully, it was defeated militarily in its campaigns in both South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Georgia cannot exert military control over either region, largely due to Russian support of the separatists. Both of these conflicts led to slaughter of innocent civilians by all sides and ended in ethnic cleansing of the Georgian population in the breakaway regions.
South Ossetia continues to be a problem for Russian-Georgian relations. The UN, EU, and NATO refuse to recognize South Ossetia as an independent nation, while Russia extends visas to the population. Georgia hopes to suppress the Ossetian de facto independence and Saakashvili is under pressure from the public to do so. Meanwhile, Russia backs South Ossetia as a means of exerting power over Georgia and countering American influence in the region.
America, in fact, is deeply involved in the Russian-Georgian conflict at least in the eyes of the two players. Following George W. Bush's visit to Tbilisi in 2005, the Georgians renamed the street by their airport to "George W. Bush avenue." As a Reuters article notes, the United States has 120 soldiers in Georgia. President Saakashvili asserts that the influence of the US is even deeper, though. According to him, the latest Russian-Georgian conflict:
... is not about Georgia anymore. It's about America, its values.
He continued to say:
They made no secret. The are unhappy with our closeness with the United States, with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with the West in general.
Meanwhile, the NY Times reports that:
Georgia is also valuable to Washington because it is an ally in the Iraq war. With 2,000 troops in Iraq, it is the third-largest contributor of troops there, after the United States and Britain.
The United States will have difficulty remaining uninvolved, especially given Georgia's immediate decision to pull these troops out of Iraq.
US Presidential candidate John McCain has called on Russia to withdraw from Georgia and asks for an emergency UN Security Council meeting (Note: one already took place 12 hours before he called for it). Some bloggers are already claiming that this event will increase McCain's rating in polls because of his hawkish stance.
*Yeah, that's a pun on Georgia's Rose Revolution...
- commentary
- THURSDAY AUGUST 7 2008 6:00 AM
Who Needs Republicans?
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by erin_broadley
Tags: Democrats, Republicans, Tennessee, Kansas, Nikki Tinker, Steven Cohen, Gail Finney, Inga Taylor
Turns out Democrats can be just as horrible, hateful people as our GOP friends. This week Democrats in a couple of primaries took the low road with ugly religious and gay attacks. Its really sweet to see the supposed liberal party go to depths many Republicans would not.
First came Democrat Nikki Tinker, who is running against Democratic Representative Steven Cohen for Tennessees 9th district seat. The election is today and Nikki is apparently down in polling, so she took the lowest road possible. Its a road Hitler would have been proud of. Her latest ad is far from subtle.
In the ad, a childs voice is heard praying while the narrator, clearly meant to be a black woman but not Tinker, wonders who the real Steve Cohen is anyway while questioning one of Cohen votes on school prayer while in the state Senate.
While hes in OUR churches clapping his hands and tapping his feet, he was the only Senator who thought OUR kids shouldnt be allowed to pray in school.
Yeah, what is that Jew doing in your churches? And how dare that Jew uphold the Constitution of the United States by voting against prayer in schools. I wish I could show you the ad, but Tinker pulled it from You Tube due to complaints.
This isnt the first time Cohens religion has come into the race. Over the past few months, black ministers have passed out these fliers:

Nikki Tinker has refused to denounce the fliers. The black ministers began to circulate them because of Cohens support for federal hate crimes legislation to protect gay rights. Go Democrats!
Oh, and dont forget about Cohens KKK connections.
Thats about as low as it gets - and it's coming from a Democrat. Meanwhile, Cohen is a freshman Congressman who sounds like a decent legistator.
He has earned a reputation as a loquacious, media-friendly liberal, outspoken in his opposition to the Iraq war, aggressive in questioning Bush administration officials on the House Judiciary Committee and assiduous in efforts to cultivate his majority-black constituency, including initiatives to rename federal buildings in Memphis after African-Americans.
But hes not black and hes a Jew and Nikki Tinker is making sure everyone in the district knows. Hopefully she loses the election today.
Some equally vile conduct is occurring in Kansas, home of ignorance. Gail Finney, a marketing consultant and vice-chairwoman of the local Democratic Party, was in trouble going into the final days of the primary for the state's 84th District House seat. But yesterday, she defeated Inga Taylor, a black lesbian, by using the classic GOP here comes the gay agenda attacks in the final days of the campaign.
Using a coordinated mail, e-mail and phone campaign, Finney was able to swing voters and win easily. Heres a sample of an email that went out.
Taylor considers it an honor that if elected, she will be the 1st openly gay African American Legislator in the United States. If you will go to the www.victoryfund.com website, you will see that they are excited about the same and working strategically to ensure that this candidate wins the election . . . Who would she be representing? Those that fund her from the East Coast or 84th District? Is this what we want to be known for in Kansas? In Wichita?
Oh, my God no. They might change the name to Lesbichita.
The Victory Fund realized how serious the anti-gay attacks were on Tuesday and asked Kansas governor and serious vice president contender, Kathleen Sebelius, to denounce Finneys tactics. Sebelius did nothing. If there's one thing you can always count on from Democrats, it's that they will run away from their beliefs during election time.
Whats the matter with Kansas Democrats? We plan for and expect openly gay candidates will face attacks from right-wing bigots, not Democratic Party officials, said Victory Fund president and CEO Chuck Wolfe, adding, This is divisive, gutter politics at its worst, and Gail Finney should be ashamed of herself.
Go Democratic Party! Feel the pride.
FearTheReaper is a comic, writer and actor. You can read more of his babbling on his blog, Stop All Monsters.
- commentary
- TUESDAY AUGUST 5 2008 6:00 AM
Quality Race Baiting
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by erin_broadley
Tags: Southern Strategy, McCain, Bush, Reagan, Kevin Phillips, Obama
The Republicans are masters of using race to stir up white anger and fear to win elections. They play the race card, as it is referred to by hacks, and are more subtle and effective with it each year. Playing the race card is just a palatable way of describing their racist bullshit. I dont know how long the GOP has been doing this, my memory only goes back to Reagan, who was a master at riling up the master race.
In 1980, Reagan gave a campaign speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, during which he said,
I believe in states' rights.
It was obvious to anyone with a brain that Reagan was signaling white racists that he was on their side. After all, he was speaking the city where three civil rights workers were killed in 1964 and any retard knows what "states rights" means in the South.
If you dont buy that connection, then dont forget Reagans many quotes about a welfare queen driving a Cadillac, or his claiming that the Voting Rights Act had been humiliating to the South, or his help keeping Bob Jones University from losing its tax exempt status because of a ban on interracial dating, or his opposition to a holiday for Martin Luther King. Reagan was not just a terrible president, but he was also a straight-up racist asshole.
On July 31st, just days before Reagan went to Neshoba County, the New York Times reported that the Ku Klux Klan had endorsed Reagan. In its newspaper, the Klan said that the Republican platform reads as if it were written by a Klansman. Reagan rejected the endorsement, but only after a Carter cabinet official brought it up in a campaign speech.
This was the plan, called the Southern Strategy, encouraged by Richard Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips.
From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are.
Thats the plan they have followed, ever since. Bush used the famous Willy Horton ad against Michael Dukakis quite effectively.
Oh, my God! A black man!
But the country has changed. That kind of overt bullshit would not go over well in many places now. Im not saying it wouldnt still go over great in many states, because it would. But the number of people it would turn off across the nation would not make the ad effective today. And theres the new problem: The Democratic candidate is a black guy. That means the Republicans have to walk a very fine racist line. And they are doing it very well, so far.
The John McCain tactic seems to be to create ads most whites wont consider racist, but blacks will.
Thats obviously a racist ad. Its subtle, but if you dont think showing two young white women in an ad with a black man, and tossing the word FOREIGN up on screen with the black guys face isnt racist, then you are a fucking moron. Unfortunately, when blacks become upset and claim it is racist, McCain can scream innocence and say hes a victim of the race card. Poor rich, white guy. Sadly, Obama fell right into the trap.
They're going to try to say that I'm a risky guy, they're going to try to say, 'Well, you know, he's got a funny name and he doesn't look like all the presidents on the dollar bills and the five dollar bills and, and they're going to send out nasty emails.
Thats a pretty innocuous statement, but just commenting on the ad put him in a negative light, according to polls.
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the nations voters say theyve seen news coverage of the McCain campaign commercial that includes images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and suggests that Barack Obama is a celebrity just like them. Of those, just 22% say the ad was racist while 63% say it was not.
The reason for that is simple; there are more white people than black people. This is about how people relate and most of us don't relate to racism, subtle or otherwise.
In a dispute about race, the McCain campaign knows it will end up with the larger half. For the most part, most white people's experience with race isn't one of racial discrimination. They can only relate to racial discrimination in the abstract. What white people can relate to is the fear of being unjustly accused of racism. This is the larger half. This is why allegations of racism often provoke more outrage than actual racism, because most of the country can relate to one (the accusation of racism) easier than the other (actual racism). For this reason, in a political conflict over race, the McCain campaign has the advantage, because saying the race card has been played is actually the ultimate race card.
Considering McCain is a doddering old fool, who has taken the least popular stance on nearly every position, his only chance to win is by using race. The Republican machine knows exactly what it is doing and they are doing it well. The race is tightening. Obama has stupidly moved away from his base, while Republicans are drawing theirs together. Democrats should be very thankful that McCain is a senile old man.
The debates could be devastating. Dont forget, Reagan and Carter were tied in the polls going into the final debate, just one week before the election. You can be certain McCain will look horrible in the debates, but the damage may already be done with the race card. And Republicans, when you bunch that ballot for McCain this year, know you are supporting racism. Know that you are a vile, filthy person who supports the worst in mankind.
FearTheReaper is a comic, writer and actor. You can read more of his nonsense at his blog, Stop All Monsters.
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- SATURDAY AUGUST 2 2008 6:00 AM
Asshole Fuckface Roundup #57
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by erin_broadley
Tags: Derrick Shepherd, Toby Keith
Asshole Fuckface Day is upon us again, like a horny mutt banging away on our legs. It never stops. It cant. Because there will always be Asshole Fuckfaces crawling about the Earth, leaving their slimy trails of filth. This week was especially craven and the choices were plentiful. Yet, doing my duty as appointed by God, I chose wisely and cautiously. Asshole Fuckface picking is not something one does on a whim. There is an extensive background check and several criteria must be met. It is now time for you to behold the worst of the worst, the vilest humans on Earth. So, put on your full body armor because this is going to be ugly.
We start with some wonderful New Orleans Asshole Fuckfacery.
You can always count on a politician from New Orleans to be doing something horrible at any given moment. This week, State Senator Derrick Shepherd stepped up. Apparently Sams sister and mommy were threatened by his ex-girlfriend and he did not know that police existed, so he took matters into his own hands.
Ashford told police that...someone began throwing rocks at her bedroom window to get her attention. Ashford said she later responded to the disturbance by going to the rear door of her home, where she found Shepherd.
Shepherd then forced himself into her home and punched her in the stomach after they argued.
Lady puncher is not going to look good on the next campaign poster.
Ashford told police that she had grabbed a small board to defend herself and locked herself in a rear room on the second floor of her home. Shepherd then followed her into the room, damaging the door.
She finally got crazy Sam to leave, after he locked her outside and she called 911.
She later discovered her cellular phone and $100 missing from her home. The phone was later found at Shepherd's home when he was arrested.
Being a State Senator, you wouldnt want to pass up a chance to steal and entire 100 clams. I mean, what could go wrong? Notice that the above paragraph says that Shepherd was arrested. Holy shit was he arrested.
Shepherd, D-Marrero, was arrested Saturday and booked with unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling, simple battery and theft over $500.
Shepherd was arrested at his residence in Stonebridge. The sheriff's office said there were two women in the house, one of whom appeared to be performing a lap dance on Shepherd, who was on a sofa.
Best State Senator, ever. And one hell of an Asshole Fuckface.
Next up, some country singer Asshole Fuckfacery.
Genius Toby Keith, who is in the Asshole Fuckface Hall of Fame for writing The Taliban Song, was on the Glenn Beck radio show this week. Now, ordinarily I would expect some sort of wormhole to open up when two of the dumbest people on Earth come together, but for some reason that did not happen. What did occur was one of the dumbest, most racist, ignorant statements that have been uttered during this presidential campaign.
KEITH: I think that the black people would say he dont talk, act, or carry himself as a black person.
BECK: What does that even mean?
KEITH: I dont know what that means, but Im saying thats what I think that they would say. Even though the black society would pull for him, I still think that they think in the back of their mind that the only reason that he is in is because he talks, acts and carries himself as a Caucasian.
Indeed. Obamas not slapping bitches or flashing his bling. Also, I dont know if you have noticed but Obama does not have a single gold tooth - and he doesn't hold weekly dog fights in his backyard. How are black people supposed to relate?
Next up, what happens when you do something horribly wrong? In Asshole Fuckface Land, you get a medal.
In December, a Minneapolis SWAT team entered the house of a law abiding citizen and had a bit of a shoot out.
The eight officers -- who had SWAT training -- entered the house expecting to find a violent gang member. Instead, they found Vang Khang, a 35-year-old homeowner who thought he was being robbed. Khang shot through his bedroom door at the officers until he understood who they were.
In the midst of the shootout were Moua, who is Khang's wife, and their six children, who range in age from 3 to 15.
Hmm. Well, obviously somebody fucked up. The Minneapolis department acknowledged the raid was a mistake and apologized. But that has not helped the family.
My family is a mess right now. My [9-year-old] son, who saw the shooting, still has nightmares and has needed therapy.
Well, what to do? How about some fucking medals, bitch?
Eight Minneapolis officers received medals in City Hall Monday for their valor in a botched raid that the city apologized for last year.
Congrats on fucking up, and getting into a shoot out with an innocent man that could have led to the death of both police officers and children. Seriously, thanks for not killing innocent children. You get an Asshole Fuckface award. Maybe next year you can shoot up an old folks home.
Finally, some rich Saudi Arabian Asshole Fuckfacery.
A Sheik in Saudi Arabia had quite a dilemma on his hands this week. He owns and Lamborghini, but he needed an oil change by an approved dealer. If youre an Asshole Fuckface, the choice is simple.
A RICH Arab sent his Lamborghini on a 6,500-mile round trip to Britain for a service.
The £190,000 supercar was put on a scheduled flight from Qatar to Heathrow then flown BACK after the oil check.
Money was no object as the flight would have cost the owner around £20,000.
Thats some serious Asshole Fuckfacery, there.
A cargo handler at Heathrow blasted the cars environmental damage.
He said: It would have been far more efficient to fly mechanics out there.
Hey, theres a thought! Man, I can't wait for that country's time to end.
Congrats to all of this week's Asshole Fuckfaces. You will each receive a FearTheReaper video game. Please enjoy more of FearTheReaper's nonsense on his blog, Stop All Monsters.
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- THURSDAY JULY 31 2008 6:00 AM
Republican Corruption Blowout!
Submitted by FearTheReaper
Edited by erin_broadley
Republicans seem to be having some sort of summer corruption blowout. Between an on-the-run Karl Rove, a gagged EPA, a law breaking Justice Department and an indicted Senator Ted Stevens, its a jamboree of wrongness. The current Republican Party takes a daily bath in sweet corruption, but this week stands above all others.
Let us start with Karl Rove, everyones favorite pasty, flabby beast. Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Karl in contempt of Congress.
A House panel Wednesday voted to cite former top White House aide Karl Rove for contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to answer questions about the dismissals of several federal prosecutors as its Senate counterpart explored punishments for an array of alleged past and present Bush administration misdeeds.
Karl is, of course, willing to speak to members of the House Judiciary Committee behind closed doors without any recording of the conversation, because thats what innocent guys do. He also wants it to happen in a submarine in the middle of the Atlantic and everyone must be nude. Also, after the meeting all Senators must be sandblasted until their hair and skin is removed. Finally, they must be blinded and their memories erased.
Karl doesnt want to testify in front of Congress because hes as guilty as they come. But dont expect the Democrats to do anything. Nancy The Coward Pelosi still has to approve the final vote in front of the entire House. If someone could be held accountable, you can be sure Nancy will run away. But still, its fun to see Karls name and contempt in the same headline.
The Justice Department is also looking like a giant, steaming turd today. Anyone could have read the story on the front page of the Washington Post yesterday. The Justice Departments Office of the Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility released a report and, well, is it good when the Justice Department has been breaking the law? I'm guessing it's not good, mostly because it is called THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
For nearly two years, a young political aide sought to cultivate a "farm system" for Republicans at the Justice Department, hiring scores of prosecutors and immigration judges who espoused conservative priorities and Christian lifestyle choices.
That aide, Monica M. Goodling, exercised what amounted to veto power over a wide range of critical jobs, asking candidates for their views on abortion and same-sex marriage and maneuvering around senior officials who outranked her, including the department's second-in-command.
Oops. All that stuff is illegal, Monica. But its not surprising, considering she was the White House liaison. Huh, I wonder why Karl wont answer questions under oath?
And speaking of breaking the law, what up Ted Stevens? Yesterday, Ted became the first Senator in 20 years to be indicted for felonies while serving in office. Well done, sir. The bat-shit, crazy Alaskan Senator was indicted on seven felony counts for lying to hide the $250,000 in gifts and services he received from an oil and construction company.
VECO employees and contractors performed architectural design services, put the house on stilts and installed a new three-bedroom first floor, a finished basement, a garage, a Viking gas range and a wraparound deck, according to the indictment.
While Stevens paid a construction firm for its work, he never reimbursed VECO or its contractors.
Shit. I didnt realize I couldnt take a three-bedroom first floor, a basement, a garage, a gas range and a wraparound deck from my buddy. How about if I give it back?
Meanwhile, as Stevens then served as the powerful chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Allen and VECO sought his help with international projects, grants from the National Science Foundation and funding for a natural gas pipeline on Alaskas North Slope, the grand jury charged.
Stevens is looking at 5 years in the slammer. Hes 84. Im laughing.
And finally, the EPA is going into some sort of Branch Davidian Waco lockdown, sans the kid fucking. Under Bush, the EPA has taken a lot of shit for lying and basically doing the opposite of what it was created to do. Several congressional committees have requested documents on the EPAs position on global warming and the EPA responded with a giant, Go fuck yourself. Last week, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson decided not to appear in front of two Senate committees to discuss why the agency does the opposite of its staff's technical and legal recommendations. And now the agency is in crazy lockdown mode.
The Environmental Protection Agency is telling its pollution enforcement officials not to talk with congressional investigators, reporters and even the agency's own inspector general, according to an internal e-mail provided to The Associated Press.
The June 16 message instructs 11 managers in the EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, the branch of the agency charged with making sure environmental laws are followed, to remind their staff members to keep quiet.
Lets fire some tear gas in there and send in the battering rams. My God, just think of the shit we are going to learn about these agencies when Bush leaves office and a new crew comes in.
The current Republican Party is insane.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. You can read more of his blathering on his blog, Stop All Monsters.



