CAN YOU FUCKING BELIEVE IT????

SENATE PANEL SUBPOENAS ROVE!!!!

Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:15PM EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Thursday he had subpoenaed two more White House aides, including political adviser Karl Rove, in the probe of fired federal prosecutors.

"This is not a step I take lightly," Sen. Patrick Leahy declared in a Senate speech.

It was yet another salvo in the ongoing dispute with the White House. Congress appears headed toward a court fight with President George W. Bush, who has claimed executive privilege in refusing to provide documents or testimony by current or former aides, now including Rove and deputy political director Jay Jennings.

"For over four months, I've exhausted every avenue, sought the voluntary cooperation of Karl Rove and J. Scott Jennings, but to no avail," Leahy said.

ALL IS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD ONCE AGAIN.

Another angry rant

I don't know what it is lately but the news seems to get worse all the time. During my workday I listen to CNN radio breaks and I've heard I don't know how many reports about men who kill their entire families and then themselves. Why is this becoming so common all of a sudden? There have been and always will be cowards who abuse their families because we all know they have no dick, and that's what no-dick cowards do. They abuse their families. It seems though, that recently it's just gotten worse, and I'm not sure what that's about. Is it the state of our nation? Is it the unemployment rate? Is it that we are at war and hated all over the globe? Is it women's rights making already cowardly men feel even more threatened and then murderous? I really want the answers. It's been something that's been preying on my mind for a while now.

It's not something new. I heard about this guy, and thought maybe he was just nuts. I mean, he gets angry about a copier machine and gets ballistic? Ok. Psycho.

But really - I did a simple Google search about men who kill their families and I got literally thousands of hits. This is not uncommon, or as recent as I thought. We all remember the Texas shooter in the tower, and he killed his family before going on that rampage too, and that was back in 1966! That is hardly recent. I don't know. Maybe I'm just becoming more sensitive to it.

I think about the people with whom I've been involved and it occurs to me that I could have easily been in the newspaper for a minute one day when my ex-asshole-bastard killed me and what family we had, if I'd have stayed. Honestly though that isn't where I'm coming from. I'm just truly baffled about why there is so much violence against entire families by these men who are supposed to (if not love and care for them) at least not just blow them all away one day just for the fuck of it!

I know that violence against women and children is and has always been common, because cowardly assholes will always search for the easiest target. And no, I won't ever give an abuser the benefit of the doubt. No, I will not ever say he was confused or lost his temper once. No. All abusers are cowardly assholes who don't get a pass from me. Ever.

I still don't know why this is bothering me quite so much right now. I think it's the rising number of news stories that are casually thrown out on a daily basis. I hear this same story, over and over, about "Man kills family, then Self," it seems almost two or three times a week. A few weeks ago I heard a story and thought it was the same one being reported, but when I looked it up it was a new one. These are new and different numerous reports all the time.

Double-you, Tee, Eff?? This really bothers me. It's getting worse all the time, too. What is this a symptom of, whiny men who can't handle their lives? Well so fucking what, neither can we women, but we soldier on, goddammit! Whiny, infantile men who can't accept their wives' success, as in this Illinois man a little while ago?

Well grow the fuck up, assholes!! Why the fuck do these cowardly fucks feel so fucking threatened by women?? Is it the Christofascist Right who lies to them about where a woman belongs?? Is it this campaign to demonize feminism in the eyes of the unwashed masses?? I cannot believe that would cause all these men to murder their families.

Gah! I need a Valium.

...aaaand the hits just keep on coming! (redux)

What's that you say???
Moooooore Repugnicans caught in scandal after preaching morality to us cretins??
Scuse me while I sit back and chortle.
You can read this to pass the time.

Or, you know, this. Cause it's really ironic.

family and ways to die

My auntie (Becky) has cancer and has gone home to the family to die. She's being taken care of by my other aunties along with hospice workers. She's staying with Cathleen, and Lue and Debra are helping out. Becky is smoking like a chimney and has basically given up. Lue (my father's twin) is a fixer, and she's remarkably like me. Well, I'm remarkably like her, since she came first.

She isn't handling well the idea that anyone can just give up and die. She has a special heat bed that she has been foisting on her family, and she has been suggesting different things such as vitamins and healthy foods in order to help Becky get better. Some other aunties are giving her the smackdown for it. They are giving her such a hard time because she cares enough to try. I know you're wondering how many aunties I have. Well, it's a bunch.

There are ten aunts and uncles, and seven are female. Yikes. Anyway - Lue is driving herself batshit over this, and I feel her pain. I've been as supportive as I can, and I've been trying to help her fend off the bad aunties and crazy cousins who are basically psychotic on our family website. Ann Marie is the worst auntie, and Gail has been a fucking psycho for some time. She has really been off the edge since I have known her. It's incredibly hard for anyone to deal with death, especially when the person and the caregivers have totally given up and seem resigned to it when there is hope.

My mom and I didn't get along until right until the end before she died, and she wasn't doing anything to prolong her life at that point. She knew she was going to die and didn't care and god that really PISSED ME OFF! I mean, I was only a kid, what was I going to do? I couldn't convince her to get on the list for a heart transplant, or surgery to get a defibrillator like the one I've got. She wanted to die.

I ended up deciding to go and visit her and really just spend quality time with her for her last birthday (she died 6 months later). It drove me crazy how sick she was, and she was concerned about making sure she gave me things she wanted me to have before it was too late. My lesson there was that she had made up her mind she was okay to die regardless of the fact that she had me, Tina, Julie and Dave as well as Chris and Angela who were 11 & 9 who still needed a parent.

I know she decided a long time ago that she was done being a mom to me, I remember her saying that her "kids were grown" so she could go and have a life, but I was 9 at the time. That's hardly grown.

My point is she didn't care who she left and didn't care that she was going to die and she could have stopped it. She did not have to die the way she did. She did not have to leave before she and I worked our shit out. I spent years just being so fucking angry with her that she never gave us a chance to get our shit straight. What kind of mother does that?? Jesus Christ. I'm still so fucking angry that she didn't care enough to live.

And there was nothing I could do about it.

Finally the truth comes out!!

I'm not saying they are right, but fucking-A! =D

Scapegoat or Mojo-Killer?

This man headed up China's food and drug administration and he's been sentenced to die for taking bribes that equal approximately 425K (in pounds) to let unsafe products go to market. You can read the entire article here, but if this is the guy responsible for the poisoning deaths of thousands of animals including my long-time companion, the wonderful Mojo Risin' Kitty, then I say kill the fucker. Ok, that's what I feel, but really he should rot in prison forever. Killing him won't bring back anyone.