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5/22/2005

Gregory Scott Johnson wants one chance to do something decent in his life.

Johnson is on death row for the 1985 stomping murder of an elderly woman. Johnson requested a 90 day reprieve from his death sentence in order to donate his liver to his ailing sister, who, in her 40's, resides in a nursing home.

Is blood lust, and desire for nothing but vengence, so strong that this man, who has this one opportunity to do something decent, one act in a life so decrepit that this man can be described as nothing more than a waste of oxygen, be denied that opportunity?

Julie Woodard, Hutslar's great niece, said she did not wish any harm to Johnson's sister. But if Johnson were allowed to donate the liver, she said, "He is going to be remembered more as a hero for saving his sister than for this brutal murder."

I can understand wanting vengeance. I really can. However, if the man has viable organs and he can save a life here at the end of his own, then shouldn't that chance be taken?

He won't be remembered for it, he won't be a hero, he'll still go to the death penalty, and that will still be that.

In rejecting Johnson's request for time to donate a liver to his sister, the parole board has also quite possibly sentenced Johnson's sister to death, too. So, as I see it, the real question is if Johnson can't be remembered for finally making one redemptive act in his whole pathetic life because he committed a terrible, heinous, disgusting crime, then why does his sister have to die for his crime, too? Why is she being sentenced to death for his crime?

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5/22/2005

The Democrats want the young people to join the debate on Social Security - after all, it's our impending old age that Bush is trying to destabilize, after all.

I've voted Dem all my adult life, but I'll be the first to admit that the Dem Party can be the masters at stating the obvious, and at the same time missing the obvious - such as Rep. Kendrick Meek, D-Fla., saying this:

"Our younger workers have the most to lose in the debate over Social Security."

Like we don't know that? And by the way, what debate?

USA Next v. AARP? Not a debate.

BushCo's taxpayer subsidized jaunts pushing privatization at "townhall meetings" that smack more of party rallies, with dissenters nicely, and sometimes not so nicely, asked to vacate the premises for fear that they might ask the "president" a real question, that the "president" might not be able to answer without sticking his foot in his mouth. Nope, not a debate either.

Our Democrat House Reps and Senators listening to their constituency? No, that doesn't tend to happen either.

The only place I'm seeing even the slightest semblance of a debate is here on the internet, where we young people, Dem and Indy and Green and even a few republicans are saying "No" to Social Security privatization.

Perhaps if my Dem leadership got it's head out of it's tuckus for a few minutes, they might notice that no, we young people are not falling head over heels for Soc. Sec. privatization, and we're not all complacent little sheep who will do and think what our big daddy government tells us to do and think.

Furthermore, Rep. Meek, privatization of social security will not just endanger the retirement of today's younger workers, it will endanger of retirement and well-being of our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, because once you get rid of a thing like Social Security, it's hard as hell, if not outright impossible, to recall it.

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5/20/2005

I'm a little psyched. When I claimed this domain back in January '05, I waited a couple of weeks and checked Google. I typed "thebeekeepersapprentice" in the search box. Clicked enter. Nothing. I was nowhere to be found.

Well, ladies and gents, the Bee is happy as a clam in mud tonight - someone told me today they googled me. And there I was, first hit. So, I googled myself. Sure enough, there I was, first hit.

Everybody sing along (with all due respect to Paul Henning, who originally penned the ditty known as "The Ballad of Jed Clampett."

Come'n listen to my story 'bout a girl named Bee

Poor left-wing blogger barely kept her family free

An' then one day she was shootin' at some repubes

An' up thru the ground came a bubblin' truth.

'tude, that is! Freedom lovin', liberal - i -ty

Well, the first thing ya know, ol' Bee's a Bloginaire

Kin-folk said "Bee, move away from there."

Said Liberal City is the place y'oughta be, so they

loaded up the truck and they moved to NYC

Liberals, that is! Air America! Al Franken!

Ahhh, it's good to be me tonight. Now, if I could just get headlined on Buzzflash, life would be complete.

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5/16/2005

BushCo paid a visit to my home state today and toured a bio-diesel refinery, where diesel fuel is made from virgin soybean. BushCo claims that he wants to push a bill through congress that will funnel funds into alternative fuel industries.

I just started reading The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler. I used to read horror for fun. Now I read non-fiction. Check out this book, and you'll understand what I mean.

Kunstler, in The Long Emergency, talks about the depletion of oil reserves (which according to reputable sources that he cites will peak around, oh, tomorrow). Kunstler goes on to talk about the inevitable changes that will come in some of our lifetimes - our industrial/techno society will devolve into an agrarian society - where there's enough land that's not paved or housed already to have an agrarian society, that is. In one respect, it will lead to the "simpler life," for those who live, that is. With a return to the simpler time comes a return to the time when the common cold could kill you, a scratch would give you lockjaw, and if you get sick with malaria, you're screwed. Not to mention cholera and TB.

Part of me wants to hope beyond hope that of all the hare-brained ideas that BushCo has had the last 4 1/2 years (Iraq, going to Mars, social security privatization, this list could go on for hours, and I have to go to bed so I can get up in the morning, go to my day job and try not to scream because I have to pretend all day that NOTHING IS WRONG.)

Part of me wants to believe that BushCo is serious about alternative energy sources - that part of me that wants also to believe that we can continue this consume/destroy/pave it over/build a house on it/windows shut tight made of safety glass you can't break with a sledgehammer office building society that we live in without too much disruption. However, I know deep down that's not a possibility, and I also know deep down that BushCo isn't serious about bio-diesel or any other alternative energy source, that really, when you get right down to it, he's only helping all of his oil buddies stockpile as much loot at they can get. They've been stockpiling loot for 25 years - and don't think Exxon and BP and Shell don't know that they've hit the peak of the oil reserves, and that it's all a fast downhill slope from that peak to the breakdown of society as we know it, and who knows, maybe society will restructure itself in a decent form, that we'll suddenly be more civilized than we are now - but I doubt that too.

I'll make all of you wong-wingers a deal: If BushCo IS serious about alternative energies and somehow this mediocrity-made-king sad sack manages to end up really being the saviour of the world and not just the false-saviour you all seem to think he is, I'll turn republican. I'll even carry a damned GOP party card.

The other side of the deal is: If I'm right, and this sad sack does nothing but jerk us all around again for another 3 years, you'll agree to never, ever vote another slack-jaw like this into the White House again.

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5/16/2005

So, was a Koran flushed, or not? We may never know for sure. Newsweek apologized yesterday for running the story about Guantanamo Bay in which they cite unnamed sources for the Koran Flushing story. After a few days of rioting and resultant deaths in Afghanistan, as well as rioting in other areas of the muslim world, Newsweek has apologized for possibly getting the story wrong on some counts. The New York Times points out that Newsweek did not go so far as to retract the story.

Daily Kos gives examples of articles from other news sources which seem to corroborate the Newsweek story - however, the Apprentice has her doubts, and suspects that these sources could have just been jumping on the bandwagon.

I think what is clear about this episode is that we will mostly likely never know the truth about what has caused an international incident that is somewhat alarming in nature, nor will we ever know just what goes on in Guantanamo Bay. We may also never know for sure if Newsweek caved to pressure from the Pentagon et.al., or if they really aren't sure if the story is accurate or not.

Either way, I for one, am a bit disturbed by all of this.

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5/15/2005

More news from Afghanistan - according to CNN.com, muslim clerics in Afghanistan have given the U.S. an ultimatum - we hand over the interrogators who flushed the Koran in 3 days, or they wage a jihad on us. Handing over the interrogators isn't going to happen, so I guess it's jihad.

I know they're angrier than a poked-at hornet's nest, and I doubt that they are bluffing, but I have to wonder just how much bang for the buck those guys still have. Remember, 9/11 wasn't perpetrated with a suitcase nuke, it was done with airliners full of jet fuel for a cross country trip - an idea as simple as a molotov cocktail. Personally, I'm not too worried, but then, I don't live in New York City or LA. Richmond, VA? We're not THAT important.

I wonder if we'll be told tomorrow to buy lots of duct tape. I can't help wondering what the world would be like if Gore hadn't let BushCo steal the 2000 election, and if the Supreme Court (those "liberal activists," damn them anyway) had not sealed the coup.

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5/15/2005

Riots broke out in Afghanistan over Newsweek running a story about Guantanamo Bay, in which Newsweek evidently quoted an anonymous government employee as saying that American interrogators flushed a copy of the Koran.

Let's take a look at this from the other side of the bridge: If interrogators in, oh, let's say, Iran flushed a King James Bible, do we really think that Iran wouldn't be nuked the next day? The outrage in the muslim world is understandable, when the "outrageous act" is put in context that even BushCo lovers could understand.

Okay, maybe I am giving too much credit to the BushCo lovers.

The New York Times quoted national security advisor Stephen J. Hadley as saying " that if such acts of desecration were discovered, "people will be held to account."

Why? There's been no real accountability for the garbage going on down there yet, why should it start now?

Unfortunately, 17 people have died in Afghanistan in the course of the rioting over something that the Defense Department claims to have no evidence of, and oh, what a surprise. The Defense Department hasn't had evidence of much during the last 4 1/2 years.

Guantanamo Bay has been nothing but trouble, and it's time to close that particular pimple on the armpit of American history down for good.

It's spew like this that just makes the "march of freedom" mantra we've been hearing from BushCo, since WMD's didn't surface in Iraq, sound hollow, contrived and self-serving. I'm all for the march of freedom - but it's just a little difficult to promote freedom at the business end of a rifle or from the "on" switch at the end of the electrodes.

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5/13/2005

Remember BushCo, way back when many still thought that the U.S. had won the war in Iraq, because Georgie got out of the plane, stepped down onto the deck of an aircraft carrier, "package" bulging conspicuously, amid the hoopla of military men and women cheering, and then there was that big old sign in the background proclaiming "Mission Acccomplished?"

Yeah, so do I.

My husband has moved and updated his website, which is mostly a travelogue of our honeymoon in Egypt. It's a nice site, and you can take a peek by clicking here. He also has some original poetry. But, I digress.

Yes, that was a shameless plug. We took that trip in November, 2001. Yep, that's right - we went to a country that is 95% muslim 2 months after that fateful day of 9/11. Our friends said we were crazy.

I said that, while the odds were astronomically against it, if some terrorist tried to take over my plane, on my honeymoon trip to the one place in the world I'd most wanted to go all my life, that I would take that box-cutter away from him myself and cut his throat with it, and revel in the blood soaked glory of a trip-of-a-lifetime saved. Oh, and not to mention other passengers, crew and who knows who on the ground. Yes, I dream of saving the world. Most days. Some days I just dream of hitting it big on the MegaMillions lottery. But, again, I digress.

Anyway, needless to say, that didn't happen. I can tell you this, though - every American on every plane we boarded during the course of that trip was nervous. Valium-needin' nervous. The French didn't seem very worried about anything. Go figure.

Now, BushCo strutted around on that aircraft carrier like he was King of the World - in fact, I half expected him to hang off the bow and scream that same corny line like Leonardo DeCaprio in "Titanic." He was cock of the walk (no pun intended) that day - and I guess that's easy to do when you're on a military installation, a veritable city that happens to float, surrounded by thousands of well-armed young men and women.

We had one armed body guard, sometimes, while we were in Egypt (beautiful country, btw, and most of the people are simply lovely). The point of my story?

I have a bigger "package" than Georgie, and I'm a woman!

Hey! Other 51%! Do you feel safer now?

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5/12/2005

The LA Times says that a lot of critics of the Bush Administration are indignant, after documents surfaced showing an agreement between BushCo and Tony "pea soup and spinning head" Blair to invade Iraq - WAY before the actual invasion. Gee, BushCo might have lied about the motivations for going to war in Iraq. Well, DUH!

It took the LA Times this long to figure that out? Come on, I'm not a psychic and I don't even believe psychics are anything but lucky guessers about one in a million times, but I could have told you we would go to war with Iraq on September 12, 2001. In fact, I seem to remember actually telling some friends that on September 12, 2001. Of course, they laughed me off. Who's laughing now, eh? One IRL buddy had to concede that yep, either I'm psychic, which I'm definitely not, or BushCo was pretty transparent way back in the day, to some of us, at least. I'm talking transparent like he was soaked in windex for about a year.

Sometimes, I just have to laugh, usually with a maniacal tone while beating my head on the table or the keyboard, when the mainstream press FINALLY catches on, like it's some great big mind-bending epiphany, and only they thought of it.

Then again, maybe I should start my own psychic-mindreader-I-see-dead-people TV shows, and I could finally quit my day job. Watch out, John Edwards, there's a new cold reader in town!

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5/10/2005

American workers are in fiscal danger - a danger even more pernicious than that faced by workers during the Reagan era of Union busting and "trickle down" economics.

BushCo is slavering like potato-chip-teased dogs over dismantling and ultimately razing Social Security.

BushCo would love to raise the retirement age.

Tom DeLay would love to see those "liberal" and "activist" judges, most of whom were appointed during the Reagan/Bush I years, killed.

WalMart rules supreme. China owns way more of this country than they should. The deficit will be, at 1:55 a.m. on May 11, 2005, $7,755,182,737,522. Seven point Seven-Five TRILLION dollars. With an estimate of the U.S. population overall at 2.96 billion people, each American's share of this is $26,193.79. Many of us don't even make that much in a year. Forget about paying it back. Pay, we will, though, through the nose, through the teeth, and through every bodily orifice.

Let's talk about corporate bankuptcy for a moment. Trump recently had his holdings restructured by Federal bankrupcty court so that he received the lion's share of the reorganized stock in his casino operations after bankruptcy. Part of the reorganization package will allow The Donald to borrow $500 million to refurbish some of his casinos, AND he will save $98 MILLION DOLLARS in interest payments.

Think any of you out there making $40K or less per year, saddled with debt that you'll never get out from under because you dared to have a heart attack or your gall bladder had to be removed, will get a deal that sweet if you have to file bankruptcy? Don't count on it.

Pension plans, schmension plans, say the wrong-wingers. Those pesky unions, and those pinko commie retirement accounts, all they do is make it hard for all those poor little well-meaning megaconglomerates and poorly managed and poorly run airlines to make money.

United Airlines got a similarly sweeeeeet deal from Judge Wedoff of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Chicago. This "liberal activist" judge is letting United terminate its four employee pension plans. Said plans will be reduced, turned into 401K accounts, which will save United billions of dollars a year in pension contributions.

Yes, United is going broke, as airlines seem to do every single year, yet they manage to keep the entire process of flying one of the most excruciating exercises you'll ever pay money for.

The airline unions are threatening to strike, to which I say: Huzzah!

Strike, brothers and sisters, strike all of you, workers with every airline, workers with every trucking company, workers with every union across these Great States of America, and shut the whole damned country down for a few weeks.

Maybe then we'll see how much of the CEO can pull out of his own pocket, because United will come up $3.2 Billion short, and guess who'll be making that up? That's right, all 121,500 employees of United, at the tune of $26,337.45 each. Sounds like a drop in the bucket, unless you're not making much more than that per year as it is. Not to mention, what happens when, two, three years down the road, United has blown it's cash and is strapped again. Guess who takes the hit - that's right, the workers. After all, the Federal Judge said United could shrug off its debts onto its employees, so maybe next time, United's sob story will be that they're so broke, they can't afford to pay even into the worker's 401k accounts.

Not to mention the precedent this ruling will set throughout the country, across all industries. Anyone who still believes that the likes of WalMart and Halliburton and the airline industry are in business for any reason other than to make the most money possible, no matter what the consequences - take another look at Enron. If that's not enough to convince you, nothing will be.

The pensions should have been already paid into. United was dipping into the pension trough, and lost the money. I'm no economist, and I'm sure not a financier, but it seems to me that the workers again will bear the brunt of corporate malfeasance, and someone needs to go to jail.

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5/7/2005

During the Clinton Administration, the Department of Energy commissioned a report from the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. This report detailed radiation experimentation by the U.S. Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission on U.S. citizens and Marshall Islanders from 1947 through 1974. The report outlined horrendous abuses of U.S. citizens and the Marshall Islanders by the U.S. government for almost three decades. Even after the effects of radiation on the human body were well know to the scientific community, these experiments continued.

These experiments were conducted largely illicitly, without patient consent, and human guinea pigs were oftentimes obtained through subterfuge and were subjected to horrific experimentation.

Pregnant women were given radioactive iron at Vanderbilt University in the late 1940’s.

In jails in Oregon and Washington State, right up into the 1970’s, inmates had their testicles irradiated. The inmates were compensated, but it seems they were never fully told what was being done to them. Once the inmates were released from prison, there were no further follow-up studies done to guage the effects of the experiments performed on them.

In the mid-1940’s in Chicago and New York, patients with possibly terminal illnesses were injected with plutonium without the patients’ consent. The purpose of the experiment was to guage the rate of bodily absorption of radioactive materials.

From 1944 through 1961, Los Alamos National Laboratory released radiation, over the course of 240 experiments, into the air over New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Washington state and possibly other areas. Utah shows childhood leukemia rates at 2.5 times the national average.

From 1963 through 1990, undisclosed underground nuclear tests were conducted. Here, in America.

During the Reagan/Bush years, 18 of those undisclosed underground tests were performed. No one seems to know why.

In the 1940’s and 1950’s, at Harvard and MIT, more than nineteen mentally handicapped boys were fed cereal with radioactive milk.

Cereal, with radioactive milk. Take that in for a moment. Picture a group of mentally retarded boys having their breakfast of cornflakes and radioactive milk. Maybe the boys were even given strawberries in their cereal and radioactive milk. Picture the nurses handing over the deadly concoction, wiping mouths, going about the normal everyday business of feeding a group of children breakfast. Picture the doctors later recording the data, calmly, serenely, and convinced that what they were doing was in the interest of the common good. One has to wonder if any of the powers in charge at that time felt the slightest compunction at such wanton exploitation of those boys who were incapable of understanding, much less protesting, their detestable treatment.

With every successive news story of government backed study of the history of human medical experimentation in the U.S., a horrific pattern of Lovecraftian dimensions begins to emerge. The subjects are either unwitting participants, or are from among the most easily and often forgotten segments of American society – the seriously ill, whether mentally or physically, and children who are wards of the state.

Then, it was the U.S. government conducting tests on us.

Now, it’s the U.S. government and the pharmaceutical companies conducting tests on the fringes of our society. The old tricks remain the same. Just as the Nuremburg Code was ignored by the AEC and Department of Defense, now Federal law is too-often ignored when it comes to human medical experimentation.

In the Nigerian Trovan Trial, thirty Nigerian families brought suit against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer alleging that during the 1996 meningitis epidemic in Nigeria, 100 children were treated with the antibiotic Trovan in an effort to obtain cheap, quick and easy data on the drug. Pfizer called it a philanthropic mission. However, according to Jean-Michel Piedagnel of Doctors Without Borders in a BBC interview in 2001, there was already an existing cure for the disease, and that a more appropriate treatment was already being given by Doctors Without Borders.

In 1997, Trovan was approved for use in the U.S.

In 1999, the FDA issued a series of warnings about the proper and restricted use of the powerful antibiotic, which was to be given in only severe cases of infection and was to be used only in in-patient care facilities (hospitals and nursing homes) due to the risk of severe liver damage that the drug could cause if used improperly. Doctors were to use Trovan only when the Doctor could determine that the benefit of the product for the patient still outweighs the potential risk.

In 1997, Fenfluramine, which was a popular diet pill used in the combination known as Fen-Phen, was pulled from the shelves after the FDA issued a warning about the side effects of the drug – destruction of the heart valves in some people who took the drug.

The FDA, just prior to giving the danger warnings on Fenfluramine, gave permission for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute to begin trials on American children to guage the effects of the drug in curbing violence. The subjects were all boys, all labeled as having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and were located through the records of the juvenile penal system – they were younger brothers of boys already in the juvenile penal systems.

These trials, not unlike Pfizer’s use of Nigerian children to obtain quick clinical trials, have been accused of being racist their search criteria for suitable candidates for testing.

For the past two decades, AIDS drugs have been tested on children in the foster-care systems of seven states – Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Colorado and Texas, without the proper safeguards as outlined by Federal Law and state law. Under Federal law, and the laws of some states, children in the foster-care system who are subjected to medical experimentation by the government or by pharmaceutical companies MUST EACH be appointed an independent, third-party advocate. Furthermore, the experimentation must be designed to have a direct benefit for the child, and the risk must be minimal. In numerous cases in the seven states involved, the requirement of an appointed advocate was rarely instituted, even when researchers signed statements agreeing to do so. In some cases, the second and third criteria were not met.

In Illinois alone, among the 200 children in the AIDS drug trials, not a single one had an appointed advocate to watch out for their welfare. This was a common theme throughout the trials.

Funding was primarily provided for the AIDS drug trials by the National Institute of Health, and various private foundations.

In the DOE-commissioned study cited earlier in this piece, the recommendations of the Committee included reparations for victims of radiation experimentation and safeguards to be uniformly instituted to make absolutely certain that illicit experimentation on society’s most-at-risk members, especially children, never be conducted again without various criteria being met to ensure that the research being conducted will benefit the test subjects as well as future generations, and that the research be conducted in an ethical and moral manner. Public disclosure is not an option, but a requirement, according to the Committee recommendations.

The criteria designed to protect the populace from unethical behavior by medical researchers, be they from the government or private sectors, criteria promoted as early as the Nuremburg Code in the 1940’s, were not met in the radiation experiments conducted on U.S. citizens, including children, and they are not being met now in AIDS drug testing, nor have they been met in the numerous instances of illicit and unethical medical experimentation that has been, and is still being, conducted in this country. The targets never seem to be the wealthy or their children – the targets seem to be all too often from the least protected segments of society.

Human medical experimentation is a necessary component of medical research. However, when the trust that is placed in the medical profession, and dare I say it, the pharmaceutical industry whose drugs we gulp down on a daily basis and which help us live longer and healthier (while bankrupting us at the same time) abuse that trust, then it is time for the proverbial “heads to roll.” When government agencies and private corporations are allowed, by government consent, by public consent in the form of a lack of outcry, are allowed to experiment with impunity on the most vulnerable segments of society, then something in society is amiss. We, the people, must raise our voices of outrage. We must put aside our differences and face such injustice head on.

This poor treatment of fellow citizens of America should outrage us all. These examples of poorly rendered scientific research do not just impact the victims of the research – it affects us all, red state and blue, liberal and conservative. With every episode of Mengele-like behavior on the part of our own government against its people and of corporations whose overriding care in the world is the bottom line, the American psyche takes a hit, and we become more disabled, more inclined to distrust, and more inclined toward thinking of the above as isolated incidents. With every article we read or newscast we hear about unethical research, we all dig our heads into the sand of acceptance of the unacceptable a little further.

Medical research can be, and often is, conducted ethically, humanely and above-the-table. However, too often, it is not. We must all pull our collective heads out of that quicksand of acceptance of the unconscionable.

Write letters to the editors of your local newpapers. Send emails to all of the major and minor news outlets. Write or call or email your congressional representatives in the House and Senate. Contact your representatives in your states and localities. We must make our collective voices heard, in any way we can. There is a dream that is America - that the Constitution protects all of us, not just the privileged few.

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5/4/2005

I left work early today, and had every intention of perusing today's headlines and write one of my usual semi-scathing critiques of the state of the union, but it's just all too damned depressing today. Between Laura Bush's "horse milking" jokes and Pat Robertson comparing federal judges to terrorists, Bee feels the need of a day or two to recoup, regroup and come back with both keyboard barrels blazing.

See y'all at week's end. Peace, and stay strong.

The Apprentice

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5/3/2005

Sometimes, I'm ashamed to be a Virginian. Virginia, after all, was the birthplace of the american whole concept of freedom of religious belief, the birthplace of freedom of speech and was home to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other early american greats.

It's also home to Sen. George Allen, or, as we progressives in this oh-so-red state like to say, the Village Idiot.

This gem of foresight and fortitude came from Sen. George Allen Sunday morning on Meet the Press, concerning privatization of Social Security and the consequences of engaging in quixotic dueling with this particular windmill:

And by the time they retire, they're going to have a pretty good nest egg there and they don't need as big a house, usually, because they don't want to be cutting grass and trimming hedges, and that is good for the economy as well. So I'd want to look at as a broad package, not just in the narrow aspect of Social Security, which is important, but also let's look at other ways, additional ways to allow working people in this country to save for their own retirement.

Yes, we might have to sell our houses, but then, we wouldn't have to do all of that pesky yardwork! Save for retirement! Sell your home! Live in....a refrigerator box.

Yep, there are all of those concientious and well-thought-out red votes at work - keeping Sen. Allen in office so he can make the entire state look like a bunch of chuckleheads. I'm glad I didn't vote for the little weasel. Then I'd really be angry.

I couldn't stand anymore, which is a pity, because I'm sure he went on to say something really intelligent and insightful, like gay marriage is what's destroying America. Wink, wink, nudge nudge. Hurrrumph.

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5/1/2005

To anyone who still thinks that the Iraq War/Occupation is going well, watch this video courtesy of BushFlash.com.

It's not going well at all. In fact, it is, as a buddy of mine would call it, nothing but a clusterfuck.

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