Right On The Money

By the way, it's great to finally have a president who actually did inhale.

This Is For Anyone Out There Who Still Thinks Pakistan Is our Ally

Fuck them:

The Pakistani medical official who ran a fake CIA vaccination programme to help find Osama bin Laden has been jailed for 33 years. A spokesman for Khyber Agency, an administrative unit in Pakistan's restless frontier, said Dr Shakil Afridi would face decades in jail – despite calls from senior US officials to release the man who helped with efforts to track down the al-Qaida chief. 

The tough sentence for the former surgeon general of Khyber will be taken as another sign of the terrible state of US-Pakistan relations. And it will further alarm western critics of Pakistan who say the country has put far more effort into trying to understand how US spies and special forces were able to plan and launch the Bin Laden raid than into how the al-Qaida leader was able to remain for so long in the Pakistani army garrison town of Abbottabad. The sentence was announced just days after Barack Obama snubbed the Pakistani president, Asif Ali Zardari, by refusing to hold a formal meeting with him at the Nato conference in Chicago. 

In January Leon Panetta, the US defence secretary, said he was "very concerned" about the arrest of Afridi after Pakistan's intelligence service discovered he had set up a fake hepatitis B vaccination scheme with his nurses going from house to house in Abbottabad in the weeks before the raid on Bin Laden's hideout in May last year. "For them to take this kind of action against somebody who was helping to go after terrorism, I just think it is a real mistake on their part," Panetta said in January. ***

I am so very tired of these people. Given that bin Laden was holed up in a compound located in a military town, there is no doubt in my mind that some pretty high up people in the ISI -- Pakistan's premiere intelligence agency -- and in the Pakistani military knew that Osama was living in Abbottabad.

We should find out who those people are, then do the same goddam thing to them that we did to bin Laden. What was it that George W. Bush said again?

Vial Of Ronald Reagan's Blood To Be Auctioned

From Reuters:

Ronald Reagan's foundation expressed outrage on Monday at a British company's auction of what it says is a vial of the late U.S. president's blood taken at the hospital where he was treated after a 1981 assassination attempt.

You know what this means, of course: if they have a vial of Reagan's blood, that means they just might clone him. Finally, we have a real shot at getting a true liberal back in the White House.

This is Hilarious

I love this:

One of the more amusing things revealed last week when Arizona’s secretary of state came out as birther curious was that Hawaii officials just simply don’t believe he’s qualified to investigate Barack Obama’s birth certificate. Sure, Ken Bennett says he’s the man in charge of deciding whether President Obama is eligible to be on Arizona’s ballot in November, but the response from people in Hawaii’s government has been: Prove it. In essence, they’re giving Bennett a taste of his own medicine, making him jump through a series of hoops to prove he has the legal authority to investigate the matter. . . .

Hawaii's response to Arizona's birther secretary of state:  “We need more information to substantiate that you are eligible to receive verification.”

Anyone else out there think that the state of Hawaii is getting a little tired of all this racist horseshit?

Thought For The Day

If someone has to come out and deny that he is a Birther, it probably means that he is a Birther.

Historic Quote of the Week

“If Dick Lugar -- having served five terms in the U.S. Senate and being the most respected person in the Senate and the leading authority on foreign policy -- is seriously challenged by anybody in the Republican Party, we have gone so far overboard that we are beyond redemption.”

- John C. Danforth, a former GOP senator from Missouri, in 2010.

I guess the Republican Party is way beyond redemption at this point:  Tea-Bagger Richard Mourdock easily defeated Lugar in yesterday's GOP primary in Indiana.

Senator Lugar, in his concession statement, warned that Mourdock's "rejectionist orthodoxy" and "unrelenting partisan mindset" would lead to even more gridlock. Mourdock's response:

Well, what I've said is that I certainly think bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view. [...] Bipartisanship means they have to come our way....

Well, a hearty Sieg Heil to you too, Asshole.

Pretty Much Says It All

Quote of the Week

Can you imagine what Bush would have done if he had gotten bin Laden?  I mean, this is a guy who played dress-up to celebrate a war he lost.  If he had gotten bin Laden, he would have spent his whole second term in a Batman costume.

And poor Mitt Romney -- trying to make hay out of this.  Mitt Romney -- who is on record saying he would not waste money going after bin Laden -- on record saying he would not violate Pakistan's border to get bin Laden. -- this week said: "Of course I would have gotten bin Laden."  Even his Etch-A-Sketch went, "Seriously?"

-- Bill Maher, commenting on the GOP criticism of Obama for having the nerve to run for president by using his accomplishments as President.

And while we're on the subject, this is hilarious.

We've Come A Long Way

Nine years ago:

Today: