As eloquently reported by our left leaning friends, the ever sexually open John McCain has rejected the endorsement of or Torquemada after it was discovered that Torquemada could torture and sexually humiliate his enemies better than Mr. McCain could. Our republican friends, sinking to a new low, are offering us torture via the Hillary Nutcracker ... I once heard it said that " George Santayana had an irrational faith in reason" I have an irrational faith in the power of pastors and their monkish wizards to rule through and validate torture and violence, well that and right wing nutjob radio hosts.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 jolted eastern Japan early on Thursday, and was felt over a wide area, including in Tokyo, Japan's meteorological agency said. (Reuters) I am very glad that no one was hurt. I think we have some live footage here ...... We have some related historical footage too National Geographic could not cover it any better than this either. Link to Story

I know it is hard to believe , but scientists have found female penguins are engaging in prostitution ; one scientist speculating that it is because of global warming. The story was on the BBC this morning. So we have to cool the earth down quickly before all the penguins go naughty and start ruining the traditional family values that have ruled penguins for years.... Read the story, you cannot make this stuff up. And on a related note, here is a funny video from your Japanese friends reminding you why the Honda Civic is a family car.....

Dear Yoani , I love to read your site. I read it in English and Spanish. I want to tell you sister...you might as well be writing about Glorious Conservative Cultural Revolution that is George W. Bush's America. A prolonged public flagellation is exactly what we need- all across the Americas until we can all cooperate together to make our hemisphere more peaceful and better for normal people. I mean, if your site is at all an accurate picture of life in Cuba, we are quickly becoming exactly the same as Cuba.....no one ever apologizes for anything, instead, they say things like "well we know there are problems, but what can we do, there are always going to be problems...." Or the "economy is not so bad" when over 47 million people live in desperate poverty another 120 million in real hardship...... With the obvious historical differences the cultural attitude is identical, the scary thing however is that it does not come from the left in America. It comes from th...

I tune in Stuff White People Like about once a week, just to keep current. Sometimes I even read the entries beyond the title. Free Healthcare is not only more accurate than it is funny, it has so far received 1,258 comments. (Admittedly, about 1,150 of those comments turned out to have nothing whatsoever to do with the subject.) Here's my favorite excerpt: But the secret reason why all white people love socialized medicine is that they all love the idea of receiving health care without having a full-time job. This would allow them to work as a freelance designer/consultant/copywriter/photographer/blogger, open their own bookstore, stay at home with their kids, or be a part of an Internet start-up without having to worry about a benefits package. Though many of them would never follow this path, they appreciate having the option. If you need to impress a white person, merely mention how you got hurt on a recent trip Canada/England/Sweden and though you were a foreigner you receiv...

Now that the Army will not allow soliders in the PX to purchase Playboy Magazine , Donviti over at Delaware liberal had no words to describe the situation. Well, I have a suggestion.... Join the Navy:

The Spartans used to say that "men start wars, but women end them." It seems to work for gang members . According to the Lysistrata by Aristophanes if they were sufficiently angered, women could use sex to show the "foolish men" who were the supreme rulers of the democratic world. In his words, "what they could not win through force of arms, they would win through their thighs." Not exactly politically correct reading. All it points to is that women ARE a primordial force of nature. I suggest that that needs to occur in Montana soon to prevent the state's secession from the Union. Who would have ever guessed how pissed off Montana gets when someone threatens its citizens right to own guns......and following their March declaration and warning to the supreme court, their Supreme Court Justice warned us all that 1984 is here.... First lets parse an excerpt from the full transcript of Montana Supreme Court Justice James Nelson's opinion: I feel the pa...

How strange it is watching the presidential politics reach out to the MTV generation.... Those two are my homies; but John McCain is Bush's Poodle .....

Mary Ruwart , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton and John McWack stand aside, I finally found a presidental canddidate who all Americans can agree with......

Just another Victory in the War on Terror..... PG Version R Version

Billionaire mogul Ted Turner has warned that in about 30 years civilization will break down and we will all be cannibals for our failure to address global warming. If that is the case Ted I would like to invite you to my house for dinner. You can wear your famous after shave, what do they call it, oh yeah Hoisin Sauce. Having lived most of my life in Asia, I think I could make good ginger and green onion dumplings out of your man-flesh Ted. You know like that Siberian lady did to her former lover. Ted, I would like to introduce you to my family whose pictures I have sprinkled throughout the article. Ted Turner: Global warming could lead to cannibalism Billionaire environmentalist says world has too many peopleBy MIKE MORRIS The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionPublished on: 04/03/08 Failure to address global warming will have us all dead or eating each other by mid-century. So says Ted Turner, the restaurateur, environmentalist and former media mogul whose controversial comments have ea...

What better way to welcome the supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church to America then playing a rousing game of Pope Pong. Click here to make your own Fyrebug game And once you are ponged out, follow off your game with a pack of "beige pope hat" cookies filled with chestnut paste that look like a cross between a pine cone and the Pope's mitre. Speaking of the Pope's mitre I have heard it looks like a dorito chip . Whatever you choose to eat, be sure to wash it down with Pope Milk and then get back to your pong lessons. (Pope Pong h/t to Becky)

I found an unsolicited letter in my mailbox today from David Horowitz saying you liberals are blocking Islamo - demofascist -commie awareness week. Is this true you traitors ? I am so incredibly sick of the turpitude and screed of the conservative movement, that I am at a loss for words right now. Well you will be happy to know I sent him back this message: Dear Mr. Horowitz, It is with great sadness I received your letter. It clearly demonstrates how great the Islamo - democommie -fascist threat to our great nation is. It is almost as great as the threat posed by other groups like the entire left. I loved it when you said, " Part of the motivation for Discover the Networks is....the view that leftist individuals and groups provide support, intentionally or not, for Islamic terrorism, and thus require ongoing scrutiny." And when you provided proof in your Book Unholy Alliance that made me a think of you as a new Lenin. I mean if all the Islamo - democommie -fascists get to...

A refresher course in the economics of taxation anyone should be able to understand. First, crack open a cold one. ( don't drink too much beer ) Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1.The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7.The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59. So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. 'Since you are all such good customers, he said, 'I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20. Drinks for the ten now cost just $80. ( don't drink too much beer ) The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the: First four men were unaffecte...

To the words of our very own little angry dracula ....h/t to camp dracula

You might recall, that over at Delaware Liberal I was asking for the reincarnation of Thomas Jefferson. Well, in that vein, this is what the world of anime thinks of our presidential race with a special h/t to the dark lord Dick Cheney and his minions. This is one intense moment of Zen....

This morning at Delaware Liberal Donviti found God . I know some Republican readers will say, "I never thought it would happen but the liberals actually found God." But who is this God they found? Could it be Google? Wait a second. Before you tell me that that is a crazy idea I want you to consider two facts. First, there is this alarming story about how much private information about you is actually available online. Second, is this excellent article from Becky the Girl in Shorts on the possibility that Larry Page and Sergei Brin know everything about you. If they are not God, perhaps a Triumvirate Omnipotent Godhead with Eric Schmidt as the third leg. We know for a fact that they know everything there is to know about everything, right? A sort of benevolent, omnipotent, webmaster godhead whose supplication I invoke while trying to blog and figure out new applications.....constantly. Finally, in answer to Liberal Geek's question, " What if God is really Mexican? O...

Over at Delaware Politics they have made a disturbing little heartland industry of bashing Barack Obama's Reverend Jeremiah Wright whose comments sparked a national debate with "right wing liberator cum-aggressor" and militia agitator Sean Hannity. But for all the racists it seems to be OK since The Hon. James David Manning Ph.D. of Atlah Ministries gave Obama a tacit endorsement by way of breasts and trashy white women. Proving once again why we need a clear seperation of church and state- "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a w...