JABbering Stooge

Newsweek: “New research finds that people who give up on unattainable goals are physically and mentally healthier than ‘bulldogs’ who persevere against all odds.”

So what does that make The Most Holy George W. Christ The Infallible?

MSRNC: Canadian dollar reaches virtual parity with U.S. dollar for the first time in 31 years.

The dollar took another fall on currency markets Thursday, reaching one-to-one parity against the Canadian dollar for the first time in 30 years and falling to a new low against the 13-nation European currency.

How’s that class warfare against labor working out for ya?

Canada’s currency may be nicknamed the “loonie,” but this just goes to show that we’re the loonies for allowing conservatives to inflict their wildly irresponsible fiscal policies on us.

Sidebar: Japan’s currency, the yen, currently trades at ¥114.18 for every $1*. If the dollar continues to fall, how long until even the yen achieves parity with it? If we elect another Rethuglican in 2008, we may get the chance to find out…

* Depending on when you see this post, YMMV.

The Most Holy George W. Christ The Infallible held a rare press conference today. In addition to denouncing S-CHIP as socialist wacko handouts that he would veto with all due contempt, President 29% Approval Rating had this to say about the MoveOn ad:

I thought the ad was disgusting. I felt like the ad was an attack not only on General Petraeus, but on the U.S. military. And I was disappointed that not more leaders in the Democrat Party spoke out strongly against that kind of ad. And that leads me to come to this conclusion: that most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left-wing group like MoveOn.org — or more afraid of irritating them than they are of irritating the United States military. That was a sorry deal. It’s one thing to attack me; it’s another thing to attack somebody like General Petraeus.

Wow. Not drinking the “Petraeus Is The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread” Kool-Aid™ = Hating The Troops™. Way to make dissent a thoughtcrime, Mr. President. Do you want the 53% of Americans who found General Petraeus not credible to be exiled, the way Senator McCain does? Or will you simply extraordinarily render them to those black site prisons to be waterboarded?

And speaking of McCain, it’s not like you’re above attacking people’s patriotism for not automatically worshipping the ground you walk on, Mr. President. It was not a Democrat that had his political advisor spread rumors that the late Gov. Ann Richards was a witting accomplice of The Gay Mafia. It was not a Democrat who had his political advisor spread rumors that a Senator from his own party was driven insane by NVA torture and fathered an illegitimate black baby.

Most importantly, Mr. President, it was not the Democrats that spent the last six years attacking the patriotism and loyalty of anyone who didn’t blindly believe that you were God’s gift to mankind.

You want to talk about “disgusting,” Mr. President? LOOK IN THE FUCKING MIRROR!

Our junior senator apparently has nothing better to do with his time than to waste the Senate’s time with manufactured outrage over MoveOn. As if conservatives haven’t spent the last six years questioning the patriotism of everyone with the temerity to even hold an opinion to the left of Caligula.

Howard Kurtz.

* With apologies to Atrios.

According to Jim Peterson, stuff like this NEVER happens:

But then, what do I know? I’m just a "mangina" being blackmailed by "feminazis."

*Doink* *Doink* *Doink*

Case in point, the furor over Planned Parenthood’s attempt to open a clinic in Aurora, Illinois. In an effort to circumvent the coerced pregnancy crowd’s new tactic of economic terrorism, Planned Parenthood pulled a Brewster Jennings & Associates, using a front company to file the appropriate permit applications needed to set up shop. Abortion opponents found out anyway, and raised holier-than-thou hell about it to the Aurora city council, which then illegally pulled the permit after having already approved the permit in the first place.

As Chicago Tribune columnist/blogger Eric Zorn points out:

bitter experience tells them they have to skirt the notice of those in the community who feel compelled to try to impose on everyone their opposition to abortion.

Sadly, as we have seen on many occasions, abortion foes all too often resort to violent means to such imposition.

looseheadprop has some trenchant analysis over at Firedoglake:

Planned Parenthood isn’t just abortions, it’s birth-control, pre natal and post natal maternal care, it’s sexually transmitted disease care, it’s even primary “I have a cold with sniffles” health care. It’s also breast cancer screening and general gynecological care.

For the poor. And the uninsured.

*snip*

But because the parameters of that health care include abortions–legal abortions– Planned Parenthood is, once again, the subject of demonstrations, protests and now discrimination be the government of Aurora caving in to the demands of angry protesters.

Now Aurora’s government can screech until it’s blue in the face about how evil Planned Parenthood is for not being totally on the level when applying for the permits, but they have no legal right to do what they did. As looseheadprop points out, “there is so much case law on this issue, it could choke a horse.”

In other words, the City of Aurora surrendered to terrorists without a shot being fired. For all our alleged horror when it’s enacted against us by outside forces, we freely do it to each other. Because terrorism works.

Don’t believe me? consider this comment left at an Aurora-area anti-choice blog:

I have emailed both “gentlemen” as requested. I wondered aloud if perhaps there weren’t some laws that I could ignore as long as it didn’t mess with the status quo…………

If that isn’t a terroristic threat, I’ll eat my “Impeach Cheney?” hat.

Sadly, this sort of thing happens every time the efforts of religious conservatives to subvert democracy to their own twisted ends fails. They resort to terrorism.

Because the last resort of a theocrat is violence.