Q: How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None. There is nothing wrong with the light bulb; its conditions are improving every day. Any reports of its lack of incandescence are a delusional spin from the liberal media. That light bulb has served honorably, and anything you say undermines the lighting effect. Why do you hate freedom?
On the heels of electoral victories barring same-sex marriage, some influential conservative Christian groups are turning their attention to a new target: the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants.
“Does anybody here know SpongeBob?” Dr. James C. Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, asked the guests Tuesday night at a black-tie dinner for members of Congress and political allies to celebrate the election results.
SpongeBob needed no introduction. In addition to his popularity among children, who watch his cartoon show, he has become a well-known camp figure among adult gay men, perhaps because he holds hands with his animated sidekick Patrick and likes to watch the imaginary television show “The Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy.”
Now, Dr. Dobson said, SpongeBob’s creators had enlisted him in a “pro-homosexual video,” in which he appeared alongside children’s television colleagues like Barney and Jimmy Neutron, among many others. The makers of the video, he said, planned to mail it to thousands of elementary schools to promote a “tolerance pledge” that includes tolerance for differences of “sexual identity.” [...]
“We see the video as an insidious means by which the organization is manipulating and potentially brainwashing kids,” he said. “It is a classic bait and switch.”
SpongeBob can proudly join the pantheon of nefarious cartoon characters complicit in the insidious gay agenda, alongside other stalwarths as Barney the Purple Dinosaur and the Teletubbies.
George Will on reforming Social Security:
The sober truth is that the philosophic reasons for reforming Social Security are more compelling than the fiscal reasons.
What a dink, but at least he’s honest which is more than can be said for shrub.
Link to full column:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22532-2005Jan19.html
The Imminent Demise of the Republican Party
by David W. Orr
Following the election of 2004, much has been made of the weaknesses of the Democratic Party, even its possible end. But it has escaped the notice of our blow-dry television pundits and political observers alike that the Republican Party, in the full blush of triumph in control of all the branches of government and large sections of the media, stands on the edge of certain extinction. The reasons grow daily more evident. Over the past three decades, the moderate, business-oriented party of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower was captured by its extreme right-wing thereby becoming a party dominated by ideologues, increasingly divorced from unmovable facts. But no organization, political party, or nation can long survive by ignoring realities of ecology, social justice, law, economics, and true security. Sooner or later, it will step off the proverbial curb into onrushing traffic of events, forces, and trends that it refused to see.
(more…)
http://dvdrewinder.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=1
As the result of a bureaucratic slip-up, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was inadvertently included in the United States government delegation sent to comfort tsunami victims in Southeast Asia.
“Waves happen,” Mr. Rumsfeld told survivors. “Weather is untidy. Sometimes you have to make do with the weather you get instead of the weather you want.”
Mr. Rumsfeld also criticized the news coverage of the disaster. “They just keep showing the same wave over and over again,” he said.
Despite considerable alarm and protest in Asia over Mr. Rumsfeld’s comments, President Bush expressed his confidence in the secretary. “Beneath his gruff, brusque exterior, Donald Rumsfeld is a sensitive, caring man,” he said. Presidential sources later said Mr. Rumsfeld was scheduled to return to Washington “as soon as we can get him out of there.”
(more…)