Random attack on Catholicism III

Editor’s Note: Having recently noticed that Bill Donohue, the head of the Catholic League, was spending a great deal of time and energy fighting off imaginary Hollywood sodomites, we here at Williamkwolfrum.com decided to send out a more focused message to get Donohue back on track.

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Not all Catholics are vampires, but all vampires are Catholic.

–WKW

Random attack on Catholicism II

Editor’s Note: Having recently noticed that Bill Donohue, the head of the Catholic League, was spending a great deal of time and energy fighting off imaginary Hollywood sodomites, we here at Williamkwolfrum.com decided to send out a more focused message to get Donohue back on track.

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Pope Benedict XVI once blew a dude at a truck stop outside of Phoenix, Ariz. I shit you not.

“Hooray for dick!”

–WKW

Random attack on Catholicism

Editor’s Note: Having recently noticed that Bill Donohue, the head of the Catholic League, was spending a great deal of time and energy fighting off imaginary Hollywood sodomites, we here at Williamkwolfrum.com decided to send out a more focused message to get Donohue back on track.

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Catholics eat babies, but only after cooking them like lobsters.

A baby, immediately prior to being
devoured by a Catholic.

–WKW

This is your U.S.: Protecting lunch box makers over children

This is part and parcel of the ultimate GOP wet dream – slay the beast, and eventually remove all government departments engaged in helping Americans. That’s socialist, you see. They want the nation to be a giant free-for-all, with tax money only used for war and embezzling, and the general public protected by business men, who are supposed to grow morals at some point. That’s pure capitalism,, which is heroic, American, and which normally spirals all the way down until most the population is running around naked smacking each other with clubs.

Until that happens, the idea is for government agencies to be horrifyingly corrupt, up to the point that they have no qualms whatsoever about poisoning children.

Lead-laden lunchboxes OK’d by government

(AP) — In 2005, when government scientists tested 60 soft, vinyl lunchboxes, they found that one in five contained amounts of lead that medical experts consider unsafe — and several had more than 10 times hazardous levels.

But that’s not what they told the public.

Instead, the Consumer Product Safety Commission released a statement that they found “no instances of hazardous levels.” And they refused to release their actual test results, citing regulations that protect manufacturers from having their information released to the public.

Public health experts consider elevated levels of lead in blood a significant health hazard for U.S. children. Studies have repeatedly shown that childhood exposure to lead can lead to learning problems, reduced intelligence, hyperactivity and attention deficit disorder. There is no lead level that is considered safe in blood, and recent studies have shown adverse health effects even at very low levels.

“I don’t think the Consumer Product Safety Commission has lived up to its role to protect kids from lead,” said Dr. Bruce Lamphear, a lead poisoning specialist at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. “As a public agency, their work should be transparent. And if one is to err on the side of protecting children rather than protecting lunch box makers, then certainly you would want to lower the levels.”

In the end, of course, action will be taken. Expect to see a non-binding resolution fail to get passed on this issue within the next few years.

–WKW

U.S. politicians just don’t give a shit about injured U.S. troops

You know all that rhetoric about “supporting the troops” and “emboldening the enemy”? One must wonder how exactly the U.S. government is supporting the military when real, tangible stories come out.

This isn’t a hypothetical situation. This is real life. And in real life, George Bush and his PNAC crowd, along with everyone else in Congress, do not care one bit about the human fodder they feed the war machine.

Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army’s Top Medical Facility

Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan’s room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses.

This is the world of Building 18, not the kind of place where Duncan expected to recover when he was evacuated to Walter Reed Army Medical Center from Iraq last February with a broken neck and a shredded left ear, nearly dead from blood loss. But the old lodge, just outside the gates of the hospital and five miles up the road from the White House, has housed hundreds of maimed soldiers recuperating from injuries suffered in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The common perception of Walter Reed is of a surgical hospital that shines as the crown jewel of military medicine. But 5 1/2 years of sustained combat have transformed the venerable 113-acre institution into something else entirely — a holding ground for physically and psychologically damaged outpatients. Almost 700 of them — the majority soldiers, with some Marines — have been released from hospital beds but still need treatment or are awaiting bureaucratic decisions before being discharged or returned to active duty.

They suffer from brain injuries, severed arms and legs, organ and back damage, and various degrees of post-traumatic stress. Their legions have grown so exponentially — they outnumber hospital patients at Walter Reed 17 to 1 — that they take up every available bed on post and spill into dozens of nearby hotels and apartments leased by the Army. The average stay is 10 months, but some have been stuck there for as long as two years.

Not all of the quarters are as bleak as Duncan’s, but the despair of Building 18 symbolizes a larger problem in Walter Reed’s treatment of the wounded, according to dozens of soldiers, family members, veterans aid groups, and current and former Walter Reed staff members interviewed by two Washington Post reporters, who spent more than four months visiting the outpatient world without the knowledge or permission of Walter Reed officials. Many agreed to be quoted by name; others said they feared Army retribution if they complained publicly.

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On the worst days, soldiers say they feel like they are living a chapter of “Catch-22.” The wounded manage other wounded. Soldiers dealing with psychological disorders of their own have been put in charge of others at risk of suicide.

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“We’ve done our duty. We fought the war. We came home wounded. Fine. But whoever the people are back here who are supposed to give us the easy transition should be doing it,” said Marine Sgt. Ryan Groves, 26, an amputee who lived at Walter Reed for 16 months. “We don’t know what to do. The people who are supposed to know don’t have the answers. It’s a nonstop process of stalling.”

What others are saying

“This Administration, Congressional Republicans, Joe Lieberman, and any American that still supports this war are worthy of nothing but our contempt and disgust. You want to talk about genocide and brutality towards an entire group of people? The Republicans in Washington are committing genocide against an entire class of Americans — those idealistic, or foolish, enough to believe that when they volunteered to serve their country, their Commander-in-Chief would give a shit about them.”

–Brilliant at Breakfast

“This is beyond sickening. We have to sit back and listen to GOP members of Congress, George Bush’s White House, and that pig General Petraeus dare to tell us how WE’RE the ones turning our backs on the troops, when all three of them knew this was going on under their watch and none of them lifted a finger to fix it.

Our soldiers were lied to about this war, they were lied to about their enlistment, they were never given a plan for victory or the numbers of troops they needed, they still don’t have the armor they need for their vehicles. And now, the young men and women wounded and maimed for our country are living in government-run pig-stys not fit for farm animals. The American Taliban and the detainees in Guantanamo get better conditions than this, all courtesy of the Republicans.

–America Blog

“But these wounded are not the only warriors who are suffering right now. We have had roughly 1.4 million troops rotate through the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation. Hundreds of thousands of reservists have rotated through mobilizations since Sept. 11, 2001. Our military will likely remain engaged in these wars for the foreseeable future, and hundreds of thousands more will rotate through these two theaters. Yet despite these operational facts, the VA budget continues to atrophy. Veterans seeking disability ratings must wait between 6-12 months to receive an adjudication. Veterans without a service-connected disability rating who do not meet a stringent “means test” may be excluded from the system entirely. Although the VA has been rated as the nation’s finest medical system, it increasingly cannot deliver that care to the population it exists to serve. Why?”

–Intel Dump

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Through it all, warmonger pundits, entertainers and government hangers on, will blather incessantly over how the U.S. is in a battle for its very existence.

Yet they cut taxes. They refuse to speak of a draft. They ask for no sacrifice from average Americans. They send our troops into war zones with inadequate armor. They send too few of our troops into a war. And then when our troops come home severely broken, they shit on them.

That there’s still roughly 30 percent of the U.S. that believe Bush is fighting some valiant war is beyond belief and screams of a piss-poor education system. PNAC has spent six years making the U.S. a haven for war profiteers. While making it a living hell to be an honest soldier.

Catch on people. Because while you sit around wondering why “moderate” Muslims aren’t holding “extremist” Muslims in check, the rest of the world, and future history books, are wondering how the U.S. fells so far and became such a massive group of savages, and why average Americans have let it all happen, if not cheered it on.

–WKW

Newt Gingrich: The Obi-won Kenobi of a Party wanting to lie, cheat and hate women better

Known misogynist Newt Gingrich – who never met a mistress he wouldn’t only accept fellatio from – is given the hero’s treatment by fellow Republicans it seems, according to Washington Whisper’s Paul Bedard.

“He’s back. A conservative back-bencher who fired up a lackluster GOP and grabbed victory in 1994, Newt Gingrich is being tapped by the newly out-of-power group to help map a return trip. ‘Unlike anyone else in the party,” says a prominent GOP insider, “Newt knows how to fight back.’ ” writes Bedard.

So Newt, that master planner who has devised such brilliant strategies as the “Contract with America” and “How to dump your bitch of a wife after her cancer surgery” has now enacted a new plan which gutless Republicans and lazy political reporters have eagerly followed.

“At a second retreat of conservatives this month, he challenged them to bark loudly and often at Democrats and use parliamentary moves to thwart the opponents. His first order to conservative rabble-rousers: Take over the GOP message. Next, he suggested tactics and rules to delay legislation and tricks to trap Democrats. Finally, drop a bomb the media will love. The GOP did, slapping Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s demand for an “Air Force Three” to fly her home to San Francisco. Says a leadership aide, “He brings up things that we didn’t even know about.’ ” writes Bedard.

Invent scandals and try and grind meaningful debate to a halt by playing a Congressional four-corners offense. This is the Gingrich plan, and apparently, it’s become the mantra for the party. They could care less about any damage they’ve done to the nation. They could care less about U.S. soldiers being shipped back to the U.S. in pieces. They care just about manipulating the media and public so they can get re-elected. And they are remarkably open about it.

And amazingly, despite his obvious inner hate for women, the U.S. troops, free speech, and America as a whole, many on the GOP side still consider Gingrich a strong possible Presidential candidate.

To be honest in Gingrich’s behalf, he just happens to have accepted a great truth – his base doesn’t care about his un-American and woman-hating ways. That’s actually a good platform for them. The fact is, however, Gingrich perfectly represents today’s politician, especially on the Republican side – do and say anything to remain in power, while being worried only about sound bites rather than actual Americans. Even Americans dying in an “Epic Battle of Civilizations.”

–WKW

Completely meaningless non-binding resolution stalls, as Valentine’s Day massacre strikes Iraq

A bunch of Senators got together on a Saturday …yes, Saturday … to sit around and decide if they’d vote on something that would have absolutely no effect on the occupation of Iraq, or anything else for that matter. And then they decided not even to bother with it all.

Senate won’t vote on rebuke of troop buildup

Senate Democrats failed to garner the necessary 60 votes they needed to consider a nonbinding resolution that opposes President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Iraq.

The vote was 56-34, with seven Republicans crossing the aisle to vote with senators who oppose the troop buildup.

Sixty votes were needed for passage.

The Democratic-controlled House passed a nonbinding resolution Friday rebuking the plan to send 21,500 additional troops to Iraq.

The Saturday vote was a procedural decision on whether the Senate should move on to a final vote on a resolution that expresses opposition to Bush’s plan.

Senate Republicans succeeded earlier this month in blocking a vote on a similar resolution.

Meanwhile, over in a land where your every action has life and death consequences:

6 U.S. troops killed in separate incidents in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Four U.S. soldiers were killed and two others were wounded today during fighting northeast of Baghdad, the military said. Two other U.S. deaths were reported elsewhere.

The Task Force Lightning soldiers were attacked while conducting combat operations in Diyala province, where U.S. and Iraqi forces have been battling insurgents for months.

A Valentine’s Day Massacre of U.S. soldiers, while their bosses are playing house over totally intangible things that only have meaning in the elections of 2008.

Yeah, the U.S. is fighting an existential battle all right.

–WKW

For helping destroy America’s media, it’s time to send Rupert Murdoch back Down Under

I honestly think it’s time people start looking for loopholes to get Rupert Murdoch the hell out of the U.S. Here’s a billionaire Australian, dominating discourse in the U.S., and making it clear that yes, he has a distinct agenda to prop up the Bush Administration via a so-called “news network.”

In that vein, here’s an interesting find from Brilliant at Breakfast, showcasing one of Murdoch’s other media holdings in the nation he’s just visiting. Here’s a look at a news story, first written as a news story, and then how it appears after Murdoch’s kids give it the Joseph Goebbels’ treatment:

CBS News: NY Man Charged With Trying To Fund Terror

Terrorism charges brought Friday against the administrator of a loan investment program claimed that he secretly tried to send $152,000 to the Middle East to buy equipment such as night vision goggles for a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.

Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari, 53, of Ardsley, N.Y., pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to an indictment accusing him of terrorism financing, material support of terrorism and other charges. The charges carried a potential penalty of 95 years in prison.

CBS News has confirmed that Alishtari is a donor to the Republican Party, as he claims on his curriculum vitae. Alishtari gave $15,500 to the National Republican Campaign Committee between 2002 and 2004, according to Federal Election Commission records. That amount includes $13,000 in 2003, a year when he claims to have been named NRCC New York State Businessman of the Year.

Alishtari also claims to be a lifetime member of the National Republican Senate Committee’s Inner Circle, which the NRCC describes as “an impressive cross-section of American society – community leaders, business executives, entrepreneurs, retirees, and sports and entertainment celebrities – all of whom hold a deep interest in our nation’s prosperity and security.”

New York Post: ‘TERROR’ $$ MAN CHARGED

A Westchester businessman and purported peace activist was nabbed by the feds for allegedly plotting to funnel more than $150,000 to terrorists at training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Alishtari drew media attention in 2003 for launching an annual movie project in Florida called Global Peace Film Festival.

The self-described activist has also posted poetry on numerous Web sites advocating peace and radical Muslim ideology, as well as personal pledges to dedicate his time and money to stopping child slavery, fraud and violence.

Murdoch has got to go. The knee-jerk idiots can cry and bitch all they want about immigrants from Mexico, but every illegal alien combined hasn’t done the damage to the nation that Murdoch has done. Yet we are supposed to admire him because he’s rich?

He’s Australian, not American. He could care less about Americans. People don’t reach that level of wealth by giving a shit about the general population. They get that rich by repeatedly raping the population. It’s unbelievable if you think about it – a foreigner has come and subverted and manipulated the media, in order to push a radical, fringe, imperialistic vision. And those in charge of the U.S. love him for it.

It’s sick and demented, just like the propaganda that the Aussie’s Fox News Channel airs on a daily basis.

It’s time someone find a loophole. Rupert Murdoch needs to get kicked the hell out of the United States.

–WKW

Defunding the War does not mean taking away the guns of troops

As the discussion of cutting funding to the war in Iraq becomes more prevalent, one misconception must be addressed.

Cutting funds to the war doesn’t mean someone is going to go into Iraq and take away the guns of U.S. soldiers. Let me allow Glenn Greenwald break down this premise from the pages of Salon:

This unbelievably irrational, even stupid, concept has arisen and has now taken root — that to cut off funds for the war means that, one day, our troops are going to be in the middle of a vicious fire-fight and suddenly they will run out of bullets — or run out of gas or armor — because Nancy Pelosi refused to pay for the things they need to protect themselves, and so they are going to find themselves in the middle of the Iraq war with no supplies and no money to pay for what they need. That is just one of those grossly distorting, idiotic myths the media allows to become immovably lodged in our political discourse and which infects our political analysis and prevents any sort of rational examination of our options.

Just remember, when the PNACians talk about not giving the troops what they need and act like “defunding the war” means “defunding the troops” they are just being the lying power-hungry warmongers that they are.

Because Bush and his PNAC pals could not give one shit about the troops.

If they did, maybe they’d make sure they had adequate body armor. Or make sure that a soldier didn’t have to buy his own body armor.

All Cheney’s men have for the U.S. troops is rhetoric. And another war set to begin in Iran. To act like it’s others that disrespect the troops is embarrassingly dishonest.

–WKW

Iran’s Mysterious, Elite Quds Force makes Iraq’s Republican Guard look like bitches

When America brilliantly defended itself from future annihilation against Iraq, U.S. forces were faced with as bloodthirsty an enemy as could be imagined – the Elite Republican Guard. This military unit was so menacing and diabolical that you legally were not allowed to refer to them sans using the word “elite.” They were the Marvelous Marvin Haglers of the Middle East.

Luckily, American forces handled their bloodthirsty enemies, running them out of Baghdad and into hiding or death. The world rejoiced at the loss of such a hideous group of murderers. But there is worse than even the dreaded elite Republican Guard.

So.

Much.

Worse.

As a nation that has obviously been handing weapons to the bad guys in Iraq, Iran boils in its own stew of guilt. It’s day of reckoning grows ever closer, as the U.S. gears up to attack Iran, and finally allow it to become a thriving democracy.

It is in Iran, however, that the U.S. will face an enemy thousands and thousands of times greater than the Republican National Guard. Americans will be facing Iran’s mysterious and elite Quds Force, a unit nominally within the command structure of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Notice that you can’t even get away with just calling them “Elite”. They’re “Mysterious” also. And they will kill you like you’ve never before been killed.

“The Quds Force and its predecessors consisted of the Guard’s most skilled warriors. Experts said they were highly secretive commando units sent abroad to help Shiites usurp monarchies in the Persian Gulf, gun down enemies and battle Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. They also reportedly have run operations in Sudan, South Asia and Western Europe,” reported an article recently in the Los Angeles Times.

Speaking under the cover of anonymity, several U.S. spokesmen have said that the Quds Force is likely the most dangerous assemblage of human-ish things in the history.

“To call them human is just wrong,” said one official. “Like most Muslims, killing them is not wrong. Were you aware that Muslims have one of those fat, thick things around their waists. You know, like worms? I shit you not. I believe God intends them to be stabbed.”

Other officials painted the Quds as a relentless death squad.

“When people say ‘If we don’t fight them in Iraq, they’ll follow us to U.S.’ they’re talking about the Quds,” said another official. “They’d swim here. But they have wingspans of about 20 feet, and those teeth make catching fish easy. They’re formidable.”

Time will tell if American forces will be able to handle the Quds Force as they so easily handled the Republican Guard. Only one thing is certain, we’ll find out soon enough.

–WKW

Diggerland: Because life’s to short too not celebrate tractors

At Diggerland, they entice you to their three England locations (Kent, Dvon and Durham) with the tantalizing promise that you can drive around in a little tractor and move around some soil.

And, well, they deliver on that promise. So for those of you that like dirt, diesel fuel and mediocrity in a vacation give them a call at Diggerland: The Ultimate Adventure Park experience.

Diggerland
Head Office address (for all enquiries)
Diggerland Limited,
Whitewall Road, Strood, Kent ME2 4DZ
Tel: 08700 344437
Fax: 09012 010300

–WKW

Tim Hardaway plays hard to get with gay dudes hoping to have hot gay sex with him

Tim Hardaway and an unidentified beard.

Sorry guys, former NBA star Tim Hardaway has come out and admitted it: he’s a homophobe who despises gay men.

“You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don’t like gay people and I don’t like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don’t like it. It shouldn’t be in the world or in the United States,” said Hardaway, holding his penis, as is his way.

Yeah, I know. I could have sworn he was gay myself. Maybe Timmy’s one of the self-hating types. I hear they’re the best in bed. I’d have to say the jury is still out on this one. I just don’t feel comfortable taking Tim on his word on it. I mean, he does seem pretty flaming.

–WKW

Stacey Campfield is a fetus-hugging moron

Congratulations go out to Tennessee. Yes, Tennessee, a state that has solved all its problems and is now focusing and on rhetorical questions and other minutia.

Like cranking out itty-bitty, adorable little death certificates for aborted fetuses.

Tennessee Bill Would Require Death Certificates for Aborted Fetuses

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Legislation introduced in Tennessee would require death certificates for aborted fetuses, which likely would create public records identifying women who have abortions.

Rep. Stacey Campfield, a Republican, said his bill would provide a way to track how many abortions are performed. He predicted it would pass in the Republican-controlled Senate but would have a hard time making it through the Democratic House.

“All these people who say they are pro-life — at least we would see how many lives are being ended out there by abortions,” said Campfield.

The number of abortions reported to the state Office of Vital Records is already publicly available. The office collects records, but not death certificates, on abortions and the deaths of fetuses after 22 weeks gestation or weighing about 1 pound.

The identities of the women who have abortions are not included in those records, but death certificates include identifying information such as Social Security numbers.

Campfield’s bill, introduced Monday, would give abortion providers 10 days following an “induced termination of a pregnancy” to file a death certificate.

No word on whether Campfield will decide that those that have miscarriages will be forced to create a birth certificate for their dead baby. They should, of course, because, as we all know, miscarriages are caused by the Devil, and a sign that the mother isn’t right with Christ. Little fetuses aren’t miscarried, they’re Christ-Murdered. Everyone knows that.

So be like Campfield, and get right with Christ or you’ll find yourself Savior Slaughtered.

Or you could not base your life on old fiction and faeries and concentrate on trying to make the world a better place and ensuring that the actual humans on the planet can thrive. Heck, if you’re in Tennessee, you can take some of that religious fervor and try to improve and educational system that ranks 41st out of the 50 states.

But that’ll just piss off the fetus-huggers and war mongers, who tend to be the same people, anyway. They like their populace stupid and superstitious, it seems. Just like themselves.

–WKW

After five great years, a note of love to my wife

The last five years of my life have been by far the happiest, calmest and most productive of my life. By far.

And while I’m no research scientist, I feel its safe to say that the fact that I was married five years ago is a leading cause of my happiness.

Because that’s what it is, happiness. Brought to me by a beautiful woman who has committed to me like beyond my wildest dreams. The love of a good woman – the rumors are true, it’s a great thing. And I have five years of proof for that. Five years made fantastic because of a loyal and loving wife.

So after five years, I’m eagerly willing to sign up for another five, with options for up to 40 more. I’m willing to see how far we can stretch this era of happiness. I am 40 and agog at how much my wife had changed my life for the better.

Happy Birthday
Happy Valentine’s Day
Happy Anniversary

I love you Emilia, more than ever, and forever. You’re everything to me. Thank you for a spectacular five years.

Bill

No Brasil, Eu sou Spartacus também

Following the lead of other bloggers out there, regarding Melissa stepping down from the Edwards’ campaign. I’m not much of a follower, but I know the people I admire, and she is one.

Melissa: You are better than the whole lot of them.

–WKW

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