The Church of the Painted Breast

Scambaiting...

And where in the world...

...will you find ox-drawn ambulances?

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Via molesworth, never let it be said that George W. Bush doesn't give as good as he gets.

Edit: jiveturky will be talking about this incident with Al Franken on his radio show on Wednesday, July 14th at 1:30 PM. Audio streaming available at Air America Radio.

Welcome to my friends list, Mr. President

I consider myself fortunate enough to have a few heavyweight British politicians on my LJ Friends list – stand up blairstripone, stand up michaelhoward, stand up cardboard_tobes – and while I accept that they're probably too busy to add me to their own Friends list (British politics being the rat race it is, eh? though perhaps a donation to party funds might help?) I find their very occasional erudite missives to the British electorate via LJ to be of paramount importance to my continued marginal involvement in British political life. At least they have posted more recently than some of their American counterparts I will name here.

If I was a Merkin, I reckon most people would figure me as a Democrat. And they'd be right. Therefore I make no apology for wanting to see a Democrat in the White House, and as blairstripone likes to say, "Make no mistake, once this tyrant has gone and we have rid him of his Weapons of Mass Deception (which a bunch of crap British spies tell me can be deployed in less than 45 minutes), the world will indeed be a safer place." Some déjà vu here, surely.

But to continue. Those who know me will also be aware that I like to keep things balanced, see both sides of the coin, yin and yang, walk a mile in your enemy's shoes yadda yadda, and now that the race for the White House has properly begun if I truly want to get the Big Political Picture via LJ in the months to come I see no real alternative other than to add a few more high-profile Live Journalists to my Friends list, in an effort to figure out the difficult task of learning how Republican politicians actually think, as they surely must.

Of course there is an easier way: watch Fox News, but even I can't sink that low.

So anyway, a big High-Five to:

georgewbush...
The last few years really have been George's Big Adventure, haven't they? But heck, if I choked on a pretzel while watching Wacky Races I'd sure say something about it on LJ, wouldn't you? Not George... I see he hasn't posted since July 2003! You'd think that in between inspiring many best-selling books of quotations, filling his cabinet with the dirty end of the oil industry, giving the finger to the environment, sending himself men to Mars, falling off his bike, invading Afghanistan, giving the finger to the US constitution, invading Iraq, getting a bollocking from the Pope and then giving the finger to the electorate, that he'd probably have something he'd like to pass on to the likes of us? Apparently not. He is obviously a man of few [coherent] words, and I reckon if he keeps a diary it sure ain't an online one, and Bob Woodward had better look elsewhere.

dick_cheney...
I really should cut Dick a little more slack than his boss as he's not been well these last few years (though certainly well enough to tell the opposition to "go fuck yourself!" when the opportunity arises), but I see that Dick hasn't posted anything since... wow, August 2001! Where has he been?! Dick, come back to us... just because you're now a fully-fledged Borg with all those artifical add-on bits to keep you alive doesn't mean you can't plug your cerebral cortex into LJ once in a while... even my old shagging buddy ron_jeremy is more up-to-date than you! (BTW, I really liked Ron's post "i really wish the spice girls were still together. mel b is a piece of ass." Deep.)

jesus_christ (Peace Be Upon Him) ...
Wow, this man has an impressive Friends list! And now I'm proud to count Jesus as one of my Friends too I'm sure I'll be seeing him post stuff like "Paging georgewbush: Need to talk, G... get in touch by AIM or Prayer. Ta." jesus_christ (Who's Your Buddy, George?) is gonna have a big impact on the Merkin election this year, make no mistake, and he can't have been dead two thousand years because he actually posted as recently as December 2002: "Beware of North Koreans!" So I think we can safely bet that if georgewbush gets reinstated in November, that's where the action will be in 2006.

In fact I might drop jesus_christ a line and ask if he can persuade Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld to get free LJ accounts too. Then we can Collect the Set: 'The Four Live Journalists of the Apocalypse'. Doom...