I guess this stuff even happens in Canada.  

When The Prez Talks To GOD

Thank you Bright Eyes for performing your thought provoking song on the Tonight Show, what a great song... "When the President Talks to God". Check it out!

http://www.prefixmag.com/Bright_Eyes_(Leno)(05.02.05)_(high).php

Lyrics to "When The President Talks To God"

When the president talks to God
Are the conversations brief or long?
Does he ask to rape our women’s' rights
And send poor farm kids off to die?
Does God suggest an oil hike
When the president talks to God?
When the president talks to God
Are the consonants all hard or soft?
Is he resolute all down the line?
Is every issue black or white?
Does what God say ever change his mind
When the president talks to God?
When the president talks to God
Does he fake that drawl or merely nod?
Agree which convicts should be killed?
Where prisons should be built and filled?
Which voter fraud must be concealed
When the president talks to God?
When the president talks to God
I wonder which one plays the better cop
We should find some jobs. the ghetto's broke
No, they're lazy, George, I say we don't
Just give 'em more liquor stores and dirty coke
That's what God recommends
When the president talks to God
Do they drink near beer and go play golf
While they pick which countries to invade
Which Muslim souls still can be saved?
I guess god just calls a spade a spade
When the president talks to God
When the president talks to God
Does he ever think that maybe he's not?
That that voice is just inside his head
When he kneels next to the presidential bed
Does he ever smell his own bullshit
When the president talks to God?
I doubt it
I doubt it

Laura Bush:Stepford Wife or Desperate Housewife?

Check out the rather rique Laura Bush at a recent White House Correspondents Dinner at:
http://thepoliticalteen.net/2005/04/30/president-bush-first-lady-white-house-correspondents-dinner-video/

I recieved a comment asking me "what's so funny" about Laura's routine that night. I thought it was nice to see that Little Miss Librarian would approve of telling naughty jokes about a horse in their ranch getting more action than she getting from her very own early to bed hubby. Also, the revelation that the real head of the Bush clan is none other than monster-in-law Barbra Bush.

If you voted for Bush again, it must really make you feel all warm inside knowing that this administation can lighten up a little and have a little fun while thousands of American families loose sleep every night knowing their children are risking their lives in this unneccessary war. Yes, you can feel it from the Bush's, all is right with the world, life is good.

Mass. Gov. brainstorms a NEW AND IMPROVED Death Penalty!

Republican Gov. Mitt Romney has got a killer bill he presented on Thursday that would bring back an American Institution to Massachusetts.....capital punishment. Abolished in 1984, he boasts this plan is to die for and "virtually foolproof"!
This hell of a bill includes several provisions that would require that there be "conclusive scientific evidence," like DNA or fingerprints, to link a defendant to a crime. And it would allow a death penalty to be imposed only if a sentencing jury finds there is "no doubt" about a defendant's guilt, a standard that is stricter than "beyond a reasonable doubt."
He claims,"this would not ever result in a questionable execution."
Ristricting capital punishment to murders that involve terrorism, prolonged torture, multiple killings, or the killing of police officers, judges, witnesses or others involved in the criminal justice system. Defendants who had previously been convicted of first-degree murder or were serving life sentences without parole would also be eligible.
This would also give the defendant the option of having two juries - one for the trial and one for the sentencing. That would allow a defendant to plead not guilty before the trial jury, but, once convicted, to admit guilt and show remorse before the sentencing jury in hopes of getting more lenient treatment.
This also includes a requirement that defendants get at least two and possibly three lawyers, that scientific evidence be examined by a review board, that every death sentence be reviewed by the state's highest court, and that a special panel be set up to handle complaints.
Mr. Romney, who is believed to have national political ambitions,(what a surprise!) and may intend his death penalty bill for a different audience as well: conservatives outside his state who are pivotal in Republican Party politics...... the timing of this bill also dovetails with his decision to take public positions on other moral issues like stem cell research.
Romney also boasts, "...it's a model for the nation."
Critics argue this proposal would be very expensive, with the cost of extra lawyers and commissions and juries, and would result in few death sentences, and tens of millions every year when what you might get is one execution every 15 years.
Mr. Romney said spending money on his plan would be a "high priority" because he believes that such a system would "have a deterrent effect and will save lives." Is this man a saint, or what?

DON'T ADOPTION AGENCIES EXIST IN ENGLAND?

Apparently, the Mother of the Year Award goes to a Stacy Dow in London.
The 20-year-old Scottish woman, Stacy Dow, is suing a hospital where she had an abortion, at 16, in 2001. Then she learned later that one of her twins survived the operation.
It appears adoption agencies must not exist in London because the poor woman is now being forced to raise her three-year-old daughter, Jayde with her parents help, but, get this, she is now seeking £250 000 (nearly R3m) to cover the costs of raising this burden of a kid.
These words actually came out of her mouth, "I have got a child now that I wasn't planning to have and I believe the hospital should take some responsibility for that...."(the hospital) "....needed to take reasonable care to establish that the termination had been successful".
After the surgery, she had a visit to the doctor and she learned she was still pregnant with one of her twins.
This has actually happened before in 2001, where a 36-year-old mother from Stafford in central England received £10 000 compensation under an amicable agreement with a surgeon who had failed to end her pregnancy.
In that case too, one of a pair of twins survived the operation.

A MEDAL OF HONOR FOR "SPIT AND RUN"

Jane Fonda was appearing in Kansas City to promote her memoir, My Life So Far.
Michael D. Smith, a 54-year-old Vietnam veteran from Gladstone, sent a stream of tobacco juice at Fonda at a Plaza book signing Tuesday. Dozens expressed dismay. Many more, delight.
Comments ranged from:
"Spitting in Jane Fonda's face is every Vietnam vet's fantasy,""Bravo, Michael Smith. Bravo." "Heartfelt thanks." "Freedom of speech." "Made my day." "What a true American this man is!"
Opposing comments: "A Neanderthal." "No sense of decency." "Pathetic incident."
It appears support for this behavior to outnumber those who condemned his action by about 3-to-1.
This all stems from Fonda's anti-war activities, back in 1972 in North Vietnam, where she was photographed at an anti-aircraft battery and visited American POWs, who she claimed were well-treated.
She has never been forgiven. That anger over a war 30 years ago, which also surfaced in the 2004 presidential election, puzzles some.
Some said Smith should get the Medal of Honor; one suggested naming Smith citizen of the year. Thirty-two offered to cover his bail on the disorderly conduct charge. He was jailed briefly Tuesday night,and says he will plead guilty. Fonda won't press assault charges.
Her 1972 visit to Hanoi still burns many veterans as a grandstanding bid to aid the enemy. A photograph taken at the time showed "Hanoi Jane" posing atop an anti-aircraft gun used by the North Vietnamese — a stunt she now regrets.
"Good for Mr. Smith. Jane Fonda is a traitor –– who aided and abetted the enemy at a time of war," vented a Vietnam pilot. "She should be stood up against a wall and shot."
After the spitting incident, Barnett, said nearly as many veterans called offering to help pay any fine levied against Smith.
It seems all Smith did was give her lots of free advertisement and sell a lot of her books.

Marla Razuki truly believed in the "Culture of Life"

MARLA RAZUKI

There are those of us who take advantage of our American right to express, and share with those who will listen, our opposition to the tragic war in Iraq.
But none of us has come close to doing what Marla Razuki had done in her very short life.
She was not sent to Iraq as American soldier or someone trying to impose a religious agenda on the people in Iraq. She was simply a true humanitarian who went into a dangerous situation to try and make a difference.
Take a moment to honor her memory and read about her.
click below to read more about her courage.
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=9573

TEXAS POLITICAL "FAMILY VALUES" RHETORIC OVERRIDES "VALUING A FAMILY" FOR FOSTER CHILDREN

TEXAS POLITICS FOILED AT ATTEMPT TO OVERIDE PLACEMENT

OF A LOVING FAMILY FOR FOSTER CHILDREN

On April 24, 2005, it seems the Texas GOP's retreated from the recent ban on gay foster parents. This attempted ban created a groundswell of public anger which prompted Texas lawmakers to reconsider. Leading Republicans in Texas, now distancing themselves from that proposal, which would have made it the only state to prohibit gays and lesbians from being foster parents. It seems the plan will die without becoming law.
The Texas House approved the plan last week, despite concerns that as many as 3,000 children could be removed from loving homes of gay parents. Not anticipating a groundswell of anger and criticism, conservatives backed away from the proposal Friday. GOP leaders, including Gov. Rick Perry, said the proposal is so flawed it could endanger a broader initiative to overhaul the Texas Child Protective Services agency.
Kathy Walt, Perry's spokeswoman, cautioned that the governor still believes that a "traditional marriage between a man and a woman is the best environment in which to raise children."

But hell....I guess they just couldn't round up enough traditional straight families there in the good ole wholesome state of Texas to place these poor innocent young-ins who are now being dangerously exposed to loving, caring, selfless gay people.