05 December, 2008

Friday's Finger(s)

And thusly doth end "Give the Finger" week here at RadicalHead:



Fuck you, The Man!


Fuck you, The Gap!


Fuck you, Tim Russert! You weren't All That!


Fuck you, The South, for busting me for smoking dope on my own damn tour bus!


Fuck you...everybody!
You're too fat and stupid to appreciate real good leaderedness.


04 December, 2008

Today's Week of Fingers Finger

It's obviously "give somebody the finger" week here, so let's not let a day go by without a finger for somebody:



This one's for Ford, GM, Chrysler, AIG, Citi, Lehmann Brothers and the rest of the Bailout Bunch. But most of all, to Congress for bailing them out. That might be Monopoly money they're throwing around, but it's Monopoly money that belongs to our fake bank.

Predictions for 2009 and Beyond

As regular readers of this web log are aware, I like to post my predictions for the new year. Mainly it's handy for taunting people with "nya nya-nya nah boo-boos" because I always turn out to be so spot-on correct about everything, but also it gives my gambling-addicted extended family something to bet on. They never make any money, sadly, because they never bet against me, which can really screw up the profitability of a wager.

Anyway.

Here come my predictions for 2009 (and Beyond).

  1. there will be a surge of funny. Comedy always sells well when nothing else will.
  2. expect a lot of growth in the Bad Stuff sector.
  3. tapered pants will make a big comeback. Snug around the ankles. Real horrorshow '80's shit.
  4. the US Capitol will be rebranded the "Apple® American Democracy iPavilion."
  5. teenagers will collectively express disdain for all forms of sexual contact. "Ick," they will say. "That is SO gross." (This one might take until 2010.)
  6. former Treasury Secretary Henry "Hank" Paulson, during a book tour to promote his hagiography of George W. Bush entitled Chronicle of the End Times: How to Devour America in Three Easy Steps, will have his artificial human skin forcibly removed by a crazed fan, revealing his true reptilianoid self.
  7. the mummified corpse of Dick Cheney will embark on a World Tour, encased in a spit-proof shell of transparent resin. No cemetery, municipality, private landowner or organization of any kind will permit his remains to be buried in their land. Nor will anyone provide the necessary funding to blast him to the sun in a rocket. E'er Cheney shall wander the Earth, unable to find a resting place, and he shall become known as "the Necrid Nomad".
  8. Dean Barkley will be declared the winner of the 2008 Minnesota Senate seat race after a special election is held following the sad occasion at which Coleman and Franken wind up in jail for killing their lawyers in separate but simultaneous incidents.
  9. the price of a gallon of gasoline will fluctuate.
  10. new reality shows will debut on television that test the limits of human stupidity and/or depravity

03 December, 2008

Keep them Separate

Listen:

No, I'm serious.

Just quit what you're doing and listen for a minute.

It is not "anti-religious" to advocate respect for the US Constitution, including its non-establishment clause.

If anything, it is PRO-religious, because the non-establishment clause helps guarantee that everyone can practice the religion of one's own choosing. Or not practice one. It is both a freedom of and from religion.


So to all of the assholes like Bill O'Reilly who get all pissy about our crazy, atheist expectation that you keep your God out of our Gov, I have something to say:



That, and I'm joining the ffrf.org. And I celebrate Christmas, too. May the tiny heads of the rabidly religulous explode while trying to figure that out.

"Behind every great man..."

You've heard the expression "behind every great man is a great woman", right? Well -- is the corollary true? Would Bush have been a little less awful if Laura weren't equally out of touch with reality?

Even this hooligan-to-be wants to give Laura the finger:

02 December, 2008

Bush Downgrades Self in Rare Hint of Fragmentary Self-Awareness

The First Lame Duck was interviewed on ABC yesterday, and the video is online if you can bear to watch it. I'm not sure I can.

"I think I was unprepared for war," Bush told ABC News' Charlie Gibson in an interview airing today on "World News."

"In other words, I didn't campaign and say, 'Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack,'" he said. "In other words, I didn't anticipate war. Presidents -- one of the things about the modern presidency is that the unexpected will happen."

Seems like it wasn't that long ago this retard was convinced that though none of us understand his awesomeness right now, history would paint W as a daring hero and record his bold, visionary greatness. Now he wants us to think he was a miserable failure because life is unpredictable.

The implication is that if it hadn't been for a bunch of unforeseeable events like 9/11, faulty intelligence, hurricane Katrina, the global economic meltdown and so on, he would've been brilliant. It really should go without saying, but since nobody ever points it out, none of these things were unpreventable, and all may have been avoided by competent, dedicated leadership. Bush is not a failure because he was dealt a bad hand. Bush is a failure because time after time he FAILED.

I repeat: every catastrophe for which Bush should be held accountable could have been prevented...and most of them were deliberate.

We know that Bush refused to take the threats of terrorism seriously before 9/11, and that the attacks could have been prevented. We know that two of the hijackers lived with an FBI informant, that the hijackers boarded those planes using their own names, that an FBI field office was ignored when it informed headquarters that a suspicious dude was taking piloting lessons and didn't want to learn how to land. And about the PDB, the inter-agency difficulties, the mistakes, the seven minutes spent stupified in a school and so on.

We know that 'faulty intelligence' is a myth, actually a lie, fabricated as cover for the other fabrications that supposedly proved the claims that Iraq possessed WMD and/or the capacity to create them. All the claims like Al Qaeda's presence in Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion (made up), Saddam's nuclear program (nonexistent), attempts to procure yellowcake from Niger (forged documents), mobile weapons labs (firetrucks), anthrax (expired), all of the so-called evidence that Iraq constituted a threat to its neighbors and to the US was fabricated by the people who used it to justify an invasion, then complained that it was all crap and what a terrible shame that was. Such a terrible shame, in fact, that George Tenet was awarded a medal (for keeping his mouth shut while they lied about the 'intelligence'). It was all such a big terrible shame that they acted on 'bad intelligence' that the Bushies did nothing to alter their strategy for four years, and probably would have continued to 'stay the course' in Iraq had Republicans not lost seats in the 2006 midterm elections.

We know that a major American city was destroyed and its residents were allowed to drown not because of an unavoidable act of God, but because levees (managed by the Army Corps of Engineers) broke, and the city consequently was flooded. It's worth mentioning the Corps because for over 3 years prior to Katrina, billions every month were being spent in Iraq, and the Bush Administration didn't prioritize such things as maintaining levees (or caring for wounded vets like at Walter Reed). If those levees had been properly cared for, it's likely thousands of lives would have been spared from death or suffering. Bush even discovered that the levees were breached before the major of New Orleans did -- and chose not to raise the alarm. We know how the federal government reacted (or completely failed to) after the levees broke, and New Orleans became a Hell on Earth not for a few days, or a few weeks, or even a few months, but YEARS! Undiscovered bodies were rotting in homes over a year after the city was flooded. The President, on the day thousands of his fellow Americans faced death by drowning, ate birthday cake with John McCain. We know this. It's all on the record.

We know too that the current economic crisis was not a surprise, but instead was engineered by these people who valued a 'free market' ideology more than they respected its results, fiscal reality, or simple reason. The Bushies continued to push for deregulation after being warned of the inevitable results of their policies years ago. This we've known since yesterday, at the latest. Much sooner than that if you were paying attention.

I could go on like this. It would take many, many more words to deliver the full impact of the fucktitude of the Bush Administration.

And although we know all of these things and many more disgraceful, embarrassing things, Bush, as he's slowly shuffling for the door, still continues to feed us preposterous lies that no one could accept as anything but the most malodorous bullshit, and demonstrates quite vividly his regard for the public.

Since we're so well-aware of what "President" Bush thinks of the American people, it's our prerogative to let him know, for the rest of his days on Earth, what we think of him, the man who gave a bad name to all primates everywhere.