Insanity

Just go. Its extremely short and sour.

Via Balloon Juice.

Fans riot in India over derogatory remarks about TV star

OK, just shoot me in the head. The whole world has gone completely bat shit crazy.

Its a fucking performance competition! There are many other things you should get upset about, but derogatory comments? Give me a break.

More than 60 people were injured and dozens of vehicles set ablaze in eastern India when an angry mob demonstrated after a radio host made derogatory comments about the winner of the popular television show Indian Idol, officials said today.

Via BreakingNews.ie.

OK, help me here

From Petraeus's mouth.

The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, said on Monday the flow of Iranian weapons into Iraq has increased but that Iranian Quds force trainers had withdrawn.

Oops, backpedal? The Quds force has withdrawn?
If memory serves me, which it usually doesn't. Weren't we wary of the Quds force?

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has described as based on "hard fact" U.S. assertions that an elite branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps is training and arming Shi'ite extremists in neighboring Iraq. U.S. President George W. Bush recently accused Iran's Quds Force of supplying weapons, including armor-piercing bombs, that were used to kill U.S. soldiers. RFE/RL correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari talks about the Quds Force and its alleged role in Iraq with Mahan Abedin, director of research at the London-based Center for the Study of Terrorism and editor of "Islamism Digest" journal.

Hey, but we're helping all we can too.

Astounding report from the GAO, that our miliitary leaders have no blessed idea where 190,000 AK-47’s given to Iraqi security forces have gotten off to. But, it’s not just the AK-47’s that are missing without any clues, but a whopping 30% of weapons given to the Iraqi security forces.

I'm be thinking I need MUCH stronger meds to deal with this shit.

Via Reuters.

H/T The Crone

Some things can't be ignored forever

I tried. Believe me. I fought like a son of a bitch to avoid posting about this, but it won't go away. Besides, some of you may not have seen this.

Stolen without guilt from my friend (assumed) Eli at Multi Medium.

I hope this isn’t true…

Georgie Anne Geyer writes today in the Dallas Morning News about President Bush’s strange behavior during a recent meeting with “[f]riends of his from Texas.”

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Friends of [Bush’s] from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated “I am the president!” He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of “our country’s destiny.”

This is the second time in recent weeks that accounts have surfaced of Bush lashing out or “ranting” in private meetings when responding to criticism of his Iraq policy. Chris Nelson of the Nelson Report offered a similar account earlier this month:

[S]ome big money players up from Texas recently paid a visit to their friend in the White House. The story goes that they got out exactly one question, and the rest of the meeting consisted of The President in an extended whine, a rant, actually, about no one understands him, the critics are all messed up, if only people would see what he’s doing things would be OK…etc., etc. This is called a “bunker mentality” and it’s not attractive when a friend does it. When the friend is the President of the United States, it can be downright dangerous. Apparently the Texas friends were suitably appalled, hence the story now in circulation.

It’s only a matter of time before Dubya grows out a big, bushy beard and starts walking around shirtless, pointing his sword at people….

Wouldn't such action frighten you? It would scare the shit out of me to see Bush behave this way.

And you know he has to be under medication, but it can't seem to control him. Folks, be afraid. Be very afraid. You have a total loony in charge of your government and your future.