What's The Frequency, Kenneth?

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Feel like you've been beaten up by an ET-fearing nutjob this week and left wondering if reality has been hijacked by the dark forces? So does every other sane person on the planet. Fortunately, bloggers dished up some snappy reactions to an otherwise surreal week of war, more war, and an insane Republican or two. There were Snakes On A Plane (BushCo style), Sympathy For The Dick (with apologies to The Rolling Stones), Bush's new War On Toothpaste, and yet another FEMA FUBAR. Plus, an extra added attraction: women are being told not to wear gel bras on planes. No. There's not a sign post up ahead. This has really been a week of the weird.

Way Past Snarky

Need a way to celebrate cheesy all-American frivolity this week? After the long-awaited Snakes On A Plane opening, how about serving "Snakes On A Cake" from Slashfood at a post-SOAP get together?


Even snarkier is DUer Pepperbear's post, "Snakes On A Plane":


And that pic is just the beginning. Don't miss "Snakes On A Helicopter." Check it out.

Need more snark? One Flew East is hosting the latest Carnival Of The Liberals (Parody Edition) this week. Lieberman, Bush and Hummers, Oh My! My favorite: "Sympathy For The Dick." Here's a snippet:

SYMPATHY FOR THE DICK

Don't allow me to implicate myself
I'm a man of stealth, well-placed
I've been around since the Nixon years
Stole a vote or two along the way

And I was 'round when Tricky Dick
Met his downfall in Watergate
Made damn sure that Woodward
Wouldn't hand me the same fate

This Carnival Of The Liberals is full of BushCo bashing parody. Well worth the click.

Way Past Brilliant

Jane Hamsher thinks Joe Lieberman is Rove's mole in the Democratic party hole. Glen Greenwald explains how the UK plane plot deal went down through completely legal surveillance channels until (are you ready?) Bush screwed the pooch. Feel that thwack, BushCo? And now the UK terror plot is rapidly crumbling... like most fresh BushCo crap crumbles after a day or two in the sun.

AMERICABlog was in high form this week and absolutely all over the new and improved airport security measures:

More evidence that this Red Alert is a wee bit suspect
by John in DC - 8/11/2006 08:22:00 AM

Check out the photo below. Yes, Ma'am, we think you might have highly explosive liquids in your possession that could kill thousands of Americans and blow up an entire airplane. So please pour the liquid out in front of these hundreds of passengers, including that small baby just three feet behind you, and into this large bucket mixed with all sorts of other unknown and possibly explosive (and reactive) liquids, including alcohol, peroxide, acids, and more. Yeah, that would be the smart way to dispose of suspected terrorist explosives.

These guys are either lying to us, or criminally negligent morons. But this is coming off as bad as the duct tape fiasco.

Also way past brilliant is this photo posted by Bartcop (Vol 1818 - War on toothpaste):


Please tell me there aren't still those who think this man is smart. Remember the two most important words when debating Bush's (cough) IQ: Harriet Miers.

Way Past Stupid

Thanks to JABBS, we know that the Japanese offered us free liquid explosives testing gear back in January. But back then, BushCo was busy fighting some other form of bad media-related GOP terrorism.

Wait! There's more Republican stupidity! George Allen (R-Bigotville) took the Stupid Pill this week and called a videographer "Macaca" (as in genus Macaca - Macaque) and "welcomed him to America." Funny thing, though. The young man in question was born in the USA and is not, to Allen's disappointment, a monkey. Not Larry Sabato is tracking the story and awaiting the video. Oh, &t=OEgsToPDskIt9gvQkF0L3Stxkl-ih-Oo">here it is now.

Still more! It's not just a monkey reference. It's also an apparently well known racial slur... well known to white supremacists, that is. Jeffrey at FRAMESHOP did the research and found some startling dirt.

Don't you hope this incident triggers a "So long, Allen, you pompous ass" moment? I do. I'm not holding my breath, though. Republicans love Confederate Flag wavers like Allen, even if they're from (gasp!) California.

Just when you think Republicans couldn't get any... uh, "stupider," along comes another FEMA FUBAR. Housing.com notes:

Just when I thought FEMA had reached their event horizon of ignorance--the point where they could not possibly get any dumber or more incompetent--they go and surprise me again:

WASHINGTON - FEMA will replace locks on as many as 118,000 trailers used by Gulf Coast hurricane victims after discovering that the same key could open multiple mobile homes, the agency said Monday.

Some keys could open as many as 50 different locks - causing a security risk in heavily populated trailer parks in Louisiana and Mississippi.

Was no one paying attention when these trailers were manufactured or rolled out? Didn't anyone think to check for this sort of thing? Mind you, the sad part is that if you're holed up in FEMAville for the duration, you probably don't have anything worth stealing, but that's not the point.

I guess I'm not being entirely fair to FEMA, for as Frank James points out, they probably just assumed they would work, as we all would, but "assuming" is not an acceptable course of action when you're put in the business of protecting people's lives.

Bush's FEMA + Protecting people = Sorry, that's about as effective as shouting "Open the pod bay doors, HAL!"

Thank A DUer!

Special thanks to Newsjock for pointing out the difference between Canadian and U.S. news coverage of the British runway deal:





Way Past Rational

Larry Johnson wants to know just where Bush has been. Binary explosives are nothing new. Repeat. Nothing new. Larry's rant is better, but here's the 411: To hear Bush tell it, you'd think that this was brand spanking new technology... er, physics... er, chemistry... uh, science stuff.

Thanks to Kadie for this CNN screen capture of Bush "conferring with top experts" on Iraq. My, those experts (pictured right, with Bush) must've sniffed out the real Iraq issues facing BushCo!


Psst! Ya think whoever placed that ad in the right sidebar is snickering right now? I do.

Way Past Time

I became a devoted Connecticut Blog fan during the Lieberman Loss primary days. Now, CB has posted the YouTube Olbermann video in which Lisa Meyer exposed the (for lack of a better word) hole in in-flight security:

Aviation critic Michael Boyd details flaws in new airport security rules; highlights incompetence in The Department of Homeland Security

Remember that little clip from Keith Olbermann I posted on airport insecurity and the complete incompetence of the Department of Homeland Security?

Well, let me introduce you to aviation consultant Michael Boyd. This expert has been a long critic of the Department of Homeland Security to I was pleasantly surprised when I checked my Tivo yesterday and found out that I recorded this interview.

Boyd was on MSNBC and he carefully detailed the absolute stupidity regarding the new airport carry-on rules while rightfully blasting Bush Administration, Transportation Security Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security.

This blog post is chock full of explosive BushCo incompetence. Read the rest. And, as ABC's The Blotter warns, Beware The Boobs!

Authorities Warning Women Not to Wear Gel Bras As Worries of Possible Female Bombers Increase

U.S. authorities are advising women not to wear gel bras on airplanes as information developed in the foiled London plot points to an expanding role for women in smuggling explosives on to an aircraft.

What's next? Dolly Parton's privates? What a crock!

The best news this week? BushCo's attempt to divert attention away from every wretched policy failure hasn't improved the chimperator-in-chief's approval rating. In fact, he's bleeding support from his base. I suppose if it takes more weeks of weird to further destroy the Republican stranglehold on the country and the U.S. Constitution, I can withstand them. And I know you can, too.

-- Delilah Boyd

[dpbrown]

1. What an awesome analysis!

More people should read this!

[displacedtexan]

8. Thanks! Most people just email me.

Lots of DUers send me links every week.

Delilah

[mkb]

11. But Seriously, Folks

     If you get the impression that people who write silly or
funny things don't care much about you or anything else,
you're probably right.
     You should be at the point of realizing that people who
say things do it for many reasons, but that trivial humor is
really not the mark of those who are serious about making
things better.
     There are of course, exceptions to every rule, but my
concern is for those who are not as experienced and advantaged
as others.  You need to learn as much as you can, and
realizing basic, core truths is fundamental.  That way, you
will spend less time being deceived and more time doing what
is right for you and others.
     I've wasted time, like many others, watching programs,
like Seinfeld, only to find out the not-so-good lives the
people who make them lead, and more importantly, that I was
not contributing my best to the world I would like to live in.
 There is much flippant humor circulating, and I have no
difficulty in removing it from my menu of things to focus on. 
I hope more people will see this type of humor as only a tool
in your arsenal of justice, to be used only if necessary, and
that the people who make trivia are mostly up to no good.

[unpossibles]

2. great post. n/t

[cspanlovr]

3. A great read, thanks!

[PA Democrat]

4. Great post, and welcome to DU!

[Parche]

5. good

I love Obermann, but I cant stand Michael Boyd, he is a real idiot, doesnt know a lot about the
aviation industry as he claims he does.

[elehhhhna]

6. Re; FEMA trailer keys

Like new homes under construction, new trailer homes probably all open to a master key, so maint., sales & deivery staff can open them. They are rekeyed when handed over to OCCUPANTS.


Certainly evey IDIOT in the trailerhome sales, transport, and set-up biz knows this.

10 bucks says it was skipped to save the contractor some money.

[JABBS]

7. regarding Allen and Macaque

Check out this analysis from JABBS.

And thanks for the link to the other JABBS' post.

[katinmn]

9. Way past clever, DB!

:yourock:

[peekaloo]

10. Excellent!

"Richard says to withdraw in disgust is not the same as apathy".

[vixengrl]

12. What a great round-up!

:)