Poor Stephen Colbert. How's he gonna parody THIS?

Some commentators can out-absurd anyone trying to parody them. It's almost as if Bill O'Reilly is saying, top that, Stephen Colbert:

>>GamePolitics.com caught this gem from the Radio Factor with Bill O’Reilly:

I don’t own an iPod. I would never wear an iPod… If this is your primary focus in life - the machines… it’s going to have a staggeringly negative effect, all of this, for America… did you ever talk to these computer geeks? I mean, can you carry on a conversation with them? …I really fear for the United States because, believe me, the jihadists? They’re not playing the video games. They’re killing real people over there.<<

The piece goes on to caution that you should NOT subscribe to the O'Reilly podcast ... or the terrorists will win!

File under least competent criminals

According to CNN.com, a Connecticut woman’s plan to murder all nine members of the Supreme Court, and various other government officials, was a complete failure.

Apparently, although the woman sent each would-be murder victim a package of delicious looking baked goods and candies, she included letters chockfull of death threats with each. Somehow, the recipients figured out that they shouldn’t eat the goodies which, chemical analyses showed, were laced with rat poison. Story here.

Undoing the damage of our national delusion

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
Charles MacKay, from his 1841 book, EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS

One by one, we took a good look at the man behind that red, white, and blue striped and starry curtain and we found, not our protector, but our undoing.

We recognized that he and his allies had used our trust in him, and our fear of terrorists, against us.

Just when he and his allies thought they had frightened enough of us into giving them absolute power, enough of us finally said, “Enough.”

We, the people of the United States of America, voted the bums out last week.

Democratic candidates, new to elected office, may celebrate Tuesday, November 7, 2006, as they day they won, but really, nobody has won anything yet. We’ve just put the brakes on our losses. If we celebrate too hard, we risk believing the work is over.

It isn’t.

We the people must still reverse what we can of the damage that was done in our name. We have to convince our new legislators that we no longer support the changes we allowed our leaders to make while we were in the thrall of the extraordinary national delusions that our president was competent, and that invading a country, that had nothing to do with those who attacked us, could keep us safe.

Bush is now a dictator. No, that's not hype

I'll bet that almost everyone has heard of Madonna's baby adoption woes ... and not more than a tiny percentage of Americans knew anything about the following, which legalizes the mobilization of America's armed forces by the president, against American citizens, on virtually any premise.

Bush previously demanded -- and got -- a de facto amendment to the Constitution that does away with the right to a trial and allows the president to imprison and torture anyone, indefinitely. He also now has the right to do anything he wants with the armed forces, against U.S. citizens. Don't doubt that he will take full advantage:


http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1380.shtml

>>Domestically, that plan appears to involve the activation of the police state.

In the last few weeks, the Bush administration has signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which allows the president to arrest and torture whomever he chooses without charging him with a crime. Also, unbeknownst to most Americans, Bush signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy, will allow the president to unilaterally declare martial law. By changing The Insurrection Act, Bush has essentially overturned the Posse Comitatus Act which bars the president from deploying troops with the United States. The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007 (as it is called) also allows Bush to take control of the National Guard, which has always been under the purview of the state governors. Bush now has absolute power over all armed troops within the country, a state of affairs which the constitution purposely tried to prevent. The administration’s dream of militarizing the country under the sole authority of the executive has now been achieved, although the public still has no idea that a coup has taken place.<<