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John McCain has been attempting to make himself the national security candidate. Missed it by THAT much.

What is it about intelligence and the British Commonwealth? I detailed earlier for you the problems that Canada's spooks have had and Britain's MI5 and MI6 have been penetrated more than a high street whore.

Well, here we go again. Apparently some kind soul in the U.K. intelligence community felt that there wasn't any interesting reading to be had on London trains, so he left some top secret documents to be perused by interested parties.

Then it happened AGAIN.

You wonder if the trains are being used as a document drop by a mole to his/her foreign intelligence service handler. Once I can see as just inattention, twice and a thorough review of the members of both MI5 and MI6 may be in order.

This reminds me of a story in Canada not too long ago about that nation's anti-terror plans being discarded in a dumpster.

How about Air Canada being spied on by Westjet? I'm not kidding.

Canada really is the Bullwinkle Moose of countries. amiable but also big, dumb and easy to scam.

There is a controversy bubbling up now about some congress critters, most of them Democrats, receiving special favors from the near bankrupt Countrywide Mortgage firm. Compared to the Abramoff investigation, the rather slight breaks are small potatoes, but it nonetheless undermines some of the party's moral authority vis a vis the Bush administration.

Unlike Republicans, however, who defend their kind no matter what they did (*cough Scooter Libby *cough John Doolittle *cough), I hope this matter is thoroughly investigated and if there is any corruption, and how can you not suspect there was, the guilty should be iced in maximum security for a dime (ten years). Corruption undermines democracy, no matter who is doing it.

In a roundabout connection, Pakistan Junta-crat Pervez Musharraf may be impeached in a country he grabbed off in a military coup. So let's look at the totals here: a leader of a military junta in a Muslim state can be impeached but in the reputed land of the free and home of the brave political predator Bush can't? What is wrong with THAT picture?

Jesus H. Fuck Me Christ! MSNBC spent all day Saturday memorializing dead Bush enabler Tim Russert even though there was a human and economic tragedy occurring in Iowa. It's all about priorities, that being able to, in effect, run a long ass infomercial for yourself by using a dead man as a proxy. In other words, by highlighting that "we had Russert, this great man," they were actually endeavoring to embellish the NBC brand. When you have a chance to do that, well, it's only Iowa, I guess.

Oh speaking of lame marketing ideas, I tried to watch a couple of episodes of Family Guy the other day on TBN (not to be confused with televangelist scam artists and alleged closeted homosexual Paul Crouch's Trinity Broadcasting Network) and they have come up with a really irritating way to promote their programs now. What they do is impose animations and blurbs about them during segments. That isn't bad in itself, but they were doing it every fucking two minutes! They even stopped the show a couple of times midway through scenes so that the star of this particular show, Bill Engvall, could utter the ad copy. It was so bad that after a few minutes, I got fed up and turned the tv off.

I mean, what the fuck? We need that shit hammered into our eyes and heads repeatedly to try to ensure that someone would watch that show? I'm not going to see Engvall's vehicle just because I feel so insulted by such overweening marketing. And I like the guy! But fuck him and his show. That is just pure lack of consideration for the viewing public. Whoever devised this shit needs to be castrated.

Separated at birth? Max Headroom and Republican bullshit slinger Tony Snow. Kinda eerie, isn't it?

The irony with bringing up Snow, who is one of the GOP's asses of evil, is that Russert farts off the earth all of a sudden while Snow survives two bouts of cancer. Russert was just a dupe. Snow was a cheerleader for a fascist takeover of the U.S.

Oh, I forgot to mention this: when Russert croaked Friday, Laura Ingraham was subbing for Blahblah O'Reilly on his show. Someone did a flattering summation of Russert's career and Ingraham didn't react much to it. Of course, Ingraham was originally brought to you by MSNBC during its days as a purveyor of reactionary cant.

But what struck me was how made up Ingraham was. Talk about putting makeup on a pig. As someone who has a thing for tomboys, who usually do have at least some kind of femininity, Ingraham is more like a mildly fay northern European male. She has to be a dyke. I know I'm hardly alone in thinking this, but c'mon.

It just cracks me up how many gay hating Republicans are in denial about how infiltrated by rightwing homosexuals the GOP is. Hell, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who might be McCain's VP, is rumored to be of that ilk. Fox regularly has John Kasich on frequently, another alleged gay. California nitwit congressman David Dreier has denied his friendship with Dorothy, if you get my drift, which nobody, and I mean nobody, believes.

You know, "angry" is an adjective often used to describe Keith Olberman. In fact, it is an accusation you hear from the rightwing parrotheads and even from the New Yorker, of all outlets. The disingenuousness of that is pretty apparent, though. The whole rightwing radio format is predicated on sputtering displays of white trash male imaginary grievances, with its most ebullient, if you want to call it that, practitioner being onetime herbal medicine barker and San Francisco talk show host Michael "the human snotball" Savage. MSNBC had him on for a while before he got so excessive that even the Republicans at GE who run the station had to can him to preserve their image.

So the whole anger meme runs like this: seething at lefties in a ballistic fit is perfectly fine, but you turn it on members of the self-appointed chosen, i.e, the GOP, then you are psycho. It's called having it both ways.

Bad news for queer bashers: you're dinosaurs!

And your boy McCain may have a campaign manager with ties to the vicious Russian Mob.

For those of you still using Internet Explorer (what, are you still on AOL, too you chumps?), Tuesday would be the perfect time for you to join the cool kids and download the Firefox browser. It loads smoother than the Gates product and it also offers a neat array of widgets to make your net surfing more fun thanks to being open source. Seriously, IE is for McCain voters, people who are too stupid to know when something is OVER.

Poor Republicans! They have been burbling about what they termed recent successes in Afghanistan. Well, you can kiss that idea goodbye. Sadly, there is also this bit of news.

Meanwhile, there have been rumblings that Barack Obama may be able to peel off some of the evangelical vote from McCain. Here is one illustration why.

Unfortunately, as we creep closer to November, the GOP's kissin' cousins are gearing up to kill the Illinois Senator. That is no joke. Why do Republicans hate democracy so much?

They also hate science.