The All Time Lows

Bill Bennett is such a douche bag.

Turns out that Pat Tillman, former NFL player turned soldier killed in Afghanistan, was going to vote for Kerry, was against the Iraq War and planned on meeting Noam Chomsky. The right exploited his death to support the Iraq War and covered up the fact that he was accidentally killed by American soldiers. This was all reported in the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this week, the sources being Tillman's mother and fellow soldiers.
Of course Ann Coulter (pictured), and Sean Hannity refuse to believe that. Coulter got her ass handed to her by liberal weakling Alan Colmes on Hannity & Colmes, which you can read about and view here.

"If this is what integrity looks like, let's bring back Oval Office blow jobs." - Arianna Huffington. She's kind of nuts. I think she'd be fun to party with.

The title of this post is an actual quote that my doctor said to me yesterday. I've got this stomach problem that my doctor says is GERD or acid reflux, but which I'm pretty convinced is stomach cancer or living hell. Basically, anytime I eat anything I feel incredibly nauseous and start gagging and have to stop myself from vomiting or else I'd never digest anything. I've been to the doctor numerous times, nothing seems to help. Now I'm taking famotidine, which I think is just prescription strength Pepcid. We'll see how that works out.

So when Joy invited me to a press dinner at Medicine Eat Station, I figured it was a sign from Buddha. I'll leave the restaurant reviewing to Joy, but I will tell you what this place was all about. Medicine serves Japanese shinjo cuisine, which is an ancient diet created by Zen monks 500 years ago. It's really basic food, no meat, no onions, no garlic. Lots of tofu and vegetarian sushi. While it wasn't the most exciting food and I was still pretty hungry after eating there, I did not start gagging and didn't feel like throwing up after the meal. <----They should totally use that sentence on their Web site.

Because I live in a country where being a complete fucking jackass is not only encouraged, but is subsidized with my tax dollars, kids are being taught a non-existant scientific theory called intelligent design. Thankfully, these parents are suing to stop it.

"If it makes sense for the citizen out there to curtail nonessential travel, it darn sure makes sense for federal employees," Bush said. "We can encourage employees to car pool or use mass transit, and we can shift peak electricity use to off-peak hours. There's ways for the federal government to lead when it comes to conservation."

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This should be rad: Neurosis, Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire and Hightower are playing, along with a number of other bands. I wish they did it on a Saturday though.

"The Rambler is a mobile soundstage and vessel of infinite possibility The Rambler 12-Hour Composition and Maiden Voyage is a sonic marathon, performed by the band Universe. This event will take place in San Francisco, CA, on Thursday September 22, 2005 (the autumnal equinox). Beginning at 6 to 10 am at Tire Beach, it moves to the top of Twin Peaks for the 11 am to 1 pm peak, and settles at Ocean Beach--Sloat at Noreiga from 3 pm to sunset. Partipating musicians include members of Acid King, Old Grandad,Amber Asylum, Om, Neurosis, Six Organs of Admittance, Night After Night, Subarachnoid Space, Comets on Fire, and many more!!!"

Following Big Nurse's lead, I attempted to draw a pig.

Mr. Bush at the UN... if you can't read it, it says "I think I may need a bathroom break. Is that possible?"

Check out "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People" by Houston's K-Otix, found by way of Oliver Wang's excellent site, Soul-Sides.

While searching for the term "Tetris Art" (Why? ...Because I'm a huge fucking nerd.) I came across the world's largest, fully functional game of Tetris. Apparently it doesn't exist anymore, unfortunately, or else I'd know where I was going on my next vacation. We seriously need to look into getting this in San Francisco.

Glenn Beck, a nationally syndicated Clear Channel radio host, called the victims of Hurricane Katrina scumbags on Friday. He also said he hated the victims of 9-11. You can read a partial transcript here. You can reach him and his company through the contact info below.

Glenn Beck's E-mail: me@glennbeck.com

Premiere Radio Networks (which syndicates his program):
Premiere Radio Networks, Inc.
15260 Ventura Blvd. 5th Floor
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
Main: (818)377-5300
Fax: (818)377-5333
Toll Free: (800)533-8686

Why wasn't he fired though?

Intelligent Design is a joke. The flying spaghetti monster invented the world.

You know, at first I was skeptical when I heard that The Pussycat Dolls were going to cover Joni Mitchell's "Don't Cha." But I gotta say, they really did it justice.

Remember when Dick Cheney told Senator Patrick Leahy to go fuck himself? Well payback's a bitch. Earlier today, while being interviewed live in the disaster zone, Cheney started talking about what a warm response he's been receiving from all the victims. Later, one of the victims offered his own warm response by yelling, "Go fuck yourself Mr. Cheney! Go fuck yourself!"

You can see the video here.

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"The bottom line is that despite the fact the president was strapped with two governors who bungled this crisis badly, in the end it is the president who sends in the National Guard and FEMA relief. The president's suggestion that the size of this storm caught all by surprise just doesn't get it. His administration was 48 hours late sending in the National Guard and poor Americans got raped and killed because of those mistakes."
-- Joe Scarborough, MSNBC, former republican congressman.

I don't usually like to give free advertising, but you can buy a "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People" t-shirt here. Or you can make your own, which would be cooler.

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Jeff Kent is a douchebag.

Pat Robertson said that Supreme Court nominee John Roberts should "be thankful that a tragedy has brought him some good." Has he always been this nuts?

I highly suggest reading Daily Kos, a liberal blog that points out Bush's lies with numerous updates and links to articles throughout the day. It's one of the most popular blogs on the Internet, and even if you're not that into politics is usually an interesting read.

Today on Daily Kos I learned:
The media is being turned away from certain parts of Louisiana.

Halliburton used $157 million of taxpayer money to build a movie library for its employees.

FEMA is using 1,500 firefighters to hand out fliers... PR fliers.

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Holy shit, the White House press corps stops tossing softballs to Scott McLellan for a day.

Read Keith Olbermann's commentary here.

FEMA Head Michael Chertoff and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff need to be fired now. The people effected by the hurricane cannot afford to have these two bungle the coordination of relief efforts any further. What exactly is President Bush waiting for? Does he not want to change (failed) leadership during a crisis? The American people already made that mistake and look where it got us.

President Bush hired a man with almost no experience dealing with national disasters to head the agency responsible for dealing with natural disasters.
Maybe I can head a federal agency too!

Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity and a former head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission said that in New Orleans, "you are dealing with the permanently poor -- people who don't have jobs, are not used to getting up and organizing themselves and getting things done and for whom sitting and waiting is a way of life."

"This is a natural disaster that is exacerbated by the problems of the underclass. The chief cause of poverty today among blacks is no longer racism. It is the breakdown of the traditional family."

I'm going to work on putting together some of Bill O'Reilly insane ramblings on the situation in The South, but for now... I've been watching O'Reilly's show over the past few days and he seems so detached from reality, even Fox News anchor and reporter Shepard Smith started yelling at him on the air the other day. Smith, who was reporting from New Orleans for almost a week, looking disheveled and putting himself right into the hellish situation in the city, was standing on an overpass near the Superdome as O'Reilly sat in his studio in New York. O'Reilly kept ranting on and on about how these people weren't being ignored because they were poor, that they weren't being ignored at all... Smith fired back, and I'm paraphrasing, "Excuse me, they're are people being ignored here Bill! I'm here, and I see it! I'm not laying blame, but nothing's being done." He then talked about how tourists from a nearby hotel we're allowed to bypass the thousands of New Orleans residents (read poor & black) to cut in line and board busses out of the city. Smith's reporting was excellent. O'Reilly kept speaking down to Smith, "You're just under stress." I'm sure Smith will be admonished for not toeing the party line as he gets back into the Fox Studios.

Went to the Fecal Face 5.5 Year Anniversary last thursday at 111 Minna. A lot of Mesh contributors and artists we've covered had their work hanging: Zenaida Sengo, Isaac McKay-Randozzi, John Trippe, Mat O'Brien, Kelly Tunstal, Porous Walker. Click here to see all the photos.

It was a great time. Don't forget to go to the music show this Friday.

My opinion of Kanye West has definitely improved. First, he called upon hip-hop artists to stop using "gay" as a derogatory term. Last night, he ripped into President Bush and his response to Hurrican Katrina: ""I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family and they say we are looting, you see a white family and they say they are looking for food. And, you know, its been five days because most of the people ARE black ... We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way. And now they've given them permission to go down and shoot us. George Bush doesn't care about black people."

I'm glad he had the guts to do say something that needs to be heard. There is something seriously wrong with this country. Thousands of corpses are lining the streets of New Orleans. Poor people are ignored and keep getting poorer. We can have a war on terror and a war on drugs, what we really need in this country is a war on poverty. That's what's killing Americans on a daily basis: lack of medical care, lack of hope, lack of food, lack of a quality education.

If I were stuck in New Orleans with no food and no water, I would be looting too.

This is what the media should be doing. CNN's Anderson Cooper reamed into Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) during an interview yesterday for slapping politicians on the back for their response to the devastation in New Orleans. Read the full transcript.

LANDRIEU: Let me just say a few things. Thank President Clinton and former President Bush for their strong statements of support and comfort today. I thank all the leaders that are coming to Louisiana, and Mississippi, and Alabama to our help and rescue.

We are grateful for the military assets that are being brought to bear. I want to thank Senator Frist and Senator Reid for their extraordinary efforts.

Anderson, tonight, I don't know if you've heard -- maybe you all have announced it -- but Congress is going to an unprecedented session to pass a $10 billion supplemental bill tonight to keep FEMA and the Red Cross up and operating.Anderson, tonight, I don't know if you've heard -- maybe you all have announced it -- but Congress is going to an unprecedented session to pass a $10 billion supplemental bill tonight to keep FEMA and the Red Cross up and operating.

COOPER: Excuse me, Senator, I'm sorry for interrupting. I haven't heard that, because, for the last four days, I've been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in Mississippi. And to listen to politicians thanking each other and complimenting each other, you know, I got to tell you, there are a lot of people here who are very upset, and very angry, and very frustrated.

And when they hear politicians slap -- you know, thanking one another, it just, you know, it kind of cuts them the wrong way right now, because literally there was a body on the streets of this town yesterday being eaten by rats because this woman had been laying in the street for 48 hours. And there's not enough facilities to take her up.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/opinion/01thu1.html

It's being reported that New Orleans is in a state of complete chaos. There are corpses lining the streets, people are shooting at rescue helicopters that are flying to hospitals, fights are breaking out and people are attacking National Guardsmen.

An old man in a chaise lounge lay dead in a grassy median as hungry babies wailed around him. Around the corner, an elderly woman lay dead in her wheelchair, covered up by a blanket, and another body lay beside her wrapped in a sheet.

"I don't treat my dog like that," 47-year-old Daniel Edwards said as he pointed at the woman in the wheelchair. "I buried my dog." He added: "You can do everything for other countries but you can't do nothing for your own people. You can go overseas with the military but you can't get them down here."

Someone named "Major Sean" posted this on Myspace today.

From AP photo captions:
White people "find" things.
Black people "loot" things.

I hate President Bush as much as the next guy, but can everyone please stop making such a big deal about him taking a vacation? Unless it's in the context of the argument that everyone should get a five-week vacation, I really don't see anything wrong with taking a vacation. You think the French would be criticizing their president for taking a five-week vacation? Maybe: "He takes such a short vacation. He is working too hard."

Reminiscing about my misspent youth earlier this morning, I began wondering what happeneed to Ally Hilfiger, her winning personality and her gigantic teeth. Hilfiger is , of course, the daughter of creepy white dude Tommy Hilfiger who somehow became the fashion icon for hundreds of millions of rappers in the '90s. She was also the star of the short-lived MTV reality show Rich Girls with her best friend Jamie Gleicher, who is the worst person in the short history of humanity. So Ally, when you read this, please send us a note, we're looking for a fashion writer.