Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast:

The weaselly Democrats are too fucking frightened to take on this lunatic [Bush], even if it means that thousands more American families receive the knock on the door that no one wants to hear. No price in American lives is too much to pay for them to keep their jobs and not have to expend the effort to explain to the Fox Noisebots in their districts what’s really going on. God knows the Republicans won’t do it; they’re too busy getting off — and making money — off of the war effort.

That leaves the military. We know that Congress won’t live up to its Constitutional duty to remove this guy from office before he can do any more harm to the Constitution and to our country. We are now left with only the hope that the military will rise up and say “Enough.”

A military coup — that’s what it’s come to, folks. Because that’s the only thing that will rescue us form the clutches of this monster.

A few minutes later, she posts the ominous news that “[m]embers of the 1st Battalion 265 Air Defense Artillery have mobilized and are on a plane headed first to Ft. Bliss, then for federal active duty in the capital region.” Although it’s probably nothing, I am a bit concerned about calls for a military coup of some sort. They don’t always go well.

Seriously, though, I have generally figured that if anyone has the capability to call Bush on his bullshit, it is the military leaders. I will never advocate any sort of military coup, just based on knowledge of history, but it may not come to that. (Fred Kaplan did offer an interesting argument last year that “a military coup in this country right now would probably have a moderating influence.”) The U.S. may just run out of combat-ready troops soon, anyway, which presumably would force the civilian leadership to pay more attention to the military leadership.

First off, thanks to Mikey for his contribution to my earlier Ted Nugent post.

I also have to share these thoughts from Gordon at Alternate Brain:

I’m forced by way of disclaimer to say that I used to kind of like Ted Nugent. I knew he was a wingnut, but I liked his stand on the 2d Amendment and the fact that he eats what he kills. I don’t do it myself, but I think hunting is fine.

That said, fuck him.

Newshounds has the story (via the Rutland Herald) of how Sir Shits-a-Lot repeatedly crapped himself to avoid service:

(Nugent claims) that 30 days before his Draft Board Physical, he stopped all forms of personal hygiene. The last 10 days he ingested nothing but junk food and Pepsi, and a week before his physical, he stopped using the bathroom altogether, virtually living inside his pants caked with excrement and urine. That spectacle won Nugent a deferment.

It’s probably worth a quick review of what Herr Nugent said and did.

I concur: fuck him.

Ted Nugent is a nut job and a hypocrite.

Just thought you should know.

I haven’t posted all week, partly because I’ve been really busy, partly because I’ve actually been in a good mood, and partly because my daily scan of the liberal pinko blogosphere hasn’t yielded much to raise my ire.

Until now.

I will take the liberty of posting the sordid tale in its entirety:

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge.

The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday.

New Haven ophthalmologist Daniel Salchow, 36, and his sister, Dorothee, 31, who is visiting from Hamburg, Germany, were both charged with first-degree breach of peace, a felony.

The siblings set off the scare while organizing a run for a local chapter of the Hash House Harriers, a worldwide group that bills itself as a “drinking club with a running problem.”

“Hares” are given the task of marking a trail to direct runners, throwing in some dead ends and forks as challenges. On Thursday, the Salchows decided to route runners through the massive IKEA parking lot.

Police fielded a call just before 5 p.m. that someone was sprinkling powder on the ground. The store was evacuated and remained closed the rest of the night. The incident prompted a massive response from police in New Haven and surrounding towns.

Daniel Salchow biked back to IKEA when he heard there was a problem and told officers the powder was just harmless flour, which he said he and his sister have sprinkled everywhere from New York to California without incident.

“Not in my wildest dreams did I ever anticipate anything like that,” he said.

Mayoral spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said the city plans to seek restitution from the Salchows, who are due in court Sept. 14.

“You see powder connected by arrows and chalk, you never know,” she said. “It could be a terrorist, it could be something more serious. We’re thankful it wasn’t, but there were a lot of resources that went into figuring that out.”

Have we as a society become so fucking paranoid that the first thing you think of when you see “powder connected by arrows and chalk” is that it just must be terrorist-related? I’m willing to give the average terrorist the benefit of the doubt and presuppose that he would not want to draw lines on the ground directing everyone to his bioterror materials. Of course, I’m not a terrorist, so what the hell do I know?

I am also flummoxed by the comment “It could be a terrorist, it could be something more serious.” What, uh, exactly would be more serious than a terrorist???

Besides, if you’ve ever been to a Hasher party (which I have), you would know that they are generally far too drunk to be a danger to anyone in a GWOT sense.

I suppose we should thank Karl Rove and his ilk for making everyone so damned paranoid that I am afraid to use baking soda in my own fridge anymore for fear the maintenance guy will call Homeland Security on me.

Okay, that was my lame attempt to come up with a protest cheer. This was after reading this bemusing piece on how Rudy G spent about twice as much time in the months after 9/11 attending and travelling to and from Yankees’ games instead of at ground zero, somewhat undercutting his claim that he was at ground zero more than almost anyone else. Like we needed any further proof that he’s a scrub.

Dear Democrats (you know who you are):

The election is a long way away, and yet you seem to already be fretting about how mean the Repubs are going to be to you if Hillary or–gasp–Al Gore gets the nomination and makes electioneering that much more of a challenge. First off, the Repubs aren’t exactly awash in popularity right now. Second, it’s not like you don’t have a lot of time between now and the election to, you know, campaign. It has been pointed out so many times that my head hurts that the Repubs’ use of fear, and fear alone, as a campaign strategy is only effective if you let it be effective. Now quit your damn whining and start doing something, or else I’m going to start an American offshoot of Poland’s Beer Lovers’ Party, and we’re going to win us some elections.

Sincerely,
CP, Esq.

I think I will start a whole separate category for making fun of Bill O’Reilly, because he makes it so dang easy. First he was warning us of roving gangs of lesbians, and now here is a humorous deconstruction of how he may be stiffening his loofah for Matt Damon. The jokes write themselves, I tell you.

UPDATE, March 2, 2012: I don’t have some of those categories anymore since I switched blog platforms.

It seems Bush the Elder, awash in criticism of Bush the Lesser, is sad about the whole affair. I say suck it up and reap what you have sown–I second the thoughts offered by No More Mr. Nice Blog, who clearly had more coffee in his system when he wrote his post.

…and Rudy G. certainly looks like a cornered animal right about now.