“[T]he savages have declared war. [I]t’s far preferable to fight them in the streets of Baghdad than in the streets of New York (where the residents would immediately surrender).”
– From an Ann Coulter column, via Alternet‘s PEEK and Crooks & Liars.
I hear that you’re in the Big Apple a lot, Ann. I know you go nuclear frequently. But, so far, tougher-than-you-can-imagine New Yorkers have survived you with civility, if disdain. (Not to mention shock and horror when they see your skeletal frame in the elevator, as an Air America newsman said on the air recently.)
Last night, Cali Scribe tells us, Keith Olbermann gave Coulter the title, “World’s Worst.” Crooks & Liars, which has the video, reports: “Keith Olbermann picked up on Ann Coulter’s column … and gave her the dubious prize about her comments regarding New York and terrorist attacks.”
Meanwhile, “[r]esponding to last month’s bombings in the London subway system, transit officials in New York City decided to hand one of the nation’s largest defense contractors” — Lockheed Martin — 
“$212 million to dramatically increase surveillance efforts throughout the metropolitan transportation system. […] Civil liberties groups have expressed concern over the growing use of public cameras and other surveillance equipment. ..”
— From today’s always informed, reputable NewStandard News. (There are some soldiers in Iraq who could use $220+ million too.)
Arts & Crafts Project: Make your own bullshit deflector ear piece! (That’s an outside-the-frame link to Wiseass.org.)
Thanks to Susan T in Michigan for finding the Wiseass make-it-yourself site! Susan talked to John Conyers one-on-one last night … she’s still in a state over it.
Susan T also sent this today:
*Don’t know who wrote it – However, I think I’ve found a good song for us to sing on our way to Washington DC, next month.)
BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLICANSMine Eyes have seen the bungling of that stumbling moron Bush;
he has blathered all the drivel that the neo-cons can push;
he has lost sight of all reason ’cause his head is up his tush;
The Doofus marches on.
I have heard him butcher syntax like a kindergarten fool;
There is warranted suspicion that he never went to school;
Should we fault him for the policies – or is he just their tool?
The lies keep piling on.
Glory! Glory! How he’ll Screw Ya’!
Glory! Glory! How he’ll Screw Ya’!
Glory! Glory! How he’ll Screw Ya’!
His wreckage will live on.I have seen him cut the taxes of the billionaires’ lone heir;
As he spends another zillion on an aircraft carrier;
Let the smokestacks keep polluting – do we really need clean air?
The surplus is now gone.
Glory! Glory! How he’ll Screw Ya’!
Glory! Glory! How he’ll Screw Ya’!
Glory! Glory! How he’ll Screw Ya’!
Your safety net is gone!
Now he’s got a mighty hankerin’ to bomb a prostrate state;
Though the whole world knows its crazy – and the U.N. says to wait;
When he doesn’t have the evidence, “We must prevaricate.”
Diplomacy is done!
Oh, a trumped-up war is excellent; we have no moral bounds;
Should the reasons be disputed, we’ll just make up other grounds;
Enraging several billions – to his brainlessness redounds;
The Doofus marches on!
Glory! Glory! How he’ll Screw Ya’!
Glory! Glory! How he’ll Screw Ya’!
Glory! Glory! How he’ll Screw Ya’!
THIS…DOO…FUS…MAR…CHES…ON
