Geez, BaLtiMoRe RoLL starts talkin’ politics, then everybody does! Jeff Price has a list of “liberal principles” posted to his blog, and you can view them here. For your convenience, I’m also posting them here:

1. A god has no control nor exerts any influence in the world today, whether he created the world or not
2. War is never the answer
3. Don’t trust your government
4. Government should play a limited role in the enforcement of morality, but a major role in the enforcement financial equality
5. Morality is relative to the personal choice of the individual and there should always be a safety net against the consequences of those personal choices

1. Actually, there are many religious liberals, just as there are many agnostic and athiest conservatives.

2. War is never the answer when the question is met with lies and piss-poor planning and execution.

3. It was a great liberal President who once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” Oh, wait, that was Ronald Reagan.

4. Proudly so. The government has no fucking business in my apartment, what business do you want it having in yours?

5. Whereas you remove the word “individual” and replace it with “CEO” and “personal” with “business” and you’ve got the equivilant conservative position? Sounds about right to me.

There was a bit on the radio today about a campaign by Republicans to claim that the Democrats’ power of filibuster was being used to hurt “people of faith”, and how thusly the GOP was launching an awareness campaign aimed at Republican Christians, with the goal of gaining support for their attempts to end - once and for all - the filibuster.

It really makes you wonder at just how arrogant the GOP has become. Do they really think that there will never come a time when they won’t dominate the Senate? Do they really think there won’t come a time when they’re not all out at the smokers’ door of the Congress mumbling, “Dammit, we shouldn’t have ended the filibuster, ‘cuz now we’re getting our pants handed to us.”

It’s really fun to watch the Good Old Party self destruct. They’ve abandoned their so-called “principles” of ’smaller government’, and in doing so alienated a great many of conservatives and most right-leaning libertarians. In particular, Tom Delay’s threat of violence against judges left a great many more Republicans scratching their heads going “huh?”*

I say, the GOP shooting itself in both feet, the balls, the gut, and the chest, is a great thing. Woohoo for Republicans droppin’ the ball! And, the best part is, if the Republicans are successful in eliminating the filibuster, they’ll be fucked when the political pendulem comes around again and sends ‘em all, “Yo, like, God, wtf? Why’d you abandon us, dude?”

Update: What Is It Today has more information on the Republican anti-filibuster campaign.

*See, Republicans are all “Oh, activist judges are bad” (unless they’re right-leaning activist judges). Yet, in the Terri Schiavo case, all of the judges involved made their decisions based on the rule of law, whereas Tom Delay, President Bush, and the GOP leadership in Congress sought to overturn the law in order to accomplish what they viewed as the ‘greater good.’ In effect, when the judges involved refused to be activists, they were threatened with violence by the same party that claims to hate activist judges! There’s a word for that: scumfucking hipocrites.

In a recent online poll conducted by Esquire magazine, 11,000 women in 15 countries were asked to rate Bush’s sex appeal on a scale of one to 10, and America’s commander-in-chief failed to register much more than a two.

I think even I might be sexier than the President!

Man, when NBC renews a series they don’t do it half-assed. The second season of Battlestar Galactica premiers in July!

This was a great book, and one I recommended last year - here, here, here - now, of course, the badge of success has been finalized - it’s being turned into a movie.

So, what with that new zombie film coming out and all, I was thinking about the best way to survive - a boat! And, I mean, you’d need one that wouldn’t need gas to operate, because where are you going to get gas in the middle of the friggin’ ocean? So I was thinkin’, get a group of cool, like minded “damn them zombies to hell” folk together, run down to the gun store, stock up on weapons, then head for the Inner Harbor, put a bunch of salted pork on the Maryland’s Pride II, and watch out for jumpin’ zombies while passing under the Bay Bridge.

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