Jeb Bush: Hurricane Dennis Could Be Fault of Michael Schiavo

via Swift Report: Florida Governor Jeb Bush has asked a state prosecutor to investigate possible links between Hurricane Dennis and Michael Schiavo. Governor Bush said that he connected Mr. Schiavo with the category 3 storm after realizing that Dennis spelled backwards is actually 'sinned.' read on

This is a pretty funny satire from Deanna Swift.

Few Americans Familiar with More than Four of Ten Commandments

Swift Reports

While the Ten Commandments are increasingly popular in both text and tablet form, a new poll has found that few Americans are familiar with more than four of them. The Biblical bans on murder, theft, and adultery ranked highest among adults surveyed, while only a handful were familiar with Commandments prohibiting graven images and false witness.

Activist judges found to be least familiar with Commandments...read on

Delay's Rapture Delayed

via Swift Report: House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been in the hot seat for months over alleged ethics violations. But the white-hot glare of the media spotlight pales in comparison to the heat that the Texas Republican will experience if ethics charges result in Mr. DeLay being 'left behind' to face a seven-year period of war, disease, famine and natural disaster known as the Tribulation...read on

FAUX NEWS ALERT(not a real one)

John O’Neal, leader of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was just hired as a political analyst for Fox News.

Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO, Fox News Network, in a brief statement said today:

"We are ecstatic at hiring one of the bright new voices in the political world today. His reputation is outstanding and he brings a unique sense of honesty into the FNC stable of fair and balanced reporting."

An insider said they they may build a 30 minute show around Mr. O'Neal, where he will have an open forum to continually bash Senator John Kerry for the remainder of his life.

For now you can see John O'Neal weekly on the "Hannity and Colmes Show."

On Crossfire today:

Robert Novak thinks the best political move President Bush made during the whole campaign was the Swift Boat Veterans!

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When the studio audience booed him loudly, Novak called them "stoogies."

It's funny that through the SBVFT smear campaign, the White House denied having any involvement with them. Thanks for clearing that up for us Bob!

The opening to the movie version of Hitchhiker's Guide, not as good as the BBC version, imo, but then this movie version had a bigger budget. It turns out** that's not always a good thing in entertainment.

**Douglas Adams in The Salmon of Doubt: “Incidentally, am I alone in finding the expression ‘it turns out’ to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected statements without the trouble of explaining what your source or authority actually is. It’s great. It’s hugely better than its predecessors ‘I read somewhere that...’ or the craven ‘they say that...’ because it suggests not only that whatever flimsy bit of urban mythology you are passing on is actually based on brand new, ground breaking research, but that it’s research in which you yourself were intimately involved. But again, with no actual authority anywhere in sight.”

Open thread below.

The Left Coaster: The days of BUSHCO dictating to the Iraqis are over.

Halfway There: Why polling is volatile even if voter's aren't

Beggars Can Be Choosers: No president in history has ever handed off a bigger mess to his successor

The Strange Death of Liberal America: 'Hillary Trojans' are McCain people masking themselves as disgruntled supporters of Hillary Clinton. They are the new Swift Boaters.

The Brad Blog: A Missouri voter refused an illegal demand to show a photo ID at the polls and got thrown in jail. November should be interesting.

No More Mr. Nice Blog: Get the smelling salts...Obama said America is not always great!!!

Hoffmania! John McCain vs POWs - Cindy and Swift Boater win big.

Open Left: FISA cave-in imminent

The Big Picture: Foreclosures up 48% in May

alicublog: Old America-New America

The Impolitic: Idiotic AP vendetta

Vagabond Scholar: Batocchio looks back at the whole nomination process, focusing especially on all the insanity of the last few months.

Guest blogged by Mark Hoback of The Aristocrats.

Roy Edroso takes a look at George Packers piece on 'The Fall of Conservatism' and says hold on there a minute, cowpoke.

At American Street, Sister Nancy Beth Eczema makes a bold stand for anti-homosexual rights.

Belacqua Jones discuses the necessity of Keeping America Safe From Democracy

Swift take: Isn't it about time for Obama to concede this thing?

They wouldn't really remake 'Red Dawn', would they?

...and to play us out of here, Was Not Was has returned from the dead, and sounds poppin' fresh. Ciao.

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Keith Olbermann speaks with retired Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift (whose successful representation of the Hamdan case brought to light many of the atrocities happening at Guantanamo) about the sad and disturbing news that Canada has placed the U.S. on a watch list--along with Iran, China, Syria and others--for being a country that tortures its prisoners, due in no small part to our criminally shameful treatment of Canadians Maher Arar and Omar Khadr (imprisoned in Guantanamo at the age of 15).

What a proud legacy Bush and Cheney will leave this country with.