I guess I hate Hillary Clinton for all the obvious reasons, including which, she's a woman.  And -- as if that's not bad enough -- she's a woman who's committing the unforgivable sin of showing her age.  Now, if you don't believe me that aging women are monsters, look at what happens to even the most beautiful and successful actresses as they grow older.  Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Jessica Lange, Glenn Close... even Meryl Streep, when they get older they all play monsters.  Why?  Because old women are monsters, duh!  They are dried up bitter old sticks, and just looking at them reminds us that we will all get old and useless and ugly and die someday, thanks a lot, you bitches!  Old men aren't so bad, since for some reason men don't lose their humanity as fast as women... probably because they have so much more to begin with. Besides, look at every term that's used to describe older women: hags, crones, witches, etc.  So this is just one reason why I hate Hillary Clinton.

Sorry if this has been diaried before, I will delete if needed -- and sorry for the skimpy diary but it seems important to get the word out.  I just got this in my email this morning.

It was such an incredible relief to find out that this initiative crashed and burned, and this news should help make sure that it doesn't rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

From the Los Angeles Times:

BREAKING NEWS: Giuliani fundraiser was mystery initiative backer

A close friend and major fundraiser of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has identified himself as the mystery financer of the proposed California initiative to apportion the state's 55 electoral votes by congressional district instead of winner-take-all.

He is New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer. He said he provided the $175,000 to initially finance the petition drive to get the measure on the June 2008 ballot. But as The Times' Dan Morain revealed in an exclusive story on this website last night, the drive has foundered on internal disputes and lack of further financing.

This is a diary that I wrote about two weeks ago and never posted since I thought no one would be interested.  I mean, it's not really breaking news that the Bush administration has blatantly violated at least 10 out of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is it?

But tonight when I was watching Keith Olbermann and he played the clip of Bush touting the "Universal Declaration"  -- as he called it in his pathetic ignorance... I felt my face get red and my hands start shaking and I literally felt sick to my stomach to hear this depraved hypocrit pretending to uphold something he has done everything in his power to destroy.

Follow me across the divide...

This is probably old news, but it's the first I've heard about it so I thought I should post a diary on it just in case.  (I tried to do a search but nothing turned up.)

I just got the following email:

I'm so sick of the primary soap opera that I'm just about to bust a gut.  It's not bad enough that THIS administration has preempted the last vestiges of what used to pass as news in this country with coverage of their obscene and ethically bankrupt war in Iraq.  Not that we don't need to know what's going on there, obviously we do now that it's a fait accompli.  But I have to wonder if part of their strategy isn't subjecting the American Public to a relentless stream of White (House) Noise that plays out as a complete information blackout.

As of now, the other half of whatever "news" was left over is being preempted by the most ridiculous run-up to the Primary Elections that I have ever witnessed in all my born days.

More after the jump.

Just came across this article posted on Yahoo that there may be a White House Wedding in the offing.  It caught my attention since it was only a couple of weeks ago I was recalling the WH weddings during the Johnson and Nixon administrations and wondering why Shrub wasn't optimizing this premium political capital with two slavishly obedient and ultimately marriageable daughters at his disposal.

I was just browsing Raw Story and found this article.  I don't see a diary about it and I can't really do it justice right now, but this cannot pass unnoticed!

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BlueCross Secret Memo Re: 'Sicko' ... "You would have to be dead to be unaffected by Moore's movie..."

I looked and don't see that anybody has diaried this yet, if I missed it I apologize.  I subscribe to Michael Moore's listserve and this came on my email this morning.

An excerpt from the email:

An employee who works at Capital BlueCross has sent us a confidential memo written and circulated by its Vice President of Corporate Communications, Barclay Fitzpatrick. His job, it seems, was to go and watch "Sicko," observe the audience's reaction, and then suggest a plan of action for how to deal with the movie.

The memo, which I am releasing publicly in this email, is a fascinating look at how one health care company views "Sicko" -- and what it fears its larger impact will be on the public. The industry's only hope, the memo seems to indicate, is if the movie "flops."

Follow me after the fold.

And when he didn't know it....

Wouldn't it be the most disgusting thing in the world if Powell now saw his role as disaffected sycophant to right wing extremism in the light of protecting the person everyone in the Bush administration is supposedly working for?

Activist judges who hate the separtion of church and state, please apply.

EXCUSE ME?