Given a free education courtesy of the US taxpayer, he chose to carouse and graduated 894 out of 899 in his class. One of the classes he apparently skipped out on was Flight School. The first time he tried to land a plane he crashed. Taxpayers picked up the tab.

Shortly thereafter, he violated regulations, flew too low, hit power lines, and crashed a plane in Spain. Taxpayers picked up the tab.

Transferred to Jacksonville, McCain decided to fly to the Army-Navy Game in Philadelphia, hopped in a plane, and crashed that one, too. Taxpayers picked up the tab.

He lost another plane on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, and after only 20 hours of combat flying was shot down or crashed over N. Vietnam and became a POW.

Any other pilot would have been washed out after crash #2. McCain's special status as son and grandson of admirals served to keep him flying. His naval aviator buddies sarcastically refer to McCain as "Ace" not because he shot down 5 enemy planes, but because he lost 5 of OUR planes.

How 20 hours of combat qualifies McCain as an expert on defense baffles me.

In his 2004 report on Abu Ghraib, Major General Anthony Taguba concluded "numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses were inflicted on several detainees." He called the abuse "systemic and illegal". Now, in his preface to a Physicians for Human Rights' report on medical examinations of former detainees, Gen. Taguba states:

“In order for these individuals to suffer the wanton cruelty to which they were subjected, a government policy was promulgated to the field whereby the Geneva Conventions and the Uniform Code of Military Justice were disregarded. The UN Convention Against Torture was indiscriminately ignored. There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.”

Is Nuremburg booked for January 21, 2009? We could arrest Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld at Obama's inauguration, extraordinarily render them for trial that afternoon and start the war crimes trial bright and early the next day.

America wants to know what a drug-addled, blonde adulterous beer-peddling tavern slut has to say about the well-educated, accomplished, articulate Michelle Obama.

You know, the cowardly bastards and bullies like Dick Cheney, Geroge Bush and William Kristol who are happy to torture detainees and send minions to die in foreign wars, but unwilling to sully their own soft white hands with any real dirty work.

Allow me to quote Mr. Rove at the start of his love affair with the sociopathic young Bush:

I can literally remember what he was wearing," he said of an occasion in 1973: "an Air National Guard flight jacket, cowboy boots, blue jeans. He was exuding more charisma than any one individual should be allowed to have."

Maybe Karl's just having a hissy fit cause Obama is both too smart and too cool to fall for a fat-assed white boy in love with the 4th Reich.

private clubs may still discriminate with resepct to membership based on race, creed, color or gender.

In most states, it is still legal IF the club is truly private. Anti-discrimantion laws have been aimed at Public Accommodations, for example:

meaning any accommodation . . . which is open to, accepts or solicits the patronage of the general public, including but not limited to inns, taverns, roadhouses, hotels, motels, whether conducted for the entertainment of transient guests or for the accommodation of those seeking health, recreation or rest, or restaurants or eating houses, or any place where food is sold for consumption on the premises, buffets, saloons, barrooms or any store, park or enclosure where spirituous or malt liquors are sold, ice cream parlors, confectioneries, soda fountains and all stores where ice cream, ice and fruit preparations or their derivatives, or where beverages of any kind are retailed for consumption on the premises, . . . bathhouses, swimming pools, barber shops, beauty parlors, retail stores and establishments, . . . gymnasiums, shooting galleries, billiard and pool parlors, . . . but shall not include any accommodations which are in their nature distinctly private.

Some states have passed anti-discrimination laws that specifically apply to private clubs, including New Jersey, New York, Maryland, and Connecticut - but in practice, many private clubs in these states still do not accept minority membership, and enforcement is very difficult. Especially in an era of pigs like Bush. Bush's DoJ civil rights department has primarily undertaken reverse discrimination cases where white assholes claim they have been discriminated against. What a load of crap.

Obama taking New York, New Jersey, Connecticutt, Delaware, RI, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Maryland, DC, Virginia, NC, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Colorado, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii.

And maybe NH, Montana, Alaska and Florida.

Now if we could just convince Mitch McConnell and the other obstructionist corporate clowns in the Minority to spend more time away from the Floor, perhaps the Democrats could find their missing spines and block the abomination that is the revised FISA bill.