ICEE AWARD WINNERS
Humans doing great things that I happened to notice.
To nominate someone for an Icee, email fuse1992@yahoo.com
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Icee to Blue Gal for lifetime achievement in maximum asskicking on a small (gettin' big) blog.
Icee to Charles Barkley for saying that Fox News is "Fucked Up".
35 Icees to Kucinich, one each for the 35 articles of impeachment against Bush that Kucinich introduced.
Icee to Biden for slamming Bush's Nazi Appeasement "bullshit".
Icee to DUer jgraz for this thread, which best encapsulated the debacular (I made that word up) debate performance of April 16, 2008.
Icee awarded to Senator Patrick Leahy for thrusting a stick into the spokes of Bush's unitary dictatorship.
To Al Gore for forcing the right wing to swiftboat the Nobel Prize. Very entertaining.
To New Zealand's Hell Pizza Deliveries for their hilarious Bush bashing billboard.
Jeffrey Lee turned down billions from a company that wanted to mine uranium from his land to preserve his country's environment.
Peter Chase, Barbara Bailey and all the librarians bullied by the FBI and their dirty National Security Letters.
Brian X. Scott, for stopping, albeit temporarily, war profiteering on the order of $475 million.
Stephen Colbert reels in another for his take on college.
To Frank Rich and the New York Times for turning down the invite to the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Michael Ware for repeatedly bitchslapping McCain's surge rhetoric.
Mike Davidson for the "Immaculate Hack". Nice work palie. You are a great American.
Max Cleland for lighting up Dick Cheney on News-bot Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room.
Sir Richard Branson and Al Gore get two straws in one Icee for the Virgin Earth Challenge.
Rep. Maurice Hinchey for introducing legislation to break up media monopolies and restore the fairness doctrine.
Rep. Steve Kagan, for allegedly pushing around Karl Rove in the men's room. To quote Kenny Rogers, "Some time's you gotta fight when you're a man."
Dennis Kucinich, for taking the abuse great minds get in this day and age and running for President anyway. Thanks, Dennis.
Patrick Leahy for his work to return the rule of Habeas Corpus to the land.
Howard Dean for his brilliant and ballsy 50 state strategy. Keep building the party Howie--you the man.
Trey Ellis wins the Icee Award for Journalism for this excellent wrap-up going into the 2006 election.
President Clinton, for just destroying Chris Wallace and Path to 9/11.
Keith Olbermann for his recent comments, especially this one.
AMERICAblog, Think Progress and all the others for leading the charge against Disney's disgusting propaganda.
Chuck Schumer, for throwing his support to the net neutrality cause.
Ken Herman, Cox News, for interrupting and challenging the President's linking of Saddam to 9/11.
Judge Anna Diggs Taylor for shutting down the NSA wiretapping Program.
Chuck Roberts gets an Icee Award for apologizing to Ned Lamont for calling him the al Qaida candidate.
Hillary Clinton blasts Dick Cheney for saying Ned Lamont's victory makes us less safe.
Rev. Boyd separates his Church from state.
Charles Swift for winning the Hamdan case.
Rep. John Conyers for suing the Decider for deciding to do shit he can't do.
All scientists working on stem cell research. Bring on the stem cell smoothies.
Democratic candidate for Senate in Virginia, James Webb, for calling Presidential candidate George Allen a coward, who sat out Vietnam "playing cowboy at a dude ranch in Nevada."
The Phillipines for listening to the Pope and ending the death penalty.
The Pope for contributing to the end of the death penalty in the Phillipines,
Keith Olbermann feeds the trolls--and I like it.
Russ Feingold strikes again, and again it's for standing up to a consitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
Michael Berg, for admirible pacifism. If we were all like this guy...
Russ Feingold wins a second Icee for calling Arlen Specter and Republicans for playing politics with the Constitution in an effort to save their sinking party with wedge issues.
Ray McGovern, former CIA
agent--For handing Rummy his ass.
Stephen Colbert--for his blistering White House Correspondents' Dinner Speech.
Nameless Spin Instructor, For this hilarity.
Allen Weinstein, Head of the National Archives.
Russ Feingold, Junior Senator from Wisconsin.