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Bush's New Plan

2007-01-27T14:25:00.000-05:00

Once again Bush has a "new strategy" to "win" his war on Iraq. This strategy appears to be the same as his other 5 plans. This strategy involves more war not less, more violence not peace.

Once again the "Manager of Mishap" will send more troops into the firing lines to die, and more Iraqi citizens to face devastation.

As you look back on Bush's war strategy so far, one can only assume it will be another "Mishap Accomplished."

Operation Bush

2007-01-25T14:11:00.000-05:00

As America watches the Bush administration escalate the war in Iraq, it is safe to assume that this operation was not desired by the American people. This escalation has been met with much protest and fury from the citizens in the U.S.

This war is not just the Iraq war. This war is the Bush war and on his shoulders lies the fate of the war, and the fate of America.

Truth and Consequences

2007-01-19T00:51:00.000-05:00

As life goes on we all learn that for every truth, there is a consequence. We also learn that so often those consequences are not what we hope, but what others dream of.

Bush's war in Iraq was based on lies, but the truth has finally came out. The truth is that an unjust war brings consequences.

Thousands of people have faced the consequences of the truth of Bush's war. Those consequences have changed the course of their lives forever.

The truth is Bush went to war to conquer the oil fields of the mideast, which would enable him to conquer the world.

The consequence of this war has been thousands of U.S and Iraqi's killed, thousands more maimed and injured, and a never ending war rages on.

The truth is Mr. Bush you are a traitor to your country. The consequence is the thousands of coffins carrying U.S and Iraqi people.

I'm An Innocent Man

2007-01-15T22:45:00.000-05:00

George W Bush proudly admitted to a national audience that he will go forward with his war no matter what Congress and the American People think.

George W Bush orchestrated the slaughter of thousands. George W Bush is igniting World War III. George W Bush is "Evil." Does George W Bush deserve the name of "War Criminal?"

Surging On To WWIII

2007-01-11T14:43:00.000-05:00

George W Bush professed his plans to "Surge Forward" in his attempt to take over the Mideast oil fields, thus securing his plans for world dominance.

Bush unveiled his plans to also invade Iran and Syria through hidden words of spoken rhetoric, which will without a doubt launch World War III and give Bush that added benefit of enlarging his "Empire of Evil."

Surge on "Evil Emperor" World War III is around the corner.

It's Only A Number

2007-01-10T07:26:00.000-05:00

Bush spokesman Tony Snow said when asked about the U.S death toll in Iraq " It's Only A Number."

As Bush sends more troops into Iraq into a further escalation of death for U.S soldiers just remember Bush's philosophy about the U.S death toll. " It's Only A Number."

George W Bush and Tony Snow are "Just Miserable Merchants Of Death."

Bush Listening Tour

2007-01-06T17:35:00.000-05:00

I want to listen to all your ideas on how to handle the situation in Iraq.

Justice Roberts Wants Money

2007-01-02T13:03:00.000-05:00

Supreme Court Justice John Roberts criticizes Congress because judical pay is to low. Roberts says the pay is so low it may undermine the independence of the judiciary.

Roberts went on to say the judiciary will not serve its constitutional role if the judges are so wealthy they can afford low compensation. Roberets claims the pay scale for judges is so low it can't attract the less than wealthy.

Federal district court judges make $165,200 per year while appeals court judges make $175,100, associate judges of the Supreme Court make $203,000 and the chief justice gets $212,100.

Only in America would the wealthiest demand more money. Only in America would the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court cry foul because he suddenly is overpaid on the job he lobbied his wealthy Republican friends for.

The everyday American doesn't make $165,200 much less the massive $212,100 that poor Roberts gets as he struggles to make ends meet.

Judges lobby their party elite for these jobs and these same judges are making a killing off the U.S taxpayer deciding in favor of whichever the wind blows.

Do the justices of the Supreme Court deserve a raise after they wrongfully handed the Presidency over to an imcompent oil man to curry favors we will never know? Do the Supreme Court justices deserve to be rewarded for placing a warmonger into power who has nearly destroyed the security of America?

Does Chief Justice Roberts deserve a raise for spending a few weeks out of the year in his silk robe and tossils making sure the Republican cause is backed by law?

Why isn't there a term limit for the Supreme Court justices so they can get back out into the real world and make a living, if they are so underpaid?

Why does the taxpayer pay over $200,000 a year for tired, old, worn out judges to show up in court a few weeks a year, to sleep until a clerk wakes them up to either vote the Republican way, or go home from a long days nap?

The American judical system is a pathetic form of thievery for wealthy idealogues to continue the party line no matter what the cost. Why do they deserve more money?

If Chief Justice Roberts and his colleagues needs more money for taking naps, then perhaps its time they resign and start a daycare. They take naps everyday as well.

We are losing the War in Iraq

2006-12-17T18:10:00.000-05:00

Colin Powell told an audience watching Face The Nation that "The U.S is losing the war in Iraq and sending in more troops is not the best way to change course."

Powell the former Secretary of State to King George and the very same idealogue who stood before the United Nations and told the fabricated story of weapons in Iraq, finally is telling the truth that the U.S is losing the war.

Powell also said the U.S army is just about broken and the war has left Americans a little less safe.

The Republican Dream General who lied before the world just to be one of the boys has finally "came clean"on the situation in Iraq.

Can King George with his extra large tin ears, hear the voice of the one he shoved up front to sell his war for oil scheme?

Can King George deny that Powell is a cut and run kind of guy when Powell supported King George in his quest for world dominance?

Will the eratic Republican party attack Powell like a pack of dogs in heat, or will they remain silly in their silence because he is supposed to be "one of them?"

King George, your front man in selling your story of woe, your front man who gave his credibility for the price of being near your throne, your big brave general who could do no wrong has finally admitted what we all know, the U.S is losing the war.

The ball is in your court King George. Will you call daddy to get you out of this one? Will you call Condi to console you over this admittance of your failures?

Colin Powell said,"we are losing the war in Iraq." Did you hear that proclamation over your glass of vodka that you claim not to drink?

You King George have ruined America.

Guess who Time's, Person of the Year, is this year?

2006-12-16T21:51:00.000-05:00

It's You! It's you and I and all the other people who made a difference during the year 2006, whether we were blogging against the most vicious and vile presidency in the history of our nation or raising money for our political team or the countless times we exposed the actions and inactions of the people who lead our nation. We. Were. A. Force. We made a difference and Time this year felt compelled to make this statement to the nation and the world. Congratulations Patriots!

Here's part of the write up about this wonderful honor (you can read the rest linked above in the title of this thread):

Posted Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006

The "Great Man" theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men." He believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year.

To be sure, there are individuals we could blame for the many painful and disturbing things that happened in 2006. The conflict in Iraq only got bloodier and more entrenched. A vicious skirmish erupted between Israel and Lebanon. A war dragged on in Sudan. A tin-pot dictator in North Korea got the Bomb, and the President of Iran wants to go nuclear too. Meanwhile nobody fixed global warming, and Sony didn't make enough PlayStation3s.

But look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.

The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. Not the Web that Tim Berners-Lee hacked together (15 years ago, according to Wikipedia) as a way for scientists to share research. It's not even the overhyped dotcom Web of the late 1990s. The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.

Earlier tonight some were talking about Time's Person of the Year and I wasn't interested in watching the program on CNN. I'm not one for award ceremonies, pageants, or any other venues of self-promotion, but when I realized the Person of the Year was all of us bloggers (Time Magazine is going to have a 'mirror' on it's cover so YOU can see the winner! Very clever.) and others on the Internet who had gotten the recognition, I thought it was a fabulous and long overdue award! How thrilling!

So, give yourself a big hug and a huge high five to yourself. You deserve it Patriots!

Judith Regan has been fired...

2006-12-16T16:21:00.000-05:00

...by HarperCollins and poor Rupert Murdoch has to eat crow for lowering the standards of Fox News more than it has done on it's own in the past 6 years, since it became the mouthpiece of the worst presidency in the history of our nation!

From Bloomberg:

HarperCollins Fires Judith Regan Who Backed O.J. Simpson Book

By Nancy Kercheval

Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Editor Judith Regan, who backed a book by O.J. Simpson on how he could have killed his ex- wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, was fired yesterday by HarperCollins, a unit of News Corp.

``Judith Regan's employment with HarperCollins has been terminated effective immediately,'' said Jane Friedman, president and chief executive officer of HarperCollins, in a statement. ``The Regan publishing program and staff will continue as part of the HarperCollins General Books Group.'' Regan was president of ReganBooks.

Regan's lawyer, Bert Fields of Los Angeles, didn't return a call seeking comment this morning.

News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch canceled publication of ReganBooks' ``If I Did It'' on Nov. 20 and a Fox broadcast special starring the former National Football League player who was found innocent of the murders.

``I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project,'' Murdoch said in a statement. ``We are sorry for any pain this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.''

We all know how much those right wingers love murder and they were all salivating at the thought of O.J. Simpson writing about he "didn't commit" this crime against his ex-wife and her friend. What a bunch of sickos they all are. I'm so glad the American people stood up to these assholes at Fox by demanding some freaking integrity (like that's possible at Fox, but come on! They have to start somewhere for crying out loud!) from them all. HarperCollins firing Judith Regan is a start. Anyone doing business with Fox News should be fired if I had any control.

How True.....

2006-12-14T08:09:00.000-05:00

Rummy loves the sound of music

2006-12-13T19:02:00.000-05:00

Oh for crying out loud. Donald Rumsfeld is insane! Not because he enjoys the movie, The Sound of Music, but because he is an Evil man who has botched an illegal occupation that he said he never wanted (which indicates he's a liar), and who was fired recently because of these reasons (of course, he says it was because of the last election. Well, of course he would say that...he's an Evil man, who has botched a war, and who was fired because of it, so he's bitter)!

Here is an exchange between Cal Thomas (Saddam's brother? He could pass for it) of Fox News Watch and Donald Rumsfeld recently:

SEC. RUMSFELD: It's good to see you.

MR. THOMAS: When you get things, you know, straightened out, come down and see a movie with us. I promise it won't be a war movie.

SEC. RUMSFELD: What kind of a movie?

MR. THOMAS: We got a movie theater we kind of like in our house.

SEC. RUMSFELD: Oh, do you really?

MR. THOMAS: Yeah, we decided we're not leaving anything to the kids, so we're spending it on ourselves since I earned it.

SEC. RUMSFELD: Yeah, damn right. That's my answer. (Laughter.)

MR. THOMAS: (Laughs.) There you go. And so we have this nice movie theater with surround sound --

SEC. RUMSFELD: I've heard these home theaters -- you have chairs that --

MR. THOMAS: Oh, they're fun. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah do that. You can sleep, you can do anything. It's very cool.

SEC. RUMSFELD: My wife --

MR. THOMAS: Juke box, all kinds of stuff.

SEC. RUMSFELD: My wife loves movies.

MR. THOMAS: Oh, good. Well --

SEC. RUMSFELD: She goes all the time with a group of women, and I have not been in six years to the movies.

MR. THOMAS: It'll be fun. I got one for you that'd you'd really love. You got it this Christmas. Get for her and watch it together. It's called "Akeelah and the Bee." Starbucks is involved in it. It's about a little African-American girl, 11-years-old, growing up in Crenshaw in LA... And they discover that she has this great gift of spelling. Laurence Fishburne is in it, Angela Basset. She goes out and redeems everybody... I'm sitting there I'm balling away. I'm cheering for the kid...

I guarantee you I'll give you your money back if you don't love this movie. You will absolutely love this. It's got everything. There's not a white guy -- the only white guy in it is the principal of the school. Everybody else is minority, everybody else gets along.

SEC. RUMSFELD: Did you like the "Sound of Music?"

MR. THOMAS: Of course I liked the "Sound of Music."

SEC. RUMSFELD: Well, so did I... People laugh at that.

MR. THOMAS: Well, I want to tell you something. I stalked Julie Andrews for 40 years before I finally got her.

SEC. RUMSFELD: Is that right.

MR. THOMAS: On our shelf, a picture of us having tea together in New York.

SEC. RUMSFELD: How long ago?

MR. THOMAS: Two years. But I --

SEC. RUMSFELD: She's showing her years.

MR. THOMAS: Yeah, well -- no, she looks great.

SEC. RUMSFELD: (Laughs.)

MR. THOMAS: I waited for her outside the Majestic Theater in 1962 in the rain. That's when it started... And that's how I opened the letter to her, you know. So anyway, you got more important things to do.

SEC. RUMSFELD: Good to see you.

MR. THOMAS: Good to you see you, and let's stay in touch.

SEC. RUMSFELD: Terrific

Isn't that a weird conversation? Rummy is a man who was upset about the torture being done at GITMO, not because he was against torture being used, but because the American people found out about it! This is a man who does not like the movie, The Sound of Music, but rather, is saying that to give himself a kinder gentler side. Nice try Rummy. You're pure Evil and sick and the best part? You're gone! Let's hope the next time we see you is at your trial for international crimes against humanity, you sicko!

another damned Caption Contest

2006-12-11T02:19:00.000-05:00

If there ever was a picture of the shrub that cried out for an appropriate caption from those he serves, this could be it.

Thanks in advance to Jurrasicpork for it, It is the lead photo at this weeks installment of

Assclowns of the Week

Enjoy, both this caption contest and JP's weeks installment.

Kudos to clammyc at Boomantribute

2006-12-09T19:49:00.000-05:00

Get Your Own Ass to Iraq, or Shut the Hell Up.

by clammyc
Sat Dec 9th, 2006 at 03:25:12 PM EST

Enough is fucking enough already. We have been called traitors and terrorist sympathizers and now “surrender monkeys” by the lowest of the low, the most vile filth to “grace” (and I use the term lightly) this country, our airwaves, and no doubt our daily lives. And I know that there are those who are in that camp who frequent this community – whether it be to stir up trouble or to lurk and report back as to what those “krazy kos kidz” are up to.

So, here is one for you – you want to throw more troops into Iraq, you want to “stay the course”, you don’t want to “negotiate with terrorists” (whatever, nice strawman argument there...), you want to throw billions more at an illegal invasion and occupation that was based on lies, you want to show how “patriotic” you are? Fine. Then get your ass to the nearest recruiting station and go yourself. Or, send your own kids.

But goddamn it, shut your fucking pie hole if you think that the rest of us (and this is an increasingly growing number of US citizens, including republican Senators, military leaders, Iraqis and others who don’t have their heads so far up their own asses that the smell and lack of oxygen is cutting off any semblance of rational thought) are “giving up” or are “not up for the fight”, while you sit back and make judgments about others who knew for years how much of a debacle and disgusting disaster this was bound to be.

You say we were the ones who don’t care about “freedom” or that we “hate America”. You called us every name in the book. Well, how about trying this one on for size – disingenuous lying hypocritical chickenshit warmongering fearmongering scumbag. Don’t like it? Too fucking bad. Wanna do something about it? Get on a goddamn plane and put your money where your mouth is. Put your own ass on the line, not someone else’s.

Senator McCain – you think that 20,000 more troops is the answer? Fine. You have seven children and four grandchildren. Are they all serving? No? Why the hell not?

Lazy ass xenophobic freepers and Red Staters – I am sure that most of you are of military age. You think that even hardcore neocons who got us into this mess are giving up? Well, our troops are on their third and fourth tours of duty. Your hero McCain is calling for more troops. You support this disaster. Get off your ass and go fight it yourself.

What’s that, you have “other things to do”? You are better off serving from behind a computer screen? You have children to take care of? Well, I bet those 16,000 single mothers who are serving in Iraq had other things to deal with as well. Not in shape? Have a criminal record? No worries there, because the military has lowered its recruiting standards. Better hurry up and get down to the nearest station.

Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity – why aren’t you over there? You want to blast those “sand monkeys” (real classy) back to the stone age? Go ahead – and bring any relatives with you. If you are so willing to call the rest of us out, then what the hell are you still doing here? You want revenge? Fine – get your ass on the next plane, grab a gun and what little armor is provided. No? Got other things to do? Got a life to live? A family to support? Well, how about those people who are already serving but are being charged up to 400% on loans that they need just to take care of their families?

Other plans like college or a job keeping you here? I bet those twenty six soldiers who died in the first 10 days of November or the thirty eight soldiers who have been killed the first nine days of December also had families, jobs, hopes and dreams.

Seriously, enough of your tired fingerpointing bullshit. “Elections have consequences” - remember that line you loved so much two short years ago? Well, the people have spoken, and there certainly is a mandate now to inject some sanity back into this country and the world. You don’t like it? Tough shit. You want to keep killing and dying in Iraq? Nothing is stopping you from going or from sending your own damn kids.

You called us traitors. You think our problem is that we aren’t clapping hard enough or clicking our heels together enough? You said you were the ones supporting the troops. So start supporting them. They need reinforcements. They need to see their families. They need armor and equipment. So, go. Run, don’t walk.

Otherwise, spare the rest of us and just shut the hell up already. You have no standing. You have no credibility. And you lost on November 7 when the country spoke overwhelmingly about Iraq. Too bad, dipshits. Stop your whining and bullshit. Now we truly are turning a corner. Time for sanity. You have three choices – get on board, get over to Iraq yourself, or shut your fucking mouth.

I would NOT put it past Bush...

2006-12-09T10:30:00.000-05:00

Given he seems to hire the most incompetent or immoral choices for the most important jobs in this government, I for one would not put this past Bush.

It would guarantee the vast majority of Americans were afraid. And would also guarantee the job was NOT done in the way most Americans would like it to be.

Bush just has that reverse Midas touch, you know the one where instead of Gold, Bush's touch creates Large piles of SHIT.

Which study group Did their Homework, and which just tried to skate by?

2006-12-08T01:01:00.000-05:00

In case you do not know the first report on this post is Bush's plan for victory in Iraq released a year ago.

And we all know what The Iraq Study Group report is. Which group did their homework, Looked at the problem and asked pertinent questions, instead of creating reality they wanted to be true?

And which group has not dealt with reality very well?

Because ONLY one study can represent reality as it exists on the ground in Iraq.

Georgie has a bad day....

2006-12-07T20:19:00.000-05:00

Georgie had a Bad Day.

Daddy's friends told him to stop destroying the Middle east.

Daddy has friends over there and they are no longer happy.

Daddy's friends over there even made Georgie's Baby sitter to come to them and tell them why Georgie was allowed to play with the grown up toys.

Georgie had a bad day.

Caption Contest...

2006-12-06T13:09:00.000-05:00

Here's Mine:

"I does not read as well as.. My Pet Goat"

We treat dogs better than this, ...I am ashamed.

2006-12-05T23:25:00.000-05:00

Jose Padilla, 21st century America's version of Josef K.

Not too long ago I read something about Jose Padilla having been held for three years--it's been three years already--in solitary confinement and thought, fuck. I wonder if he's still sane.

Apparently not.

Warning: reading this literally made me feel queasy, which doesn't happen very often.

According to prosecutors,

His basic needs were met in a conscientious manner, including Halal (Muslim acceptable) food, clothing, sleep and daily medical assessment and treatment when necessary.

Not even for animals are "food, clothing, sleep and medical treatment" sufficient treatment. Fish, maybe. Bugs. But most mammals require more than that. Even PK's mice require companions. Social isolation in mice has been shown to cause aggression, despair-like immobility, and immune system and heart damage, among other things.

Now, imagine the effect of doing this to a man. For over three years.

Mr. Padilla was held alone in a 10-cell wing of the brig; that he had little human contact other than with his interrogators; that his cell was electronically monitored and his meals were passed to him through a slot in the door; that windows were blackened, and there was no clock or calendar; and that he slept on a steel platform after a foam mattress was taken from him, along with his copy of the Koran. . . .

Don't skim over his deprivation of the Koran too quickly. It's surely the only thing he had to read or look at, his only contact with human language other than orders or hostile questions.

When he leaves his cell (for a root canal), he has

noise-blocking headphones over his ears and blacked-out goggles over his eyes.

Apparently one of his lawyers

"was told by members of the brig staff that Mr. Padilla’s temperament was so docile and inactive that his behavior was like that of ‘a piece of furniture.’ ”

He also

"remains unsure if I and the other attorneys working on his case are actually his attorneys or another component of the government’s interrogation scheme.”

Bluntly, at this point, Padilla has been destroyed. His case will be written into textbooks in a decade's time, and hopefully students will learn from it. Practically speaking, any hope Jose Padilla had for due process (Fifth Amendment), a fair and speedy trial or adequate legal representation (Sixth Amendment), or freedom from cruel or unusual punishment (Eighth Amendment) disappeared a long time ago. Whatever the outcome of his situation is--and I do hope that ultimately the man regains his freedom, given that the government has not charged him with anything they supposedly retained him for--effectively the only hope left is that we'll learn something from having literally used all the power of the government to ruin a man without so much as charging him with a crime.

Padilla, if anyone needs reminding, is an American citizen. He has not been convicted of anything.

I truly wouldn't do that to a dog.

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This is JUST plain wrong, we as Americans used to be better than this.

He IS still an American citizen, and deserves to be treated like one.

Charles Manson receives much better treatment, John Gotti did also.

John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Henry Louis Wallace, Jerry Brudos, Henry Lee Lucas, Robert Spangler, David Berkowitz, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Muhammad, John Lee Malvo, Richard Angelo, Dennis Rader, Gary Ridgway, Albert Fish, Eddie Gein, Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, all recieve better treatment both BEFORE they were convicted, and after.... even ON death row.

America USED to be better than this.

And Remember he has never been convicted of anything connected with any charges based on What he was arrested for.

What happened to innocent until proven guilty, and the US Constitution?

A Sensitive Bush Weeps

2006-12-05T20:58:00.000-05:00

In a tearful rendition of prose and phonery, former President Bush broke down during a speech on working with rivals, and building personal relationships.

Bush broke down talking about his beloved son Jebby and how he wasn't bitter after defeat.

Bush said Jebby didn't whine or complain,but he moved forward and ended up a two term governor.

Bush said "a true measure of a man is how you handle victory and how you handle defeat."

Bush said he gets emotional when he talks about his children. He also said his twin granddaughters have calmed down and are doing well.

Was this emotional barrage a push toward his new favorite son Jebby toward running for President?

Does Bush really think his sweet innocent granddaughters have calmed down? Didn't he watch the Argentina reports last week?

Bush says a "true measure of a man is how you handle victory, and how you handle defeat."

If so, then doesn't his little boy Georgie flunk in both those respects?

The sobs and babblings of a man who like during his Presidency, is out of touch with America, out of touch with the happenings of his offspring, and out of touch with reality.

Old man Bush and his cohort Lee Atwater were the dirtiest players in the game for their time.

Now the seed, no matter how how rotten and dark they may be are examples of what tarnished offspring will become.

"My granddaughters have really calmed down" and "the measure of a man is how you handle victory, and how you handle defeat."

Well Papa Bush, you're granddaughters are wilder than ever and your son is a loser in a cooked up war, a loser in midterm elections, and a loser from your seed.

Weep away Papa Bush, your offspring have "calmed down" and so has your sons days in power.

They offer resolutions....like at new years

2006-12-04T02:00:00.000-05:00

Probably about as effective as the suggestions they are gonna give the Idiot in Chief.

Condi Can't talk About It

2006-12-02T21:55:00.000-05:00

Little Condi Rice can't talk about it, but she does admit, rather sheepishly, what the world has been saying for years, that the war in Iraq is a mess and that Bush and company has made many blunders.

Condi says "I'm Sure We've Made "Mistakes" you can be involved in something this big and and not know there things you should have done differently.

Condi says its not the time to talk about the mistakes in Iraq, they have to look forward.

Condi says she can look back and "Write Books" about what we might have done differently.

Condi may have fluffed her way through the questions but she did say one truthful thing that the world already knows through personal suffering.

That Famous quote " I'm Sure We've Made Mistakes".

Yes sweet innocent Condi "I'm Sure You've Made Mistakes As Well."

The only problem is Condi, your mistakes have cost the America greatly.

You're mistakes have costs thousands of lives, thousands more decapitated, and thousands of families to suffer the rest of their lives.

Yes Condi "I'm Sure You've Made Mistakes."

Homeland Security's Mark of the Beast

2006-12-01T07:11:00.000-05:00

Instead of capturing terrorists who are coming into our country via airplanes, ships, or by any other means, the Department of Homeland Security has decided to give each passenger a 'terror number' to determine the level of suspicion to each and every person who does come to our country or who is travelling abroad. Guess what? This means that the average American travelling abroad for vacations or for business has been marked by the Homeland Security Beast in the past four years and they don't even know it.

Virtually every person entering and leaving the United States by air, sea or land is scored by the Homeland Security Department's Automated Targeting System, or ATS. The scores are based on ATS' analysis of their travel records and other data, including items such as where they are from, how they paid for tickets, their motor vehicle records, past one-way travel, seating preference and what kind of meal they ordered.

(...)

The Homeland Security Department called the program "one of the most advanced targeting systems in the world" and said the nation's ability to spot criminals and other security threats "would be critically impaired without access to this data."
Feel safer now? Does it make sense to assign a number to a "suspected terrorist" who appears on a watchlist or does it make sense to go after this "terrorist" instead when the threat level for this person is a high number?!!!

The Bush Regime over the past six years has created quite the database on Americans and others. I find it intrusive and not very potent against the real enemies of our country. The fact that the Bush Regime has now laxed the visa rules of those coming into our country is an indication that the Regime is not interested in those who wish to harm our country and our people. Average Americans will get the Mark of the Beast while the terrorists can pass in and out of our country freely.

Poppy's tragic mistake.....

2006-11-30T23:43:00.000-05:00

"Son, you're making the same mistake in Iraq that I made with your mother.

I didn't pull out in time..."

What Iraqis are blogging about...and trying to live through.

2006-11-28T18:31:00.000-05:00

Here is a visual aid for the attacks reported in the posts:

Here is the link to make it larger if need be, take a LONG look at this map and realize it is neighborhoods fighting neighborhoods, and many people being forced out of the mixed neighborhoods to create more territory for either the Sunni or Shiite majorities that result from such actions.

This is what the Iraqi's are blogging about, not kfed not Stupid Hollywood divorces, or how bad it was that the Play station was not available, but how to fight and try to survive a civil war.

Especially not the stupid head up the ass ideas the reichwingnuts think should be further inflicted on these people. People like Rush who think we should just Nuke them all

A civil war Bush denies, but these people see as the reality on the ground.

Stay the course in any guise Bush puts out, AND HE WILL, is dooming these people to more weeks and months of the hell described below.

One question, what would you do if you had to live as described in these Web Postings from Iraqis

Iraqis Prepare for Further Sectarian Violence (Updated)

As the cycle of sectarian violence in Baghdad rages on, despite a three-day curfew, many people in the war-torn capital are bracing themselves for what they fear is the worst phase of the war to come.

The attack on Sadr City with five car bombs last Thursday will most likely be another turning point, ushering in a rising level of violence in Iraq, just the same as the shrine incident in Samarra last February.

At Baladruz, in the Diyala governorate, northeast of Baghdad, Sunni gunmen massacred 21 Shi’ite men, including a 12-year-old boy, in front of their families. Sunni and Shi’ite militiamen took to the streets and exchanged fire in Ba’quba for hours before U.S. troops intervened. An office of the Sadr movement was blown up, and in response, a Sunni mosque was set to fire.

With the curfew entering its fourth day since the Sadr City bombings last Thursday, Iraqi families were confined to their homes in fear as the exchange of mortar shells between Sunni and Shi’ite districts continued. Sunni insurgents targeted the Shi’ite districts of Sadr City, Abu Dshir, Ma’alif, Hurriya, Shu’la and Kadhimiya with mortars and Katyusha rockets in retaliation for attacks against the Sunni districts of Adhamiya, Sulaikh, Ghazaliya, Jami’a and Dora.

A few mortar shells have falled in the vicinity of our home in Baghdad. One shell tore through the roof of our relatives’ house, a few blocks away from us, into their living room, but nobody was hurt. Another hit our neighbours.

There was a two-hour broadcast from Sadr City on the state-run Iraqiya TV, in which three Sadrist MPs and angry residents vowed revenge for the car bombings that killed over 200 people last Thursday. Reports from the area indicate that militiamen are preparing for further attacks against Sunni districts as soon as the curfew is lifted. Several residents claimed on Iraqi message boards that the Mahdi Army is distributing police uniforms to its members in different Shi’ite districts throughout the capital to allow greater freedom of movement.

Nighttime clashes went on in several neighbourhoods of western Baghdad, as militiamen dressed in police uniforms attempted to enter Sunni districts. The remaining Sunni families in several mixed areas have been ordered to leave.

To grasp how dire the situation in Baghdad has become over the last few days, here is a sampling of posts on Iraqi message boards where people ask for instructions on how to defend their neighbourhoods from marauding militiamen:

Ali – Khadhraa district:
Please inform us about the areas that are expected to be targeted, so we can be prepared. Also please inform us on the necessary steps we should take to protect our families and ourselves.

Ibn Al-Iraq – Jihad district:
Salam Aleikum. I live in the Jihad district. A group from the Mahdi Army tagged Sunni residences and collected their weapons today. God is witness to what I say.

Mustafa – Ghazaliya:
We have been under mortar fire for two days. It is 10:50 p.m. now and we can hear heavy gunfire and an attack against mosques in the area. May God save us all from the injustice of aggressors.

A Mujahid for Allah – Baghdad of Al-Rashid:
In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful.
They want it a war, so be it. We are up to it, God willing.
My brothers, heed these recommendations:
1- Prepare weapons and ammunition.
2- To avoid their mortar fire, do not gather in large numbers at one place in your areas.
3- Spread out in small groups, and assign a commander to each.
4- Always take cover behind a barrier (anything that can protect you from enemy fire).
5- If there is an attack against your area, try not to waste your fire (make maximum benefit from the ammunition you have available).
6- Assign duties to your brothers.
7- Maintain communication with other groups in your area so you can respond to any breach of the area by the attackers.
8- Have courage and patience when you face them. They are cowards and will be defeated.
Remember that your brothers, the Mujahideen, will be with you in your fight against the murderous criminals. May God save us and save Iraq.

The son of Anbar – Baghdad:
Dear brothers, the Khadhraa and Jami’a districts are in need of ammunition. Please come to our aid.

Ali – Ghazaliya:
Groups from the evil Mahdi Army are preparing to enter Ghazaliya from the direction of the Centre Street and near the Muhajireen mosque, but residents are in control of most of the streets, despite assistance from the National Guard [for the Mahdi Army] and their cover for the mortar attacks from the Security Street. A woman was injured there from their damn mortars.

Abu Al-Hassan Al-Samarra’I – Baghdad:
To the Mujahideen brothers in all areas, attack them and let the initiative be yours so that you can relieve the pressure from other districts. Have no mercy for them. Be careful of their spies in your areas.

Anonymous - Jihad district:
Urgent. Please intervene to save the Jihad district from another massacre. Interior Ministry commandoes have been transporting fighters and mercenaries from the militias with their buses to their headquarters in the district. They are estimated to be around 500 mercenaries, fully armed with medium and light weapons. And now some of them are taking attack positions in preparation for a new massacre in the district. The buses have not stopped arriving, even though terrified residents have called the police and governmental officials.

Abu Mohammed – Baghdad:
I recommend to my brothers the following:
1- Trust in God, and defend your family, your possessions and your honour. Whoever is killed is a martyr for God.
2- Never surrender, because in that case they will kill us after maiming and torturing us. We should fight to the last breath.
3- Ensure surveillance for every area, especially main streets and entry points, and maintain communication to follow the movement of vehicles used by militias. Attack them wisely without wasting ammunition.
4 – Prepare ambushes for these militias on the streets they are expected to pass. Finish them off and take their weapons.
Remember that those militias are former looters, thieves and shoe shiners. Do not make such a big deal of them because, by God, they are lowly animals.

Salim Hussein – Raghiba Khatoun:
There is a large gathering of Mahdi Army militiamen at the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib husseiniya at Raghiba Khatoun, where they came from the Dilfiya area of the Qahira district. They intend to attack the residents of Adhamiya, Raghiba Khatoun and Sulaikh. Please be alert.

Ahmed Al-Janabi – Baghdad:
Salam Aleikum. I’m a resident of Yarmouk and I can hear gunfire from the Four Streets area as if in warning of an attack of sorts. God knows. Please come to our aid if the situation worsens.

Abdul Rahman Abdul Qadir – Karkh:
Salam Aleikum. Over 40 vehicles with Mahdi Army militiamen have gathered near the Dora police station. They started arriving at 7 p.m., and at 7:45 p.m. we could see about 40 vehicles preparing to attack Dora.

Abdul Rahman – Iraq:
Please keep these steps in mind:
1- Deploy snipers on the rooftops of buildings that lie close to the main entry points for each area.
2- Prepare positions for medium weapons at a distance from the entry point, and make pincers with sniper and PKC fire. When you choose a position, make sure you can retreat to alternate positions from it, in case the enemy overruns the area (do not choose a building that is not adjacent to another, or use ropes to quickly slide down the building).
3- RPG carriers should maintain their positions on side streets and take cover behind barriers. Do not fire just for the sake of it (attack the first and last vehicle).
4- Create heavy fire density to force the enemy to take cover, and then eliminate them by sniper fire.
5- Provide hand grenades and distribute them to the Mujahideen.
6- Fighters with light weapons should always change positions, fire from different angles and not stay at one place.
7- Prepare and plant roadside bombs on the entrance to every area.
8- Bomb the gathering locations for the army of filthy Muqtada.
9- Prepare a special group to deal with any breach, and it should be armed with RPGs, PKC machine guns and KIA vehicles.
10- Plan ambushes and lure the enemy by using bait vehicles that they chase to be dragged into the killing zone.

Iraqiya – Dora:
Urgent. Dora has been breached. There was an attack by the ragtag militias against residences, and we can now hear women screaming. They are raiding the Tu’ma district, which is inhabited by the Jubour tribes. There is also an attack against the Arqam mosque.

Ali – Dora:
Elements of the Interior Ministry commandos are attacking Dora (the Mechanic, Tu’ma, Sahha and Asia districts). But do not fear, for we are engaging them. Our battle cry is “They came for death, no one brought them.”

Ahmed – Jamila district:
Barbaric groups of the Antichrist [Mahdi] Army, and the Iranians that are with them, have killed dozens of Sunni youth at the Jamila district in the exact spot of the car bombing, in a mass execution orgy in front of people. This was broadcast on Sharqiya TV by an anonymous security source. The honourable Shi’ites from east of the [Army] Canal have told us that these groups are moving freely, and that they are preparing for a wide-scale assault on Sunni districts. Be prepared to confront the infidels.

Mohammed – Jami’a district:
Mahdi Army followers have been seen gathering at [MP] Sallama Al-Khafaji’s residence in Jami’a in preparation for an attack against the district.

Abdul Rahman – Iraq:
For the brothers who have not used weapons before, please take this advice:
1- Check your weapon if you have not used it before. You can ask your neighbour to teach you how to attach the magazine and to load and fire. Do not be ashamed that it would be said you don’t know how to use a weapon, as many people have not had a chance to.
2- Choose the appropriate spot on your roof that can provide you with cover and make it hard for the enemy to target you.
3- It is best if every two families gather in one house when the alarm of an attack is raised to keep spirits high.
4- When you shoot, try to make it intermittent so you do not waste your ammunition. Be patient until more fighters arrive and your neighbours start shooting too.
5- You may feel fear upon using a weapon for the first time or that something bad would happen to you, but think of your family and what awaits them if you are hesitant. Keep your honour and your children in front of your eye, and remember that they have burnt children with kerosene.
6- Make sure that you have an extra magazine because in the midst of action you may take away your weapon and forget your extra magazine. It is preferred that you tape two magazines together. Ask your neighbours how to do that. Practice with it several times.
7- Fear of using weapons will disappear with the first shot. Do not hesitate to pull the trigger and concentrate on hitting the enemy.

Omar Al-Rawi – Baghdad:
Salam Aleikum. Mosques in the Adhamiya and Khadhraa areas have started chanting “Allahu Akbar” and reciting Quran through their loudspeakers to encourage residents to confront the Safavid militias.

Ibn Al-Mansour – Mansour:
Residents of Mansour, large groups of armed militiamen have been seen heading from the Washash and Iskan districts to attack Mansour. Prepare to defend yourselves and your neighbours, Sunni and Shia, from the attack of the treacherous Mahdi Army militias.

Al-Anbari – Baghdad:
Several mortar shells have hit the Jami’a and Khadhraa districts after the evening prayers. And there is news that militias are now gathering to prepare for the attack against these districts. Additionally, there are groups of the Antichrist [Mahdi] Army in the Safarat district preparing to attack the Qudhat district.

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Some readers have asked me about Omar and Mohammed from Iraq the Model. I've been trying to get in touch with them but without luck. I also heard that a friend of theirs was kidnapped and that they have left the area where they were staying for now.

I've been trying to convince my parents not to send my brother Nabil to school. Young men of his age are the prime target for abductions and reprisal attacks. There hasn't been much progress in getting him out of the country yet, but if you want to help me with it, please go to his blog and hit the Paypal button.

UPDATE: More pleas for assistance on the Iraqi Rabita's message boards. Note that these are all from largely Sunni and mixed districts west of Baghdad, which seem to have taken the brunt of retaliatory attacks by militias.

Ghazaliya – Baghdad:
Urgent. The residents of Ghazaliya are in urgent need for medical supplies. The situation in Ghazaliya is dreadful, and the need for first aid supplies is pressing. The nearest hospital to the district is the Al-Noor Hospital in the Shu’la district, and no Sunni who enters there returns alive. Please contact any organisation that can provide Ghazaliya’s residents with necessary supplies. Residents have opened a makeshift health centre but we are in need for supplies.

Khattab Al-Iraqi - Al-Amil district – Baghdad:
The filthy [Mahdi] army is preparing to attack the Amil district. Young men in the Dhubat area are deployed to the streets, while the antichrist [Mahdi] army is lobbing mortars against us. But the brothers are determined to achieve either victory or martyrdom.

Ghazaliya:
Many mortar shells have been falling on the Ghazaliya and Kafa’at districts non-stop. People are appealing for help. Will anyone come to our rescue? There are three blindfolded, handcuffed bodies lying on the street of the Dar Al-Hikma School, near the Mansour grove. No one can go near them and people say not even the police can come because they are allied with the rats. Only the Americans can enter.

M.H.D:
Dear brothers, Please inform us on how the Shia pray because this will save many from being killed during interrogation after they are abducted.

Norway:
Response to the brother who asked how the Shia pray. With the usual Iqama and Edhan add the phrase “I am witness that Ali is the guardian of Allah,” but not as part of the Edhan used by the Prophet. This is the opinion of the majority of Shia clerics, including the Sadrists. The Shia also regard the Basmalla a part of any Sura … I personally prefer the Fatiha instead of the Tasbihat, but the majority of Shia read Tasbihat.

Ahmed Baghdadi – Baghdad Al-Jedida:
Dear brothers, Please use this forum as our means to post information. Verify the information before you post it, and please do not waste time on other websites. Every district and neighbourhood should cooperate 24 hours. Young computer users, this is your mission. Be an early surveillance centre for your neighbourhoods and circulate the information with others. When using cell phones, keep your information coded and as simple as possible. Now is the time for us to stand together. God be with you in defending our country.

Baghdad:
We heard that there is a bus in Qadisiya, Yarmouk and Jami’a districts with the occupants abducting people according to their I.D., taking them to unknown destinations. Please inform us about the model, number plates, colour, or any other identifiable signs on the bus.

Baghdad – Sulaikh district:
Salam Aleikum. A group of crows from the Interior Ministry Commandoes attempted to enter Sulaikh but the Iraqi army force, stationed in the districts for months, repelled them. They later told us that the Interior Ministry gunmen were not from their sector but that they came from another area. They reassured residents that they would not allow any attacks on the district. The lions of Sulaikh are also ready to stand with those honourable soldiers to defend the district from the evil of the Mahdi Army and Interior Ministry crows.

Khadhraa district:
We, the residents of the Khadhraa district, are prepared to confront the army of black crows. I remind our brothers to inform us of their gathering locations so we can be prepared. The headquarters of Public Order forces is in our district, and that worries us because we cannot carry our arms on the street. But we are stationed on rooftops and prepared.

This is what a civil war looks like thru bloggers eyes, that have to prepare for it, try to live through it, and thank Bush ET AL for creating the conditions for it. Next time you hear some idiotic pundit on Cable tv telling you it is NOT a civil war or is NOT that bad, remember the words of these people who are living inside one, their words makes liars out of all those pundits safe in their high priced homes, condos and apartments safe thousands of miles away from the reality on the ground.

Americans can ask Karen Hughes a question!

2006-11-27T19:37:00.000-05:00

Oh my God, this is good. Karen Hughes, who is America's "goodwill" Embassador to help our country's reputation in the Middle East, is taking questions from the American people! And guess what? Out of the 1,000 when I last checked, many of the questions were against her and the Bush Regime. I love it!

If you want to, you can ask ole Karen a question or you can do what I did and read through the ones that have already been asked. FREAKING HILARIOUS!!!

Have fun!

This about says it all...

2006-11-27T18:40:00.000-05:00

The CIA is freaking hilarious!

2006-11-26T10:05:00.000-05:00

Yeah, applying for a job at the Central Intelligence Agency should be a fun time and the application should make you laugh like hell when you're filling it out too! Honestly, I don't think the CIA should be screening their future employees to see who has a better sense of humor or who 'gets it'. I think the CIA should be concentrating on hiring individuals who are professionals, who understand the history of our own country and the history of other countries, and who know many different languages to spy on our enemies across the planet. But hey, who am I to tell the CIA to act like professionals by hiring the right people for the job and by weeding out the serious people anyways?

Oh, this is funny:

The agency's online personality test is the equivalent of a help-wanted sign, posted on the closest thing the agency has to a front door - its Web site. The frivolous quiz is designed to encourage job applications while dispelling myths about the agency, some of them born of the James Bond stereotype.

For instance, the CIA wants you to know that everyone who works there does not drive a sports car with machine guns in the tailpipes. Successful applicants will, in fact, see their family and friends again. Also, "you don't have to know karate or look good in a tuxedo to work at the CIA," the personality quiz says.

All fun aside, the hiring push began almost immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and picked up steam in November 2004 when President Bush called for a 50 percent increase in the agency's ranks of operatives and analysts.
I'm just laughing out loud now! Let's hope stand up comics all over our nation spend time chuckling and filling out this online application, because it will make me sleep better knowing we have comedians protecting us rather than professionals. Even the retirees of the CIA don't see the humor in the way the current leaders of it are handling the new recruits:

Some of the CIA's traditionalists fear the agency is tarnishing its proud, exclusive roots to meet the presidential directive. They worry that the CIA quiz and its advertisements during "MythBusters" and other cable shows with cult followings are too gimmicky.

In short, they worry that the agency is sacrificing quality to get quantity. Last year alone, the agency received 135,000 applications - a number that has more than doubled since Sept. 11, 2001.

Tom McCluskey, the CIA's chief of hiring and employee development, heard the concerns firsthand at a recent gathering of the Florida chapter of the agency's retirees association.

"Some of the old-timers grumbled, 'Where's the mystique? Where is the aura of mystery around what we do?"' McCluskey said in an interview. "The good news is that we are not seeking to hire those people."
Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller weighed in on the importance of setting humor aside when hiring for the CIA:

Meanwhile, Congress is watching the agency's recruitment efforts. The incoming chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has said one of his priorities is investigating whether the CIA has the right people in the right jobs and ensuring the CIA has enough people who are fluent in crucial foreign languages.
Just recently within the past few months, the Senate Intelligence Committee held a meeting to talk with the individuals at the CIA about their hiring practices. As I watched this, one thing jumped out at me which was a comment made by Robert Mueller. He was asked why the Agency was not hiring young people out of college who spoke Arabic and other languages and who were highly educated individuals, which would be a benefit to our Intelligence field. Mueller responded to the question by saying the CIA likes hiring individuals from Wall Street instead because of their age, experiences, and because they just trust them more. Apparently those on Wall Street see the humor in the CIA and get first priority.

Uh huh. Wall Street & comedians are the best bet for the safety of our nation according to Mueller! Please don't send the CIA anyone with the necessary tools to combat terrorism to hire...oh no!...please just send the people who have a great personality and who will make the other agents at the water cooler laugh like hell!

If you don't feel safe, you have good reason to feel that way. Under the Bush Administration scientists and other professionals have been thrown to the curb, while the humourous and uneducated of our country (and the Bush Loyalists I may add) are put in positions that affect all of us, but they don't care. Great, huh? Think I'm making too much of this and taking it wrong? I don't care! I want people protecting me who know what the hell they're doing, rather than whether or not they get the sarcasm and irony of the CIA itself!

Quotes Of The Past Reflect The Reality of Today

2006-11-26T00:45:00.000-05:00

Many great scholars and politicians from decades to centuries ago had similar reflections on war and its realities on society. These quotes are from both Democrats and Republicans, Scholars and Philosophers.

Issac Asimov: Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.

Herbert Hoover: Older men declare war. But its the youth who must fight and die.

Benjamin Franklin: Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.

Dwight D Eisenhower: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.

Gandhi: What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy.

George McGovern: I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Plato: Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Ronald Reagan: History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Gandi: As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.

If only the Bush administration had looked into the past to see what the realities would be today, maybe they wouldn't have started such a senseless, baseless war that would destroy the lives of thousands.

In reflection, maybe they did look back and maybe Bush just doesn't care!

14053...........it is NOT just numbers.

2006-11-25T19:16:00.000-05:00

14053, is the number of civilians admitted killed in Iraq from July 1st 2006 to October 31st 2006, basically from the 4th of July till Halloween. 14053 Mothers or fathers or sisters or brothers or sons and daughters no longer exist, they died in the secular violence the illegal invasion of the neo-cons spawned. They were kidnaped and were tortured with drills. They were shot in the back of the head, after being blindfolded. They were killed by a road side bomb, or killed by a mortar attack. They were killed for where they lived, or just who they were. Or more recently they were killed along with others by the rising number of car bombings as a means to incite more violence. By the mortar attacks which haunt Baghdad now days.

14053 is a large number of people dying for any reason, it is almost 5 times the number who died on Sept 11 2001. In Iraq The Us has lost 2872 Soldiers since March 19, 2003 but in every month the Iraqi people have lost more people that the entire US losses for the war, or we lost on that fateful late summer day five years ago.

As a comparison, there are about 25 million Iraqi's and 300 million Americans, so if we were having a comparable number of violent deaths here it would be around 168,500 people killed violently by sectarian violence(in the same time period). If that were to happen, especially in a situation where two different groups of people were using extreme violence and mass killings to fight for control of the government and power here, I'm sure we would call it something akin to a civil war.

The Bush administration does NOT want to call it a civil war, OK lets call it what it really is war crimes spawned by the illegal invasion of a sovereign country by a group of people who thought they were above the law, the Geneva Convention, above being held accountable for their breaches of the code of human conduct that before this had been agreed upon by civilized nations.

Well George Bush must be happy, because there is NO Geneva Convention in effect inside Iraq. Hell there is not even the rule of law any more. People in Iraq have nowhere to turn except to the people causing these deaths, so they will continue. They will continue while the "Know Nothings" inside Washington debate the latest idea to try to turn this Fiasco around. The killings have gone on while Jim Baker polishes up his plan which is already outmoded. The deaths do not stop as the beltway pundits and pontificators argue whether more troops or less troops is the way to go.

These senseless killings are the result of their failure to listening to those who realized early on this was going to turn out bad. The mistakes of ignoring what was really happening on the ground. Placing more emphasis on purple fingers than security or electricity. Trying to stage manage the collapse of a society with no plan for rebuilding it, nor having enough qualified people who actually know how to do that. Mistakes piled upon mistakes as they have to pile body on body in the Baghdad morgue.

14053 is the number of reported deaths by the UN, the real number is probably higher still, but since the neo-cons deny this is a civil war, and refuse to count the civilian deaths, they do not really worry about the numbers or even the deaths. They are beginning to worry about their futures, because even though they do not think it is a civil war or they should be held accountable, most of the rest of the world KNOWS it is a civil war, and the neo-cons are responsible.

Quote of the day...

2006-11-25T10:11:00.000-05:00

Clif, who is one of my contributors to my blog posted a thread below entitled, "It's Past the Tipping Point..." and it reminded me of what Winston Churchill once said:

"An appeaser is a guy who throws his friends to the alligator in hopes that the alligator will eat him last." ~ Winston Churchill

The neocon trolls in our country for the past six years or so (can even say that their brains changed in 1980 when Reagan became president at this point!) have been the cheerleading section for the most corrupt, vile, warmongering, and vicious presidency in the history of our nation. What they haven't realized all this time is that feeding these alligators will be their own demise at some point. After this year's election, they started eating each other. Awwwwwww. Idiots.

We are Americans and the leaders of our country always reflect us as a nation and this is why myself and others have been so pissed off! The last six years has been a bruise on our country's reputation and we have the APPEASERS OF THE BUSH REGIME to blame for that.

My conscience is clean and their's is not and will never be. Future historians will blame them and so will I.

It's past the tipping point.....it's real bad.

2006-11-25T05:39:00.000-05:00

Blame Dave

by Davis Sweet

As the conventional wisdom on Iraq drifts from "there's no hope" to "there's no fucking hope in hell," it appears that the only thing keeping American troops in the line of fire is George Bush's unwillingness to accept blame for this colossal oopsie. So I have a simple solution for a witheringly simple man: blame me.

It wasn't GW who kept the vampire Rumsfeld in charge of "Defense" until after the mid-terms; it was me. Sorry. I thought he was going to come up with a brilliant plan to unscrew the mother of all fuck-ups, but I guess I was looking at the résumé rather than the man. Can't apologize enough, really.

As for the many-sided but oddly single-minded insurgency, that was me. You may have thought it was the power vacuum created by the Coalition Provisional Authority destroying the Iraqi government and army. Nuh-uh. I actually thought it would be a kind of friendly rivalry, like Bon Jovi and .38 Special, but the pyrotechnics got way out of hand. My bad.

We can let our fearful leader off the hook for every moment of jaw-dropping incompetence, every inhumanity visited on innocents, every motherless and/or fatherless kid -- Iraqi or American -- who's going to equate America with evil for the rest of their lives, and he doesn't even have to give back the bloody money he and his vice-ridden Veep have pocketed. They can just declare November whatever to be "National Dave Did It Day." I'll fess up. I'll even let one of those chickenhawk morons like Hannity or O'Reilly berate me on a live teevee interview for letting Bush take the blame for so long.

There's the deal, Blameless George. Point the finger -- at me, or, really, anybody whose scapegoatitude can make you comfy enough to pull your head out of your ass -- and BRING THE GOD-DAMNED TROOPS HOME NOW.

Thanks, and sorry. So incredibly sorry.

May be all the non neo-cons need to accept the blame for NOT working hard enough to stop this criminal enterprise, they call the Iraq War. Then the idiot can blame all of us, change course, and finally bring the troops home.

What ever it takes after this week, because I can not explain it, but things seem to be starting to get really out of control, and this is BAD, not last Feb Bad after the mosque bombing bad, but past the point of NO RETURN bad, fight till the death bad, large scale massacre bad, whole sale slaughter bad, revenge with NO MERCY BAD. This means the American Army and troops are in for one hell of a fight, to stay and possibly one just to get out.

The final exit out of Vietnam will seem like a well planned and coordinated exercise compared to what the troops could go through in the next six months.

I do not give it much longer than that. The situation is falling apart way too fast for the bureaucratic pentagon or national security establishment to respond to them and adapt. Especially when the "official line" is still it is NOT a civil war. If they have their collective heads that far up their asses this late in the game, it can NOT turn out good for the troops. Time is far past for it to turn out good for the people of Iraq.

As the days grind by and the news gets worse and worse, I see Iraq reaching the breaking point and both sides attacking with out pause, and the American Military will never have enough boots on the ground at that point.

Just as thanksgiving day and it's aftermath shows, the US and Iraqi government are slow to respond, which the insurgents and militias count on.

Basically we have two choices. Whether they are willing to admit defeat and leave, or they are going to try to stay, and if they chose that bad option, who they are gonna get to help us restabilize the country, and "occupy it for years while attempting to defuse this explosive situation.

It will have to include the Arab Sunni and Iran states in the middle east, because unlike Afghanistan, NATO troops will just be pouring gasoline on this fire. and no Russian or Chinese government want to help Bush out at this point with out being given at least part of the control of the situation on the ground.

The neo-con wet dream of a American presence in the Middle east with a democratically elected Iraqi Government inviting us to stay is OVER. They need to wake the fuck up, so we all can start getting the Iraqi people, US troops and the world out of the nightmare their dream has become in reality.

Not good news if it is true.....

2006-11-24T07:17:00.000-05:00

From Juan Coles Blog

Another friend, a Sunni sheikh of the Shammar tribe noted to me that thousands of former officers are prepared to assault the G[reen] Z[one]. It is no longer a matter of can they do it, they are only mulling over the timing. The breach of the Green Zone security the other day was a test of their ability to get in, and not a real attempt at a coup, though it is reported as such. Every Iraqi I talk to says unambiguously that the resistance attached to the former regime would take out the Shiite militias with barely a fight, but that the resistance will not commit wholesale revenge against the Shiite population. They just want to get rid of the "carpet baggers" from Iran. '

What would be the result of a brazen attack on the green zone even if it failed in the end?

The United States military would have to question the safety of those who work for the US and Iraqi governments from there. They also would have to review what protections they have, and what they need. It could turn out to be the Iraqi version of Tet, especially if the Sunni Baathists had any success at all. Because they would prove that not only can they set up car bombs in Sadr City, or attack Shiite dominated Ministries like the Ministry of Health, but the very symbol of American power and influence in the country, the Green Zone.

Such an attack three and a half years after the Iraqi Baathists were supposedly crushed by the American Army would embolden the Sunni insurgency. It would also raise more doubts here at home about this war. If we had been so successful in the invasion, and we had what we need in that country to achieve some sort of victory, how could the Baathists even dare to attempt such a daring attack, let alone carry it out.

There are questions what this would do inside the country.

How would the American military react, especially how would they reposition troops to either attempt to stop such an attack like this, (they must know it is being planned, if it is on the net.)

What will al Sadr and the Shiites do, if they see the Sunni’s attacking the Green zone, stand by and allow the US and Sunni forces to fight it out, or come to either sides aid. More interestingly could they use such an attack as a welcome diversion. They could react by attacking in other areas knowing the vast US response will be in defense of the green zone, and not their timely attacks on Sunni forces they want to defeat in Baghdad and elsewhere.

The situation inside Iraq is fragile at best, and after this weeks attacks in sadr City, and on the ministry of Health, the Sunni’s are making a statement they are a force to be reckoned with, but are they willing to step it up a notch, and attack directly into the center of the American power presence in Baghdad?

The turkey spills the beans...

2006-11-23T00:35:00.000-05:00

The Bush Thanksgiving

2006-11-22T08:02:00.000-05:00

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and it's my favorite holiday of the whole year. I love nothing more than being with my son, eating tons of food, and taking the time to regroup ourselves on what it is that we are thankful for. Of course, most years my son is thankful for his Play Station, his electric guitar, and his dog, but he does manage to throw in that he loves his mother, which is huge because he's twelve and he's at that hormonal stage in his life where any woman or girl is not something he likes to show affection to. Anyways, every year I am thankful for my son and our health, but this year, I can throw in that I am thankful for Americans coming out of their mental slumber to vote the most vicious vile piece of crap neocons in our government out! Yes, it's going to be a great Thanksgiving and I bought spiced apple martini mix to celebrate our good fortune!

So, what do you think the Bush family is thankful for each year? I just picture these assholes sitting around a table not even talking about it, but rather, conspiring about their next global finanction transaction in the form of war and laughing over the thought of thousands of people being put in peril, or worse...put to death because of their greed! I mean really, what possibly could this family be thankful for except their power over our government for their own financial gain? I would love to be a fly on the wall or even part of the staff to listen to what they say this time of year.

Don't even get me started on Babs. She spawned these lying, stinking, warmongering, thieves and for that, she should be grateful her husband has Secret Service protection because the angry mobs would pull her apart like a golden turkey!!!

I have a lot to be thankful for this year and the biggest one being Americans making a huge statement to the Pigs in control of our country right now that we've had enough of them. I am thankful to be alive during the most incredible moment in our country's history. Come January, I will be making my resolutions and I'm sure somewhere tucked in that long list that I usually don't look at after I write it will be: I WILL CONTINUE TO TEAR OFF THE ARMS AND LEGS OF THE MOST VILE FAMILY & PRESIDENCY IN THE HISTORY OF OUR NATION. I WILL NOT QUIT THIS.

See? It's going to be a great Thanksgiving this year...and next year...will be more fun than the last!

Iraq Study Group Advises Bush Be Confined To Naughty Chair

2006-11-22T05:25:00.000-05:00

WASHINGTON (IWR News Satire) - The bipartisan Iraq Study Group made a unanimous recommendation today that the President Bush should be confined to the naughty chair until the end of his term in 2009.

"It doesn't matter if we go long, short, home or if we end up slicing and dicing the whole goddamn country with a Vegomatic.

The first thing we have to do to stabilize Iraq is make sure dumb shit doesn't start anymore friggin' wars or piss any more Muslims off, and the best way to do that is to confine the moron to his naughty chair in the Oval Office," said Jim Baker to reporters.

Just another repug failure....

2006-11-22T01:34:00.000-05:00

From TPM

Pretty amazing stuff. And it seems like it's being treated with a near total media blackout. Stung by the voters' rebuke, the out-going Republican Congress has decided to close its doors without doing it's mandated job, finishing the budget bills for next year. By all rights they should send back their paychecks too.

From the AP ...

Republicans vacating the Capitol are dumping a big spring cleaning job on Democrats moving in. GOP leaders have opted to leave behind almost a half-trillion-dollar clutter of unfinished spending bills.

There's also no guarantee that Republicans will pass a multibillion-dollar measure to prevent a cut in fees to doctors treating Medicare patients.

The bulging workload that a Republican-led Congress was supposed to complete this year but is instead punting to 2007 promises to consume time and energy that Democrats had hoped to devote to their own agenda upon taking control of Congress in January for the first time in a dozen years.

We're their employers. Shouldn't there be some sort of garnishment?

Let me know if you see mentions of this elsewhere in the news media or on the shows.
-- Josh Marshall

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These bills were supposed to be done before Oct 1 2006, but the anti gay legislation and anti first amendment "flag burning" amendment is MORE important than the repug assclowns doing their REAL jobs, which the constitution tells them to do.

They should have to return their salaries this year....especially the leadership of the house, and repug chairmen of the committees who have failed to perform their constitutionally prescribed duties.

They should NOT be allowed to collect the money if they are not going to do the work.

I guess overpaying them does NOT produce the best congress ...eh tiny?

Give their salaries to the troops whose families are living on food stamps.

Give the money to the "food deprived" children of this country.

But do NOT pay these cretins who have the hubris to utterly fail in their jobs, no over site, no appropriations bills to fund the budget, and this is especially significant because this was the process they tried to shut down the federal government in 1995, which backfired on them, so this time they just refuse to do their jobs.

Thus.....we should refuse to pay them.

The reichwingnut view of Nov 7th 2006

2006-11-21T15:04:00.000-05:00

From the screeching and gnashing of teeth, along with the daily wailing of doom from the bloviated blabbering talking heads of the reichwing, this image is their considered view of this past election.

Too bad these repugs were not being evacuated to serve in Iraq until they want those soldiers to come home.

Then at least they really would have something real to complain about.

For those who do not have the historical perspective to understand this image, The analogy of Vietnam April 1975 is the starting point, but the real analogy is the criminal behavior of those who were in charge the 6 years before then. We have a very similar situation in Iraq today. The criminal behavior of those who lead this country into another illegal war, and their refusal to admit their strategy failed .

That failed strategy has killed up to 750,000 people and destroyed a country, incited a war between the two major sects of Islam on the ground and possibly started a civil war which threatens to engulf the entire region. But unlike the Vietnam war which each administration kept upping the effort to use US military to fight a war against the expressed wishes of the majority of the Citizens of Vietnam, this Administration had a real plan to topple the government and set up their puppet government to achieve their no-con dream of restoring a puppet government that danced to the neo-con tune. That has failed in Baghdad as it failed in Saigon years ago and thus we are here where the same people are decrying the desire to withdrawal from this failed policy and strategy, just as they fought withdrawal from Vietnam until the bitter end.

As in Vietnam John Kerry's tragic horrible question begins to haunt us once again, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

This is the question that the politicians do not want to ask, but that looms heavy over their actions, and will haunt those who incited this illegal war, and ignored the looming disaster it has become to try to save their grasp on power. It is fitting they decry this election which is a repudiation of their lies, failed policy and strategy. And a renunciation of their political agenda which used the politics of fear and military aggression to formulate a meme which they sold as the face of their criminal actions

They should feel like they need to be evacuated from our nations capital. They should feel scared they will be tried for crimes against the world, this nation, its people and it’s future. They should feel the fear that those illegally held in abu Ghraib and Gitmo felt. They should have to worry about their futures just as every Iraqi has to worry about theirs. They should be held criminally responsible for this crime against humanity, just as others before them have.

The Devil's Grip

2006-11-20T13:25:00.000-05:00

There is a medical terminology for a patient that unexpectedly collapses and is out for days, and then bedridden for many more. That term is known as simply "The Devil's Grip".

This medical condition is seldom talked about, and seldom diagnosed, but can leave a person totally incapacitated.

There is also a term known as "The Devil's Grip" that pertains to politics and how decisions can grip millions around the country.

America is in "The Devil's Grip" as we watch the Bush administration keep a nation paralyzed over a war that has caused death and destruction to both the Iraqi's and also U.S soldiers and their families.

The Republicans lost control of both the House and Senate in early November, mainly due to the publics outrage over the war.

Bush claims he is open to ideas on Iraq, but his spokesman Tony Snow and his "father in residence" Dick Cheney say they won't leave Iraq, and they won't be swayed by any elections.

In November alone, 1370 Iraqi's have been killed as the civil war grows more violent. October saw 1216 Iraqi deaths. These figures don't include the deaths of U.S soldiers.

The public spoke on November 7th and their voices of outrage cost Bush his comrades, in the congress.

Bush says he will not leave Iraq without victory. He can't seem to explain what that really means.

Bush is also making plans to invade Iran, for their oil and Haliburton's rebuilding schemes. Bush doesn't take into account that his first war against a country with no army, can't be won.

The American people want out of Iraq. They want the U.S soldiers to be safe and at home with their families.

Bush refuses to heed the calls and election results of the American people. America is in the clutches of "The Devil's Grip".

That devil is George W. Bush.

Still feels good...

2006-11-19T21:51:00.000-05:00

Republican state Senator in Montana switching parties because he's had enough

2006-11-19T12:14:00.000-05:00

This is being done by a state senator in Montana, but who cares if it's only state level anyways! After the last 6 years, many republicans have realized that their party no longer stands for anything good. Nothing would please me more than to see more republicans in government to be doing this:

Party Switch Gives Democrats Edge in Montana
By JENNIFER BYRD, AP

HELENA, Mont. (Nov. 18) - A Montana state senator has officially changed his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, breaking a tie to give his new party a 26-24 advantage.

State Sen. Sam Kitzenberg filed the paperwork at the secretary of state's office on Friday.

He said he had been thinking about switching parties for about 12 years and made the decision at the suggestion of Democratic state Sen. Mike Cooney, who contacted him after the Nov. 7 election put both parties on an even footing.

"He called and said 'Guess what? It's tied. I know you've mentioned changing parties in the past, and now is the time,"' Kitzenberg said.

Democrats have a 50-49 edge in the Montana House. One Democrat, Sheila Hogan, lost by just 24 votes and party officials said this past week that she will ask for a recount; if she were to win, the Democrats' lead would change to 51-48.

Kitzenberg dismissed Republican critics who suggested the change was "political payoff" for a state Revenue Department job he got from the administration of Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer.

"The job I have now had nothing to do with this decision," Kitzenberg said. "I sat down and tried to figure out what was really important to me. It just came down to me realizing who my real friends were and where my heart was."

11/18/06 11:03 EST

Just because I like the image.......of Georgie in time out!!!!!!!

2006-11-19T10:50:00.000-05:00

Of course, it would be in Dallas.

2006-11-18T22:54:00.000-05:00

Read THIS and then convince me racism is dead in this country....really find a way to convince me that in 2006, this group of White Sheeters in disguise are not doing exactly what the Jim Crow laws did. That they do not think exactly the same way Trent Lott expressed in the comment that cost HIM his majority position.

Oh and BTW tell the kids in this school why they had to attend separate but supposedly equal classes, and idea tossed aside in 1954 by the Supreme court.

Ruling: Classes divided by race

At Preston Hollow, principal tried to appease affluent parents, halt white flight, judge says

For years, it was an open secret at North Dallas' Preston Hollow Elementary School: Even though the school was overwhelmingly Hispanic and black, white parents could get their children into all-white classes. And once placed, the students would have little interaction with the rest of the students.

The result, a federal judge has ruled, was that principal Teresa Parker "was, in effect, operating, at taxpayer's expense, a private school for Anglo children within a public school that was predominantly minority."

Judge Sam Lindsay's opinion paints an unflattering picture of the elementary school and a principal who was so desperate to appease the school's affluent white parents that she turned back the clock on school desegregation 50 years.

In April, Hispanic parents sued, claiming illegal segregation. The three-week trial concluded in late August. On Thursday, Judge Lindsay declared that the school's principal violated the rights of minority children by assigning them to classrooms based on race.

The judge ordered Mrs. Parker to pay $20,200 to Lucrecia Mayorga Santamaría, the lone named plaintiff, who sued on behalf of her three children.

Although the judge did not find the Dallas school district liable for Mrs. Parker's actions, he strongly criticized DISD administrators for being "asleep at the wheel."

"The court is convinced that several of the area superintendents knew, or should have known, about the illegal segregation at Preston Hollow," the judge wrote in his 108-page ruling.
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WFAA-TV's Jeff Brady reports

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Read Judge Sam Lindsay's opinion

The district has until Jan. 17 to remedy the segregation at the school. Mrs. Parker did not return messages left at her home and school Friday.

District spokesman Celso Martinez said Mrs. Parker would remain the school's principal "until further notice."

Mr. Martinez said the school has undertaken steps to comply with the court order, namely relying on student language scores to place students.

"The truth is we have initiated quite a few changes at the school already," he said. "We need to compare those changes with the court order. We may well be in total compliance."

However, when asked if there are still classes at Preston Hollow containing only white students, Mr. Martinez replied: "That's a good question. I don't know the answer to that."
Desegregation plan

In 2003, a federal judge released the district from its court-ordered desegregation plan. That plan, however, focused on the allocation of resources and treatment of black students. In the 30 years the district operated under the order, whites fled and Hispanics have grown to become the majority. Blacks make up less than a third of the district; whites about 6 percent.

Preston Hollow's unwritten policy of clustering whites together was known for years among parents and teachers, according to testimony. In fact, Mrs. Parker's subordinates – including teachers and her assistant principal – raised concerns about it multiple times. One even wrote a letter to Superintendent Michael Hinojosa about it. Those complaints fell on deaf ears, the judge wrote.

"I began to see something very strange," Ms. Santamaría said in Spanish. "The difference was that the Anglo students would go to lunch together while the Latinos went with the Asians and the African-Americans." That, she said, raised a question in her mind "because the children don't know what segregation is."

Once the Hispanic families sued, Mrs. Parker tried to cover her tracks, according to testimony. For example, on the day an investigator was to observe classes at the school, Mrs. Parker "reshuffled" the student's classroom assignments, according to assistant principal Robert McElroy.

Mrs. Parker also asked members of her staff to sign confidentiality agreements about how students were assigned to their classes, and paperwork detailing the classroom assignments was destroyed under mysterious circumstances, according to the judge's ruling.
Principal uncooperative

The judge also took exception to Mrs. Parker's apparent unwillingness to cooperate with the court. At one point during the trial, the judge noted, Mrs. Parker testified that she didn't know whether Preston Hollow is a predominantly white neighborhood.

"The court finds it astounding that Principal Parker, who has served at Preston Hollow for five years, would testify that she knows nothing about the ethnic makeup of the immediate neighborhood surrounding her school."

The school's attendance zone is mostly north of Northwest Highway, east of Preston Road, south of Royal Lane, and just east of North Central Expressway. It includes affluent, mostly white single-family homes, as well as middle-class homes and apartments that are predominantly minority.

The judge also had sharp words for the district's attorneys, who argued that segregation would cause no harm to the minority students because their teachers used the same curriculum as those teaching white students.

"The court is baffled that in this day and age, that [DISD relied] on what is, essentially, a 'separate but equal' argument," the judge wrote.

Mr. Martinez, the district spokesman, said the district doesn't believe Mrs. Parker was segregating students, but he acknowledged that classrooms at the school need to be better integrated.

"It's our opinion that we were not segregating students at all," Mr. Martinez said. "In fact the judge found that we were not violating the constitutional rights of anybody. Do we need to integrate the classrooms? Yes, and we're doing precisely that."

Although the judge ruled against the school's principal in her personal capacity, he did not find the district, its trustees or Mrs. Parker liable in their "official capacities."

David Hinojosa, the parents' attorney from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, said he apparently didn't convince the judge that the district knew the segregation was happening.

"You just have a certain legal standard you have to meet, and unfortunately, the court didn't find that," he said. "We might appeal the issue if need be ... but we got the ultimate relief we wanted. The parents wanted to stop the segregation that was going on there."
PTA chief criticized

Judge Lindsay also criticized Meg Bittner, the school's PTA president, who wanted to lure more affluent white families out of private schools and back to Preston Hollow.

More white families would result in a healthier PTA, she testified, bigger fundraisers and, ultimately, more money for the school. The best way to lure back white families, teachers and others testified, was to put white children together in the same classrooms.

Teacher Janet Leon told the court that "neighborhood classes" were predominantly made up of white students because "the people who live in the Preston Hollow neighborhood, who are the majority being white, would want their children grouped together."

To aid in the recruitment of more affluent whites, the school's PTA created a brochure for parents that featured almost all white students. Hispanic parents had shown up at the school the day photos were being taken for the brochure, but the principal blocked their entry into the classroom where the photos were being taken, the judge's ruling states.

Additionally, the PTA, in conjunction with the school, held separate open houses and kindergarten recruitments for white parents. And when PTA members gave prospective parents tours of the school, they were never taken down the "Hispanic halls" where the minority classes were housed, teachers testified.

Mrs. Bittner and other PTA officers did not respond to phone messages seeking comment.

An open secret. which MEANS many people KNEW she was breaking the law, and DID nothing.

Yes this country can be very great, but it fails so much of the time, because of people like this school principle.

Unwanted calls...a way out.

2006-11-17T11:53:00.000-05:00

A Quick Reminder

Eleven days from today, all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive telemarketing calls.

.....YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS

To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222.
It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time.
It blocks your number for five (5) years.

You can also register on-line at DoNotCall.gov

You must call from the cell phone number you are wanting to have blocked.
You cannot call from a different phone number.

HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS

Thanks to Carl at Simply Left Behind for this reminder.

New Levels of Hubris

2006-11-17T10:25:00.000-05:00

This Administration has achieved a new level of hubris. They have the gall to go to a hungry child and tell them they are NOT hungry, just food deprived. That is right, there is NO more hunger in the United States, just a lack of food. Well some might question why this is important, just ask the hungry child if they understand they are food deprived and not really hungry. Get back to me when the child says they are NO longer hungry.

It is one thing when these cretins play word games with grown ups, but to play this kind of unconscionable word game strikes of stooping into OJ territory. There is probably some correlation here, after all both OJ and these assclowns put themselves FIRST at the peril of everyone else including the children. OJ, his children, these cretins, all the rest. First in running a credit card system of funding the federal government which the children will have to figure out some way to pay for when they become adults. But even worse changing the wording they use to describe the child's empty stomach.

Only in an alternate reality could they think changing the words they use do anything to improve the situation. Yes they might not to have to hear about hungry children anymore, so in that meaning it releases their consciouses from having to realize the hungry child is a result of the policies they fought for and support. In the real world, they have not improved the child's situation, but then again they were NEVER about that were they?

One question, did Jesus call them food deprived children, or did Jesus understand their hunger pangs...and call a Pharisee a hypocrite. These people make the pharisee of Jesus's days seem mild by comparison, at least Herod could accept he created the conditions of the Hungry child. These empty hollow people can not even admit that much. They have NO plan to feed the children, just change the way they describe it. So they can dishonestly say we have NO more hungry children, just some families that are food deprived. I hope they choke on their next meal and get to explain it all to Jesus real soon.

Another random thought...

2006-11-16T22:39:00.000-05:00

Has anyone in the Bush Regime realised that most of the Middle East is run by religious leaders and that the separation of church & state is something that they do not want....and trying to force a democracy on them is not going to work??!???!! I bet they haven't. Hell, they probably don't even care. As long as they can keep touting that we are going to "win!" that's all they need to stay there forever while they use this fake war in Iraq to steal money for us and then launder it to their corporate whore friends.

One way to look at it.

2006-11-16T21:30:00.000-05:00

This is one way to look at what is happening since the election, but this view must be tempered with the knowledge that Bush 41, Baker and Gates would have celebrated if George W. Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq had succeeded, they are just trying to cut THEIR losses and resurrect their mid east policy of supporting the "moderate" dictators and keeping the oil flowing.

And they all agree it is the US who should decide in the end, NOT the Iraqi's or people who live there.

Georgie did not listen to what had worked because he was gonna out do the old man so daddy sends in his "friends" to save poor poor W all over again, but the saving of W is also saving daddy's friends and their generations of investments in the region. After all is said and done that is what they are after NOW.

Robert Gates originally helped Osama bin Laden

2006-11-16T18:40:00.000-05:00

From DailyKos:

Robert Gates Promoted and Financed Osama Bin Laden
by LondonYank

Thu Nov 09, 2006 at 12:45:40 AM PST

Robert Gates made Osama Bin Laden what he is today. This is not exaggeration. By funding Osama Bin Laden's operations, training camps, weaponry and political influence from 1979 (even before Russia invaded Afghanistan), Robert Gates personally gave us our principal enemy in the "War on Terror".

More frighteningly, all of Robert Gates' support to Osama Bin Laden ran through Pakistan's ISI. ISI has been linked to training and funding the 9/11 bombers, the London bombers, the Madrid bombers, the Bali bombers and the Delhi bombers but is strangely immune from official Washington scrutiny.

I really wonder which side Robert Gates thinks he's on. With a 30 year history of pomoting and financing state and non-state terrorism, I doubt it is the side of the peace and prosperity of the American people and bringing our troops home safe.

I've said for many years that Bush Sr. has always been connected to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida and I've always believed that al-Qaida is a Bush family death squad used to catapult their global domination agenda and to use them to control the world's markets for their own profit and gain. I've never believed the Bush family story that Osama bin Laden was the blacksheep of the family. They just want us to believe that to remove any connection they have (and Osama's family has) to him.

Remember when Clinton became president the first time in 1992 and about 30 days later 'al-Qaida' tried to blow up the World Trade Centers? Well, I believe Bush Sr. was pissed off and outraged that he lost that race, so he had his death squad come in to try to make Clinton's administration look bad. It backfired, of course, because Clinton had the 5 guys involved arrested and jailed where they remain today. Bush Sr. never once during his presidency mentioned 'Osama bin Laden' to our nation but he knew full well who he was (the families have been friends for at least 30 years) and what group he was the head of! I spit on him.

September 11, 2001 was the same thing. The 19 hijackers were allowed to live in our country for years and go undetected (though one observant woman at one of the flight schools called and alerted the FBI that one of the hijackers was taking lessons...but the FBI ignored the call and did nothing). Someone was financing them and I think Osama may have but the money to house them wasn't always electronically transfered to our country. I believe, to escape detection by authorities, it was brought over here via boat or private planes and given to the Bush family friends to be given to the hijackers under the table.

So, it's not surprising to me that Robert Gates, who was recently brought in by Bush Sr. to help his son out, has been nominated to replace Donald Rumsfeld and is back again. The Bush family has their friends who would do anything for them. They're loyal to the Bushies and because of that loyalty many get jobs in high places and guys like Osama get to continue to roam the planet (if he didn't die years ago and his image is just being used by Bush Sr.'s CIA to brainwash the masses) free from prison after killing 3000 Americans on September 11th!!

It's so insane.

A random thought...

2006-11-15T06:48:00.000-05:00

It's so interesting to me that Bush's daddy would come in last week and push Robert Gates onto him to nominate as the next Secretary of Defense to replace Donald Rumsfeld. Yes, it's a known fact that Robert Gates was connected to the Iran Contra scandal of the 1980's and that alone should be reason for the democrats to not vote for this guy when it comes up, but I think there's a more important factor in all of this and it occured to me that it's probably why Bush's daddy chose him.

They want the democrats to fail over the next two years.

I believe the reason why Gates was catapulted to the front of the line is because this man, on behalf of the Bush family (whose reputation in our country is lower than a dried up squished frog on the side of the road), will do WORSE than what Rummy did during his time overseeing the Iraq war and in the next two years (especially if the democrats decide to vote the guy in!!!!!) we will see a republican party saying, "See? They wanted change in the leadership of the Pentagon and what did we get? The same thing! We're in worse shape than when Rumsfeld was in there!".

I think this is the plan by these Pigs who could care less about the welfare of our troops and their families as long as their reputations are saved! They will continue this war no matter what the democrats or anyone in this country has to say about it. This fake war has been profitable to them and there is no way in hell that anyone is going to stop their corporate welfare checks.

Spit. I hate them all.

If the democrats do vote Gates in and the above starts unfolding, you can bet your sweet bippy that I will screaming from the rooftops about it.

Automakers Wasting Their Time

2006-11-14T13:39:00.000-05:00

The leaders from the big 3 automakers will meet with George W Bush today to discuss the effecs of global competition,healthcare, trade and energy.

Bush has already stated that he will not give relief to the automakers who are struggling to stay out of bankruptcy.

Bush is the one who flung open the doors of foreign competition by agreeing to massive trade give aways to many countries, including those from Central America and especially China.

Bush won't help Americans or American business with healthcare, as he thinks people should find their own money to buy healthcare.

Bush won't do anything about energy costs as he and Cheney are knee deep in oil money.

George W Bush and the Republican party are the best friends foreign corporations have ever known. Bush has eased tariffs on foreign products to the extent they flood U.S shores virtually cost free.

Bush has kept tariffs on U.S products high so foreign companies like China can overrun the playing field.

Bush refused to help,when Delphi filed bankruptcy on its U.S operations and closed many factories, putting thousands out of work. This was allowed to happen even though Delphi is the largest American employer in China.

Bush refuses to help General Motors and Ford who are stradling the bankruptcy fence.

U.S automakers are wasting their time in trying to discuss helping U.S manufacturers. They would be better served working with the Democratic controlled House and Senate to force fair trade and healthcare on Bush to help American families.

One less Kook loose on the streets.

2006-11-13T13:01:00.000-05:00

Terrorist Who Mailed White Powder to Olbermann Arrested

Good news. The crazie who has allegedly mailed the fake anthrax powder to Keith Olbermann has been arrested in California. And, he is is also a suspect in other incidents involving liberal celebrities and politicans:

A California man suspected of mailing threatening letters containing a suspicious white powder to celebrities and U.S. politicians has been arrested and could face federal charges on Monday, the FBI said.

Investigators identified Chad Castagana, 39, of Woodland Hills, California, as the person suspected of sending more than a dozen threatening letters to media outlets and the homes of public figures in various cities, the FBI said in a statement on Sunday evening.

According to a federal search warrant, among those who received threatening letters were Jon Stewart of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show;" talk show host David Letterman; Keith Olbermann of MSNBC; Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, who is set to become Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, both Democrats.

Just for the record, I don't recall any fake anthrax letters being sent to Republican celebrities and pols, do you? Assuming Mr. Castagana is guilty, it seems clear he had it in for liberal politicans and other people identified with anti-Republican sentiments. I wonder who gave him the idea that mailing threatening letters filled with white powder was a legitimate means of expressing his opinion about their political views. What do you think: this person or this one? Or someone else?

Well, at least one of these eliminationist nutjobs is off the streets.

Update [2006-11-13 11:34:54 by Steven D]: Apparently Chad Castagana, the accused terrorist, frequented Free Republic and other conservative websites.

And to think, They did it all with out invading California, Bombing San Francisco, or putting "Arnold" on trial....

I guess law enforcement does work against TERRORISTS like HIM.

The Real 'Mission Accomplished'

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All I could add to this is,

AMEN

Mission Statement.

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My actions should be self-explanatory, and since in our self-obsessed culture words seldom match the deed, writing a mission statement would seem questionable. So judge me by my actions. Maybe some will be scared enough to wake from their walking dream state - am I therefore a martyr or terrorist? I would prefer to be thought of as a 'spiritual warrior'. Our so-called leaders are the real terrorists in the world today, responsible for more deaths than Osama bin Laden.

I have had a wonderful life, both full and full of wonder. I have experienced love and the joy and heartache of raising a child. I have jumped out of an airplane, and escaped a burning building. I have spent the night in jail, and dropped acid during the sixties. I have been privileged to have met many supremely talented musicians and writers, most of whom were extremely generous and gracious. Even during the hard times, I felt charmed. Even the difficult lessons have been like blessed gifts. When I hear about our young men and women who are sent off to war in the name of God and Country, and who give up their lives for no rational cause at all, my heart is crushed. What has happened to my country? we have become worse than the imagined enemy - killing civilians and calling it 'collateral damage', torturing and trampling human rights inside and outside our own borders, violating our own Constitution whenever it seems convenient, lying and stealing right and left, more concerned with sports on television and ring-tones on cell-phones than the future of the world.... half the population is taking medication because they cannot face the daily stress of living in the richest nation in the world.

I too love God and Country, and feel called upon to serve. I can only hope my sacrifice is worth more than those brave lives thrown away when we attacked an Arab nation under the deception of 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'. Our interference completely destroyed that country, and destabilized the entire region. Everyone who pays taxes has blood on their hands.

I have had one previous opportunity to serve my country in a meaningful way - at 8:05 one morning in 2002 I passed Donald Rumsfeld on Delaware Avenue and I was acutely aware that slashing his throat would spare the lives of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of innocent people. I had a knife clenched in my hand, and there were no bodyguards visible; to my deep shame I hesitated, and the moment was past.

The violent turmoil initiated by the United States military invasion of Iraq will beget future centuries of slaughter, if the human race lasts that long. First we spit on the United Nations, then we expect them to clean up our mess. Our elected representatives are supposed to find diplomatic and benevolent solutions to these situations. Anyone can lash out and retaliate, that is not leadership or vision. Where is the wisdom and honor of the people we delegate our trust to?

To the rest of the world we are cowards - demanding Iraq to disarm, and after they comply, we attack with remote-control high-tech video-game weapons. And then lie about our reasons for invading. We the people bear complete responsibility for all that will follow, and it won't be pretty.

It is strange that most if not all of this destruction is instigated by people who claim to believe in God, or Allah. Many sane people turn away from religion, faced with the insanity of the 'true believers'. There is a lot of confusion: many people think that God is like Santa Claus, rewarding good little girls with presents and punishing bad little boys with lumps of coal; actually God functions more like the Easter Bunny, hiding surprises in plain sight. God does not choose the Lottery numbers, God does not make the weather, God does not endorse military actions by the self-righteous, God does not sit on a cloud listening to your prayers for prosperity. God does not smite anybody. If God watches the sparrow fall, you notice that it continues to drop, even to its death. Face the truth folks, God doesn't care, that's not what God is or does. If the human race drives itself to extinction, God will be there for another couple million years, 'watching' as a new species rises and falls to replace us. It is time to let go of primitive and magical beliefs, and enter the age of personal responsibility. Not telling others what is right for them, but making our own choices, and accepting consequences.

"Who would Jesus bomb?" This question is primarily addressing a Christian audience, but the same issues face the Muslims and the Jews: God's message is tolerance and love, not self-righteousness and hatred. Please consider "Thou shalt not kill" and "As ye sow, so shall ye reap". Not a lot of ambiguity there.

What is God? God is the force of life - the spark of creation. We each carry it within us, we share it with each other. Whether we are conscious of the life-force is a choice we make, every minute of every day. If you choose to ignore it, nothing will happen - you are just 'less conscious'. Maybe you are less happy (maybe not). Maybe you grow able to tap into the universal force, and increase the creativity in the universe. Love is anti-entropy. Please notice that 'conscious' and 'conscience' are related concepts.

Why God - what is the value? Whether committee consensus of a benevolent power that works through humans, or giant fungus under Oregon, the value of opening up to the concept of God is in coming to the realization that we are not alone, establishing a connection to the universe, the experience of finding completion. As individuals we may exist alone, but we are all alone together as a people. Faith is the answer to fear. Fear opposes love. To manipulate through fear is a betrayal of trust.

What does God want? No big mystery - simply that we try to help each other. We decide to make God-like decisions, rescuing falling sparrows, or putting the poor things out of their misery. Tolerance, giving, acceptance, forgiveness.

If this sounds a lot like pop psychology, that is my exact goal. Never underestimate the value of a pep-talk and a pat on the ass. That is basically all we give to our brave soldiers heading over to Iraq, and more than they receive when they return. I want to state these ideas in their simplest form, reducing all complexity, because each of us has to find our own answers anyway. Start from here...

I am amazed how many people think they know me, even people who I have never talked with. Many people will think that I should not be able to choose the time and manner of my own death. My position is that I only get one death, I want it to be a good one. Wouldn't it be better to stand for something or make a statement, rather than a fiery collision with some drunk driver? Are not smokers choosing death by lung cancer? Where is the dignity there? Are not the people the people who disregard the environment killing themselves and future generations? Here is the statement I want to make: if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world. I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians, who did nothing to threaten our country. I will not participate in your charade - my conscience will not allow me to be a part of your crusade. There might be some who say "it's a coward's way out" - that opinion is so idiotic that it requires no response. From my point of view, I am opening a new door.

What is one more life thrown away in this sad and useless national tragedy? If one death can atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my country. I was alive when John F. Kennedy instilled hope into a generation, and I was a sorry witness to the final crushing of hope by Dick Cheney's puppet, himself a pawn of the real rulers, the financial plunderers and looters who profit from every calamity; following the template of Reagan's idiocracy.

The upcoming elections are not a solution - our two party system is a failure of democracy. Our government has lost its way since our founders tried to build a structure which allowed people to practice their own beliefs, as far as it did not negatively affect others. In this regard, the separation of church and state needs to be reviewed. This is a large part of the way that the world has gone wrong, the endless defining and dividing of things, micro-sub-categorization, sectarianism. The direction we need is a process of unification, integrating all people into a world body, respecting each individual. Business and industry have more power than ever before, and individuals have less. Clearly, the function of government is to protect the individual, from hardship and disease, from zealots, from the exploitation, from monopoly, even from itself. Our leaders are not wise persons with integrity and vision - they are actors reading from teleprompters, whose highest goal is to stir up the mob. Our country slaughters Arabs, abandons New Orleaneans, and ignores the dieing environment. Our economy is a house of cards, as hollow and fragile as our reputation around the world. We as a nation face the abyss of our own design.

A coalition system which includes a Green Party would be an obvious better approach than our winner-take-all system. Direct electronic debate and balloting would be an improvement over our non-representative congress. Consider that the French people actually have a voice, because they are willing to riot when the government doesn't listen to them.

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government... " - Abraham Lincoln

With regard to those few who crossed my path carrying the extreme and unnecessary weight of animosity: they seemed by their efforts to be punishing themselves. As they acted out the misery of their lives it is now difficult to feel anything other than pity for them.

Without fear I go now to God - your future is what you will choose today.

The man who wrote these words, Malachi Ritscher.

He was writing a mission statement for HIS suicide as a protest against the War in Iraq.

HERE is the report of that suicide......

Here is the obituary Malachi Ritscher wrote about himself.

He will never be considered a causality of this war by many, but it killed his soul, he just stopped his body from living in protest.

Bush's Gift To The Trolls

2006-11-12T16:25:00.000-05:00

George W Bush likes his Republican counterparts and their avid support of all his policies that he has created something special for each one.

It is the Republicans, who send their trolls out each day to attack blogs of progressive thinking individuals, in hopes of bringing confusion and disruption.

It is the Republicans who avidly support each policy of Bush, no matter how damaging to the rights of Americans he is supposed to represent.

Bush created the "Homeland Security Act" and it is because of this act that Bush and his allies can spy on innocent Americans.

So Trolls, this website www.license.shorturl.com is Bush's present to you.

Type in your name and state, Trolls and see what Bush has done for you.

Maureen Dowd summed up Tuesday's election beautifully

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Drapes of Wrath

by Maureen Dowd

November 11, 2006

The new Democratic sweep conjures up an ancient image: Furies swooping down to punish bullies.

Angry winged goddesses with dog heads, serpent hair and blood eyes, unmoved by tears, prayer, sacrifice or nasty campaign ads, avenging offenses by insolent transgressors.

This will be known as the year macho politics failed — mainly because it was macho politics by marshmallow men. Voters were sick of phony swaggering, blustering and bellicosity, absent competency and accountability. They were ready to trade in the deadbeat Daddy party for the sheltering Mommy party.

All the conservative sneering about a fem-lib from San Francisco who was measuring the drapes for the speaker’s office didn’t work. Americans wanted new drapes, and an Armani granny with a whip in charge.

A recent study found that the testosterone of American men has been dropping for 20 years, but in Republican Washington, it was running amok, and not in a good way. Men who had refused to go to an untenable war themselves were now refusing to find an end to another untenable war that they had recklessly started.

Republicans were oddly oblivious to the fact that they had turned into a Thomas Nast cartoon: an unappetizing tableau of bloated, corrupt, dissembling, feckless white hacks who were leaving kids unprotected. Tom DeLay and Bob Ney sneaking out of Congress with dollar bills flying out of their pockets. Denny Hastert playing Cardinal Bernard Law, shielding Mark Foley. Rummy, cocky and obtuse as he presided over an imploding Iraq, while failing to give young men and women in the military the armor, support and strategy they needed to come home safely. Dick Cheney, vowing bullheadedly to move “full speed ahead” on Iraq no matter what the voters decided. W. frantically yelling about how Democrats would let the terrorists win, when his lame-brained policies had spawned more terrorists.

After 9/11, Americans had responded to bellicosity, drawn to the image, as old as the Western frontier myth, of the strong father protecting the home from invaders. But this time, many voters, especially women, rejected the rough Rovian scare and divide tactics.

The macho poses and tough talk of the cowboy president were undercut when he seemed flaccid in the face of the vicious Katrina and the vicious Iraq insurgency.

Even former members of the administration conceded they were tired of the muscle-bound style, longing for a more maternal approach to the globe. “We were exporting our anger and our fear, hatred for what had happened,” Richard Armitage, the former deputy secretary of state, said in a speech in Australia, referring to the 9/11 attacks. He said America needed “to turn another face to the world and get back to more traditional things, such as the export of hope and opportunity and inspiration.”

Talking about hope and opportunity and inspiration has propelled Barack Obama into the presidential arena. His approach seems downright feminine when compared with the Bushies, or even Hillary Clinton. He languidly poses in fashion magazines, shares feelings with Oprah and dishes with the ladies on “The View.” After six years of chest-puffing, Senator Obama seems very soothing.

Because of the power of female consumers, some marketing experts predict we will end up a matriarchy. This year, women also flexed their muscle at the polls, transformed into electoral Furies by the administration’s stubborn course in Iraq.

On Tuesday, 51 percent of the voters were women, and 55 percent of women voted for the Democratic candidate. It was a revival of the style of Bill Clinton, dubbed our first female president, who knitted together a winning coalition of independents, moderates and suburbanites.

According to The Times’s exit polls, women were more likely than men to want some or all of the troops to be withdrawn from Iraq now, and 64 percent of women said that the war in Iraq has not improved U.S. security.

The Senate has a new high of 16 women and the House has a new high of at least 70, with a few races outstanding. Hillary’s big win will strengthen her presidential tentacles.

Nancy Pelosi, who will be the first female speaker, softened her voice and look as she cracked the whip on her undisciplined party, taking care not to sound shrill. When she needs to, though, she says she can use her “mother-of-five voice.”

At least for the moment, W. isn’t blustering and Cheney has lost his tubby swagger. The president is trying to ride the Mommy vibe. He even offered Madame Speaker help with those new drapes.

This entire week in ONE picture...

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Nuff said, this pic explains itself....

Bush’s Chernobyl Economy; hard times are on the way

2006-11-11T02:23:00.000-05:00

By Mike Whitney

11/08/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- In the next few months, a financial crisis will arise somewhere in the world which will jolt the American economy and trigger a swift and precipitous decline in the value of the dollar.

This is not speculation; it will happen and there is nothing that the Bush administration can do to stop it.

All of the traditional supports for the dollar have been removed by the shrinking economy, a massive $800 billion account deficit, dramatic increases in the money supply, and the reckless manipulation of interest rates.

Now, the noose is tightening. Our foreign trade partners can see that we are drowning in red ink and are refusing to buy back our debt in the form of US Treasuries. This is a death sentence for the dollar. It means that in a matter of months the once-mighty greenback will crash through the floor and free-fall through open space.

Mike Swanson of the WallStreetWindow explains the worrisome details related to last month’s trade deficit:

“Just a few days ago the US Treasury reported that the net capital inflows from the rest of the world into the US fell for a 6th month in a row. Private (purchases) from abroad fell to $34.7 billion in August and from $72.9 billion in July. Asian central banks made up for the shortfall. If they hadn’t the current account deficit would have exploded. The NY Times quoted Ashraf Laidi, a currency analyst at MG Financial Group as saying, “foreign central banks saved the dollar from disaster. The stability of the bond market is at the mercy of Asian purchases of US Treasuries.”

Swanson poses an interesting theory, but it can’t be verified since we the Fed stopped printing the M-3 (which would provide the relevant facts about the current cash inflows) and since China and Japan have slowed their purchases of UST Bonds.

Jim Willie of GoldenJackass.com, offers an entirely different theory in his recent article “Spent Dollar Momentum”. Willie opines:

“Behind the scenes are the many illicit London-based firms busily buying US Treasury Bonds with freshly-printed money from the Dept of the Treasury. Their tracks are covered by the blackout on the money supply statistic. (M-3) An isolated US government with a well-oiled printing press as the primary support device makes for a dangerous currency situation.”

Willie’s “conspiracy theory” jives nicely with the US Treasury’s figures on the “Foreign Financing of US Government Debt” (June 2006) Surprisingly, between 2005 and 2006 our friends in the United Kingdom purchased an additional $142 billion of USD bringing their stockpile of dollars to $201.4?!?

Why?

Why would UK investors suddenly stock up on dollars when everyone else in the currency market is bemoaning the greenback’s systemic problems?

Could it be that banks in the UK are just hiding the paper trail for friends in America who want to forestall a collapse in the dollar until after the election?

Of course, there could be another explanation for the irregular activity in cash inflows, (purchase of US Treasuries) that is, that we’re still living in a "faith-based" Wonderland where our overseas trading partners are more than willing to buy an endless supply of worthless paper from a well-meaning Goliath who is busy spreading democracy to the "great unwashed" in developing world.

This is an utter fiction. The world is backing away from the dollar and whether one accepts the conspiracy theories or not, it’s clear that the Federal Reserve is trying to cover its tracks and conceal its shadowy maneuverings.

There is nothing accidental about the crisis we'll soon be facing. Officials at the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury are fully aware of the devastating effects of massive trade deficits, increasing the money supply, and self-serving interest rates manipulations. They have set the country on the path to ruin as part of a broader scheme for remaking the global-system according to well-known precedents. In truth, the plan to modify the present system has a long history; going back to the 1980s when many of the same actors in government today were in positions of power in the Reagan administration. For the last 6 years they have been patching together their strategy; producing record deficits, unfunded tax cuts, mammoth government expansion, and doubling the money supply.

How can anyone argue that they did not understand the implications of their actions?

Did Greenspan know that by lowering interest rates in 2001 to 1.5% that he would sluice trillions of dollars into the real estate market producing the largest equity bubble in history? And, if he didn't know, then how is it that the Fed provides the statistics which state precisely how large the housing bubble really is?

Didn’t Greenspan read the charts and graphs put out by his own organization?

And why did Greenspan support the shaky “no down payment”, “interest-only” loans and ARMs which allowed “high-risk” people to qualify for mortgages when the Fed knew, according to their own figures, that when interest rates went up, foreclosures would skyrocket?

Of course he knew; they all knew. How could they NOT know? They produce the facts and figures themselves! It’s all part of a madcap scheme to shift wealth to the top 1% and drive a wooden stake into the heart of the middle class. When Greenspan saw that doomsday was approaching, he got “cold feet” and bailed out. Now the scholarly Bernancke is left to supervise the economic meltdown and face the public scorn.

Trouble Ahead

Currently, the U.S. economy is held together by the slimmest of threads; literally duct-taped together by massaging all of the crucial economic numbers, pumping as much cheap fiat-currency into the system, and by "increasingly-suspicious" maneuverings in the futures markets. After the elections, they’ll be no reason to conceal the rot at the heart of the system. After all, we are not facing an unforeseen catastrophe, but a planned demolition intended to increase the disparity between rich and poor to such an extent, that democracy, as we know it, will no longer be possible.

Nothing is more repugnant to America’s ruling elite than the notion that every man, however broke and insignificant, can participate in our system of government.

The Federal Reserve's bloody fingerprints are all over our present dilemma. The privately-owned Fed has never operated in the public interest. By doubling the money supply in the last 7 years and keeping interest rates artificially low, the Fed has generated a $10 trillion housing bubble while, at the same time, ignoring a $800 billion trade deficit which is sucking up American assets and crushing American industry at an unprecedented rate.

This massive expansion of debt has increased the likelihood that an unexpected event, like a bank failure or a teetering hedge fund, will cause a major disruption in the markets sending tremors through the global system. Even if nothing explosive happens, the faltering real estate market will continue to swoon, consumer spending will dry up, and the fragile economy will crash to earth. In fact, this is taking place right now; retail sales are anemic, residential housing dropped a whopping 17% in the last 3 months, and economic growth shrunk to a measly 1.6% in the third quarter. The only thing keeping the economy from collapsing entirely is the sudden drop in oil prices which “conveniently” coincided with the midterm balloting.

This won’t last. According to industry analyst Matthew Simmons the world production of oil may have already peaked setting the stage for a leveling-off period before the inevitable decline. Simmons has data to show that “world supply of oil has declined to 83.98 million barrels per day in the second quarter after hitting 84.35 million bpd in the forth quarter of 2005.” Oil production is going backwards not forwards.

No one believes the price of oil is going down any time soon. As energy prices rise and the housing market falls; consumer spending, which added $825 billion from home equity into last year’s economy, will continue shrivel. Thus, the Fed will have to make the tough-choice of whether to loosen the purse strings and lower interest rates to keep the economy sputtering along or ratchet up rates to attract more foreign investment. (Keep in mind that the real estate market is already in retreat, even though, the full force of the Fed’s interest rate increases won’t be felt for up to 6 to 12 months after they have been raised. The worst is yet to come)

Most economists believe that Fed Chairman Bernancke will be forced to lower rates sometime in 2007 to try to stimulate the economy and to affect a “soft landing” in the housing market, but don’t count on it.

I believe the Fed is more likely to either keep rates the same or raise them to outpace the anticipated increases in Europe and Asia. The reason for this is simple; it presently takes nearly $2.5 billion per day to cover our current account deficit. To continue to attract foreign capital, US Treasuries must offer a higher rate of return than their foreign competitors. Now that the economies in Europe and Asia are growing; naturally their interest rates are going up accordingly.(to slow inflation) That means that the only way that America can continue to expand its debt, through the exchange of fiat currency for resources and manufactured goods, is by raising the return on Treasuries. And, that is probably what Bernanke will do, even though it will skewer the struggling American worker and further damage the US economy.

The secret of running the global economic system is to control the issuance of currency and, thereby, be in a position to expand one’s own debt as one sees fit. The Federal Reserve must preserve its “dollar hegemony” if it wants to maintain the greenback as the world’s reserve currency. To achieve that, the dollar must stay one step ahead of its competitors (higher rates) and prove that it is on solid financial footing. This is impossible now that the US economy is contracting, so Washington has decided to do the next best thing; corner the oil market. By controlling Middle East oil US policy-makers believe that they can force foreign nations to accept the debt-plagued greenback regardless of the faltering US economy. It is no different than any other extortion racket.

If the plan succeeds the dollar will remain the de-facto international currency. But it is difficult task and the escalating violence in Iraq suggests that the results are far from certain.

Corporate Colonization

“Free Trade” is the Holy Grail of neoliberalism. It is essentially a public relations scam intended to disguise the shifting of wealth, jobs and resources from either the middle class or the public sector to the corporate and banking establishments’. Despite the zealous cheerleading of Thomas Friedman and his ilk; the basic facts have been thoroughly examined and are not in dispute. Free trade has been a dead loss for everyone except the people for whom it was originally designed; the wealthiest and most powerful men on the planet. It has served them quite well.

For example, “since NAFTA went into effect in 1994, the US has lost over $4 trillion to foreigners through its trade deficit”…”During that 11.5 year period , foreign ownership of US assets skyrocketed an amazing 400% from $3 trillion to over $12 trillion”… “Foreign interests now own 46% of US Treasury debt, 26% of corporate bonds, and 13% of US corporate equities. Now nearly 100% of on-going borrowings by the government are funded by foreign interests.”…”Foreign interests also control a majority of US domestic industries such as movies, music, publishing, metal ore mining, cement production, engine and power plant production, rubber and plastics and are major owners of US industries such as pharmaceuticals, chemical manufacturing, industrial machinery manufacturing, motor vehicles, and electronic equipment and components…In addition, the US has lost 3 million manufacturing jobs over the last decade, real wage growth after inflation has been essentially zero,” and personal debt has never been higher. (Data from Thomas Heffner EconomyInCrisis.org)

Since 1980, 13,730 major companies have been sold to foreign corporations. We no longer produce what we need to sustain ourselves.

These facts may have a mind-numbing affect on the reader, but they make a point which is simple and unavoidable. The country is being colonized by corporate predators and its main assets are being sold off to the highest bidder. This rampant carpet-bagging is taking place in full view of the American public which still clings to the spurious idea that “free trade” is generally beneficial for all. It is not, and we are about to experience its full-effects as America’s “straw-house” economy topples from its loss of manufacturing-capacity and its staggering account imbalances.

“Foreign investors now own 46% of US Treasury debt” over $3 trillion dollars! The Federal Reserve and their corporate she-wolves are planning to prolong the hemorrhaging of US wealth as long as possible extracting every last farthing from the prostrate corpse of the waning republic.

Now, we are at the brink. Energy prices will go higher after the elections, manufacturing will continue to flag, and the housing Zeppelin is drifting towards the high-tension wires. To make matters worse, the American consumer; the “engine for global economic growth”, is drowning in a sea of personal debt.

There’s no place to go but down.

Every part of this bleak picture was anticipated by its architects. That’s why they hastily slapped together the requisite legislation for a modern-day police state. After passing the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (which allows the president the arrest whomever he chooses without charges) and overturning the Posse Comitatus Act (the president is now free to deploy the military within America against US citizens) the Bush administration is as ready as they can be. Apparently, they feel like they can manage the public’s shock and outrage with detention camps and water cannons.

We’ll see.

In any event, the trap has been set and any minor disruption in the hedge funds or derivatives markets will put the economy into a violent tailspin forcing our "Unitary” president to activate his plans for the new world order.

Battle Stations; Battle Stations

Last week an article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard appeared in the UK Telegraph, where he stated:

“(Treasury Secretary) Paulson re-activated the secretive support team to prevent markets meltdown. Judging by their body language, the US authorities believe that the roaring bull-market is just a sucker’s rally before the inevitable storm hits….the plunge protection team is a shadowy body with powers to support stock-index, currency, and credit futures in a crash. Otherwise known as the working group on financial markets, it was created by Ronald Reagan to prevent a repeat of the Wall Street meltdown in October 1987”….Paulson has set up “a command center at the US Treasury that will track global markets and serve as an operations base in the next crisis.” (Members include the heads at Treasury, Federal Reserve and Securities and Exchange Commission)

Evans-Pritchard adds: “Mr. Paulson has asked the team to examine ‘systemic risk posed by hedge funds and derivatives, and the government’s ability to respond to a financial crisis…We need to be vigilant and make sure we are thinking through all of the various risks and that we are being very careful here. Do we have enough liquidity in the system?’”

And, finally, Evans-Pritchard queries: (Do) Mr. Paulson and Mr. Cox (SEC) know something that we do not: whether other hedge funds are in the same sinking boat as Amaranth Advisors and Vega Management, keel-hauled by bets on natural gas and bonds? Or whether currency traders with record short positions on the Japanese Yen and Swiss Franc are about to learn the perils of the Carry Trade, a high-stakes game of chicken where you bet against fundamentals with high leverage to make a quick profit. Everybody knows it will blow up if the dollar goes into free fall”.

So what is Paulson anticipating?

Gabriel Kolko offers us a clue in a counterpunch article “Why a Global Economic Deluge Looms”:

“The entire global financial structure is becoming uncontrollable in crucial ways its nominal leaders never expected. Instability is its hallmark…Contradictions now wrack the world’s financial system, and if we are to believe the institutions and personalities who have been in the forefront of the defense of capitalism, it may well be on the verge of serious crisis.”

Deregulation and reduced market transparency have created a plethora of financial instruments which are relatively untested and extraordinarily volatile. By eliminating the “rules of the game” market-savvy investors have raked in the profits but reshaped the economic landscape in a way that no one can predict what the ultimate outcome will be. Hedge funds are now loaded with over-leveraged debt-instruments that promise a generous return in an up-tempo market, but certain doom in an economic downturn. Now, that all the arrows are pointed towards recession the devastating effects of this new “liberalized” system will be felt throughout the global economy.

No one knows what is in store for these high-risk hedge funds which have only been in existence for a short time and which Americans have dumped trillions of their hard-earned savings. As Kolko says, “The credit derivative market was almost non-existent in 2001, grew fairly slowly until 2004, and went into the stratosphere, reaching $17.3 trillion by the end of 2005.”

Is it any wonder why the main players at the Fed, the Treasury and the SEC are feeling a bit jittery?

Any shock to the markets could set off a system-wide cataclysm. Just this week, for example, Taiwan was bracing for a stock market crash following the surprise indictment of first-lady Wu Shu-chen. Even relatively small incidents like this on the other side of the world create the potential for contagion that can spread rapidly in this new world of globalized markets. The danger is even greater when those markets are built on a foundation of sand.

Hank Paulson was doubtless selected as Treasury Secretary as the best possible “industry-insider” to oversee the unwinding of America’s humongous account imbalances and flimsy “deregulated” markets. His job is to ensure that, at the end of the day, US banking giants, the Federal Reserve, and western elites still control the global economic system and that the dollar reigns supreme. Whatever happens to the American middle class in the process is of no consequence.

But Paulson faces a daunting task from this point on; fudging the numbers only works won’t work forever. So far, the greenback has benefited from the manipulation of oil prices, but that will soon end. (Better “fill ‘er up” now) The US economy is a shriveled shadow of its former self; housing and manufacturing are in a shambles and growth depends entirely on the expansion of debt. As GDP begins to nosedive, foreign investment will dry up, capital will flee to more promising markets in Asia and Europe, and the American people will totter into a barren world of soaring unemployment, hyper-inflation, and 1930s-type deprivation.

The country is now facing a Chernobyl-type meltdown and the prospects for changing direction appear to be minimal. The foundation blocks for sound economic growth and prosperity have been replaced by a misguided faith in military adventurism and police state repression. The results are plain to see.

We are now more vulnerable to a seismic economic event than anytime since the Great Depression. The corporatists and the money-lenders have absconded with the nation’s wealth; gutting the manufacturing sector, creating enormous equity bubbles, and raffling off our vital industries to foreign investors. At the same time, the Bush administration has sown dragons-teeth around the world leaving the US with precious few friends to throw us a lifeline when ship starts taking on water.

Hard times are on the way; only this time it’ll be detention centers instead of soup kitchens.

Something very strange about the Lieberman/Lamont race

2006-11-10T20:17:00.000-05:00

Would it seem odd to you that Joe Lieberman in 2000 won that year's Senate race and his opponent lost the race with only 448,077 votes? No? Well.....Ned Lamont lost this year's mid-term election with only 448,077 votes!!!!! What are the freaking chances of that happening in our neck of the Universe?

Here's PrisonPlanet's take on it.

Here's Wonkette's funny response to this abnormalty.

Here's another one.

Here's the Hartford Courant's article that shows Lamont's votes and how exit polling showed that Lieberman was getting 25% of the votes.

What the hell!!!! I hate Joe Lieberman and if I find out that he stole this race by using his corrupt friends in his state I'm going to scream!!!

Also, hat tip to Achorn's Blog for discovering this! Here are two more links:

The 2000 election results

The 2006 election results

Meet the new Boss, just like the old Boss.........

2006-11-10T14:51:00.000-05:00

Who is the GOP turning to now that Kenny Melhman is cutting and running from the GOP chairmanship?

A man who couldn't get his facts exactly straight in July;

RNC Chair Nominee Flashback: Steele Shifted, Lied about Bush Remarks

Here's another thing to keep in mind as Michael Steele makes his bid for Chairman of the RNC, a position that requires frequent contact with the press -- not to mention loyalty to the party.

Back in July, Michael Steele granted a briefing to reporters, during which, under the cover of anonymity, he spoke of the burden of running as a Republican this election, famously referring to "R" as "the scarlet letter" and saying that he wouldn't want Bush campaigning with him. Dana Milbank wrote about Steele's remarks in his column, dropping a few clues about the identity of the speaker. A fury of speculation followed, and Steele was finally unmasked.

But instead of owning his remarks, Steele furiously backpedalled (saying that Bush, in fact, was his "homeboy"), even lying about the nature of the briefing, accusing Milbank of printing "off the record" remarks. But as an email to Milbank from Steele's spokesman made clear, the remarks had been "on background" -- meaning they could be used anonymously.

Just a foreshadowing of the straight-dealing one can expect from Steele as the spokesman for the Republican Party. (I wonder how he handled that "scarlet letter" comment in his job interview?)

A man who was not too sure which party he belonged to.

As this photo shows.

And the daily Kos pointed out;

MD-Sen: Steele's new lying signs say he's a Dem

And as he dishonestly exploited homeless people in TWO elections to lie for him;

From TPM,

Let's not forget about what was probably the most despicable episode on Election Day. Especially as Michael Steele makes a bid for RNC Chairman.
-- Paul Kiel

and

Homeless Man to GOP Pol: "No One Has the Right to Use Me That Way"

A Philadelphia Daily News columnist tracked down one of the unfortunate locals who had been tricked by the Michael Steele for Senate campaign to hand out deceptive pamphlets outside Maryland voting places. The result: a refreshingly candid indictment of the failed GOP candidate Steele, who now hopes to head up the Republican National Committee.

"I might not have a home," an outraged Yusuf El-Bedawi told the Daily News' Ronnie Polaneczky, "but that doesn't mean I don't care about right and wrong. No one has the right to use me that way."

The Steele campaign recruited six busloads of poor and homeless Philadelphians to hand out flyers to Maryland voters portraying Steele and his ticketmate, governor Bob Ehrlich, as Democrats. Steele is currently Maryland's lieutenant governor; Ehrlich is governor.

"People started screaming, at us, 'Do you think we're that stupid? What are you trying to pull?' " El-Bedawi told the writer. "I said, 'I didn't know it was a lie! I'm from Philly!' And they said, 'Then go back to Philly!' "

"I am so angry and upset, I don't know what to do," said El-Bedawi, who's particularly shattered that he and at least 200 other Philadelphians didn't get home from Maryland in time to vote here.

"These people think we're too stupid to understand the magnitude of what we did."

What they did, said El-Bedawi, was cheat an entire community of unsuspecting voters.

And just because they didn't know they were doing it doesn't mean it doesn't feel awful.

and;

Tuesday wasn't the first time that Michael Steele had tried to use homeless people to mislead African-American voters.

His campaign did the same thing back in 2002.
-- Paul Kiel

TNR: For MD GOPer, Homeless Brigade Not New

Observers have been shocked and outraged by two Maryland Republicans' use of homeless and poor Philadelphians to pass out misleading campaign material at the polls on Election Day. Now it turns out the duo had tried this sort of thing before.

This past Tuesday, for $100 and the promise of three meals, the GOP candidates for governor and senator recruited dozens of the least fortunate from Philadelphia's shelters -- all or most of whom were black -- to come to Maryland for the day and pass out fliers portraying the two hopefuls as "our choice" for African-American voters. (Steele is black; Ehrlich most definitely is not.)

The tactic was brazenly amoral, but also logistically curious. Why did the candidates go all the way to Philadelphia for homeless people, when there are thousands in Baltimore and nearby Washington, D.C.? If they wanted deniability, why did Ehrlich's wife -- Maryland's current first lady -- meet the buses and pass out hats?

It turns out the duo pulled a very similar stunt at least once before, in 2002, according to the New Republic. Then, they pulled homeless people from D.C. shelters, and black students from nearby Bowie State, and the candidates kept their distance from the operation. Instead of telling them to distribute literature, the campaign instructed the recruits to go door-to-door in predominantly black neighborhoods, telling residents that they were "volunteers" trying to get Maryland to elect its first black lieutenant governor.

It was a debacle:

About 250 recruits, drawn by the promise of free meals and a day's pay, participated in what one recruit later called a "scam from the start." The students didn't get their meals, and they didn't get paid. The homeless recruits also weren't paid, and, that night, the van that had taken them at dawn to Prince George's County and was supposed to transport them back to Washington, D.C. never showed up.

Some of the homeless workers reportedly staged a protest that night in front of the Democrats for Ehrlich headquarters in New Carrollton, Maryland. The next day, they enlisted legal help from the homeless center to get the money they had been promised. But the protest had alerted the state prosecutor, and when one of Ehrlich's campaign workers finally showed up with the money, investigators were on hand to witness the homeless recruits being paid.

Yes Micheal Steele is a true REPUG

He would be a fitting head of the GOP...slimly as they come.

If they want somebody who is willing to do despicable things like THIS representing them as Chairman of the GOP (Greedy Odd Pervert) party;

I say go for it.

It's Veteran's Day...

2006-11-10T07:28:00.000-05:00

...and I can't think of a better way to pay tribute to our soldier's past and present than to have our nation use their most PRECIOUS RIGHT this week to vote against the most corrupt, vile, fascist bunch of thieves and kick them out!

Our soldier's in Iraq deserve better than what they've had in the past three years. The Bush Regime originally sent them in there without the equipment they needed. The Regime allowed our munition depots to be blown up and robbed by the enemy. They've used our soldiers to protect their American corporate whore's interests over there all the while taking our soldier's medical benefits away upon their returning or pushing our soldier's families into bankruptcy because they can't afford the medical bills. Most of our soldier's families are living in poverty and have to use our social services to get by. Is this how ANY government should be treating those who stand on the frontlines to protect the country? No!!!!

Our soldiers deserve so much better!!!

Our veterans who have been following the Iraq war from here in America know the price the families and our soldier's are paying. Many of these veteran's have flashbacks to their own wars and they're suffering right along with our current soldier's who are coming home sick in the head from their own experience over there. It's going to take a long time for our nation to heal, especially knowing that the Iraq war is not a REAL war but an illegal occupation of a sovereign nation. Our soldiers are brave but many at some point will start to realize what kind of "war" they fought and they're not going to feel good about it. It will be our veterans who will help them through it, however. That's what I admire about our veterans....they stick together like brothers do.

So, better days are coming for our soldiers! I'm looking forward to it and I'm sure they are too.

Happy Veteran's Day!!

Ken Mehlman outed twice in 24 hrs!

2006-11-09T20:14:00.000-05:00

I am laughing my ass off right now. Not only did the democrats in this country kick the GOP to the curb, up the street, and over the mountain straight to the ocean, but things sure are picking up speed in the New America!!! Wow! My head is spinning....but in a good happy way.

First...Ken Mehlman was outed on CNN last night on Larry King's show by comedian Bill Maher. The funniest part? Everyone with a brain in their head has made this same claim about Kenny, but never before were the words uttered with cameras rolling. Perfect.

Then, just a moment or two ago, America learned that ole gay Kenny will be getting the pink slip from the Republican National Committee. Wow!

So let me see if I have this straight:

America won on Tuesday

Rummy's ass was fired on Wednesday for botching two wars and for being an arrogant prick

Bill Maher out's Ken Mehlman's sexuality on Wednesday night @ 9:30pm

and then...

Kenny gets the ax by the Republican National Committee on Thursday in the evening.

AWESOME! My life is complete now and I'm having the best week ever!!!!

I hope Rush Limbaugh chokes on his own vomit

2006-11-09T19:22:00.000-05:00

Rush Limbaugh (or Ass Limbo as I like to call him) seems to have had an awakening. Oh wait. He has? Could it be true? Could he have seen the light after Tuesday's historic election and now wants everyone to believe that he was never part of the 'Pack of Fascist Thieves' in the White House for years now and was only spewing THEIR CRAP because he just felt it was for the good of the nation and thought it was needed? What!!! The man is completely freaking insane!

Here's part of what he said (you can read the rest above in the title link):

"I'M LIBERATED NOW"

"I HAD TO COME IN AND BUCK UP AND MAKE EXCUSES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T DESERVE IT"

"I WILL NO LONGER CARRY THE WATER FOR PEOPLE WHO DO NOT DESERVE TO HAVE THEIR WATER CARRIED"
Oh, okay Ass Limbo. After all these years, you're now deciding that your gig was just a lie so you could collect a paycheck to swoon all the wives you've had in your measly life, huh? Is that what you're trying to imply with these statements? Well, you're lying and spewing again and you freaking know it.

What Rush Limbaugh did was to react just like the Nazis would have had they been put in the same predicated (and before they committed suicide). Instead of going against the democrats and saying his normal spew of hatred, he decided to wash himself of his own filthy, rotten, stinking party that he has praised and helped develop for years now. Why? To make himself feel better and to NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION IN WHAT HE'S DONE TO THIS COUNTRY FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS OR SO. The Nazis would have done the same thing! Instead of defending what they did (because in their mind what they did was right, just, and pure for the "good of the country") against those who would have exposed the atrocities, they would have said things like, "I never liked what was happening" or "It never felt right to me to be killing these people or making them out to be animals to help out our cause" or "I never really wanted to 'carry the water' for these folks, but did so, because we knew the stakes were high" (this last statement is part of what Ass Limbo said to his listeners on Wednesday).

This man has "killed" Americans, you know, the ones that are for the poor, for peace, for love, and for the good of the country. Ass Limbo is the opposite of all that and when Americans kicked his type to the curb, across the parking lot, and down the street on Tuesday, he held his head in shame but couldn't let us liberals, democrats, or rational republicans get away with making him look bad. He decided instead to make himself out to be the victim. This seems to be a pattern with "this type of person". They're pathetic people and Ass Limbo is their leader.

I spit on him...I spit on his face...I spit on everyone who has ever believed a word coming out of this asshole's mouth...and I spit on any future children he may have if he decides to not force an abortion on the woman. He deserves to be fired from our country for even THINKING that he was doing any good for our country for years now.

That's how I see it. He gets no respect from me at all. His words meant nothing to those of us who live in reality. I hope he gets the Karma he freaking deserves which I hope comes in the form of a liberal behind the wheel of a car, who reaches for some water on the floor, while her child in the back seat says aloud, "Mommy, I'll carry that water for you!", and the liberal proceeds to run over Limbaugh. He dies and is found with the bottle of water shoved down his throat.

Or... I hope he chokes on his own vomit while spewing their crap tomorrow and downing the pills with vodka that he says he's not doing anymore!

Spit.

The War Rages On

2006-11-09T14:37:00.000-05:00

One day after Bush fired Rummy and declared he wants to win his war, 66 more Iraqis were killed in yet another bloody day as usual in Iraq.

Does Bush think he can hide behind the cover of his daddy's buddies to get out of the mess he has created?

Does Bush think he can stay in the background appearing humble and willing so the Democrats can take the blame for the disaster made solely by George Bush?

This war was, is and always will be a George W Bush creation and he deserves all the credit in the world for his precious creation.

Firing Rumsfeld did nothing more than take the news cycle from Bush getting stomped in the elections, to Bush firing Rumsfeld.

This is a Bush war and Bush should be the one to get all the credit, blame and scorn for his masterpiece.

Another"Myth"explodes

2006-11-08T15:35:00.000-05:00

Another repug Myth exploded Tuesday.

So many have exploded this year;

Repugs are no longer seen as the party of fiscal responsibility.

Repugs are so longer seen as the party of national security.

Repugs are no longer seen as the party of family values.

Repugs are no longer seen as the party which decides what is proper for us all.

Instead they have become the party known for the culture of corruption, hypocrisy of faith, incompetence rewarded, failed military missions, failed responses to natural disasters, failed legislators, failed leaders, failed dreams for us all.

And KKKarl Rove is no longer seen as a "boy genius", just another political hack who was willing to stoop lower, try more dirty tricks and willing to slander and desecrate the veterans of this country. He is nothing more than a second rate Goebbels, and should resign in disgrace, not for LOSING an election, but for what he did to win them

Victory is America's!

2006-11-08T07:14:00.000-05:00

What a night! Victory is America's!

So far the democrats have kicked ass in the House (238-200) and it's the Senate race that is still being decided at this moment. Even though it's close, the democrats have evened the score against their republican counterparts (both independents are democratic leaning, but Joe Lieberman is one of them so it will be interesting how he will be. It really sucks he won.).

The election yesterday wasn't just about the Iraq war and the economy (like the repukes in our country would like for everyone to believe. The Bush economy has sucked for pretty much everyone except the top tier)...it was about the corruption on Capital Hill! Americans came out in force yesterday with the idea that if one has an "R" after their name, they're gone. Corruption is the biggest downer in any society across the planet and because the Bush-appeasers in the Congress took corruption to a whole new level, Americans yesterday stole their wallets from them.

Now that the democrats have control of the House, this means they have the power to subpeona. Americans want to know what the hell these fascist Pigs have been doing with our money in connection to the Iraq war and we now will be finding out. Woohoo! (Dick Cheney stated at some point in the last few days that if he is subpeoned, he will not go. Well, guess what asshole? YOU DON'T HAVE A FREAKING CHOICE! Americans want your ass under Oath and if you don't like it....resign asshole!)

Remember: DON'T GIVE UP ON IMPEACHMENT. As the hearings unfold, Americans will decide how far to take the investigations and trials. I think it's pretty clear to the average American that the Bush Pigs have broken any law they could get their hands on. They've committed war crimes in connection to the illegal Iraq invasion and occupation. They've robbed the American treasury because of this atrocious invasion. With over 800 signing statements, Bush has annointed himself the "King of America", but because of his arrogance and in the eyes of our Constitution, he has broken many laws by doing this. So, don't give up on the idea of impeachment! These assholes will most likely resign rather than be put under Oath to get to the truth. They don't want the truth to come out, but dammit, we're going to try anyways!

The American Patriots kicked the Red Coats out yesterday, but that doesn't mean we have to sit back now and give up on the fight. We need to stay on their asses and in addition to Nancy Pelosi's first 100 hour plan, she needs to add PAPER BALLOTS to the list! Our democratic republic is in trouble. It's not a good thing when Americans don't feel like their vote is counting, especially when we're a country who prides themselves about our democracy. Voting is the key to a democracy and if it's tainted, we are no better than a Banana Republic. It needs to be federal law that all elections in this country be done on paper ballots and to use a permanent black magic marker (that's what we have here in Maine) to vote. Let's make it mandatory!!!! Woohoo!

Congratulations Patriots! Pat yourself on the back today! We all fought very hard the past few months (and years and days) to make sure people understood the catastrophe to our nation should the republicans stay in control. We got our country back yesterday and man......doesn't it feel good. I am so proud to say for the first time in a long time......I'm so proud to be an American!

It's the eve of the mid-term election...

2006-11-06T21:05:00.000-05:00

...and I'm nervous.

I'm nervous that the republicans are going to steal another election, but at the same time, the fact that Dick Cheney is going to be hunting all day with his lesbian daughter gives me some hope. I think that is an indication that ole Dick and the rest of the repukes believe that the percentages are going to be so high for the democrats that there is no way to steal the election without it being suspicious and fingers pointing straight at them. I could be wrong. These assholes could just be sitting back tomorrow because they know their minions have already done their jobs. They're arrogant Pigs.
Whatever does happen at the end of tomorrow I know two things:

1) If the democrats take control of both houses, Americans will rejoice in it. We will finally feel that checks and balances have once again been restored to our republic. We will know that the Bush White House will be nothing a bunch of lame ducks and will be stopped in their tracks. We know that the Bush Pig's future will look bleak for them and we will know EXACTLY what these asswipes have been doing in the name of the American people. Best of all, we know the Iraq war will be handled the way it should have been right from the start...competently! The Generals will be thankful for it and so will our soldiers.

2) If the republicans manage to steal another election to keep their power and win, Americans will know where to STILL place the blame. They will continue to be attacked by 65% or more of Americans who believe that they are hateful, vile, vicious, American-hating, fascist Pigs. We will blame those who have created the whole freaking mess in the last six years here in America and over in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I'm going to vote tomorrow for the GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY. My country comes first and tomorrow I'm going to shove my ballot up the ass of anyone who will try to deny me a vote for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It won't happen of course. I'm so angry about what the Bush Pigs have done in the past six years, that I don't think anyone will look at me cross eyed tomorrow. :-)

MY FINAL PLEA: VOTE DEMOCRATIC EVEN IF SADDAM HUSSEIN IS HANGING BY HIS NECK NEXT TO THE DOOR AS YOU ENTER THE BUILDING WHILE HOLDING A "VOTE DEMOCRAT" SIGN! Don't fall for the repuglican Pigs and their vile tactics!

10 reasons to vote for the party who's mission is to destroy this country

2006-11-06T08:35:00.000-05:00

Ten reasons to vote repug;

1. Vote Republican If You Think It's A Good Idea To Put Detailed Atom Bomb Plans On The Internet For Anyone To See

2. Vote Republican If You Want To Stay The Course In Iraq

3. Vote Republican If You Think The President Should Get Advice On Gay-Bashing From A Pastor Who Secretly Bangs Male Prostitutes

4. Vote Republican If You Think The Best Way To Deal With A Child Predator Is To Cover Your Own Ass

5. Vote Republican If You Hate The Military

6. Vote Republican If You Like People Who'll Say Literally Anything To Get Elected

7. Vote Republican If You Think The Best Way To Answer A Tough Question Is To Have Your Questioner Beaten Up

8. Vote Republican If You Think That Laws Are For Other People

9. Vote Republican If You Think It's Cool For Congressmen To Pay Their Mistresses To Keep Quiet Until After Election Day

10. Vote Republican If You Still Think That This Crew In Congress Isn't The Most Corrupt, Hypocritical, Useless Bunch Of Asshats You've Ever Seen In Your Life

Otherwise cast your vote to restore this democracy back to the people, VOTE anything but repug.

Pentinence, they owe it, years of it.

2006-11-05T19:47:00.000-05:00

The real problem with all the neo-con revision, like the Vanity Fair article that is going on at this point, is not the fact that they were wrong. We always knew that.

In fact tens of millions of people knew in 2003 before the war, the neo-cons just would not listen. The real problem is that they are trying to resurrect their reputations, for next time.

Well if they really want to resurrect their reputations, I would suggest they start with all the DEAD. Try explaining how their asking forgiveness for their mistake is justified with all those humans who no longer walk among us. Then explain to the tens of thousands who still do, but horribly wounded, maimed and disfigured will carry their scars and nightmares for the rest of their lives. How do they expect to just say they had an intellectual brainfart, and expect to WALK away from the inferno on earth they created?

It does give a small amount of satisfaction that they can admit they did not have it right, but with all the death and destruction they wrought with their arrogance and dishonesty, they need to DO much more than say they were mistaken to have trusted Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. After all their devious work behind the scene to fix the Intel and stifle the opposition enabled the very people they now decry for failing. They never saw the inept planning or delusional expectations in 2003? They never considered the Iraqi’s would not act on script, but might have other ideas once the balloon went up. They never considered what could happen if their plans went a little wrong let alone A LOT WRONG.

They need to find some way to undo the damage they have done. To this country, it's military, people and budget. Undo the damage they have wrought in the Middle East, and its people. Undo the damage so many families in Iraq, Lebanon, and the USA will carry for the rest of their lives.

The rest of humanity will move on after the war is over but to the families who lost a loved one the war is NEVER over. To most of us it will be a very bad memory of a time when a child pretending to be an adult was used by some very greedy and arrogant people to try and grab a nation for their benefit. But to those who will have to live with the loss of their loved ones it will become an empty hole which can NEVER get filled. Children with out a parent, wives and husbands left alone, parents who bury a child far too soon.

No Mr. Perle, ET Al you should not get off as easy as you try with your revisionist history in Vanity Fair, crimes of the soul DEMAND penitence, and you all have a lot of penitence to do.

The VFW hates the veterans but loves...

2006-11-05T11:15:00.000-05:00

...THOSE WHO NEVER SERVED IN OUR MILITARY.

Well, well, well. This is a very interesting flip flop by the Veteran's for Foreign Wars, now isn't it? They decided to endorse the republican candidate who never served in our military over the FEMALE democratic candidate who lost BOTH OF HER LEGS over in Iraq:

The endorsement of GOP state Sen. Peter Roskam over Tammy Duckworth angered some Illinois veterans, as well as national figures such as former Sen. Bob Kerrey, a veteran who lost a leg in Vietnam.

"They should be ashamed of themselves," he said. "They have some explaining to do to their members."

Duckworth is a former Black Hawk helicopter pilot with the Army who lost her legs when her aircraft was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.
Shame on the VFW! It makes me so flipping angry that I could spit. I don't know about you but I've had it with the world under the Bush Pigs. They chant:

WAR IS PEACE,

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY,

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

They chant it without even blinking too. Everything is the opposite under Bush's World. I hate his world and it would be in the best interest of Americans to:

VOTE THE BASTARDS OUT ON TUESDAY!!!!

Saddam Hussein has been sentenced

2006-11-05T07:26:00.000-05:00

He's been sentenced to death by hanging for killing 143 people. This is good news for America, because George "Wiretapping Americans since February 2001" Bush has murdered over 600,000 Iraqis and close to 3000 American soldiers all for an illegal and immoral occupation of the soveriegn nation of Iraq!! When will Georgie's war crime trial begin?

It will be interesting to see how the Bush Pigs will use Hussein's sentencing for the next couple of days before the mid-term election. So far, Bush has not come out to make a comment about it, which I find kind of interesting, since he came out of the White House a year or two ago in an instant when the Lebonese ex-Prime Minister Hariri was assassinated. Yup, he came out to say that America was not behind this killing and Syria committed it. Huh. No comment yet on the sentencing of the guy whose country he illegally invaded and demolished!!! Interesting...

Americans understand that the Bush Pigs have been lying to us for years now and will go to the polls to reflect our disdain and our embarrassment for what they've done. Hanging Saddam Hussein is only going to rally Bush's base. His base has no problem with torturing other human beings and they don't care if a young girl is raped and then murdered by our soldiers. They will love to see a person hanging no matter who it is.

Let's hope the democrats take back the House and Senate on Tuesday, so the REAL trials can begin.

ENJOY.

2006-11-04T20:16:00.000-05:00

This is a fitting image of what Karma has wrought upon the hypocrites in power.

ENJOY

And how much we OWE them to dig them out of the manure pile they have fallen into finally.

They should have to lie in the manure for a few years so hopefully they will remember that HUBRIS does have a price. Even if they do not think they have to pay it, in the end we all pay for it.

Karma will make sure we do.

It is the Veteran, not the neo-con....

2006-11-04T19:14:00.000-05:00

It is the Veteran, NOT the preacher,
who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the Veteran, NOT the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the Veteran, NOT the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the Veteran, NOT the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble.

It is the Veteran, NOT the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the Veteran, NOT the politician,
who has given us the right to vote.

It is the Veteran, who salutes the flag.

It is the Veteran, who serves under the flag.

Too bad repugs show such disdain for veterans........

Bush can't LIE about the "gay prostitute" seeking preacher

2006-11-03T19:10:00.000-05:00

MSNBC had the image and the repugs couldn't rewrite history ala 1984, after another reichwingnut was outed for being the hypocrite he is. Like they did when Kenny Lay was outed for being the criminal he was. Or when Jack Abramoff had to admit he was a crook that would have made Nixon jealous.

Bush could claim he didn't know the other two, but Bush knows him, proly in many ways.

Interesting track record for Bush's friends who slip, Bush forgets them in one day. I wonder if the preacher is enjoying the christian love of Bush, now that they have nothing to offer each other.

Karma just keeps giving this year, and the repugs seem to be in her sights.

SWEET

Bush Pigs post nuclear secrets on government website

2006-11-03T07:35:00.000-05:00

Well, of course they did! This is an administration who is hell bent on destroying our country so why wouldn't they post how to make an atomic bomb on their website right before the November 7th election?!! They refuse to take the documents down too. Bastards.

The way I see it this move on their part is a strong indication that the Bush Regime are the real terrorists in our country (thought that for years but this is my final proof!). They're the enemy combatants who need to be rounded up and imprisoned for aiding the terrorists and giving them material information!!!! Did Iran read the website? How bout North Korea? Or did the Bush family's personal death squad, al-Qaida, read this to continue to terrorize America to benefit the Bush family and their minions by disrupting world markets and by getting what they want? Who knows!!!

Remember what John Kerry said recently? No? Well, me neither! This story is huge and it disgusts me that the Bush Pigs have been running around the country talking about John Kerry's comment all the while ignoring the fact that they have posted (just in the last few weeks....the other documents on there have been on there since the beginning of this year) these nuclear secrets!!!!

Traitors to America they are!!!!

(The story from the New York Times is posted in the title above. Please forward it to everyone you know!)

Is Martial Law coming?

2006-11-01T21:11:00.000-05:00

Oh for the love of the Banana Cupcakes:

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
by repost Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006 at 2:39 AM

In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions.

Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."

President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America. Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is "martial law."

Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law" states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy."

For the current President, "enforcement of the laws to restore public order" means to commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local governmental, military and local police entities; ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law enforcement mode; and set them loose against "disorderly" citizenry - protesters, possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event.

The most important election of our lifetime is coming up in less than a week, so will this madman create a situation which will put our nation in peril so he can declare a national emergency to enforce Martial Law and the elections won't happen?

Read the rest of the article here.

Hat Tip to Acorn's Blog for finding this story. :-)

Quote of the day...

2006-11-01T07:54:00.000-05:00

"I'm sick and tired of a bunch of despicable Republicans who will not debate real policy, who won't take responsibility for their own mistakes, standing up and trying to make other people the butt of those mistakes. It disgusts me that a bunch of these Republican hacks who've never worn the uniform of our country are willing to lie about those who did." ~Sen. John Kerry 10/31/06

A modest proposal......

2006-11-01T06:35:00.000-05:00

We progressives will ask the democratic party and all John Kerry's speechwriters to forbid John Kerry from making any JOKES,....to keep you assclowns from dishonestly saying Kerry SLANDERED the troops.

If You repug chicken hawks and reichwingnutjobs will ask the GOP and the Idiot' and Dead Eye's speechwriters from getting them and their minions from LYING about going into a WAR, and then Lying about the course of the WAR, to keep those same troops from getting KILLED..

Simple, we will stop Kerry from bad Jokes which you say are SLANDERING the troops, if you will stop the Idiot and dead Eye from Lying about a WAR which is Killing the same troops, OK?

NO JOKES, NO lies about SLANDER, for NO LIES about WAR no DEAD SOLDIERS, to me that is a good bargain.

You assclowns wouldn't have to get your panties in a bunch obver a bad joke, and we progressives would stop seeing the daily slaughter of the troops that you cry about their feelings.

BTW I'm pretty sure the troops and their parents would prefer the BAD jokes which you claim is slander to the lies which are leading to their DEATHS.......... but then again I value Human Life over money and power.

101 US Soldiers are dead this month and one mother still weeps

2006-10-30T20:01:00.000-05:00

One hundred and one soldiers have been killed this month in Iraq. That number may not seem like a lot to those who support this war, but for myself and others the number signifies a tragedy.

When one soldier dies, a whole community mourns and will so for years to come.

Today I met an extraordinary elderly woman in her early 80’s. She is the sister of one of my housecleaning customers who is 70 and is currently fighting a terminal disease (scholeraderma…in her case her lungs are hardening). My customer was not there because she went to the hospital last night because she had stopped breathing. Betty came by the house to do a load of laundry and to make dinner for her sister’s husband for when he gets home.

It wasn’t too long until her and I started up a conversation. She told me she’s going to miss her sister when she dies (she has less than 6 weeks to live and this is why I’ve been called in to help too) and was concerned for Mary’s husband who is not well himself. I asked her if her husband was alive and she suddenly got very quiet. I felt kind of uncomfortable because I thought that maybe I had asked something too personal after only knowing her for an hour.

She said, “My husband died in the Vietnam war”. After a few seconds of pause, I gave her my condolences and she said, “Everytime I turn on the news today and I hear that a soldier has died in this rotten, stinking Iraq war, I cry for the mothers and the families who have to deal with this type of loss. A death from war is not the same as a death in a car accident. Our children are not in our country when they die and they die without their family near them.”

Betty, whom I had only known for an hour at least, and I cried together this afternoon. She’s right when she says that having a loved one die in a war, even when the family knows it is a possibility, is a tragedy and it’s a tragedy that continues for a lifetime for the family affected.

Betty still longs for her husband and I could see it in her eyes. I asked her how her husband had died. She said he was on an aircraft that had just loaded up with bombs and had just taken off to drop bombs on a village when a huge gust of wind tore the plane apart (apparently the planes back then were made cheaply because they went through so many during the Vietnam war) and it crashed. Betty’s husband and the others who were on that flight did not survive. What still haunts Betty today is that there were no remains of her husband to be buried. She misses him terribly and has spent the last 38 years single and plans to remain that way until she dies.

So, one hundred and one deaths in the month of October 2006 is a huge number to those of us who don’t understand what noble cause the Iraq war is being fought for and those of us who don’t understand what war is good for.

Being with Betty today made me realize that there are thousands of people in our country connected to these soldiers who have sacrificed and they are going through exactly what Betty has gone through all these years. She understands their pain and now so do I.

Bush's Marvelous War

2006-10-30T17:48:00.000-05:00

Iraq:

33 Iraqi's were killed in Baghdad today in yet another blast, which on a daily basis kills dozens of innocent lives.

80 Iraqi's were killed nationwide in what has come to be a part of daily life as Iraqi's watch the "liberators" further invade their country.

103 U.S soldiers have been killed during the month of October in Iraq, in what has turned out to be one of the bloodiest months since Bush's invasion.

There have been a "reported" 2,814 U.S. soldiers have been killed since Bush invaded Iraq.

It has been reported that nearly 750,000 Iraqi's have been seriously injured since Bush's invasion.

The Dept of defense claims 20,687 U.S. military have been wounded and since Bush's invasion.

The reported Non Mortal casualties for U.S. personnel totals 44,779 according to the Dept. of Defense.

Keep in mind the U.S. government normally underreports deaths and amount of people wounded so their war won't appear so bad.

George W Bush claims in nearly every speech that the U.S is winning the Iraq war and the "War on Terror".

As the civil war in Iraq widens, as the death toll on Iraqi's grow, and as U.S soldiers deaths continue to increase, the evidence becomes more and more clear.

Bush's marvelous war is marvelous only for the Bush elite.

George Bush: "Democrats are lacking a plan for Iraq"

2006-10-30T16:25:00.000-05:00

Is this man freaking insane!!!?!!!! The democrats are the ones lacking the plan? Oh for the love of the Banana Muffins, it is his party who is in control of all levels of our government right now and it is he who COMMANDS THE FREAKING MILITARY. It is he who needs to come up with a freaking plan!

What is the republican plan? Well, for the longest time (since 2003) we've heard Bush and his Minions say "stay the course!". This has been their plan for years. The American people have asked these assholes what is the course that we must stay on, but as usual, all we've gotten from them is crickets chirping. To put it bluntly, the assholes in the republican party have no idea what their plan is but because they're calling it a plan (or a course of action)...so therefore, it must be alright and must make sense!

"Stay the course"...means what? It means to continue in the same direction. Quite frankly, what I'm seeing and reading about Iraq tells me that the course of action for the past 3 years has been:

1) To use our soldiers to protect American interests only and not the Iraqis

2) To allow our munitions to be stolen from our soldiers leaving them vulnerable

3) To not give our soldiers the stuff they need

4) To create a confusing democracy by having elections that consist of 300 political parties and 3000 candidates for the voters to choose from

5) To give the Iraqi voters purple fingers and then have the USA change the Iraqi leaders any day they damn well please that the Iraqi people elected

6) To allow the pilfering of our treasury and to not investigate the missing BILLIONS in Iraq

7) To do what they said they would never do: Nation building

8) The Construction of US military bases/Embassy which will upset the terrorists even more than they were on 9/10/01

9) Over 2800 US soldier deaths, over 20,000 US casualties, and over 600,000 Iraqis dead

10) AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT WHO IS AN ABSOLUTE IMBECILE!!!!

This is the wrong course and to stay on this course will continue to be disastorous for us, for the Iraqi people, and for our nation's reputation that has already pretty much desinigrated.

The republicans are the ones who wanted this war and they are the ones who need to come up with ANOTHER FREAKING PLAN OR COURSE!!!

Jees.

Enjoy, Rush certainly is..........

2006-10-29T22:50:00.000-05:00

Only a repugnant hypocrite LIKE Rush Limpman could become famous, for stunts like, attacking a man for using medication to control a disease.

After all Rush has NO real disease, but he takes copious amounts of medication, and since he is faking it, he automatically thinks everyone else is.

Hopefully Karma will find a "fitting"way to reward the fat, limp, gutless, waste of human protoplasm. But one look at him she certainly has worked real hard at it.

Another Foley Scandal?

2006-10-29T12:37:00.000-05:00

On the Chris Matthews weekend show, NBC News Correspondent Chip Reed said the Mark Foley scandal will widen.

Reed said the House Ethics Investigation will broaden which indicates there are many more key players involved than first reported.

The revealing fact is no report will surface until after the November elections.

Will the Republican controlled Ethics Committee wait until after the elections to say all is well, or will they do their job and bring their fellow GOP mates down?

By looking at past events, isn't it beneficial to the Republicans to claim they are widening the investigation until election season is over?

Ewwwwwwww......Pig Rabies

2006-10-28T06:40:00.000-05:00

Check out this photo on AMERICAblog!

2006-10-27T20:58:00.000-05:00

IT'S FREAKING HYSTERICAL!!!! I THINK THIS CARTOON PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT UP FOR THIS PRESIDENT. IRAQ IS A FREAKING MESS.

"Death of a President" opens today

2006-10-27T20:26:00.000-05:00

The movie, "Death of a President", opens today in select theaters across the country. This movie is very, very contraversial because it shows the assassination (the killing of....not wounded like some theater goers thought would be the case) of a sitting president........George W. Bush. Now, we can all chuckle about this because over the past six years we've all thought about how wonderful it would be for this man to not be around any more, but in reality, there are consequences in that. The biggest one being that Dick Cheney would then become president and we all know that this man has been instrumental in the policy making of the Bush Regime and almost all of this man's ideologies have been formed over the last 30 years (his membership of the Project of the New American Century along with Rumsfeld has devoured America). He's a scarier man than the Lunkhead Bush for sure!

So, even though many neocon Bush Appeasers across the nation are denouncing this movie, I think it's really thought provoking and should be watched by everyone. Actually, I don't see what all the fuss is about considering my eyes have had to witness THE REAL ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY for years on my television! This is a fictional account and a "what if?" kind of movie. I've read a few articles where people were silent after the assassination in the movie and were silent for the rest of it too. I think that speaks volumes. As much as we don't like Bush, we certainly don't want to see the man be gunned down. As a nation, we've seen it for real and it is painful. We would much rather have him resign or be impeached. Assassination? No.

I'm so happy to find out that it's playing here in Maine at a theater in Westbrook and will definately be going to see it. Once I do, I will write about it.

Here is the official website for the film.

Here are the list of theaters featuring this film across the country.

This man says he does "The Google"....

2006-10-27T19:34:00.000-05:00

...but really, we all know he is what he is. He's an idiot. The man's cheese fell off his cracker years ago. He's finished. There isn't a day that goes by that Americans aren't scratching their heads and saying, "Why! Where did we go wrong as a nation to think that this imbecile would be perfect for the highest level in our government? WTF?!?".

Spit.

Will the freaking propaganda ever end with these fascist Pigs?!!!

2006-10-27T18:34:00.000-05:00

Is Dick Cheney insane or does he just have his minions keep catapulting the propaganda for him, so no one will notice that he's a lying, deceitful, fascist Pig? I'm thinking both people! He is a freak of a man!

Yesterday on Randi Rhodes program on Air America Radio she played an audio of Dick Cheney on an obscure radio station in Fargo, North Dakota saying that he thinks waterboarding is a 'no brainer'. When I first heard it, I was livid because all this time the Dick and the Lunkhead have said that they don't torture and waterboarding is not their cup of tea. Well, during WWII our soldiers who were captured by the Japanese were waterboarded and Americans didn't like the idea of it back then. In fact, it's been a technique that we shouldn't be using for this reason alone! Why? Because one of our soldiers could be captured and could be waterboarded and if we, Americans (actually, I should say our 'leaders'), are using this kind of torture, then we are giving our enemies the okay to do the same! Apparently, this is okay now and the Dick is for it. Blasphemy!!!!!

Oh the progaganda too!

Today, Tony Snow was asked quite a few times about Cheney's comments about waterboarding and he started systematically denying that Cheney was referring to waterboarding when he said, "a no brainer". Oh for the love of the Banana Muffins! Americans have heard the tape. Americans have immediately understood that that is EXACTLY what the fucker meant. Americans are NOW disgusted that the Vice President of the United States is having the White House spokesperson now say that he didn't say what Americans thought he said!!!!

(Would someone please give me a bunny rabbit so I could pull it's ears off! This is how pissed off I am!!! Spit.)

Oh, and it gets better. Not only is the Dick catapulting the propaganda by denying infering something when the evidence is plain to all who listen to the audio, but ole Dick's wife Lynne.......is also catapulting her own form of propaganda BY DENYING THAT HER BOOK "SISTERS" DOES NOT INCLUDE LESBIAN LOVE SCENES, BROTHELS, AND ATTEMPTED RAPE! What the fuck is wrong with these assholes in the Cheney family? Are they all just fucking insane or do they really believe that MOST Americans are too stupid to realize that they're being lied to and deceive by fascist Pigs hell bent on destroying our nation by flushing everything down the Orwellian Memory Hole?

Well, this American is not fooled and if I had the chance I would spit in the face of the Dick and the Lynn. They deserve it. We're tired of their bullshit.

As you know.......VOTE FOR CHANGE IN NOVEMBER.....even if the race looks like a landslide in the democrats favor! We can't allow these assholes to continue the lies, the deceits, and all their propaganda to enter our homes anymore!!!

Who Knew WONKETTE was a danger to the Marine Corps?

2006-10-27T04:56:00.000-05:00

They are fighting for freedom, but get NONE that is not approved by

=====BIG BROTHER=====

STOP ABUSING OUR MARINES!

We realize that when it comes to freedom of the press, the USA has fallen to Number 53 in the world — tied with our fascist homies in Croatia and the islanders of the Kingdom of Tonga! — but do we have to make is so damned obvious?
Another Marine stationed in Iraq has sent us a screenshot of what happens when you need some hot news on Macaca and Foley:

forbidden, this page (http://www.wonkette.com) is categorized as (Personal Pages) ALL SITES YOU VISIT ARE LOGGED AND FILED.

Nice little threat at the end, too. Asswipes.

Notice the other browser tabs. Two actual “personal pages” that rah-rah for Bush (What’s her name, the wannabe Coulter, and Hugh Hewitt) show up just fine, as our Marine Operative confirms. But “Talking Points Memo,” which is apparently one of the “left leaning” sites one hears so much about these days, is prohibited.

Writes the Corporal: “I think that this kind of censoring is a big deal. I can understand blocking porn, music and movies, and blatantly illegal sites, but blocking sites that some higher up just doesn’t agree with is disgusting. They are blocking a huge portion of voters from information that will help them determine which side to vote for. Because of this, the only news we get is from the big corporations or conservative based sites.”

Can we all say CENSORSHIP,

POLITICALLY BIASED CENSORSHIP.

BTW this is not a good way to tell the Marines they really HAVE the freedoms they are supposedly fighting for.

But then again the war is about spreading FEAR not freedom, and getting the rights to control the OIL.

Why can't the Marines just accept Georgie and Gen Peter pace really know what's best for them, and accept limits on freedom that would make Stalin smile.

At least NOW we know the error of our ways.

2006-10-26T10:41:00.000-05:00

Why be competent when deceit, dishonesty, fraud, bribery, kick backs, smear campaigns, lies, and Lots and Lots of campaign donations will win almost every time. The sheeple eat it up, and turn on American Idol, or the latest chapter of pretty, dumb, blond and missing . And they can refinance their house to gamble in Las Vegas, or suntan in Florida for a couple of weeks while digging the debt hole that much deeper.

The neo-cons had no more an intention of bringing "democracy" to Iraq than the Nazi's had bringing it to Poland. They had to sell a war to people who ask for facts in 30 second sound bites, and fear sells like nothing else. So they lined up the "reasons" for the war and have spewed them out. One lie at a time, until even the Kool-aid swilling fooles could no longer accept it with a straight face, then just switch to the next lie. No explanation necessary, because the latest lie is the only relevant lie as far as their justification of the war is concerned. The previous lie that is discarded is inoperative, and bringing it up is simply being unpatriotic. We are at the point when the lies have failed to cover up the stench of the fiasco the neo-cons have wrought upon us.

NOW they have the Gall to ask what the progressives, who screamed at the top of their lung NOT to go, what we would do with the abortion of a country they made Iraq into. It is not what went wrong that haunts them, but the fact that with their voter suppression and Diebold machines, and wiz bang GOTV campaigns it might not be enough this time. So they attempt to spread the blame to all of us because WE have no plan to fix what they broke even if we tried to tell then NOT to. That is NO plan, and therefore we are at fault for not pulling their assess out of the fire.

Drowning people, destroyed cities in both Iraq and America, body bags, and piles of Iraqi torture victims at the Baghdad morgue do not slow them down. Tens of thousands of innocent people swept up for nothing more than being in the wrong skin at the wrong time, is the price they indigenous population is expected to pay for the "freedom" they got. Freedoms like being tortured at Abu Ghraib, and having their homes raided, and getting shot at checkpoints because they were never raised to speak English. It is collateral damage for the plan, the PNAC plan to control the oil market and middle east for another generation. We who were not anointed by GOD are supposed to sit down and shut up, because we obviously have NO right to challenge them in their mission, which it seems was NOT ACCOMPLISHED after all.

But that is a small detail that the rightwingnut talking heads can pass of as the fault of those who impeded them from achieving the righteous plans of dear leader. Remember it really is all our fault we did not fight harder for their illegal plans. We did not give up enough freedoms and sacrificed the lives of those they send into harms way silently enough(except for the photo ops of memorial day and veterans day). The troops are supposed to fight the war, and show up for the patriotic campaign backdrop images. Those who care for them should be grateful that the troops were given the chance to serve dear leader.

It is really all our fault we are not grateful enough, not for what they stole, No we are not grateful enough for what they have not stolen yet, and we still have. We are at fault because we dare to question them, and demand a resemblance to the reality we see, NOT the spin they claim it is. We complicate their plans because we will NOT rubber stamp them like their sycophantic minions in congress have for the last four years have done. And we expect results that include more than an increase of their bottom line, and an ever rising stock market.

Silly us, we thought the country was about all of us, which included truth, justice, honor, and a shared responsibility. At least NOW we know the error of our ways.

US soldiers can write a letter now...

2006-10-26T06:50:00.000-05:00

...to their representatives here at home to express their displeasure with the Iraq occupation. Hopefully if enough letters are written by our off-duty soldiers or by soldiers who are now home from Iraq, the Congress will freakin listen!!

Here's an article on it:

U.S. troops speak against Iraq war

Service members use protection under whistle-blower laws to encourage Congress to pull American forces out of Iraq.
BY STEPHANIE HEINATZ

October 26, 2006
More than 200 active-duty service members are publicly asking their congressional representatives to end the occupation of Iraq and promptly bring American troops home.

Their action marks the first time since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 that men and women still in uniform have publicly and collectively spoken out against operations there.

They are doing so under the Military Whistle-Blower Protection Act, which says active duty, National Guard and Reserve forces can communicate with their legislators without fear of reprisal.

In a conference call Wednesday with reporters, three of the troops involved in the effort pointed out that they are doing this off-duty, out of uniform and in no way as representatives of the military.

"While we do serve our country, we feel this occupation should come to an end," said Jonathan Hutto, a Navy seaman stationed in Norfolk.

If sent to Iraq tomorrow, Hutto said, he wouldn't disobey an order.

"We're not pacifists. We are not conscientious objectors. We are not encouraging anything illegal," Hutto said. They're just encouraging any service member who feels the same way to go to www.appealforredress.org.

"The way the Web page is set up is the service member sends a letter directly to their Congress member," said J.E. McNeil, an attorney advising the effort and the executive director for the Washington-based Center on Conscience & War, a group that helps protect the rights of conscientious objectors.

The service members submit their name, rank, duty station and home ZIP code. An electronic letter - stating that "staying in Iraq will not work and is not worth the price" - is then sent to their representative.

"When men and women join the military and put on the uniform they don't give up their rights as U.S. citizens," McNeil said. "Participating as fully as possible in their government, that's what these men and women are doing."

The grass-roots effort began early this year with Hutto as one of the organizers.

Hutto hasn't been reprimanded, but Navy public affairs officers did give him guidance so that he didn't violate the U.S. Code of Military Justice, a Pentagon official said.

"The idea ... originated when I was deployed off the coast of Iraq," Hutto said of his deployment with the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier.

An old professor had sent him a copy of "Soldiers in Revolt," David Cortright's book documenting the U.S. soldiers who opposed the Vietnam War.

"By 1971," Hutto said, "more than 250,000 of these active-duty service people appealed to Congress" advocating an end to that war.

Hutto and Liam Madden, a Marine Corps sergeant from Vermont, then brought Cortright to Norfolk to talk about the Vietnam-era G.I. movement.

"Why do I support this appeal for redress?" Madden said. "It's as simple as I oppose the war in Iraq. I feel it is my duty, not as a Marine, but as an informed citizen, to inform people there is a tool for them.

"The occupation is perpetuating more violence," Madden added. "It's costing way too many human, Iraqi civilian and American service members' lives."

As of Wednesday morning, nearly 2,800 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq, with more than 20,000 wounded, according to the Defense Department.

Kathleen Duignan, executive director of the National Institute of Military Justice, said uniformed service members can express their views on personal time using personal resources.

Duignan, also an attorney, spent six years in the military as a judge advocate general. Her institute is a Washington-based nonprofit that aims to help the public better understand the intricacies of military justice.

"Everybody who wears the uniform is entitled to be equal members in the political process," she said. "You just have to be careful when and how you do it."

If you're a soldier or you have a soldier in your life who is against the Iraq occupation, please have him or her visit the Appeal for Redress website to submit their letter. I've linked to it on the sidebar as well.

We want our soldiers home. Our presense in Iraq is only making things worse over there and the soldiers know it. How wonderful it is that some of our soldiers are using THEIR RIGHTS to speak out against this atrocious occupation. So, the next time you hear Bush saying that our soldiers are over there fighting for our rights, we must remind him that our soldiers have rights too and MUST NOT BE PUNISHED FOR USING THEM!!!!!!!!!!!

One face of the Republican Party

2006-10-25T20:02:00.000-05:00

This picture is REAL, it is on Larry Johnson's Blog No Quarter.

It is the perfect description of one of the themes the RNC is using in adds against African American Democratic candidates.

It is what the Repugs have quietly said to a particular branch of their party and this picture is PROOF that, that message works.

Bob Corker and the NRC has incited these people one more time in the hopes of pulling out another close election.

Republicans Election Idea

2006-10-25T13:55:00.000-05:00

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has told his Republican cronies to not mention Iraq during their campaign.

Frist says get voters to focus on pocketbook issues and their minds away from Iraq and they will win.

Frist told his Republican candidates to focus on tax cuts and lower gas prices and the public will forget about Iraq.

Frist says tax cuts mean more to Americans than the Iraq war.

Do the Republican leaders think that the American public, would rather have a $200 tax cut than US soldiers to be safe from harm?

Do the Republican leaders really think the public sits at home every evening looking through their TV channels for something about a tax cut, instead of the Iraq war?

Do Republican leaders think the American public is so narrow-minded that election eve gas prices will make them forget why the gas prices are so high to begin with?

Does the Republican leadership think the American public is blind to the thousands being killed in Iraq because of lies?

This is the real feelings of Republicans. They think Americans are so shallow that they care nothing for their military dead and wounded.

This is the Republican's America. May they fall by their own words.

More voter fraud.....ahhh....but different!

2006-10-25T07:40:00.000-05:00

Will it ever end? Will there ever be a time in our country when Americans can go and vote and won't feel like Big Brother and his Minions are actively working to take our votes away to keep themselves in power? Jees!

Some voting machines are cutting off the last name of the voter on the summary page (shocked to hear that there was a summary page on these freaking machines!) and even candidates like James Webb has a last name that is too long for this page. Spit. Who wants to bet that internally in these computerized voting machines it "throws away" any ballot with a last name longer than 3 letters! Okay, maybe not but it just seems weird that the summary page is half-assed.

Choices..choices

2006-10-25T04:34:00.000-05:00

This election cycle if it was not;

IT IS THE WAR STUPID

it would be:

IT IS THE ECONOMY STUPID

all over again.

Bush has out done his "daddy" in another way, he has given democrats TWO GOOD reasons to run against his policies on.

The National security of the country and the fiscal security of the people.

Your doing a heck of a JOB , Georgie...

Can we fire the Idiot NOW?

At least we can fire some of his enabling sycophantic minions come Nov 7th.

Wow! A GOPer is demanding...

2006-10-24T15:03:00.001-05:00

...that Congress investigate the anthrax attacks from 2001! Finally. Of course, I could be celebrating a little too early, because once the FBI is pressured and the facts become known of who was behind these attacks, the investigation will come to a screaming halt. Why? I believe the anthrax attacks after 9/11/01 were perpetrated by individuals in our own government who were (and still are!) right wing loyalists to George W. Bush and his cause. The anthrax laced letters were not sent TO ONE REPUBLICAN, but were sent to Washington democrats and to those in the media who are liberal leaning.

Who are the only people in our country who hate and despise the democrats and the media (and who think the media is liberal biased)? The republicans!! Right after 9/11, the Pigs in the White House needed to continue the fear and needed to give another image to their base that the reason why we were attacked was because of the gays, democrats, and other liberal leaning thinking! I believe they were behind the attack and I'm not sure GOPer Grassley is going to like that when he finds out.

One thing I never understood.....how the hell did an Arab living in a cave in the Middle East (you know, the people who were blamed for the 9/11 attack) know the address of one of our Senators, his address, and knew all the democratic/liberal leaning media personalities to send these anthrax laced envelopes! Huh? Oh, that's right. Bush Loyalists sent the anthrax from our own military. The End.

(article linked above in the title of this post)

The press conference we would all watch.

2006-10-23T21:44:00.000-05:00

It will never happen, but the fact that only Dumsfeld and his minions think the cartoon is offensive and untrue, NOT the majority of the American people is tellimg.

Ronald McDumsfeld has surpassed Robert McNamara as the most out of touch and most dangeroug secretary of Defense. His hubris is astounding, but what I really wonder is what is Dummy Donny gonna do? Paul Wolfowitz has grabbed the Office McNamara went to, so is Dumsfeld gonna pull a Johnson, retire back home grow his hair long and sulk about how badly history is treating him?

It would be fitting.

Georgie's Homesick....

2006-10-23T20:10:00.000-05:00

As they SAY, you can not make these quotes up;

Bush says he uses “the Google.”

Transcript:

HOST: I’m curious, have you ever googled anybody? Do you use Google?

BUSH: Occasionally. One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps. It’s very interesting to see — I’ve forgot the name of the program — but you get the satellite, and you can — like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes.

AAaaawwwwwww georgie's HOMESICK.

Too Freeking BAD;

Hell the IDIOT should google the word failure...and see what he really is.

Google FAILURE, #1 response;

President of the United States - George W. Bush

Bush is a failure just ask google

Google, "worst president ever";

response;

President of the United States - George W. Bush

Obviously google does "know" something, if it see's Bush as both a FAILURE and the worst president ever.

What will the Bush Library look like in the future?

2006-10-23T18:01:00.000-05:00

A Boston Globe writer weighs in:

The stout-hearted could take in a lifelike simulation of the torture chambers of Abu Ghraib. Viewers would exit via the blinking color-coded lights of the Hall of Fear, showing the innumerable efforts to keep the American electorate in a permanent state of anxiety. An educational exhibit would trace the falsification of intelligence linking Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda and to nuclear weapons, and the helpful role of credulous reporters.

The nearby Spin Gallery would feature journalists who temporarily thrived by serving as Bush's enablers. Judith Miller and Bob Woodward would each get a room. In the nearby Chamber of Echoes, viewers could trace administration talking points from press handouts to Fox News commentaries, editorials in the Wall Street Journal, and talk-radio scripts.

The Hall of Faith would depict the gift of tax-supported services to mega-church empires, and include videos of speeches by Bush's favorite televangelists, such as the Rev. Jerry Falwell calling the 9/11 attacks God's punishment for America's sinful ways. The parallel Hall of Science would display the handing over of science policy to deniers of global warming, religious opponents of stem-cell research and contraception, and sponsors of theological reinterpretations of Darwin.
The article linked above gives more detail and the author paints a very scary picture, but I bet in the future the current republicans will be working on that library like the Worker Bee's do for the Queen Bee! These republicans will diligently make sure that the Bush Queen Bee's needs are met, which will mostly consist of rewriting history to make him look good and won't contain not one thing mentioned in this article. Spit.

Armstrong Williams has cut a deal

2006-10-23T17:49:00.000-05:00

Well, of course Armstrong Williams has cut a deal. He was "Mr. Propanganda" a year or so ago on his radio talk show where he was promoting Bush policies ("No Child Left Behind")after receiving money to do so! Pig. Spit. Punch.

Of course, cutting a deal when it comes to a republican fascist Pig means to accept no responsibility, pretend like you have no idea what the prosecutors are talking about, but yet, pay a fine because you're a really nice guy who thinks all 'non-criminals' should do so. Yup, you heard it folks. Williams has admitted no wrong doing, but yet, has no problem paying $34,000 for a propaganda crime he didn't commit! Pig. Spit. Face kick.

I would have rathered seen the ass go to jail for at least a month so he could get the idea that it's illegal to accept tainted money to promote the Bush Regime's tainted freaking programs!!!

Because he didn't go to jail, I will therefore stick to my original plan in November by voting for ALL of the democrats that appear on the ballot. You should too if you're sick and tired of the fascist Pigs in the White House, the Congress, and their friends in radio (or living under a bridge).