Tell me he did not say opining!
That damn skippy hippy.
Now can you dig that, sucka?!

Australia Threatened
By US State Terrorism
Dr Gideon Polya
Melbourne, Victoria

After a 4 decade career as a scientist, I have almost finished researching and writing a huge book on global avoidable mortality. "State terrorism" has had massive complicity in global avoidable mortality (excess mortality) that now totals 1.3 billion since 1950. While "jihadist" and insurgent "non-state terrorists" have killed 5,000 Western civilians over the last 20 years, US state terrorism is complicit in a post-invasion avoidable mortality and under-5 infant mortality in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan now totalling 2.1 million and 1.7 million, respectively.

There is an appalling record of US state terrorism over the last half century and of US support for non-state terrorism in Africa (e.g. in civil wars), Asia (e.g. mujaheddin and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, US Al Qaeda support in the Balkans into the mid-1990s; US covert terrorism in Iraq) and Latin America (e.g. the US School of Americas trained 60,000 Latin American military and police personnel including torturers, dictators, death squads, state terrorists and non-state terrorists; US terrorist squads bombed churches in Ecuador; horrendous death squads, Contra rebels and other terrorism in Latin America).
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What kind of terrorism are you afraid of David. Osama in a cave with a cell phone? Or the real kind?

Perhaps bush can't distinguish background noise from cacophony.

Bill Frist is being investigated for insider trading; Harriet Miers is under attack from various quarters; Tom Delay is under indictment; bush's War of Choice is a disaster; and Fitzgerald's investigation extends to WH senior officials, perhaps even to Cheney -- and bush isn't distracted?

If he isn't distracted, it just shows he's crazy and/or in denial; or crazy and/or uninformed. Or all three.

You need to wake up from your delirium, and stop drinking the Liberal cool-aid. Are you really stupid enough to believe the MSM's made up ideas about Rove being indicted for a crime he did not commit. DeLay is being chased by an idiot in Texas. Come on... You Liberals surely can do better than this.

This war in Iraq is one of the most documented wars on record. The White House in its fervent effort to hide the truth about the actions of Halliburton and privatization has instead made the world hungry for the real story.

This White House entered into this war with lies. It uses private soldiers who are arrogant bullies. The military has been given the green light to use torture and then was left without leadership. There is so much fraud it can't be measured. We all know this because reporters, real journalists, have gone in and dug out the truth. You can't crush the truth President Bush. You can't ignore reality. You can't rewrite history.

Was Plame Outed
by a Foreign Spy?
The Larry Franklin-Plame connection
by Justin Raimondo

...Amid all the speculation about who outed Plame, and who was in a position to know what she was up to, it is odd that no one has mentioned the possibility of a foreign intelligence agency being involved. Yet this would explain the nature of the conspiracy that Fitzgerald is said to be pursuing, going far beyond a possible violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act –†and crossing the line into espionage.

Was Plame outed by agents of a foreign power? Given what we know, it's entirely possible. As to which country would be ruthless –†and motivated –†enough to do it, I hereby nominate "Foreign Nation A" as the most likely candidate.
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Guess who "Foreign Nation A" is. David, I am very curious as to why you haven't been following this more doggedly. I am no insider journalist, but I saw this coming months ago. Many blogs got it right immediately, just like they got the "no WMD's in Iraq" correct while the MSM was screaming for war. Who is protecting these people? Why is this info. so slow to come out?

Scott,
Shouldn't you be preparing for the White House briefing?

Jeanne, he's probably the one who buried the anti-UFO gadget under his house!

With friends like this who needs enemies?
Tom DeLay's lawyer is so lame.

DeLay's Lawyer Lies about Move On

"Tom DeLay’≥ attorney, Dick DeGuerin, claims that the judge presiding over DeLay’≥ criminal case in Texas, Bob Perkins, should be disqualified. A central part of his claim is that an organization that Perkins has donated to in the past, MoveOn, is selling t-shirts with Tom DeLay’≥ mug shot..."

Mr. David Corn,

The issue is not limited to LNG trucks. We have every port, every train and every truck that carries volatile, flammable, or even just potential contaminates that need our close attention.

I thought the Homeland Security Department was suppose to address this vulnerability but I guess I had set my sights too high for the capabilities of this administration. We need a real plan for security but are given instructions to buy duct tape and plastic sheeting.

Thanks again for all of your work.

Kirk

Capt, Homeland Security, like all other bushco applied labels, means the exact opposite of what the label implies. In this case, "Homeland FEAR and INSECURITY!"

Check out this article from Harpers, they hit the nail smack on the head.

Harper's Magazine: We Now Live in a Fascist State

To help prepare you for what follows, here are the final sentence from this piece.... [I think we can look forward with confidence to character-building bankruptcies, picturesque bread riots, thrilling cavalcades of splendidly costumed motorcycle police.]

Death Watch at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

By DOUG THOMPSON
Oct 21, 2005, 08:12

For all practical purposes, governing the nation has stopped at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as aides deal with an increasingly despondent President, mounting scandals and defecting dissidents from the Ship of State.

White House insiders say George W. Bush’≥ mood swings have increased to the point where meetings with the President must be cancelled, schedules shifted and plans changed to keep a bitter, distracted leader from the public eye.

"He’≥ like a zombie some days, walking around in a trance," says one aide who, for obvious reasons, asks not to be identified. "Other times he launches into angry outbursts, cussing out anybody who gets near him."

Aides say gallows humor has descended on the White House, where the West Wing is now referred to as "death row" and Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, along with Vice Presidential Chief of Staff Scooter Libby, are known as "dead men walking," a reference to the last walk death row inmates take to the execution chamber.

With indictments expected against Libby or Rove or both any day now from the Valerie Plame scandal, the White House mood has a "Final Days" aura ("Final Days" was the title of Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’≥ book about the last days of the Nixon administration). Although no one expects President Bush to be impeached or resign, Internet blogs buzzed this week with talk of a possible resignation by Vice President Dick Cheney.

"The fa?ade is gone and we are now seeing the Bush White House in all its incompetent glory," says retired political science professor George Harleigh. "They’∂e ignored reality for too long."

*****end of clip*****

So some people are finally seeing the emperor has no clothes and never did. It is about time.

capt

Saladin,

#11 - Great article!

Thanks

capt

the Labor Department said that average weekly earnings, after adjusting for inflation, fell 1.2%. Market Watch notes that "Real average hourly earnings are down 2.4% in the past year, while real average weekly earnings are down 2.7%, the biggest drop in 14 years."
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And this at the same time that inflation is running at roughly 10%.
Another sign of a "booming" economy?

Another interesting factoid, according to Harper's Index, the portion of all U.S. foreign aid that goes to helping the recipients buy U.S.-produced weapons, equipment or services is 1/4.
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The better to spread democracy my dear!

http://tinyurl.com/7b9lh

Greetings old-timers and new . . .

With all the fun with Plame, I've hardly had a chance to enjoy Delay's mug shot . . .

Here in Scottsdale/Phoenix, there were a ridiculous amount of Bush/Cheney bumper stickers. There's no way for me to know, other than the hour and a half commuting time I spend on the roads, but it seems that there is a noticeable about of these bumper stickers disappearing. Very Christian of them . . . stabbing their leader in the back like that . . . kicking him when he's down . . . I need a tissue . . .

16 Yes, I've noticed the same phenomenon here around Charleston, South Carolina - used to be you couldn't turn your head without seeing one - now, not so much. Scott at #4 still has his on, though. Never give up the ship...

Greetings to all, friend and foe alike, from the fetid, stinking, steamy, malaria ridden swamps of South Carolina - ;)

From: Save the USA
Bush & Co are criminals looting America.
Congress is Complicit.

The #1 Most Buried Story: Halliburton pumping the oil that's not even metered.

Filed under: misc, Iraq, US Govt, media silenced, headline news.

No, it's not the Downing Street Memo, or the $9 Billion lost in Iraq, or the 52 warnings before 9/11 (info that was suppressed before the election, which should nullify the election.)
The #1 buried story is the fact that Halliburton has been pumping the oil in Iraq since 2003, and it hasn't been metered. This was revealed by the Inspector General's report on the missing $9 billion, and highlighted by Galloway's awesome testimony before the Senate this May.

Have a look at the oil that you didn't even meter, that you were shipping out of the country and selling, the proceeds of which went who knows where?

Gee, and oil prices have been at all time highs, coincidence?
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I have a couple theories about where all the oil is going.

From: Antiwar.com

Don't Play Innocent, Democrats
by Gary Ashbeck

Let us not forget the road's beginning, which is sometimes easy to do. The House passed Joint Resolution 114 authorizing the use of the United States armed forces against Iraq on Oct. 10, 2002, by a vote of 296-133 (note: 81 Democrats voted for authorization, six Republicans voted against). On Oct. 11, it passed the Senate by a vote of 77-23 (again: 28 Democrats voted to give authorization, one Republican against). It was signed by the president and became law on Oct. 16, 2002. To those who think Congress moves slowly, all of this transpired in two weeks. Three hundred seventy-three representatives, including 109 from the so-called opposition party, such as presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, sent our family members off to war.
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Excellent article. We should not give them any wiggle room. They are either for or against this illegal and immoral war. The time for excuses is over.

David asks, Is Bush in denial?

Once I thought Bush knew a lot of things that he wasn't telling us.

Then I thought Bush maybe didn't know much about what goes on in the White House other than what gets reported in the papers.

Now I believe Bush doesn't know as much about the White House as a reasonably well-informed person.

He doesn't read newspapers or watch the news. He only talks to a handful of people, and he doesn't mind when those people lie to him as long as they don't tell him anything he doesn't want to hear. He consistently rewards and punishes people based on how much they stroke his ego, without regard to their qualifications or honesty.

Denial? More like determined ignorance.

Is Bush in denial?
David-- Is that a question ???

...........

"Neck deep in the big muddy and the damn fool says
'Push On' "
...Pete Seeger

"The situation is urgent, therefore we must slow down"
...Buddhist Asanna

"The sky is falling, the sky is falling
Oh but it always was"
...unknown

Later,
th

Scott says to wake up from our delirium
What the MSM is reporting sure does bother'm
Maybe it's hitting a little too close to home
For the one he claims to be the "Idiot in Texas"
Is not the one that got them all into this Mess

Hi again, Mr. Corn , Kirk, plus the rest of you all. I am petition-guy, that is to say www.warisaracket.org and you will notice I quoted Billy Bragg next to my signature.
I am aware that THIRTY ONE months have been spent already, by the US military, on the ground in Iraq. One question for everyone here ( and everyone yet to be born ) D O YOU think that the conventional, traditional US military will EVER recover from the disaster that is
Commander-In-Chief B U S H ? I think not.

Timothy, I think we are doomed, mainly because our so-called opposition party is up to their ears in guilt and deceit, they are as wretched as bushco in their complicity.

There once was a group known as WHIG
Whose goal was to start a war big,
They told lies and half-truths to Miller
A stenographer who scribed as their shiller.
So now what will Rove try to rig?

Saladin, you speak the truth. How many elderly wealthy candidates for the Presidency in ' 0 8 will we get to see ?
Please keep in mind that I have relatives, some younger than me, that were planning on living here in the USA for the immediate future. I would hope someone in Washington DC would take that to heart. Apparently not.

Take care, Timothy

The latest on Delay's lawyers is... he's filed, or is going to file, a change of venue out of Austin. Now, considering his group spent a bunch of money to flood certain areas with their bullshyt ads attacking Ronnie Earle... what's the chances of Delay's lawyers asking the case be moved to one of those areas? ya think?
It's been already mentioned the ads were to 'influence the jury pool', now all they gotta do is browbeat the judge until he steps aside. I'd sure like to see more fact-based reporting on this.

i'm moving

On cutting and running: friends from Baghdad are telling me that there is increasing sentiment not so much for the US to withdraw whatever security it provides, but instead, for the US to withdraw and to "just let it happen." It's like why delay the inevitable.

eggman:

Some suggest that bush is wilfully ignorant. He may be. Or, he may be just plain stupid. Or his brain is fried. He cannot remember what his handlers tell him from one day to the next. He can only speak in complete sentences when he has notes or a TelePrompter to aid him. He tells us frequently that he "fully understands" this or that -- then he makes no sense.

The only thing that bush "fully understands" is his regime's intention to realign the values of the rest of the world so they are more in line with "American values" (read: neo-con values). If bush has to do this through the barrel of a gun, well tough s**t. He's going to "unleash the force of freedom" to the rest of the world. His speechalist told him to say that and he fully understands that. Other than that, he doesn't know jacks**t.

Well, I don't suppose David C. has the ability to read all the nonsense we post here, but I did provide a link to Gen. Odom's piece a while back.

I am concerned with the attempt to raise the threat alarm about LNG by HSToday. If this is their sort of "science" in terms of describing potential events, then we all need to be more worried about those that are administering our programs than about the terrorists who might use such things as weapons. Combustible clouds that float over cities is certainly a nightmarish scenario, but a wee bit difficult for heavier than air gases don't you think. Likewise the suggestion that such an explosion would release "electromagnetic radiation" challenges the most commonly understood notions of physics. Are we talking about EMP forms, or nuclear type gamma particles?? What???

The dangers from LNG are much more significant, but not in terms of terrorist activities. The fuel itself requires enormous processing especially if it is the "wetter" or "heavier" version found in the US. Sites would need to be built in vast locations each requiring millions of gallons of water, preferably sea water, all of which may or may not be polluted, but will certainly be heated and thus damaging to the local ecosystems. The types of problems go on and on. We do a disservice to the public intellect when we report misleading and exaggerated threats, while overlooking the very real and very immediate ones. LNG is a very real threat; but long before it would be one because of terrorists.

I wanted to post this once more for those who may have missed it. There seems to be no bottom to the pit of evil these psychos are capable of.

Congress Set to Pass Law Eliminating Liability For Vaccine Injuries

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Vaccine Information
Center (NVIC) is calling the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug
Development Act of 2005"(S. 1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP
Committee one day after it was introduced "a drug company stockholder's dream
and a consumer's worst nightmare." The proposed legislation will strip
Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or
licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take whenever
federal health officials declare a public health emergency.
The legislation's architect, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Chairman of the
HELP Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness, told the
full HELP Committee yesterday that the legislation "creates a true
partnership" between the federal government, the pharmaceutical industry and
academia to walk the drug companies "through the Valley of Death" in bringing
a new vaccine or drug to market. Burr said it will give the Department of
Health and Human Services "additional authority and resources to partner with
the private sector to rapidly develop drugs and vaccines." The Burr bill gives
the Secretary of DHHS the sole authority to decide whether a manufacturer
violated laws mandating drug safety and bans citizens from challenging his
decision in the civil court system.
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More back stabbing from our dear leaders. Thanks congress, we know you have our best interests at heart. Now I suppose they just scream "pandemic" and everyone will be forced to get a shot, they could purposely infect us with the flu and there would be no recourse.

I just wanted to point out that there's a misnomer in your article today. Natural gas does not alter its mass due to a temperature change. Nothing can alter its own mass. If you have 20g of a gas, then at low temperatures, you'll still have 20g but it will be in liquid form.

#27 Alan --

I read that the Administrative judge (Republican) will decide if the current judge (Perkins?) has to step aside.

So does Dick DeGuerin practice "judge shopping" in his legal practice? Sure looks like it to me. I know the law permits "venue-shopping" and "forum-shopping" to some measure, but judge shopping should be verboten since eligible judges are picked randomly -- the luck of the draw, if you will.

Things in this country are getting mighty bad when legislators who craft laws try to manipulate the assignment of judges when THEY are on trial in hopes of getting a more favorable outcome.

Actually, the Republican Party in Washington State went "venue-shopping" when the Repug loser in the governor's race tried to overturn the election. They got a "favorite" conservative Republican judge in a rural county to hear their case -- and guess what? He did not rule in the Repugs' favor! The judge applied the rules of law.

Final Exam

Students, since you are my graduate students, I have upgraded the final exam. An earlier exam was for my undergraduate students. You have worked really hard these past four and one half years. You have seen our country go from a democracy to a Nazi/fascist government. OUR ELECTIONS ARE ELECTRONICALLY RIGGED WITH NO PAPER TRAIL. SHALOM AND THE COMMON GOOD HAVE RECEIVED THEIR DEATH NOTICES. In the process of change you have encountered more stress, nightmares, sickness, loss in wages, diseases, more contaminated waters, no health care, higher cost in drugs, more autism due to the increase in mercury exposure, outsourcing of jobs, more corporate corruption, higher costs in education, more lies, more wrong and immoral wars, a new god known as the bushgod, more porn from companies that contribute great amounts of money into the coffers of repugnants, more hatred, killing, torture, more crimes against humanity, and murders.

Your final exam will be only one question. How do you characterize and evaluate Bush and his Nazi/fascist regime?
a. corrupt
b. rotten
c. vile
d. scumbags
e. slime balls
f. demented
g. depraved
h. deranged
i. low life sludges
j. grubs
k. putrid stenches
l. definitely weasel like
m. decaying, smelling turds
n. broccoli farts
o. greedy
p. liars
q. warmongers
r. miserable
s. pathetic
t. worthless
u. clueless
v. useless
w. all of the above

Good luck with your exam and have a happy and safe vacation! With Bush’≥ temper tantrums increasing and his mind frying from over use of drugs this unstable low life may be signaling new wars to solidify his legacy as a murderer and a war criminal president. Being a war president Americans will be even less safe. After Iran will be North Korea and several thousand off range nuclear missiles aimed at China. These attacks will put the American people in such disarray that there will no longer be any elections and the Nazi regime is in full control.

Bush is
1. distracted
2. crazy
3. uninformed
4. a zombie
5. in a trance
6. all of the above

Can you imagine what Bush would be like now if the journalists did their job starting in 2001?

Do Americans really want to spread their values of murders and war crimes around the world?

America's Asian Empire

Some informative reading!

American Democracy Is Married to American Terrorism

The USA is the poster country for murders and war crimes.

There's a line in the movie Little Big Man, in which Dustin Hoffman remenisces, "I was a terrible liar". Meaning an habitual one.

I was too far into my young adulthood before it dawned on me just how much I hated admitting to error. I was never a practitioneer of the Big Lie, but when I felt my pride was on the line, I could bob and weave with the best of them. The joke was on me, of course. Admitting mistakes the easiest thing in the world to do, and also the most relaxing.

Some people never learn that simple life lesson. Bush has based an entire life on living, breathing, and, above all, thinking in terms of his own Big Lies. At this point, he is as incapable of uttering the simplest of truth about himself as a small child in an empty room where a lamp has just been broken.

Recent American Ads

The new ads have America recruiting for new immigrants as never before. GIVE US YOUR MURDERERS, YOUR TORTURERS, YOUR LIARS, YOUR CROOKS, YOUR PORN PRODUCERS AND YOU YOUR PORN STARS, YOUR LOW LIFES, YOUR SLIME BUCKETS, AND YOUR SCUM BAGS AND WE WILL MAKE WAR CRIMINALS OF THEM.

Americans are only cannon fodder for the American government.

Brothers and Sisters - Awake!

American Soldiers

2,234 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for Bush’≥ evil lies.

America is ruled by fascist pigs!!!!!

America is ruled by the antichrist (bush, money, and nuclear weapons).

Beware of false a prophet (Bush)!!!!!

Correction: Beware of a false prophet (Bush)!!!!!

Grief

Americans have gone through the grieving process since 9-11. Since 9-11, the American government has placed fear in the minds and hearts of Americans. Our human and civil rights have been taken away from us.

Americans have gone through five stages of grief. At first Americans were in the denial stage and from there they have gone into the anger stage because our government has taken away our rights. From there they entered the bargaining stage. Maybe being enslaved is not so bad. Most patriotic Americans fell into depression or the fourth stage. Now, all Americans have accepted our Nazi government and they have willingly given up their freedoms and rights.

Yes, acceptance is the fifth and final stage of grief. All Americans are accepting hatred, killing, torture, wars, corruption, greed, lying, our inhumanity, depravity, decadence, and loss of our freedoms and rights.

Our death as a nation is having Bush as an emperor and having the neocons, the fundamentalists, and the evangelicals in complete power and control over our lives.

Are killing and torture natural sports for Americans?

What is Tucker Carlson?

From Wikipedia:

BLEVE, pronounced blevy, is an acronym for Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion. This is a type of explosion that can occur when a vessel containing a pressurized liquid is ruptured. Such explosions can be extremely hazardous. When the liquid is water, the explosion is usually called a steam explosion.

A BLEVE can occur in a vessel that stores a substance that is usually a gas at atmospheric pressure but is a liquid when pressurized (for example, liquefied petroleum gas). The substance will be stored partly in liquid form, with a gaseous vapour above the liquid filling the remainder of the container.

If the vessel is ruptured - for example, due to corrosion, or failure under pressure - the vapour portion may rapidly leak, dropping the pressure inside the container and releasing a wave of overpressure from the point of rupture. This sudden drop in pressure inside the container causes violent boiling of the liquid, which rapidly liberates large amounts of vapour in the process. The pressure of this vapour can be extremely high, causing a second, much more significant wave of overpressure (i.e., an explosion) which may completely destroy the storage vessel and project it as shrapnel over the surrounding area.

A BLEVE does not require a flammable substance to occur, and therefore is not usually considered a type of chemical explosion. However, if the substance involved is flammable, it is likely that the resulting cloud of the substance will ignite after the BLEVE proper has occurred, forming a fireball and possibly a fuel-air explosion. BLEVEs can also be caused by an external fire nearby the storage vessel causing heating of the contents and pressure build-up.

Significant industrial BLEVEs include the accidents at Feyzin in France in 1966, Texas City, Texas in 1978, and San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico in 1984.

BLEVE is also a humorous backronym for Blast Leveling Everything Very Effectively.

Mr. Corn,
Kaz makes a valid point to a degree. I believe you must hve meant 1/600th of the volume and 600x the density of the gaseous form. This is still very dangerous, but mass cannot be changed without addition of reactants. But what is a little LNG with all of the spent uranium we are flinging around?

It was fun to read that Rove acknowledged talking about Plame and then threw Scooter Libby under the bus. Reminds me of the old teenage gambit of admitting doing something, but claiming it was someone else's idea. "Scooter did it first!" What a defense. Go after each other boys. Assasinate some character and spread some dirt. It is what you do best. After all , if you do not continue to bring people down to save your own asses, you dishonor all of those you brought down before.

Solly

anonimouse,
Thanks, that was just what I was getting at. Good old PV=nRT will get you every time when dealing with highly pressurized explosive substances. That is why you never let aerosol cans around a flame. My guess is that W is about as comfortable with Chem. 101 as he is with the English language.

Solly

Good to hear from you Solly!

from # 35... ...and guess what? He did not rule in the Repugs' favor! The judge applied the rules of law.

YAY! Yeah, I think "change of venue" is diff than changing judges. If I'm not mistaken, you can change venues (jury pool), but the judge travels just like everybody else. Delay wants both, a more koolaid-drinking jury pool and a lock-step repug judge. Let's hope he gets neither.

This whole war in Iraq is going to end badly. There is no way to prevent it. The Shia want their oil in the south, and the Kurds want their oil in the north returned to them. Add to that old religious, ethnic, and tribal hatred, and add to that the thousands of scores that need to be settled because of the insurrgency of the past couple years...and I can see nothing but a bad result for Iraq. We may as well pull out now, and let it collapse. Actually, that might scare islamic states from attacking us....attack America, and we'll ruin your country for a couple generations.

Unless Bush is living in a psycotic state, he has to be confused, bitter and angry. Like an obedient child, he did everything the 'grownups' around him told him to do, but nothing has turned out...nothing.

Bob in North Dakota

HAS ANYONE HEARD THIS? I just got a phone call from a flighty friend with good intentions...

She said she just heard on Hardball that Matthews said, as followup to a David Schuster report, that Fitzgerald's investigation has expanded into the realm of hyped WMD info, Niger documents, etc.

Alan, in the disputed governor's race here in Washington State, it wasn't a jury trial. So, I guess it's a different kettle of fish -- but the Repugs were SHOCKED that their "judge shopping" back-fired on them.

Maybe he's a David Souter in disguise. ;-))

Bob, I don't know how this war can end at all with Israel constantly provoking war on the entire middle east. I don't understand why they don't take care of their own problems, why are our children being sacrificed to the interest of Israel, the only country over there with nukes? Why is Israel's security so critical to our security? And why do we keep going along with it, when they have violated nearly every UN resolution against them that came down the pike. Didn't we attack Iraq ostensibly because they violated a UN resolution? This is such bullshit!

( Anyone who already has ---- Thank You )

Hey everybody, war is a racket .

Rich get richer, poor die off ( repeat )

Please visit www.warisaracket.org

and please put your name to it.

Thank You, Timothy ( I am Name
Number 102 )

Timothy, I wish I had faith that anything we do will help, but I truly believe, even though I have signed many petitions, that they have as much chance of success as poor Rachel Corry had trying to stop that bulldozer.

Has anyone posted the news that Fitzgerald opened a website? What do you think that means? Ha HA. You don't open a website for nothing.

Office of Special Council

Saladin,
I saw your posting on the attempts of congress to take away the ability of patients to sue after harmed from vaccines. I noticed in the paper today another issue similar to that. They congress is trying to keep anyone harmed by lead paint from suing.

When big business gets through they will be able to put any bad product on the market and the consumer will have to live with the danger and the harm done.

Alan and Texas friends,
Good luck to your baseball team. I say this even though you stole our hockey team. (I'm not a hockey fan anyway)
The media is already saying Chicago is going to win. Don't be so sure about that. Minnesota Twins were underdogs in both series they won. They were even supposed to lose because they they were on the cover of the Sports Illustrated. Have a great time!!!!

if one ponders the events of 911 and dwells on the likely identities of the perpetrators, one might come to the conclusion that we are living under a constant threat of another terror attack

http://stopthelie.com/davidgriffin.html

Theologian Says Controlled Demolition is Now a Fact, Not a Theory

In two speeches to overflow crowds in New York last weekend, notable theologian David Ray Griffin argued that recently revealed evidence seals the case that the Twin Towers and WTC-7 were destroyed by controlled demolition with explosives. Despite the many enduring mysteries of the 9/11 attacks, Dr. Griffin concluded, "It is already possible to know, beyond a reasonable doubt, one very important thing: the destruction of the World Trade Center was an inside job, orchestrated by terrorists within our own government."

On Oct. 15th and 16th, New Yorkers filled two venues to hear the prominent theologian and author of two books on 9/11 give a presentation entitled "The Destruction of the Trade Towers: A Christian Theologian Speaks Out." Dr. Griffin has continued to blaze a trail of courage, leading where most media and elected officials have feared to tread. His presentation went straight to the core of one of the most powerful indictments of the official story, the collapse of the towers and WTC 7.

micki @ 57
Yes I was watching hardball tonight and I thought that comment was a bombshell. John Harwood of the WSJ said if they start going there (lies on WMD / Niger document forgeries) it's going to be an earthquake in Washington.

By the way, Chris used the word impeach at least twice on the show but not in the Presidential context - Freudian slips.

Mr. Corn, perhaps you should read this:
Theologian Says Controlled Demolition
is Now a Fact, Not a Theory
after all, it was YOU who said "show me the evidence"

brent @ #67

thnx.

Re: Post #68

"The implications are indeed disturbing. Many people who know or at least suspect the truth about 9/11 probably believe that revealing it would be so disturbing to the American psyche, the American form of government, and global stability that it is better to pretend to believe the official version".

In desparate times the simple truth is often that which is feared most.

Rise of the 'Patriotic Journalist'

By Robert Parry
October 20, 2005

The apex for the "skeptical journalists" came in the mid-1970s when the press followed up exposure of Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal and disclosure of the Vietnam War’s Pentagon Papers with revelations of CIA abuses, such as illegal spying on Americans and helping Chile’s army oust an elected government

There were reasons for this new press aggressiveness. After some 57,000 U.S. soldiers had died in Vietnam during a long war fought for murky reasons, many reporters no longer gave the government the benefit of the doubt.

The press corps’ new rallying cry was the public’s right to know, even when the wrongdoing occurred in the secretive world of national security.

But this journalistic skepticism represented an affront to government officials who had long enjoyed a relatively free hand in the conduct of foreign policy. The Wise Men and the Old Boys – the stewards of the post-World War II era – now faced a harder time lining up public consensus behind any action.

This national security elite, including then-CIA Director George H.W. Bush, viewed the post-Vietnam journalism as a threat to America’s ability to strike at its perceived enemies around the world.

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Not his best work but an interesting take.

capt

I'm...I'm...
I'm seeing a vision...
Yes...It's getting clearer now...
Rove...Scooter..Indicited...
Cheney...
He's there too!

But wait, there's more...
A take over from within the Republican party!
It's...
No, it can't be...
It's...
McCain!

He got that VP spot...
Then comes sweet revenge...
He gets the remaining Republicans...
The ones that want to keep their jobs...
...To impeach Bush!

Armored Humvees Never Made It To Iraq

By TARA COPP
Oct 21, 2005, 07:14

Hundreds of new, top-of-the-line armored Humvees are parked in Texas and Kuwait and won't be shipped to troops in Iraq even though those soldiers face daily roadside bombs, the Army acknowledged Thursday.

The Army said it's keeping the vehicles out of Iraq until the 3rd Infantry Division's replacements, the 4th Infantry Division, arrive at the end of the year.

When the war began, most of the Humvees didn't have the supplemental armor. That vulnerability was quickly exploited by insurgents and led to quick fixes, including makeshift, welded-on armor and mass production of "kits" to upgrade the vehicles. The 824 new vehicles are the newest and most modern, with not only more protection but sophisticated communications equipment to help the soldiers in battle.

But the new communications equipment does not work with systems the 3rd Infantry Division is trained to use, and commanders in Iraq can't spare the soldiers to train them on the new systems, Cody said. So the new, modern Humvees will continue to sit until the 4th Infantry Division moves in, he said.

Rep. Rob Simmons, R-Conn., pointed out that the 3rd Infantry Division faces more than 30 roadside bomb attacks a day. "With the families I know, the idea that we have the equipment, that it's been produced but is sitting in a parking lot, is a matter of concern," Simmons said.

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I had a feeling the troops were not going to see the armored up Hummvees.

capt

I would like to request a subject. The recent decision to re-open the GM/UAW contract and have workers pay more for their healthcare. Workers do make good middle class wages and receive some of the best health benefits in the country. The problem is that instead of increasing other people's benefits to exceed those of autoworkers (such as college grads, and other more educated, though most skilled trades require a four year degree at automakers). the richies are working to reduce those guys benefits and then bring everyone's healthcare down, not make it better. Just some comments would be appreciated. I am looking for help in this fight.
thank you

I would like to request a subject. The recent decision to re-open the GM/UAW contract and have workers pay more for their healthcare. Workers do make good middle class wages and receive some of the best health benefits in the country. The problem is that instead of increasing other people's benefits to exceed those of autoworkers (such as college grads, and other more educated, though most skilled trades require a four year degree at automakers). the richies are working to reduce those guys benefits and then bring everyone's healthcare down, not make it better. Just some comments would be appreciated. I am looking for help in this fight.
thank you

capt,

Very good clip, and it echoes my own thinking on our present situation with our government and it's gargantuan malfeasance.

"Plamegate" may actually become exactly that.

Hey Gerald, you' like this site...

What God says vs. what George hears.

Bryan K, Delphi just filed for bankruptcy. Before they did that they asked the UAW to agree to lowering their wages to $10 an hour and paying from up from 7% to 27% of their healthcare. Bwahahaha! Let them file, I said. Who could live on the halved wages and an increase in heathcare? It's time to watch our backs because business indeed wants to get everyone in this country to accept earning Chinese/Mexican wages. Funny though, they still want us to buy all their shit. And isn't it funny that the guys at the top never cut their wages? Well, it's not funny at all. Just proves the people at the top watch out for themselves and no one else and the rest of us are doomed.

Imperial Candor

Billmon

I just got finished reading the full transcript of the talk given by Larry Wilkerson (Colin Powell's chief of staff) at the New America Foundation on Wednesday. There is some truly scary stuff in there -- going way beyond the "cabal" comment that's been the soundbite of choice for the corporate media. Like this rather ominous look at the real U.S. energy plan:

"We had a discussion in policy planning about actually mounting an operation to take the oilfields in the Middle East, internationalize them, put them under some sort of U.N. trusteeship and administer the revenues and the oil accordingly. That’≥ how serious we thought about it. We had a discussion in policy planning about actually mounting an operation to take the oilfields in the Middle East, internationalize them, put them under some sort of U.N. trusteeship and administer the revenues and the oil accordingly."

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Billmon is good as always~!

This whole thing is as bad as we all feared or worse.

It is the nature of things to come apart completely not in half measure. I can hope anyway.

capt

No increase in the minimum wage (for many years), while congress have raised their pay five or eight times because of the "cost of living" going up.

The major corporations are cutting medical and other benefits for all employees while the salaries of CEO's have doubled and tripled?

Now with oil at cost times three everything is going up (see spike in inflation in Sept.) and it costs me $45 a tank for our Ford.

I am sure Bunnypants will see a need for another tax cut for the rich.

capt

I read a weird story in the Detroit Free Press this morning. Huh, I said to myself? It's next to unbelievable and the cynic in me is suspicious. A company actually moved from Mexico to Michigan? Gosh, if this were the beginning of a trend!

http://snipurl.com/isho (I haven't learned hypetext, or whatever you call it)

CUMMINS RELOCATES GENERATOR LINE: Firm opts for Michigan

Work is moved from Mexico to Oakland County
October 21, 2005

BY KIM NORRIS
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER

That giant sucking sound is just a little fainter since a Michigan company struck a blow for Midwest manufacturing by acquiring and relocating an assembly line from Mexico to Oakland County.

TvNewsLIES Challenges
Believers of the Official Version of 9/11:
Where the Hell Is YOUR Proof?
Jesse, Editor - TvNewsLIES.org - October 2005

James, did you see this? Great article, and I want to echo the challenge. Show me the proof! And repeating the official govt. version is not proof. Wake up people, our republic is slipping away. Please read this and consider where we are.

a lot of good articles at whatreallyhappened.com

Bush didn't pay any attention
to chatter before September 11.
Why should he now?

Capt said: No increase in the minimum wage (for many years), while congress has raised their pay five or eight times because of the "cost of living" going up.

That's particulary funny because those guys don't use their money for anything. Everything is free for them. Why the heck would THEY need a cost living raise? Oh, I fogot...they make their own rules.

whatreallyhappened.com
dammit! I don't recommend the COMMODORE 64 - ha

Sal, I did indeed read that - you know what's odd? I haven't seen hide nor hair of any govt. fairytale advocates in a long time - they've all been punked

I have hairy nipples. Anyone wanna see?

Right now, I am staning across the room, and typing this message with my 64" dong.

Amazon rainforest vanishing at twice rate of previous estimates

6,000 sq miles lost a year as valuable trees removed
Selective logging causing 25% greenhouse gas boost

Alok Jha, science correspondent
Friday October 21, 2005
The Guardian

The Amazonian rainforest is being destroyed at double the rate of all previous estimates, according to research published today in the journal Science. The destruction is leaving the forest more prone to fires and allowing more carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere, according to scientists.

A new analysis of satellite images of the Brazilian part of the Amazon basin, which forms part of the largest contiguous rainforest on Earth, shows that on average 15,500 sq km (6,000 square miles) of forest is being cut down by selective logging each year. This is besides a similar amount clear-cut annually for cattle grazing or farming.

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Just as one cannot un-ring a bell, one cannot un-cut a forest.

capt

Jeanne -- I see that Dan Froomkin of WaPo is reporting on the website you calaled to our attention -- in fact he said:

"...if you call the number the new Web site lists for Fitzgerald's D.C. office, the phone is somewhat mysteriously answered "counterespionage section."

But as Samborn explained to me, that's because the special prosecutor is borrowing space in the Justice Department's Bond Building from the counterespionage section. "The office of special counsel doesn't really have its own dedicated space," he said."

____________________________

Whatever.

#77 Stan, thank you for the information! Bush has selective hearing. He hears what he wants to hear. Now, he is hearing that he must nuke Iran.

There is a saying "Drawing a line in the sand!" What Bush does not know that at some point, a country like China will draw a line in the sand. It could mean a nuclear holocaust. Or, China could join covert operations with the muslim terrorists and bring over in some way biological and chemical weapons. Countries can work together to make life miserable for America. Muslims have long memories.

There are so many ways to make life miserable for Americans but I refuse to say because I still care for the American people and I do not want to put additional thoughts in the minds of terrorists.

James, the 9/11 conspiracy theorists are running out of excuses. Again I say, show me the proof. David?

God put the marshes, the wetlands, and and the rainforest here for a reason. God's reasons are to help His children. We have decided to destroy God's creations.

Carol, Cummins report #81. I do not think that Cummins is doing this out of the goodness of their cold corporate heart. They know that Michiganers are a skilled labor pool and more generators will be needed because of hurricanes, power shortages, "planned" electrical grid outages, etc. They are bringing the manufacturing back home, enticing laid-off workers to work for an average $12.00/hr and will very soon eliminate healthcare coverage, once they have them sucked back in. Take that to the bank. $12/hour w/o healthcare coverage still puts lots of dough into their corporate coffers.

You are astute to be suspicious.

Suspicious? They aren't even trying to hide it anymore! America as a serious contributor is nearing the status of a thing of the past. We cannot survive as a service only sector, yet that is what they are forcing us into. Has anyone wondered why that is?

Joint clue to munchies

Brendan O'Keefe
October 22, 2005

THE mystery of why marijuana users feel the need to consume two packets of Tim Tams, three packets of Twisties and a litre of iced coffee every time they light up has been solved.

In a study sponsored by the Australian Research Council, behavioural neuroscientist Paul Mallet and his former PhD student Aaron Verty found the part of the brain that is responsible for cannabis smokers getting "the munchies".

"An increase in appetite is a well-known side-effect of smoking marijuana," Dr Mallet said.

"However, the way in which the brain controls the hunger-inducing effect of cannabis was not well understood until now."

Dr Mallet, of the University of New England in northern NSW, says cannabis users get hungry because the drug activates receptors called cannabinoids, which trigger appetite.

"Hunger is associated with an increase in the release of cannabis-like substances produced in the brain," he said.

The research focused on the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus in the brain.

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"receptors called cannabinoids"

Well duh.

capt

I know the reason Cummins came back here has to be suspect. Still, $12 an hour is a lot compared to what they probably paid in Mexico.

Business wants to get out of paying for their employees health care. We know why; because it's so damned expensive. Funny how all the big corporations don't lobby the government to get a national health care rolling. Ford and GM could have got on it ages ago. The health care industry is going to help bankrupt this country. More and more citizens every day are losing their insurance. Pretty soon no one will be covered. No one has enough money to pay the huge charges for something as simple as a stubbed toe much less a heart bypass.

from #64... "Alan and Texas friends,
Good luck to your baseball team."

Thanks Jeanne. I'm not a huge b/b fan so I don't keep up with it enough to know the 'other' league, but I hear the White Sox have some good pitching. That's our strongpoint too, so it might be a boring, but tense low-scoring series. We've never been to the W/S and it's been since '59 I think, for them, so both teams have alot invested. Game 1 is Saturday. If I'd just go re-fill my propane tank, I'd be "swillin' n grillin'" like Pande. Before that game, there's a good U of Texas f/ball game on too.
*burp*

ps. Much as I like "The Rant" at Capitolhillblues (think that's what it's called... hell, I just hit Capt's link w/o really reading it), them suckers put 3 data miners on your 'puter each time you go there... or the same three if you've cleaned 'em off since going back. I thought it was them from earlier today (I surf alot so I usally run AdAware SE after each session), so I went back while ago. I hadn't been to anyplace on the web yet, and sho' nuff, I got them same 3 again. It's no biggie if you stay on top of it, so next time there's a 'rant', I'll go back anyway.
I keep "SpyBot..." updated and run it too, btw, and this free one from AOL also, which catches alotta shyt too, that the others dont.
Thought I'd pass the word.
Peashhh

ugh, I forgot to end the italics tag after the quote, damn *you can dress 'im up...
haha

DeLay judge unlikely to be pulled

George W. Bush is not only your better, HE IS YOUR GOD, and it seems to piss off you Alqueda Cornbots. You hate the American soldiers that make your parasitic existence possible.

We have lost an insignificant number of troops in the protection of you fools, so do not worry. You will still be able to suck the life out of real Americans, thanks to GREAT men like President Bush.

Now, get back to your treason you, Cornbot boils on the ass of America.

Miers falls flat with scholars

Experts cite an error that might be a misunderstanding of constitutional law or perhaps a "brain freeze."

But law professors who have reviewed Miers' Senate questionnaire say it shows little work on important constitutional issues. And, perhaps more troublesome for Miers, they say she made a significant error explaining her experience, referring to a 14th Amendment protection that does not exist.

"We have lost an insignificant number of troops..."

1-800-GO-USARMY There you go Mr. Barret. No excuses. You support Bush's War, help your leader fight it. You probably won't be one of the "insignificant" ones, I'm sure. Give one of your fellow Americans on his second or third tour over there a break by taking his or her's spot. *salutes*

Dammmmit man, you could put a Bush twin under each arm and take'em with you. You'd be a hero!

Alan 103

I just got back from my second tour, and will do a third if called on again to protect your pathetic ass.

What have you done, other than attack those us who protect your traitor butt.

Fitzgerald Expands Probe to Prewar Intel Source: Chalabi responsible for forged WMD documents

October 22, 2005

As Antiwar.com readers found out on Wednesday, prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald’≥ investigation into the Plame leak case has broadened to include a probe into the catalyzing event that set off the "outing" of CIA agent Valerie Plame to begin with: the Niger uranium forgeries. These documents, which purported to show that the Iraqis were trying to procure uranium from the African nation of Niger, were utilized by the Bush administration in making the case for war –†but, alas, they turned out to be crudely done fakes. The question of who forged them has always been at the heart of this case, and now it looks like Fitzgerald is getting close to the answer.

Since the forged documents first turned up in Italy, an Italian parliamentary committee was charged with investigating, and they issued a heavily redacted report: now, Fitzgerald has received an unredacted and full version of the report, and he is moving fast on this front, as this video clip from MSNBC reports.

Just remember –†you found out about it first on Antiwar.com.

Watch the video (Windows Media Player)

Watch the video (Quicktime)

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So it was Chalabi? That would mean Judas Miller was more involved.

capt

"I just got back from my second tour, and will do a third if called on again to protect your pathetic ass."

I'm glad you're back safe. I wish you didn't have to go there once, my friend. It was based on lies Barret, and you should have figured it out by now If you were in Afghanistan, or even Pakistan, searching for bin Laden, then I could agree with you about >"to protect your pathetic ass". Watch close the "Plame-gate" case as it develops, and see how they put you and your buddies in danger, indeed, sacrificed you guys...ruined our credibility in the world, ran the country farther in debt,
and all for nothing. Me, I couldn't go if I wanted to. I'm too old, and I'm a convicted felon/ex-convict (you know those crazy days growing up...haha... "peace maaaan"),so I was here in 'the world' fighting against you guys having to go in the first place.
We don't hate you guys at all. We hate the idiots that sent you there.
*and I really am glad you're home safe

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WAR ON TERROR FROM THOSE WHO SERVED

Operation Truth is America's first and largest nonprofit, non-partisan advocacy organization for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.Click here for more

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Anybody interested in hearing from those who served.

capt

Capt has ESP ! He's not only the fastest to find a link when a topic comes up, he now can anticipate when one's coming! haha He posted #106 before I sent my reply to Barret.
Then of course, topped it off with another link at #108! This guy is goooood!

Editor Says He Missed Miller 'Alarm Bells'

By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer
Fri Oct 21, 7:54 PM ET

WASHINGTON - The New York Times' Judith Miller belatedly gave prosecutors her notes of a key meeting in the CIA leak probe only after being shown White House records of it, and her boss declared Friday she appeared to have misled the newspaper about her role.

In a dramatic e-mail, Executive Editor Bill Keller wrote Times' employees he wished he'd more carefully interviewed Miller and had "missed what should have been significant alarm bells" that she had been the recipient of leaked information about the CIA officer at the heart of the case.

"Judy seems to have misled (Times Washington bureau chief) Phil Taubman about the extent of her involvement," Keller wrote in what he described as a lessons-learned e-mail. "This alone should have been enough to make me probe deeper."

Keller said he might have been more willing to compromise with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald "if I had known the details of Judy's entanglement" with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Keller said in his e-mail he believed the paper was too slow to correct the original reporting and to get to the bottom of the facts about Miller's involvement with Libby.

"If we had lanced the WMD boil earlier, we might have damped any suspicion that THIS time the paper was putting the defense of a reporter above the duty of its readers," he said.

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So I guess Miller will be handed her walking papers and she can play wartime cheerleader elsewhere.

capt

ESP?

Extra
Spoiled
Pinhead

?

HA! Too accurate.

capt

Cowboy president is courting disaster, says Powell's man

By Francis Harris
(Filed: 21/10/2005)

Colin Powell's right-hand man has launched a blistering attack on the White House, describing President George W Bush as "cowboyish", his secretary of state Condoleezza Rice as "extremely weak" and American foreign policy as "courting disaster".

The attack came from Col Larry Wilkerson, who for four years was Mr Powell's chief of staff at the state department during the first Bush administration.

In a sometimes savagely phrased speech at a Washington think-tank, the former US marine said that the Bush team had so damaged the country's foreign policy machine that he was "not sure that the state department even exists any more".

The result was that America's relations with the world had taken a pounding. Asked about the efforts by Mr Bush's key aide Karen Hughes to sell America to the Muslim world he said: "It's hard to sell shit." In remarks quoted by the Washington Post, Col Wilkerson said: "If you're unilaterally declaring Kyoto dead, if you're declaring the Geneva Conventions not operative, if you're doing a host of things that the world doesn't agree with you on and you're doing it blatantly and in their face, without grace, then you've got to pay the consequences."

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"Pay the consequences"

I have a feeling Col Wilkerson has been a force for the truth for the full 16 years he worked with Powell. Clearly more honest than Powell.

capt

For a Senate Foe of Pork Barrel Spending, Two Bridges Too Far

By Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 21, 2005; A08

Republicans in Congress say they are serious about cutting spending, but they learned yesterday to keep their hands off the "Bridge to Nowhere."

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), a staunch opponent of pork barrel spending, tried to block $453 million for two Alaska bridges that had been tucked into the recent highway bill. Coburn wanted to redirect the money to the Interstate 10 bridge across Lake Pontchartrain, a major thoroughfare that was severely damaged during Hurricane Katrina.

Sen. Ted Stevens, the veteran Alaska Republican, was dramatic in his response. "I don't kid people," Stevens roared. "If the Senate decides to discriminate against our state . . . I will resign from this body."

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Well if the senator is going to quit if he does not get his half a BILLION in pure pork I say let us test his word.

The senate used to be the respectable body of reasonable decorum.

These cry-baby neocons make me sick. They are an insult to their party and the country. I guess it is only "pork" if it for another state.

capt

Fitzgerald for the Supreme Court!

Can I get an Amen?

WOW! Brent Scowcroft Lets it Rip (Like Larry Wilkerson) in Monday's New Yorker

The revered-in-tons-of-corners former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft definitively breaks ranks with the Bush administration in an article by nearly the same name, "Breaking Ranks," appearing in the upcoming Monday issue of The New Yorker.

The article will outline what decisions and events have built up to turn Brent Scowcroft against this Bush administration. Yes, that's right. . ."turned Brent Scowcroft against this Bush administration."

Jeffrey Goldberg, the author of the piece, has pulled off a stunning coup by not only getting Brent Scowcroft to talk -- but also getting some incredibly juicy commentary from President George H.W. Bush on the performance of his son's national security team.

I don't have the full piece yet -- but I know it will be a blockbuster.

I also know that for all of those who had difficulty (read Rush Limbaugh; alternative site here) adjusting to former State Department Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson's candid commentary on the White House's broken national security decision-making process, you are going to have an even more difficult time with revelations from Scowcroft.

They will be saying largely similar things about a "cabal" that undid our nation's security.

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I was wondering when the more sane GOPhers would speak up. A little to little and a little too late but . . .

capt

Amen, but after he has a few scalps! HA!

capt

That is the definitive problem with those people. They can't see 5 minutes ahead. They are totaly blind to the future, it's all about what they are able to capatilze on now. Maybe some of them are returning to normal people, like us freaks up at 4:51 AM blogging away.

First off, heeeeeeeey Chris!! Good to see that you're still kickin' up a sandstorm in 'Zona. And ALL of us Redstaters are seeing the W stickers falling like ashes from a busted volcano. Chimpy is cooked, done, punked, defunct. Even reactionary sites like Realclearpolitics have Chimpy's approval rating average below 40%. How Looooow can they go?

It's no fun anymore reading the lefty blogs when even the Rightwing sites are busting Chimpy's chops.

TownHall is so freekin irrational that it's hard to keep a straight face when you read headers like:

* Capitol Report: House GOP members talk spending cuts

Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk spending cuts. Those morons are all talk, and most of what they say is straight up bullshit.

* Federal Spending and Congressional Leadership

They hit that one right on the head. The congressional leadership (read the Grand Ol' Spendin' Party) is busting out the jams in deficit spending. Remember when "deficit spending" was considered a perjorative term in politics? As E.J. Dionne would say, that's sooo 90's.

* House GOP Sets $50b Target for Budget Cuts

50 Billion? That's chump change for table dances. Tom DeLay carries that much around when he visits strip clubs in Sugarland (say hey, Alan).

* It's gut-check time for the Republicans on the budget

Eeeew. Talk about an ugly freekin' metaphor extension. Who would want to check Sensenbrenner's ugly gut? ¬°Que gacho! Riff, anybody (Paggliachi?), can ya' help a brother out? How do you translate "que gacho" into yankee?

More lies? WTF is up with all the Lying Liars in the Republican side of the ditch? Delay's lawyer admits that he was lying (talking out his rear end) about DeLay prosecutor Earle's misconduct.

Another link from Townhall . . . Clifford May gets splinters in his Nerfs from straddling the fence on the future of Iraq. He says we may lose; but we might still be able to stop getting our asses kicked. Why does Cliffie hate America?

Alan, how 'bout them 'Stros? Who'da thunk it? Not me. But then again, I ain't much of a Baseball fan either. I know. I know. Dammed libruls alla the time hatin' the great American pastime.

WooHooo! I hear somebody saying "dada" upstairs (yep, he's talking!). Gotta Go.

Baseball

Most Americans know that Bush was owner of a major league baseball team. The most famous baseball uniforms are Yankee pinstripes and Dodger blue.

Many Americans are anxiously waiting to see if Bush will wear one of two additional uniforms, such as inmate pinstripe or prison orange.

Many Americans may wonder why Bush should wear correctional uniforms. There are three reasons for use of these uniforms. On the international scene Bush is guilty of murders and war crimes. On the domestic scene Bush is guilty of treason for outing a CIA operative. Yes, Bush is a traitor.

They are not numbers

A very good article! Lew Rockwell has several great articles to read this weekend.

They are not numbers

A very good article! Lew Rockwell has several great articles to read this weekend.

Capt, so they think chalabi is behind the forgery but ledeen denies knowing anything about it? What a LIAR!

From Antiwar.com
By Justin Ramondo

...According to a source in the Italian embassy, Patrick J. "Bulldog" Fitzgerald asked for and "has finally been given a full copy of the Italian parliamentary oversight report on the forged Niger uranium document," the former CIA officer tells me:

"Previous versions of the report were redacted and had all the names removed, though it was possible to guess who was involved. This version names Michael Ledeen as the conduit for the report and indicates that former CIA officers Duane Clarridge and Alan Wolf were the principal forgers. All three had business interests with Chalabi."

When Cannistraro was asked by an interviewer if Ledeen was involved with the forgers, and said "you'd be very close," he wasn't kidding.

There are many good articles to read on antiwar.com for your weekend reading.

Fiztgerald's Historic Opportunity

I would love to see an indictment handed to George W. That indictment would really make my day!

From: Columbia Journalism Review

The Judy Code
By Douglas McCollam

In July of 2001, Steve Engelberg, then an editor at The New York Times, looked up to see Judy Miller standing at his desk. As Engelberg recalls, Miller had just learned from a source about an intercepted communication between two Al Qaeda members who were discussing how disappointed they were that the United States had never attempted to retaliate for the bombing of the USS Cole. Not to worry, one of them said, soon they were going to do something so big that the U.S. would have to retaliate.

Miller was naturally excited about the scoop and wanted the Times to go with the story. Engelberg, himself a veteran intelligence reporter, wasn't so sure. There had been a lot of chatter about potential attacks; how did they know this was anything other than big talk? Who were these guys? What country were they in? How had we gotten the intercept? Miller didn't have any answers and Engelberg didn't think they could publish without more context. Miller agreed to try and find out more, but in the end the story never ran.

But even when she was at her best, some people expressed concerns about her temperament and her methods. Perhaps the most revealing document to come out in the last few days wasn't Miller's 3,600 word summary of her grand jury testimony in the Valerie Plame leak case, but the memo of Craig Pyes, her reporting partner on the prize-winning bin Laden stories: "I do not trust her work, her judgment, or her conduct," Pyes wrote in an internal Times memo first reported Monday in The Washington Post. "She is an advocate, and her actions threaten the integrity of the enterprise, and of everyone who works with her." Later in the memo, Pyes goes on to say that Miller took "dictation from government sources" then tried to "stampede it into the paper."
But Miller's sources weren't just wrong, they spun her dizzy and in the process badly damaged the credibility of America's best and most important newspaper. Sunday's story in the Times gave Miller the perfect opportunity to express some kind of contrition over her part in this journalistic fiasco. She chose not to and that's a shame. Maybe there is something else Miller should know about those aspen trees out west, something Scooter Libby neglected to mention. Because their roots are connected they don't just turn together, they often burn together from fire that can travel out of sight and underground until it erupts into the light of day.

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She was an advocate of what? How the hell did she come by the info. from so-called Al Qaida communications 2 months before 9/11? What govt. does she take dictation from? They weren't wrong, they were setting up the case for war before 9/11 happened. Just waiting for the New Pearl Harbor to light the fuse. If she's sorry at all it's because it didn't work out quite as they had hoped.

Wakes

There are basically two kinds of wakes, such as a funeral wake. Most Americans are not familiar with a wedding wake. I now call weddings a wake. The reason for calling them wakes is because newly married couples are not aware of the problems they will be facing, such as no jobs, elimination of jobs, outsourcing of jobs, no middle class