"I want justice...There's an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive,'" -Bush, 9/17/01 I want justice also - just more civilized that this cowboy BS of Bush's. I want his impeachment, removal from office, trial as a war criminal and execution.
"...Secondly, he is not escaping us. This is a guy, who, three months ago, was in control of a county [sic]. Now he's maybe in control of a cave. He's on the run. Listen, a while ago I said to the American people, our objective is more than bin Laden. But one of the things for certain is we're going to get him running and keep him running, and bring him to justice. And that's what's happening. He's on the run, if he's running at all. So we don't know whether he's in cave with the door shut, or a cave with the door open -- we just don't know...." - Bush, vactioning on his rach 12/28/01
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority.... "I am truly not that concerned about him." - Bush, 3/13/02
"The American army is an elephant and we are a bee. Neither can destroy the other, but the bee can hurt the elephant." - Sheikh Latif al-Oumyem, one of the leaders of the al-Anbar province insurgency, in an interview.
"We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world -- a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Well, shit on that dumbness, George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn't vote for these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today -- and we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid rich kids like George Bush. They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us - Hunter S. Thompson, one of my favorite authors as quoted by John Cusack
"The war in Iraq is not going as advertised. It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion"- The opening of Congressman John P. Murtha's (a hawkish Democrat) speech calling for withdrawal from the Bush Iraq. Murtha, who voted for the quagmire, has finally come to his senses and has caused the withdrawal issue to be a page one story.
"...one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this city." - Cheney on those who say his regime misled Americans before the war. I respond to the evil bastard with his very own words, "Go fuck yourself!"
"Reasonable people can disagree about the conduct of the war, but it is irresponsible for Democrats to now claim that we misled them and the American people. Leaders in my administration and members of the United States Congress from both political parties looked at the same intelligence on Iraq, and reached the same conclusion: Saddam Hussein was a threat." - Bush recently lying yet again. He cherry-picked intellegence, disseminated false data, withheld reams of intellegence which cast doubt on the wisdom of his lust to attack Iraq and just plain lied. Saddam was not a threat.
"I consider Cheney a good friend - I've known him for 30 years, but Dick Cheney I don't know anymore."- Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to Bush I
"Nixon, a true fiend, looks like a paragon of virtue next to the criminally incompetent robber barons now raiding the present and future." - John Cusack saying what I've long thought in a scorching speech about the Bush regime
"Get Your Christianity Out of My Kid’s Science Class and I won’t perform science experiments during your Sunday Mass". - rageagainsttheright.com
Under Bush's watch, we not only suffered the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks while he snoozed, but he has failed to capture the perpetrator of those attacks and has given al Qaeda a powerful base in Iraq from which to terrorize. And this is the guy who dares tell his critics they are weakening our country. - Robert Scheer in a great blog post. Alas, the idiot now running the LA Times (a bean counter with no journalistic experience) has fired Scheer.
"I am embarrassed that the USA has a vice president gor torture"- Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner (more)
"Baseless attacks send the wrong signal to our troops and to an enemy that is questioning America's will." - Bush 11/11/05 My signal/message is that instead of fighting each other, they should be fighting the biggest global terrorist organization- Bush regime.
"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist." - Winston Churchhill- who could have just as well been speaking of the Bush regime
"One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts." - Bill Moyers (more)
A CBS News poll issued 11/2/05 showed the idiot-in-chief's approval rating has sunk to a new low- 35%. After all of his regime's failures and lies, the 35% who still approve of him are true believers- and utter and complete idiots. Another poll indicates 57% believe that Bush deceived them on the reasons for his attack on Iraq.
Over 80% of Iraqis are strongly opposed to the presence of Bush regime troops, and about 45% believe attacks against the regime's troops are justified. I'm just surprised only 45% think killing invaders is OK.
Another FEMA type screw-up due to Bush's habit of appointing cronies to critical jobs is in the offing. Stewart Simonson, Bush's guy responsible for public health emergency preparedness, has NO public health, emergency, or even executive expericence. He's a lawyer whose sole qualification is that he's a regime crony. Adding insult to injury is the fact that a dedicated and experienced professional was run out of the slot by the regime so it could install this idiot. The federal response to an avian flu pandemic will make their response to Katerina look good.
Good News: Miers out; Bad News: Scalito The regime renegged on it's nomination of their ill-qualified crony Harriet Miers to the supreme court and selected Samuel "Scalito" Alito. This is definitely not the case of the devil you know being a better choice the the one you don't know. Amoung the many stupid decisions rendered by this rightwing nut, the most notorious one was when he maintained that the strip searches of a woman and 10 year old girl was acceptable even though they were not named in the search warrant which was the basis for the bust. In an application for Asst. Deputy Attorney General, he wrote that he did not believe women had a constitutional right abortions and strongly endorsed a government role in protecting "traditional values." Alito has also said that a congressional law restricting the transfer and possession of machine guns was unconstitutional. While working under President Reagan's attorney general, he urged Reagan to veto a bill to protect consumers from used car dealers who roll back odometers -- he said it wasn't the federal government's job to protect citizens' health, safety and welfare!
Cheney has appointed his lawyer, David Addington, to replace Scooter Libby as his chief of staff. He's well qualified for the job whose prime duties are to spout lies to further the regime's evil and smear anyone who disagrees. Besides, Cheney likey knows he'll need a lawyer as is right hand man by the time the Plame leak/smear investigation is completed. Addington is also neck-deep in the matter- he attended strategy sessions in 2003 on how to discredit Joe Wilson and was the first person Libby ran to after sicking Judy Miller on Wilson and Plame. He was also the regime's point person in stonewalling requests by both Democrats in Congress and the GAO for information about Cheney's energy policy task force. Worse yet, he helped draft the regime's infamous memo that said the Geneva Convention against torture did not apply to the regime's prisoners and which called the prohibition on toruture "quaint".
The regime is trying its best to ignore the Plame leak/smear investigation. It's lying chief mouthpiece Scott McMcClellan was repeately asked by the press to acknowledge that he was wrong in 2003 when he denied that Rove or Libby were involved in the smear campaign against Joe Wilson. He refused to do so. Hopefully, he too will be indicted. Meanwhile, the rightwing media and pundits are in effect saying Scooter has "only" been charged with lying to the grand jury and the FBI and obstruction of justice and not with actually doing the leaking/smearing. What utter BS! Meanwhile, Rove is still under investigation for his role in the leak/smear. Based on Time Reporter Matthew Cooper's recent statement that it was Rove who told him about Plame, the noose is tightening. But don't look for these evil lying bastards to be flipped by the prosecuter and start spilling the bean on others in the regime. They have surely been told they willbe pardoned when they are convicted- if not before.
The regime continues to botch their response to Katrina. They spent over $1 billion buying 95,151 travel-trailers to shelter hurricane evacuees and will spend loads more building trailer parks while more than a million apartments in the South are vacant. They could have rapidly housed the evacuees in these apartments by using the same rental voucher system that had been used in the past. In additon, it will most likely turn out to have been cheaper. A big reason rent assistance was not used was the fact that the ripublicans have long sought to kill what little remains of federal rent assistance programs for the poor. Similar to the hovels during the depression-era Hoover regime, look for these federal trailer parks to be called "Bushvilles".
We've all seen the photos of regime troops using dogs to terrorise suspects in Iraq. Now it's been reported that they also used lions!
The regime has proven to be a failure yet again by missing dozens of deadlines for developing plans to protect airplanes, ships and railways from terrorists. Note that the deadlines are for merely developing plans- not actually doing anything. Coupled with the fact that they constantly hype their protection of the US as a major goal and accomplishment is yet more proof that they are habitual liars. The regime says the deadlines were unrealistic. They should look in the mirror if they want a fall-guy- the deadlines were set by a congress their party controls and they raised no objections when the deadlines were set. Worse yet, regime officals actually helped set many if not most of the deadlines they now claim are unrealistic. Maybe they have just been too busy doing damage control in relation to their many other failures- e.g. Katerina and their Iraq quagmire.
The regime's EPA plans to significantly roll back reporting of toxic pollution under the agency's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). The TRI program requires corporate polluters to report their pollution. Naturally they do not like the resulting heat when the data is compiled and published. The EPA says this is to reduce the corporations paperwork. BULLSHIT!- it's to hide the facts from the public. Submit your comments on the proposed change or read more at: http://ga3.org/ct/Y1A9SfK1Lm45/
Sadam didn't have the chemical weapons the regime lied about, but the regime sure has them in Iraq and has used them to kill civilians. After repeated denials, the regime finally had to confess it has used white phosphorus (WP) in Iraq for something other that for generating a smoke screen as they orginally claimed. They now claim it's use against "military targets" is OK and claim that it is a incendiary, not a chemical, weapon. The problem is that numerous women and children have been burn to death by the regime's use of the stuff. Further, the 1980 UN Convention bans use of incendiary weapons against civilians and also restricts their use against military targets inside a concentration of civilians. This has caused such a flap in Iraq that the interim Iraqi government has launched an investigation. I'm sure it's an investigation the Bush regime can, and will, bribe- if they haven't already. This is just yet another war crime the leaders of the regime should be brought to trial for. Instead of hanging the war criminals, dousing them with WP would be more appropriate.
The idiots in congress are once again trying to rape ANWR by allowing greedy oil companies to drill there. This time they've attached it to a senate budget reconciliation bill which cannot be filibustered. This is a typical ploy of theirs- attach some of their evil which would never pass on it's own merits to another, entirely unrelated bill. They tout raping ANWR as a way to cut gas prices yet it will take at least 10 years for any oil from ANWR to get to the gas pumps and would reduce gas prices by only a penny per gallon when production finally peaks- in 2025! Raping a prisitine wilderness area for this pittance is downright obscene. They try to counter by saying "only" 2,000 acres would be raped. This is yet another one of their lies- they are intentionally ommitting the endless roads and pipelines which would be required. When they are caught in this lie, they come up with yet another bald-faced lie- that the roads are on ice in the winter and disappear during the summer. BULLSHIT!- One look at the adjacent north slope area proves this is yet another of their lies. Another indication- they have refused to allow any provisions limiting roads or pipelines to be inserted into the bill. Another lie they are spewing is their "estimate" that the treasury would get $2.4 billion in revenues from the rape. BULLSHIT!- this lie is based on leases going for 80 times the going rate in Alaska. Update: their bill passed 52-47. Next, it goes to the house....
Learning absolutely nothing about appointing ignorant cronies to govt. slots and especially to slots in an field his regime has made countless major blunders, Bush has appointed yet more cronies to serve on the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. A prime example is the reappointed of William DeWitt- a businessman who's sole qualification is having raised more than $300,000 for the idiot's campaigns. Also appointed were a longtime Bush friend Don Evans and Texas oilman. None have other experience in itelligence matters. Undoubtly they will carry forward the regimes fine history of major blunders.
The Washington Post reported the existence of numerous previously secret gulags which hold unknown victims of the regime's "war on terror." The regime has repeatly lied about having such secret gulags. This time they are wising up a bit and taking a "no comment" approach since more of their out-right lies will no longer fly. This is yet another example of this "christian" administration violating a central tenent of their bible- the golden rule. I hope that one day the folks responsible for establishing the gulags, the torture of prisioners and "rendering" folks to other countries for torture and death will receive exactly the same treatment.
Several congressmen , including Jerrold Nadler have demanded that Fitzgerald's Plamegate investigation be expanded to include an investigation into whether the White House conspired to mislead the country into war. They also say the Plame leak is just the "tip of the iceberg".
Democrats in the Senate are finally showing a bit of spine. Harry Reid gave the ripublicans hell by forcing a very rare closed session to address why the ripublican's Senate Intelligence Committee is not investigating the Bush regimes lies about Iraqi WMDs as they had promised to do long ago. The only concession they won was a minor one- a bipartisian committe look into the mattter and report back in mid-November. As a tip-off to what's in store (nothing), Bill Frist said, "They didn't get anything out of it, other than some headlines."
Democrats are also trotting out a PR campaign with the lame/half-assed slogan "Together, America Can Do Better." As is typical, there's no coherent platform of policies to flesh out the slogan. It alledgely will address employment, higher education, energy and technology. Senator Schumer said, "We are going to assert ourselves... What has given us new vigor in this is we think the American people are on our side." This provides more evidence of why democrats will continue to lose elections- instead of offering alternatives polices to the regime's rape and pillage and lead the way to a better future, they wait for the people to lead.
Bankrupt GM part maker Delphi wants to cut the average peon's pay from $27 per hour to $9 per hour. To make up for this, they are going reward 600 executives an extimated $400! (more) Is there no limit to the utterly contemptable greed of these corporate pigs?
Bob Woodward, a former journalist, is now just another of the regime's spineless media flunkies. As if his previous one-sided fluff pieces and books were not enough, it was recently revealed that the Bush regime outed CIA operative Valerie Plame to him nearly a month before Novak leaked it publicly. Woodward didn't even tell his boss at the Washington Post about the leak. (more)
Oil executives lied during a congressional hearing when they said their firms did not participate in Cheney's 2001 energy task force. As usual, they won't suffer for it- the ripublicans who headed the hearing refused requests to swear them in before they gave testimony. (more)
Jose Padilla, who the Bush regime repeatly said was trying to build a dirty bomb and held for 3 years without bring charges, was indicted. The big story is that he was NOT indicted for trying to build a dirty bomb or any of the other things the regime lied about but for conspiracy. This also avoided the regime having to defend before the surpreme court their illegally imprisioning a suspect in a Navy brig for 3 years.
Adding more proof of Bush's and Cheney's repeated and wanton lying, a report shows they were told there was no Iraq-Al Qaeda connection 10 days after the 9/11 attack. In fact, the only linkage was that Sadam was trying to keep an eye on Al Qaeda since he which he viewed them as a threat.
Philip H. Bloom, who controlled three companies that did work in Iraq in the multibillion-dollar reconstruction effort, has been charged with conspiracy, wire fraud, conspiracy to launder money and interstate transportation of stolen property, all in connection with obtaining up to $3.5 million in fraudulent contracts via kicbacks to Bush regime officials. Documents revealed that two members (Robert J. Stein was one) and their spouses of the regimes corrupt Coalition Provisional Authority received illegal kickbacks for awarding contracts to the crook. A spokesman for the independent office doing the investigation said, "This is the first case, but it won't be the last" and added that many as a dozen related cases had been referred to the Justice Department for possible prosecution. I sure wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the regime to prosecute this....
Bush is to spend thanksgiving on his texas ranch. I hope he chokes on a turkey bone. Meanwhile, the local politios passed a ordinance which effectively banned protesters from around the entrance to his ranch. Many, including Daniel Ellsberg were subsequently arrested when they protested.
A report by the special inspector-general for Iraq reconstruction says the regime had no comprehensive policy or regulatory guidelines in place for staffing the management of postwar Iraq and what little there was was "insufficient in both scope and implementation". Well DUH! Also, "Nearly two years ago, the US developed a reconstruction plan that specified a target number of projects that would be executed using the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund. That number was revised downward [last year]. Now it appears that the actual number of projects completed will be even lower," (more)
Halliburton and its subcontractors, under yet another of the no-bid contracts the regime has given them, hired hundreds of undocumented/illegal Latino workers to clean up after Katrina - and then mistreated them and threw them out without pay. Halliburtion's KBR was stiffing their subcontractors who, in turn, stiffed the peons. The fact that undocumented/illegal Latino workers were used is perfectly legal- when the Bush regime said contractors didn't have to pay prevailing wages, they also said contractors didn't have to comply with another law which requires valid I-9 employment eligibility forms and hence prohibts use of such workers. Of course exploiting and abusing immigrants is old hat for Halliburton- they've done so to Filipino, Sri Lankan, Nepalese and other immigrant workers paid low wages on the regime's military installations in Iraq. (more) NOW is also doing a segment on the greedy corporations' "work" (more like looting of the treasury...) in the wake of Katerina and how Bush's policies have encouraged them.
Sacked FEMA Director Michael "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job", Brown is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm. Some posts in response to this news from Huffington's blog : He's perfect GM management material. The Bush culture of failing upwards continues. Want to bet that somehow it will be funded as a "Faith-Based Initiative"?
The losing ripublican candidate in the New Jersey governor's race has blamed Bush's rising unpopularity for his loss. Hopefully this foreshadows the defeat of ripublicans and right-leaning democrats in the '06 midterm elections. (more)
Public Citizen has demanded the SEC expand its investigation into the insider trading by Bill Frist, by looking at the well timed trading done by his three sons in another corporation with links to his evil family, American Retirement Corporation. (more)
Most of the world's nations are meeting in Montreal to discuss
the next step in combating global warming and a successor to the Kyoto
Protocol. Like it's ignoring the Kyoto Protocol, the regime is not
sending anyone to the meeting. (more)
Vatican Drops Singer Who Promoted Condoms For Anti-AIDS Campaign…
The Vatican dropped Brazilian singer Daniela Mercury from the lineup of next month's Christmas concert there. The singer's sin was the promoting the use of condoms in an anti-AIDS campaign. The pope obviously perfers folks (including innocent childen) to die of aids rather than see the number of mindless followers be limited by condoning the use of condoms for anything. This alone is ample evidence of the evil rot at the heart of this religion. (more)
It's difficult to follow all of the news relative to the ripublican's goal to cut funding for, amoung other things, the No Child Left Behind education program, rural health care, Pell grants and loans for college education and heating assistance for low-income families. Of course all of this is cover for there other big goal- giving the already rich yet more obscene tax cuts. As of 11/18/05, house voted to cut these and other social programs as part of a $49.9 billion package of spending cuts. No Democrats voted for the cuts while all but 14 ripublicans voted for them.
The regime's Medicare drug plan is off to a bad start. A survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that only 20% of seniors say they will enroll, 37% say they won't and 43% are confused.
We all know that the regime can't find enough cannon fodder for it's wars, however, only the shortfalls in overall recruitment are usually cited. A worse problem is seldom mentioned- the shortfall in recruitment of critical specialists. A GAO report says the regime failed to fill 41% of its open slots for specialtists and that the regime has masked this by overfilling of other positions in thier failed effort to attain their overall recruiting goals. It has done this by wasting money giving enlistment bonuses to people for slots that were already overfilled. An Army recruiter in New York stated it was not uncommon for noncombat positions to be opened up at the end of a tough recruiting month even the Army did not need more people in those positions.
The supreme court ruled in '04 that the folks the regime had kidnapped and is keeping imprisioned in their Gitmo gulag can file habeas corpus petitions in US courts to challenge their imprisionment before real court and not the military kangroo courts established by the Bush regime. To avoid this, the senate approved an amendment authored by right-wingnut Lindsey Graham which voids the supreme court decision. This not only violates a basic legal principle going all the way back to the Manga Carta, it violates US and international law. The Geneva Conventions, adopted as US law via the Constitution, prohibits "the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples." Four democrats voted for the admendment- The Democrats who voted in favor of the Graham Amendment were Lieberman, Conrad, Nelson and Landrieu. So, add this to the list of war crimes committed by the ripublicans- and add four democrats to the list of war criminals.
A group of of Iraqi journalists and judges vistted DC with the initial intention of learning from our own democracy. They left early after being disgusted by what they learned. Their leader was shocked when he heard Bush hyping Harriet Miers' religious beliefs. The leader had this to say about what he learned: "Now let me get this straight. You are lecturing us about keeping religion out of politics, and then your own president and conservative legal scholars go and tell your public to endorse Miers as a Supreme Court justice because she is an evangelical Christian. How would you feel if you picked up your newspapers next week and read that the president of Iraq justified the appointment of an Iraqi Supreme Court justice by telling Iraqis: 'Don't pay attention to his lack of legal expertise. Pay attention to the fact that he is a Muslim fundamentalist and prays at a Saudi-funded Wahhabi mosque.' Is that the Iraq you sent your sons to build and die for? I don't think so. We can't have our people exposed to such talk." This speaks volumes about the utter hypocricy of the Bush regime. (more)
Ex-Iraqi leader Allawi said
that the current human rights abuses there were, “the same as [in]
Saddam's time And worse” This is especially pointed since he was,
in effect, selected by the Bush regime.
A 11/27/05 Washington Post article by Walter Pincus indicates the regime's Dept. of Offense has expanded programs aimed at gathering and analyzing intelligence within the United States, creating new agencies, adding personnel and seeking additional legal authority for domestic security activities. The regime previous created the little known "Counterintelligence Field Activity three years ago and is planning on expanding it's mission to include investigating alledged crimes within the US such as treason, foreign or terrorist sabotage or even economic espionage. (more) Just like it perfered to have it's intellegence manufactured by their minions in the Dept. of Offense, rather than the CIA who sometimes had the pesky habit of providing info which the regime didn't like, the regime obviously perfers using their Dept. of Offense rather than the FBI. If nothing else, the former is much more easily presuaded to engage in criminal spying, kidnapping, torturing, rendition, ad nauesum activities since it is staffed with mindless military types who are programmed to follow orders, however illegal or immoral they may be.
Thwarting terrorism is impossible as long as america behaves like a vicious, greedy, arrogant and, worst of all, hypocritical global bully and thug. Under the ripublican regime, more of the world hates us than ever before in our history. I do not blame them hating a country which attacks another country which poses no threat to them based on distortions, misdirections, and out-right lies. The impeachment of Clinton for lying about sex while bush escapes any sanctions for his lies about the need to attack Iraq serves as one of the best examples of the depravity to which this once great nation has sunk. Even worse, instead of bringing the chickhawk war moungers to justice as war criminals, the idiot citizens give them another four years to run amuck!
Although the idiot-in-chief's poll numbers and support for his criminal attack on Iraq and resulting quagmire are rapidly falling, the idiot continues to say he does not pay any attention to the polls. This is bullshit. In addition, although Bush is stupid, the people paid to do his thinking, however evil, are not stupid. They realize support for them and their stupidity is flagging. More importantly, their opposition has finally become more emboden to attack them and their policies. They will very soon need something to turn the situation around. What better than what has worked so well in the past- another terrorist attack. Whether they, like 9/11, ignore warnings and just let another attack occur, kidnap some poor smucks and parade them as twarted terrorists or actually stage an attack themselves, rest assured, they will use it to whip their dupes back in line.
The neocon hosted a visit by the ever evil Ahmad Chalabi for meetings with Rice, Treasury Secretary John Snow, and national security advisor Stephen Hadley. He likely whispered yet more of his lies in their ears. Chalabi is a convicted criminal on the run from Jordan, was responsible for many of the lies upon which the regime's attack on Iraq was based and is alledgely being investigated by the FBI for telling the Iranian government that their secret communications code had been busted. Although the Bush regime said this was a crime which could "get people killed", and Rice promised a criminal investigation, over a year has passed and the FBI has still not questioned Chalabi. Proving Rice was lying yet again, Chalabi was not questioned by the FBI during his trip.
Instead of bringing Chalabi to justice, the regime's FBI has been spying on and arresting members of lawful political and environmentalist groups. It was forced to admit it had falsely arrested Josh Connole, a anti-Iraq-war protester and member of a environmentalist group, and had to pay him $100,000 to settle his suit against them. He'd been targeted by one of the regime's infamous gestoppo-like Joint Terrorism Task Forces. (more)
The idiot-in-chief's mouthpiece said Bush, "believes that we should
look at having a reasonable increase in the minimum wage ... But we need
to make sure that, as we do that, that it is not a step that hurts small
business or prices people out of the job market." Meanwhile,
ripublican senator Enzi has demanded that any boost in the minimum wage
be offsett for their corporate and rich sponsors by wiping out the 40-hour
work week, cutting overtime pay and weakening job safety and health protection,
and (the ever popular solution to any problem) yet more tax cuts for folks
that neither need or deserve them. They certianly ever miss a chance
to further enrich the already rich.
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Now, President Bush recently suggested that public schools should teach intelligent design, alongside the theory of evolution. Because, after all, evolution is quote, "just a theory." Then the President renewed his vow to drive the terrorists straight over the edge of the earth.... Now, here is what I don't get. President Bush is a brilliant scientist. [laughter] He's the man who proved you can mix two parts booze with one part cocaine, and still fly a jet fighter. [laughter] And yet... [applause] yet he just can't seem to accept that we descended from apes. .... intelligent design isn't real science. It's the equivalent of saying that the thermos keeps hot things hot and cold things cold, because it's a god. It's so willfully ignorant you might as well worship the U.S. Mail. It came again! Praise, Jesus!... Now as for me, I believe in evolution and intelligent design. I think God designed us in his image, but I also think God is a monkey! God bless you and goodnight!
Now I kid, but seriously, Mr. President, this job can’t be fun for you anymore. There’s no more money to spend- you used up all of that. You can’t start another war, because you also used up the Army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush Family Nightmare: helping poor people (laughter & applause). Listen to your mom. The cupboard’s bare, the credit card’s maxed out, and no one’s speaking to you…mission accomplished! Now it’s time for you to do what you’ve always done best: lose interest and walk away (laughter & applause). Like you did with your military service…and the oil company...and the baseball team. It’s time. Time to try on the next fantasy job. How about cowboy or spaceman? (laughter and applause) Now I know what you’re saying. You’re saying that there’s so many other things that you, you as president, could involve yourself in. Please don’t. I know, I know, there’s a lot left to do. There’s a war with Venezuela, and eliminating the sales tax on yachts. Turning the space program over to the church, (laughter and applause) and social security to Fanny Mae. Giving embryos the vote. But sir, none of that is going to happen. Why? Because you govern like Billy Joel drives. You’ve performed so poorly I’m surprised you haven’t given yourself a medal. You’re a catastrophe that walks like a man. Herbert Hoover was a shitty president, but even he never conceded an entire metropolis to rising water and snakes. On your watch we’ve lost: almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two Trade Centers, a piece of the Pentagon, and the city of New Orleans. Maybe you’re just not lucky. (applause & cheers). I’m not saying you don’t love this country, I’m just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side. So yes, God does speak to you, and what he’s saying is: “take a hint.”
Smoke Gets in Our Eyes by Bob Herbert The lead: "There's a reason so many top officials of the Bush administration treat the truth as if it were kryptonite. More than anything else, the simple truth has the potential to destroy the Bush gang". And this good diagnoses: " Of greater consequence for the republic is the fact that Mr. Libby is no hapless functionary who somehow lost his way. He's a symptom, the hacking cough that should alert us to a dangerous national disease, and that's the Bush administration's culture of deceit." Another good indication of how warped the regime is Herbert's conclusion, "It should tell you something that the administration's resident sleazemeister, Karl Rove, who is up to his ears in this mess but has managed so far to escape indictment, continues to be viewed not as an embarrassment, but as President Bush's most important and absolutely indispensable asset".
It's Still There by William Rivers Pitt, 11/3/05 "It has taken almost a thousand days for the wall of lies and disinformation surrounding this invasion to begin to crumble. A lot of people have been killed and maimed in the process. Others have had their livelihoods and reputations crushed for daring to speak truth to power. That wall was built by a threesome - the White House, Senate Democrats who should have and could have known better, and a debased news media. Today, they all have blood on their hands. It will not be enough for George W. Bush and this administration to admit fault, and never mind the fact that such a moment will almost certainly never come. Those Democrats in the Senate who supported this invasion for whatever reasons, and those members of the news media who provided cover for the invasion by repeating the lies because it was easier than actually acting like journalists, owe a debt of sorrow and remorse to us all. If the Democrats and the media expect Bush to accept responsibility and admit fault, they must first do so themselves. The stain of their actions is still there, still with us. They must find the courage, today, to admit they were wrong. Reid's stand on Tuesday was an excellent beginning, but only a beginning. Unless this beginning is followed by action, the horrors created will remain with us, still there, going nowhere but deeper into darkness.
The suspicious timing of alerts: The nexus of politics and terror Remember all of the terrorist alerts the regime issued before the 2004 election in order to keep idiot american scared and voting for them? Since then there has been only one. Keith Olbermann has compiled a list of 13 terror warning they've issued and coupled them with the real reasons they were issued- as red herrings to deflect attention to their screw-ups.
The End of News? Snippets:
The Bush administration has restricted access to public documents as no other before it. According to a recent report on government secrecy by OpenTheGovernment.org, a watchdog organization, the federal government classified a record 15.6 million new documents in fiscal year 2004, an increase of 81 percent over the year before the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Spending on the declassification of documents dropped to a new low. What's more, 64 percent of Federal Advisory Committee meetings in 2004 were completely closed to the public. The Pentagon has banned TV cameras from recording the return of caskets from Iraq, and it prohibited the publication of photographs of those caskets, a restriction that was lifted only following a request through the Freedom of Information Act.The restrictions have grown so tight that the normally quiescent American Society of Newspaper Editors last fall issued a "call to arms" to its members, urging them to "demand answers in print and in court" to stop this "deeply disturbing" trend. The conservative columnist William Safire, usually a supporter of Bush's policies, complained last September that "the fundamental right of Americans, through our free press, to penetrate and criticize the workings of our government is under attack as never before."