Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Remember Katrina
The caption at whitehouse.gov reads: "President George W. Bush shares a laugh with Myrtle Jones during a Conversation on Medicare Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, at the James L. Brulte Senior Center in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif."
The caption at whitehouse.gov reads: "President George W. Bush joins Arizona Senator John McCain in a small celebration of McCain's 69th birthday Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, after the President's arrival at Luke Air Force Base near Phoenix. The President later spoke about Medicare to 400 guests at the Pueblo El Mirage RV Resort and Country Club in nearby El Mirage."
New Orleans, Lousiana, August 29, 2005
JG.
Cross-posted at jerseyguy.wordpress.com
Credit for the New Orleans image to Wikimedia Commons
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Yeah, how come?
Diva asks:
Click to see.
Can somebody please tell me why so many of the neocon Bush-worshippers in the DOJ look like they came from central casting for parts in a film about the Gestapo?
Click to see.
A Marine's view of "why we need a draft"
[A big welcome to the good people from Shakes' place. - F]
This is from Newsweek by a now-inactive reserve Marine combat Vet from 2d Bn, 2d Marines. I went to the Med in '65 with 2/2, so this is like one of my eas' coas' homies. He has a very narrow viewpoint of why we needed a draft as of 9/12/01, that if the sons and daughters of the elite had to go to Iraq, the services would have been better equipped with body armor, MRAPs, and the like. He's right as far as he goes, but I think he misses the larger point, that if the draft had been re-instituted back then, we never would have criminally invaded Iraq. It's OK for the peasants to die in aid of the bottom line, but not for the privileged, who, after all, need to be alive to rule.
I did like some of his points:
He hit the nail right on the head with that last sentence. That's exactly what they are. Faceless and voiceless, as pawns must be.
If Bush's War, which we won early on by the way, and the subsequent occupation, which we're losing by the way, were really in defense of our country in a generational all-out global conflict like the Chimp lied about, instead of for oil, hegemony, and profit like it really is, the United States would have mobilized like WWII and every last swingin' dick (and the female equivalent, which I refuse to even think up a term for) would be sacrificing for the war effort, whether pullin' a trigger or figuring out how to be energy self-sufficient or rolling bandages or whatever.
We're supposed to go shopping, i.e. STFU and let the military industrial complex roll, putting future generations in debt whilst killing untold millions and further enriching the elite.
The Jarhead's right: we need a draft, better yet, an all-encompassing program of National Service. Everybody goes, nobody skates. Pull a trigger, build a bridge, comfort the afflicted, count widgets, here or abroad, PARTICIPATE in Democracy, learn and grow, and maybe we could prevent assholes like Cheney and Bush from pulling shit like this ever again.
Maybe all we'd have to do with the MRAPs would be to charge the batteries once in a while.
This is from Newsweek by a now-inactive reserve Marine combat Vet from 2d Bn, 2d Marines. I went to the Med in '65 with 2/2, so this is like one of my eas' coas' homies. He has a very narrow viewpoint of why we needed a draft as of 9/12/01, that if the sons and daughters of the elite had to go to Iraq, the services would have been better equipped with body armor, MRAPs, and the like. He's right as far as he goes, but I think he misses the larger point, that if the draft had been re-instituted back then, we never would have criminally invaded Iraq. It's OK for the peasants to die in aid of the bottom line, but not for the privileged, who, after all, need to be alive to rule.
I did like some of his points:
[...] Have no doubt: there is a distinct disdain for networked America among the fighting class of this country. When a politician would come on TV in the Camp Fallujah chow hall talking about Iraq, the rank-and-file reaction was always something like, “Well, I am blue-collar cannon fodder to this wealthy bureaucrat who never got shot at and whose kids aren’t here. But I know I am making America safer, so I’ll do my job anyway.” And they do, and have been for the last three and a half years, tragically underequipped but always willing to fight.
[...] But President Bush was determined to keep the lives of nonuniformed America—the wealthiest Americans, like himself—uninterrupted by the war. Consequently, we have a severe talent deficiency in the military, which the draft would remedy immediately. While America’s bravest are in the military, America’s brightest are not. Allow me to build a squad of the five brightest students from MIT and Caltech and promise them patrols on the highways connecting Baghdad and Fallujah, and I’ll bet that in six months they could render IED’s about as effective as a “Just Say No” campaign at a Grateful Dead show.
I don’t favor a Vietnam-style draft, where men like the current vice president could get five deferments. I am talking about a World War II draft, with the brothers and sons of future and former presidents answering the call (and, unfortunately, dying, as a Roosevelt and a Kennedy once did) on the front line. That is when the war effort is maximized. Quite simply, the military cannot be a faceless horde to those pulling the purse strings of our great economy.
He hit the nail right on the head with that last sentence. That's exactly what they are. Faceless and voiceless, as pawns must be.
If Bush's War, which we won early on by the way, and the subsequent occupation, which we're losing by the way, were really in defense of our country in a generational all-out global conflict like the Chimp lied about, instead of for oil, hegemony, and profit like it really is, the United States would have mobilized like WWII and every last swingin' dick (and the female equivalent, which I refuse to even think up a term for) would be sacrificing for the war effort, whether pullin' a trigger or figuring out how to be energy self-sufficient or rolling bandages or whatever.
We're supposed to go shopping, i.e. STFU and let the military industrial complex roll, putting future generations in debt whilst killing untold millions and further enriching the elite.
The Jarhead's right: we need a draft, better yet, an all-encompassing program of National Service. Everybody goes, nobody skates. Pull a trigger, build a bridge, comfort the afflicted, count widgets, here or abroad, PARTICIPATE in Democracy, learn and grow, and maybe we could prevent assholes like Cheney and Bush from pulling shit like this ever again.
Maybe all we'd have to do with the MRAPs would be to charge the batteries once in a while.
Nasty Old Queens
TRex takes umbrage with the GOP closet:
You know it seems to me the Republican Party has become the Catholic Church. A haven for pedophiles and deviants.
Now, don't misunderstand me. There's nothing wrong with gays, gay sex, or anything else. Love is love and manifests itself in many different ways. I'm all for 'make love not war' regardless of the sex of the couples. I give a shit what you do as long as it's done by consenting adults.
What I do have a problem with is the hypocrisy and denial, the lies and deception, on the part of Republicans and conservatives to vilify the gays at every turn, yet engage in the practices themselves.
What I do have a problem with is fucked up old men with serious problems preying on youngsters and getting away with it because their party helps them cover it up. It seems to me these clowns all gravitate to conservative organizations such as the churches and political parties who preach about 'morals' and 'values'.
I left the Republican Party 20 years ago, and the Catholic Church longer ago than that, because of the hypocrisy and lies, because of the self-serving 'morality' and the 'it's okay if we do it' attitude.
As with the Catholic priests, we've been subjected to story after story of Republican sex scandal and pedophilia for the past few years. How long will it be before the nation understands those who preach loudest about 'morals' and 'values' are the ones who disregard their own statements so casually.
Republican 'morals' and 'values' are merely tools they use to manipulate the general public. It's time we held them to the standards they demand everyone else follow. I've said many times, the Republican party is a criminal organization, robbing the public for the benefit of the filthy rich and a safe haven for deviants to practice their sick craft and avoid discovery.
Can we please as a culture agree stop pretending that Republicans aren’t a bunch of effete pussies? Bill Frist? Hello? He makes Ru Paul look like Dog the Bounty Hunter.
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How many more of them will have to get arrested soliciting sex in public toilets before people finally cop to the fact that Republicans are a bunch of nasty old wealthy queens who cheat on their wives with other men and who can’t under any circumstances be trusted around teenage boys?
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You know it seems to me the Republican Party has become the Catholic Church. A haven for pedophiles and deviants.
Now, don't misunderstand me. There's nothing wrong with gays, gay sex, or anything else. Love is love and manifests itself in many different ways. I'm all for 'make love not war' regardless of the sex of the couples. I give a shit what you do as long as it's done by consenting adults.
What I do have a problem with is the hypocrisy and denial, the lies and deception, on the part of Republicans and conservatives to vilify the gays at every turn, yet engage in the practices themselves.
What I do have a problem with is fucked up old men with serious problems preying on youngsters and getting away with it because their party helps them cover it up. It seems to me these clowns all gravitate to conservative organizations such as the churches and political parties who preach about 'morals' and 'values'.
I left the Republican Party 20 years ago, and the Catholic Church longer ago than that, because of the hypocrisy and lies, because of the self-serving 'morality' and the 'it's okay if we do it' attitude.
As with the Catholic priests, we've been subjected to story after story of Republican sex scandal and pedophilia for the past few years. How long will it be before the nation understands those who preach loudest about 'morals' and 'values' are the ones who disregard their own statements so casually.
Republican 'morals' and 'values' are merely tools they use to manipulate the general public. It's time we held them to the standards they demand everyone else follow. I've said many times, the Republican party is a criminal organization, robbing the public for the benefit of the filthy rich and a safe haven for deviants to practice their sick craft and avoid discovery.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Pro-Life ... yeah ...
If you're gonna have a baby, you might wanna move. As Digby says:
Read the post and then wonder why we don't have a universal health care plan. Like Iraq, it's all about the bucks, but this time it's Big Pharma and Big Hospital who are raking it in.
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I don't know why these Republicans aren't embarrassed that their great country ranks lower than every developed country in the world [in infant mortality] except Latvia, but they aren't. But then, they just lie, don't they? ...
Read the post and then wonder why we don't have a universal health care plan. Like Iraq, it's all about the bucks, but this time it's Big Pharma and Big Hospital who are raking it in.
Standing O ...
(AP) A call by Puerto Rico's governor for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq earned a standing ovation from a conference of more than 4,000 National Guardsmen.
Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila said Saturday that the U.S. administration has "no new strategy and no signs of success" and that prolonging the war would needlessly put guardsmen in harm's way.
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Offered without comment.
Link thanks to Logan.
The Motor City Madman: Just Another Dickwad Chickenhawk Draft Dodger
I'm forced by way of disclaimer to say that I used to kind of like Ted Nugent. I knew he was a wingnut, but I liked his stand on the 2d Amendment and the fact that he eats what he kills. I don't do it myself, but I think hunting is fine.
That said, fuck him.
NewsHounds, who gallantly watch FIXED"News" so we don't have to, takes those brave warriors Nugent and Hannity apart.
That takes the fuckin' cake - shittin' yer pants for the draft physical so you won't have to shit yer pants in combat. All he would have ever had to do was play his guitar for Special Service shows. Oh, yeah, the money wouldn't have been as good...
What a fuckin' hypocritical fucktard wingnut asshole, runnin' his mouth about killing people the Repugs don't like. I hope he eats a bad skunk.
That said, fuck him.
NewsHounds, who gallantly watch FIXED"News" so we don't have to, takes those brave warriors Nugent and Hannity apart.
Since we've been discussing Ted Nugent lately, this seemed a good time to bring up Nugent's draft dodging. It's well known that Nugent claims to have gone to great lengths to flunk his Draft Board physical. What's not so well-known is that he got a student deferment at the same time he was touring with his rock band, putting in an average of 300 shows a year. How was he going to school and touring that much at the same time?
The Herald also noted that Nugent’s efforts to avoid the draft make President Bush look like a war hero.
(Nugent claims) that 30 days before his Draft Board Physical, he stopped all forms of personal hygiene. The last 10 days he ingested nothing but junk food and Pepsi, and a week before his physical, he stopped using the bathroom altogether, virtually living inside his pants caked with excrement and urine. That spectacle won Nugent a deferment.
That takes the fuckin' cake - shittin' yer pants for the draft physical so you won't have to shit yer pants in combat. All he would have ever had to do was play his guitar for Special Service shows. Oh, yeah, the money wouldn't have been as good...
What a fuckin' hypocritical fucktard wingnut asshole, runnin' his mouth about killing people the Repugs don't like. I hope he eats a bad skunk.
In the Twilight of His Deployment
The Washington Note:
Many links at site. One pissed-off G.I. with a laptop is worth more than all the TV gasbags put together.
I just came across this blog of an American military guy that the Pentagon has not yet shut down called "Army of Dude."
A Sunni insurgent group we've been battling for months, responsible for the death of my friend and numerous attacks, agreed to fight Al Qaeda alongside us. Since then, they've grown into a much more organized, lethal force. They use this organization to steal cars and intimidate and torture the local population, or anyone they accuse of being linked to Al Qaeda. The Gestapo of the 21st century, sanctioned by the United States Army.
This occupation, this money pit, this smorgasbord of superfluous aggression is getting more hopeless and dismal by the second. It's maddening to think that more than a year's worth of blood, sweat and tears will lead to little more than a pat on the back and a hideously redundant speech from someone who did none of the bleeding, sweating or crying.
The Enemy of My Enemy of My Enemy of My Enemy...
Fourteen months into this deployment and things are taking a turn for the surreal.
Throughout Mosul and Baghdad, we were fighting what could best described as an insurgent cocktail: parts of Islamic State of Iraq, Al Sadr's Mahdi Army, 1920 Revolution Brigade and simple, pissed off farmers. Shia and Sunni. Organized militias and rag tags. All they had in common was a shared goal: a total withdraw of occupational forces.
Many links at site. One pissed-off G.I. with a laptop is worth more than all the TV gasbags put together.
The Great Iraq Swindle
I got a twofer for ya. First, from Rolling Stone, a lotta quotes, but it's a long article.
The second part of the twofer is at DailyKos and lays the blame for all the swindling and profiteering right on the doorstep of...oh, take a wild guess:
I'm sure that comes as no surprise. Much more at Kos, but it's mostly just details. And Cheney's lies. I hope I'm still alive when that sonofabitch gets his, even if he's not.
Bush, Cheney, and their henchmen the 'contractors' AKA 'thieves' have seen their perfect chance to get billions in free money with no accountability. Hell, it ain't even real money! It's all 'Made in China' and we just borrowed it anyway. Why, it won't even have to get paid back for a long time, and the taxpayers who will have to do so are still in grade school or the womb. They'll have to read history to find out why their taxes are so high and the U.S. is so poor, and NCLB will keep a lid on that readin' shit! They won't have a fuckin' clue.
How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury
How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins -- he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq.
[...] So you take your twenty-minute ride in from the suburbs, sit down before the learned gentlemen of the committee and promptly get asked by an irritatingly eager Maryland congressman named Chris Van Hollen how you managed to spend $72 million on a pile of shit.
You blink. Fuck if you know. "I have some conjecture, but that's all it would be" is your deadpan answer.
The room twitters in amazement. It's hard not to applaud the balls of a man who walks into Congress short $72 million in taxpayer money and offers to guess where it all might have gone.
[...] Is it really possible to bilk American taxpayers for repainted forklifts stolen from Iraqi Airways and claim that you were just following orders? It is, when your commander in chief is George W. Bush.
In short, some $8.8 billion of the $12 billion proved impossible to find. "Who in their right mind would send 360 tons of cash into a war zone?" asked Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight Committee. "But that's exactly what our government did."
[...] When things went wrong, KBR simply scrapped expensive gear: The company dumped 50,000 pounds of nails in the desert because they were too short, and left the Army no choice but to set fire to a supply truck that had a flat tire. "They did not have the proper wrench to change the tire," an Iraq vet named Richard Murphy told investigators, "so the decision was made to torch the truck."
In perhaps the ultimate example of military capitalism, KBR reportedly ran convoys of empty trucks back and forth across the insurgent-laden desert, pointlessly risking the lives of soldiers and drivers so the company could charge the taxpayer for its phantom deliveries. Truckers for KBR, knowing full well that the trips were bullshit, derisively referred to their cargo as "sailboat fuel."
[...] "People are scared stiff."
They were scared stiff in Iraq, too, and for good reason. When civilian employees complained about looting or other improprieties, contractors sometimes threatened to throw them outside the gates of their bases -- a life-threatening situation for any American. [..]
You know the old adage: You don't pay a hooker to spend the night, you pay her to leave in the morning. That maxim also applies to civilian workers in Iraq. A soldier is a citizen with rights, a man to be treated with honor and respect as a protector of us all; if one loses a limb, you've got to take care of him, in theory for his whole life. But a mercenary is just another piece of equipment you can bill to the taxpayer: If one is hurt on the job, you can just throw it away and buy another one. [...]
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the story of the Iraq War in a nutshell. In the history of balls, the world has never seen anything like the private contractors George W. Bush summoned to serve in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Collectively, they are the final, polished result of 231 years of natural selection in the crucible of American capitalism: a bureaucrat class capable of stealing the same dollar twice -- once from the taxpayer and once from a veteran in a wheelchair.
[...] If catastrophic failure is worth billions, where's the incentive to deliver success? There's no profit in patriotism, no cost-plus angle on common decency. [...]
The second part of the twofer is at DailyKos and lays the blame for all the swindling and profiteering right on the doorstep of...oh, take a wild guess:
[...] Cheney is behind most if not all of the war profiteering. [...]
I'm sure that comes as no surprise. Much more at Kos, but it's mostly just details. And Cheney's lies. I hope I'm still alive when that sonofabitch gets his, even if he's not.
Bush, Cheney, and their henchmen the 'contractors' AKA 'thieves' have seen their perfect chance to get billions in free money with no accountability. Hell, it ain't even real money! It's all 'Made in China' and we just borrowed it anyway. Why, it won't even have to get paid back for a long time, and the taxpayers who will have to do so are still in grade school or the womb. They'll have to read history to find out why their taxes are so high and the U.S. is so poor, and NCLB will keep a lid on that readin' shit! They won't have a fuckin' clue.
Hasta la bye-bye, Pendejo
Gonzales resigns.
Congress still has a week of vacation. Watch for an interim appointment of Michael Chertoff as AG.
Congress still has a week of vacation. Watch for an interim appointment of Michael Chertoff as AG.
She's beautiful ...
Until she opens her mouth. This is the easiest way for a beautiful woman to turn me off in record time. I couldn't sit through dinner with this girl.
Why don't they have contests for intelligent women? Please leave the pitchforks and torches at home. No, I don't believe beauty and intelligence are mutually exclusive. I married Mrs. F, didn't I? [So there is no misunderstanding, Mrs. F is intelligent and beautiful. Whew ...]
Off to the shop ...
Why don't they have contests for intelligent women? Please leave the pitchforks and torches at home. No, I don't believe beauty and intelligence are mutually exclusive. I married Mrs. F, didn't I? [So there is no misunderstanding, Mrs. F is intelligent and beautiful. Whew ...]
Off to the shop ...
"You are clear to level the building."
For all you folks who think war is clean, cut and dry. This is camera footage from an AC-130 gunship over a camp in Afghanistan. I've seen their destructive capability from this angle before, but back in my time, we would have been camped out somewhere, directing the gunners' fire on the targets.
As you can imagine, being caught in the middle of this on the ground is no pleasant experience [It don't happen like the movies or TV. The guy who gets knocked down in the middle of the road from the vehicle explosions is most certainly dead. You'd be amazed what shrapnel can do and where it can go. Your TV hero would have survived it without a scratch]. Now, I'm not making a judgment of whether these guys are innocent or not, but, as you can see, from a Spectre sitting up there doing pylon turns around the target, it's pretty difficult to tell good from bad. It's pretty hard to tell good from bad a hundred yards away, at night, on the ground.
It's why I get so incensed when people take war, and going to war, so lightly. People die, mostly in horrible ways, and it's just too difficult to tell combatants from innocents. As all you vets know, intelligence is far from infallible. If you're going to go to war, you'd better be doing it for the right reasons.
We're running the same kind of operations in Iraq, a war we shouldn't be in at all and the collateral damage is piling up. Too many innocents have been injured or killed in our fight against the 'insurgency' over there. A 500lb bomb or 155mm HE shell can't tell good from bad either.
It's time to end this occupation of Iraq and turn our attention back to the people who killed 3000 of my friends and neighbors, whether they be in Afghanistan or Pakistan. The next time someone declares 'mission accomplished', they'd better have Osama's head on a pike.
Great thanks to Siun @ FDL for the vid.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
It was all about the show ...
At least for the generals it was. I ran across this mindset when I was in (I touch on it a bit in Special Operations), but while the Chimp and Cheney were figuring out a good excuse to attack Iraq, the generals had their own reasons for going.
The American people don't want to hear about guys crawling around at night and killing silently. They wanna see shit blow up.
Hey, if ya got all them good toys, might as well use 'em, right? When I was with SAC, all the B-52 and missile guys were just drooling for WW 3, for the Russians to "push the button" so we could send the Minutemen and bombers to Moscow.
It's that whole self-fulfilling, military-industrial complex thing Ike warned us about.
The more cool shit you give the military, the more they want to use it. It's even worse when politicians (Cheney) are the ones making money from the war.
As long as Bush is in power, bin Laden will walk free and the Iraqi Occupation will endure.
Note: Sorry I ain't been around much the last couple days, but homeowner shit at the Fixer hacienda and over at the in-laws has kept me running this weekend. Back to normal (heh ...) form tomorrow.
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The American effort to chase bin Laden into this forbidding realm was hobbled and clumsy from the start. While the terrain required deep local knowledge and small units, career officers in the U.S. military have long been wary of the Special Operations Forces best suited to the task. In the view of the regular military, such "snake eaters" have tended to be troublesome, resistant to spit-and-polish discipline and rulebooks. Rather than send the snake eaters to poke around mountain caves and mud-walled compounds, the U.S. military wanted to fight on a grander stage, where it could show off its mobility and firepower. To the civilian bosses at the Pentagon and the eager-to-please top brass, Iraq was a much better target. By invading Iraq, the United States would give the Islamists—and the wider world—an unforgettable lesson in American power. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was on Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board and, at the time, a close confidant of the SecDef. In November 2001, Gingrich told a NEWSWEEK reporter, "There's a feeling we've got to do something that counts—and bombing caves is not something that counts."
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The American people don't want to hear about guys crawling around at night and killing silently. They wanna see shit blow up.
Hey, if ya got all them good toys, might as well use 'em, right? When I was with SAC, all the B-52 and missile guys were just drooling for WW 3, for the Russians to "push the button" so we could send the Minutemen and bombers to Moscow.
It's that whole self-fulfilling, military-industrial complex thing Ike warned us about.
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This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
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The more cool shit you give the military, the more they want to use it. It's even worse when politicians (Cheney) are the ones making money from the war.
As long as Bush is in power, bin Laden will walk free and the Iraqi Occupation will endure.
Thanks to Atrios for the Newsweek link.
Note: Sorry I ain't been around much the last couple days, but homeowner shit at the Fixer hacienda and over at the in-laws has kept me running this weekend. Back to normal (heh ...) form tomorrow.
A Tale of a Princely Færie
I most gleefully swiped this from Brother Lurch. Enjoy!
Yea, verily and forsooth an' shit! Go read the rest.
And so in the Elder Days it came to pass that a son was born unto a wealthy future King, who desired that his beloved progeny be kept safe from the ravages of the world. With food aplenty and lodging fair, the young lad spent his idyllic days making merry mischief, and many an amphibious toadling saw his wrath. Thereafter, the chump change of the once and future King’s youth was spent in idle pleasures prevalent of that time, pleasures of the nose and of the liver, and he didst merry-make in the darker dens and taverns that dotted the territories claimed by the King.
Yea, verily and forsooth an' shit! Go read the rest.
"If You F**k Things Up You Can No Longer Be An Expert"
Go watch this video. I may have to get HBO just so I can watch Bill Maher.
The Enemy Within
Scott Ritter cuts Cheney a new one:
The man is not bashful. He is saying here what need to be shouted from the rooftops of the MSM. It would be nice if we had one Presidential candidate that would talk like this. I guess Gravel and Kucinich come close, but they know they stand no chance of being elected. Someone at the front of the field might really stand out if they would start talking like this.
In any case, read the whole thing »here«; guaranteed to make your blood boil.
“The vice president is the single greatest threat to American and international security in the world today. Not Osama Bin Laden. Not the ghost of Saddam Hussein. Not Ahmadinejad or Kim Jung Il. Not al-Qaida, the Taliban, or Jose Padilla himself. Not even George W. Bush can lay claim to this title. It is Dick Cheney's alone. Operating in a never-never land of constitutional ambiguity which exists between the office of the president and the Congress of the United States, Cheney's office has made its impact felt on the policies of the United States of America as had no vice president's office before him. Granted unprecedented oversight over national security and foreign policy by executive order in early 2001, many months prior to the terror attacks of 9/11, Cheney has single-handedly steered America away from being a nation among nations (albeit superior), operating (roughly) in accordance with the rule of law, and toward its present manifestation as the new Rome, a decadent imperial power bent on global domination whatever the cost.”
The man is not bashful. He is saying here what need to be shouted from the rooftops of the MSM. It would be nice if we had one Presidential candidate that would talk like this. I guess Gravel and Kucinich come close, but they know they stand no chance of being elected. Someone at the front of the field might really stand out if they would start talking like this.
In any case, read the whole thing »here«; guaranteed to make your blood boil.
JG.
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