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We are now blogging over at Wordpress. The new address is: www.whitenoiseinsanity.wordpress.com. Please make a note of it.

See you over there! At some point I will be deleting this blog entirely. Larry and Clif, it would be appreciated after you accept my invitation to become Authors on the new blog to repost your last posts from here over there.

Thank you!!

Get ready for the reichwingnut to go batsh*t crazy, and to screech like baboons about something they really know very little about;

WHY you ask, because Human-caused global warming is here — visible in the air, water and melting ice — and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative global scientific report will warn next week.

From the report;

"The smoking gun is definitely lying on the table as we speak,"said top U.S. climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, who reviewed all 1,600 pages of the first segment of a giant four-part report. "The evidence ... is compelling."

Andrew Weaver, a Canadian climate scientist and study co-author, went even further: "This isn't a smoking gun; climate is a batallion of intergalactic smoking missiles."

The report is going to be rolled out in stages.

The first phase of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is being released in Paris next week. This segment, written by more than 600 scientists and reviewed by another 600 experts and edited by bureaucrats from 154 countries, includes "a significantly expanded discussion of observation on the climate," co-chair Susan Solomon a senior scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She and other scientists held a telephone briefing on the report Monday.

That report will feature an "explosion of new data" on observations of current global warming, Solomon said.

Solomon and others wouldn't go into specifics about what the report says. They said that the 12-page summary for policymakers will be edited in secret word-by-word by governments officials for several days next week and released to the public on Feb. 2. The rest of that first report from scientists will come out months later.

The full report will be issued in four phases over the year, as was the case with the last IPCC report, issued in 2001.

Global warming is "happening now, it's very obvious," said Mahlman, a former director of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab who lives in Boulder, Colo. "When you look at the temperature of the Earth, it's pretty much a no-brainer."

Look for an "iconic statement" — a simple but strong and unequivocal summary — on how global warming is now occurring, said one of the authors, Kevin Trenberth, director of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, also in Boulder.

The February report will have "much stronger evidence now of human actions on the change in climate that's taken place," Rajendra K. Pachauri told the AP in November. Pachauri, an Indian climatologist, is the head of the international climate change panel.

An early version of the ever-changing draft report said "observations of coherent warming in the global atmosphere, in the ocean, and in snow and ice now provide stronger joint evidence of warming."

And the early draft adds: "An increasing body of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on other aspects of climate including sea ice, heat waves and other extremes, circulation, storm tracks and precipitation."

The world's global average temperature has risen about 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit from 1901 to 2005. The two warmest years on record for the world were 2005 and 1998. Last year was the hottest year on record for the United States.

The report will draw on already published peer-review science. Some recent scientific studies show that temperatures are the hottest in thousands of years, especially during the last 30 years; ice sheets in Greenland in the past couple years have shown a dramatic melting; and sea levels are rising and doing so at a faster rate in the past decade.

Also, the second part of the international climate panel's report — to be released in April — will for the first time feature a blockbuster chapter on how global warming is already changing health, species, engineering and food production, said
NASA scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig, author of that chapter.

As confident as scientists are about the global warming effects that they've already documented, they are as gloomy about the future and even hotter weather and higher sea level rises. Predictions for the future of global warming in the report are based on 19 computer models, about twice as many as in the past, Solomon said.

In 2001, the panel said the world's average temperature would increase somewhere between 2.5 and 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit and the sea level would rise between 4 and 35 inches by the year 2100. The 2007 report will likely have a smaller range of numbers for both predictions, Pachauri and other scientists said.

The future is bleak, scientists said.

"We have barely started down this path," said chapter co-author Richard Alley of Penn State University.

That is why;

Executives push Bush on climate change

The chief executives of 10 major corporations and business groups, on the eve of the State of the Union address, urged
President Bush on Monday to support mandatory reductions in climate-changing pollution and establish reductions targets.

"We can and must take prompt action to establish a coordinated, economy-wide market-driven approach to climate protection," the executives from a broad range of industries said in a letter to the president.

Bush, who in the past has rejected mandatory controls on carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases, was expected to address climate change in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, but has repeatedly argued that voluntary efforts are the best approach.

Major industry groups such as the Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers continue to oppose so-called "cap and trade" proposals to cut climate changing pollution, mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.

But the 10 executives, representing major utilities, aluminum and chemical companies and financial institutions, said mandatory reductions are needed and that "the cornerstone of this approach" should be a cap-and-trade system.

The officials, expected to elaborate on their plan at a news conference later Monday, include the chief executives Alcoa Inc., PB America Inc., DuPont Co., Caterpillar Inc., General Electric Co., and Duke Energy Corp.

In the letter they urged Congress to enact legislation "to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions."

The first days of the new Democratically controlled Congress has seen a rush of legislation introduced to address climate change, all of which have some variation of a cap-and-trade approach to dealing with climate change.

Among those pushing cap-and-trade climate bills are two leading presidential aspirants, Sens. Barack, D-Ill. and John McCain , R-Ariz.

Essentially such a mechanisms would have mandatory limits of greenhouse gas emissions, but would allow companies to trade emission credits to reduce the cost. Companies that can't meet the cap could purchase credits from those that exceed them or in some case from a government auction.

Also signing the letter to Bush were the executives of Lehman Brothers, PG&E Corp., PNM Resources, FPL Group and four leading environmental organizations.

Well, well, well, after fighting the very idea of Global Warming for years, because of losing an election and a new report, the reichwing masters are trying to usurp the movement to do something about Global warming. They backed Bush and the repugnant politicians as they totally ignored the looming problems for almost a decade, but with the change in the political weather, they are trying to get ahead of the coming storm and delay the coming political and industrial changes we will have to make in stages to prevent a incredible disaster in the end of this century ....

Too bad for mental midgets like Busboy, and the trolls here and elsewhere on the tubes, this report is gonna be hard to deny when major corporations accept it and are willing to accept even modest changes they fought intensely just last year. If they are this willing to compromise right now, they are not gonna like the swell of anger and demands for changes once the true depth of the problem gets out to the general public, and the people of this planet demand something more than a rich bottom line.

The reichwingnuts are about to go batshit insane and howl like banshees at this report , but too bad for them, they could have done something but they were just too ignorant and greedy, so they are being pushed aside so people who want more out of life than a rich bank account and more stock options can have a life worth living on a planet where that is possible.

We’ve all done it! Yes we have. We’ve made comments about Bush, his minions, and about all the illegal things he’s done in the past six years, but none of us have had a visit from the Secret Service. Why is that? Well, it could be because we’re not saying anything that would warrant it because the threat wasn’t specific enough or whatever.

An elderly man in Pennsylvania said in a newspaper comment, “They hung the wrong man” (talking about Saddam’s hanging), and this comment had the Secret Service on this 81 year old’s door step! We’ve all made this comment outloud, haven’t we? I know I have. Even the old man said this sentence can be taken in so many different ways because he wasn’t saying exactly who the other man was who deserved to be hung. Well, it’s implied, but he’s right when he says it could have been Osama bin Laden. Nahhhhhh, even George Bush doesn’t want to hang him!

I thought this article was a good way for us to start the day. ;-)

Ha ha. Poor Georgey. He so badly wants to have a $500 million library to rewrite his own history and he wants to be able to nestle it with the confounds of the Southern Methodist University, but unfortunately, as I wrote about awhile ago (of course my archives are gone again so I can't post my link for you...damn trolls), many of the faculty at this college do not want the library at their school because they think it will damage the credibility of it...and now...other Methodist ministers outside this university are now creating an online petition to also stop the destruction! I'm loving it!!!

Who wants to bet that George W. Bush will have to have the first floating presidential library on the oceans of the Earth because the country he was the president of refuse to be associated with him or his rewriting of his time in office? I wonder how he feels about this knowing that his own Evangelicals are turning against him now? I would love to know!

It's kind of interesting to me. A US helicopter goes down in Iraq yesterday and twelve of our brave soldiers die in the crash. It's first reported as a 'malfunction' of the plane, but then as the day goes on or as the hours go by, it's changed to 'illegally armed militias' are suspected of taking this helicopter down by using a rocket propelled grenade or whatever. Hmmmmm....'illegally armed militias'? Who are these people? Are they ones that are being armed by the Saudi royals? Don't know! All I know is the civil war in this illegal occupation is getting much worse and the Bush Regime is too embarrassed to say that too! They keep saying 'dust storms' or 'malfunctions' are causing these crashes, when in reality, they just don't want to admit that our soldiers are becoming helpless against everyone!

Here is a short chronology of the deadliest days for U.S. forces since the start of the war:

2003:

Nov 2 - Chinook helicopter shot down near Falluja. Sixteen U.S. troops killed and 21 others on board hurt.

Nov 15 - Two Black Hawk helicopters collide under fire in Mosul, 17 soldiers killed.

2004:

Jan 8 - Black Hawk helicopter shot down near Falluja, killing all nine soldiers aboard.

April 29 - Car bomb near Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, kills eight U.S. soldiers.

Dec 21 - Suicide bomber in Iraqi uniform walks into mess tent at Mosul and kills 21 people, 18 of them Americans, including 14 U.S. troops.

2005:

Jan 6 - Seven soldiers killed when a roadside bomb destroys their Bradley fighting vehicle in Baghdad.

Jan 26 - U.S. Marine transport helicopter ferrying troops comes down in western desert, killing 31 aboard.

June 23 - Seven troops, three of them women, killed in Falluja when a suicide car bomber detonates by a Marine truck.

July 24 - Four soldiers killed when a Humvee patrol vehicle is destroyed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad, and four killed when a Bradley fighting vehicle is hit by another bomb in the city.

Aug 3 - Fourteen Marines killed in a roadside bomb blast on a Marine amphibious assault vehicle near Haditha, northwest of Baghdad. A civilian interpreter was also killed.

Dec 1 - Ten U.S. Marines are killed near Falluja in an insurgent bombing. Another is killed in Ramadi.

2006:

Jan 5 - Eleven U.S. soldiers are killed in separate incidents the worst of which was the deaths of five in Baghdad when a roadside bomb hit their patrol.

Jan 7 - Eighteen U.S. soldiers are killed, 12 of whom died when a Blackhawk helicopter came down near the town of Tal Afar near Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad.

Aug 27 - Twelve U.S. soldiers killed in total in Iraq mostly in Baghdad.

Oct 17 - Eleven U.S. soldiers killed in separate incidents all around Iraq.

Dec 6 - Ten U.S. soldiers are killed in four incidents around Iraq, some killed by roadside bombs and others in combat.

2007:

Jan 20 - A U.S. military helicopter goes down northeast of Baghdad, killing all 13 people aboard, and five soldiers are killed by militiamen in Kerbala. The deaths of 22 soldiers in total were announced, two of which occurred the previous day.

I'm getting sick of this illegal occupation of Iraq! It's time to bring our troops home and let the Sunnis/Shiites/Iranians/Saudis fight it instead. Of course, there's oil there in Iraq, so the Bush Regime really doesn't want to lose control of it to either Iran or Saudi Arabia. What a freaking mess!

Sweet Jenna Bush, daughter of the infamous George W Bush is shopping a book proposal to all the major publishers in New York. This will be the first book from this first daughter.

Opinions vary, but many believe the book will tell of her "experiences" in her young 25 year old life, that has been riddled with scandal and appeal.

What exactly could the "experiences" of a young 25 year old girl from the range of Texas be? What could a 25 year old girl, an enemployed college graduate with uncertainty of future employment have to say?

Will Jenna tell of her life at home with her father, a "former" alcoholic, oilman and now President, and her mother a society maiden, who possibly has a passion for the finer beverages of substance?

Will Jenna tell of a father bringing home night after night, the Condi's and Karen's and the Harriet's of the world to "consult" into the wee hours of the Texas morning?

Will Jenna tell of a mother, who found solace and comfort from those lonely nights with a bottle from Beam?

Could the book entail the life of twin twinkies who found more fun in the bars of Belmont than they did on the range in Texas.

Will Jenna discuss her many arrests, both public and concealed that brought embarrassment to the grandparents, but pride to her daddy that she loves so much?

Does Jenna plan on giving details about the twins wild time in Argentina where the embassy asked them to leave, but being a Bush they merely said no. How about picking up an unemployed Argentina citizen, and skipping the latest family Christmas, in favor of a romp in the setting sun?

Could Jenna portray herself as a quite child who cares about the world and the turmoil it is in, or will she describe those sessions of love that the twins may have shared with certain men?

Is Jenna going to tell of the pain her mother feels after watching a woman on TV say that Laura's husband is really hers? Will Jenna describe of times of propping momma Laura up with pillows so she could sit straight for white house photos?

How will Jenna cover the war in Iraq? How will Jenna describe having the same traits as her arrogant, greedy, wild father of whose eyes she has fondly proclaimed to be the apple of?

Could the book have revealing pictures of the Bush twins with their bodies bare and shorn? Could the book be filled with recipes of Laura's baked duck, marinated in brandy and gin?

The world awaits the 25 years of episodes, of a family filled with drunkenness and pain. It awaits the sex scandals, drug tales, the promiscuity and tirades that only this family could have produced.

The book will be all Jenna! Jenna! Jenna! Promiscuous! Scandalous! Eristic!

This is the ONLY speech I ever want the hear come out of the mouth of George Bush.

Hopefully he will give it soon.

Incredible. I wake up this morning to hear that Attorney Alberto Gonzales has declared that they, the Bush Regime, will NOW be going to the FISA Court to obtain warrants to spy on Americans. Well, what do you know! Isn't that fantastic? Spit.

From the Washington Post:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales fended off lawmakers on Thursday who demanded to know why the administration took more than five years to obtain court approval of its war-time domestic spying.

"I somewhat take issue ... with (Republican) Senator Arlen Specter's innuendo that this is something we could have pulled off the shelf and done in a matter of days or weeks," Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "This is a very complicated application. We worked on it a long time."

Gonzales announced an abrupt end to the warrantless electronic surveillance program on Wednesday, just two weeks after Democrats took control of the U.S. Congress, promising investigations and legislation to bring the program in line with the law

Of course, this is an admission of guilt on their part, because by saying they are going to go by the laws set forth by our country NOW, which is basically admitting they haven't been going by the laws for years. We knew that, though, didn't we? We liberals have been screaming about this illegal surveillance program for years now and what response did we get? The neocons called us traitors to our country. Uh, sorry, but a traitor is one who spits on the US Constitution and then lies to the American people by saying he's not doing anything illegal and then one day has his Attorney General announce that he's going to start doing the spying the legal way! Of for the love of the Banana Cupcakes...

They truly believe this announcement is going to wipe the slate clean for themselves and all the judges involved (one judge has already ruled that the Bush Regime's Terror Surveillance program is illegal and un-Constitutional). Bottom line is they're nervous. They know that if the other judges declare the Regime's activities for the last 6 years as un-Constitutional (which they will), then the Congress will have to impeach and can impeach on this alone. The president of the United States of America must take an oath to uphold the laws of our nation and what Bush and his minions have done is override all of them since Bush stepped foot in the Oval Office in January 2001!

The members of Bush's Regime are nervous. Not only are they trying to backtrack their steps in their illegal surveillance program, but they also decided to fire five out of ten Federal Prosecutors who are currently or have handled republican corruption cases:

From Mother Jones (links to Josh Marshall's site too):

The Mysterious Case of the Federal Prosecutor Firings

Josh Marshall weighs in today with an interesting column in The Hill about the rash of federal prosecutors who have apparently been forced out by the Bush administration in recent weeks. Among the latest to go is San Diego US Attorney Carol Lam, whose office prosecuted the Randy "Duke" Cunningham bribery case and who announced her resignation on Tuesday. "The current work of the other fired USAs has less direct political implications," Marshall writes. "But several seem to have had ongoing investigations of allegedly corrupt Republicans."

Guess who the Bush Regime is using to fill the openings now? [wait for it...wait for it...} Aha! Bingo! Cronies from the Republican National Committee!! Of course, when all else fails and your own judges you originally appointed for these slots start to GO BY THE RULE OF LAW and start prosecuting and imprisoning your own, well then, of course it makes sense to put a bunch of RNC political operative attorneys in instead!

Incredible. Have I lost patience? Yes I have. I want to see everyone from Bush on down the line to be hounded, caught, shackled, led to prison, be found guilty, and then either:

Prison for life or Death penalty. I'm impatient but not too terribly choosey on how their story ends. They are traitors to our country. They should be dealt with accordingly.

The End.

On June 9, 2006, young Andrew Rove graduated from an elite school in Washington DC. Andrew may live in an upscale neighborhood, drive an expensive sporty car but Andrew is ready for adult life to begin.

Young Andrew Rove has had heartache in his family. His grandmother committed suicide, his grandfather admitted to being gay and left the family he once knew so well.

Young Andrew does have ambitions. He is currently doing volunteer work for Texas Governor Rick Perry and he is trying to decide what he wants to do with his future.

Young Andrew has been encouraged to follow the career path of his father. In fact young Andrew's father is considered an architect.

Andrew's father never served in the Vietnam war of his era. His military draft number was drawn but he quickly enrolled in the University of Utah so he was given a deferral. In fact, shortly after enrolling in college, he withdrew from his classes, but was able to maintain his deferment.

Andrew's father is quite famous for his architect work. He could also be labeled an engineer. His father engineered his loyal stablemate to the Presidency.

Young Andrew's father is the infamous Karl Rove, who is not only considered the architect of ambition, but he is believed to have been a major architect in the creation of the Iraq war.

Andrew's father receives daily reports of the deaths and injuries from the Iraq war he helped engineer. He receives updates on the devastation that this war has caused to the Iraqi people, as well as the families of U.S soldiers.

Karl Rove is actively promoting the "surge" idea he helped create. He is working behind the scenes to twist the arms of Republican lawmakers to gain support for this war.

Karl Rove believes in war. He not only wants to continue the war in Iraq, but he also wants to spread it throughout the mideast.

The military is having trouble recruiting young people for this war. They have even forced some inactive soldiers back into the service and into Iraq.

If Karl Rove really believes Iraq war must be continued and spread abroad, then perhaps he should help reinstate the draft.

The perfect candidate for fighting the Rove/Bush/Cheney war would be young Andrew Rove. Andrew is the exact age the military is trying to recruit.

Young Andrew would make a fine example to Americans that the war is winnable and necessary. If Young Andrew were to be forced into military service and quickly into Iraq, wouldn't that send the citizens of the U.S a clear message?

If Karl Rove and George W Bush really believe that the war is vital to "National Security" and a must in the war on terror, then why not make young Andrew Rove go to the frontlines of Iraq and fight for his daddy's war, and America's freedom?

Lets take a major step and "End The War With a One Day Draft" and while we're at it, doesn't George W Bush have a couple of daughters about the same age as Andrew that have nothing better to do than fight their daddy's war in Iraq as well?

Fox Apologizes for On-Air Profanity


No, Not Bill O'Rally .... really this story is NOT about him ... really I am not kidding ... Yes he is a verbal porn master, just ask Andrea Mackris she even taped some of Bill O's greatest hits...... but Fox is NOT apologizing for THAT....

No .. no it is not about Sean Hannity either... no neither is it an apology for Hannity putting Coulterguist on the air. Come on I know it is profanity when ever that lying fraud is allowed to speak, but this story is NOT about that either... yes IT is a walking verbal porn master, but Fox never apologizes for things like that....

No Rush Limpnballs usually does not do Fox, he is not even up to their LOW standards....

Yes his show is verbal porn, but since it is NOT on Fox they really can't apologize for it ....

No this is NOT about apologizing for Heraldo Rivera.. yes he is the biggest media whore ever, but Fox is NOT apologizing for hiring HIM

No after all your questions, I guess the real story is gonna be a let down;

Fox has apologized for showing a T-shirt with the slogan "fuck da Eagles" in primetime during its coverage of the New Orleans Saints/Philadelphia Eagles NFL playoff game Saturday, Jan. 13.

Unlike much live TV programming these days, the game had no delay. "It was unintentional, inadvertent, and we apologize," said Fox Sports spokesman Dan Bell.

The Parents Television Council has asked its members to complain to the FCC about the on-camera profanity, saying it had "no doubt" it was intentional. But the FCC would be unlikely to act on that or any other profanity complaints until a federal court has ruled on a challenge by broadcasters, including Fox, to its new profanity-enforcement policy.

See it was not that big a deal except to the reichwingnut censor committee Brent "the censor in chief" Bozell sponsors....

fuck da Parents Television Council and Brent Bozell ... hey finally something Pussboy might be qualified to do .... Since Pussboy always takes everything so literally ... yes I know they are NOT sheep, but Bozell has that beard Pussboy can run his fingers through ...... what ya think Rocky?

For the last five or so days I've had computer problems. What started out as possibly being a toasted hard drive (definately part of it for sure) ended up being a fiasco. When the Firedog guys installed the new hard drive on my computer everything seemed to be running smoothly. As they were re-installing the applications/drivers etc. the screen suddenly went black. They told me that it's possibly a video card but wanted me to give them time to look at it for them to be sure. So, I came in last night to see what they had found. The tech I had been dealing with had just reported to work, so he said to me that he was going to install a new video card free of charge so I could have my computer back. He installed it and the screen remained black. Oh for the love of the Banana Cupcakes!!! All the techs determined that the motherboard was shot. After much discussion about it, I decided to not put anymore money in this old computer and decided to buy a newer better one.

I now have a new computer and will be getting rid of dial-up at the end of next week to increase my Internet experience. Getting rid of AOL will be my greatest pleasure!!! I am so looking forward to it!!

I've missed all of you and can't wait to get back into the swing of things. One thing I did notice during the last few days of not having the Internet is the brainwashing by the ROM (republican owned media). It is unbelievable! They truly talk about nothing and if you didn't have any other source to get your news from you would literally think there wasn't an illegal occupation going on and you would think the republicans are the trusted party in our government now. Stunning to me that the media is pulling apart all of the democrat's pieces of legislation in the past few days! Where were these same media people over the past six years when the republicans were playing their games? Oh that's right....turning the other cheek. It's so sick what is happening on our televisions. Thank the Spaghetti Monster for Keith Olbermann and in a small way....Joe Scarborough (yes, he's a right winger, but he's been taking a more neutral position in the last few days that I can see.)!!!

I'm happy to be back! Woohoo!

At his magnificent hands came the torture of many. At his magnificent hands came the slaughter of thousands. At his magnificent hands came the removal of freedoms he no longer saw necessary. At his magnificent hands came wealth to a few.

We honor this leader of millions who look at him in wonder. We honor this leader who has coddled the interests of a few. We honor this leader who brings fear to millions and evil that we seldom knew..

Because of who you are we give you this honor. Because of who you are we give you this day. Because of who you are we will never be the same. We give this honor to you, because of who you are.

Enjoy your award George W Bush. America is a mess, BECAUSE OF WHO YOU ARE!

There is a quite revolution a foot. It involves the United States justice Department, and the US Attorneys for each district of the justice department. These people decide who the United States takes to trial, and what they charge them with. In larger cases they actually lead the prosecution.

The people like Patrick Fitzgerald who is the US attorney in Chicago, who was picked to look into the Valerie Plame affair and is NOW prosecuting Scooter Libby for LYING. Since they have such enormous power over ordinary citizens as well as the rich and powerful, they usually are nominated by the attorney general and approved by the Senate. Well in the patriot act there is a provision that allows the president to replace the attorneys without any senate approval at all.

Bush is wasting NO time at all, seven so far and counting. He has replaced a US attorney in Arkansas with a repugnant sycophant which has spent the last ten years helping people like Karl Rove and the republican national committee.

In San Diego Bush has gone after the Attorney who prosecuted Duke Cunningham for his corruption, could the message be ..if you prosecute the wrong people your career is over?

He is also going after the US prosecutor, Kevin V. Ryan, who is overseeing the investigation of backdating of stock options. It has cost a few rich CEO's their jobs and must have caused a few late night phone calls to the White House in protest. Message, leave the rich CEO’s alone...

Not only has Bush tried to stack the courts with reichwingnut judges to decide for their benefactors, but he is also stacking the prosecuting attorney Offices of this country with similar minded people to make sure the trials they seek are politically correct from a political standpoint for them also.

In the future is it possible for corrupt republican political operators and henchmen to act with impunity because the Bush appointed US Attorney will find insufficient the act or the evidence to bring a prosecution under the law as they will define it, and if they have to prosecute for political reasons they could sabotage their cases in front of Bush appointed judges who want to find that particular person not guilty.

Remember the decision of Bush v Gore if you think this type of justice is not possible...

This type of revolution in the US Justice system we definitely do not need.

It is said that behind every great man stands a woman. Every great man in history had a woman behind him to console him in times of difficulty, to advise him when he can trust noone else, and to encourage him to not give up.

George Washington had Martha behind him in his drive to greatness. Abe Lincoln had Mary Todd standing behind him as he made the historic choice to bring equality to all Americans.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt had Eleanor standing strongly behind him as he brought the country out of the pit of despair into the greatness it soon became.

Today there is a woman who stands proudly behind her man as he makes those "tough decisions." This woman has been there into the wee hours of the night, saying you can do it, you can make it happen.

This woman has no ability to be articulate. This woman has no ability to negotiate successful deals. This woman has no ability to make wise decisions. This woman has failed in everything she has tried to do.

As this woman stands proudly behind her man with eyes of adoration, with the determination of a bulldog, with the wisdom that has quietly guided her man to where he is today, it is safe to assume that her man is in his current state because of the woman behind the man.

The woman behind the man who has guided him to what he has become today, the woman who has advised, consoled, and brought much comfort in the darkest of times, is known to the world simply as "Condi."

Condi is the woman behind her man George W Bush and as in history before her, the reason America is where it stands today, the reason George W Bush is where he finds himself today, is because of the "woman behind the man" Condi.

"Surge On" Condi as you stand behind your man as he brings the nation further into the gutters of war. "Surge On" Condi as you shop the marketplaces of the world looking for the "perfect jean jacket" for your man. "Surge On" Condi as you stand behind your man into the halls of evil, into the darkness of despair, into the hallows of hell.

"Surge On" Condi you are the mind behind the mindless, the clue behind the clueless, the heart behind the heartless. "Surge On" Condi, America is in the state it's in today because of the "Woman Behind the Man."

This is my war and you can't stop me. I will not rest until the world is at war. I will not stop until I control the Mideast oil. I will not quit until I control the world.

I don't care what Congress or the American people think. I want more bloodshed and I can't be stopped.

This portrait shows the state of the American President as he prepares to launch yet another war.

Is he Deranged? Is he a Madman? Is he Evil? Is he simply Misguided? Is he a Waraphobic? Is he Dangerous? Is he the Crockpot Cowboy that swaggers to and fro? Who is this Amourous Prologue of War?

The morning after Bush's speech to the country about his reasons for escalating an already failed illegal occupation and about his intentions to start more wars in Iran and Syria really had my whole body rattled...physically and emotionally. I thought to myself that our country is in complete jeopardy because we have a man leading our country who could give two shits about what the American people think and he has no one around him to stop his madness. If his approval rating gets down to 8%, he won't care. He has an agenda, which is backed by those around him, and he is not going to change it no matter what is said and done.

Here's what Bush has done:

1) He ignored tons of warnings that an attack to our country was coming and when the attack happened on 9/11/01, he immediately said he wanted to go to attack Iraq. Right off the bat, he was not listening to those around him who were saying it was al-Qaida who attacked us and not Iraq.

2) He ignored the authorization bill that war would be used as a last resort in Iraq and started an illegal occupation of a nation that had nothing to do with 9/11 and who was not waging war against us (Iraq was soveriegn and soveriegnty has it's protections from tyrannts like Bush and his Cabal). He pulled the UN Inspectors off the ground in Iraq within a few weeks because he didn't care what anyone said....he wanted to go to war in that country and didn't care what was on paper making it illegal for him to do so.

3) He has issued himself over 800 signing statements which is allowing him to ignore the laws in our country. He took an oath to uphold these laws and he is refusing to acknowledge them.

4) He has refused to listen to the Generals on the ground in Iraq and the Generals who have spoken out against his plans or strategies are quickly pushed out of their jobs and filled with those Generals who will agree with everything he says. His Generals are now saying an escalation in troops is not going to make a difference and will only increase more violence and upheival in the region. Bush doesn't care. He's not listening. He's going to escalate no matter what any of these Generals say.

5) He has rendered the Congress useless. He no longer recognizes them. As soon as a piece of legislation is passed and put on his desk for his signature, he will immediately issue an Executive Order (signing statement) saying he can construe the bill any way he wants and he can just ignore it if he wants to. He has given himself more power than our system of government allows him to have....even in a time of war. He believes that he is the power in the country and everyone under him has none. His own party members in the House & Senate are speaking out against this escalation in Iraq, but Bush doesn't care. He has annoited himself the king and will do what he wants to do in the end.

6) He refuses to listen to the American people. Americans are not allowed to get near him and are held far away from him in cages because he will not allow them their right to speak out against him and his atrocious policies. He only allows loyalists/nationalists to get near him. He doesn't care that he is slowly taking the rights of the American people away. He gives the finger to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and to us on a daily basis.

7) Bush and the members of his Cabinet are domestic enemies for the reasons listed above. They are working separately from the laws and the system of government our country has. They don't see themselves as citizens who are not above the laws. They see themselves as the law of the land.

8) He would not allow any members of the White House Press Corps Association into the room where Bush's speech was from, but only allowed Fox News to be able to take still photos of him. Why? He is suppressing Americans that's why! He is not a well man and he does not want Americans to see the proof of that (though, we did see it on our televisions when he gave this speech). Some are suggesting over at AMERICAblog in the link above that there is a huge possibility that Bush's speech WAS NOT LIVE TO THE NATION. What was he trying to hide? Was he taking pills before the cameras were turned on? Was he acting delusional and irrational and didn't want the cameras of those news outlets that are not from his own personal media (Fox News) to record it? Well, no one knows. The White House issued a still photo to the WHPCA to be the fill-in for what he didn't want Americans to see instead. Traitorous.

Dangerous thinking and actions, but who has the power to stop this madness?!!!

ANSWER: The US military has the power to restore the republic FOR the American people.

We, the American people and the systems of checks and balances put in place by our Forefathers do not have the power to stop Bush. We don't. He is staying the course of tyranny and treason despite any intervention of any kind. At this point, Bush and his Administration are domestic enemies of the United States of America. They need to be arrested, tried, and imprisoned and the only way for that to happen is for the United States military to storm the White House, Camp David, the ranch in Texas, the Bush Family Compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, and all the bunkers and other places where the members of Bush's Cabinet go to protect Americans and to restore our republic back to the way it was prior to the 2000 election.

Our nation and it's systems are no longer working the way they always have. Our Forefathers, if alive today, would be rounding up arms to take down these traitors. You can bet your sweet bippy they would!

I'm all for it. Send in the military and use either our Congress or the US Supreme Court to pause the nation, so the states can create a special election ballot with the new candidates hand chosen by each of the parties. Nancy Pelosi, who is the current Speaker of the House and third in line to the presidency, would be put in temporarily as the President, so Americans could at least feel that continuity is there until a new White House is formed.

I think it's the only way.

At some point Bush will have no option left, but blame HIS failures in Iraq on the Iraqi people and the puppet government he installed there...

Eventually it will come down to this point...

Forget the fact that Bush ignored hundreds of people both in government service inside and out side the military who said the invasion was a bad idea....

Forget the fact Bush ignored the military experts who tried in vain to tell him the plan was inadequate...

Forget the fact that Bush ignored and basically fired a four star general for having the nerve to tell Georgie he did not have enough troops in the initial plan..(which Bush has finnally admitted was the truth)...

Forget the fact that Bush ignored the facts on the ground and demoted or fired people who had the aduacity to tell the truth of the looming fiasco back in 2003 and 2004...

Forget the fact that Bush continued to ignore the facts and tried to create his own reality to explain the bad news coming from Iraq...


Forget the fact that Bush tried to escape responsibility by blaming the media for reporting the TRUTH....

Now with his lies and incompetence exposed for all to see, and the facts on the ground too horrible and numerous to ignore... Bush will take the cowards way out one LAST time...it is the Iraqi people and Maliki's fault because they would NOT goose step in line with Bush....

Forget the fact the Bush put L Paul bremer in charge in 2003 and Bush and Bremer RAN Iraq until June 2004 when the Insurgency was BORN and had it's initial growth to include the original Fallugha incident and first attack on Falugha ...

Forget the fact that from the summer of 2004 until March 2006 The Iraqi government consisted of US hand picked people L Paul bremer put in place to write a constitution to be approved by the US and voted on by members of a Parliment created by the US...

Forget the fact that while this hand picked government was in place Fallugha was savagely attacked by US forces..enraging the Sunni Iraqis feeding the insurgency...

Forget the fact that Abu ghraibe even happened...which further enraged the Iraqi people but especially the Sunnis...and fed the insurgency

Forget the fact that when ever the insurgency was brought up from 2003 until the summer of 2006 the US governments position was it was "just a few dead enders" and was in its "last throes" even as it grew by leaps and bounds...


Forget all the "corners we were turning" as we "stayed the course" of ignoring the truth and facts on the ground because it was politically expedient to do so IN the US....

Forget all of this and so much more....forget everything but the fact that the Iraqi people would NOT blindly follow Bush and the neo-cons who invaded their country under false pretenses....

Forget the fact at this point ONLY George W Bush has been in charge from before the invasion until this very day...no one else...

Then you can understand why at this date the official line is becoming, It is Maliki and the Iraqi peoples fault for NOT doing as we demanded them to......

Good thing it was really all about a democracy where the Iraqi peoples had a vote wasn't it...

Forget the fact they had NO vote for or against the invasion...

Forget the fact that they had no vote when and where the US military was going to attack their cities, homes, kill their relatives and friends or destroy their entire country...no that is NOT part of democracy as far as Bush is considered....

Forget the fact they had no vote who was going to be arrested... or tortured...

Forget the fact the Iraqi people had no vote in the reconstruction...

Forget the facts and just listen to George W Bush ... ONE MORE TIME...

It has really come down to this....again.

...are the White House's official liquid paper to hide their incompetency and whose relationship will never die. Would you just look at them! How lucky Americans are to have this loving couple running the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee! It's a love fest people....a love fest! I swear...if their oversight meetings didn't have cameras in the room, these two would be rolling around on the floor in a frothing embrace and sucking each other's faces off.

Miss Susan and Mr. "I'm a traitor to everyone who is not a GOPer!" Joe have a common bond between them...George W. Bush (and those that appease him) and making sure they do nothing (nothing I tell ya!) to make him or any of his minions look bad or incompetent. Yes, these two work diligently to put clothing on America's 'naked emperor' and his gang. They truly are the "White Out for the King". Now, why do I mention their undying loyalty? Remember hurricane Katrina that devastated the Gulf Coast in August of 2005 and during this storm Condi Rice was shoe shopping in NYC while George Bush was playing guitar and eating cake with John McCain to raise money all the while our fellow Americans were drowning in their attics? That's why I mention all of this. I'm still upset with Susan & Joe and what they didn't do!

The reason why our system of government has these oversight committees is to provide oversight of our government officials no matter what level they are on. Well, back in 2005, Ms. Susan Collins who was Chairman at the time of the Senate Homeland Security committee REFUSED to subpoena the White House after this heartwrenching, history making storm. Even after all of the Gulf States declared a Federal Emergency, which put the responsibility mostly in the hands of the Federal Government at that point forward, ole Susan didn't think calling Bush or the members of his Cabinet to come testify before her was the right thing to do and she made a point of saying this:

"As a result of our efforts, we have a clear window into the functioning and role of the White House in the days before and after Hurricane Katrina made landfall," Collins said.

She added: "In my judgment, such subpoenas are neither warranted nor appropriate."

She had a "clear" window? Her clear window was smeared with her own White Out liquid! Bush was playing guitar and had to be shown a videotape of the aftermath of this catastrophe, because he had no freaking clue what was going on and it was his incompetency along with those under him that led to more suffering of the people of all the states effected! Oh for the love of...

What really irked me is she also said back then, she didn't want to impede on the investigation that the White House was doing on themselves. Uh huh. Well, that investigation, Susan, consisted of Bush in the bathroom of his personal quarters in the White House with him talking to an imaginary Michael Brown using a tin can and string phone with one end to his left ear and the other end to his right ear!

Fast forward to today and we now have Joe Lieberman as the Chairman of this same committee and he has announced that he will not subpoena anyone in the White House and will not bog down the nation to get to the bottom of what really happened. Bog us down? Americans want an investigation! He now says he would much rather focus on protecting our nation. Wow! Noooooow, he's thinking about protecting Americans, of course, Joe hasn't actually said which Americans he plans to focus on protecting, but I get a sneaking suspicion, we will find out at some point. Scary....

The White House has never been investigated to the extent it should have been after hurricane Katrina hit. Unfortunately, our country has the same two bottles of White Out imbeciles at the head of the committee that is to make sure our government is doing their jobs when it comes to protecting Americans then...and now. Incredible.

Senator Susan Collins won't be able to find a backbone to do what is right for our country by demanding that an investigation be done of the White House for the benefit of the Katrina victims and to uphold the checks and balances our nation insists on. It doesn't matter that she is on an oversight committee that could do good for all of us either. She has the power to make right with Americans, but she won't. Most infuriating is her relationship with Senator Joe Lieberman, which is obviously more important to her at this point. He is a man who has lost any integrity that he once had. He's a liar, a deceiver, and is not loyal to America. This could explain why they're so close...they have more than one common bond between them!

Great, just great.

You should have seen this woman today testifying in front of our Senators! What a freaking liar, deceiver, and pro at using Orwellian terms to explain the actions of herself and others these past four years. Americans should be so happy, though, that the TOUGH questions are finally being asked. When the meeting was getting ready to end, Senator Joe Biden said to Condi that she needs to come up with the document/proof that the Bush Regime has the right to attack Iran without Congressional approval. Her face went blank, her skin went pale, and she never said a word. She just stared blankly ahead. Wow! More to come too. Woohoo! (Smoke of Americablog posted this picture tonight, so a big hat-tip to him!!!) ;-)

George W Bush has proudly given Americans a gift so large, that in receiving it they will never be the same. This gift was not asked for, this gift was desired by very few. This gift will forever change Americans and the way they will live their lives.

The Bush gift comes with a price. That price comes is in the form of oceans of blood flowing from the bodies of U.S soldiers. It includes lost limbs, torn out eyes and trauma from which they will never recover.

The Bush gift also will cost Americans nearly a Trillion dollars from the coffers of the U.S treasury. Bush claims he will rebuild Iraq and create jobs for Iraqi's, but in reality he has created a one way reservoir of tax payer dollars flowing into the accounts of Haliburton to Cheney.

The third part of this price tag is the fear that Bush's gift has brought to many Americans. This fear stems from not knowing what evil tirade Bush will level next, what country he will next invade, and will their sons and daughters be pulled into this quicksand of death and doom.

Enjoy your "gift" America. Bush has given it to you whether you wanted it or not.

George Bush is beginning to enter the territory previously held by a person from Baghdad during the initial invasion used to be known by the name of Baghdad Bob. This person denied reality even though it was plainly broadcast by major media outlets, and all he had to do was watch Television, and he would see his pronouncements were simply delusional if not totally insane. George W Bush's wishes for a pony in the guise of victory in Iraq is simply his version of an imitation of the best Baghdad Bob ever had to offer....pure delusional political propaganda disguised as the truth for domestic consumption, which has no real possibility of affecting the outcome of the fiasco Bush started.

Right after Bush's abominable speech last night to us, US forces stormed the Iranian Consulate:

U.S. Forces Raid Iranian Consulate in Iraq, Detain 5 (Update2)

By Marc Wolfensberger and Robin Stringer

Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. forces in Iraq raided Iran's consulate in the northern city of Arbil and detained five staff members, a state-run Iranian news service said.

The U.S. soldiers disarmed guards and broke open the consulate's gate before seizing documents and computers during the operation, which took place today at about 5 a.m. local time, the Islamic Republic News Agency said. There was no immediate information on whether any of those detained are diplomats.

The raid follows a warning yesterday to Iran and Syria from President George W. Bush in his address to the American people on a new strategy for Iraq. Bush accused Iran and Syria of aiding the movement of ``terrorists and insurgents'' in and out of Iraq and said the U.S. will ``seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies.''

READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE HERE.

The bastard! I hate Bush and everyone around him. I want the US military to storm the White House and all other places these assholes go to be arrested and brought up on war crimes. Hitler escaped his punishment but we cannot let Bushitler and his Brownshirts escape their atrocities and war crimes!

The greatest minds of the Bush administration has designed a clear road map for further escalation of Bush's "Blood For Oil" orgasm tour coming to a Mideast country near you.

Surge On King George, World War III is on it's way.

Hi , My name is George W Bush, and tonight I want to talk to you about the war in Iraq, the war that I lied about the WMD's to get, the war I lied about mission accomplished to keep. The war that I lied and said we were winning, the same war I have had the pentagon lie about how many Iraqi casualties we created. The war where it is much worse than I ever said it was, and denied the funding for the troops to have the best body armor and vehicles to keep them safe. The war where we did not have enough troops initially and the plan sucked big time. But what the hell Rummy promised me it was all good and what do I know about fighting a war, I hid out in a special national guard unit my daddy got for me, and went AWOL when the air force started checking for cocaine...so I really know nothing about war except for what Dick who hid from Vietnam keeps telling me.

Tonight I want to get you to agree to send more troops into this quagmire I created because it ain't going as well as I lied about before the election, but I need it to get better so we can start developing the oil there. After all the Iraqi's are soon to pass the oil law Bremer wrote for them. BTW if those new troops do not get this war under control by November I promise to get them out, but do not hold me to that either .. after all I lie remember. Well I am at it, I'm sending a Navy Carrier Battle group into the region so when Israel attacks Iran for Me we can give them some air cover, after all it is the least we can do for them at this point. Well besides the patriot missile batteries we are sending to Israel to shoot down the missiles Iran shoots at them after the Israelis blow the hell out of their nuclear reactors and enrichment sites for us. But what the hell, it ain't like the US is attacking Iran is it? BTW don't worry about none of that cause my friends at Fox tell me they are willing to lie to you all, also. Fox will lie for me to get you all so scared you'll think a nuclear attack by Israel on Iran is making you all safe. I really like how Fox news lies, that is why I hired Tony Snow from then to lie just for me right now. Since we are all safer with the decisions I decided ignoring the people my daddy sent to stop me, I just want you all to go shopping and buy a lot of gas...a whole lot of gas. If you buy a whole lot of gas that makes my friends happy, and my friends tell me I am a great president, which makes me feel good. If I feel good we must be winning the war right? Well I am glad you all still listen to my stupid speeches, now Karl is telling me it is time for milk and cookies, which I really like nite y'all. Remember go to the churches which approve of me and listen to the preachers tell you all how bad those democrats really are so you all will vote right next time.

Self-proclaimed American Emperor George W Bush stood before the world and announced a "Surge" or escalation of his war for oil scheme.

Emperor Bush also announced to the world his veiled plans to "Surge" into Iran and Syria with his war to conquer the oil of the Mideast.

Emperor Bush's speech was filled with "empty promises, mindless blather, shameless demagoguery and facist theoracy among other fabrications."

American Emperor George W Bush - liar, fabricator, maker of wars, destroyer of innocent lives. An American icon in his own evil mind.

I'm so sick and tired of this man running the show here in America and abroad! Tonight he's going to lay out another assinine plan for Iraq and of course, he'll be forgetting to include the impact of his decisions he makes.

He's very consistent in making insane decisions for us and for the future of the Iraqi people. Hell, I don't really think he cares for either actually. His ideas are like the ones, when you're in a room full of people hashing out plans, where the room goes silent after a moron blurts out something completely ridiculous! Unfortunately, this person is now running our country and when he blurts this shit out, he has people around him that nod their heads in agreement and are too afraid to speak out against him, because they don't want to lose their freaking jobs. Disgusting. If any Americans still support this man, then please consider yourself a Hitler-sympathizer, because that is exactly what you're defending when you hail this man as your chief.

Bush wants to escalate this illegal occupation in Iraq. Irag in the last 4 years under Bush's leadership has descended into a cess pool of chaos. American troops are fighting to protect themselves everyday from the Iraqi people and those who have come into Iraq to fight us out of Iraq. The Sunnis are fighting the Shiites and the Shiites, who mostly hail from the country of Iran, are in control of Iraq pretty much. This war is already lost when you think about Iran being in control of Iraq! Oh, but you can't say to Bush, "The Iranians won this illegal occupation Bush! Time to freaking leave!". Nope. The man thinks it's better to add more motor oil to the freaking cake batter to make it tastier.

Speaking of leaving, the Saudi Arabians have stated that they would send in their own troops into Iraq if the Americans left. I think that's a great idea! I say...the money that was allotted for this occupation last year for this year should go in getting our soldiers out of Iraq as fast as they were brought in (Bush got them in there quick enough...he can get them out just as fast!), cut off the money to the American corporations that are there and who haven't done a damn thing for years now (these "security" companies can freaking use OUR money that they stole from us to get their own asses out of there too! Too bad if THEY have to fight their way out, because hey, they're only there to steal America's money under the guise of "securing Iraq in the name of democracy", so with this in mind, they should be happy to leave to give the jobs to the Iraqis, right?), and then tell the Saudis, who haven't lifted a finger for the past 4 years since Bush decided to take a bat to the Middle East bee's nest, to have at it! Let the Saudis fight this goddman mess. They've benefitted the most from this atrocious occupation, so it's about time they got physically and emotionally involved. Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudis and Osama himself hailed from there, so why not let the Saudis put themselves in harm's way then! I think it's a great idea. I wouldn't be upset either if Osama was on the frontlines either. His chances of getting a bullet between the ears will be greater than with Bush in office!

Bush's escalation of this war won't be temporary, because word has it that he wants to surge for 18 months. That's not a 'surge' or an 'escalation' Mr. Bush.....THAT'S A FRIGGIN MORONIC DESCRIPTION MADE BY SOME ASSHOLE IN THE ROOM! He's just wants future presidents to handle his TANGLED MESS that he has no idea how to fix. That's all it is. I don't think he ever thought that his fear tactics he's used over the years would result in a 2006 election loss, where the American people told him that they no longer trust his party or him or want the Iraqi occuapation to last. The American people told him that we want a swift end to this. The American people do not see how we can win over there and we certainly don't have the ego Bush does when we can admit that we've lost.

We lost an occupation. Hey, worse things could happen. We could have won the heart and mind of Osama bin Laden. Oh wait. Bush did achieve that. Everything Osama ever wanted, he got with Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq. This in itself is our demise, but you can't tell that to the moron in the room. Nope, he still thinks all his ideas are good and can't understand why everyone is just starring and blinking at him.

Stop funding this occupation and get our troops home by April and if that can't happen, then impeach the bastard without holding one freaking hearing! We already know what he's done that warrants his removal from office, but I think Americans at this point would settle for imprisonment.

Like an insane old man who has lost way too much, but can not accept his losses, Bush is trying to bet even more in Iraq.

He meets the definition of insanity,"Doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result each time he does it."

He needs an intervention, and since the one poppy arranged failed, it is now up to the congress to begin their intervention with legislation blocking the surge, and then cutting off his authority to keep the troops in Iraq, if he refuses that, then the ultimate intervention...

IMPEACHMENT

It is the only sane thing to do then.

AFGHANISTAN....According to the Baltimore Sun, "a U.S. Army infantry battalion fighting in a critical area of eastern Afghanistan is due to be withdrawn within weeks in order to deploy to Iraq." Apparently this battalion is about to become a key part of President Bush's surge strategy. However, the results in Afghanistan could be dire:

According to Army Brig. Gen. Anthony J. Tata and other senior U.S. commanders here, that will happen just as the Taliban is expected to unleash a major campaign to cut the vital road between Kabul and Kandahar. The official said the Taliban intend to seize Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city and the place where the group was organized in the 1990s.

...."It is bleak," said Col. Chris Haas, commander of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Afghanistan.

"The gains we have made over the past few years are mostly gone," said a bearded Special Operations officer, fresh in from advising Afghan army units in battle with 600 to 700 well-equipped Taliban fighters.

More troops in Iraq will almost certainly not make any noticable difference there. More troops in Afghanistan might, but they aren't available because of Iraq. It's worth keeping in mind that Bush's resistance to withdrawal in Iraq is likely to lead to the United States losing not just one war, but two. I'm not sure if any American president has done that before.

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Yes I would say we showed bin Forgotten, that he got away with it. He escaped and we have allowed him to remain free so George W Bush could invade a country which had NOTHING to do with 9-11.

We have shown Bin Forgotten he is SAFE where he is and we will just ignore him because getting the oil in Iraq is MORE important to George W Bush and Dick Cheney than getting the man who attacked this country on 9-11.

We have shown the world that we will allow hypocricy to dominate our foreign policy, attacking somebody who did NOT attack America while allowing somebody who did to to escape.

Yes we showed Bin Forgotten real good and he has been laughing himself to sleep each night in his cave since 9-11.

It's a good thing we never showed Hitler or the Russians what we showed bin Forgotten isn't it?

As Bush announces his troop escalation and probable escalation of the American death toll, the words of Bush spokesman Tony Snow in speaking about the death toll of U.S solders come to mind. "It's Just A Number" were Snow's words.

In the eyes of George W Bush and Tony Snow, those American soldiers who gave their lives for Bush's profit are "Just A Number."

George W Bush and Tony Snow are "Just Horrible Reversions."

Only in Bush's America can you deploy to a combat zone, and while there have somebody clear out your bank account, and a storage company sell all your belongings because a thief stole your combat pay from your bank account.

Returned Soldier Finds Belongings Sold


After serving a year in Iraq, Army Reserve Spc. Patrick Rogalin came home and found that everything he had put in a storage locker — essentially everything he owned — had been sold.

Several payments for the locker had bounced because someone emptied his checking account while he was gone.

"It's really insulting, after all I went through over there serving my country, to come back and have to deal with this," Rogalin said.

Rogalin, 20, said he put his belongings into a Public Storage unit near St. Louis before shipping out and set up automatic payments with the company. But while he was in Iraq, he said, someone accessed his checking account and cleaned it out.

After learning of the problem from his bank, Rogalin opened a different account and resumed making payments to Public Storage.

"When I got back I called Public Storage to find out the status of my account and they told me the contents of my storage container had been auctioned off in June because the bill hadn't been paid," he said.

Rogalin said Public Storage never told him his account was in trouble, or that everything he owned — clothes, books, electronic gear, furniture and other property — was going to be sold.

He said he had to move in with his girlfriend. "Otherwise I wouldn't have anything."

Ron Ramler, regional vice president of Public Storage, said company policy prevented him from talking about Rogalin's case.

Rogalin said his contract with Public Storage, based in Glendale, Calif., says the company is liable for losses up to $5,000, but he said the company offered him only $2,000 and an apology. Rogalin estimates his belongings were worth $8,000.

"I called them back and told them this isn't anywhere near right," Rogalin said. "They upped their offer to $2,500 and gave me seven days to accept it or get nothing."

He said he rejected the $2,500 but does not have enough money to fight the company in court.

Rogalin still has his car and clothing he brought back from Iraq. His girlfriend, Jaimie Alonzo, 21, and her parents bought him clothes for Christmas.

"At least now I'm not wearing the same three things every week," Rogalin said.

Rogalin said he plans to attend Missouri State and join the university's ROTC program, so he can resume his Army career as an officer after he graduates.

$2500 for $8000 in losses after he was defending their sorry asses to sell his belongings, it is typical that Bush ET Al is so lax in defending soldiers with the "Soldiers and Sailors Relief act which is supposed to prevent this.

Typical money trumps a soldiers service again.

George W Bush the self-appointed thinker for all mankind will announce his latest plan to "win the war in Iraq" by sending another 20,000 U.S troops into harms way.

Bush will unveil his "latest" brainchild which will entail sending the troops door to door into the neighborhoods of Baghdad, kicking doors of homes down, searching for "suspects."

The last time Bush had such a plan, the Iraqi's refused to show up to help search the homes of Iraqi citizens. The Iraqi's didn't want to end up in body bags.

Bush claims this time is different. Bush claims he has sought the finest minds in the world, looking for different options. After much searching, Bush found the finest mind in Pork Chop Cheney.

Bush will also be sending another $100 million to Iraq for "reconstruction and job creation." How many billions has Bush already sent to Iraq for "reconstruction and job creation?"

How many billions of dollars has Haliburton stolen from this reconstruction and job creation money in the past? Isn't this just all more of the same?

Bush has already caused well over 3000 reported U.S soldiers deaths and thousands more seriously injured in Iraq. Bush has already caused thousands of Iraqi citizens to be killed, and thousands more seriously injured, many women and children.

Bush claims he understands the anxiety of the American people. Bush claims he feels their pain. Bush claims that this plan will bring about sure victory.

Bush refuses to admit that he has brought about an Iraqi civil war. Bush and company will not even use the words civil war, much less allow a reporter to bring such a thing up.

Bush claims he is winning the "war on terror" and he claims if the U.S doesn't stay in Iraq, that there will be another 9/11. Bush claims this is the best option for victory.

In the words of famed political columnist Arianna Huffington - "It's one thing to believe you're Napoleon. It's quite another to send more young people to die in your Waterloo."

Senator Tim Johnson who suffered a brain hemorrhage a month ago has finally been upgraded to 'fair condition'. This is wonderful news because four weeks ago the right wing blowhards in our country, without saying it, were hoping and praying Johnson would be incapacitated to shift the power in the Senate back to the republicans. Well, not gonna happen now! He will be entering rehabilitation and is breathing on his own which is wonderful news. He still can't talk, but when it comes to voting in the Senate, he can actually vote from his hospital bed and as long as he can nod for 'aye' or 'nay'....he's back in business!!

I'm so happy to hear that he is doing better.

Who wants to bet the Pigs at Fox News won't be very happy? Who cares! Woohoo!

They talk alike. They think alike. They lie alike. They both crave war. They both harbor wealth. They are both arrogant. They are both evil. They both are brilliant in their own minds.

They are Friends Forever. What a chilling thought.

...the night the US firing our weapons in the middle of the war between Somalia & Ethiopia? Well, isn't that convenient. It's very interesting.

US gunships a few hours ago fired up 'suspected' al-Qaida terrorists in Somalia tonight. Huh. A wag the dog moment for the Bush presidency? Is something going on behind the scenes that the Pigs want us to look the other way while they scheme? Or is this just a way to use those 9,000 troops that Bush has available to him? It's very possible the Bush Regime wants to spread their wars to other continents now. Who knows, but one thing is always sure, this is the most secretive and conniving administration that have ever walked the hall of the People's House and I'm almost apprehensive to find out what they are planning.

As of right now, the names of the al-Qaida suspects have not been released to the public. I wonder if that's because they don't know who they killed! There are reports of quite a few dead on the ground. Whenever we hear the MSM report and use the word 'suspected' via the White House/Pentagon information, be prepared to find out that we just killed innocent civilians at a wedding or something!

Out of curiousity, I decided to go to the FBI's Most Wanted (terrorists) site to see who besides Osama bin Laden would be wanted in connection with the US Embassy bombings in 1998 and I was rather intrigued. Almost all the terrorists have been indicted in the United States for their crimes,even though they haven't been caught, but yet, under Osama's write up it says that he is 'wanted'. Huh? He's only wanted? No court in America has indicted him in absentee? That to me speaks volumes!

Back to the strike in Somalia...

What the hell! Are the republicans this desperate with the democrats taking over this week that they'll start bombing in a completely different continent but go hunting to make it seem like they had no idea what was going on?

Sick of them all!!!!

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) just released this never before published photo of George W Bush and jailed Lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

This photo was taken at a Bush fundraiser in 2003 which clearly has linked Bush to jailed lobbyist Abramoff.

The White House has since the Abramoff scandal began, fought bitterly to keep any photos or information linking Bush and Abramoff from being released to the public.

It was recently revealed that the White House and the Secret Service had signed a secret agreement during the Abramoff scandal, that would prevent the identity of visitors to the White House from being disclosed.

Bush has repeatedly denied ever having met Abramoff, much less having known him. Abramoff had raised millions of dollars for the Bush re-election campaign.

Bush advisor Karl Rove had repeatedly been known to have had meetings with Abramoff at the White House, including Abramoff asking for certain friends to be given a government job.

Bush claims to have never met Abramoff, yet the photo shows a closer friendship than Bush has ever admitted to having.

George W. Bush lied to start a war, has repeatedly lied to keep U.S troops into a bogged down civil war, lied about outing a CIA operative, and now Georgie has been caught lying about his ties to jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

George W. Bush - Legacy of Lies.

Nuff said.

It appears to many that the surge of troops expected from Bush this week is part of a push for "ethnic cleansing" of Baghdad and other places around Iraq. The Government of Iraq is dominated by the Shiites and in combination with their militias controlled by al Sadr the fighting to force the Sunnis out of Baghdad has been going on all summer, but this time it seems that George W bush is going to put 20,000 US soldiers at the disposal of the Iraqi President to make his move to "clean up Baghdad" much easier.


One last push and that’s you finished in Iraq, Mr President

Simon Jenkins

This is the week, we are told, when George Bush will announce positively the last military assault on insurgency in Iraq before he finally loses patience and quits. The so-called surge will supposedly correct the mistake of last year’s Operation Together Forward. Without law and order in the capital the physical and political reconstruction of Iraq is impossible. But since that order cannot, after all, be assigned to Iraqi forces, the Americans must throw another 20,000-30,000 troops into the conflict instead.

I have not heard one remotely plausible game plan for the “Battle of the Surge”. Leaks have indicated that commanders on the ground are strongly opposed to giving the enemy yet more targets. Pentagon chiefs are equally opposed to the cost in men and money of a transient boost in control on the ground. American public opinion and Congress are overwhelmingly against the plan, which Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator, calls “Alice in Wonderland”.

American puppets in Baghdad’s green zone will do as they are told, but the only real enthusiasts are neocon diehards and Tony Blair. They were represented on this page two weeks ago by Frederick Kagan, in a fantasy revival of the 2003 “clear and hold” strategy, which amounts to telling American soldiers to commit suicide.

and this piece on Taylor Marsh's blog

Prelude to a Massacre

As President Bush puts the "final touches" on his "new" Iraq policy this weekend, Washington waits with bated breath for the fight to come. Having called up his Surgin' General, David Petraeus, Mr. Bush is ready to embark on his Iraq escalation against the will of the American public and its elected Congress.

It is time to consider the consequences of Mr. Bush's policy of escalation in Iraq.

It has been widely reported that Mr. Bush's policy is based on the ideological fantasies of the neo-conservatives at the American Enterprise Institute. The neo-conservative of the moment is AEI's Fred Kagan. In his report, entitled "Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq", he lays out the "new way forward".

Throughout history, when small minds have attempted to think big, the results have been catastrophic for the world. This period of history is proving no different.

(snip)

Fred Kagan's plan is a strategy for ethnic cleansing. If implemented, the Bush Administration will actively participate in a policy of ethnic cleansing in Iraq. They will make the American military and the American people complicit in their policy.

Mr. Kagan's plan focuses on Baghdad as the center of operations. His plan is to clear, or "ethnically cleanse" if you will, the Sunni parts of Baghdad:

We must send more American combat forces into Iraq and especially into Baghdad to support this operation. A surge of seven Army brigades and Marine regiments to support clear-and-hold operations starting in the spring of 2007 is necessary, possible, and will be sufficient. These forces, partnered with Iraqi units, will clear critical Sunni and mixed Sunni-Shi’a neighborhoods, primarily on the west side of the city.

(snip)

Mr. Maliki and Mr. Kagan are in complete agreement. The way to secure peace is to decrease the violence by ethnically cleansing Baghdad of Sunnis. Then, the Shia militias will make nice and peace will reign. Call me biased, but having lived through such a plan of "pacification" in my own life, I can smell ethnic cleansing better than most.

Baghdad is important. It is important because the sectarian fault lines of Iraq run through it. Throughout the American occupation, Baghdad has been coming apart along sectarian lines. Once mixed neighborhoods are being slowly ethnically cleansed into Shia and Sunni neighborhoods. Now Mr. Kagan is advocating helping the Shia eliminate the remaining Sunni neighborhoods west of the Tigris River. When Iraqi forces and militias go into Sunni neighborhoods they will go in to settle sectarian scores, not to hunt "terrorists". The United States government should take no part in this.

The path to national reconciliation in Iraq does not go through Baghdad - only the path to Iraq's disintegration goes through Baghdad. The path to a stable Iraq goes through Iraq's oil fields in the South and in Kirkuk, appeals to shared Arab nationalism, and access to the Persian Gulf through the Shatt al-Arab. A smarter man than Mr. Kagan would consider how oil revenue sharing, pipelines to the Gulf, and interests of Iraq's neighbors such as Iran in said access to Gulf can be weaved together into a way forward that does not lead down a path of further violence. Instead, a small mind has come up with a recipe for ethnic cleansing - and Mr. Bush is set to endorse it.

It is up to the newly muscular United States Congress to prevent American complicity in the ethnic cleansing and massacres to come. A massacre of Iraq's Sunnis will push us toward that regional war that everyone claims they fear. It is time for Congress to step up and prevent any further loss of American and Iraqi lives in the service of ideological midgets.

Ah but the oil is being saved for the US and British OIL companies to develop there is NO reason to waste it on the Sunni's at all. (snark off)

Surge in troops isn't enough, U.S. commander says

The U.S. military's No. 2 man in Iraq says political and economic changes must be made before the tide can turn.


In his first wide-ranging interview, the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq conceded Sunday that a military "surge" would not be enough to rescue Iraq, advocating economic and political changes as well, as top Democratic lawmakers in Washington toughened their opposition to any increase in U.S. troop strength.

Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno said he believed that a combination of jobs, provincial elections, anti-militia legislation and stronger Iraqi security forces could stop the nation's plunge toward all-out civil war. Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, his predecessor, spelled out the same approach before his departure one month ago.

By echoing his predecessor, Odierno's comments raised concerns in Washington and Iraq that the U.S. war effort is exhausting old tactics that haven't worked. Indeed, many Iraqis do not trust that a new Baghdad security plan can change their circumstances because the U.S. and Iraqi governments have touted at least five such plans before, all of which failed.

Bush is obviously NOT listening to his generals. He does NOT care about the troops either. If he did he would not continue to send them into Iraq to prop up his failed policies there and to HIDE his incompetence. He would grow up and admit he made a tragic mistake, and has committed the worst military blunder in the history of this country, but he won't. He won't because he would have to admit, because then he would have to admit he was a failure his entire life, and that daddy and daddy's friends had to pull his sorry ass out of trouble time and time again.

Bush would have to admit that daddy's friends like James Baker were just trying to save his sorry ass from the fiasco he made in Iraq. He would have to admit something to the world he can not even admit top himself. So he is willing to send thousands of more troops into the meat grinder of Iraq some to be wounded, some severely even for life, and some to return to this country on flights which Bush refuses to allow to be photographed.

Caskets carrying the dead bodies of the young soldiers Bush as sacrificed to his ego, he tries to keep hidden from our consciences. Somewhere deep inside he knows the truth both of his incompetence, and criminal behavior of sacrificing US soldiers for his ego. somewhere they all know what they have done and are doing is wrong, both legally and morally, but for some reason they refuse to allow their consciences or ours to stop them at this point. How long this will continue no one can say, but with the American people turning their backs on both Bush and the war, this can not continue much longer. He has NO political capital, and the generals are beginning to speak the truth to power, hence he fires them.

The tipping point has been passed but the ground swell is lagging the polls for now, but how much longer?

How much longer before the people return to the street to stop this war just as they did to stop the war in Vietnam?

From The Independent:

Future of Iraq: The spoils of war
How the West will make a killing on Iraqi oil riches

By Danny Fortson, Andrew Murray-Watson and Tim Webb
Published: 07 January 2007

Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days.

The US government has been involved in drawing up the law, a draft of which has been seen by The Independent on Sunday. It would give big oil companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon 30-year contracts to extract Iraqi crude and allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil interests in the country since the industry was nationalised in 1972.

The huge potential prizes for Western firms will give ammunition to critics who say the Iraq war was fought for oil. They point to statements such as one from Vice-President Dick Cheney, who said in 1999, while he was still chief executive of the oil services company Halliburton, that the world would need an additional 50 million barrels of oil a day by 2010. "So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies," he said.

Oil industry executives and analysts say the law, which would permit Western companies to pocket up to three-quarters of profits in the early years, is the only way to get Iraq's oil industry back on its feet after years of sanctions, war and loss of expertise. But it will operate through "production-sharing agreements" (or PSAs) which are highly unusual in the Middle East, where the oil industry in Saudi Arabia and Iran, the world's two largest producers, is state controlled.

Opponents say Iraq, where oil accounts for 95 per cent of the economy, is being forced to surrender an unacceptable degree of sovereignty.

Proposing the parliamentary motion for war in 2003, Tony Blair denied the "false claim" that "we want to seize" Iraq's oil revenues. He said the money should be put into a trust fund, run by the UN, for the Iraqis, but the idea came to nothing. The same year Colin Powell, then Secretary of State, said: "It cost a great deal of money to prosecute this war. But the oil of the Iraqi people belongs to the Iraqi people; it is their wealth, it will be used for their benefit. So we did not do it for oil."

Supporters say the provision allowing oil companies to take up to 75 per cent of the profits will last until they have recouped initial drilling costs. After that, they would collect about 20 per cent of all profits, according to industry sources in Iraq. But that is twice the industry average for such deals.

READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE...HERE.

There is very little strategic military to putting 20-30,000 more troops into a situation which really demands a political solution.

During Vietnam no amount of troop escalation made the war any better from the standpoint of defeating the Viet Cong insurgency, or the North Vietnamese ability to aid the VC in the south.

The same was true during the Afghanistan war between the Soviets and Afghan freedom fighters.

More troops mean more attacks on US soldiers, fighting against 27,000,000 people is never going produce a solution when the vast majority of the people reject the US installed government.130,000 troops have not been able to do this the last 4 years, neither will escalating to 170,000 troops produce the victory Bush wants.

Troops can not force the Iraqi people to accept our solutions for their problems even when we created most of those problems for them with our illegal invasion. Guns are not very good at getting people to agree with your political views, all they can do is kill those who do not. In Iraq unfortunately that is over 90% of the people, and I do not think even Bush wants to go there.

Bush is sending in more troops so he will not have to admit he made the worst military blunder in the history of this country, and have the loss of Iraq on his Administration. He is willing to sacrifice more troops for his own ego, too bad he thinks the blood really ever washes off. Bush is trying to buy some more time to run out the clock on his time in office. This would leave the helicopter rescue mission from the roof tops of the green zone to his successor.

Bush thinks he can wash the blood of the troops already killed for his illegal and immoral war off his hands. More troops will definately mean more deaths, which will require Bush and Cheney to wash more blood off their hands, too bad they do not understand history will never allow that.

"Son you're making the same mistake in Iraq that I made with your mother. I didn't pull out in time."

Senator Susan Collins of Maine for the last three years has worked feverishly to revamp the Postal Service in this country. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act legislation she worked on was passed and signed by President Bush recently.

Here are some highlights of the legislation:

*Introduces new safeguards against unfair competition by the Postal Service in competitive markets. Subsidization of competitive products by market-dominant products would be expressly forbidden, and an appropriate allocation of institutional costs to competitive products would be required.

*Transforms the existing Postal Rate Commission into the Postal Regulatory Commission with greatly enhanced authority to ensure that the Postal Service management has greater latitude and stronger oversight. Among other things, the Postal Regulatory Commission will have the authority to regulate rates for non-competitive products and services; ensure financial transparency; establish limits on the accumulation of retained earnings by the Postal Service; obtain information from the Postal Service, if need be, through the use of new subpoena power; and review and act on complaints filed by those who believe the Postal Service has exceeded its authority.

*Requires the Postal Service to file with the Postal Regulatory Commission certain Securities and Exchange Commission financial disclosure forms, along with detailed annual reports on the status of the Postal Service's pension and postretirement health obligations in order to ensure increased financial transparency.

*Reaffirms USPS employees' right to collectively bargain. This bill only makes changes to the bargaining process that have been agreed to by both the Postal Service and the four major unions. It replaces the rarely used fact-finding process with mediation, and shortens statutory deadlines for certain phases of the bargaining process.

*Repeals a provision of Public Law 108-18 that required money owed to the Postal Service due to an overpayment into the Civil Service Retirement System Fund to be held in an escrow account, which would essentially "free up" $78 billion over a period of 60 years. These savings would be used not only to pay off debt to the U.S. Treasury but also to fund health care liabilities, and mitigate rate increases.

*Returns to the Department of Treasury the responsibility for funding CSRS pension benefits relating to the military service of postal retirees. No other agency is required to make this payment.

I agree we need a postal service that is highly efficient and one that is competitive. Who wouldn't want that? And who would take a piece of legislation like this and turn it around and use it as a way to invade the privacy of the American people? Well, I know one person and that is President Bush. As soon as he put pen to paper to turn this Act into law, he issued an Executive Order stating that he can construe any part of this legislation that he deems fit. What he basically did was give authority to himself and others to go through the mail of US citizens. He can open our mail without us knowing! Oh for the love of Pete...

The executive branch shall construe subsection 404(c) of title 39, as enacted by subsection 1010(e) of the Act, which provides for opening of an item of a class of mail otherwise sealed against inspection, in a manner consistent, to the maximum extent permissible, with the need to conduct searches in exigent circumstances, such as to protect human life and safety against hazardous materials, and the need for physical searches specifically authorized by law for foreign intelligence collection.

So where is the outrage from Senator Susan Collins on this? Oh that's right, she said this in response to Bush's signing statement (now 801? No one knows.):

Sen. Susan Collins (news, bio, voting record), R-Maine, who guided the measure through the Senate, called on Bush to clarify his intent.

The bill, Collins said, "does nothing to alter the protections of privacy and civil liberties provided by the Constitution and other federal laws."

"The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and our federal criminal rules require prior judicial approval before domestic sealed mail can be searched," she said.

Interesting. I guess loyalty to Bush isn't working too good for Susan. She's been the cheerleader on many occassions for Bush's agenda for the past six years on such things as the Patriot Act (allows the Bush Administration to wiretap our phones without a warrant) and the Military Commissions Act (she even denounced this one publically, but then couldn't wait to show up and vote 'aye' for it!), but now that she's put forth a piece of legislation, she apparently never thought that Bush would go behind her back and take away the right to privacy afforded to the American citizens in this country!

Well, I have a couple of notes to Senator Susan Collins: if you had the American people and the US Constitution/Bill of Rights in your mind in the first place, then you never would have voted in favor for either one of these un-Constitutional and un-Patriotic pieces of legislation, and, you've created a madman in the White House by never standing up against this tyrannt! You have allowed him to invade our telephone calls, you've allowed him to detain (and torture!) anyone in this country without a reason, without a warrant, to be held indefinately without access to a lawyer, and all done in front of a secret court that even you don't have access to, and now your piece of legislation has allowed him to open up our mail if he deems any of us to be terrorists or enemy combatants or for whatever other reason he may conclude on any particular day! Do you see what your loyalty has gotten us? Americans such as myself and others have cried foul all these years and now that you've gotten the 'Unitary Executive' bitch-slap in the face, suddenly you're outraged and suddenly you're talking about the rights of the American people! Wow!

You're too late now Susan. Americans have warned you and others like you that Bush is slowly and silently taking the rights of the American away. The fact that in this Executive Order (or signing statement) he is referred to as the 'Unitary Executive'. Do you even know what that means? That means that he has deemed himself the 'King of America' where the little people have to go by the rules and where he does not.

What rights are our soldiers fighting for in Iraq? The right to allow the president to do what he wants? If that's how you're seeing it Susan, then it's time to lose your job in 2008. You're working for us and we have the power to kick you out!!!

As the year draws to a close, it is a good time to look back at what has happened and what clues we can discern about 2007.

The most notable event affecting the advent of peak oil during 2006 was, most likely, the great summer price spike. Oil started the year around $62 a barrel, steadily increased to just below $80 and then fell to close out the year about where it started. Now there are a number of observations that can be made about this spike.

First it drove average US gasoline prices from $2.21 in late December 2005 to a high of over $3.00 per gallon during the summer. This was significant in that it caught a lot of people’s attention for the first time that there just might be a problem out there. At the height of the spike, Congressmen were running around like rabbits proposing new laws and making pious speeches about how they were doing something about gasoline prices. Although the US economy as a whole seems to have held up pretty well under $3 gasoline, Detroit took a hard hit. Sales of low-mileage vehicles that had been the bread and butter of the US auto industry plunged, tens of thousands of auto workers lost their jobs, and dozens of factories closed. By year’s end Toyota was poised to become the world’s largest automotive manufacturer.

From the public’s point of view and unfortunately most of the media’s, peak oil seems to be only about gasoline prices. Above $3 a gallon there is concern. Let gasoline sink back towards $2 and we are back in Camelot.

The 2006 price spike is widely perceived as being caused by an excess of speculation. Hedge fund managers read forecasts of a bang-up hurricane season in the offing and that, coupled with greater-than-normal turmoil in the Middle East, led them to speculate wildly in oil futures. When the Middle East turmoil subsided a bit and the hurricanes failed to appear as advertised, oil prices collapsed. All this of course is perfectly true, but is only part of the story.

Largely unnoticed was the underlying supply and demand situation, and a new factor: oil affordability. The final returns won’t be in for several months, but it is beginning to look as if world oil production stayed about the same or increased insignificantly during 2006. Consumption in China, Russia, and the Gulf oil states increased while staying about the same in the industrialized states of North America, Europe and Asia.

With flat production and steady or increasing consumption in those countries that publish detailed reports, something had to give or else we would be seeing considerably higher oil prices. The give came in the underdeveloped world where $20 or $30 oil was affordable for generating electricity, running pumps, and for cooking, but $60 or $70 per barrel oil was not. Again, the returns are not in yet, but anecdotal evidence is accumulating that many parts of Africa, Central America, and Asia are starting to shut down. For these peoples, the oil age, such as it was, is already over. There is little to look forward to for a long, long time.

Nearly every aspect of the various Middle Eastern political conflicts deteriorated further during 2006. From the peak oil perspective 1.5 million barrels a day of Iraqi oil exports appear to be the most precarious, but what ever falls out of Iran’s nuclear ambitions are a close second. A general conflagration occasioned by the collapse of the Iraqi government or renewed Arab-Israeli fighting are well with in the realm of possibility for the near future. The insurgency in Nigeria is picking up steam and there will be either a presidential election or civil war there next year. The prospects for a large percentage of the world’s petroleum exports sure did not get any better in 2006.

When the history of the year is written, resurgent Russian nationalism is sure to have prominent place. During the year, Moscow made good on its goal to bring exploitation of Russian oil by the international oil companies back under its control. President Putin clearly sees the opportunity to regain superpower status by controlling a significant share of pipeline-supplied natural gas on the Eurasia landmass. It seems likely a reduced role for the international oil companies can only lead to reduced investment and delays in the exploitation of Russian oil and gas deposits.

As yet no major developments in the world’s oil depletion story have emerged in 2006. Production from numerous major oil deposits – the North Sea, Mexico’s Cantarell, Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay, Kuwait’s Burgan – continues to decline. Many analysts harbor suspicions that Saudi production has or will shortly go into decline. The situation is obscured, perhaps on purpose, by OPEC production cuts that have “required” the Saudi’s to make reductions in their oil production. It may take many years to sort out their actual production capacity.

So where do all the developments of 2006 leave us as regards to peak oil? Maybe further than is currently apparent. One thing is for certain, the earth has 30 billion barrels less cheap, easy-to-produce crude at its disposal than it did 12 months ago because we burned it up. World oil production currently is giving every indication of at least plateauing for a while, perhaps forever. Many new production projects are being delayed as the cost of exploration and drilling new wells increases to unheard of heights. Oil availability for the rich nations still appears adequate because the poor are shutting down. But this is a one-time phenomenon. Soon, increasing demand from the rich and rapidly developing nations will cause them to bid against each other for stagnant or decreasing production.

Then the troubles will begin in earnest.

Yet some fooles will continue to come in here and spew idiotic false statements even though the reality is closing in around them. 2006 was a good year for energy prices and availability to Most Americans. However at some time, whether in 2007 or 2008 or maybe 2010 the amount the industrialized world demands for it's transportation, electric generation stations, chemical, pharmaceutical and fertilizer industries will outstrip the ability of the producing nations to pump fast enough. At that moment the entire western capitalistic world is going to change. No longer will we be able to take a drive in the country because gas is too expensive, and is only to be used if absolutely necessary. The cost of personal transportation will go up rapidly. Mass transit, especially that which can be provided by electricity from coal and hydro power will become a staple of existence. Too bad the repugnant neo-cons have tried hard to destroy Amtrak and underfund the mass transit in the United States. The Europeans are light years ahead of us there. In the 1970's I could travel across Germany by using the Bus lines to get into the city, the trams to get to the train station, and intercity rail to travel from town to town. Here with no investment for development and the idiotic demand that the future of mass transit be economically profitable it is been ignored for decades, and NOW when it could lighten our reliance on more and more oil and gas, it does NOT exist.

There is no replacement for the hydrocarbon molecules which our chemical pharmaceutical and fertilizer industries are built on. As oil es increase, the costs these industries will go up and get passed on to the consumer. Drug prices already astronomical will simply become too expensive for the vast majority of citizens or their insurance companies to afford. Plastics upon which the modern post WW2 world is built on will become more scarce and expensive, with the associated products which are produced from plastic becoming more costly. As prices escalate in most areas, jobs will be lost as companies can no longer make enough money with ever falling sales of more expensive products. People will lose better jobs as companies which have not already been outsourced can no longer compete in the harsh environment or rising material energy and transportation costs.

One other area which will be severely affected, but has little good options available to it it our food production industrial farms. they will have rising costs for their machinery, energy demands and fertilizer costs, and as each becomes more scarce, it will become much harder and harder to produce enough food and get it to the markets at low enough prices to feed the ever enlarging poor people this country will have, let alone feed the ever enlarging poor nations and people around the world.

Countries will go to war for shrinking energy resources, and as those areas are destabilized and the infrastructures damaged in these wars (like they have been in Iraq as a result of that illegal invasion), the energy resources will become harder to produce and get to the western countries.

With every problem compounding each other problem the situation of the middle class life style the vast majority of American people are used to will disappear replaced by the struggle to survive. The US and every other modern industrialized nations will be reduced to a small but very wealthy class of owners who still can afford the good life and the rest of us struggling to survive, with no more middle class jobs and no health care with food costing much more as a part of ones earnings that is did in 2006.

Even though 2006 was a struggle for a good part of the people of this country, the future is not going to get much better, but much worse at some point. Jimmy Carter tried in vain to warn us in the late 1970's after the first energy shocks, but the repugnant fooles like Ronald Reagan ignored the bad news, spun the truth of the situation and set the US on the course where not only are we losing far to much in energy today both in lives lost in a war to gain control of ther oil in the middle east. when we could have put our great industrial power and intellectual capacity to solve the problem when it was noticed, Reagan and the Bush's denied the problem and aided with oil finds both in Alaska and Mexico were able to put off the day of reckoning. this time that is not an option and the pain and costs of finding the replacements for oil are much higher, and more urgent today then they were back then..this time no amount of repugnant spin will solve the problem, and we are so far in debt as a nation because of the illogical economic policies started by Reagan where he borrowed massive amounts of money to fund the government but had NO plan to repay that debt has financially tied the government hands at the same time the globalists have out sources a large part of out industrial base where the solutions could have come from. Thus we now are facing almost some of the very same quandaries that Jimmy Carter spoke to us about in 1980, but with far less money available for research and development and far less oil to tide us by until a solution is found, thanks Reagan, Bush41 and Bush43 for NOTHING, because that is really what you three have given this nation and it's future generations.

As the article mentions, LARGE oil field finds of the past are starting to decline, but nothing near their size is being found to replace them, much smaller fields and oil that used to be too expensive is being exploited, but it will never replace an Burgan in Kuwait let alone Ghawar in Saudi Arabia if that field has reached peak and is in decline. There is nothing left on this planet to replace these fields when they begin to play out as the US oil production has since 1970 when the US production reached it's peak. Today we as a nation produce 1,000,000 barrels less oil each day from our domestic fields than we did in 1980. We imported far less than 50% of our needs in 1980, but we import that today, and that percentage will continue to grow each year. we still get the vast majority of our oil from the US Canada, Mexico and Venezuela today, but with Mexico's production falling and Alaska's Prudhoe Bay also in decline we will eventually have to go to the middle east for oil, which is why Dick Cheney based his secret energy meetings in 2001 on maps of the Iraqi oil fields and the PNAC plan to topple Saddam and emplace a leadership in that government to allow the US companies to develop those fields for OUR benefit. From the perspective of energy and economic terms 2006 was not a very good year but far from a bad year, however one of these years in the near future will make 2006 seem like the Golden Age of our society.

Enjoy the "good times" while they last.

On his trip to Great Britain , George Bush had a
meeting with Queen Elizabeth .He asked her, "How does one manage to run
a country so smoothly?"

"That is easy," the Queen replied. "You surround
yourself with intelligent ministers and advisors."

"But how can I tell whether they are intelligent or
not?" he inquired.

"You ask them a riddle," she replied, and with that
she pressed a button and said, "Would you please send in Tony Blair."

When Blair arrived, the Queen said, "I have a riddle
for you to answer for me. Your parents had a child and it was not your sister
and it was not your brother. Who was this child ?"

Blair replied, "That`s easy. The child was me."

"Very good," said the Queen, "You may go, now."

So President Bush went back to Washington and called
in his chief ofstaff, Karl Rove. He said to him, "I have a riddle for you,
and the answer is very important. Your parents had a child and it was
not your sister and it was not your brother. Who was this child ?"

Rove replied, "Yes, it is clearly very important that
we determine the answer, as No Child Must Be Left Behind. Can I
deliberate on this for awhile?"

"Yes," said President Bush, "I'll give you four hours
to come up with the answer."

So Mr. Rove went and called a meeting of the White
House Staff. He asked them the riddle. After much discussion and many
suggestions, none of the staff members had a satisfactory answer. Karl Rove
was quite upset, not knowing what he would tell the President.

As Rove was walking back to the Oval Office, he saw
former Secretary of State Colin Powell approaching him. So he said, "Mr.
Secretary, can you answer this riddle for me. Your parents had a child
and it was not your sister and it was not your brother. Who was the
child?"

"That's easy," said Powell, "The child was me."

"Oh thank you," said Rove, "You may just have saved
me my job!"

As the sun set slowly in the west, Mr. Rove went to
the Oval Office and
said to President Bush, "I think I know the answer to
your riddle. The child
was Colin Powell!"

"No, you idiot!" shouted President Bush. "The child
was Tony Blair!"

What a great moment today to find out Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid wrote a letter to Bush telling him that escalating the illegal occupation in Iraq will be a serious mistake. The fact that they wrote this letter and had it on his desk before he came out with his plan to escalate shows me that they understand what the American people were telling them on election day. We don't want our soldiers to stay in an illegal occupation forever. We want them home and giving them 4-6 months to achieve that is a very reasonable suggestion to give Bush.

Here's the letter:

January 5, 2007

President George W. Bush

The White House
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President:

The start of the new Congress brings us opportunities to work together on the critical issues confronting our country. No issue is more important than finding an end to the war in Iraq. December was the deadliest month of the war in over two years, pushing U.S. fatality figures over the 3,000 mark.

The American people demonstrated in the November elections that they don’t believe your current Iraq policy will lead to success and that we need a change in direction for the sake of our troops and the Iraqi people. We understand that you are completing your post-election consultations on Iraq and are preparing to make a major address on your Iraq strategy to the American people next week.

Clearly this address presents you with another opportunity to make a long overdue course correction. Despite the fact that our troops have been pushed to the breaking point and, in many cases, have already served multiple tours in Iraq, news reports suggest that you believe the solution to the civil war in Iraq is to require additional sacrifices from our troops and are therefore prepared to proceed with a substantial U.S. troop increase.

Surging forces is a strategy that you have already tried and that has already failed. Like many current and former military leaders, we believe that trying again would be a serious mistake. They, like us, believe there is no purely military solution in Iraq. There is only a political solution. Adding more combat troops will only endanger more Americans and stretch our military to the breaking point for no strategic gain. And it would undermine our efforts to get the Iraqis to take responsibility for their own future. We are well past the point of more troops for Iraq.

In a recent appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General John Abizaid, our top commander for Iraq and the region, said the following when asked about whether he thought more troops would contribute to our chances for success in Iraq:

"I met with every divisional commander, General Casey, the Corps commander, General Dempsey. We all talked together. And I said, in your professional opinion, if we were to bring in more American troops now, does it add considerably to our ability to achieve success in Iraq? And they all said no. And the reason is, because we want the Iraqis to do more. It's easy for the Iraqis to rely upon to us do this work. I believe that more American forces prevent the Iraqis from doing more, from taking more responsibility for their own future."

Rather than deploy additional forces to Iraq, we believe the way forward is to begin the phased redeployment of our forces in the next four to six months, while shifting the principal mission of our forces there from combat to training, logistics, force protection and counter-terror. A renewed diplomatic strategy, both within the region and beyond, is also required to help the Iraqis agree to a sustainable political settlement . . In short, it is time to begin to move our forces out of Iraq and make the Iraqi political leadership aware that our commitment is not open ended, that we cannot resolve their sectarian problems, and that only they can find the political resolution required to stabilize Iraq.

Our troops and the American people have already sacrificed a great deal for the future of Iraq. After nearly four years of combat, tens of thousands of U.S. casualties, and over $300 billion dollars, it is time to bring the war to a close. We, therefore, strongly encourage you to reject any plans that call for our getting our troops any deeper into Iraq. We want to do everything we can to help Iraq succeed in the future but, like many of our senior military leaders, we do not believe that adding more U.S. combat troops contributes to success.

We appreciate you taking these views into consideration.


Sincerely,


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Brilliant. Superb.

So, what does Bush do? He decides to shake up the Pentagon, which on the surface seems like a good idea, because as the Commander in Chief, one must get rid of those who won't listen and carry out the plan of the president. Instead, he got rid of the ones who HE wouldn't listen to and the ones who weren't speaking his language, of course. He decides to put in a Navy General to handle a ground war, which is so interesting to me, because the Bush Regime has put Naval ships in the Persian Gulf recently and they're sitting there as you read this. The fact that Pat Robertson ("mister God speaks to me and He has nothing nice to say about you Americans") said on his television show recently that God told him another 9/11 was coming to America in the form of a nuclear explosion tells me that ole Pat has some inside information from the "God" in the White House.

Prison Planet also believes that Pat Robertson is an insider and they're reporting that Dick Cheney will attack Iran if there is another major attack on our country even if Iran isn't behind it:

Televangelist Pat Robertson, an influential sage of the Neo-Con war machine and an icon of its radical ideological underpinnings, has predicted turmoil in 2007 after he claimed God had told him in a conversation that major U.S. cities would suffer mass terror attacks after September that would potentially kill millions of people.

Whether Robertson is simply recycling fearmongering propaganda or not, the fact remains that Dick Cheney's USSTRATCOM contingency plan calls for attacking Iran in the immediate aftermath of a 'second 9/11' - no matter who is behind it - which of course is going to be the cabal Dick Cheney fronts for itself and the same pack of murderers that are actively seeking to initiate global ethic cleansing and genocide to bring about world war three.

See where I'm going with this? Any attack on our nation will be blamed on Iraq, even if the attack is by the Bush Regime. I am one who DOES NOT believe that a bunch of guys with boxcutters tripped our nation's defense systems on 9/11/01 and I will not believe that Iran attacked us either.

We are being led by madmen. The Bush Regime is not working for the American people or even our soldiers. They have a separate agenda from us and I believe they are the first Administration to ever function like this. They won't listen to the advice of the democrats, but one thing is for sure, Pelosi & Reid have warned Bush and history will always be recorded as such.

Could Cheney be wondering how he ever got hooked up with Bush? Could he be wondering how he ever lost his office to Charlie Rangel? Could he be wondering if Rangel will go hunting with him? Could he be wondering if pork chops are on the menu for supper? What do you think?

...out of office! Okay, he wasn't kicked out of government like we all would like happen to him, but democratic Senator Rangel did kick him out of his fancy office digs to show the Vice President exactly what he thinks of him:

From the New York Post:

Vice President Dick Cheney points out a feature of his palatial — and now-former — Capitol office to staffers. It now belongs to Rep. Charles Rangel.January 4, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - Rep. Charles Rangel has evicted Vice President Dick Cheney from his office in the Capitol, and the Harlem heavyweight is moving into the prime digs today, The Post has learned.

Gilded letters were freshly painted atop the office door yesterday proclaiming "Ways and Means Committee" - confirming that the office now belongs to Rangel, the House panel's new chairman.

Sources said Cheney's and his staff's belongings were removed over the holidays.

The new digs give Rangel some of the choicest and most politically central real estate in all of Washington - as well as a measure of sweet revenge.

Rangel moved at lightning speed to boot the man he once told The Post is a "son of a bitch."

I love it! Poor Dick. He got his ass kicked by a donkey over the holidays. Awwwwwwww, I don't feel bad for him at all.

I had the best time watching the handover of power in House of Representatives today. When Nancy Pelosi's name was first said aloud (for the voting of the Speakers) the whole building went wild with applause. On the other hand, when John Boehner's name was said aloud for the nomination, there was a faint clap around him. It got better from there. Many of the democratic male House members said something nice about Nancy before casting their vote for her (some of the Congresswomen did that too). The only time Nancy Pelosi looked nervous was when she was standing in front of the House chair with Boehner at her side. I bet she felt like she was standing next to evil. When Boehner finally passed the gavel to her, I thought she was going to throw it for a second there!

So much fun to watch this incredible transfer of power today. Of course, once the House got under way, the republicans spent a lot of time telling the democrats to be nice to them and let them have some Minority Rights. Uh huh. Funny...when the democrats wanted Minority Rights years ago, the republicans balked at it, but now all of a sudden they're screaming, "We are people too! Let us be part of the power! We want to be heard! Our voice counts too!". Well, like we liberals have been saying forever...the republicans have this funny way about them where they create rules and laws that they never think can be used against them. They think rules and regulations only apply to others and not them. Guess what? Sorry, but Americans have spoken and they would like for none of you to have your power again because you're abusive when you have it, and until you can play nice, we will think about it at a later date. Hell, we may never let you speak again and after the last 6 years or so, that could be your reality.

Now....let the adults rule the roost in the House & Senate! Woohoo!

They found the ORIGINAL of Georgie's OP ED to the New York Times, before the editors along with a few other people "cleaned it up" for the publication.

Looks like Georgie does NOT want to play well with others unless he can be the dictater.......


The Iraq War and Katrina messes should have been good indicators of his lack of ability to play well with others, but this original nails it down for all time.

George W Bush suffered another major blow when one of the "Bush Babes" Harriet Miers his long time "adviser" has resigned.

Bush was first crushed when his longtime "adviser" Miers was attacked from his own right wing after he nominated her for the Supreme Court.

Bush mouthpiece Tony Snow said Miers was one of the most beloved people in the White House, and she was a scrupulous lawyer.

How will Bush cope with losing one of his most intimate "advisers?" How will Bush make it without the "special counsel" that Miers often gave him in the wee hours of the night?

Bush will very probably rely even more heavily on his other two "darlings of Dallas" Condi and Karen Hughes, since their special roles as longtime "advisers" mirror that of Harriet Miers.

Miers like Bush's other "advisers" Condi Rice and Karen Hughes have all consistently been failures at their government jobs, failures in their careers and failures in personal prestige.

How will the U.S make it without the stalwart workings of sweet Harriet? How will the Bush White House function without the presence of Harret Miers.

Bush can't afford anymore losses. Bush can't afford to see anymore "advisers" leave his kingdom of kindness at his most vulnerable state of denial.

Bush is more most vulnerable than ever before. His foreign policy has been a complete shambles, his domestic policy has driven millions into bankruptcy and his presidency has become a complete failure.

Bush needs "special counsel" as he deals with all the failures in his presidency and Bush needs "special council" as he deals with all the failures in his personal life.

Bush will most definitely find even more solace and comfort in the late night presence of his other "advisers" Condi and Karen, whose hatriotism has long drawn this embattled leader into the busom of their hearts.

...will be sworn in today and I am so excited for my country. My hope is after all the investigations are done, the two warmongering fascist thiefs are thrown into jail and this woman...Ms. Nancy Pelosi...will become president of the United States! Hey, I can dream and I always dream big too. She would make a better president than the bozo we currently have. As a mother and a grandmother, she would do what's best for all of us.

Today is a proud day for women too. Nancy Pelosi is the first woman to be Speaker of the House in our nation's history. This is a very powerful position and she is going to handle it fine no matter what the asshole neocons say about her.

It's a beautiful day today! Let's revel in it! Woohoo!!!

Bush is getting ready to Surge in Iraq.

George Bush is getting ready to push a surge on to the country, a surge of troops into the morass that is Iraq. He is asking the country to allow more troops to be sent into the Fiasco he created in the country of Iraq even though he does not have a plan for victory or a strategy for withdrawal. Bush wants to put in more troops so he an look strong, look like he is doing something after he got spanked last November in a national election, and undermined by the Iraq Study Group. The ISG said Iraq is real bad and getting worse.

Bush now wants to make more American sons and daughters to enter into that country in the beginnings of a civil war. He wants to try to save his legacy with more US blood. Blood from soldiers who just no longer believe that we have a strategy for victory, and the majority of whom no longer believe in the War. Bush wants people to die and get maimed just so he does not have to say he was wrong.

Wrong for lying about the WMD’s

Wrong for ignoring Gen Shinseki.

Wrong for “Mission Accomplishment”.

Wrong for “the insurgency is in it’s last throes”.

Wrong for “stay the course”.

Wrong for “bring it on”.

Wrong for calling those who realized the war was illegal and immoral traitors.

Wrong for ignoring Generals who called for a change in strategy.

Wrong for refusing to fire Rumsfeld last year instead of the day after the election.

WRONG

Sending more troops into Iraq in 2007 is as wrong as it was sending MORE troops into Vietnam in 1968 when Gen Westmoreland asked Lyndon Johnson to do it. Iraq is past any possible American Military victory with 150,000 or even 200,000 troops. Iraq is no longer an insurgency but an actual civil war between two groups who have fought before for control.

Bush failed, he had NO plan, and allowed Cheney and Rumsfeld to use a flawed strategy and inadequate force to invade a country and NOT secure it.

They failed to secure the weapons, like the US did in Germany and Japan after the WW2 surrenders.

They Failed to secure the weapons and Ammunition in Iraq like they did at the end of WW2. They failed to improve the lives of the Iraqi people because the republican patricians they outsourced the Iraq reconstruction were in for the MONEY, not the mission. They hired 25 year old campaign workers from 2004 who had NO experience in reconstruction of a war torn country.

They hired Bernie Kerik to reconstitute the Iraqi police so they lost a year with rising chaos. The same Bernie Kerik who had to drop out of contention for Director of Homeland security because of his criminal problems. A man who was barely qualified to be NYC police commissioner, let alone rebuild a police force from scratch.

They passed out contracts to US companies which bypassed the Iraqi people. They allowed unemployment to rise, electricity production to fall. Potable water supplies to fail. Governmental services to suffer along with the people. They branded an entire group of people who KNEW how to make Iraq work criminals and then wondered why Iraq did NOT work any more.

They did the dumbest thing possible most of the time, and people suffered, both Iraqi civilians which fed the insurgency, and US troops who were trying in vain to stabilize the country and get it back on it’s feet. They failed in 2003, 2004, 2005 2006, and each year the War got worse. The war got more violent, and sectarian violence grew even when they ignored it. People were forced out of their homes and neighborhoods, and the Americans who failed to secure Iraq in 2003 were powerless to stop it in 2006.

They did not protect the people in 2003 from the Iraqi insurgents or out of control American contractors and military personnel, and NOW they barely can protect barricaded areas of Baghdad. The entire province of Anbar is lost, cities like Ramadi and Fallugha are too dangerous for patrols unless they act like major combat operations continue. Now in 2006 they are fighting for control of Baghdad a city that supposedly fell April 9th 2003. Stalingrad comes to mind when I think of this.

They were wrong about so much for so long I wonder why anybody listens to them any more. Why is Bush even given the change to send 20,00 more young Americans into the meatgrinder to kill more Iraqis and die in a country that no longer wants us there?

Why is anybody listening to Bush at all?

Why is a war criminal allowed to continue to pursue his war crimes?

Why are American and Iraqi lives being sacrificed to save a EGO?

At some point the EGO must be sacrificed to save the lives.

...and Pat Robertson has decided to sit down with his God, have a chat, and has now taken the time to tell Americans that this year we will experience the biggest attack on our nation. Wow! Did his God really tell him that or is ole Pat just pulling our leg because the democrats are going to take control over the worst presidency in the history of our nation and he just wants to use the technique of the neocons by instilling fear that we will all die now because the republicans are not in control? I'm thinking the latter. Ole Pat doesn't sit down and have chats with his God. Oh no, these two sit in a back alley somewhere conspiring to kill Americans to benefit the republican party! See the difference? Pat keeps telling us (along with the Bush Regime I may add) that God blesses America. They do, yeah yeah, they keep telling us that out of all the countries on the planet, America is God's favorite. Of course, ole Pat forgets when he's sitting there wringing his hands with evil that he too is part of this country and could feel the effects of what he and his Buddy just discussed.

Enough of Pat. I mean that on all levels. You fill in the blank.

Tomorrow the democrats take back control of the House of Representatives and the Senate. I'm so looking forward to it! I think Ms. Nancy is going to make a fine "First Lady" of the House and if we're lucky, those under her will be the catalyst to kick out Bush & Cheney and then she can become the first woman president in the history of our nation. I think that would be fantastic, but I'm not sure what ole Pat and his God would say about it. Pat was burping out 'nuclear' throughout his sermon on the t.v., so I'm not sure what kind of bomb God and Pat would use if a woman took control of our country. Huh. Makes you wonder! We'll have to ask Pat. He knows everything.

With the democrats in control starting tomorrow, I'm still going to be cautious. Government right now is on my shit list. It's been there for six years and the fascism I've witnessed has really ripped a hole through my American-loving heart. If the democrats even a little side with Bush and his policies, I'm going to scream. I'm at a point where I think if this does happen I would love to see a strong 3rd party emerge. Even better than that, I think Americans should consider those siding with Bush (doesn't matter if they're republican or democrat) as members of the Fascist Party and then form a new party called the People's Party or something like that. Nonetheless....

I'm so proud of Americans for voting out the scum in the last election and electing some fine people to the House & Senate to represent us. I'm really excited about tomorrow and could care less what ole Pat Robertson the wacko is saying or doing to his wacky base, because Americans are tired of his kind and we will prevail in a sea of rationalism and strength!

Good luck tomorrow democrats!

Well there he is! America's Big Cheese. He's the man who refuses to listen to ANYONE who dare say that his illegal occupation in Iraq is going badly. He's the guy who is on top of Old Smokey all covered in cheese and he's the guy, who lost his poor meatball, when someone disagreed. He's now telling us he can get it back though! Don't worry! He's got it all figured out. Yeah, yeah, the Big Cheese is now saying adding more troops to escalate an already failing, badly strategized, immoral invasion is the only way to go! He has seen the light.

Why is he doing this? Why can't the effing asshole just drop his ego pants and expose himself to us by saying that he failed in Iraq and it's time to bring the troops home. Is it because he fears that the people of the Middle East, who now hate our country more than ever thanks to his actions over there, will hurt his ego? Is he that far gone that he would rather send our troops to die in a war that he started, that he wanted, and that he can't win only because he has the mind of a child and his young mind is telling him that winning is everything?

Oh for the love of the Banana Cupcakes, what is wrong with this asshole!!! He's out of his mind and is as stubborn as a rusty nail.

It's so frustrating. I never wanted to go to Iraq in the first place. It's so tiring to me that after all these years nothing has improved over there. You'd think by now there would be images on our televisions of Iraqis and Americans working side by side rebuilding the towns and infrastructure we've demolished. You'd think by now it would be calm in Iraq. You'd think by now America's reputation would be restored. Nope. Nothing has changed and now the asshole wants to add more troops to the big fat spaghetti pot.

[Spit-tinggggggg]

When the original bombing started over there, I felt shame. I literally had tears running down my face because all I could think of was the children who were being blown to smithereens along side their mother and fathers for no good reason. I have felt more shame everyday since that time because people are dying all because of one guy smeared with cheese who is too proud to change his course, allllll because he is too scared in appearing weak. Well, our nation is weak now and it's all because of him. If he would just take the effing time to realize that I think our lives and the lives of the Iraqis would be better off.

I'm really getting tired of him and those around him. I'm tired of him not listening, being stubborn, and acting like his word and ideas are the only ones that matter.

He's standing alone now. Only 35% of his military believes that he is handling Iraq well. Many of our soldiers also don't believe we can 'win' over there, but yet, Bush ignores them and is now deciding to send more soldiers over. Bush says he believes this will help with troop moral. Not only does he stand along, but he also stands stupid.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines heartfelt as being deeply or sincerely felt, earnest. It is simply stating what is truly in ones heart conveyed either verbally or in written form.

In past past postings, many have often been critical of the Bush women and the public display of their many faults.

I like many have criticized Laura Bush, her twin daughters, Harriet Miers and most often Condi Rice. We have openly remarked about their looks, drinking and pary habits, and the fact that some appear in love with George W Bush.

As we are into the second day of the new year I would like to issue a heartfelt tribute to the one we have lambasted the most. So thus this is for you Condi.

Condi Rice has long been involved in various forms with the Bush men over the years. She once was the Soviet and East European advisor for the elder President Bush. It was there that she met her accomplished equal.

Condi has been the National Security Advisor and now Secretary of State for the current Bush. Condi has been the advisor to Bush on the war on terror, of which she has long held the Bush philosophy.

Condi has yet to log any real foreign policy achievements in spite of her long term involvement in the foreign policy area. Condi hasn't any real professional accomplishments at all.

Condi has been by the side day and night of the current leader in training and she often spends days of her foreign policy trips in the various shopping plazas of the world.

Condi reportedly has never married in spite of her long time interest in a failed oil man turned failed politician turned failed human being.

Condi spends her holidays and vacations at the side of her idol George W Bush. Condi has even openly remarked the she is Bush's other wife.

Condi has become a wealthy women from the government as well as private payrolls of certain elitist in power. Condi has become wealthy in spite of her dismal resume.

Condi has yet to have her bridge work started much less completed. She has yet to spend the government insurance dollars to have her dentures straightened, or the gap between her front teeth filled.

Condi is a high maintenance lover of two things. Bush and power. Condi has a secret although obvious desire to replace lame duck Laura as the next Mrs Bush. Condi would naw her way through an oak tree to get close to her man.

Condi longs to help her man continue the successful process of raising the twin darlings of the Bush regime. Condi's Vampyra image seems fit for the twins lifestyle.

Condi has no foreign policy accomplishments to date, nor does she have a plan to end the mess in Iraq that she help create and articulate. Condi has no plans or idea how to fix her hair.

Condi is a failure in the foreign policy field, she is a failure in the public arena of credibility, and she is a failure in the art of unrequieted love. Condi is a failure in her stone faced life.

I was delighted to learn from Glenda at the Peace Train blog that I am not the only one who has issued a tribute to Condi. Others have noticed her Vampyra traits as well.

Myspace has a Condi page that is well worth the read of her true personality. This page lists all her many admirers in the friends section. It also has her nickname that most are unaware of.

So Vampyra this heartfelt tribute is for you and I like most Americans hope you get your dream man and all that comes with him.

Can you think of a more compatible couple than Vampyra and Beetle Bush?

Sunday, December 31, 2006

A Lynching...

It's official. Maliki and his people are psychopaths. This really is a new low. It's outrageous- an execution during Eid. Muslims all over the world (with the exception of Iran) are outraged. Eid is a time of peace, of putting aside quarrels and anger- at least for the duration of Eid.

This does not bode well for the coming year. No one imagined the madmen would actually do it during a religious holiday. It is religiously unacceptable and before, it was constitutionally illegal. We thought we'd at least get a few days of peace and some time to enjoy the Eid holiday, which coincides with the New Year this year. We've spent the first two days of a holy holiday watching bits and pieces of a sordid lynching.

America the savior… After nearly four years and Bush's biggest achievement in Iraq has been a lynching. Bravo Americans.

Maliki has made the mistake of his life. His signature and unhidden glee at the whole execution, especially on the first day of Eid Al Adha (the Eid where millions of Muslims make a pilgrimage to Mecca), will only do more to damage his already tattered reputation. He's like a vulture in a suit (or a balding weasel). It's almost embarrassing. I kept expecting Muwafaq Al Rubaii to run over and wipe the drool from the corner of his mouth as he signed for the execution. Are these the people who represent the New Iraq? We're in so much more trouble than I ever thought.

And no- not the celebrations BBC are claiming. With the exception of a few areas, the streets are empty.

Now we come to CNN. Shame on you CNN journalists- you're getting lazy. The least you can do is get the last words correct when you write a story about an execution. Your articles are read the world over and will go down in history as references. You people are the biggest news network in the world- the least you can do is spend some money on a decent translator. Saddam's last words were NOT "Muqtada Al Sadr" as Munir Haddad claimed, according to the article below. If anyone had seen at least part of the video they showed on TV, you'd know that.

READ THE REST HERE.

From the Huffington Post:

Dear Mr. President,

Happy New Year! I've spent a lot of time ripping you apart on this blog. So it's only fair, in this season of giving, that I give you 10 legitimate and proactive tips on how to improve your station in 2007. Seriously, what do you have to lose?

1) When a reporter is asking you questions, make eye contact. Staring down at the podium like you're trying to bend a spoon mentally while the question is being asked makes you look like you're, well, trying to bend a spoon mentally. Trust me, it can't be done. In addition, I understand that you're showing your lack of regard for the press, but face it, the press was your biggest ally for many, many years. The least you can do is to look at them when they're talking to you. Besides, think of how many jokes about their clothing you're missing out on.

2) Hire Dane Cook as an advisor. Nothing will help your standing among MySpace shut-ins than opening a press conference with, "We're all gonna lie. We're all gonna cry. And we're all gonna take painful shits. I'll take your questions now."

3) I hate to break it to you, but when you do that lop-sided grimace/grin and thrust your head forward after talking about casualties, it looks like you think the casualties are hilarious and awesome. They're not. So when you feel the urge to do that, try to at least disguise your face. Cupping your hands over your mouth and eyes when you feel an "eh-eh-eh" coming on will make you look like you're broken up. Being broken up over casualties is good and people will relate to it. Word of warning: You might be fearful that cupping your hands over your mouth will suffocate you. It won't. Humans can breathe through their noses, too. Perhaps have the White House physician check the integrity of your septum just in case (you know why). If it's good to go, feel free to cup away!

4) Adopt a monkey. So the next time you're caught by the press in another lie or delusion, you can have an advisor (Dane Cook!) rush in to tell you that your monkey's going nuts and flinging poo in the Roosevelt Room. Who can argue with that escape hatch? Blurt out, "Monkey's freaking out. Gotta go!" Whenever someone tells me they have to bail because their monkey's going apeshit, I always go, "Wow. You better handle that."

5) Drop the George Washington references when discussing your legacy and how history will judge you. Switch to President Ford. He's hot right now. Use it.

Read the rest at the Huffington Post linked above.

Well, it's around ten hours into the new year and so far Bush hasn't attacked another sovereign nation. The new Congress will be sworn in in three days, think he'll do it then if he's not sleeping? Pig, he is.

First off, this is a picture of Kern's Inn in Eustis, Maine. My cousin Mike and his wife used to own this place. It has a bar, restaurant (both take up the whole first floor...the 2nd floor has the inn rooms and the apartment where my cousin and his wife lived with their three children) and also includes the Chalet, which has additional rooms and is behind whoever took this picture of Kern's Inn that I found on the Internet. This place is so much fun! Even before my cousin bought it, we (cousins) all used to go there and to the other bar across the street and would tear up the town (which has only 600 people in it LOL) for a weekend. When we all get together, we have a wicked good time.

It was a New Year's Eve in the late 1990's and all the us cousins had planned to spend the evening in Eustis to celebrate in the new year. After dinner and showers in our rooms at the Chalet, we all met back at Kern's to get the night started. We took three tables and put them together and that's when the fun began. Those that know me know the first couple of drinks I have I don't get crazy. In fact, it's almost deceitful in a way, especially for my cousin Mike, since he's the one who has to babysit me after a certain point, because just when he thinks 'Cousin Kay' is going to be a good girl for the rest of the night because I'm being so quiet and sweet, that's about the same time the booze hits me and it's all over...he gets duped again. Well, that's exactly what happened...

With the booze running through our veins, we all decided to hit the dance floor. I can't remember what kind of band was playing that night (way too much alcohol!), but I do remember ripping the microphone out of the lead singer's hands in the middle of a song and finishing it with my cousins around me jumping, dancing, screaming, and singing with me! It was at that point the babysitting of me began. My cousin Mike, who for the most part has to stay behind the bar because he is the bartender, is now yelling for me to behave, so I return my answer to him by sticking my fingers in my mouth and belting out the loudest whistle ever in my lifetime (though, I think the microphone I was holding had a lot to do with how loud it was!!! Ouch... it was painful!). After this, I then see Mike in the corner of my eye throw his bartender towel over his shoulder in a moment of defeat. He now knows that he has lost control of his family and pretty much lets us get it out of our systems for the rest of the night.

The whole night is fun. We are dancing, whistling, singing, and as usual, I've become the other lead singer for most of the night. By the time last call is called, Mike is pretty much frazzled and we cousins are still wanting to party. When the bar finally closes, it doesn't matter how drunk you are, we all have to stay behind to help clean up the bar and bathrooms. As part of my punishment for the night, I was given the chore of cleaning the men's urinals. I have to say, years of owning a housecleaning business and seeing that men are much cleaner than women, I was back at the bar rather quickly! Woohoo! We all gather around the bar and continue drinking until we're kicked out by a very tired Mike.

It's now 3:00am and time to head back to our rooms. My cousin Karen and I leave together because I'm having trouble walking and she wants to make sure I find the Chalet, which is a straight shot from the door of the bar (LOL). When we come outside we find that it had snowed quite a bit and under the snow it was kind of icy, so her and I are walking slowly to avoid falling. My cousin Phil comes out of his room at the Chalet and is yelling something to us from his balcony. We try to stop momentarily to hear what he is saying when all of a sudden we lose our balance and fall straight down to the ground.

What happened next was absolutely pitiful.

Not only did we fall straight down, but somehow Karen, who is at least a hundred pounds heavier than I am, managed to fall directly on my head and is now sitting on it with her legs spread apart and talking to Phil like nothing has happened. I have no idea what she was saying to him but I bet she said, "Where's Kay?", because she has no idea she is sitting on my head, because she's so freaking drunk! So here I am. I'm trying to breathe and all I can hear is my own muffled voice pleading from under her ass fo her to get off my head. When she finally realizes what she is sitting on, she gets off me and the first thing I hear upon returning to the hearing world is everyone laughing their asses off (and their laughter was loud too, I may add, because my ears were devoid of sound for a few minutes there!!) I get up and not only do I have Karen's jean print on the right side of my face, but now the left side of my head is matted with snow and my hair is a wreck. OMG...freaking hysterical! Karen and I were laughing so hard that it took us 5 minutes to get across the parking lot because we kept falling while laughing! We get back to our room and collapse. I didn't even fix my hair, because quite frankly, I probably would have electrocuted myself! ;-)

(To this day, no one will tell me if Phil saw me under her or not. I think he did but was too busy laughing at what he was seeing!)

That's my story. This night is one of my most favorite New Year's Eve celebrations for sure. I've gone out many other times and have done this kind of craziness in Portland with my exes, but there's something about being with family on New Year's Eve and having a ball together that is so much more fun and memorable. I miss hanging out with my cousins, though. We are now scattered throughout Maine and my cousin Phil and his wife are in Florida. Most of us have kids and we don't get to see each other as much, but one thing is for sure, I will always treasure the days we did!

I hope my family and all my friends have a wonderful New Year's celebration tonight no matter where they are or what they are doing. Let's hope the New Year brings lots of peace, joy, and happiness to each and every one of you too. Love ya!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

From Juan Cole's site:

Sunday, December 31, 2006

What the Number 3000 Hides

Iraqi guerrillas killed 6 more GIs and AP put the total dead in combat at 2998. The dreadful milestone of 3000 is upon us.

Like all statistics, this one is deceptive. It does not include US troops killed in Afghanistan, that oddly forgotten war where the US still has a division engaging in active combat. Nor is it nice to ignore NATO dead in Afghanistan, including French and Canadians (yes).

The number does not include the Coalition troops killed in Iraq. The sacrifices of the British, Italians, and others should be included.

And why ignore the seriously wounded? These brave warriors have brain damage, or spinal damage, or have lost limbs or been burned and disfigured. There are probably 8000 of them. Their sacrifice should be foregrounded. Life is not going to be easy for them, and they are not goiing to get that much help from Bush.

Indeed, why not count all the wounded? The number must be near 25000 by now.

Then there are all the Iraq Vets with post traumatic stress disorder and a myriad of other combat related mental diseases. There is alcoholism, domestic violence, divorce.

The true number of Americans and US allies who are in some sense casualties of war is in the tens of thousands.

3000 is a horrible number. But it is not the only dreadful number. By concentrating on it, Washington politicians and the US press hide from us the true magnitude of the problems we face in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And guess what? George W. Bush will sleep well again tonight just like every night in the past 4 years since this illegal occupation of his started. Of course he will because even he hides from his own reality that he has created.

It's New Year's Eve, so who do you think he's talking to and what do you think he's saying? I think he's stoned out of his mind and isn't talking to anyone! He's just holding the phone and listening to the dial tone. LOL

Americans have just went through another Christmas season of festivities and gifts, laughter and love that can only be shared around a grand buffet of ham and turkey, dressing and yams, pies and fudge for all to enjoy.

Americans also shared in the joy of giving and receiving gifts that were wrapped so tightly and nestled under the glow of a brightly decorated Christmas tree.

As we enter the New Year one can assume that among the various football games and parties that will take place another buffet will be enjoyed by a very special family.

The Bush family will once again set down to a buffet that they have enjoyed for some five years now. This buffet gets larger and filled with more items that only the Bush family and their guests can appreciate.

The Bush New Years buffet will consist of the spilled blood of over 6000 Iraqis and at least 3000 American soldiers. The spilled blood of so many will pale in comparison to what lies ahead for the blood thirsty family who so arrogantly reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Just two days before the Bush family Buffet of Blood, 80 more Iraqis were killed, 6 more U.S soldiers died and hundreds of innocent civilians were severely injured.

In Baghdad, 12 bodies which had been tortured were discovered throughout the city. Two car bombs killed 37 and wounded 76 in yet another side dish for the Buffet of Blood.

On a minibus south of Baghdad, 38 were killed and 58 wounded in yet another bombing.

The Bush family can also rejoice over December being the deadliest month of 2006.

The Bush family will also celebrate the very fact that before New Years day, the U.S death toll in Iraq will hit at least 3000. Of course those are figures from the Bush government. They are very probably underreported by several thousand.

As Americans try and forget their never ending troubles by attending New Years Eve parties , the Bush family with the ever present "Buck-Tooth Condi" will celebrate another successful year of death and destruction.

As normal Americans hope the new year will bring peace and economic security, the Bush family will look forward to more deaths in Iraq, and the launching of yet another needless war in Iran.

As George W Bush looks to his right at his masterful "Buffet of Blood" he will see his blushing bride with the plastic smile and equally plastic personality sipping on yet another pitcher of martinis.

As King George looks to his left he will see the loving smile of the ever present Condi, with her empty smile, empty personality, and an even emptier portfolio of all her accomplishments this year.

As the Emperor in Chief looks around the table he will see his two demon seeds that represent the very worst of his sperm and the alocoholic genes of their constantly intoxicated mother.

As thousands of Iraqis mourn their dead and millions of Americans wonder will this nightmare ever end, we can all take comfort in knowing that life is most certaintly good at the 5th annual Bush family "Buffet of Blood."

It's not surprising that Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is trying to get the word out there that she has a perfect voting record and is comparing herself with the late great Senator Margaret Chase Smith (Susan is no Margaret Chase Smith, but like Bush, Susan lives in LaLa Land). Of course she would do that because she knows damn well for a good part of her second term in the US Senate, she has voted along party lines, which means she was one of the cheerleaders of Bush's policies and his appointments. She doesn't want you to think about that, though. She wants you to walk away with the image that she has shown up for attendence over the years and is hoping that you'll vote her back in 2008 and give her a medal for being such a loyal senator to the people of Maine. Uh huh. Sorry Susan.

Remember in high school when there was one kid who would brag that he or she never missed a day of school but forgot to tell you despite this their grades stunk? Well, that's Susan Collins in a nutshell. Yes, she's shown up for work everyday, but her voting record clearly shows in the past few years that she wasn't studying hard enough and spent too much time looking in the mirror congratulating herself for being a good little girl who never missed a day!

Last week, she stood behind Bush as he signed into the law the new Postal Service Bill, which is an overhaul of the system. Of course, if you read the fine print, basically this bill will allow the robbing of it's fund to help pay up the US Treasury! Think Susan Collins would rather take money out of the hands of the top 5% of this country who don't need it to help out the US Treasury or maybe defund the Iraq occupation? Nope! She would rather rob poor-Peter to pay Paul.

Highlights of Senator Collins' postal reform bill are as follows:

*Replaces the current lengthy and litigious rate-setting process with a rate cap-based structure for market-dominant products such as First-Class Mail, periodicals and library mail. Price changes for market-dominant products would be subject to a 45-day prior review period by the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC). Under the compromise agreement, after 10 years from enactment, the PRC would have the authority to modify or adopt an alternate system if found to be necessary.

*Grants the Postal Service Board of Governors the authority to set rates for competitive products like Express Mail and Priority Mail, as long as these prices do not result in cross subsidy from market-dominant products. Establishes a 30-day prior review period during which the proposed rate changes shall be reviewed by the Postal Regulatory Commission.

*Introduces new safeguards against unfair competition by the Postal Service in competitive markets. Subsidization of competitive products by market-dominant products would be expressly forbidden, and an appropriate allocation of institutional costs to competitive products would be required.

*Transforms the existing Postal Rate Commission into the Postal Regulatory Commission with greatly enhanced authority to ensure that the Postal Service management has greater latitude and stronger oversight. Among other things, the Postal Regulatory Commission will have the authority to regulate rates for non-competitive products and services; ensure financial transparency; establish limits on the accumulation of retained earnings by the Postal Service; obtain information from the Postal Service, if need be, through the use of new subpoena power; and review and act on complaints filed by those who believe the Postal Service has exceeded its authority.

*Requires the Postal Service to file with the Postal Regulatory Commission certain Securities and Exchange Commission financial disclosure forms, along with detailed annual reports on the status of the Postal Service's pension and postretirement health obligations in order to ensure increased financial transparency.

*Reaffirms USPS employees' right to collectively bargain. This bill only makes changes to the bargaining process that have been agreed to by both the Postal Service and the four major unions. It replaces the rarely used fact-finding process with mediation, and shortens statutory deadlines for certain phases of the bargaining process.

*Puts into place a three-day waiting period before an employee is eligible to receive 45 days of continuation of pay. This is consistent with every state's workers' compensation program that requires a three- to seven-day waiting period before benefits are paid.

*Repeals a provision of Public Law 108-18 that required money owed to the Postal Service due to an overpayment into the Civil Service Retirement System Fund to be held in an escrow account, which would essentially "free up" $78 billion over a period of 60 years. These savings would be used not only to pay off debt to the U.S. Treasury but also to fund health care liabilities, and mitigate rate increases.

*Returns to the Department of Treasury the responsibility for funding CSRS pension benefits relating to the military service of postal retirees. No other agency is required to make this payment.

Sounds wonderful, but does Sen. Susan Collins know that Bush has issued his own Executive Order basically saying he can construe anything he wants in this bill? [crickets chirping] Will Susan hold a press conference stating that she is not happy that the president is not recognizing her hard work on this bill for the past 3 years? [crickets chirping] She's a cheerleader for Bush, so I'm sure she's been using her time over vacation to come up with a new cheerleading routine to impress her 'coach'.

Sen. Susan Collins can toot her horn all she wants, but her record clearly shows that she is in lock step with the most vile presidency our nation has ever witnessed. She voted for the (un-Patriotic) Patriot Act, she threw Habaes Corpus down the drain for Americans, she says she is pro-choice but couldn't wait to show up that day to cast her vote for anti-Roe v. Wade, Judge Samuel Alito, and hasn't seen a tax cut bill to help out the top 1-5% of this country she didn't like! Oh yes....she's showing up for work, but it's what she is doing while she is there that needs to be looked at!!!!

At this point, Collins could literally save an old lady from being hit by a car, while feeding a homeless person while doing it and I still would not vote for Susan Collins in 2008. She will not get my vote no matter how hard she toots her horn!!!

Sweet Condi Rice wraps up two years as Secretary of State with nothing related to success for her to report.

In fact, Condi appears to enter her third year of failure by doing virtually the same things she has done the past two years. Nothing.

Condi did help in the removal of Colin Powell so she could havve greater access to the shopping malls of the world, but that accomplishment brought her gain, with nothing for America.

Condi has made 37 overseas trips with no accomplishments with little or no diplomatic victories and very little follow up.

Condi has done nothing to bring peace to the Mideast, much less to Iraq. Condi has done nothing to broker peace between Israel and its enemies.

Condi refuses to talk with Iran, North Korea and other potential enemies of the world. She has done nothing to bring diplomacy to America's most vocal enemies.

Condi does have a few accomplishments to boast of this holiday season.

Condi managed once again to spend another extended vacation with the apple of her eye King George on his run down plantation.

Condo has also managed to buy hundreds of hollow shaped outfits on her overseas jaunts, which always matches her equally hollow personality.

Condi hasn't brokered any peace deals to end the needless war in Iraq. Condo hasn't made any attempts to stifle China's extended grip on the American economy. Condi hasn't done anything to help bring our troops home.

Condi may have failed miserably at being the voice of reason and she may have failed miserably at bring peace to the Mideast, but Condi has one major accomplishment that no other can enjoy.

She has caught the withered and ruthless eye of her special Georgie and that is all that really matters to her.

(Hat tip to Smoke of AMERICAblog for posting this picture tonight! Freaking hysterical picture.)

According to the Bush Regime, he will be. Of course, the Regime scheduled this execution months ago around the same time they hurried up the ending of Saddam's trial in Iraq to get to his conviction and then on to better things.

There are no accidents or coincidences when dealing with the Bush Regime. They are schemers, but schemers and planners for the wrong reasons except to catapult their own hidden agenda to use as propaganda. The Iraqis are now saying that they will NOT be executing Saddam this weekend and will wait until the end of next month to do it. If this is true, then it's proof that the whole trial was nothing but a sham and was created in the image of the Bush Regime's fantasy they've had in their minds for over two decades. They're using Saddam's execution for their own political reasons instead of allowing the Iraqis to go by their own rules/laws of their country to show the world that they are in charge over there. The Bush Regime wants to make sure Saddam's death happens on their watch when the republicans in Congress still have control. They would much rather have this than for history to reflect that Saddam was hanged after the democrats took back control. It's all egotistical crap to them 24/7. It makes me angry that they use people like this for their own political gain!!

Saddam Hussein was a tyrannt. He was an Evil man. But....America never should have been taken into Iraq. The Bush Pigs lied to our country for their reasons to go in there. Their whole argument was based on lies, deceits, distortions, and fraudulent documents. Because this is an illegal and immoral occupation of a nation that was not threatening us, this execution is also illegal in my eyes. America would have been better off if Bush and his Cabal had decided to train a few people inside Iraq through our CIA to take Saddam down that way. They didn't of course, but that's because Bush wanted to anchor us in Iraq because of their oil. He and the rest of his Oil Maggots have wanted control of it, because by doing so, it gives them a central front (Bush uses this term a lot!) and a windshield view of the Middle East for future wars for oil to be fought from.

Executing Saddam is not going to make a difference in the Bush Regime's plans. They're doing it for the show and the glory, but in the end, Iraq will end up worse than when the first American boot hit the ground back in March of 2003. Bush and his Cabal won't care, though. They have our soldiers there and they are their anchor. This explains why they want to escalate the amount of troops on the ground, rather then start scaling back.

Spit. I hate them.

In the 1970's two different presidents issued two different pardons to attempt to help heal the deep differences within this nation.

The first was Gerald Ford who felt that by pardoning Richard Nixon he was helping the Unites States and it's people move forward from the nightmare of Watergate which had paralyzed the government and nation for the past two years. He felt it was time to move forward and deal with the energy and economic problems we faced in those days, and he might have been right. President Ford took a large amount of grief for this pardon. Some say he might have lost in 1976 partly as a result of this pardon, but he felt it was the right thing to do FOR the nation. So he ignored the political approach and followed his conscience which is what we ask of all of our politicians.

The second pardon was issued by Jimmy Carter in the very beginning of his term in office. It was much more far reaching, and very few can name anyone Jimmy Carter pardoned today. President Carter issued a pardon to each American Citizen who because of their conscience had forgone their American citizenship, and went to Canada or another country to refuse the forced draft into the military service which usually meant service in Vietnam and that war. This pardon was Jimmy Carter's attempt to heal the country from some of the deep divisions of that long war. President Carter wanted to allow people to return to families and friends who they had to leave as a matter of conscience. That pardon did play a role in some people's minds when they attacked Jimmy Carter, and decided to do what it took to defeat him. It was a small part of the reason he lost in 1980.

Both men in that office in the 1970's followed their conscience, and ignored the political consequences. They both put the good of the country ahead of their political future, and never looked back once they decided what was right for their time. They were fearless in the face of the political consequences, and put the good of this nation and it's people ahead of their own desires. Too bad we are lacking political people today who have the magnanimity to follow their example. We as a nation really do need men or women of their character and resolve to do what is right for the country and it's people no matter the political consequences.

May you rest in peace Gerald Ford.

May God continue to Bless you Jimmy Carter.

....she's a telephone pole in Cheney's side! Look what our favorite soldier's Mom did today:

(December 28, 2006)—McLennan County sheriff’s deputies and Department of Public Safety troopers arrested anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and four other protesters Thursday as President Bush met with top advisers to discuss Iraq war strategy at his Central Texas ranch.

The arrests occurred at a barricade in the area of the president’s ranch.

The five were taken to the Crawford Police Department and a van was dispatched to transport them to the McLennan County Jail.

They were charged with obstructing a highway or other passageway, which is a Class B misdemeanor.

The protesters told a News Ten crew as they were led into the police department they didn’t know why they had been taken into custody.

Authorities say Sheehan and the others lay or sat in the road at a checkpoint for about 20 minutes and didn't heed requests to move.

Sheehan arrived earlier this week in Central Texas and said she was calling on supporters to join in what she called “an action” Thursday to coincide with the meeting at the president’s ranch.

Top officials including Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates flew into Central Texas for the meeting.

What noble cause are our soldiers fighting for in Iraq? Still no answer from Bush and the crickets are chirping as loud as ever!!! They know why we are over there. They just don't want to say it out loud. Why? Because we have no business being over there, it's an illegal occupation of a soveriegn nation based on lies and fraudulent documents, and because there's oil in dem dare deserts in Iraq!!!

I'm really starting to believe that George W. Bush the 43rd president of the United States is morphing into a reptile with fuzzy hair. Watching him today reminded me why I would never want to seek the office of the president and how lying, deceiving, and distorting for years on end takes it's toll on a person's body! Wow. And what was with all the blinking he was doing? I couldn't stand watching it and I found myself concentrating on his blinking rather than listening to his words!!! If he's not highly medicated, then there is something definately wrong with this man. The world 'delusional' always comes to mind, but today, he really looked like a fuzzy-haired, sociopathic, lizard. This is what happens apparently when you know you've lost your power and your days are numbered.

Not only did Georgie talk about Ford's death (which is kind of sad to me, but at the same time, I don't want a 5 day funeral to mourn him like Reagan's funeral! Jees. Come on. Have some humility for once GOPers!!), so didn't his Mom & Dad. Awwwww, it was a Bush Family Mourn Fest. Interestingly enough, I didn't tear up once when Bush Sr. was talking about Gerald Ford's passing. In fact, I didn't believe a goddamn word he said. Bush Sr. said that Ford was instrumental in his own career. Huh. I always thought Bush Sr. was instrumental in his own career and when he didn't get the VP nomination under Ford, he pushed himself in at the last minute when Ronald Reagan was about to pick Gerald Ford as his VP for the 1980 race. Wow! Bush Sr. is still acting like the victim all these years and trying to convince Americans that his career just naturally flowed. Spit.

Anyways, it was a sad day to hear about Gerald Ford's passing. No republican president has been my favorite president in modern times, so when I heard of his death I just hoped the right wingers in this country don't prop this man up as a symbol of "everything good" like they did Ronald Reagan. Our presidents are our presidents and they are important, yes, but treating them like they are an Imperial King (or Queen sometime in the future) is just plain disgusting to me. Ford did do some good for our country in the 1970's, because, quite frankly, he wasn't Richard Nixon and our nation needed anyone but him to be running the show. Ford came in at the right time, but that doesn't mean everything he did during his time was 'godly'. He made mistakes and the biggest one he made was pardoning Nixon. Americans don't like the 'good ole boy buddy system' and this decision is what made him lose to Jimmy Carter. Nonetheless, he's one of the few republicans that I can talk about that doesn't make my whole body react in a primal fashion. He doesn't make me bristle up.

My heart goes out to the Ford family, who have obviously lost their 'treasure', and I'm sure they're wanting some peace right now as they mourn their tremendous loss.

Gee, I wonder why the Bush Regime is having a change of heart by putting the polar bears on this list? You'd think with all the environmental policies they've rolled back over the years in favor of their corporate whore friends and their insistent debunking of global warming not existing, because their 'scientists' say it doesn't exist, that they would NOT want to ACKNOWLEDGE the fact that polar bears are FREAKING DROWNING and are an endangered species at this point. Yeah, yeah, you'd think they would rather issue a report that says polar bears are thriving during 'this natural warming of our planet'. Nope, the drowning and starving of polar bears is significant and the Bush Regime is being forced now, in my opinion, to accept their part in all of this.

"Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., the incoming head of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said the polar bear's plight reflects the health of the planet.

"Global warming is melting polar ice at an alarming rate and we are now beginning to realize the consequences of this," she said. "This news serves as a wake-up call to the U.S. Congress and the administration that we must quickly begin to address global warming through legislative action."

Environmentalists hope that invoking the Endangered Species Act protections eventually might provide impetus for the government to cut back on its emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases blamed for warming the atmosphere.

The proposed listing also marks a potentially significant departure for the administration from its cautious rhetoric about the effects of global warming. Kempthorne cited the thinning sea ice brought about by global warming as the main culprit, although he said his department wasn't required by the endangered species law to study climate change.

President Bush's steadfast refusal to go along with United Nations-brokered mandatory controls on carbon dioxide, the chief global warming gas, has contributed to tensions between the United States and other nations."

I'm glad to see the polar bears getting the respect they deserve, but is it too late? This is really the question here. I believe that our planet does go through natural periods of warming and cooling, but what has happened in the last decade (and especially in the last 6 years!) is something that is happening too fast. There is a catalyst behind the scenes and I believe it's the rolling back of the environmental policies for the past 6 years that has really "lit the fire" under the icebergs. The ice is melting too fast for the polar bears to catch up. That is not a good sign. The polar bears starving and drowning at alarming rates and it is an indication that change is needed in Bush's policies, because these policies are effecting the planet.

He probably thinks it is still all about Him.

But in a way, TIME did make it as much about Bush or Cheney if they are looking into the cover as anybody else in the world.

They did NOT differentiate between those who created the Fiasco and illegal lies and spying, and those of us who FOUGHT back.

So Bush probably looked at the TIME person of the year and took it as verification of HIS deciding and charged forward once again.

Bush is so disconnected from reality he would accept anything as proof he was right and he can still "win" in Iraq. If there was ONE .. YOU .. on this planet that cover does not apply to it is...

George W Bush.................... the worst president ever.

Myself (KayInMaine), Joe Sudbay (AMERICAblog contributor), Sharon Sudbay (Joe's sister), Chris from Maine & MikeyInMaine (AMERICAblog regular commenters) met today and what a wonderful time we all had! We met at the Falmouth House of Pizza and spent two and a half hours there talking about Washington, politics in general, and shared our own stories with each other.

Here is the Master of the Left Blogistan, Joe in DC/Joe Sudbay of AMERICAblog (sorry John A....you weren't there so you don't get the title today!), and his sister Sharon Sudbay, who is heavily involved with women's issues here in Maine and who is business partners with Jim Mitchell, who is the nephew of Maine's great ex-Senator, George Mitchell. What a treat it was to be at the same table with these two! Being with them, you get that feeling you're in the midst of greatness (okay, that's my only suckup today Joe!! LOL):


















At 1:30pm we left the restaurant and Mikey, Chris, and I decided to go across the street to the Foreside Tavern to have a drink and to chat some more. This picture of Mikey and I was taken by Chris and I'm leaning forward (and looking ridiculous I may add) because I'm trying to help Chris with my camera. (It's the mother in me! Sorry!!!) By the way, Mikey is exactly the way he is on AMERICAblog. He doesn't beat around the bush and just jumps right in with his two cents on the topic at hand. He is very outgoing, cheerful, and smiled and joked the whole time we were all together today. He's a Patriot for sure!

















Here's a picture of Chris with Mikey. Chris is also like the persona he is on AMERICAblog! He is so funny, intelligent, and is a very focused individual. He drove over two hours to be with us today and this proves how much dedication he has when it comes to blogging and to being part of this extraordinary time in our lives. The only thing I was taken aback by was the deepness of Chris' voice. He could do voice-overs....his voice is that great!























Mikey & Chris having a drink at the Foreside Tavern. No further explanation needed. ;-)





It was so nice meeting all of you today and I think we pretty much solved the problems in Washington. Why? Because. We. Are. That. Good. ;-) And Joe, as always, it's so great to see you. You are our Master!!!!

Over at Lydia Cornell's Blog we have a gutless reichwingnut troll I have named Tiny.

This post is dedicated to HIS complete ignorance, and gutless spewing propaganda for these chicken hawks to murder hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and More Americans than we lost on 9-11

It's the day after Christmas and my house is 95% back in order with the exception of a few boxes I have to break down for recycling, but other than that...I'm back on track!

What makes this morning beautiful is the fact that I'm meeting up with Joe in DC of AMERICAblog this morning again. I invited 'Chris from Maine' and 'MikeyInMaine' to come and join us and both are coming! Woohoo! Chris is in Searsport, so he has a three hour drive ahead of him today, but he emailed me this morning to tell me he's hitting the road and is looking forward to our meeting. I've also invited 'Jeremy' who posted a response on my blog a couple of days ago. He's in Portland, so hopefully he got my email and will be joining us today.

I can't wait to see all of you this morning! Woohoo! Let's scheme together people...scheme I tell ya!!! We're very good at it I must say. ;-)

It is ironic, that today, the birth of the man called the prince of peace, a man who tried to teach us ALL to live peacefully with each other that the death toll from a war started by another man who claims to listen to the prince of peace, but how I do not know, the death toll of that war would eclipse the death toll of 9-11.

Sad

So very sad.

Maybe somehow God is trying to use the Karma of this day combined with that tragic news to wake us all up, so we can change how we treat each other.

But there are those who have ignored the message of he who we celebrate this day for far too long, so there is NO reason to think they would listen today either.

How can Bush allow this illegal and immoral occupation in Iraq to continue? What noble cause are we really fighting for, because if it was to give the Iraqis peace, justice, and freedom, well that should have been tackled at the beginning. Over 20,000 of our soldiers have been maimed during this occupation for nothing! Besides control of the oil, there is no reason for our soldiers being there. Had Iraq been the country who did attack us, I could see it, but knowing that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi Arabians and knowing that the Saudis & Osama bin Laden still roam free (or he's dead and is just being used as the Boogeyman to keep Americans under control by fear) while our soldiers are losing their faces, their legs, and their arms, it bothers me!

Meanwhile...

It gets worse. I read an article today about how Nancy Pelosi will not allow C-SPAN to pan the camera around the House or Senate when they're in session. She is continuing what the republicans have done since the mid-90's, which is to have the camera aimed only at the person speaking at the podium or a wide shot of where the Speaker is, everywhere else will be off limits. Pitiful and disgusting!

I want transparency, dammit. I want hearings, investigations, and outrageous speeches on the floor of the House & Senate demanding the Bush Administration and all levels of their government from the past 6 years be held accountable and I want to see C-SPAN's cameras capturing all of it!! Americans want to see these people red faced, embarrassed, ashamed, and caught in moments of smugness. Again, we want to see it all.

If Nancy can't do something as simple as allowing C-SPAN some freedom, then I think there is no way in hell the FREAKING IRAQIS ARE GOING TO FEEL ANY EITHER! And guess what? Our poor soldiers are in the middle of all of this. While our freedoms here at home continue to dwindle, they're over there losing their limbs and their lives for freedom that is not and never will be coming to the Iraqis. I WANT THEM HOME AND I WANT THEM HOME NOW. Maybe they could knock some sense into the members of Congress for us. Doubtful but you never know.

Yes, yes, I know. It's Christmas Day 2006 and I 'shouldn't' be posting anything other than happy Jesus stories, but after reading the above article about how Donald Trump is suing the city of Palm Beach, Florida, I just had to do it. So sue me...

Donald Trump is suing the city of Palm Beach to be able to continue to fly a 15' x 25' flag, which is on an 80 foot tall pole out front of his Mar-A-Lago retreat. He doesn't understand why he is being singled out and thinks that the flag represents the size of his patriotism and that's that.

"A smaller flag and pole on Mar-A-Lago's property would be lost given its massive size, look silly instead of make a statement, and most importantly would fail to appropriately express the magnitude of Donald J. Trump's and the Club's members' patriotism," the lawsuit says.

[...]

"The day you need a permit to put up the American flag, that will be a sad day for this country," Trump said in October.

Well, well, well now. Interesting. Ole Donald thinks he's the most patriotic and most American American out there, but yet, he thinks he doesn't have to honor and respect the city's ordinances (those are the laws Donald! Follow them or suck eggs or better yet...fight to have them changed if you think it's that important to you!). Isn't this the same attitude that Bush & Co. have had in the past six years? Yes it is and now I can add Donald Trump to my long list of anti-Americans and America-haters.

I can guarantee there is no law in the city of Palm Beach that says an American cannot fly a flag there. I bet they do have laws on the books that explicitly demand that all flags must be no larger than a certain size and cannot block the view of their neighbors. Well of course they have laws like that on the books! It's ordinances like this that make for good neighbors. The fact that ole Donald thinks he can ignore this fact disgusts me and shows along with his buddies in the White House....he thinks he's above the laws! Wrong.

Town officials said Trump violated zoning codes when the lavish club hoisted a 15-by-25-foot flag atop an 80-foot pole on Oct. 3. The citation was for having a flagpole taller than 42 feet, for not obtaining a building permit and for not getting permission from the landmarks board.

An 80 foot pole. The town is nice enough to allow a 42 foot pole, but Donald can't stop there can he? Nope, he has to double the size just to "prove" to the people of Palm Beach that he is way more patriotic than they are!

What an ass he is. I would mention the fact that Donald acted like a baby by calling Rosie O'Donnell a bunch of names after she pointed out the truth about him when he refused to fire the current Miss USA because of her non-Miss USA behavior, but I won't. He makes me want to vomit because of who he is and how he is and I'll just leave the impression in your mind of Donald Trump sucking eggs at the request of KayInMaine. To me, that's how I will see him everytime he appears on my television from now on. Sucking eggs like the good patriot he thinks he is. What he really needs to do is SUCK IT UP AND TAKE THE FLAG DOWN ALONG WITH THE GIGANTIC POLE AND PUT UP THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT POLE AND FLAG ALLOWED IN HIS CITY...LIKE ALL GOOD PATRIOTS WOULD DO!

2972

Bush's Christmas present to the country,

2972 souls no longer with us,

2972 The number of Mothers and fathers with out a son or daughter this year, LEAVING empty chairs at the Christmas dinner table.

2972 Sisters or brothers who have lost a sibling far before it should be.

2972 Children, who grow up with no mother of father there to comfort then, teach them about life and love, give them the hand of guidance and a hug each night.

2972 Empty places in the hearts of those who loved them.

2972 People whose friends have lost for ever,

2972 Children of God lost for greed and lies.

2972 Soldiers sacrificed on the Alter of corporate greed, neo-con world ambition, GOP lies and Hypocrisy, REPUGNANT COWARDNESS.

2972 REASONS FOR IMPEACHMENT.

2972

To many people it is just a statistic, number for the record books, but if you in those 2972
Families, or are friends with them, the number is a person who has been lost for all time, which makes this Christmas season seem empty and hollow, after all what does;

Peace on Earth mean right after a Government car pulls up to your house with two military officers and a priest?

What does Good Will to all men mean as you stand at the grave side with the last echoes of taps drifting off on the wind?

How happy are the HOLY-days when you’re putting the gold star in your window?

What if seasons greetings came with the requirement of planning the funeral of a loved one you lost because the president can not admit a mistake?

And is it a HAPPY New Year if it means entering it without a loved one lost on the battle field far from home for reasons that never have been explained, even as the lies are stripped bare?

2972 Christmas presents to this country we did not want.

What an awesome night I had with my son. Traditionally we have lobster, which we did, plus we had some shrimp to go along with it. We also like to have a special dessert, so we had rootbeer floats & banana splits. Yummy! A Christmas Story was on at 8pm (will be on for 24 hrs. straight on TBS Superstation channel) and we watched it twice in a row. So much fun. We were up at 6:00am this morning and Christmas was over by 7:30am. All that anticipation and it ends so quickly! Oh well. My son got a PS2 Guitar Hero II, an iPod Nano, and the Blue Man Group's keyboard drum set, so he is psyched!! He got lots of music cd's and clothes too.

Hope you all enjoyed yourselves! (Smoke, I posted your Christmas present on Ablog this morning. You're going to love it!!! LOL)


CHECK OUT "IT'S A BLUNDERFUL LIFE" OVER AT JURASSICPORK'S BLOG TODAY FOR A HUGE LAUGH! FREAKING HYSTERICAL!

My son and I moved to Durham a few years ago and I always joke that all my friends in the town work at the variety store, so I stop in there this afternoon before heading out to go the grocery store to get our holiday treats and find my friend Janet dressed up behind the counter as Mrs. Santa Claus! Freaking hysterical. So here she is:



I said to her, "Give me a sexy pose!", after she went back behind the counter to wait on customers and here's her reaction:



She said, "A sexy pose here in the store?", and I said, "Yes, why don't you go over there and lick the fryer or the pizza oven or something!" [laughter in the store], so instead, she gave me this action:



Perfect!

She and I recently went out shopping to get her a nice dress for New Year's Eve, but she doesn't have a date. Dammit. Okay, if you're in Maine, don't drink and want to go out and have a good time, email me! When she tried on the long red strapless gown with the silver and diamond button between the breasts, I said, "That's the one!", so she will look terrific (she also bought a black one too). I'm going to warn you, however...she is ex-military (Marine, I believe), loves snowmobiles (a Polaris girl) and George Bush (I've tried to change this fact but it's not going to happen, so keep that in mind when you're on your date), and could probably drink you under the table....if she hadn't quit drinking a year or so ago. LOL Despite this, she is a wonderful egg. She needs someone to see her true beauty within and treat her right. ;-)

(They're going to kill me for posting these pictures. I told them last night I wouldn't but I couldn't resist! Hard to believe that we're all 38 years old! We've hardly aged but that could have a lot to do with our attitudes.)



This is my friend Jan. She's been in my life since @ 6th grade. She is such a freaking riot! She is the most sarcastic and funny person I've ever met. The evening started with a two hour dinner, drinks (Jan was drinking fishbowls of Margarita's as you can see), and laughter. The waitress we had was young and so much fun too. She was so happy to see us because the Mexican restaurant we went too was apparently dead all afternoon and she had hardly made any money. We made sure to give her a great tip, of course. ;-)




We went to Spencer's and Jan found a magnet that read, "Please Tell Me If I've Slept With You Already". Love it! Of course, a trip to Spencer's can't be complete without visiting the naughty toy aisle. While we were looking at the dildo's and laughing our asses off, a young guy (22 maybe?) came to the aisle and quickly grabbed a pink dildo without even looking at it because there was a group of old ladies (us!) standing there cracking up! Freaking riot.



Cyndie! This picture of her reflects who she is all the time. She is always smiling, is happy, and is so full of vitality! She's a new Mom too. Her little boy is 7 months old.



This is my friend Karen (not the best picture of her because she is stunningly beautiful! She's very, very French). Here and I were next door neighbors growing up and have known each other since before kindergarten. Her mother spoke fluent French and would scream at Karen and I in French and the only English we would understand was our names. So freaking funny! You would never know it, but Ms. Karen is the mother of five (yes...5 kids!). She's a super Mom (literally in all aspects) and has the kindest heart too.




My son snapped this picture of me before I left for the night and it's a good thing he did, because otherwise, there wouldn't be a picture of me from the evening! That's the way it always is too. A picture of me in the last 10 years is rare, so enjoy this blurry one of me for the time being. ;-)

What a wonderful night we had. I got my shopping done, but I was a little concerned for Jan who had a boatload to finish up on. She and Cyndie were heading for Target when we parted last night. I hope she finished!!

Love you all! You add so much to my life.

To a house in Crawford Texas no doubt.

And possibly one in Kennebunkport Maine for producing the Idiot.

Add the house to the list you think Santa needs to send a message to. One rule HOUSE not names, look them up.

Like;

Jackson Hole, Wyoming

or

St. Michaels, Md.

(hint they are Cheney and Dumsfeld's residences)

IN HIS OWN WORDS...

I want more cowboy outfits to get my message across to the American people

I want to bomb Iran when I feel like it

Give me some more power!

Santa, tell them libruls they're wrong about me

More crayons to circle the stuff I like on da global maps

I want peace for my family because they deserve it

I want victory in Iraq (hear that soldiers? Now do it! You're not listening right!)!

Make my egg nog extra specially good this year Santa

Give the gift of privacy to my girls for they do not reap what they sow

I want to hold hands with Prince Bandar again

Give war a chance...it's the only way to make peace on Earth

and finally Santa,

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I've changed in the world, give me the courage to continue to change things as I see fit because I am the Decider, and give the American people the wisdom to accept it all as soon as I say or do it for they do not understand that I am really...a peace president.

Thank you Santa!



(spit.)

Normally the top of my entertainment center is dusty (an ongoing battle with a dog and a computer in the house!), but with the decorations on it, it takes on a whole new serene appearance.

Hope you all are relaxing and enjoying the season. This is the third Christmas holiday since the war in Iraq began and I feel guilty enjoying this time of year knowing they're over there. Take a moment to think of our soldiers who are away from their families and think of their children and spouses who miss them and who are spending another year without them.

I know you will. :-)

If there ever was a political cartoon that captured the crassness of the gutless chicken hawk neo-cons and what they wanted the American families to offer up their sons and daughters for this is it.

Bush at this point is simply feeding a meat grinder with the lives and bodies of the soldiers of this country.

He is subjecting the Iraqi people to the same horrible fate with no end in sight. Somebody has to step up and stop him. Just as Bush has failed in Iraq, Baker it seems has failed in Washington.

The failure of Bush has doomed thousands of families to a terrible loss which will never be abated. They no longer have their loved ones, and it is apparent to anyone who looks at how disconnected from reality Bush and the neo-cons have become, that the geniuses who got the country into this Fiasco have any clue how to get us out of it.

In fact, instead of ending this illegal immoral war, they are trying to raise the number of US soldiers in Iraq. This upping the ante of a losing war will result in a battle for control of Baghdad, which means fighting against the Madhi Militia of Al Sadr. One report out of CSIS sets their strength at around 200,000 fighters, and hundreds of thousands more supporters. Attacking a guerrilla force of this size will enrage the Shiite majority in Iraq just as the attack on Fallugha enraged the Sunni and was one of the pivotal points in the insurgency. If Fred Kagan and the neo-cons get Bush to follow their flawed strategy, the deaths of US forces would rise dramatically and the response of the US forces to the attacks would plunge the Iraqis deeper into a cycle of killings by all sides.

No amount of force has ever made a people accept foreign oppression for long. In the end almost all indigenous people have forced the occupiers out. Just as the British found out in both Iraq and Afghanistan post WW1, the French in Algeria and Indochina, the Soviets in Afghanistan and the US in Vietnam, all superior militaries which were forced to accept defeat by the indigenous peoples. The battle for Iraq is following a similar path for the US military. Raising the levels of US forces by 30,000 is simply avoiding the inevitable, the redeployment of the US military out of Iraq. We can NOT force the Iraqis to accept our version of their country any more than the British could force the revolutionary Americans to accept the British idea of how America should be governed.

The war for American control of Iraq is lost. Sending more troops is simply feeding the meat grinder to keep Bush from having to admit he was wrong. It is time to STOP FEEDING THE MEAT GRINDER.

Bush won't ever read these words and even if he was shown this letter, he would just toss it aside. Our insane president has no idea how his illegal occupation is affecting the families of our soldiers or our soldiers themselves. It's so sad to me that as we approach Christmas there are young children out there who won't have their Daddy or their Mommy with them to celebrate or mothers of these soldiers killed won't have a voice loud enough for our ignorant president to hear.

Well, I personally think they should be heard!

From Buzzflash:

Amy Branham: Open Letter to Bush and Congress -- Bring our Troops Home!
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Wed, 12/20/2006 - 3:09pm.

by Amy Branham

President Bush and Members of Congress,

As you enjoy your holiday vacations with your families, I strongly urge you to also remember the sons and daughters of America whom you have sent to fight in a bloody war that has taken them so far away from their families, their lives and their homes. I urge you to remember the sons and daughters of America who will not be coming home -- ever.

In November We, the People of the United States of America voted for change. We voted for an end to the war in Iraq. We do not want to continue fighting a war that was never officially declared a war and we do not want our sons and daughters to continue to die in this ill-planned, immoral, misbegotten war without end. We want you to bring them home and to bring them home now.

You have so far ignored our pleas and our cries to end this war. It does not touch your lives and it does not affect you on an hourly basis. But, while you sit in your comfortable homes and offices, safe from harm, there are hundreds of thousands of American citizens who are not comfortable and who are affected. They are either fighting in this war or worrying about their loved ones who are fighting for their lives every day. There are families who are living in dreadful fear of that knock on the door. They watch the news shows and wonder, with every announcement of yet another death of American military members, whether theirs is still alive or one of the dead.

This month alone there have been 61 of America's sons and daughters killed. That's 61 families whose holidays are ruined, who will forever have their Christmas tainted by the death of someone they love in this horrendous war. Thousands upon thousands of Iraqis are also dead.

While you sit in your homes, waiting to make up your minds what to do, lives are being forever changed. This war may not affect you or your family, but it does affect hundreds of thousands of people across this country and in Iraq. Every second, every minute, every day and every week that you take to "think" about the war, lives are changed or forever ended.

Last weekend, I put up my Christmas tree and was rocked with the memories of the last Christmas I spent with my only son, who died a month and a half later, in February 2004. He was home on an unexpected leave. My husband and I had no money as he had been laid off from work and I was the only one keeping us afloat then. We had barely enough to make ends meet. But Jeremy was coming home and we were determined to make the holiday a good one for him, knowing that this could very well be his last Christmas ever.

I got a PayDay Loan. Then, because all of our holiday decorations were in storage in another city, I went out and bought a small silk tree and decorated it. I bought small, inexpensive gifts and food for our traditional Christmas Eve feast. And when my son came home, I hugged on him, kissed him and spent as much time as I possibly could with him. In the end, it was a good Christmas.

Now, I put that little tree up every year in remembrance of my only son, my beloved boy whose voice I will never hear again, the young man I will never again hug or kiss. And I cry tears of sorrow for the senseless end of his life.

Please, I beg of you, do not hesitate one more hour, one more week to end this war. Do not send more troops to Iraq, do not extend tours of duty, and do not continue in this war. The Iraqi's do not want us in their country and the American people want their sons and daughters to come home. Please, listen to us and bring them home.

We cannot afford to waste another day while you are enjoying your holidays. Today the death toll is 2,950. How many more will die before you make up your minds to end this war?

Sincerely,

Amy Branham
Houston, TX
Mother of Sgt. Jeremy R. Smith
Nov. 1981 - Feb. 2004

The white house and Pentagon are finally talking about raising the numbers of people in uniform which would alleviate the burden on those who are serving now. But it is NOT just raw numbers they need.

Growing the Army if NOT done with some forethought will create as big a Fiasco as going into Iraq without a plan already has. We need to ask ourselves what we need in a 21st military before the Pentagon goes to congress for an authorization to increase end strength. The size of US forces is set by congress based on advice of the Pentagon and requests by the Commander in Chief. Since the end of the first gulf war, the military has been downsized, first because of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which meant we no longer needed large mechanized Infantry and Armor Units to fight the Soviet Union on the plains of Germany and Eastern Europe.

Desert Storm was that type of war, as was the Invasion of Iraq in 2003, we have enough troops to fight that style of war. There is NO foreign military which could stand toe to toe with the US in that style of combat EVEN today.

But since the Victory of 1991, the US has been embroiled in a number of military excursions which requires a new approach. Somolia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and both the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since April 2003 shows the extreme limits on the military structure we have.

We do NOT have any where near enough Military Police units. That is what is severely lacking in Iraq. Units trained in the art of policing captured territory, providing security for both the US supply routes and civilians who have become the wards of US troops after we occupied their homeland. Soldiers who know how to man a check point, have training in the arts of policing civilians and can run security operations as their primary purpose, infantry units are NOT trained for this mission and should NOT be.

Secondly we need more Engineer troops in the forces, if we are going to continue with operations like Bosnia and Iraq post invasion. Engineers are the construction forces of the Military. They would have been very advantageous in the early days of the occupation because they could have repaired the broken infrastructure, which would have provided electricity and water to the people, which would have provided some good will on their part. This could have been used to create a much friendlier environment with many Iraqi civilians, then the hard handed arrest them all and sort it out months later approach Dumsfeld used.

Third we need a large increase in civil affairs units. These are the units which go into the civilian areas and ask ther local population what THEY need, and then work with Military Police units for security and Engineer units for repair and reconstruction to provide it. The Civil Affairs also coordinate medical units to provide medical services until Hospitals can be repaired and re-established, and is who the Military turns to to repair schools and get the children back into the classrooms.

Another Thing that is required is a new type of command for any occupation force. The military needs a professional command structure which does what the CPA incompetently tried to do. It would be the General which had control over the MP's Engineers and Civil Affairs, and other units which would be required to restore the civilian social structure to something which a civilian government could take the reigns of power and allow the US forces to re-deploy back to the US. But something like a Military CPA would have to leave the political cronyism and hackery in DC and allow professional people who trained for the job to take the reigns and preform the mission.

Structuring the Military growth in this manner would be adding units which are staffed to win the hearts and minds of the people once the "War Fighters" have won the battle. They are built to operate in a manner which has the possibility to provide for the improvement of the lives if civilians right after the cessation of major combat operations, and stand up the civilian authorities to take back civilian control. However Halliburton would not be employed if the military had these units available, because the military would be doing the same job which Dumsfeld contracted Halliburton to do, but at a MUCH lower cost, and they would nave the ability to hold the commanders accountable. This is a good thing, both to the taxpayers who would have to shell out less money, and to the civilians in the theater of operations which would actually see the job done.

As an aside this restructuring of the Military in this manner would also provide the civilians of the US some direct benefits. If the Military had these units available pre-katrina, the outcome of that disaster might have been completely different. There would have been units ready to go on Day one NOT day five, and a brigade of Engineers could have cleared and repairs roads much sooner. The MPs would have been available for rescue and recovery operations much sooner, and been able to move into the Superdome and convention center both to restore order, and aid in the evacuation days before Gen Honore was sent in.

Will this be what Bush and Gates settles on, probably NOT. It does not provide for large new contracts for the defense industries. It is NOT what the neo-cons want because the missions are not attack attack attack, but provide services to people which dearly need them. It goes against the grain of the reicht wingnut mantra of blame those the are suffering because of policies enacted by the incompetent president and repugnant party. Policies which enrich a few, and cause death destruction and suffering on a massive scale in both this country and around the world.

When Bush and Gates set out to grow the military, they probably will work to add "war fighters" not peace winners. Because they are all about fighting a war, not winning the peace. The units I suggest to add are what the military relies on to win the peace after the initial battle has been won, but the war is far from settled, just as has happened in Iraq. The M-1 tanks can take the ground but do little for the people once they do. Right now the US needs more units that can assist the people of this planet and less that are formed to kill them.

Remember during the Connecticut primary election day when Joe Lieberman was running around like a two year old holding his crotch like he had to pee and saying, "Ned Lamont is so mean! His campaign hacked my website and it's down! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"? Well, it's official now that Ned Lamont's campaign did not do what they lying sack of crap said and what did happen was Lieberman's site crashed from too many people going to it:

From the Stanford Advocate:

Lamont camp cleared in hacking of Lieberman Web site

By Brian Lockhart
Staff Writer

Published December 20 2006

The U.S. attorney's office and state attorney general have cleared former U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont and his supporters of any role in the crash of U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman's campaign Web site hours before last summer's Democratic primary.

"The investigation has revealed no evidence the problems the Web site experienced were the result of criminal conduct," said Tom Carson, spokesman for U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor.

State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal confirmed the joint investigation "found no evidence of tampering or sabotage warranting civil action by my office." Both men declined to provide additional information, such as what might have happened to the site.

Calls to Lieberman went unanswered yesterday.

Lieberman's site, www.joe2006.com, failed the afternoon before the Aug. 8 primary, which he lost to Lamont. Lieberman won a fourth term in November's general election as a petition candidate.

Dan Geary, who developed Lieberman's site, had classified the problem as a denial-of-service attack, which is characterized by attempts to prevent access to a site by overwhelming it.

The Web site crash received media scrutiny, fueled by comments from Lieberman and his staff who implied it had been hacked by Lamont's supporters.

A Lieberman campaign spokeswoman, Marion Steinfels, had called it a "coordinated effort to wreck our Web site and make us incapable of communicating with each other and our voters."

Visitors who tried to access Lieberman's site received a message calling on Lamont to "make an unqualified statement denouncing this kind of dirty campaign trick and to demand whoever is responsible to cease and desist immediately."

Lamont's campaign denied any involvement, and staff posted a link to a duplicate or "cache" version of Lieberman's site on Lamont's blog.

Tom Swan, Lamont's campaign manager, and George Jepsen, his campaign chairman, were not surprised by the findings of the probe.

"It's a shame that they chose to waste public investigation resources for what they knew was a bogus charge," Swan said.

Jepsen said he did not believe the Lieberman campaign's attempts to link Lamont to the crashed Web site had an effect on the general election.

"I think it was just a tiny blip on a very large radar screen," Jepsen said. "It just shows when people get in the middle of a campaign, anything that goes wrong they assume is deliberate sabotage by the other side."

Copyright © 2006, Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc.

We already knew that Ned Lamont's staff did not do this to Lieberman and it still urks me that Lieberman resorted to right wing election garbage during this very important race. He lost it in the end, though. The democrats of his state and Lamont supporters voted his ass off the ticket. Of course, we all know the rest. Lieberman continued to be the republican he is and decided to run as an independent thus winning the actual election in November in the end. It's too bad too that he won. He's not very trustworthy and watching him the day of the primary in Connecticut and the tricks he was trying to play was disgusting. Shame on the people of Connecticut for electing this man anyways!!!

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She's really trying to change the mood of the nation. Just this week when her husband's approval ratings were plummetting and after she said that the media is making the Iraq occupation bad when it's going really good (delusional!), she slapped a bandaid on her shin. The nation did not go into mourning and give Bush a 'yes' vote when asked if he's a good president. Nope, his approval rating went down one percentage point after the story of Laura having skin cancer. Now she's shitting blood...

Next week I fully expect her to come down with the flu just in time for Jesus' fake birthday celebration day.

/snark

From Tom Paine's site:

W. Patrick Lang is a retired Army colonel who served with Special Forces in Vietnam, as an instructor at West Point, and as Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East. Ray McGovern was also an Army infantry/intelligence officer before his 27-year career as a CIA analyst. Both are with Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

As Robert Gates takes the helm at the Pentagon today, he is probably already aware that Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush are resolute in their decision to stay the course in Iraq (without using those words) for the next two years. What he probably does not realize is that the U.S. military is about to commit hara-kiri.

The media are abuzz with trial balloons with official leaks that President George W. Bush is about to approve a “surge” in U.S. troop strength in Iraq by tens of thousands. At the same time, surge advocate Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., just back from a brief visit to the Green Zone with fellow surgers John McCain, R-Ariz., and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., has warned that “the amount of troops will make no difference” if Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki avoids taking “bold” moves. The three pretend to be unaware that the most important move for which they pressed—breaking with radical Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr—would amount to political suicide for Maliki.

Meanwhile, back at the Sunday talk shows, incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who owes his position to the popular revolt in November against the war, said he can “go along” with a surge, but only for two to three months and only as part of a broader strategy to bring combat forces home by early 2008. Meanwhile, says Reid, Democrats will “give the military anything they want.”

Can Reid be oblivious to the reality that this has to do with the next two years—not the next two months? Former Army vice chief of staff Gen. Jack Keane, one of the anointed retired generals who have Bush’s ear, is urging him to send 30,000 to 40,000 more troops and has already dismissed the possibility of a time-frame shorter than one and a half years. What seems clear is that the president is determined that the war not be lost while he is in office. But events are moving too fast for that. It was not quite the way he meant it, but Bush has gotten one thing right; there will indeed be no “graceful exit.” That goes in spades, if he sends still more troops.

Oxymoron

A generation from now, our grandchildren will have difficulty writing history papers on this oxymoronic debate on how to surge/withdraw our troops into/from the quagmire in Iraq. Historians will have just as much trouble, especially those given to Tolstoy’s theory that history is ruled by an inexorable determinism in which the free choice of major historical figures plays a minimal role. Tolstoy died before events put into perspective the legacy of Tsar Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat [Decider] Of All The Russias, and his Vice President/éminence grise, Rasputin.

Judging from President Bush’s behavior in recent weeks, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that he may be no more stable than Nicholas II. And if retired Col. Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s top aide at the State Department, is right in saying that Bush still has the “vice president whispering in his ear every moment,” we have an unhappy but apt historical analogy.

But, you protest, the generals most intimately involved in Iraq, John Abizaid and George Casey, and Army Chief of Staff Peter Schoomaker have made no secret of their strong reservations about sending large numbers of additional troops. That is correct, but also irrelevant. Because, as was the case in the Vietnam War, our top generals have long since morphed into careerists and politicians. They have become accustomed to looking up for the next reward—and not down at the troops who bear the brunt of their acquiescence in political/military decisions that make no sense.

But what about Senators Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy—and Colin Powell, and even Donald Rumsfeld, all of whom spoke out yesterday against a sizable surge in troop strength in Iraq? No problem. Cheney/Bush is the sole “decider.”

This does not mean that Defense Secretary Robert Gates should renege on his promise to visit the troops in Iraq and hear the generals out. It does mean that by the time he gets there, the generals can be expected to be already “on board with the program,” as they say. And taking issue with “deciders” has never been Gates’ strong suit.

What Gates may not realize, but the generals should, is that once an “all or nothing” offensive like the “surge” contemplated has begun, there is no turning back. It will be “victory” over the insurgents and the Shia militias or palpable defeat, recognizable by all in Iraq and across the world.


Stalingrad on the Tigris

A “surge” of the size possible under current constraints on U.S. forces will not turn the tide in the guerrilla war. Reinforcement of Bagdad several thousand U.S. troops last summer simply brought on more violence. Those who believe still more troops will bring “victory” are living in a dangerous dream world and need to wake up.

Moreover, major reinforcement would commit the US Army and Marine Corps to decisive combat in which there are no more strategic reserves to be sent to the front. It will be a matter of win or die in the attempt. In that situation, everyone in uniform on the ground will commit every ounce of their being to a hope of “victory,” and few measures will be shrunk from.

Analogies come to mind: the Bulge, Stalingrad, the Battle of Algiers. It will be total war with all the likelihood of excesses and mass casualties that come with total war.

To take up such a strategy and force our armed forces into it would be an immoral course of action, both for our troops and for the thousands more Iraqis bound to die.

Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., spoke for many of us last Thursday on the Senate floor:

“I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs day after day. That is absurd. It may even be criminal. I cannot support that anymore.”

Yesterday, when George Stephanopoulos asked Smith what he meant by “criminal,” he replied:

“I said it. You can use any adjective you want, George. But I have long believed in a military context, when you do the same thing over and over again, without a clear strategy for victory, at the expense of your young people in arms, that is dereliction. That is deeply immoral.”

If adopted, the “surge” strategy will be even worse than that. It will be something we will spend a generation living down.

These two Patriots and Life long Military Men who understand what would happen if Bush follows this disastrous course in Iraq have said it very well. 30-50,000 troops would not change much on the ground, but allow the insurgent and radical militias MORE targets to attack, and in TWO years time we would be almost exactly where we are NOW but with around 2500 more deaths of young American soldiers, 2500 more military funerals and 2500 families who suffered a loss so Bush ET Al does not have to admit their mistakes.
This would be combined with about 15,000 more wounded soldiers, some permanently. Soldiers who would have to carry the burdens of their wounds so the neo-cons can say they gave it the old college try before Bush left office. So the reichwing can FEEL like big bad Americans for a little while longer before the diplomatic talks begin or worse, the US forces are fighting to escape Iraq, and losing large numbers of lives , larger numbers of wounded and billions in lost and destroyed equipment is the fight to get out of Iraq. If the Shiite cut the southern supply routes, the fuel the army and marines run their operations on could become scarce, and the troops would have to fight their way out through the southern main supply routes (MSR) the very same routes they fought their way in on.

People like Bush, Cheney and Fred Kagan who is proposing this plan have never served on active duty, never served in a hostile environment and ran from combat when they had the option, and now they want to play military genius with other peoples lives, since they have done so good so far.

F*ck em, bring the troops HOME NOW and send the college repukes and neo-cons who hawk for this war if they want to try it for another two years. Other wise the gutless chicken hawks like these a$$holes should Shut The F*ck UP, they have done enough damage this century.

As another American Patriot who went to war learned the harsh lessons of war on the battle field and came home to question the legitimacy of that war once asked;

How do you ask a man to be the last man to DIE for a mistake?

Today Bush ET Al are trying to repeat history, and ask 30-50,000 men and women to do just that. Just so they do not have to admit Iraq was a mistake any more than Nixon wanted to admit Vietnam was a mistake from 1954 when the US got involved and HE was Vice President, to the time he was running illegal operations inside Cambodia. It was criminal back then, it is criminal NOW, and the legacy of the Bush Administration will be judged as more corrupt and worse than even Nixon. No surge of troops can save Bush from his legacy. However he will not stop trying to save it, but in the end kill thousands of more troops which will condemn him worse in the end. Nixon never was compared to Hitler's insane demand they hold Stalingrad at all costs. However Bush is starting to approach that in Iraq, and history will be no kinder to Bush than it has Hitler.

...already being protested and it's not even in the works yet! Boy, wouldn't it be a beautiful thing after Bush is gone that no state in America will want his Presidential Library in it? That would be so incredible. I get tingles down my spine just thinking about it!

From the BurkaBlog:

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Protest at SMU Targets Bush Library

The likelihood that the George W. Bush presidential library will be located at SMU has not been welcome news for at least one segment of the university community. A letter, dated December 16, from "Faculty, Administrators, & Staff" of the Perkins School of Theology to R. Gerald Turner, president of the Board of Trustees, is now circulating not only on the SMU campus but also among a wider academic community, urging the board to "reconsider and to rescind SMU's pursuit of the presidential library."

Texas Monthly has obtained a copy of this letter, which, as you might expect, focuses heavily on objections to Bush's policies: "We count ourselves among those who would regret to see SMU enshrine attitudes and actions widely deemed as ethically egregious: degradation of habeas corpus, outright denial of global warming, flagrant disregard for international treaties, alienation of long-term U.S. allies, environmental predation, shameful disrespect for gay persons and their rights, a pre-emptive war based on false and misleading premises, and a host of other erosions of respect for the global human community and for this good Earth on which our flourishing depends."

"[T]hese violations are antithetical to the teaching, scholarship, and ethical thinking that best represents Southern Methodist University."

"Another matter that warrants our attention is that whether it aims to or not SMU will, in the long run, financially profit on the backs of hard-working Americans who feel squashed by policies they've now rejected at the polls. Surely it's not the case that SMU will allow itself to benefit financially from a name and legacy that globally is associated with suffering, death, and political 'bad faith.' Taken together, all these issues set decision-making about the Library in a framework of inescapable ethical questions, and remind us of a key imperative adopted by many leading universities around the globe: 'to be critic and conscience of society.'"

In addition to opposing Bush's policies, the letter writers raise their voices against the purported mission of the library itself. Their concerns are based on a New York Daily News story of November 27, which describes the future library as a $500 million center (the costliest presidential library ever), the purpose of which would be "to spread the gospel of a presidency that for now gets poor marks from many scholars and a majority of Americans."

And here's a couple of my favorite comments after Paul Burka's post:

Bill said...
SMU is the perfect place for the Bush Library. Bush and Cheney were both residents of Highland Park, as is SMU. SMU is known as a school for snobs and social climbers, like Bush and Cheney, that care more about money and status than the well being of the people. Let the horrible remains of the Bush legacy sully the reputation of a great city that would allow that kind of trash.

******

If we're looking for a presidential library for G.W. Bush, why not make Yale house it? They were so happy to accept him and his dad as students, so maybe they should take some of the blame for where he is today.

Beth
California

It will be interesting to see how big Bush's library will end up being after they've scrapped everything they've done over the past 6 years to protect themselves from facing war crimes and other charges. The wealthy individuals who will be giving money to this "library" are to remain anonymous and I know why. Because the bin Ladens, the Saudi Royals, and Bush's family has benefitted greatly from Bush's illegal occupation of Iraq. They have enough spare money to give it to ole George to make ole George feel better, because as you know, he's a criminal, so what better way to give him a hug then money to start his Memory Hole Library from the very money that was laundered away from the American people!

I hope he never gets to build his atrocious untruthful library. I hope he ends up building it in Dubai, UAE, because it will fit perfectly amongst the terrorist's money stolen from all over the planet and hidden there by Bush's family and friends!

Spit.

What is wrong with this woman? Her actions lately have been so head-scratching that after reading this article on the Huffington Post, I felt compelled to let the First Retard know my feelings!

Laura Bush lives in a bubble. It's not a very big bubble, but big enough to include her husband, her kids, and the whackos she calls family. I'm thinking she spends way too much inside this bubble with these inhumane vultures, but then again, I believe ole Laura does manage to think for herself and when she does....plug your ears! We already know that she doesn't understand why her husband is so despised by the American people because everywhere she goes she's greeted with sweets and flowers. Of course, no one in her bubble wants to point out to her that the reason for this is her and her husband's 'supporters' are hand picked by their Secret Service, which makes their job a hell of a lot easier! When you're as despised as much as these two, I can see why the SS does that.

Okay, back to the article...

It appears that Laura Bush doesn't think Condi Rice would make a good president (I don't think she would either but not for the same reason as Ms. Delusional thinks). Why? Because Condi is single! According to the First Retard, single people are alone and have no one to talk to. According to her, single people are bad people, don't have the ability to make decisions because 'they have no one to bounce their ideas off from', and Ms. Dumb Dumb can't relate to their kind of ways. Uh huh. If I'm not mistaken, this is the same attitude of her Bubble Family and her political party against the gays and the women in this country who would like to make choices for their own bodies! I wonder if Condi read this part of the People Magazine article, because if she did, she must be scratching her head and saying, "I've been friends with this family since the 1980's and now I'm being told I have no one?". Wow!

Here's the quote from the People article:

"Dr. Rice, who I think would be a really good candidate (for President), is not interested. Probably because she is single, her parents are no longer living, she's an only child. You need a very supportive family and supportive friends to have this job."

All I'm going to say to the Ms. Laura is she needs to get out more. She needs to pop the bubble she lives in and head out into the real world or better yet...maybe talk to Condi in a mature, rational fashion about how upset she is at Condi's choices in life instead of being two-faced and then stabbing her in the back! Of course, no one dares mention to the Delusional One that her marriage to George has produced the two worst children in the history of the presidency, has produced more blood and death in an illegal occupation of a nation who didn't attack our country, and has deleted any credibility or good reputation our nation had prior to her husband being selected by the US Supreme Court in 2000!

Hey Laura! Sometimes marriages produce more Evil and your marriage is proof of that. Being single allows one to view the world in a more neutral way and allows more time to think about what it is you want in life, rather than, being told what you will become or what decisions you will make! Condi has people around her Laura, but unfortunately, these people are your people and you just proved to me that you don't really care about anyone who doesn't reflect you. She has 'no one' and that 'no one' is you! Loser.

I hate her.

...of my mother and I (you may want to click on it to see it better)!

It was taken in one of those photo booths in K-Mart back in 1971 when I was 3 years old. I have it over my sink in the kitchen, because it's one of those moments that makes me feel good (yes....on the other side is a picture of my son, so don't worry) and I like having it near me. My mother tells me when the camera started flashing inside the booth I stared straight ahead just like this picture shows and all five pictures are exactly the same of me, except for my mother's expression, which is different in each phrame. LOL I think that is so funny and this explains why my eyes are wide open and the size of saucers!!!

By the way, I collect snowmen. My house is full of them. The more whimsy the snowman the more I love it! Have a great night. ;-)

What the hell....

From MSNBC:

US Army might break Goodyear Strike
By Bernard Simon in Toronto

Updated: 10:12 p.m. ET Dec 15, 2006

The US Army is considering measures to force striking workers back to their jobs at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant in Kansas in the face of a looming shortage of tyres for Humvee trucks and other military equipment used in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A strike involving 17,000 members of the United Steelworkers union has crippled 16 Goodyear plants in the US and Canada since October 5.

The main issues in dispute are the company's plans to close a unionised plant in Texas, and a proposal for workers to shoulder future increases in healthcare costs.

An army spokeswoman said on Friday that "there's not a shortage right now but there possibly will be one in the future".

According to Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House of Representatives armed services committee, the strike has cut output of Humvee tyres by about 35 per cent.

Mr Hunter said that the army had stopped supplying tyres to units not related to the Central Command, which is responsible for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tyres were also not being provided to army repair depots.

While concern has centred on the Humvees, tyres are also critical to aircraft and other military equipment.

Goodyear brushed off concerns of looming shortages, saying that production at the Kansas plant, where the Humvee tyres are made, "is near normal levels and will be back to 100 per cent in the near future."

It added that "we're in daily contact with the military to ensure delivery of the required Humvee tyres".

The company said it was using salaried and temporary workers to keep the Kansas plant running. It has taken similar measures at other plants, as well as stepping up imports from overseas factories to maintain supplies to the car and truck industry.

The union claims that the strikebound plants are running at about 20 per cent of capacity. Goodyear has said that North American output is at about half normal levels, including non-union plants.

According to Mr Hunter, the army is exploring a possible injunction under the Taft-Hartley Act to force the 200 Kansas workers back to their jobs.

He proposed that they return under their current terms of employment, on the understanding that any settlement would be extended to them.

Copyright The Financial Times Ltd. All rights reserved.

No matter which side is right on this, using the military to break it up is not the correct way to approach it.

...with Bush and he will corner the asshole come January too about sending in more troops to Iraq. Harry Reid stated earlier today when asked about sending more troops to Iraq that he would do it ONLY IF THERE WAS A SET DATE FOR WITHDRAWL. Hmmmm...if I remember correctly, we have a president who refuses to withdrawl the troops and wants future presidents to handle his chaotic mess of an illegal occupation in Iraq. So Mr. Harry is saying, "Okay, I'll give the president what he wants, BUT THERE'S THINGS I WANT TO". Interesting!

Here's some other thoughts about this subject:

1) Where will 30-50,000 new additional troops come from? From the butts of republicans? Will the children of chickenhawks lay down their Rolex watches to sign up for this? Bah hahahahahaha, oh Lord. Nope.

2) Bush wanted to illegally invade because of the oil and now that Saudi Arabia is saying that if the US troops are withdrawn, they will send in their military to back the Sunnis to fight the Shiites for control of the country (whoever controls the country controls the oil! Bush & Cheney want to be the Oil Maggots of Planet Earth, but they won't get that if our troops are taken out of there, because the Saudis will take it instead!) and for their own security. Interesting how those Saudis work, huh?

3) Will the republicans who are up for re-election in 2008 vote to put more boots on the ground and withdraw from Iraq next year with a set timetable or will they vote against it? Either way they're screwed! Ha ha. (They'll look like cowards if they choose to not send in more troops to "win the war" because this is what they've been touting for years!)

So, you see, Mr. Harry is playing games with Bush and is cornering the fascist Pig. He's making Bush and the republicans put their money where their mouths are and ole Harry is just winking away at the cameras!

Give 'em hell Harry...Give. Them. Hell.

George W Bush told some of his friends at a recent White House party, who are depressed over the election results and the problems in Iraq "Don't Worry,It's not as bad as it looks."

Every month thousands of Iraqi's are killed and dozens of U.S soldiers because of the violence and civil unrest that was unleashed because of Bush's Iraqi invasion.

Every month thousands of Iraqi's are seriously injured as are hundreds of U.S soldiers due to the violence on Bush's war.

The U.S economy is getting worse, housing starts are falling and thousands of American workers are permanently losing their jobs.

Gas prices are still far to high for ordinary Americans to afford and all the while oil company profits are at record levels.

Bush's poll numbers are at an all time low. The American people soundly showed their outrage on election day, and Bush still can't see past his bigot ridden nose.

The Iraqi Study Group gave Bush and his war a verbal bashing in their report, because things are so bleak in Iraq.

Iran and North Korea have figured out Bush is a corrupt mentalogue that can't decipher winning from losing.

The Central American countries are quietly forming an alliance against Bush and the country he unfortunately represents.

Bush's listening tour ended up being the same old hype of listening with the tin ear his momma gave him one Christmas.

The military generals are finally getting enough backbone to publicly call for more troops, but in reality there are no more troops.

The American military is weak and near breaking, and our enemies are looking upon this near paper tiger with much glee.

The world has turned against America because of Bush and his war of arrogance. Many countries of the world are quietly working with the enemy to bring America's demise, all because of King George.

Thousands being killed in Iraq every month, a faltering economy, an all-time high amount of corruption within the Bush administration and a global conglomerate of enemies mounting opposition against us and we have the calming words of King George and his bride in a bottle. "Don't worry, it's not as bad as it looks."

...the moutain climbers in Oregon and it appears they're getting close to finding them because of some of the clues the climbers have left behind in the last week. Let's hope they find them all before the holiday is here!

This story has had me thinking about a friend from high school named Bill Yeo (pictured here in front). We both graduated from Greely High School in Cumberland, Maine (his brother Mike and I were in the same class and we were a couple years younger than Bill). He's an incredible man for sure! He currently lives in the same town that I do, Durham.

What makes Bill so special? Well, let's just say that Bill is a World Class mountain climber and has climbed Mount Everest and Mount McKinley! How many people do you know that has done one or either? He's the only one I personally know! At my 20 year class reunion in August this summer, most of us were hoping that Mike Yeo was going to show up. My friend Glenn, who came with his new wife, said was bummed when Mike didn't come, because he wanted to prove to his wife that he does know a guy who has climbed Mt. Everest! It's so weird that we all do know someone like Bill Yeo.

I remember in high school Bill always talking about going down this path after school got out. He's never looked back either. His last expidition was to the summit of Mount Everest without using oxygen to complete it. He almost made it too! If I'm not mistaken, he got 2000 feet from the summit (his climbing partner did make it however). He was the son of our school principal (Dr. Yeo who was so great! He would take the troubled kids in the high school fishing to understand why the kids acted the way they did. He was a much beloved principal!) and during school he held tons of state records for x-country skiing! He had the longest legs and was fantastic!

Soooooo....I've been wondering in the past few days what Bill must be thinking as the rescuers search for these climbers in Oregon. He's a professional, as are these climbers, and I wonder if his mind would instinctively know how these climbers are thinking and where they would be? Could be. He's always had an incredible mind so it would be so cool to track him down to find out!

If you're interested, you can read more about Mt. Everest and some of the climbing expeditions that Bill Yeo has been a part of.

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

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

Posted Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Bloomberg:

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

By Nancy Kercheval

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

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

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

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

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

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

....STUPIDITY, ARROGANCE, NARCISSISM, STUBBORNESS, AND INCOMPETENCE! This will never change either. Why? Because the man is the leader of the neocons. He is just this way. He is the best representation of those who appease him. He's a hateful, warmongering, lying, stinking, no-good-for-nothing, fascist Pig who is hell bent (along with those who appease him) on destroying the foundation of our nation and who wants nothing more than to snort coke and drink his Jim Beam straight from the bottle because he's not good at anything else! While his Appeasers continue to have no proof that this man is the opposite of what I've pointed out, well, let's just say these same people will be affected by this man's actions, but hey, they don't care! No, no. As long as the Bush Appeasers can continue to fantasize about having a beer with their leader, that's all that matters to them. These people and their leaders are the America haters. They could care less about this country. The more America becomes a dictatorship, the more they salivate! They're traitors to our country and they know it. Spit.

George W Bush declared to People magazine that "I'm so excited." and the telling revelation "I must tell you, I'm sleeping alot better than people would assume."

George W Bush is "So Excited" and he sleeps well. Isn't this a telling revelation of an arrogant self-appointed King who is so heartless that he has no trouble sleeping while U.S troops come home in body bags.

Is Bush "so excited" because millions of dollars are rolling in from oil and Haliburton profits, while thousands lose their jobs in America every week?

Is Bush sleeping well because he cares nothing for the thousands of children who are without a parent, due to Bush's trumped up war?

Does Bush get excited when he hears thousands of Iraqi's are killed each week because of his civil war creation?

Does Bush sleep well because he lies next to a plastic faced troll, or because the double product of his worthless loins are partying all over Argentina?

Does Bush get excited at the thought of his next imposed war, or the fact that the world is mounting against us at every turn?

Only a cold-hearted self-annointed King would lie peaceful at night while his country wallows in turmoil. Only a stone hearted midget would take the country into a war because he wanted to "do better than daddy."

Sleep Well King George, as long as your asleep, the country is far more secure and far less hated.

....is getting ready to celebrate another successful year. Spit.

Poor Laura Bush lashed out at the media on MSNBC because her husbands poll numbers on his handling of the War in Iraq were so low.

Poor Laura said it was the fault of the media because they never report the wonderful things going on in Iraq.

Poor Laura said the "drum beat in the country from the media, from the only way people know what is happening is discouraging."

Poor Laura will not stand by any longer and watch her man burn, in his own destructive mode of greed and hate that the media is finally reporting.

Poor Laura needs to remember that the media didn't make up a phony nuclear scare to drag the country into war, her man George did.

Poor Laura needs to remember that the media didn't get the country bogged down and an unwinnable mire of violence and death, her man George did.

Poor Laura needs to remember that the media didn't abandon the fight against the ones who attacked America, her man George did.

Poor Laura needs to remember that the media didn't cause the deaths and dismemberment of thousands of Iraqi citizens, and thousands of U.S soldiers, her man George did.

Poor Laura needs to remember that the media didn't orchestrate the outing of a CIA agent because they knew to much, her man George did.

Poor Laura needs to remember that the media didn't preside over the most corrupt administration in American history, her man George did.

Poor Laura needs to remember that the media didn't bare and raise her twin daughters to be the demon seed that their father is, that honor goes to you Poor Laura.

Poor Laura needs to remember that the media didn't stand by her man while he brought the country into the economic and military sewage of despair, that honor goes to you Poor Laura.

Remember Egyptian cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman? He was the one who was the inspiration for 1993 WTC bombing who was caught and imprisoned (oh how I miss the good ole days when our FBI would do their jobs!). Well, apparently he's not doing so hot. He vomited up some blood a week or so ago, he has a torn esophogus (was he beaten? How the heck do you tear your esophogus?), and the doctors have also found a tumor on his liver. What is frightening about this man's health is if he dies, all hell is going to break lose across the planet.

Here is Rahman's Last Will & Testament (per the FBI):

The FBI bulletin includes what it said was Abdel-Rahman's last will and testament distributed at an al Qaeda news conference in 1998: "My brothers, if they kill me -- which they will certainly do -- hold my funeral and send my corpse to my family but do not let my blood be shed in vain. Rather extract the most violent revenge."

Okay, if this is this man's exact words (and not made up by the FBI) then those that worship this man will reek havoc on any American who is within arm's distance. If he dies while in US custody, it will not be good for our soldiers who are in Iraq, and if there are terror cells here in America as the National Intelligence Estimate said there was, then we may not be secure here at home as well.

Oh boy. We'll have to wait and see.

....and it's not looking good. It was first reported as a stroke, because he was slurring his speech while giving a phone interview and was able to make it back to his office. Now the Associated Press is reporting that he has not suffered a stroke, but Johnson's staff could not confirm if he was conscious or not.

So, this is all very frightening, not just for the Johnson family who must be devastated at what has happened to their loved one right before Christmas, but also for the Senate democrats who were looking forward to being in power for the first time in a decade or so. (If Senator Johnson is unable to stay in his position, then the republican governor of his state gets to choose who he wants to replace him. He'll pick a republican for sure.) Yes, I know it sounds selfish for me to say that, but it pains my heart to think that Dick Cheney will be the tiebreaker vote if the Senate is in a 50-50 split...again...after all our country has been through. Not only that, can you imagine what the religious right must be thinking? I bet they're saying right now as you read this, "You know. God wants us to be in control. He doesn't want them 'libruls' to have their say in this country. He did this for us today!". I just know they are!

I don't want Dick Cheney to have any more power. He's had enough. I want the democrats to have their power that we all voted them in to have. Let's hope Senator Johnson can pull through and is able to come back to work in the near future.

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

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

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

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

SEC. RUMSFELD: What kind of a movie?

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

SEC. RUMSFELD: Oh, do you really?

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

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

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

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

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

SEC. RUMSFELD: My wife --

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

SEC. RUMSFELD: My wife loves movies.

MR. THOMAS: Oh, good. Well --

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SEC. RUMSFELD: Is that right.

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

SEC. RUMSFELD: How long ago?

MR. THOMAS: Two years. But I --

SEC. RUMSFELD: She's showing her years.

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

SEC. RUMSFELD: (Laughs.)

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

SEC. RUMSFELD: Good to see you.

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

SEC. RUMSFELD: Terrific.

MR. THOMAS: And come and see a movie. You will love that one, I guarantee it. Merry Christmas.

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

Anyone who thinks the democrats are going to sit back come January 2007 and sip tea while the Bush Regime continues on their path of destruction, think again. Apparently the Bush Regime did not like the idea of Senator Nelson of Florida going to Syria to talk with the leader of this country, but after careful consideration, Nelson went anyways.

No one is listening to Bush! I love it.

From the article linked above:

WASHINGTON (Dec. 13) - In a direct affront to the Bush administration, a Democratic senator spent an hour Wednesday with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, asking him to do more to stabilize Iraq .

Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, a member of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, met with Assad after the State Department said that it disapproved of his trip. The United States has limited diplomatic ties with Syria because of its support of Hezbollah and Hamas, which the U.S. deems terrorist organizations, and President Bush has expressed reluctance to seek help from Damascus on Iraq until the Syrians curb that support and reduce their influence in Lebanon.

Assad "clearly indicated a willingness to cooperate" in controlling its border with Iraq, Nelson told reporters in a conference call following the meeting. The U.S. says foreign fighters often enter Iraq across that boundary.

So what is Senator Nelson's real reason for going then?...

The senator shrugged off suggestions he was challenging Bush's authority by sidestepping administration policy that the U.S. have no contact with Syrian officials.

"I have a constitutional role as a member of Congress," Nelson said.

Well said, Mr. Nelson. It's going to be so nice having the House of Representatives and the Senate acting in the way they should be acting and should have been acting during the last six years! Hell, the democrats haven't even received their power yet and they're giving Bush the finger! It will be great to see oversight, fact gathering, hearings & investigations of the White House to keep them all in check, and peaceful measures being used to make....egads!....peace, which will restore America's reputation in the world.

Ahhhhhh, I so welcome it.

Interesting question and it's one I hope to find out too! (Hat tip to MikeyinMaine from Ablog for sending this article to me)

First, let me start out by saying that Olympia Snowe and her husband Jock McKernan (ex-Governor of Maine) live in Falmouth, Maine. I lived in this town for close to half my life and I know exactly which house she and her husband bought and live in. Now, one thing is for sure...Falmouth is the wealthiest town in Maine (I was the only poor person living there LOL). There are people there who are presidents of Fortune 500 companies in the Portland area and there are people who live there who are from old money and don't work because they have so much m0ney. Well! One of Falmouth's most popular citizens is Olympia Snowe and her husband. Interesting!!

Is she the woman whose identity is being hidden from the public in connection with this accident? Is it possible that Olympia's plate number was taken down and called in and the people who witnessed the accident never saw the driver, but did get this information instead and this is why the police are hiding her identity now, because they know it's her? Hmmmmmm...could be. Of course, I'm just making assumptions here, but it is oh-so-damn-juicy in my book.

Falmouth is also veeeeeeeeeeery republican too. It would not surprise me if she is being sheltered right now if it is her.

From the Portland Press Herald (I've bolded the last paragraph):

Five days after a seven-vehicle pileup injured five people and snarled traffic on Interstate 295, state police had yet to release the name of the woman who they say caused the crash by making an illegal U-turn.

The driver has been identified as a Falmouth woman who was driving a light-colored Cadillac and whose lawyer contacted police within hours of the arrival of authorities at her home.

That description has fueled Internet speculation that the woman, who is in her late 50s, is getting special treatment, perhaps because of wealth or status.

Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, would not respond to that line of speculation Tuesday. He said he expects the woman will soon be identified.

"Her name, I would suspect, is going to be released once charges are finalized," McCausland said.

[...]

He said last Thursday's crash is different because the Cadillac whose driver is thought to be responsible was not damaged. The woman reportedly drove away untouched, while seven vehicles behind her crashed.

Chuck Dow, spokesman for the Maine Attorney General's Office, noted that under state law, the names of suspects can be protected if police believe their release would interfere with law-enforcement proceedings or constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, among other reasons.blockquote>

Not surprising. You'd think after all these years of having to deal with the illegal occupation that he wanted, Bush would be up on the information. Nope. The man has obviously been listening with his fingers in his ears and he's done that, because Bush's illegal occupation in Iraq has nothing to do with making peace with the Iraqis and giving them control of their country after Bush took Saddam out of power. We all know now that Bush wanted to invade, divide, and conquer Iraq for the oil and is using this "war" as a front to launder our money from us! Billions have been stolen and this cookie jar is not done being robbed. Bush won't listen to anyone....because he wants America to stay in an illegal occupation of a nation that was soveriegn at the time he had our troops go in!

Of course, Tony Snow, who is the puppet of the Bush Regime (sometimes you can see the string with a ring on the end of it sticking out of his back), weighed in on Bush's "listening tour" after it was assumed that Bush has no idea what he's doing and hasn't when it concerns the situation in Iraq:

“That would be the wrong inference to draw,” Mr. Snow said. “It’s a complex business, and there are a lot of things to take into account.

“You would expect and desire a commander in chief, in looking at a situation, to examine military concerns, security concerns, diplomatic concerns, internal political concerns within Iraq, regional ramifications, how you get people to work in concert with one another,” Mr. Snow said. “It is enormously complex.”

Mr. Snow said the president continues to get the best advice possible. “And so, as he considers the options, he’s not going to get rushed on it,” Mr. Snow said. “He wants to make sure it’s done right.”

Jees Tony! The American people would expect ANY American president to be on top of things! Yes, we expect him to have the best possible information at all times and we expect that our president would be listening to the advice of the people who are in the thick of this occupation. We don't have that Tony. We have a president who doesn't like to consider options. He has one option and he's said it many times that FUTURE PRESIDENTS will have to handle his illegal occupation. He's not leaving and that's that.

Personally, I think our soldiers are in a good position to leave at this point. Years ago when Daddy Bush invaded Iraq, he had the will of the Iraqi people on his side. The Iraqis wanted Bush Sr. to do what his son is doing right now (not the civil war part, but the taking down of Saddam Hussein). The difference today is, the Iraqis do not want us in their country! Bush Sr. had the hearts and minds of the people there and he blew it. Baby George has a country that doesn't trust him and now that we know the Saudis will be financing the Sunnis, well, all I'm going to say is IT'S TIME TO GET THE FRIG OUT! We could leave the country right now and I bet it wouldn't be a bloodbath. I bet the Iraqis would stand to the side of the road and wave goodbye to us.

I'm sick of Bush's 'listening tour'. He's not listening and delaying his "findings" any further just proves he has not been listening at all for years now!

Spit.

A poster on AMERICAblog linked to an article that included this picture. This happened in Raleigh, North Carolina!

READ THE STORY HERE.

As a mother, this photo just pains my heart. I understand that this child's Mom or Dad or both have gotten themselves in some trouble, but come on! Having a gun like that around a child of that age is disgusting and frightening to me (and the child!)! Couldn't this officer just wait outside the door while this youngster relieved himself (he was probably scared to death after what had just happened too! Why make it worse than it already is!)?

I'm sure this little boy has had nightmares ever since. Breaks my heart.

Here's what ole Dicky Cheney talked about with the Saudis a few weeks ago:

Saudis Give U.S. a Grim What If
By HELENE COOPER
Published: December 13, 2006

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 — Saudi Arabia has told the Bush administration that it might provide financial backing to Iraqi Sunnis in any war against Iraq’s Shiites if the United States pulls its troops out of Iraq, according to American and Arab diplomats.

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia conveyed that message to Vice President Dick Cheney two weeks ago during Mr. Cheney’s whirlwind visit to Riyadh, the officials said. During the visit, King Abdullah also expressed strong opposition to diplomatic talks between the United States and Iran, and pushed for Washington to encourage the resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, senior Bush administration officials said.

The Saudi warning reflects fears among America’s Sunni Arab allies about Iran’s rising influence in Iraq, coupled with Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. King Abdullah II of Jordan has also expressed concern about rising Shiite influence, and about the prospect that the Shiite-dominated government would use Iraqi troops against the Sunni population.

A senior Bush administration official said Tuesday that part of the administration’s review of Iraq policy involved the question of how to harness a coalition of moderate Iraqi Sunnis with centrist Shiites to back the Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.

The Saudis have argued strenuously against an American pullout from Iraq, citing fears that Iraq’s minority Sunni Arab population would be massacred. Those fears, United States officials said, have become more pronounced as a growing chorus in Washington has advocated a draw-down of American troops in Iraq, coupled with diplomatic outreach to Iran, which is largely Shiite.

Read the rest of the article...HERE.

Here's an interesting twist to all of this....the Saudi Ambassador has abruptly resigned his postion, because he wants to spend more time with his family. Yeah right. Something is going on and I don't think it's going to be pretty.

Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee, who was ousted this past election, appeared on The Daily Show with John Stewart and here's what Lincoln Chaffee didn't say that was so hysterical to me:

Stewart then asked Chafee: Can you think of anything in the last five years you think Congress should be proud of?
Chafee hesitated and did not come up with an answer as Stewart thanked him for coming on the show.

Hey Lincoln! We can't think of anything either!!! We've got....nothing.

Apparently rumor has it that he's thinking about doing this. My first thought was, "Woohoo! Fire the Dick! Fire the Condi! Fire the Hadley!", but it appears Bush may fire some of the top Generals who he's been leaning on all these years. Hey, someone has to take the blame for Bush's illegal occupation of a soveriegn nation and it certainly won't be him, now will it?!

He's putting the blame on the Generals now...awwwww how cute. He's firing those would dared not speak the truth to him for fear of being fired all these years. He's firing them now because they didn't speak out, but which is exactly what he demanded! Oh for the love of the Banana Cupcakes...why doesn't George Bush just get it over with and fire himself along with the rest of his Cabal! If he has to take a few Generals with when he does, fine, but just leave the American people alone! We're tired of this man blaming those around him who are NOT the ones in charge and who are not the ones who originally came up with the idea to invade and conquer Iraq.

My hope is, if this does come to fruition and Generals are fired (General Pace could be the first hit) and are blamed for the Iraq occupation, I hope the military TURNS ON BUSH. I hope they come out swinging against him by divulging what has really been going on in the shadows and behind the backs of Americans. Let's hope this happens. The American people deserve the truth and what better way to get it than through a scorned military!

I'd wish for a military coup of the White House for Christmas, but I don't think I'd be that lucky. :-)

Wow, that has a pretty nice ring to it.

There's been talk on AMERICAblog in recent days about Dennis Kucinich running in 2008 (in the threads...not main posts). My first reaction was he's not 'presidential enough' and was basing that on his height (most of our president's have been tall and a tall people usually command the room and have more respect, according to the experts, but I don't have a link, so deal with it!). Okay, I admit it, though. Basing a presidential contender on his height is so right wing and irresponsible, that I even surprised myself when I typed it and hit publish! Well, what do you expect from me after having to listen to the dialogue on my television for the past 6 years! Case in point, there was a segment a couple years ago on one of the news networks (MSNBC? Can't remember) that pointed out George W. Bush was right for the job because he's tall and about the same height as Bill Clinton (which, now that I think about it....they threw in Bill Clinton to make it seem like Bush was just as good and were trying to prove that with the height comparison...ewwwwwwwww, how wrong they were! And....George W. Bush has never been right for any job even if he was 9 feet tall!).

Anyways, it was pointed out to me that George W. Bush doesn't look presidential and didn't look it right from the get-go. Absolutely correct! So, since that moment, I've decided that Mr. Dennis Kucinich would be perfect to lead our country into the direction that Americans voted for on election day 2006 (this election was a litmus test for the 2008 race as far as I'm concerned). Americans want someone who will listen to them and Americans were saying on election day that we want change in Iraq. We do not want to stay the course in an illegal occupation. We want to start de-funding the war and bring our soldiers home. We want accountability and a president who listens to those with the expertise and who sets aside his or her own personal views for the betterment of the country and our reputation!

If you've never heard Dennis Kucinich on the floor of the House speak truth to power, then please tune into C-SPAN when the democrats take over in January 2007. It's a treat and a half and I can't wait to watch him in action!

My first, thought when I read about Tom Delay having a blog on AMERICAblog after someone posted a link about it, was that ole Tom has realized liberals and democrats have dominated the Internet in the political arena and these blogs were a force right up to this past election in November. Raising money for politicians was easy and AMERICAblog alone raised over $100,000 (split between many candidates). If this is why he's created a blog, then all the power to him.

I think everyone should be involved in what is happening in our nation and abroad everyday. Blogging (about state, local, national, and international events) has been a very good tool to do that, but what I'm going to be looking for on Tom's blog from this point forward is whether or not he will allow the freedom of speech by those who are responding to his posts. I say that because large conservative blogs such as Redstate.com bans anyone who does not agree with the views of the blog. After one registers to post there, Redstate takes up to 5 days to approve your submission and after they do some research (probably through Google), they won't accept you if they find you are a liberal. To me, that is not right! AMERICAblog rarely bans anyone and there are times I wished John Aravosis would do more of it, but when I sit back and think about it, all views should be expressed on any particular subject because that is what makes America...America. Banning someone for making threats or hijacking a person's screenname is legitimate.

So speaking of registering to be a part of Tom Delay's blog, first you have to fill out the application for GAIN (Grassroots, Action, and Information Network) and then second, you have to pay $52.00 a year to remain a member. What the heck is that? What I'd like to know is if Tom Delay will be using this money for his court trial at some point! Interesting that he would be charging anyone to receive his emails and other stuff. It doesn't sit right with me. I was always under the assumption that freedom of speech was free!

I encourage you to go and visit Delay's blog, because his first post has him explaining why he created the blog and the responses to this post was mainly positive in his favor. The other posts after that do have negative responses. Have these people been banned from posting in the future? Who knows. There's no way to find out. He has a 'comment moderator' in force, which means you can leave a response without having to register, but if Tom or whoever doesn't want to publish it, they don't have to. I left a response to the current post and it will be interesting if it does actually get published! I'll be checking. You know I will. ;-)

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

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

Assclowns of the Week

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

Yes she did. Her final farewell consisted of Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush. Woohoo!

Here's what she said on the floor of the House:

Mr. Speaker:
I come before this body today as a proud American and as a servant of the American people, sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States.
Throughout my tenure, I’ve always tried to speak the truth. It’s that commitment that brings me here today.

We have a President who has misgoverned and a Congress that has refused to hold him accountable. It is a grave situation and I believe the stakes for our country are high.

No American is above the law, and if we allow a President to violate, at the most basic and fundamental level, the trust of the people and then continue to govern, without a process for holding him accountable—what does that say about our commitment to the truth? To the Constitution? To our democracy?

The trust of the American people has been broken. And a process must be undertaken to repair this trust. This process must begin with honesty and accountability.

Leading up to our invasion of Iraq, the American people supported this Administration’s actions because they believed in our President. They believed he was acting in good faith. They believed that American laws and American values would be respected. That in the weightiness of everything being considered, two values were rock solid—trust and truth.

From mushroom clouds to African yellow cake to aluminum tubes, the American people and this Congress were not presented the facts, but rather were presented a string of untruths, to justify the invasion of Iraq.
President Bush, along with Vice President Cheney and then-National Security Advisor Rice, portrayed to the Congress and to the American people that Iraq represented an imminent threat, culminating with President Bush’s claim that Iraq was six months away from developing a nuclear weapon. Having used false fear to buy consent—the President then took our country to war.

You can read the rest of her awesome floor speech, HERE.

The one thing the republicans never liked about Cynthia was her speaking truth to power. I don't think she has ever NOT spoken it. She was a walking protest sign if you ask me! What is such a bummer is I wished she had apologized right after it became known that she had hit a White House security guard. If she had made amends immediately, she would still be office. It's sad that we're losing her great spirit and patriotism. She will be missed but she did bring up the Articles of Impeachment before she left so life is good!

Once January 2007 gets here, expect hearings and investigations to be done. Before impeachment happens, this has to happen first, so be patient. Once the evidence is clear and concise, expect impeachment! In the meantime, give Cynthia McKinney a high-five please for at the very least bringing the Articles of Impeachment against the worst president in the history of our nation!

You'd never know it but he was hit by a car this past Sunday! He didn't break a bone but was bruised pretty good (along with his ego I may add). He's still a puppy because he's a year and half old and he's so full of life and vitality! Being part beagle, it's no wonder he's that way.

I just bought myself a digital camera/camcorder for Xmas this year, so I will be posting pictures from time to time. Enjoy Jasper for now, though! He's a cutie. ;-)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It appears that it's not the states that contain the most neocon Bush supporters! Yup, it appears that the blue states (of course...all the states are purple right now and there are only 4 red states left at this point) have suffered the most losses. Those in the southern part of the United States aren't sacrificing as much as Bush and his lying Cabal would like you to think they are!

...called the Iraq war and the current situation there, "criminal". He gave a speech on the floor of the Senate today expressing his feelings about the Iraq war (occupation really) and about how it's being handled.

Here's the beginning of his speech:

Mr. President, I know it is probably appropriate to speak of our colleagues, and I will do that on the record. I rise tonight, however, to speak about a subject heavy on my mind. It is the subject of the war in Iraq.
I have never worn the uniform of my country. I am not a soldier or a veteran. I regret that fact. It is one of the regrets of my life. But I am a student of history, particularly military history, and it is that perspective which I brought to the Senate 10 years ago as a newly elected Member of this Chamber.

When we came to the vote on Iraq, it was an issue of great moment for me. No issue is more difficult to vote on than war and peace, because it involves the lives of our soldiers, our young men and women. It involves the expenditure of our treasure, putting on the line the prestige of our country. It is not a vote taken lightly. I have tried to be a good soldier in this Chamber. I have tried to support our President, believing at the time of the vote on the war in Iraq that we had been given good intelligence and knowing that Saddam Hussein was a menace to the world, a brutal dictator, a tyrant by any standard, and one who threatened our country in many different ways, through the financing and fomenting of terrorism. For those reasons and believing that we would find weapons of mass destruction, I voted aye.

I have been rather silent on this question ever since. I have been rather quiet because, when I was visiting Oregon troops in Kirkuk in the Kurdish area, the soldiers said to me: Senator, don't tell me you support the troops and not our mission. That gave me pause. But since that time, there have been 2,899 American casualties. There have been over 22,000 American men and women wounded. There has been an expenditure of $290 billion a figure that approaches the expenditure we have every year on an issue as important as Medicare. We have paid a price in blood and treasure that is beyond calculation by my estimation.

Now, as I witness the slow undoing of our efforts there, I rise to speak from my heart. I was greatly disturbed recently to read a comment by a man I admire in history, one Winston Churchill, who after the British mandate extended to the peoples of Iraq for 5 years, wrote to David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of England:

"At present we are paying 8 millions a year for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano."

You can read the rest of his speech, HERE.

The Winston Churchill quote he used I thought was the best. Of course, it's 60 years later and we haven't spent $8 million, but rather, we've spent BILLIONS ($8 million is spent before breakfast every day!) on a war that is nothing but an 'ungrateful volcano'! It's not that the Iraqis in the beginning were ungrateful to us for taking Saddam Hussein's regime down, it's what has happened afterwards that has changed their mood towards us. If we had excellent leadership in the White House from the get go, an 'ungrateful volcano' never would have happened.

Here's the part where Sen. Gordon Smith used the term 'criminal' (bolded):

Again, I am not a soldier, but I do know something about military history. And what that tells me is when you are engaged in a war of insurgency, you can't clear and leave. With few exceptions, throughout Iraq that is what we have done. To fight an insurgency often takes a decade or more. It takes more troops than we have committed. It takes clearing, holding, and building so that the people there see the value of what we are doing. They become the source of intelligence, and they weed out the insurgents. But we have not cleared and held and built. We have cleared and left, and the insurgents have come back.

I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs day after day. That is absurd. It may even be criminal. I cannot support that anymore . I believe we need to figure out how to fight the war on terror and to do it right. So either we clear and hold and build, or let's go home.

Yup, he said, 'it may even be criminal'. Is there more than one way to figure out the meaning he intended? I don't think so. He's basically saying that keeping our soldiers alongside others who are being killed by the same means is criminal. It's no different than throwing your child into the middle of a street fight and your child receiving the same types of injuries or worse than those who were fighting amongst each other. It would be criminal for the parent of this child to knowingly and willing throw the child into the fight and understanding the possible outcomes! Well, apparently once the word got out that Senator Smith had used this word to describe the actions of the Bush Administration, he decided to change his tune.

Sorry but I believe Gordon Smith said exactly the way it was intended. It's too late to backtrack at this point. One thing is for sure, however. If republicans such as Senator Gordon Smith are talking like this NOW...then there is a very good chance that many other moderate republicans will team up with the democrats once the hearings and investigations begin! Could be. We'll have to wait and see.

Impeachment is not out of the picture if guys like Smith are calling the Bush Administration's actions as criminal...NOW.

Merry Christmas!! Woohoo!!!!

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


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


And which group has not dealt with reality very well?

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

Here's a list of votes cast by Susan Collins over the years that Chris