Archive for September, 2006

The Republican House leadership–such as it is–obviously adopted the Bernard Cardinal Law playbook.

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

The New York Times reports that the Republicans knew in 2005 that Foley was sending e-mails to pages, but allowed him to keep his top position on the Congression caucus on children’s issues.
Please find the article here.

So Tenet and his assistant tried to tell Ms. Rice that an attack was inevitable, but she must have had a shoe fitting planned.

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

The White House did not reveal that there had been a meeting to the 9/11 Commission. Oooops!!! It does cause wonderment that W needs the threat of disappearing Americans as a tool when he may already have enough tools in his administration.

Please find the story here. 

If Georgie did use the term in question, I wonder if he had used it at any of his father’s football practices. There is a sidebar of oddity about this story. The only reason why Georgie had probably left California was a direct result of his father’s having taken the head coach’s job for a team still called The Redskins.

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

“(North Carolina State professor Edward J.) Sabornie said he has now decided to let his name be known because he was upset by how Allen responded this week to the Salon story. “What George said on Monday really kind of inflamed me — that it was ‘ludicrously false’ that he ever used the n-word,” Sabornie […]

W is angry now. He wants to confront our enemies “across the world.”

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

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“That was Caledonia with the Woody Herman orchestra. Bill Chase, Woody and Sal Nistico provided the solos. Let’s take a short break here at the Aragon Ballroom for a word from our alternate sponsor–The Tin Horn Torquemada and his House of Pain…

Friday, September 29th, 2006

“Hi, I’m Alberto Gonzalez. You may know me from my many roles as the fawning yes man to W’s maniacal concepts of the rule of law.  Today, I’m here to warn the United States Court system to mind their own business and leave tyranny to the people who know how to run it.”
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It can’t happen here?

Friday, September 29th, 2006

Two whistleblowers at Diebold say patches were put into voting machine programs. This is a direct affront to demccracy and betrays more frightening prospects when set next to W’s emasculation of habeas corpus.

Please find the article here.

Nice try, Andy. You seem to have forgotten that your former boss isn’t Lewis Stone, so rationalism is verboten!

Friday, September 29th, 2006

According to Bob Woodward’s new book, STATE OF DENIAL, Andrew Card wanted “Ill W” to replace Rumsfeld the Destroyer with James Baker III after the 2004 election, but Dick ‘n Rover convinced him that it would show weakness. Lady Laura joined Card in his Thanksgiving, 2005 attempt to deep-six the Secretary of Defense–to no avail. […]

Does this report include the times Abramoff saw “fat ^%$#” Rove (reportedly Abramoff’s words) at curbside meetings?

Friday, September 29th, 2006

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Thankfully, King W doesn’t read newspapers so he will probably have missed this…unless one of his gruppenfuhrers squeals. Colonel MacFarland may have placed himself in jeopardy under the newly passed law.

Friday, September 29th, 2006

“WASHINGTON - The insurgency in Iraq’s volatile western Anbar province can be beaten but probably not until after U.S. troops leave the country, the commander of forces in the provincial capital said Friday.”
“‘An insurgency is a very difficult thing to defeat in a finite period of time. It takes a lot of persistence — perseverance […]

As our two centuries of political and social values erode in the acidic atmosphere of the present regime, I want to think of the man who made it all possible.

Friday, September 29th, 2006

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Original photo: Harvard Crimson

The accompanying graph is as subtle as a “find the item which does not belong with the other three” question.

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

a. bunny b. mouse c. chipmunk d. United States Air Force SR-71 Spy Plane
(answer below)
“September 28, 2006
Political Memo
Dispute on Intelligence Report Disrupts Republicans’ Game Plan
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 — The dispute over a newly disclosed National Intelligence Estimate has threatened a pre-election script in which the White House had […]

My pal Jack sent me these two paragraphs from Washington Post’s Dan Froomkin. Don’t read it with a cup of coffee in your hand. Maybe the senators will actually look at this bill–unlike their display of ignorance with the Patriot Act. If the current measure passes, the terrorists have already made significant gains against us.

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

That our enemies killed Americans and destroyed buildings representing our society and government is horrible enough to remember, but Bush wants to light the fuse for the terrorists to detonate explosives to destroy our most valued monuments for which so many Americans had sacrificed life and limb. These monuments are not made of marble and […]

Let us hope that the manufacturers and marketing people of this product never enter the erectile dysfunction foray. The brand-name and advertising would set back good taste for years to come.

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

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“All play and no work makes W a duller boy.”

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

NEW YORK Magazine did a major story about Bill Keller of the New York Times. Bush had warned him that printing a story would result in his having American blood on his hands.
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THE BRIGHT SHINING LIE?

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To those good Kreeshtin parents, I say ‘Grow the ^%$# up!’

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

“FRISCO, Texas — An award-winning Texas art teacher who was reprimanded after one of her fifth-grade students saw a nude sculpture during a trip to a museum has lost her job.
The school board in Frisco has voted not to renew Sydney McGee’s contract after 28 years. She has been on administrative leave.
The teacher took her […]

My goodness, Kondo Kaught Kitin’ Truth…again.

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

It looks as if the Clinton administration did forward an terrorism assessment and information to the Bush administration and its mendacious minions.
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Damn straight, it’s rare! As a fan of both Kierkegaard and baseball, I know whereof I speak!

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

RARE KIERKEGAARD BOOK TO BE AUCTIONED
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This photo released by Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers of Fine Art shows a rare copy of Danish philosopher Soeren Kierkegaard’s famed book ‘Either/Or,’ which will be sold at an auction later this year, a Copenhagen auction house said Tuesday Sept. 26, 200. The book, a second edition from 1849 dedicated […]

If true, could this have been Rover Boy’s October Surprise?

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

Had it remained a secret, Karl had his FOX-ettes release a day or two before election, there would be no time to discover that it was “Typhus–not beauty boy–what killed the beast.”
Please find the article here.

Diane Feinstein’s opponent, Richard Mountjoy, made a mistake. Apparently, he never served on the USS Missouri…

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

…but maybe he read Bernard De Voto’s ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI, liked MISSOURI BREAKS or once knew a guy from Missouri.
Mr. Mountjoy’s website leads off with a Scriptural passage which changes each time you enter. While this certainly is a soothing interlude for the man who is called the Father of Proposition 187, I like […]

And now, a Public Service Announcement from our intelligence czar…

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

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Could it possibly be that W’s leadership skills are less than perfect? Can’t be. His infallibility certainly must include overseas torture.

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Since the CIA interrogators mutinied in the face of illegal orders, our Prez found it necessary to re-write the Geneva Accords.
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The U.N. says torture in Iraq is worse now than it had been during Saddam Hussein’s regime.

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

I’ll bet that few of us would have believed this in  March, 2003. It shows the Can-Do spirit is capable of leading us to be first in any field of human endeavor.
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The Tinhorn Torquemada strikes again by denying the U.S. sent Maher Arar to Syria in a rendition of the Beau Brummels’ ‘65 hit–LAUGH, LAUGH.

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

That was Tuesday. The Justice Department had to change the record by sending a mouthpiece out to say basically, “Oh. that rendition!!”
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A passing thought…

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

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Can there be any wonder that a New York Times/CBS poll shows 77% of the American people believe members of congress do not deserve re-election?

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

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It seems as if Representative Davis is trying to weaken the bi-partisan bill introduced to block predatory lenders who have been raking in big bucks from those in the armed forces overseas and their families. The bill would cap interest at 36% for the paycheck lenders. Man of the People Davis doesn’t want restrictions like […]

According to Center for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington, Frist, Burns and Santorum are the most corrupt three men in the Senate.

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

The House has 17 in the top twenty; 14 republicans and 3 democrats.
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This is the tyrannical method of yelling “Stop the presses!”

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

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In 2004, he accused Kerry of flip-flopping, but our jumpy leader could play Joannne Woodward’s role in “Three Faces of W.”

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

On September 11, 2006: George warned us about Osama bin Laden.
On September 15, 2006: W warned us that Pakistan was a soverign state and we could not go in to grab bin Laden without an ivitation. He also had mentioned that Osama was not the real target anymore.
On September 19, 2006: W told Wolf Blitzer […]

While I prefer to temper outrage with humor, satire and irony; I readily admit to enjoying reading the Rants of Capitol Hill Blue’s Doug Thompson.

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

Here are four Rants which cannot fail to entertain.
1. Face
2. Bully
3. Shame
4. Sweep

Cowboy W wants to return to the Good Old Days of King Philip’s War, Wounded Knee and the Trail of Tears

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

The Geneva Accords’ Article III is almost six decades old. W wants to clarify it by changing it. Is this not called breaking a treaty?
Could the charges brought by the Canadian government not be the real reason for W’s need of clarification?
Please find the article here. 

IRAQ FOR SALE

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Please take a look at this site. Mr. Greewald was on the Olbermann Countdown program this evening.
The site is here.

I kept thinking that if she is correct, she will be the original Ike-ette!

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

A Texas woman says she may be the daughter of General Eisenhower and Kate Summersby.
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(Use announcer’s voice from trailer for a Doris Day/Rock Hudson comedy) What happens when Dudley Doo-right & The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Meet the Keystone Cops…

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

RENDITION
with a 300 day/299 night stay
at the beautiful Damascus
Dungeon Coffin Suites Resort
featuring
our famous Horizontal breakfast
with its bottomless cup of bile
and our renowned stress room
with Olympic-sized Pool of Sweat.
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Maher Arar is still able to smile…at a freakin’ airport, no less.
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OOPS! They got their wrong man and gave him to the Decider for fun ‘n […]

Let me know when the electorate becomes tired of playing the sucker in a 3-Card Monte game!

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Two more years of a Congress like the present model will all but allow the Moron Sadist to get us into a situation from which we shall have to crawl–not walk.
Here is the Princeton University e-vote study.