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Week of 9/20/09

1. Dealing with my own health care nightmare.

2. I'm outraged that Twitter failed to work as a tool to ignite interest about real health care reform. I am beginning to belive that were are not going to get the health care reform we need, but it will be what we fought for. Nothing.

Weekf o 9/13/09

1. Joe "YOU LIE" Wilson is reprimanded by a House resolution. During the debate, the GOP continued to try to make the point that we have many more important issues to discuss, such as health care reform. Wow. Suddenly they get all serious about health care reform! Amazing, considering that they have been blocking it for 60 years.

2. The so-called "Baucus Bill" comes out, it's 250 pages of gobbledygook that basically tweaks the current employer-based private insurance system. This is NOT reform. This is garbage. The GOP has already said that none of them will vote for it. So why is it that we were negotiating with them? It was clear from the beginning that none of them will ever vote for meaningful health care reform.

3. Did you get the feeling that the 9/12 marchers were utterly clueless about what they want, why they were there, and how the government and Constitution work together? Well, you were right. You MUST SEE this video... http://pubrecord.org/multimedia/5191/revealed-party-march-really-about/

4. Time to stop the code words and get to reality English. Joe Wilson's "YOU LIE" shoutout was over the issue of whether the House bills covered illegals. Provisions in Section 246 specifically state that illegal aliens will not get subsidies. But wait! How does a MD KNOW FOR SURE that they're treating a true American rather than an illegal alien? This is the fun part. The GOP, which has factions that adamantly oppose a national ID are now including it in the Senate Finance Committee AND House bills. The code words: "illegal alien". What it really means: "A brownish person who is good enough to cook my meals, wash my car, dig my ditches, pick my food, and build my house, but is not good enough to get health care; see 'Messkin'".

I hope that helps you understand the GOP position. Maybe the bill should read "If person in the Emergency Room is not the same color as the sheets, don't treat them." That's what they really mean.

5. Glenn Beck says he should be compared to Edward Murrow instead of Joe McCarthy. Watch out, Glenn, here come the guys with the huge butterfly nets.

6. Jimmy Carter calls out American racism and the conservative media machine explodes with righteous indignation. Which one of these non-racist conservative things is the most non-racist:

a) Rush Limbaugh's continuous playing of "Barack the Magic Negro"

b) Glenn Beck calling Barack Obama a "racist who hates whites"

c) Signage at town halls and the 9/12 meetings such as Obama as a Zulu warrior, Obama as a chimp, Obama as Hitler, etc.

Week of 9/6/09

1. American conservatives were SCANDALIZED by the vicious attack on their childrens' minds threatened by President Barack Obama. Yes, Obama took time from his schedule to address the nation's returning school children, 30% of them who won't make it to the end and graduate. This means that they can't even get hired at most McDonalds or as factory labor in many places, so maybe getting a bit of encouragement from the Prez isn't such a bad idea... or IS it?

Conservatives accused the President of trying to spread his "socialist agenda". Talk show hosts howled at the indecency and UNPRECEDENTED, blatant prosthelytizing of their poor, innocent offspring.

Turns out that Obama's speech to the kids had zero political content. He asked them to stay in school, do their homework, try to learn as much as they can, obey and respect their teachers and parents, and wash their hands. Yes, that was it, the last thing... he was trying to promote health reform by telling kids to wash their hands.

Those of you who have read this page in the past know that I can get pretty worked up about some of the wakky shit that self-proclaimed "conservatives" do. (Bill Buckley is rolling over in his grave). But you know, I think their antics this week, starting on Tuesday, moving through Wednesday, then Saturday... well, they are such pitiable fools that they don't need any criticism from me. Just the facts.

2. Well, this is the week of GOP "outrage". The top story was Rep. Joe Wilson's "You LIE!" outburst at Obama's address to a joint session of Congress. Some have suggested that the outburst was staged, as a high-def photo of him caught in the act surfaced on the internet within hours or even minutes. It's funny, the photo shot at our local town hall meeting is eerily similar to the photo of Wilson. Check it out....

Brand NEW!

Joe Wilson is AUTOGRAPHING photos of him yelling at the President. Someone was kind enough to send one in...

The truly hilarious part of this story is that Wilson was forced to apologize to Obama by the GOP leadership. It gets even better! His apology was a NON apology, something along the lines of "I sure am sorry I lost my temper and yelled at that LYING NIGGER!" Now he's AUTOGRAPHING his picture for campaign donations... Stopdubya was lucky enough to get one.... see above.

3. Lost in the spin about whether Obama was lying or not about Wilson's charge that the plan covers illegal immigrants (it doesn't) was the "new feature" of Obama's plan, namely that everyone is going to have to carry health insurance. Mandatory. He says that low income people will have tax credits to help them pay for it. He ALSO continues to waffle on the "public option". First, no one will define what that means. To ME, it means that you have the option to join Medicare. If the system does not allow you to join Medicare on a sliding pay scale down to zero, then it is not acceptable. This BS about "health insurance exchange" and "triggers" is a smokescreen.

4. Glenn Beck calls for a huge "9/12" march on Washington DC and then doesn't even show up at the rally. The actual rally was financed by FreedomWorks and NARLO, two astroturfer groups who have somewhat disparate goals of 1) restoring GOP rule and 2) overthrowing the government in a bloody civil war. (No kidding).

5. I made my wife watch 10 minutes of Faux News at lunch on Saturday to see what they were saying about the Teabaggers. We have never watched Faux before, except for a clip here and there, so it was enlightening. They were having a panel discussion about health care at the top of the hour, with the anchor starting out by commenting that Obama was making unsubstantiated claims to a crowd of Obamabots in Minnesota who would believe anything. This is where we found out about "Fair and Balanced". There was a righty, a lefty, and a centrist. If you thought Alan Colmes was a kind of goofy-looking person, you should see the person they dredged up to replace him. I mean, this woman looked and sounded like a whacked-out tranny, and although s/he couldn't get a word in edgewise, you could tell that the idea was to "represent" the "Left point of view" by characterizing the Left as wakkos. The discussion was shrill, antagonistic, and unproductive. At the end, they gave a teaser for how "government health care is going to make kids go to Fat Camp". My wife begged me to turn it off, but I wouldn't do it.

The next segment came on after commercials (mental note: should write down names of advertisers for future boycott actions). It turns out that the "Fat Camp" story was about the UK, not the US. And it wasn't true, either. In other words, just more Faux News BULLSHIT to try to stir up fear of "government run health care". By this time, my wife actually said if I didn't change the channel she was going to file for divorce. So I did. Afterwards, we both agreed that Faux News is really like The Onion News Network:

You decide: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/new_live_poll_allows_pundits_to

Week of 8/30/09

1. Obama to boost combat troops by 14,000. How? By swapping out support troops with combat troops and... wait for it... hiring 14,000 CONTRACTORS. This will allow him to avoid reinstating the draft, how CONVENIENT. Now we're going to have 14,000 more contractors in Afghanistan, costing 3 times as much as it costs for a GI. And when contractors get killed, they don't "count", so casualties look lower. This is truly an outrage.

2. GOP strategists are worried that being the party of intolerance is hurting their image. Oh, really? You have 100% loyalty from racists, religious bigots, teabaggers, terrorist bombers and murderers, the top 1%, and the lunatic fringe. Say "hi" to Rush, Glenn, Sarah, Mike Savage and Steele, all bigots of the purist quality.

3. Ever get the feeling that the wealthy screw the poor? Here's proof. In a recent survey, 68% of low wage workers had experienced at least one pay-related violation in the previous work week. The average worker lost $51, or 15% of their average $339 per week pay.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/us/02wage.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

4. It's going to be a busy week. Rachel Maddow had an extended interview with Tom Ridge, out on his book tour, and tried to pin him down on the claims he made regarding political pressure to raise the "terror alert level" to "orange" right before the 2004 election. In an earlier interview (Olbermann?) Ridge had discussed the passage in his book where he describes a meeting including Bush principals Rumsfeld & others. He says he left the meeting wondering if it was politically motivated since the rationale for raising the terror alert to orange was stupid. Last night he denied everything. They got to him, and he's backpedaling like a big dog. Rachel also tried to nail him down on the cooked intel regarding phony WMD claims in the Saddam regime. He looked like a deer in the headlights, shell shocked by an interviewer who refused to let phony platitudes gloss over one of the ugliest things that Ridge participated in.

5. The news on health care "reform" has turned south. Obama is holding court over a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, September 9. Reports say that he has ditched the 'public option' and will thus continue in his complete sellout of progressives. I wrote to the White House this afternoon and told them that if Obama doesn't hit the stage in Congress with the demand that HR 676 is put on the table that I will vote straight GOP even if the top of the ticket is Elmer Fudd and Sarah Palin. You can do the same thing at this link.... http://ow.ly/o52V This is the "Mad as Hell Doctors", who are leading a caravan across country to show up at the White House on 9/30 for an overnight stay. The link I provided is their main page, which has a link to email the White House as well as their itinerary. I am thinking about picking up with them in Bloomington on 9/19...

6. It's Freaky Friday on the op-ed page of the WaPo. Krauthammer wails about how Obama lost his god-hood and is now just mortal like the rest of us. George Will says it's time to get out of Iraq (that's funny, George was one of the biggest supporters of Bush's war.) Gerson sighs that we're stuck in Afghanistan so we better stay stuck there. In other words, don't believe one word that these people say. What happened to journalism in America?

7. The conservative crackpots have screamed their effing lungs inside out trying to stop Obama from spreading his message of "socialism" to returning public school students. In reality, Obama wants to remind kids that if HE can become President, maybe they can, too, if they stay in school. In my day the office of President was respected, and s/he had a standing invitation to address the students of America any time they felt it was necessary. But not in 21st Century America... the neanderthal uber-rightwingnuts can't take the chance that Obama might somehow "indoctrinate" their children to do something bad. Like, maybe, think for themselves?

BTW, one of the biggest GOPER mouthpieces of phony outrage is Florida GOP head Jim Greer, who was on TV screaming about parents protecting their children from the "hidden political agenda" of a "known socialist" President. My, my. But according to a story in the Orlando Sentinal, Greer is hardly a practicing member of the preachy choir. In fact, he has made plenty of speeches in public schools where he has expressed pure GOP crap, including Hillary Clinton jokes. So here's a flip of the finger and a STFU to another GOP hypocrite. There are so many of them you can't keep track.

8. Ohmigod, the OUTRAGE! Ever since Van Jones (Color of Change, White House Green Jobs Advisor, and organizer of Glenn Beck advertising boycott now up to FIFTY-SEVEN) hit the right wing radar, they are screaming for his blood! Glenn is leading the charge, claiming that Van must be a communist socialist fascist leftist progressive Nazi AT LEAST. LOL, maybe Michelle Bachmann will slit her wrists over it!

Week of 8/23/09

1. Glenn Beck comes back on the air after a 2 week suspension and promptly urges his supporters to go out and spill blood to save the country. Here is a list of advertisers who have DROPPED Beck as of Tuesday:

AT&T, Airware Inc. (maker of Brez anti-snoring aids), Allergan (maker of Restasis), Ally Bank (unit of GMAC Financial Services), Ancestry.com, Best Buy, Blaine Labs Inc. (maker of Dr. Blaine's brand skin treatment products), Broadview Security (Brink's Home Security), CVS, Campbell Soup Company, Clorox, ConAgra (maker of Healthy Choice brand foods), Ditech, The Elations Company (maker of Elations nutritional supplement), Experian (FreeCreditReport.com), Farmers Insurance Group, GEICO, Johnson & Johnson, Lawyers.com, Lowe's, Men's Wearhouse, NutriSystem, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, RadioShack, Re-Bath, Roche (make of Boniva), SC Johnson (makers of Ziploc, Off!, Pledge, and other products), Sanofi-Aventis (maker of Ambien), Sargento Cheese, Sprint, State Farm Insurance, Travelocity, The UPS Store, Verizon Wireless, and Wal-Mart.

Hats off to Color of Change, the organization who has led the charge on this boycott. If you can help with a few dollars, please visit the link below...

www.ColorOfChange.org

2. Just watched "When the Levees Broke" from Spike Lee on HBO. This is the 4 year anniversary of Katrina, the worst natural disaster in American history. The number of dead may never be known. Your government left people to die while Bush played air guitar. The situation with the levees is that they still will not protect the city. There are still thousands of Americans who lost everything who have been scattered all over the nation to fend for themselves.

What do you think would happen if you ever depended on FEMA or the US military to defend you from a natural disaster in your community? You'd proably have a better chance of getting Glenn Beck to drive his crazy train over to pick you up. Think about it.

3. Ted Kennedy, RIP. But the Democrats are really having a hard time letting go of you, they want to attach your name to a shitty health care "reform" bill that is going to be a boondoggle for the insurance companies. Also, the right wingnuts will not hesitate to bring up all kinds of references to Chappaquiddick, with which they will accuse Kennedy of being a philandering murderer who got away with it because of power and priveledge. This will turn the discussion away from health care and make it another Limbaugh food fight over culture wars Think the Dems are smart enough to stop it? I don't.

4. Dick Cheney claims that the release of the torture memos vindicates him because (note carefully) the people who were tortured gave up actionable intelligence. BUT, this is nothing but a carefully worded ruse. The information was given up BEFORE the torture, not during or after it.

This also misses a central point in the discussion. How effing low have we become as a society when we allow rogue Vice Presidents to break laws at will and then entertain the notion that it was OK to break the law because "it worked"? It doesn't matter if torture works (which intelligence professionals nearly unanimously agree that it doesn't). It doesn't matter because it's ILLEGAL, and it's a WAR CRIME. That means that Cheney has openly admitted to being a war criminal. So why is he on TV instead of in jail?

Week of 8/16/09

1. Went to town hall over the weekend; a woman near us was physically and verbally assaulted by a teabagger who hit her in the face with her own sign. Ain't America great? I stood up an yelled at the cops until they came over to stop the incident.

2. And it's 1 2 3 what are we fighting 4? Country Joe and the Fish lives on. This weekend the Obama Administration seems to be saying that the "public option" is not essential to the bill. WHAT? Why do you think millions of people sent in money and knocked on doors, Barack? So you could give a windfall to the insurance companies?

3. Now the B.O. Administration is backpedaling from earlier statements that public option is not essential to bill. Is this because they are a cluster f*ck or is it because they are dissembling? Or maybe both?

4. I'm FINALLY starting to hear commentators say that the Democrats started "with single payer off the table to appease the GOP". Bingo. So if the Democrats decide to ram through a bill, then they need to re-load and re-wind with single payer ON the table.

5. GOPERs and gun lust or "Happiness is a warm gun". We've got a music theme this week. GOPERs are bringing guns to town hall meetings. Loaded guns. Assault rifles and pistols, designed for one thing, killing people. The TV commentators seems to be perplexed as to why anyone would bring loaded killing devices to a town hall meeting. OK, here's a free clue. It's part of the GOP's attempt to BULLY, INTIMIDATE, AND RATCHET UP THE FEAR. They are praying for a shooting incident and don't be surprised if you see one before the town halls are over.

6. Karl Rove rears his ugly head. Writes op-ed in Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal saying that John Conyers, the Washington Post, and the New York Times owe him an apology for pointing out that he was involved in the politicization of the Justice Department. You may know this as the "attorney firing scandal". Hey, Karl, you're a blight on the planet. You're the cancer on Bush's presidency. You owe us all an apology, for a list of fiascos the Bush presidency foisted off on us under your direction. You'll be lucky if we don't demand a refund on all the air you've sucked up.

7. Speaking of politicization of terror, the Bush Administration now stands accused of ordering the terror alert level raised to "orange" right before the 2004 election. The accuser: Tom Ridge, former Director of Homeland Security. (Somehow the use of the word "homeland" gives me the creeps. Orwell? Nazis? Where did I hear this before?) Ridge says in his new book that he was pressured to raise the terror alert before the election because the Bushies noticed that every time the terror level was raised, people rallied behind the president. I wrote about how Bush was waging psychological warfare on America back in February 2002... read it HERE.

Week of 8/9/09

1. This page has not been kept current. That's an outrage, sorry, I'll try to do better.

2. Obama gives "into the lion's den town hall meeting" in New Hampshire to sell his plan and quell public disturbances. Only it's not really a public town hall meeting; the audience was selected from a pool of loyal Democrats. They even chanted "Yes We Can".

3. During Obama's fake event, he praised Chuck Grassley, one of my US Senators, as being a moderate GOPER who is trying to find a way to a health care bill. That was utter bullshit. Grassley is on the take to the tune of about $2 million from the health industry in Des Moines. Why did Obama bring up Grassley as an example of a moderate? Does he think the hard-core GOP can be charmed into a health bill?

4. Apparently Grassley wanted to know, too. To return the favor, Grassley held a town hall meeting the next day and told the "they're gonna kill old people" lie. People in Iowa know Grassley, apparently Obama doesn't.

5. During Obama's town hall, he sold against single payer. He said that he's never supported single payer. That's funny, I thought he had said he supported single payer in the past and, well, um, I was right. It's SAD when you have to use Breitbart as a source, but look what I found. HERE, HERE, and HERE.

Week of 12/30/07

1. This is more like disappointment of the decade. So-called "progressive" website Alternet runs three anti-Obama hit pieces in 2 days trying to turn the Iowa Caucus. What is it? An experiment in social engineering? Temporary madness? Sellout to John Edwards' campaign? How utterly disappointing to have shameless, Faux News shilling tactics and character assassination from a "progressive" news source. An attempt to contact their editorial staff for an explanation netted me a boilerplate email asking for a donation. Come get your donation, jerks. Oh, and BTW, Obama creamed your guy in Iowa, although it's doubtful you'll report that story.

2. Oil prices finally went over $100 a barrel. I have information that gasoline prices will be approaching or even over $4.00 a gallon sometime in February. What are you going to do about it? We're thinking about cutting out eating food and heating our house by burning newspaper in the bathtub so we can drive to work.

3. Health insurance... all the candidates talk about it, what's being done about it? Well, prices are going up. We got a letter from BCBS notifying us that our plan will now cost us an extra $160 a month, up to $860. That's for 2 adults. How are we paying for it? We're going to get extra refills of our perscriptions and sell them for half of retail price to people without insurance.

4. When do you know an investigation is doomed to fail before it even starts? When Bush appoints an agency to investigate itself. That's exactly what's going on with the coverup of the destruction of the CIA torture videotapes. Does anybody care any more? What about HR333... where are you, House Judiciary Committee?

Week of 12/9/07

1. Why we can't get any progress on waterboarding.... Nancy Pelosi approved waterboarding in 2002. Thanks, Nanc... have you ever thought of changing careers?

2. Huckabee, besides being a professional superstition-monger, also suggested in the 90s that HIV-AIDS infected people be isolated from the general population "for their own good". Well, what would you expect from a guy who thinks Chuck Norris can help his campaign? Followup... he says he stands by those remarks, so at least he's a consistant idiot.

3. Ann Coulter has gotten away with voter fraud. The case was dismissed due to statute of limitations. I guess if you stall long enough it makes it OK.

4. The CIA was under court order to preserve the videotapes of waterboarding that they destroyed that Dubya can't remember ever hearing about.

5. The US government is now intervening to "save" bad mortgage deals, thanks to "Mr. Small Government" Bush. How? By taking your tax dollars and forking them over to obscenely wealthy banks and hedge fund operators so they don't have to foreclose on mortgages. Wow. Hedge funds are now a federally guaranteed investment.

Week of 12/2/07

1. N-I-E-I-E-I-O The truth finally occurs to the mainstream press that Cheney and Bush have been suppressing the NIE for over a year and lying about the nature of Iran's nuclear program for at least as long. But now there is a timeline of facts that correlate with Bush's statements. So what are YOU going to do about it, dear reader? How about for starters you call Nancy Pelosi and tell her that impeachment is actually ON the table and she has no right to take it off the table.

2. Hillary Clinton's campaign caught circulating the rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim and he intends to turn the US over to the Caliphate, whatever that means. At the same time she whines and accuses Edwards and Obama of slinging mud. How goofy is this going to get?

3. Mitt Romney gives his "JFK" speech about religion. Except this version of the speech says that everyone HAS to be a Christian for America to survive. Holy Mother of Gawd, Batman.

4. Mike Huckabee teams up with Chuck Norris (WTF??) to make a TV commercial that baffles this political observer. I have no idea whatsoever what they are getting at. However, something the Huckster is doing is working in Iowa since he is now leading Romney by a factor of two.

5. Speaking of Romney, he fired his yard crew this week after he "discovered" that there were illegal aliens on it. Tom Tancredo is probably going to need a hernia operation from busting a gut laughing.

Week of 11/11/07

1. Australian newspaper reports that US vets are dying at 120 per week and nobody reports it.... by suicide.

2. Guiliani now immersed in Bernie Kerik- Judith Regan- Faux News scandal. Am I surprised? Not really. When you go to the bottom of the barrel, you ought to expect sludge.

3. Taking a cue from FEMA, Hillary plants a question. At least she didn't plant the whole event, but still, Hillary... what are you thinking???

4. Another "debate", another batch of sound bites. Ho hum. Did Hillary gain back the ground she's lost over the last 14 days? At least Wolf didn't ask "debaters" to show their hands if they favor an abortion litmus test for a possible supreme court nominee. CNN breaks for a commercial in the middle of a debate??? Here's a FREE CLUE from stopdubya.com... if you want to "debate", choose an issue and debate the issue for 2 hours.

5. House passes Iraq funding bill tied to withdrawal, but the GOP blocked it in the Senate. OK, here's what you do, folks. ALL BUSINESS IN THE SENATE STOPS DEAD IN ITS TRACKS, LIKE RIGHT F*CKING NOW. No more debate on anything until the bill passes. Capisce?

Week of 9/30/07

1. Larry Craig is still in the news. Why?

2. Rush Limbaugh says his usual crazy crap only this time it's an attack on troops calling any of them who disagree with the war in Iraq "phony". When called on his BS, he edits the tape and goes on the counteroffensive. This guy is no stranger to offensive.

3. Wesley Clark started a national petition to have Limbaugh removed from Armed Forces Radio. Sounds good to me. Check it out at http://ga4.org/campaign/dumprush

4. Hillarycare turns out to be a boondoggle for the health insurance companies. Health insurance companies are the primary PROBLEM, not the solution.

5. New information reveals that in 2004, as the Bush Administration was telling us they repudiated torture, behind the scenes they were coming up with new rationales to approve the most brutal torture the CIA could think of.

6. Blackwater.

Week of 8/5/07

1. Your tax dollars at work... the Pentagon has engaged the services of evangelical Christians to help them make the case that it's OK to kill the ragheads. Operation Straight Up will being its "Military Crusade in Iraq" tour soon, with the goal of brainwashing US soldiers into believing that there is a religious component to this war and they are acting in God's army. Among their tools... distribution of a free video game (normally $29.95) called Eternal Forces which provides all kinds of evil to be snuffed by the righteous (assumed to be the player, of course). You think I'm kidding? http://www.eternalforces.com/ Thanks & a tip 'o the hat to John for the link.

Week of 8/5/07

1. Bush snookers us again... NSA can now wiretap at will with no oversight. Welcome to 1984.

2. Another GOP angel falls from grace... Chair of the Young Republicans Glenn Murphy attempts to commit fellatio on... a guy asleep on the floor. He ought to see if he can hook up with Ted Haggard and Florida Rep. Bob Allen

Week of 7/1/07

1. The pardon of Scooter Libby from his conviction of obstructing justice by impeding an investigation into treason by the Executive Branch.

That, friends, would be the Outrage of the F*CKING CENTURY.

Except... it has SUB-outrages to go with it.

a. Bush did it on a holiday weekend when Congress was adjourned so there could be no organized reaction.

b. Bush did it by sending out a press release rather than holding a press conference so he wouldn't have to face questions

c. Bush insulted our intelligence by claiming that Libby's reputation had been damaged (so when has that ever stopped slimeballs from working their way into cushy, high-paid GOP insider jobs?) and that he has to pay a stiff fine (LMAO! Don't be stupid. A quarter of a milion? That's chump change for people who steal billions of taxpayer money on a continuing basis.)

Week of 6/24/07

1. Cheney's office found to be in major non-compliance with the Presidential Records Act of 1978. Where is the media on this? <zzzzzzz>

2. Bush is reportedly trying to find a way to "compromise" with the Congress over Iraq because he has realized that he can't keep "winning and winning". Here's your compromise, Dub... get us the f*ck out of Iraq.

3. Gonzo is STILL Attorney General?

4. One general says this, another general says that, another general says the other. Is it disinformation or chaos? Bottom line, they are ALL trying to push back a September review of the "surge", which is doing nothing but getting more people killed.

5. Report says the the number of Americans who believe Saddam was involved with 9/11 has risen to 41%. No wonder we have the worst government in the history of the US... the electorate have chosen ignorance over involvement.

Week of 6/17/07

1. GOPER Tom Davis of Virgina threatens to subpeona Valerie Plame. Be careful what you wish for... if Plame testifies you won't need a subpeona and what she says will rock the GOP's world.

2. Again, the Bushies are scurrying around in a Chinese Fire Drill trying to cover up. This time it's those damned emails again. They tried to circumvent the Presidential Records Act by using RNC email accounts and have been busted red handed.

3. Seymour Hersh says the White House knew about Abu Ghraib months before they said they did. "Nuh-uh" is the official response.

4. Is it propaganda or is it real? Al-Qaeda claims to have "graduated" a class of hundreds of suicide bombers to be sent to the US, UK, etc.

5. Prince Bandar, a "good" Arab (translate: willing to play ball with the west) has taken billions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks from the UK for purchases of military equipment dating back to at least 1985. Once again we have armed Osama with the basic facts he needs to support his claim that the West is a purveyor of death and corruption.

6. Bush to veto another stem cell research bill. Why? It's not what you'd think... he wants to keep it private so his "constituency" can make boatloads of money off of it.

Week of 6/10/07

1. Harry Reid says that stopping the Iraq war is too big of a goal. I translate that as "Never send a boy to do a man's job". (Those of you who wish to remain PC may replace "boy" and "man" with "child" and "adult".) Why is there no push to introduce a bill to rescind the Iraq War Resolution? Why is this not headline news every day? Why is there not a daily filibuster where the discussion is centered on the public outrage over Bush's war? Oh, that's right.... taking any REAL political action would require a spine.

2. Harry Reid.

3. The Gonzo censure failed, ho hum, we did what we could, blah blah, time to get back to picking your pockets.

4. Why does the GOP own the issue of border security? The Bushies have had power to secure the US-Mexico border for 6 years and have DONE NEXT TO NOTHING. Why are the Dems quivering in their boots over this issue? They ought to be screaming about it.

Week of 6/3/07

1. Dem and Repub debates: total waste of time, horribly moderated, stupid questions, stupid "sound bite" answers, posturing, yada yada yada. Raise your hand if you think Wolf Blitzer needs to find a new job. ALL the candidates from BOTH parties looked bad... except for one. Representative Ron Paul, Republican from Texas, is the ONLY candidate who doesn't spew generalities and platitudes when answering a question. I don't agree with everything he says, but Ron Paul is a political figure you can trust. I put him in that rarified air reserved for people such as Ralph Nader.

2. Head of the Arkansas GOP Dennis Milligan says that we need more attacks on US soil to make the naysayers appreciate what Bush has done for homeland security. Obviously this statement makes no sense whatsoever. This man is a couple of tunes short of a hit CD. He ought to stick with animal husbandry, with which I'm sure he's more familiar.

3. Iraqi Parliment passes binding resolution that will force a vote to end US occupation of their country in December. 80% of Iraqis want the US out. The percentage of Americans who want us out isn't there but it's getting there. So why are all of our politicians (except Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards, and a few others) pussyfooting around this and allowing the Bush Regime to continue its unilateral punishment and theft of Iraqi oil?

4. Paris Hilton complains about prison food (balony sandwich) and gets sent to her room where she is expected to throw a party tonight. In 2003, some guy in California got 50 years to life for stealing $150 worth of children's videotapes from a K-Mart. What's up with that?

5. The Law of Media Irrelevency explained: The media is making itself irrelevent by covering news that is irrelevent and ignoring news that ought to be in the face of every American. What did we miss because of Paris Hilton? Mitt Romney gets away with rewriting Iraq War history, Turkey is invading Iraq, crisis in Iraq over "Oil Law", hundreds of Iraqis killed and wounded, and many more. That's infotainment.

6. The Immigration "Reform" bill fiasco... what a major clusterf#ck. Why do these people not "get" it about this "reform" crap? Reform? If we need to "reform" something we ought to be marching on the friggin' White House. Back to immigration. There are a number of SEPARATE but related issues in that bill that need to be addressed SEPARATELY. It is a national scandal that we cannot secure the border with Mexico. Where are all you dumbshit righties on this issue? What makes you think that tapping our telephones makes us "safe" when terrorists can just walk right across the border? IDIOTS.

Week of 5/28/07

1. Boston Globe reports that GOP candidates are all spouting the same crap Bush spouted before attacking Iraq. They must think that we're a nation of f*cktard amnesiacs. What did the 9/11 Commission say about Iraq and 9/11? Let me spell it out for you, RNC... N-O C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-O-N.

2. Cindy Sheehan quits the peace movement in disgust. She could tolerate 2 years of threats, slurs, slights, and ridicule from the right wing for standing up and saying what the left couldn't find the spine to say. That's what you'd expect from the right wing. But being sold out by the DEMS, well, that's just another indication of how the DONKEPHANT UNIPARTY has placed itself before the wishes of Americans.

3. The White House says the "Korean model" (50 years of occupation) may be what's ahead for Iraq. WHAT? Tell me more about the $400 haircut, Faux.

4. Way back when I told you that unilateral abrogation of the ABM treaty would lead to trouble down the road. Guess what? Dubya shit-canned the ABM treaty and now Putin's testing new missiles that will "defeat any defense system". He's probably right about that, there are more holes in "Star Wars" than you can shake a stick at. Maybe we can talk the Russians into putting radio transmitters on their MRVs so we have a sporting chance of finding them before they detonate.

5. Military plans to spend $25 billion on MRAPs (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected... don't you LOVE the acronyms?) by 2009. But WAIT! These high-dollar vehicles can't even stop the IEDs that are being used TODAY. It's the American way... create the impression of giving a shit by throwing a pile of money at it. Truly an outrage.

6. How propaganda works: Thursday... the #2 military commander in Iraq, Lt. General Ray Odiemo, says that September may be too soon to assess the results of the "surge". But WAIT! On Friday, a mind-numbingly simplistic story about how the tide is turning in Iraq because the Sunni residents of Amariyah took exception to al-Qaeda rebels began shooting into the air and started shooting back at them. Oh, yes, things are going JUST GREAT in Iraq. If only we can get the "cut and run" lefties to abandon their "surrender" strategy.

7. Retro-outrage: while the world was looking the other way, Bush annointed himself Imperial Leader of the US in case of national emergency. The "directive", signed May 9, is the most grabbastic overreach of a US president in our history. Read about it HERE.

8. Bill O'Reilly, the GOP Poster Child for electrically-enhanced anal self-pleasure, actually said to John McCain on his Wednesday, May 30th show: "Do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far left want? They want to break down the white Christian male power structure of which you are part, and so am I." Seig Heil, Bill. White Power. PS... don't forget to recharge your vibrator.

Week of 5/21/07

1. Gonzo is STILL here and Bush is STILL saying he thinks Gonzo did a good job at the hearings? Maybe on Planet Crawford at the Shit Creek Ranch, but not in the reality the rest of of live.

2. Why do they hate us? Because they can't trust us. In 2004, the US government arranged a "peace negotiation" with Moqtada al Sadr, the radical semi-Iranian cleric who has more or less handed the southern 1/3 of Iraq over to Iran. Peace negotiation? Not really. Our government was planning to kill him and botched the job. So where does that leave us? With another influential, rabidly anti-American Muslim on the loose. We get it from the Sunni side (bin Laden) and the Shiite side (al Sadr). Why do they hate us?

3. Democrats cave on accountability in war funding bill. Is this spineless or is it good politics? They have established on record that they tried to withdraw troops and could not override a veto. Come September, Bush and the GOP will have hell to pay. Until September, the Iraqis and American troops are paying hell with their blood.

4. Another former Gonzo aide sings like a bird... this time it's Monica Goodling, who says McNulty wasn't up front about the political nature of the firings and the involvement of the White House. And guess what... Gonzo is STILL here!!?!?!??!!

5. Bush calls new Iraq funding bill a "consensus". But WAIT... isn't a CONSENSUS when the minority agree to put aside their objections and go along with the majority opinion? Always has, always will be. So IF this bill was a "consensus" bill, it would have included timetables for withdrawal and benchmarks for performance. What we have instead is a "MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY" bill demanded by a president who had no Constitutional authority to start this war and has no Constitutional authority to fund it. A majority of both the House and Senate oppose it, and a clear majority of the American people oppose it. So what the F*CK is wrong with this picture????

6. John McCain says that Barack Obama "wouldn't know the difference between a RPG and a bong". Barack shouldn't take this personally, though. It comes from an addled idiot who can't tell the world of fantasy from the real world. In John McCain's world, if we don't fight the terrorists in Iraq we'll have to fight them here. (See my comments on this harebrained notion HERE).

Week of 5/14/07

1. GOP frontrunner Rudy Guilianni wasted no time cashing in on 9/11. As reported in the Washington Post, a mere 4 months later, in December, 2001, Guilianni left office to start up a consulting business designed to capitalize on his carefully crafted PR campaign as "America's Mayor". This has made him a millionaire 10 times over... but wait! Didn't 9/11 show how utterly unprepared NYC was for this attack and weren't the real heroes the police and firefighters who risked and gave their lives trying to overcome this lack of readiness?

2. Justice Department #2 James McNulty resigns. Why is Gonzo still there???

3. It wasn't "moral" and it sure as hell wasn't a majority. Falwell buys the farm at age 73. He is probably most famous for his 9/11 observation in a conversation with fellow crackpot Pat Robertson...

"What we saw on Tuesday [9/11], as terrible as it is, could be miniscule, if in fact, if in fact, God continues to lift the curtain of protection and let the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve."

WHAT WE DESERVE? And why did Falwell think that God thinks that we "deserved" 9/11? Because Falwell hated gays and the separation of church and state, that's why.

So what's the outrage here? The outrage is that the righty bastards have lined up like a conga line of suckholes tripping over themselves to compliment this dead religious right wingnut who did nothing but erode the US Constitution, worked his whole life to stir up hatred and intolerance, and contributed to the notion that his particular brand of intolerant, jingo, pseudo-religious shit-talking was the kind of "patriotism" that Gawdy Almighty wanted Americans to practice.

Rot in hell, Jerry.

4. Gonzo at it again... this time it was as White House counsel in 2004. He busted into John Ashcroft's hospital room with Andy Card demanding that he sign Justice Department approval documents for illegal domestic spying. Ashcroft wasn't even AG at the time, the job had been passed to a deputy. The truth keeps coming out, and it keeps getting uglier by the minute.

Again.... why is Gonzo still here????

5. GOP "debaters" vie for the public's Number One rating on who would preside over the most brutal, torturing, detaining, civil-rights-trashing government while Faux News eggs them on with loaded "ticking time bomb" questions. Are people so f*cking stupid they can't tell the difference between a TV show and real life? Apparently the GOP and Faux thinks so, judging by the many references to "24" in the candidates' answers. Did you get that? They think you're STUPID.

6. What's the "BIG DEAL" about immigration? Why are our politicians "dealing" on this issue? Isn't the solution OBVIOUS? If Homeland Security ever had a mission, it was SECURING OUR BORDERS. If you have entered the country illegally, YOU SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH A CRIME. If you KNOWINGLY HIRE and illegal alien, the penalties should include MANDATORY JAIL TIME.

Our gutless, spineless congress-critters are AFRAID to do the right thing on an issue that is crucial to our nation's survival. That's not only an Outrage of the Week, it's a NATIONAL DISGRACE of the decades.

7. Immigration "deal" followup... McCain tells Conyer's to "Fuck off". Nice, John-Boy... according to you, discussing this piece-of-shit legislation that has something for everyone to hate in it is off the table because you "know more about it than anyone in this room". I think America would be better served if YOU would fuck off and stop being a pretender to the presidency. BUT- McCain/Guiliani IS, after all, the Democrat's Dream Team...

8. Historical revisionists are fawning all over John Ashcroft for his new-found "resistance" to Bush's over-reaching on US civil rights. Ah, give us the good old days when we just had a reactionary religious bigot as AG instead of an incompetent, lying, partisan, torture-advocating, truth-deficient, fuckhead named Gonzo.

Week of 5/7/07

1. Efforts to aid the twister-flattened town of Greenburg, KS severely hampered by missing equipment that has been deployed to Iraq

2. Gonzo is still around? Duck and cover, run away, run away, Speedy! Maybe if you hide out and lay low for a few weeks it will all blow over.

3. Bush says the word "September" and all of a sudden it's some kind of magic turning point. REALLY, people, if the GOP SAYS they are going to want a policy change if the "surge" hasn't "worked" by September, what is the difference between that and an "artificial deadline"? The answer is obvious... the GOP is planning to cut loose from the Iraq war before the 2008 elections and they have calculated that it will take 14 months to get 'er done. They just don't want to use the language... not yet.

4. Gonzo says he will stay. Wolfie says he will stay (at least until June 1, when he can collect $400,000 and Pass Go). Rush says "Barack the Magic Negro" is "historical". There you have it... torture, corruption, and racism, the 3 pillars of the GOP. BTW... Rush Limbaugh, the bloviating drug addict, deserves his own section on this website and I plan to accomodate him.

5. Billions of $ of Iraqi oil "missing", reports the NYT. Estimates of 100,000 to 300,000 barrels per day for the last FOUR years.

6. Saudis do not support US in Iraq efforts, nor do they support the Iraqi government. Where's the US press establishment? <zzzz zzzz zzzz ....>

7. Bush now says that "success" in Iraq will be a "reduction of car bombs" and that there will never be peace. WTF? Where were the car bombs BEFORE Bush invaded?

8. Here's the latest GOPERNAZI installment of their continuing saga, "Git the Nigra". Supposedly Barack Obama is a "hypocrite" because Michelle Obama serves on the board of a food manufacturing company that sells 16.1% of its pickles to Wal Mart. Can ya feel the SHEER DESPERATION???? LINK

Week of 4/30/07

1. Bush vetoes Iraq emergency spending bill that includes withdrawal timelines. He says it's a "prescription for chaos"... but isn't that what he has created there already? So what's his real reason? Can ya say "He wants a military foothold in the Middle East"? But that's not what 2/3 of Americans want... we want our troops out. Oh, and BTW, we want our gas cheap and we want to drive huge gas guzzlers and we want to drive them as fast as they will go.

2. Imus is gone for a racist slip of the tongue... But Rush Limbaugh can get away with airing racist trash like "Barack The Magic Negro". WHY? IF you care to examine the difference between Clear Channel and news organizations such as CBS and MSNBC you will find your answer.

3. Four years since Bush's "Mission Accomplished" moment... 3363 dead Americans, 25 thousand maimed, and 100 thousand dead Iraqis later we have an all-out sectarian war with al-Qaeda more of an influence than ever in Iraq. Oh, did I forget to mention the half a TRILLION we spent for these results?

4. GOP sheep-o-dates "debate" in Reagan library. Not ONE of them sees anything wrong with Bush's Iraq war policy other than to blame others for mismanaging it. No surprises, but still outrageous. GOPERs... does this mean that in order to be a "conservative" you have to support the worst disaster in American history?

5. Bush chose a speech to the Associated General Contractors of America (???) as a platform to explain his veto of the latest Emergency Appropriation bill for his Iraq war. In that speech, he actually referred to himself saying "I'm the Commander Guy".

6. al-Qaeda commander al-Zawahri mocks Bush's "surge" by inviting Bush to the Iraqi Parliment cafeteria for a glass of juice.

7. Senior military officers appropved the coverup of the Haditha massacre (24 Iraqi civilians murdered in cold blood) out of fear of a propaganda backlash that would infuriate Iraqis. They thought it would create a "public relations problem". D'ya THINK????

Week of 1/2/06

1. While everyone enjoyed their holiday, Bush took the opportunity to claim he is above the law when it comes to the anti-torture legislation he was in the act of signing. In his signing document, paragraph 6, he issues the following chilling statement:

The executive branch shall construe Title X in Division A of the Act, relating to detainees, in a manner consistent with the constitutional authority of the President to supervise the unitary executive branch and as Commander in Chief and consistent with the constitutional limitations on the judicial power, which will assist in achieving the shared objective of the Congress and the President, evidenced in Title X, of protecting the American people from further terrorist attacks. Further, in light of the principles enunciated by the Supreme Court of the United States in 2001 in Alexander v. Sandoval, and noting that the text and structure of Title X do not create a private right of action to enforce Title X, the executive branch shall construe Title X not to create a private right of action. Finally, given the decision of the Congress reflected in subsections 1005(e) and 1005(h) that the amendments made to section 2241 of title 28, United States Code, shall apply to past, present, and future actions, including applications for writs of habeas corpus, described in that section, and noting that section 1005 does not confer any constitutional right upon an alien detained abroad as an enemy combatant, the executive branch shall construe section 1005 to preclude the Federal courts from exercising subject matter jurisdiction over any existing or future action, including applications for writs of habeas corpus, described in section 1005.

Week of 2/7/05

1. Bush proposes a new record $2.7 trillion budget that severely cuts programs that help real people. His budget cuts programs like public transportation, environmental improvement, and even educational programs like vocational training at the high school level (actually, that would be eliminated as a budget item). But it makes the tax cuts for the top 1% permanent and it increases spending for domestic spying. And despite the fact that it creates a new record high annual budget deficit and contributes another half a $trillion to the record $7.3 trillion national debt, it DOESN'T EVEN INCLUDE THE ESTIMATED $100 BILLION HE'S GOING TO DEMAND FOR IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.

2. Condi is out there with a carrot and a stick trying to make a name for herself. She's sucking up to the Europeans and threatening Syria and Iran. So what's the big difference, Condi? American foreign policy has always been out of whack with reality.

3. Bush is trying to rally the world to unite with him in his new crusade against Iran. Based on what we found out about the disconnect between reality and what Dubya told the world about Saddam's WMDs, there is likely to be a credibility problem on this. But meanwhile...

4. If Dubya is still looking for nukes, he might be interested to note that North Korea, a nation with which we went to war and have been trying to contain for 55 years, says it has them. 1.6 million people were killed and a million more missing in that war... and now they have nukes. Gee, Dubya. I thought you were trying to contain nukuler weapons of mass destruction.

Week of 1/24/05

1. Alberto Gonzales asserted that international treaties do not prevent the US from using "cruel, inhuman, or degrading" methods of torture on prisoners.

2. Another record budget deficit looms as the White House is begging for another $80 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan. Projected deficit for 2005 is $427 billion... and we all know what happens to "projections".

3. The "No Child Left Behind" act requires that high schools give the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of juniors and seniors to military recruiters. Isn't that a form of child molesting?

Week of 1/17/05

1. Dick Cheney says that Bush has restored the power of the President after it was eroded by Viet Nam and Watergate. How did he do this? By choosing to fight an unnecessary war (just like Viet Nam) and lying to the American people about everything (just like Nixon).

2. Bush claims that no one in his administration needs to be held accountable for anything because the 2004 election was his "accountable moment".

3. American support for the Iraq War has dwindled to a new low of 39%. I suppose that means our attention span has reached its end.

Week of 1/10/05

1. "No Child Left Behind"... no journalism to leave behind. CNN contributor Armstrong Williams was paid $240,000 to write his investigative "stories" about Bush's harebrained plan. Guess who paid him? (Do I really have to say it?)

2. Charles Graner's (remember the thumbs-up Abu Ghraib pictures?) attorney Guy Womack says that piling nude Iraqi men on top of each other is equivalent to "cheerleaders forming pyramids all over America eight times a year." Of course, he says that leading nude prisoners around on a leash is acceptable, too. I wonder what he'll say when the topic turns to beating a prisoner to death and then packing them on ice so the body won't rot before they can sneak it out of the place and dump it.

3. With no fanfare whatsoever, the search for Dubya's postulated Iraqi WMDs ended last month. The formerly interim Duelfer Report will stand as the last word. Oh, and by the way, they didn't find any.

4. Bush told Barbara Walters that "Bring it on" was a "little blunt". Gee, Dub, d'ya think????

5. Prince Willie shows up at a party sporting a nice brown shirt with a big black swastika on it. Are these people really that stupid or do they think we'll love them if the do dumbass things?

Week of 1/3/05

1. Brigadier General James Cullen (ret.) is one of 12 generals who says that Alberto Gonzoles endangered our troops by supporting torture (who else has been saying that? If you said Stopdubya, go to the head of the class.

2. Lt. Gen. James R. "Ron" Helmly, head of the National Guard, says that Bush's "dysfunctional" policies have turned the Guard into a "broken force".

3. Egyptian-born Mamdouh Habib, who was detained in Pakistan in October 2001 as a suspected al Qaeda trainer, alleges that while under Egyptian detention he was hung by his arms from hooks, repeatedly shocked, nearly drowned and brutally beaten. How did he get into Egyptian hands? The US sent him there to be tortured.

4. Bush Administration plans to build concentration camp facilities to permanently house "detainees" who have never been charged with a crime. Illegal, immoral, and sends what kind of message to the rest of the world about US "democracy"?

Week of 12/27/04

1. Under intense public pressure, Bush raises his miserly $35 million for tsunami relief to $350 million. That's GREAT, dub, now your IrakAttack is only 1,000 times more expensive than your relief effort.

2. Americans are too busy with Christmas to notice that 1/3 of the "volunteer" army has now served at least 2 combat hitches, writes Ronald Brownstein in the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette.

3. The Pentagon has redefined "torture" but the ChickenHawk in Charge (that's Dubya) can still throw the rule book out the window at his own discretion. One thing you could never accuse the DubMeister of doing is "playing by the rules".

Week of 12/20/04

1. Email suggests that there was an executive order (meaning an order from BUSH PERSONALLY) to use torture on prisoners in Iraq and Gitmo

2. Don Rumsfeld used a machine to "sign" his condolence letters to families of dead GIs

3. Another National Guard unit comes forward with claims that they were sent to Iraq with incomplete training (like never firing some of the weapons they had), broken guns and equipment, and chronic illness

4. BUT... be assured that Rummy and his entire staff are not "doing anything other than working urgently to see that the lives of the fighting men and women are protected and are cared for in every way humanly possible". If you think anything else than what Rummy said, you might make him sad.

Week of 12/13/04

1. HIPAA exposed as a fraud and lie. They tell you when you sign it that it protects your right to privacy of your medical records. That's not exactly true... if you read the act, the government can do a sneaky peek and never tell you.

2. Dubya's inaguration celebration will reportedly cost $40 million, which would pay for 168 brand new armored Humvees.

3. The Dems have taken no part in calls for recounts in Ohio, where widespread vote supression and electronic voting machine tampering have been reported and suspected. If we can't hold fair elections in the US, how are we to believe that we can hold them in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan?

4. Time Magazine names Bush "Person of the Year". We have another name for him: War Criminal of the Century.

Week of 12/6/04

1. Soldier loses arm in Iraq, US Army tries to give him a bill instead of a paycheck at discharge.

2. Rummy says that vehicles are being armored as fast as physically possible. Humvee firm says the reason there aren't more armored Humvees is because the government isn't ordering them.

3. Want to see the law that requires you to present an ID before getting on an airplane? Tough. The law is secret and you can't read it.

Week of 11/29/04

1. They don't really hate us for our freedom, they hate us for our policies. So says a report by the Defense Science Board, a Pentagon agency.

2. November ties April for the most US deaths in Iraq.

3. Worse and worser. Ashcroft resigns, is replaced by Alberto Gonzoles, long-time legal beagle for Dubya and author of the opinion that the White House can detain anyone and torture anyone it wants... without fear of legal retribution.

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Week of 5/31

1. What kind of sovereignty do you want? Full or partial? The better question might be "How oxymoronic can dubya get?"

Week of 3/31

1. US troops fail to warn vanload of civilians, end up killing 10 including women and children

Week of 3/24

1. Iraqi civilian casualties begin to become publicized

2. Dubya demands "humane treatment" for American POWs despite the fact that American forces regularly torture, humiliate, and even sometimes kill their prisoners.

3. US forces stalled as they try to defend flanks that run 300 miles through hostile territory. US general in the field openly criticizes Rumsfeld's strategy, which is based on ideology, not military training.

Week of 3/17

Only 1 nominee here: dubya defies international law, domestic and world opinion, and common sense and begins a genocidal attack on Iraq.

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Week of 1/20/03

1. Dub proposes a $75,000 tax break for purchase of SUVS.

2. Scott Ritter (weapons inspector who is calling for Dubya's impeachment) charged with sex crimes.

3. Dub releases bogus report supposedly chock-full of evidence about Saddam's evil. Please make sure you have a laughing towel ready when you read this! NOTE: this link appeared to be dead this morning, but I will try it again later. Maybe they realized how stupid this was and withdrew it already.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/ogc/apparatus/apparatus-of-lies.pdf

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This week's nominees.... (1/27/03)

1. Dubya suggests that it is OK to use tactical nukes as "bunker busters" in the IrakAttak. Also, he says nukes may be used to retaliate for an attack on the US that uses chemical or biological weapons.

2. Dub says that the only reason why Iraq would need WMDs is to "dominate, threaten, and attack". Um, isn't that exactly what the US is doing?

3. Dubya says that Iraq has nothing but contempt for the UN and world opinion. Later in the same speech, he says the UN and other countries do not make US foreign policy and that the US will attack Iraq no matter what anybody else says.