Although it is a fucking SIN that we have to do this, we should do it anyway.


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Give phone cards to the troops.

From Harper's Magazine, November 2005, page 34 : "But he and other men and women serving in Iraq must pay for their phone calls home."

What?

WHAT? These poor men and women have to pay for their own phone calls? Are you kidding me? $1 billion per month and we can't spring for the G-D phone?

Give me one good reason. ONE. You money grubbing corporate fascist heartless bastards. What reason could there possibly be? Any conservative out there. Any of you. Explain this to me. Please.

There's a new book, "Postwar" by Tony Judt, about postwar Europe, which points out that one of the reasons why reconstruction of Europe worked so well was that THEY KEPT THE DAMN POLICE FORCE together! One of the favorite right wing taglines has been "Well, this is different from Germany and Japan because there werent any insurgents then." Duh.

http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005/1122nj1.htm


"Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the matter."

That says it all. Cheney's a liar, Bush is a liar, Rice is a liar. You don't need anything more than this to begin impeachment proceedings.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-112105usiraq_lat,0,7518613.story?coll=la-home-headlines

The aptly named Dick Cheney.

And how would you know a damned thing about war, Mr. "Five Deferments"? Mr. "I Had Other Priorities"? While men like Murtha and John Kerry and my father in law were facing bullets, you were cowering in Wyoming.

You sick, lying, evil bastard.

"No one starts a war-or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so-without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to achieve it."

Clausewitz, quoted in "We Were Soldiers Once...And Young", by Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway.

Does any thinking person believe the President of the United States fulfilled either criteria?

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/goodbye-to-the-architect/


David Gassko writes a good, short, angry piece about the end of the Theo Epstein experience.

Amusing segment on Franken today.

He had on his "Resident Dittohead", and they played a clip of Limbaugh from after the Iraqi constitution vote, saying that the Washington Post did not play the vote on the front page. Franken had the front page of that day's Post, and they did run two stories about it on the front page. Now that's a lie. No interpretation necessary. He said they didn't do something, and they had done it.

Yet the guy still cant accept it.

He starts to go off on a tangent about how the MSM doesn't report enough good news from Iraq. I think that is a crock of shit. I don't think there is very much good news to report. And if you pay attention, they DO report it. If there is good news, I'd like to hear more of it. But news people will always report bad news before good-it's their nature. Bad news sells. But that's not the point.

The point is that Rush Limbaugh LIED. Lied, lied, lied. And narrow minded conservatives will never accept it.

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It would be really cool if someone in my life could do something, ANYTHING, other than find fault with me.

The Chicago White Sox lead the 2005 World Series, 2 games to 0. I have a hard time rooting for Caveman Carl Everett to win anything, though I have always half rooted for Orlando Hernandez. I think I'm pulling for the Astros, in the end, because Biggio and Bagwell deserve a ring, even if it means Roger gets one.

-"Life Is A Highway" was annoying when it was released, and its still annoying.

-The President committed treason when he allowed Valerie Plame's name to be leaked. But as Al Franken said last night on Letterman, we probably shouldn't execute him.

-I don't get Lenny Kravitz.

-Suicide is not that great a tragedy. Let's face it, as Doug Stanhope says, if you have seen half of a movie, and it stinks, why would you stay for the second half?

-At what point did the meaning of "excuse me" become "I'm about to interrupt you"?

-I never wanted to admit that I liked Bon Jovi, but their music has stood up better than a lot of other groups I used to like more.

Hey Bush voters, kwitcherbitchin.

You asked for this mess, and now you have to eat it.

Exploding deficits, cruel budget cuts for our fighting men and women, lies, corruption, and the neverending quagmire in Iraq.

That's what you asked for, and that's what you got.

Hope yer happy.

I keep hearing sniping little remarks about some pharmacists' refusal to dispense Plan B, the morning after pill. And I have to part company with Springer, Franken, and those who have complained about it. While I DO NOT AGREE with the decision to refuse to dispense personally, I do not see how you can force pharmacists to dispense without doing away with the profession as a whole.

Pharmacists owe a duty to their patients-to dispense each prescription accurately and appropriately. The simple fact is that a pro life pharmacist believes there are two patients involved when a prescription is dispensed to a pregnant woman. I don't see how you can dispute that. And if you can legally force a pharmacist to dispense a prescription that they honestly believe will cause a patient harm, then you might as well not have pharmacists at all.

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These are great times. When you can expose Bush administration hypocrisy with just the click of a mouse. We are fighting a War on Porn, yet the Vice President is married to a pornographer. Awesome.