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.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002509172_fbiporn21.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/171998p-150026c.html



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.

"Escape is never the safest plan."









Chuck Klosterman RULES. That's all he does. He gets up in the morning, rules all day, goes to sleep and rules all night.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743264452/qid=1127690559/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-0565644-4594319?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

“Santorum, a leader among Christian conservatives, was responding to questions about remarks he made three years ago on a website called Catholic Online. In those comments, Santorum said, 'It is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political, and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm'of the clergy sexual abuse scandal.”


Center of the storm?
You morally bankrupt, soulless monster.
Read this, you prick.
http://www.philadelphiadistrictattorney.com/images/Grand_Jury_Report.pdf
While you are railing about how Kennedy and Kerry did nothing, it looks like you
didn't do anything either.
What an arrogant, repugnant, disgusting disgrace.

"Because the President declared a state of emergency on
August 26, and because Blanco requested Federal Assistance on
August 27,Under the National Response Plan (as outlined in my Diary, here, and as is amply outlined in many, many places (I linked to them in my diary)....
Several things happened:Under the Homeland Security Act, the Stafford Act, and according to the NRP, this was AUTOMATICALLY determined to qualify as an "Incident of National Significance" - therefore, Responsibility for initial actions, coordination, and etc, AUTOMATICALLY fell upon the Director of DHS (Chertoff), and thereby AUTOMATICALLY fell upon FEMA and its director (Brown), and throught them, ultimately responsibility for command, control, and authority AUTOMATICALLY flows to the COMMANDER IN CHIEF...
In short, because Bush declared a disaster, the relief effort, by law, became the responsibility of the Federal Government Agencies. Any orders, actions, commands, and etc - done or not done, failed or successful, are the ultimate responsibility of the DHS, and the President.
Period." from www.dailykos.com These people (Republicans) really are evil. I don't mean just mean, or ill informed, or rude. I mean fucking evil. Blame the victim, blame the victim, blah blah blah blah. It's as simple as this-they're wrong about Blanco and Negin. They asked for help, and it never came until it was too damn late. Fine. All that aside-the results of this storm-telecommunications gone, toxic waters, dead people, disabled roadways-are an excellent version of the results of a terrorist attack. These people have had four years to fix this. This was the MBA president and the people who want to run government like a business. Effiency, right? New civil tone? Grownups in charge, right? And they actually get a chance to put their new tools, which they begged for, and said they absolutely had to have to protect us with, to work, and it is a category five clusterfuck. AND they have the nerve-the unmitigated GALL- to stand there and say that its not their fault! They dont want to play the blame game? yeah, sure-because they are the ones to blame!

IMPEACH GEORGE BUSH NOW.