And the Oscar goes to....

In the catagory of "Bullshit Lies", for this day-after-The-Oscars version of "Why We Fight", the nominees are:

Victoria Clark:
"One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites" 3/22/03

General Tommy Franks:
"There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. And . . . as this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them" 3/22/03

and

George W. Bush:
"Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent" 1/24/03

The Oscar goes to....

General Tommy Franks for "There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. And . . . as this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them" 3/22/03


Industry insiders were not suprised that Franks won the award, one anonymous source told us "Everyone knows Bush is a liar - he does it all the time. And Victoria Clark? Please. She's a professional bullshiter. But the common view is that soliders should be held to a higher standard, a code of honor and all that. I think that's what made Franks' lie that much worse".

Human Rights & Human Dignity

"I'm perfectly comfortable in telling you, our country is one that safeguards human rights and human dignity, and we resolve our disputes in a peaceful way," -- GWB 2/24/05.

Hmmmm. Okay.


"out country safeguards human rights and human dignity..."

Amazing to me that this jackass gets away with these types of statements. The torture of innocents - FUCKING INNOCENTS - let alone POWs/captured insurgents is enough, IMO, for an impeachment. And the numbnuts in the media now ignore it and the Right Wing scoffs at it.

Oh yeah, 1493 Americans DEAD as of 2/27/05. Why was it again they had to die?

Days That Used To Be

I don't know why, but Neil Young alway reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson. Maybe it was their sometimes herky-jerky mannerisms. Maybe that Young lives, as Thompson did, in another time and space... maybe cause they'd just as soon spit on your shoe than to pretend to be someone they are not. I dont know. But Thompson's demise has me thinking a lot about ole Neil Young.



"Days That Used To Be"

People say don't rock the boat,
let things go their own way
Ideas that once seem so right,
now have gotten hard to say
I wish I could talk to you,
you could talk to me'
Cause there's very few of us left my friend
From the days that used to be.

Seem like such a simple thing
to follow one's own dream
But possessions and concession
are not often what they seem
They drag you down and load you down
in disguise of security.
But we never hadto make those deals
In the days that used to be.

Talk to me, my long lost friend,
tell me how you are
Are you happy with your circumstance,
are you driving a new car
Does it get you where you wanna go,
with a seven year warranty
Or just anotherhundred thousand miles away
From days that used to be.

Will God forgive us?

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"The photo was taken in the village of Hamada on Jan. 15, right after a Sudanese government-backed militia, the janjaweed, attacked it and killed 107 people. One of them was this little boy. I'm not showing the photo of his older brother, about 5 years old, who lay beside him because the brother had been beaten so badly that nothing was left of his face. And alongside the two boys was the corpse of their mother". -- Nicholas Kristoff, NYT, 2/22/05

It's going on at this very moment. The President, the Congress, and the media know it.

So do I.
So do you.

Women are brutally raped and men castrated in one last horrific moment of indignity before they are murdered. Children are often forced to witness the hellish proceedings before they meet the same fate as their parents. No one is spared.

Kristoff writes:

"Certainly there's no doubt about the slaughter, although the numbers are fuzzy. A figure of 70,000 is sometimes stated as an estimated death toll, but that is simply a U.N. estimate for the deaths in one seven-month period from nonviolent causes. It's hard to know the total mortality over two years of genocide, partly because the Sudanese government is blocking a U.N. team from going to Darfur and making such an estimate. But independent estimates exceed 220,000 - and the number is rising by about 10,000 per month.

So what can stop this genocide? At one level the answer is technical: sanctions against Sudan, a no-fly zone, a freeze of Sudanese officials' assets, prosecution of the killers by the International Criminal Court, a team effort by African and Arab countries to pressure Sudan, and an international force of African troops with financing and logistical support from the West. But that's the narrow answer.

What will really stop this genocide is indignation. Senator Paul Simon, who died in 2003, said after the Rwandan genocide, "If every member of the House and Senate had received 100 letters from people back home saying we have to do something about Rwanda, when the crisis was first developing, then I think the response would have been different."

If we have any virtue, if we have any morality, if we have any empathy for our fellow man - we must act. We must do something. It doesn't take long to write a letter or better yet make a call. Thousands of people call into American Idol to vote for their favorite celeb-du-jours... surely we can spend a few minutes contacting our leaders to let them know this genocide must end.

For more information and to see what else you can do, please see these websites:

www.savedarfur.org
www.darfurgenocide.org

Learn a bit about the situation and then please contact your elected officials.

Tell them that we know that THEY KNOW what is going on and they will be held accountable. Just as surely as God himself should hold us accountable for our apathy and silence.

Contact your Senators
Contact your Representatives
Contact the President

Pushing the Ocean

Tom Tomorrow nails it again. Trying to debate with these dudes is often like pushing the ocean.


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Once a Chicken Hawk....

Always a Chicken Hawk. Seems that Bush cant handle a REAL interaction with citizens of ANY country. We all know how scripted and canned his own "town meetings" were during the campaign, with the infamous support pledges and scripted questions... but maybe that was just for the campaign, or just for American audiences.?

Er, no. He wont face random questions from Germans, just like he's scared to do it in his own country.

During his trip to Germany on Wednesday, the main highlight of George W. Bush's trip was meant to be a "town hall"-style meeting with average Germans. But with the German government unwilling to permit a scripted event with questions approved in advance, the White House has quietly put the event on ice. Was Bush afraid the event might focus on prickly questions about Iraq and Iran rather than the rosy future he's been touting in Europe this week?

Once again Dubya shows that he is all hat and no cattle. Sorry, my GOoPer readers, I cant help but thinking St. Ronnie wouldnt puss out of such an event. But no one but the most fevered ever confused Bush with Ronzo.

Top albums (CDs?) of 2004

Cause I know you're dying to hear what I think...

5) Galactic - Ruckus. The latest release from this New Orleans band doesnt sound like it was recorded in the Big Easy. It's a bit too urban for that. Almost too urban. This ones got breakbeats, crossfades, and other minutae straight outta any cool club in NYC. But the songs are strong and the hints of hip-hop & electronica make it a record thats hard to define but easy to enjoy. Equally suited for dancin shoes or headphones.

4) Widespread Panic - Uber Cobra.
One of the three live albums WSP released last year (they took 2004 off for a little well deserved R&R). Uber Cobra is WSP's first acoustic live release and it showcases the bands musical dexterity very nicely. You can really judge a band when you take away their juice... and Uber Cobra proves that WSP has serious skills. Papa Johhny Road and Cant Get High are Panic standouts and the covers are sublime (Neil Young's Walk On and The Talking Head's City Of Dreams).

3) Dave Matthews - Some Devil.
Oh, he's cute. Oh, he's got a neat voice. Oh, the fucker can write a song. I loved DM's first album... then got really sick of him really fast. Much of it has to do with the fact I think much of the music he does with his band starts to sound alike after a while. Well, on this one he's left the band behind -- or at least it's not a Dave Matthews Band record... he's got some other friends along for the ride. And the album has a bit of everything. I was simply amazed by the quality of the songwriting.

2) MOFRO - Lochloosa.
The long awaited sophmore release from JJ Grey and Daryl Hance, who, along with a seemingly rotating support band, make up the "front porch soul" band known as Mofro. This is cracker soul. From the skeeter stingin swamps of north Florida come some of the most soulful music you'll hear all year. J.J. Grey is a surfin redneck with the soul of Otis Redding reincarnate. This record is heartfelt, it's simple, it's soulful as fuck. And it'll make ya shake yo ass. NOTE: Mofro is also some of the nicest folks you'll ever meet - so buy this album.

1) U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
Like Bruce Springsteen's The Rising album was much needed after the events of 9/11, I think the world needs this album now. It sounds like old-school U2, but its no retread. It's as vital and timely as any album they've ever released. Uplifting, introspective, brilliantly mature, yet still authentic. Not only the best album of 2004, but also one of the best albums of the decade. Yeah, that's right.

Let's take a quiz...

The number of US deaths in Iraq so far this month (through yesterday) is:

a) 19
b) 43
c) 28
d) 31






If you guessed (b) you are correct. 43 Americans have died through the first 21 days of February.

And for what?

Not WMD.
Not ties to Al Queda.
Not because Iraq posed a threat to America.

Why?

You farking corksuckers

Oh, them sleezy fucks.

I thought the Swift Boat Vets For "Truth" did what they did to Kerry because they were just good Americans who wanted the truth to be spread. It wasnt about political assasination, it wasnt partisan hackery, it was about the TRUTH.

Well, of course it was bullshit then (as the vast majority of their claims were exposed as bullshit once examined and a number of the Swift Boaters made claims that contridicted numerous earlier positve endorsments of Kerry) and it's bullshit now.

These same fuckmonkeys, a group called USA Next, these same moneymen behind the Swift Boat Liars are poised to attack the AARP over that groups opposition to Bush's Social Security boondoggle. Yeah, its the same AARP that the Administration was cornholing over their support of Bush's Medicare Rx boondoggle. Boondoggles to the left of me, boondoggles to the right, stand up, sit down, fight, fight, fight... but I digress.

So, anyway, the USA Next says this:

"They are the boulder in the middle of the highway to personal savings accounts," said Charlie Jarvis, president of USA Next and former deputy under secretary of the interior in the Reagan and first Bush administrations. "We will be the dynamite that removes them."

Holy Uncle Moses, break out the brown shirts !!!

Everyone knows the Swift Boaters were full of shit (everyone who actually cared to study them and their statements for more than 11 seconds). And EVERYONE knows their is NO SS crisis. The flippin White House has quit using the "crisis" language... no objective studies show that there is a crisis. And people are catching on to this little, er, what's that word... BOONDOGGLE.

Hear me now and believe me later: Scuzbellies like USA Next are gonna go to the well once to often for their dear leader, and ole Shrubola and the RadCons are gonna be holding the bag come 2006.

Goodnight, you CRAZED son'ova bitch.

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Hunter S. Thompson: 1937-2005

BTW, this IS the greatest opening line to any novel in Western culture:

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold". -- from Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas.

What he should really be doing...

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The only thing the man is actually qualified to do.

Pan-faced maroon - how I loathe thee.

Hey, it's Monday !!!

So it must be time for another issue of Why We Fight. That's right, America's favorite reminding -- where we look back on the lies that took us to war.

Enough of the chit-chat, let's get to this weeks Why We Fight:

"We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more." -- Colin Powell in his remarks to the UN Security Council, 2/5/03.

Cant keep what you never had. And you cant make "more" of something you dont have.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!

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Four legs good, two legs bad
Four legs good, two legs bad
Four legs good, two legs bad


If you dont get that reference see this.

What matters to Jesus

With all the talk in the last election about morals, values, and all things Jesus it's really got me thinking about what matters to Jesus. What REALLY matters to Jesus?

Here's what I think.

I think Jesus might have had an opinion on gay marriage. But I think that opinion ranks right up there with the concern I have for anti-billboard legislation... not real high. I think Jesus probably thinks porn to be a not-so-good thing. But I doubt it keeps him up at night.

Then, pray tell, really matters to JC.

Well, war - killing of any sort - but that's for another day.

What else then? Economic justice. That aint socialism Im talking about - it has nothing to do with redistributing wealth. It has EVERYTHING to do with making sure everyone has a little something - the bare neccesities of life - and in a county as rich as ours I believe the disparity of wealth makes Jesus weep.

This really isnt a political matter - though I do believe the current Republican leadership is doing great harm to our economy and the harm will most likely be felt by the middle and lower classes. But it's a matter of VALUES. What are our values?

Anyway, this cat from the Atlanta Journal-Constituion elaborates on it nicely... (you can follow the link or you can read it here... you might have to register for the site if you go with the link)

Economic morality counts. We hear a lot of talk about morality and values from our political leaders these days, as if we exalted these people to save our souls instead of just electing them to run our government. Their concept of morality seems oddly narrow, though, extending to issues of sexuality but not to other areas of human life.
To economics, for example.

Consider the case of Carly Fiorina. As head of Hewlett-Packard, Fiorina rammed through a controversial merger with Compaq that cost 18,000 people their jobs. In her five years as CEO, the company's stock dropped 30 percent. Yet when she was finally fired, she walked away with a severance package worth $21 million.

Is that kind of reward system moral, or is it evidence of some deeper
sickness permeating the culture of this country?

Is it moral to do what President Bush is doing in his latest budget, cutting spending on education, housing and food by claiming that we have no choice given the looming deficit, even as he proposes $1.3 trillion in tax cuts for Fiorina and others in her tax bracket, cuts that will increase the deficit?

Is it moral to continue handing out lucrative tax cuts even in time of war, thus creating huge deficits that our children and grandchildren will have to pay on our behalf?

Or how about "tax reform," in which the goal of many conservatives is to remove all federal taxes from "unearned income," meaning investment income collected almost exclusively by the affluent. Inevitably, that would put all of the burden of paying for government on earned income, the paychecks of people who go to work each day to make a living. At a time when globalization is already undercutting the earning power of the working and middle class, is it moral to use government to further comfort the comfortable, and further afflict the afflicted? --- follow the link for the remainder of the article.

A New Hope ???

Can it be? Is it possible? Might the last Star Wars film not suck total balls? Can George Lucas redeem his legacy in any half-ass way?

Judging by the trailer for Revenge of The Sith, Id say the chances are good. I havent been excited for a Star Wars movie since 1983 (or whenever that craptacular Ewok/muppet one came out)... but this one has me a bit jacked.

WARNING: dont try to view it if you are sadly still on dial-up -- that's no way to watch it.

Biden NAILS it

Last night on the Bill Maher show, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DEL) said about the whole Gannon/Guckert affair:

"Why isn't every major network in the country investigating a security breach, forget anything else. How could the FBI, for 17 years I was chairman of the Judiciary Committee, the ranking member. I've read more FBI reports than I ever wanted to know. How could that happen and no one had any idea who this guy was?... The Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate should be investigating it. The House Judiciary should be investigating it. And if it were the other party in charge, it would be investigated"

Amen. And Amen.


Let's recap.

Someone got White House press creds using a fake name. We know that the background check for who gets these passes is incredibly thorough. This same person was working for an upstart online "news" magazine owned by a Texan Republican donor/operative/hack. We also know that the person in question, at the very least, appears on numerous websites under the guise of being a homosexual prostitute. At the very worst - he IS/WAS a homosexual prostitute. The story is a lot deeper and it's still developing... but I think the aforementioned things are enough for a true investigation.

CAN YOU FUCKING IMAGINE THE EXPLOSION OF RIGHT WING FURY HAD THIS SORT OF THING HAPPENED DURING A CLINTON TERM ????

For all the info, see AmericaBlog. I will be shocked (well, not really) if this story isnt making waves in the mainstream press in the next few days.

Oh Shit.

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GOP: Where big business comes first

El Shruberino and fellow GOoPers (and some turncoat Dems) declared yesterday that the profits of corporations are more important than the safety of individual Americans. They also stated that the citizens of your state are too stupid to make fair judgements in class action suits.

Read all about it.

Once again, I hope the "morals" bullshit was worth it for all the Red Staters that are gonna be fucked over hard by Bush and his corporate masters.

Shit the KGB did

Where is the outrage?
Where is the shame?

We are not supposed to be the country that does this type of shit.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- An Iraqi whose corpse was photographed with grinning U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib died under CIA interrogation while in a position condemned by human rights groups as torture - suspended by his wrists, with his hands cuffed behind his back, according to reports reviewed by The Associated Press.

I am a child of the 1980s. I was entering double digits when the decade began and in the middle of college when the decade ended. I grew up with stand up video games, synth bands with big hair, and leg warmers.

I also grew up in a decade when the "Evil Empire", the USSR, was the epitome of evil shit. They were the ones that tortured their prisoners and political dissenters. They were the ones that had no sense of human dignity or the rule of law. All a kid had to do was watch Rambo 3 or Red Dawn - it was crystal clear.

Now it's crystal clear that we've been pulling some pretty evil shit ourselves. And it makes me sad. I grew up thinking that we were better than the rest of the world because we were more moral and righteous than the rest of the world. We were the country of liberty and freedom... the country of human rights.

The saddest thing of all is that the rest of the world used to look at us as a country of liberty and human rights - we WERE that shining city on a hill for millions around the world.

Not anymore. And that should make EVERY American very sad.

A Hero's death

Dorothy Stang, a 74-year-old Catholic nun from Dayton, Ohio, spent nearly all of the last 30 years in the Amazon jungle defending the property rights of peasant farmers.

Stang was murdered last Saturday for her efforts.

"Stang was a champion of the poor and their efforts to live and farm in the Amazon through sustainable methods. She dedicated her life to helping peasant farmers organize against powerful local interests, and didn't back down even when told she would be murdered if she continued to speak out. "She was a leader," da Silva says. "She was killed for defending families with no land."" --- The Christian Science Monitor, 2/15/05.

In today's world, the word "hero" is all too often used without considering what it actually means. We call professional athletes "heroes" for winning a game they get paid millions to play. We laud politicians for telling us what we want to hear - and sometimes elevate them to heroic status. To commit such folly is to shame the very idea of heroism... and it shames the true heroes of our time. And it shames Dorothy Stang.

Dorothy Stang was a hero.

Why it costs so much

It seems that, as Gomer Pyle (a fine Marine) would say, SUPRISE SUPRISE SUPRISE -- the Iraq War is the most expensive, per soldier, war in US history.

Imagine my suprise.

Hmmmm. Could it have something to do with any of this shit:

No bid contracts

Lost billions

Price gouging

Yeah, I know - there are also valid reasons why this war is so expensive... that may be true, but the fact remains - it doesnt have to be this way. It never had to be this way. We are wasting lives and treasure for a war that didnt need to be waged.

It's a disgrace.

Imagine all the GOoPers

And BINGO was his name-o...

from the laser guided mind of Joe Conason...

Imagine the media explosion if a male escort had been discovered operating as a correspondent in the Clinton White House. Imagine that he was paid by an outfit owned by Arkansas Democrats and had been trained in journalism by James Carville. Imagine that this gentleman had been cultivated and called upon by Mike McCurry or Joe Lockhart--or by President Clinton himself. Imagine that this "journalist" had smeared a Republican Presidential candidate and had previously claimed access to classified documents in a national-security scandal.

Then imagine the constant screaming on radio, on television, on Capitol Hill, in the Washington press corps--and listen to the placid mumbling of the "liberal" media now.

LMAO. Kenny Starr would be twisting his nipples with needlenose pliers. It might, just might muss Sean "Panface" Hannity's hairdoo. Good golly, the fucking irony of it all.

Small peniled ijits

It was just a matter of time.

Surprised Customer Says Penis Pills Don't Work

A New Jersey man has filed a false advertising lawsuit against a maker of herbal penis enlargement pills, alleging the medicine does not fulfill its promises, the plaintiff's lawyer said on Monday.
Two similar cases, filed last year in Colorado and Ohio, accuse manufacturers of herbal dietary supplements, VigRx and Enzyte, of falsely claiming to be able to add substantial length and girth to a man's penis.

All three suits seek class action status and claim to represent more than 1 million total plaintiffs.

I'm sure everyone has seen these terrible commercials with the cheesy actors and the voice over that states such not-so-veiled allusions like "Since using Enzyte, Bob has a much bigger driver" or whatever.

So it doesnt work. Really? You dont fucking say. Look, I know us Americans arent so bright (see: election results, 11/2/04)... but if there was a product that gave men longer and fatter cocks, they'd make a fucking breakfast cereal outta the shit and beer would be fortified with the stuff.

Now, those 1,000,000 jacklegs that were stupid enough to actually think it would work - rescind your lawsuit, take a hammer and bash your nuts to pulp, cause the gene pool needs none of what you have to offer.

And for you ijits out there - here you go: Enzyte - for insecure ijits.

George W. Bush hates Veterans (part 32)

Gulf War pilots tortured by Iraqis fight the Bush administration in trying to collect compensation.

"The latest chapter in the legal history of torture is being
written by American pilots who were beaten and abused by Iraqis during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. And it has taken a strange twist.

The Bush administration is fighting the former prisoners of war in court, trying to prevent them from collecting nearly $1 billion from Iraq that a federal judge awarded them as compensation for their torture at the hands of Saddam Hussein's regime.

The rationale: Today's Iraqis are good guys, and they need the money.The case abounds with ironies. It pits the U.S. government squarely against its own war heroes and the Geneva Convention" -- LA Times, 2/15/05 (more)

So, yeah, we have LOST 9 billion dollars (yeah, you heard me, we've lost - as in misplaced forever - 9 billion bucks) in Iraq. But we cant pay these veterans what a US judge has declared due to them.

Like I said, George W. Bush hates Veterans.

Turds in the shower

You ever have a old college friend over - the one that really used to just trash the place - and then once he leaves you figure, "well, it really wasnt that bad"... then, a while later you go into the guest bathroom and discover that he left a big pile of turds in the shower for you to clean up.

Well, the Bush budgets are gonna be our turds in the shower.

Take for instance his partial privitization of Social Security swindle:

"His plan to partially privatize Social Security, for instance, would cost a total of $79.5 billion in the last two budgets that Bush will propose as president and an additional $675 billion in the five years that follow" -- WaPo, 2/14/05

Not content to fuck us over for the 8 years he is in office - Shrubola has to make sure he fucks us over for years afterwards.

82 Billion (more) reasons he's a Miserable Failure

Mister Moneybags Shrubble Stiltskins wants to spend some more money that we dont have on a war that wasnt neccesary.

Seems that Dubya is asking Congressto rush him $82,000,000,000.00 (Geee-Zus is that a lot of zeros) for our War on Terr'er. Of course most of that money is gonna be spent in Iraq. As most of the nearly 300 BILLION dollars Bush has squandered in his War on Terr'er has been spent in Iraq.

And REMEMBER this is a supplemental request - it isnt counted in Chimp McSwagger's $2.5 trillion budget for 2006.

The funniest (saddest?) part of the deal was this:

$400 million to reward nations that have taken political and economic risks to join the U.S.-led coalitions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bwa-ha-ha. Oh, that's rich. They did it cause they value freedom. They did it cause it was the right thing to do. No. They did it cause $400 million buys a lot of eggs in Estonia... or was that apples in Azerbaijan? At least we are now, sorta, admitting that we pretty much just bribed some countries into coming along for this fucked up ride.

The Greatest Of All Time

Most yards rushing (career): 18,355
Most rushing touchdowns (career): 164
Most rushing attempts (career): 4,409
Most 1,000 yard seasons (career): 11
Most Rushing Yards in Playoff History: 1,586 yards
Most 100+ Yard Games in Playoffs: 7
Most Super Bowl Career Rushing TD’s: 5 TD’s
First player in NFL history with five straight seasons of 1,400 yards rushing

1993 NFL MVP
1993 Super Bowl MVP


The Best of All-Time. Period. The End.

If it's Monday...

... it must be time for a Why we fight reminder. The Why we fight reminders are just little snipets of speech, just little iotas of bullshit that we were told by Bush Junta as to why we had to go to war when we did.

You know cause we didnt want the warning shot to be a mushroom cloud... we had to fight em in Iraq so we didnt have to fight em in Des Moines... yada yada yada... blah blah blah.

Anyway, here is this week's Why we fight reminder:

"Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons". --- George W. Bush, 9/12/02, Speech to the UN General Assembly.

BTW, the fact that Smirky McChimp gave this speech one day after the first anniversary of 9/11 is such a great example of how these assknockers love to take political advantage of that horrific day. It's as Ed Shultz says: "They are shameless and they'll do anything to win".

They started propagandizing the events of 9/11 on 9/12/02 and they wont stop until the public quits lapping it up.

R.I.P. Jessica Housby

Jessica Housby has become one of the latest Americans to die in George W. Bush's war of choice. Housby, 23, of Rock Island, Illinois was killed Wednesday. She is one of 17 Americans to die this month.

Housby, 23, of Rock Island, died in Iraq after a roadside bomb detonated near the truck she was driving, military officials said Thursday.

Housby's truck was part of a convoy hauling cargo to a base at Baghdad International Airport on Wednesday when the bomb exploded and she was killed, said Maj. Tim Franklin, a public affairs officer for the Army National Guard. She was a member of the 1644th Transportation Company, based in Rock Falls, Ill.

For the record:

At least 1,457 Americans have died in Iraq since the war began in March, 2003.

At least 1,319 Americans have died since George W. Bush declared an end to major combat operations on May, 1, 2003.

At least 10,740 Americans have been wounded in action since the start of the war.

The numbers of innocent Iraqis killed is much harder to know. Estimates range in the tens of thousand to over one hundred thousand killed.

The comeback starts now

"We need to embrace real political reform -- because only real reform will pry government from the grasp of the special interests who fight against reform and progress for everybody else.

The pundits have said this election was decided on the issue of moral values. I don't believe that. It is a moral value to provide health care. It is a moral value to educate our young people. The sense of community that comes from full participation in our Democracy is a moral value. Honesty is a moral value". --- Howard Dean, 12/8/04

Howard Dean will soon become the Chairman of the DNC. Anything is better than that beltway milktoast Clinton lackey Terry McAuliffe. Anyway, I like Howard Dean. He knows how to rally the troops and if he mobilizes the Left the way he did his voters, the GOoPers are in real trouble.

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Shit yeah, if he can do that to a kitten, imagine what he'll do to the next Faux McNews wonk that gets in his face.

ker.... PLOP!

Sinkin like a muddy turd.

58% sez the country is on the wrong track.





And we couldnt beat him. Oy.

The Plant @ the White House

Jeesh, this story is getting weirder. Like how come Jeff Gannon a.k.a. JD Guckert got his press creds for the White House working for The Talon News... when The Talon News was only four days old at the time.

How did this dolt, working for a brand new online news source score some of the most sought out press creds in the country? What was his purpose? Well, we know the answer to that last one, it was to be a lifeline to McClellan and Bush -- but maybe there was something more to it... I dont know.

I do know that this fucking story should be making better waves than it's making. I, for one, dont give a fuck about who that jug-eared Price Charles is marrying. Liberal media my brown eye.

Anyhoo, here is a primer from Daily Kos on the Gannon/Guckert story: GUCKERT/GANNON/THE PLANT

RIP... Jimmy Smith

Rock had Elvis.
Country had Cash.
Rock guitar had Hendrix.
and the Jazz Organ had Jimmy Smith.

His name is synonymous with the Hammond B-3 Organ among the jazz set. He was an innovator and a master. He will be missed.