Firebrand's Breath: Burning Through The News!

I'm done...end of the blog

2006-09-08T11:14:00.000-04:00

Guys,

I'm not feeling up to covering everything out there, and besides, my life is a little more filled these days then when I started the blog in 2005. It served its purpose. May you all have success in your endeavors and take care of yourself.

Remember to question everything, to think through everything, to be open-minded, and to be healthy and wealthy in spirit and material tranquility.

I'm out.

Filiberto Ojeda is assassinated.

2005-09-26T10:43:00.000-04:00

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1803193&mesg_id=1803193

They assassinated Filiberto Ojeda Rios.

May your memory live on, Mr. Rios. Thank you for your sacrifice.

Hugo Chavez on Democracy Now

2005-09-19T15:10:00.000-04:00

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/19/1336214

Chavez is interviewed by Democracy NOW!

Hugo Chavez' speech at the U.N. - video and sound

2005-09-19T09:44:00.000-04:00

Video and Mp3 sound versions.  He gave the most
applaused speech at the U.N.

http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/hugochavezunsept2005.wmv

MP3

http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/chavezunsept2005spanish.mp3

English translated mp3

http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/chavezunsep2005english.mp3

Democrats ahead in poll

2005-09-18T07:06:00.000-04:00

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Poll_Fifty_percent_would_vote_for_Democra_0917.html

YEAY! A new poll shows Democrats with a 12 point lead over GOP rivals in the coming 2006 Congressional elections.

Are the American people FINALLY waking up that the source of their domestic and foreign woes come from the destructive Republican policies?

Bush to fund private school replacements with tax dollars!

2005-09-17T11:39:00.000-04:00

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/16/AR2005091601723.html

Get this, Bush wants to give $500 million in federal funding (our tax dollars) to help Private School kids displaced from their schools by Katrina, get into other private schools in different places.

Great, right after we get thousands of black, poor families (most likely all in public schools) displaced from their school, we ignore them, and help the richy-rich get back into their private schools...WITH OUR MONEY!

God I hate this President!

Condi Rice speaks on U.N reform

2005-09-17T11:20:00.000-04:00

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050917/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/rice

The Gap-Tooth Wonder speaks again.

Right after Venezuela and other countries make the argument that the U.N. has to experience a revolution in its foundation, including removing it from the U.S. territory (under the control of a nation that does not care about the organization's resolutions), the veto power of the permanent 5, and including more Third World representation in the Security Council, here comes Condi Rice to give The Empire's perspective.

Revolution OF Reform....what a joke.

Hugo Chavez speaks

2005-09-17T08:09:00.000-04:00

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/International/story?id=1134098&page=1

Transcript of an exclusive interview by Ted Koppel with President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

Eye-opening. Let us hope their dream of a better world becomes reality.

And this, his earlier, applause-gathering speech at the U.N. summit.

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=46000

Chertoff to blame, memo shows!

2005-09-14T10:58:00.000-04:00

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/politics/12637130.htm

So, Chertoff is the real asshole in this story? Not Brown?

I mean, Brown screwed up anyway, so I'm not crying for him. But, if Chertoff waited 36 hours with his thumb up his ass, he needs to go too!

Fire Chertoff!

FAA knew of 9/11 style attack in 1998; Bush did NOTHING!

2005-09-14T07:50:00.000-04:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/14/politics/14terror.html?ei=5088&en=de70410b170860e3&ex=1284350400&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

Remember those documents related to 9/11 that Bush didn't want to release. Well, some have been released.

Guess what was in it. The FAA knew that Al-Qaeda wanted to hijack an airliner into a major landmark. They knew in 1998, fucking 1998. They had 3 years to prepare a solid defense and warn their agencies, and they ignored it. Just like they ignored the preparations for a Katrina-style hurricane.

Why do you think Bush didn't want to release this? Because it proves, beyond a doubt, that his administration was dead at the wheel, even though Clinton tried telling him of this threat, and various memos supposedly talked of this threat. Remember Condo Rice, "the memos were vague, I remember they said Bin Laden determined to attack America".

They weren't vague. They were specific. They talked about a hijacked airliner into a major landmark.

IMPEACH this administration. Not only are they inept, they're liars.

Dead Executed Prisoners used for skincare products

2005-09-13T11:31:00.000-04:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1568622,00.html

File this one under the "creepy" category. Skincare products harvested from...the skin of dead, executed prisoners in China!?

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE! AAARRGHG! :)

A comment on Condo Rice and diversity?

2005-09-13T11:25:00.000-04:00

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1776522

I was reading Condoleeza Rice attempt to defend America's racial standing in the world, especially on the level of "diversity" in different fora, and I was struck by the blunt, but effective response from one of the thread's participants. Take a look at this picture.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1776522#1776569

Michael Brown resigns; I celebrate!

2005-09-12T15:22:00.000-04:00

FEMA CHIEF Michael Brown has just resigned.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Journal_FEMA_chief_t_0912.html

Good riddance, asshole.

Smile everyone. At least someone in the Bush cabal is getting axed for this catastrophe.

Now I will go back to jumping around, Daffy Duck style, shouting, "whoohoo, whoohoo, whoohoo, whoohoo." :)

Ok, i'm back

2005-09-09T09:47:00.000-04:00

Hey everyone. I'm back, maybe for a little time, maybe longer. So much stuff in the news that's got me pissed off. But let's start with this little gem.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802140.html?nav=rss_print/asection

The Pentagon is holding a Freedom Walk to commemorate 9/11. Folks, if we were reading this straight out of a German history book, we'd be nodding our heads at how much it makes sense that the Nazis would be holding "Aryan brotherhood" or "German superiority" "freedom" marches as well. But, no, sadly, it's happening here in the U.S., and it's now.

Not surprising, considering the sponsor of the Freedom march is the military. What do you do if the populace is resolutely against the war you're waging? Why, you get the military to promote a "Freedom March" to fire up that jingoism in your belly!

But it gets better.

The march, sponsored by the Department of Defense, will wend its way from the Pentagon to the Mall along a route that has not been specified but will be lined with four-foot-high snow fencing to keep it closed and "sterile," said Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense.

"Sterile" from what? The regular people, who might disagree with the march and its message? Whatever happened to this little old text, found in the U.S. Constitution, First Amendment:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

So, let me get this straight. It's not even Congress "abridging" the right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition their government (which is a very real possibility, considering that many will disagree with this march). It's the military, folks. The military is abridging the right of the people to peaceably assemble. But, it's get better.

One restricted group will be the media, whose members will not be allowed to walk along the march route. Reporters and cameras are restricted to three enclosed areas along the route but are not permitted to walk alongside participants walking from the Pentagon, across the Memorial Bridge to the Mall.

Ok, so the media will also not be allowed to walk along the route. Presumably because the Pentagon fears that a reporter might whip out an Ak-47 and start shooting pro-war supporters, right? Never can't be too sure in these terrorist times. So, now the military is abridging the right of the freedom of the press as well (or limiting it to three enclosed areas).

But hey, if there's something good to all of this, it's this little gem (made me smile).

Opponents of the Freedom Walk took issue with the way the Pentagon is staging the event. When the walk first was publicized, participants were required to submit their names, ages, e-mail addresses and home addresses. After some groups accused the Pentagon of using the registration as a recruiting tool for the military, the requirements were changed.Barber said the government now asks for a full name, age group, T-shirt size and e-mail address (each registered walker will get a T-shirt). Walkers have until 4:30 p.m. today to register, which must be done online.

Anything that gets together the most mindless, Redneck, "America #1" drones into one place, and facilitates their recruitment into the war they so fervently support (but avoid to participate in) is FINE BY ME. Enjoy Baghdad, morons!

As for the rest of us, things continue to look very peachy in Fascist America. More coming soon...

Been out + Blair's justifcation for war

2005-06-30T12:28:00.000-04:00

Hey, I needed a break. But I'm back with a vengeance.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=6&u=/ap/20050630/ap_on_re_eu/blair_interview

"The attacks, he said, made it necessary to "draw a line in the sand here, and the country to do it with was Iraq because they were in breach of U.N. resolutions going back over many years."

So basically, in order to flex our ego and muscles, we acted like bullies, picked out a nearby "nerdy" boy who we didn't like, beat the shit out of him (despite him having done nothing to us), just to make sure that those that did do something got the message that we were drawing a line in the sand? So, Cuba hits us tommorow, and we beat up...Mexico, to send a message to the Latin American world (hint hint, CUBA) that we're not gonna take it anymore? Sounds rational?

Can you believe that this schoolyard absurdities actually are practiced by our "leaders"?

What a fucking Prick that Blair is.

Iraqi lawmakers ask U.S. to leave! About DAMNED time!

2005-06-20T15:00:00.000-04:00

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=925971&C=america

A coalition of Iraqi lawmakers have officially requested the U.S. to leave from Iraq.

Will we listen...or will we confirm our status as an Empire?

Bush assails Iran election

2005-06-16T11:22:00.000-04:00

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050616/pl_afp/iranvoteusbush_050616150036

Bush is criticizing the Iran vote as undemocratic, because of the nature of the Islamic clerics' power over the electoral system.

Meanwhile, back in the U.S., our "better" electoral system is dominated by two corporate parties, where a candidate MUST be rich or MUST become a whore of the corporate wealthy (and represent their interests, first and foremost) if they ever wish to be a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Adding to that, the electoral system is entirely based on non-paper trail electronic vote machines that are dominated by 3 corporations, all who are rabidly partisan Republican, and at least 2 who are owned by BIOLOGICAL BROTHERS, and one of them has executive officers who were convicted of electronic fraud crimes (you know, the type that could happen in Ohio or Florida...pushing certain candidates up, and taking votes away from the other).

Of course, we're supposed to ignore those nasty facts, wave the flag, and line up behind President Bush's hypocritical, "pot calling the kettle black" attacks on another country's electoral system.

That there is legitimate political criticism to be made of Iran and its electoral system is not in question. The problem arises when the man most responsible for the dissolution of the integrity of our electoral system and our Constitutional liberties (President Bush) is also the man that is making the accusations against another country. President Bush...kindly STFU, and focus on restoring civil liberties at home, and our electoral system. We've got to clean house before we lecture any other nation on "standards" of electoral systems.

Newsweek covers Downing Street Memos!

2005-06-15T22:01:00.000-04:00

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8234762/site/newsweek/

Newsweek has done an excellent, investigatory piece on the Downing Street Memos.

The shit is hitting the fan, folks...take a look at this quote.

"Two senior British government officials today acknowledged as authentic a series of 2002 pre-Iraq war memos stating that Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program was "effectively frozen" and that there was "no recent evidence" of Iraqi ties to international terrorism—private conclusions that contradicted two key pillars of the Bush administration's public case for the invasion in March 2003."

If Saddam's WMD program had been "effectively frozen", and the Bush administration knew this in 2002 and earlier...why did he go in front of the American people and tell them that his program posed a serious threat? Why did Rice say that we would wake up with mushroom clouds in our cities? Why did Cheney say that he was sure they had nuclear weapons? And why did Rumsfeld tell us he knew where the WMDs where...in an area in the Middle of Iraq?

WE WERE DELIBERATELY LIED TO...wake up folks!

Iraqi oil to be shipped to Israel! What the hell?! THIEFS!

2005-06-15T16:01:00.000-04:00

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=332835&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

Just when you thought that things in Iraq couldn't be so crass...now there is talk of giving Israel a "bonus" of Iraqi oil for supporting the U.S. in the war.

That's right folks...if you help the Lion ravage the deers, you get a part of the spoils. War booty spoils.

WMDs? Foggetaboutit! It's all about sucking the oil from Iraq, profiting American corporations in the sale, and fulfilling the oil needs of the Iraqi people's mortal enemy country, Israel.

Nothing wrong here, right?

Phelps is at it again...and better than ever!

2005-06-15T10:48:00.000-04:00

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/228401_westboro14.html?source=rss

Ok...first he hates Gays...then he welcomes 9/11 as an act of God...now he is protesting the funerals of U.S. soldiers?

What more does he have to do before he is labeled an anti-American, non-patriot and persona non grata in the U.S?

The Left gets criticized just for SUGGESTING this war is wrong (Ward Churchill got flamed for suggesting that "chickens come home to roost", but didn't praise the attacks)...and this guy gets away with protesting military funerals and praising 9/11?

Consistency, right-wingers...consistency!

Joking pilots cause airplane to crash - die in crash

2005-06-15T10:30:00.000-04:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1506514,00.html

How can you be a pilot and not know that after a certain level, the plane will stall?

That was a costly joke they made...one that they will never repeat. In fact, they're not repeating ANYTHING. They're dead.

Bush flashing a Nazi salute

2005-06-13T15:08:00.000-04:00

I saw this image on a website...had to post it.

Brings chills to my spine...

Debate's Over: Globe is warming

2005-06-13T14:21:00.000-04:00

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-06-12-global-warming-cover_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA

Can I just say something? WE TOLD YOU SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok...whew...I needed to let that out.

Christian Coalition reverend: "Warning labels on Gays"

2005-06-13T14:10:00.000-04:00

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/06/061305pride.htm

Oh, I knew this would happen...only a matter of time.

A "Reverend" of the Christian Coalition has just publicly advocated placing warning labels on homosexuals.

Any coincidence to Stars of David on Jews during Nazi times is purely coincidental...until, of course, we start cooking homosexuals in ovens...then it won't be so coincidental, would it?

Fucking American Taliban Nazis make me sick....

Oh...and just in case you thought this whole Nazi comparison is outlandish...take a look at this picture from the Nazi times where prisoners were stamped with a triangle if they were thought to be homosexual.

Getting scared yet?

Anti-Gay brainwashing camp exposed

2005-06-13T07:00:00.000-04:00

http://www.mikeditto.com/archives/kudos_to_queer_action_coalition

Mr. Ditto claims this might be ok for consenting adults, but even there I disagree. This is out and out Taliban-style religious brainwashing and practices. I mean..no Bach or Beethoven? When you start banning Bach or Beethoven because it's not Christian music, you've reached the stage of the Taliban (who banned all music as not Islamic).

Forget about lecturing the world on democracy...focus on your OWN religious lunatics.

Republican Party IS all white, study proves it

2005-06-10T17:08:00.000-04:00

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/06/oops-gop-really-is-all-white-study.html

The Republican Party IS practically ALL WHITE in its leadership and power movers and shakers...and its membership is not that diversified either...only 40% of Latinos vote for it (the other 60% Dem), and only 10% of blacks vote for it (the other 90% for the Democrats). 99% of all its elected officials are WHITE.

Can't get more Dutch-Boy White than that! From now on, let's call them the Vanilla Party...or the Coconutservatives! ahahahahah!

Republicans against Sesame Street...WTF?

2005-06-10T12:36:00.000-04:00

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Senator_GOP_targets_Elmo_and_Sesame_Street_for_destr_0610.html

Republicans are after Sesame Street!? What's this world coming to!?

Wash Post: Building the Iraqi Army - Mission Improbable

2005-06-10T08:52:00.000-04:00

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060902245.html

I thought this article was pretty informative. Iraqi soldiers have no faith in themselves, the U.S. doesn't trust their own allied Iraqi soldiers (on which the entire U.S. exit strategy is based), and the soldiers are caught singing ballads to Saddam Hussein, about how much they miss him.

If it weren't real, it'd be a comedy movie...

We are LOSING Iraq, folks...

John Conyers and the American Republic

2005-06-10T08:02:00.000-04:00

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/House_Judiciary_Democrats_to_hold_hearings_on_Downing_Street_mi_0609.html

Man, look at that picture of John Conyers...if that's not a man that means business, I don't know WHAT is.

As of late, Rep. Conyers has been epitomizing the best of the American legislator: defending his constituents, upholding his oath to the Constitution, asking the hard questions of the Executive Branch, and making sure that Congress acts like a check and balance over an imperial Presidency. The Founders would be (and all of us SHOULD be) proud of him. And, to boot, once again, it is an African-American, a descendant of America's abused racial group, that comes out to spearhead a movement to restore the Republic. Before him came the likes of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Martin Luther King. Ironic that America's most mistreated group of citizens consistently rises to the challenges of imperial and/or racist rule, and by their example show us what it means to believe in the promise of this country.

Mr. Conyers...I salute you!

Crazy, NUT makes it pass U.S. borders - HELLO!

2005-06-08T15:43:00.000-04:00

http://www.canada.com/fortstjohn/story.html?id=77b1345d-d172-48b4-ac98-b1a77c3c1fb5

You got to be FUCKING kidding me...

You're telling me that this OBVIOUS, "cuckoo for cocoa puffs" NUT, made it through U.S. borders with a bloodied chainsaw, and other suspicious materials..and nobody thought that something was horrible WRONG with this guy? I mean...God...loook at this guy's face...look at those eyes, for goddsakes! That's creepy!

The excuse? Oh...we didn't have any legal infraction to detain him on? How about "probable cause"? What about all those other people who have been detained at airports on the silliest of terrorism-related incidents who were innocent, but were detained until they were fully investigated? How about what we do with Cuban musicians, when we make them go back to their countries of origin, despite no logical reason to not let them in (for political reasons)? That, sir, is a bullshit excuse. There's a ton of ways this government could have legitimately detained this man and questioned him...and I'd say that one of them could be BAD HAIR...OMG....look at that guy's face....LOOK...

I can't believe he got through Customs...I just can't believe it.

Italian court allows gay man to drive

2005-06-06T15:19:00.000-04:00

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050606/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_italy_gay

Talking about homophobia, take a look at the rationale of an Italian court...

"The court on the Mediterranean island said being gay was merely "a personality disturbance" which had no bearing on a person's ability to drive, Ansa news agency reported."

Funny, I thought science was conclusively proving more and more that homosexuality seems ingrained in genetical differences (there's been recent tests on animals and examining the brain of homosexual men to compare them to female brains). But no!....despite all scientific investigation...it is our duty to forge forward, all-speed ahead, with assertions that being gay is a personality "disturbance"! What a load of bullshit...

Idiocy/intolerance know no national bounds.

Pope condemns gay marriages; calls them "anarchy"

2005-06-06T15:15:00.000-04:00

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06682910.htm

Well...the Nazi pope sure didn't waste anytime, did he?

In an age of increasing religious hatred...the last thing we need is the Pope to join the fray by promoting intolerance of GLBT people. Yet he did (why am I not surprised...)

Time for tolerant/critical-thinking Catholics to leave Catholicism...you cannot reconcile being a good, tolerant human-being, and being involved with a hierarchical, man-made, religious institution that advocates not tolerating others.

Graphic on DU destroys Bush admin. claims

2005-06-06T10:13:00.000-04:00

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3795420

I absolutely love this graphic...it completely demolishes the "the insurgency is desperate" claims by the Bush administration.

Israel bugs Syrian First Lady's email

2005-06-05T13:37:00.000-04:00

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1641307,00.html

Should use Unix :)

I'd like to see the Israelis try to get trojan software on one of the BSDs...particularly NetBSD! :)

U.S finds DETAINEES MISHANDLED QURAN! WTF!

2005-06-04T07:16:00.000-04:00

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/04/guantanamo.quran/index.html

Why would Muslim detainees, who venerate the Quran so much that they wouldn't even let it touch the ground, try to flush a Quran down the toilet. That don't make no sense...I smell official U.S. military bullshit...

It's like the Chewbacca theory...you see...Chewbacca is a Wookie...but he lives on Endor...DAT DON'T MAKE NO SENSE!

Republican caught using Dean's rally pictures - Photoshopping them

2005-06-03T10:48:00.000-04:00

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3775380

Can it get more pathetic than this? A Republican candidate STEALS a picture from the Howard Dean campaign and Photoshops it to make it look like the supporters in Howard Dean's picture are actually HIS supporters...even photoshopped the signs, hats, and button stickers on the original picture!

I guess that's what you have to do if you're a Republican who has no grassroots support!

http://www.politicsnj.com/schundlergear2005.htm

Another site with the commentary.

Female Kansas State Senator opposed to women's suffrage

2005-06-02T09:24:00.000-04:00

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0605/232796.html

Ohh...this one is rich....

A woman who is a State Senator in Kansas (where else...), who has opposed the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote, is running for the Secretary of State position, as a GOP candidate. Read the article for more descriptions about her beliefs.

Two things.

1) She's opposed to women voting (which essentially means, leaving the political realm to the men...after all, she considers men the "heads" of their households, and the women the "heart" of the households), yet she is involved in politics herself as an elected official? Does she not see the contradiction in her beliefs? So...is she only opposed to women voting...but not running for office (as long as only men were allowed to vote on her candidacy)? How would she reconcile her "men lead, women are the heart" philosophy with the fact that, if she is elected, she, a woman, is leading the men as their Senator? Confusing even to me...

2) Sadly...I'm sure a substantial amount of WOMEN will vote for her...many people want to be enslaved, if it means that buys them a sense of kinship with their peers by conforming to prevailing attitudes of social organization. Were you ever confused why many Muslim women actually support being Hijab-dized or Burkha-dized? Well...now you know...the pressure to conform or feel a part of a culture can lead to people restricting themselves, even in ways that defy logic. More power to people who want to dress "modestly" (the excuse of some Muslim women), but when you advocate for your own political enslavement to the men of your society...I think your beliefs have gone astray. But hey...who am I to oppose your enslavement?

By the way...a note to all of you "it couldn't happen here" folks...oh yes it can...and oh yes it is. Welcome to America's version of Christian theocracy...where women don't vote...just like the ones in Saudi Arabia.

Bush opposed to doubling aid to Africa

2005-06-02T09:17:00.000-04:00

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1516797

Boy...Mr. Bush really has no shame... I mean...how could you be opposed to doubling aid to starving people? Where's that "compassionate conservatism", Mr. Bush? Maybe he meant being conservative on compassion!

Why can't we help Africa by doubling our aid to them?

"Asked Wednesday about the issue, Mr. Bush said, "It doesn't fit our budgetary process."

That's of course, after we spend 300 billion on an Iraq War...glad to see our budgetary priorities are straight.

Bush has "peace of mind"

2005-06-02T07:13:00.000-04:00

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/01/national/w152913D35.DTL

But, Bush added: "You know, I don't worry all that much, frankly. ... I've got peace of mind."

Tell it to those who've had family members die, on both sides, of the conflicts you so arrogantly and unnecessarily started...you prick...

Deep Throat controversy continues...

2005-06-01T14:29:00.000-04:00

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050601/ts_afp/uswatergatedeepthroat_050601102344

Why is the man that broke into the Watergate building getting equal media access to condemn the man who tattletailed on them (Deep Throat)? Take a look at this incredible quote...

G. Gordon Liddy, a Nixon operative who engineered the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Campaign headquarters in the Watergate building in Washington, and served four and a half years in jail for it, said Wednesday that Felt "violated the ethics of the law enforcement profession."

"If he possessed evidence of wrongdoing, he was honor-bound to take that to a grand jury and secure an indictment, not to selectively leak it to a single news source," Liddy, now a popular conservative radio talk show host, told CNN television.

Excuse...Mr. Liddy...but who the fuck are you to be complaining about Mark Felt's actions...you were the criminal! You were one of the ones that was betraying the country and stealing info on the Democratic Party! What is this...now thieves and criminal scum get equal access in the press to complain about the cops who nabbed them (or the neighbors who called 911 on them)? Unbelievable!

Leonard Garment, Nixon's chief legal counsellor from 1969-1973, said he thought Felt kept his role in Watergate secret for 31 years "because he felt that what he had done could well be considered dishonorable."

No...he kept his mouth shut because he wanted to LIVE. Now in his 90s, and with any potential consequences well-behind him, he's deciding it's time to come out. What's the worst that can happen...someone kill him? He's 90s...I'm figuring he thinks he's led a plentiful life already. Leave it to Nixon-Chief Crook's lawyer to try to paint a whistleblower as a dishonorable man. Never mind, of course, that his boss was spying on the Democrats...that's not dishonorable at all...nah...

Former Nixon speechwriter, Pat Buchanan, in an appearance on MSNBC television, bluntly said Felt was a "traitor."

But, of course, George Bush and everyone who started this war on false pretenses ISN'T one...and what about Oliver North...nop...not a traitor...now...a man who leaked info on those who were committing crimes...yep...that's a traitor!

"Had Felt remained quiet, Nixon might have succeeded in one of the most serious abuses of power ever attempted by an American president," said the Washington Post."

I'm glad at least SOME people have some sense of duty to the Republic and to governmental fairness and transparency.

President Bush to withhold data on Bolton

2005-06-01T06:39:00.000-04:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/01/politics/01prexy.html?ei=5088&en=20a3aa814bc0006a&ex=1275364800&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

Wait a minute...the President wants us, the people of the United States, to go along with a candidate he chose for the United Nations' ambassadorship (which most rational people oppose, given the candidates background and anti-U.N. stances), and he won't even give us information on the man so we can make an informed, transparent decision? We're just supposed to roll-over and approve everything he chooses, at his whim?

Fuck you, Mr. President...you and your candidates don't get off that easy.

Villepin becomes new French prime minister

2005-05-31T15:43:00.000-04:00

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20050531/bs_ft/41125fced1bd11d98c8200000e2511c8

Normally I wouldn't waste blog space on such boring news...but a quote in the article pissed me off...

"Dominique de Villepin, has a social democratic stance on economic policy, which might help to persuade the anti-reform minded French electorate, but would cost France precious time to reform its outdated economic model. In the case of Villepin being appointed the euro would slide further," Hans Redeker, global head of forex strategy at BNP Paribas, had said prior to Mr Chirac's decision.

Says you, asshole. I happen to consider neoliberal, unbridled, uncaring economic extraction from the poor (otherwise known by its more endearing name, free market capitalism) to be an outdated economic model! What's wrong with at least TRYING to regulate capitalism and moderate its excesses (social democracy)? Doesn't sound outdated at all...it sounds...CIVILIZED.

Boy Scouts inflated black statistics

2005-05-31T15:27:00.000-04:00

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050531/ap_on_re_us/boy_scouts_blacks

So...not only do the hire pedophiles...but now they are inflating the number of black scouts...

Awesome organization they have there!

Nicaragua power grab in the works?

2005-05-31T12:21:00.000-04:00

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/05/30/nicarauga.emergency.ap/index.html

Looks like the darling of the IMF and the U.S. in Nicaragua (President Solanos) is taking measures for ultimate control of Nicaragua. He's imposing austerity measures to get in line with IMF requirements, and suspending the constitution.

The more things change...the more they stay the same...

How about some fireworks...Sandinistas? We in the world are waiting for your resolute defense of the rights of your people...and if a government is become a tyranny...it's time to overthrow it.

Teens kill homeless man "for fun"

2005-05-31T11:49:00.000-04:00

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/05/31/homeless.killing.ap/index.html

More of the great American product...redneck hicks!

The future of this great country is really in great hands...honestly...:)

Christian Slater arrested for ass-grabbing? WTF?

2005-05-31T11:44:00.000-04:00

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/31/slater.arrested/index.html

Seriously...why would an attractive, powerful, and successful actor like Christian Slater be grabbing ladies' asses on the street?

Either he did it (in which case, he's a fucking moron...since he can get plenty of women to land their asses right into his hands, without him even begging for it), or this is a phony charge.

Deep Throat Revealed!

2005-05-31T11:39:00.000-04:00

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1512172#1512176

Deep Throat revealed? Seems like there's been breaking news on TV (i'm not near one).

Mark Felt was Deep Throat? Wow.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8047258/

CONFIRMED. Mark Felt is the famous Watergate leaker...so says MSNBC.

http://www.vanityfair.com/pdf/pressroom/advance1.pdf

ORIGINAL ARTICLE.

Cheney: Insurgency in "last throes"

2005-05-31T06:14:00.000-04:00

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/30/cheney.iraq/index.html

That kool-aid sure does taste good, doesn't it, Mr. Cheney?

He's saying that the insurgency is dying and that it will die before the end of the BUsh presidency...

meanwhile...REAL generals (you know...the kind that didn't dodge the draft in Vietnam...like Cheney did) are saying this could take multiple years, probably 10.

Does no one else see the lunacy of this guy?

UPDATE:

If his lunacy was not palpable before, here' s more to convince the unpersuaded!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8039518/

Now he doesn't take Amnesty International seriously...because of a report they drafted that was critical of Guantanamo Bay's concentration camp. Yeah...it's only probably the most respected non-partisan, international human rights group who is doing the accusing...never mind that they have, in the past, accused other governments (many who are U.S. enemies) of similar, if not worse practices...but no...when the eye is on the United States, they can't be taken seriously!

The coup de grace, folks...

“Frankly, I was offended by it,” Cheney said in the videotaped interview. “For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don’t take them seriously.”

Yeah...and what the hell do you call plugging a man onto electric wires and putting him atop a box? A romantic evening?

In other news, monkeys flew out of my butt.

U.S./U.K attempted to goad Iraq into war

2005-05-29T16:29:00.000-04:00

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1632566,00.html

So...not only did we plan for this war almost days after Bush's inauguration (Richard Clarke, Paul O'Neill's testimony), or go about "fixing the intelligence to fit the policy (Downing Street Memo), but now proof comes out that we INTENTIONALLY set out to goad Saddam into an unprovoked war by turning the self-defensive nature of the No-Fly Zones, into one of provocative aggression, in the hopes that a counter-attack from aggrieved Iraq would provide a justification for war.

HAVE WE NO SHAME?

Condo Rice. says no independent investigation needed

2005-05-28T01:38:00.000-04:00

http://news.yahoo.com/s/krwashbureau/20050527/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_rice_wa

Please...Mrs. Rice...let us be the judge of whether or not an independent investigation is necessary. You're not actually very "impartial" in this matter...given that you have sold your soul a few times already on this issue.

Rice stated,

"The United States is as open a society as you will find," she said, and the administration is being held accountable "by a free press, by a Congress that is a separate and co-equal branch of government, and by its own expectations of what is right."

Apparently, those expectations have long been dashed, Mrs. Rice. Informed comment on the lack of a credible "fourth estate" has been widespread, as has been revelations of the inability of the government to hold itself to standards that they deem "right". That's why we need an independent investigation...to be able to ascertain the extent of the crimes (because we already know they were committed from the small leaks of evidence and photos).

Naturally, as someone who has a lot to lose should the dirty details be revealed, you are paraded in front of the press to assuade our consciences, but I assure you, Mrs. Rice...there's NOTHING you could ever tell us again that would calm our uneasy conscience...nor our beliefs that you and the administration you serve represent, in the words of Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, "the worst scum and villainy in the galaxy". And as the Master added..."we should be cautious".

Indeed. You've had your time to prove to us that you are not another stooge...and that time has long passed. Now...your fate will hang with the rest of the scum that make up this administration.

Condo Rice interrupted in speech by protesters

2005-05-27T21:00:00.000-04:00

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8632043&type=worldNews

My hat off to the protesters...we can NEVER forget...nor FORGIVE this administration

Judge who barred Wicca teachings is Republican

2005-05-26T11:33:00.000-04:00

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050526/NEWS01/505260481

I read about this outrageous case. A Marion County judge (Indiana) decided that a parent couldn't teach his son about Wicca, a religion that teaches about balance in nature and reverence of the Earth. Clearly, a violation of First Amendment law.

So...on a whim, I did a google for the judge (Carl J. Bradford) to see if he links to be a Republican.

VOILA...he is.

http://www.indygop.com/officials.htm

Around the middle of the page, he's listed as a Marion County Superior and County Judge...on the official Indiana GOP website. He's officially registered as a Republican, folks.

Want to see who he is?

http://www6.indygov.org/courts/images/judge%20pictures/ec2005.JPG

That's the moron...and the picture comes from the ofificial website of the Court.

See it here.

http://www6.indygov.org/courts/index.htm

Yet another Republican fascist judge...limiting people's Constitutional rights.

Is JimmyJeffGuckertGannon really Johnny Gosch?

2005-05-26T07:42:00.000-04:00

http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=3393685

A new twist in the mysterious Gannon story. It may be that Gannon is really Johnny Gosch...a boy abducted early in his years for child prostitution purposes for high-powered individuals.

What struck me was the photo included. Compare the photo of Jeff Gannon (really Jim Guckert..or so he says...may he is Johnny Gosch) and see for yourself. And what's up with all three names being initials J.G.? Looks like Gannon couldn't come up fake names beyond "J.G."

Anyone else see the distinctive eyes and chin and nose? If you asked me...they are a perfect match. Compare the child photo and the second photo in the set from the left...same smile, same eyes, same nose, and DEFINITE same CHIN.

UPDATE

More articles on this development...

http://www.rense.com/general63/100.htm
http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=3226392
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050405/LIFE04/504050376/1039/LIFE
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/02/crazy-yes-but-crazy-enough-to-be-true.html

CNN-cofounder against truth

2005-05-25T20:54:00.000-04:00

http://www.newshounds.us/2005/05/24/reese_schonfeld_cofounder_of_cnn_says_the_public_does_not_have_a_right_to_know.php

This is the most anti-journalist ethics comment I've ever heard. This guy thinks the Pentagon SHOULD have lied about Abu Ghraib and that were he in the editor seat, would have helped to facilitate lies by the Pentagon, if it was in the country's interest. He also opposed the publication of information regarding the Koran desecration. For him, ownership rights of publishers trumps the public's right to know...in fact..the public doesn't have a right to know anything...

That's the problem with these free marketeers...for them, if it ain't in the Constitution, and it doesn't advance their capitalist agenda, it's not a right. No sense of shame, no sense of moral-ethical responsibility to furthering an open and transparent society, which, armed with knowledge, can improve their democracy...no...nothing of that. These scum have no sense of commitment to the Republic and its betterment.

oh..and folks...he's the CNN co-founder...

Do we need more evidence that our mass media is ruled by people who disdain us, the lowly masses, of having the truth told to us?

Republican Dentist squirts semen into patients' mouths

2005-05-25T20:01:00.000-04:00

http://www.news14charlotte.com/content/local_news/?AC=&ArID=94235&SecID=2

Either this dentist is yet another example of the hidden sickness in many Republican, self-hating, self-restricting sexual perverts or he just won the Ron Jeremy Award for Most Creative Cum-SHOT....get it...Cum SHOT? Syringes...SHOT...Semen....ah damn....

dammit...the crickets are getting louder....

Jokes aside...what a freaking loon...

Bush admits his words are propaganda

2005-05-25T18:51:00.000-04:00

http://www.slate.com/id/2119542/

President Bush has just admitted, in his own words, that he practices the age-old tactic of fascist/communist regimes of repeating a lie until it becomes truth.

Folks...he even used the word PROPAGANDA to describe his words...

Freudian slip? Admission?

Gannon/Guckert a plagiarist

2005-05-25T18:48:00.000-04:00

http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/gannon_accused_of_plagiarism_331.htm

The gay whore is BAAAACK.

This time, JeffyJimmyGuckertGannon (whatever the guy's name is) has been accused by another reporter of plagiarizing, a major ethical offense in journalism.

As if we needed yet more proof of how Gannon is everything BUT a journalist.

Obituary to the Television Mass Media

2005-05-25T12:46:00.000-04:00

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/05/05/25_memoriam.htm l

An obituary to the Television Media.

Old lady goes bonkers

2005-05-25T12:38:00.000-04:00

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/25/pizza.jail.ap/index.html

Well...I guess she IS a "crazy old coot".

Poor old lady...

Freedom Fries creator turns against his idea and the war

2005-05-25T09:21:00.000-04:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1491567,00.html

Credit where it is due...and this Republican congressman gets at least a pat on the back for reflecting on the total idiocy of his "freedom fries" idea, and for now publicly being anti-war. The point is not that he supports OUR (the Left's) positions...the point is that he was able to reflect about this war, his own dumb idea (freedom fries) and be a man about it. I wish the President and his group of loonies had, at least, that much character.

If the "freedom fries" creator can reflect on how wrong this war is...maybe there is still hope.

A New Offensive in Iraq...(in many a way...)

2005-05-25T09:01:00.000-04:00

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/25/iraq.offensive.ap/index.html

I just read this article and a quote just jumped out at me...

"Right now there's a larger threat than should be in Haditha, and we're here to tell them that they're not welcome," said Lt. Col. Lionel Urquhart, commander of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, which is part of the operation."

Am I the only one that is TOTALLY weirded out by this statement? A FOREIGN American occupation soldier...telling resisting IRAQIS that they are not welcome in an IRAQI town, in the country of IRAQ, where their ancestors have lived since the beginnings of human civilization? I think that statement takes the Firebrand's Breath "Boy...you got HUGE balls" Award.

Congratulations Lt. Col. Lionel Urquhart!

The Saving of the Filibuster

2005-05-24T09:35:00.000-04:00

Well...the filibuster has been saved...but...at what cost? It's clear that both sides are not to sure who won...it was a compromise. Right-wingers are angry all over the net (freerepublic is flaming!), but Democrats seem divided as well. I happen to think that this is a temporary respite from the right-wing onslaught. If it means moderate Republicans are beginning to assert themselves, then perhaps it's a very good victory. But, if it is just a temporary respite from the nuclear option, only to have it pop up again in the future, then we didn't really win anything.

At the end of the day, 3 of the most horrendous judicial candidates were allowed to go through for an up and down vote. Somebody, somewhere, is going to suffer the wrath of their warped, right-wing judicial opinions.

But, there is a sense of vindication in all of this. As a Democratic Underground poster said to Dobson and Focus on the Family, currently fuming over this "betrayal" by Republicans..."hey pal. It's God's Will. Get over it". There's a sweet revenge in that.

Laura Bush angers Muslims

2005-05-23T07:52:00.000-04:00

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/23/laura.bush/index.html

The First Stepword Wife strikes again! Why is Laura Bush going to Islam's holiest site in Israel/Palestine? Is she totally oblivious to what her husband has done...and how ALL the Bushes are now hated by it?

Put this one up there with "bonehead provocations" that this administration has done.

There's certain places in the world that I know now that I can't visit (because I'm light-skinned, and because of my American passport). And the prohibitions are even worse if you're a Bush.

Mrs. Bush...why don't you stay back home and read My Pet Goat to some kid...don't make Muslims even more angry...PLEASE.

Tillman family disgusted with Army

2005-05-23T07:40:00.000-04:00

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/22/AR2005052200865.html

Now they are angry with the Army...but when columnists and cartoonists made statements about Tillman's non-heroic death and how it epitomized the entire public's warped viewpoints about their soldiers (as infallible heroes in a righteous cause), they kept quiet while the right-wing assailed them for being "un-American".

A quote:

"Tillman's mother and father said in interviews that they believe the military and the government created a heroic tale about how their son died to foster a patriotic response across the country."

Really? So those columnists and cartoonists were not out of touch when they argued the very same thing? That Tillman was being used as a quintissential hero figure, and that this development was unhealthy to having a critical perspective on the war, its reasons, and its consequences? Those columnists and cartoonists objected, not only to the usage of Tillman in that fashion, but to the prostitution of the "hero" ideal.

"They purposely interfered with the investigation, they covered it up. I think they thought they could control it, and they realized that their recruiting efforts were going to go to hell in a handbasket if the truth about his death got out. They blew up their poster boy."

Poster boy indeed! But, when courageous dissenting columnists and cartoonists pointed this out, they were burned for not being patriotic. The cartoonists and columnists who criticized Tillman, the Army, and the entire "macho, noble American soldier" persona were RIGHT....it took some months for the truth to come out.

Time to wake up, Tillman family. In fact, time to wake up to ALL American families. This is your Army. This is your government. This is the REAL America. And it ain't pretty.

Letourneau and her student

2005-05-20T10:58:00.000-04:00

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050520/ap_en_ot/people_letourneau_4

Well...what can I say...I guess I feel happy for them. Congrats!

First time might have been the adult taking advantage of the boy...the second time, bells should have sounded that maybe they truly loved each other...but when he still wanted to be with her after jail...that should have been the indication that these two souls deserve to be each other. After all...who would go through so much life hardship to be with one particular person?

I wish them the best.

P.S. He MUST have a big dick...because the hardship this woman endured...my GOD! :)

Star Wars 3: My Review - 2nd best of the series

2005-05-19T07:40:00.000-04:00

I went to see Star Wars III yesterday at the midnight screening and I must say, I was quite pleased with how the series links with the original trilogy. Without a doubt, it was a more entertaining and moving experience than Star Wars EP 4 or EP 6 were. Does it dethrone EP 5 as the best of the series? I don't think so...but it really does get close.

The Emperor does a great job acting out his evil. You feel his influence. Yoda has his moments of funny antics, plus unstoppable Jedi attacks. The shift to the dark side by Anakin Skywalker is palpable...and you sense his pain and betrayal. In fact, betrayal is a very big theme in the movie, especially when it comes to the Jedis, who are exterminated. Don't expect to see the guy in the black helmet for long..his appearance in the movie last for about 5 minutes...but you do get to see how Anakin become so hidious...it's graphic.

Talking about graphic...this Star Wars really leaves the rest of the pack behind in lightsaber injuries. More than any of the other Star Wars, limbs fly, lightsaber marks are viewed on enemy beings, and more people die in this movie by lightsaber than soldiers die in a Rambo movie by bulletshots. For the enthuiast of swords and lightsabers, Revenge of the Sith is their holy grail in the Star Wars series.

Count Dooku and General Grievious (a new, robotic, secondary enemy character...who seems to be a prototype for the Vader suit) also play their parts in the saga...but their time is too be short. They don't survive the challenges of Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi...though they do give splendid last performances.

The love scenes are not the best I've seen...but are not horrible stupid like in the first movie. The soundtrack is probably one of the best of the series...with very moving music in the betrayal and sadness aspects of the movie.

The effects? Well...it's Star Wars :) The effects are cranked out to the max...but what really gives this Star Wars life is the mix of Godfather-type betrayal, Romeo and Juliet-Shakespearean tragedy (between Anakin and Padme), and the battle between Good and Evil (exemplified, at the same time, by Obi-Wan vs. Anakin, and Yoda vs. Emperor).

There's not an aspect of Star Wars that is left behind...because of that, and because of successfully conveying a sense of sadness, anger, and betrayal...this Star Wars ranks as the 2nd best in my book.

Highly recommended.

Full George Galloway speech

2005-05-18T13:54:00.000-04:00

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8869.htm

FULL Video coverage of George Galloway's awesome speech in the U.S. Senate

Full text transcript provided as well.

You'll need RealPlayer to view it (www.real.com)

School gives detention to girl for HUGGING

2005-05-17T16:12:00.000-04:00

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/16/national/main695537.shtml

Who is the sick, demented person that thought holding hands or hugging was bad?

Jesus...what is this country coming to!

George Galloway: My New Hero

2005-05-17T15:09:00.000-04:00

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/05/17.html#a2978
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1616104,00.html

Ladies and Gentlemen...I just want to say that some serious ass-whupping happened today...a British Parliament Legislator named George Galloway came to the U.S. Senate to defend himself from allegations that he was involved in the Oil-For-Food Scandal from Iraq. By a stroke of luck, today it was revealed that of all the offenders in that scandal with Saddam, U.S. corporations constituted 52% of all kickbacks to Saddam Hussein (that's more than the rest of the world combined). Armed with his innocence, this recently revealed news, and a sense of conscience (plus an unbreakable backbone...my GOD!), this man just uttered the most principled, conscientious, and stalwart speech ever uttered on the Senate Floor. In short...he just handed Sen. Coleman, and all other pro-war right-wingers, their asses on a plate.

Keep your eyes on Crooks and Liars.com...I'm sure they'll carry the full testimony later...but for now, visit the website above for selected video clips and Mp3 audio clips.

Atta boy, Galloway...teach these kindergarden Congressmen how politics in Europe is done...with style...and with a conscience.

U.S. was prime Oil For Food Scandal purchaser!

2005-05-17T09:09:00.000-04:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1485546,00.html

After all that right-wing talk about the U.N. and its corruption with Saddad, it turns out American firms account for 52% of oil kickbacks to Saddam during the scandal period...more than the entire world put together.

What is that they say about throwing stones in glass houses? :)

McCain: I don't agree with British memo

2005-05-16T15:38:00.000-04:00

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/15/mccain.memo/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Well..McCain doesn't agree with the secret British memo that detailed we were going to fix the intelligence and facts of the Iraq War to fit our policy of pre-emptive war. Isn't that something? He doesn't agree with it, folks! I guess the contents of that memo have no relevance right...seeing as McCain doesn't agree with it.

Here's a hint, Johnny. We don't care whether or not you agree with it. What we care about is how our government officially planned to lie to us.

Mistakes are one thing..."fixing the facts" is not a mistake. That's deliberation. That's premediation..and if someone was killed, in a court of law, that would be murder, not involuntary manslaughter.

I think you were tortured a little too much in Vietnam, Johnny. You seem to have lost your sense of shame.

Dave Chapelle's not crazy...he speaks!

2005-05-16T10:04:00.000-04:00

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/16/tv.chappelle.suspended.ap/index.html

Well, at least we know he's ok...

Thank god...come back to us soon, Dave!

Video - Bill Maher's best moments on show

2005-05-15T12:53:00.000-04:00

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/maher_highlights_050513-01.wmv

Courtesy of Crooks and Liars - http://www.crooksandliars.com

Bill Maher's best moments...awesome stuff.. Gore Vidal and Al Franken are on the video as well.

Condoleeza Rice LIES again

2005-05-15T11:13:00.000-04:00

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/15/iraq.main/index.html

Does this woman have no shame? You're entitled to your opinions, but NOT your own facts. Let's examine her statements...

"I want you to keep focused on what you are doing here," Rice told the diplomats and troops who gathered in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces. "This war came to us, not the other way around."

Ok...on what planet is she living on? Last time I checked, WE invaded Iraq without provocation. Assuming for the sake of argument that Iraq DID have the weapons of mass destruction we thought they had, is that an argument for aggressive war? Not only do countless other nations have WMDs (and we don't argue that because of that, they had provoked us), but Iraq had no delivery mechanisms to launch its supposed WMDs. It was absolutely no threat.

How was it that Iraq "brought" the war to us? How so, Mrs. Rice? Were Iraqi soldiers on some boat toward the Eastern seaboard? Was there a massive Iraqi amphibious assault in the works? Perhaps the Iraqi airforce had been able to amass a few Soviet-era Migs and was readying a debilitating air assault on our cities? I'd really like to know how the war "came to us"?

Obviously, a woman as educated as Mrs. Rice couldn't seriously be arguing that this war was based on an Iraqi threat to us? What could be the real reasons? She continues...

""The United States, along with the rest of the free world, believed somehow for a number of years that people in this region didn't care about freedom," she said. "We cared about stability. And what we got was neither. We got a malignancy that was growing that came to haunt us on the fine September day" in 2001"

Enter the messianic, new White Man's burden...enter the United States newfound "democracy" quest...we're there to spread "democracy"...we're willing to KILL to force those we KILL to adopt "democracy". And of course, even if Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11...because they are Arabs (and that's close enough for the comparison), we had to spread democracy to Iraq...otherwise, you know...those Iraqi arabs were just bound to attack us with terrorism. That's the logic...spread democracy, or Arabs will come back with more 9/11s. And by spreading democracy, I mean, destroy their entire nation, provoke anti-American hatred, set the environment for civil war, and allow the installation of an elected, fundamentalist Islamic government worse than the one before. That's what we mean by "spread democracy".

There comes a time when a nation needs to look at itself and ask the tough questions. Are our leaders NUTS? Do they actually think that there was this train called Iraq heading our way? Is that it all it takes to launch war? What's next? China..it's growing too much...and there's so much Chinese! Why? They even have a military...they are taking a war to us! Let's invade...but remember...this war with China came to us....we didn't ask for it...

Just for the record, I'd like to note...Condoleeza Rice is absolutely nuts (either that, or she has no shame and continues to promote the lies that got us into this war), and no rational thinking person should ever listen to her viewpoints again.

I doubt the entire black community believes in what this woman says...sounds like someone is getting dangerously close (if not already passing) Malcolm X's "house negro" marking...somebody is kissing to much Presidential ass, promoting the same lies, and overall prostituting herself to this administration's lies.

If you're gonna make your bed with the liars, Mrs. Rice...then prepare to be ostracized.

Italy joined the U.S. campaign for oil deals

2005-05-13T20:55:00.000-04:00

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/May/focusoniraq_May86.xml&section=focusoniraq

Now we know why Italy joined the United States in Iraq. No country sends its troops for no reason.

300 billion dollars in oil deals is one HELLA of a reason to sacrifice Italian blood.

Blood for oil...

High School students challenge Limbaugh to history debate

2005-05-13T09:30:00.000-04:00

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-limbaugh13.html

My best to these kids...that's the way to out these conservative morons....make them back-up every single moronic comment they make.

Go get 'im guys!

Is Bush gay? Come clean, Republicans!

2005-05-13T09:12:00.000-04:00

http://www.rawstory.com/exclusives/steinberg/just_asking_051205.htm

It's time to start talking seriously...who the hell is gay inside the White House. Jeff Gannon, male prostitute extraordinaire, doesn't visit the White House 20 times when there are no press conferences, to share Marine stories with Secret Service officials...he's fucking...and we know he's fucking someone inside. So...let's start talking seriously about this.

Ken Mehlman, reputedly gay spokesman of the Republican Party (he denies it, but rumors fly strong). Scott McClellan, also rumored to be gay, and spokesman for the President? What about Karl Rove? Or...maybe Bush? What about the Mayor who recently was forced to admit that he had been "brutally outed" as a homosexual, when he had a long history of anti-gay policies? It used to be that allegations of gays inside the Republican power-circles were parlor rumors inside liberal conversations. But...when Republican mayors begin to get outed, and male prostitutes walk the halls of the White House...the rumors begin to get understandably more credible!

Too many pieces folks...a puzzle is beginning to be formed. There's a LOT of self-hating gays that compose the Republican administration currently controlling the nation...and that wouldn't be a major scandal, if it weren't for the fact that Republicans are the most rabidly anti-gay people in this country. Pardon the comparison, but that's like flamingly sexualized women ruling Islamic Iran or Taliban Afghanistan. It would be an instance of the most horrible double-standards. We'd hate Islamic women who supported the horrible restrictions placed on women in Iran or Taliban Afghanistan, right? So...why are these self-hating Republican faggots above our condemnation? (note: I use the term "faggot", because I reserve the terms "queer, gay, homosexual, etc." for non-heterosexual people with dignity and self-respect. When you self-hate...you become a faggot in my book).

I want to know...and I want to know NOW. Are there self-hating faggots running the White House? Is Bush gay...if not him...who the hell was fucking Jeff Gannon on those 20 visits...because he sure as hell wasn't at some press conference!

The Modern Civil Rights Struggle

2005-05-12T20:39:00.000-04:00

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=1638&u_sid=1409755

A great legal decision. l particularly liked the rationale from the judge.

"In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon said the ban "imposes significant burdens on both the expressive and intimate associational rights" of gays and lesbians and "creates a significant barrier to the plaintiffs' right to petition or to participate in the political process."

Bataillon said the ban amounts to punishment and is "legislation that identifies persons by a single trait and then denies them protection across the board, resulting in disqualification of a class of persons from the right to seek specific protections from the law."

EXXCELLEEENT....that's is a great interpretation of the law. It's about time that Judge's read the issue of GLBT rights as one of civil rights, and discrimination against GLBT people as an affront to the development of human rights in general. GLBT discrimination IS today's "racism"...it's the discrimination of a class of people based on "a single trait".

The 70 percent vote against homosexual marriage doesn't impress me either. At a time, the majority of the entire South was against African-American emancipation, and later, it was opposed to their legal status as equal citizens. The Courts, at that time, were one of the forums of the country to first begin to recognize the grave injustice done to African-Americans. We cannot allow mass injustice to occur, legitimized on the grounds of hastily developed referendum legislation, propagandized attitudes against homosexuals, and mass hysteria over their identities. Hitler was a popularly elected leader too...did that stop us from recognizing the absolute brutality of his regime? The Religious Right has used its organizational power to move referenda in various states, much like the Southern racists used State initiatives to "protect State's rights", which for the most part meant the State's right to develop state law to legitimize discrimination against blacks, and bar interference by an equalizing Federal government. There was a time that the Federal goverment had to intervene against Southern legislatures and Governors, who refused to abide by equalizing Federal law. That time has come again...that is, of course, if we still wish to be considered a leading nation of the free world.

We have only two choices: we can join the Middle East in its (understandable, but condemnable) regression into fundamentalist organization of society's laws, or we could continue the path that was started in 1778...the path that placed the United States at the forefront of a political movement of Western enlightenment; the product of centuries of Western advancements such as the Enlightenment and the Reformation.

That really is what is at stake. We cannot, at the same time, be one of the leading democratic/free nations, and have our society's laws and social values shaped by a fundamentalist clique that wants to returns us to Puritanical witch-hunts and the restriction of political freedom to "traditional", white propertied males. It's a cultural war...one I intend to wage on behalf of, not only my children, but the children of all races, sexualities, and ethnic groups. We cannot fail them...

I've chosen. My choice entails a commitment to fight the fundamentalist barrage with all my strength; to struggle for the development of ever-more inclusive human rights values. Have you chosen?

A New Non-Aligned Movement?

2005-05-12T14:57:00.000-04:00

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/05/12/latin.arab.summit.ap/index.html

A New Non-Aligned Movement of the Third World? I sincerely hope so.

This is what has been needed for some time...an organized alliance of Third World nations in opposition to American neo-liberal capitalism.

Runaway Bride explains her "runaway"

2005-05-12T14:49:00.000-04:00

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/12/runaway.bride.ap/index.html

Are you serious? She left Georgia because of feeling overwhelmed over...wedding details?

Give me a damn break...god damned spoiled Americans!

Only in America does a women feel so overwhelmed about "wedding" details that she concocts a sexual assault story to cover up for her leaving her hometown.

People...we are getting REALLY frivolous with our materialism.

Maybe, if she had a brain, she could have just said, "fuck it...I love this man, and I'm gonna get married my way, and I'm not gonna worry about details. It's gonna be a simple marriage on a hilltop or on the beach". Couldn't she have done that instead?

What a pansy...

Iraq is going BAD

2005-05-12T12:01:00.000-04:00

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woiraq0512,0,1809010,print.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

Iraq...is...going....BAD.

Read the assessments of foreign specialists, and contrast their BLEAK assessments (none of them POSITIVE or OPTIMISTIC) with the rhetoric of Republican spokesmen?

Somebody is lying to us. Is it the foreign specialists and their bleak assessments, or is it the Republican administration spokesmen?

YOU make the call.

Dave Chapelle in mental hospital in South Africa

2005-05-12T10:37:00.000-04:00

http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/eo/20050511/111586788000.html

Wow..bummer...anyone else getting visions of Robin Williams-like life swings? It seems Dave is going through one of those moments...and why Cape Town, South Africa? Why seek help THERE? That's just...WEIRD.

Anyway, get well Dave. We miss you already...you've been a very funny guy in the past, and at the same time, have used your spot in prime-time to advance provocative social commentary. I respect you a lot.

Take care.

Scottish airways to start tourist travel to Baghdad

2005-05-11T13:50:00.000-04:00

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/city/2005/05/11/7ca101df-b860-497e-a518-c29328a41bc3.lpf

I happen to believe that some people are just morons...absolute idiots.

Scottish airlines are to start TOURIST travels to Baghdad, Iraq.

Perhaps these Scots need some satellite Dish TV or access to the Internet...because they seemed to forget one, minor detail when planning their tourist travel...

THERE'S A FUCKING WAR GOING ON....ASSHOLES!

Not that I mind...let the fools end up as "collateral damage" from an American airstrike or Iraqi suicide bomber.

King Tutankhamen's face reconstructed

2005-05-11T07:29:00.000-04:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4535027.stm

Face of Tutankhamen reconstructed.

Incredible...we can even know what this guy looked from his mummy...

He looked a little...effeminate, no? Maybe it' the eye stuff...

Republican Rev. resigns from Church

2005-05-11T07:26:00.000-04:00

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050510/ap_on_re_us/church_politics_3&printer=1

And it finally happened. The dumb, Republican pastor...who thought God belongs to Republicans only, resigned, presumably under the weight of protests against his Church.

Some might say it was....God's will...harharharharhahr......

HBO Boxing sportscaster Jim Lampley says Bush stole election!

2005-05-10T17:51:00.000-04:00

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/2005/05/biggest-story-of-our-live.html

Maybe others will start speaking out like this man has done.

Jim Lampley...I salute you. THANK YOU!

Bush: "bring me Osama's head on ice"

2005-05-09T20:13:00.000-04:00

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1443673&mesg_id=1443673&page=

Now we are REALLY going back to the Crusades?

Bring back their head on ice? Put them on pikes? What the hell is that...a Braveheart sequel?

Bush The Impaler...sounds fitting.

Talibanist pastor: "a great misunderstanding"

2005-05-09T15:01:00.000-04:00

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1454656&mesg_id=1454656

Looks like somebody is running with his tail between his legs...

That Christian Talibanist pastor that threw out Democratic churchmembers...remember him?

Now he says it was just..."a great misunderstanding".

No...it wasn't. You were a religious fanatical ass...and now you're scared the news of your "religious fanatical ass" nature will spread around the country and world.

Shine the light on them...and these cockroaches yelp for forgiveness...

Video Lecture on the Truth of 9/11

2005-05-09T13:28:00.000-04:00

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8765.htm

A very interesting video lecture by Professor Emeritus David Ray Griffin. He talks about how the 9/11 facts presented in the media do not add up. Urges us to question what we know and search for the truth regarding 9/11.

Venezuela and Cuba team up to offer medical aid

2005-05-09T11:44:00.000-04:00

http://www.vnanet.vn/NewsA.asp?LANGUAGE_ID=2&CATEGORY_ID=34&NEWS_ID=150063

Who do they they are...these socialist rascals of Cuba and Venezuela...

What gall! What arrogance! To think that they can promote an initiative to offer medical aid to the sick and poor of Latin America. You just can't trust these dictatorships....

The horror....the horror... :)

Teacher embarrasses student; student to sue.

2005-05-09T11:29:00.000-04:00

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-mono09.html

Sometimes you just have to laugh at the insanity...or you will go insane as well.

Some teacher singled out a student who had "mono", and remarked that only students who are "sexually active" get that.

Naturally, the student was embarrassed, and is suing the school over the incident.

GOOD for her!

U.S. desecrating the Qu'ran

2005-05-09T09:21:00.000-04:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4525941.stm

Continuing in our unending crusade to let the world know we are insensitive pricks....and double-standard/hypocritical ones at that.

The new development? Newsweek details that as part of tactics to get Guantanamo detainees (most who are innocent) to talk, they have been flushing copies of the Qu'ran down the toilet. Pakistan has heard about this, and is deeply offended, as most other Muslim nations probably will too.

If Saddam Hussein was flushing down copies of the Bible in front of American POWs, we'd be hearing about it non-stop on Fox News and the Christian networks of Robertson and Falwell, but because it's the other way around, it's ok.

Karma has a way of resolving itself and coming back on those that harm others...usually in the form of an airplane hitting a large tower.

The Top Ten Conservative Idiots, # 197

2005-05-09T08:58:00.000-04:00

http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/05/197.html

They are here...this week's conservative idiots.

And I completely agree with #3....that's a bombshell of a story, and the American mass media is not touching it. If the media WAS liberal (as conservatives like to argue), they would be all over this story like vultures circling on a carcass.

But we don't have a liberal media, so it ain't gonna happen. :)

Bush-Roosevelt: Pot Calling Kettle Black

2005-05-08T10:20:00.000-04:00

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050508/D89ULOQ80.html

This is a major pot calling kettle black alert.

Bush is blaming President Roosevelt for the division of Europe post World War II. That's not entirely accurate. The basis for an ideological division of the world during the Cold War was already there. The communists in Russia knew that they're main enemies were the capitalist nations of France, England, Germany, and the United States. The temporary alliance that occured during the war would have NOT occured if it weren't for the German attack against Russia. It would be unfair to blame President Roosevelt for events that happened after World War II. That there would be a contest between the two strongest countries, and specifically, those that championed their respective ideologies, was inevitable.

Now, Bush, on the other hand, has some REAL explaining to do regarding the CURRENT division of Europe (between "Old Europe" and "New Europe"). In fact, you could extend that division to the U.S. versus most of the world.

And unlike President Roosevelt, it can be easily argued that President Bush is individually responsible for the CURRENT division in the world with respect to the United States and its foreign policies.

I'd advise President Bush to keep his criticism to himself...especially since he himself will be looked upon as the person most responsible for dividing the world in the modern era.

Darwin's Lament

2005-05-07T11:34:00.000-04:00

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/05/05/07_darwin.html

A great article on the ongoing issue between Darwinist theory and Christian Talibanist idiocy in Kansas.

Darwin's Lament

2005-05-07T11:31:00.000-04:00

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/05/05/07_darwin.html

A great article on the ongoing issue between Darwinist theory and Christian Talibanist idiocy in Kansas.

Catholic magazine editor sacked by Vatican

2005-05-07T09:16:00.000-04:00

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-cath0507,0,2076788,print.story?coll=nyc-moreny-headlines

Let the Catholic purges begin! This new Pope doesn't wait too long, does he?

Talk about condoms...get SACKED.

Christian Talibanist Pharmacist denies "morning-after" pill

2005-05-06T15:31:00.000-04:00

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/4454234/detail.html

Another Talibanist moron pharmacist refuses to hand out "morning after" pills.

Hey, Moron....the morning after pill only delays ovulation, it does not kill an already fertilized egg. It prevents ovulation until the sperm have died...it does NOT kill a fertilized embryo.

No one dies, no cell is killed...no murder.

Keep your whackjob morals to yourself! If you can't, resign your pharmacist post.

God...I wish a pharmacist WOULD pull this stunt on me...I'd go off on them so badly, they'd beg me to allow them to fill the prescription!

Pastor expells Democrats from Church

2005-05-06T09:59:00.000-04:00

http://www.spiffarino.completelyfreehosting.com/images/wlos.wmv

In a shining example of what we can expect from Christian Taliban-ruled America, this video news clip shows what a Pastor did to fellow church members because they were Democrats.

Way to go, Christian Talibans!

Iraq's a Quagmire: Rolling Stone, May 5th

2005-05-06T08:47:00.000-04:00

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7287564?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7

An excellent, one-article overview of the situation in Iraq. This article is dated May 5th, 2005.

It's looking even worse than we thought...