Friday, April 18, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Fabulous F***ing Hippie Friday
I saw Jackie Greene tour with Phil Lesh & Friends a year back, he was pretty impressive... this is the Skinny Singers with Lesh doin' Sugaree.
Niiiiiice...
"It's Your Baby... Go Do It"
That is Condi Rice, National Security Advisor to the CIA on continuing the 'enhanced interrogation techniques' employed on Al Qaeda 'suspects' or as the rest of the civilized world deems it, TORTURING captives.
How 'quaint' that Cheney, Powell, Rice, Ashcroft and Tenet sat around in the White House discussing the minutae of torture whilst America's reputation in the world was circling the drain.
The 'fun' thing here is that they approved of the torture before DoJ had even provided them with the Yoo justifications. Cheney does love him some retroactive immunity though.
Oh, and about those 108 'evildoers' who died in the process and the hundreds since released without charges... er! Sorry about that.
(h/t) TPM
How 'quaint' that Cheney, Powell, Rice, Ashcroft and Tenet sat around in the White House discussing the minutae of torture whilst America's reputation in the world was circling the drain.
The 'fun' thing here is that they approved of the torture before DoJ had even provided them with the Yoo justifications. Cheney does love him some retroactive immunity though.
Oh, and about those 108 'evildoers' who died in the process and the hundreds since released without charges... er! Sorry about that.
(h/t) TPM
Not Good Friday
As political assassinations go... this one was excellent!
Al Maliki appears determined to have his victory over Sadr, at any cost... as we've witnessed over the last five years, most times, those costs in both lives and treasure far exceed the gains achieved.
Al Maliki appears determined to have his victory over Sadr, at any cost... as we've witnessed over the last five years, most times, those costs in both lives and treasure far exceed the gains achieved.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
McCain and his Pre-Millenial Dispensationalists
Mr. Hagee, currently touring Israel, is suddenly back in the news... seems his 'hate speech' and looney leanings are once again going under the microscope. It's not just that he called the Catholic church '... the great whore of Babylon' and a 'false religion' or 'anti-semitic' or that his professed love of the Jews is just a cover for his 'end of times' Armageddon cultism. No, he is back in the news because he is a complete religious nut who makes Pastor Wright's flock look like a weekly gathering of the neighborhood Glee Club.
This monster, with his 9 million like minded morons and his 2 million strong e-mail list espouses a theosophy so steeped in ignorance, intolerance and sociopathic mendacity it is very easy to forget that he is a supposed man of the cloth.
His friendship with Israel and the Jews is founded upon his cults necessity for Israel to remain a viable state until the return of Jesus Christ and the final showdown between Good and Evil. With Jesus victorious the Jews will, as Anne Coulter suggests, be 'fixed'. Many in the Israeli government and 'Clueless Joe' Lieberman here in the US have glad handed and encouraged these idiots because they send lots of cash to the Holy Land and do all kinds of nice things for the Jews and Israel.
Reverend Wright may have cursed at the USA and it's history of indifference toward minorities and blacks in particular, that can and should be debated but Pastor Hagee and his cult are planning for the end of the world and it has very little to do with American hegemony or American dominance over the planet. Once all the fighting is done at Armageddon and the good christians have all ascended back with old JC, what is left of planet Earth?
They don't say...
This monster, with his 9 million like minded morons and his 2 million strong e-mail list espouses a theosophy so steeped in ignorance, intolerance and sociopathic mendacity it is very easy to forget that he is a supposed man of the cloth.
His friendship with Israel and the Jews is founded upon his cults necessity for Israel to remain a viable state until the return of Jesus Christ and the final showdown between Good and Evil. With Jesus victorious the Jews will, as Anne Coulter suggests, be 'fixed'. Many in the Israeli government and 'Clueless Joe' Lieberman here in the US have glad handed and encouraged these idiots because they send lots of cash to the Holy Land and do all kinds of nice things for the Jews and Israel.
Reverend Wright may have cursed at the USA and it's history of indifference toward minorities and blacks in particular, that can and should be debated but Pastor Hagee and his cult are planning for the end of the world and it has very little to do with American hegemony or American dominance over the planet. Once all the fighting is done at Armageddon and the good christians have all ascended back with old JC, what is left of planet Earth?
They don't say...
General Wars 'R' Us
The General and the Ambassador appear before Congress today and tomorrow to reiterate their commitment to the 'Pause' Surge strategy that has cast a magical spell over Iraq and transformed it into a veritable Narnian utopia of Middle Eastern tranquility.
Nothing will change...
For some on the right my hate speech above could be construed as treason, infact I know some consider what Reverend Wright said in the oft played, sliced and diced clip was actually treasonous!
It's odd that, to some, the Second Amendment is sacrosanct but the First Amendment is an abuse of we the people. In a few countries, over the years, Mr. Wright may well have been hauled up in front of a complicite bench and immediately found guilty of crimes against the state. Such stately pomp was termed, in the west, a 'show trial'. In Stalinist Russia and Maoist China such show trials were very popular amongst the paranoid elites that ruled, still do in China's case, those countries. In the US it is still not a crime to speak out against intolerance, bigotry or injustice, one perceives as systemic, in ones country through the power of speech and long may that right remain. Mr. Wright was not inciting against the State, he was not attacking any individual or government, he was expressing his opinion, wrong or right, he is entitled to that.
Nothing will change...
For some on the right my hate speech above could be construed as treason, infact I know some consider what Reverend Wright said in the oft played, sliced and diced clip was actually treasonous!
It's odd that, to some, the Second Amendment is sacrosanct but the First Amendment is an abuse of we the people. In a few countries, over the years, Mr. Wright may well have been hauled up in front of a complicite bench and immediately found guilty of crimes against the state. Such stately pomp was termed, in the west, a 'show trial'. In Stalinist Russia and Maoist China such show trials were very popular amongst the paranoid elites that ruled, still do in China's case, those countries. In the US it is still not a crime to speak out against intolerance, bigotry or injustice, one perceives as systemic, in ones country through the power of speech and long may that right remain. Mr. Wright was not inciting against the State, he was not attacking any individual or government, he was expressing his opinion, wrong or right, he is entitled to that.
Friday, April 04, 2008
Bush League
Americans, in vast numbers, have caught up to the realities of life under the Bush regime and, are not happy...
Must be something to do with an economy sliding headlong into recession thanks to Mr. Gentleman C's stewardship...
Meanwhile back in Ol' Yurp, Mr. Lameduck-BuubleBoy gets the brush off from NATO. Yes you can have your missile shield, it's na ganna 'appen, but keep off of Georgia and the Ukraine, as soon as Bush is out of office this, along with all the other madcap, borderline insane, some criminal Bush neocon fantasy/policies in Europe and the Middle East will be dropped like hot bricks...
This from C&L (via HNN):
"In an informal survey of 109 professional historians conducted over a three-week period through the History News Network, 98.2 percent assessed the presidency of Mr. Bush to be a failure while 1.8 percent classified it as a success.
Asked to rank the presidency of George W. Bush in comparison to those of the other 41 American presidents, more than 61 percent of the historians concluded that the current presidency is the worst in the nation’s history. Another 35 percent of the historians surveyed rated the Bush presidency in the 31st to 41st category, while only four of the 109 respondents ranked the current presidency as even among the top two-thirds of American administrations.
At least two of those who ranked the current president in the 31-41 ranking made it clear that they placed him next-to-last, with only James Buchanan, in their view, being worse. “He is easily one of the 10-worst of all time and—if the magnitude of the challenges and opportunities matter—then probably in the bottom five, alongside Buchanan, Johnson, Fillmore, and Pierce,” wrote another historian."
Ouch!!!!
Must be something to do with an economy sliding headlong into recession thanks to Mr. Gentleman C's stewardship...
Meanwhile back in Ol' Yurp, Mr. Lameduck-BuubleBoy gets the brush off from NATO. Yes you can have your missile shield, it's na ganna 'appen, but keep off of Georgia and the Ukraine, as soon as Bush is out of office this, along with all the other madcap, borderline insane, some criminal Bush neocon fantasy/policies in Europe and the Middle East will be dropped like hot bricks...
This from C&L (via HNN):
"In an informal survey of 109 professional historians conducted over a three-week period through the History News Network, 98.2 percent assessed the presidency of Mr. Bush to be a failure while 1.8 percent classified it as a success.
Asked to rank the presidency of George W. Bush in comparison to those of the other 41 American presidents, more than 61 percent of the historians concluded that the current presidency is the worst in the nation’s history. Another 35 percent of the historians surveyed rated the Bush presidency in the 31st to 41st category, while only four of the 109 respondents ranked the current presidency as even among the top two-thirds of American administrations.
At least two of those who ranked the current president in the 31-41 ranking made it clear that they placed him next-to-last, with only James Buchanan, in their view, being worse. “He is easily one of the 10-worst of all time and—if the magnitude of the challenges and opportunities matter—then probably in the bottom five, alongside Buchanan, Johnson, Fillmore, and Pierce,” wrote another historian."
Ouch!!!!
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Crock-O-Dile Tears
Mukasey is either lying or, as Glenn supposes, this administration is even more inept and criminally negligent than we have already surmised.
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