I'm beginning to feel like those poor geese
must feel as they are being force fed to prepare
them to become foie gras. The poor things have
a tube jammed down their throats and must endure
such great pain as the food is literally stuffed
into them.
With the recent public relations campaign coming out
of the bush administration stuffing us with sunshine
and happiness stories about Iraq, it truly is enough
to make you gag. Stop please!
~~~
Another thought regarding this "things are rosy
in Iraq" public relations campaign that the
administration is ramming down our throats. If
things were going so swimmingly over there, why
would bush decide to delete Rummy and insert
Condi? The administration is blaming the
public's negative attitude on the Democrats and
the media but seems to me the
administration doth protest too much!
When the killing stops, I'll start
listening!
~~~
If, as we are
now being told, our "smart bombs" didn't
hit the power stations of Iraq or destroy the
infrastructure of Iraq, and if the
damage to the infrastructure has been caused by
Saddam's neglect, then why do we have to pay
for and rebuild it? Why do we have
to pay for it if we didn't break
it?
~~~
Bush set a nice
little trap for the Democratic candidates. He
gave his tax cuts and now if anyone wants to rescind
them, it's considered a tax hike. In actuality
if the tax cut was rescinded, we wouldn't be paying
anymore taxes percentage wise than we were
three years ago. Besides, our tax dollars are
going to Iraq one way or the other. It's truly
a pay me now or pay me later situation, because
no matter how it's done, it's you and me who will
foot the bill. We can pay higher taxes or we
can lose services here in the US. You decide.
~~~
Bush starts
dropping a bit in popularity and sightings of Saddam
rise exponentially. What a coincidence!
~~~
Bush says the
media is not showing the sunny side of Iraq so his
administrations yanks the media's reins to the right.
The media obeys, the majority of the viewers take
their prescribed medication, get dumbed down and
life goes on.
~~~
Another soldier
dies in Iraq but an Iraqi school gets a new coat of
paint, so it all evens out?
~~~
Even though you
thought they might do it, you didn't deep down in
your heart, believe they would. Would
they? Well, it's not like it hasn't been
discussed.
"WHILE
NO evidence exists that "planting" WMD in Iraq
has been discussed officially inside the Bush
administration, intelligence sources confirm what
just about anybody could deduce: The idea has come
up in casual conversation."
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own
government to save the environment. "
-Ansel Adams-
And finally, if
you have a heart, if you appreciate the beauty and
the intrinsic value of nature, please read this
article regarding the bush administration's latest
antics. Seems they want to destroy the
Endangered Species Act. Like this
administration needs something else to hunt for,
right? They now want to make it legal to
hunt down and kill endangered species all
around the world. I have always been afraid
they would go after the Endangered Species Act, but
I had hoped they would be too busy destroying
other things to notice it hiding in the
shadows. Apparently I was wrong because there
are people out there who want to wear
the remnants of dead creatures and people who
want to hang the carcasses of dead creatures on
their walls. These same people have lots of
$$$. This administration will do anything
for $$$. By gutting the Endangered Species
Act, the administration is once again trading
lives for cash. This administration just
loves money to death! They don't care how much
blood is dripping from a dollar as long as it's
their dollar.
The target this
time can't fight back and it can't call for
help. A war in Iraq wasn't enough
bloodshed for them, now they want to go after
rare creatures. Is there a caring heart in
this administration? Is there wisdom in this
administration? Hell NO!
I think we have all heard, at one
time or another, the president say, "If you feed
a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the
terrorists".
Well, if you watched the hearings
last week in the House of Representatives regarding
the sales of surplus Department of Defense Biological
Lab Equipment via the internet, you discovered that
the DOD has made available a virtual buffet
of chemical and biological
(CB) equipment available to just about anyone who
is hungry for the production of chemical and
biological weapons. They will even sell
protective clothing to go along with the
equipment. However, by their own admission, some
of the protective clothing may be defective, even the
protective clothing that they sold to first responders
around the country.
"According to GAO, due to
poor controls, there is little assurance excess CB
equipment has not already fallen into the wrong
hands. "Shays said, "The cheap,
virtually unregulated availability of low cost
biological laboratory equipment poses a risk to
national security. The Department of Defense should
not be a discount shopping outlet for would-be
bio-terrorists."
(Washington, Oct
7 - Congressman Christopher Shays (CT-4),
Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security,
Emerging Threats and International Relations)
(link
#1 below)
"At the subcommittee's
request, GAO bought surplus items though a shell
corporation, acquiring operating lab equipment and
other items at less than one-tenth of the original
cost to the Pentagon, the report says.
The GAO also was able to buy protective suits and
other items, despite a department policy that
prohibits public sale of the items.
Some protective suits bought by the GAO had previously
been determined defective, yet they were still
circulating in the surplus supply chain, with some
issued to state and local law enforcement units."
(link
#2 below)
"The Pentagon's
sale of the surplus equipment was uncovered by
Congress's general accounting office (GAO) which
conducted a sting operation, setting up a dummy company
to buy laboratory equipment online on a Pentagon
website.
The GAO found that the
defence department did not check the background of its
customers. Most of the equipment being sold was
available commercially but the Pentagon was selling it
at bargain prices. The GAO bought $46,000 ( £27,500)
worth of equipment for just over $4,000 ( £2,400).
Defence officials
were called in to answer questions before a
congressional inquiry about the sale of the army
surplus, which included centrifuges, evaporators,
bacteriological incubators, and protective suits to
unknown customers in other countries, including Egypt
and the Philippines, where terrorist groups have been
known to operate.
The news is
particularly embarrassing, coming only days after the
CIA-led Iraq Survey Group claimed the discovery of
similar equipment in Iraq was evidence that the Saddam
Hussein regime had a covert weapons programme. "
(link
#3 below)
I'll let you draw your own
conclusions, based upon that last quote.
As I searched for the above
information, I discovered to the best of my knowledge,
there was very little material to be taken from US
sources. This I found very interesting!
Friday, October 10,
2003
If you were
fortunate enough to see the PBS program last night,
"Truth, War and Consequences", you had to have
learned a little more about what is going on in
Iraq. After viewing that program, I came away
believing that one of the most dangerous weapons in
Iraq right now is Ahmed Chalabi.
You've just
got to see this program!
~~~
Yesterday bush was
cruising around the US telling captive audiences that
things are much better in Iraq than we have been told
they are. He seems to think that we have a
misconception of reality based upon a vast left wing,
press conspiracy. He seems to believe that
if our military applies a coat of
whitewash to a school, that should be reported with
violins playing in the background and when a US soldier
is murdered on the street, well that's not a news story,
that's just one of those pesky little realities of
war.
I don't give a damn
if they build a hundred new schools and every damned
light bulb in Iraq is glowing, as long as we
continue to lose members of our American family over
there, then the news is not screwin' good!
Bush says that
things in Iraq are better than they were. Better
than what? Better than the day we dropped all
those bombs on these same people we're now building
schools for? Well hell yes, as soon as death stops
raining down, it sure as hell would be better.
Bush
and all his little cheerleaders can repeat this new
"happy mantra" until they are blue in the face
and most of us will know full well that it's excrement
from a male member of the bovine family. But there's
that other bunch. The one's who believe we found wmd
on every corner in Iraq and that Suddam flew the plane
that hit the first tower on 9-11 and that all our soldiers
in Iraq have been sprayed down with all sorts of toxic
chemical weapons. That goofy bunch will
believe anything they hear from bush's mouth and what they
don't hear, they just make the hell up.
So
bush can march out all his folks, and they tell all their
stories and you can listen if you want to. But as
far as I'm concerned, if things are so rosy in Iraq, why
would they have to try so hard to make us believe
it?
It's just difficult
to watch bush try to get all emotional and use his
"sweet" voice when he talks about kids in Iraq
getting school books, when I know that here in the
US, way too many of our teachers have to open
up their own wallets to be sure that their classes have
all the equipment they need!
Let's visit some of
the kids in Appalachia and see what kind of shape their
schools are in. Let's visit some of the big cities
here in the US and see what kind of shape their schools
are in. When we get all the schools in the US
in good shape, then we'll see what we can do to
improve the schools in Iraq.
Charity begins at
home but our tax money seems to be on holiday in
Iraq!
~~~
Hey, I've got a
question for you. Did anyone hear
anything about the DNA report confirming that, the
two dead guys that we showed all over tv, were Saddam's
sons? Wasn't that supposed to be available in just
a few days after their deaths on July 22 of this
year? Hummm it's been a pretty long time since
that date. Remember how the soldier shot one of
them in the mouth and messed up the guy's face big
time? Remember how the embalmers sort of fixed the
two dead guys up with the wax and they looked more like
they wanted them to? Remember how we
said that we had a sample of their DNA to compare
with that of the two corpses?
I'm just asking
because perhaps that DNA report was made public and I
just missed it.
~~~
"When a whole nation is
roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice,
I am fain to explore the
cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. "
-Ralph Waldo
Emerson-
Thursday, October 9, 2003
Tonight at 9pm est.
there will be a "Frontline" program on
PBS titled "Truth, War, and
Consequences".
"Truth,
War, and Consequences"
A special intelligence operation began looking for
evidence to justify a war with Iraq in the days after
September 11, 2001"
So we're gonna do a little public
relations campaign to promote the war in Iraq. Well,
that should be one hell of an undertaking. How do
you sell a war that already happened and already looks
like nothing more than a shooting
gallery? The last PR stunt, on May
Day when george hopped aboard the big boat and said,
"whew, it's pretty much over", didn't work out
all that well, so hopefully they will get a new PR firm to
handle this new, and nifty idea of theirs. I mean
what do you do to make it look like no lies were told, no
thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed, no soldiers were
killed, everything is going fine in Iraq, lots of wmd
everywhere and that there is no oil in the spOILs
of this war?
Get ready for the "Red, White
and I'm not Blue just because I haven't Seen My
Daddy Since Last Christmas" war coloring
book", the "I Love My President and God and
Stuff Like That" t-shirts, the "No One Died in
the Iraqi War" lapel pins and maybe even the
"Honk if You Love Jesus and Believe that We
Found WMD in Iraq" bumper stickers.
Another catchy idea might be a "So What If
People Died, If It Makes It Cheaper for Me to Drive My
Sweet Humvee Then Damn It, I'm For It".
t-shirt, which of course would come in large sizes
only. If things get even worse in Iraq they could
always make a sticker that just said, "Iraq?
Never heard of it".
I suppose they will muzzle all
the families who have lost someone in this god awful
war. Can't take a chance on someone telling the
truth right now, when the public is asking
questions.
Tsk Tsk, Mr. and Ms. America, don't
start trying to act like this is a democracy. Don't
start acting like you have freedom of speech and all that
other crap you think you're entitled to, just because a
bunch of guys, bunches of years ago, thought they could
write that, sorta French sounding, Constitution.
That was then and this is now. Those guys probably
would have a problem with telling lies to the American
people and sending their soldiers to invade and occupy a
country, that just happened to have the second largest oil
puddles in the world. What the hell did those guys
know? Hell, they might have been gay! Just
think about that Mr. and Ms. America..............but
don't think about anything else. A true Patriot
never thinks, thinking is akin to terrorism, it will not
be tolerated. To show your support for our
president, his war, and his great leadership, you must
stop thinking!! Just believe what we tell you and no
one gets hurt! And remember, you can be designated
an enemy combatant at the drop of a wire tap.
The problem with the USA, according
to this administration, is that the we won't
just shut the hell up, believe any and every word the
administration says, close our eyes when the bad
stuff happens and apparently they would like us all to get
a real good, serious case of amnesia.
Bottom line, what they're selling, we
aren't buying.............no matter how they package
it. No matter what spin they use, we won't get
sucked in. No matter if they try to sell this damned
war in happy meals, we won't buy it.
Until someone tells us how the
hell we get out of this mess, when our troops are coming
home, and how the hell we are gonna pay for all
this, we aren't buying anything. There is not
a PR firm in the world that can bring dead soldiers back
to life.
Wednesday October 8, 2003
There is no better quote to describe
what happened in California yesterday than this one!
"Correct
me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity
and madness gotten finer?"
-George
Price-
Ladies listen up! The next
scum who gropes you could be your state's next Governor.
~~~
Okay, it's all but official, Arnold in
the new governor of California.
Congratulations Californians, you have
just hired a man who has no experience, no credentials, no
resume, not a clue about what the hell he's doing and,
best of all, you hired him to run your state. Hell you
didn't even call him in for an interview, so you don't
really know a thing about him except that he made
funky, he-man, macho movies, likes to pose for photos
in his birthday suit and he seems to have a track
record of leaving his tracks on the ladies.
What a novel approach to hiring someone
to lead the largest state in the United States and also the
state with a very large financial problem.
Did you guys just say "hasta la
vista" to common sense?
I understand that you were
very unhappy with Davis, but did you have to shoot
yourself in the foot to prove it?
With Iraq, we have been referring to
the UN telling us, in so many words, "You broke it, You
pay for it". Well Californians, by electing
Arnold, I think You bought it broken and now You gotta
keep it.
Good Luck folks cause I think you're
gonna need it.
~~~
"Acting is
the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to
earn a living.
After all,
Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four."
If there is a god of elections,
pray that he or she allows this California vote today to come
off without a hitch so that we don't have to be tortured with
recounts and more speeches from the robotic looking
Arnold. Is it just me or does the dude look like a monster
to you too?
Hey Arnold, lay off the teeth
whiteners for a bit, you look funky enough dude, then you
open your mouth and you look like you swallowed a used-car lot,
too much glow!
~~~
Please think about this a minute or
two. How will the War on Terror ever end? When will
we be able to say that every single person or group who wants to
harm someone else in some other country is no longer a
threat?
Because bush says that the war on
terror began here in the United States on September 11, 2001,
our country is considered a theater of war. Don't you see
that with this designation, the rules of war can be implemented
here until the war on terror is over. And again, how
and when can it end? Hey folks we're in a forever war and
that's not good!
~~~
Am I the only person who has no
idea who J Lo and Ben are? I know they are movie stars but
why do I hear so much about them? I wouldn't recognize
either of them. Am I missing something? Why should I
give a tinker's damn about them?
~~~
Does anyone really truly believe
that finding the whitehouse "leaker" is a priority for
george bush? It's just one more thing for this
administration to look for. And god knows they have a
hunting list a mile long.
~~~
Note to Iraqi people, watch out for a Wal-Mart to move into your
neighborhood real soon.
Another note to Iraqi people, don't let them change the name of
your country to "America's Mini Me".
~~~
Note to Republicans, when may we expect you to get real?
~~~
Senator Ted Stevens from Alaska is in desperate need of an
emergency burr-ectomy.
He seriously needs to have that burr removed from his
ass and hopefully that will calm him down a
bit.
~~~
And finally a note to all Californians. If you do elect
Arnold as your next governor today, thanks from all of us
in Florida, because you will be replacing us as the
"Goof Ball State". Congratulations, with
Arnold as your governor, you will certainly deserve the
title.
What the hell were you people thinking?????
Monday, October
6,2003
Wow, Arnold is going to fit in with
the bush administration like rush at a clan meeting.
Arnold gropes women and then denies
it and everyone says, "Hey that's okay".
Arnold says he kinda thought Hitler
was cool and then denies it and everyone says, "Hey, that's
okay".
Arnold lies and everyone says,
"Hey you're guy we want to lead our state, we'll elect
you!"
Bush lies about the reasons for war
and then denies it and everyone says, "Hey, that's
okay".
Bush lies about everything in the
world and then denies it and everyone says, "Hey you're a
great Prez. We'll re-elect you for four more years".
Come on Democrats, get with the
Republican times!
Stop whining just because President
Clinton lied and got his ass kicked by some big elephants.
This is a new time, a new way of
doing things. In this Republican time, you can lie your ass
off, deny it or give a surface apology and you get to become one
of the big elephants.
Hey times have changed!
It's different now!
In these Republican times,
lying is not a call for an ass kicking,
lying is
rewarded with assets!
The date for the official opening of
Finding Season has yet to be
announced .
~~~
David Kay made his report yesterday
regarding his search for wmd in Iraq.
Mr. Kay outlined what he had found
to date. He reported that he and his crew had found the
word "bomb" in many Iraqi dictionaries. He said
the word had been cleverly hidden between pages 55 and 57.
Mr. Kay stated they had also found several hundred
kits for making small 6 inch balsa glider airplanes. These kits
were located near a large supply of airplane glue. Mr. Kay
reminded those in attendance that this very same glue, when inhaled,
could result in hallucinatory sensations.
Mr. Kay continued to point out that,
although he had found no chemical weapons, he did find a large supply
of spit balls stashed in, of all places, a child's backpack.
When analyzed, the spit balls were shown to contain large amounts of
human spit. Mr. Kay reminded the Congressional members that when
human spit from one person is applied to the human body of
another, it may induce gagging and retching on the part of the
receiver. There was an audible gasp from the audience.
Mr. Kay reported finding many
unexploded munitions scattered over the entire country of Iraq.
He said someone had stenciled the words "made in the USA" on
the munitions. Mr.Kay pointed out that this was just
another example of Saddam's cunning, deceptive plan.
Mr. Kay brought his report to a close by
asking for another 8 million dollars to continue his work. He
told the Congress that he believed if he were granted this money
he was quite sure that he could find even more weapons. He
said that he had it on very good authority that within just a few
weeks, a large shipment of weapons would be found at the Iraqi airport
about 8pm if all incoming flights were not cancelled due to bad
weather.
Mr. Kay summed up his report with this
clear and precise statement,
"We have not
found yet, and I'm sure you know this, otherwise you would know it
earlier, we have not found at this point, actual weapons. It does not
mean we've concluded there are no actual weapons, it means at this
point in time, and it's a huge country with a lot to do, that we have
not yet found weapons.". http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2003/s959159.htm
After the members of congress took a
moment to digest Mr. Kay's final remark, they shouted in unison,
"Say What?"
Later it was reported that Mr.
Kay was spotted at the local Wal-Mart purchasing
several chemistry sets and a copy of "Finding wmd for
Dummies". However
this last report could not be confirmed.
~~~
It is rumored that, after the apology
yesterday by Arnold regarding his incessant groping of women, one
staunch Republican Senator said that any man who does these
sorts of things should always be excused if he just says the two
little magic words, " I'm sorry". He also
said he is considering offering up a bill that would make it
legally mandatory to forgive and forget about any sexual
indiscretions committed by any Republican man. This bill would
require the accused to say,"I'm sorry", and all charges
would be dropped.
~~~
It is said that yesterday, President
Clinton publicly apologized for his past sexual
indiscretions. The response from the Republicans was, No
you aren't. Rumor now has it that the Republicans are going
to look into impeaching Mr. Clinton again, based upon the
arrogant gall of his thinking that just by simply saying ,
"I'm sorry", that could make up for all the pain and
embarrassment he had caused the women.
~~~
Rush Limbaugh, after being accused of
buying illegal pain killers, not only denied the purchases, he also
denied feeling pain. He said his job was to inflict pain, not to
kill it.
~~~
President bush's economic plans appears
to be successful, as far as creating new jobs. The
unemployment office announced today that they will be required
to hire a record number of new employees in order to process the
record number of unemployment applications they are receiving.
Also, the major newspapers report they
too will be hiring more employees to work in the Classified Department
of their papers due to the increase in the number
of "employment wanted" ads they are
receiving.
When notified of this information,
President Bush responded, "I told you so, I told you so, Na Na Na
Na Na-na".
Chill
down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Oct 2, 2003
The
Face of the Enemy, The Face of my Friend by Patricia Ernest
"I knew that recently
CBS had been accompanying some of our Florida National Guard who are
serving in Iraq as they taped this segment and I also knew there was a
slim possibility that I might get to see, within the program, my
friend who has been away and serving in Iraq since
January".
Bush isn't having the greatest week
of his life. First he has to watch his egotistical enemy
kiss Laura's hand while she's far away in the dreamy,
romantic, sweet ambiance of France. If a Frenchman
kisses your hand, does that mean you have been French kissed?
I bet old george wasn't smirking after seeing
that.
Then he has to deal with the
fact that there's someone in the Whitehouse or the
Administration or somewhere who has given out information that
could be dangerous to a CIA employee. Bush was Johnny on the
Spot with this wasn't he? The article by Novak came out in
mid July and the last day of September, when the
feces finally hit the fan, bush jumps right on it
and asks for someone to volunteer to take responsibility
for the commission of a felony. We all know how we can rely
on felons to do the honest thing and just step up
and admit to their crimes. Bush tried his best not to
smirk when he talked with reporters about this, but eventually
that smirk appeared just as it always does when he appears to be
amused. But don't fret, they'll figure out some way to
erase this disaster just like all the rest. Think back
to when the news came out that the landing on the USS Abraham
Lincoln was nothing more than a photo op fraud. They just
dismissed the facts and continued with the fallacy. Why
get all involved with the truth when lies are so much more
convenient and enabling to your cause?
Also now, over two months after
the Novak article came out, the whitehouse has instructed everyone
to save all emails, phone records etc. for the
investigation. Don't you think that the persons
who did this would have already destroyed anything that would
be damaging and that would connect them to the deed?
And don't you think these people who made the phone calls
would have known that all whitehouse phone calls leave a
trail? Hey, maybe they just called from a phone
booth. Duh!
It'll be interesting to see how they
try to blame this on the Clinton administration, and you know they
will.
~~~
Okay Californians I gotta say
this. What in the hell are you guys thinking?
According to the news you're about to elect a weight lifting,
mediocre actor to run your state when, according to the news
again, you guys are in a deep pile of financial do-do.
Remember, HE'S AN ACTOR! Just because he plays parts in
movies and gets the girl or wins the fight doesn't mean he
actually has super powers. That's just pretend. The running
of a state is real, it requires actual big time intelligence
to do it right. Again, HE'S AN ACTOR! he can't
actually terminate problems with some sort of cinematic
super power, not in the real world. He plays parts
and reads scripts. Being a good governor requires
dealing with real world, real life situations that come with
real world, real life consequences. Arnold
is acting the part of a candidate and right now he has
someone to write the script, but what will happen when your state
faces a crisis and the script writers have
all gone home?
Are you guys actually going to brag
that your governor is a guy who ends almost every sentence
with, "and all that stuff"? Yep, to Arnold it's
all just stuff.
And just one last word, when a
chameleon sits on a green leaf he can turn green, but that doesn't
mean that he can become a green leaf, it just means that he
can camouflage himself to look like one so that he may
hide and protect his true self.
Good Luck Californians, and all that
stuff!
~~~
Chill
down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Okay, let's talk about
Joe Wilson and, as Arnold would say, "all that stuff".
Do you think that if,
during the Clinton days, this matter about treason had reared it's
ugly head it would have been referred to as only a matter for the
Justice Dept.? Don't you think that Bill Clinton would already
be swinging from the old oak tree? Christ, the bush boys are
acting as though no one in the administration could or
would ever out a CIA agent, so for the most part, case closed.
They're gonna let Ashcroft, the man from hell, tinker around with
this. Yeah, whew, I feel better, because if anyone in this
screwin' administration is going to be fair, it sure as hell will be
the man who is whittling away our Constitutional rights just as fast
as his pocket knife will allow. Investigate? How
about filing this in his round file and getting back to his
routine of trying to figure out how he can jail all of us who open
our mouths and demand some semblance of the truth.
And where are the true
American Patriotic Republicans and why aren't they demanding an
investigation into this just as some of the Democrats are? Why
aren't they eager to protect the identity of our CIA agents.
Why are they mewing in the corner and not out there raising hell
too? It's time for a couple of those guys to get into the
swing of things. Is this a democracy or not? It's
time for everyone, war lovers and war haters, Democrats and
Republicans, Christians and sinners, the left and the right, to get
our acts together and stop the damned fighting amongst ourselves and
start getting this damned country back to something we all can take
pride in once again. It's time to write and call and call some
more. Tell Washington that it's pretty damned important that
we don't and we won't stand for treason in this country. Tell
them to have the guts to speak up and speak out, no matter what
party they represent. Tell them it's high time for them to be
real men and real women and do their damned job.
This is not just a
Democrat rant, this is an American demand. Remind them that
oral sex truly does not have the same effect on national security as
out-ing a CIA agent. You might also remind them that we are
the one's who hire them and, during the next election, we will be
the one's who just might fire them. Just as a kicker, you also
might mention that treason is a freakin' felony.
~~~
Isn't it funny how oral
sex in the whitehouse causes a storm, but treason is just blown
off!
I guess it depends on
what tense of the word "blow" you use.
~~~
Bob Novak, the reporter
who wrote the story that out-ed the CIA agent, was on Crossfire on
CNN. When asked about the story about Joe Wilson's wife, he
spun the story like a child's top and then with a dreadful little
smirky face he said, "I know who the they are.", referring
to whomever in the Whitehouse out-ed Joe's wife. God, what
does this administration do to people to make them so smirky?
I, one hundred percent, believe that a reporter should never have to
reveal his sources but I also, one hundred percent, believe a
reporter should have an actual brain and should use it when it comes
to writing stories that might place someone in danger. Hey
call me old fashioned!
~~~
I wonder what would
happen if, in Iraq, someone out-ed one of the new Iraqi police
people and put that person's life in jeopardy? I'm guessing
the bush administration would go ballistic and make a giant damned
deal of it and call the outers terrorists and treat it very
seriously. Too bad they won't treat the USA as well as they
do their new adopted country.
~~~
Why doesn't anyone call
for the laundry list of how the money is being spent that is
supposed to be going to support our military? Are the troops
actually getting what they need? What are they getting and why
does my neighbor have to send things to her husband in Iraq, things
like deodorant and lip balm and food? Where's the list and how
much of the 50 plus billion is being spent on true needs? How
much of that money is going to supply the new Iraqi military?
Chill
down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Mon-Sun, September 22-28, 2003
Below are a few of the items and ideas
that cruised around in my head this past week or so.
Sunday on Meet the Press, Tim Russert was
speaking with Condi Rice. They were discussing
bush's State of the Union Speech and the reference to the
yellow cake uranium fable. Seems that Condi and pals
have a very bad problem with their memories.
DR. RICE:
First of all, the CIA did clear the speech in its entirety and
George Tenet has said that. He's also said that he believes
that it should not have been cleared. And we apparently, with
the""in October for the Cincinnati speech, not for the State
of the Union, but the Cincinnati speech, George Tenet asked
that this be taken out of the Cincinnati speech, the reference
to yellow cake. It was taken out of the Cincinnati speech
because whenever the director of Central Intelligence wants
something out, it's gone.
MR. RUSSERT: How'd it
get back in?
DR. RICE: It's not a
matter of getting back in. It's a matter, Tim, that
three-plus months later, people didn't remember that George
Tenet had asked that it be taken out of the Cincinnati speech
and then it was cleared by the agency. I didn't remember.
Steve Hadley didn't remember. We are trying to put now in
place methods so you don't have to be dependent on people's
memories for something like that.
MR. RUSSERT: Did you ever read the memo that I
referenced?
DR. RICE: I don't
remember the memo. It came after it had been taken out of the
speech, and so it's quite possible that I didn't. But let
me be very clear: This shouldn't happen to the president of
the United States, and we will do everything that we can to
make sure that it doesn't happen again.
Well that was a pretty important thing to
"forget" don't ya think Condi? Especially
since it was the big arrow that you guys used to point to
war. Holy smokes, we got a memory problem here, big
time!
If what she said is true, I would suggest
that they seek medical attention or resign because her remarks
made me wonder what the hell else did they forget? Like
maybe they forgot that Saddam had truly destroyed his
weapons. Maybe they forgot that the UN was an
organization that was kinda relevant?
Maybe they forgot the weapons inspectors reported that they
had found no nasty stuff during their inspections earlier this
year? Hey, maybe they forgot that Saddam was not
responsible for 9-11? Maybe they forgot to tell the
truth?
~~~
Hey, next time you feel you should be
punished for something that you've done, just turn on C-Span
and listen to anything that Sen. Pete Domenici has to
say. If his yelling and screaming doesn't get you, his
extreme tirades will. If you think that you still need
to suffer a bit more, wait for Sen. Ted Stevens to pop
up. These have to be two of the most obnoxious
speakers ever to echo through the Senate chambers.
~~~
Anyone who was fortunate enough to hear
Sen. Bill Nelson, who I am very proud to say is from Fla., as
he spoke to the Senate regarding deployment times for the
Guard and Reservists, was able to hear a speech that came from
his heart. He has spent much time talking to families in
Fla. and also talking to the men and women in Iraq and he's
been listening too! He wasn't speaking with the attitude
of a typical politician, he was speaking to and from the
hearts of a lot of Florida citizens.
~~~
So bush feels that if Saddam had a
wmd instruction sheet, then he could make wmd.
Well I have a gourmet cookbook, but my
friends can attest to the fact that I cannot make
a gourmet meal.
~~~
Bush is having the last laugh. He
says the wmd never stood for weapons of mass
destruction.
He says wmd has always stood for Wells of
Mass Dollars. And we sure found that, he said
gleefully, as he wiped an oil smudge off his wallet.
~~~
It seems this rebuilding Iraq is
equivalent to you being sick and then someone brings a
sick stranger into your house and you have to
mortgage your home to cover the stranger's medical
bills. Suddenly you realize, by the time this
stranger gets well, you'll still be sick but you can no
longer afford to go to the doctor.
~~~
Bush invited Vladimir Putin for a
sleepover and he asked Putin to help him pay for a war that
Putin was against from the get go. How's that for
goofiness?
~~~
By now, everyone has read the grocery
list for Iraq. We've heard about the costly garbage
trucks, area codes etc. But what about spas and golf
courses? Won't the Halliburton fellows want some rest
and relaxation after a hard day at the "front
lines"?
~~~
Okay, everyone is all excited because bush said that Saddam
and 9-11 share no common genes. I mean really think
about it, he said that was one of his major causes for the
war and now he says it wasn't and everyone says........Gee,
look how honest he is!
Give me a break!
~~~
Sen. Ted Kennedy calls bush's war a "fraud"
and the republicans say that his comment is an
example of democrats being soft on defense. So are
they saying that even a fraudulent war is worth fighting and
dying for?
Give me another break!
~~~
Bush and his buddies tell us we have this grand
military. Well obviously we don't have
enough full time military personal, because if we
did, why would so many of our Reservists
and National Guard have been called to go to
Iraq. Please think about that for a while. Why
would bush create a war knowing full well that he did not
have enough full time military to do the job? Support
the troops indeed, he's not supporting the troops,
he's exhausting and extinguishing the troops. I
hope he has nightmares every night and I hope the ghosts
ruin his rest and never give him a break.
Chill down my martini glass
honey, I'm coming home*
Friday, Sept. 18, 2003
Soft on Defense My Ass!
Someone said that Sen. Ted Kennedy's
comment about the war in Iraq being a "fraud" was just
another example of democrats being soft on defense. What
does that mean? Does it mean that Democrats aren't willing
to fight for their country, or does it mean that democrats
aren't willing to fight for their big companies?
Hell no, democrats are not soft on
defense. Democrats are intelligent on defense.
Democrats don't use the shotgun approach to defense.
Democrats determine if there is a clear and present danger and
then they weigh their options. Democrats don't make up sh*t,
they deal with sh*t. Democrats will wage war, they just
won't wage war for the sake of war. Democrats realize that
there is more to war than bragging about victory. Democrats
realize that war is an expensive endeavor in both lives and
money. Democrats know that war is not the first answer but
the last. Democrats are aware that war is an admission of
failure in every other attempt to bring about peace.
No, democrats do not have blood
covered fangs nor do they enjoy the pleasure of blood money.
Most democrats are peaceful people and they aren't
fools.
In a land of, I got a gun, you got a
gun, all god's children got guns, it's not surprising
that war is popular. Guns are, in this country, a sort
of "hey, don't you friggin mess with me cause I gotta
gun and I can blow your brains out!" symbol.
And with that comes the "let's do war and show the
bastards how screwin tough we are" mentality.
That attitude is nothing more than an admission of weakness
cloaked in bravado. Weakness personified! It says, I
don't have to know anything, I don't have to do anything, cause I
have a gun and you don't want to die so that makes me tough.
Anyone who thinks that a gun and a war makes you a tough
American patriot is just plain pathetically
stupid. The only thing a gun and a war makes you is
dangerous. Any idiot can pull the trigger of a gun,
but it takes a wise man to convince that idiot not to do
it. Who was the last American hero to shoot first and ask
questions later? Maybe in the old west that was the motto,
but this isn't the old west. This is the new
democracy.
In the old west, everyone had a gun,
so everyone had to be on defense all the time. Shoot or be
shot. That's what equal gun ownership does. It causes
paranoia, and paranoia breeds a defensive attitude. Paranoia
can cause people to take irrational actions due to their obsession
with fear. The same holds true with war. Now that the
US declares war at the drop of a hat, not the drop of a bomb, all
other countries have become paranoid and as a result they feel
they must play defense. They don't trust the US to be
logical any more. If someone goes around brandishing their
six shooter, that doesn't result in admiration, it results in
alienation. and fear. Well, the US is not only brandishing
their six shooter, they're firing indiscriminately into the
crowd and that has caused a major problem. This
indiscriminate firing makes us look like dangerous lunatics
with a dangerous weapon. We look like the crazed gunman who
loses it and, because of some strange illusion or some deep
paranoia, believes that all strangers are out to get him so he
just shoots everyone he sees. Anyone with even
two brain cells is going to run like hell when this guy is on
the street. This is not a person you want to befriend
and support, this is a guy who scares the hell out of you and
someone who should be contained for the good of
society. Due to our paranoia after 9-11, we have
become that crazed gunman. We have become the country
who believes that everyone is out to get us, the county
that scares the hell out of other countries as we fire
indiscriminately into the crowd, and if we aren't careful, we
may become the country that other countries feel should be
contained for the good of society. Anyone or any
political party who favors placing the United States in a position
like this should not be described as being firm on defense, they
should more aptly be described as
being dangerous to peace.
pissed off patricia
Thursday, September 17,
2003
A Predictable Press
Conference with the President
Press
question (PQ)
President
answer (PA)
PQ Mr.
President, we understand that you want to chop down the national
forests to prevent forest
fires. Is that true?
PA Well,
as you know 9-11 changed everything. Yes indeed, we're
hunting these trees down and killing them one by one. This
administration has determined that trees are evil doers because
they feed forest fires. As I have said before, if
you even feed an evil doer, then you are an evil doer.
The logging companies have put a bounty on the leafy heads of
these evil trees and we'll pursue them wherever
they live.
PQ Mr.
President, we also understand that you are waiving some
restrictions which in turn will allow our rivers and streams to
become polluted with industrial waste. Is that true?
PA Well,
as you know 9-11 changed everything. Yes indeed, we're
polluting the waters with deadly chemicals before the
terrorists get a chance to do it themselves. You see if we
do it first, it will allow us not to worry about the terrorists
doing this evil deed in the future. We're sort of beating
them to the punch, if you know what I mean. (audible
chuckle)
PQ Mr.
President, we have heard that you have eased restrictions on
power plants and factories and now these industries may spew all
sorts of pollutants into the air we breathe. Is that true?
PA Well,
as you know 9-11 changed everything. Yes indeed we are
easing those restrictions. We feel that it is every
patriotic American's duty to sacrifice for the cause of the war on
terrorism and we don't believe that asking Americans to breathe in
a few particles of cancer causing agents is too much to ask.
PQ Mr. President,
we have heard that you may be considering doing away with the
endangered species act. Is that true?
PA Well,
as you know 9-11 changed everything. Yes indeed, we are
seriously considering doing away with the endangered
species act because we have good reason to believe that those
plants on that list have harbored terrorists in their
evil bushes and that those animals on that list have
been the food for terrorists. If you harbor or feed a
terrorist then you are a terrorist and we will get you one by
one.
PQ Mr.
President, we have heard from the American people that they are
concerned about the very large financial deficit this country is
facing. What can you say to them?
PA Well,
as you know 9-11 changed everything. If the American people
are concerned about the deficit they should remember that
terrorist need money to do their evil deeds. By giving all
the American money to other countries and to big business we are
protecting the American people and preventing them from becoming
the victims of terrorists robberies.
PQ Mr.
President we have heard that, as a result of your spending and tax
cuts, our educational system is in a decline. Is that true?
PA Well,
as you know 9-11 changed everything. Terrorists want to
learn how we work and what makes us tick, so if our
schools are substandard we know for sure they won't be able to
sneak in and learn anything there.
PQ Mr.
President thank you for your time. Is there anything else
you would like to say to the American people?
PA Well
as you know 9-11 changed everything. I would just like the
American people to know that I have good reason to believe that
smart children, healthy elderly people, employed people
and financially comfortable retirees are a threat to our
country. My administration is doing everything possible to
do away with this danger and to see to it that we never have to
worry about their existence in the future. If you know one
of these people, if you harbor one of these people, if you even
feed one of these people then you are aiding the enemy and we will
hunt you down. See, that's what this administration does, we
hunt. We like to hunt for things. We hunt for Osama,
we hunt for WMD, we hunt for Anthrax killers, we hunt for Saddam,
we hunt for evil doers, we just hunt, hunt, hunt. I guess
that would be my message to the American people. You may
rest assured that your government is hunting for you.
May God
bless me and may God bless America.
~~~
Chill
down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Who better to try to convince Israel and Palestine to stop seeking
revenge for the killing they have done to one another than the dandy
duo of Bush and Blair. Just look at the example that the
dandy duo set when they invaded a country that had not presented a
clear and present danger to either of them.
Do you want to invade another country but you
have no justifiable reason? No problem, we will
show you how to concoct evidence that will fool some of the
wisest and convince most of the skeptical that preemption is
the only way to go.
Do you owe some old business buddies a few
favors? Hey, what better way to pay them back than to plan a war
and give them an open ended, no financial limit contract for
the reconstruction of your targeted country? Just imagine
the dollar signs in their eyes when they see that your bombs
have really done a number on that country. Your old pals will be
eternally grateful. You might even find a little something
extra in your re-election fund stocking this Christmas.
Do you know of a leader of a country,
with whom you once did business , but now you don't need him
anymore? Does his country have a large supply of oil?
Let us put him on our list and before you know
it, we can show you how to change facts to justify invasion and
regime change to suit your cause. And hey, even if you don't
actually win the peace, you get to keep all the oil. Plus as an
extra bonus you may claim the invasion was for the good of the people
of that country. See, we always have you covered because we have
experience in cover-ups.
Maybe you're already involved in one war but
things aren't going so good and you want to deflect attention away
from your failure? Are you just plain tired of dealing with the
criticism? Hey that's no problem. We'll not only start
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Chill
down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Pretty ironic huh? The republicans in California may
lose their right to a speedy recall election based
on the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision.
This is the same decision that caused the
democrats to lose their rightfully elected
President in 2000 . How's that for a bit of yen
and yang?
But now the republicans think that Supreme Court decision is
just plain wrong. They think the courts are political
and that all courts should stay out of politics.
Finally, the left and the right have something they may
agree on!
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Monday, September 15,
2003
Hey great news, the plane
carrying the American Media has finally landed. After
circling the airport for about two years they are now
back on the ground. No one seems to know why they
have been unable to land for all this time. But we do
know that their absence has resulted in a whale of a
void of impartial news. There was some mention that
perhaps their plane's "guts to tell it as it truly
is" device may have not been functioning properly due to
a problem with the right wing.
Now that they are back
down to earth, it seems their first order of business is
to begin to give the public details on the horrendous job
George Bush has done during his time of trying to impersonate
a President of the United States. They are talking about
the US deficit that has grown into a money
sucking monster while they were away and they are
talking about the lies that were told to convince the American
people to back a US military invasion of Iraq. There is
even some coverage of the "after war"
sordid conditions that our military personal, who remain
in Iraq, must contend with everyday. This
comes months after bush declared the mission
accomplished. Some even went so far as to say
that there will be a Presidential election next year and that
a democrat might actually have a chance to win.
I'm sure you will all
join me when I say welcome back American media, Welcome back
to reality. We have sorely missed your coverage.
While you were away the only news we received were the press
releases from the Whitehouse and they tended to be a tad
biased.
Chill down my martini
glass honey, I'm coming home*
Saturday,
September 13, 2003
Since it seems that
this administration is much more concerned with the welfare of the
Iraqi people than with that of the US citizens, perhaps they, the
administration, could just relocate to Iraq. Bush could be
the "selected" president of that country just as he was
here. Meanwhile, we could call up Al Gore and tell him to
show up at the Whitehouse and take the position he was elected to
take in 2000.
Bush could run Iraq
farther into the ground and President Gore could begin fixing the
mess bush has made here. I mean come on, is this not the
best solution yet?
~~~
Powell is at the UN
begging for cash but unwilling to bend. What exactly is it
in Iraq that we are unwilling to bend about? Why is bush
holding on so tight to that disaster over there? Which part
of the aforementioned disaster does he find so dear that he can't
let go? Is it the daily deaths of our troops, the bombings
of the buildings, the lack of electricity, the lack of water, or
the general chaos? I guess that it could be the
forever, giant bazillion dollar contract for Halliburton and the
oil. Nah, it wouldn't be that would it?
After god told bush
to slay Saddam and Osama, did god tell bush to hang on
tight to Iraq for contracts and oil? If indeed god talks to
bush, he better tell him to straighten his ass out, stop lying and
get right if he wants to visit the pearly
gates someday. From what I remember about the lessons
in Sunday School, lying and cheating are frowned upon by the god
that my church was promoting. But hey, maybe things have
changed, hell everything else has changed hasn't it? Maybe
the bush administration rewrote the Bible too. Maybe for
national security reasons they felt a little revamping
was necessary. Maybe after 9-11 they decided to make a
couple of biblical deletions of biblical
proportions. With Ashcroft and his mighty sword in
Washington, hell who needs the bible anyway? I'm sure they
find it good to use occasionally as a reference, but some of
what it says can surely get in the way of big business
and especially big dirty monkey business.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Friday, September
12, 2003
With all the memories of sadness
these past days, I can't help but think about my good friend as he
labors through a year of his life over in Iraq. If you've
read some of my writing you may recall that I frequently mention
him, because he's always
on my mind.
He was my inspiration for the first
letter I ever emailed to a site on the internet. I wrote
that letter the morning after my friend told me he had to go to
Iraq. I cried most of that night and the entire time I wrote
the letter. You see, I had never said goodbye to anyone as
they went off to war. I had protested vigorously the war in
Viet Nam, but I didn't know anyone who was involved in that war, I
just knew it was a war that no one should die for.
That night, I hugged my friend and I
tried to take a mental picture of him, which by the way I
did. I can still see the sad expression on his face and I
can still remember the sound of his voice and what we didn't
say. What I feared, I could not say to him,
and what he was dreading, he could not say to me. I just
remember that it all seemed so unreal and so unnecessary. I
knew that he and I felt the same way about this war but it was out
of our control. He was going to leave.
I have to tell you something about
him, I'm so sure you would like him too. He's a fifty year
old National Guardsman and a grandfather of two. He is
the most gentle man I've ever met. He has a little green
pickup truck that he drove to work,
and he lives almost directly across the street from me. Many
many afternoons I would be out walking my dog when he would come
home from work. He would drive into his driveway and his
three cats would come to greet him. The two younger cats
came running from the yard, but the third, the old
cat, would take a little longer,
as his days of running had passed. Each day they would all
come to greet my friend as he returned home at the end of the
day. He would always put down his lunch cooler and bend down
to give each of the cats a welcomed scratch on their backs and
heads and speak and coo to each of them. He never stopped
until the old cat finally arrived and received it's equal share of
the love and attention. He always waited for the
slow old cat to amble to his side. Then he would get
the rest of his stuff from the truck and walk up to his front door
with his group of feline fans following so close behind.
That one old cat of his is
really very old and mostly just lays under a palm tree in his
front yard all day. This old cat kind of has a tough
time walking because he has arthritis in his legs. Due
to age and perhaps experiences, his fur is no longer
a shiny ebony but more a dusty black. He's an old cat
and perhaps a tired old cat but he hasn't given up. He was
forced to began his vigil of waiting about the middle of January,
and he's still waiting. I
imagine he's wondering when that little green truck will pull into
the driveway again. Maybe he even wonders why things have
changed. Maybe he wonders why time drags by so slowly and so
sadly.
Don't feel alone old cat, I wonder
the same things that you do,
and I wait just like you do. I miss our friend with his
wonderful smile and his always cheerful greeting. It's been
much much too long a time since we've seen that
little green truck drive up in the driveway hasn't it old
cat. I know you don't feel well old cat but please
please don't give up.
Just try to hang on until we see him again. We need
each other right now, maybe we need each other more than we both
realize. When I see you there, napping under your tree,
you remind me that we have to believe and never give up.
Perhaps when you see me, you sense that I'm thinking about
you and admiring your patient devotion. Just hang in there
and keep in mind old cat, he's just as eager to see you as you are
to see him, so you have to hang on. If it becomes difficult
and you feel just too tired to keep going, please remember,
he always had time to wait for you.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm
coming home*
Thursday, September
11, 2003
Well, it's been two
years. Two years since we thought a pilot had misjudged his
flight path or something. Then we heard it had happened
again. Then we heard something had happened at the
Pentagon. Then we heard a plane had crashed in
Pennsylvania. We sort of knew what was happening but our minds
just couldn't connect it all based on our experiences in life.
We had heard the word terrorist and terrorism but we always
associated it with some other country far far away. This wasn't
something that could or would happen here in the US. We had
heard of bombers and we had heard of bombs but we had never heard of a
group of people taking over airplanes and just flying them head first
into buildings. No wonder we were all stunned. No wonder
we were all frightened. The world had changed big time and we
were in a state of shock. Then the towers started to fall in a
giant dust and glass storm. We couldn't think as fast as things
were happening. We thought that the people should have been out
of the towers by the time they collapsed. That's the way it
should have been we thought. Then we began to wonder, what
next? Our minds spun in disbelief. We wanted someone to
tell us this just wasn't real and someone could fix it and fix it
fast. We cried because we knew it was real. We just
stared in disbelief at our television sets and everything else
paled and disappeared. We called one another and spoke of
the all the events and then hung up the phone because whomever we had
spoken with couldn't make it all okay again. We hugged our
kids and lots of us prayed. But with all the hugs and all the
prayers, it was still there and the events had really happened.
People were dying in New York, in Washington and in Pennsylvania and
we knew how but the why was just beyond our
understanding. Our minds continued to try to make something
rational out of irrational events. We were more confused and
perhaps more afraid than we had ever been. This day wasn't like
any other any of us had ever experienced in our lifetime.
That day was two years
ago today and we still can't grasp what happened. We still ask
why. We still have trouble believing it all. We still morn
for the dead of that day. It is still one of the worst days of
our lives and one of the worst days of our deaths.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm
coming home*
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Seems, according to spooky old bush, that
Colin Powell will be going out trick or treating a bit
early this year. I suppose Colin will be wearing a costume
that makes him look like a peaceful man who has Iraq's future at
heart. He will be trick or treating at the door of
countries around the world with his out stretched hand asking
for money and troops to go to Iraq and help the US get the hell
out of the mess bush has gotten that country and ours into this
year. Colin will be trying to trick these countries into
believing they are in some eerie way responsible for the
disaster this war has become. He will be trying to crave
out a solution to this scary problem.
Good luck Colin, you'll need it when a door
opens and you here someone say "bonsoir".
Chill down my martini glass honey,
I'm coming home*
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
Bush is like the drunk brother-in-law who
drops in to visit you unexpectedly. He
then proceeds to call up all his mean spirited, wild
drinking buddies, invites them to your house and then they party
and destroy your place. The next morning, when
they all sober up enough, everyone leaves and you are left with
the stench, the mess and the all the expenses of the
repairs. Your drunk brother-in-law leaves you with all the
bad stuff and he moves on with no remorse.
This is how bush has handled everything
he's touched. He fooled around with our economy and
left it a mess. He fooled around with our education
system and left it a mess. He fooled around with a war in
Afghanistan and left it a mess. He fooled some into going
to war with Iraq and when things became a mess he turned to
someone else to clean it up and pay for the repairs. Seems
everything this drunken brother-in-law gets into, he makes a
mess and we will be left to clean it up for years and years to
come.
And just like with a drunk
brother-in -law, we are saddled with him even though we had no
say in the union that brought him into our lives.
~~~
"The awarding of the contract in March prompted some
lawmakers, including Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., to question
whether the administration's deep ties with Halliburton helped
secure the contract -- charges the White House has adamantly
denied. Vice President Dick Cheney formerly ran the company.
"
"Waxman had written Flowers
seeking answers as to why the contract has "no set time
limit and no dollar limit and is apparently structured in such a
way as to encourage the contractor to increase its costs and,
consequently, the costs to the taxpayer." Waxman has said
the contract to Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) could be worth up
to $7 billion over two years. "
In regards to this contract that was given
to Halliburton for the reconstruction of the oil wells in
Iraq and a bunch of other stuff. When does that contract
expire or is it open ended? Is it automatically renewed or
will it have to eventually go out for bids? Will that
contract run forever or is there a requirement to be met?
When the troops all come home will the execs of Halliburton
follow? When and if Iraq takes over the running of their
country, does that end Halliburton's involvement? Does
anyone have a copy of this contract that the public may
see? After all, it's our money that's paying the bill,
shouldn't we see what we signed up for?
~~~
Just in case sometimes you feel as though
you're "losing it", because you doubt every fun-king
thing you hear from the bush administration, don't
worry, you aren't "losing it", they stole your
confidence in them from you. You haven't gone bananas,
you've just recognized monkey business when you've seen it.
~~~
Seems we keep getting these tapes and such
from al Qaeda telling us what they are planning to do. I
wonder, was there such a warning tape before 9-11? Is this
a new thing they do now? Seems funny to me that if they
are going to do something awful to us, they would give us a
heads up so we could be prepared.
~~~
Friday, while no one was watching the
administration quietly announced that all the National Guard and
Reservists would serve in Iraq for a year from the time they
arrived there. Well that means my friend will be over
there until sometime next year. And don't even attempt to
try to tell me that my friend knew what he was getting into when
he signed up for the National Guard. That's just more
bullshit than can be tolerated. He signed up to be
available for emergencies, he did not sign up to be a target in
bush's war of lies. If my friend had wanted to be in the
army and do army combat he would have done that. If any of
you men who are reading this are 50 years old, have seen and
heard about the conditions in Iraq, have a family and
grandchildren and are not in the best of health and feel it
would be swell and your patriotic duty to be stationed in
Iraq for a year..............then go down and volunteer your ass
to go there!
~~~
Bush better try his damnedest to stay in
the oval office for four more years because once he gets out and
has to fly on commercial planes, I don't think his background is
going to pass muster to qualify as a "no risk
passenger". When they look at his background
and all the American deaths he has been responsible for, the
lies he has told, his military record and his association with
Saudis he may be blacklisted from flying on airplanes in
America.
~~~
If you haven't been mad or cussed a
blue streak or just plain cried about what has happened to our
sweet country since bush walked into the Whitehouse, you are
brain dead and really need to wake the hell up! The true
patriots of this country love their country more than they love
george bush. If you support bush simply because he is the
selected president, then you're just a presidential fan,
not an American Patriot!
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm
coming home*
Monday, September 8, 2003
Hey, I'm back!
I had a wonderful week with nothing to do but
enjoy life in a sort of fantasy world. I kept up with the
news but I guess I was trying to pretend, for just a bit, that it
wasn't my sweet country that was responsible for making all the
bad news.
I thought I could keep up the fantasy until
bedtime last night but I was wrong. There was bush's damned
face looking at me from my tv as he lied some more. He said
he wants you and me to be a financial slave to Iraq's
freedom. He said the UN should be involved. He said
stuff and I fumed. I hate that look he has on his face when
he's telling us bullshit. It's that look that my dad used to
get when he was laying down the law to me. It's that,
"it's my way and don't you damned question a word of
it", look. It's that look that's supposed to make you
feel subservient. It's the look of a man who has the
authority but not the intellect to back up what he says.
It's the look of a bully!
Bush is trying to handle the UN the same way
as he is handling the 70% of Americans who still believe that
Saddam was somehow responsible for the attacks of 9-11. He
thinks if he says it, it makes it so. Well, the people of
the UN aren't zombies. Unlike the 70% of Americans who just
follow, arms stretched out in front of them, eyes blinded, brains
dead, the folks at the UN have mental intelligence and they
aren't afraid to use it. They see what the hell is going on
here and most of them want no part of it. They know bullshit
when they hear it. Bush may be the selected president of the
US but he's not god to the folks at the UN. Bush says
it's the responsibility of the members of the UN to help him clean
up the blood and guts that he's spilled in Iraq. He says
they owe him. He ignores the fact that those same folks told
him this war was a damned bad idea and refused to hop on his
killing bandwagon. He ignores the fact that the weapons
inspectors were just inspecting away and finding nothing. He
ignores the fact that he and Powell lied to UN before the
war. Now he is sending Powell back to the UN with a new
message. Well why the hell would he expect them to
believe him this time?
Bush simply ignores anything
that doesn't fit his cause. According to bush,
the bush cause should trump reality every
time. The facts should be ignored when they don't fit
the cause.
If you agree with him on that, then you may
now officially consider yourself a certifiable zombie. Walk
on zombies, just follow the trail of the bullshit!
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm
coming home*
Saturday, August 30, 2003
Friday morning, just after the news
broke about the mosque bombing in Iraq, the Fox Holes on Fox news were
showing the tape of the destruction and the crowds of angry men shaking
their fists to the heavens. One of the Fox Holes said, "They
see a camera and they just play to the camera". As usual
the Holes didn't have a damn clue what the hell they were talking
about. These Iraqi men had just lost their most
sacred leader along with at least 74 more people. They had just
witnessed people being literally blown apart. How the hell
would you expect them to feel? What else would you expect them to
feel but pain and anger? I doubt they were concentrating on the
screwin' tv cameras. They were probably wondering what the hell
was going on in their lives and in their world since the US arrived
.
Later in the morning I clicked over to
C-span to see who the guest of the morning might be. Zowie, I got
lucky. The guest was a semi moron from the EPA.
Obviously not their wisest representative. because he answered about 80%
of the call-in questions with, " I'm not familiar with
that". These weren't rocket science questions either.
One person, for example, asked about the Whitehouse dictating
the EPA report regarding the air pollutants at the twin towers
after 9-11. To which the guest answered, " I'm not
familiar with that". Excuse me, he was not familiar
with that?..........Well he sure as hell should be!
~~~
Remember, Bush and Blair were
nominated for the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. It would have been such
a big mistake if they had won. How embarrassing would that have
been? I doubt they'll be on the short list this year. Maybe
they can come up with a new prize, The Not so Nobel War Prize.
They'd be a shoo-in for that one, don't cha think?
~~~
Sooooo Arnold did a little partying back in
his younger days did he? Arnold says he wasn't living his life,
back in the good old days, to become Governor of California. Well
Arnold, when did you start living your life to become Governor of
California? Was it about one day after you knew that the recall
was going on the ballot? You had your wild child days and now they
have come baaaaack to haunt you.
~~~
Seems this has been a trying week for
religion.
First we had the Judge in Alabama who was
trying to make a religious statement. He had, what to me appeared
to be an unhealthy if not abnormal, relationship with an en-graven-ed
image on a giant chunk of granite. I don't
know if the Judge thinks he discovered the original 10 commandments or
what? He was behaving as though his might be the only copy.
The Judge is a funky fellow.
Then we had the religious group in
Milwaukee. These folks, with what to me seemed a
somewhat unique approach to healing, wrapped up a sick
little boy in cloth and a church elder sat on the little
boy's chest until the child "inexplicably stopped
breathing". Another way to describe this might be, the
child died because a grown man was sitting on his chest and
the kid probably couldn't breathe.
I wonder if this, apply large man to
chest of small boy, remedy has been successful in the past?
This may call for a new medical alert
bracelet, "In case of illness do not allow large person
to sit on chest of small person as this excessive weight may
prevent some pretty damned vital organs from functioning
properly"
Neither of the aforementioned events
is much of an endorsement for religion is it?
Emergency! emergency! Deity damage
control needed PDQ! In the meantime a little common sense and
rational should be applied liberally.
~~~
You had to wince yesterday when Bremmer
released his statement regarding the mosque bombing. He
placed such emphasis on the fact that innocent Iraqi
civilians had been killed. I still find it strange
that when US bombs killed innocent Iraqis, that was liberation but when
the bombs belong to any other group it's murder. I guess it all
depends on who the bomber or bomb dropper is.... huh? I
wonder if it makes any difference to the victims?
~~~
I won't be ranting and raving for the
next few days because my husband is taking his WMD ( Woman of Mass
Dissatisfaction) on a little get-away. I will be lazing on the
beach, doing a little shopping, dining and cocktailing. It's not
because I want to do this you understand, but because as a good
American, I feel it is my duty to contribute to this failing economy....lol
Yeah right!
So until I return, please take care of
yourselves, be sweet, smile often and I will see you on or about
September 8.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming
home*
I have examined the Constitution of
the United States. and no where can I find the amendment
that states that during tough times all freedoms may be
revoked to suit the extreme beliefs of the presiding
Attorney General. Now I do not claim to be a scholar
of the Constitution but I'm not an idiot either.
Please let me know where it says that all rights are
guaranteed as long as things are going swimmingly in the
US but they are totally at the discretion of the Federal
government when the leaders of the country become
paranoid as hell and decide they may use any excuse to
curtail all freedoms and rights previously granted.
Thanks for your attention to this
matter John,
A United States Citizen
~~~
It is surely understandable that the
US administration wouldn't want to give up any of it's
control over the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq,
heck their plan has worked so well so far, it would be a
shame to mess it up!
~~~
Wouldn't it cut out a lot of hassle
if we, next April, just made our income tax checks
directly payable to Halliburton?
~~~
Are electrical blackouts
coincidental or a contagion among the coalition?
~~~
Smoke may get in the eyes of the
folks in Oregon, but they still seem to see things
clearly:
"Can it be pure coincidence,
locals are asking, that two wildfires sprang up in view of
the spot where President Bush planned to promote his plan
to thin forests for wildfire prevention? And
that they both appeared just as his plans emerged? "
Chill down my martini glass
honey, I'm coming home*
Thursday, August 27. 2003
Maybe this is the deal, maybe bush just
hates us. What other possible reason could he
have for treating us so bad? Maybe he's mad
because we didn't re-elect his dad or
something. Maybe he hates President
Clinton so much that he's going to just destroy our
country. I mean it has to be something like
that. He's just done so many terrible things to us
that he must just hate us. If anyone else had done the
horrible things to this country that he's done, the whole
country would be fuming.
He made no effort to prevent the events
of 9-11 even though his administration had hints that
something very similar to what happened, was going to
happen. He just seems to do everything that would ruin
us. He has wrecked everything here, the economy, our
educational system, , our jobs, our wilderness and as
of yesterday, he has made a mucky mess of the air we
breathe. He has put us in debt way up to and much
higher than our grandchildren's eyeballs and he's sent
our military into a war based on nothing but lies.
Oh, he's made promises for funding, but
name one good thing he has actually followed up on.
Just try to name one positive thing he
has done for our country since he took the oath of
office. Name just one! Take as long as you
like. I'll wait. I'm a patient person.
Chill down my martini glass honey,
I'm coming home*
Wednesday, August 27,
2003
Where the hell does bush get off? He said in his
speech today that we will fight terrorists before they
come to fight here in the US. Well, I wonder what
the Iraqi people would have to say about that, He
made the damn "bring em' on" comment and invited
all the screwin' terrorist to fight our troops in the
Iraqi people's front yard. Okay, maybe a few hundred
or thousand innocent Iraqis will die and maybe a few more
hundred of our troops will die............but hell, we
kept our front yard nice and tidy.
Is he basically saying we went to Iraq so that we could
invite all the terrorists to come there too for a friggin
fight? Nice compassion bush! Real damn nice
plan coming from a real damn nice Christian.
I also noticed as bush spoke, he is sounding more like a
preacher than a president. I don't mean the words
that he uses, but more the body language and the tenor of
his voice. He gets louder as he gets to his points
he wants to make. I was just waiting for him to bang
his fist or a bible on the podium. The
faces he makes as he speaks are not only strange,
they're disturbing. Sometimes he smirks and
sometimes he curls his upper lip and sometimes he
just sort of does funky things with his mouth. The
rhythm of his speech was very much like an old fashion
preacher with the "amen" being replaced by
applause.
I tell you, that guy is just getting creepier and creepier
and the more he gets boxed in by this nightmare war, the
more ridiculous he looks and sounds as he stands
before the hand picked audience and keeps saying the same
things over and over. It's unsettling to see the
President of the United States stand before an audience
and smile as he speaks of death..........very unsettling
indeed.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Hey Hey Hey, who's running the show?
Powell is at the UN asking for
countries to donate troops to the war that we started but
can't seem to figure out how to end.
Rumsfeld and crew are saying we don't
need more troops.
Bush and Co. are saying bring on all
the terrorists in the world and we'll fight them in Iraq.
Powell is asking for countries to send
their own troops so our guys can come home, and this just
after our invitation to all terrorists to attend a
free-for-all in Iraq.
Bush is on the golf course or in the
gym or taking a nap or at the money/barbeque trough or at
the local diner swilling with some good old boys.
Meanwhile, seems the rest of the gang must have let their
cell phone batteries run down because there doesn't seem to
be any communication.
So again, who's running the damn show?
~~~
I would say, judging
from the results, that the "roadmap to peace" in
the middle east must have been drawn up by the same
cartographer who drew up the roadmap to peace in Iraq.
That guy better be looking for a new job cause he isn't
very good at what he does now.
~~~
Does anyone really
truly think that bush would have preformed that touch
of drama onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln if there
were really and truly still some wmd to be found
in Iraq? I mean, come on, if the US had good
intelligence on wmd in Iraq, it wouldn't have made sense
for bush to declare major operations over before they had
found the hot stuff!
~~~
If you've screwed
something up and you need to cast blame somewhere
else, just do what bush does. Blame it on
President Clinton, or you can blame it on the
"terrorists" or you can blame it on
"9-11".
If you've really
really screwed something up, blame it on all three.
~~~
The militant group
Ansar al-Islam denies attacking the UN offices last
week in Iraq. When was the last time a group
like that, made a successful attack and didn't want to
take credit for it? So if not Ansar al-Islam, then
who?
~~~
Under the
heading of "Please tell me I did not hear
that", comes the following:
If things don't get
better, the US might consider sending troops into
the Israeli/Palestinian battle.
The military may be
covertly recruiting ex-Saddam intelligence agents to
help them identify the enemy.
There are full
frontal nudity pictures of Arnold on the internet.
One half of our
(Florida's) National Guard is in Iraq, thanks to Jeb
Bush's generosity to his brother's pre-emptive
war and we are about two weeks away from the height
of hurricane season down here in the land of mostly
sunshine. Hopefully the hurricane gods will
spare our state this year because if we should have
another horrible storm like Andrew, back in
1992, we'll be in the big state of trouble!
Chill down my martini glass
honey, I'm coming home*
Monday, August 25, 2003
I hope you held on to that money you
received from bush's tax cut, because today your local gas
station would like to have it back.
~~~
Bush says that the terrorists hate
freedom and peace. Would someone please tell me what
the hell that means. Do the terrorists, at their
weekly terrorist meeting, just sit around and talk
about who is free and who is at peace and how they hate the
concept or what? Do they chat and say, "Let's
see, the US is free, god I hate that." It just
doesn't make sense to me.
~~~
The Fox Holes said this morning on Fox
News said that just because bush is at his ranch for a whole
month, that doesn't mean that he's not working. Give
me a break, we all saw him at the golf course last week,
we've all seen him at the local diner in his cowboy suit
with the macho belt buckle and we've all seen him at
the money grabbing barbeques. Didn't look much like
work to me.
~~~
The next time one of your
conservative, war supporting, republican friends starts
telling you how wonderful this damn war in Iraq has been,
please tell them to go down and enlist and volunteer to go
to Iraq because our troops could sure as hell use some help
over there.
~~~
I'm betting that if bush is elected in
2004, there will be a call to reinstate the
draft. You sure won't hear a word about it now, but
once he is safely in office again it will happen. You
have to know that they would love to do it right now but it
would obviously be political suicide.
~~~
If we are spending a billion dollars
a week on the war, why can't we give our troops
enough food and water? Seems to me that we could
afford it on a budget like that. In fact, I want
to see a detailed list of just what the hell we are
spending and where it's going and to whom. It's our
money that's being spent so why don't we demand to see where
it's going?
Chill down my martini glass honey,
I'm coming home*
Things
that are difficult to deal with and maybe harder to
understand.
During
an intro to the news story about thousands of deaths in France
as a result of the heat wave, Fox News used the
sentence: "Thousands of French Fry".
George
bush gives $2000 dollar a plate fund raising barbeques, but he
won't go back to the UN and eat a little crow in order to get
troop help from other nations.
When
the US dropped tons of bombs on Iraq, if a few thousand
civilians were killed, it was for the purpose of regime change
so it was okay, but when planes flew into
buildings here in the US and thousands of civilians were
killed, that was a terrorist attack.
When
Saddam killed thousands of his people he was a tyrant but when
we killed thousands of his people we were liberators.
When
the Iraqi people are without electricity that is just part of
reconstruction but when the US is without electricity that is
a disaster.
Everyone
with knowledge knows that the troops need some help in Iraq,
but Rumsfeld says things are just fine.
After the
last two events, the blackout in the northeast and the bombing
of the UN offices in Iraq, bush spoke to the nation via video
tape. Why?
Why
do some people spend so very much time thumping the bible
and so little time extending a helping hand to one another?
Why
it's so important for Judge Moore to keep
the "10 commandments" in the giant
granite slab, when he could just keep them in his bible
and in his heart. Usually if you sincerely live by the
dictates of your religion, you don't need to have a giant copy
of them at hand to remind you of what they say.
****
Bush
stands in front of a forest and he thinks that makes him an
environmentalist,
so
if I stand in front of a firehouse, does that make me a
fireman?
I
don't think so.
Chill
down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Thursday,
August 20, 2003
Regarding Judge Moore in Alabama and his
10 commandments:
"Moore first drew national
attention after posting a wooden, hand-carved plaque of the
Ten Commandments in his courtroom while a state court judge in
Gadsden, Ala."
"Judge
Roy Moore is a man of his word. He promised that if elected
chief justice to the Alabama Supreme Court, he would take the
Ten Commandments with him to Montgomery. Last month, he kept
that promise big time. A one ton, granite replica of the
traditional "stone tablets" now sits prominently in
the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building."
