Hagel, Snowe - New Progressive Caucus members?

From Wikipedia -

Congressional Progressive Caucus

Ideology
According to their website, the CPC advocates universal health care, fair trade agreements, living wage laws, the right of all workers to organize into labor unions and engage in strike actions and collective bargaining, the abolition of significant portions of the USA PATRIOT Act, the legalization of gay marriage, strict campaign finance reform laws, a complete pullout from the war in Iraq, a crackdown on corporate crime and what they see as corporate welfare, an increase in income tax on the wealthy, tax cuts for the poor, and an increase in welfare spending by the
federal government.


Supporting organizations
An array of national progressive organizations will work to support the efforts of the caucus, including the Institute for Policy Studies, The Nation Magazine, Moveon.org, National Priorities Project, Jobs with Justice Campaign, Peace Action, Americans
for Democratic Action, and Progressive Democrats of America. Also co-sponsoring the kickoff event were the NAACP, ACLU, Progressive Majority, League of United Latin American Citizens, Rainbow/Push Coalition, National Council of La Raza, Hip Hop Caucus, Human Rights Campaign, Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, and the National Hip Hop Political Convention. The CPC has long maintained cordial ties with the Democratic Socialists of America, which hosted its website during the 1990s.

So, Hagel and Snowe have joined with a group like this that is anti-American, pro-racist, Socialist and likes really bad music. I did some work in Nebraska earlier this year and had the opportunity to speak with a lot of political people who are stunned at the arrogance and stupidity that Hagel is experiencing.

Other potential wusses;
Gordon Smith
Susan Collins
Norm Coleman
Sam Brownback
George Voinovich

May they all drive with Ted Kennedy or go camping with Barney Franks.

Other great posts concerning this

7.62mmJustice

My Vast Rightwing Conspiracy

The face of defeat or the look of love

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Biden, Hagel and Levin

Just like the flying Imams, they are seeing how far they can push and how much press they can get.

Another republican, Olympia Snowe is going to join the Democrats.

Can other losers like Voinivich and Smith be far behind?

Dems against surge or How to pander to a base of nuts

Hagel now working with the Progressives in Congress?

Thanks to Weapons of Mass Discussion

UPDATE:

Yep, sure 'nough, it is Chucky Cheese with the equally Levin and Biden.

Hagel denied that the sponsors were defeatist, or were trying to assign
blame to Bush, or had political motives, even though he and Biden are expected
to run for president.

"No one wants to see this country humiliated, defeated, or in any way lose
its purpose," he said. "There is no moral high ground that one group of senators
has over the others."

This guy thinks he is Presidential material? Is he going to pick Dennis "the menace" Kucinich to be his Veep or appoint him as the 1st head of the U.S. Peace Department?

Two peas in a pod.

After 175 years I guess their mission did change

IA World Headquarters staff on break, but still vigilant

Wonder why Justice wears a blindfold?

Attorney Found Naked In Courthouse With 14-Year-Old

Duke 88 strike again

There have been public calls to the authors to retract the ad or apologize for
it, as well as calls for action against them and attacks on their character. We
reject all of these. We think the ad's authors were right to give voice to the
students quoted, whose suffering is real. We also acknowledge the pain that has
been generated by what we believe is a misperception that the authors of the ad
prejudged the rape case.

Bullshit! This group of faculty at Duke University did prejudge. The group of 88 prejudged Duke and all of America. They used the Duke Lacrosse Team as whipping boys to further their argument that racial and sexual discrimination proudly exist at Duke and throughout the United States. Their personal and professional standing is predicated on this thesis. Now, donning their superhero capes of indignation, they say they were misjudged.

They must be very stupid to think we are that ignorant.

Protein Wisdom

Jeff Goldstein is back and this is just one reason I hope he is really back for good.

Point is, Campos’ entire piece is nothing but a showy attack on war supporters
like Bill Kristol and Glenn Reynolds (and to even a lesser extent, unmentioned
nobodies like me), and a paean to himself for his own presumed sagacity.
Never mind that Iraq hasn’t been decided, that Michael Yon is
calling it winnable, that the US has not lost a single ground battle,
etc. Campos can’t wait for such things. He appears correct, to the
untrained eye, right now, and so, like an excitable puppy proud of defeating his
first slipper, he has laid his tattered argument at our feet—while
simultaneously pissing all over the rug.

Liberals hate an attempted debate with Jeff because he understands their game, rhetoric and intellectual dishonesty. He says it is because he used to be one of them.

Add him to your blogroll. He slices and dices.

Benny Parsons - RIP

The gentle giant of NASCAR, Benny Parsons, passed away on Tuesday. BP was loved by everyone, even those he raced hard against.

"Parsons made 526 starts from 1964 until his 1988 retirement. He ended his
career with 283 top-10 finishes, led at least one lap in 192 races and finished
no lower than fifth in the points from 1972 to 1980."

He will be missed by a whole lot of people and he will be sorely missed by those who had the great privilege to know him.

Pittman, Ginn and Gonzalez

Three guys that do not know where their bread is buttered.

Going pro.

They are leaving their team in the lurch.

Some will hope they do well and make a lot of money.

I believe in loyalty.

They do not.

How sad is that?

Gonzalez is the biggest disappointment. I thought he was 300 Spartan material. He appeared to be #1 material. He wasn't and is not.

Sad.

They are all losers.

Maybe they hope to get an extra Hummer with their pay. May they get one, because that is all they have shown they are worth. Oh, and maybe an extra piece of bling.

I hate traitors.

I love Ohio. It is a good state.

China teens casual about one-night stands: poll

Well, I never was casual about them!

Jeez, kids these days

Crooked House

Beginning of the end

First White Castle in Ohio

A bag of sliders and your date is over.

Creator:W. T. Myers & Co. ; Photographer
Creation Date:1929
Place:Cincinnati, Ohio

Stitching this nation back together

See how it's done right

seejanemom

Seamless Effort

Living on the hem of the hottest outfit in the free world, I have
access to so much more than "fly-over Joe". This is a privilege. This is a
curse. Participating in pro-American activities and giving the abundant Liberal
flotsam a healthy ration of first person comeuppance makes for an unusually
gratifying daily ritual. I take special pleasure in this because I know my
patriotic brethren across this country can't feel the electrifying hum of
Washington D.C., and it is easy to let the Lame Stream Media dictate fashionable
opinion.

Sometimes I take for granted the thrill of walking into a Capitol Hill
hot spot with Hunky Husband resplendent in full Officer kit, getting the stink
eye from the Liberati there assembled, and brazenly holding their glare as if to
say, "If I weren't wearing such great Choos, you and I would step outside and I
could help you wear one too." But that satisfaction comes very
dear.

The next 9-11 will be catastrophic, most likely involve a bio-agent,
and Hunky Husband quite literally works three doors down from the most powerful
man largest bullseye ever conceived. What I wouldn't give to be on my forty
acres with my goats, far far away from the stench of government.

For those who feel on the fringes of influence, powerless to change
anything but the channel, know that nothing could be a bigger myth. You are here
participating in the great equalizer--the New Media. And all the sound bytes in
the world cannot compete with the viral truth at your fingertips. If we allow
one day in November to make us believe that we are helpless, the unholy alliance
between the Jihadiis and the American Left will surely tear us to shreds.

Read. Think. Preach. Blog. Vote. Pray. Dedicated Patriots can do
those things from anywhere.

So let's quit whining and start stitching this
nation back together. '08 is just over the horizon and time's a wasting.

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When Republicans don't get it II

This is a list of the esteemed Senators who voted against Senator DeMint's earmark reform:

Akaka (D-HI)Baucus (D-MT)Bayh (D-IN)Bennett (R-UT)Biden (D-DE)Bingaman (D-NM)Boxer (D-CA)Brown (D-OH)Bunning (R-KY)Byrd (D-WV)Cardin (D-MD)Carper (D-DE)Casey (D-PA)Clinton (D-NY)Conrad (D-ND)Dodd (D-CT)
Domenici (R-NM)Dorgan (D-ND)Durbin (D-IL)Feinstein (D-CA)Hatch (R-UT)Kennedy (D-MA)Klobuchar (D-MN)Kohl (D-WI)Lautenberg (D-NJ)Leahy (D-VT)Levin (D-MI)Lincoln (D-AR)Lott (R-MS)McCaskill (D-MO)Menendez (D-NJ)Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)Nelson (D-NE)Pryor (D-AR)Reed (D-RI)Reid (D-NV)Rockefeller (D-WV)Salazar (D-CO)Sanders (I-VT)Schumer (D-NY)Smith (R-OR)Stabenow (D-MI)Voinovich (R-OH)Whitehouse (D-RI)Wyden (D-OR)

Please note the seven republicans that voted with Byrd, Kennedy, Levin, Reid, Schumer and others. As a Republican I don't think there is enough soap to wash this much closeness off.

I've already given Voinovich my displeasure. Have you shown yours?

When Republicans don't get it

It's bad enough to be subjected to the drivel coming out of Sherrod Brown, Kucinich, Tubbs Jones, Kaptur and Zack Space. Even Voinovich is warming up to another crying jag, but unfortunately we here in Ohio have been accustomed to this.

What is truly worrisome is the lack of vision or scope that resides in our nation's Capitol. Yes, there was that insightful statement about the tube type things in the Internet, but technology does move fast these days. No, I am worried when allies of freedom in Congress do not get it, just as I worry that the opponents of freedom don't get it. Also, in Congress.

Regula sees the only alternative to Bush’s plan as “just to walk away.” And if the
United States did that, he said, “it would destabilize that whole part
of the world, not just Iraq. You’d have a hotbed of terrorists taking
over the whole environment.” (emp. mine)

"destabilize that whole part of the world"? Wrong. Destabilize the world.

Radical Islam is a virus without a state. Khomeini stated that Iran was nothing and it could die if it furthered the worldwide Caliphate. “It doesn’t matter what the people think. The people are ignorant sheep.” stated Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi of his followers. Traditionally, political and societal viruses are contained by a host state. When that host state tries to export its virus another state can move to shove it back or kill it. Communism is a state hosted virus. Vietnam, as such, is an ignorant analogy to Iraq. Yes, Vietnam had foreign insurgents just as in Iraq, but those insurgents were from other communist countries, all with stated geopolitical goals. Islam is stateless. Radical Islam is not only stateless, it is anti state. There is no containment, only eradication.

A failure in Iraq will not destabilize a (whole) part of our world. It will destabilize the Arab world, Africa, Asia and Europe for sure, but it will also destabilize Russia, America and other areas with growing radical Islamic populations and with citizens without vision or scope of what this war is really about. This war is worldwide. Those are the stakes and proponents of worldwide freedom have to understand those stakes.

Opponents of freedom do not get it. They are too selfish to understand.

Bill Batchelder for Speaker - Ohio

I am in absolute agreement with Right Angle and Viking Spirit concerning Bill Batchelder being elected Speaker of the House for Ohio. Mr. Batchelder has maintained his integrity, honesty and intellectual inquisitiveness all of his adult life.

As a young man he attended Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware Ohio and took the conservative political point in a very liberal atmosphere. He did it with intelligence and good humor and won many people to his side and garnered the grudging admiration of many others, including professors. In the poisoned environment of Vietnam, rapidly changing morals and anti-American attitudes he took many a jab, some incredibly unfair, and bounced back to continue his march. As a very young man I saw it first hand.

Now, though not elected yet, Mr. Batchelder will lead in the House. Those that choose to follow will help maintain the Republican majority for years to come and hopefully will also bring Ohio back from the brink.

Building: Gulf Tower, (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

Illustration: Hugh Ferriss (1928)

Architects: Trowbridge & Livingston, E.P. Mellon

Medium: Charcoal

American and Iraqi soldiers take 6 Iranians in raid.

Iran shocked and dismayed by accusations of terror links.

One Iranian MP said it showed America's cruelty and meanness.

Oh, boo hoo.

STOP DA PRESSES!!!!!!

Our enemies, terrorist nations all, DON'T agree with President Bush concerning a troop surge to kick their collective asses out of Iraq!

In fact, they denounced President Bush.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran and Syria on Thursday denounced President Bush's
new Iraq strategy that blames them for fueling violence in the war-torn country,
and they said the plan to send more U.S. troops would only increase bloodshed.
Bush's speech Wednesday night underlined his staunch rejection of
recommendations that Washington reach out to Syria and Iran in an attempt to
calm Iraq.

Instead, Bush set out plans to isolate the two countries, calling on
help from Arab allies and vowing to cut off Syrian and Iranian aid to militants
in Iraq. He announced the deployment of an additional aircraft carrier battle
group and Patriot air defense missiles to the region — seen as muscle-flexing
toward Iran.

In Tehran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said Bush's
plan to send 21,000 more troops to Iraq was a "continuation of occupation" that
will only "extend insecurity, danger and tension in the country. This will not
help to solve Iraq's problems."
Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa said
Wednesday prior to Bush's speech that the American troop surge was "not a
positive step" and would only "pour oil on the fire."

Oh, others have denounced President Bush's goal to win also. Their names are:

Obama
Sharpton
Clinton
Dodd
Biden
Gore
Edwards
Kerry
Kucinich
Vilsack
Richardson
Clark

Congress is a coward

or a liar.

or just a bunch of hack politicians.

I think Congress is the new Butcher of Baghdad.

The Marine and the professor

I just came across this blog Blonde Sagacity which had this story. Dear sweet God I wish it were true. Most people who had to listen to this crap in college would cheer to see this happen to the vapid windbag they had to sit and listen to.

Maybe you've seen this before, but someone sent it and I just had to post
it... It reminded me of a true story from when my mom was in school. She had a
philosophy professor that wrote "God is Dead" -Nietzsche on the board and before
he got into class she wrote "Nietzsche is Dead" -God underneath. He was not
amused..."A United States Marine was attending some college courses between
assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the
courses had a professor who was a vowed atheist and a member of the ACLU.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to the
ceiling and flatly stated, "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me
off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes." The lecture room fell
silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went by and the professor
proclaimed, "Here I am God. I'm still waiting." It got down to the last couple
of minutes when the Marine got out of his Chair, went up to the professor, and
cold-cocked him; knocking him off the platform. The professor was out
cold.

The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other
students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence. The
professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked,
"What the hell is the matter with you? Why did you do that?" The Marine calmly
replied, "God was too busy today protecting America 's soldiers who are
protecting your right to say stupid shit and act like an asshole. So, He sent
me."

Oh, if only...

Ka-POW!! BTW, great blog Blonde!

Problem Solved

The hangover is abating

but not the depression.





OSU French 101

Dennis Kucinich fathers two idiots

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who made opposition to Bush’s Iraq policy a
centerpiece of his campaign against GOP Sen. Mike DeWine, called for an
"up-or-down vote" to determine whether senators "support the escalation of this
war or not."

Brown also said that when Bush asks Congress for additional money to pay
for the buildup, lawmakers should approve the bill "with instructions that the
president use this money to redeploy troops safely — in the most orderly way —
out of Iraq."

Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, D-Cleveland, who is running for the 2008
presidential nomination, went further. In a speech Monday in New York, Kucinich
unveiled his plan to "end the occupation" of Iraq by U.S. forces, pay
reparations, close bases and withdraw.

He wants to replace the U.S. forces with an international peacekeeping
force, although there is little sign that any collection of nations wants to
send troops to Iraq.

Rep. Zack Space, D-Dover, complained that the administration has yet to
spell out how a troop surge will bring about success in Iraq. "Without a clear
plan and a clear objective, I fear that a troop increase will only deepen the
disaster that our Iraq policy has become."

Sherrod Brown, still smoking after all these years, has announced his foreign policy plan and decided how the Commander in Chief will conduct military matters in Iraq. Zack Space is already complaining that Bush hasn't announced to the enemy our military plans which, no doubt, is also vexing the murderous terrorists wanting to humiliate the U. S. in Iraq and before the world. Twins Sherrod and Space obviously are anxious to help the little bastards in their goal of solidifying and growing their Jihad in Iraq and beyond. It is unimportant to the twins that free Iraqis will be stomped on, tortured and killed just so that today they can get some face time in their beloved Cleveland Pain Dealer.

Sound familiar? It should. Dennis "the menace" Kucinich has been a progressive, code for socialist, for years and has been spouting the same lying lines while drooling nonsense that he wants "the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms" all the children of the world. Just not Arab children. He doesn't care if they rot and die or are simply murdered.

So Sherrod and Space, welcome to your new family. Who's your daddy now?

Mexican Military Incursion of U.S. Border

Got this from

http://762justice.com/2007/01/08/mexican-gunmen-involved-in-arizona-border-incident-actually-uniformed-mexican-force/

Read the whole article and follow the links and learn from what you read. Getting smart will make you pissed off.

Attention heirs to English throne: Where are you?

LONDON (Reuters) - An international quest is being launched for historical
heirs to the throne of England.

Advertisements appearing this week in British, U.S., Australian, German
and Norwegian newspapers will ask "Can you trace your family tree back to 1066?
Might your ancestors have claimed the English throne?"
Edgar Aetheling was named heir apparent by his great-uncle King Edward the Confessor but was not crowned when the King died in 1066 because he was too young. Harold II was crowned instead.

William the Conqueror crossed over from Normandy, defeating Harold at
the Battle of Hastings. The teenage Aetheling later submitted to William.

English Heritage, which seeks to protect the country's historical
environment, asks in its advertisements: "Are you of Edgar the Aetheling's
lineage and believe you have a legitimate claim?"

I'm checking. This could really increase my net worth. Shouldn't you? If we could put a conservative on the throne of England, well, just maybe they'd quit acting like a bunch of Nancy smancy Pelosis.

Double your net worth!

I did when I found out how much this blog was worth.

I am going to track my fortune with the Technorati icon on the lower left margin.

You laugh, but soon I'll be selling my old Vanowagon and moving up to a 1970 Lesabre!

Ha, then you'll see! Ah, you ladies can't wait. can't you?

Kennedy: Bush must dance to our tune

Written in the margin in invisible ink.

"There can be no doubt that the Constitution gives Congress the authority to decide whether to fund military action, and Congress can demand a justification from the president for such action before it appropriates the funds to carry it out," Kennedy said.

What will this man not run away from? besides scotch.


UPDATE: Edward Markey, who is at least 2 cards short of a deck, supports Kennedy! How quaint that two stupid old men support the murder of innocent Iraqis that want to live free. Oh, they have always supported despots that murder, maim and torture in the name of a better society. Can anyone tell me just how more stupid Markey is than Teddy? Is that possible?

Drake Hokanson

Cooked buckeyes

1 Fast sear to soften up

2 Simmer approx 3 hours in Gator broth

3 Serve with Humple Pie

Optional liquor as necessary

January 8, 1816

NYT- Critics claim no plan for the peace

LAT- Insufficient forces claimed by Jackson's staff

A ragtag band of about 4,500 frontiersmen, pirates, and slaves led by
General Andrew Jackson defeat 5,300 British troops at the Battle of New Orleans, suffering just 71 casualties while inflicting more than 2,000 British casualties. Ironically, a peace treaty ending the War of 1812 had been signed in Ghent, Belgium on December 24. 1815

Strickland delays execution

Ted needs more time to study whether Kenneth Biros should be executed.

Her head and right breast were hacked off. Her naked torso had been
eviscerated, the anus, rectum, bowels, bladder, and sex organs removed as
well. Later investigators discovered Tami's intestines, black leather coat,
and shoe in a swampy area near a set of railroad tracks Biros led them to.
Tami's blood was all over the gravel and the tracks themselves. Most of the
rest of her was found in the other dumping area, but at least part of her
liver was recovered from the trunk of Biros's car.

It turned out that Biros had invited Tami Engstrom to see the "cabin"
in his back yard. The cabin turned out to be an ordinary concrete shed in the
middle of the woods behind the house. Once he got her into the woods he tried to
rape her, then killed her by beating and stabbing her; the coroner determined
that she suffered ninety-one injuries and stab wounds before she died, including
at least five knife wounds after she was dead. The blood on his clothes and
shoes, as well as in the woods behind the house, would help convict him. He
carried her body in his car to desolate fields in Pennsylvania and tried to
dispose of it, but was under arrest just two days later.

When a person like Biros has torn the very fabric of society, he is no longer part of that society. Tami Engstrom was murdered and dismembered after an attempted rape on the night of February 7, 1991.

No wonder Ted took office under the cover of darkness.

TBDBITL - OSU

Oh, and I hear the football team is pretty good as well.

UPDATE: Well, the band was good. The staff did not do what the team needed. Florida was pumped and ready to do what it needed to do to win. Ohio State had no direction and it showed.

First strike: Tressal

Don't go for another strike. Woody will rise from the grave and bitch-slap you faster than a coach who said Michgan might win.

Ohio Governor enters office under cover of darkness

It is going to be an odd couple of years fo Ohio. Prision psychologist and ordained Methodist minister along with hootenanny Franny are not now the first couple of Ohio. They became so just after midnight earlier today as most of Ohio slept.

Fran Strickland might publish a book of music because she can't cook and Ted plans to focus on residency ethics and be one with the people.

Om.

Free genealogy

Just another Congressional perk!

Less than 24 hours after taking over as House speaker, Pelosi took NEWS9 cameras on a tour of the Capitol. There, she said she will still allow Mollohan to hold his powerful position which oversees the budget of the Justice Department -- the very people investigating his financial dealings.

"Quite frankly, I think the Justice Department is looking into every member of Congress. I always say to everybody, 'You're now going to get a free review of your family tree -- past, present and future, imagined and otherwise,'" Pelosi said.

Nancy Pelosi

AFTER THE SELF CORONATION

Fairness - First promise broken.

“We [American women] have waited over 200 years for this time to come. In more than 200 years of history, there was an established pecking order and I cut in line. All right, let’s hear it for the power!”

Watch out Steny and the hell with her knife, watch out for the claws.

Barney Frank on Katrina

Barnet Frank is a liar and he knows it. I disagreed, but had some respect for Frank before. No longer.

Conservative or Liberal 1994

Wow! This is cool. It is also telling that we are still arguing the same stuff since 1994!!

Go and take the quiz. Be honest now.....

Political Quiz
Ever wonder where you beliefs were on the LIBERAL versus
CONSERVATIVE scale. Here is an easy way to find out by taking this short 25
question.
The following quiz was written by Victor Kamber and Bradley S.
O'Leary and appeared in the October 28-30, 1994 issue of USA Weekend. Before you vote in the next election, take this quick, quiz to see where - and with whom -
you really stand.

Walker Evans

Trial, then hanging. Music by the Hip Hop Caucus

Cindy Sheehan routs the Democrats

"Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic leadership can no longer tell us what is on the table," Mrs. Sheehan said. "We are the ones that put them in power and they are not including the peace movement. ... It needs to be at least included in the discussion." She demanded the elimination of funding for the war, an investigation and impeachment of President Bush for what she called "lies" to justify the war.

BUSH MUST GO! Demonstration at Opening of Congress, 12 noon, Jan 4

DANIEL ELLSBERG to Join MICHAEL RATNER, CINDY SHEEHAN, JOHN
NICHOLS, GORE VIDAL, DEBRA SWEET, DAVID SWANSON speaking at National Press Club,
7pm
'If War Crimes, Torture, and Crimes Against Humanity Are Not
Reason to Impeach, What Is?'

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On January 4, people will demonstrate at the opening of Congress. Protesters from up and down the East Coast, some dressed in orange Guantanamo torture jumpsuits, will demand that Congress investigate and hold accountable the Bush administration for criminal liability, and that the House
of Representatives immediately initiate Articles of Impeachment against Bush for
"high crimes and misdemeanors."
1. DEMONSTRATION, 12noon, Thursday, January 4 Upper Senate Park (Delaware & Constitution, just north of Capitol), Washington DC
2. "VOICES FOR IMPEACHMENT" evening program featuring DANIEL ELLSBERG, MICHAEL RATNER, JOHN NICHOLS, CINDY SHEEHAN, DEBRA SWEET, video message from GORE VIDAL, 7pm, Thursday, National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW

Millions thought they were voting against the war and the president, but the
Democratic leadership of the new Congress has declared that impeachment is off
the table.
That night at 7pm, DANIEL ELLSBERG (Pentagon Papers), MICHAEL RATNER (pres., Center for Constitutional Rights), JOHN NICHOLS, CINDY SHEEHAN, DAVID SWANSON and DEBRA SWEET will speak at a forum sponsored by
World Can't Wait. GORE VIDAL will send a video message.

Debra Sweet, National Director of World Can't Wait: "A regime as criminal as
the Bush regime should not be allowed to remain in office. This unjust war was
started on lies and has continued despite an election where millions thought
they were voting to stop it. The Democrats allow debate only on how to run the
war more effectively, and refuse to even consider impeachment. This is
unacceptable. If George Bush is not removed from office before 2008, then
everything he has done -- his doctrine of preemptive war, legalization of
torture, undermining the rule of law, and inserting fundamentalist
Christianity into the laws, culture and institutions of the country -- will
continue no matter who becomes the next president. As people of conscience
living in the U.S. we cannot allow that to happen."

Endorsers include US Green Party; Rep. Cynthia
McKinney; AfterDowningStreet.org; ImpeachBush.org; Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Hip
Hop Caucus; ImpeachForPeace.org; ImpeachBush.tv.

Interviews available.

WORLD CAN'T WAIT--DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME
http://www.worldcantwait.org/ press@worldcantwait.org


CONTACT: Connie Julian of World Can't Wait, +1-718-825-9119.

Vidal, McKinney and Sheehan. Maybe when they grow up they can find a job.

Vidal Gores Bush

Gore Vidal hates America, Americans and President Bush, because he is so damned smart and perceptive. Don't you know.

Gore Vidal: Bush Caused US Crisis

Havana, Dec 20 (Prensa Latina) During his recent visit to Cuba, esteemed US
academic Gore Vidal said the US is facing a legal, political and institutional
crisis, and he severely criticized the Bush administration.

Vidal's statements were included in a special interview given during his five-day stay in Cuba, which was broadcast on Tuesday at the end of the regular Cuban
roundtable discussion broadcast.

If the US people would have had a true free press and some alert media, incompetent George W.. Bush would have never been elected president, as he does not even speak well and becomes exasperated when he tries to read when his advisers are absent.

About Rene Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez and Antonio Guerrero, the Five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the United States eight years ago, the US writer said this proved once again that his country is facing a legal, political and constitutional crisis.

The clear-thinking US academician declared that the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York provided a pretext for a coup d etat in the northern nation, the first one in history, in which a group of dishonest people, from an oil cartel, usurped State power and overthrew the Congress.

"This is something that people do not understand, because Americans have very simple minds: what they do not know or have not previously seen, does not exist. They live now in situ, but some day they will discover it, as archeologists, and that won t be at all nice," stressed Vidal.

Being a literay man, Vidal might know what a Potemkin Village is, as in Havana.

Shadows of tactics past

Over the Christmas celebration while I was stuffing myself with Calimari, Canolies and Chavis I came across a poll asking "Do you think the U.S. can win in Iraq?". I believe it was asked on the Columbus Dispatch website, which struck me as odd at the time.

The Columbus Dispatch of my youth was the flagship of the Wolfe family media group which included newspapers, television and radio stations. The Wolfe family personified Ohio values in that they worked hard, played hard and voted Republican.

This came to mind because said Calimari were dying at a high rate by me as I sat in New York reading a newspaper from Ohio with a wife I met in Virginia. I mused that Ohio had been a sensible good place to get dragged up in, that Ronald Reagan had brought me to the home of my mother's family which had been Virginia, and I remembered that New York, with the Rockefellers, had been the enemy. A reality check smacked me. hard.

Today, the Wolfe family have ceded control of their media group to a liberal enabling wuss publisher named Curtain (sp?), Columbus is a hotbed of BDS, the street I shared with No Such Agency types in Virginia is now populated by fat "civil servants" living in a gulf community and I was sitting in what had been enemy territory with the love of my life, her family and a rabidly conservative community. More Chavis. please.

"Do you think the U.S. can win in Iraq?" What an incredibly stupid question. Of course we can and at all levels including militarily, but, if I recollect correctly, 20+% replied in the poll that Iraq was a hopeless quagmire. Excuse my KerryFrench, but what a crock of horseshit.

Once again, we are not being allowed to win, but (again) the enemy is being enabled to not appear to lose. Iran has their fingers in the pie, Syria is at the very least a staging area for terrorists, the Saudi are terror's venture capitalists, Egypt is Egypt and somewhere in this pile of horseshit I bet we're going to find a pony called Putin. Thus we know who the players are, know their address' and we have pretty good GPS coordinates.

Each day the terrorists murder for the MSM's previewing pleasure, everyday opponents of the War on Terror get their mugs in the MSM crying their pitiful slogans, everyday manufactured intellectuals produce "works" proving American perfidy and slowly the attitude of average Americans change.

"Do you think the U.S. can win in Iraq?" Yes, I do when we start treating this as a war and defeat the enemy and their enablers.

America has been here before. Now, we have to not only fight over there, but here as well. Opponents of freedom have successfully put their argument front and center from Korea to the here and now. They are in the minority, but have been successful because they are persistent. It is time for freedom lovers to put their arguments front and center here in America and the rest of the world.

As a civilian led military, we should support our President in giving the military its objective and getting the hell out of the miltary's way. As citizens we should fight in the newsroom, the classroom, the halls of Congress and our city halls. When people say it has gone on too long, ask them how long their grand children want to live. When opponents of freedom call someone a chickenhawk, tell them they are a chickenhawk for terrorism, because they are.

When you see a person wearing the uniform of our country, walk up to them and thank them, buy them a drink or pay for their meal and do it quietly, not with fanfare, but faithfully, just as our soldiers are serving our country and the cause of freedom. When someone says our soldiers joined up because they had no other options, tell them that a remark like that probably means they're too stupid to be in the best educated military in the world. We're not winning because we are not doing our part.

When you don't want to cause a scene or spoil a party or are afraid to be the town loudmouth, think of a bleeding soldier in the dirt or a family celebrating a holiday, a birthday or an anniverary without a loved one who is away serving us. It is time we serve those that are serving for us. It is not the time to politely ignore those who would tear us down. It is time to tear them and their anti-freedom strawmen down.

"Do you think the U.S. can win in Iraq?" Wrong question.

Enhance freedom by spreading freedom.

There are photographers....

and there is Walker Evans.

Actually, the ghosts of Kerrys present

Saddam was a hero! America is evil!!!

He loved his daughter so much that he killed her husband. He loved his country so much he raped it.

"'a lack of clarity'"

Rep. Conyers promises better ethics standards

Driving fast, late and hard, but tappin my foot

Following the lead of Viking Spirit, Lincoln Logs and The Keeler Report, I have put together a list of 19 songs to put on a CD that “I can’t live without”. Okay, 19 songs that fit this mind frame. Also, I have all these songs on my shelf. Kinda silly saying you “can’t live without” a song and then don’t own a copy.

1 LA Woman – Doors/Idol
2 Going Down – Jeff Beck
3 Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf
4 Rebel Yell – Idol
5 Midnight in Montgomery – Alan Jackson
6 Kryptonite – 3 Doors Down
7 All Along the Watchtower – Hendrix
8 Ain’t That a Shame – Cheap Trick
10 Crazy – Patsy Cline
11 Ain’t Superstitious – Willie Dixon
12 Boom Boom – John Lee Hooker
13 The House is a Rockin – Stevie Ray Vaughn
14 Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash
15 I Can’t Make You Love Me – Bonnie Raitt
16 Lie To Me – Jonny Lang
17 Livin’ in America – James Brown
18 Don’t Speak – No Doubt
19 You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC

I like all music, except opera (growing up, it was no fun getting a whoopin to Wagner), but my favorites are early blues (Mississippi Fred McDowell) and early country (Hank), classical and almost all rock. Modern country has some really good songs, but they ain’t country. Grunge was good, but punk was better. Rap has its moments, but why don’t they cut to the chase and build a recording studio in a supermax and a couple of mortuaries?

Delbert isn’t on the list because I couldn’t choose just one. Same with the Kinks. Same with the hardest working man in show bizness, but this list would suck without at least one James Brown song. Allman Brothers, Willie Dixon, Eurythmics, Alison Krause, Lyle, Linkin Park, Creed and on and on.

To totally screw the pooch, for me it is perfectly normal to go from Weezer to the Kingsmen to Sid and then to Dvorak.

My brain hurts.

Remember Scott Ritter

Scott Ritter was a person who had a great and detrimental effect on our nation's effort to bring Iraq back into the nations of compliance concerning WMDs. Scott Ritter should be remembered as a fool. Unfortunately, Scott Ritter had his 15 minutes of fame at a time the world couldn't afford him.

Remember UNSCOM? Here is analysis by Ritter pre-war.

Well, there's a large number of players involved here [in killing UNSCOM].
You have Iraq, which was not complying fully with Security Council resolutions.
What I mean by fully is they weren't letting UNSCOM complete that last few
percentage points to get us up to 100 percent.
So, Iraq is complicit. But
that'd been happening for eight years. UNSCOM was alive and well and breathing
for seven years. So, you can't say that Iraq killed UNSCOM because Iraq behaved
the same way throughout, and UNSCOM still existed.

The Security Council created UNSCOM under Chapter 7 of the United
Nations Charter, and that carries with it a promise to enforce its own law, and
the Security Council wasn't enforcing its law, and that helped to perpetuate
this cycle of cheat-and-retreat confrontation, and then, backing down.

You could say the Security Council killed UNSCOM, but again, that's a
process that's been taking place for years, and UNSCOM was still alive, well,
breathing, kicking, doing its job.
Now we come down to the final two
players. You have an executive chairman who, for whatever reasons, has become
enamored with the support of the United States. You have a United States
administration, the Clinton Administration, which, as we've seen with Madeleine
Albright's unfortunate statements of 1997, have decided to pervert international
law and say that it doesn't matter what Iraq does with disarmament, we're going
to keep economic sanctions in place.

Now, these sanctions are becoming harder and harder to defend, on two
fronts. One, what good are they doing? Are they having an impact on the target,
Saddam Hussein? The answer is no. Who suffers under sanctions? Innocent Iraqi
people. Thousands of children under the age of five die every month because of
these sanctions, and while the American public might be oblivious to this,
believe me, the rest of the world is not, and the longer we continue this
program of economic sanctions targeted against Iraq, the more isolated the
United States becomes.

But Richard Butler had come to a decision that we couldn't carry out
certain activities without the support of the United States. That the United
States was somehow our No. 1 backer in the Security Council, and he allowed the
United States to start calling the shots. An inspection a little too
confrontational, Richard? Why don't we pull the plug on it, buddy, and stop
it.

Now, Ritter hasn't questioned the $2 Billion that Saddam pocketed nor has he addressed how much that $2 Billion could have helped the "thousands of under the age of five" that he stated died each month because of the sanctions. Nor has Ritter discussed the UN's corruption.

Nor has Ritter discussed how wrong he was on this issue as well as all the other erroneous statements he made.

Many people have written about "The Person of the Year" and while I agree with many choices I also believe that Scott Ritter should be the "Person of the Year" for many years to come because his words bolstered the anti-American positions of Hans Blix, Kofi Annan, John Kerry (and his cousin Jack Iraq), Charles Schumer and so many other fools in this country and abroad. This cost, exacted by an ex-marine, has been paid by our soldiers and their families.

For his 15 minutes of fame, I place Scott Ritter ahead of Neville Chamberlain, but behind Benedict Arnold.

About right, Ritter should be rated between a fool and a traitor.

"Why don't we pull the plug on it, buddy, and stop it."

Just plain wrong IV

Soddamned Insane = Jesus Christ?

This moron is making comparisons between Jesus Christ and Saddam Hussein. Of course he hopes that Saddam isn't deified. How so very kind of him.

Once, they hailed him a leader, some out of respect, some out of fear.
Then, the crowds turned on him, calling for his death. A kangaroo trial took
place, one where his homeland didn't really want jurisdiction but the real
dictator didn't want his blood on his hands so he kept throwing the trial
back at them.

Then, in a hurried decision, he was killed, before sundown and right before
a religious holiday.

No, I'm not talking about Saddam Hussein, I'm talking about Jesus Christ.
Of course, the Bush administration doesn't hold history to any regard, nor are
they truly Christians, although they claim to be, so how or why would they see
the similarities. But I do. Not that the two men are or were anything alike.
One was good, one was evil. But the situations seem the same surrounding
their deaths. I bring this up out of fear, fear that the most recent murder,
that of Saddam Hussein, won't end in the same type of deification Christ's
did.

So, like Pilate, as we Americans try and wash the blood of Hussein off of
our hands (and make no mistake, his death is squarely our doing, and it cost us
almost half-a-trillion dollars) we need to ask ourselves, what did this man do
to us to deserve this, the ultimate form of punishment?

This tour de force of ignorance continues with twisted logic, twisted statements and lies. I guess in this case it might be okay to state "For Christ's sake, shut up moron." Sorry Mom.

AP/Alaa al-Marini

Iraqi soldiers celebrate Saddam's hanging in Najaf.

Iraqis = 3/5 people continued

An Iraqi woman celebrates after hearing news about the execution of the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, while she holds a picture of her son, a victim of the Saddam regime. AP Photo

Saddam hanged for male growth!! Cheaper than drugs...

Whatever evil Saddam Hussein did, his trial and soon-to-occur executionwere
and are a farce, both of which have been timed for maximum domesticpolitical
effect here, not in Iraq.

The trial verdict was timed for the November
election and the hanging istimed so Bush can brag — yes, brag — about it at the
State of theUnion address.

I am sure Bush imagines his ____ will grow an inch longer once he has seen to Saddam Hussein’s hanging. Boy, is he ever in for a surprise.

BTW, have you ever noticed how much Bush has adopted the
bow-legged walkof actual cowboys? That’s pretty hilarious since Bush is AFRAID
to getup on, much less ride, a horse.

Bush is a wuss, a wimp, and a scaredy cat.

What a loser.

I am sure Bush thinks that whoever masterminds the most deaths wins the macho award.

That’s what irritates him so much about Saddam Hussein, who also killeda lot of people. Bush has to hurry to catch up.

For a group of "carers" who love the "Religion of Peace" they sure hate a lot and think most of the world's people are too stupid to think for themselves. The little brown people are 3/5s of a human because they are Bush's slaves.

Josh Marshall - Iraqis = 3/5 people?

Because they're brown people you know.

Evil dumb Bush is manipulating entire continents and we're dumber than Bush because only JOSH is smart enough to know that Iraqis aren't smart enough to make decisions for themselves.

These jokers are being dragged kicking and screaming to the realization that the
whole thing's a mess and that they're going to be remembered for it -- defined
by it -- for decades and centuries. But before we go, we can hang Saddam. Quite
a bit of this was about the president's issues with his dad and the hang-ups he
had about finishing Saddam off -- so before we go, we can hang the guy as some
big cosmic 'So There!'

Marx might say that this was not tragedy but farce. But I think we need to get way beyond options one and two even to get close to this one -- claptrap justice meted out to the former dictator in some puffed-up act of self-justification as the country itself collapses in the hands of the occupying army.

Oh, and by the way Al Queda is just a group of misunderstood guys and Josh is just game for it.

Meet Praveen

A boy without a clue

So, now u undertand the title of this post, i guess...Saddam was cruel, a
peronification of evil...he died..but the Satan Bush is still here to create
more Saddams....SATAN lives on.....here are Saddam's last words to his
followers...

``Here, I offer my soul to God as a sacrifice, and if he wants, he will
send it to heaven with the martyrs,''

I SALUTE SADDAM'S BRAVERY EVEN WHEN FACING
DEATH AND ONCE MORE .......DOWN WITH BUSH...DOWN WITH USA

your crusader Praveen

Saddam

CNN is being judicious about the Saddam execution. CNN doesn't want to upset those that want freedom by showing images that CNN thinks will promote murder.

Today, Iraqi's are dancing in the streets applauding his death. AP and the MSM aren't exactly in the same ballpark. I guess it doesn't fit their idea of news.

Oh, they'll bemoan the end of a murderer for the monent, then they'll find a reason why he wasn't so bad and then they'll discuss the need for a Saddam to come back. All because you and the world cannot understand the the true needs of the Iraqis.

Nor does the media. Obviously

Fat bastard dead.

Dead.

Good. Very good.

A common criminal is dead.

CNN is still worrying and waiting for pictures and hoping they are not too graphic.

Woe is they.

Dead.

Good.

Vasto Antipasto-secret recipe from 1820 Italy

Ingredients for 6:

1/4 lb hot cappicola
1/4 lb mild cappicola
1/4 lb prosciutto
1/4 lb salami
1/4 lb Virgina ham
1/4 very hard imported (aged) provolone
1/4 roasted red peppers (slice thinly)
1 cup celery (small slices)
2 hard boil egg
1 can anchovies
1 jar of marinated artichokes
3/4 head of iceberg lettuce
1 can of black olives pitted
4 pope tomatoes

Layer with lettuce first, meats second, and then vegetables. Make a second layer and place thin slices of hard boil egg and anchovy on top (decorate nicely.). Mix red wine vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper to taste (more red vinegar is best!).

Serve with hard Italian bread.

Saddam hanged.

One butcher.

One gallow.

Recipe for Italian Boulibasse

3 quarts marinara sauce
10 lobster tails or 5 lobsters cut
2 cloves of garlic
1tbs of flat (italian) parsley
1/2 cup red wine
1/2 lb small (little necks) clams
1/2 lb mussles
1/4 lb cod

mix sauce, garlic, parsley, and red wine and heat until warm

add lobster, shrimp, cod, mussles, and lobster. Cook 15 - 20 mins on med. heat until a low boil.

Serve fish in separate bowl. Mix sauce with linguine in separate bowl.

Buon appetito!!!

Michal Razniewski

Associated Press in 1837

December 29, 1837

COLONIES INVADED. AMERICAN ARMY IN DISARRAY. Riots against administration’s lies that led to war held in Boston, New York and Philadelphia .

“The Caroline Affair.” A Canadian militia crosses into New York State and burns an American steamboat, the Caroline, which was suspected of carrying supplies to Canadian rebels.

Update:
Washington Post reporting women, children and minorities most at risk of violence.

Update: Protestors meet President Van Buren with cries of “No blood for maple syrup.” Lucinda Sheehan chains herself to Presidential carriage.

Italy 2005

Associated Press in 1780

December 29, 1780

COLONIES LOST. MINUTE MEN IN DISARRAY. Riots against War throughout new world.

The British army, under Benedict Arnold, invades Virginia.

King George names new cabinet posts in NY,MA,VA and rest of New England.

Update:

Washington Post reporting women, children and minorities most at risk of colonial terror backlash.

Yeah, but will they fly.....

Green eggs AND green ham? I yam.

New York, New York

In-laws.

Christmas Eve Italian dinner. 7 fish from the 7 seas and 7 courses. 21 people. 7 hours to eat and then relive the year, the lives and the family history. Ages 6 to 75. The wife's family.

I'm of Welsh/German extraction. No AKC here. Go figure.

Very full. still.

New York, New York. I am.

Merry Christmas to all, especially our troops where ever they serve. I pray for their safe return and I pray for their success in their, our, mission.

God bless you all.

Merry Christmas. To all.

Problem uncovered.

An overwhelming number of Britons believe religion does more harm than good
while non-believers outnumber believers by nearly two to one, an ICM poll
suggested.

Now solve it.

Global Orgasm Day

I first spoke of it here. Now, today, it has finally arrived. I am so psyched! There is a fly in the ointment (yeah, think it), I have had a migraine all day. Think the wife is channeling me?

Gothic Window

Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery

Al Queda wins one for the Democrats

Howard Dean takes credit.

In a portion of the tape from al Qaeda No. 2 man, Ayman al Zawahri, made
available only today, Zawahri says he has two messages for American
Democrats.

"The first is that you aren't the ones who won the midterm elections,
nor are the Republicans the ones who lost. Rather, the Mujahideen -- the Muslim
Ummah's vanguard in Afghanistan and Iraq -- are the ones who won, and the
American forces and their Crusader allies are the ones who lost," Zawahri said,
according to a full transcript obtained by ABC News.

Zawahri calls on the Democrats to negotiate with him and Osama bin
Laden, not others in the Islamic world who Zawahri says cannot help.

"And if you don't refrain from the foolish American policy of backing
Israel, occupying the lands of Islam and stealing the treasures of the Muslims,
then await the same fate," he said.

Treasures? Nobody said anything about treasure!

Read more at Red State.

Blogs suck

As the unofficial, unpaid and unknown nonagent for a certain Mr. Dave Burge it is my distinct honor to inform you he is still skulking in an alley near you.

Here

Political Correctness defined

A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and
rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth
the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

Why little man Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is upset

Thanks to an anti-freedom group for the map showing why the little guy and his imams are upset with the US.

Iran blusters well, but a two front confrontation, diplomatic or military, may be beyond their abilities which is why Iran is bluffing big. As they put pressure on Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, Pakistan and the others, the US is working to isolate them by the same means.

For a starting point the US has troops and bases in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kirgizstan, Diego Garcia, Oman, and Afghanistan. The US is working with other countries in the region.

Will entreaties of "nuclear power" by Iran to oil based economy countries be enough to tip the balance to them?

Looking at the recent voting in Iran I don't think it's just the little guy that is nervous in Iran.

Merry Christmas and thanks to the troops

Go here and say thank you to our troops for protecting us.

Go here to tell Chucky what you think of his very low esteem of our troop.

James Baker does to Israel and US what he did to Reagan

Baker accused of skirtingU.S. sanctions on Saddam

You see, it's just business, but good advice is to not leave finger prints on the knife or the back.

A note from Nancy Pelosi with a P. S.

100 Hours: Honest Leadership and Open Government

During the first 100 legislative hours of the 110th
Congress, Speaker-designate Pelosi and the Democratic Leadership have pledged to
pass key measures affecting the everyday lives of all Americans. One of
these is a series of proposals to clean up Washington and severing unethical
ties between lawmakers and lobbyists. We will start by banning travel and gifts
from lobbyists, getting tough on special interest earmarks, and ending the
abusive processes that have destroyed democracy in the House of
Representatives.

WHY PROPOSAL IS NEEDED:
Americans are paying for the cost of corruption in Washington with skyrocketing prices at the pump, spiraling drug costs, and the waste, fraud and no-bid contracts in the Gulf Coast and Iraq, for Administration cronies like Halliburton.

· The cozy relationship between Congress and special interests has resulted in lobbying scandals, such as those involving Republican super lobbyist Jack Abramoff. In this scandal, former Rep. Bob Ney pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit fraud -- accepting all-expense-paid trips to play golf in Scotland and accepting meals, sports and concert tickets, while providing legislative favors for Abramoff’s clients.

· The scandal of former Rep. Duke Cunningham pleading guilty to accepting bribes from defense contractors in return for his help in securing defense contracts pointed up the damage of the earmarking special projects that has exploded in the Republican Congress.

· Republicans permitted a Congress in which lobbyists write the bills, 15-minute votes are held open for three hours, and entirely new legislation is crammed into signed conference reports in the dead of night.

BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR PROPOSAL: Reform
proposals have been introduced by both Democrats and Republicans.

· Exit polls showed that 42 percent of voters called corruption an extremely important issue in their choices at the polls. [CNN, 11/8/06]

· A number of these proposals are bipartisan, including a bill by Rep. Shays and Meehan (H.R.5677), by Sens. McCain and Leiberman (S. 2128), and Reps. Hefley and Udall (H.R. 4988).

PREVIOUS ACTION ON PROPOSAL:
Lobbying and government reform has been debated and passed by the House and Senate in 2006.

· On May 3, 2006, the House passed the Republicans’ anemic package of reforms (H.R. 4975), after extensive hearings on a range of these topics. The Senate reform proposal (S.2349) passed on March 29, 2006, but the Congress failed to reconcile the two versions.

· During those debates, Democrats proposed a tough, “far more robust version of lobbying reform” that was voted on twice and nearly passed the House with 16 Republicans supporting them. [Washington Post, 4/25/06; Vote #118, 5/3/06]

P.S. to my bella donna San Francisco treat;

- 40 of the 45 members of the Senate Democrat Caucus have taken money from Abramoff, his associates, and Indian tribe clients.

- Jimmy Carter taking bribes to write his latest anti-Semitic love fest for dead buddy Arafat all for his beautiful, and needed, Presidential Library

- An independent counsel who investigated possible tax violations by former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros charged that the Clinton administration thwarted his efforts to get to the truth.

- U.S. Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) is under criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for possible bribery in exchange for promoting business deals in Africa and a cool $90,000 in his freezer

- Rep Maxine Waters for benefiting her family in numerous business deals

- Former Democat Gov. Donald Siegelman of Alabama was charged in a "widespread racketeering conspiracy" that includes accusations he took a bribe from former hospital executive Richard Scrushy for a key state appointment.

- Frank Ballance - a former Democrat Rep. from North Carolina was sentenced to four years in federal prison for conspiring to divert taxpayer money to his law firm and family through a charitable organization he helped start.

- Rep. Alan Mollohan (WV) - $200 million + to himself and his business buddies it appears

- Rep. John Murtha (PA) – This is the guy that put scam back in abs and steers millions of wasted taxpayer money to his district friends.

- Rep. Alcee Hastings (FL) – Impeached for a $150,000 bribe

- Raymond Reggie, a New Orleans political Democratic consultant and fund-raiser who is Senator Kennedy's brother-in-law was sentenced to a year in prison yesterday after pleading guilty to bank fraud charges.

Update: 12/20/06

- We must not forget the Fords of TN. A new day, a new indictment. Read here.

Almost finished. Starting the interior trim. soon.

Powell against the Powell Doctrine

Matt at Weapons of Mass Discussion has a very good point about presidential candidate General Powell doing a Kerry on himself.

Iraq economy exploding

Of course Newsweek and other media couldn't discuss this during the election. They were making their green in the Green Zone reporting on everything they saw at the local watering hole while their trusted "stringers" sat around making stories up.

How will the left continue to deny this? They'll just twist facts into lies and pat themselves on the back for exposing another failing of Amerika and the appointed Bush regime.

Real-estate prices have risen several hundred percent, suggesting that Iraqis
are more optimistic about the future than most Americans are.

Not just real estate, but consumer goods are availible as never before and salaries have risen sharply as oil revenues will probably exceed projected profits. New business is popping up every where.

Flash! Newsweek thinks "trickle down" economics works. In Iraq. not here.

The whole story reads like a "this can't be happening, but it is" revelation by the reporter. DU and Kos are weeping.

Read the rest here.

Update: 12/20/06

Fruited Plains asked the obvious (for him) question, what if we are winning? An interesting read!