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