tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35705282011-04-21T10:40:24.766-07:00"Service Guarantees Citizenship" -Robert Heinlein "Starship Troopers" Not such a silly idea, but he was a Paleo-Freeper.Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comBlogger5791100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004343082003-06-17T21:21:00.000-07:002003-06-17T21:21:17.136-07:00

Sorry for the light blogging yesterday. If the stars are in alignment, TODAY might be the day we move to the new site for DEMVET. I have been double posting, on each site to make sure that everything is the same content-wise. All that remains is the "new look" and that's gonna do it. (if you click over there, it's just the default MT template slightly modified...that's just me fooling around

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004338502003-06-17T16:54:00.000-07:002003-06-17T20:13:04.000-07:00

Instacracker puts it to O'Reilly today in his MSNBC column. and he makes some sense: O'Reilly is a whiner...Tbogg also gives O'Reilly a bit of a shellacking and it's pretty funny, all 26 or so "points". From Instacracker: Well boo-freakin’-hoo. O’Reilly’s schtick is as a tribune of the people against the powerful, but when people start writing about him, well, it seems they need to be brought

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004335002003-06-17T14:42:00.000-07:002003-06-17T20:13:30.000-07:00

Well he certainly does his share of dissing Democrats, both on the print side and whenever I catch him on the tube. Although I stopped watching TV talking heads with any regularity awhile ago, so I don't even know if the "reliable sources" show is still on or not. Kurtz seems to think that by ignoring the Democrats, the press is performing it's duties as a responsible part of society. Why?

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004311162003-06-16T22:53:00.000-07:002003-06-16T23:00:18.000-07:00

William Saletan over in Slate writes about John Kerry at a meeting in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The piece seems to be Kerry-friendly, but with a little smidgen of Ceci Connelly-Margaret Carlson-Peggy Noonan tossed in. It's like Saletan really wants to like Kerry, but had to toss in a few bows to the grrlz who got Gore. Just to keep his Pundit Kool Kidz secret decoder ring privileges. Here's the link

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004302802003-06-16T15:28:00.000-07:002003-06-16T15:28:35.000-07:00

Former FBI director Louis Freeh recently disclosed that his former boss Bill Clinton, who he tried to destroy via Ken Starr and the Impeachment at-any-cost movement knew that the Iranis were behind the Khobar Towers bombing which killed 19 and wounded around 400. Clinton chose to try to engage in a dialog with the Irani government instead of striking back militarily. It did not work. Let's

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004301932003-06-16T14:54:00.000-07:002003-06-16T22:36:32.000-07:00

Sully wants to know how much Raines will be getting in severance. What business is that of his? He seems annoyed that "$6.4 MILLION: That was Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s total compensation last year". How do we deduce this? Scroll down to here and see where the "dish" is in it's membership drive. Not as good as he had hoped, but he's paying himself a salary. However as a true republican boss,

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004301532003-06-16T14:37:00.000-07:002003-06-16T14:37:33.260-07:00

In a rare move, the Supreme Court accepted a handwritten appeal from an inmate in Michigan. The appeal which was handwritten in block letters by an inmate who was claiming indigency was accepted for this session of the court. After accepting the appeal the court appointed an attorney to represent the plaintiff, Shakur Muhammad, also known as John Eugene Mease. The case is about the wrongful

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004278102003-06-15T21:40:00.000-07:002003-06-15T21:56:54.000-07:00

The always intelligent Mark Kleiman has an interesting blog entry on the RAVE act and a recent DoJ/DEA use of it to shut down a rally to de-criminalize pot. Huh? What about that little part of the constitution guaranteeing the right to peaceably assemble? I don't remember a part that says "except for someone smoking dope and talking about making it legal", let's jump into the way-back machine

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004277612003-06-15T21:05:00.000-07:002003-06-15T21:08:40.000-07:00

Well after the 21-day war to "liberate" the Iraqis, there's a move afoot to make the women in Iraq wear veils. The clerics in Iraq and in exile in Iran, who have far more credibility on the ground in Iraq than any US "administrator" or US-installed Iraqi puppet (Ahmed Chalabi, anyone?) have fired their opening shot in the push to establish shariah, or rule of Islamic Law, their preferred brand

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004277382003-06-15T20:51:00.000-07:002003-06-15T22:09:19.000-07:00

Having this milestone (for me anyhow) pass is pretty exciting. I owe much of this to several bloggers kind enough to send visitors my way...Anne Salisbury of Two Tears in a Bucket, Tiger Lily over at Brief Intelligence, skippy, TBogg, Seeing the Forest, SullyWatch, Seeing the Forest, Atrios, Cowboy Kahlil, Renaissance Grouch and many others on my Blogroll.Thanks to all who have stopped, read,

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004260482003-06-14T20:29:00.000-07:002003-06-14T20:30:07.000-07:00

If you need any more proof that the 1600 Crew will leave us economically desolated domestically, politically isolated internationally and in a permanent state of victimhood just check out some of the things that have been shooting out of some of the "officials". Let's take Rummy (no, please you can keep him)...Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, threatened to pull Nato's headquarters out

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004260272003-06-14T20:09:00.000-07:002003-06-14T20:39:57.000-07:00

Guess who's coming to dinner in Afghanistan as an honored guest of the 1600 Crew? A Nobel Laureate? A Well-Respected International figure known for bringing peace? Nope, you are all wrong...it's the Taliban! The same fine folks who helped bring us Osama bin Laden and the 9-11 hijackers are being assiduously courted by the 1600 Crew as a viable, stabilizing force for Afghanistan. Recently

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004245272003-06-13T21:05:00.000-07:002003-06-13T21:22:41.000-07:00

Even as the 1600 Crew continues to pass out giant contracts to ensure the jobs and wealth of every former, present and future member of the 1600 Crew with some mega-corporation that gets a no-bid Government Contract, the newly-liberated Iraqis are getting a little testy. Okay, make that a lot testy. Here's a small token of the appreciation that a "liberated" Iraqi feels:''What does America

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004245052003-06-13T20:47:00.000-07:002003-06-16T09:24:18.000-07:00

Mostly because he's about as dense as lead, and politically as radioactive as plutonium to his buddies in the republican party, I guess that word has not gotten to the nether-regions of Rhode Island that the wing of the republican party currently in favor inside the beltway is not Sully-friendly. Imagine that. But like the little engine who could, Sully huffs and puffs about the Canadians

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004244792003-06-13T20:33:00.000-07:002003-06-13T20:33:41.536-07:00

June 26th has been designated by Neal Pollack as Appropriate Michael Savage's Name For Your Own Purposes Day. It'll be sort of like the Dick and Lynne Cheney love-fest on April Fools Day.We're working on our entry...

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004237602003-06-13T14:13:00.000-07:002003-06-13T14:14:29.000-07:00

This is great. By Mark Fiore. (you might need Flash...)

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004235682003-06-13T13:30:00.000-07:002003-06-13T13:34:17.000-07:00

So they'll never be seeing the Deserter-in-Chief there. President Can't-Wait-to-Party is off to Kennebunkport for a few days away in the New England sunshine. Meanwhile the current weather in Baghdad is 85° F with widespread dust, and a US casualty at least once a day. On the other hand, he found his balls off the second Tee.Mission Accomplished

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004234902003-06-13T13:06:00.000-07:002003-06-13T13:06:50.440-07:00

In what has to be the strangest lawsuit in awhile an Iraqi shepard has filed suit in Iraq for the loss of 17 family members and 200 sheep. The amount he's asking? A cool 200 million bucks. Lawyer Rabah al-Alwani was approached by Sarhan, 71, to file a suit against US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and General Tommy Franks, commander of US forces in Iraq, after the shepherd claimed a US

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004234552003-06-13T12:54:00.000-07:002003-06-13T12:56:20.000-07:00

SKBubba has the story. Seems that the one of the local Baptist Churches in the vicinity of Knoxville is having Halloween a few months early, and running their own Fun House for the Lord. Read the story, feel the power. The only thing sadder than this happening is that the majority of parents whose kids are involved probably either shipped them off to the "youth minister" as an alternative to

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004165772003-06-12T06:12:00.000-07:002003-06-12T10:32:24.000-07:00

When Americans are still dying in Iraq, and the country is still hurtling toward an unknown economic future, this is a time when we should all behave as Americans in many ways, and one of those is engaging in dialogue that might help us find a way forward. Bring your point of view, bring your facts, I might not agree, but at least we're talking. These are not the thoughts of some of the

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004153872003-06-11T21:11:00.000-07:002003-06-11T21:12:29.000-07:00

If this senate had been around during the Watergate hearings, they would have given Nixon the Congressional Medal of Honor...Congressional Republicans on Wednesday rejected Democratic calls for a formal investigation into intelligence on Iraq (news - web sites)'s weapons programs, contending that such a probe could harm intelligence agencies' work. ... Republican lawmakers say there is no

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2004153692003-06-11T21:06:00.000-07:002003-06-11T21:07:41.000-07:00

As promised the new site is almost ready. Thank goodness. Just got back, setting up posts, blogger dumped them all and it's the middle of the night, what a swell blogiversary present, eh? I think it'll be farewell to blogger by the weekend...

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003947322003-06-06T10:34:00.000-07:002003-06-06T10:36:02.000-07:00

Actually just a long weekend, going fishing with some friends down in Florida..back early next week. Hopefully right after I get back, the new site will be up and running! I'll blog if I get the chance. I'm taking my laptop and a wireless card and I will pay for my access, unlike a famous law-and-order republican guy who likes to bareback on others connections...Have a great weekend, see you

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003922672003-06-05T21:37:00.000-07:002003-06-05T21:42:40.000-07:00

Was in front of congress today, whining about a lack of power to arrest every non-white non-republican in America (don't worry Sully, he'll get to white, gay republicans soon enough) if he feels like it.... He also said the current anti-terror law, which critics say is cramping citizens' legitimate rights, needs to be expanded to let prosecutors bring charges against anyone who helps or works

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003921752003-06-05T21:10:00.000-07:002003-06-05T21:16:02.000-07:00

Are you a terrorist organization? Not getting the respect you feel you deserve? Here's the solution: just say good things about the current administration, kiss a few well placed asses and you too can be taken off the enemies list faster than you can say "Banana Republican". An armed Iranian exile group listed as a terrorist organization by the USA and European Union may now get US support to

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003862772003-06-04T15:50:00.000-07:002003-06-05T10:52:59.000-07:00

Is it Perlowitz making more statements about going to war for a country that is "floating on Oil"? Is it President Crotch-Sock lying and people dying? No?It's the shameful treatment of my fellow veterans who have been looking to the Federal Government to help them. Since the Bush administration took office, the percentage of total contract money going to veterans has plummeted, with the

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003822872003-06-03T20:41:00.000-07:002003-06-03T20:44:39.000-07:00

A Lieberman quote: Joe Lieberman sought to answer criticism that he is too Republican to win the Democratic presidential nomination, saying Monday that his politics are consistent with Bill Clinton's and only a Democrat like himself can oust President Bush in 2004. Lieberman, you ran so hard against the Big Dog and what he stood for in 2000 that it hurt the party. Go home, be a senator and

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003822032003-06-03T20:11:00.000-07:002003-06-03T20:12:32.000-07:00

Senator Graham, if you truly believe this:In recent days, he has used unusually strong words to accuse President Bush of hiding information on topics ranging from the Sept. 11 report to the economy to the war in Iraq -- talking about a coverup and referring, as he did in a conference call with reporters last week that was reported by the Associated Press, to a ``Nixonian stench.''Get into the

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003821752003-06-03T20:02:00.000-07:002003-06-04T15:59:40.000-07:00

Sully says he's going sit in a park, to "borrow" some Cybercafe's Internet access via WiFi. Well, just another republican who just takes by providence/divine right as the queen, whatever. At least he admits to the act before doing it...So here I am tapping into cyberspace from a WiFi connection in Whaler's Wharf, thanks to my friends at Cybercove, a little Internet cafe off Commercial Street.

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003772632003-06-02T20:37:00.000-07:002003-06-02T20:43:35.000-07:00

The Ashcroft JD's seem to have flunked their Inspector General's inspection. Most DC-Centric agencies actually do care about those things, since sometimes small things like indictments and larger things like job loss can result (do I have that backwards in this administration?). But not the Justice Department. Nope. It's ok to verbally and physically abuse detainees according to Barbara

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003772032003-06-02T20:17:00.000-07:002003-06-02T20:20:47.000-07:00

So Colins kid sold out. Fine. So did Colin in front of the UN. Like Father, Like Son. A Shrub speaks and a Powell says "How High"? Now, I defy anyone to point out an example of a republican led deregulation of anything that has not ultimately cost the taxpayers, yeah you and me, hundreds of millions if not billions of tax dollars in reconstructing everything from looted bank vaults to pension

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003771402003-06-02T19:56:00.000-07:002003-06-02T20:45:51.000-07:00

Since they are hauling him off to face charges in Alabama for a bombing that killed an off-duty police officer, it's interesting to note that the suspect, Eric Rudolph, is hardly the social outcast that the Unabomber was. Societal misfits both? Perhaps. Kacizinsky was a bright, if not unbalanced man, who saw his craft of bombing as a way to perhaps draw attention to the causes he espoused (no

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003717882003-06-01T20:42:00.000-07:002003-06-01T20:47:00.000-07:00

So we have convicted-then-pardoned Poindexter's TIA program to just help us all sleep better at night, we have that ultimate tribute to living with a mentality of victimization, the PATRIOT act to help keep us "safe" but all it does is remove our rights to be American, while the 1600 Crew gains a little more power over our lives every day. So what's the point? Safety? Security? Peace of mind

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003691992003-05-31T22:13:00.000-07:002003-05-31T22:14:06.000-07:00

Libertarians are a bit pissed at the r's for trying to file late for the General Election in 2004. Seems that they r's will be five days late, and will be asking the state board of elections for a waiver to file late, and barring that, might try to get the election law changed (don't they have a D-Gov now?). If the Libertarians pulled all their support for r candidates, in solidarity with

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003691572003-05-31T21:51:00.000-07:002003-05-31T21:52:49.000-07:00

Iraqis will still be allowed to keep handguns, rifles and shotguns. But the new instructions contain a lengthy of list of much heavier weapons that would be prohibited to most people: machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, shoulder-fired missiles, antiaircraft guns, mortars, land mines and grenades.They also get to keep their AK-47 assault rifles. So, barring the loose and unclaimed RPG, our

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003680262003-05-31T11:16:00.000-07:002003-05-31T11:19:32.000-07:00

It seems that possible WMDs are being found in the Bay Area. A local health physicist has detected measurable levels of Uranium in tiles used in construction from the turn of the century. Administration officials, quick to discount invasion plans were heard to remark that they "had no plans, all planning has been taken off the table". Ken Adelman and Richard Perle however were allegedly

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003664942003-05-30T19:29:00.000-07:002003-05-30T20:19:21.000-07:00

Asst Secretary of Defense for Misinformation, Torie Clark and other Pentagonian Luminaries are defending the whole PFC Lynch rescue now. Let's make a single ground rule here: Leave PFC LYNCH out of this mess. She was legitmately a POW, and that's an emotional thing she'll endure no matter the conditions of her capture, and subsequent captivity. That being said, there's not a whit of excuse for

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003663902003-05-30T18:30:00.000-07:002003-05-30T18:38:30.000-07:00

Seems Cindy Adams, of the NY Post made a joke at Vice-President Evil Dwarf's expense (scroll down past all the Lindsay Buckingham blather, unless you're a Fleetwood Mac masochist). YESTERDAY, to lighten everyone's load, I shoved this joke in the column: "The White House is now concentrating on the economy. Vice President Dick Cheney has told subordinates: " 'The way to lick this recession is to

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003662692003-05-30T17:27:00.000-07:002003-05-30T17:31:02.000-07:00

Speaking of First Amendment Zones, I have a hard time reconciling this little bit of movie fiction with anyone who obsessively needs to be protected from American Political Demonstrators.width:20px; background:whitesmoke; color:black;padding:20pt"> From the upcoming movie (Working Title: Romancing the Stoner's Image ?) Trapped on the other side of the country aboard Air Force One, the President

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003662512003-05-30T17:19:00.000-07:002003-05-30T17:20:44.000-07:00

Has to be, 'cause "the media" pilloried a married guy who did not want to admit he had extra-marital sex, but was smart, courageous enough to admit he screwed the pooch (nothing personal Monica), and was well-thought of and respected internationally. The same "media" glosses over a total lie, even when one of the Chiefs of the Chickenhawk Brigade admits freely to telling it, that so far has

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003601012003-05-29T19:05:00.000-07:002003-05-29T19:05:16.373-07:00

It seems the leaders of latest US - international charm offensive have been taking lessons from the Bugman himself. According to the WaPo, all the diplomatic missions in Iraq, of all the countries which had diplomatic ties with the Great Unloved one (no not Dr. Laura), are being tossed out summarily, because, by Golly we're in charge now and we can just make our own rules!!! Damn Furrniers,

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003600402003-05-29T18:46:00.000-07:002003-05-29T18:53:04.000-07:00

Remember the song? Hostages, hostage rescue gone wrong. Life just seemed to not want to get much worse facing a long long deployment to the Norhern Indian Ocean (IO) for the foreseeable future. Now, just like a really bad nightmare, the same lying sacks of shit want to exercise the McHappyCrack Doctrine of Total and Perpetual War on everyone but the real sponsors of State-sponsored Terror. Yup,

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003600012003-05-29T18:30:00.000-07:002003-05-29T19:07:17.000-07:00

From the upcoming movie (Working Title: Romancing the Stoner's Image ?)Trapped on the other side of the country aboard Air Force One, the President has lost his cool: "If some tinhorn terrorist wants me, tell him to come and get me! I'll be at home! Waiting for the bastard!" His Secret Service chief seems taken aback. "But Mr. President . . ." The President brusquely interrupts him. "Try

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003599812003-05-29T18:20:00.000-07:002003-05-29T18:21:55.000-07:00

The Steely-Eyed Rocket Man in total, calm cool command or;The fraidy-rabbit scuttling too and fro, mangling the english language as he ran away harder than he did in the TANG?History v. Hollywood (made in Canada, no less) and guess which one comes out "just in time" for a September showing.No fair peeking at the answers before the flick comes out!

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003599492003-05-29T18:09:00.000-07:002003-05-29T18:10:15.000-07:00

More on the mysterious flight on September 13th, 2001 when every non-military aircraft in the US was effectively grounded. A Saudi Princeling and some other Saudi (bin Laden?) family members were flown around the country and then back to the land of their birth, permission of guess who? ... And further, why did the families of the young men "perceive a threat" when it wasn't yet clear on the

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003550552003-05-28T17:28:00.000-07:002003-05-28T17:31:46.000-07:00

Seems Sully has "discovered" that the head of the al-Jazeera network had some financial connections to Saddam the Unloved.Yes, I know the Arab press hardly has the standards of, er, say, the New York Times, but people should stop treating al Jazeera as if it is a credible journalistic source.Do I need to point out that Sully, from a credibility standpoint can be compared to Ahmed Chalabi, perhaps

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003550032003-05-28T17:06:00.000-07:002003-05-28T17:16:05.000-07:00

Well, since Head Start is not the Christian Coalition, has no real meaning to the conservatives running, robbing and raping the country right now, the folks in charge of Head Start are being warned against Lobbying officials on behalf of keeping their doors open and serving their constituency...kids. See, the Hatch act, named for our extra-collegial leather-lover Mr. Hatch, forbids such

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003549622003-05-28T16:51:00.000-07:002003-05-28T16:53:26.000-07:00

The republicans just can't stand to lose. Now they're trying to overturn an fair and free election in California, because a Democrat won. Amazing. How American, what an amazing sense of fair play they have. When they lose next year in the presidential elections, will President Too-stupid-to-win declare martial law, void the ballots and open the reeducation camps? ... Dan Terry, president of

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003548552003-05-28T16:21:00.000-07:002003-05-28T16:21:39.856-07:00

Great, now blogger is dumping headlines...and I pay for this?

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003548452003-05-28T16:18:00.000-07:002003-05-28T16:38:52.000-07:00

In a move to reduce or even eliminate the HIghway Beautification Act of 1965, Clear Channels newest, bestest storebought Congresscritter, Rep Sam Graves (R-Major Sack of it from MO), wants to repeal the provisions of the Act so that (don't laugh) Small Businesses can put more signs up on the interstates, and othe roads built with Federal Funds.Citing small-business survival, Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003510602003-05-27T21:26:00.000-07:002003-05-27T21:27:31.000-07:00

David Broder When the school year is shortened, when state troopers are laid off, when health care benefits in Medicaid are curtailed, people feel it -- and the pain ripples through their neighborhoods. George Bush has not spent so much of his life in Washington that he should have forgotten where most Americans live -- and how they respondWell, David, are you really starting to get it? Or was

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003510352003-05-27T21:16:00.000-07:002003-05-27T21:16:46.136-07:00

Does the first one who gets offed by the locals get to be a martyr? Is that the point of this supremely sanctimonious, stupid as hell, misguided and utterly narcissistic attempt by these looney-toons to get their freaking' heads caved in by the locals? It seems that even congresscritters have a helluva tough time getting into Iraq, but the self-righteous wing of the republican party can put

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003509662003-05-27T20:54:00.000-07:002003-05-27T20:55:34.000-07:00

I know, I saw the president boldly get on TeeVee and say "we won", well at least I think I did, but hey, it might have been those geniuses at PIXAR™ who made a cgi-Smirk to give a speech...come to think of it, he didn't mangulate the english language once. Hmmmmmmm. Anyhow, this heartening little bit of news out of Afghanistan, seems that the AF-PAKs on the north west border want to reestablish

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003496322003-05-27T16:51:00.000-07:002003-05-27T16:52:25.000-07:00

William Saletan disses Dean in salon.Prayer, the Boy Scouts, and the military. That's way too much to take on at one time, even if you're as clever and confident as Howard Dean. "I don't pay attention to polls, because this campaign is not just about winning; this campaign is about educating and moving America," Dean told the crowd. "If you stand up for the things we believe in, people start to

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003495772003-05-27T16:42:00.000-07:002003-05-27T16:42:21.320-07:00

Democratic Veteran is changing homes on or around my "blogiversary"...I have been thinking of leaving Blogger for some time, but when the template problems started, the pages would not reload, and the assorted other problems started to show up it got to be too much. And the traffic issues also bothered me, over the last 7 to 10 days my page has seldom-to-never loaded up. At exactly the same

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003490332003-05-27T15:34:00.000-07:002003-05-27T15:34:35.180-07:00

again.Rummy sez: those bad ol' Iraqis might have dee-stroyed their wepinz of mas destrukshun before the war. Damm Eye-Rackis.Wow. How insightful. Thanks, Don. You're right up there on the cutting edge of "sharp" eh? "My guess is that the kind of things the intelligence community provided Secretary Powell, and Secretary Powell provided the United Nations, will in fact be turned up, to the extent

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003489472003-05-27T15:24:00.000-07:002003-05-27T15:36:21.000-07:00

In a move that surprises no one: The Canadian government introduced legislation today to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana but set stricter penalties for those apprehended for trafficking the drug.Merde! Must have been the French-speaking ones that were responsible for this travesty. When do we start a war to liberate those poor oppressed Canadians from their opressive

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003488782003-05-27T15:18:00.000-07:002003-05-27T15:18:54.000-07:00

I want my doctor to measure me in kilos the next time I get a physical. Then I won't weigh so much, right? If Mrs Fish ever dumps me for being the lazy, blogging, good-for-nothing I am, I can honestly describe myself as being XX kilos in the personals...Ain't science wunnerful?

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003388622003-05-25T09:47:00.000-07:002003-05-25T09:47:27.600-07:00

Seems that the 1600 Crew, those obsessively fair and open-minded maroons are tossing more midnight where the sun ought to be shining. The Columbia Investigation is going underground. Deep underground. Using a tricky legal loophole, the adminstration is putting the civilian members of the accident board on the Federal Payroll, which means that there is now no requirement for there to be public

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003353262003-05-23T21:04:00.000-07:002003-05-23T21:05:52.000-07:00

SKBubba has a story about a man convicted in East Tennessee (that's the really conservative side of the state, for those not-in-the-know) of murder and sentenced by a jury to life without any possibility of parole. My late-night question to all the death penalty advocates out there is this: is it really a deterrent? We've now been gassing, zapping, shooting and injecting people in state-run

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003341632003-05-23T13:30:00.000-07:002003-05-23T13:31:39.000-07:00

Just when you thought that the 1600 Crew was hosing this economy and creating less and less jobs every week, it seem that they have brought their patented brand of unemployment assurance to the Iraqis. Iraq's U.S. governor, wielding powers newly endorsed at the United Nations, fired hundreds of thousands of state employees Friday in what he called a drive to rid the nation of links to Saddam

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003341342003-05-23T13:22:00.000-07:002003-05-23T13:23:02.000-07:00

Will_Not_Laugh_At_Stupid_People. Especially priests. Known some great Roman Catholic priests. One of my favorite chaplains aboard ship was our catholic chaplain. Great Guy, and I doubt he would have had much time for the child-molesters. But this takes the cake...not only was this mutt an "authority" or "expert" but he was molesting kids too. And I'll bet the catholics thought it couldn't get

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003340742003-05-23T13:06:00.000-07:002003-05-23T13:07:45.000-07:00

The director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, has named a team of retired C.I.A. officers to scour the classified intelligence reports that were circulated inside the government before the war on a range of issues related to Iraq, including those concerning Baghdad's links to terrorism and unconventional weapons, officials said. The team plans to compare those reports with what has

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003340062003-05-23T12:53:00.000-07:002003-05-23T12:54:50.000-07:00

We all have our places on the political spectrum. I appreciate and sometimes even understand or agree with those I would normally oppose, but this whole tax-cut thing has me baffled. Especially when our country is in a recession, we are pouring money (though seemingly not enough) into foreign policy iniatives, and every month brings new jobless reports. How does anyone make this a statement

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003339182003-05-23T12:34:00.000-07:002003-05-23T12:43:36.000-07:00

And the 1600 Crew can't stop, intimidate, threaten or coerce him.I would never say "ha ha" to anything the 1600 Crew does or says...of course not. Seems that another Dick in DC has an opinion about Iraq, the war and politics and it's not what the 1600's want to hear. Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana is trying to send the McHappy Warriors a message: "It ain't over 'til it's over". It seems that

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003286852003-05-22T12:02:00.000-07:002003-05-22T12:02:32.416-07:00

Welcome the Cosmic Iguana to the Fish Pond.

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003253642003-05-21T21:02:00.000-07:002003-05-21T21:04:19.000-07:00

In an editorial in the LA Times, Arianna Huffington nails the 1600 Crew as perhaps the most delusional power-grabbers since...well, I don't know maybe since Marie Antionette was a Royal Ruling Babe (my kid just discovered Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure). She makes the point of saying that a Bush without Blinders, well that's no Bush at all! GHWB wore them with respect to the economy when he

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003253412003-05-21T20:49:00.000-07:002003-05-22T07:49:56.000-07:00

Justice and FBI abuse powers granted under the so-called "Patriot" Act. The former Nixonians in the 1600 Crew are partying tonight. They have their revenge. A muzzled and meek press corps, a supreme court of fools and all the law enforcement they can eat. No, wait. There's Son of Patriot, the Sequel. .Tim Edgar, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said the report

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003201922003-05-20T20:43:00.000-07:002003-05-21T20:50:54.000-07:00

Is John Kerry right about greed being the overarching philosophy of the 1600 Crew? After 9-11, when President Megaphone had all the male and female journalists/commentators/congresscritters and anyone else with a swoon left in them, just behaving all giddily on account of his new-found bold manhood. But then a curious thing happened, we all remember what it was. It wasn't a call to national

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003201062003-05-20T20:19:00.000-07:002003-05-20T20:20:13.000-07:00

To add another blog to the Fish Pond is not an unusual occurrance, as many of you know. In fact, I probably owe some of you all links and have not gotten them up yet (one of the best features of sitemeter is seeing who's sending me traffic). Mea Culpa. What makes this such an unusual addition is that this goes down in the Equal Bandwidth links, along with Tacitus and the Volokhs. To be one of

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003127742003-05-19T12:37:00.000-07:002003-05-19T12:44:11.000-07:00

From an editorial I found via Buzzflash.In 1799, Thomas Jefferson wrote the following to friend and former student, Archibald Stuart: "Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light."So what might the mighty punditry (jernalistsss) of today say? Limbaugh: That Jefferson, he was a Democrat Racist, he

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003094322003-05-18T20:55:00.000-07:002003-05-18T20:57:52.000-07:00

Seems that the USDA just doesn't like those pesky journalists who actually report on stuff. So in a committee meeting this past week Tom Harkin and Chuck Grassely grilled Ann (sold mah soul to big agriculture) Veneman. The stake-out lockout grabbed the attention of both of Iowa's senators. Grassley fired off a letter to Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman. "During a time when USDA's senior

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003092142003-05-18T19:36:00.000-07:002003-05-18T19:36:56.000-07:00

Poppy Bush risked life-and-limb and fought the Japanese in the Pacific, and Grampaw Prescott was a war-profiteer with the Nazi's? Here's the link. My how interesting and how un-surprising. Wow. How Precedential.

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003091622003-05-18T19:15:00.000-07:002003-05-18T19:15:59.353-07:00

Sullywatch wants verses for his Smalltown Boy pome...here's my contribution. FWIW.smalltown boy he went to blog looking for donations stuck a tipjar up his site barebacking his remunerations the cache was gone, the blog queen sad a year saw cash depleted so now it's gonna be pay-per-view I think he is defeatedOK, so I have no future as a poet or a comedy writer. Well, I can still get a router

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003091152003-05-18T19:02:00.000-07:002003-05-18T19:03:36.000-07:00

WorkingForChange.com has another excellent op-ed piece. Here's my favorite paragraph that about sums up our friends in the 1600 Crew. To a "T". We have become tolerant, even appreciative, of spin skill. We've been conditioned by a compassionate conservative who wants Clear Skies legislation and to Leave No Child Behind while enacting a tax cut for the rich that will be “helping American

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003090622003-05-18T18:44:00.000-07:002003-05-19T12:18:54.000-07:00

Just a quick love note with this link to all those non-supporters of Stem Cell research out there...get a grip you religio-facsists...I see more of this on the way, especially when there's this kind of money involved and the next time there may not be a Police Agency involved, or maybe the Police just got lucky this time.

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003089942003-05-18T18:15:00.000-07:002003-05-18T18:15:29.643-07:00

Chinese doctors are reporting their lowest increase in SARS cases. Given the fact that the PRC government has announced that they might execute anyone who "intentionally" passes on the virus, I can only imagine what they might do to physicians who actually report new cases. Remember, that until recently the government in Beijing denied having an HIV/AIDS problem, especially in their rural areas

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003089732003-05-18T18:07:00.000-07:002003-05-18T18:16:45.000-07:00

Q: How many Saudi Al-Qaida members does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None, there are none. Never have been. Just ask 'em. Okay, bad joke. They (the Saudi's) are the world's new ostrich people, and I was just thinking....

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003083342003-05-18T13:45:00.000-07:002003-05-18T14:15:17.000-07:00

Maybe Geraldo who has massive experience with empty vaults, and John Edwards (the "Crossing Over" one) can lend a hand in the search for WMDs that is going ever so well. These poor guys in the Military over there are being made to look like such colossal screw-ups by the 1600 Crew. They have to keep looking for the mythical weapons, for the 1600 Crew to save face. How sad. Well, at least

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2003083132003-05-18T13:36:00.000-07:002003-05-18T13:36:17.173-07:00

Welcome NewJersey.com to the Fish Pond, lots of good stuff to check out. And being somewhat of a former Jersey Boy (Bergen County area) it's an honor to be included in their links as well!!!

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002989442003-05-15T23:04:00.000-07:002003-05-15T23:04:51.000-07:00

China threatens execution of people who deliberately spread SARS. Now who would do that? If you had it, why would you want to spread it?No wonder these guys are some of President Provincial's bestest buddies, they have that whole police-state thing down to a science after decades of practice. I wonder if the 1600 Crew is sending folks over to "study" the PRC-equivalent of Gulags, so that

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002988822003-05-15T22:34:00.000-07:002003-05-15T22:34:16.720-07:00

Back to more regular blogging after Saturday...been in school to learn more router-monkey stuff. Finishing BGP today, so school's out at 4PM! Thanks for hanging in there with me!!

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002987062003-05-15T21:24:00.000-07:002003-05-15T21:27:28.000-07:00

CNN gets a story wrong? I guess that the apocalypse is just around the corner. Seems that surprise, surprise they were carrying a story about an Oklahoma Sheriff who was "assisting" the Dem members of the Texas Lege in Ardmore. Sheriff Burkhart was described by the "worlds most important network" asbasically saying, 'He's protecting them.'The Sheriff did say that valid arrest warrants would be

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002986612003-05-15T21:03:00.000-07:002003-05-15T21:06:50.000-07:00

Senator Bob Graham is just plain nuts. He says silly things like the war fought for Operation Iraqi Liberation has made the 1600 Crew take their "eye off the ball" with regards to Terroism. He is just so not right. After all, without the Homeland Security folks in the Air and Marine Interdiction Group, how would DeLay's little Nazi stormtroopers have found those pesky Democratic Legislative

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002986272003-05-15T20:51:00.000-07:002003-05-15T22:07:07.000-07:00

Ties, no ties. It's all propaganda to me. Seems that 1600 Crew propaganda machine is in overtime mode. Instead of allowing the ordinary working stiffs about to take it up the backside with the next round of "tax cuts" to be on-stage with President Codpiece in Indianapolis recently, the Reichsministry of Information had the VIP's sitting behind him remove their ties, so they would look more

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002924812003-05-14T16:20:00.000-07:002003-05-14T16:29:29.000-07:00

And just when you thought that you didn't need more proof that the inmates were running the asylum, here's a story from TomPaine.com about a group that wants to further gut our civil liberties and rights. Yup. They want to criminalize environmental and animal-rights activists activities. Just get two or more green-leaning folks together and pack your bags, you're going to Jail. Who says that

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002924262003-05-14T16:04:00.000-07:002003-05-14T16:05:50.000-07:00

It seems that the Republicans in Texas are pissed. So pissed that they somehow managed to get a part of the Homeland Security Department , the Air and Marine Interdiction and Coordination Center, involved in the search for the 'missing' Texas Democratic legislators. Somehow, I remember that we were all assured that the Homeland Security Department was supposed to protect us from Terrorists, not

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002879922003-05-13T21:47:00.000-07:002003-05-13T21:51:21.000-07:00

From the KansasCity.com:Rep. Tom Lantos of California, top Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, said Monday's attack was "a reminder of the intimate relationship between Osama bin Laden and Saudi society, which continues to incubate the hate and religious fanaticism that spawns terrorism." (emphasis added) The Saudi government has rejected any suggestion it helped the

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002879422003-05-13T21:31:00.000-07:002003-05-13T21:40:51.000-07:00

I never link back to own stuff, but I wanted to wait 'til the great carrier codpiece scandal had made it's landing and sort of coasted to a halt and everyone was moving on, to point back to this post from last February about President Shaky-Stick's escapades in the TANG and the linked story on his taking Commerce Secretary Don Evans for a ride in a Cessna. I have to wonder if he had a medical

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002865942003-05-13T14:58:00.001-07:002003-05-13T15:07:48.000-07:00

Paul Krugman hits the media right where they live. As usual, he nails the issue with spartan prose and laser-beam precision. Big Corporate Media gets white glove treatment from the adminstration if it sufficiently sucks up to the administration (whether US or Communist Chinese it seems). ... The plan's defects aside — it will further reduce the diversity of news available to most people — what

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002864672003-05-13T14:32:00.000-07:002003-05-13T14:47:20.000-07:00

In a remark that reveals that he is living in a different place (country?) than the average American, President Squawking Chickenhawk remarked today at a Sheeple Rally in Indianapolis that: "Any time anyone attacks our homeland, any time anyone attacks our fellow citizens, we'll be on the hunt, and we'll find them and they will be brought to justice," Bush said. "Just ask the Taliban."Excuse me,

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002821282003-05-12T21:29:00.000-07:002003-05-13T04:24:58.000-07:00

If President Fox of Mexico will not roll over on Oil Issues, will the 1600 Crew all of a sudden find the Iraqi WMD's hidden in thong shops in Cancun? If so, what happens to the next "Girls Gone Wild" Video? It'll be tough to make it amongst the Bradley Fighting Vehicles, air raids and encroaching infantry divisions.Well, they could always ask Jenna and Barb to come and film it I guess. That

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002820432003-05-12T20:58:00.000-07:002003-05-12T20:58:29.310-07:00

Seems that in the Kingdom of the House of Saud, those pesky terrorists (you know, the ones we have given up our civil rights to fight) have managed to blow up more stuff in breathless anticipation of Colin Powell's visit. Never mind that Saudi interests are one of the largest sponsors of Fundamentalist Islam and Wahhabism (sp?), they're all such good buds with the 1600 Crew, and not to be

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002818862003-05-12T20:00:00.000-07:002003-05-12T20:44:52.000-07:00

Blogger. is not letting me post. I'll try later. Anyone else in similar straights? Yeesh. this post is sort of in the blind. Thanks for dropping by tonight y'all come back now, hear?. If Blogger lets me post tomorrow, I will....and I had sooooo much good stuff..

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002818802003-05-12T19:58:00.000-07:002003-05-12T19:58:05.286-07:00

Is anyone else getting bloggerized tonight, or is it just me...yeesh. So much for "improved performance". Did Eric Schmidt convert all their web servers to Netware web servers or something?...before you send the hate mail; I'm just kidding; I spent years doing Netware support before Cisco stuff...

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002809352003-05-12T15:33:00.000-07:002003-05-12T19:53:09.000-07:00

If you have not been sleeping under a rock, you know that in Guantanamo Bay we have children incarcerated who were captured during our "war" with Afghanistan. Sad but old news. Well in this story from the Miami Herald, it seems that we are incarcerating kids who have been granted asylum by our courts. Enter Ashcroft, invoking his broadened powers as the nation's top cop. He ordered that David

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002808702003-05-12T15:15:00.000-07:002003-05-12T15:38:45.000-07:00

Bob Graham would be the bravest man in the world today if he would get up in the Well of the Senate, and read the entire 900-page report into the record. It might spell the end of the 1600 Crew. Could they prosecute him? Good Question, I'm not a legal scholar, but others are and they might have the answer. Would they look stupid prosecuting him? Well the Nixxon Crew didn't look real bright

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From James Landrith's blog, "Taking the Gloves Off", here's a link to a story about a Medal-of-Honor winner whose conscience would not allow him to keep the MoH, because of US Policies in Cental America in the 80's. Check it out...As James says, the local fascist warbloggers would, I am sure excoriate him; but being the holder of the Nation's highest decoration for valor does give you some moral

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002695112003-05-09T15:13:00.000-07:002003-05-09T15:15:56.000-07:00

Over in the comments on DKos, Matt Stoller from To the Point makes this comment about Lieberman:(What's up with Lieberman?) He's like the fat kid who offers to be the football team manager in hopes a cheerleader will date him and the players will stop beating him up.That about sums it up. Go back to Connecticut, Joe. Help us work toward a Democratically-controlled Senate and ditch this silly

Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783659823027871298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570528.post-2002693922003-05-09T14:43:00.000-07:002003-05-09T15:20:43.000-07:00

Remember John J. DiIulio Jr? He was one of the first to desert the waterlogged raft at 1600 PA Ave. and paid for his candor by being slammed in the media with attacks being led by the prevARIcator:White House press secretary Ari Fleischer called the remarks nonsense."I dismiss it as baseless and groundless," he said.Yeah, okay Herr Fleischer. Well as more and more of the 1600 Crew agenda

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