Feb 28
Feb 27
“It should also be noted that Twain, who invented cancer and hates puppies, is not even using his real name. Samuel Clemens, wherever you’re hiding, if you have any integrity, you will appear on my show and defend your irrational and unpatriotic beliefs.”
Feb 27
Feb 23
“I will never hand over America’s security decisions to foreign leaders and international bodies that do not have America’s interests at heart.”
-GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 6/10/04
Feb 22
Classically ripped, POP inspired.
Propaganda Paintings, Billboards, Film, Music, and more.
Now why is this brilliance wrapped up in such a crappy website design?
Feb 22
“In ordinary cases of foreign direct investment the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) first conducts a 30-day “review” of the transaction. After the review, the committee makes a judgment as to whether a 45-day “investigation” is necessary to address national security concerns.
The law, however, was amended in 1993. That amendment makes the 45-day investigation mandatory in cases like the Dubai World Ports transfer…”
“…Yet, the investigation never happened. Bush administration officials “could not say why a 45-day investigation did not occur.””
Feb 22
Sunni and Shiite tension, I’m just waiting for Condi to say, “who would have seen that coming?” And isn’t it nice that we have to bribe them into forming a Secular government. Spreading Democracy, one dollar at a time.
“A huge explosion has blown the golden dome off one of the holiest Shiite shrines in the city of Samarra in the third major attack against Shiite targets in as many days…”
“Samarra has been a seat of the Sunni insurgency against the government, and its population is mainly Sunni.
Sectarian tensions are running high as al-Jaafari is under pressure to form a a unity government after the success of Shiite and Kurd parties in a parliamentary election in December.
As consultations on forming the new government have stalled, the US ambassador this week urged al-Jaafari not to form a sectarian government, indicating that aid would not be forthcoming if this occurred.
National Security Adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, a Shiite, blamed Arab Sunni militants and told al-Iraqiya state television that 10 suspects had been arrested in Samarra.”
IRAQ: PROTESTS MOUNT AFTER MASSIVE BLAST DESTROYS SHIITE GOLDEN DOME
Feb 22
All signs point to some secret deal. Bush announced he would veto any legislation to stop the transaction but today he says he didn’t even know about it until it was a done deal. Why would he now distance himself from something he is willing to use his – until now never used – veto power? Is Bush that out of touch, or, is this a scenario where someone else made the deal (Cheney?) and here is the proof that he just rubber stamps whatever comes across his desk from certain someones? None of this passes the smell test.
“President Bush was unaware of the pending sale of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates until the deal already had been approved by his administration, the White House said Wednesday.
Defending the deal anew, the administration also said that it should have briefed Congress sooner about the transaction, which has triggered a major political backlash among both Republicans and Democrats.
Bush on Tuesday brushed aside objections by leaders in the Senate and House that the $6.8 billion sale could raise risks of terrorism at American ports. In a forceful defense of his administration’s earlier approval of the deal, he pledged to veto any bill Congress might approve to block the agreement involving the sale of a British company to the Arab firm.”
UPDATE: Donald Rumsfeld says he didn’t know either, as Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld is a member of the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States. As such, he was one of the people who, according to the Treasury Department, unanimously approved the sale on February 13. How could do that when he didn’t even find out about the sale until last weekend?
Feb 17
A late Valentine bossa nova gem for all my lovers, xoxo.
Elis Regina singing “Aquas de Marco” in a clip from 1973.
Feb 17
Feb 17
Start by pasting this in:
Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
via Coudal
Feb 17
Boy the press is really dropping the ball here. Given the facts of where this took place and where Armstrong was in the car coupled with the inaccuracies of her statements, why is no one asking the actual eye-witness, Willeford, for a statement?
“The picture above (linked) is from Google Earth. Cheney has said over and over that Armstrong was an “eye witness.” But wouldn’t the account of Pamela Willford, who was ostensibly standing right next to Cheney at the time, be much more reliable? Where is she now?”
Investigative Journalism Has Been Shot – Google Earth – firedoglake
Feb 16
“***MISSING WHTE WOMAN ALERT***
name: Pamela Willeford
race: white (duh…)
age: 50ish
sex: f (duh…)
occupation: US Ambassadress to Switzerland
last seen: Sat. 2/11/06, on a ranch in Texas, in the company of the V-POTUS
details: Ms. Willeford is missing after an incident involving firearms and alcohol. SHE MAY BE IN GRAVE DANGER. Please report any information immediately to the authorities.”
Click for Picture:
firedoglake: Missing White Woman Alert
Feb 15
Hmmm, two married guys out for the weekend with two women, a little drinking, a little shooting, alot of cover-up.
Is Cheney hiding his Lewinsky?
Does a bloody shirt trump a semen dress?
(BTW, you’re still being spied on.)
RJ Eskow: Cheney’s Chappaquiddick II: The Real Story Emerges | The Huffington Post
Feb 15
• • • Who is fit to lead this country in war? Apparently resumés are not required in this endeavor.
Democrats
* Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
* David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
* Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
* Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
* Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.
* Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.
* John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with
Combat V Purple Hearts.
* Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea.
* Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam.
* Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53.
* Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.
* Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91.
* Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star and seven
campaign ribbons.
* Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, Bronze Stars, and Soldier’s Medal.
* Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver Star and Legion of Merit.
* Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart.
* Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in Vietnam;
Bronze Star with Combat V.
* Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
* Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
* Chuck Robb: Vietnam
* Howell Heflin: Silver Star
* George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII.
* Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments. Entered draft but received #311.
* Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.
* Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
* John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and Air Medal with 18
Clusters.
* Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by Raoul Wallenberg.
Republicans
* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by
marriage.
* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
* Tom Delay: did not serve.
* Roy Blunt: did not serve.
* Bill Frist: did not serve.
* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
* Rick Santorum: did not serve.
* Trent Lott: did not serve.
* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.
* Jeb Bush: did not serve.
* Karl Rove: did not serve.
* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. “Bad knee.” The man who attacked Max Cleland’s patriotism.
* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
* Vin Weber: did not serve.
* Richard Perle: did not serve.
* Douglas Feith: did not serve.
* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
* Richard Shelby: did not serve.
* Jon Kyl: did not serve.
* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
* Christopher Cox: did not serve.
* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.
* George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam, disappeared from duty.
* Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non-combat role making movies.
* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.
* Phil Gramm: did not serve.
* John McCain: Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple
Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.
* John M. McHugh: did not serve.
* JC Watts: did not serve.
* Jack Kemp: did not serve. “Knee problem,” although continued in NFL for 8 years.
* Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.
* Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
* George Pataki: did not serve.
* Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
* John Engler: did not serve.
* Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
* Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.
Pundits & Preachers
* Sean Hannity: did not serve.
* Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a ‘pilonidal cyst.’)
* Bill O’Reilly: did not serve.
* Michael Savage: did not serve.
* George Will: did not serve.
* Chris Matthews: did not serve.
* Paul Gigot: did not serve.
* Bill Bennett: did not serve.
* Pat Buchanan: did not serve.
* John Wayne: did not serve.
* Bill Kristol: did not serve.
* Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
* Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
* Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
* Ralph Reed: did not serve.
* Michael Medved: did not serve.
* Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
* Ted Nugent: did not serve. (He only shoots at things that don’t
shoot back.)
