Sunday, December 17, 2006

We are losing the War in Iraq

Colin Powell told an audience watching Face The Nation that "The U.S is losing the war in Iraq and sending in more troops is not the best way to change course."

Powell the former Secretary of State to King George and the very same idealogue who stood before the United Nations and told the fabricated story of weapons in Iraq, finally is telling the truth that the U.S is losing the war.

Powell also said the U.S army is just about broken and the war has left Americans a little less safe.

The Republican Dream General who lied before the world just to be one of the boys has finally "came clean"on the situation in Iraq.

Can King George with his extra large tin ears, hear the voice of the one he shoved up front to sell his war for oil scheme?

Can King George deny that Powell is a cut and run kind of guy when Powell supported King George in his quest for world dominance?

Will the eratic Republican party attack Powell like a pack of dogs in heat, or will they remain silly in their silence because he is supposed to be "one of them?"

King George, your front man in selling your story of woe, your front man who gave his credibility for the price of being near your throne, your big brave general who could do no wrong has finally admitted what we all know, the U.S is losing the war.

The ball is in your court King George. Will you call daddy to get you out of this one? Will you call Condi to console you over this admittance of your failures?

Colin Powell said,"we are losing the war in Iraq." Did you hear that proclamation over your glass of vodka that you claim not to drink?

You King George have ruined America.

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Guess who Time's, Person of the Year, is this year?

It's You! It's you and I and all the other people who made a difference during the year 2006, whether we were blogging against the most vicious and vile presidency in the history of our nation or raising money for our political team or the countless times we exposed the actions and inactions of the people who lead our nation. We. Were. A. Force. We made a difference and Time this year felt compelled to make this statement to the nation and the world. Congratulations Patriots!

Here's part of the write up about this wonderful honor (you can read the rest linked above in the title of this thread):

Posted Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006

The "Great Man" theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men." He believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year.

To be sure, there are individuals we could blame for the many painful and disturbing things that happened in 2006. The conflict in Iraq only got bloodier and more entrenched. A vicious skirmish erupted between Israel and Lebanon. A war dragged on in Sudan. A tin-pot dictator in North Korea got the Bomb, and the President of Iran wants to go nuclear too. Meanwhile nobody fixed global warming, and Sony didn't make enough PlayStation3s.

But look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.

The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. Not the Web that Tim Berners-Lee hacked together (15 years ago, according to Wikipedia) as a way for scientists to share research. It's not even the overhyped dotcom Web of the late 1990s. The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.
Earlier tonight some were talking about Time's Person of the Year and I wasn't interested in watching the program on CNN. I'm not one for award ceremonies, pageants, or any other venues of self-promotion, but when I realized the Person of the Year was all of us bloggers (Time Magazine is going to have a 'mirror' on it's cover so YOU can see the winner! Very clever.) and others on the Internet who had gotten the recognition, I thought it was a fabulous and long overdue award! How thrilling!

So, give yourself a big hug and a huge high five to yourself. You deserve it Patriots!

Judith Regan has been fired...

...by HarperCollins and poor Rupert Murdoch has to eat crow for lowering the standards of Fox News more than it has done on it's own in the past 6 years, since it became the mouthpiece of the worst presidency in the history of our nation!

From Bloomberg:

HarperCollins Fires Judith Regan Who Backed O.J. Simpson Book

By Nancy Kercheval

Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Editor Judith Regan, who backed a book by O.J. Simpson on how he could have killed his ex- wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, was fired yesterday by HarperCollins, a unit of News Corp.

``Judith Regan's employment with HarperCollins has been terminated effective immediately,'' said Jane Friedman, president and chief executive officer of HarperCollins, in a statement. ``The Regan publishing program and staff will continue as part of the HarperCollins General Books Group.'' Regan was president of ReganBooks.

Regan's lawyer, Bert Fields of Los Angeles, didn't return a call seeking comment this morning.

News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch canceled publication of ReganBooks' ``If I Did It'' on Nov. 20 and a Fox broadcast special starring the former National Football League player who was found innocent of the murders.

``I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project,'' Murdoch said in a statement. ``We are sorry for any pain this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.''
We all know how much those right wingers love murder and they were all salivating at the thought of O.J. Simpson writing about he "didn't commit" this crime against his ex-wife and her friend. What a bunch of sickos they all are. I'm so glad the American people stood up to these assholes at Fox by demanding some freaking integrity (like that's possible at Fox, but come on! They have to start somewhere for crying out loud!) from them all. HarperCollins firing Judith Regan is a start. Anyone doing business with Fox News should be fired if I had any control.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

How True.....

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Rummy loves the sound of music

Oh for crying out loud. Donald Rumsfeld is insane! Not because he enjoys the movie, The Sound of Music, but because he is an Evil man who has botched an illegal occupation that he said he never wanted (which indicates he's a liar), and who was fired recently because of these reasons (of course, he says it was because of the last election. Well, of course he would say that...he's an Evil man, who has botched a war, and who was fired because of it, so he's bitter)!

Here is an exchange between Cal Thomas (Saddam's brother? He could pass for it) of Fox News Watch and Donald Rumsfeld recently:

SEC. RUMSFELD: It's good to see you.

MR. THOMAS: When you get things, you know, straightened out, come down and see a movie with us. I promise it won't be a war movie.

SEC. RUMSFELD: What kind of a movie?

MR. THOMAS: We got a movie theater we kind of like in our house.

SEC. RUMSFELD: Oh, do you really?

MR. THOMAS: Yeah, we decided we're not leaving anything to the kids, so we're spending it on ourselves since I earned it.

SEC. RUMSFELD: Yeah, damn right. That's my answer. (Laughter.)

MR. THOMAS: (Laughs.) There you go. And so we have this nice movie theater with surround sound --

SEC. RUMSFELD: I've heard these home theaters -- you have chairs that --

MR. THOMAS: Oh, they're fun. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah do that. You can sleep, you can do anything. It's very cool.

SEC. RUMSFELD: My wife --

MR. THOMAS: Juke box, all kinds of stuff.

SEC. RUMSFELD: My wife loves movies.

MR. THOMAS: Oh, good. Well --

SEC. RUMSFELD: She goes all the time with a group of women, and I have not been in six years to the movies.

MR. THOMAS: It'll be fun. I got one for you that'd you'd really love. You got it this Christmas. Get for her and watch it together. It's called "Akeelah and the Bee." Starbucks is involved in it. It's about a little African-American girl, 11-years-old, growing up in Crenshaw in LA... And they discover that she has this great gift of spelling. Laurence Fishburne is in it, Angela Basset. She goes out and redeems everybody... I'm sitting there I'm balling away. I'm cheering for the kid...

I guarantee you I'll give you your money back if you don't love this movie. You will absolutely love this. It's got everything. There's not a white guy -- the only white guy in it is the principal of the school. Everybody else is minority, everybody else gets along.

SEC. RUMSFELD: Did you like the "Sound of Music?"

MR. THOMAS: Of course I liked the "Sound of Music."

SEC. RUMSFELD: Well, so did I... People laugh at that.

MR. THOMAS: Well, I want to tell you something. I stalked Julie Andrews for 40 years before I finally got her.

SEC. RUMSFELD: Is that right.

MR. THOMAS: On our shelf, a picture of us having tea together in New York.

SEC. RUMSFELD: How long ago?

MR. THOMAS: Two years. But I --

SEC. RUMSFELD: She's showing her years.

MR. THOMAS: Yeah, well -- no, she looks great.

SEC. RUMSFELD: (Laughs.)

MR. THOMAS: I waited for her outside the Majestic Theater in 1962 in the rain. That's when it started... And that's how I opened the letter to her, you know. So anyway, you got more important things to do.

SEC. RUMSFELD: Good to see you.

MR. THOMAS: Good to you see you, and let's stay in touch.

SEC. RUMSFELD: Terrific
Isn't that a weird conversation? Rummy is a man who was upset about the torture being done at GITMO, not because he was against torture being used, but because the American people found out about it! This is a man who does not like the movie, The Sound of Music, but rather, is saying that to give himself a kinder gentler side. Nice try Rummy. You're pure Evil and sick and the best part? You're gone! Let's hope the next time we see you is at your trial for international crimes against humanity, you sicko!

Monday, December 11, 2006

another damned Caption Contest

If there ever was a picture of the shrub that cried out for an appropriate caption from those he serves, this could be it.

Thanks in advance to Jurrasicpork for it, It is the lead photo at this weeks installment of

Assclowns of the Week


Enjoy, both this caption contest and JP's weeks installment.

Saturday, December 09, 2006

Kudos to clammyc at Boomantribute

Get Your Own Ass to Iraq, or Shut the Hell Up.

by clammyc
Sat Dec 9th, 2006 at 03:25:12 PM EST

Enough is fucking enough already. We have been called traitors and terrorist sympathizers and now “surrender monkeys” by the lowest of the low, the most vile filth to “grace” (and I use the term lightly) this country, our airwaves, and no doubt our daily lives. And I know that there are those who are in that camp who frequent this community – whether it be to stir up trouble or to lurk and report back as to what those “krazy kos kidz” are up to.

So, here is one for you – you want to throw more troops into Iraq, you want to “stay the course”, you don’t want to “negotiate with terrorists” (whatever, nice strawman argument there...), you want to throw billions more at an illegal invasion and occupation that was based on lies, you want to show how “patriotic” you are? Fine. Then get your ass to the nearest recruiting station and go yourself. Or, send your own kids.

But goddamn it, shut your fucking pie hole if you think that the rest of us (and this is an increasingly growing number of US citizens, including republican Senators, military leaders, Iraqis and others who don’t have their heads so far up their own asses that the smell and lack of oxygen is cutting off any semblance of rational thought) are “giving up” or are “not up for the fight”, while you sit back and make judgments about others who knew for years how much of a debacle and disgusting disaster this was bound to be.

You say we were the ones who don’t care about “freedom” or that we “hate America”. You called us every name in the book. Well, how about trying this one on for size – disingenuous lying hypocritical chickenshit warmongering fearmongering scumbag. Don’t like it? Too fucking bad. Wanna do something about it? Get on a goddamn plane and put your money where your mouth is. Put your own ass on the line, not someone else’s.

Senator McCain – you think that 20,000 more troops is the answer? Fine. You have seven children and four grandchildren. Are they all serving? No? Why the hell not?

Lazy ass xenophobic freepers and Red Staters – I am sure that most of you are of military age. You think that even hardcore neocons who got us into this mess are giving up? Well, our troops are on their third and fourth tours of duty. Your hero McCain is calling for more troops. You support this disaster. Get off your ass and go fight it yourself.

What’s that, you have “other things to do”? You are better off serving from behind a computer screen? You have children to take care of? Well, I bet those 16,000 single mothers who are serving in Iraq had other things to deal with as well. Not in shape? Have a criminal record? No worries there, because the military has lowered its recruiting standards. Better hurry up and get down to the nearest station.

Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity – why aren’t you over there? You want to blast those “sand monkeys” (real classy) back to the stone age? Go ahead – and bring any relatives with you. If you are so willing to call the rest of us out, then what the hell are you still doing here? You want revenge? Fine – get your ass on the next plane, grab a gun and what little armor is provided. No? Got other things to do? Got a life to live? A family to support? Well, how about those people who are already serving but are being charged up to 400% on loans that they need just to take care of their families?

Other plans like college or a job keeping you here? I bet those twenty six soldiers who died in the first 10 days of November or the thirty eight soldiers who have been killed the first nine days of December also had families, jobs, hopes and dreams.

Seriously, enough of your tired fingerpointing bullshit. “Elections have consequences” - remember that line you loved so much two short years ago? Well, the people have spoken, and there certainly is a mandate now to inject some sanity back into this country and the world. You don’t like it? Tough shit. You want to keep killing and dying in Iraq? Nothing is stopping you from going or from sending your own damn kids.

You called us traitors. You think our problem is that we aren’t clapping hard enough or clicking our heels together enough? You said you were the ones supporting the troops. So start supporting them. They need reinforcements. They need to see their families. They need armor and equipment. So, go. Run, don’t walk.

Otherwise, spare the rest of us and just shut the hell up already. You have no standing. You have no credibility. And you lost on November 7 when the country spoke overwhelmingly about Iraq. Too bad, dipshits. Stop your whining and bullshit. Now we truly are turning a corner. Time for sanity. You have three choices – get on board, get over to Iraq yourself, or shut your fucking mouth.

I would NOT put it past Bush...

Given he seems to hire the most incompetent or immoral choices for the most important jobs in this government, I for one would not put this past Bush.

It would guarantee the vast majority of Americans were afraid. And would also guarantee the job was NOT done in the way most Americans would like it to be.

Bush just has that reverse Midas touch, you know the one where instead of Gold, Bush's touch creates Large piles of SHIT.

Friday, December 08, 2006

Which study group Did their Homework, and which just tried to skate by?

In case you do not know the first report on this post is Bush's plan for victory in Iraq released a year ago.

And we all know what The Iraq Study Group report is. Which group did their homework, Looked at the problem and asked pertinent questions, instead of creating reality they wanted to be true?

And which group has not dealt with reality very well?

Because ONLY one study can represent reality as it exists on the ground in Iraq.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Georgie has a bad day....

Georgie had a Bad Day.

Daddy's friends told him to stop destroying the Middle east.

Daddy has friends over there and they are no longer happy.

Daddy's friends over there even made Georgie's Baby sitter to come to them and tell them why Georgie was allowed to play with the grown up toys.

Georgie had a bad day.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Caption Contest...

Here's Mine:

"I does not read as well as.. My Pet Goat"

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

We treat dogs better than this, ...I am ashamed.

Jose Padilla, 21st century America's version of Josef K.


Not too long ago I read something about Jose Padilla having been held for three years--it's been three years already--in solitary confinement and thought, fuck. I wonder if he's still sane.

Apparently not.

Warning: reading this literally made me feel queasy, which doesn't happen very often.

According to prosecutors,

His basic needs were met in a conscientious manner, including Halal (Muslim acceptable) food, clothing, sleep and daily medical assessment and treatment when necessary.

Not even for animals are "food, clothing, sleep and medical treatment" sufficient treatment. Fish, maybe. Bugs. But most mammals require more than that. Even PK's mice require companions. Social isolation in mice has been shown to cause aggression, despair-like immobility, and immune system and heart damage, among other things.

Now, imagine the effect of doing this to a man. For over three years.

Mr. Padilla was held alone in a 10-cell wing of the brig; that he had little human contact other than with his interrogators; that his cell was electronically monitored and his meals were passed to him through a slot in the door; that windows were blackened, and there was no clock or calendar; and that he slept on a steel platform after a foam mattress was taken from him, along with his copy of the Koran. . . .

Don't skim over his deprivation of the Koran too quickly. It's surely the only thing he had to read or look at, his only contact with human language other than orders or hostile questions.

When he leaves his cell (for a root canal), he has

noise-blocking headphones over his ears and blacked-out goggles over his eyes.

Apparently one of his lawyers

"was told by members of the brig staff that Mr. Padilla’s temperament was so docile and inactive that his behavior was like that of ‘a piece of furniture.’ ”

He also

"remains unsure if I and the other attorneys working on his case are actually his attorneys or another component of the government’s interrogation scheme.”



Bluntly, at this point, Padilla has been destroyed. His case will be written into textbooks in a decade's time, and hopefully students will learn from it. Practically speaking, any hope Jose Padilla had for due process (Fifth Amendment), a fair and speedy trial or adequate legal representation (Sixth Amendment), or freedom from cruel or unusual punishment (Eighth Amendment) disappeared a long time ago. Whatever the outcome of his situation is--and I do hope that ultimately the man regains his freedom, given that the government has not charged him with anything they supposedly retained him for--effectively the only hope left is that we'll learn something from having literally used all the power of the government to ruin a man without so much as charging him with a crime.

Padilla, if anyone needs reminding, is an American citizen. He has not been convicted of anything.

I truly wouldn't do that to a dog.

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This is JUST plain wrong, we as Americans used to be better than this.

He IS still an American citizen, and deserves to be treated like one.

Charles Manson receives much better treatment, John Gotti did also.

John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Henry Louis Wallace, Jerry Brudos, Henry Lee Lucas, Robert Spangler, David Berkowitz, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Muhammad, John Lee Malvo, Richard Angelo, Dennis Rader, Gary Ridgway, Albert Fish, Eddie Gein, Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, all recieve better treatment both BEFORE they were convicted, and after.... even ON death row.

America USED to be better than this.

And Remember he has never been convicted of anything connected with any charges based on What he was arrested for.

What happened to innocent until proven guilty, and the US Constitution?

A Sensitive Bush Weeps

In a tearful rendition of prose and phonery, former President Bush broke down during a speech on working with rivals, and building personal relationships.

Bush broke down talking about his beloved son Jebby and how he wasn't bitter after defeat.

Bush said Jebby didn't whine or complain,but he moved forward and ended up a two term governor.

Bush said "a true measure of a man is how you handle victory and how you handle defeat."

Bush said he gets emotional when he talks about his children. He also said his twin granddaughters have calmed down and are doing well.

Was this emotional barrage a push toward his new favorite son Jebby toward running for President?

Does Bush really think his sweet innocent granddaughters have calmed down? Didn't he watch the Argentina reports last week?

Bush says a "true measure of a man is how you handle victory, and how you handle defeat."

If so, then doesn't his little boy Georgie flunk in both those respects?

The sobs and babblings of a man who like during his Presidency, is out of touch with America, out of touch with the happenings of his offspring, and out of touch with reality.

Old man Bush and his cohort Lee Atwater were the dirtiest players in the game for their time.

Now the seed, no matter how how rotten and dark they may be are examples of what tarnished offspring will become.

"My granddaughters have really calmed down" and "the measure of a man is how you handle victory, and how you handle defeat."

Well Papa Bush, you're granddaughters are wilder than ever and your son is a loser in a cooked up war, a loser in midterm elections, and a loser from your seed.

Weep away Papa Bush, your offspring have "calmed down" and so has your sons days in power.

Monday, December 04, 2006

They offer resolutions....like at new years

Probably about as effective as the suggestions they are gonna give the Idiot in Chief.

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Condi Can't talk About It

Little Condi Rice can't talk about it, but she does admit, rather sheepishly, what the world has been saying for years, that the war in Iraq is a mess and that Bush and company has made many blunders.

Condi says "I'm Sure We've Made "Mistakes" you can be involved in something this big and and not know there things you should have done differently.

Condi says its not the time to talk about the mistakes in Iraq, they have to look forward.

Condi says she can look back and "Write Books" about what we might have done differently.

Condi may have fluffed her way through the questions but she did say one truthful thing that the world already knows through personal suffering.

That Famous quote " I'm Sure We've Made Mistakes".

Yes sweet innocent Condi "I'm Sure You've Made Mistakes As Well."

The only problem is Condi, your mistakes have cost the America greatly.

You're mistakes have costs thousands of lives, thousands more decapitated, and thousands of families to suffer the rest of their lives.

Yes Condi "I'm Sure You've Made Mistakes."

Friday, December 01, 2006

Homeland Security's Mark of the Beast

Instead of capturing terrorists who are coming into our country via airplanes, ships, or by any other means, the Department of Homeland Security has decided to give each passenger a 'terror number' to determine the level of suspicion to each and every person who does come to our country or who is travelling abroad. Guess what? This means that the average American travelling abroad for vacations or for business has been marked by the Homeland Security Beast in the past four years and they don't even know it.

Virtually every person entering and leaving the United States by air, sea or land is scored by the Homeland Security Department's Automated Targeting System, or ATS. The scores are based on ATS' analysis of their travel records and other data, including items such as where they are from, how they paid for tickets, their motor vehicle records, past one-way travel, seating preference and what kind of meal they ordered.

(...)

The Homeland Security Department called the program "one of the most advanced targeting systems in the world" and said the nation's ability to spot criminals and other security threats "would be critically impaired without access to this data."
Feel safer now? Does it make sense to assign a number to a "suspected terrorist" who appears on a watchlist or does it make sense to go after this "terrorist" instead when the threat level for this person is a high number?!!!

The Bush Regime over the past six years has created quite the database on Americans and others. I find it intrusive and not very potent against the real enemies of our country. The fact that the Bush Regime has now laxed the visa rules of those coming into our country is an indication that the Regime is not interested in those who wish to harm our country and our people. Average Americans will get the Mark of the Beast while the terrorists can pass in and out of our country freely.