X-Tra Rant

Well the big news yesterday (I had an entry set to go yesterday but my browser crashed and lost it) was about the Pentagon’s proposed Terror Market where ‘investors’ could bid “on what might happen in the Middle East in terms of economics, civil and military affairs or specific events, such as terrorist attacks.” The idea was to make this a possible way to predict future terror attacks. That’s just.. disgusting, people profiting directly off of terror attacks and assassinations. At least soem Democrats had the stones to attack it and now the Pentagon says they’ll disband the program. Makes you wonder how many other crazy schemes are actually up and running just because no one bothered to report on them…

Here’s a great blog entry over on The Blog From Another Dimension (now on the Blogroll) about Bush’s (lack of) character and an even better follow up:

Here’s an interesting article. Some researchers decided to try and find out what makes up a political conservative:

Paul Krugman has a very interesting op-ed on why Tony Blair is in seriously deep shit for hyping intelligence to drag Britain into war, yet while Bush is in trouble, it’s not nearly as bad. Here’s a hint: It’s more proof that our national media is hardly liberal and many Americans prefer style over substance.

The next chunk is almost lifted from Blah3 but it’s important enough to post in full. Put the next three quoted articles together and tell me if you feel safe with Bush running things…

It scares the hell out of me to say this, but is anyone being reminded of the summer of 2001? If there’s another attack, will Americans have any choice but to hold Bush responsible for once, or will they sit back and artifically prop up his poll numbers again? (just in time for next year’s elections I suppose).

This is scary shit. Jeebus, we need to get this squatter out of the White House ASAP before our whole country comes tumbling down around us.

Oh yeah, and will Bush even hold a news conference before he goes off on his vacation? He’s only held 8 solo news conferences since he became President you know. Makes you wonder if his handlers trust him to speak on his own….

On Update: It looks like he did have a press conference today but it was full of the typical lies, deceptions and weaseling. Surprise surprise. Blog from Another Dimension has coverage.

Tucsonans “support the troops” by assaulting 67-year old Air Force Veteran at Clear Channel rally.

We have arrived…. When anyone who dares express dissent and speak out against this administration is beaten by a crowd of “Support our troops” ralliers it’s obvious this is no longer the America we grew up thinking it was.

I only hope our colelctive sanity comes back before it’s too late.

ohhhh wow. This is a FUN one! I got my first right wing/fundamentalist comment on my site since my second ever post back when I didn’t have comments and just had a crappy message board.

Back on my post about Dean’s 16 Questions for the President (click the link to see the comment in person) I got the following comment:

Well now isn’t THAT fun? This guy not only thinks this is Howard Dean’s homepage but he’s unclear on why he’s a homophobe. ANyway, I thought I’d respond personally to him. Here’s what I had to say. I guess I made the baby Jesus cry….

Ahhh fundies. What… fun they are. I figured you all would get a chuckle out of that one.

Once again, Howard Dean shows why he’s my man for President. Read The President Has Misled Us for a large HUGE rundown of Bush’s lies to and misleading of America. Or keep reading for about 1/3 of them that I picked out as my favorites (or least favorites, depending on how you look at it).

Bush’s lies: They’re not just about war.
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Went to a concert last night The Eels with MC Honkey. Went with Kelly. Yay. It was at The Vogue in Broadripple her ein Indianapolis.

Let me jsut say that that concert shot up my rankings as one of the best concerts I’ve been to. Wow.
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Here’s something I’d LOVE to do. Sit down to dinner with Bill Clinton, James Carville, Howard Dean and Hunter S. Thompson. Talk about everything. Politics, religion, social issues, the state of the world, the environment, sports, music, art… everything. Record the whole thing on video.

Imagine the ideas and the commentary that would come out of a dinner like that. I’m sure some people would disagree with my choices. The Greens would want Ralph Nader there. SOme people woulld disagree with having Dean there. Thompson would always ruffle some feathers. But this is my Progressive Fantasy Dinner, so nya :p hehe

Speaking of Hunter Thompson, he’s back and better than ever on ESPN.com’s Page 2. His latest column is a masterpiece. It literally nearly brought tears to my eyes.

And the hosers at ESPN hired Rush Limbaugh for thier Sunday Night NFL show. Supposedly he’ll just be talking about sports and representing “the fan”. Yeah, the WASP fans that get all frothy at the mouth at the idea of anything progressive.

Who wouldn’t like to see both Limbaugh and Hutner Thompson in a round table, both ‘representing the fan’ on ESPN NFL Sunday Night. I would pay good money to see those two face off. Thompson would eat Rush for lunch and still have room to snack on the thinly disguised Republican Dan Patrick.

I’m now a part of the Indy Blogs community and will be posting over on that site now and then. I’ll make sure to put up a link on here whenever I do that.

So if you want, run over that way and check out my take on the Pacers trading Brad Miller to give Indy Blogs some traffic, or just keep on reading. I’ll cross-post it here.
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Bush has!!

Josh Marshall over at Talkign Points Memo (a better political commentary blog than I could ever have even in my dreams) brings together some good info (scroll down a tad to “Interesting insider info…”) about the building CIA/White House showdown and how it looks like if anyone can take down Bush & Co. for his lies, it’s the CIA

Speakign of intelligence, know that 9/11 report that the White House has been fighting tooth and nail to keep from being released? Wanna know why?

Even intelligent people like my mom and dad were led to beleive the lie that Iraq and al-Qaida were in bed together. I tried hard to convince them that most intelligence sources said that wasn’t true, but they believed the President’s lies anyway. And those lies (along with many others) got us into a WAR where Americans are still dieing.

So now you can see why Bush & Co. were trying so hard not to release that report. If it had been released in January when it was completed, Bush wouldn’t have been able to scare the American people with the lies that Saddam and Osama work together. If this report had come out in January, oen of the major cases for war made by Bush, Cheney, Rummy and Wolfowitz would have been shot down before the war started.

But what’s the front page story on My Yahoo today? The U.S. will release pictures of Saddam’s dead sons. Must be that damn liberal media again, right?

But now that we’re in Iraq, Wolfowitz says that WMDs are a secondary issue. Ummm excuse me. Secondary issue? But wasn’t that the main reason you told us we should even GO THERE?!?! Are the majority of American people so stupid that they won’t even bother to question THIS? Lord I hope not.

But we know how Bush * Co. operates. If you speak out against them, they will punish you. After retired ambassador Joseph Wilson in effect broke the Niger Uranium lie, two White House sources informed columnist/patsy Bob Novak that Wilson’s wife is an undercover CIA operative workign on WMD searches - effectively blwoing her cover. THIS IS A FEDERAL CRIME.

Hey, at least trust in Bush is ebbing< finally. On that note, go read the column Lying — a Bush Family Value. It’s very good.

GOP Frets About Bush Re-Election Chances

The story goes on to quote RNC members as saying the polls reflect lack of confidence in his advisors, not in Bush. Ummm nope. I think the American people are FINALLY starting to wake up and realize that the SCOTUS selected a president that is a liar, a cheat and an oil hungry warmonger. Slowly, ever so slowly, the people are waking up. The GOP should be afraid - especially if Howard Dean gets the Democratic nomination. I would pay GOOD GOOD money to see Dean and W face off in an unscripted debate on live national TV. I want to see Dean ask Bush his 16 questions and watch Bush twist in the wind…

That would be one of the happiest moments of my life, right next to Howard Dean (or any Democrat really) being elected the next President of the United States.
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So we killed two of Saddam’s sons. Again. What is this, the third time we’ve done that? And this will change our situation in Iraq how?

It’s amazing that as soon as Bush has been started to actually be CRITICIZED by the Right Wing Media that POOF! we killed Saddam’s sons. I’d be willing to bet a good chunk of change this happened a bit ago when his ratings were okay and saved for a day he’d need the popularity boost.

But really how much will this change things? Will the Iraqi people now suddenly be happy we’re still there? Will the attacks on American soldiers that are killing at least a soldier a day stop? What, really, is the big deal abotu his sons being killed? They were on some deck of propaganda cards?

The Indianapolis Star has a big huge headline about this today. Hmmm people seem to forget that Osama bin Laden is still alive and recruiting terrorists and makign plans. He’s the guy we should be worried about> What happened to getting him dead or alive? WHen was the last time Bush even uttered his name? Oh yeah, and while we’re on the subject of people that are still alive that Bush wants dead, Saddam is still alive too.

So what’s the big deal with killing two of his sons? Is it relaly going to turn the tide in Iraq in our favor? Is it going to stop Americans from being killed ther eevery day in a war built on lies? Will it magically make all of Bush’s lies disappear?

Well, check out the news today… I guess it did make his lies disappear from alot of papers and news outlets…. But as soon as the people realize Americans are STILL dieing over there and mroe of Bush’s lies become exposed, the shit will hit the fan again for Bush. I can only hope that America wakes up and actually pays attention for once.

Will the death of his sons change the fact that an October report from the NIE said:

The report goes on to say, by some estimates, that Saddam would not work with terrorists like bin Laden unless he was cornered and close to losign his grip on his country. Good idea. So let’s PUSH HIM INTO THAT. Great thinking there, Bushy. But I guess that’s okay, because “The president of the United States is not a fact-checker.” (actual quote from an administration official). Nice to know the “leader” of the free world who leads us into pre-emptive wars and pisses off our allies isn’t a fucking fact checker. The Supreme Court might as well have made Mayor McCheese president. At least he’d probably be a “fact checker”.

Christ on a cracker, we’re being led by a bunch of crazies that are so obsessed with oil and their own little pwoer grabs they’ll do anything - even if it puts the nation MORE at risk of terror attacks.