"Do you know how to make God laugh? You tell him your plans." Hari Sheldon – Foudation's Fear
Posted in Blog Post on May 16th, 2008
Unreal Blog Physics, Philosophy and Money Tortures Blowback – washingtonpost.com THE GHOSTS of interrogations past have come back to haunt the Bush administration. This week, the legal officer supervising the military trials at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, dismissed capital charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, who allegedly would have been the 20th hijacker [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 10th, 2008
Unreal Blog Physics, Philosophy and Money Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved ‘Enhanced Interrogation’ They should be in jail, but you know they’ll never see the inside of a court as defendants.
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 9th, 2008
Unreal Blog Physics, Philosophy and Money Pelosi will stop fast-track clock – The Crypt’s Blog – Politico.com Political hardball played in response to Bush’s imperious dealing with Congress. Peolsi’s response is appropriate and long overdue. Better late than never.
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 9th, 2008
then this should really piss you off. Read the whole thing. It’s a view of the lawlessness that the Bush administration has dragged this nation to. These are not the principles that America was founded on. It shames and demeans us as a people. These people are guilty of numerous crimes and should, but probably [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 28th, 2008
Despite the Fighting in Basra, Bush Emphasizes Progress – washingtonpost.com An honest editor might change that to: Despite reality, Bush continues to lie.
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 19th, 2008
E. J. Dionne Jr. – The Street on Welfare – washingtonpost.com Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries and how government should keep its hands off the private economy. The Wall Street titans have turned into a bunch of [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 19th, 2008
I guess it wasn’t lives he cared about or his treasure that was sacrificed. After all, sacrifice is for the little people: Five years on, Bush again talks of Iraq victory | U.S. | Reuters President George W. Bush said on Wednesday he had no regrets about the unpopular war in Iraq despite the “high [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 14th, 2008
Bush Warns House on Surveillance – New York Times With the House moving toward a vote on electronic surveillance legislation that the White House has said falls far short of its requirements, President Bush warned legislators strongly Thursday morning against passing what he called “a partisan bill that will undermine American security.” There is no [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 10th, 2008
No Torture. No Exceptions The Washington Monthly sets out to end the debate on torture by presenting a series of short essays from people across the political spectrum on why torture is, in fact, bad. The real tragedy here is that is necessary to make this point in the USA in the 21st century. Here’s [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 8th, 2008
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 7th, 2008
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan Basically: borrow around a trilllion from the Chinese to give Iran a new client state next door, occupy it for the next thirty years, and still keep oil at $106 a gallon barrel. Yes: lots to debate. Death, strategic and financial disaster, way to go Bushie.
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 25th, 2008
They lost intelligence, possibly congenitally, then decided that telcos would cooperate anyway, despite their best sky is falling bullshit rhetoric. It’s hard being part of BushCo these days. I’m not sure I’m down for a witch hunt in the federal civil service ranks like dday, but I am down for the American public coming to [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 24th, 2008
Firedoglake – Firedoglake weblog » FISA: President Specious Opens Yap, Petulantly Stamps Foot…Again
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 21st, 2008
Hullabaloo- tristero I find my reaction is much the same, why is bush still in office?
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 30th, 2008
John Aravosis on Bush’s recent signing statement: Bush will ignore more of Harry Reid’s and Nancy Pelosi’s laws No, in America we go to court to determine if laws unconstitutionally infringe on the president’s powers. The president doesn’t just get to decide by himself, especially when he’s a blithering idiot. No one in America gets [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 30th, 2008
You have to question the sanity of anyone who wants this: McClatchy Washington Bureau | 01/30/2008 | Commentary: Only 11 months to go Meantime, out on the campaign trail, what pass for the political heavyweights in both parties are busy bashing each other around the head and shoulders in a desperate battle to win the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 30th, 2008
Bush tells Congress about his willingness to ignore the law – The Carpetbagger Report He believes he’s simply not bound by the constitution (over congressional oversight) in any meaningful way.
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 29th, 2008
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan Sully points out that there was an HIV positive woman at the SOTU address whose very presence is a violation of US immigration laws barring HIV positive people from entering the country. Naturally since the Shrub needed a prop the let her come in to be a cute [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 28th, 2008
There’s a good round up of what happened over at C&L: Crooks and Liars » Jay Rockefeller on FISA: Bush is committing Political terrorism: Cloture vote fails Short story is that the GOP fell well short of their pathological attempt to play a national security issue for political advantage. The cloture vote in the Senate [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 24th, 2008
Negotiating Our Future in Iraq | The American Prospect Bush would like to negotiate a long term agreement with Iraq, including security and training assurances without going to the Senate for ratification of a formal treaty between the nations. Why would he want to do that (other than a long standing hatred of anything that [...]
Date: 08/10/2007