"Do you know how to make God laugh? You tell him your plans." Hari Sheldon – Foudation's Fear
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 15th, 2009
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” The American Conservative » CIA Hit Teams. Philip Giraldi from American Conservative reports that the CIA program kerfuffle involving VP Cheney seems to have been more an effort to hide incompetence than guarding an effective tool of the CIA. They would enter the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 13th, 2009
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” Feinstein Says Law May Have Been Broken – NYTimes.com. Feinstein thinks that oversight laws have been broken. The real question is will Lord Darth Cheney be held accountable for intentionally flouting the law? He seems very adept at avoiding accountability, ignoring Congress and [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 22nd, 2009
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” So it would appear Cheney’s assertion that “it worked” is not working for intelligence and counter-terrorism official who saw the reports. Another trumped-up pile of BS brought to you by the Dick? So it seems… via U.S. officials slam Dick Cheney’s claim that [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 21st, 2009
MSNBC is showing clips of Dick “The Penguin” Chenney asking for the de-classification of additional memos that he claims show that torture “enhanced interrogation” works. This is so we can have an “honest debate”. CHenney wants and honest debate? That’s just so loaded with irony it’s hard to know where to begin. Andrea Mitchell notes [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 6th, 2008
George McGovern lays out a powerful argument for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney: Why I Believe Bush Must Go – washingtonpost.com Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 3rd, 2008
Giuliani muses on vice president, cabinet – Boston.com Later, Giuliani pivoted from a question about potential picks for secretary of state to this: “Let me answer with the question of what you would look for in a vice president first — again without any presumption that I’m going to be the nominee.”In an answer that [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 19th, 2007
The New York Times reports: One former senior intelligence official with direct knowledge of the matter said there had been “vigorous sentiment” among some top White House officials to destroy the tapes. The former official did not specify which White House officials took this position, but he said that some believed in 2005 that any [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 14th, 2007
Coming soon, to a shredder near you – The Carpetbagger Report Exactly why is there so much paper they never want anyone to see? “The Wonkette says You better get crackin’, Dick — that evidence won’t destroy itself!”
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 9th, 2007
Ezra Klein: “Time to Talk to Iran” A salivating ultra-hawk admits that the recent Iran NIE makes the chances of a strike against Iran extremely unlikely. Thank God.
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 7th, 2007
Cheney: Iraq to be self-governing by 2009 – Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris – Politico.com Vice President Cheney today predicted Iraq will be a self-governing democracy by the time he leaves office, calling the current U.S. surge strategy “a remarkable success story” that will be studied for years to come. A [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 21st, 2007
McClellan points finger at Bush, Rove – Mike Allen and Michael Calderone – Politico.com The only thing notable about this is that Sweaty Scott blames his masters for feeding him lies. I wonder, does he blame his parents for his excessive credulity and gullibility?
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 16th, 2007
Iran wants Western “apology” after IAEA report – Yahoo! News Iran called on its Western foes on Friday to apologize to the Islamic Republic after the release of a U.N. nuclear agency report which Tehran said showed it had been telling the truth about its atomic plans, according to state media. I think the past [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 13th, 2007
‘Hidden Costs’ Double Price Of Two Wars, Democrats Say – washingtonpost.com Did $1.5 trillion get us more secure? Buy an awe-inspiring display of American military might? Cheaper oil? A sound dollar? Exactly what did we purchase for so high a price? A generation of hatred? Worldwide disdain? A near total loss of moral authority on [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 5th, 2007
Keith on the significance of the Daniel Levin story. It was revealed that Levin, an Assistant Attorney General had himself water boarded to determine that it was ethically, legally and morally torture: The presidency of George W. Bush is a criminal conspiracy to cover the ass of George W. Bush. Levin was fired for daring [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 18th, 2007
The Daily Dish-Chenney vs Mukasey OK, we all oppose torture, Dubya and Chenney included. The rub is exactly how does the AG nominee define torture? Does he have an expansive view that encompassing the same methods used by the Nazi’s during WWII and the KGB during the Cold War?
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 29th, 2007
Ezra Klein: Lieberman Helps Destabilize Iraq Take a look. Ezra argues that as long as we antagonize Iran and use bellicosity instead of reasonable diplomacy, Iran has no incentive to help in Iraq. Once Iraq is secure, guess which country is next on the Bush-Chenney hit list?
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 5th, 2007
When the nuns are calling for the impeachment of the “pastor-in-chief” you know he’s really in trouble. Crooks and Liars » Nuns call for impeachment of Bush/Cheney “The National Coalition of American Nuns is impelled by conscience to call you to act promptly to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 25th, 2007
Crooks and Liars » Justice, Guantanamo Style Someone has to explain to me, what existential threat justified descending into what can only be called barbarism? 9-11? If that’s the case in what way has debasing our legal system made us safer? Are we less likely to suffer mass casualty attacks because we torture people that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 22nd, 2007
I watched the President speak today. Conflation was layered upon confabulation. He ridiculously tried to use American occupation of post World War II Japan has a model for Iraq. That’s so flawed as a model it’s hard to know where to start. We didn’t abolish all the instruments of the Imperial Japanese government. The kept [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 25th, 2007
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 07/25/2007 | House panel votes for contempt citations against Bush aides
Date: 06/03/2009