Just Plum Crazy

The Republicans (Ari Fleishman & friends) are about to launch a 200 million dollar advertising campaign to convince the American people that bombing Iran is a good thing….
Is there no end to the things that these criminals will do to maintain their fascist power?

by Christopher Hill
Burlington, VT

You who create the wars that murder our souls.
You who determine the fate of millions out of
pride, ignorance, hubris, lies, arrogance and fear.
Have you no soul?
Have you no comprehension of the beauty of all human life?
Have you no fear of how you will be judged by those who
must deal with the aftermath of your pitiful attempt to
play Supreme Being?
You claim that God is your guide and protector.
You foolishly try to rationalize the death, destruction
and terror you unleash upon humanity.
You create enemies out of dust to satisfy your lust
for blood, money, power and the satisfaction of your
demons.

We shall tremble no more in the shadow of your evil.
We will no longer allow you to shower us with your cowardice,
insults and scorn.
When you accuse us of being unwilling to support our nation
because of our refusal to blind ourselves to the tyranny of
your regime, we will rise up and say, “Enough…”

You are not our master, you are our servant. Your power,
if legitimate, comes with our advise and consent.
If you abuse it, you abuse us and we will not forget.
We do not take kindly to abuse, we see fools and braggarts
for exactly what they are: cowardly, spineless and weak.

Your wars are not indicative of your strength.
Rather, they show how morally, spiritually and intellectually
vacant you really are.
Your blindness to truth, justice and humanity will be your
legacy.
There will be no victory for you, you have created a vacuum that
your ego cannot fill.
There is no Fatherland, no Motherland, no us, no them.
Flags decorate graves, they are not shields or curtains behind which
you can hide the shame of the horrors you perpetrate upon the world.

If you can live with this, you are a bigger fool than anyone could imagine.

Copyright October, 2007

Dear President Jethro,

Sadly you just don’t get it. With your approval rating at an all time low you just keep on doing pretty much everything the American people don’t want. Not only are you continuing to put more of our troops in harms way you have decided to become the Veto Csar. So far every bill the Congress has sent to your desk you have vetoed. And now, those bills congress is proposing you have declared you will veto. Like funding the troops in Iraq, adult stem cell research etc. Things that could make a difference in this great county of ours. Of course you don’t care about that stuff. After all, what’s in it for you? It’s like you are pouting because daddy has cut off your trust fund. No more blank checks Jethro (WHAAA..). Your buddies Gonzales and KKKarl Rove are going down and you just keep on showing your stupidity and doing the same old crap. Get over yourself..
Oh yeah, about Iraq.. Get out, Get out, Get out !!!

Despite some notable accomplishments in domestic and foreign policy, Nixon is mostly associated today with disdain for the Constitution and abuse of presidential power. Obsessed with secrecy and media leaks, he viewed every critic as a threat to national security and illegally spied on U.S. citizens. Nixon considered himself above the law.

Bush has taken this disdain for law even further. He has sought to strip people accused of crimes of rights that date as far back as the Magna Carta in Anglo-American jurisprudence: trial by impartial jury, access to lawyers and knowledge of evidence against them. In dozens of statements when signing legislation, he has asserted the right to ignore the parts of laws with which he disagrees. His administration has adopted policies regarding the treatment of prisoners of war that have disgraced the nation and alienated virtually the entire world. Usually, during wartime, the Supreme Court has refrained from passing judgment on presidential actions related to national defense. The court’s unprecedented rebukes of Bush’s policies on detainees indicate how far the administration has strayed from the rule of law.

George Bush and Dick Cheney must be impeached for war crimes and crimes against humanity! Millions are against the war, spying, torture, the abandoning of Katrina survivors, a spreading theocracy and suppression of science—and want the whole disaster of the Bush regime to be brought to a halt. The more we demand impeachment, Bush’s war options will grow more limited; the more his war crimes are exposed, the greater the impetus for his removal and repudiation.

The Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime says: “YOUR GOVERNMENT, ON THE BASIS OF OUTRAGEOUS LIES, IS WAGING A MURDEROUS AND UTTERLY ILLEGITIMATE WAR IN IRAQ, WITH OTHER COUNTRIES IN THEIR SIGHTS”

It is time we rise to this challenge in unity with each other. The people are on our side, the momentum is on our side, the whole world is on our side. The challenge: are we going to move heaven and earth to remove the criminal Bush regime, ending the war and repudiating the direction they’ve taken this society?

“THAT WHICH YOU WILL NOT RESIST AND MOBILIZE TO STOP, YOU WILL LEARN – OR BE FORCED – TO ACCEPT…”

Now is the time. 2008 is too late. It is unconscionable to allow this carnage to go on. We can and must reverse the entire course we have been forced to accept, or it will be made permanent.

Contact your Congressmen and demand action against the Bush Mafia today!

Sad But True

That’s OK, I Wasn’t Using My Civil Liberties Anyway

Let’s Fix Democracy in This Country First

If You Want a Nation Ruled By Religion, Move to Iran

Bush. Like a Rock. Only Dumber.

If You Can Read This, You’re Not Our President

Of Course It Hurts: You’re Getting Screwed by an Elephant

Hey, Bush Supporters: Embarrassed Yet?

George Bush: Creating the Terrorists Our Kids Will Have to Fight

Impeachment: It’s Not Just for Blowjobs Anymore

America: One Nation, Under Surveillance

Whose God Do You Kill For?

Cheney/Satan ‘08

Jail to the Chief

No, Seriously, Why Did We Invade Iraq?

Bush: God’s Way of Proving Intelligent Design is Full Of Crap

Bad President! No Banana.

We Need a President Who’s Fluent In At Least One Language

We’re Making Enemies Faster Than We Can Kill Them

Is It Vietnam Yet?

Bush Doesn’t Care About White People, Either

President Bush? Where Are We Going? And Why Are We In This Handbasket?

You Elected Him. You Deserve Him.

Impeach Cheney First

Dubya, Your Dad Shoulda Pulled Out, Too

When Bush Took Office, Gas Was $1.46

Pray For Impeachment

The Republican Party: Our Bridge to the 11th Century

What Part of “Bush Lied” Don’t You Understand?

One Nation Under Clod

2004: Embarrassed 2005: Horrified 2006: Terrified

Bush Never Exhaled

At Least Nixon Resigned

I never thought I’d miss Nixon

George: How about a nice hunting vacation with Cheney?

Somewhere in Texas a village is missing it’s idiot

Brussels Sprouts have a higher approval rating than Bush

Of course there have been more jobs created. With the horrible condition of our economy and the mismanagement by the Bush Administration the middle class and lower middle class must hold two and sometimes 3 jobs to earn a living.
That’s not more jobs it’s just forcing people to work more than they should to survive.
And the appointed/anointed Village Idiot calls this progress?
Fortunately for the American people only 1/3rd are going along with this crap.

I never thought I’d miss Nixon….

This stuff is becoming very scary and needs to be stopped!
ITMFA (Google it)

Published on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 by the New York Times
Bush Directive Increases Sway on Regulation
by Robert Pear

President Bush has signed a directive that gives the White House much greater control over the rules and policy statements that the government develops to protect public health, safety, the environment, civil rights and privacy.

In an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Mr. Bush said that each agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee, to supervise the development of rules and documents providing guidance to regulated industries. The White House will thus have a gatekeeper in each agency to analyze the costs and the benefits of new rules and to make sure the agencies carry out the president’s priorities.

This strengthens the hand of the White House in shaping rules that have, in the past, often been generated by civil servants and scientific experts. It suggests that the administration still has ways to exert its power after the takeover of Congress by the Democrats.

The White House said the executive order was not meant to rein in any one agency. But business executives and consumer advocates said the administration was particularly concerned about rules and guidance issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

In an interview on Monday, Jeffrey A. Rosen, general counsel at the White House Office of Management and Budget, said, “This is a classic good-government measure that will make federal agencies more open and accountable.”

Business groups welcomed the executive order, saying it had the potential to reduce what they saw as the burden of federal regulations. This burden is of great concern to many groups, including small businesses, that have given strong political and financial backing to Mr. Bush.

Consumer, labor and environmental groups denounced the executive order, saying it gave too much control to the White House and would hinder agencies’ efforts to protect the public.

Typically, agencies issue regulations under authority granted to them in laws enacted by Congress. In many cases, the statute does not say precisely what agencies should do, giving them considerable latitude in interpreting the law and developing regulations.

The directive issued by Mr. Bush says that, in deciding whether to issue regulations, federal agencies must identify “the specific market failure” or problem that justifies government intervention.

Besides placing political appointees in charge of rule making, Mr. Bush said agencies must give the White House an opportunity to review “any significant guidance documents” before they are issued.

The Office of Management and Budget already has an elaborate process for the review of proposed rules. But in recent years, many agencies have circumvented this process by issuing guidance documents, which explain how they will enforce federal laws and contractual requirements.

Peter L. Strauss, a professor at Columbia Law School, said the executive order “achieves a major increase in White House control over domestic government.”

“Having lost control of Congress,” Mr. Strauss said, “the president is doing what he can to increase his control of the executive branch.”

Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California and chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said: “The executive order allows the political staff at the White House to dictate decisions on health and safety issues, even if the government’s own impartial experts disagree. This is a terrible way to govern, but great news for special interests.”

Business groups hailed the initiative.

“This is the most serious attempt by any chief executive to get control over the regulatory process, which spews out thousands of regulations a year,” said William L. Kovacs, a vice president of the United States Chamber of Commerce. “Because of the executive order, regulations will be less onerous and more reasonable. Federal officials will have to pay more attention to the costs imposed on business, state and local governments, and society.”

Under the executive order, each federal agency must estimate “the combined aggregate costs and benefits of all its regulations” each year. Until now, agencies often tallied the costs and the benefits of major rules one by one, without measuring the cumulative effects.

Gary D. Bass, executive director of O.M.B. Watch, a liberal-leaning consumer group that monitors the Office of Management and Budget, criticized Mr. Bush’s order, saying, “It will result in more delay and more White House control over the day-to-day work of federal agencies.”

“By requiring agencies to show a ‘market failure,’ ” Dr. Bass said, “President Bush has created another hurdle for agencies to clear before they can issue rules protecting public health and safety.”

Wesley P. Warren, program director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, who worked at the White House for seven years under President Bill Clinton, said, “The executive order is a backdoor attempt to prevent E.P.A. from being able to enforce environmental safeguards that keep cancer-causing chemicals and other pollutants out of the air and water.”

Business groups have complained about the proliferation of guidance documents. David W. Beier, a senior vice president of Amgen, the biotechnology company, said Medicare officials had issued such documents “with little or no public input.”

Hugh M. O’Neill, a vice president of the pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis, said guidance documents sometimes undermined or negated the effects of formal regulations.

In theory, guidance documents do not have the force of law. But the White House said the documents needed closer scrutiny because they “can have coercive effects” and “can impose significant costs” on the public. Many guidance documents are made available to regulated industries but not to the public.

Paul R. Noe, who worked on regulatory policy at the White House from 2001 to 2006, said such aberrations would soon end. “In the past, guidance documents were often issued in the dark,” Mr. Noe said. “The executive order will ensure they are issued in the sunshine, with more opportunity for public comment.”

Under the new White House policy, any guidance document expected to have an economic effect of $100 million a year or more must be posted on the Internet, and agencies must invite public comment, except in emergencies in which the White House grants an exemption.

The White House told agencies that in writing guidance documents, they could not impose new legal obligations on anyone and could not use “mandatory language such as ‘shall,’ ‘must,’ ‘required’ or ‘requirement.’ ”

The executive order was issued as White House aides were preparing for a battle over the nomination of Susan E. Dudley to be administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget.

President Bush first nominated Ms. Dudley last August. The nomination died in the Senate, under a barrage of criticism from environmental and consumer groups, which said she had been hostile to government regulation. Mr. Bush nominated her again on Jan. 9.

With Democrats in control, the Senate appears unlikely to confirm Ms. Dudley. But under the Constitution, the president could appoint her while the Senate is in recess, allowing her to serve through next year.

Some of Ms. Dudley’s views are reflected in the executive order. In a primer on regulation written in 2005, while she was at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University in Northern Virginia, Ms. Dudley said that government regulation was generally not warranted “in the absence of a significant market failure.”

She did not return calls seeking comment on Monday.

Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company

This posting is by impied permission of Commondreams.org.

Published on Monday, January 29, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
War Criminals ‘R’ US
by Richard Curtis

Many years ago during boot camp I learned a series of General Orders. And while these are difficult to recall (and oddly enough even to find) any longer, one of the things I recall learning was an obligation to follow all lawful orders. Part of what we learned had to do with the military having made changes in training following the War Crimes at My Lai. My clear impression was that the Navy intended us to know our obligations under the Hague Conventions of 1889 and 1907, the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Nuremberg Conventions. These Conventions have legal standing as US law due to their having been ratified by our Senate.
These days the most one hears about such things tends to involve the case of Lt. Ehren Watada, and his refusal to follow orders to deploy to Iraq. Watada’s claim is that as the Iraq War was instigated on false pretexts it is clearly a violation of the above Conventions and in particular a Crime Against Peace. The Army’s position is that Watada refused orders and that this behavior is criminal under the Army’s legal system. The judge hearing the case refuses to allow the defense to even use Watada’s reasons for refusing these illegal orders to be considered.

Why would a military judge refuse to allow an officer to make the case that in refusing an order the officer was following a higher law, which is itself recognized by the military? This seems to be obviously irrational. A judge should be bound by the law, including important provisions of international law that have been incorporated into domestic law. For a judge to refuse to follow the law is beyond reason.

But there is a reason. Watada’s challenge is that the Iraq War is illegal. This fact seems beyond question. A legal war cannot logically be premised on lies, and we all know the Iraq War was premised on a series of well coordinated lies (the “Downing Street Memo” being the proof any rational person needs). The judge cannot allow Watada to argue the War is illegal because it is obviously illegal, and as such constitutes a War Crime, so the judge disregards the law – much to the shame of us all.

If the war is acknowledged as illegal that means admitting that everyone who participates in it, plans it, or orders it is a war criminal.

As a society, our morality is incredibly shallow, and we have a difficult time dealing with challenges such as these. Watada is obviously right and those who prosecute him can only succeed if they can put the law aside in making their charges stick.

We don’t like to think that a young Marine drafted into the military via the Poverty Draft and then sent off to war in Iraq is a War Criminal – but he is. They all are. This is the obvious moral truth that follows from Watada’s challenge.

This is what the Nuremburg Conventions demand. One cannot be excused from illegal acts simply because one was ordered to commit those acts. We are all moral beings, even in the military, and as such have a legal and moral obligation to refuse to participate in War Crimes. And yet tens of thousands of military personal, not to mention the entire military command up to the president, are by definition War Criminals.

This is why Watada is not allowed to make a reasonable defense. This is why our politicians and media refuse to discuss the details of his case. This is why most Americans know nothing of international law. The law is clear. The history and origins of the war are clear. It is a crime. And those who prosecute this war are criminals.

These are just the facts of the case. The real question is will the American people tolerate being lead by War Criminals? Will the American people decide that the law and morality matter? Or will we continue to pretend that if someone in a position of power says that it is so that it is so? Nuremburg demands of us that we think morally and think for ourselves. Nuremburg stands in the shadows condemning our leaders and our military.

Watada properly and legally refused an illegal order and we must now admit the truth of his position and recognize that we as a society stand condemned in the light of this truth. Morality is not easy, and thinking for oneself in a time of wars and lies is even harder. There are times when we are tested. This is one of those times.

Are we any better than those Germans who just followed orders?

Richard Curtis, PhD is a recent graduate of the School of Religion at Claremont Graduate University and presently an adjunct professor of philosophy at Shoreline Community College in Seattle, WA.

Georgie boy is a lonesome guy. I almost feel sorry for the jerk, I said almost, actually I don’t. He has alienated the American people with a 75% disapproval rating, the Republican’t party and the entire world. His plan to escalate the Iraq occupation (the “coalition” is pretty much gone) and to veto everything congress sends him that he doesn’t like is going to be his downfall. I have said in a previous post that he has set the United States back one or more generations. It’s going to take that long to fix what he has done to this country.
All he has left is his puppets. Rice, Cheney, Rove and now Gates.
The poor sap is now a “man without a country” or, “a man without a planet”.
Give it up Baby Bush, you are wrong, misguided and a terrorist threat to America.
I recently saw a news report about the most dangerous men in the world. Bin Laden, Ahmadinejad , Chavez, Kim Jong Il etc. however, the one person they didn’t mention was the most dangerous man in the world. It is of course George W. Bush.
It’s time for the American people and the Congress to stand up and say No more you poor excuse for a human being.!!
He and his cronies have said they think(?) the Village Idiot will go down as one of the great Presidents in American history. What? He is without doubt the worst President this great country has ever known.
Sometimes when I watch him speak I feel sorry for the illiterate bastard due to the fact that he is an appointed President but, he did accept the position and now he will have to answer for his transgressions, you heard me, he will pay for what he did.
I’m getting weary, gotta go..
DaveB

Actually it’s an occupation. The Village Idiot and his entourage, the Village People have created a situation that will take decades to fix, if ever.
The other day on the news the Idiot said there was no civil war in Iraq, it was just a little disagreement between secular parties. By definition there IS a civil war in Iraq. And, how does this insanity have anything to do with the war on terror?
In the wake of the recent election where people voted to reject the course of the Bush administration and stop the war in Iraq, a dangerous president remains in power. The very way he stole the election and came into office six long years ago evoked utter illegitimacy. With an extreme, radical vision to change laws and society for hundreds of years, he relied on rampaging neo-conservatives who seek an unchallengeable US empire and made common cause with fundamentalist theocrats who want to reverse the secular founding of the nation, and impose a bible-based theocracy.
This man is dangerous and if he gets his way over the next 2 years the United States may be in a downward spiral that we may not be able to recover from.

Hopefully the new Democratic Congress will launch some investigations and hold the Bush administration accountable for lying, cheating and misleading the American people. Bush should be tried for high crimes and misdemeanors but, unfortunately, that won’t happen!
Dear Mr. Bush: Be afraid, be very afraid.

DaveB

Posted by permission of Tom. Thanks Tom

Tomgram: Plebiscite on an Outlaw Empire

Outlaw Empire Meets the Wave
5 Questions for Our Future
By Tom Engelhardt

The wave — and make no mistake, it’s a global one — has just crashed on our shores, soaking our imperial masters. It’s a sight for sore eyes.

It’s been a long time since we’ve seen an election like midterm 2006. After all, it’s a truism of our politics that Americans are almost never driven to the polls by foreign-policy issues, no less by a single one that dominates everything else, no less by a catastrophic war (and the presidential approval ratings that go with it). This strange phenomenon has been building since the moment, in May 2003, that George W. Bush stood under that White-House-prepared “Mission Accomplished” banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln and declared “major combat operations have ended.”

That “Top Gun” stunt — when a cocky President helped pilot an S-3B Viking sub reconnaissance Naval jet onto a carrier deck and emerged into the golden glow of “magic hour light” (as his handlers then called it) — was meant to give him the necessary victory photos to launch his 2004 presidential reelection campaign. As it turned out, that moment was but the first “milestone” on the path to Iraqi, and finally electoral, hell. Within mere months, those photos would prove useless for anyone but liberal bloggers. By now, they seem like artifacts from another age. On the way to the present “precipice” (or are we already over the edge?), there have been other memorable “milestones” — from the President’s July 2003 petulant “bring ‘em on” taunt to Iraq’s then forming insurgency to the Vice President’s June 2005 “last throes” gaffe. All such statements have, by now, turned to dust in American mouths.

In the context of the history of great imperial powers, how remarkably quickly this has happened. An American President, ruling the last superpower on this or any other planet, and his party have been driven willy-nilly into global and domestic retreat a mere three-plus years after launching the invasion of their dreams, the one that was meant to start them on the path to controlling the planet — and by one of the more ragtag minority rebellions imaginable. I’m speaking here, of course, of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, of perhaps 15,000 relatively lightly armed rebels whose main weapons have been the roadside bomb and the sniper’s bullet. What a grim, bizarre spectacle it’s been.

The Fall of the New Rome

But let’s back up a moment. After such an election, a bit of history, however quick and potted, is in order — in this case of the post-Cold War era of U.S. supremacy, now seemingly winding down. In the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, to be followed by the relatively violence-free collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a brief moment of conceptual paralysis among leadership elites in this country, none of whom had even imagined the loss of the “Evil Empire” (in President Ronald Reagan’s famous Star Wars-ian phrase) until it suddenly, miraculously evaporated. In this forgotten moment, we even heard hopeful mutterings about a “peace dividend” that would take all the extra military money that obviously was no longer needed to defend against a missing superpower and use it to rebuild America.

Is there a way to stop the Republican criminals from deleting the votes of the Democrats, Independents or Progressives? Do they look at what you register as or do they know how you voted and delete your vote? What if all the liberals registered as Republicans? Would that work? I don’t know! SOMETHING has to be done to stop these political mobsters. They are true criminals. If you are watchng this blog G.W. GET SCREWED!!!
Oh, I forgot, the word on the street is that you are getting screwed, and not by Laura.. )

This is a reprint from Tom Dispatch newsletter with his permission. Important stuff but, very sad indeed.

The Swift Boating of America
By Greg Grandin

An illegal war, torture rooms, warrantless wiretapping, manipulated intelligence, secret prisons, disinformation planted in the press, graft, and billions of reconstruction dollars gone missing: just when it seemed that the Bush administration had reached its corruption quota comes a new scandal. This one is a bribery case involving defense contractors, Republican congressmen, prostitutes, secret Hawaiian getaways, Scottish castles, and — wait for it — the Watergate Hotel. At its center is the just ex-Executive Director of the CIA, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, whose sole qualification for being appointed to that post by just ex-Director Porter Goss seems to have been his ability, while head of the Agency’s Frankfurt post, to hand out bottled-water contracts to friends and show junketing politicians a good time.

Don’t fret though if you are having trouble separating this particular crime from other Republican offenses. There’s a good reason — they’re all one scandal, part of the same wave of militarism, fraud, and ideology that has swamped American politics of late. While this wave of scandal seems now to be heading for tsunami proportions, its first swells date back decades. Just take a look at Dusty’s résumé.

After his zealotry got him booted from Sears’ security and the San Diego police department, Foggo drew on his collegiate Young Republican connections to land a job in the early 1980s with the CIA. His first mission was in Honduras, then the staging ground for Ronald Reagan’s secret paramilitary war against Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government. In addition to his official duties, Foggo helped his old college buddy Brent Wilkes — the defense contractor now implicated in the ongoing bribery case involving former Republican Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham — bring conservative cadres down to Central America. There, he introduced them to anti-Sandinista rebels, better known as Contras. It seems that, even then, a lot more than anti-Communist solidarity was on the agenda. Three of Wilkes’ former friends now claim that these trips included partying with prostitutes.

I read a review of this novel “An astonishing literary debut”. So, I decided why not!
Jack Fish is from Atlantis. He was recruited to spy/killer school to go to dry land and spear an expatriate Atlantean spy. So he learns how to spy, kill, breathe out of water etc. He looks like any human being but with underwater modifications.
He makes it to Coney Island, runs into fellow spies who give him a safe house and directions on how to find his target.
To muddle things up there is a group called The Maltese who want to kill all the Atlanteans (there are quite a few around) and Jack becomes a target. So, not only is he the hunter, he is also the hunted.
Long story short, he finds his target but the guy asks for another day to take care of some unfinished business which Jack gives him.
The story is full of oddball characters that have nothing to do with the plot or anything else.
About a third of the way through the book I almost gave up but, it’s only 217 pages so, what the heck. Very predictable end.
In my opinion, Jack Fish isn’t very good and I give it a big thumbs down.
DaveB

Illegal immigrants have been a topic of conversation for what, 50+ years? Why has the administration decided to make a big deal out of it now?
Well, obviously the Bush Baby is trying to get our attention away from Iraq. Unforturnately it’s working (a little). Even the media is falling for it. It’s all over the news.
Don’t be fooled, There are 10 million illegals in this country and we can’t deport all or even a majority of them.
I agree that it is a problem, foreigners working here, not paying taxes, getting social services and working for cheap.
My point is, why has this become front page news when the criminal administration is getting away with high crimes and misdemeanors (murder, illegal spying, taking bribes etal). Well, you get the idea!! Here’s an interesting website.

http://www.impeachthemotherfuckeralready.com

Has jumped into the Bush Crime Family. I heard this on the radio. If it’s true I just can’t believe it. Apparently Mommy (Barbara) Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Katrina Fund. How nice. But the money was earmarked for educational software to be given to a certain school(s) that have taken in children of families displaced by Katrina. Such a humanitarian. Now, the company that produces the software is owned by, TA-DA, Neil Bush, brother of El Presidente Herr G.W. Bush. And the monies only cover half the cost of the software, the school(s) have to come up with the other half. As a side note, the State of Florida (Governor Jeb Bush) uses this software extensively in the Florida school system.
We are being manipulated by the Bush Mafia. Something must be done to take back America…..

Ricky Smith, a small time loser from a small town in North Carolina goes to Las Vegas. While staying in a hotel on the strip, the hotel catches on fire. Ricky jumps off his balcony into the pool and is saved. He immediately goes across the street to the Mint and soaking wet goes from one game to another and wins every game he plays. He ends up winning one million dollars.
Tony Valentine is an ex-cop from Atlantic City who now operates a consulting business catching people who cheat in casinos. He is hired by the Mint to figure out how Ricky Smith made a million dollars in their casino. He had to cheat!
So, Tony follows Ricky back to North Carolina to figure out how he did it. Rikey found out who he was and confronts Tony and invits him to follow him around to prove that he was just plain lucky. Ricky buys a lottery ticket and hits eight hundred and some odd dollars. He goes to an off track betting parlor, buys three tickets to show and wins on all three.
Tony is truly stymied but knows no one is that lucky. As the story continues Tony gets involved with a whole bunch of stuff and the plot gets a bit complicated.
This is a pretty good read and I give it a 7.

Sue Grafton is a great writer but I have a few problems with her writing style. She spends too much time on her characters wardrobe. The shirt/blouse, color and type of tie, slacks, suit, shoes, even socks. It’s nice to get a description of the character in order to get a picture in your head but, everytime the character is reintroduced here we go again with the wardrobe. Also she spends a lot of time with driving directions to a specific site. The first time is okay but each time she goes there it’s driving directions all over again. This is a 350 page book that could easily be 275 pages without the wardrobe , driving directions and other repeats.
This novel is kind of slow and a lot of repeating events.
The main charactet is Kinsey Millhone, an ex-cop turned private investigator. She is hired by Fiona Purcell to find her ex-husband, a prominent physician who has been missing for nine weeks.
There is his current wife Crystal, an ex-stripper, her teenage daughter, the daughters deadbeat father. The side story is a couple of brothers who have some office space for rent which Kinsey wants badly. Their story is one of arson, the murder of their parents, stolen jewelry, an inheritance and a whole bunch of other stuff which never got solved..
The best thing about Sue Graftons’ writing is the ending. Trying to figure out who is the bad guy. This is the same deal.
I give it a 5.
DaveB

I have trouble watching the news. Every time the Bush Baby does something stupid I think OK, he can’t do anything dumber than that! But, a few day later sure enough he does!
First there was Katrina, more recntly the port deal, domestic spying outside the law, the nuclear (nucular) deal with India.
Recent news showed the FEMA director telling G.W. that the gulf coast was in big trouble and the levees were going to breach, with Katrina. He ignored it and later said he wasn’t aware of the problem.
Then the port deal with Dubai, a country that WE KNOW harbored terrorists (two of the 9/11 terrorists were from Dubai), they recognized the Taliban as a legitimate government, funded terrorists, has been using their ports to ship nuclear materials to Iran. The Bush Baby says, “come on in, take over OUR ports.”
Now he wants to help India with nuclear technology, a country that refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty. But all is well in that India promised thay would only use the technology for peaceful purposes for generating electricity. India does have the Atom Bomb and apparently only a few. But what they really want is a missile delivery system for nuclear weapons and the Bush Baby wants to help!!
The fact that congress is controlled by the Republicans is one thing, and voting along party lines well, ok, but, Republicans in congress have to be a little concerned about what this idiot is doing. WAKE UP REPUBLICANS! The port deal goes to congress today..
He’s selling off America! Without conscience.
What’s next? How about bringing in Al-Qaeda to run our airport security?
I keep hoping the Bush Baby is going to stop with the stupidity but, I don’t think so.
There is no question that by the time he is back in Texas for good The United States of America is going to be in big trouble.
I read an article the other day that George W. is starting to plan the George W. Bush library. I think it’s going to contain two Dr. Seuss books and a couple of nursery rhymes. Maybe “The Idiots Guide To Being An Idiot.”
The bottom line is I’m very concerned about what is happeng to this country and I’m scared, and SOMEONE has to step up and stop the insanity or our children and grandchildren will be speaking Chinese and Arabic………English will be a secong language…