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    As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

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    caught a badddd bug

    and have been out of commission since Friday. Only benefit was I got through most of Jon Krakauer’s Where Men Win Glory: a wonderful, horrible read about Pat Tillman’s decision to leave the NFL for the Army Rangers after 9/11, and all that BushCo did to use him and abuse his family after his friendly fire death in Afghanistan.

    Truly, it is to read and [...]



    time to name names and put the blame where it belongs

    On Hank Paulson’s bald head.

    When AIG started to become unwound last fall, who better to know just how much Goldman Sach’s own rape & pillage squad was going to depend on its AIG bad bet insurance than the former CEO, Paulson himself – and who else but the Treasury Secretary would be better positioned to make sure that at least his alma mater – if [...]



    two sides of the same coin

    I’m sure women across the Middle East are singing Bush’s praises – right, Condi?

    In Iraq:

    Kurdistan is the only known part of Iraq –and one of the few places in the world–where female circumcision is widespread. More than 60 percent of women in Kurdish areas of northern Iraq have been circumcised, according to a study conducted this year. In at least one Kurdish territory, 95 percent [...]



    dedication

    That’s what “Hanukkah” means. And for the last eight nights, my husband, son and I, though atheists all, have lit the menorah and remembered the cleansing of the Temple by the Maccabees, which is especially meaningful now given the housecleaning soon to come to our own federal government.

    Go ahead and throw Chimpy and Pickles out with the bathwater. And Dick. And Condi.

    For [...]



    my christmas gift to wpe

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    free the shoe-thrower

    A surprise visit by US President George Bush to Iraq has been overshadowed by an incident in which two shoes were thrown at him during a news conference.

    An Iraqi journalist was wrestled to the floor by security guards after he called Mr Bush “a dog” and threw his footwear, just missing the president.

    Showing the soles of shoes to someone is a sign of contempt in [...]



    How to Get Yourself Water Boarded

    Wonder why this Iraqi newsman didn’t greet Bush as a liberator?  Can you imagine the price he probably will pay for throwing those two shoes?  Wonder why we haven’t seen any statues of Bush erected in Bagdad celebrating all he has done for the Iraqi people?  Our liberation is in 36 days and it cannot come soon enough.

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    still crazy after all these years

    Condi fights to the last:

    “I still that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein is going to turn out to be a great strategic achievement,” Rice said on Fox News Sunday. “Not just for the Bush administration, but for the United States of America.”

    “You now have a young, democratic, multi-ethnic, multi-confessional Iraq that has just signed a historic agreement with the United States establishing a long-term relationship, [...]

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