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the lamest excuse

May 1, 2008 – 10:33 am

Q [Helen Thomas] How does the President intend to commemorate “Mission Accomplished” after five years of death and destruction?
MS. PERINO: What you’re referring to is the banner that ran — that was aboard the ship five years ago. President Bush –
Q I’m talking about the anniversary tomorrow.
MS. PERINO: Yes, I get — no, I understand. [...]

By slim | Also posted in Bush crime family, Iraq | Comments (0)

it’s not fucked up until bushco fucks it up

April 30, 2008 – 4:19 pm

Al Qaida’s back in pre-9/11 fighting form, operating without fear or restraint along the Pakistan- Afghanistan border with the tacit support of Pakistan’s ISI, but somehow Iran is the world’s “most active” state sponsor of terrorism according to BushCo:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida has rebuilt some of its pre-Sept. 11 capabilities from remote hiding places in [...]

By slim | Also posted in Bush crime family, Middle East conflicts | Comments (0)

may day

April 25, 2008 – 11:36 am

As a person who works in the maritime industry, which is pretty conservative, this is cool*:
THE ILWU West Coast longshore workers have voted to “stop work to protest the US war and occupation on Iraq and Afghanistan on May Day 2008,” the ILWU said. All 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast are to be [...]

By slim | Also posted in Labor, Peace | Comments (0)

this is your justice department on the g.w.o.t.

April 23, 2008 – 11:16 am

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Three men accused of plotting to recruit and train terrorists to attack U.S. and allied troops met only once during the two years an undercover informant investigated them, the informant testified Wednesday.
The informant, Darren Griffin, is the key witness in the case against Mohammad Amawi, Marwan El-Hindi and Wassim Mazloum, [...]

By slim | Also posted in Constitution, Middle East conflicts, Republicans | Comments (0)

the mentally ill prosecuting the mentally ill

April 22, 2008 – 4:22 pm

In what sane country would you prosecute a straight-A student with no prior arrests, an obvious psychological problem and a 10-lb. bag of fertilizer for “attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction”?
CHESTERFIELD, S.C. (AP) — An 18-year-old accused of planning to bomb his high school will be charged with attempting to use a weapon [...]

By slim | Also posted in Healthcare, Human rights | Comments (0)

torture porn

April 10, 2008 – 10:51 am

We went through the marked-up document slowly, pausing at each blue mark. Detainee 063’s reactions were recorded with regularity. I’ll string some of them together to convey the impression:
Detainee began to cry. Visibly shaken. Very emotional. Detainee cried. Disturbed. Detainee began to cry. Detainee bit the IV tube completely in two. Started moaning. Uncomfortable. Moaning. [...]

By slim | Also posted in Bush crime family, Torture | Comments (0)

Time Magazine: We Don’t Report the News, We Write it

March 18, 2008 – 8:07 am

Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush’s domestic spying abusesNo matter how corrupt and sloppy the establishment press becomes, they always find a way to go lower. Time Magazine has just published what it purports to be a news article by Massimo Calabresi claiming that “nobody cares” about the countless abuses of [...]

By Rich | Also posted in Corporate control, Domestic spying, Media, Privacy | Comments (2)

unfuckingbelievable

March 14, 2008 – 8:47 am

I apologize for the graphic picture, but this is just sickening. After 6+ years of was in Afghanistan, a war that should have been over 5 years ago were it not for the disasterous invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Chimp has the gall to play Walter Mitty. Not only is Bush a [...]

By slim | Also posted in Bush crime family, Iraq, Military | Comments (0)

Why are there so many names on the U.S. government’s terrorist list?

March 14, 2008 – 6:45 am

The American Civil Liberties Union has some frightening info about who’s on the U.S. Government terror watch list, as well as a snazzy counter.
In September 2007, the Inspector General of the Justice Department reported that the Terrorist Screening Center (the FBI-administered organization that consolidates terrorist watch list information in the United States) had over 700,000 [...]

By Rich | Also posted in Civil rights, Constitution, Domestic spying, Middle East conflicts | Comments (2)

Iraq/Afghanistan Winter Soldier Hearings

March 14, 2008 – 6:16 am

All regular programming on KBOO is pre-empted from 6AM to 4PM today (Friday the 14th) in order to carry the Iraq/Afghanistan Winter Soldier hearings, currently underway.
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan will feature testimony from U.S. veterans who served in those occupations, giving an accurate account of what is really happening day in and day out, [...]

By Rich | Also posted in Iraq, Middle East conflicts, Military | Comments (0)

you keep using that word. i do not think it means what you think it means.

March 13, 2008 – 10:44 am

Chimpy loves him some national emergencies - he must stay up nights inventing new ones to declare:
…Because the actions and policies of the Government of Iran continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, the national emergency declared on March 15, 1995, must [...]

By slim | Also posted in Bush crime family | Comments (0)

words matter

March 4, 2008 – 10:07 am

I wasn’t that surprised to see it in The Columbian, but I was disgusted that even the hosts on KPOJ have been referring to the Earth Liberation Front wackos who torched those McMansions up in Woodinville as terrorists.
E.L.F.’s actions are doomed to failure: burning a few model homes won’t stop sprawl or conspicuous consumption, any [...]

By slim | Also posted in Bush crime family, Corporate control, Environment | Comments (0)