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Monday, November 12, 2007
This and that, 2007 12 November

The US military is reporting that mortar and rocket attacks are at a 21-month low in Iraq. So all of you 18-40 studs who feel Iraqi democracy is so important? It's safe to sign up now. I'll be over here, not holding my breath.

Richard Armitage, the State Department official who first leaked Valerie Plame's name to a reporter, has conceded that he was "extraordinarily foolish" to have revealed this information. And I learned that "extraordinarily foolish" is the new way to say "highly treasonous."

The Derferment Twins. Dick Cheney was unavailable.

A 4000 year-old temple was found in Peru, and there are wall paintings inside of a figure that looks very much like Pat Robertson. The figure is drinking some sort of medicinal shake and blaming America for the 9/11 attacks. Rudy Giuliani had no comment.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck from The View has revealed her new son's name. I didn't finish reading the article, but I suspect his name may be I Don't Give A Shit.

A Patterson man was arrested for allegedly stabbing his wife's uncle. Kevin Easter has been charged with attempted murder, making this the bloodiest Easter since...Wait, I don't do religious humor.

Whose house? RUN'S HOUSE!

Six people were killed by rocket fire at a rally commemorating the life of Yassir Arafat in Gaza City. I can't help but think the old rat-faced terrorist is smiling a little bit in Hell, pleased that Hamas devised the perfect tribute for a mass-murderer.

The headline reads "U.S. to woo Africans with naval diplomacy." Because there's nothing Africans like better than seeing fleets of boats anchored off the coast.

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Wednesday, July 04, 2007
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I really enjoy the 4th of July. It's a great holiday, and it celebrates something truly important. I hope that everyone, no matter which hilarious country you may be in, will take a few minutes and read this. It matters, maybe more than it ever has.

I won't really go too far into the Libby travesty, except to say this:

George W Bush is a coward.

He got his friend off the hook by commuting the sentence, which he claimed was "too harsh." Wouldn't it have logically followed that he would reduce the length of the prison sentence, rather than obliterating it completely?

He has proven that the rule of law is for other people. Those who say there was no crime committed are, and I'm being delicate here, morons. Leaking the name of an undercover CIA operative is a crime, and a serious one. Valerie Plame was covert, and as an added bonus, was actually part of the intelligence gathering where WMD in Iraq were concerned.

The crime, as directly related to the leak, was committed by Richard Armitage. But it was Libby who knew this, lied to a grand jury about these recollections, and obstructed justice. These so-called law and order types who bitch and complain about some illegal picking strawberries for two dollars an hour are happy to turn a blind eye to treason. Supporting the president or the party is not the same thing as supporting the country. Take thirty steps back and try to see that, please.

Read the Declaration of Independence today, and if you're feeling up to it, check out the Constitution and the Bill of Rights while you're at it. We are so much better than what we have become.

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Sunday, July 17, 2005
What was I talking about?

Oh, yeah. Karl Rove.

Because I want to be informed, I read the paper each day. The Rove/treason story has gone from Page 1, to page 6, to page 10, to gone. No one cares. It's still being covered somewhat, because the press finally has a story worth it's time. But people just don't care. The President is "a good Christian man," and if Rove is his friend, then all of this must be untrue.

The latest, of course, is that Rove got Valerie Plame's name from columnist Robert Novak. The tried and true "blame the press" gambit, which in this day and age, never seems to fail. The press is so damned liberal, what with your Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Reillys, and the literally hundreds of unimaginative local wannabees spewing half-truths over the airwaves. Aside from Air America, my guess is, you don't have a liberal talker on the air where you live. The liberal press is such a myth, it's the Willie Horton, the Silent Majority, the McCarthy list of our age.

The biggest irony, of course is, that the same working class Americans who deride the liberal, godless media, are the same people who make wholesome shows like I Want To Marry Millionaire, Banging The Boss, and I Fellated A Midget runaway successes. People bitch about the media, but for the wrong reasons. They complain that it is undermining the morals of our country, and maybe it is. All the media ever does is give us exactly what we want. We should be complaining about the lapdog approach that the press takes toward a criminal administration being run by an incompetent president, and his treasonous advisers.

"I would, but there's something good on."

I'm watching the Rove thing fade away. It's not gone yet, but it will play out as I have written previously. You get what you deserve. Choke on it.

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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Rove

Well, shock of all shocks, it turns out that the person who treasonously leaked the name of a CIA undercover operative to the press is none other than White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove. I respect Rove's intellect. I mean, he is one crafty bastard. But his politics and loyalties are so far askew that it's nearly inconceivable.

A brief background, if that's even possible.

On July 6th, 2003, Joseph C. Wilson IV published an editorial in the New York Times.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0706-02.htm

Basically, it said that he had investigated the charges of African nations supplying fissionable material to Saddam Hussein, and there was just nothing to it. Wilson was ambassador to Gabon for several years in the early 90s, and is familiar with the workings of governments in Africa. He is not some dilettante. The report embarrassed the Bush White House.

Eight days later, Chicago Sun-Times columnist, Robert Novak publishes the following column:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20030714.shtml


Novak's commentary was mostly in regard to Wilson's essay published the previous week. However, the following paragraph is where the problem lies:

 "Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. 'I will not answer any question about my wife,' Wilson told me."

Wilson hadn't mentioned his wife in his NY Times piece. How did Novak find out classified information about an undercover CIA operative? Ah, yes, "senior administration officials." Well, why would highly-placed men such as these blow Valerie Plame's cover?

Payback.

These petty hacks, angered because someone dared speak the facts about our mindless march to war in Iraq, didn't even bother to refute Wilson's charges. Instead, they put his wife, an agent of the United States government, at extreme risk, merely to satisfy their need for revenge.

This is the kind of pettiness we've seen time and time again from the people currently in charge.

Wilson rightly complained that the government had hung his wife out to dry, and on September 16, Scott McClellan at a White House press briefing, is asked "Now, this is apparently a federal offense, to burn the cover a CIA operative. . . . Did Karl Rove do it?" He replied, "I said, it's totally ridiculous."

In June 2004, President Bush himself said that when the leaker was identified, he or she would be fired and possibly much more. After all, it is a felony to endanger an operative this way.

Finally, this week Karl Rove, just two years after committing this treasonous act, decided to come forward, and admitted that it was he, in fact, who had spoken with Robert Novak about Joseph Wilson's wife. Why did he come forward now, some may wonder? Well, he waited until after he had gotten his boss re-elected. There will be no political price paid for his crime against the country.

And besides, nothing is going to happen to him.

How can I say that? No one in this criminal White House has ever paid for any of the crimes it has committed against the United States. Who took the blame when Enron scammed millions out of their retirements? Who took flack when the White House ignored repeated warnings about an impending al-Qaeda attack on the United States? Whose job was lost when we marched to war with a country that posed absolutely no threat to us? Or when the administration-sanctioned abuses at Abu Ghraib came to light? When millions were added to the ranks of medically uninsured? When gay marriage and flag burning were used to distract from urgent issues? When the separation of Church and State was threatened? When Halliburton reaped billions through no-bid contracts? When Tom DeLay repeatedly violated Texas election laws? When the Medicare bill went from 400 billion to 550 billion? When taxpayer money was used to promote the Administration's flawed agenda and programs through supposedly "unbiased" commentators? Antonin Scalia's conflict of interest regarding the Cheney Energy Task Force case? The President's AWOL period during his "crucial" National Guard service? Guantánamo Bay torture?

How many more have there been, and will there be? This is hardly an exhaustive list. Halliburton itself is pages upon pages of malfeasance.

And now this. Karl is a clever guy and he knows that we will spend a month, maybe two, stamping our feet about this, and then the fall television season will kick off, and we will forget all about it. We are getting dumber and lazier by the minute.

In a bi-partisan Congress, impeachment proceedings would have been initiated years ago. But today, party loyalty is more important that justice, winning at all costs is valued over truth, and faith is being fancied over reason.

Even in my short lifetime, America has been a great country, but I feel like that's all over now. As we slide into the inevitable theo-corporatocracy that we have blindly insisted upon, I wonder why we have done this to ourselves. Sometimes, it is important to pay attention. Sometimes, we must think when it would be simpler to merely believe. And sometimes, we must do what is right, even there is a lot of fucking work involved.

Christians are the majority in this country, and they consider themselves moral, and they love President Bush. How can you continue to support a man of such obviously low character? A man who has never sacrificed of himself in any way? A man bereft of understanding for what the working man goes through? A man who uses Jesus like a lapel pin, to prove his character, when his actions reveal his sickening true nature?

We must demand justice in this case. We must take a stand on something, and unfortunately, as of this writing, we are 1748 American soldiers too late to stand against unjust war in Iraq. If Karl Rove can be served with the justice that his criminal behavior so richly demands, then maybe anything is possible. Maybe this country can be set right again. Maybe the lives of soldiers and Iraqis can be spared.

And maybe pigs will fly out of my ass.

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