December 5, 2007

Why Is This Person Allowed to Be on The TV?

The level of discourse in this country continues to astound me. Some people really are much, much stupider than I ever dared believe.

Sigh.

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July 12, 2007

Heartburn

I've got a gut feeling that these people have wasted six years, hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives and we are not any safer than we were before.

Of course, we are not really in that much more danger either - your chances of getting killed by a terrorist are still effectively zero.

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June 14, 2007

You Will Smell and Feel a Lot of Things

Someone has scanned in and posted a 1943 War and Navy Department guide to Iraq for soldiers that were serving there in World War II. It is fascinating reading both for itself and in comparison to the 2003 version for the current war, which was apparently written by an illiterate.

Someone really should have read the old version before we went to war - on page four it mentions that Iraqis are among the worlds most skilled guerrilla fighters in the world, while page five points out the foolishness of trying to go into a country and change the inhabitants. If only we had known!

It's really a fascinating read.

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May 2, 2007

An Open Call for Fascism

Today the Wall Street Journal is carrying an opinion piece by Professor Harvey Mansfield (author of last year's homoerotic, misogynistic screed "Manliness") that argues that the president should be above the law when it is convenient for him to be so.

I really wish that I could link to it, but it's behind a paywall, so you will have to find a copy yourself. A few choice quotes include:

"Much present-day thinking puts civil liberties and the rule of law to the fore and forgets to consider emergencies when liberties are dangerous and law does not apply. "

"A free government should show its respect for freedom even when it has to take it away."

If this was just a lone nutjob it would not be troubling. However, what Mansfield isdoing is simply laying out the case for a "strong Executive" that has been the foundation of the Bush administration. And he is doing it on the opinion page of the freaking Wall Street Journal, which more than implies that the conservative establishment approves of and encourages this kind of anti-american thinking.

Looking at today's news all I see are articles about the Newscorp buyout offer of the Wall Street Journal with lots of handwringing about the impact of having such an influential paper become part of the Fox News empire. Apparently people are blind to the fact that it's already publishing this modern Joseph Goebbels. (Oh dammit, here I had this great, thoughtful article and I had to go and spoil it by bringing up Nazis. Crap.)

Oh well. Thank god that I am a white male. I'll be fine until they come for the athiests and people who don't think gays should be killed.

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October 25, 2006

Oh My God.

So, Rush...let's be clear. You are not allowed to talk about anyone, ever again. You are not a moral compass. You are a fat, stupid, pill-popping whoremonger who, like the whitehouse, stands on a soapbox and pretends to be moral because it's making you over a billion (to afford the dominican sex resorts.) You are also a traitor to your country and an felon (as you have admitted to smuggling and violating the embargo against our 45 year old enemy Cuba, to satisfy your non-drug and non-prostitute related personal vices).

Shut the fuck up!

You are not just a bad man; I hesitate to say it, but you are worse than Hitler (21st item down).

What an (apparently less than well functioning- see above about the viagra), DICK you are.

I wonder how many young republicans were inspired by the Micheal J Fox character in that 80's sitcom, and not a word of thanks for that.

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September 29, 2006

Section 9 - Limits on Congress

"The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus* shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."

*Habeas Corpus
habeas corpus n. Law A writ issued to bring a party before a court to prevent unlawful restraint. [

The basic premise behind habeas corpus is that you cannot be held against your will without just cause. To put it another way, you cannot be jailed if there are no charges against you. If you are being held, and you demand it, the courts must issue a writ or habeas corpus, which forces those holding you to answer as to why. If there is no good or compelling reason, the court must set you free. It is important to note that of all the civil liberties we take for granted today as a part of the Bill of Rights, the importance of habeas corpus is illustrated by the fact that it was the sole liberty thought important enough to be included in the original text of the Constitution.

As of yesterday, the terrorists won. And they did it with the assistance of the Republicans who pushed to allow torture and unrestricted detention and the Democrats who have cravenly allowed it to happen. We officially live in a police state now. All our rights mean nothing now that anyone can be held indefinately without cause or recourse. Even though the law passed yesterday may be found unconstitutional (you did read that excerpt from section nine of said document above that explicitly says so, right? Did I miss a rebellion or invasion somewhere?) the very fact that our elected officals would even attempt to blithely and permanently throw away the only right written into the actual Constitution itself shows that our nation's core has rotted away.

Go back to watching TV and consuming. Nothing to see here.

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June 12, 2006

Pro-Life, Unless You're A Woman

I really cannot explain how angry and disgusted I am with the religious right. Their latest crime against humanity (well, at least the female portion) involves the HPV vaccines that that are coming out. HPV is responsible for gential warts and, more criticallycervical cancer, which kills 4000 women in the U.S. each year (and affects 500,000), and 270,000 around the world, mostly in the third world. The vaccine, which is 100% effective against the two most common strains of the virus would vastly reduce these numbers.

The vaccine, which consists of a six-month, three shot course costing a little over 300 dollars, is best administered to girls between the ages of 9 and 12, since it can only prevent getting the virus, not cure it once infected.

The religious right (including Focus on the Family, Family Research Council) are lobbying against having this vaccine a routinely administered. Why? Well, because by preventing a girl from getting a potentially fatal sexually tranmitted disease we would be sending a message tath promiscuity is okay, and encouraging them to have sex.

These people are, of course, completely nuts. When you got your Tetnus vacinne did you think of that as a free pass to run around in empty lots full of rusty nails? Probably not, but hey, if you did end up in a lot full of rusty nails, and happened to get one in you foot, wasn't it great that you were vaccinated? People are going to occasionally have unprotected, premarital sex, often they will regret it. Making the punishment for doing so death by cancer seems a little harsh to me.

Hey! Here's a nutty idea - what about instead of sticking our heads in the ground and pretending that abstinance only education works (it doesn't, every study shows that), why don't we provide kids with real factual information about the risks of unprotected sex, the importance of prophylactics, and provide any vaccination safety net that we can.

Oh wait - that's right. They only care about children before they are born. If you want to have your daughter to die from cervical cancer because you didn't get her vaccinated and didn't teach her how to use a condom, I suppose that's your business, but for god's sake, keep your "moral" beliefs out of medicine.

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June 6, 2006

Just A Reminder...

...that today is The Day of The Beast!

Please take a moment to reflect on everything that Satan has done for you, and to greet everyone you meet by throwing the goat.

Whatever you do though, don't go see the new Omen remake.

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May 10, 2006

Just the Facts - No Comment Required

U.S. Army recruiters in Portland have signed up an autistic 18-year-old who didn't know there was a war in Iraq until his parents told him about it.

Update: Okay, I can't resist just one comment - The standard for passing the Army entrance exam is getting 30% of the answers right?!?! They seem to have the normal grading scale turned around...normally the 70/30 split on grades is flipped the other way around - miss more than 30% and you fail.

With entrance standards like that, it makes me worried for the many capable people who are in the military - with their lives at stake they have to depend on people who couldn't even get 1 out of three answers right?

Here's a copy of some sample questions that the Army has up, just to give you an idea of what kind of difficulty we are taking about - you could not get out of middle school without getting 70% of these right.

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December 19, 2004

Stupid-as-a-Post Design

I'm getting really, really tired of the "Intelligent Design" crowd. You know, the people who say that we should not be teaching kids evolution, or "just evolution" in school because there is another theory "Intelligent Design" that posits that life on earth is too complex to have arisen naturally - it had to be guided by an intelligence. They will then disingenuously tell "we don't know what that intelligence might be -it could be aliens! Or maybe God."

They also like to use the example of someone driving down the highway and seeing Mount Rushmore - Obviously when you see Mount Rushmore you don't think that it occured naturally - it could only have been made by an intelligence. Well, life is more complicated than Mount Rushmore - so, ipso facto, Intelligent Design.

Well, morons that are not trying to put religion into school, let me ask you this. Your aliens...I assume they came from you know, another planet. How did they come into being? Not evolution, right, because you have already "disproved" that. So, let's say that other aliens made them. Now continue along that path...who made them? More aliens? And so on. Well morons, at some point something either needed to be created by God, or evolve. And guess what..."created by God", is not going to make it in a science class.

Now shut the hell up, and go watch the Discovery Channel.

Oh, and Mount Rushmore? It is a naturally occuring phenomena. Think about it...you have some primordial slime....you wait about 3 billion years....you get a monkey...wait a few million years more...a "man"...then about 300,000 years later, they make Mount Rushmore. See? Perfectly natural.

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November 18, 2004

The problem is people are stupid

I've really tried to avoid attributing the election results to the fact that the American people are basically just dumb as posts. I've rationalized that it was fear-based, or simply that people will vote against their best interests based on a candiates espousal of "moral values" regardless of their actions. But no - turns out that people are just stupid.

The following is stolen from Salon, but I don't feel too bad about the snatch, because they are basically reporting on someone else's reporting. So I say that I am doing the same...

"Chris Hayes first person report on undecided voters, published yesterday on The New Republic Online, is fascinating not just for what it says about the recent race, but for what it tells us about our polity.

After seven weeks canvassing swing voters in Wisconsin, Hayes concludes that the pundits' contempt for undecided voters is misplaced. It's not that they're undeserving of derision, he writes. It's "just that Jonah Goldberg, and the rest of us, may well be deriding them for the wrong reasons."

Hayes portrays undecided voters as so fatalistic that Bush's manifold failures only confirm their conviction that the world's problems are intractable, a conviction that worked against Kerry's promises to fix things. He paints them as weirdly irrational, possessed of chimerical "facts," and unable to connect to politics to material outcomes.

"Members of the political class may disparage undecided voters, but we at least tend to impute to them a basic rationality," Hayes writes. "We're giving them too much credit. I met voters who told me they were voting for Bush, but who named their most important issue as the environment. One man told me he voted for Bush in 2000 because he thought that with Cheney, an oilman, on the ticket, the administration would finally be able to make us independent from foreign oil…Then there was the woman who called our office a few weeks before the election to tell us that though she had signed up to volunteer for Kerry she had now decided to back Bush. Why? Because the president supported stem cell research."

More disturbing still is Hayes's portrayal of the odd lacuna in voters' understanding of what a political issue even is. "As far as I could tell, the problem wasn't the word 'issue'; it was a fundamental lack of understanding of what constituted the broad category of the 'political,' he writes. "The undecideds I spoke to didn't seem to have any intuitive grasp of what kinds of grievances qualify as political grievances. Often, once I would engage undecided voters, they would list concerns, such as the rising cost of health care; but when I would tell them that Kerry had a plan to lower health-care premiums, they would respond in disbelief -- not in disbelief that he had a plan, but that the cost of health care was a political issue. It was as if you were telling them that Kerry was promising to extend summer into December."

The depressing upshot of this is that Democrats can't make headway by configuring their policies. In the end, Hayes sees only two options: "either abandon 'issues' as the lynchpin of political campaigns and adopt the language of values, morals, and character as many have suggested; or begin the long-term and arduous task of rebuilding a popular, accessible political vocabulary -- of convincing undecided voters to believe once again in the importance of issues." In other words, find a demagogue or educate the country -- either way, Democrats have their work cut out for them."

So, basically people who are voting really have no idea what they are even voting for - they assign candiate positions that are the opposite of those the candiate espouses, and completely ignore facts. Okay, I admit it now. Most Americans are, in fact, stupid.

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November 3, 2004

On the bright side

I suppose there is one potential bright side to all of this election news. Keep in mind that Nixon also got his second term...and enough rope to hang himself.

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Oh well

So, the American people have choosen four more years of deception and incompetance.

I am disappointed, though I can't really say I am surprised.

Lies and fear mongering on the part ogf the Bush administration have had thier desired effect, and all I can say is that we will get exactly what we deserve.

This will be much worse than the last four years.

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September 1, 2004

Who Are They Fooling

So...who exactly does the RNC think they are fooling by putting up a middle of the road front with a bunch of speakers who are openly referred to as "out of touch wit the party" and "Republicans in Name Only" by the people in charge of the party?

Are people so unaware that they will look see the moderate speakers getting time at the convention and ignore the platform that has extreme views like not only amending the CONSTITUTION to prevent gay mariage, but also insists on denying all recognition of gay relationships. including civil unions?

I have to admit that this is they year that I am losing all respect for moderates like Arnold, McCain, Bloomberg, and all of the Log Cabin Republicans. They are going along with the hijacking of the party by rightwing extremists, helping them put a nice-nice face on a very ugly agenda, and selling out their beliefs in the name of a party that does not represent what they believe in.

It's really a shame. Rather than going along with it in the name of party solidarity, why not draw the line and form a party that reflects their fiscally conservative, socially moderate views? I can understand that they don't want to cross over to the Democratic party (despite the fact that it's the party of the center these days, regardless of what the Republican hype machine says).

Sure, if the moderate Republicans were to split off into a new party they would throw this election to the Democrats, but what about the future? A party that veers to the right on defense and the economy, while remaining moderate on social issues and taking a technocrat attitude towards science issues like stem cell research has the possibility of pulling ahead of BOTH parties if it's led by names as well known as those mentioned above.

And it would leave an extreme right wing republican party to wither.

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July 16, 2004

Hawking Flip-Flops Again!!!

Infamous for re-evaluating his position in light of new facts, Stephen Hawking has now flip-flopped on his position regarding the ability of information to escape from the clutches of a black hole. Thirty years ago he held it was impossible, now he says it's possible that SOME information may be able to escape.

Who is this guy that he is unable to hold onto his position regardless of facts? Can he be trusted about ANYTHING if he re-evaluates EVERYTHING based upon new information!?!?!?

(This message brought to you by Bush/Cheney - Beat Science in 2004!)

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October 13, 2003

Duplicity Part Deux

It seems like this administration has a real big problem with distortion and with keeping their story straight.

Funny enough that you have Cheney out there telling a conservative think tank that the US will never be fettered by any multinational agreements, and considers itself free to attack anybody for any reason, whenever - at the same time that we are practically begging the UN for help in Iraq, but the next bit kills me.

A little than a month after he admitted that there was no Iraq-9/11 connection he gives a speech on Columbus day praising the troops (who's benefits he is cutting) for their sacrifices (more than they are probably aware of) in Iraq, and for "Not forgetting the lessons of 9/11". So much for that little bit of honesty.

I don't know about you, but for me the lesson of 9/11 was that maybe our history of failed intervention and attempts at power brokering in the middle east (the British are also guilty) was not a good idea, and something that we should maybe think twice about doing again.

Oh, wait, now I am probably going to be accused of siding with the terrorists. I'm not though. I am siding with the democratically elected government of Iran that we replaced with a dictatorship, or with the generally dirt poor populations of the middle east that we have assured will stay that way by propping up dictatorships like Saddam, or the House of Saud. We (and the British and the French) set the stage for what is going on in the middle east now. I am not saying that we deserve it, though I am saying it's largely our fault.

I also think that maybe, just maybe, doing more of the same is not going to be a solution.

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October 5, 2003

This just in: War=Peace, Black=White, Bad=Good

So, the Kay report on the search for WMD in Iraq has come out, showing that basically, they haven't found anything other than plans, rumours with no documentation to back them up (some from paid informants), many more interviews that state there has been no active program since the end of the Gulf War, and a single tiny vial of botulinum which is the same thing used for botox injections (I kid you not, look it up), that has been in a scientist's refrigerator for 12 years.

The response from the Bush administration has been a resounding cry of vindication. In the most bizarre and mind numbing statement from our president he spouted "The fact that we are searching for weapons proves that he had them".

Wow...I thought he was supposed to be off the drugs and booze these days.

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June 19, 2003

This is your brain on Jesus

Once again, I am forced to remind myself that not all religious people are crazy. But boy-howdy, some of them are!

Not only is Harry Potter teaching our children witchcraft, but apparently it is also prepping them to accept the Mark of the Beast.

Who knew...and that J.K. (standing perhaps for "Jesus Killer"?) Rowling seemed like such a nice lady.

I'm sure that these poor crazy people are well-meaning, but should they really be presenting a case against Harry Potter on moral grounds - I mean, they have read the bible, right? To get an idea of what a great moral compass THAT book is, try this little test.

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May 29, 2003

Oil for Cookies program

Last night's Daily Show had what was possibly the funniest, and the most horrible scene I have ever seen. It was a clip from a CNN report about American control of the Iraq Oil Ministry. The U.S. Army guy in charge (a real whacko young, bald guy who seemed hopped up on something, and should have been at Burning Man looking for girls to show him their tits) was getting a report on the days production from the Iraqi in charge.

When the Iraqi reported 500K barrels had been produced that day, the Army dork whooped and hollered "Woooo 500 thousand Barrels of Oil! I think I owe you something!" and he turns around and hands the Iraqi...4 cookies that his mother-in-law in Wisconsin had made.

The Iraqi gentleman, and his associates looked...what...non-plussed pretty much sums it up I guess.

500K barrels of oil - 4 cookies.

Is it any wonder that they hate us? Not only are we occupying their country, we are also condescending bastards.

What was interesting was that The Daily Show really couldn't make any jokes about it - I mean, how could you possibly say anything that would make that scene funnier/weirder?

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April 4, 2003

Yuck!

Saw this on Wired today - had to steal it. This is hands down the grossest thing I have ever heard of...even when I smoked I wouldn't eat this...

Tasty Tobacco
A New York restaurant is catering to smokers who simply can't stand to sit through a meal without taking in some nicotine. Manhattan's new anti-smoking law took effect Sunday and prohibits lighting up in almost every bar and restaurant in the city. An Italian eatery, Serafina Sandro, unveiled a special tobacco menu, which includes gnocchi made with tobacco and filet mignon in a tobacco-wine sauce, garnished with dried tobacco. A lobster and shrimp salad with tobacco is forthcoming, but salmon wrapped in tobacco leaves was rejected, said chef Sandro Fioriti, a cigar smoker.

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April 1, 2003

Democracy will prevail

In a statement today Vice President Dick Cheney reassured a skeptical world that civilian deaths would not stand in the way of bringing democracy to Iraq.

"Once we have secured the fall of Saddam's evil regime we will bring democracy to all the people of Iraq," Cheney said in a press conference.

"We are right now forming a crack team of election observers, gathered from the city of Chicago, who will assist the Iraqis in creating democratic systems, from a specially constructed smoke-filled bunker we will build outside Baghdad

"Given the remarkable history of Chicago politics, " stated Cheney, squinting menacingly at reporters "I believe that I can assure you that every civilian killed in this war will have the opportunity to participate in elections for many, many years to come."

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March 24, 2003

in-depth analysis

An article on msnbc about support for the war amuses me. Specifically:

"Bush’s approval rating of 67 percent in the poll of 516 adults conducted Sunday was up from 62 percent on March 17, two days before the first air strikes against Iraq. The percentage of Americans who disapprove of Bush’s job performance also declined by 5 percent, from 33 percent to 28 percent, over the period."

What perception! According to this analysis, the percentage of people who don't think Bush is doing a good job DECREASED by exactly the same percentage that his approval rating INCREASED! Wow! That's an amazing analysis of the situation!

I'm going to go cry for the loss of american journalism now.

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March 21, 2003

shuck and jive

The U.S. has begun it's "Shock and Awe" attack on Baghdad. Seems that the point is not to blow things up - we're blowing stuff up, but it's not the point. The point is to scare everybody in Iraq. Apparently if you are a superpower, using terror as a weapon is okay-fine.

What I am still waiting (hoping?) for is the explanation for all of this. Why have we gone to war - I mean really why. Even the Bush junta has never been able to make up its mind or give us a good lie. First it was regime change, then it was disarming, then it was liberating the Iraqs, then it was regime change again. None of these ever seemed genuine and I'm wondering how long it's going to be before it's possible to look back and say "Ah! That's what they were up to!"

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March 20, 2003

It's Over and It's Starting

The snow is over, and everyone survived. Everything is still white, and the streets are still hazardous, but by then end of the day everything should be back to normal. Much excitement this morning when I was driving into work. About 1/4 of a mile from work there is a tight curve, and I made the mistake of taking it at 4 MPH, causing me to slide off the road - in slow motion - into a drift of snow about 4 feet high.

I couldn't get the car out and had to abandon it for a couple of hours. When I went back everything had melted enough that I could just back out. It was interesting though, sitting there as the car slid, excurciatingly slowly across the road. I wasn't in any danger or anything - it was just - weird.

It also looks like we are at war now. There are parallels to my loss of control here. For months we have been on a long, slow, seemingly inevitable slide into war. Hopefully it will end as safely and easily as my accident did.

I doubt it though.

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March 10, 2003

Planet of the Jack-A-Napes

Yesterday we watched the last 20 minutes or so of the original Planet of the Apes on T.V., and we noticed that the location of the sunken Statue of Liberty is completely wrong - even if there had been huge geological changes from a war.

I now believe that the movie is even more prescient than previously believed. (I already believe that Apes have taken over the world, you see...)

Here is the theory...

In the very near future, in a fit of spite, President Bush will give the Statue back to the French, saying that if they aren't going to do whatever we say, then we don't want their filthy socialist statue anymore than we want the immigrants or liberties it represents.

We will pass the statue over to our British lackies - I mean allies - who will leave it just off the coast of Dover.

Unbeknownst to the French however, the statue will be filled with Special Forces troops. Once the French drag the statue across the channel, these troops will wait until nightfall, then emerge, taking over the city. The French will then be put to work doing whatever it is that Bush thinks they do best - probably making freedom fries, which will be used to feed the troops in Iraq...

Anyway, that's why the Statue of Liberty is in what is OBVIOUSLY the wrong place at the of the original Planet of the Apes.

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March 6, 2003

Very, Very Unfunny

In real life, I am a relatively funny guy. It's one of the things that people notice about me. Frequently, when I am a topic of conversation, someone will say "He's funny", "He has a good sense of humor", or "Hey! Let's talk about something else". Many of the comments in my CD Collection, for example, are quite funny.

I would like for that humor to carry over into my blog, but it doesn't seem to be happening. Everything I want to write about just seems so depressing, or so important that I can't see the humor in it. Between having our civil liberties stripped away by the government, and our rights as consumers stomped on by corporations (with help from the government), to slowly, inexorably easing into a neverending war without any front (how Orwellian!) very little seems funny anymore.

That really, really sucks. I should be able to laugh at all of this - it would make it more bearable - but it's just not happening.

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Opportunistic Feeders

I think that what bothers me most about our current administration is their ability to speak out of two - sometimes three - sides of their mouths at once.

For example, after leaving government, when Clinton came into Office, Dick Cheney, who had previously been Secretary of Defense during Desert Storm and had been one of the people calling Hussain a "new Hitler" proceeded directly to Haliburton where he made millions by doing business with Hussain.

George himself had recently arrested terror suspect Sami al-Arian getting the Muslim vote out for him in Florida in 2000.

Post-911 Karl Rove had the man's son over to the White House to discuss Bush's "Faith-based intiative".

This despite 6 year long investigations of both of them.

These are the people who are in charge now. As near as I can tell, they have no convictions, save that whatever will help them achieve their goals, as expeditiously as possible, is the right thing to do.

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March 5, 2003

"An Issue of Ignorance"

Two state lawmakers walk out during prayer by Muslim leader

First off, let's get this out of the way - these two people are stupid, and have no business creating policy.

That said...

What I want to know is, why is there a prayer everyday - or any day? What about seperation of church and state? Do they occasionally have a pagan burn some sage, or a satanist come in to ask for Lucifer's help? Is there ever a sarcastic athiest up there saying "Okay now - those of you who talk to an imaginary friend can do so for the next couple of minutes while I read the phone book out loud"?

I have NOTHING against religion, or against people worshiping whatever the heck they want - but I really don't like the idea of mixing church and state to any degree. Can't these people pray before they come into work?

If they can't have a fair. impartial "everyone get's a turn" kind of system - and they never can - they should just drop this whole thing.

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February 27, 2003

Party At Ground Zero

A friend of mine in San Francisco, Merin, has her own take on preparing for the worst.

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