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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:40 AM

Has Mr. former Assistant Secretary of State been HIRED by Master Erik Prince yet?

Is there any hole deep enough for this guy to hide in? Or is he merely possessed of the fore-knowledge that he is likely candidate for the Lee-Harvey-Oswald-conveniently-placed-patsy Award???

Are his fingerprints all over the contract procedure, or was this a deal cut by the Cheney/Rove Axis of Evil over Powell's protests (for a former officer and gentleman, Powell has shown a remarkable aversion to spats) so that Prince's stream of contributions to neocon bastards would continue unabated, and, in fact, be augmented by the millions, nay BILLIONS, ripped off from the taxpayers???

Minor note: Latest estimates on the costs of Iraq = $1.2 trillion. Yes, that's $2,400,000,000,000.00 - OR $8,000.00 for every living American. Whoopee!!!!!

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:42 AM

Correction: That's $2.4 TRILLION.

Sorry.

Friday, October 26, 2007 08:13 AM
Original article: Cheney's got a gun, again

Maybe this time someone else gets off the errant shot . . .

sooner or later our luck has GOT to change.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 04:24 AM

Is a new conservatism possible?

I'm not sure . . . can we get all those heads out of all those asses???

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 04:28 AM
Original article: Quote of the Day

Tony . . . I hate to admit it . . .

but you've got me rooting for the cancer.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:37 PM

or making fun of Buffalo . . .

the frozen, frigid gateway to the Great White North!!

Thursday, November 1, 2007 09:45 AM

Lawless Group??? More like BRAINLESS

It is not as if each and every argument advanced by Addington in his demented theory of the Unitary Executive has not been heard before. Ditto for Bush's rather less articulate claims. What it comes down to is Bush's claim that he occupied the Presidency because God chose him . . . and Addington's claim that Bush could, in his wisdom, violate the law in his role as Commander in Chief.

Charles I of England made similar claims. Charles said he ruled by Divine Right . . . and that The King Can Do No Wrong.

Parliament was rather less than enthused by Charles posturing, and in 1649 they resolved this controversy by removing Charles Stuart's head from his shoulders.

The Framers of the Constitution were well aware of the history of the English kings . . . and having just deposed one monarch, were in no hurry to install another. There is a reason that the Legislature is the pre-eminent of the three branches of government. The Legislature is the only body directly selected by the People (Executive is by the Electoral College, Juridical by Appointment), AND the Legislature has the authority to remove the Executive of the Judiciary by fiat, a power granted no other branch.

Either Addington et alii are either too fucking stupid to know this . . . or are simply consciously ignoring the facts. Either way, their actions do not grant them license to abuse the law.

Impeach. Remove. Indict. Try. Convict. Imprison. Bush and his enablers are criminals, pure and simple.

Thursday, November 1, 2007 01:50 PM

Sedition?? Absolutely.

That's exactly what the Bush cabal has engaged in from the moment they were appointed by the Supreme Court in a decision so lawless and extreme that it may not be cited as precedent.

They have proceeded to violated the Geneva Convention, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, large portions of the United States Code, and, of course, the Constitution.

The Mainstream Media cavorts as their lapdog, and the Democrats take impeachment off the table and fund their ilegal war.

Thursday, November 1, 2007 03:07 PM

Water boarding has a history going back to the Inquisition in the 1500's . . .

If that's not equivalent of the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for a torture technique, I don't know what is.

Monday, November 5, 2007 09:48 AM
Original article: This Modern World

Okay, okay, I confess . . . I DO hate George Bush.

I hate his squinty-eyes. I hate this frat-boy smirk. I hate his suits with the too-long sleeves. I hate his stupid trips to and from the helicopter with the stupid look on his face. I hate his bitch wife. I hate his skank daughters. I hate his fascist father. I hate his evil twisted Mother and her June Cleaver pearls. I hate the fact he's made us responsible for 650,000 dead Iraqis. I hate the fact that he's flushed $2 trillion down a rathole in the desert. I hate his imbecility, his arrogance, his ignorance, his greed and his smug self-satisfaction. And I hate the fact that the Democrats in Congress continue to kow-tow to this two-bit, cowardly jerk.

Friday, November 9, 2007 01:53 AM

The Republican Party reminds me of organized crime when good people like Colin Powell are forced to go against their own better judgment?

When GOOD PEOPLE LIKE COLIN POWELL???? Perhaps you mean traitorous lying bastards like Colin Powell? Corrupt My Lai coverup artists like Colin Powell? Ballless cowards like Colin Powell - allowing himself to be pushed around by a fat old white man with a bum ticker. Pathetic.

Good people??? Tell that to the families of the 4,000 dead US soldiers and the 650,000 dead Iraqis. Powell has blood all over his carefully manicured hands.

Friday, November 9, 2007 05:33 AM
Original article: Senate confirms Mukasey

They had enough VOTES for a filibuster . . .

they just didn't have enough GUTS for one. What a pathetic bunch of losers: the US Senate confirms a guy so stupid he doesn't know whether waterboarding is torture and says the Prez doesn't have to obey the laws like everybody else does.

Monday, November 12, 2007 09:41 AM

Of course, Jonah never has "been strapped down to the board"

We could fix that real quick. I've got an old surfboard in the basement, not that far from the stationery tubs. Jonah - like all of those fat, pasty-faced, pudge-ball neoconservative chicken shits - is not likely to do it voluntarily - and is equally as unlikely to decide to support the war he loves by signing up to serve - after all, his skank mom Lucianne, didn't raise no heroes, now did she?

Sunday, November 18, 2007 08:43 AM

When a smug know-nothing with a fifth-rate mind marries a billionaire . . .

something happens. All of a sudden his infantile musings have gravitas. Such has been the case with little Tommy Friedman from Minneapolis, Minnesota. His relevance in the present day can NOT be underestimated.

Sunday, November 18, 2007 08:55 AM

Bethincary: re Krauthammer

Here we've got a guy who has the misfortune to spend the rest of his life in a wheel chair, because he dove head first into a swimmiing pool without first seeing if there was any water in it.

And he wants us to trust his judgment.

Sorry, Charlie . . .

Sunday, November 18, 2007 09:15 AM

If Patrick Fitzgerald had done the right thing and indicted this fat little

asslicker (how else the nickname Turdblossom) . . . we wouldn't have to put up with his efforts to top Dr. Goebbels.

Monday, November 19, 2007 05:05 AM

Chill out.

Save the $$ and skip the counseling . . . they're not going to tell you anything you don't already know. The affair has (or will) run out of gas. As my uncle once told me: sex ain't soap . . . it don't get smaller every time you use it.

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