Unfortunately and fortunately, we are forever bonded by our fervent desire to KEEP HORRORS OF WAR ALIVE!!!!

I’ll dig gum or dung or anything else if we can make a dent on the pig whore insanity.

Jim, Gordon.... DiFi is too blowzy and frumpy to be a cocktailhag.... A certain amount of fun is required, she lacks that, the poor thing. And a bit of glamour, albeit faded, would be required as well. Now, that Jane Harman.... She's a cocktailhag, alright.

Sadly, there aren't a lot left... It's not like Watergate, where you had Martha Mitchell, Dita Beard, and, of course Rosemary Woods.... cocktailhags all, and they all went down in history.

Even on NPR this morning they incorrectly referred to "FISA".

The madness continues, with the most regretable part being that the sheep aren't even aware of what's happening. The point in the speech last night when Dumbya mentioned the PAA vote was stunning how the rethugs lept to their feet and the dem side was stoney silent....

I'm on the Agent Orange register and have taken the A.O. physical. Ain't dead yet.

I was perked when Glenn mentioned war-Porn some time back on a post. Robert Jay Lifton has researched how a Nazi Holocaust can happen" job security, and dare the word Tyrant be misplaced and projected to an imagined 'foe out there a yonder in the vast rolling blue sky and waving deep seas.

Mr Lifton is excellent. The last luck day I heard Lifton was in the truck listening to the N.P.R. piece on the radio. Lifton worked with 'Nam vets in the early 70's and has interesting things to say.

Lifton writes about language use.

Porn is war. Promotion of War is worse than an 'oppressed' person peddling flowers on the streets (You get my gist).

Thanks RMP.

Some 'things' are too sacred to share on the public scroll.

You share pearls.

Rapunzel RMP is a patriot. Generals who say we support the troops are saying...We Send The Best Youth of the Land and Sacrifice Humans for 'to-stuff' the pockets of The CEO, GOP,

and many CORP's (Halibut's) blood LUSTERS. You bet. Take that to the bank? Puff on that pig-scat? Toot. again. RMP. No get sensitive and ask anybody for a 'tp' snot rag small square? Frugality. Oh, one square of 'tp' and one square presidency?

You are lucky rosemayk had mercy on you.

That of course is -- supposedly -- the desirable outcome. But wouldn't that outcome just lead to more Regime lawlessness? Is there any sign whatsoever that the Regime would consider itself bound by the provisions of the Old FISA Law? Or would those Intolerable Restrictions merely provoke more of the Regime's customary lawbreaking?

Lawbreaking which -- of course -- has no consequence.

My own sense is that the Regime will continue to do what it wants regardless of what Congress does or doesn't do. Congress and the courts will do nothing to actually curb the Regime's lawlessness. The expiration or continuation of PAA makes no difference to the Regime, except as a political bludgeon to be taken out whenever it is convenient.

And Glenn and others can just stuff the accusation that this is Hopelessness. It's nothing of the kind. It's a recognition of reality. Which may just lead to an understanding of what's necessary to overcome and transform that Reality.

Glenn is right about the cause of the Senate's defiance of Cheney and the White House commands. They will not -- yet -- give up all their perogatives as a legislative body. So enough of them resisted the orders from the CheneyBunkers to keep the "debate" open for a little while longer.

But it is clear that the desire of the body is to capitulate yet again. That's what Harry Reid had so carefully set up. Yet for some reason, the Republicans in the Senate, following directives from the White House, were not going to let them capitulate and instead set up a situation that potentially requires the expiration of the PAA. Which in turn leads directly to the Real Objective: unfettered, lawless surveillance.

Interesting times indeed.

I showed Rose my Cam Ranh Bay tattoo, the one with a fleet of Swift Boats on it, entering the harbor.

Is there any sign whatsoever that the Regime would consider itself bound by the provisions of the Old FISA Law?

Um no, but that isn't going to stop them from lying about it.

Quoting myself:

The administration had plenty of opportunity to taylor the FISA law to their liking when they still had a Republican majority in both houses. Why they didn't bother to do so remains mysterious. But this of course means that everything that they are saying now about how vital the latest modifications are is in fact a self serving lie.

Nothing in the current bill was unobtainable in any earlier legislative process EXCEPT retroactive immunity.

One needn't be overly suspicious or anything but rational to conclude that the scope of the NSA program has far exceeded anything that the public has been allowed to believe to date and that the members of the Senate intelligence committee (from both parties), having had the opportunity to object to the program well before today, are now complicit in trying to prevent the release of any further information on the subject.

I'm forced to conclude that the whole point of the exercise is to assert the right of the executive to ignore the law. Otherwise they could have rewritten FISA in 2002 and no one would have blinked. Unfortunately for them, ATT doesn't feel quite as invincible and is insisting on getting the same kind of protection that the White House currently enjoys.

I was in a West Virginian shack next to a half-cracking geese lake in the wild wonderful Rockefeller's neck of the woods.

I stopped at a fruit stand on my way home and bought the brand-name 'Amish Wedding' Hot Pepper Relish. It's delicious with two sunny side up, fried eggs (fry a brain), flipped over to break the yellow yokes.

On vacation, GOPS, order hog-hoof stew.

'um ask, "How did that yellow, chewed-up-corn, get in the cup?