If possible, and no one started a rumor, I'd vacation in snowy Saudi Arabia.

I'd buy C.O. some rubber pairs of red, white, yellow, blue, and green crocks.

I'd purchase c_o one black burqa veil, and as the Sheik say you may now kiss,

I'd stare at a lovely 'ole goat like c_o, and burp, and smooch till you gasp a ugh.

Gasp. Hug? Who knows? Shoo. No body.

Thanks to any warm friendly body. I say if we can't be nice, let's all buy a island.

Buy a Paradise. Talk to fish, turtles, sea lions, and penguins. Walk like sea crabs.

`Baldie McEagle hmm.

@ 9:44, 9:49 P.S. A bushel of corn waste two topsoil bushels. It's a horrible plan.

the maladministration will take us backward to goatherd days. That is so horrible?

The Bush Generals invaded the black gold lands. A Pentagon career officer told me:

The Arabs who tried to defend the Middle East from the monstrous American tanks?

As Arabs charged the American invaders they were shot. Arabs were silver swordsmen.

The camels that were the vehicle mode. Camels were 'blown to bits' by aerial weaponry.

@ 9:21 Anonymust. Celiacs.

`I'm not wanting to seem I know anything. What I say, 'Learn at Salon or anywhere' Listen.

Others share their best 'Life Saver' information. They share a breath mint if we have bad mouth odor. No one wants to kiss a smoker of Camels. Dead camels have bad DOD breath.

`Anonymust. The Celiacs site/info.~ I've had a meal with a celiac Dr. Robert H. Deluty. I'd mention Mr Deluty more often, but he'd be 'angry' (*) Mr. Deluty is a gem of a gentle. He is a wise man. If Celiacs are all like The Deluty Family.... We all be better humans if we were simple non eclair eating bona fide Celiacs?

*`He listens. If a vet told about their poor pup spaniel?

*`He would moan aloud to hear a spaniel was neutered.*

`

Robert H. Deluty is a psychology professor at the University of Maryland. He's at the UMBC

(Baltimore County) campus. He's teaches abnormal psychology, etc., and helps folk who been wounded. (*) Who has not?

He does therapeutic intervention.

He seem to be so skilled he does it naturally.

He could drive a camel around the beltway blindfolded.

apologies to Doc Deluty. I'm way behind. pray i sthu. okay.

Today, Congressman Hodes officially called on Chairman John Tierney of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs to hold a hearing on a recent New York Times story published on Sunday, April 20, 2008 blah blah blah blah blah...

-- sysprog

Somewhere in the bowels of Amerika, a certain demon is snickering - SO?

I am laughing too.

The Plan was laid out in great detail as early as 1992, and there has been very little deviation from it since.

As for Cheney, he seems to have been on this track in one way or another since the 1970's. He's always been a jerk, but when he became an outright traitor is somewhat harder to pinpoint. The Chaffee story of what happened in Dec of 2000 shows that there never was any intention behind the Bush campaign except to grab the power to do what they wanted. Which was, apparently, to rule the world and seize its riches.

Simple.

The invasion of Iraq was foregone the minute the Busheviks were told they could seize the presidency. It was all but assumed, merely a matter of time. I'm convinced they were put in office ("elected" if you want to call it that) primarily for that purpose. But Cheney clearly had a much more extensive program in mind, to include looting, pillage and plunder on a vast scale, doling out favors to loyalists, punishing opposition, repressing American freedom, shredding the Constitution, basically establishing a self-perpetuating autocracy to rule from here on out. What's striking is that many people who didn't benefit from this program, or actually were harmed by it, enthusiastically supported it.

I'm thinking of so many corporate and business interests that were cut out from the plunder and rapine from the get go, or wound up losing money or even were looted themselves to pay for beefing up others' accounts.

I'm thinking of so many of the troops, who pay for it with their bodies or their sanity or their lives yet cheer on the lawlessness and the devastation.

I'm thinking of so many Congressional Democrats (and some Republicans) who lost all honor and simple decency to support a regime indifferent to them at best, overtly hostile to them as often as not.

We could add to this list indefinitely.

So many who have lost so much continue to pledge their loyalty to the anti-American program Cheney still operates from his various bunkers. A program he fully intends to see continue after he leaves office, whenever that may be. Chaffee's description of Cheney's real malevolence is right out of a noir chiller, yet who's to doubt its authenticity?

And yet for all of that, this Evil Pinky and the Brain goon show has led to as comprehensive and thorogoing a disaster for the nation, at home and abroad, as could be imagined. Individuals, of course, have profited mightily and will do darned near anything to hold on to those ill-gotten gains.

Correcting it -- assuming that is even conceivable at this point -- will require a good deal more from the People than quiet observance or ignorance from the masses, and much more than popcorn-eating and email campaigns from activists.

My bet is that most people, including many outspoken opponents of the regime, have already made their peace with it, much as the Romans did back in the day. Power-plays and the struggle for power continued of course, but the People's interests were no longer considered in the equation, except to the extent they needed "pacification." The wiser course, always, was just to stay out of the way.

....

A `Nam vet was homeless. He held a cardboard sign and was at a street corner.

The sign was blank. Not a word was written. The commenter at Floyd's said ~*:

'You are holding up the wrong side of the sign'... The `Nam vet flipped the sign.

`The homeless `smiled.

`

Not a word was written.

Both sides were blank.

Another. O speechless!

We gave you shelter?

We gave you a bear.

We gave you a beer.

We gave you a burp.

We gave you a crock.

We gave rot sore feet.

Skip over my gibberish

`

The commenter @ Chris Floyd had tears.

The remembrance brings misty eyeballs.