WTF Is It Now?!?

I was all set to stay home today. It was one of those beautifully gloomy mornings when you can roll over and sleep 'til 10 or so...then one of the dogs peed gallons all over the floor, my BF started screaming, and just like that I was wide awake.

My emailbox at work is getting spammed. I usually find things like 'increase your penis size!" or 'time to refinance!', but 'local barnyard farmwhores!'????? I wonder if they give 'snail rides'.


Another Bonehead Award goes to the US Repuglican Party for sending an invitation, signed by Vice President Cheney, to an Ohio prison inmate serving time for drug possession and escape, asking him to attend a $2,500-a-plate fund-raising dinner with Squinty the Squatter. "A special place of honor has already been reserved for you to recognize your steadfast support of president Bush," the letter said. And what says inmate Robert Kirkpatrick?

"I'm going to tell him that I'd be happy to attend, but he's going to have to pull some strings to get me there." - - (Via e-mail)




An American Hero Gets Sh!tcanned for Speaking Out

The Air Force has suspended a colonel who wrote a letter in which he ridiculed Preznit Poopypants for his response to terrorism, accusing him of allowing the Sept. 11 attacks to happen because "his presidency was going nowhere."

The letter from Lt. Col. Steve Butler was published May 26 in The (Monterey County) Herald.

``He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism,'' Butler wrote. ``His daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama. His presidency was going nowhere. ... This guy is a joke.''

Butler, who called the Unelected Idiot's alleged silence "sleazy and contemptible,'' had been vice chancellor for student affairs at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey. He was suspended May 29 pending an investigation, Air Force spokeswoman Valerie Burkes said Tuesday.
Military law prohibits "contemptuous words'' against the president and other political leaders. The maximum punishment under Article 88 is dismissal, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for one year. Yeah, yeah: so what does that have to do with Chimpy the Choker?

From the NY Times.


"Maybe George W. Bush didn't twig to terrorist data from U.S. intelligence because he was busy protecting his Saudi pals"

What did the president know, and when did he know it?

We know that Bush the younger doesn't retain much beyond the starting lineup of the 1954 New York Giants. But still -- a plane-hijacking scheme in U.S. airspace concocted by a prime suspect in the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and a secondary suspect in the first attempt to demolish the World Trade Center in 1993?

Last fall, for dramatic effect, I suggested to an audience at the New School in New York that if the U.S. had a parliament, the government might well have fallen after Sept. 11. Now I'm in earnest; somebody high up should pay for what looks like criminal negligence.

But instead of resignations we get mealy-mouthed apologies from FBI Director Robert Mueller, the administration's designated fall guy. Mr. Mueller's childlike promise to work harder to "connect the dots" is designed to protect his political superiors from blame by changing the subject -- to the notion that bureaucratic bungling, not political corruption, is the problem.

[A] White House coverup of the causes and origins of Sept. 11 began almost immediately with the safe passage (within a week of the attack) out of the U.S. provided to 14 members of the bin Laden family, before they could be interrogated by the FBI. By November, the White House public-relations department was no doubt panicking when Ben Laden: la vérité interdite by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié appeared, quoting John O'Neill, the former director of antiterrorism in the New York office of the FBI.

Snipped from John MacArthur's column at the Toronto Globe.