WTF Is It Now?!?

We had so much rain last night that we now have ponds in the back yard. I was woken up this morning by what sounded like hundreds of geese honking their way in for a landing.




"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1918.


A Double Standard On Dissent
"I just hope and pray that the decision that was made was made on the basis of sound judgment and made for the right reasons, and not made because it was necessary to save the president's job." - former senator/asshat Dan Coats, referring to then-President Bill Clinton. Funny, none of the repugs jumped his ass back then.

Read more of E. J. Dionne, here.




Misadministration puts a spin on coalition numbers
'[T]he current operation in Iraq is almost entirely a U.S.-British campaign, with virtually no military contribution from other countries except Australia.

'"It's a baldfaced lie to suggest that" the coalition for this war is greater than that for the 1991 war, said Ivo H. Daalder, a former Clinton administration official now at the Brookings Institution who supports the war against Iraq. "Even our great allies Spain, Italy and Bulgaria are not providing troops."' - link.