Priorities
Bwaahahahaha.

Pfc. Patrick Miller is relaxing this weekend in seclusion with his wife and two children at their home in Park City. Tired from travel and media attention, the former prisoner of war who grew up in Valley Center has only one scheduled appearance this weekend: he will present the game ball to team captains at Kansas State University's annual spring football scrimmage. At halftime, Miller will be honored along with other military personnel and their families.

Miller chose the game over an invitation to meet president Bush today in Washington, D.C.

"It was the president or the game," said Mary Pickering, Miller's mother, "and the game won out."

Would you hire this man?
George W. Bush's Resume, courtesy of Kelley Kramer, at BuzzFlash!


"Poopy!"


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News you won't see on TV

"It was a scene that reminded us of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Rumsfeld said: the toppling of that hollow, sheet-metal statue of Saddam Hussein. But in subsequent days, more glimpses of this scene have been published. Photos of the square from a longer distance show a crowd not just small, but pitiably small - in a vast traffic circle cordoned off by US armored vehicles. Another photo showed, among the screamers and chanters, a man who bore a striking resemblance to a figure photographed just a few days earlier in the entourage of Ahmad Chalabi, convicted bank swindler & fugitive from neighboring Jordan who is Rumsfeld's choice for Hussein's successor. How did he get there? And who brought him? And with how many others? Could it be that the appropriate analogy was not the fall of the Berlin Wall but rather the organized thuggery of Republican Congressional aides flown into Florida to 'spontaneously' disrupt the Miami-Dade recount after the 2000 election?" - Gregg Gordon, BuzzFlash.com.

"Barbara Bodine, who helped thwart FBI veteran John O'Neill back when he was hot on the trail of Osama Bin Laden before 9/11, has been named Governor of Baghdad. Surprised to hear it? Little wonder - this story was swept as far under the rug as the Bush administration could sweep it. So, while we hear about 'retired General Garner' (who is, in fact a very un-retired CEO of a huge defense contracting company, SY Coleman), we haven't heard about Bodine. Yet she's been in Iraq since 4/8. Here's a link re: her role as "mayor of Baghdad" from a US Embassy site (hope it stays unscrubbed) - scroll down to Question 10.

"Choosing a woman governor in a Muslim country was calculated to foment trouble with the conservative Shiites - worse, a woman skilled in coverups for rightwing bosses." She's already sparking trouble. - Cheryl Seal, of Baltimore IndyMedia, via democrats.com.

Petulant pReznit Poopypants on a revenge mission: anger at France over its refusal to support war in Iraq reached new heights yesterday when Smirky McDumbass took a direct swipe at President Chirac.

"I doubt he'll be coming to the ranch any time soon," was Mr Bush's tart comment in an interview with NBC News. Many in his administration – by implication, himself among them – had the impression "that the French position was anti-American", the Cretin of Crawford said.

The fury is evident everywhere – from Mr Bush's jibe at M. Chirac and the tightlipped "yes" from General Powell when asked if France would be punished, to icy diplomatic exchanges, and using "France" and "French" as omni-purpose insults in Washington's corridors of power.

Yeah, it's nice to see the grownups are in charge.

Vas te faire foutre. All of you.

Oh, by the way,
BUSH LIED TO GET HIS WAR WITH IRAQ.


It's not all bad news today
Court rejects suit against web song-swappers.

A federal court denied a request to shut down Internet song-swapping services Grokster and Morpheus on Friday, handing a stunning setback to the record labels and movie studios that have sought to curb unauthorized downloading of their works. U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Wilson said the two services should not be shut down because they cannot control what is traded over their systems. Like a videocassette recorder, the software in question could be used for legitimate purposes as well as illicit ones, he said.

Yes!!!!!

Too good not to share

No, wait.. wait.. so then he says,
"So what about the Turkistanis
and the Kurdians?" .... Way!

POODLE TOOK SECRET ADVICE FROM BIG DOG
Tony Blair took repeated secret advice from the former American president Bill Clinton on how to unlock the diplomatic impasse between Europe and the US in the build-up to the war on Iraq, the Guardian can reveal. - the whole story, via MediaWhoresOnline.

It depends on what the meaning of "WMD" is, I guess
To build its case for war with Iraq, the Bush misadministration argued that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but some officials now privately acknowledge the White House had another reason for war - a global show of American power and democracy.

Officials inside government and advisers outside told ABCNEWS the administration emphasized the danger of Saddam's weapons to gain the legal justification for war from the United Nations and to stress the danger at home to Americans.

"We were not lying," said one official. "But it was just a matter of emphasis."

Read the whole frightening, nausea-inducing article here. And then tell me why those insane f*cktards should not be impeached.

Another Friday Night Surprise from Karl Rove
Thomas White, former Vice Chairman of Enron Energy Services and the Bush misadministration's Army Secretary, "resigned" today.

Maybe he got a better offer from Shell Oil.

Well, this won't help
Oh good.

Former Shell chief to run Iraqi oil industry.

The Bush misadministration will next week appoint big Republican campaign contributor a former head of Shell Oil to run Iraq's oil industry, it was reported today.

"The US Government is setting up Iraq's oil industry to run much like an American corporation, with a chief executive and management team vetted by US officials who would answer to a multinational board of advisers," the Wall Street Journal Europe reported.

Washington has been the subject of sharp criticism that one of the motivations behind its military campaign in Iraq was to gain control of Iraq's oil reserves, estimated to be the second-biggest in the world after those of Saudi Arabia. - - (link via PeteHisey at the BC Forum)

Idiotic lying cheat bitchslapped
U.S. diplomats laid into draft-dodging hypocrite and former House Speaker/serial adulterer Newt Gingrich, likening his attack on the State Department this week to Sen. Joseph McCarthy's witch hunt for communist infiltrators in the 1950s.

"You have essentially accused these employees of treason. However you do not have proof. Your charges are spurious," the American Foreign Service Association told Gingrich in a letter dated Wednesday and released today.

"As such, they will be consigned to the dust bin of history where they belong, along with that paper Senator Joseph R. McCarthy held up ... claiming to 'have in my hand a list' of traitors in the State Department," said the letter, signed by association president John Naland.

"Sir, these are serious charges indeed. If you have proof you should run, not walk, to the office of the nearest U.S. attorney," Naland said. "Otherwise, shut the f*ck up, you pathetic piece of shit."

Chickens with their heads cut off
'A few weeks ago, there was an article in the New York Times which centered on the self-induced dilemma the Democratic leaders (and I use that word very loosely) found themselves in regarding the alleged Bush "victory" in Iraq. Apparently, it would seem as though they're all scared that they have nowhere to focus an attack during the upcoming presidential campaign against George W. As I read the article, I kept seeing and hearing various Democrats speaking like the cartoon character "Droopy Dog" lamenting, "Ohhhh, boy! Now what are we gonna do?"

'You folks are joking? Right?'

- W. David Jenkins III asks "How about you invertebrates start a platform which allows America to get back our dignity?"

"A failure of both Congress and the media to question the president's motives or to challenge the statements coming from the White House and Pentagon"
Walt Brasch on the 'the complicity of the media who abrogated their responsibilities and made it seem that challenging anything the president said would be treason':

'At the time president Bush was telling the U.N. and the American people that he had no plans to go to war with Iraq, his administration officials were meeting in secret with several industry giants with financial and political ties to the Administration to develop a plan for a post-war Iraq.

'One of those giants was Bechtel, a multi-nation conglomerate with close financial ties to the White House. Another was a subsidiary of Halliburton, the multi-billion dollar oil company that once had Dick Cheney as its CEO.

'In a few months, Americans may be shocked that Iraq didn't help al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks, that it didn't have weapons of mass destruction, and that there may have been collusion between the Administration and major corporations to reap financial rewards for rebuilding a country that the U.S. destroyed. We should be shocked - but we should also be in awe of how well the president and his administration spun their messages of war, and how dizzy the major media must have been to have accepted the words unchallenged.'

pResident Evil launches offensive tax-cut offensive
"Some in Congress say the plan is too big. Well, it seems like to me they might have some explaining to do. If they agree that tax relief creates jobs, then why are they for a little-bitty tax relief package?" - Too F*cking Stupid to Breathe and Chew Pretzals at the Same Time, 4/24/03.

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Good gravy
Snips from the Tom Brokaw - Napoleon Bonehead interview:

Smirky McCrackhead: It was a - it was an emotional moment for me because I had obviously made up my mind that if we needed to, we would use troops to get rid of weapons of mass destruction to free the Iraqi people.

The Churchillian Chimpboy: You know, any time there's war and a lot of action, a lot of movement of troops and equipment, people are - there's going to be death.

Tom Brokaw: Let me ask you about some of the larger policy questions. Before we went to war against Iraq, one of the reasons that you justified this war was that he posed a real threat to the United States. If he couldn't defend his own country - and we have not yet been able to find the weapons of mass destruction, which were not even launched in defense of Iraq - was that overstated?

Hopalong Noodlehead: No, not at all....And so we will find them. But it's going to take time to find them. And the best way to find them is to continue to collect information from the humans, Iraqis who were involved with hiding them.

New on shopping list:
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Media filtered realities of war
'War's sobering realities never reached American TV screens during the recent U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, according to NBC News correspondent Ashleigh Banfield. U.S. television viewers were treated to a non-stop flow of images presented by "cable news operators who wrap themselves in the American flag and go after a certain target demographic."

'In her lecture appearance at Kansas State University, Banfield noted inconsistences in the Bush administration's announced war aims in Iraq, beginning with the original U.S. pre-war contention that Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein's alleged stockpile of chemical and biological weapons posed a serious international threat.'

And in a related story...

The director general of the BBC attacked American television and radio networks for their "shocking" and "gung-ho" coverage of the Iraq conflict.

Greg Dyke said America had "no news operation strong enough or brave enough to stand up against" the White House and Pentagon. He said: "Personally, I was shocked while in the United States by how unquestioning the broadcast news media was during this war."

Mr Dyke said that since the 11 September terrorist attacks, many American networks had "wrapped themselves in the American flag and swapped impartiality for patriotism".

Mr Dyke said that on a recent visit to America he was "amazed by how many people just came up to me and said they were following the war on the BBC because they no longer trusted the American electronic news media".

Bush: Sen. Santorum is 'inclusive man'
The White House today came to the defense of embattled bigoted homophobic republican Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, praising his job performance and pronouncing him "an inclusive man" despite comments he made equating homosexuality to bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery.

"The president believes the senator is an inclusive man. And that's what he believes," Ari 'the Lying Studmuffin' Fleischer said.

Bush Oil Cartel wants to shut down UN controls on Iraq's oil
'Security Council members next week face a contentious struggle over the U.S. effort to get United Nations out of the multibillion dollar Iraqi oil-for-food plan and give it only a peripheral role in shaping a new government.'

According to Bush misadministration officials, the United States will introduce a resolution in the council that lifts sanctions against Iraq. Mainly, the resolution would end U.N. control over the lucrative oil-for-food program.

'The oil-for-food program was designed to ease the impact of the sanctions, imposed in August 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Among the terms for lifting the sanctions, which include all trade and financial dealings, are verification by U.N. arms inspectors that Iraq is clean of weapons of mass destruction.

'But the United States does not want the U.N. inspectors back, blaming them for not coming up with a "smoking gun" that would have given ammunition to its war plans.'

What were they supposed to do, make something up? Plant some??

Good news!
Jon Stewart re-ups as host of The Daily Show!

And as requested, the Jon Stewart articles from this past week:

Jon Stewart's Perfect Pitch, in the NY Times.

The Daily Show Does Bush, here.

Thanks to Emersonian, who sent in the MSGOP transcript of the interview with Ron Reagan Jr:

BUCHANAN: Now, let me ask you about your criticism of the president of the United States. Now, I obviously - I ran against him, and I thought - there was a point that maybe he was not mature enough to be president, but now since 9/11 I think he’s done a tremendous job in the war on terror. In Afghanistan he got a tremendous coalition together, and while I may have disagreed with this war, I mean, the way it was planned and the way it was fought certainly is a tremendous success. Do you want to take back some of the things that were very, very rough that you said about him at the time of the convention...
REAGAN: No...
BUCHANAN: ... in the year 2000?
REAGAN: No, he’s a big boy. He can take it, and by the way, Pat, he wasn’t over there carrying a rifle. The military did a tremendous job in Iraq. They did as good a job as any military can do against admittedly a very weak foe, but George W. Bush wasn’t over there fighting. He was just the one that, you know, was insisting that the war take place.

PRESS: All right, Ron, here’s the White House spin. The White House spin about President Bush is that he is Ronald Reagan redux, you know. He’s a likable guy...You may not like his policies, but you got to like him because he’s such a real guy, right...
REAGAN:Yes.
PRESS: Do you buy that?
REAGAN: Well, I can tell - no, I don’t. I can tell you on behalf of my family-I think I can speak for them-that we’re getting a little tired of the White House pretending this is the second coming of Ronald Reagan. I mean, you put Ronald Reagan next to George W. Bush, it’s like putting a grown man next to a garden gnome. I mean, this guy just doesn’t fill the chair. I’m sorry, I don’t care what kind of P.R. he’s getting.
PRESS: But doesn’t he have the same sort of get-tough attitude in foreign policy that your father had it in not taking any nonsense if there’s trouble going in and fixing it? Look at Grenada.
REAGAN: I don’t know the man personally, OK, and these are my personal views about him, but I don’t hang out with him, so I don’t know him personally. I’m reacting to what I see of him in public, but he strikes me as thin-skinned and insecure. He strikes me as a guy who despite what everybody says doesn’t really know his own mind, and, frankly, doesn’t know what he is doing.