Lot's of porn in today's posts. Not much about Ohio. Supposedly, this was a big day there with a lot going down regarding the election. I am sure you are sick of hearing all about the hearings and court filings after hours of endless news coverage on these events, but I was going to write about them any way.
I admit, I didn't look very hard, but since I had no mention of these events appear in any of the news sites I scanned today, I never got around to posting about Ohio's big day.
Maybe I will tomorrow. Now it is bedtime.
I'll sign off with this...
Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming, we're finally on our own this summer I hear the drumming, four dead in Ohio... four dead in Ohio.
Monday, December 13, 2004
A Small, Subpoena-Less Step: Senate Democrats to Investigate Bush Administration
Wow, I actually got this one off one of the politics feeds I have on "My Yahoo."
Senate Dems Plan Investigatory Hearings
This is actually the best news that I have heard in a while. This will essentially be an indepandant investigation lacking actual Senate support, and supoena power, but at least the Democrats are girding up their loins and actually saying, essentially, "This stinks and we are going to poke it with a stick and see if we can get it to ooze."
I fully expect the networks to put their full attention on these hearings when they get started now that the Peterson Matter is resolved... Ah, oops. I forgot about the appeals. And Jacko. And...
Senate Dems Plan Investigatory Hearings
This is actually the best news that I have heard in a while. This will essentially be an indepandant investigation lacking actual Senate support, and supoena power, but at least the Democrats are girding up their loins and actually saying, essentially, "This stinks and we are going to poke it with a stick and see if we can get it to ooze."
I fully expect the networks to put their full attention on these hearings when they get started now that the Peterson Matter is resolved... Ah, oops. I forgot about the appeals. And Jacko. And...
Your New [Confirmation Pending] AG...
This is the first that I have heard of this... Even some conservatives do not like him.
[Alberto] Gonzales is extremely close to Bush, but some conservative groups have expressed skepticism about his anti-abortion bonafides.
When he was a Texas Supreme Court justice, he wasn't staunch enough, in the view of some conservatives, in upholding state laws requiring pregnant teenage girls to notify their parents before obtaining an abortion.
But even better is his stepson... The above quote came from this article.
Gonzales's stepson quit job at Hustler to be "prudent."
Here's to raising the tone in D.C.
[Alberto] Gonzales is extremely close to Bush, but some conservative groups have expressed skepticism about his anti-abortion bonafides.
When he was a Texas Supreme Court justice, he wasn't staunch enough, in the view of some conservatives, in upholding state laws requiring pregnant teenage girls to notify their parents before obtaining an abortion.
But even better is his stepson... The above quote came from this article.
Gonzales's stepson quit job at Hustler to be "prudent."
Here's to raising the tone in D.C.
Homeless Iraq Vets... This is Going to Get Ugly
Homeless Iraq vets showing up at shelters
Data from the Department of Veterans Affairs shows that as of last July, nearly 28,000 veterans from Iraq sought health care from the VA. One out of every five was diagnosed with a mental disorder, according to the VA. An Army study in the New England Journal of Medicine in July showed that 17 percent of service members returning from Iraq met screening criteria for major depression, generalized anxiety disorder or PTSD.
I first started hearing about this a couple days ago and have been meaning to look into it. I don't know if it was that I was too busy or that I just can bring myself to look, but I found this link on the 3WA message board tonight, and this article is the first one I've actually read on this subject.
Unfortunately, I am not surprised by this. I am surprised that it does catch me so off guard.
Maybe I bought more of the Bush Campaign rhetoric than I realized. Or I was just hoping against all hope that they wouldn't fuck these kids over.
Data from the Department of Veterans Affairs shows that as of last July, nearly 28,000 veterans from Iraq sought health care from the VA. One out of every five was diagnosed with a mental disorder, according to the VA. An Army study in the New England Journal of Medicine in July showed that 17 percent of service members returning from Iraq met screening criteria for major depression, generalized anxiety disorder or PTSD.
I first started hearing about this a couple days ago and have been meaning to look into it. I don't know if it was that I was too busy or that I just can bring myself to look, but I found this link on the 3WA message board tonight, and this article is the first one I've actually read on this subject.
Unfortunately, I am not surprised by this. I am surprised that it does catch me so off guard.
Maybe I bought more of the Bush Campaign rhetoric than I realized. Or I was just hoping against all hope that they wouldn't fuck these kids over.
Is Skippy the Wonder Bush the Antichrist? Holy Shit I Miss Seattle...
I am too tired and too burned out to deal with reading this article right now, but man... Fuck. I have to swear at this shit.
Okay, a brief scan makes me think that this may have been more of a irresponsible headline than a real weird article, but still...
Here is a quote...
Miller classifies Bush Christians as modern Pharisees—the allegedly proud, rigid, legalistic hypocrites John the Baptist called "a generation of vipers." "The worst condemnation that Jesus has for anybody, I mean the worst, is for Pharisees," says Miller. "If you asked Jerry Falwell who the Pharisees are in our society, they can't point anybody out." There are no mirrors in Bush's church.
Too deep for me right now. It is bed time. Read it here. Talk about it here
Okay, a brief scan makes me think that this may have been more of a irresponsible headline than a real weird article, but still...
Here is a quote...
Miller classifies Bush Christians as modern Pharisees—the allegedly proud, rigid, legalistic hypocrites John the Baptist called "a generation of vipers." "The worst condemnation that Jesus has for anybody, I mean the worst, is for Pharisees," says Miller. "If you asked Jerry Falwell who the Pharisees are in our society, they can't point anybody out." There are no mirrors in Bush's church.
Too deep for me right now. It is bed time. Read it here. Talk about it here
And Rumsfeld Gets to Keep His Job… A Green Light For Abuse?
The New York-based campaign group Human Rights Watch says it has uncovered evidence that three more prisoners have died in US detention in Afghanistan.
In a damning open letter to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, it says the US is continuing to fail to investigate abuses or punish the guilty.
And the beat goes on… I mean beatings. There is not even anything really left to say about this issue any more. It makes me proud to be an American.
What it calls the "government's failure to hold its personnel accountable for serious abuses has spawned a culture of impunity among some personnel".
Its letter to Donald Rumsfeld says there are fewer complaints now relating to the main US detention centre at Bagram airbase north of Kabul.
However, allegations of "abuse and arbitrary detention" continue to emerge from what are known as "forward operating bases" - smaller posts normally in frontline areas.
It does make it easy for me to come up with content for these pages. Just open up the BBC and link to a couple articles, add sarcastic comment, link to the Message Boards, and move on to the next item.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4092073.stm
In a damning open letter to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, it says the US is continuing to fail to investigate abuses or punish the guilty.
And the beat goes on… I mean beatings. There is not even anything really left to say about this issue any more. It makes me proud to be an American.
What it calls the "government's failure to hold its personnel accountable for serious abuses has spawned a culture of impunity among some personnel".
Its letter to Donald Rumsfeld says there are fewer complaints now relating to the main US detention centre at Bagram airbase north of Kabul.
However, allegations of "abuse and arbitrary detention" continue to emerge from what are known as "forward operating bases" - smaller posts normally in frontline areas.
It does make it easy for me to come up with content for these pages. Just open up the BBC and link to a couple articles, add sarcastic comment, link to the Message Boards, and move on to the next item.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4092073.stm
And Rove Gets to Keep His Job… A Green Light For Abuse?
A former CIA officer is suing his employers for retaliating against him for his alleged refusal to falsify reports on weapons of mass destruction.
In a complaint published on Wednesday, the unnamed operative said he was warned by a colleague that management wanted to "get him" for his actions.
And the beat goes on… I mean the lies and deceit and fraud. There is not even anything really left to say about this issue any more. It makes me proud to be an American.
The plaintiff maintains that he had attempted to report intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in 2001 and 2002, but was thwarted by his superiors who then insisted on his falsifying his reports.
When he refused to do this, investigations were allegedly made against him into allegations that he had sex with a female informer and stole money used to pay informers.
It does make it easy for me to come up with content for these pages. Just open up the BBC and link to a couple articles, add sarcastic comment, link to the Message Boards, and move on to the next item.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4086361.stm
Seriously, though. Somehow after the last four years I find myself in a position where an anonymous plaintif in a case claiming that he was fired for refusing to claim that Iraq posessed WMD is more credible than the Bush Administration.
What has been going on over at the CIA is just plain scary, unfortunately it is barely covered by the mainstream media. And really, why should it be when there are real life, important issues like Scott Peterson and Jacko demanding attention?
If CNN reported this story this morning, I did not notice. But I could not help but to notice a large percentage of their air time this morning was spent on Michael Jackson’s porno mags. I wanted not to notice this. I wanted not to hear the debate on the fingerprints on these magazines. I did not want to hear someone on my TV saying that having Jacko’s prints and a 12 year old boys prints on the same magazine proves nothing, since it does not prove that they were looking at the magazine at the same time. Wrong on so many levels.
Oh MY GOSH-DARN! I just devoted nearly 50% of my air time to Jacko.
I am going to hell.
In a complaint published on Wednesday, the unnamed operative said he was warned by a colleague that management wanted to "get him" for his actions.
And the beat goes on… I mean the lies and deceit and fraud. There is not even anything really left to say about this issue any more. It makes me proud to be an American.
The plaintiff maintains that he had attempted to report intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in 2001 and 2002, but was thwarted by his superiors who then insisted on his falsifying his reports.
When he refused to do this, investigations were allegedly made against him into allegations that he had sex with a female informer and stole money used to pay informers.
It does make it easy for me to come up with content for these pages. Just open up the BBC and link to a couple articles, add sarcastic comment, link to the Message Boards, and move on to the next item.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4086361.stm
Seriously, though. Somehow after the last four years I find myself in a position where an anonymous plaintif in a case claiming that he was fired for refusing to claim that Iraq posessed WMD is more credible than the Bush Administration.
What has been going on over at the CIA is just plain scary, unfortunately it is barely covered by the mainstream media. And really, why should it be when there are real life, important issues like Scott Peterson and Jacko demanding attention?
If CNN reported this story this morning, I did not notice. But I could not help but to notice a large percentage of their air time this morning was spent on Michael Jackson’s porno mags. I wanted not to notice this. I wanted not to hear the debate on the fingerprints on these magazines. I did not want to hear someone on my TV saying that having Jacko’s prints and a 12 year old boys prints on the same magazine proves nothing, since it does not prove that they were looking at the magazine at the same time. Wrong on so many levels.
Oh MY GOSH-DARN! I just devoted nearly 50% of my air time to Jacko.
I am going to hell.
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