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La Porte TX, Dean and Obama supporter.

Lyin' SOBs in High Office

Wed May 28, 2008 at 02:27:52 PM PDT

It was not so funny about the huge uproar that the conservative media caused about a President lying about a blowjob. Calling for his impeachment and tied up the country for many months. Of course, that was because it was a moderate Democratic president.

Every since our current conservative Republican glorious leader got in office I have been unable to watch most of his speeches because I know it when he starts lying. There was a brief exception just after 9/11. But a few weeks later a massive infection of lies spread like a pandemic through out the administration. Mainly to get Saddam but about everything. Distorted and crazy reasons on why we were attacked. Lies that seemed calculated to inflame the angry country and gather power.

Now the president's press secretary admits that one of my passions that I knew to be true and tried to tell and write conservatives about was true.

Reverend Wright Sets the Paper of Record Straight

Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 01:43:11 PM PDT

Reverend Wright was interviewed by The New York Times.

They then distorted what he had to say and used it in their smear campaign against Obama.

Reverend Wright send a letter in protest to the New York Times.  

They have not printed it.

This was from an earlier controversy a year ago and they didn't correct it then and they won't correct new articles now.

The Wright 2007 letter follows below the fold.

Did the most liberal areas of New Hampshire pick Hillary?

Thu Jan 10, 2008 at 06:20:27 AM PDT

That is what the LHS Associates voting results indicate.

But even Fox News secret exit polls in those areas had an Obama win.  The results of the electronic vote tabulators contradict both common sense and the secret exit polls.  They also contradict results from the hand counted areas of the state.

USS Reagan surge deploys - third attack carrier headed for Middle East

Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 09:34:56 PM PDT

Both the USS Stennis and the USS Reagan appear to be headed off the coast of Iran to join the USS Eisenhower.

Officially the USS Reagan is headed for the western Pacific to replace the USS Kitty Hawk going in for replenishments in Japan.  

However, there are both media reports and rumors that it is headed for off the coast of Iran.

Three carrier battlegroups can only mean an aircraft and missile attack on Iran.

The latest news from Hawaii is that the powerful battlefleet is headed for the Persian Gulf.

Gay Blood in the Austin Water

Fri Dec 29, 2006 at 06:41:17 PM PDT

OK, my few fans live for my political gossip from unnamed sources so sit down and enjoy.

Current Texas House Speaker Craddick is up the creek and now has Republican challengers swarming out of hiding seeking his job, or at least more power, in the new Texas House.  This would not be happening unless there was a strong likelihood he doesn't have the votes to remain Speaker of the House.  However, as a prime example of the DeLay style corrupt take-no-prisoners GOP leadership, he is prepared to fight back and fight back dirty.

Rumors swirl that Texas representatives not supported him  will be outed as gays or charged with criminal acts.

All In or All Out?

Thu Dec 14, 2006 at 02:28:49 AM PDT


This may not be the best post. I have a lot the say and I am going to wrap a metaphor and bad song around it.

The Bush administration seems to have been privately pushing an 80% solution in Iraq.  Throw US support to the religious Shiites and just forget the Sunnis.

The other popular consideration is the "double down" plan of building up the military and concentrating them in the short run to beat back the insurgency. This is badly named as there are barely enough available troops to increase them 15% for a few months with a big effort.

It looks like both are going to be pursued.  A better name for both of these two plans comes from a different game than Blackjack.  It is "All In" from Texas Hold'em.  

Late Night - Fractured Christmas Carols

Thu Nov 23, 2006 at 08:41:01 PM PDT

Fractured Christmas Carol Number One

Lie and Die (tune - Let it snow)

Oh, the neocon's most were Marxists
Their followers now are heartsick.
For they spread their Iraqi War lies
Lie and die, my o my, stay and die.
They're showing no signs of stopping
As our brave soldiers they keep dropping
Chickenhawks in the bye
Lie and die, my o my, stay and die.

What a real clash of civilizations looks like

Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 12:44:58 AM PDT

After the UN speeches I am more convinced then ever the US is going to attack Iran. Depressing.

I have been doing a little checking my sources and putting myself in an Iranian leader's shoes.

Preparing for war with Iran - Time edition

Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 02:54:12 AM PDT

A somewhat misleading Time article on war with Iran does make the point that preparations for war are advancing. An example of the misleading:
There is circumstantial evidence that Iran ordered Hizballah to provoke this summer's war, in part to demonstrate that Tehran can stir up big trouble if pushed to the brink. The precise extent of coordination between Hizballah and Tehran is unknown.
There is no evidence Iran provoked and urged the Lebanon war and analysts don't believe that.  Some hard right Israelis have been using that argument to urge the US to attack Iran, much like some hard right warhawks in the administration were urging Israel to attack Syria in addition to Hizballah this summer.  

The real point of this article and similar articles appearing recently in the Israeli press is this line: "That red line, experts say, could be just a year away."  The war on Iran will happen because Bush will say he only had a short time to act before it was too late.  I will write now even more emphatically than I wrote about Bush's "pressing" reasons for invading Iraq - This is Total BS.

Poll

The US will attack Iran

27%12 votes
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4%2 votes
2%1 votes
41%18 votes
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| 43 votes | Vote | Results

LA Times reports ABC going ahead with 9/11 Drama

Sat Sep 09, 2006 at 12:45:02 AM PDT

Trying to organize a boycott and opposition on Wednesday to Friday for a show that starts Sunday was asking a bit too much.

http://www.calendarlive.com/...

Suggest we discuss ways of contacting local stations and other media to publicize factual errors in the show, the conservative activism of the writers and the FBI consultant who dropped out.

Greasemonkeying with Reality - Questions

Wed Aug 16, 2006 at 12:32:20 AM PDT

Some thoughts on world views triggered by SF writer David Edelman's essay on greasemonkey scripts. These are FireFox browser extensions that change the content of web pages. One greasemonkey he wrote is called Brockify in a twisted homage to David Brock, the conservative to liberal media spinner. Brockify changes every use of "conservative" to "liberal" and vice versa. He is sure that greasemonkeying won't stop with the web. Relatively soon you will be able to alter your own phones or televisions to bleep or convert objectionable words. Later on you will be able to biochip yourself and run your own reality scripts. Greasemonkeying will bring all of the words you read, things you hear, and scenes you view into your own reality zone.

How much is this different than people self-selecting what they watch and listen to?

Poll

What now greasemonkey?

0%0 votes
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66%2 votes
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| 3 votes | Vote | Results

Adopt 400,000 Frozen Embryos

Thu Jul 20, 2006 at 07:25:59 PM PDT

Help out your Prez.

Take two, or even a dozen, they're small.  In fact, adopt them all.  The dot in this i is the size of a frozen embryo  - isn't it cute. Ahhh. Won't they be all cutems all snuggled up together in your freezer?

Israeli PM's party plagiarized Texas Democratic Platform

Wed Jun 14, 2006 at 12:01:04 AM PDT


This is odd.  According to the far right World News Daily, the USA Kadima Party website plagiarized the 2004 Texas Democratic party platform and website.  Their website developer has been fired for this.  Suspicions were aroused because of its generic nature with little specific Israeli information.
New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D-Brooklyn, first brought the website similarities to light. Hikind told WND he thought something was "a little off" upon browsing the Kadima USA site.

"Things seemed very generic, almost like what should be descriptions of an American political party," said Hikind.

How to tell if you are a Republican

Mon May 08, 2006 at 12:34:52 AM PDT


No joke. This is the GOP candidate questionnaire - (pdf) to replace Tom DeLay. Check out all the questions in part 2 and realize the favored response is the most conservative.

Could you become a John Bircher extremist and replace DeLay? No to all stem cell research, abortion illegal in all cases, kick the UN out of the USA, eliminate the IRS, the legislative branch gets power over the judiciary, you know, all the things in the GOP Texas platform. The only thing they forgot was the return to the gold standard.

Cross-posted at Texas Kos and Easter Lemming Liberal News.

Texas Hospital Could Decide to Kill Andrea Clark Tomorrow (Please Recommend)

Mon May 01, 2006 at 04:29:20 PM PDT

Andrea Clark has been ill a long time. She was one of the first "blue babies" saved by modern medical technology. She had some handicaps and heart problems but had a satisfactory life with her knitting and her online friends. But she has the misfortune to live in Texas, where hospitals and doctors decide who lives and dies under the most draconian "futile care" law in the nation.

Ten days ago an "ethics committee" at her hospital said they would pull the plug on her respirator and her dialysis machine. This despite the fact she was cognizant when awake and off of her massive doses of pain medications. Her doctor said this was Andrea's wish to die but when asked the next day she wrote her sister "I want to live."

Her wishes don't matter.

Wow, Smart Republicans are being warned - impeachment likely

Thu Mar 30, 2006 at 11:58:57 PM PDT


Greater than 50% odds impeachment coming in 2007 - The Weekly Standard.

The neo-con press has warned their readers.    

It would be easy to dismiss impeachment as a quixotic fringe movement, yet that would be a mistake. The odds are at least even that Democrats will win the House in 2006. That would make Conyers chairman of the Judiciary Committee, free to push through resolutions and hold hearings as he sees fit.

Feingold is running for president, and as he reaps political gains from the base by pushing for censure (with the possibility of impeachment), other Democratic contenders will gravitate toward his position. Remember that in 2003 the Democratic field was uniformly pro-war until Howard Dean made hay from the antiwar movement, causing the serious candidates to vacillate.

Impeachment is still in the distance, but make no mistake: Eventually the circus is coming to town.

Are You Ready to Rumble?
If the Democrats win in 2006, impeachment is coming.
by Jonathan V. Last

Whatcha doing?

Wed Mar 29, 2006 at 08:58:45 PM PDT


Thinking and listening.

Bout what?

Subterranean Homesick Blues.

U an oldie

But a goodie?

Only if u provide me a place to get it.

Is 99 cents for the album or a dime for the song OK?

hey, dat's not a russki site!

Yes, it is. It directs you from Uruguay to Russia.  They like cheap music in South America since WTO and World Bank screwed their economies.

wot if i want it free?

You mean free p-to-p?  Isn't that pirating?

i'm a ninja pirate u suckers!  but that song z old skool.

It's a political song.

dats real old skool. even u listen to music u messing politics inya head -  thats sad

Rock-n-Roll is politics, so is hip hop and backpack.

U messing with me

Why would I mess with a ninja pirate like you?

wicked, but I want suckin on tootsie roll tunz and no politiks.

Do you think conservatives will let you listen to that if they keep going?

Sh*t, maybe best get politizing

You can wear your pod while you register people to vote.

kool, u an oldie with no tasties but kool

I get that all the time.  Me and Bob Dylan.

DC Democrats as a lyin' ass boyfriend

Thu Jan 26, 2006 at 01:29:02 PM PDT

Nancy Goldstein had a great post in her Raw Story column.  Many people only read the headlines So I'll bring it to your attention, bring another post in and expand here below the fold.
Poll

Is it time to withhold money and support from Byrd, Nelson and Johnson

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| 69 votes | Vote | Results


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