"I didn't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf," he said. "I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal." Oh yeah, and if we elect a Democratic president it could bring on another attack on US ( Read more... )

Karen Hughes to quit the Bush team in December.

As the ship goes down, glug glug glug. I'm wondering if I'll wake up to an announcement that Dick Cheney has resigned for health reasons sometime in the next couple of months.

President Chimpy commutes Scooter Libby's sentence.

The new security plan is meeting expectations, it seems. That must mean some weird bloody expectations, then, given the increasing casualty statistics.

One of the methods in play, incidentally, is building a gigantic wall to keep one bunch in and another bunch out. Because that always works so well.

Bush declares US control of space. The decades-long standing treaties regarding the militarization of space are now as dead as civil rights in the US, at least as far as President Chimpy is concerned ( Read more... )

Matt Lauer one on one with the Chimp on the subject of torture. Lauer stays on point while the Chimp dissembles, smirks, makes frighteningly absurd statements, and is just inanely hateful. Yes, I do mean inane, not insane.

I like the work Rx does. More to be found at The Party Party (click on the "listen here" link, which will take you to a page where you can download audio files. "White Lines" is one of the newest.)

Radioactive Toy
Porcupine Tree
Written by Steven Wilson

Run through forests on a hot Summer day
Trying to break down walls of numbing pain

Give me the freedom to destroy
Give me radioactive toy

Taste the water from a stream of running death
Eat the apple and cough a dying breath

Feel the sun burning through your black skin
Pour me into a hole, inform my ( Read more... )

Restarting the Draft. This bill would reintroduce compulsory National Service for everyone between the ages of 18 and 42. The Repugnicants have insisted over and over that there's no desire to have a new Draft. They have lied and lied and lied.

The DIY Impeachment Kit. Don't wait for the politicians as they suck their thumbs. You can take ( Read more... )