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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
| Time |
Event |
| 2:33a |
Paranoid conspiracy theory
This appears to be a fairly standard feature of modern fascism leading to the great terror of 1937 and the Holocaust. Today we have Laura Mylroie and Chinese drilling under the sea near Cuba.
There was a movie in the sixties that featured Chicoms drilling a tunnel to invade America btw. Its name escapes me.
Third GOP Rep. Recycles Cuba/China Drilling Myth
Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode doesn't just fear Muslims holding elected office. He's also the latest Republican to push the thoroughly debunked idea that China is drilling for oil off the coast of Cuba.
# Rep. Goode Fears Influx Of Muslims In Elected Office
# Rep. Graves: China Is Drilling Near Cuba
# Rep. Schmidt Pushes China/Cuba Story - TPM
Just to be on the safe side it might pay to deport John Yoo and Michelle Malkin. You can't trust Marxists. | | 2:50a |
Pantsdown republicans
Nevada Gov. Gibbons At It Again
The Carson City paper caught scandal-plagued Gov. Jim Gibbons (R), who is in the midst of a messy divorce, on camera at the Reno rodeo Sunday with the ex-wife of a former Reno mayor. She also happens to be a former Playboy playmate (1989).
Asked to comment on why one picture showed him in a parking lot hugging the woman not his wife (nor the other other woman, with whom Gibbons had exchanged hundreds of text messages), Gibbons said he was comforting a stressed out friend: "She was upset, crying. She couldn't get her breath. I put my arms around her."
What is it with Gibbons and parking areas? You'll recall that during his 2006 campaign for governor, then-congressman Gibbons was accused by a Las Vegas cocktail waitress of sexually assaulting her in a Vegas parking garage. Gibbons, who was never charged, said that the woman had simply tripped and he had caught her.
When Nevada women are in distress, Jim Gibbons is there to comfort them. What more could you want in a governor? - TPM
Asked about meeting the Governor, John McCain said he stopped beating his wife a couple of weeks ago.
Senator Larry Craig waved away questions slid under his stall divider. | | 2:54a |
We have always been at war... ...with Oceania Bin Laden President Bush described the status of U.S. armed forces deployed in combat operations around the world in a brief report to Congress this month that was required by the War Powers Act. "It is not possible to know at this time the precise scope or the duration of the deployment of U.S. Armed Forces necessary to counter the terrorist threat to the United States," he wrote. See "A Supplemental Consolidated Report Consistent with the War Powers Act," June 17, 2008: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2008_rpt/warpowers.htmlWAR IS PEACE - WE ARE FIGHTING FOR PEACE - WAR IS PEACE - EVERYTHING IS A-OK | | 2:59a |
Tunguska anniversary "Impacts such as the Tunguska incident are thought to occur about once in one hundred years based on the density of impact craters on the Moon," according to a White Paper on Planetary Defense attached to the 1994 U.S. Air Force report Spacecast 2020. http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usaf/2020/app-r.htmThat explains all those regular reports throughout recorded history. Of course now we've established this critical factoid we can leverage the next explosion - if it lands on the Great Satan - to run our DDoS attacks. The next explosion of the power of a large H-bomb is due any day now. | | 3:46a |
Commando
Maria Shriver reports
Arnold Schwarzenegger criticizes offshore drilling Proposal by dropping one proponent off a cliff, then punching another through a glass partition, shooting several more, taking a plane load of weapons to an off-shore island and starting a small war. Governor Schwarzenegger is now believed to be working on the rapid development of a machine with which to go back and time and destroy all the humans who came up with this idea.
Jesse Ventura and Sonny Landham are believed to be assisting the governor in his quest. Maria Shriver reporting. | | 4:32a |
Bravehart
People are upset about the loss of Natasha Stott Despoja and quite rightly so. I like to remind them though, that we still have Sophie Miribalis and we have also gained Belinda Neal. Great comfort for the afflicted there.
My binge thinking
OPINION: Susan Maushart | June 28, 2008
"I DRINK to make other people more interesting," confessed critic George Jean Nathan. Gosh, and all this time I've been divorcing them!
I guess people at different stages of life turn to alcohol for different reasons. Now that my kids are teenagers, for example, I am always on the lookout for ways to make them less interesting.
Yet family discussions about under-age drinking have given me much food and complimentary snacks for thought – especially complaints by a sixpack of 17-year-olds that the new 70 per cent tax on alcopops is “sexist”. “It’s discriminating against girls,” they fumed.
The thought that maybe feminism wasn’t dead after all – only passed out on the back seat – was pretty intoxicating. At first, I’ll admit, I found it hard to work up a head of steam about a form of “discrimination” that obstructs the rights of children to fry their brains to an equally satisfying crisp. But equality ain’t all shandies and skittles, and it turns out the girls had a pretty good case.
Sobering Fact Number One: there is no evidence that drinking is significantly more widespread among teenage girls than among teenage boys, or even that girls are binge-drinking more than ever before. A 2007 Australian survey actually showed a slight drop in under-age drinking by both genders. What has increased, rather dramatically, is the number of girls aged 15 to 17 who choose liquored-up lolly water over beer or spirits: around 60 per cent, according to ABS figures, up from 14 per cent in 2000. The shocking conclusion? That girls prefer “fairy beer” to the more hairy-chested variety.
But perhaps girls are more susceptible to harm from alcohol? After all, for years the National Health and Medical Research Council’s guidelines have said safe daily consumption for males is twice that for females (four versus two standard drinks). It turns out this argument also fails the breath test. The NHMRC’s new draft guidelines abolish this double-standard (it’s now two drinks a day for both sexes) – not for reasons of political correctness, but because the evidence fails to justify it.
Alcohol abuse is an equal-opportunity menace, and drunken teenagers of any gender are a danger to themselves and to our communities. But to scapegoat girls who drink, while converting their blood alcohol levels into a revenue base, is a cocktail I find hard to swallow. But I keep forgetting. This is the Land Down Under, where women glow and men chunder. Right. Got it now. - The Austrian | | 4:52a |
The Queer Express 23/6 - John McCain sat back in his comfy chair, admiring the Japanese folding curtains he had installed to separate his VIP room from the rest of the bus. Rilo Kiley blasted out of his "small white CD player"--the one with the magic screen you could touch and it would change the song. It was formerly his daughter's machine. In general, John shied away from any technology that seemed to have the ability to rise up, become sentient, and support same sex-marriages, but both Meghan and his campaign adviser had suggested he get familiar with the device in order to win the all-important "kid's these days" vote. Though, in honest moments, it was no longer the votes of these young whippersnappers with their tight jeans and tattoos and evil, homo-loving machines that he was after... There were three successive raps at the partition. John held very still, fearing it was Cindy on the other side, ready to give him his daily colonic. But no--after a brief silence came the owl hoot signal, and John sprang up and bent open the curtains to reveal three men wearing matching devilish grins. "Quickly men, into the camp! Before the other reporters see!" They hurried to cram themselves into the space, giggling as John stuck his head out between the screens and bellowed, "Boys only meeting! No one else is allowed until I say so!" The rest of the bus' occupants, which included a smattering of campaign volunteers, female journalists, and his beard of a second wife barely looked up from their collective activities. Only Cindy took a moment to role her eyes. Once the boys were settled into cushions around John's feet, McCain surveyed his faithful lapdogs with a kind, benevolent eye. First there was Richard Cohen from the Washington Post, his signature shock of white hair running from his scalp to his beard all the way down to the tiny wisps emerging from the v-neck collar of his Armani pullover. To his left sat his bespectacled lizard king of the New York Times, David Brooks, whose quick wit was only matched by his Canadian forked tongue. Rounding out the pack was another Washington Poster, and another David at that. Broder was known around town for being a Democrat's worst nightmare, but for John McCain, right here and right now, he felt as if he could kiss the balding crown of the diminutive, sprightly man. "My boys, my boys" John said jovially, pulling out from beneath the red afghan a copy of Vanity Fair, "have you seen what that young man Wolcott has gotten into his head to write about this time? He seems to believe our little boys club is more about the boys than the club, if you know what I mean." McCain threw out a wink that each of the men saw, in their starry gaze, as meant for only them. He threw an arm around Richard Cohen, with whom he had shared much during his 2000 campaign. "Now, if anyone should know better than to have a man-crush on me, it would be this son of a bitch right here!" Brooks let out an uneasy laugh. He was noticing recently how tight his chest became whenever McCain touched Cohen, how his hands lingered a little too long on the columnist's shoulders for it to be a casual gesture of friendship. "Why can't he see?!" Brooks thought desperately, "I was the one to declare my love for him on MSNBC, and he still acts like we're at the turn of the millennium! What has Cohen done in the last eight years that's so great?!" Meanwhile, David Broder found himself staring at McCain's rear end as the senator bent down to open up the mini-fridge and pop open a couple Heinekens. McCain turned around just in time to see the oldest of the scribes avert his eyes hastily from John's back-end. "Ha-ha!" the former-football hero chortled, "looks like David is looking for a little bromance, eh fellows?!?!" This joke was funny on two levels, because of the guy love thing, and also because David's last name was Broder. If John McCain had any clue of the seething sexual tension in this room, he didn't show it. The recipient of three heterosexual men's unrequited love passed out the beers. "Gentleman, let's toast the return to good family values and a simpler America!" "To America!" the three reporters cried, while simultaneously thinking of a naked John McCain, oiled and waiting for them, only them... http://www.236.com/blog/w/drew_grant/the_straight_talk_sexpress_7393.php | | 4:57a |
Blackchat The following has been translated courtesy of the Ebonics Translator: In an interview dis here week, da presidential wannabe Ralph "Pimpin'" Nader stirred up static and shit by claiming Obama talks "whitey." Nader told da Rocky Mountain News: He wants ta appeal ta whitey guilt. You appeal ta whitey guilt not by coming on as black iz fine, black iz powerful... Which led us ta wonder, what's da difference between jivin' whitey an' jivin' black? We's searched an' searched da internet fo' clues an' finally found da ebonix translator, which wuz very helpful. It takes cracker english an' "ebonifies" it an' ya really see da difference. So we's jet back an' looked at Obama's response ta Nader an' realized he really do jive whitey, what the fuck sup now? If it's dis here easy why don' Obama jive black? He's black right? Ya' dig? So we's decided ta translate what da Democratic nominee said ta Nader in black jive so dat he could be mo' true ta himself: Ralph Nader hadn't been paying attention ta muh ma fuckin speeches, cuz all da issues dat he talked about--whether it be predatory lending, da housing foreclosure crisis...I've devoted multiple speeches...an don't make me pull mah gat! Ralph Nader iz trying ta git attention...He's someone...whose campaign hasn't gotten any traction. So what bettah way ta git some traction than ta make an inflammatory statement like da one dat he made? It iz what it iz. Don't make me come ovah there bitch... Dere ya gots it, ye damn hood ratz. Now dat dere iz Obama jivin' black, fo' real. It's dat simple, aight??? Peace! http://www.236.com/blog/w/disgrasian/blacktalk_7400.php | | 5:09a |
Major Strasser has been shot
Round up the usual suspects
An internal review of the GOP's chances in the elections has revealed that the candidates are failing to overcome a "negative perception of the national party." Republicans running for office are being encouraged to show "deep empathy towards the voters." - How can House Republicans show deep empathy to their constituents?
By molesting them in private, as opposed to in a men's room.
By abstaining from golf until the Iran War is over. Wait, you weren't supposed to know about that.
By running as Democrats.
Christ, just go away.
BREAKING: Mugabe pulls out a squeaker in Zimbabwe
Though the results have not yet been tabulated in Friday's vote in Zimbabwe, after a close examination of the exit polls, 23/6 is prepared to declare Robert Mugabe the winner.
In our political anaylsis, decisive factors in Mugabe's win include the fact that he was the only one running, and that, as the New York Times puts it today, everyone in the country was forced to vote for him "fearing punishment or even death unless they could produce a finger colored by red ink as evidence they had cast their ballot."
Mugabe appeared to do well in virtually pivotal demographic: young voters, old voters, soccer moms, stay-at-home dads, dead people.
Even more good news: According to Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote the 5-4 decision with cold stiff fingers, "the court's recent opinions should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill." Thankfully there aren't many criminals or crazy people in Washington, D.C. outside of the pentagon.
Sonny Landham is officially the third actor from the movie Predator to seek public office. He has officially announced a Senate run as a member of the Libertarian Party joining several other successful action-star politicians. Next up, a Jean Claude Van Damme congressional campaign for a House seat in Nevada against his sinister twin brother. [AP - Variety]
The EPA recently completed a report concluding that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled. Rather than being forced to respond to the findings with new regulation, The White House ducked any obligation with an ingenious tactic. They refused to open the email that contained the report. The email remains unopened.
Brilliant! That's so astoundingly retarded no one would ever see it coming! But the maneuver was actually not dreamed up by Bush. It's one of many suggested tactics found in the handbook given to every new president, called The Presidential Guide For Dealing With Bad News.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, (R-LA), signed legislation that would allow convicted sex offenders to be chemically castrated. In a press release, the governor said, "I am glad we have taken such strong measures in Louisiana to put a stop to these monsters' brutal acts."
Hear, here. Ironically, Jindal's new law threatens the manhood of many of his colleagues in the GOP. Among the horny Republicans who should avoid Louisiana:
* Former president of the National Association of Evangelicals Rev. Ted Haggard
* Former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL)
* Former Rep. Bob Allen (R-FL)
* Senator Larry Craig (R-ID)
* Senator David Vitter- (R-LA)
* Former Rep. Richard Curtis (R-WA)
* Former GOP party chair Glenn Murphy Jr
* Also, Strom Thurmond's ghost (R-SC) should avoid haunting black maids in Baton Rouge.
John McCain apparently does not work weekends. Which means that he would make a great boss, but a terrible stripper. [Politico] | | 5:31a |
Join the army
US soldiers assigned to guard a crucial part of Iraq’s oil infrastructure became ill after exposure to a highly toxic chemical at the plant, witnesses testified at a Democratic Policy Committee hearing yesterday on Capitol Hill. “These soldiers were bleeding from the nose, spitting blood,” said Danny Langford, an equipment technician from Texas brought to work at the Qarmat Ali Water treatment plant in 2003. “They were sick. Hundreds of American soldiers at this site were contaminated” while guarding the plant, Langford said, including members of the Indiana National Guard. Langford is one of nine Americans who accuse KBR, the lead contractor on the Qarmat Ali project and one of the largest defense contractors in Iraq, of knowingly exposing them to sodium dichromate, an orange, sandlike chemical that is a potentially lethal carcinogen. | | 5:46a |
Marxist APster!
Social Network E.Factor Connects Entrepreneurs and Investors… (Mashable)
With over 47,000 members in 3 short months, the niche social market is binding entrepreneurs and investors through a virtual platform, unparalleled by anything else. Launching July 1st, entrepreneurs will no longer have to worry about health insurance or a 401K plan as both will be offered to premium members. In addition expect to see new satellites popping up like the Cambridge University E.Factor site
Why aren’t we doing something similar in progressive media? - MTA
Why aren't we doing something similar with APster?
Many Western Marxists, including Marx and Engels themselves, are (or were )capitalist swine. They could pick up on Assassination markets* and run with it...and then, knowing their love of purges they will murder thousands of fellow Marxists...oh wait
* ' The capitalist will sell us all the rope we need with which to hang them with ' - Lenin | | 5:52a |
I feel so safe now Just this week, a group of Republican senators re-introduced the Federal Marriage Amendment to the Constitution, which, as we know, would ban gay marriage. And once again, the language is pretty straightforward: Section 1. This article may be cited as the `Marriage Protection Amendment’. Section 2. Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman.’. This isn’t especially surprising. Republicans are looking at the political landscape, and they’re feeling awfully discouraged. The polls look bad, the base looks depressed, and fundraising looks iffy. Rallying the far-right troops with an anti-gay amendment to the Constitution — even though it has no chance at even getting so much as a hearing — might be helpful to the conservative movement. But the funny part is looking over the list of the 10 original sponsors. Most of the names are predictable — Brownback and Inhofe, for example — but there are two others whose names stand out: Sens. David Vitter (R-La.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho). Yes, two of the principal sponsors of a constitutional amendment to “protect” marriage include one far-right Republican who hired prostitutes and another far-right Republican who was arrested for soliciting gay sex an airport men’s room. - MORE ON http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/16020.htmlHey Dems! Don't forget to keep yr talcum powder dry! | | 5:58a |
To the doors of hell
Law School Dean Calls Conference to Plan Bush War Crimes Prosecution
The dean of Massachusetts School of Law at Andover is planning a September conference to map out war crimes prosecutions, and the targets are President Bush and other administration officials. The dean, Lawrence Velvel, says in a statement that “plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earth.” Other possible defendants, he said, include federal judges and John Yoo, the former Justice Department official who wrote one of the so-called torture memos. - MAKETHEMACCOUNTABLE
OK, so it’s not Mt. Rushmore… “San Francisco is to hold a vote on whether to rename one of its largest sewage treatment facilities after George W. Bush, in what supporters describe as ‘a fitting monument to the President’s work’.”
Sal Van Hoyden: Don't be facetious!
Chester Hooton: [confused] Oh, keep politics out of this! | | 6:09a |
Keith O - negro please
Glennzilla:
To give Obama a pass on his support for such a heinous bill -- one which Dean himself describes as a grave assault on the Constitution -- based on this imagined secret plan for the Good that Obama is harboring is to illustrate exactly the sort of blind faith in political leaders that is so dangerous. That's been the Right's mentality to excuse every last thing Bush does....No political leader deserves that sort of blind faith -- not Bush and not Obama. That's how a small child thinks about his Daddy, not how a citizen should think about a political leader.
' Blind faith in anyone or anything will get you killed' - Bruce Springsteen | | 6:17a |
Barry writes
She likes wearin' lipstick, she likes French cuisine
But she wont let me use my passion unless its in Marine one
She got me under pressure homes,
She got me under pressure.
She likes the art museum; she don't like Cheneys dog.
She fun at the mind museum, she likes it in a Chicago fog.
She don't like other women; she likes whips and chains.
She likes cocaine and flippin' out with great Danes.
Shes about all I can handle, its too much for my brain.
Its got me under pressure,
Its got me under pressure.
I'm gonna give her a message,
Heres what Im gonna say:
its all over.
She might get out a nightstick
And hurt me real real bad
By the roadside in a ditch.
Its got me under pressure,
Its got me under pressure.
Its got me under pressure,
Its got me under pressure nigah. | | 6:23a |
Yo dawg
‘Royal funeral’ says much about society (by Gene Lyons)
In the sport of beagling, two bad faults can get a hound disqualified. One is “cold-trailing.” I had a beagle named Leon who’d hoot down scent trails so old the rabbits that left them were probably being digested by coyotes. Leon made so much noise about nothing that my pals dubbed him “The Journalist.” Then there’s “ghost-trailing.” Unable to keep up, a hound will sometimes invent a fictitious rabbit and make a great show of running it. Other dogs learn to ignore him. Washington courtier-journalists have done plenty of both recently. [Tim] Russert was among the worst. Like most, he obsessed over Bill Clinton’s sexual sins, but handled the Bush administration’s Iraq war propaganda like the Baltimore Catechism: Memorize, regurgitate. Linda Hirshman nails it in The Nation: “…The Russert Test was a disaster because it rewarded people willing to lie unabashedly on TV.” And that’s the truth. - MTA | | 6:35a |
Escaped murderer loose
Racist war criminal John '...McCain, who rarely discusses what is perhaps the most compelling element of his biography, used the new language twice on Tuesday to bring up his refusal to take early release in Vietnam.
"When I was offered a chance to go home early from prison camp in Vietnam, I put my country first," McCain said on a conference call Tuesday night with independent and Democratic voters in South Florida. "And I’ve been doing that ever since."
He said much the same later that night at a fundraiser in Newport Beach, Calif.
Right. He said it twice on Tuesday, and that was really rare. Because he didn't mention his POW experience in his first election to Congress, or five primary ads, or his first general election ad this year, or in a campaign email last year marking the anniversary of his 1973 release, or in his response to Tim Russert's death. Nope, he just doesn't talk about it.
(Given that we're dealing here with reporters who apparently believe McCain when he says he doesn't talk about this, despite hearing him talk about it all the time, perhaps I should note for the record that the "didn't" and "doesn't" and "nope" in that paragraph were sarcastic.)
(h/t Brendan Nyhan...' - KOS
Cry bullshit and release the shaggy-dog stories of old war-whores | | 6:51a |
Put up or shut up time Hammer of the Scotch @ndy '...with regards contemporary Australian anarchism, I recently conducted a very brief survey of all the extant groups that I’m aware of; I’ve also examined the views of a groupuscule describing itself as ‘national anarchist’. In fact, I helped to produce a statement repudiating ‘national anarchism’, to which the MAC-G was invited to support, but chose not to. (Anarchist Direct Action, Barricade Books, the Melbourne Anarchist Club (Melbourne), Jura Books (Sydney) and Wildcat (Wellington) did.) To put it another way: if it’s indeed the case “that a considerable number of people who consider themselves Anarchists are affected to a degree by some of the symptoms that Mick is criticising”, I invite you to name them, and to indicate your reasons for thinking so...' http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=728Yeah Greg - put the fuck up. Put up or just shut the fuck up and go back to sucking Leninist butt. Pope @ndy can excommunicate yr ass in a New York minute. | | 7:26a |
McCain and Mrs Miller
Si, se puede gringo
As North Korea has just set off another nuclear bomb this is great opportunity to turn the DPRK into a glazed parking-lot. Hey - they friggin' started it!
"I don't know if you know this, but John McCain now he's got a bandage on his head. Did you see that, John McCain? The poor guy, he's got a bandage on his head. Here's what happened. Apparently he tried to answer the iron." --David Letterman
"Well, you know, Barack Obama, he's started a fashion craze in Italy. Italian designers have taken his look, and they're turning it into fashion. It's an amazing thing. But don't sell John McCain short. He's also influencing fashion. He has popularized the 'something on your chin' look." --David Letterman
Arnold Schwarzenegger met John McCain today. And it was a very awkward moment when they shook hands because McCain's hand broke off." --Craig Ferguson
"John McCain and Barack Obama have both laid out their energy plans. Obama wants enough "green" energy to power the entire U.S. economy, and McCain just wants enough energy to stay up past nine o'clock." --Craig Ferguson
"Well, ladies and gentlemen, the big story out there continues to be the high cost of gasoline. Four bucks a gallon. I have stopped traveling anywhere that is not downhill. Luckily, John McCain has the solution [on screen: McCain speech in which he says he'll give a $300 million prize to whomever can come up with a solution to the energy crisis]. Fabulous prizes! Who says McCain's campaign has no new ideas? They have the new idea of offering millions of dollars to people who actually have ideas. It's just the latest example of John McCain's brave fight to keep Americans awake while he talks" --Stephen Colbert
"Here's good news -- Bill Clinton will be out on the campaign trail getting people to vote for Obama. Isn't that what he was doing for Hillary? But Bill Clinton is campaigning for Obama. President Bush is campaigning for McCain. And I'm thinking, wow, this could really be the year for Ralph Nader." --David Letterman
Bill Clinton was in Canada this weekend. I guess he's thinking of running for president there. And on Friday, he was photographed holding hands with one of his wife's former campaign workers. Look at this. Clinton's spokesman released a statement saying there was, and is, nothing improper going on there. Not holding hands, her hand was just there to cover his erection and they snapped the photo." --Jimmy Kimmel
"You know. People really like Barack Obama because he's an inspirational speaker. But he was not the first one -- I was checking my presidential history -- he was not the first candidate to use the phrase 'Yes we can!' Bill Clinton frequently used that on interns." --David Letterman | | 8:35a |
Bad boys, bad boys
Whatchagonnado? Whatchagonnado when they come for you?
POLITICO - Conyers issues subpoena to DOJ for Bush-Cheney interviews on Plame leak
House Judiciary Committee John Conyers has issed a subpoena to the Justice Dept. for the unredacted interviews with President Bush and Vice President Cheney on former CIA operative Valerie Plame, as well as numerous other documents sought unsuccessfully by Democrats for years.
Conyers is also seeking FBI notes of interviews with some top former White House officials, including Karl Rove, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Scott McClellan, Dan Bartlett and Andrew Card.
The committee also wants unreleased memos from DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel, including an Oct. 23, 2001, memo related to use of American military forces to combat terrorism within the United States.
In addition, Conyers is seeking any materials in DOJ's possession related to the 2002 New Hampshire "phone jamming" incident, the firing of a U.S. attorney in Minnesota, the department's civil rights activities, and "selective prosecution" of Democratic politicians such as former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.
The subpoena was issued to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, and it demands production of the documents by July 7.
Former special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald interviewed Bush and Cheney as part of his investigation into the outing of Plame. Plame is married to former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, an outspoken opponent of Bush's claim that Iraq was trying to acquire uranium for a nuclear weapons programs prior to the U.S. invasion in 2003.
After Wilson went public on the details of a CIA-backed mission he undertook to Niger to investigate claims that Iraq was attempting to acquire uranium yellowcake, Plame's identity was leaked to reporters. A criminal probe by Fitzgerald was initiated, and Libby — Cheney's former chief of staff — was eventually convicted to perjury and obstruction of justice. His sentence was commuted by Bush. - End extract
Funny how the fascist peanut gallery has gone so quiet lately - don't they know Saddam was actively seeking uranium in Niger and the famous aluminum tubes could be in Syria?
I'm sure Michael Ledeen and Christopher Hitchens will bring them up to speed on this. | | 8:50a |
Under the volcano
This origins discussion can't be seriously coming from serious scientological-socialists.
What does Hubbard have to say? Xenu puts Hubbard on his feet, remember, not contradicts him. What does it mean for Hubbard to hark back to the E-metered Thetans? Why does Hubbard invoke Sperm, for the most part, as an ally? What does Hubbard say about absolute Being and absolute Nothingness?
If it was only a question of dianectical materialsm -- physicalism for lack of a better term -- instead of a dianectical relationship (Ie Becoming) then maybe this conversation about Big Space Ship Theory, the origin of the scientological universe, teleology, Vulcanism, etc etc wouldn't be such a farce.
C'mon..by definition there can't be two UNIverses on battlefield earth. If we find out its bigger or vaster than we thought, then its a bigger, vaster place (or maybe some more existential concept than place) than we thought. Its not TWO universes "colliding" with each other or whatever other kook science some physicist dreams up.
Maybe you think that's uncleared semantics but if so, then philosophy didn't die with Hubbard after all. And, yes, I mean that in a Thetan way. | | 4:12p |
Hundreds of dead police here
Armed men surround their vehicle in the marijuana-rich state of Sinaloa.
MEXICO CITY — Mexico's raging drug war claimed the lives of six more police officers, ambushed on patrol in the marijuana-rich state of Sinaloa, authorities said Friday.
The attack followed the slaying Thursday of a senior police commander, part of a long string of killings apparently aimed at eroding public confidence in the government's ability to challenge drug gangs.
The six officers were killed when two carloads of heavily armed men cut off their vehicle in the Sinaloa capital of Culiacan, an official with the state attorney general's office said by e-mail.
More than 4,400 people have been killed in drug violence in Mexico, among them hundreds of police, since President Felipe Calderon launched an all-out offensive against drug cartels after taking office in December 2006.
Calderon says the surge in killings and gun battles is a sign of his government's success in cracking down on drug-trafficking networks. But several analysts suggest that the high-profile killings in particular make the government and its main law enforcement agencies appear vulnerable.
The assassinations, along with the gangs' growing propensity to decapitate their victims and issue threats using posters and the Internet, "have a clear objective to intimidate, frighten, paralyze society, and with that, force the federal government to retreat," Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino said Friday. | | 4:46p |
Anarchist swiftboats
Classical Greeks? Slavedrivers
Enlightenment? - Slippery slope to fascism
Godwin? - Obscure utopian
Great Revolution? - Guillotines then Napoleon. Don't go there girlfriend
Bourgeois revolutions? - Asked and answered
Stirner? - Sophist
Paris Commune? - a bloody mess...also ancient history
Proudhon? - Anti-semitic shop-owner (and peasant)
Bakunin? - Nechaev
Propaganda-of-the-deed - worst thing in the world. Much worse than WW2
Kropotkin? - WW1. Bloodthirsty beast
Makhno? - Anti-semitic bandit
CNT? - all collaboration, all the time
Durruti? - Misogynist authoritarian
Sabate? - crazy man
Chomsky? - Liberal gasbag
Zerzan? - Primitivist nutcase
Bookchin? - municipalist academic
Black? - police spy
Komboa-Ervin? - Black Nationalism
Anarchist-feminism? - Sterile separatism
Modern day Mutualism? - how many divisions do they have?
Networked cells and Blac blocs? - lifestyle McAnarchist crusties and hoodies. They also smell of Dumpster
Assassination markets? - Right-wing nuts
Post-left anarchism? - anti-social sectarians
Have you been rat-fucked and/or slam-dunked lately? If not then you don't get out much do you?
Get a swiftboat up ya | | 5:47p |
They're animals man!
Indian Maoists destroy mobile towers, snap lines
PATNA: India’s Maoist insurgents destroyed two mobile phone towers and have shut down six others in the country’s east, blaming the network for revealing their movements to the police, officials said.
Rebels, fearing mobiles are being used by informers, have banned the use of mobile phones in villages under their control in India after hundreds of suspected insurgents were arrested this year.
Police said armed rebels set two towers of Bharti Airtel Ltd on fire on Thursday in Bihar state, snapping communication lines in the region. “The Maoists are angry since the police were able to locate their movements through the mobile network, leading to many arrests,” said Ajay Kumar Sinha, a senior police officer from Gaya district, where the incident took place.
The rebels called local media to claim responsibility. A spokeswoman for Bharti Airtel said they were looking into the issue.
The rebels said that they were fighting for the rights of the poor and landless. They regularly kill policemen and attack government establishments in eastern and central India. Maoist rebels usually operate in a large swathe of India stretching from the east to some southern states, mostly in the countryside. reuters | | 5:58p |
Murder won '...In his new book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder (Vanguard Press, 2008), Vincent Bugliosi, the man who successfully prosecuted Charles Manson for murder, argues convincingly that President George W. Bush's conduct in taking the U.S. military to war against Iraq under false pretenses in March of 2003 qualifies him to be prosecuted for murder in any state in the nation. The victims in the case would be all the soldiers from that state that were killed in the war against Iraq. He lays out his case in a devastatingly logical and methodical manner, weaving together all the relevant facts to paint the definitive portrait of just how reckless and criminal was the behavior of President Bush in his push for war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq..' http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/spielberg5.html'...Then there is the infamous reference to Saddam Hussein's supposed quest for uranium in Africa in the President's 2003 State of the Union speech, which was based on documents which were believed to be forgeries by U. S. intelligence agencies. In October of 2002 George Tenet told Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley that the president "should not be a fact witness on this issue" and the reporting on it was "weak." | | 6:01p |
Philosophers have only interpreted history
But the intelligence and the facts should be fixed around the policy in room 101
The statement that the government shall not inflict cruel and unusual punishment for crimes is found in the English Bill of Rights signed in 1689 by King William III and Queen Mary II who were then the joint rulers of England following the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688.
These exact words later appeared in the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1787). The British Slavery Amelioration Act of 1798 also used the term, forbidding slave owners from using “Cruel and unusual punishment” on slaves in the British Caribbean colonies.
Very similar words (’No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment’) appear in Article Five of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (A/RES/217, December 10, 1948)
Well, the good news is that they can’t it with them, and the bad news is that they can’t take their relatives with them either. | | 6:40p |
Old Moles '...The strength of Marx was that he formulated an abstract theory of historical evolution ...' Sez Red Hughs. Should we believe him? Or maybe Marx himself who said he turned the abstract theories upside down? Now maybe this explains why we're encouraged to read Marx as literature these days and to hell with all that materialist, scientific stuff. So maybe all is not lost. Certainly many modern Marxists are bravely setting out on ' the long march through the institutions' of parliamentary cretinism. To them I commend the best faith interpretation of comrade Dave C. http://libcom.org/forums/theory/icc-councilist-left-anarchism-17062008?page=2Please report back to us in 100 years comrade ...or when you finally surpass democratic socialism - whatever comes first. |
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