You knew it was going to happen! Porter Goss to receive medal! Wow you know you really screwed up when you get a medal from this administration!

Oooh oooh Cheney is going to get one too!

What an honor! To be given a medal by this group of fuck-ups is like winning third place in a Special Olympics footrace. It looks good on the mantle until somebody reads what is printed on the base.

But the fact that Dick Cheney is getting one as well is just the biggest hoot of the day. Jon Stewart is going to have a fucking blast with this!

Jon Stewart catches bush using the EXACT same words to nominate General Hayden for CIA head as he used to nominate Porter Goss for the same job.

Jon Stewart is so cool isn't he?

I think that he is using my television to speak directly to me.

If he keeps that up he is totally going to get stalked!

CNN is totally bashing my state because we benefit from high oil prices. Sorry?

They are bashing us because we don't pay any state taxes and we got a dividend of $845.76 last year. Wow if they had only done some more research they could have become really indignant.

2005 $845.76
2004 $919.84
2003 $1107.56
2002 $1540.76
2001 $1850.28
2000 $1963.86
1999 $1769.84
1998 $1540.88
1997 $1296.54
1996 $1130.68
1995 $990.30
1994 $983.90
1993 $949.46
1992 $915.84
1991 $931.34
1990 $952.63
1989 $873.16
1988 $826.93
1987 $708.19
1986 $556.26
1985 $404.00
1984 $331.29
1983 $386.15
1982 $1000.00

In 2001 I took my whole family to Hawaii. Thank you big oil!

My state is totally going to kick me out now.

Former NSA Chief blasts Bush on illegal wiretaps.

Former NSA director Admiral Bobby Ray Inman lashed out at the Bush administration Monday night over its continued use of warrantless domestic wiretaps – and called for the CIA to be broken up in two. It's one of the first times a former high-ranking intelligence official has criticized the program in public, analysts say.

"This activity is not authorized," Inman said, as part of a panel discussion on eavesdropping, sponsored by the New York Public Library. The Bush administration "need[s] to get away from the idea that they can continue doing it."

The line of ex-officials lining up to take a shot at Bush must be around the block by now. Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely loving it!

I just wish these guys could have come forward much earlier when Bush was still getting over a 50% approval rating. It would have hurried his demise and we could have marginalized him even earlier.

Another educator we can all be proud of.

Prosecutors say an assistant principal at DeLand High School tried to get a student to videotape herself having sex. The state attorney said Tyrone Tinsley also asked two girls to have sex with each other.

According to prosecutors, when a student spoke to Tinsley about a bad break up, he asked her "if she ever taped herself having sex with her boyfriend" and told her to try it "so he could watch the tape."

Prosecutor also wrote that he asked that same teen and another girl "if they would get together with each other."

What an unbelievable piece of shit. It is men like this that give the rest of us a bad name. I hope that he ends up doing a little jail time for this at least.

How will anybody be able to tell?

Doctors are concerned Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards could suffer from brain damage after undergoing two surgeries following a fall while holidaying in Fiji, the New Zealand Herald reported on Wednesday.

Ah now see that was just mean! Oh well, we all I know I am already headed straight to hell in a handbasket.

Maybe I can get a seat next to Keith!

Teacher blames bi-polar disorder for porn career. Well great she just took all of the sexiness right out of this story.

A teacher in Kentucky is considering what to do about being fired from her job after officials learned she appeared in an adult movie more than 10 years ago.

Tericka Dye told WKYX in Paducah that she was in the adult entertainment business for only a matter of hours, recognized her mistake, and turned her life around.

Dye said that she's now a Christian and wants the Bible Belt community to practice forgiveness.

She was only involved in porn for a matter of hours? Well if that is the case she must have been the hardest working little actress in her field. Here are just some of the movies she made:

Ass Whores 12,
Climax Shots 86 - Three To Tango,
Double Your Pleasure Double Your Fun,
Eruptions - Double Dippin,
In Thru The Out Door 7,
In Thru The Out Door 8,
Party House 5,
Sex Freaks 10,
Tight Ass,
Wet Cum Shots 6,
Exit Only 6,
Wet Cum Shots 7,
Rug Munchers,
Major Slut and
Butt Brats 7.

The poor girl must have been exhausted no wonder she got out of the business!

Hey look darling you had a wild time as a young lady. Who cares! I don't think that anybody should hold it against you one way or the other. But I would hardly expect any school to feel comfortable having you work around young children, especially with all of the" hot teacher on student" sex of late. And that is not necessarily okay for them to discriminate but they will and you should know it.

And that bi-polar excuse is pretty lame.

I think you should write a book. You know there is a market for it. Men are pigs! So you might as well make money off of them, again.

Russ Feingold takes point in battling Bush on Iraq.

Sen. Russ Feingold, a potential anti-war candidate in the 2008 presidential field, urged fellow Democrats on Monday to show more backbone in challenging President Bush on Iraq.

"We must get out of our political foxholes and be willing to clearly and specifically point out what a strategic error the Iraq invasion has been," Feingold, D-Wis., told a National Press Club audience.

He said some Democrats in Congress gave in to "intimidation" by the Bush administration when they voted to authorize the war in 2002, and warned: "If we do not show both a practical and emotional readiness to lead in the fight against terrorism, we will lose in '06 and we will lose in '08, just like we did in '02 and '04."

Now that is what I have been talking about! You go Russ!

The Democrats have to show their courage and their desire to take this administration head on when it comes to the war, health care, taxes, and whatever else the Republicans want to shove down our throats.

If Feingold keeps this kind of talk up he may be the only Democratic candidate for president worth supporting.

(This should make you happy Enigma.)

Another very nice e-mail from one of my visitors.

I wanted to let you know that I really enjoy your Blog. It has a great mix of humor and information. Reading your entries has become a ritual for me in the morning, at lunch and again in the evening. Please keep up the good work!

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Thank you very much for your input, it is much appreciated.

(I did take the liberty of editing the above e-mail for brevity.)

Lesbians don't think like us. Actually they think remarkably like I do. Am I gay?

Homosexuals' brains respond differently from those of straight men and women when exposed to sex hormones, but researchers now say the difference is less pronounced in lesbians than in gay men.

Lesbians' brains reacted somewhat, though not completely, like those of heterosexual men, a team of Swedish researchers said in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A year ago, the same group reported findings for gay men that showed their brain response to hormones was similar to that of heterosexual women.

In both cases the findings add weight to the idea that homosexuality has a physical basis and is not learned behavior.

I can't be a Lesbian. I look just terrible in flannel!

(Look another chance to post a picture of two girls kissing! You're welcome!)

Iranian President's letter lays the smackdown on Bush's foreign policies. It really unnerves me when I find myself agreeing with these guys.

Iran's president declared in a letter to President Bush that democracy had failed worldwide and lamented "an ever-increasing global hatred" of the U.S. government.

The letter from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made only an oblique reference to Iran's nuclear intentions, asking why "any technological and scientific achievement reached in the Middle East region is translated into and portrayed as a threat to the Zionist regime."

Otherwise, it lambasted Bush for his handling of the Sept. 11 attacks, accused the media of spreading lies about the Iraq war and railed against the United States for its support of Israel. It questioned whether the world would be a different place if the money spent on Iraq had been spent to fight poverty.

"Would not your administration's political and economic standing have been stronger?" the letter said. "And I am most sorry to say, would there have been an ever- increasing global hatred of the American government?

Okay now this is how you do propaganda! Did you notice how he plays on our growing dissatisfaction with Bush's Iraq policies to make his point? Very well done my crazed Islamic friend.

I doubt very seriously that this letter is intended for the Administrations eyes. Ahmadinejad is clearly going over their heads to address us, the American people, directly. But though he makes several good points I certainly do not think that he is a credible individual. His often stated hate for Israel makes him extremely dangerous and the major threat in the Middle East.

But to stop him will take much more then the threat of attack. This guy needs to be outmaneuvered. Too bad we don't have anybody in office smart enough to do that.

Troops are afraid all of the cool insurgents will laugh at their goofy new uniforms.

American troops have complained that a new armoured body suit designed to be worn in Iraq makes them look "goofy".

The water-cooled "alien spacesuits" are being handed out to turret gunners in their notoriously vulnerable Humvee vehicles.

The protective suit, based on those worn by bomb disposal officers, was intended to cut spiralling casualties for one of the most dangerous jobs in modern warfare.

But some troops have complained that the armour and headgear is inelegant. Others say the water-cooling system, designed for the soaring temperatures of an Iraqi summer, regularly breaks down.

Damn! That is an ugly outfit. These guys seriously need a visit from the "Queer eye for the straight guy" stylists.

On the other hand I have to say I would prefer the look of these uniforms to say......a gushing head wound. I mean maybe if they bad guys see them in these things they will be laughing too hard to put up much of a fight. I think it is important to look for the silver lining.

What are the knee pads for again?

Army is now recruiting autistic kids. Apparently they ran plumb out of all the Lynndie England types.

Jared Guinther is 18. Tall and lanky, he will graduate from Marshall High School in June. Girls think he's cute, until they try to talk to him and he stammers or just stands there -- silent.

Diagnosed with autism at age 3, Jared is polite but won't talk to people unless they address him first. It's hard for him to make friends. He lives in his own private world.

Jared didn't know there was a war raging in Iraq until his parents told him last fall -- shortly after a military recruiter stopped him outside a Southeast Portland strip mall and complimented him on his black Converse All Stars.

"When Jared first started talking about joining the Army, I thought, 'Well, that isn't going to happen,' " said Paul Guinther, Jared's father. "I told my wife not to worry about it. They're not going to take anybody in the service who's autistic."

But they did. Last month, Jared came home with papers showing that he not only had enlisted, but also had signed up for the Army's most dangerous job: cavalry scout. He is scheduled to leave for basic training Aug. 16.

Officials are now investigating whether recruiters at the U.S. Army Recruiting Station in Southeast Portland improperly concealed Jared's disability, which should have made him ineligible for service.

Jared's story illustrates a growing national problem as the military faces increasing pressure to hit recruiting targets during an unpopular war.

This is illegal and whoever did this should be court martialed immediately! What kind of piece of shit sends a mentally challenged man-child to die? Who are these bastards?

I have worked with, and continue to work with, a number of autistic children and there is no doubt that they cannot care for themselves or be expected to make appropriate decisions concerning their life or their safety. They very often spend their adult lives in a group home or in a supported living envrionment with a caregiver who helps them to cope with lifes complexities. Only a truly horrible person would allow this type of individual to volunteer to fight in a war. Check out how they convinced this young man to trust them.

Last fall, Jared began talking about joining the military after a recruiter stopped him on his way home from school and offered a $4,000 signing bonus, $67,000 for college and more buddies than he could count.

Matthew (Jared's stepbrother) told his mother that military recruiting at the school and surrounding neighborhoods was so intense that one recruiter had pulled him out of football practice.

I thought I had seen every type of evil that the world had to offer but this recruiter just sank to a new low in my book. To prey on these helpless citizens in unconscionable. This quite literally makes me feel violent toward the person who tried to recruit this boy. I just hope that somebody steps in and stops them from taking him.

31% and dropping by the minute.

President Bush's approval rating has slumped to 31% in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the lowest of his presidency and a warning sign for Republicans in the November elections.

The survey of 1,013 adults, taken Friday through Sunday, shows Bush's standing down by 3 percentage points in a single week. His disapproval rating also reached a record: 65%. The margin of error is +/- 3 percentage points.

Moderates gave him an approval rating of 28%, liberals of 7%.

I still cannot figure out what is wrong with the 31 percent who still support this guy. It just boggles my damn mind.

Tony Blair to step down by next year. Okay that is one down and one more to go.

Tony Blair abandoned his election promise to serve a full third term last night, indicating that he could stand down next summer.

Although he refused to set a timetable for his departure, saying that it would paralyse government, he anointed Gordon Brown as his successor and promised to give him sufficient time to establish himself before the next election.

As the Labour Party stood on the brink of civil war over the timing of the succession, the Prime Minister acknowledged that he could not go on to the end of his third term, which could last until 2009 or even 2010. He appealed to the party to calm down and trust him to "honour" his commitment to ensure a stable and orderly transition, "with the time plainly needed for my successor to establish himself".

I am so jealous of the British right now! They are getting rid of their lousy leader while we are still suffering under the rule of our own "King George". Perhaps a coup d'etat is in order.

Meet my next ex-wife!

I am so deeply in love already.

(Don't worry it is SFW)

How much power does George Bush have? He is firing BRITISH cabinet members now!

Two London papers have speculated this weekend that complaints by President George W. Bush forced a British minister from his post because of his opposition to the use of nuclear force against Iran.

The Independent suggests that a phone call from the U.S. president to British Prime Minister Tony Blair led to the removal of Foreign Secretary Jack Straw Friday.

The newspaper reports that friends of Straw believe Mr. Bush was extremely upset when Straw pronounced any use of nuclear weapons against Iran "nuts."

Both The Independent and the Guardian write that Straw's "fate was sealed" after a White House phone call to Blair.

Any questions kids? To any of you who thought that the idea of using nukes against Iran could never seriously be considered better ask yourself why then did Jack Straw have to go?

Tony Blair is the biggest pussy on the planet! The idea that he would let Bush roll over him at every opportunity is just fucking embarassing. If I were British I would be organizing an effort to get rid of his skinny English ass as well.

And for those of us who are Americans we better get our shit together pretty soon as well, because believe or not things are about to get much worse!

Hey ladies! You can tighten up your Cooter! Men everywhere rejoice, while women look up the word "Cooter".

A new trend in cosmetic surgery offers to some women the opportunity to improve their sex lives or to look better in a place most people find uncomfortable to talk about.

A reporter from Baltimore television station WBAL traveled to the Manhattan offices of gynecologist Dr. Ronald Blatt, where some unusual procedures take place.

"By doing vaginoplasty surgery, we tighten the vagina -- increasing the friction, increasing the sensation," Blatt said.

I am not a fan of plastic surgery, but if you are going to get it this makes much more sense then getting your boobs done! When the lights are off this procedure is definitley going to make a bigger impression then attaching those plastic traffic cones to your chest.

But if your man loves you he doesn't need you to do anything except keep being who you are.

If he wants to look at a hot nubile young body, well that is what he has a secretary for.

(Doesn't Cooter look like he might have had some work done?)

George Bush has a new pen pal. Hint: He wants to join the Big Bang club.

Iran's leader has written to President Bush proposing "new solutions" to their differences in the first letter from an Iranian head of state to an American president in 27 years, a government spokesman said Monday.

In the letter, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proposes "new solutions for getting out of international problems and the current fragile situation of the world," spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham told a news conference.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is just wasting his time, Bush doesn't read! He likes phone calls and fishing.

You know this President of Iran is gaining more and more credibility around the world by trying to work through this situation while not acquiescing to the demands of the White House. He is demonstrating both strength and the desire to seek a diplomatic solution to their difficulty. And Bush is looking more and more like he is just trying to pick a fight. Another one! It is clear who will benefit from the world's sympathies.

Of course now this administration is so busy destroying our relationship with Russia that they may not have time to further damage the one we have with Iran right now.

The Bush Administration, destroying diplomatic relations one country at a time!

Porno teacher Tericka Dye was once DP Queen Rikki Andersin.

(The link above is definitely NSFW)

Holy crap! I had no idea the teacher was this well known and this prolific! Well, we here at The Immoral Minority do not judge. (Unless you are a lying Republican!) It is truly a shame that somebody cannot start a new life and put her youthful indiscretions behind her. (Sorry for the pun, I can't help myself.) What is really sad is that she was sold out by a man that she once trusted and undoubtedly loved.

Rumor has it that Dye's past came to light because she is currently divorcing and fighting with her ex over child custody.

This guy is the true sinner!

"The DaVinci Code" really has the Catholic's panties in a wad.

"'The Da Vinci Code' kind of gave a focus that there's a lot [of misinformation] about Jesus Christ and Christianity out there, and perhaps it's time to rebut it," said Monsignor Francis J. Maniscalco, a spokesman for the District-based U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. "If people see [the movie], they should go prepared."

"I suppose people are free to go, but [understand] you are giving money to those who are attacking the church," said the Rev. William Stetson, director of the Catholic Information Center in Northwest and a member of Opus Dei, the Catholic institution that Mr. Brown casts as a main villain in the novel.

Web sites hosted by the Catholic bishops group and Campus Crusade are dedicated to addressing aspects of Mr. Brown's book, including questions regarding Renaissance art, biblical texts and the origins of the Holy Grail. At the 8,500-member evangelical McLean Bible Church in Fairfax County, pastors Lon Solomon and Todd Phillips will seek to debunk "The Da Vinci Code" in their respective morning and evening services, beginning May 21.

The church also has purchased thousands of "The Da Vinci Code" companion guides from Campus Crusade to give to its congregation.

Well hell, now I have to go see it!

Republican Congressman stacks panel to favor abstinence only programs despite the lack of scientific evidence to support them.

Researchers organizing a federal panel on sexually transmitted diseases say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allowed a congressman to include two abstinence-only proponents, bypassing the scientific approval process.

Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind., who chairs the House subcommittee on drug policy, questioned the balance of the original panel, which focused on the failure of abstinence-until-marriage programs. In e-mail to Health and Human Services officials, his office asked whether the CDC was "clear about the controversial nature of this session and its obvious anti-abstinence objective."

Last week the title of the panel was changed and two members were replaced. One of them was a Penn State student who was going to talk about how abstinence programs were tied to rising STD rates.

Scientists have complained about increasing government interference. Last year, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration officials told coordinators of a conference on suicide prevention to remove the words gay, lesbian and bisexual from its program and add a session on faith-based suicide prevention.

This was the first time, conference organizers said, that a single politician had so clearly interfered and achieved such dramatic results. The concern, they said, was that studies on sexual behavior would not be made public if they jarred with the administration's views on abstinence and other public-health issues.

"At the CDC, they're beside themselves," said Jonathan Zenilman, president of the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association and conference organizer. "These people aren't scientists; they haven't written anything. The only reason they're here is because of political pressure from the administration."

Nothing must be allowed to interfere with this administrations desire to put forth only their faith based belief that sex is bad and having sex before marriage is a sin. I can't help wondering how many of them followed this example in their own youths?

How much longer do you think it will be before they start asking us to dress all in black and sport those giant belt buckles like the puritans of old?

They are fools to believe they can stop progress! The truth will eventually win out like it has since the beginning of time, despite the primitive superstitions of the uneducated populace. It is all just a matter of time.

Time to stick a fork in it. The Bush Administration is done.

This administration may be over," Lance Tarrance, a chief architect of the Republicans' 1960s and '70s Southern strategy, told a gathering of journalists and political wonks last week. "By and large, if you want to be tough about it, the relevancy of this administration on policy may be over."

A new poll by RT Strategies, the firm headed by Tarrance and Democratic pollster Thomas Riehle, shows that 59 percent of Americans disapprove of Bush's job performance, while 36 percent approve -- a finding in line with other recent polls.

Tarrance said it would be extremely difficult for any president to bounce back this late in his administration and reassert influence on Capitol Hill when his approval rating barely exceeds his party's base support and half of all adults surveyed said they "strongly disapprove" of his performance. An overwhelming 73 percent of independents disapprove of Bush's performance, and two-thirds of those "strongly disapprove."

Forty-eight percent of respondents said they would like to see the Democrats back in control of Congress, while 37 percent want Republicans to remain in charge. The war looms large as a concern of voters, the poll shows, along with jobs, health care, gas prices and immigration. Combating terrorism -- long the president's strong suit -- is far less of a concern.

This is essentially the same information that I am seeing on every news program and internet news site. The press was timid at first, but now more and more of them are beginning to write this administrations eulogy. If we cannot get Bush impeached maybe we can at least keeep him from doing anymore harm.

Do you think it is possible that our long national nightmare might finally be over?

Since most reporters will not ask the questions that Americans want answered it has forced citizens and celebrities to step up.

While reporters and commentators continue to tiptoe around the question of whether Bush administration officials, right up to the president, deliberately misled the nation into the war, average and not-so-average citizens have raised the charge of “lies” and caused a stir usually reserved for reporters. Is America, or just my own head, about to explode over Iraq?

The latest example of citizen journalism occurred Thursday, with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern’s persistent questioning of Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld at a forum in Atlanta. CNN’s Anderson Cooper, interviewing McGovern later, told him he had gone where most reporters had failed to tread. Whether Anderson meant this as self-criticism was impossible to tell.

This comes on the heels of satirist Stephen Colbert’s performance at the White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday -- publicized primarily by Web sites and blogs -- and this week’s streaming-on-line debut of Neil Young’s “Living with War” album, which proposes impeaching the president “for lying” (and “for spying”). It has already earned more than a million Internet listeners, and on Saturday reached #3 in sales at Amazon. "Don't need no more lies," Young sings repeatedly in one song.

McGovern, Colbert and Young are hardly grassroots Americans, but we also have the recent example of Harry Taylor, who on April 6 rose at a town meeting in Charlotte, N.C. and asked the president about his domestic spying program, among other things, saying he was ”ashamed” of the nation’s leader.

Many years into the future, when history gets its chance to evaluate how things went so terribly wrong during this administration, the American press may find themselves receiving the lion's share of the blame. The American press which had done such an admirable job during Vietnam and Watergate, allowed themselves to be marginalized and made impotent by a bullying swaggering Republican media machine. And for that they should feel shamed beyond words.

The lack of a vibrant aggressive press is exactly why you are reading these words. If they had done their job I would be reading, or playing a computer game, or just watching televison. But because they so completely fucked up their job, I and many other average Americans felt the need to fill in for their absence.

On the upside my spelling and sentence structure have improved immensely. Thank Thor for small favors.

When the Democrats gain back the House we will finally get some answers.

Democratic leaders, increasingly confident they will seize control of the House in November, are laying plans for a legislative blitz during their first week in power that would raise the minimum wage, roll back parts of the Republican prescription drug law, implement homeland security measures and reinstate lapsed budget deficit controls.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said in an interview last week that a Democratic House would launch a series of investigations of the Bush administration, beginning with the White House's first-term energy task force and probably including the use of intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Pelosi denied Republican allegations that a Democratic House would move quickly to impeach President Bush. But, she said of the planned investigations, "You never know where it leads to."

My understanding is that the Republicans big plan to retain the house and the Senate is to tell their supporters that if the Dems win they will investigate and impeach Bush.

That is their strategy? That is the best they can do?

So who are these Republican supporters? Are they the type of people who want to be lied to? Are they the type of people who will not admit they made a mistake? Are they the type of person who would rather that America be destroyed then let it fall into the hands of their mortal enemies, the Democrats? Who are these people?

If it were me, and I know I don't think like them, I would want to know if I was lied to. And if I was lied to about something as serious as the reason for declaring war on another country I would want the people responsible punished. Even if it was the President that I helped to vote into office. I would be consumed with anger and demand justice. I just would.

I have no doubt that if this were my candidate in the White House right now, with all of the things that I know about that have happened during his term, I would be supporting an investigation. Look I am not just trying to make myself look more reasonable then I am. I am just somebody who hates to be lied to. I have to know that I can trust the people running my country.

So my Republican brothers and sisters, isn't it about time? Shouldn't we wipe the corruption and lies out of the White House and the Congress and get our country back on track? Surely you agree with me on that!

And here let me show that I am not playing favorites. I think that Patrick Kennedy should not seek re-election! I think he is lying and I think that he is a man with too many weaknesses to be effective in his job. So he should get the hell out of Dodge as well. I don't particularly want him to be replaced by a Republican at this point but if that were the best choice thenI would rather have that then allow Kennedy back into Congress.

Bush tells graduates to beware of that scary science stuff!

"Science offers the prospect of eventual cures for terrible diseases — and temptations to manipulate life and violate human dignity," Bush said during commencement exercises at Oklahoma State University. "With the Internet, you can communicate instantly with someone halfway across the world — and isolate yourself from your family and your neighbors."

"My advice: Harness the promise of technology without becoming slaves to technology. My advice is that science serves the cause of humanity and not the other way around," the president said.

Translation: "I don't understand science or technology so it must be bad."

Mothers afraid of giving birth to the Anti-Christ. Look bitch they all go through this stage.

FOR one group of expectant mothers, their due date holds an extra dimension of dread. The prospect of giving birth on June 6, 6/6/06, has prompted talk of spawning devil children on Armageddon day.

Okay now listen carefully. As soon as you give birth to your little bundle of joy you need to surrender them to an adoption agency immediately! You are too stupid to be raising children!

It is the 21st fucking century! Quit being superstitious idiots and read a fucking book! No, not that book!

Besides the sign of the devil is not 666, it is 616. Look it up.

China now controls the weather! Everybody bow down to our new Asian overlords.

Chinese weather specialists used chemicals to engineer Beijing's heaviest rainfall of the year, helping to relieve drought and rinse dust from China's capital, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.

Technicians with the Beijing Weather Modification Office fired seven rocket shells containing 163 cigarette-size sticks of silver iodide over the city's skies on Thursday, Xinhua said.

The reaction that occurred brought as much as four-tenths of an inch of rain, the heaviest rainfall this year, helping to "alleviate drought, add soil moisture and remove dust from the air for better air quality," Xinhua said.

And while the Chinese scientists have been teaching mother nature who her daddy is, what have American scientists been doing? Oh yeah trying to find evidence to derail the global warming debate. I am so proud.

Porter Goss might be connected to bribery and prostitute parties at the Watergate hotel. That's right, the friggin Watergate!

CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt congressman.

Larry Johnson, a former CIA operative and a Bush administration critic, said Goss "had a relationship with Dusty and with Brent Wilkes that's now coming under greater scrutiny."

Johnson vouched for the integrity of Foggo and Goss but said, "Dusty was a big poker player, and it's my understanding that Porter Goss was also there \[at Wilkes' parties\] for poker. It's going to be guilt by association."

"It's all about the Duke Cunningham scandal," a senior law enforcement official told the Daily News in reference to Goss' resignation. Duke, a California Republican, was sentenced to more than eight years in prison after pleading guilty in November to taking $2.4 million in homes, yachts and other bribes in exchange for steering government contracts.

The fact that this happened at the Watergate hotel is just spooky. I am beginning to feel like this is some wild Twilight Zone episode. I keep expecting to wake up one morning with an uncontrollable urge to buy some flaired jeans and a new lava lamp.

Heavy man, heavy.

Administration refuses to use diplomacy to solve conflicts with countries it deems enemies.

Last month, the chief U.S. negotiator with North Korea wanted to meet privately with his North Korean counterpart, hoping he could persuade Pyongyang to return to talks on eliminating its nuclear weapons program.

But the meeting between U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill and North Korean Vice Premier Kim Kye Gwan on the sidelines of a conference in Tokyo never took place.
Hill's superiors in Washington forbade him from talking directly to the North Koreans, said three U.S. officials, a conference participant and another knowledgeable expert. All requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

The Bush administration also is refusing to talk directly with Iran about its nuclear program, with Syria about Middle East security and the infiltration of terrorists into Iraq, and, like Europe, with the Palestinian government led by Hamas, which it considers a terrorist organization.

This approach to diplomacy is drawing criticism.

Do we really need any more proof that our country is being led by a "shoot first, ask questions later" crowd, bent on creating conflict throughout the world? George Bush is trying to shuffle in Armageddon and he will succeed if others do not step in to stop him.

You know Ronald Reagan helped to end the Cold War by talking to the leader of a country that he once labeled as "evil". This president cannot even bring himself to entertain the idea that conflict should be avoided. That would mess up his fundamental belief that he is a man of destiny.

Apparently that destiny is the destruction of our world!

Creationist Kent Hovind is going to explain to you that Dinosaurs and man once shared this planet.

This is so stupid that it almost broke my brain!

I have no doubt that the average fifth grader could destroy this moron's argument in about five minutes. Truly unbelievable that there is an audience for this.

Anderson Cooper interviews Ray McGovern the man who challenged Rummy and kicked his ass!

COOPER: More now on the man who confronted Secretary Rumsfeld today. Ray McGovern is his name. He spent 27 years at CIA, serving under presidents from John F. Kennedy to the first President Bush. He was an analyst. He's been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration, a co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, a group that's critical of the way the Bush administration used intelligence in the run-up to the war in Iraq. I spoke about with Mr. McGovern earlier tonight about what Secretary Rumsfeld now thinks about the case he made for the war. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

COOPER: Do you think he still believes that there were WMD?

MCGOVERN: I think still is the wrong word there. (CROSSTALK)

COOPER: You don't think he ever believed it?

MCGOVERN: No. It's very clear that this was a very cynical attempt to do what they wanted to do, namely, make war on Iraq, and that they decided to do that shortly after 9/11. And when my former colleague Paul Pillar, who was the most senior national intelligence officer for the Middle East and for counterterrorism, when he says, as he did just yesterday, that there was an organized campaign of manipulation of the intelligence to prove a tie between Iraq and al Qaeda, the objective, of course, to make the American people think that Saddam Hussein has something to do with 9/11, when Pillar comes out with that information, then I think we need to make sure the American people know that we knew at that time there was no such tie. And what Don Rumsfeld said at that time was that the evidence was bulletproof.

COOPER: And the bulletproof quote comes from a "New York Times" article. That was back in September 28 of -- of 2002. He didn't answer or respond to the bulletproof question at first. You asked, basically -- you reiterated the bulletproof and said that he had indicted there was bulletproof evidence of a link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's government. He then came back to it, though, and said, well, it's a fact that Zarqawi was in Iraq. And you pointed out that he -- well, what did you say then?

MCGOVERN: Well, you know, I was so glad that he disingenuously offered that, because Zarqawi was not under any al Qaeda or Saddam Hussein control. He was in the northern part of Iraq, where no one held sway, not Saddam Hussein, certainly not al Qaeda. And, so, to adduce Zarqawi as a link with al Qaeda was disingenuous...(CROSSTALK)

COOPER: He did then go on to say, well, he was also in Baghdad. And you pointed out, yes, when he went to the hospital.

MCGOVERN: Yes, right. Baghdad was where the best hospital was when he needed treatment. See, Rumsfeld is -- is above the fray. And he believes that the audience, and most of the audience there today, of course, was -- fits this mold -- they won't question him on these things. Who knows these details? Well, we know them. Why? Because it was our profession to follow such details. And we used to be able to apply our techniques and our tradecraft to foreign leaders. And it's ironic in the extreme that we need to do media analysis and leadership studies on our own leaders to find out whether they're telling the truth or they're telling lies.

COOPER: In your first question, you asked him essentially about the bulletproof quote and about his -- the -- making a linkage between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's government.


MCGOVERN: Yes.

COOPER: And you say, was that a lie or were you misled? Did that come from somewhere else?Later on, you just categorize it outright as a lie.

MCGOVERN: Yes.

COOPER: I mean, there are those who say, well, look, there was -- well, not on the al Qaeda thing, but, on WMD, there were plenty of administrations in past and plenty of people in Congress and elsewhere in other intelligence services who believed there were WMD in Iraq.

MCGOVERN: Yes. The WMD issue is separate and distinct from this.

COOPER: Yes, of course.

MCGOVERN: The WMD thing was a matter of the vice president forcing the head of CIA to acquiesce in what the vice president wanted the administration to say. Now, the vice president visited CIA headquarters 10 times. People ask me, is that unusual? I say, no, it's not unusual. That's unprecedented.

COOPER: How can you prove, though, a lie? I mean, you're -- you're -- you're alleging an intent to mislead, a belief that they knew there were no WMD, that they knew Saddam wasn't really an imminent threat, and they chose to go to war anyway, and they -- they faked, they manipulated, they hand-picked intelligence. Others will argue, you know, they -- maybe they -- you know, they believed they had it, and -- and so they looked for the intelligence that matched their belief, but -- but that they actually did believe it?

MCGOVERN: Thanks for that question, because we now have documentary proof that the president knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq well before the invasion. We have the minutes of his discussions with Tony Blair, the British prime minister, on the 31st of January 2003, where the president says, there really -- really aren't any weapons of mass destruction to be found, but we need some way to make this war. Maybe -- yes, that's a good idea. Maybe we will paint one of our U-2s with U.N. colors and hope that it gets shot down, or maybe we will get a defector out that will attest to the presence of weapons of mass destruction. Or there's an outside chance we can just assassinate Saddam Hussein. That's on the record. The British vouch for that. We also have the Downing Street memos, where the head of British intelligence came back from consultations with George Tenet in July of 2002 and said the intelligence and the facts are being fixed around the policy. The evidence on ties between Saddam Hussein and 9/11, OK, that's what we're really talking about; 69 percent of the American people believed that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11 when we went to war with Iraq. That was exactly what the administration wanted.

COOPER: As you look back on what happened today, I mean, this isn't like every day in your life, and were you nervous? I mean, when you stood up and started speaking back to the defense secretary, that's not an easy thing to do. There are a lot of reporters who haven't done that. Were you nervous?

MCGOVERN: Well, I spent almost five years briefing vice presidents, secretaries of defense, secretaries of state, chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and national security advisers. So, in a way, I'm used to it. I guess I'm also Irish, and I get angry when people tell lies, especially when lots of people die because of those lies. So, I think the experience and the anger sort of superseded whatever nervousness I may have had. And I hope that my -- my remarks were articulate enough, so that people understood what I was trying to say.

Oh the administration is just going to hate having this guy on the news programs! He is awesome! I am looking forward to seeing him making his case on MSNBC, CNN, and....FOX? They may have to cover him just to keep up with their competitors.

Bush identifies the "War on Terror" as World War III.

US President George W. Bush said the September 11 revolt of passengers against their hijackers on board Flight 93 had struck the first blow of "World War III."

In an interview with the financial news network CNBC, Bush said he had yet to see the recently released film of the uprising, a dramatic portrayal of events on the United Airlines plane before it crashed in a Pennsylvania field.

But he said he agreed with the description of David Beamer, whose son Todd died in the crash, who in a Wall Street Journal commentary last month called it "our first successful counter-attack in our homeland in this new global war -- World War III".

Bush said: "I believe that. I believe that it was the first counter-attack to World War III.

Who are we at war against again? The people who are trying to do us harm? That is what the President calls them. Yet it appears that the number of people wanting to "cause us harm" is inceasing rather then decreasing. Does that mean we are losing World War III? I am no expert on war but I always thought that when you were winning you were eliminating you foes, not making new ones.

To call this World War III is absolutely ridiculous! This idiot in the White House is trying desperately to make his Presidency not appear to be the biggest fuck up in history by defining its importance with these pathetic labels, and linking it to a time when America was an overwhelming force for good.

This is not World War III and we need to keep this asshole from turning it into World War III.

Valerie Plame gets book deal!

Valerie Wilson, the former Central Intelligence Agency officer whose identity was publicly disclosed three years ago, has agreed to sell her memoir for a little more than $2.5 million, according to people involved in the bidding process for the book.

The book, whose working title is "Fair Game," is scheduled to be published in the fall of 2007 by Crown Publishing, an imprint of Random House. Steve Ross, senior vice president and publisher of Crown, said the book would be Ms. Wilson's "first airing of her actual role in the American intelligence community, as well as the prominence of her role in the lead-up to the war."

Ms. Wilson, he added, "has been this mysterious woman at the very eye of a major storm, and the concentric circles keep widening."

I have so many things that I want to know about this story. I hope she writes fast!

FOX News is responsible for Bush being our President. As if I needed another reason to hate them.

We report. You decide. Does President Bush owe his controversial win in 2000 to Fox cable television news?

Yes, suggest data collected by two economists who found that the growth of the Fox cable news network in the late 1990s may have significantly boosted the Republican Party's share of the vote in the 2000 election and delivered Florida to Bush.

"Our estimates imply that Fox News convinced 3 to 8 percent of its audience to shift its voting behavior towards the Republican Party, a sizable media persuasion effect," said Stefano DellaVigna of the University of California at Berkely and Ethan Kaplan of Stockholm University.

In Florida alone, they estimate, the Fox effect may have produced more than 10,000 additional votes for Bush -- clearly a decisive factor in a state he carried by fewer than 600 votes.

I know what you are thinking. "Hate"? Isn't that a little harsh Gryphen?

No it isn't too harsh and how dare you challenge me like that! I have half a mind to throw you off of this site!

No hating FOX News is the most patriotic thing that I ever do. FOX News did such a good job of accusing the MSM of having a liberal bias that now we get almost all of our news with a distinctly conservative bent. And I hate that!

Our major news gatherers became so sensitive to being accused of being too liberal that they let this administration declare war on another country without asking the questions that so desperately needed to be asked. The MSM became so timid that they just started reporting the White House talking points, rather then to do any real investigative reporting until there were such glaring examples of incompetence that bloggers and everyday Americans started asking where the reporters had all gone!

If the MSM had been doing their job I would never have felt the need to start this website as a form of primal scream therapy to vent my frustrations and to try and get the information out that the news agencies had been too cowardly to cover. FOX News is also indirectly responsible for what you are reading right now.

This is the fault of FOX News and for all of that they need to be thrown off of the airwaves until they are ready to provide that "fair and balanced" reporting that they have lied about for all of these years.

Until then I will continue to hate them, with every patriotic bone in my body!

Peter Goss out! CIA is without a leader! Actually that last part might not be news.

CIA Director Porter Goss resigned suddenly Friday, nudged out after a turmoil-filled 18 months at the spy agency as it struggled to forge a new identity in an era of intelligence blunders and government overhauls.

Goss offered little explanation in a brief appearance with President Bush, a televised address to agency personnel and a written statement.

"CIA remains the gold standard," he said. "When I came to CIA in September of 2004, I wanted to accomplish some very specific things, and we have made great strides on all fronts."

So what do we think?

Did Goss try to give Bush intelligence that did not match the inside information that God whispers in the Presidents ear as he slumbers peacefully at night?

Or did Goss simply get tired of being in charge of an agency that is blamed for everything that goes wrong in this country except the gas crisis, and that is being penciled in for next week?

Or possibly Peter Goss is sharp enough to notice that the floor of the White House is getting decidely damp and recognizes a sinking ship when he sees one.

But the fact that he is out before there has been any talk of who will head the countries most important intelligence gathering organization definitely makes one think that there is something screwy about to happen. Gee I wonder what it will be this time!

Update: Could this be it?

Another porno making teacher! I feel there is something I could still learn by going back to school.

A western Kentucky high school teacher fired for being in an adult movie several years ago says she has since turned her life around.

Tericka Dye had taught science at Reidland High School in McCracken County for the last two years. But school officials recently learned that she participated in an adult film made 11 years ago when Dye was 23. Schools superintendent Tim Heller says he decided to fire Dye because her presence in the classroom would be a distraction. Her pay was also suspended for the rest of the school year.

Dye says she made the film while struggling to make ends meet. She says she was also coping with depression. She says she joined the Army shortly after and then put herself through school.

Who cares? You know pretty soon it will be almost impossible to find a female teacher who has not made at least one amateur porn tape in her life. It will be like trying to find somebody from my generation who never really used pot. We all tried pot!

My advice is to fit this teacher to a subject that she has some expertise in. Sex Education comes to mind. She could even provide her own instructional video. Now that is a "win win" solution.

Principal bars student from singing Pink's song "Dear Mr. President". Censorship is alive and well in Florida.

A 10-year-old Coral Springs girl won't be allowed to sing a controversial President Bush-bashing ballad at her school talent show after her principal deemed it inappropriate and too political.

The song, Dear Mr. President, performed and co-written by the singer Pink, criticizes the president for the war in Iraq and other policies, including his stance on gay rights.

Parent Nancy Shoul says her daughter Molly should be lauded for choosing lyrics that are full of substance rather than pop music fluff. She said the principal's ban sends a bad message and violates her daughter's right to free speech.

"If this was a student singing a pro-administration song, no one would quibble with it," Shoul said. "The principal is just running scared and doesn't want to upset any parents."

This president should be fired. Pussy!

We should be encouraging our children to express their feelings about what is going on in the world today. We bitch constantly about how kids are just too self involved, and then when one shows some interest and understanding of world affairs this is how we treat her?

You know the crap that is going on today is going to have a deterimental effect on these children for years to come. We are breaking the world and then handing it to them to fix. They have every right to weigh in now rather then later.

I think the music lessons in schools around the country should consist of the following songs:

• "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire
• "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
• "One Tin Soldier" from "The Legend of Billy Jack"
• "Blowing in the wind" by Bob Dylan
• "He ain't heavy, he's my brother" by B. Scott and B. Russell
• "The times they are a changing" by Bob Dylan
• "Where have all the flowers gone?" by Pete Seeger

And of course Pink's song as well. These kids are our future and since we were too fucking stupid to learn our lesson from the Vietnam war we owe it to these kids to help them learn from this terrible war.

If you want to see President Bush really suffer, watch him as he sits through Colbert's Audition Video.

He looks like he just ate something that is ripping his insides apart.

Somebody popped some Tums when they got back home.

WWJP? What would Jesus protest?

Where are the activist priests and ministers who took strong stands during the Vietnam War and hit the streets with their protests?

Three years into the war against Iraq, the silence of the clergy is deafening, despite U.S. abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and a reported American policy of shipping detainees to secret prisons abroad where, presumably, they can be tortured.

There are U.S. chaplains of many faiths serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, ministering to the men and women in uniform and reaching out to local religious leaders in both countries.
But here at home, the clergy seems to be in the same boat as the news media and most members of Congress: they are victims of the post-Sept. 11 syndrome that equates any criticism of U.S. policy with lack of patriotism.

The clergy are not alone. There is a disquieting public acceptance of the status quo. Although the Iraq war has a role in President Bush's declining standing in public opinion polls, rising gas prices may be having a bigger impact on his popularity.

During the Vietnam War, the clergy were vocal leaders of the peace movement and they picked up and marched.

The ever sultry Helen Thomas makes a very valid point here.

How can these religious leaders represent themselves as our moral compass if they are swayed by public opinion or political sensitivities?

Right is right every day, and wrong is wrong just as often. To see this country making the type of horrible decisons that it has made in the last five years and then stay silent is complicity by omission. If I attended a church (Yeah I know that is a little far fetched, but just go with me on this one.), and I felt that my minister was not taking on the hard moral choices in the world today I would grab my envelope out of that donation tray and go church shopping.

We need as many strong voices raised in opposition to the policies of this administration as possible.

He was drunk!

Rep. Patrick Kennedy crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he had taken sleep medication and a prescription anti-nausea drug that can cause drowsiness.

Kennedy, D-R.I., addressed the issue after a spate of news reports. His initial statement said, "I consumed no alcohol prior to the incident."

Later, however, he issued a longer statement saying the attending physician for Congress had prescribed Phenergan on Tuesday to treat Kennedy's gastroenteritis, an inflammation of the stomach and intestines.

Kennedy said he returned to his Capitol Hill home on Wednesday evening after a final series of votes in Congress and took "prescribed" amounts of Phenergan and Ambien, another prescribed drug that he occasionally takes to fall asleep.

"Some time around 2:45 a.m., I drove the few blocks to the Capitol Complex believing I needed to vote," his second statement said. "Apparently, I was disoriented from the medication."

Oh please! Why can't these people just admit they made a stupid mistake and then take their lumps? You were drunk! Prescription medication is the standard excuse used by drunk people to try and get away with driving drunk!

And for God's sake you're a Kennedy! Nobody expects you to get through your entire adult life without wrecking at least one car, or boat, in a drunk driving accident. Relax, it is your family heritage just go with it.

But stop lying! That just makes you sound like a Republican! Be a man and tell the public that you got a little drunker then you realized and made a terrible error in judgement and then turn it around and launch a drinking awareness program in your district.

I don't expect my politicians to be perfect but I would really like it if they could start telling me that the damn truth!

Update: His story is now that he was on Ambien and some other prescription medication. I am sorry but I still don't believe him, and even if I did why was he taking a sleeping pill and then driving his car? Well at least he is going into a rehab center so that is worth something.

Let's throw Bill Gates a pity party.

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday he wished he were not the world's richest man.

"I wish I wasn't. There is nothing good that comes out of that," said Gates, whose personal fortune sank by billions since last week when the software giant disappointed investors by saying new investments would crimp earnings.

The corporate leader who made Microsoft into the world's largest software maker - and who is also one of the biggest philanthropists - is seen as a man who does not like publicity. He explained that he did not like the attention of being the world's richest person.

I am just sitting here trying to fight back my tears. With all that of the suffering that we see in the world today how can Mr. Gates possibly justify bitching about having too much of anything when so many have not nearly enough of what they need?

You know what I wish? I wish that Windows did not crash so damn much. I wish that Windows Explorer did not have more security holes then a piece of swiss cheese. I wish that Bill Gates could finally get a decent haircut. (Jesus man you are the richest man in the world! How hard is it to get your damn hair under control!) And while I am wishing I wish that Bill would use his fame to tell the world that George Bush is a worthless President and use his vast wealth to help support an immediate impeachment.

Oh yeah, and I want a pony!

Lesbian mom a little pissy over her daughter's Sex Ed. pamphlet that calls her a pervert. Dykes are so sensitive.

The lesbian mother of a 12-year-old girl has taken objection to a sex education pamphlet an Alabama middle school is handing out to students, describing homosexuality as an illegitimate lifestyle choice.

"The Top 10 Questions Teenagers Ask about Sex" was being distributed for the second year at the school as part of a three-day sex-education and abstinence guidance program at Honeysuckle Middle School.Angela Williams said when her daughter brought the pamphlet home, she approved of much of it, but not the pamphlet’s view of homosexuality.

"I got to question eight and my jaw dropped," she told The Dothan Eagle in a story Tuesday.

"I can’t believe they went there."According to The Associated Press, Question #8 reads:

"What can I do if I am attracted to someone of the same sex?" The answer advises: "Too often, homosexuality is shown as a legitimate lifestyle equal to a heterosexual lifestyle." It also says homosexuality is "contrary to the laws of nature."

What "laws of nature" are these people talking about? Nature is rampant with homosexuality. It is like a drug crazed night at "Studio 54" out there. I mean bees do it, birds do it, even educated fleas do it.

These so-called teachers need to get over themselves.

Of course what do you expect it is Alabama, the homophobic capital of the world.

The nicest e-mail I received all week.

Stumbled on your blog...

And laughed my ass off (when I wasn't cringing at some of the conservative stupidity).
Me ... well, fiscally conservative, but socially liberal, and a Buddhist to boot. Yet, somehow I ended up living in the middle of Texas. Talk about being lost in a sea of conservatism.

Anyway, I'm bookmarking your blog for future viewing. I just plain loved it. In fact, I blew off an hour I should have been working.

Oh well.

I really enjoy feedback so if any of you want to leave a comment or an e-mail (even if it is critical) then please do. Sometimes it is hard to know how my psychotic babbling is being received.

By the way, your input probably won't change anything fundamental because I am indeed a lost cause, but it will be read and I might be encouraged to post about a new subject that one of you bring to my attention.

Rumsfeld getting bitch slapped by audience member on CNN.

He is giving a speech at the "Southern Center for International Studies".

Some guy who is so far unidentified just asked him why Colin Powell lied to the UN . Rumsfeld defended Powell's presentation saying they believed that Saddam Hussein had WMD's. Then this unnamed hero started presenting the misinformation that the White House put forward and the evidence that was available which did not support their claims.

Rumsfeld tried to out talk the guy but he was hopelessly overmatched.

I will add to this post when I get more info.

Update: Here is more information like I promised. The guy who asked the questions is an ex-CIA analyst named Ray McGovern. Here is an excerpt:

"Why did you lie to get us into a war that caused these kind of casualties and was not necessary?" asked Ray McGovern, the former analyst, during a question-and-answer session.

"I did not lie," shot back Rumsfeld, who waved off security guards ready to remove McGovern from the hall at the Southern Center for International Studies.

When security guards tried removing McGovern, the analyst, during his persistent questions of Rumsfeld, the defense secretary told them to let him stay. The two continued to spar.
"You're getting plenty of play," Rumsfeld told McGovern, who is an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq.

There is much more but I will post that later when I get the vull exchange.

Superheroes to take on Patriot Act. I have geek pimples all over my body!

Captain America is about to battle his most fearsome foe yet: The government of the United States.

Today, Marvel Comics is releasing the first in its miniseries Civil War, which can only be described as a gutsy comic-book series focusing on the whole debate over homeland security and tighter government controls in the name of public safety.

The seven-issue series once again puts superheroes right back in the thick of real-world news, just as DC Comics has Batman battling al-Qaeda in a soon-to-appear comic and Marvel's X-Men continue to explore themes of public intolerance and discrimination.

It also recalls the plotline during the Watergate years when Captain America's alterego, disillusioned by White House politics, stopped donning the patriotic costume.

To those of you who were too "cool" to read comics you may not be aware of how cutting edge many of our favorite comics have been in our American culture. Comic superheroes were already battling Hitler before America formally entered the war, and the introduction of black superheroes preceded, by almost twenty years, the addition of positive black role models on television.

I stopped collecting quite along time ago but I have to say my interest is piqued by this.

(Stop staring at the Captains crotch!)

Ex-CIA Analyst blasts Bush Adminstration's "campaign of manipulation" to justify Iraq war.

A former Middle East specialist of the US Central Intelligence Agency has condemned what he called an organised campaign of manipulation by the Bush administration to justify the Iraq war.

Paul Pillar, a former CIA analyst specialising in counter-terrorism in the Middle East and Asia, said in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais that the United States had particularly wanted to prove a link between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.

"That was not the case," he was quoted as saying. "I suppose by some definitions that could be called a lie."

"There was an organised campaign of manipulation," El Pais also quoted Pillar as saying. "That would be the proper way to define it."

The decision to invade Iraq was taken as early as the beginning of 2002, a year before hostilities began, Pillar said.

I am going to continue to post every new revelation about the manipulations by this corrupt administration until every person in this country finally knows they were lied to by this President and that their children are being sacrificed for reasons that have nothing to do with our security.

I know it is hard for many people to believe but the more we learn the less doubt remains.

We don't consider the Taliban a terrorist group but the "School of Americas" represents a clear and present danger.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Georgia today released new evidence that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is using counterterrorism resources to spy on peaceful faith- and conscience-based advocacy groups. School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch) and its multinational faith-based network is the latest organization uncovered by the ACLU to have been subject to Federal Bureau of Investigation counterterrorism surveillance.
"We gather yearly to remember those killed by graduates of this school, and to call for a change in U.S. policy towards Latin America," said Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of SOA Watch. "Our intentions are peaceful and our commitment unwavering as we nonviolently call attention to a school that has trained some of the worst human rights abusers in this hemisphere."

Founded by Bourgeois in 1990, SOA Watch conducts research on the U.S. Army School of the Americas, now renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation and located at Fort Benning, Georgia. Each year the school trains hundreds of soldiers from Latin America, funded entirely by U.S. taxpayers. SOA Watch sponsors an annual vigil to call for the closure of the facility. Last year 19,000 people from around the country poured into Georgia to take part.

The documents released today show that FBI surveillance of these peaceful protests and acts of civil disobedience outside Fort Benning, once classified as "Routine" after 200,1 became "Priority" and subject to "Counterterrorism" monitoring. One memo dated October 2003 explicitly states that "The leaders of the SOA Watch have taken strides to impart upon the protest participants that the protest should be a peaceful event."

"Clearly the FBI knew it was spying on a peaceful demonstration, activity protected by the First Amendment," said Gerry Weber, ACLU of Georgia Legal Director. "That vital protection extends even to those who express controversial views."

The next time you see Bush on television telling you that we are only wiretapping or tracking terrorist sympathizers, just yell "Bullshit" at the top of your lungs. That ought to be a lot of fun in your local tavern.

(If you are confused by my Taliban reference then you need to scroll down four posts. Aahh now you get it!)

Remember?

Listen children to a story that was written long ago
'bout a kingdom on a mountain and the valley folk below.
On the mountain was a treasure buried deep beneath a stone,
and the valley people swore they'd have it for their very own.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of heaven, justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowin' come the judgment day
on the bloody morning after one tin soldier rides away.

So the people of the valley sent a message up the hill
asking for the buried treasure, tons of gold for which they'd kill.
Came an answer from the kingdom: "With our brothers we will share
all the secrets of our mountain, all the riches buried there."

Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of heaven, justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowin' come the judgment day
on the bloody morning after one tin soldier rides away.

Now the valley cried with anger; mount your horses, draw your sword,
and they killed the mountain people, so they won their just reward.
Now they stood beside the treasure on the mountain, dark and red,
turned the stone and looked beneath it. "Peace on earth" was all it said.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of heaven, justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowin' come the judgment day
on the bloody morning after one tin soldier rides away.

Valerie Plame is looking for a book deal.

Valerie Plame Wilson, the Central Intelligence Agency covert officer whose name was publicly disclosed three years ago, is shopping a book proposal among a small group of publishers, according to two people familiar with the project.

I am dying to hear her side of this story! I have been waiting for somebody to get the big interview with her and so far bumpkiss!

So now I understand. She wants to sell her story as a book. Smart move on her part. I guess I will have to buy the damn thing to answer my damnable curiosity.

Damn!

Listen

Listen children to the cries of a mother who mourns the loss of her son
And hear the chorus as it continues to swell for the killing has just begun.

Soon the wail deafens our ears and fills our hearts with dread
For so many who once walked this earth are numbered among the dead.

So listen my children to the words I say and believe them to be true.
For killing to win is a loss for us all, yet hope still lives in you.

Gryphen

US does not classify the Taliban as terrorists.

In the latest State Department report last Friday, one item went unnoticed by the press, until now: the US doesn't classify the Taliban as terrorists -- and haven't for the last six years.

The find was made by CSMonitor.com's Tom Regan. The US does classify other groups on the US hit list as terrorists -- such as Hezbollah, al Qaeda and Hamas.

"In an article entitled 'Terrorism's Dubious "A" List,' the non-partisan Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) reports that the religious extremist organization has never been listed as a terrorist group by the US, Britain, the EU, Canada, Australia, or any of the coalition partners, despite the fact that during its six year rule in Afghanistan, it provided save haven for Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, and currently is staging terrorist attacks against coalition forces and waging a national campaign of intimidation and fear," Regan notes.

Um what? Correct me if I am wrong but did we not go to Afghanistan to get these guys for launching the largest terrorist attack in the history of the world? How can they not be considered terrorists?

I know that they should not all be considered terrorists, but we certainly have to define them as terrorist sympathizers at least don't we? They did provide Osama Bin Laden with support and helped to keep him hidden from our military as it tried to ferret him out in the mountains of Afghanistan. That makes at least some of them bad doesn't it?

I cannot figure out this administration to save my life. They call everyday Iraqi's who are pissed at us for blowing up their shit terrorists, but give a pass to the organization which was instrumental in crashing four planes on American soil and killing thousands of our countrymen. It makes my damn head hurt.

Holy Crap! Women have been sending me sexual signals all day and I was too ignorant to notice.

It is well known that men and women use a wide variety of gestures while paying court to somebody. Most gestures are used unknowingly. The success of the relationship depends on your ability to give certain signals and perceive the ones that are being sent to you.

Raised eyebrows. When we see a person that we consider attractive, we begin raising and lowering our eyebrows. If the person also feels drawn to you, his eyebrows will also start going up and down. This gesture lasts only 1/5 of a second but it takes place all the time, with people of both sexes and all ages. This "eye making" can be easily left unnoticed, but if you do notice it, you will certainly be given 100% of the person's attention.

I thought she was just rolling her eyes.

Slightly opened lips. If a person likes you, his or her lips automatically open the moment your eyes meet.

Does this count when they are talking?

What does it mean when they stroke your chest and pant. Is that good?

White House refuses to comply with judges order to provide complete log of Abramoff visits.

The White House said Tuesday the list the Secret Service has been ordered to release concerning convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff's contacts with the Bush administration will be incomplete.

But spokesman Scott McClellan declined to say what is wrong with the Secret Service list, why it is inaccurate and whether it includes far fewer meetings than took place.

"I don't know exactly what they'll be providing, but they only have certain records and so I just wouldn't view it as a complete historical record," McClellan said.

Tom Mazur, a Secret Service spokesman, declined to comment on why the agency's records might be less than complete.

Not much of a surprise here. This administration has been ignoring more laws then any previous administration since they first unpacked their boxes. The only question is will the courts demand the full list from this White house and not allow them to wriggle out of yet another legal difficulty by being non-compliant.

This was the right verdict.

Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui escaped the death penalty Wednesday as a jury decided he deserved life in prison instead for his role in the bloodiest terrorist attack in U.S. history. "America, you lost," Moussaoui taunted.

After seven days of deliberation, the nine men and three women rebuffed the government's appeal for death for the only person charged in this country in the four suicide jetliner hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001.

Three jurors said Moussaoui had only limited knowledge of the Sept. 11 plot, and three described his role in the attacks as minor, if he had any role at all.

Moussaoui, as he was led from the courtroom after the 15-minute hearing, said: "America, you lost. ... I won." He clapped his hands as he was escorted away.

He is a worthless human being but I doubt he had anything to do with 9-11.

I don't think he will enjoy our hospitality in prison very much.

Arlen Specter to challenge Bush's abuse of powers. Okay somebody check, is Specter still a Republican?

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accusing the White House of a ''very blatant encroachment" on congressional authority, said yesterday he will hold an oversight hearing into President Bush's assertion that he has the power to bypass more than 750 laws enacted over the past five years.

''There is some need for some oversight by Congress to assert its authority here," Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, said in an interview. ''What's the point of having a statute if . . . the president can cherry-pick what he likes and what he doesn't like?"

Specter said he plans to hold the hearing in June. He said he intends to call administration officials to explain and defend the president's claims of authority, as well to invite constitutional scholars to testify on whether Bush has overstepped the boundaries of his power.

Arlen is rapidly becoming my favorite Democrat. I think that the other Republicans should tear their lips off of Bush's ass and join Senator Specter in holding this moron accountable for his criminal behavior. I fear that if they don't their chances of getting re-elected will be reduced greatly. Wouldn't that be a shame!

Of course this could just be a ton of bullshit designed to make us believe that these guys are going to look into this when in reality they are just yanking us. Do you see how cynical I have become?

The best news of the day!

Tens of millions of students will no longer be able to buy non-diet sodas in the nation's public schools under an agreement announced Wednesday between major beverage distributors and anti-obesity advocates.

The distributors, working with a joint initiative of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association, also have agreed to sell only water, juice and low-fat milks to elementary and middle schools, said Jay Carson, a spokesman for former President Clinton.

Cadbury Schweppes PLC, Coca-Cola Co., PepsiCo Inc. and the American Beverage Association have all signed onto the deal, Carson said, adding that the companies represent "a very significant market share." The American Beverage Association represents the majority of school vending bottlers.

"It's a bold and sweeping step that industry and childhood obesity advocates have decided to take together," Carson said.

This decision is way past due in my opinion. The damage this "sugar water" does to children's still developing bodies will last their entire lives and make it very hard for them to maintain a reasonable, healthy weight as adults. There is also the growing evidence that these drinks lead to a staggering increase in childhood diabetes.

Kids can be perfectly happy eating healthy foods the majority of the time and getting these sugary treats only occasionally. I would put fast food in this same category. Refined foods are terrible for their health. "If the food is white, it just aint right!"

I am always surprised that parents who seem to love their children so much are slowly poisoning them to death.

Good parenting there Skippy!

For Iraqi's Saddam never left, he just changed his nationality.

The question puzzles and enrages a city: how is it that the Americans cannot keep the electricity running in Baghdad for more than a couple of hours a day, yet still manage to build themselves the biggest embassy on Earth?

Irritation grows as residents deprived of air-conditioning and running water three years after the US-led invasion watch the massive US Embassy they call “George W’s palace” rising from the banks of the Tigris.

In the pavement cafés, people moan that the structure is bigger than anything Saddam Hussein built. They are not impressed by the architects’ claims that the diplomatic outpost will be visible from space and cover an area that is larger than the Vatican city and big enough to accommodate four Millennium Domes. They are more interested in knowing whether the US State Department paid for the prime real estate or simply took it.

This administraion is not listening to the Iraqi people at all, and really never did. It was our goal all along to occupy this country and those plans are moving forward despite the anger of the Iraqi population.

What choice do we leave these people with other then rising up against our soldiers? We take their land and kill their people and then call them "terrorists" when they fight back.

This whole thing is insane! I cannot fathom how the next President' regardless of which party he represents, will ever be able to untangle this incredible "Gordian Knot" that George Bush has our military tied into.

60 Minutes does Colbert profile. Now even old people will know who he is.

I am always so surprised at how mild mannered these guys are.

Yeah mild mannered like Clark Kent, and we all know what his other job was!

Have you noticed that Colbert is everywhere this week? He has a pretty impressive agent.

Stephen Colbert has just made the top of George Bush's enemy list.

Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert's biting routine at the White House Correspondents Association dinner won a rare silent protest from Bush aides and supporters Saturday when several independently left before he finished.

"Colbert crossed the line," said one top Bush aide, who rushed out of the hotel as soon as Colbert finished. Another said that the president was visibly angered by the sharp lines that kept coming.

"I've been there before, and I can see that he is [angry]," said a former top aide. "He's got that look that he's ready to blow."

Colbert's routine was similar to what he does on his show, the Colbert Report, but much longer on the topic of Bush, suggesting that the president is out of touch with reality. Aides and reporters, however, said that it did not overshadow Bush's own funny routine, which featured an impersonator who told the audience what Bush was thinking when he spoke dull speech lines.

In fact, some aides crowed over reports that the president easily bested Colbert in the reviews of both comedy acts.

I have to disagree with that last part.

You know the more the Right Wing bitches about Stephen the more love he is earning from those of us who have been wating for somebody to take on this president. If you think about it Stephen displayed the largest set of balls in television history. He literally stood only a few feet from the President and called him on being anti-reality based, a liar, a criminal, having started a war for no good reason, and for having cowed his generals into not disagreeing with him until they have safely retired. Even if Colbert has decades and decades of comedy gold ahead of him he may for all time be remembered simply as the man who took on a President.

Stephen I am afraid you may have peaked already.

Things we have given Iraq: Freedom? No! Latino street gangs? Yes!

At Camp Cedar II, about 185 miles southeast of Baghdad, a guard shack was recently defaced with "GDN" for Gangster Disciple Nation, along with the gang's six-pointed star and the word "Chitown," a soldier who photographed it said.

The graffiti, captured on film by an Army Reservist and provided to the Chicago Sun-Times, highlights increasing gang activity in the Army in the United States and overseas, some experts say.

Military and civilian police investigators familiar with three major Army bases in the United States -- Fort Lewis, Fort Hood and Fort Bragg -- said they have been focusing recently on soldiers with gang affiliations. These bases ship out many of the soldiers fighting in Iraq.

"I have identified 320 soldiers as gang members from April 2002 to present," said Scott Barfield, a Defense Department gang detective at Fort Lewis in Washington state. "I think that's the tip of the iceberg."

This is absolutely un-fucking-believable! We sent street hoods to liberate Iraq? This is our great American fighting force?

Where is the discipline? I would venture to say that this is a result of the hopelessness that our troops are feeling over in Iraq. The Latinos are just reverting back to a more comfortable mindset. In some ways what is happening must feel like the dangerous life they grew up in, amped up to the hundredth power.

But this must not be allowed to happen. I can only imagine what message this is sending to the Iraqi's. I am pretty confident that they understand the concept of "turf" and what it means when somebody claims that turf for their own. I just have this horrible vision of Latino soldiers performing "drive bys" on the Iraqi citizens that do not respect their boundaries.

This might be a whole new level of FUBAR.

Bush in "ceaseless push for power."

President George W. Bush had shown disdain and indifference for the US constitution by adopting an “astonishingly broad” view of presidential powers, a leading libertarian think-tank said on Monday.

“The pattern that emerges is one of a ceaseless push for power, unchecked by either the courts or Congress, one in short of disdain for constitutional limits,” the report by legal scholars Gene Healy and Timothy Lynch concludes.

That view was echoed last week by former congressman Bob Barr, a Republican, who called on Congress to exercise “leadership by putting the constitution above party politics and insisting on the facts” in the debate over illegal domestic wiretapping of terrorist suspects.

On Thursday Senator Arlen Specter, chairman of the judiciary committee, noted: “Institutionally, the presidency is walking all over Congress.”

I am glad that others are finally starting to notice what we on the liberal left have been saying for five years! The only downside of being smarter then everybody else is wating for the morons to catch up with you!

Arrogant little prick aren't I?

Jon Stewart has Stephen Colbert's back. "It was Balls-alicious!"

Probably to no one's surprise, Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's "Daily Show," hailed the performance of his stablemate Stephen Colbert at Saturday night's White House

Correspondents dinner. Colbert's lampooning of the president and the press has generated a good deal of praise and criticism. "It was balls-alicious," Stewart said. "Apparently he was under the impression that they'd hired him to do what he does every night on television" -- that is, make fun of conservatives, public officials, and the press in the guise of an O'Reillyesque talk show host.

"We've never been prouder of him, but HOLY ----," Stewart added. (He said "shit". We do not edit here.)

Stewart was great last night and he could not hide his pride in Colbert.

Stephen has taken a drumming in the press, when the press even bothers to mention him, but the internet adores his irreverant Bush bashing speech. Who cares about the MSM anyhow? The internet is the only important outlet these days.

If you do not see it hear then it just did not happen. Remember that kids.

Iran threatens to follow America's example.

Iran will target Israel first if the United States does anything "evil", a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday.

The United States says it wants Iran's nuclear standoff with the West solved diplomatically but has refused to rule out military action.

"We have announced that wherever America does something evil, the first place that we target will be Israel," Revolutionary Guards Rear Admiral Mohammad-Ebrahim Dehqani was quoted as saying by Iran's student news agency ISNA.

They are so copying us!

We get attacked by al-Qaida and attack Iraq in retaliation.

Iran gets attacked by us and attacks Israel in retaliation.

Do you see what we have started? I can just picture a bar someplace in America where a man pushes a guy for leering at his girl and the guy hauls off and decks a waitress. We are going to be living in a world where you can act with impunity because your victim will only attack an innocent person leaving you completely untouched.

How fucked up is that?

Did Marines intentionally kill Iraqi civilians?

Military investigators are reviewing photographs indicating that Iraqi civilians, including women and children, may have been shot deliberately by U.S. Marines in Haditha last November, according to a military source familiar with the ongoing investigation.

It is not clear how many photographs are being reviewed. But the source told CNN the photos are evidence that the Iraqis did not die in a roadside blast as the Marines had originally said.

The pictures were apparently taken at the time of the incident by the military unit, although not necessarily by any Marines directly involved.

The photographs are being examined for indications the 15 Iraqis may have been killed by close range gunshot wounds inflicted by the Marines.

"The photos are inconsistent with how the Marines claim the Iraqis died," the official said.

It was all a dream. Vietnam never ended it just changed locations.

How can the generation that protested that horrible war allow it to happen again? What happened to us?

Does bug spray make your dick small? And why the hell are you spraying it on your dick?

A renowned U.S. scientist who has documented fertility and sex changes -- including decreasing penis size -- due to environmental contamination says he wouldn't apply pesticides on his own lawn.

Holy crap! What are my choices here? let the bugs eat my lawn or shrink my dick? Bon Appetit you vermin!

He found abnormalities in sex organs, dramatic differences in egg-hatching rates and hormone levels.

Penis size of the animals from the polluted lake was smaller than animals from the less-polluted lake.

"This is important because it is not just an alligator story. It is not just a lake story. We know there has been a dramatic increase in penile and genital abnormalities in baby boys," Guillette said.

A followup study by another scientist involving healthy couples with 5,000 healthy babies also found reduced penis size with higher contamination levels.

"Are (their penises) so small they are actually having problems? We don't know. These are baby boys," he said.

"Sorry about your tiny weiner Billy but we couldn't let the aphids eat your Mom's plants now could we?"

Billy is going to kill them in their sleep.

Today is the third anniversary of Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech. Let's all observe a silent minute of pissed off!

Three years after President Bush declared major combat over in Iraq, Americans have strong doubts that the United States will fulfill the promise of his "Mission Accomplished" backdrop, a poll released Monday found.

The CNN poll, conducted April 21-23 by Opinion Research Corporation, found that only 9 percent thought the U.S. mission in Iraq had been accomplished, while 40 percent believed it would be complete someday.

An additional 44 percent said the United States would never accomplish its goals in Iraq, where American troops are still battling insurgents three years after the invasion that toppled former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

You know it might help any of you who are still struggling with whether to trust this administration or not to remember that every fucking thing they say is a lie! There now doesn't that clarify everything for you?

I have faith that if you are still unconvinced by my comment above, that in a few more months the painful truth will be impossible for you to deny. Don't wait to get hit over the head with an "obvious stick", start doubting their bullshit today and beat the rush.

Sometimes words are just not enough.

Springsteen voices anger at politicians over Katrina.

Decrying what he called “criminal ineptitude” in Hurricane Katrina’s wake, Springsteen jabbed at the political powers he deemed responsible for New Orleans’ slow recovery.

Perhaps the most pointed moment came as he prepared to sing an old song that he had rewritten lyrics to for New Orleans. Noting that he visited the city’s ninth ward, perhaps the most devastated area in the city, Springsteen said: “I saw sights I never thought I’d see in an American city,” and added: “The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.”

With that, he launched into a song titled “How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?” and dedicated the song to “President Bystander.” Its lyrics included the lines: “There’s bodies floatin’ on Canal and the levees gone to hell ... them who’s got out of town, and them who ain’t got left to drown, tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live?”

Seeing these rockers take on the war and this administration literally fills me with joy. I have been waiting for today's protest singers to finally step forward, and I have to say it is a thrill that they are finally making themselves heard.

The question of whether or not we have a gas crisis just got answered. People are donating blood for gas money!

With the price of gas on the rise, BYU-Idaho students are finding new ways to pay for it by donating blood plasma.

Plasma Centers are reporting a record amount of donors in the past few weeks and say a lot of them are there to pay for gas.

Donors get paid between $20-$25 each time they donate and some say that isn't even enough to pay to fill up their tanks.

First people were hocking their household items and now they are literally giving blood.

I saw a news story on CNN today that linked the higher gas prices directly to the war in Iraq, as if there was any doubt whose fault all of this was.

For my naughty visitors, here is a link to Pamela Rogers cell phone movie. You should be ashamed of yourselves!

That poor, poor, lucky, lucky young man!

(I should not have to warn you that the above link has some NSFW content, but I just did.)