The Great Trick

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the rubes that the media has a liberal bias.

Leunig

Leunig drew this cartoon in 1985. Hmmmm........................... We never imagined that such a thing could happen!!!!

Some memories never fade.

Memories of a better time....

If you look carefully you will see that I am the one in the blue cloak with the maroon body suit as you can tell by my dark and brooding countenance. And, yes, my real name is Jason.

Grunt.

"The most important thing any conservative writer can do today is convince people who think that we’re perfectly safe that we’re not." Dean Barnett

The most important thing that any liberal/progressive writer can do today is convince people and conservative writers that we've never been perfectly safe (Yes Virginia, there have always been terrorists and stingrays and there always will be terrorists and stingrays) and the shallow idea that taking away rights and freedoms will make us safer is false, it just changes the threat to us from nut-jobs in caves to nut-jobs (right-wing christofascist corporate thugs. Mebbee even left-wing thugs, just not as likely) in our own govt. and authorities.

Did you know......

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body. Lucky little blighter.

Clinton urges Dems to question criticism

Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill....

You can lead an ass to the ring but you can't make it fight.

The fall of the Republic

Yesterday President G. W. Bush signed the Military Commissions Act into law, by doing this President Bush and the Republican led congress declared their emnity for the Constitution of the United States and the people of the United States and the world.

I admire the U.S. Constitution as probably the greatest document ever written and I also happen to like the American people (for the most part). By signing this document President Bush and any who support this law have made themselves just as much my enemy as Osama Bin Laden.

If you have a problem with that.... Step in the ring.

UPDATE: Someone asked me to clarify the Bin Laden comment so I will. Patrick Henry (if you don't know the name Google it) said "Give me liberty or give me death." Bin Laden wants me dead or Muslim (as a person who isn't a muslim this takes away my right to choose), Bush want to take away my rights to liberty. If you kill me I won't give a shit, but if you try to take my liberty.... Look Out!

Republican Gays are Closeted Dems
By Cliff Kincaid

...The party brought so-called gay Republicans into positions of power in Congress only to realize that the confidential information they held about a secret gay network...

...gay Republicans have occupied "crucial staff positions" in Congress and "have played decisive roles in passing legislation, running campaigns and advancing careers."...

...If you are getting the idea that gay Republicans may be closeted Democrats, then you are beginning to understand how the Mark Foley scandal could have been a Democratic Party dirty trick....

...gay Republicans are in reality "liberal activists" who want to use the party to advance the same homosexual agenda...

...Ominously, the Foley scandal suggests that this network has inside information about the sexual behavior of members of Congress and their staffers that can be exploited in order to create scandals at a moment's notice. Only now are House Republican leaders like Dennis Hastert beginning to understand the trap they may have gotten themselves into...

...Conservatives who blame Soros, the media or the Democrats for this debacle are whistling past the graveyard...

...Kolbe was the first closeted gay Republican to have been threatened and blackmailed by radical gay activists into coming out...

...Some liberal and left-wing groups, in addition to the gay Republican organizations,
seem fearful of what the investigation might uncover...

I can see where this is heading

In breaking news

Lieberman urges Dems to alter their ways


heh.

A poem by Moja in the early days of the war

...8.23.2003...

they are showing up...
in strange uniforms...
most of them brand new...
with little colored flags on their sleeves...
from far away places like portugal...
and estonia...
and south korea...
they are here in one'zees and two'zees...
little groups that stick together...
they walk around big eyed...
taking everything in...

the 'coalition of the willing' is finally starting to show up...
it's 6 months into this thing...
and i can't say that i blame them...
i remember seeing the first groups...
the south koreans...
or R.O.K. army as they are known...
in super crisp d.c.u.'s...
in the R.O.K. army you can be beaten for disobeying an order...
and it is mandatory that south korean men serve a term of service...
talk about scary...

the aussies are here...
in bigger numbers than the rest...
and they are some of my favorite...
i've never met a nation of people who are more friendly...
they would literally give you the shirt off their backs...
which...
coincidently i have tried to trade american camouflage uniforms for...
their camo pattern kind of resembles cow spots...
and i would love to have some of their pants...
to sport at the club...
they've also got the biggest floppiest hats you have ever seen...
there is so much brim to these things that the aussie soldiers don't even try to control it...
but i bet it keeps the sun off...
their weapons are straight out of the future...
a big difference from the M-16 which hasn't really changed much looks wise in the last 30 years...
one of the coolest features about the aussie weapon is the clear magazine...
you can see exactly how much ammo you have left...

i was just in the chow hall for breakfast...
and many different nationalities of soldiers were eating...
eyeing our american bacon...
wondering why it is burnt to a crisp...
and i was checking these soldiers out...
the balken and former soviet republic soldiers just have a certain look about them...
even if they weren't in uniform i could probably gather from the shape of their faces that they were definitely not american...

some of these countries wear the old skool american desert uniforms...
the cookie uniforms...
because they kind of look like chocolate chip cookies...
but they wear them very well...
and you can look right at these uniforms and see impeccable creases and unstained trousers...
they are brand spanking new and hot out of the factory...
i get the feeling these countries offering their support want to make a good impression...
they want to be seen as professional world powers...
and helpful allies...
but still they are only here...
so far...
in one'zees and two'zees...

but i wonder...
how many of my troops would i send from mojaland...
to take the burden off a country that started a war...
and quite possibly bit off more then their it's '1st world mouth' could chew...
how many troops would i be willing to quite possibly sacrifice so that american troops could hop on a plane...
and head back to the great states of america...
how willing would my coalition really be...
can i really blame them...

it would be nice to see whole butt loads of dutch soldiers...
and portuguese...
and macedonians...
and moroccans...
but i'm not going to hold my breath...
the bombing of the u.n. building was probably the dumbest thing the militants could of done...
i hope that the moron that thought up that ingenious plan to oust the occupying forces from iraq was driving the cement truck filled with explosives...
because someone who has that little common sense should not be in charge of other human lives...

i'm feeling an increased number of u.n. troops in this area in the near future...
and the tides of this war are a changing...
but maybe not so much in the ways that we would expect...
america doesn't want to relinquish it's power over this country...
but it also doesn't want the burden of rebuilding to fall solely on it's shoulders...
it wants it's cake and to eat it too...
preverbaly speaking of course...

i remember reading that the u.n. didn't want american support from our military...
it didn't want to be seen as part of our occupying force...
but i don't think that the militants care to much for world national groups...
or the subtle differences of outside forces now staking a 'claim' on a country thrown into chaos...
no matter how good for this country that 'claim' may be...
i just wish that these militants could see that it is a hell of a lot easier to destroy then it is to rebuild...
pushing a button and creating a crater takes no effort...
picking up a hammer and driving a nail...
well that takes work...

and maybe that advice could be tossed back and forth like a volley ball.

Riverbend.

Whether you loved Saddam or hated him, Baghdad tore you to pieces. Baghdad was burning. Baghdad was exploding…

Riverbend was blocked in China (like all "blogspot" sites) so I never had a chance to read her words (I am computer illiterate and didn't know of proxies until I came back to Oz).

Everybody should. Start at the beginning.

Hmmmm.....?

Lidle's passport was found on the street, according to a federal official, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. It was not immediately clear who was at the controls and who was the second person aboard.

Why is it that only in New York do passport flutter down to the street to be quickly found after air tragedies?

Just askin'.

Dozens of Amish mourn schoolhouse killer

"It's the love, the forgiveness, the heartfelt forgiveness they have toward the family. I broke down and cried seeing it displayed,"

Any right wing fucks who support Bush's war, promote intolerance, seek to screw education, healthcare and social security, support uncontrolled gun ownership, fear truth and generally oppose anything that will benefit humanity as a whole then proclaim their (superior style of) christianity should read this article and then grab the shotgun resting under the portrait of white, blue-eyed Jesus and remove themselves from the species.

BTW I am not a christian.

Will the reely, real christian please stand up........

Two of the survivors of the shooting told their parents that 13-year-old Marian Fisher, one of the slain girls, asked to be shot first, apparently hoping the younger girls would be let go, according to Leroy Zook, an Amish dairy farmer.

Attn: Robertson, Falwell, Dobson, Viguerie, Perkins, Graham, Colson, GWBush, etc.

This is how a christian is supposed to act, not by breeding fear, hate, intolerence and cowardice. All you evangelical lunatics (only the lunatics, some evangelicals are ok. Carter for example.) need a good dose of the salts.

Thnx ncl Sm :)(:

As my dear ol' nana woulda said ".....so if this boy, Sam, told you to jump off a cliff you'd think it's a good idea and do it, would you?"

On Sunday, Ruddock said that using sleep deprivation to extract information from a terror suspect was not torture. "I don't regard sleep deprivation as torture . . . it would be seen as coercive."

The distinction he drew between "torture" and "coercion" referred to the new US laws that ban the use of torture when interviewing terror suspects, but give the OK to something called "aggressive interrogation techniques". It was in the interests of providing clarity about which was which that Ruddock volunteered his considered view.

……..for he admitted that sleep deprivation could extract dud information. "Obviously the question would be looked at as to whether the evidence obtained that way had any probity value," he said.

Curiously, this inconsistency in his logic drew little attention. For if the legitimacy of the information you extract might be affected by the very means with which you extract it, surely that distinguishes your process from any legally sanctioned "aggressive interrogation technique".

Well, there you have it. The thing that reeely boggles my mind is that there are folks (see above) who actually believe that the US torture act and the way that the Howard Govt. blindly follow will in benefit us and be a valuable contribution to the "War on Trrr". Fuckin' Morans!!!