Jon takes notice that much of the book is "redacted" showing sentences and paragraphs of text highlighted out by the CIA, including something about breast feeding. The memorable quote of the interview: "I would say Mr. (Robert) Novak as about as much credibility has this (Bush) Administration."
This is only a reminder of what I am sure everyone reading this already knows.
In late 1987 Rush Limbaugh gained syndication. In his move from Sacramento to New York he took the word "Feminazi" with him which soon became the basis of the most successful propaganda campaign in American history: Political Correctness. Over the years I have written many articles on this issue a few of which are contained here.
For twenty years every minute of every day on radio, television and print there is a story or mention of Political Correctness. Other than a few on the Left who do not seem to get it, to all other Americans the syllables "PEE CEE" equal "NAZI-LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT". It is embedded so deeply into the American psyche there is no undoing it.
Right after the two candidates are chosen, the Republican will begin with 45% of the vote. Moderates and Independents who decide elections vote more upon their perceptions and emotions than they do on issues. To compensate for the PC which has kept them on the Right side for a generation, perhaps a little propaganda from the Left is in order.
1) Replace all usage of terms like "conservative", "right wing", "reactionary" and "Religious Right" with "Republican". Republican spokesman Ann Coulter. Republicans for torture. Republican James Dobson. Republicans veto SCHIP. Republican talk show host Michael Savage. Our Republican war in Iraq.
2) For the next year refrain from all accusations of Political Incorrectness. If you need help there are a million other ways to get the point across at the Puerile Name Calling Generator.
3) Pound the truth that Rudy Giuliani's views on foreign policy, fear mongering, executive supremacy and government intrusion are actually worse than what we have now with Bush and Cheney.
4) Humor is a better vote getter than a scolding.
Republican AM radio's use of the spoken word gives them an advantage. Not only in having an interconnected network that repeats the same attack phrase thousands of times a day on thousands of radio stations (and to the most watched cable news channel, Fox News), but also able to go much further in their attacks than we for lack of a written record. So maybe getting together on just these four little things can make a difference.
Video - Jason Jones checks out possible First Lady hotties. Elizabeth Kucinich interviewed. Surprisingly, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush are not on anyone's list.
I’m happy to say that Genarlow Wilson is a free man today, 21 years old with a bright future ahead.
Many may have wondered why Genarlow Wilson didn’t take a plea deal like his teen-aged buddies elected to do. All were offered a plea deal which would have reduced their sentences, possibly to time served, and eventually remove the conviction and sex offender status from their records. Genarlow, football hero, honor student, and homecoming king with a bright future, chose the ten year sentence handed down to him while the rest went free.
In case you’re unaware of his crime, in his own words he knows that he did some “idiotic” things, as many teenagers do. Wilson then 17, had consensual sex with his then 15 year old girlfriend, then a felony in GA. After turning down the deal, he chose to serve the full 10 year sentence .While in prison, the crime was reduced to a misdemeanor, but would not be retroactive for him. At the time the Supreme Court voted 4-3 to allow him the two years time served, even the court was calling it “cruel and unusual punishment.” Perhaps the story becoming front page news played some small part in the Court’s decision as well?
Why did he choose prison? In his own words, “I wouldn’t be able to stay with my mother because I have a little sister. You know when you’re a sex offender you can’t even be around kids. Basically, I can’t even have kids myself, so what is the point of life?” He said he feels no “negative energy” toward District Attorney.David McDade who fought doggedly against efforts to have Wilson’s sentence reduced, fighting for the full ten years. Nor does he feel animosity toward the prosecutors, saying they were just doing their jobs.
While he never wants to see the inside of a prison again, he is amazingly positive. His focus is on the future and college.
The experience helped him select a major, Sociology “because I feel I’ve been living my major.”
“The new Genarlow Wilson will be more conservative, more alert and more appreciative of the blessings bestowed upon him”, he said. I see a bright future for this young man, and mercifully this miscarriage of justice will be nothing more than a speed bump in his distant past, and maybe a lesson to our law makers and those who enforce those laws. Genarlow Wilson CNN story
Bubba called today to squawk about Mexicans. I have to give it to Bubba, he is honest enough to not waste words differentiating their legality, Mexicans are Mexicans who should all be living in Mexico. Since Lou Dobbs went ballistic on this issue, Bubba now switches channels from his default FOX NEWS to watch CNN in the Dobb's evenings, which now happens to be the same time I turn off CNN for some Hank and Homer.
I must say, old Lou has gone singularly berserk on this immigration business. Perhaps as a child he was wrapped in a tortilla and abandoned at a bus stop in Escarsaga. Whatever the problem it's serious. In fact I just read that the main issues involved in all this; that illegal immigrants pull down wages, cause unemployment, are more criminal that average, appreciably affect taxes for services and are going to blow up Chicago are either lies or highly exaggerated crap.
So Bubba called regarding some hippies who disrupted a Mexicans Go Home rally in downtown Houston the other day. There were almost a hundred white-wing bigots, mostly middle aged women and whacked out Vietnam veterans draped in flags with nothing better to do, while about half that many kids held up signs reflecting upon that bigotry. Not much of a demonstration either way you look at it, but it was pleasant seeing some young people take to the streets doing the right thing rather than whooping and hollering in front of the Death Chamber down here in Huntsville.
So Bubba joined the Minutemen Border Patrol and wants me to ride down to Brownsville with him to man a guard post for a week. I might go. I need a trip, and knowing Bubba, the van will be full of beer and lots of chicken fried steak. And grits! What the hell, I can get drunk in a field and plonk at stuff with Bubba's guns for a few days. If I come across any Mexicans, I'll give them a ride up to Houston on my way home. After all, the influx of Hispanics over the years affecting the vote is the only reason Texas hasn't reinstated slavery.
Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff is so busy rounding up poor hard working Mexican families and putting them into concentration camps to keep us safe, that he has lost the forest through the trees. The answer to his dumbass question has been pounded into us from this particular Republican Adminstration most everyday for 7 years now.
WASHINGTON — The homeland security chief on Saturday tore into his own employees for staging a phony news conference at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "I think it was one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I've seen since I've been in government," Michael Chertoff said. "I have made unambiguously clear, in Anglo-Saxon prose, that it is not to ever happen again and there will be appropriate disciplinary action taken against those people who exhibited what I regard as extraordinarily poor judgment," he added. Asked specifically if he planned to fire anyone at FEMA, which is part of his department, Chertoff declined to say, citing personnel rules. "There will be appropriate discipline," he told reporters at a news conference with New York's governor where they announced an agreement on a driver's license plan. Chertoff said he knew nothing about the matter until after it happened and that he "can't explain why it happened."
Mr. Chertoff's question regarding why Republicans do what Republicans do is well answered by old American Indian Folklore
The Frog and The Scorpion
One day a frog was sitting by the bank of the river enjoying the warm sun and cool breeze. It so happened that a scorpion approached him rather quickly as to inquire about crossing the river. "Frog", said the scorpion, "I am in need of passage across the river upon your back. I am prepared to pay you with this mealworm that I have not eaten."
The frog thought about it for a moment, then replied "Scorpion, I know that if I grant you a ride across the river upon my back, you will poison me on the other side. For that alone I shall say 'no thanks'."
"Frog", again said the scorpion, "Please, I have no wish to harm you, treasure chestI promise. I just need to go across the river to find more food. There is nothing left on this side for me to eat."
The frog thought about it again for a moment and then agreed to help the scorpion get across the river.
Half way across, the frog felt a rather sharp, stinging sensation in his back. The scorpion had stuck him with his venom. "SCORPION!", cried the frog, "You have killed me and you as well. Why have you done this?"
"Because I am a scorpion...and that is my nature."
The Boston Red Socks swept the Republican Colorado "Christian" Rockies in the 2007 World Series. It seems all the locker room prayers, the biweekly prayer meetings and searching player lockers for Playboys did not please God enough to answer their prayers. We would also assume that the locker rooms are also abortion and homo free. We would hate to consider that Jesus may be dead, so we can only assume the team displeased God in some other way. If it wasn't lack of praying or pictures of boobs in the locker room what could it be?
God, who is suppose to be a loving God, was so displeased with Colorado Congressman and Presidential Candidate Tom Trancedo for being so consumed with kicking the crap out of poor Mexicans that He took it out on the entire state. A precursor that perhaps God has switched sides?
It is way past time for CNN to sell Lou Dobbs to Fox News where he belongs. I wonder if there is even one Hispanic left in America who has not deleted CNN from the favorites button on their remote. His daily hour 7 days a week may be the highest rated show CNN enjoys besides Larry King, but his all consuming campaign of ethnic cleansing - though very popular with every bigot, racist and racist group in America - is losing CNN credibility as it tries to out fox, FOX.
Dobbs uses the the standard canard of RULE OF LAW to rationalize what is now America's form of ethnic cleansing. The same Rule of Law that gave us slavery and Jim Crow for centuries. The same Rule of Law which Republicans used to put us through the most embarrassing year in American history with that impeachment. The same Rule of Law which has filled our prisons to bursting with mandatory sentencing, three strikes your out and the failed War on Drugs. Now it is Lou Dobbs using the same Rule of Law to make those on the very bottom of our economic ladder as miserable as he possibly can.
Like the Gestapo before it, ICE, a federal police force specifically formed to crash into homes and workplaces to grab people of one specific ethnicity. To drag them out into vans and put into concentration camps - whole families, men, women and children - charge them with felony-paperwork, and ship out on trains and buses. Can't anyone see the parallel? What is the matter with everyone? Conservative GOD Ronald Reagen's answer to this problem in 1986 was to use his bully pulpit to push, pass and sign a bill giving them ALL Green Cards! We are now ten miles to the right of Ronald Reagan on this issue?
Tom Trancedo will soon drop out of the Republican Presidential race which will leave Lou Dobbs and CNN as America's leading voice in rounding up 12 million men women and children to be placed in prisons for unspecified periods of time, charged with felonies for lack of paperwork and deported. Is there one sane Jew in America who doesn't get this?
And sadly this will be the defining issue of the coming election after the conventions. And even more sadly, it is the only winning issue the Republicans have.
This video
along with the following piece by Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria screams for the immediate impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney. They are nuts! Do it now! Before it's too late. Note the name Norman Podhoretz as the
central figure pounding his big bass war drum into our slow witted and evermore insane President. Norman Podhoretz is at present
Rudi Giuliuani's top Foreign Policy Consultant. Secretary of State to be?
At
a meeting with reporters last week, President Bush said that "if you're
interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be
interested in preventing [Iran] from having the knowledge necessary to
make a nuclear weapon." These were not the barbs of some
neoconservative crank or sidelined politician looking for publicity.
This was the president of the United States, invoking the specter of
World War III if Iran gained even the knowledge.
The
American discussion about Iran has lost all connection to reality.
Norman Podhoretz, the neoconservative ideologist whom Bush has
consulted on this topic, has written that Iran's President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad is "like Hitler … a revolutionary whose objective is to
overturn the going international system and to replace it in the
fullness of time with a new order dominated by Iran and ruled by the
religio-political culture of Islamofascism." For this staggering
proposition Podhoretz provides not a scintilla of evidence.
Here
is the reality. Iran has an economy the size of Finland's and an annual
defense budget of around $4.8 billion. It has not invaded a country
since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68
times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 times greater.
Israel and every Arab country (except Syria and Iraq) are quietly or
actively allied against Iran. And yet we are to believe that Tehran is
about to overturn the international system and replace it with an
Islamo-fascist order? What planet are we on?
PERTH, Australia Iffin’ you want me to put this over in the weird forum…..are there directions I simply missed for photos? (I have a feeling I’m gonna be reeeeally embarrassed!)
Oh..and these were the ONLY links I could locate…believe me, there sure isn’t much,
If anything I left out! Australia Foster Crushing Babe
“Talent will out.”, “It takes all kinds to make the world go round.”
I only mention these two timeworn thoughts, because the girl with the talent, Luana De Faveri, age 31, was fined for utilizing her talents thus making someone's world go round. It seems harmless enough. Her co-worker merely assisted, yet was punished as well.
Ironically De Faveri pleaded guilty to two breaches of the Liquor Control Act, costing her $1,000 in US money. A workmate, Tracey Leslie, 43 who was simply trying to help her co-worker was fined $500, and the bar manager was fined $1,000 for not stopping the um...pair.
No, this was no donkey show from Tijuana. Perhaps the judge would have looked at it with more compassion if he'd thought of it by comparison. The two barmaids had a sure fire act which must have brought in great tips, without the use of livestock.
The debauchery took place in Perth. Ms De Faveri would crush beer cans between her bare breasts of steel during one of the offenses,(or highlights, depending upon your view), at the Premier Hotel in Pinjarra. Ms Leslie came into play when she helped co-worker in a variation of a kid’s trick at the dinner table Yes, the old hang your spoon on your nose trick! It if had been her nose, it wouldn’t have cost her $500. for helping to hang spoons on DeFaveri’s nipples. Frankly, I believe an argument could be made that they were simply trying to demonstrate that cans should be crushed for the sake of recycling. I’m still working on an excuse for hanging spoons on one’s nips, which is why I’m here and even Marcia Clark is writing books somewhere.
The Superintendent David Pareinson of the Peel Police District seems quite certain of the results of the punishment, and blown away the carefully constructed advertising of decades as Australia as a land of beer, fun, beer, fun!"The fines send a clear message to all licensees in Peel that we will not tolerate this type of behavior in our Licensed premises," he declared. Maybe so, or maybe it will cause untold variations throughout Australia. If I were a betting person, well....talk with me later.
Dick Cheney’s craziness used to influence foreign policy.
Now it is foreign policy.
He may have lost his buddy in belligerence, Rummy. He may have
tapped out the military in Iraq. He may not be able to persuade
Congress so easily anymore — except for Hillary — to issue warlike
resolutions. He can’t cow Condi into supporting his bullying as he once
did, and Bob Gates is doing his best to instill some common sense.
Besides, Cheney is running out of time to wreak global havoc; he’s
working for a president who is spending his waning days on the job
trying to prevent children from getting health insurance.
But the vice president may have hit on a devious tactic used by his old boss Richard Nixon.
Judge Sharon Keller of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals closed the courts' office promptly at 5pm, just hours before the September 25th scheduled execution of Michael Richard. Keller knew damn well that the lawyers for Richard would be submitting a stay of execution appeal that all eight judges on the court would have been forced to accept in lieu of the previous day's Supreme Court decision to review the Kentucky lethal injection case. The lawyers for Richard were late with the appeal because the net was down. All other states employing lethal injection stopped executions earlier that day. But not here in Dumbass, Texas where the joy of execution is only surpassed by playing with guns. Capital Punishment page
Locking justice's door
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals chief justice's unethical, outrageous blocking of a death row appeal merits the most severe legal sanctions.
The events of Sept. 25 have put a stain on Texas justice that can only be cleansed by the removal of Chief Justice Sharon Keller from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
On that day, Judge Keller let her personal bias in favor of the death penalty trample the right of now-executed prisoner Michael Richard to access the courts and have due process. In doing so, she abdicated her role as the state's chief criminal justice to become its chief executioner.
Houston Chronicle Editorial
In Texas, Judges and Prosecutors are elected. Here in Harris County (Houston and surrounding area) about 99% of judges are Republicans. Every election cycle they compete with one another in television ads that hit on only one issue. Who will execute the most people for less reason faster than the next Judge. Of course they stick the words "Family Values", "Republican" and "Conservative" between all their joyful bloodlust.
The Texas execution chamber is in Huntsville (Waller County) which is just a few miles North of Harris county (Houston). 37% of the executions in the United States are committed in Texas, and 25% of those are sentenced to death from Harris County. Its a SHORT MILE.
Thus far the Texas Bar and 130 lawyers (growing everyday) have signed petitions to get our newly Christened Judge Roy Bean off the bench. This is the only option to remove her as the PR she has gained by going so out of her way to execute someone can only get her more votes in Harris County than she got last time.
We have executions here about once a week, and not long ago three in one week, The Houston Chronicle pleases the prevailing Texas killer instinct by doing an article on each. They give the three names of the person executed, the pictures of the victim followed by many paragraphs detailing the horror of the crime and most always a quip from the victim's Christian family expressing how much they enjoyed watching the man die. But with this editorial attacking Judge Keller, the Chronicle crossed the line. To compensate the paper has been printing many letters to the editor expressing only the profound respect and love Harris Country residents have for Judge Keller. Here is just one of many:
No reason to stop executions
Here is another far-left editorial from the Chronicle about how badly a murderer — Michael Richard — had his rights violated by an evil judge (Sharon Keller), even though Richard was fairly tried, convicted and sentenced to death for this heinous crime (see the Oct. 16 editorial "Locking justice's door"). He was given appeal after appeal for years.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to look at the lethal drugs used for carrying out the death penalty is no reason to stop the execution of murderers who have caused never-ending pain to the families of those
they have slaughtered.
ERIC JOHNSON, Houston
This is much like the infamous quote from Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
"Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.” Antonin “Benito” Scalia expressing the most disgusting thing ever uttered by a Supreme Court Justice
Paris Hilton has had a jail house epiphany! She has put down the coke, the meth, the X, the Jack Daniels and the wood to pick up a Bible and a cause. She is on her way to change her life from top Celebrity Slut to top Celebrity Do-Gooder! I hope she can take Britney Spears along with her on her rise to philanthropy. Perhaps they could get married in Massechucetts and begin adopting babies in Africa.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the new face of Paris Hilton. Serious
actress. Serious philanthropist—next month she's going on a charity
mission to Rwanda. Just plain serious. Seriously? As you may remember
from the incessant news coverage, Hilton spent 23 days this summer in
jail for violating her probation on a DUI charge. Like so many ex-cons
before her, she says that she emerged a changed woman. She's cut her
hair and moved into a paparazzi-proof gated community. She's cut back
on the clubbing and even—ohmygod—changed her phone number. Newsweek - Ms. Hilton Gets Serious
Jarvis Heddon, Republican alderman from Escondido,
California, suggested that all "good Americans" should
be happy to sacrifice their homes in the states latest
wildfire crisis. Mr. Heddon suggested that since
National Guard and Marine Reserves are tied up in the
Middle East, and none of their equipment ever comes
back from the Middle East for present personnel to
train with, perhaps this is the best way for the
predominantly Republican area to "get behind the
President and his fight for global supremacy." Mr.
Heddon then corrected himself, pointing out he
intended to say, "global war on terrorism."
Not all Mr. Heddons constituents are so quick to give
up their homes, however. Tarvis Jenway, of San Diego
stated he "directly blames the Bush White House for
the spread of the present conflagration." Jenway
added, " If we had a national guard to support our
firefighters, there wouldn't be half the conflagration
we got now."
The President is expected to tour the devastated areas
Wednesday. Many Orange County residents are looking
forward to the visit. The area claims to be the "thru
anchor of the remaining 24% of Americans that still
support the President." Others call the entire
catastrophe "karma."
Valerie Plame, wife of ex-ambassador Joseph Wilson
and one time CIA operative, claimed on Monday that CBS spunky reporter Katie
Couric “could be an intelligence operative.”
Following Couric’s interview with Ms. Plame on
CBS’s 60 Minutes program, Plame pointed out that Couric seems to have all the
skills and talents needed for undercover intelligence work.
“Nobody takes her seriously, she’s good looking,
and she speaks in the most gosh-awful riddles,” said Plame, “she could be my
replacement.”
Couric had seasoned the interview with revelations
such as Scooter Libby’s wife is not a CIA operative (which Plame disputed.)
Plame noted on her 60 Minutes interview that she
was an operative for many years, until the Bush administration intentionally
leaked her identity in retaliation for her husband’s repudiation of some of the
administration’s reasons for going to war with Iraq. Public reaction to the
interview has been mixed. Conservatives consider it a hatchet job on the Bush
administration, while many college age males have phoned in requests for photos
of Plame in her New Mexico office wearing jeans and sweater. Trevor Wadsworth
of Columbus, Ohio, wrote in stating that “Valerie is hotter than Mrs.
Robinson!,” in a reference to the 1960’s movie “The Graduate.
PERTH, Australia Iffin’ you want me to put this over in the weird forum…..are there directions I simply missed for photos? (I have a feeling I’m gonna be reeeeally embarrassed!)
Oh..and these were the ONLY links I could locate…believe me, there sure isn’t much,
If anything I left out! Australia Foster Crushing Babe 
Judge Sharon Keller of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals closed the courts' office promptly at 5pm, just hours before the September 25th scheduled execution of Michael Richard. Keller knew damn well that the lawyers for Richard would be submitting a stay of execution appeal that all eight judges on the court would have been forced to accept in lieu of the previous day's Supreme Court decision to review the Kentucky lethal injection case. The lawyers for Richard were late with the appeal because the net was down. All other states employing lethal injection stopped executions earlier that day. But not here in Dumbass, Texas where the joy of execution is only surpassed by playing with guns. Capital Punishment page
Valerie Plame, wife of ex-ambassador Joseph Wilson
and one time CIA operative, claimed on Monday that CBS spunky reporter Katie
Couric “could be an intelligence operative.”
Dumbutt, Texas
The Sixties
It is way past time for CNN to sell Lou Dobbs to Fox News where he belongs. I wonder if there is even one Hispanic left in America who has not deleted CNN from the favorites button on their remote. His daily hour 7 days a week may be the highest rated show CNN enjoys besides Larry King, but his all consuming campaign of ethnic cleansing - though very popular with every bigot, racist and racist group in America - is losing CNN credibility as it tries to out fox, FOX. 
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