Friday, June 30, 2006
NEOCON LIES
Iraq manufactured three nerve agents: sarin, tabun, and VX. Some people who want war with Iraq describe 20,000 munitions filled with sarin and tabun nerve agents that could be used against Americans. The facts, however, don't support this. Sarin and tabun have a shelf-life of five years. Even if Iraq had somehow managed to hide this vast number of weapons from inspectors, what they are now storing is nothing more than useless, harmless goo.
These were pre-1991 weapons that could not have been fired as designed because they had already been degraded. And the official went on to say these are not the WMD’s this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had and not the WMD’s for which this country went to war.
Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) has a brain, but it ain’t normal grey matter that's inside.
It’s much scarier stuff inside this cranium.
Senator Santorum, like so many in the Bush cabal, has delusions.
In this case, he deludes himself (hoping to delude others) in believing that WMD have been found in Iraq.
Alas, Mr. Santorum, it would easier to find extraterrestrials in your closet than any viable WMD in Iraq.
But you are politicking for the November election, and many more machinations and mad malarkey will occur before November arrives.
The pathetic donkey (i.e. elephant) show will continue until George W. Bush finally declares that he is a Dictator and disrobes himself as the Decider.
Right now plenty of other elephant-asses are slinging the stinky goo to continue in their attempts to fool the American electorate.
But the goo might hit the swirling and proverbial fan in November (Let’s hope so).
Then George W. Bush and his Republican gang will be divested of their dangerous delusions.
No doubt more and more surprises are oozing and bubbling inside Bush’s own delusional brain (and Karl Rove’s).
Thursday, June 29, 2006
BRIEF MESSAGE ON TORTURE
“As your Long War President--- and as the Decider---I will protect the American people”
“If I have to torture detainees right here in the White House, that’s what I’ll do.”
“I do have some hands-on experience with stallions…and now with some hairy camels.” (Giggles)
“I’ll conform with the Supreme Court Ruling, but it will not stop me from trying to expand my powers as your executioner.”
“If I have to torture detainees right here in the White House, that’s what I’ll do.”
“I do have some hands-on experience with stallions…and now with some hairy camels.” (Giggles)
“I’ll conform with the Supreme Court Ruling, but it will not stop me from trying to expand my powers as your executioner.”
THE ASTEROIDS ARE COMING!
Fires.
Tsunamis.
Super Hurricanes.
Earthquakes.
Floods.
Wars…
Wars…
And
Asteroids!
A group of scientists, technologists and astronomers called the B612 Foundation wants to have a plan in place that can stop NEOS (Near Earth Objects) from hitting the earth.
The probability is small that any asteroid will impact the earth, but it’s better to be ready than sorry.
10,000 NEOS with some risk of impact over the next 100 years will probably be catalogued by the year 2018.
Only 2 NEOS on an impact list of 104 currently have an elevated risk.
This threat, in addition to Global Warming, is just what is needed to stop all the fighting over this planet’s gold, oil and hegemony.
If there is an asteroid impact, we can be sure that Halliburton and Dick Cheney will be there to clean up on the damage done.
”The goal of B612 is to significantly alter the orbit of an asteroid in a controlled manner by 2015”
"There is a bit of good news forthcoming, (former astronaut) Richard Schweickart explained. Congress did require NASA to provide by the end of 2006 an analysis of possible alternatives that could be employed to divert an object on a likely collision course with Earth. In response to this congressional directive, NASA is about to announce a process for carrying out this mandate."
“Therefore, it is certainly possible, if not likely, that in the time frame of the next 12 years we — the world — may well be in a position where we need to take action to ensure that we will be able to carry out a deflection mission if needed,” Scweickart said.
By Leonard David/MSNBC
May 6, 2006
Tsunamis.
Super Hurricanes.
Earthquakes.
Floods.
Wars…
Wars…
And
Asteroids!
A group of scientists, technologists and astronomers called the B612 Foundation wants to have a plan in place that can stop NEOS (Near Earth Objects) from hitting the earth.
The probability is small that any asteroid will impact the earth, but it’s better to be ready than sorry.
10,000 NEOS with some risk of impact over the next 100 years will probably be catalogued by the year 2018.
Only 2 NEOS on an impact list of 104 currently have an elevated risk.
This threat, in addition to Global Warming, is just what is needed to stop all the fighting over this planet’s gold, oil and hegemony.
If there is an asteroid impact, we can be sure that Halliburton and Dick Cheney will be there to clean up on the damage done.
”The goal of B612 is to significantly alter the orbit of an asteroid in a controlled manner by 2015”
"There is a bit of good news forthcoming, (former astronaut) Richard Schweickart explained. Congress did require NASA to provide by the end of 2006 an analysis of possible alternatives that could be employed to divert an object on a likely collision course with Earth. In response to this congressional directive, NASA is about to announce a process for carrying out this mandate."
“Therefore, it is certainly possible, if not likely, that in the time frame of the next 12 years we — the world — may well be in a position where we need to take action to ensure that we will be able to carry out a deflection mission if needed,” Scweickart said.
By Leonard David/MSNBC
May 6, 2006
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
VIAGRA FOR THE BRAIN
Poor Rush Limbaugh was caught again with more drugs.
Not pain killers this time.
Just 29 hits of Viagra.
Rush Limbaugh should find a new drug.
The drug is called VIAGRA FOR THE BRAIN.
I know that Mr. Limbaugh says that he has one side of his brain tied behind his back…or that he only needs to use a tiny portion of his brain.
Fine.
But, Rush, start taking those VFTB pills ASAP.
Inhale some of that funny weed to mellow out those raging and radical neo-con neurons.
Not pain killers this time.
Just 29 hits of Viagra.
Rush Limbaugh should find a new drug.
The drug is called VIAGRA FOR THE BRAIN.
I know that Mr. Limbaugh says that he has one side of his brain tied behind his back…or that he only needs to use a tiny portion of his brain.
Fine.
But, Rush, start taking those VFTB pills ASAP.
Inhale some of that funny weed to mellow out those raging and radical neo-con neurons.
Monday, June 26, 2006
SUGAR DADDIES AND THE MINIMUM WAGE
The minimum wage is too low.
The American family deserves more.
NOW.
But forget it.
The Congress has all of their many lobbied interests and don’t want to offend their sugar daddies.
This doesn’t prevent the Congress from helping themselves to the hard-earned minimum wages of workers.
No Siree, if they want a damn raise, they’ll damn well give it to themselves.
Damn the American workers!
If hard-working Americans want to have more money, excellent health care, and a guaranteed retirement package, they should become parasitic and greedy members of the U.S. Congress.
Shut up, already.
You’re making as much as you’re going to get.
Keep working those second and third jobs.
You can do it.
Quit complaining and keep licking our boots!
Lou Dobbs wrote:
“With no Congressional action on raising the minimum wage since 1997, inflation has eroded wages. The minimum wage in the 21st century is $2 lower in real dollars than it was four decades ago and now stands at its lowest level since 1955, according to the Economic Policy Institute and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.”
“This administration, our Republican-led Congress and the dominant corporate interests in this country want cheap labor. And to achieve that goal they're outsourcing middle-class jobs, importing illegal labor and cutting retirement and health-care benefits.”
[CNN.com Wednesday, June 21, 2006]
Also this:
Despite record low approval ratings, House lawmakers Tuesday embraced a $3,300 pay raise that will increase their salaries to $168,500.
This year, Vice President Dick Cheney, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Chief Justice John Roberts receive $212,100. Associate justices receive $203,000. House and Senate party leaders get $183,500.
President Bush's salary of $400,000 is unaffected by the legislation.
By ANDREW TAYLOR
The Associated Press
June 13, 2006
The American family deserves more.
NOW.
But forget it.
The Congress has all of their many lobbied interests and don’t want to offend their sugar daddies.
This doesn’t prevent the Congress from helping themselves to the hard-earned minimum wages of workers.
No Siree, if they want a damn raise, they’ll damn well give it to themselves.
Damn the American workers!
If hard-working Americans want to have more money, excellent health care, and a guaranteed retirement package, they should become parasitic and greedy members of the U.S. Congress.
Shut up, already.
You’re making as much as you’re going to get.
Keep working those second and third jobs.
You can do it.
Quit complaining and keep licking our boots!
Lou Dobbs wrote:
“With no Congressional action on raising the minimum wage since 1997, inflation has eroded wages. The minimum wage in the 21st century is $2 lower in real dollars than it was four decades ago and now stands at its lowest level since 1955, according to the Economic Policy Institute and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.”
“This administration, our Republican-led Congress and the dominant corporate interests in this country want cheap labor. And to achieve that goal they're outsourcing middle-class jobs, importing illegal labor and cutting retirement and health-care benefits.”
[CNN.com Wednesday, June 21, 2006]
Also this:
Despite record low approval ratings, House lawmakers Tuesday embraced a $3,300 pay raise that will increase their salaries to $168,500.
This year, Vice President Dick Cheney, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Chief Justice John Roberts receive $212,100. Associate justices receive $203,000. House and Senate party leaders get $183,500.
President Bush's salary of $400,000 is unaffected by the legislation.
By ANDREW TAYLOR
The Associated Press
June 13, 2006
Sunday, June 25, 2006
MEN LIKE GODS
Chimeras. Human-Animal Hybrids.
Lion-Goat-Serpents.
Welcome---once again---to Brave New World.
No need to be invaded by extraterrestrials.
This world is making its own aliens.
Men like gods will do as they want or need to do.
In this case, to create new creatures never before on the planet. A kind of New-age urban renewal.
"The technology is advancing quicker than the regulations," said Osagie Obasogie of the Oakland-based Center for Genetics and Society, which opposes the mixing of human and animal cells.
Of course, this genetic engineering is intended only to do good things.
But we all know about good intentions and where they sometimes go. Take as an example Mr. Atom.
Progress does not put on any brakes.
Tomorrow we might see ourselves in zoos and looking out at the new and improved creatures that we have created.
At least I can dream.
Lion-Goat-Serpents.
Welcome---once again---to Brave New World.
No need to be invaded by extraterrestrials.
This world is making its own aliens.
Men like gods will do as they want or need to do.
In this case, to create new creatures never before on the planet. A kind of New-age urban renewal.
"The technology is advancing quicker than the regulations," said Osagie Obasogie of the Oakland-based Center for Genetics and Society, which opposes the mixing of human and animal cells.
Of course, this genetic engineering is intended only to do good things.
But we all know about good intentions and where they sometimes go. Take as an example Mr. Atom.
Progress does not put on any brakes.
Tomorrow we might see ourselves in zoos and looking out at the new and improved creatures that we have created.
At least I can dream.
Friday, June 23, 2006
IT'S THE SAME OLD LYING (SHAME!)
President Bush knowingly or unknowingly permitted Vice-President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice---and other NeoCons ("New Conmen")---to “find” and “cherry pick”, then accept and decimate the (mostly fabricated) information that could defend (and excuse) their decision to invade Iraq.
Now we know that Bush and his minions wanted to invade Iraq just days after September 11.
To compare World War II to the Iraq war (debacle) is not only wrong but inaccurate.
These were nations who were on the march to conquer the world.
But Iraq with its Butcher of Baghdad dictator was NOT an imminent threat to the United States.
But Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice lied when each said repeatedly (and falsely!)that Iraq was an imminent threat.
Gulf War I decimated Iraq.
It was contaminated, starved and weak.
Not much different from today.
President Bush and his war was a lie from the get-go.
The "War on Terror" did not achieve its present intensity without the invasion of Iraq.
Al Qaeda was not in Iraq.
It was in Afghanistan.
But President Bush (Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld) deserted Afghanistan in order to invade Iraq.
Anyone with a little horse sense can research why this administration invaded Iraq.
A majority of Americans now think the Shock and Awe invasion of Iraq should not have occurred.
And a majority wants redeployment and withdrawal.
We now know that this war was a big lie.
To support the troops who are fighting is a much different thing than criticizing and pointing out the lies which produced the war.
It is not a condemnation of the troops, but of the lying administration that put them in harm's way.
The Bush administration employed propaganda to sway the Congress and persuade the American public to support his war.
Now that we know the facts about what was done to invade Iraq (shown on Frontline in its documentary THE DARK SIDE) it is time to get out of Iraq.
The terror and civil war increase every day our soldiers remain in harm's way.
Retired Lieutenant General William Odom (director of the National Security Agency between 1985 and 1988) said "The U.S. invasion of Iraq may be the biggest strategic mistake in U.S. history"; and "There is a knee-jerk tendency to say, ‘Well, if we left, it would be a mess. Therefore, we can’t leave.’ That requires blinding oneself to the fact-the reality-that our presence is creating the mess, that we don’t keep a mess from happening by staying, and that we don’t have the alternative of not creating a mess. When we crossed the border of Iraq with the invasion, all these untoward outcomes were inexorably going to happen."
The Bush administration won't even pay $71 dollars for a padded helmet that would reduce the brain injuries from IEDs.
This Presidency is a lying shame!
Now we know that Bush and his minions wanted to invade Iraq just days after September 11.
To compare World War II to the Iraq war (debacle) is not only wrong but inaccurate.
These were nations who were on the march to conquer the world.
But Iraq with its Butcher of Baghdad dictator was NOT an imminent threat to the United States.
But Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice lied when each said repeatedly (and falsely!)that Iraq was an imminent threat.
Gulf War I decimated Iraq.
It was contaminated, starved and weak.
Not much different from today.
President Bush and his war was a lie from the get-go.
The "War on Terror" did not achieve its present intensity without the invasion of Iraq.
Al Qaeda was not in Iraq.
It was in Afghanistan.
But President Bush (Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld) deserted Afghanistan in order to invade Iraq.
Anyone with a little horse sense can research why this administration invaded Iraq.
A majority of Americans now think the Shock and Awe invasion of Iraq should not have occurred.
And a majority wants redeployment and withdrawal.
We now know that this war was a big lie.
To support the troops who are fighting is a much different thing than criticizing and pointing out the lies which produced the war.
It is not a condemnation of the troops, but of the lying administration that put them in harm's way.
The Bush administration employed propaganda to sway the Congress and persuade the American public to support his war.
Now that we know the facts about what was done to invade Iraq (shown on Frontline in its documentary THE DARK SIDE) it is time to get out of Iraq.
The terror and civil war increase every day our soldiers remain in harm's way.
Retired Lieutenant General William Odom (director of the National Security Agency between 1985 and 1988) said "The U.S. invasion of Iraq may be the biggest strategic mistake in U.S. history"; and "There is a knee-jerk tendency to say, ‘Well, if we left, it would be a mess. Therefore, we can’t leave.’ That requires blinding oneself to the fact-the reality-that our presence is creating the mess, that we don’t keep a mess from happening by staying, and that we don’t have the alternative of not creating a mess. When we crossed the border of Iraq with the invasion, all these untoward outcomes were inexorably going to happen."
The Bush administration won't even pay $71 dollars for a padded helmet that would reduce the brain injuries from IEDs.
This Presidency is a lying shame!
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
THEY DID LIE!
"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war." John Adams
I have just finished watching the documentary The Dark Side on the PBS program Frontline.
(I even interrupted the NBA playoffs to watch it).
I had the flu last Friday.
But now I am completely nauseous from what I have just heard and watched.
My Letters from Mad Plato about the Bush administration are vindicated.
THE PRESIDENT'S ADMINISTRATION DID LIE US INTO THIS UNNECESSARY WAR..
THE BUSH REGIME TOOK AMERICA AND ITS SOLDIERS INTO THIS UNNECESSARY WAR IN IRAQ.
THIS LYING BUNCH DEFINITELY DESERVES TO BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE FOR THEIR TREASON AND LIES.
IN NOVEMBER, LET US REMOVE THIS CABAL AND ALL THOSE WHO HAVE SUPPORTED THEIR LIES!
I have just finished watching the documentary The Dark Side on the PBS program Frontline.
(I even interrupted the NBA playoffs to watch it).
I had the flu last Friday.
But now I am completely nauseous from what I have just heard and watched.
My Letters from Mad Plato about the Bush administration are vindicated.
THE PRESIDENT'S ADMINISTRATION DID LIE US INTO THIS UNNECESSARY WAR..
THE BUSH REGIME TOOK AMERICA AND ITS SOLDIERS INTO THIS UNNECESSARY WAR IN IRAQ.
THIS LYING BUNCH DEFINITELY DESERVES TO BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE FOR THEIR TREASON AND LIES.
IN NOVEMBER, LET US REMOVE THIS CABAL AND ALL THOSE WHO HAVE SUPPORTED THEIR LIES!
Saturday, June 17, 2006
BLOOD IS RED AND THE SKY IS BLUE
"It's a number. Bush feels very deeply the pain that the families feel."
White House press secretary Tony Snow
The Long War President is full of beans once again.
The smirks and the swaggers of The Decider are back.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed.
Dubya took his secret flight to Iraq (so secret that even he didn’t know about it).
The Decider’s Brain, Karl Rove, was given a clean bill of health, but Mr. Rove is not without taint or involvement in the leak of Plame.
Somehow Patrick Fitzgerald gave Rove baby gloves treatment. Just why will remain another unsolved mystery.
But the facts do not change.
The truth is the same.
The Iraq war was wrong.
Period.
To prolong this illegal invasion and occupation is wrong.
More terrorism has been sown in Iraq. Dragon's teeth have been planted in Iraq and come up monsters.
More terrorists there and around the world have been produced.
The rhetoric from the White House can not hide this truth.
The American public is not swallowing the most recent candy treats from George W. Bush.
This is the good news.
The bad news is that this is only June.
There are still more surprises to come before November.
This administration will do anything to keep its stranglehold on the world and the American people.
And by the way…
DEATH IS NOT JUST A NUMBER!
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
MY BRAIN IS BACK
"Wilson's wife is fair game," Rove urged one TV commentator in a private conversation.
GWB: Hello. Karl? Yeah, it's me, Dubya.
KR: Hello Mr. President.
GWB: Such good news Karl...you weren't indicted! What a relief!
KR: That's correct, Mr. President.
GWB: MY BRAIN IS BACK!
KR: Yes sir.
GWB: Well, I bet you need to get back to your laboratory and figure out how to win in November.
KR: Yes, Mr. President.
GWB: Oh, Karl, would you do me a favor?
KR: Sure. Anything Mr. President.
GWB: Some hairy camels just arrived from Baghdad and I’ll need a camel jock to break them in so I can get my hands on one of the hairy fellows.
KR: Done Mr. President.
Fitzgerald has identified Karl Rove as one of Novak's sources. In fact, according to court filings, Rove was the person who told Scooter Libby that Novak was planning to write a story about Wilson before it was published. And as it turns out, Rove was Time Magazine's Matt Cooper's source as well.
On July 13, 2005, Matt Cooper testified before the grand jury and informed the panel that Rove was the first source that told him that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.
In an article discussing his testimony, in the July 17, 2005 Time Magazine, Cooper wrote: "Was it through my conversation with Rove that I learned for the first time that Wilson's wife worked at the C.I.A. and may have been responsible for sending him? Yes."
"Did Rove say that she worked at the 'agency' on 'W.M.D.'? Yes," Cooper asked and answered in the article.
June 14, 2006/counterpunch.org
Karl and George
The Teflon Partnership
By EVELYN PRINGLE
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
BAGHDAD BUSH
"Bush left after night fell to return to Washington. The plane left at a steep angle with its lights out and the shades drawn." [The last sentence is also a description of the Bush presidency.]
"No, I didn't bring a turkey this time. But thank you for the warm welcome...and for getting me safely into the Green Zone.
Does anyone see any WMD? (Giggling)
Trent Lott and Pat Buchanan said that my coming to Baghdad was 'a brilliant move' and 'brilliant'. Thank you Trent and Pat. I hope this visit increases my POLL....numbers.
Mr. Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, Iraq is now in your hands.
If your country wants peace and democracy, then it will get peace and democracy.
The U.S. will NOT cut and run from your oil or from our strategic position.
If the terrorists were not here before my Shock and Awe attack, they are here now. I can't undo history.
The terrorists must be killed here before they can kill anywhere else.
You have my word and the word of the United States of America.
O.K. I have to go now.
I'm going to have a hands-on-look at some camels.
I'm bringing a few back to my Crawford ranch.
Thank you."
"No, I didn't bring a turkey this time. But thank you for the warm welcome...and for getting me safely into the Green Zone.
Does anyone see any WMD? (Giggling)
Trent Lott and Pat Buchanan said that my coming to Baghdad was 'a brilliant move' and 'brilliant'. Thank you Trent and Pat. I hope this visit increases my POLL....numbers.
Mr. Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, Iraq is now in your hands.
If your country wants peace and democracy, then it will get peace and democracy.
The U.S. will NOT cut and run from your oil or from our strategic position.
If the terrorists were not here before my Shock and Awe attack, they are here now. I can't undo history.
The terrorists must be killed here before they can kill anywhere else.
You have my word and the word of the United States of America.
O.K. I have to go now.
I'm going to have a hands-on-look at some camels.
I'm bringing a few back to my Crawford ranch.
Thank you."
Monday, June 12, 2006
WHY WE MEET AT CAMP DAVID
We meet at
Camp David
To discuss
Military
Strategy
To make
Some adjustments
In our
War
To win the
Hearts and minds
Of the people…
To win the
November election…
To convince the American public that
We have everything under control…
To win the
War on Terror…
To achieve
Victory…
To keep the
Well-oiled
War Machine
Well-fed and
Well-funded…
To keep our
Friends and
Corporations always
Happy...
We meet at
Camp David.
Camp David
To discuss
Military
Strategy
To make
Some adjustments
In our
War
To win the
Hearts and minds
Of the people…
To win the
November election…
To convince the American public that
We have everything under control…
To win the
War on Terror…
To achieve
Victory…
To keep the
Well-oiled
War Machine
Well-fed and
Well-funded…
To keep our
Friends and
Corporations always
Happy...
We meet at
Camp David.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
ODE ON ANN COULTER
Groups representing millions of Americans-veterans, labor, women, students, religionists, business, and others-asked to meet with President Bush before the invasion. The American Caesar turned them all down. He knew it all. Then he blew it all and millions of Iraqis and tens of thousands of Americans are paying a severe price for this pig-headed corporate militarist.
Ralph Nader
Cute Ann Coulter
(Verbal adulterer?)
Gives annoying sarcastic butts and blows
To all the left-wing liberal nuts and crows.
Cute Ann Coulter scoffs and laughs
At all those liberal kooks who
Give her the cold shoulder.
Cute Ann Coulter writes her books &
Sells them with her awful looks.
Ralph Nader
Cute Ann Coulter
(Verbal adulterer?)
Gives annoying sarcastic butts and blows
To all the left-wing liberal nuts and crows.
Cute Ann Coulter scoffs and laughs
At all those liberal kooks who
Give her the cold shoulder.
Cute Ann Coulter writes her books &
Sells them with her awful looks.
Friday, June 09, 2006
IEDS AND PLENIPEDES
IED.
Intermittent-Explosive-Disorder.
IED.
Improvised-Explosive-Device.
Both exist in Iraq.
Both were produced by the
Intermittent-PrE-Emptive-Explosive-Decider-Long War President George W. Bush.
And what about that millipede with 662 legs?
Now here's some other ("explosive") news to assuage our irritated minds and stressful souls:
The world's leggiest species -- a millipede that has up to 750 legs -- has been spotted for the first time in 80 years.
The last time Illacme plenipes was seen was in 1926, when it was discovered living in a tiny habitat measuring just 0.8 square kilometres (0.31 sq. miles) in San Benito County, California.
The adult females were nearly twice as long as the adult males, coming in at 33.20mm (1.31 inches) and bearing either 662 or 666 legs, arrayed on 170 or 171 segments. The adult males measured up to 16.15mm (0.64 inches) and up to 402 legs, on 105 segments.
There are around 10,000 species of millipedes, one of the world's oldest terrestrial animals.
Plenipedes can have up to 750 legs, making them the closest to having the 1,000 that millipedes according to folklore are supposed to have.
Intermittent-Explosive-Disorder.
IED.
Improvised-Explosive-Device.
Both exist in Iraq.
Both were produced by the
Intermittent-PrE-Emptive-Explosive-Decider-Long War President George W. Bush.
And what about that millipede with 662 legs?
Now here's some other ("explosive") news to assuage our irritated minds and stressful souls:
The world's leggiest species -- a millipede that has up to 750 legs -- has been spotted for the first time in 80 years.
The last time Illacme plenipes was seen was in 1926, when it was discovered living in a tiny habitat measuring just 0.8 square kilometres (0.31 sq. miles) in San Benito County, California.
The adult females were nearly twice as long as the adult males, coming in at 33.20mm (1.31 inches) and bearing either 662 or 666 legs, arrayed on 170 or 171 segments. The adult males measured up to 16.15mm (0.64 inches) and up to 402 legs, on 105 segments.
There are around 10,000 species of millipedes, one of the world's oldest terrestrial animals.
Plenipedes can have up to 750 legs, making them the closest to having the 1,000 that millipedes according to folklore are supposed to have.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
LATE NIGHT CONVERSATION BETWEEN GEORGE AND LAURA BUSH
LB: George, I have some good news and some bad news. Which do you want to hear first?
GWB: Give me the good news first; I like to save bad news for last...you know, like my Iraq war and Katrina (Giggling).
LB: O.K. Here's the good news: Both of our daughters are lesbians.
GWB: O.K. And what's the bad news?
LB: I think I'm one too.
GWB: Bad...very bad news. {But GW is thinking: 'Well, maybe not. This could be the opening Condi and I have been waiting for.'}
LB: So George, what do we do now"
GWB: Give me the phone. I need to call My brain.
LB: Call who?
GWB: You know...My Brain...Karl Rove.
LB: And then what?
GWB: Karl will think of something. He always does.
LB: O.K. Give me the phone.
GWB: Who are you calling this time of night?
LB: My bit**... Ann Coulter.
GWB: Holy s***!
GWB: Give me the good news first; I like to save bad news for last...you know, like my Iraq war and Katrina (Giggling).
LB: O.K. Here's the good news: Both of our daughters are lesbians.
GWB: O.K. And what's the bad news?
LB: I think I'm one too.
GWB: Bad...very bad news. {But GW is thinking: 'Well, maybe not. This could be the opening Condi and I have been waiting for.'}
LB: So George, what do we do now"
GWB: Give me the phone. I need to call My brain.
LB: Call who?
GWB: You know...My Brain...Karl Rove.
LB: And then what?
GWB: Karl will think of something. He always does.
LB: O.K. Give me the phone.
GWB: Who are you calling this time of night?
LB: My bit**... Ann Coulter.
GWB: Holy s***!
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
NO BERRIES PLEASE
Lieberry or Lyeberry?
Is this where there are berries of lye or where berries lie?
Neither.
I continue to hear many people pronounce this word as if it contained berries.
It has no berries.
Bury the thought.
Better yet...start practicing the correct pronunciation of this word.
Drop the berry sound.
Get rid of the berries.
Say:
Brrrr...air...ee...
Brrr...air...ee...
Lie-brair-ee.
LIBRARY!
Thank you.
Is this where there are berries of lye or where berries lie?
Neither.
I continue to hear many people pronounce this word as if it contained berries.
It has no berries.
Bury the thought.
Better yet...start practicing the correct pronunciation of this word.
Drop the berry sound.
Get rid of the berries.
Say:
Brrrr...air...ee...
Brrr...air...ee...
Lie-brair-ee.
LIBRARY!
Thank you.
Monday, June 05, 2006
SAY I R A N
Picture yourself as a pugilist.
Picture yourself as a pugilist getting pummeled to the pulp.
You are embarrassed.
You are tired.
You are feeling very lousy, indeed.
Are you going to do something nice...or something awful...if you can?
Now picture yourself as a president or king or dictator.
Then picture yourself as President George W. Bush.
How would you feel?
How would you act?
How might you react…
If you were getting pummeled to the pulp...
In the polls...
By your own political party...
By the war that you started and are now losing...
Are you going to do something nice...or something awful...if you can?
Now say just one word...
IRAN!
Picture yourself as a pugilist getting pummeled to the pulp.
You are embarrassed.
You are tired.
You are feeling very lousy, indeed.
Are you going to do something nice...or something awful...if you can?
Now picture yourself as a president or king or dictator.
Then picture yourself as President George W. Bush.
How would you feel?
How would you act?
How might you react…
If you were getting pummeled to the pulp...
In the polls...
By your own political party...
By the war that you started and are now losing...
Are you going to do something nice...or something awful...if you can?
Now say just one word...
IRAN!
Sunday, June 04, 2006
REMEMBERING HOW ENRON HELPED ELECT LONG WAR PRESIDENT BUSH
That Lay was instrumental in Bush’s rise to the presidency is indisputable. Since 1993, Lay and top Enron executives donated nearly $2 million to Bush. Lay also personally donated $326,000 in soft money to the Republican Party in the three years prior to Bush’s presidential bid, and he was one of the Republican “pioneers” who raised $100,000 in smaller contributions for Bush. Lay’s wife donated $100,000 for inauguration festivities.
As governor, Bush did what Enron wanted, cutting taxes and deregulating utilities. The deregulation ideology, which George W. long had adopted as gospel, allowed dubious bookkeeping and other acts of chicanery that shocked Wall Street and drove a $60-billion company, seventh on the Fortune 500 list, into bankruptcy.
This emerging scandal makes Whitewater seem puny in comparison; clearly there ought to be at least as aggressive a congressional inquiry into the connection between the Bush administration and the Enron debacle. Facts must be revealed, beginning with the content of Lay’s private meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney to create the administration’s energy policy.
The Enron Story Everyone Is Missing: The Bush-Ken Lay Connection
Written by truthdig.com/Robert Scheer
Thursday, 01 June 2006
Saturday, June 03, 2006
WE ARE THE KILLERS: THE LEGACY OF GEORGE W. BUSH
For it is not the small-scale Haditha atrocity that should be compared to My Lai: it is the entire Iraq War itself. The whole operation from its inception in high-level mendacity to its execution in blood-soaked arrogance, folly, greed and incompetence is a war crime of almost unfathomable proportions: a My Lai writ large, a My Lai every single day, year after year after year.
The Marines who killed at Haditha were veterans of the much larger atrocity at Fallujah the year before. There they took part in one of the most savage demolitions of a city since World War II. Eight weeks of relentless bombing was followed by a cut-off of the city's water, electricity and food supplies. a clear war crime under the Geneva Conventions. More than two-thirds of the city's residents, some 200,000 people, fled the coming inferno, refugees in their own land. Those who remained were considered fair game in the house-by-house ravaging that followed. Among the Americans' first targets were the city's hospitals and clinics, as U.S. officers freely admitted to the New York Times: another blatant war crime. They were destroyed or shut down, with medical staff killed or imprisoned, to prevent bad publicity about civilian casualties from reaching the outside world, the officers said. Later, an investigation by the U.S.-backed Iraqi government found credible evidence of the use of chemical weapons against the city; yet another war crime. Up to 6,000 people were killed in the attack, most of them civilians.
Like Abu Ghraib, Haditha is not an aberration by a few "bad apples" but the emblem of a wider, systemic crime, the natural fruit of an outlaw regime that has made aggressive war, torture, indefinite detention, "extrajudicial killing," rendition and concentration camps official national policy. This moral rot is Bush's true historical legacy.
The Line Of Atrocity -
From The White House
To Haditha
By Chris Floyd
The Long War President’s wars have endangered the national security of the United States of America.
George W. Bush’s wars and tax cuts for the rich and super-rich have drained the Treasury of America and her children.
America’s military power has been drained and emasculated by George W. Bush’s wars.
Afghanistan is becoming a disaster. The Taliban and Al-Qaeda are getting bolder and stronger---not weaker.
Respect for America has been drained by this Long War President’s wars and his indifference to Geneva Convention Protocols and other International Laws.
The health and welfare of the earth has been endangered by George W. Bush’s countless orders to kill environmental (protection) regulations.
The health and welfare of the earth has been endangered by George W. Bush’s mindless indifference to factual and scientific data on the environment and global warming.
The mindset of George W. Bush is:
"Let tomorrow's children and leaders clean up the planet and my mess in Iraq. I won't be here anyway."
Traditional allies of America have been alienated by George W. Bush’s dictatorial-like reign.
George W. Bush’s disregard to the opinions of mankind has endangered not only America…
BUT THE ENTIRE PLANET!
Now is the time for an extraterrestrial civilization to intervene and save America and the planet…from
GEORGE W. BUSH!
BUT FIRST, VOTE THE REPUBLICANS OUT IN NOVEMBER!
Mad Plato
Friday, June 02, 2006
IRAN IS ON THE TABLE (THE CHOPPING BLOCK!)
“Representatives of the five Permanent Members of the Council (Britain, China, France, the Russian Federation, and the United States) plus Germany very well could finalize an agreement on Iran's nuclear program that makes UN Charter- and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty-violating demands on Iran. Should this or any subsequent meeting among these powers produce a draft Security Council resolution that calls upon Iran to surrender its "inalienable right" under Article IV.1 of the NPT "to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discriminati on" (1970),[1] along with enforceable, Chapter VII-type penalties in case Iran resists their orders, the UN Charter and the NPT will have been overthrown, and the current crisis greatly heightened all in the name of maintaining ‘international peace and security.’"
“What responses Britain, France, Germany, and especially China and Russia summon will ultimately go a long way toward deciding whether the American crimes of Afghanistan and Iraq are extended to Iran.”
From “Iran: a Manufactured Crisis”
By DAVID PETERSON/counterpunch.com/6-1-06
Well, the votes are in and here are the results:
“Six world powers -- including all five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- Thursday agreed on a plan for resuming negotiations with Iran -- but only if Tehran agrees to suspend its manufacture of nuclear fuel. "We urge Iran to take the positive path... which would bring significant benefits to Iran," said British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, who announced the agreement.”
CNN.com/9:31 P.M./6-1-06
GEORGE W. BUSH WANTS A WAR WITH IRAN?
“The Bush administration has no intention of peacefully resolving the nuclear dispute with Iran. They have consistently blocked all attempts by Iran to negotiate in good faith or to establish diplomatic channels for discussion.”
“Controlling the oil resources of the Caspian Basin and removing regional rivals to Israel remain the fundamental goals of Bush's global resource war. This makes a military confrontation with Iran inevitable. It is absurd to expect the Bush administration will seriously negotiate when their final purpose is regime change.”
“U.S. carrier groups are already moving to the Gulf and the finishing touches are being put on the battle plans."
1 The IAEA has consistently said that there is "no evidence" that Iran has a nuclear weapons program or is diverting nuclear material from its research.
2 Iran has been in full compliance with all its treaty obligations for 3 years although it has undergone the most intensive inspection regime in the history of the IAEA.
3 The UN Security Council reaffirmed Iran's "inalienable right" to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and did not order Iran to suspend nuclear enrichment as was falsely reported in the news.
4 The United States has violated its obligations under the NPT by developing a new regime of "bunker busting" low yield nuclear weapons.
5 That the United States is violating the UN Charter by unilaterally threatening a sovereign nation which is not in breach of any UN resolution.
Mike Whitney/”Endgaming Iran”/counterpunch.com/6-1-06
IS THE UNITED STATES REALLY GOING TO INVADE Iran? Read this below. What do you think readers?
"Former CIA analyst and Presidential advisor Ray McGovern, fresh from his heated public confrontation with Donald Rumsfeld, fears that staged terror attacks across Europe and the US are probable in order to justify the Bush administration's plan to launch a military strike against Iran, which he thinks will take place in June or July.
Appearing on The Alex Jones Show, McGovern was asked about the timetable for war in Iran and said that behind the diplomatic smokescreen, the final chess pieces were being moved into position.
"There is already one carrier task force there in the Gulf, two are steaming toward it at the last report I have at least - they will all be there in another week or so."
"The propaganda has been laid, the aircraft carriers are in place, it doesn't take much to fly the bombers out of British and US bases - cruse missiles are at the ready, Israel is egging us on," said McGovern.
"The turmoil caused by such an action would lead the US to tap its so-called 'mini-nuke' arsenal said McGovern, "opening a new Pandora's box of chaos."
McGovern highlighted President Bush's all time record low approval ratings as a reason for launching an attack on Iran to again whip up false patriotic fervour.
"I can see Karl Rove saying, 'look what you need to do is become a war president again, get us involved with something pretty big here and then strut around and say you can't vote for a bunch of Democrats to pull the rug out from under me while there's a war going on'."
"McGovern entertained the notion that western governments and intelligence hierarchies could potentially stage terror attacks in Europe and the US either before or after an invasion of Iran.
"I would say even probable because they need some proximate cause, some casus belli to justify really unleashing things on Iran....I would put very little past this crew - their record of dissembling and disingenuousness is unparalleled.'
McGovern said that Rove, Cheney and Rumsfeld, fearing impeachment and Enron-style criminal proceedings, are urging President Bush to launch a war in order to create a climate unconducive to lengthy investigations and impeachment proceedings."
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | June 1 2006
“What responses Britain, France, Germany, and especially China and Russia summon will ultimately go a long way toward deciding whether the American crimes of Afghanistan and Iraq are extended to Iran.”
From “Iran: a Manufactured Crisis”
By DAVID PETERSON/counterpunch.com/6-1-06
Well, the votes are in and here are the results:
“Six world powers -- including all five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- Thursday agreed on a plan for resuming negotiations with Iran -- but only if Tehran agrees to suspend its manufacture of nuclear fuel. "We urge Iran to take the positive path... which would bring significant benefits to Iran," said British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, who announced the agreement.”
CNN.com/9:31 P.M./6-1-06
GEORGE W. BUSH WANTS A WAR WITH IRAN?
“The Bush administration has no intention of peacefully resolving the nuclear dispute with Iran. They have consistently blocked all attempts by Iran to negotiate in good faith or to establish diplomatic channels for discussion.”
“Controlling the oil resources of the Caspian Basin and removing regional rivals to Israel remain the fundamental goals of Bush's global resource war. This makes a military confrontation with Iran inevitable. It is absurd to expect the Bush administration will seriously negotiate when their final purpose is regime change.”
“U.S. carrier groups are already moving to the Gulf and the finishing touches are being put on the battle plans."
1 The IAEA has consistently said that there is "no evidence" that Iran has a nuclear weapons program or is diverting nuclear material from its research.
2 Iran has been in full compliance with all its treaty obligations for 3 years although it has undergone the most intensive inspection regime in the history of the IAEA.
3 The UN Security Council reaffirmed Iran's "inalienable right" to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and did not order Iran to suspend nuclear enrichment as was falsely reported in the news.
4 The United States has violated its obligations under the NPT by developing a new regime of "bunker busting" low yield nuclear weapons.
5 That the United States is violating the UN Charter by unilaterally threatening a sovereign nation which is not in breach of any UN resolution.
Mike Whitney/”Endgaming Iran”/counterpunch.com/6-1-06
IS THE UNITED STATES REALLY GOING TO INVADE Iran? Read this below. What do you think readers?
"Former CIA analyst and Presidential advisor Ray McGovern, fresh from his heated public confrontation with Donald Rumsfeld, fears that staged terror attacks across Europe and the US are probable in order to justify the Bush administration's plan to launch a military strike against Iran, which he thinks will take place in June or July.
Appearing on The Alex Jones Show, McGovern was asked about the timetable for war in Iran and said that behind the diplomatic smokescreen, the final chess pieces were being moved into position.
"There is already one carrier task force there in the Gulf, two are steaming toward it at the last report I have at least - they will all be there in another week or so."
"The propaganda has been laid, the aircraft carriers are in place, it doesn't take much to fly the bombers out of British and US bases - cruse missiles are at the ready, Israel is egging us on," said McGovern.
"The turmoil caused by such an action would lead the US to tap its so-called 'mini-nuke' arsenal said McGovern, "opening a new Pandora's box of chaos."
McGovern highlighted President Bush's all time record low approval ratings as a reason for launching an attack on Iran to again whip up false patriotic fervour.
"I can see Karl Rove saying, 'look what you need to do is become a war president again, get us involved with something pretty big here and then strut around and say you can't vote for a bunch of Democrats to pull the rug out from under me while there's a war going on'."
"McGovern entertained the notion that western governments and intelligence hierarchies could potentially stage terror attacks in Europe and the US either before or after an invasion of Iran.
"I would say even probable because they need some proximate cause, some casus belli to justify really unleashing things on Iran....I would put very little past this crew - their record of dissembling and disingenuousness is unparalleled.'
McGovern said that Rove, Cheney and Rumsfeld, fearing impeachment and Enron-style criminal proceedings, are urging President Bush to launch a war in order to create a climate unconducive to lengthy investigations and impeachment proceedings."
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | June 1 2006
Thursday, June 01, 2006
A TON OF COFFEE AND A GALLON OF GAS
I remember the “energy crisis” of 1973.
I had already graduated from college with my degree in English (and my minor in Education).
I had gotten a teaching job right out of college, but I resigned after the first semester.
It was a situation where the “whites” were fighting the “browns”.
It was the time of Chicano power.
Parents came to school with guns.
The school was patrolled by policemen. Classrooms were locked.
I didn’t understand what all of the fighting was about, so I left. I wanted to be a teacher, not a referee.
That was 1971.
I “slipped into” a quiet one-room cottage in the mountains.
A creek was right behind my cottage.
It was winter.
I burned incense, listened to Cat Stevens and read a lot. My only companion was a black and white cat named Sam.
I waited for the spring to arrive and melt the frozen creek.
I lived on my final check from the school where I had taught.
But when winter was finished so was my money.
I got a job as a garbage collector.
The gig was hard, but the hours were short.
I started around 5:30 A.M. and finished at 1:00 P.M.
The driver (Don) was a soft-spoken guy in his early twenties. My co-worker on the back of the diesel-puffing garbage truck was a jolly Mexican in his late forties. He liked to point out the houses where he sometimes saw ladies wearing their nightgowns; but I never saw any ladies in such garb.
One cold and drizzly morning a man came out of his house and poured each of us a shot of whiskey. That hit the spot. My numb fingers inside my holy gloves became a little warmer.
I worked on the garbage truck until it got so cold that I couldn’t take it anymore, and I headed for Florida.
After I got tired of Florida I hitched back to Colorado.
I “landed” in Red River, New Mexico after a kid in a blue Karma Ghia picked me up in Amarillo, Texas.
It was a guitar that I was holding that got me the ride. I couldn’t even play it. I paid a $100 for it thinking that I might learn to play someday. I even gave it a name: April. I forget why. Maybe it was because of a woman that I had met with that name.
Anyway, Jim and I rented a small cabin and began looking for work in Red River the next day.
We became painters.
As I painted I listened to the ongoing Nixon impeachment hearings. They went on and on and on.
That was 1973.
I really didn’t feel affected by the “energy-oil” crisis because I didn’t drive, and I was living at a very low subsistence level.
I didn’t earn much money and I spent even less.
I remember one time I bumped into a friend at a local bar. I paid him with a poem I had written to buy me a beer. It was a good poem, but the beer was better.
Those were romantic days for me. I didn’t have responsibilities or attachments...I was just “afoot and lighthearted”.
I met some interesting people.
Then I moved on.
Geopolitics and I were as far apart as the moon and the stars.
I loved those days…Those good, old days.
IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!
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