THE PARTY OF SPENDERS

The presidency of George W. Bush has spent and spent and spent.
It has spent money and it has spent human lives; it has spent our Freedom and it has spent our Liberty.
The Long War President’s Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove has warned that the Democrats will raise taxes.
That's right, Karl, they will have to raise taxes because of all the money that has been spent and spent and spent...BY REPUBLICANS!
More and more taxes will be needed in order to PAY FOR YOUR MASSIVE DEBTS...and now this and the next generation of American citizens, and many after these, will pay and pay and pay.
The rich have paid much less for the Decider’s hatched, fabricated, mendacious and iniquitous invasion and occupation of Iraq than the poor and middle class.
The poor pay and the rich play while soldiers and the innocent die.

MORE DEBTS AND DEATHS MORE BLOOD AND TEARS

Karl Rove said that he has The Math.
And that he has his own polls.
He is quite sure that the GOP will stay in power as the majority party.
Maybe Rove is smug because he knows that electronic voting machines will be the failsafe way for the Republicans to win.
There has been plenty of time for this country to get its "act" together with these electronic voting machines.
It is almost as if the ruling junta has prevented a paper trail from being established for the November election.
Why wasn't a law passed to ensure that voters' votes would be tallied with a paper record, not just with electrons.
If the Democrats lose in November, it is a sure sign that this nation has nearly become a dictatorship.
BushDumb will continue.
The tragic and wrong Iraq War will continue.
More Debts and Deaths.
More Blood and Tears.

ON SEAN HANNITY

I rarely watch him.
I rarely watch the FOX NEWS channel either.
But Sean Hannity is a squeaking poster boy for the Republicans.
He is the talking head and obsequious lap-dog for the Torturer-in-Chief Long War President.
He is a cute and likeable young man who has been loyal to the lies of the Bush cabal.
He and Rush Limbaugh are two peas in a pod.
Rush does have more bats in his belfry.
To be fair and balanced, Air America also has its own squeaking, talking heads.
I turn the radio off when all that is being said is rant and fomentation.
Still, Mr. Hannity would be a self-righteous and feel-good guy if he was riding on one of the four horses of the Apocalypse.

THE MAD HATTER

Bless you Rush Limbaugh!
You have just helped Democrats to win back the Senate!
Whatever medication YOU are on Mr. Limbaugh, keep taking the stuff!
Your asinine gesticulations and denunciations of Michael J. Fox have further defined your essence as A vicious, vile, and radical Republican Right-Wing Wacko.
Keep evacuating your silly and shocking offal.
You are a nightmare come true!

I WILL STAY THE **CKING COURSE IN IRAQ UNTIL THE **CKING JOB IS DONE AND THERE IS **CKING VICTORY

He **cked up in Iraq.
Now he is trying to unf*** what he **cked up.
It's a **cked-up situation.
These **ckers who **cked-up are still **cking up.
They don't give a **ck.
It's their **cking **cked-up war.
They want us to leave them the **ck alone.
**ck you if you think that we **cked up.
Get the **ck away, because this **cking, **cked up war is not going the **ck away.
He **cked up in Iraq.
He **cked us when he **cked up.
He’s still **cking us with his **cking war!
It's still a **cking, **cked up **ck-up!

WHY I WRITE

 

I write to shake up the norm and status quo.

I write to disembowel the lies from those who tell them.

I write to wake up the gullible who accept the gospel and propaganda of their government without any critical thinking.

I write to liberate.

I write to illuminate and incriminate.

I write to amuse and accuse.

I write to vent and rant; but I hope with cool and clear reason---not with vague and hot unreason.

I do not write for money.

I do not receive money.

I write to open eyes.

I write to open hearts and minds.

STAY OFF THE COURSE

“Stay the course also means don’t leave before the job is done. And that’s — we’re going to get the job done in Iraq. And it’s important that we do get the job done in Iraq.”
George W. Bush

Alright, I will get off of my old hobby horse and stop saying that WE WILL STAY THE COURSE in Iraq.
Now, I will say GET THE JOB DONE.
Yeah, get the job done.
Victory.
Get the job done.
Get off the course.
Get the job done.
Victory.
History repeats itself. I am just repeating history.
Get the job done.
Get the job done.
Victory.
Yeah, that's the ticket.

THE FACE OF DICTATORSHIP

As I lay awake
There came an awful voice
From across the land,
And with great power
It showed me
The Face of a Dictator.

I saw Murder on the way-
He had a disguise like Dick Cheney-
Very smooth he looked, yet solemn-
Seven vampires followed him:

All were fat; and well they might
Be in bloodthirsty plight,
Because every day, and every night,
He tossed them human hearts to eat
Which from his wide suit he’d take.

Next came Fraud, and he had on,
Like Donald Rumsfeld, a scarlet scowl;
His huge tears, for he wept well,
Changed to hard rocks as they fell.

And the poor, irradiated children who
Before his feet played back and forth,
Believing every tear a gem,
Got their brains knocked out by him.

Covered with the Bible, as with light,
And the phantoms of the night,
Like Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell, next, Demagoguery
On a serpent slithered by.

And many more Murders were
In this loathsome masquerade,
All hidden, even to the eyes,
Like terrorists, lawyers, or spies.

Finally, the Dictator arrived:
He rode in a black limousine,
Splashed with blood;
He was pale most in the lips,
Like Death in the Apocalypse.

And he wore a kinglike crown,
But in his hands were skull and bones;
From his mouth these words I heard-
I am your Long War President,
The Torturer and the Decider…..
Only
The obedient and faithful shall survive!

A KILLER BOOK

Where were you when the verdict was read in the O.J. Simpson trial?
What was your reaction to the verdict?
Astonishment?
Shock?
Well, that verdict just got trumped with news that Mr. Simpson is writing (or has written) a thriller about a murder.
Who's the character in his book who does the murdering?
That's right, none other than O.J. Simpson.
This was an easy book to write.
After all, real experience is the best teacher and the best source.
Every page of O.J.'s book should be the color of blood.
And put the DNA code of his blood on the front cover.
Any profits from this tome should be paid to his children.
A killer shouldn’t make any profits from his foul deeds.

SOMETHING IS FISHY

The other night I ate lobster.
It was my birthday, so I went hog-wild and splurged.
The last time that I had lobster I baked my own tasty crustaceans.
(No squealing sounds were uttered because mine were already dead and frozen).
As I forked the white bits of my plump lobster, then dipped them into a warm buttery oil that was inside a metal vessel sitting upon a little burning candle, I began to wonder (unfortunately) about what I was eating.
How much Omega 3 and mercury were in lobster…my lobster?.
A few feet away were four aquariums filled with good-sized fish. I am certain that they were happy that they were in their watery abodes instead of on my table.
The next day I searched the Internet to find out the mercury content of lobsters.
Not too high, but not too low either.
Well, I guess I can move faster with some mercury inside of me.
But I won't eat any more lobster for awhile. I’ll wait until my next birthday.
To get my Omega 3 I'll need to eat other fish.
Studies are now proclaiming that Omega 3 can significantly reduce heart attacks.
I wonder if lobsters ever have heart attacks? Maybe just before they get dropped into boiling water!

SEND IN THE CLONES

The clones have come out of the barn.

The FDA will soon approve the sale of milk and meat from cloned cows.

What does it matter?

We beef eaters (who doth harm our own wits) won't know the difference.

Got milk?

Cloned or uncloned?

God allowed the brains of humans to create other means to reproduce life.

Is that God's fault?

Is it an earthly miracle?

I don’t know.

Drink your milk and eat your meat.

STAYER OF THE CORPSE KILLER OF HABEAS CORPUS

STAY THE CORPSE!
WINNING COMES AT A COST!
I FEEL YOUR PAIN!
NO PAIN NO GAIN!
STAY THE CORPSE!
BRING 'EM ON!
SMOKE 'EM OUT!
DEAD OR ALIVE!
STAY THE CORPSE!
I'M THE DECIDER!
I'M THE TORTURER!
I'M THE LONG WAR PRESIDENT!
WINNING COMES AT A COST!
STAY THE CORPSE!

PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON

Imagine when Bill Clinton is back in the White House.
All of that free time for Big Macs and vacuuming.
But Hillary will warn Bill:
"Honey, I'm now the president. And I'll put your rocks in a sling if you have any more Lewinsky's in the White House. Play by my rules or move out."
Bill, of course, would be Mrs. Clinton's chief adviser...and play by her rules.
His presidential experience would be quite valuable.
Right now we have a moron living with a librarian.
Hillary and Bill will restore a respectable I.Q. to the Oval Office.
The American people will get double the bang for their taxpaying buck.
I’d much rather look at Hillary's pretty face each week than the faces of Mr. McCain, Mr. Biden, Mr. Obama, Mr. Giuliani, Oprah or Robin Williams.

MORE READING BETWEEN THE LINES

The United States remains committed to diplomacy.
[Just look at what remains from my commitment in Iraq.]

We're on the move. We're taking action. We're helping this young democracy succeed. [In increasing its death count.]

It's in our interests that Iraq succeed.
[Our interests are, of course, oil and hegemony in the greater Middle East.]

The stakes are high. As a matter of fact, they couldn't be higher.
[And the stakes are getting longer, and the vampires are getting bigger. The steaks are getting more expensive, too.]

Steve, we're constantly changing tactics to achieve a strategic goal.
[And we’re constantly changing rhetoric to achieve a strategic goal.]

Our policy is to help this country succeed, because I understand the stakes. I'm going to repeat them one more time.
[I’m going to repeat the mistakes one more time. Iran, can you hear me now?]

My vow to the American people is I understand the stakes, and I understand what it would mean for us to leave before the job is done.
[Honey, are those steaks done yet?]

I like to tell people we're in an ideological struggle.
[I like to tell myself that I’m an idiot in a struggle.]

But the United States' message to North Korea and Iran and the people in both countries is that we have -- we want to solve issues peacefully.
[As we did in Iraq…Afghanistan…Vietnam…]

If North Korea decides that they don't like what's being said, they're not just stiffing the United States -- I don't know if that's a diplomatic word, or not –
[No, it isn’t a diplomatic word. Stiff means corpse or to cheat.]

If I might say, that is a beautiful suit.
[And what’s under it suits me.]

No, I don't consider it a credible report.
I do know that a lot of innocent people have died, and that troubles me and it grieves me.
[But that’s the price of Victory and staying the course. More stakes through the hearts of Iraqis pains me, but I will stay the course.]

I stand by the figure of 30,000. A lot of innocent people have lost their life -- 600,000, or whatever they guessed at, is just -- it's not credible.
[But neither am I.]

I believe that the situation in Iraq is, no question, tough on the American psyche, like I said I think at this very spot last time I faced the press corps. And it's serious business.
[…for Halliburton…Bechtel…Corporate cronies.]

One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards.
[Boy, everyone must know by now that I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about.]

I'll ask myself a follow-up.
[This might be the first time that a president has ever asked himself a follow-up question at his own press conference. Is this schizophrenic megalomania or what?]

VOYAGES AND FIN DE SIECLE

These not so happy poems were written decades ago. And, alas, the world is still in its handbasket going to blazes.


VOYAGES

The cries of power!
The steeds and golden saddles of nuclear horsemen!
Chariots racing closer and closer to the shore of Englightenment!
"Start again," said the bionic man.
"Bone and blood are irradiated."
"Go on smiling," said the beggar man.
The Stone Age, the Metal Age, the Dark Ages,
The Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution...
Voyages in oceans and galaxies!
The Gold Rush, the Golden Lust, the Garden of Eden...
Voyages in oceans and galaxies!
Where are you Adam and Eve?
Where in the devil is God?
Men kissed Prometheus again
When Atom walked
Onto the stage
Of raging flame.


Fin de Siecle

Time and radiation will not erase
My name from thee
Our love came before this cancer called the
Atomic Age.
Man's radiation will not diminish us nor his
Geiger counter trace us
We are the great bright stones silent and
Alive
We shine in the stars
So look at us
Wish upon us
We will answer
Resplendent gods from the original nova fire!
Time and radiation will not erase
My name from thee
Our love will grow and grow
Before and after atomic war.

NUCLEAR MADNESS

Pop! Went the weasel!
North Korea let the atomic genie out of its own Pandora's Box Monday.
The U.S. has about 10,000 nuclear bombs.
North Korea may have twelve.
The Torturer-in-Chief will make hay out of North Korea's nuclear explosion.
The hay will be fed to voters.
Scare 'em some more...Scare 'em some more...
Scare 'em with war.
If the Bush administration would spend more time negotiating and less time obviating, then the evil axes might be less likely to develop their nuclear ambitions.
Instead, Iran and North Korea now defy and ignore everyone, and go fool-heartedly ahead with their own nuclear madness.
What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
Nuclear Bombs must be important since the U.S. has so many.
Nuclear swords are powerful deterrents.
If the U.S. wants no nukes in the world, then it should start working harder to implement the idea.

Rummy's North Korea Connection What did Donald Rumsfeld know about ABB's deal to build nuclear reactors there? And why won't he talk about it?

By Richard Behar Research Associate Brenda Cherry
May 12, 2003
(FORTUNE Magazine) – Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld rarely keeps his opinions to himself. He tends not to compromise with his enemies. And he clearly disdains the communist regime in North Korea. So it's surprising that there is no clear public record of his views on the controversial 1994 deal in which the U.S. agreed to provide North Korea with two light-water nuclear reactors in exchange for Pyongyang ending its nuclear weapons program. What's even more surprising about Rumsfeld's silence is that he sat on the board of the company that won a $200 million contract to provide the design and key components for the reactors.

SMOKE-FILLED ROOMS

The world started to go to hell when smoking was banned in bars.
I don't have empirical proof. I just know that this is true.
When smokers could drink and smoke inside bars, the general population was in less danger.
The smokers now have to leave their bar stools and stand outside to smoke.
This is quite irritating.
In fact, this is as irritating as the smoke fumes inside the bars.
More smoke means less violence in the world.
Smokers are more high-strung and edgy now.
Crime is up.
Prisons are overcrowded (A little or a lot of smoke doesn't bother dudes on death-row.)
There are more terrorists.
At least give smokers a place of their own in bars to drink and puff away in.
Then the world will be a safer place.

THE UNITED CHURCH OF MIGRAINES

"In recent years, a church-run fitness center with a tanning bed and video arcade in Minnesota, a biblical theme park in Florida, a ministry’s 1,800-acre training retreat and conference center in Michigan, religious broadcasters’ transmission towers in Washington State, and housing for teachers at church-run schools in Alaska have all been granted tax breaks by local officials — or, when they balked, by the courts or state legislators."

As Exemptions Grow, Religion Outweighs Regulation

By DIANA B. HENRIQUES

New York Times

October 8, 2006

*

I am going to start a church.

I am leary of Islam and Christianity.

I am also leary of any church that is based on drugs such as peyote, mescaline, marijuana, LSD etc.

I will start a church called The United Church of Migraines since so many people are afflicted with these painful headaches.

My church would still be beholden to God.

Oh Mighty Supreme Being, Creator of the Universe, we pray to you to relieve our Migraines.

The building for my church will be shaped like a brain.

This big brain will be the symbol of The United Church of Migraines.

I will put a pulsating red light in the center.

Migraine-suffering brothers and sisters will find salvation and relief inside The United Church of Migraines.

With its tax-free revenue, my church will build a recreation center equipped with a fitness center, a bowling alley, video arcade and massage-pizza parlor.

Donations are welcome...big and small.

WALLOWING AND SQUEALING

The deceptive administration of the Torturer-in-Chief CAME, SAW…and almost CONQUERED...but then it COPPED-OUT.
This copping out took the form of inadequately protecting soldiers.
The pre-emptive, immoral and illegal war was fought on the cheap…and still is.
It isn’t enough that the Pentagon has lost (stolen) trillions of dollars [Rumsfeld Sept 10, 2001: The Pentagon cannot account for $2.3 TRILLION].
It isn’t enough that billions and billions of dollars are missing in Iraq:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Nearly $9 billion of money spent on Iraqi reconstruction is unaccounted for because of inefficiencies and bad management according to a watchdog report published Sunday.

But Dick’s friends did just fine (those who didn’t lose their lives) in Iraq.
The Neo Cons conned the United States and the World into their Iraq War.
THEIR CON IS UP!
There is really not much left for the Neo Cons to do except to leave Iraq…or continue to fight and fight and die.
Kick-up the radioactive dust that has been produced by deadly Depleted Uranium-tipped Weapons that have already contaminated the babies, the adults, U.S. soldiers, the water, the sky and the soil of Iraq.
Deformities!
You know how it goes.
How it has always gone.
Destroy the village (in this case a country) in order to save it!
Kissinger’s advice to the Long War President is:
Kill
Kill
Kill
Until there is ViCtOrY.
Meanwhile, the mercury in the GOP barometer is going
Down
Down
Down.
Rove is running around in circles and squealing.
His porcine brain is wallowing in a muddy and malignant morass.
Now, maybe, Americans can rescue their country from these Cons that want to continue their dictatorial and destructive administration.

BAD NEWS NO GOOD NEWS

Global warming is going to turn the planet into a Watery Hell.
Watery because the ocean levels will rise.
Hell because the temperatures will turn most places into deserts.
Marine life is going to die from our sewage.
The Moon and Mars are beginning to look good.
You and I won't be here.
Keep driving those V-8's, those CO2-spewing vehicles, those Military and Jumbo jets, those Space Shuttles!
Live like there is no tomorrow.
But don't hold your breath believing that extraterrestrials will save our collective bellicose butts.
The ETs are just waiting until they can enter the scene when all of us fighting insects (to them) have become extinct, or nearly so.
Then they can begin to create a new paradise to replace the one that we destroyed.

FOLEY'S FOLLIES

“I was molested by the clergy when I was young.
I am now a drunk.
I am also gay.
Don’t blame me.
It’s the fault of my surroundings.
But I am not blaming anyone.
I like little boys.
I know this is not appropriate.
But I didn’t have sexual relations with any minors.
I apologize for potentially causing the GOP to lose the November election.
I am now going to Rehab.
Thank you.”

STATE OF DENIAL BEFORE AND AFTER 9-11

Note: They, these and their refer to: George W. Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz...and all others who knew the Truth when they concealed and covered up the Truth.

They lied before and they lied after.
They are lying now.
They are liars.
Liars are traitors if they lie to their country and citizens.
They promised under oath to defend the United States of America.
They DID NOT.
They promised under oath to defend the Constitution of the United States.
They HAVE NOT.
These liars should be charged with treason.
If not now, then after they leave public office.
The sooner and the better for the restoration of our nation's reputation, for the salvation of our soldiers, and for putting an end to the theft of our national treasury.
The monstrous painting was a mere cartoon until now.
Before 9-11 they knew about the threats and impending plans of Al-Qaeda.
They sat on their hands.
They went on vacation.
They ignored the threats.
Now they blame others.
After 9-11 they lied.
They lied when they told the world that Iraq was a threat.
They lied. They lied. They lied.
And now their lies are being uncovered from a dark, dirty and treasonous tomb.
It is time for voting these liars out of office!
The ship of state is (and was) in peril because of these liars.

THE BUTCHER OF CAMBODIA AND GEORGE W. BUSH

"Victory over the insurgency is the only meaningful exit strategy."
Henry Kissinger on Iraq

Henry Kissinger has always been in the shadows.
Now we know that the Long War President has been receiving advice from Kissinger.
I've always associated Henry Kissinger with the Vietnam War, Chile (not the soup) and his (prolific) shuttle diplomacy to the Middle East.
All three associations had negative results.
I have often tried to imitate the deep, gravelly and mesmerizing voice of Dr. Kissinger.
I’ve never been very successful.
The voice is as unique as it is scary.
Imagine Condoleeza Rice with the voice of Henry Kissinger!
Now that’s a match made in Heaven (or Hell).
Christopher Hitchins matched the following with Dr. Henry Kissinger:
1. The deliberate mass killing of civilian populations in Indochina.
2. Deliberate collusion in mass murder, and later in assassination, in Bangladesh.
3. The personal suborning and planning of murder, of a senior constitutional officer in a democratic nation - Chile - with which the United States was not at war.
4. Personal involvement in a plan to murder the head of state in the democratic nation of Cyprus.
5. The incitement and enabling of genocide in East Timor
6. Personal involvement in a plan to kidnap and murder a journalist living in Washington, DC.

From the Preface of
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
by Christopher Hitchins
Verso Press, 2001

It is no surprise that the Long War President is getting some advice from Henry Kissinger.