KARL ROVER - DICK CHICANERY-AND BACKGROUND NOISE

The top secret document was helplessly floating in mid-air when multiple reporters simultaneously grabbed the document before it hit the floor, and the reporters then pondered whether to inform the White House (Karl Rover, Dick Chicanery & Others), who already were aware that the document could bring vengeance upon Joseph Wilson for his revelation of the truth about the Niger-Iraq Uranium falsehood…if only these reporters could think of something...Ah, yes...tell the world that Joseph Wilson's wife worked for the CIA...CALL Robert Novak (everybody trusts his word) and have him write a story about Mr. Wilson's CIA spouse.
Gee, did we think of this on our own or did the White House tell us?
Then confuse and contort, disassociate and discombobulate, throw curve balls and dirt balls...say this and that, then say that and this...whirling dervishes! Wolves in sheep's clothing!
(The American public could be fooled once again!)
Then hope that the independent prosecutor will heed some subtle warnings and promises to let the White House have their evil ways again.
(But let George cover our butts if anyone gets in big trouble, because Dubya always gets his way when he lies about anything.)
Time for some pretzels!

START A REVOLUTION!

There's a lot to worry about today.
A potential world-wide Bird flu epidemic is on its way.
(There goes the fried chicken and Thanksgiving turkey!)
Another monster hurricane is heading in the direction of Forida (stay tuned).
Anti-bacterial soaps might create stronger bacteria than plain old soap and hot water!
The minimum wage will not be increased. The U.S. Senate killed it today.
Let's begin and end with this last worrisome fact and ponder the following:
The U.S. Congress has given themselves a $28,000 pay raise in seven different increments since 1997.
But forget the Americans who pay taxes that gave them their pay increases. No increase has occurred in the Minimum Wage since 1997.
It has been $5.15 for eight years.
This greedy Congress couldn't even give the MW an $.85 increase to a more respectable (and palatable) $6.00/Hr.
Shame on our elected officials.
How about making them use some of their large pay raise(s) to increase the MW.
This is so revolting it ought to start some kind of revolution.

BUSH AND TORTURE

"Mr. President, will you sign the Anti-torture bill?"

"Not goin' to do it.
Won't allow any legislation that stops me from punishing and extracting information from terrorist devils.
I can torture if I have to.
Got to win this War on Terror.
As your War President, I've got to spread democracy no matter how.
Freedom, Peace and Victory are my call words.
I'll stay the course in Iraq until every drop of oil is ours.
Gotta stop those terrorists from stealing the oil that I stole.
Nope. I will veto any bill from Congress that takes away my torture authority.
Now give me some beer and pretzels."

BUSH AND BIRD FLU

"Mr. President, we're concerned about an impending bird flu..."

"What bird? Flew where?"

"Sir, we are referring to the possibility of a flu pandemic caused by birds."

"Which birds?"

"Chickens, sir."

"I don't want to cry fowl on this one gentlemen (Bush laughs the way he usually laughs)...but it looks like some chickens are coming home to roost, not roast!" (More laughing)

"Sir, we don't believe this is a laughing matter."

"O.K. O.K. No more chicken on the White House menu."

"We agree Mr. President, but we are also wondering whether you have a plan for a potential pandemic?"

"Well, our plate is pretty darn full with Iraq...then Katrina...and that other hurricain...what was her name? Oh, yeah Iran…I mean Irene."

"Uh, sir, you mean Rita."

"Yeah, Rita. She wasn't mean like that Katrina."

"So, Mr. President, what should we do about this deadly bird flu?"

"Well, if Rove doesn't get his feathers pulled out, get him and Cheney on this chicken thing. Just make sure FEMA doesn't get involved."

"Yes sir."

"Well, time for lunch."

(Bush walks away mumbling "Fowl is fair, fair is fowl...
hubble-bubble, toil and trouble..."


IT WAS THE OIL STUPID!

THE ORIGINAL LEAKER

The media is buzzing and it isn't spring.
It is autumn,
The Fall of Rove?
Unless the ORIGINAL LEAKER ( i.e., the ORIGINAL SINNER) is found in the Valerie Plame investigation, Bush's brain---Karl Rove---might get some psychosurgery.
Dubya looks cocky and confident.
The imperial (istic) regime of Bush may or may not have some of its armour impaled.
My gut feeling is that this administration has nothing to worry about.
Hush money might have quieted this particular Inquisition.
Political problems can be bought and sold.
Politicians and leaders have the lucre to hide their guilt.
In the Plame case the Bush junta has probably worked behind the scenes to erase or eschew any incrimination.
If I am wrong...
Bring out the BEER AND THE PRETZELS!

FREEDOM PEACE AND DEMOCRACY

"But the big picture, the strategic picture, we're losing. If they kill one of us for every thousand we kill -- they have over 20 million people, we have 123,000. You know, the numbers are just against us. And once one begins to look at it objectively like that, it – you’ve got to ask what this is worth, what you gain by doing this."

"I'm trying to think like a strategist, and in war, as well as in politics and diplomacy, one has to know when to withdraw and when to attack. This was a misguided act and it requires a strategic division and moral confidence to turn it around."

"The invasion of Iraq I believe will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history."
Lt. General William Odom

Today I wasn't feeling well.
Then I read the transcript of the War President's speech to the National Endowment for Democracy (10-6-05).
I felt worse when I finished reading "his" words.
The first parts were inspiring.
I was impressed.
"Who’s writing this stuff?" I wondered.
But, then, my shit detector kicked into high gear.
I started recognizing the glittering, patriotic and cliché-filled sound bites, and between them, as they came at me fast and furious, I remembered that the War President and his happy warriors lied to me, to you and to the world.
It still sounded to me like a doctor who says that you are going to be fine even though your heart and lungs are in a pan under your bed.
"Son, you're almost dead, but fight on...stay the course...victory will arrive."
This speech had me swooning and believing until all of the catchwords, clichés and platitudes appeared.
I wanted to believe what the War President (was reading) repeating.
I really wanted to accept his descriptions of what & why the U.S. was fighting.
But I know too much about what has already happened.
Before, after and during this war.
Freedom, peace, democracy...these are just empty words if the people (for whom we are supposedly helping to obtain them) have been irradiated and killed with weapons that "liberated" them.
Freedom, peace & democracy are meaningless to any family who has lost a brother, a sister, an uncle, an aunt, a cousin, a mother, a father, a grandmother or a grandfather as a result of "collateral damage" during the process of their liberation and acquisition of Freedom, Peace & Democracy.
Bush and Cheney have some gifted writers writing the words which they speak.
But the War Presdident is still wrong.
Afghanistan should have been the focus of our vengeance and payback for 9-11.
The hijackers were not Iraqi---or even from Afghanistan.
They were from the Bush family's oil buddy Saudi Arabia.
Osama bin Laden should have been the enemy to be killed.
Al-Qaeda was located in Afghanistan and Pakistan---not Iraq, as it now is, and which the War President now reminds us of and scares us with.
If you were befuddled by the words that the War President read and spoke on October 6, 2004, you are not alone.
But it is always the War Presdent's delivery of his speech that finally tells us how much we can believe or accept.
Watch how he speaks.
Watch his facial expressions.
Watch his eyes.
Watch his mouth.
What did YOU see?
What do YOU believe?

TODAY'S PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: READING BETWEEN THE LINES OF BUSH

"We are winning in Iraq (And my polls are really rising).
Progress is being made (I wonder what's the opposite of progress?). We will win this war (This line is wearing thin).
It will take time (The Democrats can figure out how much time in 2008).
Spreading democracy and freedom is hard but we will prevail (This line is also wearing thin).
The terrorists can't win (But they sure have a lot of bombs).
We will defeat them (Gotta sound strong in the face of defeat).
The violence will grow as the election gets closer (Keep repeating the same reassuring propaganda).
Iraqi soldiers are becoming more and more able to protect their people (Yeah...right).
The Iraqi people are ready for freedom (But wish the U.S. would leave).
The world will be safer when Saddam is gone (Oops).
The United States will return to the Moon.
We will find those WMD.
Give me some pretzels.
I need to get my hands on a horse.
Good night and God bless America.

GOD FORGIVE AMERICA

Americans don't like liars or losers.
Especially when the lies and losers are big.
WMD as a reason to bomb and then occupy Iraq was a big lie.
Devotees to Bush like to ignore and discount this big lie.
Right now the War President is in denial that the war is being lost.
Yes, some battles are being won, but overall the deaths and bombs increase.
The War President has just reminded us that the violence will increase.
This isn't very reassuring.
But Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney are all "singing" the same tune.
The melody and music is not that of the Star-Spangled Banner.
Taps is the melody.
The music is called shame and tragedy.
I am tired of hearing Bush say "God Bless America".
He needs to begin saying "God forgive America."

THE MARCH TO FREEDOM

"As these milestones approach, we can expect there to be increasing violence from the terrorists," Bush said, after a briefing from US Central Command chief, General John Abizaid, General George Casey, commander of US forces in Iraq and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers.
"We can expect they'll do everything in their power to try to stop the march of freedom," Bush warned during comments in the Rose Garden about terrorism.
Standing on the right side of the emperor-I-wish-I-were-a-dictator War president were the grim-looking twins Rumsfeld and Cheney.
Yes, Mr. War president, your Iraq war is now like a victim of violence with blood gushing out of a gaping hole in the cranium.
And the prognosis is that more and more blood is expected to pour forth until your march of freedom is won.
The War president's top generals are now telling us that fewer Iraqi battalions are ready to replace U.S. soldiers.
Is this to get the American public to accept "staying the course"?
The patient is dying, but we need to continue what we have been doing.
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Love is Hate.

SAME SEX MARRIAGE

By Mad Plato

Animals. They don’t need to worry about same sex marriages. In fact, they don’t get married at all. Nor do they get divorces.

When Mr. Bear wants to live in a cave with another Mr. Bear, who is there to care? No constitutional amendments will be made for the bonding arrangements between animals. But, generally, animals are quite monogamous. I guess.

Humans. They worry about same sex marriages. Miss so-and-so wants to live with another Miss so-and-so. Then both want to get married. Then the government says NO! Infidels! Going against the grain! Marriage is only between a man and woman. I guess.

Aliens. OK. I won’t go there.

If the shoe fits, then wear it. Different strokes for different folks.

I guess.

DON'T LOOK A GIFT HORSE OR DENTIST IN THE MOUTH

Caveat emptor... of dentists!
I recently went to Juarez to see if I could find a dentist.
Six months ago a dentist here in El Paso ago told me that my teeth were soon going to fall out from decay and bacteria, etc.
This dentist scared me when he showed all of the tadpole-like bacteria "swimming" across the computer screen.
Those things are inside my mouth? Lord, I'll never osculate again!
Anyway, the price tag here in El Paso was a mere $9,000!
I had my bottom teeth cleaned by the El Paso dentist, but was told that it was not a regular cleaning. It cost $400 and took just twenty minutes.
The next day my porcelain bridge came out because of the cleaning.
The same dentist said he would not charge the full price for gluing it
back in, and I paid $63!
Well, to cut to the chase, the Juarez dentist said that my teeth were fine, except for the missing bridge...and two front teeth that will be replaced for $143.
Never look a gift horse or dentist in the mouth, and go to Juarez
when you want honest and inexpensive service.

LEAVE IRAQ

Let us worry about Americans.
Let us protect our own shores.
The United States has already destroyed Iraq.
It is not being rebuilt. It is unlikely that Iraq will ever be "rebuilt".
The insurgency is now too elusive and strong (Time magazine).
Many former members of the U.S. military (Time magazine) now admit that this
war is not winnable.
Stay and stay stupid, or leave and gain some wisdom.
The U.S. government (i.e. the Bush regime) betrayed America and Iraq.
I feel your pain Mr. Planning Minister Barham Saleh, but your country now
must go it alone.
We are leaving you.
We put you in an icebox by attacking you.
You are in the cold. Get used to it.
The U.S. government made a big mistake. We are sorry. But we have to worry
about our own survival.
Wait...this is just coming in...Israel and Saudi Arabia have just informed me that the U.S.
will not leave or they will fix us with another 9/11.

REBELLION OR DEATH

What you wrote insinuated that I had no faith or that I had my faith in one kind of "church of entertainment".
Church and faith associated with entertainment are mixed metaphors.
A church is not usually associated with entertainment. Well, except for those holy rollers who had their meeting in the same church where I set up chairs and tables for Grandma Pat so that she and her friends could play their cards.
(My mission was to look at the girls. I don't know if Grandma ever realized this).
Anyway, I waited outside the church, listening to the racket of all of those holy rollers, and pictured in my mind their bodies rolling all over the floor. The windows were too high for me to spy a look at their antics.
"Boy", I thought to myself, "this religion sure is a lot different from Catholicism."
My faith---my beliefs---are a synthesis of all that I have ever read or experienced.
I have not always found what I have sought.
I do not (and did not) always seek what I knew I would find.
I have been reading about and “investigating” the Bush administration to learn what it’s doing, what it has done…and what it might plan to do.
I believe that America is in peril.
And I don’t think enough citizens care or know just what is and has been happening; but it appears now that more and more citizens are finding out and are not very happy with their new awareness.
Camus taught me to resist evil and to embrace life, the sun, and flowers.
He taught me about rebellion…or death.
He taught me choose life---to smile in the face of its absurdities.
If I am constantly repeating one theme---bashing the Bush
administration---it is also true that I have been critical of the war president's Iraq attack before he attacked.
I am bashing him because he bashed us.
I do not agree and I do not condone what President George W. Bush has done.
I am outraged.
As Bertolt Brecht wrote:
"I know.
But I do not approve.
And I am not resigned."

I also know.
I also do not approve.
And I also will not be resigned.

RETURN TO LUNA

The USA is heading back to the moon.
But not until 2018.
Maybe by then America will be out of Iraq.
New Orleans will have been rebuilt.
But we are still in the dark about what pre-emptive wars George W. Bush (i.e. Dick "Always hiding in his bunker" Cheney and Donald "Duck the question" Rumsfeld) have planned.
North Korea, at least for the time being, has been brought to its senses. (Hunger is a very powerful sense and bargaining chip!)
Syria and Iran are breathing down our necks and aiding the freedom-fighters (I mean terrorists) in Iraq.
On May 25, 1961 John F. Kennedy recommended that the United States land men on the moon before the end of that decade.
If we are to believe our eyes and ears, men did land on the moon in 1969.
Today's technology has had nearly 40 years to advance itself and improve the efficiency of returning to the moon.
Then why is it going to take 13 years to go back to Luna?
Some weirdos are saying that WE NEVER LANDED ON MOON. THAT IT WILL BE THE FIRST TIME!
Yes, and water is not wet.
Let's get rolling.

THE BUBONIC PLAGUE

Forget for a moment about the bloody debacle of Dubya's Iraq war and the tragedy produced by Hurricane Katrina.
The Black Plague is on the loose in New Jersey!
That's right...the BUBONIC PLAGUE!
Three (not blind) mice are missing in (or from) a laboratory in the Garden State.
Where is the Pied Piper?
Where in the heck is security at this “bio-terrorism research facility”?
It's no wonder that citizens are getting sicker.
It's no wonder that viruses are becoming more deadly and more drug-resistant.
Some officials said that the mice were either stolen or misplaced, but other scientists and investigators think the missing mice were eaten by other mice in the cages.
Put out the d-CON!

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

Wednesday, a federal judge in Sacramento declared the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional -- a decision that could put the divisive issue on track for another round of Supreme Court arguments.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton ruled that the pledge's reference to one nation "under God" violates schoolchildren's right to be "free from a coercive requirement to affirm God."

I agree.
Make the pledge more inclusive.
There shouldn’t be a coercive requirement to affirm God or anyone else.
Here is my alternative pledge.
I realize that it needs some editing.
I know that I have left out many who need to be included.
Please mail me your suggestions.

“I pledge allegiance to the flag and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under…God, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Confucius, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Socrates, Zoroaster, George Washington, the Greek gods, Moses, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, all of the Saints…my Grandma… and anyone who pays taxes…indivisible and with Liberty and Justice for all.”

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE

Finally.
George W. Bush revealed that he is human.
But one might assert, and the assertion can be made with a nil amount of error, that this revelation is too little, too late.
This president miscalculates (once again) if he thinks that the American public is going to swallow his one little pill of remorse.
No, Mr. President.
We no longer believe you.
We no longer trust your words or your soul.
I thought to myself, "Mr. Bush wanted to show his mother that he was not heartless and remorseless".
But then I thought, "No, he did this because his handlers (Rove? Cheney? Laura?) told George Jr. that he had to be the compassionate conservative that he has never been."
When you saw his face; when you saw him tell us that he took responsibility...did you believe this president?
I did not.
I once again saw the beginning of a slimy smirk as he spoke.
This emperor has already lost his clothes
and he is still standing stark naked.

IMPEACH

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (chuckling slightly) is working very well for them."

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
Barbara Bush


The poor and the dead in Iraq or New Orleans didn't really matter for the mother of George W. Bush.
With a mother who talks like this it is no surprise that her son is also smug, callous and remorseless.
All of those executions in Texas.
All of those dying children and elderly in New Orleans.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civlians..DEAD.
Thousands and thousands of brave American soldiers wounded and...DEAD.
War and needless deaths were preventable.
This president has prevented neither.
Americans now realize that our nation has suffered from the depravity and deception of George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and others on the tragic stage of this administration.
Americans are now joining hands and voices.
They want the terror to stop.
They want this administration to be brought to justice for its lies and errors.
The American people are now requesting impeachment of this administration.
Enough is enough.

INVESTIGATE GEORGE W. BUSH

Someone needs to oversee an investigation of George W. Bush.
Someone needs to lead an investigation of President George W. Bush.
He can't lead; it's time to find out why.
He misled the United States of America into a false and shameful war.
He and his colleagues in the State Department, the CIA, FBI, the NSA, the Pentagon and on and on did not pay attention to Al-Queda or to other messages being sent to the White House that clearly indicated some very bad things could happen in New York and Washington, D.C.
Blame is NOT a game.
But, President Bush, you perform and lead like your job is a game.
9-11 and your Pre-emptive war on Iraq are still lingering and unanswered questions.
History will be the final investigative commission of your blameful and shameful administration.
In the meantime (and it is a very sad and mean time) the American people do not trust you, George W. Bush, to lead any investigation.
Step aside.
The American people deserve better.
We want the most independent and objective team of outsiders to find out why you bombed Iraq; why New York was attacked; and why your leadership failed and produced the horrendous tragedy in New Orleans.

BUSH WANTS TO MOVE HEAVEN & EARTH...AGAIN!

“Had I had any inkling whatsoever that people were going to fly airplanes into buildings, we would have moved heaven and earth to protect the country. Just like we’re working to prevent further attacks.”
George W. Bush
April 14, 2004


"Not an hour goes by that we do not spend a lot of time thinking about the people who are actively suffering. The United States, as the president has said, is going to move heaven and earth to rescue, feed, shelter" victims of the storm.

Michael Chertoff
Director of Homeland Security
September 3, 2005



Homeland Security secretary Chertoff is now Bush's ace cheerleader.
Chertoff said that he and Bush & Co ("we") think about the suffering people in New Orleans constantly.
This has the same ring of Bush's refrain: "I think about Iraq every day."
Not only are Bush & Co thinking a lot, but the president, in the words of Chertoff, "is going to move heaven and earth to rescue, feed, shelter" victims of the storm.
This president must have powers from out of this world.
He is a supernatural president.
Too bad he didn't use those powers to respond more swiftly to the tragedy in New Orleans.
Too bad he doesn't use those powers to bring the troops home from his lying war.
I think about Iraq every day, too, Mr. Bush.
I think about you, the Commander-in-Chief, who caused the bloody and blundering quagmire in Iraq.
I do not believe you or Mr. Chertoff.
And leave heaven and earth alone.
You have moved them quite enough, already, thank you!