BUSH BOONDOGGLES

The Republicans are seizing this moment.
They want to put a spacious chasm between themselves and President Bush.
The Dubai deal has become a boon from Bush for Republicans and Democrats, but a big boondoggle for the Long War President.
Bush wants Arabs to run America's ports, but American citizens DON'T!
The Republicans want to retain their seats (and their pants).
Bush is (as usual) as resilient as concrete.
The Democrats are also getting in their partisan licks, and throwing the Dubai Port pie into the face of terror (9-11) that Bush has worn and used to scare (Control?) the American people.
It has become overwhelmingly obvious to the American people that the Long War President's regime-cabal is wholly self-serving when it comes to money-making...for friends and cronies.
But (as the Long War President has told us)(and this administration can not have it both ways): You are either for America or with the Terrorists.
The LWP has recently shown that he can side with Terror if it means profits.
India and the U.A.E. are egregious examples.

WANT NUCLEAR BOMBS? NO PROBLEM!

"By international agreement, any country that refuses to sign the NPT is ineligible for nuclear technology assistance. This has been the United States' stance toward India for 30 years. But Bush signed an agreement with India last week that will give India access to top level atomic energy technology. Under the agreement only 14 of India's 22 nuclear reactors will be placed under international supervision. You can guess which ones will be supervised ­ those dedicated to energy production. Those dedicated to nuclear weapons material production are off limits."

"Can The 2005 Elections Slow Bush/Cheney?", 3/06/2006, Gerald S. Rellick/rense.com [Gerald S. Rellick, Ph.D., worked in aerospace industry for 22 years. He now teaches in the California Community College system.]

When George W. Bush needs some Arabs, he makes them work to his advantage.
When George W. Bush needs some Indians, he makes them work to his advantage.
When George W. Bush needs another war, he makes a country work to his advantage.
India can have nuclear weapons, our technical help and blessings! EVEN IF India has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. No problem.
Iran CAN NOT HAVE nuclear weapons! Iran will get our bombs and our shock and awe! No problem.
It's like when I am in New York and ordering breakfast.
"You want bacon?
No problem.
"You want hash browns?"
No problem.
No problem.

UPDATE: MORALS & MARBLES

"We have before us in the White House a thief who steals the country's good name and reputation for his private interest and personal use; a liar who seeks to instill in the American people a state of fear; a televangelist who engages the United States in a never-ending crusade against all the world's evil, a wastrel who squanders a vast sum of the nation's wealth on what turns out to be a recruiting drive certain to multiply the host of our enemies. In a word, a criminal—known to be armed and shown to be dangerous. Under the three-strike rule available to the courts in California, judges sentence people to life in jail for having stolen from Wal-Mart a set of golf clubs or a child's tricycle. Who then calls strikes on President Bush, and how many more does he get before being sent down on waivers to one of the Texas Prison Leagues?"
"The Case for Impeachment", Lewis H. Lapham, Harpers Magazine [2/27/06]

"HAS GEORGE BUSH LOST HIS MARBLES?"
Patrick J. Buchanan/2-28-06

Yes he has Pat.
He was losing them well before he became the Long War President.
I lost my marbles when I was around 11 years old.
But these were the cats-eye, steely and agate kind of marbles.
However, George has lost more than his marbles.
He has also lost his morals.

SHARK CONVERSATION

Mo: "Hey, what are they doing to my brain?"

Jo: "I don't know Mo, but they're messing with my brain, too."

Mo: "We've got to have our monthly Shark Association meeting immediately."

Jo: "Yep. It’s an emergency. All of our brains are in jeopardy."

Mo: “The military are making us their guinea pigs.”

Jo: “Yep. They couldn’t make dolphins obey them.”

Mo: “Or the American public. And so we filled the vacuum.”

Jo: “Yep. Our implants might help them find terrorists; but all we want to do is eat.”

Mo: “Right. Well, let’s swim and try to avoid the humans…or we’ll become their fish bait.”

Jo: “You mean their fish slaves!”

Mo: “Right. Uh oh…I see those bubbles again. They’re back. Quick! Out of here!”


IT'S THE OIL STUPID!

UPDATE: IS GEORGE W. BUSH A LIAR, AN IDIOT OR BOTH?

"There was no situational awareness, and that means that we weren't getting good, solid information from people who were on the ground." George W. Bush [2/28/06]

"March 1: Video from The Associated Press shows federal disaster officials warning President Bush before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm surge could breach New Orleans' levees." [MSNBC News]


“I AM GOING TO LEAD THIS WORLD TO MORE PEACE AND FREEDOM.”

George W. Bush [February 8, 2004]

IS GEORGE W. BUSH A LIAR, AN IDIOT, OR BOTH? VOTE NOW!

CHECK ONLY ONE:

[ ] LIAR

[ ] IDIOT

[ ] BOTH

PARANOIA AND DEMON EYES

German Nazi death camp guards wore the emblem of Skull and Bones on the shoulders of their uniforms.

The dark eyes of Condoleeza Rice and Michael Chertoff scare me.
The Mushroom Cloud Lady is now our Secretary of State.
The Patriot Act co-author is now our Secretary of Homeland Security (HSS).
We remember what little veracity there was in Ms. Rice’s comment about Mushroom Clouds forming in Iraq.
We remember how Mr. Chertoff handled Hurricane Katrina.
Who would dare pull out of the thin and unsubstantiated air an adjective such as EVIL for these ominous orbs?
But who picked these two people with their grim and gloomy peepers?
Why, of course.
It was a Skull and Bones bonesman named George W. Bush.
Do you see what I can see?

VOLTAIRE'S FAMOUS BUT

Does our 8 Trillion Dollar National Debt make our Lenders feel secure?

Any parallels between WWII Europe (Germany: Where wheelbarrows were needed to transport the inflated currency) & the United States?
Maybe not.
But…

Unnecessary Pre-Emptive Wars don’t work very well.
But look at Iraq.
(Of course, I mean this as irony.)

On Iran:
Would it be safer to let the Iranian nutcase get his bombs than bomb him?
Maybe.
But…

MORALS & MARBLES

"HAS GEORGE BUSH LOST HIS MARBLES?"
Patrick J. Buchanan/2-28-06

Yes he has Pat.
He was losing them well before he became the Long War President.
I lost my marbles when I was around 11 years old.
But these were the cats-eye, steely and agate kind of marbles.
However, George has lost more than his marbles.
He has also lost his morals.

IN PLATO'S CAVE

"The kernel here (in Iraq) is the acknowledgment of defeat." William F. Buckley, 2-24-2006

No more cover-ups or in-denial rhetoric please!
In Baghdad it is the beginning of the end, and not the end of the beginning.
The Long War President resides in Plato's Cave, and he does not know the difference between shadows and reality.
The Long War President believes the following shadows are reality:
"We are winning the peace in Iraq even though we are losing.'
"It is getting worse in Iraq but it is getting better."
"There won't be a civil war in Iraq, but the Sunnis and Shiites are blowing up each other and their mosques.”
“Trust me. I am cute. I am your Long War President who will not stop fighting in Iraq until freedom and democracy are spread and we have achieved total victory!”
“You can’t impeach me. The Congress and the Supreme Court are in my pockets!”

MY BRAIN KNOWS BEST

UAE citizen Marwan Al-Shehhi slammed Flight 175 into the World Trade Center. Eleven hijackers came through UAE, and half their money. A.Q. Khan shipped nuclear parts through UAE to North Korea and Iran.

This is The Brain of Bush Karl Rove.
Forgive the Long War President for not backing down from the Dubai Port deal.
He's been out of the loop in the past few days, weaning Americans off of their oil addiction.
Air Force One now needs a major tune-up.
As for me, The Brain of Bush, I have also been succoring Dick Cheney's wounds from his recent alcoholic shooting incident.
But I do have a Big Brain, so I can accommodate the Vice President and the President of the United States.
But back to the Dubai Port deal.
My Brain has advised the Long War President that it will ask our U.A.E. business friends to give us more time to sell this juicy deal to the Congress and the American people.
My Brain knows Best.
My Brain knows that we do not want our Arab friends to think that we don't trust or like them.
As long as Big Money is involved and coming our way, we like and trust anyone. Arabs, the Chinese, the French...well, maybe not the Frogs.
Just as the Long War President isn't that concerned about Osama bin Laden anymore, he is equally unconcerned about the U.A.E. where two of its citizens were 9/11 terrorists.
The Long War President knows that this rich and clean empire has allowed its banks to handle money for Al-Qaeda. No big deal.
As Donald Rumsfeld (who doesn't rely on my Big Brain) has told us: "Stuff happens... and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things."

GIVE ME ANOTHER BEER!

VP: "Alright fellows, I'm ready for another beer. This heart-thinning medicine gives me quite a buzz."
Aide: "Mr. Vice President, are you sure you should continue drinking? Are you able to walk?"
VP: "Yeah, yeah. I can walk. I can talk. I can shoot."
VP: "Hey, give me two beers instead of one so I don't have to stop in the middle of my shooting."
VP: "Hey, look! There's a big quail heading toward me right now!"
("Bang! Bang! Bang!)
VP: "I got him!! I got him!!"
Aide: "Sir, you just shot Harry!"
VP: "Well, at least I didn't miss."
Aide: "Quick. Get him to a doctor."
VP: "I'm going to take a shower and sober up."

OSAMA BIN LADEN COME HOME!

If the U.A.E. is going to help Homeland Security run U.S. seaports, then Osama bin Laden might be freed from whatever cave he has been getting his dialysis in...And come home!
Come to the Land of the Brave and the Home of the Free!
All is forgiven!
Arab terrorists are welcome!
The Iraq war was a lie!
It was a mistake!
Nevertheless, the War President will do business with terrorist sympathizers, just like grandpa did with Hitler’s Germany!
Mr. Chertoff's incompetence is not complete yet.
He failed during Hurricane Katrina, and he can fail some more.
But wait!
Maybe giving contracts to the U.A.E. is a secret mission.
Maybe we want to attract more terrorists so that we can snuff them out in our ports before they reach our cities.
Yes, that's the ticket.
All is well.
Put out the red carpet for the United Arab Emirates!
Praise Allah!

MARS HERE WE COME!

I was watching 60 Minutes the other night.
The subject was Global Warming.
It was reported that CO2 levels haven't been this high for thousands of years.
Maybe millions!
The earth will still rise ONE DEGREE more even if every CO2-spewing machine stopped its polluting right now!
It was then stated that the ice caps are still going to continue melting regardless whether the machine stops!
And what will happen when the world doesn't decrease current CO2 levels?
It was also stated that the U.S.A. is the world's biggest polluter.
More intense storms are in our future.
Live like hell now, because a larger hell is on its way.
Mars...here we come!

THE LONGEST WAR

"Since the invasion of Saddam's Iraq, those bases -- call them what you will -- have been at the heart of the Bush administration's "reconstruction" of the country. To this day, those Little Americas, with their KBR-lands, their Pizza Huts, their stop signs, and their miniature golf courses remain at the secret heart of Bush administration "reconstruction" policy. As long as KBR keeps building them, making their facilities ever more enduring (and ever more valuable), there can be no genuine "withdrawal" from Iraq, nor even an intention of doing so. Right now, despite the recent visits of a couple of reporters, those super-bases remain enswathed in a kind of policy silence. The Bush administration does not discuss them (other than to deny their permanency from time to time). No presidential speeches deal with them. No plans for them are debated in Congress. The opposition Democrats generally ignore them and the press -- with the exception of the odd columnist -- won't even put the words "base," "permanent," and "Iraq" in the same paragraph".
"It may be hard to do, given the skimpy coverage, but keep your eyes directed at our "super-bases." Until the administration blinks on them, there will be no withdrawal from Iraq." [Can you Say "Permanent Bases"?, Tom Engelhardt, Mother Jones, 2-14-06]

George W. Bush and his writers have been telling us what they want us to hear, but not what is really happening.
In order for the Bush regime to retain its stranglehold of power over Congress, the American people and the world, its propaganda apparatus must constantly remind us that the Long War will continue until it has been "won" (VICTORY!).
This is both delusion and deception.
It is a grand illusion and the big lie (which I know is offensive to the liars).
The turf of Iraq must remain in the talons of the U.S. Eagle even while we tell the world that our high and mighty bird (of prey?) is just passing over and through until the Iraqis can stand on their own feet (if they don't get knocked over by the bombs of us or them).
This Long War has been sad and tragic; but lucrative.
The lucre has gone to the civilian and military contractors there and over here.
The American people, of course, have been (and will continue to be) the obedient and devoted financiers of the LONG WAR.
In the meantime (and it is a very mean time indeed), the money filling the treacherous trough (& black hole) of Bush's Long War has decreased funding for (among other things) the education of America’s children (Bush’s No Child Left With A Behind ) and Health Care (Screw the old folks...they're going to die pretty soon anyway!).
But the U.S. embassy in Iraq will still get its funding:
"The Bush administration is sinking between $600 million and $1 billion in construction funds into a new U.S. embassy. It is to arise in Baghdad's Green Zone on a plot of land along the Tigris River that is reportedly two-thirds the area of the National Mall in Washington, DC. The plans for this "embassy" are almost mythic in nature. A high-tech complex, it is to have "15ft blast walls and ground-to-air missiles" for protection as well as bunkers to guard against air attacks. It will, according to Chris Hughes, security correspondent for the British Daily Mirror, include "as many as 300 houses for consular and military officials" and a "large-scale barracks" for Marines. The "compound" will be a cluster of at least 21 buildings, assumedly nearly self-sufficient, including "a gym, swimming pool, barber and beauty shops, a food court and a commissary. Water, electricity and sewage treatment plants will all be independent from Baghdad's city utilities." It is being billed as "more secure than the Pentagon" (not, perhaps, the most reassuring tagline in the post-9/11 world). If not quite a city-state, on completion it will resemble an embassy-state. In essence, inside Baghdad's Green Zone, we will be building another more heavily fortified little Green Zone. [Can You Say "Permanent Bases"?, Tom Engelhardt, Mother Jones, 2-14-06]

And those huge ("non-permanent") bases in Iraq will receive their funding:
"Thomas Ricks of the Washington Post paid a visit to Balad Air Base, the largest American base in the country, 68 kilometers north of Baghdad and "smack in the middle of the most hostile part of Iraq." In a piece entitled Biggest Base in Iraq Has Small-Town Feel, Ricks paints a striking portrait:

"The base is sizeable enough to have its own "neighborhoods" including "KBR-land" (in honor of the Halliburton subsidiary that has done most of the base-construction work in Iraq); "CJSOTF" ("home to a special operations unit," the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force, surrounded by "especially high walls," and so secretive that even the base Army public affairs chief has never been inside); and a junkyard for bombed out Army Humvees. There is as well a Subway, a Pizza Hut, a Popeye's, "an ersatz Starbucks," a 24-hour Burger King, two post exchanges where TVs, iPods, and the like can be purchased, four mess halls, a hospital, a strictly enforced on-base speed limit of 10 MPH, a huge airstrip, 250 aircraft (helicopters and predator drones included), air-traffic pile-ups of a sort you would see over Chicago's O'Hare airport, and "a miniature golf course, which mimics a battlefield with its baby sandbags, little Jersey barriers, strands of concertina wire and, down at the end of the course, what appears to be a tiny detainee cage." [Can You Say "Permanent Bases"?,Tom Engelhardt, Mother Jones, 2-14-06]

LET ARABS RUN AMERICAN PORTS?

"Sure as shooting I know that a couple of the 9/11 terrorists were from the U.A.E.”
“O.K. I also know that some money got to the 9/11 bombers through the banking system in the U.A.E. "
"But we have to move on."
"We are making a bundle on this sale."
"America can be safe when Arabs run our ports."
"It just takes some faith."
"And War."
"Our mighty military is spreading the freedom in Iraq."
"The terrorists there...the Islamofascists...are getting their faces pelted so that we can have Arabs safely run and control our American ports here."
"All right. I'm now going to do some bird hunting.”
“No, Dick won’t be coming."

QUAIL HUNTING IS NOT WAR

He is likes to pull the trigger.
He likes to hunt birds.
But these things are not the same as a real war.
He said that he had other priorities when asked why he had received five deferments to avoid going to war himself.
He is good at taking American boys and girls to war.
He is good at pulling the trigger.
Quail hunting is not war.
He likes to have money.
So do all of us.
His ties with Halliburton before the Iraq war enabled him to help his Halliburton buddies after the pre-emptive war.
The soldiers continue to die.
They are like the helpless quail that Dick Cheney so enjoys to hunt and kill.
Hunting quail is a sport.
WAR IS NOT!

DICK CHENEY: I PULLED THE TRIGGER

"[Go] F**k yourself"
Dick Cheney

Direct threats require decisive action.
Dick Cheney

We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.
Dick Cheney

"I successfully shot U.S. cruise missiles which peppered Iraq with shock and awe."
"It's a day I'll never forget."
"It was one of the best days of my life."
"Of course, many civilians died during that daring peppering, but this can happen when you're hunting for evildoers and dictators."
"I take the blame."
"I pulled the trigger."
"I shot a country."
"I hope the patient survives my shooting."

DICK CHENEY AND SHOOTING BIRDS

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”. (Shakespeare, Henry VI)

The Scene:
Quail hunting in South Texas.

Characters: A United States vice-president (not Dan Quayle), but Dick Cheney and Harry Whittington, 78, a lawyer.

Dick Cheney, the man with the crooked smile who likes to torture (except when he is hunting birds.)
Dick Cheney, the man with the bad heart who told us that Iraq had those WMD (and still looks for them while he is Quail-hunting).
Dick Cheney missed again.
Correction: He made a hit.

"The shooting, which occurred at about 6:30 p.m. Eastern time, left a prominent Austin lawyer and Republican campaign supporter, Harry Whittington, wounded by shotgun pellets in the neck, shoulder and chest." [New York Times, 2-13-06]

A spokesperson described how birds were flushed out and then the VP fired, “peppering Mr. Whittington pretty good”.
We all empathize with the lawyer who was shot by the vice president and wish him a speedy recovery.
In the meantime, the VP should forego any more Quail hunting but continue his planning for bigger birds such as Iran.
And remember, GUNS DON’T KILL PEOPLE, PEOPLE DO!

ODE ON SNOW

Snowstorms!
Piles of snow!
Soft, crystalline white snowflakes!
Feathered rain!
Powder snow!
Falling snow!
Up to the kneecaps snow!
Snow stuck on sidewalks and streets!
Snowballs!
Snowmen!
Snowdrift!
Sledding on soft snow!
Crunching snow!
Snow cones!

COCKPICK

Bush is doing it again.
He said cockpick...not cockpit.
How can anyone take this guy seriously?
Especially the world.
The War President bungled badly when he attacked Iraq.
He is still bungling the English language.
The War on Terror and the Terrorists are shaking in their boots...with laughter.
Cockpick.