MATCH GAME

DIRECTIONS: Match each person with their traits.


1. Rush Limbaugh A. Wincing and Whining
2. Sean Hannity B. Barking and Bellowing
3. Anne Coulter C. Squeaking and Squealing

THE GATE OF PEACE AND QUIET

Build the impervious gate
NOW!
We will name it the Gate of Peace and Quiet.
But it is not a gate to keep immigrants out.
It is, however, a barrier to prevent illegal (or worse) terror-minded persons (Terrorists!) from entering the United States.
Immigrants will always be permitted to enter the United States.
But they have to do the necessary paperwork and pay the fees.
The estimated 12 million aliens already here can stay (unless they choose to leave.)
Investigate all immigrants.
If any have criminal records, then they will return IMMEDIATELY TO THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.
The millions of immigrants (albeit illegal) will receive amnesty. But this is the ONLY AMNESTY to be given.
No more amnesty after this.
Build the Gate of Peace and Quiet now.
Then we will have a safer country.

BEYOND THE PAIL

Democrats and Republicans, quit sitting on the proverbial fence, and choose honor before your politics.
Your Censure of George W. Bush would at least indicate to the voting public that some parts of Congress want to point out sins and machinations of the Bush administration.
We are now informed that the Long War President KNEW that those aluminum tubes COULD NOT be used for nuclear weapons.
Yet he STILL told the nation that THEY WERE.
His administration lied about Katrina.
His administration lied about Iraq.
It lied about domestic surveillance.
"This hearing, I think, is beyond the pale," said Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas.
Mr. Cornyn, the hearing may be beyond the pale...but what this administration did in Iraq (and in the name of national security) lies deep down, within a cesspool.
And the perverse and false messages came from this administration.
Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, added, "Let's don't play games with their (soldiers) lives."
Mr. Sessions, the lives of soldiers were played with when this administration put them in Iraq based upon false information.

LOCK YOUR DOORS AND WINDOWS

"We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." -Plato


Andrew Card was discarded from the stacked deck.
The president made it sound like Mr. Card volunteered on his own to resign.
But Bush's poll numbers are a more likely motive.
This slick legerdemain doesn't fool the American public.
New diversions are required to remove attention away from the lies and misdemeanors.
Naturally, the Democrats will use any or all of the nuances and changes in the Bush White House to feather their own nests. As Dylan said:
WE LIVE IN A POLITICAL WORLD.
The Long War President will probably serve out his presidency without censure or impeachment.
History, however, will not be so kind or indifferent.
America has been living inside a little (or huge) shop of horrors.
This Venus Fly Trap presidency is not over yet.
Lock your doors and windows.
There are dark days and storms on the horizon (I know: This is negative thinking of the liberal left-wing).

MOVIE SEQUELS

When was the last time you said: "Wow! This sequel is as good as the first movie!" or "This sequel is better than the first one!"
I liked the first Cocoon better than its sequel.
I liked the first Rocky best.
Same for The Terminator.
Same for Poltergeist.
Same for Psycho.
Same for Back To The Future.
Sequels shouldn't be made.
I once thought that it would be good to see an E.T. II.
Rumor had it that there would be a sequel.
Thank goodness it never happened.
I thought that I was blinking too fast last week when I first glimpsed and heard an advertisement for Basic Instinct. "Oh, I thought, it's being shown on network T.V. again."
Wrong.
Tonight I blinked more slowly and saw some raunchy scenes for Basic Instinct II.
I think I saw Sharon Stone on her hands and knees. I won't finish the scene. It was unsettling.
Movie sequels should be against the law.
Write your Congressman.

TEXAS BAR GESTAPO

Police enter a Texas bar.
They sweep the place and look for intoxicated patrons.
This is where people drink...a little...a lot...or too much.
And that is why Texas has this law.
Arrest anyone who drinks...a little...a lot...or too much.
I guess police have plenty of time on their hands when they can visit public drinking establishments to look at intoxicated bar patrons, then determine if they are intoxicated.
Of course they are intoxicated.
IT'S A BAR.
THIS IS WHAT ONE DOES IN A BAR!
Good grief.
Get rid of this law.
Arrest the intoxicated patron when he or she tries to drive home.
Otherwise, leave the drinkers alone.
Who wrote this law?
Who voted for it?
Arrest them!

FIRE THE CEO

"Bush is saying 'I'm the president' and, on a range of issues -- from war to torture to illegal surveillance -- 'I can do as I like,'. "This administration needs to be slapped down and held accountable for actions that could change the shape of our democracy."

Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights


I heard today that our founding fathers (I've always liked that phrase) wanted to call the leader of this new nation a magistrate.
Fine.
That was then and that was what they wanted, but this is not what we have now.
We have a PRESIDENT.
When a corporation has a president and CEO, and either one does an incompetent job, and lies to or misleads his or her employees and shareholders...the CEO or PRESIDENT IS FIRED!
Our CEO…our commander-in-chief…the leader of our nation...the President of the United States...SHOULD BE FIRED!
He is now getting a cold shoulder from his own constituents.
This president and his presidency is not just under scrutiny.
It is under indictment.
Not a legal one...YET.
But in the homes and towns of America, President George W. Bush is now viewed as an incompetent leader (CEO).
A liar.
Some have even called the Long War President an idiot.
The voices of the people are going to continue to raise the volume of their disapproval.
Until what?
Until some type of self-protective coup?
Until there is a suspension of the next Presidential election as a result of some national emergency which requires Martial Rule (Law)?
Nah.
This is America…or
WAS!

"Impeachment is the only recourse that can bring a halt to the madness in Iraq, and the insanity being planned in Iran and elsewhere."

"Looking back on the string of unfulfilled objectives, broken promises, squandered dreams, shattered bodies and eviscerated lives that was and is the war in Iraq, one thought emerges plain and clear. This isn't simply a result of bad governance. This is criminal."
"Bad governance is telling the American people that a war with Iraq would be concluded in a manner of months, and would cost the American taxpayer less that $2 billion, when in fact the war has gone on for three years now, with no end in sight, and over a quarter-trillion dollars have been expended, with untold billions more to be spent."
"Criminal governance is the fabrication of a justification for war (weapons of mass destruction), hiding the President’s true intentions from the American people and the Congress of the United States (Bush signed off on the Iraq war plans in late August 2002, and yet continued to publicly state that no decision for military action had been made), and shredding international law by waging an aggressive war of pre-emption void of any United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing such actions."
"Bad governance is manipulating war planning on the part of military professionals so that we enter into a conflict with far too few troops for the task, with no plan for how to proceed once the fighting ended and the reality of occupation set in."
"Criminal governance is violating every principle of the laws of war in the conduct of the occupation of Iraq, manipulating the economic and political direction of Iraq, suppressing its population, and engaging in wanton acts of widespread murder, torture and abuse of the Iraqi people."
"The fact is the war in Iraq has degenerated into one giant hate crime."

Scott Ritter, "It's Criminal", Alter.Net, 3-20-06

BRAIN TRUST

Brain Surgeon: "Mr. President, the operation is over. We have successfully removed Karl Rove from your brain."
George W. Bush: "Praise Allah...I mean, thank the Lord! Does this mean I can think on my own now?"
Brain Surgeon: "Yes, Mr. President. You have your own brain now."
George W. Bush: "Good. I can now look Americans straight in the eye and speak my own mind...give 'em the truth."
Brain Surgeon: "Yes sir."
George W. Bush: "Alright. I’ll tell my staff and writers that I'm on my own now. I'll start fielding unrehearsed questions. Have more press conferences. Renew the trust and faith of the American people. Work on my poll numbers.
Brain Surgeon: Mr. President, there's just one more thing.
George W. Bush: "What thing?"
Brain Surgeon: "Karl Rove's brain. What do we do with it?"

DEDICATED TO HELEN THOMAS

Why this War?
Why this War?
Does anyone know anymore?
What was the real cause for this War?
Who knows anymore?
America the Beautiful
Is going bankrupt
Why this War?
Why this War?
Who knows anymore?

I DIDN'T WANT WAR

"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."
George W. Bush
"I think war is a dangerous place."
George W. Bush
"I'm telling you what's on my mind. And what's on my mind is winning the war on terror."
George W. Bush


I am not your dictator.
I was your War President, but now I am your Long War President.
I am spending your capital.
It is unfair to say I wanted war; it is fair to say that God wanted me to.
The Iraq war is quite uncivil...not civil.
Why did I bomb Iraq?
I did it to make Halliburton richer, that's why! And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for the free press!

"Perhaps what we should learn from our own reactions to September 11 is that the massive destruction of innocents is something that is unlikely to be either forgotten or forgiven. If this is so, then destroying Iraq, whether with sanctions or with bombs, is unlikely to bring the security we have gone to such lengths to preserve." Joy Gordon

SWARMING WITH LIES

Swarmer 1: Hello Swarmers. We have cows and goats on our radar screens.
No combatants.
No farmers.
They must be asleep.
We have the element of surprise on this one!
Dick Cheney: I can hear you loud and clear Swarmer 1. These Nazis are not going to kick us out of Iraq. Carry on with your mission Swarmers!
Swarmer 1: 10-4 on that, sir. We should have this mission under wraps in a few hours. Swarmers, bail out.
Cows and goats!
Cows and goats!

CIGARETTES AND HOMELAND SECURITY

HOMELAND SECURITY: Sorry, but you'll have to extinguish that cigarette.
SMOKER: But I'm outside for Pete's sake!
HOMELAND SECURITY: But Pete and the general public do not want to inhale the smoke from your second hand.
SMOKER: What?
HOMELAND SECURITY: I mean your second-hand smoke. It's THE LAW.
SMOKER: O.K. Where can I smoke?
HOMELAND SECURITY: At home.
SMOKER: But I want to smoke now. My home is 50 miles from here.
HOMELAND SECURITY: Sorry, but you're breaking THE LAW by smoking here.
SMOKER: Just let me take this last puff...
HOMELAND SECURITY: NO! YOU'RE UNDER ARREST. IN THE NAME OF HOMELAND SECURITY HAND OVER THAT PACK OF CIGARETTES AND PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK!

ANNIVERSARY OF U.S. SHOCK AND AWE INVASION

"The new money for the Iraq occupation comes on top of the $50 billion in supplemental war funding that the Congress had already approved for the current fiscal year, after spending $100 billion last year. And the administration says it will be back soon seeking another $50 billion for the coming fiscal year. All of this spending is in addition to the record $439.3 billion defense budget the president submitted to Congress." John Nichols, Three Years of War With No Checks, No Balances, The Nation, 3/18/06

George W. Bush & the NeoCon cabal under him (or over him) wanted to invade Iraq...WELL BEFORE all of the "bad intelligence."
The President’s NeoCon gang [Rove, Perle, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, etc.] were licking their lips WELL BEFORE 9-11.
George W. Bush placed America in a messy and bottomless bog in Iraq.
The Iraq bog is not limned by the Long War President as a boondoggle, but as another important (but lethal) chapter of American history that he believes will turn the pages of Freedom and Democracy.
But the melody of the old tune is changing.
Yes, the U.S. will remain until there is “VICTORY”.
But it is now the Iraqis who must take charge and decide if
they want to live in unity AND peace OR war.
The Long War President is greasing wheels of the cart which will turn and shuttle troops out of Iraq just in time for the 2006 elections.
Iraq is over.
Iran is before us.
America and the world will be Bush-Whacked once again!
BUT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC MUST RAISE THEIR VOICES AND CAST THEIR VOTES TO PUT A STOP TO THIS DESPOT AND HIS FOLLOWERS!

FINISH THE JOB IN IRAQ!

03/16/06 - TIKRIT, Iraq, March 15 (Reuters):
"Major Ali Ahmed of the Ishaqi police said U.S. forces had landed on the roof of the house in the early hours and shot the 11 occupants, including the five children."
"After they left the house they blew it up," he said.
Another policeman, Colonel Farouq Hussein, said autopsies had been carried out at Tikrit hospital and found "all the victims had gunshot wounds to the head".
"The bodies, their hands bound, had been dumped in one room before the house was destroyed, Hussein said. Police had found spent American-issue cartridges in the rubble."




"Finish the job?"
Complete the mission?"
What do these statements mean?
Kill more and more Iraqis while killing the "TERRORISTS"?
Kill the sects who are fighting each other?
Can this be accomplished with more and more violence?
Will this be achieved with more and more air assaults (the most since the invasion!)?
Embroiled in an imbroglio, sinking deeper into the morass...Victory must not be far behind.
We remember Vietnam.
The increased bombing and escalation did not end that war.
But the Long War President and the GOP need to show the American public that they are in charge...
gaining ground...
making progress...
on the road to victory...
securing freedom and democracy...


BUT...

"Stories of American missiles hitting the homes of innocents are passed between Iraqi men at teahouses and during Friday worship services."
"Residents worry that their homes will be bombed at any time," said Hussein Ali Jaafar, who owns a stationery shop in the town of Balad, north of Baghdad, which was targeted by bombs or missiles at least 27 times between October 2005 and February 2006. "Most of the bombing is unjustified and random. It does not differentiate between militants and innocent people."
"A tribal sheik who lives on the outskirts of the troubled Anbar town of Ramadi, who asked that he be identified as Abu Tahseen instead of by his full name out of fear of possible retribution, said that the strikes create more insurgents than they kill because of the region's tribal dictates of revenge."
"They (the Americans) think: `As long as there are resistance fighters operating in this spot, we will wipe it out entirely,'" Abu Tahseen said, using the term for insurgents favored by Iraqis sympathetic to their cause. "As you know, our nature is a tribal one, and so if one from us is killed, we kill three or four in return." Tom Lasseter, Knight Ridder Newspapers, 3/14/06

Osama Jadaan al Dulaimi, a tribal leader in the western town of Karabilah, a town near the Syrian border that was hit with bombs or missiles on at least 17 days between October 2005 and February 2006, said the bombings had created enemies:

"The people of Karabilah hate the foreigners who crossed the border and entered their areas and got into a fight with the Americans," al Dulaimi said. "The residents now also hate the American occupiers who demolished their houses with bombs and killed their families ... and now the people of Karabilah want to join the resistance against the Americans for what they did." Tom Lasseter, Knight Ridder Newspapers, 3/14/06

INSECT CYBORGS

Honey: Did you hear about the latest experiments by DARPA? They're going to implant micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) into insects such as dragonflies and moths...even into hopping and swimming insects!
Beau: Why?
Honey: To create Insect Cyborgs.
Beau: Explain.
Honey: Well, these flying insects can go where humans can't.
Beau: And do what?
Honey: Find bombs. Chemicals. Gas.
Beau: How?
Honey: With sensors that are implanted into an insect when it’s still in the pupal stage. The body of the insect will then heal wounds and reposition internal organs around the minute mechanical structures that have been implanted.
Beau: How will they know where the Insect Cyborgs go?
Honey: They’ll use Remote Control and GPS (Global Positioning System).
Beau: I'm glad I'm a lizard.
Honey: I'm glad I'm a worm.

FOWL TALK

Pepe: We are getting a bad rap from this Bird Flu scare.
Carolina: Yes. It’s a foul thing, but we still have our job to do.
Pepe: Well, at least your job. Mine isn't to lay eggs, but to greet the morning sun.
Carolina: Don't act so proud. Have a little empathy for my pains.
Pepe: Sorry. I’m upset. It isn’t our fault if we get the flu. And we live and peck on this earth for only a short while.
Carolina: At least people are getting prepared in case we do get sick.
Pepe: How?
Carolina: Well, people are being asked to put tuna fish and powdered milk under their beds.
Pepe: And what do we do?
Carolina: I don't know.
Pepe: I do. We'll put crackers and chicken soup under our nests!

QUESTIONS FROM AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL

1. Why do humans take so many drugs with all of those strange names?
2. Why can't humans on TV make their mouths move at the same time that they speak?
3. What attracts your dogs to fire hydrants?
4. Why are your hamburgers made under golden arches?
5. Where do those square-shaped fish come from?
6. Why do humans walk and drive around with phones stuck to their heads?
7. Why do you have so many wars?
8. What happened to your music?
9. Why do you drink so much alcohol when you know that it will give you headaches and make you sick?
10. When are you going to leave your puny solar system?

A BUNGLING BUCKEROO IN THE OFFICE OF SPECIAL PLANS

Speaking at a news conference after the talks, President Bush said:
 "It's a necessary agreement. It's one that will help both our
peoples."

"According to official World Health Organization and Department of State statistics, global deaths per year due to physical violence amounted to 1,600,000 (2002), traffic
accidents, 1,200,000 (2004), and terrorism 625 (2003)."

Peoples? 
Pupils? 
Pimples? 
Choose one.
It doesn’t matter. 

The Long War President was bungling the English language.

He had bungled beyond belief.
He had bungled when he wire-tapped citizens in the United States.
He had bungled when he approved of Torture.
He had bungled in NOT bagging Osama bin Laden.
He had bungled on Katrina.
He had bungled on the Ports.
He had bungled and belied on Iraq.[See Below]
He had bungled when he bestowed nuclear weapons to India.This big-time bungler-spender…this bellicose and bamboozling bungler…this bombastic break-the-law bungler…this bumptious and babbling bungler…
THIS BUNGLING BUCKAROO HAD BLATANTLY BILKED AND BANKRUPTED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! 


WHAT WAS IT ALL ABOUT?


"The CIA was totally undercut since the day Bush occupied the White House (when) he set up a thing called the WHIG (the White House Iraq Group). Basically it was (also) called the Office of Special Plans and this was a group made up of individuals controlled by Mr. Cheney; (they were) Paul Wolfowitz, Michael Leanen, Richard Perle, John Hannah, people like that".

"They were basically involved in creating or gathering intelligence which that they thought was important, as far as proving the case for the war in Iraq. What we know now is that this Office of Special Plans or this WHIG, never really gathered any intelligence at all about the war in Iraq, (but rather); they MANUFACTURED the evidence for the purpose of taking American boys to their deaths, based on a lie."

"Folks, the evidence in. It is the Office of Special Plans. It was a surreptitious conspiracy to take the American people to war for financial and political reasons."

"George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, with deliberation and intent, took this country to war in Iraq based on false premises, inflated intelligence and bald-faced scare tactics. They used September 11 against their own people to get what they wanted. That is the heart of this matter."

"The Office of Special Plans, or OSP, was created by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld specifically to second-guess and reinterpret intelligence data to justify war in Iraq."

"The OSP was on no government payroll and suffered no Congressional oversight. Their tainted information and interpretations overtopped the Iraq data being provided by the State Department and CIA. The OSP was able to accomplish this thanks to devoted patronage from high-ranking members of the administration, most prominently Vice-President Cheney."

"The highest levels of the OSP were staffed by heavy-hitters like Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith and William Luti, a former Navy officer who worked for Cheney before joining the Pentagon. When the OSP wanted to intimidate analysts into shaping conclusions to fit the already-made war decision, Cheney went to CIA headquarters on unprecedented visits."

THE IDIOT OF IRAN

"There may be no option but the use of force. But before we find ourselves irrevocably on such a track, there is a strong case for trying the engagement alternative first, and in a serious way."
"At the least, Americans must have the debate about Iran that we did not have about Iraq. It needs to center on choices about long-term strategy toward the Middle East. If we do not have this discussion, then we can expect to have yet another mournful postmortem later on."
[Robert E. Hunter, a senior advisor at the Rand Corp., was U.S. ambassador to NATO from 1993 to 1998.]

“Next, we’re going to have the Iranian campaign. We’ve declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy. This is the last hurrah—we’ve got four years, and want to come out of this saying we won the war on terrorism.” [Former high-level intelligence official]

Right now there is a deafening silence about what the United States (i.e. Rumsfeld, Cheney & Rice) plans to do to Iran.
[Note: Since writing this the silence has been broken as more and more strident voices are calling for a military "solution" in Iran]
The annihilation of Iran is on the shelf (or as our leaders like to say "all options are on the table".)
The Republicans would appreciate a new war.
The current war with Iraq is in shambles.
A new war would also remove the microscope from other issues: What did the Bush administration know about 9-11 before it happened and what did the White House not do to prevent it; the Dubai deal; Katrina; domestic spying; the lies that led to the pre-emptive war with Iraq; Impeachment, etc.
The National Security issues and THE WAR ON TERROR could be put back on the front burner for the GOP in the 2006 elections.
The Idiot of Iran will get bombed if he does not relent and renounce his nuclear ambitions.
Let us hope that more diplomacy (or bribes) can persuade the Iranian Idiot to stop his nuclear blackmail.
If not, get ready for more blood and money to irradiate terra firma.

ENCELADUS

Enceladus, tiny giant of fire and ice, may be a helpful holiday inn for future space explorers.
Only 300 miles in diameter, this shiny moon is alive with geysers that spew warm water and ice.
When I heard about this latest wonderful discovery within our solar system, I thought about how our own beautiful planet's paragon of animals is still fighting its perpetual (Bush's Long) war(s).
How sad.
May our species stay alive long enough to enjoy a cup of coffee or a snow cone on Enceladus.