Crux

Saddam murdered medieval-style fundamentalists en mass when they raised their bloody hands high enough to stand out. No white hats. No black hats. Just the way it was. An even quicker death came to any terrorist. As such, for whatever it was worth, honor killings were rare and terrorists extinct. And then came the Americans.

There was this guy named Saddam Hussein who dumped poison on the Kurds when they pulled shit like that. The Kurds stopped pulling shit like that. Fucked up world, that, but then to their deaths we sent thousands of our own -- to fix things.

Sure. "We" are a fat, willfully malnourished people, and that goes to show that most of us would have died from ingestion of "refined alkaloids" by now if it were not for drug laws and heroism of the DEA. Glad to be set straight on this. And grateful to be saved from the tyranny of Khat, for only the small price of a few hundred million dollars today and the cost of building and staffing yet another and another prison tomorrow.

Freight cars at standstill, then airborne from the railway and warming globally to the vortex. Dorothy, this is home.

Was the point, no doubt.

That's the trip, there are credible sources and always were -- in abundance. Anybody who paid attention to available information, rather than just sucking on the brand-name packaged media, was never more than an hour away from an accurate conclusion. Same is true today.

I believe REI has a lightweight, collapsible, alpine bidet stocked for the store's annual Spring sale. Word: Find this multi-fuel device in the stove section, as it's designed for four-season use and comes with its own automatic ignition system. (When there's no duff for yer duff 'cept snow, this is the shit!)

As an American, yes, he is incompetent. But as a Nazi, he is as shrewd as any ever was. Conclusion number four: Honesty and competency have nothing to do with it.

Predictably

Crap. Why not spray, as in marking turf, like a wolf marks his territory by spraying. One spray one side of a rock, another spray on the other side. All with a little bit of boast and a little bit of blunder. I spray downwind. Usually. Stand some other fucking place if you don't like it. And howl.

No skill in getting caught with the lie -- maybe some skill in not getting convicted of a felony for it when being persecuted by a pack of Nazis, but no skill to a lie that fails to conceal the truth. Bill got serviced by his intern, and everybody knows it even though he lied to conceal that truth. But those of the adminisration today, on the other hand, they seem to be truly skillful liars, as evidenced by the clueless comparisons made in this thread and by the apparent ignorance the public seems to keep in regard to the unprecedented transgressions against the republic made by this administration. My thought on the Gonzales hearing: The consigliore for the Bush crime family last week esentially told the United States Congress to mind its own business. And well it should, for it seems to have just been made an offer it cannot refuse. Only one question remains. Does Congress have any real power of oversight of the executive? The answer seems clear, and the answer seems to be that once we put someone in that office, he can do pretty much whatever he wants. It took a long time for me to come around to this conclusion, this acceptance that the theory of the unitary executive has emerged to be what will be a longstanding, prevailing, and dominant component in the nature of the American republic for the forseeable future. After believing that Bush was totally out of line from a Constitutional perspective, it took the actual defiance of neocons (or neoliberals, depending on your lexicon) as they now testify before Congress to convince me that what we have now in terms of a corrupted republic is pretty much a done deal, like it or not. In all seriousness, I no longer believe this country is the country I thought it was. Long live the king.

Just prior to an exam yesterday, as captive as captive can be, I had to listen about how one of the victims was a holocaust survivor. Fucking nerve. Story goes He braced himself in the doorway to his classroom, faced down the shooter and took bullets to buy time for his students to jump out the windows. The nerve to survive, and the nerve to die. Mix that.

Yes. That would be an interesting, but very brief, media event, of that you can be sure. Even the mafia doesn't go toe to toe with the feds. But then again, you're Sheaf Stout. But for every stand of Sheaf Stouts, one Apache attack helicopter. An interesting thing? More like a puddle of goo!

I don't think Bush and Rove dare see Gonzales out of office.

tricks

Today, as is normal in Iraq, the genitals of two American servicemen were amputated in the field by medical rescue personnel. No doubt, contributions to a fund for injured veterans will provide much needed consolation and support to these soldiers. Please specify the name of the fund to which you contributed.

Heil !

Maybe it yo mama drippin' another non sequitur and callin' it a seagawk

PP, your writing, as clean as it is, nevertheless presents all the class of shit smeared on an outhouse wall. Did you work at your editorial skills or do they just come naturally, you know, sort of like a big dump of corn-filled crap after a Saturday night fish fry? (God all fucking mighty, somebody please, the ignore button, where is it?)

"Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who oversees the FBI, said the problems outlined in the report involved no intentional wrongdoing." Not sure who might take the coveted Schuldt prize, but one can easily see there's no story here. Alberto said so. (Move along now, there's nothing to see here.)

"trying to come clean with the religious right before mounting" 8D

MattP, I went to a Walmart once, and I must say you seem to be overlooking the real value of Walmart. Although it's true that good socks and underwear can be found for cheap prices in Seattle, Walmart cannot be beat when it comes to low prices on jelly donuts and pickles. Now, when I went to Walmart, I didn't buy any of the boxes of jelly donuts (nor did I have a desire for two-gallon jars of pickles), but I did buy a half dozen pairs of inexpensive socks. That said, I must add the socks greately helped to reduced variable costs directly associated with doing my laundry as the socks disintegrated almost immediately when I wore them, and therefore required no laundrying. This may go way over your head, but this means I didn't have to buy any laundry detergent for these socks! Do the math sucka! Now, about the jelly donuts. You and I can probably agree that five dozen jelly donuts, eaten repeatedly on a daily basis, will lead to obesity and that in turn, for many individuals, will lead to severe medical problems. But I think it hypocritical for you liberals to be saying it's OK for you to put some cream in your fancy-dancy lattes at the corner coffee shop, but insist it's not OK for Pedro's mom to pack away another pile of lemon-creme-filled partially hydrogenated pastries. It's simply none of your business. You in your big house are as bad as Al Gore! By the way, I had an economics professor who talked like JayB all the time. Micro, macro, and so forth. You should be so lucky to be so well informed. You are so ignorant. I'm just trying to help.

Thanks to the expediency of no-bid contracting, the Katrina mess is already cleaned up and problems in Iraq are solved. However, nothing could save Haliburton from bankrupcty nor put riches into the pockets of the Bush crime family -- contemporary "free markets" ensure that such corrupt, wasteful entities will not prevail at our expense.

Uh, you mean that Scooter hasn't been pardoned yet? What the fuck! Oh well. Maybe they just got to wait until people are looking the other way so as not to embarrass the poor guy. By the way, did Anna Nicole really get buried? I just can't believe it! God, I loved her so much, even though I don't have TV at my house. And what's up with Michael Jackson and Hillary Clinton anyway? Is he running for president yet?

Howard Cosell never said it better. Uh, about the blow after decisive blow, and all that.