Incompetence

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/17/russia.g8.bushexpletive/index.html

Oh, the President swore...big freakin deal. The HUGE point in this conversation is the utter impotence that Bush is displaying by saying "Ican't do anything until Kofi does". (he "thinks" Condi is going overthere? He thinks she is? Doesn't she work for him? Shouldn't heKNOW?)

For years we've heard how incompetent and useless the UN is andnow Annan is the only person that can do anything here. I guess the 6 years of Bush ignoring Israel/Palestinian issues isrearing its head. But hey, he almost got rid of the Taliban inAfghanistan, right? Some more of the Bush foreign policy magic.

Rove a traitor after all

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060712/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak_novak_11

So, Rove is a traitor and put countless secret agents lives in danger,jeopardized numerous missions and will hurt who knows who manyAmericans. And Yet, Fitzgerald won't indict him...I guess he knew whatRove was going to do to Kenny Lay...

a culture of incompetence

Don't you feel safer?

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13822662/?GT1=8307

Times Square in New York City is busy day and night, yet it wasn't on aHomeland
Security Department assessment of potential threatened spots.

Instead, the department's database of vulnerable critical infrastructureand
key resources included the Old MacDonald's Petting Zoo nearHuntsville, Ala., a
bourbon festival, a bean festival and the Kangaroo Conservation Center in
Dawsonville, Ga. ...

Assets skewed

The report noted that Indiana has 8,591 assets listed in the database -more than any other state and 50 percent more than New York. New Yorkhad 5,687 listed. It did not detail which ones, but the Homeland Security assessment of New York this year failed to include Times Square, the Empire StateBuilding the Brooklyn Bridge or the Statue of Liberty as a national icon or monument.

NK and a thread from my buddies

Names have been removed to protect the innocent:

From: Me
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2006 7:45PM
To: Liberal Guy; Bushie Guy; Somewhat disinterested middle of the road guy

Subject: RE: worse than our soccer team

I can see it now. Powell gets up there with his charts and recon photos. "Now here is abunker that contains Fairy Dust that the North Koreans plan to sprinkleon the West Coast with their missiles which will turn everyone intoproponents of gay marriage and flag burning and opponents of pray inschool.

Right here in this vile I have enough Fairy Dust to afflict theentire Western Seaboard". Hey, Bush has been playing footsie with them for 6 years when they admitthey have nukes and missiles to send them over here. Rather than dealing with the issue, he keeps pretending the ball is his and tryingto take it home. But it's NK who has the ball, they threw four of theminto the Sea of Japan yesterday.

-----Original Message-----From: Liberal Guy
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 07:33
To: Bushie Guy; Me; Somewhat disinterested middle of the road guy

Subject: RE: worse than our soccer team
So are you embarrassed that the North Koreans mock us and what do we do,go to the UN. Pathetic. I'm surprised the UN doesn't get the giggleswhen we speak there. Maybe they can force Colin Powell to do a return performance of lying.

-----Original Message-----From: Bushie Guy
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 8:37 PM.
To: Me ; Liberal Guy; Somewhat disinterested middle of the road guy
Subject: RE: worse than our soccer team

Legal schmeegal, who cares? It's either acceptable to us or it isn't.Andit isn't.

-----Original Message-----
From: Me
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 7:28 PM
To: Liberal Guy; Bushie Guy; Somewhat disinterested middle of the road guy
Subject: RE: worse than our soccer team

Now, I understand that Kim is a lunatic and he does this to piss off theUS and Japan, maybe SK and Russia too. BUT, is what he has done"illegal". I mean Bush has unilaterally decided that treaties don'tapply to the US, can't NK do the same thing? I'm just asking.

I guess Bush doesn't need to ruin the Constitution

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11669250/


Hey, Bushie Friends...still waiting for the one example that you based your whole philosophy on. "give me one example where a state legislature actedoutside the interests of society and passed a law that wasoverwhelmingly opposed by its constituents".

You've had a week, I'dthink if you were basing your entire political philosophy on this idea SURELY you'd have been able to think of ONE.

Bush is like OJ

Remember when Bush said they we would not stop until we brought theperpetrators of 9/11 to justice? I guess that boast was sorta like OJsaying he wouldn't rest until he found out the killer of Nicole. Andnow they both spend their time on frivolous things. OJ golfing, andBush preventing boys from kissing.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13699308/from/RS.3/

Idiots

These politicians are idiots:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/29/intel.leaks.ap/index.html

Last week is was a non-binding resolution on whether you like Americaand now this piece of grandstanding. Every person in the world knows that Every Single bank transaction inthe US over $10K is reported to the FEDs. This is a well known abuse ofpower, but it's been going on a long time.

Do you REALLY think thatterrorists don't know their financial transactions are being watched?The US government has been talking about it for years. So, instead of doing any real Business these idiots are going wastermore time grandstanding, whle this country has real problems. Insteadof actually doing anything to prevent terrorist attacks (searchingshipping containers anyone?) they are going to blame a newspaper. Whatcrap.

This is shameful.

More failure

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13361343/

Why no comments about this most egregious example of failed Bush foreign diplomacy. While Bush et al are in a pissing match over who gets to sit at the table, NK is off building more nukes AND developing missile technology that will reach America. Makes it seem like offering to sit down with them at the table and giving them some oil and food would have been a small price to pay for our safety. Remember, NK is holding the cards, they have NOTHING to lose.

So far Bush is 0 for 3 on the Axis of Evil. Let’s hope they learn something from their failed efforts with NK when dealing with Iran, but I doubt it. After all, there are Mexicans mowing lawns in California and boys kissing in Massachusetts that must be dealt with.

Double Standard

Every time Michelle Wie or Anika Sorenstam fails to make a cut in a men's pro tournament it is some sort of proof that woman can't play on the men's tour. Well, if those few examples make that so, what does it mean when the world's best golfer can't make the cut? Does that mean he doesn't belong on the tour?

Thought so, now shut up.

Music

Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars" is going to be a HUGE hit.

Still can't get enough of DCFC.

Can NOT wait for the Shins new CD...October release?

And I'm going to admit it...I am into Kelly Clarkson. I'm not proud...no I AM Proud. The songs I've heard rock..."walkaway" come on. Just don't tell my brother.

History will judge harshly

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13181735/

In 20 years, Americans will look back in disgust at this effort, just like we do today when we look back on when Southern states used their own laws to encourage and legally protect discrimination. Even "conservatives" will look back and deny they were ever homophobic.

Fortunately for us in America all the real problems have been solved, so we can focus on the real issue …boys kissing.

Now that this clown has fixed everything else

Now, that everything is peaceful in the Middle East, the budget is balanced and every child has enough food and health care, it's now time to spend our time stopping from boys kissing.

Of course, considering that Bush has been pissing on the Constitution since the day he took office, I wouldn't expect him to realize that the Constitution was put in place to limit the powers of the Federal Government. it is truly sickening that this hypocritical criminal is going to use the Constitution to try to raise his poll numbers.

When will the impeachment begin for this fool?

and God told me that tornadoes will hit the middle of the country

What a crackpot.

The Guard rescues Bush again...? Probably not

Against it before they were for it. Six months ago Secy. Chertoff said using National Guard on the border would be "horribly over-expensive and very difficult."


I know the Bush WH is a master in foreign policy, exemplified daily with events like N. Korea and Iran developing nukes, Iraq, Afghanistan falling back into Taliban control, trade issues with everyone from the UK and Canada to Venezuela, and of course Hamas being freely elected, but let’s just imagine the political repercussions of an 18 year old kid in a US military uniform shooting a Mexican citizen on the border of Texas or Arizona.

Why the drama? She's unelectable

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12762092/

Hilary is NEVER going to be elected President. you think the conservatives turned out for Bush II, they'll turn out in RECORD numbers to vote against Hilary...I don't care who is running.

As for Murdoch, yes he's Conservative, but he'll do anything to make a buck. And for years Conservativism has been very lucrative, as Hilary moves to the right he can move to the left and still make money.

If Hilary is the Dems best hope in 2008, you might want to get used to having a Republican in the WH until 2012

it's like changing the artwork in your house when it's got 4 feet of water on the floor

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/19/mcclellan/index.html

Every single time you watched McClellan it simply reminded you he was NO Ari Fleischer. But, I’m sure that changing the messenger is going to turn this corrupt, amoral administration into a virtuous one. Not that getting rid of the incompetent Sec of Defense or the corrupt VP would accomplish anything…

I guess you wouldn't have to deal with an insurgency

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060418/ts_nm/nuclear_iran_dc_18

This is the incredible irony that the Bushies have provided while destroying the GOP and America’s standing in the world. Like in Iraq where War is Peace and every terrorist bomb over there is good in our war on terrorism. Bush would use Nukes to make the world safe from Nukes.

You can’t make this shit up.

sixth general calls for Rummy to go home

The following is response to a Bushie friend of mine who claimed that any general who criticizes the Sec of Def is incompetent, he's also called the Democrat partisans, haters of America..you know typical Bushie bullshit

Showing exactly what you know. You don’t make General in the US Military by being incompetent, after all it’s not the Bush administration.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-04-13-rumsfeld-generals_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA

"We need a new secretary of Defense," retired major general Charles Swannack, former commander of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, said on CNN. He said Rumsfeld had micromanaged the war.

Retired major general John Batiste, who commanded the Army's 1st Infantry Division in Iraq in 2003 and 2004 agreed.

Marine lieutenant general Greg Newbold, the former Pentagon top operations officer, who called Iraq an "unnecessary war" in a Time magazine column this week.
• Major general Paul Eaton, who was in charge of training Iraqi troops in 2003 and 2004, wrote last month in The New York Times that Rumsfeld is "incompetent strategically, operationally and tactically."
• Army major general John Riggs, who told The Washington Post that his former colleagues in the military believe Rumsfeld and his close aides "should be cleared out."
• Marine general Anthony Zinni, the former command of U.S. Central Command and a longtime critic, said Rumsfeld should retire.
Despite Bush's support, such criticism could be enough to help force out Rumsfeld, said Loren Thompson, a military expert at the Lexington Institute, a Virginia think tank.
"It is so uncommon for senior military officers in the United States to criticize civilian leaders that it has to make an impression on the White House and Congress," Thompson said.

Another day, another lie exposed

On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."

The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a vindication of the decision to go to war. But even as Bush spoke, U.S. intelligence officials possessed powerful evidence that it was not true.

A secret fact-finding mission to Iraq -- not made public until now -- had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons. Leaders of the Pentagon-sponsored mission transmitted their unanimous findings to Washington in a field report on May 27, 2003, two days before the president's statement.

It's been so long

It's been so long and no word from me. DeLay quits, the continued incompetence of the Bush WH, the GOP abandoning the Bush ship as fast as they can. The all of the sudden critical issue of illegal immigration (I guess the GOP needs something other than supporting Bush, destroying America's economy with staggering debt, criminal behavior and the Iraq civil war to run on in November) is huge.

But this latest hypocrisy and possible treason is too much.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/07/whitehouse.leak/index.html

He didn't flip flop? How precious is that. Let's ignore that leaking classified information should put every one of the amoral idiots in prison for decades, but the issue for him is whether he flip-flopped. Of course he didn't, when he said People who leak classified information should go to jail, he wasn't talking about him. The man thinks he's King, can you imagine if Henry VIII thought the rules he made applied to him? Do you think any amoral dictator beleives the rules apply to them. Come on...this man and adminstration is pathological.

If I was a Republican or more importantly a COnservative I'd be abandoning this immoral criminal ship as fast as I could (see Fukuyama and Bartlett's books in recent weeks).