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Sunday, April 30, 2006
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Josh Marshall explains: With respect to what's coming on Iran, what is in order is a little honesty, just as was the case with the Social Security debate a year ago. The only crisis with Iran is the crisis with the president's public approval ratings. Period. End of story. The Iranians are years, probably as long as a decade away, and possibly even longer from creating even a limited yield nuclear weapon. Ergo, the only reason to ramp up a confrontation now is to help the president's poll numbers. This is a powerful message because it is an accurate message. We have many challenges overseas today. Chief among them, as one of the Democrats' senate candidates puts it, is "refocusing America's foreign and defense policies in a way that truly protects our national interests and seeks harmony where they are not threatened." The period of peril the country is entering into isn't tied to an Iranian bomb. It turns on how far a desperate president will go to avoid losing control of Congress. Go to his heart. Go to his weaknesses. Though the realization of the fact is something of a lagging indicator, the man is a laughing stock, whose lies and failures are all catching up with him. To the president the Democrats should be saying, Double or Nothing is Not a Foreign Policy.
(Via Daily Kos.)
10:46:45 PM 
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Washington, DC (Rotters) - A Washington, DC area prostitute has come forwards lending credence to the allegations of CIA officials' involvements in wild poker parties and prostitution exchanged in favors for legislation. The prostitute who remained nameless and in an undisclosed location has released pictures to Rotters and talked with its reporters about his story.
(Via Unconfirmed Sources.)
9:17:56 PM
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Alleee has posted a little cartoon for children (and relativists) about the nature of morality : Sally and Cy.
How Brian Flemming defeated Tucker Carlson :
FLEMMING: God doesn't exist any more than the Easter Bunny, they're both--
CARLSON: --Hold on there! That's crazy. I can disprove the existence of the Easter Bunny. You can't disprove the existence of God.
FLEMMING: You can disprove the existence of the Easter Bunny?
CARLSON: Of course.
FLEMMING: Do it.
CARLSON: The Easter Bunny is said to do certain things. We can observe that these things are not happening. Therefore the Easter Bunny does not exist.
FLEMMING: Name one thing God does that I can observe.
(Via Goosing the Antithesis.)
9:15:24 PM
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Support the president, and lose weight at the same time: Fast For George W.
Answer a call to personally fast once a month for President Bush.
God is raising up multitudes of Christians (regardless of political affiliation) to fast and pray for the holiness of President George W. Bush and our nation. Join us in God's grassroots movement.
What's the point?
Our goal is to have 1,000 people fasting for the President each day. That will greatly encourage him and keep him accountable when the Evil One seeks to sidetrack him from his commitment to the Lord.
(via Exploding Aardvark)
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(Via The J-Walk Blog.)
Because it's all about Dubya, right.
9:06:35 PM
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Interesting news today. On the Democratic side, five congressmen were arrested for protesting outside the Sudanese embassy over the genocide in Darfur. On the Republican side, as many as a half a dozen congressmen may be implicated in a prostitution ring tied to one of the many GOP bribery scandals. That pretty much sums it up. Your choice is between the party of human rights or the party of whores.
(Via The Talent Show.)
5:20:30 PM
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Is this the Good News?
"Sectarian violence has forced about 100,000 families across'Iraq to flee their homes, a top Iraqi official said. At least 17 people, including an American soldier, were killed Saturday in fighting. Adil Abdul-Mahdi, one of the country's two vice presidents, estimated on Friday that 100,000 Iraqi families — 90 percent of them his fellow Shiites — had fled their homes to escape attacks by rival religious sects....read on"
Let's hear what Laura Ingraham has to say on this report. Never mind. We know, it is the media's fault. As Atrios says, " will the fact that our country is run by delusional lunatics will ever quite penetrate the skulls of our elite pundit class."
No it won't Duncan, not while we have pundits like Wolf Blitzer hoping for the administration "to catch a break,"'rather than be held accountable. Lunatics don't catch breaks, they engage in acts of insanity, get caught immediately or escape and get caught later-or escape and are never heard from again.
(Via Crooks and Liars.)
5:14:06 PM
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Now this looks like fun!
5:04:43 PM
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The gossip at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last night was along the lines reported by David Shuster: "While his supporters continue to put a good face on his lengthy grand jury testimony, other sources close to Karl Rove say the presidential adviser is now more worried, not less, that he's going to get indicted. The sources say Rove was surprised by some of the questions he was asked, and by the fact the session stretched on for three and a half hours ... By all accounts, volunteering to testify to a grand jury is a risky proposition. Lawyers say it is usually done when there is nothing else that may stop an indictment."
The coming week my be the critical one for Karl Rove. Most of the other dominoes have toppled. Could this one be about to go? 
(Via Daily Dish.)
4:29:59 PM
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The day before the Republican House leadership struggled for five hours to bring lobby reform legislation to the floor, Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.) declared that voters have little or no interest in ethics legislation.
"Do I think they care about it? No, I don't," Doolittle told a reporter. Doolittle said that during the April 7-23 recess, he did not hear "anything about Jack Abramoff," the central figure in a lobbying scandal.
4:20:04 PM
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Dan Frommer: Meanwhile the site's [YouTube] bandwidth costs, which increase every time a visitor clicks on a video, may be approaching $1 million a month. [cut] Industry observers estimate that YouTube, which is streaming 40 million videos and 200 terabytes of data per day, may be paying between a tenth of a cent and half a cent per minute.
(Via The RSS Blog.)
12:37:36 PM
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Neil Young's 'Impeach the President' LyricsLet’s impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
He’s the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war
Let’s impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones
What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government’s protection
Or was someone just not home that day?
Let’s impeach the president
For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected
Thank god he’s cracking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There’s lot of people looking at big trouble
But of course the president is clean
Thank God
Stream the song here.
Probably impeachment is not a good idea now. It seems too much like something the Republicans would do did. No, lets have another 1000 days of continued revelations of Republican cupidity and incompetence.
11:12:16 AM
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What a tinhorn little dictator we have as our "elected" leader:
President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.
Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ''whistle-blower" protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research.
Legal scholars say the scope and aggression of Bush's assertions that he can bypass laws represent a concerted effort to expand his power at the expense of Congress, upsetting the balance between the branches of government. The Constitution is clear in assigning to Congress the power to write the laws and to the president a duty ''to take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Bush, however, has repeatedly declared that he does not need to ''execute" a law he believes is unconstitutional.
Not that this seems to bother the Republican Congress. The 1930s era Reichstag was about as active in balancing executive power.
Say what you will about Democrats, when they were in power, they never let the Chief Executive, be they Republican or Democrat get away with stealing power from them. Ask Lyndon Johnson about how much fun it was when William Fulbright started holding hearings on Vietnam.
Via AmericaBlog.
(Via Rising Hegemon.)
10:58:41 AM
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Great idea!
SAN ANTONIO — A group of atheists at the University of Texas at San Antonio is putting a novel twist on the toys-for-guns programs run by many urban police departments. But instead of toys, they are handing out porn in exchange for bibles.
“We consider the bible to be a very negative force in the history of the world,” student Ryan Walker said. Walker is part of a student group that calls itself the Atheist Agenda.
Club members this week posted fliers promoting what they call the “Smut for Smut” campaign then set up a table in the student union to collect religious materials and pass out adult magazines such as Black Label and Playboy.
(Via Cynical-C Blog.)
10:51:31 AM
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The problem starts with the commander-in-chief
Terrorists killed more than 14,500 people in 11,000 attacks across the globe last year, the U.S. State Department said in its annual report on terrorism.
Fifty-six of those killed were Americans, the report said. Three thousand of the deaths were attributable to 360 suicide bombings. There were 25,000 people wounded and 35,000 people kidnapped, the report said.
More Americans have died as a result of terrorism under George W. Bush than any other President in American history.
(Via Oliver Willis - Like Kryptonite To Stupid.)
10:48:29 AM
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Is anyone else starting to get the impression that Bush is suffering from multiple personality disorder, and his Valley Girl persona is beginning to wrestle for dominance against the Jesus Freak Cowboy we’re used to?
President Bush on Friday rejected the idea of killing FEMA.
"The lessons of Katrina are important," Bush said. "We've learned a lot here at the federal level. We're much more ready this time than we were the last time."
"Let's, first of all, pray there's no hurricanes," Bush said. "That would be, like, step one."
WTF? Dude has lost it.
(Thanks to Ms. Julien for the heads-up.)
(Via Shakespeare's Sister.)
10:43:00 AM
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