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Thursday, August 28, 2003
[8:28:36 PM]

"The Department of Justice[base ']s first priority is to prevent future terrorist attacks." --The Department of Justice

What?

Let's make *justice* the first priority of The Department of Justice. Let Homeland Security and FBI and Pentagon and etc. have preventing terrorism as their first priority.

[8:22:22 PM]
"The size and scope of the government contracts awarded to Halliburton in connection with the war in Iraq are significantly greater than previously disclosed and demonstrate the U.S. military's increasing reliance on for- profit corporations to run its logistical operations. Independent experts estimate that up to one-third of the monthly $3.9 billion cost of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq is going to independent contractors."

Halliburton, meanwhile, specializes in using off-shore tax dodges to cheat America out of Halliburton's share of taxes.

[8:18:36 PM]
The good news is that dead American soldiers in Iraq get headlines again. It's a pretty sick world when that's *good* news. It's just a temporary glitch because we just passed the mark where more Americans have been killed *since* the Mission was Accomplished, than before. Give it a week and the dead will be buried at the bottom of page six.

[8:08:00 PM]
Not only that, the *really* special thing about George W. is his Virgin Birth. As God speaks to George W. now, He spake to his mother then: "Lo, you shall not touch 'Poppy', but rather my Spirit will descend upon thee, and you will bring forth unto the world a Savior, who shall be called Dubya, to lead my *true* Chosen People to the rapturous day when I, through my own Son Dubya, shall destroy the Earth."

I bet you didn't know that. It's all in the sequel to the 9/11 In Excelsis Busho movie.

[7:49:34 PM]
"...that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." --Abraham Lincoln

"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." --Grover Norquist

[12:00:34 PM]
Regarding the pattern of Israeli assassinations and Palestinian suicide bombings:

Counterpunch: "In four of the past five suicide bombings, the timing of the bombing, the fact that group whose senior militant was assassinated carried out the attack, and the explicit claim of revenge for the assassination in all of these cases leave little room for doubt about cause and effect."

[11:52:22 AM]
"Someone who's a confirmed liar and someone else who's on drugs and one of the two has recanted. You really think someone should be locked up for a year in solitary confinement based on that?" --Andrew Patel, regarding Jose Padilla

[11:40:34 AM]
Amy Sullivan on Wesley Clark: "Although he has yet to declare a party affiliation, his stance on key domestic issues--he's pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, and pro-progressive taxation--clearly mark him as a Democrat."

I don't know. Arnold Schwarzenegger fits most of that, too. Heck, except that Bush talks about wanting tax cuts, he says he's for all those things, too.

Doesn't it seem like the Democratic candidate for president should be a Democrat?

And aren't we tired of an endless stream of non-politicians with cash or glamour trying to skip the hard work of politics and go straight to the top? Army administration has got to be a better qualification than running a business, acting, or "Pro Wrestling", but it doesn't give you a team of policy and political advisers that can let you hit the ground running in the campaign and when you step into the White House.

Let Clark and Schwarzenegger start with a school board seat, and come back when they've demonstrated their political aptitude.

[11:29:26 AM]
I'm sure it's more complicated than this, but the North Korea *looks* very simple. Bush called them an "Axis of Evil" and its leader a "pygmy". Then Bush conquered -- under false pretenses -- another country he had labeled "Axis of Evil". Even though there was no connection between Iraq and North Korea, you can imagine that North Korea might be concerned for its security.

North Korea's demand for ending its nuke program is that we promise not to invade. I say we promise not to invade. Why is that hard? When Bush *does* decide to invade, he can make up some lies to justify it. Rove & Company are the reigning experts at making up such lies.

So we promise not to invade, North Korea shuts down its nuke program, and then we don't have any reason to think about invading. The only problem with that scenario is that only North Korea's missile program justifies the Republican missile defense program, so reducing tension with North Korea could cost the Republicans hundreds of billions of dollars.

But I say we could count on Rove to make up some lies to justify missile defense even without anybody pointing missiles in our direction. Oh, yes. He's that good.

[11:17:39 AM]
The compassionate, education, "leave no child behind (TM)" Bush regime is out to cut $200 million from education, that was already dramatically underfunded.

$200 million is less than two days in Iraq.

Expect to see Bush petting more little black children.

[11:14:51 AM]
A New Whore Times article today managed to blame the demise of the truce in Israel/Palestine on a suicide bombing without mentioning the state terrorism assassinations by Israel including the murder of a non-militant, pro-peace Hamas leader. It also, naturally, failed to mention the pattern of Sharon ending any potential outbreak of peace by assassinating Palestinians until one group or another responds.

Does anybody mention that the helicopters used in these murders that kill more innocent bystanders than targets were made in America? (Only Robert Novak?) And did American taxpayers pay for those helicopters, used repeatedly for terrorism?

[12:42:11 AM]
"They knew and they didn't tell us the truth, and the White House told them not to tell us the truth." --Hillary Clinton about Bush EPA's cover-up of health hazards from World Trade Center air pollution

[12:38:13 AM]
Buzzflash.com: "The pages of The Weekly Standard are more than just fish wrap for the Murdoch agenda; they are bloodstained broadsides that defend the indefensible."

Give 'em hell, Buzzflash!

[12:06:42 AM]
"Iraq is a debacle, wrapped in a catastrophe, encased in a quagmire" --James Carville