six is better than four

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Now im not upset about never writing anything about the four generals who have called for rummys resignation because now we're up to six. i wonder why things didnt work out in Iraq....

Rumsfeld should be held accountable for a series of blunders, starting with
"throwing away 10 years worth of planning, plans that had taken into account
what we would face in an occupation of Iraq."

"They only need
the military advice when it satisfies their agenda. I think that's a
mistake, and that's why I think he should resign," Riggs said.

of course none of this really matters because Rumsfeld has tried to quit twice in the past and bush would not let him. Maybe Rumsfelds plan was to do such a bad job and piss off enough people that they would force him to resign. if so its the first of his plans that might actually work.

((danger rambling warning level 4))

so what do I do now? I realise that by becoming more radicle in my political ideas than I help my enemy while helping my cause. If you dont understand this concept then please read the article called the Terrorist Strategy: a quiz, in my links section its right below bush's resume which is pretty good in its own right. But my point is that I dont want the right to become more radical I dont want a civil war I dont want this hatred and tension I dont want to lose friends because of a twit like george bush.
So whats the options?
We could take a step towards center, we could not be the radicles we could be a voice of reason to keep the center strong. this would marginalize them, expose them as trying to pitch anti-american toughts like deporting 12 million people from the country, yes they are illegal but then agian this entire country is aliens, how can we be say to anyone that they cant come because they arent good enough? I also need to point out that these people who try to preach racism under the cover of family values, kind of weird when some one claims to be a christian who I would think would want to follow things like tolernence and such sorta like everything that jesus ever said. this is why there is a war on christians. its becuase if the right can use the media to convince enough people that liberals are anti-christian thenit devalues the mesege when liberals point out that all of this retoric about a christian society is being spouted out by people who have no concept of what a christian is supposed to be. And before people try to say im no expert on christianity i need to say this. I went to church untill i was out of highschool, not every sunday but enough. i went on two mission trips to gueatemala that were some of the greatest experiences of my life. and I am an atheist. I dont believe in god. but that doesnt mean i dont know christianity, at the same time I am no experet by any strech of the imagination. so I am an educated layman at best. I know a bit, i know the general concept I was always taught in church and home was to "be kind to one another" or some thing along those lines. and I always thought that was a good idea which is why im a liberal. Im not sure what beleif in god has to do with accepting good advice have to do with each other but ill take the advice. Like any peice of advice i might think its great advice, it doesnt mean i always follow it. So my point is, how is trying to kick people out of our country good for people? remeber jesus said EVERY man on this earth is my brother. now would jesus kick his brother, his own brother out of his house?
The problem is i think that was a pretty good point. that was only one recent issue but it was an easy one. the problem comes that because i dont beleive in god im not allowed to say anything about religion without being called anti-christian. so wow did i ever get off on a tangent. i think the tangent turned out better than the original. i wrote this once before and then my computer locked up and this new version with the big religious twist was the attempted rewrite which once agian i think is better, it must be a sign from god! he... wants.... me... to... kill... consevatives.... No way god! im not fallin for that shit again. karma is a bitch.

fourth retired general wants rummy out

Truth Dig resign already Rumsfeld

Support the Troops

Buy them Blankets because Bush doesnt want to. Halliburton lost a few billion of our dollars but who cares. Ill write something better about this when i get home.
http://Thought Crimes

Easter is almost here...

So it must be War on Easter Time!

For the most part us liberals have way more important things to worry about than a defunct pagan holiday that was highjacked by the christians long ago. We dont care. We are worried about the war(s). We are worried about universal health care, we want the administration held accountable for the untold number of law they have decimated. Liberals want children to be fed.

Nah Fuck all that. I was going to write about how we have bigger concerns than a bunch of so called christians, but honestly I do have a major problem with the likes of pat robertson and jerry faldwell and many others. I have a major problem with anyone who preaches hate. I cannot tolerate it, I have friends who are rednecks and every now and then they say the N words and then they turn and say oh sorry about that. they know better but its ingrained in them. for the most part its just another word to them, its an insult just like mother fucker or anyother strong insult. But anyway my point is that there is growing hatred in this country and a disturbing amount of it is coming from certian churches. This I have a problem with. Religion is a powerful social tool that like any tool can be used for good or bad. The good side of religion is what I thought that whole book was mostly about, things like love your neighbor and helping those in need. non-violence, turn the other cheek and all that. But there is another way it can be used where people teach that because there was a few lines in the bible that can be taken to be anti-gay then we must destroy the gays. which is diametricly opposed to the few lines from the bible that I do know, do unto others....

So bill o'rielly first off I have nothing against Ishtar or Easter but i bet Ishtar was more fun, it was a fertility celebration after all, no easter is fine, hell I might even get dragged to church for it. But I do have it in for certian religious leaders. But then again these are the same supposed men of god who have called for Killing er sorry Assainating a foreign President. So your wrong in that its not a war on christmas or easter or even a war on christianity as many, probably most, liberals are christians. There is a war against fundamentalism. They choose to turn this into a with ou or against us movement, and I for one am against them.

Nuclear Iran, eventually....

Informed Comment rips into all the headlines touting how Iran is going nulcear. stating that the 164 centrifuges they claim to have are maybe 1% of the 16,000 or so that would be a minimum to build a nuclear bomb. Now admittedly Iran has said that they plan to purchace as many as 50,000 of them but have not said when. There is also the possiblity that they just want to use them for the nuclear reactors they are building. Currently I am far more afraid of the US nuking Iran than the other way around. I can think of nothing that would radicalize the Arab world more than to use nukes, even tactical nukes, as a response to an Arab nation attempting to build a powerplant. Currently our nation grows weaker both militarily and economincly every day. We took on a very weak army and have barely kept it out of anarchy, this has not proved our military power. Its like Andre the Giant fighting Vern Troyer and having Andre win on points while bleeding profusely. Sure we won, but no one was impressed. If we go to war with Iran then I think im going to swing either to the total revolutionary side, or else pack my bags and get the fuck out of this backwards fundamentalist leaning cuntry.

sweet

i think i just fixed my links so they wont be at the bottom of the screen for those of you using explorer. im not sure why mozilla seems to work on my site. oh well i hope its fixed now, it was my depressing bush clock that did it. he always gets ya..

Dick goes to the ballgame

Cheney on Crooks and Liars, seems fitting

Dick Cheney went to the Washington Nationals opener to throw out the first pitch, but his ball went wild and struck Mark Maguire who then charged the mount in a vicious 'roid rage who was tackled only moments before striking the Vice President with the bat by two rather reluctant looking secret service agents. We have not been able to locate Maguire for questioning. Cheney collapsed from a massive heart attack during the ensuing skirmish between agents and Maguire. The Vice President was immediately airlifted to the hospital for the second time that day, the earlier incident being a drill set up by Cheney to test the response time of his medical team. Later being quoted as saying "I seen Jr. get four tires and gas in 11 seconds I should be able to get an new heart in under 30 minutes, shit they got all them quick disconnects in their now , and a zipper to open my chest. Which was quite beneficial as during the practice drill the team actually defibulated the VP "several" times before realizing his heart only beats twice per minute. When questioned why they did not know it was only a test they said they had not been notified. Cheney commented saying that it was classified information and asked if I was trying to help the terrorists by asking such things, then saying of course I did tell that one reporter about it, and told scooter to pass it on...

oh or he got booed at the stadium, which is funny too.

what a day

today kinda sucked for me, but thats enought about that lets get to the good shit.

Im in a good mood cause im figuring out what tunes to put on my own little political punk mix im about to burn.
We got Nofx bad religion some descendents dead kennedys makes an appearance as do primus and suicidal tendencies, some system of a down and some green day bit of propagandhi and a shit load of anti-flag. So that has me in a good mood but now its ended..

Descendents 'merican is a great song, its fast but not hardcore at all so its a good starter to political punk and im a huge NOFX fan, a bit angrier and almost solely political is anti-flag, and seeing as i want to be able to listen to this at the office im not goin much further than that. one dead kennedys song did make it on.

So when i get home i hop on crooks and liars and see how the world doin... oh the grin hasnt left my face in an hour. so where should i start....

45% think that bush should be censured? how can I not smirk when I see that. I realize it not even a majority but were in the right directions.oh and 55% of americans plan to vote democrat for their house rep. ha.
C & L

El Salvador

Pro-life Nation ok i found the article on el salvador.
I havent had time to finish reading it but there it is if your like me and dont want to pay to read the news. On principle Id feel better about supporting companies that actually have decent investigative journalists such as the NYTimes but im poor and I have other priorities, srry

Ruth Malhotra, I suspect that I hate you.

heres the link
Sue for the right to harass gays

I really dont want to hate christianity, i dont even want to hate the fundamentalist christians, Id much rather not hate anyone. My good will can hold out to say that there is still no group of people that I hate because its wrong to hate a person for how they were born, but to hate a person because of what they have done is expected. In the word of NOFX "so go ahead and label me an asshole cause i can, accept responsiblity for what Ive done but not for who I am." from the song Dont call me white. Any way I might have found a person I could hate without even meeting.

Ruth Malhotra I suspect that I hate you. You are trying to use sue for the right to harrass gays. Harrassment is NOT an inalienable right. reread the Constitution some time theres a lot of good stuff and its not very long. But no where does it say that freedom of religion allows you to persecute others. Your rights end where others begin, ie: my right to swing a baseball bat ends at your nose. I have the right to swing a baseball bat, but as soon as I crush your face in, then I have broken the law, as it should be.

And now on to the religious end of it. I'll be the first to say that I was never a religous person, oh sure my mother dragged my to church every sunday untill I moved out for college. Sure I went on two mission trips to guetemala and cant wait to go again. But im not a spirtiual person. That feeling deep down that people with faith must have, well I just dont have it. But I must say I dont remeber the pastor ever saying any thing about "and jesus said we shall bring fire upon those who whould make love to another man." doesnt really fit his whole style of helping those less fortunate. And turning the other cheek and all that other stuff. I never really hear him shouting about hatred much but maybe we had different versions of the bible. Of course I alwayss liked the Jesus in my bible. He seemed like a really nice guy that wanted everyone to live free and be happy. He was staunchly against greed, cause I do remeber him saying that it is easier for a camel to walk throught the eye of a needel than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

So for everyone who is preaching hatred in the name of christianity, well id be curious to read your bible and see what jesus was like in that version cause the jesus in my bible is going to send you to hell for eternity. Of course I dont beleive in hell and I Dont beleive in pure evil either. possible exception being Bush...

Peace to the tolerant.

heres the link again
Sue for the right to harass gays

pro-life nation

its supposed to be a horrifying article about the pains involved in a nation where abortion is illegal no matter what. but unfortunately the Times makes you pay to read their articles online so needless to say im SOL. Id really like to ind a copy of it to read...

illegal aliens

Her Rudeness asks an interesting question on the immagration front. the Question is this; When Secretary of Commerce and former CEO of Kellogg's Carlos Gutierrez was a young boy, were he and his family in the United States illegally during the early 1960s?

Its a great question that should be asked not because we have and issue with Carlos but because it is a perfect example of a country that is made up of almost nothing but immagrants. of course if you beleive in science than everyone but the africans are immagrants or everyone but the Iraqi's if you beleive in that old book about adam and eve, who may have had to fight tyrannsuarus rex while in the garden of eden if your into the whole young earth stuff.

Thanks to the Rude Pundit for bringing this up. I cant wait to hear the answer.

Leveraging Xenophobia

Ok great article over at Daily Kos. Please read it.
Theres is a quote from one of our few Dems with a spine Obama that sums up the liberal ideals and what our country should be in a few simple words.

If there is a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to
me, even if it's not my child. If there is a senior citizen somewhere who can't
pay for their prescription drugs, and having to choose between medicine and the
rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandparent. If there's an
Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due
process, that threatens my civil liberties.
It is that fundamental belief --
It is that fundamental belief: I am my brother's keeper. I am my sister's keeper
that makes this country work. It's what allows us to pursue our individual
dreams and yet still come together as one American family.

And how can you argue with that?

Delay's Balls

must be huge!
Think about it youve already been indicted your about to throw in the towel on the next race and so you ask for campiagn contributions in order to pay for your mounting legal fees. And when those supporters finally realize whats happened and say hey I want my money back cause thats not what I had paid for you proudly tell them to suck on one or two of those powerfull nuts. What a country. Of course If your stupid enough to give money to indicted felon then I about as much pity as I have for highdiver who knows theres no water in the pool. And if they go broke throwing their money away on republicans then at least they can be proud that all of our national safeguards to keep you out of the gutter have been repealed by those same republicans. But youre heart will be warm as you die of exposure knowing that you helped ensure sure that no man married another man....

lets nuke iran

So we are trying to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power, and were going to stamp out the threat of nukes by hitting their nuclears sites with bunker busting tactical nukes. Does our adminisration have no sence of irony whatsoever? here frist read this from the New Yorker and then read this Terrorist Strategy and youll quickly realize that attacking Iran may very well lead Bin Laden to NOT attack us. Ok read that again, attacking Iran may prevent another terrorist attack, at least for a while. This is because we will already be doin exactly what Bin Laden wants so why bother with another attack? Hes getting what he wants as it is. So if you read that stratagy guide and i think you should, then you would know that the worse thing we could do right now would be to talk out an agreement with Iran, and set goals for a pull out of Iraq, all while treating these other nations with the same level of respect we would give to England or any other ally. Of course if we did that then Bin Laden would probably attempt another major attack to try to get us back into another war. So then the key would be to actually respond to warnings, keep our eyes and ears open and try like hell to prevent an attack, now lets play the pessimist and assume that the greatest intelligence gathering power the world has ever known cant stop the guy in the cave, then what. well that means we got attacked again, so now what. thousands of people are dead again, and everyone is screaming see what happens when we stop attacking them, thn they think they can attack us. This is going to be the very very hard part, this is when we must remain calm. This would be a good time to work really hard to find Bin Laden track him down send in a few seals and take him out. But do not fight another war, this only helps the terrorists toredicalize their own people while weakening the US both militarily and economicly. We must stop helping the terrorists, we must end the war. And for the love of god dont nuke Iran, are they insane?????

nazi-punks fuck off

ok this has nothing to do with that Dead Kennedys classic. I started reading and had to post it, i havent finished reading it but it looks good. Firedog Lake

impeachment

for bush cheney gonzolaz rove.....

thanks to Kos for this one.
heres the real quick of it,

In response to a question from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) during an appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, Gonzales said the government would have to determine if a conversation was related to al-Qaeda and crucial to fighting terrorism before deciding whether to listen in without court supervision.
"I'm not going to rule it out," Gonzales said, referring to the possibility of monitoring purely domestic communications.

vs

Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

once again thanks Kos, cause i stole this whole post from you but I thought it was good and didnt have any time. imition is the sincerest form of flatery, er something like that.

oh and one last point that has been made before, the presidents number one duty is to uphold the Constitution of the united states. So violationg the constitution in order to protect us from "terrorists" in not an excuse, you cant put lower prioritys above the highest thats why they are priorites. I never though i would need to explain that to the president of the united states, damn.

The Leak

National Journal has the story.
Libby is claiming that Bush gave him approval to use the information. effectively declassifiying it, no one seems sure if the president can declassifiy information. This whole situation just stinks of foul play. I still say they try the person resonsible for treason
So lets hear what the president has to say about leaking classified information.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes. Let me just say something about leaks in Washington. There
are too many leaks of classified information in Washington. There's leaks at the
executive branch; there's leaks in the legislative branch. There's just too many
leaks. And if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it
is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.

I think that says it all, dont you? that was from '03.
Thank you to Editor and Publisher for the article and Buzzflash for bringing it to my attention.

Theories of Conspiracy

I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories but I watched a movie last night that really amazed me. Now I first want to say that I need to watch this again as I wasn’t feeling my best and maybe I was more susceptible to speculation than usual, I also need to take it over to a friends house and make them watch and see if they think its as crazy I do. The video was called 9/11 Conspiracy –In Plane Sight-, it floored me. We have all heard the one about the Pentagon and how it was a missile and not a plane that struck it. They always said well why weren’t there any pieces of the plane on the lawn? That was never much of point for me because I don’t remember seeing and bits of plane on the ground in NYC either, the plane was in the building. But then they showed photos and live video from the day it happened and I have to say, it didn’t seem like there was a hole the size of an airplane. They did keep showing the plane as if it was flying in straight and level and in reality they would have been diving at the base of the building which might be able to explain why the hole was not the expected shape. There was the point about the fire though. The trade center burned for a long time due to all of the jet fuel, and yet the pictures of the Pentagon showed almost no fire damage other than soot. They also asked where all of the surveillance camera footage was. It’s the Pentagon; they have a few cameras around. And only one video has ever been released and it seems to show a missile hitting the Pentagon. It then gets into much bigger and crazier theories along with varying levels of proof. It’s a good video because it keeps using well-known footage and simply points out things that I had never even looked for before. There is a video of a huge plume of dust rising up from ground level at the trade center, but both buildings are still standing. I don’t want to be that guy who believes in all the crazy stories but then again after everything that has happened since 9/11 is there anything left that you think Bush isn’t capable of doing, other than success?

Im not sure if this video is available to buy anywhere, if it is i will probably buy it. I illegally downloaded it. oh and very quickly that is my stance on downloading things. If it's good and ive got an extra buck then i will buy the cd or dvd, its like testdriving a car. so if i find where i can buy the video ill let you know.

Noam Chomsky

Any time i see that name i know im going to put a link to it. I havent even read the article yet but I will go out on a well supported limb and say its probably fantastic. so with out further adu I present Noam Chomsky, thank you to common dreams for giving this living legend a place to be heard.

bye tommy

as you all know tom delay is outta here. not much more to say because every news outlet is carrying this story and im not exactly feeling witty today.

bush's energy plan

American Progressive
this came out awhile ago but i just want to touch on it agian. bush thinks we're addicted to OIL, agreed. Bush thinks we need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by 75% in the next 20 years. so far so good. Bush thinks we should reduce spending on helping needy families use less energy, wha? Doesnt that action completely disagree with what he was saying?

First off 75% reduction in 20 years is lame. we could reduce it by 50% before he leaves office if we really want to. but why would he want to do that? Its much easier to talk big and tell the future presidents what they need to do than it is to actually accompish a single decent thing for the good of the country.

So we need to do this to save the environment but to help get this through think of what it could do for our economy. first off all this hydrogen cars, get the fuck outta here. way way to much work so many obsticles to overcome before that becomes viable, well keep working on it but we need a plan for in the mean time. fuel cells? no, worse than hydrogen and some of them still use gasoline, albeit much much less. and there is the problem of carrying around a mini powerplant in your car. So the most blatently obvious thing to do at least untill we can find something better, and no its not hybrids. sure hybrids are a fun novelty, driving around with the engine off is fun, but they really arent that much better than the normal cars, in fact the most efficient cars on the road are NOT hybrids. it had to be over 5 years ago now that VW built a lupo 3 liter, which stood for 3 liters per 100 kilometers, or 78 mpg. that beats the hell out of anything available in this country. and once again its not a hybrid. So what is the miracle solution to all of our problems? vegeteble oil. yup
if your a liberal hippy communist heathen like me then you probably already know about biodiesel. its amazing you do absolutely nothing to the vehicle. the diesel engine was intended for farm use and therefore they designed it to run on veggie oil so that the farmer could produce his own fuel. Then for those who like their engines to rev we go to ethanol, the only downside to this one is that engines might need mild changes, tunning needs to change becuase the fuels have different styciometric ratios. oh and alcohol burns clear which can be dangrous in fire, becuase you dont know its on fire. but cars dont catch on fire all that often. completely renewable fuels with at most minor infastructure changes and money going to american farmers. my only question left is Why Not?

Limbaugh was low on pills

Media Matters reports tht Rush Limbaugh, everyones favorite racist, called the Duke rape victim a hoe. He did apologize for it on the air but i think this needs a serious written applogy. it wont happen but whatever, boycott Rush.

witch hunt time

The Guardian
unfortunatly not the fun kind. this is about going after those liberal bastards at colleges who want to teach their students about the world. those who beleive there has been knowledge gained after the resurection of christ are consperacy theorists. If your not teaching my child exactly what has always been brainwashed into them then you are a sadistic communist heathen that should be burned at the stake.
if you want to see the website that has caused this fuss here it is.
http://www.uclaprofs.com/
Seriously though a college or university should be a place where ideas can flow, open mindedness and meeting new people from around the world, or in my case from the other side of the state (state school). A college is a place for learning and a place to challenge the ideas that have been presented to you. this makes for an inherently liberal atmosphere. A conservative college would be like listening to bill o'rielly, you can listen to this guy spout off about a bunch of things but then you cant question him. any good professor encourages people to question them and then they will rebutt your question and you question the rebuttal which is whats called a discusion or a debate. I never used to think that something as basic as an educated conversation was a liberal idea but I suppose that these days it is.

Feeling shitty....

i feel like crap and im at work, if my writing sucks today then im... not sorry.

DHS pedophelia

first i should warn you that im not feeling well so my already horrible writing might be even worse, srry.
MSNBC
Now we have high ranking government offcials being caught seducing 14 year old girls on the 'net. This is something so obviously terrible that I feel I need to throw out this weak deffence for the idiot. I saw a rather un-official study looking into the people who try to have cyber-sex, this was not really looking at the underage portion just the general concept. They found that most of the "young girls" were guys. And more interestingly many of the guys talking to the "girls" were not supprised to learn they were talking to another guy. This leads me to beleive that many of them dont care who they are talking to because they have no intention of ever meeting the person on the other end. So maybe he just assumed it wasnt really a 14 year old kid and figured it was some other pervert out for a good time. Of course this logic does have a flaw, he asked her to get a web cam, which means he wanted to actually see her which means he probably did thing it was a little girl. damn well I tried to defend him but I was wrong. Hes just a prevert and an attmepted pedophile. or in the quiet words of T-ShirtHell "Pedophiles are fucking imature assholes" if your looking for the shirt ill warn you that im not sure if its still available but i still wanted to give them credit. seriously how stupid can you be? you work at the DHS you should know that the cops are watching the internet all the time, shit DHS is part of the people watching it, and i dont think it even needs to be said that no matter who you are you dont hit on 14 year old girls, unless your a 14 year old yourself and in that case, get off my site, i use bad language.

schumer

NY Metro
saw an article over at FDL that sounded interesting so here it is so i can read it later

war on the web

oh thats just freakin great. read this if your a fan of the Net and if your reading this then you probably are.
Thomas Paines Corner
So the pentagon wants more control over the internet... they want to be able to shut off the telecommunications of another country without getting out of a chair, they want to send out more propaganda to foreign countries.
sweet....

rummy should quit

rumsfeld is about as expert at running a war as a palsey victim doing brain surgery with a monkey wrench. ok i stole that line from the movie Sin City.
Common Dreams
A former general Anthony Zinni has called for Rumsfeld to resign. Rice recently stated that there have been thousands of tactical mistakes made, Zinni counters saying that it was major Strategic mistakes that have cost us this "war." They had been planning what to do if they ever went back to Iraq since the first time we left after the gulf war version 1.0, ten years they planned for it and when it came time to implement the plan. they said nah ive got some guesses that tell me this will be easy all that data and information youve collected doesnt concern me cause i have this gut feeling that this is all going to be just fine. And this is the problem with the evangelical in the white house. he doesnt believe in science or logic or rational thought, he believes in gut insticts that tell him what to do. there are times when your insticts will save your life, but dont count on them for strategy.

of course if rumsfeld quits then he'll just be the scapegoat for every problem and then bush will claim it wasnt his fault cause he didnt know that rumsfeld was doing such a terrible job.

the new presidential motto: ignorance is a virtue