"On Thursday, NBC's Today show explored whether the confessions of alleged 9/11 'mastermind' Khalid Sheikh Mohammed can be trusted since he claimed to have been tortured after being detained."
And check out who the hard-hitting investigative reporter is... Matt Lauer. He squeezed this in between the story about the puppies in Pennsylvania who poot peppermint. ......
29 attacks they say he admitted to. He also plotted wedgies for Powell and Rice and had plans to drop 100 water ballons off of Seattles Space Needle and AND he was going to start naughty rumors about George W. Bush doing cocaine... no, wait.
Look, I'm not sayin' Khalid is a good guy. He's a bad buy, ok. He, more than likely, needs to be strung up from the rafters. What I am saying is isn't it interesting how this story gets trotted out at this moment? When A.G. Abu Gonzales is under massive pressure to resign for being a political opertative, firing people unjustly and for political gain, and for lying to Congress?
Also, in the gulag that is Guantanamo, can any confession be believed? You torture me and I'll admit to damn near anything.
Of course the MSM is breathlessly reporting the fuck out of it. Rove has so got them on a string still. Dumbasses all.
It's just like we caught Al Queda #2 again, isn't it.
...and it sucks that I have to be skeptical about his admissions. Thanks BushCo. If he was tried in a formal court of law, I'd be the first to throw a rock at his swinging body.
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Of course Bush is gonna veto this one. Open government? Bitch, please!
Call your Reps and tell them you support this bill.
"WASHINGTON - Open-government bills sped to House passage Wednesday as Democrats pushed to make President Bush and his executive branch more forthcoming about their actions. The White House struck back with veto threats."
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"This just in.... Titties and cock. Story at Ten".
"A cable news program was temporarily replaced with hard-core pornography, shocking viewers who had been watching a health show featuring former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw. The incident Monday night on KPPX-TV was 'an act of human sabotage' at the Phoenix-area station, said ION Television, which operates the station."
"BUDAPEST, Hungary - Laugh and the world laughs with you. Even better, you might live longer, a Norwegian researcher reports.
Adults who have a sense of humor outlive those who don't find life funny, and the survival edge is particularly large for people with cancer, says Sven Svebak of the medical school at Norwegian University of Science and Technology."
It was not a 'mistake' when it was a political calculation by the White House that you supported not as an independent judiciary, but as a lackey to BushCo.
How many evil and/or incompetents can one administration have? Apparently that number is limitless when dealing with Republicans.
So what bullshit being slung by the right to justify this? Clinton did it, too. Oh yeah, the 'Clinton did it' defense. Debunked.More Debunked.
My biggest worry is not for the 8 attorneys that were fired, it is for the other 85 attorney who were probably coerced into doing some seriously evil shit in order to keep their jobs.
"LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia, the world's third biggest cocaine producer, should redesign its coat of arms to include coca leaves, according to one group of delegates to an assembly rewriting the constitution."
"he-he he-he, Why don't you come back to my room and help Laura peal my carrot. he-he he-he. We'll have one of them, what do you call it, menagerietres. he-he he-he"
"WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday he considers homosexuality to be immoral and the military should not condone it by allowing gay soldiers to serve openly, the Chicago Tribune reported.
'I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way,' Pace told the newspaper in a wide-ranging interview."
Isn't killing immoral? Isn't that what an army is for? Killing. Maybe necessary killing, but, regardless isn't killing immoral? Why can't Pace make this connection and maybe have a bit more compassion and understanding? Why? Because his judgement is completely clouded by christian-taught bigotry and rampant hypocrisy.
Pace should be removed, immediately. Hell, the NBA fired Hardaway......
But wait, there's more. Have you heard the one about the former gay porn star whose a Marine and is the darling of CPAC, O'Reilly, Coulter and the likes.
In this first-person piece he just wrote in Salon, former gay porn star and gay prostitute Matt Sanchez, a GOP hero, blames those evil liberals for outing his man-whore, porn star past. Sanchez, who starred in such thrillers as 'Touched by an Anal: Four Hours of Heavenly Anal Action' - I'm not joking (this is NOT a work-friendly link) - now says that the porn industry is evil and liberal and that's why he became a conservative. Get it. It's our fault that he was a man-whore, it's our fault that he went in to gay porn. Uh huh. He also notes that his conservative friends are still embracing him. I'm sure they are. We've discovered long ago what hypocritees conservatives are about their family values. (We also discovered how many of the most ardent conservatives are big ole closet cases, so I'm sure they'd love to embrace you, Matt.)"
But, waitwaitwait, there's even more! Get you fresh, steaming, hot Republican hypocrisy! It's cheap because the supply is ample and never ending!
An oldie (as far as the news cycle goes) but a goodie:
"WASHINGTON - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.
"RICHMOND, Ky. - A bizarre incident at a Waffle House led to four Lexington men being cited by police following a high-speed chase. Devin Chenault, 21, Shawn Caldwell, 18, Robert Greer, 19, and Marcus Graves, 18, were sitting at the counter in the restaurant early Friday morning when a fight between two girls broke out. ADVERTISEMENT
A restaurant employee flagged down nearby police officers to help break up the fight, and when the officers entered the restaurant the four men took off without paying their nearly $100 tab."
And how and the hell do 4 guys spend almost $100 dollars in Waffle House? The should be imprisoned for torturing their guts, not dining and dashing.
How bad is it when the President of your country goes to another country then when he leaves, they have to warsh the entire country and everyone gets cootie shots. Circle, circle, dot, dot, now you're cleansed of Bush's evil fucking presence. Sheesh.
"GUATEMALA CITY — Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate 'bad spirits' after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.
'That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture,' Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday."
This blog began: 'There is an element missing in the 'Democrat/Liberal/Progressive, you name it, response to the mind bending breakdown of everything' we see around us. That missing element is the angst and the anger, the fierceness and the desperation, that comes only when we finally awaken and see the truth: Our country, our way of life is disappearing before our eyes!!
The extreme right, the ultra-conservatives, neo-cons, call them what you may, saw our national scenario in that light from their standpoint 25 years ago. They were losing the America they believed in to the libs and the evolutionists; the gays, and the humanists; the coastal elites and the femi-nazis. I think they saw it correctly. Progressive thought was on the march. Well, on the crawl, anyway. Glacier-like, perhaps, America was becoming more inclusive, more tolerant, more progressive, more humanistic -- and it frightened the shit out of them! Their way of life was threatened and they had a country to save. Fiercely, with favor toward none, they went about saving it. They declared war on the left, while successfully branding everything not right of center as the devil -- and, bless them, Americans all, look at the heights they have reached in a relatively short period of time.."
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If this be true, then the smell in my room this morning made me remember the beer and steak I had yesterday.
"Scientists studying how sleep affects memory have found that the whiff of a familiar scent can help a slumbering brain better remember things that it learned the evening before. A rose bouquet -- delivered to people's nostrils as they studied and, later, as they slept -- improved their performance on a memory test by almost 15 percent."
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Yay, Darwinism! The entire purpose of the Jackass show is to cull the heard.
Man burns genitals in 'Jackass' stunt: "EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - Attempts to do a movie stunt landed one man in the hospital with burned genitals and another facing criminal charges. The men were trying to do a stunt from one of the 'Jackass' movies, in which a character lights his genitals on fire."
Hey Folks. Not often that this occurs, but due to the perfect storm of web/job related responsibilities, I haven't finished the post for the Eddie Hinton Documentary and Tribute that took place in SF last Sunday. I'll have it finished this weekend so check back.
Magically, it's back in vogue. Stories which hint at corruption for Democrats, even though there's clearly no there actually there.
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That bullshit credit bill that passed in 2005 has begun to reek its havoc. Many Dems voted for this POS too. It is tough fighting the evil that is the Republican party and at the same time trying to purge your party of the dipshits and DINOs. *another sigh*
"In 2005, Congress gave the credit industry what it wanted: tighter bankruptcy laws. In 2006, the credit industry responded by mailing out 8 billion credit card solicitations--up 30% from 2005.......
What kinds of risks are the card companies willing to take on? With about 110 million households in the US, that's about 73 card offers per household. If the average card offers is about $5,000 in pre-approved credit, that about $365,000 in offers for every American household--or about $1000 a day, every day of the year.
More on this massive give-away to the credit industry:
"Wannemacher used a new Chase card in 2001 and 2002 to pay for expenses mostly related to his wedding. He had $3,200 in purchases, interest charges of $4,900, 47 over-limit charges totaling $1,500, late fees of $1,100, for total charges of $10,700 as of February. He paid $6,300, leaving a $4,400 balance — which Chase agreed to waive after he contacted the subcommittee staff."
It's nice that the Dems are trying to do something about it now, but where the hell were they in 2005?
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (news, bio, voting record) and other Democratic senators challenged credit card executives at a hearing in January over rising late fees and other penalties and marketing practices they portrayed as predatory. Dodd, D-Conn., said he was putting the industry on notice that if it doesn't improve practices on its own, legislation may be warranted.
Since Democrats assumed control of Congress in January, they have put a number of consumer issues on the legislative agenda. With Americans weighed down by some $850 billion in consumer debt, the practices of the robustly profitable credit card industry are a compelling subject for scrutiny.
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Good for this guy. Those little cookie-crack dealers need to get scammed every once in a while.
"Somebody handed a group of Girl Scouts a bogus $50 bill and left with three boxes of their famous cookies and $40.25 in change, police said Wednesday."
Last week I detailed the plight of an exotic erotic entertainment spot where young ladies do interpretive dance in order to pay their way through college that was hit by a massive shifting of the earth's surface. (a titty bar was hit by a bunch of rocks).
In that post I requested that funds be sent to me in order to disperse said money to these poor, poor unemployed dancers. Here's part of my request from that post:
I'm soliciting funds to help support those dancers of the exotic variety who are affected by this terrible tragedy. My promise to you is that every last dime you send in, will be passed directly to the dancers, dollar after dollar, night after night, until each and everyone of them has been personally touched by your generosity.
For those who have sent those dollar bills, the strip... I mean, dancers, have been extremely grateful. Some have even shed their clothing in some spiritual reaction to your generosity.
However, I wanted to give you a visual of the scope of the tragedy:
Their place of employment has been red tagged.... in multiple languages.
Oh, the humanity.
Please keep sending those dollar bills.
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mAnnCoultergeist = All Republicans/The entire Conservative movement.
If more Republicans were honest and spoke there true feelings such as mAnn then the Conservative movement (as in bowel) would never, ever win another election in this country. Grand Ole Party of Hate:
It's about Conservatism itself. Greenwaldexplains:
"Rather than Coulter herself, who has proven to be a savvy businesswoman, this whole mess says more about Coulter's huge fan base in the conservative movement. She is feeding their desire for hate. There is nothing remotely like it on the Left. Have liberals said hateful things? Sure. But none have made a cottage industry out of it. The fact she exists, and continues to command so much attention from her fan base, is an indictment not on her, but on conservatism itself."
Nine American soldiers died in explosions north of Baghdad, the U.S. military announced Tuesday after the deadliest single day for U.S. troops in Iraq in nearly a month.
I think the talk of this becoming the Democrats War is ridiculous but will probably happen. I mean, come on, Bush and the Republicans started this war and have mismanaged it for 5 years. The Dems have been in control of Congress for two months. It is our war?
"You've got weeks, not months. Within the next two weeks, people are going to begin figuring out who's blocking what, and talking about it. Within a few weeks after that, there are going to be be explorations of all the Senators and House members who are willing to keep troops in harm's way without a plan. And within two months, those leaders are going to be marked as apologists or worse, and the same fire that rained down on Republicans and on Joe Lieberman last election cycle from an American public deeply, deeply angry about the conduct of the war will begin to rain down on you, and there won't be enough talking points in the world to absolve or defend you.
You have no idea how much raw fury there is out there, just under the surface. And all the 'Democratic apologists' like me are on our very last ounce of patience, and all the grassroots supporters have torches lit and and at the ready, and all the Democrats and Republicans in your district are watching to see whether you're really different from the Republicans or not, and all the troops in Iraq are waiting to see if you can provide an ounce of leadership.
But I won't be taking any donations to help. Fuck them. They can take solice in Haggard being 100% USDA Certified Hetero, though. Seriously, fuck them)
"DENVER, March 5 — In the wake of a scandal involving its founding pastor, the Rev. Ted Haggard, the New Life Church in Colorado Springs has been forced to lay off 44 of its 350 workers to offset a sharp drop in donations."
For the dip shit Republicans who are still fighting the Cold War and a Red Scare. I don't know if they honestly believe such tripe or if they are using it as a club to bash progressives, but, a poster at Kos sets 'em straight:
Democrats are not socialists. Democrats are not capitalists.
Democrats are problem solvers. We don't believe that government is THE answer. Nor do we believe that government is the problem. All we care about is finding solutions to problems. Sometimes the answers may be addressed by the free market. Sometimes that market may exhibit problems of its own which would require oversight. Sometimes the government may be the best tool to solve problems. Whatever works. That's all we care about.
Republicans are not the party of problem solvers. "
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In more cock fighting news.....
Wheeler over atAlablawgconsistently produces some top-notch commentary. Always worth a read. I find myself agreeing with him often. A few days ago he tackled cock-fighting. The literal kind not the figurative kind.
"First of all, why cockfighting is a crime at all is beyond me. Is it something nice? No. Something I would ever do? No. But the only suffering is by a bunch of stupid roosters. And what’s gonna happen to these roosters after Johnny Law busts up the fights? They’ll be killed. So why not let them go out in a blaze of glory? Anyway, I sure hope no-one who opposes cockfighting eats chicken, because what happens to the Colonel’s best prior to the application of his secret recipe of herbs and spices would be called tortuous by even John Yoo.
Second, even granting the criminality of cockfighting, no-way this is a federal issue. How do cockfights in Alabama effect interstate commerce? I want a real answer, not a Wickard v. Filburn answer."
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This is late being posted but I still thought it important enough to include in today's post before it got relegated to the posts of Christmas past pile.
I may start focusing more on the lying nature of the GOP smear machine.
When Gore won his Oscar you knew the shit would be slung far and wide. And who better to start the fecal flying than Drudge (no link for that operative).
"The right-wing is angry that Al Gore has won so much public attention and goodwill for his work on global warming. Determined to smear his efforts, Drudge writes in a screaming headline:"
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Come take a look at some of the people in my neighborhood, in my neighborhood, in my neigh-bor-hood.
If you want to buy the most perfectly seasoned wok and possible dabble in the skin trade.....
"SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Behind Chinatown's gilded storefronts, dim sum joints and souvenir shops are stories -- often unpleasant ones -- of civil rights violations, racism and public housing struggles."
I have so few brain cells this morning due to the Eddie Hinton party last night..... or did that end this morning?... god, I hope I have pants on..... whew, I have pants on.... that no thinky-thinky articles or politics today.
Pics and stories from the Eddie Hinton documentary and after party on Friday
Oh, its a wonder drug, alright. Wonder where you left your keys.... Wonder what the hell is the name of the person you met 2 seconds ago.... Wonder what happened to that box of chocolate covered Oreos you bought 2 seconds ago....
Seriously, though, it needs to be legalized. The damage I did to my body last night with a legal substance (alcohol) should be illegal.
"A NEW STUDY in the journal Neurology is being hailed as unassailable proof that marijuana is a valuable medicine. It is a sad commentary on the state of modern medicine -- and US drug policy -- that we still need 'proof' of something that medicine has known for 5,000 years."
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Here's one of those, "Damn, that could have easily been me" moments. This happend on my campus on a route that I take to the main campus.
"The wife of a University of San Francisco administrator was killed and a man was critically injured Thursday afternoon after an SUV that had been struck by another vehicle jumped the sidewalk near the USF campus, striking the two pedestrians.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Cave divers in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula have discovered what may be the world's longest underground river, connecting two cave systems with a waterway at least 95 miles long.
Going to see the Eddie Hinton documentary, Dangerous Highway, this Sunday. Deryle Perryman and Moises Gonzalez, the producers of the doc will be in attendance and I just might be grabbing a drink with those fellas tonight. Here is the info on the showing:
Jackpine Social Club, Well Worn Records & Noise Pop Film Presents:
A Post-film reception for the documentary screening of
Dangerous Highway
A Music Tribute to Eddie Hinton
Featuring the Bay Area’s finest blue-eyed soul
singers-songwriters-guitarists:
Mike Therieau Band (Featuring Dave Gleason)
Ray (featuring Chuck Prophet, Eric Moffit, Jon Weiss, Pete Straus)
Bart Davenport
Chris Von Sneidern
Tom Heyman
Eric Shea (ex-Mover, ex-Parchman Farm)
PLUS:
DJs
Free Raffle for Eddie Hinton CDs
Fried Chicken!!!
Eddie Hinton was a session guitarist non-pareil. He played lead guitar for Muscle Shoals Sound rhythm section from 1967 to 1971. What most people didn't know at the time was that Hinton was also a talented singer, songwriter, arranger and producer in his own right. In the late '60s, Muscle Shoals was something of a hit factory for Atlantic Records recording artists, under the careful, patient tutelage of legendary producer Jerry Wexler. Hinton was just 22 when he was invited to the Shoals area by fellow songwriter and producer Martin Greene. The Hinton/Greene songwriting and producing team produced several country/soul hits, including "Cover Me," and "It's All Wrong But It's Alright" for Percy Sledge. Eddie also wrote the huge hit “Breakfast In Bed,” performed by Dusty Springfield!
Eddie Hinton's cadre of secret fans know what the world is about to find out; Eddie Hinton may be the greatest unknown musician you've never heard. Hinton, widely regarded in the industry as the finest blue-eyed soul singer-songwriter-guitarist, played on more than 200 albums (Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, Boz Scaggs, Staple Singers, Waylon Jennings and many more) and wrote hundreds of songs that were covered by Aretha Franklin, Percy Sledge, Dusty Springfield, The Box Tops, Bobby Womack and countless others.
Documentary screening of “Dangerous Highway”, takes place March 4th,
2:00 PM, $8 tickets
ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS (ATA) is located at 992 Valencia St, San Francisco
No. You are allowed to consume as much ass and titties as you can with this diet. But, for me, it's more like the cardio phase of a regular workout. You see, I'm married...with children. I'm constantly chasing the ass and titties. It keeps my heart rate up just like an aerobic workout. But somehow the ass is mysteriously out of reach. I never can seem to catch up to it. Man but when I do, it's like a tornado. 30 seconds of huffing and puffing...and then the house is destroyed. It's high intensity like a sprint. Who ever finishes first is the winner. And I'm really good at that type of race. I always win!!! But, it doesn't sit well with the wifey when I jump up and throw my hand in the air like I just roped a small steer in a rodeo and shout 'YES!'. So, then it's off to the races through the house in an attempt to avoid being stabbed with a shank. It's a shame most folks don't ever know love like this.
"Halfway through I am the Cosmos, the venues PA overheated and they lost vocals.
Instead of quiting, they turned their heads up and sang as loud as they could.
It couldnt have sounded better. "
Dexateens
The Dexateens must be the punk crossbreeds of the Southern rock pack. These boys out of Tuscaloosa craft their music with the kind of earnestness that marks a singer-songwriter, yet they unleash a guitar fury that smacks of classic "I-know-it-when-I-hear-it" Southern rock mixed with blissful feedback that evokes Crazy Horse's proto-punk Rust Never Sleeps.
"From Raleigh News & Observer music writer David Menconi's blog: Fun With Bracketology
With March approaching, one's thoughts turn toward the madness tocome. While you're pondering where your favorite basketball team will wind up in this year's NCAA tournament bracket, here's a fun little time waster: 'The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything,' which compiles 101 tournament-style brackets ranking everything from James Bond gadgets to women's magazine sex cliches.
The book's editors also enlisted Grant Alden and former Durham resident Peter Blackstock, co-editors of No Depression magazine, to break down the best Alt-Country Songs. The 32-song field includes tunes by Drive-By Truckers, Alejandro Escovedo and Doug Sahm. But the winner is Raleigh's own Whiskeytown, whose 'Angels Are Messengers From God' edges Lucinda Williams' 'Changed the Locks' in the finals:
In the end, there was no stopping 'Angels' and its alt-country-defining couplet: 'So I started this damn country band/'Cuz punk rock was too hard to sing.' Besides, Ryan Adams comes from Duke country, and they always win.
