Guess who didn't go to Iraq?

The Army was in a shit sandwitch with Pat Tillman.

They figured out he was murdered, but it would look really, really, REALLY bad if that came out. What to do? Three options: 1) come clean tell the truth, (aka Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs) 2)claim friendly fire and mourn the loss of a hero or 3) Hero John Wayne style going out in a moment of glory.

just a week after Tillman’s death, a top general who knew the official story was bogus and wrote a memo arguing that President Bush might embarrass himself if he used the incident for p.r. purposes.

So what did chimpy/rove do? They fucked it up like most things they do. For selfish political purposes, they picked and ran with option 3, then 2 and now 1. They fucked up the issue all ways possible. This begs the question: How much did the administration lean on the Army to cover it up? Some poor bastard in the Army may have been forced to lie for the administration in order to cover up a murder.

The hell the Tillmans must be in. God help and bless them.

Pat Tillman was most likely murdered in the field. In cold blood. By other US soldiers.

This must be what the Bush Administration was trying so desperately to hide behind their all purpose “Executive Privilege” shield.

It's Time To Take Fredo Out Fishing

No, Alberto Gonzales should not be offed. Let me repeat that: No one should kill, wound, or even try to temporarily inconvenience the life functions of the current Attorney General of the United States.

OR ANYONE ELSE. Yes, we rant here. Loudly and rudely. But let us say it loud and clear. Don't hurt anyone ever. But still it's a good post.

Study finds drunk astronauts allowed to fly

A panel has found that astronauts were allowed to fly on at least two occasions despite warnings they were so drunk they posed a flight risk, Aviation Week reported Thursday on its Web site.

bush loses 5 polyps

BBC Reports on Bush's Grandfather Trying to Engineer Fascist Coup in the US

Looks like fascism runs in the Bush family.

Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen. The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini

Contempt citations issued.

Goddam. They did it.

In a 22-17 vote, the House Judiciary Committee approved “a Resolution and Report Recommending to the House of Representatives that Former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten be cited for Contempt of Congress.”

“Karl Rove?! I’d like to kick his ass!

This is why we think chimpy ain't leaving in 18 months. Turdblossom et al risk getting his ass kicked. Just call it a little karma payback for fucking so many people so hard for so long.

chimpy at 25% approval! We are now below nixon!

Good job you ignorant fuck! Officially the worst preznit in history!

repuglicants senators say 'fuck you' to america

Bush targets the financial assets of all Americans who undermine the administration’s failed Iraq policy.

The Washington Post reports on an executive order issued by President Bush last week entitled, “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq.” In the extreme, it could be interpreted as targeting the financial assets of any American who undermines the administration’s Iraq policy.

AT&T Statement on NSA Issue

Shorter AT&T: Hell yes we are spying on you, but don't blame us, the gubmint forced us! Really shorter AT&T: We like our monopoly and the NSA blackmailed us. I bet the NSA was pretty pissed with this. AT&T must want to be sued to clarify the issue. Bad news doesn't get better with age, you know. We're betting the lawyer(s) who wrote this sweat a little more than usual at the blow back..

The news media have carried reports alleging that AT&T is participating in an unlawful NSA terrorist surveillance program. Unfortunately, the law does not permit AT&T to respond to those allegations.

The U.S. Department of Justice has stated that AT&T may neither confirm nor deny AT&T's participation in the alleged NSA program because doing so would cause "exceptionally grave harm to national security" and would violate both civil and criminal statutes. Under these circumstances, AT&T is not able to respond to such allegations.

Spying on the home front.

This crazy nut thinks the NSA is spying on every piece of internet traffic. Crazy nut.

what they had done, that they had taken working circuits, which had nothing to do with a splitter cabinet, and they had taken in particular what are called peering links which connect AT&T's network with the other networks. It's how you get the Internet, right? One network connects with another. So they took 16 high-speed peering links which go to places like Qwest [Communications] and Palo Alto Internet Exchange [PAIX] and places like that. … These circuits were working at one point, and the documents indicated in February 2003 they had cut into these circuits so that they could insert the splitter so that they can get the data flow from these circuits to go to the secret room.

So this data flow meant that they were getting not only AT&T customers' data flow; they were getting everybody else's data flow, whoever else might happen to be communicating into the AT&T network from other networks. So it was turning out to be like a large chunk of the network, of the Internet.

Crappy press core

So here we were, talking about Hillary's tits, Howard Dean, Mitt's racism and hypocrisies and decided the "liberal media" was still a myth, and if you are a Washington press core 'reporter', you are probably a piece of shit.

It's OK to sneer at a candidate if you don't like him? It's OK to create a destructive narrative out of unmitigated piffle because he doesn't kiss your ass with the regularity you think you deserve, or because his press buses don't run on time, or because one of his staffers was late with the Danish in Keene? I watched a roomful of them boo Al Gore seven years ago, behavior that would have gotten them run out of any press box in the major leagues. Do you think one of these jamokes -- or jamokettes -- is thinking, "Maybe we should lay off the haircut thing because of what we all did to Gore in 2000, and look how well that worked out." Please.

Here's what I think -- the majority of people who cover national politics believe that history is whatever happened in the MSNBC Green Room 15 minutes earlier. I believe the campaign is covered by people with a completely unjustified sense of their own superiority, since not many of them understand or ever care about most of the issues, much less the horrendous bills that are going to come due upon whichever of these poor sods winds up with the job. I believe these people care more about their reputation around the bar at the Wayfarer in Manchester than they do about the interests of the people they purportedly serve. And, were I an editor, and someone brought me a story about John Edwards' hair or Mitt Romney's skin, that person would do it once. The second time, the lazy bastard would find himself typing bowling agate on Wednesday night.