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The
Vidiot's
weekly blog:
What
pissed me off this week? 11/22/2004
(updated
every Monday at some point during the day)
...'cause
I'm angry and my friends are sick of listening to me...
Cost
of the War in Iraq
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No
update next week. Happy Thanksgiving.
I'm in a mood most
foul. This may not be the most erudite edition of my pissed-off blog.
In fact, for this part, I'm not even going to write anything. I'm going
to copy and paste something my German uncle got from a friend in Berlin:
It is
interesting that the ugliness of the war comes to American TV after
the elections. They've been broadcasting it here since the beginning.
I saw a report on German TV which showed American GIs proudly handing
out info leaflets to smiling Iraqi citizens. Once the soldiers had left,
however, the Iraqis tore up the leaflets, threw them to the ground and
spit on them. They also showed American soldiers conducting a house-to-house
search. The soldiers treated the Iraqis like dogs, throwing them to
the floor and cursing at them and kicking them. This will never been
shown on American TV, I thought. And yet even after this and Abu Gharaib
we are supposed to blindly support our troops or be accused of being
unpatriotic. Sure makes me feel like wanting to stand up and recite
the pledge of allegiance!
Trivia of the Week:
The Peace Sign is Semaphore
for Nuclear Disarmament
What me want for Xmas
of the week: Bluetooth
Star Trek Communicator
Feminine Hygiene Product
of the Week: Vaginal
Cleansing Film (VCF)
Must-read Article of
the Week: Liberals
are from Conceptual, Conservatives are from Phatic
Scary Read of the week:
It
Can't Happen Here.
Anti Schwartzenegger
site of the Week: ArnoldExposed.com
My New, Favorite Blogwatching
Site of the Week: Daou
Report
Site of the Week:
Stop Urban
4x4s
Unreported news from
Fallujah & Mosul:
US
troops bombarded the substituted hospitals that had been set up inside
Fallujah!
FALLUJA:
Summarily Executed
New
Report, Footage Surfaces On Mass Graves Of US Soldiers
Fallujah
Is A Disaster - Report
US
media applauds destruction of Fallujah
Fallujah
Video has congressman calling for reporter ban
Falluja
women, children in mass grave
Troops
raid Mosul hospital
News
you'll not here in mainstream media The
Ohio
recount is on.
Excerpt: “Thanks
to the thousands of people who have contributed to this effort, we can
say with certainty that there will be a recount in Ohio,” said
Blair Bobier, Media Director for the Cobb-LaMarche campaign.
If you think you can volunteer
to help count, go here.
And here's
some scary news from Volusia County in Florida
Excerpt: There
was a trash bag on the porch outside the door. Harris looked into it
and what do you know, but there were poll tapes in there. They came
out and glared at Harris and Wynne, who drove away a small bit, and
then videotaped the license plates of the two vehicles marked 'City
Council' member. Others came out to glare and soon all doors were slammed.
Some real
scientist found issues with the Florida vote too.
Excerpt: A study
by faculty and graduate students and led by University of California
at Berkeley Professor Michael Hout has concluded that President Bush
was likely erroneously awarded between 130,000 and 260,000 votes in
Florida alone, with 72,000 of them being in the largely Democratic Broward
County alone, RAW STORY has learned.
(Actual data here.)
Nice dream,
but it won't happen.
Excerpt: In other
words, if a state can't manage to run a fair election, that state loses
Senators or Congresspeople. I have this dream of sending Senators DeWine
and Voinovich of Ohio, along with Congressman Ralph Regula of Ohio,
out of Washington in a blizzard of shame and disgrace. It's a dream,
but a good one.
I
loves a good conspiracy Another
crazy
report by the "White House Insider"
Excerpt: "Many
manifestations of pathological glee here in the Monkey Palace these
days. We learn that Bush has cut down on his medication because he is
euphoric over the election. He claims, and has done so in my presence,
that God had given him a complete mandate [51 percent and a lot of that
outright stolen by the Rove people] to change the political and moral
face of America! Rove is behind all of this, telling everyone that God
did indeed demand a complete restructuring of the grossly immoral American
lifestyle.
Higher,
Righter Power Condi
gets
a new job, huh? Well, can we at least pretend that she has to undergo
a confirmation hearing? (Not one mention of a hearing in the entire article.
Amazing.)
Excerpt: Besides
Rice, Bush already picked White House counsel Alberto Gonzales to replace
Ashcroft. Margaret Spellings, Bush's domestic policy adviser, is on
the short list to replace Paige as education secretary. At least two
more resignations are expected, and individuals close to the White House
are among likely successors for these posts as well.
Here's a scary appointment
rumor: Lieberman
in charge of Homeland Security. Which would up the republicans by two.
Excerpt; Musical
chairs in CT? Joe Lieberman to Homeland Security. Nancy Johnson (R-pharma)
for US Senate via Gov. Jodi Rell appointment. A handful of Repubs scrambling
for the special election to replace Johnson in CT-5 including Danbury
Mayor Mark Boughton and State Sen. David Cappiello or State Senator
Andrew Roraback
He's consolidating
power. Surrounding himself with yes-men and women. It's only going to
get scarier from here folks.
Excerpt: The president
is moving briskly to seize the moment. He is consolidating power at
the White House, channeling ever more influence to Vice President Dick
Cheney, his closest confidant, and counselor Karl Rove, architect of
his November 2 victory. Senior White House officials tell U.S. News
that Bush plans to replace at least half his cabinet over the next few
months. His aim is to remove officials who have become lightning rods
for controversy or who seem to have lost their desire to serve in Washington.
"The president believes it's always good to have some new faces
in a new term," says a senior Bush adviser.
Hopelessly
devoted, as Electablog says.
Excerpt: So far,
those who were most wrong on Iraq are getting bumped up and those who
had doubts are out or on the way out.
I guess the more yes men he's
surrounded by, the less likely he'll hear anyone tell him that doing something
like this
is wrong.
Excerpt; An executive
jet is being used by US intelligence agencies to fly terrorist suspects
to countries that use torture in their prisons.
{sigh}
I have no words for this
move by House republicans to protect Tom "The Exterminator"
DeLay
Excerpt: House
Republicans approved a party rules change Wednesday that could allow
Majority leader Tom DeLay to retain his leadership post if he is indicted
by a Texas grand jury on state political corruption charges.
Or for this
move by GW to get rid of the healthcare tax credit for employers.
Excerpt:To pay
for those large tax cuts, the administration is looking at eliminating
both the deduction for state and local taxes, and the business tax deduction
for employer-sponsored health insurance. That would raise nearly $926
billion over five years, according to White House and congressional
documents.
Burn
Witch! Burn! No
wonder Howard is moving to satellite. I swear. The members of the FCC
must be reincarnations
of the judges in Salem.
Excerpt; With not
much original reporting, I discovered that the latest big fine by the
FCC against a TV network -- a record $1.2 million against Fox for its
"sexually suggestive" Married by America -- was brought about
by a mere three people who actually composed letters of complaint. Yes,
just three people.
And who are these
people who are complaining about the graphic war scenes in "Saving
Private Ryan"? I betchya they support GW and the war and if so, they
should send their own kids to fight it.
Excerpt; The Federal
Communications Commission has confirmed it received complaints about
the uncensored broadcast of Oscar-winning war movie "Saving Private
Ryan" on ABC-affiliated stations last week.
And it's only going to get
worse.
Excerpt: With support
from both Republicans and Democrats, the Federal Communications Commission
is poised to get even more aggressive about enforcing moral values throughout
broadcasting, even putting cable television in its cross hairs and taking
aim at Howard Stern's right to talk dirty on satellite radio.
But, for what it's worth, CBS
is sorta'
standing up to the FCC.
Excerpt; The chief
executive at CBS, Leslie Moonves, said yesterday that the company, a
unit of Viacom, would not pay a $550,000 fine levied by the Federal
Communications Commission for a Super Bowl halftime broadcast in which
singer Janet Jackson’s breast was bared.
Bad
Doggy! Bush
chastises Blair for talking
about global warming.
Excerpt; President
Bush has reprimanded Tony Blair for sounding the alarm over global warming
and pressing for international action to combat it, senior Washington
sources say.
The
Police State Here's
an interesting interpretation
of a part of the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act II: News gathering will be illegal.
Excerpt:SECTION
102 of the new Patriot Act ll states clearly that any information gathering,
regardless of whether or not those activities are illegal, can be considered
to be clandestine intelligence activities for a foreign power. This
makes news gathering illegal.
Oh, and I'm sure you heard
about this
little ditty that somebody tried to slip into an omnibus spending bill.
Excerpt: But at
the request of Rep. Ernest Istook of Oklahoma, chairman of the House
Appropriations Transportation Subcommittee, a special provision was
inserted into the bill which allows the Chairmen of the House and Senate
Appropriations Committees or their "agents" to reviewany American's
tax return with no restrictions whatsoever.
(Go here
to find out who slipped it in there.)
D'oh!
Take THAT
red states!
Excerpt: Adolescents
who have two moms as parents are no different from teens growing up
with a mother and a father, a new study finds.
And THAT!
Excerpt: According
to it, the greater the volunteer's ability to believe in a higher spiritual
being, the more likely they are to have the VMAT2 gene. The research
also claims that being brought up in a devout environment has little
effect on belief.
Gee, religious fanaticism is
genetic. Just like schizophrenia. How truly fascinating.
CIA
is as CIA does I'm
not sure what to think of the Scheuer
guy from the CIA.
Excerpt:One of
the Central Intelligence Agency's foremost experts on Osama bin Laden
has stepped out of the shadows and joined the public debate over past
mistakes and future strategy in the war on terror.
He sounds credible and all,
but I feel like once in the CIA, always in the CIA and though he may be
a whistleblower, I'm not sure he's the kind of whistleblower we all think
of when we think of a whistleblower. I mean, who's bidding is he doing?
I don't doubt the guy knows what he's talking about, but waving the specter
of a bin Laden around the way he is? Even though there's a pretty good
chance that
bin Laden died in 2001? Dunno. I mean, what if he's out there to make
everyone think that the next staged terror act is most definitely bin
Laden, even though there's a high likelihood it won't be from him? I smell
a rat.
News
of the Weird Well,
if
life is just a dream, I sure as hell would like to wake the hell up
right now.
Excerpt; DEEP THOUGHT,
the supercomputer created by novelist Douglas Adams, got there first,
but now the astronomer royal has caught up. Professor Sir Martin Rees
is to suggest that “life, the universe and everything” may
be no more than a giant computer simulation with humans reduced to bits
of software.
Calling Indiana Jones. I think
they've figured
it out.
Excerpt: A secret
inscription said to lead to the Holy Grail has been unraveled, reports
Nick Fielding
Previous
rants
What do we
do about all of this crap? I have no idea. Part of me wants to start teach-ins
at my local pub. Just go to the bar, rant and rave and inform the idiots
who still think Dan Rather is telling them the truth. Another part of me
wants to organize a voter observation program to insure that this moron
isn't in the White House all the way to 2008. I sincerely believe that if
we protected the voting rights of the underprivileged that any Democrat
could SWEEP any election. And we'd have to start with the Florida Election
for Governor THIS FALL (like these
guys!.) I don't think Democrats are the answer. But they are at least a
start.
At the very least,
point your CNN-loving friends to my links
page. Just getting started in reading alternate news sites gets people
thinking. I have one friend who was very happy-go-lucky, thinking ol'
Greta was telling the whole truth until I opened up his eyes a bit. Now,
he's all depressed. He'll get over it. You gotta' get depressed before
you get angry and you gotta' get angry before you can accomplish anything.
We're all in mourning. We have to move through the steps. But we gotta'
hurry it up.
Read. Inform.
Spread the word. Even if it means your friends avoid you for awhile. If
they really love you, they'll start to listen.
"POSSE
COMITATUS ACT" (18 USC 1385): A Reconstruction Era criminal law proscribing
use of Army (later, Air Force) to "execute the laws" except where expressly
authorized by Constitution or Congress. Limit on use of military for civilian
law enforcement also applies to Navy by regulation. Dec '81 additional
laws were enacted (codified 10 USC 371-78) clarifying permissible military
assistance to civilian law enforcement agencies--including the Coast Guard--especially
in combating drug smuggling into the United States. Posse Comitatus clarifications
emphasize supportive and technical assistance (e.g., use of facilities,
vessels, aircraft, intelligence, tech aid, surveillance, etc.) while generally
prohibiting direct participation of DoD personnel in law enforcement (e.g.,
search, seizure, and arrests). For example, Coast Guard Law Enforcement
Detachments (LEDETS) serve aboard Navy vessels and perform the actual
boardings of interdicted suspect drug smuggling vessels and, if needed,
arrest their crews). Positive results have been realized especially from
Navy ship/aircraft involvement.
(Tom
Ridge has practically said he'd do away with this act.)
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