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The Vidiot's weekly blog: What pissed me off this week? 5/23/2005 (updated every Monday at some point during the day) ...'cause I'm angry and my friends are sick of listening to me... Track your congresscritters here!
Free stuff can be found here Mirror (in case geocities is wacky or, in case of trouble in New York, check it for messages): http://129.79.148.33/vidiotcontact/ "I'm George Galloway, Bitch!" George Galloway ROCKS! (You can find video of it here and a transcript of his statement here and the Arab viewpoint here. Get it while you can. And don't rely on the New York Times. They did a really crappy job of reporting it.) When I saw the footage, I got goosebumps. How I wish we had people here in this country who would stand up to the congressional miscreants. When they invited him to speak, I doubt very much they knew what they were getting into...or maybe they did -- only 2 on the committee showed up. And afterwards, it was fun to watch Coleman try to spin it. "Well," he said unconvincingly, "Mr. Galloway's credibility is marginal at best." Marginal my ass. Of course, the "naive flag waving crowd" only heard about the accusation that he was involved with the oil-for-food scandal and not about the fact that the accusations were based on forged documents. Look at the forgeries and I dare you to think anything other than a monkey made them. (It's odd that it was such a shabby job since intelligence services have had a lot of practice making forgeries.) And the bigger question about the forged documents that's not being asked: Who's name did they cover up with Galloway's name? Chalabi perhaps? Inquiring minds want to know. Well, if you feel the need to show him some love (like a lot of people already have), here's his address: gallowayg@parliament.uk Action Alert: Call your senators and let them know how you feel about the filibuster, especially if you live in Arizona, Rhode Island, Maine, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Nebraska, and New Hampshire. The vote is Tuesday. (They still need cajoling.) Sugar Alternative of the Week: Stevia Rant of the Week: Dear President Bush Site of the Week: DowningStreetMemo.com Security Tip of the Week: Thwarting Yahoo Pictures of the Week: Playboy Centerfolds -- ALL of them. Ewww of the Week: Spider Bite Stalking Site of the Week: Zabasearch Blog Entry of Last Week: WORST. LIST. EVER. Blog Entry of This Week: The Dead and the Undead... Panties of the Week: Vibrating Knickers Quote of the Week: Ozzy Osbourne remembers when he lost his patience with the midget Black Sabbath hired for a tour. "He showed up late, he drank....It got to me after awhile. So, one night, when he wanted to get on the tour bus, I threw him in the luggage compartment. Somebody grabbed me and said: 'What you're doing is not only illegal but it's inhumane.' "I lost it. I yelled: 'He's my [bleeping] midget and I'll [bleeping] do what I want with him.' There was a silence and then a small voice emerged from the luggage compartment: 'He's right: I'm his midget and he can do what he wants with me.'" Hero of the Week Alysha Cosby, who was pregnant and therefore forbidden to participate in her catholic school's graduation ceremony. Well, she did it her way.
Hypocrisy of the Week You have to love it when people like Frist get their ass handed to them.
Only to be shown how really stupid he is.
And do not bother
reading the puff
piece in this Sunday's New York Times.
Pronunciation: san-TOR-um Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. Don't look over there.
Look over here!
Ignore that over there.
Pay attention to this!
Turn away from that
And focus on the this.
Whatever Rummy wants, Rummy gets. Rummy wants to militarize space!
No matter that Russia is against it.
And China too.
(Though, here's a good enough reason for going to war with China.) There goes George, uniting, not dividing again. Hrnmph.There's a reason why we're going bankrupt.
Hark! Do I hear a spine forming in our media corps?
Perhaps they're angry because once again, they're taking the fall for this administration. By blaming the muslim unrest on a true story reported in Newsweek, a story that is the least of the atrocities that are occurring over there, maybe the media has finally awakened from their power-jag, albeit hung over and disorganized, but in pain and aware. (Here's a Seymour Hersh must-read from the Guardian.) Maybe they're tired of being used by the administration. But it wasn't a set up to make the media look bad. It was set up to do something else. According to Al Martin, the Newsweek story did two things: it inflamed the Middle East, thereby making sure the Bushies have a reason to stay there and it made Bush's core constituency happy by showing them we're 'playing dirty.' Also, he says the the editorial staff at Newsweek have been water boys for the Bushies before. So there you have it. Oh, and Sunday, I watched the McLaughlin show and Pat Robertson actually sad that Newsweek shouldn't have published the article and that by doing so, they were being seditious. He actually used the word seditious! Oy vey what an asshole. Demystifying porn. On a non-political note, here here!
Plamegate isn't over. Here's a status report from John Dean.
Things that make you go "Hmmmm..." Maybe Brazil is eating up the rainforest like there's no tomorrow
Because they know something we don't?
Bad Idea of the Week Genetically modifying smallpox?
While there as burgeoning pandemic in Africa?
And Asia?
And they threatened regime change in Venezuela.
Then Ecuador threatened to do it
As well as Bolivia
I predict they will threaten regime change in Ecuador and Bolivia. The Market is up but... I really don't understand the market. Everything I'm reading is bad bad bad.
And worse worse worse.
News of the Weird Well, here's a photo for you.
Weird numerology.
Dumbest museum EVER.
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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