Winning Iraqi children's hearts and minds

Again, my pal, Greg:

This about sums it [George Bush's War] up:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/02/07/soccer_balls/

Greg

Jim Webb's son is in Iraq, too

My pal, Greg Girkin says:

Everything he says is correct, except he should have spent more time jumping up and down screaming “ARROGANCE, INCOMPETENCE, AND NEGLIGENCE! ARROGANCE, INCOMPETENCE, AND NEGLIGENCE!”

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/02/07/webb/

Greg

I know that Medicare stories are boring, but...

We need to remain up to speed on the Dear and Glorious Leader's latest efforts to destroy the American middle class and to spit on the poor. A scheme of means testing that results in people who today are making $40,000 being ineligible for Medicare in 40 years and those who take his tax break on insurance get their Social Security benefits slashed by as much as 60%.

This man is evil.

I am shocked -- shocked -- to find that this Administration would cut the shuttle replacement budget

This is call your congressmen time. We need to have access to space. We need to have manned spaceflight capability. We need to return to the moon. Why? Because that's what monkeys like us are supposed to do: go places and do things.

Oh, and for those of you who have oft complained that it doesn't do any good to call your congresspersons because they're Republicans, this time, it'll work. The GOP is traditionally a better friend to NASA than the Democrats.

UPDATE: This says what I was trying to say in the first 'graph better than I did. I was going for brevity. He went for clarity.

Quick! Get my agent on the phone! There's a novel in this!

Seems that we now have enough astronauts to reflect the demographics of the population as a whole. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a nut.

UPDATE: Wooooo. It seems that the ante has been upped a bit. Attempted murder one. Which somehow makes it seem less nutty.

Big Oil and the run-up to the elections

There's nothing wrong with the big oil companies cutting their profits in the weeks before a Congressional election. But we should make sure that everybody knows how stupid the oil companies think they are.

The oil companies think you're really, really stupid. And they laugh at you. And steal your money. And try to make sure that you continue to elect the people that make it easy for them to steal your money.

GOP wants the knife to *always* cut their way

My pal, Greg, writes:

And here the Republicans are, telling us we can’t object to the war without endangering the troops (Remember Kosovo? “The blood will be on Clintons hands! This will fail!”) and that it’s okay to share command with foreign troops (Remember Kosovo? “NATO troops in command of American forces! It’s an outrage!”).

This would piss me off a LOT less if Kosovo hadn’t happened during the tenure of most sitting GOP senators. Fuck these guys.

From Salon:

“McCain and the other key supporters of a surge of troops into Baghdad, including the American Enterprise Institute's Frederick Kagan and former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Jack Keane, have warned that sharing command with the Iraqis could make success in Baghdad impossible. Under the potentially risky scheme, Americans and Iraqis will fight beside each other in Baghdad -- but report to their respective commanders. McCain late last month told the incoming commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, "I know of no successful military operation where you have dual command." Hawks like Kagan have called for the Americans and Iraqis to work side by side, but with the more competent Americans in control.”

The power of the subpoena was what I was looking forward to

And it seems that John Conyers was, too. Now, if he will just follow all the way through with the logic of asking these kinds of questions and getting the answers that he's going to get, we can get on with the business of impeaching this president and vice president, put all this "bi-partisanship" and "cooperation" shit on the shelf and get on with reversing the course of empire and environmental destruction and get back the business of being the United States of America the way its supposed to be.

This is just lovely

I keep seeing more and more of word of the US preparing to go to war with Iran. Is the administration this stupid? Yes, the US military can do the job of destroying Iran's nuclear ambitions. No question about that. If there was a real war, with a real objective, I don't doubt that the US military could win it, too. But if Bush & Co think that a military attack on Iran will go unanswered by the rest of the Muslim world, they're as insane as well as stupid.

Why are Biden's remarks news?

I don't see what was wrong about what he said. Jackson, Mosely-Braun, and Sharpton were certainly not mainstream candidates and if anybody claims they were, they are deluded. So, in order to be sure and be on the Obama bandwagon, Reuters elects to paint Biden's remarks as racist.

I think that the news media is going to think that if the race for the Democratic nomination is not a horse race between Hillary and Obama that it won't be interesting. Whyowhyo can't the race turn on issues? What is it about asking Americans to think that terrifies the media?

Oh. Wait. I know. The "media" is owned by people with a lot of money. And if the American people ever stop and think for a couple of minutes about the money, they'll realize that they don't have any. And that they're never going to get any. Ah. I see.