Ve Must Blitzkrieg Obama mit Reverend Wright!
CNN Anchor Jack Cafferty Refuses to read Lohan DUI Story!
Jack is CNN’s last REAL REPORTER.
Treason is not newsworthy on Fox
If you were surfing TV news Tuesday morning you saw:
Letter to Ann from Henry Rollins
Link to NY Times
Only Joe would agree to a debate on Fox. Dude, there has never been an honest debate on Fox News and we already have a clueless president!
Saw this on BartCop
From NO QUARTER on a tip from TOMMLies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
On the plus side, Fox News hires midgets as reporters.
Roger (Jabba the Butthead) Ailes- Mr Fox News
Photoshop is easy to learn. If an old hippie like me can do it, SO CAN YOU! Become a Constructive Anarchist and sent us your best work. You cannot possibly be less funny than the idiots below:
Rightwing Humor…Same BS with a laught track. i.e.: Stay tuned or we’ll invade your country, kill your leaders and covert you to Christianity!
“…Sometimes the humor is so heavy-handed that it seems almost like self-parody. The premiere opened (see above clip) with Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter in a skit set in January 2009. Mr. Limbaugh is the newly elected commander in chief, and he tells his fellow Americans that his Democratic opponent, Howard Dean, is “finally getting the medical attention he has so desperately needed for so long,” which is a strange joke for Mr. Limbaugh to make, given his history of pain killers and prescription fraud…”
NY Times
“…The new FOX News comedy show, Half Hour News Hour, just wasn’t funny. It hard to imagine writing jokes about cancer , starving Koreans or drowning polar bears but that’s what viewers were subjected to on the premier show. I don’t think the writers really understand comedy. They crossed that line and the anger and cruelty came through. That’s never really funny to anyone except the bullies.”
News Hounds
ABOVE LEFT- 2/27: China (and Saudi Arabia) conrol the American Stock Market. Their 9% sell-off cause a 416 point drop…the worst trading day since the opening session after 9/11. How did this happen? A trillion dollars in tax cuts to rich Americans and half a trillion (so far) for the Iraq Occupation…Who do you think has been picking up the tab? Imagine if China sells off half of its holdings.
ABOVE CENTER- 2/27: Who would want to assassinate this cuddly guy? 23 dead in the bombing. Our puppet government only controls the Capitol. The Taliban and drug warlords own the rest of Afghanistan.
ABOVE RIGHT- 2/26: Assassination attempt on Iraq’s Shiite Vice President (the other is Sunni)…5 dead, Adel Abdul Mahdi wounded in ministry office in Baghdad. We can’t even control the Capitol on this front.
Olbermann: Rupert Murdoch admits to Fox lies
Happy Valentine’s Day…John Waters interview with Radar
On a tip from TOMM
A Date With John Waters, out February 6 on New Line Records, is a compilation of what the Prince of Puke considers to be timeless love songs—ballads like “Johnny Are You Queer” by Josie Cotton and “I’d Love to Take Orders From You” by Mildred Bailey. Radar caught up with Mr. Waters to see what romantic advice he might have for us. “RADAR: Today is Valentine’s Day and the pressure to suddenly become a romantic person is ridiculous. Any pointers?
JOHN WATERS: Now, Valentine’s Day…the only thing I ever used to do was send a gift-wrapped chicken heart from a butcher to people I was in love with.
R: Does it work?
JW: Most of the kind of people who I would have crushes on take it the right way. And it’s not that big—a chicken heart is little. I go and get a little ring box and they open it and it’s just repellent. And by the time you get it, you have to just throw it out because it stinks by then. I mean, I mail it overnight delivery—I don’t mail it fourth-class book rate. But FedExing might be trouble, because they’ll have dogs sniff it. I haven’t done it since 9/11. I’m not sure if it’s riskier since 9/11 to send animal parts to people as a token of your love. Link to entire interview
Washington State wants to make Straight Marriage laws even stricter!
(AP) Proponents of same-sex marriage have introduced an initiative that would put a whole new twist on traditional unions between men and women: It would require heterosexual couples to have kids within three years or else have their marriages annulled. Link to CBS article
Ted Haggard is back and completely De-Gayed! (Or, so he claims).
The Curriculum and Materials Committee voted “Aye” and 4,000 copies of ADDICTED To WAR arrived (1-30-07) at the San Francisco School District to be used in high schools as a supplemental book for history teachers, grades 10 thru 12.
ADDICTED To WAR takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. It tells the history of U.S. foreign wars - from the Indian Wars to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - in a comic book format. With 77, hard-hitting, carefully documented pages, including 161 reference notes, this book reveals why the U.S. has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country.
1-27: Until Sunday Iraq was a civil war…Shiites and Sunnis killing each other. Now our kids must battle the “Soldiers of God”! Link to LA TIMES article
Abdul-Zahra was a charismatic leader of the Rapture-Ready cult Heaven’s Army. Last Sunday hundreds of his followers (Sunnis and Shiites, Iraqis and foreigners, men and women) were killed in a Holy War against both Shiites and Sunnis.
Saddam Hussein arrested nut-job fundalmentalist Abdul-Zahra twice for claiming to be Imam Mahdi, the revered Shiite Muslim saint who disappeared more than 1,000 years ago and whose return is said to herald a new dawn of justice. After Hussein was toppled in the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, Heaven’s Army demanded their “new civil freedoms”.
Beware anyone who claims to be a Soldier of God (Left) Monday. (Center) 2003 (Right) KKK from the 60s
Jan 16, 2007- The End of Civilization?
Trump gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Borat becomes Best Actor!
Our punk site has been honored by a real artist:
Wrapped in the Flag is the real deal…We hope to catch up with them one day…
Dracula Castle for sale
The descendants of the Habsburg monarchy have confirmed they want to sell a Transylvanian castle mythically linked to the fictional Count Dracula for a mere $78,000,000. The castle rises dramatically from the forests in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains, 170km (105 miles) north of Bucharest. It has been associated with novelist Bram Stoker’s vampire Count Dracula because it is thought to have hosted the infamous Prince Vlad “the Impaler”, on whom Dracula was based. Link to story On a tip from TOMM
Army asks dead to sign up for another hitch
POSTED: 9:39 p.m. EST, January 5, 2007WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army said Friday it would apologize to the families of 75 officers killed in action and about 200 wounded in actionabout who were mistakenly sent letters urging them to return to active duty.
Can You Hear Me Now?
December 05, 2006 3:38 PM Vic Walter and Krista Kjellman Report:Link to ABC article
Cell phone users, beware. The FBI can listen to everything you say, even when the cell phone is turned off.
A recent court ruling in a case against the Genovese crime family revealed that the FBI has the ability from a remote location to activate a cell phone and turn its microphone into a listening device that transmits to an FBI listening post, a method known as a “roving bug.” Experts say the only way to defeat it is to remove the cell phone battery.
“The FBI can access cell phones and modify them remotely without ever having to physically handle them,” James Atkinson, a counterintelligence security consultant, told ABC News. “Any recently manufactured cell phone has a built-in tracking device, which can allow eavesdroppers to pinpoint someone’s location to within just a few feet,” he added. Read more
THE BLOTTER RECOMMENDS
* Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You’re Calling
* FBI Secret Probes: 3,501 Targets in the U.S.
* Click Here to Check Out the Latest Brian Ross Investigates Webcast on CIA Secret Prisons
According to the recent court ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, “The device functioned whether the phone was powered on or off, intercepting conversations within its range wherever it happened to be.”
The court ruling denied motions by 10 defendants to suppress the conversations obtained by “roving bugs” on the phones of John Ardito, a high-ranking member of the family, and Peter Peluso, an attorney and close associate of Ardito, who later cooperated with the government. The “roving bugs” were approved by a judge after the more conventional bugs planted at specified locations were discovered by members of the crime family, who then started to conduct their business dealings in several additional locations, including more restaurants, cars, a doctor’s office and public streets.
“The courts have given law enforcement a blank check for surveillance,” Richard Rehbock, attorney for defendant John Ardito, told ABC News.
Judge Kaplan’s ruling said otherwise. “While a mobile device makes interception easier and less costly to accomplish than a stationary one, this does not mean that it implicated new or different privacy concerns.” He continued, “It simply dispenses with the need for repeated installations and surreptitious entries into buildings. It does not invade zones of privacy that the government could not reach by more conventional means.”
But Rehbock disagrees. “Big Brother is upon us…1984 happened a long time ago,” he said, referring to the George Orwell futuristic novel “1984,” which described a society whose members were closely watched by those in power and was published in 1949.
The FBI maintains the methods used in its investigation of the Genovese family are within the law. “The FBI does not discuss sensitive surveillance techniques other than to emphasize that any electronic surveillance is done pursuant to a court order and ongoing judicial scrutiny,” Agent Jim Margolin told ABC News.“BARNEY IS TO CHILDREN AS OSAMA BIN LADEN IS TO ISLAM,” says Stuart Frankel
Well, of course, Barney had to sue. The threatening letters to blogger Stuart Frankel began in 2002.
But, an activist judge found in favor of Stuart and Barney was forced to pay $5,000 and was ordered to stop hassling Frankel and his webmaster…based on petty details like satire and free speech.
Is there no justice?!!!!
He’s The Worst Ever
by Eric Foner Sunday, December 3,2006 “…Historians are loath to predict the future. It is impossible to say with certainty how Bush will be ranked in, say, 2050. But somehow, in his first six years in office he has managed to combine the lapses of leadership, misguided policies and abuse of power of his failed predecessors. I think there is no alternative but to rank him as the worst president in U.S. history.” Link to Washington Post article
Micah Wright 
Link to The Decider by Mark Fiore
TechnoHippie wrote: This must be huge if the network and cable news won’t report on it.
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Daryl Cagle
THE ELECTION IS NEAR…Taste the Fear!
Lovely to see that Republican desperation has driven them to the point of dusting off LBJ’s old Daisy TV Ad (link to video). A little girl with flower and a mushroom cloud in the background. Johnson won the election in a landslide and then drove America into the VIETNAM QUAGMIRE. As Dubya says, “Fool me once…Shame on you. Fool me twice and…um…We won’t get fooled again!”
The new GOP FEAR FACTOR AD
Doonesbury Click on GOP FEAR CHART to enlarge
AL-QAIDA’S # 2 TERRORIST CAPTURED OR KILLED! (yet again).
We can’t catch Bin Laden after five long years, but the FBI has picked up 14-year-old JULIA WILSON who posted on her MYSPACE.COM website:“Kill Bush”. Finally, America has captured the leader of the domestic terrorist movement.
Trillions of tax payers’ dollars spent on HOMELAND SECURITY have paid off big time!
FOX NEWS, of course, identified Foley as a Democrat:
TO OUR GOOD FRIENDS IN KENTUCKY: get off your butts and go help DOUG GOODMAN get elected…or be prepared to explain to your grandchildren how we lost America.
The GOP needed a scapegoat fast and they chose Kirk Fordham, chief of staff to National Republican Congressional Committee head Rep. Thomas Reynolds and a former top aide to Mark Foley. Kirk resigned Wednesday, but before he left told reporters he had warned Hastert’s office about Foley’s inappropriate behavior three years ago but that the Speaker did nothing.
TEN YEARS OF FOX NEWS AND AMERICANS HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE IGNORANT OF WORLD EVENTS. Is there a connection?
REP. MARK FOLEY (R-FLA) ABRUPTLY RESIGNS CONGRESS AND ACCEPTS POSITION AS HEADMASTER OF THE NEW BOY SCOUTS SUMMER CAMP AT NEVERLAND RANCH. 
You probably remember Mark…Chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus who introduced legislation in July to protect kids from sexual predators on the Internet. But, last year Foley began stalking a 16-year-old boy working as a page. The teen reported the e-mails and described Mark as, “creepy” and “sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick!”Republicans scrambled and hid this info for nearly a year, but now ABC reported Friday that Foley also engaged in a series of sexually explicit instant messages with current and former boy pages. In one message Foley wrote, “Do I make you horney?” In another:
“You in your boxers, too?…Well strip down and get relaxed.”
Remember? It was Foley in 1998 who condemned Clinton in Congess as “vile”. As a compassionate conservative, Mark claimed to have prayed for Bill’s “sad sexual addiction”.
Racist Idiot of the Week
Mesa Republican Representative Russell Pearce, co-chairman of the powerful Arizona House Appropriations Committee, during an interview on ”Morning Edition” on KJZZ, 91.5 FM, said he would support bringing back a controversial program from the early 1950s dubbed ”Operation Wetback”…calling for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants.Pearce, a member of the Salt Lake City-based Mormon Church, also recently put language in the state budget bill to eliminate funding for campus publications in Arizona because they have run stories and photographs he considers offensive.
Let’s recap: Russell hates Civil Rights, Brown People and Free Speech on Campus.
Pearce is a man born too late…misses the good old days of Tailgunner Joe and segregation (please note the b&w photo in his honor). How did he ever get elected?
Who was this Manuel dude? A puppet of Catholic church in 1391…like Saddam in Iraq and Bin Laden in Afghanastan for us in the 1980s.
The Crusade is a sore spot for people in the Middle East…exactly like 9/11 for Americans today. How would you feel if the pope quoted bin Laden in a sermon on the Twin Towers? If his Holiness cited Hitler in a speech about the Holocaust or the Grand Wizard of the KKK on MLK?
We expect this kind of crap from our own Fundamentalist Fungi, but not from a pope.
9/11: Amazing…On our day of mourning Bush delivers a sales pitch for his unholy war.
Buckfush…and then we watched the second half of The Path to 9/11. A thousand blogs are now exposing
“A Thousand Points of Lies” in this production, but we at CA ask the question, “Is it a good movie?”
We love propaganda: Fox News, Stealth…Colin Powell’s speech to UN could not have been funnier if he had delivered it in drag…and who could ever forget “Winnebagos of Death” and “Cloned Human/Animal Hybrids”? Unfortunately, “The Path to 9/11” is a tedious, boring turd.
The writer and director were selected based on their politics rather than talent.
Cyrus Nowrasteh is an Iranian/ American who misses the good-old-days of the Shah. His major writing credits are “10,000 Black Men Named George” (2002) and a couple episodes of “Falcon Crest” (1981).
David Cunningham’s major directing credit: “Little House on the Prairie” (2005).
9-13: Britain’s Guardian reports that Cunningham appeared at a conference in England organized by Youth With a Mission, a fundamentalist cult founded by his father Loren Cunningham. David’s speech was titled: “Christ-like Witness in the Film Industry.”
A publication of YWAM described Cunningham and his wife as “the nucleus of an association of more than 40 YWAM alumni in the communications industry in the Los Angeles area … to create an independent film company whereby he could both influence the Hollywood film industry and produce major motion pictures that would carry a Biblical, values-based message.”
Does this disaster stink of David Horowitz? You betya! Read about it here
Dear Disney and ABC, get smart like Hitler. He hired Leni Riefenstahl, the best filmmaker in Germany to catapult his evil war-mongering propaganda. Why not hire George Lucus for your next production?
“An eternal war against terrorism? It’s like a war against dandruff. There’s no such thing as a war against terrorism. It’s idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It’s advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.” - Gore Vidal
Mark Flore’s America Remembers Again
Less than 2 months until Elections…LET THE FEAR-MONGERING BEGIN!
Tim and John Allen
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, speech writer/ spin master for Reagan during Iran/ Contrgate, R-CA plans to conduct hearings to explore “possible foreign connections” to the Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols in the 1995 explosion that killed 168. If that fails, the congressman will try PLAN B: BLAME CLINTON!
Dear Dana, let me save our government millions in this investigation…Yes, there was a “foreign connection”: Timothy McVeigh and Beltway Sniper, John Allen Muhammad (Williams), were Gulf War I vets…thrown out onto the streets…unable to deal with severe (and untreated) Post Tramatic Stress Disorder. How many more monsters have you helped create with your war mongering,
Mr. Rohrabacker? E-mail this Bush Tool
REALITY ALERT: this next item is not funny…
Aug 25- A closed-door meeting with Bush in Kennebunk was arranged by U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, at the request of Hildi Halley, whose husband, Army National Guard Capt. Patrick Damon, died on June 15 in Afghanistan.“You, as president, are responsible for the deaths of American soldiers,” said Halley, “and as a Christian man, you should recognize that you made a mistake and that it is your responsibility to end this. As President, you’re here to serve the people. And the people are not being served with this war.”
Bush responded, “There is no point in us having a philosophical discussion about the pros and cons of the war.”
ABBIE Award (MOST PATRIOTIC AMERICAN) of the Week to Hildi Halley!
Liquids banned…snakes welcomed A Faux News exclusive!
This passenger was 80% liquid prior to flight.
In the past week, airlines have banned liquids, chapstick, deodorant, clothing, and external genitalia.
But snakes aren’t on the list.
“The comfort and security of our passengers are our first priority,” said Southwest Airlines spokesperson Sirah Yeng. “Okay, thirty-first and twenty-fifth, but they’re still way up there.”
“That’s it, I’m driving to London,” said New Yorker Ronald Tracey.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has asked airlines to provide at least one snake per passenger, as part of the administration’s War on Terror.
“Hey, it makes as much sense as anything else we’re doing,” said assistant TSA spokesperson Kip Galloway.
President Bush urged Americans to be patient.
“We must stand together as we sit on planes,” Bush said, sipping spiked lemonade on Air Force One.
Meanwhile, Vice President Cheney criticized Connecticut voters for electing a Democrat in that state’s Democratic primary.
“It emboldens our enemies,” Cheney said. “When voters elect a candidate who does not support this administration’s ophidian initiatives.”
Cheney then sunned himself on a rock.
DETROIT (Aug. 18) - “There are no hereditary Kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution,” a federal judge ruled Thursday that President Bush had exceeded his authority when he allowed the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant.
U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit said the surveillance by the NSA violates the rights to free speech and privacy, as well as the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution.
8/2/6: Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast are off the Captitol Hill Cafeteria menu and French Fries and French Toast are back. On March 11, 2003 the French insulted us after Powell’s comedy monologue at the UN. They didn’t get the Winnebagos of Death joke at all, and refused to join our colition. America struck back. Our menus sent a message to the world: that our leaders in Washington are idiots. French Fries and Toast are products of Yankee Ingenuity…the French didn’t invent this junk food and you can’t order this crap in a French bistro. A better insult would have been to tear down their gift to America: The Statue of Liberty.
Owen Wilson has denied any connection between his new movie, “You, Me and Dupree,” and ’70s supergroup Steely Dan, a spokesman for the actor said Friday.
The band recently posted a letter on its website claiming that Wilson’s Dupree character was based on their Grammy-winning song, “Cousin Dupree,” about a couch-hopping houseguest.
In a statement released by his spokeswoman, Ina Treciokas, Wilson said: “I have never heard the song ‘Cousin Dupree’ and I don’t even know who this gentleman, Mr. Steely Dan, is. I hope this helps to clear things up and I can get back to concentrating on my new movie, ‘HEY 19.’ ” From AP
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace 2,000 foreign words that have crept into the language, such as “pizzas” which will now be known as “elastic loaves,” state media reported Saturday. From AP
The two above stories on tips from ClickClack
Bush has no time to deal with WWIII, but but hangs out with Taylor Hicks. “How did you get so many votes without Diebold machines?”
We have always supported Israel but American news and the violence are so one sided in this war that we feel a little balance and common sense might be a nice change:
Israel Attacks Lebanon’s Christian Heartland 8/4/6
In response to 7/26/06 poll which showed that 80% of Lebanese Christians support Hezbollah? There are 950,000 Christians in Lebanon…only 5,500 in Iraq.
Meanwhile, a hundred thousand Shiites converged on Baghdad for a Hezbollah rally.
KNOW THINE ENEMY! Here is typical Lebanese family:
BEWARE!
We urge NSA to spy on Gen. John Abizaid, Paul Anka, Yasmine Bleeth, Dick Dale, John Elway, Jamie Farr (Klinger), Doug Flutie, Sammy Haggar, Salma Hayek, Casey Kasem, Kristy McNichol, George Mitchell, Ralph Nader, Harold Ramis, Neil Sedaka, John Sununu, Helen Thomas, Marlo Thomas, Tiffany, Frank Zappa and the other 3,000,000 Lebanese Americans whose relatives have been blown to shit for the past three weeks.
And in Iraq:
Gen. Abizaid: “The sectarian violence is probably as bad as I have seen it…It’s possible in the period ahead of us in Baghdad that we’ll take increased American casualties.”
Gen. Pace: “We have the possibility of that devolving into civil war.
Our focus this week is on the lovely Condi Rice. Above (in CA Phun) is a picture of her oil tanker before Chevron quietly renamed it the “Altair Voyager”.
Condoleezza Rice was a Chevron Director from 1991 until January 15, 2001 when she was transferred by President George Bush Jr. to National Security Adviser. Another Chevron Corporation giant in the Bush administration is Vice President Dick Cheney…Chairman and Chief Executive of Dallas based Halliburton Corporation, the world’s largest oil field services company with multi-billion dollar contracts with oil corporations including Chevron and Deadeye was instrumental in negotiating a Caspian Sea pipeline for Chevron. The crude oil pipeline is a 900-mile project stretching from western Kazakhstan to the Black Sea that will primarily benefit Chevron by connecting the Tengiz oil field to the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk in Russia. Chevron, the largest oil company member of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, holds a 55 percent ownership interest with the Republic of Kazakhstan in Tengizchevroil. The 40-year, $20 billion joint-venture company was formed in 1993 to develop the Tengiz field.
Russia tried to horn in OUR oil deal in the 1980s, but with the help of our great friend, OSAMA BIN LADEN, we drove the Commies out of Afghanistan. The war bankrupt Russia. Will Iraq bankrupt America?
Accused G.I. Was Troubled Long Before Iraq
By JIM DWYER and ROBERT F. WORTH
Published: July 14, 2006
On the last day of January 2005, Steven D. Green, the former Army private accused of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdering her family, sat in a Texas jail on alcohol-possession charges, an unemployed 19-year-old high school dropout who had just racked up his third misdemeanor conviction…
Link to New York Times article
Five More U.S. Soldiers Charged in Iraq Rape-Slaying Case
American Investigators Want Teenage Victim’s Body Exhumed
BAGHDAD, Iraq (July 9) - Four more U.S. soldiers have been charged with rape and murder and a fifth with dereliction of duty in the alleged rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman and the killings of her relatives in Mahmoudiya, the military said Sunday.
According to an FBI affidavit filed in Green’s case, Green and at least two others targeted the teenager and her family for a week before the attack, which was not revealed until witnesses came forward in late June. The soldiers drank alcohol, abandoned their checkpoint, changed clothes to avoid detection and headed to the victims’ house, about 200 yards from a U.S. military checkpoint in the so-called “Triangle of Death,” a Sunni Arab area south of Baghdad known for its violence, the affidavit said.
The affidavit estimated the rape victim was about 25. But a doctor at the Mahmoudiya hospital gave her age as 14. He refused to be identified for fear of reprisals.
God Bless, PFC Thomas L. Tucker of Madras, Ore. and PFC Kristian Menchaca of Houston of the 101st Airbourne. Our kids were tortured, mutilated and beheaded. Can you image their hell?
Their great mistake was serving America in Green’s platoon at the same Youssifiyah checkpoint where Steven and his four buddies leered at and perhaps molested this poor Abeer before invading the child’s home in a fatal attack…or, did these know about the rape/murders and were they part of a 3 month coverup?
If you think that this story is ugly, brace ypurself for the Haditha investigation: One of our guys gets blown up by an IED and his buddies flip out and go house to house slaughtering at least 24 unarmed, innocent civilians…mosty women and children.
FLAG BURNING AMENDMENT LOSES IN SENATE. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), chief sponsor of the effort admits, “Research now shows that most American flags are plastic (petroleum-base) and made in sweatshops in Taiwan. Thus, I am proposing a new “Flag Melting” Ban Amendment which includes a “There Is No Such Thing as Foreign Oil” declaration and a “Freedom of Underage Children to Work as Slave Labor to Promote the Agenda of the GOP Act”.
Or, an American company could sell fire-retardant flags. Oh, I’m sorry…that would be too easy.
Do you really support out troops?
Only 1% of Iraqis trust American and coalition forces for their personal protection.
Link to LA Times
Okay, the BOOGEYMAN is dead in Iraq, so let’s send those 130,000 American kids off to catch Bin Laden. Let the war profiteers like Halliburton and Shell/Texaco defend their own self interests.
We seldom recommend (to be honest, this is the first time ever) corporate whore…Time….but this issue is worth a look.
Yes, Dear Readers, our kids have reached the breaking point in Iraq. As a Vietnam vet I can tell you…this is deja vu all over again. After Tet in 1968, my peers and I began to realize that Uncle Sam didn’t send us to Nam to win the war…but to occupy. The locals were already aware before we began to recognize the hatred in their eyes. It seemed like everyone was our enemy. The only clear mission left was to survive and help our buddies stay alive. This line of thinking, of course, leads to nightmares like My Lai and Haditha…and there will be much worse if we don’t leave Iraq now! Magic SamHaditha
Photos Indicate Civilians Slain Execution-Style
The Fog of War Continues in Ishaqi
Move Along…Nothing to see here.U.S. Troops Cleared in Ishaqi Raid Probe by KIM GAMEL, AP
BAGHDAD, Iraq (June 3) - A military investigation into allegations that American troops intentionally killed civilians in Ishaqi, a village north of Baghdad, has cleared them of misconduct, the U.S. said - even though it acknowledged the deaths of up to 13 Iraqis in the March raid.
The investigation of the March 15 attack in Ishaqi concluded that the U.S. troops followed normal procedures in raising the level of force as they came under attack upon approaching a building where they believed an al-Qaida terrorist was hiding, said Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, a U.S military spokesman. Caldwell also acknowledged there were “possibly up to nine collateral deaths” in addition to the four Iraqi deaths that the military announced at the time of the raid.
Local Iraqis said there were 11 dead, contending they were killed by U.S. troops before the house was leveled.
The bloody aftermath of the attack was captured at the time in the footage shot by an AP Television News cameraman. The video includes an unidentified man saying “children were stuck in the room, alone and surrounded. After they handcuffed them, they shot them dead. Later, they struck the house with their planes. They wanted to hide the evidence. Even a 6-month-old infant was killed. Even the cows were killed, too,” he said.
Iraqi Assails US for Strikes on Civilians by R. Oppel Jr. NY Times 6/2/6
Baghdad, Iraq - Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki lashed out at the American military on Thursday, denouncing what he characterized as habitual attacks by troops against Iraqi civilians.
In his comments, Mr. Maliki said violence against civilians had become a “daily phenomenon” by many troops in the American-led coalition who “do not respect the Iraqi people. They crush them with their vehicles and kill them just on suspicion. This is completely unacceptable. Attacks on civilians will play a role in future decisions on how long to ask American forces to remain in Iraq,” the prime minister added.
World Reaction: The toon below is receiving heavy circulation in Europe, Asia and South America.
An official involved in an investigation of Camp Pendleton Marines’ actions in an Iraqi town cites `a total breakdown in morality.’
By Tony Perry and Julian E. Barnes May 27, 2006
WASHINGTON — Photographs taken by a Marine intelligence team have convinced investigators that a Marine unit killed as many as 24 unarmed Iraqis, some of them “execution-style,” in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha after a roadside bomb killed an American in November, officials close to the investigation said Friday.
The pictures are said to show wounds to the upper bodies of the victims, who included several women and six children. Some were shot in the head and some in the back, congressional and defense officials said.
Read the LA Times article
Survivors of the massacre———————————-Bodies of innocent civilians are stacked at the morgue.
And, how’s occupation of Afghanistan going?
Riot Erupts After Kabul Traffic Accident
By RAHIM FAIEZ, AP
KABUL, Afghanistan (May 29) - A deadly traffic accident involving U.S. troops sparked a riot in the Afghan capital on Monday, with U.S. and Afghan security forces firing on protesters, police and witnesses said. At least five people were killed and 60 injured.
Hundreds of protesters marched on the palace of U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai in the city center after the incident, shouting “Death to Karzai! Death to America!”
The Pentagon has been forced by public pressure to postpone the June 2nd, 700 ton Divine Strake (simulated nuke test) on Shoshone land in Nevada. Rock on, fellow bloggers. As usual, it was you, not corporate media, who threw a monkey wrench into the war machine.
Congratulations to TONY SNOWjob…the new White House spokesliar…same job he had at Fox.
Constructive Anarchy recommended Jon Lovitz: “We have to nuke Iran because…uh…because they have 80,000 suicide bombers on flying carpets! Yeah, that’s the ticket!
5-11: Bush Spys on tens of millions (He’s looking at your file right now)!
NSA has Massive Database of Americans’ Phone Calls From USA Today
Robbie Conal
5-6 (one month shy of 6/6/6)
Strange Days Indeed:
CNN and Fox babbled all day Fri about Teddy’s kid back in rehab (“Is the Kennedy Family Cursed?” etc), Anthem in Spanish and other nonsense. The real news…barely a blip on their radar: CIA Director
Porter Goss Resigns. An army of Fox & CNN reporters couldn’t figure out why, but after a minute on the net I found that the Duke Cunningham scandle has spread to the CIA! Goss’s hand-picked #3 man, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo is under serious investigation in connection with a massive bribery scheme of sweetheart deals, million dollar contracts and drunken parties (some at the Watergate Hotel!) with hookers (female and/or male- depending on the source). Duke, Dusty and the Ghost on Nixon joined the fun. Did the Guest of Honor just resign?
More at Daily KOS -May 5 entry
Also from DK (5-6): Bush Calls War On Terrorism “World War III”
Truthout says it’s a done deal: Rove has been indicted!
Constructive Anarchy suggests that Karl should be deported (rather than jailed) as a guest worker (waiter) in a fancy Paris restaurant where arrogance and disdain for average Americans are required.
Fox ratings are down 16% from the same month last year…
Bill O’Reilly dips to a 5-year low (pre-9/1/1 and Iraq fear-mongering).
You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Bush hit another all-time low: Wall St. Journal reports 29% on Harris Poll!
No 2-term pres has ever done worse.
Watch Dubya’s approval rating drop. Click and drag Boy George to continue his well deserved journey into the abyss. Tip from Alissa G.
Published by Greg at 07:04 PM on February 5, 2007