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‘Assassination’ schedule announced for Congress

“Radio-show host (Hal Turner) says leaders won’t be allowed to ‘betray’ nation.” I’ll go out on a limb here and guess that this guy is a right-winger, and from there you could go in a couple different directions, because there are paid radio personalities of the wingnut persuasion whose bread and butter is to go down this path when it comes to Muslims, Immigrants and/or abortion. In this case we’re dealing with a serious audience-grabber, that being your white daughter getting married and becoming ‘Mrs. Vasquez’. Not unlike the fear white listeners have about their daughters becoming ‘Mrs. Mutombo’, though in present day right wing parlance the latter is filed under “How the ACLU is ruining America”, while the hipanics are blamed for everything from poor schools, health care, wages, STD transmission, rise in crime, availability of narcotics, terrorism…on and on the list goes, with the typical right-wing radio clone blaming the liberal media for losing the war in Iraq, and any failure of public policy falling squarely on the shoulders of illegal immigrants.

Now that Democrats are back in control of both houses of Congress, they can finally expand their gameplan. Mr. Turner realized this before Democrats were even sworn in, writing that, “ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS WHO INTRODUCES, CO-SPONSORS OR VOTES IN FAVOR OF ANY SUCH AMNESTY WILL BE DECLARED A DOMESTIC ENEMY AND WILL BE CONSIDERED A LEGITIMATE TARGET FOR ASSASSINATION…We may have to ASSASSINATE some of the people you elect on Nov. 7! This could be your LAST ELECTION CHANCE, to save this Republic…Sorry to have to be so blunt, but the country is in mortal danger from our present government and our liberty is already near dead because of this government. If you are too stupid to turn things around with your vote, there are people out here like me who are willing to turn things around with guns, force and violence. We hope our method does not become necessary.”

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1) W. David Jenkins III – Who is this? All I know is he wrote an incredible essay titled: “Bush Breakdown Dead Ahead?” – – – – It sneaks up on you, because the title indicates it’s something of a word-jumble riffing on something you’ve already read many times, but get a few paragraphs into it and the music starts getting louder. Bravo! I put up a link to his work (the layout of deadissue will be receiving a makeover…nothing drastic, but the organization isn’t working for me anymore…suggestions are welcome).

2) This one reminds me of the sexual harrassment scenes in Anchorman, specifically the one when Ms. Corningstone is reading the news for the first time and the street reporter is down to his undies off camera doing a jig, with the sports guy beside him, palms out flat with his cowboy hat on…“Mosque Plans Trigger Neighbor’s Pig Races”…definitely worth a read, if for nothing but the explaination by the homeowner of why he’s not canceling the festivities.

3) “Fossils are a great embarrassment to Evolutionary theory and offer strong support for the concept of Creation.” (Dr. Gary Parker, Ph.D., Biologist/paleontologist and former Evolutionist) Source

4) Projection: radar says “Whether you are an evolutionist or a creationist is largely about philosophical worldview rather than scientific fact.”

Al: I view the Bible and Koran as literature. On matters of science I side with technology and what it enables us to discover. It’s been on my mind lately…I think my seasonal depression steers interest away from politics and towards religion for some reason. Hope everyone’s year was worth remembering, and if it wasn’t, good luck in 2007!

You don’t pardon Richard Nixon after insisting you weren’t going to. All this lout managed to do was pave the way for future executives to run amok and decimate a generation’s faith in government. The country deserved to be told the truth, and this man denied us that.

“I looked upon him as my personal friend. And I always treasured our relationship. And I had no hesitancy about granting the pardon, because I felt that we had this relationship and that I didn’t want to see my real friend have the stigma,” Ford said in the interview.

Aw…they were palls.  What a good example set for Rumsfeld and Cheney, to know that above all else, their feelings were the most important thing.

What is the best way to hide your stash of marijuana when the police come knocking? How do you avoid positive tests for drugs? And what can you do to hoodwink narcotics-trained sniffer dogs? All these questions and many more will be answered by a DVD called Never Get Busted Again, about to go on sale on the internet. US law enforcement officers are furious about the DVD. What has made them even more furious is the fact that, until recently, the man who made it was one of the most experienced narcotics officers in the Texas police force. If anyone knows the dos and don’ts of getting busted, it is Barry Cooper. Mr Cooper, who made more than 800 drug arrests in his time with the Permian Basin drug task force, plans to begin selling the DVD on Tuesday. It is, he says, directed solely at marijuana dealers, not at dealers of harder drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamine. He told his local newspaper, the Tyler Morning Telegraph, he was following his conscience because he believed the war on drugs, specifically marijuana, was counter-productive. “I know I won’t be accepted by my peers here in East Texas, but in other areas of the country I will be celebrated,” he told the paper.

“When I was raiding houses and destroying families, my conscience was telling me it was wrong, but my need for power, fame and peer acceptance overshadowed my good conscience.” So far Mr Cooper is being coy about the details of the tips he gives out, revealing only in a three-minute promotional video that he goes into such crucial issues as whether coffee grounds really work as decoys, how to avoid narcotics profiling and how to “fool canines every time”. Tim Scott, the local police chief, said he was stunned by what a former top drugs officer was doing. “He’s going to tell all the ones we have been fighting how to get away with it and that makes me mad.” A senior narcotics officer in the region, Mark Waters, was similarly incensed. “This is a slap in the face to all that we do to uphold the laws and keep the public safe,” he said. Mr Cooper’s former bosses said that they would wait to see the new DVD before deciding what, if anything, to do about it.

The caller ID only had the last seven numbers – we got cut off twice for some reason.

1a. Sam Smith – “We know this isn’t going to end well. The Kings’ Ron Artest sat out Saturday’s loss to the Spurs with a sore back after complaining after the loss in Dallas on Friday he didn’t get the ball enough, didn’t get enough shots and wasn’t sure coach and management are on the same page. Artest told the Sacramento Bee: “We’ve got to find ways to get me the ball. I know that’s kind of selfish, but something has to happen. The organization needs to find out which way it wants to go, you know what I’m saying? I think Coach understands what I can do. It just has to be clear between the organization and coach.” It was Artest’s demands for the ball over Jermaine O’Neal that started all the problems in Indiana…”

1b. Peter Vecsey – “Obviously, 3-9 Memphis is suffering dreadfully without Gasol’s scoring. rebounding and a presence that demands strict defensive attention from two or three opponents. In the final year of his contract and guaranteed not to be re-hired – if for no other reason, the “incoming” owners can’t afford him – Mike Fratello isn’t quite as good a coach without Gasol; funny how that works. Yet, the thrice one-round-and-done playoff team isn’t a big draw in Memphis. Who knows, maybe the franchise has no other choice but to trade him for a squadron of undeveloped, minimum-wage hustlers, the business blueprint (unearthed last week by the Commercial Appeal) of the under-funded group headed by Brian Davis and Christian Laettner. While that may, indeed, be something that could go down once Michael Heisley’s 70 percent is sold, nothing is about to happen at this time. By all accounts, VP Jerry West is forbidden to make a trade no matter how insignificant (or change coaches) until the new group is either approved or disapproved in mid-December, maybe later.

Again, until then, the Celtics, probably the Grizzlies, too, are on their own, while Rivers and Fratello coach from weakness. Should Ainge start to warm up in the bullpen (a la Gregg Popovich replacing Bob Hill when Tim Duncan joined forces with David Robinson), I suspect Boston may be on the brink of acquiring Gasol.”

2a. William E. Hurwitz, M.D., J.D. – “The DEA and its state counterpart agents are embarked on a program of harassment of pain patients through repeated investigations, seizures, and arrests without charges or followed by dropping unsubstantiated charges. Similarly, they pay intimidating “visits” to pharmacists and physicians to “advise” them on how to practice their professions. This type of law enforcement by intimidation has not been seen in the Western world since before the Second World War, and, so far as I am aware, has never been seen in the United States of America. So, we already are perilously close to a situation in which the police agencies simply will not allow medicine to be practiced in conformity with honest and ethical standards.”

Asa Hutchinson, Director of the DEA, 3/14/2002 (in a talk before the American Pain Society): “I’m here to tell you that we trust your judgment. You know your patients. The DEA does not intend to play the role of doctor. Only a physician has the information and knowledge necessary to decide what is appropriate for the management of pain in a particular situation. The DEA is not here to dictate that to you. We do not intend to restrict legitimate use of OxyContin or other similar drugs. We will not prevent practitioners acting in the usual course of their medical practice from prescribing OxyContin for patients with legitimate medical needs. We never want to deny deserving patients access to drugs that relieve suffering and improve the quality of life.”

“The policy of targeting physicians based on patient misbehavior establishes a standard of perfection in selecting patients that no doctor could meet. It forces doctors who try to treat pain to act like police, reinforcing a perverse medical paternalism that subverts the ethical imperatives designed to protect patient autonomy and dignity. This distortion of the patient-physician relationship stigmatizes patients and erodes their trust. At the same time, it assigns doctors a function that they are ill-qualified to perform.”

2b. Laura Cooper, an attorney with multiple sclerosis and a former patient of Hurwitz, moved to Oregon when his practice was shutting down. Her new doctor “is also under the microscope,” she says. “All of these guys are on their way out — if not on their own, the government is on the way to putting them out. Anybody who would treat me the way I need to be treated is not long for American medicine. When my doctor goes down, I don’t know what I’ll do.” Since Cooper lives in Oregon, she notes, “by law I can get drugs to kill myself, but not to treat my pain. The doctor could say, in effect, ‘I’m not trying to treat pain; I’m trying to kill her,’ and that would be more acceptable. Clearly, something’s a little off kilter. My medical needs are less important than their war on drugs.” (Szalavitz, 2004)

2c. Frank Fisher seems to have been targeted based on just this sort of suspicion. At his Northern California clinic, the Harvard Medical School graduate accepted patients on Medicaid and Medi-Cal (California’s health insurance for the poor) that most other physicians refused, and he tried to treat their pain as aggressively as he would treat anyone else’s. In February 1999 state law enforcement agents raided Fisher’s clinic and arrested him for drug dealing, fraud, and murder. His bail was set at $15 million. State prosecutors accused him of “creating a public health epidemic” of OxyContin abuse and death. They implied that he must be a drug dealer because he was the largest prescriber of the drug under Medi-Cal. But in a context where fear of prosecution leads most doctors to under-prescribe, anyone who prescribes what is necessary for severe pain will be a top prescriber. The DEA insists physicians aren’t targeted based on volume alone. But Fisher believes he was. While patients with moderate pain can be treated effectively with low doses of opioids, he explains, severe pain requires that the dose be adjusted (“titrated”) to a level that maximizes pain relief and minimizes side effects. “To get a sense,” he says, “I titrated about two dozen patients, and they ended up taking almost half of the OxyContin 80-milligram pills prescribed in California in 1998. What that tells you is that nobody else titrated.”

Fisher was jailed for five months, during which time the prosecution’s case began to evaporate. First, the murder charges were reduced to manslaughter by the judge, who saw no proof of intent. Then the truth about these “killings” came out. One death involved a passenger who died when her spine was severed in a van accident. Fisher was charged with her “murder” because she had high levels of OxyContin in her blood. Another “victim” had taken drugs stolen from a patient, while a third died of a self-administered overdose two weeks after Fisher was incarcerated. During cross-examination in pretrial hearings, it was revealed that seven attempts by undercover agents to get drugs from Fisher had been rebuffed. “I had a screening process for those who tried to get controlled substances,” he says. “I screened out 60 percent of those, and apparently the agents were amongst them.” In January 2003, four years after Fisher’s arrest, a state judge dismissed all the charges against him because prosecutors had tried repeatedly to delay the trial. (Szalavitz, 2004)

“Keeping us up here eats away at families,“ said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. “Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families — that’s what this says.” Bear in mind that I really like this guy, but with our military pulling 15 month long deployments in Iraq, having to accomplish a certain amount of work to deserve earning ones’ government paycheck, in safety stateside, should be viewed as a blessing to begin with. Are we disconnected from this war?

His first statement had my head connecting the dots with some other stuff I’ve been reading…“Keeping us up here eats away at families,”…“(Army officer) As a Cadet in ROTC, I was taught about taking care of soldiers and doing the right thing. That’s not practiced in the Active Duty Army that I experienced. Rank isn’t supposed to have it’s priveleges but it does. Commander’s lived like Kings while their soldiers didn’t have electricity or even the proper equipment to do the job, and that shouldn’t have been.“

Are the words telling a story about us? “Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families — that’s what this says.” The Army has begun the practice of tricking soldiers suffering from post traumatic stress disorder into signing something that says their condition was preexisting, that they had a “personality disorder”, as in, “I was a mental case before I enlisted in the Army”. They are told that the deal will provide them disability and they’ll be able to keep their reenlistment bonus, then on the last day before catching a flight back to civilian life, are told that they are entitled to no diability benefits, VA treatment for their mental problems, and you owe us $4000 for the bonus which we’re taking back. (Link to the story) (Sonicrusk’s Post on the topic)

It’s unfortunate that Congressman Kingston would be the one to provide a timeless quote on the topic of an extended work week, as even though there is a war going on and the required budget work from last year was ignored, somehow the burden of having to eat his meat before he could have any pudding is a travesty of justice and well worth the necessary time spent (on the clock) exposing the real reason behind all of it…they hate families…those Democrat m************!

This season of The Wire ends for me in about an hour and a half, w/ the ondemand available at midnight.  I predict that if Snoop and Chris are locked up, it’s because the security guard’s badge will be found and the fingerprint will match up.  Perhaps charges only come on Snoop and not Chris, and next season it’s Michael and Chris as the two top fixers in Marlo’s crew.

Not unlike the others that had walked beneath that holy bridge of the insane people of Marsh, the blond haired boy paid his respects with a subtle bow.  Not enough for many of the onlookers who believed some sort of discomfort or hardship was the only sincere way to pay homage to the bridge.  His gesture, while much more than was usually seen from outsiders, still allowed the feelings of contempt to arise in the wicked townspeoples’ minds.  Better for him to just move on now, but the plans of this young man were quite the opposite, and now, he would never dive into the water or toss his purse into the river in respect for the bridge or its enthusiasts.  How he survived as long as he had up to this point was a testament to the natural resilience of his people, or better put, the generally astute understanding of the art of bullshiting that seemed to resonate naturally in their minds at a very young age.  So the question today, ‘who is this kid?’  Followed by an even better one, ‘why did he choose to travel by means of the rivers when roads had been carved out years before?’  The answers to these questions weren’t known by anone in the insane town, but truth be told, we weren’t dealing with brilliance here, nor was the spirituality invoked through this ceremony much to marvel at either, if not for the natural setting it created to allow for even the most idiotic among them to easily understand what to look down upon without having to be told.  The one they turned to for direction on such matters was more like them than they cared to understand, he too could not manage to break through the low ceiling that generations of rough bridge-mandated inbreeding had established.  Wisdom of a certain quality, though regulated to the picking of only the worlds’ low-lying fruit, was still enough to manage a necessary exploitation of the generally gullible nature shared by those around him.  Immediately his impression of the stranger was the same as that of his people, though instead of speaking to this, his instinct urged instead to do the opposite, as it had again and again in the past, ultimately making him who he was to the people.  As the bridge provides, so does he, in ways that nobody is supposed to understand, just respect, admire and give things to. 

“Our guest did not arrive here by accident.”  

Procrastinating, can’t seem to stay on point tonight w/ assignments and all, so here’s some stuff I’ve been looking at. The first is probably one of the strongest scenes ever.

The Wire – Cutty Quits (Slim Charles, Avon, Cutty) — Snoop buys a nailgun — Snoop and Chris (New York Niggas) using the nailgun — Where’s Andre? (Cold Blooded, Chris & Snoop — Bunk & McNulty (Natural Police) ——- South Park – Stan’s Dad Field Sobriety Test — Vote or Die! — Cartman’s the Dawg, Explaining how babies are made — Jimmy tries to say to Wendy “you are a continuing source of inspiration…” — Jay Leno comes to South Park –

Someone on the Control Congress board hit a nerve in me today, talking trash about my state. The population numbers from 2000 and 2005 show almost a 1% rise, but according to him people are leaving because of the STD infected, homosexual agenda being pushed on kids in schools. So many people in this country hope for my state to crumble, yet when it doesn’t, the tactics of deception and bunk spiritless voodoo take over. You know what I think? I think they hate us for our freedom!

Gay marriage has been legal here for a couple years now, and civil unions for even longer in Vermont, with neither showing the negative social effects predicted by homophobic fear merchants to this day. Massachusetts is home to some of the best schools in the world, so isn’t it predictable that the right-wing would despise academia? Indeed, and so the devil that intelligence represents is discarded, with a void that is then filled with nonsense about how evolution is a myth, global warming is a myth, and “just wait a few more years and from the sky a supernatural being will descend, casting all the hethons who think they’re so smart down to hell while you go to heaven.”

Thankfully, our street-smarts can smell the stink coming off that age-old lie from a mile away. So when a child in school doubts something as basic as evolution or whether condoms are effective or not, we tell them the truth. The desire of one taxpayer to deny benefits for their neighbor based on prejudice and fear is not championed as freedom. To get what some of us surely want, the public schools aren’t going to be denying the scientific fact that sexual orientation is determined by nature. We’re not going to lie to them because we’re too lazy or uncomfortable to act like adults. The idea that there’s such a thing as the “good lie”, and that the ignorance it breeds will keep us safe, is typically dead-on-arrival in my state.

Resentment over Massachusetts’ dedication to truth, science and freedom is found everywhere in the political arena, which tells me that we’re still leading the way. I’m proud of that!

This Morning on ABC, commentator and foreign policy scholar Fareed Zarkaria slammed John McCain’s plan to send more U.S. troops to Iraq, saying it “will not work.” Zakaria explained that “we have enough troops” but the Iraqi government won’t let them “go after the militias.” According to Zakaria, sending more U.S. troops to Iraq in this context is “just willing more American deaths.”

This fact (in bold) is not understood by the American population. Mainly this is because the press refuses to educate us on such specific points concerning the war, remaining much more inclined to reduce everything to a level suitable for a 2nd grade elementary school classroom. (1) A Shiite military general feeds locations of Sunnis who are popular in their communities to Baghdad – – – – (2) A Shiite political leader elected to serve in Baghdad hands over the information to a militia – – – – (3) The militia conducts kidnappings, mass executions, torture, etc. often leaving the bodies in some place where they will be found and reported on – – – – (4) The US Army investigates and quickly determines who is to blame, to include the Shiite military general who was involved – – – – (5) Word is sent to Baghdad that so and so should be arrested and investigated in connection with the murders – – – – (6) Baghdad does not act on the information sent by the US Army, releases a press statement saying the evidence is flimsy and the accusations were either incorrect or overzealous – – – – (7) The next day brings about another example where steps 1-6 are relived, day after day after day after day.

Zakaria is one of the smartest people in the media and has been right about everything he’s said on Iraq since day one. Anyone who’s not sure about McCain’s motivation for wanting more troops sent in, let me assure you that it’s 100% political, and the only purpose of it is to be able to say in 2008, “if we had gone with my plan to send in more troops, we wouldn’t be in the situation we’re in now with all the violence in Iraq.”

School’s back on already, so again I’m stuck with a head full of ideas, but no time to put something worthy of anyone’s time together.  So…here are some videos, a lot of “guy stuff”, as I browsed YouTube the other night with the question of “what would I have been watching on this site when I was 12 years old? 

Roddy Piper smashes a beer bottle on his head – PJ Stock vs. Gino Odjick – Tie Domi vs. Bob Probert – Marty McSorley vs. Bob Probert – “We Didn’t Start the Fire” – Boston 80s Sports Version – Bootleg – Ortiz beats the Yanks in Game 5 ALCS

Big Paws on a Pup (the wire – marlo/michael/kids on the stoop)

The idea was horrible to begin with, and it was carried out by the most incompetent batch of losers we’ve ever had in the history of our republic. Those who believe we must remain have only fear to offer, and politics now require them to predict the end of the world if we leave. The future prestige of the United States isn’t their concern, but rather the future prestige of their political party. To read the words of a true believer like ‘eeevil conservative’, you’d think that war was an issue on par with the federal defecit or illegal immigration. Take a position that we need to stay, and basically ignore the fact that our enemy has gained strength and capacity over the past two years, along with the reality that political figures within Iraq are using their power to murder the “base” of their opposition. In this country we have Democrats and Republicans, but in Iraq it’s all about which descendant of Muhammad is going to come back to life some day.

The US Army doesn’t have the authority to arrest an Iraqi Army general whose orders are to capture and kill Sunnis for no reason other than the fact that they’re not Shia. We’ve been there for 3 years, and nothing positive has resulted from it. Iraq is a failed state in the throes of civil war, and the United States is responsible for it. The lives of hundreds of thousands have been ended or ruined because of us, and our military is turning soldiers into slaves through “stop loss” just to maintain the appearance of authority over there. So to the hack political mind, willing to believe or fear on command, the fact that 100 headless courpses weren’t found a couple blocks from your house may allow you the comfort of faith and trick you into believing it’s all that’s needed to prevail, but at some point you should be able to dig down deep into your heart and scrape up some empathy for what we’ve done to these people in Iraq.

Iran this, Iran that…we had a mission here and unlike social legislation that can be fixed later on down the road, in war it’s essential to get it right in order to win. The true-believers still left don’t believe in this statement. They insist that in order to win, all you have to do is say you’re going to win over and over and over again. At least long enough to have an opposition party to blame for losing once it’s finally time to end this immoral cluster of death and failure known as the Iraq War.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!

This is a letter sent to controlcongress.com.

Dear Senator Sarbanes,

As a native Marylander, and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you.–>My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stems from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding of this bill’s provisions is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and income taxes for three of the last five years. I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started before everyone figures it out.–>Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes every year so I’m excited about the prospect of avoiding two years of taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way that I can apply to be illegal retroactively? This would yield an excellent result for me and my family because we paid heavy taxes in 2004 and 2005.–>Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local emergency room as my primary health care provider. Once I have stopped paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures.

I could save almost $10,000 a year. Another benefit in gaining illegal status would be that my daughter would receive preferential treatment relative to her law school applications, as well as “in-state” tuition rates for many
colleges throughout the United States for my son.–>Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden of renewing my driver’s license and making those burdensome car insurance premiums. This is very important to me given that I still have college age children driving my car.
If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal
(retroactively, if possible) and copies of the necessary forms, I would be most appreciative.Thank you for your assistance.
Your Loyal Constituent,
Pete McGlaughlin

So this is going to be it huh? The illegal immigration issue…are you suggesting we install a policy like France, or one resembling Germany?  For any American voters intent on understanding this issue fully, I’d suggest doing some research on the policies of those two countries – inundated with Muslim immigrants as opposed to our seemingly less faith-heavy hispanics. Look at those two countries and see what the end results of public policies being pushed here in the US actually look like.

I get a kick out of people living in this country in this time…a blessing when you think about it, considering that fate could have landed any one of us in Africa or the Middle East just as easy, we’re better than any other people on earth at feeling entitled.

We’re entitled to invade a soverign nation and alter the lives of hundreds of thousands who either die or flee…for the sake of cheaper oil to put in our cars. But don’t think (this is to everyone in the world and in this country who doesn’t have a social security number) that you deserve anything but a “made in China” size 12 boot up your ass courtesy of the American people. What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is mine, and pick up the garbage you come across on your way out!

Joke’s on us though, because the illegals are here to stay, regardless of how many we round up and send back. That ship has sailed. The question now is whether we assimilate them or create a problem we’ll have to deal with in the future.

The right-wing “tough on crime” attitude towards immigration is going to be just as effective as the “war on drugs” has been. 

Pelosi backs Murtha for majority leader – Speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) threw her support behind Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) for majority leader Sunday, giving a significant boost to Murtha in his race against Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). Continue reading →

Smart guy.  50 state strategy.  Nicely done.  Organizing all the gay male prostitutes’ in America with names, phone numbers, addresses and client lists.  Brilliant.  CSPAN is getting a makeover.  Will anyone notice?

War games are held, with the most sophisticated simulations that money could buy at the time, and the results weren’t what the neoconservatives’ analysis showed them after running their own war games, with the most sophisticated asian hookers that money could buy at the time, hundreds and hundreds of pheasants with their wings cliped, plenty of top shelf booze, Cuban cigars…of course I was doing my best penguin immitation throughout these simulations, spending 16+ hours a day in one of three expando-vans connected to one another, monitoring radios, marking down movements on the map overlays on top of the geographical yellow yellow yellow with rivers for the engineers to rig up bridges to cross, combat teams of 2 tank companies and a mechanized infantry company whose fisters are already dead from an hour ago, and some poor bastards…these imaginary companies of 11B, infantry without the Bradley to drive around in…they’re humping it 80 miles on foot, and the scud missiles will not get in their way, because nothing will get in their way, not the oil wells on fire at 15 separate grid points all 16 digits long, recorded by specialist swearengen in between two filthy spits of coppenhagen and the feeling of deja-vu mixed with another feeling, something like the feeling a NASCAR pit crew member gets when the lugnuts come right off with the gun, then right back on in no time…”****-4, Ramrod-4 OVER”…drop the gun, pick up the receiver and talk back, record numbers, call out to Dragon-1 and Dragon-4 and Ramrod-1 and Knight-1 and Knight-4…wait a minute and three of them get back with their numbers…Ramrod-1, Dragon-4, Dragon-1…5 minutes later and all the numbers are in, numbers crunched, called up to division and the laminated unit insignia and laminated missile hits and laminated oil well fires and laminated enemy positions all with their own piece of scotch tape stuck to the back onto the overlay with the phase lines and notes and all kinds of bullshit to be deemed useless in about 5 hours once the battle is over and we start all over again and again and again for about 40 days in the middle of nowhere, Germany…

The neoconservatives had their ideas, and I suppose it’s possible that the likes of Rumsfeld, Cheney, Kristol, Perle, Wolfwicz, etc. were simply brilliant in a way that tens of thousands of millitary officers and the simulations weren’t…I’m just glad that they were wise enough to make the most of all that training and preparation.  The Documents – detailing something I actually lived through.  Imagine that…I do two of these warfighters and get to miss the actual war, which turns to shit because the outcomes of the warfighters were ignored. 

The Army Times is coming out tomorrow with a call for Rumsfeld to go, and Cheney has come out and said that the public can’t take his toys away, nor will he testify in Congress if ordered to do so.  The President, of course, is reading a book with a classroom full of children…and the White House staff is drawing straws to determine who is the one that has to tell him that Democrats took over Congress, something that requires the purchase of a helmet and bulletproof vest first thing Monday morning.