“Commercials are an unnatural use of my work,” he continued. “It’s like having a cow’s udder sewn to the side of my face. Painful and humiliating.”

Get ‘em Tom.

Just how much odd racket can you coax from 6 strings?

Funny Money
by Mike Wasdin

One thing that I always get a kick out of is when I buy something with my fake Federal Reserve Notes, and the Cashier whips out her magic pen. You know the one I am talking about, the one that is able to distinguish between the counterfeit notes that the Federal Reserve prints, and the ones the average novice counterfeiter prints. With a swipe of the pen, they have assured themselves that the notes I have given them are legal tender. I always wonder if they have ever given any thought to the fact that all U.S. currency is counterfeit.

Is something real simply because a large amount of people believe it is?

Weapons Inspector Ends WMD Search in Iraq

By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Wrapping up his investigation into Saddam Hussein’s purported arsenal, the CIA’s top weapons hunter in Iraq said his search for weapons of mass destruction “has been exhausted” without finding any.

Nor did he find any evidence that such weapons were shipped officially from Iraq to Syria to be hidden before the U.S. invasion, but he couldn’t rule out some unofficial transfer of limited WMD-related materials.

Thank godness. Now all the troops come home, right? And mark my words, “some unofficial transfer” is going to become a new catchphrase.

It’s always enlightening to see things from the “other side” once in a while. I’ve been ranting on this blog for months about the absusive, out of touch with America GOP, and its ills.

So, imagine my surprise when I lifted up the rock that is Freerepublic.com, the rightwing nutjob message board, and found out that all the hardliners think Bush and his minions are a bunch of wimps.

Read more and enjoy such statements as:

Expand the 62+ million to 100+ million. The focal point should be on eliminating the root cause of our problems, anti-freedom, anti-life criminals…The National Socialists.

In the last election cycle I started withholding money from the GOP. Next, unless they change their tune, it is going to be my vote.

My my, its whiteknuckle time in KoolAid land. And they haven’t mentioned Delay, or Gannon, or Plame, et al. Not that such realities will ever enter their Fascism themepark, but its fun to watch them blink in the bright light of reality, even if it’s only a little peek…

Monk on Monday. All’s right with the world.

Why are we arming the Hatian police?

US admits 2,600 weapons sent to Haiti
REED LINDSAY
IN PORT-AU-PRINCE

THE US government gave more than 2,600 weapons to bolster Haiti’s controversial police force last year despite allegations of human rights abuses and a more than 13-year-old arms embargo, officials at the State Department and US Embassy said.

Human rights observers have documented widespread abuses committed by the Haitian police under the US-backed interim government of Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, who assumed office in March 2004 after former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was removed from power amid an armed revolt. Many of the abuses - which include killings, arbitrary arrests, beatings and illegal searches and detentions - have taken place in poor neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince, where support for Aristide runs strong.

You do realize that the “coup” last year was a total American fabrication, correct?

Blair blow as secret war doubts revealed
Gaby Hinsliff, political editor

04/24/05 “The Observer” - - The Iraq war was thrust dramatically into the election spotlight last night after long-sought government legal advice, cautioning that the invasion could be illegal, was leaked.
The document appears to confirm for the first time that the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, had serious reservations about the legality of the conflict, only to change his mind as British and US troops massed on the border of Iraq ready to invade.

Ten days later, he apparently changed his mind, delivering a summary to Blair declaring the war was legal - the cue for the invasion.

While this is good, it would be a far better thing to see it occuring in this country. Not that we’d find out about it, of course.

Terrified US soldiers are still killing civilians with impunity, while the dead go uncounted
By Patrick Cockburn
24 April 2005

An American patrol roared past us with the soldiers gesturing furiously with their guns for traffic to keep back on an overpass in central Baghdad. A black car with three young men in it did not stop in time and a soldier fired several shots from his machine gun into its engine.

“We should end the immunity of US soldiers here,” says Dr Mahmoud Othman, a veteran Kurdish politician who argues that the failure to prosecute American soldiers who have killed civilians is one of the reasons why the occupation became so unpopular so fast. He admits, however, that this is extremely unlikely to happen given the US attitude to any sanctions against its own forces.

This is just the tip of the Iraqi iceberg. Things are going much, much worse than our “media” would lead you to believe.

DeLay Airfare Was Charged To Lobbyist’s Credit Card

By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 24, 2005; Page A01

The airfare to London and Scotland in 2000 for then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was charged to an American Express card issued to Jack Abramoff, a Washington lobbyist at the center of a federal criminal and tax probe, according to two sources who know Abramoff’s credit card account number and to a copy of a travel invoice displaying that number.

House ethics rules bar lawmakers from accepting travel and related expenses from registered lobbyists. DeLay, who is now House majority leader, has said that his expenses on this trip were paid by a nonprofit organization and that the financial arrangements for it were proper. He has also said he had no way of knowing that any lobbyist might have financially supported the trip, either directly or through reimbursements to the nonprofit organization.

This should be the final shot to the back of the head of Tom Delay. Even the most blinded of the right have to see this for what it is.

If theres any justice, that is. Dang, had to bring that up, huh?