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Bush Developing Illegal Bioterror Weapons for Offensive Use

In violation of the U.S. Code and international law, the Bush administration is spending more money (in inflation-adjusted dollars) to develop illegal, offensive germ warfare than the $2-billion spent in World War II on the Manhattan Project to make the atomic bomb.

Terming the action “the proverbial smoking gun,” Boyle said the mission of the controversial CBW program “has been altered to permit development of offensive capability in chemical and biological weapons!”

Insanity. How can we as a nation squawk about Iran developing nukes when we’re cooking up bioterror weapons? I guess “God told him” that this was ok too.

Moron Mike Gallagher thinks so:

Talk Host Gallagher: ‘Round Up’ Olbermann, Damon, And ‘Put Them In A Detention Camp’

Yesterday on Fox News, talk radio host Mike Gallagher said the U.S. government should “round up” actor Matt Damon, “The View” host Joy Behar, and MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann and “put them in a detention camp until this war is over because they’re a bunch of traitors.”

Oh, and this mental midget? He got invited to the White House to play palsy walsy with Bush and other “fans of freedom” such as Atlanta’s own knuckledragger, Neal Boortz, Sean “I was too stupid to work construction” Hannity and others. Nice folks all, I’m sure.

The problem with attempting to ignore these shameless fascists is that they often function (purposely) as a sort of early warning system for mainstream talking points. Now that even Bush sees the writing on the Iraqi wall (it reads, America, you lost, go home), these good little germans are lining up to dish out the tired, 180 degree wrong “reason” that we lost in Iraq- that damn “liburul media” telling nothing but “bad news” and souring the nation on the noble cause of freedom. Pretty much the same thing they said about Vietnam, too- everything was going along fine until those damn hippies and Walter Cronkite poisoned the debate.

Be it bloodlust- or bedwetting- whatever motivates these empty heads to blather on, we may never know. But isn’t it going to be nice, one day, when Neal Boortz is working cable access at 2 in the morning, and Rush Limbaugh is just one more unhireable drug addict with a taste for young flesh?

I’ve been to Virginia, nice place, pretty. Too bad the voters there send subhuman pieces of crap like this asshat to congress:

In Letter, GOP Rep Fears Influx of Muslims

In a letter sent out to select supporters earlier this month reacting to the controversy (among certain extreme conservatives, at least) over Muslim representative-elect Keith Ellison’s (D-MN) decision to be sworn in on the Koran, Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) sent a short letter to supporters warning that the U.S. must close its borders to guard against the influx of still more Muslims. In it, he also proudly recounts his retort to a Muslim student who asked him why he did not include the Koran with The Ten Commandments on his wall. “As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, The Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office,” he says he told the student.

And of course, since wingnuts such as this theocratic embarrassment can’t take responsibility for ANYTHING, he goes on to blame Bill Clinton for the “problem”. I guess he lived in a different country for the last six years. In the real world, the GOP has controlled every branch of government during that time, and could have, if they so desired, done any number of things, re: immigration. But no, they would rather sow racism and lies to hold onto power than grow up and admit reality.

How’d that work out for you as a national party postition, anyway?

Cheney will testify in Plame leak case

Vice President Dick Cheney will is set to be a witness for the defense in the case against former chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, according to a report filed by the Associated Press and a statement obtained by RAW STORY.

“We’re calling the vice president,” the news agency quotes attorney Ted Wells as saying in court. Wells represents Libby, who is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice.

Can’t wait to see that snarling sociopath under oath. Even if he only opens his mouth to croak “I take the fifth” under cross-examination, it will be worth it.

The elections of November 7th almost seem a dim memory now, which is somewhat to be expected, since the new Congress doesn’t assume power until next year. And when they do, first order of business?

Cut funding to the wars.

King George, in a rare admission of fact, stated yesterday for the first time what everyone else in the world has seen for years now- that the US isn’t winning in Iraq. His solution, which he won’t “announce” until next year, is most likely to increase the number of troops on the ground in Iraq- a move that the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff- you know, military people- have opposed. He stated his intention to increase the size of the armed forces, although of course he had no details as to how such a feat of magic would be done. The military has been hard put to make quotas as it is- where exactly does Bush think these new troops are going to come from, Wal-Mart?

The United States already spends more than the rest of the world combined on “defense”. In quotes, since we don’t defend anything other than American business interests by putting troops in over 100 nations around the globe. So what, exactly, will more troops accomplish? Only more targets for anti-US passions, in the end.

The democrats that were elected were voted into office by a nation weary of war, tired of corruption stealing money from our troops, tired of the lies. To increase our presence in Iraq is madness. The generals don’t want it, the troops don’t want it- they all want to come home. By using the power of the purse, the new democratic congress can do just that- if they refuse to play the “weak on national security” game, and do what is morally right and fiscally sound.

King George must be stopped. Call him willfully stupid, or consumed by hubris, whatever. Let the historians sort that out. But he is a menace to health of our nation. Too many people have assumed the role of the fat happy frog in the pot, as reality has increased the heat around them. Things are very, very wrong now- but we’ve only seen a faint glimpse of what could come.

Ponder the next two years if the bottom drops out of the real estate market, the dollar tanks world-wide, and the only way we can increase troop levels is by force- a draft.

He must be stopped. We elected you to do so. Do it.

On Nov. 28 Demetrius “Van” Crocker was sentenced to 30 years in prison. David Kustoff, the United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, where Crocker was prosecuted, tells Salon that “It was one of the preeminent anti-terrorism cases of 2006 nationwide.” Whether or not that is true, few outside of the greater Memphis metropolitan area have ever heard of Crocker. Only one reporter, John Branston of the weekly Memphis Flyer, even covered his entire trial.

Never heard of him? Gee, whatta surprise. Perhaps its because he’s not a dark-skinned middle easterner:

According to court documents, the investigation of Demetrius Crocker began in early 2004, around the time he told a man named Lynn Adams that Timothy McVeigh “[did] things right.” Adams, who had met the Mississippi-born farmhand through a mutual acquaintance, began to hear from Crocker about his plans for mass murder. A resident of rural Carroll County, Tenn., an hour northeast of Memphis, Crocker told Adams he wanted to kill the black population of nearby Jackson, Tenn., with mustard gas and explode a bomb outside a courthouse.

Continue reading The terrorist you’ve never heard of

Objections to Bush library mount at Texas university

As planners moved closer on deciding where in Texas to site President George W. Bush’s library, members of the community at one candidate university expressed objections about the establishment of the facility at their school.

…regret to see SMU enshrine attitudes and actions widely deemed as ethically egregious: degradation of habeas corpus, outright denial of global warming, flagrant disregard for international treaties, alienation of long-term U.S. allies, environmental predation, shameful disrespect for gay persons and their rights, a pre-emptive war based on false and misleading premises, and a host of other erosions of respect for the global human community and for this good Earth on which our flourishing depends.

Geez, why would a Methodist university object to have the half-billion dollar (WTF?) library of a war criminal on campus? I mean, its not as if it would generate parking problems or anything- the guy has a worse approval rating than OJ. Who would visit?

Yogi Bear creator Joe Barbera dies at 95

LOS ANGELES – Joe Barbera, half of the Hanna-Barbera animation team that produced such beloved cartoon characters as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear and the Flintstones, died Monday, a Warner Bros. spokesman said. He was 95.

turnin’ muddy water into wine…”

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