Soap gives caffeine kick

Caffeinated soap has been launched to help people who don’t have the time for both a shower and a coffee in the morning.

Manufacturers claim their Shower Shock soap releases caffeine that is absorbed into the user’s system and provides the same hit as a two cups of coffee.

Color me speechless.

Ron Paul (R Texas) on the floor of the House:

Why the dilemma? The American people have spoken, and continue to speak out, against this war. So why not end it? How do we end it? Why not exactly the way we went in? We just marched in, and we can just march out.

Indeed.

COULD THE sexy but controversial conservative gadfly Ann Coulter go to jail? According to Observer columnist Joe Conason – Ann is guilty of voter fraud. He says when the far-right Coulter registered to vote in Palm Beach back in 2005, she wrote her address as her realtor’s office. She then signed the form despite its warning that falsifying any information on it makes one liable to felony prosecution.

Ann, while stonewalling the investigation, calls Palm Beach officials “syphilitic and mentally defective”. Always a good ploy to ridicule those who can put your bony ass in the can, Ann.

Sure looks that way:

The GOP’s Cyber Election Hit Squad

by Steven Rosenfeld and Bob Fitrakis

Did the most powerful Republicans in America have the computer capacity, software skills and electronic infrastructure in place on Election Night 2004 to tamper with the Ohio results to ensure George W. Bush’s re-election? The answer appears to be yes. There is more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004, Ohio’s “official” Secretary of State website – which gave the world the presidential election results – was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites, including the secret White House e-mail accounts that have emerged in the scandal surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s firing of eight federal prosecutors.

Nothing to see here, you there, back to American Idol and the new baseball season. When we’re done stealing democracy, we’ll let ya know.

Remember, when you hear Rove and Gonzales et al blathering about “voter fraud” they don’t mean their own wide-spread voter disenfranchisement, electronic tampering and skewed polls- they mean “we don’t want democrats (ie blacks, minorities, etc) to vote”. Read Greg Palast on it.

Impeaching Cheney: Step One

The Nation — That Vice President Dick Cheney is the ripest target for impeachment in the Bush White House is beyond debate.

Congressman Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, will introduce articles of impeachment against Cheney.

He’ll be savaged- or ignored- by the media, in fact, you can almost see the little dog heads of Faux Jazzera going “What an amusing notion, how quaint” as they tut tut their disapproval, but this is a vital first step in reclaiming the country. Kudos to you sir.

Iraq withdrawal would humiliate US, says PM

PRIME Minister John Howard said today one reason he won’t withdraw Australian troops from Iraq was because it would humiliate the United States.

It would be a “colossal blow to American prestige in the Middle East and around the world” if the coalition pulled out of Iraq and appeared to have lost the war, he said.

Australia has been fortunate so far, only losing 2 troops in Iraq. But between now and whenever the big boys decide this particular game of empire isn’t worth playing anymore, another handful or so will die. I’m sure their families and friends will be glad to know they died because this asshat didn’t want to “embarrass” the US.

That is appalling beyond belief.

Happy 60th birthday to the man who told me that, all those years ago…

FDA Was Aware of Dangers To Food

The Food and Drug Administration has known for years about contamination problems at a Georgia peanut butter plant and on California spinach farms that led to disease outbreaks that killed three people, sickened hundreds, and forced one of the biggest product recalls in U.S. history, documents and interviews show.

Overwhelmed by huge growth in the number of food processors and imports, however, the agency took only limited steps to address the problems and relied on producers to police themselves, according to agency documents.

Yet somehow, a government unable to keep its citizens from eating tainted food has found
nearly a half trillion dollars for optional wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Beyond pathetic, this is criminal.

In other words, if Bush hates the perpetrators, they are locked up indefinitely without charge and, at his discretion, can be subjected to “alternative interrogation techniques,” what most of the world considers torture. The rule of law is out the window. Wild West hangin’ justice is in. Even the ancient fair trial right of habeas corpus is discarded.

But the evidence in U.S. government files is overwhelming that Posada and Bosch were the architects of the 1976 mid-air bombing of a civilian Cubana airliner, killing 73 people, including young members of the Cuban national fencing team.

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