Trooper Says Election Delayed Alaska Drug Case

WASILLA, Alaska — The mother of Bristol Palin’s boyfriend sent text messages discussing drug transactions less than a month after the young woman’s mother, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, was nominated as the Republican vice presidential candidate, according to court documents filed this week.

Why post a story concerning Governor Dingbat? Because according to some, she’s the frontrunner for GOP in 2012.

The only way you guys will ever see Washington again is on a guided tour.

Obama’s Black Widow
Thanks to Bush and Obama, the National Security Agency now knows more about you
By Nat Hentoff

Barack Obama will be in charge of the biggest domestic and international spying operation in history. Its prime engine is the National Security Agency (NSA)—located and guarded at Fort Meade, Maryland, about 10 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. A brief glimpse of its ever-expanding capacity was provided on October 26 by The Baltimore Sun’s national security correspondent, David Wood: “The NSA’s colossal Cray supercomputer, code-named the ‘Black Widow,’ scans millions of domestic and international phone calls and e-mails every hour. . . . The Black Widow, performing hundreds of trillions of calculations per second, searches through and reassembles key words and patterns, across many languages.”

That’s OK with the Obama administration? Please tell us, Mr. President.

TTP is wishing all a good whatever the hell you call it day. We’ll be viewing this:

and eating Chinese food…what do you do for the season?

See ya soon.

But the real problem has nothing to do with ministers and everything to do with Obama’s inability or unwillingness to be a moral leader. Sooner or later, he just might have to stand for something.

Ouch.

Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a still-highly confidential FBI report, admitted to federal investigators that he rewrote talking points for the press in July 2003 that made it much more likely that the role of then-covert CIA-officer Valerie Plame in sending her husband on a CIA-sponsored mission to Africa would come to light.

Cheney denied to the investigators, however, that he had done anything on purpose that would lead to the outing of Plame as a covert CIA operative. But the investigators came away from their interview with Cheney believing that he had not given them a plausible explanation as to how he could focus attention on Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s trip without her CIA status also possibly publicly exposed. At the time, Plame was a covert CIA officer involved in preventing Iran from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, and Cheney’s office played a central role in exposing her and nullifying much of her work.

I’m currently reading Rick Perlstein’s “Nixonland” – and you should too. If only to understand how our nations inability to deal decisively with the crimes of Richard Nixon left us open to the horrors of Cheney/Bush. Dick Cheney committed treason, and will walk away from it all with nary a finger raised in protest.

I mean, its not as if we didn’t know he was a crook before he installed himself as VP.

Thanks to the lovely LH, it’s new guitar day for the holidays…

We’ll be debuting our version of this soon…

Iraqis hope to sue U.S. troops under new accord

BAGHDAD — The families of three men who were killed last week during a search of a grain warehouse want to press charges against American soldiers under the terms of a new security agreement between the U.S. and Iraq.

Nonetheless, their charges are a preview of some of the nettlesome questions that are likely to arise as the U.S. yields more authority to Iraq under the terms of the pact, which takes effect Jan. 1.

Now, if this was 1968, not 2008, I’d say bs to suing our troops- but every single one of our guys over there is there by choice- pay the cost, fellas. Maybe if kids find out you’ll face charges for playing army with real people, they’ll skip enlisting.

Maybe.

Impostor disrupts lands bid

He didn’t pour sugar into a bulldozer’s gas tank. He didn’t spike a tree or set a billboard on fire. But wielding only a bidder’s paddle, a University of Utah student just as surely monkey-wrenched a federal oil- and gas-lease sale Friday, ensuring that thousands of acres near two southern Utah national parks won’t be opened to drilling anytime soon.

“What the environmental movement has been doing for the past 20 years hasn’t worked,” DeChristopher said. “It’s time for a conflict. There’s a lot at stake.”

Very good. No one harmed, no property damaged, and the best part? It most likely worked:

BLM official Terry Catlin said the agency didn’t want to reopen the bidding on the parcels DeChristopher snagged unless all interested parties were able to compete for the leases. That means the parcels won’t be available again until at least February — after Obama takes office — during the next scheduled auction.

Kudos to you sir. And for those of you who didn’t get the reference, read this.

From the “I love myself, really I do” dept:

The new issue of The Big Takeover magazine is on the shelves now, featuring book reviews from yours truly:

It truly is one of the best music magazines around, my contributions notwithstanding.

Shooting victim goes to work with bullet in head

ETRIVIERA BEACH, Fla. – A man who was hit by a stray bullet in the back of the head is back at work — with the slug still stuck in his skull. E.T. Strickland, 74, a commercial real estate seller, said the bullet hurts, but not enough to keep him from his job.

Police said Strickland was hit by a bullet Tuesday night from an attempted robbery outside a Walgreens store. A second person was also shot, several times, as he was leaving the store. Police said that person was listed in stable condition Wednesday.

Hell, I work with people who call in sick with a hangnail, and this guy – 74 freakin’ years old, mind you-gets up and goes to work with a bullet in his head? And real estate, to boot?

Dude, you’re a badass.