4 26 2007
Kurt Vonnegut
In an interview in 2003, he opined, “I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war,
might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened,
though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat
imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or
geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka ‘Christians,’ and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic
personalities, or ‘PPs.’”
http://wingsofjustice.com/07/04/woj07017.html
Indiana Prison Riot Shows Failures in Privatization. GOP Governor/ex-Bush Official sure got his $53 Million’s Worth
What happens when Arizona convicts are locked up in an Indiana prison managed by a Florida corrections company? A
“full scale riot,” that’s what.
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/208
In Effort to Get a Modicum of the Truth from the Busheviks, Waxman Given Authority to Subpoena Rice
Democrats slap Rice with subpoena
A CONGRESSIONAL committee in the US has given its chairman authority to subpoena Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s
testimony about now-discredited claims by the US administration on Iraq’s alleged nuclear weapons program.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21623343-5006506,00.html
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, compares Bush endorsement of Gonzales to his
‘praise’ for former FEMA head Michael Brown. 4/26
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Leahy_The_President_said_Heckuva_Job_0425.html
All Those Dead People Just Muck “Beautiful Minds,” Barbara Bush Told Us. Now Her Daughter-in-Law, Laura, Tells Us to
Send Her and George the Funeral Flowers for the Dead GIs. “‘No One Suffers More Than [the] President and I.’” And the
Today Show Interviewer Let Her Get Away With That Self-Serving Victimization When Real American Families are Seeing
Relatives Die in Iraq. Hey, Laura, What are the Twins Up to? Fighting on the Front Lines Yet? Is Any Bush or Cheney?
No. 4/26
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/04/25/laura-bush-no-one-suffers-more-than-president/
Fitrakis and Wasserman: Are Rove’s missing e-mails the smoking guns of the stolen 2004 election? 4/25
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2562
The New York Times Buries Bill Moyers special on the media dropping the ball on Iraq; BTW, it’s on tonight on your
local PBS station. 4/26
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barry-yourgrau/new-york-times-bur_b_46798.html
Watch John McCain on The Daily Show last night; Stewart gives it to McCain on Iraq 4/25
http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2007/04/25/mccain-on-the-daily-show/
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Dan Froomkin: ‘No One Suffers More Than the President’; Laura Bush on watching television footage of Iraq actually
said, ‘ And believe me, no one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this.’ Laura, the families of
3,334 dead U.S. soldiers, 24,764 wounded U.S. soldiers, and over 650,000 dead Iraqis would strongly disagree. 4/26
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/04/25/BL2007042501330.html
The “Thirty Years War” is taken
http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/p_m_carpenters_commentary/2007/04/the_thirty_year.html
Dave Lindorff: Dropping the First Shoe on Impeachment
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), also a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, has dropped the first impeachment
shoe, filing a bill calling for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.
Kucinich, defying the leadership of the Democratic Party and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who have been
struggling mightily to prevent impeachment from occurring during the waning years of the Bush presidency, filed three
articles of impeachment, claiming that Cheney violated his oath of office and the Constitution, for deceiving Congress
and the American people about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, about alleged but nonexistent links between Saddam
Hussein and Al Qaeda, and finally for making threats to invade Iran.
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/965
Bush Lied, Soldiers Keep Dying.
3,334 U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq
381 U.S. Military Fatalities in Afghanistan
24,764 U.S. Military Maimed in Iraq (source: DoD Update as of April 18, 2007)
68,428 Iraqis Reported Killed (source: Iraq Body Count)
655,000 Iraqis Reported Killed (source: The Lancet)
What If God Tells You Your Blender Is Evil ?
More and more, Americans may be turning to magical reasoning, rather than logical and scientific thought, as a
framework to navigate their daily lives.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/4/24/104632/578/
Obama rebukes Giuliani over terrorism comments
WASHINGTON — Democrat Barack Obama rebuked Republican White House rival Rudy Giuliani Wednesday for suggesting the
United States could face another major terrorist attack if a Democrat is elected in 2008.
Rudy Giuliani today has taken the politics of fear to a new low and I believe Americans are ready to reject those kind
of politics,” Obama said in a statement. “America’s mayor should know that when it comes to 9-11 and fighting
terrorists, America is united. We know we can win this war based on shared purpose, not the same divisive politics that
question your patriotism if you dare to question failed policies that have made us less secure.”
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny–obama-giuliani0425apr25,0,4854407.story?coll=ny-region-
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April 26, 2007
The House of Representatives brushed aside a veto threat Wednesday and passed legislation that would order Bush to
begin withdrawing troops from Iraq by Oct. 1. Bush Will Veto Because He Only Cares About Himself, And Sends Troops to
Die for Partisan Political Goals and His Own Sociopathology.
Veto awaits House Iraq bill
WASHINGTON - President Bush next week is expected to receive, and swiftly reject, legislation ordering U.S.
troops to begin coming home from Iraq this fall. The veto could fall on the fourth anniversary of the
president’s Iraq “victory” speech
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070426/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq;_ylt=AnYARTgMuWu7krkLVj2C1f.s0NUE
Dems vote subpoenas in widening probes as Busheviks unleash the Right Wing Attack Dogs and prepare to defy the rule of
law, yet again
Dems vote subpoenas in widening probes
WASHINGTON – Putting their congressional control to work, Democrats approved new subpoenas Wednesday — and a grant of
immunity — for probes ranging from the prosecutor firings and White House political activities to President
Bush’s justification for the war in Iraq.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070426/ap_on_go_co/congress_subpoenas;_ylt=AhQdAL3r6j7QoLc91tD9wNTMWM0F
White House officials conducted 20 private briefings on Republican electoral prospects in the last midterm election
for senior officials in at least 15 government agencies covered by federal restrictions on partisan political activity,
a White House spokesman and other administration officials said yesterday. In short, this Rovian partisan use of
federal agencies violated the law; specifically, the Hatch Act.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/25/AR2007042503046.html?hpid=topnews
Another Smoking Gun in ProsecutorGate: The top aide to Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) called the office of Arizona’s U.S.
attorney about six weeks before the prosecutor was fired, inquiring about a federal probe into the congressman’s role
in a land deal that benefited a former business partner and political patron. This is what is called obstruction of
justice — and it likely involved Renzi, Rove, Gonzales and Bush.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/25/AR2007042502707.html?hpid=topnews
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Sadr calls for protest of Iraq wall
http://www.kentucky.com/524/story/52225.html
UN raps Iraq for holding back death toll figures: ‘Baghdad security plan fails to reduce violence’
UN report says over 37,600 detainees in US and Iraqi prisons
BAGHDAD: Sectarian violence continued to claim the lives of a large number of Iraqi civilians in Sunni Arab and Shiite
neighbourhoods of Iraq’s capital, despite the coalition’s new Baghdad security plan, the UN said on Wednesday.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C04%5C26%5Cstory_26-4-2007_pg4_1
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http://www.raymoreeagles4146.org/liberty.html
Fire Karl Rove
There is a trail of rot making its way through our government—and it leads straight to Karl Rove.
New evidence shows that Rove has been methodically working to twist even the most impartial branches of the federal
government—including the Justice Department—to serve the Republican Party at the expense of the American people.
Please add your name, so when John speaks out at tomorrow’s debate it’s clear that he’s speaking for thousands. We’ll
keep a signature counter online to show how many have joined the call.
www.johnedwards.com/fire-rove
The Assault on Civil Liberties
Because Gonzales was a chief architect of this administration’s overreaching presidential powers and detainee torture
policies, People For the American Way opposed Gonzales’ confirmation as Attorney General in early 2005. We agonized
then that “the risk that such a lack of independence poses…is simply too great to warrant his confirmation,” and now
our fears have come to pass.
Want to help us get rid of Gonzales? Here’s what you can do:
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=23879
JOIN THE CALL TO RESTORE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=habeas_petition&s_site=email&JServSessionIdr007=hoofjc1rt4.app20a
U.S. Asks Court to Limit Lawyers
at Guantánamo
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
The proposal would limit lawyers’ contact with their clients and access to secret evidence in their cases.
The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to impose tighter restrictions on the hundreds of lawyers who
represent detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and the request has become a central issue in a new legal battle over the
administration’s detention policies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/washington/26gitmo.html?th&emc=th
Another Dubious Firing
The case of Paul Charlton, a United States attorney in Arizona and one of the eight prosecutors purged by the White
House and the Justice Department, adds a disturbing new chapter to the scandal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/opinion/26thu1.html?th&emc=th
Ranting at Reality on Iraq
The sooner President Bush and his allies drop the pretense that military victory is still possible in Iraq, the closer
the nation will be to rescuing what can still be rescued from the debacle
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/opinion/26thu2.html?th&emc=th
Guns and More Guns
It seems that for the National Rifle Association and the gun lobby, the only solution to a gun in the wrong hands is a
gun in the hands of everyone
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/opinion/26thu4.html?th&emc=th
Republican Stem Cell Stupidity
George Bush is continuing to defy the will of the American people with his pledge to veto the Senate Stem Cell
Research Enhancement Act. Millions of Americans are waiting for the cures that stem cell research may provide and it is
completely unacceptable for the president and a small band of ideologues to stand in the way.
Please join Senator Kennedy in demanding that the president put away his veto pen and allow Congress to pass this
vital bill.
It would make a lot of people happy if you would stop blocking medical research that could save and repair thousands
of lives.
It is time for you to stop playing king, go back to school and get the education you admitted you missed while you
were drinking with the scull and boners.
http://www.dscc.org/makeadifference/petitions/20070418_Kennedy.htm
Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by ‘a world of
enemies’ – ‘one against all’ – and that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims
its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a
common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.” -Hannah Arendt, The Origins Of Totalitarianism
p.227
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“Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to
be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned people not only do not notice the
harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no
rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating.” : Leo Tolstoy
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“Blind patriotism has been kept intact by rewriting history to provide people with moral consolation and a
psychological basis for denial.” -William H. Boyer
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“Patriotism is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a web of lies and falsehoods, robbing us of
our dignity and increasing our arrogance and conceit.” : Emma Goldman
Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America’s War On Iraq – At Least 655,000 + +
http://tinyurl.com/usq4x
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 3,333
http://icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs
$420,175,284,400
See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
Kucinich Files Impeachment Bill
By Dave Lindorff
The bill now goes to the House Judiciary Committee, where Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and the rest of the committee’s
members will have to decide whether go hold formal hearings on the charges.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17594.htm
Worse Than Nixon
Cheney Is Wrong About Me, Wrong About War
By George S. McGovern
It is my firm belief that the Cheney-Bush team has committed offenses that are worse than those that drove Nixon, Vice
President Spiro Agnew and Atty. Gen. John Mitchell from office after 1972.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17599.htm
Working for the Clampdown
What might the president do with his new power to declare martial law?
By James Bovard
How many pipe bombs might it take to end American democracy? Far fewer than it would have taken a year ago.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17595.htm
Holocaust Redux
By Manuel Valenzuela
In the supposed enlightened nations of the West, the harbingers of mass destruction and suffering are spawned, planned
and executed. For those bastions of morality and exceptionalism we call the First World have realized that war is as
old as humankind itself, and as profitable as well, for the violence that creates war is ingrained into our instincts,
embedded into the most violent species the planet has ever evolved.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17593.htm
How Three Million Germans Died After VE Day
By Nigel Jones
After the atrocities that the Nazis had visited on Europe, some degree of justified vengeance by their victims was
inevitable, but the appalling bestialities that MacDonogh documents so soberly went far beyond that. The first 200
pages of his brave book are an almost unbearable chronicle of human suffering.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17596.htm
Behind The Mask of Evil
By Doug Soderstrom, Ph.D
It is so very easy for us to condemn acts of evil, to pretend that all is well “with us,” that the evil that has been
committed has emerged from the belly of a beast, that the other fellow, the one who committed the act, is someone very
different than we are, someone beyond our capacity to understand, never realizing that we do such a thing in order to
justify our angered need to condemn our foe.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17597.htm
Marines faulted in Haditha killings :
A US army probe into the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha has found US Marine Corp commanders responsible for
downplaying the seriousness of civilian fatalities.
http://snipurl.com/1i592
UN criticises Iraq human rights :
The report describes the situation in Iraq as a “rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6591151.stm
Soldier: Army ordered me not to tell truth about Tillman:
A soldier who was in Tillman’s unit testified that Army officials ordered him not to tell the truth about what
happened when the former Arizona Cardinals player was killed.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007145913
Monica Benderman: Truth Revisited: A Letter to our Congress:
My husband spent over one year in prison, losing all pay and benefits, as a result of his stand for truth in support
of the soldiers and veterans who serve. The Army did not want his voice to be heard by the American people.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17598.htm
Shiite cleric calls for demonstration against U.S. wall:
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr strongly condemned construction of a wall around a Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad,
calling for demonstrations against the plan as a sign of “the evil will” of American “occupiers.”
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/25/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Sadr.php
Bill Moyers : A Critical Look at How U.S. News Media Helped Bush Sell the Case for
War:
Legendary broadcaster Bill Moyers is returning to the airwaves of PBS tonight to launch his new series Bill Moyers
Journal. The debut episode is titled “Buying the War.”
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/25/1414222
Israeli Democracy: For Jews Only?:
The time will have to come for Israel to declare its hand: is it “a state of the Jewish people throughout the world”
as it defines itself, or a state of all its citizens, both Jewish and non-Jewish?
http://www.counterpunch.org/karkar04252007.html
GM crop failure a warning, says US adviser:
The 10-year CSIRO trial was abandoned when tests found the peas were making mice seriously ill.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1519962.htm
Olbermann’s Special Comment on Giuliani’s Fearmongering: How Dare
You, Sir?
Keith delivered a scathing Special Comment tonight about the rank partisan fearmongering speech Rudy Giuliani gave
before a New Hampshire Republican meeting yesterday (CSPAN stream).
Claim a difference between the parties on the voters’ chances of survival — and you do Osama Bin Laden’s work for him.
And we — Democrats and Republicans alike, and every variation in between — We — Americans! — are sick to death, of you
and the other terror-mongers, trying to frighten us into submission, into the surrender of our rights and our reason,
into this betrayal of that for which this country has always stood.”
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/25/olbermanns-special-comment-on-giulianis-fearmongering-how-dare-you-sir/
Longer tours of duty = less stress on the troops?
If this wasn’t published directly on the Pentagon’s website, I’d swear it was some kind of parody, meant to make the
Bush administration look foolish.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/25/longer-tours-of-duty-less-stress-on-the-troops/
The Right on Pat Tillman
They only support the troops when it suits them…
The NRO had a glowing op-ed to Pat on 05/04/04: “Courage and Honor.” Pat and his family were treated with none of
these. Yesterday—only silence because the propaganda was exposed. I wonder if Derbyshire will write a piece that says
Tillman acted strangely when he tried to warn his “mates’ that he was an American when he got shot and Derby only hopes
that he would have done it differently if he were there….
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/25/the-right-on-pat-tillman/
Colbert on Bush’s Great Global Warming
Successes
Stephen pays tribute to President Bush’s “aggressive yet practical” strategy to combat global warming that’s starting
to yield positive results.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/25/colbert-on-bushs-great-global-warming-successes/
Tom Delay’s “treasonous” rant against Harry is just plain crazy
This giggle-fest from Tuesday’s “Tucker” was priceless. Guests Pat Buchanan and A.B. Stoddard simply couldn’t contain
their laughter before or after watching a video taped interview with Tom Delay where he claims that Harry Reid and
Nancy Pelosi are “very very close to treason.” When the interviewer suggests that treason is a pretty serious charge
Tom assures him that he’s right because he “looked it up while we were driving over here, what the definition of
treason is.” Pure comedy gold…
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/25/tom-delays-treasonous-rant-against-harry-is-just-plain-crazy/
Daily Show: Now Bush vs. Old Bush on
Timetables
2007 George Bush debates 2003 George Bush on timetables for Iraq
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/25/daily-show-now-bush-vs-old-bush-on-timetables/
Stewart and McCain debate Iraq on The Daily
Show: It gets heated….
Saint McCain sits down with Jon for a spirited debate over Iraq policy.
John Amato:..If anyone wants to write a transcript for the second half of the interview—that would be great….Stewart
and McCain got into a brawl in that segment…Do you think any of the talking heads would have this kind of debate with
McCain?
Stewart tries to explain a few things to St. McCain about fighting a civil war:
“…but that assumes that we’re fighting one enemy—they’re fighting each other. We’re not surrendering to an enemy that
has defeated us. We’re saying, how do you quell a civil war when it’s not your country?”
McCain got very angry that Stewart called them out for using the ” you’re not supporting the troops,” theme and was
trying to filibuster the segment…He tried to use the troops as a wedge. Stewart got hot and fought back…McCain started
to stutter. (rough transcript)
Stewart: All I’m saying is you cannot look a soldier in the eye and say questioning the president is less supportive
to you than extending your tour for three months when you should be coming home to your family.
McCain: Every American..
Stewart: And that’s not fair to put on people that criticize…
McCain: Jon…
Stewart: And you know I love you and respect your service and would never question any of that—this is not about
questioning the troops and their ability to fight and their ability to be supported. And that is what the
administration does and that is almost criminal.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/25/senator-mccain-on-the-daily-show/
A little perspective
My buddy, SteveAudio, noticed that the media was only too happy to pick up the John Edwards’s $400 haircut for all it
was worth, analyzing it and dissecting it to make judgments on Edwards and Democrats alike. However, the media has
been curiously disinterested in making the same kind of scrutiny to the purchases made by the Bushes.
http://steveaudio.blogspot.com/2007/04/get-you-room-at-rhythm-ranch.html
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