Luke 2:14 - ..."and on earth peace, good will toward men"

Olmert rejects truce talk: "Jerusalem - Gaza militants fired at least four rockets after Israel's prime minister ruled out truce talks and pledged to keep up with his intensified military campaign against Hamas and Islamic Jihad to stop the barrages." World News, 24 December 2007

Record numbers of child soldiers drafted into Congo war: "Concern over the plight of child soldiers increased after aid workers for Save the Children reported seeing youngsters in militia close to some of the worst of the fighting near Goma, capital of the war-torn North Kivu district." The Independent, 24 December 2007

Palestinians delayed, humiliated at checkpoints: "Under the supervision of an Israeli soldier clutching an M-16 assault rifle, Qassem Saleh begins his daily disrobing. He lifts his bright orange shirt so the soldier can see there's no bomb strapped to his torso. Then, after passing through a metal floor-to-ceiling turnstile, he undoes his belt and hands it over for examination by a second soldier, along with his wallet, mobile phone and cigarettes." Toronto Globe and Mail, 2007-12-18

Iran’s Ruling Regime Violates It’s Own Laws by Murdering Makwan Moloudzadeh: This week, 20 year old Makwan Moloudzadeh was executed for alleged sexual activity with other boys at the age of 13. Makwan was initially arrested for smoking during Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. In a show of humiliation was placed on a donkey and taken around the town in city of Kermanshah. Several days later 3 boys told the authorities that Makwan had sexual relationship with them when he was 13 years of age. Despite the fact that the boys later withdrew their allegations, Makwan was sentenced to death for these alleged sexual acts. SCE News & Updates, December 8, 2007



Mark Twain:

Let us try to think the unthinkable: let us try to imagine a Man of a sort willing to invent the fly; that is to say, a man destitute of feeling; a man willing to wantonly torture and harass and persecute myriads of creatures who had never done him any harm and could not if they wanted to, and -- the majority of them -- poor dumb things not even aware of his existence. In a word, let us try to imagine a man with so singular and so lumbering a code of morals as this: that it is fair and right to send afflictions upon the just -- upon unoffending as well as upon the offending, without discrimination.

"Thoughts of God" from Fables of Man

Rice - the outrageous lie...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would not directly respond to Ahmadinejad's remarks, but told reporters in Ethiopia's capital that the U.S. intelligence report's public release showed the Bush administration was committed to transparent democracy while Iran was not.

Where shall we start? You know, I'm not sure that the server has enough room to start listing the transparency of the Bush/Cheney administration.

Oh, wait. That's wrong. The server doesn't have enough room to list the un-transparency of the administration. Let's just name a couple of the minor ones - U.S. Attorneys, WMD's, FISA,... got the idea?

def. au·dac·i·ty (ô-dās'ĭ-tē) noun:

1. effrontery or insolence; shameless boldness;
2. aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery;
3. boldness or daring, esp. with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions.

This has been the most dishonest, secretive and least transparent administration that this country has ever had. It makes the Harding administration look like a model of openness, candor and accountability.

I had a semblance of some respect for the woman. I thought that she might be working behind the scenes with some sane notion of the process of government. No more. She is just another hack like all the rest of the Busheviks. Worse.

i want to let go with a mouthful of expletives because i find what she said to be so outrageous.

oh, okay, just one expletive - 

f*** you, Condi!

here comes the spin on the NIE...

Right Claims Iran NIE a CIA Plot Against Bush

George Bush says he got the new NIE report last week: Oh, really?

Mainstream media gives Bush a pass on Iran lie, they're all one big happy club

Bush: Iran Still a Danger Despite Report

Enough Spin Already: Bush and Cheney Lied, Iran Didn't

Hillary gets grief over Iran vote

Giuliani advisor: Doubt the NIE

Get Ready for Rightwing Blowback

Iran? Yeah, Just Faking It (like Saddam?)

Revisionism and The Iranian Non-Bomb

I’m Not a Believer

now, some of these links are from rightwing sites and some from progressive ones. the spin is on both sides.

can you tell which?

just asking...

Iran and the mysterious nukular program...

hmmmmmm. The NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) is saying that Iran abandoned it nukular weapons program in 2003 - U.S. Says Iran Ended Atomic Arms Work: NYT.

It seems that the Bush/Cheney administration knew about this for the last year yet they want to prevent World War III by keeping nukular weapon's knowledge away from them. The rhetoric has been spewing venomously from both the Tsar and Rasputin's mouths. ratchet up, ratchet up...

Is this something like the, what did they call it? the WMD Debacle and Iraq?

just asking...

can someone clear up the distinction between "lame duck" and "lame"?

Bush compares Democrats' attitude toward terror with those who ignored rise of Lenin, Hitler

Bush argued the current debate over the Iraq war and the administration's anti-terror methods harkens back to debates decades ago over resisting action when Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin first talked about launching a communist revolution, when Adolf Hitler began moves to establish an "Aryan superstate" in Germany, and in the early days of the Cold War when some advocated accommodation of the Soviet Unio

Yes, there is the question, "Well, what if I'm wrong?" in the back of your head when it comes to being opposed to the actions of the Bush/Cheney administration. It's playing directly into the tactics of fear that this administration has used over and over to garner "pseudo" support for an action that has gone terribly wrong.

George Santayana's quote on history is the first thing on the top right column of this blog. What kind of learning is necessary? Why is there always an "axis of evil"? Why has the Bush/Cheney administration said that there is no room to talk with Iran and, in fact, turned down Iran for direct, non-conditional talks in the past?

I used to think that maybe a nuclear war would be what it takes to make people come to their senses at the senselessness of this sort of conflict. One thing that I forgot to take into consideration is the lack of sense in people like Bush, Cheney and Ahmadinejad. It's interesting that all three are "lame ducks". Of course, the scary thing is that we have until 2009 before these lamesters are out of office. While, ironically, bin Laden goes on his merry little way.

What's the difference between reading the pulse on the mind of a nation/world or a finger on the button of destruction?

just asking...

continued "war" power for the Czar...

It's really interesting reading the White House website. You can find all kinds of amazing information. Like this announcement in its entirety:

Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Certain Terrorist Attacks


White House News

Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency I declared on September 14, 2001, in Proclamation 7463, with respect to the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, New York, New York, the Pentagon, and aboard United Airlines flight 93, and the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States.

Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, last extended on September 5, 2006, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2007. Therefore, I am continuing in effect for an additional year the national emergency I declared on September 14, 2001, with respect to the terrorist threat.

This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress.

GEORGE W. BUSH

# # #

got that? George W says he is continuing the "War on Terrorism." He is just notifying us of it or rather the Congress.

he can keep this going indefinitely as long as he's president.

oh, and here's another thought. he can include any action taken by any state, legitimate or other wise, in monitoring and stopping their "terrorist" activities as he determines...

can you spell I*R*A*N?

or "Eyeran" as george would say...