The Truth Shall Set You Free, Probably Along With A Little Arbeit.

The Armenian Genocide is known to Holocaust experts as Hitler's Blueprint. In 1938 when talking about his plan to exterminate the Jews he said "after all who ever speaks of the Armenians" and then added "no one remembers the Armenians no one will remember the Jews."*

The Turks refusal to admit to the Armenian Genocide is outrageous. Just as outrageous is our country’s perpetual inability to embrace what is so obviously true. Let’s just admit it and let the chips fall where they may. Who need a bunch of Islamist idiots with their heads up their asses for friends. We already have plenty of right wing chicken-hawk, neo-conservative, bible-thumping Republican zealots for “friends.”

*Lifted from a comment on “Politco” by one Wendyagogo (screen name)

New Age Turks Gin Up Opportunity For Genocide.

Looking real please with herself, Condi Rice says the Armenian Genocide never happened. Our heroic President and his Secretary of State stood firm in the face of a resolution from the Foreign Affairs Committee condemning the Armenian Genocide and condemned, to no avail, the resolution. But they couldn’t save the Kurds from a Turkish invasion.

Turkey Resolves to Give Go-Ahead for Raids in Iraq!

Kurds will be likely victims of Turkish incursion and new genocide in northern Iraq. Betcha the Turks can kill more Kurds than Saddam did. And they taste just like chicken!

Whadaya Mean, Bill Of Rights?

Someone once said, “If you give up your freedom for security, you deserve neither!” George W. Bush likes the idea that you would have you give up both so that he, the decider, can conclude how the American people should be secured and how much he can hide under your bed. That’s called “Power.”

And as we know, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I'd rather fight them here when it comes right down to it. Maybe the neo-con chickenhawks might actually feel threatened enough to get out from behind their hate-filled microphones and try a little cooperation with the real world.

Evidently the FBI has been spying on American citizens even before 9/11. That should make people like Rush Limbaugh proud. It could also give him pause if they find his internet and phone records show he’s been have sex with little boys from the Dominican Republic.

Ann Coulter Farts In Your General Direction...

Contemptible publicity grabber, Ann Coulter has written another book, “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.” This exhibitionist cranks out more pulp and prevarication than any author alive. I don’t know how many different ways a person can say the same stupid things, but she probably holds the Guiness World Record. Despite the obvious, as noted above, she rarely turns the other cheek.

And, yes, even her breath smells like methane.

Putting Lipstick On A Pig.

“Evil is whatever distracts.” —Franz Kafka

At least the Bush Administration attempts to make the news palletable by putting a better looking face than Tony Snow’s on it. However, it doesn’t make the news any truer. In fact the spin is mostly simple obfuscation:

Q I guess the point is that if the senior administration official told us on a conference call that these methods wouldn't be used, why won't you say whether or not head-slapping, waterboarding, would be used?

MS. PERINO: I don't believe that I -- I'm not in a position to be able to do that. I am not going to comment on specific techniques. And if there's -- I don't know who that individual was, and maybe you can follow up with them and get more.

Q But your point is that you're giving away things to the enemy, but it was okay for someone to do it, but not okay for you to do it? Or are you just --

MS. PERINO: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know who was on the conference call. I don't -- what I -- I know what I know, which is that techniques that we use are classified, and classified for a reason. To the extent that there was one ruled out, then so be it. But I'm not going to comment on others.

Q And you won't say whether waterboarding is being ruled out, or head-slapping has been ruled out?

MS. PERINO: I'm not going to comment on those.

Q What is your definition of "torture?"

MS. PERINO: Well, that's clearly spelled out in the -- in the Detainee Treatment Act, and interpreted under the December 2004 opinion that governs, and has governed -- and if you look at the footnote from that opinion, governs all subsequent opinions that have been made by the Justice Department.

Q And has -- have any attacks been averted since President Bush revealed the existence of his program, because terrorism suspects have been held in the program?

MS. PERINO: I don't know, Toby. It's not -- I can tell you that General Hayden and Fran Townsend, the President's National -- Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor, have said that this program continues to save lives. When we can, we declassify information so that we can provide it to you. But right now I don't have any to provide.

There’s nothing like appearing to give information while providing absolutely nothing of substance. What a waste of time.

Bush Abdicates! Returns To Nature.

“Some people think I’ve gone bananas,” said George Bush from his new cave where he and a pretty little chimp named Fuzzy are spending an ersatz abba dabba honeymoon away from the public eye for the first time since his last visit to Crawford. “I couldn’t get that cute little Condi to come with me cause she can’t shop for shoes in the jungle.”

“Hell, Pickles doens’t mind me doin’ a little swingin’,” he added missing his own pun, “she’s spent more time at the Mayflower hotel lately than the concierge who runs the joint.”

How To Get A Trophy Wife.

Laura Ingraham talks to Fred Thompson regarding his conservative style. Always the gentleman, Fred surprised her by giving he a severe tongue-lashing until she cried out with what could only be construed as pleasure, screaming, “Power to the people!”.

Later, Laura confessed that she wasn’t in the least surprised at Fred’s technique for acquiring a wife less than half his age.

“If he weren’t taken,” announced Laura, “I’d certainly consider riding him for a couple of laps.”

Hi! Remember Me? I’m The Guy With The Mysteriously Disappearing WMDs. And I’m Dead. How Did All That Shit Go Down?

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. —Arthur Miller

My good friend Donald Rumsfeld sold me a lot of shit back when he worked for Ronald Regan. That’s what we used up fighting the Iranians. Thats when they disappeared. And word has it that it was the Iranians who gassed the Kurds. Not me. Back then America liked us and we like them. In fact, they eve liked and supported, Osama Bin Laden in his fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan.

WTF?

Hey, “it’s a crazy world. Somebody ought to sell tickets.”* Oh, well, I guess I'll be dead for a while now and be quiet like everybody wants. It’s hard, sometimes, to know who your friends really are.

Rummy and Saddam close the deal.

*from Raising Arizona

Baby Face Bush On Crime Spree! Runs Amok! Unstoppable!

Senate Democratic and Republican leaders have lined up all the singing fat ladies they can find, but no one seems able to stop the Bush juggernaut from rolling onward. The din in the Senate chambers is deafening.

“We’re doomed!” Harry Reid was heard to utter as Rush Limbaugh ground out his cigar in the senator’s eye.

Work, Work, Work, Hello, Boys!

It’s hard work, doin’ hard work and by golly this is hard work. That irresponsible Democrat Congress is wearin’ on me. I cain’t help it I spent all that money on Iraq and have nothing to show for it. Gotta show some phisical responsibility. Why I coulda took all that money down to the track, doubled it, and put it back in the cookie jar before Pickles even knew it was gone.

Shee-it! Now everybody gonna think I hate kids. Well, I do. Let the little brats work for their health insurance like I did. What? OK. So I didn't have to. So what?

Mahmood Ahmadinejad Declares, “We Have No Problem With Homosexulaity In Iran!”

Obviously he has no problem with it. In fact, it would appear he downright embraces homosexuality and possibly even participates in the phenomenon.

Yikes, no tongue, please!

Blazing Assholes Or What I Did In My Second Term

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make
their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. —Eric Hoffer

There I was on my ranch in Crawford when the foreman called me to the TV set. He said, “Here’s a guy with just as much swagger and insanity as you, boss.”

And I'll be horn-swoggled, if'n he didn't talk about God the same way I do, and invoke the Almighty against the terrorists and swear he was gonna git the evil doers. He lambasted them what goes against their nation’s constitution and takes civil rights from their people. He railed against those that didn't believe his only purpose in pursuing nuke-u-lar was peaceful. He warn’t no liar, he said. He said if’n other countries send weapons to Iraq, why shouldn’t he? He started to make my head hurt some, what with all the thinkin’ and all.

Why, he’s the kind of feller, in another time and place, I’d like to sit down and drink a beer with, only I don't drink no more...

I knew right away he was the anti-Christ, and since there ain’t enought room on this earth for two of us, I gotta nuke him.

I Like To Design My Own Uniforms, Just Like Herman Göering!

“You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are
the ones you want to concentrate on.” —George W. Bush

The Insane Asylum, The Reverend James Dobson And Senator Larry Craig...Separated At Birth?

Reverend James Dobson, Senator Larry Craig

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith
does not prove anything.” —Friedrich Nietzsche

I've always maintained that faith is a wonderful thing. I’ve also always maintained that faith is a gift. If you were standing behind the pole, it’s just too bad. For those who feel compelled to believe in a great, secular cloud being with any color skin or any color beard who takes a personal interest in you, I have only this to offer: WAKE UP!

Have you ever wondered why there are so many different religions and how come they all claim to be the true religion and each is willing to die for his/her beliefs and take any infidels with them?

Religion is one of the most evil hoaxes ever invented by man. For purposes of extortion, political manipulation, and targeted mass hysteria. I don’t mean to say that there are not beneficial by-products to religion. There are. The elevation of mood by doing “good,” by feeling as if one belongs to something greater than oneself. Helping others. Spreading the “Word.”

But by and large, the priests, when they’re not buggering young altar boys, the ministers when they can avoid helping little girls find their panties or condemning alternate lifestyles are harmless charlatans bilking the populace out of tax free tithes and offerings. In the end, it is the abuse of power that destroys humanity at the hands of even the most well intentioned evangelist, believer or not. The Mullahs, The Ayatollahs, the Rabbis: all have as much control over our lives as any president of any country if we chose to swallow what they purvey.

Methinks they doth protest too much.

Hi! I’m Just As Dead As Ever, Yet I Live On In Spirit And In General David Petraeus.

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” —Karl Marx

Remember that nasty Viet Nam War? Well, when NVA got going, I convinced the Congress and President Johnson that everything was swell. The Tet Offensive had just proven that we were on a roll and could take care of “Charlie” like the great army we were. Only problem was we left after they gave us just about everything we asked for but the time to accomplish our mission.

It seems my clone, David Petraeus has just pulled the same stunt on the Congress. Difference being that I didn’t have to convince President Bush. I was really there to pull his bacon out of the fire by testifying how well we’re doing. You know all the good things we’ve done for the Iraqis. How much their lives have improved since they all got purple fingers. How safe it is to walk around not only Baghdad but outside the green zone, (provided you’ve got a flak jacket, helmet and a convoy of trigger-happy Blackwater safety contractors .) Just ask John McCain. “Straight Talk Express,” I tell you.

It looks like we’re gonna be in Iraq forever, thanks to me and, yes, General Petraeus.

And I'm still dead. Me and about 3800 grunts.

Blueprint For Victory!

Boy, does George Bush have a plan for us all. He’s bringing the troops home. All 30,000 that he called up for the surge. He has to bring them home. Otherwise it wouldn't have been a surge. It would have been an escalation of the war like after the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam. This way he still has what he originally wanted, he appears to be obliging the American people and the Dems can’t carp about anything. It's a win-win-win situation for everyone but the troops. Shit, he even got the defecting Republican big-wigs to back off on Webb’s bill to give the troops at least as much of a breather from the war as they spend “in country.”

We’ll be in Iraq for the next fifty years, if not forever. But don’t worry. As John McCain tells us it’s safe to walk anywhere outside the green zone in Baghdad. Our safety contractors like Blackriver make sure it’s safe at the expense of the Iraqi civilians. Cart Blanche to shoot at anything or anybody with complete immunity from prosecution. Even the army doesn't have a deal like that. What’ll that monkey think up next?

Playing For Time...Or Just Playing?

“If time be of all things the most precious,
wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.” —Benjamin Franklin

When George Bush admitted he was “playing for time,” we assumed we meant time for the Iraqi government to get their shit together. We didn’t think he meant continuing the stupidity for his fun and amusement. We can win every battle and still lose the war. Polls say the American people believe that the military solution has by far the best chance of fixing the Iraqi situation. Few think Congress can do anything about it and even fewer think Bush will ever have any effect.

Problem is the US Military is responsible to the civilian control of the Congress. And until the military annihilates the entire population and lays waste to the country, there will be no military “victory” without their say so. Unless, somehow or other, something happens which precipitates marshal law and creates a new branch of our government called “President for Life.” (Cheney seems to have been working on this angle already.)

Who has the power to take Nuri Al Maliki and the rest of his democratically elected government to the woodshed and explain the realities of democracy in Iraq?

Answer: No one. They've got to do it themselves. Civil war is not the worst thing that could happen. Hell, we had a pretty good one ourselves and we’re not doing too badly after one helluva bloodbath. When did Killer-George become squeamish?

President George W. Bush Reveals New Super-Secret Weapon To Secure Iraq Victory

”The man of science is a poor philosopher.” —Albert Einstein

As if to usurp Fred Thompson’s thunder in his announcing for the presidency on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show, President Bush rolled out his latest plan to augment the Surge.

“I have become wise beyond my wildest dreams,” said Bush. “I have distilled an essence that will enable General Petraeus to run roughshod over the insurgents, the Iranians, the militias and the Democrats. It took a long time because I had to find an ingredient that was hereforto (sic) unavailable. I can't wait to show Pickles and Condi.”

“Now, if you’ll excuse me, I think I’ll drink a tall, frothy glass of my own urine.”

The Only Thing More Odious Than A Homosexual Hypocrite Is A Homosexual Hypocrite In Denial

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld

With the Echoing words, “I am not gay, I never have been gay,” the only thing Larry Craig left out was, “I did not ever intend to be gay.” He could have left himself some “wiggle room.”

I think perhaps it is his “intent” to be gay that will eventually lead to his retirement. How such a smug hypocrite can deny his tendencies and stonewall through what appears to the layman as pretty crude behavior with so little outrage at having been “stung” is beyond comprehension. Taking more than two months to consider his guilty plea before signing it, he showed a calculated effort to make it all go away. To overlook the fact that such a culpable Senator could possibly be what he seems is denial at its worst. Forget the fact that his GOP is imploding from his stupidity. He actually seems to believe his lie. He is unable to come to grips with his prevarication and what he seems to hate most about himself because he has fought against homosexuality his entire conservative, political career. The American people can forgive a lot including homosexuality. They have a much harder time with liars, hypocrites and assholes in denial.

If you need to give him the benefit of the doubt, just say he’s stupid. In any case the people of Idaho deserve better. Who needs a stupid senator?

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
—Frederick William Robertson

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Ahmed Chalabi, Smarmy Weasel

Chalabi is a controversial figure for many reasons. In the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, under his guidance the INC provided a major portion of the information on which U.S. Intelligence based its condemnation of Saddam Hussein, including reports of weapons of mass destruction and alleged ties to al-Qaeda. Nearly all, if not all, of this information has turned out to be false. That, combined with the fact that Chalabi subsequently boasted about the impact that their falsifications had in an interview with the British Sunday Telegraph, led to a falling out between him and the United States.

Now he seems to be jockeying for position, elbowing his way into the Iraqi government once again. I’m afraid there’s a cold day in hell coming. As George Bush said, “Fool me once shame on you; fool me twice...and we won’t get fooled again.”

I’m Sick To Death Of Crock Stars Stealing Our Future!

Does America really want this asshole to be President? The large hairy one on the right with the piano legs and the chipmunk face (Or any of the other assholes we‘re being offered as candidates.) Wouldn't you rather have your best friend or even your barber, pharmacist, or other professional in control of this freakin' out-of-control juggernaut? Who are these people who believe they are competent enough to run this country? Let me give you a clue. They’re nobody. They came out of the same place we all come from, only they tell you they’re better than you, so naturally you believe them; that they are without question the deluxe solution to what ails America. After all, they’re on TV all the time. They’re news!

Here are the vainly ridiculous Dems congratulating themselves on their mind-reading prowess. They actually knew that the American people wanted them to take charge of Congress and do even less than the previously Republican controlled Congress.

And what’s wrong with the following pictures?

“But seriously, folks, You’ve been a great crowd. I'll be here all week. Be sure to tip your server.”
Bullshit.

Pssssst! You In The Stall. Wanna Play Homo?

“Can I swallow now?”

Senator Larry Craig is not gay. He went on TV yesterday and told us all...three times. And he emphasizes that he did nothing wrong in Minneapolis in that stall at the airport. Uh-huh, you bet. Like most self-righteous sons-of-bitches he is not only a liar, but a hypocrite. Also looks like he’s got a mouth full of hot man-yogurt

And he drags his poor wife out with him to endure the humiliation of his non-confession and laughable excuse regarding the pressure from the “Statesman” and it’s investigation of his fitness to serve being responsible for his soliciting gay butt-sex from an undercover cop in a public restroom. Obviously he did not consummate his heart’s desire. He got busted before he could get his jollies off.

“Book him, Danno. Lewdo one.”

Ted Nugent Goes Mad...OK, Madder

Here, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama discuss ways or taking revenge against Ted “Machine-gun” Nugent. Referred to as a “piece of shit” by Nugent, Obama has declined to suck on Teddy’s machine gun, even if it’s not loaded. Mr. Obama instead drew an analogy between men who drive red sports cars and carry large caliber weapons to make up certain inadequacies in their anatomy.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton, to whom the “Nuge” referred as a “worthless bitch” may be sending Ted a visit from the secret service and her attorney to establish a financial basis for the intrinsic worth of her “worthless” persona since he apparently threatened both Obama’s and her life in his rant.

Heeeeeeere’s Teddy!

When reached for comment, Mr. Nugent said, “Oops. What I meant to say was, If I kill them I will definitely eat them. I don't waste meat. Why, I've got an entire walk-in, Subzero™ freezer full of deer, elk and illegal Mexican aliens.”

Cheney Conjours Superfuel, Loses Soul.

“It’s OK,” said the Vice President. It was made worth my while. And I have a new granddaughter that looks like Rosemary's baby. How lucky can a feller get? Plus I get to watch all that hot girl on girl action while I babysit. Yowzir, Yowzir, Yowzir!

“Lynne’s even working on a new book called Menage á Trois,” added his satanic majesty, chuckling and biting off a chicken head.

Dems On Energy Bill

Amusing. The following was lifted out of context from the Republican “House Energy Action Team” web page:

“When you produce energy at home, a couple important things happen. First, you control the terms of production instead of the Saudi royal family. Second, you create wealth here at home by creating new jobs – jobs directly related to energy production as well as the inevitable spin-offs that come with it. And third, you give yourself a chance to influence the price and create a stable marketplace that can survive the volatility brought on by natural disasters and world events.

Maybe that’s why Congressman Peterson filed an amendment to the Interior bill yesterday to lift the federal ban on producing natural gas offshore – an effort a vast majority of Democrats voted down after citing concerns about natural gas spills ruining the environment.

But exactly how do you spill natural gas?”

Rising natural gas prices are driving U.S. industries away, Peterson said during floor debate yesterday. "It is absolute insanity for America to starve itself of the clean, green fuel that has never spoiled a beach," Peterson said. "It has never washed up onshore. It's a gas."

You have to wonder about democrats sometimes.

Hi! Remember Me?

I'm surprised you don’t. I’m dead now, but back in the ’60s I was pretty hot shit, commanding the American forces in Viet Nam. I'm pretty much like the duped general officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines that you see on TV today.

Yes, I respect them for their courage and devotion to duty. However they’re just as much in the dark and as much of the problem as I was back then.

Back then I made sure we got a great body-count. Made sure our boys had as many bullets as they needed. And made sure we got them to a field hospital before they died. Made sure we did everything by the book. Ya know...we never did lose a battle in that war, but we sure as shit lost the war. Why? Because we left. I'm not saying we should have left. I’m here to tell you that it just couldn’t be won. Why? Because we didn’t want to. Because it would have taken the annihilation of an entire people and their country to win. And you know what? The entire area of southeast Asia didn't tumble like a pile of dominoes as the Johnson and Nixon administrations predicted.

Our generals on the ground in Iraq these days are doing a swell job. Just listen to them on TV. They have the capacity, because of technology, to make even more basket cases out of boys who would have ordinarily died. Damn! Aren’t we just swell.

And we won’t win this one either, no matter how many boys die or are saved to become basket cases.

Oh, yeah. I'm General William Westmoreland. Even though you could give a shit.

It Helps To Know Your Adversary’s Culture.

“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” —Arthur Miller

Aw, shucks, look at him. That big, dumb lug thinking he’s got Puti-Poot eating out of his hand. Gonna collect them there flowers. Look into his eyes again and see his soul.

Unfortunately, Bush should have talked to Condoleeza, expert of all things Soviet, regarding Russians and the meaning of the gifts of posies. Especially the color.

If there was one thing I remember from my days at the Eastern European Language School at Syracuse University taught by native Russians who’d escaped from Stalin, it was this. If you give someone yellow flowers, you are going to betray them.

Come into my parlor said the spider to the fly. Let’s see how your legacy fares with this one, G.W. So far, when it comes to disappointing your country, you’re batting 1000.

I Was Only Following Orders.

“Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.” —Pierre Corneille

Like a good little Nazi, Scooter merely followed the orders of the Vice President. As a willing thrall of Dick Cheney, he attempted to throw everyone off the trail breadcrumbs that would have led to his boss and most likely the President as well in their undisclosed locations in the White House.

It looks like we’re never going to hear Paul Harvey say, “...and now you know the rest of the story.” With commutation of his sentence and the extreme likelihood that a full pardon is on the way, Dubya and Darth Cheney are off the hook. There will be no blackmail. Scooter will not have to sing like a canary, be a stool pigeon or rat on his former boss.

And it would seem that Dubya subscribes to Pierre Corneille’s view of himself only too well.

I Hold YOU In Contempt, You Worms! Mein Fuerher has set me free! I Have Done Nothing WRONG!

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. —Samuel Adams

Does this guy look like a saint?
Didn’t think so.
Did he get a free pass.
Yep.
Did he deserve it?
I don’t think so.

You look at one son-of-a-bitch who can work it, and you have to think of all the poor sons-o-bitches who never made it, and you have to ask yourself, “Where’s the justice?”

And you answer yourself, because you know. But you don’t feel good about it.

Anyone For A Game Of Softball?

Does anyone remember Gary Guckert? Does Gary Guckert remember Gary Guckert? Does Gary Guckert remeber Jeff Gannon?

Those were simpler times. When Scotty-Bear McClellan could have all his friends over and wow them with tales that he had to make up because nobody would talk to him and tell him what was really going on. Boy he must have felt stupid.

Thank God for Tony Snow! He doesn't make up stories. He lies through his teeth and spins the administration's policy as if it were the word of God.