has anybody thought or contemplated just how much energy

it's going to take to clean up the bushite mess? i mean, it'll take years to repair our reputation on the world stage. then there's all these lax laws in place that are hurting not only our civil liberties, but the environment as well. then lets not forget how the defense department is surging and bulging at its seams for more power (wants the intelligence community under their thumb).

i pity the first next president if he's not republican. he'll have a job, a really hard job, to do to regain America's pride and respect.

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originally uploaded by leQ.

i'm composing this from flickr. diva sleeping on the bed. i jus wanted to find out what this looked like on my blog.

want to get to the heart of the bushisita mindset?

read this.

In his 2002 book The War Against the Terror Masters, in a rare moment of unguarded intellectual honesty, neocon guru Michael Ledeen unwittingly let slip what is probably the best two-word description of the underlying agenda that has been pursued by the neocons over the last several years and is ongoing today: "Creative destruction."

"Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our own society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law. Our enemies have always hated this whirlwind of energy and creativity, which menaces their traditions (whatever they may be) and shames them for their inability to keep pace. … They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission."

so much for democracy on the march.

ecto's blogger tool

press a key, then tab, and you get a bunch of words listed alphabettically. not every word in the dictionary, but a lot - many that i wouldn't have thought of. all beginning with the sequence since the last space. iow, it changes every time you type a letter in the succession. type b, press tab, and you get one list of words. press e, then tab, you'll get a whole differernt list of words that start with be

it's just weird and i have yet to figure out what use it could possibly take.

according to the bible

man is only 6 days younger than the earth.

Quote of the Day

"Insofar as I am aware, since the founding of our Republic 219 years ago, the Justice Department has never found it necessary to do what it did Saturday night,"
--Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert

-source

corruption in iraq

just like corruption in washington:

It is "in every ministry, in every governorate," said the head of Iraq's anti-corruption agency.
--source

my next 3 act play

act I: atmosphere before sex

act II: atmosphere during sex

act III: atmosphere after sex

wouldnt take much to get a standing ovation would it.

fed-ex came to my house today

delivered an envelope from ligund pharmaceuticals. they're the makers of avinza, a product that costs $3200 a month. yes, that's right ... THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED for every 30 day supply.

they're responding to my complaint that avinza had no effect on me whatsoever. in fact, i still have some capsules. i could take some and see if they work. but they couldn't reproduce the effect in the labs. which tells me their labs are not capable of equating human reactions to their drugs.

what gets me is that they could have sent this out usps instead of spending $15 to fed-ex it. no WONDER these drugs cost so damn much. the makers are living high on the hog. at the expense of their consumers.

FARPOINT.FACTOID

the Army paid out half a billion dollars last year in re-enlistment bonuses

--source

no WONDER the army is not losing people.

an example of how bad this administration is managing iraq

Much more in-depth is a piece the NYT fronts on the Iraqi police force and the failure of the Bush administration to adequately train it. The administration rejected a plan to rebuild the force using thousands of American civilian trainers. Instead, a dozen ill-equipped advisers were initially sent to rebuild the force. Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik said he was sent to Baghdad with 10 days' notice and no preparation; he prepared himself by watching A&E Network documentaries on Saddam Hussein. In the two weeks he had to ready himself for his job, L. Paul Bremer wasn't sure he'd even been briefed on the Iraqi police. Even more troublesome—despite being unable to find foreign field trainers for the force or to trust the Iraqis signing up, American officials never sounded alarm bells. When Kerik returned to the U.S., he said the force had made "tremendous progress."

--today's papers