on requiring iowa school children to recite the pledge of alliegiance. while i'm all for the effort of teaching our children the values of america, there's one thing to do it while there is so much opposition to the government. anyway, great quote from the register.

News

"This is because America is not about government mandating uniformity. It is about embracing freedom of thought, and the right to disagree, in a democracy."

from today's globe on the return of a local girl who went on a peace mision to iraq. enlightening, and certainly something the heads in washington need to see.
LE ANN CLAUSEN

"But there is a saying among the Iraqis, 'If you have to stand in manure, it might as well be our own manure,' meaning Saddam is theirs to deal with."

cbs news tonite is talking about saddam's retaliatory use of nasty stuff, while displaying pictures of what appears to be chemicals used in those weapons, that were probably taken right after they got those chemicals from american companies. most people i know watching are looking at this with more confidence in the cartel's allegations - allegations which have already proven false - allegations composed solely for the purpose of provoking fear. allegations which the public is believing because 'they saw it on tv'. never underestimate the brainwashability of television.

well, if this season doesn't convince the 'red-alert' unconvinceable that fox is indeed the network of poop, not only because they play ditto-head, and then some, to karl's iron fist, but the fact that joe millionaire, in and of itself is a lie, about a lie, lies to us with this 'tonite's finale' campaign. c'mon folx, faux is just that ... faux.

New York City - Sweeping Away Street Marches

"Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Kelly are doing the people of New York and the people of Iraq a great service by delaying and obstructing the anti-war protest planned for Feb. 15. The longer they delay in granting the protesters a permit, the less time the organizers have to get their turnout organized and the smaller the crowd is likely to be...[T]he smaller the crowd, the more likely that President Bush will proceed with his plans to liberate Iraq."

ahhhhhh..... the fog lifted. from the new york sun, a paper that charitably can be called conservative. not-so-charitably the poop-de-poopah of broadcast propaganda. fair and balanced? *snort* more like unfair and imbalanced. but i figure i'll try an experiment soon. i'll repeat things enough times that it'll wear down any opposition and conjure the illusion of fact.

the problem isn't that we're not listening. the problem is that YOU'RE not listening, george.

Cries of desperation

Imagine a country ruled by a leader whose rise to power occurred under deeply questionable circumstances. Imagine that this country appointed itself the world’s policeman, threatening another nation with a massive military invasion if that nation did not accede to his demands.

i think the judges on the federal appeals court in st. louie needs some antipsychotic medication themselves. they're obviously insane.

The federal appeals court in St. Louis ruled yesterday that officials in Arkansas can force a prisoner on death row to take antipsychotic medication to make him sane enough to execute.
NYTIMES

i feel a great disturbance in the Force

why do people equate supporting our men and women in uniform with supporting an invasion of iraq? seems pretty silly if you ask me.

from my #mindvox log tonite:

[23:10] i swear
[23:10] sitting here listening to bill makes me long for the days when we had some brains and finesse in office

bill, for the first time i can recall, listening to you restored my faith in humanity. i'm talkin to bill clinton if he's out there. missed him earlier and couldnt wait for larry king's weekend show to start since.

there was no bullshit. no politically motivated speeches. refreshing is an understatement ... that one can you get the straight ass shit from a former president, or even active president.... and we have 2 more years before it can be corrected. if then. considering what we're facing this year, god only knows.
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BUY ONE AND SHOW YOUR PATRIOTIC SPIRIT

how can anybody argue when the author of those stolen pages as reported in today's nytimes:

"I am surprised, flattered as well, that this information got used in a U.K. government dossier," said the original report's author, Ibrahim al-Marashi, who at the time was a graduate student. "Had they consulted me, I could have provided them with more updated information."

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ok, i've recovered. got pretty sick listening to the ditto-head 24/7 slamming of our heads with spin coverage of the lies that powell used in his U.N. presentation. by now, it's all over the net about how he plagiarized that 'powerful' and conpelling-enough-to-bleed report. and i'm sure it's also not news that the 'gassing' of the kurds didn't really happen the way we're told. can i say INCUBATOR here and get the point across more vividly?

anyway, so i'm back. more determined than ever to demonstrate in my own way, that there's a stronger message here, that there's a hidden agenda here, and that there is the very real possibility that this is going to be something more than anybody ever believed possible once the bombing starts. almost anybody. more and more are getting the bigger picture. and to those i say, congratulations. you have seen the light.

i'm preparing my next post to center on the chimp's problem with dissent. anti-war is not pro-saddam. anti-war is not anti-american. anti-war is not communist. anti-war means exhausting all else before war. and we have not done that. how can anybody not see that is beyond me. i can tell you however, that there are creatures like that walking around here in iowa. sad aintit.

heartbroken is how i feel.
peace is not an option. it's a requirement.

SPECIAL EDITION - SECRETARY POWELL'S PRESENTATION TO THE UNITED NATIONS.

WE ARE NOT CONVINCED MR. POWELL.... if all you have are conjectures slanted to support your view of Iraqi lack of cooperation, they certainly can not be based upon what you are presenting thus far, sir.

What a waste of 90 minutes. The same old bullshit. I mean, any sane person would be able to say if the proof is so conclusive, why are you straining to convince everybody? The case of administration involvement in 9/11 is stronger than what Mr. Powell is giving the Security Council. Gah, I gotta go take a shit.

great quote in today's register. which i had said it myself.

STEVEN R. HARVEY, OsceolaPresident Bush has finally convinced me. Not of the righteousness of a war with Iraq, but of its inevitability.

imagine that. 'just hide them behind the curtain'. was he talkin about votes? no, he was talkin about anti-muslim bumper stickers. on sale at the - get this, are you ready? - the Conservative Poltical Action Conference. i'm not shitting you. look.

KAMEN

"One of the various exhibition booths hawking paraphernalia had some virulently anti-Muslim vinyl bumper stickers, for $3.95, including one that said: "No Muslims -- No Terrorism." The booth operators removed the anti-Muslim stickers from the rack before Cheney spoke -- though they left up some more tasteful items, such as the stamps that said: "WANTED! Crimes against children," and had a picture of former attorney general Janet Reno, "A.K.A. 'The Butcher of Waco.' " And they left others supporting the Confederate flag and such. But the offending stickers were not really taken off sale. When a Washington Post reporter asked about the anti-Muslim bumper stickers, a booth attendant smiled and reached behind a sheet, saying conference organizers had ordered her to take them off display."

there's just something really demented about the republicans. poopyheads are too good of a term for them.

why the poopyhead plan for the economy can not succeed. it would be like expecting the economy of my town to improve if i spent all my money at one store. defense spending is good. too much defense spending is bad. not bad because of the bellicose appearance it creates, but because it deprives the rest of the corporate-welfare bunch to lose their purpose.

one more nation onboard.... with the right thing to do.

JAPAN

A pre-emptive attack on Iraq because they might be some future danger is intolerable as long as there is no clear evidence of an imminent threat.

spin spin spin. are we dizzy yet?

US is misquoting my Iraq report, says Blix - smh.com.au Days after delivering a broadly negative report on Iraq's cooperation with international inspectors, Hans Blix challenged several of the Bush Administration's assertions about Iraqi cheating and the notion that time was running out for disarming Iraq through peaceful means.
In an interview on Wednesday, Dr Blix, the United Nations chief weapons inspector, seemed determined to dispel any impression that his report was intended to support the United States' campaign to build world support for a war to disarm Saddam Hussein.

day off

well, thanks to all those that made FIELDS OF POOPY number #1 on google. keep the mail comin!

had to copy & paste again the tiny pieces. blogger's really sick today. really sick, cuz the CR seems to be disappearing and making the paragraphs run togheter. c'mon guys, you almost got me hooked.

today's TP:

USAT fronts the contention from unnamed "U.S. diplomats and intelligence officials" that Iraqis are somehow learning about UN inspectors' plans. The officials told USAT that they've seen evidence that Iraq is cleaning up sites slated for inspection well before inspectors arrive. The paper quotes a UN official acknowledging the early cleanups but also saying they're not a sign that Saddam has infiltrated the U.N. team. (The paper doesn't unduly exert itself and try to explain the discrepancy.)

what it also fails to explain is why arent the gooks supplying this to the inspectors?

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israel fucked up yesterday re-appointing sharon over mitzna. its not surprising however. given that the string pullers won again here.

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heh, and TP gets to the bottom of their column to state the obvious:

In a few places, the president played Pinocchio (or was at least misleading), and the papers mostly give him a pass. The NYT for instance, notes that the president "promised his American audience tax relief for ordinary families and for investors in the stock market." Setting aside the use of the loaded-term "tax relief," the sentence was a concise summary of Bush's assertion that his tax cuts will save 92 million Americans "an average of almost $1,000." Except that that assertion is deceptive, as NYT's Paul Krugman and others have pointed out. (Americans whose income is near the national mean would probably save a few hundred bucks.)

Something more significant that the papers should have flagged: During the speech, Bush contended that Iraq is still trying to develop nukes. He said Saddam has tried to buy uranium from a source in Africa, and also that Iraq has imported specialized aluminum tubes for nuclear development. Chief UN nuke inspector Mohamed El-Baradei has said he hasn't seen any evidence supporting the first allegation and has explained that the second one probably isn't true. (A Post piece not connected to the president's speech reiterates that point.) Idea: Why don't the papers do a regular feature looking at the accuracy of assertions in major speeches--just like some do with campaign ads?

can we say incubator robbers?

but the question of why the papers can't validate their reporting before press, is indicative of the left-wing bias aintit. mwahahaha

In a few places, the president played Pinocchio (or was at least misleading), and the papers mostly give him a pass. The NYT for instance, notes that the president "promised his American audience tax relief for ordinary families and for investors in the stock market." Setting aside the use of the loaded-term "tax relief," the sentence was a concise summary of Bush's assertion that his tax cuts will save 92 million Americans "an average of almost $1,000." Except that that assertion is deceptive, as NYT's Paul Krugman and others have pointed out. (Americans whose income is near the national mean would probably save a few hundred bucks.)

all morning the template server musta been takin a poop. couldnt reach the editor. but i'm here now. only, so is diva. so i'm pasting the notes i made earlier. sorry this isnt formatted and broken up into nice and paletable pieces, but hey. sue me. want a subscription?

the (des moines) register, for all it's waffling, has a problem they have a blind editorial board. either that, or their tv needs repair. today's 'lusty' praise for the SOTU last night is making for good poopy today. are you the lucky ones.

http://www.dmregister.com/opinion/stories/c2125555/20349845.html

An impassioned President Bush laid out his case Tuesday night for why Iraq"s Saddam Hussein is a fearsome threat to America and to world peace and why the United States must be prepared to go to war against him - alone if need be. It was his single most coherent speech articulating the case for a war.

impassioned? are you for real? the sex lives of that editorial board must be perty nasty if their definition of passion is what ocurred last night.




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http://www.dmregister.com/opinion/stories/c2125555/20343087.html

It is not hard to sympathize with the musicians, movie makers, manufacturers, distributors and retailers, however. Every time someone downloads a song, a CD or a DVD, it cuts into their revenue. It's theft.

wait a minute here. this is absurd. the editorial board either didn't have their morning pot of coffee today, or they took some stupid poopy pills last nite instead of viagra.

*psssst*... BULLETIN: the music i've grab'd off kazaa, ISNT AVAILABLE TO BUY.

but see, its like this partial birth syndrome the poopys like to tout as a 'valid' reason for banning ALL abortion. just because one or two cases of it exist, ok, more than 1 or 2, but not EVERY... we ALL have to suffer the consequences of the actions of those few.

unless the "we" doesnt include the poopyheads. then we just look the other way and shrug it off as 'part of life' ... part of life is the next phrase i'm going to yell back at these poops who beride me for wanting peace in iraq.

it goes on with:

It remains to be seen whether the strategy of scaring people into buying rather than stealing music and movies works. But something has to change. There is no such thing as a free lunch - or free entertainment. When someone gets something for free, rest assured, someone pays.

remains schemains. the poops have proven that scaring people will do miraculous things. someone pays. sure someone pays you dopes. i pay to read your column, but you're not getting the money. neenor neen0r

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another letter on give peace a chance in LTTE, this time from raymond goulden of des moines. is there anybody in west des moines that wants peace before war? i certainly haven't noticed any letters from folx in poopyville advocating peace. anyway, back to raymondy's letter. bravo, sir.

another letter writer, this one from craig johnsen, president/ceo (wow, poopy-free executive!), continuing care retirement community, friendship haven in fort dodge, has opined that the register was off-base when it implied that there are only 3 people advocating the seniors.... and craig corrects that assertion by showing that there are thousands on the front-lines advocating abuse-neglect-free nursing homes. but the phrase that caught my eye, not that i'm indifferent to seniors by any means, was this:

A number of legislative and regulatory bodies have institutionalized the negative view of long-term care

institutionalized the negative view. what a great expression. one that could be used here time and again. one that will be used here time and again. thanks craig.

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last letter, one by poopyhead jeff brinkman, with a location of 'Colo.'. coloradoans are now taking interest in the opinion of iowans? how sweet. probably a transplant. life wasn't good enough in iowa probably. but hey, gotta keep up the propaganda. he demonstrates his ignorance so well by writing:

Machacha gave Ames as his address, but said he was from the Third World. What is he doing here? Getting a free education in America - a country he seems to hate? Doesn't the Third World have schools?

free education in ames?? are you nuts? nobody's getting a free education in ames, i assure you. someone's payin for it that's for sure. and i would bet you that he is worthy of whoever is paying for it, should it be that a third party is footing the bill. i would also be right in taking the same liberties this transplant in colorado takes by assuming that this kid probably works part time somewhere. hell, it could very well be a kid that works for one of your companies. but hey, i don't know. just as you don't know. but at least i got the guts to say when i don't know.

but he continues with this inciteful pen with:

Why is it people from other countries, as well as our own, spit on us, despise us and commit acts of terrorism, yet come to us after an earthquake, drought, famine, locusts - it doesn't matter?

spit on us? SPIT ON US? a poopyhead, a good poopyhead, would treat peace as spit. and this one's on the right road to getting the award for the iowa poopyhead of the month. he spreads the propaganda on thicker with:

People hate us with one breath and come to us begging with the next. They come here for health care. I have yet to see conjoined twins go to Iraq for surgery. I have yet to see an experimental life-saving technology draw people to Africa.

so let me get this straight. you want people to believe the lie that everybody hates us. and with that, you provide evidence of the american flag on fire in some foreign demonstration. or provide headlines in some moonie newspaper about anti-american this or anti-american that in all these countries. yet, you provide the very proof that it's all a lie because... and this is where i smile - they love us and our ability to cure. in other words, THEY HATE THE POLICY OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION not US.

SOTU. brought to you by the masters of poopy, FAUX, er FOX news.. same thing aintit. of course, the prep highlighting the 'deliverying results'. WHAT RESULTS??? highlighting the difference between the democratic thinking and the republican proposals. look at the careful use of language. like prebuttal - huh ... anxious, unsteady, uncertain, 2mil jobs lost under bosh, cities & states raising taxes, and where's osama. quite the PRE buttal huh.

clerk making an 'announcement'. anounces the chimp. blue tie. blue suit. she's in wine. hah, bush and newsheads at lunch - what tie .. red or blue, bush asks? newheads say red. bush says.. you lose, i'm wearing blue.

i'm posting the MADE IN THE U.S.A. pic back up. fuck them if they cant take the truth.

i spoze i should post this, just to be fair and all. god knows, we dont do faux around here.

Asked whether the United States would use limited nuclear weapons in Iraq, Elizabeth Jones, US assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, replied: “The answer is no.”

oy kee dok ee. we shall see. we shall see. telling pakistan no, is one thing. not nuking iraq like you say, is another. someone had a quote recently from some ditto-head in the mainstream trough about how bush talks the talk,, but cant walk the walk. or something like that. oh, ya, he talks good, but he duznt do good. i actually heard that on a show on faux. of course, the immediate reaction was *click*, we'll be right back. ya, rite. *click*

wanna feel scared? real scared?

It would make no difference whether Iraq actually had any weapons of mass destruction or not. Washington would simply claim that Baghdad did indeed have such weapons and was “about to use them,” but that the American nuclear strikes had “prevented” this from happening
DAILY TIMES OF PAKISTAN

unless fate has its grip on this, we're headed for the one. there's just something about the amount and severity of events that have happened in such a short period of time. yes, bu$h is fate folx. the best we can do is weather the storm.

dan rather, i take issue with your equating anti-war rallies as being kin to the ignorant who are as you said, 'out of step'. we see where your strings are held.

medicare reform with this move of teh populace to private insurance, HMO i assum. i dont disagree with that. i was in the one in new york, and it suited me fine. but then, i'm not like a lot of people who will use the ER for a sniffle. so, ya, i can agree with this. and i think the objections are strictly political. so, mr bush, you follow up on this in the 'right' way, and not the 'right-wing' way, it will work. ok diva

creating the "X" factor. the XEROX factor in how these, as in the words of the howler, ditto-heads, report the news. if my cat diva will leave me alone during the dinner hour, i'll try and X the reports out. i've been watching cbs .. not only because its the local station, but because they do have a way of handling the propaganda. not always to my liking, but i can usually tell the 'real story behind the reported story' without much effort. but i'll do cbs, nbc, abc, cnn, msnbc, and god help me, faux, er fox, news. i'd like to start tonite, since its the night of SOTU. that god in the western hemisphere of this planet that defines public opinion predicability. like the sunday talk shows, it sets the 'calednar' if you will. karl's a smart d00d. he really is. he's just a waste of good talent, imho. ok diva.

the best piece of journalism today comes from ms matthews over at the WP:

The threat posed by Iraq is contained for now. Any attempt at external aggression would be instantly overwhelmed. Inside the country, the inspection teams preclude any significant advance in weapons-of-mass-destruction programs. The only other source of threat is the extremely unlikely possibility that Saddam Hussein would give some of what he regards as his crown jewels to terrorists. That would be to put his life in the hands of those he cannot control. The only condition under which he would be remotely tempted to do so would be if he believed he was about to be wiped out -- in a war. Weigh that risk against the near certainty that a war will be seen in the region as an American war that will draw thousands of new recruits into the ranks of terrorist America-haters. The U.S. homeland is unready for that threat. The only possible conclusion is that while the status quo is safe for the American people, a war will put us at great risk.

proof that the hypocrisy of the GOP is alive and prospering in the west wing.

"The United Nations resolution did not put the burden of proof on the United States or the U.N. to prove that Iraq has these weapons," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said last week. "The U.N. resolution put the burden directly on Iraq to prove that it is disarming and that it does not have these weapons." In other words, Iraq must prove a negative, and is refusing to do so. Almost a year to the day before Rumsfeld's remark, Fleischer was asked why the administration would not release details about meetings with energy companies such as Enron Corp. to prove that nothing untoward occurred. Fleischer replied: "You're asking us to prove a negative, and that's a road that we're not traveling.'

that came from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51841-2003Jan27.html

for the all the carry'n on i do, i do it out of love. love for this country. love for the peace that humanity should be enjoying. my heart is broken because i can not find this administration to be one i can respect. there's just too many things that go against that american-borne grain in me. being raised in iowa, and holding values that are true to the heart, i try and try, but just can't muster up the chutzpah needed to deal with poopy. i wish georgie was a leader that could say, no, no war. we do this without bloodshed. but then. we all have wishes. as they used to say around here, if wishes were fishes, we'd all have a fry.

the transcript's up.

addnendum 2221CST: i musta been in one hell of a hurry cuz i just now saw that my grab was only a partial transcript. the one cnn pointed to without so much as saying so. my mistake. i'm hunting for the unabridged version now.

Degraded Into a Trade' In calling for a new look at resurrecting the draft, Rep. Charles Rangel raises a very good point. Our all-volunteer force, for all its many virtues, is not representative of American society. The privileged are largely absent from it. Thus the burdens of defense and the perils of combat do not fall even close to fairly across all of our society.

ayup. confirms the chris matthews college tour question of who supports the war and who would go to war, was 95% and 5% respectively.

david gregory asks what are we being protected from. air spews out take a step back. wmd will inflict untold horror. millions of weapon of terror. TERROR. FEAR. stress those words TERRORIST. FEAR FEAR ... jeeezuz. where's the meter on those sentences??

followup by gregory. real danger. wmd. al-Q. there's that word. again. saddam and alQ. and oh my GOD, he's opening for ari. fuck you boy.

now we're getting the iraqi trained detainees. there ARE contacts between alQ and saddam. too late for the smoke on a smoking gun. gregory persiss with the issues. cant quite understand where he's going on this. keep associating saddam with alQ. i jus wish everybody who mentioned alQ would instead mention osama. i'll bet the ansers would be totally different.

chem & bio weapons again. FEAR .. there's that word. ice berg agian. again agin agina again. jeeziz, cant type. cold in here. but suffice it to say. 16 chem warheads? 300 years to find remaining weapons the un says saddam has. the more time they get the more time they get the run around. get me the barf bag PLEASE!!!

questions after the schedule:
1. pres willing to wait? pleased they're there. assessments they did. process is running out of time. not heard a time period.
2. why not get on with it? it's important to work with world leaders. problem possession unaccounted. there's that word!
3. concensus? this week? no timetable. failure to comply remains the very threat.
4. ??? judgement the pres will have to make. that was probably a question of when will he declare.
now we have diatribe. who opened that??
back again with the 9/11 shit. economy, HC, security homeland and national. final point. continue to consult. aliies. not ally. evaluate the information he has. what saddam presents. if we reach the end of the line. only way to disarm him with force, the pres will make announcement on all the tv stations.
5. iraq & international support. blix report indicated unaccounted weapons. vx possession, whereabouts. tip of ice berg. there we go. anthrax? and 150 km range. whats with all these things here. where's that fuckn transctpt. cant type. cant see.

tip of iceberg. the banners of faux news. the clips. tip of iceberg in the same sentence of 'unaccounted'. i still cant find the transcript online yet. please mail me if you know where it is. oh jeee, of course, ari's gotta get his daily vomitting done.

oh gag. faux news, ch205 on dish. gota keep up with the enemy dontwe. i mean, aint that the poopy way of dancing before we kill each other? anyway, lemme see if i cant stomach at least an hour. of it.

msnbc - here we go ... cris jansing's pickout of context video clip of blix. they're definitely taking the que from the iron fist of Rove & Co. there's unbelievable pounding going on somewhere in washington right about now. you can bet on that. lots of pickout clips to paint iraq in its most damning light. there's no doubt there's been problems with iraqi cooperation. but is this cause for bloodshed?? and the very VERY real possibility of nuclear destruction? the body bags are going to pile up if we dont wake up and give peace a chance. if we stopped with these threats, and let the inspections continue, there'd be no need for saddam to be so defensive. i'm not a subscriber to the theory that he is a madman... on the contrary, i subscribe to the theory that we already have a madman.

excuse me while i vomit. and find bigger golashes. negroponte is a bald headed sexually frustrated pinnochio. but i'm not hearing anything new. must excuse himself from questions. paula summing up with inaccurate and incomplete. now we get greenstock the onion on the other side of the pond. informal consultations to ask blix more questions. stuff that cant be produced in public. don't look for conclusivity. report back to capitals, debate on wednesday to make positions - inclususive that they may be. further report on feb 14? catalog of unresolved questions. not be resolved thru the process without 100% cooperation from iraq. grey style = south african model. they need guidance for where to look. differentiating passive cooperation. its not time, but attitude, and its not a good attitude from the iraqis. time is running out. lets see if we cant get iraqi cooperation. oh well. they skip another ambassador comments. some black guy. wonder who that wuz. msnbc, next up.

here we go. first up ... blonde booby poopyhead paula zahn. she gives the 'peace a chance' a mention, then stresses the iraqi non-compliance. i guess that sets the stage for diarrhea mouth wolf. ok, negroponte up. and of course, that prepared statement couldn't possibly include a reaction to a report that was just given, now could it. but it's amazing the picture in people's minds they get when they stage him right after blix.

cnn's summary banner is full of scare tactic language. the iron fist of rove must be banging that buzzer everytime blix makes a statement, especially one that questions iraq's integrity. blix is a professional, there's no doubt about that. he uses the language of a professional. cnn uses language of a poopyhead. in fact, i'll bet there's a live line to cnn's master control from the west wing. any takers? i wonder who'll be first to get the transctipt of his report up. cnn probably. *shush*

lets see if i get this right. 'we're not ready yet so we'll give you some more time, mr blix', when only a month ago, we were prepared and all that shit. what happened to that preparation status? did something happen that made that a mistaken call? this is an important point nobody seems to be picking up on yet. until now i guess. hopefully someone will turn the page, and get a glimpse at the reality of this 'buildup'.

another story that is disturbingly missing from the headlines of the last month, is one about the scenario of a turned-tables situation. imagine for a moment, that we americans were in the shoes of the iraqi citizens. that we had a foreign power banging down our door with threats of all out war. that we had them demanding we not shoot their spy planes. that we had them bombing facilities, and deploying unmanned drones. imagine if you would, how it would feel to go outside and be concerned about that store on the corner being there the next day. you cant. unless you've actually had to. i dont know if there are any middle-eastern readers here, but i'm in iowa. about as safe a place as you can get in america any more. but do not take this as a side with israel. i'm as inclined against sharon as i am against bu$h. lthey're separated at birth as far as i'm concerned. israel topics perty much reside over on the FARPOINT.STATION blog. but suffice it to say. the attitude of americans would shift dramatically, as it has, but exponentially so, if they had to live under the cover of fear day after day after day. and all this talk about taking out saddam is going to make that not happen, is absolutely pissy. the smelliest poop you can find.

while i'm on the subject of 'people who pay too much', let me just ask another question here. when they pay too much could it be that they prefer to not pay at all? or just how much is not 'too much'? the tax cuts being proposed, as everybody knows, but will argue for the sake of argument, that they favor the upper echelon. the very same people who, are supposed to use it to create jobs, are taking it to offshore accounts. where is the evidence that providing the upper class of indiividuals with unreal money - and by that i mean money that they're saving, not making - creates jobs? i certainly havent seen any. even turning on faux news, not a peep. just lots of baseless claims that get tons of airplay and spin by the masters of spin - read: Rove & Co. - that the sky is green. well, they might as well sell that while they're selling that other load of crap.

is there some simple logic to the idear, the poop, of crying that we already pay too much for a government that's in the red? the same people who 'pay too much' are the same people robbing the store. jeezuz, how much more stinky can you get.
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stumbled upon this fab site. so nice to see that we are not alone.

cbs morning show segments a report 5 miles from the iraqi border in kuwait, about an exercise with live fire announcement from the d0d. what really gets me is how we're blaming iraqis for preparing for the war that we're preparing to deliver to them? i just dont get it. do you?