Bush calls for an optimistic America - "President Bush last night implored an unsettled nation to reject the idea that "our culture is doomed to unravel" and used his fifth State of the Union address to promise an end to America's oil "addiction.""
What an Idiot! Bush Jumpstarts the Alternative Energy Movement... - "When Gore Vidal endorsed last night’s demonstrations against Bush’s ridiculous I-am-the-state theatrical stunt, he added the pithy comment: “Go back to Crawford…. We’ll help raise the money for a library, and you’ll never even ever have to read a book.” As always, Vidal has perfectly framed the argument for resistance to this anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti-thought, anti-agenda. And while the networks and pundits and media shills gawk and preen and profit off the spectacle of this horrific failure, this loser in the most profound sense of the term, this puppet plutocrat who brings nothing to the table except for his legendary ability to drink everyone under it—an as-yet-unindicted war criminal with more blood on his hands than the tyrants from whom he liberates the world in the name of (and at the direction of) his Lord and Savior—we must make our own noise, in the name of the unnumbered and unidentified dead whose corpses pave the way to Heaven for Bush and his psychopathic band of theocrats."
"Americans, the beatings will continue until morale improves" - "To:President George Bush February 1, 2006Mr. Bush (not my President), Regarding your speech tonight... As usual, my expectations were very low going into your speech, so I wasn't too disappointed when you followed through with the usual half-truths and other sheeple friendly nonsense. My only afterthought is that you could have done your whole 'Disgrace of the Union' speech in ten seconds or less, had you just told the truth: "Americans, the beatings will continue until morale improves". That would have summed things up accurately, because just when you think things can't get any worse and morale couldn't possibly get any lower in this country, you offer up seconds on craploaf in front of the whole world."
Decoding the State of the Union - "Never misunderestimate George W. Bush. Here's a President who's gutted the Treasury, eroded the environment, divided our society, ruined our reputation, frayed our military, undermined our security, inspired our enemies and overall weakened America. But there he stood tonight and delivered a State of the Union speech disconnected from the reality we are living in."
Masters of Understatement - "Only if by "invite debate" you mean "are flat-out untrue." Let's face it--he lied. Some excerpts from the article:"
Cindy Sheehan: What Really Happened - "As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union address last night. I am speechless with fury at what happened and with grief over what we have lost in our country. There have been lies from the police and distortions by the press (shocker). So this is what really happened: ... I have some lawyers looking into filing a First Amendment lawsuit against the government for what happened tonight. I will file it. It is time to take our freedoms and our country back. I don't want to live in a country that prohibits any person, whether or not he/she has paid the ultimate price for that country, from wearing, saying, writing, or telephoning any negative statements about the government. That's why I am going to take my freedoms and liberties back. That's why I am not going to let BushCo take anything else away from me ... or you."
Most Iraqis Doubt US Will Ever Leave - "Large majorities of Iraqis believe that the United States has no intention of ever withdrawing all its military forces from their country and that Washington's reconstruction efforts have been incompetent at best, according to a new survey released here Tuesday." -- Many Americans believe the same thing.
Official: Army Has Authority to Spy on Americans - "“Contrary to popular belief, there is no absolute ban on [military] intelligence components collecting U.S. person information,” the U.S.Army’s top intelligence officer said in a 2001 memo that surfaced Tuesday. Not only that, military intelligence agencies are permitted to “receive” domestic intelligence information, even though they cannot legally “collect” it,” according to the Nov. 5, 2001, memo issued by Lt. Gen. Robert W. Noonan Jr., the deputy chief of staff for intelligence."
Standard & Poor's specialists predict global economic Armageddon - "Experts of Standard & Poor's forecast a global economic collapse. The collapse will be caused with the demise of the US dollar rate against the European currency by more than 30 percent. The dollar, specialists say, may lose almost 45 percent of its current value against the euro. However, it is obvious that even a 30 percent reduction will affect the international economy greatly."
Oil execs refuse to testify at Senate hearing - "Officials from six major oil companies have refused to testify this week at a Senate hearing looking into whether oil industry mergers in recent years have made gasoline more expensive at the pump." -- Hmmm. Actions speak louder than words.
Halliburton Detention Camps For Political Subversives - "In another shining example of modern day corporate fascism, it was announced recently that Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root had been awarded a $385 million dollar contract by Homeland Security to construct detention and processing facilities in the event of a national emergency."
Sweeping anti-abortion laws proposed - "Legislators in at least five states are proposing bold anti-abortion measures as the Bush administration reshapes the U.S. Supreme Court, a report said."
New Patriot Act Provision Creates Tighter Barrier to Officials at Public Events - "A new provision tucked into the Patriot Act bill now before Congress would allow authorities to haul demonstrators at any "special event of national significance" away to jail on felony charges if they are caught breaching a security perimeter."
The Only Hope For the World - " The world has gotten itself into a real jam. I mean a humdinger of a jam! As in John Paul Sartre’s existential drama, No Exit, which so nicely portrays the inescapability of self-chosen evil, the inevitability of a self-made Hell, there seems to be no way out for the world; no way for the inhabitants of planet Earth to escape what appears to be the inevitability of a hell of its own making….. World War III! Of course, as I tell my students…. the history of the world is the history of war, as armed conflict seems to have been a constant companion. From the beginning of time, it appears that we have “been at each other’s throats.” However, since that fateful day in 1945 when “Little Boy” gave us a glimpse of what was to come, things have never quite been the same. Before Hiroshima, the world was able to deal with man’s inhumanity to man, but with the advent of modern nuclear (or in the words of George Walker Bush… “nucular”) warfare, things have gone from bad to worse. No longer can we afford to dabble with our weapons of mass destruction. One more mistake, one more miscalculation, and the world will go up in flames!"
Federal borrowing raised to record level - "The government expects to borrow a record $188 billion in the January-March quarter, even more than it anticipated three months ago, the Treasury Department announced Monday." -- It's what we Americans do. We have no fiscal responsibility. What am I saying? We have no responsibility to anything, whatsoever.
Feds Want A Wiretap Backdoor In All Net Hardware and Software - "Thinks the federal government is too intrusive? You ain't seen nothing yet. An FCC mandate will require that all hardware and software have a wiretap backdoor that allows the government to tap into all your communications."
Gonzales Is Challenged on Wiretaps - "Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) charged yesterday that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales misled the Senate during his confirmation hearing a year ago when he appeared to try to avoid answering a question about whether the president could authorize warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens."
Feds' wiretapping rules challenged in court - "Universities, libraries and technology companies are asking a federal court to block controversial wiretap rules designed to facilitate police surveillance of the Internet."
The republican war on women - "I am unabashedly pro-abortion. Not just pro-choice, pro-abortion. ... The soul is bit of superstitious baggage that we still carry over from the dark ages. What is real is personality, and personality is not simple, but complex. It is formed through experience. It evolves over time, and it can dissolve bit by bit. ... And this after all is the real goal of the right wing fetishization of the fetus. A return to partiarchy. They are not even hiding it much any more. First abortion, then contraception, and even the acknowledgement of sexual harassment. The assault on feminism, which is ultimately simply the demand that women be recognized as people, with their own autonomous lives and a full share of human rights, has been so successful that even a majority of women today are embarrassed to identify themselves as feminists. The only thing to be embarrassed about--and this goes for men every bit as much as for women--is not being a feminist."
Shock Therapy, Version 2.0 - "Shock treatment for depression is making a comeback, and it no longer resembles a scene from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
Quote of the Day
"Oh well, it's been a good day in Hell."
~ The Eagles
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