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Weekend Madman
Friday-Sunday, July 15-17, 2005
Observations
COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track
a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps
in the state of Washington. And they tracked
her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal
aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give them all a cow.
CONSTITUTION
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution
for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours?
It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200 years and
we're not using it anymore.
TEN COMMANDMENTS
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments
in a Courthouse? You cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not Commit
Adultery" and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges and
politicians! It creates a hostile work environment!
And Last but not least.....
George Carlin said it
best about Martha Stewart .. "Boy, I feel a lot safer now that she's behind
bars. O.J. Simpson and
Kobe Bryant are still walking around;
Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the one
woman in America willing to cook, clean and
work in the yard, and haul her butt off to jail!"
-Carl Forino
Think About It
If you truly want to know the mindset of our Muslim "allies" in the Middle East, then how do you explain this?
Muslim Clerics have still not issued a "Fatwa" against Osama bin-Laden or al Qaeda even now, almost four years after the mostly Saudi terrorists perpetrated the worst act of terror on American Soil ever. However, they're still after Salman Rushdie for writing a book.
-Perry Greenberg
Saudi Arabia and other US "allies" support schools called "Madrassas" to poison the minds of their children against the west. The Bush administration is too weak and much too close to these "allies" to see the truth... that THESE are the REAL enemies of the Untied States and until we stop the likes of our FAKE ALLIES in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, we will never truly be safe. -NG
Can He Feel a Hand Up His...?
The
best characterization I have heard of the Rove/Wilson
matter was on the radio, but it went by so fast that I can't cite the source. My
best guess is that it was on Al Franken's
program on Air America, on Friday 8 July 05:
"Bush's firing Karl
Rove would be tantamount to Charlie McCarthy firing Edgar Bergen".
Carroll S. Rankin
A congressman who IS a Rocket Scientist
Rush Holt on Rove-Gate:
The case is not about Rove,
said Rep. Rush Holt, D-New Jersey, who called for a probe that would compel
senior administration officials to turn over records relating to the disclosure
that Valerie Plame was a CIA officer. "This ... is about holding the executive
branch accountable for a breach of national security."
-Rush Holt
China, Our "Friend"?
"If the Americans
draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition onto the target zone on
China's territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons".
-Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu, a senior general in the China's making a bellicose statement
"We Chinese will prepare ourselves for the
destruction of all of the cities east of Xian [in central China]. Of course the
Americans will have to
be prepared that hundreds ... of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese."
-Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu
Well now, this is not exactly the words of a friendly trading partner. Our
leaders need to face reality about China:
1. Communist China is a dictatorship and in
fact have gotten worst over the past few years.
2. Communist China has not lived up to any
trade agreement including the WTO. In particular, they have not addressed human
rights issues, labor reform, democratic reform, copyright piracy, currency
valuation issues.
3. Communist China plans to de-industrialize the
United States and make us financially dependent on
them - to date, this plan is working quite nicely!
4. Communist China have intentions to take over
Taiwan one way or the other.
We should drop "Most Favored" nation status and put a 27.5% tariff on their
imports now. We need a crash program to reduce the debt and new laws to restrict
foreign investment in our debt. We absolutely should not permit the sale of any
US company when our national security is at
risk - that includes UNOCAL.
-Robert Scardapane
Health Care
Still no medical coverage for about
45 million Americans.
I feel it necessary to repeat this almost every day. But, you'll
be interested to know, "G"lobal "W"arming Bush
is starting a brand new $30,000 a day tour
to convince elderly Americans
that the Medicare drug benefit is a good thing for them. It can be a good thing
IF you make less than $11,300 per year. If not, here is what the drug "Benefit"
will mean to an average, elderly American
with about $500 per month RETAIL drug costs. We use RETAIL drug costs as a
barometer because, unlike the Veterans Administration,
Medicare, will NOT be able to negotiate drug prices, BY
LAW!
So, "Grandma" will have to pay almost $4,000 per year out of her $6,000 per year
drug costs. The complete story and chart could be found at:
http://www.nationalview.org/DRUGS.htm.
-Noah Greenberg
More "Truth"
Lieutenant-General Michael Moseley said that
in 2002 and early 2003 allied aircraft flew 21,736 sorties, dropping more than
600 bombs on 391 “carefully selected targets” before the war officially started.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1669640,00.html
President "G"lobal "W"arming Bush and his
"G"reedy "O"ld "P"arty has not only made
it worse over there, they have made it indefinitely and infinitely so.
-Noah Greenberg
What If...
I think that Saudi Arabia should stand up
and take responsibility for the actions of their citizens. To that end, we,
the people of the United States of America
should insist that
"G"lobal "W"arming Bush "freeze" the assets of the
Saudi Royal Family here in the
United States. That $1 to $3 trillion could
come in handy for those of US here left
speechless by the after-effects of 9/11.
-Noah Greenberg
Media Madman
Both the Washington Post and the New York Times
today have sources telling them that Karl Rove was indeed one of the sources
Robert Novak talked to for his column outing a CIA NOC agent. From the
Washington Post version:
White House senior adviser Karl Rove indirectly confirmed the CIA affiliation of
an administration critic's wife for Robert D. Novak the week before the
columnist named her and revealed her position, a lawyer involved in the case
said last night.
The operative, Valerie Plame, is the wife of Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former
ambassador who had publicly disputed the White House's contention that Saddam
Hussein had sought to buy uranium from Niger for possible use in a nuclear
weapon.
The lawyer, who has knowledge of the conversations between Rove and prosecutors,
said President Bush's deputy chief of staff has told investigators that he first
learned about the operative from a journalist and that he later learned her name
from Novak.
Rove has said he does not recall who the journalist was who first told him that
Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, or when the conversation occurred, the lawyer
said.
But there's a whole bunch of other information tucked into that. First off, when
two competing papers get the same highly specific story on the same day, that's
not an accident. The story was shopped to them both.
Second, the story was shopped by "a lawyer" who had "knowledge" of Rove's
testimony to prosecutors.
Third, this particular story is the only chain of events which even has the
slightest possibility of keeping Karl Rove out of prison. (And even then, it's
touch and go, given Novak's own, shall we say, inconsistencies in describing how
and when he got the information.)
So I'll give you three guesses which "lawyer" shopped this info out, and the
first two guesses don't count. Here's a hint: it's also someone who, when
defending the innocence of a money laundering suspect, accepted payment in the
form of gold bars and transfers from a Swiss bank account.
This is part of a concerted effort to walk the Rove defense back to arguing over
the narrowest part of the case -- whether or not the special counsel can prove a
felony on the part of Rove himself, and presuming for the moment that he can't,
painting Rove's known involvement with the Plame case as some sort of heroism
instead of the petty, flatulent thuggery Rove is famous for. We're supposed to
believe that outing undercover agents is now the heroic move to take, if someone
close to them writes an op-ed in a newspaper that the White House doesn't like.
Given the brutally uncomfortable recent revelations that a politicized leak on
the part of the U.S. government, describing a then-ongoing classified
intelligence effort -- coinciding with the Democratic National Convention, no
less -- managed to blow that intelligence effort and in all likelihood led to
the escape of some of those that just successfully carried out the terrorist
attack in London, I don't think "heroic" is quite the right word for sabotaging
undercover CIA networks working against WMD proliferation. I think treasonous
sounds a lot closer to the mark.
Setting all that aside, here's where we're at. We now know Karl Rove was one of
the sources in Novak's column. We know he talked to Novak on the 8th, two days
after Wilson's op-ed appeared that rocked the White House and caused them to
admit, on the 7th, that the uranium claims the President cited in his case for
war, were false.
Nevertheless, for the last two years the White House claimed repeatedly that
Karl Rove, by name, was not involved with the case. We know that to be patently
untrue.
So the question remains. There remain only two possibilities: either the
President of the United States knew about Rove's involvement with the Plame
case, and lied to the country, or Karl Rove lied to the President about his
involvement.
The President must respond to these events. This isn't about the criminal
investigation. This is about Karl Rove's already known involvement -- and the
White House having lied about it for two years.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/15/AR2005071500036.html
http://nytimes.com/2005/07/15/politics/15rove.html?hp&ex=1121400000&en=15d2c0ff1133350b&ei=5094&partner=homepage
-The Daily Kos
-Forwarded by Robert Scardapane
In response to the judge in the Shoe Bomber case,
Michael Patmas writes:
I love what that judge had to say. gave me shivers it was so good. good thing
I'm not a judge. had I heard Reid say "I'm
at war with your country"...I would of hung his (butt) on the spot.
And in response to Senator Rick Santorum's
statement about those liberal, gay and pedophile inhabitants of
Massachusetts, Michael
Patmas writes:
I don't think Santorum is so far off base.
Boston, like SF,
NYC and other bastions of progressive
thinking is filled with dozens of legal gay porn spots where hundreds
of men have anonymous high risk, unprotected sex with other men...not very smart
in the age of HIV. Yet, a key centerpiece of the
progressive agenda is the legalization and promotion of such
businesses and lifestyles including advocating for adults having gay sex with
children. That the Catholic Church has become a sanctuary for pedophiles
bankrupting some archdiocese and since Boston is the epicenter of that
scandal...I don't have much difficulty connecting those dots....
That's a reason I love Utah. Better snow, nicer
people, cleaner living. No gay porn peep shows on every corner like
SF.
So here are some links for Michael, in case he ever gets back to Utah:
-The First Return from a www.yahoo.com
search using the words "gay" and "Utah"
Then Michael Patmas responded:
Sure. There are some there (in Utah) too. But what
you DON'T have is a porn shop on every corner with "peep" shows that promote
anonymous sex. If you haven't been to SF, Seattle,
LA or Portland lately...you should see the
proliferation of these businesses. There are hundreds. They draw sickos and
spread STD's. Utah and Idaho has some gays no doubt.
The difference is, in the cities I mention...they ram their sexual lifestyle
down the publics' throat (nice visual -NG)
and are staunchly protected by the liberal
political establishment. Remember what 42nd street used to look like? It's here.
and its worse.
So I forwarded a list of registered sex offenders
from just one Salt Lake City, Utah zip code and one New York city zip code that
I know is highly populated, very liberal and has a large gay community:
Here is the count of that zip code ( I picked it randomly) in Utah vs. the one
zip code in New York City (I would have used a Boston zip code, but they don't
separate their sexual offender list that way):
Zip Code 84010 in salt Lake City, Utah =
30 Registered Sex Offenders
Zip Code 10025 in New York
City's highly populated Upper West Side =
16 Registered Sex Offenders
Hey! That's just about two sickos in Utah for
every one sicko in New York!
-Noah Greenberg
Quotes
Here's another great quote from the Watergate era:
"Forget the myths the media's created about the White
House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of
hand."
-Deep Throat (Hal Holbrook), "All the President's Men" (1976)
Has anything changed in 30 years?
-Eddie Konczal
Yeah, Eddie. These guys got smarter. They've
learned how to manipulate, and even own the media.
Now they are truly dangerous.
-Noah Greenberg
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-Noah Greenberg