Monday edition - December 17, 2007

Pliers...more satisfying than impeachment.

For Bush, if it looks like torture, feels like torture, and smells like torture, it isn't. - Grant Gerver, www.seriouskidding.com

www.buckfush.com

The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam News

• US military deaths in Iraq at 3,893 AP

• www.iraqbodycount.org

• Two US soldiers killed in Iraq: military AFP

• Iraq violence kills eight AFP

• Synchronized bombings in Baghdad kill 2 AP

• Militants strike Baghdad neighborhood patrols Reuters

• Afghan, NATO troops kill 20 Taliban in operation Reuters

• Turkey Reports Bombing Kurdish Rebel Targets in Iraq New York Times

• Polish PM wants troops out of Iraq in October 2008 AFP

• Muslim pilgrims leave Mecca city at start of haj Reuters South Africa

• As Pakistan lifts emergency rule, Musharraf eyes next step Christian Science Monitor

• Al Qaeda No. 2 blasts 'traitors' CNN 

• Iraq sees need for foreign troops for 10 years Reuters

• Putin Agrees to Be Protégé’s Prime Minister New York Times

Shred This

600 percent: The cost of government paper-shredding has increased since President Bush took office. USASpending tracked how the government spent $452,807 on contracts for paper-shredding services in 2000, only to see that number rise astronomically to over $2.9 million in 2006.

Disturbing News

• Reservoirs Closed After Carcinogen Is Found New York Times 

• Mexico, U.S. suffer as Rio Grande sucked dry Reuters

Huckabee Dog Abuse and Cover Up?

As Mike Huckabee gains in the polls, the former Arkansas governor is finding that his record in office is getting more scrutiny. One issue likely to get attention is his handling of a sensitive family matter: allegations that one of his sons was involved in the hanging of a stray dog at a Boy Scout camp in 1998. The incident led to the dismissal of David Huckabee, then 17, from his job as a counselor at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, Ark. It also prompted the local prosecuting attorney— bombarded with complaints generated by a national animal-rights group—to write a letter to the Arkansas state police seeking help investigating whether David and another teenager had violated state animal-cruelty laws. The state police never granted the request, and no charges were ever filed. But John Bailey, then the director of Arkansas's state police, tells NEWSWEEK that Governor Huckabee's chief of staff and personal lawyer both leaned on him to write a letter officially denying the local prosecutor's request.

www.internetweekly.org

Republican Shenanigans

• Hoekstra defies Bush, pledges probe of destroyed CIA tapes WTOL, OH

• Rice: Somalia Needs Peacekeepers TIME

• GOP Candidates Scrambling to Cope With Rise of Huckabee New York Times

• Ron Paul White House bid raises $4.5 million Reuters

• McCain wins Lieberman endorsement Reuters

Additions to the Republican Dictionary

A

Asshole.- See W

David W

C

Conscience - Curiously absent in the evangelical republican version of Christianity.

John A

E
Ethics - A code of conduct which, for Republicans, includes lying about weapons of mass disctruction after condemning a Democratic president for lying about his sex life, stealing elections, and keeping mistresses on the side while condemning a Democratic president for getting a little on the side.

F
Fiscal Responsibility - Making sure we have enough money for our
little pet war by not squandering it on unnecessary stuff like combating
global warming and insuring poor kids.
 

H
Hypocrisy - Something liberals keep accusing us of totally embodying.
We have no idea what it means.

hugs,
Kathy
Murfreesboro, TN

"D" is for the grades George got in school.

"U" is for uniter, not divider (yeah, right).

"B" is for the bombs he rains down on civilians.

"Y" is the question we ask ourselves everyday.

"A" is for the agony of torture.

(Put them all together, they spell DUBYA--the worst president this country has ever known....)

Ron B

 

Rock-The-Voter News

• Richardson Is Sick of Democratic 'Food Fights' ABC News

• Calling him a 'winner,' Iowa's first lady backs Edwards DesMoinesRegister.com

• Obama Describes Faith Amid False Rumors The Associated Press

• Clinton Kicks off Helicopter Tour With Endorsement CBS News

The War Prayer by Mark Twain - a Film

Email

Subject: Pelosi taking impeachment off the table

So, we only stand up for a sure thing? Nuts. What ever happened to doing the right thing regardless of the consequences? Get some backbone and stand up for something. Geeze.
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I say: Impeach, Indict, Impale

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Impeach, Indict and Waterboard

Impeachment Is On Their Table

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) doesn't get confused with Dennis Kucinich very often. But now the veteran Chicago congressman and the quixotic Ohio presidential wannabe have something in common: a desire to boot the vice president from office.

Biz-Tech News

• Oil Prices Fall on Economic Worries The Associated Press

• Greenspan Urges US to Help Those Facing Foreclosure New York Times

• Google's Knol experiment to rival Wikipedia? CNET News.com

• Study: Googling oneself is more popular AP

• Gaming Investors Say "W00t" Motley Fool

CIA to Cooperate With Congress On Those Destroyed Tapes?

CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said Saturday, "the CIA will cooperate fully with both the preliminary inquiry by the Department of Justice and the CIA Inspector General as well as with the Congress. That has been, and certainly continues to be the case."

www.freewayblogger.com

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• What really goes on in Guantánamo Bay Monsters and Critics.com, UK

Baseball takes swift action in wake of steroid storm: raises ticket prices - Grant Gerver, www.seriouskidding.com

Steroid Age Mutant Baseball Players
By: Hubert Wilson

A message for our conservative friends

For those of you planning on voting republican to defeat the threat posed by illegal immigration, please realize: The republicans are going to handle it the same way they handled abortion. After 12 years of controlling Congress and 8 years of controlling the Presidency; they've done nothing about abortion. They aren't going to do anything about illegal immigration either. Without things like immigration and abortion, they'd be forced to address the real issues like the economy, healthcare, education, and the blowback from our occupation of Iraq. So if you want to see nothing done about illegal immigration... go ahead... vote Republican. - www.oldamericancentury.org

Go-F***-Yourself News

• Bush and Cheney: All dressed up and no place to go Online Journal, FL

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