Current Events

It’s not a handmade sign from someone in the crowd… It’s an official sign created by Schwarzenegger campaign and handed out to the people in the crowds, who were made to discard their own signs in favor of these.
Talk about controlling the spin… sheesh. There are quite a few stories, all related to Republican candidates, about crowd control and sign control on campaign stops. Freedom of speech? Freedom of assembly? Not in a Republican America, apparently.

Rush Limbaugh is listed twice (racism and illegal drugs) Arnold is listed twice (assaulting women and Nazi sympathies) and the Bush administration wins practically the rest of the list for illegally outing a CIA Agent in a fit of sullen retaliation. It’s not about the leaks, kids — it’s about the fact that the leak endangered national security.
And number Six bears repeating in it’s entirety:

#6. The Bush Administration
“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.” (Dick Cheney, August 26, 2002).
“Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.” (George W. Bush, September 12, 2002).
“If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.” (Ari Fleischer, December 2, 2002).
“We know for a fact that there are weapons there.” (Ari Fleischer, January 9, 2003).
“Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.” (George W. Bush, January 28, 2003).
“We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.” (Colin Powell, February 5, 2003).
“We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons – the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have.” (George Bush February 8, 2003).
“So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not.” (Colin Powell, March 8, 2003).
“Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. (George Bush, March 18, 2003).
“We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.” (Donald Rumsfeld, March 30, 2003).
“At this point we have found substantial evidence of an intent of senior level Iraqi officials, including Saddam, to continue production at some future point in time of weapons of mass destruction. We have not found yet, and I’m sure you know this, otherwise you would know it earlier, we have not found at this point, actual weapons.” (David Kay, chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, October 3, 2003).
Emphasis added to underscore complete and utter uselessness of entire Bush administration.

of my site, who is objecting to the fact that I said the word “assault” in my headline of the previous post. Unwanted touching, done without consent, does indeed fall into the category of “assault.” It’s also ILLEGAL. No, Arnold didn’t rape the 14 (now 15) women who have made these statements, but he did assault them, according to the law, and by his own admission. That’s not just bad behavior. That’s CRIMINAL behavior. That shouldn’t be remedied with an apology. It should be remedied with a jail term. I’ll guarantee if it happened to me, the guy would be behind bars for some length of time.

At first there were seven women, over the weekend, seven more have come forward to say that Arnold Schwarzenegger has groped, fondled, manhandled, attempted to undress, or did undress them against them against their will, as recently as 2000.
And yet millions of people plan to vote for him anyway. If he wins, I won’t be visiting California with my tourist dollar anytime soon. And this pretty much guarantees I’ll never see T3 or any other movie he’s in.

This blogger does a much better job of summarizing what’s going on in this post.

From transcripts of PBS Online Newshour regarding the White House Outing a CIA Operative to the press:

An Israeli doctor says to a small circle of physicians, “Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks.”
A German doctor says, “That is nothing, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks.”
A Russian doctor says, “In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks.”
A Texas doctor, not to be outdone, says, “You guys are way behind. We took a guy with half a brain out of Texas, put him in the White House for four years, and now half the country is looking for work.”
—Sent to me by my friend Doug

By the Democratic Underground. California Schemin’ Edition: Once upon a time there was an idealistic, principled conservative named Darrell Issa. And Darrell thought that the governor of California, the evil Gray Davis, was doing a terrible, terrible job of looking after the state (despite the fact that all the governors in the country were in trouble because of King George W. Bush’s irresponsible fiscal policies). So Darrell decided that he would spend millions of dollars of his own hard-earned money to try and boot the evil Gray Davis out of office, and install someone more suitable, such as himself. Darrell was a good, honest person who hadn’t stolen a car in years…