Letter of resignation submitted to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell by U.S. diplomat John Brady Kiesling, a career diplomat who has served the United States at embassies from Israel to Morocco to Armenia. My favorite part: “Why does our President condone the swaggering and contemptuous approach to our friends and allies this Administration is fostering, including among its most senior officials. Has “oderint dum metuant” really become our motto?”
If you’ve never seen a Fark.com Photoshop contest, then this instant classic one will explain it all – basically they take a photo and alter it in photoshop in a funny way. Today’s contest: What’s missing from George Bush’s hands?
I’ve had several people close to me recently express dismay at the political ideas I’ve been writing in this weblog lately. Actually, I’ve been writing the same things in this log for over three years, and on my website in essays and other writing since 1994. But just recently, people have asked me if I wasn’t being a bit too liberal. Sort of as if I just started writing this way. It’s seriously creeping me out. Because what the hell is coming over people? Suddenly I should watch what I say? Why?
Thanks to Tom Tomorrow:
If we cannot find Osama, bomb Iraq.
If the markets hurt your mamma, bomb Iraq.
If the terrorists are Saudis and the banks take back your Audi
And the TV shows are bawdy, bomb Iraq.
Sending all my love to Germany and France for standing up against our moron president.
And for those of you who may not be aware, Sunday was an international day of protest against the war with Iraq, a protest that the Bush Administration tried to prevent in New York City by filing a brief urging judges to uphold denial of the permit. Let me repeat that, for those of you who might be constitutionally challenged… a protest that the Bush Administration tried to prevent by filing a brief urging judges to uphold denial of the permit.
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER, ANYMORE THAT WE LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? Does anyone actually remember what that means?
One of the most exciting speeches given recently by a U.S. senator. I wish my senators were giving speeches like this.
Information Awareness Office (IAO): A project of the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The IAO is responsible for a controversial project at the Pentagon called Total Information Awareness, run by former Reagan aide and convicted criminal John Poindexter. Total Information Awareness is a master database of corporate databases, collecting information on anyone and anything, proportedly to “catch bad guys.” Who the bad guys they are after are is a subject of concern. This kind of a database would allow the government wide-scale access to information about law-abiding citizens, which is why it’s so controversial, and under attack from both liberal and conservative elements, including the ACLU.
But, don’t worry, because you can buy the IAO Thong!
10. Angels Shouldn’t Go Around "Touching" Anyone
9. Mister Rogers’ sissy loafers.
8. "Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane" are lesbian, gay, gay and lesbian.
7. Bastards at MTV didn’t even look at my "Road Rules" audition tape.
6. If you don’t pay the bill on time, Playboy channel gets all fuzzy.
5. Fox won’t even consider "World’s Wildest Baptism Accidents"
4. History Channel only presents negative aspects of Spanish Inquisition
3. I’m busting my ass on public access while some joker in a glass church is getting Super Bowl numbers
2. Why don’t Scully and Mulder "do it" already and get it over with
1. Dick Van Dyke
As long as I’m stealing posts from Lori’s blog — here’s something else your terrorist alert grocery shopping list. Apparently the federal government says we’re supposed to stockpile food and water, batteries, flashlights and battery powered radios, and plastic to tape over our doors and windows. Yikes.
I’m totally stealing this from my friend Lori… but I think it’s worth looking at, because, hell…. it says a lot about the dumbass President we have.
