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Wednesday, February 11, 2004 |
Special "Consider Arms Beat Me To All The Other Stories" Edition
I'm A Member Of The Highest Court In The Land, Quack! Quack! Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, responding to a question regarding a conflict of interest in him sitting on a case that involves friend and VP Dick Cheney, responded as any high court member would, with onomatopoeia. "This was a government issue. It's acceptable practice to socialize with executive branch officials when there are not personal claims against them. That's all I'm going to say for now. Quack, quack." Scalia and Cheney took a little duck hunting trip together last month, just three weeks after the high court agreed to hear a case involving a lawsuit that seeks the release of records from Cheney's secret energy task force meetings. While this type of behavior is disturbing, it kinda gives me an idea. If I was a SCOTUS justice I'd deliver my dissenting remarks like a pterodactyl, "BRRRRRRRAAAAACCCCKKKKKK!!!!"
- M.C. No Shame
1:19:54 PM 
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TODAY'S TOP FIVE: A Comcast of Truth purchasing the Disney of Falsehood.
Deja Vu All Over Again The Iraqi insurgency continues to wind down with the second car bombing in 24 hours, this one killing nearly 36 Iraqis applying for jobs as soldiers.
History Happens First As Tragedy, and Second as a Job in the Bush Administration The Iran-Contra nostalgia that has gripped the Bush administration has turned up yet another familiar face from those halcyon days: Laurence Silberman, the judge who overturned Ollie North's conviction, will be the senior Republican on the panel investigating the "intelligence failures" that predated the Iraq war. Longtime Iranscam fans may also recall Silberman as one of the Republicans who met with Iranian officials in 1980 to help set up the October Surprise, which was a delay in the release of hostages until after the election. It's too bad Bill Casey's dead; I'm sure he'd have some kind of job in the Bush White House by now.
Since We Were Speaking of Traitors... I thought I'd mention this little tidbit from the grand jury testimony in the Valerie Plame affair: White House phone logs show that several aides talked to furry slug Bob Novak right before the July 14 column in which Novak illegally and treasonously revealed the identity of Plame, an undercover CIA operative. White House emails also reveal criticism of Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, who's debunking of the Niger uranium scam set this whole thing in motion. Even better news: the prosecutors are reportedly planning to subpoena Novak and demand that he name his sources. If Novak refuses, in keeping with the ethical code of journalism, he goes to jail. Oh, dare we dream of a world in which the furry slug is behind bars?
What Went Wrong? This exhaustive but helpful analysis of the Iraq war gives the lie to something that even I sort of believed: that the reason for the colossal fuck-up after the fall of Saddam was a lack of planning. As it turns out, there was plenty of meticulous, detailed planning which pointed out the U.S. would be facing exactly the hazards we're confronting now. It was just ignored by the people at the top, just like the "intelligence failure" now being investigated by a fraudulent panel was more of a failure to pay attention to intelligence rather than a failure to gather it accurately.
Expats for Democracy Here's an interesting little story about American expatriates eagerly supporting the candidacy of John Kerry. Democrats living abroad are packing their caucuses in record numbers to vote for Kerry, who they think is the guy to beat Bush. "We've got branches in parts of the world we've never had before. Austria (as a branch) didn't exist four weeks ago," says the organizer of the London caucus. "We've got 68 people in Armenia -- I didn't know we even had any Americans in Armenia! South Africa, Malawi, Kenya and the Cameroon have started up in just the last two months. We've had caucuses in Bosnia, Korea, Colombia." That says something about George Bush: Even Malawi is starting to look better.
-Consider Arms
12:10:15 PM
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As The Daily Car Bombs In Iraq Blur Into One Gigantic Quagmire...
This Is How It Starts... Excellent article from Salon about growing surveillance and intimidation against anti-war protesters from the government. And you thought COINTELPRO, agent provocateurs and Pinkerton thugs were only footnotes left out of your history books. Soon they will be items left out of your nightly newscast from the liberal media.
What Are You Doing After Being Detained In Afghanistan? I'm Going To Disney World, Er, I Mean Guantanamo Bay. Call me cynical, but I seriously doubt that a 15 year old boy had a blast being detained by the US military for over a year. This bullshit sounds like the communiqués that would come from Cultural revolution-era China, "American heroes of freedom taught me words in the language of happiness, English! I shall return to my homeland and proclaim the virtues of my new great father George W. Bush! Hooray for democracy! Hooray for America!"
God Fires A Warning Shot Over The Middle East's Head, Tells Them To Stop Being Such Dicks
How Do You Spell Kerry's Latest Scandal? P.H.O.T.O.S.H.O.P. If you listen closely you can hear the Right loosening the pipes of the plumbing to throw the kitchen sink at Kerry in the fall. In this ridiculous "news" story carried over from bullshit brothers-in-arms NewsMax to WorldNetDaily, a photo has apparently surfaced showing a younger John Kerry at an anti-war rally with none other than Hanoi Jane herself. Said Ted Sampley, founder of Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry with headquarters in the magical land of make-believe, "We represent hundreds of thousands of American veterans who do not want to see John Kerry anywhere near the Oval Office. Many Vietnam vets have been duped into thinking Kerry is their friend. He is not. To us, he is 'Hanoi John.'"
One Bead Short Of A Full Rosary Mel Gibson tells an interviewer that his wife might go to hell for being an Episcopalian. Truly he is the instrument for God's movie. Amen.
-The Sikh Geek
9:37:11 AM
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