Dick, Dick, Dick...

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C'mon, Dick- get in the game! Poor Cheney is apparently outraged that Dubya didn't pardon Scooter Libby, and is prone, over the last couple of weeks, to rants and raves about it.

Look, it's very simple, but it does highlight the different view of the world between Dubya and his Veep.

Dick Cheney thinks he's invincible, thinks that no matter what he does, any prosecution of him will eventually go before his 5 cronies on the Supreme Court. Consequently, he has done whatever he wanted for 8 years.

Dubya, however, is not the ideologue Dick is, he has failed at everything he has tried, and is an opportunist. Will Ferrell overshot the mark, but not by much.

It's quite simple: Dubya realizes that pardoning Scooter Libby would allow him to subsequently talk or testify about the whole thing without restraint- and George can't have THAT happen. Simply commuting his sentence has kept him out of prison, but kept his tongue tied at the same time.

On the very day that, finally, Speaker Pelosi and others have started talking about prosecutions, Dick Cheney is still railing about Libby being raped by Dubya.

We have known for 8 years that they both were zealous idiots, but we always thought Dick was smarter than George.

Guess not...

Beaver sighting...

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A Beaver has been sighted in the Detroit River for the first time in 75 years. I guess there is neither a Paradise Beach nor a Stinson Beach on the Detroit River...

Huh?

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A South Carolina sheriff is not going to charge swimmer Michael Phelps after a photo of the 14-time gold medalist showed him smoking from a marijuana pipe. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott made the decision Monday.

Huh?

A picture of somebody smoking "something" in a water pipe can show up, without the person being caught in the act by a cop, and charges can be even considered?

I realize this is South Carolina, after all, but it's not like a Red Light Cam, or a Security Cam, where all the facts are in the photo.

Michael Phelps apologized for "regrettable behavior", and never once, nor since, has he mentioned marijuana by name- not in public anyway.

Do these idiots that end up behind the badge not pay attention when they swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America?

As the cartoon I read in "The Week" implied, it is one thing to botch the Oath of Office the way John Roberts did when swearing in Barack Obama- it's another thing to botch it the way George Bush did over the last 8 years.

I don't know how long Sheriff Leon has been in office, but he still has a Lott to learn...

A child...

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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I- fuck that! I kept most of my childhood ways and things and thoughts. I still believe in the Waltons, the Ingalls, the Spencers, the Finches, the Joads, the Andersons, the Keatons, the Cunninghams, and even the Grapes.

The Pope, the Voice of God...

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The Pope said today that any denial of the Holocaust is "intolerable"- but he reinstated a Bishop that is a denier of the Holocaust.

god, I love religion...

My friend Cario did, long ago, come up with one advantage of the Mormons- who have Bishops with wives and kids.

When they have a son? Son of the Bish...

Feliz Candles...

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Happy 200th Birthday to two very pivotal men, and two of my heores, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin...

Chuck, if we ever meet, we need to discuss another chapter for "Origin of the Species":

Chapter 15: Natural Selection, The Anomalies

A. George W. Bush
B. Sarah Palin
C.
D.

Changing the Emperor's Clothes...

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I am sick and tired of hearing over the last several weeks that Goerge Bush kept us safe for almost 8 years.

First of all, he had 9/11 information before it happened, and he ignored it.

Secondly, he protected us how? When? Where?

I could jump on the bandwagons with these morally-bankrupt Republicans, and make the claim, for instance, that Georgie Pordgie kept me from getting AIDS for almost 8 years; or that he protected me from starvation; or that he kept me from getting poisoned.

The only problem is I didn't fuck anybody with AIDS, I hadplenty of food entirely with George, and nobody wanted to poison me- not seriously enough to do anything about it, anyway.

George only protected us in the way this country protected itself by interning and stealing the belongings and land from the Japanese-Americans in WW II.

You heard it here first, that trampling all over the Constitution back then, stopped cold already-planned attacks on Taft, Knights Landing, Colusa, Wilton, and what was then Monticello.

Living in America is a privilege, an honor, but it's also risky- having liberties and freedoms means you are vulnerable to those who would trample upon them, by definition.

So be it...

And another thing: you morons, quit whining that you don't want the "former terrorists" housed in your states, that the California Liberals can take them.

We are honored by your compliments and recognition- we are liberal, we read, we can count, and we understand the law- in our great country, you are either a criminal or a prisoner of war- not some trumped up category that allows torturing of people participating in what you yourselves describe as a "War".

People were executed after WW II for having tortured people using "waterboarding".

The Geneva Convention is many things, but "quaint" is not amongst them.

Civil Liberties are not to be victims of advancing technology and new types of warfare...

Grandfather's Old Party

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We have now seen the demise of the GOP. It can never recover. Sure, it will remain in name, but in name only- Barry Goldwater would be ashamed, as would the man who would turn 200 years old this week, Abraham Lincoln.

When it came time to Government-Welfare-Rescue their rich banker friends, who all arrived in Washington in private jets, it was a national crisis of monumental proportions, and action was not only critical, it was swift, bi-partisan action that was needed, and the naysayers were to be considered traitors and unpatriotic.

Then came the Automakers. Somehow, the fact that THEY arrived in private jets upset the unsensibilities of the Grand Old Puckers. The difference, of course? The UAW. Consequently, the CEOs and CFOs, and CPRs, and ABCs, and Eee-eye-eee-ohs of the Big Three, who collectively make a pittance in salary and benefits compared to the excesses of Wall Street, were treated like children, and made to crawl back to D.C. a second time, carpooling figuratively on their hands and knees, god forbid in their SUVs or Lear 23s.

Now it's Middle America. You, probably me, the folks next door and across the street- and 90% of the rest of us. What do we hear? Tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts- still the mantra, their rallying cry- huh?

Take care of the wealthy and they will take care of the rest? Yeah, right.

Trickle Down Economics is like the Nazi Concentration Camps. If you are the one doing the Trickling Down, all looks great; but if you are the one being "Trickled" upon, life sucks- or ends completely.

Is the Nazi comparison out of line? Maybe, but only to the Jews... Remember, their only sin was to deem Jesus a great but mortal man- and be born brunette with brown eyes, instead of blond and blue.

Saving the rich? A crisis... Saving the middle class? They'll think about it...

Even the once-great John McCain failed to regain some of his splendor when given the chance. Not surprising, but nonetheless sad...

The Party of Lincoln, Goldwater, and Eisenhower has been reduced to having stars named Cheney, Palin, David Vitter, Larry Craig, the party of Doolittle and Deelay, Limbaugh and O'Reilly- panderers to the rich and the religious- but mostly un-holy and misguided- and possessors of no scruples or morals.

So be it. GOP: R.I.P? Nah... R.I.H!