To all those who claim we are loosing in Iraq

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43889

I'm Watching the Kennedy Center Awards...

Great artists deserve recognition. I think art can traverse boundaries that otherwise would not be crossed. I'm thinking of artists like Monet or Mozart. People like Billy Holiday and Ray Charles. The Kennedy Center honors these types of contemporaries as the President watches. I noticed how he is getting less air time than Usher... Maybe the MSM hasn't heard that his approval ratings are soaring. He did get a brief shot but was mid-scowl so they cut it short.
Oh well... There's always next year.

Remember People What we say is the Opposite of what we Mean

“We do not torture,” Bush declared in response to reports of secret CIA prisons overseas.

“It was clear to me there that there was a visible audit trail from the vice president’s office through the secretary of defense down to the commanders in the field,” said Lawrence Wilkerson
Wilkerson said the view of Cheney’s office was put in “carefully couched” terms but that to a soldier in the field it meant sometimes using interrogation techniques that “were not in accordance with the spirit of the Geneva Conventions and the law of war.” He said he no longer has access to the paperwork.
Cheney spokeswoman Jennifer Mayfield declined to comment on Wilkerson’s remarks.

US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice yesterday denied that CIA "ghost flights" landing on British soil are used to smuggle terror suspects to torture centres.
The flights have landed at UK airports including Glasgow, Prestwick and Edinburgh.
Rice insisted the US did not permit torture. But she refused to confirm that the CIA operated secret prisons in "black sites" across Eastern Europe...

Khaled al-Masri, who is being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, said he was arrested while attempting to enter Macedonia for a holiday trip and flown to Afghanistan. During five months in captivity he was subjected to “torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,” says a lawsuit he filed in U.S. District Court in suburban Alexandria, Va.
So remember that when these Bush administration officials say ANYTHING the opposite is the truth.
No Child Left Behind
"You're doing a heck of a job Brownie"
Clear Skies
"I don't think that we should ever be involved in Nation building"
"I support small businesses"
" I don't drink"
"Never tried cocaine"
You get the idea...

Sharp Objects in the Cabin! Oh My!

Listen here folks... Any blade that does not lock or is not fixed will more than likely cut off the wielders fingers rather than make a useful weapon. I have a Swiss Army knife that has a blade on it but if I try to do anything other than cut the cheese I am in trouble...
I don't even whittle with it.
So the uproar about small scissors is just so stupid.
I think that all passengers should be allowed to carry knives. Real sharp locking blades that can be used as weapons.
I say this in remembrance of the passengers who were able to overcome the hijackers and stop the terrorist attack on whatever they were headed for. I'll bet you that a few of them had knives. I'll bet you that they looked around and saw that the hijackers had little box cutters and knew that they could use their own blades to thwart the attack.
After all the problem isn't that people carry knives or even guns. The problem is that they do stupid things with them. Now we can't even defend ourselves.

Personally I'd like to see a marshal on every flight. Put a uniformed guard in the cabin, give the flight attendants (those who want it) training and arm them. Then let the regular passengers carry their little Swiss Army knives and scissors and whatever. If anybody starts anything they know that they are going to have to deal with a bunch of armed, pissed off passengers. Since the alternative is crashing into a building, I think that we will see a lot of coach schlubs (myself included) stabbing the shit out of terrorists.
A few incidents like that and we won't have this terrorist issue distracting us from the real problem of Bush and Co stealing American futures and dooming us to a life of misery and poverty.
So call the TSA and tell them. Let us carry knives.