Today's hypocrisy

posted on freemarketnews.com:

BUSH REMARK MOST GRAVE?
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.com
Allegations about President Bush, and his "just a goddamned piece of paper" dismissal of the US Constitution, continue to be made by Doug Thompson, the publisher of Capitol Hill Blue. Thompson wrote his initial story over the weekend, defended it on Sunday and points out, in a radio interview with alternative press reporter Steve Watson, that the story has been corroborated by three separate sources. In an article about the interview, Watson presents quotes from Thompson's story about President Bush's comments as follows:
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“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”

“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
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The President must swear to uphold the US Constitution before taking office. Thus Bush's assertion, if publicly corroborated, constitutes grounds for impeachment. An additional complication is that anyone in public office hearing such a remark - deeming it serious - and not revealing it is then complicit with the president and thus must be seen in sympathy with the sentiment. In this case, as Thompson tells it, the Republican leadership sat with the Bush.

Having reported this most grave charge, Thompson would perform a great service by placing someone on the record. This would not constitute proof for those inclined to doubt, but would help substantiate the gravity of the allegations. - ST
staff reports - Free-Market News Network

So how will defenders of Bush, supposed patriots, react to this news? Or will they even hear about it? Spread the news that the American president has no respect for the U.S. Constitution, the document that guarantees the freedoms he claims his armed forces fight to protect. It's the ultimate hypocrisy if Bush claims to be spreading freedom and democracy but doesn't respect the document that granted us those things.

What to say

You know that look on my face, the one you interpret as anger/fear/general response or interest in what you're saying? It's actually the expression of my amazement at the fact that you continue to rant at me about your silly self-involved opinions. Your feelings, for instance—there's one subject you go on about all the time, little noticing that I stopped even pretending to listen long ago.

Rejected Names for Purell

1. Sniff this stuff and feel the hairs in your nose burn into ash
2. No more germs or bacteria, even the beneficial kind
3. Pure L new and improved with fortified L
4. Clear junk with a ton of alcohol in it for germophobic suckers who can't resist picking it up and putting it in their cart while waiting in line at the Target checkout
5. Sterile goop

From Fred Francis

"Deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history"? What does that even mean? It doesn’t mean anything. Really. Nonsensical phraseology spewed by a deeply irresponsible and quite entrenched governmental PR department. The problem is, advertising works.

If the public ever got hold of a dictionary and brushed up on the subtleties of rhetoric, they’d finally understand what’s going on ... and they’d also know exactly how best to express their fresh shock (and awe) of nauseated horror at all the events of this century.

And then they’d go back to playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Today's Bushspeak

From cnn.com:
"President Bush next hour will respond to accusations that his administration manipulated intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to justify the war, a senior administration official says. The president will "directly take on some of these false attacks that have been recently brought up by some Democratic leaders," the official said."

How did Bush handle "directly taking on" the issue? He said it's "deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began."

So that whole inquiry into whether the administration trumped up pre-war intelligence and basically lied to the American people to promote the war, and now over 2000 soldiers are dead? That's over. Case closed.

Long live the Imperial Emperor.

Whew, I know I feel better.

There's nothing like a good commercial jingle to make your day

I've made a career decision. I'm going to write commercial jingles now. I don't live or work in Hollywood, and most of the jingle ideas I've had are for products that don't actually exist, but I still think I could make it work.

If I could figure out how to record and post these little jingles onto this blog, you could hear these bits of my -- well, my genius, really. That's the only word for it.

So far, I've come up with one for Decker Hot Dogs. Yes, I know I'm a vegetarian. But the little tune I came up with just went with "Decker" not "Smart Dogs." Although I suppose they have the same number of syllables, so I could just substitute. Maybe I'll work on that.

I'll have to work on a lot of things.

Maybe tomorrow I'll start on that. Yeah.

From Boston.com

The 'I' word
By Ralph Nader and Kevin Zeese May 31, 2005
THE IMPEACHMENT of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, should be part of mainstream political discourse.
Minutes from a summer 2002 meeting involving British Prime Minister Tony Blair reveal that the Bush administration was ''fixing" the intelligence to justify invading Iraq. US intelligence used to justify the war demonstrates repeatedly the truth of the meeting minutes -- evidence was thin and needed fixing.
President Clinton was impeached for perjury about his sexual relationships. Comparing Clinton's misbehavior to a destructive and costly war occupation launched in March 2003 under false pretenses in violation of domestic and international law certainly merits introduction of an impeachment resolution.
Eighty-nine members of Congress have asked the president whether intelligence was manipulated to lead the United States to war. The letter points to British meeting minutes that raise ''troubling new questions regarding the legal justifications for the war." Those minutes describe the case for war as ''thin" and Saddam as ''nonthreatening to his neighbors," and ''Britain and America had to create conditions to justify a war." Finally, military action was ''seen as inevitable . . . But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
Indeed, there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, nor any imminent threat to the United States:
The International Atomic Energy Agency Iraq inspection team reported in 1998, ''there were no indications of Iraq having achieved its program goals of producing a nuclear weapon; nor were there any indications that there remained in Iraq any physical capability for production of amounts of weapon-usable material." A 2003 update by the IAEA reached the same conclusions.
The CIA told the White House in February 2001: ''We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has . . . reconstitute[d] its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Colin Powell said in February 2001 that Saddam Hussein ''has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction."
The CIA told the White House in two Fall 2002 memos not to make claims of Iraq uranium purchases. CIA Director George Tenet personally called top national security officials imploring them not to use that claim as proof of an Iraq nuclear threat.
Regarding unmanned bombers highlighted by Bush, the Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center concluded they could not carry weapons spray devices. The Defense Intelligence Agency told the president in June 2002 that the unmanned aerial bombers were unproven. Further, there was no reliable information showing Iraq was producing or stockpiling chemical weapons or whether it had established chemical agent production facilities.
When discussing WMD the CIA used words like ''might" and ''could." The case was always circumstantial with equivocations, unlike the president and vice president, e.g., Cheney said on Aug. 26, 2002: ''Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction."
The State Department in 2003 said: ''The activities we have detected do not . . . add up to a compelling case that Iraq is currently pursuing . . . an integrated and comprehensive approach to acquire nuclear weapons."
The National Intelligence Estimate issued in October 2002 said ''We have no specific intelligence information that Saddam's regime has directed attacks against US territory."
The UN, IAEA, the State and Energy departments, the Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center, US inspectors, and even the CIA concluded there was no basis for the Bush-Cheney public assertions. Yet, President Bush told the public in September 2002 that Iraq ''could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as 45 minutes after the order is given." And, just before the invasion, President Bush said: ''Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."
The president and vice president have artfully dodged the central question: ''Did the administration mislead us into war by manipulating and misstating intelligence concerning weapons of mass destruction and alleged ties to Al Qaeda, suppressing contrary intelligence, and deliberately exaggerating the danger a contained, weakened Iraq posed to the United States and its neighbors?"
If this is answered affirmatively Bush and Cheney have committed ''high crimes and misdemeanors." It is time for Congress to investigate the illegal Iraq war as we move toward the third year of the endless quagmire that many security experts believe jeopardizes US safety by recruiting and training more terrorists. A Resolution of Impeachment would be a first step. Based on the mountains of fabrications, deceptions, and lies, it is time to debate the ''I" word.

Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate. Kevin Zeese is director of DemocracyRising.US.

T-shirts for everyone

It's enough to just eat away my soul, sitting next to these republicans every day. Perhaps I could wear a t-shirt that says "if you voted for Bush, DON'T TALK TO ME." Then every day, I could wear a new t-shirt:

MONDAY: If you voted for Bush--congratulations! your guy's approval rating is lower than Nixon's at the height of the Watergate scandal!
TUESDAY: If you voted for Bush--perhaps you could donate to Scooter, Rove and Cheney's bail bond money?
WEDNESDAY: If you voted for Bush--you have two choices: some people cheating on welfare vs. STARVING CHILDREN. You decide!
THURSDAY: If you voted for Bush--Freedom really IS "on the march"--it's marching right out of America!
FRIDAY: If you voted for Bush--oh, just kiss my ass, you moron.