Tuesday, November 29, 2005

 

EU: Bush Will Be Slobo'd To China

"All U.S. actions comply with U.S. laws," Mr. McCormack said. "They comply with the United States Constitution, and they comply with our international obligations." Mr. McCormack declined to answer whether he was sure American actions complied with European laws.

Translation: Yep, we're torturing people. All over Eastern Europe, too -- and in places the Soviets built just for that purpose.

How ironic is that?

posted by Michael 9:31 PM

Sunday, November 27, 2005

 

The Next Hurrah: What's Coming, Continued

The pundits are complete idiots on Iraq. There is no other way to describe them, listening to them on the talk shows. Every discussion on Iraq devolves to 'where is Hillary on this?' as if the American people really care where Hillary is. Americans want to know where the US is on this. Hillary disappoints me every day, but so what? She's not running until 2008, and we have years of tragedy to get through first.

DemFromCt

posted by Michael 9:16 PM

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

 

Forget It Fitz: It's Chinatown

Apparently, the name of the other shoe in the Plame game is Bob Woodward.

Bob "Curveball" Woodward has now stepped forward and testified, on Monday, before Fitzgerald's investigation that a yet-unnamed senior official (no, not Libby, and apparently not Rove either) leaked it to him, Bob Woodward, that Joe Wilson's wife was a CIA analyst, and oh by the way, this disclosure took place a month before Libby first leaked about her.

So, uh, I guess Woodward's career spinning the shit out of this story is finished, eh?

posted by Michael 10:34 PM

Monday, November 14, 2005

 

Head Feint To The Left Coast, Then Straight Up The Midwest

Because it was our last election with paperless machines, many of us Californians thought they would steal one last election out here, in favor of Arnie's initiatives.

Instead, they returned to the scene of the last crime -- Ken Blackwell's Ohio.

Even though the MSM hasn't caught up with it yet, those inside and outside the government need to toothcomb the impossible Ohio initiative results.

posted by Michael 11:27 PM

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

 

More of a kickin' sitcheyation

(thanks to occam's hatchet, at DailyKos)

In the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" there's a conversation among Pappy O'Daniel's campaign advisors:

"The reason he's pullin' our pants down."
"Gonna paddle a little behind."
"Ain't gonna paddle it - gonna kick it, real hard."
"No, I believe he's gonna paddle it."
"I don't believe that's a proper characterization."
"Well, that's how I'd characterize it."
"I believe it's more of a kickin' sitcheyation."

Yep. Between Virginia, New Jersey and California, I believe it's more of a kickin' sitcheyation.

posted by Michael 12:50 AM

Monday, November 07, 2005

 

Next? Rape Room Redux!

If the following story proves true, we're expanding our repertoire of war crimes:

In a documentary to be broadcast by RAI, the Italian state broadcaster, this morning, a former American soldier who fought at Fallujah says: "I heard the order to pay attention because they were going to use white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military jargon it's known as Willy Pete.

"Phosphorus burns bodies, in fact it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone ... I saw the burned bodies of women and children. Phosphorus explodes and forms a cloud. Anyone within a radius of 150 metres is done for."

Photographs on the website of RaiTG24, the broadcaster's 24-hours news channel, www.rainews24.it, show exactly what the former soldier means. Provided by the Studies Centre of Human Rights in Fallujah, dozens of high-quality, colour close-ups show bodies of Fallujah residents, some still in their beds, whose clothes remain largely intact but whose skin has been dissolved or caramelised or turned the consistency of leather by the shells.

For those of you with strong stomachs, here's the Italian news report. (The American ex Marine is easy enough to understand.)

We've come full circle, folks. The rump reason given for our attack on Iraq was that "he gassed his own people," and that that was so bad, we had to invade.

So when can we expect the UN to ride to our rescue, and put Bushco in the dock at the ICC?

posted by Michael 9:52 PM