History Is A Bitch

Especially when we have the internets or intertubes or whatever they are called. Kevin Drum ought to be truly ashamed. Via Atrios. I stopped reading Drum a long time ago. These so-called liberal hawks are no more than ReThug lite, much like the Clintons.

If your opposition to war is based on the idea that Saddam does indeed possess illegal weapons but it's best to leave him alone anyway, well and good. But if it's based on the idea that the administration is lying and none of this stuff exists, you should tread carefully. I think it's pretty likely you will be proven wrong shortly.

Deflection Deception

Our taxes being spent on something worthwhile. Will the rest of the federal government do something about the problem? Naw, look, another #2 Al Qaeda leader caught. Wait, wait, don't tell me, there's a pre-9/11 Saddam/Al Qaeda connection. Well, not so much. &, of course, eh, not so not so much. I hate these bastards.

Another Day Of Infamy

September 08

1974 President Ford pardons former President Nixon

I'd forgotten. I do remember that I was in a home on 2nd St. in a town in far northern Wisco helping to figure out who got what from a pickup truckload of food that a couple of us had brought up from the Cities. That was back before the Food Coop storefront. We were listening to the radio & the announcement came on the air. Looking back, it was another downward step in the decline of democracy in America. Headline via The Progressive.