The Criminality Continues

Two heads exploding are better than one? When will Congress wake up?

Why conduct months of hearings to investigate how our federal government could have stumbled and bungled as a region of this country awash in destruction waited for help...so as to determine what needs to be done to prevent it from happening again?
Why bother?
Why spend weeks and months hammering out legislation and compromise to that legislation only to have it surreptitiousy signed away by one man now drunk on power and God because he wouldn’t go to rehab like it’s expected of every other normal-Joe-drunk-coke-head-American? Yeah that guy, the vacant idiot tool for Cheney and Addington's quest to expand excutive powers.
Why?
Why should one member of Congress even continue in this charade any longer?

They should all just do a Foley and spend their days in their offices, at their computers and hammer away one-handed at their keyboards engaging in internet sex. At least then they’d be getting fucked on their own terms and get something in return for their efforts.

Buck O'Neil, R.I.P.

Obit here.

Buck O’Neil, a star first baseman and manager in the Negro leagues and a pioneering scout and coach in the major leagues who devoted the final decade of his life to chronicling the lost world of black baseball, died last night in Kansas City, Mo. He was 94.

We're Winning

Here's a pic of the United States' Secretary of State arriving in Bagdhad, Iraq, for a meeting with the Iraqi leadership. Notice the flak jacket she's wearing. I thought thinks were going so swimmingly in Bu$hCo's vanity war? WTF?


According to this report, she was also wearing a helmet.

Wearing a helmet and a flak jacket and flanked by machine-gun-toting bodyguards to defend against insurgents, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came here Thursday, insisting that there were new signs of progress in Iraq and that the Bush administration had never sugarcoated its news about the American occupation.

Reminder

This is one more reason to impeach Bu$hCo, that criminal son-of-a-bitch. It won't happen until the Dems take back Congress & grow a spine.

President Bush this week asserted that he has the executive authority to disobey a new law in which Congress has set minimum qualifications for future heads of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Congress passed the law last week as a response to FEMA's poor handling of Hurricane Katrina. The agency's slow response to flood victims exposed the fact that Michael Brown, Bush's choice to lead the agency, had been a politically connected hire with no prior experience in emergency management.

The Twins

Marigny in her car seat. She passed the car seat test. The Kid wants everyone to notice the long, long eyelashes.

This is Lucy, after a bath & with weirdo bunny slippers on.

Aren't they just the cutest kids in the world? Y'all had better be nodding your heads in agreement.

Complete

Stupidity. This is exactly what a person ought to expect from a ReThug state representative. &, of course, this is in the wake of a principal's murder last week.

In the aftermath of recent school shootings, a state representative has proposed giving principals and teachers the right to arm themselves with handguns.

Frank Lasee (R-Green Bay) announced Wednesday that he plans to introduce legislation early next year that would give teachers and other school personnel the option of carrying concealed weapons. The action was largely prompted by the school shootings in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where Weston Schools principal was killed last week.

Another face of evil in Wisco.

You can contact this moron here:

Madison Office
Room 105 West
State Capitol
P.O. Box 8952
Madison 53708

Telephone
(608) 266-9870

Fax
(608) 282-3602

Voting Address
2380 Bluestone Place
Green Bay 54311

District Telephone
(920) 406-9488

Slow Day

Well, not really. Worked with some kids in the a.m. Then went to Duluth, MN, with The SideKick for some stuff. He had a few errands & I bought a new teevee. I got a 34" Sony flat screen HDTV ready huge tube teevee. It weighs in at 190 pounds. Got it hooked up & running this evening. It looks great. There is, however, a pool on how long it will stay on the floor. The idea being that I have to build a stand for it. See how much support I have out there? Later. Oh I also bought a CD by Tab Benoit & one by The Dirty Dozen Brass Band.

Help Needed

The SideKick, aka Shutterwi, sent along this link. It pays to have friends who are fellow bloggers & good thinkers. Senselessebrenner has been a major embarrassment to my fine state. As my loyal four readers will recall, he represents the hometown of Mrs. coldH2O, that's almost as tough to live down as, ...., well, we won't go there right now. Back to getting rid of a racist s.o.b. - go to Mr. Kennedy's campaign website & donate $10 or$20 dollars or a whole lot more if you're so inclined. We need to rid the great state of Wisco, as well as the nation, of this poisonous piece of human detritus. $10 or $20 dollars is less than you'll spend in the food coop. Or, let's face it, it's Wisco, a couple of hours in the bar.

Another Drowning Victim

This is the kind of thing that Ashland, WI, needs to think about when some on the city council want to cut the fire department. The desire by ReThugs to cut taxes led directly to the death of this woman. I hope they & the sheep that followed them are happy.

Gloucester firefighters took more than 11 minutes to reach a burning house late Sunday, only to find a 42-year-old woman dead inside, 1 mile from a fire station that had been closed recently because of budget cuts

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Now Wait Just A Minute

I thought that we are fighting a global war on terror? Right? & that we need to defeat the enemy of freedom, namely the radical Islamists. Right? Like a lot of progressives, I support(ed) our efforts in Afganistan, after all, they provided sanctuary to al Qaeda & Osama bin Laden. Boy, was I ever wrong & apparently stupid. Here's what Senator Doctor Bill Frist had to say while visiting Afghanistan:

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan war against Taliban guerrillas can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Islamic militia and its supporters into the Afghan government.
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"We're going to need to stay here a long time," Frist said.

The senator said he was warned to expect attacks to increase. There appears to be an "unlimited flow" of Afghans and foreigners "willing to pick up arms and integrate themselves with the Taliban," he said.

He said the only way to win in places like the volatile southern part of the country is to "assimilate people who call themselves Taliban into a larger, more representative government."

"Approaching counterinsurgency by winning hearts and minds will ultimately be the answer," Frist said. "Military versus insurgency one-to-one doesn't sound like it can be won. It sounds to me ... that the Taliban is everywhere."

Emphasis added.

What the fuck? Who's in charge? Who's on Frist? Or is it first? The ReThugs have clearly lost what little minds they had left. I'm going to eat a big Polish sausage with some hot & sweet honey mustard. Oh, & what are we going to do about Senator Doctor Bill Frist aiding & abetting the enemy?

Happy Birthday

Shutterwi turns one year old today. Photo blogging at its best, except for the damn little kids.

Whiskey River

& not Willie Nelson's. These ReThugs are giving gin & bourbon really bad names. First, we have this, then secondly, the boy-lover goes to rehab. Man, I drink, but have never taken a bribe or propositioned an underage male.

Now, I don't know if this quote attributed to Willie is true, but it sure makes sense to me.

”It's a good thing I had a bag of Marijuana instead of a bag of spinach. Otherwise, I'd be dead by now."

Had Enough?

Will this finally be the wake-up call Wal-Mart workers will answer? I sure hope so. Wal-Mart is a great example of the evil side of a market economy. & yet Wall Street approves & cheers them on.

But some Wal-Mart workers say the changes are further reducing their already modest incomes and putting a serious strain on their child-rearing and personal lives. Current and former Wal-Mart workers say some managers have insisted that they make themselves available around the clock, and assert that the company is making changes with an eye to forcing out longtime higher-wage workers to make way for lower-wage part-time employees.

Investment analysts and store managers say Wal-Mart executives have told them the company wants to transform its work force to 40 percent part-time from 20 percent. Wal-Mart denies it has a goal of 40 percent part-time workers, although company officials say that part-timers now make up 25 percent to 30 percent of workers, up from 20 percent last October.

Begining To Eat Their Own

& I am loving it. Hat tip to The SideKick, aka, Shutterwi. Via Atrios.

KRISTOL: Well, I hope not because it really wouldn't be the right thing to do and I think President Bush wants to do the right thing and I think he knows there's a problem. He can't probably do anything until election day. I very much hope after election day he takes a fresh look at Iraq, sends enough troops, surges the...goes on the offensive there and plays for victory because..

SMITH: Bill..

KRISTOL: it's just too important to just, you know...

SMITH: It's horrifying that you just said he can't do anything until after the election. We've got men and women over there who are dying every day and you just said that the man who you support can't do anything even though you believe he knows it's wrong.

KRISTOL: I...I...urged him...

SMITH: OK, but what is worse that? What is worse than that, Bill Kristol? This isn't working. Well, isn't that what you are saying?
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SMITH: That's a disgusting and repulsive reality Bill you have to admit that. That we can't do anything about something that is not working and where people are dying until after our elections are over...

Watch the whole thing.

Well, Well

Seems like silence does have a price. A golden price, at that.

During the same period Rep. Tom Reynolds was keeping Mark Foley's inappropriate emails with minors secret, his campaign committee coffers received a $100,000 donation from Foley, it was revealed today. Reynolds has come under fire for knowing about the inappropriate emails for many months and covering it up to protect his colleague who has since been forced to resign.

The ReThugs = the party of torture, of adolescent sexual exploitation.