1. 28 September 2006

    708 days ago

    Rushing Off a Cliff

    Congress passed a tyrannical law that will be ranked with the low points in American democracy, our generation’s version of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

    via Kjell Olsen708 days ago

  2. 05 September 2006

    731 days ago

    Iraqis who Sweated out Hussein are Leaving under Bush

    At least 40,000 Iraqis have been killed in the past three years, with scores more murdered every day. Hospitals overflow with the wounded. Conditions are so bad, an estimated 1-million Iraqis have fled their homes for sanctuary in Jordan, Syria and Egypt. Iraqis, particularly middle-class families, who survived Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, are leaving en masse. Even Mr. Bush admits things are “terrible” in Baghdad.

    Don’t you just love the smell of democracy in the morning?

    via Kjell Olsen731 days ago

  3. 23 August 2006

    744 days ago

    Election-theft testimony

    Programmer in florida wrote prototype voting machine software that could flip the vote to either party 51/49 for then speaker of the Florida House Tom Feeny. Testifying before the Ohio House(?) to a committee looking into 2004 election fraud.

    Kjell Olsen744 days ago

  4. 25 July 2006

    773 days ago

    What's so funny anyway?

    The post-modern ability the culture at large has adopted which has us giggling over abuses of power, sniggering at lies, whooping at war, and chortling at all the terrifying evidence of a country coming apart at the seems strikes me as irresponsible somehow.

    I’ve already bought my pitchfork and set alight my torch. (Actually, what I mean is that I bitch alot on this website. And really all I do is copy and paste stuff that parallels my feelings. What dissent.)

    Kjell Olsen773 days ago

  5. 16 June 2006

    812 days ago

    Semper Why?

    The Marines who did the killing at Haditha will no doubt be scapegoated—like Lynnde England, of Abu Ghraib—for an unjustifiable and unwinnable war, created by venal politicians. If we’re to punish anyone for Haditha, we should start with President Bush and the congressmen, including Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, who sent Roel Briones and Kilo Company on a murder-suicide mission in which there can be no justice.

    via Kjell Olsen812 days ago

  6. 15 June 2006

    813 days ago

    Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument

    I actually think this is the first thing bush has done that I can agree with. (How many months until the next election?)

    via Kjell Olsen813 days ago

  7. 09 June 2006

    819 days ago

    I do not need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don’t feel I owe anybody an explanation.

    George W

  8. 08 June 2006

    820 days ago

    On Simple Human Decency (Harpers.org)

    I hardly mean to imply that George W. Bush is a delusional party hack whose aim is to rob and mislead us for the benefit of his friends. That idea deserves to be stated outright: George W. Bush is a delusional party hack whose aim is to rob and mislead us for the benefit of his friends.

    via Kjell Olsen820 days ago

  9. 01 June 2006

    827 days ago

    Rolling Stone : Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

    Not that I didn’t already know. But hey, if Rolling Stone is saying it…

    We’ve got a media that uses its bullhorn in reverse—to turn down the volume on this outrage rather than turning it up. That’s why our citizens are not up in arms. Rep. John Conyers

    via Kjell Olsen827 days ago

  10. 13 May 2006

    846 days ago

    War

    Men who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back. Howard Zinn, before we went into Iraq

    Kjell Olsen846 days ago

  11. 10 May 2006

    849 days ago

    More Hot Air Over the Arctic

    Forget about Seals and Polar Bears. Even without taking the environment into account, drilling ANWR doesn’t make ONE OUNCE OF FUCKING SENSE. (à moins que vous êtes Halliburton, mais tant pis).

    via Kjell Olsen849 days ago

  12. 06 May 2006

    853 days ago

    Bush likens 'war on terror' to WWIII.
    via Kjell Olsen853 days ago

  13. 01 May 2006

    858 days ago

    Loyalty Day, 2006

    WTF? I thought there we already had a May 1st holiday...

    via Kjell Olsen858 days ago

  14. 858 days ago

    Colbert Rips the President a New One

    The President was upset? Good. I hope the President was sleepless with rage. At least then he’d know how most of us have been spending every night for the last three years.

    I think the whole thing is a little overblown. Colbert didn’t even accuse the president of killing thousands. But better than nothing I guess.

    via Kjell Olsen858 days ago

  15. 28 April 2006

    861 days ago

    The Conyers Report: What Went Wrong in Ohio

    Bush stole the election(s), I wish I could say people are starting to realize it. The 1+ year old Conyers report (dated 05 January 2005), detailing all of the electoral transgressions that took place in Ohio last election.

    via Kjell Olsen861 days ago

  16. 23 April 2006

    866 days ago

    Bush Impeachment

    Somebody found a trick in the House rules that will let a state legislature introduce presidential impeachment proceedings. And Illinois is going for it.

    Should HJR0125 be passed by the Illinois General Assembly, the US House will be forced by House Rules to take up the issue of impeachment as a privileged bill, meaning it will take precedence over other House business.

    Sounds like fun. (California and Maine look to jump on the bandwagon.)

    via Kjell Olsen866 days ago

  17. 07 April 2006

    882 days ago

    EFF: Class-Action Lawsuit Against AT&T

    AT&T indeed has been passing phone conversations through the NSA for the purpose of spying. Huh.

    the NSA uses powerful computers to “data-mine” the contents of these Internet and telephone communications for suspicious names, numbers, and words, and to analyze traffic data indicating who is calling and emailing whom in order to identify persons who may be “linked” to “suspicious activities,” suspected terrorists or other investigatory targets, whether directly or indirectly.

    via Kjell Olsen882 days ago

  18. 06 April 2006

    883 days ago

    Libby Claimed Bush Authorized Plamegate Leak

    Maybe fitzmas is just coming a year late.

    via Kjell Olsen883 days ago

  19. 27 February 2006

    921 days ago

    The Case for Impeachment

    Before reading the report, I wouldn’t have expected to find myself thinking that such a course of action was either likely or possible; after reading the report, I don’t know why we would run the risk of not impeaching the man. We have before us in the White House a thief who steals the country’s good name and reputation for his private interest and personal use; a liar who seeks to instill in the American people a state of fear; a televangelist who engages the United States in a never-ending crusade against all the world’s evil, a wastrel who squanders a vast sum of the nation’s wealth on what turns out to be a recruiting drive certain to multiply the host of our enemies. In a word, a criminal

    Kjell Olsen921 days ago

  20. 26 February 2006

    922 days ago

    Bush's Mysterious "New Programs"

    Given Bush

    via Kjell Olsen922 days ago

  21. 12 February 2006

    936 days ago

    Do Bush followers have a political ideology?

    Now, in order to be considered a “liberal,” only one thing is required

    via Kjell Olsen936 days ago

  22. 07 February 2006

    941 days ago

    Let's talk about debt.

    Fiscal year 07: defense spending +7% (It’s already eating 55% of your tax dollars). National debt: +45% since monsieur bush weaseled his way into washington. My faith in our gov’t? minus way to fucking much.

    via Kjell Olsen941 days ago

  23. 941 days ago

    I’d like to be able to explain to my wife how we can buy a brand new MacBook Pro while saving money, but either I’m not as smart as George W. Bush or she is much, much cleverer and less credulous than Republicans.

    PZ Meyers

  24. 05 February 2006

    943 days ago

    Seeing Only Evil

    Sobering interview with an ex-cia expert on the middle east. We’re fucked.

    The irony is, we’re dumping billions and billions of dollars every time we go to the gas pump into a jihad against us in Iraq that’s killing American soldiers. I’ve read, “One kid is dying in Iraq so the father of the kid next door can drive his Hummer.” And what’s more, the money’s coming from Japan and China, and in a certain sense from the Middle East, and then it’s filtering back. Blackwater, SAIC, Custer Battle

    via Kjell Olsen943 days ago

  25. 01 February 2006

    947 days ago

    Administration backs off Bush's vow to reduce Mideast oil imports

    WASHINGTON – One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America’s dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn’t mean it literally.

    I can just see the Cheney/Rumsfeld cabal: WHAT DID THAT FRIGGING IDIOT SAY??? And oh, yeah, the white house has been destroying emails likely related to the Plame affair.

    via Kjell Olsen947 days ago

  26. 947 days ago

    Analysis: State of the Union

    When you read the small print, all the promises Bush has ever made have been empty.

    via Kjell Olsen947 days ago

  27. 31 January 2006

    948 days ago

    Sheehan arrested in House gallery

    So my idea about tshirts might not have been so naive after all. It was, in fact, seditious enough to get Cindy Sheehan arrested on her way in to watch Bush’s speech.

    I knew this whole free speech thing was too good to last.

    via Kjell Olsen948 days ago

  28. Just great

    948 days ago

    I watched the State of the Union address in it’s entirety once, the january before we invaded Iraq. Holy shit. What wasn’t a lie was a false promise. I was pretty pissed after the third time in one minute that everyone stood up and clapped for 20 seconds straight.

    Being a bit jaded, I’m not going to watch the state of the union tonight. I’m guessing all the best and most embarrassing bits will filter out through the blogosphere soon enough, and I’ll get my share of partisan liberal discourse.

    But pausing iTunes for a second, I heard Bush making tribute to Coretta Scott King, a woman who falls so far above Bush on the scale of worthiness it’s embarrassing that he would even use her name to further the act of spitting his vitriol.

    King should be well tributed. But by Bush? I’m the devil praising an angel, spewing mud in her face by just mentioning her.

    20 seconds later? 9/11. Danger. Death. Terrorism. Fear. Bin Laden. Hussein. Die. Bomb. Attack. Security. War. Applause. Back comes iTunes.

    But hey, at least we have racial equality.

  29. 30 January 2006

    949 days ago

    Why "No Child Left Behind" Does Not Work for our Schools

    What is going on in today’s public classroom is this: the opportunity for teachers to open children’s minds and create lifelong thinking skills is being systematically and surgically removed by educational bureaucrats, politicians and administrators under the reform banner of “No Child Left Behind”.

    I was a sophomore when NCLB took effect, and my high school didn’t have anywhere to go but down. As an upperclassmen, I was past the basics courses in which 45 kids would get thrown into a room with one teacher (a lab science course!). I in fact managed 4 quite pleasant years. But anyone could tell that things were deteriorating fast.

    Children need more than basic skills. They need the chance to become motivated learners. They need the chance to be nurtured, to be loved. Education is not a business, a computer game, or a military operation. But to NCLB advocates, with their power-point presentations and their charts and spit-shined loafers and double-breasted suits, it is all this and more.

    Intangibles are all I’ve ever taken from school. I took calculus my junior year, passed the AP exam, and can’t remember which one is an integral and which a derivative. I’ve gone to public school all my life, and been quite impressed at the caliber of my teachers. Most of them had a quite significant impact on me.

    And not because they taught me what 2+2 equaled.

    via Kjell Olsen949 days ago

  30. 25 January 2006

    Six Letter Word

    954 days ago


    Shalt thou not kill? And while we’re at it…


    More than two dozen students in the audience responded by turning their backs on Mr. Gonzales and standing stone-faced before live television cameras for the duration of his half-hour speech. Five protesters in the group donned black hoods and unfurled a banner, quoting Benjamin Franklin, that read, 'Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.'

  31. 954 days ago

    Saddam Hussein is a Tyrant and a Threat to Democracy and Deserves Removal from the Presidency for His Litany of Unjust and Barbaric Crimes

    Saddam Hussein’s intolerable use of weapons of mass destruction against enemies; unprecedented aggression against and occupation of a country which posed no threat to his own; routine kidnapping, torture, murder and secret prison system; wholesale slaughter of citizens from other countries; imprisonment of political rivals held for years without charges; and secret spying on his very own countrymen without court order or legislative approval, demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that this so-called “President” was a dangerous rogue, a tyrant, and a grave threat—of the highest order—to worldwide peace, stability and democracy.
    His immediate removal from unelected power was…and is…a completely justified imperative.

    via Kjell Olsen954 days ago

  32. 24 January 2006

    955 days ago

    Movement to impeach George W. Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    C’mon, please?

    via Kjell Olsen955 days ago

  33. 23 January 2006

    956 days ago

    Democrats: Get Up and Walk Out

    I can’t decide wether this is just kneejerk or brilliant. All the democrats get up at the same point in time and walk out of Bush’s State of the Union address.

    If I were them, I’d print a set of disparaging t-shirts. They’d stand up and remove their suit-jackets at a given point, remain standing the duration of the address wearing the shirts. They wouldn’t once clap. They wouldn’t jeer. They wouldn’t smile. They’d sit for the first half hour, stand the rest, none of this up and down and clapping every two minutes. It would be best if they could scatter themselves, but I’m betting their seats are in a block. They could give the shirts out to audience members, to join in from the stands.

    I can even offer a bit of text for your opening statement. “Three years ago during this very speech,” your leading spokesperson can say from those steps, “Mr. Bush told us that Iraq was in possession of 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 500 tons – which is one million pounds – of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent, 30,000 missiles to deliver the stuff, mobile biological weapons labs, al Qaeda connections, and uranium from Niger for use in a robust nuclear weapons program. He said all this three years ago, during this all-important annual address, and all of it was a lie. The American people deserve an explanation.”

    But all that really shows is how naive I am. tshirts?

    via Kjell Olsen956 days ago

  34. 22 January 2006

    957 days ago

    Daily Kos: National Sanctity of Human Life Day

    Although it may only applies to innocent fetuses in the sanctum sanctorum, what a touching sentiment.

    via Kjell Olsen957 days ago

  35. 16 January 2006

    963 days ago

    'We the People' Must Save Our Constitution

    Al Gore grows a pair. On how our government has failed us, and we have failed our government. Now we have some work to do.

    An executive who arrogates to himself the power to ignore the legitimate legislative directives of the Congress or to act free of the check of the judiciary becomes the central threat that the Founders sought to nullify in the Constitution – an all-powerful executive too reminiscent of the King from whom they had broken free. In the words of James Madison, “the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

    If the President has the inherent authority to eavesdrop, imprison citizens on his own declaration, kidnap and torture, then what can’t he do?
    The Dean of Yale Law School, Harold Koh, said after analyzing the Executive Branch’s claims of these previously unrecognized powers: “If the President has commander-in-chief power to commit torture, he has the power to commit genocide, to sanction slavery, to promote apartheid, to license summary execution.”

    As a result of its unprecedented claim of new unilateral power, the Executive Branch has now put our constitutional design at grave risk. The stakes for America’s representative democracy are far higher than has been generally recognized.

    If this President’s attempt to dramatically expand executive power goes unquestioned, our constitutional design of checks and balances will be lost. And the next President or some future President will be able, in the name of national security, to restrict our liberties in a way the framers never would have thought possible.

    The President’s judicial appointments are clearly designed to ensure that the courts will not serve as an effective check on executive power. As we have all learned, Judge Alito is a longtime supporter of a powerful executive – a supporter of the so-called unitary executive, which is more properly called the unilateral executive. Whether you support his confirmation or not – and I do not – we must all agree that he will not vote as an effective check on the expansion of executive power. Likewise, Chief Justice Roberts has made plain his deference to the expansion of executive power through his support of judicial deference to executive agency rulemaking.

    In the United States Senate, which used to pride itself on being the “greatest deliberative body in the world,” meaningful debate is now a rarity. Even on the eve of the fateful vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq, Senator Robert Byrd famously asked: “Why is this chamber empty?”

    The political economy supported by these short but expensive television ads is as different from the vibrant politics of America’s first century as those politics were different from the feudalism which thrived on the ignorance of the masses of people in the Dark Ages.

    Fear drives out reason. Fear suppresses the politics of discourse and opens the door to the politics of destruction. Justice Brandeis once wrote: “Men feared witches and burnt women.”

    via Kjell Olsen963 days ago

  36. 14 January 2006

    965 days ago

    The States Step In As Medicare Falters

    Can the bush administration do anything without completely fucking it up? This is embarrassing.

    “The first week was pure hell,” said Mike Souders, owner of Metropolis Drugs in southern Illinois. Computer systems crashed, phone lines were jammed, and there was no way for him to confirm that patients were covered.

    The old and infirm are walking into the same pharmacies they’ve always walked into the get the same medications they’ve always gotten and being charged exorbitantly for it, all because Bush’s medicare legislation has been a complete fuckup. Maine has spent $3.6 million in the past two weeks to cover 68,000 individual prescriptions. Try multiplying that by 50.

    Not only that, but when Bush passed the law in 2003, its stated cost was $534 billion over 10 years. All of the sudden it’s going to cost us $1.2 trillion.

    All of the worst predictions came true. Robert M. Hayes, president of the Medicare Rights Center

    Huh, sort of like with both that war somewhere over the rainbow and that Hurricane that hit the gulf coast. And then there was that whole Bin Laden determined to strike within the US thing.

    How on earth are these clowns criminals terrorists fuckwads (I don’t have enough of a vulgar term for them) still running our country?

    via Kjell Olsen965 days ago

  37. 13 January 2006

    966 days ago

    Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11

    I can’t quite figure out why peoples heads aren’t popping off at this whole Bush being our president thing.

    The NSA’s vast data-mining activities began shortly after Bush was sworn in as president and the document contradicts his assertion that the 9/11 attacks prompted him to take the unprecedented step of signing a secret executive order authorizing the NSA to monitor a select number of American citizens thought to have ties to terrorist groups.

    The lying sacks of shit. After the whole wiretapping without warrants thing broke, Cheney said that if they could have just done it before 9/11, they’d have stopped it. Oh? You actually were doing it before 9/11 and just didn’t think you wanted to tell us? I call constitutional crisis.

    via Kjell Olsen966 days ago

  38. 09 January 2006

    970 days ago

    Angry and Furious at the Collaborationist Democrats | The Huffington Post

    For me, Paul Wellstone was the last bastion of decency in congress. I don’t know why, or how, but the Bushies have managed to turn washington into something very, very wrong. It might just be rancor, but I can’t think of one good thing that’s been accomplished the last five years. And surely whatever little good has been done was also grossly countered by all the shit that’s happened.

    Politics in their current form need to get lost, completely and entirely. I’ve really lost all faith in our government.

    In truth, Pelosi, Rockefeller, and the New York Times collaborated with Bush for four years to ignore the Constitution. No one did anything on behalf of the millions of Americans being surveyed. At the end of the day, no one tried to stop it or even examine it. That says a great deal about our politicians’ commitment to democracy and the Constitution.

    Now I’m sure there are some perfectly decent democrats out there. I volunteered for the Mark Dayton campaign in 2000. He seemed a good guy. Sure, he’s rich as all hell (I think he spent 2 million on his campaign). But he hasn’t been able to get anything done in washington at all, and he’s frustrated and calling it quits after one term.

    via Kjell Olsen970 days ago

  39. 07 January 2006

    972 days ago

    Scandal of force-fed prisoners

    Welcome to the gulag:

    New details have emerged of how the growing number of prisoners on hunger strike at Guant

    via Kjell Olsen972 days ago

  40. 03 January 2006

    976 days ago

    What I heard about Iraq in 2005

    The state of american politics today is profoundly embarrassing. The situation in Iraq and it’s handling by the bush administration triply so. Holy shit.

    I heard that this

    via Kjell Olsen976 days ago

  41. 24 December 2005

    986 days ago

    Information Awareness Office

    The government is running this office, with this in mind:

    The IAO has the stated mission to gather as much information as possible about everyone, in a centralized location, for easy perusal by the United States government, including (though not limited to) Internet activity, credit card purchase histories, airline ticket purchases, car rentals, medical records, educational transcripts, driver’s licenses, utility bills, tax returns, and any other available data. In essence, the IAO

    via Kjell Olsen986 days ago

  42. 987 days ago

    Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove, Officials Report

    Bruce Schneier hit the nail on the head the other day, speculating that the Reason bush didn’t want to obtain warrants through FISA in his wiretapping is that the NSA is running a huge data analysis operation on phone calls and emails, tapping into central communication hubs.

    So basically any call you make or email you send, depending on how it’s routed, goes through this system.

    Why do it this way unless you’re purposefully attempting to avoid a papertrail? If who you are listening in on is clearly important to national security, than judicial oversight should be no obstacle at all. It’s only when the person you are listening in on is clearly NOT important to national security that avoiding judicial oversight becomes important. chakalakasp, on metafilter

    Chances are nobody listens to it (unless you’re a terrorist). But the NSA knows whom is calling whom, and when and where they’re calling from. Try not to place any calls to Iraq or Afghanistan, for instance.

    via Kjell Olsen987 days ago

  43. 22 December 2005

    988 days ago

    Live Vote: Should Bush be impeached?

    85% say yes. It’s an internet poll, so I bet it’s a bit biased. But I think this thing is getting big. Critical mass?

    via Kjell Olsen988 days ago

  44. 21 December 2005

    989 days ago

    Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction

    So have they told us anything that wasn’t a lie? This is really disturbing.

    via Kjell Olsen989 days ago

  45. 989 days ago

    Deserves Impeachment

    As political strategy and as public policy, the impeachment of Mr. Bush is an unappealing prospect. (Besides, if he could be thrown out somehow, who would want Dick Cheney to succeed him?) And yet, the actions and attitudes of this President raise the question of how else we can preserve the bedrock principles of a democratic republic.

    via Kjell Olsen989 days ago

  46. 20 December 2005

    990 days ago

    Censure motion introduced in House over Iraq, torture

    Formal congressional rebukes against Bush and Cheney have been put out by the House democrats over the handling of Iraq war intelligence, plamegate, and crime under international law.

    The Select Committee seeks to subpoena the President and other members of the administration in hopes of ascertaining if impeachable offenses have been committed.

    via Kjell Olsen990 days ago

  47. 990 days ago

    Alaska Action for ANWR - The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

    The most money that drilling the Arctic Refuge would ever save American consumers is one penny per gallon, and that would be almost 20 years from now when oil production out of the Refuge would peak.

    via Kjell Olsen990 days ago

  48. 19 December 2005

    991 days ago

    Presidential Pipeline: Bush's top fund-raisers see spoils of victory

    Those (548) who paid more then $100,000 to Bush’s reelection fund dictate his presidency. Doesn’t quite sound representative to me.

    via Kjell Olsen991 days ago

  49. 991 days ago

    At 87, Wallace still tells it like it is

    What Mike Wallace would ask Bush if he would consent to an interview:

    What in the world prepared you to be the commander in chief of the largest superpower in the world? In your background, Mr. President, you apparently were incurious. You didn’t want to travel. You knew very little about the military… The governor of Texas doesn’t have the kind of power that some governors have… Why do you think they nominated you? ... Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that the country is so fucked up?

    via Kjell Olsen991 days ago

  50. 17 December 2005

    Bush on the Fourth Amendment

    993 days ago

    Bush has authorized the NSA to spy on citizens without their knowledge.

    I intend to do so for as long as our nation faces a continuing threat from al-Qaida and related groups. George Bush

    I’m no lawyer, but here’s our 4th amendment right. Try to tell me Bush is still operating within the bounds of the constitution he swore to uphold.

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. findlaw

    Say hello to King George.

    Both the Bush Administration

  51. 16 December 2005

    994 days ago

    After December 15, Iraq will be at mercy of US corporations

    US invasion serves to privatize Iraqi industry with American corporations.

    via Kjell Olsen994 days ago

  52. 994 days ago

    Patriot provisions set to expire

    Senate showed Bush who’s boss today. 52-47 against renewal.

    via Kjell Olsen994 days ago

  53. 13 December 2005

    997 days ago

    Without a Doubt

    This is why George W. Bush is so clear-eyed about Al Qaeda and the Islamic fundamentalist enemy. He believes you have to kill them all. They can’t be persuaded, that they’re extremists, driven by a dark vision. He understands them, because he’s just like them… This is why he dispenses with people who confront him with inconvenient facts. He truly believes he’s on a mission from God. Absolute faith like that overwhelms a need for analysis. The whole thing about faith is to believe things for which there is no empirical evidence. But you can’t run the world on faith. Buce Bartlett, a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a treasury official for the first President Bush

    You can’t run the world on faith.

    This is one key feature of the faith-based presidency: open dialogue, based on facts, is not seen as something of inherent value. It may, in fact, create doubt, which undercuts faith. It could result in a loss of confidence in the decision-maker and, just as important, by the decision-maker.

    [Bush] had the confidence to ask questions that revealed he didn’t know very much. Richard Perle

    No, Mr. President. We need your leadership on this question, and all of us will then commit to support you. Unless we drain the swamp of injustice in which the mosquitoes of terrorism breed, we’ll never defeat the threat of terrorism. Jim Wallis

    We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do. A white house aide, to the author, on how the Bush administration works

    Read this.

    via Kjell Olsen997 days ago

  54. 997 days ago

    But We're Not Counting

    The Pentagon has a no count policy, in which it doesn’t tally those killed in the wars it starts. The other day Bush estimated 30,000 dead. That’s the lowest number you’ll find out there – and it’s only counting civilian death. An Iraqi humanitarian organization puts the number at 128,000.

    via Kjell Olsen997 days ago

  55. 12 December 2005

    998 days ago

    30,000 Iraqis Killed In War

    And the number coming from Bush himself, I wouldn’t think it anything but conservative.

    via Kjell Olsen998 days ago

  56. 999 days ago

    Khaled El-Masri

    US captures German Citizen while vacationing, discovers he is innocent, holds him in Afghanistan for 2 months anyway, proceed to drop him in an Albanian forest.

    via Kjell Olsen999 days ago

  57. 09 December 2005

    1001 days ago

    Bush on the Constitution:

    Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It

    via Kjell Olsen1001 days ago

  58. 08 December 2005

    1002 days ago

    Alito's America

    Don’t let it happen.

    via Kjell Olsen1002 days ago

  59. 05 December 2005

    1005 days ago

    Hearts and Brains

    American Military looting organs from wounded Iraqis? I sure fucking hope not.

    via Kjell Olsen1005 days ago

  60. 1005 days ago

    The Bush Administration: Worse Than You Imagine Possible...

    You can’t imagine how completely and utterly despicable. $8.1 Trillion $8,118,319,301,298.54 (!!!).

    via Kjell Olsen1005 days ago

  61. 1005 days ago

    Republicans cheated in the 2004 election

    the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling.

    It’s stunning, but it seems that the result of both the 2000 and the 2004 presidential elections were illegitimate. George Bush should never have made it into the White House.

    via Kjell Olsen1005 days ago

  62. 04 December 2005

    1006 days ago

    IS GEORGE BUSH THE WORST PRESIDENT -- EVER?

    NO doubt.

    via Kjell Olsen1006 days ago

  63. 02 December 2005

    1008 days ago

    Judgment at Nuremberg Part III

    Then, on March 16th, Bush and Blair gave Saddam Hussein 24 hours to disarm. And to leave Iraq.
    The next day the inspectors were withdrawn. Three days after that, the war began.
    Even if the question

    Kjell Olsen1008 days ago

  64. 30 November 2005

    1010 days ago

    the Grave Threat of the Bush Administration

    The war, in other words, no longer serves the Republicans’ political interest and must be got rid of. So much for “staying the course.”

    The Bush administration’s hype about terrorism serves no purpose other than to build a police state that is far more dangerous to Americans than terrorists.

    via Kjell Olsen1010 days ago

  65. 27 November 2005

    1013 days ago

    Dishonest, Reprehensible, Corrupt

    The more we learn about the road to Iraq, the more we realize that it’s a losing game to ask what lies the White House told along the way. A simpler question might be: What was not a lie? Frank Rich

    via Kjell Olsen1013 days ago

  66. 23 November 2005

    1018 days ago

    Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel

    What the President was told on September 21, was consistent with everything he has been told since-that the evidence was just not there. one former high-level official

    He was told that there was absolutely no connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. What?

    You can’t distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror. Bush, 9/25/2002

    Are these fuckers in jail yet?

    via Kjell Olsen1018 days ago

  67. 18 November 2005

    1022 days ago

    Tortured men look like 'Holocaust victims'

    Witnesses said many of the 169 men and youths were emaciated and looked like “Holocaust survivors”. Some had suffered beatings so severe that their skin had peeled off, and three men had been kept locked in a cupboard where they could not move. All the others were packed, blindfolded, into three rooms nine feet long and 11 feet wide. Kim Sengupta

    America – Holocausting terrorists.

    via Kjell Olsen1022 days ago

  68. 1022 days ago

    House passes sweeping budget-cut bill

    The broader budget bill would slice almost $50 billion from the deficit by the end of the decade by curbing rapidly growing benefit programs such as Medicaid, food stamps and student loan subsidies. Republicans said reining in such programs whose costs spiral upward each year automatically is the first step to restoring fiscal discipline.

    If I ever get into dollar problems, the first thing I’ll stop buying is food. And health care. Then learning. Goodbye america, you once were a great place.

    via Kjell Olsen1022 days ago

  69. 17 November 2005

    1023 days ago

    It's Fighting Words

    They call it flip-flopping, but how about owning up to your mistakes. How about changing course when you’ve been proven wrong? There is nothing honorable about defending a bad decision. The GOP point to how the senators and congressmen believed, as the administration did, that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. But that intelligence came from the executive branch and when the intelligence is wrong the executive branch is responsible for it. Stephen Elliott

    via Kjell Olsen1023 days ago

  70. 16 November 2005

    1024 days ago

    Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked

    In Dixie County, with 9,676 registered voters, 77.5% of them Democrats and a mere 15% registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but 4,433 voted for Bush.
    The pattern repeats over and over again – but only in the counties where optical scanners were used.

    via Kjell Olsen1024 days ago

  71. 1024 days ago

    The biggest story of our lives

    And he most certainly was [Kerry, winning], at least if the votes had been fairly and legally counted. What happened instead was the biggest crime in the history of the nation, and the collective media silence which has followed is the greatest fourth-estate failure ever on our soil.

    The silence of traditional media on this subject is enough to establish their newfound bankruptcy. The revolution will have to start here.

    via Kjell Olsen1024 days ago

  72. 15 November 2005

    1025 days ago

    I Was Wrong, but So Were You - Parsing Bush's new mantra.

    Bush admits he might have been wrong, but is still lying to us.

    via Kjell Olsen1025 days ago

  73. 1025 days ago

    Lewis Lapham to Become Editor Emeritus of Harper's Magazine

    I’ve arrived at the point where I would prefer to read Machiavelli than listen to Karl Rove. Lewis Lapham

    via Kjell Olsen1025 days ago

  74. 14 November 2005

    1026 days ago

    Out of Mind

    Testimony of the torture used by American forces.

    via Kjell Olsen1026 days ago

  75. 1026 days ago

    White House keeps dossiers on more than 10,000 'political enemies'

    White House insiders tell disturbing tales of invasion of privacy, abuse of government power and use of expanded authority under the USA Patriot Act to dig into the personal lives of anyone the administration deems an enemy of the state.

    via Kjell Olsen1026 days ago

  76. 11 November 2005

    1029 days ago

    ... And why it should never be one - Los Angeles Times

    What real CIA field officers know firsthand is that it is better to build a relationship of trust

    via Kjell Olsen1029 days ago

  77. 1030 days ago

    DrugReporter: Bush and Blow

    The reason corporate America backed Bush Sr. is because “he’ll do whatever the big boys want. And so will his son.”

    When asked about censorship, Bush replied that there “ought to be limits to freedom” when it comes to criticizing him personally.

    You get close to, and turn up something bad on Karl Rove, that will get you killed right there. Mr. Fly, an unnamed source

    Bush is a lying disgusting criminal fuckwit scumbag.

    via Kjell Olsen1030 days ago

  78. 10 November 2005

    1030 days ago

    Bush Administration Breaks Record

    Bush Administration Borrows more from Foreign Nations than Previous 42 Presidents Combined

    You think this is a joke? It isn’t.

    via Kjell Olsen1030 days ago

  79. 08 November 2005

    1032 days ago

    US Politics - Creepy

    I read a lot of news, and it makes me wonder whether the faction currently governing America is heavily populated with greedy vicious lying thieving sanctimonious underhanded heartless venial creeps. That is what the evidence suggests. But like I said, you wouldn

    via Kjell Olsen1032 days ago

  80. 07 November 2005

    1033 days ago

    The Daily Whim: We Do Not Torture, We Exempt

    So there you have it. This administration does not feel compelled to answer to Congress and allow them to

    via Kjell Olsen1033 days ago

  81. 1033 days ago

    If He Lied, He Must be Tried - A Majority Now Favors Impeachment

    John Zogby confesses to having been “surprised” at the latest result, calling the 19 percent shift in favor of impeachment over four months’ time “remarkable” and “much higher than I expected.”

    Well, he sure fucking lied.

    via Kjell Olsen1033 days ago

  82. 1033 days ago

    Impeach Bush

    If there was ever a time in history to impeach a President of the United States, it would be now. Barbra Streisand

    Kjell Olsen1033 days ago

  83. 06 November 2005

    1035 days ago

    Kerry Suspects 2004 Vote Fraud

    I could have told you this a goddamn year ago. I just pray to god America won’t have to go through three more years of Bush – god knows what kind of shithole we could be by then.

    My Election 2004 posts.

    via Kjell Olsen1035 days ago

  84. 04 November 2005

    1036 days ago

    GOP blocks inquiry into Bush's handling of war / Pelosi, Dems lose appeal vote after out-of-order ruling

    Fuckers.

    I think it brings shame to this House to be engaged in a coverup when it comes to revealing what’s happening in Iraq. Nancy Pelosi

    via Kjell Olsen1036 days ago

  85. 03 November 2005

    1037 days ago

    Crib Sheet: Alito the Right-Wing Activist

    Why Alito shouldn’t be confirmed.

    via Kjell Olsen1037 days ago

  86. 02 November 2005

    1038 days ago

    Alito's Ratings Similar to Miers', Lower Than Roberts'

    I wonder what the chances of holding bush from successfully nominating a second justice to scotus before his term ends? He sure has been picking assholes lately.

    via Kjell Olsen1038 days ago

  87. 29 October 2005

    1042 days ago

    Forgeries, Lies and Cover-ups The Scandal isn't the Leak, But the Illegal War

    The crime to name a covert CIA official pales in comparison with conspiring to lead the nation to war under false pretenses.

    via Kjell Olsen1042 days ago

  88. 28 October 2005

    1043 days ago

    Top Cheney aide Libby indicted - Leak Investigation - MSNBC.com

    Prosecutors said that Libby, if found guilty on all charges, faces a maxium sentence of 30 years in prison and a $1.25 million fine.

    No Rove? And when does this come back to bite bush and cheney? I hate to think I’m jaded. But if Clinton can just about get sacked for having an extramarital affair and the current administration tricks us into a large scale land war on the other side of the world without consequences? What the fuck?

    via Kjell Olsen1043 days ago

  89. 1043 days ago

    The White House under siege

    If Mr Rove goes, Mr Bush will have lost his sheepdog just as his flock is starting to jump the fences.

    Good riddance.

    Ordinary Republican voters feel no great horror about future deficits or the process by which decisions about national security are made. But they may grow more restless if evangelical preachers take against Mr Bush

    via Kjell Olsen1043 days ago

  90. 27 October 2005

    1044 days ago

    Exxon Mobil posts largest quarterly profit ever

    Oil companies earn windfall profit, thanks to bush.

    via Kjell Olsen1044 days ago

  91. 1044 days ago

    Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings

    In essence, the GAO study makes it clear that no bank, grocery store or mom & pop chop shop would dare operate its business on a computer system as flimsy, fragile and easily manipulated as the one on which the 2004 election turned.

    The exit polls showed Kerry winning in Ohio, until an unexplained last minute shift gave the election to Bush. Similar definitive shifts also occurred in Iowa, Nevada and New Mexico, a virtual statistical impossibility.

    Now that proof of a stolen election is coming from the white house itself, what will it take to throw bush out?

    via Kjell Olsen1044 days ago

  92. 26 October 2005

    1045 days ago

    Fitzgerald Must Broaden Investigation

    We are no longer just talking about a Republican culture of corruption and cronyism. We now have reason to believe that high crimes may have been committed at the highest level, wrongdoing that may have led us to war and imperiled our national security. Congressman Jerry Nadler

    via Kjell Olsen1045 days ago

  93. 22 October 2005

    1049 days ago

    Secret MoD poll: Iraqis support attacks on British troops

    The bush administration has fucked Iraq up so bad that 82% of Iraqi’s are opposed to the presence of coalition troops, and less then 1% believe that anything we’ve done has improved the security of Iraq. Additionally,

    71 per cent of people rarely get safe clean water, 47 per cent never have enough electricity, 70 per cent say their sewerage system rarely works and 40 per cent of southern Iraqis are unemployed.

    The real kick in the balls comes when we figure out that if we do leave, things will get ten times worse.

    via Kjell Olsen1049 days ago

  94. 1049 days ago

    Corrupt, Incompetent and 'Off Center'

    The republicans, that is.

    Hacker and Pierson shine a light on the methods employed by the governing right-wing clique to maintain and expand their power without paying the price for their unpopular policies and base-focused system of rewards. Examining the 2001 tax cuts, the Bush energy plan, the Medicare drug bill and the deregulation of almost every industry that has a lobbying team and campaign-contribution budget, they expose tactics like “tailored disinformation,” designed to confuse a poorly informed public; Mafia-like manipulation of the levers of power in the House, Senate and White House that not only defenestrates the Democratic opposition but cuts off their sources of financial support; and a network of “New Power Brokers,” like the aforementioned DeLay, Grover Norquist and countless think tanks, media moguls, funders and lobbyists who work together to game the system at a level that is either too complicated or too boring to attract intelligent scrutiny.

    via Kjell Olsen1049 days ago

  95. 1049 days ago

    The National Parks Under Siege

    This new policy document … would eliminate the requirement that only motorized equipment with the least impact should be used in national parks. It would lower air-quality standards and strip away language about preserving the parks’ natural soundscape – language that currently makes it hard, for instance, to justify allowing snowmobiles into Yellowstone. It would also refer park superintendents to other management documents that have been revised to weaken fundamental standards and protections for the parks.

    via Kjell Olsen1049 days ago

  96. 21 October 2005

    1050 days ago

    Fitzgerald's Historic Opportunity

    Could fizmas really be coming?

    Fitzgerald did not earn his reputation as an Irish alligator by going after the little guy. Presumably, he is trying to find evidence that Karl Rove launched a covert operation to create the forged documents and then conspired to out Valerie Plame when he learned the fraud was being uncovered by Plame

    via Kjell Olsen1050 days ago

  97. 18 October 2005

    1053 days ago

    The Normalization of Treason, the Republicans' gift to America

    The Republican party’s gift to the American people, and the Bush administration’s legacy, will be the normalization of treason. They are trying to convince Americans that betraying our country during wartime for personal gain is no more serious than running a stop sign or going 60 in a 55 zone.

    I can’t believe the change in politics since bush got elected. In 2000 I was in eighth grade, and took a politics class. I volunteered for both Gore and Mark Dayton (running for the only open MN Senate seat, still serving).

    I remember staying up late watching the election coverage and going to bed completely and utterly stunned.

    I’ve always gone to public schools within Minneapolis, and I remember in that 8th grade class of twenty or thirty, just one girl pledged republican. In my high school the only known republicans ware that same girl, and the health teacher.

    I’ve never understood how bush managed to get elected. But holy shit, he is sure fucking things up. I still can’t understand how people can put up with all the stuff he has done and is doing. I’ve stopped capitalizing his name, not to mention losing any shred of respect I ever had for him.

    (Yet all I do about it is show up at a student democrats meeting and flame about it?)

    via Kjell Olsen1053 days ago

  98. 12 October 2005

    1059 days ago

    Bush approval dips below 40 percent - Politics - MSNBC.com

    39% approve, less then 30% believe the country is heading in the right direction.

    via Kjell Olsen1059 days ago

  99. 07 October 2005

    1064 days ago

    Bush's Class-War Budget

    It may sound shrill to describe President Bush as someone who takes food from the mouths of babes and gives the proceeds to his millionaire friends. Yet his latest budget proposal is top-down class warfare in action. And it offers the Democrats an opportunity, if they’re willing to take it.

    Here’s a comparison: the Bush budget proposal would cut domestic discretionary spending, adjusted for inflation, by 16 percent over the next five years. That would mean savage cuts in education, health care, veterans’ benefits and environmental protection. Yet these cuts would save only about $66 billion per year, about one-sixth of the budget deficit.
    On the other side, a rollback of Mr. Bush’s cuts in tax rates for high-income brackets, on capital gains and on dividend income would yield more than $120 billion per year in extra revenue—eliminating almost a third of the budget deficit—yet have hardly any effect on middle-income families. (Estimates from the Tax Policy Center of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution show that such a rollback would cost families with incomes between $25,000 and $80,000 an average of $156.)
    Why, then, shouldn’t a rollback of high-end tax cuts be on the table?

    Because bush is just a stupid fuck?

    Kjell Olsen1064 days ago

  100. 1064 days ago

    Right-Wing House Twists Arms, Thwarts Democracy To Pass Oil Industy Win