Pollywogs!

I can’t believe you let Alito through.

ALREADY, Congress can’t control the president. The public can’t control the president. The media can’t control the president.

He breaks laws, he lies UNDER OATH to the CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, to the entire WORLD, without consequence.

The last bastion, the last independant, the last check against the emperor Bush is aiming to become…

What happens when a terrorist attack ‘conviently’ occurs near the elections? If a new war is ‘needed’ or ‘breaks out’? Do you think Bush is going to relinquish control when he has the perfect justification for taking his reign and extending it indefinately (can’t change leaders during war, eh Bush?).
If he doesn’t stand down, who is going to stop him?

Not ALITO.

Are you? Will it be too late by then?

Will you regret your decision when Roe vs. Wade is overturned? Will that even make a difference if Bush has supreme powers and is above the law, with no end to his term in sight?

How about this? How will Alito rule in this instance?

“Sources said a prelude to the impeachment process could begin with hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee in February. They said the hearings would focus on the secret electronic surveillance program and whether Mr. Bush violated the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Administration sources said the charges are expected to include false reports to Congress as well as Mr. Bush’s authorization of the National Security Agency to engage in electronic surveillance inside the United States without a court warrant. This included the monitoring of overseas telephone calls and e-mail traffic to and from people living in the United States without requisite permission from a secret court.

Sources said the probe to determine whether the president violated the law will include Republicans, but that they may not be aware they could be helping to lay the groundwork for a Democratic impeachment campaign against Mr. Bush.

“Our arithmetic shows that a majority of the committee could vote against the president,” the source said. “If we work hard, there could be a tie.”"

http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/impeachment.htm

We are being taken down a very dark and unknown road. The responsibility lies with those who have the power to change it.

Some kids with too much time on their hands…except…for 11 year olds, its not half bad…

http://www.youtube.com/w/Lazy-Monday?v=rkcqPbTxTWY

I’ve been home for about 4 months now and thought I had forgotten all the things that had gone on Iraq. Unlike a lot of other stories here, I wasn’t a front-line troop, but as we all know that doesn’t mean I was out of danger, and it doesn’t mean that I didn’t see the disorganization, rampant waste and corruption that is part of the fabric of our operations in Iraq… We went to Iraq in November of 2003. We went with flak jackets as armor, and with 5 unarmored humvees.

We had 6 out of 29 people who were scheduled to get out of the Ready Reserves in the year over there. I myself was scheduled to get out in January 2004. Because of some desperate need to get us into country ASAP, we weren’t given an in-briefing. No rules of engagement, host-country sensitivities, etc. We were flown directly from Germany to Baghdad International Airport. When we arrived no one seemed to know what to do with us. Our unit was cut apart and shipped around the country. I served with the 101st in Mosul, the 1st Armored Division and around Baghdad.

In the Green Zone officers would ride in their newly leased SUV’s, windows up, air conditioners on, 1 or 2 people max, while enlisted would ride around in humvees. To my knowledge the SUV’s were rented at $90,000 a year, but if destroyed would be replaced without cost. If the Army has humvees, why do we rent SUV’s? Ostensibly it was to fit in with the locals in non-military vehicles, but anyone in a brand new SUV in Iraq with tinted windows was obviously a foreigner. And most of these vehicles were only driven around the heavily fortified and defended Green Zone.

Besides that, there were contractors for everything. And sadly, often these contractors would work alongside Army personnel who were trained to do the exact same thing, but paid about 1/3rd as much. Once again, if the Army already has something to do the job, why do we need something else to do it, and pay them more? Finally, the saddest thing was the PSD, or Private Security Details. Mercenaries, or civilians paid to bear arms and armor. Doing the exact job of the military, but once again being paid many times what the military was paid. Although many of these civilians were highly trained or specialized, there was enough talk among soldiers who wanted to do their time, get out, and then join these civilian security companies, because they were such a better deal. Not only does this prove how poorly treated our own troops are, but hiring these people actively increases our own recruiting problems. All three of these issues just point to one underlying, glaring point: we were not ready.

http://troopnet.iava.org/publicView.jsp?supporter_KEY=4783457

Pretty insightful, and sad. To think of the waste, the money stolen directly out of our pockets, by those crooks who were ‘elected’ into office. The entire Iraq operation is simply a money pump, a way to launder the money from OUR PAYCHECKS through an intermediary (government budget) and into the hands of the Military Industrial Complex.

May I recommend a new movie that came out recently? ‘Why We Fight’: here and here

Mood-altering cat parasites make women friendly and men into jerks
A parasite that causes rats to sacrifice themselves to cats may also change human behavior, making women more outgoing and warmhearted, and men more jealous and suspicious. The Toxoplasma bacteria is shed in cat feces, which are eaten by rats; infected rats become fearless in the presence of cats, which makes them easier to catch, which, in turn spreads the disease to new cats.

You can sleep uneasy tonight thanks to boingboing: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/22/moodaltering_cat_par.html

I read quite an interesting article on a parasite that causes ants to climb to the top of grass stalks in order to be eaten by cows, and so on and so on, in a Discover magazine one day…parasites are amazing creatures, considering how insignifigant they are…mind control, my pinworms made me do it!

A new face among the crowd, a fresh view with unique beliefs, standing tall among the masses??? Yes, it could only be:
Lemming Thoughts on Parade