Well the IAEA has said that them nasty Persians are not being good little doobies and complying with the worldview of the 1600 Crew's Chickenhawk Cabal.

Shortly after Iran's president said his country "won't give a damn" about any U.N. sanctions, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday that Iran had enriched uranium and was in defiance of the U.N. Security Council.

President Bush said "the world is united and concerned" about what he called Iran's "desire to have not only a nuclear weapon but the capacity to make a nuclear weapon or the knowledge to make a nuclear weapon."

Jeez, if that's true we're all in trouble. Gum wrappers fer chrissake. Invasion is our only option.

Keeping with the Friday Sexcapdes theme, may I offer this? A sample of republicans with err... problems:

Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.

Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.

Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester.

Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

Yeah good, upstanding moral Amurkans. Wanna bet every one of them has a yellow-ribbon magnet on their cars?

Hookers at the Watergate servicing republican congressmen? What, hookers teaching whores how to conduct business? Well, it's looking like a certain ex-Congressman who might have "E-ticket" CIA access has a shot at being, ummm, involved. who?

The FBI is probing whether now-imprisoned Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA) and other lawmakers spent time with prostitutes arranged for and paid by Mitchell Wade, former head of defense-intelligence contractor MZM Inc., and Brent Wilkes, of ADCS. Both men are accused of bribing Cunningham; Wade has admitted it, and is cooperating with prosecutors.

The FBI's also curious about staff members who may have joined in on the action, which is said to take place in the Westin Grand and -- yes, the second time is farce -- the Watergate.

It's being said in other places around left-blogistan, that the more deadly but less soundbite-friendly scandals of Valerie Plame, no WMD's or JACKAbramOFF and such that make Joe Six-Pack's eyes glaze over will be eclipsed by this because it's a SEX scandal. Oh, and there might be a white woman involved, which will give Tweety something to bloviate about for well, eternity.

Absolutely the best "find" will be one or more of these congressmen who has any "interesting" proclivities. You have to wonder if Larry Flynt will be offering any of the women (if they are ever identified) cash for that certain "tell all" story of Kongressional Kink.

Oh, those sanctimonious republicans. Remember that the republicans who howled the loudest about the misdeeds of Clinton were the ones whose marital and fidelity transgressions were out there for everyone to see, like Mr. Family Values-while-I-fuck-my-mistress Henry Hyde. Fucking hypocrites, all.

Maybe the FBI needs to get ahold of that "intelligence-connected" Congressmans' appointment book from his tenure in the House, and then match up some of those appointments with bank transactions, "dinners out" and other points of interest in his schedule. It's not as simple as a semen-covered blue dress, but the details are in the grunt work. Just ask Al Capone's ghost.

You have to read this. In 50 years this will be Preznit Absolutely Wrong's legacy.

And ours as Americans. How sad.

So the Senate republicans want to do away with FEMA and wrap it up into that other non-functional bureacracy, the Departmant of Hopeless Security? Ooookay. Apparently there is a "bi-partisan" report/recommendation. Hmmm, says I, Bi-Partisan?

The Federal Emergency Management Agency was so fundamentally dysfunctional during Hurricane Katrina that Congress should abolish it and create a new disaster response agency from scratch, a draft bipartisan Senate report has concluded.
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Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said the new agency would be "better equipped with the tools to prepare for and respond to a disaster."

The committee's ranking Democrat, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, also endorsed creation of what would be called the National Preparedness and Response Authority. The full committee has not yet debated or voted on the draft recommendations.

If Joementum is for it, then hey I'm pretty much against it, because it's gotta be a vehicle for giving cover to Joe's Man-Love Himself, Preznit French Kiss.

And adding anything to the politcally-appointee ridden Dysfunctional Helpless Sycophants isn't going to help anyone. Shit, Chertoff can't even recall whether the biggest threats to Amerika were Hurricanes or Librarians named Katrina in 2005. But, I'm sure he's doing a heckuva job, nonetheless.

And of course in classic 1600 Crew fashion, the time to make any changes in FEMA would be when Hurricane season is upon us. That way it's all congress's fault for not being prepared.

Yeah, my guess is that Intel will be making a great show of this whole self-examination and then drag out a report that says: Offshore everything! Be Competitive!

The chief executive of Intel, Paul Otellini, pledged Thursday to begin cutting costs companywide within 90 days to cope with slowing personal- computer demand and stem a slide in the chip maker's market share.

"No stone will remain unturned or unlooked at," Otellini said during a meeting with analysts in New York. "You will see a leaner, more agile and more efficient Intel Corp."

I hate it when I think I'm right...but you know, I did learn something when I got that worthless MBA.

Well, here we go...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday said the United Nations Security Council must "take some action" against Iran for defying demands that it stop uranium enrichment.
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"It's pretty clear Iran is not going to meet those requirements," said Rice, speaking at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in the Bulgarian capital.
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The Security Council must be "credible" and make clear to the Iranian authorities that "it cannot be cost-free to flaunt the will of the international community," Rice told reporters.

As the key body for maintaining global peace and security, the Security Council should not see its "word and will ignored," said Rice, adding, "The Security Council has to act to be credible."

Rice repeated Washington's warning that it had not ruled out using military strikes against Tehran. "The President of the United States does not take any of the options off the table," she said.

Does it ever end with these people? The further down in the polls they slide, the more the rhetoric seems to get ratched up for action against Iran.

Bush Pussy...sort of unlike Jumbo Shrimp, Military Intelligence, Brave Neo-Cons, isn't it? No oxy, just moron.

Nah, the 1600 Crew is not in bed with the oil companies. Not at all. Back before Kinda-Lyin' became the most-incompetant National Security Advisor of all time, she had a Chevron Tanker named for her.

Until Chevron decided it couldn't be quite so obvious.

Louisiana legislators, who have absolutely nothing better to do than screw around with abortion laws (not like any, you know, Hurricanes might come there or anything...or that significant numbers of residents are displaced) have a state senator who calls himself a Democrat. Oh, spare me.

Louisiana's state Senate on Wednesday approved a near-total ban on abortion, rejecting a move to allow the procedure for victims of rape and incest.

The bill would outlaw all abortions except to save the life of the mother. Sen. Ben Nevers, the sponsor, argued against adding any other exception, saying his "heart goes out to" sex crime victims but their wishes are less important than his goal of preventing abortion.

"Lord knows I would never want to hurt a mother, in any way. Lord knows I would never want to hurt a victim of rape or incest," said Nevers, D-Bogalusa.

"A crime committed by a rapist should not result in the death of an unborn child." (my emphasis)

I don't get why men like Nevers hate Women and Children so much. This is purely a selfish act ("his goal") on Nevers part, oh, and what's the penalty for the woman who has the abortion?

Under the measure, doctors found guilty of performing abortions would face up to 10 years in prison and fines of $100,000.

I get mail all the time from people who want to know why I think "Christians" are so full of shit. Take a look at Mr. Nevers and his
"supporters" in the Louisiana legislature, and see part of the answer there.

Yo, I'll take ass-licking sycophants for $1000, please. In the form of a question, "How long before Tony Snowjob 'regrets' his past criticisms of Most Beloved Leader?"

Today on Special Report with Brit Hume, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow expressed regret for his past criticisms of President Bush, as reported yesterday on Think Progress. Watch it.

I wonder if Snowjob isn't missing the gentle minstrations of the One True Father. Well, maybe by the end of the week.

JIm Webb, a man who is seeing that country comes before Politics announced his candidacy for George Allen's senate seat today in the small southwest Virginia town of Gate City.

Democrat James Webb officially kicked off his campaign for the U.S. Senate in this conservative corner of Virginia on Tuesday, offering a strongly populist indictment of the Bush administration and pledging to seek an end to the war in Iraq and a "culture of corruption" in Washington.
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Webb, 60, has never run for political office before and has a mixed background of support for both parties -- he voted for President Bush in 2000 and even endorsed Allen when he was elected to the Senate six years ago.

But Webb was an early opponent of the Iraq invasion, and his military credentials -- he's a decorated Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War - ...
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He told his audience that his son, also a Marine, is schedule to be deployed to Iraq this summer.

"My objection to the war is not aimed at my country but at the administration that has chosen to wage this war, an administration that has muddied the truth, made mistake after mistake and refused to accept responsibility," he said.
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Webb was wearing combat boots with his suit Tuesday, in contrast to the cowboy boots that Allen is known for. He said he is wearing them to show support for his son and others in the military and urged supporters to put on boots -- "any kind other than cowboy" -- and "join this journey."

If Webb wins the seat, he will go to Congress as the only Senator with a son serving in Mess O'Potamia.

I-'ave-marched-six-weeks in 'Ell an' certify
It-is-not-fire-devils, dark, or anything,
But boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' down again,
An' there's no discharge in the war!

Aww, Howie is getting all gooshy, in that K-Lo stinky couche kinda way over Tony Snow getting job of being Scotty II, the Lying continues. Here's Howie:

Jody Powell was part of Jimmy Carter's inner circle. James Brady had been a spokeswoman for HUD, OMB and DOD before taking the White House job under Ronald Reagan. After Brady was wounded in the assassination attempt, Reagan tapped Larry Speakes, who had been a vice president of Hill & Knowlton. Marlin Fitzwater was an administration PR guy. Dee Dee Myers had been Bill Clinton's campaign spokeswoman. Her successor, Mike McCurry, was a political PR guy who worked for Bob Kerrey in the primaries and then became the State Department flack. Joe Lockhart, who had dabbled in television, was McCurry's deputy and Clinton's '96 campaign spokesman. Ari Fleischer was a Hill spokesman who became Bush's campaign mouthpiece. Scott McClellan was Fleischer's deputy and a Bush loyalist from Texas.

Notice a pattern here?

They're all PR pros. Not a real ex-journalist among them.

Lou Dobbs is getting to be the Number One TV Racist, isn't he? Or maybe he was already there, I don't know since I'm not much for watching CNN before today (and I don't know why I am watching it today).

Amidst all the rhetoric the message is, "Boy, do I not like Brown People". On and on and on he goes, talking about securing our Southern border. Because you know, there's never been an illegal immigrant walking across the US-Canadian border.

Well, none who don't have blonde hair, blue eyes and the other features of the master race (or brown eyes, like Lou's). Amazing, isn't it?

Well, long time since we've checked in on the Duchess of Dupont. Seems that he's still hot for his man, Preznit Incredibly Incompetant. No matter what he does, Sullivan loves him some George...yeah, in that way.

What Bush has - typically - done is get a spokesman, who doesn't set policy, to appeal to alienated conservatives. It is literal window-dressing. Unless, of course, more is going on than meets the eye. Here's hoping that's true.

Some things really never do change, do they?

CNN, if you didn't know, now has an "Eye on Iran" graphic up and running.

Jeebus. What's next? You get three guesses and the first two don't count.

With gas prices expected to hover at record highs through summer, President Bush yesterday called for price-fixing investigations and several measures aimed at holding down the fast-rising costs of driving.

With a Preznit who wipes his ass with the Constitution, what can anyone expect? Not much from a military, business, personal and political failure of a "man" whose greatest accomplishments have been drunken daughters, the sale of America to his buddies and the moral and economic bankruptcy of our country for generations to come.

Awww, how cute. Hand in hand, two of the biggest losers in the 1600 Crew are off to Mess O'Potamia together.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced joint visit to Iraq Wednesday to bolster the new emerging government and to ensure that the sometimes disjointed U.S. political and military operations are working seamlessly with the transition to a permanent government.

"This is the Iraqis' time," Rice told reporters traveling with her. "This is the time to support the Iraqi's government of national unity. It will be up to the Iraqis to determine how to move forward and we are going to be there very much in support of them."

And with that, the invasion of Iran will commence. Because it's never enough to stop with the Sudatenland, is it?

How in the fuck do we get this message to every congress critter, from bloggers of both parties: "You give away the Internet, we give away your fucking jobs?"

Congress is going to hand the operation of the Internet over to AT&T, Verizon and Comcast. Democrats are helping. It's a shame.

Don’t look now, but the House Commerce Committee next Wednesday is likely to vote to turn control of the Internet over to AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner and what’s left of the telecommunications industry. It will be one of those stories the MSM writes about as “little noticed” because they haven’t covered it.

There are about 300 or so of you very loyal readers out there, but 300 of us won't be fart in this windstorm. Spread the word. Everywhere. On left and right wing blogs that have comments. This can't be allowed.

Found this wandering around the photo blogging system Flickr. Pretty interesting graphic, you can make one up for your website. I do wish that you could make the US map more granular and turn the blue states blue :)

Where's Jo been? or vertaling Duits Nederlands

Make one of your own and leave the URL in comments or a link to your blog. Be interesting to see where folks have been.

Yeah, it was Kinda-Lyin's "Thousand Tactical Errors" that led to this. Big Time.

Last Nov. 13, U.S. soldiers found 173 incarcerated men, some of them emaciated and showing signs of torture, in a secret bunker in an Interior Ministry compound in central Baghdad. The soldiers immediately transferred the men to a separate detention facility to protect them from further abuse, the U.S. military reported.

Since then, there have been at least six joint U.S.-Iraqi inspections of detention centers, most of them run by Iraq's Shiite Muslim-dominated Interior Ministry. Two sources involved with the inspections, one Iraqi official and one U.S. official, said abuse of prisoners was found at all the sites visited through February. U.S. military authorities confirmed that signs of severe abuse were observed at two of the detention centers.

The tragedy of Iraq isn't that no one saw this coming, it's that the Preznit and his Neo-Con enablers and sycophants just didn't care. After all, for them brown Islamic people who kill each other are brown Islamic people who can't do them any harm over here. Fight them over there and all that bullshit...right, Sully?

I guess that the 1600 Crew is adopting that "...only good wog" aphorism coined by the countrymen of the poodle Blair a few years past, because it seems to me that right after the beginnings of the huuuge waste of everything that has been the Mess in Mess O'Potamia, the Preznit after he made light of not finding any WMD's (wasn't that just the funniest? O-My-Gawd!!) for the Washington Press Corpse he began spewing about the terrible, terrible un-freedomly mannerisms of Sadd-Am and his "rape rooms". Knowing little and understanding less, that the Shi'a majority were just itching for some payback and it was coming their way. Nothing if not patient were the Shi'a, and had a single one of the Neo-cons read about Iraq they would have seen an inkling of this.

But no. Candy and rose petals. Saddam Bad. Shi'a Good. Civil War? Not gonna happen, and if it does, well it's not our fault...we gave them their Freedom!

I think that as of today, I am officially declaring that I personally don't give a shit if Saddam was still in charge of Iraq. There would be thousands of Americans and Iraqi's alive, thousands without wounds both physical and emotional that might never heal and a bazillion dollars of our children's future inheritance not squandered by the most profligately ruinous administration in our Nation's once-proud history.

If Saddam were there, we wouldn't be, and the War on Terra™ might be going a whole different way, because there might be actual adults in charge today. Next time someone says "Well, aren't you glad we took down Saddam?" say "No. I'd rather have live Americans, Money in the Treasury and sane people in power here".

You know it's true.

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I guess you all have noticed that I have been posting a bit less frequently these last couple of weeks. Well, it's spring. The doctor sez I gotta get off my ever-expanding ass and do something else, so I have been. Not that I always agree with MD's, but well...I have something to be sharing with you on that score in the not too distant future (all good).

So, while the 1600 Crew is Beating about the Beloved Leader for new ways to un-suck, I'm taking a few personal days to get recharged for what will, I'm sure, be an epic battle this fall. I have a feeling that short of an "October Un=surprise" of invading/bombing Iran the republicans are gonna fall hard in one or both chambers of the congress. I don't know that the "new generation" of democratic leadership will be much better, it worries me that they will start off being vindictive for being shut out and shit on for so many years. Not to say I blame them, but it's hardly a way to begin rebuilding the total destruction that the 1600 Crew hath wrought with their terrible swift swords.

So with all that in mind, regularly scheduled programming will return after in a few days (like, maybe Tuesday) on a more regularly scheduled basis. Honest. Oh, and I'm gonna start posting some of my pictures here, because what the fuck, it is a blog...and all politics all the time makes Jo a dull fool.

Catch you in a couple of days. Unless I post tonight. I just can't give it up...

1. Bunnypants Speaks
   
2. More republican sex follies
   
3. Oh Yeah
   
4. A Garden in GITMO
   
5. Breaking FEMA?
   
6. Between the lines, reading
   
7. Sabres being rattled
   
8. Remember this?
   
9. Oh get this...
   
10. Milliseconds, that's it