Fucking Yellow Elephants just piss me off. So this is for them. Apologies to SSGT Barry Sadler for the parody.

Drinking boys found campus-wide
remarks they've made, are very snide
ChickenHawks mean what they say
Pachyderms of the jaune brigade

A Yellow stripe runs down their back
Fortitude is just what they lack
One hundred shots, they'll drink today
Pachyderms of the jaune brigade

Thought they'll yell and scream and shout
About their fight and lack of doubt
Pachyderms who will not serve
Republicans who've lost their nerve

A Yellow stripe runs down their back
Fortitude is what they lack
One hundred shots, they'll drink today
Pachyderms of the jaune brigade

Recruiters wait for them to show
But will they serve? The answer's no
They'll bluster and obfuscate
while others serve and meet their fate

Yellow stripes upon their back
But they won't serve
Because they say
That their ideas will save the day

That Yellow Stripe's a mile wide
They wear it with a willing pride
Sacrifice is not their way
Pachyderms of the Jaune Brigade
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Amazing what you find in the sitemeter stats. Here's another vet from Iraq who has blogrolled me. Go drop by his well-written and thoughtful site.

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Worth a visit, and putting it in your favorites.

The republicans in their own trade-marked style of dog-whistle politics were warning the faithful still at the kool-aid containers that Nancy Pelosi would be trouble. For them. Now, her approach to governing which apparently includes oversight and accountability of the Executive is causing more massive whining on a scale not seen before.

Intensifying a war of words over a U.S. troop buildup in Iraq, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) accused President George W. Bush on Friday of playing politics with soldiers' lives, a charge the White House called "poisonous."
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Saying Democrats were waging a "sound-bite war," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino fired back: "Questioning the president's motivations and suggesting that he for some political reason is rushing troops into harm's way is not appropriate, it is not correct and it is unfortunate."
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"But we will hold the president accountable," she said. "He has to answer for his war. He has dug a hole so deep he can't even see the light on this ... It's a historic blunder."

Yes, it's going to be an interesting time to watch the members of the 1600 Crew lawyer-up, even as they decry the lack of civility and bi-partisanship in Washington. But it's instructive to remember that to a man (and woman) every single one of these fuckers subscribed to the notion (until November 8th) that bipartisanship was akin to date rape. Too bad the American people snuck some roofies into the Kool-Aid. Or something.

OMiGawd ... this has to do it. We've spilled our National Blood and Treasure, involved ourselves in a "foreign entaglement" that's making the bones of George Washington do the perpetual hokey-pokey; executed the leader of a one-time supporter of our military-industrial complex in an ignominous sectarian lynching and split the country in a way not seen since Vietnam for this?

Fatima Ali was a 24-year-old divorcee with no high school diploma and no job. Shawket al-Rubae was a 34-year-old Shiite sheik with a pregnant wife who, he said, could not have sex with him.

Ali wanted someone to take care of her. Rubae wanted a companion.

They met one afternoon in May at the house he shares with his wife, in the room where he accepts visitors seeking his religious counsel. He had a proposal. Would Ali be his temporary wife? He would pay her 5,000 Iraqi dinars upfront -- about $4 -- in addition to her monthly expenses. About twice a week over the next eight months, he would summon her to a house he would rent.

The negotiations took an hour and ended with an unwritten agreement, the couple recalled. Thus began their "mutaa," or enjoyment marriage, a temporary union believed by Shiite Muslims to be sanctioned by Islamic law.

There was once a commercial with a tag line of "You've come a long way, baby". Yes, we certainly have. Not.

I wonder who will clean up the icky stuff from the wingnut brain explosions over this. The Talibangelicals will have a fucking field day with this one. Heh. Indeed.

Yeah, not that cheezy Elvis "Suspicion"... Damn it all and a ham sandwich. It was just a matter of time before Hillary started on her quest (quixotic-al?) for the Oval Office.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) offered her harshest assessment to date of President Bush's Iraq war strategy yesterday, continuing her steady evolution from one of the war's staunchest supporters to one of the administration's most prominent critics.

Clinton's stepped-up criticism came as she nears an announcement of her plans for a likely 2008 presidential campaign and during a period of increased antiwar activity in the Democratic Party aimed at blocking Bush's proposal to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq.

So what's changed? Let's be cynical for a moment and say nothing and everything. And Barak Obama. His imminent entry into the race will be the card that if played, will make Our Dear Friend DLC Clinton shudder the whole length of ther triangulating personage.

Obama will definately shake this race up. He's a contender, although relatively untried in National politics. He'd make a great number two for John Edwards, and he'd get the experience and exposure he needs for a solo run at the White House in 2016.

Hillary? Rich, white and out of ideas. She's successfully triangulated herself into a corner. I don't count her out, but I don't count on her to do much to win me over between now and next year.

Edwards/Obama. An Kicking Ass Ticket. Literally.

Seems that Jim Webb, you know, the one with the son in Marines who is in Mess O'Potamia will give the Democratic rebuttal to the annual orgy of self-aggrandizement that has become the State of the Union.

Let's see, over the last six years we've heard lies, threats, more lies and utter nonsense from the Inerrant Boy King. This year, I'm betting we'll be treated to, hmmmm...at least six mentions of 9/11; terra, the war on terra™ the Evil-doers in Iran; more Dead-Ender Philosophy and making Social Security safe from terrorists by investing in Personal Accounts.

You gotta wonder how Preznit Putz will feel having to stand with his back to Nancy Pelosi. Heh. All these years, he's had the wide-bodied Denny O'Graft covering his six, and now he's got Nancy. Boy, what a change for a Nancy-boy like our Beloved Leader.

Jim Webb, says he'll talk about the redeployment of troops in the middle east. And about economic fairness for the American worker. Sounds dangerously subversive to me.

I used to blog here once upon a time. I will again. I have just been so freakin' busy now that I have a j-o-b again...

Not an excuse, but .... oh, well.

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