Message in a Bottle

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2008-07-02T20:18:00.000-07:00

Mickey Edwards in his new book

2008-06-29T15:02:00.001-07:00

Mickey Edwards in his new book, Reclaiming Conservatism, describes the
Constitution as the "apotheosis of political liberalism" and it is reverence
for this document that led to the rise of the modern American conservative
movement. The goal of conservatives is to "conserve the constitution", the
most perfect example of political liberalism. The book is about how
"conservatives moved from the love of freedom to wiretaps, secret
prisons.and a presidency and bureaucracy that places itself above the law".

Calendar makers are already compiling a list of McBushisms. McCain had a
senior moment when he claimed to be a "proud conservative, liberal
Republican". Is it dementia that prompts the "common knowledge and has been
reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving
training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran, that's well known. And it's
unfortunate." statement? Well John, just ask Joe, 'cause it ain't so. Iran
is Shia and Al-Qaeda is made up of hardcore Sunni. Make sense, John Boy?

We are on the Iraqi interstate highway headed in the wrong direction. The
nearest off ramp that will take us out of danger and save lives is visible
and within reach. Will we take it?

Make the lie big, make it simple

2008-06-29T14:51:00.000-07:00

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

~unknown

John McCain, in a recent interview, said that when the troops return from Iraq is not important. He also said "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should." After 8 years of W Bush's incompetence, can we afford John McCain's? Working Americans voted against their self-interest to put Mr. Bush in the Presidency, will they do the same for Mr. McCain?

In 2000, the Republicans were handed control of the Presidency, the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Supreme Court. The results of that control has been a disastrous war in Iraq costing the soul of this country, 4,000 American lives and more than 30,000 wounded Americans. A barrel of oil is $140 and gasoline $4 a gallon. Unemployment is 5.5%, the highest in over 20 years. A surplus built by Democrats has been squandered and we now have a $400 billion deficit. Oil companies are raking in record profits.

Will voters be motivated by emotion substituted for thought, fear, ignorance or propaganda? Will working Americans vote their self interest come November, or be fooled again?

Irack War-Mission Accomplished

2007-09-23T19:23:00.000-07:00

Mr. Bush speaks again and bad things always happen....

2007-09-22T07:42:00.000-07:00

Mr. Bush has spoken again. “Bring ‘em on”. “Mission Accomplished”. “Greeted as Liberators”. “The insurgency is in it’s last throes”. Mr. Bush is channeling through Petraeus a general with “presidential ambitions who cooks the books in a report to Congress, allowing a delusional President to claim success in a conflict that continues to deteriorate“.
Are we winning? If America was winning, Mr. Bush would not have to fly to Iraq under cover of darkness. I would not be asking the question. The question we should be asking is whether the cost is worth what we stand to gain. 3,800 dead Americans and more than 20,000 forever wounded.
Journalist Max Blumenthal interviewed a group of Young Republicans. All agreed we should be fighting “them” there and not here. But all had some excuse when asked if they would go “there” and engage the fight. One young lady could not support John McCain because he was opposed to “torture of fellow human beings” to get information. I have to wonder how torture and Jesus all fit under the same roof?
How many American lives will it take to achieve the Republican goal of retreat with honor? How many Mr. Corker?

Ben Stein and Larry Craig

2007-09-09T12:13:00.000-07:00

Birds of a feather flock together.

Republicans and sympathizers miss the point on Larry Craig. Republicans (Larry included) have held out as the moral compass of the country. Simply to be Democrat was to lack any moral certitude! There were complaints from the public about person like Mr. Craig. Did the Republican compass throw Larry under the bus? Absolutely! And now we have Mark Foley. David Vitter and Larry Craig! Not to mention the good Republican compasses thrown out of Congress. I won't mention any names, google Republican Crooks and you will get a basket full.

Ben, you strike me as an intelligent fellow. Use your noggin for something other than a hat rack.

Fred Says Osama not important

2007-09-09T07:17:00.000-07:00

FredT says that catching Osama is not important. We all know what Mr. Bush thinks(well perhaps "thinks" is too strong a word). Fred, Fred, Fred. I live in Tennessee and am not surprised by what mr. thompson said. Mr. Thompson should not give up his day job.

Mr. bin Laden is the mastermind behind the 9/11 attack on this country. Mr. bin Laden is responsible for more than 3,000 American Lives and Mr. Thompson says that killing mr. bin Laden in no longer important.

The family members of the victims of 9/11 however, might differ with the opinion of FredT.

If we were winning in Iraq, I would not have to ask the question "Are we winning in Iraq". We would not be having the debate about whether or not the strategy is working. The question we should be asking is "whether the cost is worth the gain"?

Fred Thompson-Good Republican Christian?

2007-09-08T12:08:00.000-07:00

I't almost certain that Fred is a Christian Now. Recently had a Republican Christian Conversion. The Republicans have David Witter, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, etc. etc and Fred.

And, are you surprised that FredT supporters don't think the fact that FredT does not go to church is not a big deal and not important? FredT does not think that capturing or killing Osama bin Laden is important! I will bet my last lottery dollar that FredT starts going to church on a regular basis and religion starts flowing from his lips daily. A conversion?

Lakoda The Dog

2007-07-07T12:26:00.000-07:00

Ronald Reagan, former Hollywood cowboy

2007-07-07T11:36:00.000-07:00

"…we did not appreciate fully the depth of the hatred and complexity of the problems that made the Middle East such a jungle…In the weeks immediately after the bombing, I believed the last thing we should do was turn tail and leave…yet, the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics forced us to rethink our policy there."

-Ronald Reagan, former Hollywood cowboy

The mud hole in Iraq continues. 3,601 Americans have now lost their lives and since “Mission Accomplished“, 3,462.
Is there anything worse than having congress micromanage the mess in Iraq? Yes, having Mr. Bush mismanage the mess in Iraq! Well don’t worry Mr. Bush, the flag draped coffin returning from Iraq is not a fetus or stem cell.

It is said that if we leave without victory, we dishonor those who have fallen. Or, more Americans must die so we don’t look like such fools to history. Supporters of the Iraqi mud hole tell us of the dangers and chaos of leaving Iraq, but isn't it quite possible that these dangers are simply a consequence of having gone into Iraq in the first place, rather than a consequence of leaving?

Good for you Ron Paul, conviction and integrity from a Republican.

2007-07-04T10:58:00.000-07:00

To day is July 4th. I have spent the day reading the Declaration of Independence. 1,320 words. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776. I found some passages interesting.

..."to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God "

..."that they are endowed by their Creator "

..."deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

..."it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government"

...'To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."

..."We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms"

..."A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

Scooter Libby is not the criminal. If we focus on him, we lose sight of the true criminals. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. The real crime was not committed by Scooter, but by mr. bush and mr. cheney. Hitler was criminal, Saddam was a criminal and mr. bush is a criminal.

Ann Colter. how can any human being be as void of humanity and decency as Ann Colter? Whenever I look at Ann, I see Satan in all his glory. I have to wonder where she fits with the religious right?

Family values? For that matter, any values!

How can the religious right align with the thugs of the Republican party? The Jesus I know would never be a republican?

The biggest bloc for support of Mr. Bush and the war in Iraq is the religious right. I simply don't understand how a true, real christian can support such a miscarriage of justice? The average american voter I guess. Most average american voters have to come from the religious right. no critical processing of information! Acceptance of anything thet the republicans feed them.

I hope that the republicans heading into 2008 will dig deep into their collective sense of what it is to be american. If any republican reading this will just for one moment be critical and think, for just one second, stop and think. If you are going to put a crook in the white house, at a minimum, please make the crook a competent crook.

Picture says it All.

2007-06-30T08:31:00.000-07:00

How did Mr. Bush Screw up so badly?

2007-06-23T12:32:00.000-07:00

If you have ever seen the movie The Godfather part 2, you will recall the scene where Don Michael Corleone, just arrived in Cuba, is on his way to meet with Hyman Roth.

As Michael's car drives through the crowded streets, they are stopped in traffic as police search and arrest rebels. Johnny Ola notes: "Just some lousy bandits. The police are cleaning them up." One Spanish guerrilla rebel runs across the street, shouts: "Viva Fidel!", pushes an official into a parked car, and suicidally blows them up with a fiery, smoky grenade explosion.

A birthday cake with a lit sparkler on top and a decorative picture of Cuba is wheeled along on a serving cart on the open-air terrace of the Roth-owned Capri Hotel. Hyman Roth,speaking like a generous mentor to his business associates, wishes them all well.

"A rebel was being arrested by the military police", observes Michael Corleone "and rather than be taken alive, he exploded a grenade he had hidden in his jacket. He killed himself and he took a captain of the command with him...it occurred to me the soldiers are paid to fight, the rebels aren't".

"What does that tell you", inquires Roth.

"That they can win", replies Michael.

In 1777, General William Howe marched his army of British Redcoats into Philadelphia, the seat of the Revolutionary government. The Continental Congress abandoned the city. Howe finally outmaneuvered Washington and marched into Philadelphia unopposed and it appeared the American Revolutionary War was over. At least to the English. Washington and his army encamped at Valley Forge in December 1777.

Howe had shown the hitherto unconvinced British population that a military solution to the American colonial uprising might be possible. American revolutionary leaders were not, however, about to give up the fight. And as for Howe’s occupation of Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin described it another way: “Howe has not captured Philadelphia. Philadelphia has captured Howe.”

Howe was in Philadelphia, but what was he to do next if the revolutionaries continued to fight? And fight is exactly what the Americans did. The revolutionaries might not win by pitched battle, but time was on their side. They were fighting for their own homeland, on their own soil. It was a classic insurgent scenario, to be replayed many times in the following centuries.

The Revolutionary War dragged on another five years, but the result was total victory for the uprising.

2007-06-03T13:13:00.000-07:00

I watched 5 minutes or so of Pastor Rod this morning and it set me thinking. As he vented his christian anger on first one thing and then another, Darwin, New Age philosophy, Karl Marx, all the World Religions, and all humans who don't see the world through his absolute certainty of rightness.

I wonder where humanity would be if we still practiced medicine as practiced 2,000 years ago, 1,000 years ago. The next time you go to the doctor, be thankful that medicine did not put science on hold. Your doctor no longer uses blood letting or leaches. Science has increased the life expectancy more than 30 years in just the past 100 years.

Science-not religion!

Darwin's theory of evolution is just that, a theory. Science may one day prove it wrong or right as the case may be. Or as we have more knowledge, make adjustments to the theory.

And so we have the major difference in science and christian religion. Science can prove it's theories wrong, or make adjustments as new information is known. Religion is absolute and can't be adjusted or proven wrong, no matter how wrong.

Imagine sending a man to the moon if we still used the science of 2,000 years ago. Science and religion are often at odds. Some of the religious people I know think that satan is a flesh and blood entity living somewhere on the planet.

But where?

I know that one day I will face an essential truth of my existence on this small orb in space. What I don't know is what that essential truth is?

2006-06-18T06:44:00.000-07:00

Mr. Bush had to sneak into Baghdad or more precisely, the “Green Zone”. Air Force One had to jink around in the sky for a roller-coaster landing. I guess Mr. Bush was worried that all the candy and flowers thrown by adoring mobs of Iraqis would hurt his plane. Will the Arab world see the meeting for what it is - an infidel overlord meeting his puppet?

Well, the good news is that Mr. Bush did not have to sneak back into Washington. Did any American ever have to sneak into Saigon?

2,500 Americans have now lost their lives in Mr. Bush’s “grotesque mistake”. It is time to change direction. The silver-tongued devil Karl Rove speaks from his safe air conditioned building in New Hampshire, his life not at risk, that we should stay the course. We stayed the course in Vietnam. What did we achieve?

Forget about Abu Gharib and innocent Iraqi women and children being killed. Don’t ever ask yourself about the morality of this war. Mr. Bush has done more to damage the reputation of America in six years than all previous Presidents in 200+ years combined.

Is the war in Iraq good for America?

Well, three years, 400 billion dollars and 2,500 Americans and counting.

U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 2,500

2006-06-15T06:32:00.000-07:00

American deaths reach 2500...

The lack of outrage at the murders in Hadditha. And I have no proof that this happened. Only what i hear and what i read. This so called Christian nation. The Christian republicans and there is not outrage. None.

Most Americans have no problem that as many as 24 innocent people were killed in iraq. "collateral damage"

When I talk/discuss/debate the war at work, inevitably someone will say that the solution is to bomb them all. Usually some self proclaimed Christian, suggesting that we just "kill them all".

We have lost the moral high ground. Mr. Bush has done more in 6 years to make this country look bad than all the other presidents in the last 200 + years combined.

Jay Lena put it best when he said that Mr. Bush wanted to be a base ball player but lacked the skills to do so. Luckily for America, there are no such criteria to be president.

War is bad enough when you have a moral imperative to kill. Perhaps, wwii. Hitler and the mass destruction of Jews. Maybe. But in Iraq, we have no moral imperative.

Mr. Bush over the past few days has tried to raise the quagmire in Iraq above a level of disgust, and for many people that will not be an issue, hadditha, abu ghrib, and other war-crimes aside. the morality of war does not seem to bother the Christian sense of right and wrong. And so we have some of them suggesting that the solution in Iraq is to bomb them all.

U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 2,500

18,490 U.S. troops have been wounded since 2003 invasion.

At least 36 killed as Bush makes surprise Baghdad visit

2006-06-13T16:23:00.000-07:00

of course mr. bush did not let anyone know that he was headed to the "Green Zone" in baghdad. and you can bet your last lottery dollar that he did not get out of the green zone. mama did't raise no fool. and people continued to die in iraq.

Now the government will deploy more than 75,000 policemen to baghdad. well, now the insurgents will not have as difficult time killing policemen since they are now grouped together in baghdad.

I heard on the news tonight that FEMA lost more than 1 billion dollars after katrina to fraud. why can't mr. bush find individuals who can manage the departments in the government? of course all you have to do is look at the way he has managed the government as a whole to see that incompetence is the rule of the day in the bush administration.

Almost 2,500 americans have now died in iraq. is what we will gain in iraq worth the cost in human lives? no one knows how many iraqis have died, innocent or otherwise? the cost in dollars in more than 400 billion dollars. 400 billiion.

Simply because Karl Rove was not indicted does not mean that he is not guilty. Just means that his guilt could not be proved. OJ Simpson bring anything to mind?

Probably a plus for the insurgency.

I want what is best for America. Not what is best for Mr. Bush or the Republican Party. Iraq is not what is best for America. Americans have to continue to die because mr. bush must prove a point. America cannot win in Iraq.

The good thing about iraq is that:

"The draft was eliminated after the Vietnam War, and all of the troops fighting in Iraq are volunteers. The government thankfully no longer compels a narrow swath of society to fight and die in combat."

Republican Values

2006-06-12T19:15:00.000-07:00

The greatest of Republican values...Tom Delay..poster boy for the republican party. he is what all republicans strive to be.

Fifty-five percent of Americans still say the war in Iraq is going badly for the United States,

Mr. Rove says that he and his cronies will not apologize for the incompetence of the Iraq war. "we did the best we could do with the intelligence we had" after all, you are working with that w bush guy.

Advertising mag asks Ann Coulter to kill herself- well finally a voice of reason.

Number of senators who voted against the Iraq war.

But this is about values.

I read recently the story about Sodom and Gomorah. Lot you will remember was the good guy that came out of all the this. It seems that most republican religious extremist get their position on gays from the story about sodom and gemorah. god sent 2 angels to visit with lot. some of the men in the city came to lot and requested that they have a chance to get to know these two angels/men. religious bible thumpers would have us believe that what the men of the city wanted was to "butt fuck the two guest". and so old lot, thought it would be better if the men of the city had a chance to get to know his young daughters, so he offered them instead. butt fuck the guest, why not "butt fuck my daughters". so the angels struck the men of the city blind.

well, biblical scholars think that the "sin" committed by the men of the city may have been the sin of "greed". but what i find interesting is old lot. willing to give up his daughters.

well, now "Our Assholes belong to us"

Reid tries to enlist bloggers as Democratic force

2006-06-11T05:18:00.000-07:00

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13251808/

At this point, i am not sure who to blog for.

The deomocrats will not stand up to mr. bush because they don't want to show their hands to early. Their strategy is to wait and see how things develop. Critize the war too strongly and you may be in trouble later if the war starts to go well. But, you can't wait too long. At some point, someone in the demorcratic party needs to say something that will cause some kind of excitement in my words...this is not happening at this time.

This war was WRONG and i would like to have some demorcrat say that it was and is WRONG. And no one is and no one will until.......

...someone feels that it is "politically correct" to do so. By then it may be too late however.

What amazes me about mr. bush is that he is not able to read history. The Israelis have been using force in their relationships with the rest of the middle east for more than 50 years. And where has this strategy gotten them. Certainly not "peace". And mr. bush uses the same strategy.

the question that has to be asked and answered is: why do the muslim jihadist hate america so much? perhaps if we understood this part of the puzzle we could come up with a strategy that will work. and not get americans killed. and not get innocent iraqis killed.

but, then mr. bush would not be the cowboy that he so much needs to be.

The Republicans finally have something to feel good about. the "shall not kill" republicans killed a bad guy in Iraq. Finally they were able to get Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Of course the man responsible for 911 is still free. Mr. bush and the republicans tend to forget this small fact.

One thing you can depend and bank on, Iraqis will continue to die and american service men and women will continue to die.

Gunmen killed

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/11/AR2006061100219.html

Well at least they killed him at a good time for the republicans. all the talk would have been about haditha. so we won't talk about the killing of innocent iraqis and talk about Zarqawi.

And finlly-i thought this story interesting, if you have not read, then you may be enlightened.

Another Dubious Turning Point

2006-06-10T10:05:00.000-07:00

The end of major combat. The toppling of saddams's statue.
Mission Accomplished. Bring 'em on. and now mr. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. we keep seeing milestones. people keep dying. americans keep dying. mr. bush keeps making excuses.

A Bogeyman Made by the US: Brendan O'Neill

We've heard it all. my friends tell me that we can't simply pack up and leave. leaving will cause greater harm than remaining with the continued bloodshed. and so we stay.