Nosy little bastards, aren’t they. I suppose it’s our own fault for not supporting our Preznit and his dirty little war.

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Julia has one of those brains that connects the dots faster than anyone I know.
You may have seen the gleeful reports that the Clinton administration was the one first involved in shipping terrorist subjects off to be tortured? Julia recalls that the source for this story had a completely different version in the not-too-distant past.

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You know, Roger Ailes has been doing some great work lately. This is no exception.

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And yet, everyone connected with him has the same reputation for honesty:
Media reports that U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay had convinced the state’s highest court to hear his appeal were as widely circulated as they were, well, wrong.
Justices for the Texas Court Criminal Appeals agreed merely to consider hearing DeLay’s money laundering case. They never said […]

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God bless the ACLU.

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Nice piece in today’s WashPo on Philadelphia, City of Murals. We really do have some breathtaking wall art here.

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So imagine leaving for a trip to Italy, and you find out your nine-month-old infant is actually a terrorist:
Zapolsky, who did not want her son’s name made public, said she was initially amused by the mix-up. “But when I found out you can’t actually get off the list, I started to get a bit annoyed.” […]

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Yet another good reason to stop using Explorer.

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Rolling Stone interviews George Clooney:
Everybody says, “Look at how bad these guys [the Bush administration] are.” Well, that’s easy, they’re beating themselves into the ground. But we can’t just be the party of “I disagree.” We have to be the party of “here’s the way out.” These Democratic senators voted for the war and say […]

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Julia points out that even though she doesn’t always agree with their choices, it’s a still a good idea to go donate some money to the DCCC.

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And this sort of shortsightedness is the reason why empires always fail to win guerilla wars:
The Bush administration’s surveillance policy has failed to make a dent in the war against al Qaeda.
U.S. law enforcement sources said that more than four years of surveillance by the National Security Agency has failed to capture any high-level al […]

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Who you gonna believe, him or your lying ears?
WASHINGTON (AP) - Meeting notes, released Tuesday by a union representative for federal emergency workers, stated that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told employees that many changes planned after Hurricane Katrina were for publicity purposes.
Chertoff’s spokesman firmly denied he ever made such comments.
The typed notes, […]

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Steve Gilliard explains why the Kurds-willing-to-start-a-civil-war thing is such a potential problem:
See, most of Kurdistan lies in….Turkey, and a fair portion in Iran.
So, the Turks, who burnt down 4,000 Kurdish villages and raped and slaughtered their way across southeast Turkey, might see the formation of a Kurdish state as a threat. And all those “compliant” […]

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James Wolcott on the terrorist leanings of right-wing bloviators:
It’s no accident that it is the rightwing bloggers and pundits who have been avid about defending the use of torture against suspected terrorists. Nor is it an accident that many of them pooh-poohed Abu Ghraib, sluffing it off as no more harmless than fraternity hazing. But […]

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More on the 30-year-old founder of the Lincoln Group, the company doing war propaganda in Iraq. [Via Laura.]

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Via the Washington Note, a worrisome reminder from Larry Wilkerson:
After leaving his position, Wilkerson began revealing the dark secrets of the Bush-Cheney interregnum, telling a New America Foundation gathering in October that during his years in the administration: “What I saw was a cabal between the vice president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and […]

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Have you ever read a more perfect opening line?
“I hear they got Rudolph today,” says me.
“No!” says Giblets. “Not Rudolph! With his unmatched dogfighting skills and his nose so bright he was invincible!”
“It’s true,” says me. “Zombie Judah Maccabee shot im down over the Island of Misfit Toys with his dreidel of doom.”
“Damn you […]

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You wouldn’t believe how many readers end up at this site after Googling for “pissing,” “blowjobs”, “sluts” and “big ass.” (And how many of them are from, shall we say, your more repressed countries.)

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Oh yes, we’ll be leaving any day now:
KIRKUK, Iraq - Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq’s third-largest city, and secure the borders of an […]

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Should be interesting to watch this:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 - Defense lawyers in some of the country’s biggest terrorism cases say they plan to bring legal challenges to determine whether the National Security Agency used illegal wiretaps against several dozen Muslim men tied to Al Qaeda. The lawyers said in interviews that they wanted to learn […]

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Based on their never-ending need for self-justification, it’s just amazing what the whores of the Corporate Media will do to rewrite their own history:
NEW YORK Appearing on “Meet the Press” with Tim Russert this week, two broadcast veterans, Tom Brokaw of NBC and Ted Koppel, agreed that the press shouldn’t be faulted too harshly […]

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Yeah, this is really stupid - and typical of “symbolic” (as opposed to substantive) BushCo policies:
NEW YORK — U.S. Olympic Committee chairman Peter Ueberroth called on the American government to reverse its decision to deny Cuba’s national baseball team permission to play in the United States, keeping it out of next year’s World Baseball […]

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Naturally, his high ethical standards would prevent any abuse of such a program:
Bush said he had reauthorized the domestic spying program more than 30 times since the September 11 attacks and would continue to do so.
In Crawford, Texas, where Bush is spending the holidays, his spokesman, Trent Duffy, defended what he called a “limited program.”
“This […]

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Digby points out that the Republicans’ anti-immigrant fervor is cover for something else - yet another attempt to stack the political deck in perpetuity in favor of their party. Go read.

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Raw Story:
President Bush and other top officials in his administration used the National Security Agency to secretly wiretap the home and office telephones and monitor private email accounts of members of the United Nations Security Council in early 2003 to determine how foreign delegates would vote on a U.N. resolution that paved the way for […]

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