Foul...Foul...Foul

FOUL…FOUL…FOUL!!!!!



2000…the race is on for President. Out of Texas comes a man who can look directly into the camera’s relentless eye, and promise one and all that if HE is elected President, he will bring HONOR and INTEGRITY back to the White House. This promise he makes us AFTER the witch hunting engaged in during the Kenneth Starr persecution of Bill Clinton …you know, the Bill AND Hillary Clinton that they tried to get ANYTHING remotely criminal against…spending BILLIONS of dollars of taxpayer money, ONLY to come up with a lie he, Bill Clinton, told on a deposition for a CIVIL suit that technically should not have been allowed to occur while he was a SITTING PRESIDENT.

AGAIN…let me REITERATE…the ONLY thing the LYNCH-MOB mentality the Republicans could come up with to IMPEACH President Clinton for…was lying about his sex life, while the CHIEF Capitol lyncher, Newt Gingrich, conducted with his wife AND his MISTRESS sitting strategically several seats apart BEHIND him, ripped President Clinton a euphemistic NEW ONE.

STILL despite Clinton’s Impeachable crime…(I always thought Impeachment could only happen if the President had COMMITTED Treason, or oh…maybe…MURDER)…and the waste of the billions Kenneth Starr and his crack team of muckrakers…(Don’t you find it just a TAD hypocritical that Ann Coulter, the poster child for Republican’s lunacy now was on the team that represented Paula Jones and therefore, fed Starr the deposition USED to Impeach the President?)…Clinton left office with a HUGE surplus.

Now back to 2000 and the INTEGRITY AND HONOR promised by George W. Bush…or should I say BUSH JR.?

Today, March 20, 2007, Bush declared that he would OPPOSE anyone subpoenaing any one in his White House and he would ONLY allow his staff to have conversations OFF-THE-RECORD…WITHOUT TRANSCRIPTS…and NOT-UNDER-OATH! Imagine how easy the Clintons would have had it, had the Republicans been as righteous about NOT subpoenaing anyone connected with them. Clinton would have had a cake-walk...Makes you think, doesn't it?

Clinton lied about his personal sex life on a deposition for a Civil Law Suit instigated by Paula Jones, but steam-rollered by the Republicans. At NO point DESPITE years of dissecting every sneeze, hiccup, and social faux pas the Clintons had ever engaged in, did Kenneth Starr find anything remotely treasonous as defined BY the Constitution. Can the same be said for Mr. I-AM-GOING-TO-BRING-HONOR-AND-INTEGRITY-BACK-TO-THE-WHITEHOUSE say the same?

Hmmm…let me think on this.

Bush inherited a staggeringly healthy surplus that he gleefully spent within the fist six months of his reign….Six months…that’s January, February, March, April, May, and June of 2001. Still 2½ months BEFORE 9/11. By 9/11, Bush was ALREADY wantonly wracking up a deficit.

9/11…AlQaida attacks. Rightly Bush activates our Military to pursue those responsible for the attack upon us on our own soil. Afghanistan was a conflict that Americans AND world-wide opinion approved. Afghanistan WAS the appropriate place for Americans to go to war…But Bush could not let a chance to One-Up Daddy go by…Daddy Bush who did NOT advance into Iraq during Desert Storm. The same Daddy who ended his war quickly and decisively. The same Daddy that HAD complete UN support for his war against Saddam.

Bush Jr. LIED about Iraq’s WMDs. He refused to give the UN Inspectors any more time to prove or disprove his assertion that Iraq had and was planning to use Weapons of Mass Destruction and were in bed with AlQaida.

Lies…lies that cost Valerie Plame, the CIA agent whose husband dared to show that Bush and his minions had lied about Iraq’s contract with Niger. Lied so he, Bush, could bring down the gavel upon the Iraqi people with Shock-and-Awe pounding that they ares till reeling from FOUR YEARS later.

Outing an under-cover CIA operative that could compromise not only Ms. Plame but anyone who worked with her…anyone she had ever had contact with while performing her duties. Is that HOMELAND SECURITY? How is it in America’s best interest to out an agent whose job it is to seek out the intelligence needed to stay one-step-ahead-of-the-enemies?

Lies told freely and without remorse by Bush’s top men…lies that Bush refused to allow those top people from ever being held accountable…for unlike Kenneth Starr, the Special Prosecutor engaged to dig into the Valerie Plame outing did NOT rake beneath the layers of the Bush White House to prosecute ALL those responsible…choosing to stop with Scooter Libby and a half-hearted charge of PERJURY.

Had Clinton’s administration been responsible for outing Valerie Plame, I guarantee Kenneth Starr would not have rested with a minor perjury charge. Clinton, Gore, and anyone else even minimally connected with outing her would be in a Federal Prison for Treason….after all, Clinton was Impeached because he lied on a rinky-dinked perjury charge on a deposition that had absolutely NOTHING to do with his effectiveness as President.

Why is Bush so unwilling to have his minions testify ON-THE-RECORD, UNDER-OATH and in a public forum? He promised INTEGRITY AND HONOR, and yet that has been the farthest from what we have been stuck with.

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No one is above the law…not even when the criminal faction pursues changing the Constitution to protect their own treasonous, illegal, immoral, bullying behaviors.

So, if the Democrats are so wrong about their assertions, it seems to me the best way to prove it is to allow public, on-the-record, under-oath testimony to verify it. BUt Bush and the Republicans are not willing to be as aggressive in truth seeking against their own as they were in picking apart every area of the Clinton's lives.

Your Attorney General needs to come clean about the firing of those US Attorneys, just as your Vice President and Mr, Rove SHOULD be investigated and if needed PROSECUTED for their part in the outing of Valerie Plame.

But then, the Republicans have a HISTORY of covering up the buck, don't they? Let's do a little recapping here...

First we have President Richard "I AM NOT A CROOK!" Milhouse Nixon...a Republican...who gave us the theft by the Republicans inside the Watergate...who left with his proverbial tail between his legs because of impending Impeachment proceedings against him for the cover-up, blanked out tapes, and the belief that he and his staff were ABOVE needing to respond to Legislative Oversight...{Deja vu of things to come?}

..AND President Gerald Ford...Tricky Dick's Republican Vice President...(anyone remember what NUMBER Vice President Gerald Ford was?)....first act as a never-voted-for Vice OR President...is to PARDON Tricky Dick...in "the best interest of the Country to speed up the healing process!!! YEAH RIGHT... I believed that then...Didn't you? And, oh SURE, I believed it now when the Current Republican in the White House lauded Ford for his concern for the Country and forsight in pardoning Nixon. I cannot help wondering if a Democrat would have been pardoned...But wait!! I KNOW he would not have...as the future would come to prove.

Jimmy Carter...Democrat...Lusted in his mind and was castigated for not being so dead that he could not admire a beautiful woman. Jimmy Carter...his brother's Billy Beer was exceptionally criminal...dontcha think? Terrible, terrible terrible.

President Reagan and Vice President Daddy Bush...Republicans both...Supplying arms to the Contras...ILLEGAL? Oh you beat your sweet(*^&%$#%&^*%$^&*) BUT no in depth prosecution....Poor Oliver North...scapegoat placed upon the chopping block by his superiors...you know, the President and his Vice.

President Daddy Bush...the S&L debacle...our great-great grandchildren will still be paying off that scam...and lest we all forgot, wasn't Neil Bush ANOTHER one of Daddy Bush's HONORABLE boys a part of this mess? And surely an adept Special Prosecutor COULD have found prosecutable acts...but of course no such Prosecutor was ever appointed.

President Clinton...Monica Lewinski...Paula Jones...and who KNOWS how many women he was with...Adultery is morally wrong, but prosecutable and lying about it...IMPEACHABLE? Only if you have a rabid dog like Kenneth Starr who was determined to prosecute Clinton...a DEMOCRAT...with the tenacity that can only be brought to bear if the offender happens to be not-a-Republican!

President Baby Boy Bush...how many criminal acts do we already know about perpetrated by him and his minions? But Scooter Libby is the Ollie North of Baby Boy's time. Sacrificial lamb...for perjury...same charge that they IMPEACHED Clinton for...only Scooter's perjury is NOT about an overactive personal libido, but for lying about outing a CIA operative to the media and the world. Which do you think is more dangerous to the SECURITY of the United States? With Monica we got some butt-ugly purses...with the outing of Valerie Plame? With the Abu Ghraib and Gitmo torture? With the invasion, and occupation of Iraq? With the response to those devasated by Huricane Katrina? The humongously obscene deficit and misappropriations of federal funds?

It is TIME that the Republicans allow the truth to be told...unless...

What are you so afraid of Mr. Bush?

Honor and Integrity require truth and transparency. You offer secrecy, subterfuge, and apoplexy when legitimate questions arise. That’s’ NOT acceptable, Mr. Bush! You are not a king, emir, emperor, shah, kaiser, tsar, sheik, or any other all-powerful despot. You are a SERVANT of the American People. Nothing more and nothing less.

Baghdad Ann

When I learned that Ann Coulter, that wickedly vile author of hate-mongering rubbish, was going to have another book published by Random House, I was Incensed! But I've had some time to think about it. Ann's a marvelous poster child for how vile and irrational the Republican Party has become. So keep those vitriolic ramblings coming Ann. Each one proves how irrationally narrow & small-minded you and your fellow venom spewers are.

In case you've forgotten, Ann...Hitler got published...obviously being an insane despot doesn't keep you from raking your muck in black and white...does it?

But Ann, before I sign off...let me ask YOU a question? If Bush's war is SO right, why don't you enlist and parade your butt over there? Afraid you'll lose your sassy existence, like oh...say...Cindy Sheehan's son lost his?

Just asking!

Political Patience? Oxymoron!

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue urges the American People to have PATIENCE with his botched strategies in Iraq!

Patience...hmmm...Patience...for HIS debacle in Iraq? Patience...How come that is a word that NOW is in the Bush Administration's vocabulary when PATIENCE was NOT an option he could bestow upon the UN Inspectors back in...ohhh, January, or February, or early in March of 2002? You know back when this Administration STRESSED to one and all that Iraq HAD and was planning to USE their WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION and had HIDDEN them from the UN Inspectors?

Patience...1600 Pennsylvania Avenue wants the American people AND the World to have patience now...four loooonnnnngggg years after Shock and Awe leveled much of the Country that has YET to yield any of those weapons the Administration was too IMPATIENT to allow the weapons Inspectors to continue searching for.

Patience...Haven't the American people been patient enough? Haven't the American people sacrificed enough to the lies and incompetence of this Administration?

Patience...patience bestowed upon an administration that has botched up one-after-another of its promises to America AND the World, either from arrogance alone, or incompetence and arrogance.

Patience wears thin when it has been given to one who is not able to come through on promises and assertion made then conveniently denied.

Patience and THIS Administration IS an oxymoron! AND personally I have little faith in morons, be they oxy or otherwise!

The Ben in Me.

Allow me to begin this posting by telling you those attributes of Ben that I do NOT have. I do not, at least, as yet, have the overwhelming desire to take kite, loop it through with key, and wade out into the midst of a raging lightning storm. This may, of course, be because electricity has ALREADY been discovered. Although, had Ben not performed this daring-do many, MANY years ago, I'm not sure I'd be, at this stage of my life, willing to be the first to place myself in the path of becoming a human crispy critter.

I have no desire to wallow in the depths of printer's ink to create my own newspaper or my own almanack. Imagine the brain power needed to predict all those important weather trends for the upcoming year? Considering how difficult our current meteorologists have it predicting what Mother Nature has in store for us a week from now, DESPITE having such awesome technological tools as Doppler Radar, I doubt my meager musings would be accurate enough to qualify me for authoring an almanac.

My lungs have too many floaty things within them and a cough that is violent enough to break ribs, so creating and then participating in Fire Fighting is something I do NOT aspire to emulate. (Ben WAS a well-rounded kinda Father-of-the-Nation...wasn't he?)

I ADORE that he created the first Library. As an avid reader on a limited income, being able to access the Library and borrow books for FREE is just AMAZING! (Only knowing that when I pass on I will have access to the Public Library of Heaven, is more exciting to me.)

I have not found myself channeling Ben's delectation's where his libido is concerned. I am perfectly content with my less than stellar private world. It would be far too EXHAUSTING to try to emulate Ben's sex life.

BUT I find myself happily falling in line with his OTHER private activity. I remember when I first read about his AIR-BATHS, I was amused and just a little bit scandalized. Why, I found myself wondering, would a man as intelligent as Ben strip off his civilized attire, open a window, in the DEAD-OF-WINTER and sit there exposing himself to frigidity?!!!!

I now KNOW why! As I have aged, my body's thermostat has gone totally wacky. While the rest of the world shivers beneath the biting chill of a North Wind, I find delicious relief. While others hover beside their radiators, fireplaces, or space heaters, I throw open my windows and sigh in ecstasy.

So now that I have crossed the half-century mark, I FULLY understand why Ben Franklin delighted in the icy tendrils of Winter's breath.

THANK YOU MOST HEARTILY, BEN FRANKLIN. Your genius continues on!

Not in Kansas Any More

I Promised myself I was not going to write a blog entry about the circus that surrounds the birth, death, and yes, DEATH of the Anna Nicole insanity, but if I don't I'm very much afraid that I will go insane.

Like Dorothy clutching her dog Toto after her homicidal house touched down in OZ, I am reeling from Hisicane Stern.

First we have Anna Nicole giving birth to her new child DannieLynn in her NEW country the Bahamas...(Does anyone know how long the NORMAL person has to reside in the Bahamas before acquiring citizenship?)...What WAS Anna, who'd just won a MAJOR coup from the U.S. Supreme Court...let me repeat myself here...the UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT...NOT the Bahamian Supreme Court...to continue her efforts to squeeze more money from the estate of her late...VERY ancient...(do you think her marriage to her Billionaire husband really was consummated?)...hubby thinking? Changing citizenship when you still have such a HUGE battle to wage in the Country of your birth? That just doesn't make any sense...does it?

Now correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't ANNA already pregnant when she appeared before the Supreme Court here in the good old U.S. of A.? So at the very most that had to mean she was in residence in the Bahamas less than nine months. Doesn't seem like a lot of time to establish the prerequisites for becoming a citizen...Fast Tracked...Hmmm...do you think she was Fast Tracked?

Daniel, her only offspring prior to the birth of her new daughter dies two days later in the presence of Hisicane Stern...(For those who haven't heard his name blasted from every media avenue, I am, of course speaking of Howard K. Stern...Anna Nicole's alleged lawyer, manager, boyfriend, and sperm donor.)

Mr. Stern's name appears on DannieLynn's birth certificate in the Bahamas as the father...even though he claims now that he had been Anna's lover all along, although not EXCLUSIVELY. He also explains that they kept his personal involvement with Ms. Smith secret because of his role as her attorney...

Sonuva-snake-in-the-grass! If they were indeed conducting a liaison but covertly because of his role as her attorney, he willingly violated the ethics required by the law, the law he had to pass the Bar to practice under...therefore, it would seem to me, that ANY document he officiated over should be suspect and set aside.

Many of the videos of Anna of late, with Howard hovering close by, show her to be so spaced-out that it is a wonder she was able to form two words into anything remotely coherent, let alone sign any binding legal documents.

Was Anna in a sane frame of mind when she high-tailed it to the Bahamas? Was Anna in a sane frame of mind when she had Hisicane Howard placed on the birth certificate of her daughter as the father? If Howard IS the biological father, why would the owner of the mansion that she was living in have GIFTED it to her because of his relationship with Anna? OH WHAT A TANGLED WEB HISICANE HOWARD CONTINUES TO WEAVE!

Howard's sister claims that Howard has not made any money off of Anna since 1996. Then how can he afford all the attorneys both here and in the Bahamas that are fighting for him to retain control over all things ANNA?

Howard was allegedly off buying a luxury boat when Anna died. Since his sister said that Howard was living off of money his parents gave him, how could he afford a boat?

In summation...Anna was a gold digger. Howard is the male equivalent of a gold digger. They deserved each other...EXCEPT, there is a baby girl who is not even mentioned as a future possibility in the will Anna and Howard made six years ago. The SOLE heir to Anna's estate, whatever that estate ends up being, is Daniel. Daniel died two days after Anna gave birth with Howard K. in attendance. The will specifically excludes future children and/or spouses from inheriting, but Howard is prominently listed as the EXECUTOR of the will. With Daniel dead, the ONLY one listed as having ANY claim upon her estate in the will is Howard. The same Howard who now says he and Anna kept their intimate relationship secret because of his role as her attorney.

Do you think Dorothy was as confused in Oz as we are trying to squirm our way through the land that is ANNA NICOLE SMITH?

I'm a Flip-Flopper...Thanks to HISTORY

Yep,

I must admit to my lack of relying on History to keep me from making the same mistakes made in the past.

I am, of course, speaking here of the current squatter at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue's declarations concerning ARRESTING any in Congress who would DARE pass legislation limiting the powers his puppets, (Frist, Hasstert, Santorum, et.al) expanded to give him during Bush's reign as President of the U.S.

Let's all take a trip down that rosy and VERY informative path created by HISTORY...you know, the tales of those who came before us and SHOULD have been honored for the lessons they fought so we should not have to fight as well!

1776...Thomas Jefferson...a wise man who knew the power of words...carefully penned the basis for the then DREAMED about...still to fight for...democratic Country that so many would die for. In 1776 King George III of England, a 16 year old with delusions of grandeur, decided it was OK to make those little-tin-butt-kissers-across-the-pond, to pay and pay for the extravagant excesses of his monarchy's chosen ones.

This is the SAME King George who would be diagnosed after MUCH blood-letting...(you have to wonder about a system that thought bleeding a person out was SANE medical practice. Didn't they remember how the Egyptians and Greeks performed medical procedures back in the days of Cleopatra and the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates?)...insane!

King George the Third declared the American's resistant to his Stamp Act and Tea Tax as bugs to be crushed beneath his ermine lined pantyhose.

But the funny thing about bugs...they may be small...and they may seem insignificant, but bugs, not humans, have survived global catastrophes without fail. Mankind? Dinosaurs? They haven't been so lucky.

The Revolutionary War Bugs fought for their independence against the tyranny placed into motion by Crazy King George.

The War against Crazy George, sufferer of PORPHYRIA was defeated! His loyal WHIGS could not stem the tide fought by the tenacious bugs he so heartily disdained.

America was now a free nation.

The nation went to another George...Washington, and offered him a kingship, but he wisely declined arguing that Americans had fought to rid themselves of monarch rule, not to recreate it.

With the sage advice and input of some of the smartest people of that time, the CONSTITUTION was written, ratified, and placed into law.

George Washington...George the First?

George Bush...DADDY BUSH...George the Second?

George Dubya Bush...Sonny Bush...George the Third?

It would seem that history is repeating itself. This George thinks he should have autocratic dominion over ALL he sees. Congress? Just a nuisance that he has to CRUSH.

There was a time...right after 9/11, when I flipped from my original opinion of Dubya...(The minute he threw his hat into the race for President, I knew if he won we were going to war with Iraq.) I was not aware of Dubya's Deer-Caught-In-Headlights-Panic sitting in that elementary school room on 9/11 until Michael Moore's documentary was released. So, I judged Dubya based on what I saw on my TV screen. I BELIEVED Dubya when he looked into the camera and told us that Iraq had acquired the tools needed to make WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. I CHEERED when the bombs began exploding upon Sadaam's stronghold. Every day I eagerly sat before my TV CERTAIN the next cache our troops uncovered would be the long-awaited-for proof of those WMDs. I wanted, despite its ego-stroking inanity, the speech Bush gave beneath the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED sign to be true.

But alas, it is 2007. Dubya's illegal acts have mushroomed to the point where there can be no doubt but that Bush truly sees himself as a KING who can send to his dungeon anyone he wants, even those who are charged by the Constitution to create the laws and bring oversight to the ever-expanding egos of ANYONE elected by the people WHO reside in 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. He wants to PUNISH the Legislative Bracnh because they FINALLY mean to do what our Country's Forefather's KNEW to be the BEST way INSURES that we have a government for-the-people-by-the-people....not for the KING and his few favored minions.

I'm a flip-flopper. I placed my trust in Dubya after 9/11 despite my premonitions about going to war against Iraq should he win...(And this premonition came back in 1999...TWO full years before 9/11.)...I was duped. AMERICA WAS DUPED and the sad thing is we had all the warnings we need...right within the text of our History Books.

Porphyria drove King George III into the darkness of insanity, I wonder, though, since he never made a video...if he consulted the Royal Hound about taxes. It would certainly explain his decision to lay the burden of his extravagance upon those an ocean away and expect them to happily lap at his regal-across-the-Great-Atlantic-Ocean-hand while he took unfairly from the labors of their hard work.

No, we do not have such a video from the monarch of 1776. We DO have a video, PROUDLY recorded by THIS would-be King, of HIM consulting the FIRST-DOG about a trivial subject...the ECONOMY...

Ergo...

History cannot be denied. Can it?

Selling My Soul!!!!

Anyone who suffers from that curse known as IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME will understand what I am about to write.

I just spent the last hour seated upon the porcelain throne baragaining with God.

First let me say that whoever came up with those Dulcolax commercials, the ones with that cartoon woman stretched out like some modern day Cleopatra upon her chaise lounge purring in absolute contentment because Dulcolax has made her bathroom sojourn COMFORTABLE deserves to be tied to the business end of a cow, or have a proctology examination performed by a beefy woman named GERTA using a jackhammer for her probe!

I promised God if He could sprinkle COMFORT DUST throughout the endless miles of my Intestinal Tract I would sing "THE LORD'S PRAYER" in my unfortunately off-key voice. I'd get down on bended knee and HOWL with remorse for all my past transgressions. In other words...I pledged my soul for the comfort that cartoon woman wallows in.

If it is something you HAVE to do, it shouldn't be so excruciatingly painful!!!

Bush, Health Care and Fireside Deep Stuff

Bush, during his weekly FIRESIDE chat today stated that he was willing to work with the Democratic controlled Legislative Branch to make certain Americans could acquire AFFORDABLE health care.

Does anyone remember Bush's IMPROVEMENTS to the Social Security's MEDICARE program?

Does anyone remember the HUGE benefits for the average man/woman/child acquired from Bush's TAX BREAKS/ (My daughter...a CORPORATE AUDITOR...got a whoppingly END-OF-THE-RAINBOW windfall of $5.00 from THAT break.)

Does anyone remember Bush's assurances about Sadaam's stockpiles of WMDs that REQUIRED...without further ado...our blasting the Hussein out of Iraq?

Does anyone remember Bush's strong words on Terror while he was negotiating to give our ports to the Middle Eastern Country of Dubai?

Does anyone remember the swift and compassionate treatment of the Bush administration to the Gulf Coast after the devastation of Katrina?

Does anyone remember the loving way the world looked upon America after the Abu Ghraib torture and the Gitmo torture was exposed?

Does anyone remember Bush's NO-CHILD-LEFT-BEHIND and how he now forces schools to turn over school records to military recruiters so they can tailor make their sales pitch to our children when they come into the schools without parental permission to sign our children up to fight in Bush's SUCCESSFUL war in Iraq? Oh, and the schools aren't allowed to deny the recruiters access because Bush made that a mandatory requirement if the schools wish to receive the tax dollars WE pay for our children's education.

Does anyone remember that despite the proof of America's desire to STOP Bush's war, he has ignored one and all and plowed ahead with sending thousands more of husbands, wives, daughters, sons, nieces and nephews in that debacle, all the while not bothering to send his OWN DAUGHTERS, NIECES, NEPHEWS, BROTHERS,SISTERS, WIFE, MOTHER, DAD into the fray?

Does anyone remember how Bush PROMISED THAT ANYONE WITHIN HIS ADMINISTRATION THAT WAS INVOLVED WITH THE OUTING OF CIA AGENT VALERIE PLAME WOULD BE PROSECUTED? I guess I forgot that Dick Cheney is NOT a member of the Administration but he's to Dubya what Sherry Lewis was to LAMBCHOP...i.e. PUPPET MASTER.

Given all these STERLING examples of the honor, integrity, and effectiveness of Bush's programs I guess I shouldn't be shaking in my boots over the thought that Bush PROMISES to work to IMPROVE the health care system for the average American. (Do you think that perhaps he's been courting the Mortuary Lobbyists lately?)