Wishfulfilment

The New York Times reports that the Republicans have set aside $20m for a party in the latest military spending bill to "commemorate success in Iraq". Only legislators in a state of schizophrenic denial could possible think that they have anything to celebrate. The Maliki puppet regime just fired 700 police for being implicated in death squad activity. Another indication that the 'Iraqization" of Iraq is nowhere to be seen. The puppet government is totally dependent upon the presence to US military forces for its existence. Another 17 US soldiers have been killed since Saturday. And oh yes, Kindasleezy is getting some more face time in the zone. OH VEY!

The New Criminal Defense: 'I'm in Rehab'

Former Florida Rep. Foley has checked into rehab, so everything is OK. It seems that checking into rehab is the new criminal defense for everything from drunk driving and prescription drug abuse to homosexual predation. This perv had a long standing fascination with page boys going back eleven years. His proclivities were so well known that the pages were giving newbies the low down on Foley. His queer eye for boys was "well known in the gay political community' according to former staffers. For Hastert to claim he knew nothing about Foley's predilections strains credibility. Foley may have committed a state felony offense. If Hastert knew about criminal behavior and did nothing about it, that makes him an abettor.

Al Gore = Chicken Little?

One of the long predicted consequences of global warming is increasing drought and subsequent spreading of deserts. This trend has already been observed in arid areas such as sub-Saharan Africa were some subsistence agriculture is still possible. But for the first time, the scenario of spreading deserts has been quantified using a supercomputer climate model developed by the British meteorological Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction & Research. The results of the study are not good news. It shows the drought severity index for extreme drought rising from 3% to 30% of the Earth's land surface by 2100. Severe drought conditions rise from the current 8% to 40% of the Earth's surface. A third of the planet will be uninhabitable because agriculture will not be possible. Hundred of millions are living in these regions now.
The short rains did not arrive in East Africa last year. The continent is brown and littered with animal carcasses from the Horn to Zanzibar. But we know its just the devilish computers that are scaring us, right?

Al Gore = Chicken Little?

One of the long predicted consequences of global warming is increasing drought and subsequent spreading of deserts. This trend has already been observed in arid areas such as sub-Saharan Africa were some subsistance agriculture is still possible. But for the first time, the scenario of spreading deserts has been quantified using a supercomputer climate model developed by the British Meterological Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction & Research. The results of the study are not good news. It shows the drought severity index for extreme drought rising from 3% to 30% of the Earth's land surface by 2100. Severe drought conditions rise from the current 8% to 40% of the Earth's surface. A third of the planet will be unihabitable because subsistance agriculture will not be possible. Hundred of millions are living in these regions now.
The short rains did not arrive in East Africa last year. The continent is brown and littered with animal carcasses from the Horn to Zanzibar. But we know its just the devilish computers that are scaring us, right?

Brits Say, "We don't want them"

The Guardian newspaper has learned of secret negotiations between the United States and Britain to return nine British citizens from Guantanamo. As a condition of their release, the US wants 24 hour surveillance of the men. The Brits say the men have no right to return to the UK. British officials also consider the US request for surveillance to be unwarranted and excessive. According to the Guardian the talks are taking place against a growing realization by the Bush regime that the gulag must be closed. Lawyers for the detainees say their clients are still being mistreated by being exposed to temperature extremes. The British Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, has called Guantanamo a 'shocking affront' to democracy, and a recruiting agent for jihadists.

The Sinking Ship of State

It seems clear that midst the destruction and death of Baghdad, Prime Minister Niouri al-Maliki is headed toward the same fate as Diem 40 years in ago in Saigon. Baghdad's dawn to dusk curfew was imposed because of persistent and probably accurate rumors that he was to be deposed in a coup. A plan for a suicide bomb attack in the heavily defended green zone was discovered and thwarted. But Maliki has earned the disgust of his American puppetmasters for his inability to achieve some semblance of unity in the country. US troop deaths continue to mount and are closing on the same number killed in the New York City kamikaze attack of five years ago.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, the finger pointing for the complete failure of the Iraq invasion has increased in, well, pointedness. Rummy has dug in for the duration and Kindasleezy is still in a state of denial. Tenant has decided he does not like the role of official scapegoat despite the shiny medal he was given by his indecisiveness, The Decider. Bob Woodward continues to make piles of cash from his access, which I understand is huge. Regardless of whether George Tenant actually warned the members of the circus troupe deemed a government by those aged sages, The Supremes, his book will be out early next year.

Ah, the smell of Sex on Capitol Hill

In an irony so huge only Washington, DC can fit it into it's boxer shorts, the pedophilia scandal and cover up by Republican House leaders might do what an immoral war in Iraq couldn't do: remove the twisted freaks from power.

The death of 100,000 civilians, the shredding of our Constitution, the irreparable harm to our nation's standing in the world, or the cruel sacrifice of our own sums to a limit approaching zero in the District's strange calculus. Clearly the deviate from Florida crossed the line when he used his standing as a legislator against child exploitation as cover to send IMs to his favorite bulge. Hastert and friends knew about the deviate's predation for a year and did nothing. So its clearly up to the people now. If you don't clean the stables, you live with the filth.