oh the 14 NO votes are:

The 14 N0 votes:

Boxer (D-CA)

Burr (R-NC)

Clinton (D-NY)

Coburn (R-OK)

Dodd (D-CT)

Enzi (R-WY)

Feingold (D-WI)

Kennedy (D-MA)

Kerry (D-MA)

Leahy (D-VT)

Obama (D-IL)

Sanders (I-VT)

Whitehouse (D-RI)

Wyden (D-OR)

and i'm proud to see my senator dodd among the NOs. of course da liebs is NOT among those possessing a set (thanks chris!)

Senator Dodd Votes Against Iraq Supplemental, Rejects President's War Plan

he's such an ass

i love how he tells a nation of OVER A BILLION what they'll like and what they'll need AND what's GOOD FOR THEM

Bush says Chinese 'need' to eat US beef Bush says Chinese 'need' to eat US beef Bush says Chinese 'need' to eat US beef Bush says Chinese 'need' to eat US beef

President George W. Bush said Thursday the Chinese "need" to eat US beef for their health, and lamented that China refuses to allow imports because of mad-cow concerns.
Bush, speaking at a news conference after meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi, said he was "disappointed" that China was still not accepting US beef.
"They need to be eating US beef. It's good for them. They'll like it (hey, just like mikey!!!). And so we're working hard to get that beef market opened up," he said.....

picture: alibaba.com

$120 BILLION

3434 us troop deaths. countless maimings both inside and out. the lasting effects of course we'll not know for years and years and years to come. tens of thousands of iraqis dead, wounded and displaced. no amenities.

we give them (them. i say them like it's nothing. it isn't nothing. it's THEIR country which we invaded illegally and immorally) 'benchmarks'. how many 'benchmarks' have already passed and we do NOTHING?

when will congress and the senate grow a set AND STOP THIS EFFING MADNESS?

Congress Passes Deadline-Free War Funding Bill
Measure Includes Benchmarks for Iraqis


By Shailagh Murray Washington Post Staff Writer

Congress sent President Bush a new Iraq funding bill yesterday that lacked troop withdrawal deadlines demanded by liberal Democrats, but party leaders vowed it was only a temporary setback in their efforts to bring home American troops.
War opponents dismissed the bill as a capitulation to Bush and said they would seek to hold supporters in both parties accountable. But backers said the bill's provisions -- including benchmarks for progress that the Iraqi government must meet to continue receiving reconstruction aid -- represented an assertion of congressional authority over the war that was unthinkable a few months ago............

more on uhl

who, by the way wanted to be an ARMY CHAPLAIN

seems like he may have been upset with a certain group (i will NOT mention) who generally protest at the funerals of service people under the pretext that 'god doesn't like fags' (yeah, i don't get it either but there may be a bit of inbreeding going on there. we'll never know. they should just be ignored. if you don't feed the animals they WILL go away).

not that uhl was a left leaner by any means. i'm guessing (and i didn't go to med school for 8 years for nothing*) he was really pissed at this group for dissin' (they were going to say falwell was kind to gays - which of course he NEVER WAS. he even blamed them, well LESBIANS for 9/11) big jer

Liberty Student Arrested on Bomb Charges
Was to Allegedly Attend Falwell Funeral With Devices

(May 23) - A Liberty University student who told a family member he had made bombs and planned to attend the funeral of the Rev. Jerry Falwell was apparently upset about an anti-gay fringe group that protested at the funeral, authorities said......

...........Investigators determined that Uhl had problems with a group that protested at the funeral, Gaddy said. The Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church sent about a dozen members to protest across the street from the funeral, claiming Falwell was a friend to gays. The group also has picketed soldiers' burials, claiming the deaths are God's punishment for a nation that supports homosexuality. ..............

.......Benson said Uhl was in Liberty's Army ROTC program and was studying to become an Army chaplain. Gaddy said investigators in Fauquier County were interviewing several people who had been in an ROTC program with Uhl in high school and may have been involved in making the bombs. One is now in the Army, he said......
picture: Campbell County Sheriffs Office, AP

*i attended the new britain school of pre-frontal labotomies and other brain surgery techniques

separated at birth?

(if found guilty) I HOPE THEY PAY DEARLY FOR WHAT THEY (allegedly) DID TO THESE TWO WOMEN

Wealthy Couple Charged With Slavery

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (May 24) - A millionaire couple accused of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves in their luxurious Long Island home and abusing them for years have been indicted on federal slavery charges.

Varsha Mahender Sabhnani, 35, and her husband, Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, 51, operate a worldwide perfume business out of their home, contracting with overseas factories to manufacture the fragrances. The two were arrested last week after one of their servants was found wandering outside a doughnut shop on Long Island, wearing only pants and a towel. The woman was believed to have fled the home when she took the trash out the night before.........

separated at birth?

my kind o' museum

SCIENCE FICTION

(id-jits, absolute id-jits)


Adam and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

PETERSBURG, Ky. — The entrance gates here are topped with metallic Stegosauruses. The grounds include a giant tyrannosaur standing amid the trees, and a stone-lined lobby sports varied sauropods. It could be like any other natural history museum, luring families with the promise of immense fossils and dinosaur

But step a little farther into the entrance hall, and you come upon a pastoral scene undreamt of by any natural history museum. Two prehistoric children play near a burbling waterfall, thoroughly at home in the natural world. Dinosaurs cavort nearby, their animatronic mechanisms turning them into alluring companions, their gaping mouths seeming not threatening, but almost welcoming, as an Apatosaurus munches on leaves a few yards away......

............It is a measure of the museum’s daring that dinosaurs and fossils — once considered major challenges to belief in the Bible’s creation story — are here so central, appearing not as tests of faith, as one religious authority once surmised, but as creatures no different from the giraffes and cats that still walk the earth. Fossils, the museum teaches, are no older than Noah’s flood; in fact dinosaurs were on the ark. ..............

a disturbing (very) finding

the 'spoils' of war

now this isn't some 'liberal' study. the study was by the d o j. it's VERY frightening. now that they know this, will anything be done?


why male vets are committing sexual assault

A recent study by the Department of Justice found that military veterans are twice as likely to be incarcerated for sexual assault than non-veterans. When asked about the finding, Margaret E. Noonan, one of the authors of the study, told the Associated Press, “We couldn’t come to any definite conclusion as to why.” The intrinsic and systemic connection between militarism and violence against women, however, makes this finding far from surprising.
Since the beginning of the patriarchal age, women have been considered the spoils of war, invisibilized under the euphemistic phrase, ‘collateral damage’. The result is that many types of violence against women are exacerbated by militarism, including the indirect effects on civilian populations and post-conflict situations. These include:
Rape/sexual assault and harassment both within the military and perpetrated on civilian populations.
Domestic violence.
Prostitution, pornography and trafficking.
Examples are not hard to find—the U.S. and Japanese use of comfort women during WWII, the Tailhook scandal, the sexual abuse problems at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, the murders of military wives at Ft. Bragg, NC and Ft. Campbell, KY to name a few. This latest statistic is clearly no accident, it a systemic part of a military culture that not only tolerates but frequently encourages the hatred and belittling of women..........


Veterans less likely to end up in prison, but those who do are more likely to be sex offenders

you can lose or misplace a set of keys

i once lost my keys in a snowbank and never found them again. however, if i had an additional 4,999,999 sets, WELL then, it would be fairly IMPOSSIBLE for me to lose all of the rest. no?

NO

CREW sues White House over missing e-mails

Nick Juliano

A Washington-based legal watchdog has sued the White House Office of Administration alleging the administration refuses to comply with a public records request related to more than 5 million e-mails from administration officials that have gone missing, according to a press release.
"The White House has decided to play an unlawful game of high-tech hide and seek with the American public," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, in the release.
Last month, CREW filed a Freedom of Information Act request asking the White House's Office of Administration to turn over records related to the millions of e-mails the watchdog says were lost between March 2003 and October 2005........

yet ANOTHER king george apointee

has a teeny tiny lil' problem-0

GSA Chief Violated Hatch Act, Special Counsel's Report Alleges


By Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Scott HighamWashington Post Staff Writers

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has found that General Services Administration chief Lurita Alexis Doan violated the federal Hatch Act when she allegedly asked GSA political appointees during a January briefing how they could "help our candidates" win the next election, according to a report by the office.
The Hatch Act restricts executive branch employees from using their position for political purposes. The special counsel's office, which investigates alleged violations of the law, said it would recommend that President Bush take disciplinary action against Doan, including possible removal from office...............

why why why

why are we there? why? i don't get it. i'll NEVER get it. yesterday, at the coast guard academy graduation ceremony, king george went on and on and on about the war on terror and how iraq was going to be a HUB for the terrorists. well it WAS NOT going to be one, but it sure as shite IS ONE NOW. why? BECAUSE OF US that's why. the 9/11 terrorists did NOT come from iraq. iraq did NOT bring down the twin towers. we invaded a country for no cause. we ruined tens of thousands of lives including many of OURS. many of our men and women will never return home to their families. many who do return home will never be the same.

the situation continues to get worse. we elected new people to bring a change. did they? no. they back down and bow down to the king.

well that is NOT what america wants. america wants it's men and women HOME and SAFE

when is it going to be time for us to say ENOUGH?

when?


Morgue Data Show Increase In Sectarian Killings in Iraq


By Sudarsan RaghavanWashington Post Foreign Service

BAGHDAD, May 23 -- More than three months into a U.S.-Iraqi security offensive designed to curtail sectarian violence in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq, Health Ministry statistics show that such killings are rising again.
From the beginning of May until Tuesday, 321 unidentified corpses, many dumped and showing signs of torture and execution, have been found across the Iraqi capital, according to morgue data provided by a Health Ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information. The data showed that the same number of bodies were found in all of January, the month before the launch of the Baghdad security plan...........

wonder if they're going to lock HIM up in gitmo

i don't know why they wouldn't. he sure is in every way shape AND form an effing TERRORIST (if proven guilty)

Liberty Univ. student brings explosives to Falwell Funeral

David Edwards and Josh Catone

Mark Uhl, a student at Liberty University, was arrested today for possessing several homemade bombs which he told authorities he made to disrupt protesters at the funeral of Jerry Falwell.
The 19-year-old student, reportedly had six devices on his person or in his car when he was arrested. Some reports say the devices were gasoline-based "napalm" bombs......

cowards

and worse. WE elected all of you to do a job. to SPEAK FOR US. you're NOT doing that. you are backing down with your tails between your legs. you make me sick

Democrats Relent On Pullout Timetable

By Shailagh Murray Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, May 23, 2007; Page A01
Democrats gave up their demand for troop-withdrawal deadlines in an Iraq war spending package yesterday, abandoning their top goal of bringing U.S. troops home and handing President Bush a victory in a debate that has roiled Congress for months.
Bush, who has already vetoed one spending bill with a troop timeline, had threatened to do the same with the next version if it came with such a condition. Democratic leaders had moved ahead anyway, under heavy pressure from liberals who believe that the party won control of Congress in November on the strength of antiwar sentiment. But in the end, Democrats said they did not have enough votes to override a presidential veto and could not delay troop funding...............

i do NOT want our troops to suffer. i don't want them to lack ANYTHING they need. get together and IMPEACH that king. he's wearing NO clothes

section 60

a sobering article. a sad, beautiful article.

New graves, fresh grief in Arlington Cemetery
Perennially sedate cemetery adjusts to the needs of mourners of this war

By Darragh Johnson

In Section 60, death remains too fresh to be separated from life.
You see it in the 17 cigars pushed into the grass near one headstone, signs that a combat unit stopped by.
And in the mother who spent winter afternoons wrapped in a sleeping bag, stretched across her son's grave.
And in the older man who reads Robert Frost to the dead, knowing that their families live thousands of miles away.
Here in Section 60 are the graves of 336 men and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan — almost one in 10 of the dead. Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom have produced the highest percentage of burials at Arlington National Cemetery from any war. For the duration of this war, there have been few photographs of coffins returning home. Section 60 is the one place to get a sense of the immensity of the nation's loss.
The great expanse of the cemetery is known for its orderliness, its precision. Each Memorial Day, the government places an American flag exactly one foot in front of every headstone. Only flowers are allowed on graves.................

if you're on long island

or anywhere else near the north shore animal league, how about considering adopting these three (warning ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE VIDEO):

who are seeking a home TOGETHER

is someone EVER going to grow a set?

we don't belong there. we belong HERE. haven't we wreaked enough carnage?

Pentagon Making Preparations To Keep Tens Of Thousands Of Troops In Iraq For ‘Decades’

In testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee this month, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace uttered a “carefully worded” statement revealing that the Pentagon had no plans to fully withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq if legislation passes Congress mandating troop redeployment:
PACE: Sir, we have published no orders directing the planning for the overall withdrawal of forces. We do have ongoing replacements of forces, and we do change the size of the force over time so that that system is available to either plus-up or draw down, but we have published no orders saying come up with a complete plan for total drawdown.
NPR investigated Pace’s statements and found one scenario being considered within the Pentagon would maintain a strong U.S. military presence in Iraq for several decades into the future..........

a day in the life

where having electricity for eight hours a day (only in clumps of two hours, then off a bit, then four hours) is a luxury.

Just Do It

Yesterday and for the first time, I could spend some time watching TV in my room because I asked my brother to ask the power generator owner to double our share. I used to pay 60 thousands Iraqi Dinars a month (more than 47 $)for six hours of electricity a day.we receive 5 amperes through a cable that we linked to the generator. the 5 amperes are enough only to switch on the refrigerator and an air cooler. If we switch on another instrument, there would be a power failure and we have to call the owner of the generator to re connect us. The generator owner provides us with electricity for 6 hours a day only from 2 pm until 4 pm ( the hottest two hours in Iraq summer)then he switches off the generator until 8 pm when he switch it on for another 4 hours. We have to spend the rest of the day without electricity power because the Iraqi government and the Great US leaders spent the billion on painting the pavements and planting some flowers here and there and of course the big share of money went to the pockets of the security companies which the Iraqi officials and American officials in Iraq depend on..........

i cannot imagine living my life like this. can you?

am i the only one

who is GREATLY disturbed by this story?

Monkey dead from bubonic plague in Denver

DENVER (Reuters) - A Denver Zoo monkey has died of bubonic plague, apparently after eating a squirrel stricken with the disease, Colorado health and zoo officials said on Monday.
Five squirrels and a rabbit found dead on zoo grounds tested positive for the flea-borne disease in recent weeks, Denver Zoo spokeswoman Ana Bowie said.
Zookeepers on May 15 noticed the 8-year-old hooded capuchin monkey was lethargic, and the next day it was found dead in its enclosure. Zoo veterinarians sent tissue samples to a state laboratory where it was determined the animal died of the plague. The death was announced on Monday.
Zoo veterinarian Dave Kenny said that the risk of plague spreading to humans was extremely low but that visitors were being urged to avoid squirrels and rabbits........

when you think we couldn't be any scummier

you find out we CAN be scummier

The Trap That Backfired
The Secret US Plot to Kill Sadr

By PATRICK COCKBURN
Baghdad.
The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to peace negotiations at a house in the holy city of Najaf, which it then attacked, according to a senior Iraqi government official.
The revelation of this extraordinary plot, which would probably have provoked an uprising by outraged Shia if it had succeeded, has left a legacy of bitter distrust in the mind of Mr Sadr for which the US and its allies in Iraq may still be paying. "I believe that particular incident made Muqtada lose any confidence or trust in the [US-led] coalition and made him really wild," the Iraqi National Security Adviser Dr Mowaffaq Rubai'e told me in an interview. It is not known who gave the orders for the attempt on Mr Sadr but it is one of a series of ill-considered and politically explosive US actions in Iraq since the invasion. In January this year a US helicopter assault team tried to kidnap two senior Iranian security officials on an official visit to the Iraqi President. Earlier examples of highly provocative actions carried out by the US with little thought for the consequences include the dissolution of the Iraqi army and the Baath party............

we shouldn't be reading this

Roadside Bombs Kill 7 Soldiers, Interpreter


By John Ward Anderson and Sudarsan Raghavan Washington Post Foreign Service

BAGHDAD, May 20 -- Six U.S. soldiers and an interpreter were killed Saturday when a roadside bomb exploded near their position in western Baghdad, the U.S. military reported Sunday, underscoring the heightened vulnerability of U.S. forces as they increase their presence in the capital.
A seventh U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb Saturday in Diwaniyah, about 100 miles south of Baghdad, the military said. Two soldiers were wounded in that attack.

The deaths raise to 71 the number of U.S. soldiers killed this month, according to iCasualties.org, an independent Web site that tracks military deaths. Twenty-one U.S. service members were killed over three days last week, from Thursday to Saturday, according to the group's tally.

we SHOULD be reading (way more of) this:

Second Life for Study Group
Iraq Woes Lead To a Reappraisal


By Michael Abramowitz Washington Post Staff Writer

After an initially tepid reception from policymakers, the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group are getting a second look from the White House and Congress, as officials continue to scour for bipartisan solutions to salvage the American engagement in Iraq.
With negotiations continuing this week on a new war funding bill, the administration is strongly signaling that it would accept the idea of requiring the Iraqi government to meet political benchmarks or else risk losing some assistance from the United States. That was one of the key proposals from the group headed by former secretary of state James A. Baker III and former Indiana congressman Lee H. Hamilton, but it was initially dismissed by the White House when first proposed last December............

is it too late? no it's not too late for some. it IS too late for 3,422 (u.s) men and women who have already lost their lives in iraq. more talk, more bringing our troops home. LESS killing. NO KILLING

i don't know if this is true

and it very well could be the work of someone OTHER than 'dr' laura's son. it could be someone's idea of a sick joke. and hell, it could even BE 'dr' laura's son. we don't know that. who ever is responsible for this website is a sick f**k. period. (i think 'dr' laura is a sick f**k too. no joke, she just is. preaching 'family values' and morals and the like. she doesn't even talk to members of her own family PLUS i believe she had an affair. do as i say babies, don't do as i do)

i'll try to follow this story. if the website is proven to be the work of 'dr' laura's son, i'll have plenty more to say about her 'family values'

Dr. Laura son linked to lurid Web page
Site contained violent, sex-oriented images one official called 'repulsive'


By Matthew D. LaPlante The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated:
The soldier son of talk radio relationship counselor Laura Schlessinger is under investigation for a graphic personal Web page that one Army official has called "repulsive." The MySpace page, publicly available until Friday when it disappeared from the Internet, included cartoon depictions of rape, murder, torture and child molestation; photographs of soldiers with guns in their mouths; a photograph of a bound and blindfolded detainee captioned "My Sweet Little Habib"; accounts of illicit drug use; and a blog entry headlined by a series of obscenities and racial epithets. The site is credited to and includes many photographs of Deryk Schlessinger, the 21-year-old son of the talk radio personality known simply as Dr. Laura. Broadcast locally on 570 KNRS, "Family Values Talk Radio," the former family counselor spends three hours daily taking calls and offering advice on morals, ethics and values. She broadcast a show from Fort Douglas, in Salt Lake City, last week. Military leaders have long grappled with how to balance positive publicity and operational security with technological opportunities for troops to tell their personal stories. The Pentagon last week shut down access to a variety of video-sharing and social networking Internet sites, including MySpace, on its computer systems worldwide. Officials said the change was made to enhance security and protect a strained bandwidth, but critics worried that it might close a public window into the lives of deployed U.S. troops, some of which can be raw, frightening, violent and revealing. "Yes . . . F---ING Yes!!!" said one blog entry on the Schlessinger site. "I LOVE MY JOB, it takes everything reckless and deviant and heathenistic and just overall bad about me and hyper focuses these traits into my job of running around this horrid place doing nasty things to people that deserve it . . . and some that don't." ................

wow, this almost

ALMOST....makes me feel sorry for ashcroft. not quite, but almost (he STILL was in favor of stepping on our rights and laws even though it was nowhere near what alberto 'bend over king george i want to kiss your ass' gonzales is doing

Ashcroft's Complex Tenure At Justice
On Some Issues, He Battled White House


By Peter Baker and Susan Schmidt Washington Post Staff Writers

As attorney general, John D. Ashcroft was the public face of an administration pushing the boundaries of the Constitution to hunt down terrorists, but behind the scenes, according to former aides and White House officials, he at times resisted what he saw as radical overreaching.
Testimony last week that a hospitalized Ashcroft rebuffed aides to President Bush intent on gaining Ashcroft's approval of a surveillance program he had deemed illegal provided a rare view of the inner workings of the early Bush presidency and the depth of internal disagreement over how far to go in responding to the threat of terrorism after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001............

i think carter SHOULD have gone even further

in his analysis of the king. it's not just his FOREIGN policies that are dangerous, it's his DOMESTIC ones just as much if not more (illegal wiretapping, katrina, his nominations for various positions, his speaking to his imaginary friend lil' jesus, his refusal to listen to the american people WHOM HE WORKS FOR, his repealing all sorts of environmental laws, etc)

carter was being kind. i'm not

i think king george IS THE worst leader in the entire universe. i also think he was/is THE WORST president we have EVER had.
and i mean it

Bush Is 'the Worst in History' In Foreign Relations, Carter Says

Associated PressSunday, May 20, 2007; Page A07
LITTLE ROCK, May 19 -- Former president Jimmy Carter called President Bush's international relations "the worst in history" and also took aim at Bush's environmental policies and the administration's "quite disturbing" faith-based initiative program.
The criticism came in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which reported Carter's remarks Saturday. The denunciation of a sitting president was unprecedented for Carter, a biographer said.
The former president also lashed out at British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Asked by BBC Radio how he would judge Blair's support of Bush, Carter said: "Abominable. Loyal. Blind. Apparently subservient. And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world."..........