Journey to the Land of Sports Metaphors

We need to stay on the offense against islamic terrorism-Guliani

The surge is working and we are winning the war in Iraq-Romney

Too many people...are vested in a scenario of defeat, I'm vested in a scenario of victory and I see it happening there-Thompson

The message from the troops is 'let us win, let us win'-McCain


A question from Grover 'Bathtub' Norquist? I thought the point of this thing was for average non-political types to ask the questions, not the head of a political anti-tax group, but maybe I was wrong

A glaring omission:

When I was mayor of NYC the Yankees won 4 world championships...and since I left being mayor of NYC the Yankees have won none-Guess who

Another Video for ed

Recent Sighting

A video for Ed

for everything else...

a plane ticket home.........$400.00
a jar of aspirin..................$4.99
knowing a little bit about what happens in the bush admin.............$18.45

smokes

Remember smokes-for-votes? now it's snickers-for-votes

Happy Thanksgiving

The best George W quote

I have seen in a while would have to be

May they live the rest of their lives in blissful gobbling

To bad it won't make it to Youtube

What goes on behind the closed doors of opec? Inquiring minds want to know

CN weighs in

Harry Reid grows some

Harry Reid has promised to keep the Senate in session over the Thanksgiving break so Bush can't make any recess appointments. I may take back my earlier accusations, temporarily, at least.

The soft touches at the FBI

The bleeding heart FBI agents gave blackwater credit for 3 out of 17 kills, what do you think, have they lost their edge?

"A separate military review of the Sept. 16 shootings concluded that all of the killings were unjustified and potentially criminal. One of the military investigators said the F.B.I. was being generous to Blackwater in characterizing any of the killings as justifiable."

If the new AG gets to rule on this one, his answer might be something like 'well if what they did was a crime then it would be illegal, but even though i dont like it i can't say if it is or not since it could subject the people who did it to possible legal ramifications, and since i wasnt present at the incident it wouldn't be prudent to make that judgement'

Harry Reid has no testicles

Michael Muksaey was sworn in today as the next AG after winning his confirmation vote by a slim margin of 53-40. While 4 senators who publicly opposed his nomination, who are also running for president, skipped the vote, quite a few others publicly opposed it but then voted for it anyway.
A few months back, the 'conventional wisdom' was you needed 60 votes to get anything done in the senate, as some republican senators liked to say. The newspapers would say 60 votes were required for passage. Why, I wonder, were 60 votes required? If so, why was Thursday's vote passed with only 53 votes? Gee whiz this government stuff is so complicated I don't think I'll ever understand it.

A for effort

Two more senators have said they will vote for Mukasey to be AG. The reason? Because we think he is probably the best Bush will come up with. Yes we know he won't say waterboarding is torture....but what the hell he's probably the best we will get....

“Judge Mukasey is not my ideal choice,” the senator said. “However, Judge Mukasey, whose integrity and independence is respected even by those who oppose him, is far better than anyone could expect from this administration.” - Charles Schumer

Amazing how standards have dropped.

The law specifically says it is illegal, for the military.... but if the CIA or private contractors-merenaries- do it, maybe its ok. Sure we may have prosecuted it as a war crime in the past, but 9/11 changed everything so I can't say its torture for sure without further review. And I probably won't do any further review either and just hope you forget about it.

Besides, like he said in his testimony, if he admitted it was illegal people who might be using or authorizing it might get worried. ( I'll take that as code for we have people doing that as we speak)

Although they may be right...if our pres of VP has authorized what is generally seen as war crimes, it would be best not to talk about them, hence we will just change the definition and assure you we don't technically torture. Not gonna get specific bub.

“I’m not going to talk about techniques,” he said, adding, “My view is this: The American people have got to understand the program is important and the techniques used are within the law.”

well...within the law as we define it.

Then it's time for the good old standby:We have a war to fight. We can't be worried about war crimes during a time of war...As Bush said this week-

“On too many issues,” Mr. Bush said, “Congress is behaving as if America is not at war.”

I can't imagine what I would have thought if I had been able to read these things in 1999.