Since the much-twittered, hoped for flock of geese failed to appear …

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Mark Geragos, whom the Bay Area could not be more sick of, perhaps because of his yap-yap-yap defense of Scott Peterson (where are you rotting away, Scottie? Keep rotting.)

… angrily denied that his clients teased the animals. He also accused the zoo administration and their newly hired crisis spokesman of ‘peddling unfounded rumors.’ Read the rest of this entry »

“…it’s about the time to say it, USA have became the unjust nation that needs to be removed … removed from it’s position as the leader of the world. USA doesn’t have the moral superiority propaganda on it’s side anymore. It’s a mere mission of greed and aggression that its leading in the world now: If we don’t like you, we shoot you. If you don’t give us your wealth, we shoot you, and if you don’t like us for doing this to others, we gladly shoot you too.This has to come to an end.” —Kahlid Jarrar

Twenty-four years old. Read Kahlid. Read his family and his friends.

How simple—a picture of Iraq you can trust. If you can stand the sadness.

I figure, since we doing this to them, to their Iraq, destroying their lives … the least we can do is read, subscribe, support.

After all, how will they know how much Americans deeply regret that this stupid, stupid war … unless we tell them?

kahlidjarrar can be reached at hot mail.
his brother raed.jarrar at google’s free email service.

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Remember, you read it here first!

Shit. I might as well quit blogging. Do you know, I started in on Rummy, whoa, more than a year ago—the truth, she moves anthills. Course I don’t exactly have Washington’s ear and if I did, would they listen? Absolutely not. What I have observed is that people want to do things their own way; two, I am about as diplomatic as a trailer-shy mule, and three, it is my life’s work to express the universal disgust with these tragic buffoons, from the sidelines, using as few foul words as possible. Or at least no more than are called for.

Which means staying away from MH, TRP. (My Hero, The Rude Pundit.) Though it is no more his failing than mine that certain aspects of lying asshole-ism can only be accurately nailed with what Tom Wolfe called “Fuck Patois.” Read the rest of this entry »

Isn’t that a Monty Python song, or am I imagining things again.

You believe, as I do, that every human life has value, that the strong have a duty to protect the weak, and that the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence apply to everyone, not just to those considered healthy or wanted or convenient. George W. Bush.

How like Dubya to spread a clause until it touches—just barely touches—upon the magic word. The trigger, the hot-button. The code in which he speaks, and in which they hear. Read the rest of this entry »

Oops, I’m sorry, the President said he has a life to live. A life.

I’ve been following Sidney Blumenthal’s guardian.uk piece all over the web—It’s a fucking novel. He’s written a novel, Death of A Prime Minister and Attention Must Be Paid.

Okay, so the saga is morphing into George’s Long Day and its sloooow Journey Into Night, but so much the better. Blumenthal has picked us a juicy peach, worth memorizing. Worth clasping to your (figurative) bosom. Tragedy is nothing if not … compelling. Read the rest of this entry »

“By providing more generous benefits for low-income retirees, we’ll make good on this commitment: If you work hard and pay into Social Security your entire life, you will not retire into poverty.”
–George W. Bush

“Social Security is not a poverty program, it is a retirement system people have worked hard for, paid into and have earned.”
–Rep. Sander M. Levin, D-Michigan

Well, either it is or it isn’t.

Which must be one of the stupidest observations I’ve ever made.