You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Program

TPM, Talking Points Memo Media, has compiled the Grand Old Docket of those so far indicted or named as coconspirators in the number of scandals unfolding involving politicians and their bribers and bagmen. They are all men and al except one are republicans.

SOTUA

I’m sure that both of my readers will be hanging upon Bush’s every word this evening as they listen, enrapt, to his State of the Union Address; and will be equally attentive to the words of the mercenary talking hairdos and propagandists that afterwards will tell you what the president just said and how well [...]

Score One For The Bull

This morning the Mexican news show I regularly watch carried a report of a bull who, in one great leap, vaulted the ring and rampaged through the spectator seating for a bit. I don’t think anyone was seriously hurt, and it appeared to me that the bull was simply trying to escape rather than [...]

Working Children

One evening a couple of weeks ago, during my Dusty care days, as I was taking Dusty on his obligatory three kilometer evening walk I came upon a young fellow, perhaps ten or eleven, sitting on the curb having a pastry snack and a coke. Setting next to him was a rack of baseball type [...]

More War Crimes

If I’m not mistaken the taking of hostages is a violation of the Geneva Conventions.

I Couldn’t Ask for a More Wonderful Landlord

My neighbor Joel and I have decided to buy a washing machine. Though laundry service here is very inexpensive, $8 – $10 peso per kilo, having a washing machine will be more convenient.
This past Tuesday our landlord Sr. Lopez Monsreal, a local attorney, was by so I asked if there would be any problem with [...]

No Wonder the Islamic World Hates Us – Vo. II

Chief Warrant Officer Lewis E. Welshofer Jr beat and put “Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush face-first in a sleeping bag, wrapped him in electrical wire and sat on his chest in November 2003.” The general, who turned himself in to U. S. authorities who were holding his sons hostage, died and Welshofer remains [...]

The Neofaascist Pundits Turn Their Attention to Iran

Is anyone is gaining the impression from the media that Iran’s development of nuclear weapons is just around the corner, a thesis particularly promoted by the same neofascist propagandists who beat the Iraqi invasion drums, such as William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, James Woolsey, and others? Folks who really know about Iran’s nuclear ambitions will [...]

A Moment of Candor by General Hayden

Thanks to General Michael Hayden, Deputy Director of the Fatherland Security Dept. we now know why the Bush administration chose to forego seeking warrants from the special court established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Because the surveillance is illegal.
The level of evidence that the government had which precipitated its desire to eavesdrop did [...]

The "Unitary Executive" – The March to Dictatorship

The links below lead to a brief, but good, analyses if the theory of the “unitary executive” which Bush and his courtiers are promoting. You know, the theory that the President can ignore the Constitution, treaties, and laws passed by Congress so long he or she determines it’s in the interest of national security. [...]

Papaya and Mandarin Trees

I think I haven’t mentioned the papayas and mandarin orange trees I started from seeds.
This photo shows the papayas at the top and the mandarins in the lower area.
I asked my landlord, Sr. Lopez Monsreal, if he would mind if I planted trees in the back yard and he responded that I should consider this [...]

Check Out Those Melones

In the foreground you can see the cantaloupes and in the background one of the watermelon beds. At the top you can see tomato plants inside of the fenced area.
The aphids are under control, lots of little melones are sprouting from the vines, and the tomato plants are flowering.

The Lights Are On But Nobody’s Home

This is what our completely vacuous president had to say to wounded troops during his photo op visit to the Brooke Army Medical Center I Texas.
“As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself — not here at the hospital, but in combat with a Cedar. I eventually won. The Cedar gave me [...]

What a Surprise. Paul Bremer Lies.

It seems that in writing a book about oneself one would naturally be inclined to put the best spin on things. Paul Bremer, the first viceroy of the U. S.’’s newest colony, has produced a book of his experience totally screwing up Iraq; and rather than just spinning, he lies. What a surprise.
It was, you’’ll [...]

No Wonder the Islamic World Hates Us

The statements of Senators Bayh, McCain and Lott in the CNN article illustrate the kind of U. S. attitude that engenders the Islamic worlds hatred toward the U. S. It’s regrettable that we killed 18 innocent Pakistanis, including five children, in bombing a home where an al Queda official was thought to be supping; [...]

Elizabeth Holtzman and Al Gore Call for Action

Elizabeth Holtzman, a former New York Congresswoman who sat on the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment proceedings, makes the case for the impeachment of President Bush.
And Al Gore calls on congress and the citizenry to counter the ascendancy of the ascendancy of the imperial presidency.

Ladybug Eggs

Today while on my morning aphid patrol, with my spray bottle of water with a bit of dish soap, I noticed clusters of orange insect eggs in three or four places under the leaves of the cantaloupe and watermelon plants. I wondered what insect was now attacking the plants and sprayed the egg clusters. [...]

Some Wireless Phone Calling Records Can Be Purchased

Depending upon your service provider, for $89. you too can obtain a record of one hundred calls made from a particular wireless phone. Want to know who your spouse has been talking to? What your political opponent is up to? This guy purchased a record of 100 calls made from Wesley Clark’s [...]

We Will Soon be Paying for Our Profligate Ways

Now is a good time to shed your debt and if you’ve been thinking about selling real estate you own now is the time. If China, as reported by the Washington Post and others, does in fact reduce its purchase of U. S. debt interest rates will rise and the value of the dollar [...]

Garden Report

Tiny watermelons and cantaloupes have begun to appear on the vines, though the first watermelon to emerge sloughed off today. A couple of cantaloupe plants succumbed to aphid damage that occurred before I figured out that aphids had attacked. The twice a day applications of water with a touch of dishwashing soap have [...]