This is crap. I have no love for Hillary Clinton, but this video is offensive to many in the evangelical community. The video is nothing but a crude attempt to harm Hillary Clinton, by associating her with Lesbian pedo sex. This must not stand.

Some more heroes.

Michael Kinsley in the op-ed section of the New York Times provides a superficial analysis comparing Bill Clinton's lying about a blow job to Libby's lying about a cover up of a stupid personal vendetta by Dick Cheney and perhaps President Bush to seek revenge on Joe Wilson for revealing that the emperors weren't wearing any clothes. We will go beyond the superficiality of the op-ed article, The Lying Game to reveal that while there are similarities the differences are more important.

KEITH OLBERMANN SPECIAL COMMENT *BUSH & CHENEY RESIGN NOW!*

When it is produced by Hillary Clinton.

English teachers in high school love hidden meanings. They spent so dam much time looking for hidden meanings and symbolism I used to wonder if they missed the meaning entirely. High school English teachers failed to see the meaning that was clearly there in front of them. Looking at Hillary Clinton's Sopranos parody, I've come to the conclusion that the meaning is plainly there in front of us if you we care to see it.

n 1957 the hula hoop was reinvented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Medlin, founders of the Wham-O toy company.

Hula hoop
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Hula hoops were the first fad I can remember. Hula hoops were news and the news sold Hula hoops. They were fun, good exercise, and for the most part entirely meaningless capturing the relief from War. The big one, WW II, was one and the baby one, Korea had a lid on it. Eisenhower was in office. Sputnik went up in the fall. Yet, after considering all that happened I remember the Hula hoop most of all.

Fifty years later and the campaign for the presidency reminds me of 1957 and hula hoops.

crazy bush

BUSH TAKEN AWAY SCREAMING I'M THE DECIDER

Crazy - Gnarls Barkley (Tribute Video)

Crazy Redux Ladies

My favorite – Crazy Redux

I remember the signs from my youth. My family drove in the 54 Pontiac from Maryland to the Florida Keys in the late fifties. All along US 1 there were signs, Interstate 95 did not exist. There mixed with the Burma Shave signs

His cheek
Was rough
His chick vamoosed
And now she won't
Come home to roost
Burma-Shave

were the Impeach Earl Warren signs and billboards. I could tell how close we were to Florida by the frequency of the signs

• A few in Maryland;
• Some more in Virginia;
• Common in North Carolina;
• Starting to mix with South of the Border signs;
• Frequent in South Carolina;
• Jackpot in Georgia;
• Finally Florida and the signs evaporated;
• And then the Keys a different state for except for jurisdiction.

Long after Earl Warren's death another Republican Supreme Court Chief impeached Justice Earl Warren; Justices Limit the Use of Race in School Plans for Integration. Earl Warren is turning in his grave.

Let it

Reasons To Be Glad

or Ann Coulter can give but cannot take.

Ann of course cannot leave well enough alone.

And some more.

There are 3 choices for proceeding with the Iraq War that the US can take:

1. Get out as quickly as possible;
2. Continue to muddle on with something other than a full commitment for success; and
3. Commit the resources and actions necessary for success;

Most of the political discussion to date has been about either getting out of Iraq immediately or the US continuing to muddle on. The purpose of this diary is to look at the options from a broader perspecture.

And some more from Micaheal Moore.

And a movie trailer.

Moore on Larry King

Peter Hegseth writes powerfully about the irrationality of the positions of some of the "antiwar" crowd espouse in Reality Check for the Antiwar Crowd. The positions are well articulated and hold much truth. For this reason I believe they need to be taken seriously by members of the antiwar community such as myself.

My type of song.

I occasionally republish what I write on other forums such as the Daily Kos. I republished my Hillary's Poll Numbers on Daily Kos. Over the next hour I was called moron, idiot, sexist, racist, troll, etc. Many four letter words were used and many comments were deleted. All of the tags that I had initially put on the diary and except for one tag, (the tag "Hillary" which was changed to "Hillary Clinton") were deleted.

I watched the PBS show Endgame on FrontLine. There are many reasons behind the US failure in Iraq that the show explored. One of the implicit reasons hinted at by the show, but never directly confronted is that the US never spent the money necessary to be successful in Iraq.

This theme of not being willing to spend the money necessary to solve the problem is a consistent Republican theme, called lower taxes. No where is this more evident than in the state of Mississippi where Republicans reduced Medicaid benefits and infant mortality rates increased. See Mississippi's Rising Infant Mortality Rate.

As President Clinton used to say "I feel your pain" Cindy Sheehan. I read Turn, Turn, Turn today. Once again you say "I won't be back as the owner of property (Camp Casey) there (Crawford), or as a leader of the American peace movement."

I feel your pain. At the same time as you say you "won't be back" you invite us to your "50th Birthday Party and Camp Casey final celebration the weekend of July 6 to 8 at Camp Casey in Crawford, Tx." Oh, but then there is the qualifier that you sold Camp Casey. I ask, have you left? I want you to do what you want to do. Please don't act the hypocrite and yell about leaving as a means of staying. I feel your pain when I see the irrationality of your actions.

Now a note on leadership. Leaders are leaders or not based on what they do, not based on what they proclaim. When President Bush proclaims himself the decider, he is laughable because his actions are just the opposite. Vice President Cheney acts the decider, President Bush acts the puppet. You, Cindy Sheehan act the leader. Leaders do what they think is right. You did that, and people followed. You are still doing that. You cannot stop. Stop saying you are not a leader. You cannot help being a leader.

Hillary Clinton is running an impressive campaign for the presidency. Even Bill Clinton's first campaign looks shoddy in comparison. And yes I would vote for Hillary over almost any of the republican candidates who are running. The exception being Ron Paul who is truly conservative. I would also seriously consider voting for third party candidates such as Ralph Nader, Bloomberg or Hagel over Hillary.

There are many forces behind Al Qaeda. One that US does not discuss is the lack of sex education and the resultant population explosion. The New York Times in the op-ed article The Long View in Iraq makes the point that

The fact is that however many bomb makers are taken out, however many cells broken, the social and religious forces driving angry young men across the Muslim world into this sort of fight are not about to abate.

A population explosion is pushing these men into societies with few jobs and scant hope for the future beyond a range of causes - from Palestine to Iraq to the perceived debauchery of modernity - capable of drawing them into a consoling, if nihilistic, zealotry.

Satire is extremely harsh. Anyone who has read the original Gulliver's Travels can appreciate how gross and harsh satire is. I watched Lil' Bush for the first time this morning on TiVo. Lil' Bush makes The Colbert Report look tame. Lil' Bush is so gross the show ceases to be funny and sadly for me lacks any humor at all. Just as Gulliver's Travels is not a children's story, Lil' Bush fails as anything other than the worst gratuitous sophomoric gross cartoon ever produced.

Sheehan Quits as Face of US Anti-War Fight reads the headline in TruthOut. One article and two essays later, I know little more than Cindy Sheehan is in deep pain. The two essays written by Cindy Sheehan are painful to read and must have been worse to write. The essays are emotional; not logical. No where is the lack of logic more apparent than in the phrase "cynically pessimistic." Cindy Sheehan can not resign a position that does not exist. The only way to truly leave is to leave; not to write about leaving.

I love The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. To find such good satire one must return to Jonathan Swift. As Nancy Pelosi put it there is a new congress in town. Sadly the new congress is better fodder for satire than the old.

As a US citizen I like to think It could never happen in the US today. When bad despicable actions happen, I like to think that if they happened in the US then they are past and the US has learned and those actions will never happen again. The Watergate Investigation and resignations of Vice President Spiro Agnew and President Nixon gave me faith that if it happened then our system of government was robust enough to take corrective action before it became horrendous. Iran / Contra gave me pause as did the presidential pardons of some key Iran / Contra players. The election of 1992 was a course correction. I could ignore the Iran / Contra it.

What sort of person would put her/him self through the candidacy to become president? By the time of the presidential elections the likely winners will have been running for over a year and a half. Who would put themselves up to this kind of inspection and ridicule for so long?

Ethics and law "go out the window" when terrorism strikes – said Tancredo during the Republican presidential debate. Then this week from an episode of The Sopranos on the Banks of the Potomac there is Fredo rushing to strong arm Ashcroft in the intensive care unit of George Washington University hospital so that President George Bush can break the constitution. But for fear of the appearance of having the Attorney General, the Acting Attorney General and the head of the FBI resigning during the 2004 presidential campaign, all the evidence leads to the conclusion that Bush would have violated the constitution and his oath of office.

Why the House of Representatives does not impeach President Bush for this alone gives me cause to wonder if our system is working. But then I hear apologists saying well the President didn't violate any laws. Given the events that we know about for the last six years President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Attorney General Gonzales should be impeached and convicted. Failure to do so places the foundation of the US in jeopardy.

I received a doctorate from Rutgers University. I was proud when I received e-mail on the progress of the Scarlet Knights women's basketball team in the NCAA tournament. I have followed Don Imus's apologies and the criticism avidly.