Last time I checked, we had separation of church and state, so I don't know why the president is talking about sin, or why he is implying that gays who want to make a permanent commitment in a world full of divorce and loneliness are sinners.

"The Jesus pictured on the cover of this month's Popular Mechanics has a broad peasant's face, dark olive skin, short curly hair and a prominent nose. He would have stood 5-foot-1-inch tall and weighed 110 pounds, if the magazine is to be believed." ha ha ha


The Army is trying to figure out what is causing a rash of serious pneumonia cases, including two fatalities, among soldiers serving in Iraq.

Question: Mr. President, with no opponent, how can you spend $170 million or more on your primary campaign?
Bush: Just watch. (Laughter)

Condoleezza Rice's July 30 interview with Gwen Ifill on PBS's NewsHour, in which Rice became the fourth Bush administration official to accept full responsibility for the inclusion of erroneous information in the State of the Union address.

Given a choice of four forgivable answers, Rice, inexplicably, chose all four:
I can tell you, I either didn't see the memo, I don't remember seeing the memo, the fact is it was a set of clearance comments, it was three and a half months before the State of the Union.
Rice's inability to settle on a single forgivable excuse suggests to Chatterbox that none of them felt quite right to her.

It is one thing to breach international law - it is quite another to crow about it.

Wolfowitz has the audacity - the utter audacity! - to try to shift the justification for the attack on Iraq from the lies of the Bush Administration told before the attack to making it appear to be a security issue: "Getting rid of the Hussein regime for good is not only in the interest of the Iraqi people, it enhances the security of Americans." But it clearly doesn't enhance the security of Americans. Over and over again we see the Bush Administration use security concerns as a method of frightening people into going along with their lousy plans, all the while doing nothing to actually stop terrorism and in fact taking actions which will guarantee an increased threat of terror to America.

Despite being detained in conditions that may approximate torture, with the implicit or probably explicit promise that they can obtain freedom if they confess to the existence of weapons of mass destruction, absolutely none of the Iraqi scientists has stated that such weapons exist. The scientists have absolutely no reason to lie about this, and in fact every reason to give the occupiers what they want to hear, so we can be certain that there are no weapons of mass destruction.


Never mind, for example, that it is extremely unlikely that the Hussein brothers would be holed up in a Kurdish stronghold, where they are, according to Team Bush, universally despised. Never mind that it is equally unlikely that the pair would be holed up, together, in an unsecured location with no means of escape. Never mind as well that it is very unlikely that, between the two of them, they had just a single guard. Never mind that it is unlikely that the two would seek refuge in the home of a man who apparently sometimes claimed to be a relative, but actually was not. And never mind that that home has already been bulldozed, thus destroying all evidence of what happened there. And never mind that while Team Bush claims that captured Iraqi officials have positively identified the bodies, those same alleged officials have never been paraded before the Iraqi people, or the American people, despite claims that such displays are necessary to reassure everyone that the old regime is no longer in charge.

Or that someone shot a councilman in council chambers despite elaborate post-9-11 security measures? Or that the gunman was then picked off in a crowd by an uncannily accurate plainclothes officer who just happened to be on hand and who was able to immediately assess the chaotic situation and know within seconds exactly what to do?

To tell the truth, I'm kind of anxious to hear back from the FBI, if only for the chance to ask why anyone would find media criticism suspicious, or if maybe the sight of a dark, bearded man reading in public is itself enough to strike fear in the heart of a patriotic citizen.

But a long, dark shadow has fallen across the republic--and our sweet sunny South--when complaints of this caliber result in travesties like the harassment of Marc Schultz. Imagine a rural South in more innocent times, and a similar complaint registered with a radically different set of law enforcement officers.
I would, if I could, overthrow this government by force of argument. I believe from the bottom of my non-partisan heart that the George Bush wolfpack is the most dangerous, least honorable, least sensible gang of thugs and cynics that ever aimed America's Big Gun at a trembling planet.

In December 2000, Gore Vidal, termed America’s master essayist by The Washington Post, told “irregularly elected” President-elect George W. Bush to “rein in the warlords who were seeking $30 billion a year over and above the 51 percent of the budget that now already goes for war.”
Vidal summarized what the Bush “warlords” have achieved in occupying Iraq: “Chaos.”
“Chaos, until we either come to our senses and leave -- not likely any time soon -- or complete the neocon plan so boldly stated by their youthful ‘warriors,’ by annexing as much of the Mideast oil states as possible.”
What next?” he asked rhetorically, “Franklin predicted despotism.”
“No one will ever see all the details but the [current] crookedness is unique in our history. Enron was the first storm warning but no one realized how easily accepted that cluster of capers would be by a polity marinated in corruption -- as Ben Franklin predicted, in 1789, as our eventual fate.”

Richard L. Armitage, had told National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice that neither he nor Powell would stay on if Bush was re-elected.
Reeker and McClellan said the conversation that the Post said Armitage had with Rice never occurred.

But what does Bush say about global warming? He calls it "silly science."

So the Book of Mormon, versions of the Bible, even the Catholic Rosary, all went up in flames. Church leaders say any Bible besides the King James version that they use, are distractions.

But Washington was abuzz yesterday with speculation over a possible successor to General Powell, with most attention focused on Ms Rice and Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Defence Secretary. Of the two, Ms Rice's close personal relationship with President Bush is seen to give her a slight advantage, though in recent weeks she has suffered criticism for her role in controversy surrounding the administration's use of false evidence as it sought to make the case for war against Iraq.

America has warned the Niger government to keep out of the row over claims that Saddam Hussein sought to buy uranium for his nuclear weapons programme from the impoverished West African state.

The unprecedented dispute between an Anglo-American occupation authority supposedly dedicated to “democracy” in Iraq and an Arab station once praised by Washington for its services to free speech in the Arab world comes at a time when the US administration appears to be laying the ground work to close down Al-Jazeera’s operations in Iraq — along with those of the Arabia channel — for alleged “incitement to violence”.

"When a man who faces certain torture in his home country is faced with deportation using evidence he can't see and facing general allegations of assistance to a group that isn't even now on the State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations, you wonder what's left of due process and fairness – especially for immigrants,"

If society allows only sheep to be raised, only too soon shall they be governed by wolves.