Deep thought: George Bush has won his game of hide-and-seek. Nobody knows where he has gone. This will shortly end when somebody hears his chortle in a nearby broom closet.
Deeper thought: Maybe he’s hiding to listen to innocent Americans having phone sex? This is no mere joke, according to ABC News today.
Deepest thought: Our conservative friends who have defended Bush had better not even try to defend this:
[Adrienne] Kinne [a 31-year old US Army Reserves Arab linguist assigned to a special military program at the NSA’s Back Hall at Fort Gordon from November 2001 to 2003] described the contents of the calls as "personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to do with terrorism."
She said US military officers, American journalists and American aid workers were routinely intercepted and "collected on" as they called their offices or homes in the United States.
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The accounts of the two former intercept operators, who have never met and did not know of the other’s allegations, provide the first inside look at the day to day operations of the huge and controversial US terrorist surveillance program.
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Hey, check this out," [former Navy Arab linguist, David Murfee] Faulk says he would be told, "there’s good phone sex or there’s some pillow talk, pull up this call, it’s really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, ‘Wow, this was crazy’," Faulk told ABC News.
Okay, go ahead–tell me we still have a healthy democracy. There are things that really do call for impeachment, regardless of partisan politics. This is one of them.
We told you so, we liberals. The Bush administration has destroyed all oversight and taken democracy hostage. This is the kind of thing we attributed to the USSR. But it’s here, now.
10/09/08
Fear the McPalin
10/09/08
Getting Deep, post debate
Deep thought: McCain has dots for eyebrows.
Deeper thought: What was "that one" about? McCain seemed nigh unto unhinged in that moment. What is the antecedent of "one" here? I can’t put a finger on it, but that seemed untoward at best.
Deepest thought: Bible Spice, indeed. Turns out the Thrilla from Wasilla has even more scary ties to international wingnut fundamentalist wackos who are fighting witchcraft. This writer claims she even dedicated Alaska to Jesus. I guess he’ll have to get a warmer robe. I’m all for Jesus, but I believe strongly in this whole separation of church and state business that the framers of the Constitution expressly endorsed in Article 6, which disallows any religious test for the holding of office.
10/08/08
Hey man, Nice Map
Sure is pretty:
Now is not the time to get complacent, seeing as McGrumpy and Bible Spice are trying to tie Obama to everyone from Thurston Howell to Satan. If Obama plays it right, he could solidify things in high style at tonight’s debate. But I’m sure there will be much more nastiness cranked up by the Republicans before this is over. The closer we get to the big day, the less time there is to rebut attacks, so expect the outlandishness of the lies to get even more extreme. And it’s a long way to Nov. 5 with the stunning vote suppression efforts underway and the questions about the integrity of electronic voting. But still. That’s a nice map!
10/07/08
The Further Adventures of Bible Spice: Freedom of the Press edition
Goshdarnit, those media eliterists, they just keep getting those gotchas there, and the next thing ya know, it’s all this freedom of the press abuse:
"As we send our young men and women overseas in a war zone to fight for democracy and freedoms, including freedom of the press, we’ve really got to have a mutually beneficial relationship here with those fighting the freedom of the press, and then the press, though not taking advantage and exploiting a situation, perhaps they would want to capture and abuse the privilege. We just want truth, we want fairness, we want balance."
This excerpt is from a do-over interview with Fox News. We here in the media elite (and I gotta tell ya, I feel pretty darn elite, here in my wobbly chair, sitting on a tag sale cushion and sipping a nice cup of "brown" from the little coffee pod machine in a dank fluorescent lunch room with no plates), we "capture and abuse" the freedom of the press. Or whatever that garbled syntax actually means in Sarah Palin’s breezy head. And what she meant by "those fighting the freedom of the press" only she stands a chance of knowing. For the love of heaven, keep this woman away from the lower 48.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Obama launches a website (and documentary?!?) to remind people how Mr. McGoo is one of the Keating 5, and therefore should know a thing or two about our current financial miscreants.
