Monday, June 25, 2007

MEDIA LIARS!

Media Matters from Nov. 2, 2005

Did decisions by news organizations influence 2004 presidential election?

During his October 28 press conference following the indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby for perjury, obstruction of justice, and false statements, special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald noted that, had witnesses testified "when the subpoenas were issued in August 2004," indictments would have come "in October 2004 instead of October 2005."


The Boston Post Nov. 1, 2005

The coverup worked

I would add that the obstruction of justice alleged in this case kept us from knowing material things about our leaders at the moment we were deciding whether to keep them in office. In more common speech, obstruction of justice is a coverup, and the coverup worked -- just as the Watergate coverup in 1972 kept facts from the public that would have guaranteed Richard Nixon's defeat.

Transcript of Fitzgerald News Conference on October 28, 2005
FITZGERALD: I would have wished nothing better that, when the subpoenas were issued in August 2004, witnesses testified then, and we would have been here in October 2004 instead of October 2005.

And John Kerry would be president now.

Libby is a scoundrel who deserves to be convicted for treason.

A pardon will only exacerbate the incendiary sense that the Republicans
stand for treachery and deceit.

....

Friday, June 22, 2007

Corruption without Limits

so, ewwww ...
another Boring LIST!
yuck!

But NO!
It's a Game!
Quick,
1) write down all the Bu$hite scandals you can think of.
2) compare your list to ours.
3) Note that it is near to impossible to keep track of the scandals.
4) go to Hugh's List for scoring.
5) devise a scoring scheme and tell me how to implement it, please.


Institutions corrupted by cheneyBu$hCo

Supreme Court .... .... .... .... .... Scalia 9/26/86
Supreme Court
.... .... .... .... .... Thomas 10/18/91
House of Representatives .... Tom Delay/Jack Abramoff '90s - 1/4/06
Supreme Court
.... .... .... .... .... Bush v. Gore 12/12/00

Smithsonian Institution Lawrence M. Small 2000-07
The Constitution signing statements 2001 onward
vice presidency .... .... .... .... .... Dick Cheney 2001
the atmosphere .... .... .... .... .... Kyoto Treaty 2001
Ofc of Faith-based Initiatives .... scamming the faithful for votes 1/29/2001
U.S. Navy .... Japanese students accidentally killed by USS Greeneville
on a joyride for Republican fundraisers
(thanks Harold) 2/9/2001
U.S. Energy Policy .... .... .... .... Cheney's Energy Task Force 04/19/2001
EPA .... increased allowable levels of arsenic in drinking water 5/22/01
.... .... .... (thanks oceanbreeze)

NIH
.... .... .... .... restriction on stem cell research (thanks rxbusa) 8/9/2001
Department of Defense .... .... .... Rumsfeld 2001 - 2006
national security let every Saudi leave the U.S. after "9/11" 09/19/2001
corporate governance .... .... .... .... .... Enron late 2001
Parks Service .... .... .... Mark Rey 12/17/2001
FBI .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... National Security Letters late2001 onward
State Department .... no-talk policy toward North Korea pre-2002onward
habeas corpus .... .... .... .... .... Guantanamo 2002
NSA .... .... .... .... .... .... domestic spying (thanks LJ/Aquaria) 2002
CDC censorship of scientific conference attendees (thanks rxbusa) 2002
ban on wars of aggression .... .... .... .... .... Downing Street Memos 7/23/02
EPA censorship of scientific publications (thanks rxbusa) 2002, et al
journalism .... .... Judy Miller at NYT 2002 - 2005
Dept. of Justice ...."Voter Fraud"/vote suppression /voter intimidation 02, 04, 06, 07
Presidential Records Act .... .... ... cheney abjures since 2003
State Department .... .... .... .... SOTU speech 16 words 1/29/03
Iraq .... .... .... .... Coalition Provisional Authority 2003-6/28/04
journalism .... .... .... .... Jeff Gannon (thanks LJ/Aquaria) 2003 - 05
Civil Rights Division .... .... .... .... .... Bradley Schlozman 2003 - 06
Dept of the Interior
.... .... Scott Griles/Sue Ellen Wooldridge 2/2003

FDA …. .... .... delay of Plan B (thanks rxbusa) 06/2003
CIA .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... Valerie Plame 7/14/2003
PBS .... .... .... .... .... Ken Tomlinson 9/2003 -10/2005
U.S. Army .... .... .... .... .... .... Pat Tillman R.I.P. 4/22/04
Geneva Conventions .... .... ...Abu Ghraib reports 4/04
CDC Even CDC Not Immune from Political Minders 04/2004
Dept of Education "Reading First" Program Margaret Spellings 1/20/2005
NASA .... .... .... Sean O'Keefe 2/18/2005
death .... .... .... .... .... .... Terri Shiavo R.I.P. 3/05
FEMA .... .... .... .... .... Hurricane Katrina 8/29/05
Supreme Court .... .... .... .... .... Roberts 9/29/05
Supreme Court .... .... .... .... .... Alito 01/31/06
quail hunting .... .... .... .... .... ... Dick Cheney 2/11/2006
Student Loan industry .... .... Matteo Fontana 9/2006
House of Representatives Pages .... .... .... Mark Foley 9/30/06
Dept. of Justice .... .... .... .... .... U.S. Attorneys' purge 12/7/2006
GSA .... .... .... .... gross Hatch Act violations/Lurita Doan 1/26/07
veterans .... .... .... .... Walter Reed 2/18/2007
Consumer Product Safety Commission .... Michael Baroody 3/07 - 5/07
World Bank .... .... .... .... .... ... Paul Wolfowitz 4/2007
FDA withheld food contamination info from public 4/23/07
CDC published lie that abortion causes breast cancer (thanks rxbusa) 4/23/07
US AID /Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief .... Randall L. Tobias 4/27/07

State Department .... no-talk policy toward Iran 1979 to 5/28/07


This continues.
And it continues to demonstrate that the scale and magnitude of
the cheneyBu$hCo corruption defies
mortals' abilities to retain,
in any detail,
let alone consider,
the treachery against our country
that these traitors have been perpetrating.

For instance, this is an incomplete listing
fumbled together by my inexpert
keyboarding.
That being the case, this measurement of this corruption is a measure
of the MINIMUM extent of the malignancy we face.
This may well be the tip of the iceberg.

Once the Justice Department had its pogrom against the insufficiently fascist,
in order to
assure the
STEALING of the 2008 presidential election,

well, we knew they were capable of anything,
but this made the limitlessness of their avarice concrete.

psychoRabble's list continues to be a work in progress.
Your suggestions will be appreciated.

Please, tell everyone you know
and
start handing out
the pitchforks and firebrands.

thanks!
i need rest now.


(
updated:
so its all the way up to june 24 and i have finally got this list in an order (chronological sorta) and with links for every institution, and half way to being presentable, if only with provisos:
this ain't even complete, authoritative, definitive or anything like that.'

1) this is accurate and
2) can present a level of chronology; a low level.
(some of that is because these events have various durations,
and some is because i do not have the best idea of how to affix the dates.)
3) it is a rough scale made with modest plumbing of the depths.
4) it is simplified enough to be accessible.
5) psychorabble in their wisdom Have Chosen to include significant
cheney-related events from before cheneyBu$hCo usurped the White House.

whereas, Hugh's List has established a thorough, deep and much more complete inventory of these cheneyBu$hCo crimes against our form of government.

i have come to feel more and more that "scandals"
is deeply inadequate for describing their treachery.

Our psychorabble list demonstrates how a modicum of diligence
can discover that we have a problem.
a big problem.
a really big problem.
a problem of historic proportions.)

...

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Digby Totally ROCKS!

Video from the Gala Dinner at Take Back America 2007 in Washington, DC - June 19, 2007


Glory!

update: Spock's Brain tipped me off that his
buddy Sinfonian over at Blast Off had
had the transcript of Dibgy's speech.
Sadly, we also all agree that the mainstream media is part of the problem. Democracy suffers when not being held accountable by a vigorous press. During the last decade, there have been three catalyzing events that drove people like me to the Internet, to research, investigate, and write about assaults on democracy itself. In 1998, the political media lost all perspective, and aggressively helped the Republicans pursue a partisan witch-hunt against a democratically-elected president and against the will of the people. The coverage of the presidential election of 2000 was legendary for its bias and sophomoric personality journalism. The press actually joined the Republicans in telling the majority who had voted for Al Gore to get over it. I don’t know about you, but
I never got over it.

[emphasis mine]
i have not gotten over it.
i never will.

UPDATE:
The Nation provides their coverage here.
we thank The Nation.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Suriname


In this photograph released by Conservation International on Monday, June 4, 2007, an Atelopus frog is shown in this March 2006 file photo taken at the Nassau Mountains, eastern Suriname. Scientists said Monday that they have discovered 24 new species of wildlife in the remote plateaus of eastern Suriname, including this frog with fluorescent purple markings discovered by Surinamese scientists Paul Ouboter and Jan Mol. (AP Photo/Conservation International/Paul Ouboter)

Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All right reserved.
My apologies to the Associated Press, but that frog pic is awesome.