I Cogitate

Yes, we wouldn't want our Commander, check that, Liar-In-Chief to become discombobulated. Well, more discombobulated than usual that is.

Picture this: the so-called Leader of the Free World, who speaks so passionately about instituting democracy and freedom abroad -- God's work, as he puts it-- having to be surrounded solely by sychophants.

Or what?

The Busheviks have gone one step further than the memorable line from Home on the Range, to "where never is heard a discouraging word."

Such bravery! About as fearless and ballsy as defending the coast of Texas against them high-flying Viet Cong back in the 60s and 70s as a quasi-member of the Texas Air National Guard.

Commander Codpiece needs to grow some steel in his spine.

Couple arrested at Bush rally settles lawsuit for $80,000
Andrew Clevenger
The Charleston Gazette
August 17, 2007

The federal government has agreed to pay $80,000 to a Texas couple arrested for wearing anti-President Bush T-shirts at a 2004 event with the president in Charleston.

Jeff and Nicole Rank went to Bush's Fourth of July speech at the state Capitol wearing homemade T-shirts with a red circle with a bar through it over the word "Bush."

On the back, hers read "Love America, Hate Bush" and his read "Regime Change Starts At Home."

When the couple refused to cover up their shirts, they were arrested and charged with trespassing. Those charges were later dropped by the city of Charleston, and city officials later apologized.

The American Civil Liberties Union subsequently filed a lawsuit on the Ranks' behalf in federal court in Charleston, alleging that the Ranks' First Amendment right to free political speech had been violated.

"This settlement is a real victory not only for our clients but for the First Amendment," state ACLU Director Andrew Schneider said in a news release Thursday.

Go here for the rest.

The Tenacious Trio
Dana Milbank
Washington Post
Wednesday, June 22, 2005; A10

The door to Rep. Mark Udall's office opens at lunchtime yesterday, and 13 chattering reporters and cameramen stream in.

The Colorado Democrat gawks. "I wish I could get this kind of coverage on my own," he says.

Indeed, the journalistic pack -- from CNN, the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Associated Press and elsewhere -- is interested not in the congressman but in the three people sitting demurely in armchairs in his office: a computer worker, a temp and a non-practicing lawyer.

Individually, they are ordinary citizens and political unknowns. But collectively, they are the Denver Three -- a political sensation in Colorado that is causing agita to a White House that has bested far more sophisticated foes.

The Denver Three's quest: to learn the identity of the "Mystery Man" who, impersonating a Secret Service agent, forcibly removed them from a taxpayer-funded Social Security event with President Bush three months ago because of a "No More Blood for Oil" bumper sticker on one of their cars.

Go here for the rest.

Here is another article about the same thuggery taking place in Iowa.

Yes, this is old material but still quite relevant because the current Commander-In-Chief, one who is sending thousands to their deaths and dismemberments and readying to hand over the Iraq quagmire to someone else (notice the pattern here), cannot handle a single moment or person of dissent even in an arena that begs for such. This after using family connections to avoid being sent overseas to aid in the Vietnam War that he so devoutly supported.

That is, as long as someone else was sent to do the fighting.

Who died in your place George?

George Bush -- a coward on all fronts his entire life.

Six years on ...

September 11, 2007: "How I Spent the Last Six Years," A brief list that might easily have been written by George W. Bush.

Regarding the attacks:

    * Ignored persistent warnings of an imminent terrorist attack.
    * Continued reading The Pet Goat ...
    * Went up in Air Force One after having been informed it was a likely target.
    * Spent the day in a panicky runaround, leaving it to others to reassure and inform a shocked nation.
    * Later sold photographs of self on same day for purposes of Republican fundraising.
    * Purposely misled rescue workers and volunteers about the safety of the air quality around Ground Zero.
    * Declared, like Wyatt Earp, to capture Bin Laden "dead or alive."
    * Told the rest of the world either they were "with us or against us," like Superman or something ...
    * Ignored the fact that most of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia; pretended they were from Iraq.

 Regarding America:

    * Kidnapped individuals for the purpose of "rendition" and certain torture, violating national laws at will.
    * Opened secret torture prisons in former police states and lied about it.

Regarding Iraq:

    * Lied about evidence of weapons of mass destruction.
    * Lied about ties to Al Qaeda.
    * Lied about Iraq's nuclear weapons program.
    * Lied about infamous "Prague meeting."
    * Lied about lying about all of it.
    * Attempted to destroy reputation of loyal government servant, Joe Wilson.
    * Lied about willingness to fire anyone involved with doing so.
    * Failed to provide troops with sufficient body armor, vehicular protection.
    * Insisted on repeated stop-loss orders.
    * Cut medical spending for wounded veterans, resulting in substandard care for the wounded.
    * Refused to allow photographs of honored war dead.

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