Bond market goes boom. Say hello to an increase in the fizzle of the housing market (and related industries) and an exploding number of bankruptcies as people’s ARMs skyrocket. Like, oh, mine, for example. Also, we, the People’s cost for our debt servicing by this insane administration just got a whole lot worse. Oh yeah, and credit card rates will go up as well.

Combine this with the $100/barrel oil ($200 or more if we attack Iran) and let’s just say Chicken Little was an optimist.

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Sy Hersh continues with his great reporting. US considers use of nuclear weapons against Iran

The administration of President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine has reported in its April 17 issue.

The article by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said that Bush and others in the White House have come to view Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a potential Adolf Hitler.

This makes the bushevik propaganda’s, what, #4 neo Hitler? The fact of the matter is that we are run by a bloodthirsty chickenhawk junta, drunk on mad visions of glory.

If we use nuclear weapons in yet another illegal war of aggression, make no mistake about it - it will only be a matter of time before New York City becomes an ash-filled charnel house.

If it’s any consolation, Hersh also reports that many of the Joint Chiefs and the planning staff will resign if the Rumsfeld-Bush-Cheney band of megalomaniacal messianic fucktards goes forward with this plan.

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Hunter-killer drones and remote CIA assassinations coming to a town near you

Unmanned aerial vehicles have soared the skies of Afghanistan and Iraq for years, spotting enemy encampments, protecting military bases, and even launching missile attacks against suspected terrorists.

Now UAVs may be landing in the United States.

A House of Representatives panel on Wednesday heard testimony from police agencies that envision using UAVs for everything from border security to domestic surveillance high above American cities. Private companies also hope to use UAVs for tasks such as aerial photography and pipeline monitoring.
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“We need additional technology to supplement manned aircraft surveillance and current ground assets to ensure more effective monitoring of United States territory,” Michael Kostelnik, assistant commissioner at Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection Bureau, told the House Transportation subcommittee.

This is Hoover’s America, not mine.

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Oh, the joys of marital bliss

A Mexican couple were recovering separately after a marital spat got out of control and saw them firing guns, throwing knives and hurling homemade bombs, Mexican daily Milenio said on Monday.
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Juan Espinosa and Irma Contreras fought until their house blew up in a homemade gasoline bomb explosion, Milenio said.
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Espinosa told reporters he was glad his wife had suffered burns, while Contreras said she was only sorry she had not “hacked off his manhood” during the fight.

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Guess I’ll have to keep looking.

This is isn’t a joke or a parody commercial. It’s just insane. Robinson is running for Congress in North Carolina and he uses the Twilight Zone theme to attack gays, judges, African Americans and just about anything or anyone else you can think of.

Tragically, there’s no “No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!” moment.

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Just when you think you live in a democracy, you see shit like the guy Dick shot apologizing to Cheney for putting his face in the way of Cheney’s shotgun pellets. And having a heart attack. And not taking out his dentures when he fellated the vice King.

I think we’ve got a new standard bearer for the picture next to “sycophant” in the dictionary.

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BLAM!

I see that Dick Cheney is as good of a shot as he is with truthiness and not eating the brains of the living:

Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets.

Nice shot, Dick. Apparently, he’s only accurate with cudgels, nipple clamps, and electrodes.

Dick did not kill the other guy… unlike Laura Bush, who killed a classmate. Duhbya only kills via proxy, as we bang our heads against the wall from his stupidity. Any real action, and Duhbya pisses his pants.

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Henhouse, fox. Yessirree… The Bug Man is now in charge of our government’s finances.

Indicted Rep. Tom DeLay, forced to step down as the No. 2 Republican in the House, scored a soft landing Wednesday as GOP leaders rewarded him with a coveted seat on the Appropriations Committee.

DeLay, R-Texas, also claimed a seat on the subcommittee overseeing the Justice Department, which is currently investigating an influence-peddling scandal involving disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his dealings with lawmakers. The subcommittee also has responsibility over NASA — a top priority for DeLay, since the Johnson Space Center is located in his Houston-area district.

“Allowing Tom DeLay to sit on a committee in charge of giving out money is like putting Michael Brown back in charge of FEMA — Republicans in Congress just can’t seem to resist standing by their man,” said Bill Burton, spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

I’d laugh if it this weren’t so painful. DeLay? Appropriations? Are you high? No? You’re not? Well, I’m going to be soon, baby!

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Why, if it were occurring, there would be measurable increases in average temperatures among other evidence.

As you can see by the picture below, even though temperatures across the country are historically high over the past month, there is definitely, positively, no evidence of global climactic change.

Love,

The Black Knight

[ed note: we're fucked]

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Jill Carroll, in case you haven’t been following the story, was a reporter in Iraq. She was kidnapped not long ago (and her interpreter was killed), with the kidnappers demanding that the US release Iraqi women in exchange for Ms. Carroll. This seemed bizarre on its face, but, hey, who knows what lurks in the mind of these kidnappers, huh?

Well, it turns out, that there is more to the story. You see, the reason why Ms. Carroll was kidnapped and why they asked for the release of women in US custody is because we have been kidnapping suspected guerilla leaders’ wives when we cannot get to the man.

U.S. forces in Iraq, in two instances described in military documents, took custody of the wives of men believed to be insurgents in an apparent attempt to pressure the suspects into giving themselves up.

Both incidents occurred in 2004. In one, members of a shadowy military task force seized a mother who had three young children, still nursing the youngest, “in order to leverage” her husband’s surrender, according to an account by a civilian Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer.

In the other, an e-mail exchange includes a U.S. military officer asking “have you tacked a note on the door and challenged him to come get his wife?”

The documents were among thousands obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union from the government under court order through the Freedom of Information Act.
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t described the actions of Task Force 6-26, which has been mentioned in other documents in connection with allegations of detainee abuse, and stated that on May 9, 2004, task force personnel detained the wife of “a suspected terrorist” in Tarmiya, Iraq.

“The 28-year-old woman had three young children at the house, one being as young as six months and still nursing. Her husband was the primary target of the raid, with other suspect personnel subject to detainment as well,” the memo stated.

“During the pre-operational brief, it was recommended by TF (task force) personnel that if the wife were present, she be detained and held in order to leverage the primary target’s surrender,” the memo stated. Its author said that “I objected to the detainment of the young mother to the raid team leader” and “I believed it was a dead issue.”

This is abominable on many levels. This also happens to be a violation of the Geneva conventions, Article 34.

Art. 34. The taking of hostages is prohibited.

I am really tired of living in a country run by an administration that does not respect the rule of law or anything other than their own twisted, narcissistic fantasies. That we are violating the Geneva conventions (again), is the direct result of an illegal, illegitimate, preemptive war and for which the miserable failure bears full responsibility.

Impeach George Bush. Impeach him now.

Update: on the day that scAlito’s nomination was just sent to the floor, I thouhgt I’d give a taste of the kind of discourse we are going to have when the American Taliban takes over.

Why should she be upset — She’s among friends…

I have NO sympathy for her — sorry
3 posted on 01/30/2006 6:08:01 PM PST by conservativehusker (GO BIG RED!!!!)

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I’m sorry, but for some reason I’m not convinced she’s not faking it.

I’ve seen both videos. In the first, I did not see any fear in her eyes.

In the second, she seemed to me to be acting.

I base all this in the context of having watched other hostage videos and saw plenty of fear in the eyes of the captives.
10 posted on 01/30/2006 6:21:38 PM PST by FReepaholic (Proud participant in FR mass hysteria since 1998)

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The radical Ialamic mouthpiece, Aljazera, did not air the audio from this tape or from her previous tape. I have a strong feeling that her tears were not for herself. She just does not seem like the type of person who would have this type of fear for herself. I think she is crying in empathy from a different sort of threat.

I would love to see a lip reader’s transcript of her tapes.
14 posted on 01/30/2006 6:23:17 PM PST by Jeff Gordon (Is tractus pro pensio.)

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Regardless of her political inclinations, were the Islamofascists to execute her, it would confirm the need to invade their countries and kill their leaders - lets not make the same mistake we made in the 20’s and 30’s.

22 posted on 01/30/2006 7:11:14 PM PST by spanalot

If I hear anyone in my presence say one more time how it is the left bringing incivility to our culture, I’m going to kick them in their nether regions.

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A nation that creates youths who beat and kill homeless people for sport?

Family members and their attorneys negotiated the surrender of Brian Hooks, 18, and a 17-year-old friend, both of whom had fled the state. (It is the policy of MSNBC.com not to identify juvenile suspects.)

Both will be charged with the murder of Norris Gaynor and aggravated battery for the beating of Jacques Pierre…

“It’s one of the shameful secrets we have, the beating of homeless for sport,” said Marti Forman, CEO of the Cooperative Feeding Program, told the newspaper. “It’s a recreation thing, it’s an initiation for gangs and fraternities.”

This is one of the stories that makes me pray for the dino-killer asteroid to hit our planet and wipe us out. Or at least depraved psychopaths and all fraternities. That would be a swell asteroid, that would.

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