USAtty, Under Investigation for Election Fraud, Resigns

Greg Palast reported on May 4 that U.S. Attorney for Arkansas (Eastern District) Tim Griffin was under investigation for election fraud. And today he resigned from the post.

Forget that hoopla about becoming Fred Thomspon's campaign manager - it's a diversion.

Sad, Hilarious, Mystifying, Jaw-Dropping Stupidity

They just can't stop. They can't stop their stupidity, and they can't stop exposing under bright lights that stupidity.

Glenn Greenwald has post about the Plame document confirming her status as a covert CIA operative, and examples of the Right Wing's years of exact wrongs and/or lies on the issue.

Idiots, other idiots, and colossal idiots are now twisting themselves in knots trying to justify their years of lies and/or errors. Idiots and beggars. How embarrassing.

Mahablog explains to the cretins, or at least tries to, the difference between a name and an idea.

People Who Pray For War

People who hope and pray for more violence are broken. They are damaged, twisted, chemically unsound, insane people. They should always be looked at and treated like that. They should never be taken seriously. They have forgotten something elemental about being human: how to live and hope and act for somebody other than ourselves. Most especially the young. They have lost the courage to do that.

Norman Podhoretz has forgotten everything good about being alive. He is in the perfect service of himself and nobody else, and that self is tired, withered, and cowering in a darkened corner. It isn'tt even himself he sees in the glorious and righteous war he hopes and prays for. It is, of course, someone else. A whole bunch of mostly young someone elses. That is what Norman Podhoretz, in a major publication today, hopes and prays for.

What a perfect coward.

Cheney Visitor Logs Destroyed?

That's, uh, against the law, says CREW.

The public deserves to know how many times Jack Abramoff visited. And Ken Lay. And Satan.

When to Compare them to Nazis

Not in their entirety, of course, but you can hardly avoid it when they use their exact words. And tactics.

Declassified Docs: Plame Was Covert

Got some slow friends who still say she wasn't? Here's more to throw at them:

The employment history indicates that while she was assigned to CPD, Plame, "engaged in temporary duty travel overseas on official business." The report says, "she traveled at least seven times to more than ten times." When overseas Plame traveled undercover, "sometimes in true name and sometimes in alias -- but always using cover -- whether official or non-official (NOC) -- with no ostensible relationship to the CIA."

Plame was assigned to CPD, the article says, in 2002. That would make "at least seven times to more than ten times" that she traveled using cover in just the 18 months prior to Novak's article in July, 2003. One of the main charges made by the "Everybody knew she was a spy!" or "She wasn't a spy!" (so hard to keep them straight) hacks is that she hadnt traveled under cover in the last five years. I guess they'll admit their erroneous ways now, huh?

It's a Series of Jail Cells Tubes!

Sen. Stevens (R-UACON?) is the target of an FBI investigation.

Ward Churchill is an Ass

Reflecting on our own rights and wrongs is something bizarrely and sadly seen as weak or just wrong by way too many American "leaders" (and followers), but that's being said by many thoughtful and courageous people already. I don't need Churchill to add to that for me. Does anybody? I'll let them decide.

And this seems like an ass of an article:

DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- The president of the University of Colorado has recommended that a professor who likened some September 11 victims to a Nazi should be fired, according to the professor and the school.

Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, has denied the allegations and threatened a lawsuit if he is dismissed.

Would you walk away from that thinking that Churchill "denied the allegations" of likening 9/11 victims to a Nazi? And that the president of CU was recommending his firing for that likening?

You'd be wrong. Later in the article:

University officials concluded he could not be fired for his comments because they were protected by the First Amendment, but they launched an investigation into allegations that he fabricated or falsified his research and plagiarized.

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That is some seriously crappy reportage right there. These are the actual allegations that have prompted Brown to call for his firing.

10 More Gone

114 this month. 3,458 total, a fact the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff seems to think is isn't important enough to keep in his thoughts.

Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

It's finally coming to free us all from this living hell.

WASPS: Women Airforce Service Pilots

Kay (Chaffey) Gott, author of Women in Pursuit, was the featured speaker at Eagle Point National Cemetery yesterday.

She had a lot of stories to tell, was funny, joyful, sometimes forgetful, and humble. In other words - perfect.

And we learned something yesterday didn't know: There were some Native American representatives there, with feathered poles to offer along with the wreaths, and Kay Chaffey Gott mentioned the Navajo Code talkers, and a division made up of many tribes in Europe - that liberated Dachau.

It was a bit of exxageration, but not much. The 45th Infantry Division - The Thunderbird Division. Here's a book about them.

As many as 30 DOJ Officials Threatened to Resign

Newsweek:

Back at the Justice Department, there is an equally extraordinary scene. Appalled by the White House's heavy-handed attempt to coerce the gravely ill attorney general, virtually the entire top leadership of the Justice Department is threatening to resign. The group includes the director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum and the chief of the Criminal Division, Chris Wray. Some of them gather in the conference room of Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who describes Ashcroft's bravely turning away the president's men from his hospital bed. The mood that night in the conference room was tense—and sober. "This was a showdown," says a former senior Justice Department official who was there. "Everybody understood the choice they were making and the gravity of the situation. Everybody knew what the stakes were." A different source estimated that as many as 30 top DOJ officials would have resigned.

Comey has said that the mass exodus was averted only when he met personally and alone with President Bush, where one can assume he told the president what would happen if he tried to push the program through. It would be speculation, but I don't think misplaced or silly speculation, to think that words close to or exactly "Worse than Watergate" were spoken in that room that night.

The thing I think is important about that night is: The fact that they tried to do what they did makes them as guilty of it as if they had. You don't get a pass when you try to rob a bank and fail. Bush, Gonzales, and Card, and who knows who else, tried to go around the actual Attorney General to get the not-Attorney General to sign off on what the Attorney General and not-Attorney General had already told them was an illegal program - while the not-Attorney General was ill.

Someone tell me how that's not a "high crime."

Moore on Sicko

Looks like it's gonna be a ballbuster.

Tucker Doesn't Like Girl Germs

You've really got to wonder about people like this, and this, and if they just got an unlucky mix of chemicals when they were born.

Or if their fundamental philosophies were formed and cemented during one bad moment on the kickball field.

Gore is Running in '08

I'm sorry - did you think I got some scoop? Don't be silly. Gore is running. You know it. I know it. Everybody knows it. We don't need to wait for an announcement. Al Gore is running for president in 2008, and he's going to win the nomination. And he'll win.

Knowing that saves so much time and trouble.

Wolfowitz's Bitch

Much was made about the fact that Bush appointee Paul Wolfowitz not only lost his job at the World Bank, but also his girlfriend, who was at the center of the maelstrom that led to his early departure. What I haven't seen is the connection between the fact that he put much of the blame for the genesis of the debacle on his girlfriend :

In a written response, Wolfowitz maintained that he acted in good faith in seeking to resolve an obvious conflict of interest. He accused the bank's ethics committee of forcing him to oversee the raise for his longtime companion, Shaha Riza, as compensation for her transfer to a different job. The ethics panel was afraid to confront her, Wolfowitz said, because its members knew she was "extremely angry and upset."
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"Its members did not want to deal with a very angry Ms. Riza, whose career was being damaged as a result of their decision," Wolfowitz said in his response to the investigating committee's report. "It would only be human nature for them to want to steer clear of her."

Holy crap. He may as well have said she was on the rag that week too. You've gotta imagine the conversation in the top floor penthouse after that bit on news came out. "You had to take care of your little bitchy bitch because she was just too hysterical to handle? Cuz I was too bitchy to handle it professionally? I'll give you BITCH, Pussowitz!" The flying Moet & Chandon and glass shards and all that following.

I mean, kicking a guy when he's down ain't a path to tread on a regular basis - but Wolfowitz is one dumb SOB, and I can't see Ms. Riza doing any different after that knuckleheaded shtick.

Playing Politics With the Troops

Who's really been guilty of that awful accusation all these year? Silly question, huh?

That don't even have to pull out new lies - they just repeat the same ones over and over again.

"These jackasses, they did it again"

I saw this last night on CNN. It's about the recent kidnapping of three American soldiers - a repeat performance of last year's kidnapping (and torturing and killing) - from fellow soldiers' perspectives. It was a powerful segment. You can watch it at the link.

Here Come the Judges

More on Goodling and the gang at the Justice Department. Reminds me of a song by a friend in which he sings: There are no such things as empty cans of worms.

Here's one that keeps getting less empty all the time. And it even links those hypocrite idiot "rioters" from the 2000 Miami-Dade election to a present immigration judge.

Wow.

Quit Goodling With That!

TheNew Evangelical Peace Corps, going to remote and not so remote places around the U.S. government to root out constitutionality.