Aliens Take Cheney Aboard Spacecraft, but Refuse to Probe Him

What really happened on the Armstrong Ranch? Here are some possible explanations:
http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2006/02/what-really-happened-on-armstrong.html

I vote for the pansies.

And if it's a Diebold machine, maybe that will count two or three times.

if the aliens are republicans or neocons i'd have to go with haliburton, then again i'm sure that aliens possess the technology to render politicians spineless, so let's go with a combo of 2 and 3

I'll go with the combo of 2, 3, & 4. #1 sounds... well, obscene; and who wants to probe that part of either one of them and get that dirty anyway? Well, aside from the spineless legislators whose lips are already surgically attached to The Cretin's and Vice Cretin's behinds?

Posted by: ralpheh at February 19, 2006 04:00 PM

Interesting point Ralpheh....it boils down the difference between the illusion and the reality.
The GOP has become very adept at presenting the Illusion, and running roughshod over weak protests. I will never forget Lieberman letting Cheney just walk over him at the VP debates in 2000... Illusion won over reality, this Template has served the GOP very well since.

..no child left behind....the saving of social security...the patriot act...the terrorist surviellance act...the iraqi war is over....

Framing their message resulted in brilliant ad campaigns selling something that does not exist.

Posted by: Toolmaker at February 19, 2006 05:28 PM

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What is so scary (to me anyway), is how compliant and complacent people get when they think they are in a "crisis" - like the terrorist attacks. For example, I hear "conservative" talk radio hosts say, "Let Bush tap my phone, let him monitor my internet usage, let him open my mail, let him search my house, BECAUSE, I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE..... These are the same people who, several years back, were afraid their guns would be taken away by government storm troopers. This easily explains why fascist dictatorships take hold so easily - even in countries that have experience with democracy.

What has happened to the 200-year-old, traditional, healthy, American distrust of government and authority???? IT'S GONE - Let King George do anything, he wants.. in order to protect us etc...

Heather Wokusch | WWIII or Bust: Implications of a US Attack on Iran
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021906D.shtml
Witnessing the Bush administration's drive for an attack on Iran is like being a passenger in a car with a raving drunk at the wheel, according to Heather Wokusch.
Excerpt:

Now consider the fact that former CIA Officer Philip Giraldi has said the Pentagon's plans to attack Iran were drawn up "to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States." Writing in The American Conservative in August 2005, Giraldi added, "As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States."

Chew on that one a minute. The Pentagon's plan should be used in response to a terrorist attack on the US, yet is not contingent upon Iran actually having been responsible. How outlandish is this scenario: another 9/11 hits the US, the administration says it has secret information implicating Iran, the US population demands retribution and bombs start dropping on Tehran.

{{{How's that for deja vu? And check out the year it was planned: August, 2005. This article also mentions Plame and Edmonds and the Iranian Oil Bourse set to open next month. Etc. A 'must read.'}}}

I sent my Republican uncle this article:

Abramoff Ties Hurt Conrad Burns
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021906Z.shtml

He replied:
GOOD ARTICLE.....GOP HAS SHOT THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT TOO MANY TIMES (READ CHENEY)

Resistance growing to having foreign companies involved in controlling our ports; H Clinton et al introducing legislation

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1713400,00.html

Wow - too late for the music thread

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/music/13913824.htm

The Rolling Stones' free concert on Copacabana Beach attracted more than a million exhilarated spectators, and on Sunday hundreds of fans were already in line for a U2 concert in Sao Paulo.

U2, performing in Brazil for the first time since 1998, will play at Sao Paulo's Morumbi stadium on Monday and Tuesday. Band leader and activist Bono met privately with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brasilia and lauded the president's fight against poverty.

"It is a dream to be here because Lula (Silva) is fighting against poverty not only here but also in Africa. I feel very enthusiastic about it," Bono told cheering fans at Brasilia's airport.

If Democrats had turned over control of the Eastern Seaboard to Arab Emerites as Republicans have, there would be knashing of teeth on Capital Hill.

Republicans are making a larger issue of this that Democrats...someday the DNC will get a pulse on the Nation.

Toolmaker
Looks like R's and D's from the affected states are against the deal (w/United Arab Emirates).
Looks like Condi Rice is the one who favors it.
It's probably part of some "deal" - economic or some other form of bribe. & only 5% of cargo containers coming into US are inspected. Senator Patti Murray on the west coast hss been talking about this for several years.

Posted by: NonnyO at February 19, 2006 06:39 PM

Nonny,

That's some scary stuff. I feel so helpless lately. I finally watched Farhenheit 911, saw a program on Free Speech TV today that detailed the Wolfowitz plan from the Bush 1 era that has come to pass, and as I watch the Iran situation unfold, in a repeat of the build up to Iraq.....

I feel like we're tied to the tracks and a freight train is coming. Again. And Dudley DoRight, or anyone else for that matter, seems deaf to our cries.

Actually, Polly, I learned today that we -- that is, those who don't fit in lock, stock, and barrel (so to speak...) -- all live in a "parallel universe" from the WH et al according to Mary Matalin .

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/19.html#a7220
Lady MacCheney squares off with Gregory and Dowd

Posted by: Carol at February 19, 2006 10:06 PM

Yeah, couple that info with the links about selling six US ports to the UAE (which would virtually guarantee another criminal attack of a terroristic nature), and it's potentially really, really scary. The articles about the selling of the six US ports have quoted Dumb$h*t saying 'it's okay, UAE is friendly to the US'... is another way of him saying "Trust me." Yeah, right..... Trust The Cretin??? Not as far as I could see him!!! And if our Clueless Congress trusts him and approves of all that BS, they can be un-re-elected this fall or shortly thereafter, too.

I firmly believe that that monster and his puppet master sitting in *our* White House WANT another 9/11 type of attack to happen so they can "justify" attacking Iran, keep the war in Iraq going, and get more countries involved (and so The Cretin can try to talk more young people into enlisting - something most didn't do after 9/11 - so he can't be blamed for re-instating the draft). Local in-state news had a very brief news blurb about an Osama bin Laden tape, but it's apparently part of a tape that was shown before??? Made no sense to me, the story was just a fifteen second mention, if that, and they moved on to another story. But I "smell' another OBL 'terraist' scare tactic coming from that sorry excuse of an administration, likley no later than Tuesday (given that tomorrow is a holiday), but he may start his war propaganda ratcheting up by as early as tomorrow morning. Evil doesn't take any holidays....

if Dirt Were Dollars
by Don Henley

Walkin' like a millionaire
Smilin' like a king
He leaned his shopping cart against the wall
He said, "I been a lot of places
And I seen a lot of things
But, sonny, I seen one thing that beats 'em all
I was flyin' back from Lubbock
I saw Jesus on the plane
...or maybe it was Elvis
You know, they kinda look the same
Hey, look out, Junior, you're steppin' on my bed"
I said, "I don't see nothin"
He just glared at me and said,
If dirt were dollars
If dirt were dollars
If dirt were dollars
I wouldn't worry anymore

Lookin' like a beauty queen
Loyal as a wife
She raised her little voice and testified,
"I am a good girl
I've been one all my life"
But her virtue was as swollen as her pride
She should've had the Oscar
She must have been miscast
Her fifteen minutes went by so fast
I said, "Now, baby, have you got no shame?"
She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly
Like cows at a passing train
If dirt were dollars
If dirt were dollars
If dirt were dollars
I wouldn't worry anymore

We got the bully pulpit
And the poisoned pen
We got a press no better
Than the public men
This brave new world
Gone bad again

God's finest little creatures
Looking brave and strong
Whistling past the graveyard
Nothing can go wrong
Quoting from the scriptures
With patriotic tears
We got the same old men
With the same old fears

Standing at attention
Wrapped in stars and stripes
They hear the phantom drummers
And the nonexistent pipes
These days the buck stops nowhere
No one takes the blame
But evil is still evil
In anybody's name
If dirt were dollars
If dirt were dollars
If dirt were dollars
We'd all be in the black

Well I am fantasizing about Oaxaca.

(I know it's not new, but I just felt like posting it.)

Sweet Neo Con
by The Rolling Stones

You call yourself a Christian
I think that you're a hypocrite
You say you are a patriot
I think that you're a crock of sh**

And listen now, the gasoline
I drink it every day
But it's getting very pricey
And who is going to pay

How come you're so wrong
My sweet neo con.... Yeah

It's liberty for all
'Cause democracy's our style
Unless you are against us
Then it's prison without trial

But one thing that is certain
Life is good at Haliburton
If you're really so astute
You should invest at Brown & Root.... Yeah

How come you're so wrong
My sweet neo con
If you turn out right
I'll eat my hat tonight

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah....

It's getting very scary
Yes, I'm frightened out of my wits
There's bombers in my bedroom
Yeah and it's giving me the sh***

We must have lots more bases
To protect us from our foes
Who needs these foolish friendships
We're going it alone

continued....

http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/536089.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060220/ap_on_re_mi_ea/bin_laden_tape
Bin Laden Vows Never to Be Captured Alive

{{{ Yeah, what-ever! OBL comes along and gives GWB his talking points about 'terraists' for his warmongering speeches just in time for President's Day... and so The Cretin has added reasons to somehow link Iran with terrorism, too, and take the warmongering rhetoric up a few notches. March and the opening of the Iranian Oil Bourse is right around the corner, so The Cretin needs to talk really, really fast and scare the bejeebers out of the sheeple who have adopted his paranoia so they will support yet another needless war.... Gosh, ya know I sometimes have to wonder: Do OBL and GWB talk to each other through their mutual financial and family connections and orchestrate these tapes to conveniently appear just when GWB needs to ratchet up the scare tactics a notch or two...??? I'm just thinkin' out loud in black and white, so to speak....}}}

~snip~

This highly placed source has revealed that aliens (not the "guest worker" kind) have taken the Vice President aboard their spacecraft, but refuse to a probe.

~snip~

Posted by Polly Sigh at February 19, 2006 04:10 PM

It's definitely

1) Lack of personal hygiene. This is self-explanatory, and I plan to dine later, so I will forego the details here.

Personal hygiene also refers to character and morals.

I have it on good authority that the aliens just took their space ship and split ~ and they left Cheney here. They didn't want him either.

White House Working to Avoid Wiretap Probe
But Some Republicans Say Bush Must Be More Open About Eavesdropping Program

By Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 20, 2006; A08

At two key moments in recent days, White House officials contacted congressional leaders just ahead of intelligence committee meetings that could have stirred demands for a deeper review of the administration's warrantless-surveillance program, according to House and Senate sources.

In both cases, the administration was spared the outcome it most feared, and it won praise in some circles for showing more openness to congressional oversight.

But the actions have angered some lawmakers who think the administration's purported concessions mean little. Some Republicans said that the White House came closer to suffering a big setback than is widely known, and that President Bush must be more forthcoming about the eavesdropping program to retain Congress's good will.

more... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/19/AR2006021901031_pf.html

Happy Presidents Day... a day to celebrate what a President of the United States USED to be.

It use to be that on President's day we'd all get a day off.

Is there a way to convince Bush and Cheney and all of the majority party who are busy working daily to "think of new ways to harm America" to take a day off?

(a year..two...)

My sister sent me this RE: an anti-war forum that Howard Zinn attended (along with 1000+ others) at UT in Austin. It's good to see that they're talking about this in Texas (even if it's Austin, which is notably progressive). It's a start...

Anti-war forum discusses history
U.S. citizens must understand the United States' history of empiricism in order to speak out against and stop the war in Iraq, said historian, author and political activist Howard Zinn Friday.
--snip--
The only difference is developments in biological warfare and nuclear technology have provided the United States with the capacity to do more harm, he said. This will go unchecked unless people realize they have the power to stop the U.S. government from continuing its imperialistic activity abroad, Zinn said.

http://tinyurl.com/r23ma = Daily Texan Online

One Thousand and Sixty-Five Days To Go...

Time has an article about how difficult it's going to be for the regime to get back on track in the time they have left...

Here are some snippets:

"Some people in the White House are worried that this will hasten the start of the formal lame-duck period, which they were hoping to put off until after the midterm elections," said a Republican official. "This showed a weakened President and a Vice President in a bubble within a bubble."

--snip--
And these days Bush's challenge, and Cheney's, is not that their enemies hate them, since it has been forever thus; it is that they are increasingly at odds with their friends.

--snip--
What the hunting furor did, beyond occupying the airwaves for a week and stalling what momentum the President may have had, was expose in the most public way yet the extent to which Cheney runs an independent operation and raise the question of how much the White House can control him--or wants to. Cheney makes his own rules; he decides what intelligence matters, what secrets are worth keeping and what force is worth using, and he defends his positions with a breathtaking indifference to consequences and to complaint from those who disagree. He went off to spend a relaxing--and unannounced--weekend hunting with friends who also happened to be donors and lobbyists at a time when both species find themselves under fire. And it turned into a nightmare for everyone involved.

Link to original article in Time:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1161247-1,00.html

Link to shorter summary:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/19/coverstory.tm/index.html

Mary Matalin: First Cheney Statement for Press Did Not Admit He Was Shooter

By E&P Staff

Published: February 19, 2006

Even as the Sunday morning televison talk shows featured blistering attacks on the press for going overboard in its critical coverage of the Cheney shooting incident last week, further revelations guaranteed that the story would have legs.

Newsweek and Time magazines both put the vice president on their covers this week with lengthy, if not especially fresh, accounts of the shooting of Harry Whittington inside. Most major newspapers rehashed the episode in their Sunday papers. Cheney aide Mary Matalin accused NBC reporter David Gregory of going on a "jihad" gainst the vice president.

Buried in the Time cover story, however, was one brain-teaser that could fuel more speculation, as it contradicts earlier explanations that Cheney wanted to get the full story out, he was just a bit tardy about it. The passage reads:

"At about 8 a.m. Sunday, a Cheney aide called strategist Mary Matalin, who regularly advises the Vice President. The aide read her a statement about the accident that Cheney had considered releasing before he decided to encourage Armstrong to go to the (Corpus Christi) Caller-Times.

"But the statement 'didn't say much of anything,' Matalin says—not even that Cheney was the shooter. Matalin then spoke with a second aide and with Cheney's family and heard different versions of what had happened in the shooting. She decided no statement should be released amid the confusion. Matalin spoke with Cheney, and, she says, they agreed that 'a fuller accounting, with an eyewitness,' would be preferable."

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002035216

Jason Leopold | NSC, Cheney Aides Conspired to Out CIA Operative
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022006Z.shtml
The investigation into the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson is heating up. Evidence is mounting that senior officials in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney and the National Security Council conspired to unmask Plame Wilson's identity to reporters in an effort to stop her husband from publicly criticizing the administration's pre-war Iraq intelligence, according to sources close to the two-year-old probe.

Why America will reap in Iran what it doesn’t expect
By abid Ullah Jan
Emboldened by their adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, and deluded by the IAEA conclusion that Iraq has no nuclear weapons, the warlords are set to go into a war that will definitely lead to massive bloodshed in the Middle East and the downfall of the United States as we see it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11981.htm

Charley Reese : What Bush Is Up To :
I'm going to tell you what the real Bush administration policy is.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11986.htm

Torture flights landed in UK, admit air controllers :
CIA jets suspected of flying terrorist suspects to secret prisons for torture have landed at commercial British airports and received help from UK air traffic control, the authorities have admitted for the first time.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11978.htm

Blair's new laws leave us at the mercy of future tyrants :
Osama bin Laden's achievement was not to mastermind the flying of jets into the Twin Towers, not to franchise his brand of terrorism to a lot of savage young men, not even to inspire the invasion of Iraq. No, it was to spook the West and to fill our minds with fear so that we let security oppress liberty and turn us away from the abuse and torture occurring in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11983.htm
{{{Tony Blair has taken pages of lessons from The Cretin. The Brits may have it as bad off as we do....}}}

Eric Margolis: Blair's dumb gag law:
History shows such laws are soon followed by offences like 'being an enemy of the people'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11984.htm
{{{Yup. Dumb.}}}

Halliburton Detention Centers:
What sort of national emergency requires detention centers? America has plenty of prisons. More of our population is behind bars than in any country on earth.
http://www.blackcommentator.com/171/171_freedom_rider_halliburton_detention_centers.html

Venezuela's Chavez warns Rice, 'Don't mess with me':
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice not to "mess with" him days after Rice described Venezuela as a menace to regional democracy in the midst of tense diplomatic relations between the two countries.
http://tinyurl.com/elrgz

Chavez Threatens to Cut Off Oil to US If It Goes Too Far
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0218-04.htm

Susan Lenfestey | Much Ado About Nothing
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0218-29.htm

Animal Farm: Senior Anglican Links US to Orwell
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0218-05.htm

Posted by: sparrow at February 20, 2006 09:20 AM

Heck, I'd vote to give them holday pay to go on vacation until after inauguration day, 2009.... provided they stayed away from the office and didn't interfere with the daily activites of employees efficiently running the government like it's supposed to be run......

All in favor, say "Aye."

Posted by: NonnyO at February 20, 2006 10:34 AM

aye!

AYE YI YI!!!

NonnyO
In the statement where Bin Laden vows never to be taken alive, he also distances himself from Saddam, says Bush admin is resembling Saddam. That kind of speaks against the AQ-Iraq "link" but many lack the analytical nature to notice.

The Chavez v Rice article is perversely entertaining. I imagine them in a ring, facing off with boxing gloves, or wearing those diaper-looking things like Sumo wrestlers. Rice is also the big advocate of UAR port control.

Here is something on that:
DON'T LET THEM TURN OUR PORT SECURITY OVER TO A TERRORIST INFILTRATED ARAB GOVERNMENT

Just when you thought homeland security couldn't get more inept and incompetent, we find out the Bush administration casually and secretly planned on approving sale of control of six of our major ports to an company controlled by The United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Isn't this the same United Arab Emirates that was one of the few to recognize the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Isn't this the same United Arab Emirates that has been the transfer point for rogue nuclear weapons components, and who have harbored al Qaeda terrorists?

ACTION PAGE: http://www.nocrony.com/port_security.php

Are they completely out of their minds? Or are we for allowing the Bush administration to remain in power even one single additional day? There is already a bi-partisan coalition forming to demand that there be an immediate investigation of why such a deal was even considered, let alone waved through without a concern in the world. There are already many who believe that 9/11 attacks could not have succeeded without a deliberate stand down by our own government. Is this yet another example of that?

See where your state stands in the latest approval rating for POTUS...And congratulations to Rhode Island.

http://www.surveyusa.com/50State2006/50StateBushApproval060216Net.htm

Kos is talking about it too...and shows the ratings in key senate states.

From Kos...

We're at the point now that only seven states give Bush 50 percent or more -- Utah (which is for the first time under 60 percent), Idaho, Alabama, Wyoming, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Montana. That's down from 11 states in January.
--snip--
Bush's numbers in Rhode Island in January were abysmal enough -- 29/68 (-39). But Rhode Islanders mulled it over, kicked around a few ideas, and decided they could do even better. And they did. Bush is -47 in RI this month, or 25-72.
http://www.dailykos.com/

Kos also has a great discussion about local races & their importance. Check it out and see comments from all over the country about what's going on & how to get involved...

http://www.dailykos.com/

Bush ratings
The states with high ratings don't have many electoral votes. They have fewer Congresspersons.

Now let's get after the voting machine cheating in the bigger states.

Posted by: nmp at February 20, 2006 12:16 PM

nmp, I think we all understand the ratio of electoral votes to congresspersons.

And, btw, here are FL & OH's numbers, both state that have high electoral votes...

Florida
Approve 42 (42)
Disapprove 55 (55)

Ohio

Approve 37 (38)
Disapprove 60 (60)

Posted by: monkey at February 20, 2006 10:31 AM

Gee, I thought they were all so worried about poor Mr. Whittington's health that they didn't even think about notifying the press. Uh huh.

It does take 200 people to screw in a light bulb. I thought so.

No!!!!

It is the Swine Flu!!!

The virus known as the Swine Flu is morphing into a pandemic.

It is spread by politicians coming into close contact with lobbyists and accepting money from them. It is further spread by the consumation of pork.

A symptom is that they all eat out of the same trough.

The disease is incurable. Infected politicians must be quarantined.