I pray....that I never meet this woman

This woman...


PBS NOW show was too kind to Leslee Unruh

pg. 74 "Unruh pleaded no contest to unlicensed adoption and foster care practices as part of a plea bargain in which nineteen charges, including four felonies, were dropped. The charges resulted from Unruh's promises to pay teenagers if they remained pregnant so she could put their babies up for adoption. Tim Wilka, one of the state's attorneys at the time, explained, "There were so many allegations about improper adoptions being made [against her] and how teenage girls were being pressured to give up their children" he says, governor George Mickelson called me and asked me to take the case." (footnote 64)

Needs to read this book

Interview with Author at Alternet

I wonder if Leslee Unruh knows what a "Pro-Life" Country is really like?

Morbo at The Carpetbagger Report says I have seen the future, and it is El Salvador

Fucktards

I saw V for Vendetta last night. It's possible that that is why I found the subject of these two articles so reprehensible.

Poll: 48% Back Military Action against Iran
By Doyle McManusTimes Staff Writer
Asked whether they would support military action if Iran continued to produce material that could be used to develop nuclear weapons, 48% of the poll's respondents, or almost half, said yes; 40% said no. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12725.htm


Fucktards.

Most Americans Believe Bush Administration is Still Saying Iraq Had Major WMD Program
4 in 10 Americans, 6 in 10 Republicans, Also Believe It Is True

Welcome to Murika, aka Fucktardica, or the Land run by Repugnant Thuglicans.

Holy Crapoli, nevermind what I say, do these people have any fucking idea what the professional military thinks?


Generals Clamor for Rumsfeld's Ouster Over Iraq War
By Steve Holland
Reuters
Thursday 13 April 2006

Deja vu

Undocumented Mexican migrants head to border in anticipation of legalization
April 12 2006
...The shelter's manager, Francisco Loureiro, said he hasn't seen such a spike in migration since 1986, when the United States approved legislation allowing 2.6 million undocumented migrants to get U.S. citizenship....


Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 10
ICE ARRESTS TWO SMUGGLERS, 146 ALIENS AT L.A. DROP HOUSES

...When agents arrived at the residence they found 88 smuggled aliens trapped inside the stiflingly hot home. The aliens told agents the smugglers locked them inside and fled after seeing media coverage about the discovery of the first drop house.
Agents say the house was teeming with roaches and rodents and the rooms were littered with dirty clothes, discarded food and human waste. The nationalities of the migrants in the second house were still being determined as Inside ICE went to press, but the majority were believed to be from Central and South America....

GOP uses Spanish language ads to blame Dems for draconian legislation
By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent 39 minutes ago
...Bush and Reid swapped charges as Republicans disclosed a Spanish-language radio advertising campaign designed to shoulder Democrats with the responsibility for legislation passed by the GOP-controlled House that would make illegal immigrants subject to felony charges.
The ads are scheduled to air in New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada — states with large Hispanic populations....

I wish I could say I was surprised by all of this, but I'm not. (Sigh)

Slaves

Last night I watched Frontline's the Tank Man and I'm not sure which one of these people
were speaking but one of them said something that I found profoundly disturbing. They said that the number of protests against the Chinese government are growing every year, by the tens of thousands. I want to check it again, and maybe I will stream it when it comes online Friday . They also interviewed some Chinese factory workers (under the watchful eye of some security aparratchik) who performed beautifully for the cameras.

Billmon has a great post on Why People Think the Economy Sucks here in this country.

And ( skippy, can I purty please borrow this?) the asspress say US trade deficit dropping, Chinese buy Boeing plane, everything gonna be A-OK.

Damn! What's that smell?

Yeah right. And bombing Iran will make that trip (in a V8 SUV) to Wal-Mart to buy that cheap Chinese made comforter/sheet set soooooo much easier, right?

Straits of Hormuz? Where's that?

Man, what is it with countries that have booming economies and their slave labor ?

Including us. Thinking about it over at Daily Kos I see.

Disgusted

A hundred and twenty-six thousand votes counted and another ten thousand or so provisional and absentee still to be counted.

Out of three hundred fifty-three thousand registered voters in the 50th.

And the most you had to do was download a request for a permanent absentee ballot fill it out and stick it in the mail, wait for the ballot to arrive, fill it out and stick it in the mail.


Even with Dukie's criminal shenanigans only about 38% of registered voters in the district voted.

Democracy ain't worth 78 cents and a couple of trips to the mailbox?

Yeesh. This book should have helped me understand. Maybe I need to re-read it.

Maybe RJB of Words Have Power is right.

50th district, please VOTE

If you live in the 50th Congressional District and have not voted yet, please go vote. Here is a quick link to find your polling station.

I am thrilled to say that I have arrived in blogtopia (they coined that phrase over there at skippy the bush kangaroo's place, you know)

Oh, and Scoobie's back and made me giggle this AM with his commentary on "Dukie."

Oh-My-God
Words Have Power cracks me up today too!

Wooooooo Hooooooo, it's looking like a beautiful day!!!!!

If you have ADD and were momentarily distracted by the giggles, here it is again:

If you live in the 50th Congressional District and have not voted yet, please go vote. Here is a quick link to find your polling station.

Feels like Monday

Yesterday I got this card in the mail. It made my day.








The inside says "What is WRONG with these people?"






That said, go read Jim Kunstler.

Bbbbbbut, I thought....

US Is Studying Military Strike Options on Iran
By Peter Baker, Dafna Linzer and Thomas E. Ricks
The Washington Post
Sunday 09 April 2006

Grading Our MBA President
By William Fisher
t r u t h o u t Perspective
Sunday 09 April 2006


Anarchism and the Peak oil argument by Terry S Tuesday
Mar 21 2006, 3:14pm
elsewhere / environment / opinion/analysis
An anarchist analysis of what peak oil means for the fight for a free society


"The ideal setup by the Party was something huge, terrible, and
glittering - a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous
machines and terrifying weapons - a nation of warriors and
fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the
same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually
working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred
million people all with the same face."
George Orwell, from the book 1984

Creepy to read, but (thankfully) fictional because two thirds of the country disapproves of the GOP led Congress .