Friday, March 31, 2006

Recipe for Trouble


Take one population force fed fear for five years to the point where a large, but harmless, business deal (Dubai Ports) can create near panic; add one political party with sinking fortunes in need of a new nationalist issue; stir in one large, volatile sub-population (threatened with economic annilhilation and deportation; add a dash of burning (Mexican) flag; sprinkle with inflammatory rhetoric ; garnish with national tv figure riding ratings rocket ; simmer until dish ignites from spark set by incendiary and charismatic orator on one side or the other (to be named later, but how much later ?) and serve.

We call this dish Remember the Alamo in some parts of the country and Tamales de Cinco de Mayo, in others. It is one of that class of "civil" dishes that include "unrest" and "war". While many things remain uncertain, we can be sure: (1) There will be plenty for everybody; (2) You will have some whether you want to or not; (3) Some people will like it a lot better than others; and (4) our grandchildren will still be eating the leftovers.

If you would prefer some different fare, then remember it is a time for understanding, a time for compassion, a time for reaching out and a time to

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jd

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Bill Frist in 08!


God I hope so...he's such a nut-job that one can only pray for him to be in the race. He's almost as good as Dan Quayle. How can I say such a thing? Did you get a chance to read Frists recent comments on his leadership position and oratory style? Read on...

Here's Bill on 'the real Bill Frist'

"Frist said late Tuesday that once out of the Senate, "you'll see, as you do now, the real Bill Frist, but unencumbered by having responsibilities of leading this body, which results in negotiated positions."

What the hell is he talking about? So the 'real bill' is only going to come into focus once 'this fake bill you see now' has NO responsibilites and NO longer has to make any compromises? I can hardly wait. God forbid we should expect our future Presidents to have any responsibilities or compromise on anything....

It gets better:)

On his speaking style:

"I will have to really work hard on it," Frist said. "As a surgeon, I did my best work when people were sound asleep, cutting out their hearts, putting new hearts in.

"And now what I need to do, everybody says, is do your best work and not put people to sleep. That's what I'll work on."

Hm. Not sure what to say here. So he's at his best when dealing with anesthesized voters, preferably while in the process of cutting out their hearts and he currently has set his sights on 'not putting people to sleep'. Aim high Bill...

So, in summation, Bill isn't 'real' unless he is unemployed and no one asks him to do anything and he a dynamite talker if you happen to be unconscious and minus your heart...

Possible Frist T-Shirts...

No Heart? Vote First 08'!

Asleep at the Wheel? Frist for Real...08'

I hope he said this crap on cam. Just loop it and send it out over the airwaves...

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*The quote in the graphic above is from Frists own autobiography. Buy a copy HERE:)

Even if you don't buy it, go to read the 'comments'. Here's my fave:

"The implication is that since no one forced Frist to do this that he got some sort of emotional thrill from killing and cutting up these unfortunate cats and kittens that he kidnapped under false pretenses. There is a word for people like that: sociopath."


Wednesday, March 29, 2006

How to Tell if Bush is Lying


Oh, darn, you got it already ! Of course. When his lips are moving !

"We don't torture ", says GW. Well, of course we do. FBI memos out of Guantanamo prove that, unless you regard being shackled to a concrete floor in the fetal position for 24 hours "fun" or "therapy".

So, what's new ? The truthiverse (if Colbert can get away with "truthiness") is catching up with Our President more rapidly these days. Case in point ?

March 21, Bush calls on veteran and legendary reporter Helen Thomas at a news conference. He has mainly avoided doing this for five and a half years and here's why. Thomas asked him why did "he really want to go to war", since all his public justifications have fallen apart.

Bush reponded, "To assume I wanted war is just flat wrong," and "No President wants war."

March 27, a mere six days later, the truthiverse rears up and slaps Our President right on the end of his now ridiculously long nose. The New York Times carries a story about yet another British memo recording yet another meeting between Messrs Bush and Blair regarding the still threatened war on Iraq. This meeting was Jan. 31, 2003, long before the public "decision" to go to war was made.

And what do we learn ? We learn Bush's "diplomacy" was a sham and that he and Blair were determined on war no matter what the U.N. did. The start date for the war had already been "penciled in" for March 10.

So Bush lied to Helen Thomas (and all the rest of us).

But such is the torrent of lies, obfuscations, avoidances and denials that have flowed out of this Administration on every topic we can only, shrug, yawn and

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jd

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

You Make My Heart Sing !



Who makes my heart sing ? Why, Patrick "Wildthing" Fitzgerald, of course.

As his investigation into the leaking of the name of CIA covert operative Valerie Plame has continued in his extraordinarily methodical way, some have lost interest and/or faith in the probe. Not us.

Scooter Libby, VP Cheney's former Chief-of-Staff, the first to fall, is as good as behind bars, in our view.

So, why is there new music in our hearts ? Because the inimitable Jason Leopold, writing for the irreplaceable truthout, tells us today that two fresh, new indictments of White House officials are being contemplated by Sunny Fitz. And the proposed defendants are: . . . may I have the envelope, please ?

Yes ! It's Stephen Hadley, National Security Advisor and, double yes, Karl Rove, political criminal extraordinaire ! Steve ! Karl ! Come on down ! Pause only long enough to make your pardon deal with G.W.

It may take a month for these indictments to actually be issued because Fitzgerald has numerous other miscreants he is responsible for, but it has always been profitable to remain patient and to

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jd

Monday, March 27, 2006

"Hey God...Can you hear me now?"



Ahhh God. A subject near and dear to my heart. Usually when I post about god or God, it's a fury filled screed against the pedophile protecting C(c)atholics. On the other hand, regular Zooheads can also get thoughtful posts from my born-again fellow blogger and Dad on the subject of G(g)od:) So today I decided to play nice...no calls to storm your local Catholic church and string up a priest...nope, I'm going to bloviate on the intersection of technology and religion. Where do they interesct? Your pocket...Namely, your cell-phone...Great article HERE on WSJ.com about cellphones and God. Whoa you say...what the hell can goddam cellphones have to do with G(g)od? Plenty...
Our story starts with a simple request. Location Issrael: An ultra-orthodox rabbi goes to a cellphone company and asks for a simple cellphone...no text features, no web access, no camera no nothing...just send and receive calls, end of story. Anything else might 'distract the pious' Makes sense. Who can concentrate on prayers while downloading the latest ringtones? So the cellphone company rolls out it's 'kosher' phones to the current tune of 20,000 subscribers!

But wait...what about Muslims? Christians? You're all in luck...there are companies out there that tell Muslims which direction to face to pray, that send Christians 'prayers of the day' and provide biblically inspired ringtones...According to Louis Cypher of Christones Inc, Jesus' last words were actually, "Oh my Father, Can you hear me now?" (That was a joke...this is not:

"Good News Holdings LLC, in partnership with Barna Group Ltd., a Ventura, Calif.-based provider of Christian data, recently launched FaithMobile, a cellphone service that offers scriptures, Christian ring tones, and one-minute-long inspirational videos to subscribers who sign up on its Web site. The service's advertising slogan: "Have you talked to God today?" It is available in the U.S. on T-Mobile, Alltel and Cingular, selling for an additional $5.99 a month.

Good News also is planning to launch a branded phone this summer in conjunction with six ministries across the country, which will provide subscribers sermons, news, movie reviews and other content. Good News originally thought of calling it the "godphone," but thought better of it and named it the FaithMobile phone instead."

I can't make this crap up:)
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I want to point you to a great blog out of Iraq called 'Baghdad Burning'. It's published by an anonymous young woman in Iraq. It's just been nominated for The BBC Four's Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (GO BLOGGERS:) Here's a small sample:

"It’s almost funny- only a month ago, we were watching a commercial on some Arabic satellite channel- Arabiya perhaps. They were showing a commercial for Iraqi security forces and giving a list of numbers Iraqis were supposed to dial in the case of a terrorist attack… You call THIS number if you need the police to protect you from burglars or abductors… You call THAT number if you need the National Guard or special forces to protect you from terrorists… But…

Who do you call to protect you from the New Iraq’s security forces?"



So Zooheads...please don't forget to run out and purchase the new Zoophone by ZooTones. Every time you go to make a call it'll say, "Sucka"...;)

Stay safe and...

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Sunday, March 26, 2006

A Promise Made is a Debt Unpaid


The Columbia Journalism Review and USA Today seem to be about the only folk reporting an arguably big story out of Iraq. It's a mystery why the liberal MSM has passed up the opportunity to leap on the Bush Administration on this one.

You'll all recall that amid the blizzard of lies and misrepresentations that accompanied the onset of these hostilities was that specific subset regarding the rebuilding and reconstruction of Iraq. You remember, like "Iraq oil revenues will pay for the rebuilding" and "we will never abandon Iraq."

Well, they haven't and we have. Daniel Speckhard, director of the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office, told reporters that Iraq is on its own from here out and must look to its own resources and aid from other Persian Gulf states (which states have been curiously reluctant to commit actual money to the benefit of Iraq).

I know what you're thinking. "Hey, we committed $21 billion (which we borrowed from the Chinese, but that's another story) to rebuild Iraq ! Has that all been spent ? How does the reconstruction stand now ?"

As to your first impertinent question, let's just say the $21 bill is gone, o.k. ? "Spent" is a technical term which is subject to interpretation, but if you are willing to include concepts such as "stolen", "lost", "misappropriated", "unaccounted for", "misplaced", "cost overruns" and "corruption", then, yes, the money has been "spent". Happy ?

Your second question (which, by the way, indicates you are on the side of the terrorists) permits a more direct answer. We'll simply quote Anthony Cordesman, a Middle East expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, who described the effort as “a dismal failure. It hasn't met any of its goals. It's left a legacy of half-built projects” that Iraq can't maintain.

Read the sorry details HERE, stop wondering why the media doesn't report the "good news" from Iraq and

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jd

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Did Bush start World War III?




Good question. Why did it come up? I came across an artilce on Raw Story that relates part of an interview with Retired Command Sergeant Major Eric Haney. He is one of the founding members of the legendary US Special Forces unit known as 'Delta Force'. Not exactly a left-wing, blogger nut-job;) This is a taste of the interview that is supposed to be posted tomorrow on the LA Times website.

Excerpt from the Raw Story article. Link to article HERE.

Q: What's your assessment of the war in Iraq?

"...We have fomented civil war in Iraq. We have probably fomented internecine war in the Muslim world between the Shias and the Sunnis, and I think Bush may well have started the third world war, all for their own personal policies."

Q: What do you make of the torture debate? Cheney ...

A: (Interrupting) That's Cheney's pursuit. The only reason anyone tortures is because they like to do it. It's about vengeance, it's about revenge, or it's about cover-up. You don't gain intelligence that way. Everyone in the world knows that. It's worse than small-minded, and look what it does

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"I guess she didn't take her Xanax today"

Has anyone coined the term 'Perot Moment'? Remember when Ross Perot accused the Bush adminstration of 'attempting to disrupt his daughters wedding'? (Great article HERE about how much truth there actually was to his assertion)...Perot was out of the race so fast as people couldn't stop laughing...
Well, GOP Senate Hopeful Kathleen McFarland, who happens to be running against Hilary Clinton, had what can only be described as a 'Perot Moment'...According the NY Post (I know:)...Speaking to a crowd of Suffolk County Republicans, she said the following:

"Hillary Clinton is really worried about me, and is so worried, in fact, that she had helicopters flying over my house in Southampton today taking pictures"

Oh really? Her campaign says she was joking and this assertion is backed up by...oh zero witnesses...

"She wasn't joking, she was very, very serious, and she also claimed that Clinton's people were taking pictures across the street from her house in Manhattan, taking pictures from an apartment across the street from her bedroom"

"The whole room sort of went silent when she said it"

"I'm standing there, and I kind of put my head down and said, 'I can't believe I'm hearing this"

Some people don't need any encouragement but just in case...

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Friday, March 24, 2006

Isn't technology great?



Remember Captain Joseph Hazelwood? Had you ever heard the phrase "Prince William Sound" before March 24th 1989? Yes, it's the Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Exxon, in a fit of public relations genius, renamed her the "Seariver Mediterranean"....makes me all tingly. Although she was barred from ever entering Alaskan waters again, that didn't stop Exxon from applying for a reversal...denied.



A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
George Santayana

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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Making of a Martyr


Suicide bombers have been accounting for most of the additions to the ranks of religious martyrs these days. The willingness to die for one's faith would almost appear to be a monopoly of the fundamentalist Muslim.

But, not so. In newly liberated (by us), protected (by us) and democratic (says us) Afghanistan a man named Abdul Rahman faces court-ordered death by hanging because he converted from Islam to Christianity. So saith the Jersualem Post . And others.

I couldn't find a picture of Mr. Rahman. Apparently, "Abdul Rahman" is a common part of many men's names in the middle east. Yassir Arafat shows up on the search.

President Bush is under fire from his evangelicals for being slow and weak to respond to this threat. So saith the Herald Trib, and others. This is where the spreading democracy business gets a little sticky. The Afghans have democratically adopted Islamic sharia law which provides the death penalty for "apostasy".

The Jerusalem Post piece gives us some measure of the depth of trouble Rahman is in.
"He is not mad. The government is playing games. The people will not be fooled," said Abdul Raoulf, cleric at Herati Mosque. "This is humiliating for Islam. ... Cut off his head." Pretty tough talk and Raoulf is considered a moderate. Jailed thrice for criticizing the Taliban before the "liberation" that got us here. Oh, yes. "Madness" is a possible defense, but neither side likes it.

Another "no win" for President Bush. Either he leans hard enough on Afghan President Hamid Kharzai to get him to override the structurally independent Afghan judiciary, thereby demonstrating that Kharzai is the tool his critics make him out to be, or he lets Rahman go to the gallows to the gross disappointment of his Christian base, already in the throes of serious disaffection with their erstwhile hero. Spin that one, Rove.

And you, Oh Best Beloved, imagine, just for a moment, being willing to die for a belief when just a few words of denial could save you

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

The Fog of ( Civil ? ) War


For the second time in two days Iraqi insurgent/rebel/terrorists attacked a police station and something happened. It depends on who you ask.

Stop in at Fox News and learn that 50 of the "gunmen" were captured and four Iraqi police were killed.

Not a terribly dissimilar story from that found at Al Jazeera where we learn that police fatalities drop to four and the captures were made in operations following the attack.

Things look somewhat different at the Associated Press where the fight involved a hundred insurgents, lasted ninety minutes and left twenty policemen dead. This AP account is, by the way, the most detailed we've seen so far.

Finally, we get the view from Informed Comment (Professor Juan Cole) which runs along the lines of the AP account, although the good professor counts the attacking force as high as 200.

As (if ? ) the fog of civil war gathers in Iraq, reporting will become worse, accurate information more elusive and reasonable decision making more difficult. It will be necessary to remain skeptical, to trust no one and to

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JD

Monday, March 20, 2006

How to Spot a Baby Conservative...


Ok, maybe this isn't fair but it's too good to pass up. A new study from the Journal of Research Into Personality tells us something we all secretly knew, but had never given voice to. Professor Jack Block has published the results of a longitudinal study that followed 100 nursery school kids from the 1960's to today. He found that whiny, insecure children grow up to be conservatives while confident, self-reliant children grow into liberals...

Enjoy that for just a moment.

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Will Haditha = My Lai?

The US Military is investigating reports that
Marines massacred two families after an IED took the life of one of their fellow Marines. According to eyewitness accounts and allegedly supported by video of the scene immediately after the attack, what happened Nov. 15th, 2005 could only be described as a massacre. US Marines allegedly shot dead 15 people in two seperate houses, one a 3 year old girl...The US Military says 12 Marines are under investigation for war crimes. It's easy to point fingers at the trigger happy US troops but all I feel is sadness. It comes as zero surprise to me something like this happened. Frankly, I'm more surprised we don't hear more stories like this...with many US troops entering their 3rd rotation through Iraq it says alot that we don't hear more of these stories...

When is enough enough?

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Saturday, March 18, 2006

AP Reaffirms Palestine Policy

We have visited this story before, under the title "Barriers to Understanding", touching briefly on the failure of the Associated Press to provide video its photographers had taken of the murder (no other word for it) of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy by an Israeli soldier.

What do the AP do with the video instead ? Erased it, of course.

Why are we revisiting this particular milemarker on the endless freeway of outrage that connects Israel and Palestine ? Because a more established publication has taken up the story and expanded on it. Counterpunch, in the person of the tireless Allison Weir, pursued AP for a response to her questions about how this erasure came to be.

You will, if you are young and innocent, be surprised at the final response of the ancient and respected news organization, issued during "Sunshine Week" which was dedicated to press accountability and while it's CEO was out stumping for "transparency".

After weeks of evasions, refusals, misdirections and general avoidance and obfuscation, the AP spoke:

Q: Why did you erase the video of the shooting ?

A: "The official response is we decline to respond." Unofficial translation: "Screw You".

Details and contact info for AP in Allison's story. You are AP's customers. You are entitled to a response.

Be sad, feel anger and

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jd

Friday, March 17, 2006

... That base is in their possession against the will of our people ...

I've got a solution to the Cuba/ Guatanamo Bay problems. On the one hand we have Castro and Cuba and our increasingly difficult to defend sanctions. On the other we have the International Embarrassment that is the detention of Prisoners of War (What war? The increasingly difficult to defend 'War on Terror') at Guatanamo Bay...



So here's the solution. Lift the sanctions which, in this humble writers opinion, are about the only thing keeping Castro in power...and two, give Gitmo back to the Cubans (Imagine for just a second if the Cubans had a military base in Galveston Bay, TX...pretty funny when you think about it...
Why am I thinking this?...(Hold on a sec, I just sneezed so hard I'm hallucinating...seeing little stars and feeling lightheaded...)Okay, I'm back:)
Anyway, I just read a great piece from 'Digital Gramma International' It's translated HERE by Watching America.com...In it the Cubans make a very basic case for returning the land to Cuban control...

Ok, Glad we solved that problem. What's next? :)

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But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Good News At Last !


We report a lot of dark stuff here at the Zoo, but today we have something everybody can be happy about except maybe NAMBLA and rain for them is sunshine for the rest of us.

The Christian Science Monitor is reporting a new campaign by leading financial institutions like Bank of America, Citibank and American Express to prevent credit cards from being used to purchase child porn images over the internet ! Read it HERE and rejoice !

This is, of course, just the beginning ! Once the kiddieporn program is in place we can move on to cigarettes ! Disgusting habit and those Indian tribes are just avoiding taxes anyway.

Then those crappy Girls Gone Wild videos can go. I don't think all those young women should have their lives blighted by one moment of drunken, self-indulgent stupidity.

And what I think counts because I am planning on being The Credit Card Czar who decides what you can and can't buy with a credit card. And better yet, who you can donate to !

Brain dead, greed crazed televangelist healing phony . . . get a job !

Right wing, hate mongering, fear peddling racist neo-Nazi death cult . . . get some lives !

Wow ! I'll bet when Mussolini said "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." he said it in Italian, because . . . because . . . IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE !

Stay free and

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jd

Wednesday, March 15, 2006


Alright, I really thought I had experienced the Abu Gharib scandal in enough depth to understand how wrong we were and how devastating this would be to the image of the US abroad and would continue to be in the hearts and minds of the rest of the world.

But then Salon.com put together THIS fairly definitive piece. While it is disturbing, I do encourage you to check out the pictures and videos. Set aside your perfectly normal revulsion and think...just for a second...if you were looking at Americans rather then faceless Iraqis...does your revulsion turn to rage? Imagine your brother, father or son in those pictures. I don't mean this to be a pointless exercise. I really do mean for you to picture your brother being zip-tied to a rail while an smiling Iraqi soldier allows a german shepard to bite him...while a smiling, thumbs-up showing Iraqi soldier calmly uses what can only be described as a big hole punch to poke holes in his legs and buttocks...

I have a hard time imagining any of you forgiving these crimes...ever.

In a bright note. The United Nations approved a new Human Rights Council. The vote wasn't even close. 170-4...how did we, the United States, vote? We were against it because we didn't think countries like Cuba, Myanmar and Zimbabwe should be allowed membership. Why? They are 'rights abusers'...




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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Blair told: GET OUT NOW!


Okay, maybe he wasn't told that but he was told that postwar US plan was an "unbelievable mess" and that senior US Generals were "well-meaning but out of their depth"...Ouch. Who told Tony Blair all this? John Sawers, Mr. Blairs envoy in Iraq after the invasion. It gets better, "No leadership, no strategy, no coordination, no structure and inaccessible to ordinary Iraqis." Check out the rest HERE at Truthout.

Pops appears to be okay. Thanks for the well-wishes...

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Monday, March 13, 2006

Medical Emergency Will Robinson...



Hey Zooheads...Pops is down for the count with a 'kidney infection' so send him your thoughts and your prayers (he is a born-again so all of you Christians better be using your pull to get in a good word to the Lord. I know it's Spring Break and all but hopefully J.C. can spare some time for one of his flock)

Check out this amazing piece by Professor Michael Schwartz...it's a great 'everything you wanted to know about Iraq'. It'll take a couple minutes but well worth it...highlights:

"The Kurdish viewpoint was stated bluntly to Knight Ridder reporter Tom Lasseter by Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Hamid Afandi: "Kirkuk is Kurdistan; it does not belong to the Arabs... If we can resolve this by talking, fine, but if not, then we will resolve it by fighting."

Lasseter, one of most informed reporters in Iraq, summarized the military situation this way:

"Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan."

"Based on U.S. military statistics, Glanz offered strong evidence against the administration portrait of a weakening (or at least stalemated) resistance movement. Guerrilla attacks had, in fact, "steadily grown in the nearly three years since the invasion." Even during a "lull" in December 2005, the 2,500 violent confrontations - over 80 per day - were "almost 250 percent [higher than] the number in March 2004," which, in turn was twice the level of August 2003."
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Going global: Ben Griffin, a highly regarded SAS soldier (that's Special Air Service boys n girls...it's the British Green Berets) quit the British Army over what he describes as 'illegal' American tactics. Yikes.

"He said he had witnessed "dozens of illegal acts" by US troops, claiming they viewed all Iraqis as "untermenschen" - the Nazi term for races regarded as sub-human."

"I did not join the British Army to conduct American foreign policy"

Fair enough my man...

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Saturday, March 11, 2006

"A New Nazism Taking Hold in the West"

The above is the title of an article I came across on Watching America that they culled from the Palestinain website Alhayat Aljadeeda. It's an editorial and whether or not you agree with it, we here at the Zoo think it's important to provide our guests with a variety of views. Here is the meat of the article:

"There is a new ideological Nazism taking control in the West, which doesn't openly declare its totalitarianism, but actually practices it nonetheless. And I see nothing in most of the major and minor Western officials except cloned copies of Hitler. It has gotten to the point that many Western institutions look as though they are run by the Gestapo and the SS [the Schutzstaffel]."

The author is making the point that he sees a sharp move towards totalitarianism in the west as evidenced by the suppression of freedom of expression. For the author, the 'straw that broke the camels back", in terms of the the west and freedom of expression, was the cancellation of a New York theatrical production about peace activist Rachel Corrie called, "My Name is Rachel Corrie". Great article HERE on the debacle. The play was supposed to run in NY after a succesful, peaceful run in London at the Royal Theatre but has been cancelled for vague 'security-inspired'...'sensitivity to Sharons illness'...'don't want to offend anyone' reasons...

Don't remember Rachel Corrie? She was the 23 year old American run over by a bulldozer while peacefully protesting the Israeli practice of bulldozing palestinian homes of suspected 'terrorists' AND their families. Why do I put quotes around 'terrorist'? Imagine the US government sends a tractor to bulldoze your families house because they don't like you...your brother...your father....your mother...any member of your family. How would you react and in doing so, would you consider yourself a 'terrorist'? It really is that simple.









The Israeli government called the incident an accident. It looks to me like a young woman wearing a bright orange jacket was intentionally run over by a bulldozer...If you click HERE, you will be directed to website dedicated to her. I warn you, it's heartbreaking stuff. She was clearly an amazing young woman and I'm going to close today with an exceprt from one of her last emails:

Feb, 28th, 2003
"Just want to write to my Mom and tell her that I'm witnessing this chronic, insidious genocide and I'm really scared, and questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of human nature. This has to stop. I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop. I don't think it's an extremist thing to do anymore. I still really want to dance around to Pat Benatar and have boyfriends and make comics for my coworkers. But I also want this to stop. Disbelief and horror is what I feel. Disappointment. I am disappointed that this is the base reality of our world and that we, in fact, participate in it. This is not at all what I asked for when I came into this world. This is not at all what the people here asked for when they came into this world. This is not the world you and Dad wanted me to come into when you decided to have me. This is not what I meant when I looked at Capital Lake and said: "This is the wide world and I'm coming to it." I did not mean that I was coming into a world where I could live a comfortable life and possibly, with no effort at all, exist in complete unawareness of my participation in genocide. More big explosions somewhere in the distance outside."

She was killed on March 16th, 2003.

Hug your children and please...

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Friday, March 10, 2006

Who is Vernon Robinson?

And why should you hide your children should be stumble onto your porch in a religion induced psychosis one evening? Should Mr. Robinson get his way, he'll be the congressman representing North Carolinas 5th Congressional District. He's raised a ton of money and looks likely to win...you GOTTA check out his campain ad HERE (Thanks Crooks and Liars). It's one of the most insane pieces you'll ever see...Here's some of his views, straight off his website:

Vernon Robinson's Public Policy Views in a Nutshell

I am pro-Constitution, pro-national sovereignty, pro-military, pro-veteran, pro-growth, pro-business, pro-property rights, pro-marriage, pro-adoption, pro-farmer, pro-school choice, pro-states' rights, pro-religious freedom, pro-Pledge of Allegiance, pro-death penalty, pro-gun, and pro-life.

I will secure our borders and demand the vigorous enforcement of our immigration laws. I support market-based reforms of government entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

I am unabashedly and unalterably opposed to racial quotas, special rights for homosexuals, the United Nations, the proliferation of frivolous lawsuits, women in combat, pork barrel spending, useless government programs and agencies, onerous regulations, and all tax hikes.

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Someone please stop him...

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Thursday, March 09, 2006

Dumb and Dumber



SecDef Donald Rumsfeld has achieved such levels of obfuscation ("unknown unknowns", etc.) that most people seem to be just worn out. If he says something that doesn't make any sense folks just shrug and move along.

Which may explain how he got away with a remark to the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday.

"Pressed" by Senator Byrd on Administration plans for dealing with a civil war in Iraq, Rumsfeld said, and I'm not kidding:

"The plan is to prevent a civil war, and to the extent one were to occur, to have the _ from a security standpoint _ have the Iraqi security forces deal with it, to the extent they are able to," Rumsfeld told the committee.

The "Iraqi security forces", of course, will BE the civil war, if there is one. Which "side" of the civil war does Rumsfeld expect the security forces to be on ? The nonexistant government's ? Does he expect Shia, Sunni and Kurd forces to each turn on their own populations to subdue them ? Excuse me, I'm hyperventilating.

Didn't anybody notice ? Didn't any of the august senators take a moment to skewer Rumsfeld with this monumentally stupid observation. Oh, yeah. I almost forgot Dumber.

Sen. Ted Kennedy D(umber)-Mass wasn't going to let him get away with it. After the hearing (and presumably after having had time to think about it, more's the pity), Ted issued a statement.

"Obviously, it's not realistic to depend on the Iraqi security forces, which are not yet able to fight on their own."

Put another way, Ted said "I'll see Rumsfeld's stupid and raise him 'brain damaged' ". Oh, they'll fight on their own alright, Ted. Ted is , of course, concerned that our forces will be "deeply involved" if the Iraqi security forces don't handle it. He wants a plan to avoid having an occupying army involved in a three way civil war in the country its occupying.

He doesn't need Rumsfeld, he needs Disney and a long stay in Fantasyland.

Stay alert and

Stay Naked
jd

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

I HEART Vermont...


The town of Newfane, VT, in a vote of 131-39, voted to call on Vermont's only member of the House of Representives, Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to file articles of Impeachment against President George Bush. Is hope alive? :)

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Zoo lawyers. Help me out here. Scooter Libby, Dick Cheneys former Chief of Staff and indicted treason-hound, is demanding a YEARS WORTH of CIA briefings to bolster his claim that he was busy with pressing National Security matters and therefore could not tell the truth...er...remember the truth...I mean, get his story straight...whatever. Is this, as the 'liberal-blogosphere-msm-commie-cabal' a ruse to try and force a mistrial? or a legit request?

I mean, why the hell does he need a note from Mommy saying he was busy? I concede he was busy but is that a real defense?

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Say it ain't so Barry...SI.com has a devastating article that is based on a book about Barry Bonds by two San Francisco Chronilce writers titled, "Game of Shadows"...

Stay drug free and...

Stay Naked.

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Hey Zooheads, this is from one of our fans...

Go to "Google"
Type in 'asshole'
Hit 'I'm Feeling Lucky'

Enjoy:)

Monday, March 06, 2006

Meet Rep. John Boehner, R-Israel



Just happened to be watching C-Span yesterday morning and what should I find but the annual meeting of AIPAC, the America Israel Public Affairs Committee, the mother (and father) of all pro-Israel lobbies in the U.S. Not to mention, of course, its role in espionage activities aimed at U.S. targets.

Up to the microphone steps Rep. John Boehner, R. Ohio, successor to Tom DeLay as Majority Leader in the House of Representatives. After a few preliminary remarks (a very few, as the upcoming quote appears 3 minutes and 12 seconds into the video available at C-Span HERE) , Boehner offers his complete allegiance to a foreign power, i.e., Israel.

How else might we understand his pledge that any legislation "in any way perceived as anti-Israel will not be considered" while he is in power ?

Look at his language. Any legislation "in any way perceived to be anti-Israel. Could that be any broader ? Could some language be found that might pander more to Israel's sensibilities ?

And this suspect legislation won't be discussed, won't be reviewed, won't be studied, won't be "considered". Could there be a plainer abandonment of Rep. Boehner's sworn obligation to uphold and defend our Constitution ?

The only reference for this capitulation Google could find was in the Israeli press.

The "halo effect" observed above is obviously best seen from Tel Aviv.

Stay angry and

Stay Naked.
jd

When the going get weird...


The weird shred (apologies to HST). God Bless the Rock River Times in Rockford Ill. They appear to be the only media outlet (other then some blogs) reporting that Florida Guv. Jeb Bush (R) has ordered the shredding of 'documents and public records' a violation of Florida Law. Why would he do such a thing?
Well, according to the Times;), "A source in the FBI confirmed that public records are being destroyed on orders of Jeb Bush. The source said the governor may have taken that action in response to the continuing criminal probe of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the federal investigation of the 2001 gangland murder in Miami of Gus Boulis, owner of the Sun Cruz casino boat."

Yikes Dikes...!

Disgraced DC Lobbyist Jack Abramoff appears to be irritating more Bush than thong underwear...
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In an homage to our dearly departed buddy Hunter S. we wanted to make sure you got a chance to check out this story outta the WaPo on the White Houses efforts to silence their critics.

"The Bush administration, seeking to limit leaks of classified information, has launched initiatives targeting journalists and their possible government sources. The efforts include several FBI probes, a polygraph investigation inside the CIA and a warning from the Justice Department that reporters could be prosecuted under espionage laws.

In recent weeks, dozens of employees at the CIA, the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies have been interviewed by agents from the FBI's Washington field office, who are investigating possible leaks that led to reports about secret CIA prisons and the NSA's warrantless domestic surveillance program, according to law enforcement and intelligence officials familiar with the two cases.

Numerous employees at the CIA, FBI, Justice Department and other agencies also have received letters from Justice prohibiting them from discussing even unclassified issues related to the NSA program, according to sources familiar with the notices"

So we are ostensibly fighting a 'War on Terror' but we can afford to task members of the FBI, NSA, CIA, Justice Department, White House and God knows how many other fedearal agencies with telling us things like...oh...The wiretapping scandal, torture memos, secret detention facilites...they are running a parallel program to vastly increase what is considered too sensitive...too sensitive for who? You and me. That's who.

Should you be concerned? Yes.

Why? Because this is how facism is born from democracy. The government strips away your protections one by one until they are gone.

Well that could never happen here, you say. This is America.

True but remember that America is a historic fluke. History is dominated almost exclusively by facists, despots, monarches,totalitarians states, theocracies and every other repressive structure you can imagine...

Thank God for the Second Amendment. When they come for the gun owners you know it's the final act...

Stay Armed and...

Stay Naked:)

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Quick quiz: Freedom Fighter or Terrorist?

Saturday, March 04, 2006

NZNR 3-4-06



Welcome Zooheads...great show today heard on KWMR. In case you missed it, here's the highlights.

We gave a nod to the inaugural Tour of California. Floyd Landis won the 8 day event and we hope it's the 1st of many great tours...GO CYCLING! we rapped a little about sports...some March Madness, some NFL labor troubles but we're mostly all about NEWS...so here we go...

What the hell was Bush thinking signing his nuclear 'pact' with India? I was assured he didn't drink anymore? Wapo has a nice wrap-up HERE titled 'Did Bush Blink?'. It lays out nicely how Bushes 'concessions' amount to total capitulation. HERE's the Pakistani take from The Frontier Post...

Great piece from Z Magazine on the suppression of a Lancet published report HERE concerning Iraqi civilian casualites. Think for a second...how do you think most Iraqis are dying? Roadside bombs? Car bombs? Insurgents?...or US airpower? The study finds that 79% of Iraqi civilian casualites are "caused by “coalition” forces using “helicopter gunships, rockets or other forms of aerial weaponry,” and that almost half (48 percent) of these were children, with a median age of 8. " Makes you proud to be an American...or not.


Notes:

Tony Blair went to war because God told him to...I can't make that up.

Bill O'Reilly threatens listeners...

Please oh please...

Stay Naked.

Friday, March 03, 2006

Where Are They Now ?


Time once again for our heartwarming feature recalling giants of bygone days.

You all recall Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense, Chief Vulcan, architect of the Iraq War and noted liar.

You all recall many of his notable lies: we will be greeted as liberators; the war will only cost $1 billion (I laugh until it hurts when I remember that one); we’ll only need 100,000 troops and etc.

Well, the Egyptians do too and they list them as a prelude to their charges that Paul is now busily destroying the World Bank of which he is now the head.

But how ? By driving out top talent including the senior ethics officer , the vice president for East Asia and the Pacific, the chief legal counsel, the vice president for environmentally and socially sustainable development, the bank's top managing director, the director of institutional integrity (who monitors internal and external corruption), and the head of the information solutions group.

But how ? Hiring cronies like a former Cheney mouthpiece for a previously nonexistent job that circumvents the existing bureaucracy. When you have a success like Iraq on your resume you know you are smarter than everybody else right ?

While you wonder what job he's gonna get next,

Stay Naked.

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Nausea...Thy name is Lieberman.

Shocking news out of Stamford Connecticut (which is about 10 minutes from me:) The Hartford Courant is reporting that state Republicans are considering 'cross-endorsing' Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT). Acccording to the Hartford Courant HERE, Republican Chris Shay (R- 4th District), has gone on-record as saying he's going to vote for Lieberman.

*sigh*

I've met Lieberman. He's a nice guy but this is a 'Post 9/11' world and we've got enough Chickenhawks running around on the Republican side of the aisle...enough is enough...Ax Joe.

Vote Ned Lamont.

(He's still undecided but go to his site and egg him on...)

Nothing wrong with a little Man-love...


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Hmmm. Newly Ensconsed US Supreme Court Justice and noted Wingnut His Lunatic the Highly Medicated Dr. James Dobson of the Focus on the Families Uterus fame together for what nefarious photoshopped purpose...actually just a thank you note. Kudos to Progress Now Action for digging up this gem. Apparently, James Dobson read the following letter out loud on his radio show. Click HERE for a link to the entire show.

Dear Dr. Dobson,

This is just a short note to express my heartfelt thanks to you and the entire staff of Focus on the Family for your help and support during the past few challenging months.

I would also greatly appreciate it if you would convey my appreciation to the good people from all parts of the country who wrote to tell me they were praying for me and for my family during this period.

As I said when I spoke at my formal vestiture at the White House last week, the prayers of so many people from around the country were a palpable and powerful force.

As long as I serve on the Supreme Court, I will keep in mind the trust that has been placed in me.

I hope we'll have the opportunity to meet personally at some point in the future. In the meantime, my entire family and I hope that you and the Focus on the Family staff know how much we appreciate all that you have done.

Sincerely Yours,
Samuel Alito

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Seperation of Church and...umm...Church and...damn...let's see...rhymes with plate...kate...mate...ah forget it...

Eat well and...

Stay Naked.

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PS. The Russkies shot the Pope:)

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Food Crisis Looms in Gaza


Months ago Israel "withdrew" from Gaza with much fanfare. Less reported is the fact that Israel maintains control of all passage into and out of the area.

Next came the victory of Hamas in the Palestinian elections. Gaza is now ostensibly under the control of an organization committed to the removal of the Jewish state from what it regards as the land given it by Allah until Judgment Day. Israel, of course, regards the land as given to it by Jehovah until forever.

Israel has reacted to the Hamas victory by closing down the main transit points into Gaza, freezing money it collects on behalf of the Palestinians ($50 million a month) and urging foreign donors to withhold support for the Palestinians until Hamas effectively renounces its charter. The United States (you, me) supports all these measures.

Now the fruit of these policies is beginning to ripen. The U.N. reports, via Reuters, that food stocks in Gaza are dwindling. Gaza wheat mills, suppliers of the bread that is the staple food of Gaza, which ordinarily carry 26,000 to 30,000 tons of wheat are down to 1200 tons, approximately a three day supply.

The U.N. says that the crisis is farther off than supplies in the mills would indicate because individual families have their own stockpiles.

What role, then, will our country play in this impending humanitarian crisis ? Can we side with Israel's hard line and watch as tens or hundreds of thousands die of starvation ? Can we side with Hamas against our staunch ally and apply pressure to Israel to allow food and money to flow ? Do our years of unquestioning support for Israel leave any possibility of our serving as an "honest broker" to find a negotiated solution ?

This is not pretty, Oh Best Beloved, and it will require far better behavior out of everybody involved than we have recently seen. The price of intransigence will be paid, at least at first, by the poorest of the Gaza poor. Then, perhaps, a Third Intifadah with death and blood and suffering for all.

So, if you find it at all possible, stay hopeful and

Stay Naked
JD