Zombies vanquished...I think...

Okay, it looks like my PC is going to play nice at least for now. It may have had something to do with the fact that I threatened to take a Louisville Slugger to it if it didn't quit pretending to have been invaded by zombies (refer to previous post)

So with that, let me get right to the stupidity that is our president and his awesome press conference yesterday regarding Iran and the National Intelligence Estimate findings:

BIG FAT LIAR

"Nothing has changed in this NIE that says, `OK, why don't we just stop worrying about it?' Quite the contrary. I think the NIE makes it clear that Iran needs to be taken seriously as a threat to peace," Bush said. "My opinion hasn't changed."

So basically what this idiot is preaching is that the NIE is a load of crap because it doesn't come to the war drum, pick up a stick, and join the beating. We're supposed to believe him? Haven't we heard this song before? I know it's lame duck time, but this bunch needs to get a new bag of tricks. I'm bored.

Meanwhile, the new sweetheart of the GOP seems to be as equally informed on the subject of Iran. Hey Mikey! You might want to pick up a paper now and then or at least eavesdrop in the halls of Washington.

Masterless Puppet

With cronies in the Bush Administration dropping like flies, who, oh who, will be left to hold the puppets strings?

Now that the heat has finally gotten too hot in the kitchen for Alberto Gonzales, the halls of the west wing are starting to sound a bit echoed. True to his rhetoric laden past, Bush came out praising Gonzo, blaming the Democrats and acting all hurt and bruised. He didn't want to accept that resignation, you know.

“It’s sad that we live in a time when a talented and honorable person like Alberto Gonzales is impeded from doing important work because his good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons,”

Really, George? Boo effing hoo.

Seems that Bush is the only one stupid enough to stay on this sinking ship. Everybody else needs to "tend to their families" apparently.

Alas, farewell Alberto Gonzales, you sick little liar. We'll miss your shifty eyes and smirky grin, but most of all we'll be heartbroken to be without your twisted views on torture and the Geneva Convention.

Hang on to your hats, kids...rumors are swirling that Skeletor himself, Michael Chertoff is in the running for Gonzo's seat!! I'll give you a moment to pick your jaw up off the floor...

Head of Civil Rights Division to Leave Justice Department

wait..what? we HAVE a Civil Rights Department?

Over the past few months, you'd never think so!

Gonzales

wiretapping

must be very lonely to work there...sigh

The media did a fairly good job yesterday reporting on Bush's attempt to invoke fear of repeating the mistakes made in the Vietnam War. It was all over the news. Some simply reporting on the speech, some drawing similar conclusions as myself that he must really be getting desperate since drawing correlations to the Vietnam War has been avoided thus far.


Now to be fair, he did choose to compare the two wars to a group of Vietnam vets that most likely are amongst those forgotten, neglected, deprived and unsuccessfully hidden from society. I figure the hope was that, by now, they are so damaged and neglected that they may not have even noticed the attempt. I mean, he's preachin' to the choir, right?

So, to sum up, he made his argument that we can't just leave Iraq because we would risk repeating the mistakes of Vietnam. Now that that has been said, I wonder how he would explain this brilliant decision of the Pentagon?

Pentagon cuts armored vehicles due in Iraq in 2007

Reckon the media will be so good reporting this today? Doubt it.

edit: I started this post at 6:30 am today and at 1:50 pm, it is already off the front page of Google News. Nice.

Get ready for Fox News in newsprint!

This buyout is the next step in changing our media for the worse.