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Remember Orin Hatch the holier than thou Senator from Utah? You don't hear much from him these days but he was sure a leader of the get Clinton group. While Hatch and his Republican co-horts were pushing hard to get Clinton and Monica, he closed his eyes to the polygamist community of Hildale in southern Utah, that has co-existed in this politically red state where bigamy is a third degree felony. These Utah Republicans love their guns and their God and hate gays, but they are poster constituents for the hypocrisy, innate in Bush's base........"A judge with three wives was ordered removed from the bench by the Utah Supreme Court on Friday". Judge Walter K. Steed who was removed for violating the state's bigamy law had served for 25 years on the Justice court in Hildale, where he ruled over crimes such as domestic violence. I wonder if marrying 16 year olds was considered domestic violence in his 25 years of jurisprudence? Or if banning young boys from the Hildale community when they reach puberty so they don't compete for the young women with these old bastards like Steed, is considered domestic violence? He may not be a judge anymore, but he's still got his 3 wives. I guess he'll have more time for them now?..................A revealing picture in the paper last week showed protestors in Pakistan (one of our allies in the war on "radical Islam") burning and breaking up a KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) outlet in anger over the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. This increasing violent anti-Americanism in the Middle East is being fueled by Bush's march of freedom policies. And worst of all American tax payers are funding this. After the Shiite gold domed mosque was blown up last week by Sunni insurgents in Iraq, President Bush in his response condemmed the act (as he should) but then said the US will of course fund it's re-building. Thanks Utah, you're one of the states that gave this President an open checkbook of tax dollars to re-build mosques in Iraq, that his policies caused to be destroyed.

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This Bush port deal is really astounding. Karl Rove must be pulling out the few remaining hairs on his mushy melon head. After selling Bush to the red state voters, as the best defense against terrorists, Bush opens our ports to potential terrorist infiltration, and then attempts to defend the deal. As the criticism rises, The President denys he knew anything about it. Rumsfeld says the same, even though he heads the committee that greenlighted the deal. They both learned from Bush's dad, one time head of the CIA , who, while Vice President, denied he knew anything about Iran/Contra. Deny, Deny, Deny, even if it makes you look totally incompetent. The best comment on this whole deal came from a Republican congressman, Christopher Shays from Conn. "We knew that some in the administration were arrogant, but we assumed they were competent. But to be arrogant and not competent raises real questions".....You can say that again Chris!!!! Of course the Democrats are taking the high ground "we want an investigation". Don't they know by now after being turned down on every request for an investigation by the Republican controlled Congress? Every Democrat politician should be shouting out Bush is so incompetent and in bed with the Arabs he is selling out our security. When are they going to stop whining and attack this administration for it's undeniable incompetency? Screw the investigation, they should be hammering Bush for selling control of key US ports to the United Arab Emerites, who are ten times more connected to 9/11 and the Taliban and Osama than Iraq ever was. This deal didn't happen overnight. These Arabs aren't stupid. They wouldn't have bought this deal from the British if they weren't given assurances way in advance, from the highest up in the Bush administration that it will go through. And how does one explain the Bush ass kissing of John McCain? "the President's leadership has earned our trust in the war on terror, and surely his administration deserves the presumption that they would not sell our security short". I don't care if he was a prisoner of war in Nam and was tortured, and he is only supporting Bush as his backers say in private because he wants Rove's support in his 08 Presidential bid. His pimping for this arrogant, dishonest and incompetent President is shameful. Especially after how Bush's people (Rove) attacked McCain in the 2000 primaries, calling him a coward. If the Demos weren't such wimps they would go after McCain and Frist (who today, after initially opposing the port deal, got in line with the President that it's OK if Bush says so). The Demos should be attacking every Republican that supports this administration on the obvious issue of incompetence. You've got this port deal, you've got the Katrina failures, you've got the out of control defecit spending, you've got the failing and expensive prescription drug fiasco, you've got the scandals of Abramoff and Scooter, you've got Cheney shooting his friend and most of all you've got a out of control killing ground created by this administration in Iraq. C'mon Hillary and Kerry, and Gore and Obama, and Edwards stop playing it safe and go after these guys. If the Republicans can remove a President for consesual oral sex in the White House, you don't deserve power, if you can't get a President with this many arrows in him out of office.

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So the guy Dick Cheney shot, a 78 year old , devout Texas Republican, gets out of the hospital yesterday and at his press conference apologizes to the Vice President and his family "for all they've had to go through this past week". I guess when he was in intensive care from his wounds and his heart attack he was too weak to say he was sorry sooner?...........If the Republicans ever need to turn to suicide bombers to retain power, this guy will be first in line. Bush asked for another $65 billion for his pursuit of "freedom on the march" in the Middle East this past week. And he'll get it. We can add this to the $300 billion already at work in Iraq. And here is what it has bought us so far: Muqtada al-Sadr, a violently anti-American Shiite cleric, who less than two years ago led bloody uprisings against our troops and recently was in Iran and Syria reinforcing his support for all things anti-American, is now the new Tom Delay of the new Iraqi Parliment. al-Sadr's followers now control the most seats in the Shiite majority alliance in the Parliment. In the recent election to retain Ibrahim al-Jaafa as Prime minister of Iraq, al-Sadr's followers under his direction voted for al-Jaafa who won by a single vote, because al-Jaafa promised to implement al-Sadr's political program. I don't think this program includes throwing flowers at our G.I.s, or joining Bush's march for freedom. These guys hate America, they have American blood all over their past and future, but they sure figured out quickly how to make suckers out of Bush and the American tax payers. Which all takes me back to the Cheney accidental shooting and the larger question it poses that the media and as usual the Democrats missed, the unprecedented INCOMPETENCE of our Republican leaders. These bums in power are bankrupting our future with their defecit spending on an unnecessary war of choice, costly, incompetent legislation, like the current prescription drug bill, and their failed response to Katrina (which cost almost as many lives as 911) and is now being revealed was another profit opportunity for no-bid contracts for Republican supporting companies. And the poster boy for this incompetence is Dick Cheney who nearly killed one of his biggest financial supporters because he can't shoot straight, all puns intended.

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One of the best selling novelty items at the recent annual conservative political action conference attended by thousands of Republicans, both politicians and their constituents, in Washington DC was a T shirt saying "Evolution is science fiction". It's just astonishing that conservatism and the Republicans have sunk this low. William Buckley, where are you? They need you desperately. I'm going to print up some T shirts for next years conference to cash in on this utter stupidity, "the world is flat", "2 plus 2 = 5", "we're winning the war in Iraq", "I paid for my health insurance with my tax cut", "the bigger the defecit, the better". This is what ten years of conservative talk radio (Limbaugh, Hannity and OReilly) and Fox news can take credit for, a party of imbeciles. Don't ever let me hear someone from the right criticize demos for calling red state voters for Bush and crew dumb, we now have proof in a best selling Republican T shirt..........What kind of "intelligent design" created this T shirt and the people that bought it and wear it? Hooray for Hollywood. Four of the movies nominated for best picture kind of rub it in the face of George W. I guess if the Demos don't have the guts, the movie makers do. "Capote" and "Brokeback Mountain" with their gay themes, "Good Night and Good Luck" with a replay of Joe McCarthy, now being channeled by Karl Rove and right wing politics and "Crash" a movie about black/white relationships, just a reminder to the Republicans no matter how much they deny it, racism is structural in our socio/economic system.

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Great comment by Molly Ivins in a recent column describing Attorney General Gonzales' (not under oath) testimony defending Bush's blatent law breaking to the Senate Judiciary committee: She called him a "pathetic pipsqueak"...."too lightweight to even be a mediocrity". Pretty amazing when you think about Bush's appointments to Attorney General, first there was Ashcroft, who lost his Senate seat to a corpse. And now Gonzales, the top lawyer, who puts partisan loyalty above the Constitution and the law...............For all the things Bush has done wrong as President, the lies about the war, the incompetence and corruption in Iraq, the top heavy tax cuts, the huge defecit spending, the chipping away at the social/economic safety net, the appointment of corrupt cronies, the dirty politics, the pandering to the religious right, and the costly and bad legislation concerning medicare prescriptions, bankruptcy and the environment, the worst thing he has done is defied the rule of law and the constitution. He, in effect, said doesn't care what the law says about getting warrants for domestic spying; and he is going to do what he thinks is best and necessary. Then he sent his Attorney General to defend his lawbreaking to the Senate and he sent his crooked king maker Karl Rove to whisper in the ears of Republican Senators on the Judiciary Committee that they better go along with Bush's law breaking else they would suffer the loss of Republican financial and propaganda support in their next re-election campaign...........If Bush gets away with this, and he probably will. It points out that after over 200 years of a Constitutional government based on the rule of law the Republicans have done structural damage to our once great consensual form of Democracy. Through propaganda, media and election manipulation they have gained the Presidency a majority in Congress, and now with Alito and Roberts a majority on the Supreme Court. What this means is as long as Karl Rove can keep the Republican congress in line, and he's got plenty of corporate campaign funds to do this with, he has uncovered a fatal flaw in our Constitution by eliminating the system of "checks and blances" with our current one party government. Thus, the President and his men can lie, break the law and pretty much say and do what they want with no re-course from Congress or the Judiciary. Short of a contemporary Boston Tea Party, there's nothing "we the people can do either", except watch the next segment of American Idol. So the congressional elections are pretty important this year, and we "aint seen nothing yet" in Republican dirty tricks. Because this election is all about supeona power, and it's the Dems last chance to re-establish checks and balance.

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What do Al gore and Mike Holmgren have in common....They both got screwed by the officials. Gore in 2000 lost the Presidency, when Bush was appointed by the Supreme Court. And Holmgren lost the Super Bowl, not just on one bad call but 4.
A invisible offensive pass interference call on Darrell Jackson after his touchdown catch in the first quarter.
Ben Roethlisberger's third down touchdown where the ball pretty clearly on TV replays didn't cross the goal line, as the officials ruled.
Jackson catches the ball at the goal line with one foot in bound and the other swipes the pylon at the goal line (supposed to be a touchdown), but it doesn't even get reviewed.
And a holding call on Seattle (that John Madden couldn't even see on the replay) after Seattle gets to the one yard line on a pass reception late in the game.
Just like Gore, Holmgren meekly concedes. But who cares, the Steelers aren't going to invade Iraq.
The top grossing films this weekend were "When a Stranger Calls" and the sequel to Big Momma's house. Even more proof, then the Republicans in power, that we are a country of dummies.
And what a jerk Joe Montana turns out to be. Couldn't show up for the Super Bowl honors for the former MVPs because they wouldn't gaurantee him enough money.
And just in the news this morning, the Republican majority votes that Alberto Gonzales doesn't have to take the oath before testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary committee hearings on the President's wire tapping. The Attorney General, just another big Momma Republican.

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"Recycling one ton of plastic, saves, on average, the energy equivilent of 197 gallons of gasoline". I know I've said this before but yesterday I was on the campus of the University of San Francisco. USF is a jesuit college almost in the geographical center of San Francisco. It's a private college and tution is high, plus the high cost of housing in San francisco equates to a fairly affluent student body. On the block long walkway to the gym there are two garbage cans and near the doors to enter the gym there is a recycling bin and a garbage can side by side. What caught my eye was the garbage cans were overflowing with empty plastic water bottles and empty energy drink containers and all the plastic containers from take out fast food. It's not my entertainment to go around looking at the contents of garbage cans, but since President Bush blamed the American people in his speech the other night for being addicted to oil, it got me thinking more about immediate fixes. After passing the three overflowing garbage cans with all recyclibale crap in them, I looked at the recycle bin and it was about 1/2 full. No doubt these affluent private college students drive cars and are oil addicts. So why is it, the so called "best and brightest" of our youth don't have a clue or care about recycling as a treatment for oil addiction? Lets multiply this scenario millions of times dailey across the country on other college campuses (that don't even have recycle bins to only fill 1/2 up) and urban shopping centers and communities without recycling programs and you've got millions of gallons of gas going into the garbage. Of course since we have a President without a clue or care about recycling, I guess it's easy to understand why even college students don't give a damn.