Why Do the Troops Hate America?

According to Zogby, which can be reached at the following link,

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1075

"An overwhelming majority of 72% of American troops serving in Iraq think the U.S. should exit the country within the next year, and nearly one in four say the troops should leave immediately, a new Le Moyne College/Zogby International survey shows."

UAE Port Deal: 21 US ports, not 6

This came out a few days ago from UPI, which is a wire service owned by Reverend Sun Yung Moon's Unification Church (the church that says God has replaced Jesus with Sun Yung Moon). The same UPI that Helen Thomas left when it was taken over by the Rev. But anyway, sometimes they come up with good stories and here is one, written by Pamela Hess, UPI's Pentagon Correspondent, entitled "UAE terminal takeover extends to 21 ports", and posted at:

http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060223-051657-4981r

"A United Arab Emirates government-owned company is poised to take over port terminal operations in 21 American ports, far more than the six widely reported."
. . .

"P&O is the parent company of P&O Ports North America, which leases terminals for the import and export and loading and unloading and security of cargo in 21 ports, 11 on the East Coast, ranging from Portland, Maine to Miami, Florida, and 10 on the Gulf Coast, from Gulfport, Miss., to Corpus Christi, Texas, according to the company's Web site."

Today I only managed to wake up in time for McLaughlin Group, and they were still talking about 6 ports - so which is it, 6 or 21?

It's a Good Thing that South Dakotians are a Very Wealthy People

According to an article in the Argus Leader of Sioux Falls, SD, titled "House sends abortion bill to Rounds", written by Megan Myers and Terry Woster, linked here:

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060224/NEWS/60224007/1001

"As the South Dakota House of Representatives gave final approval today to a bill aimed at banning most abortions and creating a U.S. Supreme Court challenge to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, Gov. Mike Rounds said he’s inclined to sign it."

This bill does not allow abortion for rape or incest. That means more kids in South Dakota. According to "South Dakota Department Of Health Selected Health Statistics, 2003-2004", found at

http://www.state.sd.us/doh/Stats/vstats.htm

there were 680 abortions in SD in 2003 and 670 in 2004. If abortion is outlawed in SD and the new Roberts court, with Alito at right guard, confirms, then there will be, say, 650 unaborted kids a year to have to deal with. THAT IS EACH YEAR. The incest babies will be too feebleminded to be of use to anyone (see most of the British royal family and parts of rural West Virginia), and will have to be cared for by the taxpayers, even if only for costs associated with their "special education". The babies that would have been aborted due to birth defects will be born with said birth defects (such as being born with no brain, with the heart outside the body, etc.) and surely the parents will sign away parental rights on such babies, which tend to be highly expensive for their short, painful, miserable lives, leaving the taxpayers of South Dakota to pay for the high cost of these babies. A lot of the male children of rape will have two Y chromosomes instead of the usual one Y chromosome, because a lot of rapists have two Y chromosomes and men pass down the Y chromosomes to their offspring. Men with two Y chromosomes have violent, psychopathic, antisocial personalities (see, for instance, "Aggressive behaviour, Sub-normality and the XYY Male" in the journal Nature in December 1965 by Patricia Jacobs and colleagues). These unwanted children, even if taken care of by their mothers at first, will be in jail by the time they're 10, once again being paid for by the taxpayers. Then there will be some normal kids, who won't cost the taxpayers quite as much to raise, but still more than if they weren't here to begin with. It sure is a good thing that South Dakotians are a very wealthy people, because they'll need a lot of money to deal with all those kids.

They're eating their own now

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051214/pl_nm/congress_budget_protest_dc;_ylt=AizTWwqpq7iaNJN0_BoPFdQa.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

"U.S. Capitol Police arrested 115 religious activists after they staged a peaceful sit-in at a government building near the U.S. Capitol."

"The protesters' target was a controversial Republican budget bill being negotiated that would achieve around $42 billion in net savings over five years from a range of federal programs, including health care for the poor and elderly and possibly child care, student loans and food stamps.
"Someone's praying Lord, stop the cuts," chanted the protesters before U.S. Capitol Police officers moved in to arrest them. They were camped out at the Cannon building that houses the offices of some lawmakers."

You know that Pat Robertson's and Jerry Falwell's and Donald Wildmon's people weren't involved in this. Who was arrested? Maybe the only true Christian left in this country, my favorite Pastor, Rev. Jim Wallis, who is truly good and really does carry out Jesus' wishes. He makes me believe that there are non-hypocritical people who call themselves Christian still in our midst.

Do What?

Robert Novak, you may know him better as the "Douchebag of Liberty", wrote in his colum in today's Chicago Sun-Times:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-noval13.html

"Pennsylvania state Treasurer Bob Casey, running for the Senate as a pro-life Democrat, is maintaining a golden silence on the nomination of Judge Sam Alito even within his own party circles.

A fellow Pennsylvania Democrat privately sought out Casey's views on Alito last week and was told the candidate had nothing to say. Sooner or later, however, Casey will have to take a stand on Alito, whose opinions on the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have tended to be pro-life.

As a mainstream Democrat, Casey will be under pressure to take a critical view of Alito by liberal groups waging an all-out campaign and promising to do anything to stop him. ''You name it, we'll do it,'' said Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice."

Do what? Bob Casey doesn't have to say a damn thing about Alito, unless his his confimation process takes so long that it carries over past the 2006 elections (unlikely). Casey has not been elected yet (although he will be, in less than a year), and so it's a non-issue. Alito will be either confirmed or denied before Casey even starts campaigning really hard, and Alito will not be an issue at all. It will already be a done deal. Doesn't Novak have anything better to do than to try to start controversy regarding a non-issue? Doesn't he have some CIA super-secret operatives to destroy the careers of by publishing their names? Why isn't Novak in jail for treason?

Alit-who?

I can't believe that Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination. That is such a tragedy, because she could have had it. If I was her, I would have gone for it. As was so prominently reported on last year during the appellate court appointments, the Republicans are all about up-or-down votes, and they, who are in control of the Senate, would have given her an up-or-down vote, because they are all about up-or-down votes, and because of party loyalty, the Republicans would have supported their head dude, Bush, and confirmed her. But she's withdrawn. Tragedy.

But now we have Alito, who supported the proposition that a woman must have her husband's permission to have an abortion. What if she's not married? Does she have to get married in order to have an abortion? And what about equal treatment for men? If he's going to support that insane notion, then he must also support the notion that a man cannot be allowed a prescription of Viagra or any similar drug without his wife's permission. And because men shouldn't have sex without marriage, only married men should be allowed such drugs. The fact that just recently in New York it was decided that the State of New York should discontinue paying for Viagra and other such drugs for known sex offenders and child molesters illustrates the double standard regarding reproductive health that this country, the Republicans particularly, promotes. It's perfectly all right for a rapist to take Viagra and go on a raping spree, but if the victims come up pregnant, that's just their bad luck - they get raped AND a devil spawn. That's they way they like it, those uber-moral Republicans. Keep the womenfolk in their place. With Alito, we'll be moving quickly toward the 13th century values they want, except that the women will also be required to work 8+ hour days in addition to serving the menfolk in the manner that they'd like to become accustomed to. They'll be taking the vote, property rights and inheritance rights away in due course. Oh, and just another thought, I've heard a lot from Phyllis Schafley recently. Who gave that bitch permission to speak?

President Rove?

How can Karl Rove become president? One way is: Dick Cheney is scheduled to have surgery next weekend, he could fake his own death (he's pretty good at hiding), Rove could be appointed vice president by Bush, and then, for the good of the party's chances in 2006, Bush could resign. Scary!