White Supremacists Murder Judge's family

This is truly horrifying. Truly.

Right wingers are the danger to this society, crazy, violent nutjobs. These people are the ones who are destroying our society, the reactionary, rage-fueled idiots of the right. White supremacists kill an 89 year old woman and a hobbled man... because their dear leader lost a trademark case that the man's wife was presiding over. McVeigh? Right winger. Tupelo? Right wingers. I am ashamed that these people and I are part of the same species.

This keeps running through my head:

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

It may not be directly on point, but if putsch comes to shove, I'm putsching back. Hard.

Wolcott Notices Something...

... and I think he is right to be wary.

To whit: the administration and the right are gearing up to try and instigate a war with Iran. With what troops? Who knows. With what plan? Who cares, just attaaaaaack!

Note: I'm not denying that Iran is a dangerous country, what I am commenting upon is the insane power-hungry messianic globaloney of the neocons who think that when you combine an outline of a plan with a bunch of handwaving, you get the result intended. See also, Iraq, Afghanistan, Social Security, global warming.

Now what Wolcott is noticing is that Hezbollah is starting to be framed as the new al Qaeda. So pay attention to your cable news, ladies and germs, and watch for Hezbollah == the evil, bad enemy with sleeper cells ... in your kitchen! cable news reports.

Also, reason #35021 why Lieberman needs to be out of the Dems and out of the Senate:

Lightning out of Lebanon is an eye opener. The book reads like a novel but documents in detail how operatives of what many call the 'A-Team of Terrorism' have taken advantage of our freedoms, legal loopholes, and defense weaknesses to set up support cells in communities all over America. - Lieberman, book blurb for Lightning out of Lebanon (emphasis added)

Google Ads

Thought I'd throw my lot in there, maybe make a couple dollars. Show me some love, yo.

Bankruptcy Bill... power to the peo^h^h^h Banks!

Dionne thinks it's a bill without pity. I think that misses the point. People aren't the issue here, banks and their holdings are. Pity schmity, where's my .001% increase in return?

Look, credit card companies: you give me an unsecured loan. In return for your risk, you get usurious interest rates and inflict gawdawful penalties. That's your get. That's all your get. Why you feel entitled to run to the front of the line at a bankruptcy that you helped create sounds like you've got a little entitlement problem.

Luckily for the banks, the GOP is the business entitlement party. They're lubed and bent over already, you barely even need the reacharound.

Abu Gonzalez Reveals DoJ Priorities

Tell me, does anyone else here see a teeeeensy problem with Abu Gone's DoJ priority list?

• Ending Senate blocking of judicial nominees, a "broken process that must be fixed" before there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
• Renewing provisions of the USA Patriot Act that are set to expire at the end of the year, saying the law has been an important tool in preventing terror attacks in the United States.
• Amending the Constitution to give crime victims the right to participate in prosecutions and sentencings.

... Say it with me now, chillin: those are all functions of the legislative branch, not the executive. Abu Gone is not a bright man, but even he should be able to remember enough constitutional theory to know that his job is to enforce - not make - the law.

More Propaganda from the GOP

The GOP has once again released a propaganda video disguised as a news report. This is the third time they have done so, and it has been successful in getting the pieces aired every time. Previously it was the administration, this time it is der Gropenfuhrer.

What are they advocating? Why, the end to lunch breaks of course.

Ladies and gentlemen, your tax dollars at work... to lessen your standard of loving. Ah, the GOP. Bless their evil little hearts.

Lieberman needs to go... now

[E]very sign I see tells me that Sen. Lieberman is looking to cut a deal of some sort with Sen. Lindsey Graham(R) of South Carolina and thus with the White House. It would be a kinder, gentler phase-out. But phase-out just the same.

(via TPM)There is absolutely no reason - NONE - for the Dems to help out the GOP on this one. The phase out plan is unpopular, it doesn't work, and it's bad for the people. The GOP needs one and only one Dem to provide "bipartisan" cover. Why would Joltin Joe "tin ear" Lieberman sign on? Why is he even in the Democratic party? Ass. He goes through with this, and I think there's going to be a new Senator from CT next term.

No retreat, no surrender. When the GOP is drowning, you don't throw them a life preserver, you throw them an anchor.

Farewell to Boo...

...'s nutz.

Sorry, man. I held off as long as I could, but with my travel plans and your needing some doggy day care, they had to go. You're a great dog and I wish you had some offspring, but it just wasn't in the cards.

Coolest dog ever! ... now complete with his own coin pouch.

Why do I have pets again?

Since Boo wasn't at home, I thought I'd leave my bedroom door open and maybe the cats can come take a nappy nap with me while I slept.

Reason #4951 why I close my bedroom door: so the cats don't decide to PEE ON MY COMFORTER while i'm sleeping.

goddamnit. NOT a good way to wake up.

It takes a Village

or in this case, the entire world.

I'm making a general plea here on humanitarian grounds for us to do whatever we are able to do, in whatever form you choose, to help the victims of the tsunami this week.

Unfortunately, I have no skills to add to the relief effort, all I've got is money and my voice. To that end, google has a nice summary page of some places where you can make contributions to the relief effort. FWIW, I'm a Medecins sans Frontieres guy, myself.

Now that the initial wave is past, the entire region is going to be a massive disease epidemic, combined with a lack of drinking water, food, shelter, and all sorts of other miseries. The human cost is already staggering in scale and it is going to get worse. So if you can help, please do.

Thank you.

still here, still working

just have to coordinate the blogging locations and such. lawterati.com's still got the most recent.

lots of life changes going on right now. it's a very confucian time, i must say.

umm... hokay

i actually had some recent postage, but... hmm. disappeared down the memory hole. visited the bit bucket in the sky.

in the news: active blogging should resume shortly. just need to synchronize and script some of my new/old school sites so i can propagate properly. and such. and so forth.

oh, and if you're reading this... stop now, dammit and get to work on GOTV.

sorry been away for a while

main site got h4x0r3d, and i realized that my hand-rolled software was better... but it took the wind out of my sales. just moved on to other things. i'll be back shortly, with the relaunch of the cmoore/lawterati sites.

Condoleezzzzaaa Lies Under Oath

Center for American Progress has the details. Indict her for perjury!

Another Bush Gaffe

Bush Compares a Guest to His Mother. He just doesn't handle this spotlight thing very well at all, does he?

The Onion Captures it all once again

With their Point-Counterpoint: The War On Iraq. Great stuff, and deadly accurate.

Nader falls short in first bid for Oregon ballot

Too bad, so sad. Get off the stage, fucker.

GMail: it's Panopterrific

If this isn't going to get people to use GnuPG, I don't know what will. Programs scanning your inbox for ads? Use encryption and it won't work at all. C'mon people! Use G n u P G already!

Well that Settles That

Microsoft and Sun settled today. At first I thought it was April Fool's. But it's the second. May I actually be finally getting some sweet, sweet relief from this purgatory?

Fallujah's Lost, but we shall "retake" it

Is Fallujah the Iraqi version of the Tet Offensive? Discuss.