How to get ahead in Business

Lie! Cheat! Steal! Commit Treason!
Cheney Promotes Individuals Named In Indictment

It's another fine day for hypocrisy and a bad blow to democracy.

My Country 'Tis of Thee

Whose Gonna Win The Fight for America?
My Country 'Tis of Thee
Where went my liberty? For thee I sing.
Land where the government lies!
Land where dead soldier's families cry!
Liberals and progressives tried, To freedom bring.

My native country, thee
Was once noble and free, Til it was robbed;
The poor are stuck with all the bills,
While Halliburton and Exxon fills -
Their pockets till they over spill, With ill gotten gain.

When will this nation rise
And once again surprise The Crooks and Liars?
Will we sit meekly by
As the administration spins lie after lie,
Or will we finally cry, "George Bush You're Fired!"

What Is Worse

Liberals spent the weekend curled up in the fetal position, grasping the INDICTMENT and crying, "Why not Rove?"

And for a moment QD was inclined to join them, until a thought struck her.

What is worse? Karl Rove at work manipulating the powers that be or a disgraced and angry Karl Rove no longer employed with this administration - manipulating the powers that be?

As long as Karl Rove is an employee of the American People he has to account for his actions. But send Rove into the nether world of private practice and does he stop acting as the brain for the most disgraceful president this country has ever seen? No of course not! But as a private "brain" trust QD that Rove is even scarier than he is as a public official.

Is this a rationalization to make one feel better after seeing the biggest sociopath since Macchiavelli escape justice yet again? Of course it is!

But still, which would you prefer, a public Rove who can be held accountable for his actions or a private Rove who can exert unrecognized influence and function unheeded and unchecked?

Scooter is Scary

Slate Magazine asks, "Who is I. Lewis Libby?"

Happy Halloween

New Orleans Halloween is ON!

Selective Due Process = FOBO

Is Due Process and a Fair Trial for
FRIENDS OF BUSH ONLY

"In our system, each individual is presumed innocent and entitled to due process and a fair trial." President Bush defending his assistant, the recently indicted Scooter Libby.

If this is true - then what about Guantanamo...
"Since January 11, 2002, the U.S. government has sent over seven hundred people picked up from around the world to Guantanamo. Currently some 660 are in detention, including an undisclosed number of children. As the detention camp begins its third year, the public still does not know who the detainees are, what they have allegedly done, and whether and when they will be charged with crimes or released. There have been no hearings to determine the legal status of detainees and no judicial review—in short, no legal process at all."
(emphasis mine)

What does the I stand for?

INDICTED
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was slapped with a Five-count indictment today: obstruction of justice, giving false statements, perjury.

In other words: The Ex Chief of Staff for the Vice President of the United States is alleged to be a criminal. Suprised? Well, no - neither were we ... happy reading:)

from TPM a gentle reminder:

• From the beginning of the administration, a key root of Libby's power at the White House is that he works both for the Vice President (as Chief of Staff and National Security Affairs Advisor) and the President of the United States (as Assistant to the President).
  
  

US to Earthquake Victims: NADA

So you say that the US is the leading world power and the arbiter of morality and justice. And what does the rest of the world say? They say "WHERE ARE YOU?"

And where are we?
Scrambling to get food and water ...
Living in shelters ...
Gouging our own citizens ...
Stealing from, Lying to, and Cheating the American People...
Committing treason ...
Getting by on our looks ...
Torturing people ...
Making money...
Taking it easy ...

One word: SHAME

What's that smell?

QD's spouse accuses her of over reacting to the Mysterious Sweet Smell In Manhattan. But QD smelled it. She was climbing up to bed and watching Zorro when she asked her Hairless Husband, "Do you smell Maple Syrup?" HH responded negative, adding that he had smelled it at work. Now, work is 101 streets away from home!
And it wasn't breakfast time, and no one was cooking.

Then today there is this article today: Strong, Sweet Smell Reported in Manhattan".

QD wants to know what the hell is going on. Remember this???? and THIS!!!!

KRo to beat the Rap?

Waiting. Waiting. Waiting.
News Conference Planned for 2pm today...
Filings at noon...

Who Speaks for the Wounded?

Common Dreams and QD want to know:
Why is DOONESBURY the only war coverage we've got?

"When you've got a nation fighting a war and ... the one place in the mainstream media that seems to be doing the most about the wounded of that war is a comic strip, I think that speaks volumes..." //Common Dreams//

SPIN SPIN SPIN

PAT BUCHANAN: Miers May Have Helped Save Bush's Presidency
"Like a school marm indulging a teacher’s pet, Miss Miers just gave George Bush permission to retake the final exam he booted badly. She has given him a second chance to succeed where Nixon, Ford, Reagan and his father all failed: To become the president who rang down the curtain on 50 years of judicial tyranny and reshaped the Supreme Court into the great constitutionalist body the Founding Fathers intended.
George Bush is a lucky man to have a friend like Harriet Miers.
Had her nomination been pursued through the judiciary committee to the full Senate, it would have meant civil war inside the party. President Bush would have been forced to watch members of his Congressional party and conservatives publicly call for rejection and defeat of the woman who had given him a decade of devoted service.
The fallout from this fratricidal war could have lasted for years. By standing down, Miers called off the family fight about to erupt inside the president’s own household." //full story//

recap: "Shrub, you are an idiot and we all know that, but you are a lucky idiot because this little lady just saved your hide. Now, do as we say or we will chop you up and feed you to the lions. love, mom and dad."

Old Sins - Long Shadows

It looks as if the Veep is in big BIG trouble.
This from Talking Points Memo:

• Murray Waas in National Journal: "Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, overruling advice from some White House political staffers and lawyers, decided to withhold crucial documents from the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2004 when the panel was investigating the use of pre-war intelligence that erroneously concluded Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, according to Bush administration and congressional sources."

And QD asks ... If it is proved that the Veep knew there were no WMD, obviously Cheney will be impeached, but will it take down Bush as well?
Heehee - who is QD kidding, we can all call that one:
If dey heat turn up in de Whitemans House ...
dat leetle spoiled rich boy gonna melt d o w n
an' den his daddy gonna kick his ass!

killing two birds with one stone

The Guardian UK gracefully and succinctly eviscerates the shrub...
"Her [Miers] withdrawal is a huge embarrassment to the Bush administration, which was also bracing itself today for possible indictments against senior aides arising from the investigation into the leaking of a covert CIA agent's name."

pee faster

Ford Motor Company sent a memo it its Michigan plant workers informing them that long bathroom breaks were the cause of the decline in SUV sales and that dammit this was not going to be tolerated!

When told of this, Sandy Munro, CEO of a manufacturing consulting firm in Troy, responded with, well, the truth...
"It's a giant throwback to the bad old days of the '70s and '80s, when you squeezed the guy at the bottom of the heap any way you could," Munro said. "That only causes lots of discontent, and only someone from Harvard could think of something as stupid as monitoring bathroom time."

full story

The Queenies and Daughters of this world come from a long line of Hahvahd men, but dammit, they do be dumber than dirt half the time.

The Onion and the Shrub

The White house has sent a cease and disist letter to "The ONION" demanding that the newspaper stop using the presidential seal on their website.

This is the letter that the editor of The Onion wrote to the White House lawyer...

"Dear Mr. Dixon,
"I greatly appreciate your comments regarding my Weekly Radio Address parody. But I'm surprised the president deems it wise to spend taxpayer money for his lawyer to write letters to The Onion.
"If you have a lot of extra money lying around that you don't know what to do with, here are some better ideas for spending it:
"1. How about a tax break for satirists?
"2. With indictments in 'Plamegate' forthcoming, perhaps a nice going-away present for Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney, or whoever the president may be firing. I recommend a subscription to The Onion.
"3. It has recently become obvious that there is need for some sort of federal organization to administer the management of emergencies - a hypothetical 'Federal Emergency Management Administration,' if you will. You could spend the money on that.
"4. Harriet Miers could really use a scholarship to some kind of rudimentary judge school.
"In the event there's any extra money left over after all these projects, then perhaps the president could justify paying lawyers to protect him from comedians."
//read more on this story...//

2000th American soldier killed in Iraq

When even one life lost is too many.

Queenie Hosts Democratic Meet Up in MD

MEET ON SISTER QUEENIE!
and dont forget the words of the venerable old ancestor...

"Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of fears!
Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
"Our husbands shall not come to us reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.
"Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience.
"We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
From the bosom of the devasted earth a voice goes up with our own. It says, "Disarm, Disarm!"
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice! Blood does not wipe out dishonor nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel." - Julia Ward Howe

So many people are better at this than QD...

Big News. Indictments are expected to be announced soon and up from the Potomac sails the smell of Repug fear. Guess the Christian right forgot to read their good books and especially forgot the main teaching of Christ which can be summarized as "God Don't Love Ugly"
Check out these pros for the scoop...
The Washington Note reports that the WH is singing the blues
Think Progress parces what Scotty said today which is basically, "I just repeat what I am told."

Raw Story is breaking the news...

SOURCES: FITZGERALD DECIDES TO SEEK INDICTMENTS... DEVELOPING...

Mercenary

The war in Iraq was going to be Miller’s journalistic victory lap. Judy Miller in her work uniform???She was hired to write the truth and instead she scribbled lies for the administration.

If the NYT had any balls, they'd FIRE JUDY MILLER NOW!

Anatomic Analgesics

Fun For the Whole Family!

Owed To Joy

Salad Bar Hacking
Chinese Salad Architecture

NYT Continues Decline

"Everything Fit To Print We Omit"
NY Times failed to identify Rice's "heckler" as a former U.S. diplomat

"The neocons develop an exit strategy"

"They were careless people, George* and Laura* -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness."
– QD paraphrasing F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"

"The Conservative Crack Up" By Howard Fineman

"inadequate" "insufficient" and "insulting"

Supreme Court Nominee Is Asked to Redo Response to Questions
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 - The Supreme Court nomination of Harriet E. Miers suffered another setback on Wednesday when the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee asked her to resubmit parts of her judicial questionnaire, saying various members had found her responses "inadequate" "insufficient" and "insulting." NYT

Is This Any Way To Achieve Peace?

US soldiers 'desecrated Taliban bodies'
..."According to a transcript of the program, the soldiers faced the bodies towards Mecca in a deliberately provocative move and set them on fire. One said: "Wow, look at the blood coming out of the mouth on that one, fucking straight death metal."

A message was then broadcast over a loudspeaker in the local dialect which, according to the freelance cameraman, Stephen Dupont, embedded with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, said: "Attention, Taliban, you are all cowardly dogs. You allowed your fighters to be laid down facing west and burned. You are too scared to come down and retrieve their bodies. This just proves you are the lady boys we always believed you to be." The Guardian

Cabal-istic Cheney Gang

Cheney and Rumsfeld sitting in a tree P-L-O-T-T-I-N-G
The Financial Times today suggests that the Cheney 'cabal' hijacked US foreign policy
"In a scathing attack on the record of President George W. Bush, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said: “What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made."
Here's the Transcript: Colonel Wilkerson on US foreign policy

QD's aunt said yesterday, "On the Colbert Report [Tues] night, Leslie Stahl said this could end up like Watergate, boring people until they suddenly realized just how high up it goes."

If QD were a betting woman she would say, "Laissez Bon Temps Roulez" and back both the Veep and the Creep as leading candidates for impeachment! Then she'd pour herself a Pimm's Cup and enjoy the show!

KRo herds Dick to the chopping block?

Rove Told Jury Cheney's Top Aid May Have Been His Source In Plame Leak Case...

NeoCons: Nothing new about being a criminal

READ THIS:
Syria’s Threat to America’s National Interest
Strategic Insights, Volume IV, Issue 4 (April 2005)
by Hamoud Salhi
NOW ASK YOURSELF:
"Is there anything these neo-cons wont do for profit?"

If a civilian like Queenie's Daughter can start connecting all the dots, what the heck is a big brain like Fitzgerald thinking about now?

I bet he's thinking, "How could they have been that stupid?"

One word: H U B R I S

DEMAND TO KNOW THE TRUTH

Tuesday's Heros

Eighteen Anti-War Grannies Arrested For Disorderly Conduct
Ome's gonna love this one...

John Hannah'd Scooter Over?

Raw Story has more details...

Here's some background from Insight Magazine 2/17/04
Cheney's Staff Focus of Probe
By Richard Sale
"Federal law-enforcement officials said that they have developed hard evidence of possible criminal misconduct by two employees of Vice President Dick Cheney's office related to the unlawful exposure of a CIA officer's identity last year. The investigation, which is continuing, could lead to indictments, a Justice Department official said.

According to these sources, John Hannah and Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, were the two Cheney employees. "We believe that Hannah was the major player in this," one federal law-enforcement officer said. Calls to the vice president's office were not returned, nor did Hannah and Libby return calls.
The strategy of the FBI is to make clear to Hannah "that he faces a real possibility of doing jail time" as a way to pressure him to name superiors, one federal law-enforcement official said." more

Fast Forward: Karl Rove 2006

When bad photoshop happens to good bloggers.

Coincidence or Murder?

Senior military investigator found dead in Iraq
A senior British military police officer in Iraq involved in the investigation of alleged abuse of Iraqi civilians by soldiers has been found dead at a camp in Basra.

How do porcupines have sex?

Same way Scotter Libby treats classified information: "Very Carefully!"

"Mr. Fitzgerald asked if I had discussed classified information with Mr. Libby. I said I believed so, but could not be sure. He asked how Mr. Libby treated classified information. I said, Very carefully. " Judy Miller NYT

To Beat Election Woes Kill Foes

Iraq to audit vote amid fraud allegations
U.S. airstrikes on suspected militants kill about 70 people

R. I. P.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Newspaper of Recompense: Granting undeserving journos jobs for over a decade!

File under Jason Blair, Judy Miller, Old Gray Lady dies slow death, and Fish -n- Chips Wrapper

What Happened in the 9th Ward?

A question of Levee-ty
There has been talk about the New Orleans levees being blown up intentionally to redirect water into impoverished neighborhoods like the 9th Ward to spare affluent areas including the French Quarter and the Garden District. There has also been talk that this is yet another conspiracy theory.

Queenie's Daughter is an open-minded sort with a definite opinion. In her opinion, the "Levee Question" should not be dismissed until a thorough investigation has been made as to why EXACTLY the levees in the 9th ward and St. Bernard parish were breached.

QD also points out that "breached" is a euphemism.

If "Black Speech" is called Ebonics, the language of the White Man should be called "Euphemonics." White people talk in code. They say, "That place is d a n g e r o u s" when they really mean "That neighborhood is full of Black folks." etc. ad nauseum...

QD will write another entry with a guide to the euphemisms of Euphemonics. For now, here is an excellent article, written in plain English, by the Black Electorate College.

Politics Mondays: The Intentional Destruction Of Levees in New Orleans – A Conspiracy Theory? Not In The Light Of History.

And then there is this from the Washington Post: For Most in New Orleans's Ninth Ward, Extra Coverage Wasn't Required

Remember the Ladies America!

CHAPTER TWO: RIGHTS AND FREEDOMSPART ONE: RIGHTS FIRST: Civil and political rights.Article (14): Iraqis are equal before the law without discrimination because of sex, ethnicity, nationality, origin, colour, religion, sect, belief, opinion or social or economic status.- From the new Iraqi ConstitutionTHE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENTSection 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.- From The Equal Rights Amendment introduced as S.J. Res. 11 (Sen. Edward Kennedy, MA, chief sponsor) and H.J. Res. 37 (Rep. Carolyn Maloney, NY, chief sponsor).

Hit List

"Since almost the day he assumed power, George W. Bush has left a trail of broken careers in his wake. Below is a listing of but a handful of the most familiar names on the rolls of the fallen..."

Eye's Wide Open

About Eyes Wide Open
Eyes Wide Open, the American Friends Service Committee's widely acclaimed exhibition on the human cost of the Iraq war and commemorates all the lives lost.
The exhibit includes a pair of boots honoring each U.S. military casualty; a field of shoes and a wall of remembrance to memorialize the Iraqis killed in the conflict; and a multimedia display exploring the history, cost and consequences of the war.
timeline

Shame on Scott McClellan

Scott McClellan basically calls Helen Thomas a traitor

Conspiring to discover the truth!

Boondock Cartoon link...

"I assure you there is no way in a million years anyone would ever deliberately flood the poor Black parts of New Orleans - "

"Except when they did it in 1927."

http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/090905levees.htm

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread170209/pg1

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/orleans_levees.html

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_2207.shtml

Karl Returns for FITZGRILLING

Rove Makes Fourth Grand Jury Appearance

The Baroness Balks?

Thatcher reveals her doubts over basis for Iraq war

Iris (Information Regarding Israel's Security) Blog
politely challenges this claim.

IRIS blog is listed as Today's Truth on lucianne.com...
Lucianne, Lucianne...QD is sure she has heard that name before...

Lucianne Goldberg ... ah yes!
The woman who helped Linda Tripp record her conversations with Monica Lewinsky.
Now QD remembers Lucianne. What a clever woman she must be to dupe a twenty year old into believing that she was confiding in a friend. And how clever of Lucianne to attempt to destroy the Clinton administration based on (what was most likely a sanctioned) marital indescretion. And how clever of Ms. Goldberg to protect herself from being hit on by the likes of Bill Clinton by disgusing herself as a shrill, ignorant and repulsive woman! So clever!

Funny, though, QD thought perhaps Ms. Goldberg had retired to a more suitable occupation, say court reporter, dog catcher or American Idol judge.

Let them eat - well actually, no, don't

Katrina Food Aid Blocked by U.S. Rules
Meals From Britain Sit in Warehouse
A few weeks ago the US vehemently denied burning food aid from other countries. Well, QD doesn't know what is being done with the perishable donations but it seems like there they sit, going to waste.

Yes indeed,
That Was a Short War on Poverty

and it's only going to get worse...
Consumer Prices Rise Sharply

Battle for Bloggers?

White House in battle to win over anti-Miers bloggers
QD is certain that before the morning is out, she will receive a call or email from the White House imploring her to change her tone about Harriet Miers and to really stand behind this talented and qualified candidate. As no doubt will be brought to QD's attention, Miers is a God loving Christian, a slender woman, a great marathon runner, and only in America could she be appointed to the Supreme Court.

"You are free to do exactly as we tell you."

Bush Talk With Soldiers Well-Rehearsed

The unmarried Ms. Rice ...

just about the only African American in the US who hearts Bush.

Bush popularity keeps dropping

Loyalists Break Ranks!

Petition for the Withdrawal of the Nomination of Harriet Miers
"WE ARE REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVES who supported the election of George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004. Today, we respectfully urge that the nomination of Harriet Miers to the United States Supreme Court be withdrawn." Source: David Frum

Conservatives and exiles desert war campaign

From the Financial Times October 11, 2005

Up the Shawnee River?

Uh Oh
Scandals Take Toll On Bush's 2nd Term
October '05 may be the scariest month of George Bush's life.
All the work he did to win his Daddy's love seems to be washing away like sidewalk chalk in the rain. What will Barbara the Barbarian say when her baby shrub is revealed as a national disgrace? QD almost feels sorry for the baby shrub. Almost, until she remembers all the lives Bush's arrogance and ignorance have destroyed.

Tecumseh's Curse.
"Harrison will win next year to be the Great Chief... He will die in his office... I who caused the Sun to darken and Red Men to give up firewater tell you Harrison will die. And after him, every Great Chief chosen every 20 years thereafter will die. And when each one dies, let everyone remember the death of our people."

QD will be satisfied when Bush resigns from the office he was neither fit for nor elected to...

The Legend of Julia Ward Howe 2

Queenie just wrote in that Al and Diana seem to be channeling the Venerable Old Ancestor!
Check out the whole song at All Hat No Cattle it's about half way down the page...

Battle Hymn of the Republicans
(to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic)

Mine Eyes have seen the bungling of that stumbling moron Bush;
He has blathered all the drivel that the neo-cons can push;
He has lost sight of all reason 'cause his head is up his tush;
The Doofus marches on.

I have heard him butcher syntax like a kindergarten fool;
There is warranted suspicion that he never went to school;
Should we fault him for the policies -- or is he just their tool?
The lies keep piling on.

Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'! etc.

Religious Wingnut Grovels for Gavel Post

Love Letters of HM and GWB

RUSH in to defend

In responding t0 the Repug nightmare that is the Valerie Plame investigation, Rush Limbaugh brilliantly switches tactics...
1) Nobody did anything wrong
2) It's just a bunch of liberals trying to smear a good man
and finally
3) Everyone knew about Plame anyway!

Reminds QD of her Highschool Days:
"I went to school today."
"Oh but I missed homeroom and that's why they called."
"You get three skip days ... everyone does it."

And it was not until QD hit number three that she was busted ... by her own admission.

REPUGS SAIL DOWN DENIAL

As the White House melts down, QD tried to get a feel for the buzz from the other side.
SUPRISE! The opposition is staying as far away from the sinking ship as possible:

Ace of Spades: Mocks the dead
Banana Republican: Discusses Catholic Doctrine/Philosophy
Captain's Quarters Blog: Repug on Miers
David Frum: ibid
Fullosseous Flap: ibid
Hugh Hewitt: ibid

... you get the drift!

Patrick J. Fitzgerald

US Attorney Bio

Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security Committee on the Judiciary U.S. House of Representatives April 5, 2005 - PJFitz Testimony

Barack Obama says: Though his term is up this fall, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, the aggressive prosecutor who is investigating Mayor Daley's City Hall, possible illegal White House leaks and who has a former Illinois governor awaiting a corruption trial, is in no danger of losing his job.

How the Bush Administration Is Flouting the Current Special Counsel Regulations,And Why the Independent Counsel Law May Not Have Been Such a Bad Idea After All by John W. Dean

DIRECTING THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE TO TRANSMIT TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOT LATER THAN 14 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF THE ADOPTION OF THIS RESOLUTION DOCUMENTS IN THE POSSESSION OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE RELATING TO THE DISCLOSURE OF THE IDENTITY AND EMPLOYMENT OF MS. VALERIE PLAME House Report 109th Congress

DC Court Momorandum Opinion on Miller

Andy Card vs Karl Rove

Play By Play Coverage:
America Blog
Raw Story
Talking Points Memo
PERRSpectives
more to come...

Scooter Libby Liar?

From the National Journal:
"In two appearances before the federal grand jury investigating the leak of a covert CIA operative's name, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, did not disclose a crucial conversation that he had with New York Times reporter Judith Miller in June 2003 about the operative, Valerie Plame, according to sources with firsthand knowledge of his sworn testimony. "//more//

Is a sin of omission more grievous than a sin of transgression?

Man on Dog with Bono?

Bono, U2 in Fundraiser for Senator Rick Santorum

Tricky Ricky Dogged by U2's Data
“It is not uncommon for politicians, from both parties, to organize events at all kinds of music concerts. If any such events take place at a u2 concert, it is without the involvement or knowledge of Data, U2 or Bono. U2 concerts are categorically not fundraisers for any politician - they are rock concerts for U2 fans." SANTORUM EXPOSED

DICK hates BUSH?

The Buzz is the Veep may be tired of the Creep!

Congrats on your 9.2 DICK!

and one more...

Dyke Counsels Cheney and we don't mean Mary...

Remember the Ladies America!

CHAPTER TWO: RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
PART ONE: RIGHTS FIRST: Civil and political rights.
Article (14): Iraqis are equal before the law without discrimination because of sex, ethnicity, nationality, origin, colour, religion, sect, belief, opinion or social or economic status.
- From the new Iraqi Constitution

THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
- From The Equal Rights Amendment introduced as S.J. Res. 11 (Sen. Edward Kennedy, MA, chief sponsor) and H.J. Res. 37 (Rep. Carolyn Maloney, NY, chief sponsor).

Is the Christian Coalition of Oregon ...

screwing its own supporters one relative at a time?
Or is it just Louis Beres?
Only time (and a thorough criminal investigation) will tell.

Sing along now

Oh where have you gone
Steve Schmidt, Steve Schmidt
Oh where have you gone
Steve Schmidtty?

I have run for my life
'cause my actions have caused me strife
I am a traitor
and am afraid I'll be indicted.

Oh why do you run
Steve Schmidt, Steve Schmidt
Oh Why do you run
Steve Schmidtty?

I am running for my life
For I outed Wilsons wife
I am a traitor
and am afraid I'll be indicted.

Yet again: Raw Story is frist!

Report indicates Steve Schmidt may take the fall ...

NOPD to Blacks: Stay gone?

Is the NOPD trying to send a message to the African American community that says, "Stay gone or we'll beat the shit out of you?"

In a disturbing turn of events, NOPD savagely beat 64 year old Robert Davis in the French Quarter. The attack was captured on video tape which is what is causing the "Brew-ha-ha" that has been in the news of late.

Despite the fact that the gentleman who was beaten does not harbor ill feeling against the NOPD, the event raises the bigger issue of what will happen to the Crescent City in the wake of Katrina.

Will all the blacks who return to their homes be beaten and driven out?

Mr. Davis says he believe that race was not an issue. QD prays he is right.

Look, the cops in NOLA have had a really tought time and they've been doing a helluva job.

But let's not forget that they are pretty much one of the most corrupt group of lawlessmen around and anyone who has lived in NOLA will tell you, it isn't exactly the most tolerant city in the US. In fact when QD lived there, her real estate agent asked her if she objected to living in a "mixed" neighborhood. QD thought "mixed" meant residential/commercial.

QD was 1) wrong 2) horrified and 3) did not object.

But Seriously Folks...

"We were only joking about blowing up trains in New York!
You guys just take us too seriously!
I mean, c'mon...you had to know we were jokin'
Didn't you?"
Source: Unidentified Iraqi Informant.

QD has a question. Weren't three people who were involved in the alleged plot arrested? Then why were they arrested? Are they still being held? Were they ever being held?

Wouldn't it be super funny to fake out NYC and say "We're gonna blow up your trains! Ha Ha, no we're not! BOOM! Yes were are!" That would be so funny wouldn't it?

No.

NYC Subway threat a hoax.

Miss Germany!

From the Guardian: "The financial markets were neither shaken nor stirred by the announcement that Angela Merkel, leader of the Christian Democrat party, had finally gained the chancellorship of Germany. "//more //

The Legend of Julia Ward Howe

My great great great great grandmother, Julia Ward Howe, wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic and recently came to stay with me in my Harlem apartment. The first thing we did was get her out of her black sack dress and into a bright green and orange velour warm up suit that we bought at Mony and a pair of leopard print Puma's we picked up at the Marshall' s on 125th and Lenox.

The first thing I should mention is that she doesn't smell. I was worried that someone who died in October of 1910 might reek like a rotten corpse, but she is neither decomposed nor stanky. She is, however, relatively intolerant. Despite having no money and no prospect of a job, she feels free to criticize me for my housekeeping, my smoking habit and for my foul mouth. I have had to resort to smoking joints out the bathroom window, and it is driving me crazy! The place is small, a 400 square foot studio and the venerable old relative is camped out on the sofa. I have had to dispatch my husband and my dog to the studio in Redhook, and while the husband visits regularly, I haven't seen my dog in a couple of days.

You might be wondering, as I am, why my great times four grandmother decided to show up at my place, but so far no one knows. I told her that in books usually the dead spook their descendants to provide some service. She may need to perform some act of kindness that will help me in this life and get her into heaven. I asked her about heaven. She seems to not remember being dead which is a real drag since I wanted to ask some questions about the existence of God and the experience of life everlasting.

Grandma Julia has been here three days and we have no idea how long her visit will last, but yesterday, the funniest thing happened and I had to write and tell you. As you well know yesterday was Tuesday, and as you may not know, I work weekdays. I had taken Monday off, but couldn't afford to take off more time since I am a temp and have no vacation and no savings. My husband also had to work so we had to leave the venerable old relative alone.

My next door neighbor, Tula, is in her mid sixties, the same age as my grandmother appears to be and so I asked Tula to watch her. When I got home from work, Tula met me in the hallway, with the straightest face I have ever seen her wear. She had news, she told me, about Julia. It seems that the two old ladies had a really nice time together and spent the morning chatting over tea and toast. They talked about art and books and their children and grandchildren. Around lunchtime, Tula said, Julia became a little distracted and brooding.

After a few silent minutes, Julia had turned to Tula teary eyed and serious. "Thank you," she said, "thank you so much. I see how kind you are to me and my family, and I have to tell you, I am not sure, that had history ended up differently, that we would have been so generous."

"What do you mean?" Tula had asked her confused.

"Well," Julia had responded, "I mean if white people had won the war, I don't know that we would be as kind as your people have been and of course had whites been slaves, I am sure we would not have been so forgiving!"

Tula and I have decided not to tell Julia Ward Howe the truth, that the slaves did not rise up and take over America. We are still trying to figure out what to do with the old girl, but for now, we're just going to string her along and keep a little diary of what happens.

We'll keep you posted!

(QD writes: Happy take over the country and act like you've discovered it day!)

Karl, Karl, Dammit - where are you God, I mean Karl, Karl...Come in Turd Blossom

The President, who denies-by-proxy being delusional, is still actually an idiot.
The President's mouthpiece denied that Bush told anyone that God commanded him to do stuff like invade Iraq etc. (see below: Bush's Jihad)
The BBC's upper lip quivered and they backed away from the story.

Tune In Next Time for:
THE CURSE OF THE SECOND TERM
(mooohaaahaahaahaaa!)

Thursday's Heroine

Frances Lovett
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) announced that Frances Lovett, a registered voter in Kerr County, Texas, sent a complaint this week to Kerr County District Attorney, E. Bruce Curry, urging an investigation into whether Karl Rove, Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bush, violated Texas state law by illegally registering as a voter in Kerr County, despite never residing there. //more

K Ro Watch ...

"Federal prosecutors have accepted an offer from presidential adviser Karl Rove to give 11th hour testimony in the case of a CIA officer's leaked identity but have warned they cannot guarantee he won't be indicted, according to people directly familiar with the investigation. The persons, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because of grand jury secrecy, said Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has not made any decision yet on whether to file criminal charges against the longtime confidant of President Bush or others."AP

musical interlude
We Will Go A-Rove-in'
Oh, we will go a-rovin', a-rovin' in the night
Oh, we will go a-rovin' now among the Plame so bright
Oh, we will go a-rovin'.

Hello, hello, you portly man; I think I like your smile.
I think I'd like for you to come and talk with me a while.
For blow your suns shine warmly now to the Grand Jur-ay,
But when that red sun shines again, then I must lock you away!

Who Screwed The Hammer?

If Ronnie Earl has "new info" on Tom DeLay, who was it that squealed?
Talking Points Memo says it could be Warren Robold ...
Warren Ro Who?
The Stakeholder explains and points us to The Austin Chronicle which speculates further...

Bush Describes his Jihad

"President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, "George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did, and then God would tell me, "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq …" And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, "Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East." And by God I'm gonna do it.'" -Source:BBC

Yeah, well God came over to QD's desk this morning and read this BBC story over her shoulder. Then God said, "Queenie's Daughter, is this guy for real." and QD said, "God I hope not!" and then God sighed and rolled his eyes and said, "What an Asshole." and QD responded with, "God damn right." Then God winked at QD and said, "I just might!"

It's 10am, do you know where your president is?

He's delivering what his laddies-in-waiting call a "Major Speech" which you probably cannot watch or listen to because you are at work.

I was too loved to have doubts about myself*

THE THEATER OF THE ABSURD
QD always thought of this administration as a greek tragedy being horrifyingly played out on a word stage. Recent events have caused her to reconsider...

"The term theater of the absurd derives from the philosophical use of the word absurd by such existentialist thinkers as Albert CAMUS and Jean Paul SARTRE. Camus, particularly, argued that humanity had to resign itself to recognizing that a fully satisfying rational explanation of the universe was beyond its reach; in that sense, the world must ultimately be seen as absurd. "
- Martin Esslin

*Quote from "The Words" written by J. P. Sartre and acted out by Baby Shrub.

QD Revealed

After five long hours navigating the shell game which is Verizon/Earthlink/AT&T
QD snapped a picture of herself banging her head against the wall!

psych!

Fishy Fish

From Queenie's vast library of musical treats:
"I wish I were a little fishy fish
I wish I were a little fishy fish
I'd swim around all nudey
Without a swimming suity
I wish I were a little fishy fish."
When Alaska Airlines gets a half a million dollar grant to paint an eagle, QD will post the Birdy Bird song!

Hobgoblin: Adored Little Statesman

And for oh so many reasons we calleth thee Shrub:
Here's is one more.
It is from Baby Shrub's Press Conference Today:
"I'm interested in finding somebody who shares my philosophy today,
and will have that same philosophy 20 years from now."

Now, a little Self-Reliance (Emerson):
"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall."

Now, a little QD:
"He aint no hero he's the Bush Man's son
and he'll be doing what he's told until the day is done."

Will she?

The kids are ah'ight - Hip Hop for Peace

WORD
QD was inspired to google "hip hop anti war."
QD will probably spend the rest of the afternoon surfing this out... there is tons of great stuff..
Right off the top ...
Poet Jeffrey McDaniel
East Westerly Review
The Songs are there but they are not on the air!
http://www.peace-not-war.org/
MAWO Hip Hop AntiWar Festival

This shit is tight yo.

Just Asking

Is it just QD or does Harriet Miers
sort of look like a really old Paris Hilton?

Liar, Thieves, Cheaters, killers and Bushmen

Tired. Gotta leave the office.
But one last update ...
QD wanted you to see this: BROWARD COUNTY
Kidan's tale `stranger than fiction'
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12795752.htm

Maybe you can print it out and read it on the train or send it on to a dunderhead neo-con.

Enjoy

What the hell?

Chimp no longer has monkey on his back
BEIJING (Reuters) - A chimpanzee in a northwest China zoo has quit smoking after 16 years with the help of her keepers, official media reported.

Moon Glow

Suck Ass Monday.
QD is cranky today.
Cranky and fussy and vexed with Verizon.
Yet, there have been three bright spots:
1) new j.jill skirt
2) free roast beef sub for lunch
and
3) Bill Bennett is forced to resign from the board of K-12 because of his racist comments

Also gratifying were the comments by Republicans about how sad and disappointed they are with Bush and how they think he is showing signs of weakness. Wahhhh.
Then I had a fantasy - daydream if you will - that the Supreme "No Nuthin' Nine" Court, which granted the Shrub his presidency would preside over his removal from office.

I know, its a stretch but hey, fuck it ... dreams are free.

Oh, yeah, and guess what...Queenie's other daughter is comin' to town this weekend.

Two words
Joe's Shanghai