those are the fucking rules...

the united states military admits that an average of about one iraqi civilian a week was killed by "coalition" forces in 2005...i would gander that is a conservative estimate...but it should still make you think...

2,500 sons, daughters, husbands, wives, mothers, fathers are not coming home from their deployment to iraq. those lucky enough to come home will never be the same. the folks that sent them there...never seen a day of combat in their lives...

sometimes you just have to slap your forehead and wonder what in god's name republicans are thinking...i mean, everybody is up for some good old fashioned pandering...but if you need to halt an extension of the voting rights act in the process, don't you begin to wonder "just who the hell am i pandering to here? why i am lining myself up with the klan?"

there seems to be some who feel annihilation of the middle east is the way to go because some extremist groups drag bodies and string them up...hence all of islam must be wrong. and then they like to claim the moral high ground because christians and americans would never stoop so low...but wait, isn't that what the klan did/does in the name of christianity? but i guess if we are going to do it overseas, we just brought folks in to "learn" those techniques from pentagon personel teaching at the school of the americas so they could do the dirty work for us...

killing a soldier in war is not murder...sending a soldier into war to make up for the below average size of your genitals is...

texas has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the country...look how well the christian right's abstinence programs work...

how outraged would the american people be if a foreign army had a significant, permanent military installation on our soil? that is what approximately 350 nations worldwide think of us...

now imagine how outraged the american people would be if there were brutal rapes committed by soldiers from that foreign army on our soil and they were simply redeployed...

i am amused (in a somewhat disturbing way) that so many people are so horrified at the costs of educating the children of illegal immigrants and providing them with medical care...those same people don't bat an eye at spending 100 times as much to kill children and prevent them from receiving medical care in another country...but god is on their side...um, yea...

bosnia was crucial to american oil interests too, much like with afghanistan a pipeline was being planned to divert oil from the chinese...clinton is an ass too...if only we could discover oil in africa...

speaking of africa the president of sudan is telling the un to go fuck itself, he ain't letting them in...sudan will not be recolonized on his watch. "sudan which was the first country south of the sahara to gain independence, cannot now be the first country to be recolonized." this is the legacy we are leaving...

major cities are refusing to enforce any crack down on illegal immigration because it will be a disaster for them and their efforts to combat crime...

condoms can protect women from the virus that leads to cervical cancer...good thing we are making sure nobody knows how to use them...

the department of homeland security is going to cut funding to major cities to fight terrorism...look how strong the republican administration and congress is on national security...

the united states sentencing commission, the same body that helped to create vastly tougher sentences for crack than for powder cocaine, came to the conclusion that violence resulted from neighborhood conditions, not crack...imagine that, what a novel thought...

the sentencing commission also found that 2 out of 3 crack users were crackers and hispanics...4 out of 5 convicted for crack are black. your drug war is racist...

"unless one assumes the penalties for powder cocaine are vastly too low, then the far-higher penalties for crack are at odds with the seriousness of the offense." - U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell.

for those concerned that the new look supreme court will change the landscape of america overnight...turns out chief justice roberts is aiming to decide cases on the narrowist possible terms and build concensus on the court.

i've heard people pissed that oil companies get shit for making too much money while microsoft earns ridiculous profits and bill gates gets a free pass...nevermind that gates had to deal with the feds going after him for the monopoly he created...the man gives more money to humanitarian aid in africa than the u.s. government...what has chevron done for anyone lately but get their country blown to pieces?

anyone else feel a little better knowing ghana beat the united states at something?

can't find the time to write my mind the way i want it to read...