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Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Rumsfeld's true personality emerges...
...couldn't resist.
posted by HelenWheels at 6/29/2005 12:43:00 PM 5 comments

Henry A. Wallace Revisted
Brought to us by the brilliant author of Exigence: Time Demands!, she revisits a 1944 article written by Henry A. Wallace on the Dangers of Facism. It's a chillingly appropriate warning for our times, although after reading it I was left with the impression that it's too late. The paragraph that hit me most was:
"11. The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy. They use isolationism as a slogan to conceal their own selfish imperialism. They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
As I said in my reply on her blog, when it's too late, it won't be an enjoyable "I-told-you-so" to the common man who self-destructively and dangerously cast his/her vote for George W. Bush, once they realize what they've allowed to happen. This, on the day when Dedspace Blog reports on Reagan being voted 'Greatest American' . Pah!
posted by HelenWheels at 6/29/2005 11:47:00 AM 0 comments

Sunday, June 26, 2005
Guantanamo Bay = Tropical Paradise?
Dick thinks so:
WASHINGTON - Defending the treatment of prisoners at the U.S. jail in Guantanamo Bay, Vice President Dick said they are well treated, well fed and "living in the tropics."
Cheney Says Guantanamo Prisoners Well Fed OK. So basically, if you feed prisoners, which is required in every prison, then you are not guilty of torture. If your prison happens to reside in a hot climate where palm trees grow, you are "living in the tropics." What meaning could the description "living in the tropics" be leading to, besides suggesting that the Gitmo detainees are somehow vacationing?? Is that the new defense Dick's going to use? Simply mind-blowing. I am beyond stunned. I suppose if the detainees are allowed to use bathroom facilities, one might describe that as "going to spa" or somesuch. Who was that buffoon who ate a "Gitmo" meal on CSpan a few days ago, the one that Jon Stewart made fun of? That's about how idiotic Dick is coming off with his "living in the tropics" comment. Doesn't this photo just smack of dreamy, island living? I know it's everything I'd want. Wouldn't you love to live within the confines of a comfy, protective chainlink fence with stylish barbed-wire trimming, without any pesky shade so you can perfect your tan? The guy leaning desperately against the fence looks especially happy. Maybe it's parasailing day! Dick snidely says:
"They're very well treated down there. They're living in the tropics. They're well fed. They've got everything they could possibly want," Cheney said in a CNN interview. There isn't any other nation in the world that would treat people who were determined to kill Americans the way we're treating these people."
These are ALL people who tried to kill Americans? Hmmm.... it's already been proven that this prison camp holds people who were rounded up out of who-knows-what-reasons, some for just being arab or of other middle-eastern ethnicity. Most of these folks don't even have lawyers. And, if they WERE all people who were trying to kill Americans, why would you treat them extra special? Even I wouldn't want that. If I knew for sure these people did try to "kill Americans" (concluded from actual evidence, not just because Dick says so), I wouldn't want their treatment to be privileged, certainly, I'd want them to have the basic needs. Dick has spun reports of torture by basically saying the U.S. now caters to killers of Americans, by letting them live in the tropics and feeding them well, and treating them better than any prisoners on the earth. Now, does that make this administration look any better than one that would torture prisoners who may have killed or plotted to kill Americans? I don't think the right-wingers would like this at all. They don't tend to go for molly-coddlin' the enemy. Has Dick gone off the deep end? "Living in the tropics." I keep waiting for some sort of real admission to slip out. Meanwhile, his descriptions of Gitmo just become more and more delusional. I wonder what'll happen the next time he's asked about it? I'm almost giddy with anticipation, it's going to have to be over-the-top to beat this one.
posted by HelenWheels at 6/26/2005 02:45:00 PM 5 comments

I'm glad so many liberals & animal lovers are vegetarians!
All kidding aside: What the?!?
WASHINGTON - A third and more sophisticated test on the beef cow suspected of having mad cow disease would have helped resolve conflicting results from two initial screenings, but the U.S. refused to perform it in November. That additional test, ordered up by the Agriculture Department's internal watchdog, ended up detecting mad cow — a finding that was confirmed on Friday by the world's pre-eminent lab, in England.
U.S. Refused to Do Extra Mad-Cow Test I stopped eating beef well over a year ago myself, and not necessarily because of mad cow, although that was in the back of my mind at times. I thought, "now, if the government doesn't give a rat's ass that our water and salmon and tuna are poisoned (I simply adore the phrase "acceptable mercury levels"), why would they care if we contract a disease that turns our brains into swiss cheese?" (I think dubya's public speaking causes a similar reaction but I can always turn off the TV.) The creepiest thing about getting mad cow disease is that you might have it for years and not know it. So how can anyone check the source? Call me paranoid, but I think the government isn't going to worry about a disease-causing source that no one can adequately trace, as shown up 'til now. If, say, 200 people died from eating beef from a cow this one may have infected, who'd know? It's not like tracing the poison tylenol. People can eat the beef, go about their lives, and a couple years later become a vegetable. I'd think it would be many, many times harder than even tracing illness caused by high mercury levels. At least with mercury, you can test the fish in an area, and find out how much fish the person affected eats, where they buy it, etc. It happens quickly, apparently, especially if you eat tuna. How can you test for a Mad Cow beef source?? Again, if I'm missing something obvious here, please enlighten me! To me, this disease is about as horrifying as that ebola blight. After I read about that, I had nightmares. Good lord.
posted by HelenWheels at 6/26/2005 11:32:00 AM 0 comments

No Child Left Behind - On their way to Iraq!
Well. That's the impression I was left with when I read this article on Privacy Groups Protest Pentagon Database . I got a chill-spasm when I read this particular paragraph near the end (emphasis by me):
"The Pentagon office does not manage data the military services collect under the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act, officials said. A provision of this act requires school districts to provide military recruiters with student phone numbers and addresses or risk losing millions in federal education aid."
Am I missing something? I knew that the "No Child Left Behind Act" has been widely criticized, but I didn't realize it had anything to do with assisting a potential 'draft.' Anyone who has insight on this, I'd really appreciate it.
posted by HelenWheels at 6/26/2005 11:08:00 AM 2 comments

Friday, June 24, 2005
"Can you smell money?!?!?!'' Jack Abramoff wrote...
And now he's in big trouble: Abramoff Defrauded Indians, Nonprofit, Senate Witnesses Say Awww, poor lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who stole 60 + million dollars from the Choctaw. Now he's gotten caught. I wonder what he thinks about his crimes? Although you can get more of an idea of his personality and witness the unbelievably high level of denial he's in from this interview: A Lobbyist in Full What I always marvel about is that these guys don't just rob folks, they insult them as well. It's not enough to merely steal them blind; they also seem to display an over-the-top contempt to convince themselves the victims deserve it. Isn't that how a rapist's mind works? This brings to mind the guys at Enron who joked about a little old lady going without electricity... I'm so sick of these bags of shit. They put it all right out there in e-mail, thinking no one can touch them (and face it, usually no one does). I hope he gets locked up forever, but then again, being Karl Rove's buddy and having Tom DeLay in your back pocket is probably a ticket to freedom in these days.
posted by HelenWheels at 6/24/2005 03:54:00 PM 11 comments

I know why Karl Rove is losing it!
How soon we forget. Poor Karlsie just can't get over his lil' breakup back in February. Remember? His boytoy got caught, and had to be removed from the Whitehouse. Remember stories such as this? Poor Karl! He needs a good therapy session.
posted by HelenWheels at 6/24/2005 10:10:00 AM 5 comments

Thursday, June 23, 2005
I heart Will Durst!
Will Durst, friend and brilliant political satirist, says it best again (look for more of his articles and contributions at Working Assets or AlterNet):
SCOUNDREL CITY "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." - Samuel Johnson Okay, get this and get this straight. Criticizing our Government is not the same as criticizing our armed forces. Okay? The same way that criticizing our Government is not the same as criticizing our postal workers. Or criticizing our zoo keepers or our ceramic mosaic tile grout installers. And let me make this clear, I am not in anyway suggesting that any of these groups be criticized. Especially the postal workers. Furthermore, telling the press that you are disgusted by reports of torture does not endanger our troops.You're all so fired up desperate to know what endangers our troops; I'll tell you what endangers our troops. Greedy cretinous toad leaders who send them12,000 miles away to a desert to fight a war based on lies. Lies about the threat and lies about a phantom desire to negotiate. That is what is responsible for putting our troops in harm's way. The idiots who sent them into this, and yes, its time to say it out loud, this quagmire. Quagmire, as in bottomless morass. Quagmire, as inVietnam. A minor conflict that tore our country apart about three decades ago. Perhaps some of you Patriotic Republicans remember? I know none of you bothered to serve over there, but you must of have seen a History Channel Special on it. Does the movie "Apocalypse Now" ring a bell? Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi calls the Iraqi War a"grotesque mistake," and House Speaker Dennis Hastert reacts like she's funding secret poisonous kim chi research in North Korea. "Leader Pelosi and theDemocratic leadership should support our troops instead of spreading inflammatory statements." Hey, Hastert! Pay attention. The lady said absolutely nothing about our troops. She was talking about you, you moron, and the rest of the majority leadership. And trust me, I use the term "leadership" extremely loosely. For crum's sake, you pay enough for your polling, put the donut down and read some of it. Most of America agrees with Pelosi. Big fat enormous monstrous grotesque mistake. Repeat after me: "War-bad. Troops- good." See, it's possible to say and to mean as well. What bowling ball cajones you must have to scream at Senator Durbin, the anti- torture dude, instead of the idiots who keep sending our troops over there without the proper equipment. You should be screaming at the over- inflated egos trying to take away benefits from those very same troops you're so protective of when they come home. It's like teaching the 9/11 terroristsa lesson by invading a country that had absolutely nothing to do with it. Oh, okay, I see. It's a pattern. Are you saying its treasonous to denounce torture? Or do you mean to imply torture comes with codicils?" Torture is bad. Unless its us doing the torturing. In which case it is not torture, but rather 'results oriented questioning.'" Samuel Johnson was a piker. With these scoundrels, patriotism is not the last, but the first, second and every other refuge. The Republicans need to learn: more strident does not make you more correct. If it did, Joan Rivers would be running things.
Now that's rantin'.
posted by HelenWheels at 6/23/2005 05:42:00 PM 0 comments

Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Walmart hearts Netflix
Well, I've known about this for a few weeks, but kept forgetting to mention it, just in case it sort of gets swept under the rug: Wal-Mart Teams Up With Netflix I had actually just quit Netflix a week before I read about this arrangement! I must be psychic. OK, I just got too lazy to mail 'em back fast enough to make it worthwhile...
posted by HelenWheels at 6/22/2005 08:59:00 PM 4 comments

Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Wish I could have been a fly on the wall...
... for this luncheon conversation! Frist Reverses Himself, Pushes Bolton Vote I like to think dubya howled at him to get his stupid, ineffective, ugly ass back out there and get Bolton nominated, or else there'd be hell to pay. I like to think that during his tyrade, dubya spewed half-chewed Angus beef and brandished a steak knife. I like to think chunks of spittle 'n' flesh flew into Frist's salad, humiliating him further. Frist might not mind dead animal flesh though. He admittedly used to torture and kill cats, after all...
posted by HelenWheels at 6/21/2005 03:03:00 PM 2 comments

Gotta love the long bars!
I was just reading yet another Downing Street Memo article, this one in The Christian Science Monitor, by Peter Grier. They have a poll on the page, which current results are: Since the Downing Street Memo is still being pooh-poohed by the mainstream press, it's always nice to see something like this, whether actually impactful or not. All I know is, I am NOT quitting my badgering of the press. Today I went to AfterDowningstreet.org and wrote to all the press folks they suggested. I grew up in a large family where being nettlesome and buggy got one some attention, so I'm having a good time reliving my childhood, in a strange sort of way. Who would have known badgering, demanding and irking could be so much fun? Please do the same. It's of the utmost importance we don't drop the ball on this. Don't give up!!
posted by HelenWheels at 6/21/2005 11:01:00 AM 4 comments

Monday, June 20, 2005
You wouldn't have heard THIS a year ago...
Hit by friendly fire
Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel is angry. He's upset about the more than 1,700 U.S. soldiers killed and nearly 13,000 wounded in Iraq. He's also aggravated by the continued string of sunny assessments from the Bush administration, such as Vice President Dick Cheney's recent remark that the insurgency is in its "last throes." "Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality," Hagel tells U.S. News. "It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq."
Are the blinders FINALLY coming off?? Heartening indeed. I love scoopin' up these little gems.
posted by HelenWheels at 6/20/2005 11:21:00 AM 2 comments

Watery Cruise
Call me petty, call me immature, but this is just the sort of thing that cracks me up: Prank Against Tom Cruise Leads to Arrest
posted by HelenWheels at 6/20/2005 11:12:00 AM 2 comments

Citrus: The "new 30"
What gets me is not that men can be duped by fruit - it's why a study such as this would occur to someone... Grapefruit May Make Women Seem Younger
posted by HelenWheels at 6/20/2005 11:10:00 AM 0 comments

They STILL know where he is!
Hilarious... CIA has 'excellent' idea where bin Laden is -Time The really funny part is this:

"Goss did not say where he believed bin Laden was hiding, but intelligence experts have said the al Qaeda leader who has evaded an extensive U.S.-led manhunt is probably in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan."
It should read "...is STILL probably in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, as he has been since 2001."
posted by HelenWheels at 6/20/2005 09:57:00 AM 2 comments

Sunday, June 19, 2005
Washington Post belittles courageous effort, to my chagrin
Did Dana Milbanks watch the same hearing I did?? One has to wonder: Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War Here's Conyer's response, courtesy of Daily Dissent. Here's my response (via email):
Dear Mr. Milbank, Your article about the hearing on the Downing Street Memo (Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War) was incredibly insulting. You not only did not have your facts straight and plainly made part of it up, as I've seen Rep. Conyers has already pointed out to you, but you also showed an incredibly amount of bias in the tone of the article. The sarcasm was insulting, and needless. The people that managed to hold the hearing against multiple obstacles ought to be congratulated. Obviously the powers that be tried all they could to stop it. Why didn't you report on that angle? Why was it so difficult for Rep. Conyers to find a room to hold the hearing when other, larger and more appropriate rooms were available? These are the sorts of issues you should be compelled to investigate. You obviously took the easy angle, and instead chose to write a bad fluff piece on a very important event. Your article sounds like it comes from a lazy, bitter person who is probably on the defense for not reporting this important piece of evidence when it first surfaced. None of you mainstream media people would touch it even though it's obvious it's a smoking gun. I am offended that you would belittle an effort that took so much hard work and courage to bring to national television, as this hearing did, by using phrases to decribe it as "playing house" and "make-believe." How very insulting, immature and inappropriate. Whether or not you are a Democrat, Republican or Independent, news is news. And until you "journalists" can actually prove the Downing Street Memo isn't a valid document, you'd better stop reporting it as such. It's insulting to the American people's intelligence. I have already stopped receiving and/or reading the Washington Post because of this sort of biased and/or inaccurate reporting, and wouldn't have seen your article at if it wasn't for the blogosphere. I hope you get many more letters and emails letting you know that most people don't like this sort of inexcusably bad reporting.

Sincerely,

The Real Me (not my blogger name :))

I noticed, in particular, that Dana Milbank came off as really defensive about anti-semitism, expounding on Ray McGovern's comments about Israel to the extent he did (and even went so far to claim McGovern's comments caused "an awkward turn" in the hearing), and also this:
"At Democratic headquarters, where an overflow crowd watched the hearing on television, activists handed out documents repeating two accusations -- that an Israeli company had warning of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that there was an "insider trading scam" on 9/11 -- that previously has been used to suggest Israel was behind the attacks."
I assume that perhaps it's a good part of the basis for his obvious irritation. But I didn't want to bother with that in my letter to him. And, while I didn't personally like it, I wouldn't even give his piece the time of day if he hadn't included so much misinformation (see Conyer's letter, linked above). I think it's important that we-the-people keep on top of errant reporting. Goodness knows, no one else will! If you're as offended as I am, or if you just think Milbank is a somewhat of a jerk in general, or if you just feel like giving him the business for whatever reason, you can do so at: milbankd@washpost.com.
posted by HelenWheels at 6/19/2005 09:16:00 AM 3 comments

Friday, June 17, 2005
John Conyers, American Hero
Heroes, in my estimation, are measured by their bravery in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. I do not think sports figures or movie stars are "heroes," just by being famous and talented. The label "hero" sure gets tossed around a lot these days, much like the label "genius" and "pundit". Every day you hear someone called a hero, but when I actually see evidence of heroic bravery in someone's actions, that's when I mentally assign the label. John Conyers did something of heroic proportions last night. He managed to get a group of people together to publicly air the truth about corruption in the bush administration on national television. Conyers, the people from AfterDowningStreet.Org and others managed to get past all the obstacles put in their way and hold a hearing to find out whether the bush administration should be investigated for fixing the facts around the policy in order to convince Americans that we needed to invade Iraq. John Conyers and all who participated displayed an incredible amount of bravery. This administration, the most secretive ever (and boy do they have reason to be), has obviously intimidated our media into clamming up about anything bush & co. don't want reported. This administration feels it is so powerful that it doesn't even bother trying to hide its hypocrasy. Stories of torture at Gitmo abound, Cheney merely shrugs and says they are lies, even though they are detailed and verified accounts. Same with Abu Gahraib. In simply claiming every story brought to light is a "lie," they show their utter contempt for the American people. John Conyers and the others who participated decided they'd had enough, that we had had enough. They brought the Downing Street Memo to television, and even being crammed into a tiny basement room didn't deter them. They turned an undignified situation into quite something else - a hopeful, exciting event that I will not soon forget. I actually got chills, and didn't really know why, until later when I wondered if this may end up being a huge moment in history. If bush & co. topple, it certainly will be. I whooped when John Conyers held up the petition, which I signed along with 560,000 other Americans. I only wish I could have seen them deliver it. Apparently, they were stopped on the whitehouse steps, although a staff member took the petition inside. I haven't been this jazzed about anything in such a long time. It is truly heartening, truly exciting, and hopefully just the beginning of the waking up of America. Thanks to all you bloggers, who helped disseminate information for AfterDowningStreet.Org as I did. I feel so very proud to have been a part of this experience and I look forward to doing all I can in the future to aid our brave representatives bring this administration's lies to the forefront. The American people got something incredible last night: A view of the truth. It takes a hero nowdays to bring the truth to live television, and John Conyers and AfterDowningStreet.Org did it. I went to AfterDowningStreet's site just now, and they have a temporary site up because the main one is overloaded... .... and so it begins.
posted by HelenWheels at 6/17/2005 11:57:00 AM 6 comments

Thursday, June 16, 2005
Runaway Blight
So, she did it allllll for money. I think she and the doughy-faced "fiance" are grifters. And what does this say about what we as a public find important? Runaway Bride May Get Movie Deal Here's "Runaway" in a weak moment, apparently caught off-guard...
posted by HelenWheels at 6/16/2005 07:06:00 PM 5 comments

Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Now, THIS is pretty heartening
Am I reading this right? I really didn't expect this to happen! But it sure appears to me that beady-eye-dubya has been defied more and more lately....
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday defied President Bush by approving a measure making it harder for federal agents to secretly gather information on people's library reading habits and bookstore purchases. The House voted 238-187 to scale back the government's powers to conduct secret investigations that were authorized by the Patriot Act, a post-Sept. 11 anti-terrorism law. "We can fight terrorism without undermining basic constitutional rights. That's what the message of today is about," said Rep. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who pushed the measure through the House with the support of 38 Republicans.
US House votes to curb Patriot Act, defies Bush I feel giddy as a schoolgirl whenever I see beady-eye-dubya defied. Oh, this makes my evening. Snick!
posted by HelenWheels at 6/15/2005 06:30:00 PM 3 comments

Pfli wants to know if you've stopped beating your wife yet
I was just chatting back & forth with Alicia. She wanted to know the site whose design was as bad as NY Christian Coalition.org's since I commented earlier how VERY bad all the right-wing-fanatical sites are (they are ALL hideous and so amateurly-designed). As a professional web designer, I shudder when I have to pick through these awful AWFUL esthetically-displeasing messes, usually veritibly crawling with patriotic animated .gifs, usually the flag, but sometimes eagles, etc. I mentioned the NYCC site because Rev. Banuchi who said gays should wear warning labels has his guest book up there. Anyway, the site I hate even more is Pharmacists for Life International. Karen Brauer, the misogynist facist who refused to fill women's birth control prescriptions (but thankfully got fired from KMart for doing so) is the head of this organization, whose intent is to get all pharmacists to follow suit and decide what drugs the public should have and which they should not. It's such a blight of a site it makes my head spin. But I suppose I love to hate it. There is so much to make fun of on this site (and yes, I have ranted about it before) that I keep coming back again and again. For one thing, you have to scroll down past a pagefull of ads on EVERY page. Her 'comments' section is entitled "Stupid sayings/hate mail" and does NOT allow comment. Here's my favorite part: The Poll. It changes either daily or maybe every time you log on. But every poll's choices are extreme and if you are a liberal (or even just rational) person, there is NO choice you would possibly like. Here's today's: The last one I voted in had a choice between being prolife OR desiring that the government take total control of every aspect of every every person's life, much like Hitler. I honestly wish I would have kept that one. Oh well. I think the guy who designed the site was another pharmacist who got in trouble for refusing to fill a birth control prescription, so they apparently hooked up. Oh - another aspect of the site to hate is that if you are on there for more than a few mins, you will get popups galore. This woman really is trying to rake in the advertising bucks! Enjoy.
posted by HelenWheels at 6/15/2005 03:36:00 PM 5 comments

Ahnold: Probably too self-absorbed to take offense
Hyuk!
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger faced down booing, jeering protesters on Tuesday as he delivered a commencement address at his alma mater, where tuition has risen as a result of his budget cuts. Only a handful of graduates and faculty stood and turned their backs to the stage, but spectators in the bleachers at Santa Monica Community College's stadium kept up a steady and distracting patter of chants and whistles as Schwarzenegger, dressed in a black robe, made his 20-minute speech. Cheers and applause erupted midway through his remarks as a faculty member rose and held up a sign, referring to the cost of an upcoming special election, that read: "Honor your promise to our children ... $80 million buys a lot of books." The noise caused Schwarzenegger to pause momentarily but he plowed through to the end, with a smile on his face and without acknowledging the jeers.
Schwarzenegger college speech draws boos in Calif. I love it! Now, if this can happen to the CA governor, why not the US "pres"??? Oh that's right - it can't - because all of beady-eye dubya's events only allow recruited, scripted, bought-and-paid-for crowds!
posted by HelenWheels at 6/15/2005 01:22:00 PM 0 comments

Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Homophobic Bigot of 2005
Unless someone outdoes this ignorant asshole, and I doubt that will happen, I grant Rev. Banuchi the Homophobic Bigot Award of 2005. It's an award I just made up, because I figure this sort of heinousness should be given some form of recognition, if for no other reason than amassing a bigger audience to revile him. The "HoBig" award would be a golden statue of a really CUT young adonis. I bet he would fondle it behind closed doors. Here's Rev. Banuchi and lovely blank-eyed stare-y wife: And here's what Banuchi claims:
"We put warning labels on cigarette packs because we know that smoking takes one to two years off the average life span, yet we 'celebrate' a lifestyle that we know spreads every kind of sexually transmitted disease and takes at least 20 years off the average life span according to the 2005 issue of the revered scientific journal Psychological Reports."-- Rev. Bill Banuchi
Got it from Pam's House Blend. Thank you, Pam, for alerting us all to this freak. And thanks for posting the link to tell him what you think, which obviously this posting would not be complete without: Sign Bill Banuchi's Guestbook!
posted by HelenWheels at 6/14/2005 02:00:00 PM 14 comments

Let's do some "outing" of our own!
Why can't we use some ingenuity like the Spanish and get some marriage rights for OUR gay population? After all, the Republicans have many, many of closeted gays, if I am to believe what Bill Maher and others have said (you know, how again and again it happens that the right-wingers who do the most damage to gay rights are usually homosexual themselves.) Plus, I just simply love blackmail when it's for a good cause:
MADRID (Reuters) - Gays in Spain's main opposition party could reveal the names of homosexuals in its ranks unless the party backs down from its opposition to gay marriage. Parliament in April approved a Socialist government initiative legalizing gay marriage over the opposition of the right-of-center opposition Popular Party (PP) and the Roman Catholic Church. The PP and the Church are backing a street protest against gay marriage called for Madrid by a group promoting the traditional family, but the party's Gay Platform wants the PP to reverse its support for the demonstration. Gay members of the PP who continue to oppose gay marriage run the risk of being "outed" -- or forced out the closet -- by the party's Gay Platform, the platform's president told state radio on Tuesday. "We are willing to say, you, so-and-so, are a hypocrite ... because you are voting to impede a law that we believe is just and will mean more democracy, more equality, more tolerance and more greatness for the Kingdom of Spain," Carlos Biendicho said.
Conservative gays threaten to 'out' party members
posted by HelenWheels at 6/14/2005 10:18:00 AM 2 comments

Monday, June 13, 2005
New Blogger Thrill!
I'm feeling all self-important because I got quoted in an AlterNet article today. Oh, I didn't get quoted as a result of this blog, sorry to say, but for a response I wrote to an article Don Hazen wrote on June 1st, Turning Up the Heat on Wal-Mart. It's about Robert Greenwald's upcoming expose on WalMart. Since so many people wrote in, AlterNet associate editor Laura Barcella wrote an article about readers' responses to the original article. That's where yours truly comes in! I'm the last one quoted in the article (as Helenwheels, of course):
Another reader, Helenwheels, expressed a similarly critical sentiment about the movie's ability -- or lack thereof -- to change Wal-Mart's monopoly on the market. "Wal-Mart isn't going to disappear because of this movie any more than Bush [was going to lose] power after Michael Moore's movie, Fahrenheit 9-11," she noted.

"We always get so hopeful when the truth comes out on the big screen, and these exposes do affect change to a degree, but shockingly enough, they don't seem to change things as much as one would surmise." But Helenwheels closed on a hopeful note, acknowledging the value of films like Greenwald's. "I am thankful for Greenwald's work, and I truly hope it doesn't merely piss off a bunch of higher-ups for awhile and then disappear, like Farenheit 9-11. My hope upon hope is that if it doesn't manage to set off a chain of events that topples Wal-Mart, it may at least inspire new activists against big business and greedy corporations."

Readers Write: Turning Up the Heat on Wal-Mart I should have added that Bowling for Columbine, the second Michael Moore expose (after Roger and Me), is what originally inspired my activism. Too bad I didn't think to write that. So I'm doing it now! Ooh, I feel so famously important just now. Apparently, for some folks (me!) it doesn't take much!
posted by HelenWheels at 6/13/2005 10:10:00 AM 3 comments

Spiny Maxine!
My friend over at DEDspace blog yesterday listed a handy, comprehensive list of spineless (or as she put it, "vertebrae-challenged") Democrats for all to see:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Sen. Joe Biden John Edwards Rep. Harold Ford Jr. Sen. Joe Lieberman Gov. Bill Rchardson Sen. Dianne Feinstein Sen. Barack Obama Rep. Rahm Emmanuel Sen. Chris Dodd
She made it much easier for the lazier of us (me anyway) to have a sort of hands-on reference to the ineffectual wimps that are letting every opportunity to make a stand against this administration slip through their twiddling fingers. So today when I saw this article on Maxine Waters at AfterDowningStreet.org, I just had to post it, so that we who are oh-so-frustrated by the afore-mentioned spineless can at least enjoy ONE moment of Democratic spine. It's about time SOMEONE gave this administration the business in public. And oh how she DID! You just gotta love Maxine Waters:
Congress Member and House Judiciary Committee Member Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) shook up the Rainbow Push Coalition's 34th Annual Convention in Chicago today, winning huge standing ovations for a speech denouncing President Bush for lying about the war. Waters announced that she and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus plan to inform the House Democratic Leadership that they will introduce amendments on the issue of the war EVERY DAY from now on. Waters told the crowd that Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean had received attention for criticizing the Republican Party in recent days, but that "he did not say enough." "Bush is a liar," Waters said, according to an observer who phoned AfterDowningStreet.org. "He lied about weapons of mass destruction and he lied about the war." Waters called Vice President Dick Cheney "a thief," and said that he was stealing for Halliburton. And Waters said that Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice will "go anywhere and say anything they tell her to say, and have the audacity to do it with a smile." ...after which the applause grew too loud for our observer to hear the Congresswoman's remarks.
Maxine Waters Rocks Rainbow Push Convention: Denounces Bush Lies on War Hurray for Maxine!! A Democrat with an actual spine, who's not wasting time ineffectually criticizing the head of her own party! I hope the above-listed can learn something from Ms. Waters. I have heard her speak in public (at an anti-war rally in 2004) and she's quite eloquent and charismatic. I hope the people with spines can help the others evolve. But of course I'm not holding my breath.
posted by HelenWheels at 6/13/2005 08:08:00 AM 0 comments

Sunday, June 12, 2005
Who's still a lying Dick?
So, I've been patiently awaiting Dickie C. to finally admit-with-spin (is there any other way?) that Gitmo just MIGHT have a couple of errant folks who have taken it upon themselves, without any instruction or backing from the U.S. (of course), to treat prisoners less-than-fairly. And today Dickie did admit it! And spun it! Then retracted it! All in a couple of sentences... just as I imagined it would be (emphasis by meeee):
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday there are no plans for now to shutter the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay where terrorism suspects are held. "The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people," he said. "I mean, these are terrorists for the most part. These are people that were captured in the battlefield of Afghanistan or rounded up as part of the al-Qaida network," he said in an interview to be aired Monday on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes."

Cheney: No Plans to Shut Guantanamo Jail I think the first statement was a good, truthful admission. Of course, it's so sweeping that it becomes the expected admission-without-an-admission once one moves onto the next paragraph. Dickie still does say that "these are terrorists FOR THE MOST PART". That gives him some squirming room, too. I am going to compile every near admission of Dickie's I find, and see if once they are read side by side, together they make one big admission. Here's the one admission that Dickie didn't deny.
posted by HelenWheels at 6/12/2005 01:08:00 PM 2 comments

Friday, June 10, 2005
I think I've finally become Catholic-freeeee!
Well, I did 'quit' the church when I was still quite the young 'un, because I just could never buy into all the ceremonial bizarreness, hypocrasy and inconsistency (being somewhat of a logician by nature), but of course since I was forced to participate in 12 years of Catholic School, it got pretty ingrained into my impressionable mind, like it or not (I was grounded for refusing to get confirmed so I learned quickly that if I wanted out of the house I better kow-tow). The one thing that seemed to linger for years - besides the occasional irrational attack of guilt over some guiltless act - was a sort of inclination to wonder if God was punishing me every time something big went wrong. It might not have been at the forefront of my mind, but it was there. And I know that I automatically somehow listened, even after I decided I'm not only an ex-Catholic, but I don't really actually believe in God, either. Habit, folks. Sort of a nice little safety net. That weird false hope that God will bail you out. I honestly can't understand why, after God doesn't bail people out, they still believe in Him. I don't care what people believe but I am baffled by that sort of blind faith. I just never could achieve it, nor would I want to. Nothing against it; just not possible for me. And although I thought I had tossed out that sort of 'thinking', every now and then, when a crisis comes along, my brain immeditely goes to the God "out" - I mean the part of me that would beg God PLEASE to fix the problem, or get me out of whatever bind I was in, or make me into something I'm not. Even though it's been a long time since I really consciously 'believed' in God or Catholicism, I've been aware that a sort of 'automatic' little trace or strain remained. Yesterday I had a really BAD day. Well, my puppy Seamus had a really BAD day. He might have distemper. I still am not 100% sure, but he had a bizarre symptom which indicates it. It's a sort of seizure where the pup looks like he's chewing gum and lots and lots of foaming goes on. He had 2 of these, and after the first one I went to the vet. The second one was around midnight. I just held him and cried and cried. But I didn't blame God or ask God to help, as was my sort of 'habit' for years, even though it was pushed to the back of mind. It was always there... that sort of "please please I'll do anything you want God if Seamus can be all better." Just in case.... I just realized a few minutes ago, after I sort of reflected on last night, that it didn't even occur to me to ask God to help, '"just in case." It didn't occur to me, even during the most most gut-wrenching sobs, to wring my hands in guilt and wonder why God did this to me. Nope. Instead, I tried to get as much sleep as possible so I could start early and begin working toward healing Seamus. Seamus is doing OK, and so far today is seizure-free, and I've begun my scientific, homeopathic, natural-healing research, some networking and looking up specialists to take him to, and every process humanly possible to see if I can aid in his full recovery. Of course, I will keep you posted on his progress. Look at me: I've become a completely rational human being. I think I'll celebrate with some 'ceremonial' wine... ahem.
posted by HelenWheels at 6/10/2005 03:20:00 PM 6 comments

Thursday, June 09, 2005
Thank you, tax-breaks for the rich!
More Millionaires than EVER before! How exciting! Soon, there won't even be a yucky annoying middle class, and we can be just like all the OTHER capitalistic societies! It's convenient that the poor are getting poorer, they'll be cheaper to hire. A starving person is a hard-working person, I always say.
posted by HelenWheels at 6/09/2005 04:27:00 PM 6 comments

Another rat needs a trap
My sister sent me this article. I figure he must be in disguise, that's why they haven't caught him ... U.S. sees Serb move on Mladic ... but I have!
posted by HelenWheels at 6/09/2005 11:33:00 AM 5 comments

The rat squeaks by again
Ewwwww! House Ethics Standstill Stalls DeLay Decision Every time anyone gets close to trapping him, he scampers behind the distraction-of-the-day. And there are so many distractions, such as the punishment of runaway brides and pedophile rockstars, don't ya know?
posted by HelenWheels at 6/09/2005 08:47:00 AM 5 comments

Tuesday, June 07, 2005
What a generous offer!
Yesterday afternoon on Yahoo! News, I read that GM is laying off 17% of its workforce. Later, as I was watching The Daily Show on Comedy Central (the irony isn't lost) a GM commercial ran at least twice. It featured hollywood-esque 'GM factory workers' talking about how HAPPY they are that now, GM is offering its employee discount toward the purchase of a new vehicle to EVERYONE, not just its employees!! What the good goddamn? I shook my head a couple of times in disbelief, and had to go recheck online to make sure this was the same company I'd read about on Yahoo! It was. So, not only is GM firing a shitload of people, they are giving away said employees/ex-employees' perks to the entire world. I'm sure the actor-workers could afford to look happy in the commercial. I doubt that the real workers would want to smile about that. If I were an employee waiting to get the axe - or worse, just having gotten the axe, one final indignity would be the realization that my company can afford to give my automobile discount to everyone on the planet. Everyone (with a brain) must realize that the majority of car companies are amoral, but GM is so blatant in this insult-to-injury it makes my head spin. Of course, what could I expect from the freaks who put the Hummer on the market? I wish this layoff could at least reflect that people are buying less GM vehicles, especially Hummers. However, my sixth sense tells me it's just more over-the-top corporate greed. I went back up to Yahoo! today to read another story, and saw this ad: GM Employee Discount for Everyone Event I wonder how much money they spent on this campaign? Hmmmm.........
posted by HelenWheels at 6/07/2005 08:59:00 PM 2 comments

Still Waiiiiiting...
A few days ago, I posted Cheney's response to the Amnesty International's claim that torture is occurring at Gitmo:
"Frankly, I was offended by it," Cheney said in the videotaped interview. "For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them seriously."
Um, does he take it seriously now that it's (gasp) actually being reported in mainstream media that, yes, Dickie, the Quran is being peed on! When oh when will the administration start spinning a non-apology? I simply can't wait to see how they word it! Will it be passed off as the media's fault, lying American soldiers, Al Quaeda terrorist propaganda? Oooh! I'm simply tingling with anticipation! Once more, with feeling, y'all: U.S.: Gitmo Quran Was Splashed With Urine
posted by HelenWheels at 6/07/2005 08:11:00 AM 2 comments

Ich bin still a Facist!
Some Hitler's Youths never change.... Pope condemns gay marriages as fake and anarchic
posted by HelenWheels at 6/07/2005 07:52:00 AM 2 comments

Saturday, June 04, 2005
So... will there be an apology to Newsweek??
OK, is the fact that now it's verified that the Quran was merely peed on, NOT flushed, going to get bush/cheney off the hook for allowing (alright.... "suggesting") torturing detainees (or "prisoners of war" as cheney has recently called them)? Of course we all know the flushing has occurred as well. But the splashing of the pee, well, maybe that's just an accident, not intended at all. Only the flushing is intended, and that didn't happen (except according to 100's of soldiers and others who have seen it happen many times.)
WASHINGTON - U.S. military officials say no guard at the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects flushed a detainee's Quran down the toilet, but they disclosed that a Muslim holy book was splashed with urine. In other newly disclosed incidents, a detainee's Quran was deliberately kicked and another's was stepped on. On March 25, a detainee complained to guards that "urine came through an air vent" and splashed on him and his Quran. A guard admitted he was at fault, but a report released Friday evening offering new details about Quran mishandling incidents did not make clear whether the guard intended the result. In another confirmed incident, water balloons thrown by prison guards caused an unspecified number of Qurans to get wet, and in a confirmed but ambiguous case, a two-word obscenity was written in English on the inside cover of a Quran. The findings, released after normal business hours Friday evening and after the major TV networks had aired their evening news programs, are among the results of an investigation last month by Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, the commander of the detention center in Cuba. A Newsweek magazine report — later retracted — that a U.S. soldier had flushed one Guantanamo Bay detainee's Quran down a toilet triggered the investigation. The story stirred worldwide controversy, and the Bush administration blamed it for deadly demonstrations in Afghanistan.
U.S.: Gitmo Quran Was Splashed With Urine So the administration uses Newsweek as scapegoat, Newsweek is proved right, at least partially, now what? New sets of rules for the torturers - I mean, interrogators - to practice their "questioning" by:? Pee on Quran: OK Drench Quran with water balloons: OK Write obscenities on Quran: OK Stomp on Quran: OK Kick Quran: OK Flush Quran down toilet: ABSOLUTELY NOT! TO DO SO WOULD BE AN INSULT OUR MUSLIM "GUESTS"!
posted by HelenWheels at 6/04/2005 03:56:00 PM 0 comments

Car Alarms = Evil Urban Blight
I must be missing something. WHY do car alarms exist? You'd say in a big city, car theivery is a real threat... but how exactly can a car alarm prevent it? They don't!! On a daily basis, I probably hear oh, say, 20 car alarms go off. I never see any of them tampered with, because no one is anywhere near them. There is a guy across the street who owns a particularly loud and souped-up motorcycle. Every time he comes down the street, the rumble sets off at least one car alarm. Then I have to listen to it for 5 minutes or so. ALL CARS HAVE THE SAME-SOUNDING ALARM. So, if you are parked on a street with 100 other cars, and it's 3:00 a.m., and your apartment or house is half a block away, how do you know whether or not it's your alarm waking up the neighborhood? You don't. And no one else does, either. In this area, there are myriad reasons why a car alarm can be set off, the least of which is usually tampering by a car thief. Earthquakes, helicopters, fighter jets (!), malfunction, loud other vehicles or trucks lumbering down the street, said souped-up crotch rockets, wind, palm fronds falling, birds, squirrels, cats, hobos, etc. the list could go on and on. So, these things that go off on a hair-trigger are literally allllll over my neighborhood, ready to screech and jangle the bejeezus out of my nerves at any given time. I work at home, so it's even more annoying. I can never really seem to escape them, save plugging up my ears, which I refuse to do (I also refuse to wear headphones for music, but that's a whole other story). Not only do they just go off on their own, depending on the sensitivity of the vehicle, but for some reason, some alarms or cars are designed to go off EVERY TIME the driver unlocks their car to get in. WHAT THE?? Why? Does the entire neighborhood have to be aware you are getting into your car? How obnoxious. I really hate that little bleep bleep that happens when the person finally gets around to shutting off the damn alarm. Most of these oblivious neighbors usually aren't in much of a hurry to turn it off, either. Basically, a car alarm in this city serves only as a huge auditory annoyance, noise pollution as it were, and nothing else. If one cannot tell whose alarm is blaring, how is it protecting any cars? If all alarms sound the same, and cars are in extremely close proximity to each other, how is it doing any damn good?!? Another aspect of the constant alarms is that no one pays attention to them. I certainly don't (aside from being irked by the noise, that is). I don't go outside to see which vehicles' lights are frantically flashing on and off, I just wait for it to stop. I never see anyone running out to their car to make sure a car thief isn't trying to make off with their ride. No one pays attention to car alarms. That being said, I cannot for the life of me figure out why they exist. Oh, and, as someone who strives as best she can NOT to be a hypocrite, no, I do NOT have an alarm in my car. I'm taking my chances. If my car is stolen, I figure it's just part and parcel of living in a big city. If you don't want your car stolen, don't buy one that tops the list of the types of vehicles people steal. And that is actually an easy report to find. Is this one of those odd things in society that no one addresses so it just goes on and on as we suffer with increasing agitating noise pollution for absolutely no valid reason? It would really reduce stress in people if car alarms went away, is my guess. Not only are they useless in protecting a car (do you really think an experienced car thief can't disable it on the fly??), they are probably the biggest noise blight on the planet, save Ann Coulter's voice. OK, that's my rant and I'm done, unless someone tries to defend car alarms...
posted by HelenWheels at 6/04/2005 11:55:00 AM 6 comments

Friday, June 03, 2005
And my parents still wonder why I left the church....
I wonder what the new Hitler's Youth Pope thinks about this. Ky. Diocese to Pay $120M in Sex Abuse Case
posted by HelenWheels at 6/03/2005 01:09:00 PM 2 comments

Thursday, June 02, 2005
Knuckle-Dustin' Buddhist Monk & Fellow Fighters Defrocked
This is one of the most hilarious stories I've read in a loooong time:
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Five Thai Buddhist monks have been defrocked and fined after a brawl with monks from a nearby temple, police and newspapers said Tuesday. The street fight was the culmination of years of antagonism between monks from the two temples who had often exchanged curses, insults and rude gestures as they collected alms on different sides of a road, the Manager newspaper said. "When an ordinary person is given a middle-finger sign, he will be mad. So am I," it quoted one of the defrocked monks, Boonlert Boonpan, as saying after the brawl in the northeastern state of Nong Khai Monday. Boonlert said he usually carried a knuckle-duster in his shoulder bag during the morning collection of alms on which Bhuddist monks depend, it said. Boonlert and the four other monks, all aged between 15 and 28, were each fined 1,000 baht ($25) by police for public brawling and were defrocked by senior monks, Wut Pomraksa, head of Nong Khai police station, told Reuters. But Boonlert was unrepentant. "If senators can fight in parliament, why can't monks?" he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050531/od_nm/thailand_monks_dc I wonder if poor Boonlert was ever taught the difference between the practice of Buddhism and politics. My guess is he's headed for parliament, where his knuckle-duster will come in very handy indeed!
posted by HelenWheels at 6/02/2005 01:02:00 PM 0 comments

Wednesday, June 01, 2005
I'm officially afraid of the current administration
Now, I've always been wary, I've been frustrated, I've been BEYOND angry, I've been disgusted, sometimes even amused (how can one not be with all the idiotic propaganda that gets spouted on a daily basis). But now I'm officially FRIGHTENED. I was sent info on PNAC (Project for The New American Century) from a friend a few months ago. But it was just after the 'election' and I had other things on my mind. I returned to take a gander the other day, and have been sort of fretting and obsessing about it ever since. I'm afraid of PNAC because they are so blatant and honest. Realizing that bush lies every day and absolutely no one in mainstream media checks him on it, I figure, why wouldn't the PNAC simply put up a website for all to see what they really intend for the planet... which is world domination? Of course, it obviously has to be thinly veiled, but then we've learned to interpret "bush", "bushisms" and "cheneyisms" and "rumsfeldisms" long enough to read between the lines and cut the crap. Since they dance about facts and evade answering questions, it's become even scarier to me when they out-and-out tell the truth. Here is an excerpt of the mission statement (emphasis by me):
Of course, the United States must be prudent in how it exercises its power. But we cannot safely avoid the responsibilities of global leadership or the costs that are associated with its exercise. America has a vital role in maintaining peace and security in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. If we shirk our responsibilities, we invite challenges to our fundamental interests. The history of the 20th century should have taught us that it is important to shape circumstances before crises emerge, and to meet threats before they become dire. The history of this century should have taught us to embrace the cause of American leadership. Our aim is to remind Americans of these lessons and to draw their consequences for today. Here are four consequences: • we need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future; • we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values; • we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad; • we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.

Such a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity may not be fashionable today. But it is necessary if the United States is to build on the successes of this past century and to ensure our security and our greatness in the next.

Who are the authors of this world domination plan? These guys:
Elliott Abrams Gary Bauer William J. Bennett Jeb Bush Dick Cheney Eliot A. Cohen Midge Decter Paula Dobriansky Steve Forbes Aaron Friedberg Francis Fukuyama Frank Gaffney Fred C. Ikle Donald Kagan Zalmay Khalilzad I. Lewis Libby Norman Podhoretz Dan Quayle Peter W. Rodman Stephen P. Rosen Henry S. Rowen Donald Rumsfeld Vin Weber George Weigel Paul Wolfowitz
http://www.newamericancentury.org/ I know it might seem to be nothing to those in the know politically. Maybe it can be interpreted other ways than how I read it. However, after seeing that they are managing to do exactly what is stated therein, why would I question their motives? I would love to chat with the likes of Greg Palast on this issue. As it is, I welcome comments, information, feedback, etc. from anyone who has studied up on this. Peace.
posted by HelenWheels at 6/01/2005 09:59:00 AM 4 comments
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