A farewell to a small four-legged friend of mine...Dusti Rose

Dusti Rose

The following is what my good friend, Suzi, wrote about her cat, and my little friend.

- June 28, 2005-

In Loving Memory

Who would ever thought that a stray that followed me home and welcomed herself into my house 12+ years ago would touch my heart . Dusti - My Girl was granted her wings today and was escorted by the angels that came to get her. She stayed with us long enough to train Teddy to carry out her duty of taking care of her family.

She is at peace now and will be dearly missed!

Me, disgusted with life under Bush

Wisconsin newspaper article

We've seen enough to impeach Bush
By Dave Zweifel
June 20, 2005

As I said in this space two weeks ago, if Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about having sex with an intern, then George Bush needs to be impeached for the deliberate lies he and his cabal told to start a war that has now taken the lives of more than 1,700 young American men and women and countless Iraqi citizens, plus threatens to bankrupt the country.

One of our "Sound Off" callers insisted last week that only "Bush haters" would say such things.

Another took to task the Wisconsin Democratic Party, which passed a resolution calling for the president's impeachment at its convention a week ago, for being "foolish and shortsighted."

"They bathe themselves in the lies, falsehoods and accusations against the Bush administration, unable to accept their losses, which will continue as far as we can see into the future," the caller insisted.

If I were that caller, I wouldn't bet a lot on those assumptions, for it's becoming clear that Americans are beginning to realize what an utter disaster this administration has been for their country. The president's approval ratings are at historic lows - well below 50 percent - and even the war he bamboozled Congress and the people to approve is being questioned by not a minority any more, but the majority of the American people.

What the opinion polls show is that many more than just "Bush haters" have seen enough.

The recent disclosures of secret memos of meetings involving British Prime Minister Tony Blair's staff have underlined just how cynical and deceitful the people entrusted to lead the United States were in fabricating intelligence to get this war under way. It has become clear that they never had any intention of letting the United Nations try to settle the dispute. It seems clear now that they had made up their minds nearly a year before that Saddam Hussein was to be forcibly deposed.

Yet Bush and his lieutenants kept telling the American people that war would be waged only as a last resort.

As Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, said last week, "The veracity of those statements has - to put it mildly - come into question."

Because the administration refuses to answer questions about the so-called Downing Street memo and others that have surfaced since and because Bush's party controls all of Congress, Conyers had to resort to a "public forum" to gather testimony on the issue.

In a matter of a few days, more than a half million Americans signed petitions backing Conyers in urging the president to explain the memos. So far, Bush has dismissed it all as "falsehoods" and refused to comment further.

But the people want answers. Even those who don't hate Bush don't like being lied to.

Lying presidents need to be impeached. That's what the Republicans in Congress told us only a few years ago.

So let's get on with it.

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/index.php?ntid=44161&ntpid=0

Jeb Bush: Let it Go!

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/18/national/18schiavo.html?oref=login

My God! Here we go one more time!! I now see where that nut Jeb is having Michael Schiavo investigated for the supposed time-lapse in when he called 911 for an ambulance. He is not satisfied about the autopsy report and continues to go after Mr. Schiavo like a rabid dog...what a sickening, despicable act!! These Bush people are completely nuts.

Remember a few years back when his daughter was caught with her drug and theft problem and he asked the media to please give him and his family some privacy. Can't he do the same for Michael Schiavo? It is over and done with and the autopsy gave proof. Give him privacy and leave him the hell alone!!

What the hell

I thought I would be writing more often than I have but, there are times I just can't seem to put my fingers to the keyboard to convey thoughts running about in my brain.

The news seems to keep getting worse every single day and you would think I would have plenty of shit to bitch about...new stories on more torture at Guantanamo Bay prison; Patriot Act and more intrusion into our private lives; the bastards in Congress (Republican only) committing the most criminal acts to get what they want; an illegal war in Iraq still killing innocent people; my dipshit of a Governor, Arnold, doing his best to screw California; global warming; animal abuse, child abuse, and on and on and on.

When will it stop? When the people with their heads in the sand decide to change the jerks that are now fraudulently occupying the White House to the Democrats! I firmly believe this. They have to change members of Congress as well, but it will be a really tough road to try and straighten out the horrendous mess those Repubs have put us in, and then, we may not ever get out of the mess in my lifetime.

This is not the country I grew up in...this is another place...something from my nightmares. But I do have some hope and 2006 can't get here soon enough.

The gall of the bastards!

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=838557&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

I don't know why I am surprised at what happened Friday in the House Judiciary Committee being televised live on C-Span, but I am shocked and outraged! The hearing was being conducted on, of all things, the Patriot Act. To shut off mics on people trying to talk is outrageous...especially in the Congress. I have never heard of anything like this before. Read the article or go to C-Span and view the video.

Sign your name for the virtual march against global warming

Stop Global Warming : StopGlobalWarming.org

This is an extremely important issue and needs attention by all of us, don't you think? The White House doesn't think so but, most scientists and environmentalists know this is serious. I worry about what we are doing to the animals on our planet and what we will be leaving for future generations.

MP George Galloway's RESPECT Party

That wonderful hero, MP George Galloway, who ripped up Norm Coleman's Senate hearing some weeks back, has his own party web site from England. Check it out. http://www.respectcoalition.org/

The Downing Street Memo...a MUST read!!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html

This is mainly for those other people who believed Bush from the very beginning. Many of us knew before he started the war in Iraq it was a sham...a total lie! Our young people have been dying and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis' have died for nothing...nada...no good reason at all!! IMPEACH BUSH!!

Deep Throat...Mr. Mark Felt

'Deep Throat' and I live in the same town.

He did the right thing by thinking more about his country...but...I also believe that Ben Bradlee, Katherine Graham, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are heroes for keeping the story going against great odds. Their tireless work helped save our country from ruination. Our Constitution is more important than anyone and should NEVER be allowed to be subverted for any reason!

John Dean, former head of council to Nixon, recently wrote...'We still need to know much more about Mark Felt's activities, not to mention his accomplices, to understand the Byzantine workings of the FBI of that era. I hope Bob Woodward will answer these questions -- about which he has knowledge -- sooner rather than later, while there is still interest in the story. For it is information that is as uniquely relevant today -- with the current White House hell-bent on returning the presidency to the imperial status it occupied before Watergate.'

Written by Julia Ward Howe and still relevant today

"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 taught them of charity, mercy and patience.

We women of one country will be too tender of those of another to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."