As someone who has spent nearly three frustrating years actively advocating the impeachment of President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for their many crimes and abuses of power, I have to admit that not only did it not happen, but that the likelihood of their being indicted and brought to trial now that they have left office is exceedingly slim. FULL ARTICLE

For anyone seeking to get away with murder, there seems to be a foolproof method: be appointed president of the United States. The lucky person in this office, along with the vice president, cabinet members and advisors, all, it seems, are above the law. FULL ARTICLE

Yes! The Inauguration Crowd on the Mall Did Sing “Hey Hey, Goodbye” as Bush’s Chopper Took Him Away for Good

Here’s a clip of the crowd on the Mall chanting “Sha na na na, Na na na na, Hey, Hey! Goodbye” as Bush, no longer the president, took his last ride out of Washington. (Click on the picture of the helicopter to start the clip) Continue reading →

Trivia quickie: What do the Elvis Presley movie, “G.I. Blues,” and the classic Disney animated feature, “Pinocchio,” have in common?

You got it, Bunkie.  Puppets — on strings, which makes them marionettes. In the 1960 movie starring Elvis, in which he played a G.I. stationed in post-war Germany and made right after he got out of the for-real U.S. Army, there’s a sequence of Elvis on a date with his German girlfriend.  They stroll by a marionette show where he woos her with the song “Wooden Heart.”  Continue reading →

Vice President Dick Cheney has cultivated the image of a serious tough guy, with his grim, scowling vissage, his dismissive “So?” comments when things go badly, his unrepentant defense of torture, including waterboarding, and his brash statements confirming that he approved the interrogation measures that clearly violated US criminal statutes and the Geneva Conventions.

But it appears we willl in a few days get to discover whether Cheney really is a tough guy, or whether he is in truth just the same corpulent, self-centered hypocrite and gutless coward that he was back in the 1960s when, despite being a vocal backer of the Vietnam War, he ducked the draft not once but five times by arranging for student and marriage deferments, which he later defended by saying he had “other priorities” than serving his country. Continue reading →

I am angry. No, I am incensed that hundreds of thousands of people are dead, dying, wounded, displaced from their homes or being imprisoned and tortured by the sadists that reside or work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the approval of their accomplices down the road in Congress. I am furious that I buried my oldest son when he was 24 years old for the unrepentant lies and the unpunished crimes of the Bush mob. Are you incensed? If not, maybe you should ask yourself: “Why?” Hypothetically: “Why am I not enraged that my country has killed or hurt so many people for absolutely no noble cause in my name and with my tacit approval?”  FULL ARTICLE