Did he know?

Our incredible Mr. No has struck once again. Sali has now vetoed a bill that would have funded the Special Olympics in Idaho. The bill also included a number of other projects, all designed to improve things for the citizens of the state of Idaho. It becomes more clear with every no vote that Bill Sali is not interested in the welfare of Idaho citizens. I believe he said he thought this would cost too much. He recently voted a rare "yes" for more funding for the "war" in Iraq.

So, did Bush know about the plan to "out" Valerie Plame or not. McClellan's publisher now says McClellan did not mean to say the President lied to him. He says the President had been fed false information just as he had. I'm not sure I believe this. But consider even if it is true. If Bush was lied to, who lied to him?
The answer has to be Rove, Libby and Cheney. Why would a President retain advisors and a Vice President who lied to him? And is lying to a President about an affair that involves treason legal? Bush said that he would fire anyone who leaked. We know now that is just a joke. Any way you want to look at it, Rove, Libby, Cheney, and Bush were all involved one way or another. Just another example of the corruption that defines the Bush/Cheney administration. Republicans seem to like it.

You know about the fuss over the phone calls that wander about but are really about planting seeds of doubt about Romney, his being a Mormon, and other such things. It turns out that at least two of the people who claim to have received such calls and raised a fuss about it are members of Romney's own staff. They want you to believe, of course, that these phony calls are the work of one of the other candidates, but as the company involved in placing them is Utah based with some connections to Romney that would seem questionable at best.

Then there is our crook for President, Rudy Giuliani. You know that many of the New York Firefighters have been very critical of him. But there is one who has been defending him and saying only good things about his performance on 9/11. It turns out this one is on the Giuliani payroll and has received something like $1500 for "advice." Interesting, no? But not half as interesting as the probable connections between Giuliani and certain criminal elements. These are unclear because Rudy refuses to say who all his clients are, nor is there any explanation for this secrecy. Curious to say the least.

Strange that Hillary is leading in the national polls by quite a bit. But this is apparently not true in Iowa. Is there something fishy about the Iowa polls? The national polls? Or are people in Iowa really that different from everyone else? Whatever. I'm so sick of this I just want it to be over. And frankly, I don't think what turns out in Iowa is going to make much difference in the long run. I don't believe that Iowa and New Hampshire are anywhere near as definitive and important as they used to be.

I can no longer bring myself to say Happy Thanksgiving. Of course we celebrate this mythical holiday, just as my family has all of my life. And I confess I like the turkey and all the trimmings. But if I were an American Indian I certainly would see no cause for celebration. The best you might say for the first thanksgiving is that it allowed the Pilgrims to survive long enough to begin their genocidal wars against the original owners (in the words of the moronic Ronald Reagan, those greedy Indians who wanted to keep all this for themselves). Once you have outgrown the fairy tale history they teach you in the public schools, and read more widely, it becomes impossible to see Thanksgiving as an event to celebrate. So enjoy your turkey and stuffing and cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie and revel in the thought that it's really just the beginning of Christmas, a completely authentic holiday brought to you by the proponents of Intelligent Design.

LKBIQ:
"Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world."
Ludwig Wittgenstein