For the love of...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/21/wmd_conspiracy/index.html

But all of that is rendered moderate, restrained, sober and even sane by a new article she wrote for the British magazine, The Spectator (headline: I Found Saddam's WMD Bunkers), which claims that: (a) WMDs really were found in Iraq after the invasion, (b) they were located in vast underground bunkers (c) which contained "nuclear, chemical and biological materials", but (d) the U.S., through negligence, failed to secure those sites and, as a result, (e) the WMDs were stolen by The Terrorists and/or Syrian agents, who now have them and are actively plotting (along with China, Russia and North Korea) to use them against the West, but --

(f) because the Bush administration is so embarrassed by their failure to prevent the theft of all these dastardly weapons, and because Democrats are embarrassed by this discovery because it proves that Saddam really did have WMDs all along, they have all jointly created a vast conspiracy where they conceal the discovery of WMDs in order to cover up for their negligence.

Let's assume all that is true. How the hell does anybody who believes this not demand Bush et al to be tried for treason instantly? How does this support the case for staying in Iraq? But as the piece details, the people who think it is true don't have this reaction. I can only shake my head.

Religious Stupidity

It is crap like this that makes me want to disavow organized religion entirely. I think I am pretty solidly Cathnostic. I think, like most reasonably people even atheists, God wouldn't be such a bad thing to exist. Whether he does or not is another thing. But I mean really. People like Bill Donahue make me ashamed to admit I grew up catholic. I mean for the love of all that is holy does he think that Jesus was crucified in a three piece suit. Fucking Stupidity.

Too much, too far. But I guess that applies to lots of "old" ideas.

Links edition.

Lots and Lots and Lots of stuff going on lately. We have congress passing unconstitutional laws and the public isnt buying it. But we are learning the beauty of a living will. We see hacks declaring fake qualifications for a doctor in this case. We have SS Trustees playing with the numbers to make things look worse than they are but even in doing that make the long term numbers look better. But the press can't get their story straight.

God I hope this shit comes to a halt and soon.

Greenspan

Greenspan-US economy sound, spending curbs needed - Mar. 2, 2005: "'However, tax increases of sufficient dimension to deal with our looming fiscal problems arguably pose significant risks to economic growth and the revenue base.

I hate it when people who know better act like nobody can tell they are lying. Asshole, current revenues are 16.3% of GDP. If we just rolled back the taxes cuts such that we were at 18%, which is still lower than we were at during some of the Reagan years AND lower than the level for most of Clinton's presidency, the Deficit would be roughly half and we wouldn't be having any major funding crisis. You remember the Clinton years right? Higher Tax Rates and yet we still had good growth.

'The exact magnitude of such risks is very difficult to estimate, but, in my judgment, they are sufficiently worrisome to warrant aiming, if at all possible, to close the fiscal gap primarily, if not wholly, from the outlay side,' he added."

And you know Alan, because you can do simple math, that if we cut every single cent of nondefense discretionary spending, we STILL have a deficit. Heritage knows this

President Bush’s 2005 budget request takes a first step by proposing freezes or near-freezes in most non-defense discretionary programs. However, these programs represent less than one-fifth of federal spending, and cannot provide sufficient savings to close a $500 billion deficit.

Goes to show you can NEVER trust a Randite.