Lyin' All The Time

For their last "official" visit together, Lieboy and Pickles took Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, a huge Elvis fan, to Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. "It's a dream", said Koizumi as he looked around in awe, and met Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley. The entire White House got in on the act, Tony Snowjob wore Elvis sunglasses, Kkkarl Rove wore another pair with fake sideburns attached, Josh Bolten made fun of Elvis' diet. A hilarious time was had by all. Bush resisted the urge to sing or wear shades. Bush said, "I was hoping the Prime Minister would want to come to Graceland. I knew he loved Elvis, I didn't realize how much he loved Elvis". The two most uncomfortable looking tourists were the pretzeldent and his stiff spouse. Bush has described Koizumi as "a good buddy" even though they need interpreters to communicate. They headed off "for some barbecue" after their Elvis sighting. Koizumi was seemingly in awe of Elvis memorabilia. He, um, sang a few bars from Elvis songs. When he started up with "Wise men say...only fools rush in" Bush quickly said, "I thought you were going to sing Blue Suede Shoes", perhaps rushing fools hit too close to home. Since this was an "official" visit, the taxpayers footed the bill. We hope you had a nice time Mr. Koizumi, on our dime, with our War Criminal pResident and his catatonic wife. Koizumi will be out of office in the Fall. "Post-Koizumi" should be another interesting challenge for our liar in chief.

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On Friday, things got campy right off.


The public address system on Air Force One played "Love Me Tender" and "Don't Be Cruel" and other Elvis songs as the leaders boarded the plane in Washington. DVDs of Elvis movies were available for viewing. And stewards brought out that Elvis culinary favorite — grilled peanut butter and banana sandwiches, each with 36 grams of fat. The two leaders passed on the sandwiches. Bush drank coffee and Koizumi drank green tea.White House press secretary Tony Snow — wearing gold-rimmed plastic sunglasses — did his best, meanwhile, to fuel lingering conspiracy theories that the singer never died, saying that Bush and Koizumi were likely to go to Elvis' "alleged grave site." In fact, Graceland spokesman David Beckwith said the "meditation garden" near the swimming pool where Elvis is buried was the chosen place for the two allies to have some "private time."



The pair saw what most visitors see: the Jungle Room, famously furnished with a 30-minute shopping spree, and the glossy black baby-grand piano near the living room's white, 15-foot sofa, and hundreds of gold records, outfits and guitars in the home's museums.

I ain't nothing but a LIAR, LYIN' ALLA TIME!

Koizumi comes from a long line of politicians and money. His 1978 arranged marriage ended in a messy divorce. His former wife has never been allowed to see her sons since the divorce in 1982. Dysfunctional Koizumi never remarried. An odd little man, he cozied up to the Bush regime after 9/11 and stirred a bit of warmongering on the right in Japan. His controversial visits to the Yasukuni Shrine to honor Japanese war criminals have caused consternation to their victims.



When asked if he was happy with all his riches and fame Elvis Presley said, "No, I am lonely as hell"

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Run, Condeeee, Run!

Rice, Lavrov have busty testy exchange over Iraq at G8

Condoleezza and George like to stay in shape. No matter how many people they kill, they always find time to remain buff. How nice for them. Lieboy doesn't jog anymore, since his knees gave out, he's taken up bike riding instead. So, yet another lying Photo Op...he no longer runs.
Condi's exercise regimen is so fabulous she shared it on national television. We're so damned lucky to have our foreign affairs in the hands of such physically fit assholes. They can keep it up from their prison cells after their war crimes trials.
What a disgusting piece of shit Bush really is. Anything for a Photo Op. Where will he be when this young man hits a wall or can't get his VA benefits, benefits that have been cut by this administration. What about the other 18,000 injured troops? How about attending the funerals of troops killed for his wars? How many more must die? 2,529 Troop Deaths so far.


U.S. President George W. Bush (R) jogs with Iraq war double-amputee U.S. Army soldier SSgt Christian Bagge, of Eugene, Oregon, along the jogging path on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, June 27, 2006. REUTERS/Larry Downing

Condi "overheard" (via AlertNet) testy exchange over Iraq at G8
MOSCOW, June 29 (Reuters) - A testy exchange overheard between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov exposed tensions in U.S.-Russia ties and gave an insight into how the two interact away from the world's cameras.

The discussion between Rice and Lavrov dominated foreign ministers' talks over lunch at Thursday's Group of Eight meeting that were aimed at hammering out wording for a joint communique. Reporters outside the closed-door meeting listened in on an audio feed that officials had not turned off.

Rice objected to Lavrov inserting words saying that security for foreign missions should be beefed up in Iraq after Russian embassy workers were killed this month, and complained there was no reference to an international aid accord for Iraq.

She said Lavrov's proposed language implied foreign interference with, rather than support for, the Iraqi government.
"I did not suggest this," Lavrov interjected. "What I did say was not 'involvement in the political process' but the 'involvement of the international community in support of the political process'."
"What does that mean?" Rice asked.
After a long pause, Lavrov told her, "I think you understand."
"No, I don't," she said.
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"It's a pity, that we can't endorse something that's been endorsed by the Iraqis and the U.N.," she said. "But if that's how Russia sees it, that's fine."
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Lavrov sought to minimise her criticism by comparing Russian and U.S. democracy, saying he had seen changes in America since his first visit there the same year.
Rice shot back: "So when did you go and where did you go in the United States in 1979 that you saw so much change? I am really interested," she said.


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He's At It Again

President George W. Bush (L) introduces Henry Paulson at the White House in May. US Senate hearings on the nomination of the veteran Wall Street banker to the post of treasury secretary will begin Tuesday, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee announced (AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)

President Bush, center, hugs Jazz trumpeter Irvin Mayfield, left, from News Orleans, La., as NBA basketball hall-of-famer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, right, looks on during the Celebration of Black Music Month in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Monday, June 26, 2006 in Washington. Mayfield lost his father in the chaos following Hurricane Katrina last year. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
And the love affair continues.
Lieboy Loves Bald Pates


The man can't satiate his naked needs...

It's an ongoing lust. U.S. President George W. Bush meets with military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan at the VFW Overland-St. Ann Memorial Post #3944 in St. Louis, Missouri, June 28, 2006. From L-R are: USAF Senior Airman Rebecca Blascak, Bush and U.S. Army Sgt.1st class Kenneth Williams. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES)

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Bullshit Flag Desecration Distraction

Fuck off, Congress! Seriously, there's so much WRONG in this country and they waste our fucking time on a goddamned flag burning amendment?!! It won't lower gas prices, it won't bring our troops home safely, it won't stop global warming, it won't stop the outsourcing of jobs, it won't re-build New Orleans, it won't get our stolen tax dollars back from lying thieves, it won't stop the lying bastards in the White House from tapping our phones and searching our bank accounts yet those motherfuckers have made it a top priority! Congress SUCKS! They're a bunch of sheltered out of touch bastards! Instead of protecting the flag how about protecting our RIGHTS?!
First the House passed their bill with only 130 members realizing this is NOT an issue out here. (There was plenty of leeway for a few wayward Republicans to vote no.) Now the Senate is yapping and yammering, posturing hypocritically about it. Who the hell asked them to put this subject on the front burner? Bill Nutcase Frist's Citizens Flag Alliance? CFA has several links inside, most to religious groups like Tony Perkins' family of nutjobs alliance but others are 404, site doesn't exist and some others I'm sure don't realize that saying "no" to flag burning put them in such extremist company. Most folks when asked would say they don't want to see the flag burned but when asked further would admit that our freedoms are more important than a piece of cloth. Constitutional amendments are far too important to waste on political posturing to frighten people and keep control of all branches of government by a bunch of rotten fascists. As for desecration, doesn't that also cover writing all over a flag? Hypocritical lying bastards!



Flag Burning Redux
If this is an election year, it must be time to amend the Constitution.
If you haven't noticed a rash of flag-burning incidents sweeping the nation that's because, well, there isn't one. But that doesn't stop Republicans from trotting it out as a more-patriotic-than-thou card.

And...
Flag Desecration Chronology

CFA's "evidence" of flag desecration for2006 :Drunks, teens and vandals. Hardly a threat to Democracy.

And for 2005 etc. etc. ad nauseum. Nothing more than crazy kids, drunks and one or two people with an axe to grind. Again, hardly a threat to Democracy...unlike our current White House occupants.

Update: The vote

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Santorum Strikes Out Again

There are many sickening Senators but Santorum is at the top of the list. It's bad enough we have to endure his phony "morals", his campaign against privacy, women, children, and dying people, but his latest desperate attempt at saving his own lying hide is ridiculous at best. Who the hell is he trying to kid?
Santorum's lying announcement: (from his own biased little site) Senator Santorum Makes Major Announcement Regarding Newly Declassified Information Concerning Chemical Weapons Discovered in Iraq. Santorum (R-PA) released a declassified, half-page summary of a U.S. intelligence community report on post-war recovery of chemical munitions in Iraq. The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), also helped to get the information released. "Iraq was not a WMD-free zone" in 2003, Santorum adds, "it is essential for the American people to understand that these weapons are [still] in Iraq" today. “The information released today proves that weapons of mass destruction are, in fact, in Iraq,” said Senator Santorum. “This is critically important information that the world community needs to know” Bullshit, Rick! the world already knows the truth. This information was already available. The only bombshell here is the pre-election timing. Catapult that propaganda all you want. It's old news and the canisters are old too. Waaaay beyond their expiration date. Liar.
Cystboy Limbaugh gave him an assist, as did Hannity and the repugnant and ghoulish Cheney buddy, Brit Munster Hume. (video/audio clip below) They blatantly lied to the American people on behalf of Rick and ultimately, Dick Cheney. The WMDs referred to in the DoD report are clearly pre-1991 and posed no threat to anybody. The Bush misadministration KNOWS that. Santorum, lagging in the polls, will do anything to try to get re-elected to his sycophantic rubber stamp role and the thugs will help him in any way they can, even sending Pickles in to campaign for him recently. Santorum the religious hypocritical zealot has GOT to go! Thankfully, that sentiment is growing. The latest Quinnipiac University Poll has Democrat Bobby Casey re-stretching his lead over Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum to 18 percentage points, 52-34 percent.
Weldon joins the WMD bandwagon. One wonders why these jerks get such a kick out of bombing innocent Iraqis that they'll clutch at straws to justify it.
More on WMDs from the CIA: Iraq WMD Report
Time for a re-run of the hilarious SNL cartoon by Robert Smegel, Presidential Outtakes from Crooks and Liars. (Video)

Media Matters has a great video/audio of the liars and the lying lies they told about this politically motivated piece of propaganda. Faux Gnus to Clear Channel, the meme is being blasted all over the airwaves.
Despite all evidence to the contrary, media conservatives continued to hype Santorum's "weapons of mass destruction"

Summary: Fox News' Brit Hume, John Gibson, and Jim Angle, as well as nationally syndicated radio hosts Rush Limbaugh and Janet Parshall, continued to ignore conclusive assertions of intelligence officials that the degraded chemical munitions found in Iraq and hyped by Sen. Rick Santorum and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra were not, in fact, in the category of "weapons of mass destruction" that the U.S. was looking for at the time of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

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Democratic Women of the Senate

The Checklist for Change

* Safeguard America's Pensions
* Keep Good Jobs in America
* Make College Affordable for All
* Protect America and Our Military Families
* Prepare for Future Disasters
* Make America Energy Independent
* Make Small Business Health Care Affordable
* Invest in Life-Saving Science
* Protect Our Air, Land and Water

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Barbara Boxer
Maria Cantwell
Hillary Clinton
Dianne Feinstein
Mary Landrieu
Blanche Lincoln
Barbara Mikulski
Patty Murray
Debbie Stabenow


Three more Democratic women running for the Senate:
MN Amy Klobuchar
MO Clair McCaskill
TX Barbara Ann Radnofsky

SAFEGUARD AMERICA'S PENSIONS
Americans deserve to retire with dignity and financial security. We will continue to oppose any plan to privatize social security, because seniors deserve a guarantee rather than a gamble. Recent corporate corruption and mismanagement has shown us that we must also protect employee pension plans. The Republican Congress has stalled these efforts. For the good of all American workers, we challenge them to pass a clean pension reform bill.

KEEP GOOD JOBS IN AMERICA
We need a jobs agenda that fights for American workers and businesses. The flight of American jobs overseas must be reversed. Currency manipulation and the free flow of counterfeit goods from countries like China have put American workers at an unfair disadvantage for too long. We challenge the Republican Congress to enact tax policies that stop the outsourcing of American jobs, to level the international playing field by enforcing our trade agreements, and to raise the minimum wage.

MAKE COLLEGE AFFORDABLE FOR ALL
The best guarantee of a good job is a quality education. In America, 170,000 college-ready students don't attend college each year because the cost is too high. Yet the Bush Administration has taken $12 billion from student aid programs to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. We challenge the Republican Congress to increase the maximum Pell Grant, make the college tuition tax credit permanent, and cut student loan interest rates.

PROTECT AMERICA AND OUR MILITARY FAMILIES
It is our duty to care for the brave men and women who defend our nation at home and abroad. Yet the Bush Administration consistently shortchanges healthcare and other benefits for veterans, leaving many soldiers waiting a year or more for treatment. We challenge the Republican Congress to provide benefits funding for veterans and to hold hearings on mental health care and transition assistance for those coming back from war abroad.

PREPARE FOR FUTURE DISASTERS
Nearly five years after September 11th and ten months after Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Government is still woefully unprepared to deal with potential future disasters. We challenge the Republican Congress to restore disaster preparedness to cabinet-level status; to implement the recommendations of the September 11th Commission; To develop safe evacuation plans; and to reform the Stafford Act to better manage large catastrophes.

MAKE AMERICA ENERGY INDEPENDENT
America's lack of a coherent energy policy is weakening national security, hurting our pocketbooks, violating our common values and threatening our children's future. The Strategic Energy Fund bill will cut our dependence on foreign oil in half by 2025, invest in efficient energy alternatives and create good American jobs. We challenge the Republican Congress to pass the Strategic Energy Fund bill.

MAKE SMALL BUSINESS HEALTHCARE AFFORDABLE
More than 46 million Americans are uninsured. Small businesses create two out of every three new jobs in America and account for nearly half of America's overall employment, yet just 26% of businesses with 50 or fewer employees provide health insurance. The Small Employers Health Benefits Program will create affordable, private health insurance for small businesses and give parents the comfort of knowing that their children are protected. We challenge the Republican Congress to pass this crucial legislation.

INVEST IN LIFE SAVING SCIENCE
Stem cell research provides real hope for cures to many of the world's deadliest diseases. Against the wishes of the American people, the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress have blocked efforts to expand stem cell research so that scientists and doctors have every tool at their disposal to keep us healthy and safe. As a result, America trails the rest of the world in research. We challenge the Republican Congress to pass stem cell legislation this summer.

PROTECT OUR AIR, LAND AND WATER
The Bush Administration has been negligent in protecting Americans from environmental hazards. They have ignored the consensus of the best scientists in the world when it comes to the threat of global warming, and they have recklessly reduced clean ups of toxic waste at Superfund sites. We challenge the Republican Congress to pass a comprehensive science-based bill to reduce greenhouse gases and to restore funding for Superfund cleanup.

Transcript CNN, Larry King...Nine Senators.

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Quickie in Yurp

Back so soon? That was almost as fast as Lieboy's photo op in Iraq. Ahhhh, but the memories.










Update: Austrians find Bush "unpleasant" in poll.
Polling Data

Is U.S. president George W. Bush pleasant or unpleasant to you?

Pleasant 6%
Unpleasant 83%
Not sure 11%


Has the U.S.-sanctioned "War against Terrorism" been successful or unsuccessful?

Successful 7%
Unsuccessful 86%
Not sure 11%

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Bent Out of Shape Pickles

Laura Bush has a horrible deformity apart from the appendage with whom she frequently travels. The small finger on her right hand is crooked, perpetually bent. Austrian President Heinz Fischer had a closer look. Lieboy flailed his own stiff thick little fingers. Or maybe he was waving at Condi to come on over and join them. He looks delighted to see her. Laura, not quite so much, eyes off to the right. That's a rather confrontational stance in her slides as Sleeza sidled up in her slingbacks. Maybe the rumors are true.U.S. President George W. Bush gestures as Austrian President Heinz Fischer (C) kisses the hand of First Lady Laura Bush in front of Air Force One at Vienna's airport June 21, 2006. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (AUSTRIA)
Somebody on the First Lady's staff has some explaining to do. At a White House Photo Op with Australian Prime Minister Howard and his wife earlier this month Laura wore the same suit. AUSTRalia, AUSTRia; close enough in an illiterate househhold where no attention is paid to detail. The hanger must be labeled "Aus" for short. Heads should roll over this fashion faux pas. It's equally gunny sackish the second time around. But for a duel over their man on foreign turf it's just not fighting attire. Condi wore a tight snazzy skirt with a pleated ruffle that yells more than foreign affairs.
Ooops.




Further evidence of the aforementioned deformity.

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Never Served

When asked if he stood by his 2005 statement that the insurgency was in its last throes Dick Cheney re-wrote some past and future history.
Cheney Sees Success in Warding Off Attacks. Dick Cheney said Monday that aggressive U.S. action is responsible for preventing new terror attacks since the Sept. 11 strikes. "Nobody can promise that we won't be hit," Cheney said. "I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered," Cheney said. We were "attacked" on the Bush/Cheney watch in the first place, no matter how many times they spin it, they didn't stop it. Since they attacked Iraq, the "insurgency" continues unabated. The man who had "other priorities" sought and received five deferments. Two more U.S. troops are now suffering the consequences of this "war" with no plan. No plan for occupation, no plan to rebuild, no exit plan. Just terror and more killing. Report: Insurgents captured soldiers. Iraqi witnesses say they saw two U.S. soldiers who survived an attack at a checkpoint near Baghdad being led away by masked insurgents to a pair of cars, The New York Times is reporting. "There are intelligence indicators [that] they may have been captured alive rather than killed," a senior military official told CNN on Saturday night. Last week Rove attacked Democrats. What the hell else is new? His JOB (paid for by the taxpayers) is to smear opponents and elect more fascists. He picked the wrong guy to swiftboat this time:
He specifically targeted Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha. "Like too many Democrats it strikes me they are ready to give the green light to go to war, but when it gets tough, they fall back of that party's old platform of cutting and running. They may be with you for the first few bullets but they won't be there for the last tough battles," he said.
Nice, from a guy who took student deferments to avoid Vietnam without even taking enough units to fulfill the legal requirements.

Murtha fought back + Videos:
+ Update:
Crooks and Liars:
Murtha to Rove: He's sitting in his air-conditioned office on his big- fat backside- saying stay the course!
Russert: Cutting and Running

MURTHA: He's in New Hampshire. He's making a political speech. He's sitting in his air-conditioned office on his big, fat backside-saying stay the course. That's not a plan! We've got to change direction. You can't sit there in the air-conditioned office and tell troops carrying seventy pounds on their backs, inside these armored vessels-hit with IED's every day-seeing their friends blown up-their buddies blown up-and he says stay the course? Easy to say that from Washington, DC.

Cheney now says he didn't anticipate the insurgency's strength

Update: Two more sons killed while staying the course.
Iraqi official says bodies of missing GIs found
Signs of 'barbaric' torture; U.S. military awaiting positive ID from DNA
NBC News and news services

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The bodies of two U.S. soldiers reported captured last week have been found and the men appear to have been "killed in a barbaric way," a senior Iraqi general said Tuesday. A statement posted on a militant Islamic Web site said the two men were killed by the new leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.

U.S. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said the remains, found late Monday by American troops, were believed to be those of Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of Madras, Ore.

Caldwell said the cause of death was “undeterminable at this point,” and that DNA tests would be conducted to confirm the identities.

The two disappeared after an insurgent attack Friday at a checkpoint by a Euphrates River canal south of Baghdad and near the town of Youssifiyah. Spc. David J. Babineau, 25, of Springfield, Mass., was killed. The checkpoint was in the Sunni Arab region known as the “Triangle of Death” because of frequent ambushes there of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi troops.

The three men were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

'Barbaric' deaths
The director of the Iraqi defense military’s operation room, Maj. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Mohammed, said the bodies showed signs of having been tortured. “With great regret, they were killed in a barbaric way,” he said.

Mohammed also said the two bodies were found on a street near Youssifiyah. The U.S. military could not confirm that account.

The bodies are to be flown to the military's forensics lab in Dover, Del., for autopsies and to make positive identifications, U.S. military officials said. Any formal declaration of death will be withheld until the bodies are positively identified.
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Just three more numbers. Tony Snow said of the 2,500 dead U.S. Troops, it's a number
Snow on 2,500 U.S. Fatalities In Iraq: ‘It’s A Number’
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow was asked this afternoon if President Bush had any reaction to the death toll for U.S. troops in Iraq reaching 2,500. Snow responded: “It’s a number.”
Compassionate conservatism.
U.S. casualties, not including the two boys above:
2,504

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Number One Liar

Andy Card invited his good buddy to speak at the United States Merchant Marine Academy. Bush is the first American president (sic) to address a graduating class at the academy. He spoke there at the request of former White House chief of staff, Andrew Card, who briefly studied there in the 1960s and hitched a ride on Air Force One to share the stage with the president. "When he was a plebe, he was stuffed in a duffel bag and run up the flagpole," Bush said about his former chief of staff who left the school when he married. Lieboy's "speech" which OF COURSE, invoked 9/11, threatened Iran, told more lies about how well things are going both here and overseas, and, by the way, happy graduation.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you for the warm welcome -- if you know what I mean. (Laughter.) This guy's lucky he wasnt' shot by the Secret Service, then again, nobody gets close to Bubble Boy without careful, careful screening. This fellah has too much hair to appeal to Skull/Bone Man.

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