Pickles and Jenna Do Africa

They brought Mosquito Nets but forgot the Duct Tape.

The African Operation Twin Image Makeover™ kept Jenna out of trouble. The nice ladies bore gifts, mosquito nets to stop Malaria. Any condoms in that care package? Any non faith-based real help and education? It's lovely to appear magnanimous and caring by bringing some small pittance of assistance to Africa but Laura's husband's theocratic rule will only bring more misery to the rest of the world. One step forward with nets, fifty steps backwards for birth control assistance.
Here, have some nets.

Pickles promotes faith and corporations move in to take control.

Laura Bush toured the Zambian capital of Lusaka Thursday as part of a four-nation swing through Africa, visiting a unique U.S.-funded project that taps a network of 12,000 Zambian HIV/AIDS volunteers to distribute mosquito nets designed to fight another major challenge: malaria.
But the $2.5 million program is also unique in another way — half of it is being funded by American corporations, including Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson and the NBA.

Jenna in a classroom, how sweet.



Laura Bush highlighted the importance and potential of mobilizing communities of faith to change their behavior and save lives. "Faith communities exist in every village in the country; therefore, faith leaders can reach their members and impact their attitudes and behavior related to malaria," she remarked.
Protected Pickles.


Remarks

This five-year program has one goal: eliminating malaria in Africa. Working with Zambia's national malaria-control program, the President's Malaria Initiative will help conduct indoor residual spraying, provide life-saving bed nets and medicines, and treat pregnant women who are especially vulnerable to this disease.
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Because of these partnerships, there's now great optimism to the challenge of HIV/AIDS. And one of the greatest sources of hope is the compassion of people of faith. In the United States and around the world, I've seen how houses of worship inspire volunteers with their messages of charity and hope. Millions of people have heard these messages, and they're putting their faith into practice across the continent of Africa. They've recognized that the private sector must play a role in these historic efforts.

U.S. taxpayer money funneled through corporate and faith-based private sector "help" to Africa for Malaria and HIV. What they need is more health care workers and Planned Parenthood not a religious lecture on hope and prayer.

Sex Ed by Pickles.


AP says, Africa "cherishes" America.
A look at the Global Unease With Major World Powers clearly shows AP's selective interpretation.
Anti-Americanism is extensive, as it has been for the past five years.


Update: Forget the former party girl, Jenna's makeover has gone into orbit.
She's putting out a book...with pictures of course. Ahhhh, now we see the bigger reason for the Photo Ops. Book sales and respectability.

Jenna Bush, in a rare interview, says her forthcoming book for teens — about a 17-year-old single mother in Panama who is living with HIV — will end with a "call to action."

HarperCollins announces today that it's publishing Bush's Ana's Story:A Journey of Hope this fall. It will be illustrated with photographs by Mia Baxter, a former classmate of Bush's at the University of Texas.
The president's daughter, 25, says the book is not political. It's aimed at "getting kids thinking and involved," Bush said Monday by phone from Panama, where she has worked since September as an unpaid intern for UNICEF.

She didn't have to travel to Panama to find people in poverty suffering from HIV. There are many right here in the U.S. and they have no health insurance. But then, she'd have to talk to Americans who know her family's track record.

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Impeachment Gaining Traction

John Dean calls for Cheney's Impeachment.
The Misunderestimated Mr. Cheney:

The Vice President's Record of Willfully Violating the Law, And Wrongly Claiming Authority to Do So

Cheney Challenges Classified Oversight

Vice President Dick Cheney's office refused to cooperate with an agency that oversees classified documents, then tried to abolish the office when it challenged the actions, House oversight committee Chairman Henry Waxman said.
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Cheney's office argued it did not meet the definition of an executive branch agency and therefore was exempt.

Why is this man still in office?

Vice-Presidential records
Impeach Cheney
The vice president has run utterly amok and must be stopped.
By Bruce Fein, (former deputy attorney general in the Reagan Administration)
Cheney is impeachable for his overweening power and his sneering contempt of the Constitution and the rule of law.

Ahhhh...finally, impeachment noise is gathering momentum on Dick. But wait, FBI: London incident poses no U.S. threat, but be 'vigilant'Terralert Terralert Terralert! "Two car bombs" found in London. Fearica gird your loins for July 4th. Spy on each other and demand surveillance for all. Per Chris Matthews it's time for citizen alerts and tips. "Citizen Warriors" for ghod's sake. He also wants protection for the tippers, just in case they're wrong. So very reminiscent of other Fascist regimes. How can he be so blind? Money. How many phone calls has he gotten from the White House this week? Just askin'. He has avoided talking about Traitor Dick Cheney completely all week. Heckuva job, Screamer and MSRNC.
Keith Olbermann has an addition for the nexus of Politics and Terror



So Lieboy's gone fishing.
He's "hosting" Putin at the Bush Crime Family Kennebunkport summer home.

It's hard work. 43 and 41 out for a spin with secret service following behind. No worries about bomb threats, per his spokesthings Bush is fully aware and informed. AHAHAHAHA.

Decider thinks he doesn't have to abide by congressional votes with which he disagrees. His immigration bill just failed. He also rejected all subpoenas of White House staff. Unbelievably, he accused Democrats of a "PARTISAN FISHING EXPEDITION" for daring to ask questions.

Bush rejected lawmakers' call Tuesday to subpoena White House staff for testimony related to the matter. Bush's public statement came hours after the White House offered to make political strategist Karl Rove and former counsel Harriet Miers available for interviews — but not testimony under oath — before congressional committees investigating the firings. "We will not go along with a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants," Bush said in a statement from the White House. "I proposed a reasonable way to avoid an impasse."

Well fine then, the subpoenas have gone to DIShonorable public servants.

These crooks will just run out the clock...eighteen months of stonewalling until they're safely out of office...and should it get to the Supremes before 2009, Bush and Cheney will win 5-4.


It's so nice he can recreate during the deadliest three-month period for Americans since the war began.
He put the fake Iran threat out there again. Hey, dead troops, AWOL Bush says you just had a "setback" so relax.

He acknowledged that U.S. forces could still expect "more setbacks," but said, "There are hopeful signs." Bush reiterated accusations that Iran has supplied explosives that have been used against U.S. forces and has also trained Iraqi militants, charges that Tehran has denied.


On the immigration bill:

From Talking Points Memo

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False Dick-otomy

Not in the executive branch, but not subject to the rules of the Senate. Cheney rules! Dickica. Land of Dick. Dickocon of Neoconia.
Cheney claims a non-executive privilege
He asserts he's exempt from showing an agency how his office keeps secrets because he's not fully part of the administration.

Dick and Donald have had plans for a loooong time.
Dick's Ford Angle


Cheney Exempted His Office From Executive Order Protecting Classified Information
Furtive, surreptitious, conniving bastard.
Further Amendment to Executive Order 12958
March 25, 2003
Executive Order

Sec. 1.3. Classification Authority. (a) The authority to classify information originally may be exercised only by:

(1) the President and, in the performance of executive duties, the Vice President;
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Sec. 1.7. Classification Prohibitions and Limitations. (a) In no case shall information be classified in order to:

(1) conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error;
(2) prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency;
(3) restrain competition; or
(4) prevent or delay the release of information that does not require protection in the interest of the national security.

Dick the Cabinet Member

Agency Is Target in Cheney Fight on Secrecy Data
Cheney's power illustrated in military commissions decision
Schumer: Gonzales not fit to rule on Cheney’s role

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should step aside from the Justice Department’s internal debates over whether Vice President Cheney is violating an executive order on protecting classified information, Senate Democratic Vice Chairman Charles Schumer (N.Y.) said on Monday.

Perino made a mockery of truth and transparency.
Dana Perino is a sarcastic little snot who tells lies for a living. "I'm not going to opine, I'm not going to comment, I'm not going to opine"...well then go away and send somebody who CAN opine. Dana Stonewallerino. She's doing her job just the way the White House told her to. No comment said in as many circuitous little baby words as possible, defiance tinged with trepidation lest she slip up. Ice snot.


The Cheney Chronicles
An excellent although not complete rundown on some of Dick's crimes against the Constitution of the United states, and bits of his and Rumsfeld's plans since they unleashed their true natures during Nixon's reign.
1. 'A Different Understanding With the President'
2. Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power
3. A Strong Push From Backstage
4. Leaving No Tracks

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Bush in Fantasy Land

Bushes Celebrate Christmas Photo Op

It might have been 80 degrees outside but it was snowing inside Ford's Theatre on Sunday, where President Bush attended a taping of an ABC holiday program.

Country singer Wynonna opened the show by performing "Winter Wonderland" on a stage decorated with white lights, Christmas trees and a sleigh. She asked Bush if he had done his Christmas shopping yet.

"Do you know what you're planning on getting your beautiful wife?" Wynonna asked. "Whatever she wants, right?" The president's response was inaudible.

50 Clever young students take on the Commander Guy. Good for them! Unfortunately the date of their honors fell during the occupation of Neoconia. Scholars Urge Bush to Ban Torture

The White House said Bush had not expected the letter but took a moment to read it and talk with a young woman who handed it to him. "The president enjoyed a visit with the students, accepted the letter and upon reading it let the student know that the United States does not torture and that we value human rights," deputy press secretary Dana Perino said.
"We do not want America to represent torture. We urge you to do all in your power to stop violations of the human rights of detainees, to cease illegal renditions, and to apply the Geneva Convention to all detainees, including those designated enemy combatants," the letter said.

Good for you, students! Well done!

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War Crimes

"It's bad enough that there were photographs of Arab men wearing women’s panties," Taguba said, referring to pictures that have NOT been released. The pictures made public were disgusting and shameful. Not in our name! We have war criminals at the highest levels of our government yet some refuse to accept such cruelty can have an American accent. Americans are GREAT at killing and hurting. We're number one! We're number one!
The General’s Report
How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties.
by Seymour M. Hersh
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Seymour reveals the shambles our military leadership is in thanks to the Neocons. Officer pitted against officer, nobody wanting to know things that might get them into trouble and/or end their careers. Taguba is a brave and honorable man.

"Gitmo-ized" to "soften up" the inmates.


Out here on the tubes, before the "blogosphere" it has been known from the outset that our "leadership" does not abide by any laws. Not election laws, not the quaint Geneva Conventions, no law. From Guantanamo, General Geoffrey Miller's next assignment was to "Gitmo-ize" Abu Ghraib. He brought in dogs and cruelty to "soften up" the prisoners, most of whom were in the wrong place at the wrong time. We sure showed THEM what "Freedom and Democracy" means...we showed 'em hard.

The Pentagon had ordered Major General Geoffrey Miller, the commander at Guantánamo, to Iraq. His mission was to survey the prison system there and to find ways to improve the flow of intelligence.

Time, Sept. 2006 Charges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse.
Rumsfeld knew. It's clear he condoned and possibly ordered torture. Cheney and Gonzo helped. Bush knew, he probably enjoys the thought of it. Frogs, pledges, "terra-ists"...no difference to psycopathic Decider Commander Guy.

Most of the crimes in this, the worst adminstration ever, have been maneuvered by Cheney and Rumsfeld. (Cheney on waterboarding, "I don't have a problem with that.")Too bad they weren't nipped in the bud during Watergate. Thanks, Ford, you useless twit. They hatched from the mud during St. Teflon's rule. Their bloodthirsty greed knows no limits. Including the torture of other human beings.
If there's a hell...let them rot there for eternity. In the meantime, INVESTIGATIONS, IMPEACHMENT, IMPRISONMENT.

Shit rolls down hill.

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U.S. of Dick

And

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Unitary Dick

Vice president is not part of the executive branch, Dick Cheney says.
Cheney has long maintained that he does not have to comply with an executive order on safeguarding classified information because, in fact, his office is part of the legislature. Cheney, whose single constitutional duty is to serve as president of the Senate, says the vice president's office is not an "entity within the executive branch" and therefore not subject to annual reporting or periodic on-site inspections
Time

Dick is covering his own wide ass from Waxman.
executive branch offices are required to give the Information Security Oversight Office at the archives data on how much material it has classified and declassified.
Cheney's office provided the information in 2001 and 2002, then stopped.
Bush Exempt

Perino contradicts the OVP.
"...the President and the Vice President are treated separately from agencies. The President did not intend for the Vice President to be treated separately from how he would treat himself.
Video from tpmmuckraker. Cheney's role is "unique" per Perino. "A non-issue" to the WH.


Lieboy is now the "sole enforcer" of the rules?
No, that would be Dick.


Durbin objects.

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While Dick has been declaring his sovereignty, Chimpy did some fundraising for another of his favorite rubber stampers, Jeff Huckleberry Hound Sessions, R-Alabama. He tossed in the usual taxpayer funded trip to a "public" event with a little speechifyin' to cover RNC costs...we need to cut down on gas but Jet Fuel doesn't count.
Sessions even rated a ride on Air Force One to and from Alabama for Thursday's $1,000-a-ticket reception in a downtown convention center, which shoveled $900,000 into his campaign account.


Is Sessions drooling? Mmmm...money. Almost a million.
Ka ching! Ka ching!

Gooood, reliable little rubber stamper.
"Close friends" Jeffy and George.
Sessions, stalwart defender of the corrupt DoJ and Gonzales.
Heckuva job, Jeff.

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Hurtling to Zero

Only 26% of Americans approve of the "job" Lieboy is doing. Poll

...just over one in four, approve of the job the 43rd president is doing; while, a record 65 percent disapprove, including nearly a third of Republicans.

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I'm predicting mid-November.

Draft Gore

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Confused Bubble Boy

As threatened, the man who reveres all life, especially cells, vetoed the stem cell bill. "Destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical" . But he has no problem killing fully formed Iraqis, Afghanis, anyone anywhere in his Dick's way.

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King George of One Percent

If Bush's REAL poll number(s) came out...


The Bushes "hosted" a Congressional Picnic on the South Lawn.


White House Menu, BYO Food Taster.
The White House Kool Aides.


A grand time was had by all...


Almost all...


Press Pied Piper


Impeach Bush...please!

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Bush and Fear Back from Crawford

The "news" today is of sniffer dogs gone wild near the WH "press" forcing them onto the streets. Reporters, you are getting sleeeepy....Fear. Terror. Report your terror.

White House press corps evacuated from work center

The White house Press Corps Offices are located across the street from the White House.The White House is on heightened alert due to a visit from the Israeli Prime Minister...a dog singled out a vehicle parked on Jackson Place, in front of the press quarters. "Police were called," Blackford said. "The vehicle is part of the delegation that is staying at the Blair House." Nothing was found in the vehicle, the Secret Service said later. Olmert is staying at Blair House in advance of a meeting on Tuesday

Ahhh, many implications. Catapult the fear and chaos. It works every time. We've got to fight that terror right here to stop it from being over there. Last week Snowjob told us Bush is on the FRONT LINES. Every day! Where are those pesky front lines? Crawford? The White House door?

Snowjob Press Briefing
Q Are there any members of the Bush family or this administration in this war?
MR. SNOW: Yes, the President. The President is in the war every day.
Q Come on. That isn't my question.
MR. SNOW: If you ask any President who is a Commander-in-Chief --
Q On the front lines --
MR. SNOW: The President. ....

A quick stop at Boeing in Kansas for some Quid Pro Quo:

Before flying off for another vacation at the fake ranch, Bush stopped in Kansas to raise dough for Roberts, R-Kan, (war criminal, conspirator, asshole) and toss in a visit to a Boys and Girls Club so the taxpayers can foot the bill for his travel. Nice job, RNC. Stick it to us one more time. This little payback to Roberts yielded an all-time high of $650,000 to his campaign coffers. Fundraiser, Photo/Op

Bush posed for pictures Friday at a $500-a-person fundraiser for Sen. Pat Roberts. The photos cost extra. The event, closed to the press, was held at the home of Dave Murfin, president of Murfin Drilling Co., and his wife Janet.

This is important:

"While he chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee from 2002 to 2007, Roberts stonewalled attempts to investigate everything from the manipulation of intelligence in the rush to war in Iraq, President Bush's warrantless wiretaps, and even allegations of the use of torture by the CIA," said Mike Gaughan, director of the Kansas Democratic Party. "After carrying President Bush's water for so many years, Senator Roberts is calling in the IOU."

Hahahaha, what a whopping LIAR! Radio address

"I will use my veto to stop tax increases and runaway spending that threaten the strength of our economy and the prosperity of our people."

These guys have sold us out and stolen all our money. They're leaving us with HUGE debts, more than all others combined. We owe $38.2 Billion to Mexico. Maybe some decent work programs could be started with that money for the people to whom it belongs. Like the U.S., Mexico isn't investing in a middle class that can compete with slave labor. Trickle up economics.

Jenna but not Not-Jenna flew back with mommy and daddy to D.C.
Leaving Waco.

President Bush and first lady Laura Bush board Air Force One with daughter Jenna Bush in Waco, Texas Sunday, June 17, 2007. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

WH, Marine One, Andrews AFB, Air Force One, Kansas and Waco, Another Marine One, Ranch, and back again, with Jenna but not Not-Jenna. All that gas. Wow. Happy Father's Day W. "Don't buy gas if you don't need it."

Arriving at the White House.
Hide me from the cameras, George!

The Dubya Duo exited from the front onto cement, Jenna onto the lawn, rear door.
All that money and not one clue on how to dress herself. All her taste is in her mouth. She must have a distorted self-image as she too resides in a bubble.

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