Even the most uptight of sphincter conservatives are squirming in
their seats over Bush commuting the sentence of Scooter Libby. Libby
was convicted of four very serious crimes and his sentence was within
legal guidelines. Bush's failure to comprehend the real world led
him to state the exact opposite. The lies are compiling, and the
Constitutional crises are getting in the way of the election of
corrupt pedophile Republican religious zealots, so the extremists are
starting to lose it.
Perhaps this will be enough for Nancy Pelosi to put impeachment
back on the table. Certainly, there is a groundswell of indignation
against both Bush and Cheney. They should go before they can do more
damage.
Predictably, the partisan right-wingers can do nothing buy whine
and lie. This isn't like any other presidential pardon (especially
as it's not a pardon) and Bush has flip-flopped on his first
statements that he would go after the leaker of the CIA agent's
identity. Bush's "base" just got a lot smaller, and a
lot noisier. And a lot more ignorable. They've cried "wolf!"
so many times, it's falling on deaf ears. Fox "News" is a joke, and
not a funny one.
I was going to (and may still) talk more about the traitorous and
unpatriotic Scooter Libby's place in history and his place in the
George W. Bush legacy. But in looking around, I dug out some old
columns. Libby may have made Bush jump the shark, but his High
Crimes and Misdemeanors go back to the early days of the Bush
administration. Here are some of the reasons for impeachment a
column first published in 2002, with links checked and updated as
necessary. I'm dismayed at how short a memory we have.
It will get worse before it gets worse, and we'll see if Bush will
relinquish his mad hold on power whether he loses it by impeachment
or Constitutional mandate after the 2998 elections. Poppy Bush
didn't have time to do as much damage as his son, but on December 25,
1992, he pardoned
six major Iran-Contra figures, and that cowardly act haunts us to
this day. Let's hope we can prevent Bush Lite from such last-minute
shenanigans.
Subpoena
of 17 senators: (requires free NYTimes registration) Bush still
hasn't launched an investigation into why 9/11 happened, but he's
launched an investigation into leaks. What is he trying to cover up?
Can we ask Libby? Can we torture Libby and Rove and the
others who insist we have the right to torture the enemies of
America?
Bush
lies about Clinton cost the taxpayers $200,000 (requires Premium
membership). GAO reports less than $10,000 worth of questionable
damages to the White House, making the report for the Taliban wing of
the GOP costs taxpayers a bundle.
According to the Frontline report Bigger
Than Enron, "Enron's collapse revealed systemic failures in the
regulatory process that's designed to protect investors," says
correspondent/producer Hedrick Smith. "Our investigation showed that
the growing conflicts of interest within the industry were
exacerbated by weakened regulations and a Congress that rejected any
attempts to strengthen them." The GOP led Congress refused to
investigate very hard.
"Stop Him Before He Lies Again". This is about the "trifecta"
remark. Not, in itself, an impeachable offense, but demonstrates
that Bush's first impulse is always to lie... and he keeps doing it.
TNR Notebook 6/20/02, original article in archives.
How Orwellian is the oily Bush administration?
FBI to investigate Congressional committee that's investigating
FBI. This is part of an illegal pattern of intimidation that
includes the firings of (at least) eight US Attorneys. As much as
anything, the Bush/Cheney/Rove corruption of the Justice Department
are an impeachable series of High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Not sexy
enough for Fox "News" and the conservative news media won't cover it
unless Paris Hilton is involved, so we need to keep this in the air.
Bush was noted as lying about WMD and Iraq within a few weeks of
9/11. Agency
disavows report on Iraq arms. Commondreams.org archive of
Washington Times article from 11/27/02. We have now come full
circle. This is the impeachable offense that Scooter Libby and the
gang were trying to cover up by outing a CIA expert in nuclear
arms.
RuPAUL: TORI SPELLING (frontierspublishing.com)
Having a baby and producing and starring in your own reality show is hard work, but she still has time to star in gay indie films like Outfest's Kiss the Bride and watch porn with her husband
Karman Kregloe: The Top 8 Embarrassing Celezbrity Moments (afterellen.com)
Gay writer Truman Capote once said, "Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town." That is a perk. The downside? Everyone knows your business. Particularly the the more embarrassing moments like the breakups, the breakdowns, the lousy career choices and those nasty courtroom dramas.
Dave Mosher: "Wine: Kills Germs on Contact" (livescience.com)
Drinking wine can maintain heart health, prevent cancer and even settle a mean case of diarrhea. Research now shows it's also good for your teeth and throat. According to a new study, a cocktail of compounds found in both red and white wine fights germs that can cause dental plaque as well as sore throats.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Old Christine', followed by another RERUN'Old Christine', then a RERUN'2½ Men', followed by a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', then a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Don Cheadle and Smashing Pumpkins.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Kathy Griffin, Ken Bruen, and Marty Stuart.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'Age Of Love', followed by a FRESH'Age Of Love', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Daniel Radcliffe, Patton Oswalt, and the Decemberists.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Jarod Miller, Jason Priestley, and Dan Naturman.
On a RERUNCarson Daly are Dave Foley and Ying Yang Twins.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Wife Swap', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover', then a RERUN'Supernanny'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 6/28/07) are George Foreman, Jennifer Esposito, and Tiger Army.
The CW offers a RERUN'Everybody Hates Chris', followed by a RERUN'All Of Us', then a RERUN'Girlfriends', followed by a RERUN'The Game'.
Faux has a FRESH'On The Lot', followed by a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen'.
MY has a FRESH'IFL Battleground'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'The Sopranos', and more 'The Sopranos'.
AMC offers the movie 'Red Dawn', followed by the movie 'Hard To Kill', then the movie 'Army Of Darkness'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Daily Cooks! - Episode 15;
[12:30 PM] Rick Stein's Food Heroes - Episode 15;
[1:00 PM] The Naked Chef - Ep 2 Hen Night;
[1:30 PM] Masterchef Goes Large - Episode 11;
[2:00 PM] The Weakest Link - Episode 7;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 2;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 3;
[4:00 PM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 7 Woodford Green;
[4:30 PM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 8 St. Ives;
[5:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 10;
[5:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 1;
[6:00 PM] My Family - Ep. 8 Misery;
[6:30 PM] My Family - Ep. 9 Auto Erotica;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News - BBC World News;
[7:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1;
[8:00 PM] Murphy's Law - Ep. 1 Jack's Back;
[9:00 PM] Murphy's Law - Ep. 2 Bent Moon;
[10:00 PM] Hollyoaks - Episode 25;
[10:30 PM] Hollyoaks - Episode 26;
[11:00 PM] Murphy's Law - Ep. 1 Jack's Back;
[12:00 AM] Murphy's Law - Ep. 2 Bent Moon;
[1:00 AM] Hollyoaks - Episode 25;
[1:30 AM] Hollyoaks - Episode 26;
[2:00 AM] The Weakest Link - Episode 8;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 7 Woodford Green;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 8 St. Ives;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Episode 15;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 16 Detling;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 28 Pigott;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 29 McKellin;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'The Godfather Saga', followed by the movie 'The Godfather Saga', again.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', 'Reno 911!', another 'Reno 911!', 'Chappelle's Show', 'South Park', 'Scrubs', and another 'Scrubs'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 6/28/07) is Claire Danes.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 6/21/07).is Vincent Bugliosi.
FX has the movie 'Are We There Yet?', followed by the moive 'Daredevil'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Hooked: Illegal Drugs', 'Cities Of The Underworld', and 'Bloodlines: Dracula Family'.
IFC -
[06:50 AM] George Washington;
[08:25 AM] Spellbound;
[10:10 AM] Le Divorce;
[12:15 PM] George Washington;
[01:50 PM] Spellbound;
[03:35 PM] Le Divorce;
[05:40 PM] George Washington;
[07:15 PM] IFC News Special;
[07:25 PM] The Tao of Steve;
[09:00 PM] All over Me;
[10:30 PM] The Anniversary Party;
[12:30 AM] The Henry Rollins Show #313: Larry Flynt/Placebo;
[01:00 AM] All over Me;
[02:30 AM] The Anniversary Party;
[04:30 AM] All About My Mother. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[03:00 AM] At Play In the Fields of the Lord;
[06:00 AM] Decryptage;
[08:00 AM] Emile;
[09:00 AM] Mickybo and Me;
[11:00 AM] The Tree Officer;
[11:00 AM] Gelato: an endless passion;
[12:00 PM] A Life Without Pain;
[02:00 PM] Salvador Allende;
[03:00 PM] The Take;
[05:00 PM] Sophie Scholl - In Defiance of All Powers;
[06:00 PM] Gelato: an endless passion;
[07:00 PM] Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family;
[09:00 PM] Commune;
[10:00 PM] The Grace Lee Project;
[11:00 PM] Occupation: Dreamland;
[01:00 AM] Tell Them Who You Are;
[03:00 AM] The Choirboys;
[05:00 AM] Mickybo and Me. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Alec Baldwin during the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium, Saturday, July 7, 2007 in East Rutherford, N.J. The concert is part of a 24-hour series spanning 7 continents to raise awareness for global warming.
Photo by Tim Larsen
A lighter and paper shredder helped make Mika Brzezinski the symbol of television journalism's guilt trip about Paris Hilton.
Brzezinski used both to destroy a script calling for her to read about Hilton's release from jail on MSGOP's "Morning Joe" program recently. Part serious, part an act, it has become an Internet sensation. More than 2 million people have watched a clip of the incident, around 10 times the number who watched it live on TV.
Apparently, she's not the only one sick of the socialite.
"Among journalists it touched a nerve because I think we're tired of pretending this is important," she said. "We also know that, deep down inside, our viewers know that we don't believe this is news. They can't. They can't think we're that dumb."
Former Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant performs during a concert in conjunction with the Live Earth music festival in Bucharest Sunday, July 8, 2007. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore organized the Live Earth concerts taking place on seven continents simultaneously on July 7 to raise awareness on issues as global warming.
Photo by Andreea Balaurea
Prince thrilled his hometown fans with three shows over 12 hours, only stopping when police shut him down early Sunday.
The Minneapolis native first performed Saturday at a department store to promote his new cologne, cramming nine songs into a 45-minute set. He then played that night at the Target Center arena. He capped the night with a return to First Avenue, the club he made famous in the movie "Purple Rain."
After the Target Center, Prince waited until nearly 2:45 a.m. before starting the First Avenue show, the first time he had played at the club since 1987. The city lets music play until 4 a.m.
He was 15 songs and 70 minutes into a 24-song set when he announced from the stage: "The authorities say we gotta go. We always listen to the authorities. I promise I'll be back."
Katie Couric whines the move to CBS would have been less appealing if she had known she'd be doing the more traditional "CBS Evening News" broadcast that she anchors now.
"People are very unforgiving and very resistant to change," Couric pouted in an interview with New York magazine. "The biggest mistake we made is we tried new things."
Couric's move to CBS has been a bust so far. The evening newscast's ratings are deep in third place, and CBS has rolled back some of the changes it made last fall to shake up the format. Couric conducts fewer interviews, a conservative outside opinion segment was scrapped and the anchor admits she's even dressing down a little to give her critics less ammunition.
If you truly believe a UFO and its crew of bug-eyed aliens came crashing down here 60 years ago, rest assured: You're not alone. At least 35,000 people have descended on Roswell this weekend for the 2007 Amazing Roswell UFO Festival to commemorate a purported flying saucer crash on a nearby ranch in July 1947. Participants have filled hotel rooms and nearly doubled the southeastern New Mexico town's population for a few days.
The festival, which began Thursday, is a mixed bag that includes live concerts (one headlined by a band with a computer-generated 'alien' drummer), costume contests, a Main Street parade and a slew of lectures that ponder everything from body snatchers to "What Does NASA Really Know?"
The festival emerged in the 1990s to spark debate about the purported flying saucer crash, which the government says was a top-secret weather balloon. Believers in the Roswell Incident say the government is conspiring to hide the truth about the events of that day and, more broadly, the existence of extraterrestrial life.
An inflatable pig with environmental message floats above the Live Earth New York concert during Pink Floyd member Roger Water's set in East Rutherford, New Jersey July 7, 2007. Former U.S. vice president Al Gore and global partners are staging the Live Earth concerts held on seven continents simultaneously to raise awareness of environmental issues.
Photo by Mike Segar
Clay Aiken was involved in an airplane disturbance with another passenger Saturday while en route to Tulsa International Airport, a newspaper reported.
The dispute on a Continental Airlines flight took place between Aiken, who was traveling Saturday morning to a performance at the Brady Theater, and a woman, the Tulsa World reported for Sunday's editions.
Concertgoers who attended the former "American Idol" singer's show said afterward that Aiken joked on-stage about being beaten up by a girl earlier in the day.
FBI Special Agent Gary Johnson said there was a dispute between a male passenger and a woman on the flight but could not confirm the passenger was Aiken. He said the dispute was over the male passenger's foot resting on the woman's armrest. He said there was an allegation the woman gave the male passenger a "minor shove" during the argument.
Former NFL player and Fox Sports broadcaster Bill Maas was charged with drug possession and weapons charges following a roadside safety check.
The 45-year-old Maas and a passenger in his Hummer, Sarah J. Murphy, 27, were arrested late Friday by Illinois State Police. During the stop, police indicated Maas seemed nervous, and he agreed to a search of his vehicle.
Police found a .22-caliber revolver, 5 grams of suspected marijuana, 6 grams of suspected cocaine and 28 pills of Ecstasy. Maas and Murphy were charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana. Maas was also booked on a charge of unlawful use of a weapon.
"We didn't recognize him until about 5 p.m. this afternoon," Trooper Tony Halsey told the Journal Star of Peoria on Saturday.
California's "ganja guru" will not have to go to jail but still plans to appeal felony marijuana convictions with the aim of renewing a courtroom fight over state and federal laws that are sharply at odds.
Ed Rosenthal, author of "Why Marijuana Should Be Legal" and other books, said on Saturday his battle with U.S. government is far from over and that he would appeal his conviction on marijuana cultivation, distribution and conspiracy charges.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer on Friday sentenced Rosenthal, 62, to a single day behind bars, saying the Oakland, California activist thought he was legally growing and distributing marijuana with the approval of Oakland city officials when he was arrested in 2002.
Because of time already served, he faces no jail time.
A vendor practises calligraphy amidst different types of brushes while waiting for customers at his art stall in Beijing July 8, 2007. Considered one of the highest forms of Chinese art, Chinese calligraphic history is as old as China itself.
Photo by Claro Cortes IV
Estonians took gold and silver at the world wife-carrying championships in Finland on Saturday, defying rain and exhaustion to stumble along a path with women clinging upside-down to their backs.
They were among 44 couples from 12 countries competing in the annual event in Sonkajarvi, central Finland.
The race, held for the 12th time, is intended to evoke the spirit of a legendary Finnish brigand, Rosvo-Ronkainen, who made those who wanted to join his gang run through a forest carrying heavy sacks on their backs.
In the modern version, couples race along a 250-metre track, tackling a pool and several hurdles, with the men carrying the women on their backs.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday.
A photo released by the Chicago Zoological Society's Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill., shows two Amur tiger cubs seen on Thursday, July 5, 2007. The cubs, a male, left, and female, born on May 25, 2007, both weighed approximately 2 pounds at birth and currently reside in an indoor, off-exhibit den and will not be on exhibit until they are at least 4 months old.
Photo by Jim Schulz
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