Katie Doyle, Girl About Town

Thursday, Feb. 09, 2006 - 7:21 p.m.

I so very much wish I could say I am surprised that with his illegal surveillance program under fire, Bush today made a speech about a failed terrorist attack from early 2002.

What does surprise me is that the dumbass picked a plan which was old news and had already been exposed two years ago in the LA Times, albeit without the terms "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed" and "shoe bombs," basically the only "new" details to be revealed in the Shrub's little speech today.

And hey, Idiotboy? Library. Lie-brair-ree. Liberty. Lib-ber-tee. Please try to learn the difference.

For that matter, while you are at it, please practice noo-klee-er. You are really starting to bug the absolute livin' hell outta my ass.

I love, by the way, that 20 men can get into this country to blow up planes, but a single 52 year old frenchman who sacked a fucking McDonald's can't.

In Millau.

If I were French, I'd sack a damned McDonald's, too. It's an affront to cuisine everywhere, let alone a country with the greatest food *I've* ever had, and I used to be a big fan of the Italian.

So, Dick Cheney and "Deputy National Security Adviser" Steven Hadley authorized staff (ie. Scooter Libby) to out undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame in the media. Color me...so surprised.

On top of that, there are big chunks of email missing from the offices of both the president and the vice president from 2003. To quote a letter sent from Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to Scooter Libby's defense team, "In an abundance of caution, we advise you that we have learned that not all e-mail of the Office of Vice President and the Executive Office of the President for certain time periods in 2003 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the White House computer system."

Clearly, the spirit of Rose Mary Woods is alive and well and living inside the White House messaging system. Where the hell is Jennifer Love Hewitt when you need her? Can a graymail defense be far behind? And why isn't the mainstream press talking about the missing emails?

If I may return to the subject of illegal wiretaps a moment, I can't tell you how relieved I am to hear that the man who wrote the memo on how the Geneva Conventions forbidding torture do not actually apply to the US government is the very same guy vouching for the legality of Bush's little wiretapping/surveillance project. I feel safer in the security of my person, already.

Why yes, you do feel an eyeroll.

I find it incredibly hypocritical that a culture so adamant their own religious figure not appear in cartoon form routinely ridicules Judaism and the Jewish god...in cartoon form. Frankly, I don't really think any mainstream, accepted religious figure (God, Buddha, Mohammed, Jesus) should really be lampooned, because frankly, that's just immature bullshit and disrespectful in a needlessly extreme way. And you can't really hold a deity responsible for the fucked up things his/her followers do. I also don't think a crucifix in a vat of urine is art. It's not even a statement. Its sole function is to push someone's buttons, and frankly, that's not even stylish insult. It just makes you look like an ass and qualifies you as an unmitigated boor. But if you do choose to ridicule another faith - or accept it when others in your group do so - then you pretty much have to suck it the fuck up when someone employs turnabout. It's just a cartoon, anyway. If the guy who drew it and the one who published it have truly offended god in some way, then that's pretty much between them and god. And if you can't trust your GOD to take care of it himself, in his/her own way, then you've got a pretty piss poor excuse for a deity on your hands; you should probably look to another source for guidance. I fucking love people who think they are better suited to mete out justice or punishment than their god is. Hubris, thy name is zealot.

And finally, gee. It turns out George Bush knows damn good and well who Jack Abramoff is and chatted with him at least a dozen times, trading stories about their kids, which Bush remembered details about. That's not counting the time Abramoff was personally invited to Crawford but couldn't go. What? Bush lie about something like that? The deuce you say.

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