I just got off the phone with my fundie sister. Yet another conversation that started off ok on technical Internet connectivity issues which turned out to be a bad router and then quickly devolved once the topic was turned (by her) to politics. Sigh. Then it went to religion and got worse.

She is depressed overall since for her the election was lost once McSame got the nomination. If Hillary is nominated my sister will vote against Hillary (for McSame, but she can't bring herself to vote for him.) She can't stand Obama and will not vote for him under any circumstances.

She is a typical Rethuglican fundie in that she would rather believe than think, totally believes anything they say on Fox News, knows all the verses in the Bible but doesn't seem to understand what the words actually mean, was on welfare at one point but now wants to pull the ladder up behind herself so no one else can "freeload".

I just saw it on MSNBC, the debate leading to the confirmation vot eis going on now! in the Senate.

Love thy enemy is what Jesus said. You never hear people say that any more either really. Not the Bush type of Christians for sure...but maybe we can hear more of it shortly.

I just read  this story via Reuters and this could become a groundswell if it spreads. One Capt. Peter Brown, who has been in Iraq and graduated from West Point, has just managed to get out of the military as a conscientious objector due to his Christian beliefs.

You have been doing well, especially Sen. Leahy in his excellent takedown of Sara Taylor here, but you have to keep it up to earn back our approval. Here is how you can start, maybe as early as today.

I just called Sen. Reid's and Rep. Pelosi's offices, and politely asked them to pass on a suggestion I just thought of.

Send the same Iraq bill back up.

I think that it will be very difficult to negotiate a new bill, and that if it gets changed too much we will lose votes and possibly get defeated in a vote.

I was just browsing, and noticed this little gem.

WASHINGTON - The White House said Wednesday it had mishandled Republican Party-sponsored e-mail accounts used by nearly two dozen presidential aides, resulting in the loss of an undetermined number of e-mails concerning official White House business.

I knew this was coming. They sure hate the sunlight Henry Waxman and Pat Leahy are shining on them, and I was frustrated after hearing about these emails initially, thinking to myself, "they are as good as gone now".

So I was sitting around today watching the news, reading some blogs, and there is this big debate on what exactly we should be calling the situation in Iraq after the release of the NIE.

How many times are you going to let Joe "Only In It For Myself" Lieberman stab us ALL in the back before you do something? Seriously, the waste-of-skin that he has proven himself to be deserves no respect, no special treatment, and a great many of us out here think he needs to be taken down. Not later, but NOW.

I just read this article, courtesy of the The Raw Story, in which Israeli experts have concluded that Bush's policies have made the US and world less safe than before. And they also stated that it would be better for the US to pull the troops out of Iraq now INSTEAD of adding troops as the Dear Leader wants to do.

I just wrote a Bush joke, if you think it is funny, pass it on...

OMG!! Can you believe what they just showed on FOX News?

Well, Time Warner just screwed me. I don't want to go through the whole story, but basically they kept my account open, after I told them to close it, for one day into the new billing period. When I called to complain, I was told that a credit would be issued to zero out the account. Needless to say, the credit was never issued and they are still billing me for a charge they never should have put on there in the first place.

Now they are going to send it to a collection agency, so I have no real choice but to pay it, but I sure hope to cost them a LOT more than the amount in question, which is 12.46.

Please do not get Time-Warner services of ANY kind if you have an alternative. They are corporate scum and had no compunctions about screwing me and then telling me that there was nothing they could do.

Well, I just got back from my local precinct, and I was pleasantly surprised at the number of people there waiting in line. Now, obviously, I don't like to wait in line either, but it was heartening seeing a lot of people there.

However, the big surprise was that NOT ONE PERSON was choosing to use the electronic touch screen machines when given the choice between a touch screen with NO LINE and having to wait up to 5 minutes for a booth in which to fill out the paper form which is scanned electronically. Literally no one trusted the touch screen.

This may be the last election with no paper trail if the Republemmings here feel that way too.

What many people do not seem to understand is that Bushco is doing EXACTLY what they intend, which is to destroy the government in all but name by the time they leave. They are in fact frightenly competent at their real goal.

There are so many truly incompetent people and cronies in the bureacracy that the truly well meaning people who do work in government cannot keep the system working.

They are destroying the essential trust, "The consent of the governed", in the government by its citizens without which the government can do nothing to stem the corporations rapacious greed and urge to control what they can.