It's late, so this will be short, but this is interesting and warrants some further investigation.

Judge strikes down part of Bush anti-terror order

More after the break.

A couple diaries have touched on an important point in the Iraq issue.  The situation is deteriorating fast, and our military capacity along with it, as units are stretched to the breaking point, putting our national security at ever-increasing risk.

CharlieHipHop and Tomtech (and several others today) have noticed a very interesting trend.  We're actually starting to hear talk about something other than "staying the course".

But we are missing a very important piece of information.

This isn't something that is readily apparent to the untrained eye, and trust me -- it will suprise you.  We have to read between the lines.

Follow me over the jump...(it's a bit sensitive for the preview)

(EDIT = Disclaimer: The title is tongue-in-cheek, but unfortunately he may as well have just come right out and said it.)

I just saw this over at wonkette.com.  Apparently, none other than James Baker is back.

From Wonkette:

Whenever the Bush Family faces a serious crisis, technicians carefully remove family-fixer James Baker III from his cryogenic chamber deep below the U.S. Naval Observatory and begin the painstaking process of thawing him back to "life."

Whether managing Poppy Bush's campaigns, actually running the Reagan White House or even ensuring a Florida victory for Junior, Baker is the man for the job. This time, his mission is to "fix" the Iraq Occupation in time to protect the White House from an assault by a Democrat-controlled Congress.

More below...

I want out of this farce of a website.  I thought it was a place where I could accumulate mojo and respect and have my opinion seen and loved by all the users of the tubes of the internet.  Instead, it's just a fucking Kos/Lamont/Democrat propoganda machine.  What's worse, is that I have to do all my own fucking writing.  Like some sort of cult, I was lured in by the promise of e-fame and easy access to multitudes of impressionable internet users, but now I am barred from doing nothing.  I don't want to simply leave and let my few self-important words remain here at a website that I would actually have to type things into.  Since Kos won't allow me the option of not having to do my own work (just about eveyone else DOES, by the way) then somebody here needs to write it for me.  To deny me of having someone else write my diaries, so I don't have to do it myself is unacceptable.

There has been a lot of discussion about stem cell research lately, mostly due to Bush's veto of a bill that would allow federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.  Almost all of what has been said is focused on the future, the potential that stem cell research has to cure diseases and disabilities.  

However, this is not an abstract discussion about the future.   There are people who have previously and people who are right now being affected by this new frontier in medical science.

One of those people is my brother.

This is his story.

Among my usual dark thoughts on the country's continuing descent into fascism, some lighter ideas occasionally manage to bubble to the surface.  One was how we refer to our enemy, the Rethuglicans.  Or Repugs, or GOopers, or...what?  

It occured to me that we need a more accurate term.  Yes, I know Rethugs is clever and all, but I mean for the "official purposes".  What can we call them in polite conversaton, or in the MSM, and make it stick?  They have usurped the name of "Republican", yet nothing could be farther from the truth. A republic, by deffinition, is a state without a king.  Well now, how many of them have we seen bowing before their boy-god-king? That won't work.