Generalisimo Francisco Franco Saudi King Fahd is still dead.
 

Golly, a lot has happened since King Faud died on Monday. Sorry I haven't been keeping up. You have to expect that from a Blogslut.

Dubya appoints Bolton UN Ambassador. Twenty American soldiers die within a two-day period in Iraq and Bush reminds everybody the name of the game is War. He then hightails it to Crawford for the longest presidential vacation in American history.

GOP crone, Jean Schmidt was supposed to win her Ohio Congressional seat with an overwhelming majority but won with only a 3% margin. Democratic contender Paul Hackett forced Schmidt to wear photo buttons and pretend she gave a shit about veterans.

Hot babe and courageous whistleblower Sibel Edmonds gets press with a new Vanity Fair article. Corruption is busting out all over as Edmonds busts Denny Hastert for taking Turkish bribes. At the same time, the Noe scandal is going strong while the AIPAC scandal is heating up.

On CNN, Robert Novack tells his touching tale of attack by PhotoShop while defending Katherine Harris from the evil James Carville. Novack is so incensed he drops a turdblossom during the live broadcast. Bob then takes off his mike and shuffles off the set. Was he pissed or piss drunk? Let's hope he can sleep it off now that CNN has suspended him.

A hell of a week so far.

Any guesses on today's news dump?

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...but I know you.
And I've got a message to give to you.
Here come the planes.

'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom.

Hi Mom.

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How are you? I understand you've gone on vacation for a whole month. I guess being the Commander in Chief during wartime is hard work. Enjoy yourself. The War will still be going on. Our children will still be dying in Iraq and America will be waiting for you to come back.

Love,
Blogslut

PS: If you happen to receive an important memo or briefing during your stay in Crawford, please take a moment to read it. If you think there's a chance we might have trouble, we'll forgive you if you cut your playtime short. The brush can wait.

I've included a copy of the kind of memo I mean. You got it when you were on vacation four years ago. Did you read it? Are you sure you didn't accidentally throw it out with the junk mail? I do that all the time.

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"Hello. This is your mother. Are you there?"

The lady in the photo above is named Cindy Sheehan. She lost her son Casey in Iraq on April 4, 2004.

Ever since the worst day of her life she has been trying to get an answer to the question every parent asks when they lose a child: "Why?"

Iraq didn't attack us on 9-11. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. The Iraqis did not greet us as liberators. Instead, they have killed almost two thousand of our daughters and sons. This illegal, immoral war is creating an average of 60 Cindy Sheehans a month.

It's been two years and three months since George Bush declared this war won and the mission accomplished.Yet the war is still going and we are still losing our daughters and sons.

What is our Commander in Chief doing while our children are dying? He's taking a vacation. His 49th vacation. Five weeks in the flatlands of Crawford, Texas.

Just before Dubya split for the pig farm, he made this statement concerning the recent deaths of 20 American soldiers in a 48-hour period in Iraq:

"First, let me say that we mourn the loss of every fallen troop. And the community outside of Cleveland, Brook Park, Ohio, suffered mightily over the last couple of days. It's -- the people of Brook Park and the family members of those who lost their life, I hope they can take comfort in the fact that millions of their fellow citizens pray for them. I hope they also take comfort in the understanding that the sacrifice was made in a noble cause."

That statement pissed Cindy off and she decided it was time to find out what was so damned noble. She got with the folks at Veterans for Peace, Code Pink, her own organization Gold Star Families for Peace and the Crawford Peace House. She rode a bus to Texas and brought her cause to George Bush's back yard. As Cindy said: "I want to ask George Bush what noble cause my son died for... I don't want him to use my son's name or my family's name to justify more killing."

Cindy arrived in Crawford Texas on Saturday, August 6. She's still there. She will be there until she gets her answer. She needs money, support and your prayers.

To keep up with the events surrounding this brave mother, read the Crawford, TX newspaper, the Lone Star Iconoclast.

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Can you spot the big, honking coward in this picture? I'll give you a hint: He's hiding in the car.

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Today, the president was again asked about meeting with Cindy Sheehan. As per the (Alabama) Birmingham News:

"CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush, noting that lots of people want to talk to the president and "it's also important for me to go on with my life," on Saturday defended his decision not to meet with the grieving mom of a soldier killed in Iraq.

Bush said he is aware of the anti-war sentiments of Cindy Sheehan and others who have joined her protest near the Bush ranch.

"But whether it be here or in Washington or anywhere else, there's somebody who has got something to say to the president, that's part of the job," Bush said on the ranch. "And I think it's important for me to be thoughtful and sensitive to those who have got something to say."

"But," he added, "I think it's also important for me to go on with my life, to keep a balanced life."

The comments came prior to a bike ride on the ranch with journalists and aides..."

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G. Gordon Liddy needs medication.

CNN's Paula Zahn pitted Liddy against Arianna Huffington in a discussion of brave Cindy Sheehan. Gordon started off sounding almost lucid but then the voices in his head kicked in and it all went to shit:

HUFFINGTON: Well, first of all, I think it's a little disrespectful to refer to a grieving mother whose son died in a war which many Americans, in fact over 60 percent of Americans believe was a mistake as this woman. I mean she represents something very powerful in this country. She has stepped into the leadership void that is there that has been left there by many elected officials.

ZAHN: Gordon, would it make any difference if this president met with Cindy Sheehan now?

LIDDY: It would be a big mistake if he did.

ZAHN: Why?

LIDDY: Anything you encourage you will get more of.

Now, look, when my youngest son's face got blown off in Panama, Mrs. Liddy naturally was unhappy with that, but she didn't go down and protest outside the home of the president. She went down and stayed with her son until she grew him a new face, and then with his new face, as a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps, he went all the way from Kuwait to Baghdad. That's how to do it.

ZAHN: But once again...

HUFFINGTON: (INAUDIBLE). But you know, there are many, many different opinions in this country. And one of the things that's troubling me is the way the president is talking about what he's doing. It sounds as though he has so much time on his hands. He's watching Tony Robinson, Dr. Phil too much, because he's talking about my being needs to be outside exercising, or it's very important for me to get on with my life. That's so very flippant and very petulant at a time of war, and huge sacrifice by many Americans.

ZAHN: Gordon, you get the last word tonight.

LIDDY: It may sound flippant and patronizing in Greece, but not here in the United States.

HUFFINGTON: Oh, wow, now we're doing ethnic varieties. Well, it's not just the Greek Americans who are complaining; it's millions of Americans. And that's why the president's approval ratings are down at 42 percent.

LIDDY: That's a gratuitous assertion, and any gratuitous assertion may be equally gratuitously denied.

Looks like Mr. Liddy's drunk too much baby's blood magic youth potion.

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The Lone Star Iconoclast reports:

Last night (about 1 a.m.), an unidentified man showed up at the camp pretending to be newly arrived, which isn't unusual. He was met by Cindy Sheehan's private security people, Patrick Miller from southeast Kansas and Dave Jensen from Tyler, Texas. The man said he worked for Jeb Bush and told Diane Wilson, a camp coordinator, that he could have her arrested anytime he wanted. He indicated, said Wilson, that he knew Secret Service men that happened to drive by.

Tammara Rosenleas, whose husband is now at Ft. Hood and is expected to deploy within a year, said she knew immediately something was amiss. An attorney from Louisiana chased the man down the road. The man left his car when chased. The car was towed and, according to camp sources, the man is now apparently in custody. Sheehan's security personnel praised the law enforcement officers for their prompt attention to this matter and their patience during the entire stay at Camp Casey.

Lame. Totally lame.

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Some folks ask: "Why do bad things happen to good people?"

Not me. My question has always been: "Why do good things happen to bad people?". Why is it that least of us always seem to rise to the top of the money/power chain?

If we valued the true goods in life, it would take a million George Bushes, Dick Cheneys, Bill O'Reillys, Pat Robertsons, Rick Santorums and Tom Delays to make up for one Cindy Sheehan. For one Casey Sheehan.

Bless you Cindy Sheehan. Stay the course. Your truth is clear and it will prevail. They will crumble and fall. Their kind always does.

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This last weekend in Crawford something happened. I felt it up here, from the top o' Texas. The tiny town was packed full of protestors both pro-war and anti-war.

The pro-warriors gave in to their true motivation: fear. The result was behavior common among desperate, doomed creatures. They fought amongst themselves, became hostile and the authories were called in. Kind of a downer, really.

At Camps Casey 1 & 2, the atmosphere was spiritual and almost magical. Last Sunday, I felt chills when I turned on THE BRAD SHOW and heard Martin Sheen and Cindy Sheehan lead the crowd in a Rosary for soldiers lost in this obscene war. And when they sang, the sound was made perfection because Joan Baez was in the choir. It even made this old agnostic feel the presence of a higher power.

Cindy leaves when sonny boy's summer vacation ends. She's not done though. I hear her next stop is Tom Delay. George did his best to hide from her but he couldn't stop her. He can't stop her. Her message runs too deep and reads too true.

As a famous loudmouth once said: "Now it's happening and you can't stop it happening."

Hide from the hurricanes, George. Hide from the housewives. Hide from your miserable failure. Don't throw us in the briar patch. We promise you don't look like a coward. Please, never change.

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