Today, Tuesday 5/1/07, is the 4th anniversary of George Bush’s infamous Mission Accomplished speech, on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier of the US Navy. Today, a 124 Billion dollar funding bill will be put before the president, for his veto. And he will veto it, because in his mind the war is justified and must go on.

And now …

A top US congressional Democrat has raised the possibility of George W. Bush’s impeachment in a bid to force the president to accept a compromise that would place conditions on continued US military involvement in Iraq.Representative John Murtha, who chairs the House Subcommittee on Defense and is close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, made the comment Sunday in response to repeated threats by the president to veto legislation that calls for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by the end of next March.

That’s nice, but essentially passive-agressive. Like a massive dog, barking and snarling, then running up to put his forepaws on his shoulders, licking your face and pissing on your leg. What congress needs to do is grow a brain and a conscience, and override the veto.

Bush's "delusion":  a psychiatrist's perspective

On Daily Kos, and thanks to JG.

The problem is that we don’t even know if we’ll ever see this stuff again. We don’t know if whatever we leave, including the house, will be available when and if we come back. There are moments when the injustice of having to leave your country, simply because an imbecile got it into his head to invade it, is overwhelming. It is unfair that in order to survive and live normally, we have to leave our home and what remains of family and friends… And to what?

 

the office of special counsel is going to investigate Karl Rove and the mendacious machinations of his white house. Says the LA Times:

The new investigation, which will examine the firing of at least one U.S. attorney, missing White House e-mails, and White House efforts to keep presidential appointees attuned to Republican political priorities, could create a substantial new problem for the Bush White House.

I had a little problem with windows automatic updates. It kept trying to download the same update every time I turned my laptop on or off. So I figured I’d do a system restore, restoring my settings back to before it started happening. That screwed up my mozilla browser and totally hosed my i-tunes. I had to reinstall i-tunes, then uninstall and reinstall quicktime. But before I could do that, I had to reinstall all the windows updates that caused the problem in the first place.

Holy crap. I hope you realize that Microsoft has now managed to send every one of us a download by which they can verify, remotely, that our copy of windows is genuine. Be afraid. What happens when their monkeybrained server decides you’re not cool? Do you go boom or just poof? A bang or a whimper?

Brian Williams just said something hysterical on Letterman. He said it used to be you couldn’t say Sanjaya on TV. You could say private parts or something like that. Bwahahahaha! Then he said the most he’s ever paid for a haircut is $12. Bullshit. I pay $23 at a regular barbershop in SB. I don’t believe he can get a haircut for half that in New York City. But Williams is cool; he’s got a good sense of humor for a news guy. Most of those guys are pretty full of themselves.

I didn't go anywhere for Earth Day. I didn't do anything special. I took a couple of nice long walks under a brooding, rainsome sky, and that was good. But I didn't make it up to the SB Courthouse sunken gardens for the local fete for the ol' blue orb or anything.

Since I didn't go anywhere for Earth Day, on Monday I'm not going anywhere, for Earth Day. I parked Old Blue – my trusty pickup truck – in his garage Sunday evening around 6:00, and he's going to take Monday off. He'll be resting there – incongruously dozing in his indefatigable blueness – until Tuesday morning.

Of course, I'll still need to make my daily visit to my buddy Happy. She'd be disappointed if I didn't go take her out for a sniff, to check her p-mail. From my home office to Happy's house is a round trip of about 4.5 miles. I need to get a bike, don't you think?

Happy day, Earth, you grumpy, overheating old pile of rocks.

If you’ve been wondering what became of Rumsfeld after he resigned, and I know you have, this might be your answer.

Black Holes Exhale Enormous Gas Cloud

I remember when I first met Yahoo. It was about 12 years ago, I think. Y! was only about a year old. My folks got a PC, and my brother hooked it up with AOL, which boasted about 5 million members at the time. I’ve been a Y! fan ever since. I loved it then for its simple, low graphics menus. It loaded faster on dial-up than some other stuff.

I’ve used just about everything that Y! has offered, and paid for premium versions in some cases. I still like Y! Finance and News, and my Web site is through Geocities. I remember Geocities before Y! bought them. It was weird and fun.

Google’s e-mail and calendar have caught up and blown Y!’s doors off. They left Y! mail beta almost finished, and have barely touched it in about a year. On Friday, I canceled my Y! Mail Plus account. It wasn’t even worth $19.95 a year anymore.

I could still love Y!, the way a man can love a pickup truck made before power windows, but I have to take a break. I can’t use the vast portal’s almost infinite content, even for the news, until they get rid of the ad that’s appearing on almost every page. You’ve seen it.

It’s insidious. it’s just a poor little moron acting way too happy. Is she dancing because she can refinance at 5.8% adjustable for a few months, then loose her house when the rate jumps? I don’t care. It’s on too many pages, and it makes no sense and it’s distracting and absurd.

Y! has disabled the Ad Feedback links on its pages, saying that survey is not available. Baloney. This ad is crumbling people’s cookies. And I think it’s time that Y! and I took a breather, tried seeing about people for a while. I’ve fallen out of love.

Time for a break from the pathos of this blog? Yeah. Here’s a video of Missy Jenkins Smith. She’s a courageous and positive young woman, who survived a school shooting 10 years ago, and delivers an uplifting message on respect and kindness. Paralyzed and in a wheel chair, she graduated from college, married and is expecting a baby. I found what she says life-affirming, and I’m glad that she is carrying her message to kids in schools.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

–Arthur C Clarke 

(MONTPELIER, Vt.) — Vermont senators voted Friday to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, saying their actions have raised "serious questions of constitutionality."

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The resolution says Bush and Cheney's actions in the U.S. and abroad, including in Iraq, "raise serious questions of constitutionality, statutory legality, and abuse of the public trust."