First Post

Whoop Dee Do! I've finally retooled and in co-operation with Blogger can now get comments at the Mag of the Rag. All the old postings are still accessible via the links in the archives. Also from here you can get virtually anywhere on my website, Randall's Pages. So if you have a comment about one of the older postings just leave it here, and it would help if you told me the title or date of the posting. This posting is just an announce that this is where and how I am now. Welcome all, and please just say hello or engage me in discussion.

If like me you are not a great fan of Bush the Lessor you might enjoy the link to the left called Abusing GWB or click here! It's a little flash program that has GeeDubya freefalling through balls and you can drag and drop him to abuse him as much as you like. As he tumbles and bounces he looks almost as goofy as he does in real life when he's standing in front of people and lying. Macromedia Flash or equivalent needs to be installed to kick G_butt.

Well any minute now the Shrub should be saying "Heckuva Job" to Alberto "Torture Boy" Gonzalez. When the Preznit starts telling you and everybody else what a wonderful job you are doing, get them resumes out there right away. The Bushies haven't got pretty spoiled with the "Rubber Stamp" Congress of the last six years. The Congress still doesn't seem to have grown a complete set, but at least they realize that they can issue subpoenas and actually .... gasp .... expect the administration to tell the truth. According to Raw Story:

On Tuesday evening, President Bush backed his beleaguered Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, and defended a White House offer to allow "behind closed doors" testimony by Karl Rove and Harriet Miers regarding the firing of eight US Attorneys. Bush said that he would block any efforts to subpoena White House officials
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"We will not go along with a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants," said Bush as he characterized the offer to allow unsworn testimony by Rove, Miers and two other officials as a "reasonable proposal."

Come on now, "honorable public servants?" Remember, this is the Bu$h Administration, the excuse for government RICO was designed to take down. Harry Reid said -

"Congress and the American people deserve a straight answer. If Karl Rove plans to tell the truth, he has nothing to fear from being under oath like any other witness.”

Does KKKarl Rove even have any idea how to tell the truth, and would being under oath even make any difference to these guys?

 

Update:  Now that it is the next day, things are already looking grimmer for Torture boy. According to Raw Story, even "Republican sources are suggesting that Alberto Gonzales' days as Attorney General in the Bush Administration may be numbered....."

An anonymous member of the House Republican Leadership also told the Politico that Gonzales' tenure would soon end. "I can't imagine that he's going to be around a whole lot longer," they quoted the Member of Congress saying, adding, "There's already Republicans on the Hill calling for him to quit and there's certainly not a deep well of support on the Hill for him."

But of course,

The White House denied any plans were afoot to replace the Attorney General.

Meanwhile in Congress:  

Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, called the White House offer "disappointing." He also promised a prompt response.

That would be the offer to have an informal chat behind closed doors with none of them nasty oaths being taken.

"The House Judiciary Committee will take whatever steps are necessary and within our Congressional authority to get to the bottom of what has become a horrible mess that is undermining American trust in our federal criminal justice system," said Conyers in a statement sent to RAW STORY last night. His committee's Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law set a vote this morning to authorize subpoenas, but stopped short of immediate plans to issue subpoenas themselves. "We will not necessarily issue the subpoenas immediately," said a spokesman for Rep. Linda Sanchez, who chairs the subcommittee, in an e-mail to RAW STORY. "We are trying what we can to avoid doing that, but this vote will allow for the possibility that the White House will definitively choose to stonewall and slow-walk the investigation." The Senate's leader on the subject, Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) also called the White House's offer of unsworn statements unacceptable. "Testimony should be on the record, and under oath. That's the formula for true accountability," he said in a statement published at CNN's Political Ticker.

You know ya'll don't have a Democratic Congress now because everybody thought the RePukes were doing a good job or not committing crimes as a full time pursuit. Go get 'em - hell, put 'em in orange jumpsuits, send 'em to Gitmo.

 

Awhile back in the HuffPost I ran across a Preznitial Poetic Proclamation about Gay Marriage. I can't remember if it was by a writer or a commenter. If one really needed to find it they should be able to search for a line or so in the Huffington Post. I will leave you all tonight with this little ditty to dance in your heads.

The Gay Menacalling

As your Preznut,
I've decidered that we must
preservate the country
from the gayification
of the most sanctimonious of its
institutionallizations:
holy mirage.

To do so,
we have to amendmalize and rectalfy
our greatest document:
The Constipation of the United States.

Same-sexualizing is an offendage
to the religifous historia
of the flounding feathers.
The severitance and seriousless
of this pablum is gravelly
misunderestimallized.

We must not let
the globule war of terror
distract us from this nation's
greatest terrification.
The hom'sexshuls are coming!
The hom'sexshuls are coming!

By enacating this disembowelment
to the Constipation,
we'll be turning the corner
at a cretacious puncture
in our crusellade
against the gay agenital.
God wants me to
use my discriminations to
solidify His merciless might.

I'm Gee Dumbya,
and God belch Amerka.

DO, 06.04.2006 at Huffington Post

Bon Nuit for now folks......................................