Dirty pool

Bush says he just takes money from scumbags like Abramhoff; he doesn't actually speak with them. The photo evidence, not to mention his cabinet, proves him wrong, as usual.

The Bushoviks are after your online activities. So far, only Google has resisted the administration.

Bush and Co. have also tried to smear Rep. John Murtha, a veteran who has stood against Bush's war fetish. Conservative "news" sites question his medals, not to mention his dignity and patriotism. You know the drill. Being an ex-military man, soldiers have more readily come to Murtha's defense.

As for Halliburton? They are busy giving our troops and civilian workers contaminated water. I'm sure they double-billed us for it too.

Because Bush, Rumsfeld, et al. refuse to fund our military, said military cannot provide our troops with proper protection. That said, even the asinine bureaucracy at the Pentagon has found a way to avoid blaming the president and has, instead, threatened to revoke the life insurance of any soldier buying his own armor. The Army, at least, has stepped up plans - plans laying dormant for months - to provide a proper supply of armor.

More bad news on the electonic voting system debacles. I've been following this without commenting on it a lot. One, I like technology and wish it to work for us and not against us. So, I'm really disheartened to keep finding out that a bunch of GOP supporters have subverted this field entirely. Two, I just assume Republicans cheat and you have to outvote the rednecks, hatemongers, and rich bastards two-to-one just to break even.

Tom Cruise has gotten the South Park scientology episode banned in Europe. You can still watch it here though. Here are two folks who dared to enter a scientology center.

Here's a neat trick and perhaps ties in to the earlier story about Google vs. Bushites mentioned earlier. Go to Google Maps and type in "terrorist threat" (or follow this handy link) and check out the results. Interesting.

This requires no further comment from me.