The Mouse That Roared
Some pretty nasty rats are at the helm of a sinking ship, and they keep snapping their horrible yellowing incisors at us and at the entire Muslim world. Today, finally, Colin Powell found the will to confront Condosleezza Rice and put her in her place. It's about time, and hopefully it will set off another chain reaction and more patriots will call a spade a spade.

Easter Isn't Over Yet
Childhood memories of Easter Egg Hunts are virulently looked down on by your friendly born-again Christian acquaintances. This season is not holy just to "Christians," but rather to most of the non-Christian world.

Impeachment: Not an Option; A Civic Duty, and the Füehrer Has No Clothes
The Füehrer has no clothes. Impeachment, in lieu of violent regime change is a no-brainer, and if you are a United States citizen with a conscience, you will press for it. Surely we can muster a backbone as good as nonagenarian Senator Robert Boyd?

Dirtier'n a Vomiting Skunk With Diarrhea
Well, it turns out, kiddos, that filthy, scummy, slithery, skunky Whacko Bush himself is this decade's Deep Throat, spilling the private beans at the time of his choosing and in the places of his choosing. Turns out the Devil's Spawn is the very one who has leaked "state secrets" for his own twisted political reasons. Not for shame: for Impeachment. Traitor. Now lets just hope our party, the Democrats chosen by God because we're better human beings, will not falter in our methodical, careful steps leading to this cloven-hoofed one's impeachment.

Pinocchio vs. Milquetoast
There are coward/liars Pinocchios in the world today, inflicting unimaginable horror on the lives of millions. There are Milquetoasts who are too timid to hold those liars to account. Just as the youth of France are standing up to their government, we must find the valor to stand up to ours and encourage our Democratic representatives to be at least as brave as French youth. It is our responsibility to take the milk out of their legs; there is no place right now for Milquetoast Democrats.

Revolution in Evolution
A significant portion of this country has a Dark Ages mentality. When presented with uncontestable scientific proof that human fossils are hundreds of thousands of years old, when their perverted faith tells them the world is only 6000 years old, they become dangerously belligerent, since their world does not comprehend scientific fact that the rest of us know does not in any way contradict anything in the Bible. That same ignorance cheers born again "Christians" on to encourage George Bush in his nefarious, truly grotesque and evil policies which include torture on a gargantuan scale and the daily slaughter of innocent men, women and children, not exactly "Chritian" virtues as we understand them.

Doyenne of White House News Correspondents, With Cojones!
The important question the country needs Bush to answer is why he had decided to invade Iraq even before moving into the White House. A valiant reporter asked that very question of Bush on Tuesday's White House press briefing. When Helen Thomas showed the courage her colleagues lacked in spades and asked Bush this question, he turned into a spitting viper in an instant, and needless to say, did not answer. Helen Thomas needs us all to hound this pathetic White House with her question, until it's answered. We shouldn't let the media fail to keep her question in the forefront. We deserve answers, even if they have to be obtained by harassment, censure, or impeachment.

Viva Latin America
Latin America is just right down there. This ghoulish administration, of course, has chosen to ignore it, so Latin America is turning to new partners, forging strong bonds that the U.S. will one day regret. China is "the sleeping dragon" waking up to find that it, Russia and Europe find a lot to like in Latin America, where the U.S. is intentionally losing partners and friends. Hugo Chávez is nobody's lap dog, and according to La Rice and the other ghouls, if you're not the U.S.'s lap dog you're dog meat. Wrong, Bubba.

Vacuous Questions
The British have officially labeled Dubya a splendiferous inept. We can only imagine what the rest of the world thinks of us, and him, and yet Dubya keeps sending equally superbly inept "envoys" out to win the hearts and minds of the Arab and Muslim worlds. We, and the Arab and Muslims, deserve better than just Bush's derrière kissers. World events are signaling events of dire importance; too much importance for the infamously xenophobic, Texas-centric Karen Hughes, or the always attitude-challenged, snide to the point of grotesqueness Condosleezza.

Diplomacy vis à vis Annihilation
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict needs to be seen through the eyes of a visionary, not a warmongering Crusader. It is in our blood, to long for home. Perhaps, with hope and hard work, a new Democratic administration, with a healthy boost from Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton can make 2009 the year Israel and Palestine begin to co-exist and live in prosperity and peace. Until then, Jew, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, all, pray for peace.

Charlatan Rummy
Smarmy Donald Rumsfeld, who doesn't give a flying brick for the safety of our troops, assures the country that everything's coming up roses in Iraq; no civil war looming. Yeah, and I still believe in the tooth fairy. So too, apparently, does the New England.

Pollyanna, AKA Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Pollyannish yokels from the government use the Sunday TV shows to spew the administration's "trash of the week spin." They're a waste of time, except that as comedy, all those pompous can be very entertaining; just not elucidating. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was a real hoot this Sunday. Pollyanna, pagliaccio: quel hoot! See, as Dubya starts his sentences, the White House doesn't flush its toilets Monday-Saturday. They wait till Sunday and then spew it all over the airwaves.

Pot Calling the Kettle Black
Every day we let Bush and his cabal get by with what he's getting by with, we're forfeiting our rights and our heritage. We're allowing the Bushites to turn us into Banana Republic citizens. It's insane, to pay attention to the media's recent reports on Mexico's Dirty War of the sixties and seventies, and not realize that that was Shirley Templish in comparison to the torture, mayhem and hell that we're allowing Bush to rain down upon the world; all the world.

Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria and The Pottery Barn Rule
There's this guy in the White House, beholden to his über-brain, Dick Cheney, who struts around on the world stage, injuring relations, hurting countries, and endangering lives everywhere. Like madmen everywhere, he believes himself to be this great emperor, refusing to admit that he knows nothing of what true governance involves. Governing requires that the governor be sane; a deranged person surrounded by yes 'ums sycophants won't cut it; the world's too tough.

I Had A Beer For Lunch
Hooey. It's an innocuous word that can stand in for whatever word you think best describes the situation. Up here in the hills, we know it's all your gonna find between Dubya's ears; it's what his minions bathe in and live in; it's what his minions eat morning, noon and night; it's what Dubya feeds the press, and it's what his policies, all of them, consist of. Whew! We don't have that much hooey up here, and here it's animals as far as the eye can see; guess it's all on Pennsylvania Avenue.

When Is Ridiculous Monstrous?
Cokie Roberts and George Wills seemed to imply that Republicans go to church more than do Democrats. What they failed to explain was if that were true, why do they leave the church portals less compassionate than when they crossed the threshold? Church-going does not equate to being a better human being, and the less Republican you are, the more God, every God, will love and appreciate you, since you will be a better human being. Go to church less often, if that's your wont; you will still be more a credit to the human race than your Republican church-goers.

Dubya The Terrible
Whether it's Ivan the Terrible or Godzilla, bad behavior is bad behavior, and George W. Bush's behavior is truly reprehensible. He has dragged us through the dung in the gutters of the international stage, and pictures of his torturing minions keep popping up, the latest just the other day. The United Nations is formally asking him to stop those practices and we, as citizens of the old United States, find it embarrassing that we would even stand accused of being the nation on earth that most practices torture. Can regime change come soon enough?

A Lie is a Lie is a Lie
This president, son of the sick , sick and dysfunctional, insensitive Barbara Bush, is making us pay for the way she raised him. His upbringing taught him one thing: to lie. And so, he's made it through life by lying, but that has dragged us into his gutter-life, and that's a shame. We, The People, deserve better and were promised better. Regime change, wherefore art thou? Nowhere in the Constitution does it say Thou Shalt be Lied To, and It Will Be Good.

No Hughes Blip on the Radar
George Bush declared Karen Hughes, AKA as Bin Laden's Little Helper, an ambassador and sent her to convert the Muslim world to her view of the world, which is limited to Fort Worth and Austin, Texas. Not bad things, if you're into ranching and such, but if you're into railing against the Caliphate, you're in deep horse manure, and so, we haven't heard much lately of La Hughes, who wears her polyester pantsuits the way Joan of Arc wore her armor. Now that La Hughes has stirred up the Muslims on their own turf, maybe Saint Joan's end would be just as fitting for Ms. Hughes?

Slap the Snot Out of the Toad
Insolent, irreverent and disdainful attitudes towards the Congress of the United States is performed only by perverts who give no respect to the Constitution of the United States. It rendered the heart of this patriot to see the "attorney general" of the United States display more the mores of illegal immigrants than those of true United States patriots. Beyond contempt, and beneath the insolent behavior of the "attorney general/illegal immigrant" Aztec toad, none other than George Bush, the Toad in Chief.

The Rich Are Very Different From You and Me
Bush Budget: A Moral Disgrace
Bush has decided to step on the backs of the less fortunate to give tax cuts to the ultra-rich and spend more and more on his nasty little invasion of a non-aggressor country. He is spending our national treasure, not on a war, but on an invasion that he was hell-bent on accomplishing. The billions that his invasion has cost could have solved a lot of humanitarian problems both here at home and abroad, instead, we have accomplished nothing in the way of good.

Contumacious Cartoons
Freedom of speech is one of the most prized liberties in the West. It is prized throughout Europe, and it was, before George Bush, sacrosanct in the United States. Some overly sensitive people would stifle freedom of speech in Europe, but temperance on both sides has to overcome cultural and religious differences. Perhaps the one should be more aware of deeply held religious beliefs, and the other should be more aware of what the mores are in the country he or she chooses to live in; leaving that country for good if those mores don't feel comfortable.

ZZZZZZZ State of the Union
No Brilliance in This State of the Union Address. President Bush's talk to the nation was so lackluster it put many people to sleep. He said nothing of substance, and the speech will always be characterized more for the shameful facts about his administration that he left out than for anything he did say. Somebody forgot to tell Bush that a State of the Union speech is supposed to be a report on the nation's condition. It is supposed to report to We The People what the government has done in the previous twelve months, and that was glaringly missing. Just as glaringly missing, squandered: our treasure.

Bill Frist: Doctor Death
Senate majority leader Bill Frist reminded Terry of Doctor Death, evil to the core, and as compassionate as a rock, or a Bush. He didn't care about Terry Schiavo, he didn't care about the shareholders in his families hospital conglomerate, and he doesn't care about over-bloated deficit. Seems like this guy, like Bush, only cares about Frist. Let's keep him in Tennessee, where he belongs, that is, if he has to belong somewhere.

The Bush-Gonzáles Miasma Suffocating The Constitution
Special vocabulary is necessary to decipher Alberto Gonzáles' and George Bush's miasmic and convoluted defense of their illegal strategy to continue spying on citizens of the United States. Nothing that they have twistedly said so far makes any sense, and only a Congressional inquiry into Bush's illegal activities will clear up the matter. Further, the attorney general of the United States should have an absolute connection to the hopes, desires and vision of our Founding Fathers, not to the Aztec kings who daily practiced human sacrifice.

Mama Don't Let Your Sons Be (Turista stricken) Soldiers Under George W. Bush
Bush can't even purify water for U.S. troops in Iraq. The question begs, what can he do? Without providing U.S. troops adequate, life-saving body armor, is it necessary to subject them to the diarrhea and other intestinal diseases also? Has this administration done anything for U.S. troops other than making them sitting ducks for insurgents to slaughter?

Diabetes Mellitus, Diabetes Killitis, Diabetes Horribilis
Diabetes is becoming an epidemic in this country. Millions of people are afflicted by it, but yet this administration, and George Bush in particular, are vehement in their efforts to deny people prophylactic treatment that could prevent the further ravages of diabetes. Bush will not allow methods to be put in place to teach people how to avoid getting diabetes or treating it effectively in its early stages. As usual with this idiot cedar-chopper, he would rather all the money go to the ultra-rich than to middle class and lower classes suffering from diabetes. Question is, are you willing to expend the effort to write your representatives to redress this grievance?

Horrifyingly, Terrifyingly Dangerous to Our Country: Those Quakers
The psychotically paranoid administration in power right now, like the one in Nazi Germany, is spying on everybody who might remotely oppose its policies. The height of the ridiculous is its intensive spying efforts directed at the most gentle Society of Friends, the Quakers. You know an administration has sunk into the cesspool when it spies on and begins to harass people long-known for their innate gentleness and love for humankind. It takes a dangerously paranoid schizoid president to sink to these depths, and he and his minions really need to be force-fed antipsychotic medications.

Cheerful Outlook For This New Year
Is the U.S. administration becoming kinder, gentler and more compassionate? Oh, no. You'd have to look south for a country that actually feels compassion for its less fortunate citizens. Hugo Chávez had once before stepped in to help poor United States citizens. To achieve the same level of help, we'll have to press for regime change here in the good old U.S.A.

Heil China, Our Celestial Owner
The Dragon awakes, and its tail can snap the foundations of the economy of the United States. George Bush is ignoring the waking dragon. He is ignoring the fact that China's Central Bank is changing its position vis à vis its tremendous holdings of U.S. Treasury notes, and Bush has ignored the significance of China's warning the U.S. Congress to back off during the period when China was seeking to buy U.S. oil giant Unocal.

Pat Robertson, The Merchant of Venice? No, à la Ken Lay, Merchant of Virginia
Über-rich and getting more so by the minute, smarmy televangelist and Republican darling Pat Robertson continues to spew garbage, and in so doing, continues to laugh all the way to his bulging bank. Republican Bubbas and Bubettes think he can walk on water, so you know what side of the aisle you want to walk on.

Culture of Religious Hatred
Charity, compassion and concern are a better moral compass than depriving the poor, the poor elderly, very young children or people with disabilities of desperately needed benefits and help. A culture of hatred in religious matters has no place in our country.

Epiphany: The Day of The Three Wisemen
If 59,054,087 Americans had been wiser in their election of a snide and pouty upstart, and had instead voted to bring in to the presidency a fine father and husband, whose principles are unassailable, today the world would be a safer world and we would not be as vastly hated as we are. Epiphany is both a special day observed by Christians, and a word that signifies awakening and realization of great truth, and our great truth is that the nouveau-riche, poor white trash George Bush has dragged us into an expensive quagmire that we can ill afford.

The Rise and Fall of 43
William L. Shirer's Book, "The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich" with just a few modifications, for example in the names of the main protagonists, could easily become "The Rise and Fall Of 43 and The United States." Our Congress is asleep at the wheel, allowing a megalomaniac assume powers that rightfully belong to We, The People. Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels and their like were obviously not the last unspeakably evil people in politics. Today, we have Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Gonzáles and Rove.

Choose A Cliff, Then Fling the Elderly, Poor, Disabled or Just Confused Over the Edge
With thousands of dead and wounded U.S. troops in Iraq, Dick Cheney was sent to Iraq on a mission, but once there, Bush called him back to the U.S., his Iraq business left unfinished, for the sole purpose of using Cheney to help Bush win passage of a bill that would decimate help for the least fortunate people in this country. His message was clear: all those dead troops are not as important as bringing back Vice/Cheney to implode the already Dickensian world of the unfortunate in the United States, whom Bush would like to throw over the edge of a cliff.

Resolutions for The New Year
New Year's Resolutions, wonderful flights of fancy with a tenuous hold on reality or on the ability to see them through an entire year. Here on the farm, our resolution to be kind and gentle with those in power lasted just under 24 hours, meaning that the New Year just rang-in the same curmudgeon host of a group of highly intelligent neighbors who give national and world affairs a high priority in their lives. The White House could have cleaned up its act over the holidays, but they chose not to. And, voilà.

Season of Hope
Democrats, liberals and progressives have stood up for the principles that guide the general feelings of goodwill that abound at this time of year: compassion for the poor, the sick, the old, the mentally ill and all those who, through no fault of their own, are unable to care for themselves. That's only one half of the country, so we have a big task ahead, trying to change the current trend of being cruel to the unfortunate and being magnanimous to the already wealthy.