THE BEST OFFENSE.................... In the ever on going chess game of symatics and parsing of words the administration is consistently applying a type and manner, a modified, affirmative defense. In regards to the "surge" or, in plain speak, the escalation, it has been said for sometime now, that September will be when the success and effectiveness will be determined. But in defending the escalation he has withheld speculation on any expectation by saying it's too early. All the troops aren't even there in place yet. June. June is when all is to be in place. June, July, then September. Is there any reason to think this administration will pass judgment on their precious war with less than three months of operations? No. And he has spoken to the issue of whether a contained, monitored Hussain was better than the festering, violent, al Qada heaven that this war has created. He said no. What we have on our hands is the better option. And he knew he had shit on his shoes right after he said that. It could be seen on his face.

SPEAKING OF WHICH..................................... he's so big on signs from above. What does he make of this little message?

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SHE'S A BEAUTY, 'O BOY, 'O BOY....................... What a wonderful combination of of natural beauty and danger is a well shaped, well formed ocean storm. And this little girl is a rogue to boot. Going against the currents literally. That's where the sense of danger comes in. What is she going to do? Meander over land and poop out quietly or somehow, someway strengthen while swiming around in the warm, warm, (too warm for this time of year?), water until slamming into the coast with a hellacious fury? Time will tell. And there's not a damn thing anyone can do. Exciting isn't it?

HOME TO ROOST

THE 28% SOLUTION?................ W has sunk to a new low. 28% of the people surveyed thinks he sucks at his job. And the smart money says he's taking the whole Republican ship of fools with him. Just as well. When, during a national debate of presidential candidates, any hands, whatsoever, are raised in answer to the question "who doesn't believe in evolution?" then that is a heard that needs thinning. It's an interesting note that the candidates mention a dead president, Ronald Reagan, 20 times and the current one once. Rove/Bush has delivered to the American people a model of inefficiency. The have said the right things, made the right promises to the right people, used catch phrases, and buzzwords and coordinated attacks on rivals better than anyone maybe ever has. What they lack is substance. Maybe they bought into their own hype. They often cop to being stupid rather than duplicitous. "I don't recall." The e-mails were deleted by accident. We had bad intelligence. The list is long and varied. But what is clear is that at the very least they were unable and possible unwilling to fulfill any of the promises. I am not surprised. The arrogance and greed that has permeated this administration from bottom to top can only leave ignorance as an explanation of the utter disastrous failure. On September 12, 2001 the world had come together maybe like never before. There was an opportunity presented there and then for deep, lasting, sweeping change. That opportunity was and continues to be squandered.

DC MADAM.............. thank Christ that the other stiletto has dropped. Or has it. ABC News revealed no new names from the little black phone record of Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Now maybe this can move on in a little less circus-like atmosphere and we can get to real reason why a federal prosecution is bring brought against this woman. Of course we can't forget that Ms. Palfrey can, and intends to, call some of the clients as witnesses. And it will be interesting to see if they get any immunity. To some relief I find that the fact that most of the conservative pundits who care to intone about this say that it matters little who, what, where and why people employ an escort service. Although their knee-jerk response to even the potential of names on the record might be seen as conservative and hence more than likely hypocritical is interesting. Conservatives have such a way of denying even the most basic inclinations of the human condition (with the exception of killing and lying). So now the loudest gas bags are left out there, having preemptively bemoaned the fact that ABC was going to selectively release just conservative names, with really nothing to speak to except that, you know, really, what a person does in his/her private life should pretty much stay private.

DEAR MY BFF EVER...... got to get a clue sweetie. Let's make a list. The short one. Karmic matters being left for another time.

• you get pinched and blow an 0.08. Like it or nor not, fair or not, you are in violation of the law.


• you sign and initial a document that states you understand that your driving license is suspended


• you are ordered to attend alcohol education classes or course or whatever


• you don't


• you get pinched again driving ummm with signed and initialed document in the car


• you say you don't know that your license is suspended. Designer pants on fire!!!!!!


• you show up late for court


• you get 45 days. you could have gotten 90 days

Paris you are, like what?, 26 years old. All growed up. Don't sit there with some kind of surprised look on your face. Don't look to mommy. Really, like, she hasn't been much help to you anyhow, sweetie. You fucked up. Lots of people do. Cop to it, Do your jolt. This is pretty cut and dried. The whole thing will be long forgotten even before you are (except the way cool sex tape, hint, hint, wink, wink(that's from my gross idea boyfriend)). And I know, like, you really don't care but there are people, yeah sure, poor black people, but still..... that really haven't done anything wrong and have been sent to jail for, like, 25 years. Do you know, like, how old and geezed out and gross you would be in 25 years? Yuck. Like you know, wow, like maybe, you'll never know.

TOPPING ON TOP................... A banana split by any other name, eh?
Just the yummy stuff.

YOU, SIR, ARE A CAD.................... It's good to see that at least the notion of well mannered murder is still in vogue in thet last bastion of, well, manners. A law speaking to duels.

All the News

Hi y'all. How 'bout that my accent is coming along right fine. Right fine indeed. What has shaken me to the point of setting my fingers to the keys after such an extended dry spell?

IF IT'S SPRING TIME...........Our government. And sex. The combination of the two. And not our girl from Atlanta. More on that as I catch up. Monday morning saw a woman with the name Deborah Jeane Palfrey , a name that strikes one as Rockwellesque, a name you can almost hear carried through the summer air and past window screens followed by "come get your supper" or "the dog got out" or "stop picking on your brother", a woman who has been pushed into a corner, a woman whose hand has been forced by this government, has, it appears, the need to call out the names of others in her own defense. And those names may very well be very well known. The sex part of the tale is really less than half of the story. Why has this women been targeted and by whom? She, to this point, is the only person charged. What she's being charged with, racketeering, by definition requires the actions of two people- at least. None of the women she had had working with her and none of the clients who used the services of those women have been charged. Ms. Palfrey has made it clear that she needs to have some clients come to her defense. It's not blackmail as someone asked her during Monday morning's statements. "I call that due process of law," said Montgomery Blair Sibley. It is her right, her obligation really, to defend herself. This country, as you know, is still very puritanical. The clients will be either shamed silent or they will be shamed if they speak up. And there's nothing to be ashamed about. Deborah says she did nothing illegal. The clients will more than likely say they did nothing illegal. The women will say they did nothing illegal. So where's the shame. The shame is in the fact that anything connected with sex, and commercial sex in particular, sometimes by law, is shameful. There's more shame in the fact that it is possible that this may very well disclose even more rampant hypocrisy. One of the names to come out already has a ring of hypocrisy. Randall Tobias, according to a Wkikipedia listing; In his capacity as Director of Foreign Assistance, Tobias encouraged sexual abstinence, and discounted the use of condoms, in preventing HIV/AIDS. "Statistics show that condoms really have not been very effective," Tobias told a news conference in Berlin on April 21, 2004. From ABC News.

You know how this would go away? If this society would just get over themselves and let people be people then there would be nothing to be worried about. It could be said "sure, yep, that's my number on her call list. I went to a brothel, I had fun, I'll probably go back, OK?. Now let's get back to important things. Like isn't there a war being fought or isn't Paris Hilton going to jail or something?" Wouldn't that be a wonderful world. Or at least a wonderful, small part of it?

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There's a little box up in the left hand corner of page one of the New York Times that proclaims "All The News Fit To Print". In a yet another long over due nod to the kinks in all of us the venerable Gray Lady laces up her best leather spiked heeled thigh highs and as at the old tired mores with a good old fashion, nipple clamped, electro-shocked, over-the-knee spanking. Good press, nothing like it.