ok, look out, here it comes...

i'm not in a very good mood... besides having to connect via dial-up at 21.6Kbps, there have been other problems off and on all day... the good news is that i'm finally online but even that turned into just more bad news as i've been perusing the headlines and major stories of the past day and a half...

maybe the perspective of nearly 8,000 miles has something to do with it, but i can hardly believe the amount of otherwise perfectly good news space devoted to absolutely nothing of any import whatsoever and this at a time when the media should be leading the charge against one of the most blatantly corrupt, arrogant, out-of-control presidential administrations in the history of the united states... here's yahoo's top headlines as of 6:15 p.m. edt this evening (friday)...

• Iraqi's assets for funding insurgency blocked
• EU leaders fail to reach long-term budget deal
• U.S. bishops to extend ban on abusive priests
• Second copter crashes in NYC in four days
• Ex-Tyco execs could face 30 years in jail
• California man guilty of killing nine kids
• Jackson documents show jury's actions
• McDonald's to sell skateboards in fitness drive

no mention whatsoever that house democrats yesterday were forced to take their/our critically important discussion of bush’s possible impeachment over iraq to the BASEMENT of the Capitol, having been denied hearing-room space by the r's... and if that wasn't enough, the washington post in a repeat performance of the past few days, deemed to cover it by allowing the event to be MOCKED...! read this and tell me if you think anything can possibly justify this kind of treatment of those who are pursuing the very real, very likely possibility that the president of our country KNOWINGLY LIED to the american people as a way of gaining support for the initiation of an illegal war... (robert parry from consortium news...)

The story by political correspondent Dana Milbank drips with a sarcasm that would never be allowed for a report on, say, a conservative gathering or on a topic involving any part of the American political spectrum other than the Left.

“In the Capitol basement yesterday, long-suffering House Democrats took a trip to the land of make-believe,” Milbank wrote. “They pretended a small conference room was the Judiciary Committee hearing room, draping white linens over folding tables to make them look like witness tables and bringing in cardboard name tags and extra flags to make the whole think look official.”

And the insults – especially aimed at Rep. Conyers – just kept on coming. The Michigan Democrat “banged a large wooden gavel and got the other lawmakers to call him ‘Mr. Chairman,’” the snide article said. [For the full flavor, see the Washington Post’s “Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War,” June 17, 2005]

Washington Post editors – having already dismissed the leaked British government documents about the Iraq War as boring, irrelevant news – are now turning to the tried-and-true tactic for silencing any remaining dissent, consigning those who won’t go along to the political loony bin.

i'm sick... it's not like i have been harboring any delusions of media fairness, impartiality, accuracy, or integrity but i certainly didn't expect a newspaper of the presumed stature of the wapo to stoop so low... as far as i'm concerned, the battle lines have been drawn... for me, there is no more talk of reason, no more talk of "taking our country back..." the knives are now unsheathed...

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