Odds & ends, Tuesday, 15 February - read 'em and weep...

yeah, i know, i talk a good story but i sometimes don't follow through... back in early january, i said i was going to "post links to things i've come across in my day's reading that i think might be worthwhile to share with others but don't quite grab me enough to bother putting up a dedicated post"... yeah, well... < cough, cough > i think i managed to put up two or three posts along those lines and then i sorta drifted away...

well, today, as i'm getting ready to depart for africa on friday, and given the increasing number of stories that are pointing to the imminent dissolution of the country i've known and lived in all my life, i am wondering just what i will find when i come back at the end of may... it's looking really grim, i gotta tell ya...

GOP Sending Women Back to the Back Alley

South Dakota Wants to Legalize Murdering Abortion Providers

Missouri GOP Wants to Repeal Child Labor Laws

Tuscon Minuteman Found Guilty of Murdering 9-Year-Old Mexican-American Girl

Wisconsin Governor Launches Attack on Public Sector Employees and Unions; Threatens to Deploy National Guard to Quell Labor Protests

President Obama to award George H.W. Bush the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Obama's Budget Betrayal

what THE FUCK, he asked, is going on here...? oh, never mind... we're all being hung out to dry... silly me...!

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So, it looks like Schlozman, the scumbag, might have been lying through his teeth

which, after watching his pathetic testimony yesterday, would not surprise me one iota... in fact, at one point, while watching him on cnn pipeline, i was actually hopping around the room, shouting, "you are LYING, you are a LIAR, LIAR, LIAR..." thank goodness no one was home at the time...

from TPMmuckraker...

Former U.S. Attorney for New Mexico David Iglesias said he finds Bradley Schlozman's testimony about Craig Donsanto unbelievable.

Schlozman told a Senate Judiciary panel yesterday that while he was the interim U.S. Attorney in Missouri he brought four criminal voter fraud prosecutions on the eve of the 2006 midterm election after getting the go-ahead from Donsanto, the director of the election crimes branch at the department.

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Iglesias was in touch with Donsanto up until the summer of 2006, just before Schlozman would have received approval to bring the indictments. Iglesias said he can’t imagine a scenario where Donsanto would have changed his mind on the department’s voter fraud policy.

[...]

The Justice Department did not respond to calls requesting comment. Donsanto did not reply to an email message, though Iglesias guesses he is not allowed to speak to the press.

loyal bushies... lying is in their dna...

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Schlozman: disdainful and vitriolic

TPMmuckraker has the lowdown on brad schlozman...

"He was universally despised by career people. He was the most disdainful and vitriolic guy I've ever dealt with, and he had it in for everybody."

looks like there's no longer any doubt, the justice department was merely a branch office for the white house, which, in turn, was merely a wholly-owned subsidiary of karl rove inc. and the republican national committee...

Schlozman was appointed to be the interim U.S. attorney in western Missouri on March 23, 2006 -- just two weeks after the president had signed the USA Patriot Act into law; the bill contained a provision that allowed interim U.S. attorneys to serve indefinitely.

Schlozman, who had zero prosecutorial experience, was installed as the U.S. attorney in western Missouri -- where Jim Talent was battling Claire McCaskill in one of the closest Senate races in the country. The administration appointed him suddenly and without consulting the senior Republican senator in the state, Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO). A spokeswoman for Bond said that "Senator Bond was informed of Mr. Schlozman's appointment when he was named as interim U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri."

"most disdainful and vitriolic" is quite a statement... i've observed folks like that in action in the private sector and it isn't pretty... sure, you take a lot of shit from them that you should never have to take out of fear of losing your job, but, what it amounts to, without beating around the bush (pardon the pun, please), is nothing more or less than verbal and emotional abuse... what's usually worse is that THEIR bosses are often aware of such behavior and do nothing... needless to say, that kind of boss NEVER behaves that way in front of HIS boss, so HIS boss just writes it off to whining employees...

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