This is unfrigginbelievable…….. but yet it is!

NEW YORK (AP) - Undercover NYPD officers traveled around the U.S. and even to Europe to observe activists who planned to protest at the 2004 Republican National Convention - including hundreds who showed no sign of illegal intent, a newspaper reported.

Posing as activists or sympathizers, the officers attended meetings of political groups in at least 15 states and filed reports with the police department’s intelligence division, The New York Times reported on its Web site Saturday.

The officers involved in the “RNC Intelligence Squad” then identified certain groups as potential threats, the Times reported, citing hundreds of still’secret reports it had viewed from the police department’s intelligence division. The police often shared information with departments in other cities.

Police spokesman Paul Browne said the activities were legal. He said the operation was an essential part of preparations for the huge crowds that came to the city during the convention.

“Detectives collected information both in’state and out-of’state to learn in advance what was coming our way,” Browne told the Times.

More here

Cheney needs to shut his piehole. Oceanside Ritz-Carlton in Palm Beach…….a bunch of rich Jews who probably have NO family serving in Iraq…..just like Cheney. I’m sick to death of this bastard and the crap that comes out of his mouth. He should be impeached just for running around the country and stating that anyone who disagrees with him and his failed policies……or TRIES to do their job…….doesn’t support the troops. We’ve seen how YOU support the troops Dickwad. Who do you think you’re kidding? Oh yah…….that 30% that those rich jews from Palm Beach are a part of. Easy to shoot your mouth off when you’re singin to the choir, eh Dickless?

From Boston.com

MANALAPAN, Fla. –Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday accused the Democrat-led House of not supporting troops in Iraq and of sending a message to terrorists that America will retreat in the face danger.

“They’re not supporting the troops. They’re undermining them,” Cheney told a gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition at the oceanside Ritz-Carlton hotel in Manalapan, Fla., about 60 miles north of Miami.

ZZ Top
Jesus Just Left Chicago

John Bolton being bitchslapped by Tony Benn

H/T Patriot for this one……I had to go search for one I could post Patriot!

This is progress? I don’t think so………..

R.I.P

23-Mar-2007 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (south of) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
22-Mar-2007 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Henry W. Bogrette Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
21-Mar-2007 6 | US: 6 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Nicholas J. Lightner Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Sergeant 1st Class Darrell R. Griffin Jr. Balad - Salah ad Din Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
US Private 1st Class Joey T. Sams II Camp Buehring Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
US Corporal Dustin Jerome Lee Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
20-Mar-2007 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Curtis E. Glawson Jr. Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Private 1st Class Stephen K. Richardson Baghdad (southern part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Sergeant Wayne R. Cornell Baghdad (southern part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
18-Mar-2007 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Ryan P. Green Landstuhl Reg. Med. Ctr. - Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
17-Mar-2007 9 | US: 9 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Marieo Guerrero Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Private 1st Class Anthony A. Kaiser Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
US Lance Corporal Harry H. Timberman Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant John E. Allen Baghdad (western part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Sergeant Ed Santini Baghdad (western part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Private 1st Class William N. Davis Baghdad (western part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Private 1st Class John F. Landry Jr. Baghdad (western part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Sergeant Nimo W. Tauala Muqdadiyah - Diyala Non-hostile
US Sergeant 1st Class Benjamin L. Sebban Ba’qubah - Diyala Small Arms Fire
16-Mar-2007 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant 1st Class Christopher R. Brevard Baghdad (south of) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

Newsweek is coming out with a special issue next week, with letter from soldiers who’ve died in Iraq.

Not good…….

KASSAB, Darfur - Sudanese troops barred the U.N. humanitarian chief on Saturday from a refugee camp whose residents have been raped and attacked by gunmen suspected of belonging to pro-government militias.

The convoy carrying John Holmes was halted at a checkpoint about a mile outside the Kassab refugee camp, and he was told he lacked the proper papers for a visit there.

“I’m frustrated, annoyed, but it’s not atypical of what happens here,” Holmes told journalists traveling with him. He said he had obtained all the necessary clearances from the government in Khartoum.

The soldiers at the checkpoint briefly prevented a car carrying journalists from leaving after Holmes turned back. The journalists were only allowed to leave after the troops confiscated a videotape from a U.N. television cameraman.

Holmes, on his first trip to the region, said Friday he pressed Sudanese officials to grant better access to aid workers trying to help Darfurians amid widespread complaints that humanitarian groups face constant obstacles from the authorities in reaching victims of the conflict.

Continued at YahooNews

Here we go folks…….. hang on to your hats.

TEHRAN, Iran - The Iranian military questioned 15 detained British sailors and marines Saturday and said they had confessed to illegally entering Iranian waters in an act of “blatant aggression.”

Britain has demanded the return of the sailors and marines and denied they had strayed into Iranian waters while searching for smugglers off Iraq’s coast.

The eight Royal Navy sailors and seven Royal Marines were brought to Tehran for questioning, and a a top military official, Gen. Ali Reza Afshar, said they “confessed to illegal entry into Iran’s waters.”

“The said personnel are being interrogated and have confessed to aggression into the Islamic Republic of Iran’s waters,” Afshar was quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA and the semiofficial ISNA news agency. He did not say what would now be done with the sailors.

The British marines and sailors, who included at least one woman, had just searched a merchant ship when they and their two inflatable boats were intercepted by Iranian vessels Friday at around 10:30 a.m. near the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway, U.S. and British officials said. The Iranian vessels surrounded them and escorted them away at gunpoint.

More at YahooNews

Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he’d just been run over
by a train. His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is cut and
bruised and he’s walking with a limp

“What happened to you?” asks Sean, the bartender.

” Jamie O’Conner and me had a fight,” says Paddy.

“That little shit, O’Conner?” says Sean,

“He couldn’t do that to you, he must have had something in his hand.”

“That he did,” says Paddy, “a shovel is what he had, and a terrible lickin’
he gave me with it.”

“Well,” says Sean, “you should have defended yourself, didn’t you have
something in your hand?

” That I did,” said Paddy. “Mrs. O’Conner’s breast, and a thing of beauty it
was, but useless in a fight.”

That’s great……now what about all the other unexplained deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan?

WASHINGTON - A Pentagon investigation will recommend that nine officers, including up to four generals, be held accountable for missteps in the aftermath of the friendly fire death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman in Afghanistan, senior defense officials said Friday.

The Defense Department inspector general will cite a range of errors and inappropriate conduct as the military probed the former football star’s death on the battlefront in 2004, said one defense official.

The official, who like the others requested anonymity because the Army has not publicly released the information, said it appears senior military leaders may not have had all the facts or worked hard enough to get the facts of what happened on April 22, 2004, when Tillman, a corporal, was killed by members of his own platoon.

More at MSNBC

Hired the same attorney as Duke Cunningham had, huh… I think that should tell us something right there. (Think “birds of a feather…”)

MSNBC.com:

Veteran senator ensnared in prosectuor scandal

New Mexico’s Domenici at center of furor over dismissed U.S. attorneys

WASHINGTON - Sen. Pete Domenici, known as the quintessential straight shooter in the mannerly Senate, is an unlikely figure to be caught up in the political scandal over federal prosecutor firings.

An elder statesman with an untarnished reputation during his six terms, the New Mexico Republican commands equal parts affectionate respect and fear in Congress for his power, his loyalty, and his sometimes bullying ways.

It’s his cantankerous streak - well known to colleagues who have tangled with him on budget and spending matters - that may have landed the 74-year-old Domenici at the center of the growing furor.
[...]

Domenici, who faces re-election next fall, is dealing with troubling consequences of his own.

He’s under investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee after a watchdog group accused him of trying to pressure David Iglesias, then the U.S. attorney in Albuquerque, N.M., to rush a corruption probe against Democrats in an effort to sway the 2006 elections.

Domenici has hired prominent Washington lawyer Lee Blalack, best known for defending jailed former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-Calif., against bribery charges.

Bill Maher with Zbigniew Brzezinski

By a show of hands, how many here are shocked by this revelation? (Just what I thought…)

MSNBC.com:

Documents: Gonzales OK-d firing attorneys

Attorney general had said he was not closely involved in dismissals

WASHINGTON - Last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he was not involved in any discussions about the impending dismissals of U.S. attorneys.

On Friday night, however, the Justice Department revealed Gonzales- participation in a Nov. 27 meeting where such plans were discussed.

The firings of eight prosecutors has since led to a political firestorm and calls for his ouster.

At that meeting, the attorney general and at least five top Justice Department officials discussed a five’step plan for carrying out the firings of the prosecutors, Gonzales- aides said late Friday.

There, Gonzales signed off on the plan, which was drafted by his chief of staff, Kyle Sampson. Sampson resigned last week.

Another Justice aide closely involved in the dismissals, White House liaison Monica Goodling, has also taken a leave of absence, two officials said.

The five’step plan approved by Gonzales involved notifying Republican home’state senators of the impending dismissals, preparing for potential political upheaval, naming replacements and submitting them to the Senate for confirmation.

Six of the eight prosecutors who were ultimately ordered to resign are named in the plan.

New Rules with Bill Maher

Maher goes off on Bush and the Plame outting.

Cute story. Could people, everywhere, be waking up from their Kool-Aid-induced comas?

Yahoo! News:

Jeb Bush denied honor at U. of Florida

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - University of Florida President Bernie Machen says he was “tremendously disappointed” with the school’s Faculty Senate vote to deny former Gov. Jeb Bush an honorary degree.

The Senate voted 38-28 Thursday against giving the honorary degree to Bush, who left office in January.

“Jeb Bush has been a great friend of the University of Florida,” Machen said Friday, adding that the Senate’s action is “unheard of.”

Some faculty expressed concern about Bush’s record in higher education.

“I really don’t feel this is a person who has been a supporter of UF,” Kathleen Price, associate dean of library and technology at the school’s Levin College of Law, told The Gainesville Sun after the vote.

Bush’s approval of three new medical schools during his tenure has diluted resources, Price told the newspaper.

Bush has also been criticized for his “One Florida” proposal, an initiative that ended race-based admissions programs at state universities.