Here's a couple of comments that just stood out this week:

"Asked point-blank whether the United States is winning in Iraq, Abizaid replied: 'Given unlimited time and unlimited support, we're winning the war.'"

I'm putting that one right up there with given infinite energy, I can achieve the speed of light.  Or how about if we put Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al, in a room full of typewriters for infinity, we would get Shakespeare, or good policies (take your pick, both are equally impossible).

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Sometimes you go look at the headlines and it just nails you in one quick glance:

    http://www.nytimes.com/

    Civilians in Iraq Flee Mixed Areas as Killings Rise

Sometimes we just dance around the obvious, don't we?  When do we call this a civil war?  Probably when Bush leaves office.

    In Remote Pakistan Province, a Civil War Festers

Well, at least we can call this a civil war.  That's progress of a sort.  Afghanistan and Pakistan are in rough shape - what a total surprise!

    Rice Finds British Muslims Want to Give Her an Earful

I guess Ms. Rice is not getting a warm reception in England.  Apparently Bush spreading freedom is a bloody business.  Thank God, we've got freedom at home, or am I getting ahead of the headlines?

   When a Vehicle Serves as Home, Troubles Abide

Opps!  So things aren't going too well at home either when the headlines are about more people living in cars.  Oh, I forget, Bush defines people as someone who deserves a tax cut, everyone else can be a "guest worker".

   FEMA Calls, but Top Job Is Tough Sell

Even the "Bush people" are starting to know a sucker punch when they see one.  Looking out for all those poor "guest workers" is going to be a losers job because Bush really doesn't give a frack about them anyway, anyhow.  Don't worry though, the barrel is deep, and the scraping has just begun.

Is it just me, or are we all April's Fools this year?

Can we get the Dem's in the House and Senate to sponsor a bill I somewhat jokingly call the Real Patriot Act?

Here's what it would do - it would allow us to GIVE BACK our Bush tax cuts to be used to PAY DOWN the Federal deficit principle.  I don't want to buy T-Bills and I don't want to give anymore money to a President that's going to flush it down the toilet, but I'd like to do something to really reduce our national debt.

No armed service people or families are even allowed to donate, they are already sacrificing too much.  In fact, ten percent of the money donated goes to right into their pockets, tax free.

This would point out the continuing Repub hypocrisy of giving rich folks money while everybody else suffers from a failing economy, a failing war on terror, and a failing Republican Federal government.

Can somebody think of a better name?

Best defense is a kick them in the nuts offense.

Bush stuck the word victory behind himself all week long.  What does that REALLY mean?  Did he tell us WHAT a victory in Iraq is?  No.  Did he tell us HOW he's going to do it?  No.  Did he tell us WHEN it will happen?  No.

Did he tell us WHY?  Yes!  I believe the reason this  week is to establish democracy in the Middle East.  Admittedly though, this list is rather long so you can take your pick: 9/11, WMD, bad Saddam, bad intelligence, tried to kill Dad, has oil, bla, bla, bla...

I recently read an opinion column started thus:

And ended like this:

Here's the complete column: Mr. Bush, have I got an exit strategy for you

Wow.  But it isn't the first time I've heard the opinion expressed that today's Republican party has all but abandon it's roots. And I've heard similar complaints (from Republican I would assume) that the neocons and radical religious right have hijacked the Republican party.

So what?  More on the flip...

Those good ideas on how to run your country just never seem to go out of style.

Yikes! Does THAT sound familiar or what?

I remember taking a short course on Energy back in the early 80's where we had a guest lecturer come up one day from Stanford.  The whole gist of the lecture was that mankind has based almost it's complete societal infrastructure on the consumption of a non-renewable cheap energy source - oil.  That at some point the finite resource would peak (his guess was about 2000 at the time - not too bad) and that world society would have to essentially implode back to a more sustainable level.  This called for the reduction of world population by about two billion people due mostly to reduced food resources over a short period of time (decades).  I still remember his answer when I asked him what he thought  would happen - like that old Chinese curse - damned interesting times.  So here we are in the beginning of damned interesting times and it's only going to get more fun from here on out.