BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

And... Cross posted from the GREAT Uppity Woman : Cross posted from RBO’s pad . But first, an appropriate preparatory song from Uppity : CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO IF YOU'RE ON AN AGGREGATOR (Let's now apply this to OBAMA folks! - Barbara) RBO Rant: We f#@%ing told ya so! No Obama withdrawal from Iraq anytime soon No apologies from RBO to all you gullible Lobotobots and self-deluded left-of-left Lefties — WE TOLD YOU SO! 1-1-1-cheetos1 No word from the Great Orange Satan yet, but the day is young. Of course, before you can say Chester, the Cheetobots will be furiously crafting “explanations” for The Anointed One. So, it is from Obamaganda Central, the New York Times , that we turn for the official “word”. Put down your java and sharp objects. Stand back from the keyboard. There’s no way to soften this. The facts are the facts, however, even if the news is a mock Philly cheesesteak crap sandwich: Campaign Promises on Ending the War in Iraq Now Muted by Reality . On the campa...

While I am pro-ending the illegal war in Iraq... ( no George, it has ZERO to do with 9/11 - and why is Osama bin-Laden still alive in Pakistan? Stop invoking 9/11 and admit that your PNAC buddies used the 9/11 tragedy to push their own agenda! ) I am not for "cut and run." Despite being a progressive I understand we can't just leave. I make my children tidy up their messes too. (And why don't you guys at the White House tell the American public about the billion dollar PERMANENT BASES you are building in Iraq while you count your Exxon and Halliburton shares?) Now here's another mess - on our doorstep. Those returning from 3 and 4 deployments with serious mental health issues. PTSD is a not a crime and NO, you can't just get over i t or suck it up . Just because you can't see pain doesn't mean its not there. That includes mental pain. The brain is an organ and it gets sick, too. Why aren't we helping our soldiers that went over to Iraq and...

If you have never been to Arlington National Cemetery... you've missed a profoundly moving experience. You can walk or take a tour through the graves and the history of America's true heroes. I've had the pleasure of being in Washington, D.C. enough times to have been there more than once. From the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, WWI & WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War -- right through to Section 60 -- the Iraq War. The aura of lives and dreams unlived because people chose to die for America is palpable. And when you go... take your tissues. You'll need them. By Dick Uliano America's most recent war dead lie in a quiet patch of ground at Arlington National Cemetery known as Section 60. In that parcel are 485 men and women who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most tourists keep to other paths at the cemetery, visiting the Tomb of the Unknowns or President John F. Kennedy's gravesite. However, especially on Memorial Day weekend, relatives and friends pay...

UPCOMING: THE HISTORY CHANNEL - BAND OF BLOGGERS About the Show: For the first time in history, modern technology is enabling viewers to experience war as it really is... directly from the battlefield. An ever growing band of military bloggers are using the internet, DV (Digital Video)cameras and cell phones to deliver honest, powerful and uncensored video. As part of a larger User Generated Content initiative, Band of Bloggers will be the site that will collect this raw and riveting "soldier generated content." CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTINGS FOR DAYS & TIMES

THE TURDBLOSSOMS ARE IN BLOOM AGAIN Karl, Karl, Karl - what are we going to do with you? I caught your performance on Fox News on Sunday. I bet Rep. Chris Van Hollen went home and took a hot shower after talking to you... or attempting to. I get as fed up with media spin as everyone else. I get fed up when people try to lie to me or play me for a fool. That tells me one horrible thing: THAT I WAS NOT WORTH THE TRUTH. Please don't bother telling me you were 'trying to let me down easy' or you 'knew I'd be hurt.' And Karl, what's your excuse? Karl, do you think the American people are such morons that they would actually believe your non-stop rewriting of history, bending of the time space continuum and denial of already well-documented facts? Come on. That reeks of some sort of mental disorder. Karl, you're not on the job anymore. I know a couple great therapists who work with antisocials like you in the D.C. area. They're discreet. I know yo...

WHO'S SORRY NOW? I am a big believer in sincere apologies. Not the "I'm sorry" and then making yourself scarce so you never have to interact with the other person again. No, I mean RESTORATIVE JUSTICE . I've seen it in my anti DV-work. Abusers who make have done physical or emotional harm to a victim, looking them up after jail time or an 18 month batterer program and apologizing. Not asking them to get back together but forging a friendship with them. Even apologizing to their family. I have seen a couple enter into Bible study together. Sometimes one or both has a new relationship but they make something new out of it. And this forgiveness and restoration of peace & friendship has a ripple effect on everyone and everything around them. It's tough but its truly beautiful. Judaism says you have to try to apologize sincerely three times. I will do 1,000 when I know I am in the wrong. And of course there's Teshuva as well. However, I am SIC...

GEORGE BUSH IS A MALIGNANT NARCISSIST by Paul Levy Psychologically speaking, Mr. George W. Bush is what is called a ‘malignant narcissist.’ A narcissist is someone who has become hypnotized and entranced by their own inflated self-image. They have become soself-absorbed that not only are they not in genuine relation with others, but they relate to others (including the environment) as objects to satisfy their own need for self-aggrandizement. A ‘malignant’ narcissist, however, is a narcissist who reacts sadistically to others who don't support and enable their narcissism. For example, instead of self-reflecting and taking in critical feedback, the Bush administration reacts with ruthless contempt for anyone who disagrees with them. Like a mean and cruel-spirited malignant narcissist, Bush and Co. deny the accusation and try to destroy the messenger (aka " Narcissistic Rage "). Ultimately, a malignant narcissist wants to annihilate anyone who in any way threatens their il...

AN APPEAL FOR TRUTH The Cry of a Wolf By Monica Benderman We can say with little doubt that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were part of a greater conspiracy to strike fear in the hearts and minds of the American public; enough fear to set off a reaction of anger and rage which was destined to initiate a war we had no business fighting. We can say with little doubt that it was a group of terrorists who established the organization which planned and executed an attack on our country leaving over 3,000 American civilians dead, thousands more seriously injured and divided this country in ways we could not see coming. We can say with little doubt that the acts of terror continue, both on our soil and against American citizens now wearing our nation’s uniform in countries half a world away. We can say with little doubt that the acts of terror were like a universal fuse for the grand finale of a massive fireworks display, setting off a reactionary anger which began with sparks over a tiny ...

ED KOCH SEES THE LIGHT! Unfortunately it may just be a flashlight held by Tom (sociopathic pundit) Friedman. "Highly regarded?" By who, Ed? Garbagemen and Flat Earth sychophants? But he gets the rest of it right!! Good job, Ed! I'm Done Defending the Iraq Policy By Ed Koch I'm bailing out. I will no longer defend the policy of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq to assist the Iraqi central government in the ongoing civil war. While our men and women in the military suffer casualties daily, the Iraqi government refuses to take the major political actions required to end the civil war. The U.S. government told the Iraqi leaders that it needed to achieve 18 goals. Our administration's recent report to the U.S. Congress on how close the Iraqis have come to achieving those goals states that eight have been achieved, no progress has been made on eight others, and two have had mixed results. With regard to the most important goals, which include bringing the Sunni population...

IT'S TIME TO STOP ACCEPTING BUSH'S FAILURES It's hard to know what to think these days about U.S. security, what with attempted car bombings at Britain's airports, terrorist threat assessments rising in the United States, nonspecific warnings of a possible terrorist attack this summer and President Bush finally facing a serious policy showdown on Iraq. Americans should be miffed when U.S. counterterrorism officials say al-Qaida is revived and reinvigorated and Iraq has made little to no progress toward its own independence and security - and when Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says he has "a gut feeling" that the U.S. will be attacked this summer. Nothing specific, nothing factual, nothing credible, mind you, Chertoff says. Just his uneasy gut. Attentive Americans have figured out since Sept. 11, 2001, and the Homeland Security Advisory System of colors was introduced that it always seemed the threat level was raised whenever some otherwise unfav...

The Big Lie of George W. Bush by Brent Budowsky It is repeated today by Republicans on the floor of the Senate and restated on this site, only yesterday, and it goes like this: The Democrats have an al Qaeda problem, and this war, which was started with the Big Lie that claimed it was necessary to defeat bin Laden, must be continued to promote the Big Lie that to change the policy would help the terrorists, when the exact opposite is true. How odd that the title of Al Gore's brilliant film, "An Inconvenient Truth," is used to repeat this falsehood, when Gore's brilliant book, The Assault on Reason, was the most sweeping and devastating destruction of this lie that created 3,600 Gold Star Mothers and allowed bin Laden to escape, regroup and gain strength. George Bush and John McCain will be proven right about Iraq? No, the only question left is how many must continue to die for the vile, wrong, self-destructive war and how far the Senate Republicans will go to let this...