The bathroom antics of Sen. Larry Craig (R- Ida'HO')

Well looky what we've got here - another "family-values" Republican caught in a men's bathroom scandal.

Dubbed by the Stephanie Miller Show as "Senator Tappy McWide-Stance," Craig was caught in a police operation in an airport bathroom. Some say it's a case of "he said / he said."

Craig says that he is a "wide" guy and has a "wide stance," justifying why his foot touched the undercover police officer's foot in the next stall. And he claims the reason his hand was under the wall of the stall was because there was a piece of (imaginary) paper on the floor.

Now, what some seem to be overlooking is this: when your pants are down, how wide can your stance possibly be? Hhhmmmmm..............

Capital City Free Press mentioned on WSFA.com

Here's a link to a story on WSFA.com about election endorsements: http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=6976052&nav=menu33_3_6

The Capital City Free Press is mentioned when they are talking about endorsements for Mayor Bobby Bright.

"Two newspapers also endorsed Bright, The Montgomery Independent and the Capital City Free Press. "

Limbaugh makes Darfur into a race issue....

Knowing that Rush Limbaugh says stupid things should make this no surprise at all.

While talking to a caller, he actually said that Democrats want to leave Iraq and get into Darfur because Darfur's population is black.

Nothing about genocide. Nothing about the fact that Iraq was mostly stable, you know, before we invaded. Oh, but there's black people there, and black people are known to vote for Democrats, right? Huh? Strange that people in Darfur can't vote in American elections, huh?

Oh, but don't let logic or facts get in the way of your opinion, Rush. Wouldn't want to mess up your fantasy world.

You can read the exchange between Limbaugh and his indoctrinated caller here.

Dick Cheney says going into Iraq would be a quagmire....

This is just amazing.

Dick Cheney gave an interview with the American Interprise Institute on April 15, 1994, defending the US decision not to go into Baghdad in 1991 during the first Gulf War.

Here is what he had to say [I added the bold parts]:

"Because if we'd gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There
wouldn't have been anybody else with us. There would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq.

"Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's
government, then what are you going to put in its place?

"That's a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central
government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off:
part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it - eastern
Iraq - the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years.

"In the north you've got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join
with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of
Turkey.

"It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq.

"The other thing was casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact we
were able to do our job with as few casualties as we had. But for the 146
Americans killed in action, and for their families - it wasn't a cheap war.

"And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on
to Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was
how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth?

"Our judgment was, not very many, and I think we got it right.”

So what happened to this guy? He became Vice President and completely....oh, what's the word?.....flip-flopped on Iraq. Everything that is happening in Iraq - that's wrong - was predicted by the man himself in 1994.

If only someone told the Vice President that he was right the first time.

Oh, by the way, here is a link to the YouTube video of the Cheney interview, in case you have your doubts, and here is a link to the extremely conservative Newsmax.com article that talks about it.

Interesting quote from a convicted war criminal

Hermann Goering, a Nazi who was convicted of war crimes, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity, said something privately to Gustave Gilbert, a psychologist and German-speaking intelligence officer. The quote was published in the book Nuremberg Diary, and even though it was said on April 18, 1946, it is very relevant to what is currently occurring in this country.

Here is the exchange between Goering and Gilbert:

Goering: "Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."

Gilbert: "There is one difference. In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."

Goering: "Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

Are Montgomerians getting what we pay for?

New article for August - "Is the City of Montgomery getting what it pays for?" - now up at the Capital City Free Press.

The article covers subjects such as crime, police recruitment, taxes and education, and includes a breakdown of Montgomery's 10% sales tax rate, as explained to me in an email from County Commissioner Todd Strange soon after the 2006 election. (That election, if you remember, also included an amendment to raise property taxes.)

Excerpt:

"Mayor Bright recently said that murder was on the decline, and cited the
numbers from homicide statistics going back to 1977 to prove his point. However,
murder is not the only crime that concerns citizens of Montgomery. "