Ninja Monkie Bacchanal

LOL!  Seriously, it is hard to type this as I am LITERALLY rolling on the floor laughing at this.  This is the best birthday present I could have gotten.

The White House on Wednesday angrily denied a newspaper report that suggested President George W. Bush in 2003 declared the existence of biological weapons laboratories in Iraq while knowing it was not true. On May 29, 2003, Bush hailed the capture of two trailers in Iraq as mobile biological laboratories and declared, “We have found the weapons of mass destruction.” The report in The Washington Post said a Pentagon-sponsored fact-finding mission had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons.

Today my family and I attended my wife’s cousin’s wedding.  It was a lot of fun.  My daughter looked so beautiful.  Happy Easter everyone!

Finally, the Tigers won a game after dropping 4 straight.  Must have been the new cap I bought yesterday that spurred them on to victory.  LOL!

Ummm...WTF!?!?!?!

American investigators armed with a “box full” of cash have paid thousands of dollars to buy back stolen computer drives — many of which contain sensitive military data, shopkeepers outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan said Friday.

But dozens are still on sale, including memory sticks with information ranging from U.S. troop resumes to photographs of Air Force One during President Bush’s visit last month.

The surfacing of the stolen computer devices has sparked an urgent probe to discover how security could have been breached at the heavily guarded Bagram base, which coordinates the fight against Taliban and al-Qaida militants and includes one of the military’s main detention facilities for suspected terrorists.

I quit (again).  I can’t take this shit anymore.  We have been lied to so many times now and I can’t take it anymore.  I hear Toronto is nice this time of year.

AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers’ phone calls, and shunted its customers’ internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center, according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s lawsuit against the company.

Mark Klein, a retired AT&T communications technician, submitted an affidavit in support of the EFF’s lawsuit this week. That class action lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco last January, alleges that AT&T violated federal and state laws by surreptitiously allowing the government to monitor phone and internet communications of AT&T customers without warrants.

Write your congressman and senators!

UPDATE:
Here is the email I got from one of my Senators:

Dear Mr. Covert:

Thank you for contacting me to express your views about President Bush’s authorizing the National Security Agency (NSA) to monitor, without a court order, private communications of U.S. citizens. I am deeply concerned about the recent revelations and appreciate having the benefit of your comments regarding our Nation’s civil liberties and the rule of law.

An Executive Order signed by President Bush purported to empower the NSA to monitor international telephone calls and emails of U.S. citizens and residents without any oversight from the courts or authorization from Congress. This is especially alarming in light of the power Congress has given the President to obtain orders for such surveillance on an expedited basis - even after the fact - from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The NSA program contradicts long-standing restrictions on domestic spying and subverts constitutional guarantees against unwarranted invasions of privacy. It concerns me to think where we will be as a free Nation if government officials can engage in domestic surveillance of U.S. citizens without proper authorization.

On February 6, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary began conducting hearings to consider whether the President violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by authorizing the surveillance. You may be certain that I will keep your views in mind should any legislation be introduced concerning this issue. Again, thank you for taking the time to contact my office. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any other matters of interest or concern to you.

In the future please visit my web site at http://sarbanes.senate.gov rather than clicking reply.

With best regards,
Paul Sarbanes
United States Senator

I did also receive a letter from my congressman.

Sorry about the lack of postings.  I have been in Bal’more for the last few days with my wife, kids, mother-in-law and family.  We did the National Aquarium and other touristy things.  We also watched my other brother-in-law play in his spring adult kickball league.  I know, I know...it doesn’t sound terribly manly, but it was a lot of fun.  Tomorrow is a big family gathering/wedding/Easter party in Myersville, MD.  Should be a lot of fun.  If I don’t get to talk to you all, have a great Easter weekend.

Come on everybody!  Sing with me!

President George W. Bush’s claim three years ago that weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq was based on U.S. intelligence that was later proved false, the White House acknowledged on Wednesday. But presidential spokesman Scott McClellan vigorously denied suggestions that Bush was making claims that had been debunked when he said two small trailers seized in Iraq were mobile biological laboratories.

Great OP-ED piece in the NYTimes (Free Reg. Req.)

THERE is no such thing as a “Christian politics.” If it is a politics, it cannot be Christian. Jesus told Pilate: “My reign is not of this present order. If my reign were of this present order, my supporters would have fought against my being turned over to the Jews. But my reign is not here” (John 18:36). Jesus brought no political message or program.

OMG!  I am scarred for life now.  Another childhood memory shot to hell.

UPDATE: Click here if you can’t see the video.

You get what you vote for.  Here is the Citizens Againt Government Waste 2006 Report on the 375 biggest pork projects in the appropriations bills.

Ok, for those of you who don’t follow politics, when a politician declines to challenge a statement, they means they agree with it, but can’t or don’t want to admit it.  So, in essence, we have the President of the United States “admitting” that he authorized the leaking of classified information to further a political (not national) goal i.e. the discrediting of Amb. Joseph Wilson, a critic of his administration.  Nice.

The White House on Friday declined to challenge assertions that President Bush authorized the leaks of intelligence information to counter administration critics on Iraq.

But Bush’s spokesman, Scott McClellan, appeared to draw a distinction about Bush’s oft-stated opposition to leaks. “The president would never authorize disclosure of information that could compromise our nation’s security,” Bush’s spokesman said.

On the even of a potential indictment by a grand jury, NOW she’s sorry?!?  Pitiful.  And batshit crazy in my opinion.

Rep. Cynthia McKinney apologized on the House floor Thursday for a confrontation with a Capitol Police officer last week.

“I am sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all, and I regret its escalation and I apologize,” she said surrounded by colleagues on the House floor.