NOTE FROM HANDICAPPER JAY

Ever hear of Clifford May? He's a neo-con
Pres. of Defense for Democracies. Don't
ask what they do, but I'll bet on what they
don't do & that is sending their members
to Iraq to defend this democracy against
getting further mixed up in civil war.

Remember Popeye's friend , Wimpy. He had
it down to a science: "Let's you & him fight.
I'll hold your coat." That's Cliff & his neo-
con pals. They beat the drums for war, but
are far away when reveille blows. They were
gung-ho for pre-emtively invading Iraq. Now
they are readying us up for pre-emtively
knocking off Iran & Syria. They'll hold our
coats.

And they lie. Blatantly, deliberately & repea-
tedly until the lie becomes right wing think.
One example & we're off these neo-cons for a
while. Clinton, at the end of his term, made
herculean efforts to bring peace between
Israel & Palestine. He failed, reason given
was that Arafat "couldn't accept the idea of
co-existence with Israel."

Unadulterated hyperbole! Ehud Barack
left the Camp David talks early because of
coming elections in Israel. Bill refined his
proposals and the three met and started the
Taba talks. Jewish scholars, academicians
know the Taba failure was due to "Netanyahu
insincerity and Barak mis-management"*

A thousand lies sprung from the root lie of
the neo-cons that peace failed because Arafat
couldn't "handle co-existence with Israel"


*Read FAILED STATES Noam Chomsky pp.171/204

A LIE THAT NEVER SEEMS TO DIE

Condi Mushroom Cloud, in 2002 & 2003, said Sad-
dam's bomb could come back to our shores in the
form of a mushroom cloud. It was intended to scare
the bejesus out of us & it was vividly effective.

The Dick Cheney, our effervescent V.P., said Saddam
"reconstituted" his nuclear program and mentioned
it in all his chatty speeches & interviews. The re-
doubtable Dick still thinks the missing WMD's will
be found which tells us much about him.

Colin Powell lost a lifetime of credibility with his U.
N. speech of lies. That performance brought many
doubters aboard the pre-emptive war train. It was
not long before it was proven his whole portrayal of
Saddam's war capabilities was a devious bag of
truthless tricks.

President Bush, our Child Leader, is the reason for
this re-hash. On 60 minutes, 1/14/07, he said Sad-
dam was "rushing toward a nuclear bomb.". It
seems just changing a word or two, but keeping
the basic falsehood stable it is still usable since our
Child Leader continues to utter it. Never mind that
90 % of the country knows it's bull.

P. S. The reason Powell generates such world-wide
contempt is that he, more than any other person,
could have stopped the Bush/Cheney invasion of
Iraq because he reasoned they had no plan for
occupation & he knew Shinsecki was right about
troop levels. Why he failed is a conundrum, but
failed he did.

NOTE FROM MARIA MIAMI, STAFFWRITER

Something has to be said for Pres. Bush "surging"
21,500 troops into Bagdad & Anbar. Okay, I'll say
a brief word or two: The biggest diff it will make is
our casualties & the casualties of the civilians of
Bagdad & Anbar will rise. Nothing of political
gravity will transpire other that more Arabs will
hate us & more Americans will wonder why they
trusted the man with the big L on his forehead
one more time.

Last June Pres. Bush "surged" 15,000 troops
to stop the Iranian mullahs from doing what
we didn't want them to do, the Shia & Sunnies
would blood bathe each other if we didn't move
in, plus we had to halt the "mass killings" from
reaching an "unimaginable scale". There was
more of the same, but you get the idea.

Know what happened? The Iranian Mullahs did
what they wanted to do, the Shia & the Sunnies
set records for blood bathing each other and the
"mass killings " reached an "unimaginable" scale.

Questions for Pres. Bush: Bagdad is a city of over
6 million. How many of our present forces are
combat & how many are support troops. What
ratio are the 21,500 you are sending over. Two
military analysts tell me the "clean out and HOLD
the positions" would require a surge of 150 to
200,000. Mr. President, this is the 4th surge
in 4 years, all have failed. Why is this different?

My personal observation: sending 21,500 troops
to Bagdad & Anbar when 200,000 are needed
to do the job is like pissing in the Mississippi.


Hey Maria: Thanks so much for your thoughts.
They are right on point. See you soon. SJ

ISSUES TO FOLLOW, by guest contributer
MARVIE MAHMOUD

Military Commission Act. We finally did away
with Habeas Corpus, torture restrictions, im-
munities for warriors and an ok for kangeroo
courts. When the libs and lezzies try to get
them back we'll have the NRA at the ready.

Some restrictions may go into effect. Just
nickel and dime stuff like popping for a
round of golf in bonnie Scotland, but your
favorite lobbyist can still get mucho dinero
from his corporate clients for their fav
congress person. Don't shake your head.
Who would you want them to get money
for, OsamaBin Laden?

Condi Mushroom Cloud is joyously reving
up ill feeling in Egypt, Jordan and Arabia
toward Syria and Iran. She didn't have to
go to Israel. Bibi sent word he thought she
was Joan of Arc.

Big reason Scowcroft then Baker came into
the Iraq picture was to stop the evil influ-
ences the neo-cons have over our Child
Leader. Bush Sr. okayed it and said he'd
talk to Child Leader. What none of those
oldies realize is that Child Leader is just
funning with the neo-cons by giving them
enough rope to hang themselves and, boy,
does he know tricks about hanging. Well,
anyway, he's going to give the neo-cons
hell as soon as we knock off Syria and
Iran for them.

GEORGE THE BRAIN & HIS LIE OF THE MONTH.

On Saturday, 1/13/07 our president, George
the Brain, said on the radio it is "irrespon-
sible" to criticize his "new" plan for victory
in Iraq when "they" (the Democrats) have
never offered a plan of their own

Such a stupid, easy to prove lie.
What about Joe Biden's plan that he laid out
all last year? How about Jack Murtha's re-
deployment plan he offered the last 12 mos.
I guess Brain didn't read Sen. Levin's plan.
There must have been 50 Dems howling to
move the troops out of Iraq. They were all
over the T.V. I guess the Brain must have
been watching Sponge Bob.

When a person lies, knowing it will be
easily detected,that person has either a
psychological problem or he has an ulter-
ior motive. That was such an obvious un-
truth SJ looked for the hidden grounds.
He found it in the dire threats to Syria &
Iran. Bush is buying time to bait Iran (&
Israel, Olmert or Netanyahu, will bait
Syria) into making a precipitous move
of retaliation. When that happens the
coalition of Israel & America will claim
self defence & flatten Syria and severely
hurt Iran. And George the brain will have
started another war that could last five
to fifteen years.

This week American gunships, tanks,
troops attacked a Iran consulate build-
ing in the Kurdish area, took about
10 prisoners, released 5 & 5 are still
"detained".Keep watch for these kind of
actions for they are super trouble. The
Kurds went bonkers, we never told them,
they thought it was an invasion. They
circled our men with A.K's at the ready.
It seems we can't do anything right even in
the peaceful Kurd province.

Is it possible to have mental problems and
still have ulterior motives??

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM GEORGE THE BRAIN


Couple of quickies that SJ wanted on a blog. One
is from the NYT, the other I'm not sure. As you
know Nancy's House of Reps are pushing a bill to
erase tax breaks & subsidies that Exxon & its oil
sisters receive from the U.S. Government at the
taxpayers expense.

Exxon showed a profit of 36 billion in 2005 (can
you imagine how much they really made?) & they
awarded the retiring CEO a 400 million dollar
severence check.

That is a bit much, wouldn't you say?

The Brain will even things up, however. He has
given the oilers the o.k. to drill in one of the great
fishing habitats Bristol Bay in Alaska. You have to
read what damage a minor oil leak could cause.
It's a head shaker.

Here is another lulu caused by By ol' George the
Brain. His new ground commander in Iraq said
it will take 2 or 3 years to gain the advantage of
the war even with the "surge". Lt. Gen. Ray T.
Odiemo said: "If the American people feel we are
making progress they will have the patience" It
is easy to make a prediction after reading that.
There will be a plethora of great news about killing
thousands of Iraqi militia-men with never a civil-
ian casualty. Once or twice a week we will be told
that a high ranking insurgent, protege of Saddam,
or an al Qaida chieftain, trained in Afghanistan &
bosom buddy of Osama in Tora Bora, have been
bumped off leaving humongous gaps in their re-
spective hierarchys.

It seems Ted Kennedy's ideas are ever so much
more palatable than The Brains'.

DAVID DRIER, HYPOCRITE-IN-CHIEF

Democrats took over the agenda in the House of
Representatives & the Repugs screamed as
though they were strung up by one leg as the
man from the local abbattoir approached with
poniard in hand.

Most were just pathetic, but Drier deserves
special mention. This creepy thug who gets by
with his childish appearance & manner howled
loudest of all. Let it be noted he was 100% for
the Repug gangster tactics during the recent past.
For years he was the western arm of the Repugs
hypocrite-thug-in-chief Tommy Delay.

An anonymus writer for Scripps Howard wrote an
article that acknowledged the baseness of the 1994
to 2007 Gingrich/Delay era. At the end of the piece
he called the Repug hypocrisy "breathtaking", ref-
erred to no amendments, no committee hearings,
etc., etc., etc..

Meanwhile, SJ is happy enough to try somersaults
in his golf bag.

NEGROPONTE: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS

Negroponte going to State tips us to a double dose
of reality by a Bush who is stranger to such moves.
1- It tells us Baldy was out of his league in the in-
telligence czar business. 2- Condi Mushroom
Cloud needed some help before the world thought
she was running a morgue instead of the State
department. Her friends in the MSM saved her
much blushing by ignoring her inadequacies in
the bureaucratic world.

If you can remember when Ms. Mushroom Cloud
was titular head of the NSA she had a bozo named
Steve Hadley as runner-up. Ouside of Laurel and
Hardy they ran the worst security service of the
20 century. Naturally, with the dandy duet of
Bush/Cheney that made them eligible for a
promotion which they duly received.

Back to Negroponte. When Bob Zoellick quit
as deputy State Sec last July they couldn't find
one of their own to take over. Mushroom Cloud,
besides not being the swiftest of bosses wasn't
in demand as Miss Congeniality, either. But Bush
looking over his roster & always aware his govern-
ment is run for the few, of the few & by the few
prevailed on John to take the job and assured
him it would only be for two years. Pretty shrewd
of the Pres., here is a summary of John's recent
jobbers:
Assistant Sec. of State, 1977 to 1979
Assistant Sec. of State 1980 to 1981
McGraw Hill 3 1/2 years
Ambassador to Honduras, 1981 to 85
" Mexico, 3 years
" Phillipines 3 years
" United Nations, 3 years
" Iraq 1 1/2 years
" Nat'l. Intell. Director , 9 mos.
I bet the 2 year sales pitch of Bush got him.

One comment about his resume: When he was in
Honduras he was up to his butt in an illegal
war, knee deep in kidnappings, lies, false reports,
missing persons & God alone knows what else.
Great qualifications for this crowd of Repugs.

Between Baldy and Mushroom Cloud our State
Department will be an extension of the Bush
Administration's floperoos and in total disarray
in two years.

THE ''SURGE" ON THE RIVER TIGRIS

The Chief wishes something be written about
the "surge" of American troops into Iraq.

What can be said that's new & isn't hashed over
till its been burned to a crisp. Main things are: 1-
Bush is a sociopath. 2- Add to that he is the Charlie
Chaplin of would be world conquerors. 3- Obviously,
he intends to keep the Iraq mess truckin (with the
"surge") until he's out of office in 2009. 4- Bush &
Cheney will fight like cannibals to stop information
coming out of the investigations of Waxman, Obey,
et.al. This includes pre-war, the war, and now the
"surge" among most everything else they refused to
tell the citizens about.

Bush's legacy is now in the toilet. His last
hope (after the "surge" putrefies) will be a
a new war with Syria. Our faith is Nancy &
Harry will be ready to put his last hope in
the same toilet bowl as his legacy.

AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE WORLD OF
LAW ENFORCEMENT

Guiliano Zaccardelli resigned last week as commis-
sioner of the Royal Canadien Mounted Police. His
crime was he lied about a Canadien citizen who
was passing through Kennedy Airport on his way
home.He lied to the CIA saying the man was an
Al Qaida agent.

The U.S. people went bonkers at "capturing"
an Al Qaida rep and immediately "detained"
him. When he wouldn't admit anything and
there was no proof, we sent him to Syria for
tea & light refreshments. When the Syrians
couldn't get anything incriminating they
turned him loose. All that was in 02 & 03.

Back in Canada, Maher Arar, the victim
started a fuss. Unlike some pols in other
countries these people listened and a com-
mission was formed to investigate. Mr. Arar
was totally exonerated of everything. The
verdict of the commission came in Sept. o5.

Zacarrdelli resigned last month more than
3 1/2 years after the scum bag did his ugly
deed. He fought the facts for years & even
after they found he lied it took 14 months to
get him out.

What manner of man is this evil wretch? How
many frame-ups did he participate in?How many
innocent families were crushed because of this
filthy, lying, sadistic skunk?

I hope & pray that they put the low-life in the
joint and his cell mate is a 6' 6" lifer.

MARY CHENEY AND BABE

"Mary Cheney is having a baby".
"That's nice. God willing it will be healthy".
Isn't that the way it should be?

Why then all the undercurrent of her being a dike,
what process she used to become preggers, what
her partner & parents think, and so forth.

People around Spoilerjohn's place do not agree
politically with Mary (& possibly much else) &
the feeling (as opposed to knowledge) persists
that her up-front personality is more than some-
what abrasive if not sclerotic. And let's face it
she does assist one of the least popular pols of
the 20th century.

Fine. Jump on those foibles, if they be, but skip
the imputations and the clue dropping or the
out-right slamming of Mary and her partners'
justification for wanting and having a child.
Those personal challenges are truthfully none
of our goddam biz.

Inter alia, focusing on justification tends to
strengthen ones belief in the severe limita-
tions of a shockingly large segment of our
society.

BARR, CONSTITUTION, PODNERS

Caught the fact that former congressman, Bob Barr,
left the Repugs for the Libertarian Party. He was
never our cup of tea. For the most part we pre-
ferred our southern pols to stride forward in the
person of Johnny Edwards.

BUT, let me hasten to add in matters of integrity
and constitutional respect Bob Barr is as strong
as the famed seven blocks of granite.