Last year the ACLU took on the Dover, Pensylvania school board for requiring intelligent design (neocon for creationism) to be taught in high school biology classes.  Eleven parents joined the ACLU and filed suit, arguing it is religious belief dressed in the cloth of science.  Last week Judge Jones, a Republican appointed by President Bush, concluded that intelligent design was not science, and that it was unconstitutional for the Dover School board to require it to be taught in high school.

Ironically, the radical Dover School board members that pushed the issue have already been voted out of office.

In 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court seemed to settle this question, ruling that Louisiana could not make creationism a part of the science curriculum. The state, Justice William J. Brennan wrote, cannot "restructure the science curriculum to conform with a particular religious viewpoint."  Justice Antonin Scalia dissented, arguing that creationism could be "valuable scientific data that has been censored from the classrooms by an embarrassed scientific establishment." 

Yes, Scalia, it is good judgement to us embarassment to teach those pagen scientists a lesson.  If the matter were brought before the Bush-altered supreme court today, the outcome may be different. 

On behalf of the intelligent and compasionate Americans, we extend an apology to Canada for the constipated Republicans that are attacking your character.  For you see, Canada, that is what these retards do.   We reasonable Americans also have to endure their petty diatribe.  Tucker Carlson (MSNBC), Neil Cavuto (Fox News) - they are all a bunch of political dollies spewing trash from the corrupt Bush Regime. They are not the majority in this country, so just ignore them.  These phony networks are just polical toys directed to spread hate in order to keep most Americans angry and afraid. 

So don’t get mad as us, feel sorry for us.  Hopefully the ring leaders will be in jail soon and we will all be vindicated.

There are three branches of government in the United States: Executive, Judicial, and Congress.  There are checks and balances built into the system designed to keep the balance of power.  It was set up this way because the colonists did not want an autocratic government with King sitting on the throne.  

  When the Congress gave up their power to the President and allowed him to declare war, that balance was shifted.  That was the beginning of the downslide.

Now Bush is on the speech circuit trying to justify civilian wire taps order by him.   When the power is balanced, Judges make those decisions (as they should, charged with being impartial rather than political - that is why they frustrate Bill Frist).  Bush’s reasons are for the protection of the American people.  However he thumbed his nose at us when he said he has no intention of halting these missions.

Who is going to protect us for Bush?  Congress, do your job and impeach the King while you still have that authority.

Bush was in Philadelphia last Tuesday, Jack Murtha’s home state, to give a rah-rah speech to the Philidelphia World Affairs Council on Monday.  This day Bush opened his sanctum to Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News for a little PR exercise.  Given his pathetic approval ratings in the 30’s,  the Bush Administration must have felt the need to reach out.

After his speech at the luncheon, Bush gets a silly grin on his face and says, "I’ve got a little extra time on my hands, maybe I’ll answer some questions." 

Nobody expected this.  He usually just smiles and waves, then darts for the safe haven of the Presidential limo.  Not this time - this time he had a reporter to cowtow to so he improvises.  God help us all.

 The first bomb:Bush called on Didi Goldmark, 63, a former libel defense lawyer from New Hope, Pa. "Since the inception of the Iraqi war," she said, "I’d like to know the approximate total of Iraqis who have been killed. And by Iraqis I include civilians, military, police, insurgents, translators." The Bush administration has usually brushed this question by saying that the Pentagon does not count Iraqi victims. The President showed a new confidence by answering the question, "How many Iraqi citizens have died in this war?" he said, beginning the answer that would create the headlines from the event. "I would say 30,000, more or less, have died as a result of the initial incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis. We’ve lost about 2,140 of our own troops in Iraq." The White House later backpedaled and stated the number was not a government estimate, but was based on news reports that the total was 27,000 to 30,000.

 The second bomb:Bush called on Faézé Woodville, 44, of Stratford, Pa., who cares for two sons at home. "Mr. President," she began, "I would like to know why it is that you and others in your administration keep linking 9/11 to the invasion of Iraqwhen no respected journalist or Middle Eastern expert confirmed that such a link existed." She got a burst of applause. 

The only applause the official White House transcript references is after Bush’s vacuous answer.  Bush pretended not to hear the question (Freudian, no doubt) and made her repeat it before he answered.  She repeated it word for word the second time.

"I appreciate that," he began, which is the way he often begins the answers to questions he does not appreciate the continued, " 9/11 changed my look on foreign policy. I mean, it said that oceans no longer protect us…"

In reality, this means his answer is that we should all be afraid and stay afraid and that is the justification for all unjustified slaughter.  Bush continued with the usual drivel about how Sadam was such a bad guy, etc.

Chatting afterward with reporters from TIME and The Washington Post, Woodville said she was disappointed by the non-answer. "He must think we’re morons," she said.

Bush excapes the real world for the sanctuary of la la land and a chat with Brian Williams.  During some non-camera on Air Force One that day Williams asked Bush about thePresident about one-time administration claims that Iraqis would welcome Americans as liberators. "I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome," the President replied.

Wow…and the scary part is he had no idea what he just said.

Aljazeera.net took an unscientific poll of its readers.  When asked, "Is Violence in Iraq Destablising the Region", the response of 14,960 readers was as follows:

77% yes, 19% no, 4% unsure. 

 They also published an article, Iraqis turn to Drugs to Escape Reality, where they outline the abuse of perscription-type drugs they are using to escape the continual violence in the area.

In as speech this morning, Bush said, "(Iraqi’s have) gone from living under the boot of a brutal tyrant, to liberation, to free elections, to a democratic constitution. A week from tomorrow, they will go to the polls to elect a fully constitutional government that will lead them for the next four years." 

They already had elections in Janary of 05.  It’s been almost a year.   It’s getting ridiculous.

New Democrat Party Leader Jack Layton has had enough of this fake war, as he lays out in his statment to Canada’s Prime Minister, Paul Martin.  Layton called for an immediate halt to sending more Canadian troops to Afghanistan, warning that Canada must not "drift into a war blindly." 

"We appear to be drifting from our original mission there – which was to provide security in the capital region – and into a combat role side-by-side with American troops," Layton continued.

Layton’s announcement follows NATO’s approval of a plan to send up to 6,000 troops into southern Afghanistan in a major expansion of their mission.

"We must not drift into a war blindly or secretly, on the say-so of one man – Mr. Martin."

According to the BBC, Layton also said at a campaign stop in St. John’s,"Canadians need to have a debate on whether they want Canadian service personnel to become deeply involved in an initiative that’s pressed forward by (U.S. President) George Bush."

Go Team Canada!

Today the Republican Whitehouse (Scott McClellan) refused to address a reporters question about the Italian Government seeking extradition of 22 CIA agents in connection with the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric in Milan, who was then flown to Egypt where he was allegedly tortured.

A radical Egyptian cleric known as Abu Omar was walking to a Milan mosque for noon prayers in February 2003 when he was grabbed on the sidewalk by two men, sprayed in the face with chemicals and stuffed into a van. He hasn’t been seen since.

Italian authorities suspect the Egyptian was the target of a CIA-sponsored operation known as rendition, in which terrorism suspects are forcibly taken for interrogation to countries where torture is practiced.  The Bush administration has received backing for renditions from governments that have been criticized for their human rights records, including Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan, where many of the suspects are taken for interrogation.

 In contrast Eupropean governmenets are questioning whether the practice is a blatant violation of local sovereignty and human rights and are beginning to file charges against the CIA, but it’s not easy to file charges against a US agent. 

The US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, has denied that America is transporting terror suspects to secret jails around the world to be tortured.   We don’t fly people from your airports to distant places to be tortured - so says Condoleeza Rice as she heads to Europe and straight into increasing anger in Europe’s capitals.

This is another lie that will come back to bite the Bush Crime Family and all who follow.