BuzzFlash presents Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute
exclusively on BuzzFlash.com

A collection of insightful ruminations, reflections, and rants on the events of the day (with the exception of the weekend). Come visit each weekday to see what's pushing Barbara's buttons.

October 26, 2005

* * *

The “yellow-cake” lie that won’t go away!  In referring to the forged Niger documents we hear this tidbit of incriminating news?  Hmm, gasp, sounds as though some Repuglicans may have been involved, no wonder Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. has been dragging his feet on an investigation into the hows and whys regarding the Niger forgeries!  Now, how in hell do they blame it all on the CIA??? “When foreign intelligence agencies met the documents with skepticism, Pollari used his own contacts in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans and an aide to the president's national security adviser to promote the dossier, La Repubblica said, without elaborating.” 

* * *

When asked "why are the top echelons of her State Department almost entirely white?"  Condi Rice had this to say: "'That's an artifact of foreign policy. ... It's not been a very diverse profession.' In other words, there aren't enough qualified minority candidates."  Racism can rear its ugly head in the most unusual of places! If only Ms. Rice would take a step off that pedestal, she’d find that many African-Americans have the qualifications to fill whatever job is available at the State Department.  What an off-handed callous insult directed at a multitude of diverse well-qualified people!

* * *

Now that’s a patriot for you---U.S. Army Lt. Col. Steve Boylan, director of the force’s combined press center wrote in an e-mail to reporters:“… The 2,000 service members killed in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom is not a milestone.  It is an artificial mark on the wall ...!”  There is no way that “an artificial mark on the wall” should ever be said in any context about the deaths of 2000 American soldiers.

* * *

Excuse me, but had it not been for the Supreme Court in 2000, and voting irregularities again in 2004, George Bush would not be perched in the Oval Office today, because he lost the vote count and the election both times the public has been duped  into believing he won! 

* * *

For all those who believe in privatization---take a long hard look at the medical field today---privatization which was supposed to lower costs and increase quality is now so expensive that 50 million Americans can’t afford health insurance, and, if you take the time, you’ll realize that HMOs are the most expensive delivery methods of socialized medicine!  Only if you can pay dearly for it and only if the Doctor and/or hospital are on the list do you have a “choice”!  Wake up, America, you’ve been duped, because in effect HMOs are nothing more than big bucks socialized medicine!  Think about it, Bill Frist didn’t become a millionaire on a Senator’s salary!

* * *

The newest mantra from the Repuglican Party for the poor in these United States is---“Let them eat horsemeat”!  Each and every time I think they’ve hit bottom, the Repuglican Party has proven they can go even lower!  God save the United States from the Repuglican Party!

* * *

When the radical religious right in America finally realizes that the words written on that two and a half ton granite stone of Roy Moore’s includes, "Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, and Thou shalt not covet," then and only then can they justify their opinions.  To ignore the sins of some in order to personify the sins of others makes them no better than the sinners themselves!

* * *

All one can do when Pat Buchanan opines is to remember he was a “dirty tricks” member of the Nixon administration---does anyone remember the 1972 election? And lest we forget “Watergate,” though not implicated in the crime, he was an insider with insider knowledge.  A loyalist to the end, a spinner of “framing” and “talking points,” an “end justifies the means” Repuglican parrot!!!

* * *

Note, the person who gave Ms. Plame’s name to reporters is now known as “Mr. X” and it is said “Mr. X” is outside the White House”--- they didn’t say outside the administration---hmm, how far outside the White House???  It sounds like someone’s “stroll through the rose garden” may be coming to an end!  And nothing will fare better for America than to bring this entire incompetent, arrogant administration’s stroll to an end!

* * *