V is for Victory!

I already addressed this yesterday, but Knight Ridder helped put it in perspective:

http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_3556208

Bush's approval rating right now is so low that only NIXON had worse numbers! And that was SIX MONTHS BEFORE HE RESIGNED! HA!

Champagne and beluga for all.

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On a more somber note, National Intelligence Director John Negroponte recently warned that a civil war in Iraq could lead to a destabilization of the entire Middle East.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/intelligence_congress;_ylt=At7mDLQjWRNYk3UaZAPlcrKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

Not that it could get a whole helluva lot worse than it is, but hey, we're optimistic.

This is a big problem for the neocons. They don't want absolute chaos. They want controlled chaos. Big difference. Absolute chaos is harder to profit from. But I guess this is what happens when you just up and invade an already-unstable country with several hardline religious factions that have vicious unresolved differences that have caused bloodshed for more than a thousand years already.

Dire news, indeed. Hmmmm...

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One more sign this year is going to be interesting:

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=11379813&src=rss/healthNews

With regard to South Dakota's tyrannical bullshit abortion bill:
"South Dakota's legislature passed the bill last week and Gov. Mike Rounds has said he is inclined to sign it."

The good news? Bush doesn't support it because it only allows for one instance in which abortion would be permissible. Nah, shrub says there should be at least two or three (but none of them have to do with freedom of choice)!

Yeah, the hell with it. Let's send women back to the sculleries where they belong. Praise Jesus!