Empire of Shame

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0512/S00306.htm

So this is how democracy dies

http://www.rabble.ca/everyones_a_critic.shtml?x=45277

Held over in spite of popular demand

Pentagon propaganda program orders soldier to promote Iraq war while home on leave

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7918.shtml

As Ross Perot used to say before he dropped out of sight, "This is just sad."

Brokebudget Mountain

Dancing Hippo

http://www.mrcomputerservices.com/DancingHippo.htm

Impeachment is Now Real

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-garbus/impeachment-is-now-real_b_12972.html

Clowntime is over

http://chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=369&Itemid=1

Wiretaps fail to make dent in terror war

http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/wiretaps_0.htm

It's good to be King George

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05361/628256.stm

This could scarcely be clearer

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/1/2005/1284

THE BUSINESS PLOT TO OVERTHROW ROOSEVELT

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Coup.htm

Bring On the Rebels

http://www.alternet.org/story/29953/

What Else Don't We Know?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/justin-frank/what-else-dont-we-know_b_12892.html

Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2005/American-Apartheid-Education1sep05.htm

Speculations over US attack against Iran

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11373.htm

Corporate America May Be in Big Trouble

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/24/175120/91

Gospel Truth

http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd12232005.html

Is George Bush a mad emperor?

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=24155&mode=&order=0

The Tax-Cut Zombies

http://www.topplebush.com/oped2415.shtml

Major demonstrations protest Iraqi elections

Stalinist model prevails

The Miscreant Dynasty

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1221-28.htm

My reply to a BushBot

A "conservative" friend of mine emails me as follows:

"I'm sure you are aware that this "Spying on America" is not new. I wish the left-wing, main-stream media in this country would quit lying to the American people. I'm not saying that this intelligence gathering program is either right or wrong, just that it's not something George Bush dreamed up!"

My reply:

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml

This website is run by a real conservative, not a
neocon Israel-firster. Most real conservatives and
libertarians have known what Bush was from Day One. He
is a not-too-bright, wannabe dictator. Clinton has a
much higher IQ and could have actually pulled off
being a dictator more easily, but he had a problem
with his zipper, as we all know.

The U.S. Constitution, which George W. Bush (and
probably Clinton before him; they are both evil to the
bone in my mind) describes as "just a G--d---ed piece
of paper," indicates warrantless searches are wrong,
no matter who does it.

The Fourth Amendment has been violated and is
continuing to be violated big-time, not to mention
failure to adhere to due process of law and specific
statutes designed for this purpose such as the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act. You're not old enough
to remember Watergate. This is the type of thing that
got Nixon removed from office. It was known as the
Imperial Presidency. There is a famous book by that
name. It is interesting that Cheney wants to "restore"
presidential power to that of the Vietnam/Watergate
era presidents. Those were the good ol' days for him,
I guess, when he was receiving his five draft
deferments.

But I don't think Bush will be removed from office.
The GOP is going to remain in power until the country
is more or less destroyed from within. I don't envy
the younger generation at all. I feel sorry for kids
being born into this country. That's not to say they
won't overcome, with God's help, but the lifestyle
will be unrecognizable from what it was in my youth,
when a relatively uneducated man could actually
provide for his family.

It is interesting that the GOP's argument now is that
"everybody does it." I never thought I'd live to see
the day.

I guess the new standard being established here is
that the "conservatives" want us to have a king (as
long as it is one selected by the GOP) and believe the
Revolutionary War was a huge mistake, for which we owe
an apology to the British, I suppose.

I will continue to believe this endless War on Terror
is bogus and is designed to funnel tens of billions to
the administration's cronies. I will believe this as
long as the southern border remains wide open for any
potential terrorist to sneak across. And it will.
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, as the book "1984"
put it.

What's sad is that so much damage has been done to the
economy, the political system and the culture over the
last 25 years or so (and I don't assign any particular
party blame as GOPers are just as fallible as
Democrats) that I think it is too late to reverse the
decline. I think avoidance of civil war is about all
we can hope for. There is truly no communication
between the two sides. That's why I myself would never
want to be active politically. I'm not even sure why I
bother to vote since that process is becoming so
computerized and subject to hacking to achieve a
foreordained result.

The two sides are talking at each other. Furthermore,
on many issues, there are more than two sides and the
two "major" parties refuse to acknowledge there is yet
another third way to look at an issue. And the two
"major" parties have conspired through ballot access
restriction to make sure independent voices are
squelched.

I just don't think anything can be solved through
politics. It's more of a sideshow to me at this point.
And as I have said before, my reading of Scripture
tells me that the governments of the earth, including
our own, are under the control of Satan. So why would
I want to waste my time on the devil's domain?

Merry Christmas,

Russ

Finally!

I NEVER THOUGHT I'D see this couple in Gitmo but there they are behind the concertina wire. Wait a second. That insignia on Poppy is a dead giveway. They're at a World Series game. Never mind.

Persian Fire

http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=345&Itemid=5

She just wanted her "best flight now"

AP file
Victoria (left) and Joel Osteen and their family were asked to leave the flight after a disagreement.

Houston pastor Osteen, family kicked off flight

03:01 PM CST on Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Associated Press

HOUSTON - The pastor of the nation's largest church and his family were asked to leave a plane after his wife failed to comply with a flight attendant's instructions, the FBI said Tuesday.

Houston Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen, his wife Victoria Osteen, and their two children boarded a flight from Houston to Vail, Colo., Monday. The plane's door had been closed when Victoria Osteen and a flight attendant had a disagreement.

"She failed to comply with the flight attendant's instructions and they were asked to leave the flight," FBI spokeswoman Luz Garcia said.

The flight was delayed for more than an hour while the Osteens' luggage was retrieved, Garcia said. The Osteens took another flight to Colorado, where church spokesman Don Iloff said the family was skiing Tuesday.

The FBI, which has three agents at Bush Intercontinental Airport, was not called to the plane but reviewed a report from Continental Airlines after the incident, Garcia said. Garcia said the review revealed no illegal activity and no charges will be filed.

Iloff called the disagreement "minor" but would not say what specifically happened.

Continental spokeswoman Julie King would not discuss the disagreement but said in a statement that the situation was resolved.

Osteen took over his father's church in 1999 and has since increased its following to more than 30,000 worshippers weekly. The congregation meets in a renovated sports arena where the Houston Rockets once played.

Lakewood Church, which began in an abandoned feed store in 1959, spent more than 15 months and $75 million to turn the former arena into a church, complete with a bookstore, cafe, family life center and classrooms.

Osteen's sermons are also broadcast in cities throughout the country and his book "Your Best Life Now" has become a best-seller.

China lays down gauntlet in energy war

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GL21Ad01.html

Man responsible for "urban sprawl" of Houston dies

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3536314.html

Iraqis are rioting over 40 cent-a-gallon gas

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/20/international/middleeast/20iraq.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print

But protests against the Shiite-led government erupted in some southern cities on Monday, after Mr. Chalabi, a vice prime minister, announced Sunday that the government was cutting back on its consumer fuel subsidies. The price of one liter of leaded gasoline has increased to the equivalent of 10 cents from 31⁄2 cents. Free-market economists say the subsidies have drained the government's budget, and smugglers have been selling the cheap gas for enormous profits in neighboring countries.

A liter contains 33.8 ounces so they are actually rioting over even a lower price than 40 cents. Meanwhile, back in the U.S. our wannabe Saddam has no intention of ever subsidizing the gasoline price. He's too busy thumbing his nose at and wiping his arse with the U.S. Constitution. For you 35 percent of BushBot Nazis (many of whom are my former Southern Baptist brethren) who will not only wipe his arse, but eat what comes out of it, all I've got to say to you is that either your days are numbered or our country's, probably both, since the Chimperor has already done irreparable damage.

Excellent analysis in this post on The Smirking Chimp

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/viewtopic.php?topic=61723&forum=4

These are the five heresies of "liberal" and "progressive" boards.

1) Democrats and Republicans are both military imperialist whores of transnational corporate kleptocracy and there is not a dimes worth of difference between them, except perhaps abortion.

2) The far right warmongering elements in Israel are the tail wagging the dog of Amerikkka and they have the Republicrat party in their pocket.

3) One man's conspiracy is another man's business plan. 911 was an inside job, lone gunmen did not whack JFK, MLK, RFK, etc etc etc.

4) The sheeple are deluded, willfully ignorant, apathetic losers stupefied by television and the society of the spectacle, religion, alcohol, drugs (prescription and otherwise), minimal creature comforts, and economic hassles. They have no interest in their own uplift and will kill to preserve their own enslavement.

5) These problems will not be solvable by the electoral politics that provided the camoflauge for creating the problem. First, get the influence of money out of campaigns and eliminate paperless electronic voting. Those are prerequisites before addressing a baker's dozen of other profound, fundamental problems. But none of them will be addressed until the erstwhile middle class is eating out of dumpsters during a period of grave and extended crisis: a hybrid revolution/civil war.

Excellent analysis in this post on The Smirking Chimp

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/viewtopic.php?topic=61723&forum=4

These are the five heresies of "liberal" and "progressive" boards.

1) Democrats and Republicans are both military imperialist whores of transnational corporate kleptocracy and there is not a dimes worth of difference between them, except perhaps abortion.

2) The far right warmongering elements in Israel are the tail wagging the dog of Amerikkka and they have the Republicrat party in their pocket.

3) One man's conspiracy is another man's business plan. 911 was an inside job, lone gunmen did not whack JFK, MLK, RFK, etc etc etc.

4) The sheeple are deluded, willfully ignorant, apathetic losers stupefied by television and the society of the spectacle, religion, alcohol, drugs (prescription and otherwise), minimal creature comforts, and economic hassles. They have no interest in their own uplift and will kill to preserve their own enslavement.

5) These problems will not be solvable by the electoral politics that provided the camoflauge for creating the problem. First, get the influence of money out of campaigns and eliminate paperless electronic voting. Those are prerequisites before addressing a baker's dozen of other profound, fundamental problems. But none of them will be addressed until the erstwhile middle class is eating out of dumpsters during a period of grave and extended crisis: a hybrid revolution/civil war.

What I didn't post on 3A Down Low

The link below is a to a high school football message board. I have decided not to become political. Here is what I would have responded on this thread:

We're poor

More tax cuts for the upper income folks such as PPHSfan will solve this problem. It's called "trickle down" economics.

71 percent of the people in my county, which is one of those "poor" areas, agree with this strategy. Just because the "trickle down" is warm and smells a bit like ammonia is no reason to think it isn't actually raining.

It's like the joke Reagan used to tell about the little boy and the pony as described by one of his speechwriters here:

Lopez: What's your most treasured life lesson inspired by RWR?

Robinson: That one’s easy. The pony in the dung heap.

It was Reagan’s favorite joke. Worried that their son was too optimistic, the parents of a little boy took him to a psychiatrist. Trying to dampen the boy’s spirits, the psychiatrist showed him into a room piled high with nothing but horse manure. Yet instead of displaying distaste, the little boy clambered to the top of the pile, dropped to all fours, and began digging.

“What do you think you’re doing?” the psychiatrist asked.

“With all this manure,” the little boy replied, beaming, “there must be a pony in here somewhere.”

Thoughts Unthunk, Mostly

http://www.fredoneverything.netThoughtsUnthunk.shtml

Reflections in the Evening Land

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/classics/story/0,6000,1669276,00.html

Woman accused of falling asleep on baby to stand trial

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WI_BREAST_FEEDING_DEATH_WIOL-?SITE=VARIT&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-12-16-17-43-00

Economy not all that sunny

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002684248_harrop15.html

Why Must Congress Nazify America?

http://www.rense.com/general69/nazification.htm

The Rainwater Prophecy

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/investing/articles/0,15114,1139979,00.html?promoid=rss

Tower planned for Cowtown

Developers plan 60-story tower in downtown Fort Worth
By SANDRA BAKER
STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER

Fort Worth -- Area developers are considering a spiraling 60-story, $200 million office and condo tower on the east side of downtown that, if built, would become the city's tallest building -- and the first skyscraper built here in more than 20 years.

Fort Worth architect Ken Schaumburg and Dallas developer William "Bill" Cawley, chairman and chief executive of Cawley Wilcox Cos., have teamed for the ambitious project, one that could spur redevelopment in an area of downtown that has been bypassed by most recent redevelopment efforts.

The project, planned for the southeast corner of Calhoun and Sixth streets, would likely offer some of the highest-priced condominiums in the downtown residential market and create a residential center near the city's public-transportation hub.

Cawley said the project would include 200,000 square feet of office space, 300 condos and 10 floors of parking. It is in early design and budgeting stages, and not all of the financing has been obtained, he said. He said his company and other investors will back the project financially.

"I don't expect that to be a problem," Cawley said. "Fort Worth is a great office market, and it's a great city. It's one of the most stable markets in the U.S."

Schaumburg and representatives with Wilcox Development Services, the development arm of the Cawley Wilcox Cos., met with city officials Monday in a pre-development planning session for the 900-foot-tall building, planned for the city block bounded by Seventh, Eighth, Calhoun and Jones streets.

There is no name yet for the project, but it is being referred to as the Block TU project in city filings.

"It looks like everything is good to go," Schaumburg said.

The condos are expected to sell for at least $350 a square foot, meaning the largest condos, at 5,000 square feet, would go for $1.75 million, Schaumburg said.

As it's now planned, the building's floors each would be 20,000 square feet. The street level would have retail space, followed by 10 floors for parking for 1,100 cars. There would be separate parking entrances for office tenants and residents.

Above the parking floors would be a transitional floor of open space, followed by 10 floors of offices, according to the preliminary plans. Above the office floors would be a floor for the building's mechanical equipment and then a sky lobby, which would house recreational space for the condos, including a swimming pool. Above that would be 37 floors of condos.

Schaumburg said he would like to see a public restaurant on the top floor.

The condos will range from about 800 square feet to 5,000 square feet, with most 1,500 to 2,000 square feet, Schaumburg said. Costs will begin at $350 a square foot, which will set the top end of the market downtown. Marketing efforts for pre-sales will likely begin in late February, he said.

If completed, the building will surpass the city's tallest building, Burnett Plaza, 801 Cherry St., which is 40 stories and 567 feet high. The second-tallest building is D.R. Horton Tower, 301 Commerce St., at 547 feet high and 38 stories. Carter+Burgess Plaza, at Seventh and Main streets, is also 40 stories, but 525 feet.

The east end of downtown is home to a few warehouses and several empty lots that are used for parking. It is also home to the Intermodal Transportation Center, the city's bus and train terminal, opened at Ninth and Jones streets in 2002.

City leaders say the project would be a huge boost to downtown because most of the recent development has been focused on the northern, southern and western edges of the central business district.

"We've long seen the potential of that area to benefit from the growth of downtown," said Fernando Costa, the city's economic-development director.

The site is just a few blocks from Bass Performance Hall and within a few of blocks of the heart of the city's office and commercial district, the workplace for about 40,000 people.

Andy Taft, president of Downtown Fort Worth Inc., a nonprofit booster group, said the project will tap into two markets in great demand -- office and residential. He's hoping that the development could spur similar projects.

"The office space is very tight in downtown, and the combination of office and residential in that location is an intriguing idea," Taft said. "There is a lot of land in that corridor for redevelopment opportunities."

Mayor Mike Moncrief said the proposed building would certainly change the city's skyline.

"I know there's demand for square footage downtown, offices large and small alike," Moncrief said.

The vacancy rate for Class A office space in downtown Fort Worth has remained at historic lows for the past couple of years, and if forecasts are correct, it's going to keep getting tighter.

Grubb & Ellis says that the largest tenant demands will occur in the Class A office market, the most modern buildings with the latest amenities. Corporate relocations and consolidations are creating the greatest demand for space, Grubb & Ellis says in its market assessment.

Other projects are also in the works for downtown Fort Worth.

Klabzuba Oil and Gas Co. in Fort Worth plans a 10-story Class A office building near the southwest corner of Weatherford and Lexington streets, on the western edge of downtown. The company said the 200,000-square-foot building could be under construction in mid-2006.

Schaumburg said Cawley approached him earlier this year about a possible project.

The land was acquired by Schaumburg in April from TXU Electric Delivery, which had used it for fleet parking. At the time, Schaumburg said he anticipated using the city block to expand his nearby Le Bijou luxury town-house development, which will be under construction in the coming weeks.

"I had planned on a condo project, but this makes it pretty exciting to combine both," Schaumburg said.

The Cawley Wilcox Cos. are not unfamiliar with Fort Worth. Wilcox Capital in July bought the three-building Overton Centre office complex in southwest Fort Worth. In 2002, it bought the Green Oaks Hotel, a west Fort Worth landmark, and in 2003 it bought the Ridglea Bank Building off Camp Bowie Boulevard.

Most recently, Wilcox Development built the JPMorgan International Building, a 1.1 million-square-foot building in Dallas, the 420,000-square-foot Sybase corporate headquarters in Dublin, Calif., and the 250,000-square-foot Blue Shield of California building in Sacramento.

Schaumburg will serve as design architect on the Fort Worth project , but Omniplan in Dallas will be the architect of record.

The Fort Worth building would be as tall as two 60-story buildings in downtown Dallas -- the Bank One Center at 1717 Main St. and Fountain Place, 1445 Ross Ave. The tallest building in the Metroplex is the 72-story Bank of America Plaza, 901 Main St., in downtown Dallas, according to the Web site Dallassky.com.

Schaumburg is behind several high-dollar condominium projects in Fort Worth, including The Versailles, at Henderson and Peach streets, and Bluff Street, at 959 Bluff St. He has also talked about a $48 million, 23-story condo tower on the western edge of downtown that would overlook the Trinity River at Peach and North Lexington streets.

Bush meets St. Peter

http://spaces.msn.com/members/rlcblogs/Blog/cns!1pMHtl0rsx6-VMEt-yCJqKMQ!363.entry

WHIRLPOOL TO LAY OFF 730 AT ARKANSAS PLANT

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5587507

I particularly enjoyed the part of the rant about the
soup kitchen which will be provided to the jobless by
the local Baptist pastor who sermonized to vote for
Bush last year. That sermon was titled "Vaya con
Jorge." They should have seen it coming with that
Spanish language reference.

Where the hell are they finding Mexicans to work in
plants IN MEXICO. I thought they had ALL come up here
by now. Maybe they are employing Central Americans who
have made it into Mexico and are gradually working
their way northward.

Another joke

A woman is driving home from the grocery store when suddenly a small boy on a bicycle darted from between parked cars and in front of her SUV.

She slams on the brakes but its too late! The boy's body cracks the windshield and he goes flying into an adjacent drainage ditch.

The woman gets out and runs up to the injured kid. His limbs are badly mangled and he's bleeding profusely. Noticing the St. Christopher medal around the boy's neck she says, "Son, are you a Catholic"

"Yes Ma'am" come the reply.

"Would you like me to call a priest?"

An incredulous looks spread across the boy's face and he says, "Lady, at a time like this, sex is the last thing on my mind."

Joke

A successful rancher died and left everything to his devoted wife.

She was a very good-looking woman, and determined to keep the ranch, but knew very little about ranching, so she decided to place an ad in the newspaper for a ranch hand.

Two people applied. One was gay and the other a drunk. She decided to hire the gay guy.

For weeks, the two of them worked, and the ranch was doing very well.

Then one day, the rancher's widow said to the hired hand, "You have done a really good job, and the ranch looks great. You should go into town and kick up your heels." The hired hand readily agreed and went into town that night.

One o'clock came, however, and he didn't return. Two o'clock, and no hired hand. He returned around two-thirty, and upon entering the room, he found the rancher's widow sitting by the fireplace with a glass of wine, waiting for him.

She stood up and quietly called him over to her. "Unbutton my blouse and take it off," she said. Trembling, he did as she directed. "Now take off my boots." He did as she asked, ever so slowly. "Now remove my stockings." He removed each gently and placed them neatly by her boots.

"Now take off my skirt." He slowly unbuttoned it, constantly watching her eyes in the fire light. "Now I want you to take off my brassiere." Again, with trembling hands, he did as he was told and dropped it to the floor.

"Now," she said, "take off my panties." By the light of the fire, he slowly pulled them down and off.

Then she looked at him and said, "If you ever wear my clothes into town again, you're fired!"

10 stoner ideas for bringing peace to Iraq

Emmet Fox: Forgiveness

http://www.sober.org/ForgFox.html

Cartoon

Jihad vs. McSex

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hooman-majd/jihad-vs-mcsex_b_12034.html

Why 'we' fight

There is a plan

The only plan is to stay there forever. There are several reasons for this.

Profits for defense contractors, in which the Bush family, and their cronies are heavily invested.

Iraq possesses capital, namely energy resources which we have seized by force. This was the energy plan that the bush regime sought to conceal from the outset of their oil company/ defense contractor administration.

A sovereign independent Iraq is an Iraq opposed to Israel. This plays into the hands of defense contractors which sell excess military production to Israel at US taxpayer expense and depend on the Israel nexus to keep unit costs down and government payments up. It is also a domestic play for the bonehead christian fundamentalist vote.

Our military position in Iraq is a staging ground for the takeover of Iranian oilfields and if necessary Saudi Arabia. Although this is stupid and impractical, this is what the oil government plan is.

Machiavelli 101: as long as there is a war going on, the opposition will divided by irrational patriotic impulses. All domestic opponents can be characterized as defeatists and unpatriotic.

The existence of an interminable guerilla war in Iraq lends credence to the phony war on terror which is largely a construction of the intelligence agencies of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, England, and America. This provides an excuse to dismantle the constitution, and construct a repressive police state in favor of the corporate rich.

Here's to You, America: Bush's Most Public Secret

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/justin-frank/heres-to-you-america-b_b_11963.html

I'm worried about Santa Claus

Recently he has been hanging out quite a bit at the South Pole. This means he may be "bipolar." I hope he stays off U.S. airline flights. Fortunately he has his own ride.

Iraqi oil industry in crisis

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=13770

A Nation Under God

Horsey cartoon

Longhorns to play for national championship

REDNECKS & BLUENECKS

Viewers without cable, satellite or receivers will not get programming

http://www.wisinfo.com/journal/spjlocal/286576521540936.shtml

"Cable is not offered in her area," she said. "It's going to be hard for people like her who are on a fixed income. You shouldn't have to pay just to watch normal TV."

I agree with her. They should have to pay you to watch the bilge manufactured these days. As has often been said, the most underutilized part of the TV is the "Off" button.

AWOL in America

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/awolinanerica01mar05.shtml

The Voice of the White House

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2005.htm

The Great American Jobs Scam

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12540

Americans Don’t Understand, United States War on ‘Terror’ Is Won By Losing, Not Just War, But Entire Nation Will Cease to Exist

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index855.htm

Russian squirrel pack "kills dogs"

New Reep Talking Points: Fitzgerald Pushing for Presidential Lobotomy!

Republicans on the Hill are closing ranks and calling for an immediate end to the investigation of Karl Rove, on the grounds that it would rob President Bush of the only good brains he has to work with. Senate Reeptard Majority Leader Dennis Hastert spoke to the heart of the matter, saying, "This is an outrage! What are we discussing here?--removing the president's brain? Preposterous!" Other Senate Republicans showed their assent by nodding and harrumphing loudly. "What oh what would a brainless president do all day anyway?" whined Tom Delay pitiably.
But such a move would not be entirely without precedent; indeed, if Rove were to be fired now, it would only be the first time a sitting president's brain has been removed since the Ford administration.

Romantic love 'lasts just a year'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4478040.stm

Being jilted lasts forever. The agony and chaos associated with this emotion lend credence to the theory held by Francis Crick that we are the result of alien experimentation.

Panspermia