Did anyone else see batshit-crazy neocon Melanie Morgan on "Hardball" last night? She spewed a lot of stupidity, but one statement took the cake:

"By the way, we‘re still going to find weapons of mass destruction [in Iraq]."

What world must this poor woman live on? Not planet Earth, that's for sure. Our guys have searched and searched and both Kay and Duelfer said there were no WMD in Iraq. Come to think of it, even though Morgan and other loonies like her like to protest that WMD weren't the only (some would add "or primary") reason that we went to Iraq, she still feels the need to make up some shit about how WMD will be found in Iraq. People like her obviously don't believe their own lies--they're just hoping we will.

Well fuck her...and God bless Cindy Sheehan--she hasn't let the bastards get her down...

And two more quick things...

Read this about "Able Danger" and how the U.S. government knew of and was tracking 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta at least as far back as 2000...the point being that we don't need a Patriot Act squashing our civil rights to prevent terrorism--we knew who Atta was and what he might be up to way before 9/11...

And then for those of you who wonder how "anti-terror"/anti-civil-rights legislation--i.e. the Patriot Act might affect you? Look no further than the case of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian immigrant who was shot in the head seven times because he was supposedly running from the bobbies, jumped the turnstile at the Tube, was wearing a bulky coat, etc.

Well, guess what? None of that shit was true and you can see a picture for yourself here. This is how the "anti-terrorist" forces commit terror--they kill you or anyone else for whatever reason they may have cooked up in their overheated brains, then try to cover it up.

Which is easy for them to do, because the media will breathlessly report the story of how a "terrorist"--by whom they might someday mean you was doing such-and-such a terrible thing so they had to shoot you in the head eleventy-million times. And all the news shows and papers and magazines pick it up and sing the praises of the police and point out that well, this is just how things have to be in this "post-9/11 world."

Only in actual fact, you did none of the things they accused you of, they had no reason to suspect you except that they needed to demonstrate somehow that they have crime and terror under control and you happen to walk out of building they're surveilling...

And then the actual truth of what happened gets a sentence on page A-20 of the Post, the blogs scream about it, and no one ever hears the fucking truth...and then those same non-hearers of the truth go "oh, we have to stop terror just like they did when they shot [insert your name here] that time--you heard he was running from the cops, etc." So when Patriot Act 10: The Enabling Act comes down the pike, they're all like "Yeah, it makes good sense to me--you can't never be too safe..."