WHY BUSH SHOULD BE IMPEACHED or
AT LEAST BE CHARGED AS A WAR CRIMINAL


Read the accumulating evidence documented in the “Investigative Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff”.

The evidence of the wrong-doing, cruelty and un-Constitutional behavior of the Bush cadre is slowly accumulating. Never before have I witnessed (since Nixon?) an administration so full of liars and slanderers. Again, I want to point out that fundamentalist, Christian churches behave exactly like what is disclosed in the following report toward people who don’t agree with them or who commit “sins”. Unforgiving, closed-minded, savage and revengeful—that’s typical fundamentalist behavior, and, now, it’s infected the White House through Bush and company.

Read about it here.

MOUNT HOOD BUDDHA

The picture is of my third walk along the Vancouver waterfront. I come around a bend onto the Columbia River after emerging from a more wooded walk, and there he is in the distance—BuddhaHood. A friend, Geoff H. of Spokane, told me that Kerouac liked to say the mountains rising up in this regions were all Buddhas. This very much impressed me the next time I came upon this scene. Frequently, on morning walks, the Buddha is not visible, hidden in the river fogs, mysteriously awaiting more fortuitous signs.

[28] Struggle

What is this fog that licks against old gray walls and hides
The sun? My wildflowers shrivel in a killing frost,
Cold drizzle falls on October streets, walking makes me shiver.
Some New Age thinkers believe weather can affect our moods,
Some say we are the pawns of planetary alignments. Ha!
If only my fate were that easy to unravel, gladly
I'd reach up and shift the orbits of the earth and sun,
But this drizzly mist just swallows up my flailing fists.

That's in case you think only the BuddhaHood struggles with fog!!

BUSH—A PIMPLE ON CHURCHILL'S ASS

The following excerpt is from Salon | by Sidney Blumenthal | March 8, 2007 at 11:32 AM:

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President Bush held one of his private book club sessions that Karl Rove organizes for him at the White House. Rove picks the book, invites the author and a few neoconservative intellectual luminaries, and conducts the discussions. For this Bush book club meeting, the guest was Andrew Roberts, an English conservative historian and columnist and the author of "The Churchillians" and, most recently, "A History of the English-Speaking People Since 1900."

The subject of Winston Churchill inspired Bush's self-reflection. The president confided to Roberts that he believes he has an advantage over Churchill, a reliable source with access to the conversation told me. He has faith in God, Bush explained, but Churchill, an agnostic, did not. Because he believes in God, it is easier for him to make decisions and stick to them than it was for Churchill. Bush said he doesn't worry, or feel alone, or care if he is unpopular. He has God.
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The only advantage that Bush seems to have over Churchill is in Bush’s endless arrogance, lack of concern for the suffering of the troops over whom he holds sway like a petty god, and no humbling and humanizing awareness of what an ugly pompous ignoramus he truly is, whereas Churchill was a truly humble man with all the normal doubts that any idiot knows he ought to have—specially if that human were a Christian, but, then, Bush isn’t a Christian—he’s an Old Testament fundamentalist tyrant. No, he's not even that. To compare him to an Old Testament tyrant is like comparing an ant turd to the defunct planet of Pluto. Imagine—this man admits that he doesn't care at all what his emplyees, us, think of his performance. Bush maintains, by definition, a tyrant's attitude toward his subjects.

YESTERDAY WAS A FINE DAY

Yesterday morning I went out early in the morning and drove down to the Columbia River waterfront of my new hometown of Vancouver. It was a fine morning, and for a few minutes, at least, I forgot all the sadness I’m still dealing with since leaving all my friends in Spokane. This will be a good place to go to for a short trip to peace. Now, if I can only find an espresso joint on the water where I can do algebra problems after class. Here’s a few pictures of the walk.

That's the I5 bridge in the background.

This is looking up from a very small beach area back to the main walking path.

This is looking East, toward the rising sun along the wide, concrete walking path.
Ahead would be a lot of very expensive condominiums. To the right is the Columbia River.