I find my sleep at night has been sporadic as it can be; but when sleep comes my dreams are totally screwed up. Friday, I had a dream that at YK this year, I got into a shouting match with Tony Snow.
I do this to myself, I watch C-Span, the alphabet soup RWCM 24-hour propaganda stations, read the blogs all in utter disbelief.
I used to keep a spread sheet of things that would make me shake my head and utter under my breath, "You've got to be $hitting me!"
I have not tended this list in quite a while as I was trying to find some inner peace; but today I looked at it again. Much to my chagrin, my list has become woefully incomplete. Since I last wrote down actions, comments or names of those who seek to wreck our republic, too much has taken place for age addled mind to remember.
I know the Decider Guy has now a second veto under his belt (I am sure the troops thank him for that).
The supreme court has given corporations more of a voice than citizens (money for advertising without limits during the end of campaigns. I did not know that a non-human entity was considered a citizen).
A supreme court nominee told congress to go Cheney itself.
David Vitter
So here is my list and at that time, the number of times that had been mentioned in a diary just here on DK.
<th> Reason </th><th> Diary Mentions </th>
Iran | 15186 |
Katrina | 10976 |
Rumsfeld | 9616 |
Karl Rove | 8498 |
Tom Delay | 6255 |
gay marriage ammendment | 5200 |
WMDs | 5087 |
Jack Abramoff | 4495 |
Abu Gharaib | 4258 |
Patriot Act | 4094 |
Halliburton | 3840 |
"illegal wiretaps" | 3600 |
Valerie Plame | 2702 |
outsourcing | 2659 |
John Ashcroft | 2069 |
Terri Schiavo | 2046 |
Gannon | 2032 |
ignoring the 9-11 Commission | 2025 |
Enron | 2014 |
Scooter Libby | 1845 |
cut and run | 1839 |
North Korea nukes | 1810 |
family values | 1706 |
Gitmo | 1693 |
Paul Wolfowitz | 1691 |
Alberto Gonzales | 1659 |
rendition | 1542 |
nuclear option | 1524 |
Mark Foley | 1471 |
Darfur | 1336 |
Cheney's hunting accident | 1291 |
Ken Mehlman | 1273 |
U.S. Attorneys | 1221 |
Downing Street Memo | 1198 |
lack of body armor | 1085 |
troop surge | 1017 |
Bob Ney | 829 |
ignoring Iraq Study Group | 775 |
No Child Left Behind | 771 |
Walter Reed | 701 |
Anthrax | 695 |
Richard Perle | 644 |
"last throes" | 621 |
yellowcake | 621 |
Haditha | 579 |
Paul Bremer | 562 |
Heather Wilson | 521 |
guest workers | 517 |
only one veto: "stem cell" | 507 |
Dubai Ports | 504 |
waterboarding | 451 |
"aluminum tubes" | 412 |
Condi loves her Fox News guys | 371 |
Shinseki fired | 371 |
lack of up-armored vehicles | 362 |
Colin Powell + WMD | 346 |
My Pet Goat | 326 |
K Street Project | 314 |
Sibel Edmunds | 302 |
Ted Haggard | 277 |
"greeted as liberators" | 271 |
Pete Domenici | 262 |
prescription drug plan | 249 |
bridge to nowhere | 234 |
illegal reading of mail | 234 |
China shoots down a satellite | 226 |
"dead enders" | 221 |
Taliban resurgence | 221 |
"freedom is on the march" | 208 |
"strict constructionist" | 203 |
Hans Blix | 199 |
Sago Mines | 140 |
Bin Laden determined to attack | 126 |
raising debt ceiling | 112 |
backdoor draft | 108 |
Kyle Sampson | 99 |
Elaine Chao | 87 |
custer battles | 84 |
Alishtari | 17 |
"democracy is messy" | 13 |
"Democrat Party" | N/A |
"habeus corpus is not guaranteed" | N/A |
"I don't think about Bin Laden much" | N/A |
"I'm a uniter, not a divider." | N/A |
"I'm the decider." | N/A |
"It's a slam dunk" | N/A |
"stay the course" | N/A |
"You go with the Army you have, not with the Army you want." | N/A |
$20 billion in missing cash | N/A |
3,500 US Service personnel dead and counting | N/A |
Bin Laden dead or alive | N/A |
bribing scientists | N/A |
Cheney's secret energy meetings | N/A |
declining real wages | N/A |
Diebold | N/A |
fight them over there, instead of over here | N/A |
Flying Bin Laden relatives out of country | N/A |
gas prices | N/A |
gerrymandering of Congressional districts | N/A |
Harriet Miers | N/A |
I looked into Pootie-Poot's eyes... | N/A |
It will only cost $50 billion | N/A |
no separation of church and state | N/A |
"slow-bleed" | N/A |
surplus to debt | N/A |
tax cuts in time of war | N/A |
What global warming? | N/A |
yellow-bellied journalism | N/A |
Please fellow Kossacks, if I have forgotten something remind me of it so I can get my list up to date.
Dear Madam Speaker, I am sure if you just picked a few of these things out and brought them up the next time you all get together, something wonderful might happen. We might get our constitution back and this tired old ex-Marine might get some sleep.