The IceMan Cometh

This is my backyard
I spent most of the morning cutting the branchs off the wires so I haven't lost power...yet
You can stand in the backyard & listen to wood cracking all round me.
This missed my truck by about 2 feet

The sun has come out & turned my backyard into a crystal forest & wind chime these pictures don't do it justice.

34,452 Dead Civilians

Latest figures from the UN in Iraq show a total of 34,452 civilians were killed in the country last year and 36,685 wounded as a result of sectarian violence and unrest.

In its latest update Tuesday, the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq, UNAMI published figures for November and December which showed 6,376 civilians were killed and 6,875 were wounded.
This shows a very slight fall compared with the previous four months when the violence heightened.

UNAMI figures showed 6,599 people were killed in July and August with numbers peaking in September and October when more than 7,000 people died, the majority in Baghdad.

The report said the situation remained 'particularly bad' in Baghdad where most bodies bore signs of torture.

Revenge killings, lack of accountability for past crimes and impunity for current human rights violations were identified as the 'root causes' of the violence.

'It is essential that the State and Government of Iraq are seen as united in their efforts to contain and eventually eradicate sectarian violence.' said the report.

This was the only way 'to ensure the rule of law' and remove the 'popular basis for the perpetrators of this violence

How many more must die to avenge 9-11? Iraq & the Iraqi people had NOTHING to do with 9-11

George W. Bush proclaims himself a born-again Christian. However, Bush and fellow self-anointed neo-Christians like Tom DeLay, John Ashcroft, and sports arena Book of Revelations carnival hawker Franklin Graham appear to wallow in a "Christian" blood lust cult when it comes to practicing the teachings of the founder of Christianity. This cultist form of Christianity, with its emphasis on death rather than life, is also worrying the leaders of mainstream Christian religions, particularly the Pope.

One only has to check out Bush's record as Governor of Texas to see his own preference for death over life. During his tenure as Governor, Bush presided over a record setting 152 executions, including the 1998 execution of fellow born-again Christian Karla Faye Tucker, a convicted murderer who later led a prison ministry. Forty of Bush's executions were carried out in 2000, the year the Bush presidential campaign was spotlighting their candidate's strong law enforcement record. The Washington Post's Richard Cohen reported in October 2000 that one of the execution chamber's "tie-down team" members, Fred Allen, had to prepare so many people for lethal injections during 2000, he quit his job in disgust.

Bush mocked Tucker's appeal for clemency. In an interview with Talk magazine, Bush imitated Tucker's appeal for him to spare her life - pursing his lips, squinting his eyes, and in a squeaky voice saying, "Please don't kill me." That went too far for former GOP presidential candidate Gary Bauer, himself an evangelical Christian. "I think it is nothing short of unbelievable that the governor of a major state running for president thought it was acceptable to mock a woman he decided to put to death," said Bauer.

I'm starting to believe Alex Jones, that Bush & his gang are part of a Cult Of Death. Check Out Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove

Good News?

Liberal lawmakers seek end to Iraq war

By ERICA WERNER

WASHINGTON — The House's most liberal lawmakers, ignored while Republicans were in charge, are emerging to push resistance to President Bush's plan to send more U.S. troops to Iraq.
The Progressive Caucus members, who've long advocated withdrawing troops from Iraq, seized the chance to offer a gentle "I told you so" to those who are just now coming to that position.
"We were labeled dissenters," declared Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., caucus co-chair. "We have changed enough minds that ours is now the mainstream position."

More than a dozen House members and dozens of onlookers gathered Friday for the group's first forum in the new Democratic-controlled Congress. They were there to hear from George McGovern, the liberal former senator and presidential candidate, on his plan for withdrawing from Iraq in six months.

But first, they took time to delight in their new digs: the big, well-appointed Cannon Caucus Room across the street from the Capitol. It was a far cry from the out-of-the-way basement rooms allowed them when Republicans were in power.
"Look where we are today!" Woolsey said.

McGovern, a South Dakota Democrat who ran for president in 1972 on an anti-Vietnam War platform, said he thought at the time there was one silver lining to that war.
"'This Vietnam situation is so outrageous we'll never go down that road again,'" he recalled saying. "And here we are."

With Congress grappling with its response to Bush's plan to add more than 20,000 troops to the forces already in Iraq, several Progressive Caucus members made their stance clear: They want Democratic leaders to use Congress' power of the purse to block the move by refusing to fund it.
Democratic leaders in the House and Senate intend to hold votes within a few weeks on nonbinding resolutions to show their opposition to any troop buildup. Action on trying to block funding for a buildup could wait until the administration submits a supplemental war spending request later this year.

Some progressives want to attach conditions to that bill that would block the funding from going for a troop increase. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has indicated she's open to that but hasn't committed to it.

"This is all great, but the real test is going to come on the supplemental," said Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio. "It's not clear that Democratic leaders are prepared to bring an end to the war fairly quickly."

Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., who chairs a key Appropriations subcommittee, said Friday he'd like to add other conditions to the war spending measure as well, such as requiring more troop training and closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"If he wants to veto the bill, he won't have any money" for the war, Murtha said.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., won McGovern's approval for a suggestion that Congress amend the war spending request to specify it only could be used for force protection, withdrawal and diplomacy.

"I'd endorse that all the way," McGovern said.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4468364.html

Rehangs & One New Sign

This one was ripped down by the wind, so I rehung it.

I seem to have run into a Bushbot that likes to rip down my signs, but being a Bushbot he's not smart enough to throw them away, he just throws them into the woods next to where they were posted...so I rehung them BOTH!
This one is the new big ass sign as you can see I needed to use ladder technology.

The Word Is Spreading

This sign was seen on a walk way that I have hit more than once... the thing is I didn't post this sign, it looks like someone else is blogging too! Keep up the good work whoever you are!

Let The People Decide

Hey Nancy
This is a government for the people by the people

Not a government by Nancy Pelosi for Nancy Pelosi. Let the people decide!!!

You teach your children that lying is wrong... so is it wrong for a president to lie?

Laser Guided New Year

Here's my start to a new year
Dear Mr Bush
The american ppl are not the terrorist!!!
Please stop this invasion into OUR privacy.

If you ask me, with King George's latest invasion into OUR privacy, it's a pay back because the american ppl voted against his party & his war, & like a spoiled child he's going to punish us for it, by adding another layer of bullshit laws on top of all the other laws that invade OUR lives.