So, just at a random time, Kathleen Willey has written a book. It doesn't have anything to do with the upcoming election, even though she accuses the Clintons of murdering her husband (long before they really even had an idea who she was, or had a reason to hate her or her husband). Wow! It must be true! After all, remember who Kathleen Willey is! She accused Bill Clinton of groping her and became Ken Starr's star witness! OK, she kept getting plastic surgery paid for by some anonymous person, and Starr kept having to give her new immunity because she kept lying under oath, but it seems that she's as honest as, well, Rudy Giuliani.

Boycott anything Yahoo. Yahoo will sell you down the river. You cannot trust that you are protected using their products. The large internet company is complicit in the arrest of Chinese journalist Shi Tao, a freelance journalist for Internet publications and an editor for the Chinese business newspaper Dangdai Shang Bao and other Chinese democracy dissidents that had used the internet to spread the idea of democracy. In hearings before the House Foreign Affairs committee, two top Yahoo executives, Michael Callahan and CEO Jerry Yang admitted that Yahoo turned over internet information to the Chinese Government. The Chinese then used that information to arrest and prosecute journalist Tao and other Chinese cyber dissidents. Tao was sentenced to ten years in prison for posting a Chinese government order forbidding media organizations from marking the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising on the Internet. This was considered by the communist government to be the releasing of state secrets. The Chinese learned it was Tao's posting because Yahoo turned over email and other computer files which connected the postings to Tao. So in Yahoo's world making money in China is more important than the life and liberty of internet users, more specifically Yahoo users. Not only did they directly help in sending Tao and others to prison, Yahoo did not notify the US Government of the requests made by the Chinese government in previous testimony before the Foreign Affairs committee. Yahoo's Callahan blamed it on a bad translation. Funny that the translation came from the Yahoo office in China. If Yahoo is willing to give information to the Chinese imagine what they would be willing to give to the Bush administration's efforts to watch everything we do. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos (D-Calif) said it best when addressing Callahan and Yang, "while technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies."

What's Wrong with the Neocon Mind Once I had an email exchange with an avid neocon Bush supporter; cornered by pesky facts, instead of responding to my arguments directly, he sent me to a site called "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys." Without a hint of irony, it named as cowboys Ronald Reagan and John Wayne as well as Tex Ritter, Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy, the Lone Ranger, Red Ryder, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Gunsmoke's Matt Dillon, Hoss & Li'l Joe Cartwright of "Bonanza," Paladin, and TV's Maverick. All actors or fictitious characters. If you ever wonder what went wrong with the neocon mind, this is a good place to start -- they can't distinguish reality from fantasy. Here, see for yourself, but make sure you've swallowed your beverage first: "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" Elsewhere on the same page, you'll find this gem; count how many Bush has violated in his six years as our First Installed President: The Ten Cowboy Commandments by Gene Autry Commandment 1 ~ "He must not take unfair advantage of an enemy." [Bush is well-known for trying to change the rules when he's losing.] Commandment 2 ~ "He must never go back on his word." [Need I explain?] Commandment 3 ~ "He must always tell the truth." [Ho, ho!] Commandment 4 ~ "He must always be gentle with children, elderly people and animals." [Well, his SCHIP veto wasn't kind to children; his attempt to privatize Social Security didn't do any favors for the elderly, and he used to enjoy blowing up frogs. Now he just likes to blow up everything.] Commandment 5 ~ "He must not possess racially or religious intolerant ideas." [He doesn't seem too fond of Muslims and black people are only good for 'I care' photo-ops and window dressing in his cabinet. In Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, Bush's campaign did everything it could to deny minorities their right to vote.] Commandment 6 ~ "He must help people in distress." [I could go on, but the example of Katrina is good enough.] Commandment 7 ~ "He must be a good worker." [Bush has taken more vacation time than any other president.] Commandment 8 ~ "He must respect women, parents, and his nation's laws." [Respect his nation's laws? Please.] Commandment 9 ~ "He must neither drink nor smoke." [He used to be a notorious drunk, and rumor is he still may be tippling.] Commandment 10 ~ "He must be a patriot." [True patriots don't violate the Constitution.] I've got Bush in flagrant violation of 10 out of 10 -- Junior isn't going to get into Cowboy Heaven that way. Besides, he's afraid of horses.