THE EXTREME ZEALOTS AND TRUE BELIEVERS WHO SEE IN COAL THE "MAGIC BULLET" TOWARDS ENERGY SELF-SUFFICENCY FOR A "MORALLY SUPERIOR" AMERICA are, beyond a doubt, especially interested in rehabilitating (as it were) the concept of coal-fired turbine locomotives as but one step towards that goal.

And one particularly likely model would have to be none other than 4,500 hp @ 8000 rpm Norfolk and Western 2300, a/k/a "Jawn Henry," of Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton manufacture, vintage 1954, with a Babcock and Wilcox flash-tube boiler @ 900 psi and General Electric traction motors in a C+C-C+C wheel arrangement.

Judge for yourself, reader, if "Jawn Henry" had dorkiness written throughout solely because of its design:

In service for but three years until being scrapped in 1958, such encountered no end of performance problems, including coal dust shorting out the electrical wires, almost-constant problems with the feedwater heater and boiler controls and the turbine blades being damaged after backing onto heavy trains, thus consigning "Jawn Henry" to pusher duty on coal trains for the most part.

Not to be outdone, the Union Pacific, already attracting attention for their oil-turbine locomotives, was approached by the Bituminous Coal Institute to develop a coal-turbine locomotive prototype; as Wikipedia explains:

In October 1961, Union Pacific constructed an experimental GTEL of their own, using an Alco PA-2 as a cab, the chassis of a GE W-1 class electric locomotive (bought for scrap from the Great Northern) as the second unit, and a modified turbine prime mover from the 50 to 75 series. The setup was numbered 80, but changed to 8080 in 1965 to avoid conflict with the EMD DD35s being introduced. The consist had an A1A-A1A+B-D+D-B, wheel arrangement, i.e. 18 axles of which 16 were powered. A "centipede" steam locomotive tender was rebuilt with a coal crusher to pulverize and feed the coal to the turbine. Power output was estimated at 7000 hp (5.2 MW). The original diesel engine in the PA was retained and produced 2000 hp (1.5 MW) and the turbine produced the additional 5000 hp (3.8 MW). The blade erosion and soot buildup problems encountered in the earlier locomotives were magnified with the coal turbine. Grinding coal into fine particles was also troublesome. Any oversized coal particles could damage the turbine blades. Ultimately, the experiment was declared a failure and was scrapped. The conventional gas turbines each racked up well over a million miles in revenue service, by comparison the coal turbine prototype ran less than 10,000 miles before being stricken from the UP roster.

Again, judge for yourself if the following photo (via the Don Ross Collection, ultimately via Wikipedia) shows dorkiness in coal turbine-locomotive technology throughout: 

In any case: How sure can we be that coal-industry-sponsored front groups have learned well enough from past mistakes to give renewed attention to coal-turbine locomotion technology, especially considering the likelihood of newly-developed technology as may have eased the original reliability problems? 

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REV. JOHN HAGEE, ONE OF THE "SPIRITUAL ADVISORS" TO GOP PRESIDENTIAL PRESUMPTIVE JOHN McCAIN, claims that various anti-Catholic remarks attributed to him "have been mischaracterised" to discredit Hagee's pseudoministry.

As if that weren't good enough, Rev. Hagee's Christians United for Israel opposes Israeli land concessions for Palestinian Arabs in the name of fulfilling End Times Prophecy--which has attracted the ire of Rebbe Eric Yoffie, head of the Union for Reform Judaism, in calling upon its 900 affiliated synagogues to reject any overtures with Rev. Hagee's movement.

That, and taking exception to Rev. Hagee's anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic remarks.

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AND STAYING WITH JOHN McCAIN FOR THE NONCE, some video from his star-crossed 2000 Presidential bid has surfaced putting paid to his ignoring the issue of service in the Vietnam War in his Indecision 2008 campaign:

Media Matters for America, as is bringing this to light, elaborates:

In recent weeks, as Media Matters for America has repeatedly noted, various media outlets have either falsely suggested or asserted outright that Sen. John McCain has avoided references to his time in Vietnam in his prior political campaigns. In fact, McCain repeatedly highlighted his service in Vietnam during his failed 2000 presidential bid, as numerous news reports from the time show. Indeed, McCain's own 2000 presidential campaign released a biographical video of McCain, which prominently features McCain's time in the Navy during Vietnam. McCain himself appears in the video and discusses, among other things, the "[t]hree keys to a successful survivor in a prison camp, a situation such as I and my friends were in." Moreover, in 2004, McCain reportedly said that he had advised Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) not to talk about his military service and falsely claimed that "I didn't talk about" Vietnam because, he said, "I didn't need to."

The video, which also covers McCain's family military history, goes on to discuss McCain's release from the prison camp, his return to the U.S. from Vietnam, and the remainder of his Navy career. At the end of the video, a disclaimer notes that the advertisement was "Paid for by McCain 2000, Inc."

Now what does The Terrible-Tempered Mr. Bang have to say over this new discovery?

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THE REGIONS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AS INCLUDE THAT MECCA OF IDEALISED AMERIKANISCHER REALKULTUR, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS BRANSON, have been seeing no end of heavy snowfall this past winter.

And, in recent days, no end of heavy rain which translates, under the right circumstances, into major flooding, never mind where you've got Table Rock and Taneycomo dams in the immediate vicinity of Branson, plus Bull Shoals dam just inside the Arkansas line a few miles downstream.

Under the right circumstances, let's just hope for some flooding down Branson way as could serve the role of Divine Judgement and Wrath upon a misguided delusion of equally-misguided cultural conservatives in the Kulturkrieg camp (cf. frequent claims of Divine Judgement upon the United States levelled by the so-called "Westboro Baptist Church" during their now-banned "educational" picketing of certain funerals).

As in Branson being seen to be The One True and Pure Centre of Amerikanischer Realkultur "uncontaminated" by perceived "Jewish" or "homosexual" influences from the New York-Hollywood "Axis of Evil," with overtures reminescent of Nazi Germany's heavily promoting folk culture through the Kraft durch Frude ("Strength Through Joy") initiative for "patriotic" purposes.

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NOW IT MAY ACTUALLY BE POSSIBLE TO BLAME "GENES AND CHROMOSONES" FOR BEING A CHRONIC AND HABITUAL SMOKER, thanks to newly-released research from British cancer researchers appearing in this week's issues of Nature and Nature Genetics.

Who have spotted two variants in chromosone 15 which can only make the risk of lung cancer all the worse among smokers carrying either of both of these genetic variants in their genetic makeup.

And it makes you wonder whether the worst risk of carrying these mutations of chromosone 15 is among the Lower Classes and others deemed "chronic and habitual welfare cases."

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CNN IS REPORTING WHERE CONGRESS, BLIND AND @ ONCE OBLIVIOUS TO AN EVER-WORSENING NATIONAL DEBT BROUGHT ON BY HIS FRAUDULENCY'S MISADVENTURES against International Terrorism, is considering offering tax incentives to such purchasing foreclosed real properties in the name of G-d, Country and the Economy.

The lion's share of which tend to be concentrated in what may best be called culturally-deprived environments as were prime targets for "sub-prime" lending activity all the more, with real property values used to calculate property taxes perhaps exaggerated by a substantial factor out of warped and misguided pride more so than logic.

And you'll never guess who's especially interested in these tax credits: So-called "Christian Mortgage Lenders" advertising via "spam" e-mail all the more buying whole neighbourhoods of foreclosed properties en bloc and reselling them @ inflated prices (and equally-inflated mortgage rates bordering on the same "sub-prime" terms which aggravated the current market meltdown), said mortgages backed by unregistered debt securities offered to Low Church congregations and underwritten by several promiment "Prosperity Gospel" evangels under Congressional enquiry.

The whole designed, or so these "Christian" lenders hope, to "prevent further serious dilution of property values" by "sexually deviant, immoral and perverted elements" (as in homosexuals) "exploiting" low real estate prices all the more--but then again, the obvious target of these same "Christian Mortgage" companies is White Christian families tending to be poor, undereducated or homeschooled and easily-influenced ... and lacking decent credit histories as would qualify them for mortgages from more traditional lending channels.

Too, there's also the risk that these "Christian Mortgage" lenders won't report payment histories to the three national credit bureaux "for reasons you will understand," or so the likely patsy will come out.

And what guarantees are there that these unregistered debt securities won't go into default, with serious losses likely ensuing to these same Low Church elements falling for such as one with "Christian duty"?

All in all, something worth watching for danger of affinity fraud wholesale, and then some.  

WITH A TIP OF THE CHAPEAU TO DOWN WITH TYRANNY, YOUR CORRESPONDENT MAKES NOTE OF THIS LATEST SPECIMEN of just how far poor, undereducated and easily-influenced elements of society can be manipulated into voting Republican come Indecision 2008--itself raising questions on whether these remarks are somehow scripted or coached, knowing full well that the spokesperson is vulnerable or otherwise easily influenced:

And it makes you wonder just how hard-wired the GOP's electoral base can become--especially among certain classes of the community, in particular the lower such.

Not to mention reminescent of Monty Python's occasional recurring characters known as "pepperpots"--obnoxiously loud, shabbily-dressed old-age pensioners going for the absurd, in classic Monty Pythonic stylee--in perhaps their finest specimen, the Exploding Penguin Atop the TV Set:

IMHO, that "and now--" in the original ought best be followed by one of those "vox pops" from Surf's Up involving Arnold, Katie and Smudge discussing winning, surfboards, friendship ... even using urine to remove embedded bits of sea urchin from the foot.

IF THERE'S ONE THING THAT THE FREE-MARKET ZEALOTS AND TRUE BELIEVERS ON K STREET WOULD LOVE TO USE TO ADVANCE THEIR AGENDA, especially when the greater desire is "winning of hearts and minds" propaganda value, it would probably have to be the device of the "taxpayer lawsuit."

Especially such seeking to challenge the legality as much as the Constitutionality of certain "non-essential" or otherwise "counterproductive" Government agencies, institutions and schemes like State Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid on some of the flimsiest arguments known.

Which could get to be rather ugly to the point of tasteless when it turns out that some K Street group pushing the "taxpayer lawsuit" argument for nothing but attracting attention by highly questionable means wants to use some specimen of "trailer trash" as is obviously poor, undereducated or homeschooled and easily-influenced to act as "plaintiff" in the action.

And it turns out that the suit in question is as carefully scripted as the traditional Japanese kabuki and noh dramas--scripted, it turns out, by the "real" plaintiffs behind the "taxpayer lawsuit" in question, viz., the K Street element seeing free-market capitalism (and the defence thereof) being the defence of the "antient and pecuilar soverignty and soverign identity" of the United States, and vice versa.

With the "taxpayer" expected to act as plaintiff being nothing more than a parrot of K Street--a parrot deliberately conditioned into being a pawn of K Street solely for propaganda purposes rather than a sincere and genuine use of the courts for redress of taxpayer grievances--more than anything else.

Is it, perhaps, motivated by a desire to avoid "attracting unnecessary attention***to the wrong sort of people" in seeking to pervert the courts for the Greater Conservative Agenda's ends?

In any case, such should be challenged because of the potential for the insincerity and/or exploitation of the vulnerable for such questionable ends and means which K Street seeks to gain through the "taxpayer lawsuit" device--and with the "plaintiff" winding up, perhaps, emotionally unstable because of the attention expected to fall upon him, attention thus directed by the "sponsors" of the lawsuit.

Let alone the arguments expected to be advanced being rather insincere and incredible enough to dismiss such outright as frivolous and vexatious.

With the patsy/plaintiff being assigned court costs, fees and disbursements in the process, rather than the "real" plaintiffs behind such exercises.

ONE THING THE ZEALOTS AND TRUE BELIEVERS OF HYPERCONSERVATISM HOLD DEAR AS AN ARTICLE OF FAITH would have to be the "complete and final" elimination of "failed and failing" systems of State welfare and a new generation of the Lower Classes who willingly and consciously say No to charity of any kind, and accept such unswervingly and without question or compromise.

In other words, a hard-wired acceptance of any type of work available out of a zealous and conscious belief in industry, self-reliance and personal responsibility.

And towards such ends, you could just imagine whether certain specimens of conservative Zealotry and True Belief would love to "advise" schoolchildren from "chronic and habitual" welfare families to participate in School-to-Work programmes (as expects those graduating from high school to directly enter the workforce) for the sake of "Pavlovian conditioning" towards "accepting self-reliance and personal responsibility as American," concurrently accepting the dependency on welfare as "promoting Socialism and other dangerous un-American beliefs."

Such "advice" being more than likely tricked enrollment through forgery or deception based on various pathetic arguments lacking credibility.

And said School-to-Work initiatives tending to little more than drunken lectures reeking of Producerist and racist propaganda guaranteed to cause plenty of weeping and wailing and boohoohooing--even if the end result is psychoemotional harm translating into unsuitability for employment.

So: Just how many students from "chronic and habitual" welfare families are being "advised" to participate in School-to-Work schemes as part of the family's Social Contract?

How many are receiving little more than thinly-veiled bigotry and lectures having little or no resemblance to preparing them for the job and career market?

How many are winding up with serious emotional harm, or close to it? 

AMONG THE RELIGIOPOLITICAL RIGHT, EXPECT UNSWERVING BELIEF IN FREE-MARKET CAPITALISM AS THE GREAT WHITE FATHER to be a given among their articles of faith--just so long as they supported Traditional Moral and Familial Values per 1950's models (as noted previously by Your Correspondent).

And perhaps the most pathetic example of this in action would have to be the so-called "American Family Association," whose articles of faith extend to a "healthy" and "patriotic" homophobia in defence of G-d, Country and Family--and is infamous for using boycotts to kowtow American capitalism (or try to) into accepting homophobia as one with Good Business Practice.

Witness what People For the American Way's Right Wing Watch had to say the other day:

Just three weeks after the American Family Association declared victory in its boycott against Ford Motor Company, the anti-gay group has a new target: General Motors. From an e-mail alert titled "General Motors Supports The Gay Agenda":

General Motors has made a decision to help promote the homosexual agenda. The automaker supports the gay agenda with advertising in homosexual publications and on the gay TV cable channel LOGO.

GM's Cadillac regularly places full-page ads in The Advocate, a magazine dedicated to pushing the homosexual agenda. The LOGO TV network carries programs promoting the lifestyle.

AFA is urging its activists to sign a petition that GM should "not involved in promoting an aberrant, anti-family lifestyle," but that may be just the beginning for the boycott-happy group.

Which also raises some further interesting issues:

• Since the vast majority of the AFA's membership base tends to be as much auto-dependent as poor, undereducated or homeschooled and easily-influenced, how do we know that the AFA isn't about to recommend that its members, otherwise supposedly united pro Deo, patria et familia, start driving foreign-made cars, especially so cheaper Japanese- or Korean-manufacture nameplates, in defence of "Traditional Morals and Decency"? And what steps will they resort to to avoid attracting suspicions of hypocrisy and doublethink from the blogosphere?
• How do we know that the AFA isn't secretly allied with such groups supporting producerism based on isolationist self-sufficency within free-market capitalist models and paradigms?
• How do we know that the AFA and some of their droogs in that same vein aren't secretly subsidising so-called "Christian mortgage lenders" to buy up foreclosed properties wholesale and resell them to "right-thinking Christian families" on what amounts to "sub-prime" mortgages "to prevent homosexuals from further diluting property values" in "once-proud White Christian working-class communities"?
• How do we know that the AFA isn't really some class of a blackmailing organisation, or otherwise has connexions to elements weird and/or unwholesome (howbeit keeping such suspicions sub rosa to avoid attracting "unwelcome attention [from] those meddling bloggers")?
• How much longer before such entities as are targets of AFA-sponsored boycotts start getting wise and turn the tables on them by charging them with the likes of Racketeering, Blackmailing and Related Conspiracies?
• What percentage of the AFA's membership, let alone their mailing lists, have:
  • postal addresses in ZIP+4 codes with substantial populations of lower-income persons, or are otherwise "culturally-deprived environments" with little or no real possibility for socioeconomic empowerment?
  • e-mail addresses with free online e-mail services (e.g., MSN Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Excite and Mail.com) as can be accessed through public Internet termini such as are found @ libraries and community centres absent affordable Internet access among the Lower Classes?
  • limited or no realistically marketable job and/or life skills, essentially limiting such to an increasingly limited and limiting number of unskilled, labour-intensive positions?
  • limited and limiting consumer purchasing power, complicated by marginal or nonexistant credit histories?
  • histories of alcoholism, drug dependency, dysfunctional upbringing (including abuse and maltreatment), "broken home" scenarios, mental and/or emotional disorders and unstable employment histories?

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IN WHAT COULD BE AN EXAMPLE WHICH WE "MORALLY SUPERIOR" AMERICANS WILL WANT TO EMULATE COME INDECISION 2008, the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) has announced that longtime dictator Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party has lost significant and measurable numbers of Parliamentary seats in Saturday's elections to Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

More specifically, of 207 contested seats, the vast majority announced to the moment I write this (106, including one independent) went to opposition parties cf. the 94 won by ZANU-PF candidates. And as if that weren't enough, since neither Mugabe nor Tsvangirai won a clear majority of votes (50.1% of ballots cast), whispers in certain circles have it that a special runoff election for the presidential seat may have to be called within measurable distance.

Equally noteworthy is the likelihood of goon squads comprised of troops loyal to Mugabe and/or ZANU-PF spontaneously provoking tolchocking and rozzrezzing and other examples of the old ultraviolence against an otherwise innocent populace if the final results confirm essentially as above, in turn prompting calls with the United Nations for an international peacekeeping mission to prevent further disorder and ensure a peaceful transfer of power in Harare.

All it takes is just one false step.

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AND TELL ME THIS ISN'T QUITE DOUBLETHINK IN A MOST HILARIOUS DEGREE: Russia is airlifting humanitarian supplies to Serbia for distribution (via the Serbian Red Cross) to Kosavar Serbs in a series of three airlifts between Moscow and Belgrade.

Said supplies include canned meats, baby food, powdered milk and bread.

After all, Russia is as dissed as Serbia over Kosovo's recent Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI), still insisting that Kosovo is only a province within Greater Serbia and, hence, subject to the control of Belgrade.

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THE PRICE OF OUR HARD-WIRED AIR-MINDEDNESS IN AN OTHERWISE "MORALLY SUPERIOR" SOCIETY: Over recent days, the likes of such airlines as Southwest, American, Delta and United have had to suspend flights by the score because of safety inspections on their fleets as forced reduced capacity numbers across the board.

As if that weren't enough, Hawaiian inter-island air carrier Aloha Airlines would up operations yesterday after 61 years, citing Unfair Competition from upstart go airlines and high jet fuel prices.

And, blaming high jet fuel prices, Delta announced surcharges of:

• $25 for buying tickets over the telephone (officially excused as being one to encourage online bookings);
• $100 for allowing unaccompanied minors to travel on Delta flights;
• $100 for checking oversized baggage; and
• $150 for checking pets.

Meanwhile, the Air Force is looking to develop a jet engine as would use coal-derived jet fuel (yeah, right--but then again, airport tarmacs are going to start smelling rather awful, what with coal-derived fuels generally having telltale odours).

No wonder we've become too complacent in our air-mindedness, and then some.... 

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ALTERNET RECENTLY REVEALED AN UNLIKELY, AND @ ONCE SINISTER, BYPRODUCT OF HIS FRAUDULENCY'S UR-RAHOWA IN IRAQ that he and His Great Within would rather you not know about--but is evident when you read on (hence, the following is not for the squeamish):

George Bush has been tied to a prostitution ring involving as many as 50,000 women and girls. The prostitutes, some as young as 13, are among the 1.2 million desperate Iraqis who fled to Syria after Bush's invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to the U.K. Independent.

Bush's invasion destroyed the Iraqi government and unleashed a wave of political and sectarian violence that has killed over 1 million Iraqis and forced 4 million to become refugees, according to the UN.

Facing starvation, as many as 50,000 women and girls have been forced into prostitution in Syria alone, according to Hana Ibrahim of the Women's Will Association.

"70 percent to 80 percent of the girls working this business in Damascus today are Iraqis," 23-year-old Abeer told the New York Times. "The rents here in Syria are too expensive for their families. If they go back to Iraq they'll be slaughtered, and this is the only work available."

According to the Times, "inexpensive Iraqi prostitutes have helped to make Syria a popular destination for sex tourists from wealthier countries in the Middle East. In the club's parking lot, nearly half of the cars had Saudi license plates."

Driving women and girls into prostitution violates numerous human rights agreements, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children. George Bush himself denounced sex trafficking at the United Nations in 2003.

Bush's invasion of a country that posed no threat to the U.S. was illegal under both U.S. and international law, according to legal experts. Bush has been convicted of war crimes by citizen tribunals around the world, including New York, Paris, Tokyo, and Istanbul. Just last week, the towns of Brattleboro and Marlboro, Vermont voted to indict and arrest Bush and Cheney.

In 2002 and 2003, Bush led a propaganda campaign to defraud Congress, the American people, and key allies into believing Iraq was a threat. Bush claimed Iraq had stockpiles of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons to use against the U.S., and was sharing them with Al Qaeda.

Speaking near Rochester, NY, Bush later admitted, "See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."

According to a recent study by the Center for Public Integrity, top Bush Administration officials told at least 935 lies about Iraq on 532 separate occasions. These included 259 lies by Bush, 254 lies by Secretary of State Colin Powell, 109 lies by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, 109 lies by Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, 56 lies by National Security Advisor Condi Rice, and 48 lies by Vice President Cheney.

The lies about Iraqi WMD's were manufactured by the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), which included the most senior White House staff: White House Chief of Staff Andy Card, Condi Rice, Stephen Hadley, Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin, Jim Wilkinson, Nick Calio, Michael Gerson, and Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby.

After the invasion, 1,400 experts in the Iraq Survey Group scoured Iraq for WMD's but found none. Charles Duelfer wrote the ISG's final report in September 2004 and concluded Iraq ended its WMD program in 1991.

This publicly confirmed what the CIA had privately known since 1995, when Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, Gen. Hussein Kamel, defected to Jordan and told the CIA he had personally overseen the complete destruction of Iraq's WMD after 1991 Gulf War.

In May 2005, the Times of London published the "Downing Street Memo " which revealed Bush's pre-war intelligence was a deliberate fraud, according to Sir Richard Dearlove, head of Britain's MI6 spy agency, who met with George Tenet in July 2002. "The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" of invading Iraq, Dearlove told a secret meeting of Tony Blair's war cabinet on July 23, 2002, eight months before Bush invaded Iraq.

This publication of the "Downing Street Memo" led to widespread calls for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. John Conyers and other Democrats held preliminary impeachment hearings in the basement of the Capitol on June 16, 2005. In 2006, Conyers published his explosive findings in "George W. Bush Versus the U.S. Constitution: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, Coverups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying."

In 2007, Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced three Articles of Impeachment against Dick Cheney for his role in the Iraq War lies. Kucinich's bill, H.Res. 333, has 26 co-sponsors.

The bill was debated on the House floor last November the House voted 251-162 to refer it to the Judiciary Committee for further action, rather than kill the bill. (The bill was renamed to H.Res. 799.)

Last December, Rep. Robert Wexler and two other members of the House Judiciary Committee urged Conyers to begin hearings on the impeachment of Vice President Cheney. Wexler posted an online petition and collected over 230,000 signatures.

Rep. Kucinich ran for President in 2007 and his calls for impeachment were enthusiastically received by voters. Last week, Kucinich fended off a primary challenge in his Congressional district and is expected to introduce the first Articles of Impeachment against George Bush.

The latest polls by Newsweek and AP-Ipsos put Bush's approval rating at 30%, a record low. His disapproval rating is over 60%, a record high, and suggests more Americans now favor Bush's impeachment than in earlier polls which showed strong support for impeachment.

So what sort of defence will His Fraudulency resort to in explaining why so many Iraqi women and girls made homeless by his ur-RAHOWA and ensuing misadventures wound up in Mrs. Warren's Profession, let alone Fox Prolefeed (if ever they heard about it)?

And how much longer will it be before the likes of young girls from "chronic and habitual" welfare families are "advised" to sell their bodies for the sake of "self-reliance" away from welfare by their family's Vocational Guidance Counsellors?