The Lies They Tell...

...and post online. The Bush administration has reportedly altered lists of Iraq War allies on the White House website:

But historians researching those early alliance-building efforts say they are troubled by what seem to be deletions of and alterations to the early official lists of nations that supported the war effort. The lists were posted on the White House Web site.

While administration officials acknowledged that the number of nations supporting the war changed over time, academic researchers say three official lists appear to have been changed, yet retained their original release date, making them appear to be unaltered originals.

Two other White House lists appear to have been taken off the Web site, according to a study of the documents by Scott L. Althaus and Kalev H. Leetaru of the Cline Center for Democracy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

These bastards can't leave quickly enough.

The Palin Who Cried Wolf

Remember what I said about Sarah Palin being a broken record?  The madness is continuing.  The woman either doesn't know that everyone is catching on about her "bridge to nowhere" bullshit, or doesn't care that everyone is catching on about her "bridge to nowhere" bullshit.  Either way, it's pretty fucked up.

Once again, she's yip-yapping about her stalwart opposition to the bridge.  It's simply not true.  Today she took her act to Ohio:

"I told Congress thanks but no thanks for that 'Bridge to Nowhere' up in Alaska.  If a state wanted a bridge, we were gonna build it ourselves."

You know what's even more fucked up about this whole thing?  It's not just that she's lying, but that quote is literally the same quote that she has repeated now in at least half a dozen stops on the campaign trail.  She continues to read from the same script.

Palin has nothing else.  She cannot speak the truth, and she cannot speak without a prepared speech.

No way, no how, no McCain, and NO PALIN.

Palin Watch, Day 12

Hey, remember when She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was all like "I'm a fiscal conservative!  Vote for me!"  Well, it turns out that, once again, she's lying.

During her first 19 months as governor (of the 47th largest state out of 50), Palin billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home.  This was charged to an allowance that is supposed to cover things like meals and expenses that pile up while she is on official state business.  And let's be real here, people: there was no official "state business" occurring during those 312 nights at Palin's home in Wasilla - unless, of course, you count the conception of baby Trig and her presumed discovery that Bristol was pregnant.  Lord knows she's made them campaign business thus far.

The Lies They Tell

Halle-fucking-lujah.  Ed Rendell, among others, are finally calling out the McCain campaign for flat-out lying.

It's really kinda breathtaking.  Last week, you had Mitt Romney at the RNC lashing out at "eastern elites" with a straight face, you've got Palin parading all over the country touting her opposition to the bridge to nowhere (after she was for it; in fact, she campaigned for it) and now McCain is running an ad that blames the Democrats for the failures in Washington the last eight years.

Gee.  I'm pretty sure there's been a Republican president the past eight years, not to mention a Republican Congress for the bulk of that time.

As Barack said in his acceptance speech, it's time for them to own their failure.  And it's time for us as voters to hold these hypocrites accountable for the havoc they have wreaked upon us.

No way, no how, no McCain and no Palin.