These folks are doing some major work and deserve all the support we can give them. They are working on many of the main cases for Impeachment
CCR: "Attorneys Who Represent Victims of Torture and 'Rendition' Say Amnesty International Report Adds to Evidence of Bush Administration's Systemic Use of Torture
The following is a statement from Bill Goodman, CCR Legal Director:
These new disclosures again demonstrate our contention that the U.S. government is systematically outsourcing torture. The flight records reveal a disturbing pattern of secret human rights abuse around the world, from the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay to Djibouti. It is shameful that the Bush Administration has used the CIA and private aircraft operators to send people abroad for torture, and now that these practices have been exposed, the Administration and these companies must be held accountable. Congress overwhelmingly voted to ban torture and the American people do not want torture practiced in their name; not on our soil, and not hidden in another country.
"Below the radar: Secret flights to torture and 'disappearance'" is available at Amnesty International's website. Information about CCR's cases, including legal challenges to outsourcing torture, is available on CCR's website.
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Are the Dems beginning to strut their stuff?
I will believe it when I see it.
Daily Kos: TIME: "For once, the Democrats are getting their act together":
"On Capitol Hill last week, it was almost as if the two parties had decided to switch roles. At a press briefing, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer was declaring, 'Republicans don't have an agenda,' a critique Republicans usually hurl at Democrats. The next day Hoyer and other Democrats from the Senate and House, along with state governors, got together to announce the party's unified plan for improving America's national security.
Meanwhile, Republicans were looking in disarray -- even before the announcement this week that Tom DeLay would give up his House seat. [...]
The conventional wisdom in Washington in recent years has been that Republicans are more unified and disciplined and have better-articulated ideas than Democrats, who are often at war with one another and questioning their leadership. But lately the Democrats, looking to create a campaign platform for 2006, have put out some ideas that their famously fractured party largely agrees on. "
Daily Kos: TIME: "For once, the Democrats are getting their act together":
"On Capitol Hill last week, it was almost as if the two parties had decided to switch roles. At a press briefing, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer was declaring, 'Republicans don't have an agenda,' a critique Republicans usually hurl at Democrats. The next day Hoyer and other Democrats from the Senate and House, along with state governors, got together to announce the party's unified plan for improving America's national security.
Meanwhile, Republicans were looking in disarray -- even before the announcement this week that Tom DeLay would give up his House seat. [...]
The conventional wisdom in Washington in recent years has been that Republicans are more unified and disciplined and have better-articulated ideas than Democrats, who are often at war with one another and questioning their leadership. But lately the Democrats, looking to create a campaign platform for 2006, have put out some ideas that their famously fractured party largely agrees on. "
A "Humbled" News Media?
Consortiumnews.com:
Tucked inside an article about George W. Bush's disastrous Iraq War and his continuing failure to catch Osama bin-Laden, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen offered a limited criticism of himself and his media colleagues who have acted as pro-Bush cheerleaders for much of the past four-plus years.
Those of us who once advocated this war [in Iraq] are humbled, Cohen wrote in a column on April 4. It's not just that we grossly underestimated the enemy. We vastly overestimated the Bush administration.
Not shit, Sherlock! But you did underestimate the Bushites ability to lie, again and again, with a straight face about everything from 9/11 to torture.
It will be a long time before the MSM and press wins back the trust of the American people. if ever.
Tucked inside an article about George W. Bush's disastrous Iraq War and his continuing failure to catch Osama bin-Laden, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen offered a limited criticism of himself and his media colleagues who have acted as pro-Bush cheerleaders for much of the past four-plus years.
Those of us who once advocated this war [in Iraq] are humbled, Cohen wrote in a column on April 4. It's not just that we grossly underestimated the enemy. We vastly overestimated the Bush administration.
Not shit, Sherlock! But you did underestimate the Bushites ability to lie, again and again, with a straight face about everything from 9/11 to torture.
It will be a long time before the MSM and press wins back the trust of the American people. if ever.
Delay is going down, and that's that!
Signs point to federal investigators zeroing in on DeLay:
"The former House majority leader announced his resignation three days after court documents revealed that federal investigators have uncovered evidence of corruption in his leadership office. Tony Rudy, former deputy chief of staff to the powerful Republican congressman from Texas, admitted in a plea agreement that he sold his influence to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff while he was working for DeLay.
Rudy became the second former DeLay aide who's agreed to cooperate with federal investigators in return for a more lenient sentence.
'Any rational person in his (DeLay's) position would be very concerned,' said Kendall Coffey, a former federal prosecutor who's now a prominent defense lawyer in Miami. 'Whether it's working up the ladder at Enron or a drug organization, it's classic strategy to work up by getting plea agreements and cooperation at each level.'
DeLay, who's under indictment in Texas in a separate case involving his handling of campaign contributions, hasn't been accused of any wrongdoing in the Abramoff influence-peddling scandal. The congressman says he was unaware of any illegal activity by Rudy or his former press secretary Michael Scanlon.
Scanlon and Abramoff also are cooperating with prosecutors as part of a plea bargain.
DeLay said his decision to step down had nothing to do with Rudy's plea bargain or any concerns about the criminal investigation.
'I have not been subpoenaed, I have not been talked to,' he told National Public Radio. 'I know you, the press, has a hard time believing it, but the truth is I am not a target of this investigation. Abramoff has nothing to do with me.'
Even so, legal experts said DeLay should be worried that federal prosecutors seemed to have him in their sights"
Delay can grin and lie all he wishes, but these ex-aides are not giving evidence on Rove! They don't have evidence on anyone but Delay. Tom is toast.
"The former House majority leader announced his resignation three days after court documents revealed that federal investigators have uncovered evidence of corruption in his leadership office. Tony Rudy, former deputy chief of staff to the powerful Republican congressman from Texas, admitted in a plea agreement that he sold his influence to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff while he was working for DeLay.
Rudy became the second former DeLay aide who's agreed to cooperate with federal investigators in return for a more lenient sentence.
'Any rational person in his (DeLay's) position would be very concerned,' said Kendall Coffey, a former federal prosecutor who's now a prominent defense lawyer in Miami. 'Whether it's working up the ladder at Enron or a drug organization, it's classic strategy to work up by getting plea agreements and cooperation at each level.'
DeLay, who's under indictment in Texas in a separate case involving his handling of campaign contributions, hasn't been accused of any wrongdoing in the Abramoff influence-peddling scandal. The congressman says he was unaware of any illegal activity by Rudy or his former press secretary Michael Scanlon.
Scanlon and Abramoff also are cooperating with prosecutors as part of a plea bargain.
DeLay said his decision to step down had nothing to do with Rudy's plea bargain or any concerns about the criminal investigation.
'I have not been subpoenaed, I have not been talked to,' he told National Public Radio. 'I know you, the press, has a hard time believing it, but the truth is I am not a target of this investigation. Abramoff has nothing to do with me.'
Even so, legal experts said DeLay should be worried that federal prosecutors seemed to have him in their sights"
Delay can grin and lie all he wishes, but these ex-aides are not giving evidence on Rove! They don't have evidence on anyone but Delay. Tom is toast.
Iraq's Neighbors Planning For Civil War in Iraq
AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth:
The four diplomats said intelligence chiefs from Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and non-Arab Turkey held a series of meetings over the past few weeks to assess the situation in Iraq and work out plans to avoid any regional backlash that may result from sectarian conflict in Iraq.
Arab nations, mostly Sunni and traditionally suspicious of Iran, are deeply concerned about what they see as Iran's growing influence in Iraq. Turkey, also a key Sunni Muslim nation, is worried about Iraq's split into sectarian and ethnic entities that will give rise to Kurdish ambitions for independence."
The four diplomats said intelligence chiefs from Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and non-Arab Turkey held a series of meetings over the past few weeks to assess the situation in Iraq and work out plans to avoid any regional backlash that may result from sectarian conflict in Iraq.
Arab nations, mostly Sunni and traditionally suspicious of Iran, are deeply concerned about what they see as Iran's growing influence in Iraq. Turkey, also a key Sunni Muslim nation, is worried about Iraq's split into sectarian and ethnic entities that will give rise to Kurdish ambitions for independence."
VANITY FAIR Savages Bush's Scottie
VANITY FAIR : FEATURES : GENERAL: "Now that the daily White House briefings are instantly available online, Press Secretary Scott McClellan's mangled sentences, flat-footed evasions, and genial befuddlement have made him the butt of a thousand blogs, as well as of an increasingly savage press corps. Is he a victim, a pawn, or a P.R. disaster?
By MICHAEL WOLFF"
Definitely a funny read
By MICHAEL WOLFF"
Definitely a funny read
Delay the Martyr; I may barf
The Blog Robert Scheer: DeLay's Absurd Religious Posturing The Huffington Post:
"Blame it on the vast anti-Christian conspiracy. That was the explanation offered by U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas and his supporters last week for the whirlpool of legal difficulties that finally led the ex-leader of the Republicans in Congress to admit it was time to call it quits.
The convener of a 'War on Christians' conference held in the nation's capital outrageously depicted the former House majority leader's political plight as the unwarranted crucifixion of a Christ-like leader by God-haters."
The Left, whoever that is, is out to get good old Christian Tom. All these damn prosecutors (prosecutors are known to be godless communists, don't you know) are just trying to get rid of Tom because he is a saint of some kind. He lives his values, or so say the crusading crackpots who fawn all over him.
Does that mean lust for power and corruption are christian values? Just wondering
"Blame it on the vast anti-Christian conspiracy. That was the explanation offered by U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas and his supporters last week for the whirlpool of legal difficulties that finally led the ex-leader of the Republicans in Congress to admit it was time to call it quits.
The convener of a 'War on Christians' conference held in the nation's capital outrageously depicted the former House majority leader's political plight as the unwarranted crucifixion of a Christ-like leader by God-haters."
The Left, whoever that is, is out to get good old Christian Tom. All these damn prosecutors (prosecutors are known to be godless communists, don't you know) are just trying to get rid of Tom because he is a saint of some kind. He lives his values, or so say the crusading crackpots who fawn all over him.
Does that mean lust for power and corruption are christian values? Just wondering
Cheney did 9/11?
Former Head Of Star Wars Program Says Cheney Main 9/11 Suspect: Full article
"The former head of the Star Wars missile defense program under Presidents Ford and Carter has gone public to say that the official version of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory and his main suspect for the architect of the attack is Vice President Dick Cheney.
Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret. flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the recipient of the Eisenhower Medal, the George F. Kennan Peace Prize, the President�s Medal of Veterans for Peace, the Society of Military Engineers Gold Medal (twice), six Air Medals, and dozens of other awards and honors. His Ph.D. is in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from Caltech. He chaired 8 major international conferences, and is one of the country's foremost experts on National Security.
Bowman worked secretly for the US government on the Star Wars project and was the first to coin the very term in a 1977 secret memo. After Bowman realized that the program was only ever intended to be used as an aggressive and not defensive tool, as part of a plan to initiate a nuclear war with the Soviets, he left the program and campaigned against it.
In an interview with The Alex Jones Show aired nationally on the GCN Radio Network, Bowman (pictured below) stated that at the bare minimum if Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda were involved in 9/11 then the government stood down and allowed the attacks to happen. He said it is plausible that the entire chain of military command were unaware of what was taking place "
"The former head of the Star Wars missile defense program under Presidents Ford and Carter has gone public to say that the official version of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory and his main suspect for the architect of the attack is Vice President Dick Cheney.
Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret. flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the recipient of the Eisenhower Medal, the George F. Kennan Peace Prize, the President�s Medal of Veterans for Peace, the Society of Military Engineers Gold Medal (twice), six Air Medals, and dozens of other awards and honors. His Ph.D. is in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from Caltech. He chaired 8 major international conferences, and is one of the country's foremost experts on National Security.
Bowman worked secretly for the US government on the Star Wars project and was the first to coin the very term in a 1977 secret memo. After Bowman realized that the program was only ever intended to be used as an aggressive and not defensive tool, as part of a plan to initiate a nuclear war with the Soviets, he left the program and campaigned against it.
In an interview with The Alex Jones Show aired nationally on the GCN Radio Network, Bowman (pictured below) stated that at the bare minimum if Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda were involved in 9/11 then the government stood down and allowed the attacks to happen. He said it is plausible that the entire chain of military command were unaware of what was taking place "
Our ADHD Democracy
As we have pointed out for years now, the dumbing down of America has been stunningly successful.
Citizens of other natoions know more about our government officials than w3e do and that is disgraceful!
If the citizens of this country care no more about their nation than this, we get what we deserve.
Fascism posing as Democracy!
American Democracy Indicted by Anthony Gregory: Full Artcile
If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.
"So says a popular bumper sticker. Indeed, those of us who have been paying attention to the political scene for years have often found ourselves outraged. The president's approval rating has gone up and down, but throughout his five years in office never has public outrage been quite commensurate with the levels of incompetence, deception, and criminality coming from Washington. The same was true under Clinton. People are simply not paying attention.
There are few writers who pay more attention to the political follies of our time and who provide their readers with more meticulously documented reasons to be outraged than James Bovard, whose new book, Attention Deficit Democracy, presents his diagnosis of what is so terribly wrong with modern American democracy.
Whether we see it as a fundamental ailment or mere symptom, the American people are largely ignorant of political reality; deeply ignorant. This has been true for some time, and Bovard cites numerous polls from the last several election cycles that all indicate a staggering lack of simple understanding.
In 2000, the University of Michigan conducted a comprehensive survey of Americans "political knowledge" and discovered that "only 15 percent knew the name of any candidate for the House of Representatives from their congressional district; only 11 percent could identify William Rehnquist as the chief justice of the Supreme Court, and only 9 percent knew that Trent Lott was the Senate majority leader.' "
Citizens of other natoions know more about our government officials than w3e do and that is disgraceful!
If the citizens of this country care no more about their nation than this, we get what we deserve.
Fascism posing as Democracy!
American Democracy Indicted by Anthony Gregory: Full Artcile
If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.
"So says a popular bumper sticker. Indeed, those of us who have been paying attention to the political scene for years have often found ourselves outraged. The president's approval rating has gone up and down, but throughout his five years in office never has public outrage been quite commensurate with the levels of incompetence, deception, and criminality coming from Washington. The same was true under Clinton. People are simply not paying attention.
There are few writers who pay more attention to the political follies of our time and who provide their readers with more meticulously documented reasons to be outraged than James Bovard, whose new book, Attention Deficit Democracy, presents his diagnosis of what is so terribly wrong with modern American democracy.
Whether we see it as a fundamental ailment or mere symptom, the American people are largely ignorant of political reality; deeply ignorant. This has been true for some time, and Bovard cites numerous polls from the last several election cycles that all indicate a staggering lack of simple understanding.
In 2000, the University of Michigan conducted a comprehensive survey of Americans "political knowledge" and discovered that "only 15 percent knew the name of any candidate for the House of Representatives from their congressional district; only 11 percent could identify William Rehnquist as the chief justice of the Supreme Court, and only 9 percent knew that Trent Lott was the Senate majority leader.' "
Kerry on Bush's Mes-O-Potamia
Two Deadlines and an Exit - New York Times:
"So far, Iraqi leaders have responded only to deadlines; a deadline to transfer authority to a provisional government, and a deadline to hold three elections.
Now we must set another deadline to extricate our troops and get Iraq up on its own two feet.
Iraqi politicians should be told that they have until May 15 to put together an effective unity government or we will immediately withdraw our military. If Iraqis aren't willing to build a unity government in the five months since the election, they're probably not willing to build one at all. The civil war will only get worse, and we will have no choice anyway but to leave.
If Iraq's leaders succeed in putting together a government, then we must agree on another deadline: a schedule for withdrawing American combat forces by year's end. Doing so will empower the new Iraqi leadership, put Iraqis in the position of running their own country and undermine support for the insurgency, which is fueled in large measure by the majority of Iraqis who want us to leave their country. Only troops essential to finishing the job of training Iraqi forces should remain. "
"So far, Iraqi leaders have responded only to deadlines; a deadline to transfer authority to a provisional government, and a deadline to hold three elections.
Now we must set another deadline to extricate our troops and get Iraq up on its own two feet.
Iraqi politicians should be told that they have until May 15 to put together an effective unity government or we will immediately withdraw our military. If Iraqis aren't willing to build a unity government in the five months since the election, they're probably not willing to build one at all. The civil war will only get worse, and we will have no choice anyway but to leave.
If Iraq's leaders succeed in putting together a government, then we must agree on another deadline: a schedule for withdrawing American combat forces by year's end. Doing so will empower the new Iraqi leadership, put Iraqis in the position of running their own country and undermine support for the insurgency, which is fueled in large measure by the majority of Iraqis who want us to leave their country. Only troops essential to finishing the job of training Iraqi forces should remain. "
Oh yeah;latest MSM Memo Focus and Plame
American Prospect Online - The Plame Game: "What Murray Waas' big scoop may really tell us about Bush's pre-war deceptions.
By Greg Sargent"
By Greg Sargent"
The chaotic, useless Antiwar movement
The Art of War for the anti-war movement:
"It is high time for the anti-war movement to take a collective look in the mirror, and be honest about what they see. A poorly organized, chaotic, and indeed often anarchic conglomeration of egos, pet projects and idealism that barely constitutes a 'movement,' let alone a winning cause. I have yet to observe an anti-war demonstration that has a focus on anti-war. It often seemed that every left-wing cause took advantage of the event to promote its own particular agenda, so that 'No War in Iraq' shared the stage with the environment, ecology, animal rights, pro-choice, and numerous other causes which not only diluted the anti-war message which was supposed to be sent, but also guaranteed that the demonstration itself would be seen as something hijacked by the left, inclusive of only progressive ideologues, and exclusive of the vast majority of moderate (and even conservative) Americans who might have wanted to share the stage with their fellow Americans from the left when it comes to opposing war with Iraq (or even Iran), but do not want to be associated with any other theme.
The anti-war movement, first and foremost, needs to develop a laser-like focus on being nothing more or less than anti-war."
"It is high time for the anti-war movement to take a collective look in the mirror, and be honest about what they see. A poorly organized, chaotic, and indeed often anarchic conglomeration of egos, pet projects and idealism that barely constitutes a 'movement,' let alone a winning cause. I have yet to observe an anti-war demonstration that has a focus on anti-war. It often seemed that every left-wing cause took advantage of the event to promote its own particular agenda, so that 'No War in Iraq' shared the stage with the environment, ecology, animal rights, pro-choice, and numerous other causes which not only diluted the anti-war message which was supposed to be sent, but also guaranteed that the demonstration itself would be seen as something hijacked by the left, inclusive of only progressive ideologues, and exclusive of the vast majority of moderate (and even conservative) Americans who might have wanted to share the stage with their fellow Americans from the left when it comes to opposing war with Iraq (or even Iran), but do not want to be associated with any other theme.
The anti-war movement, first and foremost, needs to develop a laser-like focus on being nothing more or less than anti-war."
Gods' Own Preznit hath created terrorists in the world
Boiling Mad: It's Official: Invasion of Iraq has Created Terrorists:
"This report is coming out in Britain, Official: Iraq war led to July bombings. The report of the report is as follows:
The first official recognition that the Iraq war motivated the four London suicide bombers has been made by the government in a major report into the 7 July attacks.
Despite attempts by Downing Street to play down suggestions that the conflict has made Britain a target for terrorists, the Home Office inquiry into the deadliest terror attack on British soil has conceded that the bombers were inspired by UK foreign policy, principally the decision to invade Iraq.
The findings will prove highly embarrassing to Tony Blair, who has maintained that the decision to go to war against Iraq would make Britain safer. On the third anniversary of the conflict last month, the Prime Minister defended Britain's involvement in Iraq, arguing that only an interventionist stance could confront terrorism."
This is abslolute insanity.
Of course, we have known this for years now, but it is still shocking to me; the breath-takingly twisted, ignorant thinking on the part of Blair, Bush and Howard, every time I read something about it.
Everyone learned some lesson or the other from 9/11. Too bad the Chickenhawks in the Bush administration did not learn the lessons of Vietnam.
"This report is coming out in Britain, Official: Iraq war led to July bombings. The report of the report is as follows:
The first official recognition that the Iraq war motivated the four London suicide bombers has been made by the government in a major report into the 7 July attacks.
Despite attempts by Downing Street to play down suggestions that the conflict has made Britain a target for terrorists, the Home Office inquiry into the deadliest terror attack on British soil has conceded that the bombers were inspired by UK foreign policy, principally the decision to invade Iraq.
The findings will prove highly embarrassing to Tony Blair, who has maintained that the decision to go to war against Iraq would make Britain safer. On the third anniversary of the conflict last month, the Prime Minister defended Britain's involvement in Iraq, arguing that only an interventionist stance could confront terrorism."
This is abslolute insanity.
Of course, we have known this for years now, but it is still shocking to me; the breath-takingly twisted, ignorant thinking on the part of Blair, Bush and Howard, every time I read something about it.
Everyone learned some lesson or the other from 9/11. Too bad the Chickenhawks in the Bush administration did not learn the lessons of Vietnam.
The hyper-moral Rethugs strike again
Homeland official arrested for solicitation - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
We will all be waiting, until hell freezes over, for for the American Taliban to speak out on this outrage.
Hypocritical scumbags!
We will all be waiting, until hell freezes over, for for the American Taliban to speak out on this outrage.
Hypocritical scumbags!
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
"How much more evidence Do we need?"
How can there be any doubt in anyone's mind at this juncture, that Bush and company have led to the people again and again, not only about the excuses for the invasion of Iraq, but lied in every speech they gave about the build up to war?
They not only lied to the people but to Congress (not to mention theU.N. Security Council and the people of the world).
This is subversion of our Democratic Republic.
We cannot have Democracy and Deception. How can the people or their elected representatives make informed decisions when they are misinformed and disinformed constantly?
How can we possibly spread Democracy, if ours is so entirely failed? Why would anyone other nation's people want what we have?
The image of Democracy is worse than no Democracy at all! It is worse, because it makes our collective lives a lie.
Read On
TomPaine.com - Bush's Paper Trail Grows
They not only lied to the people but to Congress (not to mention theU.N. Security Council and the people of the world).
This is subversion of our Democratic Republic.
We cannot have Democracy and Deception. How can the people or their elected representatives make informed decisions when they are misinformed and disinformed constantly?
How can we possibly spread Democracy, if ours is so entirely failed? Why would anyone other nation's people want what we have?
The image of Democracy is worse than no Democracy at all! It is worse, because it makes our collective lives a lie.
Read On
TomPaine.com - Bush's Paper Trail Grows
Thought this might happen; Damn
Can we get a FISA ruling on this too?
Who can the Pentagon declare war on? Bloggers? On-line news sites? Ordinary citizens of any country?
How far can they go?
We had better be pushing Congress for a statue of some kind. (of Course, Bush won't have any compuctions about ignoring the law, but he can, at least, be held accountable, at some point, hopefully)
America's war on the web - [Sunday Herald]
Who can the Pentagon declare war on? Bloggers? On-line news sites? Ordinary citizens of any country?
How far can they go?
We had better be pushing Congress for a statue of some kind. (of Course, Bush won't have any compuctions about ignoring the law, but he can, at least, be held accountable, at some point, hopefully)
America's war on the web - [Sunday Herald]
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Does anyone have a clue anymore?
Do you know what is real?
Think about it for a moment.......
This administration has been caught paying journalists to write stories favorable to its incredibly stupid policies. We now know that they were leaking like madmen, to easily manipulated journalists, classified information. They were clearly putting electoral politics above national security.
The Pentagon has been caught in another payola scam in Iraq.
Let's face it; nothing we have been told is true!
How does that make you feel, guys and gals?
We used to have a saying back in the day, when there were demonstrations, protests, whatever: "The whole world is watching," we used to chant.
Well, now, the whole world is watching, still. Now, probably, more so than ever, the world watches.
The whole world is also laughing!
....and the truth shall set you free.
Think about it for a moment.......
This administration has been caught paying journalists to write stories favorable to its incredibly stupid policies. We now know that they were leaking like madmen, to easily manipulated journalists, classified information. They were clearly putting electoral politics above national security.
The Pentagon has been caught in another payola scam in Iraq.
Let's face it; nothing we have been told is true!
How does that make you feel, guys and gals?
We used to have a saying back in the day, when there were demonstrations, protests, whatever: "The whole world is watching," we used to chant.
Well, now, the whole world is watching, still. Now, probably, more so than ever, the world watches.
The whole world is also laughing!
....and the truth shall set you free.
In Case you missed it....
Niles Latham, of Harper's magazine has called for the impeachment of Bush.
This is a big deal, methinks, as this is the first major publication that has seen fit to do so.
He makes the almost exact same argument that we have been making for months, maybe years.
There is a link to the article at Buzzflash.com
Our argument is simple and can be succintly put: It is our duty as a people, who have known freedom all our lives, to demand accountability of our leaders, because we elect them and pay them. We are their bosses, when the elections aren't tampered with, or decided by a 5 to 4 vote by the Supremes.
Demand accountability!
You not only have the right, but the responsibility to do so.
....and the truth shall set you free.
This is a big deal, methinks, as this is the first major publication that has seen fit to do so.
He makes the almost exact same argument that we have been making for months, maybe years.
There is a link to the article at Buzzflash.com
Our argument is simple and can be succintly put: It is our duty as a people, who have known freedom all our lives, to demand accountability of our leaders, because we elect them and pay them. We are their bosses, when the elections aren't tampered with, or decided by a 5 to 4 vote by the Supremes.
Demand accountability!
You not only have the right, but the responsibility to do so.
....and the truth shall set you free.
Junior and the Dick have some really bad poll numbers
The latest CBS poll has Junior at ony 34% approval, his lowest yet; Quick-draw Cheney has an approval rating of 18%.
How the hell did these guys ever get re-elected?
Oh, right, they didn't, did they?
Nevertheless, the polls show that Americans no longer trust Bush and Cheney in matters of foreign policy and national security. The amazing thing is that anyone ever did trust them, after 9/11 and all of the ridiculousness that followed in the immediate aftermath.
Osama is still free as a bird. Are you?
Mullah Omar is god knows where, and BushCo could not care less, apparently, but they seem awfully interested in what ordinary American might be saying or emailing. The Pentagon is spying on the Quakers and other groups whose menmbers are sworn to non-violence, unlike them. I mean, how much more riciculous does it have to get, people?
Saddam is being subjected to a circus of a trial in Iraq, right in the middle of a war zone, when he should be at the Hague, where all other big- time, global criminals go, if and when they are captured alive.
The Anthrax killer is still on the loose, we have to assume, since Ashcroft's attempted rail-roading of the one scientist was an obvious charade. What we do know should give us all pause. The particular strain of Anthrax came from our own lab, in Maryland. The Anthrax-laced missives were sent to Democrats, exclusively, even though they had not been in the majority since 1994. HUMmmmm. Kinda makes one wonder, does it not?
It is time for accountability!
....and the truth shall set you free.
How the hell did these guys ever get re-elected?
Oh, right, they didn't, did they?
Nevertheless, the polls show that Americans no longer trust Bush and Cheney in matters of foreign policy and national security. The amazing thing is that anyone ever did trust them, after 9/11 and all of the ridiculousness that followed in the immediate aftermath.
Osama is still free as a bird. Are you?
Mullah Omar is god knows where, and BushCo could not care less, apparently, but they seem awfully interested in what ordinary American might be saying or emailing. The Pentagon is spying on the Quakers and other groups whose menmbers are sworn to non-violence, unlike them. I mean, how much more riciculous does it have to get, people?
Saddam is being subjected to a circus of a trial in Iraq, right in the middle of a war zone, when he should be at the Hague, where all other big- time, global criminals go, if and when they are captured alive.
The Anthrax killer is still on the loose, we have to assume, since Ashcroft's attempted rail-roading of the one scientist was an obvious charade. What we do know should give us all pause. The particular strain of Anthrax came from our own lab, in Maryland. The Anthrax-laced missives were sent to Democrats, exclusively, even though they had not been in the majority since 1994. HUMmmmm. Kinda makes one wonder, does it not?
It is time for accountability!
....and the truth shall set you free.
These are the Times that try the human soul
How did it all come to this?
How, in the name of all that is sacred, did we allow it to come to this?
Who are we, Americans, anyway?
How low can we go before the masses awaken to the horror all around us; nightmares of our own making?
How long before we realize that there really can be no nationalism in this world of globalization? National pride is an illusion. Stop waving flags that are meaningless, and have been for some time.
There are no governments of the people, by the people and for the people anymore. Only governments of, by and for the corporate, money-sucking whores of Babylon, now exist. What is good for G.M.is no longer good for America, because America consists of its people, distressed and dispossed though they may be, at the moment.
Let's get real here, please!
Will this end in fascism or bloodshed in the streets of America? Is there any way this can come to a peaceful conclusion? If so, how?
The only legal tools available to us are impeachment and trial by the Senate. At least, those are the only ones I can think of.
Let us make a pledge, right here an now, that this horror of an administration will be the end of the GOP, unless they step up to the plate and put their country before their party.
I am not talking about what they say, but what they do. That is now the issue. No more whitewashes, no more BSing about this or that.
Hear ye, Hear ye, GOP, and Democratic politicians who are just Republican Lite:
It is time to say what you mean and mean what you say; further, I do not give a damn what you say, if you are not willing to act on what you say.
If our elected leaders cannot preserve our Constitutional Democracy, then the people must.
As the old saying goes, about what every parent has said, at one time or another, to kids who are misbehaving: Don't make us have to come up there!
Because if you do not do your god-danmned jobs, we will have to come up there and demand, in the strongest terms, that you do, and if we have to do that, there will be hell to pay. Count on it!
....and the truth shall set you free.
How, in the name of all that is sacred, did we allow it to come to this?
Who are we, Americans, anyway?
How low can we go before the masses awaken to the horror all around us; nightmares of our own making?
How long before we realize that there really can be no nationalism in this world of globalization? National pride is an illusion. Stop waving flags that are meaningless, and have been for some time.
There are no governments of the people, by the people and for the people anymore. Only governments of, by and for the corporate, money-sucking whores of Babylon, now exist. What is good for G.M.is no longer good for America, because America consists of its people, distressed and dispossed though they may be, at the moment.
Let's get real here, please!
Will this end in fascism or bloodshed in the streets of America? Is there any way this can come to a peaceful conclusion? If so, how?
The only legal tools available to us are impeachment and trial by the Senate. At least, those are the only ones I can think of.
Let us make a pledge, right here an now, that this horror of an administration will be the end of the GOP, unless they step up to the plate and put their country before their party.
I am not talking about what they say, but what they do. That is now the issue. No more whitewashes, no more BSing about this or that.
Hear ye, Hear ye, GOP, and Democratic politicians who are just Republican Lite:
It is time to say what you mean and mean what you say; further, I do not give a damn what you say, if you are not willing to act on what you say.
If our elected leaders cannot preserve our Constitutional Democracy, then the people must.
As the old saying goes, about what every parent has said, at one time or another, to kids who are misbehaving: Don't make us have to come up there!
Because if you do not do your god-danmned jobs, we will have to come up there and demand, in the strongest terms, that you do, and if we have to do that, there will be hell to pay. Count on it!
....and the truth shall set you free.
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