What a Country

Shoppers ignored woman dying of stab wound
The Associated Press

WICHITA | Stabbing victim LaShanda Calloway lay dying on the floor of a Wichita convenience store.

Instead of dialing 911, five shoppers stepped over Calloway to carry out purchases — and at least one used a cell phone to take pictures of the stabbing victim.

"GOP candidates who support the Libby iPardon are soft on crime and national security."

Soft on crime and national security? I have to go a little harder on them than that. Those that support the Libby pardon are just as guilty of treason to the United States as Libby and the Bush Administration. 

The national day to get drunk and then play with explosives. What a country!

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Happy Independence Day

It's funny how Bush, who had no sense of nuance now splits legal hairs over what to call his pardon of Libby. And all his talking-head minions fall into lockstep behind him.

But, but.....do you really think that a highly respected, dedicated public servant who has devoted most of his life to serving the nation, should serve two and one-half years in prison for telling a little white lie to protect the vice-president of the United States?

No more so than a dedicated 'Man of God', a Catholic priest, should be punished just for taking advantage of children in his trust and sticking his little, shrunken weenie up their behinds and in their mouths.

No more so than a devoted republican politician who always serves the best interests of his constituents should be punished for accepting bribes to betray those interests, or using his public-trust-given power to threaten and seduce underage schoolkids who have attempted to devote part of their young lives to learning about public service.

No more so than a totally demented, completely destructive of our constitutional priveleges, megalomaniacal crazy-christian-fundamentalist, evangelical-born-again-boob, who, with the aid of a despotic foreign nation and it's neocon-zionist extremist terrorists, and the help of a corporate oligarchy devoted to stealing, bribing, amassing of unearned and undeserved personal wealth, managed to steal an election and have the results of another overridden, thus becoming appointed 'president', should be IMPEACHED.

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I can't tell you how enraged I was when I saw Sicko and saw Bush chucking while he was signing the new Medicare bill. He can barely contain his contempt for democracy. I have a clip of Milton Friedman from the movie "The Corporation" (Moore has a cameo interview in this, highly recommended) in which he states that he does not believe in democracy, he believes in "freedom". I think for conservatives, I think this is freeDUMB, the right for powerful private interests to keep the american people stupid.

re: A Tiny Revolution. Those British Muslims are absolutely right. I have reached the point I can't stand American terrorism, and I am a "wasp-y" Canadian, one of your allies. Bush's forces are killing their families and laying waste to their country. What would you think if your neighbourhood went up in smoke, and half your family/neighbours were dead?????.