Open Thread
From "Eyes Wide Open," a project of The American Friends Service Committee. Boots are lined up representing US soldiers killed in the Iraq war, shoes representing Iraqi civilians. A friend of mine saw this exhibit in Washington, DC and said it was as moving to her as the Vietnam Memorial. From the exhibition website:
Due to the growing number of US casualties, the Eyes Wide Open National Exhibit has become too large for the AFSC to tour. Instead, the AFSC will be splitting the exhibit into 50 state exhibits to continue the work of bringing Eyes Wide Open into smaller communities across the country. Working with AFSC offices, Quaker meetings and peace groups across the country, the Eyes Wide Open state exhibits feature the boots of the soldiers from their home states in addition to a memorial to the Iraqi civilian casualties.
Minn. Prosecutor Argues Sen. Craig Understood Plea
By Paul Kane
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Monday, September 24, 2007; 5:56 PM
Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) should not be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea to charges of disorderly conduct because he fully understood the legal process leading up to the deal, the Minnesota prosecutor who handled the case contended in legal documents filed today.
In a 41-page motion that seeks to preserve Craig's guilty plea to misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges, prosecutor Christopher P. Renz charged that Craig was upset with the political results of his plea but has no legal grounds to overturn it.
Emboldened Taliban Reflected In More Attacks, Greater Reach
U.S., Afghan Officials Disagree With Analysts' Notion of a Major Resurgence
By John Ward Anderson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, September 25, 2007; Page A11
KABUL -- Preying on a weak government and rising public concerns about security, the Taliban is enjoying a military resurgence in Afghanistan and is now staging attacks just outside the capital, according to Western diplomats, private security analysts and aid workers.
Of particular concern, private security and intelligence analysts said, is the new reach of the Taliban to the provinces ringing Kabul, headquarters for thousands of international security troops. Those troops are seeking to shore up the government of President Hamid Karzai, help stabilize the country, find Osama bin Laden and rebuild a nation deeply scarred by almost three decades of warfare. So far, they have had only mixed success.
"The Taliban ability to sustain fighting cells north and south of Kabul is an ominous development and a significant lapse in security," said a recent analysis by NightWatch, an intelligence review written by John McCreary, a former top analyst at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.
I trust you all saw this...
http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/
I might be late getting here tonight but now I am pissed.
Also saw that Hillary's campaign chairman or whatever, owns the polling company that feeds polling data to ABC and Good Morning America. Of course they won't let Dennis in, he'll kick their ass!
I saw Dennis And Elizabeth the other night in Ventura and they were awesome!
Talked with both of them, got autographs and cut them a check.
I am so in the political process now! I will never have to apologize to the future...Peace.
Kucinich/Gore '08
Send in a question to the Sept. 26th debate
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20706019/
Violent Crime Reported Up 2% in 2006
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (AP) — Violent crime rose nearly 2 percent last year, slightly more than expected, the F.B.I. reported on Monday.
The number of big-city murders also increased, by 1.8 percent, the same rate as homicides nationwide. Robberies and arson also increased in large population centers, and rapes and car thefts dropped, Federal Bureau of Investigation figures show.
The numbers confirm that the crime rate increased for the second year in a row. It had declined a bit from 2002 to 2004.
A spokesman for the Justice Department, Brian Roehrkasse, said the report was good news,adding that the rate of crimes per 100,000 people had declined to its lowest level in 30 years.
Over all, violent crime rose 1.9 percent last year, slightly higher than the 1.3 percent increase reflected in preliminary data this summer.
Where were you, George?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faxEtxEzP2M
Dont use the msnbc link above, it crashes when you submit it. I emailed their tech support
I'll tell you one test for Iraq withdrawal no one has mentioned.
Even if George is promising to draw down troops in a year, none will come home if the rate of casualties stays at 100 per month. That'll be proof the Iraqi's aren't ready to take over, and if we left still sustaining that many casualties, the repubs can only define any withdrawal of troops as a cut and run.
We will never leave. Iraq is one giant military base for Israel and their interests.
After the MoveOn ad ran in the New York Times, there was a maelstrom of criticism because it was alleged that they improperly received a discounted rate. So MoveOn paid the $77,000 difference between the discounted rate and the standard rate.
But Rudy Giuliani, having been one of the noisiest of those complaining, got the same rate for an ad of his own. Will he now pay the difference?
Let's Make Rudy Pay!
Tom Friedman was on the Colbert Report tonight. What was Stephen thinking?
McDuff @ 10:
I've had it in the back of my head lately that Steve is beginning to believe what he says.
200 Billion for Iraq, 4.2 billion per year for ten years to Israel, and Kabul's about to go back into the hands of the Taliban (nice post idzippn on 5).
What the fuck are we doing?
Curtilingus @ 11:
He had Billo on his show too.
Here we go again
AP - 1 hour, 3 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said in a new report Monday that Social Security is facing a $13.6 trillion shortfall in coming years and that delaying reforms is not fair to younger workers.
Wall Streets Gaping Jaws are ready
After watching this clip i am reminded that there are things that those of us who oppose this war can do to bring the message of the suffering and loss it creates to those patriotic Americans who are out supporting the war by shopping until they drop.
It has been said here many times that protesting does not do anything. It has also been said that too few people show up to change anything. The media chooses to cover it as it sees fit and besides a few speeches and possibly some arrests and certainly some chants the day after it is forgotten.
But something with this impact is different. I have worked with AFSC before and they are good people. They are ordinary people like you and me doing extrordinary things because they work together as a community.
If you have the ability and inclination to join a group like the AFSC you can help bring this war to an end. If you have friends close to you who oppose the war and you form a group to make the war more real to those around you you can help bring this war to an end. The first step is to make the abstract real.
L.A. Confidential @ 14:
Bush Family is Famous for Looting the Social Security Trust Funds.
I just wanna say that the Iranian President was treated very shamefully, Imagine if bush was introduced like that when giving a speech in a foreign government....
We would launch nuclear weapons against them within the hour.
I think he was pretty straight forward... and to any who listened with open ears, gained alot of insight to what he was saying.
I think he has some big balls in coming here and facing our paradigm.
bushie boy would never do that.
CD @ 13:
BillO' already has access to thousands of people through his TV show and when he's on the Colbert report he's on the same medium, television, that is. However, when Colbert brings Friedman, who is a writer, onto his show and gives him the publicity and the 'reach' that TV has to offer, it's quiet different. It's as if Colbert is giving him a stage that he would normally not have. Perhaps I'm overly critical, but that's how I see it.
Enabler alert!
TLB @ 19:
Don't worry here's the accession:
1. Bedroom
2. Internet
3. TV
4. Rehab
McDuff @ 18:
Hasn't Friedman been on a number of other shows?
I've been watching "The WAR" by Ken Burns. Most excellent, as usual.
Portland, Oregon had an interesting townhall meeting on Sunday. Apparently about 250 citizens attended and were consumed with discussing IMPEACHMENT with U.S. Representative Blumenauer.
http://www.oregonlive.com/metro/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/119060075...
LibertyLover @ 21:
That's the real reason we're still fighting in Iraq. Ken Burns is running out of subjects for his documentaries.
TLB @ 19:
That's shameless character assassination.
I'm not familiar with Janine Garofalo's opinions on 9/11, but I find it rather odd that this HIT PIECE, this smear campaign was posted just three days after her appearance on Real Time With Bill Maher during which she backed up Michael Scheuer's statements in regards to Israel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ohz0omUjIE
ldzppln @ 1:
Wanted: Oppressed gay men seeking power over others for various positions in all branchs of the US Government. No healthy gay men or women need apply. Drug use and underage partners a plus. Apply at the kitchen door of the whitehouse.
CD @ 20:
Perhaps. What's the relevance, though? I could care less about Friedman. I do, however, hold Colbert to a higher standard.
TLB @ 19:
I hope Janeane and I are in the same Fema camp. She is one sharp lady. What she said about Israel would be supported by a majority of Israeli citizens. Its not about religion, its about empire.
Chomsky described Israel as a forward military base for the western empire. This is bigger than 'Merica . . its about the western mercantile empire that began hundreds of years ago and has dominated the world since then.
The party is ending and we can either go quietly or start the whole damn place on fire.
A young Christian woman
Was given a new pair of shoes.
They were made of cowhide
And needn’t tying or polishing.
She wore them for days on end,
Obediently walking in tow
For what seemed an eternity,
Until she was standing at the
Beautiful brown feet of Allah.
“You must give the shoes back now.”
“To whom?” she asked.
God then motioned downward
Toward a group of young patriots
Weeping plaintively.
“There. They need them now, Jill,
So they might go home.”
She then removed the new shoes
And dropped them from the sky
…like a bomb.
mrp
for anybody that is interested in an open-minded spiritual experience, check out an unprogrammed quaker meeting near you...good stuff...
AFSC are the good religious folks...
kiva
The U.S. is snipin' dirty. Hungary legalizes prostitution.
Please send this link to everyone: VIDEO: Mainstream Media is Selling Another War
Now they are selling a war on Iran. Mainstream media is helping sell another illegal war. T The way they do this is mainly by not reporting things or under-reporting things. So important facts don't reach the majority of the American people.
Most people are are relying on the mainstream media to learn what is going on in the world. Most people rely on TV news and TV news is not telling them what they need to know. Most people don't hunt around the internet for vital information, most people aren't learning about Dr. ElBaradi's recent statements. Dr. ElBaradei is the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency and he recently said "we have not seen any undeclared facilities operating in Iran". Did you know Iran is permitted under the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty to have facilities for civilian nuclear power? it's their right. Here is something else the most people are not hearing from the mainstream media: The U.S. is in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. http://representativepress.googlepages.com/
McDuff @ 26:
What kind of a conservative would Colbert be if he only had liberals on his show?
;)
I have posted a new and important poll on my blog. If you have the time please stop by and cast your vote.
Tom @ 31:
this is the reason for my sharp tongue this evening . . . all the yuppies are out shopping and talking on their friggin' phones and the gay homophobic sadists are planning another stimulating mass murder campaign.
please excuse me . . .
Just a heads up C and L. Tomorrow's Brooks piece in the NYT outwanks anything he has written in the recent past. And yeah, I knew this would happen. During the wonderful years of Time Select, I had to go out of my way to read anything by that wanker. Unfortunately now that Times Select is no more, I was caught by a headline. The man is a total narcissist.
no matter how stupid....americans love to celebrate their own deaths. these stupid lemmings deserve their suffering. if only it could be multiplied exponentially to include the terrible suffering of iraqis
now if you could just multiply that by 100,000 you might come close to realizing the death and destruction that the world has to put up with so the american narcissistic supremacists can feel good about themselves.
rasta @ 36:
Wishing death is a little less than what i would expect from anyone.
xoites @ 33, good one!!!! :-)
Thank you, Stan :)
I remember my ecology professor teaching us about population bottleneck events.
One of several 800 lb. gorillas in the room is that the human species is ripe for one.
Curtilingus @ 23:
Funny. So glad that we can further Mr. Burn's career.
xoites defends Constitution @ 33:
I voted. and laughed. :)
IF you're bored, here's a fun little video game you can play -
http://www.yeeguy.com/freefall/georgerag.swf
It's best played whilst you listen to either Petty's Free Fallin' or Camel's FreeFall at the same time ...
i am surprised that bush/cheney have not tried to confiscate all the boots for new recruits.
Hillary kills unflattering news story
When the Hillary camp heard over the Summer about a GQ piece in the works that would have put their campaign organization in a bad light — talking about infighting among staffers — they decided to get the piece killed before it would see publication.
How did they do it? According to Ben Smith, they threatened to cut off the magazine's future access to Bill Clinton. And it worked — the piece was spiked.
[...] really should take a look at this exhibition honoring those who have lost their lives in Iraq. It is certainly quite powerful, even [...]
I just wish that the troops would stop going. Just refuse. If Congress will not cut funding, just refuse to deploy. I think that the 'it's not the troops place to decide where they fight' is thrown out the window once a nation wages an illegal war. They do have the right to refuse illegal orders. I try, I really try to have sympathy for those troops who continue to die. I say this as someone who sees the 'troops' on a daily basis being a military wife, but at some point you get tired of the endless conveyor belt of people going in and getting sent home in a casket or with missing limbs. Why go back for a second, third, fourth time? At some point, you must stop the insanity yourself. For most, it is "just a job", but it isn't. It is taking life and possibly losing your life for lies.
When my husband comes home and tells me about another one sent over there, I have just gotten to the point of rolling my eyes. Most say that they don't want to go, but they do it anyway. A few years ago, I would have agreed that they should wait for Congress to end the war. I told myself to hold out until 2006, things must get better, right? But, I think we can now be honest with ourselves and say that this is just not going to happen anytime soon. And if Congress will not act, then they should just say, "Sir, No Sir!"
Navy SWan, right on. I agree with you completely. Great post.
How fucked are we as a country that it takes such things to wake people up to the reality that is going on right now. If people can't get involved and start caring about their country without such drama, there isn't much hope for this country.
At least for Cheney, now he can say he sees more crosses as he flies over Arlington Cemetary, something he claimed back in August 2000 at the Republican convention. There are no crosses at Arlington.
Cheney eyed Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear reactor
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/09/24/2007-09-24_cheney_e...
Juan Cole: Ahmadinejad as Public Enemy No. 1
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/09/24/ahmadinejad/index_np.html
xoites defends Constitution @ 34:
Tough choices, but I made a mark.
btw, just to keep the topic fresh in anyone's mind that may still want to do the same and give a gentle nudge, I just donated a few bucks to MoveOn. Let's hear it for telling it like it is!
To comment #4 odanny
I did what you suggested and submitted a question for the debate. It is as follows;
This question is directed to all presiding representative in the 110th Congress running for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Please evaluate the current performance of this 110th Congress since the Democrats gain majority control. Also, before you speak to my question reflect on the facts that the Congress's has a 13% approval rating, and why military families still do not know when their sons and daughters will be returning home as promised in the run up to the last election.
Just thought I would share what you motivated me to do..... :)
Bush is going to attack Myramar (Burma) instead of Iran at the UN according to sources. I kid you not: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2431337720070925
What is this? The Iranian President's balls are too big so we are going to go after the government of Burma -- which has been crapping on its people for 20 years without interference from the USA. I can imagine their people looking at Iraq and saying to us -- "Please, no, it is OK, we are quite happy as we are under a repressive dictatorship. Just leave us alone, please!"
At least we are finally getting down to a country that really is pretty awful. So now we are going to add to its people's misery by putting sanctions in place that will hurt the common people and do nothing at all to the bigwigs who have the capacity to avoid them.
You wonder if Condi is putting up Burma as a target just to distract the kid. "No, no, that one is too dangerous -- play with this one instead!"
I have said that I'm gonna vote for Dennis Kucinich (and I do believe that that's what I'll be doing.) But another real voice that's been left out of the debate is who is it, Chris Dodd? I would have no problem whatsoever voting for him if he ended up being the Dem nominee.
Boots on the ground, boots in the ground...
Sad.
General Petreaus, or in general, don’t taze us Broe!
I just got in the mail a notice from the county clerk a 'Permanent Absentee Ballot Application', which is weird given that I haven't requested it or anything like it. Another person listed at this address, someone who I do not recognize at all also got one yet my girlfriend who is registered here as well didn't get one. Are the Repugs up to more voting shenanigans?
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At $200,000 + per minute, them some mighty expensive boots... NO?
I suppose Rummy, Condi, Dick and Bush consider the Iraqi shoes chimp change.
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Stanley Rosenthal @ 58:
Yeah I have heard Dodd say a couple of decent things that I can respect...
Although this may be shallow of me... He looks too much like the bastard love child of those two nitwit repiglican Q-tips McCain and Newt for me to seriously and consciously consider him...
I know.. but it can't be helped
Meet the new boss...
Clinton campaign kills negative story
Same as the old boss.
dennis @ 64:
What new boss? We haven't even voted in the primaries yet. Also, someone already posted that: nsr@46.
navyswan @ 65:
Comment 46.
Surely you jest, navyswan.
dennis @ 67:
I am probably in denial.
On Sept. 25, 1957, with 300 United States Army troops standing guard, nine black children were escorted to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, days after unruly white crowds had forced them to withdraw.
wasn't condi rice one of them?
BaScOmBe @ 69:
I believe that condi was born in Birmingham and her family moved to Michigan while she was still a child. I could be wrong...
In the powerful "In the Valley of Elah", Tommy Lee Jones hangs his American flag upside down at the close (a distress signal). I would like to do the same, but fear that yahoos would attack my house.
Hi,
Just a visit imprint...
Regards...
friend Josef
BaScOmBe @ 69:
Even mass murderers have childhoods.
The Secretary of State is a war criminal.
Smack_dab @ 61:
Are they? That's for sure! The HAVA Act requires states to collect databases of voters, which information the Republican SecStates have provided to their vote-fraud and data-mining corporations.
Gonzales and Rove got caught in vote-caging felonies. The US Attorneys scandal involves multiple major felonies, and the leadership of the RNC is demonstrably guilty of conspiracy, and refusing subpoenas. So, yeah, they are actively trying to steal 2008, and people had better get busy stopping them, or go fish.
What state do you live in?
regarding President Alphabet of Iran...
allowing him into this country was a good thing...
letting him speak at Colombia Univ was an even better thing...
laughing him out of the building the best thing....
way way better than war...
he got what he deserved... and nothing more...
navyswan @ 70:
you're right and she went to private school.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=3039345&C=america
This is so messed up. This article is talking about how our governement is outsourcing the war on drugs to Blackwater. they said 80% of Blackwater's efforts will be oversees.
That means 20% of Blackwater's efforts will be here in this country. Blackwater will use all the tools created by the Bush administration, warrantless searches and seizures of businesses, no rights for those accused.
Why? Because the government iis once agin making the declaration that the drug trade is funding terrorism.
CD @ 13:
I was going to say the same as well. Didn't he have Tom Delay on his show like last month? Having Friedman on his show means shit all about dick. Stop making a mountain out of an anthill.
Peter Hollman @ 76:
I'm pretty sure the war will have nothing to do with ahmadinejad unless you can compose he name with the letters o-i-l.
Just think of the irony of bring back boots contaminated with radioactive dust .Put enough in one room and we could be contracting cancer unknowingly for our opposition to the war.This illegal military action is going to haunt this country and the world till the end of world which may not be that far of with these clowns in charge.Impeach or perish
Peter, A. was elected in 2005 as a direct result of Bushco's illegal genocide in Iraq. He's a racist, he's rightwing, he thinks it's cool to kill gays, etc.
• HOW is he uglier than Newt Gingrich? Gingrich is a racist -- he intimately helped Rumsfeld develop the disaster in Iraq, the Shock & Awe of an entire INNOCENT society.
So far, A. has just spewed some fundamentalist crap. Wow!
Gingrich has conspired to kill more than a million people, and sent four million into exile.
Just exactly who deserves to be laughed out of the building, and whom deserves to be in a gallows? The torturer in the Shitehouse is FAR more of a criminal than the former mayor of Tehran.
Curtilingus @ 78:
occam's razor says: there MONEY in it for blackwater.
Those damn Quakers and their American Friends Service Committee always stirring up trouble. The government should put them on a watch list!
/snark
Spot On! the AFSC ALWAYS does great work!
I hope now that they've split it, it will still be effective AND that they can get this into small town America who may still be rah, rah, Fox network drones.
rasta @ 37:
Apparently, you didn't even bother watching the video, as they included regular shoes to represent the dead Iraqis.
We were afraid of the government lead law enforcement with all those additional capabilities, How do you think it will feel too have a private contractor security force, working domestically, to round up people the Bush administration considers undesirables?
Daily Reading pt 1....
Group wants Gore on Michigan ballot - http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070924/UPDATE/709240...
Gore/Obama 08 - Time for America to join the 21st Century
Guess Who's Only Coming for Dinner; George to skip U.N. global warming talks until food is served - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/world/24warming.html?ex=1191297600&en=...
Worthless, GOP & Big Oil...going the way of the dodo bird, its just a matter of time....that we don't have
The Killing Fields of the War of Terror for Oil - http://worldwide-sawdust.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1431
Must see video (takes a while to load)
Paul Krugman: "In other words, it looks as if the Republican Party is about to start paying a price for its history of exploiting racial antagonism. If that happens, it will be deeply ironic. But it will also be poetic justice."
- http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/opinion/24krugman.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&...
"Republicans, as President Bush conceded, received a “thumping,” with almost every major demographic group turning against them. The one big exception was Southern whites, 62 percent of whom voted Republican in House races.
And yes, Southern white exceptionalism is about race, much more than it is about moral values, religion, support for the military or other explanations sometimes offered."
Mayor of Jena Thanks "White Supremacists" for Their Support. This is the South the Republican Party Just Loves to Cater to. - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-jena25_websep25,0,447...
Republicans are Nazis...they just don't know it yet...
Fox Clown Sunday - Hillary Clinton Eats Chris Wallace - http://rackjite.com/archives/632-Fox-Clown-Sunday-Hillary-Clinton-Eats-C...
The Best Mainstream Media Takedown of a GOP Hypocritical Bushevik That We Have Seen Concerning the Faux MoveOn Controversy. A Must Watch. "David Schuster Destroys Marsha Blackburn Over MoveOn/Iraq."
- http://www.hoffmania.com/blog/2007/09/schuster-destro.html
Daily Reading pt 2...
Bush Family Friendly Contractor Blamed for Lapses in Security at "Homeland Security" Department - http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Cyber-attacks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
A top homeland security lawmaker has called for an investigation into possible cyber attacks on computer systems at the Homeland Security Department.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said he believes Unisys Corp -- the company that holds the $1.7 billion contract to build parts of the Homeland Security Department's computer network -- is at fault for these network break-ins.
Christian Right Still Neoconned: Neoconservatives selling Iraq War to 'values voters'; Pretty sure Jesus wouldn't be pro Iraq war. - http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/9/24/131326/285
In a world of right wingnut morons...they're the worst of the bunch
Why Banks Want Your Checks to Bounce - http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2007/09/5551_why_banks_want...
"Back in the day, writing bad checks used to be a criminal offense. Now, it's a profit center. Banks make an eye-popping $17.5 billion a year by encouraging us to overdraw our checking accounts. ... Tomorrow, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee will vote on a bill that might change some of this."
Eugene Robinson: Some Bad News to Break; 'Rather's lawsuit gives his account of how he came to report on the since-discontinued "60 Minutes II" that a young George W. Bush not only relied on political connections to get into the Texas Air National Guard -- which allowed him to avoid serving in Vietnam -- but also got special treatment while he served.
Bush escaped punishment ... for infractions that could have landed a less well-connected guardsman in the brig, the story said.' - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/23/AR200709...
Not even punished: Iraq says no Blackwater move until after inquiry; Busheviks protect their own -- again. - http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070924/pl_nm/iraq_dc;_ylt=AkNT0tbPNv5XvOZWQIqe4Jqs0NUE
Dan Froomkin: What Has Bush Done to the Government? This might take a while. - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/09/24/BL200709240...
Bush says improvements to SCHIP are too expensive, but would cost less than 6 weeks of war in Iraq - http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/09/24/tell-congress-to-stand-up-to-bush-on-c...
ONCE AGAIN..PROOF that republicans prioritize death over life....ultimate hypocrisy...
Podhoretz has argued that “if we were to bomb the Iranians as I hope and pray we will…we’ll unleash a wave of anti-Americanism all over the world that will make the anti-Americanism we’ve experienced so far look like a lovefest.” By enlisting Podhoretz’s advice, President Bush is demonstrating that there isn’t any idea too radical for him to consider. - http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/24/podhoretz-bush-meeting/
Bizarro World...
Republicans pushed 'bogus' terror threat to expand FISA, lawmaker says - http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Republicans_pushed_bogus_terror_threat_to_0919.html
So, the government is sub contracting policy decisions, law enforcement, military operations. What services does our government provide? It seems to be down to the politicians. They are the only one's who aren't sub-contractors.
But wait, I depress. The politicians are sub-contractors, for AIPAC and all the other lobby groups.
We really have lost our country. I believe we will see mass arrests by private security contractors beginning with in a year.
Blackwater is the new McGruff. Except this time they're the Civil Rights Fighting Dog.
The only thing worse than a police state, is a police state where the police are sub contractors.
Curtilingus @ 88:
You make incorrect assumptions about the corruption of our politicians. The Democratic Congress is generally quite honest, they JUST DON'T HAVE THE VOTES to stop a coup.
So your analysis is based on a false premise, and your fears follow. Did you just watch what happened in Jena? Americans are not going to hand away the country to the defects and criminals in the Rapepublican party. Ain't gonna happen.
REUTERS January 29, 2009
President Clinton welcomed Pat Robertson to the whitehouse to kick off her national campaign on the war on pornography. “Adult pornography is the gateway drug to child pornography.” She and Pat said as they spoke in unison. Blackwater security forces deploy across the nation tomorrow to round up all persons who have used or possess any kind of pornography, ever. “We’re hoping it is as successful as the great drug round up of 2008.” The great drug round up of 2008 hyper-criminalized all illicit drug use. Blackwater, in co-operation with local law enforcement officials, arrested nearly 30 million Americans, indefinitely, successfully cutting off all funding to the terrorists.
Meanwhile, Pakistan and India were still dealing with the radioactive fallout from Israel’s pro-active pre-emptive preventative nuclear strike on Iran continued to rain down on both the countries, rendering vast areas of land un-inhabitable. Tactical nukes combined with the enriched uranium the Iranians were producing proved to be much more than Israel calculated.
When asked for comment, the Israeli spokesperson said “Oops.”
By the way, I hear that LIEberman is about to deliver a bill or amendment from Bushco, calling for the US to attack Iran immediately, to further improve the climate of the world for wars of aggression.
Their master airbases strategy was withheld from the public because it's illegal. LIEberman is complicit in grave warcrimes.
Gee, Dubya...Take A Bold Stance, Why Dontcha?
Curtilingus @ 88:
Actually, the politicians are lobbyists. Look at what multinational corporations many of the politicians are on their board members. That's right... everyone in the government is a sub-contractor. The only people left in the government who aren't in the pocket of some business are the middle management types who've been around 30-40 years and refuse to retire.
Below is a link of a video entitle " WE HATE BLACKS AND HISPANICS on youtube. This is a parody of giuliani, mccain, thompson and romney refusing to debate an any minority sponsored events.
This is a link to a video on youtube entitle " WE HATE BLACKS AND HISPANICS ". This is a parody of giuliani, mccain, thompson, and romney refusing to debate at any minority sponsored evens.
I have not read one comment about the loss of life in Iraq - American or Iraqi. Did anybody see the empty boots & shoes? Well boys and girls, I cried. I cried because young men and women will not be coming home. I cried because the mothers that lost a child will never be able to feel whole again. I cried because those individuals that gave their lives will soon be forgotten. I cried because they died leaving children fatherless/motherless. I cried because they will never experience the happiness of a wedding, or the birth of that first grandchild.
I cried because there were empty childrens shoes - lives cut short because some s.o.b. wants "just a little more" money.
Darth Vader and Chimpy should be held accountable for all of the waste and destruction. Hang them up by the balls!!!
I am pissed.
About 500 Americans die in Iraq every 6 months, so every time George Bush asks for another 6 months he's also asking for the expenditure of another 500 lives. Does he really believe that those additional 500 Americans must die so those previous 3800 Americans didn't die in vain? When are people gonna see through that argument?
Apparently George Bush is advising Hillary Clinton "quietly behind the scenes"
http://www.examiner.com/a-953145~Bush_quietly_advising_Hillary_Clinton__...
The war a lie supported by lies.True numbers for Gulf war 1 & 2 according to veteran affairs 73,000 dead soilders true numbers.If in combat if you are airlifted and are 3 feet off the ground and pass away you didn't die in Iraq.Source :www1.va.gov/racawvi/docs/GWVIS May 2007.pdf
The NYT is carrying Stephen M. Walt and John J. Mearsheimer's amazing expose of the insane influence that the Israel lobby has on our country.
First Chapter
‘The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy’
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/books/chapters/0923-1st-mear.html?_r=3...
Blue Buddha @ 79:
Did you even watch the segment? He nailed Friedman on his FU's at the end. Friedman cowered like a chastised puppy about his 6 months, and Colbert looked pissed at him at the end.
Right or Left, Colbert pounds on hypocrisy, and there's plenty of it to go around. The more idiots on the right he gets on his show, the more exposed they are for what they are.
GREAT JOB COLBERT!
bob h @ 71:
make a flag with both haveing the blue field with stars on either side that way youll confuse the shit out of them!
in other words the ble field , at the normal position but below it the blue field upside down
Iraqd
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7012889.stm
Paul in LA @ 75:
In California, Contra Costa County to be precise. I just called the County Elections Clerk and they said that they just mailed these out, trying to be helpful (nice waste of money). When I asked why we got one addressed to a person who doesn't live here, they said they had errors in the file they used to generate this mailing so some names went to the wrong address. Why they can't wait and do this stupidity after 2008 is beyond me.
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