Letterman's take on election coverage:
http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/top_ten/index/php/20080108.phtml

And finally Tweety's take on the screwed up coverage of the NH Primaries:
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1358

What, no music thread tonight?

You have to wonder, if Romney got 67%, who came in 2nd. If the Dems do campaign there, will anyone pay attention?

I'm so glad you put this as a link....it's priceless.... much more valuable than the "coins" depicted.

THANKS!!!!

I'd laugh but the truth is just too real

Come Together.

www.GetItStraightBy2008.org

How about the 1 cent coin? With a picture of grandma on the front and her raided social security fund on the back.

Or what about the rare one hundred thousand dollar Iraq war coin. The number 100,000 on the front signifying the number on lives lost and bodies crippled due to the Bush/Cheney war. On the back a prison cell where Bush and Cheney should sit and rot till their dying days because of the Iraq war and numerous other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Finally the rarest coin of all. The one trillion dollar coin. Only two made, one for each trillion Bush has added to the national debt since squandering Clinton's budget surpluss. On the front a picture of a pround American eagle soaring high above the clounds before the Bush years. On the back a picture of the eagle flat on its back with legs in the air signifying what will happen to this nation once China America on the debt they are holding thanks to the Bush years.

GonzoD @ 4:

And finally Tweety's take on the screwed up coverage of the NH Primaries:
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1358

Thanks for checking out my post, Gonzo.

Two Bushevik Disasters Converge: Iraq and Climate Change Lead to Snow in Baghdad 1/12

First snow for 100 years falls on Baghdad

Ron @ 19:

Don Davis @ 18:

GonzoD @ 4:

And finally Tweety's take on the screwed up coverage of the NH Primaries:
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1358

Thanks for checking out my post, Gonzo.

The only ones that screwed it up was the media that is the only source we have for coverage.

you're forgetting Diebold!

Voter Verified Paper Ballots with Random Audits.

Japan is sent to Afghanistan against its will. Bush doesn't believe in state's rights when it comes to identification.
Looks like the crowd around Bhutto's car was in on the conspiracy. The surge in national debt is working. Wall Street is still in dire straits.

Sabaean @ 23:

Coulter endorses Hillary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xl7TabptF0

The end points are so true.

Gorgei @ 28:

Sabaean @ 23:

Coulter endorses Hillary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xl7TabptF0

The end points are so true.

And I believed you. The talking heads have been saying that Hillary is the one they could beat.

Ron Paul making sense and completely defeating FOX's attempt at marginalizing him

Was Pravda ever a propoganda organ like this network? When this blew up in their face they just disinvited him the next time. Thats really chickenshit and perfectly exemplifies the chickenshit, neocon network.

Well, that was yesterdays debate, but you get the idea

Don Davis @ 18:

GonzoD @ 4:

And finally Tweety's take on the screwed up coverage of the NH Primaries:
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1358

Thanks for checking out my post, Gonzo.

I check it out all the time, Don.
Thanks for the laughs!

GonzoD @ 37:

BTW, Ron Paul rarely makes sense IMHO!
Ron Paul has some explaining to do about his newsletter!

I certainly do not support Ron Paul but he still makes a hell of lot more sense than the rest of them. I contribute to Edwards campaign. I urge you to contribute to who you want to support. I do not want any of the repugs to win.

BlueGal,
I love the video great creative work for political evolution.

I say political evolution instead of change purposely. We need to evolve into the Democratic Experiment that is America not change, change, change.

Thank you for utilizing your talent for the education, motivation and activation of the American public.

Be well

Ruthless People @ 16:

How about the 1 cent coin? With a picture of grandma on the front and her raided social security fund on the back.

Or what about the rare one hundred thousand dollar Iraq war coin. The number 100,000 on the front signifying the number on lives lost and bodies crippled due to the Bush/Cheney war. On the back a prison cell where Bush and Cheney should sit and rot till their dying days because of the Iraq war and numerous other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Finally the rarest coin of all. The one trillion dollar coin. Only two made, one for each trillion Bush has added to the national debt since squandering Clinton's budget surpluss. On the front a picture of a pround American eagle soaring high above the clounds before the Bush years. On the back a picture of the eagle flat on its back with legs in the air signifying what will happen to this nation once China America on the debt they are holding thanks to the Bush years.

Ruthless,
When tinpot took office, the national debt was 5.6 trillion bucks. Today it is 9.2 trillion and if projections are correct, by this time next year, when tinpot finally takes a hike, it will be over 9.7 trillion smackollas. That’s better than a 4 trillion dollar rise, so you better mint a few more of those dead duck coins (yes, I think a Peking duck hanging in the new Wallmart deli, where neo-libs find they must shop, would be more apropos of the fix we are all going to be in). Of, course, we might save a few bucks by getting rid of these criminals now via impeachment. Have you signed Wexler’s petition yet? Have you asked the blogs you read to get behind a massive signup? Patriotism has never been so easy!

http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com/

And if you want to see the difference between repubs and dem overspending habits, take a look at this bar graph.

http://www.lafn.org/politics/gvdc/Natl_Debt_Chart.html

And because you can’t lock the brakes on this without a slide into depression, it is likely the debt will increase to over 11 trillion in the next 2-3 years. This means that tinpot will have the dubious honor of in only eight years doubling a debt that took 224 to build up! Way to go, shithead!

ISR Issue 57, January–February 2008
NEWS & REPORTS
No friend of the Left
Ron Paul, libertarianism, and the freedom to starve to death
By SHERRY WOLF
International Socialist Review

Ron Paul’s positions

A cursory look at Paul’s positions, beyond his opposition to the war and the Patriot Act, would make any leftist cringe.

Put simply, he is a racist. Not the cross-burning, hood-wearing kind to be sure, but the flat-Earth-society brand that imagines a colorblind world where 500 years of colonial history and slavery are dismissed out of hand and institutional racism and policies under capitalism are imagined away. As his campaign Web site reads:

The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence—not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.

Paul was more blunt writing in his independent political newsletter distributed to thousands of supporters in 1992. Citing statistics from a study that year produced by the National Center on Incarceration and Alternatives, Paul concluded: “Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.” Reporting on gang crime in Los Angeles, Paul commented: “If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.”

Though he rants about his commitment to the Constitution, he introduced an amendment altering the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteeing citizenship to anyone born in the United States, saying in a 2006 article:

Birthright citizenship, originating in the 14th amendment, has become a serious cultural and economic dilemma for our nation…. We must end the perverse incentives that encourage immigrants to come here illegally, including the anchor baby incentive.

Here we come up against the limits of libertarianism—Paul wants a strong state to secure the borders, but he wants all social welfare expenditures eliminated for those within them.

Paul is quite vocal these days about his rank opposition to abortion—“life begins at conception,” he argues. He promotes a “states’ rights” position on abortion—that decades-old hobgoblin of civil rights opponents. And he has long opposed sexual harassment legislation, writing in his 1988 book Freedom Under Siege (available online), “Why don’t they quit once the so-called harassment starts?” In keeping with his small-government worldview, he goes on to argue against the government’s right “to tell an airline it must hire unattractive women if it does not want to.”...In that same book, written as the AIDS crisis was laying waste to the American gay male population and prompting the rise of activist groups demanding research and drugs, Paul attacked AIDS sufferers as “victims of their own lifestyle.” And in a statement that gives a glimpse of the ruling-class tyranny of individualism, he asserts that AIDS victims demanding rushed drug trials were impinging on “the rights of insurance company owners.”....

Read the entire article @:
http://www.isreview.org/issues/57/rep-ronpaul.shtml

ISR Issue 56, November–December 2007
INTERVIEW
TARIQ ALI
"Imperialism and democracy don’t mix"
International Socialist Review

Read the full interview with Tariq Ali from domestic politics in the United States to the occupation of Iraq @:
http://www.isreview.org/issues/57/feat-tariqali.shtml

Some trivia figures for y'all.. over in England, the bookies at Ladbrokes are currently giving the odds:

Hillary Clinton 2.25
Barack Obama 3.00
John McCain 5.00
Rudolph Giuliani 9.00

(For those not mathematically inclined, that's the payout, e.g. 225 dollars on a winning 100 dollar bet for Hillary)

I'd trust these numbers over the US media opinion any day :)

Brilliant satirical video! Anybody seen my ass? It fell off sometime while I was laughing. It would be a bitch if it came true. The Imperial gallon has an extra quart so I guess the Canadian coins would have a fixed exchange rate 20 % higher than the U.S.

Ruthless People @ 16:

How about the 1 cent coin? With a picture of grandma on the front and her raided social security fund on the back.

Or what about the rare one hundred thousand dollar Iraq war coin. The number 100,000 on the front signifying the number on lives lost and bodies crippled due to the Bush/Cheney war. On the back a prison cell where Bush and Cheney should sit and rot till their dying days because of the Iraq war and numerous other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Finally the rarest coin of all. The one trillion dollar coin. Only two made, one for each trillion Bush has added to the national debt since squandering Clinton's budget surpluss. On the front a picture of a pround American eagle soaring high above the clounds before the Bush years. On the back a picture of the eagle flat on its back with legs in the air signifying what will happen to this nation once China America on the debt they are holding thanks to the Bush years.

I'm afraid you'll have to multiply that number by at least three now (100,000)

Inocent victims on 9/11 -3000

First responders since - 1000 and counting

American Soldiers in Iraq/ Afghanistan - approaching 5000

Soldiers of other nationalities - approaching 1000

Innocent men, women and children - 300 + thousand and counting

Like Chimpy would have said it (if he cared): That's a lot of people.

Robert @ 46:

I am not to sure about etiquette in posting to these so forgive me if I am a klutz.

I lived in South Lake Tahoe for a number of years and my congressman was John Doolittle. Year after year he would be re-elected as he poorly represented my views on just about any issue one could think of well... I rarely take pleasure in someones legal troubles, but not this time.

Republican Doolittle will not be running again as it appears he and his wife are CROOKS.
Washington Post 1.11.08

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011003409.html

The etiquette here is pretty much, "please state your opinions." There is a commenting policy which boils down to, "fight fair."

Now Americans have two things to worry about! Petraeus keeps lying for an indecisive Decider.

New ID Rules May Complicate Air Travel

Chertoff said that for any state which doesn't seek such a waiver by May, residents of that state will have to use a passport or certain types of federal border-crossing cards if they want to avoid a vigorous secondary screening at airport security.

Great. Passports will soon be needed if you want to cross state lines after May 2008 unless your state doesn't seek a waiver.

Will somebody please stick Cheroff back into Lenin's coffin where he belongs?

Moose @ 58:

British MP George Galloway and Neocon apologist David Frum on BBC's Newsnight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR0ZYIQLsZ0

Galloway rips into Bush's foreign policy regarding Iran and suspects that Bush was in Tel Aviv to encourage an Israeli attack on Iran.

David Frum is not even a "conservative."

Most of these "neoconservatives" cannot be "new conservatives" since most, if not all of them, are former liberals and former Trotskyites. These neocons are so far from being conservatives it makes me want to vomit.

The neocons are militarists who believe the strong should devour the weak and that if one cannot defend or fend for thyself, too bad; die or be conquered. There may be some overlap in thought with American nationalists, but when deconstructed, the neocons are actually neofascists who make sophistry-based arguments. David Frum would not know a real fight if he saw one. These neocons have soft hands and do not even know how to change a light bulb and do not even do their own shopping. I am sure none of them are ever out in public with the folks they want to do their fighting. These people are ingrates and poor excuses for human beings. People like Frum need to go back to Canada and take Charles Krauthammer with him.

Thing Fish @ 57:

New ID Rules May Complicate Air Travel

Chertoff said that for any state which doesn't seek such a waiver by May, residents of that state will have to use a passport or certain types of federal border-crossing cards if they want to avoid a vigorous secondary screening at airport security.

Great. Passports will soon be needed if you want to cross state lines after May 2008 unless your state doesn't seek a waiver.

Will somebody please stick Cheroff back into Lenin's coffin where he belongs?

The Palestinians have had to put up with that shit for decades. What's the problem? ;-)

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

Read what the country where I was born has become: a two-and-a half-year old kid left to walk alone through a checkpoint for a heart operation without his parents? Israel denied his parents' access when the consensus is that this kid is going to die? He has two holes in his heart and should have had this operation in September. At the last moment these barbarians allowed an uncle of the parents to walk the toddler across? A baby?
Ha'aretz: The Evil Decree

Here's the video of the little girl who crossed at the same time. She has a pacemaker that isn't working and needs to be replaced. Look at her face:
http://news.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=529688&sid=126

If these stories were coming out of South Africa 20 years ago and it was whites doing this to blacks, the uproar and outrage from Americans would be deafening. The American media would be screaming for their necks. Where is American Jewry on this? This is unforgivable. Just. Unforgivable. This is what the Zionist charities did to my mother in WWII. Left her to die in the French countryside after my grandparents died in the Resistance. Because she was too young to be of any use in Palestine, they left her in a field. But they took her older brother instead and separated them. No wonder my mother despises the Zionists. I apologize for this outburst, but I am really upset by this. This is barbaric. And anyone who can excuse this is equally so.

hareli @ 65:

Read what the country where I was born has become: a two-and-a half-year old kid left to walk alone through a checkpoint for a heart operation without his parents? Israel denied his parents' access when the consensus is that this kid is going to die? He has two holes in his heart and should have had this operation in September. At the last moment these barbarians allowed an uncle of the parents to walk the toddler across? A baby?
Ha'aretz: The Evil Decree

Here's the video of the little girl who crossed at the same time. She has a pacemaker that isn't working and needs to be replaced. Look at her face:
http://news.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=529688&sid=126

If these stories were coming out of South Africa 20 years ago and it was whites doing this to blacks, the uproar and outrage from Americans would be deafening. The American media would be screaming for their necks. Where is American Jewry on this? This is unforgivable. Just. Unforgivable. This is what the Zionist charities did to my mother in WWII. Left her to die in the French countryside after my grandparents died in the Resistance. Because she was too young to be of any use in Palestine, they left her in a field. But they took her older brother instead and separated them. No wonder my mother despises the Zionists. I apologize for this outburst, but I am really upset by this. This is barbaric. And anyone who can excuse this is equally so.

Are we allowed to talk about such things in America? I know there is free speech, free press, and freedom of religion. But, it seems, as all of this is rigged, as if we are living in a Twilight zone, where "evil becomes the byproduct of good; and good becomes the byproduct of evil." And despite the "religious nature" of America these days, there has been a replacement, of which, evil becomes good, and, good becomes evil.

I do not think such discussion is allowed in the United States. God forbid, the "oppressed" ever become the "oppressors." Such things are pure "fantasy." (Wink, wink).

June 3, 2007
Hillary's War
By JEFF GERTH AND DON VAN NATTA JR.
New York Times

Read the entire article @:
http://nytimes.com/search/

The Middle East:
Under the reign of imperialism and fundamentalisms
By Shahrzad Mojab
New Socialist

Read the entire article @:
http://www.whrnet.org/fundamentalisms/docs/issue-mojab-0608.html

Mr. XXXX @ 67:

hareli @ 65:

Read what the country where I was born has become: a two-and-a half-year old kid left to walk alone through a checkpoint for a heart operation without his parents? Israel denied his parents' access when the consensus is that this kid is going to die? He has two holes in his heart and should have had this operation in September. At the last moment these barbarians allowed an uncle of the parents to walk the toddler across? A baby?
Ha'aretz: The Evil Decree

Here's the video of the little girl who crossed at the same time. She has a pacemaker that isn't working and needs to be replaced. Look at her face:
http://news.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=529688&sid=126

If these stories were coming out of South Africa 20 years ago and it was whites doing this to blacks, the uproar and outrage from Americans would be deafening. The American media would be screaming for their necks. Where is American Jewry on this? This is unforgivable. Just. Unforgivable. This is what the Zionist charities did to my mother in WWII. Left her to die in the French countryside after my grandparents died in the Resistance. Because she was too young to be of any use in Palestine, they left her in a field. But they took her older brother instead and separated them. No wonder my mother despises the Zionists. I apologize for this outburst, but I am really upset by this. This is barbaric. And anyone who can excuse this is equally so.

Are we allowed to talk about such things in America? I know there is free speech, free press, and freedom of religion. But, it seems, as all of this is rigged, as if we are living in a Twilight zone, where "evil becomes the byproduct of good; and good becomes the byproduct of evil." And despite the "religious nature" of America these days, there has been a replacement, of which, evil becomes good, and, good becomes evil.

I do not think such discussion is allowed in the United States. God forbid, the "oppressed" ever become the "oppressors." Such things are pure "fantasy." (Wink, wink).

Mr. Quadruple-X,

Eighty percent (80%) of the Israeli population are mainly badly educated Russian and Polish immigrants who moved there because the USA paid them to make aliyah. Their hero is ex-nightclub bouncer from Monrovia: Avigdor Lieberman. Think gangster pig. Ever hear of Avraham Burg? From The Forward here:

The son of Yosef Burg, a National Religious Party founder who participated in the creation of the state alongside David Ben-Gurion, Avraham Burg was one of the few soldiers to publicly oppose the first Lebanon War. He became one of the most powerful members of the Labor Party, serving for 10 years as chairman of the Jewish Agency and as speaker of the Knesset from 1999 to 2003.

What did he say:

“Burg is in the line of the great leaders of Zionism,” said Yoram Hazony, who founded the Shalem Center, a right-leaning research institute in Jerusalem. “For him to come out against the Law of Return, to abandon Herzl and to compare Israeli laws to Hitler’s laws, it’s like the pope announcing that he has already converted to Judaism.”

He calls Israel spiritually dead. He moved to France three years ago then wrote a book called "Defeating Hitler." His book maintains that Israel has become what it complains about in Hitler. Take a look at this.

The problem, Mr. XXXX, is that most Americans buy the romanticized story of what happened in WWII as told by Jewish historians who are not even called on the rug six million figure that was reduced by three million in 1990 after the Soviet archives were found, and a lot of it is embellished. WWII was the worse world war in history, but we have blinders on when it comes to telling the truth of all sides in that war. Norman Finklestein is right about it -- and his parents were Holocaust survivors, like my mother -- but look what Dershowitz did to him without a peep from American academia . . . sure a few from DePaul objected, but the cowed intelligentsia in this country only have morals for history not present reality.

And the Lancet gave this figure:
1,165,204

The number is shocking and sobering.
It is at least 10 times greater than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on a scientific study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003.
That study, published in prestigious medical journal The Lancet, estimated that over 600,000 Iraqis had been killed as a result of the invasion as of July 2006. Iraqis have continued to be killed since then. The graphic above provides a rough daily update of this number based on a rate of increase derived from the Iraq Body Count. (See the complete explanation.)
The estimate that over a million Iraqis have died received independent confirmation from a prestigious British polling agency in September 2007. Opinion Research Business estimated that 1.2 million Iraqis have been killed violently since the US invasion.

Mr. XXXX @ 62:

James D. Milne @ 60:

Please don't blame Canada for that asshat Frum.
His mother was a beloved media figure here and I'm
certain she would be appalled at the way he
turned out.

I'll have to think about that one....

But David Frum is a "big man" now, and on his own....The adult choices he made thus far in no way reflect Frum's mother, but, then again, like many she (Frum's mother) might have been a militarist also.

She wasn't. She is the Walter Cronkite of Canada.

paranoia @ 44:

The polls show that Edward has a better chance of beating any of the Republican, and has the best chance of all the Democrats. I think this is interesting as most of the media have turn a blind eye to Edwards. Very little coverage, and very heavy handed in trying to choose your next candidate.

BTW just so you know Premier Election Solutions was formerly known as Diebold. Do not let the new name fool you, and start connecting these names together.

sorry! bad timing on your part. Hillary has already been diebolded to the top in NH. it's apprently the hackable/programmable opposite of the colbert bounce.

"The sheer numbers involved overloaded their ability, both mentally and electronically, to handle the attack. The whole thing was over in 5, maybe 10 minutes." - LT. GEN. PAUL K. VAN RIPER, a retired Marine officer who took part in a war game where small, agile speedboats devastated U.S. warships.

Mr. XXXX @ 79:

hareli @ 76:

Mr. XXXX @ 62:

James D. Milne @ 60:

I'll have to think about that one....

But David Frum is a "big man" now, and on his own....The adult choices he made thus far in no way reflect Frum's mother, but, then again, like many she (Frum's mother) might have been a militarist also.

She wasn't. She is the Walter Cronkite of Canada.

Walter Cronkite did not always "oppose" war. As a matter of fact, it was not until late in the Vietnam war, that Walter Cronkite began to oppose the U.S. mission there. Walter Cronkite has a very inconsistent past on war and peace issues. I am not saying Cronkite is an evil or bad guy, but, I am not willing to allow anyone to make the claim that he (Cronkite) was a non-stop opponent to the Vietnam war or other American interventions in the world.

walter kronk also took it upon himself to promote the 'magic bullet' theory.

I'd compare the lady to mike wallace, who could not have had any idea the spawn of his loins would be such a turd.

odanny @ 32:

Ron Paul making sense and completely defeating FOX's attempt at marginalizing him

Was Pravda ever a propoganda organ like this network? When this blew up in their face they just disinvited him the next time. Thats really chickenshit and perfectly exemplifies the chickenshit, neocon network.

It also exemplifies why obie needs to boycott them.

WALTER CRONKITE'S "WE ARE MIRED IN STALEMATE" BROADCAST, FEBRUARY 27, 1968

Source: Reporting Vietnam: Part One: American Journalism 1959-1969 (1998), pp. 581-582.

Retrieved from the following address:
http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/Cronkite_1968.html

Now, if America had not been in a “stalemate” would Walter Cronkite have uttered such words? Although the idealist, in me, would like to think “yes,” the realist says “no.” And, “that’s the way it is.” As I said, Walter Cronkite was an establishment man, and had the Imperial project of American gone according to plan, he would not have uttered such words. Capeche?

Happy Trails

Mr. XXXX @ 86:

walter kronk also took it upon himself to promote the 'magic bullet' theory!

42 House Democrats Back U.S. Terror Academy
Democrats and the School of the Americas
By DAN BACHER

Read the entire article @:
http://www.counterpunch.org/bacher06252007.html

'Before the Music Dies' Diagnoses an Ailing Industry
By Marc Fisher
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 26, 2006; N02

Read the fine article or find out information to get the film @:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR200611...

hi there, good morning just looking at the comments today.

Don't get all excited.

The Party of Cut and Run?
By David Frum
National Post (Canada)
Publication Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Read the entire sophistry of David Frum @:
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.23480/pub_detail.asp

I Want The Whole Set!!!

In case nobody knew the slighting that Edwards has faced the entire campaign, now along comes more mind games.

Conventional wisdom (or as bloggers like to say, CW) says that negative attention is bad. But Clinton’s negatives went way up in Wonkosphere and she won New Hampshire. Huckabee’s negatives went way up and he’s going to win South Carolina. No, negative attention is only bad if it leads to no attention. It’s no attention that is death. Case in point, John Edwards 2008. Despite coming in second in Iowa within the relevant timespan, Edwards liberal buzz share (blue line) has consistently gone down, day after day, in all of 2008. Likewise, conservative bloggers have also turned away. Now Edwards is below the critical 10% buzz share line. With all the fanblogs out there, if you can’t hit 10% not even your fans are interested. I can’t get the Tom Petty song “Free Fallin’” out of my head…

Mr. XXXX @ 101:

Have you found any good news anywhere?

CoIntelPro @ 104:

Mr. XXXX @ 101:

Have you found any good news anywhere?

I hope so....or I will have to change....

Ya know change and hope.....

Mr. XXXX @ 103:

It’s The Oil
By Jim Holt
22 October, 2007
London Review Of Books

Read article @:
http://www.countercurrents.org/holt221007.htm

[please just post links and description.]

OKAY

Mr. XXXX @ 105:

02/26/2004 Molly Ivins February 26

Freddie and Fannie
Molly Ivins February 26, 2004

Read Molly's former column @:
http://www.creators.com/opinion/molly-ivins/molly-ivins-february-26.html

By golly, do I miss, Molly Ivins. She was so intelligent and she saw the housing crisis from a bottom-up perspective long before anyone had a clue about the impending doom.

[sitemonitor - please stop. if you want to post an article, please just post a link and description.]

NO PROBLEM---LAST POST WAS IN TRANSITION OF YOUR POST....CAPECHE?

James D. Milne @ 60:

Please don't blame Canada for that asshat Frum.
His mother was a beloved media figure here and I'm
certain she would be appalled at the way he
turned out.

I saw Frum on "A" Daily Show a few nights ago. I'm a Canadian, and I've NEVER wanted to see a Canadian get his butt kicked by an American so bad in all my life. Stewart did not disappoint.

Gorgei @ 9:

Anyone watch Maher tonight, gave hella shout outs to all three Dems; GOP fears the shit of Obama(nailed Tony Snow with that zinger)...Edwards was the most uncovered by the media, and most liberal voice....and that people shouldn't have Hillary hate(although...in my personal opinion that discounts the 300 milion Americans B-C-B-C arguement). Good show for no writers.

That's not really an argument. You are sick of the name. If she changed her last name would you be okay with her as President? Unfortunately, it's juvenile.

As she asked herself, judge her on her merits, not her name.

Got a nose for news today?

Lobbying for libraries may be the most important function of ALA, and the Midwinter ALA Washington Office Update Session (Sat., Jan. 12, 8–10 a.m.) brings the troops up to speed for the coming year's efforts. Featured in Philly is Bassem Youssef, the highest-ranking Arab American agent employed by the FBI. He will share his experience with the agency's counterterrorism surveillance activities, including the use of National Security Letters. Tom Susman, a partner at Ropes & Gray LLP, will discuss the effect of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on libraries. Two breakout sessions (10:30 a.m.–noon) will follow: All (Telecom) Politics Is Local: What the FCC Is Up to, and What It Has To Do with Your Library will be moderated by Alan Inouye, director of ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy. Then, the GODORT Update, the ALA Government Documents Round Table's session, will focus on government information, depository libraries, and dissemination of info from federal agencies

There is a story here involving whistle blowing and gag order.
Please report on this story.
Thanks to http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6510670.html

THIS WILL BLOW YOU AWAY!

Are you mad as hell over the economy? Would you like to put a face on your dart board so you can take out those economic frustrations? There used to be a finacial journalist that used to work for Forbes Magazie for many years who then moved to Japan. His name is Bejamin Fulford and boy does he have a story to tell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b24ZuNyAckw

One issue which has been raised: Why is the President now in Jan 2008 making an issue of an incident which mirror "other incidents" in Dec 2007; why wasn't something said earlier; why make a public display of videos/audio now. Larisa has this link which may shed some light on the GOP-WH approach to the Iranian speed boat issue.

One thing that's changed since Dec07 is the Iran NIE: The President no longer can point to the "mushroom cloud"-analogy; the NIE stating there had been no nuclear weapons program in Iran since 2003 was released after the Dec incidents with Iran. Most likely, because the NIE removes the nuclear-excuse to attack Iran, the President and others are fishing for another pretext.

The NIE update was at the end of Nov07 and discussed at the beginning of Dec07; it looks as though the issues of the Iranians speedboats in Dec07 was not given much attention because the GOP-WH was unclear how to respond to the public reaction to the NIE; and failed to transition quickly to the "new non-nuclear threat of speedboats."

Let's get back to the Fax which Larisa has. Understandably, the Fax was written in Sept 2005, almost 2.5 years ago. Recall, in 05 Rove was still rightly or wrongly publicly asserting the GOP the next year in Nov06 would expand GOP control; the CIA tape was supposedly just being destroyed; and we're still two years after the Iranians had shut down the nuclear weapons program, but two years after the Iraq invasion. By 05, Rove and others were very confident they could paint every issue as, "The GOP is right; and all issues can be framed to undermine the DNC-liberal strengths."

In 2008, the strength of the DNC-liberals is their ability to independently think. What better way to undermine that than to get them to spend time on a phony story, and get them to defend the Iranian's position in re the fabricated tape-audio.

Since the revelations in the NIE, it would appear -- in light of the ROve memo of 2005 -- that there would be a group or steering committee to strategize options to maintain the momentum to attack Iran, regardless the Congressional threat of impeachment or allegations of war crimes in attacking Iran. Rather, it should be presumed all the legal problems facing the Bush Administration -- Iraq WMD, and no imminent threat; prisoner abuse; violations of the laws of war -- would be lessons learned in how to package the next pretext for war with Iran. The goal isn't to exhaust all options; but to in appearance only, "show" the US is addressing all the legal issues and use this to present to Congress: "We've listened, and here are the 'facts'; if you oppose us, then you're contradicting yourselves."

GOP Exploiting Media Bias

Look at Para2 of the Smith Memoranda to Rove: They're talking about framing the immigration issues in the context of three factors, which appear to continue to exist today: Media bias, animosity toward the President, and the REpublican Base.

Indeed, if you want to get a sense of the media's decision to avoid covering the President, consider this interview IM, NYT obtained where Morgan asks if there are forbidden topics and Denton responds with the "Bush Administration":

Morgan (5:05:09 p.m.): are there forbidden topics? things you hate or are sick of?

Denton (5:05:30 p.m.): bashing of people who don’t deserve it

Denton (5:05:34 p.m.): anything too predictable

Denton (5:06:11 p.m.): e.g. bashing big corporations, Bush administration, Tony Snow

Note Para4, last sentence: "Liberals can easily and accurately be painted as opposing enforcement.") "Accurately" is an assertion -- the issue in re Iran: "How are the valid arguments against attacking Iran going to be used to undermine the DNC-liberal support for prudence."

Let's consider the memo in the context of Iran:
- What does the President, on the issue of Iranian military, hope to appeal to when it comes to public interests?
- What results does the public want to see; and how can the public be shaped to demand results that are consistent with [a] undermining the DNC; and [b] supporting the GOP interests?
- Which issues need to be presented first to undermine the major DNC-liberal opposition; and which GOP-supported legislation would then the DNC be inclined to support, sponsor, or appear to have no option but to endorse?

The goal with Iranian speedboat-response isn't to solve a problem, but to present the issue as one the DNC-liberals will take position on; then be confronted with language in legislation that would force the DNC-liberals to contradict themselves.

The issue isn't the speedboats, but how the incident will be framed in the coming months to attack the DNC-liberal strengths: Oversight, independent analysis, and reasonable doubt about the GOP-WH leadership, plans, and assertions. The goal is to raise frivolous doubts about the DNC-liberal reasonable doubt, and dissuade growing momentum supporting the DNC challenge to the current GOP control of the White House, and the DNC's ineffectual challenges to the GOP minority status in the Senate.

What the GOP appears to be doing is exactly the opposite of what would be expected once the NIE on Iran was disclosed: Rather than withdrawing forces and lowering tensions, the GOP appears to be accelerating timelines, asking for increased pressure, and mobilizing to accelerate Congressional attention on Iran despite the NIE which would warrant the oppose: More time, less tension, less threats, and no concern with Iranian military threats.

Para2 of the letter suggests the themes the DNC-liberals are likely to be confronted with i this effort to railraod the DNC is supporting military action against Iran: Media treason against real threats; unjust contempt for the President who only wants to keep Americans safe and secure, with access to cheap oil; and address the feelings of inferiority in the GOP since the 2006 defeat.

Going Forward

The key in monitoring the President's statements on Iran's speedboats is watching what budget and legislative decisions are attached to this wagon. Now is the time to lay the groundwork to ask whether these future proposals are correctly linked with real problems, or merely new excuses to continue what was never justified: Increased military tensions in contravention to the principles the President called on the Palestinians, Arabs, and Israelis this week to embrace.

Now is the time for the DNC to pre-empt the GOP on Iran; and call the GOP on the apparent bluff: Why, given the President's inaction in Dec07 should the DNC -- as appears likely -- be railroaded into supporting a "fast track to legislation" without a serious review of the Iran NIE in the context of the "GOP motivation to shift from nuclear weapons to speedboats."

Since 2003, there's been relatively little legislative action to rally Congress against Iran; rather, its largely been the US President -- on an unquestioned assertion that Iran was a threat -- that the US must take military action. Suddenly, in 2007, that nuclear risk fell off the radar, yet it appears the GOP is hoping to press the DNC to support expanded Presidential power to confront Iran over speedboats.

- Why was this legislation not provided earlier?

- Was there a reason that, given the post-2001 era, we're only waiting now?

- Why should we believe the GOP pressure on the DNC in re Iran is linked with the 2001 AUMF in re 9-11 or Iraq?

A lower threat from "only speedboats" isn't consistent with the sparse legislative action since 2001 in re Iran. We have more time, not less time, to deal with mere speedboats. The only speedboats associated with mushrooms might be the ones the DEA is using near Columbia. Far, far away from Iran. So much for the GOP-led enforcement efforts. We need a DNC President to find out what's been really going on since 2001 to clean up this President's mess.

MountainMan23 @ 39:

Bush: U.S. should have acted on Auschwitz

CROCODILE TEARS !!!

Prescott Bush's investment in the Silesian American Coal Company -- where the slave-laborers from Auschwitz were literally worked to death -- netted him $1.5 million dollars (that's 1951 dollars) that he used to launch his political career, and by extension, the political careers of his son GHW and grandsons GW and Jeb.

Laura & GW Tour Auschwitz Labor Camp

Three Generations Of Bushes Arrive In Texas

Naw, Israel pwned him is all.
Bush went there to talk about Palestine, the Israelis derailed that by playing videos of the Holocaust (the ever useful battering ram that it is) and blaming the US for not running to their help faster than it did. Bush , being the low IQ idiot that he is, got teary and took responsibility for all of us for not invading quicker and was effectively side tracked by the whole issue and more than likely promised even more of our tax dollars to Israel.

And then he left without even doing what he claims he went there for. :roll: