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Holy Clown’s Nose: Rumsfeld Advised Bush to Take Up Miniature Golf!

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3 Don Davis Says: Holy Clown’s Nose: Rumsfeld Advised Bush to Take Up Miniature Golf!
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Makes sense. He convinced him to adopt the Miniature Presidency. His stature in History will certainly reflect this.

This man speaks the truth.

Bush and the united states government since its inception, have big one of the largest terrorizing forces in the world. But in a democratic republic such as ours, we get the government we deserve and the people who let monsters into power are just as culpable as our leaders who propagate crimes against the world.

Do American buildings suffer the same structural deficiencies as older Chinese buildings? A baby was subpoenaed for a chiropractor bill. The IRS screwed up certain rebates. This just in: video games don't
cause violence.

Great video bluegal. Really gets you thinking about who the real terrorists are in this sick game we are living in. Any research is appreciated.

5 Spike Obama Says: This man speaks the truth.

Bush and the united states government since its inception, have big one of the largest terrorizing forces in the world. But in a democratic republic such as ours, we get the government we deserve and the people who let monsters into power are just as culpable as our leaders who propagate crimes against the world.

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I would agree with you entirely if we had an informed populace. If we had an open and impartial media. If the Pentagon did not have people pretending to be impartial on tv telling us bullshit. If this was not the most sophisticatedly manipulated "free" people in the history of the planet.

Otherwise i would agree entirely.

The House defunds
the war.

Let's not kid ourselves. The Senate will not follow suit.

Living in America today means being under constant psycological attack. Its a wonder we aren't all squating in a corner somewhere, glassy eyed, rocking back and forth, repeating the phrase "I'm lovin' it".

I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

* Of my two "handicaps" being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.

* My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.

* Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deep seeded, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

* We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.

* In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.

* The United States was said not to be ready to elect a Catholic to the Presidency when Al Smith ran in the 1920's. But Smith's nomination may have helped pave the way for the successful campaign John F. Kennedy waged in 1960. Who can tell? What I hope most is that now there will be others who will feel themselves as capable of running for high political office as any wealthy, good-looking white male.

* At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

* I am, was, and always will be a catalyst for change.

* There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

* One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.

* ... rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

* Prejudice against blacks is becoming unacceptable although it will take years to eliminate it. But it is doomed because, slowly, white America is beginning to admit that it exists. Prejudice against women is still acceptable. There is very little understanding yet of the immorality involved in double pay scales and the classification of most of the better jobs as "for men only." (1969)

* Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

* Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. (attributed -- also attributed to Marian Wright Edelman)

* I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

* The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

* When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom profit that loses.

* It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

Tequila @ 9:

The House defunds
the war.

They tried to add funds for education and the reslugs say they're playing games. Yeah. Well that makes sense now that I understand I'm living in bizarro world.

xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 8:

5 Spike Obama Says: This man speaks the truth.

Bush and the united states government since its inception, have big one of the largest terrorizing forces in the world. But in a democratic republic such as ours, we get the government we deserve and the people who let monsters into power are just as culpable as our leaders who propagate crimes against the world.

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we have an informed populace. they simply choose not to act because they can't see any benefit. or they're lazy, or they feel powerless, or they have an 8' by 5' confederate flag hanging over the front of their house.
I would agree with you entirely if we had an informed populace. If we had an open and impartial media. If the Pentagon did not have people pretending to be impartial on tv telling us bullshit. If this was not the most sophisticatedly manipulated "free" people in the history of the planet.

Otherwise i would agree entirely.

Heard about this on Mike Malloy tonight: Postville, IA Kosher meet packing plant raided by ICE--illegals (Guatemalans, Canadian rabbis (!)) plus meth lab seized!!

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108541.html

Anyone tried Kosher meth? Is it worth the extra $$ for the blessing?

Does it really give you "higher" authority?

xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 8:

5 Spike Obama Says: This man speaks the truth.

Bush and the united states government since its inception, have big one of the largest terrorizing forces in the world. But in a democratic republic such as ours, we get the government we deserve and the people who let monsters into power are just as culpable as our leaders who propagate crimes against the world.

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I would agree with you entirely if we had an informed populace. If we had an open and impartial media. If the Pentagon did not have people pretending to be impartial on tv telling us bullshit. If this was not the most sophisticatedly manipulated "free" people in the history of the planet.

Otherwise i would agree entirely.

we have an informed populace. they simply choose not to act because they can’t see any benefit. or they’re lazy, or they feel powerless, or they have an 8′ by 5′ confederate flag hanging over the front of their house.

sorry for the earlier mistake. I'm trying out Firefox. not so likeable.

Way to go Dad!!!

“The Democrats are the reason we have high prices at the pumps, and we’re not going to be able to alleviate that until we start producing again in America,” Inhofe added. “And I knew this was happening way back, well 10 years ago, when President Clinton vetoed the bill that would have allowed us to drill in ANWR. I said on the Senate floor that day 10 years ago that in 10 years we would regret this. It’s now 10 years later.”

[Clinton. (Oil Per Barrel) 1998 11.61]

I would agree that people feel powerless. That is part of the program.

"You can't fight City Hall!"

MargeAggedon @ 13:

Tequila @ 9:

The House defunds
the war.

They tried to add funds for education and the reslugs say they're playing games. Yeah. Well that makes sense now that I understand I'm living in bizarro world.

the repugs actually voted down war funding because the bill contained social benefits. maybe it's a good thing pelosi made them expose themselves. maybe.

with the next terrorist threat to America,the American people should
without condition or hesitation offer up bush and cheney body and soul
immediately to the terrorist to deal with personally.

L.A. Confidential @ 18:

“The Democrats are the reason we have high prices at the pumps, and we’re not going to be able to alleviate that until we start producing again in America,” Inhofe added. “And I knew this was happening way back, well 10 years ago, when President Clinton vetoed the bill that would have allowed us to drill in ANWR. I said on the Senate floor that day 10 years ago that in 10 years we would regret this. It’s now 10 years later.”

[Clinton. (Oil Per Barrel) 1998 11.61]

Gasoline in 1998 sold for $1.03 per gallon

OK it's too easy, but who is that in #12. I am offering a genuine round tuit for the correct guess.

L.A. Confidential @ 22:

L.A. Confidential @ 18:

“The Democrats are the reason we have high prices at the pumps, and we’re not going to be able to alleviate that until we start producing again in America,” Inhofe added. “And I knew this was happening way back, well 10 years ago, when President Clinton vetoed the bill that would have allowed us to drill in ANWR. I said on the Senate floor that day 10 years ago that in 10 years we would regret this. It’s now 10 years later.”

[Clinton. (Oil Per Barrel) 1998 11.61]

Gasoline in 1998 sold for $1.03 per gallon

that's the same guy who says there's no global warming, right?

Our country is being allowed to implode upon itself. We are losing our way.

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 24:

that's the same guy who says there's no global warming, right?

Right.

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 12:

do you have any original thoughts. please just direct us to the article.

From Wiki Answers (I kid you not!):

Who was the first black female elected to Congress?
In: Famous People

turgood marshell

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 23:

OK it's too easy, but who is that in #12. I am offering a genuine round tuit for the correct guess.

Yeah, when you get around to it.

US warns China over weapon links in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan

Pat J @ 25:

Our country is being allowed to implode upon itself. WeThe GOP are losing ourHAS LOST THEIR way.

27 dadams Says: CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 12:

do you have any original thoughts. please just direct us to the article.

Nice.

Was that an original question or was it cut and paste?

xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 32:

27 dadams Says: CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 12:

do you have any original thoughts. please just direct us to the article.

Nice.

Was that an original question or was it cut and paste?

MAYBE

30 L.A. Confidential Says:

US warns China over weapon links in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan

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Or what? We won't borrow any more money?

xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 34:

30 L.A. Confidential Says:

US warns China over weapon links in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan

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Or what? We won't borrow any more money?

We might be cut off after the earthquakes.

No. We will protest their Olympic Torch!

That's what we'll do!

In case you did not believe me here is the Wiki Answers:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_was_the_first_black_female_elected_to_Cong...

Here's what I want to know: Is the Media going to question and hound Hillary to reject, renounce and repudiate all the voters, specifically the ones on tape and generally all the others who feel the same, that wouldn't vote for Obama because he's black or they think he's muslim? I want a clip of Hillary saying "If you are voting for me, because my opponent is black, I don't want your vote."

Is that too much to ask?

As long as you have reasonable requests why don't you try getting a Mazerati wil a life time bumper to bumper warrenty?

xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 36:

No. We will protest their Olympic Torch!

That's what we'll do!

They will bespending all available money on their "INFRASTRUCTURE."

shirley chisholm??

Sitting behind a white Bronco at traffic light the other day I noticed the vanity plate. It said...NOT OJ

Ron, i happened along a National Geographic today. The entire issue was about China. Their entire infrastructure is already screwed and they are spending very little to fix it. The Yellow River is a mess. They built a dam to help it out, it only made things worse. The engineer who built it said the best solution he could come up with was to blow it up.

Janet @ 42:

Sitting behind a white Bronco at traffic light the other day I noticed the vanity plate. It said...NOT OJ

I watched a great movie tonight, "The Grear Debaters," with Denzel Washington. Perhaps it is something like that was the inspiration for Barak Obama.

xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 43:

Ron, i happened along a National Geographic today. The entire issue was about China. Their entire infrastructure is already screwed and they are spending very little to fix it. The Yellow River is a mess. They built a dam to help it out, it only made things worse. The engineer who built it said the best solution he could come up with was to blow it up.

Might be true, but now they don't have too many choices.

The Yellow River is the most important river in China.

http://www.china-tour.cn/China_Map/Yellow_River_Map.htm

It is a polluted mess. A Republican's wet dream on unregulated sewage.

Ron @ 44:

Janet @ 42:

Sitting behind a white Bronco at traffic light the other day I noticed the vanity plate. It said...NOT OJ

I watched a great movie tonight, "The Grear Debaters," with Denzel Washington. Perhaps it is something like that was the inspiration for Barak Obama.

We will have to look for it on Netflix. I have seen it advertised a lot lately.

I talk of freedom
You talk of the flag
I talk of revolution
Youd much rather brag
And as the decibels of this disenchanting
Discourse continue to dampen the day

The coin flips again and again, and again,
And again as our santity walks away

All this discussion
Though politically correct
Is dead beyond destruction
Though it leaves me quite erect
And as the final sunset rolls behind the earth
And the clock is finally dead
Ill look at you, youll look at me
And well cray alot
But this will be what we said
This will be what we said

Look where all this talking got us baby.

-Live, White, Discussion

For Whose Freedom? Veterans for Peace not welcome at Armed Forces Day parade.

xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 46:

The Yellow River is the most important river in China.

http://www.china-tour.cn/China_Map/Yellow_River_Map.htm

It is a polluted mess. A Republican's wet dream on unregulated sewage.

Repugnantcants believe in unregulated chaos. They are only out for what can make them a profit. I see in my crystal ball a large increase in suicides as the markets crash.

"Known as the mother river by all the Chinese people, the 5,464-kilometer (about 3,395 miles) Yellow River is the second longest river in China after the Yangtze River ."

I know i could make a fortune editing translations for the Chinese:

"Rich cultural relics, history and gorgeous natural sceneries make the Yellow River a fine place to visit. Along the Yellow River, there are dozens of worthwhile attractions. They are stretching arms and waiting for your visiting!"

Ron @ 29:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 23:

OK it's too easy, but who is that in #12. I am offering a genuine round tuit for the correct guess.

Yeah, when you get around to it.

so you don't know?

L.A. Confidential @ 30:

US warns China over weapon links in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan

what? no darfur?

Turgid Marshells?

xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 51:

"Known as the mother river by all the Chinese people, the 5,464-kilometer (about 3,395 miles) Yellow River is the second longest river in China after the Yangtze River ."

I know i could make a fortune editing translations for the Chinese:

"Rich cultural relics, history and gorgeous natural sceneries make the Yellow River a fine place to visit. Along the Yellow River, there are dozens of worthwhile attractions. They are stretching arms and waiting for your visiting!"

Did you ever read the story of the Yellow River by I P Freely?

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 52:

Ron @ 29:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 23:

OK it's too easy, but who is that in #12. I am offering a genuine round tuit for the correct guess.

Yeah, when you get around to it.

so you don't know?

I'll let you know when I get around to it.

No, but i did read Rusty Bedsprings by I.P. Knightly.

tr @ 41:

shirley chisholm??

righteeeyo! You get the round tuit!

did you follow the link? or was it a good guess?

Janet @ 49:

For Whose Freedom? Veterans for Peace not welcome at Armed Forces Day parade.

I can't wait for the uniform to be officially changed to brown shirts.

Ron @ 56:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 52:

Ron @ 29:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 23:
Yeah, when you get around to it.

so you don't know?

I'll let you know when I get around to it.

too late!

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 60:

Ron @ 56:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 52:

Ron @ 29:

so you don't know?

I'll let you know when I get around to it.

too late!

You mean I won't win a round tuit?

"But organizers say the group is too political and that's not what the parade is about."

What do they think marching around in uniforms is?

Janet @ 47:

Ron @ 44:

Janet @ 42:

Sitting behind a white Bronco at traffic light the other day I noticed the vanity plate. It said...NOT OJ

I watched a great movie tonight, "The Grear Debaters," with Denzel Washington. Perhaps it is something like that was the inspiration for Barak Obama.

We will have to look for it on Netflix. I have seen it advertised a lot lately.

I just bought it! don't give the ending away.

61 CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory Says: xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 54:

Turgid Marshells?

???????????????

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Its a joke. Go look at the Wiki Answers link i posted.

xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 63:

"But organizers say the group is too political and that's not what the parade is about."

What do they think marching around in uniforms is?

organizers say...

reporting like that makes me scream sometime. my kid thinks I'm nuts.

xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 63:

"But organizers say the group is too political and that's not what the parade is about."

What do they think marching around in uniforms is?

Suppressing any descent ring a bell? The control of the message is very important. Orwell rolls in his grave. If you don't see it in the news, Is it news? Faux producer. Google it.

Boosh's BFF bin Laden will have a new message on Israel.
Don't be surprised boosh's golf pal endorses Obama. Uh oh! all those hillbillies who think Obama is a Muslim are now really gonna think he's a super Muslim tuuurrhist.

Yaawwwn. the bush team needs some new writers .

Check it out, Seems a lot like one of the remainng candidates and shares a gender with the other.

That is not reporting. That is stenography at best.

"Joe Schmoe, a member of the Chamber of Commerce since the Joe McCarthy Era said from his oxygen tent that the group is too political and that’s not what the parade is about.”

Now that's reporting!

i knew shirley chisholm's story from her presidential run in the 70's.

Hypocrisy on Hamas

McCain Was for Talking Before He Was Against It.

Uh how come the "news" isn't allowed to report that Senator Prescott Bush had his assets seized by the U.S. Government for trading with Hitler's Germany. They don't teach you about that in school do they. Nor do they teach you about the 1953 assassination in Iraq. Why do they hate us? Blowback. Anyway McCain was in like la la land today claiming we won the "war" in Iraq by 2013? WTF? Bush has been more disgusting then usual. I've never ever hated a human being so much.

Actually what kills me about that article is:

"David Jenkins, who served four years in the Navy, says they have no interest in causing problems on parade day."

So why wasn't he asked when he was going to get around to causing problems?

When are we going to get around to causing problems?

Post American @ 75:

Uh how come the "news" isn't allowed to report that Senator Prescott Bush had his assets seized by the U.S. Government for trading with Hitler's Germany. They don't teach you about that in school do they. Nor do they teach you about the 1953 assassination in Iraq. Why do they hate us? Blowback. Anyway McCain was in like la la land today claiming we won the "war" in Iraq by 2013? WTF? Bush has been more disgusting then usual. I've never ever hated a human being so much.

They are not human beings. They are pod people, human beans.

humans beans... good wit bacon but not whirled peas...

75 Post American Says: Uh how come the “news” isn’t allowed to report that Senator Prescott Bush had his assets seized by the U.S. Government for trading with Hitler’s Germany. They don’t teach you about that in school do they. Nor do they teach you about the 1953 assassination in Iraq. Why do they hate us? Blowback. Anyway McCain was in like la la land today claiming we won the “war” in Iraq by 2013? WTF? Bush has been more disgusting then usual. I’ve never ever hated a human being so much.

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Pick up a copy of Howard Zin's People's History of the United States and find out all the other things they don't teach us in school.

http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States-1492-Present/dp/0060...

Howard Zinn on the Ludlow Massacre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6kuvBnNNUs

Ron @ 68:

xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 63:

"But organizers say the group is too political and that's not what the parade is about."

What do they think marching around in uniforms is?

Suppressing any descentdissent ring a bell? The control of the message is very important. Orwell rolls in his grave. If you don't see it in the news, Is it news? Faux producer. Google it.

EliteLemming @ 79:

humans beans... good wit bacon but not whirled peas...

how about some fava beans and a good chianti?

Ron @ 44:

Janet @ 42:

Sitting behind a white Bronco at traffic light the other day I noticed the vanity plate. It said...NOT OJ

I watched a great movie tonight, "The Grear Debaters," with Denzel Washington. Perhaps it is something like that was the inspiration for Barak Obama.

Oprah produced that movie, didn't she?

StirFry @ 70:

Boosh's BFF bin Laden will have a new message on Israel.
Don't be surprised boosh's golf pal endorses Obama. Uh oh! all those hillbillies who think Obama is a Muslim are now really gonna think he's a super Muslim tuuurrhist.

Yaawwwn. the bush team needs some new writers .

I was wondering when the CIA would come up with a new tape? CNN will of course provide an accurate and complete translation

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 83:

EliteLemming @ 79:

humans beans... good wit bacon but not whirled peas...

how about some fava beans and a good chianti?

The human beans don't make you fart. What about fave beans or whirled peas?

Since this is open thread, may I just say that I hope that Karl Rove's butt is in jail real soon!

Here's a link to a couple movies when you have time... They are both older but very relevant...
One's old school Moyers, x, I haven't seen the whole thing yet, it but looks really good.

http://getintheirface.blogspot.com/2006/06/robert-newman-video-history-o...

LibertyLover @ 84:

Ron @ 44:

Janet @ 42:

Sitting behind a white Bronco at traffic light the other day I noticed the vanity plate. It said...NOT OJ

I watched a great movie tonight, "The Grear Debaters," with Denzel Washington. Perhaps it is something like that was the inspiration for Barak Obama.

Oprah produced that movie, didn't she?

She was one of several.

Human beans can't afford gas...

Are you calling Bush a giant TUM?

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 85:

StirFry @ 70:

Boosh's BFF bin Laden will have a new message on Israel.
Don't be surprised boosh's golf pal endorses Obama. Uh oh! all those hillbillies who think Obama is a Muslim are now really gonna think he's a super Muslim tuuurrhist.

Yaawwwn. the bush team needs some new writers .

I was wondering when the CIA would come up with a new tape? CNN will of course provide an accurate and complete translation

Wolf Blitzkrieg is on it already !

Ron @ 86:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 83:

EliteLemming @ 79:

humans beans... good wit bacon but not whirled peas...

how about some fava beans and a good chianti?

The human beans don't make you fart. What about fave beans or whirled peas?

Human beans give you the shits.

I was just reading through that thread with Tweety tuning up Kevin James. I was surprised that no one brought up the fact that the U.S. has been negotiating with the third member of the Axis of Evil , North Korea, and has been supplying economic aid in order to get them to abandon their nuclear arms program. Guess old George must be a first class appeaser.

xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 81:

Howard Zinn on the Ludlow Massacre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6kuvBnNNUs

thanks. it's so amazingly sorry, American history is.

LibertyLover @ 87:

Since this is open thread, may I just say that I hope that Karl Rove's butt is in jail real soon!

find a politician with nads first.

Ron @ 93:

Ron @ 86:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 83:

EliteLemming @ 79:

how about some fava beans and a good chianti?

The human beans don't make you fart. What about fave beans or whirled peas?

Human beans give you the shits.

you have to pick them from a different pod.

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 97:

Ron @ 93:

Ron @ 86:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 83:
The human beans don't make you fart. What about fave beans or whirled peas?

Human beans give you the shits.

you have to pick them from a different pod.

The pods are all infected.

xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 81:

Howard Zinn on the Ludlow Massacre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6kuvBnNNUs

more on ludlow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp2BK7pKJOI&feature=related

Ron @ 98:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 97:

Ron @ 93:

Ron @ 86:
Human beans give you the shits.

you have to pick them from a different pod.

The pods are all infected.

then you're stuck with the vegetables. no more dahmer diet for you.

What this man in the video is describing is not terrorism but fascism.

Fourteen Defining
Characteristics Of Fascism
By Dr. Lawrence Britt
Source Free Inquiry.co
5-28-3

Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread
domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.

6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.

9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 100:

Ron @ 98:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 97:

Ron @ 93:
you have to pick them from a different pod.

The pods are all infected.

then you're stuck with the vegetables. no more dahmer diet for you.

I gave up on the dahmer diet when I found out that many of his main courses were Vietnamese.

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 96:

LibertyLover @ 87:

Since this is open thread, may I just say that I hope that Karl Rove's butt is in jail real soon!

find a politician with nads first.

I'll vote for Conyers.

GNA

GNA

Heartland Takes their Skepticism North of the Border
Source: National Post (Canada), May 4, 2008

Who could blame them if they sent the Mounties to the border? Who could blame them if they sent the Mounties to the border? CMD reported previously on the Heartland Institute's climate change skepticism, and its efforts to cast doubt on the overwhelming evidence of global warming. The Chicago-based, ExxonMobil-funded think tank has taken its case north of the border, sending out "more than 11,000 brochures and DVDs to Canadian schools urging them to teach their students that scientists are exaggerating how human activity is the driving force behind global warming." While Heartland says that the outreach effort is an attempt to introduce "balance" into the discussion, the Sierra Club of Canada disagrees. Spokesperson Emilie Moorhouse said, "It's alarming that an American think tank is distributing misinformation on the most important issue of our time in Canadian schools, to actually create an illusion that there is a scientific debate." Ignoring the consensus reached by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that climate change is "unequivocal" and caused by human activities, "the brochure and DVD said that scientists were 'deeply divided' about 'the notion that climate change is mostly the result of human activities.'" Heartland also sent the information packets to 200 Canadian policymakers.

No buttons limits a lemming...

LibertyLover @ 103:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 96:

LibertyLover @ 87:

Since this is open thread, may I just say that I hope that Karl Rove's butt is in jail real soon!

find a politician with nads first.

I'll vote for Conyers.

pelosi is holding him back

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 107:

LibertyLover @ 103:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 96:

LibertyLover @ 87:

find a politician with nads first.

I'll vote for Conyers.

pelosi is holding him back

Did she grab him by the nads?

Ron @ 108:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 107:

LibertyLover @ 103:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 96:

I'll vote for Conyers.

pelosi is holding him back

Did she grab him by the nads?

I think so. he sounded a bit strained this week when speaking about rove.

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 110:

Ron @ 108:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 107:

LibertyLover @ 103:

pelosi is holding him back

Did she grab him by the nads?

I think so. he sounded a bit strained this week when speaking about rove.

Was his voice sqeacky?

Ron @ 111:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 110:

Ron @ 108:

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 107:
Did she grab him by the nads?

I think so. he sounded a bit strained this week when speaking about rove.

Was his voice squeaky?

xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 10:

Let's not kid ourselves. The Senate will not follow suit.

Well, it's likely true that the Senate will draft its own spending bill, but there's no such thing as "following suit" when it comes to voting a piece of legislation down. The Senate can't pass anything unilaterally; it's not like only one house of Congress is needed for an appropriation. Unless both houses of Congress pass the exact same language, no law is passed. Meaning one house can unilaterally kill a bill, but neither can unilaterally pass one.

If the Senate passes an appropriations bill, it will then have to go back to the House of Representatives, and they will have to start over on deciding whether to pass it into law. It's likely, I suppose that all the Republicans who voted "present" will vote "yes" on the Senate appropriations bill, but we shall see.

Bush screws up the economies of the rest of the world, too.

GNA!

Now that is POWERFUL.

Jesus. That cuts right to the quick.

L.A. Confidential @ 18:

“The Democrats are the reason we have high prices at the pumps, and we’re not going to be able to alleviate that until we start producing again in America,” Inhofe added. “And I knew this was happening way back, well 10 years ago, when President Clinton vetoed the bill that would have allowed us to drill in ANWR. I said on the Senate floor that day 10 years ago that in 10 years we would regret this. It’s now 10 years later.”

[Clinton. (Oil Per Barrel) 1998 11.61]

But we Americans are the smarterest in the world. Dat's why we dun't lead ourselves. We let da markets lead us. Hmm, duz dat mean markets are smarterer dan da youmans? Well, if we let da oil companies digz up the oil in ANWR dan we can trust dem to trust da oil markets to deliber the oil to da highest bidder. And dat will gib us cheaper gasoline. I submit my intelligence to the markets.

11 EliteLemming Says: Living in America today means being under constant psycological attack. Its a wonder we aren’t all squating in a corner somewhere, glassy eyed, rocking back and forth, repeating the phrase “I’m lovin’ it”.
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Instead, everyone is on Prozac (or illegal drugs, but Shhhh... don't say I told ya.)

Nobody seems to have attempted to answer James Pence's closing question.

Would they? (our elected representatives)

... allow the FED bank to devalue our currency?

...allow the NSA to wiretap our phones?

...allow banks to foreclose on our homes?...(and bailout BEAR STEARNS)

...pass a (unconstitutional) patriot act?

...fund an undeclared war based on lies and mis/disinformation?.

So my answer is YES, they would. (not all but most) congresscritters can and do allow these "acts of terrorism" ...and many democrats are complicit!...

(Pelosi, Conyers, Reid ect...ect...are in fact appeasers...just like Bush said!

The video is no longer available. It must have been a good one!!!

If the USA is such a wonderful country, that people are fighting to get into, and is such a champion of HUMAN RIGHTS, and a BEACON of LIBERTY and JUSTICE, and TRUTH, why do you have so many enemies?

Oh, right. They hate you for your freedom (and tourism by your allies is down 40% too: guess it's for the same reason).

Nevermind.

It doesn't matter how the election turns out -- crazy rasberry ants will destroy us all!

"In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers..."

RUN!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!

A Disgraceful Farm Bill
President Bush should veto a $307 billion farm bill that rewards rich farmers while doing nothing to help the world's hungry.

A Disgraceful Farm Bill
President Bush should veto a $307 billion farm bill that rewards rich farmers while doing nothing to help the world's hungry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/opinion/16fri3.html?th&emc=th

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 124:
sorry about that. I think there was a hiccup in the C&L engine.

I know this post will get lost but I couldnt pass without thanking Mr. Pence for that video. It deserves a much wider audience.

Pat J @ 25:

Our country is being allowed to implode upon itself. We are losing our way.

would that be from a controlled demolition?

StirFry @ 70:

Boosh's BFF bin Laden will have a new message on Israel.
Don't be surprised boosh's golf pal endorses Obama. Uh oh! all those hillbillies who think Obama is a Muslim are now really gonna think he's a super Muslim tuuurrhist.

Yaawwwn. the bush team needs some new writers .

All these Bin laden tapes are compliments of the CIA. They manufacture them, or contract them out. I wonder what else they manufactured.

mccain is so stupid he doesn't realize chimpy is making him look like nut.

L.A. Confidential @ 18:

“The Democrats are the reason we have high prices at the pumps, and we’re not going to be able to alleviate that until we start producing again in America,” Inhofe added. “And I knew this was happening way back, well 10 years ago, when President Clinton vetoed the bill that would have allowed us to drill in ANWR. I said on the Senate floor that day 10 years ago that in 10 years we would regret this. It’s now 10 years later.”

[Clinton. (Oil Per Barrel) 1998 11.61]

What's your point, or is that too complicated for you?

Janet @ 74:

Hypocrisy on Hamas

McCain Was for Talking Before He Was Against It.

And here's the video
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/exclusive-video-mccain-wa_n_102...

The Democrats could base their entire ad-campaign on clips and statements of the McCain of 2008 debating the McCains of 2000 to 2006

StirFry @ 70:

Boosh's BFF bin Laden will have a new message on Israel.
Don't be surprised boosh's golf pal endorses Obama. Uh oh! all those hillbillies who think Obama is a Muslim are now really gonna think he's a super Muslim tuuurrhist.

Yaawwwn. the bush team needs some new writers .

After eight years of Bush and endless war, you think this doesn't still work?

Look for Osama videos in the fall. They'll have a picture of Osama with a picture of "my candidate Obama" spliced in there, side by side just so the half-literate mouthbreathers watching Fox can make the intended connection. Count on it. "Big dark, come soon."--Hunter S. Thompson, RIP.

None of my posts are posted. Was it something I said, like "Obama won't win the general election"?

The Party Leader
As Obama Edges Closer to the Nomination, Challenges as Top Democrat Await
By Holly Yeager 05/15/2008

Something strange is happening to Barack Obama.

The first-term Illinois senator -- who built his presidential campaign around the promise of a new kind of politics and launched a movement that drew in young voters, independents and Republicans -- is taking control of the Democratic Party.

The shift from insurgency to establishment is only natural, as Obama tightens his grip on the Democratic nomination. But, given his post-partisan pedigree, it poses many challenges.

(Matt Mahurin) Obama will be forced to reckon with the party’s old guard -– fund-raisers, elected officials and organizers, including many who rallied around Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and, before that, her husband. He must also adjust his 21st-century coalition to the notion that he has become the standard-bearer for an institution sometimes too wedded to tradition. At the same time, he will face an array of liberal bloggers and activists who have grown comfortable in their criticism of the existing Democratic leadership and are still unsure of Obama’s commitment to their progressive agenda. Oh, and then there are the Republicans.

the article is written by a concern troll, if you ask me

Oh, there they are. I was starting to get nervous. 'Cause you aren't allowed to talk about 9/11, and I thought maybe I was being banned because I not Got Hope.

galmud @ 131:

Janet @ 74:

Hypocrisy on Hamas

McCain Was for Talking Before He Was Against It.

And here's the video
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/exclusive-video-mccain-wa_n_102...

The Democrats could base their entire ad-campaign on clips and statements of the McCain of 2008 debating the McCains of 2000 to 2006

Christ, no. That might actually work. You can't throw up your hands and lose another presidential election that way.

Post American @ 75:

Uh how come the "news" isn't allowed to report that Senator Prescott Bush had his assets seized by the U.S. Government for trading with Hitler's Germany. They don't teach you about that in school do they. Nor do they teach you about the 1953 assassination in Iraq. Why do they hate us? Blowback. Anyway McCain was in like la la land today claiming we won the "war" in Iraq by 2013? WTF? Bush has been more disgusting then usual. I've never ever hated a human being so much.

Friedman unit are getting bigger.

Daily Reading pt 1...

The Rising Value of the Global Carbon Market - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/the_rising_valu.php
Recently only a pipe dream, the carbon market has exploded in recent years. Even the typically sluggish United States seems poised to adopt some form of emissions trading scheme, with all three presidential candidates stating their support for some permutation of a carbon trading initiative.
However this process continues to unfold, it will be of utmost importance that we, as a global society, are monitoring the process to ensure meaningful steps are being taken to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide we emit into the atmosphere, and to limit the impact of anthropogenic global warming.
Auctions...auctions....auctions...there must be a cost for polluting

Solar Industry Creates Scheme to Recycle Solar Panels in Europe - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/solar-panels-recycling-recycled-...
Brilliant! Instead of needlessly disposing of older PV technology, they'll be used by companies/consumers while the pioneers can transition to the lower cost higher output thin film PV...
The thin film PV is so revolutionary....if we started manufacturing it here in large quantities....talk about economic boon & free sustainable/renewable energy

Greenwash Propaganda: Clean Coal talking point: "Near Zero-Emission Free Electricity" - http://www.desmogblog.com/clean-coal-talking-point-near-zero-emission-fr...
Given that the US coal industry is responsible for about 30% of the country's total emissions of greenhouse gas, a promise of "emissions-free" electricity by 2040 means we're in for a lot of trouble if we continue to swallow the coal-is-clean talking points.

Larisa Alexandrovna: All the President's Nazis (real and imagined): An Open Letter to Bush - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/all-the-presidents-naz...
I am ashamed of you Mr. Bush. I am ashamed of those who applauded your political porn played out against the hallowed backdrop of the Holocaust. I am ashamed of those reporters with you, who between them could not muster the moral courage to call you out on your ugly rhetoric and ask you about your own family Nazi ties. You are, sir, the most abhorrent human being of my lifetime. I dare say, in the lifetime of this nation.
Hitler & Bush....Pot & Kettle....

Speaking of Bush's brownshirts...err...Blackwater's Proposed San Diego Training Facility Draws Criticism - http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-blackwater15-2008may15,0,791089....
Opponents say the firm used the names of other entities to gain permits to remodel an Otay Mesa warehouse. The firm says it needs a center to fulfill a Navy contract.

Bush’s treachery endorsed by McCain, Lieberman - http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15551.html
The Democratic response to the 'resident's speech at the Israeli Knesset this morning...The response has been swift.
McBush and his puppeteer Lieberman (right wingnut convert) are going to get spanked in the general election...

Democratic led House passes GI Bill, Bush threatens Veto...wow he just can't stop 'supporting the troops' - http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-now-newgibill.0515,0,6054465.story
The GOP, Hypocrisy's bitch.....

V LaRoche @ 133:

None of my posts are posted. Was it something I said, like "Obama won't win the general election"?

I think there are gremlins in the system this morning. I'm having similar issues.

Daily Reading pt 2...

GOP/Republicans #1 strategy for fall, a failure (gee...imagine that): Condescending to Voters, Playing to Perceived Racial Fears Does Not Work - http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/5/14/22315/4771
Voters, whether suburban, urban or rural, do not want to be condescended to by elites in Washington, DC who think that they can be swayed by ethnic and racial and just pure dirty politics. Voters do not like being treated like they are racists by anyone, particularly by a party to whom they have given their support in recent elections.
And yet the leadership of the Republican Party appears determined to continue this strategy, pledging to continue to run ads making the election about Obama, talking about immigration as a "tar baby" for Obama. The Republican Party is in the muck, in the gutter, in a place where the American people simply do not want to go. If this trend keeps up, Republicans will be lucky to only lose 20 seats in the House come November.
When the GOP starts throwing the kitchen sink at people who have lost their kitchen sinks due to Republican malfeasance/policies...their lowest common denominator propaganda doesn't work...

GOP Racism/Republican Stupidity on full display: GOP Internal Memo about Obama refers to 'tar baby' - http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0508/Tar_baby.html
Its not even calculable how useless and tired a right wingnut truly is....they have been holding this country back too long....their absolutely futile fight against all change will eventually make them and their worthless 'platforms' extinct...

Gee wonder why...GOP cancer: Party could lose 20 more seats - http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10366.html
Good riddance to empty suits and bad rubbish...

Naomi Klein: With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state. It is ready for export.
- http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20797485/chinas_allseeing_eye

8 Edwards delegates move on Thursday to Obama - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/15/121359/358
Story needs to be updated, says 6 but its actually 8...the rest (other 10/11) expected to follow shortly...

Obama Fights Back on Bush's Treasonous Words in Iraq. The Bush Administration Has Talked with Plenty of Terrorists, Like Qaddahfi, North Korea, Uzbekistan, etc. Bush Should be in Jail. He's Just Disgusting.
- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_on_el_pr/obama_bush;_ylt=Al8tWuN0...
Reagan talked to Gorbachev (while 10,000 ICBMs were locked into US), Nixon talked to China, JFK talked Khrushchev, Truman with Japanese....

Will Bob Barr Put Georgia in Play for the Democrats? - http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/politicalinsider/2008/05/will-barr-put-georg...

Clinton Superdelegate Reveals He Voted for Obama - http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000002841491

Daily Reading pt 3...

Republicans fear public has lost confidence; They fear correctly - http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-05-14-gopfallout_N.htm

Swift Boat Vet Operative Vows To "Attack Obama Viciously" - http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/swift_boat_vet_o...
Gee....speaking of worthless & bad rubbish....can someone please swift boat these idiots? How about we start up a 527 named "Americans against swift boat idiots and their propaganda"?

GOP Culture of Corruption Update: Insider trading figure has ties to Bush family - http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/532872.html

The Heartless GOP Seven merit being named the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week. That's right: seven Republican senators -- Tom Coburn (OK), Jim DeMint (SC), Jeff Sessions (AL), Saxby Chambliss (GA), David Vitter (LA), Jim Bunning (KY), and Richard Burr (NC) -- are holding up a vital AIDS bill that would save the lives of countless children and adults in Africa.
- http://gophypocrites.com/2008/05/hyp08020.html

Where Many Have Gone Before, Prius sales top 1 million - http://grist.org/news/2008/05/15/prius/
Gee....ummm...Detroit, paying attention yet?????

Yes!!! American patriot Rep. Conyers doing his job and what the American people elected him to do, hold the criminal Bush Regime accountable.

The Turd Blossom is about to hit the fan! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/conyers-on-rove-someones_n_1019...

short, simple, brilliant!
this is the sound of 2 hands clapping in front of a computer.

Anyone else having technical issues this morning? There were 122 posts on this thread a minute ago, now 115. WTF?

Rep Conyers, subpoena Dick too! Here's the evidence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I and here http://www.rawstory.com/news/2005/Cheneys_stock_options_rose_3281_last_1...

Impeach.
Indict.
Imprison.

OK, maybe its working now...

Did anyone else have the thought that maybe why Chimpy was invited to speak before the Knesset was that the Israelis were hoping for an APOLOGY for the Shrub family's decades of pain inflicted on the Jewish people, beginning, of course, with Prescott's Nazi support?

maybe one day we'll all look back and have a good laugh about the time fanatical fundamentalist evangelicals, rabid zionists and maniacal jihadis all got together and tried to bring about armageddon, just so they could all say, "told you so."

Epitaph

The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams.
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams.
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams,
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
As silence drowns the screams.

Between the iron gates of fate,
The seeds of time were sown,
And watered by the deeds of those
Who know and who are known;
Knowledge is a deadly friend
When no one sets the rules.
The fate of all mankind I see
Is in the hands of fools.

Confusion will be my epitaph.
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it we can all sit back
And laugh.
But I fear tomorrow Ill be crying,
Yes I fear tomorrow Ill be crying.

King Crimson

EliteLemming @ 11:

Living in America today means being under constant psycological attack. Its a wonder we aren't all squating in a corner somewhere, glassy eyed, rocking back and forth, repeating the phrase "I'm lovin' it".

I am Legend was satire wasnt it !

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