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open gov't? did someone say "open gov't"?

we won't have open gov't until we pass a law saying all public officials, lobbyists, international bankers and old-world royalists are required to submit to 24/7 surveillance, available free through the internet for every man, woman and child in america.

wouldn't be a bad idea, actually.

I thought it very interesting that the earlier threads had over 160 comments for the Viagra vs. birth control and over 120 comments on Larry Craig on the gas nozzle. The others only had very few, including Al Gore's on getting to a renewable energy system in 10 years. Is sex so prominent in our lives?

PZ Meyers pretty much endorsed Tevis.

This is pretty much how the Bush Administration behaves.

This is pretty much how its sycophantic media behaves.

Now, see, if I were to ever actually run for office instead of just speculating? That's how I'd want to do it, yo.

Chertoff admits terrorists are able to get into this country effortlessly.
Bush pretends to care about global warming frying Cali.

Ron @ 12:

Tequila @ 11:

Chertoff admits terrorists are able to get into this country effortlessly.
Bush pretends to care about global warming frying Cali.

Translation, October surprise.

Homeland security has no defense against Halloween costumes.

Cain't find no animation.
The cartoon is funny tho...:)

Tequila @ 11:

Chertoff admits terrorists are able to get into this country effortlessly.
Bush pretends to care about global warming frying Cali.

I just read that. Holy fabrication, Batman! Thank goodness that Chertoff (Homeland Insecurity Waffen SS commander) is on it. Never fear, we've got them on the run. The insurgency is in it's death throws.

Sniff, sniff, I smell "false flag" event ahead.

Does this mean we have to kill them here because we didn't kill them there? And if it's true maybe they'll be holding classes at our local community college under the title, "Freedom Fighting (err...I mean Terrorism) 102: The Manufacture of IED's."

Allegations that John McCain cooperated with the enemy when he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam are in JibJab video:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6181

Im sorry I mentioned the earlier threads. I does appear that we are more preoccupied with sex than politics.

I hope you like Ted Rall as much as I do.

You better go pee before you take a look at these. You might piddle in your undies.

http://www.gocomics.com/tedrall/2008/07/10

http://www.gocomics.com/tedrall/2008/07/07

A great ad/plea.

harley @ 25:

Alice X (Chomsky Nader) status quObama - change you can pretend in - @ 6:

Here Pelosi says Bush a 'total failure'.

From the "Kettle Black" File:

"You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject," Pelosi replied. She then tsk-tsked Bush for "challenging Congress when we are trying to sweep up after his mess over and over and over again."

Dick Cheney versus Nancy Pelosi Blink Count

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0O0wl_UaU8

what happened to that bizarre HR derby post of John's???

Darn! Tried to donate the $8.34 to Tevis, but the link wouldn't connect. Hope it gets fixed soon.

That guy's website is full of meaningless drivel. I fail to see anything liberal or progressive about him based on what's there. Is he seriously being recommended ??? His opposition must really really really suck.

George Bush has been the most successful president ever. He's been the best president of all time. To about 5% of the population of the country that is. His "base" is very, very pleased with the job that the Bush team has done for them. Those 5% have seen their incomes skyrocket. They've been teased befor George took over. Bill Clinton promised them the stars but only gave them the moon.
Katrina a disaster? Nope, Bushes pals have made a ton of money there.
Iraq a shambles? Not on your life. Money is being made hand over fist in that little bbq.
Yes, to the only people that really matter to Bush and his cronies, there's been nothing wrong whatsoever with the last 8 years.
I'm sure that they'd just love to carry it on into the distant future.

Here we go again, more fearmongering.

Apparently they think that well still has water in it.

Rove, this guy is really something else.

Our bases have shoddy wirework.

A day in the life of an Iraqi couple.
This is GW's doing

Looks like the top brass was roughing it(snark)
Diverting funds for comfort.

Man, I want to donate to his cause, but I can't, cause I'm Canadian.

Would it be illegal to do a donation exchange? I'll donate $25 to the local SPCA if someone else donates the same amount to Sean Tevis. The person doing this gets no real benefit from it, but the knowledge that their money went twice as far.

Has anyone wondered what this "war" in Iraq has done to the children of our troops?

Sorry but if I had any money it would be going to pay my bills. I'm lucky though, no credit cards, no student loans and no {current} health problems. We're hoping we can save enough to see a dentist in the near future. Maybe even get my eyes checked.

Daily Reading pt 1...

Finally, the EPA report (thanks for stonewalling Bush): Climate change: still bad, Report from EPA and U.S. Climate Change Science Program highlights risks of warming world - http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/7/16/17397/9735

Legacy of GWBush: Bush's Mission Accomplished Concerning the National Debt: The debt has reached $455,000 per U.S. household. As that debt grows, the United States increasingly relies on foreigners, including China and Middle East oil producers, for financing. - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/17/MN8Q11OT2M.D...
Scariest statistics you'll ever see...U.S. debt held by foreigners as of mid-2007: -- Foreign holdings of U.S. equities: $5 trillion -- Foreign holdings of U.S. corporate bonds: $3 trillion -- Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities: $2 trillion -- Foreign share of U.S. Treasury securities: 45 percent.
Worst president ever, by a long shot...

Gore Calls for Carbon-Free Electric Power - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/washington/18gorecnd.html?_r=3&oref=sl...
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, the presumptive Democratic candidate for president, immediately praised Mr. Gore’s speech. “For decades, Al Gore has challenged the skeptics in Washington on climate change and awakened the conscience of a nation to the urgency of this threat,” Mr. Obama said.
A shift away from fossil fuels would make the United States a leader instead of a sometime rebel on energy and conservation issues worldwide, Mr. Gore said. Nor, he said, would the hard work of people who toil on oil rigs and deep in the earth be for naught. “We should guarantee good jobs in the fresh air and sunshine for any coal miner displaced by impacts on the coal industry,” he said by way of example. “Every single one of them.”
“Of course, there are those who will tell us that this can’t be done,” he conceded. “But even those who reap the profits of the carbon age have to recognize the inevitability of its demise. As one OPEC oil minister observed, ‘The Stone Age didn’t end because of a shortage of stones.’ ”
Obama 08 An oil-based economy is doomed, act now and we prevail, delay at our own peril...

Energy crisis threatens U.S. survival, Gore says - http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/energy-crisis-threatens-u-s-surviva...
In a speech at Washington's Constitution Hall, Gore touched on an array of the nation's current woes, saying the economic, environmental and national security crises are all related. "I don't remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously," Gore said. Gore called on the country to produce all of its electricity from renewable and carbon-free sources in 10 years, a goal he compared to President Kennedy's challenge for the country to put a man on the moon in the 1960s.
Gore chastised those who have proposed opening new areas for oil drilling as a solution to U.S. energy problems. "It is only a truly dysfunctional system that would buy into the perverse logic that the short-term answer to high gasoline prices is drilling for more oil 10 years from now," Gore said. Read Gore's full speech > http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/07/17/climate.speech.pdf
"The United States should be making all of its electricity with renewable and carbon-free energy in 10 years", former Vice President Al Gore said Thursday.
Drilling solves nothing, we have the technology and the means, we just need a president who understand that - Obama 08

'Two oil men' to blame for high gas prices, Pelosi says - http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/17/congress.oil/index.html

No better than the 1st two jokes: Attorney General Mukasey Obstructs Justice: That Makes Two AGs in a Row -- The BuzzFlash Editor's Blog - http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/104

Time to dispense with the BS: McCain-As-War-Hero Myth - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20299.htm
So why is the McCain-as-war-hero myth so hard to unravel? By most accounts, John McCain demonstrated courage as a P.O.W., most notably by refusing his captors’ offer of early release. But that doesn’t make him a hero. Hell, McCain isn’t even a victim. When McCain was shot down during his 23rd bombing sortie, he was happily shooting up a civilian neighborhood in the middle of a major city.
McCain graduated from the Naval Academy near the bottom of his class, his father the admiral got him into pilot training school and was involved in 4 noncombat crashes.
Not even General Wesley Clark, shot four times in Vietnam, is allowed to question the McCain-as-war-hero narrative. “Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president,” he argued.

James G. Abourezk: Big Oil's Raid On the Great Plains: Bush Crony's $10 billion Oil Refinery Seeks U.S. Government Guarantees - http://counterpunch.org/abourezk07172008.html
One must ask why is a Texas corporation moving as rapidly as it has to obtain approvals for a 400,000 barrel-a-day oil refinery to be located where there is no oil? There is in fact a thimbleful of oil in extreme northwestern South Dakota, but not enough to keep a refinery busy. There is no oil whatsoever in Union County, South Dakota, which is where Hyperion is attempting to move in to establish what it calls, “a green refinery.” Putting aside for the moment the fact that there is no such thing as a “green refinery,” why Hyperion wants to establish any kind of refinery in the lush farmlands of Southeastern South Dakota is a mystery. A mystery, that is, until one looks a little closer at the Texas corporation.
What South Dakotans are facing is the fact that there is no oil dirtier than that which comes from tar sands. It is of such a low grade of crude that it has to be heavily refined. And how long the nation of Canada will stand for the pollution and energy wastage resulting from producing oil from tar sands is a serious question. This kind of extraction process produces three times more greenhouse gas emissions than does a barrel of conventional oil. The only “green” thing remaining is that which will float southward to Texas into Albert Huddleston’s bank account, leaving South Dakota, a state which now has very clean air, to live with the pollution from his refinery.
Spending for the sake of spending - the TRUE Nature of the GOP/Republicans and the Bush crime family and its culture of corruption
Well...right wingnuts....is that 'fically responsible??? Idiots...as long as the corruption & lies are Republican, its all good for them this is why Hypocrisy's bitch = republicans/right wingnuts

Why John McBush is in big trouble in November: Op-ed in New York Daily News: I'm a lifelong conservative activist and I'm backing Barack Obama - http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/07/16/2008-07-16_im_a_lifelong_...
"But here's the thing: Even if my hopes on domestic policy are dashed and Obama reveals himself as an unreconstructed, dyed-in-the-wool, big-government liberal, I'm still voting for him.
These past eight years, we have spent over a trillion dollars on foreign soil - and lost countless lives - and done what I consider irreparable damage to our Constitution.
If economic damage from well-intentioned but misbegotten Obama economic schemes is the ransom we must pay him to clean up this foreign policy mess, then so be it. It's not nearly as costly as enduring four more years of what we suffered the last eight years."

Daily Reading pt 3...

Gore Nails Problem; Posits Solution - http://www.desmogblog.com/gore-nails-problem-posits-solution
We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that’s got to change.
This will embolden - and challenge - those who still believe that the U.S. is an admirable world leader.

Why do Right wingnuts love Exxon?: Exxon Blocking Toy Safety Bill That Would Ban Phthalates in Toys - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/time-to-boycott-exxon-again.php

Ahead of their time: Danish Climate Goal 2009: World's Biggest Fleet Of Electric Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/denmark-goes-for-electric-fuelce...
They're also the happiest people on earth...

Spy Shots: Honda's Upcoming Hybrid Looks Like... a Prius - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/honda-new-hybrid-spy-shots-prius...
Kind of a combo front end Honda FCX Clarity (their hydrogen car) with a Prius back end

I'm noticing a connection between the surging fundamentalism in parts of our nation and what Bush has done to our country. Fundamentalism is an ideology and religion of the powerless poor. Bush has not only made much of the already powerless much more so, but poverty has increased under his administration. He's creating Fundamentalism, to our detriment. We need to alleviate the problem of fundamentalism in heavily fundamentalist areas like the South by increasing standards of living, an intra-US Marshall Plan, and then Fundamentalism will have less of an audience.

Anyone watching The Who tribute on vh1? Damn good stuff!

I caught this earlier too. It was awesome.

Another of my favorite bed-time tunes when I was a boy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMjl2hlTlB0&feature=related

Pelosi: "The two oil men in the White House are to blame for high gas prices" http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/17/congress.oil/index.html

McCain may truly regret poking the bear. Read more, please. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008/07/law-of-unintended-consequences.html

Speaking of flame wars with trolls, Jake Tapper at ABC has ignited one by quoting Robert Novak's column on the resurrection of Phil Gramm as a McCain adviser and surrogate.
"But you liberals always say Novak is a liar," they whine in flame.

In the spirit of those who use Jonathan Swift to defend the New Yorker, here is my modest proposal.

Our nation of whiners is threatened by Islamofacism. Robert Novak has put the McCain campaign at risk by using false anonymous sources. Life, even that beginning at conception, is endangered. Therefore, due to circumstances unforeseen by the Framers, the President is authorized, by a theory of law I may never have discussed but it was classified, to have Novak seized. His rendition will be ordered so he may be taken in a private jet piloted by Cindy McCain to Nicaragua where he can be waterboarded by Rush Limbaugh. We cannot leave this to amateurs like the Army. They might accept false sources from torture...er enhanced interrogation. Like the Steeler defensive...er Packer offensive line.

When Naomi Klein says something , you can take it to the bank , starting with her revealing investigation of the piracy of Iraq , " the largest yard sale in history " and the selling off of Iraqi State owned industries to American owned corps. , that was started with war profiteer Bremmer .
Now the Globalist Vultures , NEOCONS and groups like the Council on Foreign Relations see global warming , famine , water shortage not as a problem that we need to work together to solve , but an opportunity to DICTATE any countries sovereignty , including our own and demand in order to solve any problem , to receive aid etc etc. or to succeed in the global market , and in order for the economic plans to succeed , Sovereignty must be reduced and is a thing of the " past " .
These people are god damn dangerous and people better wake up , " DISASTER POLICY " is real and not just to ' push polices " , but to cede sovereignty and gain economic control over every country and to black mail anybody needing AID .
How FKN EVIL do you have to be to see opportunity in wealth , opportunity in pushing a policy and expanding military dominance , during times of Crises .

Conspiracy theory ? NO , HELL NO CONSPIRACY REALITY ! In their own words .

Richard Haass (CFR)- "Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty is not only becoming weaker in reality, but that it needs to become weaker. States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves, because they cannot insulate themselves from what goes on elsewhere. Sovereignty is no longer a sanctuary."