My pitch. Hi y'all . Did I really get
Comment # 1 ? In any case, I would
to promote the concept of interviewing
average, ordinary Saudi Arabians .......

kind of see what they are thinking,
" pick their brains " so to speak .....

I think they need to be heard .

Way more than King Doooooofus
tomorrow night.

Anderson Petition

Correction ! It should go " I would
like to promote the concept ... "

Even the alternative press takes a while on these issues...finally... CONTINUE TO CALL WRITE AND VISIT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES...PHASE II OF THE SSCI SHOULD BE MOVING FORWARD SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE PENTAGON'S INVESTIGATION (THE WORD IS THAT THIS MOVE BE SENATOR ROBERTS WAS TO SLOW DOWN OR CONTINUE TO BLOCK THE SENATE'S INVESTIGATION) WE DEMAND THAT PHASE II BE THOROUGH...ALL FARBICATED INTELLIGENCE AND ALL THOSE INVOLVED WITH THE CREATION AND DESSIMINATION MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THIS IS THE VERY LEAST WE CAN DO FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NEEDLESSLY LOST THEIR LIVES IN THIS NEEDLESS WAR. Pentagon investigation of Iraq war hawk stalling Senate inquiry into pre-war Iraq intelligence Larisa Alexandrovna Published: January 30, 2006 Print This | Email This Douglas FeithThe second part of the Senate investigation into bungled pre-war Iraq intelligence is still being held up by an internal Pentagon investigation of Douglas Feith, one of the war's leading architects, RAW STORY has learned. As previously reported by Raw Story, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) inquiry -- titled Phase II -- is waiting on a report from the Pentagon inspector general as to Feith's alleged role in manipulating pre-war intelligence to support a case for war. Feith, who is also being probed by the FBI for his role in an Israeli spy case, resigned in January 2005. More broadly, a RAW STORY investigation has found that Feith's access to classified information and his alleged wrongdoing can likely be laid at the feet of more senior officials in the Bush Administration -- namely Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- who would have had to have overruled Pentagon background checks to reissue Feith's clearances after he was booted from the National Security Council for allegations of espionage in the mid 1980s. Advertisement Feith is out of the country and could not be reached for comment. Senate and intelligence sources say that although the Phase II investigation into Iraq pre-war intelligence is stalled, the real issue is a "revolving door" policy which allowed a coterie of Iraq war hawks to shuttle in and out of the Pentagon despite their involvement in myriad intelligence-related scandals. At the heart of the Senate Intelligence Committee's delay is the fact that Feith and the Defense Department refuse to provide documents and witnesses to the Committee. Senate sources say that Feith and the Pentagon have made the case that they will not share any information until the Senate provides them with full documentation of what the investigation is looking into, documentary evidence that Senate staff have acquired, and any other key findings that Feith's lawyers believe should be made available to them. The Intelligence Committee is investigating possible violations of the 1947 National Security Act, which requires the heads of all departments to: "(1) keep the congressional intelligence committees fully and currently informed of all intelligence activities, other than a covert action (as defined in section 503(e)), which are the responsibility of, are engaged in by, or are carried out for or on behalf of, any department, agency, or entity of the United States Government, including any significant anticipated intelligence activity and any significant intelligence failure; and (2) furnish the congressional intelligence committees any information or material concerning intelligence activities, other than covert actions, which is within their custody or control, and which is requested by either of the congressional intelligence committees in order to carry out its authorized responsibilities." But according to Senate sources, instead of forcing the release of documents, Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Pat Roberts (R-KN) has deferred to the Pentagon's Inspector General, allowing the Pentagon to investigate itself, Feith and its clandestine Office of Special Plans. Feith played a prominent role in the Office of Special Plans, a unit of the Pentagon that collected information favorable to the Administration's case which purported that Iraq was harboring weapons of mass destruction. The Pentagon Department of Public Affairs did not return calls seeking comment. This lack of oversight has caused great concern among many former military and intelligence sources. One former intelligence source point to "a bigger can of worms" that a Feith investigation may unravel, pointing to the Israeli spy case -- in which Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin passed classified information to a pro-Israeli lobby -- and to the Defense Department's own inability to address security breaches. Franklin and AIPAC Much of the current concern over security breaches stems from the case of Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Larry Franklin, who has recently plead guilty to passing classified information to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). But Franklin seems to be a new face on the block when one considers the past involvement of higher level officials. Some intelligence sources have described Franklin as a "patsy" who is to take the fall for a much more insidious history and questionable activities by more senior officials. The Franklin leak is hardly an isolated incident. In 1978, the current head of the World Bank and former Deputy Defense Secretary Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was investigated for passing classified information through AIPAC, the same organization that Franklin is charged with passing state secrets to. Wolfowitz, who at the time was working for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), was himself brought in by yet another high level alleged leaker, Richard Perle. Perle, too, is being investigated in the current AIPAC case. Perle, who most recently served as chairman of the Pentagon Defense Policy Board and quietly resigned after the AIPAC case broke, was alleged to have passed on highly classified information to the Israeli embassy when he was a foreign policy aide for Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson in 1970. Perle was instrumental in bringing Feith into several positions, starting in the early 80s. By the mid-1980s Feith was relieved of his clearances for allegations of passing secrets to AIPAC, bringing the question of clearances full circle. Rumsfeld seen to reinstate clearances Despite their checkered past, Rumsfeld's Pentagon reissued clearances to Feith, Perle and Wolfowitz. Clearances were also issued to several of Feith's consultants, some of whom were major players in the Iran Contra scandal. The Iran Contra scandal implicated then-President Reagan, Vice President George H. W. Bush, and nearly the entire senior level of the administration in a weapons trafficking operation in which the US sold arms to its avowed enemy Iran. The money was then funneled to the Contras in Nicaragua, a group of anti-communists fighting the then seated regime of the Socialist Sandinistas, in order to subsidize a grassroots uprising. Feith's team of consultants included such Iran Contra luminaries as Michael Ledeen and his go-to Iran arms merchant, Manucher Gorbanifar. One former intelligence source said only an official of Rumsfeld's seniority could reissue clearances after they had been revoked. "The DOD has its own security investigators, as all departments do, and they generally follow the same [strict] guidelines," the source said. "But if Rumsfeld says I want these guys on payroll, the security guys fold." Therein lies the rub. Military and former intelligence sources say that if the Pentagon reissues clearances to the same group of people who have repeatedly been accused of espionage, its ability to further investigate itself for the breach of those clearances is compromised. The Senate continues to wait for the Pentagon's report on Feith and the Office of Special Plans. "Any government agency collecting and analyzing its own intelligence must inform intelligence oversight committee," a Senate aide said. 8 Comments Last Updated: 1/30/2006

The YOUNG TURKS are doing an amazing job encouraging and giving updates on the fillibuster...call them and let them know how much you appreciate their work...make a comment on air encouraging others to take part in this democracy 323- 866-8201

MICKI YOU ARE/WERE A FABULOUS CITIZEN/CHEERLEADER ON THIS IMPORTANT FILLIBUSTER ISSUE.

Did David miss the action going on in regard to the fillibuster or did I miss something?

Blunt is poster boy for why we have to get these radical republicans off capital hill. We need to make changes NOW for the environment or we and our future generations.

Lautenberg is making it #21.
Menendez will probably be #22.

On global warming, David asked:

"What private institutions, what nonprofits should be dealing with an issue of this size and reach? If this ain't a job for the US federal government--working with other national governments--what is?......I'm no seer, but it could be that a few decades down the road, George W. Bush's nonaction on global warming will be seen as more of a folly than his invasion of Iraq."

Kyoto is flawed, even the Europeans that signed on are in violations; not to mention the developing world burning fossil fuels much less efficiently than the developed world. There is simply no consensus on any cost-benefit analysis to justify an undertaking that WILL require global agreement and implementation and frankly, my dear, that AIN'T GOING TO HAPPEN!

We can't even agree on fixing `simple' single-country issue like Social Security which is less than two decades from diseaster! How do you expect people to get serious about Global Warming that MAY shorten the natural warm/cool cycle by centuries? Get real.

Just to make you feel better, you have my permission to blame Bush but only in 100 years or so! OK?

#8
Talking point- read it yesterday. BS

We can't even agree on fixing `simple' single-country issue like Social Security which is less than two decades from diseaster.

Were did you come up with that?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060130/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_state_of_the_union_7;_ylt=Ai5vrDnkILbCY4c6KsI.Er1qP0AC;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Bush Speech to Outline Energy Alternatives

Bush has been talking about these ideas since his first year in office.

And what do we have to show for it? This just proves how he talks out of his ass.

U.S Rep. John Dingell said that even with all the scandals generated by the Nazis, the Nazis will not lose control of Congress.

With rigged elections the Nazis will never lose the WH as well.

The irreligious right control the Nazi state, aka Nazi States of America.

C-SPAN 2 Go Teddy! RA! RA!

Oh my god! This is all so hard to believe! Mr. Corn you have really opened my eyes to a huge change in the world.

Jane's Addiction is now considered classic rock?

Let's get Jesus back

Bill Moyers' speech was one of the best speeches I have ever read. It was a powerful speech. As I read his speech, I wrote notes to help me highlight his words. There are many powerful ideas and so I can only share what gave me important ideas and thoughts.

Let's get Jesus back!

There are different kinds of religious denominations but even each denomination has their difference. Religion is both healing and killing. Each denomination acts like sibling rivals for God's favors. Are we killing for the glory of God? We seem to be applying military principles to evangelism. We invade countries and we say we are carrying out spiritual battles for the souls of this nation and the world. Can killing human beings save your soul? Killing human beings in the name of God will not save our souls. We are fighting current wars in the name of Jesus (that is blasphemy). General Boykin has said, "Bush was appointed by God" (blasphemy).

William Penn, a Quaker, said, "To be furious in religion is to be furiously irreligious."

The healing side of religion must overcome the killing side of religion. There are two Americas today. Laws are passed that says leave no rich child behind! Yet, we have poverty among married couples and single parent families. We have to run harder to just stay even. We cannot keep running.

Rich Americans have hardened their attitude toward poor people and middle class persons. The American system is rigged against the poor and the middle class. The Commonwealth Foundation Center for the Renewal of American Democracy has documented research that working families and the poor are losing ground under economic pressures that deeply affect household stability, family dynamics, social mobility, political participation, and civic life. Private control is taking over land, water, natural resources, media, scientific discovery, medical breakthroughs, and politics. Money is changing America. People are pre-occupied with money and the quest for money. Money has democracy in a stranglehold and is suffocating it. Money influences Washington, D.C.

Learned Hand said, "If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment. Thou shall not ration justice." The rich do not have the right to buy more democracy than anyone else. Class war is going on from the rich upon the poor and the middle class (who has said that there is no class war). The rich are shredding the social safety nets. They want more and more control and wealth. Here is a fact. Most people will have to do with less so that big business can have more. Big business has built alliances with religious right and contrived a cultural war as a smokescreen to hide the economic plunder of the very people who enlisted as foot soldiers in the war.

William Buffet said, "There was a class war, my class won." Business wins for Bush. 50% of the tax cuts go to the 1% wealthiest Americans. Domestic social programs have been cut. The rich want to starve Americans into submission. America is home to the greatest inequality of wealth in the history of mankind. Government is being stripped of any power so the rich can be rewarded and the government's only function is to wage wars so the rich can get richer. Tax cuts will force cutbacks in Social Security. This may be the first class war in history where the victims will die laughing.

Our democracy is degenerating into a shell of itself in which the privileged and powerful sustain their own way of life at the expense of other and the United States becomes another Latin America with small crest of the rich at the top governing a nation of serfs.

Poor are getting poorer, the health care crisis worsens, wealth and media become more and more concentrated, and Christianity lost its voice. The religious right has drowned everyone else out. Jesus was hijacked. This Jesus was hijacked by the religious right and became the guardian of privilege instead a champion of the dispossessed. Hijacked and made into a militarist, hedonist, and lobbyist (blasphemy) seeking tax breaks and loopholes for the powerful, costly new weapon programs that do not work, and punitive public policies.

Let's get Jesus back!

We need a Jesus who inspired
1. Edward Rogers to crusade across New England for an eight hour work day
2. Frances William to rise up against the sweatshops
3. John Ryan to champion child labor laws, unemployment insurance, a minimum wage and decent housing for the poor, ten years before the New Deal
4. Dorothy Day to challenge the Church to march alongside auto workers, fishermen, textile workers, brewery workers, and marble cutters
5. E.B. McKinney and Owen Whitfield to challenge a Mississippi system that kept sharecroppers in servitude and debt
6. A Presbyterian minister Eugene Carson Blake to protest racial injustice in Baltimore
7. Martin Luther King to join the sanitation workers for decent wages in Memphis

Now comes the resurrection all over again. Our times cry out for a new politics of justice. We need faith that takes on corruption of both parties. We need a faith that challenges complacency at all power. Jesus drove the moneychangers from the temple. We must drive them from the temples of democracy.

Let's get Jesus back!

But, let's do it in love!

Love gets thrown out casually these days. But the love I mean is the love described by Reinhold Neibuhr in his book of essays, Justice and Mercy, where he writes: "Basically love means being responsible, responsibility to our family, toward our civilization, and now by the pressures of history, toward the universe of mankind." Let us love our enemy, even as we resist his aggression. We cannot defeat terrorists if we become like them. We cannot stand up to the religious right if we imitate them.

Love is action, not sentiment. Who gave us the authority to change the meaning of the Church? How did we let creed override compassion? When the Church was young and fair, and the people passed by her doors, they did not comment on the difference or the doctrines. Those stern and taciturn pagans said of the Christians: "How they love another!" Peter said of the first Churches, "Above all things have unfailing love toward one another." Love covers a multitude of imperfections.

Glenn Tinder reminds us that "none are good but all are sacred." Life is not fair and it is never equal. The founders were speaking of powerful spiritual truth that is the heart of our hope for this country. They saw America as a great promise but America is a broken promise and we are here to do what we can to fix it. St. Augustine shows us how: "One loving soul sets another on fire." (Let us have loving souls so we can set America on fire with our love for each other.) To move beyond sentimentality, what begins in love must lead to justice. Your Call to Renewal is the fight of our lives. (More Christian blood will flow in the twenty-first century than the previous twenty centuries.)

Parentheses are my personal comments.

Let's get Jesus back comments

After reading Bill Moyers' speech, Let's get Jesus back, I tried to summarize his speech and hopefully, I was able to highlight some of his thoughts. Here are my personal thoughts of Bill Moyers' speech.

The religious right is not Christian because they are glorified with murders and wars. They are the killing side of religion. I sensed something was wrong but I could not put a handle on what was wrong. Bill Moyers clarified what was wrong in America. Rich Americans have hardened their attitude about the poor and the middle class. They hate the poor and the middle class. They have disrupted the families by making them more dysfunctional. Families cannot even live on two incomes. Greed has changed America.

There is only justice for the Bushes, big business, and the rich with the help of the religious right. There has been a class war that has been orchestrated by the rich to gain more wealth. There are no social safety nets for Americans. The Bushes, big business, and the rich do not want Americans safe; they want Americans fearful of their own shadow.

Bush will never leave the White House because business wins with Bush. There will be no presidential elections in 2008.

We are becoming more like Latin America. No wonder why we have kept the School of the Americas for all these years. We were practicing so that Americans will be more like Latin Americans.

The Bushes, big business, and the rich with the aid of the religious right have hijacked Jesus and they have defamed Him.

America has a serious problem because both the democrats and the republicans are corrupt political parties. There is no one in either party that is inspired by Jesus to help make America, a better nation.

The Bushes, big business, and rich do not love. They hate the poor and the middle class. Christianity is dead in America because the religious right preaches bushianity, the faith of hatred, murders, torture, and wars. Americans are a lost people under the control of the Bushes, big business, and the rich.

Exxon Mobil Corp. reported today that its 2005 earnings totaled $36.13 billion, the largest annual profit ever for a U.S. company.

Exxon Mobil profits is the key reason why Bush will never leave the WH. Bush is good for business and business will be good to Bush by keeping him in the WH forever.

Diebold is a business and with Diebold's rigged electronic voting machines they will solidity Nazi victories forever and ever.

Nazi America's path is at the edge of the abyss that leads to hell.

I second the motion!

Killing Iraqis Must Be a Glorifying Experience

The Circus Is in Town

well, what do you know - yahoo.com of all people is exhibiting a modicum of spinal fortitude

Experts Claim Official 911 Story Is A Hoax

They (experts) are encouraging news services around the world to secure scientific advice by taking advantage of university resources to verify or to falsify their discoveries. Extraordinary situations, they believe, require extraordinary measures.

If this were done, they contend, one of the great hoaxes of history would stand naked before the eyes of the world and its perpetrators would be clearly exposed, which may be the only hope for saving this nation from ever greater abuse.

^^^^^^^^^^6
does this mean that not accepting a blatant falsehood can now be lifted from the realm of 'conspiracy theory'?

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Mad Wars

#4 thanks, kathleen...In fact, I returned from downtown a few minutes ago. I took my cell phone and my husband's cell phone and the list of local phone numbers for Senators Cantwell and Murray downtown at lunchtime here on the Wet Coast and buttonholed likely suspects and asked them if they'd call the Senators about the filibuster.

I got 29 people to call -- they identified themselves as constituents -- and voiced their opinion on my dime.

I wish I would have done this earlier! But, it works! Try it sometime!

The Nazi States of America is a weapon of mass destruction.

The Nazi American Legacy

oops..West Coast. But, hey. Wet Coast works, too!

War is a defeat for humanity. John Paul II

There's got to be a reason

This was just a battle. Not the war.
We learned something very fundemental gang, the blogs connect us. The fanatic Republicans are not going to win. We can make a difference. We did make a difference. Those senators know we are watching.

It's official - Alito will be voted in tomorrow because we couldn't get enough for a filibuster - we are doomed...

"Another one bites the dust"

Filibuster is dead!!! Kennedy who was for abolishing the filibuster in 98, who has filp/flopped in favor of it now, couldn't rally the troops.

With Howard Dean spending all the money in the coffer for Dems and Harry Reid being outed as an Abramoff hack by none other than Dean, looks like the liberals are falling apart once again.

Jeanne #28

You are making a difference, keep it up! The more work you lefties do, the more votes we get on the right!!

Cloture vote 72-25: now thats gonna leave a mark!!

Filibuster Over.

We Win.

America Wins.

You Lose.

As Always.

The LBHers and GOPhers of the world are ecstatic because they think they have more reason to continue to be the FUCKers of the world. Too bad they'll take the rest of us down with them.

Hey, # 33

Loser.

America wins? You seriously support the judicial record of that son-of-a-bitch Scalito? Really? OMFG. I hope the next 10-year-old girl who gets stripped searched is your own child. That's gonna leave a mark.

Patriot

I'm ecstatic that only 25 Democrats caved in to the radical cat calls of the looney left to filibuster Alito who is one of the most qualified judges to be appointed to the bench.

I am ecstatic that you guys have Teddy Kennedy and John Kerry leading your party. How many times do you fools have to lose before you get it?

I am ecstatic that you have Howard Dean running and bankrupting the DNC.

I am ecstatic that howard Dean said on Sunday that any Democrat that took money from an Indian Tribe in connection with Abramoff is a problem (Harry Reid and the $63,00 he won't return).

I am ecstatic that the lefties have no ideas, issues or leaders to bring there disfunctional ideas to life.

Next we'll hear "Mission Accomplished" from the Loser-in-Chief. The mission accomplished? Reeling in and controlling his salivating mindless followers.

He can't even win a war against a broken-down military. But his locksteploserlemmings follow him because they get their rocks off pushing people around.

He can't even smoke out the enemy OBL who was a sitting duck. Loser.

Losers. All of 'em.

Part of Bishop Gumbleton's speech of January 22, 2006!

This past week when I was in Haiti, I experienced once more how shattered is the moral order. It's overwhelming when you walk through the streets of Port au Prince and you see extraordinary poverty everywhere. It's extreme poverty. People hungry. People without medical care. Most children have not had the opportunity to receive schooling. I think it was dramatized for me in a very powerful way by simply one small person, a little boy. Last Wednesday when I was celebrating Mass at St. Claire's Church, the parish of Fr. Jean- Juste, after Mass when I walked down to mingle with the people, one small youngster came up to me, a little boy, and greeted me, a big smile on his face. But when I looked at him I noticed his hair was reddish brown, which is a sign of terrible malnutrition. But he doesn't even know how his growth has been stunted, how his life has been cut short because he doesn’¥ have enough to eat. Heartbreaking. And it really did kind of break my heart to see the smiling child and know that his future has already been taken away from him because you never recover from that. When you're malnourished as a tiny child you'll never recover. And that's the way it is for most of the children of Haiti. Most of them are malnourished, even extremely malnourished. And so you see there a shattered moral order.

Or you visit, as I did, Fr. Gerard Jean- Juste in prison and there are hundreds of other prisoners like him who have committed no crime. They have perhaps, like he has, spoken out for the poor, tried to change the system so that the poor would have a chance to share in the good that God gave for all and not for a few.

And the violence that you find there. Every day people being murdered on the streets. The reign of God, obviously, has not broken forth the way that Jesus proclaimed it could and would: "The reign of God is at hand."
Even though I have experienced the shattered moral order dramatically in the last couple of weeks, I also was able to see how, because some people have changed their lives and are following Jesus like those first disciples, good things are happening. The reign of God is breaking forth. Even in that parish at St. Claire were I saw that tiny child so severely malnourished, that was the same day that the people of the parish with some help from others were able to provide, as they do three days a week, a hot meal for hundreds of children in that neighborhood. The great joy among them as they provided that meal and seeing how the children enjoyed it, that's a small sign the reign of God is breaking forth.

I met a group of people who had experienced violence and terrible suffering. They were women who had been raped or their husbands had been murdered. Rather than let that shatter their lives, they have banned together and formed a survivor's support group for themselves. And they're doing marvelous things. They've opened up, again with some help from others, a clinic so that they can provide maternal health care, provide for newborns and their families. They've even opened up a small school so that these children can begin to get some education. Once more, it's a sign of how people following Jesus -- reaching out to support one another, reaching out in love for one another -- begin to make the reign of God break forth.

In the same way, my experience with the survivors of sexual abuse makes me realize that so many of them, in spite of the fact that they have not received healing from the church that they should have, have taken charge of their own lives. They've refused to let themselves continue to live in the spirit of being humiliated, being abused, and they’≤e acting on their own behalf with dignity, with love for one another and trying to bring about change within our church for the better. This too is a sign that the reign of God is breaking forth as people follow Jesus, which is a way of healing, a way of compassion, a way of love, a way of forgiveness. The reign of God happens when people begin to follow Jesus.

And so now the question is for all of us. You heard what Jesus said in the Gospel, "The reign of God is at hand. Change your lives." You know, we heard this same Gospel three years ago because we have these readings in a three year cycle. I wonder if we look back, any one of us or all of us, and ask when I heard that Gospel three years ago did I start to change my life? Has my life been changed? "how would we answer? Probably yes" for most of us. We've made some changes, but maybe not as dramatically as we’≤e asked to.

When Jonah went to Nineveh, he preached the word of God and people dramatically changed their lives. They repented of their past failures, and they began to follow God's way. Or as Paul says to the church at Corinth, "Nothing that has been ordinary in your life before can be the same." The reign of God is ready to happen, if we change our lives, if we really follow Jesus. What we’≤e asked to do is not to follow a set of rules, not to follow an institution, the church, but we're asked to follow Jesus. That's what he says to those first disciples: "Follow me."
So if each of us began to listen more deeply as he speaks to us each Sunday through the scriptures or in our daily reading of the scriptures, if we really listen deeply with our hearts and spirit, if we really began to understand better who Jesus is and how he lives, how he acted, really look at Jesus as a model, how dramatically we could change our lives. And the more and more that happens, the more the reign of God will break forth. Jesus came to bring good news to the poor, to give the blind new sight, set the downtrodden free, proclaim God's year of favor and that's what he's asking everyone of us to do. Follow him. Do the same things that he did in his life, and then the shattered moral order can be restored and repaired. The power of evil will no longer be dominant. The reign of God could happen and will happen.

And so as we leave the church today, I hope that everyone of us will hear ringing in our hearts those words of Jesus, "The reign of God is at hand. Proclaim the Good News. Change your life. Follow me."
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

(The shattered moral order in the Nazi States of America and in the world will never recover from Nazi Americans' reign of terror upon the human populations.)

What kind of a sadistic son-of-a-bitch spends his days getting his jollies shoveling his shit on this blog to taunt true Americans?

X

You complain about an old law that alows a strip search of a ten year old girl but you lefties support pedophiles that rape children and get 60 days communities service because they can't get the proper treatment in jail. This was a current case result in the east coast by a liberal judge. The conservatives and moderates threatened to impeach him and guess what e revised his sentence to 10 years. Thats your judicail record-asshole!!

Patriot

You can cry & bitch all you want, but again-we won-you lost!!

Patriot #39

Bitch slappin you Patriot is rather fun!

When we follow Jesus and his words, "Love one another as I have loved you," no one loses. God is the light and the path for His reign and our eternal salvation. "With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26!

So many failures...let me count the ways

bush will be yammering about how he has ensured America's safety since 9/11 in his SOTU. Well, he's a total failure in that regard.

JAMES RIDGEWAY points out that bush stated, while addressing the NSA last week, "We know that two of the hijackers who struck the Pentagon were inside the United States communicating with Al Qaeda operatives overseas. But we didn't realize they were here plotting the attack until it was too late."

Why not? Ridgeway said: "In fact, the government ought to have been fully aware of the two hijackers, since the FBI's main informant in the Muslim community in San Diego was socializing with them, and actually rented an apartment to one of them. Why didn't the FBI know what was going on? When the Congressional Joint Inquiry sought to find out what was going on, the FBI refused to produce the informant to testify and blocked all attempts to bring him forth into the public. The government didn't need any NSA surveillance program to find these hijackers."

"The administration had other priorities -- domestically the interests of the airline industry, internationally the interests of the military and oil industries -- the safety of U.S. citizens simply was not the priority. Instead of coming clean about their failures, the government has covered up and has attacked whistleblowers. The 9-11 commission swept these issues under the rug. Instead of admitting the government's failure, President bush now attempts to assert more government power over the citizenry he failed to protect."

Shalom

Here is more reality!

Here is what America and the world need in order to attain peace and justice on our planet for all of God's children. Here is also what I believe God wants for His children and His vision for the world.

Shalom translated means peace but it is much more than peace. Shalom is a vision of social wholeness; a state of well being for all, where everyone has access to the goods of creation intended to meet the needs of all. Shalom is the substance of the biblical vision of one community embracing all creation where all enjoy the resources that make communal harmony joyous and effective.

Shalom is nothing less than God's intended vision of the world, a dream of God that resists our tendencies for division, hostility, fear, lust, and misery. If there is to be well-being, it will not be just for the isolated and insulated individuals, it is security and prosperity granted to the whole community - the poor, the widow, the orphan, the immigrant, the tax collector and the sinner, the despised and the rejected, young and old, the have and the have nots, the powerful and the dependent. We are in it together. Together we stand before God's blessings and together we receive the gift of life. Shalom comes only to the inclusive embracing community that excludes no one.

incompetence bush-style

Sibel Edmonds wrote the recent article: "Illegal and Indiscriminate Spying Hurts Our National Security, Here Is Why."

Edmonds said today: "According to numerous reports and audits released by entities such
as Inspector General Offices of agencies that deal with national security and various presidential commissions, today, more than four years after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, almost all our national security related agencies are in disarray, riddled with incompetence, corruption, and in some cases criminal activities.

While most of the real problems facing our national security today stem from gross mismanagement, inefficiency, incompetence and a lack of sensible policies and vigorous oversight, the bush administration insists upon blaming these deficiencies on a ... lack of power in the executive branch. But the kind of power the administration pursues is the kind of power that would vault the presidency to monarchical status and nullify the Bill of Rights."

Nazi America's shattered moral order reigns and it will forever reign. Nazi America is a morally broke nation!!!

In January of 2000 I told a taxi driver that Condi would be the next Secretary of State.

J. Michael Luttig will be the next Supreme Court Justice. Then either Priscilla Owen or Janice Rogers Brown.

Start doing your opposition research.

Lew Rockwell

Dear Cornposters:

I had an opportunity to listen to Lew Rockwell and Karen Kwiatkowski on RBN. I have tried to write down notes to share with you. Some of my words are in parentheses.

Lew Rockwell says USA freedom in Iraq means the USA rules and it is not freedom for the Iraqis. Osama bin Laden is not speaking on the tapes according to a language specialist (Lew mentioned the name but I was not able to write it down). Republicans want bigger welfare and a bigger police state. Everything that the government does to you is with a gun to your head. People who want to run our lives work for the government. Democrats are not as tyrannical as the Republicans. Republicans are big spenders, for more wars, and less freedom for Americans. Lew Rockwell was a Republican. Carter was better than Reagan. Reagan was a fraud. Carter functioned more as a Republican in being fiscally more responsible.

Democrats are less warlike. Reagan expanded government and he ran to as a person who wanted smaller government. He lied to Americans. Reagan was a bigger spender as governor of California. Pro-life Reagan as governor instituted funding for abortions. He looks like St. Francis of Assissi in comparison to Bush.

The war in Iraq was planned well before March, 2003. Bush in February, 2001 said that the central theme of his administration was to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Bush was called a fascist dictator on the program. Attacks on American soil are good because our government gains more control and power. Our government gains in power because the people want our government to have more control over their lives. Working for the government you become part of the band of thieves that make up the government.

There is hope but we must stop the government’≥ all out power grab. If we do not stop governmental power, all hope will be lost. Our government was terrorized with the demise of the cold war and our government had to create more fear in order to control Americans.

Lincoln was a fascist dictator and his administration was a fascist regime. In the Wilson administration people were put in jail for teaching German (Who wants to learn Arabic so they can go to jail for teaching it).

Bigger government is less in control and less powerful. It is less stable and it can tumble down. Big government has the problems of how to control the people and they spend time worrying about keeping control instead of really governing and helping the people to be more effective. Government creates problems; it does not resolve problems. Government is too stupid to understand these facts. The government is effective in killing people. Our empire is too unstable. We have to push back big government. People will eventually come to hate big government.

Having foreign workers come to America is fine but they cannot automatically receive welfare, health care, and education that strain the states’†budgets. The workers need to be here for a time period before their families arrive and receive some help.

The Shah of Iran was not a nice person but he was our person. Iran wants the atomic bomb as a deterrent so other countries would not attack it. Our government lies about Iran. Our government is nothing but a lie from the top to the bottom.

Our government is approaching the killing of one million people in Iraq. Saddam Hussein never killed one million of his people (Who is the real terrorist Bush or Saddam Hussein). We also attacked Iraq because Saddam Hussein was transferring their money to Euros and that would weaken the American dollar.

(I believe that Nazi America is a totally evil nation.)

Sincerely,

Gerald

F**king children! Ha, Ha, I won and you lost - sort of sums up the mentality of the folks that agree with the Criminal-In-Chief.

The proof will come in time...unfortunately, I do not want to have to say "I told you so" - I would rather be proven wrong - but we'll see our civil liberties thrown in the waste basket in the name of security, the rich will keep getting richer on the backs of the poor and the middle class and we WILL NOT BE SAFER.

Patriot,
I remember in 1960's when the Democrats were at the zenith, when LBJ push through civil rights. Some democrats knew that the end of power for the Democrats.
Now, there are people at the Heritage Foundation and at the Federalist Society trough shoveling food onto their plates at the celebration...and there is one person who is turning to the other and saying "This is the end of the neocon era."
And he's right.
You take away abortion you better be ready to put National Heath Care in place and welfare and all the other things that go with it.
And, as I watched the Young Turks and the callers called in many many were people about my age (51). They were pissed. Guess what? Those people are political. They know how to do grassroots campaigns and thats how people like Paul Wellstone get elected.
Bill,
Do you know how many phone calls went into the Senator's office. You tell your friends to be very very afraid. Laugh if you want. I'm smiling.

Gerald

If you think the USA is so evil then why don't you get the hell out? Could it be that you depend on evil taxpayers to support you and feel that such a move would force you to depend on yourself? Just curious!

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few."

"In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive [President] is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war...and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both: James Madison - 4th President of the USA.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11718.htm

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"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.": P. J. O'Rourke - (1947- ) US humorist, journalist, & political commentator

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The greatest of fault, I should say, is to be conscious of none: Robert Carlyle (1795 - 1881).

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Thanks ICH Newsletter!

So Bill, are you going to put the rat poison in Justice Kennedy's coffee or are you going to let Ann Coulter do it?

In time religion and churches will be taxed to give more money to the rich.

I love America but I will never say America right or wrong!!! When I believe America is wrong, I will tell it like it is. Yes, America is the most evil nation in the history of the universe.

Rebels with a cause
GOP libertarians like New Hampshire Sen. John Sununu are fighting Bush -- and their party -- over the Patriot Act.

The Republican National Committee began running over the weekend a hard-hitting television spot that lacerates Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid for leading a pre-Christmas filibuster that prevented the rubber-stamp renewal of the Patriot Act. (In the ad, "Our Security Is Threatened" ominously fills the screen for several seconds.) Karl Rove previewed this line of attack in mid-January when the White House political svengali stressed to the RNC, "Republicans want to renew the Patriot Act and Democratic leaders take special delight in proclaiming they've killed it. That's an issue worthy of public debate."

When George W. Bush inevitably launches into a "my opponents are weak on national security" attack Tuesday night in his State of the Union Address, a clever TV producer might order up a reaction shot from first-term New Hampshire Republican Sen. John Sununu. Make no mistake, the mild-mannered, 41-year-old Sununu is an authentic conservative -- not one of those Northeastern moderates sneeringly referred to as a "RINO," a right-wing epithet standing for "Republican in name only." Rather Sununu is also emblematic of an under-appreciated libertarian strand in his party. And he and Idaho's Larry Craig are the leaders of a quartet of GOP senators who are standing up to the White House over the Patriot Act, scheduled to expire Friday, but likely to be briefly extended as the battle over its future continues.
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I think I just heard the facade hit the ground.

Flan

Sorry to rub it in, I know it hurts tremendously to spend days, and days, and days of your life blogging about a non-issue like a filibuster. Then at the last minute brought to an almost climax by John Kerry and Teddy Kennedy only to be let down, in such a big way, by there pathic tatics to please you lefties for future votes.

It was just like the Rove indictment, you all were so gleeful of a Rove indictment that when it didn't come-well I actually felt bad for all the wasted time you trolls spend here day after day whining and bitching.

Maybe your own children or spouses could have benefited from some of that Cornnut time you all spend here everyday. Just a thought!

We Are Fucked

Look, I'll replace the original text later, but it seems cruelly, viciously ironic to keep it up right now.

What I want is a complete list of every scumsucking fuckstick Democratic asshole Senator who voted for Cloture. That's what I want.

I don't know what to DO with that list, not yet -- but I know for GODDAMNED sure I won't be VOTING for any of them, lt alone sending them any goddamned MONEY.

Frankly, right now I'd like nothing better than to torpedo the entire lot of them. Just dump them like so much worthless, leaden, VICHY MOTHERFUCKING BALLAST.

I got nothin', folks. Don't look over here if you want comfort or a nice, uplifting LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY speech.

I'M DONE WITH THEM. They are DEAD to me.

Yeah. CANTWELL and BYRD and LANDRIEU and BINGAMAN and every last motherfucking one of them, I'm DONE with them.
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Sounds a little pissed. What do you think Bill? Do you think that anger is going to go away?

LBH,
Babe, be prepared. November will be here before you know it. You don't know how pissed off people are. You just don't know.

Jeanne,

No, I don't think the anger will go away.

Fortunately, neither will the stupidity.

Jeanne

Please keep the anger going Jeanne, it only confirms that the 10% of the radical left is lost it completely and that the Senate needs to get rid of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to be replaced with sensible moderate Democrats that can lead for the entire party and not just the looney 10% that likes to use foul language when throwing a hissy fit.

I will be back later, when you are done playing with your pet troll.

Ciao 4 now

Have fun!

capt

Jeanne - #60,

I am not counting on the general Wal-Mart shopping public. They believe whatever they are told by the MSM and BushCo. I mean they voted for him - twice! That doesn't mean that I won't join the fight to get the Repubs out of office - it just means that I will believe it when I see it.

Jeanne

I can't wait for November. I think the voting Republicans will clean house with anyone who is in the midst of the Abramoff scandal and return to spending reductions/deficit reduction. I also think the liberal Democrats will lose all power and the moderate Democrats that take over will work with the Republicans in a bipartisan way, which will make for a good Congress. I would also be willing to replace a liberal Republican with a conservative Democrat any day.No need for anger to be sensible.

People, the answer rests with the numbers. The Democrats do not have the numbers and they will never have the numbers to beat the Nazis at any thing. That is a fact of life!!!

Our elections are rigged and they will forever be rigged in the Nazis' favor. That is a fact of life!!!

when i read the blithering idiocy of lbh, i can't help but think that those who suspect that right-winger think tanks pay young flunkies to sit around and post twaddle are true.

it's not like there's anythign entertaining in lbh's hate speech.

it's not like there's anything intelligent in lbh's ramblings.

it's not like there's anything insightful in lbh's droolings.

it's just a moron, spouting....

Flan,
I think many people vote Republican because they believe they will someday be a part of the Republican dream. And they never will. I think reality is becoming more clear every day. They are losing their jobs. They are losing their children to the War in Iraq. They don't have health care. They can't afford the low prices at Wal-Mart.

The fanatic Republican party has sunk its own ship. Minnesota is one of those states that predicts the future and we are becoming very progressive.

Howard,
He dreams of a double breasted suit.

“Samuel Alito’s record tells us that the rights and liberties of every American will be significantly weakened over the decades that Alito is likely to serve on the Supreme Court. His well-documented record is why he was supported so enthusiastically by far-right activists. If he is true to that record, he will side far more often with the rights of the powerful against the powerless, favor corporations and big government against the rights and privacy of individuals, seek to roll back a woman’s right to choose, and undermine legal protections for women, immigrants, minorities, and Americans with disabilities. He will stand aside while the executive branch claims excessive power to intrude on Americans’ privacy and legal protections, but will vote to restrict the ability of Congress to protect the health, safety and welfare of Americans and our communities. " People for the American Way President Ralph G. Neas 1/13/06

'nuff said.

Flan,
Really I think we are hyperdriving into a very progressive time. There is that saying 'be careful what you wish for'. I think the Republicans in the senate and Sam Alito are too smug to sense trouble brewing. I'm not so sure I'd want to be sam Alito. He's going to spend decades being hated even before he rules on his cases. Can you imagine when he starts ruling on anti abortion issues and affirmative action issues and civil rights issues?

Jeanne,

Well, I hope you are right, but I am feeling pessimistic right now. I marched for the ERA Ammendment in 1980 - 1981 and we thought the same at the time. That was at the beginning of the Reagan era and we are seeing the direct result of the seeds that were sewn in the 80's. Let's hope that the Progressive seeds that might be taking root right now won't take 25 years to germinate - I don't think our country could take 25 years of this!

Bet then again, I think about Susan B. and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the others who worked and struggled, went to jail and went on hunger strikes to bring voting rights to women. I think about the civil rights marchers who were beaten and killed to bring equality to the South. When I keep them in mind it gives me the motivation I need to keep fighting to make things better, not only for myself but for my children and their children.

Never give up, never surrender!

Jeanne

If Clarence Thomas could put up with years of ridicule by the left for a made up pubic hair on a coke can I think Alito can hold his own with the likes of the intellectuals on the left.

Howard

Not only did you lose, you even suck at name calling.

Gee LBH, what a goal - to not suck at name calling. You go girl!

What the wingers don't realize is that they also lost today. In the future, when they want to voice their negative opinion about their government, would they feel secure knowing that their government has the power - no they have that already - the AUTHORITY to spy on them at will? Will they feel secure knowing the Library could be required to report what books they have checked out?

The Republicans are messing with the very foundation of this country's form of government - all for a quick, very powerful fix. This will back fire - on all of us.

Flan

You trolls get so tempermental when you lose, have some dignity for once and take it like a man. You go dude!!

Flan

What does the authority to spy on us have to do with the filibuster? No wonder you people lose on so many issues, you can't focus!

LBH - If you don't know...I'm not going to tell you - You are totally clueless.

Flan,
Think of how many people are out there who are our ages. Kids are gone and plenty of time to devote to an election. People our age care about the generations younger than us.
I think part of the problem with the Democratic Party is the leadership behind the scenes. They are old white men. That's what I've noticed in my area. They shut down new ideas. Either those kind of people come on board or they step aside. They are the ones who are pushing the senators into stupid "careful" decisions. When I went to my district caucus I got really angry. I walked out of there at the end of the day thinking that the last thing I wanted to do was get involved and have to deal with somebody shutting down really good ideas. What a waste of my time.
Next time around either I see some fresh faces or I go to another party.

uh huh, there's another one...

How would you grade Bush's overall performance?
F 45%
A 17%
B 16%
D 15%
C 6%
Total Votes: 186,850

Is the state of the union better or worse since Bush has taken office?
Worse 64%
Better 29%
The same 8%
Total Votes: 186,325

On bush's watch, we have lost a lot:

On bush's watch:
1) he has started the first preemptive war in our history
2) our environment has deteriorated
3) our economy is crippled
4) we have lost a budget surplus
5) we have astronomical debt
6) he has burdened our children with massive deficits
7) he has broken the laws of our nation with illegal spying on citizens
8) he has unnecessarily sent our soldiers to their deaths --over 2,300 of our soldiers have lost their lives in a war of choice
9) his "leadership" has created a culture of hate
10) he has squandered our national prestige around the world
11) he has curtailed Constitutional freedoms
12) he has condoned torture
13) greed and unbridled animosity is at unprecedented levels
14) our nation's integriy, dignity, credibility -- and our word -- has been squandered
15) he mocked our military with his "Mission Accomplished" top-gun stunt
16) he has started an under-the-radar war on women and their rights
17) he has allowed the religious right to tell us who we can and cannot love
18) he has allowed Southern Christian men to hold the fate of our courts
19) he has cracked the wall between church and state
20) he has failed the citizens in one of our most historic cities
21) he has used, knowingly, false intelligence as his casus belli for an unnecessary war
22) he has failed our veterans
23) he is setting the groundwork to undo laws that protect the environment, privacy, speech
24) he is setting the stage to rollback and undo laws that protect/assist the disabled, seniors, veterans, children who have been damaged by toxic waste
25) he has failed minorities
26) he has referred to our Constitution as "that goddamned piece of paper"

And that list is only a partial list of the damage inflicted on American citizens

So, yes, we are losers -- every single American is a loser under bush -- we lose consistently because his leadership and policies are detrimental to the health of our Nation

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1 : one that loses especially consistently

Jeanne, you are right on that account - I feel lucky to have Russ Fiengold, at least. While I am a registerd independent, I would never vote Republican after what I have seen over the past 10 - 20 years.

I say we need instant run-off voting to bring power to the third parties, public financing of all elections - no private finacing - and real lobbying reform. However, The R's will never do it, they're too greedy. The D's won't either - they're both greedy and spineless. So where does that leave us? Back to the 3rd parties. But with the electoral system the way it is, 3rd Parties are dead weight It's a vicious circle.

Micki

You need a new record girl, the one you're playin has been broken for a long time.

However, you did get the loser: one (cornut)that loses especially consistently, correct. Good job!!

Here's an article I have been waiting for. My daughter has an individual health care plan. She was asked if she wanted a savings plan to go with it. There is a big push for it now.

It's a bank account, pure and simple. That's all it is. I heard a report on it on NPR and the people in the business are all excited about it. It means lots and lots of business. Is it good for the consumer? Who cares?

The Truth About Health Savings Accounts

President Bush will use tomorrow's State of the Union address to promote "health savings accounts" as a solution to America’≥ health care crisis. Multiple studies have shown that HSAs are likely to increase the number of uninsured and increase health care costs, all while costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. In other words, President Bush is proposing to do for health care what he's already tried with Social Security - placing more of the cost burden on individuals, while making the system more attractive to the wealthy but less effective for ordinary Americans who need health coverage most.

HSAs LIKELY TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF UNINSURED: According to the Commonwealth Fund, health savings accounts are "not likely to be an important contributor to expanding coverage among uninsured people" because most of uninsured Americans "do not face high-enough marginal tax rates to benefit substantially from the tax deductibility of HSA contributions." Another study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that Bush's proposal finds that the number of people who would lose coverage due to employers drop health insurance or reducing the amounts they contribute toward their employees "health insurance costs would likely exceed the number of uninsured people who would gain insurance."

LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME AMERICANS GAIN LITTLE OR NO TAX SAVINGS FROM HSAs.

HSA USERS PAY MORE OUT-OF-POCKET COSTS: Individuals with "Consumer-driven" health plans (CDHPs) and high-deductible insurance plans (HDHPs) are "more likely to spend a larger share of their income on out-of-pocket health care costs plus premiums than those in comprehensive health plans. According to one study, "more than two-fifths (42 percent) of individuals with HDHPs and 3 in 10 (31 percent) in CDHPs spent 5 percent or more of their income on out-of-pocket costs plus premiums in the past year, compared with about 1 in 10 (12 percent) in comprehensive health plans."

HSA USERS MORE LIKELY TO AVOID, SKIP, OR DELAY HEALTH CARE BECAUSE OF COSTS.

HSAs WILL UNDERMINE EMPLOYER-BASED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.

HSA EXPERIMENTS HAVE FAILED IN OTHER COUNTRIES: Just as Americans learned of the pitfalls of Social Security privatization from experiences in Chile and the UK, so we can learn about the flaws of President Bush's health care proposals from South Africa and Singapore, which both implemented versions of HSAs. A study by the Harvard School of Public Health analyzed the health savings accounts enacted in Singapore and found they had “£aused financial hardship for Singapore's citizens and "adversely affected the cost-effectiveness of its health care system." Likewise, in South Africa, which has "a decade's worth of experience with similar consumer-driven health plans," - the cost of specialty care has increased 43 percent, the cost of hospital care is up 65 percent, and uninsured rates have "continued to grow rapidly."

And last but not least....

HSAs TO ENRICH FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY: The New York Times reports, "Banks, credit unions and money management firms are now quietly positioning themselves to become central players in the business of health care" by offering HSAs, tapping into the "$75 billion or so in new money to manage [that] will soon be at stake." According to the Times, "banking lobbyists have met with White House officials at least three times over the last year to discuss the rules governing health savings vehicles," and have now established a lobbying group, the H.S.A. Council, and "are spending millions of dollars to roll the plans out."
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Rip off the average American any way you can. You know these sharks are just drooling over this plan.
You know what's really amazing is that they don't even realize how apparent it is to the average citizen that this is a money making scheme. They don't even care anymore how transparent they are being. Either that or they are so out of the mainstream that they don't realize how transparent they are being.

flan and Jeanne --

Maybe I'm a dreamer, and not that I like Ross Perot, but he made a pretty decent run as a 3rd party candidate. Maybe the time is now!

We need someone who would be willing to put up a 3rd party fight from the center/left and fight like hell. I betcha lots of us would back a VIABLE candidate who fought for our values.

Alan,
In that first poll, 84082 responded giving Bush an F. That's a lot of people.

Is the state of the union better or worse since Bush took office?
In that one, 119,248 people out of 186,325. That's just bad.

#87 Micki...Gore should run as an independent

Kathleen,
I'd vote for him.

Kathleen,
Did you get on the Young Turk show? Were you Kathy the soccer mom?
How about Kate from Ohio who didn't get on?

#32 Bill your attitude is arrogant and childish.

Here is the question I was asking myself all weekend...why did Kennedy and Kerry wait so long? Did they think if they started two weeks ago that would give the Republicans more time to threaten with the "NUKE OUR CONSTITUTION OPTION" or what? Many organizations have been working on this issue for months encouraging voters to call...write their representatives. Why did Kerry and Kennedy wait until the end to launch this stance?

Jeanne...yes...what a great job the Turks are doing....although the same question for them..why did it take so long to launch their effective movement?

It remains more important than ever to hold the Senators and congresscritters accountable for their votes, actions and associations with the corrutping influences that have stole the nation from "We the People".

The activism, the letter-writing, the public one-on-ones cannot stop. With each "victory" the repugnicons and the demoralacrats will drive more and more people in to the camp of opposition. Wait'll SCOTUS starts deciding that adult women are no longer free to choose to carry a pregnancy to term. Just wait until they pass down rulings that dis-allow a terminally ill human to choose the time and manner of his passing.

It won't be long...

-T

For those gloating on this site about the Alito confirmation, what did you expect? This is not
an accomplishment. Neither was Roberts. The Republicans hold a 55-45 vote majority. Even most of the Democrats were admitting he would be confirmed. A judicial accomplishment would be that of Clarence Thomas. He was confirmed with a 52-48 vote when the Democrats held the majority in the Senate, 56-44.

For those on this site who participated in the move to rally for a filibuster. While I may disagree with your cause, I applaud you for it.
Next time, please find a better person to lead it. Senator Kennedy is a joke to most people outside of Massachussets and to many within the state. His rants on the filibuster were really an embarassment. I know you can't necessarily pick the one to lead the support for your cause, but Kennedy was one of the worst to speak for it.

Micki...Gore should run as an independent

yeah, and Patrick Fitzgerald for vice !

I feel bad for Kennedy's current girlfriend. We all know what happens when he decides to drown his sorrows.

Al Gore should not run as a 3rd party candidate, if you want to defeat the Republican nominee. Perot got 19% of the vote in 1992 and at least 15% of that were Republicans who were pissed at 41 for breaking his no new taxes pledge. Gore will do exactly what Perot did. Get most of his support from Democrats disgruntled with their party's nominee and a certain percentage of indies. Perot became a has been when Republicans found a new enemy in Clinton, and even that wasn't enough for them to elect Dole. Gore should give it (the Democrat Party) a shot, then maybe decide on a 3rd party slot, depending on his showing in the Dems primaries. I actually think he would have a shot.

whatever
no biggie smalls...we lost the Alito thing but the lie can only hold for so long
I like to believe that there is enough of a percentage of FoxRepublicans that can be swayed by finally realizing dressed up bullsh*t is still just dressed up bullsh*t. Any neocon gloating on Alito needs to remember that he wasn't the first choice...can I get a Missing Person report filed for a Miss Harriet Myers please? Where did she go? Do you neonuts really think none of the FoxRepubs noticed that bait and switch?
Gas companies are posting record profits!
Gas prices are crushing US citizens!
Democracy in the Middle East has given Al Sadr and Hamas power, and like the little kid that didn't get his way the US is grabbing its ball and playing with other kids!
The social security debacle failed!
Budget cuts on medical issues concerning the elderly did not go unnoticed!
So yeah...you got one more conservative extremist out there...good job
You call only keep a secret between two people and only if one of them is dead...the REDS might have the day now but believe me fellow Libs "Time is on our side."

Gloating or not, that is in the eyes of the beholder....To the perpetual Lefty losers at the Corn blog, most anything said by the `winners' will be construed as gloating! Why the Dems decided to put on a third-rate show on the Titanic is really the question.

By now, the so-called progressive Left has so screwed up the Dem party, instead of having 2 or 3 viable national candidates for 2008, it now appears to have none!

To David and all you Corn lefties, my sincere thanks! This cyber window into the thought process of the extreme Left has been uplifing in so many ways. Instead of just being my usual Happy self, I now find myself, often, in extreme Happiness everytime I think of you folks saddling yourself with what would have been my fair share of anger & sadness. Your compassion is to be commended!

No, I am not gloating! I really feel this way and I am indebted to David's groupies.

I would like to suggest that our best strategic attack would be to find out if the talk radio political programming that basically surmounts to campaigning can fall under any campaign reform laws. Pretty sure that it'd be any easy case to make that 99% of tak radio is nothing more than a paid advertisement for the Right
We can't change the die hard Neocons but I really think that the FoxRepubs are just a confused group that got drawn in by a lot slogans and powerful visuals...maybe not a bright lot these dittoheads but not outright evil either and possibly worth saving
well, at least enough to break the vote cycle
just saying...

so Happy, why not Myers?

and how about those democratically elected terrorists?

huh, hypocrite?

are we shunning democratically elected officials now?

Kathleen,
Here's an article you would be interested in.

Pentagon investigation of Iraq war hawk stalling Senate inquiry into pre-war Iraq intelligence

The second part of the Senate investigation into bungled pre-war Iraq intelligence is still being held up by an internal Pentagon investigation of Douglas Feith, one of the war's leading architects, RAW STORY has learned.

As previously reported by Raw Story, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) inquiry -- titled Phase II -- is waiting on a report from the Pentagon inspector general as to Feith's alleged role in manipulating pre-war intelligence to support a case for war. Feith, who is also being probed by the FBI for his role in an Israeli spy case, resigned in January 2005.

More broadly, a RAW STORY investigation has found that Feith's access to classified information and his alleged wrongdoing can likely be laid at the feet of more senior officials in the Bush Administration -- namely Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- who would have had to have overruled Pentagon background checks to reissue Feith's clearances after he was booted from the National Security Council for allegations of espionage in the mid 1980s.

Feith is out of the country and could not be reached for comment.

Senate and intelligence sources say that although the Phase II investigation into Iraq pre-war intelligence is stalled, the real issue is a "revolving door" policy which allowed a coterie of Iraq war hawks to shuttle in and out of the Pentagon despite their involvement in myriad intelligence-related scandals.

At the heart of the Senate Intelligence Committee's delay is the fact that Feith and the Defense Department refuse to provide documents and witnesses to the Committee. Senate sources say that Feith and the Pentagon have made the case that they will not share any information until the Senate provides them with full documentation of what the investigation is looking into, documentary evidence that Senate staff have acquired, and any other key findings that Feith's lawyers believe should be made available to them.

The Intelligence Committee is investigating possible violations of the 1947 National Security Act, which requires the heads of all departments to:

"(1) keep the congressional intelligence committees fully and currently informed of all intelligence activities, other than a covert action (as defined in section 503(e)), which are the responsibility of, are engaged in by, or are carried out for or on behalf of, any department, agency, or entity of the United States Government, including any significant anticipated intelligence activity and any significant intelligence failure; and

2) furnish the congressional intelligence committees any information or material concerning intelligence activities, other than covert actions, which is within their custody or control, and which is requested by either of the congressional intelligence committees in order to carry out its authorized responsibilities."

But according to Senate sources, instead of forcing the release of documents, Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Pat Roberts (R-KN) has deferred to the Pentagon's Inspector General, allowing the Pentagon to investigate itself, Feith and its clandestine Office of Special Plans. Feith played a prominent role in the Office of Special Plans, a unit of the Pentagon that collected information favorable to the Administration's case which purported that Iraq was harboring weapons of mass destruction.

The Pentagon Department of Public Affairs did not return calls seeking comment.

This lack of oversight has caused great concern among many former military and intelligence sources. One former intelligence source point to "a bigger can of worms" that a Feith investigation may unravel, pointing to the Israeli spy case -- in which Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin passed classified information to a pro-Israeli lobby -- and to the Defense Department's own inability to address security breaches.

Franklin and AIPAC

Much of the current concern over security breaches stems from the case of Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Larry Franklin, who has recently plead guilty to passing classified information to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). But Franklin seems to be a new face on the block when one considers the past involvement of higher level officials. Some intelligence sources have described Franklin as a "patsy" who is to take the fall for a much more insidious history and questionable activities by more senior officials.

The Franklin leak is hardly an isolated incident.

In 1978, the current head of the World Bank and former Deputy Defense Secretary Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was investigated for passing classified information through AIPAC, the same organization that Franklin is charged with passing state secrets to.

Wolfowitz, who at the time was working for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), was himself brought in by yet another high level alleged leaker, Richard Perle. Perle, too, is being investigated in the current AIPAC case.

Perle, who most recently served as chairman of the Pentagon Defense Policy Board and quietly resigned after the AIPAC case broke, was alleged to have passed on highly classified information to the Israeli embassy when he was a foreign policy aide for Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson in 1970.

Perle was instrumental in bringing Feith into several positions, starting in the early 80s. By the mid-1980s Feith was relieved of his clearances for allegations of passing secrets to AIPAC, bringing the question of clearances full circle.

Rumsfeld seen to reinstate clearances

Despite their checkered past, Rumsfeld's Pentagon reissued clearances to Feith, Perle and Wolfowitz. Clearances were also issued to several of Feith's consultants, some of whom were major players in the Iran Contra scandal.

The Iran Contra scandal implicated then-President Reagan, Vice President George H. W. Bush, and nearly the entire senior level of the administration in a weapons trafficking operation in which the US sold arms to its avowed enemy Iran. The money was then funneled to the Contras in Nicaragua, a group of anti-communists fighting the then seated regime of the Socialist Sandinistas, in order to subsidize a grassroots uprising. Feith's team of consultants included such Iran Contra luminaries as Michael Ledeen and his go-to Iran arms merchant, Manucher Gorbanifar.

One former intelligence source said only an official of Rumsfeld's seniority could reissue clearances after they had been revoked.

"The DOD has its own security investigators, as all departments do, and they generally follow the same [strict] guidelines," the source said. "But if Rumsfeld says I want these guys on payroll, the security guys fold."

Therein lies the rub. Military and former intelligence sources say that if the Pentagon reissues clearances to the same group of people who have repeatedly been accused of espionage, its ability to further investigate itself for the breach of those clearances is compromised.

The Senate continues to wait for the Pentagon's report on Feith and the Office of Special Plans.

"Any government agency collecting and analyzing its own intelligence must inform intelligence oversight committee," a Senate aide said.
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Sorry about the length. It is an article I think many people on this blog would be interested in reading.

kinda screws up the Far Right march through the middle east doesn't it?

look...to be a modern day Republican you have to believe that a political party that hasn't been in any position of real power in recent history is somehow responsible for all the ills in the world...thats just stupid

still happy?

listen to Limbaugh long enough and you really expect him to claim that Liberals cause cancer

what would happen if the propaghanda machine got shut down awhile...what if the people started seeing what's really behind the curtain?

like shooting ducks in a barrel
come on troll fight back

I been gone awile

#100
Happy,
You don't think we haven't been analyzing you?

Ed,
Speaking of oil profits. The company execs refused to testify in front of congress this week. How do you think that plays out with the constituents back home?

Oil execs refuse to testify at U.S. Senate hearing

Officials from six major oil companies have refused to testify this week at a Senate hearing looking into whether oil industry mergers in recent years have made gasoline more expensive at the pump.

With oil companies reporting record profits from higher energy prices, consumer groups have complained that mergers in the industry have stifled competition...

...The Senate Judiciary Committee, which is holding the hearing on Wednesday morning, said it asked representatives from Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Valero Energy and the U.S. units of BP and Royal Dutch Shell to tell their side of the story.

"All declined the invitation to testify," the committee said in a statement on Monday, without providing details.

The companies, with the exception of Valero, took a beating at a Senate hearing last November on the industry's soaring profits at the time and high energy prices.

Bill Kovacic, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, is scheduled to testify at Wednesday's hearing.

The FTC is investigation whether oil companies manipulated gasoline prices and oil refining production levels. The agency plans to finish its probe and send its findings to Congress this May.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal will also testify.

The price for gasoline jumped 2.1 cents over the last week to a national average of $2.36 a gallon, up 45 cents from a year ago, the government said on Monday.
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how appropiate! I'm watching on PBS a documentary about the Nuremberg Trials.

The blogs are naming names. I can tell you right now, the next election is not going to be pretty.

Thanks Democrats. Love Sam."

Any Certified Financial Consultant will advice clients to ALWAYS have some Energy stocks or mutual funds! Unfortunately, some prefer to `mark' Big Oil as the Big Enemy; all the while feeding hundreds of dollars to them. Unwise and Illogical/Irrational/Knee-Jerky. It is nice to occassionaly make enough trading oil stocks (by the end of Janaury) to pay for a full year's of gas bills for 3 vehicles!

Facts for Trailing 12-month Revenues, Profits, Profit Margins, Company:

$5.25 Billion, $1.30 Billion, 24.8%, Google
$61.7 Billion, $7.8 Billion, 12.6%, Proctor&Gamble
$40.0 Billion, $12.9 Billion, 32.3%, Microsoft
$371 Billion, $36.1 Billion, 9.7%, ExxonMobil

It seems Exxon needs to bring its margin up some to at least match the risks involved in making detergent & toothpaste

TRH is right about the whole Alito non-event! Lots of smoke but no fire! The Left just don't have enough issues to work on to give the American people real choices so it keeps on flagellating itself! Masochists!