Quinn, a full-fledged member of the cocktail weenie circuit, is a finger-wagging moron who is part of the problem with the media. I wouldn't read anything past her byline.

laura bush? is this the same laura bush who's eyes sometimes have pupils of different sizes from each other?

David

Blah! Blah! Blah!

I'm sure Capt will give you kudos for such a great topic!!

James Ha

I think you have Laura Bush and Nancy (Help, I can't move my face) Pelosi confused.

"Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston," believed Pro-Life's first monument to the "act of giving birth," is purportedly an idealized depiction of Britney in delivery. Natural aspects of Spears’ pregnancy, like lactiferous breasts and protruding naval, compliment a posterior view that depicts widened hips for birthing and reveals the crowning of baby Sean’s head.

The monument also acknowledges the pop-diva's pin-up past by showing Spears seductively posed on all fours atop a bearskin rug with back arched, pelvis thrust upward, as she clutches the bear's ears with "water-retentive" hands.

NUDE britney spears SERVES AS PRO-LIFE MONUMENT
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ya, save us laura bush!

Asking the Stepford Wife to help bail out the monkey in command is tooooooooo funny! This just gets more ridiculous as the day goes by.

By the way,big "hi" to all the Corn posters. Have a great day.

Later,
th

Pande

Thanks for the response back about helping the little guy. From reading your post, it sounds like you are the little guy and seem to be whining about your own problems.

Heres the difference between us; you want to blame the government for not giving you a handout to make life more comfortable. Free healthcare, increased wages, new minivan etc. I believe that you can make this happen on your own without a handout from anyone. This is what's great about the US. I started working at age 12 and moved my way up by improving myself and not waiting for the President to help me out with a freebe. I now give these same opportunities to people who want to do the same. If you came to one of my interviews, I'm afraid Pande, you would not get the job. I will only hire people who are self motivated, enthusiastic, optimistic and willing to take risks.

So go ahead and cry about how hard it is and how your for the little guy (as you make fun of them at the same time) and I will go on to say get off your ass and help yourself.

James Ha

James, second post of Britney? Does your wife know what your doing on the internet? You one handed typer, corndog, you!

3 Troll.

8 Troll.

TROLL APPRECIATION DAY

I have to admit, some days I feel like giving up. As I slug my way through my hopeless dead end job day after day, waiting for that "trickle down" of bloated corporate greed to come my way, I lose faith sometimes.As I see the most incompetent and dangerous government in our great nations history, recklessly trampling everything that makes America great, completely unopposed by spineless democrats and a profit driven corporate media, I wonder why I bother.

But then I read or hear something uttered by a delusional conservative. I am reminded of just how dangerous these people are. I become aware that these people would like nothing less than to set up a one party dictatorship right here in the good ole USA. I hear thier words that echo the same words used by facists in Nazi Germany and a fire is reignited in my belly. Each time I hear propaganda slogans like "terrorist helper", "cut and run", "anti American" and "commie liberal", I know there is no other choice but to fight.

So thank you trolls! Keep it up! Keep up the delusional hatespeak! I need it to sharpen my resolve!

Pande

The reason people are more in debt now is because the baby boomers from the sixties like Capt, Saladin, Don, Robert, Hajji etc. would rather spend three hundred dollars a month ($600 if you own two vehs. not counting the insurance) on driving a new SUV than buying a used car and putting that $300 bucks in a ROTH IRA. The average household has 4-5 TV sets and Cable TV to go with it, that's another $50-$100 a month that could be saved. Cell phones that average about $100 a month, How about the money they spend at StarBucks? Or, how about the money they spend to eat out?

If more people would eat less and exercise more, health cost would go down, productivity at work would go up, and more money would be left in the pockets for the average guy. It's all about self responsibility, which I know is difficult for you Cornnuts to grasp!!

Corky

"I'm still waiting for that trickle down bloated corporate greed to come my way"

Corky, this is exactly what my post was in reference too. "I'm still waiting" Get off your ass and go get it!!!! F**king handouts are not the American way!!!

Delusion:
I started working in a coal mine at age 6 and worked 27 hours a day while I was beaten and whipped. I saved up my 1 dollar an hour salary and loved every minute of it.

Reality:
I worked for my rich daddy and sat around the job bothering all the poor employees with GOP talking points. Then daddy sent me to an expensive college where I spent seven years getting wasted at frat parties and avoiding being drafted into the Vietnam war that I supported rom the safety of my fraternity house.

Quinns article is another wonderful example of how the rightwingers purport to criticise Bush, or show their "independence"

I call it "praising with faint damns"

Sure, Sally, that's all he needs is a little pillow talk from Laura!

#85 this was not me(previous post)
# 89 this was not me(previous post)

I will stay polite.

Jeanne that article "Cheney invites Helen Thomas on Hunting Trip" made me laugh. What an incredible standard Helen sets for other journalist. Simple, straight forward, honest questions. What a concept.

Got a friend to call in today on the Rehms show to ask Kevin Phillips about the influence of Israel on our foreign policy and the research paper "The Israel Lobby" by Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt and its influence on the invasion (which most of us know about). This research paper is so complete and informative. ( I know I get obsessive on issues, especially ones that so many countries keep telling the U.S. really effect our ability or inability to negotiate and be diplomatic)

The lack of coverage, the silence in the american media on this paper and the influence of the Aipac lobby on foreign policy is deafening.

Thanks Micki..I saw Ledeen at a conference here at Ohio University a few years ago called the "Baker Peace Conference", ( I have no idea why he was invited to a peace conference) he was cold, calculated and an obvious right wing radical. I hope his lies and mis-deeds catch up with him

#14

Blah, Blah, Blah!!!

Same old lame bullshit comeback from liberals!!

My father is a welder by trade (also a registered Democrat) and taught me about hard work and sacrifice. I owe my success to my father for the lessons he taught me and to this day he will still not accept a handout without working for it.

Both my parents are registered Democrats and I first registered as a Democrat at age 19. I switched parties when I went to work for a small business owner that showed me how to start my own small business and that Democrats were not pro-small business. This is because they like unions and taxes so much. I also never belonged to a fraternity, so much for your lame ass comeback!!!

LBH, happy, child laborer or whoever you claim to be today:

You have no idea who you are talking to ASSHAT! I have forgotten more about hard work then you will ever know. I have worked my ass off since I was 14. I have worked 18 hour days in dangerous and inhuman conditions. I won the Maryland State Cycling Championships, while working and going to school. I beat the pants off rich little elitist punks like you every day. I overcame my financial and physical disadvantages by sheer determination and force of will. I did all of this while I fought against juvenile Diabetes. For my accomplishments I was featured on the front page of the State newspaper and interviewed by two Baltimore T.V. news stations. All of the interviews refered to me as a "tough kid". No they never said I was a "whiner". I know hard work very well. I ate rich kids like you for breakfast, usually after they made fun of my substandard bike and my ripped up clothes at the starting line of a race. I outperform everyone I work with and I have never been fired. You would not last five minutes my shoes you delusional idiot.

LBH

You should be aware that every lie you type here is on a permanent record. You have made many conflicting claims about your past. Your credibilty is non existent.

The one thing Laura can do to help is to poor all his liquor down the drain. But the last time she did that, Mean George came along and beat her. If she really wanted to save the country, her husband, and humanity at large, she would castrate her husband, rove (does he even have any?), Cheney (for sure!), and rummy. The loss of testosterone would allow them to use their brains - and not their penises - to think. Oh, and castrate rice, too.

No, I don't think Laura is even there to help him. Her nails look nice though. And...just one more thing, she has high morals. She's just refreshing. She has brought fresh air to the white house. Nice smile. She was a teacher or librarian or something you know. Well...hmmm..anyway....should I even be calling her Laura? Maybe I sould call her First Lady Bush. Or maybe First Lady Bush the second. Maybe just Laura. She's really behind education. That's why education funding in this country has been sliced and diced.

George Bush is not a conservative. George Bush is not a republican. George Bush is pro monopoly, which is anti small business.

Chimpy sez; I don't need to obey any laws, I am the King!The peckerhead scrolled a little addendum to the patriot act, it ain't pretty

Bush: Bye everybody. Take all the pens you want. They're not mine. Don't let the door hit your ass as you leave. Hmmm. Are they gone. I don't like this part of the bill. I just don't. It doesn't work for me. It's just not...what's the word? Oh yeah, how do I make it non binding....yeah binding. It's great when I don't like something...

Frist: The Congress isn't going to like this.

Bush: Who gives a sh#t. If I...

Scott: Sir, what do I tell the press?

Bush: You interrupted me. Why do you people keep interrupting me?

Scott: Yes sir.

Bush: Tell them to go f$$k themselves. Especially that Helen Thomas.

Scott: That never goes over well. Helen scares me.

Bush: She scares me too. That's why I have you do it.

Bush shuns Patriot Act requirement

In addendum to law, he says oversight rules are not binding

When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was using the act's expanded police powers.

The bill contained several oversight provisions intended to make sure the FBI did not abuse the special terrorism-related powers to search homes and secretly seize papers. The provisions require Justice Department officials to keep closer track of how often the FBI uses the new powers and in what type of situations. Under the law, the administration would have to provide the information to Congress by certain dates.

Bush signed the bill with fanfare at a White House ceremony March 9, calling it ''a piece of legislation that's vital to win the war on terror and to protect the American people." But after the reporters and guests had left, the White House quietly issued a ''signing statement," an official document in which a president lays out his interpretation of a new law.

Yeah LBH, the greatest threat to small business is large business. And the greatest friend to large business is the republican party. The friend of my enemy is my friend? That's some twisted logic.

Den
Jinx

Corky

Good for you tough kid!!! What the hell happened to you?

#136 (previous post)Den...I firmly believe people need to stop being intimidated by the use of the anti-semitic card that is often played when you want to discuss/debate the Israeli/Palestinian conflict or the influence and power the Aipac lobby has over U.s. foreign policy.

Of course this issue and the Mossad's activities in our country need to be looked at. Go look at the four part series by Carl Camerons that was taken off of FOX NEWS IN THE FALL OF 2001 on the Mossad moving company, Amdoc communications ( an Israeli based communications system that has access to almost all phone calls and phone records made in the U.s.), at the INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE WEBSITE.

I also believe that this dialogue/debate about Israels influence on U.S. foreign policy and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict needs to take place respectfully.....BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY HONESTLY.

When honest and respectful debate continues to be shut down by using the constantly used anti-semitic card it only serves to twist the lid tighter. (go read the article at FORWARDonline about the efforts to control the U.s. media coverage about the research paper "The Israel Lobby", just recenly released)

This persistent effort to twist the lid tighter by the Aipac lobby and the american media, only serves to build more pressure and anger about the absence of real dialogue and debate. It is like a volcano ready to explode.

Goob

Are you speaking from experience? Do you own a small business? I do, and the greatest threat to my business right now is the local(city) Democratic party that has added a small business tax. Our county controlled by Democrats has added a property tax for business property. My state, that's run by Democrats wants to add another business tax. I pay very little Fed taxes with the deuctions Bush has put in place. So what exactly does big business have to do with anything effecting my business, other than your wishful thinking?

Clunky.
I recently received the honor of having my
" Letter To The Editor " published in the
U.S. A. Today newspaper . On Wednesday
March 22, 2006 . If someone would buy
me some chocolate bars I would gladly
type it up here, but .........

Anderson Petition

www.warisaracket.org

I don't know where ( most of )
you are, but I am at # 102 .

Have a NICE day.

Did anyone see Laura Bush's face at Coretta Scott King's funeral? She was stunned by people who were willing to tell the truth. Laura Bush would not be able to recognize the truth unless her own children were sent to serve in Iraq.

She has not been able to demonstrate real empathy or compassion. Maybe she would be able to if her own flesh and blood were put on the line for her husband's and his administrations ENDLESS LIES THAT HAVE RESULTED IN TENS OF THOUSANDS ....DEAD AND INJURED.

Monopolies like Walmart destroy small business!

Small business is directly affected by rising energy costs of monopolistic oil companies and thier greedy price gouging.

If you pay less taxes you will give more than what you saved to the oil companies.

Anyway who finances these tax cuts? China, a communist dictatorship, thats who!!!! Your children will have no choice but to work at Walmart 80 hours a week peddling commie Chinese products just to pay back the interest on all of Emperor Georges irresponsible borrowing!

George Bush hates small business!!!

Corky

Blah, Blah, Blah

Again, you don't know what the hell you're talking about! We have three Wal Marts here and also have one of the fastest growing sectors of small business start-ups with high success rates. I have customers who work at Wal-Mart and like working there and they also get health care coverage. Some of my customers with disabilities work at Wal-Mart because no one else would hire them, including liberal establishments like StarBucks. The only people who are against Wal-Mart here locally are union bosses-go figure!!!

Looks like someone needs to take some economy classes. Large businesses have a higher rate of profit, have more capital, have more workers, and more political sway than do small business. In a financial pinch, larger businesses weather the storm, whereas smaller ones sink. What the democratic party is doing in your state is not happening all over. I don't defend the democratic party, least of all the actions of your local group. I wouldn't doubt that large businesses are behind the taxes. People tend to think that one party does one thing whilst the other party does the opposite. It just isn't true. Political machinery can be bought for any price by anyone. Some republicans in TX encourage public education from taxes. Seems out of line with their usual rhetoric, but people like to hear good things happening for their children. That's why I refrain from picking sides, so I'm not stuck between my personal beliefs and the beliefs of the party. And yes, I am self-employed, so I do know.

Why is it the people who claim to be patriotic cry so much about paying some taxes? Waaaah waaah I want keep all my money! Waaaah waaah! I dont mind paying my taxes because I love this country and I want to keep it strong. Anything is better than paying interest to a bunch of commies in China!

Corky

You just went from tough kid to dumb kid!

High oil prices effect big business not so much small business. What effects small business more than anything is minimum wage and workers compensation and taxes-taxes-taxes.

Get a clue dumb kid!

In a recent memo Walmart instructed its managers NOT TO HIRE decent hardworking Americans (like myself) with chronic health conditions. I have a copy of the memo right here, and it is disgusting.

" countries other than Great Britain and the U.S. A. " with soldiers on the ground in Iraq

( y'all gonna help me out here,
or what ? )

Anderson Petition

I beg to differ LBH. High oil prices effect every business. I was talking to my employer, a small business owner and a conservative, just yesterday and he complained to me about the high cost of shipping the products he sells and also the cost of electricity!

George Bush likes giant corporations, not small business.

I always feel good when I pay my taxes. I feel like I am "investing" in the greatest nation on earth.

Corky

I don't mind paying my taxes that I owe and do so. What I mind is when a policical party (in my case democrats)that says I'm not paying enough. They want more money for pet projects to waste and I'm not able to keep an employee who needs a job to feed their family. If you knew anything about running a business you would understand this as goob has demonstrated.

No you were whining about "taxes taxes taxes".

You would rather borrow billions from the "commies" in China?

Kathleen, if anything needs sunlight it is the entire Israel issue, from the enormous amount of money they recieve from the US annually, to the actions of the groups responsible for disinformation peddled to the American people. They play a dangerous game, dangerous for anyone questioning their actions. We cannot forget they are the true terrorists. Many world events are a result of their activities. Like playing the race card or in this case the anti-semetic card, the intention is to shift blame from the guilty party. Anyone that does not understand the power they wield is not looking. My personal belief is the elements of Mossad are directly connected with what is know as the "Illuminati" the collectors of money and power. ruthless in their quest for complete control of the entire world monetary system, similar to the Federal Reserve. In fact the Fed. has very suspicious origins and will not allow any probes into its workings. Sound familliar? Secrecy is their "modus operendi". However as they broaden their power base, they open certain parts of their system to scrutiny. That I believe is what is happening now, bit by bit. We will never know exactly what is happening because if we dare to question their actions they play the anti-semetic card and trump the inquiry. The only choice we have is to disengage with them, stop all money going to Israel, ban Mossad agents entry into our country, eliminate the Federal Reserve system, return to the Gold standard, and refuse to fight wars for them. I'm not holding my breath though.

#31
Kathleen,
I agree. Laura Bush lives in neverland.

I would not try to run a small business nowadays with George "I hate small business" Bush in the White House. You cant compete with Walmart. Maybe after he is impeached I will.

More than half of federal taxes goes to military spending, which I would consider to be a very large pet project. These funds do go to feeding and sheltering our "fine" men and women in the armed forces, but they also go to nasty weapons like nukes and anthrax and white phosphorous. I think the US can find some better way of dealing with the world - it would save us billions of dollars every year if the defense budget were sliced in half. Who would suffer? The LARGE "defense" businesses, with which many of those in this administration have financial ties. I'm so glad I didn't vote for them.

Corky

There will always be obstacles that come up running a business, such as energy prices, taxes, WC, Min Wages, competition, death in the family, etc. To be successful you have to have a business plan in place to overcome these obstacles. Maybe you need to increase market share, reduce expenses, increase tech. etc. Again, it's not who you can blame, but how can I overcome the problem?

Uh, anyone looking at levels of foreign soldiers in Iraq ?
Bush " the Persuader " ? Where ?

A. P.

A few years ago I went to Canada to do some fishing. The first thing I noticed where all the small business's. They were everywhere! Little mom and pop stores and such. Not like here where little pizza places are pushed out by Dominos and little fishing stores are stomped out of existence by Walmart. Not at all what I had expected. From listening to conservatives cry about liberalism killing small business, I would have thought small business would be dead in Canada.

Having a rich daddy doesnt hurt either does it LBH?

Goob

I agree, too much is spent on silly military pet projects. I for one would rather see more of the money going to the troops and their families.

As far as the Bush admin. in bed with defense contractors, I believe Clinton was the one who sold military missle tech to China for some campaign contributions. So both parties do it and it will continue into the next administration, democrat or republican.

Anderson petition,

I think there is a large force of bomb sniffing goats from the island nation of Bola Bola, one of the members of the vast coalition of the willing.

Oh, and one other thing:
George Bush hates small business and loves communist China!

Corky

Yes, I would rather pay a person a living wage than pay more taxes-taxes-taxes. The dollar I give the government turns into about .05 when it gets to the person in need after the government gets there cut. I would rather give that person the full dollar for dollar amount.

BUSH BUDGET MAY HARM SMALL BUSINESS

Waaah waaaah!! Its MY money! I wanna keep all my money! Waaah waaaah! MINE MINE!!

"It is easier to thread a camel through the eye of a needle than for a wealthy man to pass into the kingdom of heaven."

Jesus Christ
The New Testament

Greed is one of the seven deadly sins.

Corky

My daddy makes about $40,000 a year on a good year. Compared to the tough kid, I guess this is a rich daddy.

Corky

Wal-Mart won't hire you because of your disability, they won't hire you because your a F**king retard!!!

More!

BUSH PLAN WILL HURT SMALL BUSINESS

More!

Bancruptcy plan could hurt small business

52 LBH, Yes, both parties do, which is why I refrain from dealing with them. Even with the best of intentions, political parties corrupt when weilding so much power. Best to limit power to prevent such abuses, and to promote liberty and equality. Money is a coercive power, and concentrated in the hands of a few (as economic or political entities), it becomes a powerful tool for subjugating others.

Yup. Typical thinking from the Booboisie. The conservative money machine has folks like LBH so brainwashed that he thinks that the Cheney administration is a boon to his business. Corporate Welfare is a boon to big business. The Cheney Administration has cut funding for the Small Business Administration. They only fund Big Business.

Happy cheers you on because he knows that you've swallowed the line, good hard working loser that you are.

They've got you right where they want you. Thinking that the constant loss of jobs, the loss of income, the inflation, the tightening of the bolts in health care and the thunderbluster in Iraq are the little guy's fault. And you wonder why I keep saying that you're getting pegged? You've been warned. Mencken was right, Democracy is the idea that the common man knows what he wants and deserves it good and hard. You are getting it good and hard, and enjoying every minute of it.

Corky 55

You post an article about Democrats whing that small business will be hurt from cuts in funding for IT programs. Only a friggin Democrat would offer another government handout to people who would rather do it on there own. My business is successful becaus of me not some dumbass Democrat who wants to take money from me, give it back in a grant or loan for less than I gave them. Your handle should be "What the Fuck"

More!

SBA Cuts could harm small business

No, LBH it was a newspaper article. You know that thing you never read, a newspaper.

LBH,

You are foaming again.

Corky 60

Again, only a liberal democrat would start a business with the intention to file bankruptcy down the road. Thta's gunna get ya real far in life. I want to try it but I'm not sure I'm good enough so give a guarentee that I can file bankruptcy and make everyone else pay for my failure.

Wow! After reading all that stuff it is scary how much W. hates small business!

Corky

You better hope your not ever pumping gas for Pande-he doesn't tip losers (his words, not mine).

You might not file for bancruptcy, but Georges best buddies, the giant corporations sure will! And they sure do!

George Bush hates small business.

LBH,

I gotta go. There are 641,000 hits for "BUSH polocies hurt small business" I have a lot of reading to do!

As always, thank you for stoking the fire in my belly and inspiring me to keep fighting for small business owners in America!

P.S. Bush hates small business!

Pande

Who gives a shit about the small business administration- do away with them for all I care-never used them.

If Big business wants some favors from Bush like the Unions and trial lawtyers get from the Dems, let them.

Who gives a hoot except guys like you that want to whine about not getting your fair share.

You said your parents came here from Mexico, do they feel that they've been cheated of a better life like you? In my State we spend alot of money (taxes) on legal and illegal immagrants from Mexico. Would love to discuss your thoughts on that!

Mr. David Corn,

"it's pretty hard to get the cowpie back into the cow"

Too funny! I had always heard "putting the toothpaste back in the tube" but yours sounds far more Texan!

Sadly, Laura only does what she is told and only thinks what she is told to think.

Maybe it would be more effective to share pretzel recipes?

Thanks for all of your work.

Kirk

Corky

I guess being employed by a small business gives you soooo much authority on the subject. Sort of like Capt giving us economic advice from his rented apartment.

Corky

Don't worry, you'll never own a samll business so you have nothing to fear but fear itself.

I have my own bicycle repair service. Doing for five years now. Has not been easy with Bush's anti small business polocies.

Had to come back to tell cornbloggers:

WASHINGTON POST FIRES PARTISAN HACK DOMENECHE FOR SERIAL PLGIARISM!!!! HE IS GONE!!!

And in other news:

George Bush loves giant corporate monopolies and hates small business!

New Poll for Senate

Russ Feingold 52% approve, 42% disapprove.

The liberals golden boy only has 52% of his own states support? This is your presidental hopeful?

Who the hell is (D)Herb Kohl has 55% from the same state.

#76
He lasted how many hours? What a hack. I don't know. I think the Washington Post is going to have be become a newspaper or something. People aren't letting them by with the partisan games anymore.

Corky

Drop me an email sometime and I will show you (for free)how to grow that little bicycle business of yours without any help from Bush.

PARTISAN HACK FIRED FOR PLAGIARISM

HA HA HA HA! Republicans, the party of moral values, gets caught lying and stealing again!

Ben Domenech probably hates small business too!

At least the Post fired the fool unlike the liberal rag NYT that gets caught about once a month now and only takes action until other papers expose them.

Small business advice tip #1

Borrow some money from your rich daddy!

If I want advice from a delusional idiot, I will call a scientologist.

STATE BANS ABSTINENCE PROGRAM

Rhode Island education officials have banned from public schools a federally funded abstinence program that civil rights advocates said embraced sexist stereotypes and included a voluntary student health survey that violated privacy laws.

Lawyers at the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union first complained last year that a now-abandoned textbook used by Heritage of Rhode Island taught students that girls should wear clothing that doesn't invite "lustful thoughts" from boys. The book described men as "strong" and "courageous" while women were called "caring."

A speaker on an accompanying videotape said abstinence helped him "honor my relationship with Jesus," although Heritage officials said the tape wasn't used in public schools.

"The curriculum had these incredible sexist viewpoints about men and women and boys and girls that seemed to come out of the nineteenth century," said Steven Brown, executive director of the state's ACLU.
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19th century. Yup, that's about right.

Corky

That must have been more nonsense posing as a conservative and stealing their lines or What the F**k that uses someone elses email address.

Maybe Ben has a job waiting for him at FOX NEWS!

Corky

Just because you call yourself rebublican or democrat doesn't mean there aren't bad apples just like Dem Sen Joesph Biden who got caught for plagiarism. I think he still represents your party also. The difference is that crime only pays if your a liberal Democrat.

#84

Huh?

Ummm...I am no democrat lover. I love to make fun of them and call them jellyfish.

George Bush still hates small business!

The GOP is a giant stinking pile of rotting worm ridden hatefruit.

Corky

You are the only one here that cares what Bush thinks about small business. I guess you need someone to blame for your failure of being a successful small business so go ahead and blame him. I'm sure he doesn't give a hoot.

Corky

You really need to work on your manners if you want to get that Wal-Mart job!!!

Programmer who alleged plot to steal Florida election runs for Congress

To Republicans, Clint Curtis is a traitor; a back-stabbing liar with an imagination that rivaled Jack Abramoff's influence over Congress.

To liberal Democrats, Curtis is a hero; a stand up guy who blew the whistle on computer voting fraud, testifying before a group of U.S. House Committee Judiciary Democrats after the 2004 presidential election.

And to the man himself, the Republican-turned-Democrat is nothing but a computer geek who purports to have found himself smack in the middle of a brazen political plot to tamper with elections in Florida, where fact can be stranger than fiction and politics as shady as swampy underbrush.

After all, since the software programmer accused Florida Congressman Tom Feeney of asking him to create a computer program to steal an election, the plot has unraveled quirkier than a Carl Hiaasen novel.

So far, a state investigator who had been looking into a contract held by Curtis' former employer was found dead in a cheap motel room and an illegal Chinese immigrant, a colleague of Curtis' who worked for a close friend of Feeney's, was allowed to remain in the United States and received a $100 fine for passing sophisticated missile technology to China.

It's no wonder why Curtis keeps a loaded AK-47 behind his door.

....In 2003, Ray Lemme, an investigator from the Florida Department of Transportation, looked into a contract between Curtis' former employer, Yang Enterprises, and the state. He was later found dead in a Georgia motel room, and it was ruled a suicide. Lemme was the first official from the state to investigate claims that Yang had been overbilling Florida.

"Two weeks before his death, he told me he had tracked the corruption all the way to the top and had just a few loose ends to tie up," Curtis said.
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I think Hiassen has plenty of material.

Well, now you can't fault the WaPoo for having trouble finding a Reichwinger to blog who's not steeped in some sort of intellectual dishonesty.

Anyone with more brain than brain-stem and at least of midge of scruples has seen through the mucky mire of the NeoConvict's talking points. Idiot Bush appologists are either so far gone that they're an embarrasment to the very people they promote (mAnn Coulter) or are scrambling to find some kinda toe-nail hold to brace against the whirling chasm sucking them down.

Pretty good for comedy value, though!

-T

Roberts Appoints Conservative Ex-Starr Deputy to Surveillance Court

According to a new report by the Federation of American Scientists, Chief Justice John Roberts has appointed Judge John Bates to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Bates is replacing Judge James Robertson, who resigned last December to protest President Bush's illegal domestic wiretapping program.

Bates has a "distinctly conservative cast to his resume." From 1995 to 1997, he served as Ken Starr's deputy in the Whitewater investigation, a glorified political witch-hunt that never managed to turn up evidence of wrongdoing by the Clintons.

In 2001, Bates was appointed to district court by President Bush, where he was assigned the lawsuit seeking details about Vice President Cheney's secret energy taskforce. In a widely criticized ruling, Bates dismissed the case:

The third Starr retread currently wielding a gavel, District Judge John Bates, played a major role in stymieing a more substantive investigation than the one he pursued under Starr. The General Accounting Office (GAO) brought the first lawsuit in its 80-plus-year existence after Dick Cheney stonewalled its attempt to obtain information about the veep's 2001 energy task force. Bates, who provided the rationale for subpoenaing any woman to whom Clinton may have talked dirty about Whitewater, dismissed the GAO's effort to learn with whom Cheney's task force conferred.

Now, on the FISA court, one can only hope Bates will care as much about the privacy of ordinary Americans as he did for Dick Cheney, Ken Lay, and Big Oil executives.
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Nothing partisan here.

Jeanne,

Hiassen's been heavily into Florida Politics for decades now. Many people don't know him past his wild (farsical?) fiction novels. Going to see Katie in the keys in 2 weeks with stops to paddle some in the 'Glades and visit some old haunts in Naples and Miami.

When Jill went out on her first DMAT trip, I sent along a copy of "Stormy Weather". She found a virtual doppleganger of just about every character in the book in only 2 weeks!

-T

Haijji,
He used to be a newspaper man. He and John Sandford are friends. Have you ever read any of the Sandford books? The stories take place in MN.

I've not, but I've got a signed copy of Hiassen's "Paradise Screwed", a collection of many essays and articles. I'll look up Sandford, but some of the attraction of Hiassen, Kingsolver, House and others I read is often my familiarity with the terrain and characters.

I've never been to MN...is that, like, in Canada or something?

-T

FCC Chief: AT&T Can Limit Net Bandwidth

FCC Chief Kevin Martin yesterday gave his support to AT&T and other telcos who want to be able to limit bandwidth to sites like Google, unless those sites pay extortion fees. Martin made it clear in a speech yesterday that he supports such a a "tiered" Internet.

Martin told attendees at the TelecomNext show that telcos should be allowed to charge web sites whatever they want if those sites want adequate bandwidth.

He threw in his lot with AT&T, Verizon, and the other telcos, who are no doubt salivating at the prospect at charging whatever the market can bear.

He did throw a bone to those who favor so-called "net neutrality" -- the idea that telcos and other ISPs should not be allowed to limit services or bandwidth, or charge sites extra fees. He said that the FCC "has the authority necessary" to enforce network neutrality violations. He added that it had done so already, when it stepped in to stop an ISP from blocking Vonage VoIP service.

But Martin's interpretation of "net neutrality" is far too narrow, and almost besides the point. By siding with telcos who want to be able to offer adequate bandwidth to sites that pay up, and to limit bandwidth to sites that don't, he'll help kill off new sites that can't afford to fork over the money.

That could help end Internet and network innovation, and we simply can't afford that.

#97
Kinda.

HARD SCIENCE IS BEING SHUNNED IN ARKANSAS

“I am instructed NOT to use hard numbers when telling kids how old rocks are. I am supposed to say that these rocks are VERY VERY OLD ... but I am NOT to say that these rocks are thought to be about 300 million years old.”
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pathetic. this is as pathetic as britney spears being the model for pro-life. is this the laura bush america?

Interestingly, I was going through some old stuff and found a letter that was published in my local paper in '03...nothing's changed but the numbers of dead, wounded and the severity of pain and anguish by those affected...
__________________

To the Greenville News...

To citizens of this country who continue to support the Bush
administration's horrific actions: You are just as guilty as Cheney,
Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Powell. You are guilty of manipulation of
intelligence, of lying to start a war that has claimed the lives of
over three hundred Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqi men,
women, elderly and children (so far) for no purpose other than to
rape the treasury of U.S. taxpayers to pad the larders of defense
industry investors. You are guilty of littering Mesopotamia with
depleted uranium munitions, contributing to painful illness and
starvation and death of elderly and children.

You are also guilty of enacting legislation eroding the freedom of
privacy of Americans through the "Patriot Act", eliminating
protection of our environment and promoting devastating pollution
through rollbacks in the "Clean Air and Water Acts", dubious
re-writing of many environmental studies, destruction of tracts of
unspoiled forest and threatening the scourge of oil wells in the
Arctic National Wildlife Preserve.

In an effort to place the value of the corporate entity ABOVE that
of the individual, to make the voice of the millionaire louder than
that of the common man you may well soon be guilty of the elimination of overtime pay for more than eight million hardworking
American laborers, nurses and other hourly workers, reduction of
Federal matching funds to many state and local shelter programs for
poor, abused, raped and neglected women and children.

I am sickened and saddened. How is this "Christian"? How is this
"American"?
__________________

-T

Update 2: Today in History - March 23

In 1933, the German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers.

Thank you for contacting me about H.Res 635. I appreciate hearing from you.

On December 18, 2005 Congressman John Conyers introduced H.Res 635 which was referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. The resolution would create a select committee to investigate the Bush Administration's intent to go to war before congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and countenancing torture, retaliating against critics, and to make recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment.

Under article 1, section 5, clause 4 of the United States Constitution, the House of Representatives has the sole authority to begin the process of impeachment of a President for high crimes and misdemeanors.

This resolution is unjustified and I will not support it.

In addition to the Senate review of WMD intelligence, the independent Silbermann-Robb Commission conducted a comprehensive review of intelligence on weapons of mass destruction, and the UK Butler commission did as well. What every review has found is that there was a globally held belief that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. All of these reviews were critical of the quality of the intelligence. None of them found any indication that there was pressure on analysts to slant their intelligence. Former President Bill Clinton, Former Vice-President Al Gore, Sandy Berger and Senators Biden, Byrd, Kennedy, Levin, and Rockefeller all stated they believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and those weapons constituted a major threat. Other countries, including those that did not support U.S. military action, held similar views.

These reviews, which run to several thousand pages, combined with the findings of the Joint House-Senate review of intelligence before and after September 11 th , 2001, and the 9/11 Commission report led to comprehensive legislation in the fall of 2004 to reform the intelligence community. That legislation, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, was the biggest change to our intelligence collection and analysis system since the creation of the CIA in 1948.

Last year, I supported the 2006 Department of Defense Appropriations bill which included language introduced in the Senate by Senator John McCain that bans torture. This legislation passed both chambers of Congress and became law.

American soldiers and interrogators must comply with the Convention on Torture, the requirements of U.S. law, and the Geneva Conventions. When we find people who break these laws, we investigate, prosecute and punish them. The rules need to be clear for our soldiers and interrogators, and those rules must apply wherever they are in the world.

It is your right to disagree with the President and his policies. But your disagreements and dislike for him isn't grounds for impeachment.

Sincerely,
Heather Wilson
Member of Congress

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Pretty sad when my rep. tells me I dislike the president.

I replied (as I always do) that phase two has never happened. She has never replied to my reply.

capt

"Each time I hear propaganda slogans like "terrorist helper", "cut and run", "anti American" and "commie liberal", I know there is no other choice but to fight.

So thank you trolls! Keep it up! Keep up the delusional hatespeak! I need it to sharpen my resolve!"

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I agree Corky.

The pariah of the progresive blog
The enemy of old-fashioned ingnorance
The anti-troll

more Nonsense

The new documents suggest that the 9/11 commission's final conclusion in 2004, that there were no "operational" ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda, may need to be reexamined in light of the recently captured documents.
While the commission detailed some contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda in the 1990s, in Sudan and Afghanistan, the newly declassified Iraqi documents provide more detail than the commission disclosed in its final conclusions. For example, the fact that Saddam broadcast the sermons of al-Ouda at bin Laden's request was previously unknown, as was a conversation about possible collaboration on attacks against Saudi Arabia.

"This is a very significant set of facts," former 9/11 commissioner, Mr. Kerry said yesterday. "I personally and strongly believe you don't have to prove that Iraq was collaborating against [ACM note – I suspect he misspoke and meant “collaborating with”] Osama bin Laden on the September 11 attacks to prove he was an enemy and that he would collaborate with people who would do our country harm. This presents facts should not be used to tie Saddam to attacks on September 11. It does tie him into a circle that meant to damage the United States."

Mr. Kerry also answered affirmatively when asked whether or not the release of more of the documents captured in Iraq could possibly shed further light on Iraq's relationship with al Qaeda. The former senator was one of the staunchest supporters of the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act, which made the policy of regime change U.S. law.

#101 Another good post Hajji. I sent that to my other friends because it needed sharin'. Glad you shared it with us maaaan!

Capt

As Pande would say; "Sounds like Heather Wilson has you pegged!"

103 Cap.

We are all easily dismissed if our messages appear motivated by personal dislike. Somehow the merit of an argument flies out the window when the messenger can be characterized as irrational or hate-filled. I?m not saying that?s what happened to you. I?m just saying that happens a lot.

Write her back. Make your case. Stay clear of revealing your feelings about King George to empire builder. Keep it respectful.

I wrote her to commend her efforts initiating the House investigation into NSA programs. Subsequently. I was extremely disappointed to see how Hoekstra so easily hijacked and derailed that effort.

Because I'm from out of state, I got the "we got your letter but you're from out of state so all you?ll get is this lousy email? email.

I may write her again. If I do and you like it, can it be sent from your pet, Fido Kirk, resident of New Mexico. Then we could both see the response.

I just watched the movie 'Good Night and Good Luck' yesterday. I was struck by the fact that Joe McCarthy and Feingold come from the same state.

Russ Never Sleeps

None of this fits any of the tried-and-true formulations in the red-and-blue American playbook. A mild- mannered Midwestern Senator-Russ Feingold- nnounces on a Sunday-morning chat show that he's going to introduce a resolution to censure the President. His grounds are straightforward: that the President's warrantless-wiretapping initiative violates the law and the constitutional separation of powers. His party's leaders, all universally understood as coastal-elite figures drunk on their hatred of the President and hell-bent on his undoing- well, they flee en masse, literally hiding behind each other as inquiring reporters try to suss out what they make of the proposal.

"Both Democratic politicians and pundits are afraid," Mr. Feingold said on March 21 by phone. He was between constituent tours during the week's Congressional recess. "Time and again, they allow themselves to be intimidated from taking a strong stand against the administration."
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If they are afraid then they shouldn't have the positions they have. Find courage or get out. This isn't about being afraid anymore. The president has shown the public that he not only thinks he's above the law but that he can change the law to suit himself. That is very dangerous. It gives any like minded person in this country the idea that they the same power because they have new laws at their disposal. It's bad enough that you have the corruption in states like Florida and Ohio but now the corrupt officials have judges and FBI and CIA to back them up.

When all is said and done, the elected officials have to explain their behavior too and the people of this country are going to be just as angry at those opposed to Bush who did nothing as those who sat in his lap. Look at Nazi Germany. Those that ignored the crimes were as deplored as those who were part of the system.

105 What is the link to the source? Thanks.

OOPS!

That couldn't possibly be true, Clinton was President in the 90's and there wasn't any such thing as terrorism. Saddam was under the control of the UN and they would have surely known about this. If this were true Clinton wouldn't have bombed a tent to hit a camel in the ass. If this were true Clinton would have taken Bin Laden when Sudan offered him to us! Hell no, I won't believe it, because Clinton was President and everything was good in the 90's even the blow jobs by fat chicks!

105,111 OOPS! = LBH

pathetic really.

Hajji,

I've always loved Naples myself. It's not as small and quiet as it used to be, though.

I always stay at the Cove Inn on the bay when I'm there. Nice, clean and affordable (off-season, anyway) rooms. Great grouper sandwiches at The Dock. I'll be there for a couple of days the second week of May. Looking forward to it!

EVIL OR STUPID: IT DOESN'T MATTER

I once saw a bumper sticker that read: "I’∂e never made a mistake. I thought I did once, but I was wrong."

Well I have made a mistake. And today I must apologize to loyal PRAVDA.Ru readers, and to the thirty percent of Americans still enamored with the Bush dictatorship.

George W. Bush is not evil. He’≥ just stupid.

On second thought, this stupidity does make him susceptible to the Machiavellian machinations of evil men, like Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales and the rest of the plutocratic oligarchs who control America so extensively they can even abandon the fa?ade of consulting with their puppet when developing policies detrimental to the nation and the world, but beneficial to their avariciousness and corruption.

If this reality was ever in doubt, one need only reflect upon the oligarchs’†now infamous attempt to transfer management of several American port terminals to a Middle-Eastern company. According to reports, Bush was not even privy to discussions about this plan until after they had been completed.

Of course this was not the first time the puppet masters ignored their puppet. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, reports also indicated that Bush was basically treated like an annoying child who is instructed to play in the corner while the "grown-ups" engage in conversation.

More HERE

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Now go play in the corner Georgie!

capt

Torture Watch

Eric Schmitt writes in the New York Times: "With the conviction on Tuesday of an Army dog handler, the military has now tried and found guilty another low-ranking soldier in connection with the pattern of abuses that first surfaced two years ago at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

"But once again, an attempt by defense lawyers to point a finger of responsibility at higher-ranking officers failed in the latest case to convince a military jury that ultimate responsibility for the abuses lay farther up the chain of command."

The New York Times editorial board writes: "We've seen this sorry pattern for nearly two years now, since the Abu Ghraib horrors first shocked the world: President Bush has clung to the fiction that the abuse of prisoners was just the work of a few rotten apples, despite report after report after report demonstrating that it was organized and systematic, and flowed from policies written by top officials in his administration. . . .

"Mr. Bush has refused to hold himself or any of his top political appointees accountable for those catastrophic errors. Indeed, he has promoted many of them. And this is not an isolated problem. It's just one example, among many, of how this president's men run no risk of being blamed for anything that happens, not matter how egregious."

Jess Bravin writes in the Wall Street Journal: "The Bush administration will bar statements made under torture from its Guantanamo Bay military courts, reversing a White House decision in July that could have allowed such evidence to convict suspected terrorists held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. . . .

"Some policy makers . . . had been urging a ban on the use of evidence from torture. . . .

"Others, including David Addington, then counsel and now chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, and Pentagon General Counsel William J. Haynes II, successfully opposed such a rule, arguing that commission members themselves should be free to decide how to deal with evidence allegedly gained through torture, officials said."

(link)

Domestic Spying Watch

Katherine Shrader writes for the Associated Press: "A vocal Republican critic of the Bush administration's eavesdropping program will preside over Senate efforts to write the program into law, but he was pessimistic Wednesday that the White House wanted to listen.

" 'They want to do just as they please, for as long as they can get away with it,' Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said in an interview with The Associated Press. 'I think what is going on now without congressional intervention or judicial intervention is just plain wrong.' "

The Philadelphia Daily News editorial board writes: "In an attempt to rein in the Bush administration and its cowboy tactics with the illegal wiretapping of Americans making calls overseas, various Republicans are floating proposed legislation that would make the president's actions legal. . . .

"Rather than trying to fix a law that wasn't broken until Bush decided to break it, Congress should be considering censuring the president. Otherwise the message from Congress to future presidents will be break any law you want."

(link)

Corky + Nonsense = the best and brightest Cornnuts have to offer!!

LBH sniffles:
"Only a friggin Democrat would offer another government handout to people who would rather do it on there own."

With all three branches of government controlled by Conservatives, it's no wonder that the Federal purse has been raided and the deficits have blown sky high. Fiscal responisibility only counts when you're cutting the funds that would go to Katrina victims or the families of soldiers that have to survive cuts and shame that is inflicted on them by the lying Cheney Administration.

click here, scroll down and look at the graph of the big money that is handed out to big business; but the head cheerleader for the Booboisie, LBH thinks it's the Dems that are giving our hard earned tax dollars to Welfare queens. The Welfare queens are the CEOs of Dell and GM. Listen to the Head Cheerleader, and he'll tell you all about the unfair advantage that the unions give the workers. How much do CEOs make? They must have a better union. LOL.

"The difference is that crime only pays if your a liberal Democrat."
Posted by LBH at March 24, 2006 03:30 PM

* Duke Cunningham took millions of dollars in bribes
* Tim Noe ripped off the people of Ohio
* DeLay indicted
* Ney is next
* Doolittle to follow
* Harris took bribes

Crime pays for conservatives a lot better than your gas-n-sip gig.

117 Thank you for the compliment but I think the honor goes to Pandemoniac. Take post 118 for example.

Ah, C'mon! That Belgian Shepherd was just "one bad apple", "blowing off some steam" in some kind of "fraternity prank".

I think it is a frightening thing what the attrocities of war can do to a human mind. Sgt.Karl came home organized and focused and more than ever convinced that war is simply a grab for (more)money or (more)power for the rich and powerful. He's just passed his Paramedic certification with flying colors and remains a firefighter in a rural town in Indiana.

Spec. Spanky is already talking about following that path, too.

What do those who rape and de-humanize and torture and kill come home to, I wonder?

-t

Comment: The forgotten victims of the Iraq war

IRAQ's children have suffered more than just successive wars and economic sanctions. The loss of parents and family resources has boosted child labour, homelessness and inclinations towards violence and rebellion.

They live in homes where 25 people live in a space of 40 square metres. Even intact families may comprise parents and five children in a single room.

The increase in child labour reflects families' dire economic situation: Children are frequently a family's only breadwinners, and they work cheap. Contractors in municipal services, for example, prefer to use children in order to cut costs. Here, a child may be used for agricultural labour or for janitorial work.

Many work in piles of garbage, either removing them to another place or collecting empty bottles and cans to sell. Others load and transport items in the markets, where they must pull carts weighing 60-70kg and carry boxes weighing 15kg in temperatures of 50?C. Two children may unload a lorry carrying one tonne of food items.

Not surprisingly, Iraq's child workers suffer from a wide array of serious health problems. Children who work in the garbage dumps are prone to skin and respiratory problems, while those who work with paints eventually become addicted to the intoxicants that they inhale.

And all working children are vulnerable to malnutrition, as their diet typically lacks the items necessary to build body tissues.

....At the other end of the spectrum, rape, adultery, early child-bearing, and abortion have become ordinary matters. Increasingly, Iraqi girls interpret anything given to them as a means to have sex with them.

Orphans, whose number has increased sharply over the past quarter-century as a result of wars, economic sanctions, and terrorism, are especially vulnerable to the cruellest type of physical and psychological violence.

Having lost their homes and parents, they sleep in alleys, sell cigarettes or newspapers, and beg. Grandparents are often unable or unwilling to care for them, and the pathological education given to them by criminal gangs often puts them beyond the reach of any institution's ability to rehabilitate them.

Simply put, children in Iraq have been reduced from human beings worthy of care to tools of production and instruments of violence.
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Yes, Laura and George are all about family values. Fresh air for the White House.

Pande

As I've said before, there are crooks on both sides and always will be.

You keep coming back with attacks but do not address the questions I put before you. I have responded to all your critisms. Do you not have a legit answer for a response?

I would rather Bush give money away to big business than sell military secrets to the Chinese for campaign contributions (er, Cliton).

I would do away with the IRS completely and support a flat tax which would eliminate Corp give aways.

I agree that the Republicans have become more like liberal progressives and spent us into a deficit problem. Putting even bigger spenders like the Democrats back in charge will not fix the problem.

How many people went to jail in the Clinton administration? Have you forgotten already?

Unfortunately, for you Pande, your going soft has left your arguements soft as well.

My current congressman wouldn't give me the time of day, but my old congressman still replies.
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Dear Mr. Dxxxxx:

Thank you for contacting my office. Please be assured, I strongly oppose preempting state food safety laws. Therefore, I voted against HR 4167 when it was considered by the House. You may be interested to know that I am the lead Republican cosponsor of legislation that would protect state consumer protection laws from federal preemption.

Again, thank you for contacting my office and for your support of our shared position.

Sincerely,

Ron Paul

Just let the shrub in office keep it up, we have two plus years more of this incompetent. Hey LBH that e mail deal really twisted your panties didn't it? Good for me, you really should not pay attention to the little things in your life so much. Your business is going great, guess the lemonade stand just sold some more huh? Going all gooey for these crooks and I mean any politician I won't take sides in this criminal fantasy. How exactly do you see this playing out? I mean crushing debt for the kids that probably will refuse to accept a 70% tax rate, and the mass of unemployed manufacturing workers. The outsourced IT engineers that paid lots of bucks for an education so some dot head in india can get enough money to marry some babe in bollywood? Just curious do you see a smooth transition to some fascist paradise or are you still smoking that old evil devil weed just to make things look rosy in your mind? It is curious that you continue to flog proven lies and won't accept any argument other than you are better than you think. I have it you are a legend in your own mind, again. Well try my new e mail address maybe you might like that one better, or not. Personally I don't give out any personal information on the internet if possible. And to just keep on taunting you into froth, you aren't worth it. If you ever show up in Phoenix maybe we can chat. YOu might even get a different viewpoint. But that remains to be seen. So before you go nuts and answer me with wild invective and ridiculous claims how about some insight into the future of the american economy and the demise of the republican fantasy? Please inquiring minds want to know your opinion.

WTF

The email thing is no big thing, I just like to rub it in what a pathetic coward you are when someone gives me such a freebe like you did. If I was worried, I would have posted a bogus email address like you do!!!

I'm pretty proud of most of you 'people of the corn' for ignoring LBH's bullshyt. Even though he keeps spouting lies like the Clinton/Chinese nuclear spin, when we all know it was set up by Reagan. Nancy said it was "in the stars". haha
So anyway, keep posting the good stuff and ignoring a certain troll.
peash

WTF

My brother inlaw was one of those IT guys you keep whing about that lost his job. It wasn't because of outsourcing, it was because business's don't need to upgrade computer systems like in the 90's and the year 2000 thing is over. He now owns his own business and makes more money than he did working for that big Corp. I guess you could say "He stuck it to the man."

Jackbooted thugs coming to a bar near you...be careful, Alan!

I think it is too cool that Heather has the "dislike the president" in her standard form letter. I assume she has a large number of emails from people that dislike the president. I have gotten that line in every response she has sent to me since I wrote her about impeachment. She is a pip.

capt

105,111 You don't have the self-respect to admit or deny posting the article as OOPS! and then commenting on it as as LBH? For lame for lame.

16 I'm sure you noticed Kathleen set the record straight. She did not post the troll-like posts 85 and 89 yesterday. It was an imposter. I wonder who that might have been.

Isn't it interesting the phrase "because you dislike the president" can be sited as a reason? for anything?

Who here is tired of hearing from certain cornbloggers about how good George Bush has been for the economy and the stock market... besides me?

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The Risks of Ownership

Brendan Murray writes for Bloomberg: "President George W. Bush has tried to sell Americans on an 'ownership society' that would create more wealth -- and more Republicans in the process. The stock market hasn't accommodated.

"The Standard & Poor's 500 Index -- the benchmark for American equities -- is down 2.8 percent since Bush took office five years and two months ago. That's the worst performance during the same stage of any two-term administration in the past half century except that of Richard M. Nixon.

"The market's performance is undermining a central goal of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, Bush's chief political adviser. Borrowing from Margaret Thatcher's privatization push in the U.K. in the 1980s, Rove's theory is that if more Americans make their own financial decisions and the last vestiges of a welfare state are dismantled, a culture of ownership will spring up. The ranks of Republican voters, the idea goes, will swell along with it.

" 'The ownership society looked very attractive on paper,' said Jacob Hacker, a political science professor at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. 'But once you flesh out the changes, people become very concerned because they are already fearful that their economic security is slipping away.' "

(link)

LBH goes for something different:
"I would rather Bush give money away to big business than sell military secrets ...."

Actually, you would rather let the CIA arm and train a terrorist to kill innocent Americans like Reagan and Bushdaddy did with Bin Laden. Why do you hate Americans, LBHeadcheerleader?

"I would do away with the IRS completely and support a flat tax which would eliminate Corp give aways."

Not as long as you're voting for the Grand Ol' Spending Party. You're actually voting to saddle my kids with the biggest debt ever run up by idiot humanoids. Goopers haven't balanced a budget without the guiding hand of a Democrat EVER.

"I agree that the Republicans have become more like liberal progressives and spent us into "

When did Liberals run up a 8 and a half million dollar deficit? The biggest chunks of the deficit are from the Reagan/BushI/BushJr years. What planet have you been living on?

"How many people went to jail in the Clinton administration? Have you forgotten already?

None got indicted and none went to jail. The Conservative movement failed again.

Posted by: LBH at March 24, 2006 05:09 PM

1956 Report on Classified Information (Coolidge Committee)

From an introduction to the report by Susan Maret, Ph.D.

…as government secrecy expands, more public officials become privy to classified information and are faced with the choice of whether or not to leak…growing secrecy likewise causes reporters to press harder from the outside to uncover what is hidden. And then in a vicious circle, the increased revelations give government leaders further reasons to press for still more secrecy.

More HERE

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If you have not been to the Memory Hole, you might like the ride.

capt

Dislike the president? As far as I can tell there is NOT one single reason to like the jerk. Anybody think of one?........crickets chirping.........I figured as much.

RE: economy

Some people could not care less that the government is spending money their grandchildren will be paying.

Hey we could solve world hunger for less than we have spent to take Iraq to their civil war party.

But hey, who cares about the future because the Kkkristo-fasicsts will be raptured or die of old age before the bill comes due. That is unless there is a demand for payment.

*sigh*

capt

I agree with Ms. Quinn. Mrs. Bush could play a pivotal role in trying to salvage something out of her husband's legacy. I trust her a lot more than the axis of evil advisors around her husband (Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc.).

In retrospect, too bad someone didn't write an op-ed piece some 8-10 years ago, urging Hillary to have Bill neutered for the good of the country.

Bob

You've read about families that lost everything in Katrina. In addition to securing interim food and shelter, these people are starting their lives over. If you had resources and you wanted to contribute, what would you consider?

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Cynthia Leonor Garza writes in the Houston Chronicle: "Former first lady Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil."

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All the benefits of being socially responsible while keeping it all $$$ in he family.

There is one way to get the hypocrits in DC to listen. Need to make sure the prez and congress is in town first. Then every able bodied citizen with a car drive to DC and clog each and every street in that town with cars and people. I'm talking gridlock, major civil disobedience. Surround all govt. buildings with your cars. Post signs, get some bullhorns and make these mealy minded bureaucrats listen. There is enough pissed off people out there it should be no trouble finding volunteers. Any other ideas?

$325 million in new detention centers. I think the government has been expecting some large scale civil disobedience. I bet they were surprised that we didn't riot in the streets when the supreme idiots assigned the presidency in 2000.

capt

#135
He's fun to have a beer with...I think. I've never had a beer with him and I have the wrong social security number so I'll probably never know. But I've heard....he's fun to have a beer with.
Ummmmm....strong family values. No wait. He lied about that.
Ummmmm....jeez....oh, he's all for helping me help myself. Ahhhh....not really.
I'm at a loss.

Bob,
My sister told me the state is making cabins on top of forest ranger towers in the Dakotas. I don't know if it's North or South or both. Have you ever been to one? She read about it and told me the thunderstorms are terrifying.

please. they could probably solve world hunger for less than the cost of one month of the iraq war -
on a positive note: the date of the proposed iranian bourse came and went without anything obvious happening....at least so far.

More culture of corruption in the Conservative movement. Aside from taking bribes left and right, hand over fist, they are getting taken advantage of by FAKE lobbyists. It's kinda like that gag where they tie a string to a dollar bill and pull it when a Republican stoops to pick it up. HUh-larry-us.

And the Cheney Administration has gotten caught again catapulting the propaganda by the MSM. TSK. Tsk. Pants on fire. I guess telling the truth is like helping the lower and middle class to these Conservatives. They just don't know how.

Me? I like the Preznit because he's a 2-Megaton load of dynamite around the neck of the Conservative movement. Throw 'em an anvil.

Too many sheeple then. Just pass out free beer, have bands, could be DCs Woodstock. Need 1-5 million volunteers, SHUT EM DOWN & MAKE EM LISTEN! Piss on them detention centers there is not enough manpower or jails to hold mass quanities of people. These jokers are running my country into the ground and nobody wants to get off their dead asses and bring back the 60's. Now there was some protests!

FEMA breaks promise on Katrina contracts
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WASHINGTON - FEMA has broken its promise to reopen four multimillion-dollar no-bid contracts for Hurricane Katrina work, including three that federal auditors say wasted significant amounts of money.

Officials said they awarded the four contracts last October to speed recovery efforts that might have been slowed by competitive bidding. Some critics, however, suggested they were rewards for politically connected firms.

Acting FEMA Director R. David Paulison pledged last fall to rebid the contracts, which were awarded to Shaw Group Inc., Bechtel Corp., CH2M Hill Inc. and Fluor Corp. Later, the agency acknowledged the rebidding wouldn’t happen until February.
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"No goddamn it, we don't HAVE to abide by our word, our promises OR our laws! We're IN CHARGE!!!"

-Some FOBushcheney

I've spent a night or two in Fire Towers above Red River Gorge, in Kentucky's Daniel Boon National Forest.

Storms up there are, indeed, Breathtaking!

-T

FEMA breaks promise on Katrina contracts

Agency will extend, not rebid, deals with politically connected firms

FEMA has broken its promise to reopen four multimillion-dollar no-bid contracts for Hurricane Katrina work, including three that federal auditors say wasted significant amounts of money.

Officials said they awarded the four contracts last October to speed recovery efforts that might have been slowed by competitive bidding. Some critics, however, suggested they were rewards for politically connected firms.

Acting FEMA Director R. David Paulison pledged last fall to rebid the contracts, which were awarded to Shaw Group Inc., Bechtel Corp., CH2M Hill Inc. and Fluor Corp. Later, the agency acknowledged the rebidding wouldn’¥ happen until February.

This week, FEMA said the c