Mr. David Corn,

Great post!

How cool would it be is we could all come together on something. "Had Enough?" is crisp and catchy!

I have to tip my hat to Newt for this one.

Thanks

Kirk

Yes, I've "Had Enough!"

I've had enough too.

Rove said cooperating in CIA leak inquiry

Karl Rove, Deputy White House Chief of Staff and special adviser to President George W. Bush, has recently been providing information to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the ongoing CIA leak investigation, sources close to the investigation say.

According to several Pentagon sources close to Rove and others familiar with the inquiry, Bush's senior adviser tipped off Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to information that led to the recent "discovery" of 250 pages of missing email from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Rove has been in the crosshairs of Fitzgerald's investigation into the outing of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson for what some believe to be retaliation against her husband, former U.S. Ambassador to Gabon, Joseph Wilson. Wilson had been an ardent critic of pre-war Iraq intelligence.

While these sources did not provide any details regarding what type of arrangements Rove's attorney Robert Luskin may have made with the special prosecutor's office, if any, they were able to provide some information regarding what Rove imparted to Fitzgerald's team. The individuals declined to go on the record out of concern for their jobs.

According to one source close to the case, Rove is providing information on deleted emails, erased hard drives and other types of obstruction by staff and other officials in the Vice President's office. Pentagon sources close to Rove confirmed this account.

None would name the staffers and/or officials whom Rove is providing information about. They did, however, explain that the White House computer system has "real time backup" servers and that while emails were deleted from computers, they were still retrievable from the backup system. By providing the dates and recipient information of the deleted emails, sources say, Rove was able to chart a path for Fitzgerald directly into the office of the Vice President.

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The last ditch effort to keep his butt out of jail Rove rolls over. HA!

This is getting good!

capt

Behind the Scenes: Rove and Libby in Deadly Legal Dogfight

This just hit the internet at Raw Story, and TWN has confirmed the essential points through a source close to Rove:

According to several Pentagon sources close to Rove and others familiar with the inquiry, Bush's senior adviser tipped off Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to information that led to the recent "discovery" of 250 pages of missing email from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.
Rove has been in the crosshairs of Fitzgerald's investigation into the outing of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson for what some believe to be retaliation against her husband, former U.S. Ambassador to Gabon, Joseph Wilson. Wilson had been an ardent critic of pre-war Iraq intelligence.

While these sources did not provide any details regarding what type of arrangements Rove's attorney Robert Luskin may have made with the special prosecutor's office, if any, they were able to provide some information regarding what Rove imparted to Fitzgerald's team. The individuals declined to go on the record out of concern for their jobs.

According to one source close to the case, Rove is providing information on deleted emails, erased hard drives and other types of obstruction by staff and other officials in the Vice President's office. Pentagon sources close to Rove confirmed this account.

None would name the staffers and/or officials whom Rove is providing information about. They did, however, explain that the White House computer system has "real time backup" servers and that while emails were deleted from computers, they were still retrievable from the backup system. By providing the dates and recipient information of the deleted emails, sources say, Rove was able to chart a path for Fitzgerald directly into the office of the Vice President.

Rove giving Patrick Fitzgerald a path into 250 pages of deleted and/or previously unprovided electronic communications from and within the Vice President's office must give serious heartburn to Scooter Libby's defense team, being paid for in part by this cabal of supporters.

Fitzgerald, as I have written before, is setting a high standard for how public officials should conduct themselves.

We have about nine months before the Scooter Libby trial starts. The real question is whether Fitzgerald will widen the pool of those charged with crimes -- and it's still too early to tell.

Patrick J Fitzgerald

"kicking Don Rumsfeld out of the Pentagon and replacing him with Dick Cheney, who would give up the veep's office to make room for Condi Rice."
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WOW, wouldn't THAT be an improvement? HAHAHAHA!! Same lying, traitorous murderers, different office.

Had enough? And the dems would do what? I am still waiting for an anti-war candidate. I would also like to hear the plan to reverse this suicidal deficit. Or is the plan, "keep borrowing from Asia?" Will it be hillary and mcCain? Or maybe kerry and frist? Gee, I just can't wait!

Scientists study revived 1918 flu virus

In October, Tumpey and a team led by Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology announced they had achieved a remarkable feat. Not only did they discover the virus' entire genetic code, they brought it back to life in a tightly controlled laboratory at CDC offices in Atlanta.
The virus that had swept the globe, infecting more than one-fourth of the world's population, existed on earth once again.
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Armed forces institute? HMMMM. Bringing this beast back to life. What a great bio weapon.

Time magazine: " Considering that Vice President Dick Cheney had come a long way to help Florida Congressman Ric Keller raise $250,000 last week, the reception he got in the Sunshine State could have been a bit warmer. After extolling Cheney as "one of the most effective Vice Presidents in the history of the U.S.," Keller launched into all the times he had recently opposed the Bush Administration, including the deal to allow a Dubai company to manage operations at several U.S. ports. . . "

You mean all that anti-Dubai bravado by the cons was just an election-year ploy to distance themselves from 30 percent of a president!?

Yawn. The machinations of these losers are as transparent as the scheming of a pack of 12-year-old playground punks.

David's right. Newt's right. All the Dems need to do is tattoo Shrub's smirking mug on the forehead of every con running for office this year. Turn the tables on them.

When they boast of being strong on defense, Dems need to talk about Republican President George W. Bush and Iraq (not to mention the rest of the Axis of Evil).

If they still have the nerve to talk about compassionate conservatism, Dems should talk about Republican President George W. Bush and New Orleans.

When they talk about patriotism, the Dems need to talk about Republican President George W. Bush's spying on Americans.

When they talk about jobs, Dems should talk about Republican President George W. Bush, declining real wages, and the stifling effect of the towering twin deficits.

When they talk about health care, the Dems need to talk about Republican President George W. Bush's Medicare drug disaster.

The list is endless, so it should be easy work. All it requires is a little spine . . . uh oh.

ha ha I'm with you Sal! I just can't wait! yay mcCain! not. -
wow the 1918 flu virus resurrected! - that most certainly IS a remarkable feat! hats off to those virus geeks, top shelf guys! boy I just can't wait for that either!

FUCK!!!

"break the glass and pull the alarm time for the Republican Party,"

I think we're a little beyond that. Passing the energy bill provided all the fuel needed to burn their chances. Gas prices are getting downright ugly.

Millions of immigrants take to the streets over the immigration bill being debated in Congress. My guess, probably 20% of them legal. Not one arrest! There is not one single elected official in this country who is serious about the illegal immigration problem with our southern neighbor. ALL of them need to go, and I mean illegals as well as elected officials!

(Gen. Tommy) Franks said: "The worst thing that could happen...a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world ­ it may be in the United States of America ­ that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution. Two steps, very, very important."

WHY HOUSTON?

Dick Cheney in Rumsfeld's spot. Oh God. The guy shot Harry in the face and Barnes wants to put him in charge of the military? I wouldn't put him in charge of manure pickup in a parade. He'd hire Haliburton to not do it and would charge the US 5 million. And then charge the US another 5 million when the contract got extended.

Capt,

RE: Spinner Dolphins...last post...

Check out Dolphin Dreamtime

Nollman not only spends some time wid'em...there's even an animation in the margins!

Cool Stuff on animal communications...

Does anyone out there play the "AquaPhone"?

-T

The Iraq War: A Black Hole

"If I didn't believe we could succeed, I wouldn't be there," stated George W. Bush in his news conference this morning. (March 21) . "I wouldn't have put put those kids there."

The first part of that statement is a product of self-dramatization bordering on delusion. The second part is a tacit admission of crimes against our Constitution, since no president has the authority to commit our troops to war: Only Congress, through a formal declaration, can do so, and every president is required to ask for one from Congress. That requirement has no exceptions for presidents who claim that their foreign policy is the product of divine inspiration.

Bush isn't "there" in Iraq. As the product of a regal upbringing that insulated him from the vicissitudes of life, and the beneficiary of a cult of presidential power that protects him from accountability, he has only a theoretical understanding of sacrifice.

The president is just as eager to clothe his most dutiful retainers in impunity as well. "I don't believe he should resign," Mr. Bush said of Donald Rumsfeld. "He's done a fine job. Every war plan looks good on paper until you meet the enemy."

Yeah, ain't it just like an enemy to ruin a perfectly good war plan?

But in the reality-aversive realm inhabited by the Bush regime and its media courtesans, there are no Iraqi enemies; just "furrin terrists" (as our heroic president would pronounce the term) and grateful liberated Iraqis. Why, according to Vice President Cheney, his pre-war prediction that the invading US troops would be "greeted as liberators" was "basically accurate" and "reflect[ed] reality."

Bear in mind, Mr. Cheney famously mistook a tall, middle-aged lawyer for a captive quail, so he may not be our most reliable guide to reality as the rest of us - who live in a reality-mandatory environment- experience it.

...Now that he's led our nation into a huge and expanding mess, Bush is going to hand it off to his successors. Referring to an anticipated US exit from Iraq, Bush breezily said that this question “will be decided by future presidents and future governments of Iraq....”

Note carefully the plural: “Presidents.”

The Iraq war is already driving our nation to the brink of bankruptcy, and grinding our military into bone meal. At some point, the foreign interests propping up our dollar are going to bail on us, and anti-US military coalitions presently in embryo will come to term. The neo-fascist tendencies being lovingly fertilized by the diaper filling served up by Hannity, Limbaugh and that ilk will blossom into something genuinely evil. Within a decade, if we persist in this course, the US will be an impecunious Banana Republic taking dictation from the gang that runs the UN, or whatever successor organization is running the planet following our collapse.

David:

Assuming no major Good News by Oct./Nov., though I did predict some Biggies in my New Years' Predictions (have NOT thrown in the towels on them), the GOP may well lose a few House seats and if the Dems can get its act really together, it is remotely conceivable that the GOP may lose the House. But I don't think so!

"Had enough?" is simple and catchy and as long as the Dems acknowledge that its braintrusts had to `wiretap' Newt's idea. I see all sorts of fun playing off of this, from both parties.

Do you sense some `Panic on the Left'? I do, with your Cornuts as Exhibit A. Few will really argue that this year IS the best opportunity the Dems have had to partially reverse the GOP tide in a dozen years. But, having "Had enough!" doesn't mean people want to throw out the bartender or go barfing in the john. Are the alternatives any better? Let's see what the Dem platform calls for.

If Dems have a big win this fall, I may win; at least that what Prof. Jeremy Siegel says: that Dems are better for the stock markets; though I think Clinton's luck of inheriting 8 years of Reagonomic, reap the Cold War peace dividend through Defense cuts, and the biggest stock bubble in history did skew the data set to the Dem's way.

Podcast, called a Clarkcast, with Wes Clark. Guest is Nick Lampson, the Dem. that'll beat Tom Delay in November. 9+ minutes

click here

Blade:

For every link you cite to make an economic point, I can find an opposing `read'. But, since you are more adept on `searching', I have no intent to burn my time to match you. Instead, I will `entertain' you with the following.

Take a Corvett and a Lumina, one goes 150 mph, and the other 90 mph. "Not fair, unequal!" the Left cries! Well, that's life! The Corvette was born & bred by better designers and engineers and was given a much bigger R&D budget. An hour into a race, the gap is 60 miles, No Surprise! What is the gap after 10 hours? Does this explain the bulk of the income gap?

Take this a step further, let's say we add a turbocharger to both cars, the Corvette ups its speed 10% to 165 while the Lumina goes 10% to 99. The Lumina is clearly a faster, more desirable car at 99 mph, but damn, the Vette is now 66 mph faster. The Left, in a chorus, cries "not fair!" My bet is, take out the envy factor stirred up by others, the Lumina owner is quite Happy with his faster car.

My second `story' is inspired by your blogging ability. You and I are working on similar work utilizing the internet. My past MBA or your, say Biology, education background are basically nonfactors in this job. You perform at multiples of my speed and can produce a wealth of research notes for our employer while I plod along. Should you be paid multiples of my pay? The Left cries out "No! Happy has families too and we should equalize their pay". Would you be happy to have $20/hr taxed off your $50 pay so that my pay goes up from $10 to $30? No, how about just $10/hr so that I can have a living wage of $20/hr as the say, sole, breadwinner of my family.

Since you are computer-versed, let me just say that based on what I do a lot on the web, stock researching and reading financial news, I am easily 5~10 times more `productive' through softwares and online stock accounts than I could possibly imagined a decade or two ago. I remember many times of heading to the Houston Public Library to read up on financial articles or dig out annual reports during my early corp. days while working downtown (the library was just a block away).

Now, let's take the Wal-Mart greeter, shelf stocker or cashier, do you suppose their respective productivity have budged by even one multiple since Sam Walton opened his 100th store?

If you open your mind and read more broadly instead of what reinforces your Left-wing credentials, you will find that education is the keys. High-paying, manual, physical, repetitive labor is just not going to experience much real increases in pay. Enough said! This is Work! Good Night!

The best part about punking your ass, Happy, is that you provide all the ammunition (remember CTRL+F):

"after a great deal of tolerance/patience for his obviously dim-witted mindset"
Posted by: Happy makes a dimwit of himself at March 27, 2006 06:43 PM

Just look at the dimwit with whom you keep company:

"Pande gives economic advise (sic) with Cornnut math"
Posted by: LBH at March 24, 2006 07:39 PM

"David
Blah! Blah! Blah!"
Posted by: LBH at March 24, 2006 12:13 PM

"Blah, Blah, Blah!!!"
Posted by: LBH at March 24, 2006 01:06 PM

"Blah, Blah, Blah"
Posted by: LBH at March 24, 2006 01:58 PM

"Pande
Blah! Blah! Blah! Blah!"
Posted by: LBH at March 27, 2006 06:43 PM

"Cheney spaeking (sic) at a GOP fundraiser .... And he asserted that "Leading Democrats have demanded a sudden withdrawl (sic) from the battle against terrorists in Iraq,... the Democratic party have (sic) decided to run on the theme of compentence (sic). If they're compentent (sic) to fight this war then I ought to be singing on American Idol," Cheney said, refering to the FOX TV show."
Posted by: LBH at March 24, 2006 08:09 PM

".... pretty presumptuous, aren't you? Most of you regular Lefties here are so weak-minded ...."
Posted by: Happy makes an @$$ of himself for the 50th time at March 27, 2006 06:43 PM

Where do you ignoramuses get off calling other people "weak-minded?" It's no wonder that we can't tell you apart. The creative orthography is particularly telling.

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"Do you have any `balls' to take me on?"
Posted by: Happy makes an @$$ of himself for the 50th time at March 27, 2006 06:43 PM

"I am asking that you stop calling people Cowards. It means nothing in virtual space (sic) and you need to outgrow it."
Posted by: Happy to his Idol at January 12, 2006 03:49 PM

"My point to do so is, once again, to spotlight the hypocracy (sic) of the Far Left."
Posted by: Happy tries to pluck the mote out of his neighbor's eye and ignores the beam in his @$$ at March 27, 2006 06:43 PM

Is it any wonder that most folks think you a clown, Pagliacci?

I like "Had Enough?"

Fitzpatrick is a hound dog - I love him. Cheney must be peeing his pants.

David, you forget one thing when you comment on Fred Barnes wanting Bush to move Cheney to Defense: "Put Cheney in a post that requires Senate confirmation. Wouldn't it be a delicious moment to see Cheney have to answer questions--under oath--about the war, the wiretapping, the energy task force meetings with corporate execs, the Valerie Plame scandal, and much more." Cheney wouldn't have to answer questions, don't you know that? He's part of that -- er, a -- unitary executive and Bush will just insist that letting Dickie answer questions would endanger national security and compromise the war on terrorism!

When Bunnypants said "no president wants war" he was absolutly lying. He needed the war to get reelected. All though it is after the elections, would you vote for George Bunnypants Bush now?

Too late. The DNC with Dean as chairman already sent out a bumpersticker months ago.."Enough is enough."

Gov. Dean gives credit to Newt every chance he gets for his organizational skills. He says he is copying his ideas in organizing the Democrats.

Soccer. Soccer. Gimme more ... at least till the NBA playoffs start.

Happy, reread all of my posts. Where have I argued that folks with minimal job-skillz should get paid more than highly-trained, hard-working go-getters? Seriously.

Keep humping that straw man if that's the best action you can get.

We're just talking trendlines and relative valuation. Don't tell me that I have to explain this to you.

And how hard is it to grasp the notion that the average job creation during Big Dawg's presidency was approximately 7 times what Junior's job creation is per year (400K vs 2.9Mil). And all your dyspeptic talk about the false bloom of the Clinton economy flies straight in the face of the numbers. 2.9 million jobs per year on average, some years much higher than that. There aren't that many jobs in the tech sector and their disappearance would have blown a hole in the unemployment numbers. Now that the markets are trending upward again, shouldn't we be experiencing that level of job production? And the crappy jobs that are created suck. The top 10 fastest-growing job sectors pay on average 9K less than the top 10 fasted-growing job sectors of 2000.

Have we maxed out at 0 unemployment? You never talk about the labor participation rate. There's all those folks out there without jobs. Why is the labor participation rate so low (though I must admit it's trending upward these last couple of months, finally)?

Wage growth is nonexistent for the lower and middle classes. Real average wages are in the negative. Real MEDIAN wages are up. Why? Because folks at the upper end of the ladder are yanking the median upward. The income disparity is growing. And if you think that it's their rise in productivity that is the cause, I think I understand why you have to borrow money to make money.

Those are the trendlines that I'm talking about. We are a country at war, and the rich are getting richer and the poor are making all of the sacrifices. You should know how regressive sales taxes are and the effect that the growing energy crisis is having on most Americans. Inflation is usually mentioned in the news minus the rise in volatile energy costs. Americans know that the price of gas is rising.

Keep spinning your yarns about setting wages relative to skillz. You're spinning your wheels. You keep giving micro solutions to macro issue that don't add up.

Take your solution to taxation. You propose getting rid of taxes on businesses. If Corporate taxes account for one-sixth of revenues, where are you going to get those extra $200 Billion in revenues? Tax hikes? On whom? Benefit cuts? Again, on whom?

You say:
"Think about it, who pays the revenues into businesses, it's people or businesses owned by other people .... whatever income taxes they paid are in reality a cost paid by their customers, that is, we the people!"
"There should be no income taxes on busines, period."
Posted by: Happy on Business Taxation at March 25, 2006 12:18 AM

Now, if you can look at things on a micro level and see the macro implications, why can't you see that a drain on wages of the vast hordes of middle and lower classes translates into smaller business volume? Consumers don't have the income to boost the economy and something like 70% of GDP growth is from their purchases.

"For every link you cite to make an economic point, I can find an opposing `read'."

Go ahead and give it a try. Remember Bubblenose Bill and his cut and paste AssRocket articles? They were easy enough to dispose of. If they are reasonable, they will stand on their merits. If not, they will be demolished.

"But, since you are more adept on `searching', I have no intent to burn my time to match you."

Weak.

George W. Bush's Personal Achievement Test
(administered yearly to George W. Bush)

Question # 1
Evildoers hate...
A) starch B) rectal thermometers C) their name D) freedom

Question # 2
When the Iraqis stand up we will...
A) move over B) keep their oil C) dance The Hornpipe D) stand down

Question # 3
My job is to make...
A) rugs B) noise C) my arms jut out from my sides like a stupid-looking ape when I walk D) decisions

Question # 4
We honor those who wear...
A) socks B) a natural looking toupee C) Fox News press credentials D) our nation's uniform

Question # 5
No president wants...
A) sanity B) vaginal dryness C) to have to read D) war

Question # 6
There was a time we thought oceans would...
A) be wet B) boil as lakes of fire C) breed a race of super powerful dolphin-men D) protect us

Question # 7
I think {insert name of administration member} is doing...
A) whatever they want B) thirty years to life C) my wife D) an outstanding job

Question # 8
There's not a doubt in my...
A) panties B) bible C) financial portfolio D) mind

Question # 9
Freedom is...
A) my financial portfolio B) never having to say you're sorry C) going for rides in my very own helicopter D) the almighty's gift to the whole world

Question # 10
When it comes to the future I'm...
A) not responsible B) dead C) the cause of untold suffering and bloodshed D) optimistic

(link)

Woman With Perfect Memory Baffles Scientists

March 20, 2006 -- James McGaugh is one of the world's leading experts on how the human memory system works. But these days, he admits he's stumped.

McGaugh's journey through an intellectual purgatory began six years ago when a woman now known only as AJ wrote him a letter detailing her astonishing ability to remember with remarkable clarity even trivial events that happened decades ago.

In all the demonstrations in the different cities, anyone notice how many were wearing white t shirts?

If the Democratic party had this kind of organization we could get rid of this band of thugs.

Hat's off to the Latino Community for giving Democrats and Republicants alike a good close up view of Democracy in ACTION. A central message, a united front. An undeniable and immovable block of humanity saying just the same thing the poor blacks or New Orleans said to us....HELP US.

I hope the Dems take a page or two from this book.

If we fail to win back a majority in Congress this time.............I will be a Dem no more.

You wan't a slogan?

Try BRINGING BACK HONESTY AND ACCOUNTABILITY TO GOVERNMENT.

TRUTH.

"ALL of them need to go, and I mean illegals as well as elected officials!"
Posted by: TRH at March 27, 2006 09:36 PM

You mean folks who have "their paperwork in order" can stay? How about the children born on American soil (of those here without proper documentation)? Can they stay? That would mean separating a lot of kids from their famblies, you know how fertile we Latinos are. Or should the progeny of undocumented immigrants be repatriated too? How far back should we go?

The Dems should run with Newt's idea. I've definitely had enough, too. I think one should add in the silly tax breaks and the exploding deficit. The failed health care system. Failed pension systems. The failed social security reform. Poverty. Haven't we all "had enough" of Republican rule here too?

White House Chief of Staff Card to Resign

WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House chief of staff Andy Card has resigned and will be replaced by budget director Josh Bolten, an administration official said Tuesday.

President Bush was expected to announce the shake up during a meeting with reporters later Tuesday morning in the Oval Office of the White House.

The move comes amid a sharp decline in Bush's approval ratings and calls from Republicans for the president to bring in new aides with fresh ideas and new energy.

Card came to Bush recently and suggested that he should step down from the job that he has held from the first day of Bush's presidency, said the administration official.

Bush decided during a weekend stay at Camp David, Md., to accept Card's resignation and to name Bolten as his replacement, said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not want to pre-empt the president.

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The house of cards is coming down?

I wonder if there is an indictment or two for Andy.

capt

The continued madness of King George

With all the public furor over his use of the National Security Agency to spy on Americans, and the near-mutiny in the Republican party over his high-handed approach to the Presidency, you'd think George W. Bush might have learned a thing or two about the dangers of arrogance.

Nah, not our despot-in-chief, King Dubya. When he signed the extension of the USA Patriot act into law, he added his own "addendum" to the law that says he doesn't have to tell Congress a damn thing about what he and his storm troopers are up to when it comes to abusing the expanded police powers included in the bill.

After the public ceremony, Bush issued a "signing statement" that reiterated, in effect, Bush's belief that the Constitution is "just a goddamned piece of paper" and he does not feel constrained by law or obligated by provisions of the act that require he inform Congress in a timely manner on just what the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other parts of his American Gestapo are up to when it comes to snooping into the private lives of Americans.

''The executive branch shall construe the provisions that call for furnishing information to entities outside the executive branch in a manner consistent with the president's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch and to withhold information (from Congress and, of course, the public," Bush said.

More HERE

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"George W. Bush might have learned a thing or two about the dangers of arrogance."

Learned about the dangers of arrogance? What danger, so far arrogance, hubris, bluster and lies has made him the misleader that he is today. He is the worst president in history and he is not going to give up that position for anything or anybody.

capt

Now that Card's resigned, is he no longer covered under "executive privledge"? GET HIM ON THE STAND!

-t

ALL of them need to go, and I mean illegals as well as elected officials!

that's an understandable sentiment - one that I've been guilty of as well - would that it were so easy as that

Conservatism has become an acute medical affliction much scarier than bird flu.

TRH, Pan and James, soon illegal immigrants will be a thing of the past. In fact, it will become impossible to have such a status in this country, for good or ill. America is destined to become part of the NWO, there is no stopping it, and you can thank our dear ruling elite for the destruction of this country as we know it. The following link will explain why we have been brought to the brink of bankruptcy and also why the jobs have fled. Read it and weep.

Source: Council on Foreign Relations
URL Source: http://canada.usembassy.gov/content ... americancommunity_TF_final.pdf
Published: Mar 27, 2006

Building a North American community - a report by the CFR

corky, there is no such thing as conservatism in this country anymore. If you read Ron Paul or Paul Craig Roberts you will know that they are quickly heading for extinction status. If the people in this country don't wake up soon and start fighting the real enemy and stop this bullshit partisan haggling, the dems did this or the repugs did that blah blah blah, we won't have a country left to fight over! Both sides are responsible for where we are today. That idiot/asshole wilson, a dem, started it, and bush the facist will finish it. They all have the same goal, they just disagree on the method. Would you rather be a slave with vasolene or sand? That is pretty much the choice.

IRAQ: Officials note rise in drug trafficking, consumption

BAGHDAD, 27 March (IRIN) - Officials at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs are concerned about a noticeable increase in drug trafficking and drug addiction, especially following the seizure of large quantities of "class A" narcotics by police.

"We estimate that more than 5,000 Iraqis are consuming drugs in the south today, especially heroin, compared with 2004, when there were only around 1,500," said Dr Kamel Ali, a senior official in the health ministry's anti-narcotics programme. "We fear the number could be as high as 10,000 countrywide."

According to Sinan Youssef, a senior official in the social affairs ministry's strategy department, addictions are mainly to heroin, cocaine and marijuana. Local prices for these illicit commodities vary from US $15 to $30 per gram of heroin, and from $10 to $25 per gram of cocaine.

In the past three months, Youssef explained, more than 40 cases of addiction were reported in the capital, Baghdad, and about 50 others in the south of the country. "Kerbala and Najaf are the biggest consumers of drugs," he said.

More HERE

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Collateral damage? A criminal enterprise? I am shocked! (not)

capt

The problems we face would be very easy to fix if it was just the Republicans, Democrats or any group.

That being said:

Those in power are neoconservatives (for the most part). Nothing conservative about being radical and this is the most radical group to occupy our high offices.

I still hope this whole mess is some kind of a necessary experience. Some people are learning important lessons. Optimism says a better future is in store. If we ever actually hit rock bottom the only way is up.

When I think we have bottomed out something even more outrageous happens. Maybe that is the lesson so far.

capt

A tyrant...is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato

BATR

Our Dear beloved Leaders remind us and conclude: The Presidency needs to be abandoned. State governments need to reassert and take back their valid roles and responsibilities. The federal vermin has become a behemoth. The executive for central command and control is a despot, and all the alphabet agencies are mercenary overseers for enslavement. The plantation mentality accepts and even longs for omniscient royalty. George W Bush is just another gangster in an unbroken line of psychopaths that want to be king. Are you a devoted minion of the ruling class? Do you champion the unbroken legacy of top down rule that is the staple of both political parties? Bush's approval is at 38% as polled by Zogby. Bush also received his all-time worst marks in three other categories in the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll. The better question is why is his ranking or that of any other president as high as it is?

Leader worship is a national sickness. There is nothing patriotic about venerating thugs that rape, pillage and destroy the nation so that privileged elites can advance their new world disorder. The silly campaign season is once again foisted upon us. BATR Politics will cover this next segment of the perennial non- democratic charade. For those non-conformists who recognize the futility of the two party political scam the amusement of another selection cycle may just bring down those polling numbers even more. The demise of leader worship is a crucial step in the road for recovery. If you are tired of being canon fodder, end your consent for a rigged process. Populism deserves a system that is truly representative. Don't Vote, Revolt!
SARTRE, March 27, 2006
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The illegal immigrants are more concerned about what's going on in this country than the natives. If we were as organized as they are we could force change. It won't happen in the voting booth, not with this system.

Virginia Training Manual Lists Property Rights Activists As Terrorists
Says video cameras, binoculars, sketch pads are terrorist tools

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | March 28 2006

A Virginia training manual used to help state employees recognize terrorists lists anti-government and property rights activists as terrorists and includes binoculars, video cameras, pads and notebooks in a compendium of terrorist tools.

The manual, discovered by the Virginia News Source, is keen to emphasize that terrorists are not only Middle Eastern in scope and the main focus is afforded to domestic terrorism.

Included with Hamas, Al-Qaeda and Islamic Jihad, the following groups are identified as terrorist organizations.

In any anti-government and militia movements
Are property-rights activists
Are in any racist, separatist and hate groups
Are an environmental and animal rights activist
Are a religious extremist
Are in a street gang

Presumably, tourists, journalists, hikers, bird-watchers, scuba divers, artists, painters, and anyone who takes a photograph is also now a terrorists according to the official list of terrorist paraphernalia provided.

- sketch pads or notebooks
- maps or charts
- still or video camera
- hand held tape recorder
- binoculars
- SCUBA equipment
- disguises

Reading further into the manual, associations between domestic terrorists and the supporting the American Revolution are subtly made. In Alex Jones' 2001 documentary 9/11: The Road To Tyranny, FEMA officials give a seminar in which they identify George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers as terrorists.

The manual encourages people to report any suspicious activity to an authority figure. Presumably, if property rights activism is deemed suspicious then anyone protesting or communicating about the recent eminent domain issue will be reported and investigated on grounds of terrorism.

The manual concludes by encouraging state employees to seek more information from FEMA and Homeland Security.

Shortly after 9/11 a Phoenix FBI manual that was disseminated amongst federal employees at the end of the Clinton term caused waves on the Internet after it was revealed that potential terrorists included, "defenders of the US Constitution against federal government and the UN, " and individuals who "make numerous references to the US Constitution." Lawyers everywhere cowered in fear at being shipped off to Gitmo.

This manual is another surreal and frightening reminder that government officials are being trained to embrace a Gestapo like mentality whereby any political activism or even individualistic outdoor leisure activity is deemed to be suspicious and a possible indication of terrorism.
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Defenders of the constitution? Are we getting the picture now?

I digress, but if Rummy is out and Cheney goes to DOD and Rice goes to VP, does Rummy become State?

And where does Bush go?

Further yet, where has he been?

When Bush reaches his lowest, and no longer does anyone distain him, only to see him as humorous and amorphic, does his popularity rise as was the case with every other potus who has been no more than the brunt of jokes?

James, #36, imagine my confusion because I'm for enforcement of immigration laws and that catches some of my own extended family who have. Maybe Sal's right and this issue will resolve itself through globalization. There are tons of issues to work through in the meantime.

Some who have visa and passport issues, that is.

If I've learned anything, it is to distrust bumper-sticker solutions. There are no easy answers and even though I've certainly "Had Enough," that phrase offers no solutions to anything.

On the immigration front, and to think realistically about the future about labor, capital, the living standards of humanity in this country and elsewhere, we must recognize that the interconnectedness of systems is becoming more and more integrated. For example, think about the allocating of water resources, which greatly effects the quantity of agricultural output in the U.S. This in turn leads to cheap produce being exported to Mexico and points further south, putting pressure on Mexican agribusiness and leading to migrations northwards.

As I said, no easy answers. Then, it ought to be, at least, a factor in the equation, the fact that this president is not the first to find a duplicitous way to lead us to war. I'm referring here to President Polk's provocation of war with Mexico in the first place; illegal Mexicans in what was formerly Mexico seems odd to me, at the very least.

Saladin brings up the idea of a North American Community being discussed by the C.F.R. I confess to having mixed ideas on the nature of the future of the Nation-State as a concept. We are finding that multi-lateral corporations are increasingly becoming more powerful than the governments which try to regulate them. Multi-lateral government[s] may be helpful in reigning in their increasing influence over our lives.

On the other hand, more centralized government makes liberty all that much harder to defend.

A ramble...

Saladin. Add to the list those with bumper stickers saying

Had Enough?

Two extremes for the immigration issue.

1. Send 12 million illegals to Iraq.

2. Attack Mexico and open the borders.

3. Nuke Houston?

Robert, lest we forget who won the last war with Mexico, eh?

Robert, I want to make clear my complete and absolute abhorance for the CFR plan. The people making these decisions are not elected officials, they are corporate puppets and backers who see the world in terms of profit, no more and no less. The whole idea is to bring all nations down to one sub-par standard. If we all live like workers in Mexico or China then they have accomplished their mission. They have no concern for the welfare or standard of living of "we the little people." The complete dismantling of all our social safety nets should be raising red flags all over the place. We think it's bad now, just wait until they're through with us.

"Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory." Ulysses S. Grant

MSNBC VIDEO: Moussaoui wore 'stun belt' for new testimony

Total Information Analysis | March 28 2006

If you're looking for a reason why Zacarias Moussaoui suddenly testified today to a version of the 9/11 plotline that sounds more like the Official story than even the official Whitewash Commission report, this video may have the answer.

In it, NBC news reporter Pete Williams lets slip that Moussaoui is wearing a "Stun belt" underneath his clothing controlled by US Marshals. MSNBC host Dan Abrams gets some more details on the stun belt.

A taste of the exchange:
WILLIAMS: The old outbursts were gone... He was very docile today... We believe that he's wearing one of those stun belts, and it may be that he was very worried about doing anything that would cause those Marshals to press the button....

ABRAMS: A stun belt? They literally have something around his waist? That they can push a button and?

WILLIAMS: [Pause] Well...

Only in 21st-century Amerika!
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That explains the sudden about face!

Saladin, yet in their greed to rush us to the bottom they forget Druckers first principal of business.

Create customers.

Every job outsourced is 7 lost customers. On the other hand Wal-mart is expanding in China.

Saladin,

I'm not endorsing the CFR plan; they are the captains of capital and corporation. I was trying to point out the trendlines of the nation-state as an organizing entity of population, and the advantages and pitfalls of considering other organizational paradigms.

From #21 by Blade

Your selectively posting the Opposition's comments is typical of the type of BS that gets torn apart by the 3-hour-a-day Right Warriors of Hannity and Rush. You ignore the context of the whole post which irrefutably identify and support the points made.

Very good example of the Corn Lefties intolerance is their constant `Dis-Invite' of the opposition (myself and LBH for now). Of course, your own egotistical attitude also reeks. At my ~half-century age, I only `Pag' (as you seem to like the term) people when their transgressions are severe; which, BTW, is conducive to maintaining Happiness.

With David's blessing,I have already beaten all of you last X'mas. Do you wish me to dig it out? Yet, you Cornnuts do NOT learn well, which was an early and correct observation I made. The recent spat w/Corky is a rehash of the X'mas beatings all of you Lefties received from me. There is nothing wrong to accept defeats to a superior opponent; like the Horns losing to them Cajuns, they were flat out better.

As far as the economic arguments, you conveniently leaves out globalization whereas 2.4 Billion (~8 times the population of the US) Indians and Chinese became `players' in just the past two decades. On a macro scale, compare US job gains with our `equals', you know, the Old Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada...and the US is clearly in the top in damn near every statistical catagory. To compare the US of today vs. that of decades ago is like comparing the PCs' of today to that of the Osborn or Compaq (clunker) Portable.

I invest in the Emerging Markets and have done exceptionally well. I am not alone. The fund flow from the US to EM in 2005 broke all past records and so far this year, the pace is even greater. If US adopts protectionist economic and/or tax policies, more capital will flow outward and less petrol $ and Asian trade surplus $ will come in. Where do you suppose the lower and middle class's income will go when this happens? You also refuse to acknowledg that a large portion of the middle class aspires, and have realistic chances, to enter the upper reaches of the middle class or into the upper middle class. Just about everybody I know well in Houston started in the middle when young and are now in the top 1/3 or 1/4. One BIG reason that the Far Left's class warfare rhetoric doen't resonate with a majority of Americans who are upwardly mobil thanks to our dynamic economy.

You see what French youth are doing in the streets to protest the proposed change to allow employers to, my gosh, fire people in their first 2 years on the job... I have tipped my hat to you as being above-average but what you truly lack, beside age-based maturity, is the entrepreneurial experience of running your own business and hire/fire. Until you do, you are not much diffrent than the Ivory-Tower academians with their fingers pointing everywhich way with no real world experience or solutions.

Without solutions that most find acceptble, the Left ought to be in a `Panic' with concerns of `blowing' this year's opportunity!

geof01, here is a mystery, why are they trying to add a 24% tariff to all imports? Is that supposed to increase customers? What if customers become unecessary? Considering everything they have done in the past 10 years I am not under the impression that a customer base is a high priority anymore, after all, who needs customers when you own and control all resources, nations and have more money than God? The middle class, the biggest consumers in this country, are sinking fast, do you think that is an accident? I don't.

Robert, I understand what you mean. I see these facist/socialist corporations, who, as you pointed out, are gaining more power than our political parties, making all kinds of promises of better things to come when in reality that is the last thing they have in mind, at least for us. Everything they say I apply the very opposite intent to, just like bushco. When they start promising peace and prosperity if we agree to their terms, that's when I REALLY start worrying!

Consume, consume, consume, its off to work I go. Can't wait to consume some mo. Need Wal Mart, K,Mart, Target and Sears. Gotta go buy a new stereo for my ears. Plasma TV's, Ipods and computers, oh my. So many things I havta go buy. C'mon boss I need a raise, gotta go spend it on serving trays. Consume, consume, consume, before I cant consume no mo.

ya, there are tons of issues to work thru - maybe too many. it is easy to focus on illegal immigrants as being a big problem - can't blame any of them for wanting a better life, one they can only find here - the giant peaceful protest by latinos the other day was admirable, too bad that people can't seem to protest against the govt. that effectively!

my guess is that this new immigration law is designed solely to piss people off and cause more division -

new thread

What seems to be missing from the Republican plan to avoid getting their butts booted in the fall is what to me seems such an obvious choice.
A change in their policies that made the mess in the first place. But no, that is out of the question. They just work on scheming, slight of hand, mud slinging, and outright lying in an effort to remain in control and continue to screw America.
Ah yes, what true patriots they are.

#53
How can they use that stun belt and not have the trial go into appeal? Was his testimony coerced?

#27 more Nonsense

I loved this. Especially the "my arms jut out to the sides to make me like like a stupid ape" answer. Do you suppose he thinks that makes him look like a cowboy?

Capt. Rove is running scared. Cheney is not peeing in his pants. He's too arrogant. I had read that Fitzgerald was closing in on Rove a couple of weeks ago and this is the result. Rove is doing everything he can for Rove. I hope hiss capitulation doesn't preclude his indictment. He thinks what with the shooting and all, Cheney's easy to toss to the good wolf Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is way too smart and holding more cards than Rove or anyone realizes.

Saladin: I'm pretty sure it's going to be Mccain vs. Kerry. Not Ms. Clinton and that's a good thing. I know I'm not very fond of her politics. Yes Dems are "spineless jellyfish", that Corky's phrase isn't it?

I've addressed why I think Dems should win before, but without eloquence or much to back me up. Richard Belzer, on Bill Maher's "Real Time" the other night, put it beautifully.

"Republicans have thrown off every Democratic lobbyist off K Street." (Santorum headed the K Street Project with that very intention. He has since backed off from even mentioning it due to the Abramoff scandal.) "They totally control all legislation, control every special interest group, pride themselves on being the party of business. They have utter contempt for the government. They eviscerate the government's role by putting hacks in to head departments." (Hence the Katrina fiasco.)

I know, in my heart, that there is no Dem currently eyeing the presidency, that could possibly let ideology cloud his governance. Yes, corporations/money rules, but we have a slightly better chance of getting some campaign finance reform through with a Democratic executive. Not much, but slight.

Belzer went on to point out that Dems got donations from Abramoff before all of these scandals started. Abramoff was a loose cannon, too many temptations for the Republicans.

Since they controlled all branches of government, executive, judicial, legislative, and had a cooperative media holding them up by the bootstraps by asking no questions of consequense, they acted like children in a candystore. The mentality was and is, nobody could stop them.

At least with Dems having some power, Nader could swoop in and stop some of the corporate onslaught.

The Republican/Rove power maching will stop Hillary Clinton. That much is sure. I'm not fond of the idea of working for Kerry again. I like Obama but that's not going to happen for a while. Howard Dean placed himself in the chairmanship in order to give grassroots liberals some say in what goes on. It will influence whomever gets the nomination.

Drewp.

Yes, the ports debacle was clearly intentional. It's a Rovian ploy to enable some Republicans to distance themselves from Bush's poor poll showings. The problem is, it gets even slimier. KBR will pick up port contracts. This nation is close to being completely ruled by Halliburton. Remember, though, McCain (who is making some serious strategic mistakes right now) backed the Dubai port sale. I told my family that he was commiting political suicide. That and backing the war.

But there's one big problem. As Capt. pointed out in yesterday's thread, we can talk and write till we're blue in the face. The elections (both 2006 and 2008) are set to be stolen. And yes, there will be the October surprise. Especially as we close in on some truths about 9/11.

Carey, I read most of your post thinking I had writen this and forgot......

I agree with you on almost every point. However; when it comes to a vote this time, the polls will have substantial merrit.

Accountability will be restored to government here, because we finally have been brought up close and personal with what is happening in this the MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY.

Suddenly, "I owe, I owe, its off to work I go" takes on new and possibly more important signifigance.

The makings for two dirty bombs made it through both or Northern and Southern borders.

Homeland security is an oxymoron that has devistated our intelligence and national security communities almost beyond logical use.

If the dems cant win now, they are way too stupid to live.