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David what heros?

James ha says it was all a set up. You need to buy James Ha's DVD!!!!

And for the serious part:
No Supreme Court Justice has ever been removed from the bench, do ya think Scalia might qualify to be the first? At the moment it doesn't look like he's done anything "wrong" that would require him to be removed, but his attitude sure does suck.

Scalia finally let his `hair' down to blow off some steam! You know, the Conservatives' pent-up anger toward the Left's unwarranted attacks on highly qualified SC Nominees like Roberts and Alito.

On Flight 93, it was an inspiring scenario that unfolded on 9/11. I hope that if same transpires, all patriotic Americans will do the same. But, how many times will the people know, with reasonable certainty, what lies ahead if they do NOT act. Deliberations, talks, analysis, discussions, etc... are all so much easier to do, at literally NO RISKS, than to undertake decisive, physical actions.

Lastly, it is time to remove the `wrap' from the audiotape.

Lastly, it is time to remove the `wrap' from the audiotape.

Wow! Happy finally typed something I could agree with. Should I go buy a lottery ticket? (I've never bought one, ever)

Assuming we actually care about people impacted by the events of 9/11, and disregarding who conspired to do it, we need to much more mindful of those that are still suffering from it. From today's AP wire:
Autopsy spurs calls for 9/11 health care

By DEVLIN BARRETT
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON -- A new autopsy attributing a 34-year-old New York police detective's death this year to exposure to toxic Sept. 11 dust should spur the government to do more for sick ground zero workers, lawmakers said Wednesday.

The federal official charged with overseeing the government's Sept. 11 health programs will examine the autopsy report and plans to meet again with the lawmakers to discuss the matter, a spokesman said.

A coroner's report released Tuesday found James Zadroga's death after developing respiratory disease was "directly related" to the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. Zadroga, of Little Egg Harbor, N.J., died Jan. 5.

Researchers say it will take decades to determine which illnesses and deaths among ground zero workers were caused by their exposure to the asbestos-laden dust cloud.

Reps. Carolyn Maloney, D-Manhattan, Vito Fossella, R-Staten Island, and Christopher Shays, R-Conn., say the report should prompt more action from the federal government in screening and treating sick ground zero workers.

The government now funds screening and treatment programs, but lawmakers, including Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., have for years complained the programs do not get enough federal support to reach and treat all the people affected by the attacks and their aftermath.

U.S.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 · Last updated 10:22 p.m. PT

Autopsy spurs calls for 9/11 health care

By DEVLIN BARRETT
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON -- A new autopsy attributing a 34-year-old New York police detective's death this year to exposure to toxic Sept. 11 dust should spur the government to do more for sick ground zero workers, lawmakers said Wednesday.

The federal official charged with overseeing the government's Sept. 11 health programs will examine the autopsy report and plans to meet again with the lawmakers to discuss the matter, a spokesman said.

A coroner's report released Tuesday found James Zadroga's death after developing respiratory disease was "directly related" to the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. Zadroga, of Little Egg Harbor, N.J., died Jan. 5.

Researchers say it will take decades to determine which illnesses and deaths among ground zero workers were caused by their exposure to the asbestos-laden dust cloud.

Reps. Carolyn Maloney, D-Manhattan, Vito Fossella, R-Staten Island, and Christopher Shays, R-Conn., say the report should prompt more action from the federal government in screening and treating sick ground zero workers.

The government now funds screening and treatment programs, but lawmakers, including Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., have for years complained the programs do not get enough federal support to reach and treat all the people affected by the attacks and their aftermath.

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"It is truly sad," Maloney said in a statement, "that four and a half years after 9/11 the federal government still does not have a comprehensive plan to treat those who are suffering."

Zadroga's family and union released his autopsy results, the first known medical ruling positively linking a death to recovery work at ground zero.

"It is felt with a reasonable degree of medical certainty that the cause of death in this case was directly related to the 9/11 incident," wrote Gerard Breton, a pathologist at the Ocean County (N.J.) medical examiner's office in the Feb. 28 autopsy.

A class action lawsuit and families of ground zero workers have alleged that more than two dozen deaths are related to exposure to trade center dust, which doctors believe contained a number of toxic chemicals including asbestos and more than 1 million tons of debris from the twin towers.

Zadroga died of respiratory failure and had inflammation in his lung tissue due to "a history of exposure to toxic fumes and dust," Breton wrote.

The New York Police Department detective spent 470 hours after the attacks sifting through the twin towers' smoldering ruins, wearing a paper mask for protection. His breathing became labored within weeks, he developed a cough and he had to use an oxygen tank to breathe. He retired on disability in November 2004.

The coroner found material "consistent with dust" in Zadroga's lungs and damage to his liver and said his heart and spleen were enlarged.

Look it up yourself.

capt, I know from some experience that not all peer reviews are blinded; and in cases of single-blinded reviews, the reviewers know who the author is, but the author can only guess who the reviewers are (they are often accurate in their guesstimates).

In the biomedical field, some science journals use single-blind assessment. NIH conducts external peer review of grant proposals using single-blind assessment. I've seen journals with double-blind assessment and I've seen journals use a total disclosure assessment, though this is a rare occurrence.

It's not difficult to cover asses.

I think it's going to take citizen action. We're not close to rising in the streets, but how much more bullshit are we to take.
Easter Vacation is on the West Coast. My son is very happy and it's contagious.

We are going to San Diego Zoo!

I've got my computer working again. Alan, thank-you for your concern. GERALD, a most Happy Easter. It's hard to watch this stuff when we are thinking of Jesus being tortured. Still, the faith in goodness remains.

Happy Easter to all.

"Wow! Happy finally typed something I could agree with. Should I go buy a lottery ticket?"
Posted by: Alan at April 13, 2006 03:12 PM

If you're gonna celebrate, get yourself a combo #2 with cheese and outWhataburger 'em.

i did warn you guys that the 9/11 tapes were something to maybe not endure.

I've got my computer working again.

good good! Though I don't know what/when/how it happened, I'm sure glad you're back.

If you're gonna celebrate, get yourself a combo #2 with cheese and out-Whataburger 'em.

hahaha! I was just thinking I hit a lucky streak and wondering about 'going for it'. I'm headed to the "big grub" in a few (Same's Club), so I'll out-cook his azz later, on the grill.

So, all I've heard so far about why they won't release the full 32 minutes of the cockpit recording is... not wanting to add grief to one victim's relatives... the one that was saying "I don't want to die". I can understand their thinking, but there's more families that want us all to hear them. The majority rules, no?

If you really want to celebrate Alan come over to my place and we can roast weanies!!!

David, thank you for your very thoughtful comments about your experience on 9/11. I cannot even imagine what it must have been like for family members to hear that voice recorder.

Regarding Scalia and the duck hunting with cheney -- remember when he summed up his "reasons" for not recusing himself, he said, "That's all I'm going to say for now. Quack, quack."

Sometimes I wonder, if Scalia is playing with a full deck.

we can roast weanies!!!

ah heck, I bet those would be good too
I was thinking pork chops though. And the back porch isn't as far to go as S/A.
Wait, if Happy tags along and chips in for the gas...

woo hoozz! Found some chops in the freezer, so I'ma put off going to Sam's. Woulda been a mess in there with Easter shoppers. ugh!

Too bad we'll never get to hear these tapes.

Reinforcing The Official Lie
Government Keen On Playing Allah Akbar Tapes, But Goes Shy On Shredded Air Traffic Control Conversations

The government is certainly not reluctant to release tapes that contain voices of Arabs shouting Allah Akbar but seems to go shy when the tapes contain conversations between air traffic controllers, as the New York Times reported.

"At least six air traffic controllers who dealt with two of the hijacked airliners on Sept. 11, 2001, made a tape recording that day describing the events, but the tape was destroyed by a supervisor without anyone making a transcript or even listening to it."

Officials destroyed the tapes despite FAA orders to retain all evidence relating to the events of that day. So keen were 'quality assurance managers' to get rid of the tapes that one, "crushed the cassette in his hand, cut the tape into little pieces and dropped them in different trash cans around the building."

The tapes included conversations between the air traffic controllers and people on the hijacked planes. No doubt that the tapes included conversations about the wargames that the real attacks were piggy-backed onto and also tidbits of information from the helpless passengers that would completely reverse the accepted orthodoxy of Arabs with boxcutters.
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They can make up whatever they want. It's what they have gone out of the way to conceal and cover up that bothers me.

No Micki. The people running our nation are out on vacation. Yes, it's mightily scary.

Sal

I'm not sure we're going to win this battle. Greed has completely covered it up--that's what started it.

The facts are clear: 63% of Americans believe that immigrants who have lived in the country for a certain period of time should be able to go through the process of obtaining citizenship. But the out-of-touch Republican Congress wants instead to turn these would-be citizens into criminals. And any American who assists them in any way, even priests, would become criminals too.

Republican leaders claim tough enforcement is all that's needed. That's preposterous. Senator Kennedy supports strong enforcement, too, but fairness is equally important.

Republicans claim they value hard work. Where have they been during Senator Kennedy's efforts to raise the minimum wage for millions of hard-working Americans? What have they done to ensure every American worker has access to good health care? How have they protected Social Security for retired American workers?

Enough is enough. Will you join us and fight to ensure that our country values hard work? Please answer with your signature:

fight for fairness

This year, more than 45,000 of you endorsed Senate Resolution 350, rejecting President Bush's assertion that he was authorized to spy on Americans without a warrant. You also stood with Senator Kennedy to fight for stem cell research that holds such great promise for millions suffering from debilitating diseases.

We can't keep ignoring the worsening hardship for our nation's hardest working men and women. I hope you'll tell Senator Kennedy loud and clear you stand with him in this ongoing battle for all working families:

fight for fairness

Scalia's haut-conceit in his decision to not recuse himself (the "Proudest thing" he had done on the court), and his ad hominem response ("If you can't trust your Supreme Court justice more than that, get a life") is hyperbole and non-responsive.

Scalia, who gladly accepts the honoraria to speak at the law school on matters of the law, was clearly signaling that question is out of bounds. (Why would that be?) Perhaps, the facts and details he considered in his decision to not recuse himself don't stand up well to the light of day.

Scalia might as well have said Don't question my jurisprudential ethics. I'm not going to answer you. People who question me like you, are losers.

But don't forget, Scalia is addressing law students who have an interest in understanding the why's and wherefores regarding the ethical issues that compel judges to recuse themselves from cases, or not. Why wouldn't Scalia illustrate his reasoning using a hypothetical? Reasoning is the cornerstone of legal analysis. But no, Scalia would not respond. Furthermore, he took the question as a sign of distrust. (Why would that be?) And finally, he insulted the questioner.

If I were the U Conn Law Professor who sponsored the Scalia discussion, I'd respectfully ask the honorable judge to return his honoraria. He did not deliver on his end of the deal.

One thing is clear to me; Scalia is self-righteous. I find that fact a little scary since such conceits have a tendency to shape ones judgment. In comparison, John Roberts another conservative on the court has proclaimed the importance of judicial temperament. Whose job is it to advise Scalia to start behaving in a manner consistent with is privileged position?

But there's no doubt that the passengers did force this action and thwarted whatever attack the hijackers had in mind

there's no doubt? jeez louise I've been talking to a damn wall for a damn year and a half? there's no doubt? I think the veritable plethora of photos that contradict every aspect of this bullshit do indicate that there is no lack of doubt.
here's some doubt here: were you all aware that before the media finalized their bullshit, flight93 was reported to have landed in cleveland because there was a bombscare involving flight93? and were any of you aware that flight93 was also reported to be in two different locations at the exact same time? there are so many holes and obvious fallacies to be found in the official 911 fairytale that to believe any of it at this juncture one would have to be blind, a moron, or a shill apologist -

carey, it isn't a battle that can be won in any conventional way. A sufficient number of people are gullible enough to swallow all the official 9/11 bullshit that they get away with it in spite of the mountain of evidence to the contrary. Even if the powers that be do decide to let the truth be known it won't matter, it will just be the next step in the grand NWO plan. What it will accomplish is to make people so distrustful and fearful of their own govt. that they are likely to go along with anything to get rid of it.

Alan

No need for pork chops. I have jumbo weanies that plump when you rub them.

One has to wonder how long it will be before they have a Taliban sit-com..."Hogan's Heros" STILL rankles me.

LEGAL QUESTION: I know it's illegal to probably even JOKE about assassinating the president...but what if you suggested that maybe GW should go hunting with his veep on his next vacation???

David,
Thank you for the post. Your personal story brings clarity to that moment. Time stopped on September 11th. And then it started again. Stories like the one you described and the voices from flight 93 remind us of that day but also help to dispel the mythology.

What happened that day? What really happened that day? Our government has done us a disservice. They have not done a thorough job in the investigation. The Mousaoui trial is a trial about a madman. And it's a trial about heroes. It's not a trial about the errors of the FBI. It's not a trial about the errors of the white house. But it should be. There are too many questions that were never answered. Every citizen in this country, especially the family members of the victims, deserve to know the truth.

I think the veritable plethora of photos that contradict every aspect of this bullshit do indicate that there is no lack of doubt.

James, it would be more logical for a few pictures to be "PhotoShop'd", than recruiting for this vast conspiracy that it would've taken. Add "Officials" and air-traffic controller supervisors (crushed the tapes in his hands) to that long list. Yesterday we added a GTE Mobile operator and the techs it would take to fake that call. Super silent conspirators numbering in the thousands by now.
Or, some graphic designers and photoshop nerds doctoring up some film.
I believe we heard a few minutes of a real cockpit recording. It was in court too, where the evidence has a distint and logged "chain of custody". You'd have to add the techs and supervisors at what, the FAA or the NTSB?, that takes apart the black box and retrieves the info... to your conspiracy. See why I have probs with it? Think of that story out now, of the retired AT&T tech that blew the whistle on the equipment the NSA added to their main switching rooms. It came out, didn't it? Think anybody has retired yet, and would 'come clean' if they were a part of some 9/11 conspiracy? None? Isn't that odd?
K, just showing ya my thoughts. I'll read any and all of yours like always.

Hey Pande

I left you a little something in response to that awful weak defensive rebuttal you posted. I left it there so as not to embarrass you anymore than I did yesterday. I wouldn't want you to lose your status in the corn-nut club!

The Time Is Now

New animation from "Peace Takes Courage"

capt

Check it in a bit. I found a funny article. Steele is stocking up on folks who specialize in voter suppression. That race is getting weirder and weirder.

I finally have someone spoofing my name. Everybody else got spoofed ages ago! Alas, I'm part of the gang.

On Cheney, Rumsfeld order, US outsourcing special ops, intelligence to Iraq terror group, intelligence officials say

The Pentagon is bypassing official US intelligence channels and turning to a dangerous and unruly cast of characters in order to create strife in Iran in preparation for any possible attack, former and current intelligence officials say.

One of the operational assets being used by the Defense Department is a right-wing terrorist organization known as Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), which is being "run" in two southern regional areas of Iran. They are Baluchistan, a Sunni stronghold, and Khuzestan, a Shia region where a series of recent attacks has left many dead and hundreds injured in the last three months.

One former counterintelligence official, who wished to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the information, describes the Pentagon as pushing MEK shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The drive to use the insurgent group was said to have been advanced by the Pentagon under the influence of the Vice President's office and opposed by the State Department, National Security Council and then-National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice.

.....This intelligence official, wishing to remain anonymous, confirmed the policy tensions and also described them as most departments on one side and the Pentegon on the other.

"We disarmed [the MEK] of major weapons but not small arms. [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld was pushing to use them as a military special ops team, but policy infighting between their camp and Condi, but she was able to fight them off for a while," said the intelligence official. According to still another intelligence source, the policy infighting ended last year when Donald Rumsfeld, under pressure from Vice President Cheney, came up with a plan to "convert" the MEK by having them simply quit their organization.

"These guys are nuts," this intelligence source said. "Cambone and those guys made MEK members swear an oath to Democracy and resign from the MEK and then our guys incorporated them into their unit and trained them."

Stephen Cambone is the Undersecretary of Defense Intelligence. His office did not return calls for comment.

According to all three intelligence sources, military and intelligence officials alike were alarmed that instead of securing a known terrorist organization, which has been responsible for acts of terror against Iranian targets and individuals all over the world –†including US civilian and military casualties –†Rumsfeld under instructions from Cheney, began using the group on special ops missions into Iran to pave the way for a potential Iran strike.

"They are doing whatever they want, no oversight at all," one intelligence source said.
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I knew the iceberg reached the ocean floor. The administration has no boundries. My God....

Roses for Helen Thomas

By Clarity Sanderson
April 12, 2006--Who says one person can't make a difference? As a member of the Genesis Chapter of the Progressive Democrats of America in Salt Lake City and co-vice chair of the Utah Democratic Progressive Caucus, I know for a fact that one person can make a difference, and that a small group of committed people have the power to change the world, at least for Helen Thomas.
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a nice story with links

.13.2006
"White Man's Burden"

This book by William Easterly is obviously correct in detailing that huge bureaucratic programs for poor people organized by the UN, IMF, and World Bank have not worked. The author's best example is the various malaria programs. He claims that 12 cents worth of malaria medicine is all that it takes to save millions of lives, but, despite $trillions spent, most of the money has not gotten through, and millions continue to die, slowly, painfully and needlessly.

The weakness of the book lies in its small mindedness. It dares not point out that the world's love for and implementation of goofy inefficient and deadly bureaucratic programs everywhere has the same effect everywhere. Welfare programs for American blacks amounted to near genocide, communist programs in the Soviet Union and China impoverished and killed millions, kids riot in France in the silly belief that gov't programs can guarantee them lifetime employment even as unemployment rises and income continues to fall dangerously there.

The main source of the idea that gov't bureaucracies can be like Santa Claus was Karl Marx and is now the Democratic Party in the United States. The opposition to this thinking comes from the Republican Party, also in the United States, which believes not in gov't buracracies, but in law and order, capitalism, and religious/familiy values. Easterly's book is wonderful in detailing the precise failings of the IMF/World Bank but is ultimately politicially correct, meaningless, without context, and non actionable, having failed to trace backwards to the Marxist/Democratic origins of the particular cancer about which he writes.

UPDATE 3-Ford to close Virginia, Minnesota assembly plants

DETROIT, April 13 (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co. (F.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it plans to shutter its St. Paul, Minnesota, and Norfolk, Virginia, assembly plants by 2008 as part of the automaker's broader restructuring plan.

The announcement affects over 4,300 people employed at both the plants.

Ford's restructuring plan, dubbed "Way Forward," calls for closing 14 plants, including seven assembly plants, and slashing up to 30,000 blue-collar jobs. It is designed to reverse a $1.6 billion loss last year in the company's North American operations.

Local United Auto Workers union officials had told Reuters earlier that the plants were going to be closed.

The Minnesota assembly plant, which employs 1,750 hourly and 135 salaried workers, builds Ranger compact pickup trucks, which have seen demand decline sharply in recent years.

The Norfolk assembly plant, which has 2,433 employees, builds Ford's best-selling F-150 pickup truck, which is also assembled in Ford's Dearborn, Michigan, and Kansas City, Missouri, facilities.

Mark Fields, president of Ford's Americas region, said the plants were chosen to be idled based on location, material logistics and operating costs,

He told reporters and analysts on a conference call that despite the decision to idle the Virginia plant, the automaker will maintain its production capacity for the full-size pickup truck.

More HERE

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I do not know how much more of this excellent economy the people will be able to stand.

capt

Heard on AAR (Air America Radio) on the Ed Schultz Show that Conyers is in some trouble.

I do not know if it is a breaking story or a taped "best of" show.

You know the slugs are after him because of his outspoken condemnation of Bunnypants.

capt

McCain Warns of Rough Going for GOP

Republican Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), reaching out to wary conservatives, delivered some bad news to the party's core constituency on Thursday, warning that the midterm elections will be hard for the GOP.

"We Republicans are going to have a tough race in 2006 because the country is not happy with us," McCain said. "We have a 25 percent approval rating in Congress."

....McCain complained that Republicans, who control Congress and the White House, are in danger of alienating even their base because they can't rein in spending, which he said is out of control.

"Many of our Republican supporters are not happy because we are spending money like a drunken sailor," said the former Navy man. "We risk not our base voting Democratic, but what I worry about is there being disillusions with us and (voters) staying home."

Last week, an AP-Ipsos poll found that just 30 percent of the public approves of the GOP-led Congress' job performance, and by a 49-33 percent margin, the public favors Democrats over Republicans when asked which party should control Congress.

That 16-point Democratic advantage is the largest the party has enjoyed in AP-Ipsos polling.
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McCain was just in Minnesota. He made a boat load of money for the GOP campaigns. Isn't that great? All the wealthy SOB pay a thousand bucks a plate for a piece of chicken and the middle class and those in poverty go without insurance, pay higher taxes in the form of fees and higher property taxes and....and...the Ford plant is closing. Isn't that great? More people unemployed. Great news. GRRRRRR.

Congressman accused of using staff to baby-sit

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two former staff members of U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Michigan, say the longtime Detroit congressman made them baby-sit his children, run errands and work on political campaigns while they were on his congressional payroll.

Sydney Rooks, whom Conyers hired as a legal adviser in his Detroit office, recalls the lawmaker brought his two young sons into her office several times, saying, "Rooks, they're your responsibility for right now. I'll be back later."

She said later could be a few minutes or an hour. "Later could be frantically calling around trying to find him because it was now 8 or 9 p.m. or later in the evening and not knowing what to do with the children," she said.

More HERE

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I hope he makes this right. This could be an opportunity to show the GOPher slugs and Bunnypants how a man deals with a problem. Time will tell.

capt

Kennedy killed that girl now he gets what's coming to him.

Kennedy received stitches Wednesday after being hit with a hammer head during an economic development meeting.

Kennedy met with a Wisconsin entrepreneur interested in relocating to Rhode Island. Matt Kriesel produces Impact Gel, a shock-absorbing material used sports-shoe inserts, tennis rackets and horse saddles.

Kriesel was hitting some gel with a hammer to demonstrate how it reduces vibration when the hammer's head flew off and hit Kennedy in the mouth.

"Kennedy is a class act, he didn't make a fuss," said Michael McMahon, the executive director of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation. He attended the demonstration.

Kennedy was bleeding, so his staff took him to Memorial Hospital, where he received six stitches in his bottom lip, his spokeswoman Robin Costello said. Kennedy has canceled several public appearances today.

Look ANOTHER Criminal in the Demogogery Party

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two former staff members of U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Michigan, say the longtime Detroit congressman made them baby-sit his children, run errands and work on political campaigns while they were on his congressional payroll.

Sydney Rooks, whom Conyers hired as a legal adviser in his Detroit office, recalls the lawmaker brought his two young sons into her office several times, saying, "Rooks, they're your responsibility for right now. I'll be back later."

She said later could be a few minutes or an hour. "Later could be frantically calling around trying to find him because it was now 8 or 9 p.m. or later in the evening and not knowing what to do with the children," she said. (Watch ex-staffer say 'watch my child' turned into 6-week stay -- 6:40)

Deanna Maher, who was deputy chief of staff in Conyers' Downriver office, says her baby-sitting duties turned into a stint as a full-time nanny. "He handed me the keys to his car and his house, [said] take care of my child Carl and everything," Maher told CNN from her western Michigan home.

Maher says she moved into Conyers' Detroit home. She took care of his elder son for several weeks, she says, while the congressman was in Washington and his wife attended law classes in Oklahoma.

Scalia is a mentally deranged member of the devil incarnate party.

moussaouiindictment

COUNT ONE
(Conspiracy to Commit Acts of Terrorism Transcending National Boundaries)

13. ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI, a/k/a "Shaqil," a/k/a "Abu Khalid al Sahrawi," was born in France of Moroccan descent on May 30, 1968. Before 2001 he was a resident of the United Kingdom. MOUSSAOUI held a masters degree from Southbank University in the United Kingdom and traveled widely

The Charge

From in or about 1989 until the date of the filing of this Indictment, in the Eastern District of Virginia, the Southern District of New York, and elsewhere, the defendant, ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI, a/k/a "Shaqil," a/k/a "Abu Khalid al Sahrawi," with other members and associates of al Qaeda and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, unlawfully, wilfully and knowingly combined, conspired, confederated and agreed to kill and maim persons within the United States, and to create a substantial risk of serious bodily injury to other persons by destroying and damaging structures, conveyances, and other real and personal property within the United States, in violation of the laws of States and the United States

MOUSSAOUI Trains at Al Qaeda Training Camp
MOUSSAOUI Inquires About Flight Training
MOUSSAOUI Travels from London to Pakistan
MOUSSAOUI Comes to the United States
MOUSSAOUI Joins a Gym

Whats weird about this indictment is that Moussaoui is not listed anywhere with any of the highjackers that were on the plane. Wouldn't the tapes be considered prejiducial(sp)?

Passing around lies and deceptions as though they are facts is a nasty habit of a certain poster here. Congressman Patrick Kennedy, who has not killed anyone, will heal well and continue to work on behalf of his constitutents.

#37

Just like a progressive democrat to dump his kids off on someone else to take care of!! HA Ha Ha

Micki #38, 39 were not me!

I have never called Patrick Kennedy a women killer!!

That would be his uncle Teddy!!!

Conyers is just taking advantage of that government sponsored daycare for rich liberal congressman!!! Ha Ha hA

Fossil find strengthens sequence of evolution
Location of the discovery explains an early separation of hominid species

WASHINGTON - Fossils have long provided snapshots of the human family tree, but a new find in Africa gives scientists a kind of mini home movie showing man's primal development.

Because the 4.2-million-year-old fossil is from the same human ancestral hot spot in Ethiopia as remains from seven other human-like species, scientists can now fill in the gaps for the most complete evolutionary chain so far.
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Because of the brain size, they are pondering calling it Republicanna Doofus Maximus. haha

ha ha! photoshopped? you're absolutely correct! here's a man who took the govts own official photos and shows us exactly which parts of them were obvious photoshop jobs -
911 photostudies
whatever. I'm done with it.
I recommend stocking up on canned food and other necessities.

#34 - Ford is laying off 30,000 workers. At $100,000 per year (including benefits) isn't that equal to the pay of Ford's top six executives.

After losing 10 billion dollars GM decided to cut the price of their cars by $1500, a recipe to lose $15 billion this year.

With Delphi in bancruptcy, automakers are turning to china for more parts manufacturing.

Time magazine this weeks says that 30% of our kids are going to drop out of school (You know, get left behind) Good to know there are top jobs at the big three waiting for them.

Oh Yeah, on topic.

PRO Flight 93 government conspiracy. That was the only flight flown in a fashion consistent with the abilities of the hijackers; it crashed.

CON Flight 93 government conspiracy. Unlike any other crash on the planet, nothing was left larger than a can of coke in the debris. Except the cockpit recorder (slightly larger, but very much intact)

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#8 carey, please look at the Cross and see life and love and not death and hatred.

#29 capt, I have added "The time is now" to my favorites column. I have it and will repost from time to time. Jesus has said, "Now is the acceptable time." Yes, now is the acceptable time for love, justice, and Shalom.

Today, I received a copy of a Catholic Newsletter. I wrote the editor saying that I am a Catholic but I am apparently outside the mainstream of Catholic beliefs in believing that war is acceptable.

#32 Alan, Helen Thomas is one of my fifteen foxes.

#36 Jeanne, you are an optimistic person and we need people like you. But, I see more rigged elections that will elect and reelect devil incarnate members.

If John Conyers demanded that members of his staff function as babysitters and tutors, they should have told him to take a flying leap. On the other hand, if he asked them to do it, and they complied, where's the beef? (Possibly, other than where the funds came from to pay them.)

These allegations against Conyers are not "breaking news" -- they have been festering in the rovian stew of dirty tactics for quite a while -- ever since Conyers asked for an investigation of possible impeachable offenses. (David Corn even mentioned the charges against Conyers when he wrote about that Harper's forum sometime last month, as I recall.)

Now, if Conyers lied about taking us into a war of choice, or he played a guitar while an American city was destroyed and ignored, or he gave no bid multi-gazillion dollar contracts to his warmongering cronies -- well, then that would be acceptable eh?

But, holy macaroni, to use his staff for personal tasks deserves capital punishment, I guess.

Please excuse a grave mistake!!! I believe that war is UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!

I believe that mainstream Catholics believe that war is acceptable and I am outside that mainstream.

capt, from a previous blog you are right that a person must be insane to work for and believe in Bushitler. G. K. Chesterton says that Jesus speaks sanity to a world of lunatics. The lunatics, including Bushitler, are unaware of Jesus' words that fill the Bible as His love letter to us.

Micki

It is corn-nuts like you and capt that brought up the Conyers matter. The Rebuplicans in the ethics committee have not asked for an inquiry into the Conyers matter. After all Conyers is a good ol boy like the rest of them! Now if you want to talk corruption please explain why Mollohan is still in leadership with 250 ethics violations (NYT article)? He's the real crook that the left doesn't want to talk about!!!

Gerald

Helen Thomas is one of my 15 foxes?

Please someone get Gerald some glasses-I just lost my lunch!!

My belief system says that all women are beautiful!!!

There I go again. Lying through my teeth. capt and I brought up the Conyers story, and micki reacted to it. I forgot what I was talking about. Sorry.

Gerald, trust me, if you had glasses you would question your belief system.

LBH

The reason you forgot what you were talking about is because I was plumping my weanie and you got excited!!!

Gerald

I think Helen Thomas is hot also. She can park herself on my face anyday.

Ha!

Helen Thomas reminds me of a school teacher I once had. Oh, the fantasies I could have in the bathroom tonight.

62 & 63,

The spoofer is back.

capt

pictures can be photoshopped but audio tapes can't be faked? HMMM. What about the tapes destroyed and thrown out? Guess that doesn't mean anything, right? Just another in a long line of coincidences, right? Debris spread ober 8 miles and eye witnesses who saw the plane erupt into fireballs while it was still in the air? Another bit of one of a kind incidents on that strange day. I guess the only fundamentalists capable of extreme behavior are the Muslims. I guess lying to start world war 111 would not be considered the extreme behavior of psychotic lunatics, but rather that of a govt. that loves and serves it's country faithfully. Amazing double standars.

"Today democracy is a facade of plutocracy.

Because the peoples will not tolerate naked plutocracy, power is nominally turned over to them, while real power rests in the hands of the plutocrats. In democracies, whether republican or monarchical, the statesmen are marionettes, and the capitalists are the wire pullers: they dictate the political guidelines, they control the voters by buying public opinion, through business and social connections [they control] higher government officials ...

The plutocracy of today is more powerful than the aristocracy of the past, because nothing stands above it except the state, which is its tool and helper.":

Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, "Pan-european" publicist and political figure, in his book Praktischer Idealismus ("Practical Idealism"), Vienna, 1925.

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"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.": James Baldwin Biography - Fiction Writer, Essayist, Social Critic, 1924-1987

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

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

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Thanks ICH Newsletter!

An animated editorial by Andrew Thomas

The Coincidence Theorist's Guide to 9/11

That Jonathan Bush's Riggs Bank has been found guilty of laundering terrorist funds and fined a US-record $25 million must embarrass his nephew George, but it's still no justification for leaping to paranoid conclusions.

That George Bush's brother Marvin sat on the board of the Kuwaiti-owned company which provided electronic security to the World Trade Centre, Dulles Airport and United Airlines means nothing more than you must admit those Bush boys have done alright for themselves.

That George Bush found success as a businessman only after the investment of Osama's brother Salem and reputed al Qaeda financier Khalid bin Mahfouz is just one of those things - one of those crazy things.

That so many influential figures in and close to the Bush White House had expressed, just a year before the attacks, the need for a "new Pearl Harbor" before their militarist ambitions could be fulfilled, demonstrates nothing more than the accidental virtue of being in the right place at the right time.

That the standing order which covered the shooting down of hijacked aircraft was altered on June 1, 2001, taking discretion away from field commanders and placing it solely in the hands of the Secretary of Defense, is simply poor planning and unfortunate timing. Fortunately the error has been corrected, as the order was rescinded shortly after 9/11.

That in the weeks before 9/11, FBI agent Colleen Rowley found her investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui so perversely thwarted that her colleagues joked that bin Laden had a mole at the FBI, proves the stress-relieving virtue of humour in the workplace.

That George Bush had plans to invade Afghanistan on his desk before 9/11 demonstrates only the value of being prepared.

The suggestion that securing a pipeline across Afghanistan figured into the White House's calculations is as ludicrous as the assertion that oil played a part in determining war in Iraq.

That Afghanistan is once again the world's principal heroin producer is an unfortunate reality, but to claim the CIA is still actively involved in the narcotics trade is to presume bad faith on the part of the agency.

That FEMA arrived in New York on Sept 10 to prepare for a scheduled biowarfare drill, and had a triage centre ready to go that was larger and better equipped than the one that was lost in the collapse of WTC 7, was a lucky twist of fate.

Reports of insider trading on 9/11 are false, because the SEC investigated and found only respectable investors who will remain nameless involved, and no terrorists, so the windfall profit-taking was merely, as ever, coincidental.

That heightened security for the World Trade Centre was lifted immediately prior to the attacks illustrates that it always happens when you least expect it.

That none of the flight data recorders were said to be recoverable even though they were located in the tail sections, and that until 9/11, no solid-state recorder in a catastrophic crash had been unrecoverable, shows how there's a first time for everything.

That Mohammed Atta left a uniform, a will, a Koran, his driver's license and a "how to fly planes" video in his rental car at the airport means he had other things on his mind.

That multiple military wargames and simulations were underway the morning of 9/11, one simulating the crash of a plane into a building; another, a live-fly simulation of multiple hijackings, and took many interceptors away from the eastern seaboard and confused field commanders as to which was a real hijacked aircraft and which was a hoax, was a bizarre coincidence, but no less a coincidence.
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There's lot's and lot's more, with tons of links, for all you avid coincidence theorists. People can go an and on about audio tapes and whether steel buildings can collapse due to fire. That's much easier than confronting the myriad of evidence that bushco is lying, just like they lie about EVERYTHING! Or, bushco is the luckiest bunch of criminal scumbags to ever walk the earth.

Young Jews Support Palestinian Rights, Challenge AIPAC and JCRC by Holding Seder Outside Their Offices

On Tuesday, April 11, at 5:00 pm, 20 young Jewish people gathered for a seder (traditional celebration of Passover) outside 126 High Street in Boston, the building that houses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Boston's Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC). The group expressed their support for Palestinian human rights and opposition to AIPAC’≥ and JCRC’≥ unquestioning support for Israel and its governmental policies. With a banner that read "Passover means liberation for all. Justice for Palestine," they conveyed the message to the organizations inside and to the media that AIPAC and JCRC do not speak for all Jews.

The group set up a seder table and recited Passover's traditional four questions, with newly written answers that included facts about Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes, confiscation and destruction of Palestine's land resources for the expansion of settlements and the Separation Wall, and malnutrition and poverty in Palestine caused by Israeli closure and movement restrictions. (supplement attached)

According to Marjorie Kent, one of the organizers of the seder "During Passover, every generation of Jewish people is commanded to remember that we were slaves and to tell the story of the Exodus so that we can recognize oppression that happens today and work to stop it. Today we committed ourselves to this task."

AIPAC pushes the US government to support Israeli policies which result in the brutal oppression of Palestinian people and denial of their internationally recognized human rights. JCRC, while claiming to speak for all Jews, invests enormous time and energy suppressing any voice of opposition to Israeli policies, especially Jewish voices. "Our generation has had enough of AIPAC’≥ and JCRC's complicity in Israel's human rights abuses of Palestinians," said Hannah Mermelstein, another seder organizer. "Their support of these policies betray the libratory message of Passover."

The group called on people leaving the building to take the message of "liberation for all" home with them this Passover. They handed out supplements for people to add to their traditional Passover seders. The text of the supplement follows.

As the group left, the police arrived with specific instructions to arrest them.

Photographs available HERE

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A glimmer of hope is found in the hearts of the brave souls that speak truth to power.

capt

capt, the worst part about the zionists is that they hide behind all Jews to promote their genocidal policies against the Palestinian people, even though a huge percentage of Jews do not support the zionist mentality. Yet the many suffer because of the actions of the few, and the brainwashing of the sheeple.

#47 James Ha, another good post refuting the "Official Conspiracy Theory". Don't give up.

#52 Micki. I don't recall John Conyers lieing about taking his sons to the office. I don't recall him denying the story that's been out for the last month. I don't see where he launched a disinformation scheme, tried to discredit the former employees, demanded the newspaper issue an apology or had a press conference detailing the need due to national defense. If the employee didn't want to watch the kids she should have said so. An office holders account can pay for golf in scotland and lunch almost anywhere, so I'm pretty sure he could have paid someone in addition to the someone he was already paying. Where's the crime, where's the lie and where's the coverup?

#68 Saladin, yeh, coincidence does just about cover it, doesn't it. Too bad Ted Kennedy, John Conyers or Bill Clinton weren't in downtown Manhattan on 911. I'm sure the report would have said "19 arabs and 3 democrats attack America".

Again, hang Bush, Cheney, the Cabinet and the next seven in succession. The next guy will willing lead our country out of the "Long War" and restore the constitution.

The American people have been laid off, the economy has been beat up for what? Thomas Friedman, I luv ya.

Outsourcing saves less than claimed

Outsourcing of information technology and business services delivers average cost savings of 15 percent, a survey found on Thursday, disproving market claims that outsourcing can reduce costs by over 60 percent.

After professional fees, severance pay and governance costs, savings range between 10 percent and 39 percent, with the average level at 15 percent when contracts are first let, according to outsourcing advisory firm TPI.

"This research proves that the promise of massive operational savings is unrealistic when you take into account the costs of procurement and ongoing contract management," Duncan Aitchison, TPI's managing director, said in a statement.

"In our experience, outsourcing arrangements which focus solely on delivering huge savings often fail to meet client expectations," he added.

Cost reduction remains the primary motivation behind current outsourcing contracts, but an increasing number of companies are outsourcing primarily to improve quality, at 21 percent now versus 11 percent in 2004.

The first three months of 2006 had the largest number of outsourcing contracts ever signed in the first quarter of a year. TPI found that 83 contracts were signed, valued globally at over 18 billion euros ($21.9 billion), compared with 76 deals worth just over 13 billion euros over the same period last year.

IBM, EDS and T-Systems were the main beneficiaries of contracts let in the first quarter of 2006, winning total contract values of 3.7 billion euros, 3.6 billion euros and 1.1 billion euros, respectively.

The pipeline of deals on which TPI is currently advising is led by EDS, IBM and CSC, which are competing for deals totaling 6.4 billion euros, 6 billion and 4 billion, respectively, it added.

Saladin, maybe the zionists should go to Texas and give the Palestininans back their "Homeland"

I read today that Silvio Burlesconi (sic) was defeated in the election. Bush hasn't congratulated the winner. I guess we only support democracy when it leads to favored results or nobody voted.

Gerald,
My mother gave me a Smush Bush doll. It's like a one of those hand exercise balls that you squish. I think you should find one and use it. It's great therapy. And if you get really mad you can throw it against the wall. Then you have to get up and reach behind the desk. Very good exercise. I recommend it.

Headlines from Democracy Now

65,000 Iraqis Displaced By Violence
At least 65,000 Iraqis have fled their homes in recent weeks as a result of increasing violence and intimidation. The figures provided by the Iraqi government show the rate of displacement has doubled over the past two weeks.

Patrick Cockburn on Iraq: "I Have Never Seen the Situation So Grim" Earlier this week veteran Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn of the London Independent wrote: "I am becoming convinced that [Iraq] will not survive...I have been covering the war ever since it began three years ago and I have never seen the situation so grim."
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Great military planning. What a legacy.

#74 Jeanne, thank you for the suggestion!!! It sounds like it offers great therapy and exercise. Where were you able to find a Smush Doll? Maybe your mom can give you the store. Franchise stores would be national. Some stores are local.

capt and LBH, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Not every woman can be a Catherine Zeta Jones!

Jeanne, outsourcing to save 15% is offset by the lost customer base. Every manufacturing job that is displaced takes 7 people out of the buying market. Add to this the increased cost of compensation to the CEO and the economic improvement is a flush; not a Vegas flush, more like the toilet.

and let's not blame the military, they have done an excellent job. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice are where the problem begins and ends. If one could define Victory in the Long War it would be achievable, but chaos, misops, and continuance are where the money is. There must be a reason for why this isn't being solved.

Check out

http://www.againstbombing.org/chemical.htm

Maybe this explains why they want to call it the Long War.

Has anyone noticed that there have Lately Been Hemorroids posting on this site?

Your Tax Dollars at Work ... for Viacom

The Washington DC legal newspaper, Legal Times, is reporting (sorry, subscription link) that Kevin Murphy, a legislative aide to Senator Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), has recently taken a job with cable and film giant Viacom. Senator Smith, you may remember, is one of the Hill's leading proponents of the broadcast flag. Smells fishy, you say? Legal Times thinks so, too:

"In a potential conflict of interest, a legislative assistant to Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), who is currently sponsoring legislation limiting the use and distribution of digital broadcasts, has been hired by media giant Viacom Inc.
In January, Smith drafted the Digital Content Protection Act, which calls for wider use of "broadcast-flag" technology, a code inserted into digital audio or visual transmissions that limits the ability of consumers to redistribute that content. Broadcast-flag technology is opposed by many consumer groups but has broad support in the entertainment industry. The bill has not been formally introduced.

Keith Murphy, a legislative aide to Smith who has worked closely on the legislation, is scheduled to begin work for Viacom at the end of April. Viacom's subsidiary, Paramount Pictures Corp., is a member of the powerful Motion Picture Association of America, a forceful advocate for the broadcast-flag proposal."

Whether it's actually a conflict of interest or not, it sure has the appearance of impropriety.

Murphy, of course, is not the only government insider who has ended up working for the entertainment industry right after carrying water for the industry while in government. David Israelite, right before taking the top job at the National Music Publisher's Association (NMPA), was head of a DoJ task force that recommended stiffening federal criminal enforcement of copyright laws. And perhaps most infamous is Mitch Glazier, who turned up working at the RIAA soon after he shepherded a change into the Copyright Act's "work for hire" provisions that would have benefited record labels at the expense of song-writers.
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They want to control all entertainment, media, press, everything. Money money money. If they control it the industry will be as good as dead....the industry will be as exciting as watching grass grow.

Gerald,

I do not post negative comments. That is a spoofer using my name/handle - I am not that offensive.

capt

Another case of the revolving door. Legislative aid goes to work at a lobby and influences legislation.

What a sweet way to get rich and have laws made to order.

We don't need nofuckin democracy!

#73 geof01, I guess we will have to attack Italy and overthrow a democracticly elected government. The world sees that Bushitler is an idiot. It is only Nazi Americans who see him as the new messiah and savior for our devil incarnate nation.

"I appears Judge Reggie Walton has had enough of the Barbara Comstock Show and has threatened to issue a gag order. It's been clear for a while that Byron York is the outlet of choice for Comstock when she wants to urge a bunch of propaganda out into the discourse, but it was exceptionally evident the other day when he put Fitzgerald's correction letter online before anyone else had seen it . . " read on (link) .

capt and Cornposters, keep us informed of spoofers. If someone uses your name or any Cornposters' names, they cannot accept brilliant and rational posts.

#77
Geof01,
The military leadership has had it. They are stepping back and telling it like it is. They are calling the Bush administration 'nut cases'. I've seen that in two different places now. I don't think it's said in anger. I think it's being said in fear. They know this administration has no boundries, no scruples and are not capable of running the country or the military. The military leaders, I think, are tired of trying to make this freaking side show work. They've had it. I think Iran is the last straw for many reasons. One is the outsourcing of Iraqi insurgents into Iran to cause upheaval. Another reason for the military concern is the threat of the use of nuclear weapons. The Bush administration doesn't care about the loss of life. The military leaders are trained to always be aware of civilians. The military leaders realize how much they've been used. I would suspect there is true hatred for the Bush administration among the leadership in the military.

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS NUTS.

Sen. Clinton Raises Cash Like a Pro

WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is raising money like a presidential candidate even though she's only running against poorly funded Senate opponents.

The New York lawmaker, a potential 2008 presidential candidate, raised more than $6 million in the first three months of the year, according to papers filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission.

The $2 million-a-month fundraising pace gave her $19.7 million cash on hand at the end of March for her Senate re-election.

"It's mind-blowing. She is raising money at a presidential level," said Doug Muzzio, a professor at Baruch College in New York.

The two main challengers to Clinton's bid for a second term each reported less than $500,000 as they vie for the Republican nomination.

Former Yonkers mayor John Spencer raised $1.1 million during the first quarter of this year and had $340,000 on hand, while Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland, a former Reagan-era Pentagon official, raised about $200,000 and has $430,000 on hand.

The Clinton campaign trumpeted how much of its money came from the small-level, Internet-driven donations. More than 250,000 individuals donated to her 2006 campaign, and only one out of every 20 donations she received this quarter were larger than $100, the campaign said.

The campaign also spent a small fortune to raise funds — $3.4 million in three months.

More HERE

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The only thing that really matters is how much money a politician can raise. We might want a person with values not one that only values money.

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

~ Albert Einstein, (attributed)

capt

geof01, so many coincidences, so little proof! That article barely scraped the surface. I find it ironic that some of the people who are into bush bashing the hardest are also some of the biggest supporters of that idiotic, impossible 9/11 scenario that those liars painted. I guess if they can't see it from their house, it ain't happenin'! Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming. Up next Tom Delay, Valerie Plame and Karl Rove in the "Who Dunnit" Series, followed by the mysterious and frightening NSA and the "Spies Who Hated Us", Katie Couric reporting, courtesy of your loving govt! God bless Amerika and the dems who will no doubt ride in to save the day anytime now.
capt, I knew that wasn't you, not even worth a comment.

#79 capt. and since there so many posting tonight.....

The legal troubles is going to cost this white house as much as the Katrina disaster.

White House pressed on N.H. tactic
Democrats seek records, testimony on phone jamming

New Hampshire Democrats are seeking to depose senior White House officials to learn what they knew about a 2002 episode in which a national Republican operative helped organize the jamming of Democrats' phone lines on Election Day, a scheme for which two GOP officials have already been convicted.

This week, as a Manchester judge considers a request to compel testimony and records from the White House and the Republican National Committee in a civil suit brought by the Democrats, the nearly four-year-old local political scandal spilled onto the national scene, with the chairmen of the parties trading barbs and accusations.

Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, sent a letter on Tuesday to his RNC counterpart, Ken Mehlman, citing the fact that the man convicted of organizing the phone-jamming called the White House political office repeatedly in the days before the election. Dean demanded that Mehlman say whether anyone at the White House or the RNC knew about the plot.

Mehlman, who in 2002 headed the White House political office, responded by saying he and his staff knew nothing of the plans. But Democrats fired back yesterday, accusing Mehlman of refusing to reveal the extent of the contact between the White House or RNC and the New Hampshire operatives.

''They're stonewalling because they can't face the truth," said Damien LaVera, a DNC spokesman. ''The law was broken here. We need to know where this goes -- who was involved in this, who authorized it."
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Yeah, who authorized it. I'm sure Bush wants to know too. Just like he wanted to know about the leak. He'll fire anyone who was behind this phone jammin thing.

#71 Hey, geof -- I wasn't bashing Conyers. Quite the opposite.

Jeanne, Randi Rhodes counted 11 Generals with that sentiment on her show on AIr AMerica radio tonight.

Saladin, and the big coincidence that everyone overlooks; shortly after 911 I started counting the number of shows on at night that had terrorism in the plot and it averaged about 7-10 constantly. I checked it again last month and now its about 20-25. If the public doesn't see everything as a threat and cannot disassociate reality TV from TV Reality, how they be expected to see a 'coincidence'.

I guess that means that the best way to health care is more shows like ER and House.

Micki, I knew that, I just wanted to add to your argument and my sarcasm was addressed to how the whole news story was being spread, as if there was one. Those darn democrats and their use of forced babysitting are so disgusting anyways.

Post Quietly Alters Story on Cheney Boos

The first pitch of the Washington Nationals' second season at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium was low and away, bouncing in the dirt before being scooped up by catcher Brian Schneider. For that, Vice President Cheney received a round of boos from the home crowd this afternoon.

Was changed to....

Vice President Cheney threw out the ceremonial first pitch, a right-handed toss that bounced in the dirt to the outside of the plate before being scooped up by catcher Brian Schneider. Cheney, booed by some as he walked to the mound, got even more catcalls after his throw ...a far cry from President Bush's fastball at last year's home opener.

After protests by Americablog and Firedoglake, The Washington Post has changed their copy.
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Ahhhh the power of blogs. We all know why the boos were there. The people have spoken.

I'm going home now but I want one last sarcastic laugh.

The Long War!

That is the icing on the cake. That they can stoop so low, and lose all public esteem, and then tell the press to apologize for reporting it as it is (McClellan and the Wash Post today) and someone pops off a new slogan like that one.

When McGovern lost to Nixon in 68 my brother laughed at me and said "what do you think now?"

"I think I am proud that 35 of the American people can tell right from wrong."

Today I am not sure how to deal with 65% who can see things as wrong and haven't a clue as to how they got that way.

Gerald,
I think the Smush Bush doll was from a specialty shop that carries lots of Bush and Cheney junk, like the puppets I got for Christmas. If you go to google there are many places. It's a hot item you know.

#92 and we all know that Cheney missed his February eye exam.

I didn't see if this got covered yesterday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/04/12/mcclellan-wash-post_n_18996.html

On May 29, 2003, President Bush said “We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories.” This morning the Washington Post revealed that a Pentagon field report transmitted to Washington on May 27, 2003 “had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons.”

Today during the White House press briefing, Scott McClellan demanded a public apology from the news media for covering the story:

You know, I saw some reporting talking about how this latest revelation — which is not something that is new; this is all old information that’s being rehashed — was an embarrassment for the White House. No, it’s an embarrassment for the media that is out there reporting this.

I brought up with some of you earlier today some of the reporting that was based of this Washington Post report. And I talked to one of network about it…they expressed their apologies to the White House.

I hope they will go and publicly apologize on the air about the statements that were made, because I think it is important given that they had made those statements in front of all their viewers. So we look forward to that happening as well.

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more at Huffingtonpost

geof01 - Ohhhhhhhhhhh.

Cheney missed his appointment to his audiologist, too, as did the reporter from WaPo. BooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooBoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooBoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I didn't mean to do that. I'm sorry.

Looks like I missed my appt with my computer guru.

Micki,
Good lord. Get a grip. (smiley face)

100 I'm 100!

WASHINGTON ? Vice President Dick Cheney?s role in leaking classified information to discredit critics of the Iraq war is pouring more fuel on demands that Congress censure and impeach both Cheney and President George W. Bush.

Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is building a case, step-by-step, implicating both Cheney and Bush in the campaign of leaks, David Swanson, co-founder of the pro-impeachment online group AfterDowningStreet.org, told the World.

At the heart of Fitzgerald?s case is the ?outing? of CIA officer Valerie Plame, whose husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, exposed administration lies in a New York Times op-ed article. It is against federal law to identify a covert intelligence officer.

?I think Cheney was already implicated in outing Plame and now Bush is implicated as well,? Swanson said. He cited an report by investigative writer Jason Leopold that Bush attended a strategy meeting where the ?outing of Plame was planned.?

Swanson added, ?It is a serious problem that Bush was responsible for leaking parts of a National Intelligence Estimate. It needs to be investigated. The bigger picture that is sometimes lost is that the information was leaked to buttress a lie about the reasons for going to war, a war that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives.? The illegal, immoral war, he added, is the real reason to impeach Bush and Cheney.

More LIES!!! [HERE]

I'm an idiot!

#102 it aint me!!!

Bush Hates Leaks -- From Others
White House Claims Actions In Public Interest

By Helen Thomas, Hearst White House columnist

President George W. Bush is piously opposed to leaks -- unless he's the person doing the leaking.

The president has now acknowledged that he authorized the leak of a classified October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq to bolster his case for the invasion of Iraq.

In retrospect, the administration now says much of the information in the top secret report was faulty. But that's another story.

Before Bush declassified the report, it included caveats and dubious assumptions that should have given him pause. But they were conveniently ignored in his rush to go to war.

MORE LIES!!!

From blog site Today in Iraq

QUOTE OF THE DAY: When I consider these matters dispassionately, and ignore morality for simple analysis, I am stunned by the childishness of thinking required to even imagine that any of the neocon plans had a hope in hell of working. - Rafar

David Corn wrote,

"Senators had been told to vacate the Capitol and their offices, but they did not know where to go. Senator Robert Byrd was told by a Capitol Hill police officer to get away from the Capitol as fast as he could. How? he asked. Find a car, the cop said, and start driving down East Capitol Avenue."

This is the helplessness the Bush administration thrives on. The common man says 'get away from the capital' and the senator asks how.
The common man says get in a car and start driving down Capital Avenue.' and then the common man stays behind to protect and serve.

The Slow-Motion Trap

His presidency was built on secrecy and, we now know, on lies. The more Bush struggles to free himself, the more his past deceptions bind him.

President Bush has been in search of himself for two and a half years. His voyage of self-discovery began on Sept. 30, 2003. Asked what he knew about senior White House officials anonymously leaking the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, he expressed his earnest desire to help special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald ferret out the perpetrators. "I want to know the truth," he said. "If anybody has got any information inside our administration or outside our administration, it would be helpful if they came forward with the information so we can find out whether or not these allegations are true and get on about the business."

Bush didn't stop there. He issued an all-points bulletin requesting help for the prosecutor. "And if people have got solid information, please come forward with it. And that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the information -- outside the administration. And we can clarify this thing very quickly if people who have got solid evidence would come forward and speak out. And I would hope they would." The day before, the president had sent out his press secretary, Scott McClellan, to announce that involvement in this incident would be a firing offense: "If anyone in this administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this administration."

More HERE

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Another good piece from Sidney Blumenthal.

capt

All LIES!!!

U.S. Rep. Cramer criticizes Bush

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - U.S. Rep. Bud Cramer is criticizing President Bush after he acknowledged leaking prewar intelligence, saying the president's credibility and Congressional support has suffered with the revelation.

Cramer, D-Huntsville, is on the House Intelligence Committee and has supported the Iraq war and defense projects in Huntsville. But he spoke out against the administration's dealings with Congress on war, defense and terrorism issues after Bush admitted Monday that he released sensitive prewar intelligence on Iraq in 2003.

"They worry that the more they tell us, the more will leak out," Cramer said Tuesday. "But it appears leaks are part of their agenda. It does begin to set a pattern that is troubling for the country."

Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF (retired), flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the recipient of the Eisenhower Medal, the George F. Kennan Peace Prize, the President's Medal of Veterans for Peace, the Society of Military Engineers Gold Medal (twice), six Air Medals, and dozens of other awards and honors. His Ph.D. is in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from Caltech. He chaired 8 major international conferences, and is one of the country's foremost experts on National Security.

Bowman said this of the official government 9/11 report, the Kean Commission:

"The 9/11 Commission omitted anything that might be the least bit suspicious or embarrassing or in any way detract from the official conspiracy so it was a total whitewash.There needs to be a true investigation, not the kind of sham investigations we have had with the 9/11 omission and all the rest of that junk."

One 911 Mystery Solved! Flight 77 Videotape Shown!

smells suspiciously like doubt to me

More LIES!!!

The collapse of trust was cemented into his presidency from the start. A compulsion for secrecy undergirds the Bush White House. Power, as Bush and Cheney see it, thrives by excluding diverse points of view. Bush's presidency operates on the notion that the fewer the questions, the better the decision. The State Department has been treated like a foreign country; the closest associates of the elder President Bush, Brent Scowcroft and James Baker, have been excluded; the career professional staff have been bullied and quashed; the Republican-dominated Congress has abdicated oversight; and influential elements of the press have been complicit. MORE LIES!!!

pictures can be photoshopped but audio tapes can't be faked? HMMM.

Sal, the cockpit voice recorder? See "chain of custody" above... or get ready to add a bunch more people to your conspiracy. They multiply with each bit of the theory, to where it becomes absurd, the number of people that would've had to be involved... and all get their timing right too. My honest opinion of it is, Doofus hid every bit as much as he could of 9/11 so it wouldn't be fkn obvious to America how he failed. Day after day of bad publicity coming out, a political lynching... it would've been. How he was warned and didn't give a shyt, that he had Iraq and more on his agenda instead. Best to change the topic and start a war or two.
As for the traffic controller tapes being destroyed, and the plane blowing up in air... let's see what the whole voice recorder says. The families have heard it, wonder what they're saying. We should be able to hear it too.

The government may have fooled millions of Americans with its cockamamie official story, but the former fighter pilot who flew over 100 combat missions in Vietnam and who sat for 35 years in the cockpit for Pan Am and United, wasn’t one of them.

Wittenberg knew right off the bat the hijackers - who couldn’t handle a Piper Cub - couldn’t fly the ‘big birds” he flew for so many years, knowing the planes were also incapable of performing such high speed maneuvers as the government claimed.

Former Vietnam Combat and Commercial Pilot Firm Believer 9/11 Was Inside Government Job

wow, smart guy doubt!

Our own U.S. Army devised a plan commissioned by Congress to bring down the WTC...McNiven, who first went public in an affidavit included in a 9/11-related federal conspiracy (RICO) lawsuit filed against Bush and others in 2004, claims his unit was ordered to create the "perfect terrorist plan" using commercial airliners as weapons and the Twin Towers as their target.....publicized version of the study, commissioned by Congress, was to identify security lapses and submit corrective measures to lawmakers. However, McNiven claims the real purpose of the study was to brainstorm how to pull off the perfect terrorist attack using the exact same 9/11 scenario.

McNiven RICO SUIT! BUSH SENIOR, CIA head, & his 1976 state terror plan to hit WTCs!

what do you know. official lawsuit action would seem to cast some doubt. if anyone were actually paying attention.

A video camera catches the action in 30th of a second increments. Slow motion can show what the naked eye misses. It is the same principle as Instant Replay. The camera has no agenda, no emotional involvement, no urge to hide and censor or make things up.

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really, it should only take your own eyes and 4 simple words to create some doubt ::
"aluminum plane steel building"

ghostplane courtesy of CNN

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David,

I think you owe a thank you to that Capitol Hill cop too. The one who didn't abandon his post though he knew a plane was headed at him.

I really enjoy you at bloggingheadstv. Hope you get on more!