Here's another little gem from Wayne Madsen:

"Our intelligence sources in Lebanon have reported to us exclusively that Israel is now using poison gas and depleted uranium shells on towns in the south of Lebanon. Residents of the small village of Kasarshoba became violently ill, experiencing severe vomiting, after the Israelis hit the village with poison gas.

In other cases, underground shelters in southern Lebanon were hit by Israeli depleted uranium shells. Our sources also report that the entire southern suburbs of southern Beirut, with a population of 800,000, have been totally depopulated. Israel has targeted thousands of civilian homes for destruction."

Now, which liberals are claiming him?

Or was he just reading a speech?

Truly, more bizarro world.

David, I think it would be fair to say that he was "just reading a speech."

As he has demonstrated, time and again, he will say anything for a desired effect, then disregard his own words and do whatever the hell he pleases. Afterall, he is "The Decider."

Mr. David Corn,

Excellent post!

Bush does not care about what he says and does not follow any law. He will just make a signing statement and do as he pleases. We have to stop him but alas the only thing that might slow him down are the GOPhers.

Thanks for all of your work.

Kirk

JINX! HA!

David Corn, probably not even just reading a speech. He doesn't read too good, y'know. Arn't there teleprompters or something?

Beson,

I'm thinkin' the prompters he DOES use have to be typed out FONETICALEE!

-T

DAVID,
YOU HAVE DONE IT!!!
You have reported on some of the most important issues regarding the torture debate. The rights of individuals to know what they are accused of is something we can not let slip from our grasp. And it is something Bush wants abolished. The American people need to know what is disappearing from their lives. We need to challenge the validity of Bush's argument.

Maybe some don't care about the rights of those in GITMO but what have those people done? Do the American people know that? Are those men terrorists? Are they? Was Maher Arar of Canada a terrorist when he got shipped off to Syria? No, he wasn't. George Bush and Co want to take away the rights from people who have done nothing wrong. He talks of freedoms and rights and this is what he is doing.

Read the words of Michael Ratner who was on Democracy Now today. It is chilling.

MICHAEL RATNER: I have been appalled that for five years I’m living in a country that is openly torturing people and essentially proud of it. And despite that, there has been basically pipsqueaks out of the press and out of Congress. You don't see them saying, “Stop this. Stop this. Stop this.”

AMY GOODMAN: Michael Ratner, we just have ten seconds. But whatever comes out, with the bill out of the Senate, out of the Congress, couldn't President Bush just sign a signing statement, as he's done more than 800 times, and not abide by whatever it was that was passed?

MICHAEL RATNER: He could certainly do a signing statement, like you said, and say, “I’m not going to enforce this bill. I’m still going to torture people.” It would be unconstitutional. It would be illegal. It would be essentially a war crime to do it, in my view. But the way this president has gone, my belief is that he has committed war crimes.

so muslims are evil because the pope with hs army of bodyguards is in danger of being killed if he doesn't convert? right. the foxnews fools should not have been wherever they have been - just because they are reporters doesn't make them exempt from danger. the war on terror is bogus and your lame justifications of the villification of muslims in general is pathetic.

All we really need is a president that stifles his feelings of empathy. You stupid, compassionate libruls don't know how the terrorists work. They don't care about anything. They would just as easily blow up a bus as they would rape a bunny. The only way to defeat these islamofascist creeps is to elect a leader that is just as heartless as they are. It is only by showing the terrorists just how nasty and vile we can be that we shall win this war on terror. You goofy lefties don't know that this is the war OF terror, the goal of which is to scare the shit out of the bloodthirsty islamists by being horrible and cruel to arabs and other ragheads - even if they didn't "do" anything to us. Torture done in the name of freedom isn't torture, it's called "liberty cuddling". If we scare them more than they scare us, we win. Oh, and it doesn't count that we scare ourselves, as that's just necessary to get you to look the other way as we rape this cute little innocent bunny.

Touche, fatty was had. It is pathetic. The Pope should have known better than to say these things in an age when their is so much prejudice in the world. Certainly, the Pope, who is a human being can relate to the stink that this would cause. He was out of line and didn't make the kind of apology that sounds sincere. ------------- As far as the Fox newsmen - they should have planned better - if that was at all possible. This is a war.

Maher Arar: Timeline

Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen born in Syria in 1970, came to Canada in 1987. After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in computer engineering, Arar worked in Ottawa as a telecommunications engineer.

On a stopover in New York as he was returning to Canada from a vacation in Tunisia in September 2002, U.S. officials detained Arar, claiming he has links to al-Qaeda, and deported him to Syria, even though he was carrying a Canadian passport.

When Arar returned to Canada more than a year later, he said he had been tortured during his incarceration and accused American officials of sending him to Syria knowing that they practise torture.

His wife Monia Mazigh has a PhD in financial economics and ran for the NDP in the 2004 federal election in the riding of Ottawa South. She lost. Arar and Mazigh have two young children. In the summer of 2006, the family relocated to Kamloops, B.C., where Mazigh took a teaching position at Thompson Rivers University.

Arar and his family are seeking compensation from the federal government for his abrupt deportation and imprisonment in Syria. Judge Dennis O'Connor, who conducted the inquiry into the matter, recommended in his report dated Sept. 18, 2006 that Ottawa pay up.
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How many men, how many families will be seeking damages for damages such as were inflicted on Maher Arar? How many are out there? Does anybody know?

#12
Seeking compensation that is.

I almost choked when Bush said "the voices of moderation are in power" Heaven help us.

Today on Npr's Talk of the Nation they did a program on the UN. It was if Neil Conan was reading a press release from the Bush administration on Iran's "alleged" desire to have nuclear weapons. The program focused on Iran most of the time ( I bet they said Iran 25 times).

I tried to get through with of course what I believed to be a damn good question about "how the U.s. and Israel have undermined the Un in many circumstances but mainly in regard to demanding that Israel abide by Un resolutions themselves. And that Israel is in violation of more UN resolutions than any other nation, yet Israel and the U.s. persistently demand that other nations abide by Un resolutions all of the time. That it is this double standard that continues to infuritate many in the middle east. The screener told me she thought this was a great question had me hold on and then came back and said the producer decided not to take this question and that they would be bringing this issue up. Neil Conan mentioned the conflict once to cover his ass . (being able to say he mentioned it once means fair and balanced reporting to NPR

Many of the other world leaders that spoke today addressed how the ongoing Israeli/Palestinian conflict is the root cause of the problems in the middle east. (how many times can they say this)

I become more convinced all the time that NPR and other media outlets unwillingness to address this issue in a balanced and accurate way is one of the biggest reasons the conflict is not dealt with honestly.

Think about it not one news outlet in the U.s. covered the Assembly today for the American Public. Only proving once again the MSM does not want to report what other nations have to say and the American public seems to care less. If they had made an effort to air the assembly the American people would have heard nations saying that the Israeli/palestinian conflict is the root of the problem in the middle east.

Go listen to the Talk of the Nation today for yourself count how many times they say Iran

10 goob, that is the first explanation i've heard that makes sense. let's nuke kabul. . . or somewhere. O i got it, let's give a three week warning then nuke chernobyl. then they'll no we mean business.

I cannot stand to look at or listen to bush, he just makes my stomach turn knowing what a lying, murdering traitor he is, UGH! LBH from the previous thread, you are lying again, I have NEVER resorted to spoofing anyone and I am NOT a Liberal! I'm sure that even micki and Caroline will agree with me on this one point.

Bush lays out Mideast peace plan at U.N.

President says Iran should return to nuclear talks or face consequences

Part of Sept. 11 anniversary series

Bush's speech was the last in a series on the war on terror, timed to surround last week's fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and to set the tone for the final weeks of the U.S. midterm elections.

Bush was speaking in the same room where four years and one week ago he made another plea for action in the Middle East. On that day, Bush said Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of deadly chemical and biological agents that the United Nations must confront.

He was wrong, but still forged ahead with war against Iraq without the support of many other nations. And he is still trying to rebuild credibility with the body, experts say.

"The sense outside of the U.S. is that the United States is responsible for many of the failures in Iraq, first by going in mostly alone and then by incompetent administration," said Jon Alterman, a Mideast expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

"The problem with the way he's talked about democracy in the Middle East is not that people see it as undesirable," Alterman said, "it's that people see it as naive. He needs to persuade cynical people that not only is he sincere, but it's achievable, and here's what they need to do to make it so."

More HERE

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I always think of anniversaries as a happy celebration and the remembrance of a tragedy as a memorial.

capt

I think the pope knew exactly what kind of uproar his comment would cause.

America's MCnews is barely touching the UN general assembly. The powers that be do not want the American people to hear the words of other leaders that question the U.s. foreign policies especially in regard to the I/P conflict.

What time is the Iranian President speaking? 630pm? Exactly too late for the pm news cycle. I wonder who schedules such things?

-T

BELIEVE IT, OR NOT?

By Paul L. Williams & David Dastych Saturday, September 16, 2006

Urgent news from Abu Dawood, one of the newly appointed commanders of the al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan:

Final preparations have been made for the American Hiroshima, a major attack on the U. S.

Muslims living in the United States should leave the country without further warning.

The attack will be commandeered by Adnan el Shukrijumah ("Jaffer Tayyer" or "Jafer the Pilot"), a naturalized American citizen, who was raised in Brooklyn and educated in southern Florida.

PIC

The al Qaeda operatives who will launch this attack are awaiting final orders. They remain in place in cities throughout the country. Many are masquerading as Christians and have adopted Christian names.

You decide

#14
Kathleen,
I listen to NPR a lot. I agree. It is hard to listen to news reports when you hear a definate slant. I don't mind two sides to a story. I just want to get both sides. It's amazing how things work out for the best when both sides are allowed to speak.

#14 kathleen, Bush claims to be a moderate. That is a BOLD FACE LIE!!! Yet, most Americans will believe him because he is a born again Christian. There is just not enough true patriotic Americans to help to do any good in our country and in the world. I predict that Bush will drop nuclear bombs and missiles on Iran before January, 2007 and that Bush will declare martial before the 2008 elections and claim the kingship over America and Americans. Happy days are ahead for the Nazis and the Nazi religious right. My Nazi in-laws will feel safe and secure as they frolic in their pool filled with money.

A little comic relief.

Video: Daily Show rips Robert Novak

The Daily Show has responded to Bob Novak's criticism of The Daily Show with a scorching indictment of Novak's professionalism and his public personality by host Jon Stewart.

On a recent broadcast of C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Novak described Jon Stewart as "a self-riotous comedian taking on airs of grandeur." Novak admits he's never seen the show.

Stewart seems to hold back nothing in severely mocking Bob Novak. Stewart looks into the camera, as if speaking directly to Bob Novak and says, "I know you have redeeming qualities. For example, when you're on television you let others shine. While you, generously, absorb all light and oxygen. When you leave an area it stops raining. And I know, in the past I referred to you as a 'douche bag'..."

How many wars does a person have to start to be called a radical?

One - in my book. Especially when the action was unwise, illegal, and based on fabrications and lies.

capt

part of Iranian President Ahminijad's speech at the Un on Saturday @global security. "Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, "Today, more than ever, nations need constructive, positive and honest cooperation and interaction in order to enjoy a dignified, tranquil and peaceful life based on justice and spirituality. Let us enter into a collective covenant to realize this legitimate aspiration of our nations. "Here, I would like to briefly talk about the approach and initiative of the Islamic Republic of Iran on the nuclear issue. Nuclear weapons and their proliferation, and attempts to impose an apartheid regime on access to peaceful nuclear energy, are two major threats, challenging international tranquility and peace. "Keeping in mind that in past years no serious efforts complimented by practical mechanisms -- have been made to move towards full disarmament and more specifically implement the decisions and outcomes of the NPT Review Conferences of 1995 and 2000, I suggest that the General Assembly, as the most inclusive UN organ, mandate an ad-hoc committee to compile and submit a comprehensive report on possible practical mechanisms and strategies for complete disarmament. "This Committee should also be asked to investigate as to how contrary to the NPT -- material, technology and equipment for nuclear weapons were transferred to the Zionist regime, and to propose practical measures for the establishment of a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East. "Some powerful states practice a discriminatory approach against access of NPT members to material, equipment, and peaceful nuclear technology, and by doing so, intend to impose a nuclear apartheid. "We are concerned that once certain powerful states completely control nuclear energy resources and technology, they will deny access to and thus deepen the divide between powerful countries and the rest of the international community. When that happens, we will be divided into light and dark countries. "Regrettably, in the past 30 years, no effective measure has been implemented to facilitate the exercise of the legally recognized right of NPT state-parties to have access to and use peaceful nuclear energy in accordance with article IV. Therefore, the General Assembly should ask the IAEA in accordance with article 2 of its Statute to report on violations by specific countries that have hindered the implementation of the above article and also produce practical strategies for its renewed implementation."

This is at global security's website Full text of President Ahmadinejad's speech at General Assembly IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency United Nations, New York, Sept 17, IRNA Iran-UN-President Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday offered proposal on nuclear program. The following is full text of President Ahmadinejad before the Sixtieth Session of the United Nations General Assembly: "In the Name of the God of Mercy, Compassion, Peace, Freedom and Justice "Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, "Today we have gathered here to exchange views about the world, its future and our common responsibilities towards it. It is evident that the future of the world is intertwined with its current state and the prevailing trends ,which exhibit signs of hope and despair.

Remember when I said that, as repugnant as the Republicans were several months ago, the American electorate would start examining the likes of the quixotic posters on this blog and realize that the Republicans beat any alternative?

Well, your recent posts and defense of Islam and moral equivalency with JudeoChristianity pushes voters more and more to the Republicans.

When and if the Republicans are ascendant, please remember that you have no one but yourselves to blame.

Worried about Iran? Cowards, even if they get one or a dozen nukes think they are going to throw them at us? Nope a dozen time no. So why all of the hype? Just to start another war and line the pockets of the war profiteers, get it? Thieves are in charge of your government and any one that supports their aims are coward and thieves, or worse, like just plain stupid, yeah I know many opinions but get a grip your best interest isn't in lining the pockets of halliburton. No matter how much stock you think you own. Gets really old to hear these brain dead bushbots coninually post the same old crap but then any new thoughts or looking at it in a mature manner seems to be out of the reach of the high school clowns that continually show up here, trolls unite, go home and try to get a job, if you can find one that is. Wait until the first of the year or maybe sooner, it ain't gonna be pretty but it will be entertaining for sure, then the joke is on them.

Nukes in the USA now!....Not ours but for us.

Read #21 and fasten your seatbelts!

White House soiree: Boortz, Hannity, Gallagher, Medved and Ingraham were reportedly invited to meet with Bush in the Oval Office

In a September 16 posting on his weblog, nationally syndicated radio host Neal Boortz wrote that he had been invited to "the West Wing of the White House" for a "30-minute meeting with the President in the Oval Office [which] turned into 90 minutes." Boortz added that the "other invitees were [conservative radio hosts] Sean Hannity, Mike Gallagher, Michael Medved and Laura Ingraham." As the weblog Think Progress noted, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in a September 17 posting on its website that conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has been invited to the meeting but could not attend.

Below, are examples of some noteworthy comments, previously documented by Media Matters for America, from each of the recent guests who reportedly visited the White House:

More HERE

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What a group of major pin-heads? They have to coordinate the lies to create the illusion of consistency.

You cannot believe a thing any of these slugs say.

capt

FC,
when are going to see Muslims as human?

James Baker just announced at the Un that he will be meeting with someone from Iran in the next few days. This is on at the Un radio

Can't find any outlet airing Iranian President Ahminijad's speech at the Un. It is supposed to air at 6:3o. Is there a blackout of something. Does anyone know where I can access this. It is not on cspan

Jeanne, That is the problem. Too many people try to view Muslims as somehow less than or different than us. They aren't. The extremists are no different than our extremists, either.

How could extreme Muslims possibly be worse than bushco and their worship of coerscion by nuclear force? We did it before, we can do it again!

Cafferty: "Should We Outlaw E-Voting Machines?"

Jack begs the questions and gives us some disturbing news: an experienced computer technician could tamper with these machines and flip the vote in a matter of minutes.

Video - WMV

Video - QT

If the recent disaster in Maryland taught us anything, its that we should be very concerned about this considering that more than 80% of the midterm votes will be tallied on these sketchy machines. What's more, many states will be using these machines for the first time. Isn't this election a little too important to risk it?

(Guest post by Mike)

More HERE

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The simple answer is YES we need to make evoting illegal but the politicians will never do it. They are the same slugs that sold our vote while lining their pockets. The politicians could not care less as long as they can retain the power they have already stolen.

If a technical type can flip the numbers in a matter of minutes how long do you suppose it would take the guys that designed and programmed the machines?

System design and programming INTENTIONALLY made the systems weak. This is not the kind of thing that can happen accidentally.

capt

Here's were the new employment numbers are coming from.

D.C. corruption eruption - FBI forced to triple fraud probe squads to keep up

There is so much political corruption on Capitol Hill that the FBI has had to triple the number of squads investigating lobbyists, lawmakers and influence peddlers, the Daily News has learned.
For decades, only one squad in Washington handled corruption cases because the crimes were seen as local offenses handled by FBI field offices in lawmakers' home districts.

But in recent years, the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal and other abuses of power and privilege have prompted the FBI to assign 37 agents full-time to three new squads in an office near Capitol Hill.

FBI Assistant Director Chip Burrus told The News yesterday that he wants to detail even more agents to the Washington field office for a fourth corruption squad because so much wrongdoing is being uncovered.

Cafferty on Iran Intel Reports: "This is the same jive we were fed in the run-up to the with in Iraq"

Jack Cafferty discussed the new Time article "What Would War With Iran Look Like" yesterday and questioned the intel reports we are hearing on the nuclear capabilities of Bush's next target.

Video - WMV

Video - QT

There is an eerie sense of dejavu that comes over you when you hear these intel reports coming out and the international community questioning the accuracy of the reports. They always say history repeats itself, but did we ever expect that repetition to occur within only three short years?

Transcript (via CNN)

More HERE

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Ever since I quit watching any MSM I have missed the odd bit of truthiness from Jack and a few others.

capt

Jeanne --- Well, maybe jus' possible the FBI might actually be able to do s'mpthen. Looks alot like Al Capone all over again. so maybe...

I know I am technically challenged, but their seems to be a virtual blackout of Iraninan President Ahminijad's speech at the Un tonight. Can someone help me find where it is airing!

President Bush said today:

...the very first sentence of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document declares that "the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom and justice and peace in the world."

David,

The opening sentence of the UN Declaration mirrors our Constitution's opening with "All men are created equal...w/inalienable rights".

Clearly, to those of us fortunate to be Americans, all of our other rights follows forth from being "created equal".

Bush is saying a solid foundation of equality must be the first step and who can argue with that? Had the world, the Muslim one being the most applicable at this time in history, achieved this foundation, would you be making your extensive snide comments?

In theory, the UN is a wonderful organization and the people of the world can be as one! But, alas, it is just ain't so.... Let's just try to do our part on the foundation part. Make no mistake, the War on Terror is very much a part of that effort!

I would be much more hopeful if Western liberals actually behaved like liberals instead of selfish wimps! I'm peeved that Conservatives & Liberals have done a complete role-switch! Personally, I'd much prefer to focus on economics and leave bettering the world's condition to the idealistic liberals of my babyhood who stood up to facism and communism.

#37
Capt,
I believe that if a candidate gets elected by fraud that candidate will realize from the very first moment that it was the worst thing they ever could have done. Bush is illegitimate. He got by with the act of cheating the American people out of their decision and vote. The people of this nation are fed up. The acceptance will never be there again. I truly believe that. If a leader commits fraud to win he will be branded a bastard. He will never be respected. He will have problems with the electorate from the first day and the first hour. You can't govern like that.

Group Finds Jump in Anti-Muslim Incidents by Jim Lobe
Linked to Antiwar by Free Market News
Complaints involving anti-Muslim discrimination, harassment, and violence jumped over 30 percent in 2005 compared to 2004, according to a new report released here Monday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim organization.
A total of 1,972 such incidents were reported in 2005. That was the highest number since CAIR began reporting anti-Muslim incidents in 1995, the year that the bombing by right-wing extremists of the federal government building in Oklahoma City, blamed initially by the mass media on Arab radicals, set off a rash of anti-Muslim attacks.
CAIR said it had also received 153 reports of anti-Muslim hate crimes, an increase of nearly 10 percent over 2004, and more than 50 percent over the 93 reports received in 2003.
"It is clear that there remains a growing atmosphere of fear and hostility toward American Muslims, Arab-Americans, and South Asians," this year's report concluded, noting that recent public opinion surveys have likewise shown a rise in anti-Muslim sentiment among the general public here.
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Hey! Mission well on the way to accomplished! This will be welcome news to the "kill them in large numbers" crowd! I have been watching the series "Lost" on DVD, they have an Iraqi that is portrayed as not only physically beautiful but very intelligent and empathetic. His character is someone who you could really call a friend. I have to say, I found it refreshing that an MSM series would be so open-minded towards the "enemy." Anyone who likes good drama would enjoy this show, no commercials if you rent it!

Seriously folks there is a complete freeze/virtual blackout of Ahminijad's speech at the Un tonight can anyone find where one can access it. I keep searching

Military coup tumbles Thailand's Thaksin

BANGKOK - Caretaker Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted in a military coup on Tuesday evening, marking what appears to be a dramatic end to a political stalemate that has pitched the embattled politician against an opposition movement backed by conservative elements close to the Thai palace.

Troops loyal to Thai army commander General Sonthi Boonyaratklin, a palace loyalist, led the army-led putsch and surrounded Government House and parliament with tanks and troops. Thaksin, who was traveling in the United States, attempted to declare "a severe state of emergency" from New York and ordered Sonthi removed from his command.

As of midnight Thailand time, there was no indication that army officers loyal to Thaksin intended to enforce the caretaker prime minister’≥ orders to remove Sonthi. A source close to Sonthi said that they were locked in late-night negotiations with military officials loyal to Thaksin, including from the Bangkok-based 4th Cavalry Division, to avoid bloodshed.

More HERE

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I often wonder if our military will stand for the complete eradication of our constitution?

capt

Kathleen,
I've looked in several places and can't find it. Maybe with a little time it will be up.

capt --- Officers' oaths include the phrase "defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic". Well, used to anyway...

Paradox

Louis Tice of the Pacific Institute in Seattle, Washington offers a paradox, "You give up control in order to be in control". Confident leaders do not have to rule by controlling and punitive threats. He also discusses Erickson's book, "Eight Stages of Human Development", regarding leadership. Leadership starts at the top with basic trust. A dishonest leader cannot be an effective leader. Controlling and punitive threats will have consequences and there will be a backlash against such a leader. People will subtly undermine the leader and in the end the leader is not in control and he or she remains in a constant state of fear. A fearful leader is an unstable leader. Good examples of fearful and unstable leaders are Napoleon and Hitler. We must be vigilant of such leaders, be it in the United States or in the world.

Please pay careful attention to Bush's behavior. You do not have to be a licensed psychiatrist or a Ph.D. psychologist to know that Bush is a very sick person. His increased temper tantrums, his abusive language, his flying all over the country, and his apparent alcoholism and drug intake are signs that Bush is losing it. We have in the WH a very unstable beast that could snap at any minute. We must never forget this psycho’≥ depraved indifference in the murdering of human beings. Pray hard for this demented and deranged amoeba!

Basic Trust

I have shared with you some information regarding a paradox. I will now stress the importance of basic trust in the eight stages of human development. The Bush misadministration has been a very secretive cabal because Bush does not possess basic trust which should have been instilled in his formative years. He and his brothers have nicknamed their mother, "Nutcracker." This nickname should be quite revealing to you. Everything the misadministration does is done in secret. Some secrecy in government is necessary but with Bush it is an obsession of a sick person.

The eighth stage and the last stage is integrity. Integrity is reached about the age of forty-five. For a person to reach integrity everything starts with basic trust. You pass through the various stages. In Bush's life age forty-five is about the time he found God and said that he would not be a drunk. A dozen years later he becomes president through fraud and rigged elections. Bush is a nutcase but more seriously he displays a depraved indifference toward living human beings. It is my perceptual opinion that Bush is close to becoming an insane person. He is too sick to lead a democracy. He will do all in his power to bring down American democracy. Everything that he touches becomes demented and deranged. You see as Americans the unraveling of insane policies from an insane or close to insane person.

Leadership

Coach K, the head coach of Duke, says that the most important word for leadership is trust. If you do not trust the leadership, how can a person lead?

Can you honestly say that you trust Bushitler? There is no way Bushitler can be trusted. His incessant lies make it impossible for him to be trusted. Many Americans are beginning to realize that Bushitler is a liar. His whole life has been one big lie from his appointment as president to his failed war policies. We can also add failure to his name in addition to liar.

The devil incarnate nation has a lying failed despotic dictator controlling our failed and miserable country. Nazi Americans are mirror images of Bushitler.

Everything starts with basic trust. Without basic trust a person cannot reach the final stage of integrity. In Erickson's, "The Eight Stages of Human Development," he stresses the importance of basic trust.

Thanks Jeanne. such a crying shame that our media will not air his speech. Too threatening. The radicals on the right would not be able to continue to push their military strike on Iran agenda so smoothly if the American people heard his speech....

I'm having trouble getting the speech. I wonder if it will be aired at another date.

Liberals wrong again about tax cuts for the rich!

Maybe if you libs had someone else besides that idiot at the NYT's thats been wrong for the last 20 years you wouldn't look so foolish.

Clinton had to raise taxes and couldn't come close to these numbers.

US Treasury Sets New 1-Day Tax Receipt Record Of $85.8 Billion

Tuesday September 19th, 2006 / 0h04


WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. government recorded record-high overall and corporate tax receipts on Sept. 15, which was a quarterly deadline for tax payments, the Treasury said Monday.
Total tax receipts were $85.8 billion on Friday, compared with the previous one-day record of $71 billion on Sept. 15 of last year, the Treasury said.
Within the overall figure, corporate tax receipts Friday were $71.8 billion, up from $63 billion in September of last year.
Treasury Undersecretary for Domestic Finance Randal Quarles said Friday's numbers provided a "continuing demonstration of the strength of the U.S. economy."
"In fact, Friday's gross receipts were the largest in a single day in the nation's history - 20% higher than receipts on the same quarterly tax payment date last year," Quarles said in a statement.
-By Benton Ives-Halperin, Dow Jones Newswires; 202-862-9255; Benton.Ives-Halperin@dowjones.com

GENERAL DEBATE (19-29 September 2006)

Statements and Webcast

The UN Webcasters do not have the video or statements up on the site yet.

You will need the Download Free RealPlayer to view videos

Live Webcast

"do not have the video or statements up on the site yet."

Should read : do not have the video or statements FROM IRAN up on the site yet.

Some of the others statements and video are up (most all from the morning session).

capt

#51
Aired at another date....Joe you are so funny.

Jeanne,

You had asked me a specific question: How will Muslims be seen as humans? The answers are as follows:

When they quit calling for the death of the Pope because he questioned their commitment to peace.

When they quit flying airplanes into American buildings.

When they quit dancing in the streets at the sight of American deaths.

When the madrassas quit teaching/preaching the hatred of the West.

When sharia is no longer the law of the land.

When there are good and decent Muslims who stand up and cry out against the atrocities commited in the name of Islam.

When Muslims allow other religions to exist peacefully.

When Muslims allows other cultures to exist peacefully.

When Muslim men quit treating Muslim women like so much chattel.

People like Joe on this blog see extreme Islam, calling for the death of all infidels, and the extremist Christians as somehow morally equivalent. Perhaps the worst Christian and the worst Muslim are equivalent. But there are hundreds of thousands, perhaps hundreds of millions, of Muslims calling for death to all Americans. I doubt if you would find such reciprocity in America.

I hate to say it, because I have three young sons, one of whom is in the Middle East on assignment as we speak, but the status quo must not be allowed to exist.

Propaganda is not meant to fool the intelligencia
. . . but to provide them an excuse.
~~Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propagandist

#52
There are people making money in stocks that's for sure.

Capt comes through again.

Thanks Capt I have watched the UN morning session, appreciate you looking. All U.s. media outlets in lockdown as far as allowing the American public to judge for themselves about Ahminijad. The Israeli Lobby would not be able to push their regime change agenda quite so easily.

There will be plenty of spin on it in the morning.

People should think about politely hammering C-span. Ask them why they did not air Ahminijad's speech?

#57
FC,
I didn't ask 'how will Muslims be seen as human'. I asked 'FC,
when are going to see Muslims as human?'
Big difference. I'm laying it on your shoulders. When are YOU going to start seeing Muslims as human?

which airplane did they fly into a building?
the ua175 that FOX showed us approaching wtc2 from the SSE or the ua175 that was simultaneously shown to us by ABC approaching the wtc2 from the SW?
or was it perhaps the one that we were told hit the pentagon but there was no evidence of?

the war on terror is nothing more than a war on arabs. arabs were framed for the simple removal of a money-sink eyesore landmark that would have cost 10's of billions to remove properly. now we can all rest safely while we are protected from these evil arabs by the very people who continue to profit from their frame-up.

Jeanne,

I'll start seeing Muslims as human when they comport themselves as I stated.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." Dwight Eisenhower

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"It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return." : Socrates 469 -

399 BC

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In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king: Erasmus c.1469 - 1536

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Thanks ICH Newsletter!

The vast majority of the 1.4--1.6 billion Muslims comport themselves rather well, especially considering that most of them are very poor...

#64
FC,
Oh you mean like the way the Bush administration and the CIA treated Maher Arar.
Canadians Fault US for Its Role in Torture Case

government commission on Monday exonerated a Canadian computer engineer of any ties to terrorism and issued a scathing report that faulted Canada and the United States for his deportation four years ago to Syria, where he was imprisoned and tortured.

The report on the engineer, Maher Arar, said American officials had apparently acted on inaccurate information from Canadian investigators and then misled Canadian authorities about their plans for Mr. Arar before transporting him to Syria.

"I am able to say categorically that there is no evidence to indicate that Mr. Arar has committed any offense or that his activities constituted a threat to the security of Canada," Justice Dennis R. O'Connor, head of the commission, said at a news conference.

The report's findings could reverberate heavily through the leadership of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which handled the initial intelligence on Mr. Arar that led security officials in both Canada and the United States to assume he was a suspected Al Qaeda terrorist.

The report's criticisms and recommendations are aimed primarily at Canada's own government and activities, rather than the United States government, which refused to cooperate in the inquiry.

September 25, 2006 The American Conservative

The Rich Get Richer
Growing income disparity doesn't presage a new labor movement at home but it may signal more terrorism for us abroad.by James Kurth;In 1914, Henry Ford paid his factory workers $5 a day, twice the going rate, with the aim of creating a broad middle class able to buy the cars they were building. Today, that project isn't faring so well: The Economist reports that in the U.S. the gap between rich and poor is bigger than in any other advanced country. And it's growing. According to the Congressional Budget Office, from 1979 to 2001, the after-tax income of the top 1 percent of U.S. households soared 139 percent, while the income of the middle fifth rose only 17 percent and the income of the poorest fifth climbed just 9 percent. Last year American CEOs earned 262 times the average wage of their workers up tenfold from

@american conservative

"All U.s. media outlets in lockdown as far as allowing the American public to judge for themselves about Ahminijad."

The MSM have to wait until the WH and the neocreeps put a strong spin on it.

The American MSM sucks and as the propaganda arm of the GOP they will never be truthful about their failue to inform.

capt

Bush's Cruel and Degrading Presidency

Washington is a moral swamp. When the chief executive can stand at the presidential podium and make an unabashed appeal for torture, then the American dream is dead.

Bush hates America and only God knows why? He's been buoyed-along his entire life on a raft of wealth and privilege; distancing himself from his endless failures, one after the other flop, flop, flop. Still, Bush wants more; another pound of flesh to inflate his battered, alcohol-saturated ego. He wants to snuff out anything that even vaguely resembles honor or decency or dignity so he can permeate the world with his own fiendish image beaming from TVs across the globe.

Who could ever have imagined the President of the United States making the case for torture like some flannel-mouth medicine man at a tent show?

"Where is your sense of decency, sir?"

More HERE

I'll start seeing Muslims as human when they comport themselves as I stated.
Posted by: factchecker at September 19, 2006 07:55 PM

Until then how do you see them. Are they less than human?

WARNING! KOOK ALERT!

"All U.s. media outlets in lockdown as far as allowing the American public to judge for themselves about Ahminijad."

The MSM have to wait until the WH and the neocreeps put a strong spin on it.

The American MSM sucks and as the propaganda arm of the GOP they will never be truthful about their failue to inform.

capt

The Jerry Springer show can't touch your silly rantings capt. The sad part is that you freaks are for real!

Until then how do you see them. Are they less than human?

The good news is that they are not less than a liberal.

#70
Yup. That's an accurate portrayal. Moral swamp...Bush hates America. BTW he's REALLY starting to hate America now that Americans won't do what he wants.

Too many people try to view Muslims as somehow less than or different than us. They aren't. The extremists are no different than our extremists, either.

Posted by: Joe at September 19, 2006 06:36 PM

Just two here Joe and probably just one.

The vast majority of the 1.4--1.6 billion Muslims comport themselves rather well, especially considering that most of them are very poor...

DB

Unless of course they decide to murder innocent civilians by strapping on a suicide belt. It's like hitting the Iranian lottery at that point.

Just two here Joe and probably just one.

Correct Carrie since only two of us here are actually human.

Liberals are subhuman and muslims are to.

LBH this one is for you

Republicans for Strickland
Republicans across the state are uniting behind Ted’s campaign to Turnaround Ohio, making the courageous decision to support Ted without leaving their party or abandoning its other candidates. This reflects their strong belief that we need a change at the top in order to unite all Ohioans in facing the serious challenges before us.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page to sign up as a Republican for Strickland. You'll also be able to see the many Republican leaders who are leading this effort around the state.

Congressman Ted Strickland for Governor website

Yup. That's an accurate portrayal. Moral swamp...Bush hates America. BTW he's REALLY starting to hate America now that Americans won't do what he wants.

Jeanne

No!!!!!!!!! Bush hates you and your a sorry excuse for a human.

Kathleen

If Strickland is the better man for the State, I'm all for it. I voted for a Dem in our Gov race cuz the Repub was a joke last two races. Doesn't mean I agree with the Dem Gov on his issues but I will not put party over the better of our community like liberals did with Lieberman that voted 90% of the time with his party. It just goes to show that conservatives are better qualified for making these kind of decisions.

I sure hope Corn folks are involved with their state elections. With a double digit lead it will be harder for them to steal the election.

New Independent Poll Shows Strickland Maintains Double Digit Lead(09.19.06)
Columbus, Ohio – According to a new independent poll released today, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Congressman Ted Strickland has a 21-point lead over rival Republican state officeholder J. Kenneth Blackwell, even after millions spent in negative advertising by Blackwell and his allies.

According to the Associated Press, the Quinnipiac University poll found Strickland leading among likely Ohio voters, 55 percent to 34 percent.

The poll was taken between September 11 – 17 after a three-week barrage of television, print and radio negative advertising against Ted Strickland. The negative ads were launched by the Blackwell campaign, CommonSense Ohio and CommonSense 2006, political action committees that have thus far refused to release the names of its contributors.

“Mr. Blackwell’s negative campaigning is just not working anymore,” said Strickland Campaign Spokesman Keith Dailey. “Ohioans are turning away from divisiveness and responding to Ted Strickland and his clear vision to turnaround Ohio.”

For more information on the Strickland-Fisher Turnaround Ohio plan to keep and grow the jobs we have by investing in our strengths, like energy production and entrepreneurship, and to bring the jobs of the future by making sure we have the best-educated workforce.

Remember when I said that, as repugnant as the Republicans were several months ago, the American electorate would start examining the likes of the quixotic posters on this blog and realize that the Republicans beat any alternative?

Really? Every American will come to DavidCorn.com, even the muslims!!!!!

Well, your recent posts and defense of Islam and moral equivalency with JudeoChristianity pushes voters more and more to the Republicans.

Not the we needed your help, really!!!!!

When and if the Republicans are ascendant, please remember that you have no one but yourselves to blame.

Yeah!!!!!!!!

Oh, dear! I seem to have fed a troll... Apologies.

78

I told you that you can only post small case when spoofing me and correction, only liberals and spoofers are sub human. Muslims can be retrained liberals are a lost cause.

Oh, dear! I seem to have fed a troll... Apologies.

DB

Yo, No prob dude. I got it completely under control. In your face! The Mrs has a Smith & Wesson and I do what she tell me, thank you very much. Har har har.

80 & 83

You can't even spoof correctly, you must be a liberal muslim!

LbH I have also voted for Republicans in local races (better candidate). No question that Srickland is the better person to serve the people and enviroment( # 3 poor air quality and #1-3 poor water quality) Industry/jobs have ruled in Ohio for a very long time. Somehow people think it is impossible to have both.

LBH if you can apply that logic to local races why not on the national race. You and I both know that this nation would not be in the fix we are in if Gore had fought for his spot or Kerry would have won.

I know .. you know that.

88

I told you that you can only post small case when spoofing me and correction, only liberals and spoofers are sub human. Muslims can be retrained liberals are a lost cause. And liberal Muslims are probably Republicans whove shed there burkas. Spoofers are sub human sub humans. That's the worst kind. Only liberal Muslims post in small case. Republicans like trained monkeys vote for law and order and conservatism. Yep.

Jeanne,

You are into the moral equivalence scenario. You are equating singular acts of injustice by the West with what is accepted on the Muslim street.

Do you equate the treatment of Maher Arar with the acceptance of strapping on bombs in backpacks?

Do you believe that the Muslims call for the destruction of Israel equates with anything the West has done?

When you begin to equate JudeoChristian and Muslim malfeasance, you align yourself with the terrorists.

85,86, 89

You can't even spoof correctly, you must be a sub human muslim republican!

Outrageous and Dishonest

Last year our intelligence community produced at the request of Congress a National Intelligence Estimate, which, inter alia, addressed Iran's nuclear programs. Although that 2005 NIE was highly classified, Dafna Linzer reported,

"A major U.S. intelligence review has projected that Iran is about a decade away from manufacturing the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon, roughly doubling the previous estimate of five years, according to government sources with firsthand knowledge of the new analysis.

"The carefully hedged assessments, which represent consensus among U.S. intelligence agencies, contrast with forceful public statements by the White House. Administration officials have asserted, but have not offered proof, that Tehran is moving determinedly toward a nuclear arsenal."

More HERE

When you begin to equate JudeoChristian and Muslim malfeasance, you align yourself with the terrorists.

In what universe?

Oh, sorry factchecker. It thought that was someone else.

Kathleen

I have voted for a liberal (the only one ever) Senator in my State because he works with the Rebup Senator in a bi-partisan way to get things done in my State. So I have voted on the national level.

I do not believe Gore or Kerry would have been a better President. They both had horrible voting records in the Senate, Kerry hasn't drafted more than one or two bills his entire career. He's more worried about how his hair looks than you or I. Both would have raised taxes and killed our economy.

If you guys could have given us a better canidate in the last two elections then I might have voted for them, but you didn't. Your prospects for 08 aren't much better while the Repubs have an entire A list to choose from.

Give me something to work with Katleen if you want my vote!

Muslim Population Worldwide

Dr. B -- I cannot vouch for the accuracy of this website, but this site estimates the Muslim population as 1.79 billion in 2006.

Gaza: The children killed in a war the world doesn't want to know about

Names of children under the age of 18 killed during the operations mounted by the Israeli military in Gaza since 25 June, according to the Palestinian Centre of Human Rights

Bara Nasser Habib, 3 (hit by shrapnel to the head and body, Gaza City, 26 July)
Shahed Saleh Al-Sheikh Eid, 3 days old (bled to death after airstrike, Al-Shouka, 4 August)
Rajaa Salam Abu Shaban, 3 (died of fractured skull in air raid, Gaza City, 9 August)
Jihad Selmi Abu Snaima, 14 (killed by a shell, Al-Shoukha, 10 september)
Khaled Nidal Wahba, 15 months (died of wounds from an airstrike, 10 July)
Rawan Farid Hajjaj, 6 (killed with his mother and sister in an airstrike, Gaza City, 8 July)
Anwar Ismail Abdul Ghani Atallah, 12 (shot in the head, Erez, 5 July)
Shadi Yousef Omar 16 (shot in the chest by IDF, Beit Lahya, 7 July)
Mahfouth Farid Nuseir, 16 (killed by missile while playing football, Beit Hanoun, 11 July)
Ahmad Ghalib Abu Amsha, 16, (killed by missile while playing football, Beit Hanoun, 11 July)
Ahmad Fathi Shabat, 16 (killed by missile while playing football, Beit Hanoun, 11 July)
Walid Mahmoud El-Zeinati, 12 (died of shrapnel wounds, Gaza City, 11 July)
Basma Salmeya, 16 (killed in Israeli airstrike, 12 July, Jabalia)
Somaya Salmeya, 17 (killed in Israeli airstrike, 12 July, Jabalia)
Aya Salmeya, 9 (killed in Israeli airstrike, Jabalia, 12 July)
Yehya Salmeya, 10 (killed in Israeli airstrike, Jabalia, 12 July)
Nasr Salmeya, 7 (killed in Israeli airstrike, Jabalia, 12 July)
Huda Salmeya, 13 (killed in Israeli airstrike, Jabalia, 12 July)
Eman Salmeya, 12 (killed in Israeli airstrike, Jabalia, 12 July)
Raji Omar Jaber Daifallah, 16 (died of shrapnel wounds from missile, Gaza City, 13 July)
Ali Kamel Al-Najjar, 16 (killed by Israeli tank shell, Al-Maghazi refugee camp, 19 July)
Ahmed Ali Al-Na'ami, 16 (killed by Israeli tank shell, Al-Maghazi refugee camp, 19 July)
Ahmed Rawhi Abu Abdu, 14 (killed by drone missile, Al Nusairat refugee camp, 19 July)
Mohammed 'awad Muhra, 14 (killed by Israeli bullet to the chest, Al-Maghazi refugee camp, 20 July)
Fadwa Faisal Al-'arrouqi, 13 (died from shrapnel wounds, Gaza City, 20 July)
Saleh Ibrahim Nasser, 14 (killed by artillery fire, Beit Hanoun, 24 July)
Khitam Mohammed Rebhi Tayeh, 11 (killed by artillery fire, Beit Hanoun, 24 July)
Ashraf 'abdullah 'awad Abu Zaher, 14 (shot in the back, Khan Younis, 25 July)
Nahid Mohammed Fawzi Al-Shanbari, 16 (killed by artillery fire, Beit Hanoun, 31 July)
'aaref Ahmed Abu Qaida, 14 (killed by artillery fire, Beit Hanoun, 1 August)
Anis Salem Abu Awad, 12 (killed by airstike, Al-Shouka, 2 August)
Ammar Rajaa Al-Natour, 17 (killed by drone missile, Al Shouka, 5 August)
Kifah Rajaa Al-Natour, 15 (killed by drone missile, Al Shouka, 5 August)
Ibrahim Suleiman Al-Rumailat, 13 (killed by drone missile, Al Shouka, 5 August)
Ahmed Yousef 'abed 'aashour, 13 (killed by missile fire, Beit Hanoun, 14 August)
Mohammed 'abdullah Al-Ziq, 14 (killed by drone missile, Gaza City, 29 August)
Nidal 'abdul 'aziz Al-Dahdouh, 14 (killed by rifle fire, Gaza City, 30 August)
Jihad Selmi Abu Snaima, 14 (killed by artillery fire, Rafah, 10 September)

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These children were guilty of being born in the wrong place. Just like all kids they also did not choose their religion it was choosen for them by their parents and families.

What a sad commentary for anybody so vile and small minded as to attack the children for the choices made for them? Kill all Muslims?

Sadly, we will never know if one of those children would have grown up to be a real political leader and could have been the one chance for peace in their region. Maybe one was destine to cure cancer or discover new technology. Now we will never know.

capt

Micki --- Thanks for the update. I'm always behind the times...

In AP news which seems only to be a local paper, 30 U.S. Mayors met in Seward, Alaska for a three day conference on "Strengthening Our Cities: Mayors Responding to Global CLimate Change." Rocky Anderson, mayor of Salt Lake City is quoted as saying, "I kept expecting to see that kind of international problem-solving on the issue of global warming."

"...30 U.S. Mayors met in Seward, Alaska for a three day conference on "Strengthening Our Cities: Mayors Responding to Global CLimate Change..."

When asked why they chose Seward, AK they responded "'Cause everywhere else is just TOO FRICKIN' HOT, this time of year!

-T

LBH Truman raised taxes during the Korean war (to pay for it) Eisenhower raised taxes to pay for WWII. These guys were at least attempting to be fiscal conservatives

Bush started an unnecessary war that our great grand children will be paying for. Tens of thousands are dead. These folks in the White House are not fiscal conservatives. Bush took a surplus and turned it into the largest deficit our nation has ever seen. These folks wanted to bankrupt the social security system (Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'neil during the first administration states in his book "The Price Of Loyalty" that he and Greenspan had plans to feed the projected social security shortfalls for the next 20 years with part of that surplus that was there after the Clinton era, as well as feed the greedy sharks that Bush had promised tax cuts during his campaign.

Paul O'neil was canned by Bush after he demanded following the money that he discovered that had gone to terroist charities from Saudi Banks.

no no no don't link funds to terroist organizations to the Carlysle group. Don't incriminate the Bush family connections.

Lbh you know it as well as (former Republican) Kevin Phillips, Paul O'Neil, Bryzinski, Schlesenger, Albright, etc. etc. . THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS THE BIGGEST BUNCH OF LYING, CHEATING, KILLING, CRIMINALS THIS NATION HAS EVER WITNESSED.

LBH the people that have really gotten under my skin (in a good way) are the hundreds of seniors and Vets that I have talked with..they are really scared and deeply concerned by this group and the direction of our country.

Later

"...Sadly, we will never know if one of those children would have grown up to be a real political leader and could have been the one chance for peace in their region. Maybe one was destine to cure cancer or discover new technology. Now we will never know..."

Capt,

Now it is more likely that the grief and anger over the loss of one's child will drive a survivor into the path of the first avenue for revenge, making a possible positive an almost certain double-negative...which might mulitply, but will NEVER add up to anything close to a positive.

-T

Capt....It is so terribly sad to think about all of the innocent children and civilians that have died in the Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, Darfur etc.

Robert Fisk has some photos that I think that every American should be forced to look at. We are so dis-connected from the brutal situation that we have helped create in the middle east.

I really want to see Bill Kristol and Rich Lowry and the rest of the radicals put on military uniforms and go put their own asses on the line.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." Dwight Eisenhower

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"It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return." : Socrates 469 - 399 BC

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In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king: Erasmus c.1469 - 1536
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Thanks ICH Newsletter!

(sorry Capt...beat 'ya to it!)
-T

Hajji,

#65 was before but the good ones are always worth the return trip.

capt

Wave of Party Switchers Hits Republicans
By Hans Johnson
In These Times

Monday 18 September 2006

Citing extremism, more GOPers are joining the Democrats.
A trend of local, below-the-radar party-switches is undercutting Republicans as they face the sternest challenge in a decade to one-party control of Congress and several state legislatures. Such party-switching by elected officials often indicates that the label they are shedding has lost appeal and foreshadows poor performance at the polls.

Some recent switchers are exiting GOP ranks with a bang. Distorted priorities, the federal deficit and the Iraq war are common themes in their announcements. And in a direct swipe at the far-right ideology that has become a governing credo in the Bush years, they cite intolerance in the party as the chief reason for leaving.

truthout

Major State Union Switches To Lamont

One of the state's largest labor unions has dropped its endorsement of U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman and switched its support to Democratic primary winner Ned Lamont.

The switch by Council 4 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees gives Lamont his biggest boost from organized labor since the primary.

Sal Luciano, the executive director of Council 4, announced the endorsement Sunday, saying that the union wants to see a congressional delegation able to stand up to the Bush administration.

"Since the Aug. 8 primary, we paid close attention to the remarks of both men," Luciano said. "We saw Joe Lieberman moving closer and closer to Bush, while Ned Lamont held firm in his strong opposition to the direction Bush is taking us."

More HERE

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Such support for Lamont is better than the unions being indifferent or supporting Lieberman. I would not necessarily write Joe out of the race but every little bit helps.

capt

D'OH!

Senator Dewine what took you so long Senator to demand that the SSCI finish Phase II (which is still incomplete)

Investigating a Blowjob was more important to you impeaching a President for lying about that blowjob was more important to you. Now you jump on the bus with a bunch of Democrats and ask for more intelligence to be released. Dewine you are such a weasel.

Senators Want More Iraq Reports Declassified
The Associated Press

Tuesday 19 September 2006

Washington - Senators on an intelligence panel are seeking to declassify more information from two Senate reports on prewar intelligence on Iraq, saying too much was kept secret.

The bipartisan group on Tuesday asked a government commission to consider whether portions of the reports could be made public without harming national security.

It's the first time lawmakers have appealed to the Public Interest Declassification Board since it was established in 2004 as a place for members of Congress to appeal if they think federal agencies are unnecessarily classifying material in the name of national security.

The two reports, released earlier this month, concluded there was no evidence Saddam Hussein had ties with al-Qaida before the US invasion of Iraq. They also found that Saddam's regime did not have weapons of mass destruction and was not actively seeking to acquire them.

at truthout

Senators Reject WH Torture Deal

A White House "compromise" on detainee treatment was rejected by a trio of senior lawmakers today, as Republicans continue to fight among themselves over an issue that was meant to boost their sagging poll numbers in an election year.

The White House continues to push for a new law to allow painful and humiliating treatment of terror detainees, as well as new powers to prosecute them outside of established judicial processes.

Sens. John Warner (R-VA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John McCain (R-AZ) back a bill that sets stricter limits on detainee treatment and prosecution.

After the three men turned down the White House's compromise bill, an unnamed Senate aide calclulated the odds of both sides reaching a compromise at "50-50," CNN reported.

The group is expected to send a counter-proposal to the White House soon. Of course, they have something the White House doesn't: time. None of the three lawmakers face re-election battles, and control of the Senate is unlikely to be swayed by the outcome of this particular fight, so they could take their time in negotiating with the White House during these last two weeks of the session.

More HERE

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Bush just refuses to understand that what we do to others especially our enemies is an expression of our character and reveals the true soul of our nation.

capt

With the Democrat carnage after the 2006 elections the GOrPs will return to the Nazi Party.

Chechnya Afghanistan Lebanon Iran Somalia Darfur Kashmir Indonesia What do these have in common? Yes, that's correct! They are areas where Muslims either cannot get along with their neighbors or are actively engaged in murdering any infidels who dare oppose them! People need to understand that Islam IS the religion of conquest, bloodshed and subjugation. History teaches us that at the height of their power as they conquered country after country, the populace had to pay huge sums for "protection" if they were not Muslim. Entire countries converted to Islam to avoid the prospect of being beheaded. And what are they doing today, hmmmmmm?

#109 capt, to have a soul a person or nation must believe in God! With Christ out of Christianity there is no moral code or conduct to lead our Godless nation!

Waking Nightmare

[..]

So the fact that the Oval Office dullard would not know what the "Great Awakening" was if Jonathan Edwards came up and slapped him across the face with a Bible does not diminish the alarming nature of Bush's Messianic pretensions. Neither does the fact that he uses these pretensions cynically and shamelessly to motivate a religious "base" that has been deliberately cultivated by the corporate elite to serve its own decidedly secular lusts for money and power. It is entirely possible to be a knowing hypocrite and a fanatic ideologue at the same time; indeed, it is often a prime requirement for national leadership. (See, for example, the history of the Soviet Union for innumerable instances of this trait.) And it is entirely possible for a fatuous, overgrown frat boy to plunge the nation and the world into a literal hell of death and ruin by viewing reality through the lens of his self-inflated ignorance –†and shaping his reactions and policies accordingly.

More HERE

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Read this piece early, not too close to bedtime or it will give you nightmares.

capt

The Good Captain makes a point at # 97 of all the Muslim children killed in Gaza since 6/25/06. It is my contention that most - if not all - of those deaths were directly attributable to -- Muslims.

Muslims hiding behind the skirts of women.

Muslims firing rockets from hospitals.

Muslims shooting from residences.

Muslims storing munitions in schools.

Muslims enlisting chidren in jihad.

The more I think of LBH's comparison to liberals, the more I concur. They are basically non-thinking, emotional cowards.

Just got a call from Cpl.Spanky who's working double-up patrols since the Tal Afar Bombings yesterday.

He said they'd just given over patrols in that area to the IA (Iraqi Army) a couple weeks ago.

Five guys (not in his unit) were injured not long ago. He told me to tell his mother, so he wouldn't have to.

He'd shown us pictures from patrols and where they were on a map, (an OLD one I found) of Tal Afar. He spoke of how many of the people would try to report regular crime to the Americans, but wouldn't trust the IP (Iraqi Police) OR the IA, because it is widely know that that criminals and insurgents have both those organizations as infiltrated as they can get.

"....The city’≥ successes were repeatedly touted by President Bush this spring, when he said Tal Afar was a free city that gives reason for hope for a free Iraq.

Some U.S. commanders on the ground have expressed concern that the presidents' references to Tal Afar may in fact make it more of a target for insurgents....

Thank, Dumbya!

-T

Factchecker,

I agree. Isn't it strange that no one from the left gives any credit to Israel who GAVE back the Gaza Strip and got nothing but ROCKETS in return?

In fact, Israel has a history of returning territory only to be continually attacked for their trouble!

Most of the anti-Israel crowd has been duped by the left and think the conflict is all about territory when it is not and never has been.

Kondrake: Rice and Hughes Convince Bush To Drop Islamic Fascism From Speeches

Roll Call executive editor and Fox News host Mort Kondrake included this tidbit in his most recent syndicated column:

"In a controversial move within the administration, [Undersecretary of State Karen] Hughes and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seem to have persuaded Bush - temporarily, at least - to drop the label "Islamic fascism" from his speeches; diplomats say that Muslims hear it as an attack on their religion, thereby validating the extremists false charge that the United States is at war with Islam.

The move is a blow to conservatives, who celebrated last month when President Bush used the term several times in his speeches on terrorism. The phrase is a favorite of right-wing commentators like Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity; the AP called it "the new buzzword" for conservatives "in an election season dominated by an unpopular war in Iraq."

More HERE

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I think our troll has not read the latest talking points?

"temporarily, at least"

Yeah, I am sure the "party" would rather Bunnypants just shuts up until after the midterms. Then all hell will break loose anyway so . . .

capt

Jesus' last words to the church

My new friend sat silent for a time. A look of thoughtfulness settled over his face and he said, "That is a very important observation." I pressed him further. I asked, "How seriously do we want to take the commandments of Jesus? We can pray, go to church, read about him, and organize influential gatherings to lead others to him. But I think Jesus wants foremost for us to obey him by putting down our swords, renouncing violent self-defense, tearing up the just war theory, abolishing our weapons, putting an end to our wars, and becoming people of universal, nonviolent love. If we are serious about Jesus in these perilous times, we have to non-cooperate with every aspect of war."

The unarmed Christ wants his community, the church, to be a community of creative, loving nonviolence, I submit. Its God's holy gift to the world. The challenge, then, is to take him at his word.

Operation Kids goes online to help Iraqi youth
________________

A lieutenant colonel serving with the army in Tal Afar, a city of about 200,000 in northwestern Iraq, John parcels out the gifts - we call them weapons of mass affection - to soldiers under his command. They, in turn, distribute them to the kids.

Now, it's my happy task to report a proud addition to Operation Kids. As of today, the program has its own Web site: www.operationkids.info.

Eight weeks in the making, the site was designed and financed by Margie MacConnell, of Long Beach, and Jeri Livingstone, of Garden Grove. As patriotic as they are computer savvy, Jeri and Margie worked with Debbie to make the site as close to perfect as possible.

Morning after morning, night after night, the e-mails flew back and forth as they pondered the right words, designs and photos to

reflect the Operation Kids story.

The site, of course, is also designed to encourage more of you to get involved, or re-involved. For example, our postage fund, which once stood at about $5,000, is now nearly depleted. The site shows how you can help build it up again and keep the boxes flowing even if you don't send items.

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I'm thinking of this as an extension of "Operation Toy Smith" that some here helped launch earlier this year. (you know who you are!)

If you're inclined to help win a few minds and touch a few hearts...give what you can, even if it is only encouragement.

OPERATION KIDS

Maybe, just maybe...

-T

'A man with little sympathy for other faiths'

Pope Benedict is being portrayed as a naive, shy scholar who has accidentally antagonised two major world faiths in a matter of months. In fact he is a shrewd and ruthless operator, argues Madeleine Bunting - and he's dangerous

In fact, Pope Benedict XVI's short papacy has marked a significant departure from the previous pope's stance on interreligious dialogue. John Paul II made some dramatic gestures to rally world religious leaders, the most famous being a gathering in Assisi of every world faith, even African animists, to pray for world peace. He felt keenly the terrible history of Catholic-Jewish relations, and having fought with the Polish resistance to save Jews in the second world war, John Paul II made unprecedented efforts to begin to heal centuries of hostility and indifference on the part of the Catholic church to Europe's Jews. John Paul II also addressed himself to the ancient enmity between Muslims and Catholics; he apologised for the Crusades and was the first Pope to visit a mosque during a visit to Syria in 2001.

In contrast, Pope Benedict has managed to antagonise two major world faiths within a few months. The current anger of Muslims is comparable to the anger and disappointment felt by Jews after his visit to Auschwitz in May. He gave a long address at the site of the former concentration camp and failed to mention anti-semitism, and offered no apology - whether on behalf of his own country, Germany, or on behalf of the Catholic Church. He acknowledged he was a "son of the German people" ... "but not guilty on that account"; he then launched into a highly controversial claim that a "ring of criminals" were responsible for nazism and that the German people were as much their victims as anyone else. This is an argument that has long been discredited in Germany as utterly inadequate in explaining how millions supported the Nazis. Given his own involvement in the Hitler Youth movement as a boy, and his refusal to make a clean breast of the Vatican's acquiescence in the horrors of Nazism by opening its archives to historians, this was a shabby moment in Catholic history. Not for this pope those dramatic, epoch-defining gestures that made the last Pope such a significant global figure.

Even worse, in his Auschwitz address, he managed to argue in a long theological exposition that the real victims of the Holocaust were God and Christianity. As one commentator put it, he managed to claim that Jews were the "themselves bit players - bystanders at their own extermination. The true victim was a metaphysical one." This theological treatise bears the same characteristics as last week's Regensburg lecture; put at its most charitable, they are too clever by half. More plainly speaking, they indicate a deep arrogance rooted in a blinkered Catholic triumphalism which is utterly out of place in the 21st century.

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New thread.

Wow...local FOX news station is covering "ARRRR talk like a Pirate Day!!!"

wow!

-T

I've held my tongue on this TOO long. Isn't it funny how our orny, conservative posters often have mediocre spelling to go along with their mediocre arguments? Must be your public s