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July 31, 2007:
Bush-Cheney admits much more spying on
Americans than previously acknowledged| |
Excerpt: The Bush administration's chief intelligence official said yesterday that President Bush authorized a series of secret surveillance activities under a single executive order in late 2001. The disclosure makes clear that a controversial National Security Agency program was part of a much broader operation than the president previously described.
Comment: If these anti-American monsters are not impeached and brought to justice, then everything we've always been told about the sanctity of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the glory of democracy and the rule of law -- all of it -- is just plain bull, and America is over. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
July 26, 2007:
White House did nothing about Saudi bank that supports Al Qaeda| |
Excerpt: Confidential reports by the Central Intelligence Agency and other U.S. agencies, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, detail for the first time how much the U.S. learned about the use of Al Rajhi Bank by alleged extremists, and how U.S. officials agonized over what to do about it.
The U.S. intelligence reports, heretofore secret, describe how Al Rajhi Bank has maintained accounts and accepted donations for Saudi charities that the U.S. and other nations have formally designated as fronts for al Qaeda or other terrorist groups.
The Bush administration repeatedly debated proposals for taking strong action itself against Al Rajhi Bank, in particular, according to former U.S. officials and previously undisclosed government documents. Ultimately, the U.S. always chose instead to lobby Saudi officialdom quietly about its concerns.
Comment: Savor this piece of journalism while you can. The Wall Street Journal broke this story, and Rupert Murdoch isn't spending all that money in order to do things like expose corrupt Republicans or actually, you know, tell the truth. Madeline Zane PERMANENT LINK |
July 19, 2007:
Latest grounds for impeachment
by JR Mooneyham, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Here's Bush's latest executive order. ... Basically it's another version of the unlawful combatant provision: a blank check they can put anyone's name on to harass or 'disappear' them, like I think was done in countries like Argentina decades back. |
July 13, 2007:
White House plays up magical September "report"| |
Excerpt: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice exhorted congressional critics of Iraq war policy Friday to give the Bush administration and the fledgling government in Baghdad until September to "make a coherent judgment of where we are."
Comment: We've been hearing this for months now -- just wait until September. Bush's main argument this week for continuing the war (besides repeating AGAIN that Iraq was responsible for 9/11) is that we have to wait until September, when we will finally have some solid information about how the war's going.
Except that we got a report just this week that said the Iraq government is making no progress on any goals set out for them. We also found out this week that CIA director Michael Hayden felt like he had enough information eight months ago to tell the Iraq Study Group behind closed doors that the war wasn't winnable. And even now, Bush is blocking the Iraq Study Group from reconvening as ordered by Congress.
Still, we're supposed to wait until September, and General Petraeus' much-vaunted progress report, before we decide anything about the war. The White House has already been talking up this "report" for months, which I'm guessing means it's already been written. Look for lots of happy talk, made-up ties between Iraq and 9/11, maybe some extra lies thrown in about Iran, and almost no actual information whatsoever. Madeline Zane PERMANENT LINK |
July 4, 2007:
Russia threatens new missiles will be aimed at U.S. bases| |
Excerpt: Russia warned today that it would position its rockets close to the Polish border and point missiles at US bases in Europe if Washington rebuffed its latest offer of cooperation on missile defense.
Comment: This reminds me of something you might see in a movie like Threads or The Day After or the recent Children of Men. You'd hear a news report playing in the background as the chaos unfurls, and of course you know the rest. Kathy Fisher PERMANENT LINK |
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News in left column;
July 30, 2007:
If'n they's not Christian, ain't we's
supposed to be a killin' 'em?
by Cletus Cob and Cracker Copeland, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Now, I'm fairly positive that G. Bush said somewhere or should that be sometime, that he was. Christian. So, if'n G. Bush says he's Christian and then does all those Christian things like renditions and detentions and tortures and war and that genocide killing stuff, don't we'uns supposed to take him at his word? |
July 30, 2007:
A short glimpse at America's future
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: If job outsourcing, and privatization of water, power, roads and public property continues under the current "free market" D.C. regime, then one day washing clothes will be uneconomical for the average American -- who will at that time likely have a living standard equivalent to that of a person in a Palestinian refugee camp ... but with cable TV. |
July 30, 2007:
Read my lips: No new war excuses
by Kevin Good, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Congress tells the Bush administration, 'We are mad as hell, and we may take it a little more.' |
July 28, 2007:
The deeper truth
about impeachment
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The real threat involved in impeachment is the implied threat to expel a bipartisan, parasitic establishment that is growing fat cannibalizing the country. This criminal establishment is afraid to let the ball get rolling lest it end up crushing them as well as Bush and Cheney. |
July 27, 2007:
What disheartens me the most is that Democrats don't seem to be doing anything about these assaults on our Constitution!
by Sharon Rose in Tennessee, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: I have to wonder: Do the Dems really worry that they "don't have enough votes in the Senate" to do what needs to be done, as they claim? Or... Are they too cowardly to stand up to these guys? |
July 27, 2007:
Let's admit what the military is
by The Alchemist, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Soldiers take pay to kill innocents. That is reality. They do not make us free, they make others dead. |
July 27, 2007:
Drunk while orbiting the Earth
by HappySysiphus, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: ... If you are on the tip of a missile being propelled into the atmosphere by a vehicle running full out at 15 million horsepower, or alternately you are re-entering the Earth's atmosphere at a temperature of 2300°F, if something goes wrong you are toast, drunk or sober. |
July 26, 2007:
What's their job, exactly?
by Chris D., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Why is it standard practice for the FBI, when acting on a tip that someone might be a terrorist, to attempt to incite people to acts of violence, property damage, and other acts of terrorism? |
July 25, 2007:
Response to a soldier's mother
by Ann in the UK, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: What's keeping you loyal to these thugs? What, among the many negative claims to have been made about them, have they done that doesn't matter? What among these claims will be acceptable to you, and cause you least remorse, when the -- inevitable -- impeachment trials begin, and the truth about their awful activities (which have led to the unnecessary deaths of so many) is finally, emphatically, revealed ... |
July 23, 2007:
Thou shalt not what?
by Don Nash, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: John Hagee and his ilk would do well to take a refresher course in Bible 101, along with G. Bush and our Congress and Newt Gingrich and Joe 'little butcher' Lieberman and hey, we just might be on to something here. If America believes that "in God we trust" crap-o-la, well, God says "Thou shalt NOT kill" and the Pope says "war is against God" and wow-oh-wow-whee! We've gots us a dynamic working here. |
July 23, 2007:
Hairy pot
by Kevin Good, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: I asked my lil' sister Kyle if she knew how the J. K. Rowling story ended. She said NO and even if she did, she wouldn't tell me. It's a book!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fans don't want to know the case solving clue. Agatha Christie fans don't want to know the identity of the tenth little Indian. Alfred Hitchcock fans won't Tivo to the end of 'Rear Window'. |
July 21, 2007:
A most effective bullsh*t filter
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: I don't know that anyone understands what really happened on 9/11, perhaps outside of some small group of insiders, and I doubt if anyone ever will, so I remain agnostic on the issue. All anyone has to do to keep my attention is to qualify their statements about 9/11 with some kind of disclaimer about being unable to be sure about the factuality of what they are promoting. |
July 21, 2007:
I'm an ugly American. Or maybe a racist.
by Cassandra, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: A lot of people have talked about outsourcing, but how the hell does one resolve a problem with a company when one cannot get through to someone who speaks English well? |
July 20, 2007:
Real men
by Don Nash, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Real men stand up for decency in American government. Don't expect much from America's Congress in this regard. Congress and decency parted company about several administrations back, and nothing has been the same since. |
July 19, 2007:
Mrs Vitter's vengeance
by Hazel Burke, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: "My slut chasing, sack of sh*t husband expected me to read this speech telling you I forgive him. But at this moment my attorney is filing divorce papers. When we are finished with him he won't have 2 cents to rub together." |
July 17, 2007:
Iranian events in plain English
by Marie K., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Bush’s efforts to stop Iran from doing enrichment means they can’t run the plant. They have a right to have it and to run it (using their own uranium) and a right to enrich uranium for it, given the agreements they have signed. |
July 16, 2007:
Neo-Constitutional crisis
by Kevin Good, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The Executive Branch, exercising their usurped oversight authority of the entire world, declares Executive Privilege and Executive Orders the supreme law of the land. President Bush reiterated his stand that he has the sole authority to run the war. The only job for the Congress is to fund it. Everybody else just serves at the pleasure of this doofus. |
July 14, 2007:
Those emotions are anti-survival now
by Hazel Burke, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Humans have stinky feet. They tell bad jokes. They are ignorant, bigoted, lazy and selfish. Their asses smell, and they have bad breath. They lie, they deceive, and they cheat. They love treachery, revenge and payback. |
July 13, 2007:
Chicken-hawk talkers on the radio
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: A lie is a lie is a lie is a lie, and they are selling lies like desperate door-to-door salesmen. They lied to get us into this mess, but they read the internet, they know the PNAC had this war in works long before 9/11. We don't own the oil or the people there, and our presence has made it worse. This "Might is Right," this "Masters of the Universe" crap has got to stop. Our 5-year occupation in Iraq has managed to make sure we get blowback for the next 200 years. Bush and Company lit the fire -- I hope they are happy with what they've started. |
July 12, 2007:
Pottery Barn rule #2, and the war in Iraq
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Eventually, if the Democrats continue to fund fighting in Iraq it will be their war to lose. President Clinton will have to listen to George Bush sneer to reporters that she lost the Iraq War through no fault of his own -- which he was on his way to winning in December 2008, by the way. |
July 10, 2007:
Nobody wins that game
by Chris D., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Funny how every prediction concerning countries arming for war against the U.S. is being sold to the public as fact. It almost makes you think the Bush Administration is preparing the American people to TAKE OVER THE WORLD for its own safety. |
July 10, 2007:
Humiliating the poor
by JS Magruder, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The thing that makes me want to smash my fist through the monitor reading this rubbish is the self-congratulatory tone the organizers take. There were many, many poor children when I went to school getting free school lunches (probably the only good thing LBJ did) but we had no idea who they were. No-one was singled-out -- if anything the teachers went to great lengths to keep things level, if only in appearance. |
July 10, 2007:
Disgraceful, disgusting, and downright insane
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: These people are not complaining that they can't stay home and spend valuable time with their babies. I find that disgraceful, disgusting, and downright insane. |
July 8, 2007:
Some of my best friends are skinny
by Cassandra, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: I'm not immune to the national weight obsession, I just try to not let it affect how I live. It doesn’t always work, but I ain’t going to pilates class and I will have my chocolate. |
July 5, 2007:
Emote!
by HappySysiphus, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: It is what's happening to you that is making you feel what you feel, and if you don't act like you feel the way you do, short of violence, if we all pretend to feel some acceptable neutral way ... we just might wind up in the situation we've wound up in. |
July 4, 2007:
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: They have consistently lied, at every opportunity, to cover up their crimes and suppressed the ability of the press to call them to account. They have turned over the power of government to private corporations to illegitimately control the lives and freedoms of the people. They have flagrantly violated the provision of separation of church and state. They have cancelled or ignored such time honored principals of law as habeas corpus.
They have caused our nation to become one of the most hated powers in history by conducting heinous wars, practicing torture and disappearances, conducting assassinations of foreign leaders, overthrowing popular governments, conducting brutal economic warfare and using nuclear blackmail to pursue the aims of a small group of transnational wealthy investors and corporations. The above list is in no way comprehensive. |
July 2, 2007:
Throw the bums out
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Dreams are what reality is made of. Dream the world you want to live in. |
July 2, 2007:
The way forward in Iraq is back
by Hazel Burke, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Now, lest you assert that I offer no practical suggestions, only negatives, I provide these concrete steps that America could take to create peace and stability in the world, which would thus help keep oil prices low and help Israel defend its borders:
1) We need to put G.W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and high members of their administration on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, with the trials to be held under international jurisdiction at the Hague. ... |
July 2, 2007:
Stepford witnesses
by Kevin Good, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Anticipating Congressional investigation of this Administration's shenanigans a 'top secret' no bid contract was awarded to major DoD contractors to develop the 'Stepford Witness'. These robots would testify on behalf of administration officials and if necessary be destroyed and replaced. |
July 1, 2007:
Logic is a good way to go wrong with confidence
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: In a very real sense adults do not raise children. Children raise adults.
In the natural process of human development we first get to get, then, with growing capacities, we give in order to get, then, as the result of achieving our full development as human persons, we get to give. |
July 1, 2007:
The quiet Colin Powell
by Marvin A., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The word that comes to mind when I think of Colin Powell is "coward." Not in the usual, schoolyard taunt sense of the word, but in it's most literal, meaningful sense. |
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