Producer responds

Why not stick around and blog for a while..???

on top!! take me down!

or try too anyway!!

"project chick"

You had Hannity on, Bill would have done it when he was sell one of his books...

I love to listen to Bill..!!!

Did you know he is number one on cable..???

I think he did get kicked upstairs..!!!

He used to..!!!

I guess it's too much like work...

But he ain't workin now..!!!

Maybe Sam has really been Alice all along..!!!!

on the TBA for Maron vs Seder?

jez for no reason!

Producer responds
Submitted by SEDER on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 9:54pm.

Thanks.

"No, fuck YOU!"

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What specifically did the Bush administration do in 2001 to prevent the attack on Sept 11?

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Glad to see you are reading..!!!

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He did nothing...

Now I will point out to you again...

1. Bush is not running...!!!

2. Ya'll bitch about everything done after 911...

3. You would have gone nuts had we started Homeland Security or the Patriot Act pre-911...

4. Obama wants to go back to the lax pre-911 days where all we did was talk about defense and killed no terrorists.

5. That is what this election will be about...Obama and national defense...

It can't survive another round of him. It is over.

no dissing for you from me..............

just wild, wild i am!

trolls acting cartoonish. Love it.

Do it again!
Do it again!
Do it again!

Sorry Lu. Don't mean to step on your shit....

Pick Up the Pieces

maybe that's why i am still here

americans are crazy man!!

i look sane!

for real!
thank you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KelYU_Mw3z8

floating in and out of he blog.
Sit, rest a while, have a cup of tea!

...I mean what is not to love...?

Larisa Alexandrovna
All the President's Nazis (Real and Imagined): Open Letter to Bush
Dear Mr. Bush,
Your speech on the Knesset floor today was not only a disgrace; it was nothing short of treachery. Worse still, your exploitation of the Holocaust in a country carved out of the wounds of that very crime, in order to strike a low blow at American citizens whose politics differs from your own is unforgivable and unpardonable. Let me remind you, Mr. Bush, of your words today:
"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," Bush said at Israel's 60th anniversary celebration in Jerusalem.

"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said in remarks to Israel's parliament, the Knesset. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."
Well Mr. Bush, the only thing this comment lacked was a mirror and some historical facts. You want to discuss the crimes of Nazis against my family and millions of other families in Europe during World War II? Let me revive a favorite phrase of yours: Bring. It. On!
The All-American Nazi
Your family's fortune is built on the bones of the very people butchered by the Nazis, my family and the families of those in the Knesset who applauded you today:
WASHINGTON -- President Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government documents show.
Prescott Bush was one of seven directors of Union Banking Corp. (search), a New York investment bank owned by a bank controlled by the Thyssen family, according to recently declassified National Archives documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
Fritz Thyssen was an early financial supporter of Hitler, whose Nazi party Thyssen believed was preferable to communism.
--snip--
Both Harrimans and Bush were partners in the New York investment firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman and Co., which handled the financial transactions of the bank as well as other financial dealings with several other companies linked to Bank voor Handel that were confiscated by the U.S. government during World War II.
Union Banking was seized by the government in October 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act.
Oh, but there is much more too:

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/05/all-the-preside.html

grover wants snuggles now from me too!

super woman up ma ass!! haha! gotchu!!!

i think hiz getting tired of me and cyber!!

oh well shit happens life goes on!

this is Lucille---gonna be dat!!!!!!! nose dat too!! changing never a dam fuck!!! not i am i!!

aye A-O--- sup?

luv yourll man!

1.

dam outlanders--crazy people huh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVR1vdqOoe8

-out!

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The lefties love it, but there's lot of nutty things they love.

From Wikipedia:

Harriman Bank was the main Wall Street partner for several German companies and the varied U.S. financial interests of Fritz Thyssen. Thyssen had been an early financial backer of the Nazi party, but by 1939 was bitterly denouncing Hitler and had fled Germany. He was later jailed by the Nazis for his opposition to the Nazi regime.[5] Business transactions with Germany were not illegal until Hitler declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941, but, six days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Trading With the Enemy Act after it had been made public that U.S. companies were doing business with the declared enemy of the United States. On October 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of German banking operations in New York City. Roosevelt's Alien Property Custodian, Leo T. Crowley, signed Vesting Order Number 248 seizing property under the Trading with the Enemy Act. The order cited only the Union Banking Corporation (UBC), of which Bush was a director and held only one share. Fox News has reports on recently declassified material about this issue, according to a document signed by Homer Jones, chief of the division of investigation and research of the Office of Alien Property Custodian, a World War II-era agency.[6] By 1941 Thyssen no longer had control over his business empire, which was in the hands of the Nazi government.

...

Toby Rogers claimed that Bush's connections to Silesian businesses (with Thyssen and Flick) made him complicit with the slave labour mining operations in Poland out of Auschwitz. However given Thyssen fled Germany before Hitler invaded Poland and set up those mining operations it is very hard to see how this claim can be defended.

Some records in the National Archives, including the Harriman papers, document the continued relationship of Brown Brothers Harriman with the anti-Nazi German exile Thyssen and some of his German investments up until his 1951 death.[7] Two former slave laborers from Poland filed suit in London against the government of the United States in the amount of $40 billion. Judge Rosemary Collier dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed in the U.S. in 2001, citing the principle of state sovereignty.[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush

This shit gives me a headache! Who in their right minds would want to watch this? No wonder I've never seen it before.

http://www.joetracey.com/

http://www.benmurphy.net/tibet/

OK, Clinton failed to kill Bin Laden.
new
Submitted by War Blue Dog on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 10:15pm.
What specifically did the Bush administration do in 2001 to prevent the attack on Sept 11?

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Glad to see you are reading..!!!

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He did nothing...

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..and 3,000 died at the WTC and 4,000+ have died as a result and you want another Bush wannabe to be President?

The inane response to terror of stripping us of our rights to free speech and privacy are not what we need more of from Republican fascist wannabe's or even Democratic ones for that matter.

Words can't describe the contempt I feel for sick fucks like you.

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Thanks for the heads up RE:
Grit-Tv & L.Flanders
I'll have to check that out

Late-coming to this thread (sorry if this is old news). We just did a late check-in and late dinner in prep for my son's College Graduation (!!!) weekend.
War Blue Dog - yeah we miss'im. But if you've ever been a dad to a 2 1/2 year old daughter (the apple of a dad's eye), you'll understand. You help her drive all her fears away (take them seriously ) 'cause she's the total focus of your psycho-emotional interest - like single-pointed meditation.
We're the neglected older (and worse, middle) kids next to the baby.
It's OK; he'll be back - or not - as necessary. And we've always got each other.
- A

Further adventures of Kate the Cow Dog.
I pulled up in front of the bar and this silver BMW pulled in front of me.
"That's one of those McCanally dogs isn't it? I'll give you $900 cash for her."
I ran into the bar and Donnie and Joan protected me, "You don't understand, that's his Dog."
That guy would not give up. He thought his money would get him anything.

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

This story is awful.

http://news.aol.com/the-rewind/?feature=20080516161709990001&ncid=aolnws...

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-5843

so dreamy...that's sweet...

It's been many long times..I think that's what makes us the very special blog that we are...no supervision... :)

I thought it was Hank the Cowdog?

Exposure
The woman behind the camera at Abu Ghraib.
by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris
March 24, 2008

Specialist Sabrina Harman took hundreds of pictures, she says, to “just show what was going on, what was allowed to be done.”

All that the soldiers of the 372nd Military Police Company, a Reserve unit out of Cresaptown, Maryland, knew about America’s biggest military prison in Iraq, when they arrived there in early October of 2003, was that it was on the front lines. Its official name was Forward Operating Base Abu Ghraib. Never mind that military doctrine and the Geneva Conventions forbid holding prisoners in a combat zone, and require that they be sped to the rear; you had to make the opposite sort of journey to get to Abu Ghraib. You had to travel along some of the deadliest roads in the country, constantly bombed and frequently ambushed, into the Sunni Triangle. The prison squatted on the desert, a wall of sheer concrete traced with barbed wire, picketed by watchtowers. “Like something from a Mad Max movie,” Sergeant Javal Davis, of the 372nd, said. “Just like that—like, medieval.” There were more than two and a half miles of wall with twenty-four towers, enclosing two hundred and eighty acres of prison ground. And inside, Davis said, “it’s nothing but rubble, blown-up buildings, dogs running all over the place, rabid dogs, burnt remains. The stench was unbearable: urine, feces, body rot.”

The prisoners—several thousand of them, clad in orange—were crowded behind concertina wire. “The encampment they were in when we saw it at first looked like one of those Hitler things, like a concentration camp, almost,” Davis said. “They’re in there, in their little jumpsuits, outside in the mud. Their rest rooms was running over. It was just disgusting. You didn’t want to touch anything. Whatever the worst thing that comes to your mind, that was it—the place you would never, ever, ever, ever send your worst enemy.”

The M.P.s of the 372nd were told to make themselves at home in an abandoned prison block, a compound ravaged by looters and invaded by the desert. The sand lay several inches deep in places, mixed with decomposing trash. Moving in meant digging out and sweeping up, and when you’d purged the debris—weird stuff, some of it; for instance, used syringes, which just made you wonder—what you had were bare prison cells. The military term of art for the place where soldiers sleep and bathe and eat on base is L.S.A., which means “life-support area,” and at other forward operating bases around Iraq an L.S.A. meant climate-controlled tents and a mess hall, electricity and hot water, a gym and an Internet café, phones and satellite television, PX shops and fast-food joints. A proper L.S.A. is an outpost of the motherland, and it affirms the sense of pride and tribe that is essential to morale and discipline. At Abu Ghraib, showers were wooden sheds with cold-water drums propped overhead. The unit had no field kitchen, so chow was combat rations—M.R.E.s, meals-ready-to-eat—breakfast, lunch, and dinner in a cardboard box; everything in a polymer packet.

Nobody had expected luxury at Saddam Hussein’s old prison, but morale was low to begin with—the M.P.s just wanted to know when they were going home—and there was something about living in cells at Abu Ghraib that never felt right. “We had some kind of incinerator at the end of our building,” Specialist Megan Ambuhl said. “It was this huge circular thing. We just didn’t know what was incinerated in there. It could have been people, for all we knew—bodies.” Sergeant Davis was not in doubt. “It had bones in it,” he said, and he called it the crematorium. “But hey, you’re at war,” he said. “Suck it up or drive on.”

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/24/080324fa_fact_gourevitch?c...

I'll say.. ick...

Journalist who wrote Times flag pin story, doesn't wear flag pins.

http://thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/journalist-writes-art...

I thought flag pins were for guys to wear to church on the 4th of July. That's the only time I recall seeing them...

The Loony Left...

Ya gotta love em...

7 years with no attacks...

and you bitch..!!!!

Obama would be your man alright!!!!

And you would be his...

But you can go back to sleep...

The American voter will be asking Sen Obama to explain himself..

The process always works..

National Defense will be preserved..

The Dems have screwed themselves..

It was a simple assignment, pick a qualified candidate...

Dean played a part in screwing this up...

Hillary did too..

But in the end, it was the caucus voters who fell for charm with no experience...

Now you have a loser on your hands...

It's becoming more obvious every day..

But is too late now...!!

Sometimes I think there may be a God watchin over this country...

How could the Dems have screwed up this sure thing..!!!???

Hahahahahahahahahaha...

Well it's time to call it a day...

Hope you had fun today...

I sure did..!!!

Gonna be a great weekend..

Better have some fun...

I know I will....

Pray for Obama...

He's in for a beatin...

Wado....................................

GOOD LORD!

http://www.cairns.com.au/images/uploadedfiles/editorial/pictures/2008/05...

if you want...

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

Submitted by War Blue Dog on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 9:29pm.
But that aside you are still wrong...
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No, I am not wrong. Clinton used cruise missiles at a million bucks a pop to target terrorism. (That's three billion and change less than the weekly cost of the abject failure commonly known as The Iraq War.)

It's odd that a hawk such as yourself fails to recall pinpointed deadly force targeted at a foe.

No, wait. Who am I kidding? The totality of your historical political knowledge would fit on the head of my dick with room left over for tattoos of Dubya's I.Q. and a portrait of Monica Lewinsky.

I measure your skills by the results of your voting record (can you say "outcomes"?). At best, you and your fellow geniuses who identified with good ole boy George W. Bush ensured that the Republican party is completely screwed for the near future. Nice work. No amount of money could have bought a more effective Republican party assassin.

Even Roy Blunt, who is a political hack's political hack and a Delay protege, is distancing himself from Cheney and Bush, though his backpedaling is too subtle for someone as bereft of observation skills as yourself to recognize.

Next time you fill the RV with diesel, don't forget to tell yourself that the extra four-hundred dollars it costs you since your last presidential vote isn't a tax.

Repeat after me: It's not a tax. It's not a tax. It's not a tax.

Just kidding. It really is a tax. It's a tax on your stupidity. And the next time that you have the urge to complain about paying for Temporary Assistance For Needy Families or some other social program, remind yourself that I am paying for your ignorance, though I would prefer that the increase in my gasoline expenditures were sending you to a community college where it might do some good.

pics and stories from the front.

http://americanwoman296.vox.com/

You may be interested to hear that husbands could earn a demerit for "Smokes in bed", but 5 merits for "Tries to keep wife equipped with modern labor saving devices". A whopping 20 merits could be awarded for being an "Ardent lover - sees that wife has an orgasm in marital congress".

My favourite is getting a demerit for calling "Where is....? without first hunting the object".

With the full husband and wife scales now online you can rate each other all the way to marital bliss. Or not.

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/nonsense/index.html

Paul's own politics hark back to classical conservatives, such as Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio (1939-53), and to the nation's Founding Fathers. He favors smaller government with limited powers. To rescue a falling dollar, he'd dissolve the Federal Reserve and urge a reconsideration of the old gold standard. He would close hundreds of foreign bases and would force deep cuts in the Washington bureaucracy by abolishing the income tax.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080516/cm_csm/ydillin

And he wrote a book? The Revolution: A Manifesto
http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Manifesto-Ron-Paul/dp/0446537519/ref=pd...

Thank god....

http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Frame.htm

Removing America's Blinders
By Howard Zinn, The Progressive
Posted on April 24, 2006, Printed on May 16, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/34984/

Removing America's Blinders
By Howard Zinn, The Progressive
Posted on April 24, 2006, Printed on May 16, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/34984/
Now that most Americans no longer believe in the war, now that they no longer trust Bush and his Administration, now that the evidence of deception has become overwhelming (so overwhelming that even the major media, always late, have begun to register indignation), we might ask: How come so many people were so easily fooled?

The question is important because it might help us understand why Americans -- members of the media as well as the ordinary citizen -- rushed to declare their support as the President was sending troops halfway around the world to Iraq.

A small example of the innocence (or obsequiousness, to be more exact) of the press is the way it reacted to Colin Powell's presentation in February 2003 to the Security Council, a month before the invasion, a speech which may have set a record for the number of falsehoods told in one talk. In it, Powell confidently rattled off his "evidence": satellite photographs, audio records, reports from informants, with precise statistics on how many gallons of this and that existed for chemical warfare. The New York Times was breathless with admiration. The Washington Post editorial was titled "Irrefutable" and declared that after Powell's talk "it is hard to imagine how anyone could doubt that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction."

It seems to me there are two reasons, which go deep into our national culture, and which help explain the vulnerability of the press and of the citizenry to outrageous lies whose consequences bring death to tens of thousands of people. If we can understand those reasons, we can guard ourselves better against being deceived.

One is in the dimension of time, that is, an absence of historical perspective. The other is in the dimension of space, that is, an inability to think outside the boundaries of nationalism. We are penned in by the arrogant idea that this country is the center of the universe, exceptionally virtuous, admirable, superior.

If we don't know history, then we are ready meat for carnivorous politicians and the intellectuals and journalists who supply the carving knives. I am not speaking of the history we learned in school, a history subservient to our political leaders, from the much-admired Founding Fathers to the Presidents of recent years. I mean a history which is honest about the past. If we don't know that history, then any President can stand up to the battery of microphones, declare that we must go to war, and we will have no basis for challenging him. He will say that the nation is in danger, that democracy and liberty are at stake, and that we must therefore send ships and planes to destroy our new enemy, and we will have no reason to disbelieve him.

But if we know some history, if we know how many times Presidents have made similar declarations to the country, and how they turned out to be lies, we will not be fooled. Although some of us may pride ourselves that we were never fooled, we still might accept as our civic duty the responsibility to buttress our fellow citizens against the mendacity of our high officials.

We would remind whoever we can that President Polk lied to the nation about the reason for going to war with Mexico in 1846. It wasn't that Mexico "shed American blood upon the American soil," but that Polk, and the slave-owning aristocracy, coveted half of Mexico.

We would point out that President McKinley lied in 1898 about the reason for invading Cuba, saying we wanted to liberate the Cubans from Spanish control, but the truth is that we really wanted Spain out of Cuba so that the island could be open to United Fruit and other American corporations. He also lied about the reasons for our war in the Philippines, claiming we only wanted to "civilize" the Filipinos, while the real reason was to own a valuable piece of real estate in the far Pacific, even if we had to kill hundreds of thousands of Filipinos to accomplish that.

President Woodrow Wilson -- so often characterized in our history books as an "idealist" -- lied about the reasons for entering the First World War, saying it was a war to "make the world safe for democracy," when it was really a war to make the world safe for the Western imperial powers.

Harry Truman lied when he said the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima because it was "a military target."

Everyone lied about Vietnam -- Kennedy about the extent of our involvement, Johnson about the Gulf of Tonkin, Nixon about the secret bombing of Cambodia, all of them claiming it was to keep South Vietnam free of communism, but really wanting to keep South Vietnam as an American outpost at the edge of the Asian continent.

Reagan lied about the invasion of Grenada, claiming falsely that it was a threat to the United States.

The elder Bush lied about the invasion of Panama, leading to the death of thousands of ordinary citizens in that country.

And he lied again about the reason for attacking Iraq in 1991-- hardly to defend the integrity of Kuwait (can one imagine Bush heartstricken over Iraq's taking of Kuwait?), rather to assert U.S. power in the oil-rich Middle East.

Given the overwhelming record of lies told to justify wars, how could anyone listening to the younger Bush believe him as he laid out the reasons for invading Iraq? Would we not instinctively rebel against the sacrifice of lives for oil?

A careful reading of history might give us another safeguard against being deceived. It would make clear that there has always been, and is today, a profound conflict of interest between the government and the people of the United States. This thought startles most people, because it goes against everything we have been taught.

We have been led to believe that, from the beginning, as our Founding Fathers put it in the Preamble to the Constitution, it was "we the people" who established the new government after the Revolution. When the eminent historian Charles Beard suggested, a hundred years ago, that the Constitution represented not the working people, not the slaves, but the slaveholders, the merchants, the bondholders, he became the object of an indignant editorial in The New York Times.

Our culture demands, in its very language, that we accept a commonality of interest binding all of us to one another. We mustn't talk about classes. Only Marxists do that, although James Madison, "Father of the Constitution," said, 30 years before Marx was born that there was an inevitable conflict in society between those who had property and those who did not.

Our present leaders are not so candid. They bombard us with phrases like "national interest," "national security," and "national defense" as if all of these concepts applied equally to all of us, colored or white, rich or poor, as if General Motors and Halliburton have the same interests as the rest of us, as if George Bush has the same interest as the young man or woman he sends to war.

Surely, in the history of lies told to the population, this is the biggest lie. In the history of secrets, withheld from the American people, this is the biggest secret: that there are classes with different interests in this country. To ignore that -- not to know that the history of our country is a history of slaveowner against slave, landlord against tenant, corporation against worker, rich against poor -- is to render us helpless before all the lesser lies told to us by people in power.

If we as citizens start out with an understanding that these people up there -- the President, the Congress, the Supreme Court, all those institutions pretending to be "checks and balances" -- do not have our interests at heart, we are on a course towards the truth. Not to know that is to make us helpless before determined liars.

The deeply ingrained belief -- no, not from birth but from the educational system and from our culture in general -- that the United States is an especially virtuous nation makes us especially vulnerable to government deception. It starts early, in the first grade, when we are compelled to "pledge allegiance" (before we even know what that means), forced to proclaim that we are a nation with "liberty and justice for all."

And then come the countless ceremonies, whether at the ballpark or elsewhere, where we are expected to stand and bow our heads during the singing of the "Star-Spangled Banner," announcing that we are "the land of the free and the home of the brave." There is also the unofficial national anthem "God Bless America," and you are looked on with suspicion if you ask why we would expect God to single out this one nation -- just five percent of the world's population -- for his or her blessing.

If your starting point for evaluating the world around you is the firm belief that this nation is somehow endowed by Providence with unique qualities that make it morally superior to every other nation on Earth, then you are not likely to question the President when he says we are sending our troops here or there, or bombing this or that, in order to spread our values -- democracy, liberty, and let's not forget free enterprise -- to some God-forsaken (literally) place in the world.

It becomes necessary then, if we are going to protect ourselves and our fellow citizens against policies that will be disastrous not only for other people but for Americans too, that we face some facts that disturb the idea of a uniquely virtuous nation.

These facts are embarrassing, but must be faced if we are to be honest. We must face our long history of ethnic cleansing, in which millions of Indians were driven off their land by means of massacres and forced evacuations. And our long history, still not behind us, of slavery, segregation, and racism. We must face our record of imperial conquest, in the Caribbean and in the Pacific, our shameful wars against small countries a tenth our size: Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq. And the lingering memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is not a history of which we can be proud.

Our leaders have taken it for granted, and planted that belief in the minds of many people, that we are entitled, because of our moral superiority, to dominate the world. At the end of World War II, Henry Luce, with an arrogance appropriate to the owner of Time, Life, and Fortune, pronounced this "the American century," saying that victory in the war gave the United States the right "to exert upon the world the full impact of our influence, for such purposes as we see fit and by such means as we see fit."

Both the Republican and Democratic parties have embraced this notion. George Bush, in his Inaugural Address on January 20, 2005, said that spreading liberty around the world was "the calling of our time." Years before that, in 1993, President Bill Clinton, speaking at a West Point commencement, declared: "The values you learned here ... will be able to spread throughout this country and throughout the world and give other people the opportunity to live as you have lived, to fulfill your God-given capacities."

What is the idea of our moral superiority based on? Surely not on our behavior toward people in other parts of the world. Is it based on how well people in the United States live? The World Health Organization in 2000 ranked countries in terms of overall health performance, and the United States was thirty-seventh on the list, though it spends more per capita for health care than any other nation. One of five children in this, the richest country in the world, is born in poverty. There are more than 40 countries that have better records on infant mortality. Cuba does better. And there is a sure sign of sickness in society when we lead the world in the number of people in prison -- more than two million.

A more honest estimate of ourselves as a nation would prepare us all for the next barrage of lies that will accompany the next proposal to inflict our power on some other part of the world. It might also inspire us to create a different history for ourselves, by taking our country away from the liars and killers who govern it, and by rejecting nationalist arrogance, so that we can join the rest of the human race in the common cause of peace and justice.

Howard Zinn is the co-author, with Anthony Arnove, of “Voices of a People’s History of the United States.”

If only my American History book was this short, I might have remembered what it said. Or not.

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/6356/Banned_cartoon_American_history...

This is cute. If I had been as persistent as she, maybe I'd be able to play alot better!

http://www.spike.com/video/2822657

Welfare For The Stupid
Submitted by Crank Bait on Sat, 05/17/2008 - 12:15am.

Good night and
Good bloggin'

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http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/05/busy-weekend-ahead-for-westminsters-paper-...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oT7kiLbhCk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT1Sa91N75E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MxmthbKZYU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS9Zyyx0_iU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8tFL4tZOg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6m0rzefZ3o

The headline Wednesday on Drudge, from Politico, said, "Republicans Stunned by Loss in Mississippi." It was about the eight-point drubbing the Democrat gave the Republican in the special House election. My first thought was: You have to be stupid to be stunned by that. Second thought: Most party leaders in Washington ARE stupid – detached, played out, stuck in the wisdom they learned when they were coming up, in '78 or '82 or '94.

...The party, Mr. Davis told me, is "an airplane flying right into a mountain."

...There are always "lots of excuses," Mr. Reed said of the special-election loss. Poor candidate, local factors. "Having said all that," he continued, "let's just face it: It's not a good time." He meant to be a Republican. "They brought Cheney in, and that was a mistake." He cited "a disenchantment with the generic Republican label, which we always thought was the Good Housekeeping seal."

http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html

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By Sheila Samples

We're at the crossroads. We can no longer remain neutral nor mill around in confused acceptance of the genocidal madness into which we have been swept. Thomas Jefferson said, "When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19938.htm

If you're up late, you can check the web-cams and watch the parades.

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Happy Independence Day ! :)

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Is that like what halliburton does with iran or is it more like Israel selling sensitive US technology to China?

Ibm wrote the tracking software for the german prison camps that nazi efficiency was purely american made.

But since you're into defending the Bush family... How about you tackle their links to the eugenics movement?

Sometimes you're right but most the time you veer off head first into a wall, back up and run into it again and again and that's the problem gravitas... You fail to grasp what things like nazi links are trying to highlight and in this case its the family attitude and the damage that is done to following generations.

Tell me honestly that the Bush family 'hasn't' been damaged...

Lol

Veterans' Group Seeks to Deliver 10,000 Impeachment Signatures To House Judiciary Committee Chair, Rep. John Conyers

WASHINGTON, DC - May 16 - A national veterans' organization today sent a letter to Representative John Conyers, head of the House Judiciary Committee, requesting a meeting with him to deliver over 10,000 signatures on a petition to impeach George W. Bush. Impeachment hearings would have to be convened by the Michigan Democrat.

The president of Veterans For Peace, Elliott Adams, wrote Conyers requesting a meeting in early June to deliver their petitions. In it, he pointed out that by invading and occupying Iraq, the Bush administration has violated the U.S. Constitution, domestic laws and international treaties.

Adams' letter said, "Having taken an oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic, our members take…the obligation to impeach George W. Bush most seriously...we must hold this administration accountable for waging a war of aggression against Iraq."

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Americans are in a panic over rising gas and heating oil prices, and with reason. For months, the price of a barrel of crude oil has been rising steadily, hitting a record $127 yesterday.

Analysts keep getting trotted out on TV and in print, attributing the dramatic price rise to everything from “peak oil”—the idea that producing countries have reached their peak of productive capacity, and that the only direction for oil supplies looking forward is down, while demand continues to rise—to increasing demand in China and India, to supply bottlenecks, to specific news events, like a pipeline break in Nigeria, or a closed refinery in California.

Politicians, like Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, have called for a two-month moratorium on federal gas taxes, but with taxes running at something on the order of 18 cents a gallon, this is not going to do much to bring prices down—in fact it might do nothing, since retailers would be free to just raise prices to match the tax break, and pocket the profits.

One analyst, economist Ismael Hussein-Zadeh, a professor of economics at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, has a different explanation for the price rise, and American motorists and homeowners should pay close attention.

“Oil prices have gone from the mid $20 range in the fall of 2002 to $127 yesterday—a rise of $100/barrel in just over five years,” he says. “And the bulk of that increase can be attributed to the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to the threats of war against Iran.”

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I read this on one of my mailing lists, and I haven't verified whether it is all correct. However, if it is correct, this is horrendous. 'No Child Left Behind' is just a way to kick low income children out of eduction:

Subject: High School Diplomas vs Certificate of Completion

Make sure that your children & grandchildren know this !!!
----- Forwarded by Terri C Fuller/DHS/Phila on 02/25/2008 11:26 AM -----

The 'Certificate of Completion or Attendance' that is being
offered in lieu of high school diplomas, is a part of Bush's 'No Child Left Behind'. This is how it works:

It is for students who are unable to pass both the Language Arts
and Math portions of the 10th grade ISTEP. Students must take the same 10th grade test over in the 11th and 12th grades until they pass both portions. If they are unable to pass the 10th grade test by the 12th grade then they have two options:

1. Dropout and go to a GED program OR,

2. Accept a 'Certificate of Completion' - it is NOT a diploma. Once a student accepts it, they cannot ever get a diploma or a GED. A Certificate of completion means that a student can NEVER (as long as they live):

1. Go to the armed services
2.Go to college
3.Go to trade school
4.Go to journeyman's school
5.Go to beauty school
6.Go to culinary arts school
7.Get a federal loan in their lifetime

This is the portion of NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND (2001) that Bush slipped in during the 2004 revision of the NCLB bill. It has not been publicized. At a high school in Indiana , in 2005, there were 87 seniors in the graduation class. Five got diplomas and 82 got 'Certificates of Completion'.

This is being referred to as the 'Paper Plantation '. It is better for students to drop out and get into a GED program so they may seek other forms of education, later in life, if they desire to do so. All 50 states have 'Certificates of Completion or Attendance'.

Please pass this information along to EVERYONE you know who has school age children.

am just catching up on podcasts from last week (not feeling very happy about Ron Reagan...there is something so folksy about him and I for one wouldnt feel compelled to tune in) any news on vodcasting?

Im listening to Brad Friedman filling in for Peter B Collins yesterday...talking about the most important issue of voting machines, rights...he is doing some very exciting reporting on whats going on in this area.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5994

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www.SweetJesusIHateChrisMatthews.blogspot.com

I didn't know Brad was filling in for Peter..

Green 960AM right ?
Thanks again.. :)

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Comments: Though there are few elements of truth in this text, it is riddled with falsehoods and drastically misrepresents the implications of receiving a certificate of completion or attendance in lieu of a high school diploma.

For starters, graduation requirements and the rules governing the issuance of diplomas vs. certificates of completion are determined by individual state departments of education, not the federal government. The No Child Left Behind Act contains no provisions, "slipped in" or otherwise, mandating how or when such certificates are to be issued.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_certificate_of_completion.htm

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McCain Adviser Ousted In Conflict Uproar
Politico: Campaign Also Releases New Conflict Of Interest Policy

John McCain's campaign asked a prominent Republican consultant, Craig Shirley, to leave his official campaign role Thursday after a Politico inquiry about Shirley's dual role consulting for the campaign and for an independent "527" group opposing the Democratic presidential candidates. The campaign also released a new conflict of interest policy barring such arrangements.

Shirley, a conservative public relations veteran, doubled as a consultant to McCain and to the group Stop Her Now, a 527 group barred from coordinating its activities with presidential campaigns. He is not currently on the McCain campaign’s payroll, but would also step down from his role on McCain’s Virginia Leadership Team, a McCain spokesman, Brian Rogers, said.

"If you're working for a 527 involved in the presidential race, you won't have a named role in our campaign,” said Rogers.

Under the new policy, a copy of which was provided to Politico, “no person with a McCain Campaign title or position may participate in a 527 or other independent entity that makes public communications that support or oppose any presidential candidate.”

Shirley’s firm, Shirley & Bannister Associates, was paid more than $22,000 by McCain for work this February and March to win conservative support. Stop Her Now has paid the firm more than $155,000 since 2007 for public relations work.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/16/politics/politico/main4102428....

Goldman calling $141 oil
by Chris in Paris · 5/17/2008 08:24:00 AM ET · Link
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Even the Bush-loving boot lickers on Wall Street know that Bush will gladly roll over for the oil countries and his Big Oil friends. There's only so much inflation people in the real world can afford.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/24664918

Effort to pass ultra-restrictive voter ID law fails in Missouri
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 5/16/2008 11:27:00 PM ET · Link
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News from Missouri's state house tonight is that the Senate failed to even consider the very restrictive voter ID law before adjournment. This is a big victory for fair elections and insuring that all voters get to vote -- in a key swing state. Here's the statement from the very savvy Secretary of State in Missouri, Robin Carnahan, who helped lead the charge to kill the legislation:
Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan released the following statement on the legislative session ending without the passage of a restrictive proposal requiring voters to present a government-issued photo ID at the polls:
“This proposal not passing is a victory for voter’s rights. This debate has not been about having Missouri voters identify themselves at the polls. In Missouri, we already have common sense identification requirements in place. This debate has been about ensuring fair elections, and elections can not be fair if eligible voters are not allowed to make their voice heard on Election Day.

These past two weeks we heard from Missouri voters across the state that feared they would lose their right to vote because they don’t have a government-issued photo ID or a birth certificate, and I am glad the legislature didn’t put their right to vote at risk. The hard work of citizens and groups around this state who opposed this proposal played a key role in making sure this legislation was not passed.”
The Missouri Supreme Court stuck down a 2006 Voter Photo ID law in October of that year, citing that it placed too much of a burden on eligible Missourian’s constitutional right to vote.

http://mofairelections.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html#889179108673...

Mike Huckabee will be this Sunday's guest on Meet the Press! Will he still have egg on his face? Will he be asked about his gun related fantasy focus on Barack Obama? Will he share fried squirrel recipes? Maybe we will get Pastor Huckabee and he can answer the McCain/Hagee/Parsley dooms day paradox with his 2013 timetable goals! I'm going to be real curious about Bill Scher's ambitious questions.

I don't think I have the juice left to endure endless

rounds of antagonistic spamming. Looks like it's getting

close to the end here for old PD. Toni....I hope you are

well and will be well because I love ya! I think I'm

taking leave for awhile. Hillary has driven me to boredom

and nothing good can come from fighting with fascist

trolls. I'm gonna read some books on my new deck for a

few weeks.

Oregon race could spell end of Schumer streak By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 1 minute ago

WASHINGTON - As head of the deep-pocketed Democratic Senatorial Campaign Commission, New York Sen. Charles Schumer hand-picked his party's nominee to take on Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, the last Republican standing on the West Coast. But apparently, Schumer forgot to inform the state's voters.

Days before votes are counted in the Oregon primary, Schumer's choice — Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley — is in a tight battle with Portland lawyer and activist Steve Novick. Polls show the race is too close to call.

If Novick pulls off the upset, it could be a rare loss for Schumer, who acquired a reputation as a recruitment kingmaker after steering Democrats back to majority control of the Senate in 2006. This year, Schumer is working to expand that majority, with some Democrats even hoping for a 60-seat, filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

The DSCC is working overtime to make sure Merkley ekes out a win. Schumer, who recruited Merkley after two Democrats in the state's congressional delegation declined to run, has sent fundraising appeals on Merkley's behalf, and the DSCC has spent nearly $300,000 on TV ads boosting Merkley.

All that effort has left Novick puzzled.

"Why they think Merkley can beat Gordon Smith if they have to prop him up to beat me is beyond me," Novick said.

Schumer, who typically makes himself available to reporters, declined to comment for this story.

But Matthew Miller, a spokesman for the DSCC, said the committee's efforts can be over-interpreted. While the DSCC has spent money defending Merkley, it has not attacked Novick, he said.

The ads we are running respond to Gordon Smith's attacks" on Merkley, Miller said. "We came into this race after Smith came in."

Miller and other Democrats in Washington acknowledge that the Senate race is closer than expected, but they say that whoever wins the party's nomination will give Smith trouble in a state that is trending Democratic and appears poised to give Barack Obama a solid victory in Tuesday's presidential primary.

"We feel good about our chances in Oregon" in the general election, Miller said, in part because of the excitement generated by the Democratic presidential race.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080517/ap_on_el_se/oregon_senate_race_4

I hope your all doing fine..

More coffee !

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

The blog is filled with trolls lately, that's true.

I haven't been posting as much either. And the thought of not having Sam on air doesn't help.I like music and like YouTubes, but the blog is getting loaded with both, along with, I'm sorry, I have to say this, inane posts and pictures.

Maybe I'll go back to my blog and post agian.

Leaving for work in a bit so hope you all have a great day. It's a beautiful day here so far.

Come back soon,please.. :)

Don't be gone too long or the Terrorists(Trolls)win !

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Have to run now. Off to work again. Later

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BERKELEY, Calif. — Robert Mondavi, the vintner who built his career and helped an iconic Northern California industry blossom by insisting that Napa Valley wines can compete with the best in the world, died in the valley Friday. He was 94.

Mondavi died peacefully at his home in Yountville, Robert Mondavi Winery spokeswoman Mia Malm said.

Robert Mondavi, California Winemaking Pioneer, Dies

"It is hard to imagine anyone having more of a lasting impact on California's $20 billion-a-year wine industry than Robert Mondavi," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a statement. Mondavi, said the governor, was "a tireless entrepreneur who transformed how the world felt about California wine, and an unforgettable personality to everyone who knew him."

Mondavi was 52 and a winemaking veteran in 1966, when he opened the winery that would help turn the Napa Valley into a world center of the industry. Clashes with a brother that included a fistfight led him to break from the family business to carry out his ambitious plans with borrowed money.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/16/robert-mondavi-california_n_102...

PFOTENHAUER: Senator McCain responded directly himself and said he took the president at his word, that those comments were not directed toward Senator Obama. […]

SHUSTER: Nancy, does the McCain campaign believe that talking to our enemies is the same as appeasing them?

PFOTENHAUER: We have never used the term appeasement and you know that.

SHUSTER: But the president did. […]

PFOTENHAUER: We have specifically not used the term appeasement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PJz0D9wm5Q

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/mccain-appeasement/

Hans von Spakovsky withdraws as FEC nominee.
Today, Hans von Spakovsky — President Bush’s nominee to the FEC and a lighting rod for criticism over his history of voter suppression at the Justice Department — withdrew his nomination. The Senate had blocked Spakovsky over concern about his tenure at the DOJ, where he unilaterally approved stringent voter ID laws and blocked investigations into voter discrimination. View Spakovsky’s resignation letter here.

Effort to pass
Submitted by toniD on Sat, 05/17/2008 - 8:46am.
Effort to pass ultra-restrictive voter ID law fails in Missouri

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I don't have a link, sorry. I heard a pollster mention this on MSNBC the other night. How, without even being prompted with an age question, when asked about John McCain, elderly people (who tend to vote) say "Oh, he's too old!"

I think any of us nearing or older than 50 know we're not the people we used to be. Our minds are a little slower. Our bodies begin to break down a bit, little by little, year after year. I'm Obama's age and I don't think I'd have the energy to last in the White House more than a month! If that!

Seniors know. Being 72 is probably not a good age to be trying to handle one of the most important jobs in the world.

Edwards Secured Private Commitment From Obama That He'd Go On Poverty Tour As Nominee
By Greg Sargent - May 16, 2008, 4:38PM
Before dropping out of the presidential race, John Edwards secured a private commitment from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that they'd undertake a poverty tour during the general election as the Democratic nominee, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks.

The vows to undertake a poverty tour -- which were confirmed to me by three former top advisers to Edwards -- went considerably farther than what has been publicly known until now about what the two Dems promised Edwards they'd do on poverty. During his drop-out speech last January, Edwards only said that the two Dems had "both pledged" to "make ending poverty central to their campaign."

An actual poverty tour, by contrast, would be a specific, protracted undertaking, possibly with Edwards himself, a possibility that came up in the private talks. Such a tour could be a major media event.

Now that Obama is on his way to becoming the nominee, the private promise is particularly relevant, because it raises the question of whether Obama will honor the commitment Edwards advisers say he (and Hillary) made.

This could require Obama to make a commitment of several days during a hard-fought general election, because Edwards specifically secured a commitment that it be a few days long, one top adviser said.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/edwards_secured_...

Presidential Candidates To Address AIPAC
By Eric Kleefeld - May 16, 2008, 4:29PM
The presidential candidates are set to all boost their pro-Israel credentials in three weeks, Ben Smith reports, when they all speak at the annual AIPAC conference.

Republicans have been trying to paint Barack Obama as soft on defending Israel, so his appearance before the group will be closely watched in the political world for signs that he can rebut this line of attack effectively.

Meanwhile, expect McCain to none-to-subtly push said attack line by chest-thumping about how a President McCain would never, ever negotiate with hostile Arab powers.

U.S. Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan, officials said, in a stark acknowledgment that the United States is likely to continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to come.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/world/asia/17detain.html?_r=1&hp&oref=...