Ablogination

Figured an ‘08 recap would be fairly useless. There are plenty of them already and for the most part, if you don’t know what’s been going on this past year you’re either brain-dead or willfully ignorant.

So let’s reflect on a few of our points from this year that will not go away with the coming one.

1) Tomorrow, Palestinians will still be busy being murdered by monsters and not nearly enough people care. Particularly amongst so called “Liberal Bloggers".
I guess even our end of the political spectrum is not without it’s cowards.

2) Tomorrow, we will still have an administration that has collectively committed treason and all too many care even less about that.

3) Tomorrow we will still have a very capable and well-meaning President Elect that happens to be testicularly challenged. I hope Barack Obama’s change motif included himself because if it doesn’t, we’re in for a disappointing 2009.

4) Tomorrow we will still have an energy crises and now that gas isn’t expensive, count on many to forget all about the need for alternatives.

5) Tomorrow we will still have the poor, the homeless, the unloved and the unwanted.
Question is, will we do anything about it this time?

6) Tomorrow we will still have troops in Iraq and over 4000 of them in the ground. And it will still be for absolutely nothing.

7) Tomorrow, somewhere in the country, another American will lose their freedom for smoking a joint or die on probation because they cannot take their medicine.

8) Tomorrow, another American will die from lack of appropriate, affordable health care.

9) Tomorrow, another corporate scumbag will poison another piece of precious environment, another form of wildlife, another child.

10) Tomorrow, another person won’t care.

Tomorrow should be the beginning of a harder, more resolute, far more aggressive push by the Liberals in this country to right all of these wrongs and then some, correct all of these shortcomings and more, and to hold our new President’s feet to the fire so that he performs his duty the way we expected him to when we voted for him.

Should be. Maybe.
We shall see.

Happy New Year? Your guess is as good as mine.

Once again, the rogue state of Israel is out of control. Resorting to ramming a civilian vessel is yet another display of the fact that the IDF simply have no problem targeting civilians. Unarmed, non-aggressive civilians.

Dignity

With Cynthia McKinney, 2008 Green Party Presidential Candidate on board, it would not be inappropriate for the US to consider this an act of war much like the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 that killed 43 American service people.

From CNN:

(CNN) – An Israeli patrol boat struck a boat carrying medical volunteers and supplies to Gaza early Tuesday as it attempted to intercept the vessel in the Mediterranean Sea, witnesses and Israeli officials said.
The Dignity arrives in Tyre, Lebanon, after it was reportedly rammed by an Israeli military vessel Tuesday.

CNN Correspondent Karl Penhaul was aboard the 60-foot, Gibraltar-registered pleasure boat Dignity when the contact occurred. When the boat later docked in the Lebanese port city of Tyre, severe damage was visible to the forward port side of the boat, and the front left window and part of the roof had collapsed.

The Dignity was carrying crew and 16 passengers – physicians from Britain, Germany and Cyprus and human rights activists, including former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney – who were trying to reach Gaza through an Israeli blockade of the territory.

The captain of the Dignity said the Israelis broadcast a radio message accusing the vessel of being involved in terrorist activity. But Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor denied that and said the radio message simply warned the vessel not to proceed to Gaza because it is a closed military area.

Palmor said there was no response to the radio message, and the vessel then tried to out-maneuver the Israeli patrol boat, leading to the collision. Video Watch Penhaul describe the boat damage »

Penhaul said at least two Israeli patrol boats had shadowed the Dignity for about half an hour before the collision, moving around the vessel on all sides. One of the patrol boats then shined its spotlight on the Dignity while the other, with its lights off, “very severely rammed” the boat.

The captain of the Dignity told Penhaul he received no prior warning. Only after the collision did the Israelis come on the radio to say they struck the boat because they believed it was involved in terrorist activities.

“I would call it ramming. Let’s just call it as it is,” McKinney said. “Our boat was rammed three times, twice in the front and one on the side".
VIDEO

This must stop now.

This is like two spoiled children fighting over a toy, and the only way to stop it is to take their toy away.
A massive multi-national force should be employed and both Hamas and Israel relieved of their governments and order restored. Clearly neither are capable of being the slightest bit civilized.

The majority of the peoples on both sides overwhelmingly support co-existence and peace. Israel is the aggressor and only we (US) have the power to control them. Yet we do nothing short of encourage them.
The Neocon elements in both the US and Zionist governments thrive on war.
What does that leave us with?

Obama.

Time to stop hiding, Barack. Call Bush out in front of everyone and tell him to do something other than suck Israel’s Zionist, Terrorist ass.
You know what needs to be done.

1) Abide by all UN resolutions concerning Israel and do not veto sound UN decisions. Tell Israel that their money and arms depend on their compliance with every detail of all resolutions.

2) Tell Hamas they’ll be next after Afghanistan if this insanity doesn’t stop.

3) End the influence of AIPC, the ADL, the PNAC and other such Zionist Pigs on our own government. They are the true agitators of all these dots.

4) We’ve had Regime Change here in America, we need Regime Change in Israel too. The Likud is the Neocon element in Israel that must be disposed of.

If all else fails, Request the largest multi-national force ever assembled and use it. If there’s going to be war in the Holy Land, let it be the biggest and the last. An international Holy Land with a UN imposed government and permanent peace keeping force sounds good to me.

Twenty days, Barack. Whatcha gonna do?

The murderous Israel has gone too far. The action in the Gaza Strip is not “self defense", it’s genocide. Shoah, or Holocaust. That is the Zionist objective.
The Palestinian people, unarmed civilians, are being slaughtered by an occupying force that needs and deserves to be emasculated. By force if need be.

Sad is the fact that the US Government is too cowardly in nature to control the Beast. Instead it serves the diabolical abomination that is Israel. We are once again guilty of sitting idly by while innocent people are murdered with weapons and money we provide the criminal state with.

When the Israeli Terrorists attacked Beirut in 2006 they clearly and knowingly attacked civilians. They lost that war to Hezbollah, being sent home with their tails between their legs.
This time, Israel claims it is targeting Hamas and once again, the truth is exactly the opposite…

Those are NOT Hamas Soldiers. They are average, impoverished, Palestinian men, women, and obviously children.
The disproportionate use of firepower reflects the intense cowardice Israel is guilty of now and in the past. They are using fighter aircraft on unarmed civilians. There is no more prolific an example of cowards in action than we see in Gaza today.
If Israel ever had a right to exist, they have lost it now.
There is no excuse for murdering unarmed civilians with state-of-the-art weapons, starvation and disease. There is no excuse for Israel. They are simply a terrorist, oppressive state that must be stopped no matter what the cost.

May God be with and comfort the people of Gaza.

The Terrorist State of Israel

Reference:

Conflict History

Now, don’t think for one second that we are anti-TVA. The Tennessee Valley Authority is a great institution without which many of us may still be stump jumpin’ barefoot hillbillies living off the land, losing our teeth at 20 and dying at 35.

As with any machine in the system, the machine is only as good as those who run it. In the case of the Harriman, TN Coal Ash Disaster, the operator is to blame.

The “operator” in this case is Tom Kilgore, CEO, and Inspector General, Richard Moore.
We have a few questions:

What was the spill contingency plan? Did one even exist? Is that standard procedure, I mean, isn’t there supposed to be a plan?
When was the retaining wall last inspected? Did TVA just figure it would hold unlimited amounts of sludge for all eternity?
Who else is ultimately responsible for the lack of oversight that has allowed a preventable disaster to occur?
There is a need for a Federal Investigation. There may be a criminal issue involved and as it happens, Greenpeace is calling for exactly that. A criminal investigation.

The attempts by TVA to minimize the potentially deadly toxic aspects of the disaster are both expected and scary. Under Kilgore, a Republican, TVA’s first thought was to TVA. To keeping things quiet so’s not to lose face.
According to an AP article:

HARRIMAN, Tenn. (AP) – A southern environmental group wants authorities to issue stronger warnings about the danger a major coal ash spill in eastern Tennessee poses to residents.

State environmental officials have said there is no indication of immediate risk if residents come in contact with the mixture of coal fly ash and water.

But the executive director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy disagrees.

Stephen Smith says officials should encourage residents to avoid contact with the muck coating their neighborhood in Harriman, about 35 miles west of Knoxville.

State Environmental Officials are evidently idiots. Or liars. Go ahead, “officials", feed one of these to your family…

Clinch River: h/t ‘coma

The danger is real and is a mid to long term threat. Coal Ash is 100 times more radioactive than Nuclear Waste. Heavy particles sink. They sink into the ground and contaminate water and soil. Granted it’s not Hiroshima or Chernobyl, but contaminated water is contaminated water. The point is this didn’t have to happen. No oversight, no inspections?
Obviously somebody missed, or ignored, something.

In the mean time, Tom Kilgore is getting some of those GM type raises to the tune of 500′000 while our rates skyrocket…

From Knoxnews:

NASHVILLE - The nation’s biggest public utility is raising its chief executive’s compensation by nearly a half million dollars, a month after its largest electric rate increase in three decades took effect.

Tennessee Valley Authority President and CEO Tom Kilgore told board members meeting Thursday in Nashville that the rate could go down in January because fuel costs have decreased. He didn’t say how much the rate may decrease.

At the meeting, board members approved raising Kilgore’s bonus-driven compensation package from a potential $2.7 million to $3.27 million, effective the next fiscal year.

Kilgore’s base salary of $650,000 has remained the same since he became CEO in 2006. He said after the meeting that he would not decline the board’s offer to raise it to $850,000.

On Oct. 1, the TVA put a 20 percent electricity rate increase into effect, raising average residential bills by $15.80 to $19.80 a month. It’s the TVA’s biggest rate boost since 1974 and its second this year, following a 7 percent increase in April - all because of ballooning costs for fuel and purchased power.

It seems to us that Mr. Kilgore isn’t worth the money. Nor is Mr. Moore’s inspecting getting the job done.
It’s time for Kilgore to step down. No raise. Just go.

Tom Kilgore

Then we can give President Obama the opportunity to appoint a new board if needed and try to fix what’s so obviously wrong with TVA… Greed, ignorance, incompetence.

We need a system to keep our environment pristine, that is TVA’s job. Right now, under Kilgore, they’re doing exactly the opposite.
We see the exact same type of mismanagement at TVA as we’ve seen at GM, Wall Street, Enron. The state of Tennessee cannot afford to let this incompetence snowball into something even more disastrous in the future.
And if something isn’t done, it will.

Newscoma
Crone Speaks

Those of us who refer to ourselves as “Christians” should take this opportunity to re-read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and remember what Jesus taught.

What good is His blood if we don’t listen to his words?
What good is your faith if your deeds are contrary to the doctrine? Jesus never turned one single soul away that sought to know Him. He never said to turn anyone away. Why would we think that it was okay for us to do so?
Because Paul said it? Was Paul Jesus?
Who was the master and who was the servant?

There are those who profess non-belief because of the evil deeds they see so called “believers” do.
War and glorification of mayhem, casting derision upon others because you don’t like their lifestyle, their beliefs, their relations….this is evil. It drives people away from the glory and not to it.
We were taught to embrace those we hate. I did so only moments ago. Doesn’t change my feelings but I did that which is required of me.
Perhaps it changed their feelings. Perhaps not.

If you are a “Christian", when you drive a non-believer away from you, you drive them away from Christ.

He does not approve.

A Cool Yule to all, both friend and foe.
From all at TN420.org

The always spot on Scott Thill, at Alternet, once again brings clarity where confusion exists.
As perplexed as I was at the though of Bosnia Betty being SoS, I failed to realize the obvious. It was right in front of my face and I was yet to see.

Bill Richardson is Commerce Sec…..Richardson is the Governor who signed New Mexico’s Medical Marijuana Bill into law with great enthusiasm and only the well being of his fellow Americans in mind.

This may work out after all…

Though Barack Obama has flip-flopped on the Legalize Marijuana issue, repeatedly, Bill Richardson has not.

“So what if it’s risky? It’s the right thing to do, My God, let’s be reasonable.” Sec. Richardson said of his decision to make Medical Marijuana law in the state of New Mexico.
Some of the purest words spoken on the issue to date by a major political figure right of Dennis Kucinich.

Obama?
“The war on drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.” -Barack Obama, January 2004 (VID)

“I inhaled frequently, that was the point.”

-Barack Obama, November 2006 (VID)

Q: “Will you consider legalizing marijuana so that the government can regulate it, tax it, put age limits on it, and create millions of new jobs and create a billion dollar industry right here in the U.S.?”

A: “President-elect Obama is not in favor of the legalization of marijuana.”

-Statement from Change.gov, the official website of President-Elect Obama, December 15, 2008

Well, that’s a politician for you. And as we see more clearly every day, a politician is all Obama is when it comes down to it. But then again, Medical Marijuana is the priority, and he never said he wasn’t in favor of medical.
Richardson’s influence, I believe, will be great.
Will this bring justice to the millions of people who suffer from ills that can be eased, or even cured, with Cannabis? Who knows? I’m tellin’ ya it looks a hell of a lot better than it ever has before.

Time to push even harder. Harder than ever before. And hopefully, somewhere along the line, sanity will prevail.

-captainkona

SOURCE: Scott Thill

SOURCE: Paul Armentano.

Time to take a look at the Obama cabinet as it stands. Overall there is obviously a problem, but in fairness, each pick should be assessed on an individual basis.

Reuters Fact Box gives us the generic, depth-deprived rundown.
We’ll give you the reality….

SECRETARY OF STATE

* Sen. Hillary Clinton, Obama’s former Democratic Party rival for the White House, was named to the top diplomatic post. The move is seen as part of Obama’s effort to rebuild America’s reputation abroad. Aides have said Obama admires Clinton’s work ethic and also believes the former first lady’s star power would boost his vision of improving America’s global standing.

Obama’s first and worst choice. There are few positions if any that are as important, especially at this time, in our nation’s administration. And Obama fell flat on his face.

Hillary Clinton is an awkward specimen with no more experience in diplomacy than the average house wife.
Coming in behind the worst SoS in history is going to require more than the ability to throw a tea party and commit to smile and wave parades.
Clinton’s credibility is virtually zero after the Bosnia Betty lies and the latest revelation that her wife, Bill, has taken donations from numerous gubberments and blood splattered corporations like Blackwater Security.
They took money from India. How does that translate into diplomacy with Pakistan? They took money from the Saudi Royals. How does that sit with the average Arab, particularly the Shia who control Iran and Iraq?
The biggest chicken hawk hypocrite in the Democratic party and he makes her the Sr. Diplomat?

We warned you, Barack. The Clinton’s will waste no time in undermining your presidency. They want the White House and will work against you constantly behind your back.
This was a major mistake. One I hope the entire nation doesn’t live to regret.

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

* Current Defense Secretary Robert Gates, named by President George W. Bush in late 2006, is considered a moderate voice on the Republican’s national security team and embodies an important signal of continuity. Obama had said early on he would include Republicans in his Cabinet and the 65-year-old Gates has been lauded by members of both parties since taking over the Pentagon from Donald Rumsfeld.

Gates is a Republican, a NeoCon, and what’s worse, he’s still loyal to BushCo. Jack Reed or Chuck Hagel should have been offered this position and Gates stay on until his office is transitioned.

TREASURY SECRETARY

* Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, is Obama’s choice for the Treasury Department, making him Obama’s point person in dealing with the economic crisis. Geithner has helped lead efforts to stabilize financial markets and argued that banks crucial to the global financial system should operate under a unified regulatory framework.

Went to Dartmouth, young and enthusiastic, any replacement for BushBot, Henry Paulson, will be an improvement.

HOMELAND SECURITY

* Janet Napolitano, the Democratic governor of Arizona, was named to head the U.S. Homeland Security Department, a sprawling agency formed to bolster civil defense following the September 11 attacks.

First, the DHS is a useless waste of tax dollars and should be dissolved. Having said that, if we’re going to have a useless agency, Janet Napolitano could at least try and make it useful.
Unlike Michael Chertoff she is not (that we know of) a Nazi.
Probably as competent a choice as possible, we will have to wait and see if she continues Chertoff’s assault on liberty and record of failure in securing our borders.
Her exit from Arizona will also leave that state wide open and in Republican hands. Her veto pen will be missed there.

NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL

* Lawrence Summers, 53, has been chosen to head the council. He was treasury secretary for the final 1-1/2 years of the Clinton administration and has been a senior adviser to Obama for several months, helping to guide his response to the financial meltdown.

This is probably a good choice.

NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER

* Retired Marine Gen. James Jones, the former top operational commander of NATO, was named by Obama to be his national security adviser. Jones is widely respected by both Democrats and Republicans and has avoided aligning himself with either party but is known to have been a strong critic of the Bush administration’s handling of the Iraq war.

Jones wouldn’t be an issue if not for the fact that he would have been McCain’s pick also.
Jones and McCain are good friends. That doesn’t make Jones a bad choice, it do leave much to be desired of his taste in friends though.
Gotta keep a close eye on this cat. Real close.

ATTORNEY GENERAL

* Eric Holder, a former Justice Department official in the Clinton administration, will run the Justice Department. Holder has been a senior legal adviser to Obama’s campaign and helped vet his vice presidential candidates.

This appointment is a mistake. Why? Eric Holder is a sleazy kinda guy, that’s why. First we have the Marc Rich pardon, which Bill Clinton is guilty of and Holder an accessory.
In 1983, financier Marc Rich was indicted for evading more than $48 million in taxes, and charged with 51 counts of tax fraud, as well as running illegal oil deals with Iran during the 1979-1980 hostage crisis. During his last week in office, President Bill Clinton pardoned Rich, who had fled the U.S. during his prosecution and was residing in Switzerland. Clinton’s eleventh-hour move, along with pardons of his half-brother, Roger, and former business partner Susan McDougal, outraged Republicans and Democrats alike. The Rich pardon prompted an investigation into the possibility it was bought by the hefty donations Rich’s ex-wife, Denise, had given to the Clintons and the Democrats. In the end, investigators did not find enough evidence to indict Clinton.

Then, we have Holder’s association with the Chiquita Corporation. And the Death Squads they employed.
In 2004, Holder helped negotiate an agreement with the Justice Department for Chiquita Brands International in a case that involved Chiquita’s payment of “protection money” to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a group on the U.S. government’s list of terrorist organizations.In the agreement, Chiquita’s officials pleaded guilty and paid a fine of $25 million. Holder represented Chiquita in the civil action that grew out of this criminal case.

John Kerry should have been offered this position.

SECRETARY OF ENERGY

* Steven Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics, is Obama’s choice for secretary of energy. Chu was an early advocate for finding scientific solutions to climate change and guided the Lawrence Berkeley laboratory to become the world leader in alternative and renewable energy research.

This is an excellent choice. Period.
Someone with a brain for a change.

SECRETARY OF INTERIOR

* Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado, who once practiced as an environmental lawyer, was named to head the Interior Department. The son of Americans of Mexican descent, he is one of two Hispanic people named to Obama’s Cabinet. He will be a key member of Obama’s energy team who would oversee the leasing of federal lands for oil and gas drilling.

Another huge mistake. Salazar’s voting record is an essay in BushCo/NeoCon appeasement. A DLC Jellyspine, Salazar has voted against Democratic, progressive legislation consistently.

Salazar voted against increased fuel efficiency standards for the U.S. automobile fleet, voted to allow offshore oil drilling along Florida’s coast, voted to allow the Army Corps of Engineers to ignore global warming impacts in their water development projects, voted against the repeal of tax breaks for Exxon-Mobile, voted to support subsidies to ranchers and other users of public forest and range lands, threatened to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when its scientists determined the black-tailed prairie dog may be endangered and fought efforts to increase protection for endangered species and the environment in the Farm Bill.

Salazar also endorsed William Myers III as Federal Judge. Myers was a former Interior Department Solicitor and lobbyist for the ranching industry. Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., called him ‘’the most anti-environmental candidate for the bench I have seen in 37 years in the Senate.” Bizarrely, Salazar praised Myers’ “outstanding legal reasoning” regarding endangered species, Indian affairs, federal lands and water, timber, and fish and wildlife issues. The American Bar Association rated Myers as “not qualified.” Salazar later supported Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General, introducing him at his Senate confirmation hearing. (HT to “blindpig” at DU)

COMMERCE SECRETARY

* New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, 61, a former U.N. ambassador and energy secretary during the Clinton administration, had been an early supporter of Obama after dropping his own presidential ambitions. Richardson is of Hispanic origin.

This pick is both good and bad. Good because Bill Richardson is a great guy and a highly experienced leader. Bad because he should have been Sec. of State.

As long as he’s there.

ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT COORDINATOR

* Carol Browner, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton administration, was named to a new position coordinating White House policy on energy, climate and environmental issues. The new position was expected to spearhead climate change policy.

Browner has more experience than anyone in the nation and a pair of big brass ones to boot.
Good choice.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ADMINISTRATOR

* Lisa Jackson has served as commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection in New Jersey and was named to hold a similar U.S. position in the Obama administration. Jackson worked at the EPA for 16 years at the headquarters in Washington and in New York City.

No problem there.

SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

* Shaun Donovan, the head of New York’s housing department, was nominated by Obama to run the department charged with providing affordable housing to all Americans. Donovan worked in the department under former President Bill Clinton and has focused his career mainly on affordable housing issues.

Good.

SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

* Tom Daschle, a key early supporter and savvy former U.S. Senate leader, was selected by Obama as secretary of health and human services. The high-profile selection signals that the push to extend health coverage to the 46 million uninsured Americans will be a high priority for Obama.

Can’t help but think that there would be a more high profile role for Tom Daschle, but what the hell. He’s a good dude and will serve his country with honor as he has always done.
Daschle, on the receiving end of Dick Cheney’s famous “go fuck yourself” comment on the Senate floor, has a long history of, get this, intelligent decision making.

SECRETARY OF EDUCATION

* Arne Duncan, head of the Chicago public school system, is Obama’s pick for secretary of education. Duncan, a fellow Harvard graduate and longtime friend of Obama’s, has earned a strong reputation at the helm of the country’s third-largest public school district, tackling problems including teacher quality and failing schools.

Classic case of Obama giving a “buddy” a job. Duncan is one of Obama’s bestest buddies, so he’s a good pick for Barack. But he’s a bad pick for education.

Read Greg Palast sometime….
Duncan is not an educator. He’s a Lawyer.
Oh, he’s been in the educational system. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley charged him with the task of cleaning up the national disaster called the Chicago Public School system. And from bad to worse it went.
What’s really interesting? Barack and Michelle sent the First Rugrats to the Laboratory School where Duncan’s views are considered dangerous to the learning establishment.
Obama doesn’t trust ol’ Slam Duncan with his kids but he trusts him with ours?
Duncan is backed by teacher-union busting Republicans. Duncan’s biggest fan? David Brooks, the New York Times’ Republican columnist.
Why? Simple. Duncan is a staunch supporter of No Child Left Behind. The already failed Bush policy.

If you open your eyes and see dark, Barack. That’s because you have your head up your ass.

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE

* Tom Vilsack, a former governor from the major U.S. farm state Iowa, is Obama’s choice to be agriculture secretary. Vilsack backs tighter farm subsidy rules and new-generation biofuels. One of his major issues as governor was bringing more high-tech agribusiness to Iowa.

Tom Vilsack is a moderate but actually a damn good pick for this post.

SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION

* Rep. Ray LaHood, a Republican, has been offered the job of transportation secretary, a senior Democrat told Reuters. LaHood hails from Obama’s home state of Illinois and is said to have a rapport with the president-elect. LaHood is expected to accept the Cabinet position, the Democratic official said.

Hood is a Republican. ‘Nuf said.

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

* Mary Schapiro, a veteran financial market regulator, is Obama’s pick to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Schapiro currently leads the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the largest non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business with the U.S. public. She is a former SEC commissioner and former chairwoman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

May work, my not. Who is this person anyway?

SECRETARY OF LABOR

* California Democratic Rep. Hilda Solis, 51, has been chosen to lead the Labor Department, a Democratic official said. Solis, who represents a Southern California district made up largely of Hispanic and Asian voters, is among the most liberal members of the U.S. House of Representatives and has taken a lead on both environmental and labor issues.

Solis is an excellent choice. Labor will get results and get them quick. Solis is the first genuine Liberal appointed to the Obama cabinet.
:D

U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

* Former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk has been selected to be U.S. trade representative, according to a person familiar with the decision. Kirk, a partner at the Houston-based law firm of Vinson and Elkins, is little known in Washington trade circles and became Obama’s pick after his first choice, Rep. Xavier Becerra, a California Democrat and member of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, turned down the job.

Probably not a bad choice, but Barack Obama has bad trade policies to begin with so it’s basically a wash.
Free Trade is bad for the American worker and the country in general. Beyond that fact, it doesn’t really matter who’s in charge.

Basically, we have Obama picking his cabinet on a tit-for-tat basis. A NeoCon here, a Jellyspine there, a Left-Leaner or two as a cynical diss to those who voted him into power.

We can only hope that the President Elect’s actions and decisions post-inauguration will reflect far more courage and honesty than his pre-inauguration choices have.

Seven bummers, ten bright spots, a few in-betweens….
Could be a lot better.

There you have it. The reason Bill and Hillary Clinton refused to show their donors during the Democratic primary. The Saudi Royals, the murderous Blackwater Security…

Neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton deserve to be in public service. They are every bit the NeoCon vermin we have always said they are.

Well, Barack. You seem to have little difficulty making an ass of yourself lately. So why not keep Hillary and her diseased, blood spattered Blackwater money as Secretary of State?
You’ve embraced every other Right-Loving Centrist hypocrite you could find. Lieberman, Salazar, Nelson, Warren…why not the biggest hypocrites of them all?
Bill and Hillary Clinton and their NeoCon backers.

Where are your guts, Barack? Where is your decency?
Why have you digressed from this courageous leader of the new way into just another Centrist with your lips planted firmly in Right-Wing ass?
That fluid, rubbery feeling in your back would be your spine turning to jelly, if you didn’t know.

Barack Obama, you don’t have a hair on your ass of you don’t dump Hillary and Bill once and for all.

From The Associated Press:

Saudis, Blackwater among Clinton foundation donors

By BETH FOUHY and SHARON THEIMER – 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton laid out a list of big-ticket donors to his foundation Thursday that is heavy with foreign governments and business interests sure to have a stake in the policies that Hillary Rodham Clinton carries out as secretary of state.

Saudi Arabia and other foreign governments gave at least $46 million, while corporate donors included the Blackwater security firm that protects U.S. diplomats in Iraq.

The contributions went to the William J. Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit created by the former president to finance his library in Little Rock, Ark., and charitable efforts to reduce poverty and treat AIDS. President-elect Barack Obama made Hillary Clinton’s nomination as secretary of state contingent on her husband revealing the foundation’s contributors, to avoid questions about potential conflicts of interest.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia gave $10 million to $25 million to the foundation, and other government donors included Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman, Italy and Jamaica. The Dutch national lottery gave $5 million to $10 million.

The Blackwater Training Center donated $10,001 to $25,000. The State Department will have to decide next year whether to renew Blackwater Worldwide’s contract to protect U.S. diplomats in Iraq. Five Blackwater guards have been indicted by a U.S. grand jury on manslaughter and weapons charges stemming from a September 2007 firefight in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square in which 17 Iraqis died…..

No shortage of blog on this, but we all have a duty to make ourselves heard when outrage is employed in the name of bi-partisanship.

Barack Obama has chosen to allow a complete and total Circus Preacher to deliver the invocation at the inaugural shindig.
There is no reason, none whatsoever, for pandering to the Right-Wing, snake handler fringe.

Rick Warren is a money preacher. He’s there for the pay day. This is no secret to anyone.
He represents a fringe group of ignoramuses that have no political significance in the modern process. Basically the American Taliban is what we have here.

You’re lucky McCain and Hillary are such putzes, Barack. Were it not for that fact I might be regretting my vote by now. Please keep your lips away from Righty’s ass, it doesn’t help the “change” motif, or your chances in 2012, in the slightest.

Guess what…..

Should come as no surprise. The only reason you expel a UN human rights investigator is if you have something to hide.
The thought of Israel having something to hide is particularly disturbing due to the fact that some of the earth’s most heinous atrocities have been committed by Israel and in a manner that is plain to see.
What they could be hiding should be of concern to all the world.

Israel is like a wild dog, and someone needs to put a leash on it post haste.

By way of Common Dreams:

Published on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 by The New York Times
UN Rights Investigator Expelled by Israel

by Isabel Kershner

JERUSALEM - Israeli authorities on Monday expelled Richard Falk, a United Nations investigator of human rights in the Palestinian territories, saying he was unwelcome because of what the government has regarded as his hostile position toward Israel.

[Richard Falk speaking in Istanbul in 2005. His positions have angered Israeli officials. (Cem Turkel/A.F.P. — Getty Images)]Richard Falk speaking in Istanbul in 2005. His positions have angered Israeli officials. (Cem Turkel/A.F.P. — Getty Images)
Mr. Falk, an American, arrived in Israel on Sunday. He was held at the airport and placed on the first available flight back to Geneva, his point of departure. A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry said that Mr. Falk had been informed in advance that his entry would be barred. Mr. Falk was not immediately available for comment.

Mr. Falk, a professor of international law at Princeton, has the title of United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories. He has long been criticized in Israel for what many Israelis say are unfair and unpalatable views.

He has compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to Nazi atrocities and has called for more serious examination of the conspiracy theories surrounding the Sept. 11 attacks. Pointing to discrepancies between the official version of events and other versions, he recently wrote that “only willful ignorance can maintain that the 9/11 narrative should be treated as a closed book.”

In his capacity as a United Nations investigator, Mr. Falk issued a statement this month describing Israel’s embargo on Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas, as a crime against humanity, while making only cursory reference to Hamas’s rocket attacks against Israeli civilian centers. Israeli officials expressed outrage.

When his appointment was announced by the Human Rights Council last spring, the Israeli representative said it was “impossible to believe that out of a list of 184 potential candidates,” the members had made “the best possible choice for the post.”

The American and Canadian representatives also expressed concerns about Mr. Falk’s possible bias. The Palestinian representative said it was curious that Israel was “campaigning against a Jewish professor” and called the nomination “a victory for good sense and human rights.” Israel objects to the mandate of the special rapporteur on grounds that it ignores all human rights violations by Palestinians, either against Israelis or against other Palestinians. More specifically, it objects to Mr. Falk.

Continued at source….

Whatever Israel is hiding, their clear and undeniable record of terrorism, oppression, Zionist aggression and complete and total disdain for basic human rights such as food, shelter and medicine convicts them regardless. There is no excuse for apartheid in the Holy lands.
Israeli racism, paranoia and religious zealotry is the cause.
As Americans, we must push our gov’t to bring an out of control Israel to heel.
As Liberals, we cannot condone the systemic genocide through starvation that Israel is perpetrating in Gaza.

The US, England and other nations must stop funding and arming Zionist aggression. Israel must be politically and militarily quarantined by the free world if there is ever to be peace in the Middle East.
They must return Palestinian land to the true Semitic people.

The Drug War is America’s longest running war. It began in the days of Richard Nixon and has been proliferated by every President since.
The violence that is the most harmful by-product of prohibition is greater than ever today.

Drug smugglers kill innocent people, cops kill innocent people, drug smugglers kill cops, everybody kills everybody. Maniacal gangs such as MS13 and their legions of murderers have power only because prohibition gives them power. No one ever died over a kilo of cocaine. They died over the money the kilo is worth.
The money must be taken out of the equation. No money, no death.

It has to stop.

The failed and frivolous Drug War is costing lives. It’s costing the American people Billions in wasted dollars. It’s costing good people their freedom.
Over three quarters of a million Americans have been jailed this year for Marijuana “crimes” alone.
Nearly two million for general, non-violent drug “crimes".

Those Billions could buy a lot of health care.

TN420 would like, at this time, to join our friend Matthew Elrod, of Drug Sense, in endorsing founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, Ethan Nadelmann, for Drug Czar.

Ethan Nadelmann

The reasoning is simple.

1) You will find no more prolific an expert on the issue than Nadelmann. Candidates with his intellect and heart are few and far between.

2) John Walters and every other clown to ever sit in that seat is a liar and a failure. Nadelmann will provide truth where none exists.

3) The American people deserve to be safe from the Stalinesque police tactics employed by Right Wing zealots occupying gov’t offices in the name of the Drug War. Nadelmann will provide sanity where none exists.

The War on Drugs is insanity. It is perfect failure. Every bit the failure we see in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Such is the finale of all wars operated by all the wrong people for all the wrong reasons.

Please, follow this link and sign the petition to promote Ethan as Drug Czar…
PETITION.
Then visit http://change.gov and let President Obama know how you feel. He seems to be listening.

We call upon President Obama to take the evil, and thus the crime, out of the Drug War. Replace the ONDCP puppet, John Walters, with Ethan Nadelmann and do not tie his hands with politics. Let this madness finally come to an end.

-captainkona

Normally we would rejoice at the prospect of child murdering mercenaries getting their just reward, but as nice as the headline reads, there’s something amiss here and we feel that ultimately, justice will not be served.

Blackwater Murder Incorporated

According to CNN,

From Kevin Bohn
CNN

(CNN) – Five former security guards from Blackwater Worldwide have been indicted on charges of voluntary manslaughter, attempt to commit manslaughter and weapons violations, Justice Department officials announced Monday.
Dustin Heard, an ex-security guard from Blackwater Worldwide, surrenders Monday in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dustin Heard, an ex-security guard from Blackwater Worldwide, surrenders Monday in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The 35-count indictment charges each of the former guards with 14 counts of manslaughter, 20 counts of attempted manslaughter and one count of using a firearm in the commission of a violent crime.

If convicted, the defendants would face a maximum of 10 years in prison for each manslaughter count, seven years in prison for each count of attempted manslaughter and a 30-year mandatory minimum sentence for the firearms charge.

The men named in the indictment are Donald Ball, 26, of West Valley City, Utah; Dustin Heard, 27, of Maryville, Tennessee; Evan Liberty, 26, of Rochester, New Hampshire; Nicholas Slatten, 24, of Sparta, Tennessee; and Paul Slough, 29, of Keller, Texas.

A sixth former security guard – Jeremy P. Ridgeway of California, 35 – has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and attempt to commit manslaughter.

It all sounds good, and we hope these cowards get every second of the maximum sentence.
But the fact that:

1) These vermin are so eager to surrender, and the proceedings are being rushed, leaves us wondering about Bush pardoning them.

2) And the fact that Blackwater it’s self has been excused is a travesty of justice in and of it’s self.

Erik Prince, Blackwater CEO and Religofascist coward is ultimately responsible for all that Blackwater does. He is the leader of these pigs and should be on trial along with his Brown Shirts.

We’ll keep a close eye on these “indictments” and see if justice can indeed be served while Fascists are still in the White House.
We got a little with Enron. Now with a little help from God’s grace, these mercenary baby killers who made our troop’s efforts so much more difficult and perhaps cost some of our soldiers their lives will be locked up forever along with all the other vile and disgusting criminals of our time.

A friend once told me, “you’d be amazed what you can accomplish with a can of paint". I took him up on it. Went to the local paint store and grabbed up a gallon of latex and a brush. Then proceeded to the basement and chose the ugliest wall. Decaying, moldy, very unpleasing in it’s very nature.
I spent about an hour painting this hideous wall. He was right. I never felt so good about that wall and the other three never looked so bad.

I was pleased. But only until I realized that behind that pretty white paint was the same old nasty, decaying, putrid wall of cinder blocks that was there when I began. Nothing had changed. Other than immediate appearance that is.

And so the effort begins for BushCo to try and white wash the most miserable excuse for a President, and a first family, this nation has ever known.

Denial Tour ‘08 is the last stitch attempt by BushCo to lie their way to a legacy that excludes some of the worst crimes any leader has ever committed.

It will not work.

Last week, Charlie Gibson of ABC interviewed the incompetent boob 8% of Americans view as President of the United States.
Want a lesson in bold-faced lying from the world’s foremost authority? Just read this….

From ABC:

GIBSON: When you add it all up, you’ve got about $7.5 trillion in funded and unfunded backing of securities now.

BUSH: Yes.

GIBSON: And that’s about half of what our economy is in its whole. Does that scare the willikers out of you?

BUSH: What scared me is not doing anything, which would have caused there to be a huge financial meltdown and the conceivable scenario that we’d have been in a depression greater than the Great Depression.

On the other hand, a lot of the – you know, these – some of these are investments. I’ve got faith that the economy will recover. As a matter of fact, I’m confident it will recover. I can’t tell you exactly the moment, but when it does recover, a lot of the assets now owned by the government will be sold. And I can’t guarantee that we’ll get all our money back, but it’s conceivable we could.

And the question is, is it worth it to save the system, to safeguard the system? And I came to the conclusion, along with other smart people, that it is.

GIBSON: Do you feel in any way responsible for what’s happening?

BUSH: You know, I’m the President during this period of time, but I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a lot of the decisions that were made on Wall Street took place over a decade or so, before I arrived in President, during I arrived in President.

Huh? LOL

GIBSON: Let’s talk a little bit about eight years as being President. What don’t the American people know about being President? What would surprise them the most?

BUSH: That’s an interesting question. I think, at least from my administration, I think they’d be surprised at how our team has worked so closely together. Some days we’re not so happy, some days happy; every day has been pretty joyous, though – that when you have a purpose in life, that no matter what it may look like from afar, that we’re a highly motivated group of people that are honored to serve.

In other words, I think people look at the White House and say, oh, man, what a miserable experience it is to be President. You know, there’s a lot of noise, a lot of criticism, a lot of name-calling, a lot of this, a lot of that. But I think people would be surprised when they walked in the Oval Office and the White House to see a highly motivated group of people that really enjoy what we’re doing.

No, people look at the White House and say oh, man, what a miserable experience it is to have a President who’s an idiot.

We’re surprised to see a psychotic group of Fascist Pigs who really enjoy murdering innocent people and driving their own nation into the ground.

BUSH: Oh, yes. As I said, some times are happy, some not happy. I don’t want people to misconstrue. It’s not – I don’t feel joyful when somebody loses their life, nor do I feel joyful from somebody loses a job. That concerns me. And the President ends up carrying a lot of people’s grief in his soul during a presidency. One of the things about the presidency is you deal with a lot of tragedy – whether it be hurricanes, or tornadoes, or fires, or death – and you spend time being the Comforter-in-Chief. But the idea of being able to serve a nation you love is – has been joyful. In other words, my spirits have never been down. I have been sad, but the spirits are up.

“Comforter-in-Chief"? Maybe the most arrogant lie this miserable loser has ever told.
Anyway, long interview. If you’re really bored and don’t mind suffering the words of a fool read the rest yourself.

Suffice to say that BushCo has their work cut out for them trying to paint the wagon Bush is riding into the sunset.
All they have to do is find a way to say words like TREASON, MURDER, TROOP ABUSE, CHILD ABUSE, COWARDICE, BLASPHEMY, INCOMPETENCE and PURE EVIL with a nice sugar-coating that will keep the demented fucktards that still worship this sorry bastard and his depraved family happy and lost in their own pathetic little worlds.

Worst President Ever. No matter how they paint him.

Strange. Last summer we were facing record gas prices. We were told, with plenty of help from the media, that with lots of cars on the road “demand” for fuel kept prices so high.

Really?

We just finished a weekend of busy holiday traffic.
Gas is still 1.62 per gallon. No rise from the last drop in prices that occurred when Big Oil executives realized that with Democrats in total control they may soon find themselves on their way to prison for lying about the price of oil to the nation and gouging at the pumps.

Where is this “demand” of which the forked tongue doth speak?
Same place it was before, non-existent.

In spite of whatever lie the Right Wing might put forth, Bush had nothing whatsoever to do with prices coming down and “supply and demand” has nothing to do with the 5.00 gas we saw.
As Big oil reaped record profits, the by-product was average Americans started using less gas as it hit their wallets.
There was no issue of supply and demand and the high price of the oil. Even the Saudis said that if there were an increase in demand, they would have increased the supply. They said there was no large increase in demand and that they had nothing to do with the price increase in the oil.
Seems today that this is true.

It was pure speculation that drove the price up. Speculators. Paid by the oil companies.
It was all a ruse. They lied about the price per barrel and hopefully they will pay dearly for it.

Exxon/Mobile = Enron

….As long as Congress and Barack Obama do the job we put them there to do.

Israel is an illegitimate state. Israelis are not Semites. They are not indigenous to Semitic land as are Palestinians, Iraqis, Kurds etc. They are a terrorist state that has occupied and imposed suffrage on the Palestinian people.

Israel NOT Semitic

Long guilty of countless atrocities against civilian populations, Israel has now resorted to one of their favorite tactics, starving the impoverished and destitute men, women and children of Gaza.

You have to wonder, why won’t the Israelis actually fight Hamas? Hamas, the democratically elected government of Palestine are labeled “Terrorists” by the US and Israeli gov’ts. Though guilty of atrocities themselves, Hamas is ultimately in the right.They are defending an oppressed people.
Israel does not belong where they are. It is and has always been Palestine.
Israel is an invader and an occupying force.
They are indeed a terrorist state.
That much is made obvious by the fact that Israel is content to kill and torture non-combatant civilians while seemingly afraid to go in and take on Hamas head to head.
Israel has state of the art weaponry, supplied by us, and personnel trained (by us) to use it. Hamas has a few rockets and rusty rifles. Little more.
So what’s the problem?
Why does the IDF only fight children with nothing but rocks and courage for weapons?

Perhaps Israel is simply afraid of losing. Recently, Israel attacked Lebanon and was soundly defeated by Hezbollah. Israel used fighter aircraft, but much of that fire was directed at civilians. Why? Who knows? As is evident in Gaza, Israelis seem to enjoy killing the unarmed while doing all they can to avoid direct combat with armed, experienced fighters. It also seems that torturing civilians with starvation is a favored tactic for Israel. A sick, twisted, Godless tactic that only the most evil and depraved would engage in….

From VOA:

Israel Turns Back Libyan Ship Carrying Aid Supplies to Gaza
By VOA News
01 December 2008

The Israeli navy has ordered a Libyan ship carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip to turn back.

Libyan workers load food and medical supplies into Al Marwa boat under a giant Palestinian flag a day before it sailed from Sabratha port to Gaza strip, 24 Nov 2008
Libyan workers load food and medical supplies into Al Marwa boat under a giant Palestinian flag a day before it sailed from Sabratha port to Gaza strip, 24 Nov 2008
Officials say the ship, the Al Marwa, was carrying some 3,000 tons of aid when it was stopped by the Israeli navy.

Israel says there was no physical confrontation when it ordered the ship to turn around.

Palestinian officials say the ship is now sailing to the Egyptian port of El-Arish….

This, of course, is not the only instance. The United Nations recently blasted Israel for the humanitarian crises in Gaza that is 100% their creation…

From Harretz:

UN blasts Israel for plight of Palestinians
By Shlomo Shamir , Haaretz Correspondent and Agencies

NEW YORK - The human rights situation for Palestinians has deteriorated to a new low, a United Nations rights expert said yesterday, blaming the West for contributing to the “tragic” situation in Gaza and the West Bank.

John Dugard, a South African civil rights lawyer, said Israel is largely responsible for the “intolerable” situation of the Palestinians.

“I hope that my portrayal of hardships experienced by such people will trouble the consciences of those accustomed to turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the suffering of the Palestinian people,” Dugard told the UN Human Rights Council.

“Gaza is a prison and Israel seems to have thrown away the key,” Dugard said. Itzhak Levanon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, rejected Dugard’s allegations as “one-sided” and not reflecting reality.

“What Israel chooses to describe as collateral damage to the civilian population is in fact indiscriminate killing prohibited by international law,” Dugard said.”

“This report is characterized by errors of omission as well as distortions of both fact and law,” he said, adding that Dugard described the situation in the territory of the Palestinian Authority in an “oversimplified manner.”

Dugard, an anti-apartheid civil rights lawyer in the 1980s, was appointed by the now defunct UN Human Rights Commission in 2001 to investigate only rights violations by the Israeli side.

Dugard also criticized Western nations for cutting off funding to the Palestinian Authority after Hamas’ victory in legislative elections in January.

“In effect, the Palestinian people have been subjected to economic sanctions - the first time an occupied people has been so treated,” Dugard said. “Palestinian people are punished for having democratically elected a regime unacceptable to Israel, the U.S. and the EU.”

So, why won’t Israel just go into Palestinian strongholds and fight Hamas instead of starving women and children? Simple. Jews learned form the Nazis, who starved them to weaken them while in captivity, just how effective this tactic is.
Jews taking from the Hitler playbook? Absolutely.
The word is “Shoah". Yiddish for “Holocaust"…

From The Guardian:

An Israeli minister today warned of increasingly bitter conflict in the Gaza Strip, saying the Palestinians could bring on themselves what he called a “holocaust”.

“The more Qassam [rocket] fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they will bring upon themselves a bigger shoah because we will use all our might to defend ourselves,” Matan Vilnai, Israel’s deputy defence minister, told army radio.

Shoah is the Hebrew word normally reserved to refer to the Jewish Holocaust. It is rarely used in Israel outside discussions of the Nazi extermination of Jews during the second world war, and many Israelis are loath to countenance its use to describe other events.

The minister’s statement came after two days of tit-for-tat missile raids between Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli army. At least 32 Palestinians and one Israeli have been killed since the surge in violence on Wednesday.

That’s why the starvation tactics. That’s why an IDF soldier has no problem killing an unarmed Palestinian child.
“Shoah". That’s what Israel wants. A Holocaust of the Palestinian people.

Israel has become what they hate. Nazis, in the tradition of Adolph Hitler and his hordes. The US must stop funding and arming Israel. They’re murdering people who have no way of defending themselves.
American tax dollars fund Zionist aggression. Our soldiers have died fighting Israel’s battles in Iraq.
Our support of this terrorist state must stop.
Israel must be forced to allow humanitarian relief to reach the people of Gaza.
Anything less is terrorism.

This video is not for the squeamish.

“Happy Holidays” “Happy Holydays” “Happy Thanksgiving"….

Do you honestly think we give a flying fuck what you call it?



There is much at this time to be thankful for.
That which we have always been thankful for, that which we have to be thankful for now, and finally…at long last, we can be thankful for a future of promise and prosperity for the common man.

And perhaps, that elusive peace and love everybody talks about all the time.

Happy Thanxgiving.

It’s not much, but it’s a start.

From the Houston Chronicle…

Vice president, former AG, state senator indicted
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press Writer © 2008 The Associated Press
Nov. 18, 2008, 10:49PM

McALLEN, Texas — A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on state charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County’s federal detention centers.

The indictment, which had not yet been signed by the presiding judge, was one of seven released Tuesday in a county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles in recent years. Another of the indictments named a state senator on charges of profiting from his position.

Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra himself had been under indictment for more than a year and half before a judge dismissed the indictments last month. This flurry of charges came in the twilight of Guerra’s tenure, which ends this year after nearly two decades in office. He lost convincingly in a Democratic primary in March.

Cheney’s indictment on a charge of engaging in an organized criminal activity criticizes the vice president’s investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and “at least misdemeanor assaults” on detainees because of his link to the prison companies.

Megan Mitchell, a spokeswoman for Cheney, declined to comment on Tuesday, saying that the vice president had not yet received a copy of the indictment.

The indictment accuses Gonzales of using his position while in office to stop an investigation in 2006 into abuses at one of the privately-run prisons.

Gonzales’ attorney, George Terwilliger III, said in a written statement, “This is obviously a bogus charge on its face, as any good prosecutor can recognize. Hopefully, competent Texas authorities will take steps to reign in this abuse of the criminal justice system.”

Willacy County has become a prison hub with county, state and federal lockups. Guerra has gone after the prison-politician nexus before, extracting guilty pleas from three former Willacy and Webb county commissioners after investigating bribery related to federal prison contacts.

Another indictment released Tuesday accuses state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. of profiting from his public office by accepting honoraria from prison management companies. Guerra announced his intention to investigate Lucio’s prison consulting early last year.

Lucio’s attorney, Michael Cowen, released a scathing statement accusing Guerra of settling political scores in his final weeks in office.

“Senator Lucio is completely innocent and has done nothing wrong,” Cowen said, adding that he would file a motion to quash the indictment this week.

Last month, a Willacy County grand jury indicted The GEO Group, a Florida private prison company, on a murder charge in the death of a prisoner days before his release. The three-count indictment alleged The GEO Group allowed other inmates to beat Gregorio de la Rosa Jr. to death with padlocks stuffed into socks. The death happened in 2001 at the Raymondville facility, just four days before de la Rosa’s scheduled release.

In 2006, a jury ordered the company to pay de la Rosa’s family $47.5 million in a civil judgment. The Cheney-Gonzales indictment makes reference to the de la Rosa case.

None of the indictments released Tuesday had been signed by Presiding Judge Manuel Banales of the Fifth Administrative Judicial Region.

A second batch of indictments targeted public officials connected to Guerra’s own legal battles.

Willacy County Clerk Gilbert Lozano, District judges Janet Leal and Migdalia Lopez, and special prosecutors Mervyn Mosbacker Jr. — a former U.S. attorney — and Gustavo Garza — a long-time political opponent of Guerra — were all indicted on charges of official abuse of official capacity and official oppression.

Garza, the only one who could be immediately reached Tuesday, called it a sad state of affairs.

“I feel sorry for all of the good people this unprofessional prosecutor has maligned,” Garza said. “I’m not at all concerned about the accusations he has trumped up.”

Lozano said in a story for Wednesday’s edition of the Valley Morning Star that he wasn’t surprised by the indictments.

“Guerra had made comments that he was going out (of office), but that he was going to take several officials with him,” Lozano said. “I know that he has made comments that I am in his hit list.”

Banales dismissed indictments against Guerra last month that charged him with extorting money from a bail bond company and using his office for personal business. An appeals court had earlier ruled that Garza was improperly appointed as special prosecutor to investigate Guerra.

After Guerra’s office was raided as part of the investigation early last year, he camped outside the courthouse in a borrowed camper with a horse, three goats and a rooster. He threatened to dismiss hundreds of cases because he believed local law enforcement had aided the investigation against him.

On Tuesday, Guerra said the indictments speak for themselves. He said the prison-related charges are a national issue and experts from across the country testified to the grand jury. Asked about the indictments against local players in the justice system who had pursued him, Guerra said, “the grand jury is the one that made those decisions, not me.”

The indictments were first reported by KRGV-TV.

___

Associated Press writer Deb Riechmann in Washington contributed to this report.

UPDATED:

Arraignment set for Cheney, Gonzales in Texas indictments alleging prisoner abuse

CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
AP News

Nov 19, 2008 21:25 EST

A Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center.

Cheney, Gonzales and the others will not be arrested, and do not need to appear in person at the arraignment, Presiding Judge Manuel Banales said.

In the latest bizarre development in the case, the lame-duck prosecutor who won the indictments was a no-show in court Wednesday. The judge ordered Texas Rangers to go to Willacy County District Attorney Juan Guerra’s house, check on his well-being and order him to court on Friday.

Half of the eight high-profile indictments returned Monday by a Willacy County grand jury are tied to privately run federal detention centers in the sparsely populated South Texas county. The other half target judges and special prosecutors who played a role in an earlier investigation of Guerra.

One indictment charges Cheney and Gonzales with engaging in organized criminal activity. It alleges that the men neglected federal prisoners and are responsible for assaults in the facilities.

Date: November 18th, 2008

President Elect Obama just made his first major blunder as a leader and he’s not even inaugurate yet.
Don’t get us wrong, we still back him. But we now know that the anticipated disappointments are going to be reality.

Barack Obama has supported the Zionist scumbag traitor, Joe Lieberman, and as a result Congress was moved and Red Joe has retained his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security and Gov’t Affairs committee.

Bad move, Barack. You fucked up, big time.
This may make you feel like you are no longer indebted to Lieberman, but you did it at your country’s expense.
You allowed a Neocon too much power and power it has already abused.

WTF are you thinking? Please don’t turn out to be a dumb-ass, Barack. We’ve had all the dumb-ass we can take.

From Reuters:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats on Tuesday yielded to the wishes of President-elect Barack Obama and allowed Joe Lieberman to keep his committee chairmanship despite having backed Republican John McCain for the White House, Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa said.

Emerging from a closed-door meeting, Harkin told reporters that Democrats had stripped Lieberman of a subcommittee chairmanship, a far lesser punishment.

The only position we would like to see Herr Liberbitch in is Ambassador to Iran.

Pathetic Little Man

Don’t take this Mr. Fucking Niceguy shit too far, Mr. President. We want more than four years, right?
Right??

Stand by……I’m still trying to stop laughing…..Oh God, my gut hurts. Thankfully I’m not doin’ shrooms, I’d be busting my sides.

You gotta see this. Over at White’s Creek, good ol’ Steve is attracting flies with his usual expert analysis of the Chimp and his Sadministration.

Some Bush Bots dropped by to insult our Steve and it was a stark reminder of the fact that though Bush himself may be a thing of the past soon, the complete and total fucktards and asshats that worship him are still around. Still spreading their intellectually challenged opinions, offering their willful ignorance, injecting their Satanic lies and being just plain stupid.

Dig this:

One of those “anonymous” clowns said…

This “worst of humanity” president has: appointed more women and minorities to cabinet level posts and other positions than any other president in history.

Does Condi count as two? Or just one? If so, which?
And does this override the fact that she has proved to be the single most incompetent SOS in US history?
7 on the LOLometer.

Some tool called “Minnesota Nice” actually said…

Also, I have traveled to India, Thialand, Nepal, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Russia, Eastern Europe, Jordan, Isreal, and Egypt.
The United States of America, has cleaner air, water, and environment then all of those countries put together.

Thank God we have cleaner air than Mexico (rated worst on the planet). That makes everything just peachy.
9 on the LOLometer.

Some half wit called “Mrs. Robinson” decided to object to my language which I always find very amusing.
Vulgar truth beats whitewashed lies any day…

CaptainKona
Your command of the english language, or lack of ability to use it, only proves to show that you obviously flunked dabate. There are words that have more then four letters. Mister Webster showed us that when he wrote his dictionary.

Well shame on me.

8 on the LOLometer.

“Minnesota Nice", who is apparently a special kind of idiot stated…

..Al Quaeda who murdered over three million people in the US

WOW! I missed that. Anyone got video?

The same snapper head then defended it’s self by attributing this to a “typo” (after a Google to be sure I would think). Million…Thousand…Typo?
An o instead of an i. A switched vowel. Those are “typos". Replacing Thousand with Million is either a blatant attempt to deceive or a product of the unequaled stupidity Bush Worshipers are so famous for.
I’d bet on the latter if there were any takers.
24 1/2 on the LOLometer. Which has a 1-10 scale BTW.

Stoopid is as Stoopid does.

Perhaps one day there will be a cure for people like this. They are a disease and thanks be to God, the American voter is at least a strong treatment for the symptoms.

LOL, just fucking LOL

Finally got a chance to sit down, at home, relax and thank God Almighty for delivering me (us) from all evil.
The demonic plague that infested America in the form of George Bush and his masters at the PNAC/AIPAC has been driven out before me (us).

I feel good.

As I don my flute of champagne and a joint the size of Sara Palin’s ego, I reflect on what I consider long pursued, often prayed for personal victories throughout this election cycle.

This one is just about me.

After beginning my internet ventures in 1995 by transferring my Anti-Drug War activism online, my focus has been simple. Helping inform Americans about the truths and lies surrounding drugs, their use, and the persecution and systemic abuse of those who choose to self-medicate.
This largely included revenge against Bill Clinton. The lying prick former President of the United States who campaigned as a Liberal then once in office, stabbed a large portion of his base in the back by escalating the injustices and bloodshed of the failed Drug War on American Citizens to record levels.
During Bill Clinton’s presidency, over one million Americans were imprisoned or otherwise had their lives ruined and taken for nothing more than drug use or possession. One million non-violent offenders disenfranchised, killed and cast aside.
Innocent bystanders have often lost their lives at the hands of paramilitary police groups sent to assassinate drug users and dealers.

After two years as a POW in the longest war in American history I finally feel vindicated and somewhat avenged.
By watching Hillary Clinton get thrown under the bus by the New Democratic party, and naturally Bill with her, my heart warmed again.
Here was Bill, in the ‘08 Democratic primary, floundering about like a gasping fish on the deck of my Marijuana laden boat and it filled me with joy. Few times have I ever thought I would delight so in the demise and humiliation of another. But I did.
Vindicated! Everything I ever wrote about the Clinton’s was proven true right before God and everyone.
America, particularly Democrats rejected Bill Clinton. I became proud again.
Good riddance.

Then, just when I thought it couldn’t get any better, my year old prediction came true and John McCain was the Republican candidate. Never had I been so right. I thought “how could I be so gifted? To have had the opportunity to tear Bill Clinton down in front of an innumerable internet audience only to be doubly blessed with the opportunity to do exactly the same thing to McCain".

What joy. What unbridled joy.

Why?

My father worked for the Fluor Corporation based in Irvine California. Fifteen years he trudged the world over for the then largest petroleum engineering firm on the planet.
Bob Fluor was a kindly sort. Nothing like the fascist corporate pigs that ran the other companies like Bechtel, ARAMCO, Gasco and the rest.
He held dear the hard work and dedication of people like my father. These employees had healthy pensions waiting for them when they finally retired.
Or so they thought.

Many of the Fluor corp. pension funds were entrusted to a Savings and Loan entity by the name of Lincoln S&L. Under the control of one Charles Keating. The Keating 5.

My father died poor on Social Security. His pension of 95,000 and his life’s savings of 157′000 stolen by Charles Keating and his Gov’t protection John McCain.
Dad died in ‘95. Though he may not have been here to see this day at least I’m here to see, and participate in it for him.
John McCain, blown out and disgraced for the rest of his miserable life having been overwhelmingly rejected by America in his bid to become President.
The only bid he will ever have.

One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. In the end, a loser.
And the icing on the cake? McCain took the entire Republican party down with him. A political entity I have always despised and spent the last eight years assailing. That battle will continue until the Republican party is extinct or I am dead. Whichever comes first.

Revenge is truly sweet. Even sweeter when it’s so well earned. Do I feel guilty about delighting in this? Sure. But fuck it.
They earned the disgrace they reaped. And I earned the right to revel in their perdition.

They say that in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. So long Bill and John. It’s going to be a long, lonely journey for both of you. Alone with the memories of the evil that you’ve done and the images you squandered.

So be it.

It’s a brand new day.
Let the good times roll…

-captainkona

Dear Friends,

Thanks so much for your support this campaign season. Thanks to your efforts I was able to gather 9,067 votes for peace in the US Senate race. When I began in October of 2007 I did not realize how many friends I would make on the trail and how many people in Tennessee are in support of peace and real human priorities for Tennessee.

It has been a tremendous honor to travel this beautiful state. My campaign began last year in Jonesborough, Tennessee where hundreds of us gathered to call for an end to the production of depleted uranium weapons at the Aerojet facility in Irwin. We learned about the role that Aerojet plays in the production of depleted uranium and how it has caused long- term health problems for our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Since then I have been to all corners of this state - to Oak Ridge for the Stop the Bombs annual action to call for an end to the remanufacturing of nuclear bombs. We were also in Oak Ridge this year for the Department of Energy Hearings and spoke out in support of putting hundreds of people to work cleaning up the toxic legacy of sixty years of DOE activity in the area. Many of us closed out the year at a conference sponsored by S.E.A.C. at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro where we learned about the interconnectedness of the nuclear issues in this state, where foreign countries ship waste into Tennessee to incinerate, landfill and put into permanent temporary storage facilities.

Thanks also to the support I received this year from Democracy for East Tennessee and the Knoxville Greens as well as students at Heritage High School in Maryville, Tennessee and Kevin Rowland for his efforts. I would also like to recognize the work that so many people are doing in East Tennessee to promote peace and support a progressive agenda, especially members of the GLBT community.

There are so many wonderful people to thank who have offered their support and encouragement for the past thirteen months. I would like to thank the NAACP for hosting the only US Senate debate this season at Austin Peay State University, the Green Party of Middle Tennessee, the Green Party of Tennessee, the Chattanooga Area Greens, Democracy for Tennessee, Scott Banbury for personally securing a visit of Cynthia McKinney to Tennessee to submit her nominations to be on the ballot in as our presidential candidate. I would like to thank John Miglietta who ran a fantastic campaign as the Green Party candidate for the 5th District US House seat and was my constant companion in middle Tennessee as we traveled to neighborhood meetings, festivals, fairs, public events and campaign meetings.

I would like to thank my partner, Nini Thomas, who traveled with me across the state from Memphis to Chattanooga to Jonesborough and all points in between. Nini listened to my speeches, proofread my letters, designed my buttons and brochures and was a constant source of encouragement. I would like to thank the peace activists in Memphis at the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center and the Gandhi-King conference, especially Allison Glass and Jacob Flowers for promoting peace through a fantastic conference that brought together hundreds of peace activists from around the world to talk to each other and hear Amy Goodman.

I would like to thank the Nashville Peace and Justice Center for all the good work they do to promote peace and offer a center for community groups to gather and hosting numerous events this year all while fighting a lawsuit and undergoing an audit. I would like to thank the Nashville Movement for letting me flyer at their events this summer to seek justice for taxicab workers, HUD houses for the homeless and a living wage for everyone. These groups did not endorse me and they did not take a position on any candidate because of their non-profit status, but their work for social justice has made Tennessee stronger and I believe in what they are doing.

I would like to thank the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, whose path I crossed many times this campaign season including in Nashville where Sherri Honkala helped lead an occupation of an abandoned HUD house with the Nashville Homeless Power Project, and again at the Republican National Convention protests in St. Paul where I marched with Sherri Honkala and the Green Party of Minnesota and hundreds of protesters demanding economic human rights, and then again in Chattanooga this fall when Sherri came in October and we marched to the doors of the city council with demands to address the needs of the working poor and homeless in Chattanooga.

Thanks also to the folks at Clarksville Online and the activists in the Clarksville area where almost ten percent of all troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan are stationed or shipped through, and their long struggle and transformation from Clarksville Freethinkers for Peace and Civil Liberties into their work with Clarksville Online and the Unitarian Church and their collective struggles for peace in the heart of a military town.

I would also like to recognize the work that the Cumberland County Center for Peace and Justice are doing with communities in the plateau region around Monteagle, Sewanee, Tracy City and points beyond as well as the Farm in Summertown, Tennessee. I am so impressed with the efforts of the Peace Roots Alliance and their work, especially Liz Barger and Alan Graf and Judy Meeker and Albert Bates and so many others at the Farm, which has held its space for the past thirty years as a home for peaceful, community seeking individuals. This campaign season I crossed paths with so many different people all of who had a collective vision of peace, social justice, the environment, a living wage, economic justice, the need to address the deep wounds of racism, disarmament, education, alternative energy and more.

I have seen a shift in Tennessee. In 2006 I think that there was much less tolerance for the message of peace and the environment. People seem to be more tolerant and more interested in the message. I think that perhaps this is the beginning of a real shift. I think it will be a long time coming, and perhaps it won’t come at all, but I definitely noticed a change. Everyone in Tennessee seemed to be more open minded, more willing to hear differing perspectives this year, more willing to consider alternatives.

Thanks to the Tennessee Alliance for Progress for all the work they are doing to promote a common message in Tennessee and Radio Free Nashville for promoting democracy on the airwaves. Thanks to Middle Tennessee Students for a Democratic Society for all their fantastic work at MTSU and thanks to the folks in Dyersberg, Lexington, Lebanon, Jackson, Hohenwald, Shelbyville, Cookeville, Crossville and other places in rural Tennessee who expressed support this campaign season, especially to Howard & Katey for all the work they do for the Green Party of Tennessee and Catherine Austin Fitts for all the work she does to reclaim our democracy and thanks to the Reverend Larry Fagre of Vetsburg for all his work to support housing for homeless veterans.

Thanks to Cathy Danielson and to Kathi Gregory for her blog Streetalker and Dan and Beverly Sweeton for all their support this year, especially at the Wilson County Fair. I would be remiss if I didn’t also say thanks to my parents for their support as well as Marylin and Ray Williams, Eric Schecter, Glenn Christman, Sandy Hepler, Courtney Meeker, Richard Aberdeen, Ricky Nickolson, Beth Dachowski, Ken and Fle Frasure, Martin Holsinger, Bill Humble, Free Land, Gigi Gaskin, Rhonda Fergus, Joe Shedlock and Sizwe Herring for all of his fantastic work at the Carver Food Park and being an anchor of the community in so many ways.

But I would especially like to thank the Nashville Peace Coalition for all of their support and fantastic work for peace this year, especially organizing the fifth anniversary peace rally and the alternative presidential debate. It was so exciting meeting eight presidential candidates this year and having six of them attend our alternative debate. I can’t believe how much work everyone I have met across the state of Tennessee is doing on peace, the environment and other areas of social justice.

I would also like to thank my opponents, the Libertarians, for their spirit of cooperation on many issues including tolerating my many posts on their message boards and for the cooperative work they did with the Greens this year on the ballot access lawsuit as well as coming out for protests against the war, against FISA and turning out for the alternative debate. Daniel Lewis is a man of integrity and it was a pleasure to run against him for the US Senate seat. I would also like to thank the Democrats for their support this campaign season.

Many progressive Democrats were supportive of my running and I wanted to personally thank them, even if I didn’t receive their vote - especially the folks at the L-Club and Democracy for Tennessee who have been so nice and respectful all this campaign season. I would also like to congratulate Bob Tuke on a good run. I was always impressed with his professional approach and happy to see his support on environmental issues in Tennessee.

I don’t think I have mentioned all of the people I wanted to thank for their support this campaign season nor all of the national contacts that we have made. If I have omitted someone please forgive me. I just wanted to thank everyone who was supportive this campaign season. The reason that I ran is because it is my hope that we can build a progressive majority in Tennessee

I think the most important thing we need to do is talk to each other. As a candidate I have had an opportunity to meet a lot of communities, and I think one of the principal needs we still have is to get together and network more and let each other know what we are doing. The other need I really see is for us all to come together under one big tent on issues we can all agree on. I think this is possible in Tennessee, but we need to talk more. Really I think more than anything we need to talk to each other and learn who we all are. There are actually a lot of progressive in Tennessee and if we get to know each other then I think we can build a strong movement in this state..

To end I would like to leave you with a letter for your consideration, written by Tom Hayden of Progressive Democrats for America and co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960’s. I met Tom this summer at the Democratic National Convention protests in Denver, and he talked about pushing the Democrats from within.

Now is the time to push the incoming administration to bring the troops home and it is the time to push hard. Maybe they will give us what we have been working for six years to end, or maybe they won’t. The jury is out. But I will leave you with this letter to consider for our President Elect.

Thanks for your support and best wishes.

Sincerely,

Chris Lugo
9 Music Sq So #164
Nashville, TN 37203
615-593-0304
chris4senate@gmail.com

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Dear President-Elect Obama,

We are deeply moved to address you as our nation’s first African-American president and, we proudly note, the first president whose campaign began with a pledge to an anti-war rally. Your courageous speech in October 2002, provided the rationale momentum that led to victory in Iowa and other Democratic primaries, and we still applaud you for that stand.

We write amidst this exciting week to urge your immediate attention and opposition to the so-called Status of Forces Agreement on Iraq being prepared in secret negotiations by the outgoing Bush Administration. The current United Nations authorization ends December 31st, making it imperative that you take leadership even before being sworn in.

The proposed agreement is a transparent attempt to circumvent Congress and formally bind your Administration to a war and occupation that far exceeds your stated commitment to a 16 month withdrawal of our combat troops. As your own website specifically states, any agreement should include a commitment to begin withdrawing our troops and avoiding any permanent bases. We also believe that thousands of Iraqi detainees should be treated according to human rights norms, or released in the absence of charges or evidence. You also have committed to a role for Congress in affirming any agreement.

Already the Bush administration and Pentagon are threatening “consequences” if the Iraqi parliament fails to endorse this pact.

We believe instead that you should signal your intention to abide by your pledge and work with the Congress immediately to formulate an agreement consistent with your pledge to end this war as rapidly as possible. We propose that you include the withdrawal of all American forces, including trainers and advisers caught in a sectarian crossfire, as recommended by all peace and justice organizations as well as such Washington think tanks as the Center for American Progress.

In place of this counterinsurgency war. we recommend an immediate diplomatic surge, including talks with Iran, as the only alternative to the continuing quagmire in Iraq which now costs our taxpayers some ten billion dollars per month, puts lives needlessly at risk, and stains our national honor.

We realize you will be hearing from all sorts of advocates for prolonging the occupation by one means or another. We urge you to keep the faith with the voices of those who put you on the road to the presidency, by implementing your pledge to end the war in 2009.

In the shadow of the great national victory we of the Democratic Party are enjoying, looms a sad and painful reality here in the great state of Tennessee. …

Simply, Tennessee Democratic candidates made no effort whatsoever to win their elections. The Party as a whole has failed in this cycle.
How many Tuke ads did we see here in Lamar Alexander’s turf? None, I saw none.
Rob Russell? How many public rallies did he hold? Just like that loser Trent Green from two years ago. No effort in the street whatsoever.

State wide? Governor Asshat, Phil Bredesen (Jr. Republican in training), did nothing to promote Democratic candidates in this election cycle.
Ford Jr. and the now even more worthless Tennessee Blue Dogshits (DLC) did nothing. Nothing.
As a result, we lost the legislature for the first time in many, many years. Tennessee is now in even more danger of fiscal ruin and social oppression.
Before we can remove the Republicans that just skated, virtually unopposed, to victory in this state we must replace the Blue Dog Republican Enablers in the Tennessee Democratic Party hierarchy and in Nashville with more progressive, people oriented Democrats and Greens.
Fighters who will actually challenge the status quo and scrap in the gutter to win.

Our friend S-townMike at Enclave makes a fine point of it and shows us a historic example by which we can put what happened to this state in perspective.

Two years. We have two years to find an answer and organize from the ground up.
We pulled off the impossible by putting Barack Obama in the White House and taking total control of the government. We can defeat the evil in Tennessee too. We just need to find some Democratic candidates and organizers with conviction and courage. Something we don’t have now.

All over town this morning I have seen the frowning faces of Right Wing vermin as they sit quietly and lament the fall of the Fascist Regime that has scourged this nation for the last eight years.

But hey, it’s a free country. You can always leave.

Hey, baby. It’s all ours now.

FUCK YOU, MCLAME. FUCK YOU, PALIN. FUCK YOU BUSH. FUCK YOU GOP.

Let a new light shine upon this nation and her people.

Go! Go now! Get your asses out there and help us fight this madness that is the Republican party and it’s back-assward ways.

Take food and water with you. Take your Ipods (or whatever) take your family take your friends. Take a couple of joints too but don’t get caught, at least until after you vote.

It will take time, the lines will be long. It’s a beautiful day here in NE Tennessee. Tell your boss to fuck off if they won’t let you go vote. You can sue them later for violating your rights.
Nothing is more important than saving this country from Republican incompetence. NOTHING.

This entry will be updated through 9pm as the information makes it to us.

Electoral College

Obama: 338

McLoser: 141

McKinney:

Nader:

Barr:

NOTES:
Obama has a massive lead in North Carolina.
61% to 39%

Obama has a massive lead in Florida.
58% to 42%

McLame has won Oklahoma, Tennessee, S. Carolina and Kentucky.

Obama has won Illinois and virtually all of New England.

Obama maintaining lead in Fla., N. Carolina and Ohio.

Obama has taken Ohio.

Obama will take Virginia easily.

McLoser with slight lead in N. Carolina.

Dead heat in Missouri.

Democrats destroying Republicans in House and Senate races.

Obama retakes lead in Indiana with 92% reporting.

Obama has won Virginia.

Obama has won New Mexico and Iowa.

This one is over.

I am writing today to ask for your vote on November 4th in my campaign for the US Senate. I am running as a progressive, Green Party candidate because I believe that the time has come to end the war in Iraq, ensure that all Americans have access to affordable, quality health care and to restore common sense and decency to our national dialogue.

Health care is a pressing need here in Tennessee where the Democratic Governor has removed over 300,000 people from the health care rolls. For far too long we have neglected the needs of the poor in America, allowing hundreds of thousands in Tennessee to go without healthcare and millions nationally. That is why I support universal single payer health care.

Education if a priority for all Americans. As a candidate I support increased funding for our state’s public schools, universities and community colleges. With only twenty five percent of Tennesseans graduating from college and less than sixty percent graduating from high school, isn’t it time for us to make education a real focus? I support full investment in education from PreK to PhD.

We must take solid steps to ensure that all Americans have safe and affordable housing, that we live in a clear and healthy environment, and that we take steps to address the deep divisions of inequity that still persist in our society. I did not support the bailout of corporate America and would have voted against more money for Wall Street. I believe that we must begin to invest in poor and working class people by supporting an increased minimum wage, a moratorium on housing foreclosures and a rollback of the Bush tax cuts.

I believe in the American dream and I believe that all Americans deserve the opportunity to have a rich and meaningful life, but the only way to ensure that these priorities are addressed is to make certain that our government makes this a priority, that our elected representatives make peace and social justice a priority on a national scale.

I am ashamed of the international reputation that the United States has developed as a purveyor of torture, as a rogue superpower which exercises its military power at will, in the face of widespread international protest. I believe that the American people are not really the way the rest of the world sees us. I believe that we are really a decent, caring, compassionate people. As a candidate I will work to sunset the patriot act, reverse the military commissions act, close Guantanamo Bay and bring the troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq.

I want to live in an America where everyone can afford to go to school and earn a college degree, where we are not under the constant fear generated by our own nuclear umbrella, where everyone is paid at minimum a living wage that can feed and house a basic family unit, where our power is generated by clean energy sources such as wind, solar and geothermal power. As a candidate I support programs to make these ideas a reality.

I want to live in an America where poor people do not spend years locked up in a criminal penitentiary unit because they have lost hope and do not believe there are alternatives to the path of incarceration. I want to live in an America where every person counts, where no one is forgotten, where our government does not listen in on our private conversations, where people believe that their vote counted and where the environment is a sacred trust that we leave in tact for future generations.

We are at a crossroads in history, and we face a choice in the South which all Americans face. Do we choose to continue down the path of abandonment, of hopelessness and fear or do we choose to embrace the compassionate, hopeful elements of our national identity? I for one, choose to hope. I believe that the government is here to serve the people and our elected leaders are here to serve you. That is why I am asking for your vote on Tuesday, November 4th in Tennessee.

Please consider voting Green on November 4th and thanks for your support.

Chris Lugo for US Senate
9 Music Sq So #164
Nashville, TN 37203
615-593-0304
chris4senate@gmail.com
www.voteforpeace.info

This is it. By this time tomorrow Barack Obama will be President of the United States. Provided we get the right push from the right voters.

This isn’t about “undecideds". Anyone who is “undecided” at this point is too confused to even handle standing in line.
Barack Obama will be the President of the United States tomorrow….as long as the youngsters show up at the polls and back up their mouths.
Vote fraud on the Republican side is once again a reality and we need every single vote to render it void.

Youngsters, it’s your future. You can have peace or forever war. You can have college or McDonald’s.
You can have clean air or foul air, good water or bad, trees or sand.

You can have health care or you can rot. Because that’s all the Republican party cares for you. Rot.
Either the youth of America takes their future into their own hands, or they leave it the hands of evil men.

It’s not rocket science.

VOTE THE PIGS OUT OF YOUR FUTURE.

Nothing like being endorsed by the most despicable traitor in the history of our nation.

Congrats, John.

Big hat tip to Tim Valentine at TI&S.

Just in case anyone still doesn’t understand exactly why things are as bad as they are in the US and the world around us…

It began with vote fraud in 2000, the seemingly never ending nightmare of Fascist Corporate rule and general political insanity. From there, America and the world at large, began it’s descent into moral and intellectual oblivion.

The Republican Party. George W. Bush. Dick Cheney (and company). The PNAC and AIPAC.
America has never suffered such a deplorable deception and grotesquely malicious assault from within in our entire history.

The resulting nightmare progressed as such:

The attacks on America known as 9/11 were perpetrated against us by someone who turned out NOT to be Osama Bin Laden. Who that is exactly is not yet known to all. Yet.
We have seen our nation polarized beyond all comprehension.

We went to Afghanistan to hunt for the former CIA operative, Bin Laden, and for no apparent reason our forces were pulled away from that task (so Bin Laden could escape) and sent to attack an innocent people who did nothing, absolutely nothing to us.
Our soldiers have fought and died where Israeli soldiers should be fighting and dying.

In the rush to fulfill the Protocols of the PNAC, Israel and the Corporate Fascist entities Bush represents, evidence to justify the case for war in Iraq was fabricated, presented to Congress, to the people and to the UN.
Most bought the lie. Not all.
Afghanistan is a failure today. Iraq is still the biggest tragedy in modern history with over a million people dead.

A storm battered the Gulf Coast, wiped out New Orleans and the damage to both property and lives remains to this day. Forgotten and snubbed by a worthless, humanity challenged Regime.

We were forced to endure the ugly face of religious fundamentalism both abroad and here at home as the Right Wing Evangelical attempted to assert themselves, through the Bush Regime, and force their twisted version of Christianity upon the country.

We saw the Republican Party scoff at the health care needs of our veterans, our children, our environment. Indeed, all of us.

We saw yet more vote fraud steal the election in 2004.

We saw Treason committed by the Bush Regime, specifically Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Richard Armitage, Robert Novak and Scooter Libby, as covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson was exposed. Effectively costing us our ability to track Iran’s Nuclear weapons programs.

We have seen the Constitution of the United States ripped apart by the Fascist element with the inception of the Department of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act.
We have seen our streets patrolled by Blackwater Mercenaries contracted by DHS.

We have seen our nation’s good name dragged through the dirt by a Right Wing fringe element that has no respect for God or country.

We have seen Oil Companies gouge us for record profit after record profit as we struggle to make ends meet. Day after day, year after year. For the hard working, average American life has only gotten tougher.
We are suffering the worst economic disaster of our time due to mindless waste of taxpayer funds by the Bush Regime and the insatiable, wanton greed of major corporations and the politicians they own.

All this and more from the Republican Party and their minions. The crimes of greed, sex crimes, crimes against humanity.

John McCain supported the Neocon Regime every single step of the way.

If you’re a real American you know what to do by now. If you’re voting on Tuesday, vote this parasitic evil known as the Republican Party out of the House, out of the Senate, and most of all OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
Four more years of FAIL is not an option if America is to be the greatest nation on earth once again.

Many a handler has been bitten and many a child mauled by diseased pets. There’s a sickness that overcomes the tiny, primitive mind of the animal rendering it confused, defensive and aggressive.
Even to the point of turning on it’s own.

And thus we have Sara Palin. Would-be vice presidential candidate and wannabe media star.
The question has been, thus far, “is Sara Palin a person who is loyal and dedicated enough to be a leader?”

Clearly not.

Palin is already infamous for abusing her authority in the “Troopergate” case by attacking one of her own relations.

Then recently, Sara Palin, after being determined a mistake by the Republican party, lashed out at John McCain and his advisers creating a rift that led to one McLame aide calling her a “whack job".
Palin’s rouge status is a textbook example of the age old premise that a house divided cannot stand.
McCain’s campaign was doomed from the moment he choose her, but she, in her phenomenal ineptitude, has been the perfect catalyst to insure the campaign’s abrupt and let’s face it, entertaining demise.

Now, (in an even more enjoyable example of Dog Bites Hand That Feeds It politics), Sara Palin turns and bites a chunk out of her former friend and now Found-Guilty-As-Hell-By-A-Jury-Of-His-Peers Senator from Alaska, Ted Stevens.
All of a sudden Mr. and Mrs. Bridge to Nowhere are having a divorce.
Of course, it was only a couple of years ago that Sara Palin was “palling” around with Felonious Senators. But in light of Palin’s “I’m the Decideress” attitude, her old buddy Stevens gets a high Heel broke off in his ass.
Poor Ted, she loved him so when it was opportune. Hey, that’s politics, Ted…

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I wouldn’t reach for the biscuits with my bare hand at Sara Palin’s table. I wouldn’t trust her to run a lemonade stand, much less any gov’t office.
But I have no problem whatsoever trusting her to completely ruin what little chance the Republican party had of regaining the White House.
When it comes to self destruction, she has my every confidence.

The United States has been at war with Afghanistan for six years. The original intention of the war with Afghanistan was to find and capture Osama Bin Laden. In the years since the original occupation of Afghanistan, the war with Iraq has eclipsed both national and international attention, leaving Afghanistan as America’s forgotten war. Much like Korea was in the 1950’s, the United States is engaged in a war it cannot win against an enemy it cannot defeat. Recently, rhetoric by both the Democratic and Republican Presidential campaigns has been actively calling for a troop surge in Afghanistan. In addition to costing the United States more money that we cannot afford to pay, this foreign policy decision ignores the obvious repercussions of an extended and increased war with Afghanistan.

These factors, which seem obvious to the average resident of Afghanistan, a country that has been bombed into the stone age, seems to escape the leaders of the free world, the policy wonks at the pentagon, and most of the corporate media. The simple equation goes something like this, more bombs and more military equals more resistance and hence more enemies to be defeated. In this case the enemy is the Taliban, a right wing fundamentalist reaction to Soviet occupation and failed US foreign policy. Here in the United States of America, the Taliban has been labeled public enemy number one, and for the past six years we have been pouring tens of billions of dollars annually into defeating an enemy that was created out of our own failed international policy under the Reagan administration.

Today the Taliban numbers in the thousands or perhaps tens of thousands and is perceived as a real threat to both the United States and the occupying administration in Afghanistan. Although the US death toll remains relatively low in relationship to the war in Iraq, the death toll could mount significantly if US forces are redirected to that area or even brought in from further depletion of US reserves based stateside or in other parts of the world. In addition, the people of Afghanistan are tired of US occupation. They have been occupied continuously by one or another occupying foreign power since 1979. Afghanistan is a country that has not known peace in almost two generations.

The specter of fear and nationalism lives on in the long tried US war on the Taliban. It is now 2008 and the United States still hasn’t caught Osama Bin Laden, but we have managed to destroy an entire country. The international community is calling on the United States leadership to step back from its rhetoric about increasing the troops in Afghanistan. They are calling for a negotiated peace, led by the United Nations, between the United States and the powers that be in Afghanistan. For every day that we stay in Afghanistan, for every bomb we drop, for every gun we fire, for every civilian we torture and for every innocent villager we accidentally kill we create yet another recruit for the Taliban and make the resistance to US occupation that much stronger.

It is time for the United States to remove its forces from Afghanistan and bring the troops home now from the Middle East. The failure of US leadership for the past eight years has been obvious to the entire international community. We are behaving as an occupying power and have not succeeded in our missions. We never found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we never found Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan and yet somehow US foreign policy continues to occupy these two zones, taking hundreds of billions of dollars from our national budget at a time of looming economic recession when Americans need jobs at home and investment in America. Now is the time for a negotiated peace and an immediate withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan.

Yes, there is a PNAC parasite in McSame’s past/present. Just one last reason to reject McBush and vote for Barack Obama….

His name is Daniel McKivergan. He is a former Deputy Director of the Project for a New American Century or PNAC. The PNAC are the traitors responsible for the lies George Bush read to the world as an excuse to invade Iraq.

We’ve covered it before.
The PNAC, now hiding under the pseudonym Foundation for Defense of Democracy or FDD, is a group of American Zionists who put the well being of Israel before the well being of America. Aka, Traitors.
Daniel McKivergan was/is one of them and he is the connection between McCockroach and the Zionist element that is responsible for much of the turmoil we, as a nation, find ourselves in.

PNAC Traitor Daniel McKivergan

From our friends at Right Web:

Daniel McKivergan, former deputy director of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), is a policy analyst and writer closely associated with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), for whom he has served as a campaign adviser. Through perches at outfits like the Weekly Standard, McKivergan has hyped threats from a number of countries, including Russia and Iran, often promoting interventionist U.S. strategies.

After graduating from the College of the Holy Cross in 1988, McKivergan joined the staff of the Republican National Committee (RNC), working in the research department first as an analyst and later as its director. McKivergan left the RNC in 1993 for the Project for the Republican Future, a Washington, DC, think tank that served as a precursor organization to PNAC. He is also listed as a deputy director from 2003 to 2005 of the New Citizenship Project, which is credited as being the sponsor of PNAC (see Media Transparency, “New Citizenship Project, Inc."). According to Media Transparency, others affiliated with NCP include Gary Schmitt (president); Randy Scheunemann, Bruce Jackson, and Robert Kagan (directors); Ellen Bork and Thomas Donnelly (deputy directors); and William Kristol (chairman).

McKivergan became research director for the neoconservative magazine the Weekly Standard in 1995, where he worked for two years. While McKivergan was working at the Standard, magazine founder Bill Kristol took note of him as a “young protégé” (New Republic, October 16, 2006). When Senator McCain, a regular reader of the Standard, approached Kristol about needing a new legislative aide, Kristol recommended McKivergan for the job. McKivergan joined McCain’s staff as legislative director in 2000, following a brief stint working as legislative director for Rep. Dan Miller (R-FL), and two years’ time at the Philanthropy Roundtable, for which he served as both policy director and associate editor of its magazine, Philanthropy.

In 2002, McKivergan became deputy director of PNAC, where he joined a chorus of neoconservative pundits in arguing that deposing Saddam Hussein was necessary to win the “war on terror.” In October 2002, he authored a memo titled “War on Terrorism and American Statecraft,” addressed to “opinion leaders.” The memo directed their attention to recent articles about a potential war with Iraq, including “A Necessary War: Unless Saddam Hussein is Removed, the War on Terrorism Will Fail,” by American Enterprise Institute fellow Reuel Marc Gerecht, and a Washington Post piece titled, “From Truth to Deception,” by William Kristol, who was also PNAC chairman.

So you see, John McCain really is just a carbon copy of Bush/Cheney. The PNAC and their ilk are Organ Grinders, guys like Bush and McSame are just holding the tin cup.

John McCain surrounded himself with traitors, Fascists, thieves and greedy war and hate mongers. How is this in any way any different from the last eight years?

VOTE THESE PIGS OUT OF OUR LIVES FOREVER.

“Russ", an acquaintance elsewhere on the net, is a person of the Conservative persuasion. He caught me in one of my more mellow (stoned) moments so I decided to offer him something other than verbal abuse for once.
I know, I don’t understand it either. But rest assured it’s not a condition that should be construed as terminal.

But I do feel an incredible calm. A strong sense that a new life and a new hope is right around the corner for America and her people.

It’s almost Over.

Posted by ( Russ ) on October 19, 2008 at 4:58 pm
“kona, it’s nice you’re being civil. I don’t know how long that will last, but I’ll reciprocate.”

Heh,
I’m getting soft in my old age I guess. I promise not to make a habit of it.

I am, oddly enough, feeling much more at ease being convinced at this time that it’s all over for the Republican party.
We’re taking Congress and Executive branch too.
Finally, after eight long, miserable years of lies, blood, blasphemy, moral turpitude, fiscal ineptitude, social maleficence and textbook Corporate Fascism, we’re going to get actual humans running the show.

“Human” because though not perfect, Barack Obama will restore a sense of pride in nation and people that is lost in a sea of flag-waving, bumper-sticker-slogan mentality ignorance that rivals any third-world nation on the planet.

“Actual” because Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Rice and the rest of the Neocon/PNAC/Israel First traitors are not worthy of being included in the Human Race.

John McCain has lost this election. And in classic McCain form, he has destroyed everything around him in the process.
I couldn’t have asked for more.

I delight in the demise of John McCain, Russ. Did I ever tell you why?
My father was a victim of the Keating 5. Lost his pension and his life’s savings to Keating and his right hand man John McCain.

After what he put my family through, I honestly wouldn’t bat an eye if McCain stepped out in front of a bus and became dust in the wind.
Watching McCain drown in his own incompetence and take the GOP down with him is one of the greatest and most soothing things I have ever experienced in my life.

The new way is here. A newer, more fiscally responsible and socially liberal America. And it will benefit you and yours if you just give it a chance. That’s all the Left wants. For EVERYONE to be happy with their lives.
All will be well, Barack Obama will not leave conservatives out of the mix even though if I was him, I would.

The damage caused by the corrupt, Godless, greed-laden Bush Administration may well take more than four years to fix. Indeed, some foreign relations issues will never be mended. The rest of the world will never forget how we attacked a guiltless nation and caused the deaths of over a million people who did absolutely nothing to deserve it.

Hopefully we’ll never forget it either.

Sad testimony to law enforcement. Seeing these cowards attack peaceful demonstrators who have served their country should keep us all aware of the fact that when it comes to politics, all too many cops can’t be trusted or tolerated….

Cowards, plain and simple.

From SocialWorker:

Antiwar vets attacked by police outside debate

Lucy Herschel and Hannah Wolfe report on how police met antiwar dissent with batons and horses at the last presidential debate in New York.

October 17, 2008

Nassau County police injured several people in their assault on antiwar protests outside the presidential debate.

WHILE BARACK Obama and John McCain were getting makeup touchups for their Wednesday night debate at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, N.Y., police outside made sure that the voices of antiwar veterans wouldn’t be heard.

Officers of the Nassau County Police Department reacted with reckless violence to a protest organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) outside the debate site. Among several people injured in the assault, former Army Sgt. Nick Morgan was knocked unconscious and his cheekbone broken when he was trampled by a police horse.

“We were there to force the issue that the leaders of this nation are not listening to or are not caring about veterans,” said IVAW member Matthis Chiroux, who was among several veterans and activists arrested. “And they couldn’t have done a better job of proving us right. They stomped my friend Nick’s face into Jell-o. I put this on both candidates, on the major press and on the Nassau County police.”

The IVAW had sent a request to the debate moderator that they be allowed to ask their own questions of the candidates at the Hofstra event, but this was ignored–and so the third and final presidential debate passed without an antiwar voice being represented.

That night, IVAW organized a nonviolent demonstration to request entry into the debate. Marching in uniform and in formation, IVAW members led several hundred activists to an intersection in front of the Hofstra campus gates–where they were confronted by an army of mounted police and riot cops.

Ten IVAW members were arrested, apparently for no more than insisting on their right to be heard. Mounted police then pushed the crowd back onto the sidewalk, recklessly pulling their horses around and at times backing them into the crowd. The police continued to drive protesters back, pinning the crowd up against a fence.

Riot cops reached past the IVAW members at the front of the crowd, grabbing protesters behind them and dragging them into the street. A mounted cop leapt with his horse onto the sidewalk and trampled protesters, including Morgan.

Chiroux said the police took Morgan aside and bandaged him, but then placed him in a truck with other arrestees to go to processing and detention.

“He was incoherent, he couldn’t even say his name,” Chiroux said. “He had blood running down his face. We kept telling the police he needed immediate medical attention. One officer said, with a smirk, ‘Get him to say it. He has to say it.’ I said, ‘He can’t even talk!’ The officer said, ‘Tough luck.’ Finally, we said, ‘Nick, you have to say I need to go to the hospital.’ We got him to say it, and they took him in.”

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CHIROUX SAID that while they were detained, he and his fellow IVAW members were verbally harassed by police. “They called us traitors, cowards, idiots,” he said.

Three women IVAW members who had been arrested were handcuffed to a bench, and “the male officers kept coming closer to them, verbally sexually harassing them,” Chiroux said. “One kept holding up Marlisa’s ID to her face and saying, ‘Wow, you look like you came out of a Barbie magazine.’”

Morgan was brought back from the hospital, still incoherent and in great pain. He was left chained to a bench for five hours without further medical attention, Chiroux said. IVAW members repeatedly asked officers for their names (they weren’t wearing badges) or to contact lawyers–they were refused on all counts.

When most of the IVAW members were finally released at 2:30 a.m. (according to reports, one vet remained in custody as this report was written), they went, still in uniform, to a nearby diner–where the same group of cops who had detained them were eating.

Chiroux went up to them and asked again for their names. One officer “got up in my face,” he said, “screaming and waving his finger at me and saying, ‘I’m gonna kick your ass if you keep asking that.’”

The IVAW members say they wanted to ask Barak Obama if he would support soldiers who refuse to serve in Iraq, since in the past, he had called the Iraq war illegal. They also wanted to question John McCain about his votes to cut veterans benefits.

“Neither of the candidates have shown real support for soldiers and veterans,” said Jason Lemieux, a former sergeant in the Marine Corps and a member of IVAW who served three tours in Iraq.

“We came here to try and get serious questions answered–questions that we, as veterans of the Iraq war, have a right to ask–but instead we were arrested. We believe that the time has come to end this war and bring our troops home, and we will be pushing for that no matter what happens in this election.”

IVAW members thanked activists for coming to support the march and for enduring the police violence.

“For many of our members, this was their first protest,” said Hannah Fleury of the Campus Antiwar Network, which mobilized chapters from as far away as Boston for this protest. “Now that we see what we’re up against, we’re going to fight even harder on our campuses to end the war, and to support the veterans.”

The New York Civil Liberties Union is asking for an immediate investigation into the use of horses at the demonstration. “It is shocking that someone who served his country would be treated so disgracefully by the Nassau County Police Department,” Tara Keenan-Thomson, director of the group’s Nassau County chapter, said in a press release.

As Chiroux said, “Both candidates claim they support veterans. And this is how we got supported last night: by being pushed back, trampled and arrested.

“We demonstrated to the country and the world that democracy is not dead in the United States–that the people in the U.S. still ultimately hold the power. They can try to force our voices to be silent, to block us out of the media, but we won’t let these people shut us down.”

Well, this will be brief and easy….

After careful consideration of the subject matter at hand, we have come to the following conclusions…

President of the United States:

Since Dennis Kucinich gave his blessing, and in the interests of America and her people, TN420.org gladly endorses Barack Hussein Obama, Democrat, for President of the United States of America.

United States Senate:

All at TN420 proudly endorse our friend and blogging comrade, Chris Lugo, of the Green Party, for United States Senate.

United States House of Representatives:

TN420 hereby endorses Rob Russell, Democrat, for TN-1 Congressional Representative.

Tennessee State Representative:

TN420 is pleased to endorse Nathan Vaughan, Democrat, for Tennessee House.

As for the rest, we wholeheartedly endorse Democratic candidates for all challenged positions within the state.

That means Mumpower, Godsey, Lundberger, Ramsey and the rest of those Right-Wing idiots can kiss our asses.
Republican leadership is failed leadership. On any and all levels.

The “Red” button is the Bad button. Vote Democratic if you want to save this nation, this state and this community. It’s as simple as that.

Early voting begins on the 15th. GET TO THE POLLS AND FIGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY AND YOUR TROOPS.

It happened in the early 80’s. A very corrupt banker and his politician cohorts decided to gamble away the life savings of hard working, God fearing Americans. They failed, and people who saved for their retired lives lost everything. They died poor so John McCain could live it up.

One of those victims was my father.

I’ve written about it before right here. So have others. Now, it’s time to put all of these voices together and show Americans exactly, exactly what a dishonest, feeble minded, self-serving man John McCain really is.

The Keating 5

It was a bi-partisan crime. Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), John Glenn (D-OH), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), Alan Cranston (D-CA)….All Democrats, all responsible for their own actions.
But John McCain, McCain was a leader along with Charles Keating and knew what he was doing was criminal in nature.

John McCain is a thief and a liar. It’s not our opinion. We’re not making it up.
This is real and the entire nation has to know what really went on and the real damage that was done to real people and their families.

Watch the video. If you come out of it still believing that John McCain is worthy to lead this nation and fix an epic economic disaster, you’re a fucking idiot…

I’m captainkona, these are my words.

The McCain campaign is losing this contest. What’s more, they know it all too well.
It’s over for McLame/Failin as far as attempting to address specific issues is concerned. They both tried and both have failed.

What we will now see from the RNC is “cut and run” in it’s most fundamental form. The personal attacks against Barack Obama will escalate both in frequency and viciousness. The GOP will stop at nothing to slander and bear false witness against freedom-loving Americans and our candidate Barack Obama.
Much like the child that takes his ball and goes home, John McLame will now begin lashing out in frustration and spite.
The meltdown has begun.

From our dear friends at the DNC:

John McCain has 31 days left to lie about Barack Obama and his record on taxes.

Apparently, he intends to take advantage of every one of them.

In his latest ad, McCain shamelessly claims that Barack has voted for tax increases 94 times – an absurd lie that has been repeatedly debunked by independent analysis.

Using the same warped logic, McCain’s own record on tax increases is staggering. By this measure, McCain himself has voted to raise taxes a whopping 477 times.

The Obama team put together a web video that shows just how unrealistic McCain’s claims really are. Watch it and share it with your friends.
As the race moves into the home stretch, John McCain’s campaign is finally hitting it’s anticipated stride.

A new report out today shows that McCain’s advertising content is now nearly 100% negative, trashing Barack at every turn and leaving no opportunity for McCain to make the case for himself. And that speaks volumes about what McCain thinks about his own policies.

Arizona Crusted McDooDoo Bird

One thing I do know from a decade of political punditry, winning candidates don’t concede battleground states one month before an election unless something’s going very, very wrong.
That something is usually either money or simply knowing that you’re going to lose an election.

Can you feel it slipping away, Republicans? John McLame can. Obviously.
John McLame has waved the white flag and retreated from the battleground state of Michigan. What do they call it again? “Cut and Run"?
With McCant’s Lameness and the fact that an Alaskan judge just rejected the attempt to bury the “Troopergate” issue that challenges Sara Palin’s governing ethics, things just aren’t looking too good over in the Red corner.

It’s almost over.

From UPI:

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (UPI) – What profiteth John McCain if his vice presidential candidate wins her debate but he gives up on Michigan?

The McCain campaign’s decision to give up the fight in Michigan is one of the stupidest tactical decisions made in this presidential campaign. Only Al Gore’s refusal to let President Bill Clinton campaign for him in key states eight years ago even approaches it. If Sen. McCain, R-Ariz., loses, it is likely to rank alongside his failure in the first presidential debate as one of the two decisive turning points in the campaign.

For McCain must have Michigan. With 17 Electoral College votes, it is one of the key prizes in the Midwest, and its influence extends into its neighboring states, too.

To win, McCain must hold on to Florida and Ohio – two states where he was looking strong until his meltdown of the past few weeks, and where he is now struggling to run neck-and-neck.

For Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., the Democratic presidential nominee, to win, he must take Pennsylvania and Michigan. If McCain can win either Michigan or Pennsylvania, he wins the presidency. It’s as simple as that.

Pennsylvania has voted Democratic in every presidential election for the past 20 years. Obama was dangerously weak there until the recent turnaround in his fortunes. Now he looks close to having a lock on the place. And McCain has just handed him Michigan on a platter.

…Looks like Muskrat love…

Thanx, John. Everybody loves a quitter.

Much to the aggravation of Republicans, early voting has begun in the crucial battleground state of Ohio.
New procedures recently adopted in Ohio and over thirty other states have effectively re-enfranchised Americans who, in the past, have been targets of Republican efforts to disenfranchise voters. The elderly, the poor, even the factually homeless are casting tonight, in some cases, the first votes of their lives.
Americans, given back their unalienable right to join in their country’s process.

It’s on, and the road to change runs through the voting booths. Get to the polls, America. Destroy the Evil that has plagued this nation for the last eight years.

From the Disgraceful Wall Street Journal:

CLEVELAND – With the credit crisis roiling Washington, Wall Street and the presidential campaign, voters in the key battleground state of Ohio cast their first ballots amid a controversy over the state’s election procedures.

Hundreds of thousands of residents – including vanloads of homeless voters shuttled to polling places by advocacy groups – are expected to cast ballots before Election Day. This year, Ohio voters can cast an absentee ballot without having to cite a specific reason for voting early, which had limited the practice in past presidential elections. More than 30 states now allow early in-person voting without requiring voters to give a reason.

In Ohio, the recent change in the early-voting law has moved up the timetable for intense campaigning. Twenty electoral votes are in play in the state, and the campaigns of both Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama are encouraging their supporters to vote as soon as possible.

Residents are being bombarded by campaign television ads, and Republican officials are using mailings and phone calls to encourage supporters to vote early.

Sen. Obama’s campaign brought singer John Legend to college campuses Monday for early-voting rallies. In Franklin County, which includes Columbus, volunteers for Sen. Obama pitched tents and waited all night outside the polling place so they could be among the first to vote.

County boards of elections have added staff and enlarged polling places, hoping that enough residents will vote early to avert some of the chaos – including hours-long lines – produced by a huge turnout in 2004, when President George W. Bush narrowly won the state and national re-election.

Advocates for the homeless in Ohio took advantage of the early-voting process to take shelter residents to polls. Many residents lack a driver’s license or other identification that would be required on Election Day, but early voting requires voters to list only their state ID number or the last four digits of their Social Security number.

“Republicans have been in office for eight years now, and things have not been good for the poor,” Mr. Whatley said. “When the Clintons were in office prior, things were good. If we can get the Democrats back in office, things can become good again.”

Mr. Whatley and other voters traveled to the polling place from North Point Transitional Housing for Men, where 160 residents enroll in employment-training classes and look for work during a six-month stay at the shelter.

Larry Barrett, a 50-year-old North Point resident, summarized the economic turmoil of the past week in one word: recession. “I’m ready for a change, and I want to do my part,” said Mr. Barrett, who also was voting for president for the first time. He declined to say how he would vote.

Look at this shit, America. Just look at it!
pResident Evil

This is the blithering idiot that has caused our economy to collapse around us like a house of cards.
This is the leader of the party that lied us into a war in which over a million people have died and been maimed. This is the clown who committed treason, neglected American citizens in their desperate hour of need and sold out American interests to support Israel and Saudi Arabia. He has smeared the good name of America and slandered all that we hold dear….

…And now, they’re trying to replace the dumbest leader in the free world, with the dumbest Senator in the free world….

The song remains McSame

Another moron. Another liar. Another incompetent half-wit to drive this nation further into the ground and in doing so, drive us into the hands of our enemies. Economy = National Security, and our asses are fully exposed.

This is it. We must not fail to overcome the obstacle that stands between us and the freedom and prosperity we so richly deserve.

VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN IF YOU WANT YOUR COUNTRY BACK.

9.30.08 Nashville, TN: The Coalition for October Debate Alternatives (CODA) announced today the Presidential Candidate’s Alternative Debate to take place October 6th, in Nashville, Tennessee. The debate is open to all third party candidates for President in the United States as well as the major party nominees. The debate, which is scheduled to take place on the campus of Vanderbilt University on Monday, October 6th will feature several Presidential Candidates who have confirmed attendance including Brad Lyttle of the US Pacifist Party, Charles Jay of the Boston Tea Party, Frank McEnulty of the New American Independence Party and Brian Moore of the Socialist Party. The Constitution Party has also confirmed that Presidential Candidate Chuck Baldwin or Vice Presidential Candidate Darrell Castle will attend the event.

The debate, which is being organized by CODA has been in the making for several months and is scheduled to take place on Monday, October 6th at 7:00pm, one day prior to the Presidential Debates which are happening at Belmont University in Nashville on October 7th. CODA says that many of the Presidential candidates have been excluded from attending the Belmont debate.

In a recent release to the press CODA indicated that is was organizing the alternative debate because it believed that voters deserve to hear from all the candidates if they are going to make an informed choice at the ballot box, ” While we want to hear what the major party candidates have to say on issues related to the war, health care, the economy, gas prices, the future direction of the military, civil liberties and the environment, we do not believe that most issues of concern to American voters will be touched by the Democrat-Republican debate. That is why we are organizing an alternative debate so that voters in Nashville, Tennessee and beyond may be informed of all their choices as they participate in America’s electoral process.”

The general public and the media is invited to attend this event, which will begin at 7pm on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville. The moderator for the event will be Bruce Barry, a professor at the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt.

Chris Lugo, of the Coalition for October Debate Alternatives, said that the Democratic and Republican candidates have also been invited to the event, but have not indicated an interest in attending, “We believe that voters should make a fully informed choice about who they vote for and we do not believe this is possible if they are only hearing from two candidates. We have invited the Barack Obama and John McCain in the interest of fairness, but we are intending to highlight this alternative debate as the most egalitarian possible event by including all the candidates and promoting this as an event to which everyone is invited.”

Presidential Candidate’s Alternative Debate
Vanderbilt University
4309 Stevenson Center
Nashville, TN 37240

Monday October 6th
Candidate’s Debate 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Light Reception to Follow Debate

For more information visit:
http://calendar.vanderbilt.edu/calendar/2008/10/06/us-presidential-debate-the-alternatives

It’s a beautiful day in Bristol. I was just outside, sitting in my comfy chair, burning a doob the size of a fence post, and I had this rare and fleeting feeling of contentment. Like everything is going to be ok.

It’s been a lifetime since I felt that way.

John McCain is losing this election to Barack Obama. Granted, there’s a lot of time for weird shit to happen. But watching the McLame/Palin ticket fall from the sky like one of McCain’s aircraft provides me with a tremendous calm. A feeling of hope, and a vision of a renewed American dream and a reinvigorated populace.

The end of Right-Wing Fascist influence in our government draws near.

The selection of Sara Palin as running mate hurt McLame and Co. McCain himself, along with his incredulous collection of creepy advisers and lapdogs have told more lies than a water-boarded teenager…but that’s not what turned the McSame compass south.

Thankfully, John McCain was gracious enough to state in public that “the fundamentals of the economy are strong” while the castle was crashing down around him.
That, coupled with the famous McLame quote “The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should", has brought the American people to a realization that if this buffoon is elected America is doomed.
We simply cannot go from eight years of failure to four more years of failure.
The great part of it all? Now Righty is getting hit in the pocketbook (like the Left told them they would four years ago) and they’re all to hell over it.
Sure, they deserve it. But the rest of us don’t.
Republicans are the ones who voted for this economic disaster, not us.

So now, in light of the fact that nothing is more important to the Republican than money, they’re flocking to Barack Obama (a Democrat) to save them.
And he will. Too bad. In order for decent, average Americans to be lifted up the goofballs have to be lifted up as well.
Life is irony, people. Pure irony.

So we begin to witness the downward flat-spin of the Republican hopes of keeping the White House. The McCain Plane is crashing.

Thanx for the help, Commander McCain. Continue crashing. Kona out.

It’s still the economy, stupid.

The world financial markets were rocked to their foundation this week by the news of the collapse of one of the oldest Wall Street Investment firms in American history, preceded by two of the largest bailouts in American history. If that was not news enough, the market was then knocked around again in round two when American Insurance Group (AIG) was given a 24 hours notice to raise $85 billion dollars to cover debt tied to the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Once again the federal treasury decided to bail out another corporation in the name of the American people and the stability of the marketplace. Then the mother of all bailouts was announced just before the close of business Thursday when Secretary of the Treasury announced a $700 billion dollar bailout of all remaining investment firms, banks and insurance groups. President Bush proudly proclaimed that the American people had been saved by the quick thinking and decisive actions of the US Treasury and anticipated quick passage of the trillion-dollar bailout by the House and Senate this week.

The reality of the situation is that the American taxpayers are being held responsible for the irresponsible investment decisions and speculative actions of private corporations and private investors. When the economy was booming and Wall Street was raking in record profits on fraudulent business dealings taxpayers saw none of the benefits, but when it is time to save those same corporations and their investors from the brink of irrelevance then the taxpayers are expected to foot the bill. The end result is that the investors reap all of the profits when times are good but when times are bad the American taxpayers pay the bills. This time the price tag is too high. In addition to the $650 billion dollars the federal treasury is paying annually for the defense budget plus the costs of the war in Iraq, the general public is now expected to foot a trillion dollar bill based on speculation.

Americans do not understand what the cost of the proposed bailout is in real terms, and many Americans do not realize the amount of debt that the federal government has already accrued, which is a burden to be passed on to our future generations. In real dollars, the proposal by the treasury department will cost the average taxpayer five thousand dollars and ten thousands dollars for a household of four. That is ten thousand dollars of debt that President Bush and his cabinet will leave as a legacy to compete with the shared cost of the war in Iraq, which will cost the average household nearly an additional ten thousand dollars in debt. That is a total of twenty thousand dollars in debt per household multiplied by millions of Americans equals nearly two trillion dollars that we are deeper in debt as a result of the war in Iraq and the recent proposed bailout which will in all likelihood sail through Congress this week.

It is time to say no to more corporate bailouts. The United States is already almost nine trillion dollars in debt as a result of decades of over spending on the US military combined with twenty-five years of Reagan era tax cuts for the wealthy and private corporations. Now is the time to invest in real priorities for the future by fully funding health care and education. By saying no to corporate bailouts for Wall Street we will ensure real economic opportunity for Main Street. As a candidate for federal office I oppose further corporate bailouts and I support strict regulation of Wall Street and a federal investigation into fraud and abuse of the trading system, which led to the current financial crisis. The results of decades deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy and privileged has led to the decimation of the middle class and brought us to the edge of ruin for future generations.

There is hope for the future, and it involves electing candidates who will look out for the interest of working people and the middle class, rather than selling out every federal office to the highest bidder. By supporting campaign finance reform, progressive taxation, universal health care, a drastically reduced military budget and by placing the highest priority on funding education we can begin to move this country in the right direction. Through strict regulation of markets and a tough but conservative approach to finance and investment we can begin to regain the trust of both investors and the general public. By withdrawing our troops from the Middle East and reducing the military budget we will gain the trust and good faith of people around the world. It is time for us to invest in the people and we must begin by saying to to any further bailouts for private corporations and Wall Street and insure that our tax dollars go to real human needs and domestic priorities that benefit everyone

In support of the right to protest.

There is a long and venerable tradition in our culture which has helped to shape the character of this nation. The right to protest and peacefully address grievances to our elected officials, the media, and the general public is a fundamental aspect of American citizenship. The right to peacefully assemble to express concern about all matters of public policy is older than the formation of this country and is the foundation of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. When colonists felt the burden of excessive taxation during English rule, their first step as subjects of the rule of law of England was to address their concerns to the magistrates and officials of their day. The very act of expressing dissent is a hallmark of an engaged community.

I have just returned from two weeks of expressing dissent to the leadership of the Democratic and Republican parties. My activities, along with those of thousands of other peaceful protesters was aimed at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado and the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. As a candidate who is committed to peace and ending war, I hold both major parties accountable for the hundreds of billions of our taxpayer dollars which have been wasted on war and the senseless killing which has taken place in the name of my alleged freedom. As a citizen, I am outraged at the continuation of policies which have taken the lives of tens of thousands of Iraqis and I hold the leadership of both major parties responsible for this state of affairs.

What I encountered in Denver and especially in St. Paul has shaken the faith of my belief in government. I have always believed that the role of protest was crucial to the American dialogue, and that dissent was tolerated in this country, although not always supported. I understand the resistance to change and the fear that dissenters create in the general public. We have always been only marginally tolerated, from the times of the American revolution to the abolitionists to the suffragists to the unionists, dissenters have always taken risks, but the rewards of their efforts have been to the benefit of all Americans, whether it be the right to vote, the forty hour work week, the end of slavery or the very creation of this country, dissent has always played a fundamental role in the creation of those rights.

In St. Paul, Minnesota, during the week of September 1st-4th the right to protest and peacefully assemble was greatly impinged upon by local, state and federal officials. It was also greatly diminished in Denver, Colorado but to a lesser extent. At the Republican National Convention protests I personally witnessed peaceful protesters demonstrating against war being beaten by police, nearly trampled by horses, dispersed with tear gas and concussion grenades, and everywhere treated as dangerous criminals and as a threat to the government. I participated in a march led by mothers with children in strollers that was blockaded on several occasions by national guard troops in full paramilitary gear. I witnessed homeless people marching for the right to housing being dispersed by security police in riot gear wearing gas masks and carrying beating sticks that were in excess of two feet long. I witnessed journalists and legal observers rounded up by the police and detained prior to mass arrests of hundreds.

A government that cannot tolerate the dissent of its citizens is a terrible burden upon freedom and democracy. The right to dissent plays a healthy, vital role in the national dialogue. It is only through dissent that we can often see the ugly face of actions which the wealthy and powerful would prefer to remain hidden. The victims of war deserve to be heard and the rights of the people should not be infringed upon by any force to express their dissent from policies which are morally abhorrent. It is my sincere hope that I never again witness state, local and federal police and security officials engaging in violent and intimidating gestures against the citizens they are suppose to be protecting and whose rights it is their responsibility to protect.

As a candidate for federal office I do not and will not support such excessive use of force and the wasteful spending of tens of millions of dollars in order to intimidate and suppress dissent. I will support the active and engaged expression of the concerns of citizens which is the hallmark of the democratic process.

for more information and archival coverage of
the DNC and RNC protests please visit:

http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2008/9
http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2008/8
http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/
http://www.youtube.com/chris4senate

The Right Wing marvels at Barack Obama wanting to provide Sex Education for children as young as five years old.

Ever wonder why they have such a problem with teaching kids how to avoid sexual predators?

From the Associated Press:

” Obama has said that means warning young children about sexual predators and explaining concepts like “good touch and bad touch.”

“It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children from sexual predators as a recycled and discredited political attack against a father of two young girls,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.

Burton noted that in a recent interview with Time magazine, McCain refused to define ‘honor.’ “Now we know why,” Burton said.”

It’s very sad that Republicans would choose to allow children to be easy prey for sexual predators. But their motivation for that is clear….

* Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
* Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
* Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
* Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bountyto anybody who murders an abortion doctor.
* Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
* Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
* Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.
* Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
* Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.
* Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
* Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
* Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
* Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
* Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.
* Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.
* Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.
* Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.
* Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.
* Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
* Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
* Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
* Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
* Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.
* Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
* Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.
* Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
* Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
* Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.
* Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
* Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).
* Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.
* Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.
* Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
* Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.
* Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.
* Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
* Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.
* Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.
* Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.
* Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.
* Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
* Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.
* Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
* Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.

There’s two kinds of military personnel. “Poor Military” like the average soldier. Then there’s “Silver Spoon Military” which is John McCain and family.

John McSame and his brood are elitists and Megan’s mouth reveals that fact all too well as she disses other military families by by indicating that “no one knows what war is like other than my family, period” during an interview on the Today Show.

“no one knows what war is like other than my family, period” - Megan McCain

The case is weak, but in a Fascist state that matters not. The brave warriors that stood up and made the statement that sent chills of fear down the backs of Righty are being charged with “Terrorism".

Funny, three Nazis get caught in Denver with a room full of weapons and confessed to plotting to assassinate Barack Obama and they get low bail and average crime.

Fuck the Bush Administration, fuck the Republican party.
Payback is coming in November.

The heroic Amy Goodman of Democracy Now has the story. Posted in full just in case…

Eight Members of RNC Activist Group Lodged with Terrorism Charges.

Ramsey County prosecutors have formally charged eight members of a prominent activist group with conspiracy to riot in furtherance of terrorism. The eight members of the RNC Welcoming Committee are believed to be the first persons ever charged under the 2002 Minnesota version of the federal PATRIOT Act. The activists face up to seven-and-a-half years in prison. We speak with the father of one of those charged and the president of the Minnesota chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. [includes rush transcript]

Guests:

Dave Bicking, father of Monica Bicking.

Bruce Nestor, President of the Minnesota chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.
Rush Transcript
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AMY GOODMAN: Here in St. Paul, Ramsey County prosecutors have formally charged eight members of a prominent activist group with conspiracy to riot in furtherance of terrorism. The eight members of the RNC Welcoming Committee are believed to be the first persons ever charged under the 2002 Minnesota version of the federal PATRIOT Act. The activists face up to seven-and-a-half years in prison.

Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner announced the charges at a news conference Wednesday.

SUSAN GAERTNER: Through this week, I’ve seen much about my great city to celebrate, but it also, in some ways, has been a sad and painful time for my community. We have watched as a few lawless people tried to overshadow the peaceful protests and the exercise of free speech rights by thousands of law-abiding citizens. Some of the people who allegedly planned illegal acts to disrupt the convention and our community were thwarted last week when law enforcement agencies executed warrants and made arrests at several locations. Today, my office has charged eight persons with the felony crime of conspiracy to commit riot in the second degree for their alleged criminal activities as members of the RNC Welcoming Committee. All but one of those persons are currently in custody.

AMY GOODMAN: According to the National Lawyers Guild, the criminal complaints filed by the Ramsey County Attorney do not allege that any of the defendants personally engaged in any act of violence or damage to property. Instead, authorities are seeking to hold the eight defendants responsible for acts committed by other individuals during the opening days of the Republican National Convention.

Most of the activists were arrested over the weekend in preemptive house raids. None of the defendants have any prior criminal history involving acts of violence. Authorities are basing their case on paid informants who infiltrated the group. The eight activists charged are Monica Bicking, Eryn Trimmer, Luce Gullen-Givens, Erik Oseland, Nathanael Secor, Robert Czernik, Garrett Fitzgerald and Max Specktor.

Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher explained the terrorism charges.

SHERIFF BOB FLETCHER: It allowed us to execute search warrants last Saturday, as you know, on the leadership of the Welcoming Committee. And frankly, that—severing that leadership from the organization skills from that entire process was huge, because a lot of these anarchist groups that came here were supposed to be dedicated to different intersections, different sectors of the city. And by taking those maps away really made it harder for them to coordinate their assault on our city. And we only removed ten percent of the problem, but the ten percent we removed was the coordinating aspect of it.

AMY GOODMAN: Two guests join me here in St. Paul, Minnesota: Bruce Nestor is president of the Minnesota chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, and David Bicking is the father of Monica Bicking, one of the eight activists charged with conspiracy to riot in furtherance of terrorism. David Bicking lives in Minneapolis.

Welcome, both, here to our studios at Saint Paul Neighborhood Network, SPNN, public access. Well, why don’t we start with you, Bruce Nestor? Explain the significance of these charges.

BRUCE NESTOR: These charges are very significant for any political activist or anybody that cares about the right to organize politically or for freedom of speech. By equating plans or stated plans to blockade traffic and to try to disrupt the convention with acts of terrorism, the conspiracy nature of the charge, where you punish people for what they say or advocate, but not for what they do, really creates a possibility that anybody organizing a large-scale demonstration, at which civil disobedience may be a part of it or where other individuals may then engage in some type of property damage, creates the potential that all those organizers can be charged with these conspiracy charges and face significant penalties.

AMY GOODMAN: What does it mean, “in furtherance of terrorism”?

BRUCE NESTOR: In Minnesota, that was a law passed after the attacks in New York on September 11th. It kind of tracks the definition in the federal PATRIOT Act, which is any criminal act, in this case at least a felony, that’s designed to influence or coerce public opinion or to disrupt a public assembly. And so, my guess is that the charge is based upon the idea that there was an attempt to disrupt the RNC, which would be treated as a public assembly, even though they didn’t apply for a permit under St. Paul public assembly laws to do so.

AMY GOODMAN: David Bicking, your daughter Monica is one of the eight. First, can you talk about her, talk about her activities?

DAVID BICKING: Yeah. My daughter Monica is a wonderful person, very concerned—

AMY GOODMAN: How old is she?

DAVID BICKING: —very committed. She’s twenty-three. And she and all the people—I mean, the people they have charged here are not criminals. They’re some of the best people in our society. She’s really dedicated to her activism. She’s experienced activist already. She’s come about this through her own experience in her life over a long time. She is always concerned about the feelings of others.

She has done some travel abroad. And when she was eight, we were in Ecuador for four weeks, and she saw the poverty and the children begging, but also humanized it by playing with the children, the maids in the, you know, inexpensive hotels there. She has—went to Honduras for eight weeks after her junior year to work in a very remote village, humanitarian work.

After high school, she took off a year before college and worked as an intern with the American Friends Service Committee, which is a Quaker peace group. She was based in Chicago and helped in their organizing and their peace work and liaison with other groups.

So she has a lot of experience, and she’s really seen what it means when—you know, the United States’ actions through war, through injustice at home, through poverty and how that’s affected people’s lives. And it’s affected her very deeply. And so, she’s strong. She’ll get through this one way or the other.

AMY GOODMAN: Is she still in jail?

DAVID BICKING: She is still in jail right now.

AMY GOODMAN: When was she picked up? How was she picked up?

DAVID BICKING: She was picked up on Saturday morning at 8:00 in the morning. She was staying in her house, which she had just bought a month before. And there were several roommates there and a whole bunch of people who had come in for the week. And at 8:00 in the morning, they were woken out of a sound sleep. The police came banging through the back door, held everyone at gunpoint. They had automatic weapons, assault rifles, forced everybody—ordered them to the floor, face down, handcuffed them behind their backs and then proceeded to search the entire house, just ransack everything.

When I got there forty-five minutes later, she and her boyfriend Eryn and a housemate, Garrett, were already in one of these big black SUVs they have, you know, and were taken off to jail just after that. And then, for the next hour or so, they released the other people in the house one by one, after photographing them, checking ID and searching them.

Then the search of the house went on for another like six hours probably, as they carted all sort of stuff out of the house. I watched, you know, as they took things out of the garage. There were old tires. I suppose those could be burned someplace. You know, there were just the sort of things homeowners would have, especially people fixing up a house. Many cans of paint, each which was patiently labeled and loaded onto the truck. It was just an absurd, absurd overreaction.

AMY GOODMAN: What is the RNC Welcoming Committee?

DAVID BICKING: The RNC Welcoming Committee is a group that defines itself as anarchist or anti-authoritarian. And she was working with them very closely, as were these other people. They saw their role as facilitating the protests and the actions around the Republican National Convention this week. Their major function was to help other people from out of town come and express what they wanted to express and do what they wanted to do to protest or to resist the convention.

So they spent a lot of time setting up housing, medics, legal support, child care, but, of course, also—and of more interest to the authorities—helped coordinate some strategies, helped people brainstorm about what sorts of things could be done or what would be effective. And so, members of the Welcoming Committee traveled around the country meeting with similar groups around the country to talk to them so that people could, as a whole, come to some agreement of how—not necessarily all use the strategy, all the same tactic, but how their actions could be coordinated, instead of at odds with each other. So, they were not planning the activities of this week, but rather helping others to plan and forming some sort of consensus so that this could all work and people could come here and do what they planned to do.

AMY GOODMAN: How much time do they face?

DAVID BICKING: Up to seven-and-a-half years under these charges.

AMY GOODMAN: Have you seen Monica in jail?

DAVID BICKING: She was released for a few days and then is back in again. So I’ve been able to talk to her about her experiences in jail and talk to her a little bit about all of this, and she could tell me more about how she experienced the house raid and the effect it had on her.

AMY GOODMAN: Her boyfriend, also one of those arrested, he’s in jail.

DAVID BICKING: Yes. Eryn Trimmer, yes. Another fine man. You know, as a father, I couldn’t be happier with her choice of a partner. Very committed individual, also kind of quiet, but very dedicated, yes.

AMY GOODMAN: Bruce Nestor, there have been over 300 arrests.

BRUCE NESTOR: That’s right. A number of felony arrests on probable cause that just started to go—

AMY GOODMAN: Explain what that means, “on probable cause.”

BRUCE NESTOR: It just means that the police officer is allowed to charge someone based upon their description of events. It doesn’t go through a prosecutor or a judge. In Minnesota, that allowed anybody arrested on a Friday, Saturday, Sunday or Monday to be held until noon on Wednesday.

AMY GOODMAN: Because Labor Day was Monday, so it goes beyond—it can only be business days?

BRUCE NESTOR: That’s right. And then a judge actually signed an order extending that thirty-six-hour to forty-eight-hour period. A number of the—

AMY GOODMAN: So, ultimately, it just keeps them through the Republican National Convention.

BRUCE NESTOR: That’s correct.

AMY GOODMAN: In jail. I mean, we saw this in New York in 2004, the protests of the Republican National Convention. This was under Mayor Bloomberg. They then—the police there arrested over 1,800 people. Hundreds have been—you know, the charges were all dropped against them, but it was just clearing the streets until afterwards. And then they just—the city dealt with the consequences of having falsely arrested them in the years to come.

BRUCE NESTOR: What we’re seeing here is not quite as widespread, but it’s a similar pattern. The charges started to go through the court system yesterday. I believe about a third of the felony charges were dismissed outright, and then a number of others were reduced to misdemeanor and referred to the city prosecutor for charging. And so, it’s that same type of preventive detention or a sweep where there’s no effort to distinguish between who’s caught up in a mass detention, whether it’s journalists, journalist students from the University of Kansas being detained—

AMY GOODMAN: Kentucky, right. In fact, when I was arrested on Monday, just before the police wagon took off from this parking lot, where the police had arrested so many on these PC riot charges, probable cause riot, a young woman from the University of Kentucky was brought in. And she’s one of those who—they remain in jail?

BRUCE NESTOR: They—

AMY GOODMAN: The two students and their teacher.

BRUCE NESTOR: I believe they may have now been—now been released. But, for instance, my neighborhood hardware store owner, Republican family, his son was out riding a bicycle, got caught up in a mass sweep and just got out yesterday, after being held for almost a day and a half. So not just journalists are being targeted and caught up—also caught up in sweeps, just citizens out in the streets are getting swept up. And there’s no effort or mechanism on the part of the police to distinguish between who do they have evidence against to arrest and try to prosecute, which we can deal with in the court system, or do they just sweep people up and keep them in custody and let it all sort out afterward.

In fact, St. Paul actually negotiated a special insurance provision with the Republican Host Committee so that the first $10 million in liability for lawsuits arising from the convention will be covered by the Host Committee. The city is very proud of this negotiation. It’s the first time it’s been negotiated between a city and the Host Committee. But it basically means we can commit wrongdoing, and we won’t have to pay for it.

AMY GOODMAN: Wait, one more time, explain how the money will work.

BRUCE NESTOR: They negotiated an agreement where the first $10 million in damages arising from any lawsuits against the city related to the city’s actions during the convention will be covered by insurance or by the Republican Host Committee, separate from the city’s own insurance coverage and own—or own financial reserves.

AMY GOODMAN: Last comment: is Monica afraid right now? Is she sorry she was involved with organizing protests around the Republican National Convention?

DAVID BICKING: Absolutely not. She’s going to continue her work, because, I mean, the work she is doing is far more important than, you know, the legal consequences, whatever they may be. So, no, she’s confident, she’s strong, she’s experienced. While this is an outrageous violation of people’s rights, outrageous imposition on people’s lives, it’s nevertheless something which is not entirely unexpected, and she knew that going in.

AMY GOODMAN: David Bicking, I want to thank you for being with us, father of Monica Bicking, one of the eight activists charged with conspiracy to riot in the furtherance of terrorism. Bruce Nestor, I’d like to ask you to stay. When we come back, we’ll be joined by the head of I-Witness Video collective, Eileen Clancy. Her organization, now in town for the Republican convention, has been raided twice in these, quote, “preemptive” raids. We’ll find out the latest.

McCain/Palin is a loser of a ticket if I’ve ever seen one. Seems Republican talking heads feel the McSame way.

‘Nuff said.

Once again the Right feels the sting of the Fighters of Peace. We have been soft and passive for far too long.

It’s about time we struck back.

It’s been a long time since the sixties. It’s good to see that some of us still realize that mud and slime is the only thing Repiglikans understand.

We’ve been peaceful long enough. Change came with the radical element forty years ago, and that’s the only thing that’s going to bring about change now.
Passive is good, but when Righty thinks he can do as he pleases with our rights without retribution, it’s appropriate to remind him that we are generally peaceable by CHOICE. Not because we ‘re afraid to fight for what we believe in. Even Jesus and Ghandi acknowledged the fact that sometimes the enemy won’t settle for anything less than aggression. That’s the way this country was originally liberated, it’s the only way to re-liberate it now.

The time for outreach has passed. Action is the only option we have left.

Keep fighting, martyrs! We will make them fear us.

From the NY Times:

By PATRICK HEALY and COLIN MOYNIHAN
Published: September 1, 2008

ST. PAUL — Thousands of protesters, many of them demonstrating against the war in Iraq, marched on Monday through the streets outside the arena where the Republican National Convention is being held, with some smashing windows and battling with the police in clashes that led to more than 250 arrests.

Although most of the protesters were peaceful, the police used pepper spray and long wooden sticks to subdue some; several demonstrators also said police officers fired projectiles at them.

In one confrontation downtown, as several dozen demonstrators milled around and danced in the streets, police officers wearing helmets, padded vests and shin guards converged on the group. As the two sides faced off and tensions rose, the police squirted pepper spray into the crowd.

“I saw the cops shooting,” said a man who gave his name as Jude Ortiz. Orange foam lay on the pavement, along with a red cloth object the size of a finger that contained beads.

A commander in the St. Paul Police Department, Doug Holtz, said he knew nothing about projectiles being used near Jackson Street, where one of the most intense confrontations took place.

Cops getting asses thoroughly kicked

More later;

Nothing too extreme, but just what the Doctor ordered. It’s time that Americans woke up to the treason, troop-murder and anti-constitutional activities of the Republican party.

….and it looks like we have.

We’ve been quiet way too long. Truth, justice, liberty…all have been violated by an administration, and it’s supporters, to the point of anarchy. Time to fight fire with fire.

From the San Francisco Gate:

(09-01) 19:12 PDT St. Paul, Minn. –

Police used pepper spray and tear gas to quell breakaway demonstrators from an otherwise peaceful antiwar demonstration today outside the Republican National Convention, after the splinter groups smashed department store and police car windows.

At least 78 demonstrators were arrested - including Amy Goodman, host of the nationally broadcast television and radio program “Democracy Now"- as police clashed with roaming groups of protesters. Nearly half of the arrests were for misdemeanor charges.

More than 2,000 federal, state, and local law enforcement officials, many in full riot gear, lined the parade route to keep the estimated 10,000 marchers from straying from their permitted march. Later in the day, police motorcycles escorted buses carrying convention delegates to and from the Xcel Energy Center, as police shut down large sections of the downtown.

Yep, even peace loving Amy Goodman was arrested. What a scene it was. Liberal America is finally speaking out in the tradition of our revolutionary forefathers and we have been heard.

This is how we do it from now on.

“It’s my bike, mine! Waaaaa!”

“No Fucking Way”


“Run! Hippies on the war path!”

Martyr

More later…..

“Sarah Barracuda” is the Pig VP choice. Imagine that.
Miss Congeniality and Mr. Cantankerous running for Prezzy. Look at the bright side, she can swish down the runway at the GOP Convention in her evening wear and participate in the swimsuit competition the next day.
“Hi, my name is Sara! I like puppies, walks in the park, and minivans!”

Yep, ol’ Johnny saw those jugs and it was Veep at first sight. Though there are certainly other reasons why McSame would choose and absolute nobody for a VP, aren’t there?

This is even funnier than I anticipated.

1) Token Fem? You don’t say. What a waste, the PUMAtards were going to vote for him anyway.

2) For a campaign that was so critical of “Obama’s Exeprience” they sure lowered the bar by picking a Yuppie-Scum Soccer Mom from a town with three and a half people in it.

3) She might be the only Repig Female with all her teeth.

4) I guess the McLame camp forgot that there was going to be a Vice Presidential debate. Against Joe Biden.

This is just too sweet. McIdiot is sold on the premise that Democratic women will vote for a female just because she’s a female. McCain/PUMA will be very surprised at the political resolve of Democratic women when he and Betty Boop are congratulating President Obama on his victory.

Was really worried that he would pick a formidable foe. Now it’s all good.
What a couple these two will make.

Wonder how Cindy feels about it. I can see the drama coming now. Keep your crusty old hands to yourself, Johnny Boy.

…"the professor and Mary Ann, here on Gilligan’s Isle"……

Palin, honestly, is a far cry from the neocon vermin that the Republican Party is famous for, but a Republican she is. And therein lies the problem.

Obama/Biden in a fucking landslide.

First there was Jim “Al Qaida” Adkisson in Knoxville, TN. Then Timothy “Taliban” Johnson murdered a Democratic official in Arkansas. Now Three or four sorry-assed wastes of life have been caught in a plot to assassinate Barack Obama during his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention in Denver.

As we wrote before, it will get worse before it gets better…

From CBS Denver:

Subsequently authorities went to the Cherry Creek Hotel in Glendale to contact an associate of Gartrell’s. But that man, identified as Shawn Robert Adolph, 33, who was wanted on numerous warrants, jumped out of a sixth floor hotel window. Law enforcement sources say Adolph broke an ankle in the fall and was captured moments later. Sources say he had a handcuff ring and was wearing a swastika, and is thought to have ties to white supremacist organizations.

Nathan Johnson, 32, an associate of Gartrell and Adolph, was also arrested Sunday morning. He told authorities that the two men had “planned to kill Barack Obama at his acceptance speech.”

“He don’t belong in political office. Blacks don’t belong in political office. He ought to be shot,” Johnson told Maass.

“Do you think they were really plotting to kill Obama?” Maass asked.

“I don’t want to say yes, but I don’t want to say no,” he said.

Tharin Gartrell, Shawn Robert Adolph,
Nathan Johnson.
Just look at these vermin.

Interesting that I had just told our “friend", R.Neal at KnoxViews, that he should be wary of his surroundings while reporting from Denver. Of course, we didn’t even get a “thanks for the heads up” or anything. But as long as no one is hurt all is well.

Nice
Submitted by Konalanche (not verified) on Sat, 2008/08/23 - 11:58pm.

You know, Neal. Weed is decriminalized within the Denver city limits. Enjoy.

Though I must say I’m disappointed that you didn’t at least try to run over Blitzer. Ah well, maybe next time.

Also, be on your guard. Right Wing Republican Terrorism is alive and well in America as you Knox folks know all too well.
Seriously, Neal. Be careful.

There will be more.

Oh God….this is so fucking beautiful. Alex Jones may be a nutter to a degree, but after this extraordinary display of truth and Badass Liberal guts he’s really, really earned the respect of TN420 in a very big way.

He even called Malkin’s bodyguard a punk.

The decrepit, diseased harlot, Michelle Malkin, had written in her book that she advocated interning American citizens in concentration camps.

The good Dr., Alex Jones, found the traitorous skank at the Democratic Convention in Denver. He gave her more than just a piece of OUR mind.

And amusing it is…..

Nice work, Barack. Of all the quality, first-class Democrats you had to choose from you pick Biden? Is that tie cutting of the blood from your pencil neck to your empty head?

Well, now we have it. Joe “Mr. Rave Act” Biden will finally find the White House after so many years of floundering Senatorship. Such a poor decision in so many ways.
Senator Biden, a DLC stooge and AIPAC kiss-ass, is going to accompany the most exciting candidate we’ve seen in three decades into battle with the most pathetic candidate we’ve seen in eight years.
And Biden’s credibility is what, virtually graveyard dead? That’s being kind.

As a member of the DLC (Democratic Liar’s Club) Joe Biden displays all the spineless, ass kissing, boot licking characteristics of his fellows Harold Ford Jr. and Al From.

Biden Facts:

Joe Biden is the ultimate DC insider which is in no way, shape or form “Change".

Joe Biden has attacked freedom and choice in the past while pandering to the Right.

Joe Biden plagiarized one of his speeches and a paper during college as well…

Joe Biden’s history of plagiarism and “stressless scholarship” gave plenty of ammo to his enemies, one of them choosing to circulate a so-called “attack video” to demonstrate Biden’s outright plagiarism of a British politician’s speech. But this appropriation from Neal Kinnock was not the first occurrence of unacknowledged lifting by the senator from Delaware.

In 1965 Biden plagiarized while writing a paper as a student at the Syracuse University Law School in a legal methods course which he failed because of that copied paper. Such “stressless scholarship” as it is euphemistically called has become all too common in the modern Internet era with countless cheatsites and “research services” offering to sell students papers on topics from A to Z.

Joe Biden made no substantial effort to stand up to the Bush Regime and has not condemned their crimes with any sincerity.

Joe Biden is so boring it hurts.

Ugh…

This was a poor, poor pick for VP all things considered.
But I will vote for the Obama/Biden ticket.
And I’ll give you two reasons….

1) 1000 Joe Biden’s couldn’t even come close to being as pathetic and embarrassing as John McCain.

2) The ticket is Clintonless.

One thing I have to consider is that there is some good that will come from this circus. Biden’s entry spells the final nail in the Clinton coffin.
Billary is not going to be Prez, VP, or anything else.
Bill and Hillary Clinton are history. That can only be a victory for this party and the nation.

So, Barack. In spite of this bone-head stunt you just pulled, you did have the courage to tell Hillary to kick rocks. For that reason alone you will have my vote in November.
But rest assured, if you don’t keep that DLC monkey on a very short leash, this is one blogger that will turn on you like a cornered animal and never remove my fangs from your black ass.

Best of luck.

Outstanding. One has to be happy with the results of the Saddleback Forum where John McShitbird and Barack Obama faced off in front of an assload of seudo-Christian hypocrites.

Obama lost, thank God!

As McCain and Obama answered questions, bright lights in the face, about whether or not they espouse the unwavering, fear inspired, absolute rule of the American Taliban, McCain was poised with puckered lips to kiss the holier-than-thou asses of the dregs of Christian society. Obama just told it like it is.

Most of the outrage from the Mullahs is aimed at Obama’s spot-on repudiation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Thomas, a complete and total illiterate moron and socially dysfunctional Right-Wing brown noser, is a hero of his mentally challenged Conservative ilk. Standing against freedom at every turn.
Obama simply stated the truth and made no effort to kiss Taliban ass…

From some Taliban Site:

When asked to name a Supreme Court justice he would not have appointed, Obama named Clarence Thomas.
“I don’t think that he was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation, setting aside the fact that I profoundly disagree with his interpretations of a lot of the Constitution,” Obama said.

Barack Obama vs Satan

Truth in the face of the Devil! You gotta love it. Especially if you’re a real Christian.
I would have loved to be there just to see the shock on the faces of the vermin when they got themselves owned on the topic.
Facing all that ignorance and self-indulgent sanctimonium must have filled Barack Obama, a Christian more in the tradition of Jesus than any of those in attendance, with foreboding.

But still, with head high, Obama stood by the truth of Christ which is peace and love, not the death and dementia the Taliban would have the nation become engulfed in for four more years.

The Saddleback Taliban Forum test. The “litmus” by which the candidates are judged according to the Taliban’s perception of a religion they have hijacked for gain or simply don’t comprehend.
Obama lost to McCain. Now we know that Barack Obama is the right man for the job.

What is anti-Taliban (Barack Obama) can only be good for America. What is pro-Taliban (John McBush) can only do us harm.

Thanx for standing up to the evil, Barack. If only people like McCain had your courage and convictions.

The Green Party of TN is honored to host Ms McKinney as she visits 4
communities across the state this week. “From community problems like
landfill issues in Dickson to community solutions like the Biofuels plant
in Memphis and community gardens in Nashville Ms McKinney will get to talk
to people who are impacted and those with community-based solutions, a
Green Party Key Value”, said Katey Culver Green Party of TN Co-chair.

Wednesday, August 20th McKinney will make 3 stops in Memphis.
That evening she will be in Jackson, Tennessee for a fundraiser hosted by
the Madison County Green Party.

Thursday, August 21st McKinney’s first stop is in Dickson to meet with
representatives of the community who have been affected by the dumping of
toxic waste in their community. Then to Nashville for an 11:00 AM Press
Conference in Room 31, Legislative Plaza speaking to the press about her
campaign. This event is open to the public. Following the press
conference Ms McKinney will speak directly to the public and take
questions. This will also be in Legislative Plaza, Room 31.

That morning Greens will turn in their nominating petitions to secure her
position on the general election ballot in Tennessee. “Due to
Tennessee’s oppressive election access laws Ms McKinney will be listed
on the ballot as an independent candidate which we can achieve with 275 valid
signatures. It would take over 45,000 valid signatures to get her listed
with the “Green” affiliation. The Green Party is currently a litigant
against the state seeking ballot access laws that are fair”, said John
Miglietta a delegate to the Green Party of the US and a Green Candidate
for US House District 5.

Following the Press Conference she is scheduled to visit Tennessee State
University, Fisk University and Carver Food Park where Sizwe Herring of
EarthMatters Tennessee teaches children and community members about the
value of composting and principles of ecology.

Cynthia McKinney in her Chicago acceptance speech indicated why she had
chosen to go Green, saying, “In 2008, after two stolen Presidential elections and
eight years of George W. Bush, and at least two years of Democratic Party
complicity, the racket is about war crimes, torture, crimes against the
peace; the racket is about crimes against the Constitution, crimes against
the American people, and crimes against the global community. The racket
is even about values that we thought were long settled as reasonable to
pursue, like liberty and justice, and economic opportunity, for all.”

As the Green Party candidate, issues of environmental and racial justice will
highlight her Tennessee visit. “Cynthia has chosen to visit people and places
that the Democrats and Republicans would would rather forget, such as
the victims of environmental racism in Dickson, Tennessee. I think this is why
Cynthia is the best choice this election season, because it is clear that she is
the people’s candidate,” said Chris Lugo Green candidate for the US Senate.

Scheduled Itinerary Available Upon Request:

For More Information Contact:

Katey Culver, Green Party of TN,
Committee Co-chair, 615-416-1908
katey@gp.org

Chris Lugo, Green Candidate, US Senate,
615-593-0304, chris4senate@gmail.com

Do we have another Jim Adkisson?
Has Right Wing Republican Terrorism struck yet again?

When commenting on the Right Wing Terrorist, Jim Adkisson, we wrote…

I caution against assuming that this will be the last.

We’re not 100% sure at this point as all the facts are not yet in. But this is looking more and more like yet another act of Republican Right Terrorism like that which we saw in Knoxville.

Just waiting for more info, meanwhile, all real Americans be on your guard.

Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney was shot at the State Democratic Party Headquarters in Little Rock, Wednesday. His condition is unknown.

From the ADP:

Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Shot at State Headquarters
Reported by: KNWA Staff

Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 @12:45pm CST

According to our sister station in Little Rock, A suspect is reported to be in custody after a police chase outside Little Rock after shots rang out late Wednesday morning at the State Democratic Party headquarters, sending one person to the hospital in critical condition.

Rep. Steve Harrelson says that witnesses inside the building told him that the person shot is Party Chairman Bill Gwatney, but there’s no official confirmation of that information.

Police were on the scene within minutes at 1300 West Capitol.

KNWA will update you as soon as more information becomes available.

UPDATE 1:
Arkansas Times

…At a briefing less than an hour after the shooting, police said the shooter left in a blue pickup. The truck was discovered close by. The man apparently changed to another car, which police were able to identify. A chase ensued and it ended in Sheridan, where police say the suspect was shot and taken into custody. His condition is unknown. The police had no indication of motive. Several Democratic employees were in the office at the time and were being questioned about what they’d seen.

The chase ended near the Winston Clinic on the northern edge of Sheridan in a developed portion of town. There were conflicting reports about whether police fired shots during the chase or after the car left the highway into an open field. Authorities were still swarming that scene in Sheridan at 1 p.m. A police spokesman said the man was airlifted from the scene.

Gwatney’s secretary made the 911 call from a florist shop next door. She was heard to tell the police dispatch: “Help, our chairman’s been shot.”

The shooter was described in the phone call as a man in his 40s, with whitish hair and wearing khaki pants.

Police may have picked up the shooter’s trail because he threatened someone with a gun nearby. Reports were that a man with a gun confronted a building manager in the Arkansas Baptist State Convention office building a few blocks east of Democratic headquarters and said he’d lost his job. He pointed the gun, but didn’t shoot. He fled in a vehicle whose description was reported to police.

Gov. Mike Beebe was en route by plane to Northwest Arkansas when the shooting occurred. He got word and returned to Little Rock. He was with the Gwatney family at UAMS…

UPDATE 2:

ArkTimes

Arkansas State Democratic Party Chair Bill Gwatney was fatally wounded at State Democratic Party Headquarters on Capitol Avenue about 11:50 a.m. today.

The suspected shooter was also fatally wounded in a shootout with police after a 30-mile chase into adjoining Grant County, a Little Rock police spokesman said. Various police sources identified the shooter as Timothy Dale Johnson, 50, of Searcy, but the police weren’t officially confirming that and there were no indications of his possible motive. His next of kin were reached to make a positive identification and police were reluctant to release an ID that, though indicated by evidence he carried, might prove to be erroneous.

“Searcy” is a Republican heaven.
A Democratic Official has been assassinated by a Republican.

UPDATE 3:

KPLC TV/AP

Associated Press - August 13, 2008 9:23 PM ET

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas authorities say the man who shot and killed the head of the Arkansas Democratic Party had no criminal record.

Police in Little Rock say they have no motive for the fatal shooting of state Democratic party Chairman Bill Gwatney. He was wounded at party headquarters and died four hours later.

The gunman has been identified as 50-year-old Timothy Dale Johnson. Police say that moments after the shooting, he pointed a handgun at the building manager at the nearby the Arkansas Baptist headquarters. Johnson is said to have told the manager, “I lost my job.” Johnson was killed after a chase and shootout.

Gwatney, a 48-year-old former Arkansas state senator, had been planning to travel to the Democratic National Convention as a superdelegate. He had backed Hillary Rodham Clinton but endorsed Barack Obama after she dropped out of the race. Clinton and former President Clinton issued a statement praising Gwatney’s work and calling him “a cherished friend and confidant.”

UPDATE 4:

From the Associated Press

Timothy Dale Johnson: Right Wing Terrorist


Man fired from job kills Ark. Democratic chairman

By ANDREW DeMILLO – 1 hour ago

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Police and neighbors are struggling to explain why a man described as a loner drove more than 30 miles to Arkansas’ Democratic Party headquarters and fatally shot its chairman hours after losing his job.

Police said Timothy Dale Johnson, 50, of Searcy, barged into Bill Gwatney’s office on Wednesday and shot him multiple times. There were no signs that Gwatney and Johnson, who was later shot dead by officers, knew each other.

A Target store in Conway fired Johnson early Wednesday because he had written graffiti on a wall, police said. A Target statement Thursday said Johnson “voluntarily quit” and did give any details.

Target said Johnson was an hourly employee at the Conway store, who had “no history of behavioral or performance problems at Target.”

“In the preceding days, he worked his regularly scheduled shifts without incident,” the company said in a statement.

More at link.

President Bush and the McCain campaign are beating a dead horse these days and it is called the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. They want you to believe that we must squeeze the last bits of oil out of the earth, wherever we can find it, and we need to start right here at home by destroying our last remaining wild refuge and devastating our coastal wetlands in the name of boosting corporate oil profits. The right wing echo chamber has taken up the cause celeb, and candidates across the country can be heard ringing the bells of freedom for the global oil market.

Developing our remaining public lands for oil and natural gas is a waste of time and resources. The industry already leases 44 million acres of land for oil and gas development, and to date they have not used almost 30 million acres of public land. In addition, drilling in our most fragile wild spaces is a slap in the face to the environment and future generations who will judge us on the basis of how we cared for and exercised responsible stewardship of the natural resources of the planet.

The time will come when there will be no more oil to drill and we have already reached far beyond the point where we must begin to invest in sustainable alternatives to oil, such as biofuels, solar and wind power as our primary sources of energy production. Drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge is like using a garden hose to put out the forest fire. Clearly we need to develop new strategies and begin to invest in a sustainable energy infrastructure not dependent on the burning of fossil fuels. The scientific evidence has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that global warming is real and we are the source of the problem. It is time to become part of the solution.

The oil and gas industry already has plenty of access to public lands in the United States. It is up to us to protect our coastal beaches and marshlands from environmental devastation. It is up to us to lock up ecologically sensitive regions in Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico and Colorado before they are destroyed forever. There is no clear evidence that drilling on our remaining public lands will lead to a decrease in oil prices. In fact, oil prices are going to continue to rise regardless because global demand is far outstripping supply. The only real solution is to begin to invest in our alternative energy infrastructure and develop green solutions to the global energy crisis. We face a real challenge in the years ahead, but we can begin to make the right choices now by saying no to continued drilling in environmentally sensitive regions.

for more information on this issue please visit: http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/oildrill/

“THE DEMOCRATS CROSSED OVER AND MADE ME LOSE!”

That’s right, scumbag. That’s exactly what happened.

As I wrote here previously, TN420 successfully solicited 116 pledges from Liberals of all stripes (mostly here in Bristol) to vote in the Republican primary for your challenger…whatsisname…
Whoever. It matters not.
Combine my people and those who took the initiative themselves, we put you out to pasture. Right where you and your ilk belong. Where you can do no more harm.
But of course, there were many Republicans who either cast a vote for Roe or just stayed home. They deserve praise for being human enough to see the evil behind your foul face.

But as I said, all this matters not.
What matters is that you’re gone you useless, Right-Wing, Jesus Pimpin’ corporate whore. That’s all that matters.
So for every kid, every soldier, every mountain, every lake, every stream, every tree and every human being you voted against…FUCK OFF.
I told you over a year ago, via email, that I would see you out of office in the next election. And that’s exactly what happened.

Don’t fuck with the Left.

I’m captainkona, I was instrumental in your loss to Roe, and there’s not one fucking thing you can do about it.

I guess all I can do now is play you a song…..

This week marks the 63rd anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 9th, 1945 at 11:01am the United States of America dropped a nuclear bomb on a pre-designated city in Japan killing 80,000 people in the second of two nuclear attacks. This attack was the only time that nuclear weapons have been used as an instrument of war, and it could be the last, if we generate the political will to dismantle our weapons of mass destruction, abide by the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and create a federal level department of peace. At the time of the bombing the United States only had two nuclear weapons in its arsenal but since that time our stockpile of nuclear weapons has mushroomed to nearly six thousand weapons. Fortunately we have not used these weapons since then, but the only guarantee that they will never be used is if they do not exist. As tempting as it is to believe that we are a moral nation that would never use such terrible instruments of destruction, the fact is that we have used them and we can use them again if our military or elected leaders believe the situation justifies it. That is why it is more important than ever to dismantle weapons of mass destruction.

Nuclear weapons are dirty, dangerous, immoral weapons that continue to do damage long after the bombs have been used. In addition to the nearly 200,000 people who died as a result of the nuclear attacks, many more victims continue to suffer to this day as a result of the radiation released that day. Birth defects and mutations continue to affect the children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to this day. With literally thousands of nuclear weapons in the possession of nearly two dozen nations, the risk of one of these bombs being used in a conflict has increased exponentially since it was first used in 1945. In the past six decades the United States alone has gone to critical levels of preparedness for nuclear attack on more than thirty occasions in response to international conflicts. Having initiated a first use policy, we cannot claim to have the higher ground on the issue of nuclear proliferation and possession. By using the bomb first and then building the biggest arsenal, our national policy makers have set a precedent and sent a clear message to the world that we are not a country which is truly interested in peace and international security.

There is nothing more threatening to global peace than our own nuclear weapons stockpiles. These weapons are also a threat to the environment both short term and long term. Uranium mining involves milling, production and environmental and ecological devastation. After the uranium ore is extracted and processed no one seems to want the nuclear waste, which is left like an orphan without a home. There is no comprehensive plan for the long term storage of radioactive nuclear waste which stays radioactive for up to 250,000 years and scientists haven’t figured out how to safely contain such materials. For the people of the world to even begin to have a chance at peace and a healthy environment we need to begin to dismantle our nuclear weapons stockpiles now and clean up the mess we have made. In Tennessee there is enough work for all of the hundreds of employees of the Oak Ridge nuclear complex just cleaning up the contaminated facilities and the environment to keep them employed for many years to come. The same is true of all of our nuclear weapons production and storage facilities. Additionally we need more investment in research and development to study how to more safely contain the nuclear waste that has already been produced.

It has become clear to the people of this world that the future does not include nuclear war or proliferation of nuclear weapons. After the cold war the United States and the former Soviet Union took a big step back from the precipice by dismantling some warheads. Since that time international will has resolved and grown stronger to continue the progress that was made nearly twenty years ago. Right now, while our world is at relative peace regarding global threats to security is a good time to dismantle our weapons of mass destruction. It is up to the people of the United States to develop the will and the leadership to live up to the vision of a nation which is dedicated to peace and social justice rather than violence and warfare. We can live in a world of peace, if we take concrete steps now by abiding by dismantling our weapons of mass destruction, abide by the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and support a federal level department of peace. It is possible to resolve international conflicts without threatening to completely destroy other cultures. We have the collective intelligence to create a more meaningful future for ourselves and the generations to come.

It was close. 500 votes.
With the likelihood of a recount looming it seems that the Pig Extraordinare’, David Davis, has lost the TN-1 Repig Primary to Johnson City Mayor Phil Roe. And the congressional seat he disgraced as well.

U.S. House - District 1 - GOP Primary
239 of 239 Precincts Reporting - 100%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Roe, Phil GOP 25,916 50%
Davis, David (i) GOP 25,416 49%
Sabri, Michael GOP 325 1%

I hope these numbers hold up. That would mean the 116 Dems, Greens and other Liberals that we at TN420 solicited to pledge to cross over and vote for Roe in the interests of defeating the bastard Davis were significant.

To the Republicans that saw the error of their ways and worked to remove Davis, a rare but meaningful and sincere thanx.

If you pray, cross your fingers, whatever. Meditate on these numbers holding and finally being rid of the scourge that is the Jesus Pimp carpetbagger David Davis.

Pray hard.

This may be a sign of Tennessee District One Republicans finally pulling their collective head out of their collective ass.
After voting to fuck our communities over for the last two years, it seems that now District One Republicans, some of them anyway, are attempting to right a very serious wrong.
Phil Roe, Johnson City Mayor and Republican goofball, has out raised the incumbent Republican shitbird, Rep. David Davis, in the last period.

From the BHC:

By Gary Gray
Reporter / Bristol Herald Courier
Published: August 5, 2008

BRISTOL, Tenn. – U.S. Rep. David Davis is one of only a few congressmen in the nation to be bested at fundraising by a primary challenger during any single reporting period, according to the Federal Election Commission.

Davis, R-1st, raised $107,194.54 in total contributions for the period ending June 30, the end of the last full quarter. For the same period, Republican challenger Phil Roe reported $118,723.72 in contributions.

“I can guarantee you, there’s not many challengers topping contributions to incumbent congressmen, so that shows we’re making a run,” Roe said Tuesday. “We’ve also been really happy with contributions in July.”

The failure of David Davis as a Congressional Representative is immeasurable. Second only to George Bush in incompetence and pure, unadulterated greed.

Roe may not be a gem, but Davis is little more than a germ when it comes to the good of North East Tennessee.
David Davis has consistently voted against our best interests and for the interests of the Big Corporate vermin that he is owned by.
Davis has voted against our troops, against health care for our children, against our clean water, against our environment, and just recently against protecting employees from pay discrimination based on gender. An ultimately misogynistic, Taliban type act.

David Davis is a vile and disgraceful man. A sudo-Christian with a Satanic agenda. We’ve seen way too much of that in the last eight years and we now know the misery to which it leads.

TN-1 Republicans, you fucked us all in ‘06. Yourselves and your families included, all for a tax cut and a copy of the Ten Commandments. It seems you might have found the dignity and humility to correct the problem.
I truly hope and pray that this is the case.

The Iraqi Parliament wants the US out of Iraq, and they have made it clear in a recent letter which called for US troops to be removed. The United States doesn’t seem quite so inclined to oblige. Recently we learned that the Bush administration was engaged in secret negotiations to establish fifty military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and legal immunity for all American soldiers and contractors for an indefinite period of time. The congress must remain engaged and not give in to pressure from the military industrial complex or current administration officials from both sides of the aisle. If we are ever to step out of this quagmire there must be broad resolve by the American people to bring the troops home and close down the military bases.

As part of long term security negotiations in Iraq, Massoud Barzani, the head of northern Iraq’s regional Kurdish administration suggested that military forces be permanently redeployed to northern Iraq. Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama has indicated that he believes it would be appropriate to deploy troops there in the near future. Permanent military bases of any sort will act as an anchor to keep us locked into Iraq for decades to come. The United States clearly intends to remain in Iraq and Afghanistan into the indefinite future. Pentagon officials have indicated as much in their long term and short term planning for the region.

The Iraqis have a different idea about what we should do. There is consensus in the Iraqi parliament that the United States needs to leave now and take our military bases with us. As a candidate for federal office, I do not support the permanent establishment of any military bases in Iraq or Afghanistan. I believe that it is essential that the anti-war movement in this country continue to pressure elected officials and run candidates who will remove the military presence from the Middle East. It is clear that political instability in the region is being fueled by a continued US military presence in the region. This in turn is creating uncertainty on the global oil markets and pushing up prices, weakening the US dollar and contributing to a global recession.

The current thinking on the part of military strategists and international policy experts is that the situation in Iraq is analogous to Korea or Germany, and that permanent military bases are a fundamental aspect of Iraqi and Afghan reconstruction. The problem is that the Iraqi people do not agree. The people of Iraq consider us to be agents of occupation, and fundamentally anti-democratic. They do not see the invasion of Iraq as being worth the hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed or injured. They do not like the long term economic, infrastructure and environmental devastation which was been visited upon their country.

The Iraqi people have spoken and it is time to honor our agreements. In a recent statement to the press, Nouri al-Maliki said that the US was making demands that would lead to the colonization of Iraq. If the US remains in the region, we will eventually use our presence in Iraq as a base for further military exploits in the region, especially into Iran. That is why it is time to withdraw all of our military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, to close down our military bases and to bring our troops home now.

Well, Jim “Al Qaida” Adkisson’s apologists are hard at work trying to make excuses for what their hero did in Knoxville and for the Right Wing Mullahs that influenced him.

We have a loud chorus of support for the Terrorist, Jim Adkisson, coming from the Right. Trying to excuse the actions of Adkisson by comparing him to everyone from Charles Manson to FARC. Stating that it was an “isolated incident” or “he was just mentally disturbed". Some even said that he was a “Liberal attacking Christians".
They insist that it’s “hate speech” to lay blame upon the Right Wing for influencing Adkisson.

Poor babies. Always clamoring for the right words yet never finding them.

Jim “Al Qaida” Adkisson was politically aware and obviously active. Anyone who has books written by those three pieces of shit (Hannity, O’Rilley, Savage) knows what’s going on in much the manner that most of us do. He just subscribed to the lies as opposed to the truth and those lies poisoned his already diseased soul.
His words reflect directly that he is mentally sound, knew exactly what he was doing and knowingly subscribed to the Social Conservative Credo of “Liberals are responsible for all of America’s woes".

He complained he was out of work. Bush era economic maleficence is 100% responsible for the shortage of gainful employment in this country, many Republicans would agree.
Who regularly takes the crimes and failures of the Bush regime and blames the “Left” for them?

Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Savage Weiner, Rush, Malkin, the Tranny (Ann Coulter), Pat Robertson etc.

This was a deliberate, pre-meditated act of Right Wing Terrorism equal in obtuseness to any suicide bomber in Baghdad.

Insane? Please…
Tennessee has a death penalty. It’s seldom used but he probably will get it.
I personally would rather sentence him to about ten life terms, let him die in prison, bury him, dig him up and put him back in his cell for another lifetime.
But there is no insanity defense here.

He listened to the Mullahs of Conservatism and killed accordingly. He followed orders so to speak.

Look around the web.
The closest the Right can come to a juxtaposition is Charles Manson.
Problem is, Manson never killed anyone that we know of with his own hand. He was not a “Liberal” either. He was a poor, Indiana white trash son of a whore. (no reflection on IN)
He took up the “Hippy” motif because that’s where the pussy was being slung around like Frisbees.

All attempts to relate Adkisson to anyone perceived to be “Left” or “Liberal” are desperate attempts to excuse his evil act.
If someone on the Left did decide to strike, they would shoot up the board room at Exxon, not a church full of innocent people.

It’s not hate to pin the crime on the culture that fosters it. It’s justice.
And this is strictly a Right Wing type crime as it compares fully and completely to anything Al Qaida ever did both in motive and cowardice. And is perfectly in stride with the mentality displayed by the Right Wing from Leo Strauss to Rush Limbaugh to Bush/Cheney.

How many more will there be? What are Right Wing parents teaching their children?

Be prepared for the worst.

One thing that we have to remember about this awful scenario that we have witnessed concerning the Terrorist Act perpetrated against the good people of TVUUC. The possibility, or perhaps probability, of copy-cat terrorism.

The Republican Right sees it slipping away. Politically speaking, they have been soundly defeated. Their radical, lie-based agenda is “in it’s last throes".
Their desperation now more evident than ever as the quintessential Conservative Republican, Jim “Al Qaida” Adkisson, murders peaceful, unarmed church goers in their pews.

I caution against assuming that this will be the last.

There are few notables in Social Conservative Terrorism History. Others have received little press.
Oklahoma City Bomber, Timothy McVeigh, Abortion Clinic Bomber, Eric Rudolph, and Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.
Most have been dramatically underreported.

Very little attention was paid to one Chad Castanaga. The Republican terrorist that mailed supposed Anthrax laced letters to numerous Americans including Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.
Many of these acts rarely make it past the local news of the community in which they were committed.

One thing is for sure, the intellectually and spiritually stagnant Right-Wing political base is not beyond the calculated murder of innocent, unarmed Americans. This is real, people. For the heroes at Tennessee Valley UUC, it’s very very real. They lost their lives, their loved ones, almost lost their children were it not for the heroic efforts of people like Greg McKendry.

I know most Liberals don’t care for firearms. I really don’t either, I just have a personal understanding of their necessity in this society.
I urge Liberals everywhere to get a gun and learn how to use it.
You have the right to defend yourselves and your families, friends, fellows etc. from Right Wing zealots and other such Nazis.
Al Qaida Adkisson attacked the church because they were Liberals, sure. But he also attacked because they were unarmed. Thus is the way of the coward.

The mullahs speak, the terrorists kill

It’s ugly and revolting to think that meeting violence with violence is sometimes necessary, but that unfortunately is a fact. We cannot just lay down and take this crap from these Pigs any longer. Arm up, prepare to defend. Terrorism is on the doorstep and it’s not coming from “over there". It’s right here at home and it will likely get worse before it gets better.

Sometimes you have to fight. Even Jesus and Ghandi could admit that.

Be aware of your surroundings at all times.

God bless,

What a tragic situation. I guess we should be thanking God the kids weren’t killed. We should definitely be thanking God for the heroic, selfless efforts of the fine Liberals at TVUUC who risked and gave their lives, without hesitation, to save others.

He who gives up his life for the sake of another shall surely see the Kingdom of God….

Now, to the root of the problem.

How does an uneducated, Right-Wing freak of fucking nature like Adkisson get to be what he is? Well, it all started in 2000. Some clown named George W. Bush stole an election and made hate crimes and intolerance chic.

It goes along with the overall Conservative Republican Hive Mentality. People like this never initiate, they only know to be a drone and follow. Mimicking the actions and words of their Conservative leaders.
How much Rush Limbaugh do you think this waste of air listened to on a weekly basis? How many Pat Robertson anti-Liberal rants do you think he heard?…

LINK

The suspect in a fatal shooting at a Knoxville church Sunday was motivated by frustration over being unable to obtain a job and hatred for the liberal movement, police said Monday.
Jim Adkisson, 58, was charged with first-degree murder after Sunday’s shooting at the Knoxville church.

Yeah, well. Jobs are hard to find for smart people in the Bush Amerika, let alone idiots.
“Hatred for the liberal movement"? That is a direct result of the Conservative Movement and the verminous scum that perpetuate it.
From George Bush and Dick Cheney to Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Rod Parsley, Ann Coulter, Michele Malkin, Mike Savage Wiener, and every other piece of shit with ears that constantly fills the heads of low-life scumbags like Adkisson with some apocalyptic horse shit that Liberals are going to take his guns and make him listen to Timothy Leary seminars for the rest of his life.
The feeble minds of the average Conservative Republican idiots cannot process such rhetoric and discern the lies and manipulations of those who promote evil.
So this is what happens, the average Conservative Pig goes on a shooting spree in a church full of “Liburls". Another Tim McViegh is born.

Jim Adkisson is a terrorist. In true Al Qaida fashion. He listens to his Mullahs (Pat Robertson etc) then it’s off to kill some unarmed Liberals like the filthy Conservative coward that he is…

Piece of Social Conservative Shit

The influence has been there for years. The Right Wing, fake-ass blaspheming preachers. The Right Wing politicians. The Conservanoid talking heads. All are guilty of filling the heads of the intellectually challenged sub-humanoids like this Adkisson piece of crap with the motivation needed to commit the most heinous of cowardly terrorist acts.

The Taliban is alive and well in America. And their influence has cost courageous, innocent people their lives.

Want more Jim Adkisson’s? Vote Republican in November and the evil that has permeated our nation since 2000 will continue to grow and cost real Americans their lives.

UPDATE: 7/29/08

LINK

Police found right-wing political books, brass knuckles, empty shotgun shell boxes and a handgun in the Powell home of a man who said he attacked a church in order to kill liberals “who are ruining the country,” court records show.
…
Adkisson targeted the church, Still wrote in the document obtained by WBIR-TV, Channel 10, “because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country’s hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of media outlets.”

Adkisson told Still that “he could not get to the leaders of the liberal movement that he would then target those that had voted them in to office.”
…
Inside the house, officers found “Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder” by radio talk show host Michael Savage, “Let Freedom Ring” by talk show host Sean Hannity, and “The O’Reilly Factor,” by television talk show host Bill O’Reilly.

And there, fellow Americans, you have the whole picture.
Social Conservatism breeds terrorism.
Al Qaida are Social Conservatives, just in a different society.
The mentality and basic values are the same as here. “They’re not like us so kill them".

It was only a matter of time until we had a case of Conservative hate crime that made it to the main stream media. There have been many such terrorist acts that never got the publicity since President Shitbird and his worshipers came to power.

Many Tennesseans were stunned to hear the news that yesterday morning at 10:18am a lone gunman walked into a welcoming congregation in Knoxville and opened fire on the congregants who were gathered in anticipation of watching their children perform a scene from the musical “Annie” as part of the morning services, killing two people and shooting several more in the head before being tackled to the ground. That church, the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, is a beacon of joy and hope in East Tennessee. Its congregation is made up of some of the most loving, kind and gentle people in the fine city of Knoxville, and the horrific tragedy which was visited upon that church is a wakeup call to good people throughout Tennessee to re-examine our approach to gun control in Tennessee and throughout this nation.

Sadly this is not the first nor the last example of guns in churches, schools and public spaces being used to kill innocent men, women and children. In the past decade alone, dozens of people have been killed in our nations schools, churches and public gathering places by people who had obtained guns legally and illegally with the sole intention of killing unarmed civilians. The public school shooting rampage phenomenon started here in the South only a decade ago when two students in Jonesboro, Arkansas opened fire on their fellow middle school students killing five and wounding eleven. Since that time our nation has witnessed school shootings in over a dozen states with victims numbering in the hundreds. There have also been shootings at shopping malls and church shootings in the past year in Texas, Colorado and now Tennessee.

Unfortunately, in many of these cases, the guns that were used in the commission of felony first degree homicides were obtained legally. Either the guns were in possession of parents who were not able to keep the guns from the access of their children, or in some cases rifles were used. In many states there are no laws regarding the use of these weapons by minors. In other cases guns were obtained illegally. No matter how the gun was obtained, it was used in the commission of a crime against men, women and children who lost their parents, children or grandchildren as was the case today in Knoxville.

I cannot imagine the horror of the children yesterday watching as their parents were shot in front of them, but this incident further illustrates to me the need for effective gun control regulations at the federal level. The fact is that guns kill people and in the United States they kill a lot of people. The United States has the highest per capita murder rate in the developed world, with 14 people per 100,000 dying of gun violence each year. This adds up to nearly 10,000 people a year who die at the hands of a gun, not including the additional 16,000 suicides that happen each year with the use of a gun. This is nearly thirty three times the number of Americans who have been killed in Iraq since the beginning of the war.

The recent Supreme Court ruling on the second amendment by the Bush and Reagan stacked court insures that our nation’s cities can continue to live in perpetual fear of similar incidents happening around the nation as what happened in Knoxville on Sunday. Cities are already scrambling to deal with the chilling new reality handed down by the Supreme Court this summer, which seems to mean that it is open season for every crazy person who can get their hands on a gun in our nation’s urban centers.

There is a solution though, and it is up to Congress to exercise the political will to make a decision to pass laws which place strict limits on gun ownership and to hold gun sellers strictly accountable for who they sell their products to. We have a responsibility to protect our children and our nation’s citizens have a right to live free of the fear of being visited with violence as they go about their daily lives of working, shopping and worshiping as they choose. As a candidate for federal office I believe that federal government has the responsibility to place strict limits on gun ownership in this country. Gun rights advocates argue that guns make us safe, but I believe that a heavily armed nation is a dangerous place to live. It is time to make our country safe for our children. Now is the time for comprehensive gun control for a safer America.

What a circus. I wonder how many of them would fit in a Volkswagen.

It’s a sad state of affairs here in Tennessee, TN-1 in particular. This is the greatest state in the disUnion, we just need and enema (or maybe a douche) to wash out all the Stacy Campfield’s, Marsha Blackburn’s, David Davis’ and other such excrement/infection.

We, as a state, have that “not so fresh feeling".

What a bunch of clowns. Just a short expose on the ills and infirmities of Tennessee Republican leadership and it’s staggering incompetence and moral turpitude.

George W. Bush Hypocrisy Award Winner: Congressional Rep. David Davis R-TN1

This man is so foul he should really consider setting up his offices in Hell. He already has a one way ticket on the next Down-Bound express.
If going back to his first campaign and reviewing the way he exploited Jesus Christ for personal and political gain isn’t enough, one can always consider his anti-Troop, anti-Children, anti-Environment, anti- Freedom and anti-Christ voting record.

And if that doesn’t do it, here’s the latest offering to the ways of Baal from Congressman Davis.

Even the Right-Leaning Bristol Herald Courier couldn’t take it…

By Bristol Herald Courier Editorial Board

Published: July 23, 2008

U.S. Rep. David Davis has said he sees nothing wrong with federal earmarks as long as the process is “transparent.”

So why won’t he reveal his 2009 earmark requests? Is he hiding further evidence of his slavish devotion to moneyed special interests? We don’t know.

Davis was one of just 33 House members who refused to disclose their earmark requests for the upcoming budget to the nation’s premier pork-busting group, Citizens Against Government Waste. That’s down from 94 House members who refused disclosure in 2008.

It appears that openness is catching on in the halls of Congress. Davis is just a bit slow to get the message. Perhaps he believes in transparency for others only, not for himself.

Davis, a one-term incumbent, saw his reputation tarnished earlier this year when it was revealed that he scored a $4 million earmark for a private company that donated heavily to his campaign. That chunk of pork went to BAE Systems, the defense contractor that runs the Holston Army Ammunition plant in Kingsport.

Davis defended his actions, noting that the munitions plant provides jobs for many of his constituents. This explanation would have been more convincing if Davis hadn’t pocketed the company’s campaign donations around the same time he was pushing the earmark. Such an arrangement looks like a quid pro quo deal.

The BAE earmark wasn’t the only one that Davis secured in the 2008 budget. Along with an Ohio congressman, he obtained a $1 million earmark for another private corporation, Seaman, to make collapsible urethane storage tanks.

He also brought home another $4.5 million in federal funds for a variety of local projects, including construction of a children’s hospital at Johnson City Medical Center, renovation of a church-affiliated food pantry in Hancock and Hawkins counties and work on the East Tennessee State University College of Pharmacy. On their face, these worthwhile projects will serve the greater good, but because they were funded through earmarks, they were not subjected to congressional debate. There is no way to determine whether they were the highest-priority projects in the region, state or nation.

Citizens Against Government Waste, a taxpayer watchdog group, objects to all earmarks for philosophical reasons. The group describes its mission this way: “to eliminate waste, mismanagement and inefficiency in the federal government.” The group is non-partisan but hews to a fiscally conservative policy.

Why do Tennessee Republicans vote for shit like this?
A tax break? Is that all you people care about?

So sad….

George W. Bush Hypocrisy Award Runner-Up: Ron Ramsey R-TN1 State Legislature

I knew Davis was scum, but Ron Ramsey? Poor, innocent little Ronnie Ramsey?
Just another local hypocrite with nothing productive to say, much less do.

Recently we at TN420 sent a few emails out asking simple, clear questions of candidates and other pols as we always do. That’s what helped us expose Harold Ford Jr. for the lying goof he is.
This time we inquired of Ramsey. Got more than we expected too.
The two questions were simple.

“…Could you please clarify your positions on the following issues? :

1) Medical Marijuana: Should it be legalized as medicine in it’s smoked form?

2) Stem Cell Research: Necessary for the common good, or morally unsound?”

Doesn’t sound too hard, does it?
The reply to the Medi-Pot question was expected. We knew Ron Ramsey was pro-suffering already.
What we didn’t know was that Ramsey is apparently against Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Implementation.
Excerpt from original Ramsey reply via e-mail:

Subject: RE: Research Assistance.
From: “Ron Ramsey” lt.gov.ron.ramsey@legislature.state.tn.us
Date: Mon, July 21, 2008 10:59 am
To: admin@tn420.org
Priority: Normal

Dear Mr. Kona,

Thank you for contacting me! I am against any legalization of marijuana. The ease of abuse and dependency is too great. Stem cell research is a federal issue for the most part. However, hypothetically, I would be opposed to stem cell research if the cells come from aborted fetuses.

I am always interested in hearing from my constituents and listening to their needs. Please feel free to contact my office if I can be of further assistance.

Sincerely,

Ron Ramsey

Heh, of course, the anti-Medical Marijuana excuse was nonsensical as it usually is with politicians, but the response to the Stem Cell question caught us by surprise. Especially since Ron Ramsey takes political donations from a company called Novartis. A pharmaceutical company that is preparing to undertake Embrionic Stem Cell Research…

NOVARTIS PAC
701 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., NW, SUITE 725
WASHINGTON,
DC 20004 P General 12/05/2007 $500.00

Uh huh….
From Reuters:

Tue Nov 7, 2006 12:27pm EST

By Bill Berkrot

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Novartis AG (NOVN.VX: Quote, Profile, Research,
Stock Buzz) has begun testing the waters in the controversial field of
embryonic stem cell research in the hope it will be ahead of its
rivals when marketable therapies begin to emerge, the drug maker’s head of corporate research said on Tuesday.
“A company like ours must follow the field so when the
breakthrough happens and it starts to become commercially usable, we are already
there,” Paul Herrling told the Reuters Health Summit
by telephone from
Shanghai, China.
Herrling cautioned that
the research was still in its infancy and that
Novartis has dedicated
only a dozen or so primary researchers to the
technology.

“We’re still very far from any drug discovery applications. It cannot
be a major research area for Novartis at this point – it’s too early,” Herrling said.

Still, Novartis is one of
the first major pharmaceutical companies to
admit to involvement in
the embryonic stem cell field that has so far
been left to academic
laboratories and small biotechnology companies.

“Many companies are very reluctant to talk about it because of the ethical issues surrounding it, but I’m sure all those companies that have a really strong innovation-based research culture are all doing something similar to what we’re doing,” Herrling said.
Because of fierce opposition to embryonic research from religious and anti-abortion groups, Novartis has established an external ethical advisory board to oversee its research in the field.

But there is also great enthusiasm over the potential that embryonic stem cells can someday be used to regenerate specific tissues that
could be used to treat the likes of heart disease, diabetes, spinal injuries and neurological disorders.

“In Europe, we are
working on specifically trying to differentiate
human embryonic stem cells eventually for use in neuro regeneration for (diseases) like
Parkinson’s and maybe Alzheimer’s,” Herrling said.

In California, Novartis researchers are trying to understand how
undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells can be pushed to become
one kind of tissue and not another.

Did you Tennessee Republican voters know about this?
Doesn’t this fly in the face of all you believe? Do you believe in anything other than tax breaks? Why do you vote for these people?

Tennessee Republicans. Some things never change.
Ramsey Novartis PDF FILE

It has been nearly three years since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the gulf coast region, leaving behind a wake of suffering and human misery unmatched in recent American history. Sadly, the victims of this crisis are still suffering and residents of the Gulf Coast region are still waiting for the government to do the right thing by investing in the region, cleaning up and rebuilding New Orleans and surrounding communities. The scale of this crisis is unimaginable for a modern, developed nation with the industrial strength and collective will we have to remedy the situation. As a country, it is time for us to come together and call for justice for the victims of Katrina and Rita with a comprehensive, public works program designed to address the real needs of people who are still suffering from this natural disaster.

In New Orleans and surrounding regions, people continue to suffer from unhealthy living conditions. Many areas lack basic social services and there always remains the looming threat of Mother Nature once again taking more. We have the means to address this crisis. Recently Congress introduced the Gulf Coast Works Act, which is designed to restore the region. The Gulf Coast Works Act will ensure that real progress is made toward restoring the environment, rebuilding infrastructure, and revitalizing the workforce of the area. The Act will provide 100,000 job opportunities for residents to rebuild their communities and it will create incentives for local and national business to participate in the redevelopment of the Gulf Coast region.

If this bill is introduced into the Senate I will work to support this companion legislation as a candidate and work to ensure that all victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have the opportunity to rebuild their lives and make New Orleans the city it truly deserves to be. Real solutions to the problems of jobs, infrastructure development and environmental restoration are possible with the collective participation of our entire society. Unfortunately, at a time when the people of New Orleans really needed our support our President was too busy waging war halfway around the world. Instead of dealing with the real crisis at home, the Bush administration and FEMA largely neglected the disaster which had struck the gulf region, betraying a fundamental trust that the people have in government that it will be there at times of national crisis.

Thankfully, some people still believe that when disaster strikes, we the people will respond. In addition to the numerous private efforts which have accomplished many good works since 2005, the federal government has finally woken up to the reality of the situation and is finally going to do something right. The Gulf Coast Works Act will create a federal authority with the ability to implement and coordinate the necessary federal response in the event of a future natural disaster in the region. It will put people to work rebuilding vital infrastructure and restoring the environment and it will spur sustainable development in the community, giving people a sense of dignity and justice.

By working to rebuild the roads, levees, police stations, schools, firehouses and public utilities in the gulf region we are rebuilding America. By cleaning up the marshes, wetlands and restoring the natural ecology of the region we are protecting the planet. By serving as a national model for disaster recovery and infrastructure development we are protecting the future.

for more information on the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act please visit:
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How long have we been saying it? Now the final act of the drama has begun. We call Bush, Cheney, Rove, Libby, Novak etc “Traitors” because of the fact that they conspired to expose Valerie Plame Wilson, a covert CIA operative, who was monitoring Nuclear activity in Iran. Now, we have what amounts to a bold faced admission of guilt. Straight from the Horse’s Ass….

Read the Wilson’s story HERE.

Bush once before let his lying tongue slip and admitted that those who betrayed Plame and our nation were probably in the White House and insisted we get over it…

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Thursday acknowledged publicly for the first time that someone in his administration likely leaked the name of a CIA operative, although he also said he hopes the controversy over his decision to spare prison for a former White House aide has “run its course.”

“And now we’re going to move on,” Bush said in a White House news conference.

Now, after a fine job by Rep. Henry Waxman, the pressure has mounted and in classic Bush style, President Moron has taken the first course of a desperate man. Subpoenas have issued, and now Bush has claimed “Executive Privilege” for a defense. An admission of guilt.
You don’t need “Executive Privilege” in this case unless you’re guilty. There is no National Security issue concerning the Plame Affair that is not already known.

They’re traitors. Bush has spoken.

Scooter Libby was already convicted for lying to a grand jury during the course of the investigation. Sentenced to prison and pardoned by Bush.

“Executive Privilege". The President’s way of pleading the 5th. The history is interesting, those who claim it are always guilty…

From the LA Times:

Bush claims executive privilege in Valerie Plame Wilson case

The concept of executive privilege rings a special bell with readers of a certain age. It was relied on by the Richard M. Nixon White House seeking to shield documents and personnel from inquiring congressional committees and prosecutors during the Watergate investigations.

President Bush quietly claimed executive privilege on Tuesday, after Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey requested the shield. Mukasey is seeking to avoid delivering to congressional investigators documents dealing with interviews of Vice President Dick Cheney and members of his staff regarding the unmasking of CIA covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has subpoenaed the accounts of the FBI interviews, as well as notes about President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address in which he said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium for a nuclear weapon – an assertion that proved wrong.

“The claim of executive privilege is ludicrous,” said the committee’s chairman, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills).

On Wednesday, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined the fray. He noted that the claim of executive privilege exempts the attorney general “from complying with a subpoena,” and wrote to Mukasey:

This executive privilege claim, and your justification for it, appears to turn the privilege on its head. The purpose of executive privilege is to encourage candid advice to the president, not to cover up what the vice president and White House staff say to investigating authorities when that information is requested in the course of congressional oversight.

– James Gerstenzang

We’re not making it up. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Lewis Libby, Richard Armitage, Robert Novak. All involved in the crime.
Are we sure it’s really “treason"? Hey, read the statutes for yourself…
Intelligence Identities Protection Act.

Even George Bush Sr., former CIA leader, said “I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.” – George Herbert Walker Bush, CIA dedication ceremony, April 26, 1999.

It’s long past time for these treasonous vermin to be held accountable for betraying the secrecy that allows us to defend ourselves from foreign threats. All for the want of revenge.

The penalty for treason is severe. The infraction even worse. If there is any justice left in this country these people will rot beside Susan Atkins and the rest of their soulless kind where they belong.

Yep, another example of just how depraved, just how filthy, just how soulless and most of all, just how cowardly the typical Republican activist really is.

Some piece of shit named Mike Meehan in Florida has erected a billboard that not only is an essay in delusional viewpoint, but a grotesque example of exploitation for profit of the 9/11 tragedy.

This scumbag son of whore, Meehan, is actually using the billboard, along with his website, to sell CDs. Seems to be some sort of musician but I doubt that anyone so full of fucking shit could play a note.

The billboard attempts to suggest that voting for Democrats could bring about another 9/11 type attack. Problem with that logic is, it was Meehan’s kind that committed the attack in the first place and his political party of choice that has caved to the Right-Wing Terrorist’s demands.
We no longer have a fourth Amendment because cowards like Meehan were eager to bow (bend over) to those who hate our freedom.

A sign for cowards, by a coward.

That my friends is so disgusting even we are hard pressed to find words to describe our outrage.

Mike Meehan, you are a yellow-bellied little bitch. You and your kind have committed treason against the American People, murdered 4117 of our finest and bravest citizens, destroyed our economy, slaughtered nearly a million Iraqis, and embrace the people who are really responsible for the Attacks on New York and the Pentagon.

Now, Meehan. Go crawl your traitor ass back into the Jackal’s crack you crawled out of and take your coward’s billboard with you.

People like you should be locked up, or worse.

I’m captainkona, and I approve this post.

John McCain and the GOP…they’re just the typical, filthy, Republican liars and warmongers we’ve been suffering since 2000.
The “SURGE” is not working. Embedded journalists are just being censored. The pictures of reality and the stories of truth are not making it back home.
Journalists like Zoriah Miller, who had the courage to post the truth against the wishes of those who would try to hide the true nature of the war for political gain, are being made to look like they somehow betrayed the soldiers. Fact is, the only thing Zoriah has betrayed is the calculated lie that is the Iraq war.

“Surge” this

It ain’t pretty. Pictures of one of our own Marines, torn to pieces by a suicide bomber. Why is this Marine dead? Because of the greed laden, paranoid cowards that comprise both the US and Israeli governments.

As embedded journalist and blogger Zoriah Miller sees it, it’s important to reveal the daily carnage of the war on Iraq.

“I just feel this war has become so sanitized that it was important to show,” said Zoriah, who prefers to go by his first name. “My only discomfort is the idea that the family could accidentally stumble on it.” …

The Marine hierarchy viewed the images and insisted it violated some sort of “trust” between the military and embedded journalists. Zoriah was subsequently shut down and dismissed from a Marine unit in Anbar Province.

Here’s Zoriah’s blog. It’s not for the squeamish or the delusional. The photos are real and they depict the grave truth about the Satanic nature of this war and of war in general.
If you care anything at all about our troops and/or the Iraqi people, take a look. Suffer through the blood that George Bush, the PNAC, the Evangelical, the Zionist and every other kind of Pig have spilled in the name of Israel, Oil and Monumental Ignorance.

Thanx, Zoriah. Courage to be truthful and oppose this insanity is hard to come by these days. We can only hope that others like yourself will have the guts to be half as real.

July 4th marks the anniversary of the birth of this nation. On that day, the Declaration of Independence was signed by a cadre of men, who wrote the words ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ That declaration was a living promise to future generations of certain fundamental, inalienable rights such as the right to privacy.

On this fourth of July let us never forget that the rights we have secured were won by the hard fought efforts of generations of tireless activists and that the Constitution of the United States is a living document, shaped and formed by the collective participation of millions of people in a constant dialogue.

Our country is not perfect. Far from it, our history is one of terrible oppression and thoughtless, inconsiderate discrimination. Too many a man has been sent unnecessarily to die in war. Too many died without freedom, without rights. The stain of our neglect and terror scars the Constitution and the legers of history.

In spite of this truth, the human spirit has prevailed more often than not in this country and people have continued to believe in the fundamental goodness of the national project we call our Constitution. That belief in the security and equality of the individual and the guarantee of rights is perhaps the greatest contributor to the slow victory of justice in America.

That guarantee of our rights ensures that no man or woman, no matter how powerful and influential, is permitted to permanently or decisively interfere with the fundamental rights and freedoms of any other. These are the rights we celebrate on Independence Day and the freedoms that have been won in the generations since our nation’s birth.

These victories include the extension of the right to vote and the rights of citizenship to all members of our society. The articulation of individual rights and freedoms is the fruit of their efforts. These freedoms offer proof that our Constitution is a living document and that the will of the people can be expressed in the language of the nation, articulated as law and common practice.

These freedoms, which we hold so dear, were brought to realization through the spirit of individual liberty and collective responsibility. Through an acknowledgement of the humanity of each person, the fundamental value of humankind is acknowledged. By recognizing this value in the individual we have crafted a body of law to protect the rights of everyone.

The threats to the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and our fundamental rights and liberties is always present, both from without and from within. On this day of celebration of collective freedom, let us never hand over our rights and responsibilities to any executive or any legislator who will seek to compromise those rights in the name of security.

The generations before us have worked too hard and labored too long to hand over the right to privacy and the responsibility of the national defense to rogue administrators and legislators who would betray our trust as a country. We must ensure that the freedoms and rights that have been secured for us remain so for future generations.

So on this Independence Day let us remember that the articulation of rights does not secure those rights. Only a vigilant citizenry can ensure the security of those rights guaranteed on paper. Our Constitution is a living document, which is given meaning through our participation. Through our direct engagement in the experiment of democracy we truly give meaning to the freedoms we celebrate.

George W Bush is perhaps the worst American president who has ever served. To this day it is a mystery to me how the man was able to gain the Republican nomination, steal the election, start two wars, get re-elected and then drag on a failed war for five years and drive the economy into the ground without getting impeached. Although the light is fading on the Presidency of Bush, it is not too late to impeach the man who lied to us about weapons of mass destruction. As of result of the President’s deception, over four thousand American soldiers have died in Iraq and tens of thousands have been wounded, not to mention the one million or so Iraqis who have died directly or indirectly due to Bush’s interference in their country.

The case for impeachment is strong, so strong that it has been supported by numerous Congressional representatives, most notably by Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio who introduced articles of impeachment in early June. Kucinich had the courage and the tenacity to say what needs to be said and to do what needs to be done. President Bush has violated the will of the people, but more importantly, he has violated the Constitution of the United States of America, a document that he was sworn to uphold and defend, and for this indiscretion President Bush deserves to be impeached.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it clear when she was elected Speaker of the House that impeachment was not on the table, and she has been true to her word since that date, betraying the trust of the American people and showing her true colors as well as those of the Democratic party generally, except for a few brave individuals such as Kucinich. The irony is that the Democratic Party and the left would be stronger if they called the President to account for his actions. In any event, there are numerous candidates outside of the two party duopoly who support impeachment because we believe this should be a campaign issue. We feel strongly about our rights as Americans and do not believe that a corrupt administration can compromise those rights. When they try, we believe that it is time to call them to account.

Bush must be called to account for the lies he has made in order to manipulate the general public. Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein was an immediate threat to America but the truth is that we were a real threat to Iraq. His administration lied about the issue of significant quantities of uranium being brought into Iraq from Africa. He lied about the connections between 9/11 and Iraq, continuously misleading the American people into believing there was a relationship. Bush lied about Iraq and Al Qaeda, misleading the American people into believing there was a collaborative relationship between the two. The President lied about weapons of mass destruction, insisting that there was evidence which consisted mostly of forged documents. The United Nations found no evidence of weapons of mass destruction and intelligence services produced no credible information to support Bush’s claim. As a result of these lies and misleading statements the United States was led into a war it could not win, spending hundreds of billions of dollars and causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

By supporting impeachment Kucinich has set in motion a process which calls to public light the terrible misdeeds of this administration. The tide of public opinion has turned against Bush and across the nation people are calling for impeachment. President Bush has condoned the use of torture on men, women and even boys in Iraq and at secret prisons around the world in the name of national security. He violated the constitution by denying habeas corpus and has called for domestic spying on Americans.

We can wait for the elections to remove Bush from office, but why wait until November? Indeed, although it is not a crime to be the worst President in the history of the United States, it is a crime to lie, mislead, deny constitutional rights, torture, spy and violate international law. There has never been a better case to impeach a sitting President than now. The people of Iraq, our soldiers abroad and ordinary Americans everywhere will all be better off once this criminal has been removed from office, and I say the sooner the better.

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It’s so sad. Watching the PUMA losers humiliate themselves like the shameless clucks they are. As much as I despise these McLames, something inside me just wants to cry for them.
I have never enjoyed, even my worst enemies, wallowing in such a pathetically shame-filled puddle of self pity….

Maureen Dowd has an interesting Op-Ed at the NY Times concerning this ridiculous “sudo-unity” media hype that we’re being forced to suffer.
UNITY, N.H. Wherever the fuck that is, was the scene of the Democratic “unity” expressions recently and we all got to see Obama and Bosnia Betty hugging and smooching and doing their best to act as though they actually like each other.
Fact is, Hillary is still a joke and Obama still knows it. Bill? Well, he’s running around the world acting like the sniveling brat that he has always been. Like a spoiled child not mature enough to handle rejection.

Bill whines, Hillary is insincere, Obama needs to concentrate on McSame, and the people in this country need to realize that the Democratic party is NOT DIVIDED AT ALL. Hillary Supporters have already come over to the “unity” party. Only a handful of McLosers remain. Playing squeaky wheel in an effort to support John McSame.

Yellow to the core

Like a particular idiot named “Carmella Lewis” that Ms. Dowd was kind enough to describe for us…

Carmella Lewis, with her Hillary T-shirt and Hillary placard, came all the way from Denver to make sure there would be plenty of ambiguity, duality and ferocity in Unity.

Just as Hillary was testing out the unfamiliar familiarity “Barack and me” Friday and talking about “his grace and his grit,” Carmella began loudly booing and waving her sign.

“We want Hillary!” screamed the 57-year-old retired ad saleswoman and Clinton delegate.

“It’s over, lady!” yelled some Obama supporters a few yards away.

This is where the sadness sets in. Seeing another stooge fall flat on her face in self-derision….

When Obama talked about moving beyond “all the petty bickering,” as Hillary robo-nodded at his side and CNN’s Candy Crowley applied pre-broadcast lipstick above her, Carmella glared at people applauding.

Afterward, Carmella got her idol to autograph her sign, telling the smiling Hillary, “You’re going to be the next president.”

She told The Times that she and her friends were all voting for John McCain and that Hillary was just doing what she had to do.

“But I have a gut feeling,” she said with macabre faith, “that something’s going to happen so that she becomes the nominee.”

Sigh.

UPDATE:
PUMAs found to be RNC Swift Boaters!

Darragh C Murphy is the pig that runs PUMA. Check out Open Secrets for the truth.

Murphy, a McCain contributer, has been exposed for the Right Wing trash he/she and his/her PUMAs are…

MORE HERE. Fine job, Pandagon.

Big brother is watching you and his name is AT&T. Sometimes he goes by the name of BellSouth and at other times he is known as AOL-Time-Warner. Big brother goes by a lot of names. He is listening to you while you talk and watching you while you type and everything you say could be recorded so he can look at it somewhere down the line. Now everyone knows that it is not polite to intrude on people in their private moments. The problem is that big brother doesn’t seem to know that peeking into people’s private communication is wrong and it should be illegal. Unfortunately President Bush wants to continue to grant immunity to telecommunications companies in the name of the so called ‘war on terror’ which in actuality is a war on the American people and the telecommunications infrastructure is the front line in the gradual diminishment of civil rights that Congress has permitted in recent years.

We need representatives in Washington DC who support protecting Americans instead of distrusting us. As a candidate for federal office I support legislation to abolish the Department of Homeland security, that Orwellian agency constructed in the days after 9-11, which has crafted the war on the American people and their rights since. I support the elimination of FISA loopholes and the closing of Guantanamo Bay and the return of all detainees to their countries of origin. I believe that the American people deserve full and open disclosure on all activities related to government spying conducted against her citizens. Finally, I support the elimination of discreet, undocumented funding of the Central Intelligence agency.

Our rights are not negotiable. Telecommunication companies have violated those rights and have broken the law in order to appease a corrupt and power hungry administration that is willing to throw out habeus corpus, the right to privacy and international law in a reckless drive down the road to never-never land. Corporations must be held accountable and the President and his cronies must be called to account for violating our basic constitutional rights. Unfortunately, Senator Obama has been a disappointment on this issue and has refused to honor his commitment to filibuster this legislation. As a result, we are once again adrift without a rudder, a captain, a ship or an engine, being dragged along by the tides of fear.

It is time to reject the efforts of George Bush and anyone else who wants to grant retroactive immunity to corporations that spy on Americans. Congress has proven itself to be too weak-kneed to stand up to the fear mongers, but there is a new line of candidates running for office who are not so willing to roll over and play dumb. Treason is not patriotic. We all know that the government spying on us is wrong, and that any agency or corporation that assists in breaking into our most intimate communications is not behaving in a democratic fashion. The new reality is that our privacy is being compromised until we roll back FISA protections and strip immunity for corporations that spy on Americans.

For more information on this issue please visit: http://www.usalone.com/no_following_orders.php

Hey, you can’t make this shit up.
One of John McSame’s top advisers was caught hoping for a miracle to save McCain’s campaign. Trouble is, it seems he was asking Allah for it.

That’s right, Charlie Black. The dirtbag former Chairman of BKSH & Associates. A sleezy lobbying firm associated with the infamous murder-for-hire firm Blackwater USA, has actually stated, in public (what a fucking idiot) that a new Terrorist attack on US soil would be an “advantage” for McCain…

From The Washington Post:

Charles R. Black Jr., one of McCain’s most senior political advisers, said in an interview with Fortune magazine that a fresh terrorist attack “certainly would be a big advantage to him.” He also said that the December assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, while “unfortunate,” helped McCain win the Republican primary by focusing attention on national security.

It’s sad. In Charles Black we have the Corporate-Fascist Republican mindset in a nutshell.
As long as we can lobby and get paid, who cares how many people die. That’s them.
Knee deep in Iraq and seeing the money fade with a Democratic President, Charles Black actually “quit” his lush job promoting the carnage he’s participated in just to run McSame’s (or whatever pro-war candidate) campaign.
Charles Black, by the way, is also known for being the tie that binds McSame and Hillary Clinton through Black’s close association with Clinton confidante, Mark Penn.

Imagine that…

Turd with ears

In a strongly worded statement issued yesterday afternoon, the campaign of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama called Black’s comments a “complete disgrace.”

“The fact that John McCain’s top adviser says that a terrorist attack on American soil would be a ‘big advantage’ for their political campaign is a complete disgrace, and is exactly the kind of politics that needs to change,” spokesman Bill Burton said. “Barack Obama will turn the page on these failed policies and this cynical and divisive brand of politics so that we can unite this nation around a common purpose to finish the fight against al-Qaeda.”

Good job, Charlie. You and your boss just keep proving to us, over and over again, what a bunch of soulless vermin you and your kind really are.

The Song Remains McSame.

America is in the midst of a recession largely attributable to the economic policies of the Bush administration and the Republican party. As a result of this recession, millions of hard working Americans have been put out of work. Almost every family in this country has been touched by the current recession. On top of this consumers are being forced to pay record high gas prices and hundreds of thousands of people have lost their homes due to foreclosure. Now is not the time to cut tax paying American citizens off of their unemployment benefits.

Since the beginning of this year nearly 325,000 people have lost their jobs and the unemployment rate is rising. As of May the unemployment rate stands at 5.5%, up nine percent just since April. With the cost of gas, food and medicine many families are suffering. As a candidate for federal office I support House Resolution 5749, the Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act, which will provide an additional thirteen weeks of extended unemployment benefits in most states. This means that 3.8 million citizens will continue to receive benefits through March of 2009.

I fully support the intentions of this legislation and would support companion legislation in the US Senate if elected to public office. It is only the first step towards a clear path out of the current economic recession, but it is a sign to the American people that our representatives and those candidates who are running for office believe that the government is there to serve the people. We know that families are suffering right now under the high cost of food, medicine, fuel, housing and other basic goods.

The reason that we are in this economic crisis is clear. The Bush tax cuts which provided tax breaks for billionaires and wall street bailouts have broken the back of the American treasury. Hundreds of billions of dollars thrown down a hole in Iraq has not helped the situation any further and the mushrooming federal deficit, which currently stands at nine trillion dollars, have all played their role in the current situation. It is clear that what is needed are policies and legislation which supports working families and puts Americans to work.

Now is not the time to take away unemployment benefits for people who have worked hard and contributed. The cost of extended these benefits is just a sliver of the billions we are wasting on death and destruction in Iraq. Let’s reinvest in America and let’ start by investing in the American people. By doing so we will ensure a more secure and prosperous future for everyone.

For more information on HR 5749 please visit: http://acorn.org/?12383

Idiots. Miserable fucking idiots.
How is it that after the murders of 4099 (confirmed) of our soldiers, the needless deaths of around one million Iraqis, the loss of international respect and the deep division and residual strife here at home, that the fucking asshats in our government haven’t learned that listening to Israel is always going to result in disaster?

What a bunch of fucking tools!

AIPAC, the chock full of traitors Pro-Israel Lobby that has infested this country is now pressing Congress to pass a resolution (H.CON.RES 362) to engage in unnecessary, unwise, and unjustifiable military aggression against Iran.

Now, first of all, fuck Iran. I don’t like Shiites anyway. But this habit we have of listening to the scumbag idiots and traitors at AIPAC, then sending our guys into harm’s way instead of Israel’s has to stop.
We are sacrificing our own people to satisfy the paranoia and racism of a nation that doesn’t deserve a fucking thing from us.
There is no proof Iran has Nukes. Iran has not attacked anyone. We’ve been here before.

Why doesn’t Israel attack if they feel threatened? Because the IDF couldn’t even handle Hezbollah face to face. So once again Israel’s war mouths spew and it’s our guys who line up to take the lead.

We don’t need any more of this fucking saber rattling bullshit that is costing people their lives.

Listen to Israel, fail. That’s how it goes.
I urge anyone that has a Rep in congress that’s worth even half a fuck to call their offices and tell them to stop listening to people who have committed treason against this country and stop listening to a nation that prides it’s self on deception!
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?!

Fuck AIPAC, Fuck Israel, and fuck each and every member of the House that endorses this ignorance.

PDF of TraitorPAC’s efforts:

Democrats in the House and Senate, this is not what we elected your sorry asses for.
This will not solve anything and indeed, only make a fucked up planet even more fucked up.

Waxman and Wexler, you should be very, very ashamed of yourselves.

According to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least one in four teenage girls nationwide have a sexually transmitted disease. Clearly abstinence only school programs do not deter young people from sexual activity, but in fact this direction actually deters young adults from access to information that they need to make responsible and safe choices. We must act immediately to withdraw funding for this program and allow teachers to present sensible sexual education curriculum.

As a candidate for federal office I believe that young people must be presented with all the facts available to them. Instead of relying on religious rhetoric and the value system of a fundamentalist minority, I believe that we must look clearly at human behavior as biological fact. The school system is not an avenue for proselytizing about various belief systems. Sexual activity is a fact of life, much like any other human activity and young people need to know the facts before it is too late.

Abstinence only until marriage curricula is censorship, pure and simple. Any school program that withholds scientifically valid information does not present young people with the full range of options they will actually face in life. This is a betrayal to the trust of our students who will carry the scars of misinformation with them their entire lives, both physically and psychologically. We must present them with all the information that they need to know at an appropriate age when they need to know it.

Seven years after abstinence only education was introduced into the school curriculum, many people are still not aware of the damaging affects that it is having on our young adults. The legislation uses the federal government to teach that abstinence is the only definite way to prevent sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy. Additionally the curriculum teaches that monogamous relationships within the context of marriage are the standard value system and anything else could be damaging, both psychologically and physically. School systems that have agreed to teach abstinence receive significant grants from the federal government via their state.

The problem with abstinence only education is that it isn’t real. It isn’t grounded in science or in fact. What we know is that the average teenager will become sexually active before they leave high school regardless of what the government tells them they should do. Educators who teach abstinence only know that it doesn’t work but they teach it anyway. So what they are really teaching is morality, which is the whole point of the legislation.

Withholding information from young people can be harmful. What our high school and junior high students need is comprehensive sexual education classes that are presented the way that they were intended to be taught. Our young people are worth the investment and telling them the truth about sex is the best bet to minimize the impact of the choices they are going to make. By fully educating our students about the risks of STD’s including HIV and the risk of pregnancy, and by presenting them with the range of contraception choices available to them along with the basic facts about human sexuality we are giving them the best tools to go into the world prepared.

By investing in comprehensive sexual education we can redirect the federal budget toward sensible priorities. The cost to taxpayers of abstinence only has been estimated to be as high as $500 million dollars when considering matching state funds. By eliminating abstinence only curricula we will also save public health dollars by providing reliable information which can help prevent costly misinformed decisions among sexually active teenagers. If elected to office I will work to see that Congressional appropriations regarding abstinence only education is brought before the public for hearings and debate and that the appropriations process does not automatically qualify for funding each year without review. It is the best decision for students and their future.

You know, John. If you weren’t the spineless, weak kneed pussy you really are, you would force gas companies to drop the price of fuel in lieu of confiscating their assets.

But that’s why you’re a born follower, isn’t it, John?

Well, now McSame wants to drill off-shore under the pretense of “not using Arab oil". See, it’s not just that American Oil Companies do business with Saudi Terrorists, it’s that oil is used at all. That’s the problem.
Of course a blithering idiot like McSame could never think deeply enough to understand that. But the fact is that anyone that does not have their sights set on alternative energy sources isn’t fit to lead a boy scout troop, much less America.

Offshore drilling has caused dramatic disaster in the past and in the clearly incompetent hands of corporate America, will cause disaster in the future.
McSame’s drilling plan, the McSame one he opposed during his Presidential attempt in 2000, is the last thing America needs. It’s just more money for Big Oil and more filth in our environment…

From CNN:

Barack Obama on Tuesday blasted McCain for changing his stance on offshore drilling.

“John McCain’s support of the moratorium on offshore drilling during his first presidential campaign was certainly laudable, but his decision to completely change his position and tell a group of Houston oil executives exactly what they wanted to hear today was the same Washington politics that has prevented us from achieving energy independence for decades,” he said in a statement. “It’s another example of short-term political posturing from Washington, not the long-term leadership we need to solve our dependence on oil,” he said.

An intellectually benign McSame taking the easy way out of a complex problem. *Sigh*. No thought or consideration for the future of America and her people. Typically Republican, something Americans stated clearly in 2006, and ‘07 and ‘08, they were sick of.
Running from the energy issue is just another example of the cowardice of John McSame.

Cowardice. “That’s not change we can count on".

Hey, we gotta call ‘em something.
Pretty much the McSame as the Bushies. Ignorant, self serving, narrow-viewed and completely void of any sense of morality, reality, or national vitality.

We don’t call him John McSame for nothing.

Ah yes, John McCain.

If George W. Bush came to a sudden stop, John McCain’s head would go half way up his ass. What’s really sad about McSame is that he’s so incredibly weak-kneed. The man is a born follower. He let anti-porn/morality crusader and cowardly swindler, Charles Keating, punk him into being part of a tragic ripoff scam known as the Lincoln Savings and Loan scandal. As one of the Keating 5, John McSame knowingly and willingly took part in the theft of mega bucks from both victim and taxpayer alike….

“Mr. Keating was convicted of defrauding 17 individuals of more than $900,000. These 17 persons were representative of 17,000 individuals from whom Mr. Keating stole $252,000,000. . . . The victims of Mr. Keating’s fraud came from a wide spectrum of society. Some were wealthy and well educated. Most were people of modest means and unfamiliar with high finance. One was, indeed, a poor carpenter who did not speak English and had his life savings stolen by Mr. Keating’s fraud.

McSame was reprimanded by the Senate Ethics Committee in 1991 for his thievery and other related stupidity.

Of course now, we’re faced with asking the McSame question we always asked about the BushBots.

What kind of person would support such a depraved individual for President?

Now granted, Republicans are depraved people and it’s hard to blame someone for voting for their own kind. But a sound mind and morally intact heart can’t help but wonder where the dignity has gone.
Take the “If we can’t have Hillary we’re voting for the Pig” lames for instance. The perfect example of the McLame. So self absorbed and pathetically delusional that they cast aside their own personal dignity to embrace spite.
So remarkably shallow that they are willing to vote against themselves (just like BushBots) just to show us all how mad they are about their Skank-in-Chief hopes going up in the smoke generated by their candidate’s dramatic lies and lack of substance.

So now, with a new election, where we would hope to have something different we have more of the McSame old shit.
More self serving delusions about Iraq, more fear and loathing to gain the coward vote, more Economic Epilepsy (actually, the McSame plan is totally incoherent. Really, you gotta read it LOL).

Hell, More of the McSame everything. Right down to privatization of Social Security and Health Care for everyone except those who can’t afford it.

John McSame is a joke.

I don’t care what he did in Vietnam, you don’t get to come home, abuse your own people, act like a punk then play the POW card when called on it.
McCain may well have been a brave soldier at one time. But he’s just another dirtbag now. And has no one but himself to blame.

Weak willed, morally void, born to follow but not to lead.

“That’s not change we can count on".

In 1989 the world stood still as the Berlin Wall fell and massive protests erupted in the Soviet Union. The whole world was watching as ordinary Russian people lay down in front of tanks, risking their lives in the name of freedom. In the resulting months, dramatic changes redrew maps throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The new hopes of an entire generation were born and the US had won the cold war.

A generation later the United States is still fighting the cold war, drawing Europe into a dangerous new arms race. The National Missile Defense Program is quietly making its way through Congress generating funding, research and development dollars in order to ensure that Ronald Reagan’s vision of the ultimate deterrent remains a fixed goal of national defense objectives. The NMD is a pork barrel project for defense contractors who just can’t seem to find anything useful to do with their research facilities and our billions of taxpayer dollars. It seems the old axiom is true, cold warriors never die, they just fade away into the background and keep on making policy.

The NMD, otherwise known as Star Wars, involves the production of a new generation of weapons designed to shoot down nuclear weapons in outer space. As the thinking goes, this ‘defense shield’ would provide a deterrent to nuclear weapons and thus give the United States a strategic advantage against any enemy. There are several problems with the NMD, and the US Senate should not allocate one dollar in research and development for Star Wars. As a candidate for federal office I will vigorously fight any attempt to bring weapons into space or develop a Strategic Defense Initiative.

My reasons for opposing the NMD are as follows: First of all, the program violates international law. A key component of NMD involves deploying weapons in space in violation of international treaties signed by the United States and ratified by the United Nations banning weapons of mass destruction in space, the development of space for military purposes and the promotion of space for strategic national objectives. My second reason for objecting to military funding for NMD is that the project will further erode relationships between the United States and Europe and will force Russia and China to respond in kind with counter development and spark a new global arms race.

The plan for NMD also involves the installation of military bases across the planet and the development of an entire new generation of weapons. One of the first steps would be the creation of radar systems and bases for interceptor missiles in Eastern Europe. The people of Europe have spoken loudly and clearly and they do not want new US military bases on their soil. They do not want NMD technology or facilities and have protested against the involvement of their parliaments or the ratification of treaties of agreement between the US and various countries in Eastern Europe, notably the Czech Republic and Poland.

The gift of peace was ours for the taking. At the end of the cold war the it seemed like United States had won the peace. In spite of the extreme costs of detente and weapons development and massive military budgets, there was a possibility for a new vision for US foreign policy. Unfortunately our leaders have betrayed us and after eighteen years the pressure is building. The reality is that we won the war but lost the peace as our cold warrior administrators continued to push the buttons of foreign policy throughout successive presidential administrations.

It has been a long time coming, but it is still possible to win the peace we could have claimed nearly a generation ago. Defunding the National Missile Defense project would send a clear message to Eastern Europe, Russia and China that the United States does not intend to draw the world into another nuclear arms race. Instead of investing in war, let us invest in peace. We do not have any more nuclear superpowers threatening our imminent destruction. After eighteen years we are the only threat remaining to global security. It is time to take a step away from the nuclear precipice and toward real steps for peace by dismantling our weapons of mass destruction and honor our obligations as signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The School of the Americas is a military training facility in Columbus, Georgia that trains military forces from Latin America in techniques of torture and counterinsurgency. This facility is taxpayer funded and has hosted more than sixty thousand soldiers since it was opened in 1946. The SOA, which was renamed a few years ago to the Western Hemispheric Institute for Security and Cooperation, is known around the world for the role that it has played as an institution for training soldiers in techniques of torture.

Soldiers who have attended the School of the Americas have been indicted and identified with brutal military repressions, targeted violence across Central America and South America. As a candidate for federal office, I support legislation to close the School of the Americas because graduates of the SOA have been involved in the violation of human rights.

There have been several efforts to raise awareness regarding the SOA over the past years, including the recently passed House Resolution 5658. The House Resolution, which was part of the National Defense Re-Authorization Act for 2009, requires that the names, rank, country of origin and dates of attendance be made public for graduates and instructors of the school.

Graduates of the SOA have been involved in crimes and atrocities across Latin America. Many of these individuals have been identified and we are about to learn the identities of hundreds of graduates who went on to rape, torture and even kill the thousands of people who were disappeared in Central America in the 1980’s and beyond. The Pentagon is afraid when the leaders of these death squads and human rights abusers are made public, then the public may turn against the SOA/WHINSEC.

The fact of the matter is that the general public has been against the School of the Americas for years, ever since it was revealed that six Jesuit priests and their housekeeper and her daughter were brutally murdered by graduates of the SOA. Then we learned that several nuns who were working in Central America were brutally raped and murdered by graduates of the SOA. Then the public learned that an entire village of 900 civilians was massacred by death squads trained in Columbus, Georgia. The public was outraged, and every year now, more than 20,000 people come to the gates of Fort Benning in November to call for Congress to close the School of the Assassins.

At a time when the United States is having serious problems with credibility in the eyes of the international community, closing the SOA/WHINSEC would go a long way toward restoring trust, security and cooperation around the world. The army, elected officials and the general public know that graduates of the SOA have included some of the worst human rights abusers in the global South. Closing this institution would send a clear message to Latin America and to our critics around the world that we are serious about restoring our international reputation.

Hi folks. I need to talk to you about something….

As you may or may not know, TN420 is Green to the core, but we did join up with the Dems to try and move the party to the Left. To a large extent we have been successful. Not nearly enough, but we’re getting there.

We are honored to have TN Green Party candidate, Chris Lugo, with us and we have endorsed his candidacy for the US Senate. He will receive our votes.
Our agendas are much the same. Peace, environmental justice, an end to Fascist Corporate rule in America….
Just a few issues that Greens and the Democratic Left share a passion for. United, we can accomplish these things with relative ease.

We are supporting Chris Lugo and we pledge to support other Green candidates for a variety of offices in the future. We need this bond with you and we feel we can accomplish great things when working hand in hand as one, powerful voting block.
The majority of Dems along with Greens is a lot of voters.

Now, we ask this of you.

As you know, certain dip-shits that like to refer to themselves as “Democrats” or DLC “Blue Dogs” have voted against our environment and the causes of justice regularly. Those same clowns are now threatening to vote for McCain because another anti-environment Democrat, Hillarity Clinton, has lost the nomination to Barack Obama.

Hillary Clinton didn’t even know what MTR mining was when asked. Probably her most disgraceful display of all.

Barack Obama, however, has stated emphatically that he will find a way around MTR.
Where John McSame stands is more than obvious. He’s as environmentally unsound as any Republican.

The point? We need you. We need you to cross over and vote for Obama. It’s in everyone’s best interests and you Greens will easily make up for the lost votes from the traitors that are the Clinton worshiping fringe. These pathetic, disgruntled fools are very few and their votes easy to replace.
Together we can nullify them and push Barack Obama to victory without their votes.
Surely you’ll agree that McCockroach must be defeated and Obama elected in order to further the Greener agenda and the interests of peace.

We will support Green candidates both locally and nationally. But we need you, and you need you, to join us in solidarity and vote for Barack Obama for President.
We feel that clearly it’s the quickest path to a Greener way of life.

Please think about it.
Your support and brotherhood is badly needed.

Very best regards,

captainkona

There is a country just ninety miles from the shores of the United States that I have never been to. The Republic of Cuba is the home of my grandmother and countless uncles, aunts and cousins scattered throughout Florida and points north. I am not allowed to travel to Cuba because there is an economic embargo on that country which has been in place for almost fifty years. If I do travel to Cuba I risk being fined $7,500 by my government for stepping feet on the native soil of my relations.

Cuba is about the size of my own state of Tennessee and at eleven million people it is close in terms of population. Originally a Spanish colony, Cuba declared its independence in 1868. In 1959 there was a popular revolution that put Fidel Castro into power and Cuba has been a socialist country since that date. The people of Cuba come from a melting pot of cultures and traditions. My own family was typical of many European immigrants who came to this area in the nineteenth century. Looking for opportunities and better living conditions abroad, they immigrated to the new world with hopes and dreams.

In the United States, there is a policy that governs the behavior of our country toward all matters hemispheric. It is called the Monroe Doctrine and what it means is that the US is the supreme power, the law of the land, and anyone in this hemisphere who thinks otherwise will learn to behave. This is the essence of the current embargo on Cuba, which began last century during the Kennedy administration. Cuba has always been subject to the Monroe Doctrine and has always suffered the impact of neo-colonial expressions of power by the US and corporate interests, along with most of the Caribbean and Latin America,.

Although the US assisted Cuba in gaining its freedom from Spain in 1902, the reality was that Cuba was trading Spain for America which invested heavily in Cuban production, especially in the raw products of sugar and tobacco. US companies owned most of the Cuban sugar industry and held majority control in most Cuban industries. By 1959, Cuba was known as a playground for the rich, where the mob could operate without interference and women were for sale to the highest bidders. Drugs flowed freely through Cuba and most of the population lived in poverty and ignorance.

The Cuban revolution was a small miracle in Western history. A band of twenty or so revolutionaries taking on an entire army, building resistance and popular support through a guerilla movement in the jungle mountains and eventually taking the entire country and pushing out the corporate and military interests of the most powerful nation on earth. They instituted a series of land reforms, housing reforms, education reforms and health reforms. Today the Cuban people are definitely better educated than they were before the revolution. They have universal health care in Cuba today and the tools of industry are in the hands of the government and not in the hands of foreign investment firms.

Although the revolution did eventually raise the standard of living of the entire population, Cuba is a mixed success and the people have paid a heavy price. I have met many people who have fled from Cuba. My own extended family left Cuba in the 1960’s when conditions were clearly on the way downhill. Cubans have been imprisoned for crimes against the revolution such as practicing religious beliefs, criticizing the government or attempting to leave the country. The bitter truth of a communist revolution is that it is a boring dictatorship. The claims of revolutionary politics are fantastical and the denial of individual liberty is too great a price to pay. Clipping the wings of freedom in the name of the people is just an abuse of state power and the record of history shows the results.

It is time to lift the economic embargo on Cuba. The United States has no business imposing its collective will on an entire country. The embargo has created victims of two generations of Cubans and has only served to reinforce the power of the dictatorship and consolidation of a failing government. What is needed is fair and open trade between the United States and Cuba and retention of the positive aspects of the revolution such as universal health care, education and land reform. We can learn a lot from the people of Cuba such as how to live with less and how to give our people more, and the Cuban people can benefit from trade relations with the United States.

The US embargo of Cuba is a relic of the cold war era, but it is in place because of the deeper history of US relations to Latin America and the Caribbean. The Cuban people have been defiant in the face of a fifty year embargo and have struggled to survive but they have persisted. The embargo has been condemned by leaders as diverse as George P. Shultz, Pope John Paul II and the United Nations, which has declared that the embargo is a violation of international law. As a candidate for federal office, I believe that it is time to allow Americans to travel freely to Cuba without the threat civil penalties and fines and I believe that it is time to end the economic and trade embargo on Cuba. It’s the right thing to do, for us and for them.

So, what do you say? We’ve been telling you it’s over since Wisconsin. We knew it was over when Hillary lost the Iowa Caucus.
So what have we gained from this disgrace of a Democratic Primary? Anything? No doubt something good, but it’s not all good. Or is it?

Let’s see….

By virtue of Barack Obama’s victory over Hillary Clinton , America has been given a new lease on life. The agents of Oligarchy have been defeated and America is now free of the Bush/Clinton Dynasty that has been abusing this nation since 1989.
Two decades of wars, paranoia, lies, Fascism, outrageous poverty rates and humiliating politicians.
From a Wimp to a Pervert to an Idiot to Bosnia Betty.
We can do without any more of that.

Actually, we could go back to 1976 when Bush Sr. became director of the CIA. That’s when the trouble really began.
But that’s another topic for another post.

The point is, they’re gone. There will be no Bush/Clinton found in the White House after January of ‘09.
That, in and of it’s self, is cause for national celebration. We are finally free, or are we?

Barack Obama is not a gem. He’s a Centrist, and Centrists rarely get anything substantial done. He does lean slightly to the Left so at least there’s hope. Something we haven’t had for a very long time and would not have again had a Clinton been the nominee.
All things considered, we’ll probably end up deeply regretting passing up John Edwards, but it could be far, far worse. We could be stuck with another Clinton which would only lead the way to president Jeb in 2012.

The only thing that stands in the way of Obama’s White House hopes, and our hopes for peace and prosperity, is a thief and warmonger named John McCain.

McCain is and idiot, much like Bush. He’s also a punk and that will be to Democrat’s advantage if he is the one elected President in November.
John McCain is a pushover. He’s a sissy.
Charles Keating was able to pressure John McCain into being involved in one of the major rip-off scams in American banking history. Just by challenging McCain’s manhood.
John McCain has flip-flopped on just about every single issue in this campaign season. The man is easily manipulated and prodded. He has no will of his own.
McCain has been tied to Lybian Terrorist Leader, Mahamar Ghadafy and some very dirty lobbyists.
The Democratic majority, soon to be an even bigger majority, will have little trouble making McSame their dough boy and having him jump through hoops at the snap of Nancy Pelosi’s fingers.

So again, the worst case scenario in November is better than the previous three or four administrations.
We’ve gained a real chance for a new, revitalized nation, or at the very worst a whipping boy to kick around for four years.

Let’s see… what else….?

We did get to see clearly that certain Democrats aren’t really Democrats at all. Instead we found that within the party we have an element of Me-o-crats who care nothing for the party, this country, our future or peace.
They care only for their Oligarchs. These Monarchical minded simpletons with their “throw roses at the King and Queen” world view made a concerted effort to block the path to democratic freedom and assist the Republican effort to hold the government.

We won’t forget them.

All in all the outlook is good. We finally have a Democrat that seems selfless enough to change things for the better. Barack Obama is not the final result of the Left’s surge in politics. He is merely a stepping stone to bigger and better things. Hey, let’s be real. If we can get a competent, well intentioned black guy to the White House, think of what we can do later.

A special, heart felt thanx to all those who fought for an end to the Bush/Clinton Dynasty. MoveOn, PDA, all the great Liberal organizations and pundits and bloggers and foot soldiers that made good use of their precious time to get involved in whatever way they could.
The first step is successful. Now comes the real fight.

John McCain must be stopped if America is to see it’s new dawn. Make no mistake. John McCain is the enemy and we have no choice but to trample him under foot.

There is a bill in the US Senate right now that deserves our support. Senate Bill 594, the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act, currently has twenty-one sponsors in the Senate. This bill would ban the use of cluster bombs, which injure thousands of innocent people each year. Unfortunately the Pentagon and Department of Defense officials have fought the effort to outlaw these weapons. Their reasoning is difficult to understand given the sobering reality that almost thirty percent of the bomblets released in each bomb fail to explode initially, leaving a deadly legacy for future generations of children to discover. The Middle East is filled with children who have lost arms and legs to unexploded cluster bombs. This is not the legacy of freedom and democracy we wish to leave the people of Iraq.

As a candidate for federal office, I support passage of Senate Bill 594 and would make this a priority if elected to office. In the meantime, it is important to pressure the US Senate to pass this bill now, before one more innocent child is killed or maimed for life due to our reckless foreign policy. On the international level, some eighty-two nations have supported resolutions to ban the use of cluster bombs. The United States still insists on the effectiveness of these weapons and refuses to join the international movement to ban this weapon, in spite of the fact that cluster bombs are one of the most deadly weapons facing our own troops. Unexploded bomblets remain a real threat to US troops long after they have been dropped on their intended targets.

Although they are a threat to our soldiers serving overseas, the biggest threat that cluster bombs pose is to civilians who remain in the areas of conflict long after the fighting has subsided. Unexploded cluster bombs scatter across large tracts of land, turning the areas bombed into defacto land mine zones. According to the American Friends Service Committee, ninety eight percent of the casualties of cluster bombs have been civilians. The United States manufactures these weapons and private manufacturing companies profit from the use of these weapons, which are largely inaccurate and indiscriminate in whom they kill. The time has come for the United States to join the international community in banning these inhumane weapons.

Senate Bill 594 would prevent the US military from using cluster bombs on civilian populations and it would prevent the export of cluster bombs for use in residential areas. Finally the bill would restrict all use and export of cluster bombs by the government. This bill would go a long way toward preventing unintended deaths and injuries to children and adults. The reality of cluster bombs is that long after the war is over, non-combatants are still being killed because of our current policies. In Lebanon, for instance, US produced cluster bombs were used by Israel in 2006. These bombs killed 285 people during the conflict, which ended that same year. In the two years since that time an additional 250 people have been killed in Lebanon by unexploded cluster bombs, nearly as many as were killed during the conflict itself. Additionally, there remains an estimated one million unexploded US produced cluster bombs, which continue to pose a threat to civilians in Lebanon.

Now is the time for the United States to begin to work to restore the trust of the international community. We must withdraw our troops from areas of occupation, and we need to remove our military forces from Iraq. We should clean up the mess that we have made of that country, including clearing landmines and civilian neighborhoods, which have been contaminated with unexploded cluster bombs and depleted uranium. Passage of Senate Bill 594 will send a clear message to the people of Iraq and the surrounding region that we really do care about international human rights and the well being of their children.

to learn more about the campaign to stop cluster bombs visit:

http://www.fcnl.org/weapons/clusterlanding/clusters_landing9.htm
http://www.clusterprocess.org/

Thanx for being there, guys and gals. Thanx for the sense of duty, the selflessness, and the sacrifice.

It’s not your fault that the Commander In Chief is gutless windbag that cares no more for your lives than he does those of a bucket full of minnows.

Your our finest, most courageous citizens. You get killed, maimed, forgotten, spat on, accused, punished, and basically fucked in every possible way by an administration that cares more about Israel than it does it’s own people.
Understand this, you are every bit the victims the Iraqis are. You are the weapon, not the killer. No soldier ever went into battle without being ordered in. Policy kills, and you don’t make policy. We do.

Civilians are responsible for this travesty. Elected (actually, unelected) chickenhawk leaders and treasonous citizens who advise them are responsible for each and every one of you who died in that hell hole (yes, I have been there).
Marhabah.

You were used to fight a battle that the IDF was simply too chickenshit to fight for themselves. The Israel-First traitors in the PNAC/FDD, along with their sock puppets in the White House and DHS, sent you there to die in place of Israeli soldiers.
You have once again been shit on.

So while your guys get life in Leavenworth for trying to stay alive in a war, while those Blackwater bitches get away with cold blooded murder, remember that the only ones that give a flying fuck if you live or die, Liberals, are thinking about you and doing all we can to get you home where you belong.

Just remember that you are not to blame, and one day, those that are will pay the highest of prices for their zeal and their insatiable greed.

Thanx again for putting your boots on the ground.

-captainkona

In Memory of One Million Iraqi Dead

In 2006, the Lancet did a scientific study in which they estimated that the number of Iraqis who have died since the beginning of the US occupation in 2003 was greater than 600,000 people. This figure included the results of sectarian violence, revenge killings, suicide bombings and deaths at the hands of soldiers and occupying forces. That number alone is a staggering figure, but now, only two years later the estimate of dead has increased to almost one million. On this Memorial Day, as we gather to remember our loved ones who have died in war let us include the men, women and children who have died in Iraq.

In a recent survey conducted in Iraq by Opinion Research Business it was found that twenty percent of Iraqi households had at least one family member who had died in their family as a result of the conflict, rather than due to natural occurrences. In addition to the grief and loss caused by these deaths, many Iraqi households have also lost their primary source of support as men have been killed, recruited into militias, imprisoned or have fled Iraq. Now is the time to call for an international war crimes tribunal against the Bush administration for crimes against humanity.

The West does not receive much information about real conditions on the ground in Iraq. Ever since the beginning of the occupation, news and information has been heavily censored and as a result the actual conditions of the Iraqi people is difficult to gauge. The Pentagon has stopped counting the numbers of civilians killed in battle operations and does not keep track of individuals killed as a result of sectarian violence, suicide bombings, revenge killings or disappearances.

What we do know about Iraq is terrifying. Iraq is a country that is occupied by nearly three hundred thousands soldiers and private contractors. Two million Iraqis have fled the country, seeking asylum in neighboring countries since the war began. At least 42,000 Iraqi men have been detained in military prisons operated by the United States under suspicion of being insurgents. We do not know how many of those men have been release, how many have been tortured and how many have died. Normal law does not exist in Iraq. The military can enter any household at any time for any reason. Men can be detained on the street and held in custody without notice to extended family. Private security contractors are given a license to kill with immunity.

One million Iraqi civilians have died as a result of this occupation. On this Memorial Day, let us remember the dead. Regardless of whether they were killed in the line of duty or are victims of war, each one has a name, a mother, a history, and an identity. These men, women and children did not deserve what was done in the name of freedom and democracy. Only we have the power to stop this senseless violence. We must call on Congress to bring the troops home now, and in November we must sweep out the Bush administration and every member of the House and Senate who voted for war.

Saddam Hussein was brought before a court and tried for the massacres that he committed, yet there has been no such human rights tribunal to try President Bush for crimes against humanity. Bush continues to insist on the righteousness of his cause, in spite of the evidence to the contrary. The President be must called to account for his reckless decision which has destroyed an entire nation and resulted in so much death and suffering. On this Memorial Day, let us learn from the lessons of the past and make choices that will insure peace and justice for future generations.

to learn more about Iraqi civilian deaths please visit:

www.iraqbodycount.org
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/19/iraq

This wacky bitch has lost it completely. She now appears to be making veiled threats against Barack Obama. Either that or trying to plant it in the minds of some. At the very least the most blatant racist remark to come out of her camp yet.

This is disgraceful and Hillary “nut case” Clinton needs to be questioned by the Secret Service and perhaps placed under surveillance.

What a vile and disgusting person she is….

See the Video HERE

From News Room America:
Clinton Raises Assassination Issue
2008-05-23 12:12pm

In comments to a newspaper editorial board, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Hillary Clinton raised the issue of assassination as a backdrop argument for staying in the race against rival Sen. Barack Obama.

“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it,” she said, dismissing calls to drop out, the New York Post reported Friday.

Clinton was talking with members of the editorial board of the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader’s editorial board while campaigning in South Dakota.

There, she complained that, “People have been trying to push me out of this ever since Iowa.”

Sen. Robert Kennedy, the brother of President John F. Kennedy, was gunned down in 1968 after winning the California primary. He was a hero of the left who promised to get U.S. troops out of Vietnam.

Maybe the Vince Foster rumors are not so outrageous after all.

We all know that Lamar Alexander is a fixture in Washington DC politics, but what has he done for you lately? In a recent interview with the Cookeville Herald Citizen, Senator Lamar Alexander said that we are not in a recession in Tennessee. He said that recession is “a technical word” and that technically we are not in a recession. Speaking to the graduating class of Tennessee Tech Alexander said that there are some big challenges ahead but that we are currently only in an “economic slowdown.” Alexander said that something needs to be done but I am wondering what the good Senator from Tennessee intends to do. If you examine his voting record, it is clear that the policy decisions that Alexander has favored are part of the reason we are in this recession in the first place.

For starters, let’s look at the Senator’s record on the war in Iraq. The war, which has cost us some $700 billion dollars and has cost the state of Tennessee directly some ten billion dollars in taxpayer expenditures for the war effort, means that there are less dollars available in the federal budget for education and alternative energy development and it means that there is more federal debt. Alexander voted for the original war and since then he has voted for every expenditure that has come before the Senate to extend funding for the war. He has voted against pulling troops out of Iraq when the opportunity has arisen.

Lamar has voted for the most destabilizing foreign policy expenditure in recent memory. Experts agree that the biggest reason for high oil prices in the global market is because of instability and uncertainty in the Middle East. Investor confidence has been greatly shaken by US activities in the Middle East and has driven down the value of the dollar in relation to other major international currencies. As a candidate for federal office, I support an immediate withdrawal of US armed forces from Iraq. I have spoken out clearly and directly on the issue of the war and my opposition to the current misadventure. If we had not invaded Iraq, the international marketplace would have greater confidence in the American economy and the global markets would not be reacting with so much fear and uncertainty to current market conditions.

Now let’s look at taxes. Senator Alexander supports a flat income tax. He supports reducing the tax rates that wealthy people pay to 15% while at the same time he supports expensive, taxpayer funded military ventures. A flat income tax means that rich people will pay less and poor people will pay more. Flat taxes are already inherently unequal in terms of revenue and the response of a flat tax by state and local municipalities will be to simply increase sales taxes and other income generating revenues which will disproportionately affect the poor. Lamar also voted to cut taxes on capital gains and dividends. Lamar has made it clear where his interests lay, and it isn’t with the working people of this country.

The record of Senator Alexander’s votes means we have a higher federal deficit because Lamar doesn’t believe that rich people should pay their fair share. It also means less opportunity for working class people to get ahead which only drives them further into poverty. As a candidate for federal office, I believe that we need to roll back the Bush tax cuts. Corporations and the wealthy need to pay their fair share. They are members of this country, the same as everyone else. It is time to restore progressive taxation as a national policy.

Now let’s look at Alexander’s record with regard to working people. I’ve already talked about how a flat tax will end up costing working people more money in the long run. Less federal revenue means more toll roads, privatization of public services and higher local, municipal and state taxes to pick up the extra needed revenue. These aspects alone will reduce the standard of living for the middle class, but if we continue to support the policies of Alexander, we will find that standard of living even further eroded.

Alexander has supported fundamental dismantling of one of the most important social safety nets our country has created, the Social Security System. Now why Alexander would be against a federal program that provides support and resources to our senior citizens is beyond me, but if it is any indication of where he stands, Lamar was given a big fat zero by the Alliance for Retired Americans for his anti-senior voting record. Social Security works, and in spite of the Republican scare tactics, the program isn’t going broke. If we were to privatize social security, then there is a guarantee that the poorest Americans will have nothing when they retire and the whole purpose of the program will have been rendered meaningless. As a candidate for federal office I fully support the Social Security program and commend it as one of the most successful government programs of the twentieth century for ensuring quality of life into old age.

There are so many other ways that we could look at Alexander’s record which show that he votes against the interests of working people and for the interests of the wealthy and corporations. Since Tennessee is mostly made up of working people, I wonder who Alexander’s decisions are going to work for. It is time for progressive leadership in Tennessee. Time to restore the minimum wage to a living wage with annual increases to adjust for cost of living. It is time to support universal single payer health care to ensure that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care and it is time to use the federal government as an agency for lifting up working people rather than letting the market drag them down.

We can make it out of this recession and make this country into a nation that works for everyone, but we have to follow sound federal policies in order to make this a reality. It is time to restore progressive taxation as a national policy and ask the wealthy and corporations to pay their fair share. It is time to strike down anti-union legislation that increases profits for investors by reducing labor costs, shipping jobs overseas and turning our manufacturing base into a Walmart service economy. It is time to make sure that education is funded as a priority and defense is secondary in terms of budget allocation to the health and well-being of children and families. As a candidate for the US Senate in Tennessee I believe that these are the policies that will insure a modest national prosperity for all.

Well, Oregon anyway.
Hey, I love the state. That’s one beautiful place and it’s full of beautiful people.
They gots good weed too.

They also have the brains to know who will be the better candidate to lead the Democratic party into the future.

Voting in a Presidential election finally means something again. We have to choose between two candidates, neither of them are named Bush or Clinton.
That, in and of it’s self, is a victory of epic proportions.

Now it’s time to win the final battle. The Republican Right must be driven back under the rocks and into the cracks and crevices they crawled and/or slithered out of.
Their accomplices in the Democratic party must likewise be removed.
In 2006, Howard Dean and the Democratic forces took the first step in accomplishing these goals. Since then, organizations like MoveOn, backed by bloggers on line and workers on the streets have chipped away at the foundation of lies and deceit that the Republican party stood upon.
Barack Obama ended up the result.

A new America is literally at our fingertips. John McCain must be vanquished. Not just defeated, but FUBARed. As mercilessly as he robbed the hard working, decent, family men and women who lost their life’s savings to him and his verminous accomplice Charles Keating.
John McCain is not worthy of one single drop of our respect. Not one.
You don’t get to return from war, victimize Americans while in a position of trust, and call yourself a “hero".
McCain may have been a “hero” then, but he’s nothing but shit now. A haphazard buffoon with no knowledge of any real issue and no plan other than BushCo 2.0

John McCain is the guy who would set his coffee cup down on the Red Button and wonder why everyone’s staring at him in horror.

We’ve had all the stupid we can take.

Boy, look at all those black folk

Oh goddamn! It’s a Lefty stampede! …

And the beat goes on…

This year, the United States government is scheduled to spend more than $622 billion dollars on the military budget, which includes an additional $171 billion dollars for the occupation of Iraq. In comparison, the US will only spend $56 billion dollars this year on education and only $3.4 billion on energy development. At the current rate of spending it will take 183 years of alternative energy development to match one year of spending on the war in Iraq, and eleven years of funding education for our children will still not match even one year of spending on this war. We have seriously misplaced our priorities, and it driving us further into debt, an estimated $9.357 trillion dollars this year.

The US Senate has an opportunity to begin to turn the clock backwards this week, in the name of our children and the future of our country. Last week the House passed a bill which would create a timetable for withdrawing US troops from Iraq, limit the ability of the CIA to torture prisoners and increase domestic spending on budgetary priorities that need our attention here at home such as universal health care, which would cost an estimated $169 billion dollars to provide coverage to the remaining 47 million Americans who currently lack health care coverage. For an additional $58 billion dollars we could provide access to universal higher education for all students who want to go to college.

The Senate is considering legislation that would add an additional $168 billion dollars to the US federal debt to fund an additional year of bombers, tanks, military bases, cluster bombs, hummers, and blackhawk helicopters for the military in Iraq. What we need to do in the US Senate is stop funding for the war in Iraq right now. As a candidate for federal office I would make it my first priority to stop all military funding for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Right now ever American in this country holds a liability of $30,777 which we owe to various banks, investment firms and foreign governments who have bought the promisory notes which our government has issued with the promise of payback at some future date. Over fifty percent of that debt is owed specifically on military spending for the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, the first war in Iraq, military expenditures in over 140 countries and even debt that is owed on the wars in Vietnam and Korea that have not yet been fully paid. Our debt load is enormous and it is the symbolic albatross around the neck of our children.

As long as we continue to vote for candidates who are bought and paid for by lobbyists, corporations and country clubs we will continue to get what they pay for which is more war, more military spending, higher gas prices and declining competitiveness in the global market place. I urge you to write to your Senator and tell them to vote no on more money for war and in November to vote for candidates who care more about education and health care than Halliburton and warfare. In Tennessee, the choice is clear. You can vote for the Republican, Senator Lamar Alexander who will spend another $168 billion dollars of your children’s future or you can vote for peace by supporting candidates who will stop funding the war and bring the troops home now.

When I was a senior in high school I participated in the model united nations program. As thousands of students do each year, I chose a country to represent as part of the student program. In my case I chose Norway, the home of my mother’s ancestors. I was very excited to receive mailings from the Norwegian embassy, which I diligently researched in order to accurately represent my country of choice. Sitting in our high school library we passed resolutions to abide by strategic arms control and non-proliferation issues.

It has been more than twenty years since I participated in that program as a high school student, and in that time a lot has changed in the world. The cold war ended with the fall of communism in eastern Europe, the economic engines of southeast Asia and China have changed the playing field in global politics, free trade agreements have devastated the American economy and global awareness has become focused on the dangers of greenhouse gas warming of the planet.

Some things stay the same though, from one decade to the next. Men and women still fall in love, the birds sing and the bees buzz, the rain falls and the wind blows, and the United States fails to pay its dues to the United Nations, year after year, to the tune of some $2.8 billion dollars. According to the United Nation Association of the USA, the U.S. owed $633 million in arrears to UN peacekeeping alone and this number is estimated to increase by between $250 million to $1 billion over the course of 2008.

The right wing yak machine loves to discuss the ineffectiveness of the United Nations on talk radio. Day after day, week after week, the public is bombarded by arguments against international cooperation and peacemaking. In the meantime, the Bush administration follows a unilateral approach with regards to foreign policy. As a result of these twin towers of ignorance and power, the United States is now perceived internationally as a rogue superpower, willing and able to ignore international agreements and national sovereignty in the name of fanatical patriotism and war profiteering.

The United States still has a role to play in the United Nations, but only if we elect representatives who will respect the historic role that the UN plays as an agency of first resort for all agreements international. Whether it is peacekeeping, refugee assistance, development, food aide, nutrition, global health, disarmament, weapons inspection, disease prevention, global education or family planning, there is a UN program available to deal with that situation. The United Nations is an integral element of global peacemaking and development.

As a candidate for federal office I support full funding of the United Nations and associated programs. I believe this is the right thing to do, not just for the international community, but also for the United States. I firmly believe that the way to restore US credibility in the international community is by fully paying our dues and supporting the UN in their role as an agency of international cooperation.

Oh, yeah. The clincher. Let’s hope for Obama-Edwards ‘08 and a newer, stronger America.

No better endorsement, no better choice for Veep.
‘Nuf said….

From the Washington Post:

By Peter Slevin and Anne E. Kornblut
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. –
Vanquished Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards will endorse Sen. Barack Obama tonight, giving the Illinois senator a boost after a bad loss in West Virginia.

Edwards is scheduled to appear with Obama at a rally here in Grand Rapids due to begin at approximately 6:15 p.m., the Obama campaign announced.

Edwards, a former senator and former vice presidential candidate from North Carolina, had long been courted by Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, but refused to choose.

But with Obama holding a nearly insurmountable lead in pledged delegates and the popular vote, Edwards decided to get off the fence.

The nation’s leading Pro Choice group has endorsed Barack Obama.

I guess that makes them “misogynists” too…

From the LA Times:

Barack Obama wins the nod from NARAL

Amid minor movement today among Democratic superdelegates – so far, Barack Obama has picked up 2 1/2 votes [UPDATE: make that 3 1/2] and Hillary Clinton, one – Obama scored a coup with an endorsement from the nation’s foremost abortion rights advocacy group.

In a news release, the political action committee for NARAL Pro-Choice America had kind words for Clinton but annoounded its backing for Obama, citing its reading of the status of the Democratic presidential race.

“Today, we are proud to put our organization’s grass-roots and political support behind the pro-choice candidate whom we believe will secure the Democratic nomination and advance to the general election,” NARAL’s president said in the release. “That candidate is Sen. Obama.

Clinton’s chief spokesman, Howard Wolfson, expressed “surprise” over the endorsement during a conference call with reporters (including The Times’ Noam N. Levey).

It’s no secret that the DLC types are as detached from our troops as most Republicans are. They voted to dump our guys in an illegal, immoral, bloodbath occupation in Iraq…and voted to fund it with countless billions of dollars.
But when it comes to taking care of our bravest citizens after the arms and legs are missing and the brains are scrambled, their concerns always seem to lie elsewhere.

Big thanx to SMF269 @ RRMB:

We’ve seen the little car magnets and other such self-indulgent “support or troops!” rhetoric. Lots of it here in Tennessee actually.
And though many of us surely do “support them", some of our elected representatives seemingly do not. At least, not in the long run.

In 1944, FDR signed the original GI Bill, which gave every veteran a chance to go to college. It paid for tuition, fees, books, and gave veterans a living stipend. The GI Bill helped the “Greatest Generation” readjust to civilian life. It helped pull us out of a post-war recession, and it helped build the middle class. Every dollar spent on educational benefits under the original GI Bill added at least seven dollars to the national economy.

Today, 1.7 million troops have come home from Iraq and Afghanistan, but the GI Bill no longer covers anything like the cost of college. So a bipartisan coalition of veterans now serving in the Senate introduced a new GI Bill, modeled on the World War II legislation. This bill recently got added to the war funding bill currently in Congress.

Now, the question…

Why is a small group of Blue Dogshit Tennessee Democrats trying to harpoon the GI Bill upgrade?
Damn good question!
Now I’ll leave it up to the Tennesseans in their districts to ask them.
300-plus Senators and Representatives from both parties and all the major veterans organizations in America have endorsed this legislation.
So, why are Reps. John Tanner (D-TN) (who is a veteran oddly enough) and Jim Cooper (D-TN) trying to derail this much needed action?

We wish we knew, and we’ll try and find out. But some of you in those districts should also ask what the problem is.
I mean, we all know that Cooper and Tanner are just Republican Lite goofballs, but surely they would agree that our soldiers are entitled to THE BEST FUCKING CARE WE CAN AFFORD THEM, YOU MISERABLE DLC IDIOTS!

Sorry, ahem…..

According to Mr. Tanner

“Some of us oppose creating a new entitlement program in an emergency spending bill, whether it’s butchers, bakers or candlestick makers.”

What?

Nursery rhymes? He references nursery rhymes when making major military veteran support issue decisions?
What’s next? Mother Goose next time we send someone to the moon?

From Heath Shuler (another clown) to the great Dennis Kucinich, everyone is behind this much needed, well earned, and duly owed legislation.
Except Cooper, Tanner and a few others.

Tanner, Cooper….
You put them there you fucking morons. Now let’s see some of that “support” you claim to have.
Our people need a GI Bill that covers all the bases. There’s no excuse for keeping it from them.

We use them all the time - our firefighters, police officers and emergency medical service personnel. Hardly a day goes by that we don’t come into contact either directly or indirectly with these hard working public servants. When we have traffic accidents or emergencies at home or at work these public servants are the first on the scene in our communities. Often risking their own safety in order to serve the public good, these employees of our cities, states and municipalities deserve to have collective bargaining rights.

The problem is that tens of thousands of these public safety officers do not have the right to negotiate with their employers, often leaving our firefighters, police officers and emergency medical personnel without a voice at work. There is a remedy to this situation - it is called the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, or Senate Bill 2123. This bill would go a long way toward remedying a situation that has become unacceptable. It would allow public safety officers the collective bargaining rights they deserve, including the right of public safety officers to bargain over wages, hours and working conditions.

The bill would also provide a dispute resolution mechanism for when there is not agreement between management and labor and it would provide the enforcement of contracts through state courts. The problem is that there are many states that do not offer our public safety personnel minimum bargaining rights. In these states it is very difficult for public servants to organize and ultimately we pay the price. A workforce that does not have the right to organize is less productive and has lower self-esteem on the job.

Our public safety is worth the investment. As a candidate for the US Senate I do not believe we should cut corners when it comes to the needs of our public servants. That is why I support Senate Bill 2123 and would work to pass it into law if elected to the US Senate. This bill already has broad bipartisan support and its companion bill was passed in the US House recently. We owe it to our public safety employees to ensure that they have collective bargaining rights. So let’s give them the voice that they deserve.

for more information please visit www.AmericanRightsatWork.org

America faces a housing crisis that it has not seen the likes of since the great depression. Hundreds of thousands of families have lost their homes due to the mortgage crisis in the past year and more are at risk if we don’t act now. That is why the US Senate must support some version of the Foreclosure Prevention Act, which passed this past week in the US House. This legislation, which is on its way to the Senate next week has been threatened with veto by President Bush.

As usual, the President is wrong. The President has said that he would veto the legislation if it comes to his desk because he doesn’t believe that certain types of people should be rewarded for their bad decisions. What the President means is that poor people shouldn’t be protected from predatory lenders and that the government shouldn’t have any regulatory responsibilities when it comes to mortgage lenders.

The fact is that this housing crisis could have been avoided. It is the result of twenty-five years of federal deregulation across the board combined with a speculative investment industry gone haywire. A rational person would conclude that after seeing so many foreclosures, maybe there is something wrong with the system. But when it comes to the role of the free market and the responsibilities of the government to legislate for the common good, the Republicans just don’t get it. Their belief is that the free market is always the best solution to every problem. Just this week, House Representative Marcia Blackburn of Tennessee said that the foreclosure legislation would “provide a safety net for irresponsibility.”

Tennessee’s Republican constituency wants to live in the good old days when the poor people knew their place and didn’t try to do anything irresponsible like own a home or expect a living wage. Their response to this legislation clearly shows the misdirection of the Bush administration and his Republican supporters. In contrast to that is the message of the progressive left in this country, which has real solutions to the housing crisis, some of which are contained in the legislation currently making its way to the US Senate and some of which is not included. As Americans on the verge of a grave financial crisis, it is important to get a grip on why we are in this situation. It is in large part due to the deregulatory nature of federal policy, which has been encouraged by twenty-five years of conservative and neoliberal administrations.

In a deregulated free market without proper government oversight, poor people are victimized by predatory lenders and cannot count on the government to provide regulatory oversight. This is at the root of the mortgage crisis and the federal government has an ethical responsibility to step in now and attempt to remedy the damage that it could have avoided by placing stricter limits on what lenders can and cannot do in order to get a poor person to sign on to a mortgage.

But in order to really address the root of the housing crisis, the federal government must take steps to address the root causes of poverty, unemployment, low wages and homeless in America. We must take steps now to raise the federal minimum wage to a living wage, which is about $10.50 an hour plus benefits. We must invest in job training and invest in our education system to ensure that all Americans have a chance to attend college. We must invest in affordable housing for all Americans. Finally, we need to invest in quality, affordable, single payer health care.

I believe that we can build a community where all Americans can live with hope. If we stop investing hundreds of billions of dollars on war and violence and invest in our domestic infrastructure, we can begin to rebuild this country. We must begin by paying Americans a wage that a family can reasonably expect to live on. We must ask those who have received the most benefit from our system to give the most by rolling back the Bush tax cuts. We must use the government as an agency of good and regulate the more ruthless elements of a free market. If we fail then we must ensure that the government is there, as a safety net, to make sure that no one falls through the cracks.

Nashville, TN: The Green Party of Tennessee has nominated Chris Lugo as their candidate for US Senate in Tennessee this year at their state nominating convention in Nashville held Saturday. Lugo said that he was excited to be representing the most progressive political party in the state of Tennessee, “The Green Party is the most progressive party in the state, and I am glad to be representing them as a candidate for federal office. My views about the environment, the war, health care and education are highly compatible with the ten key values of the Green Party. I hope to represent them well as a candidate and to promote the cause of peace through my campaign.”

Lugo had originally been seeking the Democratic nomination in January and was the first to register with the state, but then dropped out of the Democratic nominating process in March, citing strong differences in basic values, “Originally I had considered running as a Democrat. There was no one running because the Governor had scared off all of the front-runners and I felt like this was a good opportunity to promote the peace issue, which I have been advocating for since the spring of 2002. But after actively campaigning as a Democrat for several months I got the sense that the Democrats and myself were not on the same page. I wish the Democrats well and I hope that they come up with a clear anti-war policy this year.”

The Green Party has had a long history as an advocate for peace and justice and has issued numerous releases opposing the war in Iraq as well as US intervention in Afghanistan and has condemned the detention of prisoners of war at Guantanamo Bay and has spoken out clearly against torture, “The Green Party is really the conscience of this country. They have been working for peace and against war for a long time now. The Democrats voted for the war in Iraq and have voted for every funding appropriation that has come to the Senate since that day.”

The US Senate is currently considering extending funding for the war in Iraq with another appropriation of $178 billion dollars for the ongoing occupation of Iraq, “The democrats are dragging their feet on this one and they have been so disappointing since they came to power in 2006. I am glad that they are calling for a troop withdrawal as part of their proposal, but the fact is they are going to vote for spending for billions more for the war. This is the Democrats bait and switch and it isn’t the first time they have called for troop withdrawals sometime down the road while voting to spend billions more for war right now.”

The Green Party has also been the strong party on environmental issues for over twenty five years, having brought the issues of global warming, public transportation, alternative energy, the oil crisis, the food crisis, corporate agribusiness and species extinction to the public’s attention long before being Green was considered fashionable. “Nowadays we have Green Drinks and Green commerce and Carbon credits and people are taking global warming seriously. It looks like everyone is going Green and we have been doing it for over twenty-five years. We are the Green Party and the public is going to need the collective wisdom that this party has developed from its twenty five year commitment to environmental sustainability.”

Lugo favors weaning the public off of oil and moving toward a sustainable energy infrastructure. “If you look at my platform you will see that I have been talking about alternatives to oil since I began this campaign. It is clear that the current oil crisis is being driven by tensions in the Middle east and investment speculation in energy commodities. I support legislation to require that big oil begin to invest in sustainable energy. The billions of dollars that are currently being driven into the pockets of investors needs to go into research and development to find alternatives to oil and coal.”

The Green Party of Tennessee, which held its nominating convention in Nashville on Saturday, also endorsed John Miglietta, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Tennessee State University, as their candidate for the Fifth Congressional District. Miglietta, who is an officer with the Green Party of Middle Tennessee, will be challenging Jim Cooper for the House Seat, which covers most of Davidson County and the surrounding area. “I am happy to have John as a running mate and will be actively campaigning with him when I am in the middle Tennessee area. I also hope to debate the candidates for US Senate who are running this year, including Libertarian candidate Daniel Lewis, Republican incumbent Lamar Alexander and other candidates on the ballot. I believe the voters deserve the opportunity to hear from all the voices in the US Senate race this year and hope the press and civic organizations will allow the opportunity for democracy to be practiced as it was intended.”

Chris Lugo will be on the ballot on November 4th, 2008 in the US Senate general election in Tennessee. For more information please visit www.chris4senate.us

It’s for real. Nobody’s making it up.
Bill and Hillary Clinton deliberately and sadistically manipulated and abused one Peter Paul. A California businessman and one time friend of the Clinton’s.

In doing so, the Clinton’s also caused a great deal of harm to the legendary comic artist, Stan Lee, creator of Spiderman, the X-Men and other historic comic books.

The case is in court and ongoing. The Clinton appointed judge is doing everything he can to keep Hillary out of court. The video below proves that Hillary Clinton is not only the liar we have seen, but a wholly dishonest and deceptive person by nature.

The abuses, including jail in a foreign land, that Mr. Paul was subjected to prove conclusively to us that indeed the Clinton’s are just the flip side of the Bush/Cheney coin.

Big Hat Tip to our good friend, Carole Borges.

Albert Hoffman,

Most people that read this will never have a clue what this great mind has done for mankind.
The tormented minds of many people suffering from schizophrenia and a variety of other vicious ailments have found relief in the caring nature of this wonderful man.
I know I will never forget what he’s done for me.

Rest in peace Dr. Hoffman

102 is a pretty good run, no?

Hat tip to our brother Ed at wonderwinds.com

From Enjoy France:

Swiss LSD-discovering chemist Albert Hoffman dies

The Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, who became world famous for discovering the mind-altering drug LSD, has died of a heart attack at his home in Basel and was 102 at the time of his death.

Hofmann first produced LSD in 1938 while he was doing research into the ergot fungus that infects cereal crops, and he experienced his first “trip” after he accidentally ingested a small quantity of the drug.

Swiss chemist Albert HofmannAlbert Hoffman thought that LSD, or “acid” as it became commonly known, could be used as a treatment for mental illness, however, it soon became a popular drug with rock musicians and many other people in the ‘60s counterculture explosion that took place.

Hoffman had been working with LSD in the Sandoz pharmaceutical laboratory a few years after he had first made it and some of the hallucinogenic substance entered his body through his fingers. After that he experienced some of its mind-bending affects.

Harvard professor Timothy Leary also became famous because of LSD when he started using the substance and going round advocating that people “turn on, tune in, drop out".

A backlash to Hoffman and Leary’s enthusiasm for LSD as a wonder drug was brought about with horror stories of what the substance did to some people who had taken it and it was made illegal in many countries from the late ‘60s onward.

Fate is fate. Though impossible to explain, shit happens and that’s all there is to it.

This brutal primary season will come to a close soon and Barack Obama will be the nominee. That’s the way it should be. The future of the democratic party, and the nation in general lies in the hands of America’s youth. That youth, backed up by some aging hippies and other visionaries , has made it’s case and staked it’s claim to it’s own future.
And Democrats, Super Delegates in particular, are ready to pass the torch to the next generation.

The time is now for the Democratic Party to evolve beyond the Republican Lite existence it’s maintained for so long and lead this nation, it’s people, and the world around us out of the darkness and into the light. It’s time for the Democratic Party to become a real opposition party.

New blood is what we need, and that’s what we’re going to have….

Change? And then some.

From Politico:

Obama backer predicts victory in Hill war

By AMIE PARNES & JOSEPHINE HEARN | 4/30/08 4:31 AM EST

Capitol Hill insiders say the battle for congressional superdelegates is over, and one Senate supporter of Barack Obama is hinting strongly that he has prevailed over Hillary Rodham Clinton.

While more than 80 Democrats in the House and Senate have yet to state their preferences in the race for the Democratic nomination, sources said Tuesday that most of them have already made up their minds and have told the campaigns where they stand.

“The majority of superdelegates I’ve talked to are committed, but it is a matter of timing,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.). “They’re just preferring to make their decision public after the primaries are over. … They would like someone else to act for them before they talk about it in the cold light of day.”

Obama currently holds an 18-13 lead among committed superdelegates in the Senate, while Clinton holds a 77-74 lead in the House. Asked which way the committed-but-unannounced superdelegates are leaning, McCaskill — who has endorsed Obama — said: “James Brown would say, ‘I Feel Good.’”

Not so fast, said Clinton spokesman Phil Singer.
“Considering the rough patch Sen. Obama is going through, it’s understandable that Sen. McCaskill would want to change the subject, but her observations don’t jibe with what automatic delegates are actually saying,” he said. “Most are concerned about Sen. Obama’s electability and are impressed by the fact that Sen. Clinton is winning the states that Democrats must carry if we are to be successful in November.”

Still, supporters of both Clinton and Obama say that the lobbying for congressional superdelegates seems to have decreased in recent weeks.

McCaskill said that the campaigns have all but given up on lobbying her Senate colleagues because they know their minds are made up.

Clinton backer Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) acknowledged that the lobbying is no longer as aggressive as it once was. “I think there’s a different touch now,” he said. “We’re staying engaged. Right now, it’s about making sure everyone still feels loved and wanted.”

Montana Sen. Jon Tester — one of the Democrats who has yet to commit publicly — said the campaigns “haven’t applied much pressure” of late. “I haven’t heard much, and it’s been a few weeks,” he said.

“All the low-hanging fruit has already been picked,” said one Democratic Senate aide. “The rest are waiting to see who the winner is or are doing what’s in their best interests. Most of the people that are remaining just don’t want to pick the wrong side.”

Probably just waiting on one of the usual jelly-spined Centrists in the house to find the guts to speak first.

This primary is over. John McCockroach is next.

Let the games begin!

Polls are an oddity, no doubt about it.


POLL
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But that’s not what’s important. What’s important is this….

From the Associated Press:

DNC chairman under Bill Clinton: “Unite behind Obama”

By NEDRA PICKLER – 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — A leader of the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton switched his allegiance to Barack Obama on Thursday and urged fellow Democrats to end the bruising nomination fight.

“This has got to come to an end,” former Democratic National Committee Chairman Joe Andrew told reporters in his hometown of Indianapolis just days before Tuesday’s crucial state primary. He said he planned to call all the other superdelegates he knows and encourage them to back Obama.

Bill Clinton appointed Andrew chairman of the DNC in 1999, and he led the party through the disputed 2000 presidential race before stepping down in 2001. Andrew endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton last year on the day she declared her candidacy for the White House.

In a lengthy letter explaining his decision, Andrew said he is switching his support because “a vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote to continue this process, and a vote to continue this process is a vote that assists (Republican) John McCain.”

“The ship is taking on water right now,” Andrew said at the news conference. “We need to patch those holes, heal the rift and go forward to beat John McCain.”

Asked for a response to Andrew’s decision, Clinton spokesman Phil Singer said, “We support that Democratic process and think that every American should be able to weigh in and support the candidate of his or her own choosing.”

Andrew said the Obama campaign never asked him to switch his support, but he decided to do so after watching Obama’s handling of two issues in recent days. He said Obama took the principled stand in opposing a summer gas tax holiday that both Clinton and McCain supported, even though it would have been easier politically to back it. And he said he was impressed with Obama’s handling of the controversy surrounding his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Wright’s outspoken criticisms of the United States have threatened Obama’s candidacy. Obama initially refused to denounce his former pastor, but he did so this week after Wright suggested that Obama secretly agrees with him.

“He has shown such mettle under fire,” Andrew said in the interview. “The Jeremiah Wright controversy just reconfirmed for me, just as the gas tax controversy confirmed for me, that he is the right candidate for our party.”

Joe Andrew’s been there and knows these situations well. The damage being done to the party is a direct result of Hillary Clinton’s inability to accept the fact that she has lost this primary…

REFRESHER COURSE:

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
On 2008-04-23 10:13:19,
HILLARY WINS PENNSYLVANIA 55-45%

CLINTON WON 80 DELEGATES

OBAMA WON 66 DELEGATES

DELEGATE COUNT

PLEDGED
- OBAMA: 1714
- CLINTON: 1584

SUPERS
- OBAMA: 230
- CLINTON: 254

TOTALS
- OBAMA: 1944
- CLINTON: 1838

NEEDED TO WIN NOMINATION: 2025

HILLARY HAS TO WIN 70% OF REMAINING DELEGATES

HILLARY IS STILL AT LEAST 500,000 VOTES BEHIND IN THE POPULAR VOTE

55-44% - Hillary won by 215,948 votes. But she’s still broke and way behind in pledged delegates.

Meanwhile, John McCockroach is smiling ear to ear.

What we have here is one out-fucking-standing job of investigative journalism from our beloved Facing South.

Seems the Clinton/Rove/Penn filth machine is running in high gear in North Carolina.
This kind of activity is exactly what we’re referring to when we say that Hillary is “more of the same".

From Facing South:

FACING SOUTH EXCLUSIVE: D.C. nonprofit aimed at women voters behind deceptive N.C. robo-calls

By Chris Kromm
Facing South

Who’s behind the mysterious “robo-calls” that have spread misleading voter information and sown confusion and frustration among North Carolina residents over the last week?

Facing South has confirmed the source of the calls, and the mastermind is Women’s Voices Women Vote, a D.C.-based nonprofit which aims to boost voting among “unmarried women voters.”

What’s more, Facing South has learned that the firestorm Women’s Voices has ignited in North Carolina isn’t the group’s first brush with controversy. Women’s Voices’ questionable tactics have spawned thousands of voter complaints in at least 11 states and brought harsh condemnation from some election officials for their secrecy, misleading nature and likely violations of election law.

Much like the hacking of Obama’s web site by Clinton’s minions, and the burglarizing of his offices by whoever, the attempts to violate the sanctity of the American vote are typical of the morally void, scandalous nature of those who worship power and filthy lucre.

Ref:
http://www.ltsrlaw.com/holly_schadler.html

Now, dig this…..

It didn’t take long for the obvious to be backed up by proof. Indeed it is the Clinton Cabal that has sent Rev. Jeremiah Wright on the Smear Obama Tour ‘08.

Thus far, it’s been easier to see through Hillary’s filthy little lies and backstabbing ways than we ever expected.

As transparently foul as Bush himself…..

From the LA Times:

It was the Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds, a former editorial board member of USA Today who teaches at the Howard University School of Divinity. An ordained minister, as New York DailThe Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the head table of the National Press Club event Monday which Reynolds helped arrangey News writer Errol Louis points out in today’s column, she was introduced at the press club event as the person “who organized” it.

But guess what? She’s also an ardent longtime booster of Obama’s sole remaining competitor for the Democratic nomination, none other than Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York. It won’t take very much at all for Obama supporters to see in Wright’s carefully arranged Washington event that was so damaging to Obama the strategic, nefarious manipulation of the Clintons.

And there it is there.

…and along came a spider.

Hillary Clinton is filth, her worshipers are filth, her husband and his henchmen are filth.

All that is hidden shall soon be revealed.

The black Pat Robertson, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has chosen his path. He has a book coming out in November and in order to achieve a windfall, he is attempting to sacrifice Barack Obama for a little publicity. Probably at the behest of the McCain/Clinton campaign and some big personal donations. Won’t work, but it’s nonetheless pathetic.

Who set up the speaking tour? Not too hard to figure that one out.
Wright has seemingly abandoned the true gospel for the greenback. He saw $$$$$ and that’s all it took to expose him as the typical Money First-Jesus Last Evanganoid freak show he really is.

It’s sad to see a man who has helped so many poor folks in the past turn away from Jesus to worship the shekel. But it happens every day. Pat Robertson (whom Hillary regularly panders to), Falwell, Hinn, Presley, Dobson…enter Jeremiah Wright.
The new Red Faced, Bible Thumping Jesus Pimp extraordinare’.

Bought? Probably. GOP/DLC money? Most likely. Greed motivated? Most definitely.
Barack Obama stood by this clown even at the risk of providing the Right with ammo to use against him. What does Wright do in return? Sacrifice loyalty on the alter of greed.

Perhaps Obama’s rejection of Wright’s radicalism chaffed Wright’s hide just a tad. Well, he’d better buy some cream or some shit because Barack Obama has just thrown the fool under the bus…

From the LA Times:

Yesterday, we saw a very different vision,” Obama said of Wright’s Washington appearance, which at one point he termed a “performance".

He could hardly have distanced himself farther from the man who officiated at his wedding ceremony and baptized his two children.

Obama described himself as “outraged” by many of Wright’s remarks and “saddened” by what he termed “the spectacle of what we saw yesterday.”

He characterized as “ridiculous” Wright’s notion that the AIDS epidemic may have been a conspiracy inflicted on blacks by the federal government and that Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan should be considered a leading voice in modern times.

Such views …

“offend me. They rightly offend all Americans. They should be denounced.”

And in line after line, he did so.

“When I say I find (Wright’s comments) appalling, I mean it,” Obama said.

And during a Q & A with reporters following his statement, Obama came back – unprompted – to Wright’s opinions on AIDS and other matters, calling them “rants that aren’t grounded in truth.”

Make no mistake, Rev. Wright’s mission has always been to fill the coffers. That’s how big churches work. You won’t see any anti-Rich sermons at First Presbyterian, Bristol TN (where I used to attend). That could hurt the cash cow.
Well, Wright knows how to play on Black America’s righteous indignity and get the collection plates filled.
Now he’s taking the rhetoric national.

Sad.

But in the midst of all this, keep these very important facts alive…

1) This is about who is the best candidate to lead the Democratic party against the Repigs in November. Not Jeremiah Wright.

2) This is about ending the war in Iraq. Not Jeremiah Wright.

3) This is about Health Care. Not Jeremiah Wright.

4) This is about restoring the constitution. Not Jeremiah Wright.

5) This is about restoring dignity to the White House and punishing those that have used it to cover their crimes of treason and murder and theft. Not Jeremiah Wright.

6)This is about removing the status quo from our lives forever. Not Jeremiah Wright.

Hillary Clinton cannot stand up against Barack Obama on her own merits. Her worshipers cannot argue any point successfully.
Barack Obama has the courage to repudiate his former preacher. Hillary Clinton has yet to display the courage to condemn her “preacher” Mark Penn. She has not the guts to admit her vote to go to war in Iraq was wrong. She hasn’t had the spine to condemn Blackwater, Geraldine Ferraro, Norman Hsu, NAFTA, Bush’s blank checks, the Patriot Act, the Real ID Act…all things she stands along side the radical Right in approval of. The list of Hillary Clinton’s cowardice goes on forever.

Wright is an idiot. It’s not that he was wrong in complaining about how this country treats it’s own, it’s that he’s sold out what is true for that which is unholy.
He has exposed himself as a just another fringe lunatic for hire to the highest bidder.

Barack Obama has made his point clear. Still focusing on the issues that are harming our nation and what needs to be done to correct them…

There is a crisis happening on a global scale, and we here in the United States of America have a moral responsibility to take action to help alleviate global food prices and ensure that millions of people do not suffer the ill effects of hunger and possibly even starvation. We are all complaining about the high cost of oil these days and how it is impinging on our budget, but in the developing world this is having extreme consequences. The stark reality is that three billion people on the planet earth live on less than $2 a day, and a good portion of that money goes specifically to the purchase of basic food grains to survive. As a result of the skyrocketing price of oil, the price of food grains has risen due to commercial production costs and transportation to as much as $800 a ton for rice which has led to food riots in the developing world.

The reasons for high oil prices are complex, and due to many factors, but we can take steps now to deal with the global oil crisis and help people in the developing world avoid a worsening food crisis. One of the principal factors in the current oil crisis is directly related to the US invasion of Iraq. The war in Iraq, which administration officials believed would lead to democracy and stability has instead resulted in civil war and prolonged military expenditures. The financial uncertainty in the marketplace regarding the instability in the middle east has driven oil prices even higher and the worsening Federal debt, greatly impacted by the hundreds of billions of unpaid dollars committed to the war effort has made the dollar less attractive to global investors, driving down the value of the dollar in relation to global currencies and discouraging investment.

With President Bush refusing to reduce troop commitments below 140,000 and Congress seemingly unable to limit the power of the executive branch to spend money we do not have on a war we do not need, the global markets are losing faith in the security of the dollar and the American economy generally. This situation has been further complicated by the credit crisis which has resulted in hundreds of thousands of foreclosures and displaced as many Americans who are having to scramble for someplace to live. The credit crisis, which was permitted to go on for far too long due to the lack of oversight and failure to enact basic regulatory responsibilities, is another factor contributing to the weakening American dollar globally and lack of faith in the American economy generally.

Then there is the lack of any long-term vision or reasonable central planning in regard to domestic infrastructure and planning for the utilization of limited resources. This is a long-term problem, which is fundamentally an aspect of free trade policies and decades of deregulation and faith in a free market policy to solve all problems. In order to get a grip on the reality of an entire domestic economy that has been oriented toward free market economics imagine the situation of a western gold mining town in the nineteenth century. Many of these boom and bust economies were based on the immediate availability of a limited resource which brought immediate corporate investment, short term economic gain and left long term environmental disasters. In addition, when the gold ran out, almost every gold mining town became a ghost town.

This is the reality of the current oil economy. Regardless of how you look at it is that we are investing in a short-term resource which took millions of years to develop and which we are now burning through in less than a century. If we would like to avoid looking like a global ghost town we must begin to take realistic steps now. The federal government is the only collective entity, which has the infrastructure and collective wisdom to deal with this looming crisis for which we have not to this date made any effective steps toward resolving.

As a candidate for federal office I support investment in the alternative energy infrastructure. We have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in a war we cannot win and in the meantime oil corporations are making record profits at the expense of the working people in this country. I say let’s take away their profits by investing in something they cannot profit from. The sun is an unlimited source of energy and the wind is always blowing. Why are we letting the oil companies and their investors get rich while at the same time we are warming the earth with devastating consequences? It is because we have continued to let the powers that be make decisions in Washington which are always in the interest of free market profits without consequences. What we need is to reign in the free market ideology which has driven us to this precipice and begin to use the long term wisdom of a federal government that is looking out for the basic needs of working class people, the environment and the health and well being of everyone on this planet.

When we begin to treat the oil crisis like the problem that it really is and begin to take realistic steps to find ways to power our automobiles, heat our homes, produce our food and generate our electricity the people of the developing world will thank us. We have had one of the strongest economies in the world and we are resourceful and ingenious nation, always up for the challenges that face us. I have faith that we can make the right decisions, but we must take the right steps. We must move away from a free market ideology with respect to energy and specifically oil and look toward government investment in the alternative energy infrastructure. We need to end the war in Iraq and stop acting like there are no consequences for spending hundreds of billions of dollars that we don’t actually have. We need to balance the federal budget and restore faith in the economy for the global investment class. We need to address the housing crisis in this country with stronger regulation and no corporate bailouts for Wall Street investment firms that have profited at the expense of the poor. We need to take a second look at how we do our cities and ask if unlimited sprawl is really the best idea for urban development. But most of all, we need to elect representatives to Washington DC and to all levels of government who are going to have a long-term vision and will vote for policies that are in the best interest of our country.

It’s a good thing….

I’m not bad at the trippy stuff myself, but you really must meet the Master…
Larry Carlson
larrycarlson.com

WARNING: Flash animation has been known to cause seizures in certain people.

These are really, really, good.
I was just outside. The sky is on fire, but graceful and warm. The rain clouds are smiling brighter than I, and they call me away….

Nothing like being there, and here, and everywhere. Yet nowhere, better still.

…and now the rain.

Oh uh,
I see fingers, hands and shades of faces,
Reachin up and not quite touchin the promised land,
I hear pleas and prayers and a desperate whisper sayin,
Hold on please give us a helpin hand,
Yeah yeah - Jimi Hendrix

MaKe LoVe MaKe LoVe MaKe LoVe MaKe LoVe MaKe LoVe MaKe LoVe MaKe LoVe…..

It’s all in the rundown below with Keith Olbermann and Chuck Todd. With or without Florida or Michigan, Obama is still going to win this thing.

Between her severe character flaws and those of her husband and staff, Hillary Clinton has doomed her own campaign through a lust for power that she has allowed to compromise her personal integrity.

One interesting portion of the video below is the Bush-like, nonsensical sentences and fabrications Hillary is becoming famous for. First and foremost is the infamous Bosnia Betty lie followed by numerous other stumble-over-one’s-own-tongue, un-presidential utterances.
It can get funny at times…

“I’M VERY PROUD THAT AS OF TODAY I HAVE RECEIVED MORE VOTES FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE VOTED” - Hillary Clinton

Uhhh, huh?
If she keeps this up she might get her own “misspeak” calender too.

Then there’s the outright lie that “Hillary is leading in popular vote” after the Pennsylvania primary.

Nope.

I’m afraid the popular vote issue is a wee bit more complicated than that.

Perhaps her ace in the hole, McCain’s VP, is going to be her last resort. Fitting. She’s more like one of them than one of us. That’s for certain.

Meanwhile, the Democratic nominee looks ahead to the General Election and John McBush.

What a circus…

Well, Earl. It’s not a bad Idea. Hell, we’ll even join you if you like. But there’s a few things we have to talk about first. Like who did you vote for in the 2004 Presidential elections?

Not so fast guys. There’s a broader picture and deeper issue than just you being pissed off about the price of gas because NOW you’re feeling the effects.
Your equipment causes a lot of pollution, Earl. Were you aware of that?

The BHC has the original article by Amy Hunter.

BRISTOL, Tenn. – Earl Humphreys works from sunrise to sunset, seven days a week, but he can’t afford to fix a leaky roof at his lawn-care business, nor can he accept clients who live outside city limits.

“We’re just getting by,” he said. “All we’re doing is turning money over.”

The reason: high gas prices.

Humphreys said he has been struggling financially for some time, but when prices climbed well beyond $3 per gallon recently, he decided it was time to do something about it.

On May 5, Humphreys and representatives from at least a dozen area businesses are staging a rally to protest suffocating fuel costs, he said.

“We want to spark a movement across the U.S. to send our politicians the message,” he said.

Humphreys, owner of Lawn Boyz Home and Garden Center on Bluff City Highway, said Tuesday that gas prices are double what they were this time last year, and he has been hit especially hard because his business relies heavily on gasoline.

LOL! No, Earl. This time last year gas prices were over three dollars a gallon. You mean “gas is twice what it was BEFORE BUSH INVADED THE WHITE HOUSE“.

C’mon, Earl. Who’d ya vote for in ‘04?

“We have to use premium gas in our equipment, which is the costliest gas. We use it in our trucks, mowers, Weedeaters and blowers. We average $120 per day in gas,” he said. “And the gas doesn’t only affect us in terms of our vehicles. There are increases in [prices of] straw, grass seed, mulch, weed killer and more, which is because shipping costs have risen.”

Humphreys isn’t alone. Over the past months, gas prices have become the main topic of conversation, he said. Fed up, he began calling his competitors in efforts to unite them in protest.

Finally fed up are we? Where ya been since ‘05, Earl? Don’t tell me, you’ve been lost at sea and are just now finding out how fucked we are after eight years of Republican leadership?

Vote Republican in ‘04 and ‘06, Earl?

“We’re sending a message to the politicians in Washington that in the next election, if they don’t do what their supposed to do, we’ll replace them,” he said.

Which politicians would those be, Earl? The ones that voted for lower energy costs, or the one’s that didn’t?

Did you vote for David Davis for Congress in ‘06, Earl?

Humphrey’s knows exactly what he’d like decision-makers in Washington to do.

First, he said, there should be an independent investigation in Washington conducted by people who aren’t connected to big oil.

Second, he would like Congress to pass a bill giving farmers tax incentives so they can grow more corn for ethanol.

Uh, Earl. Hellooooooo. Earth to Earl…

Investigation into what? The Bush administration’s profits from Big Oil? Cheney? Bush Sr.?

Ethanol, Earl? Wise up. Ethanol is almost as expensive as gas.

And third, he thinks the United States should deal outside OPEC and negotiate with countries like Russia and Venezuela for cheaper crude oil.

“This is not a red and blue issue – it’s a red, white and blue issue,” he said.

Well that’s just dandy, Earl. And how does Mr. Humphreys suggest we convince the single most greed laden administration in history to break from their Saudi owners?

Red, White, and Blue issue? That’s cute, wrong, but cute. Democrats have constantly pushed to move away from Arab oil and Republicans like David Davis and George Bush just continue to bow to Abdullah like Republican, FOX News watching morons continue to bow to them.
It’s a “Red” issue, Earl.
By the way, who did you vote for in ‘04 and ‘06?

The rally is planned from 7 to 9 a.m. May 5 in the parking lot of the former Southside Shopping Center at Bluff City Highway and Lavinder Lane. Call (423) 989-3770 for information.

The early-morning hours were set because “we’re struggling right now and need to work,” he said.

Humphrey’s couldn’t say for sure whether his protest will be a success. But, “We’re united. And anytime this country gets united things get done,” he said.

And what point do you intend to make at the protest, Earl? What candidates do you intend to endorse in order to generate some action?
Do you intend to engage in some good old-fashioned civil disobedience? That would get us interested. Block Volunteer Pkwy? Block entrances to gas stations?
Or just sit and lament the state Republican leadership has put this country in?

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It’s a shame. I hate seeing people pump themselves up with false hopes knowing all the while that in the end, disappointment is all they will ever know. But hey, what’s life without a little disappointment?

As much disdain as I have for Clinton Groupies, my Liberal roots force me to have a certain amount of pity for them after seeing them sacrifice their dignity, credibility, and the concept of righteousness at the alter of Oligarchy.

She won ten more delegates than Obama. It’s still over.
The fundamental dynamic of this primary remains the same. Obama is waaaaaay out in front and Hillary is going nowhere fast. All that effort, going into full scratch and claw mode like never before, and all she gets is ten delegates in a state where she should have won thirty or so. All for ten delegates?
PA was Hillary’s last real chance to climb out of the hole and she failed.

They remind me of that one, lone fan in the bleachers at the baseball game, the Clinton Groupies do. That fiercely dedicated fan with the team logo on every piece of clothing they have on. Draped in pennants and banners and programs and all manner of team paraphernalia.
Always there, sitting alone in the stands cheering “we’re gonna win!” and “yay team!” louder than anyone in the stadium.

People passing by on their way to the exits try and tell the fan that it’s 15 to 0, Visitors, at the bottom of the third, but the fan just doesn’t want to hear that. You see, with such a shallow mentality, the team is all the fan has. It’s the only thing that makes the fan feel important. And something inside them just refuses to let go because that would mean confronting reality….

Oops, hold on! A batter just got the team’s first base hit of the game! Bottom of the ninth and we’re gonna win!

Ten delegates in two months is not “momentum". Indiana and North Carolina will not be kind to Hillary Clinton. Her campaign is in the red, exactly where she would keep the country if elected obviously.

Sad.

And the Democratic party and the nation in general suffer still.

You’ve got to be kidding me.

That’s the thing about peace, it only goes where it’s wanted.

Since nobody in the US or the Israeli governments want peace, thank God we have men of courage and influence like President Jimmy Carter to seek success where others miserably fail…

From AJC.com :

Carter, who brokered the 1978 Israeli-Egyptian peace and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, has defended what he calls his personal peace mission, saying Hamas must be engaged in order to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Though Israel’s government refuses to deal with Hamas, Carter said Thursday he knows some Israeli government officials are “quite willing” to meet the militant group and he speculated that might happen in the near future.

Israeli Cabinet minister Eli Yishai said Friday he asked Carter earlier this week to arrange a meeting with Hamas to discuss a prisoner exchange. Yishai, the Israeli deputy prime minister, said he wanted to try to win the release of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, held by Hamas in Gaza for two years.

Jimmy Carter is in Gaza. Meeting with Hamas (much to the chagrin of Zionist pigs and Republicans everywhere) to try and forge some genuine peace in the war torn Gaza Strip.
Israel has been attacking civilians in Gaza, in response to attacks by Hamas on the IDF. Standard Israel modus operandi seen many times and most recently in Lebanon.

Regardless of your view of that conflict, logic dictates that if two parties are at war, it will take two parties to end it. Which is why the Zionist element in Israel and their accomplices here at home refuse to recognize Hamas as a legitimate revolutionary force capable of engaging in dialog. Zionism thrives on bloodshed and carnage. It doesn’t want peace. Peace isn’t profitable.

Finally, Jimmy Carter has seen fit to recognize Hamas and put them on the map. Now Israel and the US will have to consider them a valid entity. An entity that now will have to seek peace in order to maintain any legitimacy Carter has provided them with.
The ball, for the first time, is now in Hamas’ court. They are equally obligated to prove themselves seekers of peace or just another twisted group of terrorists like the IDF or the CIA.

So now, in an effort to prevent peace, some Repig skank named Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C. has actually attempted to invalidate Jimmy Carter’s passport in order to prevent him from holding peace talks with Hamas.
Carter’s intention is to talk Hamas into stopping it’s attacks on Israeli forces, so I’m not sure if the aforementioned skank is pro or anti Israel. I am sure that she doesn’t even know.

LOL

But this is a vivid illustration of the Republican mentality. Carter’s efforts could actually lead to some sort of peace. No wonder Myrick is afraid. Republicans represent a culture of death. Peace is a threat to that culture.
Ah yes, Republican knee-jerk reactionism.
First thought? Take away the passport of a former President and world renown spokesman for peace, charity, and many other causes?

Stupid bitch.

Keep this in mind in the voting booths in November. John McCain is just a Rep. Myrick with a penis.

Where does Ablogination officially stand on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Both Israel and Hamas are like little spoiled children. Both peoples too immature intellectually to even fully understand peace. Both share the guilt for the carnage to whatever extent and both need to grow the fuck up and stop making all of our lives miserable.
This stupidity has been going on forever and we of the world around them are sick of their shit.
Fucking idiots one and all.

Israel we feel, is more to blame. With assassinations, attacks on civilians with state of the art aircraft and other weapons, and the fact that they occupy Palestinian land to begin with shows us that Israel is the instigator.

Israel has spied on us, who they call “friend” to our faces. They have installed operatives into or close to our government and have interfered in US foreign policy. They may have known about the attack of 9/11 and did not warn us. They attacked our USS Liberty in 1967 killing 34 U.S. servicemen and wounding at least 173 others. They have earned distrust.
No nation that prides it’s self on “deception” is worthy of respect. - captainkona

UPDATE:

Behold! Our “friends” and the traitors that work for them…..

From ABC:

American Accused of Spying for Israel
Prosecutors Say N.J. Man Passed U.S. Military Secrets to Israel from 1979 to 1985.
By PIERRE THOMAS, JASON RYAN and RICHARD ESPOSITO
April 22, 2008

A former civilian employee of a military arsenal in New Jersey has been indicted by the federal government for allegedly conspiring to pass U.S. military secrets to the Israeli government more than 20 years ago.

According to court documents, Ben Ami Kadish allegedly spied for Israel from 1979-1985 and provided an official from the Israeli consulate in New York with U.S. national defense information, including restricted nuclear weapons data, classified jet fighter weapons system data and key information on the Patriot missile system.

Government sources say Kadish’s Israeli handler is also the same man who handled convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.

After Pollard, a former naval analyst, was exposed to be spying for Israel, the handler left the United States and Kadish went underground. Pollard was sentenced to life in prison and is incarcerated at a federal prison in North Carolina.

Kadish allegedly kept in contact with his Israeli handler until last month, when the handler, who is only identified as “Co-conspirator 1″ in court documents, allegedly instructed Kadish to lie to U.S. investigators in the case.

The Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey released a statement confirming that Kadish, whom an Army official described as an elderly widower in failing health, worked at the facility “more than 18 years ago.”

“At the time of his retirement in January 1990, Mr. Kadish was a supervisory engineer in the installation’s Fuze Division,” the statement said, adding that Kadish “was first employed at this installation in October 1963.”

“We have been cooperating fully with federal investigators and will continue to do so,” Picatinny spokesman Peter Rowland said in the statement.

My father is a Vietnam Veteran. He was an officer in ROTC in 1968 while he was in college and went to Vietnam as a Lieutenant the year I was born. My father felt an obligation to his country and a duty to serve when called. I was born in a snowstorm in rural Minnesota while my father was halfway around the world in the jungles of Vietnam. I am proud of my father and his service to my country. When I was a teenager, going to private Catholic school, I was approached by military recruiters. I was encouraged to join the military and to enlist in the ROTC program, much like my father had been. For whatever reason, I declined. I was not yet a peace activist like I became after the first gulf war, but something in my instincts told me that I could not serve in the military the way my father had served.

In 1990, while I was enrolled at the University of Minnesota, George Bush Sr. began beating the drums of war. I was enrolled in the selective service program at that time in order to get student loans to go to college. I remember clearly the night the bombs began to drop in Iraq for the first time. I was living in the student district of Minneapolis and there had been anti-war activity on campus leading up to the invasion. Students were busy organizing against the campus military center, sometimes called the stockade, holding demonstrations and putting anti-war material in front of the recruiting and training center.

The night of the first bombing and initial invasion in 1991 I witnessed something I had never seen before, a spontaneous anti-war demonstration. Demonstrators began marching from the University district and marched, without a permit, into downtown Minneapolis and over to the uptown district, several thousand people marching a distance of five or six miles. Something about that demonstration vitalized me and helped me to commit to a path of peace. I knew at the time, based on my religious convictions, that I could not kill another human being in the name of my country, no matter what the reason. Although I am no longer a person of faith, I still retain the same conviction to this day and remain a pacifist and committed to the path of non-violence.

I joined the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors at that time and met with a Quaker counselor from the American Friends Service Committee. I decided at that point in my life to begin to serve the path of peace.

My story is only one story of many paths to adulthood. Besides having deep respect for my father and his choices in life, we have something in common, we both had the opportunity to choose how to serve our country. This choice, which has been a mainstay of American life since shortly after the Vietnam war, has never been under greater threat than it is right now. Our military forces are taxed to exhaustion, and a backdoor draft of sort already exists with our national guard reserve. President Bush has chosen to keep one hundred forty thousand troops in Iraq in addition to the thousands already serving in Afghanistan and the hundreds of thousands serving in over one hundred and twenty countries around the world.

Nearly every person in the military today is there because they were able to choose to serve. Regardless of how one feels about the process of military recruitment, the targeting of poor and minority communities, even recruiting persons who are not yet citizens of this country in order to serve, the alternative to this is far worse. I do believe that we need to scale down the size of our military. We cannot afford the extreme financial burden that this military is costing us, both in current expenditures and obligations we have on past expenditures such as debt from previous military expenses which is as yet unpaid and the financial obligations that we have to the health and welfare of our nation’s veterans.

There has been talk in the military of reintroducing the draft. It is argued that we cannot afford to keep going the way we are. There has even been speculation that the very reason that our national reserve forces are being taxed to their limits is to reintroduce the draft as a socially acceptable resolution to the current crisis in Iraq. Our military forces are broken. They are being taxed to their limits, but the solution is not the reintroduction of a draft. This war in Iraq was based on lies and manipulation. There is nothing honorable about recruiting unwitting young men in order to support the lies and misdeeds of the current administration.

The solution to the crisis in Iraq is to bring the troops home now. Our national guard has served the country well. They have answered the call to serve, in spite of the betrayals of the current administration, and it is time to bring them home. Then it is time to let our military heal from the current round of conflict. We need a peacetime administration that is focused on using alternatives to violence and warfare in order to solve international conflicts. We need elected representatives who are committed to the path of peace and who are more concerned about the economic crisis at home.

I am still proud of my father and everything he has done. I am also proud of my friends who have chosen not to serve in the military. I am proud of the peace activists I know who have chosen to serve their country and the world to promote the cause of peace. I believe that there can be reconciliation and understanding between these two very different communities, each choosing to serve in the way they believe is best. The act of choosing is one of the most important rites of transitioning into adult life. Don’t our children deserve the opportunity to explore all the alternatives that life has to offer them, in education, in job training, in community service? We don’t need another draft. What we need is a new outlook on our government.

We need a government that is dedicated to the idea that serving the people is the highest priority. A draft will only reinforce the idea that Americans are cannon fodder for greedy warmongers who can’t make good foreign policy decisions and then need to sacrifice American lives in order to cover for their terrible decisions. Instead of investing more money in war let’s invest it in peace. Let’s make sure that every American graduates from high school. Let’s take the money that we would spend on guns and spend that money on health care. Let’s take the money that we would spend on military bases halfway around the world and spend that money on our own domestic infrastructure. Let’s take the money that we would spend on bombs and spend that money on social security. Finally, let’s take the money that we would spend on training our young men and women to be soldiers and instead spend that money on training them to be teachers, doctors and engineers.

We can lift this nation out of poverty. We can find alternatives to warfare and violence. We can solve our international problems without invading foreign countries and occupying them. We can have peace and security at home without resorting to a draft. It is time for us to take the steps towards peace that we have been waiting to take. It is time to look at real solutions to the economic crisis facing this country. It is time to restore the honor and dignity that is the soul of this nation. I believe we can do this. All we need is the leadership and the representation to make the right decisions in Washington DC. Let’s take the first steps toward becoming the people that we deserve to be by resisting talk of a draft and instead let’s bring the troops home now.

Controling the laughter has been difficult. I knew to expect a poor showing from Clinton, and an even poorer one from ABC. Not a clue had I that such a blatantly obtuse Negro Roast was on the menu.

The only thing missing was the noose and an audience stupid enough to fail to notice what was really going on…

All seriousness was excluded from this particular “debate". No significant mention of the War, Health Care, the Economy… Just lots of nonsense, racism and misandry.
Yes, misandry. And where it came from is clear. Meet Anne Sweeney, the lady that likely set this whole thing up due to the heat she’s taken from feminist groups like NOW in the past.
Of course, paid hacks like Charline Gibson and Georgia Stephanieopolis will do Madame Sweeny’s bidding on all fours with red rubber balls in their mouths for the checks they’re getting, so it’s hard to blame them for anything other than lacking manhood of any kind.

It went like this:

As Hillary and her accomplices attempted to gang up on Barack Obama, they attempt to rehash the long dead “Reverend Wright” issue. Result? Pennsylvanians don’t care, they want to know about jobs and income and feeding their families.

Then there was an amazingly lame attempt to connect Barack Obama to Professor William Ayres, former member of the radical group called the Weathermen. Barack Obama was eight years old when the Weathermen were a focus of attention. Hillary and Bill were right there though. And Bill Clinton pardoned two members of the Weathermen when he was president.

Hillarweeney Gibsanopolis lost that one too.

If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.

It’s odd that Barack Obama is being judged according to the actions and words of everyone he has ever come in contact with. But his own words are being ignored.
But hey, that works for us.
Being that the matrimonial relationship is far more intimate and involved than who Obama’s church has as a preacher or who Obama served on a board with, I guess it’s now fair to blame Hillary for everything Bill did as president.

Hillary is responsible for NAFTA, she was Bill’s wife at the time.

Hillary is responsible for killing and otherwise victimizing Americans and their families during the Drug War portion of Bill’s presidency from 1992 to 2000.

Hillary is responsible for a poverty rate that was nearly what the rate is today after seven years of Bush.

Hillary is responsible for all of Bill’s (and her’s) financial skulduggery.

Hillary is responsible for Bill abusing Monica Lewinski and other women.

From Mother Jones:

This was moments after Wolfson and Phil Singer, another top Clinton aide, had hammered Barack Obama for having held a fundraiser during his first state senate campaign in Illinois at the home of William Ayers, a professor of education at the University of Illinois and a former aide to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, who was a member of the radical Weather Underground Organization, which was responsible for several bombings in the early 1970s. Ayers was never arrested for his activities. But in 2001, he did say, “I don’t regret setting bombs.” The issue had come up during the previous night’s debate. Responding to a question about Ayers, Obama had said, “the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense.” Wolfson, this morning after, insisted that Obama had “to be more forthcoming about that issue” and state clearly whether it had been “appropriate” to attend a fundraiser at Ayers’ home.

When it came time for questions for Wolfson, I asked an obvious one: Did Hillary Clinton believe that it had been appropriate in 2001 for President Bill Clinton to have pardoned two members of the Weather Underground as he left office? The two recipients of Clinton’s munificence were Linda Evans, who was sentenced to five years in prison for her participation in a string of 1980s bombings, and Susan Rosenberg, who was charged with participating in a bank robbery that left one guard and two police officers dead. And, I continued, has Senator Clinton ever criticized this decision? Has she ever said anything publicly about it? Rosenberg, I noted, had been apprehended with 740 pounds of explosives in her possession.

Wolfson replied, “I am not aware of Linda Evans or Susan Rosenberg…hosting a political event for Senator Clinton.”

I interrupted to note that I had not asked whether they had. I had asked whether Clinton had supported or opposed her husband’s pardons for these two women. (I resisted the urge to throw in Marc Rich.)

Amazing. This “debate” was a gang bang. A political circle-jerk with Obama in the middle and Swillary Gibsanopolis all around unloading what little they have left.

Impudent and impotent. They went limp.

Barack Obama rose up through the gnashing, leering, circle of perverts and imps and shined like the rays of the new rising sun. Refusing to play the victim and maintaining his composure and personal dignity until the end. Imagine that, a president with dignity.

Then the people of Pennsylvania, in attendance last night, made their impression of the Clinton/Sweeney racism, misandry and lack of relevant context abundantly clear.
Loud booing and a few distant obscenities (coulda sworn I heard someone yell “whore” from afar) marked the exit of the Democratic voters in attendance and hopefully, the exit of Hillary Clinton from the race.

Good, by now everyone has had their fill of Hillary McCain and their lame attempt to do to Barack Obama what their GOP friends did to Gore and Kerry…Make them look bad for being right and speaking plainly.

Stand back and take a good long look, Pennsylvania.
First, anyone that didn’t understand where Obama was coming from is either a Clinton Groupie or an idiot. Not too much difference to begin with.

Second, anyone that works, actually gets up in the morning and goes to WORK, that ISN’T bitter is a complacent jackass that has no idea what’s good for them.
If you work and you’re not bitter about the state of the economy, the high prices of gas, food, etc…job after job heading to China, then sit down and shut your ass because you’re part of the problem, not the solution.

Hillary Clinton is NAFTA, no matter what she says. Her position on NAFTA and CAFTA is just like her position on the war. She speaks against it while campaigning then fully supports it in voting record and/or personal financial action. She and her wife, Billary, cost you your jobs. The Republicans have just capitalized on your grief. In fact, Hillary McCain’s chiding of Obama for using the word “bitter” more or less amounts to a defense of BushCo economic policies. The country’s heading for recession, but hey, why be bitter? I guess if you have Clinton money there’s no reason to be “bitter". Don’t let the Clinton lie machine distract you from focusing on the issues and the mistakes and abuses that put you in an economic distress in the first place.
We actually expect more of you than we did of the New Hampsters because we have a few things in common. We’re both basically Appalachian. We’re on the south trail and you’re on the north. We also know what it feels like, down here, to watch industry and jobs leave the area for more exploitable pastures in Mexico or China. Just like you do.

We’re bitter as hell. How ’bout you?

Got to admit it’s getting bitter, getting bitter all the time…

When Hillary remarked that Obama’s lofty speech was the “same mistake Gore and Kerry made", do you know what she meant? She meant that PA voters are stupid and cannot understand college educated speech. That was the “mistake” Gore, Kerry and Obama made. Talking to Americans like adults and not children.
Hillary seems to feel that you’re more of a bumper sticker type mentality. Does that bother you? It bothers us. Both when she treats us that way and watching her treat you that way. We’re all just white trash to a Clinton. There to be used and abused and pandered to.
So, now Hillary is pro gun, church going country folk knocking back a few cold beers at the bar? Just because she’s pandering to “small town” voters?
What’s really insulting, PA? Obama’s blunt speech or Hillary’s mocking you to your face?

Hillary Clinton wants you paying attention to anything but the truth. The truth about her and Bill’s trade policies and what they’ve done to average Americans…

From AP:

Obama also chided Clinton over NAFTA and the Colombian trade deal. Clinton has criticized NAFTA, which was passed under her husband’s watch. She opposes the Colombian trade deal even though former President Clinton supports it and her top campaign strategist, Mark Penn, met with Colombian officials to help push for its passage. Penn has since been demoted.

“Here’s what you can’t do. You can’t spend the better part of two decades campaigning for NAFTA and PNTR for China, and then come here to Pennsylvania, and tell the steelworkers you’ve been with them all along,” Obama said. “You can’t say you are opposed to the Colombia Trade deal, while your key strategist is working for the Colombian government to get the deal passed.”

Face it, working class… If we fall for Clinton’s lies and deceptive campaigning again, we might as well run to the church, or the gun cabinet, or a needle full of heroin because we’ll continue to be screwed out of our jobs and our American Way and fully deserve it for being too stupid to see through the bullshit.

Barack Obama, though imperfect himself, is the only chance we have as American workers at a level playing field. Just remember who’s picking up the big Labor Endorsements. It ain’t Billary “NAFTA” Clinton, that’s for damn sure.

It has been almost forty years since the United States signed on to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty and now is the time to begin to live up to the spirit of that treaty. The NPT has been signed by 189 nations and was intended as a framework to move the world toward both the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and the eventual dismantlement of weapons of mass destruction. In our time, these instruments of genocide and apocalypse have hung over our heads like an angel of death, haunting the vast majority of our foreign policy decisions and at times pushing the planet to the edge of nuclear war.

It has been a long time since anyone felt the conscious threat of global thermonuclear war like the kind of visions of destruction that seemed to capture popular consciousness in the 1980’s, but the reality of those weapons and their threat still looms large over foreign policy decisions, and now is the time to begin to take concrete steps toward dismantlement and destruction, before it is too late. Right now, while our world is at relative peace regarding global threats to security, right now, while the United States has the will and the leadership, right now, while the generation which dedicated itself to peace and social justice has the vision and the determination, right now is the time to dismantle our own weapons of mass destruction.

This may seem like a dangerous idea to some. Many Americans cannot imagine a world without nuclear weapons. I myself know that many people feel that our only real security lies in this superior construction of Armageddon, but the fact is that we are the greatest threat to world security right now. In spite of our ideals, in spite of the spirit of our democratic tradition, there is nothing democratic, there is no message of freedom in our collection of weapons of mass destruction. Just like a drug addict who needs his fix, we still crave the power that comes from the threat and fear that these weapons generate.

There are no words to honestly describe our condition. We stand at a moment in history that is generally unique. We have never before faced a time when our cleverness and our own skills as a society can lead to our complete undoing. This is the reality that these weapons generate. They are instruments not of democracy, but of tyranny. They are not agents of peace, but rather agents of total destruction and we have a moral obligation to dismantle these weapons of destruction and live up to the spirit of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that we signed almost forty years ago.

We can live in a world of peace, if we take concrete steps now to live up to our better selves. It is possible to resolve international conflicts without threatening to completely destroy other cultures, other peoples. We have the collective intelligence to create a more meaningful future for ourselves and our future generations. By investing in our domestic infrastructure, by supporting fair trade policies, by creating universal health care, by offering meaningful access to education at all levels in our society, by investing in alternative energy and moving away from our addiction to oil, by supporting the international community, by investing in programs to support the global south, by divesting in war and violence as the only solution to international conflict and by dismantling our weapons of mass destruction we can move toward the kind of world that Martin Luther King Jr. imagined nearly forty years ago.

Forty years after the NPT is only two generations. Let’s not wait even one more before we rid ourselves of these instruments of global genocide. If you care about peace and want to make a statement that will be heard by people around the world then I would like to encourage you to come to Oak Ridge, Tennessee this Sunday, April 13th for the twentieth anniversary of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance public demonstration for peace. Oak Ridge is the home of the only atomic bombs ever used on a human population. Constructed between 1942-45, the bombs manufactured in Eastern Tennessee were used to killed tens of thousands of civilians in 1945. Since that time Oak Ridge has continued to play an instrumental role in the production and maintenance of America’s nuclear weapons complex.

On April 13th hundreds of people will gather in Oak Ridge to march to the gates of the Y-12 facility and call for an end to the manufacturing of weapons of mass destruction. They will also call for a plan to clean up the oak ridge environment, which has been polluted by decades of abuse and a plan for dismantling our nuclear weapons infrastructure. Some people may feel so strongly about this event that they will engage in non-violent civil disobedience to express their concern for humanity and our children’s future. Others will protest in a law abiding fashion but with no less intent and concern for the future generations of this planet. I hope you can join us. For more information please visit the website www.stopthebombs.org.

…Fuck them. With their torch.

Just sayin’.

“There’s a Chinese saying: river water and well water don’t mix,” said Rose Pak, the general consultant to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, which supports the relay. “You do your thing, and we do our thing. Why is it you have to disrupt our celebration, when none of us went and disrupted their celebration?”

Ms. Pak and other Chinese-American leaders here are particularly vexed at the actions of the city’s Board of Supervisors, which voted on April 1 to condemn China’s human rights record. Chris Daly, the supervisor who wrote the resolution, went further on Monday, posting a blog entry calling on followers to “build on the message that’s been delivered” in Paris and London.

Human Rights Violations

Human Rights Violations

Violence Against Women: According to some researchers, spousal abuse is far too common and, in many parts of the country, still socially acceptable. However, comprehensive statistics about the extent of domestic violence are not available or have not been made public. The official All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF) has been studying this problem and seeking solutions.

Few battered women have the opportunity to escape abuse, because shelters and other resources are not available. Women are under considerable social pressure to keep families together regardless of the circumstances. Legal action is not taken against batterers unless the victim initiates it, and if she withdraws her testimony, the proceedings are ended.

Abduction and Trafficking of Women: Trafficking and sale of women as brides or into prostitution is a serious problem in certain parts of China, and Chinese women have been sold into brothels in Southeast Asia. The PRC government has enacted various laws to combat the sale of women, but the statistics released by the government do not reliably indicate the scale of the problem. PRC officials stated that there were 15,000 cases of kidnapping and trafficking in women and children in 1993. Yet according to one estimate, 10,000 women were abducted and sold in 1992 in Sichuan Province alone.

The Chinese government clearly supports a culture of death. Repeatedly poisoning their own people and people around the world with products containing un-ingestible materials.
The one instance that stands out in my mind is the Melamine poisoning of the pet food. The Chinese gov’t arrested their food and drug chief, then executed him. Like they were sacrificing him to us. Filthy fucking little pigs. No respect for life. I would have felt better if they executed themselves.
And they have the nerve to play the victim when they get protested?
I got a protest for you, China. FREE TIBET YOU PYGMY FUCKS!

Violations Against Female Children: The one-child policy, in conjunction with the traditional preference for male children, has led to a resurgence of practices like female infanticide, concealment of female births and abandonment of female infants. Female children whose births are not registered do not have any legal existence and therefore may have difficulty going to school or receiving medical care or other state services. The overwhelming majority of children in orphanages are female and/or mentally or physically handicapped.

The one-child policy has also contributed to the practice of prenatal sex identification resulting in the abortion of female fetuses. Although the government has outlawed the use of ultrasound machines for this purpose, physicians continue the practice, especially in rural areas. Thus, while the average worldwide ratio of male to female newborns is 105/100, Chinese government statistics show that the ratio in the PRC is 114/100 and may be higher in some areas.

All the facts about China are HERE.

As China poisons our food, pet food, and toys our children play with, we need to observe two very important things…

1) Who will protect our children from poisoned toys.

2) And who won’t.

I like this guy more and more every day. These vids he’s putting out make me wanna drop a hit of Windowpane and stare at a stucco ceiling for eight hours.

Hat tips to our friends Sharon Cobb and NewsComa who are diggin’ it too.

Living proof that “out there” is the best place to be. Why aren’t we smart enough to elect guys like this?

Dave Coverdale once said “…I love the blues, they tell my story. If you can’t feel it you can never understand…

He was right.

Jimmy Bowskill. A young man that can really, really feel it.

….It’s all about the guitar.
The Blues have a future, thank God.

Please, Oh please vote for me. I can be President! Really I can. The Black is unelectable so please change your minds and vote for me instead of him. Pretty please? With sugar and a cherry?
Who cares about issues and lies and such? I’m a Clinton! I’m worth Millions!! Hundreds of Millions even!!!

Isn’t that enough?

It’s almost getting hard to be serious when talking of Hillary Clinton and her failed campaign. Now, Hillary, in steadfast and resolute desperation, has resorted to publicly begging for Pledged Delegates that Barack Obama has already won.
Isn’t that something like begging the teacher to “take Johnny’s A away, give it to me, then give him my F"?

What’s in your wallet?

Clinton’s statements get slightly interesting at this point…

From ABC:

Clinton made it clear to North Dakota Democrats last night that she believes there is no such thing as a pledged delegate and highlighted that stubborn streak in her appeal for delegates to switch from Obama to her when the Democratic national party holds its nominating convention this August.

Sorry, Ms.Bush. Pledged delegates are a fact of Democratic life, and your’s. They will not go away just because it would be convenient for you.
Indeed, if there’s “no such thing", why are you begging their support?

ABC does have a mild vocabulary deficit at times. “Stubborn Streak” should read “mule headed delusion".
This kind of “stubborn” is eerily similar to “stay the course".

“I know what it’s like to stumble. I know what it means to get knocked down. But I’ve never stayed down. I never will and neither will America if we get ready to win this election in November,” she said.

Yeah, so does Meldrick Taylor.

Take your bank account and go home, Hillary. Donate some more Millions to your “Charity” (tax shelter in layman’s terms) and stop pretending that you and Billy Boy care about anyone or anything other than yourselves.

Randi Rhodes, the Queen of Truth, has been suspended from Air America Radio for calling Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton “whores".

The truth is often found to be painful for some, but that doesn’t make it any less true.

As far as being actual call-girls, that’s not what Randi meant. But in the context of two people that will do or say anything to anyone just to gain money and power, Randi is spot on.

Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton are exactly that, whores.
Slutting around like back-alley crawlers for a long time now, the two “Whores” have done nothing but remain apathetically silent while the Bush/Neocon administration has perpetrated every crime imaginable against America and the world at large.
The war, the end of personal privacy, turning their backs on New Orleans, the gas prices, the rights violations, the treason, the murder of over 4000 of our soldiers and over a million Iraqis, the economic downfall, the disgrace of our nation before the world and who knows what other crimes and misconduct.

Yeah, Hillary has been the PNAC’s favorite “Whore” for a long time.
Sitting on her ass and saying nothing about the crimes she has witnessed makes her just as guilty as if she committed them herself. All the while being groomed to be the next Bush.

Pandering to John Q. Perverts everywhere

Where was Hillary Clinton while our privacy was being assailed?

When did Hillary Clinton ever stand up and rail against the proven illegal war on Iraq?

When did Hillary Clinton ever publicly stand with the people? Never. She has never taken a stand on anything other than filling her pockets and protecting her Senate Seat.

Where was Hillary when vote fraud was the crime de jour? Where was Hillary while Terri Schiavo was being abused by the Right? Where was Hillary while Val Plame was being exposed? Where was Hillary when our troops needed her to stand up for them?
She was bending over for BushCo. That’s where she was.

Now, we see Hillary Clinton employing tactics she surely learned from her mentors Bush, Cheney, Rove, Penn, Ferraro etc.
Surpressing free speech.

Air America Radio, since falling into Neocon hands, has silenced such great truth-tellers like Mike Malloy and now, suspended Randi Rhodes for speaking the truth and being forceful in doing so.
Randi, who was once close friends with the Clinton’s until she saw their true colors has now become yet another victim of their influence.

“Whores"? Corporate whores, Bush whores, PNAC whores, Isra-whores, power whores, money whores….
Both of them are the absolute scum of the earth.
Randi Rhodes was being kind, and we can’t wait to hear her on NovaM Radio with Mike Malloy and the real Liberals.

Fuck you, Mark Green and Air America Radio. You and your “Whores".

I am proud to be an American, but I am ashamed of what the government is doing in my name. We are living in a country that openly discusses torture as acceptable government policy, which debates whether or not to grant immunity to corporations that spy on Americans, that invades foreign countries in violation of international law and that grants huge profits to private corporations which hire mercenaries to kill innocent women and children with immunity in foreign countries. How did we end up on this path of secrecy, torture, foreign invasion and war profiteering?

I believe that we took the first steps towards a secret government in 2001 with the passage of Executive Order 13233 which allows current and previous presidents to withhold documents and records without explanation indefinitely. This unprecedented expansion of power stands in direct opposition to the Freedom of Information Act and the US Constitution. Presidential records should be the property of the public and our right to know should be fundamental right of the people and not the president.

Executive Order 13233 states that presidential records may be withheld from the general public, including Freedom of Infomation Act requests, for decisions that are related to war, diplomacy, national security, legal advice, presidential communications, and the deliberative process of a president and his advisors. These types of communications are considered to be “presidential privileges” and not subject to open public scrutiny or public disclosure. This means that unless Congress acts, we may never know exactly how this administration decided to torture innocent civilians, how they decided it was acceptable to spy on Americans, or how they decided to give billions of dollars to war profiteering corporations.

This means we cannot decide if the President violated the law or if members of his administration knowingly violated the law. It is important, if we are to be a dignified nation, an honorable nation, to know how our elected representatives and their advisors came to make decisions which reflect the body politic. We live in an open society, and the decisions that our representatives make reflect upon us all. This is why it is vital to know what our representatives are thinking and what they are doing. If we don’t, then we might as well admit that there is a secret government, unaccountable, acting without our consent.

In America, the government belongs to the people. Inherent in our system of self-government is the idea that the People have the right to know what our government and government officials are doing and to hold them accountable for their actions. Americans want to know why the Bush administration thinks it is acceptable to spy on her own citizens. We want to know who fabricated the weapons of mass destruction myth that was the agency of war in Iraq. These decisions have cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars, and more tragically, thousands of American lives. Thomas Jefferson once said that information is the currency of democracy. That is why it is time to overturn Executive Order 13233 and restore dignity and trust to the American people.

As I indulge a close encounter of the Cannabis kind and relax for a little Tubin’, I realize that a long awaited dream is about to come true.

Having watched my father be victimized by John McCain and his fellow thieves from the Keating 5 I have longed for the opportunity to tear John McCain down to his socks.

No, he wasn’t the only one involved nor the worst of them. But he’s the only one of them running for President. As soon as this ridiculous primary is over it will be McCain’s turn.
Some things you don’t forget. Watching your father work his ass off his whole life only to be rooked by Charles Keating and his five imps is one of them.

Soon, John. Very soon.

As the Clinton presidential bid enters it “last throes", we now see a new horizon before us. The Bush/Clinton Monarchy is very close to being a thing of the past. America is on the verge of a new lease on life. A renewed hope for a freer, people oriented society and a government, ripped from the hands of the status quo, that can be remolded into the great oasis of world leadership it’s supposed to be.

All these years, Bush this Clinton that….
I can’t possibly be the only one that’s sick of even hearing the names on the news.
The humiliation this country and our people have suffered through the last sixteen years of Presidential folly is not something I can honestly say we deserve.
From Whitewater to Monica to NAFTA to Iraq to NSA spying to listening to Bush try and put two legible sentences together to Bosnia Betty.
We have suffered, as a people, enough embarrassment and enough damage to our country to last a lifetime.

The Bush/Clinton Dynasty must end. It must or we will never have the breath of fresh political air we thirst for. The next generations of Americans have to have something other than this stagnant, stale and rapidly decaying culture that these Oligarchs have reduced us to.

What’s in a name? Everything.

We must have peace. We must have National Health Care that puts the interests of people before the interests of profiteers. We must embrace new attitudes toward each other and the world at large, and new methods of curtailing injustice such as the Drug War, abuse of prisoners, rampant corruption in government, and the plight of the homeless and the destitute.
Without these changes, God might as well Damn America because we have already damned ourselves. Lazarus is all around us, and we have failed.

No one named Bush or Clinton will ever be able to put country and people before power and wealth. It’s simply not in their nature to do so. So much is obvious to anyone with eyes wide open.
And given the fact that John McCain is no answer to any problem, we have Barack Obama as the only pathway to progress.

Recently riding a wave of critical endorsements, Barack Obama again picked up the endorsements of two Female and well respected Senators…

Freshman Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who recently voiced concerns about the rancorous tone of the Democratic primary, said she was forced to choose after the difficulty of remaining uncommitted.

“Between Barack and a hard place, I chose Barack,” she told reporters in a conference call. “He’s able to dissolve the hard cynical edge that has dominated our politics under the Bush administration.”

Klobuchar joins Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill in backing Obama, who hasn’t fared as well with white female voters as Clinton has.

Patrick Leahy, Chris Dodd, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Casey, McCaskill, Klobuchar, Gov. Richardson,…
This is how you do it. Hillary refuses to exit, Obama is happy to see her stay because she only makes him look better every time she opens her lying mouth.
What to do? Just keep those Senators coming. And if they care about this Party and getting down to business, they’ll endorse Obama one after another until Clinton has no leg left to stand on.
Hillary Clinton is not bigger than the Party. She may think she is, but she’s not.
She was finished a long time ago, and after winning Texas, Barack Obama has built an insurmountable Pledged Delegate lead. Obama also leads in Popular Vote as well as high profile Senate endorsements.

Goodbye, Hillary. The country is changing and you’re not. That means it’s time to go. But not to worry, there are plenty more DLC has-beens that will soon follow you to the political graveyard. You will not suffer rejection and obscurity alone.

This much we promise you.

Today seems to be Obama Day as Senators galore line up behind him.

Not only did Barack Obama win Bill Richardson’s convented endorsement last week, but now, Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey has also endorsed him delivering yet another slap in face of the Clinton Cabal who hopes to sweep the Penn Primary. Hillary Clinton is favored in the PA polls as of today, but the Casey endorsement is expected to disrupt that lead significantly.
The endorsement came at a very opportune time for Barack Obama.

In addition to this latest bit of Clinton-scorching news, Senators Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Chris Dodd of Connecticut delivered relatively un-cloaked statements that Hillary Clinton should drop out of the race….

From CNN:

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, issued the most unvarnished statement Friday, saying Clinton “has every right, but not a very good reason, to remain a candidate for as long as she wants to.”

Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, who sought the Democratic nomination for president himself but threw his support behind Obama after dropping out of the race in January, expressed a similar sentiment Thursday.

“I mean, if a person wants to stay in the race, stay in the race,” he told the National Journal, a Washington magazine.

“But if you have enough people rallying behind what appears to be the likely choice, and I believe the choice is Barack Obama … then I think you have to step up to the plate and say, ‘Enough is enough.’ We want this to be over with.”

More for Obama, less for Clinton with each passing day.

If she remains in the race that’s fine. It’s her right and she has no chance of winning anyway. Obama will continue to do better and Hillary will continue to fall. It’s what’s being done to the Democratic party in the name of pure selfishness and futility that matters most.

And what’s being done ain’t pretty.

Since so many “Polls” are being used as citation these days, It seems that Hillary’s shortcomings are catching up to her even in states she won on Feb 5th.

California women may be humiliated by her lies and inner ugliness. Or perhaps California Hispanics learned something from Bill Richardson.
Maybe Californians in general have finally wised up.

Regardless, there is a surprisingly clear shift amongst the attitudes of Californians, including those who voted for Hillary in the primary, that may indicate that Barack Obama may be best suited to win California in the November General Election.

From US News and World Report:

On Super Tuesday, Clinton won the Golden State’s primary by a margin of 52-to-43, surprising political experts with her dominance among Latinos, women, and older voters, in particular. Obama seemed to be unable to break through this electoral firewall. But in a new survey of more than 2,000 California voters, released today by the Public Policy Institute of California, an independent research group based in San Francisco, Obama appears to have experienced a significant bump since then. Over a month after voting in the primary, more Democrats here now say they have a positive view of Obama than of Clinton (78 percent to 74 percent)—a shift, experts say, that may be even larger than it appears, since much of Obama’s support in the primary came from independents. Decline-to-state voters, who represent a sizable voting block in California, continue to flock to his campaign (57 percent have a favorable view of Obama, compared with 47 percent for McCain and only 35 percent for Clinton). Overall, more than 6 in 10 voters of all political stripes say they view Obama favorably, compared with 45 percent for Clinton. If the general election were held today, the poll indicates that Obama, not Clinton, would do better here: He polls at 49-to-40 percent over McCain, while Clinton-McCain is a statistical tie (46 percent of voters say they would support Clinton; 43 percent for McCain).

This sounds more like the Liberal Oasis California I know and love.

It was only a matter of time. When one campaigns on the dark side as Hillary Clinton has done, one will eventually consume one’s self with one’s own delusions. Dark Side may be acceptable in Republican circles, but it’s not in Democratic ones.

With the obvious exceptions amongst the Clinton die-never fringe, the Democratic voters are not in denial about Hillary’s character flaws. She has sunk her own ship with lots of help from the DLC, Billy Boy, and the almost cartoonish rabid feminazis we find on the Net.

Today, much in the way George Bush’s approval ratings slipped from around 90% to around 20%, Hillary Clinton’s greed-driven lust for power, her hostile behavior, and of course her “misspeaks” and other blatant lies have not gone unnoticed by Democrats of all stripes. Her supporters included.
She has lied, scratched, clawed, and bitten her way from “inevitable nominee” to the political graveyard.

Worth a thousand words

From ABC News:

Clinton’s personal approval rating has dipped significantly according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, with 48 percent of Americans holding a negative view of her compared to the 37 percent who hold a positive view. For Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., the ratings are better: 49 percent positive, 32 percent negative.

Fallout over the Bosnia Betty issue? You betcha.

As WhitesCreek Journal demonstrates, even the Super Delegates are waking up and taking notice of Clinton’s tasteless and demeaning methods…

Clinton tactics turn off some superdelegates

Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:55 PM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under: 2008, Clinton

From NBC/NJ’s Matthew E. Berger
At a time when Sen. Hillary Clinton is increasingly relying on superdelegates to vault her to the Democratic Party’s nomination, a handful of undecided and pledged superdelegates are coming forward to say her campaign’s tactics in recent weeks are doing more harm than good.

The Democratic Party insiders say they believe Clinton’s direct attacks against Sen. Barack Obama in recent days are hurting the party and its chances in November, and also say it is showing a calculated, desperate-to-win side of Clinton that they dislike.

“In looking at the manner in which the candidates are campaigning, I think it would be best they focused their attention on the presumptive nominee and showed our party which one is better in campaigning against McCain,” said Garry Shay, a California superdelegate, who announced his support for Clinton.

Unlike some in the party, these superdelegates said they do not believe Clinton should drop out of the race. They said they are committed to the democratic process, and want to allow the states still remaining to cast their ballots. But they acknowledged Obama is the likely nominee and suggested the personal attacks were only hurting the party and its viability.

Democratic voters, many of whom are her supporters, are turning away from what they see as a determent to the party and our future. Super Delegates also are acknowledging the obvious.
Democrats are not stupid, and our women are the smartest in the country. They care about the party and about progressive values. They have a sense of duty to make the nation and the world a better place for their children and our future generations. They will do the right thing.
The handful that won’t? Fuck ‘em. We don’t need their fringe votes. We will acquire enough new voters and returning genuine Liberal voters to offset them and then some.

Barack Obama will be our nominee. John McCain and his party are the enemy. Our duty is clear. The sooner we put this circus of a primary behind us the sooner we can get down to the nitty gritty.

Dear

Marc Aronchick
Clarence Avant
Susie Tompkins Buell
Sim Farar
Robert L. Johnson
Chris Korge
Marc and Cathy Lasry
Hassan Nemazee
Alan and Susan Patricof
JB Pritzker
Amy Rao
Lynn Forester de Rothschild
Haim Saban
Bernard Schwartz
Stanley S. Shuman
Jay and Tracy Snyder
Maureen White
and
Steven Rattner…

….GO FUCK YOURSELVES.

Sincerely,
the Liberal Bloggers that will never, ever forget your names.

Dear Abbie

Recently, some filthy rich and perhaps just plain filthy over paid and under worked obsolete has-beens decided that somehow they were important enough to be able to threaten LA PELOSI! into suppressing her view about the Super Delegate situation in the democratic primary.

This is the problem in this nation right now, snobbish shit heads that have more money than they’re worth and fewer brains than they need.
They just don’t get it. Barack Obama has out raised Hillary Clinton by tens of millions and I doubt much of it came from the Sordid 21.

How out of touch and hopelessly naive can millionaires be?

Fuck you clowns. Liberal candidates can raise more money on the internet in a week than you donate in your lifetimes. Take your money and give it to the poor you wretched, arrogant, delusional pricks.
If you think for one second that Nancy Pelosi is going to succumb to your threats you have the wrong lady.
You may be used to buying Hillary, Bill and who knows what other Republican Lite scum, but LA PELOSI! will probably tell you, in decidedly more civil terms, to get stuffed.

You are the problem that the broader picture will encompass. Removing your influence, and that of others like you is where all this is really heading. This goes beyond Hillary and Obama and McBush and the White House. This is about making the Democratic Party a party of the people, not a party of Nobility.
This isn’t Jamestown, there is no queen, you are not Lords and Ladies.
You are assholes, and we know who you are.

The objective is one American, one vote. One America, not two. Hillary Clinton is not part of the solution to that problem. Nor are you.

Power to the people, motherfuckers.

The “Surge” would never have yielded a goddamn thing if it wasn’t for the Mehdi Militia and the truce brokered with them.
Now, without Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, Iraq is once again plunged into turmoil.
Face it, we’re not in control of anything.

Such calm and serenity

BRING THEM HOME, NOW!

From Reuters:

* Security forces fight Mehdi Army in Basra

* Sadr threatens national “civil revolt”

* Fighting, curfews in southern towns (Adds mortar attack in Basra, fighting in Hilla, curfews in Nassiriya, Diwaniya)

By Aref Mohammed

BASRA, Iraq, March 25 (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces battled the Mehdi Army militia in Basra on Tuesday in a drive to win control of the southern oil city, but violence and unrest spread to Baghdad and other cities.

Police and health workers said at least 12 people were killed in the fighting in districts of central and northern Basra where Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army has a strong presence.

In a statement read out by a senior aide on Tuesday, Sadr called on Iraqis to stage sit-ins all over Iraq and said he would declare a “civil revolt” if attacks by U.S. and Iraqi security forces continued. He also threatened a “third step", but said it was too early to announce what it would be.

Columns of black smoke rose above Basra and explosions and machinegun fire could be heard. Reuters Television pictures showed masked gunmen firing mortars in the street, while others drove around in captured Iraqi army and police vehicles.

Though we do a fairly good job of creating Blog categories here at TN420, every once in a while someone comes along that is so evil, so abnormally deranged that they seem to defy description.

Dick Cheney is Sub Human. There is no better word to describe a cowardly, lying, heretical, morally decomposed scurvy dog of a man.
Given a choice between saving the fucking Snail Darter and Dick Cheney the Darter wins out every time.

As Newscoma conveyed to us this glorious morn, ABC recently interviewed Cheney and surprisingly attempted to grill him (in their traditional pussified fashion) about the toll of the war in Iraq as our casualties continue to mount.
The subsequent cowardice that rolled off Cheney’s forked tongue was shocking even to us. And believe me he has no greater critics.

Below is the interview and a special quote we picked out that caught our attention…

By MARTHA RADDATZ, ELY BROWN and JENNIFER PARKER
March 24, 2008

Exclusive: Cheney on US Troops: They Volunteered

Noting the burden placed on military families, the vice president said the biggest burden is carried by President George W. Bush, who made the decision to commit US troops to war, and reminded the public that U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan volunteered for duty.

“I want to start with the milestone today of 4,000 dead in Iraq. Americans. And just what effect do you think it has on the country?” asked ABC News’ White House correspondent, Martha Raddatz, who traveled with the vice president on a nine-day overseas trip to Iraq and other countries in the Middle East.

“It obviously brings home I think for a lot of people the cost that’s involved in the global war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Cheney said in the interview, conducted in Turkey. “It places a special burden obviously on the families, and we recognize, I think — it’s a reminder of the extent to which we are blessed with families who’ve sacrificed as they have.”

“The president carries the biggest burden, obviously,” Cheney said. “He’s the one who has to make the decision to commit young Americans, but we are fortunate to have a group of men and women, the all-volunteer force, who voluntarily put on the uniform and go in harm’s way for the rest of us.”

“The president carries the biggest burden, obviously,” Cheney said.

Bigger than the soldiers and their families?????
This quote is not taken out of context. They were talking about the toll taken on the families of our murdered soldiers. And he said Bush carries the biggest burden.

Fuck that coward and the whore that bore him.

There is not one, not one grain of humanity in Dick Cheney’s diseased, abominable soul.
Such a man can only be categorized in the same facet of humanity as Pol Pot, Adolph Hitler, Edie Amin, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacey and every other piece of subhumanoid vermin that ever slithered across the earth.

The Military Family’s burden is “special", but Bush carries the “biggest” burden?!

Dick Cheney, when God finally sees fit to bless this earth with your demise, we at TN420 sincerely hope that your journey into oblivion is long, slow, and excruciatingly painful.

I’m captainkona, and these are my words.

There’s not much one can say about something like this. Some lies are so vile that even when you don’t like the person telling them, you still feel bad for them. You just shake your head and wonder what it must feel like to be so void of personal dignity…

Briefly, Hillary Clinton, in attempting to build a trumped up foreign policy resume’ unfortunately told a blatant lie about being greeted in Bosnia by “sniper fire” when in fact, she was greeted by a child bearing nothing more dangerous than a poem.

Bullets zinging past her head…Chelsea’s too.

Greeting ceremony, Tuzla military airport, Bosnia, March 25, 1996.

“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
–Hillary Clinton, speech at George Washington University, March 17, 2008.

The video speaks for it’s self and MasterSitsu at Daily Kos takes it from there.

This is not the kind of positioning lie that most politicians tell. Those aren’t ok either. But this is the kind of lie that someone tells to deceive others and intentionally create an illusion.
This type of lie, from an adult not to mention a presidential candidate, is inexcusable.

I am by no means Clinton friendly, but this is so pathetic it even makes me feel sorry for her.

UPDATE:

The Caucus

Hillary Clinton said she “misspoke".

Let’s face it. I’ve seen better heads on a cheap draft beer.

It’s sad to see someone who once enjoyed relevance scratch and claw, in the twilight of their career, to remain in some way significant.

Carville is a vile man, both in appearance and manner.
But such is a man that plays both sides of the political field then has the nerve to insult a true blue Democrat like Bill Richardson.
James Carville, one of the Clintons’ closest lapdogs suggested recently that Bill Richardson’s endorsement of Barack Obama was an “Act of Betrayal.” He also said, “Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic.”

Poor Carville, I guess the fact that he won’t have a job in the White House next year is beginning to sink in.
So, like the DLC Republican Lite Pig-fuck that he is, he resorts to attacking a great American and fine human being in frustration. I see his angst, he’s a loser. And a Fugly Loser at that.

I’ve seen that face staring up at me as I was throwing bread crumbs into South Holston Lake.

Carville is the quintessential double agent. Backing Republicans one day then backing Republicrats the next.
Ol’ Fish Face even managed to dredge up a Republican female and actually marry it.
Mary Jo Matalin, a Repig strategist and an assistant to George Bush and a counciler to the most vile traitor in our nation, Dick Cheney.
I understand that one must dance with the Devil from time to time, but to actually lie down and breed with it? Disgusting.
Even worse, there’s a chance that Carville’s wife is guilty of treason in the PlameGate case along with Cheney, Rove, Libby, and others…

Matalin, a colleague of Karl Rove, worked for Vice President Dick Cheney in the White House. She attended meetings of the White House Iraq Group, an internal White House task force convened in August 2002 (seven months before the 2003 Invasion of Iraq). WHIG was charged with the task of convincing the US public of the potential threat of Saddam Hussein’s alleged violations of international law in his refusal to cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.

Matalin resigned her responsibilities as of December 31, 2002.[2] Although Matalin left the White House more than six months before the leak that triggered the Valerie Plame scandal, she is reported to have testified before the grand jury of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald[citation needed]. (Notes and records of WHIG meetings were subpoenaed by Fitzgerald in January 2004.)

No wonder Carville has such a cowardly, morally void, wide Yellow Streak down his back. You lie down with Pigs….

Best known for helping Bill Clinton lie his way into the White House in ‘92, Carville has also helped get some genuine Neocon vermin into office as well…

Prior to the Clinton campaign, Carville and consulting partner Paul Begala gained other well-known political victories, including the gubernatorial victories of Robert Casey of Pennsylvania in 1986 , and Zell Miller of Georgia in 1990 .

Other well known wastes of air like Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom and Zionist Pig, Ehud Barak of Israel’s Labor Party also had Carville’s help doing damage to their countries.

An ugly, nasty, gutless little man, Carville is doomed to spend the last days of his political life watching failure flow from his efforts and bitter fruit form on his vine.
Watching him wither away to nothingness will be a pleasure.

Paparazzi caught Carville before coffee.

First James Carville made the comment that Harold Ford Jr., another DLC bitch, should replace Howard Dean as head of the DNC. Now Richardson is like Judas? That must mean Carville is comparing Hillary Clinton to Jesus?
Wow, a blaspheming fucktard too huh? The Clinton camp is now truly, truly exactly like BushCo. No different whatsoever. Pro-war, anti-privacy, Republican ass-sucking sniveling little cowards.

And soon…to be driven out in disgrace before the country and the world, and exposed for the bigoted, Right-Wing filth they really are.

Enjoy it while it lasts, bitch. Because I’ll surely enjoy watching you go down as much as I’ll enjoy watching the other men in your wife’s life, Bush and Cheney, go down. You’re them, just uglier.

No, no political sarcasm. Just a great day to breathe the NE Tennessee air. (and smoke a phatty of course)

Thanx for the reminder, Steve.

Bill Richardson is one hell of a man, that’s what makes this one hell of an endorsement.
Not to mention the fact that Clinton, in her arrogance, thought she had the endorsement locked up.

As our friend Sharon Cobb alerted us to earlier tonight, New Mexico Governor, recent Presidential candidate and former member of Bill Clinton’s cabinet, Bill Richardson, has chosen to endorse Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination.

Below is a video of what America is supposed to look like. An abundance of hope and positive energy. All kinds of people from all walks of life uniting behind the most Liberal, most qualified, most respectable candidate we have.

Listen to the “classy” response from James “Carp Mouth” Carville. This is what has destroyed the Clinton campaign, DLC vipers and their venom….

The reaction of some of Mr. Clinton’s allies suggests that might have been a wise decision. “An act of betrayal,” said James Carville, an adviser to Mrs. Clinton and a friend of Mr. Clinton.

“Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic,” Mr. Carville said, referring to Holy Week.

Come home, Clinton backers. We understand your passion, but deep down inside you know it’s over. It’s over.
You’re not Republicans. You know what the right thing is. Do it, do it now.
We have our candidate, now it’s time to put John McCain in our crosshairs. We have argued enough.

Watch the vid, this is where we’re supposed to be.
One Party on a mission.
Get on the bus, ‘cause it’s the only one going to the show.

The breach of security concerning Barack Obama’s passport records has reached to an Arlington, VA company known as Stanley, Inc.

Smile, Stanley! You’re now public information.

From MSNBC:

By Jim Popkin and Libby Leist, NBC News

Two of the government contractors who allegedly took a peek at Sen. Barack Obama’s passport records worked for a Virginia-based firm called Stanley, Inc., according to U.S. government officials with knowledge of the State Department passport controversy.

Stanley, Inc., is headquartered in Arlington, Va. The State Department awarded it a contract for $164 million in 2006. The contract called for Stanley to print and mail millions of new U.S. passports. Stanley announced on Monday that it was awarded an additional $570 million contract to “continue support of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs/Passport Services Directorate.”

NBC News contacted a Stanley, Inc., spokeswoman this afternoon, and informed her that two sources had confirmed that employees at her firm were involved with the scandal. The spokeswoman would only comment: “We’ve been directed by the State Department to direct all media calls to them.”

Cool, now who is Stanley? This stuff is kinda like Find Waldo, ya know?

Well, Stanley Inc is a fairly big player. Just another sleazy contractor in the tradition of Blackwater, Halliburton, etc.
And Oh my, a $570 Million Contract to Continue Support of Passport Program. Imagine that…

Over 15-Year History of Providing Passport Services Continues

ARLINGTON, Va., March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Stanley, Inc. (NYSE: SXE), a leading provider of systems integration and professional services to the U.S. federal government, today announced that it was awarded a five-year, $570 million contract to continue support of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs/Passport Services Directorate. Services include production, operational and business process support training, procurement, administration and evaluation of critical supplies, and facilities management support at the four Passport Centers and 14 Passport Agencies nationwide along with the Headquarters’ support offices.

Hmmmm, what have we here?….

The company began its relationship with the Department of State in 1992 when it assisted in establishing the National Passport Center in Portsmouth, N.H. Since that time, Stanley has expanded its services to support passport operations at all 18 locations nationwide.

1992? Before or after a Clinton took over the White House? Shortly before?

Getting interesting….

We’d been wondering how, where and when the Traitors of the PNAC would resurface and attempt to reestablish their Zionist, Israel First agenda.
Now, in the form of a new website, new name, and new lies, the PNAC and it’s minions has returned. And like before, the objective is anything but Democratic…

If you are unaware of the Project for a New American Century or PNAC, you can refresh yourself HERE.
In short, the PNAC/"Defense of Democracies” are the people who pushed for war with Iraq and fabricated the evidence that Bush presented to Congress, the American people, our Military and the world.
They are traitors who serve Israel and the Zionist agenda without regard to the lives of innocent people or the laws of civilized nations.

These people own George Bush like a Grinder owns his monkey. They are the primary reason nearly 4000 American service people are dead. They are the reason the war exists.

Headed up this time by long time fellow-PNAC Pig Steve Forbes, the “Foundation for Defense of Democracy’s” Swine List reads like the old PNAC version with a new font.
Richard Perle, Bill Kristol, Frank Gaffney, Adela Zachariades, Jeane Kirkpatrick (now deceased), James Woolsey…they’re all there.
In addition are two new faces that we always knew were part of the problem but not officially affiliated. Two of the most loathsome scum the Democratic Party ever tolerated, “Red” Joe Lieberman and Zell “boy, was I wrong” Miller.

In a release by Democracy For America (The Good Guys), we find the FDD in the process of funding Swift Boat type efforts against Democratic candidates.
I didn’t say any particular candidate, I said Democratic Candidates. Most of them running for the vitally important Senate seats that will be contested this November.
These US Senate contests may well be more important than who wins the White House and the PNAC/FDD are attacking and spreading their filthy lies as we speak.

Donate to Democracy For America and help them overcome these traitors with truth.

At one time, “Defense of Democracies” actually had a bipartisan advisory board which included Democrats Donna Brazille, Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Elliot Engel. Not surprisingly, all three stepped down from their positions as advisers once the misleading attack ads started running.

Here is what Donna Brazille said about Defense of Democracies:

“I strongly condemn their misleading and reckless ad campaign. The organization is using fear mongering for political purposes…” She added that due to the influence of its right-wing funding, Defense of Democracies has “morphed into a radical right wing organization that is doing the dirty work for the Bush administration and Congressional Republicans.”

Her statement was clear:

“I no longer wish to be affiliated with such a group and have asked them to remove my name from the Board.”

Now, what Brazille, Shumer, and Engel were doing associating with known traitors is another matter. But we won’t forget about it.

The Traitors of the PNAC are back with Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller in tow, attacking Democrats and aiding the enemy. They are the worst manner of traitors this country has ever known. They have betrayed our people and have solicited, aided and abetted the murder of our troops and countless innocent Iraqis.

Be aware of these vermin. They are back, and as long as they are, America, Democracy, and all things decent and true are in danger.

They are the enemy of freedom.

Oh, you gotta be fucking kidding me….

BREAKING NEWS:

Two State Dept. employees (contracted of course) were caught trying to illegally gain access to Barack Obama’s passport records.

Not much to say because not much is known. We do know this, we can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings because either John McCain or Hillary Clinton is involved. Who the hell else would it be!?!

Fucking LOL! You think someone somewhere is a little worried?!
WP:

Looking at Obama’s File Gets Two Fired

By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 21, 2008; Page A02

The State Department said last night that it had fired two contract employees and disciplined a third for accessing Sen. Barack Obama’s passport file.

Obama’s presidential campaign immediately called for a “complete investigation.”

State Department spokesman Tom Casey said the employees had individually looked into Obama’s passport file on Jan. 9, Feb. 21 and March 14. To access such a file, the employees must first acknowledge a pledge to keep the information private.

The employees were each caught because of a computer-monitoring system that is triggered when the passport accounts of a “high-profile person” are accessed, he said. The system was put in place after the State Department was embroiled in a scandal involving the access of the passport records of then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton in 1992.

“The State Department has strict policies and controls on access to passport records by government and contract employees,” Casey said.

What a fucking circus.

UPDATE: USA Today

LOL

So now they peeked at everyone’s file (yeah, right) and Condi Rice offers apology for her incompetence and mismanagement.

“None of the employees have been identified.”

Why the fuck not? What company did they work for? Why is Condi Rice a lying sack of shit?

Name the employees and who they work for.

With environmental cleanliness being a major concern for American Democrats and even some Republicans, one has to wonder if Hillary Clinton is on top of such issues. Turns out she’s very much on the wrong side of environmental protection.

Recently, as our friends at WhitesCreek brought to our attention, Hillary Clinton was in West Virginia where she was interviewed by Beth Vorhees of West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

Appalachian Voices Front Porch Blog brings us the lowdown on Hillary’s disgracefully ignorant stance on the tragedy of environmentally devastating mountain top removal mining or MTR. In the interview, Clinton shocked even some of her most ardent supporters with her obvious ignorance on the subject and her blatant unwillingness to put environment before business.

While stammering in Bush like fashion when asked questions she’s not prepared for, Hillary wrongly injected “economy” into the issue when the fact is, MTR has cost many jobs in the mining industry as automation replaces miners. Coal mining jobs are at an all time low.

MTR is one of the worst Eco-disasters America is facing particularly in the Southern states.
As the I Love Mountains organization teaches us, MTR poisons our water supplies, kills and displaces wildlife, and scars the beauty of our natural landscape. All for the greed of a handful of people.

Unfortunately, there is little information on the cumulative impacts of mountaintop removal because the federal agencies that are charged with regulating coal mining have refused to track the overall extent and impacts of mountaintop removal. The one attempt at acomprehensive analysis of MTR by government agencies was presented in a multi-agency Environmental Impact Statement that was completed in 2003. This effort was initiated in the late 90s, but the focus of the EIS was revised after the White House changed hands in 2001. According to the Charleston Gazette:

“When it formally kicked off the project in February 1999, the EPA said the goal was “to consider developing agency policies … to minimize, to the maximum extent practicable the adverse environmental effects” of mountaintop removal. By October 2001, then-Deputy Interior Secretary Steven J. Griles, a former mining industry lobbyist, had ordered the project refocused toward “centralizing and streamlining coal mine permitting.”

Cindy Tibbot, a FWS biologist involved in the EIS process, was one of many agency scientists who expressed outrage about Griles’ directive, stating in an internal memo:

“It’s hard to stay quiet about this when I really believe we’re doing the public and the heart of the Clean Water Act a great disservice.”

Here is an excerpt of the interview. Hillary Clinton, having sat on “environmentally focused committees", shows an ignorance equaled only by the GOP…

I am concerned about it for all the reasons people state, but I think its a difficult question because of the conflict between the economic and environmental trade-off that you have here. I’m not an expert. I don’t know enough to have an independent opinion, but I sure would like people who could be objective, understanding both the economic necessities and environmental damage to come up with some approach that would enable us to retrieve the coal but would enable us to do it in a way that wouldn’t damage the living standards and the other important qualities associated with people living both under the mountaintop and people who are along the streams. You know, maybe there is a way to recover those mountaintops once they have been stripped of the coal. You know, I think we’ve got to look at this from a practical perspective.

1) Why doesn’t Hillary Clinton have enough knowledge to even form an opinion? She’s sat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

2) Why doesn’t Hillary know that local economies have been harmed by MTR, not helped?

3) Recover Mountain tops??
Is she out of her fucking mind? What kind of inept, George Bushian statement is that?! She has sat through hearing after hearing on this issue. Is she outright lying? How could she be so ignorant unless it’s willful and invoked so as not to lose coal industry money?

Environment? We don’t need no stinking environment.

Now, let’s really look into Hillary Clinton’s environmental voting record.
In 2003, Hillary Clinton voted against the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003. A miserably foolish and environmentally unsound vote.
A few positive votes under party pressure and lots of NVs shows Hillary Clinton to be grotesquely apathetic where environmental issues are concerned. As are virtually all corporate whores.

Also, as a point of reference, Hillary Clinton along with the Spineless Senate body, voted to confirm former and now disgraced Republican EPA Chief Christine Whitman. Whitman resigned from Bushit’s cabinet after being found guilty of endangering 9/11 emergency personnel and New Yorkers at large…

In February 2006, a federal judge found Whitman guilty of making “‘misleading statements of safety’ about the air quality near the World Trade Center in the days after the Sept. 11 attack.” The judge further found that Whitman “may have put the public in danger,” according to the New York Times (Julia Preston, “Public Misled on Air Quality After 9/11 Attack, Judge Says,” February 3, 2006).

“The allegations in this case of Whitman’s reassuring and misleading statements of safety after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks are without question conscience-shocking,” said Judge Deborah A. Batts. As early as September 13, 2001, the EPA put out press releases declaring “no significant levels” of asbestos dust, when agency officials knew there were significant hazardous emissions. Judge Batts’ ruling allowed a 2004 class action lawsuit against Whitman and other EPA officials and the entire agency, which was filed on behalf of residents and schoolchildren from downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn, to go forward.

Barack Obama however, has made his view clear. I guess we should be happy that at least one of the Democratic contenders has a stance on the issue at all.

Get out of the race, Hillary. We’re not voting for you. You are one of them.

So here it is, five years of war based on fabricated evidence and motivated by fear and revenge on the Israel side, and ignorance and greed on ours.

Most reasonably intelligent people know that around one million people have died as a result of The Big Lie. Most people who don’t have their heads up their asses know that nearly 4000 Americans have lost their lives and tens of thousands more maimed or otherwise injured.

But how about those who are forgotten? Anyone familiar with the term “Refugee"?

They are millions. Average citizens of various and assorted backgrounds. Christians, Muslims of all walks, Secular peoples. All gone.
Their homes, possessions, loved ones…all gone. Never to be found again.

The humanitarian crises that has arisen from the ashes of the Big Lie is one of the worst in recent history. The misery of the refugees and the burden that has fallen upon neighboring states to care for them has only grown in time and shows signs only of worsening.

As we remember this 5th Anniversary of the single most vile act of international aggression in American history, hopefully we’ll keep in our hearts, minds and prayers those who’s lives and hopes and dreams have been shattered by the evil that men do.

Washington Post:

Not far from the Circle of the Iraqis, a traffic roundabout in the teeming Damascus neighborhood of Sitti Zeinab, a boy called out in the twilight the other day for passengers to fill the evening bus to Baghdad. Tables at the Baghdadi Restaurant, a kebab and shwarma joint, are nearly always full.

“We thank God that under the dictatorship, the conditions for us were harsh, and are even harsher now that the Americans are there,” said Abu Jaffar Khazimi, 35, who fled the southern Iraqi city of Najaf with his family in September. “So we have grown used to not needing a lot of luxury.”

Occupied Iraq uruknet:

Five years later, a hidden crisis: Report of the IRC Commission on Iraqi Refugees
International Rescue Committee

March 18, 2008

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The war that was launched in Iraq five years ago has produced one of the largest humanitarian crises of our time. Yet this crisis is largely hidden from the public and ignored by the international community. More than four million Iraqis of different religions, ethnicities and backgrounds are estimated to be uprooted by horrific violence and death and are in dire need of help. About half have fled to Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and elsewhere in the region.

Because they are not huddled together in a camp or traveling as a group across a windswept plain, these refugees are not receiving the attention and help they deserve from the international community. Much of the reporting about them has been wrong, perpetuating myths that they are wealthy or that the crisis is over and that many are returning to their homes in Iraq. The solutions put forward by major donors have been wholly inadequate. Meanwhile, many of the refugees have been severely traumatized and now lead desperate lives in foreign cities such as Damascus, Amman, Cairo and Beirut.

This report is based on the visit of the International Rescue Committee’s Commission on Iraqi Refugees to Jordan and Syria in February 2008. During our visit, we met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and other senior officials from the governments of Syria, Jordan, Iraq and the United States. We also met with dozens of refugees in Jordan and Syria and with U.N. representatives.

The Guardian UK:

Warning over spiralling Iraq refugee crisis

12:23 on December 07 2006.
The surging violence in Iraq has created what is becoming the biggest refugee crisis in the world, a humanitarian group said today.

A report (pdf) by Washington-based Refugees International said an influx of Iraqis threatened to overwhelm other Middle Eastern countries, particularly Syria, Jordon and Lebanon.

Last month, the UN estimated that 100,000 people were fleeing the country each month, with the number of Iraqis now living in other Arab countries standing at 1.8 million.

Today’s report came as George Bush and Tony Blair were due to discuss the situation in Iraq, which the bipartisan Iraq Study Group yesterday described as “grave and deteriorating".

Refugees International said the acceleration in the numbers fleeing Iraq meant it could soon overtake the refugee crisis in Darfur.

“We’re not saying it’s the largest [refugee crisis], but it’s quickly becoming the largest,” spokeswoman Kristele Younes said. “The numbers are very, very scary.”

Millions of displaced, disaffected, disenfranchised, ah fuck…just plain dissed.
What has the “surge” done for them? What has anyone really done other than forget them?

Five years of blood, five years of sorrow, five years of lies…
Five Years, stuck on our eyes….

Special thanx to Blog Swarm for organizing the recognition of the tragedy and for their vigilance on behalf of what is true and right. Thanx to all who participated. Your voice is our sword, never put it away.- captainkona

Due to the moronic trend of blaming Barack Obama for words his nutty old preacher spoke.
Let’s take a brief look at Hillary and Bill’s Church for good measure….

Interesting, here’s where the Clinton church explains that they will allow “The Gay” to attend but don’t count on being an officer or anything else official.

From the Dallas News:

The church is historic Foundry UMC in Washington, D.C., which Bill and Hillary Clinton attended during his presidency. Here’s the story, a version of which appeared first in the Dallas-based United Methodist Reporter:

A UMNS Report
By Robin Russell*

Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., has changed its policy to recognize same-sex unions in special ceremonies that fall just short of an official wedding.

Though it is among a handful of United Methodist churches that do so, the action, which became effective Feb. 1, has made headlines in The Washington Post and other newspapers. Foundry was the church attended by President Bill Clinton and his wife, now-U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), when he was in office.

In a pastoral letter to the congregation last November, the Rev. Dean Snyder, senior pastor, announced his plan to begin leading services that “recognize and honor lesbian and gay committed relationships.”

These church services, however, will not be “ceremonies that celebrate homosexual unions,” he wrote, citing the denomination’s Book of Discipline sanction against United Methodist clergy performing such ceremonies. Snyder said that his action reflects “an attempt to be ecclesiastically obedient while at the same time offering pastoral care to our members.”

And from the United Methodist Book of Discipline:

“Since the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching, self-avowed practicing homosexuals* are not to be accepted as candidates, ordained as ministers or appointed to serve in The United Methodist Church.”

*Footnote –- “‘Self-avowed practicing homosexual’ is understood to mean that a person openly acknowledges to a bishop, district superintendent, district committee of ordained ministry, board of ordained ministry or clergy session that the person is a practicing homosexual.” (Book of Discipline, Par. 304.3)
bullet “Homosexual persons no less than heterosexual persons are individuals of sacred worth. All persons need the ministry and guidance of the church in their struggles for human fulfillment, as well as the spiritual and emotional care of a fellowship that enables reconciling relationships with God, with others, and with self. Although we do not condone the practice of homosexuality and consider this practice incompatible with Christian teaching, we affirm that God’s grace is available to all. We commit ourselves to be in ministry for and with all persons.” (From “The Nurturing Community,” a section of the church’s Social Principles, Par. 65G).
bullet “The council on shall be responsible for ensuring that no board, agency, committee, commission, or council shall give United Methodist funds to any gay caucus or group, or otherwise use such funds to promote the acceptance of homosexuality. The council shall have the right to stop such expenditures.* This restriction shall not limit the church’s ministry in response to the HIV epidemic.”

“*Reference is made to a Judicial Council Decision (491) that authorized the right of an annual conference to use funds to study homophobia and another (592) that gave the General Conference the right to create and fund a study of homosexuality.” (Book of Discipline, Par. 806.12)
bullet “We affirm the sanctity of the marriage covenant that is expressed in love, mutual support, personal commitment, and shared fidelity between a man and a woman…Ceremonies that celebrate homosexual unions shall not be conducted by our ministers and shall not be conducted in our churches.” (From Social Principles, Par. 65C).

Now, I’m not gay but many Democratic voters are. Including many of the misandrious Clinton Femocons.

The following is from the Yid with Lid blog. These people are Zionist pigs and I do not advocate them personally, but to many Jews this is anti-Semitism coming from the Clinton church….

Clinton’s Church Publishes Anti-Israel Books

We have spend lots of time criticizing Senator Obama for not publicly rebuking the Anti-Israel stance of his Church. It would not be fair to make the same demand from the other Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton. Her Church, the United Methodist Church also has a worrisome track record to those who support Israel.

The United Methodist Church has never been a big fan of Israel. Take for example last July, Rev. Randy R. Day, chief executive of the General Board of Global Ministries for the United Methodist Church, issued a statement that said: “Neither the attacks of Hezbollah on Israel or the Israeli military actions in Gaza and Lebanon can be justified from the perspective of international law or sound political policy.”

I’m not pro-Israel, but many Clinton supporters are.

Question is, is it fair to hold the Clintons accountable for the anti-gay, anti-Israel stance of their church? We say No.

Anyone else?

Oh! Almost forgot…

Any of you Right-Wing Republican Fundamentalist Pigs in the McCockroach corner remember this?

Falwell said, “What we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact, God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.”
Robertson replied, “Well, Jerry, that’s my feeling. I think we’ve just seen the antechamber to terror, we haven’t begun to see what they can do to the major population.”

This election cycle is a shit storm of hypocrisy and none of it is coming from Barack Obama.

You gotta love it. The boy can rant.
And as per usual, Keith Olberman is spot on….

This particular “Special Comment” struck me as being as heart felt as any. Personally, I have a problem with Keith trying to give Hillary an open door to walk out of on the race issue, but he has his feelings and I have to respect them. He is a big fan of the Clintons.

Keith goes off on Geraldine Ferraro like he usually goes off on Bush and Cheney, and well he should. In a blistering indictment of the Republican Lite of the Democratic party Keith explains that Ferraro is a disgusting person and always has been. Her racist commentary goes back decades and is largely the kind of rhetoric that reflects ignorance more than racial pride or political hate.
The Comment is not a condemnation of Hillary Clinton, it’s a call to her from someone who presumably is a friend to denounce strongly the hate speech of Ferraro. Something she has not done.
It’s a well earned condemnation of Hillary’s campaign staff which may be the worst excuse for a supporting cast since Men Without Hats made the Safety Dance video.
Don’t get me wrong. I personally believe that Hillary has lost this race on her own demerit, but Keith’s point still has much validity. She has not stood up and asserted with clarity and conviction that the America of the Democratic Dream is no place for petty judgment of others based on anything other than individual merit.
She is simply not reinforcing the hope for tomorrow.

Keith also mentions something I’ve alluded to in many postings both here and on other blogs, there is a pattern of activity and speech that suggests an arrogant, selfish, holier-than-thou attitude about both Clintons and especially their vile staff. Penn, Billy Boy, Terry Mcauliffe, Ferraro…
These people know only politics as usual and any fool can see that this country is tired of exactly that.
The politics of personal destruction don’t work as well as they did before.

So thanx, Keith. Your clarity, as usual, is most refreshing.

Now if you could tell Obama to stuff a sock in his Preacher’s mouth, that would be good too.

I’m so goddamn mad I can’t even sleep.

Now first, the Hall itself does not handle the inductions. That’s the responsibility of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. An aberration of a committee monopolized by founder Jann Wenner, former foundation director Suzan Evans, and writer Dave Marsh.

These people are fucking losers. The very worst kind.

Frank Zappa had a term for them, “strictly commercial".
These Foundation Fucks wouldn’t know Rock n Roll from Lawrence Welk. Thus is made evident by the fact that a fucking Rap group, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, we’re inducted in ‘97 passing up the The Dave Clark Five who actually received more votes.
Isn’t there enough Rap groups to open their own museum
on Century Blvd. or some shit?
They’re fixing votes and ignoring petitions that bear thousands of signatures.
Just for a headline and some ratings for their lame TV broadcast.
It’s about them and never has been about the music or the artists that made it the greatest musical form ever.

The Sex Pistols, inducted in 2006, refused to attend the ceremony, calling the museum a “piss stain.”
They’re right! It’s a fucking joke in the tradition of the Oscars and Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Now, these fucking assclowns once again scraped the bottom of the barrel to get a headline grabbing, non Rock n Roll act or two into a Hall of Fame in which they could never possibly belong.

John Mellencamp… he fits the mold (that’s being kind) but never should have been inducted with so many deserving groups before him.

Leonard Cohen… This man is a great poet, he just needs to be inducted into the Lounge Singer’s Hall of Fame instead.

The Dave Clark Five… finally. After so many undeserving freak shows before them.

The Ventures… the fact that they’re just now being recognized proves conclusively that the Hall’s Fuck Foundation is incompetent at best.

Then there’s Madonna. FUCKING MADONNA?????!!!!!
That fucking skank couldn’t carry Janis Joplin’s sandals!
This is the last straw. Seeing The Queen of Slop on stage getting inducted is bad enough, seeing her presented by a bitchly, no-talent punk like Justin Timberflake is absolutely sickening. Justin Timberlake?? He shouldn’t even be allowed on the property.
Thank God Iggy Pop showed up long enough to mock Madonna and the event in general. Where’s Courtney Love when you need to see Madonna pelted with makeup compacts and false lashes?
I’d like to see Bo Diddley break a guitar over the head of whoever considered her in the first place.

Rock n Roll Hall of Shame. That’s what you fucking losers are. You’re a disgrace to everything that is truly Rock n Roll.
Where’s Mark Farner? Where’s Rory Gallagher?? Where’s Phil Lynott and the Big Bopper you fucking ingrates?
Stevie Ray Vaughan??
I’ll tell you where they are, getting pushed aside for
Michael Jackson and the fucking BeeGees. That’s where.
Don’t they have a goddamn Disco Hall of Fame for these two bit side show acts?

You fucking wannabes wouldn’t know Rock and Roll if someone shoved it in your asses and set it on fire. And I truly hope someone does exactly that.

One of these days, hopefully, someone who actually knows the meaning of the term Rock n Roll will take over and right all the horrible, horrible wrongs committed by these wastes of fucking air at the Hall of Fame Foundation.

Until then, a joke thou shalt be.

Now pay attention, losers. THIS is Rock n Roll. It has a twelve bar rhythm and sends chills down one’s spine. And don’t you fucking forget it!!!….

Racist overtones have permeated the Democratic Primary since Hillary found herself facing “The Black” in the final two. As we stated early on, The Clinton Cabal will continue to say and do the wrong things….

It wasn’t enough that Bill alluded to The Black Guy’s campaign as a “fantasy". Nor was it enough for Hillary’s campaign to display the reprehensibly arrogant attitude that “Obama should come from ahead and be her VP“.
The Clintonesque racist tendencies become more and more apparent as her campaign continues to fail, and it’s despicable. Almost indescribably villainous, the word “monster” comes quickly to mind.

Monsterous Glow

That’s like the pitcher of a baseball team that’s down fifteen runs looking at the opposing dugout and saying “give up yet?”
Hillary has only tarnished herself further with this kind of asinine rhetoric that basically amounts to Clinton’s way of saying “get your black ass to the back of the bus, Negro".

She’s a disgusting human being. Even more so than we ever thought. All those years she and Billy Boy pandered to blacks for the votes are now very clearly just that, adventures in pandering. Hopefully the few Blacks that don’t seem to get it will wake up a little and realize that between Bill Clinton jailing and disenfranchising more African Americans during his part of the drug war than any president in history, and the obvious racist overtones of His/Her campaign, are a clear indicator of what’s really going on.

Recently, and very disturbingly, certain Femocons in the blogosphere have been dishing out much in the way of racist Obama rhetoric as well.
And today, Geraldine Farraro, a Clinton supporter and the sole reason Democrats lost to Republicans in the 1984 elections, decided to let her vile, FemiNazi, Racist mouth spew and what a tell tale gaff it was…

Ferraro Remarks on Obama Decried

By ANN SANNER – 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first female vice presidential candidate and a fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Democrat Barack Obama only achieved his status in the presidential campaign because he’s black. The Obama campaign called on Clinton Tuesday to denounce the comments.

“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,” Geraldine Ferraro told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, Calif., in an interview published last Friday. “And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”

Ferraro is a former New York congresswoman and was former Vice President Walter Mondale’s running mate when he was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1984. She has endorsed Clinton and has been a fundraiser for her campaign.

Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said Ferraro should be removed from her position with the Clinton campaign because of her comments.

“The bottom-line is this, when you wink and nod at offensive statements, you’re really sending a signal to your supporters that anything goes,” Axelrod said in a conference call with reporters on Tuesday.

“There’s no other way to send a serious signal that you want to police the tone of this campaign,” he added. “And if you don’t do those things then you are simply adding to the growing compendium of evidence that you really are encouraging that.”

Ferraro also said Obama has it easy because of a “very sexist media.”

Well, damn. Geraldine.
If you weren’t the insignificant asshat you are someone might take you seriously. But thanks for giving us something juicy to ram down Hillary’s throat.
You killed the Mondale campaign with your misandrious bullshit, it’s only fitting that you kill Hillary’s with your racist pig lyrics.
Keep up the good work, moron-ess.

Now, before we go, let’s double check the math for all those in denial and the intellectually challenged…
Hey, Clinton groupies. Like your BushBot counterparts, you have a problem with math. Now I’m no mathematician, but I think even I can handle this.

1) Obama leads Clinton by 150+ pledged delegates and that number will only increase as Obama gains the Wyoming delegates and those in Mississippi.

2) Out of 750 super delegates, Obama needs only 325 to win the nomination. He has 210. That means he needs 115 more yet Hillary needs at least 180.

It’s over.

So all you war supporting, privacy hating Status Quo lovers out there are keeping this party divided over nothing. You are the ones to blame if McCain ends up President. You and you alone.
You attack the Democratic front runner who has won already, and by doing so, keep the focus off of McCain. The Republicans have been voting Hillary in our Primary just to draw the thing out as long as they can and you’re right there bending over and grabbing your ankles for them.
Idiots.
You call yourselves Democrats? You’re a fucking joke. You’re sabotaging your own party.

Obama will likely be the Democratic Nominee, in spite of the racist, misandrious Hillary Clinton and her brood of Republican Lite vermin.
Bill, Penn, Farrero, others….
Much like BushCo and the Neocons, you will not be forgotten. Your ill will and moral turpitude will remain for all to see.
The very best reasons we have to change the Democratic Party by voting out the has-beens and voting in the new ways.

Just a heads up…

Wyoming Caucus:

Barack Obama - 58% W

Hillary Clinton - 41%

Check out Wyoming’s demographics. There’s about a bakers dozen blacks in the whole state.
White men and women rejecting Hillary and her bursting-at-the-seams skeleton closet for new blood and the genuine change that comes with it?

On to Mississippi for some more delegates and ol’ Mo.

Congratulations, Wyoming Democrats. Well done.

Monster? You’re much too kind.

Monsters are at least honest. They know they’re ugly, scary, menacing and repulsive and seldom try to hide it….

Too bad Lewis Carroll isn’t around to see the Clinton campaign. I’m sure he would find much inspiration.

Find the Snark Boojum, Hillary. Please.

Sadly, Samantha Power, a foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama, has chosen to resign (she was not fired and Obama did not suggest she leave) after stating the fact that Hillary Clinton is a “monster” during an interview with the Scottsman, a leading Scot Newspaper.

It’s too bad. None of the Clinton Campaign Pigs that have slandered Barack Obama have stepped down from anything. Even though they’ve lied through their teeth and Ms. Power simply stated what most of us already know. That Hillary Clinton is a “Monster".

Clinton has vigorously supported the carnage that is the Iraq war, couldn’t be bothered to show up and vote to protect personal privacy, has been extremely vicious and personally berating to people around her, and may have physically abused Bill.
Hillary Clinton, as we all have seen very recently (her hypocrisy on NAFTA), can sit right in front of voters, news people and the world and lie, through her teeth, with a smile on her face.

Much of what a “monster” is made of. Is Karl Rove a monster? Of course he is. And all like him should share the label.

We’re sorry to see a capable person like Ms. Power step down for no other reason than speaking truth to hypocrisy.

Ohhhhh, YES.
After all these years of telling people what a hypocrite Hillary Clinton really is, finally she steps in it right in front of God and everyone.

Up until now, my post Edwards donations have gone exclusively to MoveOn. Now, with this new revelation that should spell the end of Hillary Clinton, I am actually going to give to Obama directly.

You’ve done it now, Hillary. It was only a matter of time.
What would otherwise be a fairly ridiculous thing to even bring up (both candidates are on the wrong side of the trade issue), Hillary Clinton has turned it into a stark essay on being a lying, two-faced hypocrite.

Hillary Clinton was the one playing “wink wink, nudge nudge” with Canada on NAFTA. Not Barack Obama.
She spun it to him, and the fucking idiots that bought into it know who they are.

Barack Obama for President! Because the alternative is pure shit.

Hat Tip to WhitesCreek.

From the Associated Press

Report Questions Clinton NAFTA Position

By ROB GILLIES – 5 hours ago

TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff said someone in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign gave Canada back-channel assurances that her harsh words about the North American Free Trade Agreement were for political show, according to a report by the Canadian Press.

The report comes just days after a Canadian government memo stated Barack Obama’s senior economic adviser told Canadian officials that the Illinois senator’s own comments about NAFTA were for “political positioning.” The release of that memo helped Clinton defeat Obama decisively in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Ohio, where the trade treaty is unpopular.

Neocon Lite

This continuum for Hillary accomplishes nothing other than to further delay the party’s unity and delay the attack on McCockroach. Which we should have been doing after Wisconsin when it became clear that she likely could not close the delegate gap…

We’re losing ground to the GOP just because of the Clinton thirst for power, as the party clearly will not unite behind Hillary. The 28 to 13 contest lead that Barack Obama has is fairly solid proof of that.
The fact that the “inevitable nominee” has been campaigning for a year now, against a guy most Americans had never even heard of until he jumped in the race, and finds herself mathematically out of it even after Texas and Ohio, paints a pretty clear picture.

Meanwhile, as we bicker on for no other reason than the Right-Center of the Democratic Party’s unwillingness to open their eyes and the insistence of the groupies, the mal-informed, (and a little outside help form Rush Limbaugh’s fans), John McCain has escaped some potentially damaging scandals and continues to grab headlines and get buried in money and support from the Right.

We have arrived at the point that Hillary’s persistence, though impressive (if not psychotic), is really doing damage to what little chance we have left to try and gain the White House.
Honestly, Obama has little chance of winning in November to begin with barring some fatal error by McCockroach. Hillary has no chance whatsoever of winning in November. McCain could get caught in bed with Monica and Bill and still beat Hillary in the general.

The sooner we get this circus of a Primary over with, the sooner we can concentrate one the real enemy.
The Grand Old Pigs. Remember them? The ones that have murdered our soldiers, scoffed at our constitution, spit on New Orleans, shit on our privacy and ignored the health care needs of our children??

As our friend Steve at WhitesCreek Journal so aptly put it

“…The only win Hillary had was that she didn’t lose ground in the delegate race for the Democratic nomination.”

And Hillary Clinton is still as divisive as ever.

Advantage-McCain

I love those Vermont people, there’s real Liberals up there.
I alway thought of retiring to Hawaii, but Vermont’s looking better all the time…

Today, not only did the great state of Vermont support the Liberal candidate in the Democratic Primary, but they also managed to vote in a resolution that declares George Bush and Dick Cheney guilty of crimes against the Constitution.

This is wonderful in at least two ways:

1) It’s true. Those two traitors have committed countless crimes against the law of the land and treason as well.

2) This may be the most humiliating experience either stooge has been forced to endure at the hands of the Left. And they, of course, deserve much worse.

Now, this is obviously symbolic but it’s just as official. If either traitor enters any of the communities involved, they can be legally arrested.
Just the thought makes me, well….Aroused.

Great job today, Vermont. You have proven to be the class of the Liberal structure in America.

From Reuters:

Vermont towns vote to arrest Bush and Cheney
Wed Mar 5, 2008 2:17am EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voters in two Vermont towns on Tuesday approved a measure that would instruct police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for “crimes against our Constitution,” local media reported.

The nonbinding, symbolic measure, passed in Brattleboro and Marlboro in a state known for taking liberal positions on national issues, instructs town police to “extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them.”

Vermont, home to maple syrup and picture-postcard views, is known for its liberal politics.

State lawmakers have passed nonbinding resolutions to end the war in Iraq and impeach Bush and Cheney, and several towns have also passed resolutions of impeachment. None of them have caught on in Washington.

Bush has never visited the state as president, though he has spent vacations at his family compound in nearby Maine.

Roughly 12,000 people live in Brattleboro, located on the Connecticut River in the state’s southeastern corner. Nearby Marlboro has a population of roughly 1,000.

(Writing by Andy Sullivan, editing by David Wiessler)

Ahhhh, beautiful.

Hillary has done better than expected in Texas, but Obama has done better than expected in Ohio and Rhode Island while wiping his ass with the Clintonistas in Vermont…

This is just rough analysis, but it’s looking like Clinton will be lucky to pull more than a twelve pledged delegate advantage from all four states. And with Wyoming on Saturday, and Mississippi the following Tuesday (Obama is heavily favored in those two states), Hillary could see any delegational gains she might achieve tonight wiped out as early as next week.

And thus closure has come. Deposing Saddam Hussein succeeded in nothing other than to hand Iraq, arguably the freest Muslim nation on earth under his rule, over to Iran and the Fundamentalist Shiite majority.

George Bush, PNAC traitors, Israel…backfired, didn’t it? And you deserve to look like the floundering idiots you are finally proven to be….

That’s right, Shia Islam. Where they stone females to death for being raped. Yes, Iranian Shiites, who murder children for being homosexual.

In Saddam’s secular Iraq, women could have jobs, drive cars, uncover their heads in public. It was still Muslim, but the more socially tame Sunni/Baathist version.
Nobody was stoned to death for being human in Saddam’s Iraq. At least not by Saddam.

Well, now we find the Iranian President, Amadinthehead or whatever, standing in the spot George Bush always wanted to stand in. The smiling, handshaking, “we built a Democracy” spot next to the Iraqi leader De Jour.
Poor Georgie, no ticker tape parade. The “Axis of Evil” has stolen the spotlight.

Iraqi pResident Jalal Talabani [right] offered Mr Ahmadinejad a warm welcome in Baghdad

But we knew from the beginning that deposing Saddam would lead to the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism in Iraq, didn’t we? Well, some of us did.

I’m reminded of an exchange I had with some Repig idiot that slithered into RRMB about three years ago…

IDIOT:

QUOTE(Reforger @ Nov 25 2005, 04:50 PM)
Goals change. Saddam is overthrown and the mission has changed to supporting the growth of a new democracy.

Isn’t the fact that they’ve had free elections and created a constitution a good thing? Would you prefer that the Iranians get control of the whole region?

CAPTAINKONA:

Open your eyes.

THE IRANIANS HAVE CONTROL OF IRAQ. BUSH UNWITTINGLY GAVE IRAQ TO THEM BECAUSE HE’S AN IDIOT.

They have NOT had free elections simply because they can’t prove they did. Keep drinking. A constitution that includes Islamic law is NOT a constitution.

This is what I mean when I say that Righty cannot understand that Theocracy and Democracy cannot co-exist. A set of faith-based rules for all is not Democracy.

So now Iran has it’s claws so firmly embedded in Jalal Talibani’s ass that Amadinthehead can stand there and ridicule George Bush and America right next to, hand in hand with, one of Bush’s handpicked Iraqi “Leaders". And BushCo wasted no time in firing up the complaint department complete with lies about “Iranians killing our troops". Boy, it must really sting. To be George Bush and have the “Axis of Evil” wearing your boots.

From the Telegraph UK:

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hails Iran-Iraq ties

By David Blair, Diplomatic Editor
Last Updated: 2:24am GMT 03/03/2008

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hailed a new era in relations with neighbouring Iraq as he began the first visit by an Iranian leader to Baghdad yesterday.
His presence, intensely controversial among many Iraqis, marks a watershed in relations between the two countries, which fought an eight-year war in the 1980s that left as many as one million dead.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shakes hands with Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president
Iraqi president Jalal Talabani [right] offered Mr Ahmadinejad a warm ceremonial welcome in Baghdad

“This is a new page in the history of the relations between the two countries,” Mr Ahmadinejad - who fought in the Iran-Iraq war himself - told a joint news conference with Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president.

“We have the same understanding of things and the two parties are determined to strengthen their political, economic and cultural co-operation,” said the Iranian president….

Welcome to the long awaited, previously foretold, West Iran.

The White House of course, complained vigorously about the Iranian leader’s presence referring to it as “meddling". Funny, but I’ll bet Amadinthehead’s “meddling” causes less death than Bush/Israel’s has.
Depending of course on how many Sunnis, raped women and gay teens the Shiites decide to kill in the streets once we leave.

But why would Bush be so opposed to Iran’s taking over? After all, he had already asked Iran to step in and take over….

From The Boston Globe:
Tehran offers plan for security

By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | May 29, 2007

WASHINGTON – In the highest-level public talks between the United States and Iran in nearly 30 years, US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker yesterday reached out to his Iranian counterpart for help in improving Iraqi security and asked that Iran stop supplying arms to Iraqi militia groups…

Damn, it’s a good thing Bush was lying about invading Iraq to “create Democracy” and “fight Islamic Terrorism". He’d be looking like a real snapperhead now that Islamic Fundamentalism is the future of Iraq if it were all true.

Now this is where it stands:

Any fool, well, all but a few of them obviously, could see that if Saddam’s secular dictatorship was toppled that Iran and the Shiite legions would take over since Saddam was the only thing keeping them down.
Bush, and all those that supported, rubber stamped, and devised his agenda have failed America and Iraq both in the most miserable of fashions. Nearly 4000 of our troops dead, scores upon scores of Iraqis dead, new generations of Islamic extremism empowered, and Israel’s people now have Iran on their doorstep where they used to enjoy a massive secular buffer.

And there sit our men and women in uniform and the average Iraqi. Used, abused, neglected, maimed, killed, and ignored by both the White House and all too many members of Congress (both parties).

Just to give it all to the “Axis of Evil".

“Mission Accomplished"….For Iran. And the US and their Israeli Zionist allies handed it to them on a silver, no…make that a solid, 24KT Gold platter.

Now, with Bush on his knees, a crazy Fundi guy from Iran running the show, an Embassy in Baghdad that is evidently dysfunctional, and no plan or intention to bring our people home, It seems that only a Democratic President (one that does NOT believe in this war) can get this abject failure of both foreign policy and humanity in control and end the American presence in Iraq.

We can only hope that we, as Americans, will never again sit idly by while a handful of liars, knee-jerk extremists, amoral opportunists, mercenary pigs and Agents of Deception blaze a trail to oblivion-by-way-of-Hell and lead this nation down it.

Time to turn the “Insiders” into Outsiders.
Vote Liberally in November.

Many of these musicians are gone. Like Phil Lynott and Cozy Powell.

Pay close attention, because you’ll never see their like again.

Sorry to make some folks suffer like this, but hey, at least I let you see it before it was gone.

And it’s Tubin’ time too…

Must…. Listen…. to……. the…… Master……..

If Hillary’s chances are riding on Hispanics and Femocons, she may find that her miserable campaign is only going to get worse.

The only significant support Hillary Clinton has left is the Feminists and certain Hispanic groups, but it seems she’s losing many of those voters to Barack Obama. Or more accurately, he’s taking them from her.

The Women:

Many women that consider themselves, “feminists” actually do think about issues that paint a bigger picture. These ladies seem to understand that ending the war in Iraq and other humanitarian issues are even more important than having a set of tits in the Oval Office. To these ladies it’s not about being selfish, single minded, or just plain nutty. It’s about the overall good. Which candidate will do the best overall.
This is the kind of selfless wisdom American women are famous for. This is the kind of strength it takes to reach the prize.

Naturally a woman President would appeal to a “Feminist", I’d like to have Tommy Chong in the White House too. But if he was pro war, anti-privacy, and a corporate whore, I would never vote for him either.

Barack Obama has always been a champion of women’s issues and his record is consistent in that regard. He is also NOT pro war and anti-privacy.
That’s the reason 1′500 Feminists for Peace, as well as many Feminist Leaders, have endorsed Barack Obama…

As explained by Professor Eileen Boris, Director of the Center for Research on Women and Social Justice at the University of California, Santa Barbara, “Voting for Bush’s war showed Senator Clinton more concerned with future political viability than with the impact of war on the world’s women, men, families and the environment. That’s not my idea of global feminism.”

Adele Welty, a social worker whose firefighter son died in the World Trade Center, deplored Clinton’s unfriendly attitude towards antiwar constituents. Noting the Senator’s unwillingness to meet with peace groups, Welty described her personal experience of Clinton’s “dismissive” staff when she and others traveled to Washington DC. to express their views. “I would love to be able to vote for a woman, but it would have to be a woman who is able to maintain her integrity.”

Some women, most I’m confident, actually do care more about their country and what’s right than about personal satisfaction and exhibiting misandry.
After all, it was largely females that helped Obama to victory in South Carolina. You can bet he will do far better amongst women in Texas than some want to believe.

The Hispanic Vote:

The Clinton’s have never done anything significant for the Hispanic population. Many Hispanic voters identify with Clinton in name recognition only and vote in Democratic blocks.
And recently, Barack Obama has been making strong waves among Hispanic voters as those voters are learning more about him.
Obama did win the Hispanic votes in Illinois and Colorado and did better than expected in New Mexico and Arizona.
His ability to court Hispanic votes continues to grow, and let’s face it, the status quo has been lying to Hispanics just as long as it’s been lying to the rest of us.
Young Latinos want change too.

CNN writer Ruben Navarrette Jr. points out a very important factor concerning one of Hillary’s abundant debate gaffs…

“During a debate in Los Angeles, she answered a question by pitting undocumented Latino immigrants against African-Americans.

She blamed jobs losses on “employers who exploit undocumented workers and drive down wages.” And she mentioned an African-American who told her that he used to have construction jobs but now “the only people who get them anymore are people who are here without documentation.”

Faced with the same question, Obama pointed out that African-Americans had high unemployment rates long “before the latest round of immigrants showed up” and cautioned against using the immigration issue to divide Americans.

Obama also insisted – to rousing applause – that blaming immigrants for unemployment among blacks amounts to “scapegoating” and said he wouldn’t tolerate it. Score one for Obama. You can almost hear the mariachis warming up.”

So can we.

Amidst the virtual stampede of Right-Wing BushCo shit heads America has been forced to endure for the last seven+ years, one particularly humorous goofball tends to get lost in the shuffle.

The Two of Clubs in the Neocon deck, Drug Czar John P. Walters…

US Drug Czar, John P Walters, is quickly gaining on Pinocchio and President Bush in the nose-length-due-to-lying category.

With Marijuana vending machines and trade schools for growers popping up out West, I’d say the ONDCP (Office of National Drug Control Policy) is getting a little nervous these days. The juggernaut that is Medical Marijuana is blowing through this country like a big, green tornado and there is no stopping it. Heroin, Meth, Pills and Cocaine are everywhere. The Drug War has been lost.
Naturally, the Federal Government, instead of embracing the inevitable, has once again chosen a path of misinformation, propaganda and outright lies in order to justify their existence.

Czar (lol) Walters, the Bush Regime Minister of Drug Paranoia, recently was caught in a couple of doozies….

Walters is the moron on your right.

The drug task force branch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police recently debunked the ONDCP assertion that some sort of “Extreme Ecstasy” was finding it’s way across the Canadian border into the US.
Walters, no stranger to utterances of the unsubstantiated, employed the media to embark upon yet another False Drug Alarm in a effort to remain relevant.

“This extreme ecstasy is a disturbing development in what has been one of the most significant international achievements against the illicit drug trade,” Walters said.

However,

Supt. Paul Nadeau of the RCMP made the following statement…

“I shook my head when I read the release that they put out,” said Nadeau, who’s never heard of extreme ecstasy.

“That term is unknown to us, certainly in Canada, and I can tell you that I’ve spoken to law enforcement people in the U.S. and they’ve never heard of it either so it would appear that it’s a term that somebody came up with in a boardroom in Washington, D.C.”

When losing a Drug War, sometimes one must at least provide the illusion that they’re winning in order to justify the 19 Billion Dollar per year budget and their jobs.
Thus the false Ecstasy scare.

In yet another scandalous display, Walters attempted to establish that the rise in Cocaine prices in the nation was evidence that production was down….

“as a result of reduced supply, street cocaine prices over the first nine months of the year rose to an average $136.93 per pure gram at the end of September, a 44% increase from January” Walters said.

Bill Piper, director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance said it best…

“Assuming that high cocaine prices are hurting cartels is like assuming high gasoline prices are hurting oil companies,”

Fact is, there’s a very distinct reason Cocaine prices are higher (no pun intended). You can’t carry 2000lbs of blow on horseback or pack mule.
It takes GASOLINE to power the trucks, planes, cars etc that move the druggage around.
Higher gas prices mean higher prices at the grocery store, the restaurants, the everywhere.
Higher prices for drugs too.

So, no. Mr. Czar. You are not winning anything. Bush era gas prices have just made it a little more expensive to move drugs across the country. That’s why a gram of Cocaine costs 100.00 in California and 175.00 in New York. It takes more gas to get to New York, Socrates.

He also said something about Marijuana Growers being terrorists, but some lies are so intellectually void that they just aren’t worthy of comment except to say that if Drugs were legal there would be no underground, unaccounted for money.
So let’s just say that drug laws support terrorists instead.

The Drug War, as it is, is an abject failure. People go to jail, people get out of jail, drugs are everywhere, people die over the money involved, people are killed by police at wrong addresses,
Billions of dollars are being spent each year and I can get any drug I want withing six blocks of my home. In a middle class neighborhood in a conservative city.

But John Walters is winning! He needs another Billion or three of our tax dollars!!

The only thing that changes is the excuses, and then only to make the words rhyme.

Ever buy at a used car lot? Sounds creepy I know, but it always poses the same difficult, intriguing question. Which piece of crap is less crappy.
Ultimately, that’s the only thing that matters….

I’m thankful to God that I’m not a Republican. Even death seems preferable to spiritual stagnation, moral turpitude, and an existence steeped in fear. I have, in the past, entertained the thought of what it would feel like to be a registered Republican voter. I came up with anything from needing a hot shower to well, nothing. Nothing is what one would have to feel to vote for evil and be able to sleep at night.
A sociopathic world view just isn’t for me I guess.

But in light of the upcoming Repiglikan Primary and the fact that Johnson City, TN Mayor, Phil Roe, is challenging for Filthy Jesus-Pimp, David Davis’ Congressional seat in TN-1, I’m tempted to put on my waders and trudge my way through the cesspool that is a GOP primary voting day.

I’ve viewed it before, from afar. It reminded me of one of those cheap, roaming carnivals that pop up in your town every once in a while. Complete with Bearded Ladies, sad-faced clowns, and things to throw darts at. At least… things you’d like to throw darts at.
As aesthetically displeasing as it can be, this time it would be well worth the travail. This time there would be a chance to remove the single most useless, destructive, and dangerous Congressman District one has ever had the misfortune of being represented by.

David Davis.

Phil Roe - David “Jesus Pimp” Davis

Let’s compare Roe and Davis and see just where we come to:

1) Duty to Country and people?
Phil Roe served his country in the US Army. David Davis is a chickenhawk. He’s pro war but never fought in one and will not let his children sacrifice for their country.
As a House Representative, Davis has consistently voted against our Troops.

2) Medical Professional?
Phil Roe’s credentials,
Military Service, U.S. Army

* 1973-1974 Captain 2nd Infantry Division
Camp Casey, Korea 121 Evacuation Hospital, Seoul, Korea
* 1974 Fort Eustis, Virginia
Rank: Major, U.S. Army Medical Corps

David Davis’ credentials,
Vocational certifications from two cheap, C-class colleges.

3) Slandering Jesus?
Phil Roe is a Methodist, and therefore humble in his ways according to the doctrine of Christ.

David Davis has used Jesus and the Christian faith as a stepping stone to personal gain. Earning himself the title of Jesus-Pimp extraordinaire’, Davis shamelessly exploited the most holy of names to gain money and votes during the 2006 congressional elections. The proof is HERE.

4) Liar, Liar, pants on fire!

‘It’s not about politics, it’s about people’- Phil Roe
He is a Republican so this surely could be a lie. But that remains to be seen.

David Davis, in 2006, represented himself as being “from Johnson City, TN". That statement was removed from his web page after Ablogination called and questioned his staff about it.
They stated emphatically on the phone that he was “from Johnson City". The fact is, he’s from Anderson, Indiana. Not Tennessee.
After informing his staff as to his place of rearing we were promptly hung up on.

No big deal, unless you try to cover it up and it takes the form of a deception. Then you’re a liar, nothing more.

All in all, it’s the voting record that matters most. Obviously Roe doesn’t have one yet. But Davis does and it’s one of the most disgusting records imaginable. Davis votes consistently against people and for corporate interests.

Davis voted against:

Bringing our troops home and against supplying them with badly needed equipment.

Health Care for Children

Funding for Emergency personnel and other first responders.

Making Big Oil pay their fair share of taxes.

Clean water and clean energy.

…and a host of other fine, American Dream oriented legislative efforts like lower prescription costs for senior citizens, medical Marijuana, higher minimum wage, and punishing environmental terrorists, such as strip miners, for the damage to our eco-system.

In short, David Davis has failed.

Phil Roe has his head up his ass on a lot of issues, but he does have the right take on many others. David Davis is wrong 100% of the time.

Davis has to go, he just has to go. And if TN-1 isn’t smart enough to elect a Democratic Rep, at least we can un-elect a complete and total loser.

Vote Roe in the Republican Primary August 7th.

Time for Hillary, if she cares anything about her own party (which she doesn’t) to stand down and get out of the way of progress…

How much longer are we going to have to listen to Hillary and her legion of suck-ass Centrists make excuses? How much more time are we going to waste?
The time is now for Democrats to begin to focus 100% on defeating John McCain.

It’s over.

Hillary Clinton is now little more than a obstacle. A felled tree in the middle of the Progressive highway.
Go home, Hillary. Go back to NY and concentrate on being a Senator. Hopefully, a better one than you have been in the past.
The people in this party have spoken and in case you didn’t hear it, we said “NO!”
“NO!” to you and Billy Boy and your odoriferous presence amongst the Democratic hierarchy. “NO!” to your lies and pathetic whining. “NO!” to the temper tantrums and mood swings.
“NO!” to Harold Ford Jr. and the rest of those DLC vermin you actually represent.

Just plain “NO!”

We will not sit idly by any longer and allow you, your husband, your friends in Crawford, and the Zionists that pull their strings to blaze any more trails to oblivion.
We will lead, you will follow. And we lead you to the door.

One last act of grace (even Nixon could handle that) would allow you to depart with at least some semblance of dignity. Do what’s best for the Democratic party and shut ‘er down.
Stuff a cork in Bill and take him with you too.

The cows have come home, baby. Time for you and your misandrious, Femocon followers to draw milk.

It’s the Oligarchy, stupid. Real Democrats don’t want you. We damn sure don’t want your buddy Bush or any other member of his brood.
There is no political equivalent to a Royal Flush in Spades in your near future. You’re done.
Quit making yourself look like a spoiled child that isn’t mature enough to handle rejection.

Read my lips, it’s over. And if that’s not clear enough, perhaps some sign language will help…

Obama wipes his ass with Camp Clinton in Wisconsin…

Americans are just sick and tired of the same old shit.

While the Clinton Cabal continues to nit-pick semantics and other such trivialities, there are some very important facts that voting Democrats should not forget when heading for the polls….

Hillary Knew.

3963 AMERICAN SOLDIERS DEAD.

COUNTLESS WOUNDED OR MAIMED.

OVER 80,000 CIVILIAN IRAQI DEATHS.

Sometimes the argument isn’t so complicated after all.

Yeah, it is worth it.

I think my neighbor’s trippin’. He’s washing his car in the front yard, at 1:30 in the morning. In February. I’m almost stoned enough to fuck with him. It is kinda nice out tonight…

Just remember, we cruise YouTube on drugs so you don’t have to. But you’re welcome to join us.

It’s a green evening, or morning as the case may be. Who gives a fuck anyway? Like the lady said, “tomorrow never happens, man. It’s all the same fucking day".

Why green you ask? I’m using one of those Clear papers and my weed is so fucking green that it glows. The bottle of ice cold Grolsch kinda matches.

Now let’s see…what else is green?

Poor, pathetic little man. The Democratic majority in the House, amazingly enough, has seemingly (we emphasize seemingly) found some courage and are standing up to the Regime’s anti-privacy agenda by deciding to allow the fake, useless, fear mongering FISA/Immunity for Tele-Traitors program to lapse in the interests of privacy.

And Monkey Boy has really wet his diaper over it….

The last obstacle in BushCo’s path to escaping justice is immunity for Verizon and ATT. Two of the corporate telecom companies that turned their customer’s personal information over to the Government, in violation of the constitution and their own stated privacy policies, are clamoring for immunity and their bought-and-paid-for politicians are working just as hard to give it to them.

Democrats in the house have said “NO” in a very loud voice. Nancy Pelosi even going as far as to shelve the legislation and allowing it to expire. Finally. Finally a stand against the invasion of your privacy.
Finally a stand in favor of accountability for both White House and Corporation alike.

Someone needs a nap

Naturally, Bush has resorted to fear mongering the weak and timid by proclaiming that Mohammad Al-Boogieman will now be free to destroy America and there’s nothing he can do about it.

Well, you can shove your lies and your accusations up your ass, President Chimpy. Provided King Abdullah can step aside long enough make room for them of course. You’re a lame (duck) idiot and nothing you say means anything to anyone, save the tiny minority of Conservanoid fringe fruitcakes that still enjoy the scent of your rectum.
You spied on average Americans. Judging us all as terrorists unless proved otherwise.
The House has offered you a compromise that allows you to spy on “terrorists” as long as it doesn’t involve immunity for telecoms. You have rejected that. That means it is you, Chimpy McCokespoon, who is aiding the terrorists. You have harmed our ability to protect America simply because “immunity” is not included. It’s clear that you care more about your Corporo-Fascist friends than you do about keeping Americans “safe".

But that’s hardly news, is it?

The present FISA legislation, as it stands, gives the government all the power it needs to observe genuine terrorism-related suspects. There is no need for this new legislation. It only exists to provide said immunity to the Pigs at Verizon and ATT amongst others.
That’s the only thing that Bushco and the Republican party are crying about, immunity for their money-go-round. The “threats” and “dangers” Bush is spewing about do not exist. This is all being done in the name of Fascism.
There is no other reason.

From the Associated Press:

The president wanted the House to approve a Senate bill that would have renewed a law that made it easier for the government to spy on foreign phone calls and e-mails that pass through the United States. Bush opposed a temporary extension of the bill, and lawmakers left for a 12-day recess without extending the law.

“Some congressional leaders claim that this will not affect our security,” the president said. “They are wrong. Because Congress failed to act, it will be harder for our government to keep you safe from terrorist attack. At midnight, the attorney general and the director of National Intelligence will be stripped of their power to authorize new surveillance against terrorist threats abroad. This means that as terrorists change their tactics to avoid our surveillance, we may not have the tools we need to continue tracking them — and we may lose a vital lead that could prevent an attack on America.”

Democrats chose Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a former U.S. attorney and attorney general of Rhode Island, to deliver their Saturday radio address on the same subject.

“We know this president dislikes compromise, but this time he has taken his stubborn approach too far,” Whitehouse said. “He is whipping up false fears, and creating artificial confrontation. As the president himself said in the Rose Garden, ‘There is really no excuse for letting this critical legislation expire. So let’s get it done.’

The only reason Bush rejected the House Approved extension is because it did not contain immunity for his treasonous friends. Immunity that if granted, would protect the offenders from litigation and prosecution.

The Democrats in the House have done good in this case. Real good. Now if they will just stand firmly against the BushCo fear machine they will win. They will actually have done the right thing and backed up their previously bullshit talk about “checks and balances” and “accountability".

Let’s hope this is the beginning of normalcy and not just another instance of our elected officials blowing sunshine up our asses.
We shall see.

Still trying to stop laughing….

Apparently, Barack Obama has accused Hillary Clinton of, OH MY GOD!, “having mood swings".

Jeeze, whatever gave him that idea?

“I understand Sen. Clinton, periodically, when she is feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal,” Obama said in Milwaukee.

He said,"peroidically".

The latest threat to Democracy doesn’t come from Republicans. It doesn’t come from Evanganoid Jesus-Pimps or from Corporo-Fascist conglomerations. It comes from the Democratic Party it’s self. Or at least, the jelly spined cowards that remain within it.

The threat is called “Super Delegates".

As the great Liberal political analyst, David Sarota, writes for the Huffington Post, the “Super Delegates” (also knows as bribed insiders) are warming up and dropping hints to the media about their possible efforts to override the properly Democratic vote in the Democratic Primary and appoint Hillary Clinton nominee should the people get their way and nominate Barack Obama.
Nothing could be less Democratic, or more provoking to the people, than some stuffed DLC BlueDog asswipe telling Democratic voters that our vote is worthless.
Where have we experienced that before?

Apparently, Clinton herself has already stated that she will ignore the will of the Democratic voters if Obama wins the pledged delegates and attempt to circumvent the electoral process. Much like Bush did when the Supreme Court had to appoint a loser to the White House in 2000.

From David Sarota at HP:

This follows Clinton hack Lanny Davis’s missive on Huffington Post saying almost exactly the same thing (after embarrassing himself by claiming Adlai Stevenson was elected president). It also comes as the Boston Globe today reports that Clinton is determined to “take the Democratic nomination even if she does not win the popular vote” with a plan to “persuade enough superdelegates to vote for her at the convention.” Clinton “will not concede the race to Obama if he wins a greater number of pledged delegates by the end of the primary season, and will count on the 796 elected officials and party bigwigs to put her over the top, if necessary, said Clinton’s communications director, Howard Wolfson.”

The fly in our Democratic ointment

Like we’ve stated many times here at Ablogination, Hillary Clinton is Bush Lite (or perhaps not so lite).
Power crazed, shameless, self serving, immoral, and thoroughly un-Democratic. That is the Clinton Cabal in a nutshell. A slightly faded carbon copy of the Bush regime.

In all seriousness, if these “Stuper Delegates” quash our votes, don’t be surprised if rioting occurs. Rioting that is perhaps justified. The Democratic party has been trusted to give us back our voice. Now certain members seek to take it away instead.

We will pledge this, at TN420.org… Pay attention because we mean it.
If Obama wins the nomination, and “Stuper Delegates” nullify our votes, WE WILL RE-REGISTER AS REPIGS AND VOTE FOR McCAIN (as much as we hate the fuck, we’re not going to be stabbed in the back any more). Just to teach these pig-fuck Clintonistas that our vote is going to be counted or we will vote directly against them in the general election. I encourage anyone that supports Obama to do likewise if need be.
For the record, no one at TN420 has ever voted for a Repig either nationally or locally. Not even for dog catcher. Ever.

If Hillary wins the nomination properly, we have no complaint. If she steals it, it’s on.

Sign the MoveOn petition demanding the Super Delegates allow the Democratic process to determine the nominee.

If we can reach 200,000 signatures this week, we’ll publish the petition along with the final number of signers as an ad in USA Today. If you’re one of the first people to sign, we’ll include your name (with your permission).

The petition says:

“The Democratic Party must be democratic. The superdelegates should let the voters decide between Clinton and Obama, then support the people’s choice.”

I can’t think of anything in American culture more valuable than personal privacy. It’s more important than each of our very lives. That’s why soldiers so freely sacrifice their lives for it. For your’s.
That’s why people that understand and care about things like sacrifice and duty have no choice but to oppose even the slightest encroachment upon personal privacy. Especially when the intrusion comes from Government or Corporation, and even more urgently, a combination of the two. Otherwise known as State Corporatism. Another form of Fascism.

Imagine a world where your every move is continually observed by others. Your movements, your money, what you buy, what you apply for…
Save your thought time, it’s already here.

Recently, a group of California Doctors attacked the Insurance giant, Blue Cross, for presuming to violate the sacred Doctor/patient privacy agreement. The physicians were clearly and justly outraged that Blue Cross would attempt to prod Doctors to “rat out” patients who display underlying health problems that could disqualify them from coverage.

We’re outraged that they are asking doctors to violate the sacred trust of patients to rat them out for medical information that patients would expect their doctors to handle with the utmost secrecy and confidentiality,” said Dr. Richard Frankenstein, president of the California Medical Association.

In other words, you go to the doctor because you have a rash. The doctor notices that your blood work shows another illness such as Hepatitis and he informs your insurance carrier. Your insurance company didn’t know you had Hepatitis because you didn’t know.
They cancel your insurance and refuse to pay for the treatment you just received. If you work for a living, you’re fucked. You can’t afford the bill, your credit is ruined, and now you can’t get treated for the new problem because insurance companies share your info and you can’t get covered. Now you’re ill, uncovered and in debt.

The insurance industry is out of control and someone has to do something about it. From this latest act of corporate health care fascism and deceit committed by Blue Cross, to the Cigna actions that killed 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan, to mandatory drug testing in the workplace, to mandatory law enforcement supported insurance. It’s too much power for a company run by vultures, vampires and other such corporate whores to have. Way too much. It has to stop.
Privacy like we have in America is far too rare and precious to be left unguarded.

The Insurance Industry and all corporate entities that seek to violate privacy must be beaten into submission. We have to have a president that will do that. Whoever you vote for, you’re a fool if you don’t find out where they stand on your personal privacy. Once it’s gone it’s gone. You won’t get it back.

ATT, Verizon, Blue Cross, Homeland Security… all of them and many more have, are, and will again violate your privacy.

The Spineless Senate today passed the new FISA legislation that includes retroactive immunity for Verizon and ATT. Two companies accused of violating their privacy policies by turning over the personal information of their customers to the NSA. All of their customers.

Interesting to see which candidates care about your privacy and which don’t. Barack Obama showed up and voted “NO” on this ridiculous, privacy squashing legislation. McCain voted in favor of violating your privacy, of course. Hillary Clinton seemingly couldn’t be bothered as she failed to show up for this tell-tale vote. Even though she was in the DC area.
I guess it’s clear who cares about your privacy and who doesn’t…

The Senate action on the wiretap bill prompted the return to the chamber of two presidential candidates, Democratic Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona. Obama voted against immunity for telephone companies, while McCain voted in favor of keeping the provision in the bill.

Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, the other Senate Democrat running for the White House, did not appear for the vote. Clinton, Obama, and McCain were in the Washington area for Tuesday’s primaries in the nation’s capital, Maryland and Virginia.

Senator Clinton, an ardent supporter of anti-privacy legislation, also fully and willingly supports the Real ID (National ID Card).

Think we’re paranoid? Think this isn’t happening now?
Here’s a small, well hidden example of the FACT that it IS happening now. As we write.
Musician’s Friend .com, a well known online musician’s resource for musical instruments and accessories also seems to be assisting Homeland Security in collecting your personal info.
If you go to their site and click on an item to purchase, you see a page like this.

If you decide to apply for credit you can click the “Finance Now” button next to the item’s price. This takes you to a page where you apply for credit. On this page you find the following statement by Musician’s Friend….

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PROCEDURES FOR OPENING A NEW ACCOUNT

To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, Federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account. What this means for you: When you open an account, we will ask for your name, address, date of birth, and other information that will allow us to identify you. We may also ask to see your driver’s license or other identifying documents. PATRIOT ACT (8/03)

So you see? If you applied for credit or opened an account, your info, all of it, has been given to the federal government. Not just if you tried to contact someone overseas, all info on everyone. You’re now a terrorist until you prove that you’re not.
If it was just about “terrorism", why does a site that sells musical instruments collect such information? Are the “terrorists” going to hijack a Stratocaster and fly it into a building? Drive an explosive laden electric piano into a night club? Maybe they’ll launch rockets from a fucking Tuba.
They don’t care about “terrorists", they want YOUR info. “Terrorism” is just an excuse.
Better stick to your local music store and pay cash.

It’s not a joke, it’s not a game, we’re not making it up. The Corporate American Government wants your personal info. All of it.
They want to watch your money, your habits, your lifestyle. They want to deny you employment due to medical history, deny you insurance and your right to privacy between you and your doctor , deny you education financing, and financial avenues that are available to the wealthy such as loans and credit.

If Musician’s Friend will fuck us, anyone will.

Care about your privacy? You’d better fucking vote like you do. Because the assault on our privacy is very, very real and very, very NOW.

And Barack Obama is the only one in the race that seems to care.

Go to the Polls, vote with your head.

“..think for yourself, know what you’re doing, question authority".- Timothy Leary

After Barack Obama routs Hillary in four state caucuses and primaries, and is cruising to a win in the Maine caucuses, Hillary starts swinging the ax. Patti Doyle, it seems, will be the first to lay her head on the chopping block as the Queen has invoked her wrath….

You knew it was coming. The distaste that progressive Democrats and Liberals have for political dynasties and Oligarchy is spreading rapidly, thank God.

The Clinton campaign has begun to wither, and with it, the wall Hillary Clinton has been hiding behind.
It’s not mismanagement. It’s not Doyle.
It’s Hillary. It’s Bill, it’s the Clinton name and the chin-deep Washington insidership it represents.
It was not that there was one less rally than might have been. Nor one less ad, or phone call.
Just look at the money that was raised, there was no error in management.
Americans are tired of this shit. That’s what this is about.

Hillary is not gone yet by any stretch of the imagination. There are still states and Super delegates to contend with.
But the decline has begun and it will most likely continue.

It’s not your staff, Hillary. It’s you.

It’s that boneyard in your closet. It’s White Water, it’s Blackwater, it’s the DLC, Will Marshall, the PNAC, Mark Penn, Bill, your close ties to the Bush family, your voting record, the WAR!!….

….it’s the corporatism, stupid!!

The Democratic party is changing and you missed the bus, babe. We’re tired of this same old shit, over and over and over again. Decade in and decade out, with exceptions of course, it’s basically the same old shit.
We’re tired of scraping you career politicians off the bottoms of our shoes. We’ve been let down and lied to and fed with false hope for the last fucking time.

The Democratic party cannot win an election without the Left. Like us or not, that’s the way it is. Harold Ford Jr. found that out the hard way.
And we just don’t trust you, Hillary.
We’re tired of being lied to by Right-Leaning “Centrists". Your husband used us, now you’re trying to do exactly the same thing.
We demanded that Joe Lieberman be shown the door. We voted him out. You stepped in and began swift-boating the Democratic Left. You, Bill and all your DLC kind.
We remember things like that. That’s why MoveOn and PDA endorsed Obama, because we told them to.
In case you missed it, Hillary, MoveOn “owns the Democratic Party". And we own them.

It’s not Doyle, it’s you. You’re not right for the job. You still have a shot, but it gets longer every day. And while you try to create a soap opera around something a talking head bellowed out on TV, Barack Obama is taking your votes.

Don’t go changin’.

From the article:

By JAKE TAPPER
Feb. 10, 2008

Patti Solis Doyle announced that she is stepping down as the campaign manager for the presidential campaign of Sen. Hilary Clinton, D-N.Y., ABC News has learned that this afternoon.

In a note she sent to her staff, Solis Doyle announced that this week Maggie Williams, Clinton’s chief of staff when she was first lady, “will begin to assume the duties of campaign manager.” Solis Doyle said she would remain as a senior adviser to the campaign.

I’d drink Linda Perry’s bathwater. The lady does it to me every time.

Did I mention how much I love ‘em? I don’t know where you guys find the time, but God bless ya ya beautiful bastids …..

Carole Borges at KnoxViews suggests a break from politics tonight.

I agree.

A half gram of New York Diesel twisted gracefully in a Bambu’ Pure Hemp 1 1/4 . Out with the bad, in with the chronic. ;-]_~

And away we go….

John McCain, the Republican candidate for President, may be far too Right of Center to suit us, but with the departure of Mitt Romney and that of Mike Huckleberry to follow, one thing needs to be pointed out.

It’s over for the Right Wing Fringe…

John McCain is many things, virtually none of them good, but he is definitely not one of the Pat Robertson/James Dobson/Rush Limbaugh/Taliban types.
That, at least, is one good point about a slouch like McCain. Though he may be a liar, a thief, a warmonger, and a self-serving punk, he’s not nor ever has been an anti-freedom, Jesus pimping, sudo-religious zealot.

The Extreme Right is just shit out of luck.

Though things don’t look good for politics in general right now, we simply must take time to highlight the fact that the “Ten Commandments” on every corner crowd is out the door.
It’s about time. You half-witted, sociopathic, blaspheming, treasonous, religofascist American Taliban Pig-fucks will not have your national religion. You will not have the ability to force your twisted, hate-filled, intolerant version of Christianity on the American public.
Your movement is dead, your agenda is dead, your window of opportunity closed.

America has rejected you and your lies and manipulations. Even the Republican voters have rejected your back-assward, snake handler ideology.

Robertson, Dobson, Falwell (dead), Limbaugh, Coulter,
Parsley, and all the rest. Fuck you. Fuck you and all those that have followed you into defeat and ultimately, will follow you into hell.
Your Dominionist hopes and aspirations are crashing down around you as we write and the rubble thereof buries you beneath it and seals your political grave.

You can no longer pay off politicians and get religion legislated. Your dream of becoming the “Christian” version of Al Qaida has been shattered. There will be no Rule of Thumb. Women will not have to cover their heads or walk behind you in public. You will no longer be able to freely abuse children physically in an effort to “save them".
You will no longer find personal gain wrapped in swaddling clothes. You will no longer benefit from dragging Jesus through the political mud, boxing, bagging, buying and selling Him for your personal wealth and power trips.

It’s over. You’ve been Left Behind.

Weep! Weep loudly and cry out to God as a spoiled child that’s been refused a new toy. Cry out as one who is drowning in a sea of soured expectations and beg of God to tell you why!

WHY, LORD?!! WHY HAS THOU FORSAKEN US?!!!!…..

According to the Obama camp, Barack Obama comes out of Super Tuesday a few delegates and several states ahead. Not a good sign for the Clinton Cabal…

Hillary Clinton may have managed to survive Super Tuesday, but her campaign is falling well behind where it should be when all the factors are considered.
How wonderful!

From the article:

In a surprise twist after a chaotic Super Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) passed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in network tallies of the number of delegates the candidates racked up last night.

The Obama camp now projects topping Clinton by 13 delegates, 847 to 834.

NBC News, which is projecting delegates based on the Democratic Party’s complex formula, figures Obama will wind up with 840 to 849 delegates, versus 829 to 838 for Clinton.

Clinton was portrayed in many news accounts as the night’s big winner, but Obama’s campaign says he wound up with a higher total where it really counts — the delegates who will choose the party’s nominee at this summer’s Democratic convention.

First, one must consider the established celebrity of the Clinton name. Perhaps one of the most recognized names in world politics, one would think that such an advantage would be beginning to show by now. If we see it at all, we see it in the fact that she’s not hanging up her Blue Dress as we speak.
Name recognition, the misandrous, and the mal-informed knee-jerk Democratic voters are basically the only thing keeping Hillary Clinton in the race.

Senatorial Ego Orgy

The fact that Obama, a previously no-name Jr. Senator, has come out of Super Tuesday actually ahead of Clinton speaks well of the “change” movement this country is undergoing. It also speaks very clearly to the fact that more and more Democrats are getting tired of the same old rhetoric, scandalous politispeak, and outright lies emanating from the Mark Penn controlled Clinton Shit-Machine.

Though a new dawn would have been much, much brighter had it followed John Edwards, there remains a light in the Democratic darkness. It’s warm glow, I feel, will continue to obscure the cold and callous darkness of the past and the Power-Whores that seek to extinguish it.

May the light of change burn brightly, and the agents of oligarchy fade into the darkness where they truly belong.

We actually wrote this about a year ago (Apr 20 ‘07), but it seems to pertain to recent developments fairly well (i.e. we told you so).

Don’t let the “Media Darling” thing fool you. John McCain is a disaster waiting to happen. A tragedy in search of occurrence. He is everything but the straight talking hero he claims to be.

The original article:

This is what the Republican Party is all about. Sheer stupidity. This is why I suspect that McCain will be embraced over Thompson, Romney, Giulianni (or however the fuck you spell it), and any other Repig hopeful.
McCain best represents the stupidity, depravity, and overall treachery of the average Republican.

“Please, I was talking to some of my old veterans friends. My response is, Lighten up and get a life.”
— John McCain, quoted by the Associated Press in a reponse to criticism of his recent “Bomb Iran” singing/joke.

Yep. The Repig Party trying to move from one incompetent idiot to another. The last thing this country needs is yet another Republican that is poised to continue the PNAC agenda of destabilizing the Middle East for the benefit of Israel, Major Corporations, and Fascists everywhere.

But we knew this! Of course we did. Global immorality, reckless abandon, death of the innocent…that’s the Republican Agenda in a nutshell.
Who better than a kiss-ass idiot like McCain to be the next puppet?

Pea-ons in a pod

So, McCain was “just talking to veteran friends” was he?
Let’s see what some veterans really think about McCain…

John McCain Is No “Hero POW”
He seriously violated the Military Code of Conduct by trading “military information” and making public statements that appeared favorable to the communist war effort in exchange for “special treatment.“

John McCain the second-term Republican senator from Arizona and former Navy pilot captured and held prisoner during the Vietnam War, is a fraud, collaborator, and danger to the security of the United States because he is being black-mailed by the COMMUNIST Vietnamese. He is a phony–a “rhinestone hero.“

Another bill gutted in 1996

And then there is the Missing Service Personnel Act, which McCain succeeded in gutting in 1996. A year before, the act had been strengthened, with bipartisan support, to compel the Pentagon to deploy more resources with greater speed to locate and rescue missing men. The measure imposed strict reporting requirements

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How many “Veteran Friends” do you really have, John?

RAW STORY spoke last week with Kiley, as well as Ted Sampley, a North Carolina-based publisher who has been harshly criticizing McCain for more than 10 years. Sampley teamed up with Kiley in 2004 to found a similar group that targeted Senator John Kerry as he ran for president. They see McCain as an apologist for Vietnam’s Communist government who sold out fellow POWs and servicemen missing in action from America’s lengthy war in Southeast Asia.

Of course, there’s the Forrestal and Oriskany disasters where McCain also performed in a questionable manner…

During the fighting of the fire and while VF-74 and VF-11 were still counting their dead, McCain was helicoptered off the Forrestal to the USS Oriskany, which suffered a major fire on October 27, 1966, that killed 44 sailors. In that event, thousand pound bombs were jettisoned away from the fire but the lessons of the Oriskany went unheeded by the Forrestal’s officers, including McCain, who served with the VA-163 Saints on board the Oriskany when the fire on that vessel occurred. On October 26, 1967, McCain was shot down over North Vietnam during a bombing sortie from the Oriskany.

Now aside from all this veteran stuff, we have one of the finest examples of pure, unadulterated dishonesty and Conservative political greed. The Keating 5.

Charles (the anti-Christ) Keating along with four of the most corrupt Democrats in history, including the PNAC traitor, Dennis DeConcini, were enthusiastically joined by John McCain in ripping off a large number of retirees of their pensions.
Our captainkona’s own father was a victim of this reprehensible theft. Many elderly retirees lost everything they had ever worked for and John McCain had no problem being a part of this disgusting, immoral activity.

What does this McCain review tell us? Several things…

1) McCain may be a traitor.

2) McCain is a crook and a wholly dishonest man.

3) McCain is a hap-hazard klutz that disaster follows around like a puppy follows it’s owner.

We’ve had enough disaster when it comes to Presidents.
We’ve had enough lies and double speak. We’ve had enough humiliation and most of all, we’ve had enough unnecessary loss of life.

Trouble is, like Bush, McCain has only failure, deceit and bungling ignorance to offer America and the world.
He is the quintessential Republican candidate.

Nothing has changed. The Republicans are still bottom-feeders willing to sacrifice honor, dignity and the lives of brave people for a tax cut and a copy of the Ten Commandments.

McCain/Lieberman in ‘08?

There ya go, Repigs. The perfect pairing. Two piglets bending over and inviting you to thrust in your collective minuscule manhood so they can be your bitches and promote your Satanic agenda.

What more could a Republican want?

Progressive Democrats of America, a leading Netroots Liberal online organization is finally getting behind a new candidate…

PDA strongly and enthusiastically supported Dennis Kucinich and John Edwards in their presidential bids. Now that Kucinich and Edwards have ended their candidacies, PDA, seeing no better option, is rightfully backing Barack Obama.

Obama, in spite of some minor indiscretions and a healthy dose of naivety, seems to be growing in political maturity. The point being, his mistakes were due largely to lack of knowledge and political savvy.
The vast and varied transgressions of Hillary Clinton did not arise from being quaintly naive. They arose from the greed, the lust for power, and the deep-rooted Right Wing leaning both she and Bill have always displayed.

Naivety can be cured with education and experience, greed and thirst for power are terminal.
Barack obama is the most Liberal, and trainable, candidate we have left.

One speaks, one sulks

Tom Hayden of PDA recently made the following statements…

That leaves Barack Obama. I have been devastated by too many tragedies and betrayals over the past 40 years to ever again deposit so much hope in any single individual, no matter how charismatic or brilliant. But today I see across the generational divide the spirit, excitement, energy and creativity of a new generation bidding to displace the old ways. Obama’s moment is their moment, and I pray that they succeed without the sufferings and betrayals my generation went through. There really is no comparison between the Obama generation and those who would come to power with Hillary Clinton, and I suspect she knows it. The people she would take into her administration may have been reformers and idealists in their youth, but they seem to seek now a return to their establishment positions of power. They are the sorts of people young Hillary Clinton herself would have scorned at Wellesley. If history is any guide, the new “best and brightest” of the Obama generation will unleash a new cycle of activism, reform and fresh thinking before they follow pragmatism to its dead end.

Though Mr. Hayden makes it abundantly clear that he personally is supporting the Obama movement and not necessarily the man. We have no problem with that because we still don’t trust Obama 100% either. His judgment more than his character.

But then again, A Clinton cannot be trusted at all.
Though both Hillary and Barack have made both good and bad decisions as Senators, clearly two particular differences stand out…

1) Hillary backed the war on Iraq from the very beginning and she has never displayed the courage to admit that epic error and face it as any mature, humble person would.
Clinton was, of course, fed the same bullshit intel that the rest of the world was offered, but she did not have the foresight to see through it like so many of us and a few politicians did. Hillary Clinton trusts and embraces the Right-Wing. We cannot afford such a person.

And most importantly of all to anyone who cherishes freedom and privacy….

2) Hillary Clinton approved, recently, the implementation and funding of the privacy destroying Real ID. The national ID Card that makes your personal data from medical records to banking available to the both the government and major corporations.
Although the REAL ID Act was passed in May 2005, states and public organizations have rebelled against the scheme. Sixteen states have passed legislation rejecting REAL ID and there are bills in both US legislative houses that would repeal the Act creating the national identification system.
There is nothing more important than our privacy. This issue broadly overshadows any other that we are confronted with. Hillary Clinton let us down and failed to protect our privacy. Obama did not.

Steve Cobble, also of PDA and formerly of Kucinich ‘04 and ‘08, had these points to make….

PDA’s roots began in opposition to the Iraq War. PDA’s entire existence has been a daily fight to end a war that never should have been started. We all know that. And over the next few days, we have a chance to act in harmony with our antiwar roots.

Here’s the essence of the situation: if Senator Obama can make it through next Tuesday in decent shape–or better–the electoral terrain in the rest of the month of February seems very favorable to his candidacy. But Senator Clinton is going for a knockout punch right now, this week, trying to dominate in places where PDA has some strength, states like California and Massachusetts.

Why should PDA care? Well, since PDA’s top-ranked candidates–Kucinich and Edwards–have now withdrawn, PDA supporters who wanted to could still make a difference in the next few days for our third-ranked candidate, Barack Obama, especially in California and Massachusetts.

PDA supporters who wanted to could still make a difference in the next few days, especially in CA & MA. We could email our personal lists, call our friends, blog our support online, volunteer, vote. We could, if we wanted to, choose to act.

My own thoughts, as a lifelong antiwar activist, are pretty straightforward at this point. There are two main candidates left.

One of them, Barack Obama, spoke out against the war in October of 2002, before it started.

The other one, Hillary Clinton, voted to authorize that war only 8 days later.
Their speeches are worth reading. Obama got it right. Clinton got it wrong. I’m going to support the one that got it right.

As of today (we just heard), MoveOn.org, the champion of democracy in America, has polled it’s members as to who they should endorse for the Democratic nomination. MoveOn members have endorsed Barack Obama by a landslide.
Clearly Liberals, Progressives and others will be turning from the spastic, embarrassing Clinton’s and rallying around Barack Obama for one last fight to save this country from Republican failure and corporate-funded fascism.

We at Ablogination, who supported Dennis Kucinich and then John Edwards, and their populist movements, now ask all like-minded Americans to join us in the last battle and support Barack Obama. Even if you have to grit your teeth to do it.

The Status Quo must go.

If not for druggage, I might wake up one day and find out all this fucking shit is real….

It’s not getting any better. I started out pissed off at the world. Found some great moments in music (God, I love those YouTube Rockers) that brought tears to my eyes, and now I’m just pissed off at the world again.

It’s like, when you have this miserable feeling ripping away at you, every tune you listen to says something about it. Like when you have a broken heart. Every song is about the way you feel…

You run into all these strange jams that seem to have a similar theme…

Sometimes you just gotta say “fuck it", burn one, and go Tubin’.

With the most unfortunate departure of John Edwards from the Presidential race, we now find our Democratic selves left only with the choices the media picked for us….

Hell, it doesn’t do any good to warn anyone any more. Many genuine Liberals all around the country have been warning the party not to let the media choose the candidates. What do they go and do? Let Fox News decide who our candidates are going to be.
nice work, Dems.

So, in the absence of a candidate that can actually win in November, and in the interests of not giving up the fight, we at TN420 will now reluctantly lend our support to Barack Obama.

At least he’s not a shameless corporate whore, nor does he have known major ties to the Israeli lobby save his relationship with Joe Lieberbitch.
He did drugs and had the courage to be honest about it and on that wise, he may be inclined to put a stop to the drug war as it exists.
Maybe not. Who knows?

Still, A Clinton is simply unacceptable as a nominee. So now that we have only two choices left we’ll stick with the better of the two persons involved, and be making plans to suffer yet another four years of Republican White House failure most likely in the form of John McCain.

All in all, things don’t look real good on the horizon.

Well, Looks like it’s going to be President McCain after all. John Edwards, siting inability to compete financially, has apparently decided to drop out.
It’s sad to think that an American of this quality, with this kind of heart, will not be our next president.

What do we have left? A good man yet rookie Senator who happens to be black and has a “over there” sounding name…

…and a piece of DLC garbage with Bush-Lite written all over her.

Good luck.

Time Magazine

Edwards leaves the race having made a big impact on the two remaining candidates. His populist rhetoric forced his rivals to compete for union support, and he was the first out of the gate with detailed plans for universal health care and education, putting pressure on the field to match him. The former trial lawyer arguably won a majority of the debates, time and again challenging his opponents to refuse money from lobbyists and speed up their plans for withdrawing combat troops from Iraq.

‘Tis a sad day, and probably an even sadder next four years, for America and her people.

While Hillary Clinton revels in winning a meaningless, delegate void primary in Florida and Barack Obama enjoys cocktails with the Kennedy’s….

John Edwards is headed to New Orleans. After canceling appearances in Alabama and North Dakota, John Edwards is returning to New Orleans to continue the mission of spotlighting poverty, our most prolific dilemma as a nation, and to remind both the Democratic party and the nation as a whole what this election cycle is really all about.

It’s about the people. Plain ol’ everyday ordinary people.

It’s not about who’s a woman or who’s black. It’s not about making some sort of historical political statement by force-feeding the two most unlikely candidates to the voting public. It’s about who eats and who doesn’t. Who sleeps in security and who doesn’t. Who wears shoes and gets to go to school. It’s about who lives and who dies, in Iraq and right here at home.

While all the vanity, all the egos and all the self-serving arrogance shown to us by the other candidates gets TV coverage like the latest bullshit reality show or a fucking sports event, the only real candidate will be in the still suffering Big Easy doing what makes America great, thinking of others and putting those thoughts into action.

The only reality show worth watching

Who knows, maybe Bill Clinton will take a break from making excuses for his childish behavior long enough to join John Edwards in New Orleans and help build a few houses.
On second thought, don’t hold your breath.

The choice is clear. The rest is up to your eyes.