Oooopsie! Sammer sez: "Red Dog at Fire Head Lake."

Sounds like an interesting place to park after the movies. *snark*

*

Way to go, Joe...you're battin' a 1,000, DINO.

Lieberman Supports Rapist Rights in Connecticut

In Connecticut, rape counseling activists say a recent study concludes that about 20% of state hospitals routinely refuses to offer emergency contraceptives to rape victims who are determined to be ovulating at the time they're attacked. A proposed bill would require them to do so.

And what sayith Holy Joe about this? According to The New Haven Register:

"This fight isn't exclusively being drawn along party lines.

U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, who often takes a conservative line on social issues, is facing a liberal Democratic primary challenge from wealthy Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont. But that hasn't stopped Lieberman from supporting the approach of the Catholic hospitals when it comes to contraceptives for rape victims.

Lieberman said he believes hospitals that refuse to give contraceptives to rape victims for "principled reasons" shouldn't be forced to do so. "In Connecticut, it shouldn't take more than a short ride to get to another hospital," he said."

Jane @ FDL

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declare marshall law because of the avian flu

How do we counter that?

Posted by: Anonymous at March 13, 2006 07:57 PM

2.5 % of americans die, mostly from the age group of 20 - 40 ...and then 6 - 8 weeks later we have a lot of funerals

and thats that

Did we need another commercial break already?

Is it truely incompetence or a way of making goverment look bad? Then we will have privatization of everything and be forced to obey the unelected corporate leaders But that will eventually collapse because they won't have anyone who could afford to pay the salaries they are accustomed to.

I was wondering that since CEOs earn 400 to 500 time the wages of the lowest employee, do they produce 400 to 500 times the work? It doesn't seem like the company is getting it's money's worth. Maybe they should outsource their own jobs to China or India or other third world countries.

Posted by: Goblin Girl at March 13, 2006 08:03 PM

Guess I'm missing the blood drenched rubble for the bombed-out ruins. Or something like that. ;-)

On October 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi Germany's banking operations in New York City, which were under the direction of Prescott Bush. The government seized control of Union Banking Corporation under the Trading with the Enemy Act. The liquidation yielded a reported $750,000 apiece for Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker. The book, The Splendid Blonde Beast: Money, Law and Genocide, goes into exhaustive detail on Bush-Harriman Nazi money laundering. More recently, Michael Kranish covers the same Bush-Nazi relationships in The Rise of the Bush Family Dynasty published in the Boston Globe. Loftus documents that "Prescott Bush knowingly served as a money launderer for the Nazis. Remember that Union Bank's books and accounts were frozen by the U.S. Alien Property Custodian in 1942 and not released back to the Bush family until 1951."

Often ignored are the Bush family's post-World War II dealings with former Nazis. John Foster Dulles, who had worked with the Bush family in the Harriman Company in laundering money for Nazi Germany, was Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of State. His brother Allen became CIA director.

AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Michele Naar-Obed, a member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams, knew Tom Fox. His body was revealed to the public, that he was killed on Friday night. But I understand that you all knew on Thursday. There is a dispute over whether his body showed signs of torture, Michele. We know he was shot repeatedly in the head, some reports of electrical cord -- that he was -- of marks of electrical cords. The Washington Post quoting a police official, saying that wasn’t true. What do you know?

MICHELE NAAR-OBED: I don't really know anything in terms of definitive answers to that. I have heard the same conflicting reports. We had asked repeatedly that in the event that any of them were killed and their bodies were found and they went -- and they were taken into the government’s custody, that C.P.T. would be allowed to view the body and accompany their bodies back home. And we were totally excluded from that when Tom's body was discovered. We tried to get them to stand with the decision that they would allow one of our members to accompany his body home. One of our Team members actually got to the point of where his casket was being loaded onto the plane, but she was denied the ability to fly home with Tom. So, none of us got to see his body. None of us -- we've all got the same conflicting reports.

What kind of filling should we put in Bushentaaschen?

Prune!!!

Dead link, shell.

my dudes and dudettes...I am here and listening!

(i like doing that. It makes me feel like im important here though I'm really not)

Early History of Propaganda

Posted by: Liberal-at-large at March 13, 2006 08:04 PM

And don't forget...Clinton was immoral....

But rapists have parental rights...

Another day in Joementum's world....

Yo Specter!

If FISA doesn't apply to the NSA wiretapping, then the controlling law is the 4th Amendment, which as an amendment to the constitution supercedes any theoretical presidential power from Article 2 of the Constitution.

FISA - which spells out the way in which the 4th amendment will be followed in special cases is dependent on the supremecy of the 4th Amendment over Article 2.

There is NO constitutional basis for an Amendment to be superceded by any previous constitutional provision.

Specter is arguing that the Bill of Rights and all other amendments are not valid.

Posted by: Liberal-at-large at March 13, 2006 08:09 PM

Drat! It just played for me....(fwiw - dr)

*snark*

:)

No doubt these remarks will be dismissed by some as alarmist, but I want to go further and name the emergent political system "inverted totalitarianism." By inverted I mean that while the current system and its operatives share with Nazism the aspiration toward unlimited power and aggressive expansionism, their methods and actions seem upside down. For example, in Weimar Germany, before the Nazis took power, the "streets" were dominated by totalitarian-oriented gangs of toughs, and whatever there was of democracy was confined to the government. In the United States, however, it is the streets where democracy is most alive--while the real danger lies with an increasingly unbridled government.

Or another example of the inversion: Under Nazi rule there was never any doubt about "big business" being subordinated to the political regime. In the United States, however, it has been apparent for decades that corporate power has become so predominant in the political establishment, particularly in the Republican Party, and so dominant in its influence over policy, as to suggest a role inversion the exact opposite of the Nazis'. At the same time, it is corporate power, as the representative of the dynamic of capitalism and of the ever-expanding power made available by the integration of science and technology with the structure of capitalism, that produces the totalizing drive that, under the Nazis, was supplied by ideological notions such as Lebensraum.

Its really convenient for the president to know what laws are un-constitutional, before he breaks them.

Because then, the US president CANT break the law.

What a country !

Guess I'm missing the blood drenched rubble for the bombed-out ruins. Or something like that. ;-)

Posted by: AlanSmithee, Nobel Prize Nominee at March 13, 2006 08:06 PM

I have type AB blood. What can I do to help save BushCo's fuckups.

In rebuttal it will be said that there is no domestic equivalent to the Nazi regime of torture, concentration camps or other instruments of terror. But we should remember that for the most part, Nazi terror was not applied to the population generally; rather, the aim was to promote a certain type of shadowy fear--rumors of torture--that would aid in managing and manipulating the populace. Stated positively, the Nazis wanted a mobilized society eager to support endless warfare, expansion and sacrifice for the nation.

While the Nazi totalitarianism strove to give the masses a sense of collective power and strength, Kraft durch Freude ("Strength through joy"), inverted totalitarianism promotes a sense of weakness, of collective futility. While the Nazis wanted a continuously mobilized society that would not only support the regime without complaint and enthusiastically vote "yes" at the periodic plebiscites, inverted totalitarianism wants a politically demobilized society that hardly votes at all. Recall the President's words immediately after the horrendous events of September 11: "Unite, consume and fly," he told the anxious citizenry.

Apparently theu forgot the last study...?

A furious George hits gutless Dems

The movie star's argument — directed at the likes of presidential wannabes Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Kerry and John Edwards — is actually more nuanced than that.

But not by much.

"The fear of being criticized can be paralyzing," Clooney writes today on Huffingtonpost.com — pumping up the volume after banging the drum of Hollywood liberalism in his Oscar acceptance speech.

"Just look at the way so many Democrats caved in the runup to the war. In 2003, a lot of us were saying, where is the link between Saddam and Bin Laden? What does Iraq have to do with 9/11? We knew it was bulls—.

"Which is why it drives me crazy to hear all these Democrats saying, 'We were misled.' It makes me want to shout, 'F— you, you weren't misled. You were afraid of being called unpatriotic.'"
We'll see how much incoming Clooney takes as a result of these fine sentiments.

MP3 of Feingold and Republican response today

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ptt3uh

You can download the file from the link above.
Here is a rough time outline of the file:

Feingold 00 - 15:40
Resolution is Recieved
Arlen Spector (R) 15:58 - 35:50
Dick Durban (D) 36:00
Arlen Spector (R) 39:00 - 40:55
Harry Reid announces that Sen. Inuwei's wife, Maggie has died. 41:00 - 45:00
Dick Durban (D) 45:00 - 50:00
Jeff Session (R) 50:51 - 54:00
Vote on Judiciary - end

If you have BitTorrent you can get the same file here:

http://www.demonoid.com/torrents/details/29789

Also check out the web site dedicated to Conyers Resolution that Sam talked about in the last segment.

http://www.SixThreeFive.com

Daniel

Having assimilated terrorism to a "war," he avoided doing what democratic leaders customarily do during wartime: mobilize the citizenry, warn it of impending sacrifices and exhort all citizens to join the "war effort." Instead, inverted totalitarianism has its own means of promoting generalized fear; not only by sudden "alerts" and periodic announcements about recently discovered terrorist cells or the arrest of shadowy figures or the publicized heavy-handed treatment of aliens and the Devil's Island that is Guantánamo Bay or the sudden fascination with interrogation methods that employ or border on torture, but by a pervasive atmosphere of fear abetted by a corporate economy of ruthless downsizing, withdrawal or reduction of pension and health benefits; a corporate political system that relentlessly threatens to privatize Social Security and the modest health benefits available, especially to the poor. With such instrumentalities for promoting uncertainty and dependence, it is almost overkill for inverted totalitarianism to employ a system of criminal justice that is punitive in the extreme, relishes the death penalty and is consistently biased against the powerless.

Thus the elements are in place: a weak legislative body, a legal system that is both compliant and repressive, a party system in which one party, whether in opposition or in the majority, is bent upon reconstituting the existing system so as to permanently favor a ruling class of the wealthy, the well-connected and the corporate, while leaving the poorer citizens with a sense of helplessness and political despair, and, at the same time, keeping the middle classes dangling between fear of unemployment and expectations of fantastic rewards once the new economy recovers. That scheme is abetted by a sycophantic and increasingly concentrated media; by the integration of universities with their corporate benefactors; by a propaganda machine institutionalized in well-funded think tanks and conservative foundations; by the increasingly closer cooperation between local police and national law enforcement agencies aimed at identifying terrorists, suspicious aliens and domestic dissidents.

Don't forget the military... Its a political party now or is trying to be.

The United States is becoming like every other dictatorial country where the military has become a political party. This is a fact. The Iraq War and the coming Iran War are rational attempts by out military party for war without end to increase their own power. Its rational from the mad perspective that might is the only right and law or morality is a sign of weakness. Ironically, instead of protecting ourselves, it has only served to stregthen our enemies assuring that ultimately the United States will be governed one day soon by military law. That will occur the after the next inevitable terrorist attack on our shores, one must wonder if this was the plan from the very beginning. Whatever the cause, there is only one solution: to punish those that have pursued this insane military policy. Feingold's censure measure is a good start.

I reallty think the military is ripe for a good old fashion Stalin-like purge. That's what liberals should be fighting for. Prosecute the war criminals all the way to the top. Discover the source of the lies used to con us into war, and finally prosecute the Bush administration for its actions in causing this illegal and immoral Iraq war. We must retain civilian authority of this murderous beast the neo-cons have created. Until then, they are the ones who are in charge, no matter George thinks.

What is at stake, then, is nothing less than the attempted transformation of a tolerably free society into a variant of the extreme regimes of the past century. In that context, the national elections of 2004 represent a crisis in its original meaning, a turning point. The question for citizens is: Which way?

But rapists have parental rights...

Another day in Joementum's world....

Posted by: Goblin Girl at March 13, 2006 08:10 PM...

Watched Magdalene Sisters last eve . Posted earlier how Father Fitzroy reminded me of O'Reilly. Pretty scary.

Constitution

Schmonstitution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_8:_Powers_of_Congress

trumps article 2.

(cuz it's article 1.)

Posted by: CHIMPEACHME at March 13, 2006 08:15 PM

Didn't see it, but heard it was quite harrowing....

Posted by: Goblin Girl at March 13, 2006 08:10 PM

Wonder how ol' Joe would answer the standard hypothetical?

"If abortion is illegal and your wife or daughter or other female family member were to be raped & impregnated, what would you do?"

'Take a vacation to Canada!'

Clinton hecklers in trouble at Pace

by Noreen O'Donnell, MOUNT PLEASANT

Who would have thought it would be Fox News Channel that would make celebrities out of two left-wing, anti-war students from Pace University?

But when Lauren Giaccone, 20, and Brian Kelly, 19, heckled former President Clinton as a war criminal during his appearance at the Pleasantville campus a week ago, their 10-second outburst landed them in the national spotlight — on radio talk shows and on Fox News among other television stations.

"We were laughing so hard," said Giaccone, who has the word "dissent" tattooed on her left wrist.

"A lot of people think that we're conservatives," she said, pointing out that they would have also hollered at President Bush. "We're not; we're not. Far from it."

Very far from it.

Giaccone, who wears a ring in her lip and an upside-down American flag on her bag, describes herself as an anarchist who believes all politicians grab for power to oppress people.

Kelly, a sandy-haired man in wrinkled khakis, belongs to the Green Party. He backed Ralph Nader for president in 2004.

Why is Halliburton building internment camps ??

" KBR was awarded a $385 million contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention centers in the US. "

Link

Democrat to enter U.S. Senate race to challenge Joseph Lieberman

March 13, 2006

Associated Press

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Despite strong disapproval of war, Connecticut Democrats don't appear to be willing to flock to Lamont's candidacy, said Quinnipiac University Poll Director Douglas Schwartz. Although Lieberman's popularity in Connecticut has suffered somewhat, he remains a very strong candidate among Democrats and Republicans.

"Yes, we've seen his numbers drop among Democrats, but he still enjoys a good approval rating among Democrats," Schwartz said. "And his support for the war has helped boost him with Republicans, which has kept his overall approval rating high."

A recent Quinnipiac University Poll found that 68 percent of registered Democrats said they'd vote for Lieberman, while only 13 percent said they'd back Lamont. Ninety-three percent of those polled said they had not heard enough about Lamont to form an opinion.

"I can't see how he can upset Lieberman," Schwartz said. "Even if he wins all of the people who are unhappy with Lieberman's support of the war, that's still not enough to win the primary."

Man, such hypocrisy...Specter, Lieberman, etc., etc....

As Lily Tomlin said....

No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up....

Snips of an email that I received from John Conyers, March 13, 2006

Become a Citizen Cosponsor
I have introduced House Resolution 635 to create a special committee to investigate whether the president's misconduct rises to the level of impeachment. 29 Members of Congress have already joined me as cosponsors. Lend your support. Help build momentum to enact this legislation by joining the more than 42,000 concerned Americans who have already signed on as Citizen Cosponsors at:

http://johnconyers.com/index.asp?Type=SUPERFORMS&SEC={29336D51-F9AE-474D-8C08-8D69902D5149}

Committee to Investigate Impeachable Offenses
This administration must be held accountable for its misdeeds. We have considerable work to do and I am going to need your help to make this effort successful. Join me in sending the message to the President, the media, and the American people that we are not going to stand for an imperial presidency any longer.

Didn't see it, but heard it was quite harrowing....

Posted by: Goblin Girl at March 13, 2006 08:17 PM...
All that, and pretty depressing true story. Highly Recommend..
You may want to read the comment on IMDB...http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318411/

TELEPATHY

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Young boys nearby

blow lonesome birdcalls

into their folded hands

looking like doves.

The campfire is so close

to speech, she says tonight

like no other night

the dream will turn to language.

"Lunar tide in a teacup for two"

she sends him tiny thoughts

shaped like a crippled bird

with a beautiful voice.

Posted by: A. at March 13, 2006 08:19 PM

Clinton's constant bombing of Iraq and Kosovo....using depleted uranium shells, killing civilians...it isn't as egregious as Bush's stuff, but he's no saint, and he certainly isn't for peace....

Bush, Pundits & Dems Feign 'Concern' for National Security

By David Sirota

No matter how many polls show strong opposition to the Iraq War and the Bush national security policy in general, it is no longer clear what it's going to take to get a real change in direction. Both parties and the President seem wholly uninterested in even acknowledging the public's deep desire for a change. Leading media voices like Tom Friedman, meanwhile, use their influence to actually deny that the public even opposes the war in the first place.

The public, in short, is seen as a nuisance, votes to be bought/manipulated on election day with huge amounts of corporate cash funneled to candidates by the insulated party operatives in Washington - nothing more. It is a sad state of affairs - one that clearly calls into question whether America is watching the final death throes of its proud democratic tradition.

There have been persistent reports of a Nazi subculture in the New Jersey State Police, which has long had a reputation for violence and racism. The State Police was the subject of a review article in the New York Times, which cited years of allegations and a landmark court ruling concerning their racist bias in stopping Black and Latino motorists.

When the Black Liberation Army leader Assata Shakur was captured and shot in the back with her hands up by New Jersey troopers in 1973, she was under their guard for several days, as she writes in Assata: an Autobiography....

"When they changed shift, the two troopers would salute the sergeant. Some saluted an army salute, but others saluted like the Nazis did in Germany. They held their hands in front of them and clicked their heels. I couldn't believe it. One day one of them came in and gave me a speech about how he fought in World War II on the wrong side. He went on and on and there was no question that he believed everything he said.... Every day he gave me a speech about nazism. Sometimes other nazis would join in. I asked him if there were a lot of nazis in the state troopers, but he just laughed and kept on talking.

... I later learned that the state police department in New Jersey was started by a German... that their uniforms were patterned after some type of German uniform (very similar to the uniforms South African police wear)... that they are notorious for stopping Black, Hispanic, and long-haired people on the turnpike and beating, harassing, and arresting them.

3rd Anniversary of Iraq War

A Call for a Week of Local Action: March 15-22, 2006

March 19th will mark the third anniversary of a war that never should have happened -- a war based on lies that continues to devastate the lives of thousands, both in Iraq and the United States.

United for Peace and Justice joins our partners in the global antiwar movement in calling for a massive outpouring of opposition to the war in Iraq. We are urging opponents of the war to organize a wide array of events in their hometowns for the entire week surrounding this anniversary.

Posted by: A. at March 13, 2006 08:19 PM

Fox just likes the trash Clinton angle....

Reminds me of a bumpersticker I saw on campus...
We're all here, cause we're not all there.

The cheesehead isn't doing too good.

Feingold Draws Little Support for Censure

Democrats distanced themselves Monday from Wisconsin Sen. Russell Feingold's effort to censure President Bush over domestic spying, preventing a floor vote that could alienate swing voters.

Apparently theu forgot the last study...?

Posted by: Harold at March 13, 2006 08:12 PM

Yup...tis true.

That differential equations course ain't nothin' but a fog...

...but I can recite Scooter's indictment from memory verbatim. : )

Posted by: Tim the Democrat at March 13, 2006 08:14 PM

Tim, don't try to catch some of my fire by putting the "n" word in your nic.

And anyway I won't stand by and let you slander Union Bank.

Would a Democrat give me a small business loan for my burdgeoning lampshade business?

No, but Prescott Bush did.

He was a real patriot (sniff).

Baltimore Sun Reports Today

Local Radio Station WBAL to Drop---Rush Limbaugh

Baltimore is my hometown. This radio station for years and years has been a self-professed " conservative " radio station.

That`s BS----- for years they have trashed Democrats and when Bill Clinton and Hillary was in the White House they trashed them both every two minutes. They have small time local right wingnuts and they play national right wingnuts like Rush Limbaugh.

Maryland is a Blue State and has two very liberal senators.. The majority of people in Baltimore are black which is not the same in the surrounding counties. They play to the money crowd in the counties, mostly white wingnuts and the like.

There is NO AIR AMERICA in Maryland. The two major talk radio stations are " conservative " a.k.a.--right wingnuts 24/7.

Hey---Air America---how about getting a Maryland station to pick you up. We are a Blue State.

Posted by: Goblin Girl at March 13, 2006 08:23 PM

I liked that whole "Ignore Rwanda" policy of his during the genocide. That was classic Clinton.

I hope the bastard burns in hell next to Shrub.

BOOM!

Who are the real terrorists?

...

To date, not a singleincident of so-called environmental terrorism has killed anyone.' — SEN. FRANK LAUTENBERG

"We need to keep things in perspective," Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-New Jersey) said. "The Oklahoma City bombing killed 168 people. The attacks of 9/11 killed 3,000. Since 1993, there have been at least five fatal attacks on doctors who performed legal abortions. Eric Rudolph recently pleaded guilty to placing a bomb in a public area during the Olympic Games in 1996, as well as bombing a Birmingham women's clinic and a gay nightclub. All of these cases involved the loss of human life. To date, not a single incident of so-called environmental terrorism has killed anyone."

Abortion activists can't claim that. Since 1977, anti-abortion activists have perpetrated more than 59,000 acts of violence and destruction in the U.S. including seven murders, 17 attempted murders, 41 bombings, 165 arsons, three kidnappings, 122 assaults, 343 death threats and, most recently, 480 anthrax threats, according to the National Abortion Rights Action League.

...

The Schwarzkopfs, whose name literally means "black head" in German, were part of a German community that was already thriving in 1920s New Jersey and continues to do so today. There are no fewer than 33 German cultural clubs listed in New Jersey in Cynthia's Zorn's comprehensive web site: http://mars.superlink.net/czorn. Some of the clubs go back to the 20's.

In the years prior to World War II, when Nazism was on the rise, the New York - New Jersey area had a strong pro-Nazi organization called the German American Bund. They had a camp in northern New Jersey which was the scene of some large rallies:

"In 1937, the German-American Bund Auxiliary purchased approximately 200 acres and several buildings near Lake Iliff in Andover Township. On July 18, 1937, Camp Nordland opened with a parade of 500 "bundists" and a beer blast consisting of kegs of predominately German beer. The camp received the immediate attention and opposition of local farmers, the Anti-Nazi League, and local law enforcement.

One of several metropolitan area facilities, the Camp's purpose was to cultivate the political loyalty of German-Americans in light of the ongoing events in Germany and in the rest of Europe in the days leading to World War II. An estimated 1000 German-American residents from New York City and surrounding areas arrived at Nordland every weekend to participate in political rallies, speeches, and German fun.

One particularly noteworthy event held at Camp Nordland was an "Americanism" rally, allegedly conducted in conjunction with the Ku Klux Klan, that attracted an estimated crowd of 50,000 persons. Although the KKK publicly stressed their opposition to movements of an alien origin, they could not resist the temptation of sharing in the purse of this well attended event."

Posted by: Goblin Girl at March 13, 2006 08:24 PM

Yes.

Bush doesn't want to do any hard work this campaign

Guess spending all that capital so quickly wore his arsch out!

He only wants to work on Iraq and mid-terms

And pissing on that yellow rug

sam,

i think we're fighting anti-iraqi forces at the invitation of the democratically elected government.

Nixon was strongly pro-Nazi: "Nixon himself personally recruited ex-Nazis for his 1968 presidential campaign. Moreover, Vice President Nixon became the point man for the Eisenhower administration on covert operations and personally supervised Allen Dulles's projects while Ike was ill in 1956 and 1957."

The Republicans' attraction to Nazism was also observed by Robert J. Groden and Harrison Edward Livingstone, authors of the book, "High Treason," dealing with the Kennedy Assassination. Groden and Livingstone write: "Nixon surrounded himself with what was known as the Berlin Wall, a long succession of advisors with Germanic names: We recall at the top of his 'German General Staff' as it was also known, Haldeman, Erlichman, Krogh, Kliendienst, Kissinger (the Rockefellers' emissary) and many others.

"The selection of German names was no accident. Many of the brighter staff people close to Nixon came to him from the University of Southern California, and the University of California at Los Angeles, where there were fraternities that kept alive the vision of a new Reich. America has for a long time harbored this dark side of its character, one of violence and the Valhalla of Wagner and Hitler.

"But Gordon Liddy was the one in whose mind 'Triumph of the Will' was the most alive. Some of these men would watch the great Nazi propaganda films in the basement of the White House until all hours of the night, and drink, in fact, get drunk with their power, with blind ambition, as one of them wrote."

I promise to donate at least 100 dollars when you haver LaMont on.

My son works with a women who's Husband ia back from Iraq and has said there are no insurgents. It is the Iraqi people.

This is a full blown Civil War and we are there to help get the oil!

it isn't as egregious as Bush's stuff, but he's no saint, and he certainly isn't for peace....

Posted by: Goblin Girl at March 13, 2006 08:23 PM

he stopped the genocide by Serbia, he ended the atrocities and hostilities in KOsovo.

Depleted uranium is horrible, but how can you compare this Iraq war with Clinton taking out a few radar complexes.

Bush is the most war mongering president ever. you must really hate clinton, because not even the Republicans now or in the 1990s called him a warmonger.

further, i wish bush would use our Army in Sudan (2 years ago) to stop THAT genocide.

Posted by: AlanSmithee, Nobel Prize Nominee at March 13, 2006 08:26 PM

No oil in Rwanda....don't forget Sudan as well...
he ignore that as well....

If we get quarantined for the avian flu, it won't be the avian flu that kills us, it will be the quarantine. The Bush Team has it down now from practice: It wasn't the Iraq Invasion that killed the most Iraqis, it was the so-called peaceful, freedom offering Occupation; it wasn't the hurricane that finished New Orleans, it was the Bush refusal to complete infrastructure and refusal to provide a timely rescue.

Regarding the Avian Flu, the second shorter test that has now been forced on the medical labs across the country results in a plethora of FALSE POSITIVES. The Bush Team can now claim they have tested for the disease without allowing time for following up with the second test "IN AN EMERGENCY". How much you want to bet those "EMERGENCIES" will somehow take place in blue states? It will take years to find out that there wasn't even a necessity for a quarantine... How Bushworld to enforce quarantines on U.S. communities, cutting off water, sewer service, and deliveries of food/supplies, and incarcerating anyone breaking the quarantine or telling the truth. (If you think this is overthetop, just remember what The Bush Team did to the health workers, and patients in hospitals in New Orleans.)

"According to several of our sources in the intelligence community who were in a position to know," continue Loftus and Aarons, "the secret rosters of the Republican party's Nationalities Council read like a Who's Who of Fascist fugitives. The Republican's Nazi connection is the darkest secret of the Republican leadership. The rosters will never be disclosed to the public...the Fascist connection is too widespread for damage control.

According to a 1988 study by Russ Bellant of Political Research Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts, virtually all of the Fascist organizations of World War II opened up a Republican party front group during the Nixon administration. The level of the Republican ethnic leaders can be gauged by a New Jersey man, Emanuel Jasiuk, a notorious mass murderer from what is today called the independent nation of Belarus, formerly part of the Soviet Union. But not all American ethnic communities are represented in the GOP's Ethnic Heritage Council section; there are no black or Jewish heritage groups. . . .Bellant has written a comprehensive study of this phenomenon, well worth a look.

Even before the break-in at the Democratic Party Headquarters on June 17, 1972, the Republicans were on the brink of having their pro-Nazi activities over the past four decades come out in the mass-media. After the Watergate break-in, as the Congressional Hearings began to reveal the slush-funds, money-laundering, illegal corporate campaign contributions, the political sabotage of the 1972 Presidential election process, and many other aspects of Nixonism, the floodgates of truth were about to open. Only one thing averted: Nixon's resignation and his pardon by his successor Gerald Ford.

Here's a Blast from the Past...

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US chose to ignore Rwandan genocide

Classified papers show Clinton was aware of 'final solution' to eliminate Tutsis

Rory Carroll in Johannesburg

Wednesday March 31, 2004

The Guardian

President Bill Clinton's administration knew Rwanda was being engulfed by genocide in April 1994 but buried the information to justify its inaction, according to classified documents made available for the first time.

Senior officials privately used the word genocide within 16 days of the start of the killings, but chose not to do so publicly because the president had already decided not to intervene.

Intelligence reports obtained using the US Freedom of Information Act show the cabinet and almost certainly the president had been told of a planned "final solution to eliminate all Tutsis" before the slaughter reached its peak.

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Burn in hell, Bill.

Posted by: red at March 13, 2006 08:19 PM

Wow, Red- this is big!

Just when I was losing my faith in Brave Leader, a little something like Conc. Camps in the works comes along to brighten my day.

I'm guessing bird flu victims will be the cover- then BAM all y'all will be rounded up.

Homeland, homeland über alles,

über alles in der weld!

Ahh the Nazi's.... so hungry. Wolf like. Even the wolves has some redeaming qualities, after all a dog is basically a tamed version of a wolf.

The wolf like tendencies in man need to be guarded against and fought actively generation after generation! We need to tame, lock up and if nessasary put of their misery the WOLVES that have STOLEN our NATION!!

I hope the bastard burns in hell next to Shrub.

Posted by: AlanSmithee, Nobel Prize Nominee at March 13, 2006 08:26 PM

Rest Easy, Bill Clinton: Milosevic Can't Talk Anymore

by Jeremy Scahill

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jscahill.php?articleid=8692

. . . .It is ironic that Milosevic's last legal battle was an attempt to compel his old friend-turned-nemesis Bill Clinton to testify at his trial. If successful, Milosevic would have grilled the man who was U.S. president through the entire Yugoslav war in what would have been a fiery direct examination. Clinton and Milosevic were once pals who talked collective strategy in the 1990s. Milosevic had many damning stories to tell and, without a doubt, uncomfortable questions to ask Clinton. . . .

Posted by: red at March 13, 2006 08:31 PM

I said Clinton was nowhere near Bush's level....but Clinton continued the sanctions in Iraq (contributing to Iraqi children deaths), the bombing with the depleted uranium...and he ignored Rwanda and Sudan...

And bombing that aspirin factory in Sudan because they thought Bin Laden was there....

Oops....

YAY JUAN COLE!!!

My daily read!!

Big ups!

Burn in hell, Bill.

Posted by: AlanSmithee, Nobel Prize Nominee at March 13, 2006 08:32 PM

Come on... at the time you were probably quite proud of him, defended him, and voted for him.

What a fickle group of peeps

Posted by: AlanSmithee, Nobel Prize Nominee at March 13, 2006 08:23 PM

*ducks a grappling hook*

Hey Alan! : )

DEMOCRACY NOW!

Latino War Resisters Begin 241-Mile March For Peace

And Iraqi war resisters Pablo Paredes, Camilo Mejia and Aidan Delgado as well as Fernando Suarez del Solar, whose son was killed in Iraq, have begun a 241-mile march for peace from Tijuana, Mexico to San Francisco. The march is inspired by Gandhi's 1930 Salt March protesting British imperialism. Historian Howard Zinn said, "This is one of the most significant actions taken yet to dramatize the movement against the war -- especially because it calls attention to the Latino population, the loss of Latino life in the war, and the unrecognized Latino opposition to the war."

*

Report: Donald Rumsfeld Makes $5M on Stock of Tamiflu Maker

The Independent of London is reporting Donald Rumsfeld has made over $5 million in capital gains from selling shares in the biotechnology firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu. Tamiflu is one of the few drugs believed effective in treating avian bird flu. A new financial disclosure report shows Rumsfeld holds up to $25 million worth of shares in the company Gilead Sciences. The Pentagon has defended Rumsfeld's holdings stating that he has no relationship with the Gilead Sciences beyond his investments in the company.

Congressman Murtha's been saying for two and half years

These people don't know what their doing

Almost all the General's say you

Can't win military in Iraq

The political choices didn't work out, for defense or CIA choices for puppet governments

Now there's nothing left

American's are seen as targets

IEDs targets

Targets of oppression

Targets.

Whammy!

Blog Activism

Posted by: Goblin Girl at March 13, 2006 08:31 PM

Colonel Oliver: [explaining why the U.S. will not intervene] You're not black. You're not even a nigger. You're an African. They're not going to stop the slaughter.

~Hotel Rwanda

Sounds like they are getting ready to get out of Iraq in the same way they got us out of Vietnam.

Oops....

Posted by: Goblin Girl at March 13, 2006 08:34 PM

Dont forget he "mistakenly" blew up the new Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. My ussian friends laffed their heads off at that "mistake". ( that was no mistake )

Posted by: Liberal-at-large at March 13, 2006 08:35 PM

Oh, hullo L@L!

Um, seen my grappling hook anywhere?

Colonel Oliver: [explaining why the U.S. will not intervene] You're not black. You're not even a nigger. You're an African. They're not going to stop the slaughter.

~Hotel Rwanda

Posted by: AlanSmithee, Nobel Prize Nominee at March 13, 2006 08:38 PM

It really says it all, doesn't it.

Now Nigeria, they have oil. That is a whole different Africa.

If Joseph Goebbels succeeded with much less, transforming a defeated nation into a molten cauldron of warmongers soaked in blind patriotism, violent nationalism, animalistic fear and ignorant xenophobia, all done without the use of television, imagine the successes of Karl Rove, Zionists, corporatists and the Amerikan Nazis who like puppet masters skillfully command the thoughts, actions and beliefs of millions of Americans. When the television has become the new conduit of reality, the new altar of American prayer and experience, acting as parent, teacher, preacher and manipulative religion, it is easy to surmise, then, that a population bred for and addicted to television, with its vast arsenal of programming controlled by the same corporations now in control of government, has for years marched like soldier ants and worker bees to the drumbeat and marching orders of those in power.

Whether willing or not, the American people have become captives to whatever information is or is not aired by the corporate media. We are unable, for example, to hear any information or news on the debacle in Iraq, with its ceaseless war crimes and mass murders, or on the devastation of both land and man of radioactive depleted uranium, or on the dire threat of global warming, or on the balanced view of the Israeli-Palestinian issue or on dissident points of debate prevalent in this country and, of course, on the ever-widening scandal that is the fraud-riddled election of 2004. We remain, unfortunately, at the mercy of the corporate media, itself in bed with the Amerikan Nazis, unable to inform ourselves of anything detrimental to both government and big business. The sphere of reality, for those who have yet to discover the liberating energy of the Internet, is as limited as those in control of television wish it to be.

When only carefully selected news and information is relayed into our homes, when only the one-sided opinions espoused by government and corporations are showcased, with only the voices of pro-government or corporate talking heads available, when only whitewashed, censored stories and reports favorable to those in power get aired, when vitally important information gets suppressed, when the views of third-party candidates never gets covered and when escapist fantasy is shown over important reality democracy becomes a useless instrument devoid of power.

When the citizenry of a nation can no longer make electoral decisions based on free-thought, on educated information gathering and on the objective reporting of media democracy cannot function. Media today has the ability to censor any candidate running for office it does not approve of. It can help build a candidate up, making him or her the next war president. It can manipulate stories, so-called yells of rage, the popularity of a candidate and inevitably, his or her success. Just ask Howard Dean how his campaign was destroyed in part by the corporate media. The Establishment saw a threat and proceeded to eliminated it.

For an objective, balanced and informative media loyal only to the truth is a pillar of a healthy democracy. When it crumbles, however, as we see today, instead becoming the stepping stone of the Amerikan Nazis’ rise to power and nothing more than corporatist controlled media, democracy is destroyed and can no longer be trusted to help move the nation forward.

Why... [do you] rejected the president's policy,

which is the U.S. simply cannot leave Iraq until the Iraqis are

ready to take on the security duties themselves.

"this is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion."

John Murtha

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec05/withdrawal_11-17.html

An unenlightened populace, imputing televised propaganda as its own opinion, ignorant to the true state of the country, conditioned to never question either the monitor or government propagandists, captured by lies, deceits, fears, schizophrenia and obedient to the Amerikan Nazis cannot be said to vote wisely, with neither all available information at their disposal or with a clear understanding of the issues. This is not democracy, this is controlled debauched democracy, reminiscent of the best media propaganda in the now defunct Soviet Union and Iron Curtain, reminding one of the state owned channels available in dictatorships. Today in America, the only thing those in power have to do to win votes is control the television, its content and message. In the United States, nothing is easier to do.

What the television guarantees the Amerikan Nazis is the undivided attention of the masses who have no other choice but to see and listen to what the corporate media decides to release. At the press of a button, the Amerikan Nazis can manipulate public opinion and steer the direction of the nation’s pulse based on the images beamed and the propaganda voiced by sold out talking heads, journalists and anchors. They can mobilize millions through propaganda and fear, they can make millions vote against their interests through an amalgam of psychologically devastating tools designed to manipulate and condition.

More and more, the media, nothing more than the propaganda-laced loudspeaker of government and the corporate interests that owns it, airs only what the Amerikan Nazis want the population to see and hear. Hence, we see that a complete blackout of the stolen election of 2004 has been implemented by the corporate media. Naturally, this is done so that the vast majority of the sheep can continue grazing tranquilly, not knowing, not caring and not interested. This is done so that momentum of the resistance does not grow, so that more citizens do not become aware of what is being done to us, so that the movement is discredited, so that truth dies and is forgotten, and so that Amerikan Nazi power and control continues to grow without interruption and without an awakening of the masses. The complicit nature of the corporate media, in its failure to cover such a treasonous crime upon the American people, is clear proof of its role in the death of democracy, the birth of despotism now invading America and the rise of the Amerikan Nazis.

Carefully bombarding the human mind with one-sided, censored, misleading, deceitful, manipulative, jingoistic, patriotic diatribe and propaganda, especially in a country where free-thought is the exception rather than the rule, where the thoughts of pundits become the opinions of the masses, where diversity of opinion has evaporated and dissent has ceased to exist, the media, through the television and radio, creates in the thought processes of the masses the illusion that only the opinion it airs exists and can be accepted. Thus what it shows and says must be true because no other opinion or view exists out there in the realm of television. With a populace that does not self-educate itself, dependent entirely on the viewpoints of Amerikan Nazi lackeys for their lackluster attempt at knowledge, this is a recipe for the manipulation of a healthy democracy.

Pandora's box as Kahlizad said recently. Bushco jumped in over the heads and will drown there.

Carefully bombarding the human mind with one-sided, censored, misleading, deceitful, manipulative, jingoistic, patriotic diatribe and propaganda, especially in a country where free-thought is the exception rather than the rule, where the thoughts of pundits become the opinions of the masses, where diversity of opinion has evaporated and dissent has ceased to exist, the media, through the television and radio, creates in the thought processes of the masses the illusion that only the opinion it airs exists and can be accepted. Thus what it shows and says must be true because no other opinion or view exists out there in the realm of television. With a populace that does not self-educate itself, dependent entirely on the viewpoints of Amerikan Nazi lackeys for their lackluster attempt at knowledge, this is a recipe for the manipulation of a healthy democracy.

In order to maintain power in a so-called ‘free-society’, where liberty and freedom ring loud and clear, autocrats destroy democracy’s last vestiges, a population’s ability to think independently, rationally, analytically and logically, thereby decimating liberating education and necessary dissent, thereby clandestinely cleansing a nation of the will of the People. Yet retaining the illusion and appearance of democracy is purposefully done so that the masses believe that nothing has changed, that they are in control of their own destiny. Charades of democracy are created, their manipulations ensuring that a dumbed-down populace, in this case nearly 60 million zombies, continue voting against their own interests and for the immoral and criminal power mongers in control.

Controlling the masses has never been easier. Manipulating their minds to the dictates of the Amerikan Nazis is like taking candy from a baby, without so much a whimper or a cry.

Posted by: Nazi's R Us at March 13, 2006 08:44 PM

no one cares :)

Aren't we already in Iran W/covert ops?

Sam great job on Harpers forum. You were sensational.

A general observation:

Whenever Prof. Cole (and damn few others) is speaking, the posts nearly stop.

That's respect hereabouts.

But Hammas is so delicious!

Posted by: Nazi's R Us at March 13, 2006 08:44 PM

no one cares :)

Posted by: Anonymous at March 13, 2006 08:46 PM

Thank you! I agree. So what if we are nazi's now.
Maybe it's a good thing. Maybe we can be the good nazi's...like Schultz!

Murtha: The ‘Only People Who Want Us in Iraq’ are

Iran,

al Qaeda, and

China

and Dick Cheney, George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld

Over 70% of the British people surveyed said the US Nazi's were the most terrorist in the world

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Not radical islamist but the

Vast Right Wing Neocon cabal.

Posted by: CMinCA at March 13, 2006 08:40 PM

Republicrats don't see people. They see resources.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41434000/jpg/_41434494_stardust_203i.jpg

Comets are born of fire as well as ice, the first results from the US space agency Nasa's Stardust mission show.

If we get quarantined for the avian flu, it won't be the avian flu that kills us, it will be the quarantine.

Posted by: nora at March 13, 2006 08:31 PM

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Why is Halliburton building internment camps ??

Posted by: red at March 13, 2006 08:19 PM

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Humm?

the good nazi's...like Schultz!

Posted by: Massachusetts Republican at March 13, 2006 08:48 PM

Asshole.

I heard there is an open room at the Hague.

Posted by: red at March 13, 2006 08:39 PM

Yup...loved the excuse...out of date map...

That was no mistake, and everyone knew it...

the good nazi's...like Schultz!

Posted by: Massachusetts Republican at March 13, 2006 08:48 PM

Asshole.

Posted by: Anonymous at March 13, 2006 08:50 PM

But, I thought you agreed with me that nobody cares that we are now nazi's? I'm confused.

I heard there is an open room at the Hague.

Posted by: painter at March 13, 2006 08:50 PM...

Is there a "Reserved" sign on it?

Posted by: red at March 13, 2006 08:39 PM

Clinton seemed to love the Kosovo bombing...made him look tough in front of the GOP...

And we skipped the UN on it...

It was officially a "NATO" operation, but everyone knew that was garbage....

Thank you! I agree. So what if we are nazi's now. Maybe it's a good thing. Maybe we can be the good nazi's...like Schultz!

Posted by: Massachusetts Republican at March 13, 2006 08:48 PM

Don't be dericulous.

Schultz was a fetkäze-eating borschhund.

Not the shining exaples of Aryan manhood who currently opresses the weak-dem-femme-fag-liberty-lovers of today.

Be a man, be a Republican- get your jack-boots out of your purse!

Are we talking AshkeNAZI or just plain old NAZI? Peace

Hey Sam & Co.

My sources tell me that Janeane was spotted with David Cross at Fontana's tonight.

I thought she was out of town.

Hummm???

That was no mistake, and everyone knew it...

Posted by: Goblin Girl at March 13, 2006 08:51 PM

thats was a sly one for clinton, didnt think he had it in him.

bad map...classic

Posted by: Nazi's R Us at March 13, 2006 08:44 PM

no one cares :)

Posted by: Anonymous at March 13, 2006 08:46 PM

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First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist;

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist;

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist;

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew;

Then they came for me--

and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Euro is way too unstable...Remember they just rejected their constitution. Kindof sucks...

The Italians keep on cheating.. its a crazy idea merging currencies without merging central banks. Thus countries like Italy and Greece rip off Germany and France. Also the EU government is hobbled and unmanageable. Kindof like our Articles of Confederation... I sold my Euroes a year ago...

Best to invest in Brazil, Asia, Russia now

http://www.chomskytorrents.org/
Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
Audio book
If you liked Hitler invading Poland to set up death camps, you'll love: "The Liberation of Iraq" to terrorize every American colony who has asperations of freedom.

c-span poll for Feingold's call for censure
http://capitalnews.org/

I thought she was out of town.

Hummm???

Posted by: KevinK at March 13, 2006 08:56 PM

isnt fontana's in california?

Posted by: KevinK at March 13, 2006 08:56 PM

isnt fontana's in california?

Posted by: red at March 13, 2006 09:02 PM

Not that one. The one at 105 Eldridge St.
between Grand and Broome in the Lower East Side of Manhattan

Sorry ass CNN

They report the poll numbers are 36%

Don't show any history like

Quick memory ticklers

SOTU 16 words (lies)

Patriot Act illegal

911 lies won't even testify under oath

Ports deal

Mangos for Nukes

More terror less safety or security

Boarders

Serious national debt

Katrina and disasters

Not one series of clips of the failed administration

Incompetent personnel

Greed and secrecy from Cheney's office

Libby etc

I can't believe there isn't a producer that can't put some together with the stats

But they sure could play Clinton huggin' Monica over and over and over

How about showing the profits off the charts

Halliburton and Forturn 500s are the real story behind what's wrong with Iraq

Hey Sam,
Most of us truck drivers are fully capable of drinking coffee,talking on the phone(with a headset),shifting gears,steering AND looking in the cars for a decent leg shot all at the same time. So don't get sceerd.

http://www.fontanasnyc.com/

People HUNGER for community so much that they'll even cling to it in the form of TV shows, popular ones that they can watch together or talk about together over meals, while commuting, long distance telephoning, emailing.

It is incredible how this need for community is expressed even in activities (or CONSUMPTION in the case of TV shows and popular fashion, fads, foods and successful products) that prevent us from participating in REAL COMMUNITY activities such as civic education and activities, environmental caretaking, governance, labor organizing, politics, elections, and on and on.

I'd heard that, too, Sam. March 20th is the day.

Posted by: Massachusetts Republican at March 13, 2006 08:52 PM

Damn....look what the dog dragged in.

http://capitalnews.org/

Sen. Feingold's call to censure Pres. Bush over warrantless wiretaps?

Good Idea 85%

Bad Idea 15%

Total Votes: 2992

Posted by: nora at March 13, 2006 09:05 PM

Unfortunately that requires you to get off the couch and actually talk to yuor nosy neighbors and get to know them

Can't hear Bill very well... on the web don't know about the air.

CHECK CROWLEY'S LEVELS.
He is at about 50% volume. Thanks.

Can barely hear Crowley

c-span poll for Feingold's call for censure http://capitalnews.org/

Posted by: CHIMPEACHME at March 13, 2006 09:01 PM

It will fly like a lead balloon.

Thread?

Can barely hear Mr. Crowley.

Good Idea 85% Bad Idea 15% Total Votes: 2992

Posted by: KevinK at March 13, 2006 09:07 PM

Really ?

But scott Mcclellan said a majority of Americans were For the illegal wiretaps....

Im so confused... who should i believe?

Heard on NPR today, 66 % of the population are capable of being hypnotized.

Satans is much more fun to party with than faultwell or robertson,anyway at least liberals don't structure their "Party" around him

Pass the wafer!!!!

LOL

Heard on NPR today, 66 % of the population are capable of being hypnotized.

Posted by: CHIMPEACHME at March 13, 2006 09:10 PM

Yes, master...

Be a man, be a Republican- get your jack-boots out of your purse!

Posted by: Fritz at March 13, 2006 08:54 PM

You're a pisser, Fritz. : )

You give good schtick.

Posted by: CHIMPEACHME at March 13, 2006 09:10 PM

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Yet, 89% are...

Interesting.

Posted by: painter at March 13, 2006 09:11 PM

"Go to Heaven for the scenery. Go to Hell for the company."

~Mark Twain

Isaac Hayes to quit doing the voice of Chef on South Park...

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060314/D8GB18P0K.html

Turn UP Crowley's Mic!

JOE LIEBERMAN?

OY! That Basturd!

Mr. Crowley!

Janeane has a twin?

Boy, short one crew member tonight and the whole show falls apart.

Posted by: Nazi's R Us at March 13, 2006 08:44 PM

no one cares :)

Posted by: Anonymous at March 13, 2006 08:46 PM

Speak for your self please.

No twin.

My source spoke with her.

Hey Sam...how about "Joe Lieberman's Compassionate Mobile"

Crowley's volume too low.

No 9PM thread on the blog.

Place is going to the dawgs!

US - 2209

UK - 103

Other - 103

Total - 2515

http://icasualties.org/oif/

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03/13/06 DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

Lance Cpl. Bunny Long, 22, of Modesto, Calif., died March 10 from a suicide, vehicle-borne, improvised explosive device in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to Headquarters Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II MEF, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

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03/13/06 Reuters: When Iraq death squads come calling: a family story

- It didn't take long for the wave of sectarian hatred that washed over Iraq last month to hit the Baghdad home of the Samarrai family -- just a few hours, in fact, before black-clad militiamen came calling.

The US House has a critical choice to make this week about campaign spending and the internet.

The better choice: The House leadership can allow a vote on legislation designed to protect speech and political action on the internet, while assuring that soft money does not return to the political system. That bill, HR 4900, a bipartisan bill sponsored by Rep. Tom Allen (D-ME) and Charlie Bass (R-NH), would protect bloggers and political activists and preserve the soft-money ban in the McCain-Feingold law.

Please ask your Representative to cosponsor the bipartisan Allen-Bass bill and urge the leadership to allow a vote on the bill. This bill does not give a free pass to big donors who want to fund Internet ads. But it makes sure that political bloggers, people who run Internet websites that advocate for candidates, and people who send political e-mails are truly exempt from federal rules.

The bad choice: Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) has introduced legislation, HR 1606, that would essentially gut our campaign finance laws and make it possible for big donors, like corporations, to influence federal elections by paying for ads on the Internet that they could not legally pay for if they ran in newspapers or on radio or TV. While Rep. Hensarling says his bill would protect political free speech on the internet, we think the Allen-Bass bill provides better protection of political activity, including bloggers. Ask your Representative to vote against the Hensarling bill if it comes to the House floor.

where's hour three?

Is Maron on tonight?

Janeane has a twin?

Posted by: nora at March 13, 2006 09:15 PM

Yeah. Darla or Darma or something...

It's not actually acurate to call the bushistas nazi's, facists or even communists. they are comprised of the worst parts of each, something tells me they reviewed the mistakes of the failed attempts of each one and picked the parts they liked best and fused them together to create a new animal

Joes faith based initiative funding is gonna send all the rape victims to Magdalene Sisters Asylum. Make em all good christians again.

When criticizing the use of "selective facts," The Note should have some facts of its own

http://mediamatters.org/items/200603130012

The March 13 edition of ABCNews.com's The Note attacked New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's column (subscription required) of the same day, claiming simply: "Paul Krugman writes with selective facts that [Sen.] John McCain [R-AZ] is not a maverick, a moderate, nor a straight talker." The Note offered no facts to rebut Krugman's "selective facts."

ABCNews.com describes The Note as "a morning news summary that will tell you what you need to know about politics at that critical moment in the news cycle."

In his March 13 Times column, Krugman wrote of McCain: "He isn't a moderate. He's much less of a maverick than you'd think. And he isn't the straight talker he claims to be."

PRESIDENT Michelle Bachelet of Chile

...

Her first act as president on Saturday was to swear in a cabinet of 10 men and 10 women, fulfilling a promise to have equal numbers of men and women in decision-making posts.

...

Bachelet called for national unity in the wake of Chile's 1973-90 dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, which activists say saw a wave of human right abuses and oppression of dissidents.

"There was a time in our history when we were divided, looking at each other with suspicion, with mistrust and rejection. Now the time has come to look at each other again to the face, to the eyes," she told thousands of cheering supporters in Santiago.

...

"I want a government in which citizens have an active participation," she said.

"A government at the service of the people."

Isaac Hayes to quit doing the voice of Chef on South Park...

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060314/D8GB18P0K.html

Posted by: Goblin Girl at March 13, 2006 09:13 PM

I saw the tom cruise , closet, scientology episode... hilarious.

who would have thought issac hayes was one of those.

"Almost single handedly brought the country around?!"

He wants FuckTards job.

Here come the illusions...

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So we're gonna be stuck in the Toronto Airport for 4 hrs on a Tuesday night this summer. (4:30-8:25)

What should we do?