Date:

09 Jan 2007

Time:

18:02:19

Comments

I'm a Canadian, and I have to say that even from my limited understanding, I believe Bush and his administration of fanatical neo cons have gone a long way to hurting the U.S.A.'s reputation to many around this world. Iraq has become an embarrassing fiasco which is going to cost tens of thousands their lives, yet neo cons live in a dream world where democracy would have solved all the evils facing that country accept that the Iraq's themselves are responsible, but should we impose our cultural beliefs on another societies which are different. Because of terrorism, some see all of Islam as suspect, but if we are going to vilify an entire religion of billions for the acts of a violent minority, then Christianity should be vilified as well since the pro life movement often resorts to murder and violent acts. We look down on the Islamic people because we believe their culture denies women equality, which might be true, but in our culture haven't we made women into sex objects, doesn't the media promote in some circles the prostitution of women? Every culture has skeletons in their collective closet, and the creation of the sentiment that this is a war between western secular societies and Islam might only worsen the situation. Victory can only be achieved if the majority of the citizens of that part of the world side with us, and for that we must not impose our beliefs and cultural norms on other nations which are different, we must understand those people and solve some of the hardships they face.

Date:

12 Jan 2007

Time:

08:32:48

Comments

Now that we know that there were ALL SORTS OF WMDs in Iraq, from 50 MIGs found by British to the biological labs mobile and stationary...to Quidaffi's giving up the Atomic Bomb Scientists that Saddam gave him...I am waiting for apologies to "W". It's true that to cross that Iraq border into a WAR zone...crossers SHOULD DIE...but do they? Iraq is well known as a roach motel...they cross in or die when the cross out? Is this terrorist elimination tool making up for those continually trained in Muslim schools so that Iraq can make it "on its own"? NOTHING ADDED SINCE 9TH ...AM HOSING THE BREEZE!

Date:

12 Jan 2007

Time:

09:11:41

Comments

DESCRIBE YOUR VISION OF AMERICA A beautiful, but poorly managed country 24.2% Land of the Free [as in Freedom] 21.2% Open door for illegal aliens 20.0% Tolerant of every religion except Christianity 11.5% Land of the ignorant 5.5% Land of opportunity 4.8% Home of child predators 2.4% More Liberal 1.8% Home of the brave 1.8% More Conservative 1.2% Inviting to homosexuals 1.2% Land of taxation 1.2% Land of the lost 1.2% Land of traditional values 1.2% Home of abortionists 0.6% Home of the rapists 0.0%

Total Votes: 165

Date:

19 Jan 2007

Time:

17:34:40

Comments

Wake Up,EUROPE!

Wake Up,EUROPE! No freakin' way! Muslims are taught to dominate Wherever we stay. We lousiest citizens the world has ever known Take the country over from the home grown! The native population is partly Infidel My ticket to Paradise Their ticket to HELL!

Our birth rate is increasing While yours is dropping You have abortion and family planning For us there's no stopping Four babies, five maybe even Fifty-three Like Sheik bin Laden, our hero is he! Anyway the language confuses, you see So having much sex With a wife or five or four And have free babies by the score...and what's more Get free foood and medical care But Europe is just too DUMB to be SCARED

We already RIOT When we get the urge To burn and destroy In a relentless surge Paris was burning French provoked ire We taught them a lesson - unquenchable FIRE! When we were excluded We got our just dues We plundered we pilaged - we killed a few To swarm all over Your peaceful little state Until they're very numerous Our Omar preaches HATE And hate we do What we do best How can we deny our obsession with DEATH

And we bite the hand that feeds us so well We kill the unbelievers or Muslims go to HELL! The only sure way is for me To see virgins seventy-two you see To be a martyr kill Infidels AAIIIIEEE! Cut off their fingers, cut off their HEADS Shoot them, stab and burn them Until all are all lying DEAD The Holy Quran says kill so we must But to the Unbelievers it looks like blood lust! Some will be converted Some will pay the price For being Infidels and Jews The money will suffice If they happen to kill me Hey, that's all right I go to be with Allah And enjoy Heaven's delights

All right...strap on this bomb so you, my child can be Up in Allah's heaven with the Imur and me. Dancing and prancing and having a good time For being a martyr leaving it all behind Let's immigrate to countries where stupid people stay Enjoy their milk and honey and kill them someday! Our numbers are growing, soon none can resist Then they can be Francistan and Swedenistan Germanistan and Russistan and others To fall from our swords And be shot by our brothers! But we come in peace And we will rule that way too When we regain our Europe We have taken from you!

Date:

16 Feb 2007

Time:

20:58:31

Comments

the reasons jews suck

1. the fucking holocaust was what 50 years ago and they are still god-damn bitchen about it like it affected their fuckin stingy ass lives (a man walks into Walmart and sees the price of special K and drops dead of the price! it was only two fuckin dollars out of his two million and he goes to court saying that this is racest toward jews i want a discount! "i get this treatment every where i go, i suffered thruogh the holocaust! ") SUCK MY COCK! YOU PIECE OF WORTHLESS SHIT!

2. they killed Jesus

3. they suck MAJOR DICK!

Date:

18 Feb 2007

Time:

09:27:48

Comments

You're a sad little guy. Go away, please.

Date:

05 Mar 2007

Time:

18:17:17

Comments

Nobody in his right mind ran around justifying Hitler simply because Germany felt it had been taken advantage of after its defeat in World War I. Nobody suggested we all had to read “Mein Kampf” in order to better understand Nazism. No sane person suggested that we were only fighting a war with Germany in order to gain control of her iron ore. And, except for a few nuts, nobody suggested that America was only doing battle with the Nazi barbarians because a wartime economy would finally bring our country out of the Great Depression.

But if things could be better in 2005 America, England proves they could be even worse. After Muslim butchers blew up English subways and buses, London’s leftist mayor contended that the killers had legitimate grievances and the Neville Chamberlain clones at the BBC would only go so far as to identify the cretins as bombers, not, god forbid, as terrorists.

We have a pretty good idea what Ronald Reagan, a very civil gentleman, would say about the appeasers and apologists on this side of the Atlantic, those self-deluded cowards who refuse to acknowledge that today’s Nazis murder and mutilate children when they’re not otherwise occupied singing the praises of Allah and bowing down to Mecca.

We can only imagine what Winston Churchill, a far more rambunctious orator, would say about his own craven countrymen.

Date:

22 May 2007

Time:

04:58:41

Comments

IRAQ -- U.S. EMBASSY TO BE LARGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE TO DATE: The new U.S. embassy to Iraq being built inside the Green Zone in Baghdad is "destined, at $592 [million], to become the biggest and most expensive US embassy on earth when it opens in September," the Guardian reports. The compound at 104 acres, an area roughly the size of the Vatican, will "include 27 separate buildings and house about 615 people behind bomb-proof walls." In addition, the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, will enjoy a 16,000 square foot "high-security home" complete with a pool and gym. Critics fear, however, "that the compound will not be large enough to house hundreds of diplomats and military personnel likely to remain in Iraq for some time" and that the embassy will "become an enormous, heavily targeted white elephant." Such fears were compounded twice in recent days as a mortar attack interrupted British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Saturday meeting with Iraqi leaders and again this morning as a mortar struck the Iraqi parliament. One former diplomat in Iraq asked, "What kind of embassy is it when everybody lives inside and it's blast-proof, and people are running around with helmets and crouching behind sandbags?"

Date:

26 May 2007

Time:

07:53:26

Comments

Bottom line - if the Democrats do not vote down the blank check Iraq War supplemental bill they are proposing, they will be complicit in the war, and should expect to feel the consequences. Bottom line: You vote for it, you own it....The Democratic Party is a party that is now refusing to stand up to a president who has reached the lowest presidential polling numbers in three decades - and they are refusing to stand up to him on an issue they were elected on, and which the public feels passionately about.

Date:

26 May 2007

Time:

08:16:09

Comments

When one considers the billions (maybe trillions) our country has already spent in this illicit war, not to mention the thousands of American dead and wounded plus the many thousands of innocent Iraqis, would it not have been LOTS cheaper and MUCH MORE humane to have simply bought the oil from Iraq???? I'm almost sure I know the answer, but I would love to pose the question to Bush and Cheney UNDER OATH!!!!

Date:

01 Jun 2007

Time:

04:16:19

Comments

We live in a time when expensive haircuts count as hot news but body-counts don't. Still,it's too soon for them to wage the real onslaught. The hoo-haw over John Edwards' haircut is just some off-season diddling around. We get this stuff because we, Americans, have lost touch with our democracy, what it means, what it takes to maintain it. We seem to think it comes with the air we breathe. We get what we deserve. Too pessimistic? Prove me wrong. Rrrandy at wurstwisdom.com

Date:

06 Jun 2007

Time:

05:10:49

Comments

Ooooh!

Rrrandy! It's rare to have someone of your stature here on our site. Our first 2008 Presidential candidate!

We're honored, sir.

The least we can do is to publish a link to your campaign site:
http://wurstwisdom.com/

Ramen

Kevin, LTS web master, maker, thing, guy.

Date:

06 Jun 2007

Time:

12:31:07

Comments

"Al Gore is earnestly talking about the long-term implications of the energy and climate crises, and how the Arctic ice cap is receding much faster than computer models had predicted, and how difficult and delicate a task it will be to try and set things straight in Iraq. You look at him and you can't help thinking how bizarre it is that this particular political figure, perhaps the most qualified person in the country to be president, is sitting in a wing chair in a hotel room in Manhattan rather than in the White House," writes Bob Herbert.

Date:

08 Jun 2007

Time:

05:53:36

Comments

A Failed Experiment On January 20, 1981, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan told the nation: "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." Thus began a grand experiment… Twenty-six years later, what do we have? A dismantled and “outsourced” industrial base, an impoverished work force, a nine trillion dollar debt burden upon future generations, and a degradation of education and scientific research, and a captive media that deprives the public of essential news as it issues outright lies.

Date:

12 Jun 2007

Time:

12:26:23

Comments

Americans have always been uncomfortable about mental health problems, so it is not surprising that there there is no discussion of the impact of having a narcissistic sociopath as our president.

Yet, all the evidence is there before our eyes: delusional behavior, inability to empathize with others, disassociataon from the impact of his actions, self-centered behavior, inability to accept personal responsibility, assumption that he is the government, and so on and so on.

You don't need a couch to analyze this baby; you just need a television set.

Date:

13 Jun 2007

Time:

15:16:46

Comments

Who ever came up with this crap saying that Bush had something to with this you are crazy and nuts. What the hell is wrong with you people do you just sit around and think this weird crap up?You have to much time on your hands you must all be democrats

Date:

18 Jun 2007

Time:

07:22:05

Comments

The media has outright ignored ABC News' scoop of two weeks ago that our top commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, has already decided that come September he's going to call the surge an increasing success regardless of what happens between now and then. We see report after report about September being the make it or break it point for the surge in Iraq, with no mention whatsoever of the fact that Petraeus has already been reported to have made up his mind in advance. This fits into a larger pattern that now makes clear what Bush is planning coming this September.

Date:

18 Jun 2007

Time:

07:23:18

Comments

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is trying to roll back a Supreme Court decision by pushing legislation that would require prison time for nearly all criminals. The Justice Department is offering the plan as an opening salvo in a larger debate about whether sentences for crack cocaine are unfairly harsh and racially discriminatory. Republicans are seizing the administration's crackdown, packaged in legislation to combat violent crime, as a campaign issue for 2008. Everyone should go to prison except Scooter Libby, of course.

Date:

20 Jun 2007

Time:

01:41:04

Comments

Russia tests missile which 'penetrates any defence' we told MORONS so but would not listen,,,NOW all of Europe or Bozoland in danger! PS Thanks Ted Kennedy...we will not have to worry about high taxes...220 million Mexicans and a few thousand angry Arabs will finish off what's left of USA. Presently they call themselves United States of Mexico in preparation for Mindless Bush signing Kennedy's "Finish US Off with Limitless Immigration Empty All Mexico's Jails. Hospitals, asylums Into USA" Bill.

Date:

20 Jun 2007

Time:

01:49:00

Comments

Why hate Christians? Why hate Jews? Muslims are the reason for much bad news. They come in peace to rule with hate. They want to conquer your progressive State...replace it with a Sheikdom where Infidels die or they pay money under thumbd by and by.

Date:

22 Jun 2007

Time:

13:18:31

Comments

The only worse disaster than Bush would be Armageddon. And Bush may blunder the world into a devastating nuclear implosion yet.

Does anyone care about their personal security? Because we continue to allow lobotomized "Masters of the Universe" to drive the bus we're on straight toward a cliff, merrily throwing grenades out the window as they careen along.

Has nearly everyone in D.C. had frontal lobotomies

Date:

25 Jun 2007

Time:

04:32:04

Comments

Maureen Dowd | A Vice President Without Borders, Bordering on Lunacy "I've always thought Cheney was way out there," says Maureen Dowd. "But even in my harshest musings about the vice president, I never imagined that he would declare himself not only above the law, not only above the president, but actually his own dark planet - a separate entity from the White House."

Date:

25 Jun 2007

Time:

05:29:01

Comments

For four years, Vice President Dick Cheney has resisted routine oversight of his office’s handling of classified information, and when the National Archives unit that monitors classification in the executive branch objected, the vice president’s office suggested abolishing the oversight unit, according to documents released yesterday by a Democratic congressman. Cheney claims that he is not part of the Executive Branch. Fine, then let's toss him out of his mansion, which we the people own, and let him go back to trying and rip us off as head of Halliburton. This is lunacy. Impeach the unAmerican leaker of classified information.

Date:

04 Jul 2007

Time:

04:30:11

Comments

"Let me get this straight," says William Rivers Pitt. "Like a thief in the night, George W. Bush commuted the prison sentence of I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby. He made no public appearance to announce the decision, but instead air-mailed a written statement after 5 p.m. at the outset of a midweek holiday."

Date:

04 Jul 2007

Time:

08:26:07

Comments

Congress should call the leading constitutional authorities in the nation, and devise a series of subpoenas to directly call the president and the vice president to testify on matters that could involve violations of law. This would lead to a historic test case that would decide, once and for all, whether Thomas Paine was right when he stated that in monarchies the king is law, but in America, the law is king.

Date:

06 Jul 2007

Time:

11:29:46

Comments

BlueCross Secret Memo Re: 'Sicko' ... "You would have to be dead to be unaffected by Moore's movie..."

BlueCross V.P. [Barclay] Fitzpatrick seems downright depressed about the movie he just saw. "You would have to be dead to be unaffected by Moore's movie," he writes. "Sicko" leaves audiences feeling "ashamed to be...a capitalist, and part of a 'me' society instead of a 'we' society."

He walks out of the theater only to witness an unusual sight: people -- strangers -- mingling and talking to each other. TALKING TO EACH OTHER ?! My God, the danger! Next thing you know, these people will want a SAY in this matter.

Date:

07 Jul 2007

Time:

08:06:06

Comments

Laura Bush Rebukes Husband on Abstinence-Only Requirement

Despite a Bush administration mandate that 33 percent of America's HIV prevention funds be spent on abstinence-only programs, Laura Bush, says she would be "perfectly fine" with the proposed idea from Congress to waive this abstinence-only provision and that condoms are "absolutely necessary," reported the Feminist Newswire.

Date:

09 Jul 2007

Time:

04:56:35

Comments

A Profile in Cowardice

Frank Rich writes: "There was never any question that President Bush would grant amnesty to Scooter Libby, the man who knows too much about the lies told to sell the war in Iraq. The only questions were when, and how, Mr. Bush would buy Mr. Libby’s silence. Now we have the answers, and they’re at least as incriminating as the act itself."

Date:

10 Jul 2007

Time:

04:36:18

Comments

Report: Wars Costing $12 Billion a Month

The Associated Press's Andrew Taylor writes, "The boost in troop levels in Iraq has increased the cost of war there and in Afghanistan to $12 BILLION a month, and the total for Iraq alone is nearing a half-TRILLION dollars, Congressional analysts say."

Date:

11 Jul 2007

Time:

03:44:32

Comments

White House trying to find consensus to appease Democrats and "wobbly Republicans."

ABC News has been told the White House is "in panic mode" over the recent defections of Republican senators on the President's stay-the-course policy in Iraq.

Senior Bush administration officials are deep in discussion about how to find a compromise that will "appease Democrats and keep wobbly Republicans on board," a senior White House official tells ABC News.

The official said the White House "is in panic mode," despite Monday's on-the-record briefing by White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, who played down any concern over the recent spate of GOP senators who have spoken out publicly in support of changing course in Iraq.

The Republican defections are seen as "a crack in the dike," according to the senior White House official, and National Security Advisor Steven Hadley is most concerned.

Date:

11 Jul 2007

Time:

10:58:10

Comments

Senate Panel Cuts off Funds to Cheney

Andrew Taylor of the Associated Press reports, "A Senate appropriations panel chaired by Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) refused to fund $4.8 million in the vice president's budget until Cheney's office complies with parts of an executive order governing its handling of classified information."

Date:

11 Jul 2007

Time:

11:27:56

Comments

Right now, we have a structural injustice in terms of waging war. We basically delegate the job to those who are not part of the upper classes or elite power structure. Bush and Cheney send off "expendable" Americans and immigrants seeking citizenship, while doing phony public relations photo-ops praising them as they use these Americans as cannon fodder.

Date:

14 Jul 2007

Time:

09:20:59

Comments

Make no mistake, things have been done to America in these recent years that are unwise, unjust, unconscionable, unacceptable and un-American by those who pursue their partisanship, their profiteering, their perjury, their pardons and their power, waving the flag as their banner and pointing to God as their justification.

Hill's Pundits Blog

Date:

16 Jul 2007

Time:

08:43:10

Comments

We're All Gonna Die William Rivers Pitt of Truthout writes:

The recipe is simple, like the directions on the back of a shampoo bottle. Damaging reports of Bush administrations malfeasance emerge. Warnings of imminent terrorist-borne doom immediately follow, all spread far and wide by said Bush administration. Lather, rinse, repeat. There are many more instances of this curious timing to be found, but apparently, no one in the administration is concerned this dubious pattern - spreading fear among the populace to change the subject, an act of terrorism itself - might start to wear thin."

Date:

20 Jul 2007

Time:

08:36:33

Comments

Fundamentalists: believe 2+2 =5 because It Is Written. Somewhere. They have a lot of trouble on their tax returns.

"Moderate" believers: live their lives on the basis that 2+2=4. but go regularly to church to be told that 2+2 once made 5, or will one day make 5, or in a very real and spiritual sense should make 5.

"Moderate" atheists: know that 2+2 =4 but think it impolite to say so too loudly as people who think 2+2=5 might be offended.

"Militant" atheists: "Oh for pity's sake. HERE. Two pebbles. Two more pebbles. FOUR pebbles. What is WRONG with you people?"

Date:

25 Jul 2007

Time:

05:45:54

Comments

Pentagon Junking Millions in Gear

"Millions of dollars' worth of gear, including combat boots, helmets, vests and aircraft parts, is being junked by the Pentagon rather than stored or sold as surplus to suppliers who sometimes sell it back to the military," reports Sharon Theimer of the Associated Press.

Date:

29 Jul 2007

Time:

05:22:27

Comments

Neoconservatism is dumb, discredited and dead.

Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and to Bill Alexander, then-chief deputy whip of the House. He is a contributing editor to Fighting Dems News Service. He can be read on The Hill’s Pundits Blog and reached at brentbbi@webtv.net.

See his full article on our Update page. Matilda

Date:

30 Jul 2007

Time:

13:17:21

Comments

Answering to No One

Walter F. Mondale writes for The Washington Post: "Whatever authority a vice president has is derived from the president under whom he serves. There are no powers inherent in the office; they must be delegated by the president. Somehow, not only has Cheney been given vast authority by President Bush - including, apparently, the entire intelligence portfolio - but he also pursues his own agenda. The real question is why the president allows this to happen."

Date:

09 Aug 2007

Time:

19:41:08

Comments

can 90% of your respondent please start back on their Prozac, Haldol and Xanax cocktails? thank you

Date:

14 Aug 2007

Time:

09:09:43

Comments

"Five reporters must reveal their government sources for stories they wrote about Steven J. Hatfill and investigators' suspicions that the former Army scientist was behind the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, a federal judge ruled yesterday." Uh, another Bush failure. No anthrax terrorist was ever charged. How come? Good question, considering the anthrax attacks were targeted at key Dems, just before the vote on the (Un)Patriotic Act.

Date:

14 Aug 2007

Time:

09:17:59

Comments

Rove Exits [Karl Rove’s] legacy is a conservative movement largely discredited and disunited, a president with lower consistent approval ratings than any in modern history, a generational shift to the Democrats, a resurgent al Qaeda, an endless catastrophe in Iraq, a long hard struggle in Afghanistan, a fiscal legacy that means bankrupting America within a decade, and the poisoning of American religion with politics and vice-versa. For this, he got two terms of power - which the GOP used mainly to enrich themselves, their clients and to expand government's reach and … drain on the productive sector.

Rove Exits [Karl Rove’s] legacy is a conservative movement largely discredited and disunited, a president with lower consistent approval ratings than any in modern history, a generational shift to the Democrats, a resurgent al Qaeda, an endless catastrophe in Iraq, a long hard struggle in Afghanistan, a fiscal legacy that means bankrupting America within a decade, and the poisoning of American religion with politics and vice-versa. For this, he got two terms of power - which the GOP used mainly to enrich themselves, their clients and to expand government's reach and … drain on the productive sector.

Date:

17 Aug 2007

Time:

11:23:08

Comments

Giuliani: 'Leave my family alone.' Translation: I've Been Married Three Times; My Kids Won't Talk to Me; I Cheated on My Second Wife; My First Wife Was a Relative; And My Present Wife Has Been Married Three Times, But I'm a Great Dad and Husband.

Date:

25 Aug 2007

Time:

10:34:28

Comments

Historian Robert Dallek, who had compared the wars in Iraq and Vietnam, accused Bush of twisting history.

"We were in Vietnam for 10 years. We dropped more bombs on Vietnam than we did in all of World War II in every theater. We lost 58,700 American lives, the second-greatest loss of lives in a foreign conflict. And we couldn't work our will," he told the Los Angeles Times.

"What is Bush suggesting? That we didn't fight hard enough, stay long enough? That's nonsense. It's a distortion," he continued.

"We've been in Iraq longer than we fought in World War II," he said. The disaster in Iraq "is the consequence of going in, not getting out," he added.

Date:

28 Aug 2007

Time:

11:55:19

Comments

India May Enforce Duty To Aging Parents As a rapidly urbanizing India sees its social landscape shift away from traditional family bonds, the government has introduced a bill that would make it a legal obligation for children, heirs, or relatives to provide financial assistance to seniors.

How about that??? Matilda

Date:

29 Aug 2007

Time:

12:01:21

Comments

US Most Armed Country With 90 Guns Per 100 People

Laura MacInnis reports for Reuters: "The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said. US citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies."

Date:

07 Sep 2007

Time:

06:29:09

Comments

Mario M. Cuomo | What the Constitution Says About Iraq

Mario M. Cuomo writes for The Los Angeles Times: "Most Americans want the war in Iraq ended, but it continues and Americans are killed, mutilated or wounded every day, as the Democratic majorities in Congress struggle to produce legislation that will take our forces out of harm's way. Meanwhile, President Bush continues to insist that as commander in chief, he has the constitutional power to go to war and decide when to end it, unilaterally. At the same time, another possible disaster emerges from the shadows: Bush appears to be considering a military assault on Iran, again apparently without Congress declaring war first."

Date:

11 Sep 2007

Time:

06:37:24

Comments

Tom Engelhardt | Launching Brand Petraeus

Tom Engelhardt writes for TomDispatch.com: "Think of it this way: The most political general in recent memory has been asked to assess his own work (as has our ambassador in Iraq), and then present 'recommendations' to the White House in a 'report' that is actually being written in the White House. You couldn't call it a political version of 'the honor system'; but perhaps the dishonor system would do."

Date:

11 Sep 2007

Time:

06:41:12

Comments

Paul Krugman writes for The New York Times: "The absence of any gains for workers in the years since the 2003 tax cut is a pretty convincing refutation of trickle-down theory. So is the fact that the economy had a much more convincing boom after Bill Clinton raised taxes on top brackets. It turns out that when you cut taxes on the rich, the rich pay less taxes; when you raise taxes on the rich, they pay more taxes - end of story."

Date:

11 Sep 2007

Time:

06:45:44

Comments

Insurance Companies Kept $59 Million Due Medicare Consumers

Robert Pear reports for The New York Times, "Private insurance companies participating in Medicare have been allowed to keep tens of millions of dollars that should have gone to consumers, and the Bush administration did not properly audit the companies or try to recover money paid in error, Congressional investigators say in a new report."

Date:

11 Sep 2007

Time:

12:12:28

Comments

Petraeus: Limited troop withdrawal Gen. David Petraeus told Congress on Monday … [that] last winter's buildup in U.S. troops had met its military objectives "in large measure." As a result, he told a congressional hearing and a nationwide television audience, "I believe that we will be able to reduce our forces to the pre-surge level ... by next summer without jeopardizing the security gains we have fought so hard to achieve." Call me crazy for asking, but doesn’t that put us back in the same position we were in BEFORE the surge? If so, what was the point of the surge?

Date:

12 Sep 2007

Time:

12:29:02

Comments

http www tribune democrat com local local story 202233829 html "Designer" Murdock blames two "Islamic dominated most likely juries" for the Flight 93 Memorial pointing to MECCA and the presence of the "Prayer Tower". Originally called "Cresent of Embrace" design...this Murdock would point the Statue of Liberty at MECCA for a few dollars...

Date:

17 Sep 2007

Time:

03:49:22

Comments

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

Thomas Brackett Reed, politician (1839-1902)

Date:

23 Sep 2007

Time:

12:41:17

Comments

War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says Kari Lydersen of The Washington Post reports that "The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with renewable electricity, according to the American Friends Service Committee, which displayed those statistics on large banners in cities nationwide Thursday and Friday."

Date:

23 Sep 2007

Time:

13:02:35

Comments

My gentle readers....I urge you to watch the Keith Olberman video which can be seen our our Update page. I find that Olberman is today's Edward R. Murrow. Do you agree? Matilda

Date:

24 Sep 2007

Time:

05:33:30

Comments

Lastweek, John Edwards, the Democratic presidential hopeful said if the current administration doesn’t pass a universal health care plan, if he is elected president, he will submit legislation to end coverage for the president, members of Congress and all senior political appointees.

Bravo Johnny!!!!! Matilda

Date:

07 Oct 2007

Time:

07:24:46

Comments

Even Republicans have abandoned the ship of George W. Bush and what he has done to our Nation: more than 60% of Republicans want their party to stand for something that is dramatically different than what is being done to our country today.

Enough of him. Enough of that. One era is ending, a new era is beginning. It is our mission and our moment to define that era, to lift our country, and to remind ourselves of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going.

Our faith and values are derived from the Sermon on the Mount and the words of healing and hope where we feed the hungry, clothe the needy, comfort the hurting, and lift the poor.

Our spirit is derived from the Bill of Rights, the greatest document of freedom and justice in the history of humanity.

Our patriotism is rooted in the Constitution and the truth that in our land, the law is the king, and the king is not the law...

Budowsky serves on the Advisory Council of the Intelligence Summit and is a contributing editor to Fighting Dems News Service. He handled intelligence issues for Sen. Lloyd Bentsen when the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was originally passed, and was legislative director to Bill Alexander, then the chief deputy whip of the House. He can be read on The Hill’s Pundits Blog and reached at brentbbi@webtv.net.

Date:

14 Oct 2007

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09:26:01

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BuzzFlash.com's Review (excerpt) From Publishers Weekly:

Savage, who won a Pulitzer for his Boston Globe articles about the signing statements George W. Bush used to negate legislation limiting presidential authority, gives that issue a key part in this account of the Bush administration's efforts to increase executive power. Covering constitutional issues as well as the political backgrounds of former White House attorneys like Alberto Gonzales and John Yoo, this detailed report traces their concerted effort, from the moment Bush took office in 2001, to [leave] the presidency in better shape than he [Bush] found it.

The authorization to use force against Iraq is only the tip of the iceberg. Bush has already gone so far as to declare himself able to negate treaties with other nations at will, Savage reports. He also demonstrates how many of the administration's most controversial acts have their roots in Dick Cheney's experiences in the Nixon and Ford administrations.

This incisive analysis of congressional and judicial efforts to check the administration's power grabs adds up to a searing indictment.

Date:

17 Oct 2007

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05:20:48

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If the believers in Al Gore roll the dice and reach out to New Hampshire voters to make their stand in the Granite State, they will be campaigning against everything the American people dislike in our politics and championing a leader with an extraordinary body of work for a lifetime, at the very moment he addresses the world and accepts the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Don’t bet the ranch, but it can be done.

If Gore should decide to run and if it comes down to a Al versus Hillary ticket, Bill Clinton will be faced with an uncomfortable dilemma.....his wife or his former vice-president whom he supported back in 2000. Poor Bill!!!!

Date:

19 Oct 2007

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12:03:49

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McCain back at scene of collapse in S.C. When Senator John McCain and his wife campaign in South Carolina these days, people pull them aside to apologize for what happened during the presidential primary here in 2000.

BET they’re sorry.

Date:

24 Oct 2007

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11:45:28

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"When people who are honestly mistaken learn the truth, they will either cease being mistaken, or cease being honest." --Anon.

Date:

25 Oct 2007

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13:26:36

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$2,400,000,000,000 (by Nicole Belle at Crooks and Liars)

That’s right. Eleven zeros. New estimates out this week by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office place the cost of the Iraq occupation through 2017 at 2.4 TRILLION dollars, or put another way, $8,000 for every man, woman and child in the US. And that does not include the interest on the foreign loans being used to finance it so that the top 1% can still enjoy their tax cuts. Remember Wolfowitz claiming that the war would pay for itself?

Date:

28 Oct 2007

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06:58:44

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Susan Davis reports on the presidential race.

John Edwards s targeting Corporate America and what he argues are its corrupt and greedy practices. In a speech today in Des Moines, Iowa, he is outlining his plan to renew the “social contract” between business and government if elected president. “In corporate America, where a broader sense of social responsibility once held sway, a culture of greed has taken over. Instead of treating their employees fairly, being accountable to their shareholders and contributing to America’s prosperity, CEOs act like their corporations exist just to build their own massive fortunes,” says Edwards, according to speech excerpts provided to Washington Wire by his campaign.

Date:

29 Oct 2007

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08:37:33

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Greg Palast in Chicago on October 27th at an Event Sponsored by BuzzFlash.com: Toward the end of the Clinton Adminsitration the Price of a Barrel of Oil was Below $20, Now It Has Reached an All-Time Record of More than $90 a Barrel. As Far as Bush and Cheney are Concerned, Mission Accomplished.

Date:

29 Oct 2007

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08:46:33

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Palast also argues that the goal of the Bush Administration is not to seize the Iraq and Iran oil fields to make more of the black gold available, but rather to control the output so that supply is limited in order to raise the profits of the oil companies. Since Bush and Cheney invaded Iraq, the price of oil has skyrocketed and the oil corporations have pocketed billions and billions of dollars in record windfall profits.

The goal of the Bush Republican Party is not to protect us from terrorism, but rather to use terrorism to advance their international and domestic economic agenda.

That is truly a Halloween fright fest of potential catastrophic proportions.

Date:

29 Oct 2007

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08:54:08

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