- Date:
- 09 Nov 2005
- Time:
- 16:51:42
Comments
Dear friends and gentle readers.....We have decided to return to our old-fashioned Message Board. The Blog idea went absolutely nowhere!!! And what preceded it was used mainly by me (Matilda) and two or three Bush supporters who were using our space to publish intensely right wing articles....LONG ones. Our very kind web master archived what we've saved and deleted some useless material. This site (and its Message Board) is for you to use frugally for short comments or for urls of pertinent articles. It is not meant to be used to republish long, rightwing articles, unless they contain useful and TRUE info.
Kevin (our webmaster) joins me in wishing you a happy Thanksgiving and in hoping you will come back to our site often. Things have been so hopeless for so long, but there seems to be some light showing through the White House cracks. And let's not forget that we call our site LET'S TALK SENSE......My fondest wishes to you all. Matilda
- Date:
- 17 Nov 2005
- Time:
- 08:55:37
Comments
I have no respect or admiration for this man, but somehow I couldn't help feeling sorry for him after reading the following short article:
Matilda
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Washington Times Reports Bush "Reclusive", "Feels Betrayed"
by Hunter
Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 05:56:22 PM PDT
John at AMERICAblog points out a hardcore-Republican source that is pushing a very unflattering portrait of Bush. The Washington Times' Insight says Bush "feels betrayed by several of his most senior aides and advisors and has severely restricted access to the Oval Office", according to their sources within the administration.
The sources said Mr. Bush maintains daily contact with only four people: first lady Laura Bush, his mother, Barbara Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes. The sources also say that Mr. Bush has stopped talking with his father, except on family occasions.
This is a president who even in the best of times is insular, out of touch, and completely unwilling to have alternative points of view brought to him. Now, according to administration sources he's kicked out everyone else in his Oval Treehouse except for his mom, and three people who remind him of his mom? Shudder…
- Date:
- 21 Nov 2005
- Time:
- 05:25:57
Comments
"There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; religion without sacrifice; politics without principle; science without humanity; business without ethics." — Mahatma Gandhi
- Date:
- 21 Nov 2005
- Time:
- 06:03:29
Comments
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervour - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it: General Douglas MacArthur
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" Whenever a people... entrust the defence of their country to a regular, standing army, composed of mercenaries, the power of that country will remain under the direction of the most wealthy citizens.": A Framer
Date:
- 21 Nov 2005
- Time:
- 18:58:41
Comments
Bush lide and kids dyed. Only kids who cant aford coledge get kilt. Richkids stay home and get tax brakes for rich peple from bushy and repblican senators. he got us in this war and now we have swiside bommers hitting sodiers in Iran. He lide sos he has to be impeched for the safetyof our contry.
- Date:
- 26 Nov 2005
- Time:
- 19:01:09
Comments
Hope everyone had a happy thanksgiving. Since we are "Talking sense", at this juncture, it seems appropriate to revisit the words of North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap a few years ago in an interview: "We were not strong enough to drive out a half-million American troops, but that wasn't our aim. Our intention was to break the will of the American government to continue the war." Some of us may not see the wisdom and lessons in those words, but let there be no doubt that our enemies have not let that lesson gone unlearned.
I hope there is enough truth in this little bit of history to qualify under the new gidelines of this new improved message board.
- Date:
- 27 Nov 2005
- Time:
- 12:14:31
Comments
"Small is Beautiful"--a reprise 30 years later
Submitted by Jerry Lobdill on Fri, 2005-11-25 15:18
I first read this book by E. F. Schumacher in 1976. A few days ago I picked it up again. I wondered if I’d see it in a different light nearly 30 years later. I was amazed that the forecasts Schumacher had made had mostly come true in the interim.
Schumacher is not one of the economists that our modern economists like to quote. As a matter of fact they have all continued preaching the paradigm that Schumacher debunked. They’d like to forget about Schumacher. And therein lies our problem.
Schumacher said, effectively, that the single-minded relentless pursuit of financial gain and methods by which these gains can be maximized in the minimum amount of time the goal of modern economics is insane. Further, the degradation of the environment or the depletion of irreplaceable natural resources as a result of economic activity cannot be considered to be zero cost effects as modern economics does. That is also insanity.
Instead, Schumacher says the aim of economic activity should be to obtain the maximum of well-being with the minimum of consumption. What a concept!
Is it any wonder that economists tried to relegate him to the dustbin of history?..
- Date:
- 28 Nov 2005
- Time:
- 17:37:56
Comments
Like the guy sayd, this is Vietnam all over. Were bomming inent civilans and americans kids are geting kilt. Like he sayd, we got to remeber lesson from Vietnam. Lets get out now bofore more gets kilt.
- Date:
- 29 Nov 2005
- Time:
- 05:45:06
Comments
Also, in the Mailbag a lady feels that the word "incompetence," is not the right word for the mess that we are in today. Well, a president that was placed into office by a partisan Supreme Court, who "doesn't like to read and brags about it, " who was a "C" student and brags about that, which I doubt very much was an honest C; a supposedly ex-alcoholic, ex-druggie, says he talks to God; if he has ever muttered the truth, it would probably be during a drunken stupor or in some childish, vile verbiage-laden attack on some unsuspecting person.
BUZZFLASH
- Date:
- 29 Nov 2005
- Time:
- 07:15:26
Comments
anybodyelse hear an echo here?
- Date:
- 29 Nov 2005
- Time:
- 21:28:02
Comments
Mr Schumacher was an interesting man indeed, but I wonder if Lobdill has explored more his works more than superficially. Who, shall I ask, is to decide what is the optimum level of well being, and what well being is in fact. What is the minimal use of natural resources, and who will decide? No doubt the extreme left wingers who are smarter than the rest of us would decide.
His theory is interesting, but would it work? He liked the Swiss system with more control at the Canton level. Should I infer that Lobdill had discovered State's rights, or even county rights?
Would Lobdill be able to explain why Schumacher went from protege of Keynes to one of his critics? I have to admit some attraction to his idea of decreased unemployment through lower productivity. However, attractive as it may be, I fear it would fly in the face of human nature, and not be as ideal as it could.
- Date:
- 29 Nov 2005
- Time:
- 21:36:00
Comments
Hey BUZZBOMB, check your facts and you will find that GWB had better grades in college than the brilliant John Kerry. Immagine how much better he would have done had he not been drunk or drugged. Says a lot for your man.
Regarding truth, only your side is calling him a liar. Considering your embrace of the prior president who lied through his teeth, got caught, and had to admit it publicly, the stench of hypocrisy is overpowering.
You can run but you cant hide!
- Date:
- 29 Nov 2005
- Time:
- 21:40:06
Comments
Startling new Army statistics show that strife-torn Baghdad - considered the most dangerous city in the world - now has a lower murder rate than New York.
The newest numbers, released by the Army's 1st Infantry Division, reveal that over the past three months, murders and other crimes in Baghdad are decreasing dramatically and that in the month of October, there were fewer murders per capita there than the Big Apple, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
It is obvious that the US should pull out of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
- Date:
- 30 Nov 2005
- Time:
- 07:02:47
Comments
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
- Date:
- 01 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 14:00:25
Comments
American and British aggression in Iraq is to blame for the hostage-taking of four pacifists, including two Canadians.
The four were snatched at gunpoint on Saturday in a dangerous part of Baghdad by a group calling itself the Swords of Righteousness Brigade, which said the hostages were spies working undercover as Christian peace activists.
"We are angry because what has happened to our teammates is the result of the actions of the U.S. and U.K. governments due to the illegal attack on Iraq and the continuing occupation and oppression of its people," Christian Peacemaker Teams said in a statement.
- Date:
- 03 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 09:11:51
Comments
Eat My Holiday Cheer
Screw joy and togetherness. It's all about retail, just like Jesus would have wanted
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, December 2, 2005
Does it not feel more manic and insane this year? Is there not more commercial pressure and consumerist mania and does it not seem increasingly surreal and obnoxious and silly? Or is it all relative and it just seems more utterly intolerable because we've had 10 months to try and forget the last holiday season's odious marketing-shopping miasma?
Christmas decorations were out long before Halloween. Retailers were preparing their attack months in advance. On Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the most gruesome shopping day of the year, stores from the hellbeast of Wal-Mart to tepid ol' JCPenney to upscale shopping centers across the nation were either open all night or opened their doors at 6, 5, even 4 a.m. to accommodate dazed and bleary-eyed hordes of frothing shoppers, most of whom wouldn't know the concept of patience if it smacked their butts with a PlayStation 2, and by the way if shivering in the dark outside a Best Buy at 3:30 a.m. in frigid November drizzle waiting for a half-price deal on a cheap-ass Chinese-made DVD player isn't the very definition of self-immolating karmic torture, I don't know what is.
I shall not argue for the purity of the holidays, for some sort of utopian Christian notion that it used to be all simple and lovely and beatific and that it has now been horribly corrupted by ruthless commercial interests, because the whole damned holiday has been commercially controlled for the past hundred years…
[The danger to Christmas isn’t from the secular left, it’s from the corporatist right.—Caro]
- Date:
- 04 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 21:42:13
Comments
"American and British aggression in Iraq is to blame for the hostage-taking of four pacifists, including two Canadians. "
What about blaming the terrorists?
Typical liberals.
- Date:
- 05 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 20:33:22
Comments
Thanks Savannah. Your link is awesome. Just as awesome as Kerry ending his bid for the 2008 presidency by critizing the troops and saying they are terrorizing Iraqi civilians (much like he said about the VietNam troops in the 70's.
At least he's consistant with his sympathsizing with the enemy.
Heck even Joe Lieberman said, "we should stay the course, because real progress is being made. This is a war between 27 million Iraqis who want freedom and 10,000 terrorists.'
Steve
- Date:
- 05 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 20:47:01
Comments
All that torture in Iraq......
Somehow.. it's STILL Bush's fault. Hmmm, let's see... put a hood on my head and make me stand on a box, OR.... put my arm through a meat grinder.
I'll take hod and box for 500 bob!
Wow! i've been wrong all this time. the iraqi people really were better off under saddam. who wants any of this freedom and democracy stuff when they can be thrown in meat grinders instead.
Atleast Saddam didn't have the guards put panties on their heads. That would be atrocious.
No Really,
The War Wasnt Worth it, just keep reminding yourself of that....
Steve
- Date:
- 05 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 20:50:51
Comments
We should never have participated in the acts because we should hold ourselves to a higher standard. A standard certainly much higher than those of Saddam's regime. Just because we didn't use a meat grinder does not mean we aren't guilty of using illegal/unethical tactics.
K'risha
- Date:
- 05 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 20:52:25
Comments
"We should never have participated in the acts because we should hold ourselves to a higher standard. A standard certainly much higher than those of Saddam's regime. Just because we didn't use a meat grinder does not mean we aren't guilty of using illegal/unethical tactics."
....but, but, but....the Panties!!!
Steve
- Date:
- 05 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 21:21:08
Comments
Why dont you ritewingers nuts go play in the road or somthing. Bush has gave us the worstest ecomy in out life. Only rich peples get tax brakes, we get work for not much money and he wants to cut wellfare and pray in shools. He has sent our poor kids that cant aford coledge To Iran to get shat, he is tromping on our libiertes for something that he started and you cant get it that its his fault that peacafists get kinaped. Go AWAY you dont unesrtand nothin xept what Rush limbou tell you.
- Date:
- 05 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 21:37:07
Comments
FOur reasons to impeach bush
0. The invasion of Iraq is illegal within the framework of the laws of the United States Constitution and the United Nations Charter.
1. The invasion of Iraq has been planned for many years by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), an organization founded by a small group of right wing political ideologues and corporate elite dedicated to promoting American global leadership.
2. Many members of the Bush Administration are convicted criminals. The World Tribunal on Iraq held it's culminating session in Istanbul in June 2005 and declared the Bush Administration guilty of starting a War of Aggression, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity as indicated in their Declaration of the Jury of Conscience. A War Crimes Tribunal held in NYC on August 26, 2004 found many members of the Bush Administration guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and high crimes and misdemeanors for which they are impeachable.
3. There is no degree of separation between the current administration and those who control the means of production, the means of communication, and the military-industrial complex. Those individuals will benefit unfathomably from this and many future wars already planned by the PNAC.
4. "We the People" pay for "Operation Iraqi Freedom", the staging of "multiple theatre wars", and the killing of the innocent peoples of foreign lands in the name of Freedom and Democracy, while 'elected' officials pass radical legislation taking away our rights and controlling the flow of information.
What To Do
Uphold the Constitution and Hold Those Who Violate It Accountable
Vote to Impeach Bush
- Date:
- 05 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 21:47:52
Comments
Is PETA against the human meat grinder?
- Date:
- 05 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 21:51:27
Comments
"FOur reasons to impeach bush ........"
Are you an idiot?
- Date:
- 06 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 17:35:30
Comments
If you dont see the reasons to impeach bush, then your an idiot. What more can he do to screw up our country before you see that.
- Date:
- 07 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 04:23:08
Comments
Since January 2001, we have lost faith in the idea that our votes matter, we have lost two towers in New York, we have lost an entire city in Louisiana, we have lost two thousand one hundred and twenty nine soldiers to Iraq.....not to mention the hospitals overflowing with out wounded and maimed for life... somewhere along the way we lost a whole pile of weapons of mass destruction those soldiers died trying to find, we have lost a substantial portion of our children's future by spending hundreds of billions of dollars so those soldiers could die far from home, we have lost our standing with the international community, and a good portion of the planet looks long and hard at us, wondering if we have also lost our minds.
Don't let it bring you down, though. We're staying the course, fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here, spreading democracy, rolling with the noble cause, doing the Lord's work and saving Christmas, all at the same time. It's all good.
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William Rivers Pitt is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books: War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know and The Greatest Sedition Is Silence.
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- Date:
- 07 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 04:23:47
Comments
Since January 2001, we have lost faith in the idea that our votes matter, we have lost two towers in New York, we have lost an entire city in Louisiana, we have lost two thousand one hundred and twenty nine soldiers to Iraq.....not to mention the hospitals overflowing with our wounded and maimed for life... somewhere along the way we lost a whole pile of weapons of mass destruction those soldiers died trying to find, we have lost a substantial portion of our children's future by spending hundreds of billions of dollars so those soldiers could die far from home, we have lost our standing with the international community, and a good portion of the planet looks long and hard at us, wondering if we have also lost our minds.
Don't let it bring you down, though. We're staying the course, fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here, spreading democracy, rolling with the noble cause, doing the Lord's work and saving Christmas, all at the same time. It's all good.
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William Rivers Pitt is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books: War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know and The Greatest Sedition Is Silence.
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- Date:
- 07 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 04:28:37
Comments
not to mention the hospitals overflowing with out wounded and maimed for life
- Date:
- 07 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 04:33:05
Comments
Since January 2001, we have lost faith in the idea that our votes matter, we have lost two towers in New York, we have lost an entire city in Louisiana, we have lost two thousand one hundred and twenty nine soldiers to Iraq....not to mention the hospitals full or our wounded and maimed for life..... somewhere along the way we lost a whole pile of weapons of mass destruction those soldiers died trying to find, we have lost a substantial portion of our children's future by spending hundreds of billions of dollars so those soldiers could die far from home, we have lost our standing with the international community, and a good portion of the planet looks long and hard at us, wondering if we have also lost our minds.
Don't let it bring you down, though. We're staying the course, fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here, spreading democracy, rolling with the noble cause, doing the Lord's work and saving Christmas, all at the same time. It's all good.
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William Rivers Pitt is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books: War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know and The Greatest Sedition Is Silence.
- Date:
- 07 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 08:46:47
Comments
Yep, it's all Bush's fault.
Don't forget, THEY PUT PANTIES ON THEIR HEADS!!
- Date:
- 07 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 08:47:47
Comments
Oh yeah:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1378454
Since Dimocrats love polls, the majority say torture is sometimes ok.
- Date:
- 08 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 16:10:30
Comments
If anyone doubts Bush is a terrorist, read this:
The Islamic Army in Iraq said it had killed "the American security consultant for the Housing Ministry," after the United States failed to respond to its demand of the release of Iraqi prisoners.
A video issued by the group was broadcast Tuesday on Al-Jazeera showing the hostage — identified as Ronald Schulz, 40, an industrial electrician from Alaska — sitting with his hands tied behind his back.
The group Thursday blamed President Bush for failing to respond to its demands.
"The war criminal Bush continues his arrogance, giving no value to people's lives unless they serve his criminal, aggressive ways. Since his reply (to the demands) was irresponsible, he bears the consequences of his stance," the statement said.
- Date:
- 08 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 17:28:35
Comments
For those who still believe that Bush is not a terrorist responsible for American deaths, read this:
The Islamic Army in Iraq said it had killed "the American security consultant for the Housing Ministry," after the United States failed to respond to its demand of the release of Iraqi prisoners.
A video issued by the group was broadcast Tuesday on Al-Jazeera showing the hostage — identified as Ronald Schulz, 40, an industrial electrician from Alaska — sitting with his hands tied behind his back.
The group Thursday blamed President Bush for failing to respond to its demands.
"The war criminal Bush continues his arrogance, giving no value to people's lives unless they serve his criminal, aggressive ways. Since his reply (to the demands) was irresponsible, he bears the consequences of his stance," the statement said.
- Date:
- 08 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 17:43:18
Comments
An Introduction For Marxist Youth: Marxism and Terrorism
by Julian Benson, Social Nerve Member
On July 7th, several bombs, planted throughout the London Transit system, detonated killing 55 people and injuring over 700. This is one more brutal act of murder amongst many that have been dealt again and again to working people around the world in this false "war on terror". In the wake of this tragedy, Marxists stand above the inevitable flood of propaganda that the bourgeois will attempt to drown the working class in, trying to exploit their sorrow to justify even further terrorism in the interests of Capitalism, and correctly analyze the world situation that has led us to these horrific acts.
We can trace the roots of modern day terrorism directly back to the Capitalist system itself. Over 70% of the population of the world lives in poverty. The exploitation of labour in the developing world, sweat shops and child labour, the overwhelming debt incurred by the Capitalist loan sharks of the G8, and wars brought on by Imperialism all sap the livelihoods of billions of people. There are many consequences to this misery, some rise above reaction and turn towards Socialism as being the only true answer to this suffering, but not all walk this path. Some turn to guerrilla warfare others to Anarchism, and still others to Religion. As Marx once famously stated, "Religion is the opiate of the masses", people turn to it when reality becomes unbearable. The more oppressive and miserable reality becomes, the more engulfed in superstition the "believers" are, eventually and inevitably taking a turn down the path of fundamentalism. These Zealots are the direct result of a Capitalist world, molded and forged out of the exploitation wrought by the bourgeoisie.
- Date:
- 08 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 17:53:59
Comments
Nobel laureate Harold Pinter: "I put to you that the United States is without doubt the greatest show on the road. Brutal, indifferent, scornful and ruthless it may be but it is also very clever. As a salesman it is out on its own and its most saleable commodity is self love."
- Date:
- 08 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 19:43:15
Comments
Some dimocrat wrote:
"For those who still believe that Bush is not a terrorist responsible for American deaths, read this: "
Nevermind, I'm going to assume you were using extreme sarcasm to make a point.
- Date:
- 08 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 20:35:57
Comments
Mr Pitts, we have not lost faith that our votes count. You, on the other hand, should reconsider your faith that the majority of votes will go to Democrats, and that those democrats will not be the likes of Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller. You are now dismayed that sensible voters reject your out of touch far left ideals. This is happening not only here but in other places as your ideals bring bankruptcy to the socialist countries that cannot compete with countries more attuned to the realities of the world. Wake up! Angela Merkel is in, Paul Martin and Jean Chretien are out. Matter of fact, Bill Clinton is out and John Francois Kerry got his ass kicked by a cowboy in a real live election, as you conveniently forget. OUR votes DID count.
- Date:
- 08 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 20:52:57
Comments
Timeline Dec 1944
Rep Murtha pointed to the Ardennes offensive (Battle of the bulge) by the German army as proof that it is time for President Roosevelt to bring our boys home from a war we are obiously losing against a foe who never attacked us in the first place.
We have 600,000 boys in that area alone, and there is the potential for almost 20,000 Americans to get killed in the Ardennes alone over only a couple of weeks. Mr Murtha also stressed that while we may have had some successes in the Pacific, as we get on Japanese soil the fighting will amplify and we could lose our momentum in the war, and lose there as well.
He also reiterated that Mr Roosevelt misled the American people to get us in this war, as is well known.
- Date:
- 08 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 21:05:24
Comments
Timeline 1944
Police had to be called to Springwood, President Roosevelt's home, after Cindy Sheehan attempted to hold a protest against the war. Ms Sheehan was rescued in the nick of time as scores of women, many with husbands and sons fighting abroad, had beaten her and were on the verge of lynching the protestor. Mrs Rosie T. Riveter expressed the common feeling as she stated "I could not get through the crowd to get to her, but if I could have, I'd have broken her neck".
http://www.rosietheriveter.org/
- Date:
- 08 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 21:25:42
Comments
Mr Pitts, please get your facts right. Most of our children's future is squandered by politicians who buy votes by promising gimmes to the masses. So much goes to entitlements that the war spending is inconsequential by comparison.
- Date:
- 09 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 08:38:02
Comments
The New York Times
Weicker May Return to Politics Over Lieberman's Support of War
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Published: December 6, 2005
HARTFORD, Dec. 5 - Former Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. on Monday criticized Senator Joseph I. Lieberman's continued support of the war in Iraq and said that if no candidate challenged the senator on the issue in the 2006 election, he would consider running.
"When you've become the president's best friend on the war in Iraq, you should not be in office, especially if you're in the opposing party," Mr. Weicker, 74, said in a phone interview from his home in Essex, Conn. "I'm going to do everything I can to see that Joe Lieberman does not get a free pass."
He said that Mr. Lieberman, a Democrat, currently had no challengers, either from within his party or from Republicans, in his campaign for a fourth term. Mr. Weicker said he believed that no Republican would challenge Mr. Lieberman on the war.
"If he's out there scot-free and nobody will do it, I'd have to give serious thought to doing it myself, and I don't want to do it," added Mr. Weicker, an independent, who said he had been opposed to the war from the beginning…
Note; Governor Weiker is one of the few remaining Republicans I respect and admire....and I have ever since his participation in the Nixon impeachment hearings back in the 70's. Good man!!!
- Date:
- 09 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 17:57:16
Comments
Is this the same Lowell P. Weicker Jr. who has been a board member of World Wrestling Entertainment, inc.? Now you have my interest! Rasslin' is real, and so is his candidacy. I bet Mr Lieberman is shared scitless to have Lowell P. Wieker, AKA the "Connecticut Contender", jump in the ring with him!!! Hey, maybe you can get Pee Wee Herman to run too in some other races.
Feel free to verify: http://corporate.wwe.com/governance/board.jsp
- Date:
- 09 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 18:39:42
Comments
"The number of protests has risen in recent months as anger comes to a head over land seizures, corruption and a yawning wealth gap that experts say now threatens social stability. The government says about 70,000 such conflicts occurred last year, although many more are believed to go unreported."
Is anyone outraged on this board? Doubtful, as the country in question is Communist China. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051209/ap_on_re_as/china_protest_shootings
- Date:
- 11 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 12:12:44
Comments
"In a heavily immigrant neighborhood near the main railway station, Ahmed Sohel points dejectedly to the empty computer terminals at the modest storefront where he sells Internet and telephone service.
"Before, I was full of Internet clients, now I have no one left," said Sohel, a gentle, middle-aged immigrant from Bangladesh.
A new law requires businesses that offer Internet access to the public, like Sohel's, to ask clients for identification and log the owner's name and the document type.
Internet cafes also must make and keep a photocopy of the ID and be registered with their local police station, dictates the law, part of an anti-terror package approved after the July terrorist bombings in London."
http://cgi.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/12/09/cyber.cafes.names.ap/index.html
BTW, this is happening in Europe, Italy to be exact. With all the bitching about the patriot act in the US, where is the outrage now?
- Date:
- 11 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 12:22:17
Comments
BTW, I do not want to be branded as a Bush supporter, so in keeping with the rules of this new/old fashioned message board, I hope that the above does not constitute a "long and intensely right wing article". It should not, as only an extreme ultra left winger would consider CNN anything but left of center.
- Date:
- 12 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 07:26:16
Comments
How can they destroy democracy? Because the people at the highest levels think the Constitution is just a piece of paper.
Capitol Hill Blue
Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'
By DOUG THOMPSON
Dec 9, 2005, 07:53
Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act.
Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal.
GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”
“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”…
- Date:
- 13 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 17:28:18
Comments
To the above poster:
I am glad that someone on this board realizes that the Constitution is NOT just another piece of paper. After reading about the leftwing loonies calling it a "living document" in the past, it is good to find someone else who respects the Constitution for what it is, a sacrosanct document that should be read as written, not interpreted by prevailing winds of the latest lunacy.
- Date:
- 13 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 17:34:55
Comments
BTW, how do you feel about the trampling of freedoms in Italy as described in another post? It sounds worse than the patriot act, non è?
- Date:
- 13 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 20:01:26
Comments
Amazing, the liberals description of the white GOP racist let people in New Orleans die because they were black is wrong.
Remember, 70% of New Orleans is black:
Of the 883 bodies processed so far by medical examiners at St. Gabriel, 562 have been identified by race. Slightly less than half that number - 48 percent - are African-American.
Forty-one percent are white, 8 percent unknown and 2 percent Hispanic.
- Date:
- 14 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 07:14:46
Comments
Well
Paul Martin Is Really Hurting our Relationship
with the US They even turned down a old man for a loan to fix his home now he is stuck Cornelis Vanderknaap Qualified for A Grant but they held the funds all because Carol Burpee nb.Housing has something against Cornelis its a personal thing
now he is 80 years old Martin dont care Martin is Only for the Rich. Seniors can go to hell and he despise Welfare receipients
- Date:
- 15 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 07:33:37
Comments
Check out a site dedicated to the absurdity and satire nature of saying "It's All George Bush's Fault!"
http://www.itsallgeorgebushsfault.com
Regards,
Notta Libb
- Date:
- 22 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 10:56:46
Comments
The American economy is doing very well: 10 consecutive quarters of 4% annualized economic growth, which helped create 1.8 million new jobs this year and four million in the past two years. The tax cuts of the Bush administration are one of the reasons for this success, for they stimulate economic growth, and that growth produced a 14.6% increase in federal tax revenues in 2005. Even liberals should be happy, for the percentage of income taxes paid by the top 1% of taxpayers has grown from 19.3% in 1980 (before the Reagan tax cuts) to 27% in 1988 and 34% currently.
- Date:
- 23 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 08:01:57
Comments
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals kills animals in its shelter. PETA's 2003 rate for euthanizing animals was more than 85 percent.
- Date:
- 24 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 08:57:54
Comments
Any discussion with my ex-wife would invariably end up with her shouting obcenities at me. During the divorce, she tried to get to me to such an extent that the lawyers were the overall winners. Today's Democrats remind me of my wife, and not surprisingly, the analogy extends to Islamist extremists reminding me of her lawyers.
- Date:
- 28 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 17:34:41
Comments
Wednesday December 28, 2005--Forty-seven (47%) of American adults approve of the way George W. Bush is performing his role as President. That's down from his pre-Christmas peak, but well above his Approval Ratings for most of October and November.
He earns approval from 79% of Republicans, 23% of Democrats, and 36% of those not affiliated with either major political party.
Sixty-four percent (64%) of Americans believe the National Security Agency should be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States.
- Date:
- 29 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 11:21:01
Comments
In respect to the poster about Joe Lieberman being scared of Wieker running against him. I highly doubt that Joe is afraid, he knows that thousands of us remember O'l Lowell LIEING to the citizens of Connecticut about not implementing the State income tax. The fact is, we all remember his pledge just to win the election, only to have it become his priority. Pretty sad if that's all the democratic party can come up with.
Ed
CT.
- Date:
- 29 Dec 2005
- Time:
- 20:14:55
Comments
US President's most-likely name in 2028:
Xing Fu Wong.
Vice President:
Chang Lo Hung
- Date:
- 04 Jan 2006
- Time:
- 17:08:28
Comments
In his 38th book, Something for Nothing: The All-Consuming Desire that Turns the American Dream into a Social Nightmare, Tracy describes how mankind's inborn nature to be "lazy, greedy, ambitious, selfish, vain, ignorant and impatient" without regard to others, has plunged our nation into crisis.
Of course, the propensity of humans to expect and even scheme about how to get something for nothing is certainly nothing knew to the human condition or to Americans. And the devastating effects that such expectations and attitudes have on the individual and his personal character have been well-documented throughout history. As Thomas Jefferson once said, "The worst day of a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing."
- Date:
- 05 Jan 2006
- Time:
- 06:57:57
Comments
I hope all interested in human rights will visit the following sites which details one of the world's worst totalitarian regimes:
http://www.cubaarchive.org/
Any comments?
- Date:
- 08 Jan 2006
- Time:
- 17:58:30
Comments
Hello, I am one of the evil right wingers who occasionally posts here. I wish to say to the ones who post garbage here that you have too much free time on your hands. If you have nothing constructive to post, go play on the freeway. I would rather read well writen communist propaganda than your silly porn links. If you cannot argue reasonably, you are no better than the present day Democrats in congress.
For a link worth seeing, go to:
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2005/12/if_pearl_harbor.php
