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Don't Let Go Of Your Guns
Post Date: 2007-11-23 16:51:43 by angle
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Considering what happened to Jared Massey in Utah at the hands of power mad Utah Highway patrolman John Gardner, and the fact that the Utah Highway Patrol doesn't appear to be doing anything about it, I'd say that now is definitely not the time to accept any semblance of a law to restrict our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, Supreme Court be damned.
From this writer's perspective the absolute best thing to come out of the Presidency of George W. Bush is the fact that so many liberal Democrats have changed their position on gun control. It's as if the scales were lifted from their eyes, they realized that government itself could no longer be trusted, they witnessed the election ...
All The President's Liars: Where the Hell are The Washington Post and New York Times on McClellangate?
Post Date: 2007-11-23 12:05:16 by Brian S
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Do the investigative reporters at the Washington Post and New York Times fall under the Writers Guild Contract? Are Bernstein and Woodward too busy in makeup? Can the WGA and Producers get together and give satirical news an exemption? While the Writers Strike keeps The Daily Show from cleverly pointing out the obvious, The Washington Post and New York Times ignore the obvious altogether. We've been lied to by this White House. Who says? Scott McClellan, the guy who was paid to lie for the guys who lied in the first place. Of course, if he really wanted to bare his soul he would have let Helen Thomas write the foreword of "What Happened: Was I Lying Then Or Am I Lying ...
What is the real cost of things? - Iraq: Americans Pay US$300 a barrel or More for Mideast Oil
Post Date: 2007-11-23 11:44:12 by robin
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Iraq: Americans Pay US$300 a barrel or More for Mideast Oil Nancy Pelosi with wounded Vet. Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesWhat is the real cost of things?Freakonomics author Stephen Dubner cited a study this week that estimated a pack of cigarettes actually costs US$222 a pack. The amount includes the economic cost of a reduced lifespan.So what is the real cost of the Iraq war in terms of oil import prices?My rough estimate is that the real cost of oil from the Middle East for Americans may total US$300 a barrel or more.But no one has made the calculation.What is known is that the White House has asked for US$804 billion so far to pay for Iraq. But a recent report by Democrats point out ...
Stan Goff: MIDDLE CLASS ANGST: THE POLITICS OF LEMMINGS
Post Date: 2007-11-22 10:37:13 by Zipporah
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“Suburbia is also a spiritual wasteland, a place where the wonder of nature is desecrated ubiquitously with corporate logos and all the artifacts of late technological society.” By Stan Goff, Part I 11/18/07 Originally published at Speaking Truth to Power There is a common misconception among environmentalists and peak-oilers (I count myself among both) that cars created the suburbs. The car suburb, however, became what it is with regard to cars only incidentally. The real motive for the suburbs was plain garden-variety white supremacy. Cars simply became necessary to facilitate the spatial segregation that simultaneously confined African America largely to decaying urban spaces ...
Bush Pardons Turkeys While Eagles Remain Caged
Post Date: 2007-11-22 10:22:37 by christine
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Fellow Americans and patriots, I would give anything if I could write a syrupy-sweet, all-is-fine Thanksgiving Day message for you today. However, I have always taken pride in my endeavor of not being politically correct, but rather just ‘correct.’ Yes, we do have every reason to be thankful for our health, our livelihoods, and our loved ones. And, we also should give thanks for our dedicated military personnel that protect us, as well as our peace officers, firefighters, and other front-line public servants that honor us with their dedication. But, when it comes to the health of our nation, while we should obviously offer thanks that we are still ‘technically’ free, I ...
Buchanan: Democracy vs. Security
Post Date: 2007-11-20 11:27:55 by Brian S
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November 20, 2007 Which is more critical to the United States in the Islamic world – that a government be democratic, or that it be a friend and ally in the war against al-Qaida and Islamic extremism? In the Bush era, the answer has seemed unequivocal. We are for democracy first. For democracy is the best guarantee of our security interests. As Condi Rice famously said in 2005 at Cairo University: "For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither. Now, we are taking a different course. We are supporting the democratic aspirations of all people." As the United States ...
Where is the Amero?
Post Date: 2007-11-20 10:07:13 by Mister Clean
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With the dollar having so much trouble that even a supermodel shuns it, isn't it time for a push toward that single North American currency? To the doom & gloomer conspiracy theorist, the weak dollar is just part of the plan to create the Amero. But why isn't any action being taken to create the Amero? Nobody from the government is even hinting that a common currency would solve our problems. Where is the Amero? Hell, where is the TALK of an Amero?
Just Got a Republican Poll Call
Post Date: 2007-11-19 22:40:36 by tom007
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Just got an automated phone poll in Colorado Springs a reliable Republican area. "If the pup primaries were held today how would you vote? Press one for McCain, two for Juli (etc), three for (I forget) four for (I forget), five for undecided or other. Ron Paul was not mentioned. Seems the system is deciding for us. It was a form of advertising mascarading as a poll.
Pakistan - Martial Law Will Lead To False 'Democratic' Solution
Post Date: 2007-11-17 16:18:06 by robin
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Pakistan - Martial Law Will Lead To False 'Democratic' Solution World Affairs Brief By Joel Skousen 11-17-7 The Neocons are up to their old tricks again--creating conflict to fool people into accepting a false solution to a chronic national crisis. US puppet president Pervez Musharraf has lost his usefulness to them-at least as dictatorial head of state. The world will only look the other way so long at US hypocrisy in sustaining one dictator while ousting another. Musharraf can't win an election honestly and has alienated the Islamic majority and all of the opposition in Pakistan, except one: Benazir Bhutto, who only feigns opposition. The Bush administration globalists have ...
Mouseland - A Political Parable
Post Date: 2007-11-17 02:02:02 by Minerva
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This is Canadian and you have to first listen to an intro that doesn't have much relevance for us. But the cartoon that follows is great.
From boom to bust: Yuppies wish they had saved more during 1980s (well Well Well)
Post Date: 2007-11-16 20:38:45 by tom007
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From boom to bust: Yuppies wish they had saved more during 1980s By Amol Rajan Published: 17 November 2007 With their fast cars, formidably slick outfits and flash Filofaxes they epitomised the brash consumer culture of the late Eighties, swearing by such unashamedly mercantilist slogans as "greed is good" and 'show me the money'. But, two decades on, the once-profligate yuppie is no longer the toast of the town. Today he (or she) cuts a forlorn figure, harbouring regrets over his lavish lifestyle and wishing he had put prudence ahead of pleasure. Almost half of yesterday's yuppies now "struggle financially or fail to live within their means", according to ...
Worshipping the Military, or the Society it Defends?
Post Date: 2007-11-16 14:09:21 by Brian S
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On much of the Right the U.S. military has become sacrosanct. Those most enthused about making war around the globe while never donning a uniform seem most determined to turn the Pentagon into a national idol. But if we are to have a national idol, it should be our system of ordered liberty, which the military is tasked to protect. Our democratic republic, and the larger civilian society surrounding it, are the end; the armed services are the means. America's founders were not fond of standing militaries. They suffered under the British occupation and through war with British regulars and German mercenaries. For years the famed Boston massacre was commemorated by notables denouncing ...
Citizen Dobbs
Post Date: 2007-11-16 14:03:03 by longnose gar
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I mentioned this briefly last night but I wanted to find out some more about it—it's too chuck full of laffs to leave in a squib. Last week in his blockbuster CNN.com column, Lou Dobbs ordered a pox on both parties and predicted: I believe that independent Americans will demand a far better choice than any of the candidates now seeking their party's nomination. I believe next November's surprise will be the election of a man or woman of great character, vision and accomplishment, a candidate who has not yet entered the race. Earlier this week, Robert Novak told some conservative journos that Lou Dobbs was seriously considering a run for president. John Fund (a former ...
The real party of big government [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-11-16 12:31:28 by Alan Chapman
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Soviet dictator Josef Stalin famously said, "One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic." The same principle – that the public can more easily grasp a small tragedy than a huge one – can be applied to budget matters. Americans can get rightly riled about a public official who misuses several thousand of their hard-earned dollars, but it's harder to get them riled about more massive abuses. A thousand bucks is a tragedy, whereas trillions of dollars are too hard to comprehend, let alone to get angry over. Well, Americans better learn to get angry soon, given that the federal debt has now hit nine trillion dollars, which is a heck of a lot of money, even by ...
American Patriotism Crushed By Republican SUVs
Post Date: 2007-11-15 14:13:53 by robin
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Bob Cesca| BIO | I'M A FAN OF THIS BLOGGER American Patriotism Crushed By Republican SUVs Posted November 14, 2007 | 03:02 PM (EST) Read More: Bill O'Reilly, Bush Oil, Crude Oil Prices, Gasoline Prices, High Oil Prices, Michelle Malkin, O'Reilly Redacted, Oil, Oil Prices, Oil Prices New High, Redacted, Rush Limbaugh, Supporting The Troops, Wartime Sacrifice, Breaking Politics News The actual retail price of the Bush Wars: $1.6 trillion, according to a congressional report released yesterday. And this generation of (civilian) Americans has never been asked to sacrifice a single damn thing in order to help ameliorate the cost of these ...
Mentes Peligrosas: Confession of an American Thought Criminal
Post Date: 2007-11-15 10:27:21 by angle
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If you needed more evidence that most of our “esteemed” members of Congress are members of a criminal class of ruling elites, who regard the likes of us in the poor and working classes with the disdain most people reserve for cockroaches, look no further than H.R. 1955. 93% of the filth “representing” us in the House voted in favor of the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. Once this vile piece of legislation sails through the Senate and the sociopath on Pennsylvania Ave gleefully slaps his endorsement on it, the mechanisms will be in place for our lords and masters to initiate programs that will make Cointelpro and the murder of Fred ...
Bush's Divine Comedy: Part I
Post Date: 2007-11-14 19:17:56 by robin
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As the White House lame duck's Inferno in Iraq and Afghanistan drags on, the wars on the home front continue to fester, though with some red light at the end of the tunnel, observes Eric WalbergThe good, the bad...New enemies in United States President George W Bush's wars are popping up in unexpected places. The latest one is peaceful Europe, where determined demonstrators and human rights lawyers recently ambushed former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld at a breakfast meeting in Paris organised by Foreign Policy magazine. He fled, fearing arrest over charges of ordering and authorising torture of detainees at both Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It ...
Vouchers or School Choice?
Post Date: 2007-11-14 12:37:00 by Alan Chapman
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The voters of Utah said no to school vouchers on Tuesday. More than 60 percent of voters refused to ratify a bill passed earlier by the state legislature. It would have provided taxpayer-funded vouchers for each government-school student, ranging from $500 to $3,000, depending on family income. Students currently in private schools, unless they came from low-income families, would have been ineligible. This was the latest setback for the school-voucher movement. It was the tenth time since 1972 that vouchers or education tax credits have been defeated in public balloting, with the vote against the initiatives averaging more than 68 percent, according to the National School Boards ...
Pray for George W. Bush
Post Date: 2007-11-14 10:52:34 by longnose gar
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While many politicians flaunt their "faith" and claim to be Christians, not as many live their faith, with Jesus Christ living in them. We believe George W. Bush is a man after God's own heart. He is a man who lives in Christ, and obeys God. Like King David, he is not perfect, but he is repentant, humble, and full of the mighty courage that results from trusting the Lord. We believe George W. Bush is a merciful gift from the Lord to an undeserving people. We ask you to join us in constant prayer for our President, his family, his administration, and his country. Constant prayer... urgent prayer... prayer that brings revival to America.
Is the Military Our Last, Best Hope for Averting War with Iran?
Post Date: 2007-11-13 22:01:10 by Brian S
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When military command is the voice of reason in a debate about a new war, you know our democracy is in trouble. The last, best hope for averting a war with Iran lies with the United States military. The Democratic Congress, cowed by the Israel lobby and terrified of appearing weak on defense before the presidential elections, will do nothing to halt an attack. The media, especially the electronic press, is working overtime to whip up fear of a nuclear Iran and tar Tehran with abetting attacks against American troops in Iraq. The American public is complacent, unsure of what to believe, knocked off balance by fear and passive. We will be saved or doomed by our generals. The last wall of ...
Beyond Mukasey's Confirmation, White House Liability Issues Loom Large; Bush could be subject to prosecution for the rest of his life...
Post Date: 2007-11-13 21:17:31 by Brian S
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Though it failed to send his nomination the way of Robert Bork, Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey's evasiveness on the definition of torture has done something historic. It has made it unmistakably clear to mainstream observers that the President may be criminally liable for violating anti-torture laws. Criminal liability of this White House will have wider repercussions than Mr. Mukasey's confirmation. It will reverberate through his tenure as Attorney General, and beyond the end of the Bush administration. We now know the reason why Mr. Mukasey refused to acknowledge that waterboarding meets the legal definition of torture, or at the very least cruel, degrading and inhuman ...
Pistol Packing Feds
Post Date: 2007-11-13 14:12:52 by boonie rat
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Friday, November 9, 2007 Pistol Packing Feds The fundamental difference between government and private entities which perform comparable functions is that government, based upon the supposed notion of a “social contract”, reserves to itself the use of force to achieve its ends. Such coercion at the hands of other, non-governmental, players (for example, price-fixing, abuse of a monopoly position, intimidation of competitors or labour unions, etc.) is rightly deemed criminal and often aggressively prosecuted by the state (with perhaps some of its zeal due to aversion to competition). Yet the very same acts, performed by authorities elected with 51% of the votes or appointed to act ...
Solving the "Problem" of Free Riding
Post Date: 2007-11-13 11:51:59 by Alan Chapman
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With the almost constant statist apologetics we hear from many government and academic economists it is hard to believe that the discipline of economics was once a thorn in the side of the state and its political elite. So commonplace are fallacious economic arguments advocating state control that it sometimes seems that refutation of all of these arguments has become a case of cutting the heads off the Hydra — a tiring and fruitless endeavor. But if economics is to become an instrument of freedom and prosperity instead of an instrument of statism,[2] then there are certain fundamental fallacies that must be continually challenged and discredited. Chief among these is the persistent ...
Narcs, crack, and federalism
Post Date: 2007-11-13 06:23:21 by YertleTurtle
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What I wanted to look at was federalism. This morning's LA Times has a front page headlined article about the US Sentencing Commission in which a bunch of Washington people are going to decide whether the increased sentences for crack cocaine -- as opposed to powder cocaine -- are justified, or should be rolled back retroactively. From the article Potential beneficiaries of the proposal include Willie Mays Aikens, a former Major League Baseball star with the Kansas City Royals, who was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in 1994 for selling 63 grams of crack to an undercover cop. Aikens' case illustrates the effect of the crack/powder divide: If the charges against him ...
Torture American Style
Post Date: 2007-11-12 23:11:07 by Brian S
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One of the many genuine tragedies that have come out of the Bush Administration's maladroit handling of the past six years has been the transformation of the United States into a pariah among nations. American democracy has always had its flaws, but the country was truly viewed by many around the world as "the shining city upon a hill" rhetorically much loved by Ronald Reagan. Confronted only by a Democratic congress that is too terrorized and internally riven to pose any obstacle and a tame press, the White House now appears hell bent on a course that can only add new embarrassments during the fourteen months that George Bush and Dick Cheney will continue to be in power. The ...
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