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Total Republican Collapse Imminent
Post Date: 2006-10-03 00:44:14 by Morgana le Fay
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Total Republican Collapse Imminent by Chris Bowers, Mon Oct 02, 2006 at 08:21:50 PM EST The last ten days have been amazing. Starting with Bill Clinton fighting back against Faux News, we have now seen: The National Intelligence Estimate declare that the war in Iraq in increasing terrorism worldwide Colin Powell say he was firedRice is on the verge of having to resign. Bill Frist say that the Taliban should rule AfghanistanThe White House met with Jack Abramoff 485 times, and had a huge amount of influence. . Bob Woodward comes out with a book saying the Bush administration is lying about Iraq. Droves of Republicans are under investigation for something. I'm sure that I am forgetting ...
SPECIAL REPORT. Informed congressional sources have reported to WMR that the number of sexually salacious e-mails and instant messages sent from disgraced former GOP Representative Mark Foley of Florida to underage male pages number as many as 500.
Post Date: 2006-10-02 23:59:49 by tom007
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October 2, 2006 -- EARLY EDITION. SPECIAL REPORT. Informed congressional sources have reported to WMR that the number of sexually salacious e-mails and instant messages sent from disgraced former GOP Representative Mark Foley of Florida to underage male pages number as many as 500. Moreover, WMR sources on the Hill report that the GOP leadership knew of Foley's improper communications with the pages "for years" and not months as has been reported by the mainstream media. In addition, Foley allegedly sent sexually-explicit messages to both former and current congressional pages. It is also uncertain what evidence may have been tampered with before the recent calls by the House GOP ...
Piercing the sound Barrier
Post Date: 2006-10-02 23:25:15 by tom007
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Washington Times: Resign, Mr. Speaker
Post Date: 2006-10-02 23:08:32 by Brian S
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Published October 3, 2006 The facts of the disgrace of Mark Foley, who was a Republican member of the House from a Florida district until he resigned last week, constitute a disgrace for every Republican member of Congress. Red flags emerged in late 2005, perhaps even earlier, in suggestive and wholly inappropriate e-mail messages to underage congressional pages. His aberrant, predatory -- and possibly criminal -- behavior was an open secret among the pages who were his prey. The evidence was strong enough long enough ago that the speaker should have relieved Mr. Foley of his committee responsibilities contingent on a full investigation to learn what had taken place, whether any laws had ...
Who Protected The Pervert Congressman?
Post Date: 2006-10-02 19:59:01 by Brian S
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October 2, 2006 It's one of the worst congressional scandals ever. A top House Republican who denounced sex predators as "animals" stands accused of acting like one. Mark Foley had served as a Deputy Majority Whip in the House and co-chair of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children. His forced resignation, after being exposed as a homosexual pervert who talked dirty to young boys, has done more damage to the GOP than George Soros could ever think of doing. But it remains to be seen whether the liberal media and the Democrats can successfully exploit this scandal. Brian Ross of ABC News broke the story and publicized the "sexually explicit" messages Foley ...
Support for Israel is leading U.S. into another Mideast war
Post Date: 2006-10-02 12:03:55 by Brian S
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As the drumbeat of mass deception is heard once more in the land, prudent people should read a paper, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," by two eminent professors from Harvard University's Kennedy School and from the University of Chicago. Their thesis is that our unconditional support of Israel has helped turn a hopeful experiment in democracy into a rogue apartheid state. As the president and vice president, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the other neocon agents of deception begin a run-up to another anti-Arab war, this paper details the history of our failed foreign policy. Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt should be commended for their courage in ...
The Republicans' Perfect Storm?
Post Date: 2006-10-02 11:15:18 by Brian S
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One wonders at what point a political edifice starts irredeemably to crumble. First this. Then this. Followed by this. While Bush administration defenders say critics are drawing the wrong conclusions from the leaked parts of the NIE report, that Bob Woodward's book is full of "myths", and that the Mark Foley affair is no worse than various Democratic congressional and presidential indiscretions, it is hard to see how things won't get worse before they get better (assuming they do) for Republicans, with mid-term elections just four weeks out. Apart from the fallout from what some will construe as a GOP leadership coverup in the Mark Foley affair -- one Republican has already ...
I have a question for the forum [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-10-02 11:15:18 by richard9151
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A few of you have read More Blonde Jokes II, and perhaps are beginning to see a little of where I am coming from. Fewer of you have read the posts, Who Controls the United States and Who Controls the United States Part 2. The next post that I put up will be, as I promised in More Blonde Jokes II, The Bar. This next post is, to me at any rate, an important post, and I need, if possible, a little feed back so I can finish tweaking the post. So, if you feel so inclined, please answer a couple of questions for me. (By all means, if you would rather answer in private, that is not a problem!) 1. Were you aware of any of the material contained in More Blonde Jokes II? 2. Specifically, were you ...
Thom Hartmann Comes to the Defense of the Embattled, and Shrinking, Middle Class
Post Date: 2006-10-02 03:30:13 by Morgana le Fay
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Why should we care about the fate of the middle class? The answer to that question is a very simple one. Without a middle class, you won’t have a democracy. If you look at history, you see that those times when countries have had emerging or established middle classes are the times that those countries have been the most democratic, the most peaceful, and have best fulfilled the promises of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And it’s the best thing literally for all life on earth. -- Thom Hartmann "Middle Class" was, until recently, a description that most Americans felt described them. We all felt we were middle class if we had a steady income, a decent ...
Don’t Poison Your Kid’s Childhood (Charley Reese)
Post Date: 2006-10-02 00:00:53 by BTP Holdings
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Don’t Poison Your Kid’s Childhood Turn off the “boob tube,” read more books and don’t initiate kids into the cult of materialism By Charley Reese October 9, 2006 | American Free Press A group of British scientists and child specialists claim that modern culture is “poisoning the childhood” of today’s children. That might be true. Today’s culture is much more openly decadent. Children are exposed to more prurience and violence, and the commercial interests put tremendous marketing pressures on them. Still, it’s also easy for adults to imagine their own childhood as more of a golden age. I think of my own childhood as a happy one, though ...
A cop's Take on Marijuana and Booze
Post Date: 2006-10-01 20:50:41 by YertleTurtle
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I read on Drudge this morning that Willy Nelson got popped again for simple possession of grass and ‘shrooms. Remember some time ago when I wrote to you, I did so as a non-traditional student with six kids and a pregnant wife. Before I became a non-traditional student, I was a police officer. Not only was I the po-po but I was on a specialized unit called “The Proactive Team” and our primary mission was street level narcotics intervention. You can’t imagine a cooler job for a young man. It was nothing but foot chases, car chases, uses of force and kicking in doors. Every day was an adrenalin dump par excellence. Every day we dressed in black BDUs, rode two-deep in our ...
I am a Diebold Voting Machine Poll Judge
Post Date: 2006-10-01 20:04:52 by Zipporah
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I am a Diebold Voting Machine Poll Judge by BlueTide Sun Oct 01, 2006 at 04:59:19 PM PDT I am a poll judge. My duty is to set up the Diebold voting machine and make sure no voting irregularities occur. I am also the accuvote poll judge and make sure that the optical scanning voting machine that count the paper ballots works properly on Election Day. I hope all states keep the Diebold voting machine and adopt the rules of my state - Washington State. In my state, all electronic ballots casted must be copied on paper in its entirety. Moreover, every voter has a choice of using a paper ballot. From my experience as a former campaign worker and poll judge, Republicans would make a big risk to ...
New Deal for U.S. Manufacturers
Post Date: 2006-10-01 16:33:44 by RickyJ
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In July, our trade deficit hit yet another all-time record, $68 billion, an annual rate of $816 billion. Imports surged to $188 billion for the month, as our dependency on foreigners for the vital necessities of our national life ever deepens. China's trade surplus with us was $19.6 billion for July alone, moving toward an all-time record of $235 billion for 2006 -- the largest trade deficit one country has ever run with another. Our deficit with Mexico is running at an annual rate of $60 billion. With Canada, it is $70 billion. So much for NAFTA. With the European Union, it is running at $160 billion. America as the most self-sufficient republic in history is history. For decades, U.S. ...
Peek at NSA's Secret Reading List
Post Date: 2006-09-30 22:17:55 by tom007
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Peek at NSA's Secret Reading List [Print story] [E-mail story] [Rants + Raves] Page 1 of 1 Breaking News & By Ryan Singel| Also by this reporter 02:00 AM Sep, 27, 2006 The tantalizing tables of contents to the best spy magazines you'll probably never get to read have been posted online, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request that pried open four classified National Security Agency publications. Written specifically for NSA employees, the articles listed in the online indexes date back as far as 1956. Stories include an analysis of the TRS-80 Model 1's password-encryption algorithm, accounts of how Soviet codes were broken, analyses of bad management techniques within the ...
IRAN: the Squall and US/NATO's Bloodlust Without Borders
Post Date: 2006-09-30 20:23:30 by tom007
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IRAN: the Squall and US/NATO's Bloodlust Without Borders by Henk Ruyssenaars Email: fpf (nospam) chello.nl (verified) 30 Sep 2006 The US war machine is moving another 12.000 troops to the south of Afghanistan, smack on the border of Iran. NATO is freeing up US forces for the war against Iran which has a warp speed torpedo - the Squall - as a bad surprise in store. But, the USS Eisenhower leaves next Tuesday with a war fleet, so maybe we'll see the 'Hormuz one-way Streets'? IRAN: INVADING WAR FLEET NO MATCH FOR SUPER TORPEDO SQUALL by Henk Ruyssenaars - Foreign correspondent FPF-Europe - Sept. 30th - 2006 - Preparing the illegal war against Iran at meetings in Brussels last year and two ...
American Ugly [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-09-30 17:43:07 by Burkeman1
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It’s easy these days to take cheap shots at America. That country and its people, all the way from Hollywood to Washington and the Big Apple, offer plenty of opportunity for a cheap shot. But I can say that I had contempt for America before it was fashionable to do so. Long before Iraq, I despised America just for its pristine ugliness, for the ugliness of its culture and architecture. I was born and raised in what is, all things considered, the ugliest hole on earth. have observed poverty in Latin America, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, and Africa. And it seems to me that the material poverty of America’s poor is shockingly uglier than the poverty of ...
HELP: Can You Find Jeff Rense? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-09-30 17:23:15 by Horse
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I have tried repeatedly to find Jeff Rense's websites. The major site is http://www.Rense.com . The other is http://www.RenseRadio.com . Each time I try I am redirected to a page by my ISP which says this address was not found. Zionists have been threatening him, his advertisers, guests and columnists for years. I would like someone to try to connect using a different ISP to see if it is being blocked by my ISP which is earthlink. I would have switched providers but I have been moving a lot and don't want to sign a new service contract especially since I might be going overseas in January. This notice I am getting for both of his websites is different than the one that says it is ...
A soul defying, tacit approval of torture: how did we come to this?
Post Date: 2006-09-30 17:09:18 by robin
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A soul defying, tacit approval of torture: how did we come to this? By Phil Rockstroh Online Journal Contributing Writer Sep 29, 2006, 01:12 "True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that False Self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality . . . and through this death a rebirth, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer." --R. D. Laing The pathology of American culture is as ubiquitous as its strip-mall ugliness. It is abundantly evident, in almost every aspect of contemporary life. From the predatory (to the point of psychopathic) practices of its morally scurvy pirates at the helm of the ...
Molly Ivins: New News Is Bad News
Post Date: 2006-09-30 13:13:49 by Ferret Mike
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AUSTIN, Texas—Noshing on the news ... -- The National Intelligence Estimate, agreed upon by 16 Bush-controlled spy services within the U.S. government, says the war in Iraq is making the war on terrorism harder and worse. It gives the phrase “leaking intelligence” a new meaning (a line not original with me). We’ve been having a debate in this country about whether to continue the war—or “the comma,” as the president calls it—until it has become a semicolon. Now, the debate is over, and what we need to discuss is the best way out. This war is not a goddamn comma. -- According to the Associated Press, the directors of the Legal Services Corp., a ...
What's With The Violence That Attracts White Folks?
Post Date: 2006-09-30 11:11:48 by Mind_Virus
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What's With The Violence That Attracts White Folks? By Joel McNally Editors note: Joel McNally's column was written before the Weston School principal was shot and killed Friday. Now that three Wisconsin high school students have been charged with planning to bomb the school and shoot their classmates at Green Bay East High School, it's time someone asked the question: How much longer are white people going to fail to take responsibility for the violence and total disregard for human life in the white community? From Columbine to Green Bay, we are raising a generation of young, white predators who are totally devoid of conscience. Where is the outrage of white politicians against ...
The Voice of the White House 29 September
Post Date: 2006-09-30 07:03:32 by Eoghan
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The Voice of the White House Washington, D.C., September 29, 2006: “Some very unhappy people here but not about the mid term elections. It seems that after the Second World War, the Soviets captures all of the records of the Nazi concentration camps…from 1935 to 1945….and put them in their archives in Moscow. Because they pretty much knock a hole in the legend of six millions gassed, Jewish groups pressured Russia not to ever allow any researcher to see or copy any of these and for certain, never to release the contents of these files to anyone, ever. Russians are easy to bribe and apparently someone in the States got the whole file (on microfilm) and there is fury and panic ...
This Time, Congress Has No Excuse
Post Date: 2006-09-30 03:44:01 by Morgana le Fay
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Of all the stupid, lazy, short-sighted, hasty, ill-conceived, partisan-inspired, damage-inflicting, dangerous and offensive things this Congress has done (or not done) in its past few recent miserable terms, the looming passage of the terror detainee bill takes the cake. At least when Congress voted to authorize the Iraq War legislators can point to the fact that they were deceived by Administration officials. But what's Congress' excuse now for agreeing to sign off on a law that would give the executive branch even more unfettered power over the rest of us than it already has? It just keeps getting worse. This morning, esteemed Yale Law professor Bruce Ackerman published this fine essay ...
Beyond the pale
Post Date: 2006-09-30 03:33:41 by Morgana le Fay
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AUSTIN, Texas (CREATORS) -- Oh dear. I'm sure he didn't mean it. In Illinois' 6th Congressional District, long represented by Henry Hyde, Republican candidate Peter Roskam accused his Democratic opponent Tammy Duckworth of planning to "cut and run" on Iraq. Duckworth is a former Army major and chopper pilot, who lost both legs in Iraq after her helicopter got hit by an RPG. "I just could not believe he would say that to me," said Duckworth, who walks on artificial legs and uses a cane. Every election cycle produces some wincers, but how do you apologize for that one? The legislative equivalent of that remark is the detainee bill, now being passed by Congress. ...
Bolton: The bully might still get your lunch money
Post Date: 2006-09-30 03:15:20 by Morgana le Fay
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We had the happy news two days ago from Steve Clemons that the effort to get John Bolton confirmed by the US Senate as the US Ambassador to the United Nations is really finished. The report has not been picked up by any major news outlets so far, and when asked in the daily post-Security Council session stake-out by the press where his nomination stands, Bolton demures. Could Bolton merely go out with a whimper, and not a bang? Unfortunately, the bully may still get your lunch money. Indeed, there is a strong possibility that President Bush could not only reappoint Bolton to the UN Ambassadorship, but continue to send him the same paycheck, too. Steve has pointed out that perhaps Bolton ...
Thunder on the Mountain: The Murderers of Democracy
Post Date: 2006-09-30 02:58:18 by Morgana le Fay
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“Shame on your greed, shame on your wicked schemes. I tell you this right now, I don’t give a damn about your dreams.” -- Bob Dylan, “Thunder on the Mountain” From the New York Times: The Senate today rejected an amendment to a bill creating a new system for interrogating and trying terror suspects that would have guaranteed such suspects access to the courts to challenge their imprisonment. The action set the stage for final passage of the bill, which was approved on Wednesday by the House of Representatives. The bill’s ultimate passage was assured on Wednesday when Democrats agreed to forgo a filibuster in return for consideration of the amendment. (For ...
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