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Latest Articles: Editorial
Beltway Democrats are seriously flawed, but the election is still critically important
Post Date: 2006-09-30 02:52:00 by Morgana le Fay
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Now that the torture and detention bill will become law, it is necessary to focus on the political implications of what happened yesterday and, more broadly, what has been done to our country by the Bush administration and the blindly loyal Congress for the last five years. It goes without saying that the conduct of Democrats generally (meaning their collective behavior) was far, far short of anything noble, courageous or principled. And one could, if one were so inclined, spend every day from now until November 7 criticizing the strategic mistakes and lack of principle of Beltway Democrats and still not exhaust the list. But that's all besides the point at the moment, because -- right ...
And what did the Democrats get for selling out?
Post Date: 2006-09-30 02:47:31 by Morgana le Fay
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The New York Times reports: The [military detention] bill’s ultimate passage was assured on Wednesday when Democrats agreed to forgo a filibuster in return for consideration of the [Specter] amendment [on habeas, which lost by a 48-51 vote]. Any changes in the Senate bill, however, would have made it impossible for Republican leaders to meet their goal of sending the bill to the White House before adjourning on Friday to hit the campaign trail. Underscoring the political stakes involved, White House spokesman Tony Snow said today that President Bush will emphasize Democratic opposition to the bill in campaign appearances. “He’ll be citing some of the comments that members ...
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone
Post Date: 2006-09-30 02:37:51 by Burkeman1
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Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor and former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran has written a behind-the-scenes account of the Bush administration appointees who ran Iraq after the US invasion. Invoking the embattled ex-Director of FEMA, Chandrasekaran calls them “Michael Brown x100.” [includes rush transcript] In Washington, a federal inspector testified before Congress on Thursday on how private contractors have failed in their efforts to rebuild Iraq. The inspector, Stuart Bowen, criticized three companies in particular: Parsons, Bechtel and the Halliburton subsidiary KBR. Bowen said that of the fourteen major projects built by Parsons in Iraq, 13 of them were ...
Black Hole of the White Canyon
Post Date: 2006-09-30 00:37:53 by tom007
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A little intimidating, if you ask me. My family went close to here a few weeks ago. Did not see this, or really wanted to, after we entered the first part of the "Black Hole of the White Canyon". Not my photo. If you see a stream of water comming..... I would guess the water level at this point was close to twice the level of the debris.
The erosion of the Arab state
Post Date: 2006-09-29 23:46:14 by Burkeman1
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The Israeli assault on Lebanon has poignantly brought two truths home: that some Arab states are unable to respond to ever- mounting external threats, and that the burden of homeland protection is increasingly shifting from the standard political order to non-state actors. The Lebanese case offers a glimpse of the shape of the balance of powers in the Middle East in years to come. The modern state, we should recall, derives its legitimacy from the right to monopolise and use the instruments of organised violence for the purpose of maintaining internal stability and civil peace on the one hand; and securing its borders, or what is conventionally referred to as national sovereignty, on ...
ELITISM IS DIALECTICAL TERRORISM
Post Date: 2006-09-29 15:19:39 by Tauzero
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ELITISM IS DIALECTICAL TERRORISM By Niki Raapana September 26, 2006 http://NewsWithViews.com The biggest threat to the United States of America in the 21st century is dialectical terrorism. Dialectical terrorists believe that conflicts between opposites are part of a natural human progression to spiritual and cultural perfection. They all share the common belief that they are ordained by God to force the world to progress dialectically, and they claim their dialectical ideology is the most reasonable and logical way to think. They tell Americans if they don't understand it's only because they're too stupid and un-reasonable. "It is this theory, sir, which furnishes to the ...
Stay the course in Iraq? What course?
Post Date: 2006-09-29 11:29:11 by Ferret Mike
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WASHINGTON – President Bush likes to say he will stay the course in Iraq. The question is: What course? Is it the course that has so far cost some 2,700 American lives, 100 Iraqi lives a day, and an estimated expenditure of $300 billion so far? Is it the course, which, according to a leaked consensus estimate of the US intelligence community, has made Iraq a primary recruitment vehicle for the next generation of violent extremists and weakened the global fight against terrorism? The president has said that Iraq is the central battleground in the war against terrorism. But the intelligence agencies suggest that if this is so, it is only because the war has made it so. Intelligence ...
The Public School Nightmare
Post Date: 2006-09-29 06:06:00 by YertleTurtle
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I want you to consider the frightening possibility that we are spending far too much money on schooling, not too little. I want you to consider that we have too many people employed in interfering with the way children grow up--and that all this money and all these people, all the time we take out of children's lives and away from their homes and families and neighbourhoods and private explorations--gets in the way of education. That seems radical, I know. Surely in modern technological society it is the quantity of schooling and the amount of money you spend on it that buys value. And yet last year in St. Louis, I heard a vice-president of IBM tell an audience of people assembled to ...
Well, Here’s a Question… [Where are all the patriots screaming for strict constructionist judges?]
Post Date: 2006-09-28 21:51:07 by Morgana le Fay
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Article I, Section 9, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution states as follows: The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. It expressly forbids suspension of the writ of habeas corpus except under very specific and highly limited circumstances – and as we are neither dealing with a case of rebellion or invasion at the time of this attempted enactment of this torture law in Congress, I am really wondering on what leg they propose to stand when arguing constitutionality at the first legal challenge to this law. And if it is deemed unconstitutional, as it is likely to be, then ...
The Top Ten Urinals in the World
Post Date: 2006-09-28 21:48:57 by tom007
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http://www.urinal.net/topfive.html You're on you own.
A Vote That Will Live in Infamy -- Who Will Betray Their Country Today and Who Will Stand Up for America?
Post Date: 2006-09-28 21:44:45 by Morgana le Fay
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You must read this New York Times editorial on the detainee bill that Senators will be voting on today. They are not the only ones saying this, it is just a simple summary of the one of the worst bills in American history. This piece of legislation guts what this country is founded on. As the New York Times explains, it is our Alien and Sedition Acts. There is no excuse. Democrats who vote for this bill because of cowardly political expediency will forever be tainted. We will never forget. This is the most un-American bill I have ever seen. Republicans have proven themselves to be craven sycophants who will do Vice President Cheney's bidding no matter what, over and over. There is almost ...
Rushing Off a Cliff [Two Party Failure on Bush's Torture Bill]
Post Date: 2006-09-28 21:42:00 by Morgana le Fay
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Here’s what happens when this irresponsible Congress railroads a profoundly important bill to serve the mindless politics of a midterm election: The Bush administration uses Republicans’ fear of losing their majority to push through ghastly ideas about antiterrorism that will make American troops less safe and do lasting damage to our 217-year-old nation of laws — while actually doing nothing to protect the nation from terrorists. Democrats betray their principles to avoid last-minute attack ads. Our democracy is the big loser. Republicans say Congress must act right now to create procedures for charging and trying terrorists — because the men accused of plotting the ...
Proposed: Clean Slate Pledge For 2008
Post Date: 2006-09-28 18:11:01 by Horse
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Some people will never vote for someone from another party so I propose the following Clean Slate Pledge be taken by candidates running in each district from the Republican, Democratic, Green, Libertarian and other parties in 2008. We hereby pledge to refuse all money and influence from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Society and AIPAC ( the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.) You will have to educate the public about money laundering. Ask them why government everywhere seems to be so corrupt. Then ask if this might have something to do with the 500 billion dollars a year in bribes that the banks launder. Ask them why there are so many ...
There are now only 5 nations on the world left without a Rothschild controlled central bank:
Post Date: 2006-09-28 16:32:35 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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There are now only 5 nations on the world left without a Rothschild controlled central bank: Iran; North Korea; Sudan; Cuba; and Libya. Read more about The History of the House of Rothschild: http://www.lookingglassnews.org/viewcommentary.php?storyid=121
Gangster Nation: the Bush Administraton Deconstructs America
Post Date: 2006-09-28 15:04:10 by Brian S
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Gangster Nation: the Bush Administraton Deconstructs America Comments? andymart20@aol.com For Webmasters rss 2.0 Category: Political Commentary - Conservative Posted Wed Sep 27,2006 2:01 AM Last Edited: CONTRARIAN COMMENTARY FOR SEPTEMBER 27, 2006 GANGSTER NATION: THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION DECONSTRUCTS AMERICA THE “CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS” THAT WILL SHAPE THE WORLD IS TAKING PLACE HERE AT HOME FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS: FASCISM IS ON THE WAY, WITH JOHN MCCAIN’S APPROVAL (CHICAGO)(September 27, 2006) There is a defining clash of civilizations going on. But it is not between Islam and the West. No it isn’t. The clash is not between Shiite and Sunni in Iraq. No, not at ...
Olbermann’s Special Comment: Are YOURS the actions of a true American? [Transcript]
Post Date: 2006-09-28 11:17:41 by Minerva
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By: Nicole Belle on Monday, September 25th, 2006 at 6:30 PM - PDT Submit or Digg this Post And finally tonight, a Special Comment about President Clinton’s interview. The headlines about them are, of course, entirely wrong. It is not essential that a past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back. It is not important that the current President’s "portable public chorus" has described his predecessor’s tone as "crazed." Our tone should be crazed. The nation’s freedoms are under assault by an administration whose policies can do us as much damage as Al-Qaeda; the nation’s "marketplace of ...
Olbermann's special commentary on Clinton vs Fox
Post Date: 2006-09-28 02:18:40 by Ferret Mike
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Ecuador presidential hopeful: Bush ‘dimwitted’ (“Calling Bush the devil is offending the devil,”
Post Date: 2006-09-27 20:41:54 by tom007
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Ecuador presidential hopeful: Bush ‘dimwitted’ Leftist candidate Correa says Chavez’s jab at Bush ‘is offending the devil’ Image: Rafael Correa Leftist presidential front-runner Rafael Correa talks to his supporters during a campaign rally in Salcedo, Ecuador, on Wednesday. View related photos Dolores Ochoa R. / AP Most Popular • Most Viewed QUITO, Ecuador - The leftist presidential front-runner in Ecuador said Wednesday that the devil should be insulted by comparisons to President Bush, whom he called a “dimwitted” leader who has done “great damage” to the world. Rafael Correa, speaking to Channel 8 television, referred to a U.N. speech ...
Olbermann death threat powered letter made fun of by Murdoch’s NY Post [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-09-27 20:22:36 by tom007
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Olbermann death threat powered letter made fun of by Murdoch’s NY Post By: John Amato @ 11:05 AM - PDT Submit or Digg this Post What would the conservative media be saying if Limbaugh was sent a letter like this? The NY Post: "POWDER PUFF SPOOKS KEITH" Keith Olbermann flipped out when he opened his home mail yesterday. The acerbic host of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" was terrified when he opened a suspicious-looking letter with a California postmark and a batch of white powder poured out. A note inside warned Olbermann, who’s a frequent critic of President Bush’s policies, that it was payback for some of his on-air shtick. The caustic commentator ...
Why Some Republicans Want to Lose
Post Date: 2006-09-27 18:55:54 by Morgana le Fay
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Disillusioned Conservatives Believe Party Has Gone Adrift, See Value in Democratic Congress WASHINGTON -- As the White House and its Republican allies on Capitol Hill work to retain control of Congress in November's elections, a small but vocal band of conservative iconoclasts say they would prefer to see their own party lose. The array of former members of Congress and officials from Republican administrations dating to the 1970s are using opinion articles, speeches and interviews to make the surprising -- and, to many of their friends and colleagues, near-heretical -- argument that it would be better for the country if their party lost. Some say they plan to vote Democratic for the ...
Homosexuality as Fascism [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-09-27 07:16:13 by YertleTurtle
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10,000 gay people were slaughtered in the Nazi death-camps. Many more were humiliated, jailed, deported, ethnically cleansed, or castrated. One gay survivor of the camps, LD Classen von Neudegg, has written about his experiences. A snapshot: “Three men had tried to escape one night. They were captured, and when they returned they had the word ‘homo’ scrawled across their clothing. They were placed on a block and whipped. Then they were forced to beat a drum and cheer, ‘Hurrah! We’re back! Hurrah!’ Then they were hanged.” This is one of the milder events documented in his book. So the idea of a gay fascist seems ridiculous. Yet when the British National ...
Bush dismisses Clinton critique as "finger-pointing"
Post Date: 2006-09-26 20:30:48 by tom007
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Bush dismisses Clinton critique as "finger-pointing" By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday dismissed as "finger-pointing" criticism from his predecessor Bill Clinton of his counter-terrorism efforts in the months leading up to the September 11 attacks. Click to learn more... Clinton, angrily defending his own administration's attempts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, had accused the Bush administration of doing far less to stop the al Qaeda leader before the 2001 hijack plane attacks. Bush, who is trying to stave off a Democratic takeover of Congress in November, seemed to bristle when asked about Clinton, only to ...
Ecuador candidate defends Chavez ties (Interesting Perspective)
Post Date: 2006-09-25 22:04:18 by tom007
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Ecuador candidate defends Chavez ties 9/25/2006, 9:00 p.m. ET By GONZALO SOLANO The Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A tough-talking leftist economist and presidential front-runner who rattles foreign investors said Monday he is proud to call Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez his friend. Rafael Correa also said he would not extend the U.S. military's use of the Pacific coast Manta air base as an operational site for drug surveillance flights when the treaty runs out in 2009. "A symbol of sovereignty is to not have foreign soldiers on national soil," he said. The only way the U.S. military presence would continue in Ecuador was if Washington allowed "an Ecuadorean ...
Police failed her, and now Daley has too
Post Date: 2006-09-25 13:07:35 by Tauzero
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Police failed her, and now Daley has too Published September 21, 2006 The Daley administration is stonewalling the case of Christina Eilman, the blond, white and bipolar California woman released from a police lockup at 51st and Wentworth after an episode at Midway Airport in May. Police left her to fend for herself. She couldn't. And now City Hall is fighting the release of interviews that would show how police allowed her to leave, to walk alone in a neighborhood where, residents told me Wednesday, she had no chance. In the past, Mayor Richard Daley has been eager to publicly hold his Police Department up to ridicule, when it served his political interests and when the cops were ...
Good Shepherds, Bad Shepherds, and their Sheeple
Post Date: 2006-09-25 06:21:04 by YertleTurtle
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”Men do not follow causes --- they follow leaders.” -- John Thomas Cripps I don't consider this my opinion; I consider it a fact. A lot of good practical wisdom about life is in the Bible, especially the Gospels. Forget the "religion" in it. That's not what I mean. What I mean is that you can find out a lot about human nature if you just think about what is written in the Bible. Put it this way: it wouldn't have lasted for thousands of years unless it was of immense practical value. Let's consider the well-known fact that Jesus called Himself the "Good Shepherd" and referred to His "flock" and His "sheep." That almost sounds disturbingly ...
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