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Tolls ration roads for the rich
Post Date: 2006-09-19 17:44:01 by Ferret Mike
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The Oregon Department of Transportation continues speeding down the path toward toll roads, blithely bypassing warning signs of growing public opposition to the entire notion. The idea of toll roads has been quietly popular in the Republican-controlled Legislature for nearly a decade as a way to bypass tax increases needed to build new highways and maintain existing ones. During the 1990s, the Legislature borrowed more than a billion dollars to repair Oregon's aging bridges and much of the freeway system built in the 1960s. Aside from a token increase in vehicle registration fees and truck taxes, the Legislature promised to repay the bonds from future gas tax revenues. Bond payments and ...
Bush's Way or the Highway [Bush's Childish Petulance]
Post Date: 2006-09-19 10:40:02 by Morgana le Fay
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By Consortium News Monday 18 September 2006 George W. Bush's Sept. 15 outburst - threatening to stop interrogating terror suspects if Congress doesn't let him revise the Geneva Conventions to permit coercive techniques - is part of a pattern of petulance that dates back to even before the 9/11 attacks but has resurfaced as Bush faces new challenges to his authority. In summer 2001, less than six months into his presidency while confronting congressional obstacles to his domestic program, Bush told followers that he was ready to "go back to Crawford" if he didn't get his way on legislation. That threat came after Sen. Jim Jeffords, a Vermont Republican, joined with the ...
Keith Olbermann: Bush owes us an apology
Post Date: 2006-09-19 10:31:39 by Morgana le Fay
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The President of the United States owes this country an apology. It will not be offered, of course. He does not realize its necessity. There are now none around him who would tell him or could. The last of them, it appears, was the very man whose letter provoked the President into the conduct, for which the apology is essential. An apology is this President's only hope of regaining the slightest measure of confidence, of what has been, for nearly two years, a clear majority of his people. Not "confidence" in his policies nor in his designs nor even in something as narrowly focused as which vision of torture shall prevail -- his, or that of the man who has sent him into ...
Dick Cheney - The Nations's Number One Conspiracy Theorist
Post Date: 2006-09-19 01:23:51 by Morgana le Fay
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Public distrust has become hallmark of administration By John Young COMMENTARY THE NATION'S foremost 9/11 conspiracy theorist was on "Meet the Press" last week. And we all thought conspiracy theorists got no face time in mainstream media. Well, it helps when you are vice president of the United States. That would be Dick Cheney. Next possibly to Fox News, he's the chief agent behind the belief held by so many, including many in our fighting forces, that we attacked Iraq because it had something to do with 9/11. Months after President Bush said that it wasn't so, a Senate Intelligence Committee report said it again this month. Saddam Hussein not only detested al-Qaida but ...
there is a thread on LP called "Where are the terrorists? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-09-18 21:28:34 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Iraq: War Planned In 1990s
Post Date: 2006-09-17 21:11:40 by Brian S
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West Virginia’s Sen. Jay Rockefeller stirred a hornet nest this week by saying White House insiders twisted evidence four years ago to dupe America into backing President Bush’s plan to invade Iraq. “They deliberately led the American people to war because they wanted to do that,” Rockefeller told CBS News. He called it “absolute cynical manipulation, deliberately cynical manipulation, to shape American public opinion.” Afterward, West Virginia’s Sen. Robert C. Byrd followed with a blazing U.S. Senate floor speech saying the Bush administration, “by design and deception,” shifted the war on terror away from al-Qaida to Iraq. “The war in ...
Secret Agent Man
Post Date: 2006-09-17 20:04:15 by j.sulli
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Secret Agent Man There's a man who leads a life of dangerTo everyone he meets he stays a strangerParsing the statements of George Bush is of course handicapped by the man's uncommon illiteracy, though when he sticks to his prepared texts we can get some indication of what his keepers want us to hear, even if Bush himself doesn't know what he's saying. Take, for one bizarre instance, the opening remarks to his Rose Garden news conference last Friday.In defence of torture and secret prisons he boasted of the "valuable information" obtained by the CIA from waterboarding "men like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed" (whose telephone conversations with Mohammed Atta, including ...
Bush Untethered [Bush Pouts]
Post Date: 2006-09-17 02:26:07 by Morgana le Fay
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Watching the president on Friday in the Rose Garden as he threatened to quit interrogating terrorists if Congress did not approve his detainee bill, we were struck by how often he acts as though there were not two sides to a debate. We have lost count of the number of times he has said Americans have to choose between protecting the nation precisely the way he wants, and not protecting it at all. On Friday, President Bush posed a choice between ignoring the law on wiretaps, and simply not keeping tabs on terrorists. Then he said the United States could rewrite the Geneva Conventions, or just stop questioning terrorists. To some degree, he is following a script for the elections: terrify ...
November Prognostications, Republicans Sweep
Post Date: 2006-09-16 21:36:45 by Zoroaster
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Weekend Edition September 16 / 17, 2006 November Prognostication Republicans Sweep By BEN TRIPP In the last week, there have been millions of words expended on the subject of the mass murders that occurred on the ninth day of September in 2001, most of it emotional pornography of the lowest sort. It's been five years since a small group of fanatical assassins got together and perpetrated the ugliest crime in American history, excepting possibly Thomas Kinckaid's gallery-opening franchise scheme. Roughly three thousand people died that day when passenger jets were highjacked and flown into buildings in Washington and Manhattan. Everybody knows this. The most powerful folks in America at ...
Poor, Stupid and Oppressed
Post Date: 2006-09-16 09:30:29 by YertleTurtle
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Ben Franklin probably should have been called "the father of the country" because of all the kids he had, but he was also the father of some pretty nifty sayings. One of the best ones is so short even I have memorized it: "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety." Rolls right off of the tongue, doesn't it? The novelist Somerset Maugham (among many other people) noticed the same thing Franklin did: "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose that freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose those too." (I can't memorize that ...
DOG GONE - DOG CHAPMAN'S ARREST!
Post Date: 2006-09-16 07:24:40 by Eoghan
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By now most people who follow the TV reality show "Bounty Hunter" know that Duane "Dog" Chapman was arrested this week on a three-year old Mexican charge. Now, I don't know Dog or his family (I have never needed a bail bond), but I do like to watch the show, and given that Oahu is a small island I have seen the Chapmans doing what they do from time to time. On the surface, Dog's case looks pretty open and shut. Some years back, Andrew Luster, heir to the Max Factor fortune, was doing a lot of dating. And on those dates he would drug the women with gammahydroxybutrate, one of the so-called 'date rape' drugs, and have sex with them. He was charged with rape, and posted a ...
Election glitches 'could get ugly'
Post Date: 2006-09-16 02:11:04 by Morgana le Fay
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WASHINGTON — Eight weeks before elections that will decide control of Congress, a rush by state and local governments to prepare new voting machines and train poll workers is raising the possibility of trouble reminiscent of the 2000 presidential election standoff. Problems range from delayed delivery of new equipment to an insufficient supply of trained technicians to fix anticipated problems, voting experts say. Already this year, glitches have occurred in Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and West Virginia. Maryland became the latest on Tuesday, when technical problems, human errors and staff shortages led officials to keep some polls ...
A Nightmare for the U.S.A.
Post Date: 2006-09-15 20:25:44 by Zoroaster
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A Nightmare for the U.S.A. by Tom Chartier by Tom Chartier DIGG THIS It’s been five years since the tragedy of September 11. I’ve been suffering from repeated sleepless nights due to the same nightmare: The bad dream goes like this. It’s some time in the near future, 2007, 2008 or soon after. Guided by a religious fanatic whose goal was to spread American Style Democracy throughout the world, the USA has lost its financial and moral standing. It turns out that liberating people at gunpoint simply does not win hearts and minds. "Coalition" Troops were not showered with flowers as they marched into Baghdad. It was not a re-enactment of the Liberation of Paris. ...
Why ... When ... How ...
Post Date: 2006-09-15 10:42:58 by robin
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Why ... When ... How ... By Robert Thompson Sep 15, 2006, 06:47 Why?I have this evening listened to the Foreign Minister of Finland, which at present holds the presidency of our European Union, during which broadcast he stated quite clearly that the Union should open contacts with Hamas, the group which is behind the present governing party in the Palestinian Territories. However, he added, rather lamely, that Hamas would still have to recognise the present "state of Israel". The question which immediately comes to my mind is Why? We considered the late South African régime to be illegal because of its hideous policy of apartheid. Why does any country in the European Union ...
The Nazis at FreeRepublic and the NY 911 Truth Seminar
Post Date: 2006-09-15 10:16:54 by Morgana le Fay
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Sept. 14, 2006 -- The Nazis over at http://FreeRepublic.com had a hissy fit with the New York 911 5th anniversary Truth Seminar, at which the editor spoke. One "Freeper" posted the following call to violence: "thousands of people should come armed with eggs... preferably rotten ones. Let fly and drive this filth from the street with extreme prejudice. To heck with their rights to express their stupid theories. Let them have it." Ed. note to Freepers: Nothing would make me happier than to take a Louisville Slugger first to your eggs and then to your heads. Neither contain brains. "Freepers" gather to plan their next assault.
Ah, Those Conspiracies Theories
Post Date: 2006-09-15 08:14:48 by Zoroaster
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Published on Thursday, September 14, 2006 by the Waco Tribune-Herald (Texas) Ah, Those Conspiracy Theories by John Young The nation’s foremost 9/11 conspiracy theorist was on “Meet the Press” Sunday. And we all thought conspiracy theorists got no face time in mainstream media. Well, it helps when you are vice president of the United States. That would be Dick Cheney. Next possibly to Fox News, he’s the chief agent behind the belief held by so many, including many in our fighting forces, that we attacked Iraq because it had something to do with 9/11. Months after President Bush said that it wasn’t so, a Senate Intelligence Committee report said it again last ...
They Are Making Plans - Non-Lethal Weapons and the Election Riots of 2008
Post Date: 2006-09-15 00:59:57 by Morgana le Fay
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So Im going to surprise all of you by voicing my support for the use of these new non-lethal weapons on american citizens. I mean as a person who expects to be at the head of the mob during the historic election day riots of 2008, when citizens show up to vote and learn that the current administration has canceled the elections in the interest of national security and they have been re-scheduled for a time when the terrorists have been subdued, and in the meantime Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rove will be taking temporary national control. or the historic post election day riots which will occur when the population realizes that for the third presidential election in a row the republicans through ...
Thanks George! A letter from Osama Bin Laden
Post Date: 2006-09-14 18:12:55 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Thanks George! A letter from Osama Bin Laden Hey George! How's it going? Boy, time sure flies. Here we are five years after 9-11-01 and I understand y'all in the US are having quite the observance today, what with all the non-stop media exposure and commerative events and all. That was some disaster, eh? There seems to be no end to the speculation as to who was actually responsible for that infamous day. I hear there's even a growing number of US citizens that think you and your buddies were responsible to some extent. Some people say I did it. There's no shortage of allegedly genuine videos saying I did it or I didn't do it. There's conflicting evidence whether I'm even alive or not! ...
What If We Had Left Saddam Alone?
Post Date: 2006-09-14 15:52:08 by Brian S
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006 WASHINGTON -- Ever wonder what the state of the world would be if Saddam Hussein still ruled Iraq with an iron fist? A few late-night comedians have braved potential patriotic wrath by suggesting perhaps he should be brought back, a shuddering thought given his propensity for mass graves. Now for the first time a prominent U.S. senator has publicly stated just such an opinion - that the United States, if not Iraq, would be better off if Saddam Hussein had not been toppled from power. It is a position privately held by many but expressed by very few, at least not in those exact words. In reality, however, that is exactly what those in opposition to the war are ...
Tortured logic - Bush CYA Re War Crimes
Post Date: 2006-09-14 03:08:34 by Morgana le Fay
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'THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT TORTURE," President Bush said last week. It can, however, make use of what he euphemistically called "an alternative set of procedures" for eliciting information from prisoners suspected of being terrorists. The difference between torture and these "alternative procedures" seems to be who's conducting the interrogation and where it takes place. If it's the CIA and it's overseas, they're permissible alternative procedures. Anywhere else, they're not allowed. This kind of legalistic legerdemain doesn't just expose the weakness of the administration's argument, it does a real disservice to U.S. foreign policy and all those serving ...
Beware of cute, pink fairies
Post Date: 2006-09-14 02:17:34 by Trace21231
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She's cute, pink and fuzzy. She might make your daughter want to be a – GASP! – girly girl. And apparently, she is also a threat to little girls everywhere. She's Abby Cadabby, the newest Muppet to take up residence on Sesame Street. Yes, parents that's right. In addition to the usual threats to our children – strangers, http://MySpace.com, too much junk food – we now have to protect our little girls from a pink fairy-in-training puppet. Or at least that's what one parental watchdog group wants you to believe. A group called – get this – the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood says that little Abby is helping people buy “into the girly, girly ...
God Would Be Proud of Skeptics
Post Date: 2006-09-14 02:13:13 by Morgana le Fay
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I am a skeptic. Now wait. Before you start conjuring up images of stodgy old fuddy-duddies with closed minds and elitist views, let me say I mean only that I withhold belief on claims for which there is no supporting scientific evidence. No evidence, no belief. Simple. Alien crop circles? Zero evidence. Psychic ability, astrology, and energy field realignment? Less than zero. God and heaven? Ditto. Whoa. I heard the gasps all the way from Miami. I probably had you up until then, didn’t I? The fact is most of us are skeptical of supernatural claims, with one exception: “God”. I’m sure many of you reject belief in ghosts, goblins, demons, leprechauns, fairies, elves, ...
You are all just a bunch of whining bastards.
Post Date: 2006-09-14 02:03:54 by Morgana le Fay
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I've been coming to this site for the last year or so, and what I've been reading has been crazy and depressing. "This is bad," "that's bad," it's all so fucking bad. A gullible person would think that the world was about to end or something, but I've come to the conclusion that you are all just a bunch of whining bastards. You complain, whinge, moan and bitch about nothing, all the time, just to try and make people feel bad so they'll vote against Bush. Yet most of the things you complain about are actually fine and dandy. And so below the fold is where you get a lesson about what's really going on. * ignatz uk's diary :: :: * THE ECONOMY National debt is at an ...
Have You Seen Keith Olbermann's 9/11 Special Comment Commentary Yet? Really rips Bush up
Post Date: 2006-09-13 19:54:25 by Ferret Mike
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Poster Comment:This morning, The Nation called Keith Olbermann "without a doubt the best news anchor on television today." I agree.
ABC's 'Path' Not Taken
Post Date: 2006-09-13 01:36:10 by Morgana le Fay
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Does it matter that ABC invented and distorted history in its "warning: this is not a documentary" docudrama, "The Path to 9/11"? After all, the first night of the faux drama was trounced by the brother-against-brother actual drama of "Sunday Night Football." But consider: The gripping final report of the Sept. 11 commission (budget: $13.5 million) became a surprise bestseller at 1.5 million copies. The not-so-gripping, not-so-accurate ABC production (budget: $40 million) was seen by about 13 million viewers on the first night. As Thomas H. Kean, who served as the commission's chairman and then made the unfortunate decision to lend his prestige to the ...
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