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Thursday, June 30, 2005

Republican Ten Commandments

Zogby Poll -- No Bounce: Bush Job Approval Unchanged by War Speech; 42% Want Impeachment for Bush Lies; Americans Tired of Divisiveness in Congress—Want Bi-Partisan Solutions
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1007

The Party's Over for This Republican
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/06/26/ed.col.chaney.0626.html

posted by txpoollover, 17:56 | link | comments

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Visualize impeachment

- but don't count on it

By Barbara MacIntyre

Friday, June 17, 2005 - Remember the fable of the little boy who cried
wolf so many times that when he was in real danger no one believed him?
This is the position we are in now; the current "leaders" in Washington
have lied to us so many times that, were we to face imminent danger
again, who could we trust?

posted by txpoollover, 17:15 | link | comments

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

More Bullshit about the 10 commandments,

This work of fiction belongs in the Bibles, of the

fools that believe or pretend to believe in such.

Keep your superstitious based dogma to yourselves.

~ Hello In There

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present” (Abraham Lincoln).

The Bill of Rights
THE BILL OF RIGHTS Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution.

This July 4, let's enshrine

the Ten Amendments,

 not the Ten Commandments,

as America's true Patriot Act
by Harvey Wasserman
June 28, 2005

The Supreme Court's mixed rulings on displaying the Ten Commandments
on public buildings and property offer us the perfect patriotic step
forward
for this coming July 4: let's post the first Ten Amendments, i.e. the
Bill of
Rights, instead.

Read more:
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2005/1154

"The Fundamentalist attack on separation of church and state defames America and its founders"

"What matters about Guttermeister Rove is that he's evil ... and soon over"

More STOLEN ELECTION NEWS:

"With a limp election theft report, Dems prove why they're unworthy"

THE OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE OF BUSH CARTEL CRIMES - AS IGNORED BY ...

posted by txpoollover, 16:28 | link | comments

Monday, June 27, 2005

STOLEN ELECTION 2004

The DNC 2004 Election Report: An indictment of incompetence


The Democratic National Committee's investigation into
Ohio's 2004 presidential election irregularities is the
perfect postscript to the party's 'election protection'
efforts last fall: it is a shocking indictment of a party
caught completely off-guard in its most heated presidential
campaign in years, and a party still doesn't fully understand
what happened and how to avoid a repeat in the future.

Read more:
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1335

from the blogs of the world:

Did George W. Bush steal America's 2004 election?
Collective Bellaciao - Paris,France

posted by txpoollover, 10:25 | link | comments

Saturday, June 25, 2005

Karl Rove

Karl Rove is a liar
In attacking liberals' reaction to Sept. 11, Bush's senior advisor once again resorts to McCarthy-style tactics.

By Joe Conason

The other night Rove lied about the liberal reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks and again exploited patriotism for narrow partisan advantage in a time of war. He seeks to divert public opinion from the failures of the Bush administration by suppressing dissent, stigmatizing "liberals"

Evidently Rove believes that demonizing Democrats and liberals will distract the nation from the Bush administration's failures. That tactic has certainly served him well in the past, when he managed to divert attention from the failure to deal with the terrorist threat before 9/11, the failure to speak honestly about the alleged threat from Iraq and the failure to plan intelligently for the Iraq invasion and its aftermath. We have paid an enormous price for those failures, yet cynical Rove still thinks he can convince us that this is all the fault of "liberals."

More:Karl Rove is a LIAR.

For the record Karl, does Iraq have any connection to the 9/11 attacks? Because, you and your friends with your collective “understanding of 9/11” seem to be contradicting yourselves about the Iraq-9/11 connection, too. First, we were told that we went to war with Iraq because it was linked to the 9/11 attacks. Then, your rationale was changed to "Iraq has WMD". Then you told us that we needed to invade Iraq because Saddam was a "bad man". And now it turns out that we are in Iraq to bring them "democracy."

Of course, the Downing Street memo clarifies many of these things, but for the record Karl: Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11; there were few terrorists in Iraq before our invasion, but now Iraq is a terrorist hot-bed. America had the sympathy and support of the whole world before Iraq. Now, thanks to your actions, we find ourselves hated and alienated by the rest of the world. Al Qaeda's recruitment took a nose-dive after the 9/11 attacks, but has now skyrocketed since your invasion of Iraq; and most importantly, nearly 2,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed because of your war in Iraq. These facts speak for themselves. (And, they speak very little about effectively winning any war on terror.)

More: Karl Rove's "Understanding of 9/11"

posted by txpoollover, 16:05 | link | comments

Friday, June 24, 2005

Karl Christian_Rove Needs Therapy

On October 26, 2001, President Bush said, "The elected branches of our government, and both political parties, are united in our resolve to fight and stop and punish those who would do harm to the American people." That was before the administration's unwise, unfocused and unsuccessful approach to combating terrorism helped push Bush's approval ratings to historic lows. Out of answers, Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove went back to his biggest strength, political mudslinging.

posted by txpoollover, 18:25 | link | comments

Thursday, June 23, 2005

Adios MO FO

ADIOS MO FO

"Perry predicts the future"

The question the reporter asked was, "Governor, what do you think the voters will say to you come next election once you fail to fix school finance yet again?"

http://www.quorumreport.com/

In the Lone Star State, where Governor Rick Perry is feeling mighty aLONE (ahh ha ... ha) with a oyish 38% approval rating. Things won't get better after a little slip of the tongue this week: In reference to a reporter who had just interviewed him, and unknown to Perry, the Governor said in a live mic, “Adios, mofo.”

from : Air America Radio | The Al Franken Show |

posted by txpoollover, 16:17 | link | comments

In the Lone Star State, where Governor Rick Perry is feeling mighty aLONE (ahh ha ... ha) with a oyish 38% approval rating. Things won't get better after a little slip of the tongue this week: In reference to a reporter who had just interviewed him, and unknown to Perry, the Governor said in a live mic, “Adios, mofo.”

While Gov. Rick Perry and his camp may be trying to
trying to distance from his ill-timed “Adios, mofo”
remark to a reporter, one entrepreneur has embraced
the quip as a moneymaking opportunity.

posted by txpoollover, 16:05 | link | comments

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

To save NPR and PBS we have to remove

Ken Tomlinson as chair of the Corporation,

for Public Broadcasting. This man is just

one more Repuglican hack , that is trying

to make PBS another propaganda tool, for

the right wing neo-cons.~HIT

Read this From NYT:

Democrats Call for Firing of Broadcast Chairman
By STEPHEN LABATON
Some Democrats are concerned that the head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is injecting partisan politics into public radio and television.

To Help  MoveOn.org: Save NPR and PBS

Click below to see how you can help fight back against the right's
assault on public broadcasting.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow?pid=3736

Today on Democracy Now!: radio and TV news :

Bill Moyers: "The Radical Right Wing is Very Close to Achieving a Longtime Goal of Undermining the Independence of Public Broadcasting"

posted by txpoollover, 07:57 | link | comments

Monday, June 20, 2005

This past week-end the editor of Hello In There,

attended a conference at DemocracyFest 2005,

in Austin, Texas.

I learned there are alot of pissed off Liberals,

Not many are using the "L" word,

We need to now! Call us Liberal,

call us Democrat, call us Progressive,

WE ARE GETTING ORGANIZED!

We are TakingBackTexas and Taking

our country back! I realized in Austin, Texas

we have a Liberal Oasis, in a what seems to be

a very red state. Wake up sheeple, we are all

Liberals, and we are all Democrats. We are

going to make a change! ~Hello In There

read this from AlterNet:

THE LONELINESS OF A LONESTAR LIBERAL
Rose Aguilar, AlterNet
Progressive activists in Texas face strong and often hostile
opposition. But they say they're going to fight to turn
Texas blue again.
http://www.alternet.org/story/22254/

posted by txpoollover, 17:35 | link | comments

Thursday, June 16, 2005

C-SPAN To Carry 'Downing Street' Hearings Live...On C-SPAN 3. But still...

 ALSO: Hearings Moved Back into Capitol Building . In the basement. But still...

TrueMajority.org Also Begins

Petition Drive
. A little late. But still... 

C-SPAN has committed to carrying the U.S. House Judiciary Democrats hearings tomorrow today on C-SPAN 3. They will be carried LIVE.

For those who don't receive C-SPAN 3 on their local cable system, the video and/or audio from the hearings should be carried via the Internet right here.

The hearings will also be carried live on Pacifica Radio and via Radio Left.

 Yesterday, TrueMajority.org, another very large citizens activist organization, joined in sending Petitions to its members to collect signatures for John Conyers Letter to Bush, to be delivered bu Conyers himself after todays hearing. TrueMajority.org joins MoveOn.org who last week collected some 500,000 signatures in 48 hours or so.

 As well, the hearings have now been rescheduled to 2:30pm 5:00pm, and have been moved from the DNC offices -- where they had previously been scheduled, when Republicans would not allow a hearing room for the Democrats -- back to a room in the Capitol Building

Lots more really good stuff at MakeThemAccountable.com.

 

 

 

 

posted by txpoollover, 05:52 | link | comments

Stolen Election:
"Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election? Essential Documents"
by Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman and Steve Rosenfeld.

Now you can read the introduction on http://freepress.org at:
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1318 .

The book is available at: http://www.freepress.org/store.php#documents

Bush is not above the law
Scholars missed the point of the essay I wrote with Ralph Nader about the case for impeachment.

posted by txpoollover, 05:38 | link | comments

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

... “She certainly seems

to respond to visual stimuli.”

Freshly-released autopsy results reveal that Terri_Schiavo was blind:

Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin concluded that…her brain was about half of normal size when she died. …

Thogmartin says her brain was “profoundly atrophied” – and that the damage was “irreversable.” He also says, “The vision centers of her brain were dead” – meaning she was blind.

Which makes Dr. Frist’s expert “diagnosis” all the more outrageous:

... “She certainly seems to respond to visual stimuli.”

The Shiavo case was the beginning of the end,

of the rise of the "Rapture Right", The emergency

legislation and midnight signing of a bill

intervened, into the business of a families

decision to not prolong life support.

This Dr.Frist, diagnosed via video

a 4 year old video. The Idiots outside

Shiavo's hospice room, were trying to

get a cup of water to a brain dead woman

who could not drink. Half of her brain was liquid.

No evidence of abuse was found, The only

abuse was by the people who were trying to

keep her alive. ~ HelloInThere

Schiavo Autopsy Report Exposes Lies Of Religious Right, Says Americans United

posted by txpoollover, 14:37 | link | comments

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

STOLEN ELECTION '04

Is anyone talking about it? Not on the

 U.S. Right Wing Corporate Media.~HelloInThere

SOMETHING ROTTEN IN OHIO
Gore Vidal, The Nation
The disturbing truths about the last election in Ohio have
been largely ignored by the press and the Congress.
http://www.alternet.org/story/22222/

Outside the oil and gas junta that controls two and a half branches of our government (the half soon to be whole is the judiciary), there was a good deal of envy at the late British election among those Americans who are serious about politics. Little money was spent by the three parties and none for TV advertising. Results were achieved swiftly and cheaply. Best of all, the three party leaders were quizzed sharply and intelligently by ordinary citizens known quaintly as subjects, thanks to the ubiquitous phantom crown so unlike our nuclear-taloned predatory eagle. Although news of foreign countries seldom appears in our tightly censored media (and good news, never), those of us who are addicted to C-SPAN and find it the one truly, if unconsciously, subversive media outlet in these United States are able to observe British politics in full cry.

posted by txpoollover, 05:34 | link | comments

Monday, June 13, 2005

The Religious Right

Are the Superstitious

Crackpots running our

Government ?


The Religious Right:
Saints or Subversives?
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V

By Steve Weissman

"Deism, as they called their belief, runs unmistakably through the Declaration of Independence, in which Thomas Jefferson wrote of the "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" rather than of the personal, miracle-working God of Christianity."

    To cite only one example:

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies. (Letter to Dr. Woods)

from: truthout | News Politics
Lets get the Truth Out, changing things For the better through inFormation.

posted by txpoollover, 19:25 | link | comments

Sunday, June 12, 2005

Attention Deficit Disorder

WHAT IS IN THE NEWS?

If You Are Not Outraged,You Have Not Been Paying Attention.

 READ BuzzFlash - Daily Headlines and Breaking News

Four Star Alert, This is the Smoking Cannon After the Smoking Gun and the Smoking Bullet About Fixing Intelligence: "The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair’s inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was 'necessary to create the conditions' which would make it legal." And There's More...

The ACTUAL Smoking Cannon Memo from Britain: "The US Government's military planning for action against Iraq is proceeding apace. But, as yet, it lacks a political framework. In particular, little thought has been given to creating the political conditions for military action, or the aftermath and how to shape it." July, 2002

"That is why the wave of public awareness sweeping America is so dangerous to Bush and why he has refused to answer a letter from 89 Democratic congressmen asking if the intelligence was “fixed” and precisely when he and Blair actually agreed to go to war." 6/12

  "People don't know where we stand on a lot of issues," he said. "I believe this country's a Democratic country, with a big 'D.' If we got 48 percent of the vote, with their machine and our 30 years behind theirs, then this is a country that if voters vote and if they understand what we believe in, we're going to win. Now, that's why Republicans like to suppress the vote." -Howard Dean

Dean Urges Appeal to Moral Values
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/061205D.shtml

Yes, who does America belong to?

We thought fascism died in the 20th Century, but the Busheviks have revived it and reenergized it in all its infamy: appeals to nationalistic superiorities, demagoguery, centralized government powers, police state powers, merger of religion and state, creation of the ideal that proponents of Constitutionally guaranteed secularism are the enemy, use of a marginal enemy to seize unConstitutional powers, use of wars to galvanize military spending and build up of the military sector, creation of a ruling oligarchy.

All this and more are what the Busheviks are up to. Democracy is an inconvenient obstacle to them that they only give lip service to in order to achieve their goal of one-party police state powers.

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posted by txpoollover, 16:12 | link | comments

Saturday, June 11, 2005

Let Dean be

We Love Howard Dean
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Let Dean Be Mean

Leading Democrats, including John Edwards, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Dianne Feinstein, have felt it necessary in the last week to distance themselves from Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean. True, Dean has spoken bluntly, as is his wont, about Republicans, particularly the Republican party leadership. One wonders though where these upright Democrats find the time and energy to publicly criticize one of their own during such trying times.

Further evidence, as if any more was needed, has emerged establishing that the war in Iraq was sold under false pretenses, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean.

A major news magazine has been discredited to divert attention from confirmed instances of Koran desecration in Guantanamo Bay prison, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean.

Bush has nominated for our new U.N. Ambassador an individual who virulently opposes the very existence of the United Nations, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean.

Osama bin Laden is still at large, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean…

Republicans are successfully conducting class warfare through the tax code, providing ludicrous cuts to the most wealthy Americans at the expense of the lower and middle class, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean.

Liars, crooks, and worse run amok in our government, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean.

Get your priorities straight, people. Stop pretending that there's a middle in U.S. politics anymore. The foxes are running the henhouse, yet you can't find anything more constructive to do than attack one of your own. If you're not willing to help our country out of this insanity, at least try not to destroy those courageous enough to try.

posted by txpoollover, 11:32 | link | comments

Friday, June 10, 2005

 

BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush says Amnesty report 'absurd'
US President George Bush has dismissed as "absurd" an Amnesty International report
that ... "I'm aware of the Amnesty International report and it's absurd, ...

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June 9, 2005

If you've seen the news over the last week, you know about the release of Amnesty International's Annual Report and our criticisms of human rights abuses by the U.S. government in Guantánamo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other detention camps around the world.

We've exposed widespread abuses. Now we need your help to build momentum for an independent commission and the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate fully what happened in these detention centers -- and to hold accountable anyone who was responsible.

Please click here.

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P.S. If you're already an Amnesty International supporter, thank you. If you're not, this would be a great time to join!

Thank you, Bill SchulzExecutive DirectorAmnesty International USAP.S. If you're already an Amnesty International supporter, thank you. If you're not, this would be a

 

Thank you, Bill SchulzExecutive DirectorAmnesty International USAP.S. If you're already an Amnesty International supporter, thank you. If you're not, this would be a

posted by txpoollover, 18:51 | link | comments

The latest on the Right Wing takeover of PBS... (Hello In There, has cancelled it's support of PBS, as long as  Ken Tomlinson is in charge)

MEDIA – HOUSE TRIES TO TAR AND FEATHER BIG BIRD: Apparently not content with simply taking over the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the congressionally chartered agency that directs funding for public broadcasting, conservatives are now trying to gut its funding. Yesterday a House subcommittee voted "to sharply reduce the federal government's financial support" of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with the intention of eliminating all federal money for CPB in two years. This would be "the most drastic cutback of public broadcasting since Congress created the nonprofit CPB in 1967." On another front, high-ranking State Department official Patricia de Stacy Harrison, "a former co-chairman of the Republican National Committee is the leading candidate" to be CPB's next chief executive and already has the full support of the corporation's chairman.

posted by txpoollover, 11:50 | link | comments

Thursday, June 09, 2005

The rest of America is beginning to get hip to the Bush administration and the Republican congress. Not even Rove could prevent their recent plummet in the polls.

This is not cause for celebration (well, maybe just a little). Rather it is a signal to be on the lookout for new tactics to distract, twist and hide the truth from citizens who have simply had enough of a very bad thing.

Finally forced to confront the Downing Street Memo, Bush & Co. did a wonderful job downplaying its seriousness and flat-out lying about its accuracy.

Fortunately, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) takes the matter of lying our way into war a little more seriously than his GOP colleagues do (see below).

READ: The Downing Street Memo

ACTION: Sign Rep. Conyers' Letter to Bush

 From Randi TheRandiRhodesShow



 

 Freeway Blogger

Okay, Here's the Deal. We Want Bush and Blair to Swear Under Oath That They Did Not "Fix Intelligence." On This Side of the Atlantic, It's Called Impeachment. Bush is Such a Brazen Liar. What is He Going to Say, "I Admit to What You All Already Know, But the Media Has Been Too Intimidated to Say Out Loud. We Strategically Lied America Into War, And Did a Damn Good Job of It. So What are You Going to Do About It? I Control the House, the Senate, and the Courts. So Tough Luck." That's More Like It, George. If You Said That, You Would Actually be Honest for Once. 6/8

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Premium: The Conyers Report: What Went Wrong In Ohio: The Conyers Report On The 2004 Presidential Election by Anita Miller (Editor), Gore Vidal (Introduction). Limited Number of Autographed Copies by Gore Vidal Are Available.

Sidney Blumenthal: Nixon's empire strikes back; Bush's imperial project has succeeded by learning the chief lesson of Watergate - muzzle the press. 6/10
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1502532,00.html

posted by txpoollover, 17:52 | link | comments

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

 

Houses of Right-Wing Worship
By Rose Aguilar, AlterNet
A group of Texans say Governor Rick Perry's recent signing of anti-abortion and anti-gay legislation on the grounds of a church school is decidedly un-Christian.
Posted on Jun 7, 2005

A JOURNEY INTO RED AMERICA
Rose Aguilar, AlterNet
A San Francisco progressive begins her four-month journey
through the Red States. Her first stop: the bluest town in Texas.
http://www.alternet.org/story/22059/

posted by txpoollover, 17:43 | link | comments

Monday, June 06, 2005

My first protest rally

I plan on many more in the future,

we have to stop this Republican hack

Governor Rick Perry is not going to

get re-elected, He is going down along with

Bush, Cheney and all the other Repuglicans~MK

Over 400 protesters, It was estimated by

Tarrant County executive director of the Democratic party.

Ceremony at Christian school draws protesters

NewYorkTimesArticle6-6-05

posted by txpoollover, 20:28 | link | comments

Sunday, June 05, 2005

PROTEST RALLY TODAY

Tarrant County Democratic Party
Riverside Park in Fort Worth. (Look for the big American Flag).

501 Oakhurst Scenic Dr (east of I-35N & Yucca Ave)

The Purpose:

Rick Perry left Texas children behind, but he will be in Fort Worth this Sunday for a rally and photo opportunity, pandering to his base and trying to scare off a primary challenge. After all, when one can use a church as a film set and its people as props for a political, who will ask him why 4.4 million Texas children remain shortchanged?  WE WILL! 

posted by txpoollover, 09:29 | link | comments

Saturday, June 04, 2005

Americans United: Home Page
Stand Against Extreme Judicial Nominees! Take action now to oppose the nominations of Janice Rogers Brown and Bill Pryor. ...
www.au.org/site/PageServer/ - 15k
 
 
'Team Jesus Christ'
(The Washington Post)

Evangelical Christian Cadets Harassing Others At Air Force Academy
A Question of Gym-and-State Separation
(The Washington Post)

Tell Corporate America to Drop the Hammer
You might be subsidizing Tom DeLay's legal defense when you buy an airline ticket, make a phone call or have a happy hour cocktail.

 

The Sunshine Boys -- Jon teaches the president the difference between "dissemble" and "disassemble

from Comedy Central - Shows - The Daily Show


posted by txpoollover, 16:17 | link | comments

Friday, June 03, 2005

Hate Wal-Mart? You NEED to read this.

To mark the occasion of Wal-Mart's upcoming annual meeting, Wal-Mart Watch has posted its version of a Wal-Mart annual report. It's 24 pages long in .pdf format, has two solid pages of very small endnotes and really should be considered the definitive statement on just what Wal-Mart is doing to this country.

Continue reading "Hate Wal-Mart? You NEED to read this."

posted by txpoollover, 12:32 | link | comments

Close up the Wal-mart's,  Boycott the big W

more :http://thekellogs.motime.com/1115972019#453048

What's Good for Wal-Mart is Good for America?
A Debate between The Nation and The Economist
Click here to watch the Debate:
Part I    Part II

In "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?", correspondent Hedrick Smith
examines Wal-Mart as a global force changing the balance of
power in the business world--and leaving workers behind. You'll
hear from an IBEW member who worked at television manufacturer
Thomson Industries and see Rubbermaid's equipment auctioned off
to Chinese buyers, illustrating what many consider Wal-Mart's
strong-arm tactics on suppliers to lower prices that have driven
jobs from once-solid American companies to low-wage operations
overseas.

You must see this show before you shop.

posted by txpoollover, 09:41 | link | comments (1)