In 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency ranked a major hurricane strike on New Orleans as "among the three likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing this country," directly behind a terrorist strike on New York City. Yesterday, disaster struck. One of the strongest storms in recorded history rocked the Gulf Coast, bringing 145 mph winds and floods of up to 20 feet. One million residents were evacuated; at least 65 are confirmed dead. Tens of thousands of homes were completely submerged. Mississippi's governor reported "catastrophic damage on all levels." Downtown New Orleans buildings were "imploding," a fire chief said. Oil surged past $70 a barrel. New Orleanians were grimly asking each other, "So, where did you used to live?" (To donate to Red Cross disaster relief, click here or call 1-800-HELP-NOW).

To all the Bush supporters and others who

continue, to be fooled ~ Hello In There

Quotes of the Day

There is danger from all men. The only maxim  of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
 – John Adams

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

A Funny one here:

("Taps" at Camp Casey ll)

On my 3rd and final visit to Camp Casey,

as I listened to a tape of Nanci Griffith,

singing " From a Distance " I saw anger

and hate among the Bush supporters, as

I drove through downtown Crawford, TX.

On my right, I saw large US flags, I thought,

"There is no flag large enough to cover

 the shame of killing innocent people"

-Howard Zinn

 Passing through signs of support for

the lies of George W. Bush, reading

"I am 4 W", I took that to mean," I am for

"war". "W" has come to mean a "W",as

in George W.  I say the W is for

( Wimp /Chickenhawk) Bush.

 Very clever advertising and  multi-

million dollar think-tanks has brainwashed

the American people, the corporate TV

watching ignorant 36% that believes

GWB to be a moral man, and a man that

has other than Oil and , Corporate interests,

and World Domination as an agenda. read :

The Project for the New American Century

As I entered the long dusty road to the

Bush ranch.

I thought of  the lies and deceit that foolish

people believe, it saddens me and I don't

like what is happening to our country.

 This protest has gotten

a lot of negative attention the lies and

distortion is abundant.

A sign read "Freedom Isn't Free"

What kind of freedom do we have ?

We are being fooled into thinking we

have feedom of speech and we are fighting

for a "noble cause" What Noble Cause?

read here what Cindy Sheehan said:

http://truthout.org/cindy.shtml

On my 3 visits, I met with  new friends ,

 Stephanie, Joni, and , Holly and family ,

Karen, Stormy and many more from Fort Worth

came to volunteer, and show support for Cindy

I am glad I got to go to Crawford Texas,

I will always have the fondest of memories,

of my time at Camp_Casey . This last trip

there had a bad feeling about it and I felt,

the raw bundled energy in the Texas heat,

It was not the feelings of love and hope and

peace. While waiting for my group of peace

supporters, in a corner roped off to display

banners from a group from Homer , AK.

This last time the heat was unbearable,

people were passing out with heat stroke

drinking water was predominant,

 children and elderly people in

 wheelchairs, and respirators should

not be out in a tent, in the Texas heat.

I saw an older man , collecting money,

"to help Cindy" He did not have any

buttons or t-shirt on, he may have been with

the "Freepers" I  did not feel like

he was on the up and up. I know ,

 I must think positive as , my friend Steph

 says, she donated 3 dollars, It was hot, people

were very sweaty and miserable.

The time was right for me ,to hit the dusty

trail, after I saw the crowd swell, and angry

 shouts, from Bush supporters,

coming from the road.

 I saw infants and extremely

elderly and obese people at this rally,

that had no business venturing out in the 100

plus weather. The music was great.

We heard James McMurtry  , Steve Earle  ,

and many more. Joan Baez , sang on the 2

weekends, she had stayed , for over a week.

One song she played more than once was

"Joe Hill -" and the final song Joan played ,

about a war that devided our country worse

than ever in our history,

 ( The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics )

I met the greatest people of my

life here in Crawford, I'll see you

again and again.

Camp_Casey_Photos

 

I will be in Washington DC on Sept 24th,

United for Peace: September Mobilization

Latest News | Crawford Peace House

~ Hello In There

How is George W. Bush doing?

Gallup: President Bush's Approval Rating Hits New Low, at 40%
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?
vnu_content_id=1001022496

Today at  an obviously Republican car wash,

The signed pictures of prominent Repubs lined the walls.

Fox news was on a tv screen. It really is Faux news.

I saw the  American people are lied to and fooled repeatedly,

by the Corporate Media. I am going to return to Camp Casey,

to support Cindy Sheehan, as she waits to hear from Bush.

What Noble Cause? ~ Fooled Again

Cindy Sheehan: Freedom Isn't Free - The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford - Day 19
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/08/con05304.html

A SHORT LIST OF OFFENSES

·         George W. Bush came to the Presidency and immediately appointed a cadre of convicted felons and their associates from the Iran Contra era to many extremely important government positions.  AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         Members of the Project for a New American Century, proponents of preemptive wars against Iraq and Afghanistan were immediately given more than a dozen strategic positions in the new Bush government.  AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         After 9/11, George Bush refused – for eighteen months - to investigate the causes of the worst attacks in history on American soil. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         Condoleezza Rice lied to the nation about never having imagined the use of hijacked airliners as weapons.  AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         Rice, Bush and Cheney had to be coerced to testify before the Kean Commission. Rice refused to testify under oath, and Bush and Cheney testified for a very limited time and only as a team.  AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         Rice admitted to the Kean Commission that the August memo had warned about possible attacks on AMERICAN soil by Al Qaeda, and yet the President remained on vacation at his ranch for the remainder of the summer. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         George Bush manipulated intelligence information in order to gain support for his plans to attack Iraq.  That is an impeachable offense. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         Colin Powell lied to the United Nations in a fabricated presentation designed to gain support for a preventive attack against Iraq.  AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Condoleezza Rice lied over and over and over to the nation about Saddam Hussein’s WMD’s, his connection to Al Qaeda, and his plans to attack the US. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         George Bush wrested away your power to declare war by lying to the Congress about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.  He promised to use military force as a last resort, after all other options had been exhausted.  He lied to Congress.  That is an impeachable offence. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         George Bush handed Haliburton, Dick Cheney’s former company, multi billion dollar, no-bid contracts in Iraq.  AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         George Bush sent Ahmed Chalabi, a convicted felon, and his source for false WMD information to Iraq with and team of 800 armed thugs.  They staged the infamous statue toppling, and bilked American taxpayers out of billions of dollars in regular payments to set up a pro Bush interim government.  AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         In May of 2003, George Bush declared major conflict ended in Iraq. His mission was accomplished.  Since then horrific chaos, death and destruction have followed. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         The Pentagon refused to allow photographs of returning flag-draped coffins, and refused to count civilian deaths in Iraq.  Yet, they managed to stage the rescue of Jessica Lynch, which was exposed as a fabrication. AND YOU NEVER SAID WORD

·         Our young men and women in Iraq were dying and being maimed because they had no armor on their Humvees to protect them from roadside bombs. They were sent to die without adequate body armor, radios, night goggles and flashlights. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         Tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians were killed by our so-called smart bombs and illegal weapons, including napalm and depleted uranium shells were used as standard weapons.  AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         Photographs and eye-witness testimony from the ICRC and other agencies proved that the US was breaking international law by torturing prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. The problem was systemic and condoned at the highest levels of government. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         Private airliners were being used by the Pentagon to transport prisoners for interrogation in other countries that condone and practice horrific methods of torture.  AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         George Bush and his cohorts changed the rationale for going to war over and over, manipulating their mantras as each lie was exposed and new reasons were needed to justify their illegal war. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         There was no plan to keep the peace, no plan to stop the looting, no plan to deal with an insurgency despite the warnings of so many in the military. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         The chaos, increased, the deaths and the destruction grew, and the insurgency proved to be unending.  But your President told you we were making progress. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         The Downing Street Minutes were leaked to the public months ago. The content of these nine documents made it clear that George Bush had planned an invasion of Iraq at all costs, and that he planned to ‘fix’ intelligence information to gain support for his war of choice. That is an unquestionable high crime that merits impeachment. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         The Downing Street Minutes remain ignored by the White House, and neither the Congress nor the media have demanded answers from the President. Rep. John Conyers was refused a meeting room for an airing of these important documents and had to hold his hearing in a tiny basement room. Such disrespect was unprecedented and inexcusable. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

This, dear Congress people, is the short list. But even in its brevity, it is a powerful indictment of your villainous roles in tacit support of the affairs d’etat of the Bush administration.  But, to really get to you, to really make you sit up and look at yourselves with some pangs of conscience, the list needs a powerful finale, - one that makes all the other items almost pale by comparison. So here it is:

·         In March of 2003, someone in the White House committed a serious felony. He or she or they leaked the identity of a CIA operative to the press. This was done to punish Joseph Wilson, a man who had dared to expose George Bush’s lie about yellow cake uranium sales to Saddam Hussein. Despite the seriousness of this crime, George Bush did nothing to try and discover who was responsible.  In fact, he refused to conduct any investigation of his own staff to uncover a felony under his roof. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         After three months of ignoring a crime by someone in the WH, the CIA demanded an inquiry of what they termed a crime. Only then was the case given to WH buddy and supporter, then AG John Ashcroft.  AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         Finally, after five months had passed, the case was handed to a Special Counsel working on behalf of the Justice Department. Two years and millions of dollars after the Novak article outing Valerie Plame appeared, George Bush has yet to call Karl Rove aside and demand an explanation.  AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

·         Two years and millions of dollars after the article appeared, George Bush has yet to come forward and tell us what he knew and when he knew it. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.  YOU STILL REFUSE TO UTTER A SINGLE WORD!

It is time now, to speak out people !

Demand the truth.

All Hat No Cattle

U.S. Held Meetings With Taliban in 2000

What Did They Know and When Did They Know It

Make Them Accountable
News and links to sources for liberal and progressive news countering conservative
trends in politics and media.

Debugging The E-Vote by Matthew Zimmerman. TomPaine.com      Congress has a solid fix for electronic voting within its grasp. Will it seize the opportunity? http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050817/debugging_the_evote.php

What They Did Last Fall
By PAUL KRUGMAN
There was at least as much electoral malfeasance in 2004 as there was in 2000, and the next election may be worse.

Election Fraud Continues in the US New Data Shows Widespread Vote Manipulations in 2004

By Peter Phillips

In the fall of 2001, after an eight-month review of 175,000 Florida ballots never counted in the 2000 election, an analysis by the National Opinion Research Center confirmed that Al Gore actually won Florida and should have been President. However, coverage of this report was only a small blip in the corporate media as a much bigger story dominated the news after September 11, 2001. New research compiled by Dr. Dennis Loo with the University of Cal Poly Pomona now shows that extensive manipulation of non-paper-trail voting machines occurred in several states during the 2004 election.  Read more...

Since Cindy Sheehan -- whose son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, was killed in Iraq -- began her protest outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch on August 7, she has been the target of smears by conservatives and others in the media. Media Matters for America has compiled several examples of these attacks:

Read more...

Marjorie Cohn | Why Bush Can't Answer Cindy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081805I.shtml
Why didn't Bush simply invite Cindy in for tea when she arrived in
Crawford? Marjorie Cohn says that in a brief, personal meeting with Cindy,
Bush could have defused a situation that has become a profound
embarrassment for him, and could derail his political agenda.

Latest News:

Tonight 20 Fort Worth citizens,

held a vigil for about an hour,

showing our neighborhood

support for Cindy Sheehan.

Another 100, were at Burnetts

Park. Many more neighborhoods,

hosted MoveOn.org meetings.

Several of us are returning to

Crawford on Saturday a.m.

Sally Craig, made this observation,

"Remember when we were citizens?

Now we are, taxpayers."

Bush's_Neighbor_Offers_His_Property

From Bush Limbo:

Limbaugh Loses It, Says Sheehan Made Up

Camp Casey, Day 11

The right wingers are really having a field day with me. It hurts me really badly, but I am willing to put up with the crap, if it ends the war

UPDATE ON CAMP CASEY

 "the line of gravemarkers along the road

(Arlington West) had been run over. ."

Listen to:

Thom Hartmann - author, progressive talk radio show host, books ...

Jefferson Would Have Stood With Cindy Sheehan
by Thom Hartmann

Nationally, it was clearly a phenomenon when several truckers called into my radio show on Sirius Satellite to say that they were interrupting trips through central parts of the USA to head to Crawford, Texas. One even reported live as he experienced a (friendly) reception by the local sheriff, who helped him find a place to park his rig.

Someone Tell the President the War Is Over - New York Times

On friday night I had decided to go to Crawford,

to show support for Cindy Sheehan.

My group of Fort Worth  Cindy supporters ,

 got to Crawford Texas, at  about noon.

Cindy spoke to our accumulating cadre,

 on 3 occasions. Cindy's_Speech_Here

On seeing over 1,000 people and more cars lined

up entering "Camp Casey" Cindy said it was the

6th happiest day of her life, behind her marriage and

the births of her 4 children.

The Bush side will say,

they had 100's of supporters. In fact those that

support an unjust war, and the lies of George

W. Bush numbered less than 50 all total.

Some sick individuals and plants stood

across from us, declaring their devotion to GWB.

After the vigil, songs by Eliza Gilkyson

and others,   Ray McGovern  spoke to

us about the mess in Iraq, and how we

have proven that the reasons for being in

this immoral war, and all the lies about

the 9-11 tradgedy being associated with

the Iraq invasion.

The father of a murdered son,

 Bill Mitchell spoke, more music, then

 we went to the "Peace_House" a small property

purchased by John Wolfe,and others, so those 

opposing the lies&deceit of Bush and co.,

can have a place to organize, re-charge , eat and some,

to sleep. As for me, I went to a small campsite nearby.

The Tonkawa Falls, swimming hole .

My friend Blanca Gonzales,( a truly inspirational woman),

and her daughters, invited me to camp

with them. This varried and lively group, stayed up

and talked until the "cows came home" as we say

in Texas. I did not sleep at all. A nearby granite factory,

was in full operation.. all night.  I finally decided to

get up and shower: at the ladies shower, (the mens

facility had no water). As I was leaving the showers, a

most interesting woman appeared, I had met

Stephanie earlier, at the campsite.

Stephanie also couldn't sleep ,

 She had the same idea as I did.

 After Stephanie B. showered, we decided to

 take a walk into Crawford., looking for a coffee shop

This was for me,  the highlight of the trip.

I'll write more later, about my adventures in

Crawford, Texas . You can learn a lot about

a town, on foot at 5:30 in the morning,

with a writer from Houston. To all the

victims of the war dead ~ Hello In There

More about the vigil here :

Anti-war Sentiment Gets Champion
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081505A.shtml
In her high-profile vigil outside President Bush's Texas ranch, Cindy
Sheehan has brought the face and the heart of the anti-war movement to the world.

Each and every flag-draped coffin returning home deserves the truth,

 “I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.”- President John Kennedy

Support the Truth, Justice and the American Way!

Not Another Justice Sunday

Religious Right's 'Justice Sunday II' To Bash Courts, Politicize Churches, Charges Americans United

One thousand patriotic progressives and some of the nation's and Nashville's most powerful progressive religious leaders will gather in Nashville Sunday for the Freedom AND Faith rally opposite Tom DeLay and the Right's so-called "Justice Sunday."

A question about "Justice Sunday" is, why would these conservative "value" voters want to hear from DeLay, a man who did government favors for Saipan (where abortions were mandatory for pregnant garment workers), a man who did those favors at the behest of an indicted lobbyist and DeLay fundraiser, Jack Abramoff? Why would they want DeLay, a man who's under multiple investigations for illegal and unethical campaign finance schemes, a man who threatens federal judges who don't do what he says?

read: Make Them Accountable

Kool-Aid Economics

Although "the nation's faith in him is clearly tailing off, [President] Bush still seems pretty pleased with himself." The President and other administration officials have launched a public relations blitz in order "to win credit for the rash of positive economic news." If President Bush thinks the recent economic growth should be heralded as a victory for his fiscal policies, then he is suffering from "the soft bigotry of low expectations." "[Relative] to comparable past periods, the current economic recovery has, on balance, been worse than average." Not only is the most recent economic recovery inferior to previous ones in history but also it is leaving out a notable section of the citizenry. Treasury Secretary John Snow recently acknowledged, "the fruits of strong economic growth are not spreading equally to less educated Americans." Taken together, "the economy’s overall performance does not make up for the adverse fiscal effects of the recent tax cuts or the unusually uneven distribution of the economic gains from this recovery."   

Maureen Dowd is Back: "There's an angry mother of a dead soldier camping outside his Crawford ranch, demanding to see a president who prefers his sympathy to be carefully choreographed." 8/10

A MOTHER'S TEXAS VIGIL
Lakshmi Chaudhry,
Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in the Iraq war, talks
with AlterNet about her determination to speak to President
Bush -- consequences be damned.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/23984/

Evolution, Creationism and Flying Spaghetti Monsterism What started as a satirical open letter to the Kansas school board about its decision to teach creationism in public schools has become an Internet phenomenon of the most divine proportions.   Archive

Help us to maintain the wall of separation—lobby your representatives while they are at home. Members of Congress are now back in their districts until Labor Day. This is a perfect opportunity to reach your Senators and Representative on critical church-state issues that Congress will likely act on in September. Visit action.au.org to join the campaign!

James Feibleman

Gail_Delay_Pics

 I have never known a murder victim, until now.

Yesterday I attended a memorial service for

a lady, I am not sure if she knew my name,

The memorial was at  at a church in NE Texas.

This is not your conventional church and this

 was definitely an extraordinary lady.

I emailed someone today  about an ebay order

and  I wrote "sorry for the delay" I am

not sorry  I met her , Her name, Gail Delay

UPDATES ON CINDY SHEEHAN VISIT TO CRAWFORD

Bush Refuses to Meet With Mother of U.S. Soldier Killed In Iraq, Cindy Sheehan. George is a Coward. He Lets Other Men Do His Fighting for Him, And Then He Won't Meet With Their Grieving Moms. The Guy is the Master at Disaster, and a Closet Wimp to Boot.

Turns out Scooter Libby and Judy Miller met July 8, 2003 to discuss Valerie Plame -- two days after her husband's column rattled the White House. Bush Allows Scooter Libby NOT to Fully Cooperate with the TreasonGate Investigation. Is that Because Bush is a Co-conspirator?

More than 10,000 marchers stormed Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and trekked through the historic Atlanta University Center chanting, singing and clapping on Saturday in support of extending the 40-year-old Voting Rights Act.

"On the day after tomorrow four years ago President Bush received a briefing paper with the title "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside the United States." Osama bin Laden is still on the loose. And still determined. On this day four years later." (see bottom of column.) Bush and Rice Were Warned of an Impending 9/11 and Bush Went off on Vacation and Did NOTHING to Prevent It. That's the Fact, Jack! Then Rice Lied About the Whole Thing. 8/5

 READ: Bin Laden (Still) Determined to Strike in U.S.

Design for Confusion
By PAUL KRUGMAN
All intelligent design has to do to be effective is create confusion about the validity of evolutionary theory.

more on Evolution: http://thekellogs.motime.com/1123224315#480348

 Below From : The Progress Report - Center for American Progress :

Being Intelligent About Intelligent Design

On Tuesday, just a few weeks after the 80th anniversary of the famous Scopes trial, President Bush expressed his support for teaching intelligent design in public schools, saying, "[b]oth sides ought to be properly taught...so people can understand what the debate is about." In so doing, he "invigorated proponents of teaching alternatives to evolution." That's where the problem lies. While there is nothing wrong with intelligent design as an idea, it is not a scientific theory. Treating it as such for political purposes does a disservice to the nation's children. 

"The Republican Party has -- barely -- snatched another election in Ohio. And once again there are telltale symptoms of the kind of vote theft that put George W. Bush in the White House.."

"Did the GOP steal another Ohio Election?"

"We're at war with an enemy that attacked us on September the 11th, 2001," Mr. Bush said in his address here, to the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group of state legislators. "We're at war against an enemy that, since that day, has continued to kill."

President Makes It Clear: Phrase Is 'War on Terror'

Message from Chairman

Howard Dean, Keep Fighting! :

		Paul Hackett proved that Democrats can compete everywhere when we stand up for what we believe in. Help make our 50 State Strategy a success by signing up for your Democracy Bond and making a monthly commitment to the Democratic Party today. GET YOURS NOW! Your mandate to fight everywhere had its first test last night. Marine Major Paul Hackett ran for Congress in a special election in the most Republican district in Ohio. Republicans vowed to "bury" him, pundits wrote him off, and the conventional wisdom asked why Democrats would even bother to put up a fight. But then something happened. With the infrastructure of local organizers we're building in Ohio and every other state, the most Republican district in Ohio became the most competitive district in Ohio -- a district where Bush won in 2004 by a margin of two to one. We energized thousands of grassroots volunteers and small donors in Ohio and across the country. We made our stand and we fought. No, Paul Hackett didn't get elected to Congress yesterday. But he received 48.2 percent of the vote in a district where the Democratic candidate received only half that in the last four elections. The formula is simple. Paul Hackett didn't apologize for being a Democrat, didn't hold back from criticizing a president who has failed to lead in Iraq and at home, and took a strong Democratic message into the heart of a Republican stronghold. This district used to be written off. Now we have a network of Democrats, independents, and sensible Republicans who are tired of the out-of-touch Republican leadership and its culture of corruption. It proves that we can compete everywhere -- if we show up and fight, and give people a real choice. This unprecedented result shows that Americans are hungry for change. In the words of one political analyst, Hackett's performance in supposedly safe Republican district means that something is "very, very wrong" for Republicans in 2006. That's absolutely true. It also means that something is very, very right with our democracy. For too long, we have conceded huge pieces of this country to the Republicans. No more. When we roll up our sleeves and fight we can compete everywhere -- and we will. We're just getting started. We have moved people and resources into 25 states so far, and we are on our way into the next 25. We're building a permanent infrastructure to organize and build the Democratic base in every single precinct in the country -- an operation that will not disappear after a single election. This effort is unprecedented and will fundamentally change the way our party does business. But the only way to do this building the community of people who have Democracy Bonds. A Democracy Bond is a commitment to give a small amount every month to build and sustain the Democratic Party everywhere. Thousands of people have made the commitment already and are using tools on Democrats.org to grow the community and track their progress. If you want to fight everywhere, now is the time to join the Democracy Bonds community: http://www.democrats.org/democracybonds Thank you for everything you do. Governor Howard Dean, M.D. Paid for and authorized by the Democratic National Committee, www.democrats.org. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.