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Sunday, October 29, 2006
A Message from Jerry Falwell to BuzzFlash Telling Christians to Vote for the Heathen GOP Leaders - What’s so morally totally reprehensible about it is not that it urges a "Christian" vote for Republican leaders in a partisan fashion, which is disgusting in and of itself. Rather it is that it still holds out to the fundamentalist base that the Republican Party is Godly and morally sound.
Click here:
A Message from Jerry Falwell to BuzzFlash Telling Christians to Vote for the Heathen GOP Leaders
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Sun, 10/29/2006 - 7:00am.
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Saturday, October 28, 2006
Don't Let Them Steal It
Fed up with worrying about who counts our votes?
It's time for us to have the clean elections we deserve.
Join the Secretary of State Project today.
A Democratic Romp; Or a Stolen Election?
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
by Jpol. While Carl Rove expresses confidence that the GOP will maintain control of both the House and the Senate on November 7th ...
For Voter info:
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Friday, October 27, 2006
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Worst Congress Ever: Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi on How Our National Legislature Has Become a "Stable of Thieves and Perverts"
Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi takes an in-depth look at the outgoing 109th Congress in his article, "The Worst Congress Ever." In it, Taibbi writes that over the past six years, "The U.S. parliament became a historical punch line, a political obscenity on par with the court of Nero or Caligula -- a stable of thieves and perverts who committed crimes rolling out of bed in the morning and did their very best to turn the mighty American empire into a debt-laden, despotic backwater, a Burkina Faso with cable." |
Why Pelosi Is Wrong On Impeachment
Forget Pelosi's "pledge" of no impeachment. She took an oath when she took office: to uphold and defend the Constitution, and the Constitution right now is in grave danger.
“It’s all over but the counting, and we’ll take care care of the counting.” - Congressman Peter King (R-NY), Election Night 2004.
If someone kidnapped your child and then forged some adoption papers would you simply let it go? Would you simply treat the person as the parent of your child “for the sake of the child?” After it is discovered that this person kidnapped your child would you just “let it go” because “what’s done is done” and because “there is nothing you can do about it?” Would you not call the police because the police are kidnappers as well?
You know what you would do? You would do everything in your power, both legal and illegal, to get your child back and ensure his or her safety! You would do ANYTHING and ANYTHING would be justified. I don’t think anyone would argue with me on this point.
Do you love America? Are you a patriot? Are you willing to die for your nation? Then why did you allow your nation to be kidnapped?
posted by txpoollover, 20:28 | link | comments
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Gore Vidal Assured Military Would Prevent Staged Terror - LINK - Literary giant says 9/11 allowed to happen, slams Bush administration coup de 'tat of American freedom - Controversial and prolific author, political commentator and essayist Gore Vidal is assured that the military's growing revulsion at the Bush junta's policies would ensure they would try and prevent any false flag staged terror attack, while slamming the end of Habeas Corpus and the administration's coup de 'tat of America on a nationally syndicated radio broadcast.
posted by txpoollover, 19:45 | link | comments
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
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Ezekiel now has a website for people who want to learn more about emigrating: Shelter from the Storm.
watch: Countdown with Keith Olbermann - MSNBC.com
I don't think I've ever seen a higher anxiety level among some segments of the American population. After viewing the news reports and reading the "threads" on Internet forums and blogs, it appears the feeling is widespread that the U. S. is either going to turn sharply away from the Orwellian course it's followed the past five years, or it will get much worse and soon.
Here's what this week's two "highest impact " diaries were about on the top Democratic blog, DailyKos. Coming in "#1" was a post entitled "ACTION ALERT: Blackwell purged Ohio Voter Rolls Oct 1st.- Vote Early " raising the possibility that Republican Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell had purged enough Democratic voters to keep the Buckeye State red in 2006. One commenter responded :
This is the most depressing story I have ever read. If it is true, democracy in America is truly dead.
The second diary, titled "HUGE! Bush Guts Posse Comitatus, Grabs National Guard!," is about how Bush, with Congress's help, has changed the law so as to allow him to override governors' control of their own National Guard units. In response to comments hoping that a new Congress would quickly overturn the law after the first of the year, a commenter wrote :
I'm worried we can't beat this back. with election fraud and steps toward martial law, it's hard to be optimistic. i dunno we haven't been able to stop anything yet. so much hinges on this election it's scary. until then i'm stocking up on water and canned goods.
Stocking up on water and canned goods during a week when the news has been better for Democrats and worse for Bush than any in memory?:
Such an attitude might be dismissed as the product of an especially trepidacious spirit or even of a mole trying to suppress Democrats' confidence, but it's not just anonymous posters on blogs who are expessing a sense of foreboding. Tough Texan Molly Ivins writes:
So how come I'm not thrilled? Because I watched this happen two years ago - same rejection of the Iraq war, same disgust with Bush and Co., same understanding Republicans are for the rich, period, same polls showing D's with the lead going right into Election Day. And the same geographic gerrymander and same wall of money in the last two weeks. I'm not close to calling this election, and I'm sure not into celebrating anything yet.
And the gutsy Keith Olbermann, living up again and again to his appropriation of Edward R. Murrow's sign-off line, said in his commentary from a few night ago on Bush's signing of the new Military Commissions Act:
These things you have done, Mr. Bush, they would constitute the beginning of the end of America.
I know Americans want to believe that they still live in a democracy where the "people" rule. I understand that Americans who are antiwar or liberal or gay or Muslim or atheist want to trust in the common sense and good faith of a majority of their fellow citizens. All peace- and freedom-loving people in the world are hoping--as they hoped 2 years ago--that America will regain her sanity and make a definite change in course.
But just in case there are still enough Americans happy to vote their fear or prejudice or greed to keep the Republicans in power, consider some options better than stocking up on bottled water and canned goods.
Just in case the combination of voter suppression , paperless electronic voting , Republican Secretaries of State and a Republican U. S. Supreme Court is enough to hold the House and Senate for Bush's allies, at least do a little research about a place to where you might be able to go so you can avoid learning more about the Military Commissions Act than you really wanted to know.
Just in case the Democrats do manage to win, but decide to let Bush continue on his merry way, trampling the Constitution, consider check out what it would take to move to a place where habeas corpus has not been suspended.
Just in case the November 7 election still leaves enough pro-war Congressman and Senators in office--Republicans and Democrats--to support Bush's plans for war against Iran, find out more about a country that is neither a target nor a supporter of American imperial ambitions.
Just in case the Congress that convenes in January decides to follow the advice of leaders of both parties that want a draft to solve the military's manpower problems, at least explore the possibility of moving somewhere that does not extradite draft resisters.
Just in case all it would take to plunge the U. S. into a full-blown fascist state is another terrorist attack or war with Iran, think about doing what many brave and honorable resisters have done throughout history--find a place of refuge.
If you're involved in efforts to turn out the criminals who have seized power in America, that's great. Keep it up. But if you have any spare time, there's a lot you can do now to prepare for the possibility that November 7 is not going be the day when America begins to return to constitutional democracy.
Just in case.
posted by txpoollover, 21:06 | link | comments
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Is It Viet Nam Yet?
Cindy Sheehan has done more for the
peace movement than anyone. Go Cindy!
~Hello in there
Is it Vietnam Yet?
Cindy Sheehan
With the mid-term elections looming dangerously close, and with public opinion in opposition to George’s failed foreign policies crossing the two-thirds mark, the White House announced that they are going to present their puppet government of Iraq with a “timetable” for US withdrawal. This reminds me of Richard Nixon’s “secret plan” to remove US troops from Vietnam that he touted in his narrow electoral victory over Hubert Humphrey in 1968.
The US plan for withdrawing from Iraq would include disarming militias and training more Iraqi security forces to take over security of the country---which sounds suspiciously like Nixon’s “Vietnamization” program. With the incipient warmonger Kissinger (we were wondering why Iraq was such an unmitigated disaster?) back in the Oval Office advising George does this smell like a fiasco to anyone else?
Unbelievably, even though my own son was killed in Iraq, I am often told that the US deaths in this young century’s first conflict for profit are “negligible” compared to Vietnam, or a “drop in the bucket.” I have terrible news for these reich-wing carnage confederates: Iraq is even deadlier for US forces than Vietnam. In the first 3 years 7 months of the illegal and immoral occupation of Iraq, 2791 of our volunteer soldiers have been tragically killed and in the first 4 years of the illegal and immoral conflict in Vietnam (which was never a “war” constitutionally declared by Congress either), 1864 conscripts were killed.
The disparity in KIA’s is huge and the implications of this makes me nauseous. October is turning into one of the grisliest months for soldiers and citizens in Iraq. With Henry Kissinger visiting Georgie on a semi-regular basis, and with the beat of the death-drums pounding for Iran, we can recall Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia and the resulting carnage in Southeast Asia and the violent protests (ie, Kent State) here at home. Apparently Nixon’s "secret plan" was increased slaughter, and I shudder to think of George’s plans for peace.
In 2000 dollars, the Congressional hacks of the War Machine splurged 161 billions of our dollars in the 14 years that Vietnam dragged disastrously on. However, that is a paltry sum. So far, in 2006 dollars, Congress has deliriously wasted almost 340 billions of dollars! The War Machine is busy laundering the blood out of their money before they make a deposit in the National Bank of Lost Hopes and Dreams.
The other similarities to Vietnam prove the old adage that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. In 1967, Robert McNamara, JFK’s and LBJ’s, Secretary of War and prime architect of the Vietnam mistake, left his post as primary civilian death deliverer to become President of the World Bank. Similarly, assistant Secretary of War, and prime architect, cheerleader, and liar of the Iraqi mistake, Paul Wolfowitz left his post in the War Department for the apparent next logical step of President of the World Bank. Evidently, it is not only in BushCo that one’s penchant for butchery is rewarded handsomely!
Across the country, our fellow Americans despair that “young people” aren’t involved in the anti-war movement, or there isn’t as much activism as there was during the Vietnam years. Historically, the anti-war movement is much more active and relevant in this conflict than in the same time period during Vietnam. There were enormous demonstrations before the invasion of Iraq because millions of people around the world did not want to be witnesses to another bloody struggle and did not want killing waged in their names. I, myself, have been involved in enormous demonstrations just in the last year. As the news coverage on the ground in Iraq vastly differs from the news coverage in Vietnam (I remember the daily dosage of nightly news regarding Vietnam---with uncensored footage), so does the coverage of the anti-war movement, which is terribly underreported.
Recently, Congressmembers from California wrote a letter to Rumbo to request that the Pentagon remove embedded reporters from CNN out of Iraq because, surprisingly, CNN showed some ghastly footage of Iraqi snipers targeting US troops. No one wants to see death as it happens (unless it's fictional) and increasingly Americans are realizing that just because we are not shown the shocking images does not mean that they are not happening. We are beginning to come out of the media induced coma and contradict BushCo's perception that Iraq is a hotbed of happiness and democracy. No, we the people are realizing that the criminals who put our young people in an avoidable situation are the ones to blame and the shocking images will stop when our troops are brought home!
In Vietnam, we saw a Lieutenant convicted and later pardonned for war crimes in the horrors of My Lai. In Iraq, we have seen a few privates and specialists be similarly prosecuted for such horrors as Abu Ghraib. After Vietnam, Nixon, Johnson, McNamara, Kissinger, etc. should have been prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity. We all know what happened to each of them. Kissinger won a Nobel Peace Prize, McNamara went on to the World Bank and the Presidents retired in infamy to their estates to a cozy lifetime with their families. Did any of them have regrets, nightmares or feelings of abject guilt? Probably not, but we do know for certain that none of them went to prison. For this quagmire of Iraq, we the people must make sure that BushCo cannot retire to their ranches (in Crawford or Paraguay) or estates to live lives of relative ease. They must be prosecuted and imprisoned for the murders that their policies and greed have caused. Wars for profit will not end until those responsible for causing them are forced to face their mistakes and pay for them.
During the ‘60’s we were told to be afraid, very afraid, of the Commun”ists.” Now we are being bombarded daily with convenient and politically expedient warnings of the Terror”ists.” In 1968, a small majority of the electorate chose to believe Nixon and his “secret plan” to exit Vietnam: a plan which killed almost 50 thousand more American soldiers before he was done and untold millions of Vietnamese. Now, we are supposed to believe known and proven liars about their “timetable” for eventual withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. How many more of our human treasure (Iraqi, American, Muslim, Christian, Brown, Black and White) will be wasted before our elected officials decide to pull the plug on this one? Do not vote out of fear next month. Vote with your courage for candidates who are loudly anti-war and pro-accountability.
In 1975 the gut-wrenching debacle in Vietnam finally ended when Congress closed the treasury to killing. There is a proposed bill, HR4232 (McGovern, D-Ma) to cut the funding for continued killing in Iraq. Pressure your Congressperson to support this bill. It is the only way to bring our troops home, close the permanent bases and put the War Machine out of business, temporarily.
Statistically, twice as many Vietnam Vets have committed suicide than were killed in actual combat. We need to insure that some of the billions we are handing over to Halliburton, Bechtel, Boeing, Exxon, etc. to hyper-fund the VA so this tragedy is averted for Iraq Vets. We need to make sure our vets’ lives are as comfortable as their civilian leaders’ lives are uncomfortable.
So many people approach me and say: “I never thought this would happen again after Vietnam.” I always ask them, “Why?” After the troops limped home from Southeast Asia, badly wounded, physically and emotionally, the anti-war movement went home, too. The anti-war movement cannot rest on its laurels this time. We need to transform the anti-war movement into a radical peace movement to make sure unending wars for greed never “happen again!”
Is Iraq “Vietnam yet?” Yes and no. Yes that people are dying for no reason and the continued death is justified by not “cutting and running.” Yes that families are being destroyed and our treasury is not only being emptied, but trillions in the red. But also, no...
...Iraq is worse than Vietnam.
posted by txpoollover, 19:32 | link | comments
Thursday, October 19, 2006
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
posted by txpoollover, 19:07 | link | comments
Monday, October 16, 2006
from OpEdNews.Com
By John Perry
"Official" 9/11 Story On Life Support; The Truth Is Taking Over
The gutless purveyors of fraud trying to shout down the 9/11 Truth movement are not going to like this news. The "official" story is on life support, and the prognosis is not good....The 9/11 Commission is a complete farce. Three thousand people died on 9/11 and nobody in government got so much as a slap on the wrist...
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9/11 News : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#911
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· Americans Question Bush on 9/11 Intelligence - Only 16 per cent of respondents say the government headed by U.S. president George W. Bush is telling the truth on what it knew prior to the terrorist attacks, down five points since May 2002.
TVNL Comment: That's putting it mildly!
· Lost in the Dust of 9/11 - From society's margins, janitors were drafted for an epic cleanup around ground zero. Then 'the cough' racked their lives.
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posted by txpoollover, 15:44 | link | comments
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Check out the video: Stick a yellow ribbon on your S.U.V.
See the Asylum Street Spankers
I have seen this group Perform in Austin, TX,
They will make you laugh and the music will make
you dance. ~ Hello In There
Definately see them, look for tour dates here:
The new album is here!
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posted by txpoollover, 18:57 | link | comments
How many dead U.S. soldiers?
How many dead Iraqis?
Bush: Iraqis willing to "tolerate" violence [VIDEO]
Bush doesn't find report that over half million Iraqis are dead 'credible'... Watch »
from: Democracy Now!: radio and TV news
Co-Author of Medical Study Estimating 650,000 Iraqi Deaths Defends Research in the Face of White House Dismissal
More than 650,000 people have died in Iraq
since the U.S. led invasion of the country began in March of 2003. This is according to a new study published in the scientific journal, The Lancet. The study was conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. Researchers based their findings on interviews with a random sampling of households taken in clusters across Iraq. The study is an update to a prior one compiled by many of the same researchers. That study estimated that around 100,000 Iraqis died in the first 18 months after the invasion. ... we’re 95% sure it’s between about 400,000 and 950,000.
Did VA Hide Figures Showing 1 in 4 US Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Disabled From Service?
Newly released documents reveal that more than
150,000 soldiers disabled U.S. troops
who left the military after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan have been at least partly disabled as a result of service - this translates to one in four veterans. What’s more, it appears the Department of Veterans’ Affairs was trying to hide the figures
posted by txpoollover, 18:22 | link | comments
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Narrowing The Net
by Art Brodsky, TomPaine.com
The AT&T-BellSouth merger is the latest threat to net neutrality. Will the FCC stop it?
The Justice Department today rubber stamped the $78 billion merger of AT&T and BellSouth -- deserting its post as the public's shield against corporate monopolies.
The merger now goes to the Federal Communications Commission for final approval. The deal would effectively resurrect the Ma Bell monopoly that ruled our nation's communications industry for nearly a century.
The only ones standing in the path of a new AT&T monopoly are citizens like you. Tell the FCC:
Don't Let Ma Bell Monopolize the Internet
The merger of AT&T and BellSouth would create a network behemoth that controls nearly half of all telephone land lines in the United States. But the new AT&T presents a far greater threat.
Under the rule of CEO Ed Whitacre, the company is leading the effort to gut Net Neutrality -- the longstanding principle that prevents phone companies from controlling what you do, where you go and what you see on the Internet.
Soon all digital media -- telephone, TV, radio and the Web -- will enter homes via a single broadband connection. Whitacre is trying to control this "pipe" -- and the billions of dollars at stake -- by erecting new Internet toll booths and discriminating against Web sites that can't afford their new fees.
If the FCC doesn't place any conditions on the mega-merger, nothing would prevent the new AT&T from taking away the free and open Internet that has fostered unprecedented economic innovation and democratic participation.
The good news is that we have some allies at the FCC. Two of the four commissioners who will vote on the merger have indicated that they will support Net Neutrality conditions as part of any merger. But they need strong public support to prevail.
Tell the FCC: No AT&T Merger without Net Neutrality
Before the FCC rules, it needs to hear from you. Please forward this e-mail to everyone you know.
P.S. For more information on the AT&T-BellSouth merger, please visit: www.freepress.net/att
P.P.S. For another take on the deal, watch our exclusive YouTube interview with Richard P. Merryweather, president and CEO of CT&T Com:
Part I: "The Merger and Me"
Part II: "Money Well Spent"
posted by txpoollover, 15:35 | link | comments
Monday, October 09, 2006
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Another Republican Revealed as Sex Pervert: GOP Fundraiser and Husband of "Dancing With the Stars" Contestant -- A BuzzFlash News Alert
Republicans hit by wave of political bad news
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A seamy Capitol Hill sex scandal is the latest bad news to deflate Republicans and leave them scrambling for political survival four weeks before elections that will decide whether they keep control of the U.S. Congress.
HOW TO TALK TO A REPUBLICAN,THIS IS A MUST SEE.....THE DEMS NEED TO LEARN MORE FROM THIS GUY........
EXCERPT;
watch here
Sounds like an attempt at another Franklin Cover-Up.
Here is the link to the Scandal involving the Reagan Admin Scandal:
posted by txpoollover, 09:40 | link | comments
Thursday, October 05, 2006
 The World Can't Wait, Drive Out The Bush Regime!
Today, people everywhere are walking out of school, taking off work, and coming to the downtowns & townsquares and setting out from there, going through the streets and calling on many more to join us - making a powerful statement: "NO! THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT!"
posted by txpoollover, 16:30 | link | comments
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
read: America lost: Congress votes to legalize war
America Lost?
“Can a regime headed in a fascist direction be driven from power? Yes. It can. It must.... Changing History is Not A Spectator Sport
Announcing a Day of Mass Resistance:
OCTOBER 5, 2006
BRING THIS TO A HALT!” Source: worldcantwait.org
On October 5, people everywhere will walk out of school, take off work, and come to the downtowns & townsquares and set out from there, going through the streets and calling on many more to join us - making a powerful statement: "NO! THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT!"
World Can't Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime!
posted by txpoollover, 04:12 | link | comments
Monday, October 02, 2006
Make Them Accountable
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Ouch! Joe Scarborough Rips GOP House Leadership, Rips Them a New One! When Joe Turns on the Republicans, It's a Gusher. (Of Course, We've Always Wanted to Ask Joe About that Dead Staff Member Found in His Former Florida Congressional Office.)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15106507/
http://www.democrat icunderground. com/discuss/ duboard.php? az=view_all& address=364x2277 425
For TONS of information about Mark Foley, Republican Congressman from
Florida, go to: http://www.talkingp ointsmemo. com/
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