Proof Bush Lied
From Tom Paine.org, today, is an article by Ray McGovern that really lands a fist square in Bush's puss about him lying his ass off. Read it. I'd say refer people to that link who still don't believe Bush is the worst president ever, but by now those who can be convinced are convinced, and those who still like Bush are not just stupid motherfuckers but they're also delusional and brain dead. Fuck!
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Hendrik Hertzberg: Abramoff Scandal Is Pure GOP
In the new issue of The New Yorker, Hertzberg blows apart the notion that the Abramoff scandal is somehow "bipartisan." Read it here, from the New Yorker.
In the new issue of The New Yorker, Hertzberg blows apart the notion that the Abramoff scandal is somehow "bipartisan." Read it here, from the New Yorker.
Impeach Bush. Now.
Elizabeth Holtzman offers a comprehensive view of why Bush should be impeached. This six page, beautifully written (suitable for framing) article can be found here, from The Nation. Holtzman has some prior experience in impeachments, as she is a four-term Congresswoman who played a key role in the impeachment of that lying, fascist crook Nixon.
Elizabeth Holtzman offers a comprehensive view of why Bush should be impeached. This six page, beautifully written (suitable for framing) article can be found here, from The Nation. Holtzman has some prior experience in impeachments, as she is a four-term Congresswoman who played a key role in the impeachment of that lying, fascist crook Nixon.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
How the NY TIMES Spiked The Wiretapping Story
Read this article on FAIR's website (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) Check out this paragraph:
Reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau revealed that following the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration initiated warrantless wiretaps on hundreds of people within the U.S.--including U.S. citizens--even though a federal law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, expressly forbids the government from doing so. This program was legal only if one accepts the administration's contention that the executive branch has essentially unlimited powers during "wartime" (even though Congress has not declared war).
However, the NY Times chose not to go ahead and publish the story before the 2004 election. The Times offered some lame excuse about the White House convincing them that publishing the story would jeopardize the War On Terrorism (as it was known then). Here is FAIR's response:
The reasoning is absurd on its face. As Times executive editor Bill Keller noted in a statement released on December 16 explaining his decision to publish the story, "The fact that the government eavesdrops on those suspected of terrorist connections is well-known." But this was as obvious a year ago as it is today. As for the government's spying being "jeopardized," placing illegal and unconstitutional programs in jeopardy is the whole point of the First Amendment (Extra! Update, 12/05).
Read this article on FAIR's website (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) Check out this paragraph:
Reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau revealed that following the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration initiated warrantless wiretaps on hundreds of people within the U.S.--including U.S. citizens--even though a federal law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, expressly forbids the government from doing so. This program was legal only if one accepts the administration's contention that the executive branch has essentially unlimited powers during "wartime" (even though Congress has not declared war).
However, the NY Times chose not to go ahead and publish the story before the 2004 election. The Times offered some lame excuse about the White House convincing them that publishing the story would jeopardize the War On Terrorism (as it was known then). Here is FAIR's response:
The reasoning is absurd on its face. As Times executive editor Bill Keller noted in a statement released on December 16 explaining his decision to publish the story, "The fact that the government eavesdrops on those suspected of terrorist connections is well-known." But this was as obvious a year ago as it is today. As for the government's spying being "jeopardized," placing illegal and unconstitutional programs in jeopardy is the whole point of the First Amendment (Extra! Update, 12/05).
Alito Is The Flu
In his first day of hearings, Supreme Court hopeful Sam Alito evaded, dodged, havered, and occasionally flat out lied. Read it here from the Washington Post. Does anyone have any doubt at all that the only reason Alito is in the mix is because the Wingnuts want to overturn Roe v. Wade? That's the whole issue, and Alito is being a slippery eel on the question. Call your Senator and demand a "no" vote.
In his first day of hearings, Supreme Court hopeful Sam Alito evaded, dodged, havered, and occasionally flat out lied. Read it here from the Washington Post. Does anyone have any doubt at all that the only reason Alito is in the mix is because the Wingnuts want to overturn Roe v. Wade? That's the whole issue, and Alito is being a slippery eel on the question. Call your Senator and demand a "no" vote.
Death Of The Middle Class
From the Seattle Times comes this analysis of the vanishing American middle class. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Same old story, I guess.
From the Seattle Times comes this analysis of the vanishing American middle class. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Same old story, I guess.
Abramoff Brings Down Ralph Reed
In a lovely bit of good news, it appears that Ralph Reed, head of the Christian Coalition, is going to get roasted by the Abramoff scandal. Read it here from Common Dreams/Bloomberg. Salient paragraph:
Disclosures that Reed once ran an anti-gambling campaign that was secretly financed by casino-owning clients of his friend Abramoff have damaged his ability to raise funds for a bid to become Georgia's next lieutenant governor, other Republicans say. That may undercut his chances of winning an office that he could use as a steppingstone to national political ambitions, they say.
In a lovely bit of good news, it appears that Ralph Reed, head of the Christian Coalition, is going to get roasted by the Abramoff scandal. Read it here from Common Dreams/Bloomberg. Salient paragraph:
Disclosures that Reed once ran an anti-gambling campaign that was secretly financed by casino-owning clients of his friend Abramoff have damaged his ability to raise funds for a bid to become Georgia's next lieutenant governor, other Republicans say. That may undercut his chances of winning an office that he could use as a steppingstone to national political ambitions, they say.
Attorney General Called To Testify In Wiretapping Scandal
Things are hotting up for the Bush stormtroopers. Yesterday the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter, called for Alberto Gonzales to testify in open hearings about the NSA wiretapping imbroglio. Read it here from Boston.com. One interesting comment from the article: President Bush has said that a congressional resolution that has authorized him to use force against Iraq allows him to order spying within the United States without a warrant.
Things are hotting up for the Bush stormtroopers. Yesterday the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter, called for Alberto Gonzales to testify in open hearings about the NSA wiretapping imbroglio. Read it here from Boston.com. One interesting comment from the article: President Bush has said that a congressional resolution that has authorized him to use force against Iraq allows him to order spying within the United States without a warrant.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
LSD's Creator Turns 100
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who created LSD-25, turns 100 today. Read about him here, from MyWay. There are some glaring errors in this report, however. One is that it mentions "murder sprees" and "jumping out of windows" while on acid, without attributing either of this rumors and without any factual basis. Andrew Weil, among others, has noted that there have been no deaths directly related to LSD. Read his book, "From Chocolate To Morphine" for more. LSD has great properties. Think of all the people who are alcoholics, all the deaths, traffic wrecks, destroyed families, devastated careers and so on from alcohol. Any wonder that the hundreds of billions of dollars per year booze industry is against things like LSD being legalized?
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who created LSD-25, turns 100 today. Read about him here, from MyWay. There are some glaring errors in this report, however. One is that it mentions "murder sprees" and "jumping out of windows" while on acid, without attributing either of this rumors and without any factual basis. Andrew Weil, among others, has noted that there have been no deaths directly related to LSD. Read his book, "From Chocolate To Morphine" for more. LSD has great properties. Think of all the people who are alcoholics, all the deaths, traffic wrecks, destroyed families, devastated careers and so on from alcohol. Any wonder that the hundreds of billions of dollars per year booze industry is against things like LSD being legalized?
O'Reilly Has His Wet Dream Come True
A few months back Bill O'Reilly fulminated against San Francisco for the city declaring they would not support fascist provisions of the Patriot Act. O'Reilly famously said that we should then not help defend SF, and if a terrorist ever attacked that American city, they couldn't come crying to big daddy Bill about it. Well, police just defused a bomb in a Starbucks in SF, read it here from the Mercury News. A true progressive would never use a bomb, and a real progressive would never blow up a coffeehouse, of all places. That would be like a Wingnut putting a bomb in an NRA booth at a gunshow. So who would bomb a Bohemian den of leftist agitation like Starbucks? One of O'Reilly's delusional robots, that's who, just keep watching the news. This could be the first instance of the crazy religious right trying to instigate a war on home soil against the evolved humans in America.
A few months back Bill O'Reilly fulminated against San Francisco for the city declaring they would not support fascist provisions of the Patriot Act. O'Reilly famously said that we should then not help defend SF, and if a terrorist ever attacked that American city, they couldn't come crying to big daddy Bill about it. Well, police just defused a bomb in a Starbucks in SF, read it here from the Mercury News. A true progressive would never use a bomb, and a real progressive would never blow up a coffeehouse, of all places. That would be like a Wingnut putting a bomb in an NRA booth at a gunshow. So who would bomb a Bohemian den of leftist agitation like Starbucks? One of O'Reilly's delusional robots, that's who, just keep watching the news. This could be the first instance of the crazy religious right trying to instigate a war on home soil against the evolved humans in America.
How Low Have We Fallen?
In this article on Information Clearing House, a debate between a Notre Dame professor Doug Cassel and Bush lawyer John Yoo shows that we've gone certifiably mad. Yoo agreed that there is no law preventing (for instance) Bush from ordering that the child of a terror suspect be tortured, including crushing the child's testicles. You read that right: they could take a person's child and maim him in an effort to get the person to talk. That's America. That's us. Can you believe it?
In this article on Information Clearing House, a debate between a Notre Dame professor Doug Cassel and Bush lawyer John Yoo shows that we've gone certifiably mad. Yoo agreed that there is no law preventing (for instance) Bush from ordering that the child of a terror suspect be tortured, including crushing the child's testicles. You read that right: they could take a person's child and maim him in an effort to get the person to talk. That's America. That's us. Can you believe it?
Fuck Big Business!
And I thought that the economy was doing so well, that's what the Chimp told us anyway. How come so many of the giant American companies are deciding to stick it to their workers, then? Verizon, Lockheed-Martin, Motorola and IBM are slashing their workers' pensions and relying more on 401(k) plans. So much for your retirement, worker. Now get back to work! Read it here, from Common Dreams.
And I thought that the economy was doing so well, that's what the Chimp told us anyway. How come so many of the giant American companies are deciding to stick it to their workers, then? Verizon, Lockheed-Martin, Motorola and IBM are slashing their workers' pensions and relying more on 401(k) plans. So much for your retirement, worker. Now get back to work! Read it here, from Common Dreams.
CIA Ran Secret Europe Jails - Now With Proof!
The Swiss are tempting the destruction of their 700 yeas of studied neutrality by providing proof that the CIA really did run those secret Nazi/Soviet styled prisons where "detainees" sometimes checked in but rarely checked out. Read it here, from Common Dreams.org.
The Swiss are tempting the destruction of their 700 yeas of studied neutrality by providing proof that the CIA really did run those secret Nazi/Soviet styled prisons where "detainees" sometimes checked in but rarely checked out. Read it here, from Common Dreams.org.
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" 230 Years Later
This article today on the TomPaine website examines the famous pamphlet and its further ramifications. Check it out here.
This article today on the TomPaine website examines the famous pamphlet and its further ramifications. Check it out here.