State of the Union...The Speech Dubya Would Like to Give.

Good Evening!

Ms. Speaker ---Hi Sweetie. Hasn't it been a fabulous year? Vice Dick... Yo Dead Eye, thanks for keeping that squirmy little Dennis Kucinich and his impeachment resolution out of my face.
Waves and points to where members of the Supreme Court are sitting.... A special thanks to the fabulous Supreme 5 for putting me in this office. It's been fun guys! Good evening to you.
Anyway, I'm so thankful, and so gracious—I'm gracious that my brother Jeb was governor of Florida in 2000. AND Kat Harris....Damn I miss seeing that bitch in this grand audience.

Every time I come to this rostrum, I chuckle with glee that all you suckers have to bend over and kiss my ass for another year and what a year it's been! I recall one speech in this chamber when I told you that our differences in these two chambers will discussed in a civil manner.
Snicker...giggle.... I can't believe you Democrats and your damn fool bi-partisanship! Thanks DemoRats for a FABULOUS 7 yrs. Just watch what I have in store for you in my final year IF I decide that it is my final year.

I told you that I (ME... the Decider) will make choices that determine the future and the character of my country. Hehehehehe! You didn't have a clue when I talked about charting a different course. Sorry about that missing surplus but we had to fight against those terrorists over there so they don't come over here.

Pay down an unprecedented amount of the national debt? Did I say that? Oooops, sorry about that...hehehehe.... Well, you know those damn terrorists just messed up my grand plans. Thanks again Uncle Dick. Enjoying that off shore account in Dubai?? Money left over from paying down that debt... ho ho ho ROTFLMAO! What a speech!
Every year this speech just gets better & better!
Whew! What a trip! "I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, by the way, unless I say it".

Oh boy ('scuse me Osama errrrr uh ah Obama...sorry about that. hehehehe) did I ever pursue those terrorists! Poor Osama (hehehehe) ........ sorry about that old bud. Enjoying my ranch in Paraguay? How about those weekenders at my favorite pig farm in Crawford, Texas? We've had some great times, eh? (snickering ) You still owe me for getting your family & friends out of the U.S. immediately after Uncle Dick's 9-11 adventure. You and Kenny Boy having a good time? YEAH! (Thumbs up)

Yep, I warned you about that radical Islam and called my best bud, Osama a terrorist. You didn't have a clue that it was my secret code to the 9-11 gang to get prepared did you? Too late now suckers. I own you body and soul thanks to those handy telephone tapping games!

As for those Iraqis, their population has been reduced to where they will have very little competition in their businesses. They can now sit back and enjoy their new found freedom under the protection of MY army for the next hundred years.

Hey, how do you like that great big embassy in Iraq? Oh, you don't know about that? Surprise! Surprise! It is the world's largest embassy. You didn't think that I, The Commander Guy, was going to do anything half-assed did you? Big! Big! Big! That's my motto as your commander in chief.

"My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the—in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen." (Bushism) Yep... We're gonna be there a long, long time. Get used to it.

You get any ideas about messing with me, the Decider & you'll get a bad case of whoopass. Just ask Joe Wilson & Valerie Plame! They don't call me king george for nothing!

My secret government still bothering you? Tough! I'm the Decider, the commander guy & I make my own rules. If you don't believe it go to the White House web site and read all MY LAWS. I have a signing statement for every occasion.

Me, torture prisoners? Prove it suckers! You ain't got nothing on george bush that I don't have something on you that will overcome your silly accusations.

Now for the current situation. Damn, do I have to solve everything? While I was busy with my highly successful wars (Yes they are successful because I say so) somebody was screwing around with the economicals of this country. Now I have to solve this mess or at least cover it up till I get my comfortable, rich ass propped up in Paraguay. Hey, wanna buy a fabulous pig farm in Texas to help my economical situation?

Anyhow, I'm going to stimulate this mess caused by Wal Mart....er Wall Street by giving you a big fat check but first I have to get something on those damn Democrats so they don't stick that food stamp crap back in my fabulous bill. Of course they will try to take out my fabulous tax breaks for my rich buddies too. There really ought to be a law against being a DemoRAT.

So, you little old peons are going to get a big fat check....might be as much as $600... and I want to you to get off your welfare asses and spend that thing as fast as you can. Thanks to me you are going to be rich, rich rich so...Go shopping. Spend, spend, spend just like I do. Gotta get that money moving around to make it look like the economicals is rebounding in the remaining months of my term as your un-elected pRes.

Ha! ha! ha! Just popped into my head that some of you might still be pissed because those fabulous Supremes appointed me, when that damn Al Gore was counting and showing that he might win. Too bad losers!

The agenda I have set before you tonight is worthy of a great man like me. Just think when you walk through that Statuary's Hall in the Capitol building you can be visualizing what my statue will look like. Make it big and fabulous.

I came here for a reason. I have kept my promise to those fabulous corporations. I don't give a damn about you middle class & welfare queens. You will be working for my buddies for the rest of your miserable lives for minimum wage. If you want to crawl out of those crumbling huts & repossessed houses you will have to get your fat asses to Harvard or Yale like I did and get that "C' average.

Then you can be presudent, just like me! In the meantime here's to you dumb klutzes who will never be as importantical as me....

Praise the Lord and goodnight.

Exit podium with both middle fingers held high!
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Back at ya Dubya! And in old fashioned Southernese, Kiss my Grits!
May your last year in office be a living hell ....FOR YOU!

It's only fair after we were forced to tolerate your ugly, smirking ass for 7 long years, going on 8.

Wake Up America: Dubya’s New and Unimproved Screw You America Scheme

GOOD MORNING AMERICA! Wake up and get your lazy ass out of bed. You are about to be the recipient of another george bush screwing in the form of a tax rebate.

Remember that magnificent tax refund/rebate check that you got early in 2001? I wonder how many of you had to repay that whopping "refund". I know a number of people who had to do just that.

Do you recall the screeches of righteous indignation coming from the little peons on the republican side of the isle when they learned they had been royally screwed. Those poor fools are still working minimum wage jobs & believing king george when he tells that they can be president just like him some day. Gosh, all it takes is a 'c' average. Dubya just leaves out that minor detail....that they must have someone with the money to buy the 'c' and then steal the election for them.

No big deal. Right? Yep.... they are going to be rich, rich, rich..... some day. They know that because king george told them so and we know george never tells a lie does he? (I actually typed that without ROTFLMAO).

But back to the george bush refund, rebate or whatever he is calling it.

The first figure I heard was an $800 rebate. Someone else mentioned $1000 and then later on I heard a figure of $250! Your guess is as good as mine as to which figure, if any of them are correct. What common sense tells "We the People" is that it's drop in the bucket..... some more of that trickle down economics which has kept us waiting for over 25 years for that windfall and........ still waiting. This magnificent rebate is just another dirty trick, an attempt to save themselves.... the mighty 1%!

That working person who lives paycheck to paycheck has a better grasp of economics than all those "professionals" who are being paid by us to handle the economic business of this country. All it takes is a little common sense to figure out that we cannot spend more than we have, that if we have a credit card we must keep it under control at all times.

Alan Greenspan, in an interview on Democracy Now, said that we Americans need to be paid less, that we make too much money. Now you don't think he was talking about those Wall Street CEO's who paid themselves over $32 BILLION in bonuses as the financial situation in this country continues to worsen do you?

I have an idea. Why don't we take back that 32 Billion+ and give it to those in minimum wage jobs? The people who have 'busted' their asses to make money for those greedy corporations....that elite 1%? By the way, why don't they pay Social Security on all their income, same as us little old peons? Seems to me that might help solve the national debt AND save Social Security!

Rebate? Economic stimulus? If you believe this once again, you deserve what's coming. If you believe Bush when he expresses concern then you should take a closer look at that ever present smirk. He's no more concerned about you than he is about one of the frogs that he tortured by shoving a firecracker up it's butt & watching it explode.

Did you ever notice how pained Dubya looks when he has to pretend to be concerned about something? Yep, people when you see that painful look on Bush's face don't believe for a minute that it's because he is concerned about you. He doesn't give a damn about you. He is in panic mode because his Wall Street buddies are in trouble.

He's panicking because "We the People" have reached the point where, because our jobs have been outsourced & tax breaks have gone to those who need it the least, that we can no longer support him, the wealthiest of the wealthy. He is panicking because the top 1% may have to start supplementing each other. (Now that might be fun to watch!)

So much for that great supply side economics! The bottom line for 'Bushonomics' is that it would be more appropriately named piss on people economics.

By the way, where is Dubya going to get the billions needed for this rebate? Why borrow it, of course & most likely from the Chinese!

And here we were worried about those big bad terrorists while Dubya & Dead Eye Dick have been selling out the country to the very people who most likely have the capacity to attack us. But then why should they attack when they own most of our national debt, they are selling us billions in crappy or poisonous manufactured goods & buying up businesses in the U.S.? They are taking over our country from the inside out. No need to sacrifice their goose stepping soldiers & all those pretty tanks.

Yeah..... Wake up America indeed. Impeachment is off the table according to Goddess Nancy Pelosi? Why would her Royal Do-Nothingness take impeachment off the table when these fools have done more than all the other administrations combined to destroy our country from the inside out?

Because she's one of them??

This picture & the positioning of Dubya in front of the sign in the back ground inadvertently says it all!

End of conversation? Not if you don't want it to be. Not if you care about your country. Rebate my arse! It's impeachment time!

Please Cut the Crap! George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney must be impeached, and the process must start now. There are no excuses left. It doesn't matter if the process gets dragged out until we're into the next election cycle. It doesn't matter if Bush and Cheney are thrown out on their asses on January 19, 2009, and Nancy Pelosi only has one day as a caretaker president. This is no longer about process, and it's no longer about political expediency. This is about our Founders’ most precious gift to us. It's about the rule of law, and justice for all.

Impeach The Crawford SOB and his corrupt administration!

Congress -- 800-828-0498, 800-459-1887 or 800-614-2803 Tell them to impeach those crooked SOB's

Ronald Reagan: Fiscal Disaster

I have to chuckle at the fact that Huffington Post moderating posts before they are allowed to show. I was reading through the comments already posted and several were full of the "F" word not to mention the fact that the writer of this article called Reagan an asshole. So what do they moderate???


Ronald Reagan: Fiscal Disaster

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hale-stewart/ronald-reagan-fiscal-dis_b_82370.html

Several interesting charts at above link

Does anyone notice a pattern? In case you have a hard time figuring it out, let me provide some clarity.
-- Reagan -- the fiscal conservative -- never balanced a budget.
-- Reagan -- the fiscal conservative -- never came close to balancing a budget.
-- Reagan -- the fiscal conservative -- never even came remotely close to even thinking about balancing a budget.

So, how did Reagan pay for this? He mired the country is a mammoth explosion of Federal debt.
The fiscally conservative party -- at least in theory -- have indebted this country since 1980 with a mammoth amount of debt.

Saint Ronnie -- the great Saint who many are praising in one form or another -- nearly tripled the national debt. St. Ronnie -- the fiscal conservative who we all should bow down and worship -- paid for his massive expanse of the federal government (because he never balanced a budget) by pawning off the expense on the next generation. St. Ronnie used his great communication skills to tell us this was all somehow OK.

St. Ronnie was an asshole.

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I'm not sure which is crazier, those trying to bestow sainthood on Reagan or the rabid right religious rapture nuts. (Perhaps they are the same)

However for any Democrat or Independent to quote Reagan is total insanity. I was trying very hard to like Obama but when he started quoting Reagan I threw in the towel.

What the hell will it take for this country to wake up & get rid of all the nut cases & the common thugs who have taken over the government? Most days, I just want to crawl back in bed and forget the whole damn thing.

NBC Rewrites its Own Rules to Prevent America from Hearing Kucinich

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/73530/

NBC Rewrites its Own Rules to Prevent America from Hearing Kucinich
As a political writer, I have to follow these endless primary-season debates. But when it comes to NBC's Democratic show-down in Vegas next Tuesday, I'll read the transcript and check out the highlights on YouTube, but I won't tune into NBC's live broadcast.

Would you consider joining me in letting NBC know that we're just sick of this nonsense?
If so, indignant-but-polite is, I've found, the best tone to take when griping to the media about their all-too-frequently-crappy political coverage.

NBC Political Director Chuck Todd notified the Kucinich campaign this morning that, although Kucinich had met the qualification criteria publicly announced on December 28, the network was "re-doing" the criteria, excluding Kucinich, and planning to invite only Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and former senator John Edwards.

Todd notified the Kucinich campaign this morning that the network had decided to change the criteria and limit participation in the debate to only three candidates.

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Update: Here's what I sent to Todd [Update: it bounced back] and the other NBC addresses:

Dear Mr. Todd,
I’m writing to express my dismay about NBC’s decision to re-write its own previously announced criteria in order — specifically, it seems — to exclude Dennis Kucinich, the fourth-place finisher in at least one major national poll, from the Las Vegas debate.

I am not of the belief that Rep. Kucinich has a chance to win the nomination, but that's beside the point. It appears to me that our political press corps, yourself included, are simply blind to the intense feelings of frustration among many of us “out here” in America every time the media tries to narrow the ideological spectrum and limit our political debates. I am among almost 300 million people who have not had an opportunity to cast my vote in the primary, and it is the height of arrogance for you and NBC to tell me, in effect, that only 3 of the 4 candidates who met your announced criteria are acceptable choices, or that only the views of 3 of the 4 are acceptably “mainstream.”

His "viability" is not an issue; Kucinich is not in this race to win. He’s in it to influence the political discourse within the Democratic party, and as a Democratic-leaning independent, I would like to see the full spectrum of Democratic opinions aired and debated. It is maddening to have NBC deny us that process, especially so many months before the convention and with only a few small states having gone to the polls.

But even that isn't nearly as infuriating as the egregious disrespect shown to a member of the House of Representatives who’s been sent back to Washington by his constituents five times. I’ll be frank: to extend the invitation, and then rewrite your own rules in order to withdraw it makes it difficult for me to even maintain a civil tone.

I won’t be watching your debate — it will be the first one I skip — because I don’t want to support the idea that the media decides these elections and the voters are merely an afterthought. I will also write about your network’s hubris on my blog and urge my friends and acquaintances to boycott the debate as well. Hopefully, General Electric will receive a lot of correspondence like this one, see a smaller-than-expected audience and finally figure out that while it has its hands in many businesses, electing a president isn’t one that We the People will accept.

Dear Congressman Wexler

I cannot believe that this Congress has sat on it's ample backside and allowed these thugs to destroy this country from the inside out for this length of time. What will it take to impeach both Cheney and Bush and remove them from office & bring them to trial for the crimes they have committed?

Why are you wasting your time just impeaching Cheney? Bush may act like a dumb country clod but he is mean, vindictive, vile & corrupt to the depths of his rotten soul. Why are you ignoring the facts that are shoved down our throat every day of the week? Are you afraid of this smirking little punk?

I sincerely believe that if one Democratic Congressman ever decides to quit being polite to these thugs & their enablers, the country will give you a standing ovation and will support you to the end. We are crying & pleading for you to stand up to these thugs. Impeachment of Cheney is a start but we need someone in Congress to grow some cajones and quit being nice to these criminal SOBs and impeach both of them.

Surely you can see by now that bipartisanship in this corrupt Congress means bending over for that smirking robber baron who squats in the Oval Office. What the hell makes an entire Congress give in to this common thug? Are some members of Congress being blackmailed with the material that Bush & Cheney have gathered via their illegal email intercepting/telephone tapping endeavors?

There is no other reason on earth, that I can think of, that would explain why anyone would want to support this corrupt administration and what they have done to the Constitution of the United States. Bush & Cheney should have been impeached, removed from office & prosecuted over 5 yrs ago for the multitude of violations of their oath of office & brazen incompetence? Add to that the war crimes and other crimes they have committed and these thugs should now be serving life prison sentences without parole.

A master in Business from Harvard? Pardon me while I ROTFLMAO (roll on the floor laughing my ass off)! It has been obvious to the country & to most of the world for a number of years that George Bush couldn't get a job at McDonalds without help from his family and his rich enablers. He is dumber than a rock & his time in office will require a whole new dictionary to provide definitions for the words corrupt, thuggery, lying and a whole bunch of other adjectives.

I believe that this country is thoroughly pissed off & fed up with these criminals. Get with Dennis Kucinich & re-introduce the call for impeachment & removal from office AND include Bush. The crimes that they have bragged about publicly & rubbed our noses in are enough to call for an impeachment at 8:00 am one morning, send it to the Senate by 10:00 am and have these thugs removed, arrested and in jail by noon. The Constitution allows for that.

Let Nancy Pelosi know that if she keeps pandering to the thugs who have aided and abetted this criminal administration that the same thing will happen to her. It's time to take our country back.

There is no need for a long drawn out investigation. I repeat, they have rubbed your noses (and mine) in their crimes for must of their time in office. They have been public and brazen.

It is way beyond time for this all elected officials to put their country first. I don't give a damn if we hurt the feelings of "poor little Georgie". I say the same thing to him and Cheney that they have been saying to us for seven long years. Go F*ck Yourselves!

Now do you want to hear about an idea that a friend and I concocted to aid in your impeachment efforts?

Write your own letter to Congressman Wexler:


http://www.wexlerforcongress.com/contact.asp

Looking at America NY Times Style

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/opinion/31mon1.html?ref=opinion

Every citizen of this country should read this hypocritical editorial and ask why? Why would a newspaper that has been famous for it's 'investigative' reporting for years suddenly roll over for the most corrupt administration to ever get near the Oval Office. I am quoting a few paragraphs with my own added comments in brackets [ ].

1. It was not the first time in recent years we’ve felt this horror, this sorrowful sense of estrangement, not nearly. This sort of lawless behavior has become standard practice since Sept. 11, 2001. [ 9-11 had nothing to do with this sorryass administration. Everyone uses that as an excuse. This administration started lots of this stuff the as soon as they took office, perhaps before they were even sworn in. You know it. I know it. So stop using 9-11 as an excuse for a fraudulent administration that had every intention of doing exactly what they have been doing for the past 7 long years. Their only surprise has been at how gullible the mainstream media has been & how easy it has been to control them]

2. The country and much of the world was rightly and profoundly frightened by the single-minded hatred and ingenuity displayed by this new enemy. But there is no excuse for how President Bush and his advisers panicked — how they forgot that it is their responsibility to protect American lives and American ideals, that there really is no safety for Americans or their country when those ideals are sacrificed. [This was no panic. It was planned and carried out with the help of news media like the NY Times........... So why the hell are you hiring Kristol, one of the most prolific enablers of this corrupt, dictatorial administration? This administration has never given a royal hoot for American lives, ideals or the U.S. Constitution]

3. We have read accounts of how the government’s top lawyers huddled in secret after the attacks in New York and Washington and plotted ways to circumvent the Geneva Conventions — and both American and international law — to hold anyone the president chose indefinitely without charges or judicial review. [It's called a dictatorship. Honest to heavens, who in their right mind, would want george bush in charge of anything? We know who has been the real president (Dictator) in this administration. So why hasn't President Cheney been impeached, removed from office & prosecuted for crimes against the Constitution of the United States? Could it be because news sources like the NY Times have pandered to these thugs from day one?]

4. Those same lawyers then twisted other laws beyond recognition to allow Mr. Bush to turn intelligence agents into torturers, to force doctors to abdicate their professional oaths and responsibilities to prepare prisoners for abuse, and then to monitor the torment to make sure it didn’t go just a bit too far and actually kill them. [Do you know for a fact that no one was killed in this process? Of course not. The evidence was destroyed. AND the NY Times has been instrumental in covering the crimes of this shyster administration]

5. The White House used the fear of terrorism and the sense of national unity to ram laws through Congress that gave law-enforcement agencies far more power than they truly needed to respond to the threat — and at the same time fulfilled the imperial fantasies of Vice President Dick Cheney and others determined to use the tragedy of 9/11 to arrogate as much power as they could. [Now you are getting closer to the truth. The fear of terrorism is a figment of your (Bush's) imagination. 9-11 was a criminal act that should have been treated as such. The threat & fear came from this corrupt gang of thugs who were illegally installed in the White House. Dictator Cheney & his PNAC gang has been pulling the strings of the useless, know nothing, 'don't give a damn' puppet every step of the way. Why are you so afraid to speak the truth?]

6. Hundreds of men, swept up on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, were thrown into a prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, so that the White House could claim they were beyond the reach of American laws. [That should read, "Hundreds of men & boys, swept up on the streets of Afghanistan & Iraq..........]

7. In other foreign lands, the C.I.A. set up secret jails where “high-value detainees” were subjected to ever more barbaric acts, including simulated drowning. These crimes were videotaped, so that “experts” could watch them, and then the videotapes were destroyed, after consultation with the White House, in the hope that Americans would never know. [I'm betting that Bush & Cheney held their own private viewings of these films. Picture Boss Hawg, slapping his fat thighs as he laughs uproariously at the 'antics' on the screen]

8. We can only hope that this time, unlike 2004, American voters will have the wisdom to grant the awesome powers of the presidency to someone who has the integrity, principle and decency to use them honorably. Then when we look in the mirror as a nation, we will see, once again, the reflection of the United States of America. [And we Americans can only hope that newspapers like the NY Times will do what they are supposed to do....... to investigate these criminal reports and help the American people find the truth when they demand investigation into the crimes of the top officials in this country, whether they are duly elected or not. American voters have the wisdom to call for the Constitutionally mandated checks & balances, but what chance do we have of actually accomplishing anything when the mainstream media (the fourth estate) caves to dictators and keeps the truth from the public? Will you have the integrity to do your job & not be neutered by a bully in the Oval Office?

By the way, one thing is glaringly missing from this editorial. Why is the NY Times so afraid of calling for impeaching & removing these criminals from office?

Once Upon a Time the Religious Right Demonized Christmas

Why it pays to know your history. How the religious right can be seen to sway in the wind rather than hold to the steadfast course they claim to be following. As strange as it may seem, when Religious Right legal groups go to court to battle the "War on Christmas," they may really be defending practices historically associated with the worship not of the son of God but the sun in the sky.

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The Eyes Of A Madman

Look into Bush's eyes and then be afraid, be very afraid

By DOUG THOMPSON - Capitol Hill Blue

Hunters know all too well the look that spilled out of our television sets like political diarrhea Tuesday: The look of a cornered animal, the most dangerous time to face a desperate predator.
You saw it in the eyes of George W. Bush, America's too-often discredited President, caught in yet another lie.

Faced with a damning National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that destroyed his outlandish claims of a threat of World War III from Iran, Bush did what he always does - dug in and faced down his pursuers with bluster, anger and defiance.

But I watched his eyes as they darted back and forth during his press conference at the White House. As a hunter, I've seen that look before - at the moment I've faced a hunted animal and must make the decision to kill or be killed.

The George W. Bush that faced reporters and the television cameras Tuesday was a cornered, dangerous predator, determined to fight back until the bitter end even as time, and escape routes, run out.

Time may be running out for Bush's Presidency but America's most discredited and distrusted leader still has more than a year left in office and that is too much time given his long, sordid record of high crimes against the Constitution, the American people, and the world.

George W. Bush is no less than a traitor to his country. He is a man without honor, a leader without conscience and a human being without a shred of decency or humanity. He is a despot who considers himself above the law and a President who considers the Constitution he swore to uphold to be just "a goddamned piece of paper."

Yes, I know, no one has come forward publicly to confirm that meeting in 2005 where we reported Bush uttered those words but I trust the people who gave me the information and no one in the White House, Congress or the Republican Party has denied or publicly disputed the story. I believe he said it and I believe his actions have proven, many times over, that he holds that level of disrespect for the document upon which this nation was founded.

Bush is, I believe, a war criminal, a leader who invaded a nation that posed no immediate threat to the United States and lied to Congress, the American people and the world community to justify his illegal and immoral actions.

War criminals are, first and foremost, mass murderers and Bush's reprehensible actions have resulted in the deaths of not only close to 3,900 American men and women in uniform but also in thousands upon thousands of Iraqi and Afghan civilians.

His actions have killed more Americans than Osama bin Laden, damaged our relations with allies and destroyed our credibility at home and abroad.He wants, more than anything, to invade Iran before his term is up. Even now, with his ludicrous claims of a nuclear threat from that nation destroyed by his own intelligence community, he sticks to his saber-rattling rhetoric.
Watch replays of his press conference from Tuesday.

Watch his face, his actions and his body language.

Most of all look at his eyes.

They are the eyes of a cornered dangerous animal.

They are the eyes of a madman.

No Iran Attack? Don't Be So Sure…

The release of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program has everyone breathing a sigh of relief. According to our best intelligence, the Iranians stopped their weapons program in 2003. The liberal pundits and the more reasonable Sullivanesque conservatives are shouting "Hallelujah!" War has been averted! My respo

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Bush Fulfills His Grandfather's Dream

Sunday, 29 July 2007
by David Swanson


It's remarkably common for a grandson to take up his grandfather's major project. This occurred to me when I read recently of Thor Heyerdahl's grandson taking up his mission to cross the Pacific on a raft. But what really struck me was the BBC story aired on July 23rd documenting President George W. Bush's grandfather's involvement in a 1933 plot to overthrow the U.S. government and install a fascist dictatorship. I knew the story, but had not considered the possibility that the grandson was trying to accomplish what his grandfather had failed to achieve.


Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895 to 1972) attended Yale University and joined the secret society known as Skull and Bones. Prescott is widely reported to have stolen the skull of Native American leader Geronimo. As far as I know, this has not actually been confirmed. In fact, Prescott seems to have had a habit of making things up. He sent letters home from World War I claiming he'd received medals for heroism. After the letters were printed in newspapers, he had to retract his claims.

If this does not yet sound like the life of a George W. Bush ancestor, try this on for size: Prescott Bush's early business efforts tended to fail. He married the daughter of a very rich man named George Herbert Walker (the guy with the compound at Kennebunkport , Maine , that now belongs to the Bush family, and the origin of Dubya's middle initial). Walker installed Prescott Bush as an executive in Thyssen and Flick. From then on, Prescott 's business dealings went better, and he entered politics.

Now, the name Thyssen comes from a German named Fritz Thyssen, major financial backer of the rise of Adolph Hitler. Thyssen was referred to in the New York Herald-Tribune as "Hitler's Angel." During the 1930s and early 1940s, and even as late as 1951, Prescott Bush was involved in business dealings with Thyssen, and was inevitably aware of both Thyssen's political activities and the fact that the companies involved were financially benefiting the nation of Germany. In addition, the companies Prescott Bush profited from included one engaged in mining operations in Poland using slave labor from Auschwitz . Two former slave laborers have sued the U.S. government and the heirs of Prescott Bush for $40 billion.

Until the United States entered World War II it was legal for Americans to do business with Germany , but in late 1942 Prescott Bush's businesses interests were seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act. Among those businesses involved was the Hamburg America Lines, for which Prescott Bush served as a manager. A Congressional committee, in a report called the McCormack-Dickstein Report, found that Hamburg America Lines had offered free passage to Germany for journalists willing to write favorably about the Nazis, and had brought Nazi sympathizers to America . (Is this starting to remind anyone of our current president's relationship to the freedom of the press?)

The McCormack-Dickstein Committee was established to investigate a homegrown American fascist plot hatched in 1933. Here's how the BBC promoted its recent story:

"Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen. The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America , (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression. Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy."
Actually, if you listen to the 30-minute BBC story, there is not one word of so much as speculation as to why this story is so little known. I think a clue to the answer can be found by looking into why this BBC report has not led to any U.S. media outlets picking up the story this week.


The BBC report provides a good account of the basic story. Some of the wealthiest men in America approached Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler, beloved of many World War I veterans, many of them embittered by the government's treatment of them. Prescott Bush's group asked Butler to lead 500,000 veterans in a take-over of Washington and the White House. Butler refused and recounted the affair to the congressional committee. His account was corroborated in part by a number of witnesses, and the committee concluded that the plot was real. But the names of wealthy backers of the plot were blacked out in the committee's records, and nobody was prosecuted. According to the BBC, President Roosevelt cut a deal. He refrained from prosecuting some of the wealthiest men in America for treason. They agreed to end Wall Street's opposition to the New Deal.

Clearly the lack of accountability in Washington, D.C., did not begin with Nancy Pelosi taking Dubya's impeachment off the table, or with Congress' decision to avoid impeachment for President Ronald Reagan (a decision that arguably played a large role in installing Prescott Bush's son George H.W. Bush as president), or with the failure to investigate the apparent deal that George H.W. Bush and others made with Iran to not release American hostages until Reagan was made president, or with the failure to prosecute Richard Nixon after he resigned. Lack of accountability is a proud tradition in our nation's capital. Or maybe I should say our former nation's capital. I don't recognize the place anymore, and I credit that to George W. Bush's efforts to fulfill his grandfather's dream using far subtler and more effective means than a military coup.

Bush the grandson took office through a highly fraudulent election that he nonetheless lost. The Supreme Court blocked a recount of the vote and installed Dubya.

Prescott 's grandson proceeded to weaken or eliminate most of the Bill of Rights in the name of protection from a dark foreign enemy. He even tossed out habeas corpus. The grandson of Prescott, that dreamer of the 1930s, established with very little resistance that the U.S. government can kidnap, detain indefinitely on no charge, torture, and murder. The United States under Prescott Bush's grandson adopted policies that heretofore had been considered only Nazi policies, most strikingly the willingness to openly plan and engage in aggressive wars on other nations.

At the same time, Dubya has accomplished a huge transfer of wealth within the United States from the rest of us to the extremely wealthy. He's also effected a major privatization of public operations, including the military. And he's kept tight control over the media.

Dubya has given himself the power to rewrite all laws with signing statements. He's established that intentionally misleading the Congress about the need for a war is not a crime that carries any penalty. He's given himself the right (just as Hitler did) to open anyone's mail. He's created illegal spying programs and then proposed to legalize them. Prescott would be so proud!

The current President Bush has accomplished much more smoothly than his grandfather could have imagined a feat that was one of the goals of Prescott 's gang, namely the elimination of Congress.

Enough FOX smut for a porn site

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‘You people are really nuts’

Waitress tells campaign reporters: ‘You people are really nuts’

Posted November 9th, 2007 at 9:50 am

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It’s hard to say for sure when the “silly season” started in the media’s coverage of the presidential campaign. If there was a “serious season,” it was exceedingly short. I’m afraid I missed it.

But yesterday was unusually inane. A waitress at an Iowa diner noted that Hillary Clinton and her campaign aides had recently stopped by, but didn’t leave a tip. NPR picked up on the “story,” the New York Times called it a “potentially embarrassing mini-scandal,” and Drudge blared it above the fold. Soon after, NBC News and ABC News were trumpeting the story.

Clinton didn’t leave a tip? Does she hate working people? Is she out of touch? What does this say about her economic plan? What do her rivals think about this? Why won’t Barack Obama attack her over the issue? Is it too soon to put a poll in the field gauging the public’s reaction?

All of this breathless fascination was for naught. It turned out Clinton’s campaign did leave a tip with the manager for the entire serving staff. Clinton’s individual waitress didn’t know that, so there was a simple misunderstanding.

Reporters ended up contacting the waitress, Anita Esterday, at her home in Iowa yesterday.
Ms. Esterday said she did not understand what all the commotion was about.

“You people are really nuts,” she told a reporter during a phone interview. “There’s kids dying in the war, the price of oil right now — there’s better things in this world to be thinking about than who served Hillary Clinton at Maid-Rite and who got a tip and who didn’t get a tip.”
Thank you, Anita Esterday. “You people are really nuts” may actually be the most helpful and poignant media criticism I’ve seen this year. It has the added benefit of being true.It’s also a reminder of just what it takes to get some political reporters excited. Last week, Rudy Giuliani unveiled a campaign ad in Iowa with an obvious, demonstrable lie. Many of us begged reporters to take it seriously, and give it the full-court press.

Some columnists noted the problem, but most outlets followed the AP’s lead: “No one argues that Rudy Giuliani was diagnosed with prostate cancer, underwent treatment and survived. Yet there is a dispute about the statistics he quotes about his chances of survival.”

A “dispute,” as if there was some question about whether Giuliani had intentionally lied to voters in an ad.

Was there a media freak-out? Not even a little. A leading candidate deceiving the public about cancer just isn’t sexy enough.

And what is? In recent months, the most prominent media frenzies have dealt with John Edwards’ hair, Hillary Clinton’s laugh, Rudy Giuliani’s cell phone, and now Clinton’s approach to gratuities.

“You people are really nuts” sums the situation up nicely, doesn’t it?

Address by Mayor Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson

October 27, 2007
Salt Lake City, Utah

Today, as we come together once again in this great city, we raise our
voices in unison to say to President Bush, to Vice President Cheney, to
other members of the Bush Administration (past and present), to a
majority of Congress, including Utah's entire congressional delegation,
and to much of the mainstream media: "You have failed us miserably and
we won't take it any more."
"While we had every reason to expect far more of you, you have been
pompous, greedy, cruel, and incompetent as you have led this great
nation to a moral, military, and national security abyss."
"You have breached trust with the American people in the most egregious
ways. You have utterly failed in the performance of your jobs. You have
undermined our Constitution, permitted the violation of the most
fundamental treaty obligations, and betrayed the rule of law."
"You have engaged in, or permitted, heinous human rights abuses of the
sort never before countenanced in our nation's history as a matter of
official policy. You have sent American men and women to kill and be
killed on the basis of lies, on the basis of shifting justifications,
without competent leadership, and without even a coherent plan for this
monumental blunder."
"We are here to tell you: We won't take it any more!"
"You have acted in direct contravention of values that we, as Americans
who love our country, hold dear. You have deceived us in the most
cynical, outrageous ways. You have undermined, or allowed the
undermining of, our constitutional system of checks and balances among
the three presumed co-equal branches of government. You have helped lead
our nation to the brink of fascism, of a dictatorship contemptuous of
our nation's treaty obligations, federal statutory law, our
Constitution, and the rule of law."
"Because of you, and because of your jingoistic false `patriotism,
' our world is far more dangerous, our nation is far more despised, and
the threat of terrorism is far greater than ever before.
It has been absolutely astounding how you have committed the most
horrendous acts, causing such needless tragedy in the lives of millions
of people, yet you wear your so-called religion on your sleeves,
asserting your God-is-on-my-side nonsense - when what you have done
flies in the face of any religious or humanitarian tradition. Your
hypocrisy is mind-boggling - and disgraceful.
What part of "Thou shalt not kill" do you not understand? What part of
the "Golden rule" do you not understand? What part of "be honest," "be
responsible," and "be accountable" don't you understand? What part of
"Blessed are the peacekeepers" do you not understand?
Because of you, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, many
thousands of people have suffered horrendous lifetime injuries, and
millions have been run off from their homes. For the sake of our nation,
for the sake of our children, and for the sake of our brothers and
sisters around the world, we are morally compelled to say, as loudly as
we can, `We won't take it any more!' "
"As United States agents kidnap, disappear, and torture human beings
around the world, you justify, you deceive, and you cover up. We find
what you have done to men, women and children, and to the good name and
reputation of the United States, so appalling, so unconscionable, and so
outrageous as to compel us to call upon you to step aside and allow
other men and women who are competent, true to our nation's values, and
with high moral principles to stand in your places - for the good of our
nation, for the good of our children, and for the good of our world."
In the case of the President and Vice President, this means impeachment
and removal from office, without any further delay from a complacent,
complicit Congress, the Democratic majority of which cares more about
political gain in 2008 than it does about the vindication of our
Constitution, the rule of law, and democratic accountability.
It means the election of people as President and Vice President who,
unlike most of the presidential candidates from both major parties, have
not aided and abetted in the perpetration of the illegal, tragic,
devastating invasion and occupation of Iraq. And it means the election
of people as President and Vice President who will commit to return our
nation to the moral and strategic imperative of refraining from
torturing human beings.
In the case of the majority of Congress, it means electing people who
are diligent enough to learn the facts, including reading available
National Intelligence Estimates, before voting to go to war. It means
electing to Congress men and women who will jealously guard Congress's
sole prerogative to declare war. It means electing to Congress men and
women who will not submit like vapid lap dogs to presidential requests
for blank checks to engage in so-called preemptive wars, for legislation
permitting warrantless wiretapping of communications involving US
citizens, and for dangerous, irresponsible, saber-rattling legislation
like the recent Kyl-Lieberman amendment.
We must avoid the trap of focusing the blame solely upon President Bush
and Vice-President Cheney. This is not just about a few people who have
wronged our country - and the world. They were enabled by members of
both parties in Congress, they were enabled by the pathetic mainstream
news media, and, ultimately, they have been enabled by the American
people - 40% of whom are so ill-informed they still think Iraq was
behind the 9/11 attacks - a people who know and care more about baseball
statistics and which drunken starlets are wearing underwear than they
know and care about the atrocities being committed every single day in
our name by a government for which we need to take responsibility.
As loyal Americans, without regard to political partisanship -- as
veterans, as teachers, as religious leaders, as working men and women,
as students, as professionals, as businesspeople, as public servants, as
retirees, as people of all ages, races, ethnic origins, sexual
orientations, and faiths -- we are here to say to the Bush
administration, to the majority of Congress, and to the mainstream
media: "You have violated your solemn responsibilities. You have
undermined our democracy, spat upon our Constitution, and engaged in
outrageous, despicable acts. You have brought our nation to a point of
immorality, inhumanity, and illegality of immense, tragic, unprecedented
proportions."
"But we will live up to our responsibilities as citizens, as brothers
and sisters of those who have suffered as a result of the imperial
bullying of the United States government, and as moral actors who must
take a stand: And we will, and must, mean it when we say `We won't take
it any more.'"
If we want principled, courageous elected officials, we need to be
principled, courageous, and tenacious ourselves. History has
demonstrated that our elected officials are not the leaders - the
leadership has to come from us. If we don't insist, if we don't persist,
then we are not living up to our responsibilities as citizens in a
democracy - and our responsibilities as moral human beings. If we remain
silent, we signal to Congress and the Bush administration - and to
candidates running for office - and to the world - that we support the
status quo.
Silence is complicity. Only by standing up for what's right and never
letting down can we say we are doing our part.
Our government, on the basis of a campaign we now know was entirely
fraudulent, attacked and militarily occupied a nation that posed no
danger to the United States. Our government, acting in our name, has
caused immense, unjustified death and destruction.
It all started five years ago, yet where have we, the American people,
been? At this point, we are responsible. We get together once in a while
at demonstrations and complain about Bush and Cheney, about Congress,
and about the pathetic news media. We point fingers and yell a lot. Then
most people politely go away until another demonstration a few months later.
How many people can honestly say they have spent as much time learning
about and opposing the outrages of the Bush administration as they have
spent watching sports or mindless television programs during the past
five years? Escapist, time-sapping sports and insipid entertainment have
indeed become the opiate of the masses.
Why is this country so sound asleep? Why do we abide what is happening
to our nation, to our Constitution, to the cause of peace and
international law and order? Why are we not doing all in our power to
put an end to this madness?
We should be in the streets regularly and students should be raising
hell on our campuses. We should be making it clear in every way possible
that apologies or convoluted, disingenuous explanations just don't cut
it when presidential candidates and so many others voted to authorize
George Bush and his neo-con buddies to send American men and women to
attack and occupy Iraq.
Let's awaken, and wake up the country by committing here and now to do
all each of us can to take our nation back. Let them hear us across the
country, as we ask others to join us: "We won't take it any more!"
I implore you: Draw a line. Figure out exactly where your own moral
breaking point is. How much will you put up with before you say "No
more" and mean it?
I have drawn my line as a matter of simple personal morality: I cannot,
and will not, support any candidate who has voted to fund the atrocities
in Iraq. I cannot, and will not, support any candidate who will not
commit to remove all US troops, as soon as possible, from Iraq. I
cannot, and will not, support any candidate who has supported
legislation that takes us one step closer to attacking Iran. I cannot,
and will not, support any candidate who has not fought to stop the
kidnapping, disappearances, and torture being carried on in our name.
If we expect our nation's elected officials to take us seriously, let us
send a powerful message they cannot misunderstand. Let them know we
really do have our moral breaking point. Let them know we have drawn a
bright line. Let them know they cannot take our support for granted -
that, regardless of their party and regardless of other political
considerations, they will not have our support if they cannot provide,
and have not provided, principled leadership.
The people of this nation may have been far too quiet for five years,
but let us pledge that we won't let it go on one more day - that we will
do all we can to put an end to the illegalities, the moral degradation,
and the disintegration of our nation's reputation in the world.
Let us be unified in drawing the line - in declaring that we do have a
moral breaking point. Let us insist, together, in supporting our troops
and in gratitude for the freedoms for which our veterans gave so much,
that we bring our troops home from Iraq, that we return our government
to a constitutional democracy, and that we commit to honoring the
fundamental principles of human rights.
In defense of our country, in defense of our Constitution, in defense of
our shared values as Americans - and as moral human beings - we declare
today that we will fight in every way possible to stop the insanity,
stop the continued military occupation of Iraq, and stop the moral
depravity reflected by the kidnapping, disappearing, and torture of
people around the world.

Dear Senator

Sen. Martinez, (Florida)
I realize that I may be wasting my breath writing to you since you seem to support every criminal thing that George Bush & his assistant president, Dick Cheney have done & continue to this country and it's people.

Never the less I am going to tell you that I am damned disgusted with this criminal administration, their attacks on anyone who disagrees with them and all the vile things they have done in our name....... Remember "We The People", Senator?

My disgust reached the overflow point this morning when I tried to send a simple response to an email that I had received and it was repeatedly bounced by my ISP. Phone calls to customer service & then to their headquarters garnered the information that this bounce was caused by key words furnished by the Dept of Homeland Security.... that Nazi organization that you helped establish, if I remember correctly.

Also, if I remember correctly, their first major job was Katrina and we all know how they screwed that one up as people drowned, went hungry or died waiting for help from FEMA. Most of the people caught in this fiasco are still homeless. My, you must be so proud of George.....Gosh, "he didn't know nothing", did he?
Yeah, right!

He freed up New Orleans for the rich developers! Hot damn! Money, money, money....all you jokers seem to think about.

It's about 6 years past time that something was done about this criminal administration. George Bush, Dick Cheney and their gang of thugs have walked all over our Constitution, have lied us into an illegal war, bankrupted the country with their out of control spending spree and destroyed our good name world wide. Additionally they have murdered thousands of innocent people in Afghanistan & Iraq, including almost 4000 of our soldiers, if we can believe that number. Considering that George Bush & Dick Cheney can't seem to open their mouth without telling a lie, there may be more dead soldiers than the numbers we are given.

I am sick of this corrupt, rotten, vindictive & fraudulent administration and their dictatorial actions. I am sick of an equally corrupt Congress sitting on it's ample and overpaid ass doing nothing about these obscenities.

For 6 long years we have been prevented from speaking our mind to this fraud of a president, even insulted to the limit by the recent revelation about the "White House Manual for Silencing Critics". That was not any news to me since the Secret Service had already turned up at my door in April 2001, less than three months after that quack president had seized the office of the presidency with the help of the Supreme 5.

Guess what Sen. Martinez.... I was being questioned as a terrorist suspect even though I am and have been disabled for over ten years. Most days I cannot walk more than a short distance without support. I COULD NOT be a terrorist if I worked at it 24/7. Additionally I would never, ever do anything to harm my country which is more than I can say for that squatter in the Oval office and his old war lords.

I want to know what you politicians, especially the rabid right republicans, have against using our tax dollars to benefit all the people of the USA? How is it that you can justify, (in your minds), spending billions of dollars on an illegal war but you schitt a brick when someone mentions health care for children?

Don't you see something just a little bit cold hearted & compassionless about that? Please don't spew that crap to me that "these people" are trying to free load off the system. It's our damn money Senator. The whole purpose of having a Congress, a Constitution and taxes is for the general good of the people of the USA or did someone forget to tell you that?

It is not for the crazy spending spree that your own little dictator has been on for 6 long years. It is not for you to build bridges to nowhere. It is not for the enrichment of people like Dick Cheney who is still collecting pay check from Halliburton, the company that has stolen enough taxpayer dollars to fund health care for everyone for several years.

I am damned pissed off and I thought I would finally tell you that. I am pissed at the monumental mountain of general purpose form letters that you have for every occasion. I am pissed off at the criminal, dictator wannabe George Bush/Dick Cheney.

I won't even go into that corrupt politicized Justice Dept which has sunk lower than the lowest pits in hell under King George, except to say that I hope the justice system finally catches up with Speedy Gonzales & all his sidekicks who falsely accused and imprisoned Don Siegelman in Alabama.

Now that I have told you what I think of you and this corrupt administration I have one question for you. I know that if you answer it, the answer will come in the form of righteous indignation but I am going to ask anyway: Is the Bush administration blackmailing key members of Congress with the info gathered by their illegal telephone tapping/ email intercepting adventure?

The reason I ask that is because I honestly cannot figure out anything else that would make an entire Congress roll over and play dead for this bumbling, hate-mongering, phony Christian and his gang of thugs and all their lies.

I'm sure that you won't mind my blunt questions & comments. After all it is still a free country......right?

Romney & Sons-League of their Own

Romney said in a recent speech that those who serve their country in the military are in a league of their own. He's correct. Romney & sons are also in a league of their own.

It's called the League of Greed & Cowardice.

To all traitorous, wimpy Democrats

"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust."......Aquinas


There are no decent words that I can use to express my anger at the Democratic senators who waste valuable time & money pandering to the obnoxious, vile, vindictive Republicans and the holier than thou, crooked as the day is long, George Bush by voting to condemn the honest opinion expressed in the Move-on ad.

Every one of you is a traitor to the Constitution of the United States. How dare you join that little dictator in telling us to shut up? We, AND Move-on.org, have every right to express our disgust with this quack administration, it's supporters and enablers and any military member who steps across the line to play politics in an effort to expand his own political ambitions.

In the immortal words of Dick Cheney..... Go F**k Yourself!

Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." --infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. Wendell Phillips

WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS. . .

It is recommended that every person reading this petition send it to their elected officials, the media, friends......print copies to hand out...... These vermin need to be removed from office & prosecuted for their crimes. These self-serving crooks are destroying this country from the inside out. The answer is impeachment, removal from office, charged & convicted for crimes against the Constitution & other high crimes, life imprisonment with no parole & seizure of all their ill gotten assets to help offset some of the damage they have done.

WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS. . .
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/490392320
Target:
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, US Congress
Created by:
Robert Kezelis
Two hundred thirty one years ago, our forefathers signed onto a petition that led directly to the birth of our once great nation. All of that has gone to waste under the current administration. We must renew our efforts and regain our country. So, in the spirit of those brave traitors to british rule, we amend their petition and apply it to these times.


WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS. . . . it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men and Women were created equal, that they are naturally endowed with certain unalienable rights, rights which have been deliberately and repeatedly ignored, eroded, even destroyed. To re-secure these rights that our forefathers toiled so hard to create and support, we again state that governments are created for the people and solely by the consent of the people so governed.

Whenever, such as now, a form of government has become destructive to these ends, it is OUR RIGHT as citizens, to alter and/or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on the original ideals and ideas from whence this country was first imagined, then created through sweat, education, imagination, experience, tears, and toil. Likewise, it becomes our duty as citizens to strive to improve upon that foundation, eradicating the biases based on differences of sex, culture, religion, skin color, nationality, and other individual and groups traits that make individuals who and what they are. As our forefathers warned 231 years ago, Prudence continues to dictate that a government long established should not be changed for light or transient reasons.

However, the transgressions of the current administration against his own people and that against people of other countries are so serious and numerous in nature, that it becomes imprudent not to act immediately. We approach a form of absolute despotism of the kind suffered by our forefathers when they began their own revolution for reasons not dissimilar to ours. To prove our case, the facts below are without question:

* HE has refused his assent to law, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. * HE has obstructed the administration of justice, by politicizing the method and manner in which justice is sought across the states and in the federal courts. * HE has made US Attorneys dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. * HE has spied on citizens domestically and abroad without warrants or justification. * HE has repeatedly lied and misled his people into unnecessary, unjustified, and deadly wars, invasions and eventual occupations, causing untold death and destruction for all concerned.

* HE has attacked the very protections of the Constitution, the one document that he took an oath to uphold; and by passage of his Patriot Act, and his countless signing statements, he has destroyed the very protections to which each of us were and are entitled. * HE has erected a new office, misnamed the Department of Homeland Security, which does nothing to increase security, but instead impedes commerce, trade, communication, travel, and privacy to a degree never imagined by our forefathers. * HE has deprived us the benefits of a trial by jury.

* HE has held, without charges, many individuals who have no benefit of counsel, courts, or juries. * HE has cut off communication and trade with countries who have offered to aid us in a time of need, after the attacks of September 11, 2001. * HE has arrested, harassed and threatened groups of civilians who gather to protest the excesses of government. * HE has precluded and interfered with free speech of individuals and their right to meet safely. * HE has created a mercenary army, uncontrolled by the democratic process, to fight in actions both domestic and foreign. * HE has ignored long-standing treaties and pacts among other nations, particularly with respect to torture and basic human rights.

* HE has ignored the wisdom, experience and knowledge of scientists, replacing them with self-serving political and religious persons, intent on destroying the very knowledge base that serves mankind. * HE has caused the kidnapping and extra-ordinary rendition, followed by their transportation of individuals beyond seas to be held without counsel, trial or juries. * HE has permitted the plundering of our cities, the ravaging of our coasts, and the damage of homes and businesses without properly addressing the damage to individual lives, dignity and health.

* HE has imposed secrecy on most actions of goverment, in the name of national security, while precluding citizens from learning of repeated acts of wrongdoing, fraud, and crime. * HE has permitted political donors and supporters to make vast sums of profit from government funds, without requiring accountability, performance or successful endeavors in return. * HE has used religion and faith based initiatives as an attack on the very structure of government, rewarding only certain beliefs, and punishing all others. * HE has destroyed foreign ties with allies and friends, creating distrust and fear, instead of cooperation and friendship. * HE has permitted the destruction of our ecology, causing suffering and worse among us and guaranteeing that our children and our children's children will be forced to pay a dear price.

Our pleas and requests are ignored, our attempts to gain redress are attacked as unpatriotic, our cries are treated as an act of support of terror. A president whose character is marked by these and many other acts which define a tyrant, is unfit to be a ruler of a free people.

WE, therefore, citizens of these United States, and citizens of the world, finding our appeals to our elected representatives to be ignored, do in our name, and in the name of all other true patriots and citizens of this country, solemnly declare that George Walker Bush is unfit to be president; that his vice president is likewise unfit for office, and that both of them are most likely guilty of a multitude of war crimes, crimes against the Constitution, and crimes against humanity.

We hereby declare that their offices are now declared vacant and that they shall be delivered to the proper international court for imprisonment while the full nature and extent of their crimes are investigated and determined, thereafter which they will be tried for said crimes. We hereby commit to one another our best efforts to fulfill our forefathers' original intent, while removing the horrors of slavery, sex, race, religious and other forms of discrimination while we work together to repair the horrendous damage inflicted on our Country, its People and its Constitution.

Chuck Shumer's Outrage

I’m outraged. President Bush commuted Scooter Libby’s prison sentence wiping away two and half years of jail time with the stroke of a pen. President Bush ignored Libby’s felony conviction for lying to investigators, ignored the jury’s guilty verdict, and ignored the rule of law that governs our nation. We expect more from our President. We expect honor and integrity, we expect moral leadership. We expect our President and his staff to be held to a higher standard. Tell George Bush: I’m appalled by your actions. No man is above the law. ...... Sen. Chuck Schumer

http://www.dscc.org/makeadifference/petitions/20070702_libby.htm

Dear Chuck,
So what the hell are you outraged about? Hell, you have been patting that little pissant on the head and giving him everything he wants for the past 6 years. More money to continue his murderous war? You Betcha! Junior bankrupts the country and what's your answer..... Give him more money than he asked for. Hot Damn! We're on a roll today!

You expect honor, integrity and moral leadership from George Bush????? ROTFLMAO! Surely yee jest? Do you really think that we are so dumb that we haven't noticed that little drunken frat boy flipping you a bird for the past 6 years? Surely you must know that he and Tricky Dickie howled with laughter after he told Patrick Leahy to "Go F**k Yourself" on the floor of the Senate? Did you really think that we haven't heard about these shenanigans?
I'm also sure that you know that Bush called the Constitution "just a goddamned piece of paper"? Why on earth would you expect high standards from this gang of thugs after that comment is beyond me.

Appalled at his actions? I've been appalled at what this low-life scumbag has gotten away with since he was appointed president in 2000. It does not seem to have registered anyone in the hallowed halls of Congress. You have totally ignored the truth and the American people.

Our signature on this silly petition will give King George his laugh for the day? Congrats, Chuck. I'm sure the little puppet dictator & his evil sidekick are quaking in their shoes.


Magginkat....... Pissed Off Voter

RE: NY Times Editorial - Their Master’s Voice

To: letters@nytimes.com

RE: Editorial - Their Master’s Voice http://tinyurl.com/345u4e


I feel obligated to point out the obvious....that the NY Times has done as much as anyone to promote that "master", to make him appear to be something he is not.

In that effort you have failed miserably. Try as you might you could not make George Bush intelligent or competent. Not only that but you promoted him as a great leader while he has been destroying this country from the inside out with the help of the real decision makers, Dick Cheney & Karl Rove. You shoved that useless piece of humanity down the throats of American citizens and the world.

He has shamed and embarrassed the United States with your help. He has bankrupted this country while enriching himself, his greedy family and friends. Billions have disappeared down the sewer line of the Bush gang of thugs and hundreds of thousands of innocent people have perished at his hands, including our own soldiers.

Still the NY Times & other media have given & continue to give him free reign to do as he pleases. You have done your utmost to grant his oft stated wish of being a dictator.

This bumbling, incompetent, know-nothing man operates beyond the laws of this land. Worse still makes his own laws to fit the occasion. He has violated ever single word of his oath of office. He has literally walked all over the Constitution of the United States and referred to it as "just a goddamned piece of paper".

If the NY Times & other media in this country had informed the American people what this nasty man was up to he would now be settled back at that phony ranch playing tiddlywinks with his friends, the Bin Laden family or if there was real justice, he would be sitting in prison looking at a life sentence with no parole. If there was justice he would serve that sentence at Guantanamo along with Cheney, Gonzales and a bunch more of the thugs in this shyster administration.

Why are you not calling for the impeachment, removal from office and prosecution of Bush, Cheney & Gonzales for starters? They have done their utmost to destroy what's left of our democracy. Are you going to continue to bow down to this fraudulent president and his goons or are you going to tell the truth for a change? In other words are you planning to get back to the business of reporting the news?


You did your part in trying to make it look as though former President Clinton has committed a major crime worthy of impeachment & removal from office when he was caught in a lie about a personal affair that was none of your damn business. Why have you given a free pass to the criminal who now squats in the White House, a criminal who started his damning administration by stealing not one but two presidential elections? Why are you molly-coddling a low-life thief?

I believe that the telephone tapping, email snooping, etc., conducted by the Bush-Cheney gang of thugs had one purpose and it was not to find a terrorist. It was done to blackmail those who might speak out against the crimes of this administration, including key members of Congress. We have seen the brazen efforts to operate this government of George Bush in total secrecy.

Unfortunately this has been the one success of George Bush.

I am left to ask, what did he have on the NY Times and other media outlets to not only shut them up but to make them become propaganda machines for the worst, most corrupt administration that this country has ever faced?

As I see it the only hope this country has is another Daniel Ellsberg. Are you looking for that person or are you just continuing to be a mouth piece for this criminal organization that has taken over the government of this country? Are you going to quietly stand by for another 19 months while they finish the job of destroying this country from the inside out?

Will you be continuing to post the lies about Iran and other countries who have the guts to speak out against this criminal?

What if the little dictator decides that he should be master of the universe for the rest of his life? What will you do if that happens?

Spare me the denials and exclamations of horror that I should say such a thing. Remember when Giuliani wanted to cancel elections and keep himself mayor of NY? True, it didn't happen but then Giuliani didn't have control of Congress, the media & the military.