Questions...not answers

Well, I will first start by saying I am not a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, because I only have questions, and not answers. I do however have a friend, who is absolutely obsessed with 9/11. He makes a hobby out of debunking 9/11 truth seekers over at www.9/11truthiness.com . He is smart, sincere, and I feel completely wrong to attack people who simply ask questions. Granted, some of these questions asked in that crowd of folkare absurd. I too, over the years have asked questions about Building 7, the PDB report, the evidence at the Pentagon, the reading of my pet goat on that exact morning, and of course the following 9 minutes that followed. As Andrew Card pointed in this op-ed http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/11/MN911voice03.DTL&hw=andrew+card&sn=002&sc=899
He informed the President without alarming the children, the President excused himself, and left. We know that considerable minutes passed and Little George sat like a scared schoolkid, most of us did watching television or listening to radio. There is my only answer to the never ending question. Was it incompetence? I don't know. Were we attacked by our own Government? No, we were attacked by terrorists...but did our government allow it? I don't know. Tom Daschle and many members of both parties have stated that due to cost restraints a proper investigation could not be completed, that is sad. There are unanswered questions from this White House, there is a weak group of reporters and then there is the Project For a New American Century crowd. As, I stated, I know we were attacked by terrorists, and the arrogance,timing,lying and incompetence are open-ended questions. So, the author at truthiness believes science debunks all the questioners? Is lying a science? conveniently being on vacation or in reading class a coincidence? I don't know. But to attack all of the theorists due to absurd questions by some is plain stupid, and offensive! I applaud the folks who ask tough questions, stupid or not, we want truth and honesty. Vulgar language, science and arrogance to not solve the issue for me...honesty does (although, it seems only Jesus and Satan will receive that info).

I do not love the smell of fascism in the morning

Another one from Billy Vegas! George Bush asked "is our children learning?", well moments of this video say no George "they isn't". I continue to promote ideals that show evidence of the country we are becoming and how badly we need to rally together and fix it. Watch this...

Could it be?...a theme video

As a fan of Bob Dylan and Russ Feingold, I had to put this up. Run Russ Run!!!!!

Theme Song

When I started this blog I sat on the fence over a title and decided on honoring the late great Senator Paul Wellstone for believing in people, embracing his liberalism, and inspiring not just his fellow Minnesotans, but a movement of freethinking people. I love Billy Bragg, and recall 40-50 friends singing this song at a 1990 New Years Eve party with a band. Billy has since re-written some of the lyrics and it still rings relevant in todays horrific times. We are all looking for the Great Leap Forward.

This is baaaad

This is so absurd I had to mention it. Stephanie Miller mentioned it as well on the air, and I only caught part of her hilarious talk on it. The following is from http://www.dailycognition.com/
" A man who was accused of having sex with a sheep has walked free after the animal was unable to testify.
The man, from Haaksbergen, near Utrecht, the Netherlands, was reported to police after a farmer caught him having sex with a sheep.
But the case was thrown out of court as the sheep couldn't take to the stand to testify it didn't want to have sex and had suffered emotional stress.
Under Dutch law, bestiality is not a crime unless it can be proved the animal didn't want to have sex.
'Short of putting the sheep in the dock, at the moment these perverts cannot be prosecuted,' said animal rights campaigner Jos van Huisen.
Minister of Justice Ernst Hirsch Ballin has said he plans to change the law to make bestiality a criminal offence."

I can assume that Dutch law is being changed to properly prosecute these sick bastards. I just hope the sheep was not intimidated by the more promiscuos sheep in the herd. There may or may not be an investigation into wittness harrasssment among the sheep. I mean after all, a man in Battle Creek, Mi. was sentenced 10 years for the same baaaaaaad act of loneliness. I poke fun at this only because it is so absurd. The Dutch really need to shape their laws to protect domestic and wild animals better than that.

Puppetgov.com

These I will be posting now and again. Created by the very talented Billy Vegas, who, like myself choose to "fight on" as he stated in an e-mail to me. This is the latest.

The Pap attack

Enough!!!!

Well, George Bush, President ass-hat (more descriptive), spoke to the Veterans of Foreign Wars today. It is hard to believe this man is President of the United States. He continues to live in his little bubble when it comes to war, he is either incapable of or just stubborn to listen to anyone, whether it Vets, retired Generals, the American people, the Iraqi people, parents who have lost loved ones, soldiers that are still there. Oh my god! Anytime you pick up any responsible piece of journalism, you find that Al Qaeda and the Taliban are gaining strength. So, George who are these fifty million people we liberated? The children pictured here in this post? Lives,limbs and loved ones are gone forever, and yet the profits that American contractors have earned will be a golden parachute for decades huh?

Bush also chose to make comparisons to Vietnam today...in a room full of Vets? C'mon! This is madness, this man used his family power to avoid Vietnam, and chose to discuss the mistakes we made in leaving. His dishonor to the 50,000 American casualties we pay respect to year round is beyond me. Former Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton advisor David Gergen had some choice words on CNN regarding his comments on withdraw http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ExNixon_advisor_rejects_Bushs_Vietnam_comparison_0822.html
My personal fav from Mr. Gergen was "If you have learned so much from history Mr. President, how did you get us into another quagmire".

This man has created a mess in the Middle East. I am listening to Mike Malloy as I write this and he summed it up well a moment ago, something like this "Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Saddam Hussein created a powder keg in the Middle East and just waited for a pyschopath to come around and light it", George W. Bush was that firestarter. If you watch the news you see what can be seen as "unfortunates", "casualties", or "horrific crimes", but that is American news. If you choose to see what's really happening, I suggest www.aljazeera.net , www.rawstory.com , or www.bbcnews.co.uk or www.ivaw.org . These sites among others paint a different picture of this White House's progress in Iraq memo. I also would suggest an op-ed from this past Sunday's New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/opinion/19jayamaha.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

I do however want to credit Mr. Ass-hat with one thing, although it is appalling, he stated that Osama bin Laden was quoted as saying about our Vietnam debacle that "the American people had risen against their government's war in Vietnam, and they must do the same today." He's right, it pains me to say it, but he is. The only solution is diplomacy, and President Chucklenuts has granted much by removing American Military from Saudi Arabia, which bin Laden demanded, he also hoped for oil to reach $100 a barrel (we're almost there), and justice for the people of Palestine (we have not gotten to that one yet). Do we see a trend here? the Saudis and bin Laden demand or ask for something, they get most of it...the American People? Whatever! What do you think the W. stands for?

Without ranting anymore, I would like to mention a couple more things. First, this is going to take all of us, conservatives, independents and liberals (myself the latter) to fix this crap that has happened over the "Deciders" 7+ years of occupying our White House. The nonsense of playing well with others is over, I have had it with Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats who entertain the idea of this White House sharing anything short of snarky comments and lies. I am fed up with Republicans who feel they can continue to support Bush and stay in office. I am sick to death of talking point memos. It is us, social conservatives and liberals, pay attention here, most of this country oppose this war now, and our social agendas are idle while we are at war. If you feel that statement is soft or weak, well challenge me, I will kick your ass so hard you will not land for a year. I also, want to give a shout out to my conservative "fool on the hill", we'll call him the dude for his sake. I hope this post serves as a calling to him as well. I also want to mention my fellow blogger over at www.bigpundit.com , Camp David, he has alot to learn, like patriotism is not loyalty to the White House, but to the country and it's citizens. I leave you with "Enough!!! peace please..."

Talk radio host panel on canidates,policy and perfection

The following link is from c-span and features a panel with Thom Hartmann, the one and only Mike Malloy, Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz and the Young Turks. It is long, but worth watching if you have the time, or just turn it up, listen and clean your office. Enjoy!
http://www.c-span.org/search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&BasicQueryText=talk+radio+hosts

What would Jesus do (No,really?) by Richard Belzer

This thought provocting post by Richard Belzer came from www.huffingtonpost.com Image added by me, I couldn't resist.

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We would all do well to remember: in President Clinton's first few days in office there was part of a Metroliner Train that was cordoned off, velvet rope style, as if it were some VIP lounge at an exclusive club; where the press and common citizen were kept away: Well, it turns out that's exactly what it was: a group of Wall Street millionaires and billionaires were going to meet President Clinton to essentially figure out how to become more like Republicans. (Clinton had more millionaires in his administration than any previous president!) From this cabal was born the Democratic Leadership Council: a capitalist endeavor down to it balls.
Traditionally the Democratic base had always been the working class, lower middle class, African- Americans, professors, artists and entertainers (the kinds of people Conservatives find to be most annoying and electorally irrelevent). For some surprisingly heartless and what they, I assume, thought was a brilliant way to transform the party into a more "business" savy entity. This of course required amnesia about the great lesson Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign made clear. Not only did he inspire the traditional base of the party but, people who, after his assassination then supported George Wallace!
What does all this mean? It means that the too clever by half DLC has alienated the party's massive base and never attracted those from the other side: hence we truly have by definition one major party in this country: "The Business Party."
It is not impossible to succeed as a social democracy, where business and free enterprise thrive AND not abandon the disenfranchised, poor, sick and elderly. In other words: What would Jesus do?

Flying right-wing monkeys pt.1

Since a few cheap shots were taken at me over at http://www.itsfirstfriday.com/ , I thought I might clarify a few issues. I used some snarky remarks in their little "Douchebag of the week" section, their response was a little more of a knock on my status and character. I object the cheap cynical Rovian behavior that has led our society down dirty little alley where the poor, displaced worker, and socially conscious working folk are raped and left for dead. The rich and connected flee the scene thumping their chests and forgetting what allowed them to be power grabbing, greedy, anti-populist persons they are. Afterall they support the tax-cuts that have been going to the top 10% income earners in the country. The chasm that conservatism has created between classes in this country is indefensable, yet I am sure they will come up with some bogus poll. One of the greediest and dirtiest pool players you find looped into all of this is one Grover Norquist. Possibly the lobbyist with the dirtiest and bloodiest claws in D.C. Grover Norquist is the President of Americans for Tax Reform, a group who are strong in the conservative movement in America. He is still under Federal Investigation for his involvement in the Jack Abramoff lobby scandal. Americans for Tax Reform also served as a conduit where Abramoff's client's funds flowed to lobbying groups, as we average tax payers call money laundering. There's more, in 2003 Norquist was quoted "We are trying to change the tones in the state capitols -- and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship." This one was in the Denver Post. These are a few gems of itsfirstfriday's June or July guest at their Republicrit gathering.

The idea that all politicians are flawed is an understatment, and the fact that lobby money is thrown around like the "f" word at 3am in a Texas truckstop is a given. But when this is thrown at me "If anyone has ever missed the point more than you they would have to have been blind and dizzy while suffering an inner ear infection. But it’s good to know you’re so angry about this. Go smoke some more pot and calm down. If we thought there was any point in showing how revinues increase to the government AFTER tax cuts, we would. But you don’t seem to get it. We’re guessing you don’t make enough money to pay taxes, so you just want to get things you haven’t earned from the government rather than do those things for yourself. That’s cool, we understand. But it’s still sad.Keep on truckin’." I feel the need to point out how flawed the flaws are. This could be a typo on the The Dudes" part, but let's see"revenues increase to the government AFTER tax cuts"...hmmm, If I am reading that wrong please correct me, they keep company and glorify the likes of Norquist,Reagan and Bush for tax cuts but they admit revenues increase? I see a contradiction there. So, my point here is, while Daily Kos, smart free thinking liberals,intellectuals and peers of independent thought are easy targets for the thuggery and greed of cowboy mentality who have peoples interests drowning in bathtubs, I find it best to point out the ideology of the ilk who take their shots at us. Taxes are an investment in our society, our duty is to pay them, and vote in people we hope will spend them wisely and accurately. If we continue to watch the flying right-wing monkeys attack collective populism that benefits the needy and informs the public of issues at hand, then they win, and the middle and lower classes sink further into uncertainty. The likes of Daily Kos, MoveOn.org, Votevets.org, and many other populist Democratic Liberals in America hope to inform and promote critical thought among the masses so we can someday see a level playing field again. The ideology of Reagan,Bush,Norquist,and their tax cutting plans seems a good place to start.

This in America....in our country....in our names

I urge everyone to watch the whole thing if you have not already.

Imagine...

People over at http://www.mikemalloy.com/ were discussing a possible Kucinich Presidency, and they had a little fun with cabinet ideas. I would like to extend the thought a little. I will be lifting a few from the Malloy bloggers as well. I thought it best to recognize my allies. Here we go....

President- Kucinich

Vice President- Feingold

Secretary of State- Bernie Sanders

Secretary of Defense- Wesley Clark

Political advisors- Mike Papantonio and Bobby Kennedy Jr.

CIA director- Larry Johnson

Drug Czar- dually operated by Tommy Chong and Snoop Dogg, under guidence from Larry Jacobsen for intellectual and literary purposes (no offense to the aforementioned)

Press Secretary(s)- Mike Malloy,Peter Werbe, and Thom Hartmann (we'd get truth,an ass kickin from one,common sense from another, and a history lesson from the other, although, you never know which one you'd get since they get alternating days off for tireless efforts promoting Democracy)

FEMA- Headed by those who responded quicker than any Govt' official, Sean Penn with assistance from Tim Robbins and Randi Rhodes (a department best handled by those with compassion)

Department of Peace-I cannot think of a better way for President Jimmy Carter to spend his last handful of years directing younger generations the art of diplomacy. The Representatives would be the American people.

Chief of Staff-John Dean, how about somebody who did right by his country

I know I have left some positions and names off due to memory,laziness,or lack of creativity at the moment. Feel free to add to the list. I know the Bush Crime Family is big, but we Liberal Democrats are a larger congregation of good.

Old but worth watching

This is a little dated, but I found it over at http://www.peterwerbe.com/ it is food for thought.

http://www.ericblumrich.com/14.html

Being a Wellstone Democrat and what it means now

"Politics is what we create by what we do, what we hope for and what we dare to imagine", this is one many of Senator Wellstone quotes that is cemented deep in my heart. I believe many Americans and certainly politicians could learn something by that quote. Senator Wellstone was a hero to most of Minnesota, and admired by many Democrats across the country for his vision, compassion and support of the everyday American. True, Paul Wellstone had an agenda, call it liberal, call it leftie, but it was certainly the American people. The aforementioned quote should also serve as a reminder to all of us, that we too are politicians. By looking out at our communities and seeing deficiencies, positives, social areas that need attention and reminding our elected officials that they work for us.

I mention all of this now,because we have lost that one man check and balance that Paul served proudly as, and with the exception of a few, I am disgusted with the current landscape of our nation's Capital. I am sick to death of an arrogant, and abusive executive branch, you know the one...the one claim to have executive privilege and then claiming not to be part of the executive branch. The ones that are promoting even more free trade policies that will ship even more jobs overseas, yes, the ones who who continue to put profits before the individual. Those who are allowing a war based on lies, or as Ms. Rice says "mistaken intelligence", those who are allowing every branch of our government to be politicized, those who are not screaming for heads for an all but pardoned aide's role in outing a CIA agent. Those who are continually looking for political gain at our expense. Those who are able to save their hides over and over by simply "not recalling", and those who turn a blind eye to violations of the Bill of Rights, illegal wiretapping, CAFTA and NAFTA, surging of our troops in Iraq for oil agreements (not by Iraqi sects, but foreign oil companies), and those who simply lack an understanding of "homeland", when they have no interest in it at all.

I look at the potential Presidents that are campaigning right now, and frankly I am not all that impressed. I am a Kucinich guy, I am just waiting for him to invoke Paul Wellstone when campaigning in MN. I like Senator Obama, partly because I am never embarrassed when he speaks, partly because of the hope he is able paint this county with, and he, like Congressman Kucinich, opposed this war from the start. I like John Edwards, I believe he could make a very good President. He recognizes his own errors in his Senate votes, and continues to be a warrior for equality. The rest of the bunch, well, two other candidates on the Democratic side are running for nothing but a job in Hillary's cabinet. On the Republicrit side, Rudy and Romney have flipped on so many issues, I am surprised they are not trying out for the Olympics as a gymnast team. McCain, well, too old, and I would say is pander bear of the decade. I need not go too far into the Republican side more than I have. John Kennedy asked "it is not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country", I think we, as the people have become so disconnected from our Government that we don't care anymore. Well, I encourage all liberals and conservatives to revisit the writings of Thomas Jefferson, or if you need more contemporary material, may I recommend writings of Bobby Kennedy, Barry Goldwater, Adlai Stevenson, and my hero...Paul Wellstone. Two note by the latter would be "Conscience of a Liberal" and "How the Rural Poor got power". It is up to us this time, I know Dennis Kucinich is the best man for the job right now, I believe with a little studying you will too. So, what does it mean to be a Wellstone Democrat? It means standing with conviction, believing in your message, and expressing it the best way you know how, usually best done by engaging people on serious issues that effect our lives. Talking is a good tool, but listening tends to provide a better tool for Democracy. It's August!!!! Our elected officials are home right now 202-224-3121 for Congress, they will just talk and not listen until we start talking.

Celeberties, sports stars, the law and us

In most courts people like you or I would already have had out time served or still be twiddling our thums and toes in jail. This is not the case for those in the entertainment and sports industries. One of the newest Toronto Maple Leafs, Mark Bell (pictured) was an overall first round draft pick by the Chicago Blackhawks, and later traded to San Jose for one season. For that one season in San Jose though, his promising hopes of being the forward the Sharks were looking for as he was dogged by the weight of a court decision on drunk-driving, fleeing the scene, and causing injury after rear ending someone. He has plead no contest in San Jose courts and was sentenced to 6 months. Ok, probably fair if it were a first offense etc. The problem I have though, and I say this as a die-hard Maple Leafs fan, is he does not have to serve his sentence until the end of the 2007-2008 season.

We have seen this garbage over and over from Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Mel Gibson, Dennis Rodman, Ms. Spears and Ms. Lohan, Congressman Kennedy, Snoop Dogg, this list could go on for two or more pages. What I am expressing here is this, if the crime is committed and you are a civilian you are tried and sentenced very quickly and pay the price. If you are a household name or rising young athlete with good attorneys it takes awhile, everything fades in the minds of the public and you go to rehab. In the case of Mark Bell, I will however mention, that I believe an appropriate sentence was delivered, but should be served now, with the possibility of a shorter sentence based on behavior and negotiated community service given his sportsmanship on the ice and role model potential for kids in the hockey community.

Which brings me to Michael Vick, who is, pleaing out his dogfighting charges in hopes of a lighter sentence. I am not surprised Mr. Vick is taking this route, and I am sure he will serve no jail time. This sick excuse for a human being, in which the Atlanta Falcons owners, the NFL, Upper Deck sports cards, and all of us knew he was guilty. Granted his fines will be steep and career may be over, but in the same courts where would we be? Think about it for a minute....ahhhh yes....JAIL! As an animal lover, card carrying member of the USHS, and dog rescuer ,I am appalled. I have been keeping myself from this article until I was ready, and had my wit about me. Michael Vick's actions taint what could of served as great mentoring for kids in this country, yet he blew it by torturing dogs by forcing them to fight and then killing those in which he and his thugs thought were undesirable. Pit Bulls as we all know, get a pretty bad rap in this country, especially close to big cities. There are some I have encountered and stayed away from, others, are as sweet as my Bassett Hounds. They did not deserve to serve as Michael Vick's not so cheap entertainment. I say it that way because it is understood some purses were as high as $26,000. This man is a bastard, and as Senator Robert Byrd put it "there is a warm seat in hell waiting for him". Aside from public outrage, I have heard few talk of this news that he is pleaing out. I only heard from Senator Byrd, and should be President Kerry on the political side, in Hollywood, only Elayne Boosler, Janeane Garofalo and Stephanie Miller outraged, in sports, well some commentating here and there. Even the guys at itsfirstfriday.com had enough sense to call him out on this behavior. This should serve as lesson for the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB that you can have decent role models. I hope the latter takes advantage of this, as they are marred by lesser crimes if any that would compare. Take the Deroit Tigers for instance, their players have donated photo ops and time to the Dearborn Animal Shelter here in Michigan, former Toronto Maple Leafs Tie Domi and Felix Potvin both rescued animals from shelters and streets. Future Hall of Famer Steve Yzerman, the epitomy of class in major sports, or even unemployed Red Wing/Flame Darren McCarty for cancer foundation. My apologies to the countless athletes who do good in their respective sports, cause you are there I know, but Michael Vick's case made me sick and still does. I call on owners of all major sports teams to now know that the product you put on the field has a purpose other than winning, and that is class and sportsmanship. Spectator sports like dogfighting have no room on our tv's or playing surfaces. This is your opportunity right now NHL to promote competitive, compassionate, and sight worthy players within your league and see them do right as role models and mentors for kids in not just Canada, but your struggling markets in the USA. MLB might try a bit harder too. Paris Hilton, George Bush, Lindsay Lohan and @#%#^&%! Michael Vick ain't cuttin it.

Profiling a Liberal

Here's a little tutoring for you conservatives who hate liberalism so much it draws you to infidelity and the Republican party. I thought this profile might help the likes of David Vidder, John Gibson and Michele Malkin so you guys know when to run. Pictured is one of my favorite liberals and one of many that should scare the hell out of you. We can been seen at many events, you know we are pretty cultured...you might see us in resturants eating, or even waiting on your table, we might be at the local pub (usually drinking a higher end beer or Stoli), we might be bowling in the lane next to you down the road, we might be everywhere. Anyway, here's the profile you were looking for...we are not well disguised. Some of us are easily set apart from the herd, what with our "Peace" t's, or "Support Our Troops,Bring them Home Now" gear, or the Armstrong like plastic bracelets, or ACLU apparel.

The aforementioned are the easy ones to spot, I know, I am one of them. The harder to identify are the New York Times readers, who also have the Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and a copy of 1984 with them. These are the literary type, many whom are teachers and professers. Others are even less conspicous, the pot-head down street from you,whom bothers no one, supported the war and no longer does, or the grocery clerk who is in the same boat as Cindy Sheehan, yet not as vocal. The girl you meet at the club who likes you very much, then learns of your politics and shys away. Oh, hell...we're everywhere. George Bush and his cronies ran as uniters, and they did. They united half of this country, self described Democrats and Liberals. But now, they have united moderates,independents and Democrats and Liberals. We don't need as John Gibson of Fox Noise says "Another 9/11 type moment to unite the country". Our disaster is the Republican party's march over real American values. As for the rest of us, our marching orders are in, and it's gonna take more than a Democratic or Independent White House (that means you Dennis Kucinich and Michael Bloomberg), it's gonna take all of us to fix this mess.

Two Jews agreeing on nothing

Jon Stewart and the Daily Show...say what you will, but Jon is pretty reasonable with his guests. I happen to love the Daily Show, even if he has on Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard and Fox Noise. As can be viewed here, Jon can respectably hand you your ass on a platter and get you to laugh http://movies.crooksandliars.com/TDS-Kristol-08132007.wmvI will say however, Mr. Kristol is an interesting guy, he can frame a debate to the irritable point that for a split second you think he is making sense....ahhh senses workin overtime...you come back to reality. Watch for yourself.

If only the photo weren't doctored, damn. The surprise resignation of Karl Rove leads to me to believe something big is coming. There is plenty of speculation out there of where this political terrorist will land. This has been a man who has stuck with Bush since day one, and now he wants to soend time with his family? I cannot see him walking away from the neo-con agenda. This man has made a career of political hatred. From providing every ounce of spew to get Bush elected, to outing Valerie Plame, to the firing of U.S. attorneys, to Swift Boating John Kerry, to exploiting the horrors of 9/11 etc. There is no way this man is quietly going away. I fear something tragic may be coming, or he is going to either Fred Thompson's campaign or Romney's, but given his tactic of fear mongering I can assume he will join Giuliani's campaign. Nevertheless, I know we are not done with this piece of crap of a human being. He has always put politics before Nation. The one hope we have is Senator Pat Leahy to be the one to expose this lunatic of the right before he does more damage. John Edwards had promising words "good riddance", but don't hold your breath.

It's nature time

This is amazing! I found this over at Sam Seder's site. Not political, and it has a happy ending.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM&eurl=

Accusations of the angry left?

Well, there has been much said of left-wing hatred on blogs and radio, and television. I would like to clarify a few things here...
1.) The hate that comes from Billo, Hannity, Coulter, Dick Cheney, et al puts many of us lefties way down at the bottom of hatem pole.
2.) The anger we on the left still feel is directed at an illegal occupation of the White House, not all conservatives, we'll get to you after this national nightmare is over.
3.) Find an instance where you have heard Thom Hartmann, Peter Werbe, Mark Riley, Rachael Maddow, Stephanie Miller, or Jon Elliot threw out hateful intentions? Not what you interpret as, but actual hate...we know how you guys intrept things ie; the Constitution, the Bible, and Declaration of Independence.
4.) I agree, there are many leftie haters, I have been one over the last 7 years at many times, appreciated a good jab at this White House etc. I found then, that you guys wind up screaming too loud to accomplish anything.
5.) The punching bags of the right have been so hate filled, it makes me question your morality many times over. The attacks on Cindy Sheehan, who lost her son for George's legacy, the attacks at Air America radio, DailyKos, Al Franken's Senate run (which is going very Wellstone right now), John Edwards, and Bill Clinton's sexual preference, Michael J. Fox, PBS and NPR, the local Govt' in New Oreleans, Kanye West, Sean Penn, ....my god this list could go on forever. You guys have no aim but smear my friends, much like the soldiers alongside Pat Tillman...God Bless him.
Where is the love.....err....the hate, oh yeah it's on the right. I fear that no matter what Heritage Foundation,White House,Pentagon talking points you read, it has nothing about working together and fixing this mess does it? I assume your marching papers were delivered shortly after you were all angrily were pushing through doors in Florida huh?

Dancers for Democracy

A group of strippers attended a vote in the State House in Ohio. The vote was on whether or not an exotic dancer was allowed to touch their customers, and whether or they could dance after midnight in adult clubs. The banner they draped over the balcony, that recieved applause from the House members just before they voted said "Talk is Cheap, Speech is Priceless". The Republican Majority in Ohio's House then voted 73-24 in favor of the Bill.

Now, I have to say, I applaud the girls for taking a stand on an issue that involves their livelihood, yet are there bigger issues they could protest, hmmmm....a war! Nontheless, it was a valiant effort at civil disobedience. The Bill will now go on to the Ohio Senate and to Democratic Governor Strickland, who has commented on the Bill, by stating he has not decided what he will do. http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=6526008&nav=menu34_12

DailyKos diarist, itsfirstfriday.com, and me going at it

This was too good not to post on my o
DailyKos uses anti-gay slurs in order to deflect attention from their own corruption
Filed under: Tolerance watch, Liberals Are Corrupt — firstfriday @ 12:37 am
The co-founder of the “tolerant” DailyKos has some troubles these days with the law. Seems that Jerome Armstrong, partner in starting the hate site with Markos Moulitsas, has been fined by the $30,000 by the SEC for some shady stock deals and it seems they regressive progressives don’t really like that fact being pointed out.
How do they handle someone pointing out this news? Well, since we’re dealing with the uber-Leftists they do what comes naturally; attack the messenger.
But they don’t attack the messenger on the facts, those are never on their side, they attack them personally.
This thread on the DailyKos site addresses the story by starting off with the following:
Famous self-hating closeted homosexual and right wing propagandist blogger Matt Drudge has taken aim at the DailyKos community today.
First of all, we don’t know, nor do we care if Drudge is gay; it simply doesn’t matter to anything and it shouldn’t matter to anyone unless they’re sitting in his lap.
Second, see the first point.
Where is the outrage from, well, anyone? Most of the comments simply attack Drudge even further. We don’t want to repost that bile here, so check it out before they delete them.
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The idea that it has now become “who’s blogs have more hate, the left or the right” is getting tired. DailyKos has long been a strong community of lefties exchanging ideas and thoughts with a handful of undesirable material, which usually is in the comments section. The SEC problems facing Jerome Armstrong are unfortunate because alot of us on the left police Republican corruption, which there certainly is not a lack of. As for the closeted homsexual comment, well we don’t know. The issue in defending that is this, a large contigency of the Republican Party, Pundits, and Religeous loons have spent alot of time attacking the Gay Community, not all of you, and I know one of you guys personally. So don’t attack me on the slur. When you align yourselves closely with the hard right, and turn out like Mark Foley, Jeff Gannon/Guckert (whatever his name is these days, Glenn Murphy, Ted Haggard, or Michelle Malkin’s friends from CPAC the hypocrisy goes sky high. So when family values are shoved down our throats for the next 455 days, they best hope they back up their words, not visit prostitutes, don’t bash gays (if you are in fact gay), don’t distribute cocaine, don’t offer an undercover officer money and sexual favors, and don’t support denying gays marriage rights, especially if your son or daughter are gay. I believe we can agree on that.
Comment by Ghost of Wellstone — August 9, 2007 @ 9:06 am

You’ve managed to avoid the point like you would avoid a pile of dog crap in the middle of the sidewalk. Good job.And we don’t remember pushing “family values” down anyone’s throat. Address the issue at hand, don’t drag other things that have nothing to do with the point to try to deflect opinion. The Kos crowd is full of hate, pure hate. There is some on the right, too. But you can’t pretend it doesn’t matter because there is some on the other side, too. Shame.
Comment by firstfriday — August 9, 2007 @ 9:46 am
I did address the point, you used the “slur” to title your post. I find the SEC/Armstrong issue unfortunate. I did, at the same time compliment your positions on gays because I know you personally and know your take. I do throw some criticism at you for aligning yourself with a Party that smears the ideas of equal rights for gay and lesbian couples. Sorry you took it so hard. The fact of the matter is that if guilty parties on the right would shut up about values they really don’t support and hate filled lefties would tone it down a bit we might get somewhere. BTW, your site serves up a portion of hate my friend. Mine serves a hefty portion of bitterness, and hope. There is the difference. When time permits, I will address the SEC issue with DAILYKOS
Comment by Ghost of Wellstone — August 9, 2007 @ 10:13 am
I wrote the diary, and like most wingnuts still defending the trainwreck of republicanism, you of course lack any sense of irony or ability to understand dual layers of meaning.
Drudge is a gossip monger who uses the basest of button-pushing techniques to sell his distortions.
The Armstrong story not only is not “breaking” (it’s been known for years) but Armstrong has nothing to do with DailyKos.
So I used the Matt Drudge technique he loves — interjecting personal facts about the person in question to hype the smear.
It’s Drudge techniques used on Drudge.
But you wouldn’t get that. Because in 2007, you’re still defending a travesty of a war and a trainwreck of a political party.
So you gotta take your “victories” where you can find them. If you think my diary is actually homophobic, you betray the same lack of complex thinking that got our asses into the fiasco mess in Iraq.
So it’s not surprising, really.
Comment by WinSmith — August 9, 2007 @ 5:08 pm

Check Drudge pretty regularly since he generally only posts links to news stories elsewhere (if you did check it you would know), but don’t recall him ever “outing” anyone. The one thing you probably consider a “rumor” was the Monica and Bill story, which he did break. That was true, was it not?
So you clearly weren’t using Drudge tactics on Drudge, you were mad and struck out against him using classless methods. Lacking the ability to think, you simply felt, and you felt angry. Don’t pretend you’re above it, it’s human. You are human, right?
The question to you is this, is this statement from Kos still operative or not, now that the narrative has changed.
“My request to you guys is that you ignore this for now. It would make my life easier if we can confine the story. Then, once Jerome can speak and defend himself, then I’ll go on the offensive (which is when I would file any lawsuits) and anyone can pile on.”
Go be pissed somewhere else. If you’re capable of discussion, come back.
PS: old news doesn’t tend to have a press release about it put out 2 days ago. http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2007/lr20228.htm
Comment by firstfriday — August 9, 2007 @ 5:18 pm
Oh, did you miss Drudge claiming John Kerry was having an affair with a staffer and had to fly her to France?
Give me a break, dude. I could list hundreds of othe r “breaking” stories that fool throws up, then disappears forever. Remember the “John Kerry would be the first Gay President” written by closeted male prostitute Jeff Gannon, who your boy Bush accredited to ask leading questions in the West Wing? Drudge ran with that bullshite for days. So why shouldn’t I point out what a self-hating gay guy Drudge really is?
Drudge lies all the time to smear and denegrate democrats. He also happens to be closeted and famous for patrolling gay clubs in Florida.
His goal with the Kos “story” was to try to imply DailyKos is run by a shady dude.
The only problem (which you naturally ignore) is that Jerome hasn’t written a diary on Daily Kos in years and has as much to do with the site as you do.
This would be like saying that republican terrorist from California mailing white powder to John Edwards was a “Little Green Footballs” founder since he posted a few diaries there.
I get it dude. You’ve been apologizing so long for a fraudulent and corrupt political party, you’ve been swallowing the Limbaugh, Fox News, Murdoch spins for so log that you don’t even see how badly they manipulate your ass with trigger words and sentence structure.
Then I come along and simply revert the process onto Drudge, and you’re OUTRAGED.
Of course you are. Switching the propaganda polarities, even done with ironic meta-commentary as I did with Drudge, confuses your brain.
And, of course, in my case, Drudge actually is a closeted gay man linking to anti-Gay hysteria stories (and thus, is self hating).
But don’t let the truth get in the way of a good wingnut outrage fit.
It’s not like there isn’t a five year catastrophic invasion of a foreign country to distract from.
Comment by WinSmith — August 9, 2007 @ 5:49 pm

We’re big boys here, we can use the word bullshit. But what we can’t seem to do is stick to the point.
You’re like a racist who claims it’s justified because you were once mugged by someone of a different race. One does not justify the other, but to you it seems to.
Still have not read anything where you said Drudge outed anyone. If he’s gay, who cares? Aside from you, that is. Your unjustified anger really undercuts any point you may be trying to convey, though that seems lacking as well.
Maybe you’re just catching so much shit today for being a total douche in the way you posted about this that you’re losing what’s left of your mind. That’s fine, maybe even normal, but it’s not right.
If it’s old news (which it isn’t) simply say that. People don’t go around pointing out that you blow dogs in the back of grocery stores (true or not), they simply take you on on the issues.
The problem seems to be you feel before you think, if you even get to the think part.
The fact remains, you could’ve made your point without being an asshole and attacking, but you don’t have it in. That’s just sad.
As for the rest of the shit tangent you went off on, get a life. You’re coming off even more than before as exactly what you are claiming Drudge is. And you know what? We don’t care if either of you, or both of you are gay! But if you both are maybe you should date. Just an idea.
Comment by firstfriday — August 9, 2007 @ 5:58 pm
I don’t care what you care about, you fraudulent apologist for the worst group of corrupt spew to ever take over our government. My point wasn’t about Matt Drudge’s sexuality, it was about his hypocrisy.
Drudge’s fundamental dishonesty, which you either intentionally or moronically miss for the third time, was in connecting a person who has nothing to do with Daily Kos to Daily Kos to try to smear Daily Kos by association. It is rank dishonesty. Which, as a member of a party that rewards rank dishonesty with Freedom Medals, makes perfect sense for you to support.
I don’t care if Matt Drudge is gay. I care that he’s a hypocrite.
As to me making my point without being an asshole, I’d much rather make my point while actively being an asshole. You, your failed party, your disaster of a president, your pathetic war, and your entire right wing media machine call for nothing less. Your side has polluted the American discourse for 20 years via Limbaugh, Fox News, The New York Post, The Washington Times, the Richard Mellon Scaife and Rupert Murdoch ideological system of book deal rewards for those willing to shill the most. Your army of media frauds in the think tanks with their serious suits and ties, peddling your intellectually vapid and trailer trash tabloid smears on democrats and “libruls” or whatever term you’re using these days for anyone who believes in facts and science instead of clapping loudly and waving a tiny flag. Your Matt Drudge and Ann Coulter taunts, calling Edwards the “Breck Girl” or Obama a covert “Moooslem” with the intellectual cred of a 3rd grade bully.
Yours is a party that traffics in smears and innuendo. Yours is a party controlling American media with the tabloid hate speech of a thousand Malkins, O’Reillys and Coulters shitting on the real issues every day so they can hide the corruption and failures of the past six years behind mocking Hilly Clinton’s face or John Edwards’s haircut.
And you point to me ironically commenting on Drudge’s hypocrisy as a form of “hate.”
Dude, yours is a party so consumed with hate you’ve ruined our military in a trainwreck policy of illogical and incoherent rage directed at the wrong country and without any critical planning to guide it. We’ll be digging out of your rage war fiasco for the next twenty years.
But don’t worry.
Those with the million dollar Republican book deals through Scaife/Murdoch’s “publishing (kickback) wings will be on all the media networks to tell you that Daily Kos is a “hate” site and OMGWTF, look what Barack Obama said, can you believe it?
And like the intellectually frauduent puppet you are, you’ll dance when they pull the strings.
Only in 2008, the American people won’t fall for your party’s bullshit anymore, no matter how loud the hatefests on Fox News shout.
See you in hell, bitch. Your war sucks, your party sucks, and you suck. You’ve shit on this country with some of the most atrocious poltical decisions in American history, and I’ll be damned if I’ll sit around and talk politely to your pathetic ass.
Comment by WinSmith — August 9, 2007 @ 6:28 pm
Wow, you really are proving every point made about you, aren’t you? The hate, the anger, the inability to think rationally. Good show!
Not sure how you Americans put up with people of this sort.
I’ll try to clarify once again for you. You attempted to attack Matt Drudge for being gay, as though somehow that would either discredit him or hurt him. Clearly neither worked here, it has been clearly stated they don’t give a rip.
But what you didn’t do was deal with anything having to do with the post. It does have something to do with a co-founder of DailyKos not matter how much you lie and say it isn’t. Get over it. Kos wouldn’t have involved himself with his statement if it didn’t.
Watching your country from abroad for the last 50 uears I can say that you are nowhere close to the truth in you assessment of Republicans and this government. I’m sure you will attack me as a homosexual or whatever, but you simply are ignorant in nearly every word you type.
You can’t handle anyone pointing out your lies and deep hate for those who dare disagree with you, so you attack. You can’t help yourself. Insecurity and low self-esteem will do that to people. Perhaps memories of your traumatic high school years are returning and you are simply redirecting the repressed anger you’ve long hidden towards your dermatologyst for not being able to cure your acne problem.
Whatever the case, threapy or alcohol are about the only things that will help you with your developing ulcer. The inferiority/martyr complex will only be helped by losing your virginity. Don’t worry, it will happen someday. It’s bound to. If it doesn’t happen soo, might I suggest the Bunny Ranch? You’ve got to get that stuff out of you, it will drive you crazier!
As for this site, I love it. Very funny stuff, a point of view from young people you don’t get and aren’t really allowed to express at university these days. Plus, Barry Goldwater was a true conservative that left people alone on social issues, which is what I see here.
WinSmith, you would do yourself some good to educate yourself as to what a Goldwater conservative is, and who Barry Goldwater was. Your ignorance is showing. And, by the way, you lost this argument a long time ago. You’ve been out classed, out thought and out insulted. Time to tuck your tail and run before things get worse. Even your left-wing friends haven’t come to defend you. Telling, no?
Comment by Goldwater fan — August 9, 2007 @ 7:03 pm
“Dude, yours is a party so consumed with hate you’ve ruined our military in a trainwreck policy of illogical and incoherent rage directed at the wrong country and without any critical planning to guide it. We’ll be digging out of your rage war fiasco for the next twenty years.”–WinSmith
81: Number of Dems in the House who voted to authorize war.
29: Number of Dems in the Senate who voted to authorize war.
(Incoherent rage can be seen within the quotation marks)
Comment by Second Friday — August 9, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
It’s a tie between Winsmith and the Ghost, we hve nearly ten to twenty talking points based on fact and the spin firtfriday and the “dude” have used leaves them with 0. It’s a shut-out for lefties yeah! The idea that DailyKos can become a puncing bag for guys is a joke, we are a million strong, and will not be neo-conned by Mr. Unhinged Billo or Itsfirstfriday. If you want to spew off that Jerome Armstrong and DailyKos are that close you would be correct, only if you mention Mydd.com and the book “crashing the gate” written dually by Markos and Jerome. Winsmith confirmed my earlier post that it is not Drudge’s alledged sexual prefereance, it is the hypocrisy. You righties are losing it when it comes to fact. I cannot and wil defend every leftie in the country, and I consider myself pretty left. But when I come to agree with my liberal peers 80-100% of the time I lose my own creative being. You “Dude” have followed that path. Winsmith, help me out here, I need some traffic at my blog. Take care!
Comment by Ghost of Wellstone — August 9, 2007 @ 7:52 pm
Sorry, genius, but blaming the invasion of Iraq on the democratic party is like blaming the victims of Katrina because the government didn’t show up for five days.
Which, as we’ve seen time and again, is the psyhological dissonance at the root of republican pathology. You call sites like DailyKos “hate” sites when the repulsive spew coming from the parade of right wing haters on talk radio (Savage, Coulter, Hannity, Hewitt, etc. etc.) is the rankest spew this side of Father Coughlin in the 1930s.
Comment by WinSmith — August 9, 2007 @ 8:04 pm

What you two collectively don’t know we can just about cram into the Grand Canyon.
Oh yeah, WinSmith, When you wrote about Murdoch money we were wondering when Edwards was going to give back the $800k he got from Rupert’s company. We’d like it so we can continue to fuel our media machine.
Thanks for playing,First Friday
Comment by firstfriday — August 9, 2007 @ 8:06 pm
Good job, Ghost.
Watching wingnuts project their own self-hatred onto those they seek to criticize isn’t just the province of a fraud like Drudge.
But their party is going off a cliff and they know it. I’d almost feel bad for them, the way you feel bad when a Scientologist suddenly wakes up and realizes he’s lost twenty years of his life taking worthless “auditing” classes, except that the damage they caused to this country, our Constitution, and to the world is totally and completely inexcusable.
So instead I’ll kindly ask them to kiss my ass for their damage, and get the hell out of the way so intelligent people can start rebuilding the damage they wrought in 2008.
Comment by WinSmith — August 9, 2007 @ 8:08 pm

You, sir, are a homophobe who isn’t willing to admit it. That’s fine, we’ll leave you to your own devices.
And with Katrina, the government was there, the government whose responsibilty it was to evacuate everyone: the city and state governments. They were located right down the street from where all those buses were left unsed and got flooded. Oop!
Comment by firstfriday — August 9, 2007 @ 8:08 pm

kind of surprised Wellstone would stick up and join hand in hand with such hate, but he does enjoy being an agitator. The difference between Wellstone and you, WinSmith, is you are incapable of functioning as a human being and looking past politics, whereas Wwellstone and I are friends in real life. Sure, his politics are as fucked up as the day is long, but he doesn’t hate irrationally.
We’re looking forward to 2008, probably for the same reasons you are so angry; you know you’re going to lose because you know, when the chips are down and what you are advocating is laid bare, the majority of people aren’t with you. No doubt that wakes you up at night in a cold sweat. Sleep well.
Comment by firstfriday — August 9, 2007 @ 8:13 pm
History unfortunately repeats itself, especially when those in charge prefer the horrors of our past and prefer repetition. It’s even worse when all the hacks at townhall.com and itsfirstfriday play for the right, and only interpret history and not read it. Dude, we have been friends for a very longtime, and I hate to see you taking an ass kickin like this, but maybe it’s what you need. Your party is wrong on nearly every issue at hand right now, although some have seen the light. There is hope for you, the country, and the Republican party. Whoever invoked Goldwater is way off, this is not the Party he and Mr. Miller imagined. Barry Goldwater and Paul Wellstone became great friends, hence why I warn you to now pull back the reigns on right-wing attacks and see that moderates like yourself actually are when you are not posting and see that these policies are not working. This attack the left is not working, this humor is not working at anything but agitating me and other lefties. I stated far above, your site is filled with hate, Kos is too,sometimes. I say this, try posting news from votevets.org, you might learn something about the anti-war folk in this country, many are conservative. It’s not just a bunch of tree huggin,otterscrubbin, gay rights lovin, potsmokin liberals who only read Mother Jones and Huff Post. Respect the idea that many of us expect the laws to be followed and believe in civil disobedience, and are gonna call you out when you publish garbage and support a Republican party gone wild with hypocrisy.
Comment by Ghost of Wellstone — August 9, 2007 @ 8:20 pm
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Support the Nation, work for Mitt!!!

Republican Presidential hopeful was asked about any of his five sons serving in the military occupation in Iraq, and he responded by saying "My sons are supporting the country by helping me become President". Hang your head in shame sir! You have not spoken candidly about the blunders of King George's policies, you have flipped and flopped on nearly everything, and we can figure that after your horrendous attempt to be elected ends and your sons glorious service ends with symptons of PTSD, the will recieve better treatment then the men and women who actually served with honor, in uniform, in a war zone, for the almighty black gold. HANG YOUR HEAD SIR!
Jon Stewert was a bit lighter on this moment, view it here http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Stewart_Romney_sons_may_need_PTSD_0809.html

Pearl Jam vs. Right Wing noise machine

As we have all heard by now, Pearl Jam's performance of "Daughter" was edited by AT&T on the recent webcast of Lollapalooza due to some anti-Bush rhetoric. I was going to post this last night when I firsrt read of it, but did not. I am glad I didn't, it gave me more material from the right-wing noise makers. We have heard AT&T say it was unintentional, and will correct it. We even have others suggesting the band is whining because they haven't had a hit in years. Please...if you check Soundscan you will find that Pearl Jam has been a major player in the Alt. rock scene since they came out with "Ten" . So that accusation of a marketing ploy is debunked.

On to the real issue, AT&T is one of the handful of telecommunication companies who were complicit in Bush's illegal wiretapping program. So, it is not without merit to suggest they would find it improper to air anti-bush rhetoric. Remember The Dixie Chicks? Well, their parent label Sony Music saw the loss of enormous record sales after their honest words. More of the spew from righties has thrown Google and Yahoo into the mix because of their support for internet regulation, which I actually support as well. Much like the talk radio debacle we have right now, it is with great concern that big brother is probably watching. When media giants own large portions of the outlets we recieve our news and entertainment we enjoy Conservatives like to invoke "Capitalism" or "Free Market demands", those of us with opposable thumbs call it "monopoly". The continued censorship of American free speech is very dangerous, I seem to remember "Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism".

Google and Yahoo's interest in this is vital, as is everyone who is worried about the direction our country is headed. Net neutrality provides the same interest as the Fairness Doctrine does for talk radio. This allows us to neuter the conservative monopoly on what news and entertainment we hear and view. This is a just cause and I applaud Pearl Jam for not only short of two decades of good music, but their patriotism and activism that their fans respect.

Kucinich 2008!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzgbnjuBGN8

After watching the the August 7th Democratic debate I found it clear that Dennis Kucinich is our best hope for progressive change in our country. Hillary will be nothing short of continued war, weak economy, union busting, and abuse of power....wait, we have that now. What I witnessed watching the candidates was some of your typical politicizing of "we the people", just without the fear tactics of the Republicans. This past weekend I spoke with a longtime friend and tried to explain to him my support for Dennis Kucinich, and my continued opposition to the War in Iraq. My friend, a Republican, shouted off at me that I want an end to war and a fair playing field across the board. He offered to pay for me to go to Iraq and be killed shortly after my arrival. I found this hard to believe that a friend of nearly 25 years could say that. Shortly after those comments I just hung up the phone. Over the last few days I have discussed this with others and found my belief in Dennis Kucinch cemented deep in my heart. Someone who wants to create a Dept. of Peace? Hell yeah! Someone that can envision diplomacy before bombs? Hell yeah! And then of course he is pro healthcare, pro union, pro education, and pro people before profit. The idea that the likes of nearly all of the Republicans, Hillary Clinton and Senator Biden has our interest in their sight is garbage. With all do respect, the latter two have done some good, but the balance tilts to lobbyists and corporate greed. If we are to move forward in this country we need look no further than leadership in the form of Kucinich, Obama, Richardson, possibly John & Elizabeth Edwards and go back to the writings of Thom Paine and Thomas Jefferson. If we fail the ideas of our Founders, then we get nowhere quick. We have a small window of opportunity here folks, and it is up to "We the People". I love the ilk of Randi Rhodes, Thom Hatmann, and Mike Malloy...I just cannot spend 8 years listening to them figuring it out for us, and what we do come the next election, because they'll have it right. I ask this of all of you, What would Jefferson do? What would Gahndi do? What would Jesus do? What will you do?

Stand up to the White House with Russ Feingold

House & Senate Democrats Introduce Censure Resolutions For Bush Cheney & Gonzales
By: Logan Murphy @ 6:31 AM - PDT
Via The Raw Story:
Democrats in the House and Senate have introduced resolutions calling for the censure of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.Sen. Russ Feingold sponsored two resolutions in his chamber calling for the legislative action against the administration officials because of they misled the country in pursuing war with Iraq and have undermined the rule of law, he said.
“These censure resolutions will let future generations know that Congress stood up to the destructive policies of this administration that have weakened our national security, cost more than 3,600 American lives, and undermined the principles on which our country was founded,” Feingold said in a prepared statement.
Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) introduced companion legislation in the House.
“From misleading this country into invading Iraq to establishing a warrantless domestic spy program, this White House has continuously misled and deceived the American people while disregarding the rule of law that guides our democracy,” Hinchey said in a prepared statement. “The Bush administration has placed an extraordinary burden on this and future generations to recover from the damage done to our Constitution and national security.” Read more…
Perhaps these resolutions don’t go far enough, but it shows that some Democrats are still working for us. They want to put something into the public record to show that somebody in this Congress stood up to King George and I say go for it…

progressivepatriots.com

Judging Anti-American people who are not really Anti-American

For years the GOP has hated "We the People", the anti-war celeberties like Sean Penn,Tim Robbins , and Susan Sarandon, to anti-war politicians like George McGovern, Dennis Kucinich, and the late great Paul Wellstone, to filmakers like Michael Moore or Robert Greenwald, to people like me. They label us Anti-American, I figure it's the best they got while standing in the warm puddle of urine they find themselves in after being hit with fact.

The idea that civil disobedience is un-american, or not wanting to blow up a country that neither attacked us, nor had the capacity would certainly have the likes of Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and possibly Mr. Thoreau declaring an overthrow. Fox Noise, the National Review, Townhall.com, among many have practiced this since we said "NO" to a war in Iraq. "We the People", and I use this because we are in the mainstream have continued an all out effort to preserve what our founders envisioned. We call out mis-managed governance when it is extremley harmful to our country ie; the war in Iraq, we continue the efforts of Martin Luther King Jr. by promoting a society of diversity, we continue the efforts of Bobby Kennedy by working towards a better life for those impoverished, we oppose illegal wars on a country that was innocent of the crimes Bush alledgedly accused them of, we try to preserve a woman's right to choose. The last one is peculiar for me, as a male, who's ex did have an abortion, I still beleive woman deserve that choice . Gee, these things sound so un-american don't they.

What prompted me to write this was an article on First Friday's site speaking of Sean Penn meeting with Hugo Chavez...so what! Mr. Chavez was Democratically elected, has opposed the War in Iraq, and oh-uh gave discounted heating fuel to poor americans, and oh my, was one of the first foreign leaders to offer help to Katrina victims. Granted, he has done some things that I find undesirable, but overall, I like him. I find him and most of us tagged "un-american" more valued in a Democratic society.

Bom Dia,

Ghost of Wellstone

Too good not to link

The following link is some Jay Leno's finest...

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/In_mock_interview_Jay_Leno_Dick_0803.html

Special Comment

The following is taken from the Half-Wits at itsfirstfriday.com , and then my Special Comment.

"Douchebag of the Week
Filed under: Douchebag of the Week, Wanna Be Presidents — firstfriday @ 11:29 am
While the House Majority Leadership is making a strong bid for Douchebag of the Week, today’s award must go to Barack Obama. We have long predicted his downfall once he begins opening his mouth about foreign policy, so we’re particularly pleased with Obama’s gaffes this week.
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday that he would not use nuclear weapons “in any circumstance” to fight terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“I think it would be a profound mistake for us to use nuclear weapons in any circumstance,” he said, with a pause, “involving civilians.” Then he quickly added, “Let me scratch that. There’s been no discussion of nuclear weapons.”
So in addition to publishing our benchmarks for success in Iraq (thus telling our enemies where to hit us), he would also let our enemies know that our enourmous nuclear advantage is, well, off the table - or at least he wouldn’t “discuss” it.
Whatever.
Any other positions of weakness you’d like us to take, Senator? How about revoking the Monroe Doctrine while you’re at it?
Oh, but wait! Now we’re going to invade Pakistan.
OBAMA: “There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al Qaeda leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”
Fantastic. Undermine a nuclear ally and create massive instability that would result is a hostile takeover by radical jihadists. Wasn’t he the one blasting Bush for taking “irresponsible” unilateral action against Saddam?
The audacity! Just shut up and stick to your boring platitudes of “hope”.
Congratulations, Barack Obama, you are the Douchebag of the Week!"

First off, I will say this to the gentlemen at this site, that many million "douchebags" can't be wrong. Secondly, if you oppose going into Pakistan as Mr. Obama suggests then you really have no interest in the War on Terror do you? President Bush intentionally led our troops into Iraq based on lies, and you foolishly supported it, bashing anti-war liberals all the way. Now it is clear everything we said was true, and you can't face that. You were all willingly ready to pack up most of our stuff in Afghanistan and go to Iraq, yet the brains and leadership of Al Qaeda are in Pakistan, where President Musharaff has all but given them safe heaven. According to Pentagon reports, there is barely 15% of Al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq, the rest are militant Shia and Sunni factions, or simply Iraqi rebels.

Terroists leadership hides in the very areas Senator Obama has suggested taking action on. Well, it sounds to me like fighting where the terrorists actually are is fighting terrorism. We can go on and on about how Pakistan and the Saudis are such great allies, but are they? Suggesting that Iraq had something to with 9/11 or WMDS is ridiculous, and anyone with a sense of intellect knew this, and still knows it. The guys at First Friday also suggested recently that trial lawyers, Democrats and Al Qaeda were all similar, well suggesting we sit back and allow Pakistan to harbor terrorists near the Afghan border seems like they got it wrong as they usually do. If "the Dude" at First Friday continues to drag his knuckles and follow the predicted demise of the GOP, then his weekly search for "douchebag of the week" will certainly end on this Friday night with a long stare in the mirror in the bathroom.

Your tax cuts at work

The current tragedy in Minnesota is yet another reason to see endless tax cuts come to an end. Paying taxes are a burden on everyone, yet we must recognize that paying taxes are an investment in our communities and country. The Minnesota House of Representatives worked to put forth a "gas tax" that would provide investments in transportation, yet it was blocked by Republican reps.

The current trend of Conservatives to not raise taxes on anything, including the half-wits at Americans for Tax Reform support tax cuts for the highest 1% in the country and pay no attention to the devastation that has been witnessed in infrastructure around the country. I am not pleased at forthcoming tax hikes, but I will say I would gladly encourage it if it were were spent on bridges,levees, armor for our troops, and housing for the poor. Instead of privatizing our roads we could let our tolls go to the states, not some fat cat getting fatter. I would rather see the entire country sacrifice to help our troops in a stupid war instead of giving no bid contracts to Halliburton . You get my point here. Our founders, from both parties, knew what sacrifice was, as did many leaders that followed. They understood that community meant all of us, and we all must contribute.

I am sure you might expect a tirade from me lashing out at Republicans now, but this is for all of OUR EMPLOYEES, our elected Reps. Abolish the Republican tax cuts, invest in our own country, be proactive, and prevent future levees being breached, and future bridges from crumbling down. This irresponsible cut and spend mentality is rather reminiscent of our favorite childhood story...Humpty Dumpty.