"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." -- Bertrand Russell (British philosopher and mathematician, 1872-1970)
-if Bush understands anything, he understands this to our great undoing!
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Friday, October 05, 2007
Saturday, September 29, 2007
War for Profit
-Check out the NEW Mark Fiore animation in the Liberal Media Player on the Sidebar:
The War for Profit
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Friday, August 31, 2007
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
The Geppetto Administration?
Unbeknowst to him, this pathetic Bushy ain't in Disneyland anymore!
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Friday, June 08, 2007
Friday, May 04, 2007
Ah, Politics
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
-tis the season???
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-tis the season???
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Quote for Thought
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Kudos to Fitzpatrick
Just a note of thanks to a prosecutor who has successfully taken out one of the legs that the thoroughly corrupt White House has stood on in its cynical duping of the American people. Mr. Libby, former top aid to VP Cheney, was convicted today of obstruction of justice, perjury, and lying to the FBI in a trial that went to the heart of the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq. It was all a lie folks, and the proof is in the great lengths that in particular the VP's office went to discredit factual evidence that the case for war was nonsense.
The rightwing scream machine has on cue gone into full attack mode. Repug apologists have saturated the airways with their vitriol against the prosecutor and the jury in the Libby case. Refusing to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence against Libby (and the VP) that a sympathetic jury has said they could not ignore, they instead have invented a vendetta conspiracy of liberals and an ignorant selfserving Fitzpatrick and jurors who 'just don't know the law', as the Mdm. De Farge of rightwing loyalists- former federal prosecutor and Democratic Party, Clinton hater Ms. Toensing said today on CNN. Funny, did these right wing cronies of the VP and Libby forget that Fitzpatrick is a longtime repug party hack and that the jurors were a group of highly educated, mostly non minority persons- hardly the makings of a liberal conspiracy.
As Fitzpatrick said today, a cloud hangs over the White House and the VP, but he remarked that it was hardly of his making but of their own. The implication being that there is much more there there, but that there was probably not a case that could be brought successfully against others high up in the White House, due no doubt to the utter secrecy and surround the wagons mentality of the Bush folks. As one juror in an interview soon after the verdict reflected about the jury's sentiments in the matter, that Libby was a likely 'fall guy' for the White House, and thus that many in the jury wondered why was not a case made against Karl Rove and others in the administration. It seems Fitzpatrick got what he could get, for now. . .
Anyway, it seems the anti-war political climate on Capitol Hill (and the country at large) will only intensify. There will be more hearings and investigations, and no doubt new impetus to bring the disasterous war in Iraq to and end. The times they are a changin' and blowin' in the wind is a newly emboldened anti-Bush administration disgust, and not a moment too soon!
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The rightwing scream machine has on cue gone into full attack mode. Repug apologists have saturated the airways with their vitriol against the prosecutor and the jury in the Libby case. Refusing to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence against Libby (and the VP) that a sympathetic jury has said they could not ignore, they instead have invented a vendetta conspiracy of liberals and an ignorant selfserving Fitzpatrick and jurors who 'just don't know the law', as the Mdm. De Farge of rightwing loyalists- former federal prosecutor and Democratic Party, Clinton hater Ms. Toensing said today on CNN. Funny, did these right wing cronies of the VP and Libby forget that Fitzpatrick is a longtime repug party hack and that the jurors were a group of highly educated, mostly non minority persons- hardly the makings of a liberal conspiracy.
As Fitzpatrick said today, a cloud hangs over the White House and the VP, but he remarked that it was hardly of his making but of their own. The implication being that there is much more there there, but that there was probably not a case that could be brought successfully against others high up in the White House, due no doubt to the utter secrecy and surround the wagons mentality of the Bush folks. As one juror in an interview soon after the verdict reflected about the jury's sentiments in the matter, that Libby was a likely 'fall guy' for the White House, and thus that many in the jury wondered why was not a case made against Karl Rove and others in the administration. It seems Fitzpatrick got what he could get, for now. . .
Anyway, it seems the anti-war political climate on Capitol Hill (and the country at large) will only intensify. There will be more hearings and investigations, and no doubt new impetus to bring the disasterous war in Iraq to and end. The times they are a changin' and blowin' in the wind is a newly emboldened anti-Bush administration disgust, and not a moment too soon!
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Disproportionately Dead
An important study from New Hampshire's Carsey Institute, which specializes in studying rural America shows that our dead in Iraq are disproportionately from rural America. The death rate for soldiers from rural areas (only 24 per million adults aged 18 to 59) is 60% higher than the death rate for those soldiers from cities and suburbs. Vermont has the highest rate of casualties, followed by Delaware, South Dakota, and Arizona.
Evidence shows that the utter lack of opportunity in rural areas simply leaves more young people there with fewer alternatives to the military because of repug social policies. The opportunity differential between rural and urban America is higher now than at any time in the past. Also, only 1/10th of one percent (again overwhelmingly disproportionately rural!) of the population have served. No wonder it's been easy for so many Americans to ignore such a catastrophic war.
This illegal, ugly, deadly, incompetently run war has to end immediately!
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Evidence shows that the utter lack of opportunity in rural areas simply leaves more young people there with fewer alternatives to the military because of repug social policies. The opportunity differential between rural and urban America is higher now than at any time in the past. Also, only 1/10th of one percent (again overwhelmingly disproportionately rural!) of the population have served. No wonder it's been easy for so many Americans to ignore such a catastrophic war.
This illegal, ugly, deadly, incompetently run war has to end immediately!
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