Tuesday, June 17, 2008
John McCain angrily denounces mandatory caps on carbon dioxide. Guess who's campaign released a plan for mandatory caps last month?
Crooks and Liars » McCain confused about his own energy policy: "QUESTION: The European Union has set mandatory targets on renewable energy. Is that something you would consider in a McCain administration? […]"
What's wrong with this guy? It's gone beyond flip-flopping. It's just a weird lust for power thing.
What's wrong with this guy? It's gone beyond flip-flopping. It's just a weird lust for power thing.
Article from The Onion in Jan. 2001 Predicts Everything Bush Administration Does
Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over' | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: "WASHINGTON, DC–Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that 'our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over.'"
Monday, June 16, 2008
Get Osama Bin Laden before I leave office, orders George W Bush
Get Osama Bin Laden before I leave office, orders George W Bush - Times Online: "President George W Bush has enlisted British special forces in a final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before he leaves the White House."
George, I know you're trying to do this for your "legacy," but maybe the outlook for your legacy would have been better if you had done this right away, instead of putting it off 'til the last second, spending $3 trillion of our children and grand children's money on an unrelated revenge killing of Saddam.
George, I know you're trying to do this for your "legacy," but maybe the outlook for your legacy would have been better if you had done this right away, instead of putting it off 'til the last second, spending $3 trillion of our children and grand children's money on an unrelated revenge killing of Saddam.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Maliki raises possibility that Iraq might ask U.S. to leave
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 06/13/2008 | Maliki raises possibility that Iraq might ask U.S. to leave: "Maliki made the comment after weeks of complaints from Shiite Muslim lawmakers that U.S. proposals that would govern a continued troop presence in Iraq would infringe on Iraq's sovereignty."
Army's PR Office Spreading Partisan Attacks On Obama
Army Shows Its Colors - Intel Dump - Phillip Carter on national security and the military.
This is the problem of the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about. The military getting involved in politics. Go to YouTube if you haven't seen his famous TV speech.
This is the problem of the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about. The military getting involved in politics. Go to YouTube if you haven't seen his famous TV speech.
The Federal Government Keeps Two Sets of Books
USATODAY.com - What's the real federal deficit?: "The set the government doesn't talk about is the audited financial statement produced by the government's accountants following standard accounting rules. It reports a more ominous financial picture: a $760 billion deficit for 2005. If Social Security and Medicare were included — as the board that sets accounting rules is considering — the federal deficit would have been $3.5 trillion."
Friday, June 13, 2008
Supreme Court Repudiates Bush for Third Time
Court says detainees have rights, bucking Bush: "In a stinging rebuke to President Bush's anti-terror policies, a deeply divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign detainees held for years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have the right to appeal to U.S. civilian courts to challenge their indefinite imprisonment without charges."
U.S. Seeking Immunity for Blackwater
Immunity for private guards in Iraq a sticking point: US - Yahoo! News: "'The issue of contractors including (foreign) security contractors is a sensitive one, is a significant one,' David Satterfield, the US State Department's top Iraq adviser told reporters in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone."
U.S. seeking 58 permanent bases in Iraq, Shiite lawmakers say
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 06/09/2008 | U.S. seeking 58 bases in Iraq, Shiite lawmakers say: "Leading members of the two ruling Shiite parties said in a series of interviews the Iraqi government rejected this proposal along with another U.S. demand that would have effectively handed over to the United States the power to determine if a hostile act from another country is aggression against Iraq. Lawmakers said they fear this power would drag Iraq into a war between the United States and Iran."
GOP Senators Hopping Mad About Habeus Corpus
The Crypt: GOP blast Gitmo decision, Graham says he is willing to push for a constitutional amendment if necessary - Politico.com: "Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) vowed Thursday to do everything in his power to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision on Guantanamo Bay detainees, saying that, “if necessary,” he would push for a constitutional amendment to modify the decision.
McCain Says He's Never Supported Privatizing Social Security, But He Has
Think Progress » McCain denies his record of supporting Social Security privatization.:
- “Without privatization, I don’t see how you can possibly, over time, make sure that young Americans are able to receive Social Security benefits.” [C-Span Road to the White House, 11/18/2004]
- “As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it — along the lines that President Bush proposed.” [Wall Street Journal, 3/3/2008]
McCain is nuts. Does he not remember? Why would he contradict himself so obviously?
Monday, June 9, 2008
Does the Government Manipulate Economic Data?
Does the Government Manipulate Economic Data? at Emac’s Stock Watch | Fox Business: "A generation ago Phillips wrote “The Emerging Republican Majority” which Newsweek magazine described as the “political bible of the Nixon administration,” and previously has dissected the fakery in the government deficit numbers-federal, budget, current account and trade deficits-where he says that essentially the country is living on “borrowed prosperity.”"
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
McCain: I'd Spy on Americans Secretly, Too
McCain: I'd Spy on Americans Secretly, Too | Threat Level from Wired.com: "If elected president, Senator John McCain would reserve the right to run his own warrantless wiretapping program against Americans, based on the theory that the president's wartime powers trump federal criminal statutes and court oversight, according to a statement released by his campaign Monday."
New Venezuelan law allows warrantless wiretapping and manipulation of the judicial process to favor the government over the rights of the accused
BBC NEWS | Americas | Venezuela 'spy' law draws protest: "Mr Chavez argues the law will help Venezuela guarantee its national security and prevent assassination plots and military rebellions."
Good thing we live in America, where that would never, ever happen.
Good thing we live in America, where that would never, ever happen.
U.S. to require electronic travel data
U.S. to require electronic travel data | Politics | Reuters: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will make visa-free foreign travelers provide electronic information about themselves and their trip before they depart, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Tuesday."
This will be good for tourism. And keep believing the Republican line that they are pro-business, and Dems aren't.
This will be good for tourism. And keep believing the Republican line that they are pro-business, and Dems aren't.
Canada's parliament votes to grant asylum to US war resisters
The Raw Story | Canada's parliament votes to grant asylum to US war resisters: "Parliament on Tuesday voted to allow US resisters of the Iraq war who fled to Canada to stay in this country, thus avoiding military court-martial in the United States."
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Carter Reveals Israel's Possession of 150 Nuclear Weapons
Carter Reveals Israel's Possession of 150 Nuclear Weapons - Salem-News.Com: "(SALEM, Ore.) - At this moment a search of 'Israel' in Google News turns up endless results. The first entry about a 'Call for PM to Step Down' shows 1,761 articles. If you search 'Carter' however, you pull up 214 stories with the biting revelation that Israel has 150 nuclear weapons."
Get the inspectors in there!!!!! If they balk for one second, we're going in!!
Get the inspectors in there!!!!! If they balk for one second, we're going in!!
Australia lowers flag in Iraq
Australia lowers flag in Iraq - World - smh.com.au: "FOR Australian combat troops the war in Iraq is over."
Guantanamo trials 'being rushed' to get done before elections
BBC NEWS | Americas | Guantanamo trials 'being rushed': "They have called for the military judge to dismiss the case on the grounds it is politically motivated, according to documents seen by the Associated Press."
Coalition of the Billing: US paying allies to fight war in Iraq
US paying allies to fight war in Iraq-USA-World-The Times of India
"In her testimony, Ugone also revealed that $135 million were given to forces from three countries UK, South Korea and Poland to facilitate their participation in the war. This is the first time that the US has officially admitted paying its allies in the so-called Coalition of the Willing that invaded Iraq in March 2003."
In the first Gulf War, Bush Sr. got paid by our allies. In this one, Jr. is paying them.
"In her testimony, Ugone also revealed that $135 million were given to forces from three countries UK, South Korea and Poland to facilitate their participation in the war. This is the first time that the US has officially admitted paying its allies in the so-called Coalition of the Willing that invaded Iraq in March 2003."
In the first Gulf War, Bush Sr. got paid by our allies. In this one, Jr. is paying them.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Why do conservatives hate the ACLU?
KSDK NewsChannel 5 - St. Louis Woman Says She Lost Job over Harry Potter Dispute
Southern Baptist library worker refuses to work at Harry Potter promotional event, and is forced to quit. ACLU suing on her behalf, but don't let that stop you from claiming they're out to destroy religion (courtesy of fark)
Southern Baptist library worker refuses to work at Harry Potter promotional event, and is forced to quit. ACLU suing on her behalf, but don't let that stop you from claiming they're out to destroy religion (courtesy of fark)
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Former White House Press Secretary, McClellan whacks Bush, White House
Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House - Mike Allen - Politico.com
"Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence.
Among the most explosive revelations in the 341-page book, titled “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” (Public Affairs, $27.95):
• McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.
• He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.
• He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”
• The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them — and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.
• McClellan asserts that the aides — Karl Rove, the president’s senior adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff — “had at best misled” him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity."
"Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence.
Among the most explosive revelations in the 341-page book, titled “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” (Public Affairs, $27.95):
• McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.
• He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.
• He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”
• The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them — and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.
• McClellan asserts that the aides — Karl Rove, the president’s senior adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff — “had at best misled” him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity."
Monday, May 26, 2008
John Boehner demands protection from illegal wiretapping - but only for himself
Boehner's wiretapping stance draws ire - Chris Frates - Politico.com
"'Mr. Boehner is trying to kick millions of Americans out of court in a wiretapping case while collecting more than $1 million in his own wiretapping case.'"
"'Mr. Boehner is trying to kick millions of Americans out of court in a wiretapping case while collecting more than $1 million in his own wiretapping case.'"
Gov't tells fed. judges that president can send military into any U.S. neighborhood, capture a citizen and hold him in prison w/o charge, indefinitely
'Sleeper cell' case tests Bush powers - Security- msnbc.com: "To justify holding him, the government claimed a broad interpretation of the president's wartime powers, one that goes beyond warrantless wiretapping or monitoring banking transactions. Government lawyers told federal judges that the president can send the military into any U.S. neighborhood, capture a citizen and hold him in prison without charge, indefinitely."
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Bush May 17, 2008: Saudi oil output hike would not solve US problems
AFP: Saudi oil output hike would not solve US problems: Bush: "'It's not enough, it's something but it doesn't solve our problem,' Bush told reporters in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh."
May 16, 2008: Saudi Arabia rebuffs Bush on oil output
Saudi Arabia rebuffs Bush on oil output - Saudi Arabia- msnbc.com
"It was Bush’s second personal appeal this year to King Abdullah, head of the monarchy that rules this desert kingdom that is a longtime prime U.S. ally and home to the world’s largest oil reserves."
"It was Bush’s second personal appeal this year to King Abdullah, head of the monarchy that rules this desert kingdom that is a longtime prime U.S. ally and home to the world’s largest oil reserves."
Bush in June 2000: My Personality Will Drive Down Oil Prices
THE 2000 CAMPAIGN: THE TEXAS GOVERNOR; Bush Would Use Power of Persuasion to Raise Oil Supply - New York Times: "Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality, by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude."
Suicides of Vets from Iraq and Afghanistan May Exceed Combat Deaths
Bloomberg.com: Science: "May 5 (Bloomberg) -- The number of suicides among veterans
of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll
because of inadequate mental health care, the U.S. government's
top psychiatric researcher said."
of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll
because of inadequate mental health care, the U.S. government's
top psychiatric researcher said."
Friday, May 23, 2008
Internal audit of $8 bil. paid to Iraqi and US contractors finds that the govt skirted rules designed to prevent fraud in almost every transaction
News from The Associated Press: "WASHINGTON (AP) -- An internal audit of some $8 billion paid to U.S. and Iraqi contractors found that nearly every transaction failed to comply with federal laws or regulations aimed at preventing fraud, in some cases lacking even basic invoices explaining how the money was spent."
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