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POPSYou Say tomato, Big Business said TOMATO.
LET'S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF! More Bush Administration's HANDIWORK, to make you Sick, REALLY SICK! Under pressure in 2003 and 2004, the White House agreed to dilute record-keeping proposals by FDA safety experts. "If the FDA had been given the resources and authority years ago that it asked for to solve these kinds of problems, I think we would have solved this already," said W. Hubbard, a former FDA associate commissioner. Tommy Thompson, who was health secretary during the industry's lobbying campaign, acknowledged that a more robust food-tracking system — opposed by business groups as too expensive — could have helped stem the current illnesses More Here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/salmonella_lobbying --- Hey Folks, we're sitting ducks to Big Business desires... SO YOU SAY TOMATO AND I SAY TOMATO... let's call the whole thing off! Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ3fjQa5Hls :mad: http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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POPSGeorge W Bush Whoops It Up! George W. Bush whoops it up at a "R": fundraiser; Laughing and joking while Americans suffer in silence. This time, Cenk Uygur, is very angry at the Bozo-In-Chief... Watch video and feel his rage. Read More At This Link: http://losangeles.injuryboard.com/miscellaneous/bush-will-sign-housing-bill-after-making-fun-of-economy-housing-crisis.aspx?googleid=244314 See more on this clipmarks here: http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com/2008/07/bush-will-sign-housing-bill-after.html
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POPSThe Prosecution Of George W Bush for Murder When I first saw Vincent Bugliosi, talk about his book "The Prosecution Of George W Bush for Murder", I was blown away. I thought, he's not just another crackpot trying to sell a crackpot book, he is serious. Bush lied us into an illegal war and thus far, nothing, but words has happened to him and his crew. Is this reality? A reality that allows Bush to go scot-free for so many crimes. With no one not one group to point a finger and demand he pay for his misdeeds. Without a doubt, Bush, appears to be one who IS above the law. Not only is he above the law, he gets help to get away with his transgression. (namely: the FISA vote).... We are, most of us anyway, holding our breaths to see this sad excuse for a man leave the highest office, once and for all. But is that enough? I hope Bugliosi, one of the greatest prosecutors of our time, will not rest until he sees justice served upon George W. Bush. Also watch, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlISseXFjng
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POPSSend Karl Rove To Jail! - Why? Karl Rove needs to be sent to jail so Bush can pardon him. Really this is serious. After all, poor W. Bush owes turdblossom so much and what a nice way to thank him. --- How can Karl Rove believe he is above the LAW? Apparently, he feels he is. And if he goes on ignoring a Congressional Subpoena and gets away with it, he is above the law! OK everyone, A great big kiss GOODBYE to what we thought was the American Justice System, ( I kissed it goodbye when it comes to the Bush-Neocons, over 7 years ago, so it's No New News to me)! This picture says it all! http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/images/KarlRove.gif and this http://www.newscorpse.com/Pix/RoveUnderstands.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWQ5ZMnz25I Sign Petition here: http://bravenewfilms.org/petitions/show/22-tell-the-house-judiciary-committee-to-hold-karl-rove-in-contempt-and-send-him-to-jail
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POPSIs The Thrill Gone For Obama Supporters? Obama Fades? I can't speak for anyone else but for me his glow has dimmed, since he started wearing that flag lapel pin. While living through years of the worst president the US has had at the helm, I could identify the enemy or the Bush supporters by their Bush/Neocon fraternity pins. And I could direct my anger even before the Bushy sycophants opened their bombastic collective rhetorical pie-holes and blather the some ole, same ole. So the flag label pin had become a symbol of pretentious superciliousness to me. Of course, with Obama pandering to the "R's" and the "I's" who voted for Dubya and helped ruin our country and make us a laughing stock all over the world (Remember the headline from the UK’s Daily Mirror: How Can 1,230,065 People Be So Dumb?) may have a little to do with the Obama Fade From Grace. But that PIN is all I see when this eloquent orator takes center stage and its glare has a blinding effect on the reflection of the man behind that "R" studded brooch. :-(
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POPSThe Redacting Of Thomas Jefferson This is just a "tip of the iceberg" of the redacting and revising of documents and facts the Bush Neocon Administration have been busily churning out for the past 7-plus years. Will we ever see the WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH again? I am hopeful we will if Obama is elected, but I will say a jubilant Good Riddance to them all, come January 2009, no matter who is elected! thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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POPSThe many faces of John McCain. The closer we get to the presidential election the more John McCain looks and acts like George W. Bush. I don't know what his strategy is all about but do we really want another term of the neocons and Bush? I think not! Perhaps, he is banking on another 9/11 or something to shock Americans into the same fear-hold Karl Rove and the rest of the neocon manipulators had on the people...You know that PNAC group (which has since shut down their site...hmmm I wonder why, does rats overboard mean anything?) But, the PNAC in order to unleash their foreign/military campaigns needed a catalyzing event like "a new Pearl Harbor". (neocon quote) 9/11 rode to their rescue. Now they were able to Pied Piper all the little frightened children into the black hole of hell. But their utopian plan did not work out so well. Maybe they need another Pearl Harbor because it seems the little children have lost some of their fear and may need a booster shot. How much more can we take? Obama or Anyone But McBush!
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POPSLet's Not Kid Ourselves, It's All About Torture. Democracy Now, had a very informative show on June 13, 2006. They started their segment with Vince Warren on the Supreme Court's ruling of June 12th... That the detainees will have the same rules that America abides by in our Constitution... This ruling has happened 3 times now... The last two times Bush and his Republican Congress had it somewhat annulled. The Judges did not do as they were told so their ruling cannot stand. This is the mindset of Bush and his good little Judges Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Chief Justice Roberts but Justice Kennedy was... "A Bad Boy, A Very Naughty Boy" ... (A Flashback: On what Larry Craig Called Bill Clinton ) Watch the video and stay tuned for (Renowned Attorney Vincent Bugliosi Seeks “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder”) next on Youtube.
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POPSWho is the real John McCain? ARIANNA HUFFINGTON Well, first of all, I was not a supporter in that I was planning to vote for him, but I was an admirer of McCain. I considered him a real leader. So even though I disagreed with him on many issues, I saw in him somebody who genuinely wanted to bring about reform and somebody with a real independence streak. So it was really sad for me to see him be willing to sell his soul to become president of the United States. And the fact that he had told me at a dinner in 2000 in the presence of other people, who have corroborated, it seems, that he did not vote for George Bush, is really a perfect indication of who John McCain was in 2000 and why so many people, including so many in the media, fell in love with him. This was a man who was so independent and so abhorred George Bush, whom he described as dangerous... More Here: http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1658&updaterx=2008-06-12+19%3A58%3A39
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POPSThe Supreme Court According To Bush. The Supreme Court - According to Bush and his merry band of neoconservatives the only function of this Court should be TO DO AS THEY TELL IT TO DO. Well the 4 lackeys' did just that, 2 of which he appointed himself, the others, one his Daddy's choice and the other (he wished he was his daddy) Reagan's. Good ole Reagan appointed Anthony Scalia, (Scalia on capital punishment: "Death is no big deal" {unless of course it's his or his loved ones} - Hypocrisy to the highest degree!) did Bush's bidding just like a good little justice was suppose to do. But the tie breaker was Kennedy (Justice Anthony Kennedy acknowledged the terrorism threat the country faces — the administration's justification for the detentions — but he declared, "THE LAWS AND THE CONSTITUTION ARE DESIGNED TO SURVIVE AND REMAIN IN FORCE, IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES!") Thank all that is good that Reagan slipped up on this nomination, when he nominated a THINKER to the Supreme Court. Will wonders never cease? thinkingblue
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POPSBush/Cheney Pot calling the Kettle black! The Bush/Cheney Neocons would have loved patterning the USA after the repressive government of Uzbekistan but thanks to our constitution (a bit tattered from the last 8 years) for not allowing them this fantasy. With all their criminal efforts they have rendered America as the Pot and Uzbekistan the Kettle. The charred blackness which is on the Pot; doesn't see the black on himself and calls the kettle black! Excerpted From Article: But this is Uzbekistan, a repressive country where laws mean little, rights are relative and torture is endemic... After criticism from Wash., Uzbekistan ejected the U S from a military base that was supplying the war effort in Afghanistan. How much influence should the US try to exercise — if any at all — over another country’s behavior? And will that country be receptive, given the abuse, indefinite detentions and closed tribunals that have been part of the United States’ record in recent years?
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POPSCanada Refuses Stay to Resisters of an Illegal War There are many people alive today because Canada gave them refuge from another felonious war so long ago in Vietnam. Now, they are turning their backs to resisters even though they themselves, decided not to fight an illegal war. Hmmm, I wonder why? In a free country, one should have the right to protest an unjust war but we are not a free country. The conscientious objectors have no where to turn.. They can't go back to their own country and Canada won't allow them to stay within their borders. Isn't it ironic that Bush and Cheney have illegally kidnapped and transported people out of different countries to deliver them for torture, abroad and have yet to receive punishment for their criminal actions. Yet a resister to an unlawful preempted war gets the book thrown at him. You must fight, and possibly die even if it is only for a neocon pipedream... Something is so wrong with this picture. I sure hope President Bush enjoyed his game of golf today! :mad:
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POPSTHE LIBERAL MOVEMENT WAS RIGHT! The liberal movement was right on Lieberman and were right on the unjustified war in Iraq... Still waiting for an apology on the latter. Should I hold my breath? With all the immoral, absurdities of the last 8 years and now the rearing of its ugly head in some media outlets... "HOW COULD I HAVE NOT SEEN THAT?". Allows one to ask... "Really now, you didn't have to be a rocket scientist or soothsayer to figure out the insane outcome of all the wrongness that was occurring within the Karl Rove 'Free Thought Annihilation Machine'! Did you? . GOLF ANYONE? The Wounded-Courier: Bush Golfing Again, Says "Long Nat'l Nightmare" Over http://mediabloodhound.typepad.com/weblog/2008/05/bush-resumes-pl.html GOOD GRIEF, I FEEL SICK! :mad:
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POPSSmall Government and other Goofy Ideas! This paragraph is encouraging: (Even John McCain, who tells conservatives that he's a Reagan disciple, proposes far-reaching government action on issues such as climate change, high energy prices and the mortgage crisis -- problems that are supposedly better left to the CRUEL GENIUS OF THE FREE MARKET, according to ... Bush ...) I could never understand why people especially LIBERTARIANS believe small or no government is what this nation needs... The GOP sure jumped on that bandwagon. Here is a great site to compliment Mr. Robinson's stance... http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=24 Time and time again, I have repeated the old axiom WE'RE ONLY AS STRONG AS OUR WEAKEST LINK! And the weakest amongst us may need a helping hand now and then...(Katrina). Here's good quote: “The weakest link in the chain is also the strongest. It can break the chain.” - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966)
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POPSIs McCain a neocon? You will find this interesting video at http://www.thethinkingblue.com/mccainneocon.html from the website: http://therealnews.com/web/index.php
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POPSTHE ALMIGHTY SUPREME COURT (fiction) (A thinkingblue personal opinion) When Gore lost the ability to have a recount in 2000 and the Supreme Court awarded the presidency to George W Bush, I knew exactly what was going to happen within this holiest of Courts. I knew, the great headway that was made to lessen human suffering would probably be overturned and that future supreme decisions would be handled by the judges, W. Bush would get to nominate to give the conservative ideology a court majority. It seems this de ja vu I felt was right on target. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out! The republican party has for 50 years had this as their goal. But I wished the hell I knew why? thinkingblue You can also view it here: http://www.thethinkingblue.com/swf/BOSTONLEGAL.html
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POPSYou Go Girl! Helen Thomas appears to be the only member of the media who believes we should all be aware of what is going on behind our backs. In fact, what's going on right in front of our faces while Bush and his scourging cabal thumb their noses at us. Torture has been mentioned briefly by anchors and news sources but then it fades away... The fact that we have used this hellish force on fellow human beings, is something that should never fade. I can't do much, for that matter almost nothing but whenever I can call attention to this dreadful act, I will! I'll spread the word or feelings from the rooftops (or maybe just youtube) about how abominable torture is. But what is even more frightening than torture is that we Americans, have elected leaders who not only use this immoral practice but hold it up as a useful tool touting "the end justifies the means". I think it's more like an end to society and the beginning of anarchy. Also watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISuY0o1Hxno
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POPSCarry On My Wayward Son It looks like McCain uh, I mean McBush is promising us the “same ole, same ole”... Haven't we had enough of the twilight zone? This GOP presidential nominee is a bit more scarier than Bush was. When Bush was appointed president by the Supreme Court we didn't quite realize the damage he was capable of, but we sure as hell know what McBush is up to... Carry On My Wayward Son... All We Are Is Dust In The Wind...
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POPSSign Petition To Stop Blackmail! I hope you will join me in telling Congress to find their backbone. Sign the petition at http://www.aclu.org/factoverfear Watch Olbermann's Special Comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F1cP8oDuyo
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POPSTell House Member Stand Firm For Restore Act An exceptional "special comment" from Keith Olbermann on February 14, 2008. Watch this video and go to http://action.firedoglake.com/page/petition/RestoreFISA to sign a petition to tell Congress to, STAND FIRM and NOT in lockstep. Tell them Do Not let the Bush Administration bully you, once again, into decimating our democracy. Our freedom is at stake here, folks.
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POPSHas the Iraq war suddenly disappeared? It would seem so if you get your news solely from the mainstream media. Hardly a mention of the 5 American soldiers who were killed in Northern Iraq by a roadside bomb, the other day. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080128/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_080119205312 The anchors are all whooping it up over the presidential race. When they do get serious, the talk turns to how the economy is taking a dive. Anything to take the American viewer away from the illegal war. But for the ones who are still losing loved ones. It will never vanish for them. And also for those Iraqi unfortunates who haven't the means to escape from the Bush/Neocon created HELLHOLE they call home. It will take at least a 100 years, if ever, for the nightmare to fade. Oh, there are articles of the pain and suffering because of this Illegal-War but you have to hunt for them. In case you're still interested, read this sad tale for starters: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-01-24-smalltowns_N.htm
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POPSIS THE COLD WAR BACK? (or did it ever leave?) The Cold War was the era I grew up in. Russia was bullying the world with a Nuclear threat that made life an every day scary event. Today, our leaders acted as though this peril from Russia was a thing of the past (President Bush’s June 2001 declaration that he had looked Russia’s Vladimir Putin in the eye and “was able to get a sense of his soul”) So with this threat supposedly long gone the Bush administration became solely occupied with a tiny Middle East country who posed no endangerment and was fully contained by sanctions. But still decided to declare war upon it. While the Real Threat quietly menaced in the background and now Russia is using their nuclear arsenal to bully humanity once again. (How come Bush didn't see that when he looked into The Putin Eye?) COLD WAR - The global superpower stand-off that brought the world to the brink of destruction. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/soviet_stand_01.shtml
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POPSAn Investigation, A Conviction and A Pardon. Durham, who has served with the Justice Department for 25 years, has a reputation as one of the nation's most relentless prosecutors. He sent former FBI agent John Connolly to prison."Nobody in this country is above the law... " Durham said in 2002. --- Here we go again, no one's above the law or so they say. But I am not holding my breath on this one. To me, it's just another investigation, another (MAYBE) conviction and another pardon. I would like to get my hands on the guy who first sputtered the words... NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW and tell him, in his ear, very loudly "YOU HAVEN'T MET GEORGE W. BUSH and his MERRY BAND OF MACHIAVELLIAN NEO-CON-ARTISTS, HAVE YOU?" :shock: --- How the Neocons Misread Machiavelli By FIRMIN DeBRABANDER The now notorious Neo-Cons owe much to that dark prince of political theory, Machiavelli. Indeed... Read More At: http://www.counterpunch.org/debrabander06132007.html
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POPSLAST EMAIL HOME Another young casualty of the Iraq war. When will it stop? When will sanity return? Never, as long as the Bush/Neocon Whitehouse exists. Casualties in Iraq The Human Cost of Occupation Edited by Margaret Griffis - Contact American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 3900 Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03) (the list) 3760 Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3439 Since Handover (6/29/04): 3041 Since Election (1/31/05): 2462 American Wounded Total Wounded: 28711 Official Estimated 23000 - 100000 Latest Fatality Dec. 26, 2007 Page last updated 12/26/07 6:32 pm EDT
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POPSGHOSTS OF CIA TORTURE TAPES In light of all this CIA illegal destruction of evidence on torture, I am once again clipping the youtube torture video with an update. For seven long years we have all been subjected to live in the Bush twilight zone and now this world of self-contained fantasy and horror is tossing us yet another eerie twist with this headline "CIA destroyed tapes despite court orders". http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071212/ap_on_go_co/cia_videotapes_courts The 1959 Rod Serling, TV series appears similar to THE BUSH ZONE, with one exception. "The Twilight Zone" was suppose to be science fiction, but the show rarely offered scientific explanations. It often had a moral lesson that pertained to everyday life. The only lesson in the Bush Twilight Zone is LIE, CHEAT, MANIPULATE but if you get caught, concoct incompetence for it's better to look naively ineffectual than expose what you really are, an unprincipled, power-hungry totalitarian! Ya wanna bet, they'll get away with this one too!
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POPSWhat infuriates the US Powers? Oh, horror! Imagine if we eliminated term limits in the US! We could end up stuck with a president -- like Franklin Roosevelt. Worse, if Bill Clinton could have run again, we’d have missed out on the statesmanship of Junior Bush. While US media called Chavez a “tyrant” for suggesting an end to term limits, they somehow forgot to smear the tyrant tag on Mr. Clinton for suggesting the same for the America. We were told by virtually every US news outlet that the referendum was to make Chavez, “President for Life.” The “President for Life” canard was mis-reported by no less than The New York Times. But ending term limits does not mean winning the term. As Chavez himself told me, “It’s up to the people” whether he gets reelected. And that infuriates the US Powers That Be. It’s the Oil. Term limits and work hours in Venezuela? Why was this a crisis for Washington? READ MORE HERE: http://infowars.net/articles/december2007/041207Chavez.htm
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POPSWE DO NOT TORTURE? Read johnnywaters9999 comment: --- “The US does not torture,” President Bush has repeated often—in the face of terrible pictures from Abu Ghraib and vicious stories from around the world. What is the President saying? Is it a lie or wishful denial, or positive thinking, or casuist ry, or political pandering? Richard Pryor had a comedy routine where he advised husbands caught in flagranto to counter with “are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?” Sometimes we deny by closing our eyes. But sometimes we deny by rationalizing; by attacking the facts with negation and reasoning. President Bush can say the US doesn’t torture because he redefines US and torture. To wit: The US is good and wouldn’t do anything bad. A few bad apple rogue torturers working the night shift at Abu Ghraib aren’t the US. And, aided by lawyers, he torques senseless the meaning of torture, restricting it by abstraction and redefinition, and by the Secretary of Defense special—reduction to the absurd.
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POPSMAD AS HELL AND NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE! I don't know about you, but I'm tired of sitting still like some sacrificial lamb while the POWERS TO BE stomp our faces down deeper into the mud. Like film hero Howard Beale, we middle-class Americans are starting to scream, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" It's time for all of us to stop listening to the lies and propaganda spread, by the likes of Fox Noise and the Limbaughs. We're all in this together so let's wise the hell up and fight back before we become too financially frail to do so. (Now, if I only had a plan!) Oh, here's an idea, no more shop till you drop, like Bush urged us to do after 9/11. No more luxury items, touted as a way to happiness by the Corporate World and No more "Shopping is Patriotic" Rovian symbolism. Eyes wide open and purses closed, will make the biggest impact on our leaders, rendering them impotent to the point where they can do nothing else but LISTEN to our demands! WHAT A TOOL WE POSSESS AND DO NOT USE. It's a mind-boggler!
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POPSAND THE WINNER IS... IRAQ WAR!! Mark Morford, one of the best satirical journalists weighs in on the BEST OF 07, naming IRAQ, winner of BEST WAR OF 2007. The relentless passing of time, has no effects on this war, each year it enters History's Hall of Shame, without end as long as Bush/Cheney are at the helm. It's so agonizingly painful that Morford's column this time in '08 will read again, Iraq named "War of the Year"! Bloody nation cheers 5th straight title. Bush will be speechlost and VP Dick Cheney, will utter "On behalf of myself and my boss who will both go down in history as two of the most insipid and deleterious world leaders you will ever have the displeasure of miserably recalling all your sad and pathetic days," The many years of this calamitous, tragic war have been augural, each year’s outcome predictable, no crystal ball needed. And no matter how WE THE PEOPLE bang our heads against the wall to end it, all we come up with, is a collective BUMP on our anguished heads. http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com/
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POPSTHE BUSH ZONE I made this page almost two years ago, when I use to clipmark pages without the aid of CLIPMARKS. At that time I enjoyed reading John Cory's articles. He is a Vietnam veteran who received the Purple Heart and Bronze Star with V (Valor) device, 1969 - 1970. I guess he's what Limbaugh would brand a PHONY SOLDIER! :mad: He writes with straightforward feelings of Anger and Sorrow, the sentiments most of us have about the long scourge of the Bush/Cheney/Neocon Administration. Almost 7 years of suffering for most and a devastating downward slide into the abyss for our Nation. I thought when the Dems won the slight majority in 2006... all the negatives Bush and his cabal had unleashed would finally start to turn around and become undone. But little has changed, far from enough. The Big Question is... WILL IT EVER END? And The Big Answer is... MAYBE IT'S TOO LATE! All we can do is sit and wait in THE BUSH ZONE... oh yes, and... HOPE that it's not too late! :-?
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POPSPETE STARKS GIVE EM HELL... theyoungturks.com BUT SADLY HE APOLOGIZED... When I saw the video of Pete Stark on the floor of the House, giving Bush and his Neocon government HELL. I thought FINALLY, a Dem with balls... I was sickened by Pelosi and the other Dems who did nothing but rebuke Stark who I thought would never apologize for speaking the truth, for saying what we all feel. And then it happened... The SOB, whimpered and bemoaned his regret FOR UTTERING THE TRUTH! DISGUSTING! View the pathetic event here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzOP1up4Q9M
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POPSA JOKE THAT IS TOO TRUE TO BE FUNNY. Finally some clever person put Republicans in the middle of the light bulb screwing joke and IT HITS THE OLD PROVERBIAL NAIL ON IT'S OLD "IF THE SHOE FITS, WEAR IT" BLOCKHEAD! The only screwing light bulb joke EVER without humor! Just to be fair... Here is one about Dems screwing a light bulb: How many Democrats does it take to change a light bulb? One to change the bulb, six to talk about how wonderful it's going to be when the new bulb is screwed in, and ten to argue for increased funding for solar lighting research.:eek:
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POPSCONVOLUTED LOGIC OF BUSH'S RIGHT-WING UPDATE: It looks as though the Bush Veto of Schip will stand... Bush is the decider and he has spoken... No expansion of Schip while he is in office. He claims THE COUNTRY DOES NOT WANT TO GO IN THE DIRECTION OF BRINGING PEOPLE OFF PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE AND ON TO GOVERNMENT OFFERED INSURANCE. Well, Mr. President, If private health insurance was not OUT OF THIS WORLD in cost... That wouldn't happen. I know he won't hear this because he doesn't listen to we the people. Save SCHIP Action Page: http://www.usalone.com/save_schip.php
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POPSTHE ENDLESS SUMMER OF DISTRACTION This is a well written remarkable story of how our military is showing signs of... ("You've got to know when to hold 'em. Know when to fold 'em. Know when to walk away. Know when to run." The reference to his hit song, "The Gambler," is not facile. The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote that war, in its complexities and uncertainties, most resembles a game of cards -- let's say Texas Hold'em in honor of the President's adopted state. Over the last four-plus years, we've shoved hundreds of billions of dollars into the Iraqi pot, suffered sobering losses in killed-in-action/wounded-in-action, yet we're still holding losing cards dealt from a stacked deck. Even so, the Bush administration has recently doubled-down instead of folding, hoping to hit an inside straight despite long odds.) MORE BELOW:
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POPSBODY OF WAR - Phil Donahue's new documentary - This is a powerful film enlisting a "REAL" Soldier's plight to live a normal life after being injured in Iraq. His injuries, that left him paralyzed from the waist down, occurred after only 5 days of arrival in the land the Bush Cabal decided to invade. It's heart wrenching and inspiring. With songs written just for "Body Of War" by Eddie Vedder (of Pearl Jam fame). Tomas Young, the young man, the film focuses on (Rush Limbaugh's idea of a FAKE SOLDIER) is so courageous in his battle to maintain his sanity within a broken body. He represents all those who have sacrificed so much for the Neocon's idea of reality, while they (THE PNAC) themselves, forfeited nothing except for power. (which they still do not recognize as lost.) A must see movie for those of us who can see beyond the machismo delusions of war! Please watch the youtube presentation, showing a few scenes leading up to the birth of a magnificent body of work.
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POPSHouse votes to expand SCHIP for kids, PRES. VOWS TO VETO!!! Well, Mr. President, seems to be standing alone on not wanting children to have health insurance. Almost alone, except for his staunch, true-blue disciples, who take up space, on capital hill. In fact, 159 morally bankrupt Republicans, don't mind turning their backs on the many children who may become very ill or even die because their families won't be able to carry the financial load if something medically serious happens to them. Oh, by the way, funding for the Iraq war could surpass $1 trillion, at a rate of a mere $200,000,000 A DAY! That's OK with Bushie, but allot money to help lower income families have peace of mind and this dullard of a man, we call pres. POUNDS HIS CHEST AND DECLARES HE'LL VETO IT! Sending people's children into an unnecessary war and now giving a thumbs down to bring some daylight into the lives of the financially strapped Americans, makes me wonder. Will his daddy shed some tears for his malevolent son over this one?
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POPSREPUBLICANS VS. OUR KIDS - write a letter. Please write a letter to your newspaper to let the world know about this atrocious predicament facing people who can't afford the exuberant medical insurance fees to insure their children's health... I did. BELOW.
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