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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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POPSHate Limbaugh or Limbaugh's hate! Dangerous or Laughable? (I chose both but the former rather than the latter is more direct... One Dangerous Dude!) ~~~~~~~ It was no surprise that Limbaugh would call for riots at the Democratic National Convention in Denver to embarrass the Democrats. Limbaugh -- and his fellow purveyors of hate on the airwaves -- are dangerous demagogues whom pro-democracy Americans too easily dismiss as poltroonish shills for the entrenched powers. It's a regular staple of the millionaire right-wing echo chamber to use the explicit or implicit language of violence. In fact, the entire "frame" of everyone from Sean Hannity to Bill O'Reilly to Rush Limbaugh is to convince their listeners that people who don't agree with these "pundits of patriotism" are the enemy and dangerous to America. More at this link: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/085
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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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POPSA Valentine Gift For America It's been a long time since I've felt inspired by a presidential race. Not since JFK, and I was too young to vote for him. Like Kennedy I get a chill and teary eyed when Obama speaks. It's been a long time but it feels good. So to those who, still possess hope. Hope that our country can survive the disunion brought about by so many administrations. We've been blinded by insincere words and lies. The band-aid cures diagnosed by those at the top who seem to think war is the answer to any problem. We now have a chance to put all this behind us. I hope we grasp this opportunity. We may not get another one! Barack Obama, knows he can't do this alone. He doesn't say, he's the decider so you can go shopping. He tells us, he needs our help, because we are all the grown-ups in this problematic life. We all need to pitch in if we want to save our standing in this world. I think I'm in love again, love for my country. Happy Valentine's Day '08! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWcw2OEyhXI
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POPSYOU'VE GOT SNAIL MAIL It looks like the lies, and mudslinging have become a way of life in political circles and campaigns. But of all people to use such tactics, one would imagine, Hillary Clinton could never resort to such dirty tricks. After all the lies that the republican camps had flung her way hoping to smear her husband and herself into obliteration, I would think she would have become a defender of truth. I'm very disappointed with Hillary and Bill's choice to embrace the swiftboater's dirty maneuvers to win an election. If we the people keep listening to known lies and casting our votes for those who sling such lies, we deserve what we get as our leaders. In other words, we deserved George W. Bush and we deserved his efforts to FALL THE USA EMPIRE. Please read: Reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire http://killeenroos.com/1/Romefall.htm and notice the similarities. SCARY STUFF :shock: Click here for fact check: http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/youve_got_mailers_1.html
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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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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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POPSHEADLINE: U.S. Family, attacked by foreign Mercenaries in AMERICA. After watching the video, just Imagine if this was a US Family, attacked by foreign Mercenaries in our America. Blackwater, is probably just the tip of the iceberg, when it comes to the secrecy that goes on beyond scrutiny within the neocon Whitehouse. (Cheney quote in Sept 2001 - "The dark side, we'll spend time in the shadows and in the intelligence world... a lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies.") I wonder what he meant by that..? Perhaps the wheels turning inside the head of Dick Cheney, gave him visions of TELEPHONE TAPPING OF US CITIZENS, TORTURING THOSE WHO GOT CAUGHT IN HIS WEB OF TYRANNY, BUILDING POWERFUL MERCENARY ARMIES PAID FOR BY WE THE TAX PAYERS AND CHERRY PICKING INTELLIGENCE IN ORDER TO STRIKE PREEMPTIVELY, SOVEREIGN NATIONS WITHOUT THE PESKY QUESTIONS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ASKED BY A CONGRESS IN A FREE SOCIETY. (MORE BELOW)
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POPSWhat kind of people have we become? I came across this song from the political activists, The jKirks, who use music to send a message of peace. Why should Peace take a backseat to the ugliness of Torture, what kind of people have we become?
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POPSHEY DICK, ANYMORE BRILLIANT IDEAS, DICK? Recently, I received this message via my youtube account: "Our family band turned my wife Susan's Protest Sign for Cheney - Hey Dick! Anymore Brilliant Ideas? - into a rock song here is the link http://www.thejkirks.com/music-31.html (cut and paste into browser.) Its straight up rock which I thought some of the folks you know might enjoy and maybe there would be some interest in using the song somehow. What if we had a chance to interrogate Cheney? How would we approach it? What Would Cheney Do? Enjoy. John" I downloaded the song from their site: http://www.thejkirks.com/music-31.html and thought it interesting. I knew I would be able to use it soon and today I came across an article calling for Congress to filibuster and end this dreadful Iraq war. http://www.filibusterforpeace.org/ THE PETITION READS: "We should start now to talk about filibustering for the saving of lives and of our country." John Kerry, 1971 http://www.filibusterforpeace.org/ Number of signers as of 09/10/07:
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POPSCheney knew in '94 war with Iraq would be a quagmire. Cheney knew in '94, war with Iraq would be a quagmire. And still he was hell-bent on going to war with Iraq. If this doesn't speak Impeachment of Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney... NOTHING DOES! -- The founding fathers had good reasons for rebelling against Britain’s King George III: “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power … (he is) abolishing our most valuable laws and altering fundamentally the forms of our Governments.” That’s why our Constitution created checks and balances. -- Whereas, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney conspired with others to defraud the United States of America by intentionally misleading Congress and the public regarding the threat from Iraq in order to justify a war in violation of Title 18 United States Code, Section 371; http://www.mass-impeach.org/townhall-impeachment/wendell/
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POPSBush Aide Blocked Health Report William R. Steiger, a specialist in education and a scholar of Latin American history whose family has long ties to President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Since 2001, Steiger has run the Office of Global Health Affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services. Richard H. Carmona, who commissioned the "Call to Action on Global Health" while serving as surgeon general from 2002 to 2006, recently cited its suppression as an example of the Bush administration's frequent efforts during his tenure to give scientific documents a political twist. Steiger said that "political considerations" did not delay the report; "sloppy work, poor analysis, and lack of scientific rigor did." (OF COURSE WE ALL BELIEVE THAT!) Steiger, 37, is godson of former pres George H.W. Bush and son of a Republican who represented Wisconsin in the House WHO hired a young Dick Cheney as an intern... (CRONYISM TO THE HIGHEST DEGREE!)
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POPSBURGER KING BUSH, STILL HAVING IT HIS WAY! Once again Burger King Bush is having it his way. I came upon that reference and thought "isn't that the old proverbial nail being hit on the head, TRUTH"! Bush and his henchmen MUST HAVE IT THEIR WAY OR IT'S THE HIGHWAY... Like spoiled little children, with no shame, they still continue to HAVE IT THEIR WAY! I have only one question... WHY CAN'T THEY BE STOPPED?
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POPSA half-truth is the most cowardly of lies! Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out. - Mark Twain Libby was found guilty of lying because he not only LIED he LIED under oath! 'NUFF SAID... The ones who believe that lying is A-OK and should not be punished if and only "IF" it is one of their own who is doing the lying. In other words, A SET OF LAWS AND RULES FOR THOSE INSIDE THE PNAC CLUB AND ANOTHER SET OF LAWS AND RULES FOR THE REST OF US! Click thinkingblue blog for a Bill Moyer video on this HYPOCRISY. http:// thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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POPSLil' Bush on Comedy Central, Lil' Bush on Comedy Central is the most outrageous caustic bit of black comedy since Myra Breckinridge the movie. The adult cartoon sitcom takes liberties with George W Bush as a child and intertwines his outlandish adult conduct as president. Which oddly, seems less emphasized coming from a juvenile's mind, since children can get away with so much more because of their innocence. That being said, the Lil' Bush kid, still comes across as arrogant, rude and pretentiously pious just like the grown-up George. Go to thinkingblue blog for more Lil' Bush videos... http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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POPS"Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea." It makes no sense to keep going after the dwindling oil supplies of this world AT ANY COST! Why aren't serious non-political and non-self enriching explorations occurring for alternate energy. It's there for the taking but the OILMEN just want to keep the upper Oil Class of people happy until every last drop is taken from the Earth. Then out of necessity (mainly because of dwindling profit stockpiles) they will search for another way to get rich off the backs of the ignorant eager to be the first on the block to sport the latest fandango gizmo of a new energy. thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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POPSA rose by any other word would smell as sweet. I came upon this article while looking for another article (happens all the time)... I love learning about language and usage of swearwords and why we say them so often. They are just words but for some reason... they seem to relieve that awful feeling of anger, frustration, annoyance, fear, hopelessness and even a stubbed toe on occasion. What would we do without them... especially since Bush, Cheney and the NEOCONS. This is one administration who sure as h*ll, are full of the s**t from the bull and without those nifty little naughty words to release anger, tension and revulsion we would all be as psychotic as they.
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POPSWILL THE POT EVER STOP CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK? Intolerable use of weapons of mass destruction against enemies; unprecedented aggression against and occupation of a country which posed no threat to his own; routine kidnapping, torture, murder and secret prison system; wholesale slaughter of citizens from other countries; imprisonment of political rivals held for years without charges; and secret spying on his very own countrymen without court order or legislative approval, demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that this so-called "President" is a dangerous rogue, a tyrant, and a grave threat -- of the highest order -- to worldwide peace and democracy. His immediate removal from UNELECTED power was...and is...a completely justified imperative. Guess who this clip from Brad Friedman Blog is referring to? If you've answered GEORGE W BUSH... (Loud buzzer going off) YOU'RE WRONG... IT WAS SADDAM HUSSEIN. The very man Bush/Neocons said needed to be eradicated to make this world a safer place... ONCE AGAIN THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE
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POPSSUNDAY MORNING TEARS. I listened to this npr radio broadcast of 3 mothers who had lost sons in Iraq. As a mother myself, my empathy for these women and their loss was intense... I read and hear of the numbers dead each day but the impact is minimal, a quick tear and a feeling of helplessness is scarcely the grip I get when something is so redundant. Until you hear from the actual true sufferers of this war, THE MOTHERS, THE FAMILIES, you can't imagine the cost these people actualize. Please listen to their stories of pain. Especially, Elaine Johnson, one brave mother who dared to call Bush on his lack of knowledge and sensitivity about waging this disgusting collide with reality. Be prepared to undergo the painful tears of sorrow and grief in identification to those unfortunates caught up in a game of chess by the neoconservative think-tanker's who have only power and approval to lose. Please click http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10572647
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POPSTurkey warned Not to invade Iraq ...HUH? We know Iraq is a powder keg but did we know just how much. Bush keeps muttering the word WIN... I can't imagine what the hell he hopes to win... is it OIL, PRESTIGE, POWER or all of the above? Now Turkey is getting effected by the Iraq lawlessness this war has caused. Regional warfare was the cautionary counsel put to the Bush/Neocons about a preemptive war in Iraq which, of course, they turned a deaf ear to... Well, it looks as though we are looking at far more than a Bush WIN in Iraq. While Bush has his wet dreams of becoming the planet's most beloved leader, we just might be looking down the barrel of some indisputable WMD's that are not hidden away in some Bush/Neocon pipedream.
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POPSMORE RAGING CAGING... Still more on raging caging... and you thought you were free... as Chris Matthews would say... "HA" thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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POPSThe news media tries to manipulate our thinking and succeeds. This is unfortunately the truth. The media has different rules on how they present progressives running for office and conservatives running for what they consider their office. I am so tired of watching these so called news outlets MSNBC, CNN and the other local stations CBS, NBC, ABC, that I resort to Jon Stewart, Colbert and Bill Maher's HBO Real Time (which incidentally has taken an hiatus for about 6 months) for some truth and a bit of well needed laughter. Thank goodness, I can turn to Link TV and Democracy Now... http://www.democracynow.org/ Once in awhile to know what really is going on in the world (although, quite depressing at times)... Without that little reality shot-in-the-brain I would be totally in the dark or worse BRAINWASHED with a permanent pair of rose colored glasses stuck to my face. EXAMPLE OF DEMOCRACY NOW HEADLINES FOR JUNE 1, 2007 - Kidnapped BBC Reporter Appears in New Video - U.S. Embassy in Iraq Plans Posted Online - Sadr Rejects Talks With U.S. - Cl
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POPSIF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR! The question it raises is 'what are these guys hiding? Isn't it odd, how this administration tells the people as they spy on us... If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Well, I am throwing their words right back at them. MR. BUSH AND MR. CHENEY: IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR SO WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO KEEP SO MANY OF YOUR ACTIVITIES SECRET! IT RAISES TOO MANY SUSPICIONS IN MY MIND! thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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POPSImpeach Dick Cheney Now. There are so many more facts out there that can easily be placed on a list of high crimes and misdemeanors. Below are 3 major points that are crucial to proving Cheney's guilt. from CROSSING THE RUBICON Means - Dick Cheney and the Secret Service: Dick Cheney was running a completely separate chain of Command & Control via the Secret Service, assuring the paralysis of Air Force response on 9/11. The Secret Service has the technology to see the same radar screens the FAA sees in real time. They also have the legal authority and technological capability to take supreme command in cases of national emergency. Dick Cheney was the acting Commander in Chief on 9/11. Motive - Peak Oil: At some point between 2000 and 2007, world oil production reaches its peak; from that point on, every barrel of oil is going to be harder to find, more expensive to recover, and more valuable to those who recover and control it. Dick Cheney was well aware of the coming Peak Oil crisis at least as early as
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