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POPSWe Still Have To Be Afraid, Heck of A Job, Barry Even before a Nigerian with Al Qaeda links tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet headed to Detroit, travelers could see we had made no progress toward a technologically wondrous Philip K. Dick universe. We seemed to still be behind the curve and reactive, patting down grannies and 5-year-olds, confiscating snow globes and lip glosses. Instead of modernity, we have airports where security is so retro that taking away pillows and blankies and bathroom breaks counts as a great leap forward. If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn’t check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch?
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POPSSeptember ‘Surprise’ "The United States was aware of Iran’s unfinished uranium enrichment site for several years, senior U.S. officials told CNN on Friday. U.S. officials have known about the facility since President George W. Bush’s administration, according to the officials who declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the negotiations." Yes, the Bushies knew about it, too, and said nothing – but why not? After all, George W. was not exactly known as an apologist for the Iranian regime, and he was no less eager than his successor to tag Tehran as a serial deceiver. The CIA knew about it when they issued that now inconvenient National Intelligence Estimate averring that Iran had abandoned all efforts to militarize its nuclear research in 2003. Were they trying to protect the Iranians, too?
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POPSGuaranteed Health Care in Iraq – But Not for U.S. According to the American political right-wing, government-guaranteed health care is good for Iraqis, but not good for us. They decry even a limited public option for us, but gleefully imposed upon the Iraqis what they label here as "socialism," with much Democratic Party member support. We have (thus far) sacrificed more blood to wrest Iraq from tyranny than we lost on 9/11. And, the total money spent in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan is more than the funding required to guarantee minimally decent health care for U.S. citizens. The most senior members of the Republican establishment - and some Democrats like Max Baucus (D-MT) - have gladly spent more taxpayer funds to ensure health care as a Constitutional right in Iraq than they are willing to spend to give us any level of guaranteed coverage. Can someone please explain why our government favors the health care of Iraqis over its own citizens?
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POPSPoll: Most Want to See Bush Probes Hold on to this one, because once an investigation starts getting put together, Republicans will claim that "Americans don't want this." Yeah, we do. In fact, the largest group wants criminal investigations and only slightly more than one third want no investigations at all. I know Obama says we have to look forward, not backward, but that doesn't mean we have to look the other way. If Bushies committed crimes -- and, at this point, only the brainwashed cultists of the right think they didn't -- then they should pay for it. No one is above the law; otherwise, the law is meaningless.
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POPSMemories... Do you recall the Bushies repeating endlessly 9//-Iraq, 9/11-Iraq? Of course you do. Perfect example of Argumentum Ad Nauseam. This tactic seems to be the hallmark of the Bush administration. Only weeks to go now though. Come on January! BTW, as a bit of irrelevant trivia, this clip is the first that I've done that is exactly 1,000 characters long. Didn't mean for that to happen, it just did. Do I win something??? :-)
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POPSAre the Bushies trying to retain control after January 20th? More: "Noting that Bill Clinton also ordered up a transition council on Nov. 27, 2000, Light called his "similar but without all the bells and whistles." Among other things, the Bush executive order could keep agencies busy preparing briefing materials and a Transition Directory to include "federal publications and other materials that provide information on each executive department and agency." Cynics might wonder if the Bush team wants to keep its hands in before the order expires on Feb. 20, 2009, one month after the new president takes office. Whatever the motives, said Light, one of the presidential candidates will need the help more than the other. "McCain has done almost nothing about the transition," he said, except to criticize Obama for saying in mid-summer that he was appointing a team to begin contingency planning."
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POPSBush Tax Cut Mythology...! If you need to read more follow the link .. You see the wealth, projected wealth of the housing boom was used to inflate economic growth..
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POPS The Nut Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree which he claimed called in an outstanding loan he had with the bank in an effort to bankrupt his law practice. In 2003, long after the deaths of Johnson, Clark and the rest of the gang, McClellan wrote a book, "Blood Money & Power", in which he lays out a conspiracy theory of how Johnson and Clark had President John F. Kennedy assassinated as well as other people who got in their way. A number of the Texas oilmen alleged to have had a role in the Kennedy assassination were big supporters of the Bushes in Texas politics. Aside from his family problems, he performed the job as ineptly as any White House press secretary I can recall. The Bushies now claim McClellan was fired from his job, but Bush kept the incompetent press secretary on for nearly three years before unloading him. It looks like he's determined to become for Bush what Dick Morris has become for the Clintons.
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POPSSome Bushies Have a Conscience Oh my. Surely Perino could do better than the "disgruntled employee" excuse? I find it interesting that emerging facts track exactly what us elitist leftest were saying all the time. HA!
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POPSThe Conservtive Gov't of Canada is imitating the Bushies Canada has always been far more democratic than the U.S. when it concerns access to information and transparency in government. Not perfect, for sure, but terrific compared to some of the tricks used in my home country of the U.S. But since the Conservative government, which is essentially made up of remnants of the failed Reform Party, has come to power, they have done everything in their power to imitate the machinations of the Bush administration and its policies of secrecy and outright lying. This article explains how they have now, without any notice whatsoever, closed down the access to information database that is used by journalists and the public to track the goings on in government. Canada must dump Stephen Harper and his gang of regressive assholes, and bring back transparency in government before the entire system turns into a carbon copy of the Bush administration. Harper has said his political hero is George W. Bush.
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POPSJohn McCain On Housing More: After casting himself as a "Maverick" in 2000, the new John McCain is walking in lockstep with President Bush, pandering to the right wing of the Republican Party, and embracing the ideology he once denounced. McCain Voted Against Over $1 Billion In Homeless Assistance. McCain voted against an amendment to restore homeless assistance funding to the 1995 level of $1.12 billion, an increase of $360 million from the bill, and offset the costs by reducing funds for the renewal of expiring subsidized private housing contracts On the campaign trail McCain has callously abandoned many of his previously held positions, even contradicted himself, in a blatant attempt to remake himself into a candidate Republicans can accept in 2008. So just who is the real John McCain?
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POPSAnother assesment paper.... ....even more staggering than I thought. I read the other day that it is costing about $4000 a SECOND!!!! This is truly friggin' sick---and I don't think we're any safer than before 9/11. Any of you Bushies out there can kiss my ass if you think he's doin' anything to keep us safe or secure. Matter of fact, I'd really like about 5 lousy minutes alone with the bastard. He would not survive!
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POPSBu$hies Voodoo Econ The article explains in plain term how we've been screwed and will continue to be screwed unless the system is changed dramatically. Yes, reccession is upon us and throwing chump change at people won't solve the big inequalities.
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POPSCanadian Manual Has US on Torture List So, Canada has it right. They are the first country to have the guts to include the U.S. as a country engaging in torture. Naturally, the Canadian Conservative government, which have been Bush lab dogs since they came into office in a minority government, was quick to state that they do not believe the U.S. engages in torture, but they defend everything the Bushies do, which is why Canadians are beginning to really despise these guys. But then again, all I really care about is that the word is finally getting out in a somewhat official manner that the U.S. is doing what they claim they are not engaged in.....torturing human beings.
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POPSThe Story of the Bhutto Assassination Keeps A'changin' All al Qaeda all the time is what the new slogan is in Pakistan whenever some kind of untoward attack occurs. The Bushies actually encourage that kind of talk because they too like to make boogie men out of those bastards all too often. I have no love for them either, but let's face it, this one group does not commit every single attack in the world, as much as some people would have us believe. All that being said, even the U.S. is question the Musharraf government's every changing story of the circumstances surrounding Ms. Bhutto's murder. Something truly stinks there, and I do not trust nor believe Musharraf about much of anything he says. Too bad we propped him up when we did. But then again, we also propped up the Shah, and our biggest hero, Saddam Hussein. Need I say more? :-)
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POPSAnother couple $100billion wasted... ...friggin' paranoid yet? I think it's a setup. More crap to fear? The Bushies are well on their way to starting another escalation and arms race for sure. Assholes. Do they think every country is gonna sit by and let us get away with world domination??? I think not.
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POPS2 Weeks Into Its Mandate and Bushies Wanted to Spy On Us I sincerely hope that Harry Reid changes his mind about supporting the communications bill that gives the communications companies retroactive immunity. It seems now there is evidence that the Bushies started working on plans to spy on our phone calls after only two weeks in office. Please, call your senators and ask them to vote against this bill.
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POPSThe War Crimes Keep Addin Up--and Covered Up The military and the MSM do NOT want us to know what is really happening...I can only cry out and hope someday there will be some justice--but the indiscriminate killing goes on while the Bushies claim "the surge is working"! Goddamn them all to hell!
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