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POPSWTF! That crazy Party of “NO” will do anything to energize their base... Miss Dubya? Anyone who misses that clown is probably angry that we aren't in worse shape. He and Cheney did their best to take us down... Since they didn't quite complete the whole job... They are now trying to take down Barack Obama's administration, ALONG WITH A CRIPPLED AMERICA. WTF!
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POPSbush, cheney and the great escape well- from what history tells us- and then in light of the recent film i watched on the displacement of the people of Chagos (island) i believe it was...........this seems to be the norm- when it comes to doing business- er uh.....imposing our will on the world- and i doubt that anyone will be held accountable for doing business as usual- just another bump to sweep under the rug so to speak- we are deluded criminals- with no consciences - accountability never figures in for those without conscience
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POPSWhy we can't afford to let Obama give Bush's war criminals a free pass, by attorney/author Charlotte Dennett This post is by Charlotte Dennett, who is the author of the newly released The People v. Bush: One Lawyer’s Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encounters Along the Way. Formerly a journalist reporting from the Middle East, she now practices law. If, indeed, the Iraq war was all about the oil, the Bush administration's choice to ignore or manipulate the rule of law makes perfect sense. That does not justify it, however. And that is just the point of her excellent piece.
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POPSThe Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti Notably, in 2005, a year after the Bush-Cheney Administration de facto deposed the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Baptiste Aristide, a team of geologists from the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas began an ambitious and thorough two-phase mapping of all geological data of the Caribbean Basins.
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POPS3 USA 'No-troops-there,' killed in Pakistan.
It's a shame to hear of our troops killed, wasted or misused. Since WW2 our military has gotten out of control. Using the proper procedure of Declaring War, in accord with the US Constitution, would be a good start to reign in all our covert political and military agitation. We admit to having troops in over 100 nations. But we have troops in more and have troops in nations we deny a presence. Not even Congress knows where they all are or what they are doing - without a declaration of war these all are, in essence, rogue programs. Today 3 US soldiers - who we don't have/ deny having in Pakistan - were killed there. The spin is sickening, too. These nice guys were just on their way to help out a girl's school. Yup....that's what our Special Forces do: build girl's schools. Or they call them 'trainers,' or 'advisers,' or 'private security contractors,' -- Many claims of former VP Dick Cheney having his own assassination squads have been made. We don't even obey our own
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POPS"Thugs" and "Goons?" Really? Man, what just happened? It’s almost impossible to comprehend. The most liberal state in the union just elected a Republican to Ted Kennedy’s seat? It’s like Massachusetts just abandoned Ted Kennedy in a car at the bottom of a river. This is the most devastating blow to a political party in my lifetime. So the clear message from America to Obama is, “You suck at everything you do. Please stop doing things. We’re sorry we ever met you." After this, it’s safe to predict that liberals will never, ever, win an election again, ever.
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POPSGreenwald (1/31/10): Nostalgia for Bush/Cheney radicalism Thanks to Marcy Wheeler, "emptywheel" at Firedoglake, for the link to this very fine post. In it Greenwald makes the very potent argument that the trend in the current political establishment is to demand less of the rule of law in the fight against terrorists than either President Reagan or G.W. Bush. These policy stances are cast as normal, while support for criminal trials, adherence to habeas corpus, etc. are cast as those of "the leftist fringe." It is becoming a sad day for America that we have seem to have less respect for civil liberties than was shown in the Reagan and Bush administrations.
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POPSRemember the Illegal Destruction of Iraq? The top British legal officer had concluded that the war would be illegal, only to change his mind under substantial pressure shortly before the invasion. Several weeks ago, a formal investigation in the Netherlands -- whose government had supported the invasion -- produced the first official adjudication of the legality of the war, and found it illegal, with "no basis in international law." all of this stands in stark and shameful contrast to the U.S., which pointedly refuses to "look back" or concern itself with whether it waged an illegal (and horribly destructive) war itical leaders must never be accountable for actions they take while in power; and (2) whether something they do is "illegal" -- especially the starting of wars -- is utterly irrelevant
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POPSAfter The Massachusetts Massacre
Decent and thoughtful article. More below: " If the tea party right and populist left agree on anything, it’s that big bailed-out banks have and will get away with murder..... Politically, no other issue counts. In last weekend’s Washington Post/ABC News poll, 42 percent of Americans chose the economy as the country’s most pressing concern. Only 5 percent picked terrorism, and 2 percent Afghanistan. Obama’s highest approval ratings are now on foreign policy and national security issues — despite the relentless hammering from the Cheney right — but voters don’t care. The smartest thing said as the Massachusetts returns came in......: “Obama took all his winnings and turned them over to Max Baucus.” When it comes to economic substance, small symbolic gestures (the proposed new bank “fee”) won’t cut it. bankers ... have castrated regulatory reform by buying off congressmen of both parties. ...pressing for all constitutional remedies that counter last week’s Supreme Court decision.
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POPS10 reasons Obama is failing 95 million investors I hope someone is at least listening to the "dissenting" views and is trying to assess their merits and incorporate some of the better critical suggestions, as opposed to just waiting for their turn to repeat their own (party) views.
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POPSTaliban Major Attack in Kabul With all the warmongering and neo-con efforts to make these conflicts into a religious war the fact is -- like most wars -- is that these are specific battles in specific locations about land and/or stealing natural resources. No matter what fiction some of us might have believed in the past, we should give a little consideration to the plot of the sci-fi movie Avatar (on it's way to becoming the most money making movie in world history). it IS that simple. Iraq got oil. We want it. We go blagh, blagh, blagh and now we have an army there, and USA companies and private individuals from the Bush Administration, even (Pearle), got the oil contracts and companies like Dick Cheney's Halliburton make all the war profiteer cash and private mercenary armies (a real threat to any democracy) grow rich and strong. Invasion of Arab land, btw, was one of the reasons given by Al-Qaeda for 9/11 -- if that news was denied you. it was their RE-action. After we kill 'em, we should discuss t
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POPSCarville poll: Only 1/3 of voters support Obamacare My favorite part had to be this: Other questions cast doubt on the ability of Democrats to make up lost ground by tying their opponents to polarizing conservatives. When told that “Democrats are working to pass mainstream, pragmatic solutions and win broad support. Republicans take their lead from extreme partisans like Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney,” 43 percent were more likely to vote for the Democrat candidate, against 53 percent who were not.
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POPSThe War On Terrorists There are actually some good reasons for the war on terror including keeping your armed forces in fighting trim, testing new weapons, justifying an insane level of military spending, and dominating the news with distraction.
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POPSMedia’s Preferential Treatment of GOP Liars = HowCanYouSay FilthyRich Takeover of Media Not Hurt Our
Sure you will hear this: Rupert Murdoch spouting publicly that his ownership of the Wall Street Jounral would not in any way affect editorial policy. But how can anyone buy that obvious bullshit? Of course he would say that! I’ll never believe it. For I was long ago personally involved in the beginnings of the pervasive media mind control program that was initiated by the Filthy Rich, when they were first frightened out of their wits that they might lose control of the population in the Sixties. Not only was media control by ownership used, but TV anchorman Howard K. Smith was fired over it, history’s records were changed because of it, and it led to a massive restructuring of our higher education, our Publishing industry, and our education institutions at all levels down to kindergarten. It was the first major offensive in the Culture War from the side of the Filthies, the first step toward Communist-style brainwashing, the first step in the erosion of our free press, free speech,
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POPS The Great Right Hope .... Scott Brown Brown, 50, deftly deflected Coakley’s caricature that his proposed tax relief means, as she said, “He wants to go back to those Bush-Cheney policies that provide for the very wealthiest.’’ “You can run against Bush-Cheney, but I’m Scott Brown,’’ he replied. “I live in Wrentham. I drive a truck.” Coakley, 56, favors an Afghan exit strategy because “we believed that the Taliban was giving harbor to terrorists.” And now, Coakley announced Monday night, “They’re gone. They’re not there anymore.” Unlike Coakley, Brown does not consider Afghanistan terrorist-free, especially since al-Qaeda-tied double agent Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi blew up seven CIA agents and himself near Khost on December 30. Also, Brown does not want to “give people who want to kill us constitutional rights and lawyer them up at our expense, instead of treating them as enemy combatants to get as much information as we can under legal means.”
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POPSLizCheney exposes BraveNewWorld: 40% on Soma(antidepressants), cannot reason. Republicans manipulate these sheep. Nev. Senator Reid has been pilloried for two solid days over the weekend by TV pundits and in particular by hypocritical Republicans, who have actually gone so far as to demand Reid's RESIGNATION(!) for noticing the color of then candidate Obama's skin. On the Sunday morning talk show "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" Robert Reich, in a rare instance of anyone fighting back on this nonsense, clarified the utter irrationality of these attacks to Liz Cheney: "Race is a fact in America. Talking about race does not make you a racist." I would add to Idiot Liz, "Is your position that if you notice people's skin color that you are a racist? If you're that unobservant that you don't see people's color (have you not managed to see people's tans either?), then how come you Republicans are so much for (racial) profiling? I mean who would be able to do it?. Guess you'd have to hire nothing but racists, huh? I'm appalled at the utter inability of the majority of the pundits to do sim
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POPSLiz Cheney taken out at knees by cons. Will & liberal Reich for hypocritical lies & Rep. spin on Reid - Stephanou Unceremonious it was, but she refused any other way. Harping throughout "This Week with George Stephanopoulous," to carry Republican spin points and dirty water to muddle the otherwise reasonable discussion, apparently even conservative icon George Will had enough. I can only think she must hang around a lot of teabaggers considering the level of her illogic. I wondered if this was our version of Al Quaeda brainwashing that she could consistently and self-assuredly continue her roundhouse attacks on anything from the Democrats, never wavering a bit no matter how her arguments -- lacking facts and evidence -- were crushed by the other roundtable members explication of facts, evidence, cause and effect -- you know, the things that are the basis of conclusions, deductions, and the best solutions. She would have none of it. Given all the deference of a highly educated and experienced expert in the great numbers of fields they touched on, this spawn of Vader continued her Dick-like conc
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POPSRon Paul Slams Cheney: US ‘Doing Exactly What Bin Laden Planned’ CNN November 1, 2004: "We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah," bin Laden said in the transcript. He also said al Qaeda has found it "easy for us to provoke and bait this administration." "All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations," bin Laden said. "And it all shows that the real loser is you," he said. "It is the American people and their economy." http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/01/binladen.tape/
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POPSThe $30bn pair of underpants pwaahaha ! Are people in the US really so dumb and easily deceived ? Get your military and fucking CIA and their drone missiles out of other people`s countries. Stop attacking others and they will stop attacking you; please, stop turning the world we all share, into a profiteering war-zone for Cheney and his pals.
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POPSSmoking Like a Barbecue: WH Homeland Liason Brennan Asserts that the Homeland defense Worked "every other day," in 2009, Just Not on a Major Holiday Over Detroit. http://bit.ly/8xEHKg Abdul mutallab was smoking like a barbecue. Will this performance stand? Nah. The Homeland hearings are starting in January. Brennan will get scorched like Abdul mutallab. It is an election year. They are offering him as the barbecued goat. Enough? Nah. Pass the sauce. (And Brennan's swerve to run Dick Cheney into the ditch is a self-destructive ploy. The clock is running down on Brennan's public role. The resume must already be at Xe.)
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POPSThe Top 10 Conservatives of 2009 A poster was correct to point out that Mark Levin's name should have been included. I'd be interested to know if there are others that should have been included.
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POPSObama Sets Interpol Above US Law
"Interestingly, Interpol's US headquarters is in the Justice Department, run by the same corrupt, pro-terrorist lowlife who quashed an investigation into Black Panther voter intimidation on Obama's behalf. NRO wonders: Why is it suddenly necessary to have, within the Justice Department, a repository for stashing government files which, therefore, will be beyond the ability of Congress, American law-enforcement, the media, and the American people to scrutinize? Interpol works closely with the International Criminal Court, a gang of moonbats who would gladly round up prominent Republicans like Dick Cheney and throw them in jail on charges of insensitivity to terrorists. America has refused to surrender its sovereignty to this ultra-left kangaroo court — a policy Chairman Zero is likely to reverse. In most banana republics, you only have to worry about your own police. But in the dystopia of "Hopey Change," who knows who may soon be dragging you out of bed in the middle of th
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