11/18/05 Morning News Stories
BBC
Protests hit Pacific Rim summit
Excerpt:
Riot police have clashed with protesters armed with sticks and bottles outside the summit of 21 Pacific Rim leaders in South Korea...Thousands of slogan-chanting protesters gathered outside the summit, shouting: "No to Bush,
H.L.s Take: Theres nowhere to hide anymore George, you cant go to South America, they hate you there. You cant go to Europe, they line the streets to protest you. You cant go to Antarctica because even the snowmen hate you. Now I know why Bush wants to back to the Moon, they don't hate him there.
AP
House Republicans Eke Out Budget Cut
Excerpt:
The broader budget bill would slice almost $50 billion from the deficit by the end of the decade by curbing rapidly growing benefit programs such as Medicaid, food stamps and student loan subsidies. Republicans said reining in such programs whose costs spiral upward each year automatically s the first step to restoring fiscal discipline.
H.L.s Take:
So we are going to save 50 Billion by the end of the decade by taking more money away from students, the poor, and the sick. We have spent well over 200 Billion on Bush's illegal war. So that means if the war ended now we couled make that 50 Billion back in about 8 months, but no, we cant do that. Screw the poor, theres plenty of jobs for them over in Iraq. See the beauty of the situation.
Legislation Renewing Patriot Act Stalls
Excerpt:
If further changes are not made, we will work to stop this bill from becoming law," the six wrote the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence committees.
The senators are Republicans Larry Craig of Idaho, John Sununu of New Hampshire and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Democrats Dick Durbin of Illinois, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Ken Salazar of Colorado.
H.L.s Take:
Congress now realizes that Bush is a power mad dog who will use the Patriot act to trample citizens rights that have nothing to do with terrorism. Of course thats not as important as gettting out of the office by 3 on Wednesday. So forget about your basic constitutional rights.
Findlaw
An Open Letter To Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald From Former White House Counsel John W. Dean
Excerpt:
To right-minded Americans, the idea that Administration officials have betrayed their national security obligations, yet remain in their jobs, is nothing short of appalling. Beyond politics is patriotism: Patriotic Americans want to see you not only prosecute those who compromised and endangered Valerie Plame Wilson, but also force the Administration to clean house with respect to those who did this, which you can accomplish through appropriate civil action.
As one who does know something about the way Washington works, I hope you will actually use the plenary powers you have been granted to implement what I understood to be the announced policy of the Department of Justice for which you work -- a zero tolerance policy for leaks.
H.Ls Take: Is Fitzgerald going to stall until after the 2006 elections to help the republicans as much as possible, will he wait until Bush is almost out of office before anything happens? I am begining to wonder.
Chris Floyd from The Moscow Times
The Senate's Sham Rebellion Against Tyranny and Torture
Excerpt:
Four years ago, George W. Bush quietly assumed dictatorial powers with a secret executive order granting himself the right to imprison anyone on earth indefinitely, without charges or trial or indictment or evidence, simply by declaring them an "enemy combatant," on his say-so alone. This week, the assemblage of bootlickers and bagmen that now befoul the U.S. Senate voted to codify the core of this global autocracy under the pretense of curtailing it.
Alternet
Dems Miss The Message -- Even Their Own
Excerpt:
I've gotten some more info on how the Dems ended up settling on their soulless, vacuous, and pathetic new slogan, "Together, America Can Do Better." It's a story that says a lot about the current mindset of the party.
Hearing Dem after Dem parrot the inane phrase in recent days, have you, like me, found yourself thinking "That can't be the best slogan they have?!"
Well, it turns out it wasn't.
NY Times
Vital Military Jobs Go Unfilled, Study Says
Excerpt: Both the Army and the Marines, for instance, fell short of their goals for hiring roadside bomb defusers by about 20 percent in each of the last two years. The Army Reserve, meanwhile, failed to fill about a third of its more than 1,500 intelligence analysts jobs. And in the National Guard, there have been consistent shortages filling positions involving tanks, field artillery and intelligence.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Diebold Attempts to Evade Election Transparency Laws
Excerpt:
Raleigh, North Carolina - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is going to court in North Carolina to prevent Diebold Election Systems, Inc. from evading North Carolina law.
In a last-minute filing, e-voting equipment maker Diebold asked a North Carolina court to exempt it from tough new election requirements designed to ensure transparency in the state's elections. Diebold obtained an extraordinarily broad order, allowing it to avoid placing its source code in escrow with the state and identifying programmers who contributed to the code.
Smirking Chimp
Cindy Sheehan: 'Open letter to George's mama'
Excerpt:
Your son's amazingly ignorant, arrogant, and reckless policies in Iraq are responsible for so much sorrow and trouble in this world.
Can you make him stop? Do it before more mothers' lives are needlessly and cruelly harmed. There have been too many worldwide already.
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Grand Jury testimony of longtime Washington Post editor Bob Woodward, leaked by Rove-ing reporter (humor).
It is posted at: Bob Woodward Tells Grand Jury Who Leaked First
Bobbing and weaving, a tangled web we do. Book him, Danno.
Please keep my identity a secret. Double super Secret.
Middle-aged, Middle-of-the-road, Mid-Westerner
No Problem since I have no idea who you are, thanks for writing in.
EXODUS (Oops, I mean) INVADUS, CHAPTER 20
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THE BUSH COMMANDMENTS!
1 And George spake all these words, saying,
2 I am GEORGE IV, which have brought thee into the land of Iraq, into the home of Saddam.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods except me.
4 Thou shalt make unto thee my graven image, or any corporation of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth :
5 Thou shalt bow down thyself to them, and serve them : for I GEORGE IV am a horny god, inserting DNA in their assholes to kill the last generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto hordes of them that love me, and keep my money.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of GEORGE IV in vain ; for GEORGE will not hold him guiltless that taketh GEORGE’s name in vain.
8 Faggeddaabboouutt the Sabbath day, and keep on workin’.
9 Every day shalt thou labour, and do all my work :
10 But the seventh day is the Sabbath of GEORGE IV : in it I shalt not do any work, I, nor my son, nor my daughter, nor my toy boy, nor my whore, nor my cattle, nor any good ol’ boy that is within my embrace :
11 For in six days GEORGE works hard on hard work, . . . to work hard on hard work, . . . for hard work to work hard, . . . with work, . . . hard . . . : wherefore GEORGE kicks back on the Sabbath day, and enjoys it.
12 Fellatio my father and cunnilingus my mother before me : that my penis may grow long to extend within the gland where GEORGE IV knoweth thee.
13 Thou shalt kill others, not me.
14 Thou shalt commit adultery, with me.
15 Thou shalt steal, for me.
16 Thou shalt bear false witness against thy neighbour, with me.
17 Thou shalt covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt covet thy neighbour’s wife, his boy toy, his whore, his ox, his ass, and any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
HAVE A GOOD DAY!
BEWARE! THE CAVEMAN COMETH!
EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! CAVEMAN COMBAT KILLS!
A caveman from the other side of the world penetrated the greatest strategic military and intelligence defenses the world has ever known and slaughtered more than 3,000 people on our own soil with only 20 recruits!
WOW!
Let me repeat that again, a little more slowly this time: A caveman. . .from the other side of the world. . .penetrated. . .the greatest strategic military and intelligence defenses the world has ever known. . .and slaughtered more than 3,000 people. . .on our own soil. . .with only 20 recruits!
If that’s true, then we’re all in big trouble, people, and in order to survive, we must get rid of present failed leadership, eliminate the lies and liars—the traitors—among us and help our patriots kill the caveman, and elect wise and brave and truthful patriots to lead us.
If that’s not true, then we’re all in BIG trouble, people, and in order to survive, we must get rid of present failed leadership, expose and kill the leadership that killed our 3,000 people and eliminate the lies and liars—the traitors—among us, and elect wise and brave and truthful patriots to lead us.
If a caveman from the other side of the world penetrated the greatest strategic military and intelligence defenses the world has ever known and slaughtered more than 3,000 people on our own soil with only 20 recruits, imagine what a modern foreign military force of 2 million recruits would do: With present failed leadership, a modern foreign military force of 2 million recruits would wipe out our entire American population of 300 million!
A once revered and honored war leader assured us long ago, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself,” so present failed leadership prioritized, categorized and colorized all our fears for us – but how do we know who and what to fear the most first? Should it be:
A caveman from the other side of the world who penetrated the greatest strategic military and intelligence defenses the world has ever known and slaughtered more than 3,000 people on our own soil with only 20 recruits?—OR the modern foreign military force of 2 million recruits that would wipe out our entire American population of 300 million?—OR present failed leadership that says a caveman from the other side of the world penetrated the greatest strategic military and intelligence defenses the world has ever known and slaughtered more than 3,000 people on our own soil with only 20 recruits.
Wake up and wise up, people!
Stop believing lies and liars!
Stop fearing those who fear us!
Stop honoring cowards who dishonor us!
Stop defending leaders who fail to defend us!
Stop excusing failures of present failed leadership!
Stop enabling hypocrites who worship only mammon!
Yankee Blue Veteran
Open the following picture:
http://www.wonkette.com/politics/white-house/big-dick-cheney-oh-yes-very-big-025650.php
Is the man in the picture:
1. VERY PROUD of his family values?
2. VERY PROUD of the child’s family values?
3. VERY PROUD of anyone dressed in white?
4. RELAXED?
No wonder Cheney told a Democrat, “Go fuck yourself!” The man just can’t help himself because, since he has been pleasuring himself all his life, he thinks everyone should. What everyone thought was castigation of an opponent turns out to have been a huge compliment, as it were! No wonder the man has a heart problem: He’s been exerting himself much more than an ordinary human being. “Go fuck yourself” suddenly has a completely new, and literal, meaning! . . . Because Cheney has actually been doing it!
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