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		<title>By: Me3</title>
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		<dc:creator>Me3</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 02:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/a6erq&quot;&gt;http://tinyurl.com/a6erq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;^^^ HELP IMPEACH TODAY&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Keep the pressure on Congress… Talking about impeachment wakes people up… They question, it’s a strong motivator to get people thinking. It also lets Congress know how intense the dissapproval is for this President… They seem to be a little slow on the uptake. So please:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) Sign petitions if you have not done so&lt;br /&gt;
2) Send a letter to Congress (both Senators &amp; House rep)&lt;br /&gt;
3) Send a copy to the media&lt;br /&gt;
4) Enlist friends and family to help, ask them to chip in time&lt;br /&gt;
5) Spread the link around, email it (with a request to forward) post it on a blog, or in the comments of a news story. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Help out!!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks :)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<p>^^^ HELP IMPEACH TODAY</p>
<p>Keep the pressure on Congress… Talking about impeachment wakes people up… They question, it’s a strong motivator to get people thinking. It also lets Congress know how intense the dissapproval is for this President… They seem to be a little slow on the uptake. So please:</p>
<p>1) Sign petitions if you have not done so<br />
2) Send a letter to Congress (both Senators &amp; House rep)<br />
3) Send a copy to the media<br />
4) Enlist friends and family to help, ask them to chip in time<br />
5) Spread the link around, email it (with a request to forward) post it on a blog, or in the comments of a news story. </p>
<p>Help out!!!</p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
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		<title>By: The Impeach Project &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Has Cheney&#8217;s Stained Blue Impeachment Dress Arrived?</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Impeach Project &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Has Cheney&#8217;s Stained Blue Impeachment Dress Arrived?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 01:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;[…] Hey Porter, it really sucks that you had to go resign because of Hooker Scandals incompetence inability to destroy the CIA well, in your own words, “a total mystery” because your shiny blue dress may have just arrived. Of course, we all know the hack that you were and we all know there wouldn’t have been a thing in hell to get you to push the investigation harder even after you took over the agency which the violation of our national security was committed against! But, Porter, if you’re out there, via Jane, this one’s for you buddy! You don’t get to take part in the festivities but I hope you’re there with us cheering Fitzgerald on from the sidelines as he does the job that you were too much of a traitor to do yourself. […]&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[…] Hey Porter, it really sucks that you had to go resign because of Hooker Scandals incompetence inability to destroy the CIA well, in your own words, “a total mystery” because your shiny blue dress may have just arrived. Of course, we all know the hack that you were and we all know there wouldn’t have been a thing in hell to get you to push the investigation harder even after you took over the agency which the violation of our national security was committed against! But, Porter, if you’re out there, via Jane, this one’s for you buddy! You don’t get to take part in the festivities but I hope you’re there with us cheering Fitzgerald on from the sidelines as he does the job that you were too much of a traitor to do yourself. […]</p>
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		<title>By: djb</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/13/calling-porter-goss/#comment-103795</link>
		<dc:creator>djb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 17:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Cheney and every other wingnut likes to throw around words like “junket” or “boondoggle” to describe Wilson’s trip, and on that basis assert that Plame’s involvement with the trip justifiably should have become a matter of public record.  Of course, Wilson’s trip to Niger was anything but a “boondoggle.”  It was an unpaid and solo working trip to a rather less-than-glamorous destination.  It was the opposite of … I don’t know … say, a luxury golfing holiday in Scotland (accompanied by wives/mistresses) under a laughable cover story about a non-existent meeting with Margaret Thatcher. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But note Cheney’s use of the term “pro bono.”  Even at that early stage, Cheney knew Wilson wasn’t even paid for his time.  Cheney knew from the get-go that Wilson’s trip was no “junket,” or “boondoggle.”&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cheney and every other wingnut likes to throw around words like “junket” or “boondoggle” to describe Wilson’s trip, and on that basis assert that Plame’s involvement with the trip justifiably should have become a matter of public record.  Of course, Wilson’s trip to Niger was anything but a “boondoggle.”  It was an unpaid and solo working trip to a rather less-than-glamorous destination.  It was the opposite of … I don’t know … say, a luxury golfing holiday in Scotland (accompanied by wives/mistresses) under a laughable cover story about a non-existent meeting with Margaret Thatcher. </p>
<p>But note Cheney’s use of the term “pro bono.”  Even at that early stage, Cheney knew Wilson wasn’t even paid for his time.  Cheney knew from the get-go that Wilson’s trip was no “junket,” or “boondoggle.”</p>
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		<title>By: ironranger</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/13/calling-porter-goss/#comment-103582</link>
		<dc:creator>ironranger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 13:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;leslie253- Maybe we should start calling the kook-aid crowd, the left behind people instead. As the majority of people are finding the on/off switch to their bs detectors, the shrinking pied piper followers will be reduced to muttering, “it’s all jane fonda’s fault.&lt;br /&gt;
A caller to an air america program said a great descriptive thing about the sleeping americans…called them a bunch of floating balloon heads…wouldn’t that be a great cartoon, tshirt etc?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>leslie253- Maybe we should start calling the kook-aid crowd, the left behind people instead. As the majority of people are finding the on/off switch to their bs detectors, the shrinking pied piper followers will be reduced to muttering, “it’s all jane fonda’s fault.<br />
A caller to an air america program said a great descriptive thing about the sleeping americans…called them a bunch of floating balloon heads…wouldn’t that be a great cartoon, tshirt etc?</p>
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		<title>By: mui</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/13/calling-porter-goss/#comment-103554</link>
		<dc:creator>mui</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 12:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I just read a very interesting Chomsky article, entitled something like, Subordinate and Non-Subordinate States. He gets E. Asia wrong though. They do care about relations with the U.S., but need resources.&lt;br /&gt;
Via truthout.org:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051006E.shtml&quot;&gt;http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051006E.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just read a very interesting Chomsky article, entitled something like, Subordinate and Non-Subordinate States. He gets E. Asia wrong though. They do care about relations with the U.S., but need resources.<br />
Via truthout.org:<br />
<a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051006E.shtml">http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051006E.shtml</a></p>
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		<title>By: mui</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/13/calling-porter-goss/#comment-103551</link>
		<dc:creator>mui</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 12:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Whenever I hear someone talk  of n*k**g Iran even in jest—I am very superstitious: I want to spit twice and take it back. Please let’s not see this as a given and work toward the better &amp; try not to see it vain.&lt;br /&gt;
Leslie 261. Yes! I am praying for peace anyway I know how.&lt;br /&gt;
BTW Interesting article in Asian Times online, called the U.S. geopolitical nightmare:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HE09Ad01.html&quot;&gt;http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HE09Ad01.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Prof. Rat 269. that Liddy name gives me the heebie jeebies *shudder*.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whenever I hear someone talk  of n*k**g Iran even in jest—I am very superstitious: I want to spit twice and take it back. Please let’s not see this as a given and work toward the better &amp; try not to see it vain.<br />
Leslie 261. Yes! I am praying for peace anyway I know how.<br />
BTW Interesting article in Asian Times online, called the U.S. geopolitical nightmare:<br />
<a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HE09Ad01.html">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HE09Ad01.html</a></p>
<p>Prof. Rat 269. that Liddy name gives me the heebie jeebies *shudder*.</p>
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		<title>By: judie</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 12:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Makes you wonder why Bush is making a prime time speech on immigration.  Maybe Fitz will give all of us a grand day to overshadow the speech.  OH PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEase.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Makes you wonder why Bush is making a prime time speech on immigration.  Maybe Fitz will give all of us a grand day to overshadow the speech.  OH PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEase.</p>
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		<title>By: falcone</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/13/calling-porter-goss/#comment-103492</link>
		<dc:creator>falcone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 07:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Some relevant commentary on the start of the Civil War:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dargan @ Alabama secession convention: Years ago I was convinced that the Southern States would be compelled either to separate from the North, by dissolving the Federal Government, or they would be compelled to abolish the institution of African Slavery. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Toombs of Georgia: In 1820, the Northern party, (and I mean by that term now and whenever else it is used, or its equivalent, in these remarks, the Antislavery or Abolition party of the North,) endeavored to exclude the State of Missouri from admission into the Union, because she chose to protect African slavery in the new State. In the House, where they had a majority, they rejected her application, and a struggle ensued, when some half a dozen of Northern men gave way, and admitted the State, but upon condition of the exclusion of slavery from all that country, acquired from France by the treaty of 1802, lying north of thirty- six degrees thirty minutes, north latitude, and outside of the State of Missouri. This act of exclusion violated the express provisions of the treaty of 1802, to which the National faith was pledged; violated the well-settled policy of the Government, at least from Adams’s administration to that day, and has, since slavery was adjudicated by the Supreme Court of the United States, violated the Constitution itself. When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Gov. of Tennesseeâ€˜s intro to his state convention on secession:  The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of their people, upon the well-defined constitutional rights of the Southern citizen; the rapid growth and increase, in all the elements of power, of a purely sectional party, whose bond of union is uncompromising hostility to the rights and institutions of the fifteen Southern States, have produced a crisis in the affairs of the country.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the peroration of the Alabama legislatureâ€™s appeal to the N. Carolina leg.: Beyond this, is the fact that the plain letter of the Constitution, providing for the rendition of fugitive slaves, has not only been annulled by the non-slave-holding States, but several of them have, by their so-called “personal-liberty bills,” made it a highly penal offense for a master to attempt the enforcement of the Fugitive-Slave Law of Congress. So it has come to this, that degrading punishment is the consequence of a citizen of the South going into these States, with the Constitution of the United States in his hand, asking simply for the performance of the guarantees therein provided. Nor are those non-slave-holding States that have not passed such bills, behind their cooperators in practically annulling the clause of the Constitution referred toâ€”for it is well known that in most, if not all of the non-slave-holding States, the rights of the master of the slave are defied and set at naught, and that public opinion, aided by mobs, has as effectively overthrown the Constitution and the Law, as though neither had any existence. Were this state of things the result of some sudden gleam of passion, the people of Alabama might hope, that a returning sense of justice would bring obedience to duty; but, unhappily, the past and present prove that such a hope is illusory. The violations of their obligations to us, have been so long continued, and so oft repeated, that the principle has incorporated itself into their education and religion, until the doctrine of the law of conscience has been set up over the supreme law of the land, and hatred to the South and her institutions has usurped the teachings of the Bible. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You have to be an idiot to think the war was about something other than slavery.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some relevant commentary on the start of the Civil War:</p>
<p>Dargan @ Alabama secession convention: Years ago I was convinced that the Southern States would be compelled either to separate from the North, by dissolving the Federal Government, or they would be compelled to abolish the institution of African Slavery. </p>
<p>Toombs of Georgia: In 1820, the Northern party, (and I mean by that term now and whenever else it is used, or its equivalent, in these remarks, the Antislavery or Abolition party of the North,) endeavored to exclude the State of Missouri from admission into the Union, because she chose to protect African slavery in the new State. In the House, where they had a majority, they rejected her application, and a struggle ensued, when some half a dozen of Northern men gave way, and admitted the State, but upon condition of the exclusion of slavery from all that country, acquired from France by the treaty of 1802, lying north of thirty- six degrees thirty minutes, north latitude, and outside of the State of Missouri. This act of exclusion violated the express provisions of the treaty of 1802, to which the National faith was pledged; violated the well-settled policy of the Government, at least from Adams’s administration to that day, and has, since slavery was adjudicated by the Supreme Court of the United States, violated the Constitution itself. When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. </p>
<p>The Gov. of Tennesseeâ€˜s intro to his state convention on secession:  The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of their people, upon the well-defined constitutional rights of the Southern citizen; the rapid growth and increase, in all the elements of power, of a purely sectional party, whose bond of union is uncompromising hostility to the rights and institutions of the fifteen Southern States, have produced a crisis in the affairs of the country.</p>
<p>the peroration of the Alabama legislatureâ€™s appeal to the N. Carolina leg.: Beyond this, is the fact that the plain letter of the Constitution, providing for the rendition of fugitive slaves, has not only been annulled by the non-slave-holding States, but several of them have, by their so-called “personal-liberty bills,” made it a highly penal offense for a master to attempt the enforcement of the Fugitive-Slave Law of Congress. So it has come to this, that degrading punishment is the consequence of a citizen of the South going into these States, with the Constitution of the United States in his hand, asking simply for the performance of the guarantees therein provided. Nor are those non-slave-holding States that have not passed such bills, behind their cooperators in practically annulling the clause of the Constitution referred toâ€”for it is well known that in most, if not all of the non-slave-holding States, the rights of the master of the slave are defied and set at naught, and that public opinion, aided by mobs, has as effectively overthrown the Constitution and the Law, as though neither had any existence. Were this state of things the result of some sudden gleam of passion, the people of Alabama might hope, that a returning sense of justice would bring obedience to duty; but, unhappily, the past and present prove that such a hope is illusory. The violations of their obligations to us, have been so long continued, and so oft repeated, that the principle has incorporated itself into their education and religion, until the doctrine of the law of conscience has been set up over the supreme law of the land, and hatred to the South and her institutions has usurped the teachings of the Bible. </p>
<p>You have to be an idiot to think the war was about something other than slavery.</p>
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		<title>By: falcone</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/13/calling-porter-goss/#comment-103483</link>
		<dc:creator>falcone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 07:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Lincoln knew the war was about slavery too.  You have to take Lincolnâ€™s quotes out of  context to think he wasnâ€™t trying to attack slavery.  He ran on a platform of ending slavery in the territories.  If he had backed away from that platform, the  southern states would have stayed.  He wouldnâ€™t.  When he said he would prefer to save the union with slavery, it was just a way of backing off the house divided speech, saying he wouldnâ€™t interfere IN THE SOUTH.  But he never backed away from his pledge to abolish it in the territories.  It was that pledge that was non-negotiable for both sides and made war inevitable.  There was no other issue even discussed but slavery.  Southern secession meetings didnâ€™t get together and talk about being forced to eat Boston baked beans or northern grain or speak with flat Râ€™s like we do in Chicago.  They got together and said Lincolnâ€™s a tyrant because he wonâ€™t allow slavery in the territories.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lincoln knew the war was about slavery too.  You have to take Lincolnâ€™s quotes out of  context to think he wasnâ€™t trying to attack slavery.  He ran on a platform of ending slavery in the territories.  If he had backed away from that platform, the  southern states would have stayed.  He wouldnâ€™t.  When he said he would prefer to save the union with slavery, it was just a way of backing off the house divided speech, saying he wouldnâ€™t interfere IN THE SOUTH.  But he never backed away from his pledge to abolish it in the territories.  It was that pledge that was non-negotiable for both sides and made war inevitable.  There was no other issue even discussed but slavery.  Southern secession meetings didnâ€™t get together and talk about being forced to eat Boston baked beans or northern grain or speak with flat Râ€™s like we do in Chicago.  They got together and said Lincolnâ€™s a tyrant because he wonâ€™t allow slavery in the territories.</p>
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		<title>By: spiderpaws</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/13/calling-porter-goss/#comment-103478</link>
		<dc:creator>spiderpaws</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 06:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;…it will not get any better for the Bush gang, in fact it only gets worse…Saturn’s to blame, toodling over George’s ascendant then over his Merc and Pluto…and karl has some nasty Saturn aspects as well so he won’t get off either, they’re all fucked…nice to see so many things straightened out here tonight…waiting so long for Rove to go down, it gets anticlimactic after awhile…still though, I have the champagne ready even if I have to drink it with the dogs…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>…it will not get any better for the Bush gang, in fact it only gets worse…Saturn’s to blame, toodling over George’s ascendant then over his Merc and Pluto…and karl has some nasty Saturn aspects as well so he won’t get off either, they’re all fucked…nice to see so many things straightened out here tonight…waiting so long for Rove to go down, it gets anticlimactic after awhile…still though, I have the champagne ready even if I have to drink it with the dogs…</p>
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