Just me ‘n Zed.

Fitz for prosecution of Pelosi for not doin the job on Bush/Cheney. The mob has come a long way from Baltimore.
Spit

Germans have the stomach for prosecuting war crimes 14 alleged Bushco criminals charged with torture. How many countries have extradition treaties with Germany?

The Hague International Criminal Courts may be watching this one as many internationjal Organizations have joined as parties to the lawsuit. Violating an International treaty (like the Geneva Convention) of 144 Nations which the not so good ol USA has signed and our military has a tradition of adhering to, Mai Lai notwithstanding, may be problematic as a precedent has occurred.

I suppose it would take a real asshat to as president of the USA go from $2trillion surplus to $9 trillion deficit. Basically further impoverishimg our lower income population.
And to attack an enemeny that was surrounded and defeated and whose conventional army was totally destroyed and run out of Kuwait. Shock and awe bomb them into the stone age, no water, sewage or electrical service. To systematically capture alleged terror suspects. Imprison them and torture them. Establish “Black sites” in secret location all over the world to entract them to sites where USA law does not apply supposedly exempt from our treaties and torture them for months, killing some maiming others. And let other national inflict the cruelest of torture on them.
Taking what political capital we had left, and dragging our flag through the mire shaming us before the world. Damaging our ability to to treaties by constantly stabbing our allies in the back and alienating them from standing with us.
And pissing off 1.5 billion people who see us as insulting their religion and attacking their people without cause. While the real offenders are let to go free.
The stupidity, the insolence, the selfish selfcentered egotistical affrontery of “Bring it on” and the Victory celebration on the carrier deck wwwwwwwwwwwwwwith Cod piece after the invasion is the most dispicable behavior that could only expect from a demented petty criminal.

You tell it, brother!

The state of the Union is deplorable.

Economy: The Corporate culture of deceit has led us to the abyss of bankruptcy.
Government: The bad economic policy has led to federal aid for states and grant programs to be dried up.
Corruption by the republican congress for the last 6 years of earmarks on steroids has ddrained the public coffers.
The deregulation of all government agencies by Bush and his Orks and Trolls have stripped consumer and labor protection ensuing coal mine disasters. Stripping legal relief for the victims of industry has taken us back to the depression era.
Consumers have been sickened by poison products at a rate umheard of.
Environmental protections have been stripped and laws been circumvented by directives. Secret orders, people’s business carried on behind closed doors. and the legal system has been politicized in favor of republicans. Democrats have been charged with crimes just before their candicies for public office. DOJ’s fired or removed for sucessfull prosecutions against their republican cronies.
Government contracts, sole source, with no public oversight have been lavished on crony corporations and waste of a proportion heretofore unknown has been initiated by the Bush administration.
The US Congress, who is assigned oversight as a fiduciary to to their fellow citizens has obfuscated their Congressional duty to the Constitution which they have sworn to uphold and defend.

This republican administration knows no shame. This rogue administration has added new meaning to the definition of pig. A pig is an animal…that seems to fit someome without human empathy. A pig wallows in it’s excrement ie. the mess that they have made. A pig will lay on its offspring and drown them. A political pig will use his allies and them sacrifice them to save his own ass, A pig is loyal only to his own self. A pig uses the cover of fiegned morality to claim character that it does not posess. A pig is an animal.
Only a pig could have achieved what this administration has. The destruction of the environment…not allowing the states to clean up their air to safe breathing standards. The destruction of the moral fabric of America by fear mongering and trickery, by using the Mainstream media to further these decptive causes in the name of good. Playing a shell game…hide the ball kabuki. We have a con man for president.

1,800 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen bigbrother:

Our commander Clusterfuck will say “bring it on!!” as they haul his scrawny ass off ta the Hague. Meanwhile,the corporate media and the fascist political establishment will be draggin out the “weak…stabbed in the back” narrative to explain the horrendous mess our economy and politics are gunna be in. It’s sssssooooo transparent how corporate shills are settin’ up the “effeminate, girly, weak” description of Obama. I’m convenced they want Obama to win and they’ll take ‘im down in sacrifice for the total destruction they laid on us under Bush.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION AND WAKE UP BEFORE YA SEE THE WHITES A THEIR EYES!

I’m just warming up. I am not quite ready to rock. Being raised in a very old American family that has been around since the 1640’s, I think I have some rights to expect a decency at least. Stupidity maybe…but the wanton theft of the national treasury stealing from the poor to reward the rich inspires ire and reprehension. Cochinos, only would take food out of the mouths of babes…only pigs would take the funding from Schip medical from children, housing assitant for the impoverished and provide poison. trailers for flood victims.
Only pigs woulld repeatedly like Bush family, con folks into “Loan to Own housing” deals then reward to perps (Bear Stearns Investment bank maker of CDO, Tranches and other worthless derivetives…worthles paper secured by debt nor equity and sold to greed lusted suckers, which caused a credit crunch that still exists) The perps got bailed out with our social security trust fund money. By pouring many hundreds of billions of dollars of public money into the private gambling markets we have been burdened with the risks they flagrantly took with 30 to 1 leverage while they have walked with billions in bonuses and the insestors were left holding the umpty 401K retirement funds. Pensions and securities and hedges and other investment fund stocks were raided in a wat that made Enron and the telecom theft and the California energy deregulation rip off of $35 billion ratepayers look like chump change.
Three Trillion dollar war…$11 Trillion reversal in federal treasury. Is that stupidity or collusion?

Can I get a collusion and an AMEN, brother!

Another “surprise” from our blood thirsty administration

In an article entitled ‘The Gaza Bombshell’, the magazine purports to “lay bare a covert initiative” approved by the White House and implemented by the U.S. State Department “to provoke a Palestinian civil war.”

fascist bastards

Our commander Clusterfuck will say “bring it on!!” as they haul his scrawny ass off ta the Hague.

Norske my friend, I don’t normally disagree with you, but this time you have it wrong. Bush will cry like a little girl, howling that it isn’t HIS fault. It was all just a couple of bad apples in the DOJ, Yoo, Addington, it is all THEIR fault. It’s not commander codpieces fault! Anybody but commander codpiece!

I want to be able to point to Bush in a jail cell, and explain to my children that this is the reason the United States really are the “good guys”… …because we make the “bad guys”, the guys that would subvert our constitution, pay for their crimes.

gore’s got it right but the democrats are missing the boat;

our economy will thrive once we embrace thechnology that will reverse global warming, and developing that technology will not only save our planet, it might be just teh ticket to save our kids from the debt this president created

our economy must continue to grow for it to be succesful, this is a fact, each and every dollar that is printed carries a debt before it makes it into the economy (the prime) and that debt can obviously never be paid since it is produced with debt attached, for instance, if there were only one dollar printed and it carried a debt of ten cents, that ten cents doesn’t exist, the ten cents printed would carrie a debt of once cent, and on and on

therefore, our economy must always expand, the only way that can happen is through population growth

or new industry

even big bussiness would benefit if our government embraced global warming research, obviously the middle class, obviously the upper class, obviously the lower class

the only economic issue we would create would be the conventional energy industry

big oil would begin to see their profits fall, FALL, NOT BE ELIMINATED, and if they didn’t get on the global warming bus they would be left behind

but oil is their business and they would have trouble converting to the new source of revenue

they are scared

but this is what the democrats have to start talking about, the fact that our ECONOMY NEEDS global warming research as much as our kids need the solutions that research will provide

our kids need the solutions for two reasons, obviously so they will live in a healthy envirnment but also so they live in a prosperous economy

I want to be able to point to Bush in a jail cell

There will have to be a new jail built to house all the law breaking sonsofbitches in the WH. (Pre Mod censorship for the rest)

In an article entitled ‘The Gaza Bombshell’, the magazine purports to “lay bare a covert initiative” approved by the White House and implemented by the U.S. State Department “to provoke a Palestinian civil war.”

aha, I guess the author of that article reads me here at the lake

since the beginning of this war I have been saying their only purpose is middle east unrest, they do not want a solution they want to continue war

that is their purpose

if it weren’t their purpose they obviously wouldn’t have set up torutre chambers, torture chambers serve no purpose other then to perpetuate the insurgency, to perpetuate fear against the occupiers, to intigate more unrest

so the article gets it right, but I’ve been saying it since long before the unprovoked invasion even began

our economy must continue to grow…

is this really true? what kind of growth? why?

Spying on America;
Every bit of data, every phone call every bank account all private information business, medical or personal has been stolen by this administration. Data mining goes like this:
In 1995 during the Clinton administration a new telcom law was passed called CALEA. CALEA required all telecoms (phone companies like the ones that change their brand name like underwear) to open the hubs to NSA and other spies so they could monitor all electronic communications. That was supposed to be controlled by warrants from a FISA court set up in 1978. These physical ports could be opened at any time by the spy agency that had a warrant. During the first years of the Bush administration many people suspected that data mining was occuring without the court approval. Recently it was exposed as a common practice used to find dirt on political targets. The RNC was suspected of having access to searching this gigantic data base for whatever suited them. (Much like Googling)
Ports in the Washinton D.C. area were found to be accessable to hackers on the world wide web or mysreious parties of unknown intent making secure information insecure violating national security policies.
Democratic Governor’s were brought down, candidates were tarred. To this day we have to assune we have no secrets or private information. Trade secrets, research and other highly valuable priveledged information has been stolen with no way to retrieve it. The purpose was to be national security but it was widely abused.

Our Bill of Rights protections, historically so hard won over 8 centuries, have been recinded by executive order and signing statements by the Bush.
Americans have expressed an approval rating lower than Nixon for you Bush.

Extirpate, verb
1. to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate.
2. to pull up by or as if by the roots; root up: to extirpate an unwanted hair.
Example: Bush’s attempt to extirpate the newly elected Hamas government actually led to Hamas siezing control of Gaza.

Lesson Learned: If spreadin freedom by sparking off 1 civil war is good. Sparking off 2 civil wars would REALLY spread the freedom.

This GOP lesson in life brought to you courtesy of Bushco.

Good morning, pups. It’s Collins, Cohen and Kristof today in the NYT. La Collins writes about “A Black Hole Rating System” and says the woes of the world have been so multitudinous lately that new opportunities for worrying pop up everywhere. Mr. Cohen’s column is titled “The Politics of the Shoe Shine.” Do people prefer shoe-shine or no-shine societies? He favors the former because they give freer rein to the human spirit. Mr. Kristof writes about “A Not-So-Fine Romance,” and says China and the United States clash partly because of competing interests, but mostly because of competing narratives.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and the biscuits are out of the oven. I’m running late this morning… Have a great day.

well, there always has to be new money printed to pay the debt, there will always be debt because money is printed with debt attached

I suppose eventually the fed could abolish all debt owed and then there wouldn’t need to be more paper printed, but until that happens, there has to always be more money produced even if it’s just to pay off the debt that printing money creates

I also suppose the fed could forgive debt in a particular segment

say

THE HOUSEING INDUSTRY

but not the debt for the lenders, the debt for the homeowners

I guess the author of that article reads me here at the lake

My morning reading. Gives a “true” perspective from the ME
Aljazeera
Arab News
INdependent
Pakistan

Lesson Learned: If spreadin freedom by sparking off 1 civil war is good. Sparking off 2 civil wars would REALLY spread the freedom.

And free elections are an anathema to goopers

Mornin’ all!

Free Elections?

You DFH.

lol

Speaking of DFH’s, someone pointed me to this on the late night thread.

You DFH

I will have you know I showered this morning

Well, of course, that is why I called you a “Damp F***ing Hippy”, after all.

Damp F***ing Hippy

Aha (says he exhaling_)

I agree Attaturk, I think we could scare away those terrists in their rowboats (they prolly really do have rocket launchers – mad in the U.S.A.)if we put us up some of them Maoisy statues along the border. Kill two birds with one stone (I crack myself up). I hope there are some grrl ones made cause we’re a tolerain’t society.

nomolos, no bogarting

I suppose “dripping” would have worked just as well.

Buy a towel, hippy… …and share with Elliott

and here’s your morning CSPAN report

7:30 am – David Barger, JetBlue Airways Corporation, Chief Executive Officer
8:00 am – Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), Banking Subcommittee, Chairman
8:30 am – John Solomon, Washington Times, Executive Editor
Washington Times Names Controversial Reporter John Solomon As New ‘Executive Editor’

Matt Drudge is reporting that former Associated Press reporter and current Washington Post “star” John Solomon has been named the new executive editor of the conservative Washington Times. Solomon, who joined the Post little over a year ago, will “succeed Wesley Pruden, who is retiring after 25 years in The Washington Times newsroom.”

Solomon’s reporting has been heavily criticized in the blogosphere for over hyping minor stories, omitting key facts and twisting out of context the meaning of statements. Here are a few examples of the reporting ethos Solomon will be bringing to the Times …more at Think Progress (from January 14th)

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and at 10:00 am on CSPAN 3:
U.S. Credit Markets

The Senate Banking Committee holds hearing on the U.S. financial markets. Witnesses include Fed. Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox and the chief executives of Bear Stearns and JP Morgan Chase.

nomolos, no bogarting

Every time I see “Casablanca” I thank dog Rayguns didn’t get the part

Solomon’s reporting has been heavily criticized in the blogosphere for over hyping minor stories, omitting key facts and twisting out of context the meaning of statements.

He is perfect for the job. His qualifications have no peer. One wonders if he is a gooper

well, from think progress:

“- In July, Solomon “devoted nearly 1,300 words to the ‘controversy’ surrounding” John Edwards’ haircut.”

War, Costly destructive hate reaping war Implemented in the name pf “Feedom” but for profit. The cost:
Allies, Many “Enemy” lives, ya know the enemies were we liberating who would welcome us with open arms after we bombed them with shock and Awe to show how much we really cared. The Slaughterhouse was Baghdad where thousands were killed, then we occupied (liberated from the evil torturer Sadaam) Isn’t that rich. The dictator torturer that cheney/rumsfeld had supplied wto war Iran. Treachery?
So now we disbanded the armies of the Sunni regimes and sent the administration home (without pay to fend for themselves). Then we got the Shites you know those folks who supporte Iran our arch enemy since the Shah was deposed. They set up shop and ruled the country by “Death Squads’ that ran the Sunnis out of Baghdad and in millions of cases the country flooding neighboring countries with refugees. They tried and hung the old dictator.
We let the country be looted. We helped by destroying the infrastructure why did you have to do that. Bridges, hospitals secular schools, roads, canals, sewers, energy plants and anything of value was fair game under the rules of engagement and occupation. There were elections the Shiite majority ruled with two factions who started a civil war, soon we were paying and arming the Sunnis to go against the foriegn fighters.
Security was never established. We ingratiated ourselved by nightly raids on the civilian popu;ation. We filled their prisons with uncharged suspects.
A new kind of “Democracy was invented” with the aid of the Shock Doctrine” we reducd the population to a starving fearful mass. Secular schools were closed and the muslim dress was required by women.
Christians were forced to flee the country by the new muslim regime we installed. Children were maimed 5 million families were left fatherless or orphaned.

This was all done in my name. No thamk you I never ever approved going in there. You went in on your own. You set up Bhutto as a puppet and threw her to the wolves in Pakistan. Do you think the new Pakistan will forget that? You forgot the target of all this was Bin Laden who pulled numerous atttacks against embassies in Africa, USS Cole and the Twin Towers he has nit suffered a scratch. Instead your old ally Sadaam was made the scapegoat on the pretense that he had WMD that was a threat to us. You let the Taliban back in Afghanistan.
You angered the Russians and the Chinese with the saber rattling in Iran. You have only a months supply of bombs according to Scott Ritter Un Weapons inspector. What’s the smart paly with the 5th flleet in enemy rocket range, the troops stretched thin half way around the world. The draft? How will the vets be housed? How will they be given all the care for the 30,000 wounded service men and women?
How do you heal the 4004 familes of the Americans who’s lives you sacrificed for your foolishness? How does the country heal. And how does Iraq heal? None of this was necessary. What king of person are you?

Many “Enemy” lives, ya know the enemies were we liberating who would welcome us with open arms after we bombed them with shock and Awe to show how much we really cared.

It didn’t work? Aw shucks

Rage on, BigBrother! Rage fucking on! Take no prisoners. attack! Attack! ATTACK!

Haircuts??? They are talking haircuts meanwhile the poverty level is growing…food prices are rising rapidly and rental costs are rising as foreclosures lower home values and people are still being killed in Iraq daily. The thingie we call the global community is melting fast, deserts are growing, coastal alluvial farm soiuls are being depleted. Crop DNA is being mutated and our earth is daily diminished. Thanks Rethugs

Exactly! The Republicans and their MSM enablers are so fucking stupid that they can’t tell the difference between big and little.

A rage rant? If they are satisfied with the status quo…they be pigs in the trough.

They’re not satisfied with the status quo. They’re out to establish the Fourth Reich.

Growth not always good.
Uh, Selise sorry about all the incoming.

Have a good day. Peace to all that are not perpetrating misery. No more parsing.

Phillip Sands on torture will be on democracynow this morning.

Good will they take Henry Kissinger?

What incomimg? Would you be refering to my remarks? I am expressing facts. I would never torture, maim, kill, steal, make orphan, destro, bankrupt, con, decieve, lie, cheat.
Here is a man who claims to believe in the ten comandments. try repeating those simple behavioral guidelined. No murder, adultery, steal, bear false witness plus all the other religious stuff.
Even Bloomberg said the corporate culture had to go. Just do not lie to us that would be great for openers.

Sorry to confuse. Incoming was referring to an entirely different topic. Nothing to do with your honour. I can understand the confusion. I can also see that you are undoubtedly made of stern stuff: no murder, adultery, theft etc. So sorry, again for the confusion.