From WORDS OF WISDOM by Richard Power, the only thing wrong here is this:
"Indeed (they) have sided with those who attacked us on 9/11 against those who would have helped us destroy them."
To which I say, "those" people never attacked us on 9/11. Bush/Cheney/CIA, etc., just made it look like they did, just as they're promoting/financing what Pakistani tribe Jundullah is doing to Iran now. Bush/Cheney/CIA wouldn't be able to control "those" terrorists the way that they do, if they were really the enemy.
Think about it. And let the 9/11 Truth movement climb another step toward exposing the monsters. Ed.
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Here's the rest of Richard Power's SPOT ON statement, in context:
Bush-Cheney does not want peace or stability. It does not even want vengence. It wants empire, and it is willing to wage perennial war for it. Bush-Cheney is not running a "war on terror," it is running a war IN, OF, BY and FOR terror.
Indeed they have sided with those who attacked us on 9/11 against those who would have helped us destroy them.
When will the US mainstream news media back away from this treasonous cabal?
Probably never.
The corporatist stranglehold on the US government is in the media moguls' best interests, or so they think.
And Speaker Pelosi, who is third in the line of constitutional succession, is dangerous to them. She symbolizes the restoration of the Republic.
Saturday, April 7, 2007
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
It IS Scarfgate, after all...
How GOPwarts doesn't realize their own idiocy is puzzling. Rove is slipping. Ed.
-The abhorrence of any moderate form of hijab is a brazen embodiment of the U.S.’s fear and intolerance of people of the Muslim faith. A diplomat traveling abroad will obviously strive to adhere to the customs of the host-country, especially in a place of worship. I had thought it was common knowledge that, upon entering a mosque, you must remove your shoes and –if you are female–cover up all exposed skin save the hands and face. I had never thought it strange or extreme, having been raised Greek-orthodox. In addition to the headscarf, we would often have to wear long, black gloves!
The reaction to Mrs. Pelosi’s respectful and no doubt obligatory gesture reveals the ignorance and racism still harbored by most Americans. Hijab to them symbolizes something evil and threatening. It is endlessly frustrating.
Comment by Ariana — April 4, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
-Oh my gosh! THIS is the biggest story of the year so far! Forget all that stuff about Attorneygate or Plamegate or even Sanjaya from American Idol. This is it! Scarfgate!
Comment by Shawn — April 4, 2007 @ 1:33 pm
-It’s not about the scarf. It’s about the Speaker of the House off in a foreign country consorting with terrorists. Are you all really that dense? A rhetorical question based on what I read here.
Comment by David — April 4, 2007 @ 1:34 pm
-I’m laughing as I remember my mom fishing Kleenex out of her purse which she attached to our heads with a bobbypin….in the church vestibule. It was the 60s- if you forgot your hat, you had to substitute a snot rag.
Comment by formercatholic — April 4, 2007 @ 1:41 pm
-The abhorrence of any moderate form of hijab is a brazen embodiment of the U.S.’s fear and intolerance of people of the Muslim faith. A diplomat traveling abroad will obviously strive to adhere to the customs of the host-country, especially in a place of worship. I had thought it was common knowledge that, upon entering a mosque, you must remove your shoes and –if you are female–cover up all exposed skin save the hands and face. I had never thought it strange or extreme, having been raised Greek-orthodox. In addition to the headscarf, we would often have to wear long, black gloves!
The reaction to Mrs. Pelosi’s respectful and no doubt obligatory gesture reveals the ignorance and racism still harbored by most Americans. Hijab to them symbolizes something evil and threatening. It is endlessly frustrating.
Comment by Ariana — April 4, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
-Oh my gosh! THIS is the biggest story of the year so far! Forget all that stuff about Attorneygate or Plamegate or even Sanjaya from American Idol. This is it! Scarfgate!
Comment by Shawn — April 4, 2007 @ 1:33 pm
-It’s not about the scarf. It’s about the Speaker of the House off in a foreign country consorting with terrorists. Are you all really that dense? A rhetorical question based on what I read here.
Comment by David — April 4, 2007 @ 1:34 pm
-I’m laughing as I remember my mom fishing Kleenex out of her purse which she attached to our heads with a bobbypin….in the church vestibule. It was the 60s- if you forgot your hat, you had to substitute a snot rag.
Comment by formercatholic — April 4, 2007 @ 1:41 pm
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
FUTURE "Illegal Acts at the behest of the Power Structure" Exposed!
This remarker is SO correct in his analysis, it's a relief. Too bad the MSM will never approach the subject.
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Comment #61790 by SamSnedegar on 4/02 at 11:26 am
I came late to this party, but it ought to be noted that there is nothing WRONG with dumping as many US Attorneys as the Preznit likes.
What would have and will be wrong is for them to replace the dumpees with new US Attys who will have agreed before taking on the jobs to break the law. How? By engaging in selective prosecution and using a prosecution as did the Starr chamber, to harass and/or eliminate political enemies or opponents.
The Bushitter gang of thugs is quick to point out that they have broken no laws, and they are entirely correct, BUT....... if INTENT could be proven, then their culpability is already in place, just waiting for some evidence with which they can be prosecuted.
We only have heard about the one replacement who was Rove’s choice down in Arkansas, and if there breathes a man with brain so dead that he thinks THIS yahoo is honest, then I have a bridge to sell him along with a ticket on the Madrid lottery. No, NONE of the original planned replacements would have been either honest or expected ever to be so, and the crimes that the planners intended would have been ongoing for years to come.
Unfortunately for me, I do not hold with putting people in jail for planning a bank robbery that they finally figure out is not going to work, so they give up. It is too much like my going over to shoot my neighbor because my dog defecated on his lawn, and I know that my neighbor is coming over to beat my ass because of it, and I fear for my life, so as soon as he opens his door to me, I blow him away with a 12 gauge. Going after people for what they MIGHT do or might have done is stupid, and I won’t countenance it, terrorism or not. It is hard enough to get the evidence to make a real case against someone for what he ACTUALLY DID that broke the law.
And that brings us to the US Atty matter: they broke no laws except by PLANNING for illegal acts in the future. When they commit those acts will be time enough to prosecute them to the fullest.
In the meantime, they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar and didn’t even get a half a cookie to eat. It will go away because there isn’t any thing there.
The scandal, if it exists, is for the public to know what they had to have PLANNED for the replacements, and that it was outside the law. One thing it might do: make it harder than ever to get GOOD men and women to become US Attys, because the implication will always be there from now on that “at the pleasure of the President” means “do illegal acts at the behest of the power structure.”
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Comment #61790 by SamSnedegar on 4/02 at 11:26 am
I came late to this party, but it ought to be noted that there is nothing WRONG with dumping as many US Attorneys as the Preznit likes.
What would have and will be wrong is for them to replace the dumpees with new US Attys who will have agreed before taking on the jobs to break the law. How? By engaging in selective prosecution and using a prosecution as did the Starr chamber, to harass and/or eliminate political enemies or opponents.
The Bushitter gang of thugs is quick to point out that they have broken no laws, and they are entirely correct, BUT....... if INTENT could be proven, then their culpability is already in place, just waiting for some evidence with which they can be prosecuted.
We only have heard about the one replacement who was Rove’s choice down in Arkansas, and if there breathes a man with brain so dead that he thinks THIS yahoo is honest, then I have a bridge to sell him along with a ticket on the Madrid lottery. No, NONE of the original planned replacements would have been either honest or expected ever to be so, and the crimes that the planners intended would have been ongoing for years to come.
Unfortunately for me, I do not hold with putting people in jail for planning a bank robbery that they finally figure out is not going to work, so they give up. It is too much like my going over to shoot my neighbor because my dog defecated on his lawn, and I know that my neighbor is coming over to beat my ass because of it, and I fear for my life, so as soon as he opens his door to me, I blow him away with a 12 gauge. Going after people for what they MIGHT do or might have done is stupid, and I won’t countenance it, terrorism or not. It is hard enough to get the evidence to make a real case against someone for what he ACTUALLY DID that broke the law.
And that brings us to the US Atty matter: they broke no laws except by PLANNING for illegal acts in the future. When they commit those acts will be time enough to prosecute them to the fullest.
In the meantime, they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar and didn’t even get a half a cookie to eat. It will go away because there isn’t any thing there.
The scandal, if it exists, is for the public to know what they had to have PLANNED for the replacements, and that it was outside the law. One thing it might do: make it harder than ever to get GOOD men and women to become US Attys, because the implication will always be there from now on that “at the pleasure of the President” means “do illegal acts at the behest of the power structure.”
America Tells It Like It Is!
TRUTHDIG'S Joe Conason advises us to ignore the pundits and bark louder, when confronted with their warnings of Democrat mistakes; if the MSM says it's a mistake, you can be sure Dems are headed up the right tree.
Typos and grammatical errors corrected for ease of enjoyment. Ed.
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Comment #61344 by Pete on 3/30 at 7:43 am
You want to rattle the Republican cage? Try these suggestions:
1. Scrap the recent bankruptcy “reform” act and return to the 1978 standard. Put the onus on lenders for stupidity.
2. Investigate the so called “right to work” think tanks. They’re nothing but union busting shills for the American Manufacturers Assn. and the Chamber of Commerce.
3. Charley Rangel is right; bring back the draft especially on the campussies of Yale, Harvard, ad nauseam. Those with the most to defend should be in the front line to defend it.
4. Bring back the Eisenhower tax code. 90% of 450 billion still leaves one with a nice piece of change and presumably a clear conscience for once.
5. Reintroduce the deduction for personal income for the middle class.
6. Restore the guards installed by FDR to prevent another depression, undone by republicans since 1994.
7. Investigate this baloney about “jobs Americans won’t do” like postal worker, pharmacist & nurse.
8. Throw out the H1B visa program. Does anybody really believe that there aren’t enough programmers, chemists or engineers graduating from American Universities?
Iraq has been an expensive subterfuge so that Newt’s “Contract ON America” could be pulled off. Down republicrats,up Kucinich!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment #61292 by Ralph David Hill on 3/29 at 9:08 pm
I’m 68. It seems that in recent years the too-frequent subtle shifts in meaning, the subtle rewrites of history -e.g. congressional Democrats voted FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ rather than VOTED TO GIVE BUSH THE AUTHORITY TO GO TO WAR, hoping against hope that that vote would help persuade Saddam to be more forthcoming and saying they expected Bush to use the power given him wisely (he didn’t), using military action as a last resort.
The latter is the way I understood it but (I think) highly skilled Republican operatives & rewriters of history introduced the idea that Congress had voted for going into war. Then Democrats seem to have just accepted that they had voted for the war in Iraq rather than having voted to give Bush the authority to go to war hoping that doing that would actually help to prevent a war.
Looking back of course it’s obvious now that Bush was no one worthy of being given any authority of any kind involving America’s safety, and those who voted to give him the authority to go to war in Iraq had mistakenly believed Bush was someone who could be trusted to act carefully and judiciously. But amazingly, many Democrats seem to have allowed that Republican rewrite to stand.
GOOD TO SEE I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE who hurts to see many pundits and “authoritative experts” treat important things as unimportant, etc. I don’t think the main thing for Democrats is to win points against the Republicans, but rather to reverse disastrous policies for the good of the country and to show up a lot of spin and deception presented with a tone of fairness and objectivity - seemingly the voice of expert authority - for what it really is - RUBBISH!!
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Comment #61287 by America on 3/29 at 8:01 pm
Dear Mr. Rove,
Even little old me in podunk Ohio knows you’re a crook. Thanks to the internet I know who you screwed, what you screwed em over for, when you screwed em, where you screwed em, how far and how long you screwed em.
You cannot hide from the American people forever. Your job is not safe and we don’t like you anymore. In fact we never did.
The only thing that keeps you in office is that little white crook in the big white house but that shit can’t last forever and definitely won’t last until 2008. God willing, yes, the same God that you have taunted the American people with and that Bush claims he serves but doesn’t - God willing, Cheney and Bush will be impeached and all of you will wind up in Federal - Pound- Your- Ass prison.
That way instead of screwing over the American People like you have for nearly a decade, you’ll be the one getting screwed instead.
Have a nice day and enjoy it while it lasts, but your time is done son. The media cannot shield you.
We Know!
Love,
America
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Comment #61224 by vanjejo on 3/29 at 2:20 pm
To alleviate this problem we could always put this administration under house arrest, elect a “commission” of “appointed” investigators to spend their time and look into it *kind of like the 9-11 commission* The country can be governed by the remaining elected officials who could get on with legislating what is best for the people of America; let Congress work on what they are paid to do, which is listen to us and “insure domestic tranquility”. D O M E S T I C.
I cannot fault Congress as long as they vote by the voices they hear. Read their mail and email and really listen when we call. Vote with American citizens FOREMOST on their minds.
They vote it and they cannot be held accountable if the decider vetos......
Just do the right thing - investigate and demand. Get going and stop stumbling - impeach.
Typos and grammatical errors corrected for ease of enjoyment. Ed.
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Comment #61344 by Pete on 3/30 at 7:43 am
You want to rattle the Republican cage? Try these suggestions:
1. Scrap the recent bankruptcy “reform” act and return to the 1978 standard. Put the onus on lenders for stupidity.
2. Investigate the so called “right to work” think tanks. They’re nothing but union busting shills for the American Manufacturers Assn. and the Chamber of Commerce.
3. Charley Rangel is right; bring back the draft especially on the campussies of Yale, Harvard, ad nauseam. Those with the most to defend should be in the front line to defend it.
4. Bring back the Eisenhower tax code. 90% of 450 billion still leaves one with a nice piece of change and presumably a clear conscience for once.
5. Reintroduce the deduction for personal income for the middle class.
6. Restore the guards installed by FDR to prevent another depression, undone by republicans since 1994.
7. Investigate this baloney about “jobs Americans won’t do” like postal worker, pharmacist & nurse.
8. Throw out the H1B visa program. Does anybody really believe that there aren’t enough programmers, chemists or engineers graduating from American Universities?
Iraq has been an expensive subterfuge so that Newt’s “Contract ON America” could be pulled off. Down republicrats,up Kucinich!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment #61292 by Ralph David Hill on 3/29 at 9:08 pm
I’m 68. It seems that in recent years the too-frequent subtle shifts in meaning, the subtle rewrites of history -e.g. congressional Democrats voted FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ rather than VOTED TO GIVE BUSH THE AUTHORITY TO GO TO WAR, hoping against hope that that vote would help persuade Saddam to be more forthcoming and saying they expected Bush to use the power given him wisely (he didn’t), using military action as a last resort.
The latter is the way I understood it but (I think) highly skilled Republican operatives & rewriters of history introduced the idea that Congress had voted for going into war. Then Democrats seem to have just accepted that they had voted for the war in Iraq rather than having voted to give Bush the authority to go to war hoping that doing that would actually help to prevent a war.
Looking back of course it’s obvious now that Bush was no one worthy of being given any authority of any kind involving America’s safety, and those who voted to give him the authority to go to war in Iraq had mistakenly believed Bush was someone who could be trusted to act carefully and judiciously. But amazingly, many Democrats seem to have allowed that Republican rewrite to stand.
GOOD TO SEE I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE who hurts to see many pundits and “authoritative experts” treat important things as unimportant, etc. I don’t think the main thing for Democrats is to win points against the Republicans, but rather to reverse disastrous policies for the good of the country and to show up a lot of spin and deception presented with a tone of fairness and objectivity - seemingly the voice of expert authority - for what it really is - RUBBISH!!
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Comment #61287 by America on 3/29 at 8:01 pm
Dear Mr. Rove,
Even little old me in podunk Ohio knows you’re a crook. Thanks to the internet I know who you screwed, what you screwed em over for, when you screwed em, where you screwed em, how far and how long you screwed em.
You cannot hide from the American people forever. Your job is not safe and we don’t like you anymore. In fact we never did.
The only thing that keeps you in office is that little white crook in the big white house but that shit can’t last forever and definitely won’t last until 2008. God willing, yes, the same God that you have taunted the American people with and that Bush claims he serves but doesn’t - God willing, Cheney and Bush will be impeached and all of you will wind up in Federal - Pound- Your- Ass prison.
That way instead of screwing over the American People like you have for nearly a decade, you’ll be the one getting screwed instead.
Have a nice day and enjoy it while it lasts, but your time is done son. The media cannot shield you.
We Know!
Love,
America
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Comment #61224 by vanjejo on 3/29 at 2:20 pm
To alleviate this problem we could always put this administration under house arrest, elect a “commission” of “appointed” investigators to spend their time and look into it *kind of like the 9-11 commission* The country can be governed by the remaining elected officials who could get on with legislating what is best for the people of America; let Congress work on what they are paid to do, which is listen to us and “insure domestic tranquility”. D O M E S T I C.
I cannot fault Congress as long as they vote by the voices they hear. Read their mail and email and really listen when we call. Vote with American citizens FOREMOST on their minds.
They vote it and they cannot be held accountable if the decider vetos......
Just do the right thing - investigate and demand. Get going and stop stumbling - impeach.
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