TELL ME AGAIN WHAT OUR SOLDIERS ARE DYING FOR IN AFGHANISTAN?

Why we fight this long endless war and about this VietNam war throwback Joint Chiefs chairman Adm. Mike Mullen
VIA Jeff Huber:
..."The very notion that the 9/11 attacks sprang from Afghanistan is specious. “Mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was operating in the Philippines when he first presented the attack plan to bin Laden in 1996. The six hijackers who controlled the airplanes received their flight training in the U.S., and the “muscle hijackers” came from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates..."
GO.READ.
This guy is GOOD

thanks to

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Conservative Right Wing Hero Ronald Reagan Signed The Law Against Torture

Convention Against Torture, signed and championed by Ronald Reagan, Article II/IV:

No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. . . Each State Party shall ensure that all acts of torture are offences under its criminal law.

IN OTHER WORDS - THOSE WHO ORDERED THE TORTURE ARE AS GUILTY AS THOSE WHO DID THE TORTURE, NO EXCEPTIONS FOR BEING BIG SHOTS OR POLITICIANS OR DIRECTORS. PROSECUTE THE MOTHERFUCKERS MR. PRESIDENT OBAMA, OR YOUR PRESIDENCY AND OUR COUNTRY WILL CONTINUE WITH THIS SHIT-STAIN FROM THE BUSH/CHENEY YEARS.

YOUR WAR - MY WAR - BRINGING DEMOCRACY TO IRAQ - WE MUST PROSECUTE THE LIARS WHO CAUSED THIS

WAR IS THE MOST OBSCENE OF HUMAN PASTIMES.
WAR OF CHOICE IS SO OFF THE SCALE OF OBSCENE:

"This unit sets up this traffic control point, and this 18-year-old kid is on top of an armored Humvee with a .50-caliber machine gun," remembered Sgt. Geoffrey Millard, who served in Tikrit with the 42nd Infantry Division. "And this car speeds at him pretty quick and he makes a split-second decision that that's a suicide bomber, and he presses the butterfly trigger and puts two hundred rounds in less than a minute into this vehicle. It killed the mother, a father, and two kids. The boy was aged 4 and the daughter was aged 3.

"And they briefed this to the general," Millard said, "and they briefed it gruesome. I mean, they had pictures. They briefed it to him. And this colonel turns around to this full division staff and says, 'If these f---ing hajis learned to drive, this sh-t wouldn't happen.'"

SALON

Here are a couple of pix of the 6 foot 4 inch tall sign I just finished to take to the town hall meeting next week:
I don't see how it would be possible for news cameras to MISS this one. I am so SICK of the liars getting all the air time, though seriously doubt there will be any coverage in Ilwaco...

Click here to read how President Obama Calls "Public Option" Source of "Confusion" in Reform Debate

But Mr. President Obama, I thought you were a scholar?
How about thinking of this as one of your teachable moments?
We elected you to do THIS among other very important jobs.
If you can't do this,
what makes you think we will believe you can or will help New Orleans,
or end the long lie-wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
CONFUSION? Only because YOU have allowed or made it to be so, Mr. President Obama...
I think perhaps it is you, who is the confused party Mr. President Obama.

Terror from the Right: 75 Plots, Conspiracies and Racist Rampages Since Oklahoma City

"...At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a 7,000-pound truck bomb, constructed of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and nitromethane racing fuel and packed into 13 plastic barrels, ripped through the heart of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The explosion wrecked much of downtown Oklahoma City and killed 168 people, including 19 children in a day-care center. Another 500 were injured. Although many Americans initially suspected an attack by Middle Eastern radicals, it quickly became clear that the mass murder had actually been carried out by domestic, right-wing terrorists...

...What follows is a detailed listing of major terrorist plots and racist rampages that have emerged from the American radical right in the years since Oklahoma City. These have included plans to bomb government buildings, banks, refineries, utilities, clinics, synagogues, mosques, memorials and bridges; to assassinate police officers, judges, politicians, civil rights figures and others; to rob banks, armored cars and other criminals; and to amass illegal machine guns, missiles, explosives and biological and chemical weapons. Each of these plots aimed to make changes in America through the use of political violence. Most contemplated the deaths of large numbers of people — in one case, as many as 30,000, or 10 times the number murdered on Sept. 11, 2001..."

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The skinheads, kkk'ers, and other whackjobs must be SEETHING at the right calling Obama a nazi...

SUNDAY CHURCH MUSIC - RARE ACOUSTIC HENDRIX - INCLUDING A SERMON FROM YOUR FRIENDLY PREACHER - ME:

Well, it is looking more and more like our wonder-president is going to choke on the war he promised to end but did not. He either dosen't realise that ending that horror in Iraq could have easily financed the health care insurance reform, or he never really intended for either to happen. (click the picture to see who is financing health care insurance "reform" or click below to mellow out).

If that is the case, the future looks pretty fucked, so let us travel back in time for today's
SUNDAY CHURCH MUSIC:

Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train A Comin' (Acoustic)

IN CASE YOU DON'T THINK THE RIGHT WINGNUTS/CHRISTIAN CRUSADERS AND REPUBLICANS ARE DANGEROUS TO CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT

• More GOP Lies: Ridge Admits Ginning Up Terror Alerts for Political PurposesCIA hired Blackwater for assassin program

• Blackwater's Christian Crusaders - Keith Olbermann

• From 2004 - The Bush Crusade

• CIA hired Blackwater for assassin program

We are in so much shit (to say nothing of the theft of actual MONEY) here on this tired old planet from what the BUSH CREW did, that I doubt there is enough prison space to incarcerate all of them for all the crimes they commited. MUCH LESS President Obama is not willing to investigate and prosecute...

The republicans are the lyingest, most corrupt, murderous, twisted, anti-civilization group or organisation of all time. If you are a republican, you may count yourself among the worst of the worst in all of human history.

One of my favorite wordsmiths in all of blogdom says it HERE

Severely wounded veterans face financial hardship while $24 BILLION in bonuses are paid to staffers WTF VA?

WTF?

Obama vows to finish job after "successful" Afghan vote

JUST WHAT THE HELL IS THAT "JOB" YOU WANT TO FINISH MR. PRESIDENT?
Is it the Unocal pipeline?
The opium/heroin industry?
Perhaps it is Bagram airbase/prison you don't want to give up?
Something smells fishy...

Was the President ever serious about meaningful health care reform?

THE ROOTS OF TODAYS BLASTS IN IRAQ: BUSH CHENEY RUMSFELD RICE ETC ET-AL

FROM BUSH LIE WAR 2003:

"Six months after the fall of Baghdad, a vast Iraqi weapons depot with tens of thousands of artillery rounds and other explosives remained unguarded, according to two U.S. aid workers who say they reported looting of the site to U.S. military officials.

The aid workers say they informed Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the highest ranking Army officer in Iraq in October 2003 but were told that the United States did not have enough troops to seal off the facility, which included more than 60 bunkers packed with munitions."

NEWS FROM TODAY - AUGUST 19, 2009:

"The death toll of the explosions that shook Iraq's capital Baghdad on Wednesday has reached 96, and the number of injured is at least 500.

Two huge bombs, believed to have been hidden in trucks, went off, sending plumes of black smoke into the sky."

GEORGE WTF BUSH, DON RUMSFELD, DICK CHEENEY, CONDI RICE, ETC. ET-AL ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS CARNAGE! SONSABITCHES BELONG IN PRISON!

HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM: REPUBLICANS (INSURANCE COMPANIES) DO NOT WANT YOU TO HAVE OPTIONS. THEY ENJOY THE TRUCKLOADS OF MONEY THAT MUCH:

Over the weekend it became clear that the Obama Administration wants to drop the public option from health care reform.

We saw this day coming. That's why for two months, we've been working hard to get members of Congress to draw a line in the sand: no public option, no health care reform. Yesterday, they did it.

This is exactly the kind of spine we need to see from Congress. Indeed, it's the only way we can pass health care reform that's not a bailout of the insurance industry.

These 65 Democrats need to be commended for doing the right thing. We set up a fundraising page for you to donate to any of the 65 members who drew the line in the sand.

Click here to reward good behavior: http://www.actblue.com/page/theytookthepledge

From Kathleen Sebelius to Rahm Emanuel to Barack Obama himself, the Administration appears ready to throw the public option under the bus. If that happens, any "health care reform" bill will simply be a bailout for the insurance industry and drug companies.

By holding 40 votes in the House, we can ensure that the only health care reform bill to pass is one with a strong public option. To see 65 members of the House drawing a line in the sand on this issue is huge.

The tide is turning in our favor. Passing health care reform with a strong public option is now in sight.

We need to make sure that these members know we support their efforts to pass a strong public option.

Click here to contribute: http://www.actblue.com/page/theytookthepledge

Thanks for everything you do.

Best,

Jane Hamsher
Firedoglake.com

IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO CONTRIBUTE TO THESE FINE CONGRESS MEMBERS, AT LEAST CLICK TO SEE THE LIST OF WHAT CONGRESS MEMBERS WITH A SPINE LOOK LIKE.

RACHEL SAYS WHAT WE ARE THINKING - THANK YOU RACHEL:

VIA

"Act Now or Forget About Health Care Reform

Act now or forget about health care reform. It really is as simple as that. The American people need to make their voices heard on this subject and they need to do it now. When Congress returns from the August recess it will either pass historic health care reform legislation or it will send that legislation to the dustbins of history. What the Congress does is largely up to what they hear from their constituents during the recess.

The August recess was supposed to be a time for members of Congress to reach out to their constituents and find out what they think and what they want in meaningful health care reform. Local town hall forums were the venue of choice to have this conversation. However, those who oppose health care reform have effectively used anarchist tactics to close off any such dialogue. Rather than have a civil discussion on the merits of the proposed legislation, they choose to disrupt and prevent any conversation at all. The result is that many members of Congress have canceled planned town hall meetings. Not allowing the conversation to take place is inherently wrong and is contrary to the principles on which this nation was founded.

The American people can not allow the anarchists to cut off the conversation. Fortunately there are other things that the public can do to to make their voices heard.

First, Americans can send a quick email (copy and paste this if you like) to their lawmakers, identifying themselves as a registered voter and one of the lawmaker's constituents, and briefly state their support for H.R. 3200. Any issues with the proposed legislation can also be briefly addressed. It doesn't take a lot of time or effort but it is extremely important.

Contacting Representative in the House:
Contact My Representative.

Contact U.S. Senators:
Contact My Senators.

Second, send a brief email to family and friends and encourage them to make their views known to their lawmakers. Include the two links above in the email so that it will be easy for the recipient to contact their lawmakers. Ask them to forward the email to their family and friends as well.

Third, go to the Open Congress website, register, and go to the H.R. 3200 page and click on the "I Support This Bill" button. Currently, only 16% of registered users have expressed support for the bill. As more of the myths, lies, and distortions are debunked, th is number should significantly rise. The Open Congress website is a great resource and also includes a link to write to representatives for those who are registered at the site.

The bottom line is that the American people can influence what happens to meaningful health care reform. If they sit back and do nothing, then chances are that nothing will happen. This may well be the best chance, and probably the last chance, for the United States to enact true health care reform. But it won't happen if the public doesn't make their views known to their lawmakers." LINK

Of course, if you absolutely HATE the idea of government run health care insurance, you can GO HERE to sign a pledge to Refuse Medicare Coverage Now and Forever...

Did you see on the news when the cops hauled that black lady out of one of those town hall "meetings"? Well there is a WHOLE LOT MORE to it than just what the Blitzmedia cared to show you.

FROM THE YOUTUBE POSTER: "This is what actually happened at the event. The news only showed the woman being escorted away by the police. What happened was the women walked in with signs, the crowd booed and yelled at the women. The women rolled up their posters and put them down. A photographer/reporter approached the woman on the end and wanted to see what the poster was. As the woman went to show the photographer/reporter what the poster was, a man from the bleachers stood up and snatched the poster from the woman and photographer/reporter. As the woman went to retrieve her poster the police stepped in and escorted the woman and the man from the building.

The poster was not of Obama, it was not pro health care, the poster that was taken from the woman and wrinkled up into a ball was of Rosa Parks.

National news coverage only showed the woman being escorted from the forum and left out the fact that it was the man who started the incident. Not to mention it was a poster of Rosa Parks".

Looks like hate is back in vogue in these here newnited states of 'merca. SHAME SHAME

August 11, 2009

Dumbass Quote of the Day

Category:

From the Investor's Business Daily:

People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.

There's just one tiny little problem with this: Stephen Hawking was born and raised in the UK and has lived there all his life. He teaches at Cambridge. That's in the UK. This ranks up there with the French not having a word for entrepreneur.

Townhall Thugs Vandalize Progressive Bloggers Car

Townhall Thugs Vandalize Progressive Bloggers Car

go.read.maybe donate to fix this guys car that got whacked by these right wing stupido violent nutcases...

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CONGRESS MEMBERS NAMED IN ESPIONAGE, BRIBERY, SEXUAL BLACKMAIL SCHEMES; NEW BREWSTER JENNINGS / VALERIE PLAME DISCLOSURE...

BRAD BLOG:
Deposition of Sibel Edmonds Completed,
DoJ a 'No Show', Bombshells Under Oath

UPDATES INCLUDE: CONGRESS MEMBERS NAMED IN ESPIONAGE, BRIBERY, ELECTION FRAUD, SEXUAL BLACKMAIL SCHEMES; NEW BREWSTER JENNINGS / VALERIE PLAME DISCLOSURE...

'State Secrets' privilege NOT asserted by DoJ; FBI whistleblower answered ALL questions under oath on Turkish infiltration of U.S. Government...

Live blogging coverage of the Sibel Edmonds deposition at the National Whistleblowers Center in Washington D.C.

VIDEO OF THE TESTIMONY TO FOLLOW

I TOO, SEEM TO HAVE BEEN BORN IN KENYA!

CLICK TO BIGGEN THIS REAL FAKE BIRTH CERTIFICATE - AUTHORISED BY THE REPUBLIXAN BIRTHERS link

Almost half of Afghanistan is at a high risk of attack by the Taliban and other insurgents or is under "enemy control," a secret Afghan government map shows, painting a dire security picture before presidential elections.

Can you spell D-E-E-P S-H-I-T? or V-I-E-T-N-A-M? maybe you can spell E-N-D-L-E-S-S W-A-R

Tell your senators we need to maintain protections against global warming pollution, not eliminate them.

Senate Must Fix Biofuels Mistake

As the debate over energy and climate change moves to the Senate, corporate agribusiness lobbyists see an opportunity to remove biofuels safeguards. The Waxman-Markey bill that passed the House in June removed protections from a federal biofuels mandate, allowing the use of biofuels that create more global warming pollution than gasoline. Last week we asked you to take action and tell your Senators that this is unacceptable, and so far we've sent almost 6,000 letters. If you haven't yet taken action, please do so now.

Proudly lowering the level of political discourse

From THE RUDE PUNDIT
CAUTION - occasional rudeness

8/03/2009

Destroying Obama as Quickly as Possible, Part 2b: Congressional Democrats Are Cowards:

God, it must suck to be a Democrat in Congress right now. Elected as a triumphant mega-super-duper majority in 2008, now you have been coerced into rethinking the very positions that got you that majority by an unsilent minority of easily-duped yahoos, driven to madness by a steady diet of shitty food, unemployment, and hard right media figures. It's like the end result of a long-term contingency plan by Karl Rove: if everything else goes to shit, send forth our zombie armies. Set upon in this way, you go into retreat mode, putting aside truly revolutionary goals for merely mildly reasonable ones. And you more or less hand power to the most frightened, the Democrats who actually believe the Republicans will act as honest partners in any compromise action. Yet, dear sucking Democrat, what you are merely doing is enabling the destruction of the Obama presidency because of a misguided notion that the nation is comprised of the mewling children who pollute our airwaves and whose minions have the time to go to your townhall meetings.

One of Barack Obama's greatest unspoken goals has the potential to be his undoing. While he is certainly working to get health care reform passed (and you can bet that Rahm Emanuel is threatening to gut the children of Democrats who don't go along), Obama wants to right one of the great wrongs of the Bush administration: he wants Congress to act like Congress. While the Republican Congress was, at best, the Bush administration's deformed conjoined twin, Obama consistently insists that the Congress has to work out the details of shit, that Congress has to decide if it wants to investigate shit.

Let's say he's sincere about it and not just putting up a front to support the "balance of powers." Let us say, and why not, that Barack Obama has given parameters for health care legislation of shit-what-he-won't-veto. Look at who he's dealing with: the governing equivalent of Hollywood chimps sent back to the jungle. J. Fred Muggs would be starving to death and repeatedly raped by hardcore monkeys within a day in the wilds of Tanzania.

Democrats are approaching the health care legislative process as if they are dealing with honorable people on the other side of the aisle. When will they learn? How many times do they have to touch that flame? Mad Michelle Malkin barked on This Week with George Stephanopoulos's Hair that conservatives need to act like a counterinsurgency within the supposedly plummeting-into-communism nation. Well, the Democrats need to act like the fucking military and destroy the insurgents.

You wanna know why Democratic poll numbers are sinking on health care? Because there's no central rallying idea, no simple notion people can get behind. It's all little pieces that, taken together as "reform," would do some good. Fuck, to even get rid of the pre-existing conditions clause would be a major damn victory, so low are our sights. But "reform" is vague. The majority of the nation, in poll after poll, wants single-payer insurance or, at least, a government plan to compete with health insurance companies. Instead, what we're getting is the bullshit dance of Democrat Max Baucus actually thinking that Republicans like Charles Grassley are going to do anything but negotiate a watered-down bill that they'll reject anyways as too radical.

Go back to 1993. The failure of Democrats to rally around the even vaguely progressive proposals of the Clinton health care proposals was one of the reasons they suffered such huge losses in 1994. You have to do something, you have to step up, not just cower and hope no one notices that you didn't do anything, in order for people to continue to trust you. It's better to live up to your promises and for those promises to fail than to not try. At least then, we're all in it together.

Nancy Pelosi finally came up with a possible line of argument in the last few days by saying, "Fuck it," and calling insurance companies "immoral" and "villains." Now, sure, the response is gonna be the Republicans parading a bunch of people to say, "Me like my health insurance," but Pelosi, who said that people call her a villain all the time, may have hit upon a real message.

Americans hate evil corporate entities. It's the plot of so many movies, and we're just stupid that way. And, for so very long, before the vast majority of them sauntered over to that cash-giving teat, it was the way Democrats actually functioned, rather than as easily cowed tools of corporate lobbyists and right-wing fearmongering, clinging to an illusion of power that is actually their undoing. CHECK OUT THE RUDE PUNDIT'S BLOG

As a 62 year old American citizen and military veteran, all I can tell ya is I hope this nice little outfit here at the beach sells soon so we can get our asses out of the country where this kind of shit goes on. That there is even a debate over universal health care is unconcionable!

SOME HEALTHCARE REFORM HISTORY:
"Early October 1993 - Clinton's attention is distracted by crises in Somalia, Haiti and Russia, as well as the upcoming NAFTA vote. All but one presidential health care event scheduled for October is canceled. The administration loses the momentum gained from the President's September 22 speech and Hillary's follow-up week of congressional testimony." LINK

WE SEE HERE THAT NAFTA WAS WAY MORE IMPORTANT TO BILL CLINTON THAN HEALTH CARE FOR ALL!

WILL THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FALL INTO THE SAME TYPE OF TRAP, OR HAVE THE BALLS TO GO FORWARD INTO A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR AMERICANS? Time will tell...

Keith Olbermann Exposes Congressional Opponents of Universal Health Care Who Take Bribes From Health Care Industry:

SATURDAY I POSTED A COLUMN BY GLENN GREENWALD AND A LINK TO IT. IT WAS WRONG, AND I WAS WRONG TO ACCEPT SUCH A THING AS GOSPEL WHEN I DID NOT KNOW IT TO BE TRUE, AND I APLOGISE FOR THAT.

THAT SAID, PLEASE WATCH MR. OLBERMANN'S SPECIAL COMMENT FROM THIS EVENING (8-3-09) WHERE HE NAMES NAMES OF THE REPUBLICAN WHORE SENATORS WHO ARE OUT TO BLOCK HEALTH CARE REFORM AND WHY. THIS IS IMPORTANT STUFF, AMERICA. LISTEN UP.

The silencing of Keith Olbermann and MSNBC's sleazy use of Richard Wolffe

"...So here we have yet another example -- perhaps the most glaring yet -- of the corporations that own our largest media outlets controlling and censoring the content of their news organizations based on the unrelated interests of the parent corporation...

...There are many reasons why our establishment press exists to do little other than serve the interests of the political and financial establishment and to mindlessly amplify government claims. The virtual disapparance of the line between large corporate interests and journalism (as Richard Wolffe himself noted) is certainly one of the leading factors..."

Glenn Greenwald

The corporate rulers WILL have their way...
truth is irrelevant...
money talks...
truth walks at MSNBC.

Mr. Natural
GO.READ

From Taos New Mexico:

"...This health care thing touches some kind of primal nerve, for certain. I think it’s the abandonment issue: so many millions needing care, while greedy politicians scurry to protect the insurance companies! Nothing pushes my buttons faster than that, and I turn blacker than your darkest fear. It’s easy for me, I slot right in, because I was abandoned, essentially. All my siblings were. In many respects, my parents suffered growing up, too. A cascade of parenting failure, howling torrents of pain. Fun stuff, chilluns. So it bothers me especially hard that the richest goddamn country on the face of the earth is actually debating whether we should all take care of each other. It seems to me to be a given: stop building atom bombs, pay the doctors, save the children. Is this so hard?

Apparently so.

When it comes right down to it, though, this is the only thing I want my country to do. That’s it, give us health care. If they have to stop building multi-million dollar remotely piloted high-tech drones to blow up brown people in mud huts on the other side of the world, so be it. Steal us blind. Lie to us. Have however many mistresses you want.

But give the people health care, by God, or fail the test of basic humanity and never talk to me again."

Seems like people everywhere want health care. Who woulda thunk it?