As for the Office of Congressional Ethics, that's an oxymoron, since some of those who voted for the unconstitutional FISA bill received contributions from the telecoms that got immunity, which does rather make the office a laughingstock.<< MORE >>
Unfit for presidency? You betcha. Unfit for any office. Apparently so.<< MORE >>
What is the reality for those making minimum wage? << MORE >>
The US Embassy in Berlin forbade US employees from attending Barack Obama's speech in that city.<< MORE >>
He managed to dig himself deeper into his myopic hole of ignorance with a confused, convoluted explanation of surge and awakening that was mind boggling in its stupidity.
Then his campaign cancelled his press availability. Oops.<< MORE >>
What is with these Christian theocratic military commanders? They seem to be deliberately flouting separation of church and state.<< MORE >>
It was the stage for a fictional narrative of the Shrub as a rancher, a rancher who was actually afraid of horses and didn't have a ranch, much like his terms as presidency: all form, no substance except to eviscerate the Constitution, ignore the rule of law, create an imperial, authoritarian executive above any law, destroy the integrity of the US, and damage this country.<< MORE >>
This time his blatant lies about the safety of offshore oil rigs during Hurricane Katrina, came home to roost on a personal level for him.<< MORE >>
Instead of writing about it as I had planned, Jonathan Tasini already did a wonderful job so I'l post his excellent piece. Jonathan and I seem to both be channelling Joseph Welch today.<< MORE >>
However, which health care plan?<< MORE >>
However, McSame's latest salvo of accusing and implying that Barack Obama is treasonous has crossed the line.<< MORE >>
He is far from it and actually dagerously ignorant about the facts, especially in the foreign policy areas of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. McBlunder's latest stupidity or lie should prove, once and for all, that McClueless' expertise is limited to prevaricating sound bites and campaign slogans, repeated ad nauseum<< MORE >>
But there are organizations and individuals who believe in the Constitution and the protection of that living document that have banded together to challenge this anti-constitutional FISA bill.<< MORE >>
Al-Qaeda has become emboldened at the situation. However, is al-Qaeda sucking the US and NATO into a trap?<< MORE >>
While photovotaic cells generate electricity, solar themal power converts to heat which provides electricty. After more than a decade of not using this alternative energy source, it is now returning with a roar.
And this is great news for eliminating US use of and dependence on fossil fuels and reversing dangerous climate change.<< MORE >>
That fits in with his mind set that he will be found innocent of genocide and crimes against humanity because, contrary to all the evidence, he claims the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica didn't occur or these were not war crimes, just an inevitable result of the plan to create a Greater Serbia which unleashed Serbia's invasions of the sovereign republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia, and the occupation of the first two where Serbia's army and Serbs living in those areas inflicted torture, rape, and murder on the Croats, Muslims, and non-Serbs in those independent republics.<< MORE >>
Publicly intruding and trying to sway elections is a no-no for members of the military.
According to the Washington Post, "The Pentagon's top military officer said Sunday a specific time frame for withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq could jeopardize political and economic progress, leading to "dangerous consequences."<< MORE >>
Actually there is no justice at the Department of Justice, only Republican cronyism and criminality.<< MORE >>
It's the Republican administrations of Reagan, George H. W. and the Shrub that have inflicted this energy crisis on the American people.<< MORE >>
It appears that he and his campaign are bumbling and sputtering and this is all he can offer to the American people, a very weak, mistake filled message.<< MORE >>
Karadzic, who, like Slobodan Milosevic, former president of Serbia and the former Yugoslavia, another Serbian war criminal who died while on trial at The Hague, supported Milosevic and Serbia's illegal invasions of the sovereign republics of Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina and the genocide and crimes against humanity that Serbs perpetrated to convert a mythical Greater Serbia into reality. The final result: Serbia was defeated and was reduced to a shadow of its former delusional self: a small, land-locked country with an appalling recent history.<< MORE >>
This time the dirty deed was recent, 2005 and 2006, and done undercover by the Maryland State Police.<< MORE >>
Was a traditional belief in peace a lie that was smothered by exceedingly warmongering Reagan, Bush I and Bush II regimes?<< MORE >>
McSame is definitely a faithful Bush brown noser salivating to head an imperialistic, authoritarian, thired Bush term where he can continue to occupy and dictate to Iraq while protecting the former Bush criminal administration.<< MORE >>
"Of course, Iraq is nowhere near Pakistan. In fact, Baghdad the capital of Iraq is over 1,500 miles from Pakistan's capital of Islamabad:
"Before McCain repeats his claim to "know how to win wars," he should probably look at a map."
So much for his foreign policy experience. McSame is unfit for the presidency
But there are those Democrats, especially the Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill, that has blocked any impeachment proceedings, its members ignoring their oaths to the Constitution and the American people.<< MORE >>
The D.C. mind set is one of a Congress, White House and Supreme Court that are out of touch with the rest of the country. Congress leans right while the White House and the Supreme Court are right wing, conservative reactionary institutions under this administration.<< MORE >>
Looks like Bush and McSame's arrogant, imperial occupation dictatorship towards Iraq and its disdain for that country's sovereignty has been met by Iraqi leaders flying the middle finger.<< MORE >>
Create a new regulatory agency whose head, appointed by the president and approved by Congress, has less power than current bank regulators. For an administration that has been trying to kill government of, by and for the people, it sure believes in using bureaucratic smoke and mirrors as a cover for its role in the mortgage catastrophe rather than applying existing regulatory laws or strengthening those laws to hold those accountable for perpetrating the crisis. << MORE >>
However, after pressure from the Bush administration, a Maliki aide said that Maliki was "misinterpreted." Der Spiegel stands by its story.<< MORE >>
Perhaps that is why so many Democrats aborgated their oaths to the Constitution and stomped on the Fourth Amendment and gave telecoms like AT&T immunity for spying on Americans.<< MORE >>
This is supposed to be the 21st century with high tech doodads yet terrible errors keep occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It makes one wonder how effective military communications and other bragged about super modern equipment and materiel really are in such situtations.<< MORE >>
"In a damning criticism of US integrity, the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said ministers should no longer take at face value statements from senior politicians, including George Bush, that America does not resort to torture in the light of the CIA admitting it used 'waterboarding'. The interrogation technique was unreservedly condemned by Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who said it amounted to torture.
"Today's committee report said there were 'serious implications' of the striking inconsistencies between British ministers continuing to believe the Bush administration when it denies using torture. 'The UK can no longer rely on US assurances that it does not use torture, and we recommend that the government does not rely on such assurances in the future,' said the committee. 'We also recommend that the government should immediately carry out an exhaustive analysis of current US interrogation techniques on the basis of such information as is publicly available or which can be supplied by the US.'However, this is not surprising considering that "creative" mortgage lending by financial institutions to put billions more into their pockets included scamming home buyers with interest only payments that then ballooned, pushing unreliable ARM's, sub-prime duplicity, and other types of cheating, and in league with the real estate and homebuilding industries, artificially inflating home prices with blue sky appraisals. << MORE >>
The Bush administration's politicized anti-worker Labor Department and anti-worker safety OSHA policies have contributed to the deaths and injuries of workers in these crane collapses.<< MORE >>
Q: I've been listening to your comments around renewable resources solar, tide, and wind “ you've talked a lot about that, but you keep peppering your comments with offshore drilling. But I'm not sure what you think the impact on our environment is based on that.
A: Keep the microphone. I'm aware that off the coast of Louisiana and Texas there are oil rigs, as we well know, and those rigs have survived, very successfully, the impacts of hurricanes “hurricane Katrina as far as Louisiana is concerned.
McCain is wrong. According to press reports, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita tore through the Gulf of Mexico's offshore oil and gas fields, toppling production platforms, setting rigs adrift and rupturing pipelines. The U.S. Minerals Management Service reported that the hurricanes totally destroyed 113 offshore oil platforms.
The hurricanes cost Transocean, the largest offshore driller, about $135 million in repairs, downtime and equipment upgrades alone, and damage to offshore producers accounted for 77 percent of the oil industry's storm costs. One offshore rig, the Ocean Warwick, drifted 66 nautical miles before running aground.
Here are some photos of the success that McCain is touting:

Iraq's prime minister Nouri al-Maliki agrees with Obama's 16 month US troop withdrawal plan. Will Bush acquiesce or stubbornly continue his imperial occupation of Iraq? Will McSame play follow the leader with Bush or Obama since he doesn't have a logical foreign policy plan for Iraq or Afghanistan other than playing Bush's Simon says or deceitfully calling Obama's plans his own<< MORE >>
Bush's failed foreign policy hasn't suddenly blossomed into a diplomacy turnaround even though the Bushites are ironically seeming to be doing what Obama has called for: jawboning not warmongering.<< MORE >>
McCain and Phil Gramm's economic drivel and lies, trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, can't hide the fact that small businesses are hurting in this disastrous economy.<< MORE >>
As reported by MSNBC: "Former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm resigned Friday from his role as Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign co-chairman, hoping to quiet the uproar that followed his comments that Americans had become a "nation of whiners" whose constant complaints about the U.S. economy show they are in a "mental recession."
This will change nothing as far as Gramm's influence on McCain regarding the enconomy.
And the two close friends can always have their usual tete-a-tetes so Gramm can make sure McCain, as poster boy for the Republican economic philosophy of the haves and have mores; the hell with the common good, is following the script to further damage the US economy for regular hardworking Americans.
With people like him, who needs enemies? This man is unfit for the presidency.
From TPM: "This is the lead on a story just out over the Reuters wire ...
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Friday that his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, is likely to be in Iraq over the weekend.The Obama campaign has tried to cloak the Illinois senator's trip in some measure of secrecy for security reasons. The White House, State Department and Pentagon do not announce senior officials' visits to Iraq in advance.
"I believe that either today or tomorrow -- and I'm not privy to his schedule -- Sen. Obama will be landing in Iraq with some other senators" who make up a congressional delegation, McCain told a campaign fund-raising luncheon.
"The Reuters piece hints at it. But if Obama is going to be in Iraq this weekend, this is a major breach on McCain's part. As a knowledgeable insider notes ...
If it is true that Obama is going to Iraq this weekend, it is a very serious mistake for McCain to have disclosed it publically. Even for run-of-the-mill CODELs the military gives guidance like, "Please strongly discourage Congressional offices from issuing press releases prior to their trips which mention their intent to travel to the AOR and/or the dates of that travel or their scheduled meetings. Such releases are a serious compromise to OPSEC." If Obama is going to Iraq this weekend, I can not begin to imagine how much this is complicating the security planning for the trip.
"It's known that Obama is leaving on his foreign trip this weekend and the Journal OpEd page this morning said that Obama could arrive in Iraq "as early as this weekend." And with a slew of reporters in tow, it's not exactly highly classified information. But there is a reason definite information about these sorts of trips aren't released in advance.
Hypothetically, maybe McCain was just guessing. But even so it would still be a serious lapse of judgment on his part."
From crude, anti-woman rape jokes to blabbing about when Obama is supposed to be in Iraq, McClueless has no sense of judgment or security. It's only about him. Unfit as a senator, unfit for the presidency.
McSame can't be bothered with the people's business, only his own.<< MORE >>
When I wrote about it a few weeks, ago, I said that HCAN seemed to be a well meaning but misguided, self-aggrandizing organization that really didn't understand that there was already a bill, HR 676, single payer, Medicare for All, that would bring US health care into the 21st century and finally on par with all the other industrialized countries of the world.<< MORE >>
While Arbusto was schmoozing with Medvedev at the G-8 conference, Condi Rice was signing the anathema to Rushia missile defense agreement with the Czech Republic, visiting Bulgaria where the US has a military base and on to Georgia to discuss its joining NATO.<< MORE >>
It is an agreement fabricated to deliberately bypass Congressional approval and the OK of the Iraqi parliament but had hit the inevitable snags of such a flawed compact.<< MORE >>
All of these were aided and abetted by the deregulatory, hands off any way they can make it corporate profits policies of this criminal Bush administration.<< MORE >>
Employers will harrass, intimidate and even fire employees who dare to talk "union."
But that will change with passage of the Employees Free Choice Act.<< MORE >>
As I mentioned yesterday, he has consistently disparaged the organization, yet had the audacity to appear before its members.<< MORE >>
Next time, you can yell back, " No, we're not!<< MORE >>
These two ignorant troglodytes, Dubya with a completely failed, criminal administration and disastrous foreign policy, and McCain a Bush wannabe who claims foreign policy and national security experience....yeah, when pigs can fly, are pathetic examples of incompetent Republican hot air disasters.<< MORE >>