I used to be a “gamer”. I grew up with video games and up until last year was a master of the game “Call of Duty”. I was #1 in my clan and in competitions, etc. I say this because I am excited about the new CoD version coming out soon, featuring Hillary and Chelsea Clinton in Bosnia.
As an added bonus, you can also receive John McCain’s new exciting software that will keep Septuagenarians up to all hours of the night, in multi-player action.
Russian intelligence sees U.S. military buildup on Iran border
MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran’s borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday.
“The latest military intelligence data point to heightened U.S. military preparations for both an air and ground operation against Iran,” the official said, adding that the Pentagon has probably not yet made a final decision as to when an attack will be launched.
He said the Pentagon is looking for a way to deliver a strike against Iran “that would enable the Americans to bring the country to its knees at minimal cost.”
He also said the U.S. Naval presence in the Persian Gulf has for the first time in the past four years reached the level that existed shortly before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
Col.-Gen. Leonid Ivashov, vice president of the Academy of Geopolitical Sciences, said last week that the Pentagon is planning to deliver a massive air strike on Iran’s military infrastructure in the near future.
A new U.S. carrier battle group has been dispatched to the Gulf.
The USS John C. Stennis, with a crew of 3,200 and around 80 fixed-wing aircraft, including F/A-18 Hornet and Superhornet fighter-bombers, eight support ships and four nuclear submarines are heading for the Gulf, where a similar group led by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has been deployed since December 2006.
The U.S. is also sending Patriot anti-missile systems to the region.
Does anyone have a good idea why we would be amassing troops on Iraq’s western border?
My suggestion is not that we will invade Iran with troops, but that we are about to embark on a massive bombing campaign and we are situating our troops to stop Iran from invading Iraq with intentions of killing our Army in Iraq.
Does anyone in our government consider how these actions may UNITE ALL of the ME against us? Does anyone consider that people who are afraid will ban together to fight off an aggressor, especially when religion appears to be the main rationale (in their minds)? Can anyone imagine that our invasion or even bombing of Iran may not cost us our entire Army in Iraq? How far do you think the Iraqi forces, primarily Shia, will support attacks against their own religion?
We continuously believe that our forces are unbeatable (and in most cases, they are unbeatable), but what about a mass of ME countries that have had enough of us? What if they decide that Al Qaeda is correct, that our presence is seen as an empire building program and to hell with their feelings about terrorism?
Of course we can always nuke them into submission, at the same time killing even more of our own troops and innocent citizens.
Some people think that this is beyond the capabilities or even desires of the rogue administration running this country. To those people I say, “You haven’t been paying ANY attention to them, have you?” and “Wake up, you redneck.”
Do you think I’m angry? Maybe ”Unserious”? Or even “crazy” because I believe that the Congress has a moral, legal and sworn obligation to uphold and protect the Constitution and America by investigating the Bush Administration… even if it leads to impeachment?
Compare the Republicans and Clinton or even Nixon to the Bush Administration and let me know which of the three you think I am.
Or, as it was put on Real Time (about the 3 min mark), isn’t about time that someone did something?
I have asked several regular readers what they think about impeachment, not to mention the personal conversations that I have in “real life” and impeachment (or at least, investigations into wrong-doing) is virtually imperative to people. It is crucial that our leaders be held to some higher standard when it comes to the Constitution, than say, a right-wing pundit or neocon water-carrier.
Is it acceptable that they use the law to carry out each and every horrible agenda they have, but can thumb their nose at the law whenever prudent for them to do? Have we become, as the Political Scribble Dick believes, too worried about money that we don’t want these people investigated? That we don’t consider keeping the Executive Branch under “checks and balances” because it isn’t politically expedient?
Are you from Florida, specifically? Do you know anyone in Florida or the rest of the country, for that matter, that wants to see investigations an, yes, impeachment, should the investigations warrant impeachment?
Of the four people I have asked directly, 3 are adamant about justice and only one thinks it is a waste of time. Not only that, there seemed to be an obligation to offend anyone who thinks different to that defense of the indefensible. And this from a supposed “progressive”. Me thinks he spent too much time in bed with the polticians and has lost his thinking abilities.
I kicked the PS off this site, not because he differed in opinion, but because he cannot help his narcissistic self in offending his host. I don’t put up with lying pricks, here or anywhere else. But when they purposefully offend and will not recant, then I lose patience. I am the quickest in the world to apologize when I hurt someone. It would seem that a faux Buddha nut would reciprocate.
But even that means little, for I believe he is totally wrong about the approach and before I banish him into the Yankee Prick Hall of Fame, I can share a few things about impeachment that Party Hacks (or the ignorant) don’t care to understand.
Impeachment is a bound duty for the Congress to uphold. It is one thing they are paid to do. But I haven’t immediately asked for that. The main thing I hope for is an “investigation” into the acts carried out by this administration. To stop even investigations, is to endorse and support the illegal activities, for political reasoning. That, to me, is impeachable, if not a reason to find someone else to elect.
Impeachment is the ONLY way to stop these abuses from any of the following presidents. We must do something to stop the Executive Power grab and if we don’t put our feet down now, we end up with a Dictatorship.
If we were to simply open investigation, by someone other than a neocon-owned Justice Dept crony, it is my belief that there will be so many illegal acts that there will be no choice.
The main thing, however, is to cause enough disturbance that they will not try to do anything else, like invade Iran. If we put the spotlight of investigation on their illegal asses, we may just thwart devastation AND get justice for our our nation. Then, we will be able to begin the healing.
To NOT do anything is traitorous and the height of stupidity.
For even as I write this, Russia claims that they are monitoring America’s forces as they build on the Iranian border (I’ll put another post up for that). What do you think they are doing amassing our troops on the western side of Iraq?
It is time we do something to stop these criminals before they totally destroy our country.
Stories similar to this are common place, especially among people who are firm Bible believers. They cannot take into account the progress that medicine has made in, oh, say, TWO THOUSAND YEARS.
Believe me, hang out with some of the ultra charismatic churches and this is done a lot… however, usually a doctor is eventually brought in to save the day. I know many people who refuse health insurance due to cost, and this gives them a justification in their denial. I have seen these prayer vigils and sick people (some on their last leg of cancer) refusing to see a doctor and simply die (with little announcement and the insinuation that their faith just wasn’t “strong enough”).
My own mother owned a drug store for years, making profits off of people who bought the products of “healing” but would not use the stuff herself. She could never understand why I would suggest that this was a tad bit hypocritical. But I have seen her, too, go the way of the doctor, eventually (and before it was too late). I have seen her take a hydro or two when her toothache got so bad she was crying and suffering, and FINALLY went to the dentist because God wasn’t fast enough, I suppose.
Of course, if one wants to treat themselves to this idiocy, that is one thing. But to do it to your own daughter is unfathomable to me and surely criminal.
Parents Pick Prayer Over Docs; Girl Dies
By ROBERT IMRIE
WESTON, Wis. (AP) — Police are investigating an 11-year-old girl’s death from an undiagnosed, treatable form of diabetes after her parents chose to pray for her rather than take her to a doctor.
An autopsy showed Madeline Neumann died Sunday of diabetic ketoacidosis, a condition that left too little insulin in her body, Everest Metro Police Chief Dan Vergin said.
She had probably been ill for about a month, suffering symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of appetite and weakness, the chief said Wednesday, noting that he expects to complete the investigation by Friday and forward the results to the district attorney.
The girl’s mother, Leilani Neumann, said that she and her family believe in the Bible and that healing comes from God, but that they do not belong to an organized religion or faith, are not fanatics and have nothing against doctors.
She insisted her youngest child, a wiry girl known to wear her straight brown hair in a ponytail, was in good health until recently.
“We just noticed a tiredness within the past two weeks,” she said Wednesday. “And then just the day before and that day (she died), it suddenly just went to a more serious situation. We stayed fast in prayer then. We believed that she would recover. We saw signs that to us, it looked like she was recovering.”
Her daughter — who hadn’t seen a doctor since she got some shots as a 3-year-old, according to Vergin — had no fever and there was warmth in her body, she said.
The girl’s father, Dale Neumann, a former police officer, said he started CPR “as soon as the breath of life left” his daughter’s body.
Family members elsewhere called authorities to seek help for the girl.
“My sister-in-law, she’s very religious, she believes in faith instead of doctors …,” the girl’s aunt told a sheriff’s dispatcher Sunday afternoon in a call from California. “And she called my mother-in-law today … and she explained to us that she believes her daughter’s in a coma now and she’s relying on faith.”
The dispatcher got more information from the caller and asked whether an ambulance should be sent.
“Please,” the woman replied. “I mean, she’s refusing. She’s going to fight it. … We’ve been trying to get her to take her to the hospital for a week, a few days now.”
The aunt called back with more information on the family’s location, emergency logs show. Family friends also made a 911 call from the home. Police and paramedics arrived within minutes and immediately called for an ambulance that took her to a hospital.
But less than an hour after authorities reached the home, Madeline — a bright student who left public school for home schooling this semester — was declared dead.
She is survived by her parents and three older siblings.
“We are remaining strong for our children,” Leilani Neumann said. “Only our faith in God is giving us strength at this time.”
The Neumanns said they moved from California to a modern, middle-class home in woodsy Weston, just outside Wassau in central Wisconsin, about two years ago to open a coffee shop and be closer to other relatives. A basketball hoop is set up in the driveway.
Leilani Neumann said she and her husband are not worried about the investigation because “our lives are in God’s hands. We know we did not do anything criminal. We know we did the best for our daughter we knew how to do.”
I have had a problem with America claiming to be a “Christian Nation”. Not necessarily because it is an argument of whether or not the Founding Fathers intended this nation to be “Christian” or not (it is evident to me that they did not), but because this nation, by and large, does not mimic (try to be like) Christ. It has been taken over by a group that take His name, insisting that patriotism to military might is equivalent to Christianity, and endorsing and inflicting murderous carnage on others that are different (even though the likely motivation at the root of it all has nothing to do with that, more likely… MONEY). But they use any tool available.
I am not claiming that I am a better Christian than anyone… as a matter of fact, I do not claim to be a “Christian”, at all. Nor do I think it important for “salvation” (whatever that is to you) or for any real purpose except as some non-justifiable self-elitist notion that a Christian is better than a non-Christian (which is exactly OPPOSITE of what Jesus taught). It isn’t about church and isn’t about competing sects or religions.
To be a “Christian” (remember that Jesus never called Himself that or asked for a religion to be formed in His name) is not a name or a persona. To be “Christian” is to be like Christ… to mimic His character (one Greek derivative of the word “name” has a connotation of character, not a name, necessarily as we know it). Also note that no one in Jesus’ day was saying “Christ”, but using Aramaic, probably. So the whole idea that Jesus would want a sect named after Him, it wouldn’t be “Christ”.
What matters is how we LIVE, if claiming to be a “Christian”, not what we call ourselves or what church we go to or even how many times we say the word Jesus.
As of 10PM last night, this prick took over as Dickhead of the week.
The Political “Scribe” has been “scribbled” off the Redstate Revolt Honor Roll and added to the lying, Yankee Asshole Roll.
Hey, Schumer and Feinstein: Are you happy you have endorsed and enabled Mr Gonzales’ Clone of Lying Scumbaggery? When I saw Mr Mukasey make these remarks, tear up and quiver his lip, I didn’t feel his “pain”… I felt outrage. I felt outrage because I know that what he is saying is a downright lie meant to mislead Americans and play on our Patriotic sympathies.
Michael Mukasey has conclusively proven himself to be an exact replica of Alberto Gonazles — slavishly loyal to every presidential whim and unbound by even the most minimal constraints of truth while serving those whims. Speaking in San Fransisco this week, Mukasey demanded that the President be given new warrantless eavesdropping powers and that lawbreaking telecom be granted amnesty. To make his case, Mukasey teared up while exploiting the 3,000 Americans who died on 9/11 and said this:
Officials “shouldn’t need a warrant when somebody with a phone in Iraq picks up a phone and calls somebody in the United States because that’s the call that we may really want to know about. And before 9/11, that’s the call that we didn’t know about. We knew that there has been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn’t know precisely where it went.“
At that point in his answer, Mr. Mukasey grimaced, swallowed hard, and seemed to tear up as he reflected on the weaknesses in America’s anti-terrorism strategy prior to the 2001 attacks. “We got three thousand. . . . We’ve got three thousand people who went to work that day and didn’t come home to show for that,” he said, struggling to maintain his composure.
At the time of the attacks, Mr. Mukasey was the chief judge at the federal courthouse a few blocks away from the World Trade Center.These are multiple falsehoods here, and independently, this whole claim makes no sense. There is also a pretty startling new revelation here about the Bush administration’s pre-9/11 failure that requires a good amount of attention.
Even under the “old” FISA, no warrants are requiredwhere the targeted person is outside the U.S. (Afghanistan) and calls into the U.S. Thus, if it’s really true, as Mukasey now claims, that the Bush administration knew about a Terrorist in an Afghan safe house making Terrorist-planning calls into the U.S., then they could have — and should have — eavesdropped on that call and didn’t need a warrant to do so. So why didn’t they? Mukasey’s new claim that FISA’s warrant requirements prevented discovery of the 9/11 attacks and caused the deaths of 3,000 Americans is disgusting and reckless, because it’s all based on the lie that FISA required a warrant for targeting the “Afghan safe house.” It just didn’t. Nor does the House FISA bill require individual warrants when targeting a non-U.S. person outside the U.S.
They perpetually lie about issues that are key fear factor points for Americans. Then, this nasty little man, who obviously misled congress during hearings, plays on emotions of people with clear lying intent. Make no mistake that he knows exactly what is legal and what is not.
But he didn’t stop there, he is insisting that the Telecom Companies being protected:
Mukasey was even more dishonest in demanding amnesty for lawbreaking telecoms. According to today’s admiring Wall St. Journal Editorial, this is what Mukasey said on that subject:
The AG also addressed why immunity from lawsuits is vital for the telecom companies that cooperated with the surveillance after 9/11. “Forget the liability” the phone companies face, Mr. Mukasey said. “We face the prospect of disclosure in open court of what they did, which is to say the means and the methods by which we collect foreign intelligence against foreign targets.” Al Qaeda would love that.
Mike Mukasey was a long-time federal judge and so I feel perfectly comfortable calling that what it is: a brazen lie. Federal courts hear classified information with great regularity and it is not heard in “open court.” There are numerous options available to any federal judge to hear classified information — closed courtrooms, in camera review (in chambers only), ex partecommunications (communications between one party and the judge only). No federal judge — and certainly not Vaughn Walker, the Bush 41 appointee presiding over the telecom cases — is going to allow “disclosure in open court of . . . . the means and the methods by which we collect foreign intelligence.” And Mukasey knows that.
Worse, FISA itself (50 USC 1806(f)) explicitly provides that telecoms are permitted to present any evidence in support of their defenses in secret (both in camera and ex parte) to the judge and let the judge decide the case based on it. Just go read 50 USC 1806(f)of FISA; it’s as clear as day. In fact, it doesn’t merely permit, but explicitly requires, the federal judge to review evidence in secret whenever the Attorney General requests that (”the United States district court in the same district . . . shall, notwithstanding any other law, if the Attorney General files an affidavit under oath that disclosure or an adversary hearing would harm the national security of the United States, review in camera and ex parte the application the application, order, and such other materials relating to the surveillance.”).
But Mukasey also lies about what Americans want, and especially what New Yorkers want:
Michael Mukasey can cry all he wants about the 9/11 attacks. But neither he nor the rest of the Bush administration are the proprieters of those attacks. There were millions of New Yorkers in Manhattan on 9/11 other than Michael Mukasey, who lived and worked there for a long time. Neither Mike Mukasey nor his tearful pleas for unchecked government surveillance power and the erosion of the rule of law are representative of them.
To the contrary, the substantial majority of New Yorkers — and huge majorities of Manhattanites– vehemently reject the Bush/Cheney agenda of dismantling our constitutional framework and basic safeguards in the name of these sorts of fear-mongering and manipulative appeals. Unlike Mukasey and other Bush followers, most New Yorkers have ceased quivering in fear long ago — if they ever did — and have had their resolve to defend our basic constitutional liberties strengthened, not obliterated, as a result of the 9/11 attack and the subsequent, self-serving exploitation of it by Mukasey’s White House bosses. And under no circumstances do Mukasey’s tears provide license for this tidal wave of lies in defense of presidential lawlessness, from our nation’s highest “law enforcement officer.”
The Boehner Crybaby routine is old and tired, Mike. It may play with the assembled crowds within the 31% that worships your King, but the rest are wise to the foolishness.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former Governor Don Siegelman of Alabama, released from prison today on bond in a bribery case, said he was as convinced as ever that politics played a leading role in his prosecution.
In a telephone interview shortly after he walked out of a federal prison in Oakdale, La., Mr. Siegelman said there had been “abuse of power” in his case, and repeatedly cited the influence of Karl Rove, the former White House political director.
“His fingerprints are smeared all over the case,” Mr. Siegelman said, a day after a federal appeals court ordered him released on bond and said there were legitimate questions about his case.
Mr. Rove has strenuously denied any involvement in the conviction of the former governor, who was sentenced to serve seven years last June after being convicted in 2006. He could not immediately be reached for comment today.
Mr. Siegelman served nine months while his lawyers appealed a federal judge’s refusal to release him on bond, pending the ex-governor’s appeal of his conviction. That refusal was overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Thursday.
B’Man: This is wonderful news and a great sign that some justice may take place. EVERYTHING this Bush Administration does or is involved with is corrupt and smells like shit.
I find it difficult to imagine that any citizen of our United States of America would even think seriously about electing a pseudo-islamic christian, an oxymoron, to the office of President. I truly am concerned about our future as a democracy.
Obama speaks of being lead to Christianity, I was lead to Jesus Christ. There is an enormous difference.
As your future President I want to thank my supporters, for their … well, support.
Your mindless support of me, despite my complete lack of any legislative achievement, my pastor’s relations with Louis Farrakhan and Libyan dictator Moamar Quadafi, or my blatantly leftist voting record while I present myself as some sort of bi-partisan agent of change.
I also like how my supporters claim my youthful drug use and criminal behavior somehow qualifies me for the Presidency after 8 years of claiming Bush’s youthful drinking disqualifies him. Your hypocrisy is a beacon of hope shining over a sea of political posing.
I would also like to thank the Kennedy’s for coming out in support of me. There’s a lot of glamour behind the Kennedy name, even though JFK started the Vietnam War, his brother Robert illegally wiretapped Martin Luther King, Jr. and Teddy killed a female employee he was having an extra marital affair with who was pregnant with his child. And I’m not going anywhere near the cousins, both literally and figuratively.
And I’d like to thank Oprah Winfrey for her support. Her love of meaningless empty platitudes will be the force that propels me to the White House.
Americans should vote for me, not because of my lack of experience or achievement, but because I make people feel good. Voting for me causes some white folk to feel relieved of their imagined, racist guilt.
I say things that sound meaningful, but don’t really mean anything because Americans are tired of things having meaning. If things have meaning, then that means you have to think about them.
Americans are tired of thinking.
It’s time to shut down the brain, and open up the heart.
So when you go to vote in the primaries, remember don’t think, just do.
And do it for me.
“THANK YOU”
Sincerely,
Obama
The person who sent this is an older man (70ish), big, ex-Marine, and a Baptist Preacher. He is normally very loud and obtuse and obsessive about being the center of attention. He won’t let you eat a meal without spectacle prayer, loud and phylactery direct. He is embarrassing in front of customers, but I have always treated him with respect.
Today, even though I respect him, I had to reply (I have disregarded so very many of these already and this just rubbed me the wrong way):
Hi Xxxx,
I hope that you and the family are well.
As for your message, I will be to the point. I have no party affiliation and actually despise the 2 party system, so this isn’t any Democratic Party defense, by any means. Nor am I a fan of Mr Obama’s, Mrs Clinton’s, or John McCain’s. I am not enamored by “hope” speeches or more “tax cuts for the rich” speeches. However, I find this type of rhetoric in your message unproductive and downright misleading (I study politics in great detail). This is not something I would have expected of you and it reeks of political unawareness or complicity in trying to mislead people. Since I am of the opinion that you would not intentionally be misleading others on this subject, I must assume you are simply ignorant to facts about these people.
Unfortunately, I hear enough of this rhetoric from Rush, Bill, Sean and the rest of the right-wing pundits. I understand their motive (they are paid), however, for the life of me, I cannot understand yours.
As for Christ, Christianity and the perceived difference you elude to, I am convinced from my “relationship with Jesus Christ” that He would never endorse the murderous rampage this country has gone on (in His name, I might add) and He spoke against such things countless times. When I hear Mr McCain speak, all I hear is Satan speaking… calling for more death and destruction. Isn’t it Satan that goes to and fro looking to kill and destroy? I see no difference between the two, yet I keep hearing Christians insist that He would. Sounds like crazy talk to me and is not the Jesus I understand.
At least Mr Obama is “humane” enough to act more “Christ-like” than Mr McCain does (I won’t burden myself with judging who is most “Christian”, just who appears to mimic the red letters best). But Mr Obama is not much more “Christ-like”. He, too, threatens to bomb people illegally. Mrs Clinton, as well. They are all basically the same. Just differing shades of evil, in my opinion.
We have known each other a long time and for what it may be worth to you, I respect your view on many things, but in this case, I couldn’t disagree more.
The Political Scribe and I discuss the Bush Administration often and sometimes disagree about what is next. At this point, I truly believe that nothing is beyond their evil capabilities and that, if it is at all possible, the Bush administration will ensure the neocon agenda and would do anything, even try to keep Bush/Cheney in power after 2007.
I am doubtful that our system of checks and balances is working at this time and with the past 7 years as a judge of things that ‘could” happen… anything goes. Bush signs “Signing Statements”, purposefully thumbing his nose at America when he breaks the very laws he is signing. The only time he bothers with a veto is on politically significant issues. Otherwise he simply “signs” them away, as if a king and does whatever he pleases… knowing full well that nothing will be done.
He doesn’t gain this power due to Dem weakness, as is portrayed by many. But by downright complicit actions… cavorting with the Crime Boss, as it were.
So, I would not doubt that something “BIG” is on the horizon. Something devastating enough to be able to call for Martial Law and to try and shut down democracy in this country.
Am I a conspiracy nut? Maybe. But please tell me what they have done thus far that I should trust any action they commit? Why should I NOT be concerned and distrustful of them, since everything they have done thus far is dubious and evil?
I have generally thought that another 9/11 style attack might mysteriously happen just before the elections, but with all the blatant lying rhetoric the administration is touting continuously about Iran and the “mis-speaking”, linking Iran with terrorists and insurgents, is beginning to seem purposeful and leading up to something.
Of course, since McInsane is even more radical than Bush, he will be a good replacement for the neocon war mongers’ Bush 3, but that may be the Plan B. So, whether or not the Bushies want to keep control (or the neocon handlers will be satisfied with McInsane), there is a very good potential for a war. besides, Saudi Arabis is preparing for something in the aftermath of Cheney’s recent visit.
Rednecks, do not be surprised should we invade or attack Iran with bombs, perhaps even nuclear. These people in charge cannot be trusted to do what is right in the world and should be suspect in every action until they are gone, IF they are gone.
It is happening. The plans for the Bush administration to begin mass murder of the Iranian people have been put in motion. The plot was stalled temporarily by the National Intelligence Estimate report released last fall, a report which said that Iran did not have a nuclear weapons program. Bush and Cheney were thrown off their game, but not by much and not for long. They were inconvenienced but ultimately took the small set back in stride because they both knew they had nothing to worry about.
They know that the press will report what they say without criticism or analysis. They know that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have said that all options are on the table with Iran. They know that European nations like France have publicly stated their allegiance to Bush vis a vis Iran. British Prime Minister Gordon Brownalso bowed to Bushian bullying and declared that Iran must not be allowed to become a nuclear power. Now Germany has joined the hall of shame. German Chancellor Angela Merkel groveled before the Israeli Knesset and essentially promised not to protest when Israel assists America in creating an Iranian holocaust. Apparently German sins of genocide against the Jews can only be expiated by complicity with an Israeli genocide.
When historians write about the catastrophes that struck the world in 2008, events that have taken place in March of 2008 will surely loom large. The worldwide economic meltdown finally became impossible to deny, with the Federal Reserve using the workers’ dime to bail out a major investment banking firm, Bear Stearns. Dick Cheney traveled to Iraq, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, making sure his nefarious plans went off without a hitch. John McCain claimed that Iran was the home of al Qaeda, the bogeyman that sends already trigger happy Americans on blood thirsty rampages. Democrats who had the power to stop Bush in his tracks, once again pledged to do nothing.
In 2007 both the Senate and House passed resolutions that backed war with Iran. Impeachment, the one weapon Congress could use to stop further war making, is ignored and forgotten by John Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary committee.
In recent days Conyers said he would begin impeachment hearings, but only if Bush attacksIran. Apparently not enough human beings have been killed by Bush and the body count needs to grow exponentially before Conyers will lift a finger. On the other hand, the two-faced Congressman says he fears impeachment because it will hurt the Democrats in the upcoming November election. So it seems he will do nothing, no matter how many people die because of the crimes committed under the Bush regime.
The attack on Iran is an open secret, but Americans, like a wronged spouse, are the last to know. Dick Cheney must have told the Saudi princes of his intended evil doing because Saudi Arabia is planning for “the probabilities of leaking nuclear and radiation hazards in case of any unexpected nuclear attacks in Iran. . . ” Saudis know the deal, while John and Jane Q. Public are still in the dark.
What will the Democrats do when Iranians are nuked? When Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni recently visited the United States, Obama gave her a phone calland told her she shouldn’t worry about an Obama administration. He said all the right things, that Israel has a right to defend itself (kill Palestinians whenever it wants) and agreed that Iran was an evil nation that shouldn’t have the nuclear weapons that Israel has had for decades. So much for change.
The saber rattling and furtive Dick Cheney meetings are just the tip of the iceberg. The worldwide economic crisis is pushing the war agenda more than any other factor. Black Agenda Report said as much nearly one year ago.
“Ultimately, the parasitic class can only maintain its rule by force. Manufacturing nothing, creating no value except on paper, they must finally call upon the Armed Forces to impose their unearned advantage on the planet. Such was the logic of March, 2003. The Great Offensive failed, but the contradictions that compelled the captains of finance capital to order their political servants to wage war, remain - and are in fact more acute than four years ago. They must wage war, again, to fight their way out of the box.”
Every bail out of an investment bank is an omen of an oncoming worldwide financial calamity, but it is also an omen of more American aggression. The Obama/Clinton fight for the nomination is a sorry side show spectacle. In any case, the new war will help John McCain more than it will help the Democratic nominee. Even if the Democrat should win, both Obama and Clinton have stated that they too believe in maintaining America’s empire. Bush’s wars won’t end with a Democratic administration.
In the space of just five years, our nation will be waging another war of aggression and we will all be accessories after the fact. Our country may have also entered into a depression, so we will be poor criminals too. To use an expression coined by Poppy Bush, we will be in deep doo doo. Cheer up though. We won’t be in as much trouble as Iranians. Many of them will soon be dead.
According to The Sun newspaper, the 3ft langur monkey had lived peacefully beside villagers in the Hyderabad region for years.But the primate was overcome by lust after watching a couple engaged in amorous activities in a field, and is said to be copying the behavior.
An elderly woman is reported to have died of shock after the monkey jumped on her.
A local villager said: “It’s awful. It keeps trying to do what it saw in the field!
We’re waiting for a forestry team to catch it” she added.
India has had problems with monkey violence in the past, and in some areas has resorted to training larger, more violent monkeys to combat the pests.
Last year the deputy mayor of Delhi was killed after being attacked by a hoard of wild monkeys on a balcony.
In another incident in Delhi a monkey is claimed to have snatched a two-year-old baby from its mother’s arms.
The city now employs monkey catchers to round them up and return them to nearby forests. Local authorities have met resistance when they try to move the monkeys to other areas.
Culling the creatures is seen as unacceptable to devout Hindus, who see the monkeys as manifestations of the god Hanuman and often feed them.
An American man is facing public indecency charges after allegedly being filmed having sex with a picnic table.
Police say that Art Price Jr was seen copulating with furniture on four separate mornings, most recently on March 14 when a neighbour recorded it as evidence.
The alleged incident took place near a school in broad daylight in the town of Bellevue in Ohio.
The neighbour, who remains anonymous, said he saw Mr Price in his garden turning over a round metal tale before performing a sex act upon it.
Local Police Captain Matt Johnson said: “He was completely nude. He would use the hole from the umbrella and have sex with the table.”… (more here)
ATLANTA, Ga. — The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted former Gov. Don Siegelman’s request to be released from prison pending the outcome of his appeal.
Siegelman is currently serving a 7-year sentence in the Oakdale Federal Correctional Complex in Louisiana following his 2006 public corruption conviction.
Acting U.S. Attorney Louis Franklin confirms the 11th Circuit granted Siegelman’s release in a fou- page order which states Siegelman had raised a “significant question” about his conviction.
Siegelman was convicted of accepting $500,000 in campaign contributions from HealthSouth founder Richard Scrushy in exchange for giving Scrushy a seat on a state hospital board.
Scrushy is serving a similar sentence at a federal prison in Texas.
