B’Man’s Patriot Watch: Ralph Nader Asks, “What’s Left ‘On The Table’?”

B’Man: Ralph calls for impeachment of Bush and accountability from McInsane and Obama. Notice the date. He has been calling for impeachment for a long time. Wonder where Obama’s leadership is on that subject? Must be the same place his leadership is on all the subjects… vague, illusionary, and vain imaginations.

Ralph Nader describes what’s “On the Table” For the Nader/Gonzalez Presidential Ticket versus everything that’s “OFF the Table” for Obama and McSame.

Santa Monica, CA, May 10, 2008

Video Shot and Edited by Dutch Merrick.

Edit Supervisor: James Legoy

For More information, Go to VoteNader.org

The one consistent Champion for the rights and protections of the American people is Ralph Nader. Together with Human Rights Attorney Matt Gonzalez, Mr. Nader will put the most pressing issues of our day back into the public discourse.
While the two Corporate-chosen candidates bicker over “Hope” vs. “Change”, Ralph Nader will discuss concisely the ramifications of continuing our present course in the Middle East and the results of our “For-Profit/ Not for People” Healthcare system.

Give him your support. Send in a few bucks!

The Planet you save might be your own!

Republicans for Impeachment? Well, Shut My Mouth…

My friend Falstaff, aka Ralph Lopez left me a notice over on the BuelaHuh? page which struck my attention in that he claims that there are actually Republicans wanting Congress to do their duty and impeach what are obviously crimes against humanity and our Constitution (not to forget our moral beliefs). He includes several action items that make sense (and I have actually done some of them already) and an invite to an upcoming hearing (I just hope they actually ‘hear’ something) on the subject.

What do you think? Are these truly Republicans, not reTHUGlicans? There is a difference, you know.

Hi Buelahman! here is our latest press release, big news breaking…

NATIONAL IMPEACHMENT NETWORK

Come to DC for this Historic Moment: “Hearing on the Imperial Presidency of George W. Bush”

Contact NIN DC action coordinator: cynthia_papermaster@yahoo.com if you’re coming from outside the DC area.

July 22-24 “Impeachment Lobbying Days”, House of Representatives

July 25

9 a.m. “Choose the Constitution” Press Conference & Rally

Rayburn Building, Independence Avenue

10 a.m. Hearing on the Imperial Presidency of George W. Bush

House Judiciary Committee, Rayburn Bldg, Rm. 2141

“Rumor has it there are two panels being planned for the hearing, one consisting of Kucinich and four other members of Congress (Jane Harman, Walter Jones, Brad Miller, and Maurice Hinchey), and the other consisting of five non-Congress Members (Elizabeth Holtzman, Bruce Fein, Frederick Schwartz, John Dean, and Bob Barr).” ADS

For information about the rally and hearing, as well as possible camping or housing arrangements (subject to occupancy) in D.C., check here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/hearingday

The Office of the Judiciary is expected to post a video of the hearing on their website: http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/calendar.html

Actions to Take from Home

PLEASE take as many of these five actions as possible to:

· ensure that Judiciary Committee members attend the July 25 hearing

· urge the members to vote to hold impeachment hearings based on the evidence presented July 25

· insist on media coverage of the hearing

Huge thanks to Pat Thomas, Melbourne, Florida, for the following action list

If you feel that patriotism and concern for the world-at-large requires your vigilance and active participation as an American, join me in working every single day for the near future on the impeachment debate. This IS a small, small window open right now… Remember that power yields nothing without our demanding it!

1. Contact every member of the Judiciary and insist that they attend the hearing! The hearing is on a Friday and they usually don’t work on Fridays. http://judiciary.house.gov/about/members.html

Faxing is absolutely worth a try. If you wish to email them in one fell swoop, do so here: http://judiciary.house.gov/about/contact.html

If you wish to leave a comment on voicemail, the Democrats’ House Judiciary Office is Phone: 202-225-3951 and the Republicans’ is 202-225-6504. Don’t omit the Republicans, even if you contact them last. NINE House Republicans (contrary to the minority leadership’s strategy) voted to send Kucinich’s latest impeachment proposal, H.Res.1345–which stated that Bush had lied to Congress to get authorization for his invasion of Iraq–to the Judiciary Committee: Brady (TX), Gilchrest (MD), Walter Jones (NC), Manzullo (IL), Tim Murphy (PA), Ron Paul (TX), Reichert (WA), Christopher Shays (CT), and Mike Turner (OH)!

2. Call your Representative (congressional switchboard: 1-800-828-049 to urge him/her to call for FORMAL hearings in the Judiciary to follow the “preliminary” hearing of July 25 (preferably to *begin* prior to the commencement of the August recess 2 weeks after July 25). Ask him/her to sign Kucinich’s resolutions to impeach Bush (H.Res.1258 and H.Res.1345). (Thus far, Wexler [FL-19], Woolsey [CA-6], Barbara Lee [CA-9], Hinchey [NY-22], Baldwin [WI-02], Farr [CA-17], and Towns [NY-10] have co-sponsored H.Res.1258 and Wexler [FL-19] and Barbara Lee [CA-9] have co-sponsored H.Res.1345.)

3. Send an “official” email to your Representative via Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s impeachment petition

http://impeachment.kucinich.us/petition/

4. Contact the mainstream media and demand that they start NOW to report on the impeachment issue and that they cover the July 25th hearing! Write a letter to your local newspaper. Email / call national media outlets. Here’s one list for contact info: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=111%20http://www.rense.com/mediacontact.htm

5. SPREAD THE WORD as much as you’re willing and humanly able to do… Make sure that at least your fellow Americans have heard about the July 25th hearing to discuss the actions of President George W. Bush; perhaps they’ll be interested in contacting their Congress person, etc. Talk with friends and neighbors. Email people you know. Share your opinion on internet blogs and websites that allow comments.

10:00 a.m. Room 2141, Rayburn Building, Washington DC

http://judiciary.house.gov/news/071708.html
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articles:

Executive Privilege, Why Aren’t They Hollering “Cover-up?”
http://www.opednews.com/articles/2/Executive-Privilege–Why-A-by-Ralph-Lopez-080718-195.html

Nine Republicans Break Party Ranks: Send Impeachment Article to Judiciary for Hearings
http://www.opednews.com/articles/24-Republicans-Vote-for-Im-by-Ralph-Lopez-080716-139.html

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Conyers Announces Hearing on Imperial Presidency

Congressman John Conyers
For Immediate Release
July 17, 2008
Contact: Jonathan Godfrey (Conyers)
http://judiciary.house.gov/news/071708.html

(Washington)—Today House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. announced that, on July 25, the House Committee on the Judiciary will hold a hearing on the Imperial Presidency of George W. Bush and possible legal responses.

“Over the last seven plus years, there have been numerous credible allegations of serious misconduct by officials in the Bush Administration,” said Conyers. “At the same time, the administration has adopted what many would describe as a radical view of its own powers and authorities. As Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, I believe it is imperative that we pursue a comprehensive review commensurate to this constitutionally dangerous combination of circumstances. Next Friday’s hearings will be an important part of that ongoing effort.”

The Committee is expected to examine a range of legal and legislative responses to allegations of administration misconduct and their expansion of executive branch power.

Since the beginning of the 110th Congress, the Committee has conducted extensive oversight into allegations of misconduct by the administration, including: (1) improper politicization of the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorneys offices, including potential misuse of authority with regard to election and voting controversies; (2) misuse of executive branch authority and the adoption and implementation of the so-called unitary executive theory, including in the areas of presidential signing statements and regulatory authority; (3) misuse of investigatory and detention authority with regard to U.S. citizens and foreign nationals, including questions regarding the legality of the administration’s surveillance, detention, interrogation, and rendition programs; (4) manipulation of intelligence and misuse of war powers, including possible misrepresentations to Congress related thereto; (5) improper retaliation against administration critics, including disclosing information concerning CIA operative Valerie Plame, and obstruction of justice related thereto; and (6) misuse of authority in denying Congress and the American people the ability to oversee and scrutinize conduct within the administration, including through the use of various asserted privileges and immunities.

The July 25 hearing will be held at 10:00 a.m. in room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Additional information, including witness participation, will be announced next week.

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Can We Really Afford Another Idiot In The Whitehouse?

Jed provides us with a nice little montage of stupidity from the last president compared to another idiot who wants to be the next one:

McDumb As Bush

Can we afford another president who thinks it’s smart to be dumb?

Stop the Global Warming Cover Up!

Just last week, former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) deputy associate administrator Jason K. Burnett announced that Vice President Dick Cheney’s office censored out six pages of congressional testimony to cover up the health threats posed by global warming.

Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had congressional testimony last October that would have detailed the direct impact of global warming on human health, including mortality and the spread of disease.

But the Bush/Cheney administration, fearing her testimony would force it to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, covered it up.

 Join Senator Barbara Boxer and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee:

Stop the Global Warming Cover Up!

Target:

EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson

Sponsored by:

Democratic Senatorial Campaign

Committee  [petition]

 

 

Former EPA deputy associate administrator Jason K. Burnett recently announced that Vice President Dick Cheney’s office censored out six pages of congressional testimony last October to cover up the health threats posed by global warming.

Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had testimony that would have detailed the direct impact of rising global temperatures on human health, including mortality and the spread of disease. But the administration feared her testimony would force it to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels. Senate and House committees have been trying for months to get e-mail exchanges and other documents to determine the extent of political influence on government scientists, but have been rebuffed.

It’s time for the EPA to come clean! Join Senator Barbara Boxer and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee:
Demand that the EPA finally turn over all communications related to its findings about global warming’s consequences on public health and the environment.

 

Dear EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson,

Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had congressional testimony last October that would have detailed the direct impact of rising global temperatures on human health, including mortality and the spread of disease.

But recently, former EPA deputy associate administrator Jason K. Burnett announced that Vice President Dick Cheney’s office censored out six pages of testimony to cover up the health threats posed by global warming.

In light of Burnett’s allegations, it’s time to come clean.

We urge you to turn over all communications, email exchanges and documents from government scientists, the White House and the Office of the Vice President that detail the consequences of global warming on public health and the environment to congressional investigators. For years, Vice President Dick Cheney has been driving the administration’s policy on global warming, and this recent allegation appears to confirm the worst. We believe it is critical that the agency’s finding that global warming poses a danger to the public — a determination the EPA reached late last year — be released.
We urge you to find the courage or the strength or determination to act immediately.

B’Man’s Scar Watch: Holding the Right-Wing Tool Accountable

Joe Scarborough had a program on MSNBC a while back that was aired in the evenings. It was a horrible show, simply because Joe is nothing more than a right-wing tool. He was one of the first on the right to berate W, but as I have said countless times, that is now easy. You only gain the scorn of the very worst rabid Bushies, at this point, and his feigned outrage attracts ‘centrists’ and those who fall for the MSM paradigm they brainwash you with (that America is centrist, or worse, conservative). Polls show this simply is not true and that they frame what these words mean by villainizing the key words like ‘liberal’, ‘progressive’, etc.

Crazy as it is to admit, due to this brainwashing, but I am far more ‘progressive’ than I am ‘conservative’, especially when relegated to their description of ‘conservatism’.

Its much like what I tell the staunchest Christian evangelists, if being Christian means being ‘like you’, I don’t want to be one. Same with conservatism. If they hijack the word’s true meaning, then I avoid it like a plague. Today’s conservative is not really conservative… they just use the name to continue an ultra-conservative, but financially wasteful ideology of world domination. They just stole the meaning of the word.

My wife will turn on “Morning Joe” as she has her morning joe. From my office, I’ll hear her yell at the TV and will ask her, “Why even watch that shit?” She’ll say something like, “It gets me fired up in the mornings,” etc

But I can’t stand it and the few times I hear the program (even though this clip doesn’t include Joe, assuming he is on vacation or something) I hear right-wing propaganda at every interview and discussion. Especially from the stacked right-wing guests and the faux liberals they have on. Mika Brzezinski is gorgeous, but measurably just as clueless (actually, I think she knows precisely the bullshit she is laying out).

But the fact is that they continue to propagate the right-wing horseshit and when a TV icon like Dan Rather makes a mistakecomment such as calling Obama, Osama bin Laden (yes, the entire name was transposed for Obama’s last name), no one on the set bothers to correct his little faux pas. I am left to believe that there is nothing innocent about this “mistake”.

I think Obama is bad for America, but this is bullshit.

AT&T Owns the Democrats

So the Democratic National Convention has sponsors and guess who is providing the nice bags for all the bullshit trinkets that are given out? You guessed it. The same one that owns the Dems and has reason for paying them all off for their cover up of crimes they perpetrated with the most hated Republican president of all time.

Yes, people, this company owns the very ones you vote for and the hypocrisy in this bag is overwhelming to me. I suppose they will simply stuff them with $100 bills and hand them out in gratitude for the congressional complicity in the raping of America’s freedoms.

On another note, the convention is being held at the Pepsi Center. So who is advertising on the other side of the bag?

That is almost funny, if it wasn’t so infuriating.

h/t Glenn Greenwald

B’Man’s Sabbath Watch: Rapture Worries

The Rapture may be dangerous to some…