Powder Puffs, Snerf Bats, Marshmellos, Mob Rule And Broder (Updated)
Who among us can say they haven't thought about a armed Massive march on DC ? In our hearts we know the chances of that actually happening are slim to none. That does not mean we just laydown and take...
View ArticleWhen Patriots Pensions Are Denied , One Whistleblowers Story
If you believe has I do that to every action is a reaction, then you will probably agree that when heroes are punished rather that rewarded, we get less Heroes. For a couple years now I have been...
View ArticleColin Powell Admits To Warning Bush
At the famous Aspen Ideals Festival Colin Powell told his story of a meeting wth Bush before the Iraq War. THE former American secretary of state Colin Powell has revealed that he spent 2½ hours...
View ArticleNadler (D) Calls For Special Prosecutor For Alberto Gonzales, Atty. Gen.
Raw is reporting that Rep. Jerry Nadler is calling for a Special Prosecutor to investigate if Fredo lied misled  Congress. I say it's about time. "Attorney General Gonzales has shown an apparent...
View ArticleChronic Pain ? Time To Stand Up To The DEA, Action Time Is At Hand
For years now, over 16 yrs, I have had to fight with Dr.s, Change Drs., Fight with Social Security, Worry about being able to keep my Blood Pressure under control, all because of Chronic Pain. I have...
View ArticleMaliki Shows Bush The Door ?
BAGHDAD --Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday that the Iraqi army and police are capable of keeping security in the country when American troops leave "any time they want,"though he...
View ArticleWaxman Invites Rumsfeld To Testify
You just have to love that Bulldog named Rep. Waxman. This is about the Pat Tillman affair and Bushs claims of Executive Priviledge. I would love to see the look on Rumsfleds face when he finally gets...
View ArticleMedicaid Drugs To Be Denied To All Come Oct 1 Creating A National Health...
Once again the Republicans have snuck a little known law into one of the must pass Iraq funding bills they passed while in the Majority. If it had been known about by anyone with any compassion it...
View ArticleProof Bush Hates Kids and the Press Had It All Along
Compassionate Conservative. That is what he ran as, and what the Press continued to report. How many articles did we see telling us different ?Was there any digging done back then, or was it all still...
View ArticleWest Point Used To "Massage" Facts on Gitmo Prisoners
West Point today released a report meant to show us all just how dangerous all the prisoners really are. I find this troubling on so many levels it's hard to know where to start. West Point, our...
View ArticleReturn From The Dark Side, Torturing Children OK
Many of us remember when Dick Cheney said " We have to work the dark side ..." For many of us it was a chilling moment, for others it just slipped on by unnoticed. Some people even took it to heart as...
View ArticleBridge To NoWhere, Iraqi Style.. Bushs Pork Barrel of Waste
Iraq has turned into Bushs own personal Bridge to NoWhere. We have spent Billions of our dollars on Projects no one wanted in Iraq. Not only didn't they want them, some of them were being built before...
View ArticleProportional Murder, Bombing By the Numbers
Let me start off by saying it has taken me all day to decide to write this diary. When I first read it this morning it was done through a veil of tears. I dropped a couple comments over the day on...
View ArticleTime Mag. Calls Bush Chicken, Cluck Cluck
Once there was a time if Time mag. made a statement like that the USA would stand still waiting for a change or a fight. I don't expect either this time. Why is Bush being called chicken ? It's over...
View Article"the law could be construed" Construed my Jazz, they voted it away
 "the law could be construed" Aren't those words that really mean that we know if Bush can twist them in any way, he will ? Take the Warrantless ProgramX that we know exists, we just don't know how bad...
View ArticleBushs New Signing Statement Mocks Democratic Party
On Friday Bush issued his latest Signing Statement. Unlike many of his other ones this one does little damage to anything but how history will see this era. No direct signs he plans on ignoring any...
View ArticleMarkos and Susan Smash the DLC in WaPo OpEd
Yes my friends they are splashed all over the Opinion Page. Not only that , they smash the DLC pretty damn good. Here's a teaser. The DLC had two decades to make its case, to build an audience and...
View Article99 Tons of Weapons Missing, Above and Beyond the 190,000 Already Disclosed?
99 Tons. That is a outrageous amount of weapons. A minimum of 4 planeloads lost? Anyone who knows the Military, knows that the one thing they do in a anal fashion is flight records. The who what where...
View ArticleTurning Our Spy Satelites On Us, A Done Deal ?
To quote from Raw Story, who is quoting from behind the firewall of the WSJ. Information from "some of the U.S.'s most powerful intelligence-gathering tools" will soon be at the disposal of a wide...
View ArticleRecess Appts. Traded For Racist and Homophobes Seat on Federal Appeals Court ?
 We are already going to spend years, maybe decades cleaning up the Justice System as it is. After Ashcroft, and then Gonzales, not to mention Alito and Roberts who knows what has been done behind our...
View ArticleSurge Failing, 108 Foreign Policys Experts and Poll Reports
Foreign Policy Magazine, published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has done a survey of 108 Foreign Policy Experts. The results seem to back up what most of us have been saying for a...
View ArticleBush To Claim Iraq Is His Viet Nam In VFW Speech
Just posted on the NYTimes is a article about a early release of Bushs speech to the VFW tomorrow. It appears he plans to use Nam as his saving grace. Karl must have lost his mind if he believes this...
View ArticleFISA Secrets Revealed, ATT and Others Guilty
In what could be the final nail in ATT and the other phones companys coffins over their helping break the law when it came to spying on Americans , McConnell spilled the beans in Texas. He admitted...
View ArticleSplurge Body Count At Double The Pace, Spin That Boys !
From Steven Hurst at the AP come this article I expect to see in many of the Sunday Newspapers, by the title Iraq Body Count Running at Double Pace. This should inject some reality into the spin that...
View ArticleGen. Petraeus Lies to Aussies, He Will Lie to Congress Next
On Friday Petraeus told the Australians a few lies which I assume will be the same thing we hear when he testifys to Congress. Here is the boldface lie he told the Aussies. Petraeus told the...
View ArticlePoliticians Slimed On Green Zone Visits
I would call it kind of a Hit List on the politicians. The lists being handed out to the troops in the Green Zone, those likely to talk to Senators or Reps. or their visits to the Dog and Pony Show,...
View ArticleAmericas Nuns Call For Bush&Cheney Impeachment
I wasn't going to write this diary but it has bugged me for hours. There is absolutely no Press on this release save the original article I will be linking to. During the Vietnam War when the Catholic...
View ArticleAnother Asst. Atty. Gen. Quits, Who is Left ?
 Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has turned in his walking papers. His excuse ? He wants to spend time with his family, usually codetalk...
View ArticleCould Law and Order Candidate Win With Promise To Try Bush& Co. ?
A Landslide victory could be just that easy for a viable candidate like Gore to run on the promise of Justice. It would never work with a Gravel or Dennis K., but someone could pull it off. Americans...
View ArticleLive Blog #5 Petraeus & Magical September
Please do not rec. this diary. Snark and participation welcome Hearing can be seen live at Cspan 3 or live streamed here http://www.c-span.org/... Can also be viewed on CNN for now. Be advised we...
View ArticleWaxman Agrees To Investigate Pres.Clinton For Hatch Act Violations
Can you freaking believe that yet again the most investigated Pres. in history will have to go thru this one more time ? When I read the headline all I could think is what the hell is Waxman doing ?...
View ArticleBush Outsources War In Afghanistan For 15 Billion and Gets Away With It
As if we need more proof our Troops are stretched way too far, Bush is looking to hire more Mercenaries. This time it is to, the admins says, to "to develop and install high-resolution shortwave...
View ArticlePresident Petraeus's Chances Ruined By Loss In Iraq ?
 I just found out the General Petraeus is a ambitious man that wants to be president. If the story is true he cannot afford to lose in Iraq. Not even the Right would vote for the General that will be...
View ArticleNYT OpEd Rips Pace and Bremers Excuses Apart
A few weeks ago Paul Bremer, weaselly Neocon, wrote a OpEd/Excuse piece in regards to Iraq Armys demise. Gen. Pace said they just faded into the background, the word he used was "Dissolved" when I saw...
View ArticleLive Blog #2 Warrantless Wiretapping Hearing
Live BloggingHearing Notification Hearing on Warrantless Surveillance and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: The Role of Checks and Balances in Protecting Americans’ Privacy Rights (Part...
View ArticleSuccess! Pardon Granted to Chronic Pain Political Prisoner Richard Paey
 I am a chronic pain sufferer and I sit with tears of joy over this news. No one, absolutely no one should have to be in constant, overwhelmning, debilitating pain in our country when there are ways to...
View ArticleEmerging Truths Abouts Mukasey Aren't Pretty
I am beginning to believe to we have been had again. Mukasey, when his name was announced and all the hype about how independent he would be had that sound of " Too good to be true", and brought to...
View ArticlePainting Targets on Iraqi Civilians Backs , "Baiting"
Imagine for second going into any poor neighborhood with high unemployment in the USA and placing a Twenty Dollar Bill on the ground for all to see. Next imagine it's legal to shoot anyone that bends...
View ArticleSunni's Own Surge Message To The World
It appears the Sunni's in Iraq have decided they like Gen. Petreaous's tactic. So much so they have adopted it. Just to make sure no one misses their change they have what Tahseen al-Sheikhly, from...
View ArticleWhite House Leaks To Save Warrantless Wiretaps, Another Handy Leak ?
 The AP is reporting they have been told that it took 9 hours to set up a tap on those insurgents they think kidnapped 3 of our Soldiers last Spring. A Unnamed source. It's a good spin as they go, but...
View ArticlePlane With Gitmo History Crashes Carrying 4 Tons of Coke
Before anyone goes off on me for posting some CT crap, please read the whole story. While it is true some other sites have been following this story and have made claims, I waited until McClatchy and...
View ArticleThe Telco Immunity Sellout You Didn't Know About
David Ignatius has a OpEd in the Washington Post about finding the middle ground when it comes to giving up our civil rights for safety from Terrorists. I found it deeply disturbing in tone. The...
View ArticleStill Enhanced Torturing With DOJ Approval, New Secret CIA Prisons
After Comey, after Goldsmith rescinded the Bybee Memo on Torture, after Congress passed laws barring torture, and many more denials by Bush, yet another secret opinion was written saying torture was...
View Article" Outside The Wire " The New Catchall Excuse
One of the snipers charged with placing "bait" out to draw Iraqis into their killzone is quoted as saying "If you've never been outside the wire, you really have no basis -- you don't have a basis to...
View Article4 Projected Telecom Immunity Deals and They All Suck
While some of those from our Progressive Caucus in the House have plans to try and stop Immunity, it appears Dems in the Senate have other plans. 4 plans to be exact. They are floating 4 different...
View ArticleHillary Advisor Sandy Berger, WTF is She Thinking ?
Anyone who listens to CSpan, Fox, or any number of talk shows that allow call-ins know by now what a hot button Sandy Berger is for those on the right. For years now the Right has used Berger as a...
View ArticleWaxman, Rice, and the Embassy That Will Never Open
Rep. Henry Waxman is hot on the trail of more fraud surrounding the US Embassy in Iraq. He has obtained documents showing not only fraud, but bribery and some of the shoddiest building practices I...
View ArticleSEALS and Special Forces Bonuses Reach $100 Million
I had just read this story when I switched over to the NYTimes and it was there also. It appears that rather than lose our top soldiers to Blackwater and their ilk, we have been paying out some damn...
View ArticleRetirees and Disabled To Get Huge SS Increase Next Yr
I'm not sure how I am going to spent this bonus of income. The nnews is now public so I except all the people I know calling hoping to get a piece. How big a increase will I be getting to offset the...
View ArticleProof Bush Personally Ordered Torture, Rumsfeld Liked To Watch It
In a new book based primarily on government documents released under FOIA law, two American Civil Liberties Union attorneys reveal many disgusting facts not known before by the public. The Book "...
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