Sunday, February 26, 2006
A Conversation with Ismail Haniyeh - The New Hamas Prime Minister
OK, this is the last one for today. I don't want to overload you or anything :p I haven't even gone past the first page on this one anyway.
I just put this one up as a reminder that we didn't get the puppet government we wanted. I mean how far do we have to go? Why not just wipe out the rest of the Iraqi's and put United States citizens in? That country has been as fair as it possibly could be. They let us call them liars, occupy their land, kill thousands of innocent people, force our own little interem government on them and they've even let us make conditions if they're to be delt with.
I'm surprised they haven't authorized Haniyeh to use force to get rid of the American insurgents.
Port Deal - Boxing a slow bush's Ears from the Left AND Right
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, an outspoken liberal Democrat from New York, two weeks ago began publicly denouncing a deal to let a Middle Eastern firm take over terminal operations at six U.S. seaports. From the other end of the political spectrum, even more outspoken conservative radio host Michael Savage was doing the same -- and recruiting Republican lawmakers to his cause.
It was on Feb. 13 that the Dubai Ports World deal -- after simmering unnoticed for months in the federal bureaucracy and the transportation trade press -- started to boil, as a result of Savage's blustery on-air alarms and an event by Schumer at the New York harbor with families who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001.It was not until Feb. 16 that Bush was informed by aides of the controversy -- and that his own administration had approved the port deal a month earlier. It was not until five days after that, on Feb. 21, that Bush spoke up in support of the port deal. By then, dozens of prominent lawmakers in both parties had joined Savage and Schumer in questioning the president's commitment to national security.
You can read the whole article here. It is analyzing the port deal and how bush reacted slowly and some might say inappropriately when the uprising began.
So he was tardy in responding to us getting attacked on 9/11, he was tardy on Katrina and he was tardy with our security in the port deal. He used to own the Texas Rangers right? Has he ever heard of three strikes?
Then again maybe we should let him go with two since he was nowhere near tardy when he said "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. He might be a good 10 or 15 years early for all we know.
Five Words: The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
I wanted to get a transcript of the "State of the Black Union 2006: Economic Empowerment" so I could get the words of Minister Farrakhan. I see I will have to purchase the DVD from C-Span :p I searched for a news article that might give you a glimpse into the words of Farrakhan but I could only find watered down, misdirecting, out-of-context versions of the event here, here and here.
These versions of the event aside, Farrakhan's words are of major importance. I'm going to make an attempt to paraphrase it, We have attempted to work "inside the box" with this country. We have played by the rules of this country. We have also been burned by this country while playing by the rules.
Harry Belafonte was at this event and the honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan recalled a moment Belafonte had with Reverend Martin Luther King, a few weeks before his assassination, in which Mr. Belafonte had asked why King looked so "melancholy". King answered that he feared he was integrating his people into a burning house.
His fear was not unjustified. This house has been burning for 400 years. We can tell it is still burning because, as Barbara Jordan had said, we want "an
An oppressed people have never been freed by their oppressors. The oppressed can only free themselves by reforming the system that oppresses them, or by destroying that system. We have already tried to reform the system and the system has failed us. The only choice we have is to remove this president, remove this government and replace it with something that works.
It's more than that though.
It's a call to justice.
It's a call for movement
It's an enlightenment of what the leadership in this country is thinking
and doing
It's a call to tell others about what's going on
It's a call to uproot a tyrant
Then there is more than I can think of at the moment that I am sure others got out of it. Like Smiley said. You didn't get that even if you think you got it. It might be days, weeks and even months until some people understand what's was said.
Old School - '02-'03 - Bush for Oil, Cheney for Everything Else
Now this is just a little bit of easy reading for a friend of mine (you know who you are). The question came up, and I paraphrase, Why would we attack
The pipeline through
Halliburton dips it’s hands in
So that’s just a taste. This day's for you LD
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Ha Ha Ha Ha. Are the enemies the Arabs or the Old White People
Nepotism At It's Finest
Washington - The Dubai firm that won Bush administration backing to run six U.S. ports has at least two ties to the White House.
One is Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose agency heads the federal panel that signed off on the $6.8 billion sale of an English company to government-owned Dubai Ports World - giving it control of Manhattan's cruise ship terminal and Newark's container port.
Snow was chairman of the CSX rail firm that sold its own international port operations to DP World for $1.15 billion in 2004, the year after Snow left for President Bush's cabinet.
The other connection is David Sanborn, who runs DP World's European and Latin American operations and was tapped by Bush last month to head the U.S. Maritime Administration.
The article goes on to say "The ties raised more concerns about the decision to give port control to a company owned by a nation linked to the 9/11 hijackers." [link added by me for emphasis]
So cronyism comes into play. The bush administration is more concerned with lining their pockets than with the security of our nation.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Abu Ghraib Images: II
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Dead, But Stable
Politicians and reporters should be required to give a mandatory description of the injured condition ranging from excellent (only needed a band-aid) to critical (life hangs in the balance). Maybe the republicans need a color coded system. They seem to understand color.
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Our state can't possibly make sense to half the country.
Our state can't possibly make sense to half the country.
Why does a president need extraordinary wartime powers when we are not in wartime? If this is a war why have we not made a declaration? Why have we gotten "Authorized use of force" instead of war? This is not palatable. We are not fighting a threat. If
I don't have the energy. I don't know what common sense is anymore.
If terrorists are such a threat to our country why are we still eating butter? Why are 30,000 people being laid off at Ford instead of being kicked into high gear in order to build more military supplies? Why are people walking around without being taxed feeling like there is nothing going wrong? Can't you just taste something is wrong. Why am I able to type this down without any worries? Where is the draft? I don't even see people riding around with flags any more. Is it possible that 9/11 was a fluke?
Maybe we aren't destined to not be attacked ever. Maybe, just maybe, 1775, 1812, 1865, 1917, 1941...maybe the Cold War and
It is completely understandable that 9/11 occurred. I'm not going to belittle any of the people's lives or anything but get over it. You can do everything you can possibly do outside of putting tags on ever citizen and non citizen in the U.S. (and I mean tagging their brain so you can press a button and off us) and there is still the possibility of getting hit. Put that on top of our mentality to put others down in order to stay ahead and you will always have an enemy.
Impeach bush. he broke the law.
This is the "Authorized use of force on
Gonzales is one weak puppet.
Maybe FISA doesn't need changing. Maybe Bush should just not break laws.
Just like Iraq has nothing to do with....had nothing to do with Al Quaeda, just like Iran isn't building nukes, just like Iraq couldn't have attacked us if their lives depended on it, FISA statutes in no way shape or form interfered with gathering intelligence that could have stopped 9/11.
If anyone says FISA is responsible for 9/11 they are lying. Now, watch this drive
By the Way. Bush broke the law.
Come to think of it, what's to stop another Watergate from occurring right now? Speedy Gonzales is allowing the Executive Branch to go on without any checks or balances. We currently have the police policing the police. NSA officials who work under the president will watch their own organization and report to the president. What is it called when the governed are not governed. Are we under a tyranny or an anarchy right now? I think Mr. bush is being tyrannical. Yes, bush is causing a tyrannical problem right now.
You know, the bush crew is saying they cannot get everything done that needs to be done to stop another 9/11 from occurring under current FISA statutes. But no one is saying those statutes are static. The senate had a virtual 100 percent agreement on passing the Patriot act. Why would President Bush and his lawyers be afraid to go to Congress and fix the statutes? Is it possible that they have something to hide? When I have something to hide I generally try to step around the people who I'm hiding something from. Does that make sense?
The justice department did reject the bush administration's notion that they should be able to do NSA surveillance under "a reasonable basis" isntead of "probable cause" as standard of the Fourth Amendment. Perhaps bush Co. realizes some of the "Terrorist Surveillance" (oh screw that, it's unwarranted surveillance, the country is breaking the law and tapping your phones without a court order) did not come up to par with the court's idea of what is necessary to have a warrant issued.
Personally I think we should get democrats for '06 so we can uncover what's going on. If we can have the House back for one session let it be when we can find out what illegal procedures Bush and his cronies are doing.
I have finally found out what to call the American-Iraq Conflict
OK. From now on it's called the "Authorization of force against Iraq" or the "Authorized use of force on Iraq". Let's get away from this whole "WAR" thing because I'm tired of hearing the chickenhawks say "in time of war", in "war of this widespread yada yada fuck you America such and such".
"Authorized use of force against Iraq" - you heard it here first.
Monday, February 06, 2006
Gonzales Aid's President in Illegal Surveillance
And while I was going to analyze everything Gonzales said wrong I saw this bomb at CrooksandLiars. I thought I watched the NSA questioning at least twice but apparently this slipped my mind.
Gonzalez is practically kicking us in the face and secretly laughing at us ( I say secretly because he is sort of holding the grin back).
Yes it is sick that the other side will sit there and pretend like everything is fine and dandy when you have scum puddles like this pushing the limits of their sick game and toying with the people of this country.
But once again I say it was damn funny. I cannot stop watching it. Yes they have us hypnotized I sat there listening when it was live. I heard it yet I did not hear it. Only now so many hours later do I realize I have been made a fool of. Kind of sad but they say so much shit it just flows through your brain.