The DeLays' are numerous...

Another report on Tom DeLay (R-Tx.) and his associated dealings.

enjoy.
BB

Say goodbye to your Rights.

With no announcement, the Senate Intelligence Committee has scheduled a closed door session to approve a version of the Patriot Act that would be even worse than the present act being considered by the Judiciary Committee. The hand of the White House seems to be behind the sneaky maneuver.
In a stunning slap at the democratic legislative process, the Senate Intelligence Committee, headed by Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas), has suddenly and quietly scheduled a closed-door session for this Thursday to mark up its version of a renewed USA PATRIOT ACT...

What about the Bush energy Bills?

Last month, the House passed an energy bill that one environmentalist characterized as “an energy policy for the 19th century”—replete with subsidies for coal and oil, special deals for big polluters, and literally no provision to reduce our growing dependence on foreign oil. The bill’s odious features may be one reason a new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll found the public overwhelmingly believes Congress has done too little to reduce gas prices.

A new way to look at Memorial day

Soon, Memorial Day will be upon us, and stores will put up bunting and flags to try to lure in more shoppers to do their national duty -- and shop.
Cable and TV networks will run war movies, and the corporate news networks will run file footage of old vets, of new war wounded, to stoke up ratings more than anything else.
But, memorial days, no matter where they occur, aren't about remembering.
They're about forgetting. ...

Republicrats

The Republican party still sells themselves (albeit unbelivably to me) as the party of "small federal governement, civil liberties, fiscally responsible.." These are not bad things. These are things that I am for. Now, I'm not particularly alligned with any political party across the board but in reflection of the Republicans of my adult life, I'll be 36 this year, why is it that whenever a Republican is in office I have to spend more time pulling THEIR morals, opinions and religion out of MY ass? Also, the nation is then left with a HUGE fiscal deficit. And, more "moral/religious/value" issues are suddenly the governments responsibility? The whole time claiming the HIGH road pointing their finger every time a Democrat might pick up a lunch tab. This holier than thow attitude is hypocritical and arrogant. And let us not forget the "I'm just small town country foke" that has been the basis of Republican presentations for the last fifteen years regardless of truths.

Let us review:
Reagan: "Just say No" to drugs campaign which was the ground work to the "War on Drugs" which led to more Americans losing their civil liberties than the drugs caused in the first place. To the point when Nobel laureate Milton Friedman commented on how the war on Drugs has sacrificed more civil liberties than anything in the nations history. And, also put us over South Africa for more people per-capita in jail.
The Military Industrial Complex: Remember the HUGE military spending? Remember the huge sums of money? Remember the huge amount of debt it left the country in? I do. Not very "fiscally responsible" Remember how the country cried out for "smaller government" after the Reagan-Bush years? (a promise that Clinton actually delivered on)
We wont even talk about El Salvado, Guatamala, and Honduras I'll just say that do a search of the "United Fruit Company" and see what you get. I haven't done this in years but it was interesting reading when I did it.

Bush Sr.: For the first time in almost fifty years a womans right to choose comes under question when the administration suddenly adopts a "pro-life" agenda. This is despite YEARS of the Bushs' being pro-choice. Did you know, Barabara Bush was head of Connecticuts planned parenthood for ten years? That's right Connecticut, not very Texan is it? Doesn't have the same sort of small town zeal that a town in Texas does does it? But who started righting BIG checks to the Bush Campaign in the middle of Bushs' term, the Christian right. And for those that may not remember, the largest terrorist organizations that operated in the country in those years were some "christian" organizations. Fire bombing buildings, murdering doctors and nurses, and assaulting people outside of buildings are all acts of terrorism. Regardless of where these people work or what these buildings are/were. But these acts were never called such because they were done by "Christian" organizations. A little tidbit that KNOWONE has had the balls to call as it is.

Bush Jr. aka Shrub:
Well the list of selling out and government-for-hire is really too long to list. See some of my posts and subsequent links as well as thousands of others.
One thing that I will state is: Stealing not one but two elections. Rigging voting machines. Having a secretary of state be the co-chair of the Republican party election campaign. Guess which states, that's right Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004. Hmmm...wasn't there some sort of discrepancy in those states??? YOUR FUCKING RIGHT THERE WAS.
Listen, you and I could disagree on almost any topic but the election is SACRED to a democracy and you just don't mess with it. And the FUCKING gall of this man to state that "the people have voiced there opinions through the election process.." and that ''free" elections are taking place in Iraq. Had it not been for rigged elections this man wouldn't be in office. Both Repub's and Dems say that there were "irregularities" in both elections. Republicans don't seem to mind so much because they won.
This just goes to show you that if ANY OF THESE ELECTED SWINE were worth their salt, they would know that elected office is a duty and a privilege and the OFFICE IS GREATER THAN THE MAN. THE COUNTRY IS GREATER THAN THE OFFICE. It's not about stuffing your pockets and pushing your agenda, holding office is about doing what is right for the country as a whole. And, when you do something to undermine the country, like election tampering, you do a great disservice to us all and weaken the strength and dignity of the country your pretend to serve.
Oh, and all the Texas bullshit. As nationally syndicated columnist and Texan Molly Ivens states that Midland Texas is like Darian Connecticut. This is where the rich live. Midland, may be in oil country, but this is where the people who OWN the oil companies live. Not the blue collars who are working the rigs. Pres. Shrub grew up rich and has always been rich. He was driven to schools in limos. As for that " I went to school in Midland.." Yea, for two years, He graduated from a Northeastern Prep school and than continued on to Yale and Harvard. Not very Texan. Yale of course is the family school. Both he and Kerry were Skull and Bones together at Yale.
As for "his ranch in Crawford" yea, he bought it AFTER he won the election (whew, sounds like he is just dripping with Texan....NOT)

Oh, here is one that makes me sick:
"he is a man of god"
yea, well so was TORQUEMADA

Well, that is it for me on this diatribe.
BB

I just watched Real Time with Bill Maher and...

Real Time with Bill Maher is one of the few shows on that I enjoy. This show is not afraid to discuss the issues that the mainstream media seems to avoid, albeit with a chuckle and smile and still a little daintily for my money. But politics include mediation of a message and keeping ones job so I don’t hold a grudge against Bill Maher who has already lost one show for speaking out (It does the first amendment proud, no?). But, between Real Time and The Daily Show with John Stewart there is at least some bastion of almost debate and somewhat pointed question asking that is going on on TV. O.K. so one show is on a subscription channel and the other is on Comedy Central, hardly mainstream but I’ll take it where I can. Sad, isn’t it, that some of the only remotely decent debate and news programming is airing on a subscription channel and Comedy Central? But I digress.

Tonight’s Real Time panel had Gore Vidal and Al Franken along with some ABC news correspondent who used to work for The Christian Science Monitor. Sorry, I don’t remember her name. During the show the war in Iraq came up for discussion and I was pleased to hear Bill say, albeit at the end during the “New Rules” segment, that if you “support the war” than go and fight in it. This sentiment is one that resembles this one veterans feelings precisely. He also said that Brittany Spears and her husband should be carted off to the same fate for her saying one time “…we should have faith in the Presidents judgment and trust him and support his decision.” This is another one of Bills decisions that I agree with. Although she might be more useful if we could teach her some actual facts and than have her maybe positively influence some younger minds, but than I digress into my daydreams. Who knows, even pop stars were getting blacklisted for speaking out against the President at the time so I won't push the Brittany issue. (Although maybe playing her videos "over there" could be used in "the war on terror.")

I have often “left” Real Time with Bill Maher thinking this one thought and have often wanted to express it and now it is time. Something that has not been stated on the show, or any other show too my knowledge even by or too Gen. Clark when he was on and that thought is this. When a soldier is sworn into service He/She is sworn in to ”defend the CONSTITUTION of the United States of America, against all enemies, foreign and domestic…”
Never once do you swear to defend the decisions of one person, even the President or Commander in Chief. Another bit of wisdom that made it’s way into the early establishment of America and ironically also gets forgotten.

My point is this, at no time has the nation of Iraq committed any attack, in any way, that threatens the Constitution of the United States. In fact, Iraq has never committed an attack against the US period physical or otherwise. Saudi Arabia and certain Afghan citizens another story, but Iraq no. I’m not saying that Saddam was a great guy or anything, but if he was such and asshole (and I’m sure he was) why did we (the United States, more specifically the CIA) put him in power in the first place? (And, who had a top position in the CIA at the time, you guessed it, Bush Sr.) This is just another one or our bastard stepchildren who we put in a position of power and who came back to bite us in the ass? Let us do a brief review: Manuel Noriega, who after allowing to smuggle millions nay billions of dollars worth of Cocaine into the country while receiving US protection, US service members still had to go rescue him and steel him out of his own country before being executed. Osama Bin-Laden, what!? How can that be? Remember the Soviet war in Afghanistan? Remember that bunker he was hiding in? Guess who built it? We, the US taxpayer built it. Guess who trained Bin-Laden, “We” again. Bin-Laden was "our ally" in the Soviet War in Afghanistan. Of course being a member of the Saudi Royal family doesn’t hurt. After all, the Saudi Royal family and the Bush family are long time family friends. Again, I digress. Where did all this training take place? At the College of the Americas where we have trained many of the 20th centuries great brutal dictators. Including the above mentioned political celeb’s as well as that guy who was having his own little genocide party in South America a few years ago, please remind be because I’m blanking out on his name but yes another star pupil.
Haven’t we had enough? Where does it end?

Is having a strip mall in every town in the world really this important? If so, what is the true price?

Spin of the week

Operation Iraqi Sims
The U.S. Army Reserve 7th Psychological Operations (Psyops) group “is offering soldiers a crash course in Iraqi community relations intended to help them defuse potentially hostile situations when they arrive in the region.” Over the past year, the group has trained more than 300 Army Reservists at three locations in California, using “simulated Iraqi towns populated by Arab-Americans hired by

Iraq bombshell goes mostly unreported in U..S media

Journalists typically condemn attempts to force their colleagues to disclose anonymous sources, saying that subpoenaing reporters will discourage efforts to expose government wrongdoing. But such warnings seem like mere self-congratulation when clear evidence of wrongdoing emerges, with no anonymous sources required—and major news outlets virtually ignore it.
A leaked document that appeared in a British newspaper offered clear new evidence that U.S. intelligence was shaped to support the drive for war. Though the information rocked British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s re-election campaign when it was revealed, it has received little attention in the U.S. press...

Anarchist Killed by Police in Colombia

oday the doctors announced the death of Nicolás David Neira Alvares, a 15 year old who was marching in the anarchist block the past 1st of May. Like never before in the past few years, many young people decided to come together to protest against capitalism. The huge demonstration which included union workers, farmers, students, unemployed people and activists, marched in a non-violent manner on one of the main streets of Bogotá. The demonstration not only remembered those who were killed by the State in Chicago, but also denounced the current precarious economical and social conditions of Colombia, demanded a halt to the Free Trade Treatise and made public the atrocities that are being committed by the current fascist government...

The Bay bridge debacle

By request:
Here is an article regarding the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge construction fiasco.

If I run across anything else I will post.

Ben

More DeLay's

Here is a place to hear some information that you may not have heard about Tom DeLay. Information about him funneling funds into peoples campaigns and other information that doesn't make the mainstream news.

Enjoy

click on the title.

A word on the British elections

A word on our bitch in the North Atlantic and the elections that just happened there.

targeting of journalists

When we say targeting journalists, we didn't think that it means literally targetting them with gunsights.