Guns and Butter

Listen to this interesting audio link. A speach by Prof. Crispin Miller addressing the attack on our democracy.
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I'M THE DECIDER (Koo Koo Ka Choo)

Check this out!!!

What You Need To Believe To Be A Republican:

Yea, I think I've posted this before. But, it still cracks me up. And, it's still true.
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* Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals.

* Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's father made war on him, a good guy
when Cheney did business with him, and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion.

* Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is Communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to the spirit of international harmony.

* The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest national priority is enforcing UN resolutions against Iraq.

* A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.

* The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.

* If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.

* A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our longtime allies, then demand their cooperation and money

* Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy, but providing health care to all Americans is socialism. HMOs and insurance companies have the best interests of the public at heart.

* Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.

* A president lying about an extramarital affair is a impeachable offense, but a president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy.

* Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.

* The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George Bush's driving record is none of our business.

* Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an illness and you need our prayers for your recovery.

* What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital national interest, but what Bush did in the '80s is irrelevant.

Six 'Green Nobels' to be Awarded Today

Some props' for the ones who fight back!!!!


by Douglas Fischer

SAN FRANCISCO — Craig Williams' son was a year old when he learned the U.S. government planned to incinerate 523 tons of chemical weapons 8 miles from his home in rural Berea, Ky.

Worried about the risk, Williams, a Vietnam veteran, pulled out his typewriter and started writing. He is still writing.

Today his son is 23. The weapons — nerve and mustard gas — have not moved, but the Army has agreed to a safer, water-based process to destroy the stockpiles there and at three other sites throughout the country.

For his efforts, Williams today is one of six winners of the 2006 Goldman Environmental Prize, a $125,000 award that is the highest honor of its kind for grass-roots environmentalists and is often called the "Green Nobel."

Winners represent each of the six major continents. The award was founded in 1990 by San Francisco philanthropist Richard Goldman and his late wife, Rhoda Goldman, heirs to the Levi Strauss fortune.

This year, all six Goldman winners have fought not just to protect the environment but to force their governments to protect the voiceless, rather than pander to special interests.

Williams, 58, has spent 23 years fighting the Army's plans to burn the roughly 24,000 tons of obsolete chemical weapons agents stockpiled in eight sites around the United States.

Overreacting to Protest

The link is to the full article. But here is the nuts and bolts of the reality;

For that, Ms. Wang has been charged under a law that makes anyone who "intimidates, coerces, threatens, or harasses a foreign official or an official guest or obstructs a foreign official in the performance of his duties" face up to six months in jail. Such laws are necessary to protect visiting dignitaries from attacks -- and to ensure reciprocal protections for U.S. officials abroad.

WTF is that ???

So does that mean, that on U.S. soil the 1st amendment applies to people so long as they are addressing U.S. citizens? And if not you go to jail?
Or so long as our officials get the same benefit abroad? Yea, we (U.S. dignitaries) would hate to hear what a crap job our government was doing meddling in the politics of another country, especially by the citizens of that country.

Desert Rats Leave The Sinking Ship

Man, I like it when this guy puts pen to paper.
The title-link goes to the full article.
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The Guardian - Comment
Friday, April 14, 2006

By Greg Palast

Well, here they come: the wannabe Rommels, the gaggle of generals, safely retired, to lay siege to Donald Rumsfeld. This week, six of them have called for the Secretary of Defense's resignation.

Well, according to my watch, they're about four years too late -- and they still don't get it.

I know that most of my readers will be tickled pink that the bemedalled boys in crew cuts are finally ready to kick Rummy In the rump, in public. But to me, it just shows me that these boys still can't shoot straight.

It wasn't Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld who stood up in front of the UN and identified two mobile latrines as biological weapons labs, was it, General Powell?

It wasn't Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld who told us our next warning from Saddam could be a mushroom cloud, was it Condoleeza?

It wasn't Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld who declared that Al Qaeda and Saddam were going steady, was it, Mr. Cheney?

Yes, Rumfeld is a swaggering bag of mendacious arrogance, a duplicitous chicken-hawk, yellow-bellied bully-boy and Tinker-Toy Napoleon -- but he didn't appoint himself Secretary of Defense.

Ex-Illinois Gov. Guilty of Fraud, Racketeering

I encourage you to read the full article. You KNOW there are names that you will recognize (there are).

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By Matt O’Connor and Rudolph Bush, Tribune staff reporters
10:29 AM PDT, April 17, 2006

A federal jury convicted former Gov. George Ryan today on all charges that as secretary of state he steered state business to cronies in return for vacations, gifts and other benefits for himself and his family.

Lobbyist Lawrence Warner, a close Ryan friend, was also found guilty on all charges against him in the historic trial.

Oldest evidence yet of fish moving to land

"yea, but isn't the whole creation theory just easier?"
S. Colbert

"This is another gap closed that a deity no longer needs to fill," Clack said in an e-mail discussion on evolution with The Chronicle. "The fossil combines features of fish and tetrapods such that it fits perfectly between the two."

NEWSVIEW: Leak-Hating President, As Leaker

NEWSVIEW: the Leak-Hating President As Leaker-In-Chief? a President Better Mean What He Says

By TOM RAUM

WASHINGTON Apr 7, 2006 (AP)— President Bush insists a president "better mean what he says." Those words could return to haunt him.

After long denouncing leaks of all kinds, Bush is confronted with a statement unchallenged by his aides that he authorized a leak of classified material to undermine an Iraq war critic.

White House refuses to discuss Bush role in Iraq war leaks

Let the whole house of cards come crumbling down
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WASHINGTON - The White House on Friday declined to say whether President George W. Bush authorized the release of a CIA document in a bid to legitimize the Iraq war, as a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney has charged.