Hillary laughs and Iran gets bombed

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Thursday October 18, 2007 · 4:50 AM PDT

2007/10/18 · 04:50

For some time now I have been tracking the developments as this administration pushes for a strike on Iran, if not a full-blown bombing campaign. While real progressives shy away from any expansion of the conflict in the Middle East, it has become increasingly apparent that many leading figures, including, evidently, the entire Senate (with only a couple of exceptions) buy into the notion of some sort of punishing blow on Iran, probably quite soon.

To name but one prominent Senator who recently voted up the Kyl-Lieberman resolution, on Amy Goodman’s recent "Democracy Now!" radio program, Hillary Clinton actually laughed at Senator Mike Gravel when he strongly protest her vote on Kyl-Lieberman. This was followed by Seymour Hersh's remarks that her participation in this bellicose action was at the instigation of "Jewish money",by which he was referring to the AIPAC lobby and the rabid pro-Zionists in her New York constituency.

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Tuesday May 22, 2007 · 11:08 AM PDT

2007/05/22 · 11:08

MySpace, the hot youth-oriented social webspace, has agreed to delete the profiles of convicted sex criminals.

As at least one news sources is reporting, MySpace is using "innovative" software to identify and yank convicted sex fiends' profiles.

"Information was saved for law enforcement officials, [MySpace] chief security officer Hemanshu Nigam said.

"We've always intended to provide law enforcement with the information," Mr Nigam said.

"The last week has been about the mechanism to provide the information in a way so that someone charged by law enforcement doesn't get off because of a technicality."

What does that last sentence mean? Was that legal weasel talk? "Get off because of a technicality"? Get off from what, precisely? So is this dude Nigam saying that part of being a convicted sex criminal is losing the freedom of speech? When did that happen?

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Friday April 20, 2007 · 3:51 PM PDT

2007/04/20 · 15:51

"Thanks for taking the bullet for me, Gonzo." -- President George W. Bush

The neocon cabal that runs the White House must have thanked whatever dark lords presently preside over this country when former Attorney General John Ashcroft quit.

Ashcroft is no pushover. In fact, he is a deeply religious and somewhat morally rigid man, who would no longer put up with the neocons' immoral shenanigans and interference with his Justice Department. He announced that he was out of there.

The neocons were at a loss; they desperately needed a frontman to help push their consolidation of presidential power and John Yoo was occupied elsewhere spinning webs of lies and deceit. But - low and behold! - right there in their midst was a week-willed, shifty, and easily manipulable sycophant that they could plop into the Attorney General's chair. He would do what he was told, and then conveniently forget about it: Gonzo the Forgetful.

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Thursday July 13, 2006 · 2:21 AM PDT

2006/07/13 · 02:21

How's that electronic Wor on Turruor going for ya, Bub? Hearing strange beeps and boops on your landline, and you say your PDA is making funny noises? Well, you ain't alone, pal. Check this out:

And you're absolutely sure it's not the NSA folks at AT&T having a little fun again?
You would think news that U.S. State Department facilities around the world have been under attack for a month would cause at least a little stir, but because the attacks are occuring on the shadowy battlefield of the Internet, barely an eyebrow has been raised.
The AP reports that employees say hackers appeared to hit computers especially hard at headquarters and inside the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, which coordinates diplomacy in countries including China, the Koreas and Japan. In the tense weeks preceding North Korea's missile tests, that bureau lost its Internet connectivity for several days.

(Jeeze, now I'm feeling reeally safe.) Read More

We're Losing Our Hegemony

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Tuesday June 27, 2006 · 11:22 AM PDT

2006/06/27 · 11:22

While this administration cries about "bringing democracy" to the Middle East as we bomb the crap out of Iraq, and, to a lesser extent Afghanistan, the real objective - the global hegemony of the oil production centers of the world, as well as providing a laboratory for testing neoliberal Chicago School economics in a zone of "free enterprise" (an abyssmal failure so far) in the Middle East - is quietly slipping out of the American orbit, and into the sphere of influence of China and Russia.

It is pretty obvious now that the intent of the invasion of Iraq was to shut down its production, thus keeping the price of crude artificially high. This tactic has resulted in driving the governments of Russia and China to change game plans, in order to ensure their access to oil and natural gas, and under their control. Read More

The American body politic - Where is the center?

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Tuesday June 13, 2006 · 4:24 PM PDT

2006/06/13 · 16:24

Over the last weekend, over a thousand Democrats, so-called liberals, and some far-left (but non-aligned) liberals, along with a bunch of independents gathered in the great American playground called Las Vegas. This gathering - dubbed YearlyKos - was symbolic in a couple of ways: it marked the first mass meeting of so-called bloggers - online political activists and pundits - as well as pissed-off voters, and took place in America's fastest-growing city, a city that in recent years has remade itself completely from a bastion of Mafia-controlled gambling to a Disneyland-like playground for average families, many of whom never even go near a gambling table. Read More

Atrocities sell newspapers - and TV time

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Tuesday June 06, 2006 · 1:15 AM PDT

2006/06/06 · 01:15

Why are we hearing about Hidatha at all? Lots of people are getting wiped out in Iraq everyday; "It's a war," they have been telling us for years. Like Rumsfeld told us, "Stuff happens."

Well, I have a couple of thoughts on that.

First of all, it is the sworn duty of corporations to deliver profits to their owners; operating big media costs big money, so big media must deliver big viewership numbers.

Most folks don't like to hear bad news, and as it tends to drive ratings down, the producers and managing editors of the MSM have been reluctant to depict the real violence in Iraq (or Afghanistan, for that matter). Who is winning or losing isn't the point; viewership is. Read More

Call for a new constitiutional convention

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Tuesday May 02, 2006 · 1:22 AM PDT

2006/05/02 · 01:22

This president has been very fond of reserving to himself the right to decide if a law enacted by Congress might be constitutional, and whether or not he should obey it.

He writes signing statements, which have no basis in the Constitution itself, are in fact sort of an ad hoc editorial comment, but have somehow become legitimate through long practice, which is to say, legimate only by virtue of Congress' dereliction of its duty in its longtime toleration of this extra-legal practice.

And when a congressman or senator does object, or even gets a piece of legislation passed (as McCain did when he sponsored his McCain Amendment) specifically admonishing the president as to his conduct in regard to, say, illegal wiretapping, why, the president just writes another signing letter saying he'll think about it, and that's it. The law goes in the dumpster and stays there. Read More

Democrats are still stuck on stupid

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Friday March 17, 2006 · 4:54 PM PST

2006/03/17 · 16:54

So Russ Feingold popped the question the other day, and the Senate Democrats ran like hell. Well, OK, not every single one of them, just all but three. That's pretty sad.

What was Russ' question, you ask? Well, he just wanted a censure (not an impeachment, just a kind of political slap on the wrist) of this president for his domestic spying. After all, something like 70% of Dems and - according to an ARG poll conducted March 13-15, a plurality of Americans - support Feingold's resolution to censure Bush, and nearly half would support impeachment.

However, when approached by reporters from the Washington Post, among others, each and every Senator fled. That's right: ran away when asked if they would join the censure - went and hid from the reporters, like scared kids.
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State of Dis Union

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Sunday February 05, 2006 · 2:02 PM PST

2006/02/05 · 14:02

Have you ever seen such a piss-poor example of public speaking than President Bush's State of the Union speech the other night? Alternately grimacing, smirking, and with facial ticks exploding, he gave the worst delivery I have seen since Betty Ann Bowdowski gave my junior high school commencement address.

And, of course, he lied right through his very teeth; every word a sculpted falsehood, and every breath mendacious. Plus he had that look of the inner spoiled child we all know him to be - that furtive, sneaky, corner-of-the-eye look you get from a nine-year-old who has been caught breaking into the liquor cabinet. Yep, that look you get from adolescents when they know that we know that they're lying. They don't stop lying, of course, but still, that look that makes you want to smack `em. Read More

Supremes have always been activists

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Tuesday August 09, 2005 · 1:55 PM PDT

2005/08/09 · 13:55

From the very beginning of this country, the Supreme Court has been an activist court. While it is true that Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton opposed Marbury v. Madison(1803), on the grounds that they thought that the Constitution did not give the Supreme court jurisdiction over the Executive branch, they did not actively oppose it by refusing to obey its decision, as well they could have; Congress did not pass legislation modifying the Constitution in an effort to curtail the Court and, by the acquiescence of both the Executive and the Legislative branches, the idea that the Supreme Court was entitled to say what the law means became the modus operandi of American government. Today we accept that the Supreme Court is the superior branch, arbitrating what is Constitutional and what is not. Read More

Impeach Judge Jay Bybee Now

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Thursday July 28, 2005 · 12:19 PM PDT

2005/07/28 · 12:19

One little item before we confirm the nomination of the Honorable John Roberts: the author of the memos that started this whole torture mess, Jay Bybee, Appellate Judge, Ninth Circuit, needs to be impeached.

This is the cat that wrote the memos that gave the earnest Alberto and others the fuel to start the fires of the torching of the Constitution. Read More

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Atrocities sell newspapers - and TV time

Call for a new constitiutional convention

Democrats are still stuck on stupid

State of Dis Union

Supremes have always been activists

Impeach Judge Jay Bybee Now