Please Remember who you work for!

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Sunday October 08, 2006 · 11:29 AM PDT

2006/10/08 · 11:29

After reading Time's story: End of the Revolution, it becomes clear to me that the age old adage "Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely" continues to hold true regardless of promise or party.

It made me think of the times we got together as a group and sent flowers to Barbara Boxer or when we sent rubber stamps to the Congressional Republicans. What could I send now that would have meaning? I would love to send a sign to every single legislator in the US - something for them to hang in their office throughout their time in service - one that says "Please remember who you work for".
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The Trouble with Yearlykos

crkrjx

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Sunday June 11, 2006 · 10:18 AM PDT

2006/06/11 · 10:18

I have a feeling there will be repetitive diaries on this subject - but here goes mine...

I was a weepy mess still clutching my orange lanyard as I passed the Riviera one last time on my way to the airport this morning (4:50 a.m. ugh!). The weekend had completely drained me and yet had renewed me in my personal fights as well as the fight to put the United States back into the hands of its people - I am fired up!

Although I had registered for the convention, bought my tickets and reserved my room several months ago, I had some anxiety about attending a conference with such savvy and articulate people, some of whom had become my blog-heroes over the last two years. But even finding out I had cancer didn't stop me from being here... I told my doctors this would be among the most important things I would do this year so I would start chemo when I returned home.
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For you, your sisters, mothers, daughters and wives

crkrjx

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Sunday April 16, 2006 · 8:11 AM PDT

2006/04/16 · 08:11

I flipped and flopped about whether to put this diary up here but I decided that off-topic or not, if I help one person in my community here at dailykos, it will be worth it.

Ten years ago I gave up smoking as the final gift to my dad who was dying of colon cancer that had metastasized to his liver. His family had no history of cancer and he wasn't the type of guy who went to doctors or checked himself in any way. I think if he had, he'd still be with us today. Me, I'm different, I'm always trying to head things off at the pass. I quit smoking to head off lung cancer and I do the colonscopy shuffle every five years. Read More

Rumsfeld Prosecution -- Action Requested

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Thursday February 10, 2005 · 5:59 AM PST

2005/02/10 · 05:59

In a message from Amy Bartholomew of Lawyers Against the War

As you probably know, Donald Rumsfeld and the US government are pressuring Germany not to accept the investigation into Rumsfeld's (and others') responsibility for war crimes in Iraq -- in particular, torture at Abu
Ghraib-- that has been brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights New York), supported by Lawyers Against the War and others.

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The Ten Commandments Revisited

crkrjx

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Wednesday January 26, 2005 · 5:50 PM PST

2005/01/26 · 17:50

I woke up to someone talking about the Ten Commandments and I couldn't make the connection between those and the idea that the Bush administration feels that it is doing God's work...

I am the Lord, thy God, thou shalt not have strange gods before me.

Oil is W's god.

Iraq has the world's second largest proven oil reserves. According to oil industry experts, new exploration will probably raise Iraq's reserves to 2-300 billion barrels of high-grade crude, extraordinarily cheap to produce, leading to a gold-rush of profits for international oil firms in the post-Saddam era.

If you have a chance, see The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror. Read More

Iraqis boycott election fraud

crkrjx

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Sunday January 23, 2005 · 1:42 PM PST

2005/01/23 · 13:42

From Lawyers Against War:

This letter was sent to press yesterday,

"Dear Editor,
Iraq is being denied free and fair elections, after enduring decades of Saddam's brutal dictatorship. The US and British occupation governments have engineered a process for reproducing the US-appointed Iraqi Interim
Government, to prolong the occupation and incite sectarian and ethnic conflicts.

Millions of Iraqis, under siege in many parts of their homeland, will be disenfranchised, while hundreds of thousands of second generation Americans and Israelis could vote.

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Bush Says Election Ratified Iraq Policy

crkrjx

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Monday January 17, 2005 · 8:18 AM PST

2005/01/17 · 08:18

I couldn't believe my ears this morning when on Air America's news segment, the following was quoted from WaPo...

President Bush said the public's decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath.

(emphasis mine)

"We had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 elections," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. "The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me."

He's left the blame squarely on the citizens of this country but in doing so has absolved himself of any responsibility - I am so outraged!
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Wow... The law is not DEAD in the water

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Thursday January 13, 2005 · 2:52 PM PST

2005/01/13 · 14:52

Well looks like an investigation is in order

Update [2005-1-13 17:56:29 by crkrjx]: (with link this time) Senators Request Education Dept. Records

WASHINGTON - Leaders of a Senate committee have directed the Education Department to turn over records of its public relations contracts, at the same time reminding the education secretary of a federal ban on "propaganda."

The request comes after revelations that the Bush administration had paid a prominent black media commentator, Armstrong Williams, to promote the new education law that had been strongly supported by Bush.

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Tuesday January 11, 2005 · 2:35 PM PST

2005/01/11 · 14:35

This is hilarious - but what a great idea!

Purchasing a FOX Blocker and telling the advertisers at FOX News why you did it will encourage advertisers spending their money somewhere else.

If we band together and tell the advertisers to shut the FOX up, we can help limit the scope, or at least the profitability of FOX News.

FOXBlocker is an innovative new product that filters out the FOX News network. Simply screw the filter into the back of your TV and never be exposed to right wing propaganda again (at least through FOX News). Using a proprietary technology, the FOXBlocker works to filter out FOX News from your cable lineup.

Protect yourself and your family, or send one to a misguided right wing friend.

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More groups working to prosecute Rumsfeld...

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Thursday December 30, 2004 · 4:01 PM PST

2004/12/30 · 16:01

I get these updates from LAW (Canada's Lawyers Against the War) in email form so I will paste the entire text here for your reading pleasure:

24 December 2004

Lawyers against the War--LAW has completed the filing of documents to become a co-complainant in the torture charges filed in Germany against US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and 11 other named high ranking individuals in the US civil and military administration. The indictment and supporting brief were filed by the New York based Center for Constitutional Rights--CCR on November 30th 2004.

crkrjx

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Monday December 27, 2004 · 5:30 PM PST

2004/12/27 · 17:30

I just came from the post office where I mailed some 200 tee shirts to Ramstein AFB for distribution to the injured soldiers at Landstuhl Military Hospital. I had written the sizes and the note "for injured soliers at Landstuhl" on the box. The clerk at the post office saw that and asked if I was donating all of the shirts and I said yes, that I had heard (from Muddy Paws Diary ) that the injured were arriving at Landstuhl with just the bloody clothes on their back. For conversation sake, she said it wasn't tax deductible and I said, "Oh, I know." She whispered that she couldn't believe how the government officials would just eat expensive meals out and charge it to their constituents without blinking an eye while these people were there without bullet-proof vests. Read More

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Sunday December 26, 2004 · 8:43 AM PST

2004/12/26 · 08:43

IRAQ
From an article in the NYT:

This isn't the first time I've heard this suggestion in recent months - the possibility of circumventing the results after the election...

The Bush administration is talking to Iraqi leaders about guaranteeing Sunni Arabs a certain number of ministries or high-level jobs in the future Iraqi government if, as is widely predicted, Sunni candidates fail to do well in Iraq's elections.

>snip

An even more radical step, one that a Western diplomat said was raised already with an aide to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric, is the possibility of adding some of the top vote-getters among the Sunni candidates to the 275-member legislature, even if they lose to non-Sunni candidates.

>snip

The idea of altering election results is so sensitive that administration officials who spoke about it did not want their names revealed. Some experts on Iraq say such talk could undercut efforts to drum up support for voting in Sunni areas.

Please Remember who you work for!

The Trouble with Yearlykos

For you, your sisters, mothers, daughters and wives

Rumsfeld Prosecution -- Action Requested

The Ten Commandments Revisited

Iraqis boycott election fraud

Bush Says Election Ratified Iraq Policy

Wow... The law is not DEAD in the water

Send A Message To The Advertisers At FOX

More groups working to prosecute Rumsfeld...

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