What ever happened to Support Our Troops?

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Friday September 19, 2008 · 9:35 AM PDT

2008/09/19 · 09:35

I was driving home today when it hit me: I hadn't seen a bumper sticker with Support Our Troops on it for months. For years now, I've grated my teeth and clenched my fists on the wheel when I saw one of those damned bumper stickers - and they were everywhere. They weren't calling on us to support our troops, they were calling on us to support GW's War of Aggression. I freaking HATED those God Damned bumper stickers more than anything I can think of in recent memory.

So where the hell did they all go? Did the conservatives all wake up one day and suddenly realize how SHAMEFUL those bumper stickers were? Did they have enough of hearing about it from their neighbors?

Where did they go?

Pen

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Friday July 25, 2008 · 4:27 PM PDT

2008/07/25 · 16:27

It's been nearly two years since I first posted my series, The Usual Suspects I, II, III, IV, and V, but a recent diary by lukery has inspired me to revisit this subject. New info has come forth that demands examination. Is the White House involved in heroin trafficking? Are The Usual Suspects up to more than just what they've put forth in the PNAC? The evidence seems to say so. The evidence seems to put The Usual Suspects right at the heart of a drug smuggling operation that supplies 93% of the worlds heroin and funnels money right to Al Queda.

Pen

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Wednesday June 18, 2008 · 4:54 PM PDT

2008/06/18 · 16:54

Clay Bennett, one of the owners of the Seattle SuperSonics, is the ultimate example of the Culture of Corporate Welfare that dominates our nation at this time. His mindset is made clear by his testimony yesterday and today in court: The people of Seattle don't deserve an NBA team despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on Key Arena because they won't vote to throw even more Corporate Welfare at a man who admits under oath that he can easily absorb $60 million in losses over the next two years. Which begs the question: if he can absorb it, why couldn't he have just used the money to make the renovations to Key Arena himself?

Fortunately, he seems to have perjured himself today. More below the fold.

Pen

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Wednesday November 28, 2007 · 10:41 AM PST

2007/11/28 · 10:41

Hello good friends, I thought today was a fine day to post something on my favorite website. If anyone was wondering where I've been, I've been home battling health problems associated with taking the most dangerous drug in the history of that class of drugs. I'm referring to Vioxx. Well, I'm hanging in there folks, or more importantly, my kidneys and heart are hanging in there, but it's been a rough ride.

So why is today such a fine day to post something? Cuz I'm being sarcastic, of course. Today I heard the news about Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG being told by the FDA to put a sterner warning on it's flu medecine Tamiflu. You see, it turns out that Tamiflu might be responsible for causing psychotic behavior in children. It seems three children have jumped off balconies to their deaths and one ran into traffic killing himself.

Pen

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Wednesday September 19, 2007 · 4:39 PM PDT

2007/09/19 · 16:39

When one of our Democratic congressmen starts carrying water for AIPAC, which has been involved in extensive espionage cases against the United States employing well known neocons for the past 40 years, it's time for said congressman to go.

Steny Hoyer whipped out the "anti-semite" card on Jim Moran when he conflated "the jewish community" with AIPAC's undue influence. This is exactly what AIPAC does when anyone criticizes them. It's obvious just exactly WHO is under the undue influence of AIPAC: Steny Hoyer.

Pen

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Monday September 17, 2007 · 7:19 PM PDT

2007/09/17 · 19:19

From time to time we see a lot of misinformation passed around by both sides of the American political machine pertaining to some foreign country or another. So much of it passes for gospel in the United States, but, as has been the case over and over again in U.S. history, what the American public thinks it knows and what the reality is are two very different things.

Hugo Chavez is a case in point.

Let's explore 4 myths about Hugo Chavez and see if we can bust them or not.

Pen

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Thursday August 23, 2007 · 10:35 PM PDT

2007/08/23 · 22:35

So much for "unelectability".

Dennis Kucinich, with a whopping 58%, beat out all other Democratic and Republican candidates combined in an independent survey you can take yourself of over 136,916 respondents.

This survey poses 25 issues and asks your stand on them. Then it pairs your stands with the candidates who agree with you. The candidate who agrees with you the most gets your "vote".

Kucinich has 79,044 votes.
The second runner up is Gravel at 9,601.

Poll

175 votes Show Results

I took the survey and the winner was:

175 votes Vote Now!

I took the survey and the winner was:

Kucinich

123 votes

Gravel

8 votes

Edwards

6 votes

Obama

7 votes

Richardson

0 votes

Clinton

1 vote

Paul

5 votes

Romney

0 votes

Giuliani

4 votes

Darth Vader

11 votes

pie

10 votes

What is Money? A Money 101 tutorial that EVERYONE should watch.

Pen

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Wednesday August 22, 2007 · 12:52 PM PDT

2007/08/22 · 12:52

If you think you know what money is, you're probably wrong. If you think the money you put into the bank is where they get their money to do business, you're certainly wrong. If you think getting America out of debt is going to solve a lot of problems and really help the economy, then you REALLY need to watch Paul Grignon's animated movie below:

What is Money?

Very educational, raises some interesting questions and has an excellent solution to the madness we've created.

A few excerpts for those too time challenged after the fold.

Pen

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Sunday August 12, 2007 · 10:58 PM PDT

2007/08/12 · 22:58

The Italian police broke up an arms deal that would have sent 100,000 Russian-made automatic weapons into Iraq. The deal involved Iraqi government officials in the Interior Ministry Dept. In intercepted emails, these Iraqi officials claimed the deal had complete U.S. approval. The U.S., of course, denied this. Dario Razzi, the lead Italian investigator in the case, points out that it is "strange" that the U.S. supported Iraqi government would seek out weapons via the black market when they have legitimate channels to get such weapons.

But then we get to the go-between in the deal, the Al-Handel General Trading Company in Dubai. That's where things start to get interesting.

Pen

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Monday August 06, 2007 · 7:06 PM PDT

2007/08/06 · 19:06

Maybe I'm being naive here, but I disagree that we can't find unity. As an activist faithfully described it in an email to me(see below the fold), each group only allies with others for the purpose of pushing their own agenda. That is normal and to be expected. What we need is a LEADER who can bring all these different agendas together to work for a common purpose. And to do that he needs to understand the basic fundamental rule of leading a coalition: getting each group to understand that the current goal they are united in attaining is in each of their own best interests.

There couldn't be a more perfect time for such an alliance to exist as right now.

Pen

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Friday July 27, 2007 · 12:05 PM PDT

2007/07/27 · 12:05

All you need to know about Ron Paul can be found in this excellent article by Seattle's own David Neiwert. Ron Paul is being declared "the one" by the libertarians and is drawing to himself many disillusioned anti-war progressives. It would be wise for anyone who might consider actually voting for Ron Paul to consider Davids words below:

Pen

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Wednesday July 04, 2007 · 2:55 PM PDT

2007/07/04 · 14:55

YOU, Nancy Pelosi, are what is standing between George Bush and the will of the people to have him impeached. YOU and YOU alone. Many Americans are asking Why? Why won't Nancy Pelosi put Impeachment on the table? It is a fair question. Some of us think we know the answer and it's not a pretty one.

As I've exposed elsewhere, there is a foreign lobby, the second largest lobby in the United States, that has thrown itself wholeheartedly behind the agenda of the neocons. You can read more of their ties to The Usual Suspects here, and here.

Have you been drinking the neocon/AIPAC Koolaid too Nancy?

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The Culture of Corporate Welfare and Seattle's Sonics

Ahhh, the joys of corporatism

Steny Hoyer needs to go

UPDATE: Exploding the myths about Hugo Chavez

Kucinich wins in a landslide.

What is Money? A Money 101 tutorial that EVERYONE should watch.

U.S. okayed Iraqi Interior Ministry to arm insurgents?

All our activist groups need to Unite NOW!!!

All you need to know about Ron Paul

This is to YOU, Nancy Pelosi: Impeach or resign