Monday, July 3, 2006

New York Times Wingnut Treason Protest...pics
Looks Like More Media Guys Then Protesters
Bush Directed Cheney To Counter War Critic

Bush told the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case that he directed Vice President Dick Cheney to personally lead an effort to counter allegations made by former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV that his administration had misrepresented intelligence information to make the case to go to war with Iraq.....more
Right-Wing Blog Asks Readers to "Hunt Down" Info About NYT Editors' Children
Note to Malkin. Note to Powerline. Note to RedState.

You're all worms. You're sick; you're disgusting; you are an affront to everything America stands for. Your stupidity makes angels cry, and your constant insistence on pushing blatantly false premises and stories taints this nation and taints the very premise of "journalism". You are shameless, cowardly, petty thugs, and you are apparently pathological liars....more
Poll: Britons tire of cruel, vulgar US

People in Britain view the United States as a vulgar, crime-ridden society obsessed with money and led by an incompetent president whose Iraq' policy is failing, according to a newspaper poll.....more
GOP Faithful
"Binladenism"
Al-Qaeda, Still in Business

Almost five years after the attacks on Washington and New York, al-Qaeda not only remains in business in its traditional stronghold on the Afghan-Pakistan border, but continues to project its ideology and terrorism abroad.....more
The L Word In Connecticut

Want to see a Democratic senator squirm? Don't ask about Iraq or gasoline prices. Ask about Joe Lieberman....more
Gaza's Slide To War
Jane Kinninmont

Israel's land invasion of Gaza is a gift to hawks on both sides of the conflict, who see strategic gains to be made. Amid fears of all-out war, Jane Kinninmont traces the straining political fault-lines.....more

A Great Piece On Both Sides Of This Nonsense
Eight die in fresh Iraq bombings

Bombings in two crowded Iraqi markets have killed at least eight people and wounded dozens of others.....more

In pictures.....click here
Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say

The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court....more

Sunday, July 2, 2006

Two Faces of GOP Hate
Hans Johnson

On the surface, Shawn Stuart and Ralph Reed have little in common, other than their quest for public office this year as Republicans. But, Stuart, a bona fide Nazi running for state representative in Montana, and Reed, who has repeatedly appealed to antigay and racist bias as Georgia GOP chair and hopes to become lieutenant governor, share an intimate bond. They both have bigotry at the core of their campaigns.....more
''Checks & balances' won't stop this regime — they must be driven out'

Since 9/11, the Bush regime has been shredding the rule of law that has been the governing norm in the US for the last 200 years, arrogating increasing unchecked power to the executive branch, and cementing new police state measures and the architecture of fascism into place while at the same time violating international law in its pursuit for empire around the world....more
AU Darfur mission 'to end soon
'The 7,000-strong AU force is hampered by lack of funds The African Union has insisted its peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region will end in three months' time.....more

First Annual Sudan Relief Jam
Skipper's Smokehouse
July 9th from 2:00pm - 10:00pm
$15.00 in advance/$20.00 at the door
Sudan Relief Committee
Meet: Jerry McNerney for Congress
This Guy Is Running Against "Pombo"

I may be leading Richard Pombo in the polls (46 to 42 percent, according to Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research) but I’ll need money – and lots of it – to send Pombo and his Big Oil buddies packing.

You can help me right now by contributing to my campaign to take down Pombo and take back Congress.
The US Supreme Court: law against power

On 29 June 2006, the United States Supreme Court struck a blow for the rule of law, deciding in every respect against the Bush administration.
The American judges' ruling against Bush's military-tribunal plan for Guantánamo detainees is a historic moment.....more

How any chance of an oil deal died
With no unified counterproposal to offer, the Florida delegation ended up able to do little to stand in the way of gulf drilling.....more

Saturday, July 1, 2006

STOGIE BANISHED TO THE SIXTH LEVEL OF HELL AS A HERETIC...more
Is Era of Right-Wing Site Popularity Over?
Could it be that Internet users are getting tired of political sites in general? Maybe so. But http://moveon.org is up 13 percent in the same period....more
State Tracked Protesters in the Name of Security
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office in charge of protecting California against terrorism has tracked demonstrations staged by political and antiwar groups, a practice that senior law enforcement officials say is an abuse of civil liberties....more
















It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.....Mark Twain
Nixon Would Be Proud

"In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times . . . and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly."
-- Justice Hugo Black, New York Times v United States


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Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves...Carl Sagen
"United State's Office of Censorship"
Several Fox News media figures suggested that the U.S. government should "put up the Office of Censorship" to screen news reports to determine whether they "hurt the country" or are of "news value.....more
China completes railway to Tibet

The pan-Himalayan line climbs 5,072m (16,640ft) above sea level and runs across Tibet's snow-covered plateau - dubbed the roof of the world....more