Founding Freedoms Editorials

The following excerpts are from George’s own mouth from his radio address on Saturday where he publicly admitted to personally has authorized a secret eavesdropping program in the U.S. more than 30 times since the Sept. 11.

Bush said, "This authorization is a vital tool in our war against the terrorists. It is critical to saving American lives. The American people expect me to do everything in my power, under our laws and Constitution, to protect them and their civil liberties and that is exactly what I will continue to do as long as I am president of the United States,"

The point is GEORGE W. BUSH YOU BROKE THE LAW, DEFILED THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, and IGNORED OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES, as though they never even existed at all. Then you PROUDLY CLAIMS YOU WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO.

This man has just piled on again even more reasons to be impeached by now breaking his oath of office then some how in his twisted mind believing that he is above the law and can and will continue to do what ever he dam well wants.

The Presidential Oath of Office Directly From The Constitution: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Article. II.
Section. 1.
Clause 1: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows

The Definition of Executive: The branch of government charged with putting into effect a country's laws and the administering of its functions. George has now gone beyond "the activist Presidency" directly to king. Nowhere does the Constitution bestow full power of authority and Kingship to do what ever he wants over the citizens of America, no matter what the reason.

Even The USA Patriot Act does not give "King" George the power he is now claiming.

‘‘(C) when the United States is engaged in armed hostilities or has been attacked by a foreign country or foreign nationals, confiscate any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, of any foreign person, foreign organization, or foreign country that he determines has planned, authorized, aided, or engaged in such hostilities or attacks against the United States; and all right, title, and interest in any property so confiscated shall vest, when, as, and upon the terms directed by the President, in such agency or person as the President may designate from time to time, and upon such terms and conditions as the President may prescribe, such interest or property shall be held, used, administered, liquidated, sold, or otherwise dealt with in the interest of and for the benefit of the United States, and such designated agency or person may perform any and all acts incident to the accomplishment or furtherance of these purposes.’’;

‘‘(c) CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.—In any judicial review of a determination made under this section, if the determination was based on classified information (as defined in section 1(a) of the Classified Information Procedures Act) such information may be submitted to the reviewing court ex parte and in camera. This subsection does not confer or imply any right to judicial review.’’

What is going on in America?... We impeach a president for a blow job, but we allow George to drag America into an Illegal war, turn all American's into criminal suspects, defile the Constitution, trample our rights given to us by the Founding Fathers, turn our loved ones into cannon fatter so his friends can get rich with another country's oil, and turn our children into child labor by saddling them with the debt so George can rob the Federal treasury in the name of tax cuts to give our money to richest millionaire and billionaires in this country.

This is not the vision that Washington, Jefferson, Madison...our Founding Fathers had envisioned for their posterity.

What they gave us is very clear we have allowed too many people especially "King" George to muck it up.

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Interesting Segment on Meet The Press this week I think shows how the new strategy for the Republicans is to continue to blame the Democrats. When David Brooks was asked a question the answer he gave to me is very telling. When he was asked by Tim Russert if the Democrats were going to stage the mid terms elections after the 94 Newt Gingrich contract for America. It’s the slivers of truth imbedded in the answer that I came away with. For starters he did not want to admit the sagging poll numbers that Bush is now experiencing, so instead he says thing like *1“a lot of Republicans are going to stay home. And so Democrats could conceivably do it”. Like the Democrats can’t possibly win an election, either on their track record of supporting the working class, and their children's education and their parents and grandparents security, and medical needs.

Next David Brooks said, *2“It would be good for the Democratic Party to have the Democrats have some control”. This was the setup for the next point slipped in, in the next sustenance, which it the next strategy is to blame everything that the Republicans have done From the destruction of our economy to the war in Iraq, while they held all 3 branches of government, The House, The Senate, and the Presidency, oh and arguably the Judicial branch as well. The line he uttered next *3“but also to have some responsibility for what's happened in the country”. Notice he used the past tense “what’s happened”, not for what is going to happen.

So you see it’s the Democrats fault for Iraq. It’s the Democrats fault for record Deficits, which I might add started with Reagan then increased under Bush senior, while they accused the Democrats of Tax and spend politics, which I must add at least the money is there before it is spent. Rather than “Borrow and spending” politics has driven this country into serious debt. Our Country and it’s Jobs were all sold to China, a Communist country I might add. So think about it when George Says the we need to kill more troops because we have killed more troops on Iraq. What about the literally nearly 100,000 lives that were lost fighting in Korea, and Viet Nan to stop Communism, as this administration has sold our country to China and given China our jobs as well. China a Communist Country. China who now even makes the electronics that goes into our Military hardware. China, a Communist country that our children and grand children will be paying money to because that is who is buying up our national debt. In fact we are borrowing at the rate of between 1.5 and 2.5 billion dollars a week to pay not only for Iraq but to give tax cuts to people making over 1 million dollars a year. In fact this year alone we are paying 1.5 billion in interest on the debt that Reagan saddled us with. I don’t know about you but if given the choice between “Tax and Spend” or “Borrow and Spend” I prefer “Tax and Spend”. With Tax and Spend you can change your mind and stop the program with Borrow and spend once you borrow the money there is no turning back the clock, your stuck with that debt.

From Meet The Press 12-11-05 MR. RUSSERT: David Brooks, in '94, the Republican revolution, Newt Gingrich, Contract for America, throw the bums out, put us in. In 2006, are we going to see the Democrats nationalizing congressional elections and saying it's time to throw out the ethically-challenged Republican majority?

MR. BROOKS: They're going to try and they may be successful. I don't think we're going to see the swing we saw in '94, just because the country is not quite the same. But *1a lot of Republicans are going to stay home. And so Democrats could conceivably do it. Personally, I hope they do and I think a lot of Republicans hope they do because I think it would be good for the Bush presidency, it would be good for the Republican Party and *2it would be good for the Democratic Party to have the Democrats have some control. Power corrupts as we see in the Republican Party and powerlessness corrupts, and it's made the Democrats fundamentally unserious...

MR. RUSSERT: The most important thing a party gains if they control just one House is the ability obviously to affect legislation but also to have hearings.

MR. BROOKS: To hold hearings but also*3 to have some responsibility for what's happened in the country and that sobers you up.

There have been tell tail signs that the economy is not as Grand for the average American as The Republican party would like you to believe. In fact real "buy the home, pay the rent, put the food on the table" wages are still falling.

In an article in the NY Times "G.M. told the Securities and Exchange Commission that it overstated its 2001 earnings by as much as $400 million, though the actual amount is still being determined. The company, which had reported a profit of $601 million that year, said it would correct any erroneous earnings before it released its 2005 annual report next year" that means it was more like less then 200 million in earnings, 2/3 less than originally stated.

There are other “Little things”, that show the cracks in the Republican economic lie, like for example that poverty in the United States has grown for each of the last 4 years by just under 1.5 million people for each year. Gas costs over the last 2 years have increased which in turn has caused cost increases in everything from transpiration, to food, and utilities, at a faster rate than most people’s wages. And to date George W. Bush and the Republican administration have yet to create one net new job since taking office. In fact last month the job creation number was 56,000 new jobs. That does not even cover the amount of people needed to clean up in the gulf coast after Katrina. But of course that number does not include the greed of Halliburton in hiring illegal immigrants to work on there Government no bid contracts.) and From the Washington Post Latino and immigrant advocacy groups say the word is out and immigrants are on the move. There is a lot of work to be had on the Gulf Coast. Spanish-language media and blogs report that U.S. cleaning companies are quickly hiring Latinos, no questions asked.

Let me digress, when we as Americans went to the polls and voted for a President we were voting for a American President weren't we? Someone who would work for American Citizens, Someone who would work for American Jobs. Someone who would defend Americans from the destructive power of Big corporations?

Under George W, Bush and the Republicans took control of our government, there are less people now, no make that less American Citizens working now than before the 2000 elections. There are however more illegal aliens in America now.

However I must add that if you are in the top 1 % of our population, which is people like, the Walton’s (of Wal-Mart fame) thanks to George and the Republicans tax cut that lets then only pay 15% tax on their 8 BILLION DOLLAR income for last year. That 8 Billion is after paying the cost of workers, management, products sold, electric bills, advertising. After paying dividends to shareholders. After every single last expense was paid the Walton family personally took home 8 billion dollars. Then after taxes they made 6.8 BILLION, for the YEAR!

Ask Your self this...Just how low are their prices if they can turn a 8 Billion dollar profit at the end of the year?

Consider this If Wal-Mart decided to pay every employee a real living wage, (so that they did not need public assistance for housing and food stamps), and gave every employee health insurance, guess what it would have cost them?

1 Billion dollars, which means they would have had to settle with 7 Billion dollars for the year, or 5.5 BILLION Dollars to divide amongst 9 families...FOR THE YEAR!!!

CEO and other corporate heads had their salary increase by over 50 times that of what they made the previous year; ,most making some 500 times that of the average worker, while workers are loosen pensions, that they contributed to, they are loosing their health benefits that were promised to them as part of their wage package when taking their job, their even loosing their jobs, and all to pay for their multi million dollar annual salary increase to the CEO’s.

Over the last several weeks some very alarming news has been dropped out by the news as a sort of a not important news item, “don’t pay attention” sort of way. But it is a very big piece of news. You have heard about the housing market is what is fueling our economy. Well does it not stand to reason that if something, anything disrupts that market that it will have a negative effect on the economy as a whole?

Well several months ago I started to notice a change each month in the way the housing market news was reported. For example the news said that new housing starts for the month were up by 2 million homes, which was good news. Then as if deliberately done, in another segment it was said that new home sales for the month was 1.2 million, what that meant was 600,000 more homes were built than were sold. Now as this continued on each month it was creating an even bigger glut each month which would be the “Housing Bubble” that was talked about.

So as the good news dominated the market prices on homes continued to rise making the affordability of a home far more difficult. The cost of a home became so unrealistic for a standard home banks came up with a new creative financing deal. "The interest only loan". I prefer to call it "The I'll bet you a $200.00 a week raise" morgue. This is how it works. Let's say you could not afford a $2,000.00 a month morgue, so the bank says don't worry, how about we only charge you $1,200.00 a month instead for the first 5 years and only charge you interest on the loan. Here is where the "Bet" comes in. After the first 5 years the bank will add back the principal and the rate goes back up to $2000.00 a month. Do the math $1,200.00 from $2,000.00 is $800.00 a month, divide that by 4 for each week in the month and you get $200.00. Have you ever made a $200.00 a week raise before, or to break it down even more have you ever made a $40.00 a week raise or more every year? If not you loose the bet, you loose the house, and you loose $72,0000.00.

Don't expect help from the bankruptcy courts, they stacked that against you as well unless...you guessed it unless you already have more money then you know what to do with then you can off shore your money declare bankruptcy be absolved of your debts then just draw on the off shore accounts, just as if nothing happened.

As I reported on 10-20-05 Another Blow To Economy Has Arrived. About 30% of spending in the economy was from people getting home equity loans to the tune of 600 billion dollars a year in 2004. That number this year has stopped, as interest rates rise. That means if it stays flat 30% of the money fueling the economy is gone.

George W. Bush and the Republicans want to insure the death of the housing market as well with their new tax proposal to eliminate the deduction of the interest on your home morgue loans.

On Friday the evidence of the Bursting Bubble is now evident where as new homes sales went flat. The very last prop that was holding up our economy appears to have finally fallen.

George W. Bush and the Republican party have now destroyed every single thing that the Democrats took 8 years to build up under Bill Clinton.

George W. Bush and the Republican party are borrowing 1 Billion dollars a week to continue giving out tax cuts to the top 1% like the Walton's. How can any rational sane person say we need to cut our income and then go borrow money to give it to someone who does not need it? This is the ultimate height of Welfare mentality except instead of applying it to the poor who have absolutely nothing and by the way we never borrowed 1 billion dollars a week to support our welfare system. Why is it you can not tolerate spending money to support someone who had absolutely nothing but you tolerate it when we are borrowing money to give it to people that have so much money they can't even spend the interest that they are making faster then it is coming in.

If this was you or I or any Corporation we would have been considered Bankrupt 3 years ago.

The 3 Trillion dollar Surplus is now a 8 Trillion Dollar Deficit, We now know that Bush’s little speech about “Honor and Integrity”, was just the first in what was to become a long laundry list of lies, he would tell not only Americans but the world.

Americas Economy is now just another Monument to the Colossal Failures of George W. Bush.

I for one am tired of paying for the Economics 101 of George W. Bush and the Republicans.

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When our government spent over $70 million dollars on what started out to be an investigation into a bad land deal, spurred on by a right wing conservative group, as shown in the documentary “The Hunting Of A President” it was a "good thing". I remember Henry Hide saying that “if he lied…” “The rule of law…” and so and so on. Well we now know White Water proved to be nothing more than Bill And Hillary made a bad land deal, and nothing else. We also know that Bill Clinton did lie about consensual sex with someone other than his wife.

The outrage in the news was astounding. Everyone on the right wing lined up to say that “Bill Clinton needs to be severely punished for lying”, “he needs to be removed from office”.

OK now we hear that Libby is indicted for lying not once but several times, 2counts of Obstruction of justice, 2 counts of False statements, and 1 count of perjury. If proven, he has colluded and conspired with others (because you cannot conspire with yourself) which led to the possible deaths of American Agents in the field, He (and I believe others) caused the complete dismantling of a network that was specially charged with getting terrorist cells and weapons of mass destruction. We cannot be told of the possible deaths of agents involved because that information is classified, and why? Because they were undercover.

We now hear thing from the Republican Right wing like “ I hope that Fitzgerald doesn’t come back with only perjury charges”

This was pay back because Wilson dared to defy this Administration and tell the American people and the world that George W. Bush was lying us into an unjust war, with an unarmed nation. Earlier this year was it was further substantiated with the Downing Street minutes. PDF Copy

No this is more than not telling just the truth, it is more than protecting his bosses, it's about Americas security compromised, and quite possibly under the knowing and watchful eye of Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and even George W. Bush, while all along they are telling us that they are the best ones suited to protect us. They claim they are protecting us when they cannot even protect us from their own greed that puts American security in last place, over their need for war and the money it brings. A war that funnels Taxpayer money into private corporations like Halliburton, and oil contracts to be carved up by other Corporate friends of George.

So let’s see Perjury over a sex act is grounds to remove a President from office, but perjury leading to the weakling of American security is just fine.

This is looking to be more and more like Iran Contra. In The Iran Contra it was the Regan Administration using American military to stop other countries from selling drugs, than taking the drugs and selling the drugs to Americans, (while arresting them) to get the money to further a war in Honduras and Nicaragua.

In The Iraq War it was the Bush Administration using American military to stop Iraq from selling Oil, than taking the Oil and selling the Oil to Americans, (while killing them) but this time it was only to get the money.

Why is it both these Administrations never found out who the source of their problems were for years, and it took outside sources to expose them?

We all know the answer, they were all in on it, and just had to choose the fall guy at the last minute to fill the gap in the weakest part of the case that would have brought down even bigger people.

Let's not forget that Bob Novak said that he had "TWO Senior Administration Officials" who gave him the name of Valerie Plame an "Operative on weapons of mass destruction".

Just who is Libby covering for is the question that should be asked. Libby if anything is and has been a loyal supporter of Dick Cheney’s for years. We are now benign told that this is just like Oliver North, these number 2 men worked on their own in a vacuum.

We know now how Oliver North was compensated; he received a pardon, book deals and a lucrative talk show contract, to continue spewing the Republican Propaganda.

Watch For Libby’s compensation package in the years to come, starting with his pardon.

I saw the story a little differently this week when George W. Bush went to the dedication at the Reagan Library this past Friday, reporters saw it as a grab for Reagan's Mantel... I saw beyond that.

Bush went to the opening ceremony dedicating the new Air Force One Pavilion at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library this past Friday. In an attempt to tie his presidency to Reagan's legacy and Bush’s war against terrorism. Bush Compared, Reagan's issues with the Soviet Union to his own issues against fundamentalism in the Middle East, when he said, "Like the ideology of Communism, Islamic radicalism is doomed to failure."

"Like the ideology of Communism"..."doomed to failure", If Communism is such a Failure why is it that you George, are selling America to China at the rate of 1 Billion dollars a week in the form of government bonds, to pay for tax cuts that I and most Americans will never see. Why is it George you allow your cooperate friends to close down American factories... fire American workers, and send American jobs to China if they are "doomed to failure"?

Ron went to war in Grenada to distract us from Iran Contra. George wanted a distraction for his fleecing of America. George wanted an even bigger distraction with Iraq... he wanted Oil.

Bush has sought to model much of his presidency on Reagan's, and has succeeded in many ways. Reagan’s presidency to date was one of the more corrupt presidencies in modern times, There was Iran Contra, the death squads in Honduras, the dismantling of Unions, deficient spending, tax cuts to the wealthy, the start of borrowing money from the Social Security fund, to prop up his numbers on the economy, because as Greenspan pointed out that if you borrow money from internal governments funds it does not have to be reflected in the national debt. In spite of that little trick the national debt still ballooned under Reagan. I wonder could this be where Enron got some of it’s training on how to screw the American public?

Maybe, just maybe people will make the connection, and Bush will succeed in grasping hold of Regan’s Mantel and be able to tie it to himself. Then maybe the Bush curse will rise again as it has done all his life with the destruction of everything he touches. Maybe Bush will hold on a little to tightly to the Curtains surrounding Reagan...and when Bush stumbles and falls he will pull the curtains back so that all the ugly truths of Reagan can be seen. Everything that is causing the destruction of the middle class in our country started with Reagan, and was perpetuated with George's father, now that Bush is following in Reagan’s footsteps we can finally see the lie of conservative economics, thanks to the incompetence of George W, Bush.

“If we make the wrong Choice…” those were the famous words Of Dick Chaney. The unfortunate reality is crystal clear. At least half of the country made the wrong choice 9 months ago. Nearly half of the nation made the wrong choice 4 years and 9 months ago. This is something that the rest of us saw by the past record of this administration, that they were only capable of deceit and destruction.

Their first failure came ironically 9 months into this administration first term. We were told that we needed to have a department of homeland to better protect us. What the reality was is that they refused to read or comprehend the no fewer than 56 memos, that we were going to be attacked on 911. That the last memo even said “Bin Laden was determined to hijack aircraft and fly them into buildings” We heard the lie “No one would have thought any one would hijack planes and fly them into buildings”? Apparently our old security thought of it, that’s why they wrote the memos that were ignored by George W, Bush and this Republican administration. Their reward for having seen it coming? Dismissal and disbanding the people who actually did warn us that it could happen. They became the sacrifice, so as not to blame George W. Bush. Those of us who saw it, those of us who choose not to look at the situation as a Republican or a Democrat, but to look at the situation as an American saw a dangerous situation forming. We demanded the truth and we were greeted with “not now” and it never became the “now “to know the truth. We were lead down the garden path of more unrelated disconnected lies.

We were promised better security by the destruction of the very offices that did for see the dangers.

We were led into a war on a pack of lies. A pack of lies that only furthered the cause of Bin Laden. Bin Laden wanted us out of Saudi Arabia and we left. Bin Laden wanted Sadum removed from power because he did not support terrorism, because he was progressive and did not follow his brand of the Koran. George W, Bush complied with both of those demands. His compliance cost American blood for a terrorist wish. At a cost of American credibility around the world. At a cost of American tax dollars that instead of going to our military it went to friends of the Administration like Halliburton and Blackwell. Then to help pay Halliburton and Blackwell they take away the benefits of American soldiers who fought for the Lies of this administration. Sure this administration said that they wanted to put more money into military spending and they did, they just did not say for which military. We only assumed and wrongly that it would be the military that our sons and daughters, and fathers and mothers would be in. We never expected it to be in the private military of his friends. We went to war for so many reasons that changed so much I don’t really recall what the last one was, gut I do remember one was to spread freedom and democracy, and as others before me have said “you cannot spread democracy at the point of a gun. If you have something that good you do not need to force it on people the will take it”.

Just how is it you can tell me that if we privatize our government it is a good thing? How does it work out that paying someone like Halliburton $115,000.00 a year for one solider is a rational choice? Maybe that’s why our soldiers have no armored vehicles. Maybe that why our sons and daughters have no body armor, because all the money is going to Halliburton and Blackwater. While our fathers and mothers are left to do the dirty work of this administration unprotected and unprepared, while others who are friends of this administration get rich and richer still. Because that is what happens when you privatize something instead of a not for profit government running it… a corporation that needs to pay it’s CEO’S millions of dollars and needs to pay it’s stockholders millions of dollars a year, there is little money left for anything else. In their case the product is a human life, they did not need to manufacture it, they only need to hire another when their employee get killed… You don’t want to know that there was a law that prohibited Halliburton from ever getting government contracts because of the past record that is not unlike now, of missing money and services nor preformed but yet billed for. Have no fear Dick Cheney and the rest to the Republican “yes” men got rid of that law.

A sport that winning an election was the all-consuming goal and not the ability to do the job.

Now after several years and trillions in debt, we find that the promise of American security was another lie. Another lie to steel our money. This Party and this administration put people in positions of important security that had no credentials other that as friends or supporter of Bush and the Republican Party financially.

We now see that we are not safer today then we were 4 years ago. No mater what is said about Katrina, and who is to blame the sad fact is we are not protected. Other priorities took our resources. Other priorities took the money that was set aside to rebuild the levees in New Orleans. Other priorities took the first responders in this administrations war of choice. Other priorities took the equipment needed to deal with the cries and sent it along with our National Guard to Iraq.

Just why is it that we sent our high water vehicles to Iraq anyway, last I knew Iraq was a desert reign.

Rita has given this administration at least 5 days notice and we still have confusion. If this were a threat of a nuclear missile as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney was fond of implying, you would have had only 38 minutes, not 5 days. We do not even have a working evacuation plan. People are running out of gas on highways stuck in traffic. It was only early Saturday that they realized that everyone was leaving and that they did not need the roads into the gulf and they finally opened both sides of the roads to allow for people to leave. There was not enough gas to fuel all the vehicles, and so people are running out of gas and are stuck. Others cannot get any money because banks and ATM ran out of cash, so if you do not have a credit card too bad. At the airports baggage screamers did not show up, maybe because they were evacuating? So rather then just board the people you make them wait for hours till you provider the ever-false security of inspecting luggage. Where has all the Billions gone in homeland security? To other pet projects I assume… into Iraq. A war that Bush wanted even before he was “selected” president, as stated in Bob Woodward book, Plan of attack.

Now with Rita we again see that this administration has squandered our faith in them, because this administration and the Republican Party keep saying that they want “less government”. They have dismantled and privatized so much of our government that it is barely able to function. It is so clear that they do not believe in government they believe in corporate power. They believe in corporate control of the country. They believe in war above all else, to spread the corporate control on a global scale, because why else it that they age spending just over 50% of our budget on the military, while saying they need more.

Why is it that now when we need government to do what government was created to do… “To protect the commons”, to help the people, this administration and the Republican Party say we need to cut the very social programs we need to help these Americans who have lost so much. It is so oblivious that they want the money to fund an even bigger war machine.

We do not need a new government, as George W. Bush and the Republican Party would like us to believe. The Republicans do not believe in government, and are proud to say it and now proved it, time and time again, once they achieved power.

Our government was working just fine till they came along. Just look at our history and you can see that when we defeated our enemies and we had the most prosperous economies it was when the Democratic Party was in office. The Democrats believe in America, they believe in government.

This is the administration that says all life is valuable, when they want to create a topic to cause division in this country, but when the reality comes, they just throw life away like an old shoe. They stand by and do nothing while thousand die. This is an administration that while their citizens are in desperate struggle to survive, they are out going to Broadway plays, and go buying thousand dollar shoes. This while people are starving they are off eating cake at some fundraiser. This while people are dying they are still off somewhere and cannot be found.

I don't see any compassion or conservatism in this administration. An administration the it now responsible for thousands of death, not just the nearly 2,000 American solders, not in the over 50 thousand Iraqis, but now add to it the thousands of of Louisiana citizens who were promised help and then ignored. This an administration that is responsible for the looting of this country's wealth to give it to a select few.

I remember during the 2004 elections Vice Dick Cheney said when talking about our country's security he said "If we make the wrong choice"... Well this administration just proved that we did make the wrong choice, because as Keith Olbermann puts it "They cannot protect us from the simplest of biological weapons... standing water". Why is it that when the Hurricanes hit Florida last year material and supplies were sent in the very next day? Why is it that Alabama's governor claims that the bush administration had supplies staged and ready to go after Katrina hit? Cold it be because you either need to have a brother in the white house, or a republican as governor or has this administration taken partisan politics to a new low. If you are not in their party then you are quite literally expendable. The Governor and the senators and the mayor have been screaming for years that they needed the funding to shore up the levees, but the money like their national guard along with their equipment wound up in Iraq. The funding given to Republican governor to look good and build a bridge to no where to an island with 50 people on it. "The needs of the Few Rich out weigh the needs of the many" Not only do the wealthy get their tax cut but they get the benefits as well and get to use the money that we the average people pay as well, and we are left with nothing.

This administration could not find the time to deal with Louisiana but they could find time last week to send out a mailing to everyone in the party to support the repeal of the estate tax which only effected people who have more than 5 million dollars, certainly not the average person in this country. Again help the rich at the expense of the poor. Give more to the ones that do not need it who, the ones that use the average and the poor to get their money in the first place.

I have said it before and I will say it again This entire administration needs to be Impeached and removed from office. Their incompetence and trail of destruction needs to end.

In the words of the man who actually did win the 2000 election, which he did because a year after all was said and done all the votes in Florida were counted and by several methods, with hanging chads without hanging chads with the dimples and without, and when all was said and don we found out that Al Gore had won Florida.

Yes Katrina was a natural disaster, and some would say that “You can’t blame Bush for this” and you would be right, except for one thing…no make that several things. To start with there has been an ongoing project to build a series of levees in Louisiana for years, not because people felt that it would be a good source of pork to get money from the federal government, but because this truly a project that should be funded by the government, a project to protect the commons. And in doing so it not only would have protected hundred’s of thousands of lives and property, but the rest of the country would have benefited as well, as we are now just finding out at the pump. Somehow George saw it differently; George felt that there were more important things to be done with our citizen’s taxpayer’s dollars. He felt that people like the Walton’s who are “working Hard” sitting around their pool who do no physically work, should only pay 15% tax on their income, so just last year the Walton family made $8,000,000,000,000.00 that’s 8billion dollars last year to be divided up amongst 9 families. And their response now to lending a helping hand to the people that survived? They put out “the cup” in all their stores and was the first to throw in 1 million dollars and (in Wall Marts name so that they could deduct it next year), and then said now it’s your turn to do the rest. Don’t you think that after making 8Billion dollars that they could afford just a little more than that? After all there income is larger that several small countries combined.

Enough this is not about them; it is about Georges and another failure in his long list of failures. At least before it was only in bad business decisions that other people bailed him out of, that came with a price tag that he is now using our country to pay them back with. Now his bad decisions once again are costing Lives. It is costing irreparable damage to links to our past.
He failed as a businessman and was bailed out by the Saudis.

He failed as a president when he failed to get aid to Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi for nearly a week.

Why didn’t Bush just tell the police to go to all the storeowners and ask for their complete inventory, so that they would know what was there and make arrangements to repay them later. They could just make use of the existing food and medical supplies in the effected areas and distribute the existing food and medical supplies that was already there.

Why is this failure as a President, this failure as a man still in office today? This Man cut the funding repeatedly, year after year, that Louisiana needed to complete the levees, and you know why, you know where the money went. It went into another campaign of destruction that George created, it went into Iraq. No you can’t blame the hurricane on Bush, but you can blame the lack or response on Bush and the Republican Party. You can blame the lack of funding to FEMA on Bush and the Republican Party.

Bush was warned back before 911 about 3 of the most possible disasters to face America was 1. That America would be attacked by terrorist, and he failed to do anything about it, 2. That if the levees weren’t completed there would be a major disaster if a hurricane hit. He choose not to comprehend the gravity of the situations, and now it it cost thousands of lives, instead of money. 3. A major earthquake in California.

He choose to funnel all of the money of this country to the richest people in this country. He choose to invade an unarmed country to steal their oil for his rich friends. He choose to take military funding and give it to Halliburton, and de-fund the military support system.

Yesterday Dennis Hastert said that he didn't think that we should rebuild New Orleans if it is only going to flood again. Funny but when it comes to the rich you spend millions of dollars over and over again, rebuilding a small strip of land in Eastern Long Island when a small barrier beach gets washed away... you also pay to replace their houses, with taxpayers money. A home and a strip of land and homes that is used only by single families, people that can well afford to rebuild them selves several times over. This is just another proof that the Republican Party as a whole just doesn't care about most American's in this country. They have consistently dismantled every social program the We The People wanted, but they saw it only as a loss of income to their rich supporters, that needed to be stopped.

This is the culmination of the failed policies of Economic conservatism that began with Reagan. this is the result of those policies, we become a country that is focused on greed and wealth, at the expense of everything else. This madness needs to stop and it needs to stop now!

It's now time to not only tell people about Bush's shortcomings but to start reminding people that Bush did not do it alone, he had lots of help from all the rest of the Republican Party, and we need to remove them all, if we ever hope to get our country back.

It is time to stop listening to their words... It is time to look at their actions... It is time to see that they are nothing but a bunch of lying bastards.

WE THE PEOPLE MUST TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK FROM THESE LYING THIEVES, AND WE NEED TO DO IT NOW!

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The Bush Administration has decided to change the name of the war on terror because people are tired of the war in Iraq. The new name will be, The Global Struggle against Terrorism. Now the only problem with that is that's the third time this administration has blundered with name for this conflict that was unjust, uncalled for, and the occupation of an unarmed country. The First name if you remember was called Operation Iraqi Liberation. That did not last to long because as we now know it really was about OIL. Next came the fact that they were to mount a Crusade against the terrorist. Let's see now, what could possibly be wrong with using the word Crusade, Oh that's right that was when the Catholic Church wanted to lay claim to the Holy Land and embarked on a war that lasted 100 years. Well the new when it is translated into Arabic is very interesting. You see in Arabic the word for struggle is Jihad, so now this Administration is now calling for a Jihad. Is this just poor planning or a Freudian slip? Oh and one more thing in German it translates into "kampf", sound familiar heard that before how about Mein Kamph?

Moving on, the vote in Ohio last week where the Iraqi vet was ahead all day by 4 points then suddenly at 11:00 PM they found 4,000 votes. Now strangely enough they found enough votes that were needed not only to cause him to loose but it was enough votes to stop triggering a recount. well the mystery is solved, the glitch that cause the mysterious missing 4,000 votes to disappear then appear just in the nick of time was caused...now get this... it was caused by the humidity. Yes the HUMIDITY! Some how I don't thing that this should cause us any concerns and we should continue to use these voting machines, after all only about ALL of the country is in a HUMID environment!!!

Today more then any other time we keep hearing the cost of the war in BILLIONS of dollars, The Tax Cut for the wealth in Billions of dollars, so much so that we are becoming numb to the figure. Well a Advertising firm came up with a means to put it in perspective.

Last week Bob Novak used some rather off color langue and walked off the set of CNN, and was suspended for an indefinite amount of time. Now see what you think Click Here. It really did not seem quite like something that would cause him to loose it to me. What I think is that it now became time for Novak to "Fall On His Sword For Rove & Bush". Bush and Rove tried to change the subject away from them with nominating Roberts, Then they took Rove out of the public eye , you know the old trick "out of sight out of mind", after all it worked for Rummy and Delay. But somehow it was not working quite like they planned because every time people turned on CNN there was Novak the other half of the Rove scandal team. So what else could they do? Novak stages a reason to not be in the public eye so now out of sight out of mind for Rove, Novak, and Bush (on his 50th vacation for 5 weeks). So hopefully that should be enough time to let it all fade away. Then to add to the mix Fitzgerald, you know Fitzgerald is the special prosecutor looking into Rove involvement with the outing of Valerie Plame, well his boss is going to be replaced with a former classmate of Bush, and a Fellow member of "The Skull and Bones" Can you smell it, I sure can and it stinks, the question is can Fitzgerald get the goods on Bush and Rove before they bring the hammer down on him? Can you say Nixon?

Bush finally got his energy bill he has cried of for the last 4 years and guess what? Not one single thing that will help you or me, unless someone reading this is the owner of a oil company or a nuclear power plant, it contains 14.5 billion dollars to the oil and gas industry. It does not raise the standard of the miles per gallon cars get either. Speaking of cars get this while GM has offered their "Employee discount" program and allowed everyone to buy cars at the employee discount, GM is selling minivans in China for $5,000. and they get 43 miles per gallon. I guess China must qualify for a lot more then the employee discount to only pay $5,000 for a minivan. Why is it GM can produce a car in China that gets 45 MPG?

In regards to the number of trained Iraqi troops. First we were told that it would take one year to train 250,000 troops. Then by the end of the year we were told it would take a little longer and there was less then 100,000 trained troops. During Bush's speech back in June 05 he claimed that 160,000 troops were trained, and now we again find that it is far less. Well consider this. On December 1 1941 we had a combined troop strength of 1,684,403 By March 1942 we had 2,387,746. In 3 Months we trained 703,343 troops. Now consider this, we are in Iraq longer then we took to fight World War II, and by the end of that war we had 8,266,373 troops trained in the 1*combined forces with a increase of 6,581,970. If we could train and field over 6 million troops in 1941 to 1945 why can't we train even 100,000 troops in the same amount of time? Oddly enough though we are now told the one reason is desertion, could we be training and arming the insurgency, by way of desertions, because that strength of the insurgency is growing and now estimated to be from 250,000 to 300,000 strong. Funny That's the number of troops we were told that would be trained by now, except They were to be supporting America Troops...Not The insurgency!

One last item. Bush now says that he will bring down the troop numbers starting next year (again), but he now is saying that he will be increasing the number or troops for elections in November and December. Keep this in mind that 138,000 troops are there now the question is how many will be there after he jacks up the number to later lower the number and do it just in time for the 2006 mid term elections.

1*During WWII the military had combined forces or Army Air corp., Navy Air corps., etc all of the branches had not yet divided into each separate branch.

Below is a list of the Supreme Court judges and the president that appointed them to the court. Take note 7 of the 9 were appointed by a Republican President. Of the 7 appointments, 4 were by two of the most criminally involved administrations to date prior to the Bush administration.1 by Nixon for Watergate. 3 by Reagan with Iran Contra, which involved the US government by selling drugs to raise money to buy guns and military equipment to give to a country that the congress specifically said not to get involved with. Then 1 by Ford who took over for Nixon and later pardoned Nixon of any wrong doing after his impeachment. As to the remaining 2 of the 7 they were appointed by Bush Senior, who by the way was part of the Reagan Whitehouse as the VP for those of you that do not know. As to the last two they were appointed by Clinton, who was impeached, for having sex and then saying he didn't.

Could there be any correlation that our country has had a steadily sift to the hard Right?

Could there be any correlation and the loss of individual freedoms because the highest court in the land has been packed by criminal presidents, who believed that the law was not for them and that they chose to ignore the laws. I might add that they were not punished by the law either, for whatever reason.

Could there be a correlation between the rise of corporate dominance and the loss of American manufacturing and the middle class in the name of a buck or should I say a Yen or a Euro?

Could there be any correlation between to loss of our freedom to make choices for ourselves and the politicians ever increasing control over our lives?

For those of you that vote Republican and don't like what is now happening in America consider this the next time you vote.

Will Tony Blair spin the wheel of Arabic misfortune and attack the one it points to? Or maybe a more measured approach and choose Iran as the next target. I will be interesting to see if reason prevails in England and the next move will be to hunt down the people who committed the crime. We cannot keep up the doctrine that says "We have the right to revenge and if the innocent get in the way..." This action reaction is only getting worse. Ever since Bush went off on his mission of finding WMD... no change that, freeing the Iraqi people... no change that, bringing freedom and Democracy to...no change that, getting... you know the reason has changed so many times I'm not sure what the official reason is anymore.

There were no terrorist in Iraq before Bush Invaded an unarmed nation. and yes unarmed, they had no air force, no ground defenses, no ground to air defenses, no tanks and we now know, most certainly no weapons of mass destruction.

There are now an estimated 250,000 terrorist there now. Funny but when you think about Bush and Rumsfield told us over 2 years ago there was to be 250,000 trained Iraqi troops there now? Then we were told there would be 250,000 trained troops there by the end of last year, in his speech just 2 weeks ago Bush Claimed 160,00 trained troops, and the reality is about 60,000. Why is it we send our American citizens into a war with 13 weeks of training to fight for another country and in over 2 years we cannot train Iraqi's to fight for themselves. Could it be that the very troops that we train that later dessert the American Iraqi army and now with their new found training become part of the insurgency army? Just a thought.

By official count 80,000 Iraqi civilians are now dead, Iraqi citizens are being killed at a faster rate than under Sadum. Every time an innocent person is "collateral damage"... isn't that such a nice way of putting it "collateral damage", rather than calling it like it is, an innocent person was killed, and for what? For having the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Before under Sadum at least you knew what would get you killed. Weather it was speaking out against Sadum or his government of against his policies. Now it can happen any time anywhere for no reason at all except that some one decided that your death would be acceptable "collateral damage". Does "collateral damage" make you feel less guilty over killing someone, someone who's only crime was just being there. Someone's mother or son or wife! Does "collateral damage" somehow make it right? Could that family and friends of the "collateral damage" become so enraged with grief that they will now stop at nothing to avenge the death of their family? Is that not the right we claimed on 911?

Here's a historical prospective for you. Man as a whole has waged war against each other from our very beginning. From a time before Islam, or Christianity, or any religion, or belief system. Religion has only given man a curtain to hide the face of prejudice and greed behind.
There has been the rise of one Empire after another. Each claiming the same mantel of justification, that "we must kill them before they kill us". The reality each Empire wanted the resources of the country they invaded. That is exactly what this is about, it's all about oil. It's about those who will control it. It's about people on both sides lying to everyone so that the masses can be convinced to hate the other side.
Why is it small children of all race and religions play together and get along? Can it be because they do not know the meaning of religion, money, or power?
If you feel so strongly against the Islamic people then why is it, there was no outrage when this president was committing the lives of Americans to bring, freedom and Democracy to Iraq, which the last time I looked that country was mostly Islamic.
So which is it save them or bomb them, you can't have it both ways.

Maybe when we stop allowing a handful of people from using hate and fear and the power of a military to plunder the wealth of other countries, so it can be taken by the few, maybe perhaps then there will be peace.

Until then it seems that it is up to the few to try to bring reason and peace to the many.

It’s funny that we all spout off about how we all love our children but yet we vote in political leaders that lead us into an unjust war. A War that puts our children in harms way for the profit of large corporations. We vote in Political leaders that saddle our children with a financial burden, making it even harder to achieve the American dream. These very same political leaders send our children’s future jobs over seas. We all know that the Reagan concept of economics was a dismal failure, In Fact it was labeled “Voodoo Economics” By George Bush Senior, but do you realize that we are paying over 100 billion this year in interest on the debt he, Ronald Reagan gave us… and we will continue to do so for many more years to come. Now add that debt that Bush Jr. is amassing and we are abusing our children and children yet to be born with that debt. A debt, that in reality is passing away our security. A Debt that is the passing away out freedom of Financial security… and we are giving it to the top 1% of our population. All the while we are saying that we cannot afford a national health care system. While we spend 1 Billion dollars a week in a war in Iraq. We cannot afford a minimum wage, while we allow our social security trust fund to be filled with IOU’s so that the money can be used to give all our money to that top 1% that does not need it.

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Just recently a new CEO was put in charge, shortly after Unfiltered was dropped, and replaced by Jerry Springer. For those of you that do not know Unfiltered makes Springer look like a novice. Rachel, Liz and Chuck was a hard hitting ground breaking team that really dug up the dirt that no one else did. Now for those of you that use satellite radio and you did your homework you found that Sirius was the only satellite radio that carried Air America Radio in real time and with the full show as broadcast, where as XM only carried bits and pieces along with Fox News in between with Randi Rhodes cut back to 2 hours and Not carrying Mike Malloy at all. The choice was oblivious for any true Air America Radio follower… Get Sirius satellite, especially if there was no radio station in your town, and you had to work and could not be connected to a computer all day.

Well yesterday on Air America’s web they announced that XM was now to be the Official Satellite for Air America Radio. I immediately called Sirius to see if they knew what was going on, because it was to late to call Air America Radio. I was informed that they knew nothing about it and was sure that they would still continue Air America.

This morning I called Air America and asked about what was happening and I was told that Sirius was droping Air America. I then informed them I already called Sirius and that they knew nothing about droping Air America. I was then told that Sirius would no longer carry Air America after the next 90 days, and if I had any concerns I should call the Ceo’s secretary at 212 871 8108. When I called her I was told that Air America was droping Sirius due to contractual agreements with XM that required XM exclusive rights to carry Air America. When I asked if XM would now be carrying the full days broadcast I was told that she did not know.

Now something with that answer caused me to become very concerned, especially after reading “The Road To Air America” By Sheldon Drobny, and how forces tried to kill Air America before it even started. How could you sign extended exclusive contract with a company that is now to be your official radio station and not know about the programming? How could you sign a contract that if it continues to keep it’s current broadcast schedule that bastardies your shows. Most are not broadcast in their entirety, and not in real time, effectually cutting off your audience.

If this is such a great deal I think that you couldn’t wait to get the news out but hush seems to be the word from Air America right now.

I tried to contact XM and was routed to a company in the Cayman Islands. And promptly told that there is no one to talk to, and to go to their web and use the E-mail contact form to obtain any information.

The Bottom line so far is that Air America has chosen to reward a company that has not in the past fully supported them, and push a side the company that has fully supported them 24/7/365. Sirius is more then willing to renew their contract.

The question to Air America is this If XM wanted to carry Air America and offered the terms with a exclusive clause doesn’t that tell you that YOU had something that they wanted and did not want to share with anyone else? In which case Air America had the upper had and should have had XM add more of their programming instead. Now instead air America has cut off over a million Sirius subscribers from Air America.

Air America listeners call Air America to continue broadcasting on Sirius, as well because of the loss of listeners who cannot get Air America except for Sirius. Because who will they be cutting off next?

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As per phone conversation with XM this morning as to carrying the full Air America Broadcast and in real time as Sirius now does...They do not know, and they cannot give me that answer. Air America told me that they do not know but they are trying. Bottom line as it stands now if you read between the lines the answer is NO. If they are going to be adding Alan Colmes and Ed Schultz and they stray where that are now say Good By to Randi Rhodes. The fact that I cannot get a straight answer and XM is due to start broadcasting in about two weeks tells me that you can say goodbye to real time broadcasting for some or part of the Air America programming. It is quite possible some or all of shows that you like, or possible the shows you like will be broadcast at a different time from their live broadcast, so if you want to call in to get your point on the air, you can't. How could Air America sign into a deal like this? Oh and by the way I am not picking on XM or Air America I am doing what Air America stands for "Question Authority when something seems wrong".

How could Air America Enter into a deal that possible cuts out some of their programming?

Somewhere along the way most of us Americans have forgotten that “We The People” own this country, and not the Corporations, nor their bought and paid for politicians. We all say the government this, and the government that, but we the people are responsible. We put the politicians in office, but some how we think it was not us, but someone else. We are all responsible weather we vote or not. How? You might ask? By voting and not being informed, or not voting and thinking it just does not matter…but it does.

I have heard too many times, “oh what’s the use of voting”. I think that, that line is a cheap cop out for someone who does not want to take the time to be informed. “Oh I just don’t have the time to spend on politics. More excuses, because somehow you find the time to watch the latest reality TV show. Our ancestors gave a hell of a lot more than just time to found this country, they gave their blood as well, and now the only thing you have to do is seek out the truth, when you know that the media is lying to you. You hear the talking heads say things like “America’s appetite for goods made in China this month has increased”. There should be a explosion in your head when you hear that. Why? Were you there at the boardroom when the company decided to close down a factory in this country and opened up a factory over seas, to pay someone else a cheaper wage? Did you have a choice in the boardroom of Wall-Mart to stock the shelves with cheap goods from China? The choice has for several years now have been taken away from us to the point where the only products to choose unless you take the time to search them out, are from somewhere else, anywhere else but from here in America. If we keep exporting all our jobs out of the country who will be left making money here?

Can’t you see that this is causing a race to the bottom of the economic ladder? The CEO’s of these corporations are now making in one year what their predecessors would make in a year, and just where do you think the money is coming from? From you and me that’s where. Sure they go overseas and get cheaper workers but they still charge just as much if not more than if it was made here, hence they are stealing their wealth from American workers, while they are laughing all the way to the bank, because they are picking your pocket.

I really hate to be the one to break the bad news to you but you probably will never be a millionaire, in your lifetime, unless you hit a lottery, so why do you vote like you already are one of the 1% of the country that is? Even with the limited news you can still see that something just does not add up with what you see and what they tell you. Why do you still act as though you will be a millionaire some day, while you still work as a plumber, or a teacher, or a bus driver, or an office worker? Maybe you should vote in the reality you are in now and not the one you may be in at some point in the future, because when you vote like you are a millionaire, you vote against your own best interests as a working person. How many of you wish you had a raise? If you said yes then why do you support a Republican agenda that refuses to raise the minimum wage for 8 years, while they have raised their wages every year? You see when you raise the bar for the lower paid workers you raise the bar for the rest of the working people. Oh in case you don’t know it when a politician tells you “ I did not vote for a raise for myself this year” that means he did, because the raise is automatic unless he actually votes to stop it. Don’t you wish you could have that problem? You can’t loose, do nothing and get a pay increase. Why is it that when we were told that Bill Clinton brought shame to the Oval Office by having “consensual sex” with an intern it was shameful, but lying about a country having weapons that they did not is ok, and yes the government report shows that it was know before we went into Iraq. Bob Woodward was right when he wrote Plan of Attack. Why is it that just after Bill Clinton left office there was e-mails circulating entitled, “Clinton Dropped the Ball”, because he did not get Bin Laden, But Bush Lies about A country possessing weapons that it did not, and had Billions of dollars at his disposal to get Bin Laden and still nothing, His administration has lost 6 Billion dollars in Iraq and can’t account for it, the military cannot account for several Trillion dollars and nothing. He was warned about 911 before it happened, He has raided the social security trust fund for over 200 Billion dollars, money that all the working people put money in to for our later retirement, but Bush has used it for the tax giveaways to give it to the top 1% of the population, making the deficit actually over 600 billion dollars for this year.

Something I heard just a few hours ago makes me furious at the Repub-lie-cons. They evoked the *14 amendment in trying to establish a reason to over ride the Florida courts, which is another back door ploy to start attacking other laws. It is a ploy to distract our attention away from the starting of a third year in Iraq, the criminal misconduct of Tom Delay, the missing 8 Billion dollars in Iraq. Do you even know what the *14 amendment says?

The state has made a decision, but now the Repub-lie-cons want to abridge that decision.

Where is the outrage at the over 1,500 men and women who George W. Bush condemned to die for oil?

Where is their voice for the 1000,000 dead Iraq civilians Killed by friendly fire?

I seem to remember 5 years ago when George W. Bush ran on the platform that states should handle their own issues, “States Rights”, and we know how that ended up, by running to the Supreme Court. By taking away states rights to prosecute “Class action suits” and hand them over to Federal courts.

Where are their Voices when there are more and more Americans not being able to afford health care and then… dying of preventable diseases?

Where are their voices when we spend $300,000,000,000.00 for oil then saying we can’t afford a national health care plan?

Where were their voices when they refused to increase the minimum wage, allowing millions to continue to live in poverty while working over 40 hours a week?

Where were their voices when these Repub-lie-cons cut Medicare funding to thousands of people?

This is clearly a political party trying to pander to a religious group. This is clearly an intrusion of a political party into personal, and private lives once again.

Why do these politicians not allow Medical Marijuana, when hundreds of thousands tell us each and every day that it helps keep them alive through the pain of cancer and Aids?

It’s not just Bush it is all of these Republicans must be replaced, before there are no liberties left. Before the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is reduced to “Kindling”

Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 5.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Tonight I was watching a history of The Mama’s and Papa’s and I began to see that maybe the salivation to our divided dilemma in this country lays in the lessons of the sixties. I have always felt that the sixties was more than just years, it was more than a movement…It was a philosophy. A philosophy of life. A philosophy that somehow would transcend time itself.

One thing that became crystal clear to me was the roll religion played in our lives, at that time. We all had a religious belief, but it was personal, between our creator and ourselves. We believed in a higher power, but it was not our place to foist it on others. Our belief, whether it was Christian, or Jewish, or Hindu, did not mater, because it was deeply personal and we lived it. We spread our belief by our actions, and how we treated other people around us.

You could use words like pray, or God without invoking a litany of emotions. Emotions like distrust, or uneasiness, or worse yet... fear. These were universal words of all faiths and belief. No one religion had claim to them. They belonged to all, and were respected by all including non-believers.

I think the change started when people felt that they needed to preach their belief to others by mass media. It started with the Television preachers. Ever so quietly they snuck into our lives wanting to bring us the word of God. With every broadcast they asked that we support them with our donations. No one ever questioned why they needed so much money. No one ever questioned why it was that the person, Jesus, whom they were preaching about, did it without asking for money, because he wanted to teach us a better way of life. No one ever questioned why they preached fear, and the impending destruction of the world and we needed to join them now and we needed to send them money so that they could help save others.

Jesus was the Son of God and the son of a carpenter, on earth, and he by no stretch of the imagination lived his life in extravagant riches. But today his so called new ministers live lives among the rich. This includes Farwell, and Robertson. Why is it they feel the need to have so much personal wealth that they gained from their ministry, and feel no remorse? No remorse that many of them have so little, but they gave what they could not afford, to the belief that it was for God. Jesus always shared everything he had with everyone, including his life.

Jesus preached tolerance and understanding. He tried to teach us to love our neighbors, without conditions, and he also warned us to beware of false prophets.

I believe that the hour of the false prophets is upon us now. I believe that the Falwell’s and the Robertson's is just that, False Prophets.

The early Christians believed so strongly in Jesus and God that they were willing to die for that belief.

Now The False Prophets teach that if you do not belief what they tell you to that you should die.

Now The False Prophets rather then preaching the lessons of the bible of hope, and love and individual salvation, they pick from it small passages and subvert it's meanings as a whole to support their twisting of it's lessons to suit their purposes of spreading hate, separation, and fear.

Now The False Prophets teach that everyone must conform to their belief, and if you don’t then they will force you to by legislating a law for your salvation.

Now The False Prophets teach that if there is something that they, as heads of their ministry deem that they do not like then everyone, whether the are followers of their religion or not, must for their own good be stopped.

Now The False Prophets teach, that their way is the one true way, and all others are wrong.

Now The False Prophets are causing the word religion to become a hated word because of their unscrupulous ways.

Now The False Prophets teach you that it is time for them to run the world, somehow forgetting that Jesus once said, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is Gods".

The False Profits tell you that you must give monetarily to help spread God’s word, and that it must hurt for it to be effective, but why is it so much of the money sticks to their hands?

Why is it that they who are preaching the word of God somehow seem to miss the basic foundation of his teachings?

Maybe that is why in the sixties religion was something that you believed in, and not something that you needed to force upon someone else, because the sixties was in many ways, a mass movement to a unified religious experience.

Ok! Now you know that I have on more than one occasion have questioned mainstream media about their less than complete reporting of the facts. You know that I have written about the fact that many people out there do not take the time to find out what is going on beyond their TV news reports. Well here is a little test; consider it a game of charades with words instead of actions. The topic is something that has occupied the progressive media for the last 3 weeks.

This shouldn’t be hard if mainstream media is as forthcoming as you think it is.

If you seem to be drawing a blank then I suggest that you abandon mainstream media and seek out some progressive, or Liberal news outlet.

Jeff Gannon, AKA, James Dale Guckert, AKA, J. Daniels has had access to the Whitehouse and attended press corps briefing, as a press reporter, for Talon news. The quirky thing is that he got his press pass as a reporter before Talon news existed. Talon News' did not EXIST until Mar 29 2003. You want proof. How about a C-pan Screen shot.

Talon News is run by GOPUSA, a conservative group, but the odd connection is Gannon’s connections to male escort services, and male homosexual web sights which have all been shut down and put up for sale after he was outted by progressive news groups.

When asked Scott McClellan said he only recently became aware that Guckert was actually Gannon. There are stories as reported in winnipeg.indymedia.org, that McClellan had frequented several gay bars in Austin, Texas. James Guckert received preferential treatment by the Whitehouse, which allowed him to bypass security protocol. Scott McClellan gave Gannon his press pass. Ari Fleischer however, Scott’s predecessor gave Gannon his pass after removing them from Sarah McClendon a long-time correspondent.

As to Valerie Plame, a classified State Department file was given to Guckert by the Administration in 2003, that refers to the investigation of Joseph Wilson a former U.S. Ambassador. Wilson who met with the CIA. after being sent to Niger to investigate the Whitehouse claims of Iraq buying yellowcake. After finding the claim to be a lie soon after a still unnamed source in the Whitehouse leaked Wilson’s wife name to the media, which exposed her and could have possibly caused her as well as other agents deaths.

To digress a minute… about that story Bob Novak was the one who put the story out to the public. To date the Whitehouse is trying to lock up every one else who might have known who told, everyone that is except Bob Novak, who spread the story. So let’s get this straight, Novak puts out the story. Novak knows who told him the information, and blabbed it. The other reporters may have been told the information but chose to remain silent and say nothing. So in this brave new world ob BushCo we allow the one who blabbed to remain free and he locks up the ones who did the right thing and said nothing.

Back to Gannon, then at a press conference he lobs a softball question to Bush, stating that he is quoting Senator Clinton but is actually quoting from Rush Limbaugh Talking points from the day before. That the next day Rush admits was his talking point and is flattered, that Gannon used it. Oh did I mention The website, Jeffgannon.com is registered by a Delaware corporation, which has also registered a number of other Republican based web sites, which all cater to male escort services, as well as espousing gay military themes. Gives the term strange bedfellows a whole new meaning. Both TalonNews.com and GOPUSA.com are registered to the Endeavor Media Group LLC, in Houston, TX. The Bedrock Corporation is of course, owned by James Guckert/Jeff Gannon. Bedrock Corporation is the registrar for many websites, which include Jeffgannon.com, Militaryescorts.com, hotmilitarystud.com, Exposejessejackson.com, militaryescortsm4m.com, and the conservativeguy.com, among others. "J. Daniels", another alias used by Guckert, is listed as the administrative contact for Bedrock Corporation.

Just one Question! Why has the Whitehouse made such a big stink over gay rights, while using gay people, who openly condemn other gay people, while they make money from the people that they condemn?

And you thought that you were outraged about Clinton and Monica? That was a private situation. This is a twisted group of people creating a fake news media to influence the mainstream news that twists the news to suit their sick purposes.

Because 90% of the wealth is now concentrated in that top 1% of the people of this country, Corporate greed has now set it's sights on each other. They already have or will have most of the remaining 10% of the wealth that you have, by selling you stuff on credit, and they control the credit, so just what do you own? Rented is more like it and sometimes you are still paying for it long after the item is broken and thrown away.

I am sure you heard of the mergers last week. Do you find that just a little odd? The phone company was a monopoly and it was forced to break up because of that, sure we all complained about it and some of us even pined for the days before the break up, but do you really? Do you remember that you could not buy your own phone before the break up and you had to rent it from the phone company? Do you remember that if you wanted a second phone you just did not go down to the local store, buy it and just take it home and plug it in. Oh no, you had to call the phone company and they had to do it, and of course charge you for the service to install it and then bill you each and every month for the second phone. As you can see that with monopoly comes control over your freedom. Now you can buy what ever phone you want when you want and out where you want, not to mention that the price of a call especially long distance is far cheaper, one of the few things that had gone down. But how long do you think that will last? With the recent merger that puts us back to only about 3 major phone companies. With no competition come higher prices. With mergers the only people to make out are the companies, because inevitable mergers mean layoffs.

What I have noticed is that most of the time companies merge the stocks go down, then when they announce job cuts the stock prices go up. So let's think about that for one minute. Larger corporations, joining forces telling you that they are doing it to better service their customers, and then their stock prices go down. Of course the heads of the company receive a large bonus for crafting the deal. Then without saying a word they slowly raise prices of their goods and services to pay for the cost of the new acquisition, so much for the concept that the merger will be good for their customers. Last they announce the layoff of a large percent of their workers citing not needing as many people to perform due to job duplication. Then the stock prices go up, the pay back to the wealthy shareholders for voting in their own best interest and not the workers or their customers.

And so the race to own it all is now underway, and without government regulations, which have every so slowly been being dismantled since the 1980's, there is little left to stop them.

Another interesting thing is that with the rise of corporations new found power over government. Government has become less and less responsive to it's citizens. Why do you think that is? It is following the same model as the shareholders in the corporations, voting for what is their own best interest. Not you the citizens. Somehow they forgot that they are public servants and became servants to the money.

What everyone has forgotten is the words of Benito Mussolini "The successful merger of corporate and state is the foundation of *1Fascism".

Our Founding Fathers knew the influence and the destructive power corporations could have on it's citizens, "we the people". Up until the 1980's corporations were kept at bay, until through their money they began to change the laws.

The laws must be changed back so we can take back our country. We cannot allow *1Fascism to raise it's ugly head in this country.

If you read the definition you will see just how close we are becoming to becoming a Fascist state, fostered by the current administration rhetoric.

1. Often Fascism a. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. b. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.

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Everywhere we look today we are being told of how divided we are as a Nation. In the news we are divided into red states and blue states. In the Press we are divided into supporters of this ideal and detractors of that ideal. In our all-consuming sporting events we are divided into two simplistic groups. No matter what the sport, no matter how many teams are involved, we are divided into winners and losers. But are we? We need to start remembering one thing.

I find it so very hard to believe that we as a nation can be as divided as we are told we are, day in and day out by the media. How can we be that divided, and still call ourselves Americans? When every day we as schoolchildren, grew up reciting the pledge of allegiance from memory. “I pledge allegiance to the flag and the UNITED states of America…. Yes the United States… How could we have forgotten those simple words? Did we willingly forget, or were we unknowingly forced. It was by these simple words that our parents learned to stand together and found that we all were not that different. If they stood together and worked together they could make life better for themselves and their children. They stood together in the face of adversity and formed trade unions to protect not only their jobs, but also jobs for their children. They grew in numbers to become a powerful force that made corporations and governments listen to their demands. They became a engine for progress for all American workers. Somehow in the 80’s and 90’s, after we were told unions were bad, Unions cost us jobs, unions cost us sales to other countries, the deceitful message started to take hold. We once were the country that leads the world because we had the natural resources, and inventive minds to create goods the world wanted. But we were lied to and convinced that we needed to rid ourselves of unions to compete with other countries to sell our goods. We needed to change our trade polices to compete with the world. But whom did we help? Not us! Oh sure corporations turned larger and larger profits but at what cost. The cost was of more and more lost jobs, here in America, by both union and non-union workers. How did this happen you ask?

We allowed politicians to change the laws and removed the very laws that protected our jobs, helped our country grow for years. We were told that American workers were at fault, and we believed it, more wedges, more division. Our corporations were at fault, by not providing it’s work force with the tools they needed to stay on top. Instead American companies took their manufacturing facilities to other countries to hire cheaper labor, and through the changed laws were able to bring it back into this country and avoid tariffs. Before that If it costs $1 in labor to make the item here and $0.50 to make it overseas you had to pay a $0.50 tax to bring it into this country, so why should you go through that expense to build a plant out of the country and have to pay to bring it back into this country. End result was it cost more to do that than manufacture it here in this country. It has gotten to the point that we are very close to being a Banana Republic. The Definition Of a Banana Republic is: A small country that is economically dependent on a single crop, such as bananas, or a single product, such as tin. It is often governed by a dictator, or officers of the armed forces: “America has begun to take on certain . . . characteristics of a banana republic. In those countries, savings are hoarded rather than invested in productive enterprises” (Richard B. Hoey). [1]

Last year we Exported Millions in raw material to China and then spent Billions importing finished goods from China. We all know that the quality is poor at best, so the lie that it was good for us as Americans was another lie. Inferior goods, made at the cost of American jobs.

Just think about it for one minute, we were told to re-train in the computer field in the early 90’s because working with our hands was a thing of the past. That the money was to be made with our brains, not our hands. Then now in 2004 those jobs too are now being exported over seas.

Until the early 80’s when unions came under attack a union job was the job everyone wanted. It represented a good wage a stable job and good benefits. A Union job paid a decent wage, as anyone who grew up in a union household can tell you, that you may not have been the richest kid on the block but your family did not lack for anything. Unions had health insurance plans, for their workers and their families, they had retirement accounts. Do you see where this is going? It was the ideas that the unions fought for that later became state labor laws. Why? Because they were not divided, they stood together against corporate interests. Because corporations knew that if they did not at least negotiate with the workers unions that they would all stand together and walk out. And the workers knew that a walk out meant no pay so both sides knew it was in their best interest to talk and compromise.

Soon at the rate things are going the only jobs that will be left in America soon will be Politicians, and Police. The politicians to create the laws to protect the corporations and the police to arrest the rest of us.

We are now told that we need to import our labor because Americans do not want to do the work. We will work but not as slaves.

The wealth of this country is now distributed with 1% of the population controlling 90% of the country’s money. The remaining 10% of the countries wealth is divided amongst the remaining 99% of the population.

You need to understand what I just said so I will repeat it, this time try to understand the gravity of the statement.

Is it any wonder why we have become suspicious of everyone around us? We are like rats in a cage slowly, imperceptibility becoming ever more suspicious of every one else around you and not knowing why. The why is fear, fear that they will take your job, your home, what little you do have.

As you can see, money has “become the root of all evil” the only way to defeat it is to remove its importance. We need to return to the values of our founding fathers. They knew the power that corporations had wheeled in Europe and wrote protections into the Constitution. The very start read

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

We need to strip the corporations of their ill-gotten power gains. Corporations are not people and should not be accorded the same protections under the Constitution. Remember the First line “We the people”. For years until the late 50’s corporations were not considered a “person”. In fact the Founders were afraid that corporations would grow in strength, and that they would take over the government when they had accumulated enough wealth. That is one reason why a large inheritance tax was instituted, until the late 1890’s. So that great sums of wealth could not be passed on when someone died. It was set up in such a way that the very wealthy could not create a dynasty. Because Dynasty’s have always throughout history have always seized government control, which ultimately lead to that country’s demise. That is why you do not hear about a Washington or a Jefferson Dynasty. Big dynasty’s family names did not start until the late 1800s, because that is when the laws started changing.

Then with their foot in the door the dynasties wealth pushed to change the government checks on corporations so that they could attain even more wealth at a faster rate, swinging away from the ideals the founders had laid down to protect “We the people” In the 1940’s and 50’s corporate laws were slowly changed allowing for further dominance of corporations and even greater wealth to be passed on to the dynastic families who controlled them. Then in the 1980’s that wealth, now controlling the corporations, the corporations began to buy the politicians. Well not outright, but through donations to help their political campaigns. And it all happened because we became distracted with things that were not important just as we are today.

For example there is always some important must see trial on TV. The news pushes it in our face every day and it lasts for months. We didn’t even spend that much time on the trial of Jack Ruby the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald the person who assonated a sitting president John F. Kennedy. In Fact Kennedy’s assignation received less airtime as a whole than the OJ trials. Its time we just stop the madness. A trial should not take months, and so what if someone you do not know killed his wife. I know it sounds cold, but is it of any importance to you? Will it change your life if you see it? Probably not, but the laws that were changed while you were caught up in the trial that most certainly did. It was the bate and switch, we let it happen.

We let it happen again when so few of us forgot to question we were attacked on 911 on George W. Bush’s watch. We were so quick to blame Clinton for the attack on the USS Coles but somehow gave George a Free pass. Why is that?

Because we forgot that “United we stand, Divided we fall” But some how we have allowed our selves to become divided.

Do we not all have at heart the same basic common goals? To take care of our family. To provide them food and shelter. To live in peace. To help our friends when they need help because we know that they would help us when we need it. Is not that one of the basic most important goals in our lives? Security? So how are we so different, when at the core we believe in the same things. We are only different because we have been told we are, but we are not. We have allowed ourselves to be divided forgetting…

There is an old saying that “ we fear that what we do not know”. I think that in this day and age of global communication we need to expand that belief. We now can know the weather on the other side of the globe in an instant. We can see pictures of another planet in minutes, but we forget that we are all different. We live in a different kind of country. We forget that we are like separate countries, with different ideals and goals joined together to give us strength, but allowing us to be different. Now the media continues to hammer away at our differences as if it’s bad. Different doesn’t mean bad; it simply means that we are different. But the media pushes it in a divisive way, when it’s not.

When you live out in a rural part of the country you just can’t understand why someone needs to spend years in school with book learning, and can’t hunt a deer. The city dweller can’t understand why you would want to hunt the deer in the first place. Different... Yes. Bad… No. The person in the country plants their vegetable garden and cans their food, they take the time to cook a meal from real food not a box marked “Heat and serve” The city dweller buys it from a store, or a fast food place. Different... Yes. Bad… No. Should it divide us?

As a small child our first instinct is to share. How many times is it that we marvel at a baby when we give them a piece of food, when they are no longer hungry they offer it back to us, and we say “isn’t that cute they want to share with us.

We all need to find that child inside of us again. To stand together with our many differences and find that common ground. To reclaim the country bequeath to us, “We the people”, by our Founding Fathers. To rekindle their spirit and remember that this great experiment of a country, governed by the people and for the people can survive. That, “We the people” are America, and we are taking it back from the 1*Neo-cons. Once again. “That we the people” can govern ourselves. Because when “We the people govern ourselves we all do better economically and socially, that we are a nation that the world looks up to for leadership and guidance. That we are the nation where dreams not only come true but where dreams of tomorrow are born. We need to show the world that the great experiment was not in vein that we do remember…

ne·o·con·ser·va·tism also ne·o-con·ser·va·tism (nē´ō-kən-sûrʹvə-tĭz´əm) noun
An intellectual and political movement in favor of political, economic, and social conservatism that arose in opposition to the perceived liberalism of the 1960's: “The neo-conservatism of the 1980s is a replay of the New Conservatism of the 1950s, which was itself a replay of the New Era philosophy of the 1920s” (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.). [2]

[2]Excerpted from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V., further reproduction and distribution restricted in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.

While digging out from the recent snow I found myself alone with my thoughts, and I find it perplexing at how a group of people who consider themselves "Children of God", can be so intolerant of others, especially when most religions teach tolerance, of others.

I find it to be so amazing that the same people who are against abortion because it is killing, support the killing of those who do not follow their belief. They support the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq, while refusing to believe the widely known truth Iraq was not a threat.

If someone chooses not to believe in God, they feel that they must force it upon them. As in the deceptive practice that they have now embarked on of trying to destroy science in this century by calling evolution of the universe, creationism. They Believe that the earth is 6 thousand years old, and want the rest of us to believe it too. Their argument is this:

You can apply those exact 3 questions to creationism. The difference is that when a scientific model is applied to both theories creationism falls apart from the start. Where as the timeline from the Big bang can be proven. At least the scientific method calls it a theory, which means it is open to change until proven as fact .Where creationism is calling it fact because God (an unproven faith based entirety) tells us so.

I was taught in a Catholic school for my first 9 years of school and if there's one thing I have learned is that their is no formal proof only conjecture. It is a belief. A belief that is based entirely upon the writing of other men. The writing that were reinterpreted by others many time through the last 2 thousand years. Many items were added that were clearly the device of other men. Many things were interpreted to mean something else as time marched on, as words changed in meaning. If you say that you believe in God than consider this. If Christ is the son of God than would you not say that the word of the Father should carry more weight than the son? With that said if we accept that the Ten Commandments are the only rules laid down by God, then there is not much room for reinterpretation. Simply put We were to respect One God, Respect our family, respect others, to be truthful, and not to steel.

If we all just follow these simple rules the world would be so much more peaceful. We would not go into war under the banner that "God is on our side", which by the 5th commandant, "Thou shall not kill".

When all is said and done I think that everyone, needs to take an objective look at what happened in Ohio, and to revisit What happened in Florida, and see just how dangerously close we are to having our country taken from under us. It doesn't matter weather if your Republican, Democratic, Independent, or Green, we must take an objective look at what went wrong with our voting system. It is now a proven fact that by several large major newspapers that recounted Florida, that Al Gore won. The only way that he loses if if you just recount the percents that he wanted to recount, but if you recount the entire state, Al Gore won the state of Florida and hence the election of 2000. I have pages and pages at to the problems with Ohio and I suspect that when some large newspaper will again look into what happened and again we will find that John Kerry won there as well. The only thing is that it will be too late once again to have our votes counted the way they were cast.

I believe, that no mater what party you support, that if you look at the evidence you will agree.

Because we all, if we call ourselves Americans, if we believe in the Constitution, which starts with "We the people..." Not We The Corporations. It's the corporations that now have control of the voting process. When questions arise and we need to see the software used to count the votes we are told NO, it is the intellectual property of their company, and we need to trust them.

They are using a computer, and a basic computer that you or I have in our home right now, and in fact it is running either Windows 98 or Windows 2000 by their own admission.

I don't think that there is a person alive on the planet right now that is using a computer, that is using a Windows operating system, that has never had a problem. Most the problem became so sever that you either reinstalled your operating system or out of frustration you went out and bought a Mac.

If the government would just use a version of Linux, than write the program to use on these voting machines. Then there would be no question as to intellectual property. It is an open source code software that "We the people" can own, that "We the people" can audit, that "We the people" can control.

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Well after all is said and done the Democrats Carried their boats down to the water but left the paddles home. They backed down again, with the exception of one Senator, Barbara Boxer and 33 Representatives from the House.

I would like to say thank you to John Conyers, Senator Barbara Boxer and the other 32 Representatives for standing up, in not only signing the bill but voting not to accept the electors. You truly are Patriotic Americans that would make the Founding Fathers proud. You are what the Democratic party should be and not what it has become.

The Democratic party had a chance to stand up to the Fraud of the BushCo Administration and they choked at the last minute. They stood there and said "we don't think that this will change anything..." That was the first mistake. They should of said that if it wasn't for the fraud in Ohio as well as Florida and other states, John Kerry would now be President Elect. The second mistake was when it came to a vote they all but 34 became a "Republican light" party, and voted to approve the electors. Millions of us believe and know just by looking at the data that there was wide spread fraud in several states in this election. Apparently most of our Democratic party members does not know that. They are believing the main stream media that they should be more center or more like the Republicans.

They just don't get it. Why should anyone vote for the Democratic party when they are "The Republican Light" party... You might as well just vote for the Republicans in the first place.

Now because of their lack of unanimity, instead of shedding light on the issue, it was reduced to short blip on the main stream nightly news, and a screen crawl on the morning news. If They all stood together the mainstream news would have to pay more attention to what happened. Unfortunately if you do not make a loud noise you get ignored, and a "squeak" did not qualify an a loud noise, therefore it was ignored.

We must all stand up now and forever more, and be proud that we are A Democrat that we are Liberal. We ourselves have let the word Liberal become a "Bad" word by shunning it, by not acting as though it is good to be a Liberal. When we are called a Liberal we should be proud... Proud that someone thinks that much of your beliefs to compare you to the Founding Fathers. If not for that band of Liberals we would not have America today.

What I find so amazing is the total lack of knowledge the average person now has about what is truly going on in this country. Oh sure they know the latest sports scores and who got traded to what team. They know that it is going to rain for the next 2 days, or that it was the hottest day of the year. But as to anything else... it's all the "sanitized" news that is fit for the American public. Ok you say that you are too busy to get the information, except from snippets here and there throughout the day.

Funny but we live in the information age. For better or worse there is more information out there every day than ever before. If you want to be informed then you have to listen to something more informative, than just a music station. If you want to have control over your destiny , you need to be informed. I am still amazed when I talk to people that they do not realize what happened in this last election. They have not a clue about the voter Fraud in Ohio. And when I start to tell them at first they think that I am making it up, like it's a joke and they are waiting for the punch line. They are oblivious to the fact that what went on makes Water Gate look like a cheap dime store novel. When I tell them about the problems in Florida, and New Mexico, I can see from the look in their eyes as they reach overload. It is just too much to process, because they knew nothing about what happened till just know.

Why is it that something this important, where the very foundation of our country is at stake, our right to vote... the Main Stream News Media has gone silent.

I have many Republican friends, and I get sent numerous e-mails with heading like "see I told you..." and after a few minutes of research on the internet I usually can debunk them as a hoax, and not true. What is even more amazing is that no mater how many times I prove to them that they are being lied to they still refuse to see the truth. When you discuses with them what their values are they refuse to see that the Republican party is not representative of those values any more.

It seems that people would rather believe the simple lie rather than the hard truth.

Day in and day out they sell their freedoms and rights away on the lie that it will make life better. Well it won't. Times have not changed that much when it comes to money and power over the last several thousand years. The problems that we face today, we faced 200 years ago when the constitution was written. A lot of the protections were put there for a reason. Those rights and freedoms are now being dismantled now by the rich and powerful.

We send our children all over the world in the uniform of our country's military, and have them put into harms way. Some never to come home again. Somehow they don't have the time to find out what is the truth all around us. They act at if that this is a big sports event, and so what if their team fouled the other team and didn't get caught, because their team won.

We are at the edge of the precipice and need to wake up. Do you realize that now that BushCo wants detention for life if they are accused as a terrorist without any proof, and never have the right to due process. By the definition of the Patriot Act, you can now be subject to that definition just by reading this web? BushCo is turning the clock back 790 years to 1215 to a time to before the Magna Charta. The Magna Charta led to the English and later the United States Constitutions. More precisely it gave protection to the rights of the nobles and common citizens alike to be free of arbitrary actions against their persons or property by their sovereign. It has come to be recognized as the first cornerstone of liberty and justice in the western world.

The world has always faced terrorism although it was not called that. Every day bands of thieves, and robbers roomed the land. Countries sent out their armies around the world to plunder the wealth of other countries. Innocent civilians were killed or sold into a life of slavery. Yes terrorism existed for years, but by a different name.

"That they can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.."

That statements made over 200 years ago, but still apply today. The Statement was made by Benjamin Franklin.

These men found the time to fight and die so that we could finally have a nation the was ruled by the people and for the people. All you have to do is stay informed, so that through your vote you can control your destiny...your country.

The truth is out there, and you need to find it before there is no truth left to find.

** "Then they came for anyone who objected to government policy because it aided the terrorists and gave ammunition to America's enemies, and I didn't speak up because...... I didn't speak up".

"Then they came for me....... and by that time no one was left to speak up".