GREAT Article...

Sometimes someone just says it right! This is one of the best articles I have read in a long time....


Clowntime is Over: The Last Stand of the American Republic
Wed. 28 December 2005
Chris Floyd

“…fat, sneering coward, Dick Cheney, who has crawled out of his luxurious hidey-holes to re-animate the rotting husk of Richard Nixon and send it tottering back onto the national stage. Through the facade of Cheney's pig-squint and peevish snarl, we can see the long-dead Nixonian visage, his grave-green, worm-filled jowls muttering once more the lunatic mantra he brought to the Oval Office: "If the president does it, it can't be illegal." This is what we've come to, this is American leadership today: ugly, stupid men mouthing the witless drivel of failed, dead, discredited, would-be petty tyrants...."

I printed the above just because I really really like his discription of Cheney, "...fat, sneering coward...Cheney's pig-squint and peevish snarl...." Great WRITING!

And it goes on....

"...It has long been evident, however, that Bush and Cheney do believe their clique should by all rights rule the country -- and that anyone who opposes their unrestrained dominion is automatically "anti-American," an enemy of the state. For them, there is no "loyal opposition," or even political opponents in any traditional understanding of the term; there are only enemies to be destroyed, and herd-like masses to be manipulated. They believe that their dominion is more important than democracy, which they despise as a brake and hindrance to the arbitrary leadership of an all-wise elite -- i.e., them. They are the state; a police state..."

Now here he is saying something that makes real sense to me:

“For let's be clear about this: only the Establishment -- the institutional powers-that-be -- can break an outlaw president. (emphasis mine) Millions marched in the street against Nixon and the system; whole city quadrants went up in flames in those days; but none of this was decisive in the corridors of power. (Nor to much of the American public, to be frank; after Kent State, after My Lai, after Cambodia, Nixon was still re-elected in a landslide.) It was his insult to the institutions -- the Watergate break-in of Democratic headquarters, the subsequent cover-up and subversion of the legal system, the defiance of Congress -- that led to his downfall. He pushed too far, tried to grab too much -- and the Establishment pulled him short…”
http://chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=369&Itemid=1


More recently than Nixonian times, witness the Million Man March, and the prolific anti-war marches across the nation, thousands of Americans protesting and demanding change. What came of these noble efforts? Nothing. So, this answers the question, "How Can We Stop Bush?"

The answer is, "We Can't". Short of armed revolution which ain't gonna happen, there is nothing you and I can do to get rid of these Imperialist Thugs. The Establishment itself, comprised of the Others who have some modicum of power to defend, some vital personal issues to protect, must stand up and defeat Bush.

The best that you and I can do is write our letters, our blogs, shout our outrage at any who will listen, and vote for those politicians who have the self-sacrificing willingness to go up against Bush and his Ilk.

Oh yeah, we might trying praying... a lot.

Is Al Qaeda a Myth – a stalking horse of American Fascism?

Please, do yourself a favor and see these BBC Specials. You will NOT see these in America, due to Political control of the news media.

Marc Perkel Rantz
al-Qaeda is Fiction - The organization doesn't exist as a large terrorist organization
"I came across three films produced by the BBC called "The Power of Nightmares" which explain how various groups use the fear of terrorism to advance their political power. I've spent all day converting them to a smaller format so that they can be ea silly downloaded. But they are an hour long each and are about 75 megs each. They are however extraordinary and it's quite an education into the history of Islamic Terrorism and American neo conservatives. Here are the links:.."
Baby it's Cold Outside
The Phantom Victory
The Shadows in the Cave

http://marc.perkel.com/archives/000753.html

Beware the Holy War: The Power of Nightmares
Peter Bergen
“The Power of Nightmares, a three-hour BBC documentary directed by Adam Curtis, is arguably the most important film about the "war on terrorism" since the events of September 11. It is more intellectually engaging, more historically probing and more provocative than any of its rivals, including Fahrenheit 9/11. But although it has been shown at Cannes and at a few film festivals in the United States, it has yet to find an American distributor, and for understandable reasons. The documentary asserts that Al Qaeda is largely a phantom of the imagination of the US national security apparatus. Indeed, The Power of Nightmares seeks nothing less than to reframe the past several decades of American foreign policy, from the Soviet menace of the 1970s to the Al Qaeda threat of today, to argue that neoconservatives in the American foreign policy establishment have vastly exaggerated those threats in their quest to remake the world in the image of the United States…”

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050620/bergen

Curious the different guises of murder

Curious the different guises Murder can don. The United States has declared war on quake survivors in Pakistan.

“Wait,” you say. “That can’t be right. The US wouldn’t do that.”

Well, consider the following news article. In it, the US is demanding that political and religious organizations it disaproves of be prevented from helping the desperate quake victims of Pakistan. At present, thousands of Pakistan people face brutal cold and killing exposure unless they get help. They need all the help they can possibly get. So to prevent this help from arriving just to satisfy some peculiar ideological spasm is tantamount to murder.

But the US is prepared to let them die to prevent the spread of religious and political ideas that are not Evangelical Christian and Washington approved.

That is declaring war on innocent people.

U.S. seeks to limit militants' aid to quake victims Relief work seen as foothold for terror recruiting in Pakistan
James Rupert, Newsday
Thursday, December 29, 2005

“Muzaffarabad, Pakistan -- The Bush administration is pressing Pakistan to bar militant Islamic groups that the United States views as terrorists from doing relief work in the country's earthquake-shattered Kashmir region. President Pervez Musharraf has said the groups play an essential humanitarian role and will be monitored, but not shut down.
U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker told Pakistani journalists this month that Pakistan should prevent such groups from doing relief work, on grounds that it gives them a chance to promote militant ideas. The White House repeated the message during Vice President Dick Cheney's Dec. 20 visit with Musharraf, Pakistani news reports said.
But if Pakistan shuts down the relief groups cited by Washington, it will risk a popular backlash in the quake zone, said Kashmir residents and experts here….”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/29/MNGF6GECJH1.DTL

Washington appears determined to stop the dissimination of ideas and religious beliefs that run counter to the fundamentalist Christianity that now has a stranglehold on this country. The fact that it is willing to sacrifice innocent Pakastani people to uphold American religious dogma is particularly vile.

The State Religion

Do you think that the Republican Members of Congress truly represent the people of this country?

Read this:

"Representative Jo Ann Davis (R-VA), supported by
twenty-five Republican representatives, no Democrat
and no Independent representatives, submitted House
Resolution H. Res. 579 for debate and a vote. It is
titled: "Expressing the sense of the House of
Representatives that the symbols and traditions of
Christmas should be protected."

During the debate, one Democratic member asked the
Davis to amend the resolution to include the symbols
of Chanukah and those of other religious and secular
holidays celebrated at this time of year. She refused.
Only Christianity and its symbols are to be protected.
No similar protections are to be provided for Chanukah
(Jews), Id al-Adha (Muslims between 2006 and 2008),
Yule (Wiccans and other Neopagans), the Winter
Solstice (Atheists and followers of many Aboriginal
religions), Bodhi Day (Buddhists), etc. By passing
this resolution, Christianity is elevated to preferred
status and that all other religions, and secularism,
is relegated to secondary status.

The principle being promoted by this resolution is
that Christianity is the official state religion, and
that Christians are to be given special protections. (emphasis mine)
This conflicts with the fact on the ground that the
U.S. is the most religiously diverse nation on Earth.
One cannot grant one religion special protections and
privileges without adversely affecting the status,
protections, and privileges of non-Christian
religions.

The bill was passed on DEC-15 with an overwhelming
vote: 401 in favor; 22 opposed; 5 "present."..."

This below links will take you to the originals, with commentary and a referral to the Library of Congress for the actual words of these politicians. The Democrats do put up some vital resistence, but the vote carried decisively.

Text and commentary:

http://www.njdc.org/
http://thomas.loc.gov/
http://www.religioustolerance.org/

If this is true, I think this is a country peopled by bigots, liars, and misanthropes.

These people are bigots because they actively work against other religions and people; they are baldfaced liars because there is NO 'war on Christmas'; and they are misanthropes, as based on Miriam-Websters' Online Dictionary:

"Etymology: Greek misanthrOpos hating mankind, from misein to hate + anthrOpos human being: a person who hates or distrusts mankind".

The people behind this legislative frog vomit are alleged Christians who represent all the worst that can be found in religious zealotry. These are people who believe more in their own sense of outrage than they do in God. These vicious parodies of humanity will not rest until everyone else thinks, acts, believes, and worships just like they do. These are the bookburners, whip-eyed haters, the rigid-spined, clenched jaws believers who would saw off the arms of children just to prove their superiority.

If this is what stands for America than I cannot believe how far we have fallen.

American Delusions.

Slow yourself down for moment, take a deep breath, forget about all of the other hassels in life for just this short amount of time. Ok?

I want you to consider something, that is: What makes you think that the American Experience is going to continue, unchanged, for your life time?

What makes you think that our ‘standard of living’ is inviolate and will only get better?

There appears to be a belief in this country that our fancy big houses, our massive SUV's and monster 4x4 trucks, our microwaves, our fancy big screen flat LCD Plasma TV’s will only get bigger an better. There appears to be a belief in this country that our politicians and our community leaders, our CEO’s and our American Spirit, would never let us down. They will work tirelessly to bring us consumers all the goodies we want. There appears to be a belief in this country that our economy will grow for ever, we can all successfully invest in the stock market, we can always find good jobs, get health care, send our kids to college, and then retire to a life of leisure. “ Sure we have problems, but good ole American know how and perserverance will get us through”, they say. ‘We Americans are just plain better than everybody else and we have a system of government second to none!” , they sneer.

Have ya read any history? At all?

The truth is that no civilization, no economic system, no great and glorious people last for long. The Romans, the Mayans, Aztecs, Egyptians lasted for thousands of years. America has been around for less than three hundred. No, that dosen't mean we have a long way to go, instead, due to massive blunders are the part of our government and corporations, we may be just about finished.

Here are some FACTS that you really should pay attention to, and then consider the above comments:

Miles traveled by a typical plate of food in US; 1,500miles

Miles traveled by typical plate of food from CSA
Or farmer’s market: 45 miles

Percentage change in international trade
in foor since 1980: +200

Percentage change in international trade in food
since 1970: +1,800

Percentage of US commodity transport devoted to
Agricultural products: 30

Percentage of US energy consumption used
by the food system: 20

Rand of food system’s contribution
to greenhouse gas emissions compared with
other sectors of economy: 1

Last Year that the North Pole Melted: 2001

Years since previous time the North Pole Melted: 50,000,000

Percentage change in US use of pesticides since 1945: +3,200

Percentage of American children
with measurable amounts of pesticide in their urine: 90

Estimated number of farmers killed annually
by pesticides, worldwide: 30,000

Percentage of supermarket beef and poultry
found contaminated with salmonella: 20

Percentage change in Salmonella poisoning cases
in US since 1980: +100

Pounds of contaminated beef recalled
by ConAgra in 2002: 19,000,000

Amount of antibiotics used un US on livestock
for human consumption, in tons: 12,000

Rank of ‘antibiotics used in US on livestock’
among reasons for antibiotic resistance
to food-borne pathogens: 1

Miles of rivers in US polluted by runoff from hog, chicken,
And cattle factory farms: 35,000

Percentage of meals eaten in US that are ‘fast food’: 25

Number of new processed foods marketed each year in US: 10,000

Estimated percentage of processed foods containing
Genetically engineered ingredients: 67

Percentage change in number of US farmers since 1950: -65

Percentage of US food dollar going to input
Suppliers, middlemen, and marketers: 91

Percentage of US food dollar going to typical farmer: 9

Percentage of food dollar going to CSA or
Farmer’s Market Farmer: 80

Percentage change in revenue generated
for local economy from buying local food: +44

Number of reasons to buy global food rather than local food: 0

Information from International Society for Ecology and Culture

Do Ya see any trends here?

Ya think something might be a bit out of whack?

Here is my point in a nutshell. Americans believe that we have a standard of living and a standard of government that will go on forever. Americans think they have found the golden horn of plenty. Americans, like people throughout history who have found themselves living in the lap of luxury, have become convinced that what we have will never go away. This is wrong. There are a number of factors, yeah FACTS, that will hit this culture like a sap to the skull.

I think anyone would agree that access to plentiful and safe food is a major requirement for sustained living. Looking at the data above it is easy to see that our food sources are hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away from our homes. When you have a supply line that stretches over that much distance you are asking for deep trouble. There is so much that can and will go wrong. Not the least of which is that fuel costs to tranports this food are soaring and will only go higher, there fore making much or our food more expensive, and sometimes difficult to get.

That ain't good news. And what is worse, we have designed our food delivery system to benefit the middleman, the CEO, the Shareholder, but not the farmer or the consumer( at least in the long run). What is now cheap and plentiful food, is on the verge of becoming a scarcity.

Not only is our food coming from farmers outside of our own country, but it is increasing polluted with pesticides, herbicides, and genetic alterations that may negatively impact generations of children. Additionally, our system of food production is creating vast amounts of pollution to soil, fresh water, and the atmosphere. This ain't so good. WE are poisoning ourselves and our planet at a prodigious rate.

This above data is not wishful thinking, nor is it composed of created lies to frighten you, it is a reflection of what is really happening right now in this country. If you think the politicans are going to correct these serious flaws in our system you are dead wrong. It was the politicians that aided and abetted the flaws in the first place. Do you think the wealthy are going to come to your aid? Suddenly the wealthy and powerful realize that the average American Joe and Jane, and Little Tommy, are in danger and move to cut their profits to save the day? Fat chance. People are rich because they don't give a shit for anyone else and hoard their money and their advantages. They made their fortunes taking advantage of others, not being charitable or humanistic.

So, listen up, we, the average Americans, are in deep trouble here. Where will our food come from? How much will it cost? Will it be available? Have we already destroyed our own farming system in this country? Lastly, even if we get our abundant food, will it poison us, rather than nourish us?

If, after reading this, you aren't seriously contemplating a major garden for yourself, then you have sadly missed the facts here. Also, buy your food products from local farmers as much as you can. Support farmers directly. Buy at farmers markets or directly from the farmer when you can. This keeps them in business, gives them the reward they worked so hard for, and it keeps our own food system close to hand.

Oh, one other thing, kill your television...it's lying to you.

Headline games.

Sometimes I like to play a little game. I gather up the headlines of a major news source and attempt to construct them into a coherent whole. I want to see if these news bits can cast a combined light on the facts in such a way as to illuminate the real story, the story that Federal Powers don’t want you to know. Just yet.

Sometimes these disparate news articles come together is such a way as to give a startlingly clear picture of an event, or place, or time. Today, in the New York Times, is a picture of America in the very near future. These three headlines are the top stories:

Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove, Officials Report
Published: December 24, 2005
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 - The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of the eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to hunt for evidence of terrorist activity, according to current and former government officials.

Transit Strike Reflects Nationwide Pension Woes
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: December 24, 2005
Fast-rising pension costs for government employees - the issue that helped set off this week's transit strike in New York City - are a problem confronting cities, counties and states nationwide, causing many budgetary experts to predict a wave of painful fights over efforts to scale back government retirement programs.

Capitol's Pariah on Immigration Is Now a Power
By RACHEL L. SWARNS
Published: December 24, 2005
DENVER, Dec. 21 - For nearly a decade, Representative Tom Tancredo, Republican of Colorado, has been dismissed by his critics as little more than an angry man with a microphone, a lonely figure who rails against immigration and battles his own president and party.

What do these mean?

If you squint your eyes just a tad, and allow your thoughts to go out of focus a bit, you might be able to see this:

The United States is becoming the Old Soviet Union.

There it is. I’ve said it. What are the key elements to this assertion?

In the first story, it becomes more and more evident that the Federal Government has established a massive spying operation on American Citizens. It spies on other Nations and their citizens as well, but we’ve known about this for years. The spying on Americans, without a court order, or judicial supervision, is new.

In the second story, the facts are that citizens of this country are in for a rude and perilous awakening when they seek retirement. For years Government agencies, from counties to Federal, have underfunded pension plans. So, when this glut of baby boomers seek retirement, there will be no funds available. Not only that, but our country is controlled by men who do not believe in taxes of any sort, except those needed to conduct wars and make them and their friends obscenely wealthy. So, there will be no action of raising taxes to pay these retirement costs.

Lastly, we have our government moving to the extraordinary step of physically fencing off the entire country from Canada and Mexico. Razor wire and guards trained to shoot first.
In effect, we are in the process of creating a gulag.

The Government keeps close track of its citizens and everything they do or say. There will be no retirement, so Americans will be reduced to poverty and privation, making them more susceptible to manipulation and control of the Government. Lastly, we will have fences and border guards to prevent entry, and exit of unauthorized people.

Sounds like a gulag to me.

I know, your saying to yourself, “a tiny bit paranoid are we?”

And I reply, “when they really are out to get you, it’s not paranoia.”

Makes ya proud enough to spit....

May you live in interesting times...The Imperial Presidency

In an excellent Joshuah Bearman blog article, Bearman points out the incredible blunders of Bush and the fact that he has once again trapped himself with his reckless disregard of Law and his preference for lies over truth. Bush, in his urgency to expand his Presidential power, eavesdropped on American Citizens directly, without bothering to go through the established legal procedures for this activity. In this, he broke the law. Further, we continue to witness the incompetence of Bush as a leader in not only his personal lack of morality, but in his choice of people to litter his administration.

“…Bush had been "protecting us" by plopping a feckless crony at the head of FEMA. Which reminds me that Bush's promise to review all those emergency plans seemed strangely similar to the statement he made in May, 2001 when he created the Office of National Preparedness, an agency inside FEMA, and put Dick Cheney in charge of "a coordinated national effort [to] do the very best possible job of protecting our people from catastrophic harm." Big success there! Looks like Cheney really dropped the ball on that one. Where's that story? Cheney's had the most important job in the country and has had zero results. Yet he and Bush go around the country calling themselves the great protectors and all critics unpatriotic…”

This administration of arrogance, thievery, and hubris have placed the American people directly in a bulls eye due to their absolute failure to fully fund and support agencies like the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA. Both agencies were formed with the very clear mandate to keep Americans safe from disaster, or at minimum, be able to ameliorate the impact of disaster. Obviously they have failed, and failed with resoundingly embarrassing farts of cronyism, cynicism, and outright indifference.

Placing Dick Cheney in charge of the Office of National Preparedness, FEMA, and having FEMA fail so disastrously should have been grounds for impeachment of the Vice President or censure at best. Neither Happened. Sort of reminds me of the colossal failure of Rumsfeld in Iraq: ignoring military advice of Joint Chief of Staff and sending too few troops; allowing the riots and disintegration of Iraq after the invasion; failing to supply troops with adequate equipment; and having absolutely no post-invasion plan are all criminal failures that should have landed Rummy out on the sidewalk at best.

But this is a President that rewards loyalty and like-mindedness more than competence.

In another article by Arlene Getz, she ponders the question that I often ponder. If the Bush Administration is so clearly corrupt and incompetent, where in hell is the outraged American Citizen?

Sometimes it is possible to under-react to a situation because we do not have the perspective to realize what it all means. Desmond Tutu, Nobel Prize Winner has vast experience living in South Africa.

“…Tutu recalled teaching in Jacksonville, Fla., when Bush won re-election in 2004. "I was shocked," he said, "because I had naively believed all these many years that Americans genuinely believed in freedom of speech. [But I] discovered there that when you made an utterance that was remotely contrary to what the White House was saying, then they attacked you. For a South African the déjà vu was frightening. They behaved exactly the same way that used to happen here - vilifying those who are putting forward a slightly different view." Tutu made these comments to me exactly a year ago next week. I haven't seen any reaction from him about the latest eavesdropping revelations, but I doubt he is remotely surprised at the US president's response: a defense of the tactic, together with a warning that the government would launch an investigation to find out who leaked the news to The New York Times…”
(Where's the Outrage? By Arlene Getz, Newsweek, Wednesday 21 December 2005)

As Tutu points out, Americans have no idea of the treachery of allowing civil liberties to disappear. Americans are naïve to believe that Bush, or any politician, can be given carte blanche to ‘protect’ us. Every tyrant must establish fear in the hearts and minds of his subjects so that they can be more easily controlled. All politicians are capable of this hubris, and this is why the founders of this country gave us the Bill of Rights and the Vote. To give up our civil rights, even just a few of them, in response to a terrorist attack, is too roll over and show them our throat. They have won.

Further, Jay Bookman, in his article, “Bush and Wiretaps” points out the extraordinary situation American now faces. Bush has indicated that he is above the law. That he can authorize wiretapping of American citizens, without going to the courts under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, because he is the President and reserves the right to do what ever he wants, any time he wants. This presents Congress and the American Citizens with a real choice: Do you allow a President to be above the law; or do you demand that the President live within the constraints of our tripartite form of government with checks and balances on the usurpation of personal power?

Will Congress and the American Citizen stand up and take back their country?

I say no.

Congress will not because even if the President turned out to be an axe murderer and wife beater, no Congressman will turn against a President of their own party. Republicans will not impeach Bush under any circumstances. They will just hold their noses and continue to do business as usual. The American Citizen will do nothing because it is the nature of humans to do nothing, instead they will rely on “hope’ to handle the problems they face. People prefer not to rock the boat, even if the boat is being dismantled out from underneath them. Lastly, even if we impeach Bush, who does that leave us with? Cheney? That snarling, sneering autocrat. Rice? The duplicitous bitch that never met a lie she couldn’t embrace. Hasert? Please. Bush has surrounded himself with thugs, liars, miscreants, and assholes. So who do we choose from this rogues gallery of evil to replace him?

I believe we will limp along for another three years, hoping that there are enough brave souls in Congress to reign in this blustering jerk. Politicians who would place duty and country over bribery and patronage. As for the American Citizen, I hold out no hope for them. A majority voted this collection of assholes into power twice now, and this level of ignorance is bone deep and not subject to enlightenment.

"Those who would give up essential liberty in the pursuit of a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security."
Benjamin Franklin.

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it."
Mark Twain

Patriot Act extended

Patriot Act extended 6 more months... Senate held a voice vote.. Do you know what a "Voice vote" constitutes in the Senate?? Read this..

To those that are wondering why the voice vote wasn't recorded in the register;

voice vote - A vote in which the Presiding Officer states the question, then asks those in favor and against to say "Yea" or "Nay," respectively, and announces the result according to his or her judgment. The names or numbers of Senators voting on each side are not recorded.Link to Def - pops

Hrmm, best judgment? hhrrrrmmmm - Stealth Voting? If I voted the way these jerkoffs do, I would want it to be anonymous too.

Lamar Strikes again.

These are soooo funn

These are soooo funny!

If you remember the original Hollywood Squares and its comics, this
Will bring a tear to your eyes. These great questions and answers are
from the days when "Hollywood Squares" game show responses were
spontaneous and clever. Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions, of
course.
Please note: Most, if not all, of those answering the questions
have since passed away!

Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long
enough.

Q. If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high
should you be?
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.


Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years.
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.


Q. You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a
man or a woman?
A. Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake.

Q. According to Cosmo, if you meet a stranger at a party and you
think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's
married?
A.Rose Marie: No, wait until morning.


Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.

Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say "I Love
You"?
A. Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a
twenty.

Q. What are "Do It," "I Can Help", and "I Can't Get Enough"?
(FYI,they're songs!)
A. George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment.

Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with
Your hands while talking?
A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and
I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget.


Q. Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?
A. Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.

Q. Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you
going to get any during the first year?
A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I'm too busy growing
strawberries.

Q. In bowling, what's a perfect score?
A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.


Q. It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist
camps. One is politics, what is the other?
A. Paul Lynde: Tape measures.

Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will
>a goose do?
A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?

Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth
to?
A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the
dark.

Q. According to Ann Landers, is their anything wrong with getting
Into the habit of kissing a lot of people?
A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.

Q. While visiting China, your tour guide starts shouting "Poo!
Poo! Poo!" What does this mean?
A. George Gobel: Cattle crossing.

Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his
head,what was he trying to do?
A.George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.

Q. When a couple has a baby, who is responsible for its sex?
A. Charley Weaver: I'll lend him the car, the rest is up to him.


Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in
them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A. Charley Weaver: His feet


Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never
do in bed?
A. Paul Lynde: Point and Laugh.

THANK YOU BROTHER BILL.

Every American must

Every American must read, not "should read", but must read the Minority Report relating to the Bush Administration misuse of power. It is staggering in its facts and in its clarion call for major, independent investigation of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the entire Bush Administration for their lies, distortions, and usurpation of power to destroy our democracy.

Please read this and pass it along. The full details of the very real treachery of this administration must be widely dissiminated.

“…Rep. John Conyers and the Democratic staff of the House Judiciary Committee have compiled a massively detailed, impeccably-researched report on the activities of this administration titled "The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War." The report runs some 273 pages. A portion of the Executive Summary reads as follows:
In brief, we have found that there is substantial evidence the President, the Vice President and other high ranking members of the Bush Administration misled Congress and the American people regarding the decision to go to war with Iraq; misstated and manipulated intelligence information regarding the justification for such war; countenanced torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and other legal violations in Iraq; and permitted inappropriate retaliation against critics of their Administration.

There is a prima facie case that these actions by the President, Vice-President and other members of the Bush Administration violated a number of federal laws, including (1) Committing a Fraud against the United States; (2) Making False Statements to Congress; (3) The War Powers Resolution; (4) Misuse of Government Funds; (5) federal laws and international treaties prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment; (6) federal laws concerning retaliating against witnesses and other individuals; and (7) federal laws and regulations concerning leaking and other misuse of intelligence.

While these charges clearly rise to the level of impeachable misconduct, because the Bush Administration and the Republican-controlled Congress have blocked the ability of Members to obtain information directly from the Administration concerning these matters, more investigatory authority is needed before recommendations can be made regarding specific Articles of Impeachment. As a result, we recommend that Congress establish a select committee with subpoena authority to investigate the misconduct of the Bush Administration with regard to the Iraq war detailed in this Report and report to the Committee on the Judiciary on possible impeachable offenses…”

This is in William Rivers Pitt article: The Breaking Strain By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Wednesday 21 December 2005

Pitt goes on to finish with….

“If we as a nation do not impeach a sitting President for such a vast array of blatantly illegal activities, activities directed at the American people themselves, then as a nation of laws we have lost our way. We have no meaning. We are finished, and the ideals for which so many have served and fought and died are ashes.
Intolerable. Impeachable.”

Yeah, what he said…..

Bush Impeachment

Now, I am not sure, but I sort of suspect that this Nation is waking up to the real President George W. Bush, a liar, thief, and murderer…oh yes, and a tyrant.

Raising the Issue of Impeachment
By John Nichols, The Nation Tuesday 20 December 2005

"As President Bush and his aides scramble to explain new revelations regarding Bush's authorization of spying on the international telephone calls and emails of Americans, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, has begun a process that could lead to the censure, and perhaps the impeachment, of the president and vice president.
US Representative John Conyers, the Michigan Democrat who was a critical player in the Watergate and Iran-Contra investigations into presidential wrongdoing, has introduced a package of resolutions that would censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney and create a select committee to investigate the Administration's possible crimes and make recommendations regarding grounds for impeachment. ..”
“…But Conyers is seeking to do much more than schedule a committee hearing, or even launch a formal inquiry. He is proposing that the Congress use all of the powers that are available to it to hold the president and vice president to account - up to and including the power to impeach the holders of the nation's most powerful positions and to remove them from office. The first of the three resolutions introduced by Conyers, H.Res.635, asks that the Congress establish a select committee to investigate whether members of the administration made moves to invade Iraq before receiving congressional authorization, manipulated pre-war intelligence, encouraged the use of torture in Iraq and elsewhere, and used their positions to retaliate against critics of the war.
The select committee would be asked to make recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment of Bush and Cheney.
The second resolution, H.Res.636, asks that the Congress to censure the president "for failing to respond to requests for information concerning allegations that he and others in his Administration misled Congress and the American people regarding the decision to go to war in Iraq, misstated and manipulated intelligence information regarding the justification for the war, countenanced torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of persons in Iraq, and permitted inappropriate retaliation against critics of his Administration, for failing to adequately account for specific misstatements he made regarding the war, and for failing to comply with Executive Order 12958." (Executive Order 12958, issued in 1995 by former President Bill Clinton, seeks to promote openness in government by prescribing a uniform system for classifying, safeguarding, and declassifying national security information.)
A third resolution, H.Res.637, would censure Cheney for a similar set of complaints..."

Senators Seek Probe of Bush's Spying Orders
By Adam Entous and Tabassum Zakaria Reuters Tuesday 20 December 2005

"Washington - Rebuffing assurances from President George W. Bush, bipartisan members of the US Senate's Intelligence Committee called on Tuesday for an immediate inquiry into his authorization of spying on Americans.
But Vice President Dick Cheney predicted a backlash against critics of the administration's anti-terrorism policies as he forcefully defended a program that critics say may have exceeded Bush's powers..."

Bush's Illegal Spying
By David Cole Salon.com Tuesday 20 December 2005

"The president defied a major Supreme Court ruling to authorize hundreds of wiretaps inside the US. With the revelation of domestic spying by the National Security Agency, the message transmitted by the Bush White House is crystal clear: When the president decides existing law is insufficient to protect Americans, he'll move ahead on his own and do whatever he deems necessary in the war on terror…”
“…The president acted unnecessarily, and more significantly, in direct violation of a criminal law…”

Senator Byrd: No President Is Above the Law
t r u t h o u t | Statement Monday 19 December 2005

"Americans have been stunned at the recent news of the abuses of power by an overzealous President. It has become apparent that this Administration has engaged in a consistent and unrelenting pattern of abuse against our Country's law-abiding citizens, and against our Constitution.
We have been stunned to hear reports about the Pentagon gathering information and creating databases to spy on ordinary Americans whose only sin is choosing to exercise their First Amendment right to peaceably assemble. Those Americans who choose to question the Administration's flawed policy in Iraq are labeled by this Administration as "domestic terrorists.".."

Editorial: Big Brother Bush / The president took a step toward a police state
Sunday, December 18, 2005 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"The Bush administration is continuing its assault on Americans' privacy and freedom in the name of the war on terrorism..."

SERIOUSLY NOW we have got to arrest this moron!

SERIOUSLY NOW, we really have to arrest this moron and his goons…I mean even the god damn Sheeple in this country have got to see him for what he really is…a despot, a tyrant, an out of control ideologue who should be in prison…

Published on Monday, December 19, 2005 by Agence France Presse
Bush Faces Growing Storm Over Secret Wire Taps

"US lawmakers said that President George W. Bush may have broken the law by approving the secret monitoring of phone calls and emails within the United States after the September 11 attacks.
But the administration insisted the wire taps, even without a court warrant, were legal and Vice President Dick Cheney criticised those who he said were not committed to "doing everything" to guard against new terrorist attacks on the United States.
Members of Bush's Republican party and opposition Democrats called, however, for an inquiry into the eavesdropping.
"Whether it was legal is a matter that ought to be examined," Senator Arlen Specter, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told CNN television.
"There are limits to what the president can do under the constitution," Specter said, adding that his committee would hold hearings on the new rights controversy..."

Published on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by Newsweek
Bush's Snoopgate
The president was so desperate to kill The New York Times'; eavesdropping story, he summoned the paper's editor and publisher to the Oval Office. But it wasn't just out of concern about national security.
by Jonathan Alter

"Finally we have a Washington scandal that goes beyond sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power. President Bush came out swinging on Snoopgate—he made it seem as if those who didn’t agree with him wanted to leave us vulnerable to Al Qaeda—but it will not work. We’re seeing clearly now that Bush thought 9/11 gave him license to act like a dictator, or in his own mind, no doubt, like Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War..."

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1220-20.htm

Published on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by The Olympian (Olympia, Washington)
Bush Must Be Held Accountable
George Bush Cannot Protect Democracy by Destroying It.
Editorial

"Every American should be outraged by the president's attempt to justify domestic spying. It's wrong, and the president should acknowledge that fact. He must be held accountable.
Congress should immediately launch a truly bipartisan investigation into the administration's spying campaign. If the Constitution and laws of the United States were broken, Congress should censure the president. And if the lies, the deceit and lawbreaking continue, Congress should take even more drastic action..."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1220-35.htm

Published on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by Pierre Tristam/Candide's Notebooks
Trifler, Fibber, Sophist, Spy: How Bush Abolished the Constitution
by Pierre Tristam

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1220-33.htm

"Monday's White House news conference showed President Bush at his craven worst. He defended his decision to authorize spying by citing his reliance on - as he put it - "the constitutional authority to protect our country. Article II of the Constitution gives me that responsibility and the authority necessary to fulfill it." That's the sort of misleading inaccuracy you'd expect from a fast talker in a high school debating match. You don't expect it from a president, though this president has lowered the bar of credible discourse so much that American political discourse usually reeks of barroom skank..."

Published on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by the Huffington Post
The King's Red Herring
by Kristen Breitweiser

"Recently, President Bush has admitted to carrying out surveillance on U.S. citizens in the interest of national security. He unabashedly admits to doing it. He offers no apologies. With his bellicose swagger, he once again uses 9/11 as his justification for breaking our constitutional laws. The President's justification of 9/11 to carry out such surveillance begs a closer examination. President Bush should be stopped in his tracks with regard to his use of 9/11 scare tactics to circumvent constitutional laws that are meant to protect U.S. citizens. His justification for doing so -- the inability to conduct surveillance on the 9/11 hijackers -- is a red herring. History will bear out the truth -- our intelligence agencies held a treasure trove of intelligence on the 9/11 hijackers, intelligence that was gathered through their initially unencumbered surveillance. President Bush should busy himself by investigating why that information was then stymied and not capitalized upon to stop the 9/11 attacks..."

News o' the Day....

Wow, great letter and totally without brakes on this wild ride…This baby ya gotta read for yourself. But be warned, he doesn’t spare the expletives…..

“…Seriously – are you kidding me with this “There’s a war on Christmas” bullshit? FOX News wasn’t raking in enough cash already from all the Christmas commercials for Kill ‘em All Barbie and Girls Gone Wild Brand Toddler Gear? They had to start publishing books about some bogus attack on Christianity? And who did they pick to lead this particular charge?..”

http://www.fuckchristmas.org/
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Meanwhile, as drooling idiots whine about ‘their’ Christmas being stolen, whatever that could mean, there are real issues to face in this world…

Heads roll at Veterans Administration
Mushrooming depleted uranium (DU) scandal blamed

by Bob Nichols Project Censored Award Winner
“…Writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter No. 169, Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, stated, “The real reason for Mr. Principi’s departure was really never given, however a special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming depleted uranium as the definitive cause of the ‘Gulf War Syndrome’ has fed a growing scandal about the continued use of uranium munitions by the US Military.”
Bernklau continued, “This malady (from uranium munitions), that thousands of our military have suffered and died from, has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The terrible truth is now being revealed.”
He added, “Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War), of them, 11,000 are now dead! By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number of ‘Disabled Vets’ means that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers who served have some form of permanent medical problems!” The disability rate for the wars of the last century was 5 percent; it was higher, 10 percent, in Viet Nam…”
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/122005_world_stories.shtml#0



ALSO, THE DVD, “BEYOND TREASON”, IS AN EXCELLENT SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON DEPLETED URANIUM EFFECTS ON HUMAN BEINGS.

This DVD has information, true facts, as they say, about a host of other experiments the U.S. government has conducted on U.S. citizens.

As they say, “It ain’t crazy if they really are out to get ya!”

And sometimes the news just keeps getting better….

"Subject: John Dean: President Bush admits to "impeachable offense"
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:32:21 GMT

Dear bill, (My Brother Bill, who knows lots of famous people, and they write to him and stuff...)

Yesterday, I issued the following release about President Bush's
recent admission that he has personally authorized domestic
surveillance without a court order. I sent the referenced letter
to four presidential scholars, asking for their input:

* Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School
* Bruce Ackerman, Yale University
* Susan Low Bloch, Georgetown University Law Center
* Michael Gerhardt, College of William and Mary School of Law

I hope you'll take a moment to read my statement below, and then
forward this email to everyone you know.

In Friendship,

Barbara Boxer
-------------------------------
Boxer Asks Presidential Scholars About Former White House
Counsel's Statement that Bush Admitted to an 'Impeachable
Offense'

December 19, 2005

Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today
asked four presidential scholars for their opinion on former
White House Counsel John Dean's statement that President Bush
admitted to an "impeachable offense" when he said he authorized
the National Security Agency to spy on Americans without getting
a warrant from a judge.

Boxer said, "I take very seriously Mr. Dean's comments, as I
view him to be an expert on Presidential abuse of power. I am
expecting a full airing of this matter by the Senate in the very
near future."

Boxer's letter is as follows:

On December 16, along with the rest of America, I learned that
President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to spy on
Americans without getting a warrant from a judge. President Bush
underscored his support for this action in his press conference
today.

On Sunday, December 18, former White House Counsel John Dean and
I participated in a public discussion that covered many issues,
including this surveillance. Mr. Dean, who was President Nixon's
counsel at the time of Watergate, said that President Bush is
"the first President to admit to an impeachable offense." Today,
Mr. Dean confirmed his statement.

This startling assertion by Mr. Dean is especially poignant
because he experienced first hand the executive abuse of power
and a presidential scandal arising from the surveillance of
American citizens.

Given your constitutional expertise, particularly in the area of
presidential impeachment, I am writing to ask for your comments
and thoughts on Mr. Dean's statement.

Unchecked surveillance of American citizens is troubling to both
me and many of my constituents. I would appreciate your thoughts
on this matter as soon as possible.

Sincerely,
Barbara Boxer
United States Senator

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(Thanks Brother Bill!)

Could it possibly be that “Der Stupid”, may have finally opened his mouth once too often?

Gosh, Christmas this year may be especially nice to all of us good girls and boys, you know, us liberally compassionate souls who genuinely care about the planet, and all that lives upon it, including humans. You know, us lefy’s that actually believes that our families and friends and our own healthy sanity, are more important than ‘sticking it to our boss, or co-workers, or fellow citizens..”

Money is nice, but it is no substitute for spirituality and human compassion.

Now having said that, I also must freely admit to wanting to imprison George W. Bush in the deepest, darkest, nastiest prison on the planet...along with Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Negroponte, Buchanan, Falwell, Dobson, Reed, Hannity, Limbaugh, and all of the other neofascist assholes....all of em in the same damn cell....feasting on each others bones from starvation...yup, I could go for that...So, I guess my 'compassion' for other people, may have a wrinkle or two in it.

"Of course we will have facism in America, only we will call it Democracy."
Huey Long, 1934

(The Little guy is the US Tax Payer)

The Human Hubris

I know that human beings are capable of profound compassion, and hideous cruelty. I have witnessed this first hand in a land far away in time and place, Vietnam. In the foul jungles, forests, and sawgrass plains, replete with 'wait-a-minute' vines and 'fuck-you' lizards, I learned the best and worst of humanity, sometimes within a single day. Humans can be filled with compassionate self-sacrifice and then erupt with murderous rage.

I found that humans, for all of our profound learning and thinking, are utterly blind to the world around us. We create a world from our minds that we take to be reality. WE project our beliefs into the desert, the jungle, the arctic, and the oceans and then act accordingly. In peace and war, we believe we know what is happening because we can put words and concepts to things we observe and do. And yet, what we believe to be true, and what is true are two different things. We have a belief that war solves problems, when the truth is that it never has. We believe that the earth was placed here for our use and convenience and this is untrue.

We pretend that our actions are forgivable because, “WE ARE HUMANS AND ARE BELOVED BY OUR GOD’. We have created this monstrous set of lies based on various religions that proclaim us as ‘special’ and therefore our murder of this planet and each other, is sanctioned and approved.

We believe that animals and plants exist solely for us, and do not have lives independent of our avarice or our need. We reach out and take whatever we need, and many things that we do not need, only want. In doing so, we tell ourselves that it is ‘ok’, that somehow what we disturb will grow back, repopulate, replenish. Somehow. We tell ourselves “God is on our side and put these animals and plants here for us to use as we see fit”. Why isn't it possible for humans to understand that all beings are put here by the Creator, and that all beings have an equal right to existence?

With the hypocrisy of true fools, humanity destroys, and then creates zoos to preserve the remnants of those that survive. The cute and cuddly, the ferocious predator, the odd duck are stored in tiny cells and we tell ourselves this is compassion of the supreme human over the unfortunate ‘others’. We tell ourselves that we are merely holding these precious beings in order to save them for future generations. WE tell ourselves that we are good and godlike, and that our munificence is because of our higher intellect. We tell ourselves that as long as we can keep them locked in small cages, it is ok to kill those that are free. We can kill 2,000 in the wild, because we have 1 in a cage.

Somehow humanity lives a life of utter contempt for those creatures that comprise our world. We see only our cities, our automobiles, and our wondrous sky- scrapers as the height of achievement and fitting monuments to humanity. We tell ourselves that we are designed and approved by God, the Creator. We worship, we pray, we pat ourselves on the back for our spiritual transcendence and our worldly intelligence. In so doing, we fail, utterly, to witness the majesty of nature. We fail utterly to appreciate the marvelous intricacy of every living thing. Each being, from Whale to mink; Cod to Gorilla; Fern to plankton is a wondrous product of millions of years of evolution. Each being is uniquely suited to its niche in the planetary complexity of life. Each being, from virus to hairy vetch, is a work of art and wondrous majesty. Each living being is a glorious exclamation of a living Creator. Humans are only part of this creation.

Human beings are blinded by hubris. We, in fact, invent religions to fortify our greed and to sanctify our rapacious impulses to murder and indifference. Rather than see the handprints of God in every living creature, we strut around, as foolish children in a room full of toys, running about, sampling everything, understanding nothing.

Brazenly, wantonly, brutally, stupidly we kill all of our fellow creatures on this planet.

The truth of this breaks my heart.

The world is on the verge of losing the magnificent Polar Bear. Thousands are starving or drowning because humanity has polluted the world with greenhouse gases and now the arctic sea ice is thinning and disappearing. The Polar Bear cannot exist without polar ice, so extinction is most probable. With the loss of this magnificent being, there will be a corresponding loss in every being on this world. WE are all related. What happens to the Polar Bear happens to humanity. This world is far beyond the petty insecurities and unconscious greed of humans, it is a complex interrelationship of all living species. As beings are lost, the complex web begins to unravel.


There may in fact be an “Armageddon”, but it is not based on that pathetic scribble of humanity the bible or the Koran. It will be a supreme punishment of humanity for what we have done to this planet and all of our living relatives. Humanity is to blame for unconscionable blindness and indifference. Humanity will pay for this. The religions of Christianity and Islam, Buddhism and Hindu, are all man created beliefs. They are not based in any form of cosmic truth. What is true is that humanity is part of this planet, not above it, not in ‘command’ of it. We belong here, along with all other beings, and we are no more important, nor no less, than every other living thing. So when we wantonly destroy our fellow creatures, we also destroy ourselves. There is a balance to the universe, all things belong, all things have a right to exist. No one being can be allowed to desecrate all of the others.

Maybe this life is a test. Maybe it is a test to see if human beings can retain our wondrous intellect and curiosity, and yet achieve harmony with other living beings. If so, we have failed utterly.

Polar Bears are dying...and so are we.

Polar bears living on thin ice after record temperatures
John Vidal, environment editorFriday December 16, 2005The Guardian

"This could be the hottest year ever recorded, posing a threat to Arctic wildlife including polar bears, ice-dwelling seals and several forms of vegetation, according to UN scientists collating data from across the world..."

Under Good News Bad...actually more bad than good.

Under Good News Bad News: Bush admits that Rumsfeld cannot handle Iraq recovery, but then he appoints Rice to take over.

This is the very same person, Rice, who bungled the warnings on 911 and killed thousands of innocent Americans. Warnings were explicitely given and received. Condy Rice was present when George W. Bush was given a Presidential Daily Brief that focused on the use of airliners to inflict terrorist attacks. Later she denied, under oath, that she knew anything about it and went so far as to claim that ‘no one’ could have foreseen such an event.

By the by, one month prior to this briefing, Bush and Rice were in Switzerland for a meeting of heads of state, this meeting was arranged under security arrangements that included the threat of attack by hijacked airliners. Still, Rice, claims she knew nothing about it.

Thursday, December 15, 2005; Page A31
Bush Names Rice to Head Nation Rebuilding

"President Bush formally designated Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to lead efforts to rebuild and stabilize nations suffering from war or civil strife, the White House said yesterday.
The announcement of the new presidential directive -- under discussions for months -- is the closest the administration has come to acknowledging that it bungled the planning for postwar Iraq when Bush gave the Pentagon authority for stabilization…”


I feel badly for the Iraqi people if Condolezza (Kinda Sleazy) Rice is in charge.

The Bush Admininstration knows where its enemies are. Those enemies are really the American People.

Think about it. This administration is by far the most secretive group in American History. They hide and obfuscate even trivial information from the American Public. The have formed secretive spy networks through the Pentagon, the FBI, the National Security Agency, probably even the Boy Scouts just to keep an eye on us treacherous Americans. Soon, like stray mutts, the feds will begin injecting each of us with RFD chips to located and control us. "Can't allow these damn Americans to just wander freely, they might begin to think for themselves, which would destroy Democracy as we know it". They mutter.

Bush Secretly Lifted Some Limits on Spying in US after 9/11, Officials Say
By James Risen and Eric Lichtblau The New York Times
Thursday 15 December 2005

“ Washington - Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials…”

But spying is not all. The Bush Administration is directly responsible for altering the votes of Americans. No longer content to let the public have any say in the matter, they just change the votes to suit their need. Simple really.

New Tests Fuel Doubts about Vote Machines
By Marc Caputo and Gary Fineout The Miami Herald
Thursday 15 December 2005
“A top election official and computer experts say computer hackers could easily change election results, after they found numerous flaws with a state-approved voting-machine in Tallahassee.”
“ Tallahassee - A political operative with hacking skills could alter the results of any election on Diebold-made voting machines - and possibly other new voting systems in Florida - according to the state capital's election supervisor, who said Diebold software has failed repeated tests…”

Ya want to know more? Go to Black Box Voting, a book by Bev Harris http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ This well researched book is vital to undersrtanding the extent of corruption in the American Voting system. After all power isn't in the act of voting, it is in the act of counting the votes.

Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed
By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Report
Wednesday 15 December 2004
“ Among activists and investigators looking into allegations of vote fraud in the 2004 Presidential election, the company always mentioned was Diebold and its suspicious electronic touch-screen voting machines. It is Diebold that has multiple avowed Republicans on its Board of Directors. It was Diebold that gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bush’s election campaign. It was Diebold CEO Walden O’Dell who vowed to deliver Ohio’s electoral votes to Bush. ..”

And there is Voters Unite. This website highlights the problems across the country in electronic voting machines. The problem are widespread and enormous. Most Importantly, these are not random failures of machines, these ‘errors’ are systematic corruption that only favors Bush and the Republicans. If black box voting machines wer just subjected to random mechanical errors, then the results should either be garbage or in favor of both sides. The laws of chance alone should have both parties receiving the benefits of machine failures, but this is not happening. Only the GOP comes out the winner in these varying incidents.

Voters Unite

"Go to Voterunite.com
Myth Breakers: Facts about Electronic Elections2nd edition - designed for County Officials Download free, or Buy a bound copy!
Information is power. Learn the facts. Myth Breakers... - Corrects HAVA misconceptions - Describes HAVA-compliant alternatives to DREs - Gives general pricing information - Speaks about myth vs. misinformation
The second edition includes... - Malfunctions from the 2004 General Election - More about testing and certification - Details about software complexities .."

Lets be brazenly honest here. America is no longer a democracy and is no longer a country that has free and honest elections. The Republicans, aided and abetted by spineless Democrats, has subverted the American voting system so that the vote is now controlled by the party in power. Point Blank: Welcome to the Tyranny.