Plumbers Without Borders

TED

What She Was Wearing

this is my suicide dress

New Yorker

Fortunately, it doesn't last long. (not my joke)
"We have woven the sound of the alarm clock into our dreams." Lovelock.

Thich Quang Duc

June 11, 1963 (a reenactment)

The Jay Bybee Problem

Scott Horton

Doing nothing is immoral

Johnathan Turley

Clean energy

is not this, and it's not mountain top removal.

Bush's Monica

Underling. Helping staff the DOJ

Japan has a nuclear program

says a trucker @14:26

Nine is enough

These people broke the law,
and need to be held accountable.

Ok, maybe nine is not enough.
Oh yea, and Rumsfeld

Where is my vote

Here somewhere.

Abu Dhabi

New Old Havana

Anarchist Revolutionary

Of the industrial revolution.

The Iranian Empire, in green

Southern Iraq is a given. Alliance with Kurdish Northern Iraq is a given, to put pressure on Turkey. All of Iraq's oil is gone, and so all of Iraq. Iran's alliance with the country formerly known as Lebanon is a given, and with Gaza. Iran is not a state ruled by mullahs. Khameni, the pope, is no more religious than our 10th century popes were, and is no scholar, and Amhadi-Nejad, the Press Secretary, is from the Revolutionary Guards. Sistani, in Najaf, keeps his head down. Herat is Iranian. Iran could not crush Sadaam by force, so we did it for them, and the Taliban.
Watch our navy base in Bahrain, in the Persian Gulf.
Saudi Arabia is a corrupt failed state waiting to be sliced open.
Northern and Eastern Africa? Available.

Tim DeChristopher

For Secretary of the Interior

Scott Carrier

Beyond Rangoon
and Beyond El Paso

How to do it

Torture?

Better that one should die.

My Robot Friend

US: No longer hoods

Pentagon officials yesterday repudiated the harsh interrogation tactics adopted since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, specifically forbidding U.S. troops from using forced nudity, hooding, military dogs and waterboarding to elicit information from prisoners captured in ongoing wars. <Washington Post, Sept 7, 2006>
Also, no more 'disappearing'.
Interrogation Rules of Engagement: wall poster

The presidents highest Constitutional duty

is to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution

Was this the worst?

What, we didn't boil anybody?
The deaths at Bagram AFB.
What about murders in NYC?


Abdul Wahed died in the American special forces bases at Gereshk in southern Afghanistan in November 2003. etc.

Upper Utopia

Independent Lens

Sen Jeremaih Denton

[>>]
True Believer.
"We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America."
12Feb1973
Proud having served in Vietnam,
and (proud?) supporter of the contras.
David Belavia, deja vu.
There is a way that seems right to a man

No room for the hopeless sinner

Who would hurt mankind, just to save his own

Chinese water tortureBamboo under the fingernails, etc

[>>]
Treating the wounded, in Vietnam.

Sweet

[>>]

Quang Tri, Vietnam

A superfund site. Or should be.

46th mersenne prime number

has 13-million digits, or does it?
The "46th" mersenne prime number is (2**43,112,609)-1

Since 1000 < 1024
and 10**3 = 1000
and 2**10 = 1024,
then 10**3 is slightly less than 2**10.

2**43112609 = (2**10)**4311260.9
(2**10)**4311260.9 > (10**3)**4311260.9 = 10**(3*4311260.9)
10**12,933,782 = 1 followed by 12,933,782 zeros.

Not 13 million, but close, and this is a lower bound.

The approximation above uses the log of 1000 (ie: 3) as a lower bound to the log of 1024. As an upper bound, the log of 1024 is just slightly less than 3.0103, so (10**3.103)**4311260.9 > (2**10)**4311260.9 = 2**43112609
This number has 4311260.9*3.0103 digits or 12,978,188.
Sorry, still not 13 million.

The moral: don't believe everything you read.

The sick man of europe

(c)
For some reason, these new birds did not seem as interested in William's bird seed.
----
When an empire collapses, the squabbles start.

Torture 1967

Tossing the highest ranking VC out of a helicopter served
to loosen the tongue of the rest of the detainees.
As in Winter Soldier, but with purpose.

DV

[>>]

My Precious

Invisibility. State secrets. My Precious.

Pick up your cross

and follow Me.

The Blind

leading the blind. So far so good.

Vacation in Alberta

Come for the oil, stay for the adventure.

Tear gas

[>]
can kill.

The 50th anniversary

of the failed Tibetan uprising.
That is to say, of the Chinese invasion of Tibet.

Keith Giles

is not a well individual.

The globe

is falling.
The tribe is cockroach.

The Noughties

Power

corrupts

Planting Season

Cross your fingers.

NPO

DNR

Refugees

Get in line now. There will be no cutting.

Dmitry Orlov

Shoots his mouth off.

Hospice care for the financial systems.

Jim Kunstler

Shoots his mouth off.

Michael Pollan

Shoots his mouth off.

Children of the mountains - ABC

"When the banking industry melts down, it's like, 'Oh, no, we have a structural problem. We need to reinvest in those people.' But when the folks in Appalachia or the inner city are poor, it's their fault," Davis said.

What a way to go

Building 7 vs the Mandarin Oriental Hotel

[Article]

Broken promises

The economy is based on promises.
For example, your bank account is a promise.
The US Government has promised to pay 11 trillion dollars.
Some of that to you. Do you think they will?
Where will they get eleven trillion?

Here is a picture of it

Except that the fish is eating himself.

Diminishing Returns

War - have we gone too far? Passed peak possibly?

Video Junkie

Escape from reality.

Losing Your Shirt

Collapse of Empires & Civilizations
Or see the slides.

Dont Vote

Things are fine the way they are.

Jupiter's Wife

Antidemystification
Meanwhile in another world
Dangerous liasons

The end of the USA

[>]

Globalization, dreamliner, french wine

[>]
Toast. All toast. Maybe without the butter.

Straits of Magellan

Why would Magellan take a shortcut like this?
The Chinese said he could save some time going this way.
On the other hand, he may have noticed that the water was salty.

Energy Independence

The amount of oil that we use for transportation is about equal to the amount of oil we import. Therefore traveling less cannot eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. Any use of oil for transportation requires foreign oil, at current efficiencies.

Tripling efficiencies for transport would help some,
but any use of oil for transportation requires foreign oil

Sex drive

Mosquitos have a working sex drive,
and their brains are quite small.
Apparently, not much brain is required.

Fort Benning, Georgia

Father Ray Bourgeois served as a missionary in Bolivia and El Salvador. There, he witnessed death squads, that were trained in the US at the "Special Forces" school at Fort Benning, Georgia. When he returned to the United States, he became a nationally known peace advocate. He will be excommunicated next week for participating in a ceremony that the Vatican considers unacceptable: the ordination of a woman who is not transsexual.
----
We do not know if Jesus considered sex reassignment surgery, since we do not know if that surgery is sinful. We can assume that Jesus was tempted by homosexual thoughts, since homosexuality is worse than heterosexuality.

Select the best answer

33. Saint Peter was
a) Selected by Jesus
b) A Catholic
c) A pope
d) A priest
e) Married
f) All of the above

And that's why priests can't marry.

Love your enemies

Love the devil?
Not gonna happen.
Not in my lifetime.

Solitary confinement

On the cheap

If I onlyhada heart

The cowardly lion
----
The intelligence failures that Bush reminds us of were manufactured in Doug Feith's office in the White House.

Select the best answer

31. (mommy)Where do babies come from?
a) The hospital
b) The delivery room
c) The birth canal
d) The womb
e) Ask your father
----
It depends on what the meaning of baby is.

Old vs. New

a smoldering wick he will not snuff out

No group is all bad

viz. Samaratans, theives

Godless capitalism's answer

How to survive the upcoming economic meltdown:
open a nuclear test facility on your wyoming ranch.

What shall we do

Is it ok to vote for a law you think is immoral,
or vote against a law you think is moral?
---------------------------------
For that matter, is it ok to vote for a law that is moral?
Isn't it redundant?

Jacob have I loved

Esau have I hated

Pentecost

1 and 2?

Was Jesus gay?

[>]
Did He have homosexual feelings?

Good News / Bad News

:-) We will be independent of foreign oil soon.
:-( They won't sell us any.

Zombie economics

Let's rethink this.
Kunstler
And Merry Christmas!

Lots of asteroids in the past

Luckily, those days are over.

State sponsored arms and drugs

[>]
Cocaine goes from Afghanistan to Turkey. Everybody knows.

Ying/Yang

Yes we can / No we can't.

Long term debt

no longer makes sense,
since tomorrow you will be poorer.

I pledge allegiance

to the heavens,
and to the earth on which I stand
and to the poorest, to the weakest
to liberty, to justice, for all.

And now for something

completely different

Close Guantanimo Prison

Close Guantanimo.
Naval Station.

$700 Billion Bailout

To prevent corporate bankruptcy?
Didn't we just "fix" the bankruptcy laws?
How about preventing bankruptcy for the poor?

Who is this man?

What's the difference

The Green Revolution

Now what? We are out of green.

Is solar energy clean?

Not quite.
If absorbing the suns rays is what warms the earth, and it is,
then absorbing more rays will heat the earth more. :-)
Maybe we should cover the Sahara with aluminum foil
just to be sure.

We are not on the wrong side

We are the wrong side
Daniel Ellsberg, regarding Vietnam

Non-proliferation, 1954 style, Vietnam

[@4:41]
George Bidault, French Foreign Minister, reports that Dulles
He took me aside, in the corner of a window at the Quai d'Orsay,
et il me dit "And if we were to give to you two atom bombs?"

$700 billion per year

[>]
seems to be the number to cite as what we pay terrorists for oil.
We use 20+ million barrels per day.
Yes, 20 mbbl/day * 350 days * $100/bbl = $700 billion.
But 11 mbbl/day comes from North America
(CAN=2, US=8, MEX=1)
In 2007, oil imports cost $342 billion.

[>]
About 5 quads of natural gas are used for electricity.
This is 20% of the 25 quadrillion BTUs of oil imported, not 38%.

Hang Victory

Let's focus on honor.

Bad news

[Picture this]
9%

WTF are they pulling with Bolivia now?

[article] Rice targets jobs in Bolivia.
Let's pressure this socialist democracy.
---
Unemployment was the number one issue in the 2002 election, and the failure of President "Goni" to deliver jobs was the cause of his ouster in 2003.
Yes, Bolivia has natural gas, which the vermin would like to get.

Shithead

Hayden claimed 'state-secrets' in the Rich Barlow case. Barlow had reported that Pakistan had the bomb and was conducting a market in nuclear technology. He was fired for trying to alert the administration to the A. Q. Kahn network.
[story]

Charlie Wilson's War

funds Pakistan's nuclear program.

1974/05: India surprises the west by exploding a nuclear weapon
1975/12: AQ Kahn steals nuclear secrets from the Dutch
1978/04: socialist Revolution in Afghanistan
1979/02: Islamic Revolution in Iran against the Shah
1979/07: Carter authorizes action against Afghanistan
1979/12: USSR invades Afghanistan.
1980/04: Carter's failed rescue of hostages
1980/09: Iraq invades Iran

1982: Charlie sends money to Pakistan to give to the Afghans.
1982/12: Rumsfeld greets Sadaam
1985: US sells 40 F16's to Pakistan as "Peace Gate I & II"
1987: Charlie sends stingers, some of which Pakistan sells
1987: Pakistan detonates an atomic bomb, in China. 1
1988/05: USSR begins to leave Afghanistan
1988: India leases three nuclear subs from USSR
1989: Pakistan modifies the F16 to carry atomic weapons.

(15 years later)

2004/02: A Q Khan takes the fall and is pardoned.

Clean coal

Ironweed DVD club

[Special interest films].

A Crisis

Is a terrible thing to waste. [Richard Heinberg]

Con man

Sometimes it takes more than confidence.

Why do they hate us?

When we are so good.

Privatization fucks us again

A private company, USEC, was "spun-off" the Department of Energy, giving it the job of providing enriched uranium to the US. In addition to enriching uranium ore, they were asked to take old atom bombs from the USSR, and include that material in their nuclear fuel product. This line of production was more costly, so USEC secretly discouraged Russia from accelerating the shipment of its warheads to the US for processing. (Joseph Stiglitz)
[1] NY Times article, before the scandal
[2] Paducah Sun article about Russian warhead glut
[3] Stiglitz on the 'hush money' to MinAtom, the Russian partner

In other news

China walks in space.

Something is happening here

and you don't know what it is. Do you. Mr Jones.
[This] may help. It's the borg.

No Exit

[Art]

India helps Saadam go nuclear (Globe and Mail, 2005)

[full article]
Nuclear cooperation between India and Iraq started in 1974 under the direct supervision of Saddam Hussain himself on the Iraqi side when he was still the Vice President. Saadam flew to India specially to sign a Nuclear Cooperation Treaty with the then Indian Prime Minster Late Mrs. Indira Gandhi. The little known Treaty involved the exchange of scientists, training and technology.

India tested its first nuclear explosive device on 18 May 1974, in less than two months time from signing of these agreements.

Tyranny and backwardness

They go hand-in-hand. [Slater]
Which way are we headed?
--- He also says ---
the early Christians embraced radically democratic values and practices, but they, too, were soon engulfed by the universal authoritarianism of the age.

Dilawar

d. Dec 5, 2002,
Bagram, Afghanistan
while in custody

Intelligence failures

01. stability of Iran under the Shah
Jimmy Carter, new year's eve, 1977:
"Iran, because of the great leadership of the Shah, is an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world. This is a great tribute to you, your Majesty, and to your leadership, and to the respect and the admiration and love which your people give to you."
02. formerly known as the Soviet Union
03. Saadam will not invade Kuwait
04. Osama determined to strike in the USA
05. Saadam is a grave and gathering threat
06. yellow cake
07. the fundamentals of the economy are sound
08. India's atomic bomb
09. Tonkin Gulf
10. remember the Maine
11. arctic ice caps
12. peak oil
13. Iran/contra
14. overthrow Allende
15. overthrow Hugo Chávez
16. overthrow Mohammad Mossadegh
17. overthrow Saadam
18. rejection of 'grand bargain' from Iran
19. we will be greeted with flowers
20. we do not torture
21. School of the Americas

The dog that didn't bark

The US dollar continued to gain strength
despite the failure of the bailout.

Siebel Edmonds

[wikipedia]
Another loose thread, some 9/11 related

Drill, baby, drill

Is downing a six-pack to fix your hangover.

Rachel Corrie

The silver lining, or The upside side of down

[full article]
1. The End of American Empire
  The US will not be able to afford a global military presence.
2. Energy Availability
  A depression will force down demand.
3. From Offshoring to Onshoring
  After we default, no country will sell to us.
4. Decreasing Income Disparities
  The rich will lose their shirts, like everybody else.
5. We’re Headed There Anyway
  Might as well be happy.

John Bolton says we never said.

Bush never said Saddam was an "imminent threat". [article]
And in 2004, then-Director of the CIA George Tenet defended his organization's prewar estimates of Saddam Hussein's military might by saying, "They never said there was an imminent threat."

David Addington

Addington was the man behind the illegal wiretap policy.
Behind Addington? The Cheney.

Camp Victory, in Bagdad

View Larger Map

Camp Anaconda, in Balad

View Larger Map

Camp Cupcake, in Al Asad

View Larger Map
#2 of the 4 permanent bases in Iraq

The Predator Hellfire

The air war surge in Iraq.

CIA and cocane

Think Iran-Contra was the end of CIA drug trade?
Or that those who are above the law will not be attracted to drugs?
Drug plane crashes.

The bully pulpit

And the bully.

Unit of measure, oil imports

We import 7 of these a day.
14 million barrels per day.

The USDA is out to kill you

[flyer from 1947]
[TED: Ann Cooper on school lunches]
[TED: Mark Bittman - death at the steak]

The Inquisition

called by
Pope George II

Part of the Bush Doctrine

Bush opposed investigating 911

He did not want to pull on that thread.
For good reason.

Pagan Rome killed many Christians

As has Christian Rome.
---
Compared with the persecution of heresy in Europe from 1227 to 1492,
the persecution of Christians by Romans in the first three centuries after Christ
was a mild and humane procedure...
  We must rank the Inquisition along with the wars and persecutions of our time
as among the darkest blots on the record of mankind...
Will Durant

Status of forces / IRAQ - draft version

courtesy of democracy now
translated by Raed Jarrar (AFS)
here

We have to stop destabilizing democracy

[29:15] Trouble in Haiti.

Something is hinky

Letterman on global warming: Been nice knowing you.
[The interview with T. Friedman] is also good.

God hopes for peace

[56:00] IVAW member, who served at Abu Ghraib.

Larry Everest

[28:30] The economy is not the issue.

To kill the other half

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
Jay Gould

Right to bear cameras

The government correctly sees photos to be subversive.
[article]

The last super power

What about the USA?
Ruined, unless we get a tyrant.

Free speech: for what it's worth

This wall mural was painted over by the city of Denver just prior to the DNC.   The police claimed it was the work of anarchists.
Located at "The Other Side Arts", 1644 Platte, 2nd floor.
[story] [update]

Our permanent base in Iraq

"The new embassy will serve the same function that the Kinshasa embassy did during the cold war." Jim McDermmott to Jeremy Scahill from the DNC in denver, at 41:41

Alicia Forrest, CodePink, Denver DNC

Hit with the ever-popular "sucker punch" move.

Henry James

Life is, in fact, a battle.
Evil is insolent and strong; folly defiant; beauty rare.
Goodness apt to be weak; wickedness to carry the day.
Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small.
And mankind generally unhappy.
But the world as it stands is no illusion, no evil dream of a night.
We wake up to it again for ever and ever.
We can neither forget it nor deny it
nor dispense with it.
Quoted in Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals.

Will my grandchildren fly?

Or drive?

When Saudi Arabia collapses

will we send in the army?

Bizzare is not the word

for outlawing cameras in public.

Cut. cut.

Not that she couldn't have handled this question.

Operation "Just Because"

caution: link opens with sound playing
El Chorrillo. Thousands killed.
George Bush: "...yes, it has been worth it."

Collateral damage

to a war with Iran.
When the oil from Iran shuts down, so will Europe.

Impeach Bush

Or else apologize to Nixon.
He only bugged the DNC, and erased 8 minutes of tape.

Fingerprinting mortgage loan officers?

The mortgage rescue package includes fingerprinting loan officers.
How is that related?
Ron Paul

Malalai Joya

For president.

Missile agreement with Czech Republic

Why we didn't put the missiles in Turkey?
Guess they didn't want them.

The Boston Tea Party

Why did they dress up as Native Americans?
If it were done today, would they dress up as Chicanos?

Impeach the Enabler

Impeach Pelosi, se puede.

In the name of God, stop the repression

Archbishop Oscar Romero, of El Salvador,
killed by a soldier from Fort Benning, Georgia.
----2008/07/31
Defense Minister Jose Guillermo Garcia, a graduate of the School of the Americas, was implicated in the deaths of Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel, and Jean Donovan.
--
Reagan's Jeane Kirkpatrick, said they were not "just nuns", but political activists.
--
Regan's Alexander Haig said "there may have been an exchange of gunfire" as "they tried to run a roadblock." Maybe and maybe not?

Pyramid scheme

All businesses tend to scoot money to the top. It is as natural as black holes.
What are the checks to black holes? Other black holes, possibly, and the nature of reality.
What is to stop the concentration of wealth? Other thieves, plus the laws of the land. If they can buy off the lawmakers, then it is just - other thieves.

Peak Oil / Exports

The issue for the USA is the size of the oil export market.
Today, 35 million barrels per day are available, [larger graph]
but Mexico's and Russia's exports are declining.
The UK no longer exports any of its oil from the North Sea.

The USA imports 13 mbbl/day, of the 35 available.

Bureaucrats lie about Korean war MIAs

Documents received in a March 2003 meeting in Beijing appear to undercut the Pentagon's public stance that China returned all POWs it held. The stories that circulate about American prisoners not returned after the war, and held in Chinese prison camps, is confirmed, despite the Pentagon's assurances to the contrary.
[related MSNBC story]

James John Regan

February 9, 2007

Love it or leave it

Leave it.

Military apprehends Militants

Militants cannot be offered POW status,
AKA professional courtesy,
because they are slobs.

Everything.

Everything...

Just a Reminder

His felony convictions were overturned, and he ran for the Senate.
Somebody shoot me.

Goddard

clips. Available on Netflix.
Made when the US was fighting the evil empire.

Free

US out.

Beijing 2008

What the ruling class wants

Neither a social movement, nor any record of leadership within the Black community...

is the harmless politics of the two-party system.

A Song Not Scored For Breathing snips

The event is held at night to remind us that cancer never sleeps.
and also
we alcholics/addicts tend to be perfectionists, but at least we can laugh about it and recognize the insanity of it.

Overpasses

, but in the deepest part of my soul I know Jesus beckons me to a life that is more than years lavished on my own pursuits. Caring is hard and leaves you vulnerable to great sadness. If it were easy, Jesus probably would have used a different metaphor than taking up a cross.

2002: We must get Saddaam

We must fight nations that harbor terrorists,
are a threat to their own people and their neighbors,
have or soon will have nuclear weapons,
run by dictators
Oops. That's Pakistan, the U.S,Russia,China... help me here.

Packages arriving at Bildenberg

Not sure what to make of it.

He said

Dick advised me to erase all the tapes.

Hey Bush! Read this.

16 If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse a man of a crime, 17 the two men involved in the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD before the priests and the judges who are in office at the time. 18 The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against his brother, 19 then do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from among you. 20 The rest of the people will hear of this and be afraid, and never again will such an evil thing be done among you. 21 Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deut. 19 16-21

Human Experimentation

from "Beyond Treason" video, @ 5:50

Prisoner of War

Still

Jesus said

*_____ your enemy
a)Kill
b)Hate
c)Ridicule
d)Love

*If anyone loves me he will ______ my teachings
a)preach
b)sing about
c)praise
d)obey

Why

is impeachment immoral, but war is ok.

Turtle Island

I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island,
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetration for all.
Gary Snyder

Triangle than Quadrangle

Osama loves Bush
Bush loves Putin
Putin loves Pinochet
== July 9th
Pinochet loves Kissinger

Stats

Note categories: wounded, injured, ill

Monsanto in Iraq

Democracy Now.

Support our troops

      CO
      DU
      VA
     vets
     AWOL
     PTSD
     raped
     truth
    Arabic
    GI Bill
    suicide
    homeless
    jobless
    addicted
    stoploss
   Blackwater
   body armor
   impeachment
   end the war
   night vision
   Geneva Convention
   teenage deployment
   human experimentation

Buffalo, on $10 a day

Not that easy.

The War -or- Free gasoline for everyone

Which do you want?

3 trillion dollars, the cost of the war in dollars
            divided by $100 per barrel equals
30 billion barrels, the cost of the war in barrels
            divided by 15 million barrels/day,
            the daily usage of oil for transportation =
2000 days, the cost of the war in days of gas, 
            divided by 365 days per year =
5+ years, the cost of the war in years of gasoline

Which is about as long as the war has been going on.

So, we have a choice:
continue the war -or- free gasoline for everyone, from now on!

Kent State

May 4th

The Fed

has made itself the world's largest financial shit-magnet.
[kunstler]

Suicide terrorism, in Vietnam

Q: Is the cause to be found in this world or the next?
A: This world.

Iraq had no suicide terrorists prior to the invasion,
even against Sadaam.

All three

corporate candidates are of little use to us. [more] via

Chris hedges on Obama

As a senator he has promoted nuclear energy as "green." He has been lauded by the nuclear power industry, which is determined to resume building nuclear power plants across the country. He has voted to continue to fund the Iraq war. He opposed Rep. John Murtha's call for immediate withdrawal. He refused to join the 13 senators who voted against confirming Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state. He voted in July 2005 to reauthorize the Patriot Act. He did not support an amendment that was part of a bankruptcy bill that would have capped credit card interest rates at 30 percent. He opposed a bill that would have reformed the notorious Mining Law of 1872. He did not support the single-payer health care bill HR676, sponsored by Reps. Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers. He supports the death penalty. He worked tirelessly in the Senate in 2005 to pass a class-action "reform" bill that was part of a large lobbying effort by financial firms, which make up Obama's second-biggest single bloc of donors. The law, with the Orwellian title the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), would effectively shut down state courts as a venue to hear most class-action lawsuits. This has long been a cherished goal of large corporations as well as the Bush administration. It effectively denies redress in many of the courts where these cases have a chance of defying powerful corporate challenges. It moves these cases into corporate-friendly federal courts dominated by Republican judges. Even Hillary Clinton voted against this naked effort to allow corporations to carry out flagrant discrimination, consumer fraud and wage-and-hour violations.

In America, money

is how we keep score.
Everyone starts at zero.
======== May 6th:
Ok, he didn't actually say that part about "Everyone starts at zero".
But if everyone doesn't start at zero, then the game is rigged.
And so it is.

No matter what, I pledge allegiance to the flag etc

This sentiment is un-American.
We always reserve the right to alter, or abolish.

One Country

Three systems

Cut and Run

and treat and apologize.
We need a negotiated withdrawl.

April 4th

Safety Net for Bear Stearns

Paulson in league with the devil.

FLASH: Terrorists now look just like you

So don't trust yourself.

The Occupation

A lot of Iraqis are upside-down.

Zimbabwe washes away the chaff

Most of the time I looked up at the sky, but without focussing it,
for why focus it?
More sorrow.

The Right to Bear Cameras

Unbelievable otherwise.
youtube com/watch?v=Y7NUNwq2MGc
Police suppress evidence, interfere with an investigation, cover-up wrong-doing, unlawful use of authority, obstruct rights-of-way, create a police state, suppress free speech, assault and battery, intimidate, etc...

The All-Mercenary Army

No one is drafted: it is all about inducement.
Professional Army. Volunteer Army. Which is it?

The straw man

The last straw to be grasped at.

Bush's War will end soon

Because the USA is collapsing.

An eye for an eye

Max.