Speaking of "cold chills" and "changing shoes"...
"The day that Senator Obama decided to cast a vote to not fund my son while he was serving sent a cold chill through my body, let me tell you,’’ Mrs. McCain said, in an introduction before Mr. McCain...
View ArticleOne letter you'll never get from Bush...
Well, I know he's never going to face the music. No impeachment. No war crimes trials in an orange jumpsuit, standing tall in front of the ICC at the World Court at the Hague. But there's one thing I'd...
View ArticleThe Audacity to Dream!
The human mind is limitless in its capacity to solve problems. I'm so excited today. Obama talks of the audacity of hope. Follow me into my world of dreams, if you dare. Obama speaks of American...
View ArticleThe Saudis finance the OTHER side of the GWOT.
America is shaking in its boots, at Osama bin Laden's next "surprise", and at the possibility that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons within the next five to ten years, and carry-out Ahmadinejad's...
View ArticleWhy Randy Forbes R-4th VA must go!
I'm posting the letter I just sent my representative, Randy Forbes (4th-VA), explaining to him why I oppose his candidacy for re-election in my congressional district. I fully expect it to anger him,...
View ArticleThinking of my best friend Tinkerbell.
My best friend in the early 90's was a 30-ish woman named "Tinkerbell"(her name in the hood). We lived in the same cul de sac, part of a large tract of hundreds cheap row houses that were barracks for...
View Article"A little leaven, leaveneth the whole lump"...
...and that leaven is the twin sisters of treachery and hypocrisy. Joe Lieberman, this party isn't big enough for you and me. Joe, there isn't enough forgiveness in the whole world for this lifelong...
View ArticleFriday deadline:Tell the EPA to protect our environment!
Calling all kossacks to action: Tell EPA to protect our health and climate! After more than a year of delay, the Environmental Protection Agency is now requesting public comments on whether carbon...
View ArticleHate-speak is like a jar of peanut butter.
Everyone here needs to read this article I just received in my email "in basket" entitled, "The Most Outrageous Media Comments of 2008" By Julie Millican, Media Matters for America. Posted December 11,...
View ArticleLet's "put the shoe on the other foot"!
As the whole world knows by now, some irate Iraqi journalist threw, not one, but both his shoes at our own President Bush today! And I wondered why anyone who is an Iraqi citizen, could possibly be so...
View ArticleAction diary: No pre-emptive pardons from Bush for his war criminals!
While everyone else is getting ready to celebrate the holidays, Bush is apparently getting ready to pre-emptively pardon vp(sic)Dick Cheney, and I would venture to say, eventually the rest of his war...
View Article"Parting is such sweet sorrow"...
I've written about experiencing internal bleeding off and on for the past 3 months. Well, after filling my toilet bowl with blood this weekend, this coward finally followed my family doctor's advice...
View ArticleDon't let Rush take us off message!
Rush Limbaugh is a name that strikes fear in the hearts of the repub leadership. But what is he? He's a bully who made his name dragging accomplished people through the sewer, and that's the best way...
View ArticleSo many green jobs-so little time to act!
I'm so excited today! I've been doing a lot of research on new renewable energy sources and ran across a new technology that's going into its initial mass production phase this year. It's a new vehicle...
View ArticleI know who will save us from all of this!
I cried out to the Lord today, if He would help my nation, America, my people, Americans, if He would find it in his infinite mercy to save us from our economic crisis. I have cried a mountain of tears...
View ArticleDying for one's country doesn't mean in the shower!
According to the AP, "The military is racing to inspect more than 90,000 U.S.-run facilities across Iraq to reduce a deadly threat troops face far off the battlefield: electrocution or shock while...
View ArticleIt's already begun: the world's not going to turn the page!
So we think if we ignore Bush's war crimes, sweep them under the rug, and just "turn the page" without reading it, that the sordid history of the last 8 years under the Bush "Fuhrer Doctrine" will...
View Article"Fight al-Qaeda, just don't hurt the poppies"!
The US war on drugs has been, at best, a miserable failure. "Chasing the dragon" has been a case of "right war-wrong battlefield". The real terrorists don't live in distant, remote al-Qaeda training...
View ArticleWe promised them freedom and delivered the sword!
Today marks the 6th anniversary of the falling of Saddam's statue and the end of his 30+ year regime. And the beginning of Bush's (aka "little boots") new Caligula reign of terror. But you won't hear...
View ArticleIn words even a boxer can understand...
...even a Senator who used to be one. My dog isn't a human being. But there are laws against animal cruelty that punish those who are inhumane to them. I don't need a law to tell me that if I...
View ArticleSenator Baucus is dead wrong about single-payer!
"Single-payer will not work in America". Wrong answer! First of all Senator, who do you think pays for your health insurance, and the insurance that all of your Senate colleagues enjoy? The American...
View ArticleObama visits the Saudi Prince for "advice and consent".
The AP reports today: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – "Opening a mission to write a new chapter on Islam and the West, President Barack Obama consulted Wednesday with the Saudi king "in the place where Islam...
View ArticleWith or without photos, rape is still torture!
Naomi Wolf excoriates the Obama Pentagon in this Alternet article entitled posted 05.30.09: Why the Pentagon Is Probably Lying About its Supressed Sodomy and Rape Photos snip "The Telegraph of London...
View ArticleWhose Congress is it anyway? Ours or Big Insurance?
In the "public option" debate, we heard from the proponents of the "public option" in a diary written by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, where she debated the merits of the public option, which I contended "marries...
View ArticleDon't you hate it when you've been duped?
Our government has us convinced that the best way to jump-start the economy into recovery is from the TOP-down, as opposed to from the BOTTOM-up. But there's a basic factual fallacy at work here. This...
View Article"No, I don't know karate".
I just got out of the hospital this afternoon, after having to be rushed to the hospital last Wednesday(just in the nick of time)for the 3rd time in as many months; whereupon, thanks to the American...
View Article"Look Jane, come see Dick wiggle out of this one!"
Torture is a prosecutorial war crime under US domestic laws: The Convention Against Torture(CAT) and the 1996 War Crimes Act. It is also a prosecutorial war crime under the Nuremberg & Tokyo...
View ArticleSome words are just too hard to say.[updated]
So this isn't GBCW at all. Everyone here who knows me knows I've been hospitalized 3 times this year with massive internal bleeding. And I'm not writing you this diary today to get anyone upset or...
View ArticleOn eve of receiving Nobel, Obama's DOJ files amicus brief upending Nuremberg...
If you thought that your vote for President Obama last November helped usher in a new era of justice for the ones who turned the United States of America into a nation of lawless torturers and war...
View ArticleBribery and Extortion are NOT "protected speech"...
...NO MATTER WHAT THE SCOTUS says! The Supreme Court defended "corporate personhood" ---and I might point out the term "corporate personhood" is found precisely nowhere in the US Constitution-- as they...
View ArticleExecutive Order Gives INTERPOL Diplomatic Immunity
While America's attention is distracted by: Health Care reform. Trying to stop the bleeding of our heavy industries, textiles, and manufacturing plants closing forever. The systemic shock to our...
View ArticleAction Diary: "America needs jobs now"! (with petition)
Moments ago, I just got this email from Richard L. Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO with an action petition. This is the price of FREE TRADE. And I've been saying for years, that nothing about...
View ArticleNewsweek: Yoo said Bush could order civilian massacres!
You know, I've been called "a loose cannon" my whole life for the crime of speaking my mind. But what does one call someone who takes it upon themselves to single-handedly give a POTUS unqualified...
View ArticleWhirlpool is moving to Mexico on the taxpayer's dime! (with petition)
Last Thursday, I posted a first call to action diary in response to this email I received from Richard L. Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO with an action petition: http://www.dailykos.com/... He wrote...
View ArticleSenator Judd Gregg: the repub's "Lion Cub of the Senate"!
This letter I just sent his office "with extreme prejudice": "Dear Senator Gregg, Thank you so much for leading the fight against giving seniors and the disabled that $250 extra boost this year. As a...
View ArticleCan Nationalism defeat the rise of pre-fascist corporatism in the US?
We don't know all there is to know, sometimes even when the truth is standing right there before us like a mighty impregnable fortress. And at other times we find ourselves walking around blindly,...
View ArticleMcCain: "They have poisoned the well". Really?
Looks to me that somebody's got a serious case of sour grapes working here. It would also appear that the American people dodged a big bullet by defeating the McCain-Palin ticket in '08. The Hill's...
View ArticleThrough the looking glass: Who's sleeping in BP's bed?
If we take a snapshot look into BP's bedroom window, we can see why President Obama or our Congress cannot possibly afford to lean too heavily on BP or let anything ever happen to them for the Gulf...
View ArticleHey Pakistan, who's your sugar daddy?
While Americans are facing the greatest ecological disaster to hit our shores, following the United States House of Reprentatives, the United States Senate passes yet another "emergency supplemental"...
View Article"Untenable. Unsustainable. Dumbed down".
I'm not coming here a wolf in sheep's clothing playing the role of a Bush-lite Yale "skull & bones secret society" cheerleader, or Joe Friday's-Bill Gannon's reversible dinner jacket bad cop/good...
View ArticleIntroduction: Part I.
"Always let your conscience guide you and you will never fail or fall". Cicero's injudicious maxim said,"salus populi suprema lex esto" (De Legibus, III, 3.8) -"Let the welfare of the people be the...
View ArticleThe End of Days-or just the end of us?
An angry and dissillusioned citizenry, deserted by both parties searching for answers, discovering that one's idea of change is another's idea for treachery: jobless, foreclosed, bankrupt, enslaved by...
View ArticleGrandson of Medal of Honor winner told: "Access Denied"!
That's what ten years old Vernon Pawlik and his grandmother Heidi were told when they tried to visit the West Wing of the Whitehouse last week after his grandfather, the last surviving black Medal of...
View ArticleFiat justitia ruat caelum: "May justice be done though the heavens fall!"
Truly the most arrogant presidential adminstration since our founding, the Bush-Cheney war criminal regime and its cast of un-impeached, un-charged, un-convicted conspirators, co-conspirators, and a...
View ArticleSen. Joe Lieberman: "The man who would be king...maker."
Think Progress nailed Senator Joe Lieberman three months ago right here in this article published on July 20th, 2010: Lieberman: Utilities Want A ‘Breather’ From Letting People Breathe "As negotiations...
View ArticleYemen is very lucky Bush isn't the US President today
Bush's promise after 9/11 was to attack any nation that harbored terrorists. And it wasn't an empty threat or a threatening promise. Just ask Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan if those were empty words....
View ArticleMeta: "What we have here is a lack of a force multiplier"
The way I see it, to put it in military terms, we need a "force multiplier", whose mere presence on the battlefield is a game changer. All throughout history there has been such force multipliers...
View ArticleHow we win "the war" against the American dream: Defining the terms and...
Disclaimer: I wrote this diary from the heart, two days ago. I had no intention of posting it. I apologize if it is way too long. I edited it down by 2,000 words today, lots of text and all the...
View ArticleAmerica reminds me of the sinking of the Titanic.
Everyone alive remembers the unsinkable Titanic, despite the fact that nobody that was there then, is still alive today. Nobody remembers the leader of the band. Nobody remembers the band. Nobody...
View Article"The Triumph of the Will"
On September 11, 2001, America was attacked Pearl Harbor-style. Every single one of those dirty, murdering bastards died on that day, on what became just another shitty day in paradise formerly known...
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