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YA CAN'T PUT A BUCKET OVER A PIG'S HEAD -- IT'LL JUST MAKE HIM SKITTISH!

Yeah man, them commie pinkos on the Supreme Court will be the end of US. Like they say on Faux, it's a cryin' shame that those 200,000 in Ohio get to have their votes counted -- this time.

United we stand.

Hey Joe! Did you get the good news yet? The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken in your favor! By virtue of unanimous decision, the court told the Ohio GOP to go fuck itself. And by virtue of the court's supremacy in the same decision, you get to vote in the upcoming election. Congratulations! Uh, you do know how to vote, don't you?

When state officials across the country detected predatory and reckless banking activity over recent years, such they did in the case of WAMU and other now-failed institutions, Bush-appointed federal bank regulators ordered the states to stand down. By this practice, legal interventions from the states were outright banned at the federal level, effectively blocked by the command of the President himself, beginning as early as 1990. The investigative article, Mortgage system crumbled while regulators jousted, published in today's Seattle PI, details how corrupt bankers were aggressively protected by Bush appointees serving in their capacity as federal "regulators." The article begins by describing the Bush administration's ban against any state investigation of wayward lenders as being part of some kind of turf war. I'd be one to call it what it is. I call it a robbery. BushCo has literally robbed the nation of its treasure, through guile and force, and at a cost often measurable in lives lost. Given the bewilderment of those now evaluating the damage done, a fitting punishment, to date has been determined to be a golden parachute valued at $700 billion. Surely we can do better, and we should -- justice will not be served until the punishment fits the crime.

Really, I don't think we, the taxpayers, are really bailing anybody out. Rather, Wall Street is bailing out, and we are giving it a $700 billion golden parachute.

like this economy is doing soooo great! open your eyes duchebag. Huh? are you a cretin or is it the booze that prevents you from understanding what I said? Well, there might be in play here the problem with neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism having precisely the same meaning -- with neo-liberal being the term by which Friedman would describe himself and his economic theory, and neo-conservative (aka neo-con) the term that his followers (who became Bush policy makers) came up with for describing themselves, plausibly to better win over enough votes from the "conservative" side of the electorate, as needed to divert by guile and force the wealth of the many into the pockets of the few. I prefer the term neo-liberal, for its historically grounded accuracy. But I used to say neo-con myself, as that's what I picked up from popular jargon -- as a descriptor for delusional, sociopathic economists like Friedman and the corporate raiders now taking our country and its wealth by conquest of one institution after the other. First it was the presidency, then the financial institutions, and now Congress. One wonders if the people will take it back. For that matter, it appears that much of the world now wonders if The People will take back Their Country, or whether the prevailing cancer of capitalism unchecked by democracy will continue.

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The New Republic turns against John McCain: Crashing The Party

The following is an article that was censored by Fox News from its own fair and balanced website:

About Palin, wouldn't she be just about the perfect replacement for Bush, from the RNC perspective?

So last night, on auto pilot, I ride into the parking lot of the Shoreline Fred Meyer, lock the bike to a post, and enter the store. After about five minutes of wandering around the grocery section, I kind of wake up and ask myself, what am I doing in the Fred Meyer? No reason to be here. The cash machine I rode this way to find is across the street, over at a WAMU branch. But I'm standing in an aisle and staring at a jar of fancy tomato sauce. It's got a brand-name picture of Paul Newman wearing a beret on the label, and I'm gazing at this picture like there's something special about it just then. I walk away, thinking about Paul Newman. Cool Hand Luke. Today is another day, except now I read the news. Turns out he died yesterday. Figure it anyway you want. Or not. It's all the same, just the same. We are connected. Click on the "Submit" button.

Logon is the same. Account interface is the same. My direct deposit from payroll showed up today just the same. Hard to pay no attention to the predator behind the curtain though.

He's gone, and nothing is gonna bring him back.

The map will resemble a Missile Command strike pattern. (?)

Well I don't know how creating a battle space is criminal. Our other option was to what? 1. Fortify the shores of the US with coastal gun batteries? 2. Provide in depth search and seizure of every unlicensed illegal alien? 3. Storm into 130+ foreign countries unannounced capture, and deport known terrorists? 4. Swirl our crystal ball and try to figure out how many western hating crazed jihadist there might be out there? Seriously, do you believe the proven enemies of America, your sovereign country, were content with the attack of 9/11? It was a failure in the sense that they weren't able to follow it up. If they had hit a port, and perhaps another sensitive target related to energy production in the CONUS sphere, that would have been their goal. I think we're slowly getting a grasp on how to deal with things, but about the time you get it figured out, the whole game changes again. The essential act of taking a country for the creation of a "battle space" is a criminal act, regardless of options. Under the lashes of fear it's understandable that many of us suggest the crime justifiable, yet we at once as a people stand defended like none other in history -- our options are such that no outside power can defeat us, plain and simple. A mortal threat to America can only present from within, and it will be evidenced by a culture of corruption and fear, the very sort of corruption and fear that would persuade us under a leadership of cowardice to justify our occupation of the homes of innocents so that our enemies might find us there instead of standing on our own. And all the while, we can surely stand. Can't we?

Reason #4 is a war crime, and its advocates are criminal.

"Libtard" is now used in the spirit of preemptive warfare by idiots who fear their corporate fascists will lose power. Sort of like the Pope spreading the word that Mother Mary has STDs, just in case she decides to fuck. (No thanks needed for the clarification. I'm just here to help.)

I'm past questioning the credibility of Ritter. I'm now considering what I will do if Bush orders an attack on Iran. And you? What will you do?

The quote is from Scott Ritter.

"Let's remember that this is an elective war, not a war of necessity. A war of necessity would be fought at the point and time a conflict is required, if somebody is threatening to invade you, to attack, etc. But an elective war is one where we choose to go to war. It will be conducted on a timescale that's beneficial to those who are planning the conflict..." -- Bombs away?

The other night I was sleeping in the rain. In my face. Reminded me of this: I wish I was a headlight On a northbound train I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain. EYjMCSlA6AU&hl

What hate? Mine was an expression of love... for dogs.