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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Comparing Bush and Nixon is just so wrong. Nixon did it to save his a$$. Bush did it to protect American citizens.
Terrorists don't follow laws to "correctly" strike legally. Flushing them out by whatever means is necessary.
You can't cut a diamond with a plastic knife.
Instead of worrying about weekly approval ratings and other crap, this president *actually* worried about long-term america and took whatever steps are necessary to keep America safe.
Don't you guys remember the Clinton-era? Weekly poll ratings; weekly speeches on medicare, etc to improve ratings, etc.
This is one damn good president US ever had. You bush-haters guys just don't know it yet.
They said the same thing about Truman.
Now he is realized as one of the strongest presidents we ever had.
Abuse, schbuse... Tell that to terrorists.
I say, fight fire with nukes. You use a gun, i use a nuke.
...that's a given. And, I seriously doubt anyone will face criminal charges, here or abroad.
The only thing we can expect, at best, is Congressional hearings into "the program," whichever we get to hear about, and that's about it. I hope I'm wrong, but there's reason to think otherwise.
Yeah, I dashed that off as one of about ten things I was doing at the time. Where I was going with that was that he need bother even theoretically with the pardons only if Obama is elected. That is, there is a minuscule chance (like 0.00000001%) that Obama could do something, while there is zero chance that McCain would.
Of course, in the real world, Obama will never do anything. If he actually cared he'd have filibustered the FISA bill like he said he would. He, among all Democrats, was uniquely positioned to block the bill from going forward, and we know how that went.
Like someone mentioned, the very best we can hope for will be some consequence-free hearings, during which the only answer given will be "I do not recall".
Having watched Republican antics for too many years, I can assure you that anything a Republican does is in support of the Republican Party.
All else is secondary.
But it took a mild mannered clerk in Lichtenstein to unravel the criminal attempt by 18,000 Americans to avoid paying $100 million in taxes. Does anyone know why the NSA didn't uncover that one? or should we just schedule it for things to investigate.
In April, Michael Chertoff announced that the government will turn the most advanced spy satellites in its arsenal on American citizens, and the announcement brought barely a whisper from the media. So where is the oversight? Americans should know more about their government than government know about its citizens.
Growing government intrusiveness must be balanced by increased citizen control over the government. Whatever trade off to increased government power must be tempered by citizen checks and balances.
Americans better get it right this time, we can't afford to be complacent any longer about this.
Josef Goebbels is one of my most admired inventors. His cynical approach to the gullibility of the public is presentient about our current administration; check out his Bush blueprint: http://www.psywarrior.com/Goebbels.html
Goebbels' despicability notwithstanding, he and his staff fooled and manipulated a nation into complete destruction. Oh yeah, he marketed hatred and rained terror and death on all of his neighbors and own citizens. And he talked a nation into death-camps, kids ratting out their parents, paranoid populace, and of course, regular suck-up media support.
THIS horror is what we have to fight, not double-secret anonymous clandestine secret-handshake cults that don't exist.
I like Canuckistan's answer to this weak article: it's all "X-files" with no teeth, no bravery, all steam. How easy it is to write articles and flap your hands around. Yeah, yeah, every salonaphile that likes to cluck will say I'm doing the same thing. But I'm not getting paid to write this crap. This article is instantly dismissable, and will be forgotten by tomorrow. It stinks of tabloid, while the Weekly World News at least made me smile some. Rove probably has to grab his gut while he's convulsing with laughter at your secret scheme code names.
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PS: Another guy I admire is Charles Ponzi - who scammed the stupid; now immortalized by latent con-men. Do NOT forget - more than half of you all VOTED Bush (and Pelosi) into office.
DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN: RUSSIAN NUKES IN CUBA!
For the kidlets out there and for the adults who tend to forget and/or prefer to ignore history’s uglies, this is not unprecedented. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080722180457.q0jlf4en&show_article=1. The Russians are “thinking” of basing long-range, nuclear-capable bombers in Cuba. (”Why?” would be a good question since Cuba is just a 90 mile raft trip away.)
In October, 1962, the “Cuban Missile Crisis” had many Americans flocking to churches, building air raid shelters, and generally believing that Armageddon was at hand.
The U.S.S.R. had surreptitiously built nuclear missile bases in Fidel Land and our U2 spy planes caught them with their pants down. Russian Premier Nikita Khruschev, the dolt in power at the time, had already seen the mettle of our 35th president when, acting under the advice of Adlai Stevenson, Kennedy had denied air support for the Cuban patriots at the Bay of Pigs, thereby dooming their effort to free their nation from the murderous Communist, Fidel Castro, and resulting in their slaughter. (Fidel is still there, by the way, ruling in absentia and non compos mentis with Raoul almost half a century later.)
Barely 18 months later, Nikita tested the American leader, and Adlai found the gonads to stand up to the Russkies and issued his famous challenge in the United Nations and declare he was prepared to wait until Hell froze over for the Russian response. It never came, at least not an honest response.
What did happen was Russia’s “removal” of those missiles from Cuba, covered in tarps which could have concealed spoiled Havana Club rum for all we know; Cuban patriots said the missiles were carted off to various caves on the island.
In any event, Khruschev was deposed 2 years later in part because the quid pro quo deal...
(For the rest of this article, please see http://genelalor.com/)
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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