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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Bush doesn't control the weather, just the scientists who are supposed to inform us about the weather. See if we don't know about global warming, we'll just scratch our heads and wonder why we keep getting all these ice storms we never used to get, and buy more oil (which bushco is heavily invested in) and not think twice about wind or solar energy. Then the possibility of having renewable energy, cheap from the sun, won't be a problem... for him.
I appreciate your righteous indignation, but I have to remind you and everyone else that even though before and since 911 not one single skyscraper in the world has fallen down because of fire or planes flying into them, on 911 THREE skyscrapers fell down, including building 7 which did not have a plane fly into it, but did have lots of incriminating information stored in it that might have hurt members of the Bush administration. I think there are still a lot of unanswered questions about 911 and after, including why, when George Bush senior was grounded because no planes were allowed to fly, were all the members of the Bin Laden family all over the country rounded up and flown out of the country? Ask yourself that next time you wonder why we haven't caught Osama. Some reports suggest he was given medical aid by American military personel after 911. I don't know, but I have lots of questions.
Very afraid.
Actually it wasn't very long after 911 that a Nazi flag was raised at a little league baseball play off game in Canada for the purpose of waking America up to what our government was doing. I remember being very upset because it was done in front of all those young children. The point here is that the world did not go along with Bush when he ignored the UN and began ignoring the constitution and the Geneva convention. We had a lot of world empathy that could have been used beneficially in a diplomatic approach to the problem, but the Bush approach caused us to lose that and that may have been the greatest thing we lost from 911 except for the loss of life.
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Can Salon be held liable?
If liberals act on opinions such as this one:
"anyone who thinks that bush & co are less than traitors is a moron. a wal-mart shopping, fox news watching, 50 iq idiot. they have destroyed our national reputation, ignored the deaths of thousands, tanked the world economy, TORTURED, and allowed climate change to reach a tipping point that may endanger us in ways we can't imagine. any less than HANGING these scumbags would be too good for them. in my opinion, mr bush and mr cheney should be both be tortured first."
Salon appears to be fostering this type of hate speech. We had several cases of liberals attacking GOP HQs and volunteers last fall. What if liberals begin going the route of Bill Ayers? Can we hold Salon and others liable?
-- Groenhagen
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Permalink Thursday, January 8, 2009 06:39 AM
I say, you can't hold us liable for anything we do legally so you better hope we don't get our act together, gather evidence and prosecute or sue, because then you'll be going down!!! Oh, and don't act as if your hands are clean after inciting people to kill Obama during the campaign. What ever could we have done to FOX if that had happened? Get over yourself.
Got the Iranians to hold on a little longer to the hostages so that he could get the credit for freeing them... I just can't keep this up...The Republican lie machine is too big for me to fight... can't...stop the ... twisted ... facts...argggg
was quoted in our local paper today, saying that "nobody" foresaw the financial crisis.
That was one of the funniest things I've read all week.
If Cheney had ever bothered to ask anybody outside of his circle of yes-men and wealthy co-conspirators, he might have found people who knew this was inevitable. There were Harvard professors who wrote about the strain the middle-class was under. (Hey, check out http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/10/13/bankrupt_parents/index.html).
All of us outside of the tight financial circles, who followed and thought about the news and came to our own conclusions without relying on the so-called experts, frequently wondered when the collapse would come.
A few years ago I considered buying a house, but chose not to, because after looking with my own eyes at what was on the market, I decided it was ridiculous to pay so much money for such poor quality housing, both new and old. Anyone who had their eyes open and an ounce of common sense could see that prices were way out of proportion to the actual intrinsic value of the commodities, as well as to the incomes of many people. I kept asking myself where were people with middle-class incomes getting the money to pay for these homes? I had a hard time imagining sensible people signing up for no-down-payment ARMs that would stretch their budgets to the point where there would be nothing left over in case of an emergency, such as a job loss or illness. Relying on refinancing in the future seemed to be foolish, because anyone who's lived long enough can tell you that counting on something to occur in the future, apart from your own death, is not a rational foundation for a solid financial plan.
As for the real estate agents who tried to convince me that getting a loan would be "no problem," due to the variety of "products" on the market, all I could do was politely decline, while silently wondering at the legality of these "products." How did they come into existence, and why were they even legal, when they were clearly designed for the purposes of extreme usury? The only conclusion I could come to was that the American business community had reached the point where it believed that robbery, usury, and deception were perfectly acceptable business practices. The only thing a reasonable person could do in self-protection (because there was certainly no consumer protection from any part of the government) was to stay out of the reach of business. No revolving credit cards, no loans. Cash for everything, and if you didn't have the cash, you didn't buy it.
Some of us saw this coming. But who pays attention to Cassandra?
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"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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