When I heard and observed Keith Olbermann's commentary on the World Trade Center - reconstruction - it became abundantly clear, here is someone with whom I can finally relate!

Since then, I have been a very faithful watcher of MSNBC's "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann. It is so refreshing to view and listen to someone with whom I feel a real connection.

Thank you Keith!

It is so refreshing - a relief even, to hear, (watch) a news commentator who is willing to speak truth's without fear of recrimination, or resignation - (firing!) Thank you MSNBC!

I am also quite impressed with the "Salon Magazine" as well. Apparently, I am a 'liberal' or, as I like thinking of myself, a 'progressive.' Since there seems to be a need to label each ones' belief systems, I thus label my own.

I only know for certain I have opposed injustice, at every turn in my life-time. I have fought for the 'underdog' in so many circumstances - and seek justice for all - unlike those who seem to believe it's "Just Us"!

As time has taught me, I can only speak my mind in any particular issue, as there is made an avenue to do so.

This seems to be such a time, and such an avenue. Thank you, Salon!

Alas! I am one really angry American! Much like a Mother Lion willing to protect her cubs at whatever cost, I feel a need to protect my Country!

It has been abundantly clear, we are experiencing a moment in our Hisherstory in which "We the People" means more than many of us have ever imagined. It means, for me, I must make my opinion known, and my voice heard, in order to sustain the viability of our national treasure; the Constitution of the United States of America! Certainly, inclusive with this treasured document, is the "Bill of Rights," which is also being threatened, and equally abused.

It is a time in which, we must take our citizenship very seriously, and be willing to put a stop to the madness which is now, more than ever before in my lifetime, negatively affecting our daily lives.

It is time for Congress to take a stand! It is time for the American People to take a stand! If, each one will consider the strength of our nation, as long as we remain a collective body, we will prevail! President Lincoln said in a speech, of which I do not have full recollection, "...United we stand, divided, we fall..." I do so remember those words, and the impact which they have had in my life.

When G.W. Bush said the words' "...I am a Uniter, not a Divider..." I nearly choked as my own breath, burst from my body with a huge gasping, ha! As nearly everything I have witnessed, has brought enormous divisions amongst our people.

Ultimately, we are a Nation of laws. A Nation which has been deluged with lawbreakers, liars, and secretive decision making. We are a proud people. Proud of our heritage, proud of our hisherstory, and proud to call ourselves Americans.

In the past (5) five plus years, I have felt a deep sense of loss, shame, and a gnawing sense of embarrassment to call myself American! I have never previously felt this way. I can honestly say, I have never felt so ashamed of the person residing in OUR White House, nor those at his side! I am one who continues to share these words: I want MY country back!

This is another piece rounding on the Republicans and the misdeeds of the Bush Administration. It notes their sashay down the primrose path of grabbing power and asserting control of things they shouldn't be asserting control over, like the decision to punish and invade Iraq constantly because they had a strongman dictator who dared grab a little bigger piece of the worlds's oil supply than they already had, thus freaking out the Texas oil cartel and their closely associated Bush administration croneys. Or slashing taxes on the wealthy, them, and thereby virtually stealing money from the United States treasury for their own personal gain. This has been a nest of thieves and knaves led by a megalomaniac madman from the get-go. It just needed some time for the foment and dastardly course of deeds and events to happen and become inculcated in the watching public's mind, so it can fully appreciate how badly it is being snookered and misused, and find out a way to stop it. Have we found it? The rhetoric is getting deep, as it should, and deeper. Congressional action appears to be gaining momentum. It trumped the Vietnam juggernaut and hobbled it to where we had to just limp away from there, so poignantly with our tail between our legs, with a complete collapse of our puppet government in Saigon, an unconditional surrender by anyone's reckoning.

Bush's cold blooded military assault on Iraq and the mindless occupation and ongoing slaughter were in large part predictable from the very start. He salesmanshiped his way to the point where his contention that Iraq and Saddam Hussein were a threat and had to be invaded were actually pushed out on the table as an option. Using the weight of his office, (or to use the much quoted term but used beyond it's rightful meaning or original intent - "bully pulpit") he advanced his harebrained notions about a need to invade this hapless country. Iraq had been demonized since the 1991-92 war waged by his father, the "good war", where they "got off easy" and were allowed to live another day albeit with the stranglehold of sanctions and UN inspections (eventually coming to be dogged by the US and Bush into supporting the notion that Iraqis were hiding WMDs or their equivalent in the palaces which Saddam had elected not to have overrun by a bunch of science nerds from the UN). Bush's portrayal of Iraq as a threat was easily discernible as a thin and implausible ruse to invade that country. Iraq's ability to produce and wield WMDs had been, almost certainly, de facto eliminated. Only a few reserved sites that Saddam would not allow to be inspected and which could not plausibly have formed the basis of a potent WMD threat, remained intransigently uninspectable, off limits to the inspection team. This appeared to be a way if nothing else for Saddam and Iraq to save at least a small measure of face in the wake of a defeat in a war, sanctions, and intrusive inspections by a UN commission empowered to destroy their already depleted armaments and research facilities. These things were apparent when Bush was orchestrating the march to war. He punked the United Nations by implying he would abide by it's decision on invading Iraq or not and then declaring that the US "reserved the right" to invade Iraq even if the UN did not call for it or agree with it. The fact of the matter is, there was no logical explanation for wanting to invade Iraq. No rationale would pass even superficial muster as a legitimate action, as a logical consequence of what had transpired in Iraq or in that part of the world. Blaming it on al Qaeda was an insult to the intelligence of the American public - whether the rest of the world believed it seems to have mattered little to Bush; all he needed was to be able to hornswaggle the people again with his little man's winking smile and association with big money somehow being used as justification for smooshing his hand into the American public's nose and kicking it in the groin. Can we get rid of this man? May the wheels of justice, the American Congress, prevail in it's opposition to this regime gone haywire. God bless America, but get your shit together you dummies!