Consider yourself lucky to have George Bush as President instead of that “Liberal” icon Woodrow Wilson. During World War I, as President, Wilson pushed a series of laws through Congress that made it illegal to criticize the Government, the war, or the Governments handling of the war. People ranging form an elderly lady who wrote a letter to the editor questioning going to war, to Editors and Politicians were imprisioned. Socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debbs, ran for the highest office in the land twice from behind bars, while spending a decade in Federal prison for his opposition to the war.

As for Barr, the Libertarian party has found a spokesman who can articulate the principals of freedom the founders fought for.

Kick my sig? I get the names confused.

bamage, (bandage) bamage (damage).

Glenn needs to begin a dating service.

I'll ask for a friendly soother. apologies.

Who would a bank hire to tell them how to avoid being robbed?

Click my name.

Watch out. There is a No-Float-List too. If you are on a CATT Ferry, the carry on mutt will crawl up in a ball under the seat, and snore all the way to the landing seashore's harbor. It's true. No joke. gads. It's thee truth.

A pooch on the No-Fly-List may crawl up in a fetal ball position. If the AJ's DoJ were pregnant with more lawyer puppies at the helm, maybe a web page for the dog's embryo's will be next. Who knows? Nobody.

No doggies. Ah, giddy.

Maybe the new puppy,

can be named scooter?

I'll let Beck know. You say~ Beck can punt a cheetah tiger with a left foot?

okay. I'll tell him get a mortgage loan for a pet mutt who don't eat `tatters with gravy.

He's gonna guzzle those 6-packs of Beck's Beer that Jkalos sends him too.

He'll have a barbed wire tattoo on his neck? HELP these bad boys.

Barack Obama wants to send more Marines to kill Afghanistan's?

HE may name his White House cocker spaniel mascot~ Semper Fido.

Barack Obama wants to send more Marines to kill Afghanistan's?

H may name his White House cocker spaniel mascot~ Semper Fido.

If you read the Wire News, a 5-star hotel is planned for Baghdad tourist.

James T. Kirk may be hired as a busboy? Outside there is a plush oak pot.

The 5-star porto-potty has a Ivory Tower, 2-seat-poop-seat. It's so cool.

The potty has oak wood seats. You are allowed to have 3-seats-full? o gag.

The DOD cooks issue baby bibs at mealtimes. Don't want to spill the gravy?

Gravy stains on the white collar crooks pink tie ain't aweful pretty to look at.

By "dutiful candidate" I mean a candidate who recognizes that their duty is to uphold the U.S. Constitution, as well as the rights and interests of specifically their constituents.

Almost the entirety of our democratically elected political-class fails wholesale on both counts.

If democracy is wholly incapable of providing benevolent and dutiful leadership and representation in the United States, then it has failed as an axiom for governance. The proof is that we're perpetually democratically electing ourselves into aristocratic authoritarianism.

GC!, card went in the mail yesterday. And, keeping it real is the only way to go. Tell Jerry to absolutely insist on a "cheetah leg." That way he can outrun us all. And, some of us he may want to catch and pummel with that leg given the nature of some of those cards. ;-)

bamage, my county is offering a mail in ballots. For the first time ever, I will be voting from my kitchen table rather than a public polling place. I prefer to appear in person... gives me a chance to thank the election crew. All those little old ladies in rural and remote areas who have been serving as election judges for forever, get real flustered and blush when you make a big deal out of their service. G_d love 'em all. But, Colorado will likely be a "decision" state this year, and electronic voting is ubiquitous. Given all of the concerns about Diebold, I figured if someone was going to monkey around here, I had a better chance of my vote being registered consistent with the way I actually voted, if I provided the vote on paper.

Ivan Eland writes:

After having begun a series of investigative stories criticizing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in May 2008, CNN reporter Drew Griffin reports being placed with more than a million other names on TSA's swollen terrorism watch list. Although TSA insists Griffin's name is not on the list and pooh-poohs any possibility of retaliation for Griffin's negative reporting, the reporter has been hassled by various airlines on 11 flights since May. The airlines insist that Griffin's name is on the list. Congress has asked TSA to look into the tribulations of this prominent passenger.

In a recent op-ed in the Washington Post, probably responding to the controversy over Griffin, Leonard Boyle, the director of the Terrorist Screening Center, defended the watch list, claiming that because terrorists have multiple aliases, the names on the list boiled down to only about 400,000 actual people. If there are 400,000 terrorists lying in wait to attack the United States, we are all in trouble. [...]

http://www.antiwar.com/eland/?articleid=13162

I read in today's paper that a black congressman who was a leader in the civil rights fight is also on the list. I heard John Stewart claim Nelson Mandela is on the list. I think Ted Kennedy was on the list for a while.

Do we really need to pay for a Transportation Safety Administration or a Department of Homeland Security? Will the Democrats rid us of these civil rights trampling thugs?

Hey, you up there in the ivory tower

If all issues exist for you on the same level of abstraction, I can see why Obama's FISA vote might be uppermost in your mind.

The Democrats are far superior to the Republicans in addressing issues that have a direct, day-to-day impact on people's lives. Consider yourselves lucky not to be troubled with such trivialities.-- Connie Boyd

Why the contempt for the ivory tower? Why the disdain for critical thinking? Why denigrate those who care deeply about very important issues? Just as abortion rights might be paramount for you, Constitutional rights are paramount for others. Who is to say that your priorities are superior? That smacks of the very elitism and issue politics that you deride.

As a card-carrying member of the ivory tower, I can assure you that we work hard to understand social and natural phenomena. We labor to increase knowledge and train others to do the same. We struggle to improve the world in the best way we know how. Most of us understand the indirect effects of our work. Most of us are humbled by the vast amount of knowledge that we don't have. Most of us have dedicated ourselves to education in spite of the higher wages and benefits that we might earn in other industries.

Unless you are a card-carrying member of the ivory tower, I suggest you set aside your contempt and try to appreciate our work.